The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We quote from another-print the statement of a proposition, which appears to us to lay claim to much respect at the present moment, when the precise form and detail' of the Corn Bill are not yet finally settled. _ This scheme goes to the ma nufacture and deposit of foreign flour as well as corn, for exportation, as a preventive of the de cay to which the latter is liable when stored for any considerable time. The landed interest, as far as we can judge, ought not to feel alarm, and it is to be hoped that they will not affect it, at a plan which in no denee whatever extends the principle of relief to the poor, or encroaches on that of protection to the landlord, beyond the point avowedly, contemplated by Lord Liverpool and his coneagues. If the flour in store be ex ported; the exportation willte duty free ; if con suilled at home, it will be subject to the same duty as foreign flour. It is strongly affirmed that this proposal goes to strengthen the system of endeavouring to rival the republican growers of North America in the supply of flour to the West India Islands, which, now that the non intercourse is rirgidly enforced, must be carried on circuitously through the Gulf of Mexico. We do therefor trust that so reasonable and useful a measure may be permitted to succeed. Report says, that the Duke of Wellington, who has had credit within these few days for a disposition to withdraw his blundering and mischievous amend ment from the Corn Bill, repents of such a re turn to good sense and right feeling, as out of character for one of the party to which he has now engaged himself, and will carry his amend ment, if possible, with a view to th e defeat of the Bill. This will piobably produce a hard en counter in the Upper House of Parliament ; but if a certain inauspicious Potentate stands neuter, we doubt not that the amendment will be lost, and the Bill, thou g h perhaps with a moderate majority, be carried. The following is the para graph to wAlich we have alluded : " A ' e etition has been presented to Parliament from a Mr- James Surrey, praying, that in the port of London, other places where corn is permitted to be bonded, mills should be allowed to be entered under lock, for the express purpose of receiving and grinding foreign corn, for the manufacture of flour, and exporting the same, duty free ; but if such flour should be taken for home consump tion, then to pay the same duty as foreign flour.' The prayer of th's petition, which appears to us a very rea sonable and useful extension of the warehousing system, Mr. surrey supports in the following manner :—' I will endeavour to show the expediency of admitting such a clause in the said Bill (in the event of the clause allowing foreign flour to be imported, should remain), and I contend that such an Act would be but justice to our millers, and would not interfere with our internal trade, but would only give our manufacturers a fair chance, by the aid of their superior machinery and power, which would enable them to compete with th e foreign millers. There appears no good reason why; our millers should not have that privi lege ; althotegh I consider foreign flour will he bonded, I am persuad e d it will not be introduced for home consump tion i y any material quantity. But Ido consider, and fnity expect, they will send it for the express purpose of exporting it from hence to our colonies, and for the supply of our shipping, which I submit will be en hindrance to our manufacturers of that article ; it will also he an injury to the labourer and owners of machinery, all of which we have in abundance. The latter cannot be exercised to advantage, unless the millers are permitted to grind the foreign corn duty free, and deposit the flour (the produce of the said corn) under bond, instead of such corn, which will enable the millers to make flour at a cheaper rate, fresher, and of a better quality than the foreigner can pos aiLly do. I do not hesitate to say that our merchants si%Juld be enabled thereby even to compete with the Ame ticans in the supply of our West Indian islands in that article, as our ships now go from hence half freighted, the freightage of which would be a bonus to the owners, who would therefore be enabled to freight it at a cheap rate. And as regards the first cost of the flour made from foreign wheat, it would stand nearly thus :—lf the average price of our mallets is Ns. per quarter, the duty on the foreign wheat, for home consumption, as proposed in the Bill now pending in Parliament, would be 28s. 6d. per quarter ; therefore the same corn, without duty, could be purchased in the London Market at SOL per quarter, to yield the same profit to the importer, which would enable the millers to produce flour therefrom at about 4s. 6d. per bushel, or 15s. 9d. per barrel of 1961 b., in reference to the present quality now in bond. There are now mills unemployed within the port of London, with sufficient machinery and power, equal to the grinding of 200,000 quarters of corn annually, which will be further unemployed when the very extensive mills now erecting by Government, at the Vic tualling-yard, Deptford, are completed.' " The merchants of Liverpool, Glasgow, and other places interested in the West India trade, ought to support this application, which, if conceded to, may lead to the more important consequences, on account of the interruption of the direct trade between the United States and our West Indian Colonies.— Times. From the following article in the Dublin Morning Register, we perceive that the Catho lic Association are to meet for the despatch of business on Saturday next. The reasons for this step do not seem very intelligible. We had understood, that the Members of the Catholic Association wished to remain silent in order not to embarrass Ministers at this trying conjuncture; but it would seem from this paragraph, that their object was to soften the hearts of their Sectarian opponents, who have, OR tlic contrary, been more mischievously active, during the interval, than at any former period : . . 1 7 ‘ THE CATHOLIC A ssocianoti.—The six weeks' recess will be at an end next Saturday. We are sorry that it was not distinguished by the reciprocity of generous feeling' which was anticipated at the adjournment. At no period of our history was sectarian rancour in more mischievous or more disgusting activity, than within this short interval. The silence, indeed, of the protecting Association, seems to have given a new and extraordinary stimulus to foul nens and fouler tongues, not only here, but in England. These are not circumstances which invite further quiescence on the part of the Catholic Body ; and though more than a six weeks' recess was originally contemplated, we feel it our duty to announce, that it is now the intention of the Association to re-assemble for despatch of business on Sa turday next."—Morning Chronita. Mr. Murray's shop, in Albemarle-street, was, daring a great part of yesterday, very closely be sieged by persons desirous of obtaining copies of the publication of the Correspondence between his late Majesty and the late Lord Kenyon, and between his late Majesty and Mr. Pitt, on the subject of the Law affecting the Catholics. For this publication, we learn from Dr. Philpot, the Editor, the world is indebted to the liberality of the present Lord Kenyon. As it must be the wish of those who have laid these documents before the world, that they should be circulated as extensively as possible, we have taken the liberty of transferring them to our columns. They are valuable materials for history. From this Correspondence we have abundant confirma tion of what is stated in the Memoirs of Lord Waldegrave, the tutor of his late Majesty, that his education had been greatly neglected, for the composition is harsh, and the language ill-chosen, and grammatical rules are set at utter defiance. Lord Waldegrave complains, too, of his close ness and want of candour. Of this, too, we think there is no lack of proof in the Correspon dence. W e find his iNlajesty corresponding with Lord Kenyon, with a view to ascertain how far the Coronation Oath would allow him to consent to concessions to the Catholics in the beginning of 1795. During the long interval which elapsed between 1795 and 1801, he seen* to have kept Mr. Pitt, who ought to have hadi his full confidence, nearly in the dark with re-' - By the way, if there be the quar.!ity of unemployed mills that Mr. Surrey alleges, is not the erection of new ones by the 'Victualling Board a most improvident applica tion of the public money ? spect to his sentiments on this subject. Mr. Pitt I was aware of an indisposition on the part of his ti Majesty to a change in the Laws against Ca- c tholics and Dissenters ; but he had only learned, fi he says, ct from some of his colleagues, and from b t ' other quarters, within these few days, the ex tent to which. his Majesty entertained, and had t j declared that sentiment." To the distinguished ti individual responsible for the government of this great Empire during a period more pregnant with danger than any perhaps in our history, he was reserved, while he appears to have been in unreserved communication with Right Reverend Prelates. One consequence of this ignorance in which Mr. Pitt was kept respecting the extent of the King's prejudices, was the deception prac tised on the Irish Catholics at the period of the Union. The conscientious scruples of any man are entitled to respect, and that his late Majesty's objections to farther concessions to Catholics and Dissenters, originated in a conscientious be lief that such concessions would amount to a violation of his Coronation Oath, is a point as to which there cannot be a doubt. But the re spect which we are compelled to entertain for the man, cannot blind usto the danger to which a country may be exposed from them. The Co ronation Oath seems to we assumed a fearful magnitude in the eyes of his late Majesty. He inferred from an extract from the Commons Journal, 28th March, 1689, when on the third reading of the Coronation Oath Bill, a proviso, declaring ,‘ that no clause in this Act shall be understood so• to bind the Kings and Queens of this Realm, as to prevent their giving their Royal Assent to any Bill which shall at any time be offered by the Lords or Commons assembled in Parliament, for the taking away of altering any form or ceremony in the Established Church, so as the doctrines of the said Church, a public Liturgy, and the Episcopal government of it be preserved," was twice negatived; that " the Coronation Oath Was understood, at the Revolution, to bind the Crown not to assent to any repeal of any of the existing laws at the Revolution, or which were then enacted for the maintenance and defence of the Pro testant religion, as by law established ;" and that if the oath was understood to bind the Crown not to assent to the repeal of the Act of Uniformity in fa vour of Protestant Dissenters, it would seem to bind the Crown full as strongly not to assent to the re peal of the Act of Supremacy, or the Test Act, in favour of Roman Catholics." Lord Kenyon showed him that nothing could be more strained than this inference; for though " the Statute of 22 Car. 11. c. 1. for preventing conventicles, and other statutes of like tendency, existed at the time when the Co ronation Oath was framed and enacted by 1 W. and M. c. 6., yet in the same Session of Parliament the law called the Toleration Act was made." Every Act passed since the Revolution, with a view to the relief of Catholics or Dissenters, would, accord ing to the construction of his late Majesty, amount to a violation of the Coronation Oath. In fact, in his very first letter to Lord Kenyon, he does not he- Sitate to condemn the Act of the Irish Legislature in favour of the Catholics—" The question that has been so improperly patronised by the LOT d Lieutenant 'of Ireland, in favour' of the Papists, though certainly very properly silenced here." Lord Kenyon did all he could to tranquillize his Majesty, and to give him more rational and constitutional views on the sub ject ; but it was impossible to make any impression on him. Mr. Pitt's letter to his Majesty Is a sen sible and vigorous composition ; we recommend it to the especial consideration of the Pitt Clubs.—lb. That part of the Press which may be said to consti'ute the forlorn hope of Mr. Canning's Ministry, are making a mighty fuss about the speech attributed to Sir James Mackintosh in Friday night's debate. To us,we confess, it ap pearedtobe a very dull affair; and might be com pared, we think, to one of those heavy concertos, which performers, who have a better opinion of themselves than the world have of them, now and then profess to ind-ilge an audience with be tween the play and the entertainment. As a voluntary, it possessed but little merit—as a set piece, still less. On the Portuguese question, which was that before the House, it threw but little light ; and as an apology for the tergiver sation of Whigism, it left the matter where it found it—viz., involved in a conviction that the Whigs of the present day are ready to say and do, or say and undo, any thing for the sake of place. It is this total want of principle among so many public men which has rendered the pre sent era at once so remarkable and so disgusting. We do not mean to contend that opinions are so immutable that no junction can ever take place between men who differ on certain points from each other ; but the difference between the rem nant of the late Ministry and the Whigs, if either of them are entitled to credit for sincerity, was not of this slight description, but was on points so essential as to render any union im possible without one party or the other surren dering all claim to honour and consistency. The Whigs, having all to gain, have readily made the sacrifice, and have thrown overboard at once all their boasted zeal for Parliamentary Reform, the Catholic question, the repeal of the Test Act, the Liberty of the Press, &c., as if they were so much lumber which only impeded the sailing of the vessel. And are we to he told, that Sir James Mackintosh pro nouncing an epilogue to such a farce as this can make it palatable after the whole performance itself has been condemned by all dispassionate judges ? Is it any plausible, set oratioi, which can persuade the world to think that whi - 2 which they know and see to be black ?—lmpossible. Let us hear no more, then, of such sophistry. Let the Whigs console themselves, if they will, in the possession of place— let them despise, if they please, the revilings of the people, but let them not attempt to defend that which is wholly indefensible, or mistake the cheers of each other for the sanction and approbation of the public.—Morning Herald. The Report of the :East Retford Committee was laid on the table of the House of Commons last night. The Report was unanimously re ceived, and a Bill to disfranchise that borough, and to transfer the right of election to Birming ham, was brought in and read a first time, and, from the apparent feelings of the House on the subject, it will probably pass the Commons with little or no opposition. In a plan of reform so moderate and restricted as that pursued by the House in the case of Grampound, and more re cently in the case of Penryn, and now in progress in the case of East Retford, it is difficult for the most timid to discover even a shadow of occasion for alarm. There is no display of universal medicines, no empiricism used, but a distinct and definite case of corruption is made out, and a distinct and definite remedy is applied. To the argument which we remember to have been used by Sir F. Burdett, in the case of Sir Manasseh Lopez, and which was brought for ward by Sir Charles Forbes in the case of Penryn, and again in the case of East Retford, last night, namely, that a grea t er or sma ll er degree of corrupt influence is used i n every election, and that, therefore, it is unfair to select one case for punis.' - iment—we think the answer is extremely simple. We are to proceed to judgment against those that are indicted and found guilty, not against those that are not before the Court. There is not a thief . that appears at the Old Bailey, who might not be ee pitted by the argument of the two Honourable ..conets. They might all plead, that there were ;hdusands of rogues abroad who were equally Titninal, and that it was unfair to pick them out min the rest. The Judge would, doubtless, reply :o this plea, that when the same rogues at large came _ . ,) . efo re him, he would treat them in the same way. we say to Sir Charles Forbes. Bring forward ;ha cases of delinquency to which you allude, and :ley shall receive the same condemnation as those that have gone before them. But the argument is untenable in another point of view. We cannot command what we will in this world; we must be content with what we can get. It would, doubtless, be a fine thing, could every species of corruption be put down in all things as well as in elections, but surely it would he very preposterous, because such a consummation is unattainable, that we should not try to diminish the quantity of corruption as much as possible. It would be very desirable to get rid of all thieves, but until some plan for that purpose is discovered, we must content ourselves with hanging or banishing a part of them, by way of keeping down the breed.—Neto Times. We anticipate, from our high opinion of the judgment of many of the noblemen who joined in carrying the amendment of the Duke of Wel lington, on the bonding clause of the Corn Bill, as well as of that of the Gallant Duke himself, that no very serious opposition will be made this night to the restoration of the original clause.— Of all pieces of silliness - into which a man of understanding can be betrayed, the most inex cusable is to persist in a course of wrong, be cause accident or misapprehension may have led him into it. It is evident, we think, that the effect of the amendment must have been misap prehended. It does not appear that the Duke of Wellinzton is at all desirous that the Bill should be thrown out. Had he been so, we are convinced a man of his straight forward, uncom promising character, would have stood forth and opposed it, directly, at all hazards. He would not, we are sure, seek to gain covertly what he was ashamed to demand openly. His Grace's amendment, therefore, we think, must have pro ceeded from a want of attention to its conse quences. If carried into a law—supposing the Commons to waive that privilege which, more than any other, they have always insisted on — the only effect of the amendment must of neces sity be to produce that rush oil the home mar ket which its supporters deprecate. If such a law did not destroy the warehousing system alto gether, the necessary process of its working would be as follows. As soon as grain rose to such a price that direct importation would afford a profit, vessels would be dispatched to the ports of the Continent, and cargoes commissioned. — But, in the meantime, one week, perhaps two or three, according to the state of the weather, must elapse before these cargoes could reach England. Before their arrival, therefore, it is about nine chances to one, that the averages should have risen from 625. to 665., and thus, at one and the same moment, the whole of the warehoused corn, and the whole of the corn directly imported, would be poured into the market. Now, remove the amendment, and ob serve how the original clause works. We have the wheat at 625., and, by the hypothesis, fo reign grain may be imported with a profit. First, then, a part of the grain in bond would be brought into the market. We say a part, be cause the duty being, according to the theory of a protecting price, at a practical maximum, it is rea sonable to suppose, that no merchant would, .until he saw how the market was to be affected, feel in clined to enter the whole of his stock. In the mean while, the temptation to direct importation would be wonderfully diminished, because, it must be obviouS, that while there was a quantity of Grain in bond, at all times admissible, the home market had every chance of declining. Not only,, therefore, would not the whole of the Corn in bond, augmented by the direct importations, be thrown on the Market at once, as must almost inevitably happen, under the operations of such a clause as the amended one, but the Bonded Grain would come in by degrees, and the direct importation would be extremely limited. By the clause, as it originally stood, the holder of Grain, in bond, would act as a check on excess of price in the .. Home Market, on the one hand, and on excess of importation on the other. By depriving him of the power of competing with the direct importer, as the amendment proposes ; we hold out a premium to the speculations of the latter, which it is our professed object to repress. We do not believe, however, that, under the Amendment grain would long be _ bonded in England. Merchants would lay it up in preference, at the nearest ports of the Continent ; and thus, when the state of the Market justified importation, the glut which we have said would, in all probability, occur under the system of Warehousing in England, in nine cases out of ten, would necessarily, constantly, and inevitably, happen, in every case ; for, under the system of warehousing abroad, the corn bonded, so to speak, and the direct importation, would inva riably come into the home market together. If, then, the real object of'Noble Lords be the same as their ostensible object (and we believe very sincerely that it is so), namely, to render as nearly as the case ad mits the supply of grain commensurate with the de mand, the Amendment of the Duke of Wellington is, of all measures possible, that which is most calculated to disappoint their wishes, while the clause, as it originally stood, is of all others that which is most likely to meet them. We do not intend to touch on any other feature of the amendment, because, when we have shown that it must necessarily pro duce that very evil which its supporters wish to pro vide against, we conceive we have done enough to prove that the only part that prudence has left for their Lordships, is to rescind a resolution, which no thing but a casual inadvertence, to which the greatest of men are not the least liable, could have induced them to adopt.—/bid. CAUTION TO BUlLDERS.—Yesterday morn ing, some workmen were making some alterations in a house in Marsh-lane, at the corner of Brick-street, in this town, preparatory to which the upper part of it was sup ported by props. During the absence of the men at break fast, the front came down, extending across Marsh-lane, and, providentially, without doing any further injury than was sustained by the building itself. It was indeed fortu nate that it happened when it did, no individual passing at the moment ; for had it been a quarter of an hour sooner or later, such would have been the number of persons going to or corning from their dwellings, that it is far inore than probable some serious accident would have oc curred.—Leeds Intelligencer. THE CATIIOLIC ASSOCIATION.....-The six weeks' recess will be at an end next Saturday. We are sorry that it was not distinguished by the " reciprocity of generous feeling" which was anticipated at the adjournment. At no period of our history was sectarian rancour in more mis chievous or more disgusting activity than within this short interval. The silence, indeed, of the protecting Association seems to have given a new and extraordinary stimulus to foul pens and fouler tongues, not only here but in England. These are not circumstances which invite further quiescence on the p art of the Catholic b ody ; Y and though more than a six weeks' recess was originally contemplated, we feel it our duty to announce, that it is._now theinteption.,4,the AssoCiation to reassemble for dispatch of busi ness an Saturday next.—,Dublin Morn, Reg. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jura 11. THE KING . U. RICHARD DOWNING RICHARDS. This was a criminal information for a libel on the Earl of Glengall, which appeared in the Age Sunday newspaper, on the 29th of October last. A clerk from the Stamp-office produced the affidavit of the defendant that he was sole proprietor of the paper. :IL•. BROUGHAM objected that the handwriting of the Commissioner before whorl the affidavit was made, should be proved. Lord TENTERDEN said he would take a note of the objection. The libel was then put in, and read. It commenced with stating " that Earl Glengall had been in league with an obscure journal," and proceeded to say, " that at Southampton, at the office of the Herald paper, in that town, he had been in continual converse with a rascally sweep of the name of Molloy, who is get ting a few shillings a week for scraping together the false hoods of the town, for that expiring periodical, and will continue to do so until he is kicked from his service, as be has been from every other journal he has been in the em ploy of. Does this dirty Lord imagine that a man who is acknowledged to be the greatest liar in England will be listened to among a set of distinguished persons?" and con cluded with stating, that, " not satisfied with traducing every woman's character in whose company he has had the good fortune to have been, he has had the unparalleled as surance to bully the person, to beg another's pardon, to fight a third, and to wind up all by snaking the whole af fair the subject of a regimental Court of inquiry." Mr. BROUGHAM said his task was rendered more diffi cult by the remarks of his Learned Friend, who had dwelt upon one topic which was never urged before upon a crimi nal prosecution ; for he had not confined himself to the in formation then before the Court and Jury, but had travelled back a stage or two, and reminded the Jury of what had previously taken place, and had stated tha.. the information was granted on an affidavit of the prosecutor, to which no answer was made, and even added that this must have been so by the practice of the Court. But he (Mr. Brougham) would beg leave to say, that to a general and vague charge of being contemptible, the Court does not require of any man to do such a ridiculous act as to make oath that he is not a contemptible parson, or that he is not a dirty lord. Mr. Brougham then read the libel, and observed, that his complaint against these papers was, not that they were libellous and hurt the character, but that they were small printed, and hurt the eyes. lie admitted that it was the foullest libel to call a man the greatest liar in England, but these words were applied to Molloy, and not to the prose cutor. With respect to the term "Dirty Lord," Dean Swift was called by Mr. Pope, in the address in which he dedicated to him his greatest work, the Dunciad, " Most dirty Dean." However wrong it may have been in the defendant to have used such a term, the Jury would hardly convict him upon that. A man of delicate feelings would not have made use of the phrase "bullied ;" but it is not so bad to say of a man that he has bullied <another, as to say that he has been bullied. There was never a slighter case offered to a Jury. The Jury immediately found the defendant guilty. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the defendant, who was in custody on civil process, should be committed. Lord TENTERDEN.-Let him stand committed. THE KING AGAINST RICHARD DOWNING RICHARDS. This prosecution against the same defendant was next tried, for a libel in the Age newspaper of Sunday, the Ist of October, upon Mr. Easthope. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in stating this case, said the defendant thought fit to publish, in the most offensive manner, in his paper of the Ist of October—" That on Thursday last, just as the Stock Exchange was about to close, Mr. Easthope brought a large quantity of Cbilian Bonds into the market and sold them, with full knowledge of the information Messrs. Hullet and Co. bad obtained." Had the charge been true, it would certainly have been a great fraud upon the public. The Court would never have granted the information, if Mr. Easthope had not cleared himself by affidavit; and now, if the defendant can prove that Mr. Easthope had any dealings in Chilian Bunds within a month of the specified time, I will give him leave to produce such proof. Mr. BROUGHA Sr called the witnesses, and was proceeding to examine them, when The COMMON SERO 'CANT said, that there had been ap pearances which were calculated to create suspicion ; but that Mr. Easthope had certainly removed them by hie affidavit, and lie expressed his hope that the proof would not be proceeded in, or the matter go farther. Mr. BROUGHAM said, he could not enter into any com promise. The COMMON SIVALO/CANT said, he would consent to a verdiet - against his client, and hoped it would not be the worse for his client that he had so done. Lord TENTERDEN—I can say that, gentlemen, there could be no answer to this prosecution. The Jury found the defendant guilty. RIO DE LA PLATA MINING COMPANY. A special meeting of Shareholders was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. HATHOAN, one of the Board of Directors, in the Chair, to receive the Report of the Com mittee appointed in February last. The Report detailed the progress of Captain Head's (their commissioner's) operations in Buenos Ayres, and at tributed the failure of their plans entirely to the injudicious conduct of that gentleman who left the country, according to the Report, at a time when everything promised favoura bly for the affairs of the Association, and returned without permission to England, leaving things abroad in a most me settled state, The Report adverted to the loss which the Company had sustained, amounting to 54,0007., but stated that Mr. Bunster, of Santiago de Chili, to whom the Com pany bad advanced the sum of 50001. towards working their two mines in that country, was now willing either to return that sum and work the mines for himself, or give the Association an opportunity to partake, in an equitable manner, of the profits arising from their produce. The Report recommended the adoption of the latter plan, and after enumerating the number of Shares on which the se cond deposit of 21. 10s. had not been paid, in conclusion stated, that the Directors had given their services gratui tously. Mr. HILL, one of the Committee, moved the adoption of the Report, and a resolution that the Directors be requested to act on the recommendation it contained. A long discussion then arose between several of the Shareholders on the propriety of proceeding further with the undertaking. The Report was finally adopted, as was the resolution recommending the Directors to act upon it, without a dis sentient voice. The meeting then adjourned. Sir W. Dixie, upon entering into his own recognizance of 1,0001. and two sureties in the sum of 2501. each, was liberated, on Saturday last, from Leicester gaol.— /Vat-wick Advertiser. EARTHQUAKE IN THE EAST INDIES.— On the 29th of October the valley of Nipal was convulsed by a violent earthquake. The first shock is described as tremendous, and it caused every house to shake for some seconds after it had passed away. It destroyed six houses in the city of Catmandhoo, burying under them seven human beings. It rased to the very ground a temple near the city. It destroyed fourteen houses in the city of Patun, but happily no lives. Of the buildings of the Residency there is hardly one wall left without a crack in it, and most of the higher and ornamental parts of the Resi dent's own mansion are either broken off, or so injured as to require taking down. The sound seemed like ten thousand horse artillery thunder ing over a drawbridge, at full speed, or like a deluge of water sweeping down a mountain-tor rent's channel, and carrying with it huge masses of rock. There was a continuous roar, over which more sudden and violent noises, at inter vals prevailed, and it came forward with the speed of light. This horrific sound seemed to the writer to approach him from the South. In an instant or two it swept past the city of Cat mandhoo, and the Residency, which is a mile to the North of the City. The shock followed _30,000 human voices from the city rose in one peal, the voice of the earthquake passed on to the North, and there it was answered by the echoes of a thousand mountains. The whole city of Catmandhoo was celebrating the Dewali with the customary gaming ; hardly a soul was in bed ; the laugh and the jeer were broken by the threat of nature's dissolution ;. ai:d in one instant every voice in that. thickly., peopled town was raised in deprecatory despair.—•S,outh amptorz Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—James Elliott and Rebecea Rogers were brought up for re-eramination. Elliott is the lad who it was supposed had robbed his employers, who keep the waggon warehouse in Bell-yard, Friday-street, of some silks and gloves, which he made a present of to the female prisoner, who is a Jewess. When he was last examined, he stated that he had bought the goods at Exeter, and he was remanded till his employers could ascertain whether his story was true or not. Mr. Muddi ford, one of those gentlemen, attended to-day, and stated that be had found the statement of the young man to have been altogether untrue. He had likewise learned that a variety of parcels, containing silks and other light valuable goods, had been lately stolen from their concern, which he had not yet been able to trace, but which he had no doubt he should be able to do, and therefore he applied to have the prisoner remanded. The Alderman remanded Elliott till Friday next, and told the girl that, if she could get two housekeepers to be bound for her appearance to give evidence at the trial, against Elliott, should he be committed, she should be dis charged ; and this he almost thought too lenient towards her, for public justice. Fthe said she would try to get bail. The young man had given her the parcel as a present, and she had accepted of it as such. HOUSE.I3RIAKING.—Edward Tapp was fully com mitted to take his trial for breaking into the warehouse of his late masters, Messrs. Medgett and Co. Maiden-lane, with intention to rob it. At about three o'clock yesterday morning, one of the men who were sleeping in the house over the warehouse heard a noise, and alarmed his masters. They got up, called in a watchman, and found the prisoner concealed in the warehouse. He had been discharged from the service of the house on the Ist of September last, for misconduct and having formed a bad connection. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. --Yesterday a heart rending scene took place at this office, originating in a charge preferred against a man and his wife of the name of Skinner, for pawning certain articles of furniture from their ready-furnished room in Compton-place, Soho. It appeared upon inquiry that Skinner is an industrious, sober, hard-working mechanic, the father of five young children of interesting appearance, who were, together with their parents, placed at the bar. The father has been out of work for the last nine months, during which period the family have been in the most distressed state it is pos sible to imagine, from the description given by two respect. table neighbours. The wife, ht de s pair, had taken to drinking spirits, and the consequences usually resulting from this vicious habit were soon apparent, for, during the temporary absence of the husband, she made away with a pair of coarse sheets, a pail, fire-irons, and other articles of little value, which formed part of the furniture of their miserable abode, fer the purpose of satisfying her newly acquired passion for drink. Skinner was committed on Saturday for re-examination ; and yesterday the wife, with an infant at her breast, a little boy about eight years old, of fair complexion and large expressive blue eyes, clung to his mother's gown on the left, whilst on her right rested a no less interesting young girl, apparently about ten years of age; the group presenting a veritable picture of charity personified, which could not fail of arousing the most tender feelings of the casual observer. Upon it being intimated to the prisoner that she would be remanded to prison until Wednesday, when her husband is to be brought up for fur ther examination, she simply requested that her children might not be separated from her. The Magistrate regretted that he had not the power to grant her request, as by the rules of the prison, none but infants at the breast were admitted into the gaol with pri soners. The children, upon hearing the Magistrate's decision, uttered the most afflicting shrieks, more particularly the poor little boy above alluded to, who was almost frantic upon being separated by force from his parent, nor were the endeavours of the bystanders sufficient to Booth the poor little fellow, who attempted several times, in a state of frenzy, to make his escape from the constable appointed to convey the two unfortunate children to the workhouse. Indeed, such was the resistance made to a separation, that the constable (we will not say with what degree of pro priaty) thought proper to confine the two children by the wrists with a silken handkerchief—a mode adopted gene rally with felons, and in this way conducted them through the streets to the poor-house. It is expected that by the time appointed for the re-ex amination ( to-morrow), some charitable individual or individuals may come forward to rescue an industrious man and a family, of five unfortunate children, from en tire ruin. A Porr.—A fellow, whose name we believe to be Rough, had the assurance to present , himself before Sir GIORGE FARRANT, to ask his Worship's advice relative to what he termed a robbery, which had been committed on his (Rough's) property, by the house-porter of Earl Grosvenor. Sir GEORGE asked the applicant to explain the nature of the property he had peen deprived of. Rough replied that he was a poet. He had also held the situation of schoolmaster to the parish of St. Giles, which situation he lost last September, and had been im prisoned unjustly,. as the humane Mr. Minshull could bear witness to. He had written a new poem of 500 lines in estimation of the virtues of her Royal Highness the Princess Augusta, and had left it, with a polite note, for the peru sal of Earl Grosvenor. Upon calling on Saturday for the return of the manuscript, his feelings were most seriously wounded by being told that the result of his poetic labours had been consigned to the flames of the kitchen fire. He now applied to know what remedy he had against the porter. • Sir GEORGE inquired what was his object in sending his poem to his Lordship ? Rough said he was in expectation that his Lordship would have found great amusement in reading the poem, which formed a narrative of his sufferings for the last few months, and perhaps his Lordship's compassion might have been excited on the occasion. He had written a poem, entitled the " Eddystone Lighthouse," which had met with an extensive sale, but unfortunately little of the profit had fallen to the poet. The iklAcasmaTx—l cannot interfere in this business. The applicant, after making a profound bow, left the office. MARCH OF MIND.--A devotee at Brinks way Church was observed to go there last Sunday with Barclay's Dictionary under his arm. Being asked the cause, he answered that he was sure Mr. Troshus was a great man, for he had attended his Ministry twelve months, without understanding a dozen words that he uttered, but that he was now determined to endeavour to learn the meaning of (at least) a few words, in the course of a sermon.—Stockport Advertiser. RARA AVIS IN TERRIS !"-Mr. Mark Thompson in Appleby, joiner, has at this time a young Rook ofpurest white,—equal to the swan. Its bill is also white, legs yellow, and its eyes of a beautiful bright blue. Another young bird (a black one) was found in the same nest.—Carlisle Patriot. LAKES OF KILLARNEY—DUKE or CLA is known to be the intention of his Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral, to visit the Flag station at Cork shortly. We have strong . reasons for stating, that his Royal High ness will graciously avail himself of his conti guity to the Lakes of Killarney, to visit that romantic and delightful spot. Neither do we state without foundation, that his Royal High ness means to honour the races of Killarney with his presence.— Waletford Chronicle. A great sensation was occasioned at Kendal, on Monday morning, by the circumstance of a woman having been drowned in the canal. It ap pears that a man, named Mitchell, who is tra velling the country with a caravan, went out very early on that morning, accompanied by his wife, both of whom had been quarrelling all the night, and he had used her very ill. They walked to gether; and it is not ascertained whether he pushed her into the water or not. They were accompanied by two male companions, but they were at a considerable distance at the time, and when they arrived she was quite dead. They re port that it was with difficulty they could pre vent the man from destroying himself. The jury sat nearly the whole of Monday, and adjourned and met again on Tuesday, at noon, and conti nued the whole afternoon in deliberation, and twice returned a verdict of manslaughter, when the Mayor (Coroner) desired them to re-consider their verdict. However,; after further delibera tion, they returned4e. same verdict, which is re corded, and the 'hUstiii'd'is - - committed to Ap pleby pc:A....Carlisle Patriot. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY...-FRIDA.Y • JUNg 15. Cooke, E., Gloucester—Abel and Co., Gloucester Cope, C., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham 11 Cosserat, N., Torquay—Hotel, Torquay Davis and Co., Whitehaven—Black Lion, Whitehaven Davis and Co., Manchester—White's, Manchester Drosier, T., Blakeney—Angel, Norwich Ford, J., Reading—Wheatsheaf, Reading Gibbing and Co., 'tam—Royal hotel, Birmingham Gregson, E., Haberghal: -heaves, Burnley—Whites hotel, Manchester Hillier, F., Dover—Guildhall, Canterbury Howell and Co., Bath--Greyhound, Bath Jones, T., Tredegar iron-works, Monmouth—Commercial it rooms, Bristol lg Locking, G., Kingston—George, Kingston lg Parker and Co., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham Rawling, E. jun., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds ll Richardson, T., Sowerby—Court-house, Knaresbrough Smith, S., Hastings—George, Bath [NSOL VENTS APPLYIN Petitions to be heard at Portt4 G TO BE DISCHARGED , ;al-street, Lincoln's Ism Fields, - . .... JUNE 15, AT :V INE. Adams, H., Limehouse Hardy, T. Uxbridge J Bugg, J. Aldermanbury Osborne, J., Pimlico Clough, 1., Foster-lane Phillips, C. Queen -street Cooper, S., Newcastle Ravenhill, R. London.wall Crick, N.,Chancery-lane Senior, J., Leeds Crisp, S., Crawford-street Sladen, S., Guisely SO° Crouzet, J., Little St. Thoirlar,Vizard, D., GlastombissYt Apostle mtrietshire Gillingham, J., Chancery-lane LONDON MARKETgi OF BREAD. . r t The highest price of PRIC rea B E d in the Metrodolis is 0144 k ,0 0 0 h e 41b. Loot'. There are others who sell from Nd. to *t;cl that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-June 11. ‘,.,,/ New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 70a. 725. fine 7:3‘. pr'' Old Ditto Ditto.- ~....- 30s . 424, fine 48e. 6 1 '• New Foreign Ditto ... 38s. 488. fine 61s. 6 0 ; Old Ditto Ditto _ New White Clover 586. 64e. fine Ile. Old Ditto .-.-..„----..„.---...,-.„..............-„... 345. 455. fine 525. 5- " New Trefoil -- 29s. 36s. ti'k 375. 5 2s ' Old Ditto -,- . 7s. 225. fine YOs . 2 6 5, .. Rib Grass --------- 244 28s. fine szt. 35 " English Carraway Sced -.....„.- -s. 17s. 3bs. Ible •-4 . " . Foreign Ditto ._., ~ . -s. 30s. 325. line 40 , Coriander ....-----------.-s. 28s. 30s. New . 336 .,: :' St. Foin ---------(ner Quarter).-..... ....s. ....4. ..." 6. • ;1; 30$. Rye Grass . ••••••* ,...........w4 , ....ww.A".............. 25a. 308. p er" ... '" -. 45 5 . Pacey Ditto -.....--....--...---- .... 365. 425• new ws. ..,... Linseed, for feeding ---------------.... -6. 28s. 40s. fincio.-__, Ditto, for crushing-,, -5. 345. 38$. fine ,-14.• Canary Seed, New- -,.. -----...--,,-----964. 100 s. tine 115 s. - ^ 4 ' Ditto 01d............„............--....------*"........ -1. - 5 . ....„ 5 „ fine -- 4 • White Mustard Seed--(per 8u5he1)......... -s. 12s. 148. Ate -' 4 " Brown Ditto - -- ** s. 16s. 20s. Sir' Turnip Seeds, Rounds ---...--- -s. 365. 424. fine -, ''''' ....s Green and Red Ditto -s. 445. 468. fine Tares, Old O ed ld , English, tine (per Last) 23/55..(ki....-... 6s. 6d. 7: 7 " :, Ditto New ...................-. -s. -e. fine 12s. 1 .2 _....." WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET...—June 9. 0 ,1, H a y. Bls. Od. to 120 s. Od. 100 s. Od. to 140 5 . straw 365. Od. to 425. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—June 11. Kent Pockets.-- 71. 7s. 8/. Bs. to 9/. Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto . —.....— 71. Is. 81. Os. to SI: Farnham Ditto, Fine. ---- Seconds 0/. Os. 101. Os. to 01. Os. 71. Os to 61. 6s. 71. Os. to 61. Cs. 61. 15s to 6/. Os. '7l. Os. to Old Duty laid at £55,000. Kent Bags—, Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto.. W. 91. 71. 71. 71. 98 , * PRICE 01 , POTATOES.—June 11. Yorkshire Kidneys Scotch Reds Oxnobles and Shaws 3/. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto. Marsh 41. 10s. to 5/. Os. ditto. LEATHER. Per lb . S Tanned Horse panish de.* I d 3. 9 1. ' 1 14 Per, dozen. Calf Skins... 36 to 401 b. 18 „ it / 4 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 23 Ni Ditto 70 to 801 b. 20j : Small Seals, Greenland IS 1 8 . to F i d o . d d RAW HIDES. 4 2 6 Market 7 0 e_f":„. Ordinary a y r l . I d o . to to.;s, SHEEP SKINS. togs. Od. Is. 3d. to Is. Os. Od. to Os. Od, PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Butts 50 to 5611). 19 21 ....GO to 661 b.— 21 23 Dressing Hides In 15 Fine Coach Hides 15 18 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 15 Ditto-----45 to 501 b. 15 17 Ditto Per Stone. e. Best Heifers& Steers 2 Middlings 2 Downs 2s. 6d. Pelted— PRICE OF OIL . an 0' Rape Oil, brown ---271. 6e....,..,. Relined ..... r ...f , - i ly Linseed Oil ~**.••••••••••••••• 26 .. I 0 l g Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand .........,....,..... - s ie Rape Cake, per ton ,I•OO.OIWWWWWMOVWWW.F*IIII _............, Adair's COAL MAR 31s. 3d. 6 34 6 Eighton Moor. Heaton Holywel] radingworth NOMOW• Liddell's Ord's Redhugh Pon top Windsor Shipeote 33 29 28 29 Tarifield bluor 32 o 31 0 Wylam WallsEndßewicke&Co. 35 6 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 34 6 Ditto Brown's 31 9 Ditto Burraton 33 3 Ditto Carr and 29 0 Ditto Hotspur 31 0 Ships at Market, 82%—....-Sh :LT.—June 11. 3Sfe' 34' Walls End Newmarch..• g Ditto Northumberland 0, 1 Ditto North Percy 4 IT Ditto Ricldell's,...---.** 4 Ditto Russell's $' Pelaw Trader 3 32 1 0 Tanfield # Hebburn small .......••••••••• 1: Lambton small —••••••••• L. cub.. co. 6 Hartley 20 Elgin Main _ 3 3 4 0 Invarkeithing Nesham g Walls End Hetton—••••••• Ditto AR Ditto Stewart's Russell's Hetton W • lips sold, 44--Unsold, 3114 gr IRISH 31/ DUBLIN MARKET N ,KET S. 7.—Fitio.tr_ t June 0- f, a From To s t S ,104 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 3 0 0 38 6 ~ / '7O Bere 16 stone 16 6 18 0 1 1 , 6, 121 8ar1ey.....—....—.... 16 stone 19 0 21 6 7 „:. 1 0* '947 Oats l4 stone 16 0 20 0 I' 0 7,415 Cwt. Flour--..... 9 stone 10 0 25 0 "" 0 22 Oatmeal 11 stone 19 0 0 '""' Sold to B only. 3 6 5,597 Cwt. Flo urs... l6 0 25 8 19 11 Average price of Wheat and Flour 50s. Od. per saclt- , 0.4 , ~..,„ Firsts, ...M... from 255. Od. to '"*"",., IX!' Receipts of Flour, 9, `"/ Seconds, from 16s. 6d. to kr . ; 60 , Sales of Do. 7,415 Third 5,........- from 10s. pd. to 1 0 '' PMICE OF BREAD. ei b '0Z.....810. I Half-qu: Quartern Loaf, 41b. ern, 21b. i,... * "' Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per per barrel per barrel per barrel t 20 stone. 16 stone. II stone. lit. ...! . ..... 1. -- - .....• s' 'q il s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. S. ,1 • 1. 4 Cork --- 28 3-31 3,17 0-19 6 16 3-19 6 18 0-20 0 16 0',.,_-_o. 0"00 Waterford 30 0-31 81 0 0- 0 0 17 0-17 6 19 0- 0 0 15 t ... 0 n " Waterford 29 0-31 6 16 0-18 0 13 0-13 3 0 0- 0 0 0 1 :1,0" A Belfast..-28 0-28 6 16 0-21 0 15 9-17 6 17 6-18 0 21 % . .,,j6 i ," Clonmel -28 4-31 8 15 0-17 6 16 4-18 1 15 0-16 6 15 "-- o 'o Tralee,,,,-. 00- 0 0 00- 00 14 0-15 2 00- 0 0 000 , i. „ - 6 Car10w..... 28 9-34 0 18 0-20 0 18 0-19 0 0 0-. 0 0 .. 0 ~...."' 1 . ,z Galway - 32 0--30 7 16 0--17 0 19 0- 0 0 l6 6-1 - 2_,.....-" / ' Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter KO' per lb. per lb. per cwt. I st. 20 . 3d. - ./., ---- ----- --5, 0 i 0. a d. 0. a 0. s. d. a s. d. s. d. E. d. s. d•,. d• 0 , n 0 Cork 0-00-0 20 0 - 30 0900 5 2 0 70 0 , c ,, , k ) 6 o e,oo Limerick.- 4 -51 4 - 51 25 6-36 0 96 090 080 0 % 0 , 0 Waterford 0 --0 0 -0 24 0-28 0990- 0 -- `O/ 0 Belfast —5 -8 5- 8 35 . 0-42 0830- 0- 0 0 , 0 Clonmel- 4 -6 31- 5139 0- 0 086076 0 -00 P Tralee .....- 4 -51 84 —5l 22 0-23 0 93482 0 72 0 0 .• , 0 Car10w.......... 61-7 61 - 7 - 0- 0 0920 80 070 0 --0 . , Galway-, 4 --41,41--54-0- - 0 -, 0 -''' SCOTCH 11IATIKETS. ..6s l " 43 46 27 30 28 27 - 1 - ..... / \V heat. Barley. Oats. 21 r ir...............13_eati5. ............044::/0, Berwick.,A Co b l e d r s d tr e c e a ""-- - 43 45 - 30 26 23 -- .... - ..... , Cupar -.....-- 27 29 26 28 - - - ...- / Dumfries -- , Dundee ~.......- 28 30 26 2S 2 6 f 33 24. 26 30 23 46 Falkirk -- 30 32 25 342 23 - .... / Kelso „-.--....... 42 45 29 32 25 27 - -- ...., p K e i r r t k h ald:',„,-.- 21 28 , 3 3 0 0 2 27 5 : 29 11 26 2 R 2 3 8 0 2 - 6 2 32 70, ...; p it! At Dumfries the price is given per busheL ThC c: .j1;0 above arc per boll, except Oatmeal, which is per sack 0; • BIRTHS. o e° . • . T3.........r.-..,. I , —a, --.. i,. nler Beaufort t I e Castle,a d near f th el In e ' the oAo u ntn oi t sni h au. e d inrs 6 dei t ayt h y: ~ o i AF n ni s rr s t at . hs ,. ee rj a 9. t o — tvfi On the 9th inst., Harden, of a son. t il vi' sell-square, of a daughter. Y e sterday, in Parliament-street, the lady fF• ridligr a ll t lA s ß t. R i‘ l i E ar D k . ,s, Kenningto9 :: " Esq., of a son. Ann i:n ClarkeT hliThursday o ay f K last,e nn a in t ton.gst. Bromley, Bernard-stsee '10: 0, w; isa Rev. W. Otter, Opie Smith, Esq., of Bath, to P P , r. l'' Jones, Esq., of Swansea, to Ann, third daughtei. late W. Warren, Esq. of London. DIED. iee lioe' r e Yesterday, at Fulham, Mrs. Mallison, of a " cer ell e 64 On Sunday morning last, at six o'clock, ai r ! psch te y Faith's, Watling-strect' of the gretted by her family and friends, her Grace thr 0. It , of Somerset, sister to the present Duke of HatrolWiler 10* natural strength of mind never forsook her &air* de and painful illness. a Ger tili fie: Yesterday, aged 22, in Stratford-place, Dian, 0 ..1 t o o f the only child of S ir Giffin Wilson, of Airout'cour Bucks, and one of the Masters of the sigh So fr o Chancery. J• On the 4th inst., at Elgin, greatly lamented, • i . tor , son, Esq., only surviving son of W. Robertson, v ci, Auchenrontli, N.B. 13 011" s' On the 10th inst. , aged 87, in North Crescent°f bi , il squa re, Clementine, relict of J. Delano, Egg. , P i ' W jesty's Custom s. , irs. IO P On the 9th inst. at Reigate, aged '7B, sincerely regretted by her friends. i,re4 PRISIND and PUBLIGHID by Sur-Onus, No. 11% 31 3