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vernmen,t the periods; referred too, we:have reason to know ; but we- also know that the of. ferSiMpoitedra desire la 'procure-for the Greeks u arrangement more advantageous to them titan the Turkish Goverinnent, thought it , ex-; pedient to grant. . It was an offer to assist thei Turks ; b u t it was one, the acceptance of'; which would have involved reward rather than punishment to the Greeks. The leading Jour nal of the present Administration thinks pro per, however,- to give implicit credit to this statement of the Turkish Manifesto, for the pur pose of stigmatizing the foreign policy of that able, and honest servant of the public, the late Marquis of Londonderry,' and' the living StateS men who emulate his virtues ; forgetting that Air.' Canning, the object of '.its daily 'adoration, declared openly and boastingly in the'House 'of Commons, that the policy of - the Marquis of Londonderry, 'his immediate predecessor' at the Foreign-Office, 'was the model which he meant to imitate ; and forgetting,' moreover, which is a still more remarkable oversight of injudicious adulation, that Mr.' Canning was. himielf the Foreign Minister of Engkind at the period of the Congress of Verona. We do not wonder that the friends of the Mr. Canning , of'-this day should wish the nation to forgetbis personal identity with the Mr. Canning of a • former period. They are zealous' and welkneaning friends' no doubt, but they certainly Over-act their part. The Journal to which we have just referred contrasts the -foreign 'policy of' the late with that of the present Administration, as il lustrated by the very different, conduct pursued by them respectively towards the Turks and the Greeks. The former, it-says, would have assist ed the Mussulman to destroy a whole Christian nation—the latter is anxiously striving to rescue both from the evils of a destructive and appa rentlyt.endless. strife. The accusation against the late Administration' is an. ignorant 'and brutal calumny ; and 'if even ib were true, it is plain that it would only afford an additional rea son' wh y England s h ou ld h o t no w h ave h e . come a party to 'any coercive interference in favor of the Greeks. One crirrie or error is not to be corrected- or atinted:for by - thC 'commission of a crime eiror of an apposite nature. The march of Governime4ii ought, so far as is pos sible, to be even, consistent, and continuous. If, therefore, an unjust partiality had been shown to the Turks hitherto, it would have been anew and ,a Very strong reason why an unjust partiality should not be shown to the Greeks' ,'When the Greek Treaty was first prointilkated i we at once declared Our opinion that it was ut terly- :repugnant : to the law of nations, entirely uncalled for-by any existing circumstances, :and, as an example pregnant with danger to the 'future harmony and repose of nations: • We were their told that it was not the work of the present Ad, ministration, :and that all the , printipleS it invol ved had been discii . ssed and adopted at St.'Peters burgh, when England was represented by the Mike of Wellington. The Treaty is - now, we ;find; to be' employed as a means of contrastin g the present with the late Administration, to the advantage of the. former. There is somethi ng rather puzzling . in - this. We think, however, we h.ttre hit upon an explication. When the Treaty is considered in referenco to the law of nations and 'the seperate interests of Engiand,lo both 'of which it is opposed, then it the work of the Mike of Wellington; but when it is viewed in connection With the high sounding names 'of philanthrophy and religion, then it becomes, all at Once; the work of Mr. Canning.. Your tirtie partizan, after all, is the man who can the most perfectly, forget to-day what lie said 'yesterday.-- It is much to be lamented, that afterthe many boasted improvements which are saki-. to have ilkeir :place in our laws and iudicial proceedings, so much of quibble and technicality should still be found incnnibering the latter.. We are far from meaning : that legal forms can, or ought to. be . dispensed with, or that any of those safe guards should be abolished, which are equally necessary to insure, .pn the_ one hand, the:admi nistration of . ..justice, or, on the other, the pro tection . due to• persons accused. Yet still we. cannot for the lives of us see why . common sense should not have something to do with such mat ters ; or whom mere mystery - can benefit but the artificers who live by the worship of the Great Diana. We know well enough, that to attack profeasional mystery, either in Law, Physic, or Divinity, is to give mortal offence to all iwho -deem obscurity wisdom ; yet we, feel :confident that there is a liberal spirit in the age, which will go'along • with .us in deprecating the conti nuance of mere: form without .substanee, espe cially when: it tendslo defeat, and render in som e degree contemptible, the apparent ends of justice. The 'acquittal' of the man, Sheen, charged with the mnrdersof his: child, .has: aforded a striking instance of this ; .on• Which occasion the 'Whole justice of the case appears to .have merged. pp points, which may be, and no doubt are, law, . but I.vliieW appear, to our dull. apprehension at, least, as :far removed from . reason .and eommon eense, - as: the 'r cult has been •mortifying and, un ,,,tisfactory. As• a further proof of the way in judicial Arms---deal with obvious things, we. hav - e'an instauce, at one of the Assizes, of a person being obliged to travel all the way from London to. prove not only that " the Earl Of Li verpool, Earl )34hurst, Hus kisson,'Mr.,Robinson, and . Mr Peel; were Mini sters of State,".. but actually to produce the p - tent under which \ they had held ..their offices ; and that in the case of a mere trumpery libel-in- which they,happened to be named. Such things seem, to be as absurd as if because' an in dictment. concludes with an averawnt that the offence, charged in it is " against the peace of otir:Lord theiKing, his crown and dignity," it would be. necessary to prove his Majesty to be Ki n g, or to carry .down the . crown from the Tower, or - some person: who was present at his Coronation. •Or if a man be charged with drowning another by, throwing him into the Thames, it may ,be ,equally necessary to prove that the Thames is composed of water, and that water possesses the property, of drowning. This may appear to be, and is excessive absurdity ; but we know 'of no better way of illustrating one ati= surdity than .by opposing it to another.. Again,. we are told that it has . been gravely held; that men accused of stealing ducks were acquitted because they killed them first, which rentleiid . the dead ducks not the ducks meant in the in dictment. Though there is figure of rhetoric which a ll o Ws th e ' pa r t to be taken for the .whole as a figure of speech, 'we can easily imagine that a man wh o s t ea l s a b ea t- s t ea k oug ht no t to be tried for stealing an ox ; but why the word. ducks necessarily means live-ducks—or why if they happen to be charged as live ducks, and yet happen to be dead and even roasted, that should make any difference . as to the crime of stealing them, is beyond our powers of apprehension to . understand. The,refor m of, or rather the doing away such niceties and cubtilties,as these,.is so obviously called for, that we wonder how what ileman ; whoever he should turn out to be, be condemned for this offer, the state of the Greek nestion, in the cotronencement of 1823, ought early to be shown ; and it ought also to' be s town, that the view taken of it, by that unknown i dividual, was not, under existing circumstances, t e most humane and enlightened. The Turks aire followers of Mahomet, and the Greeks are Christians ; but, although this diversity of r6ligious belief might very properly turn the kale in favour of the latter, where the claims of the two parties were equal, we hope it will not be airguad, that in the year 1823, we were called on tb undertake a war in behalf of the Greeks, ' merely becanse they were of the household of faith. Granting, then, that the proposal was made (which only this document proves), and ranting that it was mad e by a B r it is h Minister which this docoment does not even assert), until it be shown that, our interposition between he contending parties, with a view to put an d to mutual bloodshed by their reconciliation, as not as fully justified by the circumstances'of 823, as our interposition between them, with a ieW to terminate the war by their separation, is y tyros circumstances of 1827—until this is howl) we cantiot Advance a step in the argument. hat one State has no right to interfere in the !Aetna' disputes of another, unless the rights of ri the interfering State be compromised, or are in imminent hazard of being compromised, is, as we have said above, universally admitted. But, I , vino will contend that one State may not assist tnOther, with the consent of the latter ? To in erfere between Turkey and Greece, as we are is calted'.l.' Ord.:Mar& ofintellett," eznileare such tow 'interfering',. - `tan only be justified •on the xcrescenc es in its rear ; and it is quite cl ear , to principl e , t h at we are exposed to hazard, if we hs least, , no reform Of th e l aw can f )e pelay our interference. But no such excuse, nor effectu a l, which does not bring such . matters as any other excuse, was waittingtO justify an offer these to" the all-ref orm i ng test of COMMON bf assistan ce t o T ur k ey f rom E ngland, if Turkey • SENSE. — Morning Herald. j required, and was willing to accept it. To gi ve a According to a l e tt er o f a hi g hl y respectablei 0.4 e in point ; th e interference of France; in b e , chara c t e r from Buenos Ayres, it appears th a t th e half of Ferdinand, in 1823, could only be.con diem:lied on th e pr i nc ipl e t h at i t took. place not first negociations; commenced un de r t h e auspices j the assent, or a t th e so li c i tat i on of the do of Great :Britain, respect i n g t h e possess i on the Eastern Bank 'of the Riv er Pl a t e , tninant p ar ty, b ut a g a i nst t h e i r w i ll. Had Fer dinand p o s sesse d i n a ppearance,' what we firmly were accompani e d b y an i n di cat i on , that . on account of th e ' exor bi tant d eman d s made b y believe h e p os A esse d i n b rea li ty, the confidence of • each of the cOnternling parti es , it wou ld b e ex- I quietly in his p a l ace at Madrid, the majority of the nationadrid, a n d the had he be en seate d pedient to raise the di s p u ted . terr i tor ie s i nto 'an I a b et - Independent Stat e ,- u n d er t h e protection andgua- tors of the Comes confined ,fo an extr e mity rantee of such E uro p ean mar i t i me Power as the of the Peninsula, who will say that the interfe inhabitants, d u ly convene d an d assembled, might rence would not have been 'completely justified ? select. -In Such a proposal it was, perhaps, fo re _ Will it be asserted that the calling in of the in Seen, that the c hoi ce was lik e l y to fall on Great Dutch tro o ps, 1688, to put down atyrant i3ritaiii; but after an extensive corresponden ce King; or of the HanoYe r i ar r troops; in 1745,' to on the subj ec t, it was di scovered that there was put 'down a rebellious people, was•not.completely an insurmountable objection to the scheme, both justifiable ? No blame therefore attaches to the' on the part of the Emp eror of Brazil-offer of ass i s tan ce i n and the 1823, as the TimeS asserts: United States, although Buenos Ayres seemed nor does the' 'contrary 'course, which has been to acquiesce in th e measure. adopted i n The next propo sa l 1827, afford any just ground for de made was, for, Buenos Ayres to pay Brazil claination on the change Of - system, which has, twenty millions of dollars, for.the relinquish- in truth, changed only in our contemporary's meat of the possession of -Monte Video and the imagination. -But it is always thus with coarse whole of the eastern bank of the River Plate, and and vulgar eulogists ; they cannot praise one the re-establishing the boundaries with Brazil without depreciating another ; the merits of the as they stood subsequent to the final ej ec t- objects of their admiration are all relative.—New ment of the Portu guese f rom La Colonia del Times. Sacramento in 1762. The proposal was re jected by the Emperor of Brazil, 'who declared that both his father and himself had been put to an immense expence since the time of Artigus, in maintaining tranquillity in the territory of the Eastern Bank ; and the Crown of Portugal had, besides, claims derived from the right of con quest, and possession of La Colonia and the Eastern Bank prior to the year 1705, when the Portuguese were dislodged for the. firsrtin3e by the Spanish settlers' in Buenos Ayres, although the tight was never surrendered up by any sub sequent Treaty, and attempts to recover and en force, it were again made in 1724 and 1762.._. As regarded the sum of money offered, it was rejected • with disdain, the , Emperor declaring that as -th e Ci sp l at i na P rov i nce h ad been anb nexed to the Brazilian Empire by a solemn and formal act of the inhabitants, specially convened and legally assembled—as - the Sovereign of a re presentative and constitutional Mon ar chy, a f ter the oath he had taken, it was out of his power to alienate or dismember any part of the territory he had pledged himself to govern a nd k ee p w h o l e, even if his life and crown were in danger.—This firmness wag by no means expected •at Buenos Ayres, where the country has long been in a distracted state, Paraguay, Potosi, La Paz, Cochabamba, Cordova, and Galba, having re fused to accede to any federation with the capi tal, which was thus left to carry on the war. it self. The,naval-part of the war had ,hitherto been conducted with great activity, owing chiefly to the efforts of the foreigners who had joined the Republican cause ; but the inhabitants began to be generally &satisfied, being blockaded by sea, and .by land cut off from all intercourse' with the, interior. The letter in question adds, that the Government, fearful of a re-action, had sent Garcia to Rio, in order to solicit a peace, on the best terms he could obtain.— IV/Poling Chronicle. The Turkish manifesto, which we give in another part of our Paper, - has already been be fore the public in detached portions. What of novelty it presents is rather in the form than in the substance, in its reasoning!; more ihali facts. , One of our contemporaries thinks it is of Austrian manufacture, and certainly there are sufficient grounds for concluding that it is the production of any pen rather than that of a Mus sulman.' The mere existence of this - paper, in any shape, augurs the commencement of a better state Of things in Turkey, while, .at the same tiine, it speaks for its origin.. It is aim admission of no mean importance, when such a despot as the Sultan condescends to appeal to the intelli 7 genre and understanding of the world for a jus , 0 tifieatiOn of his conduct, . This is a breaking clown 'of the ancient land marks of absolute power. Again ; the assertion, however unfounded, that the Greeks had been treated, in every respect, as Mussulmans;,is a proof the Sultan deems it ne cessary, when addressing intelligent men, 'to al-' low, by implication, their claim to equal treatment with the disciples of the prophet. The chief fault of the manifesto is, that, like every other document whose positions are truisms rather than•truths, we may grant all it asks, and yet deny its conclusions, We may grant, for in stance, that the Greeks have been placed, by the benevolence of the reigning Sultan, in a much better condition than they were at any former period since the downfall of the Eastern Empire; and yet deny that the Wave acted unreasonably in demanding still higher vileges. We may grant also the impropriety of interfering between a Monarch and his subjects, and, indeed, all men grant it, and yet deny that, under every pos'sible circumstance, the rule must of necesstty hold. The Times' of yesterday is not more reasonable than the Sultan, when it blames the late Marquis of Londonderry, or the Quite. of Wellington,. or somebody else, for th e object is rather undefined, because,. at the Congress of Verona, it . was proposed to interfere between Turkey and the Greeks, with a view to ft • • ont down the latter. Before the inueunite gen- LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, AUG. S. THE LATE DUKE OF QUEENSBERRY. THOMAS V. MONTGOMERY. Mr. HEALD stated, that thiFi was a petition pre sented by the legatees under the will 'of the late Duke of Queensberry. There was now the sum of 363,000/. to be paid to the petitioners, and the question was, whether th e i nterest t h at h a d b een paid, or should be paid on the legacies, was liable to pay duty ? The petitioners contended it was not; that the claim on the part of the Crown did not, in its nature, carry interest; that it was a claim, under the Act of Parliament, and the Act did not give interest. His LORbSIIIP observed, that if the legacies had been paid at the time at which they ought to have been paid, according to the direction of the will, namely, within three months after the testator's death, a portion of the sum would have gone to the Crown. The part that would have gone to the legatees might have been laid out at interest until this moment, and so might the sum the Crown would haVe been entitled to. His first impressidn, therefore, was, that the division of the interest ought now "to he made upon that principle; that the Crown should have the sum paid to it that would have gone 'to it at first, with the interest that had accumulated on that specific portion, and that that should be paid to•the legatees, which would have gone to them with the interest that had accumulated thereon. The Counsel on behalf of the legatees did not ac cede to this—they felt bound to contend that no accumulation of interest should be paid to the Crown. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was totally unable to find out any equity whatever in the proposition of the legatees. He had to co n t en d t h at t h e C rown was not only entitled to 10 per cent. on the princi pal to be paid to the legatees, but to 'lO per cent. on all the acCumulations and accretions the legatees might be entitled to under the tiyill, at the time at which the apportionment was made.. The Crown had no means.. of compelling the payment of legacies, and, by connivance, legatees and exe cutors might allow the legacies to remain out at interest before they were paid, until an im mense sum of interest had accrued on the that ought 4— , - au executor was also the sole legatee, he might per mit the principal to lie at interest for any number of years before he said lie retained it as his legacy, and unless the Crown was to receive a proportionate amount of the interest, the:greatest advantage might be derived by the legatee, and the utm os t injustice done to the Crown. Mr. BICKERSTETH was with Mr. Solicitor-Ge neral. He submitted that though . the Act (36 Geo. 111.. chap. 52) did not in precise words give the duty on the interest, yet the fair construction on the whole was that the duty to be paid to the Crown, was to be on the legacy plus the interest. The duty was to be on the interest the legatee took un der the will at the time of taking it. There were a great many counsel engaged in'the case, but The LORD CHANCELLOR, from his observations, appeared to have made up his mind to decide against the petition, by declaring the Crown to be entitled to the duty on the amount of the interest as well as of the principal of the legacies. IN RE THE CORONER or nEETroan. Mr. HEALD moved, upon a petition from the in habitants of Hertford, that the Lord Chancellor would issue the usual writs de eoronatore amovendo and de_ eoronatore eligendo, in conse9ueru:e of the Coroner for the county, Mr. Benjamin Rooke, having neglected his duty, and having quitted the neighbourhood. . . It was then agreed that the writs should issue, and that the petition should be granted Without costs,. FRANKLIN AND THE BANK OF ENGLAND. Mr. SUGDEN stated that this case was compro mised, the Bank having agreed to pay the dividends as decreed by the Master of the Rolls, and not to bring on the appeal which had been lodged against that decree. ROLLS' COURT, AUGUST 3. GREENWOOD V. TAYLOR AND ANOTHER, EXECUTORS OE IS LATE ROYAL PIIOHNESS THE DUKE OF YORK. In this case, which is a suit instituted for a gene ral administration of the assets of his late Royal Highness the Duke of York; and in which a refer ence has been made to the Master to take an ac count of his late Royal Highness's debts,. &c. a pe . tition was pres en t e d on t h e part o f a goldspith and jeweller (Mr. Hamlet, as we understood), praying an inquiry before the Master on the subject of a sup posed lien of the petitioner to certain articles of plate, &c. of his late Royal Highne ss , w hi c h h ad been deposited with the petitiotier, It appeared that the petitioner had furnished various articles of plates, &c. to his late Royal Hi g h, ness, to the amount of several hundred pounds, and that on the occasion of the Duke being about to take a journey into the country last year, his R oya l Highness deposited with the petitioner certain ar ticles " for safe custody," and afterwards gave him an order for more plate, which was accordingly sup. plied, the petitioner conceiving, as he stated in his affidavit, that he "should be entitled to retain the articles deposited with him as a security for the amount of his demand on the Duke,: of whom, never deless, he took acceptances, for it. It was stated that the articles 'deposited with the petitioner had been given up to the executors of the late Duke, and sold with the other property of his Royal High ness, upon an understanding that the petitioner's claim to lien should not be prejudiced by that course of proceeding, Mr, SuatiEN, on the part of the plaintiff, now ape peared to oppose the prayer of the petition, which he said was . quite unprecedented. There was no pretence for claiming a lien on the articles deposited with the petitioner by the late Duke. It was clear that the goods furnished by the former were not fur, nislied on the credit of any supposed lien, because a considprable_portion of the amount was i ncurre d be fore the deposit.was• made; and the petitioner had taken the Duke's acceptances for the whole amount of his demand ; besides, the petitioner's own - affidavit stated that the articles were deposited with him Cf f or 'safe custody;" and therefore, in the absence of ny a j nt as to a lien, it was impossible that he ould itled to what he claimed by his petition. Me', who appeared for Sir Herbert Taylor Dd ( Stephenson, the executors of the lute ukerk also opposed the. petition. 1 MrRE appeared in support of it. MrEaormar appeared for the Princess ople residuary legatee of the late Duke of orkiad to ask for her Royal Highness's costs. Mira of the RorAi—The: costs of all mrticariog must be paid. Pedismissed, with costs. IC,gANCELLOR'S COURT, Auc. 3. ROBINSON AND CO. V. ,HOLMES. MarF., for the plaintiffs in this suit, applied oth for an injunction, under the following eircinces. The plaintiffs were tailors and drape Beverley; in Yorkshire, and in 1823 the Nebihd Gentry resident in and near Beverley ilepred to them that it would be.extremely ad vents to the plaintiffs; and very convenient to them a tailor who was a skilful cutter-out was proci'rom London, in order that the clothes they I)ad might approximate to the shape and semi). of those wOrli in the capital, without puttiiemselves to the trouble and inconvenience of seg up to London every time they stood in deed coat or a pair of trousers. In compliance With suggestion, one of the plaintiffs, Mr. Mark I;tobi, came up to London, where lie made dili gent iries'after a person skilled in the metropo litan e of cutting, and was introduced to the defert, John Holmes, as a person likely to suit him, fit his customers to their satisfaction. After a var of preliminary negociations, with which he woulit trouble the Court, the plaintiff engaged Johnlmes as his foreman andcutter-out (and as the' Ct would find he had certainly endeavoured to mood his claim to the, latter title) under certaonditions which were reduced to writing; and sid by both parties : the effect of this agree ment %, that John Holmes should setve the plain tiffs *wir foreman and cutter-out, and that he shou! risk their customers for one month upon qial./ at the expiration of this term of probation slid be found that John Holmes 's talents ehuid the representation made of them to the plaiiis, then he was to continue in their service for therm of six years, commenting with,a salary of -2;a week, which salary was to increase by Is. per vk until, the gross amount thereof reached the sum 130 s. per week. TWICE-CHANCELLOR observed that they had scarce given this poor tailor the wages of a poet. MrIoaNE said that provisions were cheaper in the N:h than in London. In addition to this salary of 30ser 'week, the plaintiffs were also, to allow the deidant pocket-money, and provide, him with beard d lodging. In return for this the defendant was td hinoimself not to practice as a tailor within 50 miles I Beverley, for the space of 20 years from the date o:he agreement; and the plaintiffs coVenauted, oil the part, not to dismiss the defendant without refereie to a Justice of.the Peace, and to give him two gneas to defray his expences to London when- over tey parted with him. On trial, John Holmes was And to be a cunning workman and a steady person. He was accordingly engaged; the agree ment us,signed and sealed, and the nobility and gentryin Beverley and its neighbourhood had abundat cause to congratulate themselves on the unpro - vaient in the appearance of their outer man up to Lecember, 1826, when Holmes became ex- tremely tegligent, and misfitted the customers of the plainiffs, in consequence of which many suits of clothes vtre returned on the plaintiffs' hands. Now, if liolme: had really been a bad workman there might hay. been some apology for him, but he was, known to bee very good one; and finding there was a very fair otening for a tailor at Beverley, he had recourse to these measures for the- purpose- of ob taining his dismissal . This object he effected. _The' plaintiffs were obliged to dismiss him in the month of January in the present year. The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked what equity Mr. Horne's client had ? the aerlTeji -1 n="7.. - ii;t*atti t ject ; he had t aken the two guineas to defray his expellees to London, which he had not devoted to . that purpose, but had set up business for hiinself at Beverley, in direct violation of the agreement, and was now employing five or six workmen and apprentices. Under,these circum stances, he trusted that the Court would interfere, and extend its pfotection to the, plaintiffs. The . VICE-CHANCELLOR'Said, that if he granted this injunction, he Should expect to be applied to next for an injunction to restrain the Irish giant from exhibiting himself contrary to the contract with , 'his keeper. He Would not grant injunctions in cases where the parties had a better remedy open to them by an action at law. Mr. HORNE said, the object of this bill was to preVent the multiplication of suits.—(A laugh.) . Mr. SUDDEN (who was on the other side) said, : there could be no doubt that it was intended by this application to prevent the multiplication of the snits of hiS client, in order to multiply , those of the plaintiffs. , • The VICE:CRANCELLOR—T never saw a case in which there was less foundation for an injunction. Pray move something else, Mr. Horne. Motion dismissed. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yeterday evening, an Inquisition was taken at the Cooper's Arms, Westminster, on view of the body of Ann Knight, a fine young girl, aged 15 years, whose death was occasioned by a blow received from an earthen vessel thrown at her head by her father. Mr. Richard Painter, surgeon of the. Broadway,. was requested to attend the deceased on Saturday last, at her father's house in Stretton-ground ; wit ness immediately went," and found the deceased suf fering under delirium ; her complaint was erysipelas, caused by a wound on the head, which had spread all over the side of her, face ; leeches were applied, but they Would ,not catch; he afterwards bled her, and the' head being shaved, blisters were put on ; notwithstanding all that was done, however, she gradually sunk, and died on Wednesday. Mrs. Elizabeth Fraser, Westminster, had known the deceased . from infancy. About ten o'clock on Saturday - morning, the 21st ult., witness heard, a great noise in the next house, which was occupied by the deceased's parents; on looking out into the yard, she observed the deceased picking up a num ber of articles which her father had thrown out of the window; among them was a large brown wash ing.pan full of water, which descended on the head of the deceased, who fell to the ground, and cried out, " Oh, my head;" she afterwards, while on the ground, shed tears ; the pan,. in striking her held, broke to pieces. • Most of the Jury had • known the' father for a number of years, and he was the last man they should suppose to be guilty of a brutal action. • Verdict—" That the deceased's death was acci dental,from the wound she had received on the head." No fewer than forty-three Barristers were in attendance at these Assizes ; what proportion,of the number held briefs we have not heard ; a majority, however, seemed to enjoy the luxuries of leisure. Last summer, a number of Gentle men of the Long Robe were observed amusing themselves near a city iii one of the Midland Counties, playing at the classical game of leap frog, an amusement of such high antiquity that it has been supposed to have been. pursued by the gravest members of the Academy ; and more over 4t might be cho sen hrthe gentlemen referred to from 1 ie analogy it bears to a practice long legitamized at the bar—that of " rising over one another's heads." Or the Learned Gentlemen might have recollected the reflection of Sh,alce, ,speare's Hal—" If I could win :a lady at leap.: frog, quickly l ea p i n t o a wife. lady eest; I should rJoitrit al. - • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. 1 IyMANSION -HOUSE.— George Sandersonwas charged ith stealing a quantity of paper, and . embezzling monies, he property of his employers, Messrs. John and Henry preen, grocers, in Gracechurch-street, and John Bewick as charged with receiving the paper, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. HOBLER, jun., attended for the prosecution. The prisoner Sanderson had for a length of time been Porter to Messrs. Green, but for some time past he had been suspected of dishonesty. Paper and various other Articles had, from time to time; been missed, which could not have been carried away by any other hands than his own. At length one of the shnpmen took an account of the paper that was missed, day by day; in consequence, a watch was set on the prisoner, and the prisoner was de tected in taking three shillings which he had received of a customer for a pound of coffee, also with overcharging the price of oil which he was intrusted to purchase. At length Mr. Green accused .him of stealing the paper, which he confessed immediately, and promised to pay for it. Mr. Green then asked him where he had disposed of it, saying it might be better for him if he gave up the receiver: The prisoner then took the officer to the residence of the other . Prisoner Bewick. He, upon being questioned, denied any knowledge of the paper ; but the prisoner Sanderson pointed out, from amongst a quantity of articles, the identical paper stolen, and the officer, in consequence, took him into custody. The prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial. Bewick is a dealer in marine stores, and was acquitted only, about two sessions ago on a similar charge. He is a well-kn Own character. Upon the LORD MAYOR ordering them to Newgate, the prisoner Sanderson, with the utmost audacity, asked the prosecutor to pay him for two days' wages that were due to him. Mr. Hobler told him that he thought that he had been paying himself for a long time pretty handsoinely. The prisoner, however, still persisted in his claim, when The Loan MAYOR observed that Mr. Green would be very much to blame if he did pay him ; certainly it would he out of pure kindness, for there was no claim upon him. Mr. Green, however, very kindly paid the fellow his two days' wages: A man named liackston was charged with stealing a hamper, which came to the • Tewer-stairs by the Brockle hank steam-packet, belonging to the General Steam Na vigation Company. A man named Randall stated that be was a waterman, in the service of the Steam Navigation Company, and that be got the hamper in question front on board the Brockle bank steam-packet, and had put ou shore for two other persons in the service of the Company to take 'it to a pub lic-house and leave it there for safety. The prisoner had formerly been in the employ of the General Steam Naviga tion. Company. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, Sir, is this an incorporated Cornmy ?—Witness—No, Sir,' I believe not. The Loan MAI-nu—Then do not talk to me about the General Steam Navigation Company. Pray, name the partieA ?--Witnesi--" Why, there is Mr. William John Hall, and' here the witness stuck fast. Two men were called, who.clearly proved that the pri soner stole the haniper, which was part of the luggage brought by the- packet, but who it belonged to, or what it contained, no one knew, as it had never been seen since it got into the'prisoner's possession. The LORD MAYOR inquired whether any person attend ed for the General Steam Navigation Company,; as it was called. The Officer replied not ; and added, that he had seen Mr. Hall, the managing man of the Company, that_morn ing, .and spoke to him on the subject, when Mr. Hall very coolly replied, " Oh, I shall not trouble myself any further about the matter." The Loan MAYOR said, that this appeared to him to be a very curious mode on the part of the company, in treating the property intrusted by their customers to their care, to say that they should not trouble their heads any more about it. The prisoner was ultimately remanded until Monday next. Thos. Ashley, an ill-looking seafaring fellow, was charged with assaulting Elizabeth Ashley, his mother. The poor woman stated, that she was a widow, and had three children to support by washing and sharing; the pri soner, who was about 20 years of age, was her eldest son. She had twice deprived herself of every necessary, and. even run in debt, to rig him out for sea, but he always run away from his ship, and then came home to her, and insisted upon her keeping him. He kicked up the greatest disturbances in her house, made use of the most horrid threats and vile language towards her, that she was in fact afraid of her life ; that morning he had struck 6.... and The case being confirmed by the testimony of other wit nesses, the prisoner was called upon for his defence, when he coolly, replied, " Oh, I only strikes my_ Juother ; I strikes nobody else !" And having said this much, he ap peared to consider that he had fully answered the charge. The Loan MAYOR, however, sent him, in default of bail to Giltspur-street Compter. • A fellow, named John • Lattimore, was charged with shameful indecent conduct, at various times within the last fortnight, towards sundry young ladies, female servants, &c. in the neighbourhood of Bush-lane, Lawrence-Pount ney-lane, Lawrence-Pountney-hill, &c. The case was substantiated by several male witnesses, who bad been on the look-out for the prisoner ; and in order to save the feelings of the females in coming forward to give evidence, the Lord Mayor inflicted summary punish ment, by sending the fellow, under the Vagrant Act, to the tread-mill for three months. GUILDHALL.--Morgan Saunders, and Joshua Lyons, otherwise Marks, were yesterday brought before Mr. Alderman THOMPSON for final examination, on a charge of having stolen a gold repeating watch from the person of General Russell. The following is the substance of the evidence against them :—General Russell,-who is far advanced in years and very infirm, whilst walking in the neighbourhood ,of Man chester-square, in the afternoon of Wednesday, the 11th of July last, suddenly missed his watch, a very valuable gold repeater. Ile was positive that he had it in his waist coat pocket when he left his house a very short time' be fore ; and he had no recollection of any person having been near him, except some Jew boys who had been pester ing him to buy some lemons from them. Next day, one Abraham Cohen, a confectioner in Petticoat-lane, gave information to some of the city officers, that Morgan Saunders and Joshua Lyons had got a gold watch out of an old gentleman's waistcoat pocket, whilst they were out selling oranges at the West-end of the town, and that they had sold it for seven sovereigns to a Jew dealer in Petticoat lane, named Levy. The officers bad not heard of the rob bery at the time; but seeing an advertisement in the news papers on the following day, describing the watch and the manner in which it was supposed to have been stolen, they forthwith took Morgan Saunders and Joshua Lyons into custody, and brought them before the Magistrate, where they were identified by General Russell, as'• having been among , the Jew boys who were so urgent with him to buy their lemons. Levy, to whom they were said to have sold the watch, was also summoned before the Magistrate, and he attended at their first examination; but as Abraham Cohen, who gave the information to the officers, was not then forthcoming, and Levy solemnly 'denied all knowledge of the transaction, he was alloWed to depart upon his pro mise to appear again whenever he might be sent' for.— Subsequently, Abraham Cohen was brought before the Magistrate, and confirmed upon oath the information he had given, and in consequence Levy was again sent for ; but he took care to keep out of the way, and has since ab , .. sconded from his house. • Yesterday, for the first time, Abraham Cohen was pub licly confronted with the prisonem; and in their presence repeated on oath that I,lc saw them 'sell a gold watch to Levy; that be heard them say they had got it out of an old gentleman's waistcoat pocket at the West-end of the town; and that he saw them share the seven soyeTeigPs which Levy gave them for it. • Morgan Saunders, in his' defepre, contented himself with saying that he should be able to prove an alibi. His com-' panion, Joshua 'Lyons, p ro t es t e d hi s innocence stoutly, and said Cohen had sworn to get him hanged, because he (Lyons) was un a bl e to pay him five shillings which he owed him. Mr. Alderman Ttromesorr observed that Cohen's testi mony was so well borne out by the circumstances of the rqhbery, coupled with the fact of Levy having abscond ed, that he should feel it his duty to send the case before a Jury. ' Cohen then applied to the Bench for protectipa. He said, that in consequence of the infor%athil hc. had given, he had been hunted from his hcalae an informer and a " hanginan," and 11,4 lifa had heen repeatedly threatened. The officers co — n6med his statement. They had seen him beset by hundreds of Jews and thieves, in Petticoat lane, all crying " kill the informer!" " knock him down!" &c.—so that they had judged it necessary to eecTete him from their violence. • The Alderman said he had dc).e himself great credit by coming forward in the. manner he had done, and he should be protected. Measures were then taken for that purpose, and the pri soners were committed to Newgate fur trial. HATTON,GARDEN.—In consequence of the intended re-examination of John Taylor• and friary Deakin, who 'were remanded on ehargeo of cruelty of the Most horrible description towards a male infant; the office and adjoining Streets were crowded during the whole morning; and, as the hour appointed (twelve o'clock) drew near, the utmost anxiety was manifested by the assembled multitudes. It was at length ascertained, that in consequence of the crowds assembled round the house of Woolf, 27, Brighton-sri•eet, where the child has since remained, it was. quite impossi ble to bring the child to the office. On making inquiries, it appeared that a strong feeling of resentment was har boured by the mob, in consequence of its being reported that during yesterday afternoon and the whole of this morn ing; money had been received to permit persons to view the child. Whether this report was false or true, we have not been able to ascertain positively, but several of the windows were broken in consequence. Further assistance being ob tained, about half-past one the emaciated innocent was brought to the office, when the prisoners were put to the bar, and the former evidence again repeated. Several fresh witnesses were in attendance, and various instances of a similar unnatural description were detailed, which caused the auditors to shudder with horror. A medical gentle man stated that the child was still in a very dangerous state. The prisoners added . nothing to their former attempted defence ; and after their cruel and unfeeling conduct had been severely' commented on by Mr. Sergeant Sellon, they were ordered to stand committed until Tuesday, the Worthy Magistrate intimating he should not take bail. The child was sent•to the Infirmary-of St. Giles's workhouse. The poor child was cleanly and neatly dressed, but did not appear in the slightest degree improved in health. Woolf denied solemnly having received money to exhibit the child. • MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.As William Greaves,' Paddington patrol, was walking down the canal side early yesterday morning, near Westbourn-green, to see if any boys were robbing the gardens, he observed two men mak ing across the •meadows, as if to avoid him; one had a basket such as carpenters use, and the other a bundle.— Supposing •them to be thieves, the patrol contrived to in tercept them in the, Green-lanes near Mr. Cochrane's house, and finding a live turke s y in the basket, and unripe apples in the bundle, of which they gave no satisfactory account, he took them to the watchhouse and brought them before Mr. Hosms. The prisoners gave their names John Francis and Charles Smith, and said'in their defence they bought the turkey that morning of a man in a cart near Harrow, who had many more to sell, together with ducks and geese.— They came out of Somersetshire, had no place of residence, and slept the preceding night under a bay-rick. They were committed for re-examination. UNION-HALL.—Shortly after M. Swarm-, Esq. the presiding Magistrate, had yesterday taken his seat,ayoung man, by name George Ford, habited as a quaker,. was ac cused by a. watchman of Blackfriars-road, with being in a state of intoxication near the Surrey Theatre, at a late hour the preceding night. • The watchman proved the fact, and stated, moreover, that the defendant had represented himself as being engag.l ed to perform in a piece called " The Bad Child," which, he said, was about being produced under the management of Mr. Elliston, at the Surrey Theatre. George Ford observed in defence, it was seldom, he be lieved, that the Magistrate was troubled with charges of intoxication, or misconduct, against individuals of his (Ford's) religious profession, and therefore he trusted that the charge would not now be pressed. Mr. SWABEY told him that on paying the usual fine of five shillings to the King for intoxication, he would be discharged. The defendant said, that having been in the company of a friend, who came from Worcester, the night before, .he spent all his money, and actually had not so much as five shillings in his pocket. Then you muvt send and procure the amount of the fine, remarked the Magistrate, otherwise you will be detained. The defendant was then removed from the office. Josefih Harrow, a mere boy (but notwithstanding his tender age, he has been already punished for felony), was charged with stealing some brass weights, from Mr. Swift's surgery, in East-lane, Walworth. About eleven o'clock yesterday morning, Mr. Swift, who was seated reading in the surgery, observed the prisoner glide in and take from the counter something, which tutu— ed out to be a quantity of brass weights. The prosecutor immediately followed and seized him; the prisoner tben threw the property down an area. He attempted no defence, and was fully committed to take his trial. • A young man named Riggs, leho has been some days in custody, charged on suspicion of stealing a gold chain, and other articles belonging to Mr., Brunel], jun., was again remanded, to give an opportunity of producing further evidence, if it von be obtained, ,tourarda eliminating the prisoner. [EETINQS OF CREDITORS: LONDON DI ARY.—Tunsnal Commissioners, I Attfkid, J., Richmond l2 Booth, W., Duke-st., Man chester-square ll Burbidge, W., St. Paul's church-yard Cohen, J., Chelmsford ' .10 Cook, J., Sun-street, Bi thopsgate Dawes and Co., King-st., Cheapside l2 Dornford, T., Philpot-lane 11 Dunn, W., Newington 2 Gasley, G., Newport -street 10 Griffiths, G., Wrexham Harrison, T., Westminster road Hart, A., Lambeth Hl. 1"; AUGUST 7.---(At the Court of Elasinghall-street.) Heinle, F., Bethnal-green 11 Holding, T., Dover.st., nover-square ll Hunter, J., Clifton, Glou cestershire 1 Jewell, W., Eltham lt Maiden, R. Rio de Janeiro 11 Mitchell, H., Tottenham ll Mullinger, W., White chapel , 11 , Paine, T., Hackney ll Parminter, G., Earl-street, Blackfriars ll Pickering, J..' Wath, near • ' Rothetam t / • !Price, 1., Hereford ll COUNTRY DlARY.—Tuiv..nav, Ala. 7. Brown, G., Banbury—Red Lion, Banbury . 11 Edge, T. Buralem—Albion, Shelton l Fidler, M, Norbury—White's, Manchester., 1 Gillies, J., Liverpool—George, Liverpool ......... 1 Haynes, W., Neath—Public rooms, 5wan5ea.......... """"" . Jones, G., Bridgnotth—White's, Manchester, 2 Jotham, W.,. Bradford—White Lio n , B ath /gelling and Co., Liverpool—Mr. W oo d s, Liverpool Ross, It., Yeovik—Swan, Sturminster Sherratt, J., Prescot—Star and Garter, Liverpool 9 Wood, S., Manchester—White's, Manchester . 1 Yates, .1., Bolton—Star, Manchester ... 11 Younge, E., Mundford—Swa n , N orw i ch. INSOLVENTS APPLYINt Petitions to be heard at Portm - § Auous•r 7, Alves, J., Great Pulteney-st., Golden square • Bates, 8., Newport Bloor, J., Hackney Broad, W., Gate-street, Lin coln's-inn Brown, S., Old-Street Carson, A., Walwortls Clark, W., Lambeth Cooper, it., Dulwich Donowho, J., Tottenham-court ' road Dunn, J., Surry theatie Gill, J., Saxton G TO BE DISCHARGED, F al.street, Lincohei Inn Fields, ALT NINE. Haylock, C., Dalston Heath, J., Lambeth Lys, M., Albion-buildings, Bar.. tholomew-close ?letz, S., Cecil-street Rollinson, J., Knarigibre, York shire Smith, W., Alf iston Smith, J., Ciselford, Glouces tershire Tait, D., Islington Walter, J., St. Philip and Ja cob, Gloucester , COUNTRY.---At the Court-house, at Bedfo r d ) A ugtha g o at Nine o'clock. Arnold, W. , Greenetleld I Brown, W., Blubhain • - , BIRTHS. On the 28th ult. in Somerset-street, Portman-square, the lady of Monsieur de, Chateauvillard 4 td the Chateau du' Brian, near Parisi of a !fan gh On the 2d inst., it Huntingdonshire, the lady of Richard Smith, Esq. of a eon. On the 2d instant, at Kentish -town, the wife of the Het% Johnson Grant, of a ao;l• On the 2d moat., at Gaddesden Cottage, Herts, the lady of T. Herbert Noyes, Esq. of a eon and heir. - G eo rge Maclewai n , Esq., of Ely-place, to Anna MARRIED. eldest daughter of L ady On the Ist- inst., at Barn ar d C astle, by the Rev. R. 'bird-hill-house, Dewluun. Anna Maria Jessup, of On the 2d inst., a t T horpe, by the Rev. Edmund Fes. man, rector Helmi ng h am, Suffolk, Harry Dent Gr.oisg. Esq., eldest son o f Si r Charles Forster Goring, of 14.i'gliden, Sussex, Bart., t o Augusta, sixth daughter of V.eutenant- Colonel gamy, of Thorpe-Indge, in the county of Norfolk. On the 21st u lt, at St. Andrew's Gltumb, Holbo rn , Maria,Pot s, Robert Chignell, eldest son ofJames Turner Rostock, Esq., to Charlotte Athilda, eldest daughter of the late Major B. Fenwick, R.A. On the 2d inst , at West Thorock, Essex, by. the Rev.. Jame's- Capron, Mr. Richard Meeson, of Stratford,. Essex,. to Ann, eldest daughter of Mr. Skinner, of West Thorock, and grand-daughter of James Gordon, Esq., of the bland/ of Madeira. On the SOth ult., at the Church of St. Saviour, York, by the Rey. J. Graham, Mr. George Hawson Holtby, of Stillington, surgeon, to Catheriae, second daughter of the late Mr. Brown, of Chesterfield, and niece to the late John Crosby, Esq., of 'York, DIED. On the 31st ult., at Kidwell-park, Herts, Anne, Of Captain J. H. Plumridge, R.N. On the 3d inst.. at her brother's, Mr. Phillips's, upholsterer, Great Dover-street, Borough, Ann, youngest daughter of the late Mr. George Phillips, of Bermondsey.. On the 3d inst., at Fortis-green, Finchley, after a lona and severe illness, Mr. William Davies, sen., late of Gilt-- spur-street, London. PRINTED and Pow-ismer) b' M. YOUNO, at the uN-Orrica, No. 112, Strata, 4