The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUB : ) IJIILIC JOURNALS, The contents of the Lisbon Papers published in a part of our impression yesterday, and the let ters which we publish to-day, again bring under our review th e unsatisfactory and distracted state of the Princess Regent's Government. The spirit of inconstancy, inconsistency, andinirigue, which some time ago took possession of her councils seem now to have their full swing.— We heard by the last mail of the dismissal of two of her Ministers, and the reduction of her Cabinet to three members, each occupying two portfolios. We now learn that the Viscount de Santarem, one of the favoured three, who signed out his nephew, Saldanlia, and his other col leagues, and who happened to be the Minister in waiting when the follies of Caldas were com mitted, has himself been dismissed, from motives of caprice or from unexplained reasons of state. General Stubbs, too, our countryman who so gallantly defended Oporto during the late rebtl lion, is to have the sentence of a court martial for his reward. In considering the facts of the General's case, we must admit that his conduct on the dismissal of Saldanhawas imprudent, and his language to the Regent reprehensible. At the head of an important garrison, and in coin- mand of a considerable body of troops, it did not become a military officer to interfere with the exercise of the Royal prerogative in the dismissal or appointment of Ministers, far less to become the organ of a communication which pre sumed that the Princess was surrounded by un worthy favourites, and that his faithful army was called upon to proceed to Lisbon for the purpose of effecting her release from het Cainarilla.— But why, in the relaxation of every principle of government during the last year, and in the un certainty which prevails about the rights and du ties of the authorities under a new Charter, is General Stubbs to be singled out for a display of unwonted and incongruous rigour, when his dis missal alone might have been more than an ade quate atonement for his undesigned offence, committed in a moment of patriotic excite ment, and in obedience to the impulse of a great population? Even if no considera tion was due to his motives, ought his services so soon to have been forgotten ? These frequent changes of Ministers, and these capricious acts of folly or rigour, which have brought the Go vernment of the Regent into disgrace, and have rendered its history for the last three months more like the annals of a nursery than'of a body of Councillors, are calculated to be more fatal to the security of the Charter than a northern revolt, and tend to make us regret less their ne cessary termination in the arrival of Don Miguel. No improvement of the Administration, no con solidation or development of The Constitutional system, can be expected from a cabal of ill-in structed young women, directed by selfish cour tiers—from maids of honour who engage to make and unmake a Cabinet for a purse or a place—or from a set of disembergadors or cap tains of dragoons, who agree to take office under the menials of the Palace. The reins of Go vernment in the present situation of the country must be intrusted to a man ; and as they cannot be beneficially held or directed by a hand on the other side of the Atlantic, the only alternative seem] to . be, the accession of the Emperor's to,the Regency. We are ready to admit that this is a great risk for the rising liberties of Portugal ; but with the claims given to the Prince by the terms of his marriage,—by the in definite expressions of the Charter, and by the feelings of a great portion of the nation, it would probably have been impossible long to have de layed, or finally to have prevented, the experi ment. In such a state of things, the only ques tion (as we have before stated) was whether the Prince was to.be let loose from Vienna, and find his way to Lisbon the best way he could, with out any renewed obligation to observe his brother's institutions, or *as to be bound to their support by every solemnity which could render moral or political engagements impressive and durable. The latter course, we are happy to say, has been adopted ; and though we can not, at present enter into the details of the plaii by which the Allied Powers, and particularly the English Government, expect to render his return to Portugal harmless or beneficial, we may yen• Lure to assure our readers that every precaution has been taken to secure his fidelity to the Charter, and prevent a re-action against its friends. On landing in the kingdom which he is destined to administer,- he enters it as the Lieutenant - of his brother, with his brother's com mission, and under an engagement to support his brother's work. The Emperor has not only written to the Prince, in earnest terms of advice and exhortation, to be true to the new system, and to preserve the chartered rights of his people, but has addressed letters to the King of Eng land, and to some of the other Allied Sovereigns, requesting them to exert their inflence with the Infante for the same objects. Care is to be taken, that in proceeding to Lisbon, he shall not pass through Spain, to receive the salute of the rebels who abused his name in the late insurrection, or to be tutored in politics by his sister, the Princess of Beira, or any of the other royal professors of absolutism at the Court of Madrid. On his arrival in the Tagus or before his disembarka tion, he is to issue a manifesto explanatory of the conduct which he. means to pursue,—pro claiming the capacity in which he appears as Regent by his brother's appointment, declaring his adherence to the Charter, pronouncing those rebels who resist it, and calling upon all his sub jects to respect it as the fundamental law of the kingdom. In the first meeting of the Cortes, his oath to maintain the new institutions will be solemnly renewed. The Silveiras and the other enemies of the Chaster will of course be kept at a distance, and the Allies ofhis brother will re commend to him better counsellors. Thus it may reasonably be expected, that a re-action will be prevented,—that out of a decent regard to the faith of engagements, the Charter will not be instantly overthrown, --that civil war will not immediately be renewed,—that the Constitu tionalists will not be imprisoned or massacred, — that the country will not be deluged with the blood of its beet citizens, and that liberty will have one chance more of success. What may happen in the course of six months, if the Prince should fall into his old courses and instruct his friends to get up addresses from the troops or the municipalities, calling upon him to dissolve the ,Chambers, and to assume absolute power, it 1 / 0 144 not bedifficult to predict ; but the predic tion (*evil is..worse than useless, when its oc currence cannot be prevented.— Times. Mi ° l ' has been said, and large pr a is e be . stowed 40/1 w s ate called the " improve ments" p ro j ectd in St.. James's-park, and in • Irtikit weTe once. !th - It wouM -grew, . r .e . gardens of Carlton House. not merely,bea / tti pcgc e us . to see those places and j u di ciouiir e„, I?nt tendered, by draining health.and,Ac commdate4tlre. tributary to public prove highly es throwing openWe ther e f ore ap the Park, and rendering the interior of it, which was formerly in grass, and accessible only to oxen and graZiers' boys, a place of enjoyment to the mid= dling and lower orders of the capital. But we cannot admire—on the contrary, we complain of --autlwr alteration to which the word improve ment has been rather strangely applied, viz. the curtailment of St. James's-park in its gross di mensions, reckoning froth the north boundary wall, from Spring-gardens to St. James's Palace, On one side, and the southern boundary of the Bird-cage-walk on the other. Carlton-house gardens have, until lately, been replenished with noble trees, and free from houses. The public, therefore, though not permitted to enter that spacious area, enjoyed the benefit of the free' currents of air which it circulated throughout the neighbourhood. Henceforth, it appears, that the same gardens are to be stripped of trees and covered with houses, giving brick-work or stucco for a spectacle instead of foliage, and smoke for respiration instead of fresh air. So, on the Op posite side of the Park, what is now clear space, • will be, at least partially, built and smoked over ; and, therefore, although the central area of the Park may be prettier to look at than in former times, there will be, upon the whole, a sensible addition to the number of conquous houses, and to the volumes of coal smoke, which are, in fact, the two grand evils to be considered, when " im provements" are in hand for this already over built metropolis. We have thrown out these same hints, or others a-kin to them, many months ago, and really without the slightest wish to wound any body's feelings, or to raise capricious obstacles to a plan contemplating the smallest increase of solid benefit to the public ; nor are we answerable for any error which may have oc curred in our conception of the particular changes intended, as we have taken our nuns from what has appeared in - print ; and shall be sin cerely happy to find that there will be no set-off in the form of additional smoke or buildings, against the gravel-walks or flowering shrubs, or artificial islands, by which the pedestrians of London, in their western migrations, are to be regaled and exhilirated.--Ibid. • Most of our readers must be familiar with the anecdote of the distressed girl, who applied for admission into a Magdalen Asylum, but who was rejected, because she had not qualified. It must be some reluctance, from the fruits of in struction and early habits, which prevents the labouring population from qualifying more ge nerally than they do for admission into prisons, that has prevented the commitments from increasing more than only tenfold in the agricultural counties within the last twenty years. From an artiele in another column, headed Parochial Pay, it appears that, in the counties of Wilts, Dorset, and Somerset, where the rule is, that every la bourer should be a pauper, the allowance to in dividuals out of prison is one shilling and six pence hafpenny per week, while the allowance per head for prisoners, in the same dietrict, is two shillings and eleven pence halfpenny. Can not some benevolent individuals, in this age of intellectual advancement, endeavour to free the people of a prejudice which seems to be so much in the way of their comfort; by demonstrating to them, that when the authorities of the country have marked in so conspicuous a manner their preference of crime to industry, it is not for them to set themselves against the opinions of their betters ? Why should a labouring man persist in working a whole day on a dinner of cold potatoes, when, by qualifying himself for admission into a prison, by a petty theft, he may have meat as well as potatoes, and thus be able to cover his bones with a little flesh, which he can never hope to do out of prison ? Happy the Englishman who can find his way into a pri son ; and when foreigners reproach us with the increase in number and size of our prisons, we may tell them, that this only proves the increas ing comfort of the people; far if those in prison are happier than those without, the more the number of prisoners increases, the more the stock of general happiness is increased. It used to be said, that an Englishman's house is his castle. We may now say that the castle (for prisons aught not to lose that proud title) is an English man's house.—Morning Chronicle. The Rev. G. C. Smith, " formerly of his Majesty's Navy, and for several years Minister of the Gospel at Penzance, Cornwall," has pub lished a pamplet of 130 pages, under the title of a " Serious Address to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor (Alderman Brown), respecting his prohibitory command, delivered in the Justice room of the Mansion-house, in the month of August, 1827, that he would exert his magiste rial authority to forbid the preaching of the Gos pel in the open air of the City." What the law on the point is we do not profess to know. The Rev. G. C. Smith maintains that there is no law to prevent him from quietly gathering an assem bly in the open air, and simply preaching Chriit crucified unto them. As the Lord Mayor is an attorney, we should be disposed, in our state a ignorance, to rely on his opinion rather than on that of the preacher. " Will you take the Riot Act ?" says Mr. S. " Do so in welcome ; but you must read it first, and allow us an hour to disperse, and in thataime I'll finish my sermon ; so that this will not affect me. Will you try the Vagrant Act ? I have read this, and I can not see a line that applies to preaching the Gos pel in the open air." But Mr. Smith falls here into a very common error with respect to the Riot Act. The Riot Act attached certain con sequences to remaining assembled, after its hav ing been read ; but it does not follow that an obstruction may not be instantly removed by a civil authority. The question we should take to be, how far preaching in the streets of a city could be considered an interruption of order. This is altogether a question of circumstances. • In wide and capacious places, no interruption to order may be occasioned by preaching in the open air, while in busy thoroughfares it may be productive of very great disorder. In a trial in Scotland (reported in Maclaurin), it was con tended that a farmer could not turn gleaners out of his field, as the Old Testament expressly aIL lowed gleaning ; but it was held that the Mo . - saical Law was only binding on the Jews, and could be no rule to Christians. But Christianity is part and parcel of the law of England, and Mr. Smith is at some pains to prove from the commands and the example of our Saviour, who preached in the open air in cities, that he has Christianity on his side. The Lord Mayor, who is a great Theologian as well as a Lawyer, and M. Smith, must settle this matter between them, for we cannot. Mr. Smith, citing the encouragement he received from Dr. Chalmers, I had an intervi ew ," h e says , of Glasgow, with him at the house of William Hale, Esq., of Homerton, and I told him of my preaching in the• open air, at Smithfield, and other parts, which you, my Lord Mayor, forbid and con demn, but of which he heartily approved ; and concerning which he said, with a most affec tionate grasp or the hand, Go forward, my I dear Sir, and God Almighty will bless you;' and he quotes a long passage from a well-known work of Dr. Chalmers, recommending preaching in public in the haunts of depravity and guilt, so as to reach those who, of themselves, would eschew churches and tabernacles. Mr. Smith also addresses some powerful arguments, ad hominem, to his Lordship. " Has that amiable and pious man of God, the Rev. Edw. Parsons, your present Minister, son to a venerable Mi nister at Whitfield's tabernacle (a place reared by out-door preaching)—has Mr. Parsons ever taught you persecution for conscience sake, or have you ever, in any sermon at the Weigh house (the Dissenting Meeting-house near Love lane, East-cheap, where the Lord Mayor re gularly attends), heard such proceedings lauded by any Minister whatever ?" We are sorry to find it insinuated by Mr. Smith, that the Lord Mayor has, in his proceedings towards him, been acting in the interest of a rivals He says he had always been treated in a gentlemanly way by for mer Lord Mayors, when he went to the Man sion-house with starving sailors ; and that the rudeness of his Lordship, on his applying for such aid, when his Lordship went out of his way to attack him for preaching, had a private cause. " lam sorry to say I now recollect too well the cause of it : you have perhaps family connexions, among whom may be Mr. Robert Humphrey Martyr'. That gentleman, in 1819, because I formed the Bethel Union Society, be came most seriously prejudiced against me, lest it should injure the Port of London Society. From that time, as has been a thousand times acknowledged by Mr. Thos. Phillips, his present colleague, Mr. Martyn has possessed these feel ings, which it is as impossible for him to conceal as it is for his immediate connexion not to be in fluenced by them. Mr. Martyn's ire has been dreadfully increased since last winter, because of my exertions to promote the Mariner's Church So ciety When I spoke to you also in the Committee-room of the Tavern, after the public Meeting, I saw but too plainly then that some very untoward influence had taken possession of your mind. This was confirmed when Mr. Perkins, a Member of the port of London So ciety, told me, in much anger, at the house of a gentleman, that the Lord Mayor knew all about me ; intimating, by his manner, that the same feelings he possessed were likely to have someplace in your breast. . . . I mean not to say, my Lord Mayor, that Mr. Martyn would or could, as a Dissenter, influence you to forbid my preaching in the open air ; but I do mean to say, that your intimate family and church connexion could not fail to give your mind a particular bias against me, which you evinced on the very first opportunity." It certainly appears sin gular, that an evangelical Lord Mayor should strain a point to put down irregular preaching; but we are far from wishing to insinuate that his Lordship has not been guided by most conscien tious motives.—/bid. We are glad to see that the Court of Common Councii have met to take into consideration the state of the nightly watch. To our surprise, however, the subject seems to have excited but little interest, and to have elicited remarks from only two of the Aldermen, Messrs. Venables and Atkins, whose speeches, it must be admitted, are, however, very much to the purpose. Had the meeting been one for considering the affairs of the nation, which the Collective Wisdom of th e City is so fond of interfering with—merely, we suppose, because they know little or nothing of the matter—we should have had speeches with out number ; while on a subject which peculiarly interests their constituents, and which, we may presume they ought to understand, the Collec tive Wisdom are as mute as fishes. But where is the eloquence which can willingly descend from fleets, armies, constitutions, and metaphy sics, to a mere tale of Dogberries ; or who, after revelling in furs and satins, would soil their hands with " filthy dowlas ?" It seems, even from what did pass upon the occasion, that the evil, great as it is, admits of very easy remedy ; and it only seems astonishing, that in what is justly called an army of watchmen, patrols, and beadles, amounting to no less than 757 persons, such mismanagement can have existed, as to allow of the numerous and scandalous depreda tions which the inhabitants are every day subject to. The two most striking defects in the nightly watch, not only in the City, but in other parts of the town, are, first, the age and physical unfitness of a large proportion of the watchmen ; and, secondly, the total want of a proper superintend ence. Next to having persons competent to the discharge of the duties, nothing would tend more to spur and keep alive their vigilance and inte grity than a judicious distribution of rewards and superannuated allowances. Where would be the harm, for instance, were each ward or parish, at the end of the year, to give a premium of from 2/. to 5/. to every watchman on whose beat no undetected depredation had been committed ? Or where a man has served faithfully, and is past further service, where would be the harm of re warding his faithful services by some small pen sion for the remainder of his days? To procure good servants we must make their places worth keeping. But we would again urge while allu ding to this subject, that nothing would tend more to protect the citizens than the obvious re medy of having a resident magistracy. This is in some measure confirmed by the only two Aldermen who took any part in this discussion being, we believe, resident within their wards, as the whole Court ought to be. Things are come to a pretty pass, if Aldermen are to stand up and upbraid their constituents and fellow- ci ti zens with locking up their counting-houses, and de serting their homes, when they themselves, w h im duty it is to be upon the spot, are, so many of should re but where they be.—Morning re mo si r d n e i n ng ts a H n The crime for which General Stubbs is to y er w al h d e . be tried by a Court Martial consists, according to the Lisbon Papers, as we stated yesterday, i n his having addressed a Memorial to the Prin cess Regent, requesting her to recall the Minister Saldanha. It is extremely difficult to pronounce on so general a charge. To petition the su preme authority seems so essentially the right of a freeman in a free state, that we can hardly at tach the shadow of criminality to its exercise, Nor does it at all alter the state of the question, that the petition comes from one possessing a military commission ; for, although in his capa city as an officer, General Stubbs owed implicit obedience to such commands as respected his official duties ; yet, in his capacity as a citizen, which he did not abandon when he took up arms, and of which no official responsibility could deprive him, he was quite as much entitled to address the Regent as any other individual. — If, therefore, the only crime committed by Gen. Stubbs was the presenting of such a petition, and if it contained no expressions which might be construed as libellous ; and from that circum stance not being mentioned in a ggravation, there is - every ream to s - -uPpse that A did not, the General, on every principle of law and equity, must be acquitted, and the trial, instead of strength honing the hands of the Regent, will bring her au thority into contempt. It is an ungracious act to attempt the degradation of such a man as Stubbs. The Portuguese may have forgotten his patriotic and gallant conduct in the defence of Oporto, in which he showed himself an honest man and a good soldier ; but Europe has not forgotten it, and Princes now-a-days responsible for their ac tions to more than the public of their own States ! and, above all, the best ally of Portugal —that one, without whom the activity and zeal of the G enera l wou ld h ave p rove d i ns ufficient to preserve from falling the power which is now put forth to crush him--,--has not forgotten, and will not forget, his services. The people of this country owe much to that brave man. It is not easy to calculate how much English property might have been sacrificed, and how much English blood might have been spilled, had the ruffian and undisciplined crew of Chaves got pos session of Oporto, which but for General Stubbs they must inevitably have done.—New Times. COURT OF COMMISSIONERS OF BANK• RUPTS. BASINCHALL-STREET, SEtT. 14. Strolling along Basinghall-street this morning, I thought 1 would just take a look in here, and see if there was any thing going forward. Observing in the room for the meeting of the ninth list, an un usual crowd, I inquired the cause, and was informed it was the last meeting of a gentleman, who about three years ago had been presented at Court upon his marriage !—that this was the day appointed for his examination, and the passing of his accounts. My curiosity being a little excited, I determined to wait and see this gentleman. In the mean time, from one creditor and another (all of whom seemed quite full, and willing to communicate all they knew), I learnt that the bankrupt ,was an officer in the City Light Horse Volunteers, and being on duty at the Coronation, a lady who filled a conspicuous situation on that day, fell in love with him, and they were married. After taking a tour on the Conti nent, they returned to an elegantly-furnished house in the neighbourhood of Portman-square, and were presented to his Majesty at the next Court. This led to a country-house twenty miles from London, carriages and horses upwards of a dozen, and an esta blishment of servants to correspond, and lastly, in the Regent's Park. Soon after twel re o'clock, the different persons being seated at the table, the Commissioner looking round inquired— Who are you, Sir ?—Clerk to the Solicit Or. Who are you, Sir ?—One of the AsSignees. And you, Sir ?—Solicitor to the Commission. Passing by the bankrupt, who sat with his accoun tant behind him, the next person was asked— Who are you, Sir ?—I am solicitor to the bank rupt, come to protect his interest against this Indic :core of a Commission—pointing to the list of credi tors. The largest creditor, I observe, is under four hundred pounds—the whole of his debts about four thousand three hundred; and he has put his as signees in possession of property to pay above twenty shillings in tile pound. lam only astonish ed at the smallness of his debts—a mere milk-score ! Commissioner—Really, Sir, I don't know what you mean by such language. What is your object?— are we going to have an examination ?—are you prepar ed with your accounts, or come to apply for further time ? A mere milk-score ! !—Really, Sir—(the Commissioner shaking his head.) The Solicitor (who hereafter I shall call by his favourite and elegant appellation of Milk-score, in order to distinguish him from other gentlemen who are connected with these proceedings) said he came to apply for three weeks more time. The bankrupt was not prepared with his accounts; he had not been able to get them ready. Commissioner (addressing the bankrupt)—l am surprised, Sir, to hear this. A person well versed in accounts, ought to have been prepared after six weeks !—turning to the assignees, with a view to hear what they had to say, and at the same time re peating, " Milk-score, indeed !" One of them considered Mr. ---- had had plenty of time, but he had been attending to sales, and other things, to the neglect of his accounts. They had not seen or heard any think about them, and he thought it was not fair dealing with the assignees, that if his accounts were in such for wardness he could show them to his solicitor, and bring him there to make such a statement. Under these circumstances, he should object to any post ponement of the examination, and in justice to him self and brother assignee, he begged to state the amount that had really come into their hands, and how they had been obliged to dispose of part of it. Commissioner—No, Sir, not now; it is unneces sary. You are not upon your examination. At the proper time I dare say you will be prepared with your accounts. • Assignee—But, Sir, should not the creditors be undeceived ? Milk-score (with a significarienod)—Yes; let us have it ! The Commissioner waved his hand, and the as signee sat down. The time was then enlarged, upon a promise that the assignees should have the accounts at least seven days before the meeting. A butcher then presented himself to prove his bill for 1681. A creditor, taking it up and seeing upwards of 31. charged for one week's bill, said there must have been a great many persons to con sume all this. Surely he must have had more than six knives and four forks, which is all the assignees have got. " Oh," says the butcher, "his forks were silver. There was a great number of private creditors of this description, as well as journeymen cabinet makers, clerks, foremen, apprentices, men and women servants, all applying for their wages, and who, from the freedom of their remarks, appeared exceedingly to annoy Milk-score. Amongst others, a cook, for half a year's wages—ten guineas. A hatter presented his bill for seven hats, and was examined by the assignee as to the time they were furnished, and for whom ? Creditor—For his men-servants. Assignee—And this forms part of the milk-score, does it ? .Milk-score—Pitiful ! disgraceful ! Assignee (addressing the Commissioners)—Sir, I beg to claim the protection of the Court against the language of the individual who spoke last, and who appears to have been brought here to insult the assignees. Milk-score—l say it is pitiful. Commissioner (looking at him)—Really, Sir, this cannot be allowed. Assignee continuing—l appeal, Sir, to the bank rupt if he has reason to complain of my conduct to him; on the contrary, if I have not shown him every indulgence—and this is the way he returns it. I wish now, Sir, for your direction as to apparel. — This gentleman has a very large and extensive ward robe and some of the credit ors thi n k that, as he is not likely to go to Court till he gets his certificate, they ought to have the benefit of the superfluous dress. His tailor has informed one creditor that he bas a cost which cost 60 guineas. Milk-score (smiling, as if he wished to conci liate)—Hush hush! Commissioner—l will hear you presently, Sir, when we have got through a little of the business, and let a few of these persons go, for you have not roo m to move. A. Creditor now took the book, and, after swear ing to his debt a n d answering the usual quest i ons, asked if he might b e a ll owed - to speak. Commissione r --W ell, Sir ! Creditor—My bill is about 151., upon which, Sir, I have been put to 71. law expences, and on comi n g here to-day ; hoping to get some little redress or sat's faction for my grievance, lam told by the bank rupt's solicitor that I am a blackguard. Commissioner—lf any person in this Court has made use of disrespectful language co you, I am sorry for it ; but I am glad it is not in my power or my province to punish all who use improper language here, or I should have had a great many to punish before now. You must consider it an exceedingly unpleasant business for all concerned, and each one should endeavour to curb their feelings. Creditor—Yes, Sir, but when the party who has injured you brings a person to stir up those feelings and to insult you (looking at Milk-score)—l say you are no gentleman. Commissioner—There, now you have had your turn, you had better go. A question now arose upon the payment of wages, and Milk-score said he had seen it in the books that a journeyman was a servant. _ _ Commissioner—The Act only specifies servants. Suppose a bankrupt had a thousand journeymen, are they all to be paid in full, the same as household servants ? Perhaps you can refer us to the books you have seen such a decision in ? Milk-score—l cannot recollect at this moment. Commissioner—Well, if you can against we meet again I shall be glad. I believe the decision is against you. _ The business having nearly been gone through-- The assignee said, many of the creditors were waiting the decision of the Court upon the subject of apparel. He had upon his own authority allowed the bankrupt to take away the whole of his and his wife's wardrobe, and other things, subject to being returned, if called for by the creditors. There was a meeting held yesterday, when it was determined to give nothing but bed and bedding. The bankrupt claimed apparel—he wished to know if the Court dresses and military apparel and accoutrements were to be given up to the creditors. Commissioner—Certainly, every thing. Milk-score—What Sir, a gentleman in his Ma jesty's service give up is military accoutrements ? A Creditor replied he was a volunteer ; but if he had been in the regular service the law required it, and he would be obliged to give up every thing. Assignee (addressing the bankrupt) said—Mr. —, I consider you answerable for the acts of your servant. You have brought this man here to-day to insult me, because you could not do it yourself. I have treated you kindly, and like a gentleman. I now give you notice that if your Court wardrobe (and all superfluous articles of dress, of which you have taken away several boxes, together with the silver forks, spoons, &c.), and every article belong ing to the creditors that I have lent you, is not re turned to Terrace before sunset this evening, I will send the messenger into your present dwelling house to keep possession of them, or take them away. (Turning to the Commissioners)—He begged to state, in answer to the assertion that above 4,0001. worth of property had been given up to the assignees, MM. I Id. was the gross amount that had come into the hands of the assignees, out of which he had paid 2281. 18s. 9d., for rent, taxes, wages, &c.; that it had been paid into the Bank of England ; and that he had not 1001. in his hands. Commissioner—Was that where the creditors ordered it to be placed ? Assignee—lt was, Sir, I believe ; the creditors will be thankful to see 10s. in the pound; but if there is twenty, I will do my best to obtain it for them. An accountant was about to complain of the man lier he had been treated by the bankrupt's solicitor, but the Commissioners said, if they went on so, they might be three or four hours more about it; they had been nearly three, and the meeting was over. A poor cabinet-maker complained of the hardship of being obliged to prove for a small balance of account for work, his own labour. The Commissioner very feelingly said, " My good fellow, I am sorry for yon, and the other creditors also, but you have heard there is twenty shillings in the pound, if that is any satisfaction for you; and then turning round, said, in an under voice, Milk - score, indeed !' " A. B. C. ANECDOTE OF CATHERINE IL—When Pallas, the celebrated naturalist, offered his col lection of minerals to the Russian Government, he demanded, after calculating its value, the sum of 10,000 rubles for it. Catherine herself exa mined the collection ; and, taking the letter which M. Pallas had addressed to the Govern ment, wrote on the margin in reply— ,, M. Pallas is a learned mineralogist, but a very bad calculator ; we direct that he be paid 20,000 rubles for his collection."—London Weekly Review. PERSIAN ANECDOTE.—Rita Kooli Khan, the governor of Kazeroon, came to pay the elchee a visit. This old nobleman had a silk band over his eye-sockets, having had his eyes put out during the late contest between the Zend and Kajir farrVies for the throne of Persia. He began, soon after he was seated, to relate his mis fortunes, and the tears actually came to my eyes at the thoughts of the old man's sufferings, when judge of my surprise to find it was to entertain; not to distress us, he was giving the narration, and that, in spite of the revolting subject, I was compelled to smile at a tale, which in any coun try except Persia would have been deemed a subject for a tragedy ; but as poisons may by use becoMe aliment, so misfortunes, however dreadful, when they are of daily occurrence, ap pear like common events of life. But it was the manner and feelings of the narrator that, in this instance, gave the comic effect to the tragedy of which he was the hero. " I had been too active a partisan," said Riza Kooli Khan, " of the Kajir family, to expect much mercy when I fell into the hands of the rascally tribe of Zend. I looked for death, and was rather surprised at the lenity which only condemned me to lose my eyes. A stout fellow of a ferash came as .executioner of the sentence ; he had in his hand a large blunt knife, which he meant to make his instru ment : I offered.him twenty tomans if he would use a penknife I showed him. He refused in the most brutal manner, Called me a merciless villain, asserting that I had slain his brother, and that he had solicited the present office to gratify his revenge, adding, his only regret was not continuedsl for from thi s iookfellow,pm p sy b r a e c t k e h ed e seemed li, sleeves, being a ll o o gn w uv:i e t d ejazna t p o dlKe p laao u sioed t m e , ,yttsoheladf on tucked" Seeing," t ea l t l had ' ' brandishedsn uebssn'toB his knife, and very composed put one knee on my chest, and was proceeding to his butchering work, as if I had been a stupid inno cent he chose. lamb, th that was quite teeon h t i e m n: f t r o om let t h hi i s m i l n o what . pression, off his guard, I raised one of my feet, and planting it on the pit of his stomach, sent, him heels over head, in a way that would have made you laugh, (imitating 'with his foot the action he described, and laughing heartily him self at the recollection of it.) I sprung up ; so o did my enemy.; we ._had a sh or t tussle—but he was the strongerd having t knocked me down, sucoeeded in taking an u my eyes. The pain at the moment," said the old Khan, awas lessened by the warmth occasioned by the struggle. The w ounds Soon' headed ; and when the Kajirs ob- ta i ne 4;the undisputed sovereignty of Persia, I was rewarded for my suffering in their Cause."— Sketches of Persia. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London Nets Price Current of Friday). RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDs.—The sales of Ructi this week are very limited. A few Demerara 3 and 4 ever, fine quality, bare sold uncommonly high, but it can not be given as a Market currency. Brandies continue to he held for high prices in France, but little effect has yet been produced on this Market. Geneva is without varia tion. fame, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has' lately attracted much attention, and very considerable sales are reported at 375. 6d., 375. 9d., and 38s. ; the latter is now the nearest quotation. The letters from St. Peters• burgh are to the sth instant. Exchange 10. 15-32. Tal low 99 to 100 rubles. The Market prices here of Hemp and Flax are little varied. IRISH PROVISIONS-The purchases of Beef and Pork continue confined to small parcels for shipping.—BaciM steady.—The prices of Irish Butters are a shade lower on account of the late large supply. SarirrErav—Saltpetre continues in good demand at 245. Itrntoo.—The Market for Indigo continues very heavy. TOBACCO.—The late sales of Tobacco are confined to small parcels to the trade. In the new Tobacco no sales are yet effected. SPICES.-East India Spices continue neglected. • The only purchases are some Nutmegs 3s. 6d. a 3s. Rd. By public sale this forenoon 160 bags Pimento sold rather lower, good 10d. a 1011. 01Ls.—There is little variation in the prices of Oils. The fishing is considered to be unfavourable, but it pro duces little effect on the Market. Mrs.—The estimated Duty on Hops fluctuates about 120,0001. The new pockets brought to Market sell about 755. a 955. Cor•rox.—Tlie Cotton Market continues without al teration. The purchases for the week ending last night in clusire, consist of 120 Bowed 410 Bengal 910 Surat . ........... 4d. a 544. 300 Egyptian 74d. WIIITECHA PEL HAY MARKET.—Sept. 20. 80s. Od. to llOs. Od. I (lover 90s. Od. to Hos. 01 Straw 31.5. Od. to 40s. Od. PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-Sept. 21. Kent Pockets 3/. 12s. 3!. 18s. to 41. 2s. Sussex Ditto EASON. Ditto 3/. ss. Si. 15s. to 0/. Os. Farnham Ditto, Fine 0!. Os. 4/. Os. to 51 12s. Seconds 0/. Os. 0/. Os to 0/. Os. Bt. Os. Si. 10s. to 0/. Os. _ 2/. 10s. 31. ss. to 0/. Os. 2/. 15s. 3/. 10. to 0/. Os . Whi Duty laid at £140,000. Kent Sal Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Sept. 21. New Ware 31. Oa. to 31. 15s. per ton PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Butts.„—,so to ty6lb._ Ditto--GO to 661 b.— Dressing Hides 131 151 Fine Coach Hides 161 1S Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 17 Ditto 45 to 50Ib. 17 19 Ditto — LEATHER. Per lb. Tanned Horse Hides— Spanish Ditto d. to (I. 12 15 IS 20 Per dozen. Calf Skins— ld to 401 b. 20 2 .1 Ditto —... 50 to 701 b. 23 26 Ditto 70 to 80th. 20 221 Small Seali, Oreenland 18 19 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. toe. d. Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 4 Ordinary '2 0 2 41 Middlings . . 4 6 2 8 Market 7 0 each. Downs SHEEP SKINS. ......Oa. fkl. to N. Od. Is. 6d. to 2s. S Shearlings--......—. Is. 10d. to Os. Od. PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121b.—Sept. 2L To Tallow .--,......... 48s. Od. Yellow Soap 76g. 9d,' Yellow Ru55ia........-__... 395. ed. Mottled 82s. o. White , . .—............__ 41s. M. White..,....—. B6s. Oa rs ,,' Soap Ditto ...—..-........ 3135. ed. Graves —,. 20s. Od . Melted Stuff 355, Od.' Good Dregs,... . Ss. on. Ditto Rough . ... 21s. Od. • PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.--Sept. 21. Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow }letters) --..-.. Is. Bd. - - PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :-- Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to N. Od. I Mo.ilds, per doze* Ss. egl' COAL MART Adair's 343. 9 d. Eighton Main 30 6 Heaton - 37 3 Killingworth Pontop Windsor ---. 11 0 l'antield Moor . 34 0 34 0 Willington 35 9 Walls End Brown's— 35 6 Walls End Bell and Co. 35 6 Ditto Carr and Co. 34 6 Ditto Cramlington 31 0 Ditto Hilda 35 0 Ditto Hotspur . 34 6 Ships at market, 503i—Sliii -- CET.-_Sept. 21. Walls End Newmarch_ 375:3( 1 . Ditto Northumberland 37 31 Ditto Peareth 3 5 6 Ditto Iliddt4Ps--____ 37 9 Ditto Russell's —3B 3 Ellison small 17 0 o ----"."—w* 6 DHiatrttle:::„. 33 36 1) Eden Main 34 9 Fawcett Main 6 Neshani Main 35 0 W. E. 37 () ), D R:L i i t ,sl t ds o e,l S s e m i H r ....... a e r t t to 's nu —w. rBo —*: (Ec, 13895.: COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE IVEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. NUM!. Per Quarter. Ashburn ---, Basingstoke --- Bath Bridgewater -- Bristol..., Chesterfield Derby Devizes —.— Doncaster Dorchester Gloucester . Hungerford Leicester Mansfield ltoznsey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Sleaford Taunton Yeovil 56 62 5L 63 52 62 36 40 31 34 30 38 27 33 26 30 28 30 26 18 22 20 30 29 33 24 31 24 34 24 33 20 32 32 40 22 36 36 38 28 33 22 23 JS 60 42 6.• 60 65 1 44 tO -- f , ? 60 6 6 40 4 50 6 4 5.4 6 3 50 64 51 58 54 64 57 64 50 64 48 65 52 C 4 C 4 72: 53 67 50 60 5R 66 54 58 DS 60 32 38 32 34 23 43 33 42 30 44 31 38 30 37 38 40 40 43 30 32 55 0 68 70 4t 50 60 26 29 60 6# 32 35 54 56 16 32 44 6 1 . 22 44 56 a. d. s. d. a, d. 72 90 0 0 0 0 mghout the country. 52 56 54 56 54 64 56 a s. d. s. d. 80 90 the measu 32 37 40 44 Per Bushel. Shrewsbury ---. /*". The size of iii 36 s. d. s. d. 00 00 e varies thi SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Sept. la Our market was well supplied with all sorts of Grain to-day. Oats and Barley sold readily at an advance Of from 6d. to Is. on the top price of last day. Wheat was flat, and prices were lower. Pease and Beans remain ,without any alteration from last market day. Wheat. Barley. • Oats. Pease. ' First 74s Od 355 Od 29s 6d 56s Od Second 67s 6cl 23s Od 24s Od 50s Od Third PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Le. Beef, per lb. ...Os. 4d. to os. Bd. Fresh Butter,lb.s.lld. to Is."' Mutt0n............. CI 4 0 7 Salt Ditto...—. O. p 0 10 Veal 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per es% t. 0 0 6 4 -0 0 Pork 0 5 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 010 ° ° 0 3 0 4i W Oa h tS e t a r t a D sr 0 9 0 Potatoes, Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditt0.. ..,.. „ . r i lt m lo b w , , p i e te r r q l r b . . 0 1 1 3 4 Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 5 Hay, per ft.-- 1 - , 010 EDINBURGH MEAL i k tt i o 4 .... ) l ° l 0 ° 'l2 O 00 Bean 0. 568 th i 50d „, 0 1 42d v. g l e t h a y s average s market f We had a small supply of which sold readily, at fully 1 last week's prices. Per Sack - of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 17 0 Second ditto 1 15 0 Barlermeal 1 10 0 Peasemeal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, ____.--- _--,-_---: per cwt. 13 Per Stone of 141 b. First Oatmeal .......... 2 Second ditto ............ (1 1 10 Barleymeal ............... 1 111 Peasemeal ... ...... 0 1 " .-2d, 158.-34, 478.—15,, a1 1 21s._ i l s i . A p ß er K E ---7 1 .;--- ' ------ boli. —Se N p o t. r 2401 b. 2 t1 9 . d. O 35.1d0. Oats , 8ean. 7 1 12:54 26 1 01b. d ' other kinds of Grain. British, o n to 20 u ----- new . ****** - A 0 -- Canada, free Irish Barley, per 3 - ..:01b. Scottish 25 0 26 0 English Wheat. r 0 0 Pease, Scottish .._. Ttz 0 25 0 Scottish 25 0 27 0 Oatmead.Perlialb- 17 ' 1) " 0 Meration in ---------------65 New G O L at A s Irish 2O 0 24 0 Flour, per 2601 b.... 4T 0 48 0 ShGardeclinitedN BIRTHS. On the 19th instant, the lady of Robert Hatkorn, Esq. of a daughter. On the 9th instant, the lady of William Henry Nevi n. ' Esq., Esher, of a sun. At Blackheath, Mrs. Greatorex, of Aldermanburp of a son, which survived only 12 hours. On the 21st instant, the lady of John Halcoinb, Esq., barrister at law, of a son. MARRIED. On the 20th instant, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, by the Rev. Charles M'Carthy, William Hall, Esq., of Prince of Wales's Island, to Isabella Mary Ann, the e ldest daughter of Mr. William Hughes, of High Holborn and Hampstead. On the 75th instant, at St. Gregory's, Sudbury, George Humphry, Esq., of College-hill, London, to Miss Octavio Gilson, of Great Beddow, in Essex. On the 20th instant, at Marylebone Chureb, John Odell, Esq., of Carriglea, county of Waterford, to Caroline, eldest .daughter of Major-General the Hen. Henry King- DIED. On the 21at instant, at Dalston, Edward Thomson, third son of Thomson Hankey, Esq. On the 12th instant, at his residence, Rock Villa, Tun bridge Wells, Mr. Benjamin Chi Hey Pine, in the 49th year . protracted of his age. Esq., R. N. On the 20th instan t, at She pp erton, Mr. John Sanders , illn O eu n , t jhaemles6thpuingshtea,nt, at Shrewsbury, after a' sen., builder, aged 55' On the 29th ult., at Le Mans, Department de la Sarthe, France, Colonel Keith Young, formerly of the 71st rest. Lately, at her house, Croome-hill, Greenwich, Miss Eli' sabeth Lenn. PJUNTIKI an ilium by M. YOUNG, at 4 11 . No. 112, &road. s d u N P .o u ;riot, STATIOI THE C( . TIONEI • Rut dry Articles vice, via., Q 1 FERRET, PII` INKSTANDS, and. CARDBO PADS, LEAT Particulars c Articles seen, a Ingham-hate, e o'clock, from 'V :Nth inst. ROY AL DIS MR. Cl 1T -IL their Gloucester, an his AUTUAD TaMY, PI-11 EAR, and on DUMB, on AI For partict No 2, Soho. P upils. ALLIA . LIFE OFFICE, No The Receif .V.ICHAEL III FIRE AS! reduced scale ASSURA] and liberal tel TION of the Sept. 22, DR. N TREA Seminal'Wea Pains, so fr subjects are cases, togethr and b 0 unhap the one it *wil the other hal state of debit in Irnpotene While Consul Nervous Cos of this most . Which a mot ful practice, adopted 141 evils resultin By C. R.. 0 - Printed fl land, No. 9, Paternoster- Walker, 90, Marsh, 13' Brook, Ope in town an( " Among of the day, • Syphilis, an of the high attention o happen to I subject of tl views take' warnings ai and we Ina writtea wit Literary ROYAL HE T At.frc Seven (Sul BATH COIN mpoi MIME Stoney Sti RiiISTI CARLI Carstang. thester. 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