The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PLI3LIC JOURNALS. W e yesterday inserted a notice of the inten tion of a number of distinguished Peers and Commoners to raise, by subscription, a Mond ment to the memory of .Mr. Canning. We are glad to see such a:determination manifested tio do justice to a man, whose counsels were so eminently calculated to promote the prosperity of his own country and of mankind. We owe more to the liberal spirit diffused by Mr. Camiing over the Administration of the country at hone mid abroad, than we can ever- repay by honour. to his memory ; but it is worthy of the first men in a great nation to pay such a tribute to hini, as-an incitement to other Statesmen to elevate themselves above vulgar considerations, and to look forward to the lasting approbation of their fellow-citizens.--Morning Chronicle. It appears, from the meeting of maltsteils which took place the day before yesterday at the Coffee-rooms in Marls-lane, that some modifica tions are to take place in the new malt tax. The duty of Government upon such an occasion, and indeed upon all occasions where taxes on manu factures are imposed, is this--to ascertain, with as much precision as possible, the quantity of the article manufactured, and to interfere as little as possible with the process. The provision that ninety-six hours should be spent between the cistern and the kiln, was intended to produce a great increase by growth in the article ; but if the bud thus protruded were burnt off in the kiln, what heart or strength would remain for the beer? We learn from our letters—of which we have sufficient to high-dry fifty quarters of malt—that according to the present system the barley is not suffered to grow much. We hope this is not a pretence, and the watering-pot used after the grain is removed from the couch. Let Government, however, look sharply to the ad mission of the barley, and the exit of the malt ; and let its . officers watch, not direct, the inter mediate process. At this the honest maltster will not complain.—Times. To whatever extent the Reports of the. Com missioners of Irish Education may be acted upon or condemned, they contain, undoubtedly, a large mass of' information, as curious as any Parliamentary documents within our recollection have exhibited. The Reports now published are the Eighth and Ninth, of which the former is exclusively occupied by an inquiry into the constitution, a dministration, incidents, history, studies, and other properties of the Roman Ca tholic College of Maynooth. It appears that a considerable number of persons connected with that establishment 'have been examined by the Committee, and it is impossible to withhold from (we might say one and all of) the Rev. Gentle men either actually or formerly belonging to it, and discharging the functions of collegiate offi cers, the • praise of possessing an uncommon fund of controversial quickness, acuteness, and subtlety, manifested in reply to questions, and under the pressure of circumstances, severe enough to try at once the intelligence and tem per of the best-trained disputants living. We shall touch no further on this subject, than to express our satisfaction that the course of edu cation at Maynooth is confined to the priesthood and inaccessible to the laymen of the Catholics. The Ninth Report is a document of more po pular concern, embracing more immediately the subject of general education ; but unhappily, in proportion to its extensive interest, will be the disappointment experienced by those who antici pated much' suceitss from the plans and recom niendations which the Commissioners bad pre viously developed. This' Report, containing a distinct acknowledgment of th e tot a l f a ilu re of an experiment suggested by the first Report of the Commissioners, and in consequence directed by the Irish Government to be tried—for the gene riil and combined instruction of Protestant and Roman Catholic children in the same schools, and • from portions of t'Ae sacred Scriptures agreed upon by the heads of both churches. —The benevolent policy of bringing up the children together, and thus uniting by the ties of an early intimacy, habit, and affection, those who might, under different circumstances, be taught (as their parents have been) to regard each other with disgust and ani mosity, surely requires no enforcement from rea son, charity, or true religion. But the proposi tion, as we said before, was defeated—defeated by the incompatible, though doubtless conscien tious views and claims of the respective churches, neither of which would abate of pretensions, or surrender advantages, which were utterly at va riance with those of what, for want'of a better word, we must denominate its rival. It seems to be a subject of deep regret, that however va luable ought to be deemed the incorporating a common system of religious instruction with every course of education which aims at chari table, moral, and virtuous ends, the humbler but more practicable experiment has not been tried, of sending children of the different sects to the same school, but submitting them in matters of religious faith and discipline to their own pecu liar teachers. Something, though much less than by the former undertaking, might in this way be effected. We are at the same time bound to observe, that such education as can be had from books alone may be found more ex tensively throughout the sister island than in this country ; and that to realize practical civilization and sobriety among the Irish poor, will require the use of more material instruments than the administration of 'intellectual food, where the body is exposed to cruel hardship and suffering, and the mind, even from childhood, sorely irri tated by the sense of them. As a special and intermediate Report-to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland contains nthatevei is most important in the document before us, we begin this day with a highly interesting portion of its contents, viz. a correspondence between the Commissioners of Education Inquiry, and the respective heads of the Established and Roman Catholic Churches, where the bearings of the question at issue are displayed in the language of the parties them selves. The whole correspondence being too voluminous for a single insertion, we shall pro bably recur to it hereafter.—lbid. Judging by the apparently calm and quiescent state of the Ministry, one would be led to sup pose that public affairs-, both abroad and at home, were in the most tranquil and prosperous state, and one might not only conclude, with the Chan cellor Oxenstiern, " with how little talent the world is governed," but with how little trouble too. But though, we trust, it will not turn out that the present calm portends a storm, there can be no do u b t b ut that the situation of Ministers is not precisely that bed of roses which then appearances would denote ; but that they ha , their hands and heads as completely full of vital, important matters as ever f e ll to t h e l ot o f British Cabinet to co n t en d with. The foreign, policy alone of their predecessor, seems to bays left them work enough cut out for a long.sum mer's day; and if they are able to extrkatelyitr selves and. the country .from the dilemma in which Mr. Canning's too enthusiastic policy has involved us, both with Portugal and Turkey, they will prove themselves entitled to the full Con fidence and approbation of ,Parliament and the country. We trust that it will turn out that they are so engaged ; nor do we think at all the worse of them for not proclaiming to the world, day by day, every step they take, or deliberation they may hold. There has been 'already some what too much of that ; and much as we must naturally be friendly to the public knowing all they can with safety and propriety know, yet it is obviously the nature of State affairs, that they should not be prematurely blazoned to the world; and we should say of those who cannot' keep their own council, that they are not fit to be instructed with those of the State. The finan cial difficulties of the country are, hoWever, after all, thegreat mill-stone of incumbrance which the Government has to contend with, and if Minis ters are seriously bent upon, and have the cou rage-to encounter this hydra, Parliament should of necessity, be called together much earlier than has of late years been the practice, and the probe and proper remedies applied to this desperate wound fearlessly and without delay. 'What the remedies to be proposed may ultimately be, must, in some measure, &Pend upon circumstances which are not as yet sufficiently known to the country, or perhaps, to Ministers themselves, to be capable of being developed. Much has been said of promised reductions ; we wish they may turn out to be available to any important ex tent. Ministers know full well, when the prun ing knife comes, what wincing and resistance it . every where meets with ; and when it is Considered that the taking off' of every 1,0001. (nay, we might say, of every 1001. y. converts a friend into a foe, no wonder that they, like their predecessors, time out of mind, flinch from the ungrateful, however necessary, task. On this and other grounds we do not look to proposed reductions as likely to afford any great source of relief to our financial difficulties ; and, though we give Ministers credit for intending to do all they can upon this head, and in the way of eco nomy, they would be egregiously deceiving both themselves and the country were they to flatter themselves with this alone as a panacea for its financial difficulties. Nearly, if not quite as fal lacious would it be to rely upon the prospect of any important or permanent increase of the pre sent Revenue. On that head every thing ap pears to have been carried as far as it will go— and in some cases so far, indeed, as to defeat it self. Indeed the very accounts just made up and published to the end of the present quarter, show that with all the returning prosperity which the country is now enjoying, a little improvement in the Revenue would have exhibited itself, but for the adventitious circumstance of the large ac count received for corn duties, which, like the Emperor of Austria's " God-send," gives a flat tering appearance to the account. It seems then to us, we confess, that in the preSent situation of things, recourse must be had to some new source of Revenue, and that, hateful as the inquisito rial nature of a Property Tax may be, it is the only .way in which at once ample means can be found sufficient to meet the expenditure of the country—to lay by something towards really di minishing the debt, and at the same time, per haps, enable Ministers to repeal or modify some of those present burdens which press most &fen sively upon the community. It will be curious enough, to be sure, should it fall. to the lot of the Whigs to reintroduce this very tax, which they had the unpopular task of increasing during their short Administration in 1806. But mere temporary popularity, or its reverse, is what a Statesman ought to disregard. If a timing is right, either in public or private life, it ought to be done, regardless of momentary impressions or inconvenience. We shall be truly glad to find that the Finance Committee, which is to be ap pointed when Parliament meets, is able to meet the difficulty in some other way. At any rate, the sooner they commence their labours the better ; for we know of no way in which Minis ters are more likely to acquire the confidence of the country, than by evincing an earnest desire to meet promptly and fearlessly those difficulties which, like similar ones in private life, are half overcome by the courage to meet them.—Morn ing Herald. A correspondent of the old Times, in his ob servations on the circulating medium, inserted in that Paper of the 13th instant, assumes, that the reduction of the rate of discount from five to four, implies a fall in the value of money of twenty per cent. " 'When money," he says, " can obtain for its possessor only four-fifths of its ordinary interest, it will soon cease to obtain for him more than four-fifths of its ordinary pro duce in commodities." This is confounding things quite distinct the one from the other— the value of money and the rate of profit. If the monied man makes only four per cent. in stead of five, by discounting, it is true that the produce of capital invested in commodities—the merchant's profit—will, arteris paribus, . be re duced in proportion ; but the money will " pro duce" (purchase), cateris paribus, the same quantity of commodities as before. We per fectly agree with the correspondent of the Times in one particular—that " the great desideratum in a currency is invariableness of value ;" but of - all expedients for attaining that desideratum, the most preposterous would be " limiting by Act of Parliament the amount" of the Government paper, which he proposes to substitute for, all other paper—that Government paper inconverti ble too. We believe the writer of the article we are noticing, is the only one who has ever imagined the possibility of fixing, a priori, the amount of the circulating medium—a thing in its very nature variable, as depending upon the greater or less activity of trade and extent, and frequency of transactions. This is truly " Uto pian." The idea of a currency entirely me tallic is so far from Utopian, that it has local existence in several countries of the Continent ; and it is more practicable in this country than in any other, on account of the practice of Bankers' settlements being so peculiarly calcu lated to supersede, in large payments, the use of money, whether coin or paper, ,at least in_ those of the metropOlis. But we are•far from consi dering on that account, as the writer in the Times seems to do, (but for its supposed im practicability,) the substitution of a metallic for a paper' currency, as a desideratum. On the contrary, we deem most weighty the objections to such a change, which he thinks very light. He says, " the proportion of capital which it would require would be very small, in proportion to the whole capital of the community." Now, small •,__ might be, we apprehend there • or considerate persons who plate with dismay the conse icting from the productive try (for such would be the the reserve of the banks) the 'paper in circulation. The in the subject of the Branch Banks (if he be, As We are inclined to think—not withstanding his sweeping depreciation of all paper, save one issued by Government—'-aCountry Banker) is natural enough, and so far reasonable as regards the sta m p duty to which the country bankers are subject, and from which the Bank of England is exempt : a point which has been fairly stated and forcibly argued by one of their number. On equal terms, competition ought to be allowed ; and on equal terms, the Country Bankers would probably do better business than the Branch Banks, at least safer, from' their superior knowledge of the country customers. — New Times. :se as that proportion r ire are fe ° 'cal woul, ; 4 _ • : tem; f a ti, 44 . 111 I strai `, tcount we 'Plug : I m- -.mount 01-. Tat * „arenas on tav • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT 'OF COMMON PLEAS, OCT: 1 6 CRISDEE V. BOLTON. This was an action fora breach of contract Mr. Serjeant JONES .stated, that the defendant formerly kept a pUblie-house, known by the name of the Blenheim Arms; at St. Luke's, Chelsea, which he had since sold to the plaintiff, who paid him 1,5001. for the good-will. The agreement under which this purchase took place, contained a clause by which the defendant was restricted from opening any other house within a mile of the Blenheim Arms, under a penalty of .5004, to be recovered as and for liquidated dainages. In defiance of this agreement, the defendant had since opened a house, which, at the furthest, was little more than three quarters of a mile from the Blenheim Arms. This fact was proved by several witnesses. Mr. Serjeant WILDE, for the defendant, contended that the plaintiff had verbally consented to the act of which he now complained, and would prove that he was present•at the house-warming given by the defendant on his entering his new house, and that he had said he would never have brought this action, but that Bolton had left Reid's house, with whom be (the plaintiff) dealt for beer. The witnesses were called in support of this statement. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE left the question of the plaintiff's having assented to the defendant's going into the house, to th,e decision of the Jury— observing, in the course of his charge, upon the great increase in the number of public-houses, one hun dredth part of which, he believed, would be amply sufficient for the real and necessary accommodation of the people. This multiplication appeared - to him to be only for the purpose of increasing the dreadful monopoly which the brewers of this city had so long maintained. The Jury without hesitation returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 5001. In the course of h►s defence, Mr. Sergeant WILDE submitted, that by the terms of the agreement the 500/. could be recovered only as a penalty, and not in the shape of liquidated damages. Leave was granted him to move the Court in Term on that point. WOOD V. VAVEY. This was an action of assault and battery. The parties are both shoe-makers, residing at Walworth —the plaintiff a very little, and the defendant a very large, man. It appeared that on the ] 6th of April last, some high words passed between these rivals, which eventually led to blows. The plaintiff, how ever, asserted that the defendant commenced the assault by giving the first blow, and afterwards kick ing him while down. The defendant denied this charge. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE adverting to the,evi dence of. the defendant's having struck the plaintiff while down, his Lordship said, " I detest the idea of a man kicking another when down; I have said so in another place, and always will, that I am con-, vinced no true English boxer would de it." The . Jury immediately returned a Verdict for the plaintiff—Damagcs, 5/. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW;STREET.--:- Thomas Chandler, landlord of the Cannon public•house, Hungerford-street, Strand, was yes terday summoned by one of his customers to account for the disappearance of five sovereigns, which the complainant alleged. to have lost in the house in .question on Monday evening last. It appeared that a number of persons, amongst whom was the complainant, were assembled in the parlour. They were all tipsy, and bagatelle was played by some of the party. The halls belonging to the table having be en miss ed by the landlord, one of the company proposed that a general search should take place, and, by way of example, he tufted his own pockets inside out. While undergoing a like ordeal, the complainant alleged that he lost his five sovereigns. There being no evidence, however, to esta blish the fact against any one of the party, the complaint was ;dismissed, but the Magistrate asked the landlord if be had ever taken the trouble to read the recognizance which he entered into on obtaining his licence. Chandler confessed that be had never looked into it. " Then," said the Magistrate, " I shall just trouble you to hear the words of the Act of Parliament which are there quoted." 'He then read the passage, by which, the land lord binds himself not to allow tippling and drunkenness in his house, and not to suffer cards, dice, bagatelle, or any other gaines to be played therein ; and then fined the land lord 5/. for not obeying the terms of his recognizance. Mrs. Biggs, the landlady of a public-house in the Stand, was summoned by Howell, a fireman, belonging to the Westminster Fire Insurance Company, and Murphy and another man, in the employment of the British Fire Insurance Company, for the usual reward for bnving ex tinguished a fire alleged to have taken place in tile house of the defendant, on Monday evening last. The defendant, a widow woman, loudly complained that the firemen had rendered her no assistance whatever, the fire having been extinguished before they arrived. . _ Sir R. BIRNIE believed it was too much the custom for firemen to claim rewards for having extinguished fires, when, in fact, the exertions of others had removed the cause of danger before the firemen had time to arrive. The two firemen of the British, in consideration of the defendant being a poor widow, returned to her their por tion of the reward, but Howell, the other fireman, refused to give up his moiety. HATTON-GARDEN.—Thomas Walker, of 17, Wil mot-street, Russell-square, tallow-chandler, appeared yes terday before Mr. Sergeant SELLON and Mr. LAING, to prefer , a complaint against Maria King, for assaulting his child. Mr. Walker, it will be recollected, was held to bail about three weeks ago, for throwing a large cake of greaves at Mrs. Biggs, his next-door neighbour, the sister of Ma ria King. After that Mr. Walker applied for a warrant against Maria King, for slapping his child in the face on the same occasion. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Have you any witnesses ? Mr. Walker said he had, and called Caroline Üblin, who said she saw from Mr. Walker's area Mafia King strike Mr. Walker's child on the cheek. She knew nothing more about it. Mr. Walker—Caroline did you see — Mr. LAING—You want to be both counsel and com plainant. We will put the necessary questions to the wit ness without your interference. Mr. Sergeant Sxixox, to the witness—Do you know if these children were in the habit of quarrelling ? M r. Walkor—l will answer that. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—You appear to be the only per son to answer questions. Mr. Walker—l have two , objects in view which I wish to state. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—d have only one object in view, to do justice between you. Here Mr. Walker called another witness of the name of Burch, who, in addition to the testimony of the two other witnesses, said that Maria King took a piece of buck's horn out of the 'child's hand, and threw it violently across the street. Mr. Walker—Here (producing a packet of letters) are anonymous letters which these ladies sent me. Mr. Sergeant Szt.Lort—We have nothing to do with your letters. Mr. Walker (in a loud voice)—l have been threatened by these letters. Mr. LAlNG—Mind how you conduct yourself, Sir. Mr. Walker—Here is the butcher's boy that Mrs. Biggs produced against me the last day, and upon whose swear ing I was held to hail. The butcher's boy said he saw Maria King throw the buck's-horn across the road, but he did not know the reason of it, for he only came by at the time. He heard that the children were quarrelling before. Maria King, in her defence, said she did not know what Mr. Walker meant by bringing this charge. She acknow ledged that she gave the child a smack, but she was pro lad to it by Mr. Walker, who, holding out the child to lr.r, said, " Here, hit the boy." Mr. Walker behaved very scurvily to, her, and made use of beastly language. Mk. Walker 'here ' said something that was•not heard beyond the clerk's desk. Mr. LAti4O—=llo not insult this respectable witness, Sir. Conduct yourself properly, or else you shall be turned out of the town. - Take him away front the witness. (Here Mr. Walker was removed to another part of the room:) Mr. Walker—You re4ucre 'honest and true witnesses, suppose? Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Yes, and honest, and humane, and true prosecutors. Mr. Walker 7 —l want justice, and I hope to get it. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—In this case we must confine ourselves to the question of assault between Maria King and the child. Mr. Walker—But, Sir, Mr. Sergeant SELLON—If you interrupt me again I shall turn you out of the room. • Mr. LAING—He is the same troublesome fellow now as he was the other day, when he was here as the defendant. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—This is a most disgraceful pro ceeding. . Mr. Walker—lt is so, Sir. Mr. Sergeant SEr,Low—On your part I mean. Mr. Walker—l know it—(a laugh.) Mr. Sergeant SELLON . ..—I dismiss the case; Mr. Walker—l must have justice, and I will not he put down. Mr. LAING—Clear the office. Mr. Walker—l will not be put down. lam more satisfied than if you gave. Inc 1001. that it has been decided so. The parties then left the office. MARLeIOROUGH.STREET.—John Hurnphrys, waiter in the family part of Hatchett's Hotel, in Picca dilly, was yesterday brought before Mr. CONANT, the Sitting Magistrate, charged with robbing his employers of various articles of property. Mr. Thomas Chester, the manager of Hatchett's Hotel, stated, that in consequence of a sum of money having been stolen from the housekeeper of the hotel, a suspiCion was excited as to the honesty of the prisoner, and on a search being made at No. 16, Henrietta-street, Manchester square, the lodgings of a young woman who had been a chamber-maid at the hotel, but was discharged a short time ago, and whom it was known the prisoner was in the constant habit of visiting, the four decanters a Dumber of wine-glaises, several knives and forks, &c., now produced, were found there, together with several pawnbrokers' duplicates for other property pledged, and all of which he (Chester) could swear to the best o f his belief, were the property of the proprietors of Hatchett's Hotel. The prisoner, who, by the advice of his solicitor, de clined saying any thing, was committed for trial. THAMES POLICE.—A few days since a yoting female came to this office in.apparently the greatest distress, and stated - she had received information that her brother, who was a seaman on board the Surrey East Indiaman, had been murdered by the commander, Captain Tucker, on the high seas. She handed to the magistrate a letter from a seaman on board the ship, who stated to her the fact of bee brother having been killed by the captain, and she implored that the case might be investigated. The Magistrate sent GilinaO, the a board fre % t ) t in y ee es t t a e n rd y ay a T vo i l lc u k n e t t2 i s i • y as , officer, en board the Suirey to make inquiries. Captain " a o tt t e i t l h d e e n d b o y " l a i r e ge ca tl i l n a e t might be preferred against him. Mr. Bnoncuxr, the sitting magistrate, called in the young woman who preferred the complaint, and also the seaman who had written to her the letter in which the death was Spoken of as a murder. The magistrate asked whetherseaman replied dhnot t been that it had. investigatedn The Mr. BnonEuir- 7 .Was it not tried in the Supreme Court ?—The seaman.=-Xes ; before Mr. Charles Cham bers and Sir Edward West, in the Supreme Court, with a jury. Mr. BaonEßtr—And what was the verdict ?—The sea man—l believe they acquitted him. Mr. BRODER IP then asked Captain' Tucker whether he had not been put to the bar there, and tried on the charge of murder ?—Captain Tucker—l was. Mr. BRODERIP-Let me ask you, Sir, on what ground it was that you were acquitted ?—Captain Tucker—That there was a mutiny.—Nine of the men were tried there and punished for it. [Here the Captain handed in a letter to the magistrate.] Mr. BRODERI have avoided entering into the facts of the case, because I do not, und.:r these circumstances, think it one in which it is my duty to interfere. I know the Judge of the Supreme Court ; and I know that it is sup ported by talent of the higheSt order, and I have therefore not the slightest doubt that full justice has already been done in the case. _ . _ The co mplainant.-oh,.my poor brother, he was a good lad, And he has been murdered. The law is not the same there as it is here. I have no money and no friends to speak for me. lam only a poor woman, or I could have justice done for him. ' Mr. BRODERIP—Young woman, I respect your feelings, but your notion is She still persisted that justice was not done to ler, brother, and she was taken away exclaiming that he had been murdered. " We shall have some bother from the woman before we get away," said Captain Tucker, to the Magiltrate, as if ap pealing fin• protection against some anticipated tumult or violence. In fact, a considerable crowd of seamen and others had assembled on the outside of the office, and were considerably excited by the outcries of the young woman and her friends. Mr. BRODERIP ordered that the Captain and his friend should be let out at the private door of the office, and that the officers should guard them on board a boat which he suggested'should be procured for their conveyance. This was done, and they were got on board unobserved by the . crowd in waiting. UNION-HALL. —Sophia Rhodes, an elderly woman with a bloated countenance, who had been often at this office for disorderly conduct, and as frequently committed to Brixton, was yesterday brought before Mr. CHAMBERS; on a snore serious charge—viz., for stealing a silver watch from an old man named Hall. The prisoner, who has been a well-known character for a series of years and often suspected of robbing persons whom she met and conversed with, was fully committed for trial. There are now living in the service of a Re verend Gentleman in Wiltshtre, six servants, the united periods of whose employ make a total of 197 years, being an average of 33 years each:, One of them has retained the same situation 54 years. There are now going about town three men, dressed as countrymen, who have within these few days been visiting several of the public houses in the lower cart of Westminster, and it is supposed with an intention, if possible, to lay informations. 'Fortunately, on Friday last, when in a public-house in the Broadway, Tuthill street, they were accidentally recognized by a person in the house, who instantly put the land lord on his guard, and informed him they had been following their profession lately in the neighbourhood of Twickenham and Isleworth, where they were well known. One of them is a short stout man, about 5 feet 6 inches in height, dressed in a smock-frock : another is rather taller, dressed in a kind of fustian shooting-jacket, washed nearly white : the third, who appears to be the master-man, is much taller than the rest, and a very dark complexion, and wears a plain blue coat and trousers. DEATH OF THE BLACK SWAN.—Between four and five on Saturday afternoon, in the Re gent's Park, a furious attack was made by two white swans, on the solitary black one, on the water. The allied couple pursued with the greatest ferocity the unfortunate rara avis, and one of them succeeded in getting the neck of his enemy between his bill, and shaking it violently. The poor black with difficulty extricated himself from this murderous grasp, hurried on shore, tottered a few paces from the water's edge, and fell. His death appeared to be attended with great agony, stretching his neck in the air, flut tering his wings, and attempting to, rise from the ground. At length, after about five minutes of suffering, he made a last effort to rise, and fell with outstretched neck and wings. One of the keepers came up at the moment, and found the poor bird dead. It is remarkable that his foes nev er left the' water in pursuit, but continued victim sailing fell,up a w n d i t h down y t fe o a t t h h e e r o sp n o e t n , a v er e i d n a t p h p e a ii an rently proud of their conquest. DUBLIN GOSSIP, OCT. i I The departure of Lord- Wellesley horn this country is expected to take place forthwith ; antl as the " - Court," under the new regime, is anti cipated to. be very gay, the milliners, and such other artists, are making note of joyous prepara tions. Ground has advanced three or four hun dred per cent. in value in the neighbourhood of Kingstown, on the strength of a piece of informa tion derived from the intimate friend of a valued acquaintance of his future Excellency's valet viz., _that the Marquis intends to build a Pavilion a-la-mode Brighton, and in it to spend the sum mer months during his Vice-royalty. Already' the movements of Lord Anglesey have been ar 'ranged fully to the satisfaction of the good-na tured people in..this quarter, who trouble them selves about other persons' businesS. There arc to be balls and drawing-rooms, and aquatic e)4- cursions, andjetes cliampetres, and• yacht clubs, and horse races, and every other sedative ,that can be devised by the magnifiques to delight and gratify the natives.. Tlie'Rev Mr. Hanson , of Brighton, whoje disappearance I mentioned to you some months since, has been found: I-1e is a very lucky man indeed to revive . after being murdered .by air Orange newspaper ! It was written down by this retailer of truths, that Mr. Hanson, a Protestant cleroman— ,, there's the rub"—has disappeared suddenly ; and that no doubt whatever remained that he was murdered barbarously by some fero cious Papist. .An apostrophe to the sufferings of the establishment, and its professors, followed the relation of this " fact." I lament to notice the perpetration of what, in contradistinction to the foregoing, is a real murder in the county of Tipperary. A man named Flood, was returning to his home in the neighbourhood of Cashel ; when Gn the common he was inhumanly assailed and murdered by re peated blows on the posterior part of the head. This horrible deed originated, it is said, in re venge. It is stated that the deceased, some years since, took a farm " over the bead," as the phrase is, of some other occupant, and that they were then dispossessed and turned on the world, and finally avenged their injury in the immolation of their victim. A horrible circumstance occurred in Limerick this week. A shopkeeper had an altercation with -his wife. A neighbour interposed when he was about to . strike her, and reProached him with t o i u os s : e ; his unmanliness. He affected to be ashamed of ctdoi drew s es : e,a t tl o hreo h r i ag s titve s ei p : his conduct, and evinced a desire to be recon rthHhaeek, ifs a as i m l . p i r ly o T a h c to h e e pi d locro i r ie ww, r h,o a : s nna i ii f : wined her lips towards him. A sudden shriek was perceived that the ruffian, under of kissing his wife, had bitten off her lip. The lip was completely torn off. The miscreant walked deliberately into the street, still keepi •ng the bleeding flesh in his, mouth.; and when he was outside the hall door, he discharged it from him, saying with a villainous sneer that he " had spoiled her kissing !" In the neighbourhood of the forementioned occurrence, a woman named Ryan, was discovered hanging; but not being long suspended, anima tion; after some time being spent, was restored. The cause assigned for this daring net was vari ously represented. Some of her friend's said it was " love," others assured the bystanders it was " whiskey," whilst more, and those who received the greatest credit, affirmed her• complaint was " Want of money." A country editor, who notices these sort of matters, innocently expresseS a hope that " the check or chuck she has received, will give her•a disrelish for a second course of the same 'kind." • GAMBLING. BOULOGNE-SUR-MER, OCT. 13.---Great consternation has been created here by news of the imprisonment at Paris of a gentlemen well known. to the gambling circles in this place, fors a most flagrant and capital •offence. The person in question is an English field officer, whose name, as his trial has not yet com menced, for the sake of his afflicted relatives, we must withhold at present from publicity. The officer left. Boulogne some months since for Paris, where he has subsequently resided.— The love of gaming when it once gets possession of a man, wo need not say, scarce ever relin quishes its•demon grasp, and, spite of fortune, spite .of honour, and even •, at the risk of life itself, urges on its fated victim through a reck less, blind, and . furious career, till ignominy, blood, poverty, dishonour, shame, or death, close the piteous scene, and leave the abandoned wretch a prey to remorse and bitter anguish,— the scorn of all, the pity of but few ; or, dread alternative ! whilst hot in the pursuit of his iias sionate.pleasure, death snatches him in a moment from his career of vice to an awlid account of his mis-spent time and wasted talents into eternity ! And though we may beWail the mind so wrecked and the time, so squandered; who can lament the fate of, "or whO but will not point at as an ex ample to be shunned, the ruined gamester ? But these sad reflections are leading us from thesuccessiveParis,oneand lik p e rin thec p famy in St. James's-street, reflect dln gam ofinigl: the toleration of authority. disgrace On In this hell, this man lost immense sums, till, with ruin and disgrace for his only prospect, he resolved on that desperate measure which has ended in a : ruin only more ignominious and complete. • The sums of money won at this place are ►►ever left in the house, but carried away in a fiacre, pr►atected by four stout fellows, well armed, who sit like second Cerberi to guard their infernal treasure. To attack this carriage, plunder its contents, and .fly, was the desperate scheme laid by this unfortunate man. Lucky .bI ttwhi seo To stand any chance, however, of success, it was of course necessary to procure assistance : for which purpose he engaged six men connected with the iron founderies near Paris to assist his attempt by a bribe of large amount (1000 f. each) alleging to them that his object was to seize and elope with a young lady who would be in a car riage at a given place, and at a given hour. In timation, however, of the scheme was received by the police, and the officer was seized about one to H if s i t r t a h c t e e o , gamblers 1 t a h g a u t w e hour before the pistols ti e m on e c f e o a r e t d he o c n or il i s ni p t e ta r l so o n f . the deed, with He is of course imprisoned, and awaits his trial. u pfa l r d toep it eo berfhere,have d conduct is daily a disgrace to their country, would p fr r o o nl very good authority at Paris, that this n» f o rtunate gentleman was considered to be dedid edly insane.--ED, Times. LONDON MARKETS. - eir (From the London-New Price Current of Tuesday) . Rum, BRANDY, AND IIOLLANDt4-IThe Rum gar n e t continues quiet, with rather a heavy appearance, but fl t l parcels offer at any reduction.—Brandy is . still held In' Much firmness. In Geneva there is no alteration. At a late hour the purchases which have tran,spired small parcels, Lee Wards 2 and 3 over 2s. 5t1.,- . anc1 11 "" Jamaica, 4s. 4d. a 4s. 6d. '•- ' • . 1 Hors.—There is an increasing - demand for llopap.F; the prices have advanced 2s. a 4e. Kent in pockets 0. sold at 78s. a 98s. ; Sussex. 755. -a 85s.—The Dut7 • stated at £135,000. Simirsti INnwo.—By public sale last week2sB oer °9 Guatemala, and 23 serons Caracca Indigo,, sold at, bete' prices that, were anticipated, about 3d. a 6d. per lb. 1 0° than, last public sale. HEMP, FLAX, AND ,TA LLCM. —The Tallow inarket o very dull last week, and some purchases were reported ° 375. 6(1. and 375. 3d.- , —The prices of Hemp and Flas 811 rather lower. Lettets from St.. Petersburgh, Sept. 28.—Exchaogi d t 10 15.32.—Ta110w 97 to 99 rubles, 9000 casks bot on one day, 'and 19,000 in two posts.—Hernp 96 to iu"' 500 tons bought. - - , STOCK OF TALLOW 15th OCTOBER, , 1826. 1827. 36,166 casks, 29,244 eitsks, Deliveries for the Week : •• , 1,952 casks, 2,725 casks. FOR DELIVERY. , Tallow, delivery last two months 'o 37 6 per Cr Shipment on or before Sept. 30. 0 37 6 free on board Hemp, Shipment on or before Sept. 3 37 10 .0 COTTON. —The sales of Caton for the week ending i s o il o night inclusive, consist of 1,100 Stwat, 4d. a 50., Bengal 4d. a 41d., 50 Bowed '5Ad. a 6d., 40 :Pero,'" 81d., 10 Madras, 5 it., 10 Bourbon SA-4. in bond, 70 Cl' riacoa 7d„ 300 Egyptian Sd. duty paid. ' SA vreavai.;—The nearest quotation is 9 55. Tonacco.—The Market is heavy; the only sales re" ported fur the last week are a few blacks for export at sr and a few parcels fin. Ireland. At the clOge'of the Market private 'purchases of rare; have transpired to the extent of nearly 4,500 hhds. ; greater proportion is Tobacco afloat. TEA.—Congons are in some little demand at a f;artil: of protit.—Twankays are inclined to give . way ; many the Private Trade Teas CrO sought for at Id. to 2d. prey' Ritovisiotis unvaried ; fin new India Beef 81. ss. o°' ed, fox new Mess 6/. . , INroco.-The Company's Sale .of. East India Jodie; consisting of 6,784 chests, commenced on the 3d instao and finished this day at a lute hour :--Blue (1 lot) 15 '; per lb. ; Blue and Violet, 1 Is. 9d. a 12s. sd. ; Per, and Violet, I Is. 3d. a I Is. :9d.;. Fine Violet, 10s. bd. I is..; Violet, 9s. a 10s, 3d. ; Violet . and Copr e , c ' Ss. a 9s. 6d. ;' Fine Copper, Bs. 6d. a 9e. ; Copr e :' 7e. 3d. ; Consuming Sorts, (is. a Bs. 6(1; 00° e ; good and fine, 7s. a 94. ; Ditto, middlingri4s. O LE 6s. ;. Ditto, low and bad, Is. 6d. a SS. 6d. ;, Madras, and good,:none ; Ditto, good middling and middling, Is. 11d. per lii. ; Ditto, ordinary and bad, is. a b): Manilla, fine 7s. 3d. a 81..6d.; good, ana middling ss. 6 a ,7s. ; ordinary and low 2s: 3d. a 4s. 9d. The prices as . (romp:tired with,last sale are as follows, viz. Fine and fine,inid. shipping sorts from 3d. a Is. per , lower ; good and . gOOd mid. ditto, 6d. a Is. 3d. ditt o : middling mixed 'and .defeetive ditto, Is. a Is. 6d, ditto; consuming descrintions,.9d. a Is. 6d. ditto; Oude, 3 4 ' 9d. ditto ; Aladras and Manilla, 3d. a 6d. ditto. The Proprietort have.hought in about 650 chests 13cog 5 ' 550 (Jade, and . ' 109 Madras. 0n..-Whale Oil has again given way 21. and Si. P ee tun, and very heavy and,Hominal at the reduction. IticE.--At public sale last week 1,200 bags 13eg $ Rice all taken in at 13s. 6(1. CO U TRY CORN MARKETS DU RING WEAK' Wheat.ViLk•l'_%l3eans. to a. Per Quarter. s. s. s. to a. R. to s S. ?;orlon 36 5F 2s 33 Is 2 4 40 Grantham 44 58 27 32 21 Grimsby l4 50 !`i, 3 0 20 2 2 4,s , 4 .110rnea5t1e,,,,........ 44 4 7 , '26 . 30 20 2, ,42 28 40 44 — Lincoln 5 5 4 4 303 i 3 .343 2281 : 3 0 45 , - Maidstone SpiNby t 48 28 :32 20 22 'Stamford 4l 54. ,26• 33 22 5 0 T 4 COTTON WOO) DF IMPORTS AND F.Y. 'ORTS. LIST IM PO vrED. L___,.7_, Same•pe This. rioti last year. year. YXFORTED. tbi , Sc . Bags, &c. 13agstel 310 1 7, W5 2,570 41, Bags, Ste, Uags, &c. lAverpool 677,020. 445,140 London 37,'285 57,947 Glasgow " 3 56 147 , 21 5 300 Total exported in 1627 ~ 61,855. Last week; as . • the son of Mr. Foster, Shalford, near Guildford, was returning boll' e late in the evening with his fowling-piece, 11 found the yard gate unlocked, and a s traogi; - horse tied up ; and on his proceeding towar ° o the stable where his father's horse was kept, tit men rushed out, one of whom .aimed a blow 3 his bead, which missed him, and Foster knocke, one of them down,; but received a violen t ble u on the ribs. Both the men made their. escap e over. the wall, and Mr. Foster fired his piece 4 t them, but has not been able to discover with calla e effect. The horse left by the thieves, it has sie c ; been found, was stolen from a farmer the sol y ' night.— County Ccronicle. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., 'Mrs. John, Harman, of Croydon, ,n I daughter. On the 15th inst., at' Kentish-town, Mrs. James Patteo' of a daughter. o f On the 12th inst., at' Quorn Hall, Lady Southampto n, a son, still born. On the 29th of May last, at Bombay, the lady of Lieo r f Adjutant J. R. Griffitla, of his Majesty's 6th Regiment ° Foot, of a &tighter. On the 14th inst., the lady of Lieutenant - Colonel MOSS' of the Hon. Eait India Company's service , of a clattuhtef' MARRIED. of On th e 15 t h i ns t., at Coughtou -court, in t he coun t Y Warwick, th e sea t of Sir Charl es Throckmorton, Balt"' Thoinas Riddell,. Esq., e ldest son of Ralph Riddell, Esq' of Felton -ark, in the cou nt y of Northu mberland, to gall' only survi v i n g daughter of the late William Throckinort oo, Esq., and niece of Sir Charles Throckmorton, Bart. Lately, in the parish church of. Charles, Plymouth, " the Rev. J. Hatchard, the Rev. Charles Parker Price, Ig• lecturer of Uxbridge, Middlesex, to Mary Barzy, ekle : daughter of William Curgenven, Esq., •of Portland-1 1009a Plymouth. On the 15th inst., at St. Mary's, BennondseY, bY" P A r ' Harrison, Mr. Willi am H a i n worth, of Hitebin, threa t. shire, to Rebecca, daughter of J. Hepburn, Esq., Southwa r ' On the 16th inst., at St. Mary's Church, M a ryleboo e i by the Rev. W. 11. Charlton, Felix Parkinson, Esq. ° Bath, to Frances, daughter of the late George Salter, Esq's On the 10th inst., at Lenton, near Nottingham, Rich ° Martineau, Estf.,• to Miss Needham, of Lenton. DIED. On the 34 April, at the Camp, near Arcot, Lieut. James Hamilton, of the Honourable East India Conal o / 0 service, and son of the late Colonel George Lewis Harnil t° of the Royal Artillery. . d ef On the 14th inst., at the house of the Countess Dow"r4, of Sheffield, in Portland-place, Frederick Earl of Gui lfo ! . ty in his Rd year. His Lordship is succeeded in his ti by the Rev. Francis North, son of the lion. Brown ( Nort O h, lite Bishop of Winchester. t n the Sth inst., at Hanthorn, near Mallow, the Bes d her uncle, John Ridley, Esq., Emma Catharine, se ° daughr of G. Dower, Esq. of Mile-end. On t te he 13th Of February last, at Cawnpore, in Bong . 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Dtl John Leach • tient, • mar a, ~„(14is Clevelal 15ackhouse, E °1 G 4 C 4. Dentin( TT. Barrett E Anil) • 14.,‘ g Rice,E R. hi.' Smith E , BUFF St A 8* JO 104' and S att,,,, GATE-S Ivo:14on of the 4orid, to an ins. verve elegant A N:4115' recounni aft ling throne tO e excellence par'ne just prop e.O ati°n of the „.41 Planned of is ease of the xi Lad es and G 6,1 to any p ength of the Th..., day Was pu 11 . I GHW th e t , Series T r "ch Prov 0 . love Fran p e f i t ; I tvii] nted fol• In 2 vols. svo. At t/ VENI BALI Including his Wat lll AIADRID, h COW, his CAP CASUS, and from the Origin Printed for This day Was NI THE TI MA3i " These two of a rare and us " We recomi amusing and insl reading, and wi Printed for I BARTON's DI; Lately publishe, Leases, and Al OTIOE of Mr. above Dissertati longer than till Pat t IV. on the Ist day of I