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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Extraets from the Morning Papert 2 Aug. 4, 1825, [NEW TIMES.) The Combination of the Combers and Weavers at Bradford, in Yorkshire, is drawing to a crisis. The Master Manufacturers have come to a reso lution to stop their mills entirely on Saturday next; and the workmen, blindly submitting to the direction of their Committee, are leaving the town in great numbers, to seek employment else where. This is a lamentable state of things for the, workmen and their poor families ! They are told very confidently by their Committee that they haxe nothing to do but to ask for work at other towns, and they will be sure to find it ; and upon this assurance, and a little money in hand from their subscription-fund, they break up their family establishment, sell the bulkier part of their goods for a mere song, pack up the rest, and set off on their pilgrimage. But if their hopes of finding employment should be disappointed (as in the great majority of cases they necessarily must be), what lot will then await them Nothing but to be sent back as paupers to their parish—to be placed more com pletely under controul than they ever were, and to find themselves weighed down to the earth with shame and misery. Nothing could be more reasonable than the Resolutions of the Masters in the very outset. The Combers and Weavers demanded an increase of wages on the alleged ground of the dearness of provisions. The Mat ters replied that the demand of the Combers was altogether unreasonable, inasmuch as their wages were higher than they had been for the last ten or twenty years, and the price of provisions was more moderate than it had frequently been during that period. To the Weavers they spoke dif ferently. The Masters admitted that the demands of the Weavers were not unreasonable, and said they should feel pleasure in giving an advance when the circumstances of the trade , would allow of it; but for the last six or eight months the weaving trade had been depressed, and would not at present afford the increase demanded. It is perhaps to be lamented that the masters added to this simple statement any thing having the appearance of vindictive feeling;, but they had probably felt much from previous combinations, and they therefore declared they would not em ploy any member of the present combination. An oblivion on both sides would on this point perhaps be desirable ; but it is surely better for the workmen to accept their former wages, than to adopt the desperate remedy of wan dering over the country in search of better.— Two removes, it is said, are as bad as a fire; and we fear the Bradford workmen will find the truth of this proverb to their cost. On the other hand, it is by no means clear to us that to strike will not be beneficial to the masters. It will prevent them from loading their warehouses with' goods beyond the demand, and will ther?fore serve to keep up the price of the articles in foreign markets. The loss to the workmen is certain ; and though they may for a while be supported by the benevolence of their brother wol lumen In other towng, the latter will ere long learn that " Charity begins at home." [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We have received the Paris Papers of Monday, and the Etoile of Tuesday. The Moniteur of the former date contains a Royal Ordinance for the appointment of a Commission, who shall be charged to declare, within 21 hours after the ex piration of the time allowed for the conversion of the Rentes, the number of assents to the scheme. The Commission is composed of three persons, who all hold offices under the Minister of Finance; and consequently the Commission is as snug a one as he could wish. If, to strain a point, would suit the purposes of M. de Villele, these independent Commissioners would not hesitate, we presume, an instant, to show their willingness to oblige their Patron even to this extent. It will be seen, on refering to the Ordinance, that there is to be no check upon them ; and we wish to know, sup. posing they were to make a false report, how the falsehood could be detected at once. We sus pect that some juggle is meditated, though we z . cannot exactly see in what manner it can be ef fected. As to the scheme itself, it is evidently al complete one, as far as the consent of the . French is necessary to its success ; and it now remains to be seen whether M. de Villele's Brokers in this country will be able to extricate Itim out of the scrape. If they succeed, it will be well for them, but not quite so well for the parties, who may be induced to incur a great pecuniary risk, to further the views of the French Government. Should the scheme fail here, his Most Christian Majesty would be obliged to choose new Ministers ; and we strongly suspect that this will be the upshot of the matter. The Etoile has copied from The Augsburgh Ga zette intelligence from Corfu of the 10th ult. which confirms the capture of Tripolizza, but represents the affair in a less disastrous point of view far the Greeks than our own pri vate accounts have described it.. It says that the Greeks set fire to the place, to prevent it from serving as a point d'appui to the ene my ; 'but we must take this assertion upon the . credit of a Paper which is not over accurate in its statements. In the mean time, Ibrahim Pacha continues his victorous ca reer, and if the Greeks hope to arrest the course of his victories by desolating the country, we fear the expedient will prove an unfortunate one. Whilst the Egyptians can receive supplies by sea, there is not much chance of starving. - them, and as their fleet has been able to convoy repeatedly, and in perfect safety, formidable armaments, it will also have the means of conveying provisions. Therefore, the resource of starvation, if the Greeks rely on it, is a very feeble one, the more so, as the Arabs, who compose the troops of the Pacha, are accustomed to as hard. fare as the Greeks themselves. What is said about th e fidelity' disinterestedness of Colocotroni, is probably a mere flourish, and the Wholi article' appears to have been got up for the purpose alone of - mitigating the disaster which the Greeks have sustained in the capture of the chief city in the Morea. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] A Morning Paper, which is supposed to be the organ of the High Church party, somewhat un necessarily reminds its readers, that the Rev. Mr. Frank holds two livings in Norfolk and Suffolk of 8001. a year. We cannot but think our con temporary rather imprudent in calling attention to this circumstance, which will probably suggest extremely unpleasant reflections. People will naturally ask whether that is the most perfect of all possible systems under which a person in the unhappy predicament of Mr.,Frank can hold two livings ? Is it the very best state of things which allows an individual to acquire Church prefer ment, as boobies in the country acquire authority, without any regard being had to his qualifications for the discharge of his duties ? We do not hire a servant till we have assured ourselves that he is honest and sober, and it would seem but right that at least as much caution should be used with respect to the characters of those individuals who are appointed to instruct, and to set examples to their parishioners. Many an excellent man, who happens to be poor and unconnected, is con demned for life to the drudgery of some miser able curacy, while any man of wealth is secure of preferment in our church, no matter how un fitted he may be. for his holy calling. In a church of stricter discipline, such a man as Mr. Frank could not have enjoyed two benefices; but it is well that the matter is no worse ; he might, have been a Bishop—for there is no saying what a man possessed of eight thousand a year might not be in this country. [THE TIMES.] We read yesterday with some surprise, a pa ragraph in which Mr. Justice Bayley's recent in timation that he should not again go to the Northern Circuit, was plainly ascribed to the Learned Judge's disgust at the violent person. alities of the barristers towards each other, and in which Messrs. Scarlett and Brougham were charged, in no very indistinct terms, with de scending to " the vulgar abuse of Billings gate." It would we are sure be difficult to imagine a more unfounded or more injurious charge. We can state on the best authority, that the observation of Mr. Justice Bayley had no reference whatever to any person alities between the Members of the bar : and that in no instance on this circuit has there been a single intemperate remark made by any one counsel towards any other ; least of all has there been any bickering or indecent altercation be tween the leaders. The Judge and one of the leaders differed once or twice on a matter of legal nicety, and had in consequence some contention : and to this was owing the expression of the Learned Judge's intention to desist from going the Northern Circuit. The allusion to Sir Samuel Romilly in the same paragraph is pe culiarly unhappy. That upright and able man, it is well known, had the infirmity (it was almost his only one) of a most cap tious, irritable, and angry temper : and it is a matter of fact, that, he,twice had personal quarrels, onoo with a party, and nnro with a harrister both of which quarrels arose out of violent lan guage in open Court. We can confidently state, that it has never happened to any man now on the Northern Circuit to have been engaged in any such unpleasant differences with his col leagues. riaiTISH PRESS.] The intelligence received yesterday through the German Papers from the Morea is of a cha racter alarming to the friends of Greek independ ence. But there is so much confusion and con tradiction in the news we have from Greece across the Continent, that, before we give cre dence to any of these melancholy tidings, we are bound to wait patiently till we obtain through, some other channel a confirmation of the state ments. We are now told that instead of Ibra him Pacha having been completely overthrown by Colocotroni near Tripolizza, and compelled to retreat for shelter under the walls of Mo don, he has advanced to Argos, having previously taken Tripolizza, and defeated the Greeks in every attempt to arrest or retard his progress. The Greeks, it is stated, incapable of defending their soil from theincursion of the barbarians, had, with their own hands, laid the country . waste. All the villages on the line of march had been burned, and Tripolizza itself was destroyed, in order to prevent it from being occupied by the enemy. Coloco troni is represented to have made all the resist ance' possible with the means at his disposal ; but finding it in vain, he patriotically sacrificed the whole of his property, which lay in the environs of Tripolizza. We fear that the dan gers that now menace the independence of Greece are more serious than any that have preceded them ; but we have no reason to despair of its triumph. It appears certain that the siege of gissolonghi has been raised by Redschid Pacha, whose losses have been considerable. It is stated that his force is so much reduced that he can un dertake no fresh enterprize against the Greeks. They will therefore be safe on this side, and it will he surprising if despair alone do not enable them to deliver themselves from Ibrahim and his Egyptians. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 2d instant, with the Doile of Tuesday, arrived last night by express. The latter contains a Royal Ordinance appoint ing a Commission of three persons to ascertain and to make public the number of individuals who, on the sth instant, shall have availed themselves of the power given them by the late financial law to convert their 5 per Cent. Rentes into 3 per Cents., as well as the amount of the Rentes so converted. The Commissioners, are to close the registration of the assents to the conver sion, at midnight on the day before mentioned, and are then to draw u p a I'roces-verbal, or Protocol of their proceedings. According to the statement daily published by the opposition Jour nals (Ultra Royalist and Liberals), during the last two months, but comparatively few indivi: duals have been found senseless enough to reduce their incomes two-fifths, by accepting three per cent. for their money, instead of five, merely to gratify the 'Ministers, and to relieve them from the difficulty into which their Indem nity Law has thrown them. Up to last Sa turday, the Journal des Debats informs us, the amount of convene& Rentes ; did not exceed ten millions of francs, which is not. quite 590,0004, sterling. If this assertion be true, it proves that the Public feel no interest in the measure, and that the great financial plan With which Mr. de Villele thought that he could indemnify ,the . Emigration and work ,wonders, has failed; The chief object of the present Ordinance is pro bably to call the attention of Stockholders to the proposed conversion, and by announcing that the Registers will be closed in the night of the sth instant, to create an interest which does not exist, and to augment the number of the Con verters. The moment, according to the views taken' of it by almost all parties in France, is likely to prove decisive, and to involve the fate' of the Ministry in its success or its , failure. The Eioile also contains another Ordinance, autho yising the Minister of the Interior to act for the Keeper of the Seals, during the indisposition and consequent absence of the latter. ~, L)11:;0RNINO HERALD.] The Mendicity Society has just put forth its Annual Report, from which it appears that, to regulate the expenditure of between 3 and 40001., the Society's Officers consist of -nearly -100 per. sons, under the following denominations, viz.- 1 Patron, 1 Honorary Counsel 1 President, 1 Honorary Solicitor I ! 23 Vice Presidents, 1 Honorary Secretary 1 Visitor, 1 Resident Clerk, 1 Treasurer, . 1 Parochial Clerk, 37 Managers, 1 Inquiry Clerk, 1 Assistant Manager, 6 Begging Letter Clerks, Auditors, 7 Constables, and 1 P. Bragge, the Cook ! ! In all, 98. ..... _ That the name of the person (but whether male or female is not stated) who holds the important post of converting into soup the shins of beef, the ox-cheeks, the cow-heels, and potatoes, with which the Society treats its sturdy customers, should be thus given, evinces a minuteness of de tail which would be extremely laudable, were it not a little ridiculous ; and that a Society for catching beggars should be classed under so many departments, and should actually consist of more persons than are to be found attached to some of the most important Offices under Govern ment, is, we must be permitted to say, a specimen of that love of humbug which, un fortunately, sometimes besets the best-inten tioned kind of people. We have always looked upon this Society as a sort of excrescence of the Police, both the necessity and utility , of which are more than doubtful ; and we are not sorry, therefore, to discover, from this Report, that its exertions are evidently on the decline ; and we should not be surprised were we, ere long,' to see it quietly descending to the tomb of all the Capulets. But then what iy to become of the numerous establishments of which the Society consists ? What, for instance, will become of alt the culinary accomplishments of Mr. or Mrs. Bragge, culled, as of course they must be, from the joint labours of Mrs. loozo, KitOittter, Ude, and M. Rundell ! But Bragge, excellent as he or she doubtless is, is not likely, we suspect, to rival Ho/dfast upon this occasion. The ilonoraries of course must re tire, surrendering, like other great men, . " all but their honour." The Constables, we should think, might, from their experience, be very advanta geously appointed to vacancies as they occur in the regular police. And the Begging Letter De partment (the only useful part of the establish ment) we should recommend Mr. Peel to annex, in some way or other, to the Public' Office in Bow•street. This done, let the Parochial Au thorities be but made to do their duty, and this Society will never be missed, while we shall, at least, ao longer witness the glaring anomaly of seeing so material a part of the actual govern ment of the country assumed by irreponsible people, who ought, from being such, to have no thing to do with it. ANOTHER IRISH RIOT. On Sunday night a desperate riot and distur bance took place in Gravel-lane, Southwark, in consequence of one of these disgraceful contests which are so constantly recurring in the Metro polis, between the men belonging to the two pro vinces in Ireland, Munster and Connaught. A body of between 1,500 and 1,600 of them assembled on that night in Gravel-lane, from all quarters of the town, armed principally with pokers and blud geons. About eleven o'clock the row commenced, and before many minutes had elapsed, the heads of several of the contending parties were broken. They soon cleared the streets of the peaceable inhabitants, who were obliged to fly into their dwellings. The beaten party retreating into Union-street, were closely pursued by their adversaries, who did not spare theConnaught men, between whom and The Munster the most fixed and determined hatred commenced on their setting foot on English ground. The riot nowbecomingmost alarming, the few watchmen in the neighbour hood made an ineffectual attempt to quell it, but were knocked dc;%%n for their pains ; the fighting continued until a sufficient number of constables and watchmen collected from different parts to cope with the rioters, all of whom see ing the preparations that were going forward to take them into custody, left off the original cause of quarrel, and made a simultaneous attack upon the guardians of the night, who, with great difficulty, and after having received some hard knocks, succeeded in securing six of the ring leaders of the disturbance, whose names are— Dan Desmond, 'rim Ryan, Paddy M'Keogh, Ned M'Carthy, John Holmes, and Terence Forkin—all of whom were lodged in the watch-house for the night, and brought up to Union Hall the following morning. One and all of them declared upon their consciences, that they had taken neither hand, act, or part in the " bit of a iow," but because they happened to have Irish tongues in their heads, and tried to put an end to th e quarrel, they were locked up.— 'They were held to bail. Zie CANAL and RAIL ROAD QUESTION ( From the Bradford Courier of July 28.) - - In our last, we considered this question in one of its bearings. 'We then attempted to show that a Rail-road between Liverpool and 'Manchester was not called for, inas much as the means of communication between these towns, at present existing, are amply sufficient for the demands upon them, and that by the adoption of some new regulation, their capabilities of doing business might be greatly increased. if we .were successful in proving these points, further considera tion of the question must be to many unnecessary, to all in deed who have been convinced by the evidence which we ad duced ; but as evidence is not viewed by every one in the same light, and with the view of presenting at all events a more perfect justification of that vilified majority which threw out the bill, we propose, this week, to consider the question under different aspect, and to expose still further the ignorant and interested declamation which has been so profusely sounded upon this subject: Before doing this, we would beg our readers to observe, that although our strictures upon the former occasion were chiefly with reference to the Manchester and Liverpool Rail-road, yet, in every similar proposition, it might be prudent to enquire, in the first place, whether existing circumstances really call for the undertaking. A project of Rail-road differs essentially from a project, for a New Assurance Company, or Mining Com pany, or any other Joint Stock Company whatever ; because, in order to carry it into effect, the rights of private property must, to a certain degree, be encroached upon, and consequent ly nothing less than that necessity which the public good en genders can justify the sacrifice ; but upon this subject we shall speak more at length hereafter. We proceed then to the ques tion before us, and the point to which we have to speak at pre sent is this :—Supposing our former reasoning inconclusive,— supposing, that the existing means of conveying goods between Manchester and Liverpool are insufficient, and that no other or better regulations could make them adequate, and conse quently that some plan must needs be devised for accommo dating the public—was the plan proposed such an one as ought to have met the concurrence of the Committee ? We say, that it was not; and, in the first place, we say, that if it was not altogether impracticable to execute it, it would at least have been attended with so many difficulties, and so enormous an expence, that the Committee was justified in throwing out the Bill. It is important to bear in mind, that the question we are at present considering is extremely narrow—it is not, whether some plan ought -to be devised for increasing the faci lities for the transmission of goods between Liverpool and Man chester—it is not, even, whether it might not be advisable that . . a Rail-road should be constructed between these towns—but it is, whether that individual Rail-road projected was deserving of the support of the Committee. We contend, indeed, and think we have proved, that no Rail-road whatever is called for; and we shall be able in our future Numbers to shew, that no Rail-road whatever would justify public expectation, sup posing one to be called for—but at present we only desire to show, that the project of the Rail-road submitted to the Com mittee was not such a project as that Committee could have supported. Is it to be questioned, in case of any project being submitted to a body of men for their approval or rejection, that before sanctioning it, they must be convinced that it is possible to carry the project into effect ? If there be the least , doubt with regard to this, ought men in their senses to au thorize the expenditure of some hundred thousand pounds, an expenditure which would, in the event of a failure, be inju rious to all concerned, and perhaps ruinous to some, and upon a project, too, which necessarily interferes with the rights of pri vate property ? In what sort of light would men be viewed who should authorise a thing to be done, which it was not in the na ture of things to do? Men, we say, placed in the situation of that Committee, were placed in a situation of great public responsi bility ; the capital of this country is not to be wasted in impos sible projects, and profitless adventures, nor are the subjects to be encouraged in idle schemes, which must disappoint and im poverish them, and lead many to ruin and beggary. But we shall now proceed to substantiate our opinions by evidence. Mr. George Stephenson, Civil Engineer he who had laid down the Rail-road, is of course examined by the Committee, and one would naturally suppose, that his evidence would be ex tremely satisfactory,—that he had fully examined the line he had laid down,—that he knew all the difficulties,—and could give plausible, if not satisfactory reasons, in answer to any objections. This line is laid through a Moss, called Chat Moss, and it is very natural to suppose, that this Moss, its nature, and depth, should have been anxiously examined before preparing estimates. Now hear what Mr. Stephen son says : Question. What is the depth of Chat Moss ?—Answer. I found it 14 feet deep good bottom ; I have bottomed it, and found it clay in one place and sand in another. Q. Will it sink ?—A. Yes, for a time. Q. Do you not know it will be very considerable ?—A. It will not sink so much at 10 feet in depth, as at the surface. Q. Then if it were drained at the top, it would bear the nail-road e —A, ies ; I think it would ; I have seen that sort of Moss, when properly drained, that would carry a Rail-road. Now observe what this gentleman says a little further on : Q. Have you bored in any part of the line of the road ?—A. I did, at Chat Moss. Q. Whereabout Not immediately upon the line. Q. I ask you, why you did not bore immediately upon the line ?—A. I did not think it necessary. Q. I will put you on your guard, and I ask you, whether you are not wrong with respect to stating the Moss to be the depth of 20 feet ! do you not know that it is 37 feet ?—A. I stated it was 15. Q. The question is, whether the depth of the Moss, where the Rail-road is, is 37 feet ?—A. I cannot speak to that. It was therefore in evidence before the Committee, that the Engineer himself, he who laid down the line and furnished the estimates, did not know the depth of the Bloss through which the Rail-road was to pass, and, consequently, could neither vouch for its practicability nor its expence. But this is not all ; Mr. Francis Giles, Engineer, is subsequently examined by the Committee, and if, after hearing the evidence of this gentleman, the Committee had passed the Bill before them, it would have been an act of insanity. Speaking of this same Moss, he says, The surface of the Moss is a sort of long, coarse, sedgy grass, tough enough to enable you to walk upon it, about half leg deep ; underneath that, on Putting an iron into the soil (a boring-rod), it will, with its own weight, sink in. In the centre of the Moss, where this Rail-road is to cross, it is all pulp, to th e d ept h o f t hi rty -f our f eet: at thirty-four eet there is a vein of four or six inches of clay ; below that there is two or three feet of quicksand, and the clay at the bottom of that is hard clay, which keeps all the water in. The boring_ rod will get down to the first vein of clay by its own weight ; a slight pressure of the hand will carry it to the next vein of clay • a very little p ress ur indeed will get it to the additional depth of two or three feet, beyond which, you must use more pressure to "get it down to the foundation. In my judgment, a Rail-road of this description certainly can. not be safely made over Chat Moss, without going to the bottom of the Moss. And therefore, if Mr. Stephenson be right in placing the level of the Rail-road fifteen feet below the Moss they would not only h a v e t o cu t o u t thirty-four, b u t t o buildup the other fifteen feet ; and unless that were done, I do not think that a Rail-road would stand. I have already described that the Moss is in one place thirty. seven feet deep, and in many others nearly the same. From my experience of twenty years with Mr. Rennie, I have not any doubt it would cost 200,0001. to go through Chat Moss. No Engineer in his senses would go through Chat Moss, if he wanted to make a Rail-road from Liverpool to Manchester. Mr. Francis Comrie says, The greatest depth is that at the summit, which is 37 feet. This Moss is more pulpy in the middle than at the extreme. which is in direct opposition to Mr. Stephenson's evidence. Mr. George Leather, Engineer, says, I went over to Liverpool in February last, and also to Man chester, with an intention of going over the whole of the line of Rail-way. I went over part of it. I had Mr. Stephenson's plan and section with me at the time. After having gone over three or four miles at the Liverpool end, I found the section so extremely incorrect, that 1 could not make any thing of it. If any person was to take the Moss in its present state, and was required to cut 15 feet below it, and calculated it as solid stuff, that would make a great error. I think I will venture to say, that five or six times Mr. Ste phenson's estimate would not come near it. Now, after hearing this evidence in what situation were the Committee placed ?—The Engineer did not know the nature of the Moss over which he proposed carrying the Rail-way ; there was decided evidence that he was altogether mistaken in its depth—his estimate was entiroly erroneous, and therefore, if the Committee had passed the• Bill, it would be sanctioning a project which an Engineer of high character had sworn " .No man in his senses would attempt," and which another had de clared could not be executed for less than 5 or 6 times the sum calculated by Mr. Stephenson. We say that supposing all we ad vanced in a former Nu. inclusive—supposing the existing mode of conveyance had been proved to be altogether inefficient, the Committee would not have been justified in sanctioning aproject regarding the practicability and expence of which, evidence of the most inconclusive and contradictory description was before it. It cannot be repeated too often, that this was a matter, in which the Committee had a right to call for -certain data, not probable conjecture • and if the evidence was of that contra dictory nature, w;iiaci left all Ivholleard it in absolute ignorance both as to the feasibility of the plan proposed, and the expence of carrying it into tiTect, the Committeecould not do otherwise than refuse to give it their approbation. REMARKABLE CIRCUMSTANCE. On Monday last a most remarkable circus' stance, which has been the topic of conversati° ° ever since in that part of th e t own , t oo k place a t the house of Mr. Philpot, fruiterer, of No. 33 ' Great Marylebone-street, Manchester-square. Martin, a fine little b o y a b ou t fi ve years o f •og e ' son to a coachman wh o occu pi es th e thi r d d (10r apartment in the above house, was left at home his parents under the care of his sister a Bi ll about fourteen years of age , w h o h av i ng uc e r, sion to go out l e ft th e li t tl e urc hi n in ta; room. During her absence he locked the doa of the apartment, and on her return he rep fused to open the door for her; she requested h'' repeatedly to put the key under the door, thin k ; ing he was not able t o u n l oc k it, b u t h e t o ld h e e that he was going to throw himself out of th t window ; she paid no attention to his threat, 14 6 he said 66 here goes," on which he threw ota l, pair of pincers which were i n th e room . M rs . Pil l pot happened to be speaking to a female friend ° 0 the pavement, opposite the door, and seeing t h ,, pincers fall, she said what a shame it was to 1) , 1 throwing such things out of the window, a li on looking up she saw something else falling; which proved to b e th e k ey o f t h e roo m ; looking up at the third floor window, fl t : —. whence it was thrown, th e y saw somet hi ng whil e ; on which Mrs. Philpot o bs erve d-4c Here COule a bundle of rags." the h a d no sooner u tt er ed th e f : e words, than the child was seen f a lli ng f ro m t window, and her friend exc l a i me d—" My G°" A it is a child." Mrs. Philp o t, w h o i s a s t o ut w' , sh y man, was, riveted to th e s p o t, th roug h t h e 51 16 ' e c i she received ; and, f or t una t e l y , t h e c hild, instea d of falling on the stones, fell on her left breast Dn a shoulder, with its arm round her neck, ant slipped off to the pavement, its head falling 1) , lightly on the stones. M r s. P. was considers hurt by the child falling on her. The child was 0 1 ,7 ned. It was immedi a t e ly carr i e d t o D r . B u rnet j of Marylebone-street, who applied leeches, 11 ,,, rj e restored it to its senses, and it was t a k e n W ilt , and put to bed, and wa s no t s p o k en t o a ll Idg The next morning, h owever , a t th e usu al ho e d. r for his parents to breakfast, he called for it, ate with good app e tit e ; an d, on being sPn., to on the subject of hi s d escent , h e l aug h e d, sag ing—" I'll do it aga i n ." H e i s now 001 . 0 about the streets as c h eer f u ll y an d pleasan t. ever he was in his lif e . Wh a t i s wonderful of that he has not a single bruise, with the exc e ed Lion of one on his forehead on which he MI, that is very slight. RIGHT OF MANURE TO EXEMPTION FROM TO On M COBBETT r. STEADMAN. ,d A \V" ,Brea .onday, .tig. 1, %V illiam CobbettOPP ell 4, o - rt before the Bench of M ag i s t ra t es at Bromley, Kent, in s u rf tll 6 of an information ag a i ns t Henry Steadman, Collector ° v itll Ruxley turnpike, for taking certain tolls of a waggon laden 410 manure, contrary to the st a t u t e . M r . C o bb ett contende , T, 3r iia , by sec. 32, chap. 12G. (A.D. 1822) Geo. IV., c , the J ment specially exempted from toll all waggons or otbe r or e riages employed in fetchi ng or carry i ng d ung or ot h e r Ina` „ ot. for the improvement of soil, be the distance ever se_ 7,01' during the whole ti me suc h teams were occup i e d in rf e d for ing. such journey, p rov id e d t h ey were bona fide empl")orl, that purpose only, an d carr i e d not hi ng e l se t h an t h e nece implements of husbandry for loading and unloading . 'VI Mr. Cobbett further stated, that in order to prevent tunny from:being defrauded under this pretence, the Act " the keeper of the gate to furnish every team so emlAnY,f e eor' the request of th e d r i ver, w i t h a t i cket, marked cob' " Manure Exemption," under the penalty of 51- bett then declaring it his intention not to accept the y e o , el even if awarded, called Charles Holland, who, on beallis of sworn, said, that he lived with Mr. Jeremiah Solon . '" d;ree, Kingsdown, and was sent by his master on last Fridafa O' weeks (24th of June) to London, with a waggon fora !`T o del dung, anti took with him a note to the keeper of the 11 ' o fte gate, stating the o bj ec t o f hi s j ourney : That Stea dnian i ; re reading it, demand e d l s . 6d., the usual toll, and thLifolt: him the paper no w produced,* 'with ou t f urt h e r solicits eb but that on his return, between three and four on dlocetf day, laden with dung, and showing Steadman's wife she refused to return him the money, as in duty boun d 'oeire' time of his passing through the Ruxley -gate was about o'clock on Friday night. giros In defence of the gate-keeper, the solicitor to the e gtilr leged that sec. 27 of the General Turnpike Act limited 0° petit and returning of all teams for dung to one day, and corlt e ju stfr that in consequence thereof, the collector was complete l y fled in retaining the toll taken on the Friday. a c r After a private consultation of the Magistrates, whi ch the oie . pied a considerable time, the Chairman, G. N0u31A 142 . - announced that the Bench dismissed the case. 'Pi Mr. Cobbett ." Then, gentlemen, as you have dee! ,do favour of this t o ll- co ll ector, I will trouble one of you beer of e go, to grant me anot h er information against .the keep ht neighbouring t urn pik e , f or tak i ng less toll than be ° tO6, have taken—that person having suffered the sale waggr ii through the same d a y w i t h out fa ki ng any to ll , a nd ow shall The a decision both ways." I Fri' ~ e summons was accordingly granted against 0e...;. 1 01 , bea the keeper of th e Footscray-gate_ ; and the case stands ing at the next m e e t i ng . The Bench was quite full. P"• * This paper had not the words " Manure Ex,T o st,, thereon, but was obj ec t e d to b y t h e S o li c i tor o f die''` bollo account of the complainant being unable to read; and its been in Mr. Cobbett's possession. 1 0, A farmer in M orav i a h as j ust i nve nted a ei plough, drawn by a single horse, which l t . ; k' three furrows at a s i ng l e t i me. The SociLidli Sciences at Vienna h ave rewar d e d bill' t gold medal. _ r Accounts from W arsaw s ia te, that in .the • e W o f wode of Lubli n , p art i cu l ar l y i n t h e circl ar ry Zamaysk, the w o l ves h ave i ncrease d i n an 0) in; manner ; th e y are so fi erce as to a ttaco• it „itY and several boys an d g i r l s h ave been writ pieces by them. f W ier RTHS. Yesterday, the 3d inst. 81 , the lady of Dr. Holland/ °- Brook-street, of a son. the 10 11 ' On the 2d inst., at Belle V ue , near S even oaks, _,..„..." Henry Streatfeild, jun., E sq ., o f a son. . MARRIED. 1/1 10 On Wednesday, the 3d inst., at Brighton, the Rev' a sttl',, te r Sherlock Carey, .51. A., vic ar o f A s hb urton, Devon/ Vdatig", of Christ Church, Oxford, to Eli za C aro li ne , second the late Richard Schneider, Esq., of Putney, Su rrel o t : 64lf , " On Tuesday, the 2d inst George Kinnear. Est' 4 of.' street, Bedford-s quare , to Elizabeth, only - daugi at ' e f , • William Barcla of Leicester-se q John Sandeman , --5 uare. On the 3d ul y t. , , at Gibraltar, 0 1 , 0 , c tor chant, (of the firm of Had wen , S an d eman , and c 0 Charlotte, eldest daughter of Lewis S. Tucker, Esq . ' of his Majesty's revenue. son O n o f the i r l st j i o n h s n t., E ll d l i o n n o t n ag d .------ .0 1 E D t u oi w h n l; rt n dh . eL ag e ' On the la l snt s g t imn o s f otr. J ., z a l Et y, at Pisa, in the 35th year of et' . ll i Ludgate, of Middlesex. St ? t (11 0 Printed and Published for the PRWPRIETOUS , 4 0.5' OrricE, No. 112, Strand, by J. B. CAUS I ' . 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