The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is not many days since we felt it our duty to suggest that an active interference by this country on the side of Portugal might be re quired—first, as the best means of recovering that ancient ally and friend of England from the desolation into which an unnatural war has plunged her ; secondly, as a necessary fulfilment of those several treaties by which Great Britain ha• solemnly bound herself to aid and support the lawful Sovereign of Portugal, should his or her crown be endangered from without, or the Portuguese territory threatened with invasion. It is needless to go over again those arguments on the Portuguese question which have been stated in so many preceding articles. We have acknowledged Donna Maria for Queen, and thereby invested her with all those rights to Bri tish co-operation and support which inured to any of her predecessors. The joint movements of the Pretenders Carlos and Miguel, carried on within the Portuguese frontier against the neigh bouring Sovereigns of Spain and Portugal, cannot be looked at with indifference by Powers in close alliance with either of the last-mentioned crowns. From the complication given to the affairs of the two countries by the separate claims but conjoint exertions of the two traitor Princes, it is difficult to surmise what mischiefs might follow the en trance of a Spanish army into Portugal ; nor on what plea, or by what expedients, such a risk could be averted, were the civil war in the neighbourhood of Lisbon and of the Pyrenees, both contests being fed by common means, and parties to be continued as at present. There is nothing, in such case, left for England but an Effective interposition. We hold that not only must a . Spanish army enter Portugal, but a French army must enter the north of Spain, if Don Carlos shall continue to organize rebellious from the former kingdom against Queen Isabella, and the French Carlists shall take advantage of the insurrections thus excited to shelter themselves in the rebel districts of Spain, and thence direct their operatiOns against the south-western parts of the French monarchy. Will the people of England relish either of these military operations ? We do not say that Don Pedro has acted wisely, or his Ministers honestly, or that the departure of one and the other from Portugal might not he a salutary and even indis pensable occurrence. But at least, while they Flo remain, and pretend to govern for the Queen, let them do so in that constitutional and na tional sprit which the interests of the royal cause prescribe. Pedro should be urged, nay ; enjoined under penalties, to call together the Cortes, Miguel proclaimed a traitor, and Carlos warned by Royal manifesto to quit the Queen's dominions,where his presence is that of a foreign enemy, and as such has long been full justifica tion of the march of a British army to dislodge him. These views, we have strong reason to believe, are those which have been deeply and steadily entertained by persons in this country, who ought to have power to act upon them. We hope and trust that very high personages are not insensible to their truth. If ministerial responsibility mean any thing, it sig nifies that Ministers are equally responsible for the non-exercise of the powers which belong to them, when their own conviction tells them that their bounden duty requires such powers to be put vigorously in force, as they would be for the assumption and application of powers which they had not. We can conceive nothing much more ignominious than for statesmen to shrink on a mere encounter with difficulties in quarters where they ought to be prepared for them, from the fulfilment of what in their hearts they know to be an obligation imposed upon them by the vital interests of the kingdom. If a Minister ' felt that the foreign policy of Great Britain demanded, and that the laws of nations permitted, an immediate interposition of her navy or army to uphold the rights of an ancient ally, nothing ought to deter such a Minister from putting into execution his declared prin ciples, for, at the worst, he always holds his personal remedy and security in his own keep ing. The active aid which was recommended in the case of Portugal can have been, and has been, resisted only upon Tory and Holy Alliance views.— Times. Our contemporaries of all parties continue their discussion on the right and expediency of the British Government to interfere in the civil war now raging in Portugal. The Tories exult in the reported determination of Ministers not to send out to that country an armed force, rejoicing at the apparent gain to Don Miguel and the cause of Absolutism. We very much doubt whether such an advantage will be the consequence of the pacific policy of the Cabinet. The issue of any general war at the present moment is doubtful, and might involve a tem porary triumph of the principles of the Holy Alliance. The question is not simply whether our Cabinet has or has not a casus fcederis for militaryintervention with the affairs of Portugal; but the more vital point is the influence of such a decided policy in Great Britain on the poli tics of the Continental Governments of Europe, and the probability of its affording to the Nor thern Powers a plausible excuse for a general war. The great principles on which Lord Grey announced the formation of his Ministry were three—Reform, Economy, Peace. How far he would consistently redeem his two latter pledges by sending British troops to Portugal, at this par ticular crisis, must puzzle every reflecting person. We can see no reason for the exception to the general rule of his Administration at this parti cular moment, but many reasons which would make such an extraordinary act especially incon sistent. We are persuaded that the cause of Jiberty throughout the Continent will be most promoted by a pacific policy of the British Ca binet. The resources of this country and of France, and of Belgium and the southern parts of Europe, will be better husbanded against any future military attempts of the Holy Alliance to put down Constitutional freedom. In the mean while the people throughout Europe are great gainers by peace. Tt2e rapid progress of know ledge, which gunpowder and cannon balls cannot impede, and the commercial intercourse of the European nations are working a silent but rapid political revolution. Education in Prussia, 6gravny, and Holland, is the most potent and ,destructive enemy of the arbitrary monarchies, and at no distant time must prove itself to be an adequate solvent of Absolutism without the aid of French and British armies, or naval ex peditions. The oppressed nations may groan under arbitrary Governments for a time, but a nation which cannot work out its own poli tical salvation, will never be permanently as sisted by the military aid of its neighbours. We do not think that the great body of our country. men care two straws whether Miguel or Pedro reigns in Portugal, or Don Carlos or the Infant Queen in Spain. A war on behalf of either of these Royal Personages might be temporarily popular with the thoughtless—with the " cur rency men," who imagine that paper would be thereby necessarily substituted for a metallic currency—with the agriculturists, who might hope that " war prices" would more easily pay their mortgages, rents, rates, and taxes—but a twelvemonth would scarcely elapse before all would sensibly feel in their pockets, and loudly denounce in public meetings the folly and op pression of a reckless war expenditure. We do not pretend to know the sentiments of Lord Althorp on this critical question, but we greatly indeed mistake his common sense if he can countenance the eventful measure of an armed interference in the affairs of Portugal. He must be a bold leader of the House of Commons who in the ensuing session can face a Reformed Parliament and bring down to it a War Budget, at a time when the agricultural and commercial classes are contending for the repeal of duties on malt, assessed taxes, and the corn laws. The Tories have sufficiently involved us in National Debt, and heaped upon the country a sufficient load of permanent taxation, without the public burdens being increased by a Whig Ministry. We shall be content to indulge in a new war when we have paid for the last ; but we think it will be some time before we shall be in a situation to follow the expensive pastime of another general war. Our resources are still abundant and comparatively great, and the trade and commerce of the country, we believe, were seldom in a more prosperous and natural state ; but the agricultural classes are severely suffer ing, and we fancy that they will not be very willing to increase the mortgages of National Debt and Poor Rates for which the land is pawned to the public creditors. We have no fears of the incursions of Russia. Her finances, and the loose hold which the Government has of so many scattered territories, will long control her ambitious designs. Poland will give her ample occupation on the advent of any general war. The people of Prussia and Germany, in general, are becoming daily more enlightened, and acutely feel the wrongs of their gallant and oppressed neighbours. Austria will be exclu sively occupied by Italy, and awed by Bel gium. British subsidies and loans will no longer provide the Northern Powers with the " sinews of war." In fact, the people of Europe and the cause of liberty have, at present, every thing to gain by the preservation of peace. The Absolutists are annually losing strength and their hold of the people ; Great Britain and France are daily growing in power, and more closely knit together in a community of political interest. How great has been the gain to civil freedom during the last three years of general peace. In this country we have reconstructed the Consti tution. Reforms in every department of the State are in active progress; and, though that progress may not equal the sanguine expecta tions of all classes of reformers, we are at a loss to imagine how the reformation of our national institutions would be accelerated or continued in war. In France, the most sensible persons agree that the principles of constitutional liberty are continually striking deeper root. The civil dissensions in Portugal and Spain will infallibly regenerate the people of those nations ; and we much doubt whether the influence of priestcraft and the deep-rooted obstacles to good govern ment imposed .by a long course of monarchical tyranny can be otherwise rooted out. We can see therefore infinite evils in the risk of a general war ; and we perceive no circumstances in the present state of the Portugal question which would justify our Government in an offensive expedition to the Tagus. Twelve months since its expediency might have been doubtful ; but the ascendancy of liberal principles in the Spanish dynasty, and the free scope which the two con tending parties in Portugal now have to settle their own contests themselves, put beyond a question the advantage of a pacific policy on our part. It is of course a favourable opportunity for the Tories to assail the Ministry, and to endeavour to create that dissension in the Ca binet which they would have the country believe really exists ; but this temporary party manoeuvre is harmless, and they are welcome to their amusement, as the nation is at last redeemed from all chance of the Conservatives again plunging us into general wars to put down liberty and job in loans and army contracts. If any future Ministry should resume the old mis chievous game of meddling with our neigh bours, a reformed House of Commons will speedily extricate us from such a destructive nuisance.—Morning Chronicle. We stated, on Saturday, our belief that Lord Grey had resigned office on the day before. It appears we were mistaken, and that his Lord ship is still the First Lord of the Treasury. The reports of his resignation, which were extensively credited on Friday evening, appear to have rested on very insufficient evidence—that of Mr. Edward Ellice, who is, according to the recorded testimony of the Times, " a person discredit ably known in the City." We had, however, for our own announcement rather better autho rity; and we are induced by it still to believe that the Noble Earl did actually talk on Friday of retirement, with a heroism which entitles him to high praise. The fashion in which the Globe contradicts our statement, is worth notice. Our story was told at our usual hour of publication on Saturday ; and the Globe might have taken its accustomed time in the correction of our mistake, penning its exordium three hours before , noon, and its peroration three hours after it. But the Globe is silent, till almost the hour of projection. Then it dashes off a paragraph or two, dated " Globe Office, three o'clock," in which it informs the world that " the pertinacity of its Tory contemporaries puts it under the almost ridiculous necessity of asserting, in as plain language as it can employ, that their statements announcing the resignation of Lord Grey, are entirely destitute of foundation ;"and the Globe winds up this pithy assurance by ob serving that it " writes in haste, and will early resume the subject." But why, when our fable was accessible at nine, was the " almost ridicu lous necessity" of disproving it felt only at tbree? And why, when the Globe might have told the truth at ten leisurely, did the Globe tell the truth at three " in haste ?" It is just pos sible that, although the Globe had our story in the morning, it had not any instructions for its own till the afternoon ; and we must be allowed to suspect that at ten there was some probability in the rumour, which at three became " en tirely destitute of foundation." But enough about Mini s t er i a l c h anges . of this gossip We care very little, whether the in formation we received on this subject were partially correct, or whether it were, as the Globe asserts, "entirely destitute of foundation." It is of more importance to us that we should vindicate the accuracy of our statements upon the more serious matter in issue. Has the project (of sending troops to Portugal been gravely entertained by the British Cabinet, or has it not ? We have asserted distinctly and deliberately that it has. The Globe has asserted as distinctly and deliberately that it has not. " All the rumours relating to preparations for 'an expedition to Portugal are equally ungrounded." Now we retain our conviction that the project of sending troops to Portugal was entertained by the British Cabinet ;—and we rely upon the suggestion in the Times of Thursday last that " the Queen of Portugal has an undoubted • right to call upon her ally the King of Eng land, who so long as there is reality in treaties must feel himself bound to grant her the stipu lated succour;"—upon the assenting silence with which the Globe of Thursday and Friday gave credence to this declaration ;—upon the actual preparation of instructions for the Military and Ordnance Departments ;—upon the selection of the stations from which the troops were to have been drawn ;—upon the de signation of a Major-General now on the Staff in Ireland for the command of these troops ; upon the more than hopes held out to the Am bassador of Don Pedro in Downing-street ; upon the almost official intimations of persons in authority at the public offices;—upon the incautious babble of a Cabinet Minister fami liarly known as Lord Brougham's " Cabinet Simpleton" in places of less confidential inter course. The Treasury Journals will call upon us with their accustomed simplicity for the names of our informants and the nature of our informa tion. They will ask from what stations the troops were to come, and what Officer was to command them ; they will bid us name the Commoners who have whispered at the Foreign-office, and the Peers who have prat tled in the Park. VVe are content to rest the accuracy of our statement upon its notoriety. There is not a Whigling at Brookes's who does not know much of which the Newspaper he takes in will profess to be utterly ignorant. The Globe will be as little aware of the intended expedition to Lisbon as it was of the intended appointment of General Ellice to Portsmouth. And its readers will laugh at its blindness in the one case as they laughed at its blindness in the other. Whether the failure of Lord Palmer ston's purpose be attributable to discord in the Cabinet or to resolution in the King, let us heartily congratulate England and Portugal that it has failed :—England, because she has for the present escaped the guilt of oppressing where she ought to protect, of injuring where she is bound to befriend, of destroying the independ ence of a nation whose independence it is her proudest boast to have bought with her richest treasure, and even with her noblest blood ; Portugal, because this event virtually termi nates the conflict by which she has been rent asunder, and leaves once more the decision of a contest, in which she only is interested, to her own will and her own laws. The force upon which the Brazilian pirate has hitherto relied for the repression of the free choice and the subversion of the ancient institutions of Portugal is rapidly melting away. By his avarice, by his incapacity, by his cruelty to the people he is un fit to govern, by his ingratitude to the soldiers he is unworthy to command, he is disgusting the honourable men who, in ignorance of his character, have too readily embraced his cause. Colonel Bacon, the commander of his cavalry, has returned to England. Major Bransen, and other officers, to whose ill-paid services his recent successes are to be attributed, have re embarked for Portugal, where they are about to assist in the expulsion of the invader, whose intrusion their mistaken zeal protected. If the army of Don Miguel be commanded with a loyalty, the signs of which we cannot find in the management of his fleet, the buccaneers who have so long profaned the sacred name of liberty will before Easter be driven from their strong holds ; and the cause, which not all the effrontery of the Treasury bench will now deny to be the national cause, will be triumphant in Portugal. What punishment is reserved for the Minister who has plotted against the liberties of a foreign country, and compromised the dignity of his own ;—who has entailed upon Britain the stigma of unful filled promises, upon Portugal the calamities of protracted civil war ;—who, during the progress of this strife, has said nothing but with the in tention to deceive, has done nothing but with the purpose to betray ;—who even now only laments that he has not been suffered to remedy unwise diplomacy by unjust aggression ? Lord Pal merston should retire from public life. He has accomplished his destiny. He can never exult in a more indignant reprobation, or bask in a more universal contempt.— Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Saturday two young men, named Clarke and Smith were brought before the Loan MAYOR, charged with having stolen several hats. The hat-manufacturer had, it appeared, sent his boy with half a dozen hats to a cus tomer, and one of the prisoners, soon after the boy want on his errand, followed him, and told him that he was, by order of his master, to give up the hats, and to return. The boy was simple enough to yield obedience, and did not suspect that he had been robbed until he returned to his master. A few days afterwards the boy saw the two prisoners, whom he had observed together on the day he was robbed, walking arm in arm under an umbrell I. He said nothing, but followed them till a policeman was within retch, when he charged them with the robbery, which they denied, asserting that they had never seen the face of their accuser before. Parish, the officer who apprehended them, stated that the prisoners disclaimed all knowledge of the lad, who, on the contrary, persisted in declaring that they were the very men. The prisoners bad also given false addresses. The Loan MAyoe. asked each the address of the other, but they agreed in that respect completely, for they de clared they were quite strangers to each other. The Loan MAYOR—What ! did you never pee each other before the day you were apprehended ? Prisoners —Never, my Lord. The LORD MAYOR—And one of you were so kind as to accommodate the other with the share of his umbrella? Pray whose was the umbrella ? The prisoners looked at each other. The LORD NIAYOR—Come, come, answer at once ; that's easily answer,d. Both prisoners —Mine, my Lord. --(Loud laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I am satisfied now as to your ignorance of each other. Now, why did you say that you lived where you do not live? Clarke—That was the officer's mistake my Lord. I told him that I had lived where he went to look for me; not that I did live there. Smith—And so did I. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, for strangers, you agree wonderfully in what you say. I shall remand you till I see whether more evidence may not appear against you. The police said the prisoners were well known thieves. Clarke—Thieves ! Don't believe a word of it. I wish I could get it to steal.—(Laughter.)—Remanded. A gill named Mary Everett was charged with having uttered a bad shilling. She had gone into a shop to ask for some article, and she threw down the bad money to pay" for it. She swore it was good, and was put in the station_house. The LORD MAYOR—What account do you give of yourself, young woman ? Prisoner—What account! Why, I'm unfortunate, to be sure. How else would I be? The LORD MAYOR—And where did you get this bad shilling ? Pritoner—Where ? Why, from a customer of mine, to be sure. Who else would give it to me ? How can I tell the person ? The LORD MAYOR-1 dare say you are known at this sort of business ? Prisoner—Well, have you anything more to say ? The LORD MAYOR-Yes ; you shall g o back to prison until I ascertain whether Mr. Powell knows you. Pri soner—l'll carve you out, when 1 meet you, for this, s'elp me God. The LORD MAYOR —Oh, very well. Then, after I dispose of you, according to Mr. Powell's report of you, Pll make you find hail to keep the peace towards me and every body ebe.—(Great laughter.) Prisoner (leaving the bar)—if I a'nt got into it at last, I'm blowed. The Loan MAYOR —You shall find respectable bail too, mind that ; and, gaoler, keep her by herself in the prison, for fear she should lose the independence of her spirit by associating with others. The prisoner (from the other room)—S'elp me God, you've sarved me out!— (Laughter.) G UILDHALL. Thomas White, a general dealer, residing at Edmon ton, was charged with stealing a check on Messrs. Robarts and Co., for 751., the property of Mr. Bonsor, a sales man in Newgate Market. The man, in his defence, said he could not read, and as he found the parcel, and did not steal it, he thought he had a right to the contents. The Alderman eventually admonished and liberated the prisoner. BOW-STREET. OFFENCE AGAINST THE STREET tCT.-Mr. Bunn, lessee of the Theatres Royal Covent-garden and Drury lane, was summoned to attend to answer to an infor mation laid by John Richard Carter, a common in former, which set forth that he caused and permitted a certain nuisance and obstruction, to wit, three carriages to be laid on the footway pavement in Hart-street, Covent-garden, contrary to the provisions of the Act. A gentleman was in attendance on behalf of Mr. Bunn, who pleaded not guilty to the offence. Carter, the complainant, now stated that on Monday last, the 13th instant, be saw four men place a car, which he believed to be the same used in the procession of the spectacle of St. George and the Dragon at Drury-lane Theatre, on the footway pavement in Hart-street, opposite Covent-garden Theatre. The car was on four wheels and completely obstructed the passage. Shortly after wards be saw two other carriages brought and placed on the same spot, and in about half an hour the whole three were removed into the private courtyard of the Theatre. lie subsequently saw them hoisted over the stage-door into the Theatre. He understood from the conversation of the men who moved the carriages, whom he knew to be employed about the theatre, that their original intention was to have carried the carriages through the stage door, but, finding the entrance too small, they placed them on the footway until they could hoist them over the door. It was submitted on the part of the defendant that this evidence did not prove the offence to have beets committed by his order or permission, nor did it prove that the car riages were his property. The complainant said that he inquired of one of the men whether the car before mentioned was not used in Drury lane Theatre, to which he replied in the affirmative, adding that they had just brought it from that Theatre.. He conceived that the act of the servant was, in point of law, the act of the master. Mr. MINSHULL was of opinion that the informer ought to have taken the workmen into custody while in the act of committing the nuisance, as he was empowered to do by the Act. He should dismiss the case, leaving the com plainant to take any further proceedings against the work men he might think proper. The parties then left the office, the informer expressing his intention of summoning the workmen forthwith. At the evening sitting a man of mean appearance, who gave his name Giles Coaltes, was placed at the bar, charged before Mr. MnismuLL with having on the 20th of October last maliciously shot • and wounded a man named Simper, gamekeeper to Lord Stowell, in Chedworth Woods, Gloucestershire. The prisoner was remanded till to-day, when he will be again brought up. The prisoner made no observation, and he was removed in custody. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. At the evening sitting before Mr. DYER, jun. , a youth named R. Watts was charged with a robbery at the shop of Mr. Rourke, tailor, in Chapel-street, Soho. Mr. DYER committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial. The man who gave his name Charteris, charged with swindling, was on Saturday committed to Newgate for trial on three separate charges. There were several other caws against him, but the Magistrates deemed those of Mr. Phillips, of Hungerford Market, and another gentle• man, quite sufficient to send the priaoner to trial. HATTON-GARDEN. ROBBERY OF PLATE.— Thomas Hill was finally ex amined, charged on suspicion of having stolen a quantity of plate, linen, &c., from the dwelling-house of the Rev. Joseph Edwards, 37, Bloomsbury-square. The property was identified, and the prisoner committed to Newgate. UNION-HALL. Henry Chapman R as summoned on an information for selling playbills without the name of the printer affixed to them, whereby he had incurred the penalty of 201., and not less than 5/, It was stated that the present proceedings against the defendant were instituted by the proprietors of the Vie. tons Theatre, in order to suppress a very intolerable nui • sance occasioned thereby. The Magistrate (Mr. TRAILL) said that, in the absence of the printer, he should inflict a penalty of 51. on the defendant. Defendant—l can't pay the money ; I was not aware that I was doing wrong. Nat. Greaves (one of the constables who attend the Victoria)--I have repeatedly cautioned him myself. Mr. TRAILL asked the defendant if he was prepared to pay the fine ; for, if nor, a distress warrant must be issued upon his goods and chattels. The Magistrate then asked him whether he had any goods to the value of 5/. De fendant—l have only an old deal table, a couple of stools, and an old flock bed, and if these are taken from me I'm undone. Mr. TRAM. said that if the defendant would give up the name of the person from whom he had the playbills, he had no doubt the proprietors of the Theatre would not press the case. This, however, the defendant refused to do, and he was locked up, in default of paying the fine. MARY LEB ONE. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDING. (::)11 Saturday a man named Thomas Benger, who stated that he lived in Fre derick-street Portland -town, and obtained a livelihood by dealing in pigs, was brought before Mr. HosKINs, charged by Robert Parry Nesbitt, Esq., with having been found in that gentleman's house, No. 76, B tker-street, Portman square, under the following circumstances : Mr. Nesbitt deposed that on the same morning, as he was coming down stairs, to his great surprise he saw the prisoner, who had just left the kitchen below, walk up with a pail in one hand, and holding his apron, which was twisted up, with the other. He (Mr. N.) imagining that some pilfering had been carried on by the prisoner, whose horse and cart was standing at the door, questioned him closely as to what he had got, when he replied " Nothing but some hogwash in the pail, and in my apron some stale broken victuals given me by the cook." He (Mr. N.) then examined the pail and apron, and found that they contained what the prisoner had stated, but con sidering from the man's appearance and manner, that he had gained access to the house for an improper and unlawful purpose, rang the bell for his footman, who having, by his directions, fetched a policeman, the pri soner, who begged hard that be might be suffered to depart, was conveyed to the s'ation-house. Another bundle was found in the prisoner's cart, which the con stable also took possession of. The two bundles were here opened, one of which con tained part of a stale half-quartern loaf, together with a few crusts of dry mouldy bread, and a leg of mutton bone, on which was about half a pound of meat quite dry and black. In the other bundle were some pieces of hard bread, and what to all appearances was a slice of musty salt bet-f. Police-constable Henry Garnett 148 D, stated that on the prisoner being placed in confinement, be said be hoped the gentleman would look over the offence, as he bad a large family depending on him for support. He also said that he was not aware of having done anything deserving puni.hment, as the cook had let him in for the wash, and had given him the broken victuals, which she said was too stale and mouldy for the servants to eat. Mr. Hosicttis (to Mr. Neshitt)—l must see this cook of yours, Sir. She appears to have been the thief, and this man the receiver. Mr. Nesbitt—Why, Sir, I have no thought whatever of preferring any charge against her. My object in givin4 the man into custody was, that Ee might be punished for having, as I imagined, improperly entered my house, as I sa w him come out of another in a similar way. Mr. Hosicins—You may not have any wish to prose cute this servant of yours, but she must be brought before me. Go for her, policeman. In about a quarter of an hour the policeman returned, having in his custody the cook, a very respectable looking woman, about 60 years of age, whom he placed in th witness box. Mr. HOSKINS-Why do you place her there? She is a prisoner, and must stand at the bar with the other. She. WAS accordingly placed in the dock, and appeared completely overcome and bewildered at finding that she was charged as n felon. Mr. Nesbitt (mach astonished)—l beg, Sir, you will distinctly understand that no charge is made by me against her. Mr. Hosimrs—Perhaps not, Sir; but this system of plundering is carried to some extent in London, and muss be stopped._ Mr. Nesbitt—l quite agree with you there, the system is decidedly bad ; but in this case what has been found on the man is of ne value, and as I had an excellent cha racter with my cook, who has now lived in my family eighteen months, during which period she has conducted herself well, I can't think for a moment of prosecuting her. Mr. HosKiNs—So you said before. (To the police man)—Do you know any thing of Benger ? Policeman.— I do not, your Worship. Mr. HOSKINS (to Benger)—What have you to sly ? Benger—l've only to say that, as I was going by the house, a few days ago, the cook called me in, and said she wished a tub of wash fetched away. I called for it this morning, as I was going round with my horse and cart for the same purpose to other houses, when she gave me the stale bits found in my apron for my trouble. Mr. HositiNs (to the cook)—Do you wish to say any thing ? Cook—l did give him the pieces of bread and meat which - are in the bundle. He told me he had a large family, and I thought it better to give the stale things to N hi e m ab , it t t h k an nn t w o athtrhoawt he them had a away n I have been a faithful servant to my master and mistress both, and never robbed them of any thing in my life. excellent n into elle n tth character dust hole. l withe. ll m I re.. I thought there was no harm in giving the poor man what I did. Mr. Nesbitt—The thing was certainly worthless, and I don't wish by any means to charge my servant with any offence. Mr. HosKiNs (to the policeman)—l should like to know something more about this man Benger. Let further inquiry he made and bring them both up again on Tuesday. Mr. Nesbitt—ln the mean time where will my ser vant be ? Mr. Hosiciws—She will go to prison with the other. Mr. Nesbitt (with astonishment)—But who charges her with any offence ? I don't, you'll understand. It's not my -- Mr. Hosxtrrs (abruptly)—Call on the next case. Mr. Nesbitt here left the office, evidently greatly sur prised at the turn which the affair had taken. Benger and the cook were then conveyed by the gaoler to the lock-up-rooms in the yard, preparatory to their being taken in the prison van to Clerkenwell. THAMES.POLICE. Ellen Bryant, an old woman, Daniel Bryant, her son, a coal-whipper, and Margaret B r y an t, hi s wif e , were charged on a peace-warrant with using abusive lan• guage to Mr. Devereux, a baker, residing in Higb_street, Wapping. An assault-warrant bad also been taken out by Margaret Bryant against the baker, for assaulting and beating her. The warrants on both sides were eventually dismissed. CORPORATION COMMISSION. (TWENTIETH DAY, JAN. 18.) The Sheriffs' Court was once more the subject of inves gation by the Commissioners, but the information elicited by the inquiry differed little from that previously obtained. The following is a summary of the chief points of the evi dence :—The mode of proceeding in the court is repre sented to be remarkably expeditious. The jurors are summoned from the freemen householders of the city, who are taken from the different wards in rotation. The attorneys who practise in this court are thirty in number, and must be admitted by the Court of Aldermen ; but any attorney of the superior courts, being also a freeman, is allowed to practise in the Sheriffs Court. The Court of Alderman can strike an attorney off the rolls of this court, and it is at present under the consideration of the Court of Common Council whether the Judges of the court should not possess the same power. The Lord Mayor, in cases of appeal, can extend the time for the payment of money under the order of the court. The average of taxed costs in proceedings in this court is 51. 6s. 9d. in each case. There are two Sheriffs' Courts in the city. The whole constitution and practice of these courts is at present the subject of inquiry before a Com mittee of the Common Council.—Adjourned to Monday. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. 18.—Letters from Vourla (near Smyrna), dated the 4th ult., mention that the Britannia (flag ship), St. Vincent, Caledonia, Malabar, Talavera, Alfred, Champion, and Meteor, were then lying in the Bay ; the Actz , m, Volage, and Scylla were on detached services; the Barham, on her passage from Malta; Ma dagascar, at Napoli ; Beacon and Mastiff, at Malta ; Scout, at Tripoli ; Raleigh, at Corfu. The French ships at Smyrna were—Ville de Marseilles, 76, Duquesne, 78, Superb, 74, Ephigenia, 60, and Galatea, 60. Several others were expected from Toulon. The best understand ing prevailed between both squadrons. We are informed by a letter from Rio Janeiro, dated Nov. 29, that the Imperial squadron, which was ordered to be fitted out under Commodore Taylor, was intended to proceed to the Tagus, on a special mission. Some of the London papers are writing columns to prove that the recall of the French and Russian squadrons in the Archipelago is a new triumph of Russian policy, and that the measure is a timid concession to the arrogant subjugator of Poland. Our knowledge in the matter is, that duplicate orders were sent out to the Admiral (the originals having gone by a previous packet), by the Fa vourite, Capt. Mundy, so long since as Nov. 28 last, to return to Malta with his squadron, for the winter. Our Correspondent's letter, dated Nov. 2d (inserted in the Telegraph of the 30th ult.), states the expectation of re ceiving such orders by the squadron. The free trader Belle Alliance, for Madras and Calcutta, and the Red Rover, for Van Diemen's Land and Sydney, are in the Downs, and will call in a few days at Spithead to embark their passengers. The Firefly steamer will sail from Woolwich on Monday, to take the next Mediterranean mail. The Flamer will be paid off on Thursday next. Mr. Fred. Tyler, Acting Master, and Mr. Wm. Cotsell, Acting Purser, are re appointed to her. The Phoenix, Salamander, Firefly, Flamer, African, Lignthing, and Comet remain at that port. The Thames, New York packet, has been detained here since New Year's Day, by contrary winds. The Philadelphia and President packets, also for New York, will arrive on Monday. We wish we could state that there is any appearance for a change of the wind, which has now blown from the westward, frequently in heavy gales, since the beginning of November. We do not remember so long continued winds from this quarter these twenty-five years, about which time since a convoy from the Mediterranean was detained here, from the same cause, three months. We are told (by an old Pilot) that in the year 1764, the wind blew from the westward here, seven months. The numerous merchant-shipping have all retained their anchorage in safety, not having sustained the least loss or damage, during the violent gusty week we have had. We do, however, most sincerely sympathise with the shipowners, the masters, and their numerous passengers, whose losses by their de tention, and consequent privation and distress, are very serious. But we are happy to find, upon inquiry, that there are not so many cases of individual suffering and de privation among the passengers as have been represented, or might naturally have been feared, considering th at many of them, since they embarked, would, under ordi nary circumstances, have ere this reached near to the most distant destination. Two or three ships, of the superior class, have kept the sea for upwards of six weeks, and returned, never having got to the westward of Ushant. We are sorry to state the loss of the brig Nemesis, Miens master, of Poole, bound from thence to St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, which has been wrecked near Halifix. All the crew were saved. _ _ The ship Asia, of London, was seen waterlogged, with her foremast, fore.topmast, and bowsprit standing, boats and hatches gone, on the 29th of December, in latitude 49. -20. ; longitude, 24. 45., laden with timber, no person on boarl, by the Trinity, which arrived at Poole on the 6th inst. . The George and William, Waller, from Jam aica to Lisbon, was wrecked near Guernsey, on Monday last ; only the mate and on e man saved. The Koni n g sber g , Zimmerman, from Memel to Lisbon, was dr iven on shore near Plymouth, on Monday, and filled with water, crew saved. The Borthwick, Hall, from Tyne to Southampton, has put into Yarmouth Roads, leaky. The Lynx, 3 guns, Lieut. Huntley, put into Falmouth on Wednesday last, with foul winds. The Belvidera was undocked on Wednesday; the Rain bow taken in. The Nautilus, Espoir, and Charybdis are fitting out in the basin, with all possible despatch. The Espoir has been commissioned by Lieut. Riley. The Tyne is to be paid off into ordinary. The Jupiter, when ready for sea, is to proceed to Plymouth, to take troops therms to the M e diterranean.—Hampshire Telegraph. COUNTRY CORN MARKET DURING LAST WEEK. • I Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans:" Per Quarter. Is.to s, s. to s. s. to s. s. Carlisle 48 23 17 40 Hexham* 49 53 25 29 19 22 .. Morpeth --- 36 48 26 28 16 21 32 3 9 Penrith 49 26 is _ 39' Sheffield... — 49 22 00 39 Winchester 45 52 24 28 18 22 42 44 ; Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. I. Carmarthen 5 3 5 8 2 6 2 9 1 5 r 9 0 0 11 , „" Cowbridge 70 76 29 40 23 2'6 56 „" Newcastle (Sta ff .) 80 89 46 50 30 34 50 a , ", Northallerton........ 70 93 36 46 33 40 56 u, " 80 86 40 48 30 34 60 Swansea... . 69 72 29 36 19 22 00 0 6 , Warwick 90 110 30 46 20 33 56 ''' 4 Per 8011. Barnardcastle....... 12 0 14 6 8 0 8 6 4 6 6 0 8 6 10 0 „ Durham --.. 'lO 6 126 70 83 43 60 86 JO u Richmond 11l 0 166 86 90 50 64 86 9 Stockton 111 0 19 0 8 6 9 0 4 0 4 8 8 6 9" WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Jan. 17. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk —s. 445. to 525. fine 543. Lin. and Cam. —s. 445. to 51s. fine 535• -- Yorkshire —s. 435. to 50s. fine 52.5. cN MARKET.—Jan. 17. ;uflblk —s. 445. to 525. fine 543. —s. 445. to 51s. fine 535. —s. 435. to 50s. fine s`- 5 • —s 50s. to 555. fine 61 5 . —s —s. to —s. fine — 5 . —s. —s. to —9. nne — 5 • 325. to 345, fine 35 3 . 30s. to 325, fine 335. 31s. to 325. fine 335. —s. to —s. fine 375. to 393. fine 41s. White Foreign, Red White. Barley, Norfolk' nd Suffolk Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, Old New 3ss. to 3Ss. fine 401 Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 235. Poland s. 18s. to 21s. fine 225. --- Friezland and Small --- Mealing Shelling 235. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. I Barley Aberdeen « Berwick---- Coldstream upar Dundee --- Elgin 35 45 30 34 3 5 42 48 56 50 60 40 50 38 44 al 36 48 61 50 56 of the ml 24 :. , 8 15 19 18 19 26 31 3 24 0 33 26 25 26 10 20 23 29 23 26 asure vs Inverness.—~ Kelso Perth --- 11::;f• The size EDINBUI We had a middli] sales were moderah GH COR ig supply 01 Oats. --• 14 20 12 14 13 14 18 22 20 25 16 20 15 17 14 16 16 20 20 22 ries throng :N MARK: f Wheat ant Beans. lOatmeal_ 2621 U 4 28 ao• 18 21 20 22 22 26 30 31 23 30 23 26 23 45 48 43 41 ... 22 25 •-• ;bout the countl Y. KV.—Jan. Oats to-d dr. •••• ••••• 18 -" 15. ay, and the Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First s6s Od 32s Od 20s Od 29s ed 29s 0.1 Second sls Od 29s Od 18a Od 28s Od 28s Od Third 47s Od 21s Od 16s 8d 25s Od 25s 04 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Os. 3id.to 08.6 d. Freshßutter,lb.s.lo.l. to Os o ,l ° 03f 0 7 Salt Ditt0............ 0 8 0 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per cnt.7o 0 74 0 Beef, per lb. Mutton Veal P0r1(...v................. Eggs, Per dos. 1 0 "0 0 _ - Lamb, per qr. 2 6 Tallow, cwt.... 35 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 5 3 0 17 0 0 7 0 0 CratSir - aw(kpl.) 6 6 7 0 Wheat Ditto.. 5 6 6 0 Barley Ditto 5 0 5 6 Hay, per 5t..,,..... 0 8 0 6" L MARKET.—Jan. 14. Oatmeal at this day's market , )er sack under last week's pricco• Per Stone ol 141 b. Imp. a First Oatmeal • £o 1 5 Second ditto ..... 0 1 .' Barleymeal 0 1 ° Peasemeal 6 0 I .-2d. 145.-3 d, 16s.—Pesi1 20s. MARKET.—Jan. 15. th l o it a le , a p lt e e r r 264 atio l n b, in . p . r d i . ces. s l Irish l4 Otolo' British l4 0 16 0 Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l3 0 14 0 Flour, per 2801 b 4O 0 43 ° EDINBURGH MEA There was a limited supply of and the sales were heavy, at Is. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 8 0 Second ditto 1 7 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 Peas enteal . 1 5 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12s GLASGOW CORN The trade is rather heavy, wi Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 260t028-01 - new _ 212 0 25 0 Canada, free.. ..... Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 C Scottish 2O 0 22 0 Irish CORNWALL. MARKETS. TRURO-Wheat (average) 205.0d.-Barley, 9s. Od.-Oats, ST. AusvELL-Wheat, -s. to 205.-Barley, Os. to 108.-0 10 - 0 7s. to Bs. Od. PENZANCE-Wheat, 19s. to 205.-Barley, 9s. to 103.-Oatk os. to 7s. 6d.-Beef and Mutton, sd. to 50.-Fork, Od. to 3 1 " . Butter, 12id. per lb. 6s. L od au .- Ne ß e e w e ro f :( s - O W - h m ea u t t ( t y n e . r 6 a d g . e) 19s. 6d.-Barley, Bs. Od.-Oath Ltsasaan-Wheat, -a. to 13s. 6d.-Baxley, 6s. 6d.--Oats. C 4 ' to Us. 6d. Bonnum-Wheat (average) 215.-Barley, 10s. Od.- Oats, 73 ed• HELSTON-Wheat, 20s. Od.-Barley, lOs Od. ST. CoLuma-Wheat, 20s. to 215.-Barley, 9s. to 105.--Be4 and Mutton, 5-Id. to 6d.-Veal, Od.-Lamb, Od. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cw, t ' Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redru th last Thurday 2,913 Average Produce re.~.~ovve•••••••••••••••••••••••••••w• 8% tl Quantity of fine . 243 ,Iu Amount of Sale, 18,323/. 7s. 6d.—Average Standard, 1091. 9s. uu• MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, JAN. 21. M. Last and W. Casey, silk-merchant,, Great Winches. ter-street D. Hamilton, tailor, Nicholas-lane, Lombard-street I 11. AVidowfield, chymist, Park-place, Kennington cr o ss 1 ' t H. Davis, cabinet-manufacturer, Carmarthen 1 DIVIDENDS. N. ll' M. A. De Freitas and A. Da Costa, merchants, Tokenhouse yard at l c G. Gray, corn-dealer, Great Portland-street W. Thompson, wine -merchant, Upper Thames-street... ......... BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., at Exmouth, the lady of Lieut. Forreste r ' R.N., of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Chiddingfold, the lady of Thos. Eaton' Swettenhara, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst , at Sutton Mandeville, Wilts, the lady f 0 • the Rev. Wadham Knatchbull, of a son. At his house in Stephen's-green, the lady of George HO . ban, Esq., of a son. In Lower Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, the lady of Robt. DO' Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. In Merrion.square, Dublin, the lady of St. John Blacker, Esq., of a son. On the 4th inst., at Monally-house, Carrickmacross, the le d / of Thomas WE. Gartland, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at Bath, J. A. Roebuck, Esq., M.P., of the Inner Temple, to Henrietta, eldest daughter of the Rev. p r. Falconer, of Bath. On the 18th inst., at St. Paul's, Hammersmith, Mr. Rober C Steele, to Miss Sidney Morris, of Theresa-terrace. On the 18th inst., W. H. Lord, Esq., of the Old Jewry, t ° Sophia, fifth daughter of Thomas Browning, Esq., of Hadlel. On the 16th inst., at Abingdon, Cambridgeshire, the Re p ' John Benward Travers, A. 8., of Christ College, Cambridge, t° Caroline, third daughter of Charles Mortlock, Esq., of Abink don-park, in the same county. On the 11th inst., Mr. Francis Lindsay, Derryboy, to MO Mary Osborne, second daughter of Thomas Osborne, DO Ballymacreely, Killinchy. At Clonmel, P. Quin, Esq., to Johanna, daughter of Thou's. Stokes, Esq. On the 16th inst., at Blackburn, Mr. Joseph Fish, to Igis 9 Mary Parkinson, both of that town. On the 15th inst., at Rothwell, near Leeds, Mr. TholU 3S , Teulon, of Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Ann, youngest daughter et the late Mr. Thomas Swale, of Rufforth. _ _ On the Bth inst., at Tankersley Church, Jos. Campsall, Esq. , Chapeltown, near Sheffield, surgeon, to Ann, daughter of the Rev. John Sanderson, of the Rectory House, Tankersley, near Barnsley. On the Ist inst., at Matlock Church, Peter Walthali, Es 4• Esq., of Dale Cottage, Matlock. Royal Cornish Miners Militia, to Margaret, second daughter of ey he the late J. Carveth, Esq., of St. Austell, Cornwall. of Bromley, l)On aLastrtleDtkah both ie aotf inst.,t FP On the 6th inst., at Madron, Mr. John Phillips, to Mii 4 Susan, youngest daughter of the late Mr. W. Smetheram, of Crowan, to Mr. Wm. Harvel , innkeeper, Marazion. n a z it oa a n r u S y ct : he .. , e Austell,dest daughter Lieut. C o . f C. Price, c H e Harvard. atr:: DIED. On the 12th inst., aged 70, Mr. John Gravett, of Windmill' street, Finsbury-square. On the 16th inst., in Harley.street, aged 81, Ann Blagrove , the relict of John Blagrove, Esq., late of the Island of Jamaica, of Ankerwyke-house, Bucks, and of Great Abshott, Hants. On the 19th ult., at Philadelphia, Mr. Robt. Phillips, aged 46. On the 15th inst., at Moor-hall, near Ormskirk, Leices" ter, Esq. At Castle Island, Cork, Richard Mason, Esq. At the College House, Galway, the Rev. Michael Love. lock, R.C.C. On the 16th inst., at Norton-hall, Devonshire, Eliza, eldest daughter of Samuel Shore, Es q. On the 14th inst., at Aifreton, Mr. Samuel Buxton, at the advanced age of 83 years. B r a th i I s f t o h r e d L 0 , D n e d r o b n y s R h o i r a e zi On the 13th inst., a ge d 65, Henry Bowyer, Esq., surgeon, Mr. John Robotham, late landl9rd o f the Rose and Cro wn public-house, Derby. On the sth in s t ., at St. Mary's WI . Parsonage, in her 32d ' Sarah, second daughter of the Rev. Edward Burn, Minister of St. Mary's, Birmingham. On the sth inst., in her 75th year, Susannah, wife of pir• Linwood, of St. Paul's-square, Birmingham. On the 7th inst., in Birmingham, Mr. John Pate, aged 6 0, for many years Guard to the London and Holyhead mail. Onshe 22d ult., aged 93, Mr. William Millington, of North. wood-street, Birmingham. On the 6th inst., John Robinson, Esq., of Holly Hall, neA r Dudley. On the 2d inst., aged 79, Mr. William James, who for sever years past kept the Helston Arms Inn, in that town. Among st those who attended his funeral were the following six, wbol. united ages amounted to 506 years :—Peter Martin, in, an d Bina, his wife, 89; Mrs. Hill, 84; Mr. James, brother of th e deceased, 82.; 'qrs. James, 77, and John Bishop, 77. PRINTED AND PERU:MED BY MURDO YOUNG,AT TH. Sus OFrIcE, 112, STRAND,