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templated msaing his future friends 'anti asso ciates. The surprise of all was therefore ex treme, when at a council held shortly after, the proposition was .for the first time submitted that Mr. Peel should be elected to the chair of the loyal Society. The coldness with which it was received ought to have convinced those with with whom it originated, that ultimate success was not to be hopett'for ; but all wanted manli•- ness to disclose to Mr. 'Net the disappointment that :awaited him and them. Mr.- Peel having taken the very high ground that he did, of course withdrew immediately on learning that any oppo sition existed to his nomination. As• soon as this was ascertained, a deputation of the members waited on Mr. Davies Gilbert, to express the unanimous wish for his election as President ; and that gentleman having signified his consent, his election, as we stated above, may be considered as certain.—lbid. Our readers will have seen, from the French papers, that Ferdinand is about to establish a Council of Commerce." This is one of the hum bugs had recourse to by all Governments ; they must be meddling with commerce, as if commerce could not take care of itself—as if, as long as people eat, drink, clothe, lodge, travel about, and will have entertainments, there should not be commerce. But to let human nature alone, in commerce, does not suit Kings or Ministers— they must for ever be stepping in to help com merce. If Ferdinand would imitate England, and have no such system as that of passports, and would let merchants and wholesale and retail dealers set up concerns in cities, and towns, and villages, where they pleased, without molestation, commerce would, in Spain, soon show that all it wanted was freedom to stir in its own way. As for Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce, or Councils of Commerce, they are totally use less things, and ought all to be abolished in all .Countries. They are, indeed, worse than use less, for they only cause people to be taxed to pay the salaries: of Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Cisrks, &c. The only possible use of Boards of Trade is, to labour to get rid of all the laws made for " the protection 'and encouragement of trade." When a Board of Trade has got -id of such laws, if there be any, then the Presidents may relinquish their salaries, turn off the clerks, and sell the offices to the best bidder. This is what we would recommend to be done with our Board of Trade, as soon as all our Acts of Parliament made for " the protection or encouragement of trade" are got rid of. But we would not have our Board of Trade stop at this, —but we would recommend it to procure the repeal of all Acts of Parliament made in favour of the City of London, and all other corporate bodies, that any Christian, Jew, Turk, or Gentile, of any description, might set up in the City of London, or other corporate cities or towns, as shopkeepers or traders, in any way they might think proper, without taking out what is called their -freedom, or paying one -farthing for any privilegeS. To do these things are all that Boards of Trade are fit for. Now, if Mr. Huskisson and Mr. Grant will do this, namely, make an end of all corporation privileges, and put an end to all cts of Parliament made for the encouragement of traders,—we will, shonld we live longer than them, subscribe towards any monument . that - the tvisdom of an after-age might think proper to set op to their memory. We hope they will begin with the City of London Corporation the first, for that is the most absurd of all the - Corporations.— rning Herald. The public may judge of the straits to which the advocates of Administration are driven, by •1, )3. the nature of their attempts,to vindicate the jus tice of the Treaty of the 6th of July. To follow them through all their absurdities would be im possible ; we must be content therefore to select for the amusement of our readers one or two of the richest specimens. " England," says one of the most acute and intelligent.of their number, " has recently acknowledged the independence of the revolted colonies of Spain ; .and France, at a period more remote,• acknowledged the inde pendence of the English colonies in North Ame rica ; therefore, those two Powers were precluded from interdicting to the Russian Government the employment of its forces in behalf of the revolted Greeks, and were compelled to unite with Russia, since they- could not reasonably resist her will." Here we have a cluster of absurdities which our limits will scarcely permit us to enumerate—to argue upon them would plainly be a work of supererogation. England acknowledged the in dependence of some of . the South American States, after cautiously ascertaining two facts with respect to them ; ,first, that they. had substantially achieved their independence, there being no longer within their boun daries any Spanish force whatever ; and, secondly, that they, had established Govern ments of _their awn, capable of forming poli tical relaootis with other nations. Had Rus sia, when she threatened England and .France that she, would interfere alone, pursued a similar course of inquiry with respect to Greece, and arrived at similar results ? France again, it is true, recognized the independence of the United States ; but did she so recognize them under the pretence of friendship to England, or as a mea sure of hostility to that power, with which, for objects and upon a system of policy exclusively French, she was already at open war ? Is there any similarity here ? Were either England, Rus sia, or France, at war with Turkey oil- the 6th of-Jely of the present year, or had any one of them even a plausible ground of hostility to that power? . A. cause must indeed be bad when its most ingenious advocates . , anxious to produce parallel eases in its :vindication, can only find such u pon the slightest inspection, turn out to be its very contrasts. Having thus glanced at the ineffective, and indeed ridiculous labours of the best class of the advocates of Administration upon this great and important question, we now if possible, less effective, and torn to the still, certainly more ridiculous labours of a class im measurably inferior to them. The latter seem to think that they do all which the defence of their patroos requires, if they can fix upon us, who Impugn their unjust and impolitic measures, the charge of inconsistency ; and accordingly they load column afler column, with garbled extracts from articles written and published by us, during that lengthened period when the contest between Turkey and Greece involved no other considerations than those of the rights, interests, and conduct of the two parties immediately en gaged in it, and when we gave our sincere and zealou s support to the cause of the latter. '1 he logic of these reasoners is Certainly admirable ;1 and,if 'Pro ceded from' any • quarter whence honour eouldl;i 'derived, would exalt Very con eiderabli our ems of our own importance in the political world. runs thus :—The Morning Post formerly independence ; a t l a a v it ate i d the cause of G reci a n ou rnal, because it n 4 a most inconsis t e nt J extinguishes th.e reprobates a Treat y ,bi..l) that the : - • Bence of Greece can ever be accomplished ; which will leave her, should it ever take effect, subject to the power of two hostile and conflic tincr ma sters—which changes her condition no further than to make her at once a tributary of Turkey, and a protege of Russia. The Morn. , ing Post is further most inconsistent, because it formerly lamented and stigmatised the cruelties committed by the Turks, and it now deplores and denounces the base injustice and the flagrant atrocities committed upon those same Turks bY the English Government, acting in defiance of all its former professions, and in opposition to 'its former judicious and systematic policy ; in abject submission to the dictation of Russia. Thus it is that our inconsistency is conclusively proved, in the judgment of those judicious ad vocates of Administration, who forthwith set up a shout of triumph, as if they had been defending most successfully the conduct of Government.— We have no desire to retort upon our unprin cipled and degraded antagonists (however ample our means), sunk as they already are almost beneath contempt. It is for no such purpose that we' now allude to some of the daily incon sistencies of the pretended advocates of Admi nistration, but for the higher purpose of pointing out . the proofs and illustrations they afford of the disjointed and unnatural condition of our foreign relations. Ihe supporters of Administration are of course in raptures with the Treaty of Intervention . , and with all the measures which have been, or are yet to be taken in pursuance of its objects. The Go vernment of Russia, which dictated it, and the actual Ministers of France, who consented to share with our own , motley Administration the ignominy of submission to the Imperial mandate, would not surely. then be the objects of jealousy or hatred to those supporters of the British Admi nistration, who so highly admire and applaud the Treaty; if the latter were consistent. Perfect con fidence in the 'treaty does, we own, appeal- to us to be incompatible with jealousy and hatred to wards its pr:ncipal authors ? Yet we find the Ministerial Journals loud in their expressions of exultation upon the progress of the French Elec tions, simply because it has been such as promises the speedy overthrow of the present Administra tion of France ; and equally loud in their ex pressions of sorrow and alarm, because the power of Russia is about to be increased by the acqui sition of certain provinces now belonging to Persia.—Morning Post. • The followiig account has been given of proceedings at Bow-street on Tuesday last BOW-STREET.—A gentleman named Walsh, who stated himself to be one of the churchwardens of Camber well parish, applied to Sir RICHARD BIRNIE yesterday, re lative to the charges demanded by police-officers for their time and assistance. The applicant stated that the parish of Camberwell usually applied to the public-office at Union-hall when in want of the services of the civil power. On such occa sions the Magistrates very readily afforded the required aid but the parish had to pay rather dearly for it, as the offi cers charged 11s. a-day for attendance: On the occasion of Peckham fair, the applicant said it was deemed advis able to apply for a strong body of police, as serious riots were apprehended. An application was accordingly for warded to the Secretary of State, and a detachment of the Bow-street patrol, under the direction of two inspectors, was ordered to attend to the neighbourhood of Peckham, for the purpose of quelling any disturbance that might arise. When their attendance was no longer required, the inspectors were desired to furnish a bill of the expellees in curred, as was usual in such cases. A bill was accordingly made out, in which there appeared a charge of only 3s. 6d. a day for each man, exclusive, however, of the two in spectors, who contended • that they ought not to be placed upon a footing with the common men. Now the applicant said, he could see no reason why the officers of Union-ball should charge ,143. a day for their attendance, while the patrol of Bow-street were content with a much smaller allowance; and be wished to be informed if the pay of police-officers continued while performing duty of this de scription, as that might account perhaps for the charge of the Union-hall officers,although in that case the Bow-street patrol would be very inadequately paid if 3s. 6d. a day was meant to recompense them. Sir RJICHARD Thrum said, that the fact .of. the-officer. at Union-hall charging 14s.' a day for their attendance. might very easily be accounted for. There were only eight principal officers attached to the several po lic e offic e s, and i the magistrates not having any other disposable force at their. command, had only those eight officers to send tin.- ward in case of emergency, and they being principal offi cers, charged for their attendance accordingly. There was always a body of men, however, at the service of the pub lic,—he meant the Bow-street patrol,—whose assistance might be procured at 3s. 6d. a,day. Mr. Walsh—ls that allowance meant to be in lieu of their Government pay ? Sir Ricnaltn BotNIE—No. Their pay goes on as usual. Mr. Walsh—That being the case, I think the officers at Union-hall were somewhat exorbitant in charging Its. a-day. Sir ItrettAsan Btalstit—The difference of commodities, you know, makes a difference in price. I can tell you, that there is not one of the principal officers attached to this eatablislimint who %void , : have served you for less than a guinea a-day, besides charging at least 14,5. a-day for ex penses, so that as the whole you may consider yourself toles ably well off. Mr. Walsh—l am infoinnefl that the Bow-street patrol have only 255. a-week. Sir R. BuoriE—Our principal officers have no more, but it may be considered in the light of a retaining fee ; they are not, of course, depending upon that allowance.— Some people (continued Sir R. Birnie) are for paying officers toe high, and others too low. I remember an old gentleman, and you may remember him also, Mr. Walsh— I mean Mr. Coutts, the banker,—who once applied to me for an officer to protect his grand-children on the occasion of their being presented at Court. I sent him an officer, and he paid him for his trouble according to the regular rate of payment ; hut, not content with that the old gen tleman called upon me in a day or two after, to consult with me as to the amount of remuneration he ought to give the officer over and above his regular allowance. I told him that it was quite unnecessary to think of such a thing, as the man himself considered he was sufficiently paid already. But no, Mr. Coutts would have it that he was his debtor, and he actually named 201. as the stun which he intended to give him. I had great difficnity (added Sir Richard) to induce Mr. Coutts to reduce this sum to 101., which lie paid into the bands of the officer himself; who, as you may guess, was agreeably surpri.skal with such a pre sent for an attendance for a few hours only. Mr. Walsh soon after retired, Sir Ilicuann Bta.,wiE as suring him that he might always have the assistance of the Bow-street patrol on the terms mentioned There are several particulars in the above ac e.unt, which call for observation. It is proper that officers should be fairly remunerated for their services, and that cleverness and expe rience in the Police should obtain their due re ward. We quarrel not with the amount of the reward, but with the mode in which it is obtained. In order to call forth talent in a police officer (and he ought to have a good head as well as a vigorous frame), he should have be fore hint the prospect of advancement, bringing with it corresponding emolument. Every well organized body should be a sort of hierarchy in its way, and thus the diligence of the members would be constantly stimulated by the hope of advancement.' The eight principal officers at the disposal of the Magistrates may not receive more for their services from those who have recourse to them, than may amount to a fair requital for the service of men who have approved them selves valuable servants of the public in repeated conjunctures of difficulty and danger. But what we complain of is, that the mode of pay ment is unjust towards individuals, and, more over, highly impolitic, as it gives the officers a distinct interest in the prevalence of crime. In civil cases it may be proper to allow individuals to be at the expense of przsecuting their claims. The disp u t es b e tween individuals .are seldom of public concernment, and the determination on the part of the one td waive his claim affects only himself and his opponent. But in the Of crimes it is very different. • The individual, whs.) has been robbed or defrauded, figs i n interest in the recovery of his property, but the public have also an interest in the discovery and punishment of the criminal. The spoil which the criminal has obtained stimulates him to farther activity,• supplies him with the means of continuing his predatory operations; and of providing himself' with the means for continuing them with - afore mischievous effect. Now, the system of throw ing the reward of the officers on the sufferers, must have the effect of throwing formidable ob stacles in the way of the discovery of ordinary thefts and frauds. No prudent man v - culd think of attempting the recovery of property at an ex pence which 'would exceed its value. We know instances of persons who had recourse to officers for the-recovery of stolen goods, and on obtain ing them, found themselves in debt to the offi cers for a sum far exceeding the value of the property. As • a matter of business, therefore, except the property be of considerable value, it is absurd to attempt its recovery through the medium of an officer. But this impunity adds of course greatly to the fund for the support of thieves, and, as Mr. 'Malthus would say, where the means of subsistence for thieves exist, a cor responding population of thieves will be formed. It is the interest of the officer that the thefts should not only he abundant, but of magnitude, because he will be frequently in demand, and the larger the spoil the more can be afforded for his services. Were he to volunteer his services, he would not of course be employed, and it is there fore his interest to encourage rather than repress crime—to see nothing which he is not paid to see, that individuals may not hang back under the idea that the zeal of the police may lead them to exert themselves without being feed. The old Jonathan Wilde system had some ad vantages over thepresent. The system fed only the thieves and the receivers; the present system feeds the thieves, receivers, and the Police. Jonathan Wilde took care, as well as the Police, to pro portion the number of his thieves to the field for their activity, by sacrificing a few of them occasionally to justice. • The public had thin benefit from it, that they never paid Jona than more for their goods than the worth of them ; whereas the bill of the officer fre quently exceeds the value of the stolen property. Jonathan, too, was paid only, for the_ goods he restored ; the officer, on the contrary, makes his charge whether he succeed or not. In short, the modern English Police system seems an in genious device for doubling the spoil, by adding the spoil of the Police to the spoil of the thieves. In fact, the whole English System of Police is so abominable, that individuals seem more and more desirous of flying for refuge from the Police to the thieves themselves. The sys tem of compromise is more and more resorted to, as the least of two evils. In another part of our Paper will be found an account of .what may be deemed all illustration of what we have been ad vancing. Notes to the value of 20,0001. having been stolen from a Provincial Bank, it was deemed expedient, under all circumstances, to negociate for their recovery, and they have been, it seems, recovered. We have heard that Bankers complain bitterly of the expense of the Police ; and, perhaps, even in matters of such magnitude as losses of parcels of 20,0001, value, it may he hardly less economical to pay tithe to the thief] than to pay it to the thief-takers. But in the case of Bankers there is another strong ground for negociation. It is impossible for the public to bear constantly in their memories' a large list of notes of which the circulalionizas been stopped ; and, in order to make sure of escaping loss, and avoiding trouble and suspi cion, theyxet y. prudently refuse to take _any notes of the Bank which --attempts to' dis cover the theft through such means. We know' thatCountryßankers, who have forgeries on them, ' generally endeavour to conceal their misfortun e because the effect of publishing it would injure the circulation of their notes ; prudent people, in such cases, generally sparing themselves the trouble of deciding between the good and the forged, by cutting the Gordon knot as the Rev. Mr. Brooksby, of Essex, phrases it, and taking neither. This precaution is not confined to the illiterate ; for we have known Country Bankers themselves save themselves the trouble of discri mination, by consulting merely their list of Banks with forgeries on them, and reject the notes accordingly. Thus Bankers are, in a great measure, completely at the mercy of the thieves ; and if they wish to keep their shop open, they have only the alternative of allowing the stolen notes to circulate, which would be a total loss, or compromising with the , thieves. There is another particular in Sir Richard's ; statement deserving of remark, namely, the power which individuals have of employing officers, in the way the late Mr. Coutts did. It is proper that - the King and Royal Family,. Great Officers of State, &c:, should on public occasions, have the civil and military protection which may be requisite. But private individuals have no right to servants of the public. The officers are appointed to attend oit them are with drawn from the public. If a rich man wishes to have more protection than others, when he appears abroad on public occasions, he ought to engage servants properly qualified for affording him- that protection. But he has no right to avail himself of the services of a man paid by the public, and a public officer has no right to offer him his services. In point of principle, it would not be more absurd were the Lord Chief Jus tice of the King's Bench, instead of deciding the causes in his Court, to himselflend h t t o ei, in dividuals in the c haracter of 3:lr who to wanteofeprereev,entltian is for Police-officers to allow them selve s to be at the t (I f o i s r p the ossl discoveryo f rich i n of crime, d i vi d 0 me ditated crime, but as a peculiar protection. Th e English are, in the conducting. their business, a sensible reflecting people, and in the unprotected state in which they are left, they feel that they must extricate themselves from their difficulties in the best way they can. In other countries, individuals expect that they should be protected by those who wield the resources of the public ; but in England it is expected that the protection of the public should devolve on individuals. The man who has been stript of his property by thieves, through the e ant of adequate protection, is expected to incur another loss for the public good. Thus, to recover his property he must not compromise with the thieves ; but he mnst i be content to lose his property and pay police officers into the bargain. Individuals in Eng land display good sense in the management of their business? but how is it that there is so li tt l e wisdom displ a y e d i n the management of public t b h e e n e b fi e t n , e a fi n t d o l )1 a p b ic b e --Little wisdom ? No such thing. Pr a te aff in a t i l r i s viduals manage t h e i r ow n aff a i r s for their emna.naghe iis public h e same affairs princip le-- individuals taking care of them- selves. To the police officer the object is not the public advantage, but his own ; and it would be about as abitird- to exPeet :hint voluntarily to re nounce his. advantage - for the sake of the public, as 'it would be to expect 'that. the Hierarchy of Ireland 'should, for the sake of religion, recom mend a return to the system of the Primitive Church.----Morning Chronicle. The Royal Society will be called on to elect their President to-morrow. How the votes may incline we have no means of ascertaining. Two persons of the highest respectability in point of character have been named—Mr. Davies Gilbert, the pro tenipore President, and Mr. Peel. The latter gentleman was stated in one of our con temporaries, a day or two ago, to have expressed a wish that he should not be nominated, his name, however, still continues, if we may use the expression, on the list, and therefore it is fair to presume that the statement was unauthorized. It is evident that •in choosing between Mr. Gilbert and Mr. Peel, if the choice must lie between them, it will be of some importance for the Fellows to consider the purpose for which the eleCtion is made, and' the qualifications which a President is required to possess. Both the gen tlemen mentioned may be perfectly fitted for the office,. according to the particular light in which it is viewed. If of a President it be required that in his own person he-shall be a regular con tributor to the Society's transactions, a collaborator with the Fellows in pushing for ward the machine of general science, we should very much doubt whether Mr. Peel's education had been precisely such as to fit him for the Presidentship. Mr. Peel is a perfect gentleman : his talents rank de servedly high, and he is a liberal patron of merit, with which his appointment to the Presi dentship would naturally bring him more in con tact ; but we have never heard him mentioned except as a Statesman and a general scholar ; nor are we aware that it has been asserted that his acquaintance with the exact sciences, or ,with those departments of knowledge which are, by a somewhat lax interpretation of the words, called sciences, is remarkably extensive. - Of the scien tific knowledge of Mr. D. Gilbert there is nei ther doubt nor question. If, therefore, in a Pre sident„the Royal Society ask for one who is not merely to sae that the regulations of the Society are duly observed—who is not merely skilled to distribute its learned patronage with impartiality, but who shall be capable of stimulating its mem bers to exertion by his example as well as ex hortation—then, of course, Mr. Gilbert will be chosen. If, on the contrary, the principal ob ject of the Society be to select a President who shall also be the patron of their labours—whose ample fortune shall be employed not only in their direct promotion, but in bringing the Fel lows into more familiar contact with the commu nity which it is their object to ,enlighten— Mr. Gilbert, from his • studious and re tired habits, will not, we are afraid, an swer their purpose. Neither of the candidates, whom, perhaps, with very little attention to their Own desires, the public have set up, appears to possess both requisites, nor do we see any very great chance of finding one who shall. It is evident, then, that the determination of the So ciety will, in a great measure, depend on the question—whether he who limit's his endeavours to elicit and to 'nourish the talents of others, or he who contents himself with the cultivation of his own, contributes most to the general stock. In the latter case, knowledge both extensive and multifarious iiesseOtial ; iii the former, less ex tent and less variety :may quilice. -Something has bee -said about the supposed triumph that Mr. Peel's elevation to the Chair will give to the politics-of a party with which, be it observed, he has most sedulously 'abstained from identify 7 ing We entertain no fears of, that •We Shall never entertain so low an . opinion of that Right Hon:Gentleman, as to suppose that the friends of sc i ence could find in his character nothing more worthy their approbation than the peculiariti es .political, we insult the members of 018' SOciety so far as to suppose them capable of being for a moment biassed by so petty a consideration.---,Netv Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—The Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR haring to attend at Vintners'-hall, of which Com pany he is a member, Mr. Alderman 'ENABLES sat for him. John Wright was charged by William Unmoral) with driving away his horses and cart from Dowgate-hill to Bow lane, and subsequently demanding and receiving payrnent for the same. • The complainant fairly stated that he thought the pri soner was drunk, or lie would not so have committed himself. The ALDERMAN thought he recollected the honest face of the complainant, and fined the " looker-out for a job" ss. for being drunk. One of the children of Israel, named Raphael Romanel, was heard upon a summons granted against Mr. Edward Alford, an upholsterer, in Bishopsgate-street. Rapbael stated, that about a week since, he had made a bargain, by way of barter, with Mr. Alford, whose porter took home the goods ; but, as instructed, refused to leave them without payment of a balance of some 4!. Raphael selected certain goods which he wished to retain, and to pay ss. as a balance. One of the porters sent ap plied to his master to know what course he was to pursue ; the master returned with him, and, as Raphael stated, broke open his street-door, and took away by his servants his property—clearing away the complainant, his aged father, his female servant, and knocking him all but down, he fell. The case was supported by an elderly " good woman," who declared, that she was not a Jewess, but a West country woman ; and had it not been for her superior strength (although decrepit) she herself would have been injured; but her master was assaulted,—struck,--and she did her best. Other witnesses were called ; and the de fendant also called witnesses with a view to show that a trick was intended to be played off. Under all the circumstances, the ALDERMAN ordered Mr. Alford to enter into his own recognizance in 501. to ap pear at the Sessions, and recommended Raphael to abstain in future from attempting to play off little petty tricks. Thomas and Alice Richards, husband and wife, were summoned to answer Mr. Fairclougli, who gave his address in St. Mary Axe, and stated that he was a merchant's clerk. He complained that a house-keeper of his, Maria Eames, departed this life on Tuesday, in the last week ; that on Thursday the defendants went to his house, rum maged every room, packed up whatever they thought pro per to say belonged to the deceased, and placed them in trunks upon her coffin ; that on a subsequent day they again went and took them away, although he had given strict orders to the nurse not to allow auy thing to he taken out of the house. A constable was sent for, but he was got rid of, by being told that it was only a distress fur rent, and he refused to interfere. To the deceased he had acted with the greatest kindness —he had supported her during her illness, paid nurses and doctors to attend her, and all the difference between himself and the defendants was, who should bury her. The defendant, Mr. Richards, stated, that be would act fairly with the worthy Alderman. The dec ea sed was his wife's awn she awnsihstaedr ; b ee s'e : very lid and her mother had even been obliged to part with their own ' goods for the support o f th e deceased • that after h er d ea th had been a tt e nded, and hi s wife se duced by the com plainant,ee they.had asked the c om pl a inant to bury her, and that he replySo .help me God, I have don e enough; and if you choose t o b ur y her, I will apply to the parish." do said, not f have, added the defendant, even pawned my Bible to sup port the deceased, and, I may say, the complainant. The mother of the deceased and a brother were present, ind it appeared that they had been in the habit of 'visiting the deceased While living with the complainant, Who is married man, and has been at the office before, charging his wife. The ALDERMAN ordered the defendants to give an in ventory of the articles taken to the complainant, and if he fottnd that any of them were his property, he had his re remedy. They certainly had acted improperly. BOW-STREET.—Harry Prendergast, who has long been known to the police as a crack bnzzman, that is, a thief of the first order, and an elderly, respectable, ma tronly-looking female, who gave the name of Jane Wil liams, were brought in custody to this office yesterday, charged with having robbed an old lady on the 3d of April last, in Piccadilly, of a purse containing seven sovereigns, three half sovereigns, and some silver. The male prisoner, who, from his size, goes by the name of the Elephant, was fashionably dressed, and when brought before the Magistrate he feigned the greatest surprise, exclaiming, " Well ! I de clare this is a pretty piece of business. I should be glad to know why lam brought here. Pretty work, truly, if a person cannot walk the streets without being pounced upon by you gentlemen of the police!" " What is the matter," said Mr. HALLS, who was evi dently deceived by the appearance of the prisoners ; "who are these persons, and what are they charged with ?" " They are both notorious thieves, your worship," said Alderson, the officer who took them into custody. " I have been looking for the male prisoner these seven months, but could meet with him nowhere." He then stated the particular fact with which they were both charged, when it appeared, that in April last an old lady was hustled in Piccadilly by the Elephant and another of his associates, a great crowd being passing at the time ; and while she re tired for a moment to the hall of a house, the door of which happened to be open, she was followed by the female pri soner, who very kindly offered her assistance, in rendering which she contrived to steal the purse containing the sum we have mentioned, with which she made a precipitate re treat. These facts, together with a minute description of the prisoners, being communicated to Alderson, his suspi cions immediately fell upon the prisoners, but he could not meet with either of them until yesterday, when he took them both into custody in the Strand, where they were evi dently on the look-out for customers. " I assure you it is all a mistake, Sir," said Prender gast, when he and his accomplices were ordered to take their stations at the bar, " we are not the persons alluded to at all." " Do you know any thing of this man, Ford ?" said Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, addressing the gaoler. " Yes, your Worship," said Ford, " lie is a notorious thief: we have had him here before." " No such thing, I assure you, Sir Picharti," said the Elephant, with the most undisturbed countenance. "Do you know the prisoners, Gardiner ?" asked Sir RICUARD BIRNIE, addressing another officer. " Oh, yes, your Worship, I know them well," replied Gardiner, " Prendergast is a regular ' out and outer,' and the old lady works with him." " The last place where I saw Prendergast," said Alder son, " was at Ascot Races, and I was going to take him into custody then, but was obliged to attend to another charge." " What brought you to Ascot, Mr. Prendergast," asked Sir R. BIRNIE ? " I was there for a week, your Worship, with a cousin of mine," said the Elephant. " Your officers have fre quently seen me since, and if I was really ' wanted,' I dare say they would have had me up long ago. I think it a very hard case to be brought here on a charge of which I am perfectly innocent." Mr. HALLS—Take the evidence of Alderson, and let the prisoners be remanded until the old lady who was robbed can come forward to identify them. You are well known, Mr. Prendergast, and this is not the first time you have stood where you now are. " But I assure your Worship," said the Elephant, with an air of the greatest apparent sincerity, " I have quite reformed since that time, and get my living in a different way altogether." " Do you know any thing of the prisoners ?" said Mr. FIALL,, addressing Herring, one of the patrol conductors. " Oh, yes, your Worship," said Herring ; " they are both noted thieves. It was only the day before yesterday I saw them dodging about Temple-bar, ready to take ad vantage of the first favourable turn to carry on their game." " Really, Mr. Herring," said the Elephant, " this is tod bad ; hut as I find none of you will believe my story, I suppose (shrugging his shoulders) I must submit with a good grace." The prisoners were then removed from the bar. The Elephant has been a long time upon the town, and being a person of rather good appearance and address, he contrives to visit the theatres, and other places of public amusement, where he enters into conversation with those whom lie selects as good subjects for robbing, and is sure to come off with a watch, a pocket-book, or some other arti cle of value. His female companion is no less dexterous in ber particular line. She is generally to most crowded part of the metropolis , a nd p b a e rt f° o un f t d he in ga t n h g e of which the Elep r. hantHer leader,i a th p e laliy usua a i r l e always to address lwaysa somet hand to aid and JAEA.6i ue female, whispering in her ear, that a part of her dress is deranged, and offering her services in setting it to rights, in performing which apparently kin .I office, she generally contrives to provide herself with whatever port able property ths lady may have about her. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—The case of the un happy Mrs. Seffert and her husband, that of Miss Emma Carey and her landlady, with the addition of Miss Emma Carey's female domestic, was again yesterday for a short time before the Magistrate. It appeared that the fellow Seffert went the night before to the house in Park-street, where the woman Carey lodges, and in the disguise of a female's dress endeavoured to gain admittance to Carey's apartments, but the landlady recog nizing him refused to let him in : and as he persisted she had him lodged in the watch-house, from which, however, he was bailed put by a Mr. John Pinero, of London-street, Fitzroy-square. Miss Emma Carey, thus disappointed of the worthy Mr. Seffert's society, with the aid of her servant girl, attacked the landlady of the house, and, as the latter described, literally tore the clothes from her back. The watchman stated, that when he deposited Seffert in the watch-house, the latter was dressed in a woman's shawl, cloak, and bonnet. her who as iattended,llaseve ever, aainddthat , if ltusba possible,d attentions to Miss Carey. more The landlady wanted a warrant against Carey and her oor constant M rs t . o Seffert, ser vant, which was immediately granted ; and Seffert, as it continued w as not shown that Ise had committed any assault, was t i r a ea h t is discharged. HATTON-GARDEN.--Mr. Harmer, the solicitor, ap peared yesterday before Mr. ROGIRS, to defend one more of the many prosecutions instituted against Thos. Nicholls, pawnbroker, No. 43, Gray's-inn-lane. Mr. Beetharn, who conducted the prosecntion„said, that Nicholls deserved no indulgence from the magistrates, that he obstinately refused upon all occasions of the present kind to plead guilty, and though repeatedly convicted, he would still set all the decisions of the magistrates at defiance, and appeal from them to the sessions. Mr. Harmer—There seems to have been a systematic arrangement, properly digested and organized previously to the filing of the first information against Mr. Nicholls, and formed for the sole purpose of galling and forcing hi m i n t o a compromise. I know several individuals who are regu larly pensioned upon the fears of men in public business. I complain of the mode of proceeding against thi s i n j ure d individual. He is distracted by informations day after day. Why will not the prosecutor bring them forward in the gross, and all at once, instead of by piecemeal ? Mr. ROGERS---I have nothing to do with the manner in Which they choose to lay their informations. Mr. Beetham—lf Mr. Nicholls will now plead Guilty, which Mr. Harmer should have long since advised him to do, I will give up any further prosecutions, and will under take to' shield him against them for the future. Mr. Nicholls then pleaded Guilty, and was convicted in the penalty of 40s. Mr. Beetham said that the prosecutor would ware all claim to any portion of the penalty, and both parties went, away fully satisfied with each other. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday two men named Abraham and Joseph Lane, brothers, were brought before the Sit ting Magistrates, M. SWABEY and D. KING, Esqre., charged with having kidnapped a fine little boy named John Walsh, seven years of age, the son of decent parents, re siding in Mint -street, Southwark. The prisoners, one of whom is a chimney-sweeper, and the other a shoemaker, were apprehended by Pople and Reed, the officers, at a house in Peckham. The boy, a very intelligent little fellow, attended at the office accompanied by his mother, who seemed overjoyed at having her lost child restored to her. On Friday last, at four o'clock in the afternoon, his mother sent him from home on an errand, and in passing the Town-hall, in the Borough, one of the prisoners (Abraham Lane) came up to him, and having inquired where he was going, he said that if he accompanied him, he would give him a good tea, and it penny in his pocket besides. The child readily complied, tand proceeded with the prisoner down the Kent-road, and ht length, after a tiresome walk, they arrived at a miser able dwelling where the other prisoner was waiting. Tea was made, and the little fellow partook of it and some slices of bread, with a good appetite after his long walk. After the meal was over, he expressed a wish to go home to his irnother, saying that she would be uneasy until his re- hel turn.lvas for The som e p t r i ier smsoen;ansadhwl when nt he e e up stairs: to itifoom, and tirade h ew i r in aies l dt i o remain ie th d e n wcarrn 14: : 1111°1111i bie: straw, with a blanket for a coswing. They then bin sfi j, having locked him in. The'next 'morning he got 'TO had his breakf a st, after which he was locked u p 1 , 06 1 ! same room he had slept in, and kept there con fined ] night, without food, until the prisoners returnedi;ip they gave him something to eat. He was then tre e t os on the previous night, and was confined to the WOO the whole of Sunday. O n M on day morning, he tle iv prisoner Abraham Lan e w a lk e d into the room " was lying on the straw, and having made hint g a le( blackened his face with soot, and then obliged the (child to put on a sweep's garment, with sooty calb 8;e 90 afterwards took him out into the streets of the towafti him bawl out, " Sw ee p, swee p," an d having be e ,: lo gef into the house of one of th e i n h a bit a nts, he Was 1 " one of the chitunies, , the prisoner, Abraham Lane, kft to make him ascend, insisted on the child placing Oi l , on his shoulders. He describel the difficulty he climbing the chimney, to th e t o p o f w hi c h he was o° 4o to go before he was permitted to come down. A fte . r ii•oee ( civet., lie was taken into the streets again, a n d while titer . dog+ went into the house for a short time, leaving him at e AO he took advantage of his absenc e and ran away. Mto it was proceeding along the Kent-road from Peckhani, oh° appeared he was entice ger, d ,usra a Alw : i v b i tr i ab y eanaihmdc b nah y msey a i ecident, et th e i sw m i ssin g aa atimeme s e l t r h a o e r u teh b l y ek o o y op u , fr n i g s c h im, o a d n n o e l fellow was proceeding to drag th i e °ll2Lenadti h :ee i i ld iriu: . :l,: a ha ; ob k : .,'" e. f°yo:ltel‘' bf eeteall'ell ; : uncle, who recognized him, although sooty dress, immediately interfered, and at length ,!. ed in restoring his-little nephew to his mother. av aie o The mother of the boy stated; that her bus ho lying extremely ill at St. Th omas ' s H os Pitel, an"., 4O 'it" complaint was greatly aggrav a ted o wing to the cop stance of their child having been kidnapped away 1 0 3 0 0 The prisoners having expressed a wish to be for a f ew d a y s , th e c as e was postpo ne d at their t;;; 0 0 the Magi s t ra t e o b serve d th a t he should u ltimately them. THE MARKETS. COAL MARL Adair's Heaton ---„ 3B 3 liebburn Slain 37 9 35 6 Killmgworth 31 0 Newburn - 35 3 Ord's Redough 32 6 Pelaw Pontop 3.3 0 WallsEndl3ewielieScCo. 40 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. 37 SI Ditto Carr and 35 0 Ditto Hilda 36 6 Ditto Hotspur-- * 36 0 Ditto Jesmond Ditto Northumberland 36 9 Ditto Perkins and CO. 40 0 Ditto 39 0 Ditto Russell's 41 0 Ditto Walker 39 6 Ditto Henderson.—.. 3l 6 Ships at market, 67 —Sli, COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE ; Wheat. Barley: Oats. Per Quarter. s. t o s. s. to s. •s. to S. Abingdon.----:-.- 54 66 35 42 3.5 4. ‘ Andover-, 56 61 34 39 30 36 Birmingham.„..— 48 62 30 31 24 40 Bridport . 52 56 32 39 26 28 _, Cirencester.-- 49 60 29 36 26 jz,„ Faringdon— 48 51 36 38 2-1 ;":„ Guildford 44 64 36 45 26 3 ; Henley 50 66 32 43 26- 34 Hereford ---- 64 66 46 50 2 Maidenhead 60 68 38 42 28 3 8 Newbury------ 40 66 28 32 20 36 Oakingham 56 60 30 40 28 :36 Reading 50 68 28 35 20 37 Salisbury., Southampton 52 56 37 40 30 '32 Stroud Tewkesbury 54 60 40 42, 33 38 Uxbridge 66 74 SO 31 24 32, Wantage.--....-- 55 70 38 45 30 1.9 Warminster 47 62 32 37 II 54 61 29 34 44 - 32, Worcester---........ 62 64 40 32 'l' CHELTENHAM MARKET Per Bushel, s. d. to a. d. Wheat B 0 801 Beef..., S 0 Beet .. 5 0 5 6 Mutton , 56 , 6 0 Veal 7 9 8 0 Lamb 5 0 S 0 Pork 4/. lOs. to 5/.. per WTI Barley Oats Beans Pease KET.—Nov. 28. Tanfield Townley--......-•••-•-" 7 - 35 9 6 , 6 Willingtou - 55:6 Wylam 9 , Tantiebt Trader..---,'"~ 0 0 Lambton Londoridetry Ser Wylam large splint-.'.39 6 Mlyth Trader 91 6 flannel (per ton)-..."Thr Marquis Main ....•••••"15 11 _,, Hartley Inverkeithing 51 6 Neshani - g. Russell's High 9 Russell's Lyon's----- 41 6 Walls End H e tton, ,, "' 35 6 Ditto Ly0n5......« ,,,,, "'4 1 Ditto Stewart's tips sold, 43.74-- . Unsch l ' INO c.IVN% ._Nov. ; er lb. • .... . . ....... .... LIVERPOOL CORN L'XCHANGE:- ...- , ,l t tr . heat a ° There were a number of Irish cargoes '; eoe Oats fresh up for this day's market, ' and , having.S r i ta try buyers down, and our mille rs purchasing 4,ll.lfc'itt very limited extent, last week , s pr ices were wit supported. Au advance on the p ric e of Oats w as , 0 19 demanded, and in some instances obtained, butt ''e , de : were very light.' Flour and Oa itleal were inand, and 6d. to Is. per sack higher ra tes s ver ' ' Beans remain as per last week, and rather dull of OW . ow. A S. d. s. o, 9 6 " , 7 3 ' s a 7 .• 08 0 0..0 61° S, 6 8 0 .o} . 8 : 01. - 8 3 0 01 4 , 6 i 0 o a 6 of' 3 a 3 00 OP 40 a 4 2 .o 'll I 2 9.a 4 0 0 0 0 p 3 la a 4 ) 0 C 1 0 ) 0 0167 )59 • 2 1 1 2 1 04 ' ' 1 2 1144 0 n 0 r , e s 0 0 s 0 0 O 0 3 0 ° 01 ' 0. ° g ° 11 9,a, 0 0 3P ) ' 0 3 '21 0 ° l ° 0 3° 0 0 0 1 29 0 a Wheat, D E ir n i6t g ti l el is ((r h we , ,iti p i : = olb. -Scotch Canada (free). Foreign cfroe) - Foreign (in Barley, English, per 130Ibs. Irish - Scotch - Foreign Beans, English, per Imp. Oats, English, per Irish Malt, Fine, per Imp. qr. Flour, Amer., duty paid, per sour 6a3 0 0 a 0 01 3 1 a 3 5! 3 1A 3 2 3 1a 3 5 0 0a 70 0 0 0 a 50 0 0 a 34 0 30 0 a 31 I n di a n Corn, white, per qr. of •18011). 30 0 a 32 red 0 a 31 Pease, English white, per Imp. gr. „,14.8 0 53 Re Oatmeal, English, per 2.101b5. 0 0 a 0 Irish Scotcho 0 a 0 0 0 a 0 CORONER'S Tv, --QUEST.----THE SllP.rter" MURDER . IN COLD BATH FIELDS.--"Sle day afternoon an Inquest was held at the fon pliant and Castle, St. Pancras, on the body °lio, unknown female, much advanced in year s ', , e of was found dead in a ditch behind the litlor s Correction, on Monday last. The part— t he Of finding the body have already been heforeeo, public. Mr. E. W. Wright, the parish surgj P who examined the body, said that he foilebidi slight wound over the orbit of .the left eye,.l t he was much blackened, and the cartilages °f the beadle, V i d sc Over nose . severed from the bone, but neither Of or injuries was sufficient to cause death. Nolo marks of violence were visible on any p ar t e ,, thout effect. Il l " d $ body. The whole was very likely to h a Ve• P caused b a fall. In' a nswer to a question tiot been Nv set theweevery or y si nhCoroner,geuiwr inquiry s b, aHutchins,bdut foot t w a i ; ;ry a' , t rile under the direction of the Coroner, r e-11 h do verdict— ,, That the deceased came to lira be', from accidentally falling into the ditch , coming suffocated." ,.........: BIRTHS, Av of Jobs ' On the 28th in s t., at 99, Sloane- s t ree t, the /a-) Constable, Esq., of a daughter. , • ber l On the 27th inst., at Richmond, S u rrey, N rs ' 11° . 1 _...., Smith, of a son MARRIED. On the 22d May, at St. George's Church, M ad , r3 ;3 o ' the Rev. Wm. Roy, senior Chaplain, Lieutenant anfoott tent James Brand, of his Majesty's 16th Regim ent ° 01" to riarriet, eldest daughter of the late Robert PhiPr' Demerara. ~v On the 25th inst., a t St. Ann's, Soho, by th e ;0' iq ll'Clotul, TI - )f Corbetstal , P- tom, aomas Towson, Esq., ot F l44 ' Maria, youngest daughter of the late A. Stannar Ryder's-court, Leicester-square. DIED. ----_—_ 2 On the 26th inst., deeply lamented by h is falr'i/ltile: friends, Mr. J. S. Thornhill, of Fish-street - hill , and Cll streetOthn, Holborn. . i '' roer _t i b ia e - I a 2 w B , th i i n n s G t . , r e a o t f .. s a u p r o r p e l y e . x s l at ct , the joseopor ecsts. t brother-ihen-law, to M.D., formerly of Enfield, Middlesex, aged 51. . , 'kir. On the 22d inst., after a short but severe illness , Atn t.-, Samuel Wils o n, of Alderm an bur wine and spirit ere On the 23d inst. Thom as Rouse, rn Esq., Principal 'Pro Surveyor to the Board of Excise. A B' lo°l ' 0 On n the the 27th 2th inst., irmt. Mary, David the wife 141:ofEB(111.0:j...,. of Chapel-street, Grosvenor-place, aged 73 years. , r tte buildings. A lbion't • . - - On the 28th inst., at the house of her uncle, 1y . .;: e. 0 1. terrace, Canonbury, Miss Elizabeth Ann Blake, a ', Belize, Honduras, in the 16th year of her P itpliiim saunmd_PournFLlGlAsi,tob.yllll. , YOUNG, ai , t '. i . , Vtho•CH 4TY of LPN[ A That hillelein thi p h ti l ul th i lj e a io e n. l e i t thi ers n y i is impartigi ty t this Cotirt--.1 .. inistratior i o f j desperat e G ambi e fi uniary r a i n of u " c e'--for iii, t ' Public En2.,a.m...,- gener a l A tnti . o °. Ataehed td i ( etropolis the %tt,,, . 1 I MPORt . (I,4; t ' of i . :•, 1. II;. ire, IST PL 'A „•7 44 e of Ph Rod sißaatio 2' ci wne r i hk ,, NTE . ' rs Assist: " a gement of E 'lse s oroottestt. With plate*, P 3. PANTE li. • eat t s e •on t Objects:as < are Ni ce , ,anti ranks of anui e t The whhle Planter aim F c 13ecIforti, p `!~liot V io