The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF VIE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We know not precisely what may be the cilise; but there certaiiik never was, within 'our r3collection, any occa'sion in which the periodical statement of the year's and quarter's revenue made so little noise, or excited so little. atten tion, as that of the year and quarter just finished. Perhaps people, being convinced that Ministers cannot make matters better, see no use in open ing their mouths, or charging their pens. The City articles are almost silent on the subject. If it he true—as is however asserted in an evening paper of yesterday, and as we are inclined to think—that the increase in the Customs is owing to the tax upon foreign grain let out of bond,' then witl that measure have exactly hit the mark as a political eipedient - ; it will 'be proved to have nicely answered its purpose, and that pur pose a wise one, by affording relief or aid to two parties most in want of it—the poor of the coun try, and the revenue of the country ; to the 'for mer, by giving them bread to eat, and to the lat ter, by increasing its much-wanted aggregate! We believe, however, that the whole of the duty paid by corn let out of bond did not amount to more than 400,0001. We have said that we are inclined to think that the fact is, at least in part, as stated ; and our reason for so thinking is, that the Excise returns are not very flatter ing. Now, a bare adequacy of the necessaries, or chief necessary, of life, which was provided by the last Corm Bill, is exactly that kind of in ternal consumption' which would not swell the Excise. The Excise mounts up from the little family-comforts of the people, of which, we fear, there has been no great abundance ; but how much . worse would the case have been, if, in ad dition to the restraint upon the middling classes, the lower had - pOsitively wanted bread to eat? The complaints..of absolute distress have ceased; and' the landed interest—a body whose slightest grievance (we mean in the pocket, for political arievances trouble not them) —whose slightest 0 grievance finds ten thousand mouths to blazGn and exaggerate it, have been for a while silent : we presume, therefore, they are as content as they ever are. However, it must be observed, that no foreign grain 'was sent into the market except that which was actually in the country, and un der bond, on the Ist of last July. With re spect to the propriety of admitting foreign corn generally, we must confess, notwithstanding our reverence for the several reports of the Emigra tion Committee, that it does seem to us to be as rational to bring the corn to the people, as to ,send out the people to make corn.—Times. As neither inconsistency, hypocrisy, nor as surance, are necessary accompaniments of all public diuners, we find that a meeting was held at Chester on Tuesday last, simultaneously with a certain feast at Hereford, which we have already noticed. The Hereford dinner called itself by the name of " Pitt," in honour of those political sentiments and doctrines which were the objects of Mr. Pitt's reprobation. The Chester festival was just what it professed to be—a meeting of men known all their' lives to be- Whigs, where none but Whig faces - were seen, Whig toasts drank, and declarations corresponding with those of the men who accomplished the Revolu tion of 1688 were uttered. The course of events and of opinions in this country has gradually tended, since the peace of 1815, to spread over the whole community,- and to nationalize, what had for more than 100 years been the charac teristic of a class, though doubtless the most enlightened and valuable class in the State, — viz. the doctrine that there is no legitiinate government but that which exists for the peo ple. The principle and its opposite have not, it is ,true, within our memory, been il lustrated by any formal domestic conflict be tween the two nrders of English politicians , who held them, but their actual presence, and their adverse bias, ' have been visible in the spirit of their respective partisans. The weapons used have been of English fabric,tliough the scene of combat has been every where but on British soil. The line of demarkation in practical policy was made manifest to all the world, between Mr, Canning, who, in con stitutional (though not the party) sense of the word, was a Whig, and his predecessor, who would have been any thing t!ift suited his inte re.,,c, but who professed to btwnothing. On the only theatre where they were required or enabled ta exhibit broadly their respective creeds,- in re lation to the principles of Government, Lord Londonderry betrayed himself by identifying England with the Holy Alliance, formed for making despotism universal and eternal; Mr. Canning proved his more genuine blood by dis solving all connexion with it. In support of his barbarous seheme of policy, Lot it Londonderry had the. patronage of the Crown and the merce nary tools of place and power ; the heart ,of the country was arrayed againschim, and he knew it. Mr.,Canning's weakness was what had been the strength of hiS unworthy rival ; the oligarchy was against him,—the people, and the King who understood the people of England, were for him. The mixed and amalgamated Cabinet which was framed by his Majesty to repair, so far as possible, the loss of Mr. Canning, has succeeded to his interest in the breasts of both Sovereign and people, and has left thiat old Lon donderry faction—in what state ? Why, naked outeasts,relected,—destitute,—without King to countenanc e them, or people to prop them —without one principle of sound or recognised policy. at home or abroad to appeal to as the touchstone of their fitness for the government of, a ,free nation, or for the confidence of others asp i r i ng to be free. Eldon, Peel, Westmore land, Bathurst. Ask any weaver,*any cow-herd, le om, what he has heard through the whole kingdom, what he has heard of t h ese ine n,---wh kingd at he thinks of theni,whe ther he has learned from others to respect or de spise them,--and, his language , will correspond with that of every well-taught and independent Englishman, who looks attentively at public officers, and calmly measures their pretensions, that in their high rank, and considering the won derful men, and times, and revolutions, with nhich the accident of their being in office had with :Acted their names, but without (and this is the sca fAely credible part of it) having ever for one min et,!. connected them in renown or repu tation, the whole -click who composed the Liver pool Cabinet, and of which the survivors ran away on Mr. Canning accession to the Trea sury, were, and are, beyond comparison, the most contemptible set of beings that ever held the government of a great nation since the lives and characters of' Meetipublic , men were made subjects; of histori ca l record, 'truly it 63n1 of them • at the Whig Fleeting r a ' t ilY Chester, that 6' they loved all that n N e va s old and wrong ; whatever was they hated age right ; they were quite unsuitable to the"a. e tii ? e n . which they lived ; they should have lived tne the Plantagenets ; they were like men walking t about in their sleep at noon -day. Such are materials out of which must spring, apparently, the opposition in Parliament to his Majesty's present Administra tion.—:-/bid. A great commotion is springing up on the new malt duty, now come into operation. It does seem, to us, we confess, most perverse, that Government should direct the manner in which an article shall be manufactured, in order to ex tract the greatest revenue from it. This re duces the most ingenious manufacturer to a level with the most ignorant. The method ought to be, to attend the manufacturer in his progress, suffer him to pursue his own course, and measure the article, for the purpose of revenue, when it is perfected. What right can a Government have to order that the barley shall remain so long in the cistern, so long in the couch, so long on the floor, and, perhaps, even, so, long on the kiln ? This prescribes the manner in which the malt shall be made ; it does not ascertain the quantity produced, which is all that Gov ernmen t h as a right to know. And let it be ob serve d a lso, that if an onerous and fatiguing duty be imposed upon the Excise-officer, the seductions to de cline it, and to enter into a good understanding with the maltster, will but be so much increased. In fine, the quantity of the article manufactured ought, no doubt, to be ascertained—th e m e thod how, should be left to the manufacturer.--Ibid. a _ _ A person keeping in the way of his business a great number of horses, has i lk e which (as those acquainted with the nature of this noble and generally docile animal know they some times do) becomes vicious and unmanageable. To correct this, and to secure those who come in contact with it from danger, he finds himself under the necessity of using such means of co ercion as to his judgment, and those acquainted with like matters, seems best. What the kind, of iron, or addition to the harness, which was adopted for the purpose was, we do not exactly gather from the description ; but it seems it puts the horse to pain when he moves the way indi cating his restive qualities. This we take to be unavoidable ; pain, to a certain degree, being one of the necessary and unavoidable means of taming and bringing into subjection the brute creation. Well, some humane and good dis posed person sees the horse in this unusual si tuation, and deems the method pursued by the owner as an act of cruelty, and takes him before a magistrate, who, as humane as the complain ant, be-t probably a much better Justice than farrier, threatens the owner with the penalties of Mr. Martin's Act, unless the objectionable in strument or part of the harness, is done away with., The owner protests that if he does this he must kill the horse. " Well, kill him you may," says the Justice, "but you must not ma nacle him in this manner." Now this, to us, at least, is new law : •nor can we imagine what upon earth a Magistrate could have to do with the matter. The cruelty, if it be such, to come within the reach of Mr. Martin's Act, must be " wanton," which, surely, this circumstance can not be deemed to be ; and if Magistrates are to take upon themselves to regulate how horses are to be harnessed, or vicious ones to be restrained, they should prove their competency to the task, by first'undergoing the necessary examinations at the Veterinary College. We are quite as •warm friends to humanity; and enemies to cruelty in the abstract, as the Magistrates or Mr. Martin, or any of his followers can be ; but there are matters which laws were never meant to reach : and - which, if they could reach, would render them a plague and nuisance, instead of a benefit to the community. Of this description is the circumstance to which we have alluded ; and if a magistrate has the power to determine how a vicious horse shall be treated, he may next come into our houses and regulate the size of bird cages, and the domestic management of lap-dogs. In matters of this sort a great deal must be left to the good-feelings and common sense of indi viduals, controlled as their conduct necessarily is, by the observation of their neighbours and the public ; but to give Magistrates the power of in terfering in such matters, would, in its very nature, he endless, and its result intolerable ; and the thing may, in the end, be carried so far, that whips and spurs will be annihilated, saddles and bridles pronounced instruments of torture, and when the Zoological Society have esta blished their airy spaces for lions and tigers in Regent's Park, some wiseacre may take it into his head that those over Exeter 'Change should be allowed to go at large. We treat the princi ple with ridicule, as the best way of dealing with it. Nothing defeats nonsense like laughing it out of fashion.—Morning Herald. The testimonies of national gratitude and af fection which have been so profusely showered down upon the illustrious Wellington during his tour in the North of England, giving to his whole journey the appearance of a triumphal progress by a recent Conqueror among a people newly restored by his achievements to happiness and freedom, has excited the silly spleen and wounded the selfish vanity of a faction ever alien to the generous sentiments and insensible to the true glory of their country The organs of this faction reiterate with needless industry the assu rance that the devoted homage of the people of the North of all parties and degrees has been paid E'clusively to the military services of the Noble Duke, and that his political conduct has had no share in procuring for him these unpre cedented honours. The military g lor y of the Duke of Wellington, we admit, has nothing to do with party; it is national property—the pro perty of the whole nation. Far ,from us be the idea of excluding even the Whigs from their fair share in it, although neither we, nor tliey appa rently, can forget how anxiously and sedulously ally strove to • impede the splendid career in which it was won. As a military hero, his Grace stands alone, and personifies the warlike genius and valour of England. The political reputation and services of the Noble Duke on tne other bans.L deservedly high as they stand, do not stand alone, and although they would command the suffrages of the most intelligent' and respectable, as well as the most Mill:10- nm and powerful portion of the commu nity, they would not command the applause either of unprincipled Whigs or • mischiev ous Radicals. But there is still a material question, all allusion to., which the Organs of the Whig Faction are Most careful to avoid. What 114,8 given rise, at this particular moment, to an unprecedented burst of national gratitude and affection, twelve years after the performance .of the last of that splendid succession of achieve ments, which are, if the party will have it so, the only foundation . .. of those sentiments ? What has fanned the dormant embers of national feeling ,into so sodded and so intense a flame ? What but the Conduct. of ;he party itself, which by its leaders in Parliament, and by the congenial aid lof hired mobs, strove to depreciate ' - the man; Iwhom the nation acknowledges with pride, as the 'chief cause and instrument of its salvation ? What but an earnest desire to administer a rebuke to the leading Whigs, and to repel the suspicion that any part,of the people of England, however certain of their opinions may here and there have been adopted, are capable of sympathizing in the slightest degree with their base and un-English feelings ? Who does not perceive that the pro ceedings in the North have nobly vindicated the English people from all participation in the foul mysteries of Whiggery ? With this view of the subject We are satisfied. The puny men who dared to wag their feeble tongues in Parliament in disparagement of Wellington, have had their answer: the desperate men who planted mobs to insult the saviour of Europe in the streets of the British metropolis have received their punishment. This is enough. We desire to push the triumph of our party no further. Nor are we anxious to enquire even whether the people of the North, who have supplied the materials of this triumph, are Whigs or Tories. We are contented to know that they are Englishmen. If indeed they are in any considerable proportion Whigs, we can only acialowledge that they differ in character altogether from any of that na►ne with whom we have hitherto been acquainted ; that they are Whigs, in short, who deserve to be Tories. For they have shewn that they think as much of the interests, and salvation, and glory of England as of their own little party ob jects and feelings.. They have received with, pa triotic acclamations the Hero of England, al though he had been recently calumpiated and denounced by the leaders of their party ; although that Hero is himself a distinguished Tory ; although his business among them was to pay a visit of honour and of friendship to another dis tinguished and vituperated Tory ; although the troops of friends who perpetually surrounded him were altogether Tories ; although the toasts drank at the festive boards which he honoured by his presence were exclusively Tory toasts ; although some of those toasts were in honour of Tory Members of an abdicated Tory Admini stration ; and " last, not least," although neither the existing Administration, popular as it is among the Whigs, because it is polluted by an ad mixture of Whiggery, nor any one of its members, was ever noticed in his presence at all, even as the poor preface to a formal glass. Notwithstand ing all these unpropitious circumstances, the Hero of England was received upon his recent visit to the North with unbounded and universal ac clamations. Every conceivable expression of popular affection, and gratitude, and esteem, were prodigally poured forth by all orders, ranks, and descriptions of the people. Yet all this does not entitle us to contradict the assertion that some of the people, and some even of the Cor porations who united in these general testimonies of regard, are Whigs. Let them be so ; they are, perhaps, a variety of the Whig species which has hitherto escaped detection ; or which is still more probable, they are Whigs of the old stamp, only overpowered and carried along upon this occasion' by the irresistible torrent of Toryism:— Morning Post. In another part of our Paper will be found a comparative statement of the arrivals of Corn in London during the last four years. From the very extensive importations of Foreign Grain which have taken place within the last few months, it may be presumed that this account will not be wholly devoid of interest to many of our readers. If the importations have been un usually large, the quantity of Foreign Corn on which duty has been paid, hat been equally so. From the commencement of the year to the Ist of July it was as follows: '7,071 qrs. Beans 27,907 qrs. Rye Oats 565,894 I Wheat lBO Pease. 10,048 1 ' From that period, the Act of the last Ses sion, which permits corn to be entered at a scale of duty corresponding. with the average prices until May next, came into operation ; and since that time the quantities entered have been— Barley 91,306 qrs. I Rye 2,023 qrs. Beans 35,065 Wheat...... 194,089 Oath 417,279 I Flour 6,848 cwt. Pease - 6,424 Making the total taken for consumption at this port, in the first nine months of the present year, as follows : Barley 91,306 qrs. Rye 9,094 qrs. Beans 62,972 Wheat 194,219 Oats 983,173 I Flour 6,848 cwt. Pease 16,472 With respect to Oats, however, there is this difference, as compared with other grain—that the Act alluded to has had but little share in producing such an excessive importation, as the price on the 15th of May exceeded 305., and, consequently, under the old law of averages, the ports became open until the 15th of August, at a duty of 4d. per quarter only ; and during the 13 weeks upwards of 730,000 quarters had duty paid, making an average of about 56,000 quarters weekly. The duty was then increased to 4s. per quarter, and the quantity entered since has not averaged 6,000 quarters weekly-- thus clearly evincing, beyond the possibility of contradiction, that a fixed duty for any lengthened period must, at all times, tend to encourage importation to a degree be yond measure injurious to the agricultural inte rests of this country. Nor can it be said that the law, as it at present stands, is entirely free from objections, as it confines the Corn that may now be entered, to such as had arrived prior to the Ist July ; and in consequence several par cels that could not reach this country before the time specified, have been re-shipped to Hol land, there to await the final decision of the Government as to the terms on which it is to be admitted after May next ; for merchants choose rather to send their grain to those places where the difference in the warebotse reevnetnwaifltlermtoirlee than compensate them f o r t h e additional expense of freight, than to keep it here with the uneer ttaiminetyfixo e f d fil f ' o d r in t g he a in re a c r o iC n e sider tfor it,i ation of the Corn Question shall have elapsed.—Netv Times. FALLS OF Ni4o4B4,—We laver al rea d y stated, that a brig of 300 tons has been purchased by the tavern-keepers at the Falls, in order to gratify the curio sity of their patrons. She will be decorated in a splendid manner, with all her canvass spread, and piloted by a Fre:-...0--an into the Rapids, above the Horse Shoe. She is to proceed On her voyage the latter week of September, and must appear ploughing thrOugh the roamin g rapids, and descending through the 'stupendous cataract, as magnifi cent a spectacle as ever man beheld. The pilot is prepar: 'ing a balloon, in which he will ascend from off the deck upon the brig's entering the heads of the Rapids.-- Canada Paper. • • A CLASSICAL SON OF CRISFIN.--A Shoe , tna.ker, for the purpose of eclipsing an opponent who lived nppns4e to him, put over his door the well-known !noun of " Arens conscia recti." His advers4ry, to offer a ipore general bajt t o th e pu bli c , pl ac ed a bill in his win dows, with these words—" dens and Womens conscia ;recti." This anecdote brings to our recollection a joke which may have escaped some of our readers, although the witty Joe Miller has recorded it in his laughter-stirring volume. A painter was desired to make a hatchment, on which was the motto " Sic transit gloria mundi." It so happened that he was desired to deliver in his performance o:: a Monday; it was not, however, finished before the succeeding 'day, and, as a proof of his attention and ac curacy, he altered the motto, and delivered the melan choly emblem of death to his customer, with the following alteration, " Sic transit gloria ,Tuesday." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—An inhabitant of Fleur-de-lys-court. Fleet-street, was placed at the bar as a criminal on.the siu gular, charge of having removed the furniture from his house to avoid the payment of taxes. Mr. Marsh, the Ward Beadle of Farringdon Without, and also the collector of the Assessed Taxes for that dis trict, stated that he had frequently applied to Mr. C. for the payment of ball' a year's taxes, which he had suffered to min arrear, without success, and that on Wednesday evening he received private information that it was Mr. CA intention to move away his goods for the purpose of defeating any process which might be put into action to re cover the amount due. He accordingly went to the pre mises early yesterday morning, and found that the greater part of the furniture had been taken away. Mr. C. had removed his few things that his family might not be made perfectly destitute by being left without a bed to lay on. Air. Alderman ANSLEY recommended him to come to some arrangement with the collector, and discharged him, but without making any observation on the decisive measure the tax-gatherer had adopted to secure the payment of his demand. BOW-STREET.— William Valentine Maybury was yesterday placed at the bar, charged by Mr. Warren, the blacking manufacturer, of the Strand, with embezzling various sums of money.—Demanded. _ _ Three young fellows, carpenters, named John Hubbard, John Warder, and Win. Burke, were cha►ged with creat ing a riot in Drury-lane Theatre, during the performance on Wednesday night. The prisoners were in the one shilling gallery on the night in question,' where they were exceedingly noisy and troublesome, interrupting the performance by yelling and shouting, and manifesting every inclination to commence a regular row. Warder declared he was no less a person than Jem Ward, the celebrated boxer ; and ex-champion Burke said he was the pugilist of that name ; and Hubbard, who is somewhat inferior in point of size and strength to his two companions, determined to make up for his apparent deficiency, by announcing that he was one of the light weights of the prize-ring, where his science is well known. The con stables attached to the theatre, on learning the formidable per sons to whom they were about to be opposed, fell back ; but Pace, a Bow-street officer, rushed in upon them, and with the assistance of the constables succeeded, with great difficulty, in seizing the prisoners and removing them from the gal lery. It became necessary, however, to call in the aid of military, in order to escort the prisoners to Bow-street, where the above facts were stated in evidence, and the pri soners were ordered to find bail ; in default of which they were placed in the temporary prison behind the office. On being brought up yesterday to be committed for want of bail, they cut a most lamentable figure, each of them bearing some mark upon his visage of Ford's handy work. They seemed heartily sick of their Tom and Jerry ism, and declared that when they got over the effects of this spree, they would be cautious how they joined in another. HATTON-GARDEN.—James Harris, who was tried at Hertford some time ago, for robbing Lord Cowper's steward, was charged with having, in conjunction with two persons, named Capper and Algar, assaulted Mr. Som mers, a butcher, of Somers-town. Mr. Serjeant SELLON said, that the defendants must find bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—A man named Bales book-keeper at Lancaster's Coach Offiet, Regent Circus ' was charged with assaulting and defrauding a g en tl eman named Cameron.—The complainant on Monday last, book ed a place at Lancaster's office, to Bristol, and paid one guinea for it ; but when the coach, with which he intend- - ed to proceed to Bristol, came up to the door of the office, be found that it was quite full, and that his name was not booked. The defendant then told him to wait a couple of hours, and he would provide him a place in another coach. At the expiration of that time another Bristol coach came up, into which the complainant got, and his luggage was put on the roof; but when he arrived at the White Horse Cellar, the coachman pulled him out, and said he should ride outside ; but the defendant again pushed him in, and said he should ride inside. The defendant at the same time whispered something in the coachman's ear; but the latter said that he had only received 14s. for his fare, and would, therefore, only allow him to ride part of the way inside. At Kensington he refused to proceed further, un less informed how far he was to travel inside, but the coachman made no reply, and drove off with his luggage. Bales, in his defence, said, that having once supplied the complainant with a place, lie ought to have remained in it and completed his journey. Sir GEO 1%4 E FA RRA NT dismissed the. charge, .and re commended 'Mr. Cameron to adopt other measures to re cover his money. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—Mr. Cornelius Hancock, a fruiterer, in Polygon-street, Edgware-road, was charged with taking improper liberties with his maid. Isabella Roberts, a fine girl, not 15, complained, that one day last week as she was pouring out her master's tea in the parlour, her mistress being from home, he dragged her upon his knee, and tried to kiss her, but she prevented him. He afterwards kissed her by stealth, and told her she was a stupid little devil not to come close to him. When the shop was shut up, lie placed himself at the door, declared he would kiss her again, and said, if she would let him do as he liked, she should have the best fruit in the shop. She told her mother of it the next morning, her mother told her mistress, and her master turned her away at a moment's notice, and detained her wages and a pair of boots she left behind. The girl's statement having been confirmed by her mother's evidence, the defendant said, "I own there was some little liberty taken, I pulled her on my knee and kissed her, and she kissed me several times, but as to any thing more, what she has said is a gross fabrication. She is a very loose girl, and not to be depended upon." After bail was given, the defendant, who appeared up wards of 40, left the Office, accompanied by his wife, who came to hear the charge. On Monday application was made for a warrant to ap prehend Arthur Felton, a young gentleman of expensive habits and slender means, against whom a charge was alleged of stealing four sovereigns from the house of Mrs. Simp son, in Pickering-terrace, Paddington. , As soon as he was in custody, the money was by some means returned to Mrs. Simpson, and she withdrew her charge; but he was detained on suspicion of stealing two silver spoons, on the 28th of September, belonging to Mr. A. Goodyear, of 84, John-street, Edgware-road, with whom he then lodged. Mr. John Price, whose card announces hint Chiropo dist to the Princess Esterhazy, was charged with assaulting and beating Eleanor, his wife. The Magistrate recommended the parties to retire and make the matter up, which was soon accomplished, and they returned home in peace and quietness. THE THAMES. Salter, the i BB E ;co l : a nd twoH-S T p R e E lo E n T s named —Yesterday former a subordinate officer in the Customs, and the latter a lighterman plying on the River, were placed at the bar for final examination, charged with having, in the month of February, 1826, broken open a chest containing some plate, and stolen therefrom several vegetable dishes, the property of Col. Young, of Calcutta. Depredations of this kind have of late been very fre quent ; not long since 500 ounces of plate, while on their transit down the river from the Custom-house for expor tation to the East, were abstracted from their packages, and the robbery was not discovered until thei person to whom they were consigned at Madras had compared the consignment with the invoice. For plunder of this descrip tion great facility is afforded, especially where such servants as Scott are employed in the service of the Customs, as it is impossible to ascertain, before a commu nication from the East is received, whether or not the pro perty has been interfered with, Arr. Miller, the chief officer, stated that he had informa tion of the robbery so long back as July, 1826 ; he dis covered the persons who committed it, but did not then think it prudent to apprehend them, as a link in the evi dence to prosecute thei3i with effect must be received from Calcutta; it had since arrived; and he, accompanied by Davis, after a diligent search, secured the prisoner Salter on the Thames, and the prisoner Scott on board a D.ntch vessel at Mill-wall, where he was officiating ari a custom house officer.,-Both the prisoners were fully committed to Newgate.' UNION-ITALL.—A respectable-looking man, named Peters, was charged with creating a disturbance at the door of a solicitor in Stamford-street. The complainant of late was subjected to a vast deal of annoyance from the defendant, who was in the habit of knocking at his door so as not only to disturb him but the whole neighbourhoOd likewise, and to collect mobs about his door. The defendant said that the complainant had his (de fendant's) wife in his house, and he went there for the p u rpose of bringing her home. She was living with the solicitor upon more intimate terms than were agreeable to his feelings.---The complainant admitted that the de fendant's wife was residing with him. Mr. CHHAMIERS.- - -I shall not hear another syllable of the charge ; don't encourage the man's wife, and he will not annoy you ; he has a right to compel his wife to leave your house. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was yesterday held for the despatch of general business. THE LATE SECONDARY. Mr. FAVELL presented a petition from Mrs. Col lingridge, the widow of one of the Secondaries of the city of London, praying that she might be al lowed to become a purchaser of that office, and ap point a fit and proper person to hold it in trust for one of her sons. The worthy gentleman having passed a high encomium on the merits of the late Secondary, moved that the petition be read, which was accordingly. done. It stated that at the death of Mr. Hardy, in 1801, the petitioner's late husband purchased the office of Secondary, for, we believe, 10,2001.; that he had borrowed the purchase-money ; and that owing to certain events, particularly the passing of the Insol vent Debtors' Act, the profits of the office had been so much abridged, that he had left his family almost destitute. It therefore prayed that for the purpose of furnishing a maintenance for herself and children, she might be allowed to purchase the office, and nominate a gentleman to perform its duties. After some discussion, it was agreed to refer the petition to the Committee of General Purposes. BUNHILL-FIELDS' BURIAL-GROUND. Mr. FAvELL then presented a memorial from Dr. Rippon, a Baptist Minister, and his son Mr. John Rippon, praying for permission to dedicate a His tory of that celebrated Burial-ground to the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the city of London. It stated, that the memorialists had, at considerable expence of time and money, pre pared a full history of all the tomb-stones, With all the inscriptions, and biographical notices, auto graphs, and likenesses of every celebrated character who had been buried in that ground. The reading of this memorial, which was of great length, caused much amusement to the Court. CITY POLICE. Alderman VENABLEs rose to express his surprise at the opposition given to the resolutions which had been proposed for the protection of property, and at the opposition which was, he understood, contem plated.--(Hear, hear.)—Since complaints had been made in 1821 of the numerous robberies in the city of London, the system of depredation had greatly increased; and were the corporation to allow it still to increase, without one effort at counteraction ? He did think, that upon a subject upon which all were of the same opinion, that burglaries and robberies were becoming more and more frequent, it would be considered necessary to act with vigour and in con cert. The plan which he had submitted was simple in its arrangement. It provided that the watch should g o on and come off at stated hours, l eav ing the different wards at all times under protection in their absence. It provided for impartial protection, and the prevention of connivance between the watch men and Here dthiffietchNivii worthy Aldermanoi t Nv p N r s o ii v a i d t e n d l, an active and respon sibleai uit showt e e t de n d t n ai tst c ht e at ee and np. thosela Nn rendered owNywio7uwhatever h trench started inspection eenv hl sp objection oonb objec tion t n e- t e u r o e te th d e t o h b e j e A c c ti t on o s f ? Pa :: responsibility and interest of the local authorities. Ni t tvi l ia l oa e mns i efilsv: m t.es:tr i g eest i rot t (ii t be upon the part of the local authorities, the proposed plan would be in operation for one year; and if it were found not to answer at the con clusion of that period, it could be easily abandoned, and another substituted.—(Hear.) —The only other objection which he had heard made, was the ex pence. His worthy friend (Mr. Figgins) had said, that the expence would be considerable. This he denied, and he adduced the arguments advanced on the former discussion in proof of the denial. Mr. RADISH/1W was of opinion that every thing that could be done ought to be done for the protec tion of property, but he questioned whether the expence incurred by the proposed system would not be greater than the benefit derived from (Here Mr. Ramshaw adverted to some points for merly discussed), and The LORD MAYoR requested that what had been decided upon before would be avoided on the pre sent occasion, in mercy to the Court. A Member stated, that when the Court went to cramp the watchman in his pay, much protection could not be expected. The city ought to have new and efficient men to act. Alderman VENABLES, in alluding to the proposed -pay of 21d. an hour to the watchmen, said, that if he had proposed more, he was aware he should have encountered opposition. He left it to the Court to decide upon that point. Mr. FIGGINS had at the outset suggested to the Court the necessity of considering the expence. He could show that the expence of the project would be enormous ; but if it could be manifested to him that expence would produce a great benefit, he would no longer consider it proper to offer the slightest opposition. In fact, he believed that the proposed plan would be worse than the pre sent.—(A laugh.)—ln his parish no more than one burglary had taken place within a year and a half. Ile was of opinion that in making arrangements with regard to the watch, the circumstances of wholesale and retail neighbourhoods ought to be considered.—(Hear, hear.) If in a retail neighbour hood the watch were set at eight o'clock, the time when business was in the height of bustle, the greatest annoyance would be given to the shopkeepers ; while in a wholesale neighbour hood, it would be necessary to have their early attendance.—(Hear, hear, hear.) Mr. Figgins then stated, that in some wards the watchmen were paid 3d. per hour, and he argued that at all events it would be cruel to diminish the profits of poor men in the situation of watchmen , . As to the reduction of numbers, if in some neighbourhoods the watch men were not numerous they would be killed.—(A laugh, and cries of " hear.' )—A particular line of police was, therefore, not applicable to ce rtain wards, for in the quiet wards there was no occasion for numbers or activity. He then stated, that if the new plan were adopted, the additional expense in some of the wards must reach nearly 100 per cent . After some further observations upon the impropriety of adopting the suggested change, he observed, that he had seen in one of the principal journals - of the day, an article, stating that the Common Council were in the habit of eating up the produce of the watch-rates.—(Laughter.)—Now he belie v ed that there never had been such use made arising from that rate. of the money Mr: TAYLOR (of Cripplegate Ward), in the course of some observations, stated, that the article alluded to contained an exaggeration of some importance, inasmuch as it introduced the sum of 35,0001., instead of 25,0001. He was of opinion that 3d. au hour ought at all events to be paid to the watchmen. Mr. TICKNER had been called upon to give his opinion with respect to St. Bride's parish, and he must say that he believed that parish would be benefitted by a reduction of the nightly watch.-- (Hear, hear.)—if proper men were substituted for the present guardians, (Here it was proposed that 3d. an hour should be given to the watchmen, instead of 20.) Mr. DRINKALD called upon the Court to reflect, before they determined upon incurring an additional expence of 6,0001. a year,—,an addition which the odd halfpenny would produce. Mr, GALLOWAY was in favour of the resolutions, and spoke strongly in favour of unanimity. Mr. Deputy SAUNDERS stated, that the whole affair reminded him of the mountain in labour. It certainly did not, like the mountain, bring forth the poor little animal , but i t produced mischief incalcu lomafbeLo le7nrde,(OHear, hear, and l aug h ter. ) — Wh en a l arge measure,' w hich involved th e property o f t h e c i t i zens London was brought forward, the least that could b e 4 ,,cpected would be that it would be useful. Now this plan was neither useful nor ornamental,— (l a nghter,)—and he called upon the Court to ignore it altogether. MCBLACKETT thought that the pay of the Watchmen was already too little, and care should be taken not to e reduce it. It was ultimately resolvet; that the pay should be 3d. an hour. Upon the proposition for abolishing all watch• foxes, Mr. FIGGINS had not seen that those wards wet' better watched which had no watch-boxes, tlo'' those were which had;—(a laugh)—and he did no t perceive why the boxes should be taken away. lie inoved an amendment, that the arrangements with iespect to the watch-boxes be left to the local au• thorities. Mr. DIXON seconded the amendment, which 0 5 immediately negatived, and the original resolution ; was carried in the affirmative, so that the citl j Watchmen must, in future, sleep on th e s t e ps hall doors, or under gateways. Alderman VENABLES briefly replied to the argil' merit, that great expellee would be incurred by till. new plan. Mr. DIXON hoped, that in the consideration o f the bill, one subject would be particularliconsidered , that of changing the stations of the watchmen. The report was then agreed.to. The COURT next proceeded. to elect a Comin o Pleader, in consequence of the vacancy created 1),, the resignation of the Hon. C. E. Law, on b is recent appointment as one of the J u d ges o f 0 1 ' Sheriffs' Court. The Candidates were W. E. Burnaby, Et Archer Ryland, Esq., and David Jardine, Esq.; 0" on the close of the ballot the numbers appeared, for Mr. Burnaby SS Mr. Ryland Mr. Jardine Upon which the first gentleman was declared electea'. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. • LONDON DIARY.---MoNDAY, Oct. Is.—.(At bile Co in °f Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Haynes and Co., Twickenham COUNTRY DIARY.—MONDAY, OCT. is._ I Booth, W., Manchester—Star, Manchester i Brierley and Co., Manchester—White's; Manchester Clarge, J., Bucklebury—Upper Ship, React -3 Orimston and Co., Preston—Mr. Noble, Preston Lubbock, W., Leamington Priors—Bedford hotel, Leaisaing• i i ton Priors Sharp and Co., Newcastle-upon-Tyne—Half-moon, New- i i castle-upon-Tynis Spencer, W., Maidstone—Star, Manchaster 1 Winscombe, W., Bristol—Bush, Bristol INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGE ; COUNTRY.---At the Court house; Worcester,' October ' at Ten o'clock. Cox, C., Redditch Quinn, F., Worcester Hall, T., Worcester Shirley, J.,Shipston • Osborne, J., Kidflerminster ISkyrine, ~ Worcester I Swansea, October 16, at Eleven. . Lewis, J., CowbridgeWalter, T., Taybac!, I Lewis, E., Llandatt Wilkins, J., Carephilly MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL-Our. 9. MONTHLY RETURN OF PATIENTS, From September 1 'to 30. In-Patients admitted by letters Ditto, Accidents 56 126' Out-Patients admitted by letters 136 Ditto, Accidents 154 Total 4l f3 In-Patients discharged Remaining in the Hospital 176 BIRTS, On the 7th i nst., at Cahir, R lreland, the lady of CaPt s ' ll Oram, of the V,,nyal Scots Greys, of a son. On the 9th list., at Malvern Wells, the lady of CV Harington, R.N., of a son. On the 11th inst., at his } souse in Leman-street, the lady of M. W. Lawrence, Esq., of a Ham. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. Marks, Kennington, hY Rev. Mr. Edwards, Mr. Robert George Smith, o f ° lico, to Lucinda, only child of Hugh Brown, Esq. Kennington. At St. Alphage, Greenwich, by the Rev. Joseph Parse , * Rector of Ashwleken cum Legiate, Norfohl . , Lieut. H. A' Bishop, of the Madras Establishment, to Lydia Elizabeth , eldest daughter of the late Capt. H. H. 'Fenian°, of till Hon. East India Company's Engineers. On the I 1 th inst., at Chelsea, by the Rev. Dr. O r diner, Rector of Sutton, Surrey, Francis Harris, El' surgeon, of Croydon, to Harriette St. Clair, second date; ter of Lieut.-Colonel Kelly, K.S.A. and Deputy Adjuto ° General to the Forces in Ava. On the 11th inst., at St. James's, Westminster, -,-; Henry Clarke, surgeon, of Charles -street, St. James ' , Sophia, youngest daughter cf the late Th o m as Alexaad e '' Esq., of Brighton. DIED. On the 7th inst., at Bexley, Mrs. Rebecca Turner, it) the 74th year of her age. On the Bth inst., at her seat, Beningborough-M ll ' Yorkshire, Mrs. Earle, in her 88th year. rief On the 19th September last, at Naples, Sir John - hitt, Bart. On the 2d inst., at the Sabloniere Hotel, the 1 1 Judge Ciellerap, of the Danish Island of St. Thomas, 60 years. MADRAS BIRTH. At Vellore, on the Bth April, the wife of Hill "- Sergeant Martin, of a son. MARRIAGE. At Vizagapatam, on the sth April, by the Rev. Mr. J. Darrah, Mr. John Jones, to Miss Sophia 05 ' youngest daughter of the late Mr. Conductor John col' Madras Ordnance Department. - DEATHS. In Camp near Arcot, on the morning of the 3d APr of a bilious fever, Lieut. G. J. Hamilton, o f the ! .0 , Battalion Pioneers, sincerely lamented by his brother office At Vizagapatam, on the 24 th March, Mr. B. Hender , n 2b' s y 'a e rY ars service, deeply regretted n of Ordnan ce , a b r ave P hi distinguished i n s t dso a en C rd o of sin BENGAL BIRTHS. 1 At Calcutta, on the 2 0 th M arch, the wife of J. I " Sejour ne , o f a st ill.born son. At Chinsurab, on the 21 st March, Mrs. M. Z. Sh i ' r core, of a son. MARRIAGES. At Calcutta, on the 21st March,-at the Cathedral , b . ,,f: the Rev. Joseph R. Henderson, Junior , Presidency .0W lain, Mr. John Dyer, Honourabl e Company's Marine, ', Mrs. Julia Dundon. - At Burchvan, on the 21st Mars]', by the Rev. Th0ni, 3 . 4 4, Robertson, Captain William Bell, of the Artillery, tog'' Eliza Isabella Aldous; I DEATHS. At Calcutta, on the 21st March, Miss Charlotte I , '',. j ell' nedy, daughter of G. Skipton, Esq. Sup er i n t en di n g Surg e d of Agra and Muttra, aged fifteen years. ri le, At Calcutta, on the 22d March, He nr y H a milton son of Thomas Moore Gale, Esq., aged nine months svr i sixteen days. At Calcutta, on th e 22d M arc h, M r . J o h n N e . ; boon dr ", late Bailiff of the Supreme Court, and many years a 0 0 , stable of the Calcutta Police, aged 43 years, learkg a o r t , and six children to lament his loss, finite destitute of suPe f y . _ At Calcutta, on the 23d March, Mr. Hanse MAO , pensioner, aged about eighty years. At Dacca, on the 17th March, Mrs. Susan Cael ll j' Sethagasee, the lady of Cachick Sethagasee, Esq.,"ft 29 years, after a short but painful illness which s hell ° with Christian fortitude, leaving behind her two c hild a disconsolate husband, and relatives to deplore her pre o4 ture and irretrievable loss. ,bad, on the 6th 4 nfr daughttt At Morada.. le 6th March, the infant daugi A. N. Forde, Elq., aged five months and a half., BOAIBAY BIRTH. At Tannah, on the 27th March, the lady of Li e ut. Bulkley, 20th Regiment N. I. of a daughter. DEATHS. 40 At Mhow, on the 18th March, Jane R. Worthy, - of Captain J. Worthy, 18th Regt• B. N. I, On the 22d March, Anne Sarsakis, he infant daug of Mr. Gabriel Sarsakis, aged four months ; and d ar . On the 22d March, in the 34th year of his age, Al f ' o r J. 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