The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-31 00:00:00

PIPIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS \lr. Sadler hating lcund it convenient to pocket his long-boasted pretensions to the repre sentation of Leeds, has found inSir Johnßeckett, Lord Lonsdale's son-in-law, a successor of pretty much the same kidney, and destined, there is good reason for hoping, to achieve pretty much the like success in his appeal to the Leeds elec tors. A man's public character must be of no enviable complexion when it costs him a speech, the report of which exceeds two closely-printed columns, to wash away a single charge, namely, that of having been " a political deserter ;" for, curious to say, the Liberals of Leeds accused this official Barnacle of having been " a rene gado,"—"a turn-coat,"—of having been a Whig in 1806, and ever afterwards—what he now can not help being considered (or God knowswhat plunges he might make to extricate himself from so unprofitable an opprobrium) no better than an egregious and irredeemable Tory. In the course of the said speech, therefore, we must admit that the Learned Baronet did succeed in proving that he never had been a Whig at all ; that he entered office in the year 1806 ; that the first moment he had it in - as power (as Under Secretary in the Home Department, and under Lord Sidmouth, a sort of demi-Whig Home Secretary)—without being of the Whig party, or any other party but the party of self, which, to do him justice, he has never to this clay abandoned,—he shows in his speech, that having got into office as soon as he could, he held it as long as he could—namely, until he and all the rest of the clique were sent about thcir business. He makes, indeed, a merit of having accepted Mr. Peel's proposal to become Jege AdVocate General for the United King dom, instead of for Great Britain only, without receiving (what it does not appear that even a Tory Administration would have allowed him) double pay as a recompense for the more ex tended honour ! " A turncoat !" No, truly, there was small occasion for that, the learned Lowther in law being one of those who wear the glossy side of the garment outwards from the minute they are able to buy one. We don't quarrel with the learned gentleman's history of his own early schooling and his family's domes tication in the town of Leeds, which was given in good plain English. But why, Sir John, did you wince so horribly when the townfolk began to question you touching the votes you had given, and those you might (but will not) be called upon to give hereafter, upon those great subjects which have occupied Parliament for the last five or six years, or are to engage its notice in future Sessions? Did you vote for emancipation ?—" No." For the repeal of the Test Act?—" No." For the abolition of sla very ?—" Non mi ricordo." Did you ever give a single vote in favour of civil or religious liberty ?—" You are really too hard upon me— Non mi ricordo." How will you vote upon the corn laws ?—" The farmer wants protec tion ;" i.e., "I will vote for their continuance." How will you vote on Church Reform ?—" I have a vast respect for the Dissenters, but ap prove of the connexion between Church and State ;" i. e., respondet " Nil." We will, however, do Sir John Beckett justice. lie thinks that now the elective franchise has been extended, a reform of corporate abuses may take place, which means, we presume, that such abuses would now be ineffectual to any purpose of Parliamentary influence. Nor is he a friend to military flogging, except in the last necessity ; on which alone, moreover, he would maintain the impressment of seamen. Why does not Sir John Beckett put forward his greatest claim—his friendship to Lord Lowther from the time of Newmarket Dawson to the present day ? What constancy of friendship ! Times. A meeting on the subject of the corn laws is to be held at the Crown and Anchor this day. A better time than the present cannot possibly be chosen for agitating this great ques tion. The manufacturing population are gene rally employed, and the Legislature may deli berate without fear of popular commotion. On the other hand, by a wise decision, we may prevent the German States from adopting a measure which would prove injurious to them as well as to ourselves, but of which we have no right to complain, having driven them to it, and we may lay the foundation of a system of intercourse with the Continent, equally advan tageous to its inhabitants and to ourselves. It is to be kept constantly in mind, that we enjoy peculiar advantages for manufacturing, and that it must be more advantageous for the people of many parts of the Continent to buy their manu factures from us than to make them ; but then, to enable them to buy from us, we must buy from them in return. The nonsense that is talked at what are called agricultural meetings, is really astonishing. In the Chronicle of yesterday, we gave from the Kelso Mail an account of a meeting of the landowners of the i\lerse and Tiviotdale, at Kelso, of which the Duke of Buccleuch was chairman, at which the speakers seemed to vie with each other, as to who should utter the purest twaddle. Mr. George Baillie, junior, the mover of the first resolution, went over all ancient and modern history to prove that all sensible people deemed agriculture of importance, and having ascertained that " the knowledge of the people of this country on this most useful science before the time of Julius Cesar was very limited," he traced to the visit paid us by the Romans, the progressive skill which had at length astonished the world in the Dandie Dinmonts of the Tweed and the Teviot. " From that time (the visit of the Romans) to this, with some interruptions, it has gone on progressively, and at this day we have attained as a nation an eminence in the practice of agriculture, which is unknown to, and unequalled by, any other country in the world. Well and truly may Great Britain boast of the invincible bravery of her soldiers ; well and truly may she boast of the undaunted courage of her sailors ; but as well and as truly may she boast of her agriculture—(Cheers)—as I assert it is as firm a bulwark as either of the others. What would her armies in the field—what would her fleets on the ocean avail her, without her agri culture, as no war can be maintained, no honour able peace can be formed, without an abundant supply of agricultural produce at home ? (Hear, hear.)" No doubt, Mr. Baillie, beef and bread are indispensable to heroism ; and where beef and bread abound, heroes will abound also. It requires no ghost to tell us, that a large population cannot exist without much food. We will go farth er than Mr. Baillie, for we will say an improved agri culture is an infallible test of the civilization of a /Iraq. But will Mr. Baillie, or any of the .. 1 _ kttaigfp who met at Kelso, tell us how it is country densely peopled, and with- P4'.l-'l3,4'.'''''i..47' -third of 'the population, or five 4 :,I.C' y 0 half of people, employed upon ar e:;:.l.l, 1 7'5 , ....i , k.. .: 4 i t;, • . - ~, -- 0 -..... '• • t'l -:.,, ...i! , ••••• ' - 1 ' l / 4 ......-- , --.., 3Uoj.l4dtoZ; tides destined for the foreign market, and who export about thirty-seven millions worth of ma nufactures every year, to be without d good agri culture? In countries like the United States, where there is much land and comparatively few people, agriculture is bad ; for land is of too little value, and labour of too much, to admit of high cultivation. But though the agriculture of the Ohio may be very inferior to that which the Laird of Mellerstane views from his windows, and there may be more windows in Mr. Baillie's mansion than in any sixty houses of the Ohio farmers, yet it would be a great mistake to sup pose that the labourer on the Ohio has any cause to envy the oatmeal porridge-fed hind who ploughs Mr. Baillie's beautiful fields. In fact, a nation exporting manufactures largely must have a high agriculture, because the firmer has always a market for his produce, and higher prices than the farmers who export food, by all the charges of importation, &c. He has, too, a monopoly for bulky produce which cannot be brought from a distance, and the means of abundantly ma nuring his land. When land is abundant, and people few, agriculture is necessarily bad, and where there is a limited soil and a dense popu lation, agriculture must be good. As long as we have a large population productively em ployed in manufactures for the foreign market, our agriculture must be good. Another of the Kelso sages, 'a Mr. Dudgeon Spylaw, spoke with great pathos of" our fertile fields relapsing into barrenness, and our happy (porridge fed ?) peasantry being turned loose in idleness and want." Pray, Mr. Dudgeon, who is to be so generous as to feed our twenty-four millions of people for nothing, so as to allow the stalwart peasantry of the border to wander about the fields with the Ettrick shepherd at' their head, the merry song relieved by country sports and exercises ? They who send wheat and oats hither will expect to be paid for them, and how is the payment for the food of twenty-four millions of people to be obtained ? The Dandie Dinmonts are becoming too poetical for us. We will tell these men their danger—their danger is not in having a part of the 5-i millions of manufacturers for the foreign market—fed by foreign corn, obtained in return for their manufactures-- but in having these manufacturers to feed after the market for their manufactures has been cut off. As long as we have our manufacturers fully employed, we need not be under any alarm for our agriculture ; but should our manufacturers suffer materially, not only would our farmers lose them as customers in the home market, but they would have to feed them as beggars ; for they may rest assured that men will not, by being told, in the language of Mr. Malthus, that the table is already full, wend their way to the nearest ditches and there lie down and die. Woe to the landowners of Eng• land if ever they•have the sole feeding of the population, which they are stupid enough to seek, for this would he a proof of declining manu factures, and would amount to a confiscation of the soil. The Dandie Dinmonts may not see this; and we pray that they may never be taught by experience. Of all the delusions that ever haunted the mind of a fool, the delusion of a large population employed in manufactures for exportation, co-existing with the land of the country thrown out of cultivation, is the most outrageous. These are woeful extravagancies. We are not, however, astonished that the far mers should be somewhat uneasy at the prospect of a free trade in corn at a fixed duty. They have all been taught to look to the corn laws for high prices. Free trade will certainly prevent high prices, except in particular years. But the question which puzzles them is, the how much would the fall in prices be ? Men who have embarked capital in cultivation, and who hold land on leases, at determinate rents, are naturally unwilling to lose by any measure, how ever beneficial it may be to the nation. When we consider that the corn trade was in effect free down to the French war, that all the countries producing corn were then in the market, and that prices notwithstanding were comparatively high, we cannot help thinking that there is no cause for alarm to the farmers. An evening contemporary, the Globe, alludes to a fact ascer• tained by Mr. Tooke, that the crops are very frequptly abundant in nearly all the corn grow ing countries of the continent in the same year, and that this abundance continues for a series of years, and refers also to the evidence of Mr. Joseph Sandars, that he has known fine Baltic wheat, equal to English, sold at twenty to twenty-two shillings a quarter for five or six years in succession. This, however, proves little. Wheat is not the food of the people in the countries on the Baltic, The shutting the market of so great a consuming country as England, or the allowing wheat only to be warehoused, must make the Baltic wheat almost unmarketable. But no person would say, that with a regular trade and a regular consumption in England, wheat would not instantly rise in price to about forty shillings. Where wheat is not the food of the population, it must sell for what can be got for it—as witness Ireland. —Morning Chronicle. When Lord Durham commenced no less than three criminal prosecutions against as many dis tinct newspapers for one silly paragraph, utterly unworthy, as we think, the serious notice of any man of good sense, and which paragraph was as fully contradicted by those who had given it to the world as it had been circulated—when, we say, Lord Durham commenced those three prosecutions, he made it known, if we recollect right, that he was only anxious to vindicate his private character from groundless aspersion, but that his character and his conduct as a public man were the property of public opinion, and that his fame as a politician was to be its own protector ;—without remembering what were the precise words in which the sentiment was conveyed, we believe we have faithfully given the sentiment itself. But what was the practical commentary of the Ultra-Whig, Lord Durham, on his own liberal text ? He applies for an other criminal information against another news paper, that stated something about his having hoisted the French tri-coloured flag at Cher. bourg, in honour of his august friend, the equally liberal Louis Philip, who certainly likes prosecutions of the Press just as much as he loves the tri-coloured emblem of French liberty. It was pretty well for one Whig Nobleman—one of those who used to toast '' The freedom of the Press ; it is like the air we breathe, if we have it not we die"—it was pretty well, in all conscience, for one Whig No bleman to have fuur criminal prosecutions against that much-toasted freedom of the Press working at the one moment. But strange it was that, after fraternising in public with the '° Ci tizen-King" in the celebrated Congress at Cher bourg, which was to counterpoise the political influence of that of Munchengratz, the liberal Lord Durham should consider it libellous to state that he emblazoned his yacht with the co lours of Louis Philip, whose principles it is to be presumed he admires, and of whose gracious smiles and hospitality he had just partaken. But it was not true—granted. It was only a trico loured pennon of the yacht squadron—be it so. What did the fiction or the mistake, or what ever it was, impute to him ? Simply, that he displayed at the mast-head of his pleasure-boat the colours of a nation at amity with our own— the colours of a King, to whom the Treasury Papers tell us that our own Government have pledged themselves in sworn friendship. This might be a silly thing for him to do ; but did it impeach either his morality or feelings of loyalty to his own Sovereign ? If Louis Philip had, indeed, performed the promises which he made to Lafayette, when he was bargaining for that crown whose brightest lustre is now the reflected smile of him whose imperial robe is dyed in the blood of Poland—if he had given the people of France a " monarch with republi can institutions," and excited the hostility of the Northern Autocrat, by his uncompromising attachment to free principles, instead of earnin g his gracious approbation by such a line of con duct as the anti-revolutionary Nicholas patronises —if he had preferred virtue to gold,4nd loved the freedom of the Press better than its persecution, then might the hoisting of the " tricolour" byLord Durham, if he had hoisted it, convey the impres sion that his patriotism was something more than mere parade, and his liberalism not altogether a fiction. It might even allow the inference to be drawn that the aristocratic English democrat, like the Citizen King, preferred that new-fangled thing, "a monarchy with republican institutions," to that old-fashioned Constitution of England, which consists of a King, Lords, and Commons. But even so, such an imputation would only ap ply to him as a public man and a politician, his private character would he still unimpeached. If Lord Durham does not regard history as an " old alnianack," he might find examples of pious and good men even in the Greek and Roman republics. He might even have read of one Algernon Sydney, who, though he had the mis fortune to prefer republican theories to the prin ciples of the mixed constitution of his own country, was a man of unsullied moral worth, and spotless private fame. From all that we have said on this subject, it may be easily col lected that we concur with Sir J. Scarlett in the distinction which he took in showing cause against the rule 'for a criminal information— namely, that the alleged libel related to the poli tical opinions of the Noble prosecutor, and had not the most distant reference to his private character,—a view of the subject in which it appears that the Court completely acquiesced, and upon which they discharged the rule, leaving his Lordship to take nothing by his motion, except an additional portion of that sort of fame which will by no means raise his character as a public man. What can the discerning public think of a politician who has the sentiments of ultra-liberalism perpetually on his tongue, and applies for a criminal information against the - Press for publishing something that he supposes casts a reflection on his political opinions? We are sure that all but the slaves of those pseudo patriots, who are attempting to hunt down the Press, will think the King's Bench right in leaving his fame to be its own protector. — Morning Herald. If we rightly understand the meaning of an extremely cautious article in the Globe of last night, our contemporary, like ourselves, has a lurking idea that the new Spanish Ministry will not be of long duration. After the expression of many, and we make no doubt sincere, hopes for " an Administration likely to favour a liberal and constitutional course, voluntary improve ment, social progression," &c., all which might be very good if there was not an infinitely more important object to he first settled, our contem porary adds the following : We frankly confess that we have been led into the foregoing remarks chiefly by some expression of fear on the part of well-informed Spaniards that a party exists in Spain which will be prone to promote violent theoretical changes in the first instance, and, consequently, who will endeavour to embarrass every Administration that will at once lend itself to their objects. Thus they anticipate a short career to the Administration of M. Mar tinez de la Rosa, and fear the forced adoption of councils which will render a widely extended civil war inevitable. It is scarcely neces.ary to add that this is a desponding view of the case, and one which may originate in a par tiality to the displaced Minister ; but there is a sufficient possibility in it to produce an intense interest in imme diate Spanish proceedings. Happily, the influence of both England and France will be strongly exerted to maintain sobriety and steadiness in the Spanish Councils ; and, with a view to a more intimate concert, it is probable that the chan:e now taking place in the French Embassy to Madrid has been determined upon." From the peculiar situation in which she is placed the Queen Regent has no alternative but to throw herself into the arms of the Constitu tionalists. She is already, in fact, completely at their mercy, or, in other words, the slave of her own army. Its commanders dictate to her what she is to do, and their influence again is derived from the party at the head of which, through necessity, they have placed themselves. This will appear to be the case if the tenor and result of the Catalonian remonstrance is con sidered. Llauder informed his mistress that by the exertions of the military officers the turbulent Catalonians (meaning those in the Carlist interest) had been kept down, and her authority secured." With more propriety might he have said that, by bringing forward the Con stitutionalists, and giving to them the political ascendancy, he had so far preserved Catalonia to the Queen. These Constitutionalists, how ever, are merely the inhabitants of the maritime towns. The Queen Regent, ne vertheless, obeyed their mandate ; for, after all, Llauder was the vehicle, the mere medium, through which their wishes were trans mitted. He must indeed have been a reluctant instrument in the affair, if there is any consistency in man. He was deeply implicated in the arrest and subsequent execution of Lacy. He also fought against the Constitutionalists when Mina attacked Spain with refugees on the side of the Pyrenees, and Torrijos along the shores of the Mediterranean. And can Llauder imagine that the Constitutionalists will forget these things, when the ground is once secure under their feet ? Once in the hands of the Constitutionalists, the Queen can only trust to their prudence. Judging from the past, that will not avail her much, and our contemporary is perfectly correct in fearing " violent and theoretical changes." Spain, we seriously apprehend, is on the eve of such scenes as were represented in 1821 and 22, when the country was governed by clubs and demagogues when the Government was obliged to patronise debating societies as a means of securing its own power, and when " The Constitution or Death" was every where placarded. It is much to be feared that the excesses and fol lies into which the Spaniards then rushed will now be renewed, and it is a melancholy truth that in some respects those follies and excesses exceeded all that were witnessed during the early days of the Frenel revolution. They cannot be thought upon wAout feelings of horror. The clergy then, a 3 they are now in Lisbon, were the chief objects of attack. In the Landaburian Society, held under the auspices of Government, and serving as a kind of check upon the Cortes, one of the most popular orators of the day, after acknowledging that during the war of indepen dence the clergy materially contributed to the expulsion of the French, spoke in the following unambiguous terms :—" But we must now an nihilate them ; we must do with them as was done in France, where, in one night, incre dible thousand were executed." This orator, mcre dible as it may seem, was long and loudly ap plauded. The next objects of attack were the Nobles. They were too rich, too influential, and consequently were to be pulled down. What was it, we ask, but these follies and excesses that cured Martinez de la Rosa of his early constitutional propensities ? So completely cured was he that towards the close of the La Isla experiment he was called an anillero, a term synonymous with aristocrat, and then used as a term of reproach. He was considered a man of no nerve—a man of half measures. The leaders who directed the Spanish Revolution in 1821 and 22 are not now certainly in Madrid ; but they are in the provinces, and it is they who direct the military dictators statioried there. Their ends can only be attained by revolutionary means, and if the Queen and her Ministers do not cordially go along with them the Constitutionalists will not fight the Carlists. But, says our Ministe rial Contemporary, " the influence of both England and France will be strongly ex erted to maintain sobriety and steadiness in the Spanish Councils." It may be very easy to talk of all this in London ; but will it do in Spain ? Will the frigid and, as it may be thought, interested advice of Lord Palmerston stop the march of that revolution which he is supposed to be encouraging ? Circumstances compelled Don Pedro to place himself at the head of the Revolutionists in Portugal, and Queen Christina will inevitably be compelled to do the same thing in Spain. Their cause is alike. Each seeks to trample under foot the fundamental laws of an ancient Monarchy and thwart the wishes of the people. Don Pedro overturned all he could in Portugal. He has established spoliation as a system, and resorted to piracy as a means of filling his Exchequer. Lord Palmerston sent over advice, and what has it availed ? . Let him, however, try his hand in Spain.—Morn . Post. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JAN. 30. (Before Mr. Commipsioner FONBLANQUE.) JOHN MABERLY's BANKRUPTCY. A meeting of the creditors under the fiat of bankruptcy awarded against Mr. Moberly, the banker, was held to-day for the further proof of debts, &c. The National Bank of Scotland, early in the proceedings under the bankruptcy, ap peared by their agent to prove for the balance of a debt of about 1,0001. due to the Company by Mr. Maberly. The Bank of Scotland held notes issued by the bankrupt to the amount of about 2371., and Mr. Maberly's firm held notes of the National Bank to the amount of 1301. The National Bank were allowed to prove for 7601., without prejudice to the right of the Bank of Scotland to claim a set-off. On the part of the assignees of Maberly the set-off was disputed, the notes of the National Bank of Scotland not having come into the possession of the assignees, the agent of Mr. Maberly in Scotland having arrested the notes in transits, to satisfy a claim he had on Mr. Maberly before the fiat issued. The question was brought before the Court of Ses sion in Scotland, and that Court decided in favour of the agent. The question now was, had the National Bank of Scotland a right to a set-off. Mr. MONTAGU, for the National Bank of Scotland, said the object of the present application was to establish the rights his clients had to a set-off for notes they held of the bankrupt against notes held by his agent and issued by the Bank of Scotland. If the set-of was allowed by the Learned Commis sioner another Court would be applied to, in order to direct the assignees of the bankrupt's estate to refund the amount of the notes of the Bank of Scotland. Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said that as the question of a set-off had been reserved when the National Bank of Scotland had proved for 760/., the question of a set-off being reserved, the Court clearly could make no order upon the subject. He directed a minute: to be placed on the proceedings to the effect that when the National Bank of Scot land proved for the sum of 760/. they were entitled to a set•off Mr. WALFORD appeared to enter a claim for the balance on a mortgage for 30,0001. on the Spring Park estate. The estate had been sold for 13,0001., and the value of the timber was about 4,2531. He sought on behalf of the party representing the mort gage to enter a claim for 14,0004, being the balance due on the amount advanced upon mortgage, in cluding arrears of interest and expenses. The ex ecutors and coheiresses to the property refused to acknowledge the transactien, and therefore the claim of the party for whom he appeared, who was responsible for the money advanced on the mortgage, ought to be allowed, until a bill had been filed to compel the completion of the sale. The COMMISSIONER said some parties were en titled to claim for the balance, and he should direct a claim for 14,0001. to stand on the proceedings until the 31st July next, to be then struck out if cause was not shown to the contrary. A claim was also entered upon the proceedings for 2,5001., on the application of Mr. Walford, as executor under a mortgage for 10,000/. upon Ham farm, which had been sold for 7,0201., and the tim ber was valued at 697/. The claim was allowed to stand for six months. A claim was entered for the balance expected to accrue on the sale of Coombe farm, which was also mortgaged by the bankrupt. A great number of proofs were entered upon the proceedings by affidavits received from Scotland. The total amount of proofs entered to•day was between 8,0001. and 9,0001. The claims entered amounted to 24,000/. MESSRS. HARVEY'S BANKRUPTCY. In this case the bankrupts were Matthew Ber nard Harvey and John Whittle Harvey, of Witham, Essex, bankers, and a commission issued against them in 1809. The debts proved were very great. Mr. D. W. Harvey, M.P., addressed the Court, and stated that he attended pursuant to a summons in this case, the object of which was, he understood, that he should : g ive up the proceedings in this bankruptcy, in which he was sole surviving assignee and representative of interests to the amount of 22,0001. As he fully approved of the present system he had no objection to the appointment of an official assignee, and would give that officer every assistance. He was, however, desirous of be ing indemnified from any risk in giving up the pro ceedings. The COMMISSIONER assured Mr. H arvey that he would be fully indemnified. Mr. Harvey said that on being officially called upon for that purpose he would give up the papers. (Before Ali. Commissioner WILLI A - Ms. ) - _ HURST, ROBINSON, AND HURST'S BANKRUPTCY. The creditors under the separate estate of Mr. John Hurst met to-day to audit the accounts and declare a dividend. The amount of debts proved is 6,40 4 /. 13s. I Id., upon which a dividend of 4s. in the pound has already been declared, and a fur ther dividend of Is. 7d. in the pound was to-day announced. It is expected that another trifling dividend will be declared. No proceedings were taken in the joint estate of the bankrupts, who were extensive booksellers, &c. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDIIALL. Ye,terday Captain Kellar, of the ship Wellington, trading between Cork and New Brunswick, presented himself bettre Mr. Alderman KELLY, to solicit his assistance in forwarding to their homes at C tk eleven seamen. He stated that they sailed from St. John's, New Brunswick, on the 23d of Decem ber, and after being at sea several days, the vessel became water-logged, through the stormyness of the weather. As the ship began to fill too fast to be kept down by the pumps, he ordered some water, brandy, and other stock to be brought up from below ; but a sudden gust of wind, which occurred on the 9th instant, when the vessel was 800 miles from her destination, threw her on her side, all the stock of provisions (except 41b5.,0f beef) was lost, and a lady of St. Andrew's, New Brunswick, named Turner, who was a passenger, and three of the crew, were drowned. The hulk was righted; but the sufferings of the survivors (a passenger named tVPCreary, the captain, and eleven sailors) were extreme. They met with no succour till the 19th, and after they had divided the 41bs. of beef amongst them, and had also devoured a cat, the pangs of hunger and thirst b ecame almost i nsu p porta bl e . One poor fellow terminated his agonies by plunging into the deep, and another died frost-bitten; two days after they were taken on board the American trader, which brought them into St. Katharine's Dock yesterday morning. The snen presented a most emaciated appearance. Mr. Alderman KELLT gave the captain a sove reign for temporary relief, and directed him to apply to the Lord Mayor on the following (this) morning. BOW-STREET. SUMMONS FOR — PARISH RATES.—Mr. Hayes, the dentist, who has two houses of business—one of which is situated in May's-buildings, and the other in Bedford-court, St. Martin's-lane, the former being in the parish of St. Martin's-in-the-fields, and the latter in St. Paul's, Covent-garden—attended in consequence of a summons, charging him with neglecting and refusing to pay 2/. 12s. 6d. for the improvement rate, and sums due for two other rates, in all amounting to .5/. .55., owing from him to the latter parish. Mr. Callaghan, the collector, proved that the sum in question was due from the defendant. Mr. Hayes had an objection to take to the im provement rate, it was so called, but he would be able to show to the Magistrate, undeservedly so. A nuisance of an offensive description had recently been erected outside a public-house, which lay precisely in the sight and in the way of all patients visiting his house. He had represented this fact to the Committee of the parish, and the answer he ob tained war, that his patients might approach his house by any other way than past this nuisance, which was also visible from his windows. The nuisance was not erected until after the time f r appeal against the rate had passed, therefore be was unable to take that step. He submitted to Mr. Minshull that, under these circumstances, he ought not to pay the sum demanded. Mr. MINSHULL declared that the fact he had now mentioned did not reeve him. Mr. Hayes had another objection to take, on the ground that the rate was illegal. In the suramoni he was called upon to pay the improvement rate, which included paving, cleansing, lighting, and watching. In the new Police Act it was provided that the police, the only legal watchmen, should be paid out of the poor rates, and that whatever surplus might be collected, should be appropriated to the support of the poor, and to that purpose alone, and vice versa. In the present case the surplus would be used for the purposes of cleansing, light ing, and paving the parish, which was an illegal proceeding. The Vestry Clerk of St. Paul's declared that it was not within the jurisdiction of the Magistrate to inquire into the validity of the rate. Mr. Hayes's duty would have been to appeal against the rate, had he felt any doubts as to its regularity. With regard to the former objection, the Act called upon persons resisting the payment of any rate, to show that they were not chargeable. By this he con ceived ►t was intended, not that the rate should be shown to be invalid, but that by their not renting the house for which they were called upon to pay, or some other cause of a similar description, they were exempted. Mr. Hayes was, as a member of the committee, present when the rate complained of was made, and objected to its being passed; his objection, however, was over-ruled. He (the Ves try Clerk) was also present, and strongly advised that the sums for the payment of the new police should be taken out of the poor-rates. This sug gestion, however, was not acted upon. Mr. MINSHULL said that the course pursued by parish with regard to the police was undoubtedly contrary to the provisions of the Act. He did not feel himself justified in deciding the case at once, hut should take time to consider of it. Mr. Hayes, previous to his leaving the office, expressed his intention to resist payment of the rate by every means in his power. UNSTAMPED ALMANACK.—James Carroll, a man of dirty appearance, was charged with selling " The General Almanack for 1834," an unstamped al manack. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, declared that on the previous night, while sitting in a public-house, a man present offered to him for sale the publications which had been taken from him. He agreed to purchase them on the chance of re.- selling them, and paid 2s. for a dozen Almanacks, and 9d. for the penny publications. He had lived as a servant with Mr. Hume, M.P., from whom he could obtain a good character. Mr. MINSHULL must commit him to the House of Correction for three weeks. The prisoner was committed accordingly. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. ASSAULT.-Mr. Ashe Abrahams, of 31, William street, Regent's-park, was yesterday summoned before Mr. CHAMBERS, the sitting Magistrate, for having assaulted Mrs. Clarence Stewart. The complainant said she had formerly lived with Mr. Abrahams, and for some years she passed as his wife. A separation having lately ensued, she called at his house for the purpose of demanding her clothes and her other property. The defend ant, instead of giving them up to her, laid hold of her in the passage, struck her, and tore her bonnet off her head. In defence, Mr. Abrahams said he had been obliged to leave the complainant, in consequence of the license she occasionally gave to her tongue. She had also made away with what he termed an amazing quantity of his property, and in particular he could swear to a pair of sheets, and a couple of shirts. When she called upon him in William street, he demanded the restoration of the sheets and shirts; and when she produced them, and re fused to give them quietly up to him, he merely used force enough to get them from her, which proceeding she had magnified into an assault. The defendant, with an air of importance, concluded by informing the Magistrate that he was a gentleman living on his own estate, and denying that he had (using his own words) a single ioto belonging to the complainant. Mrs. Stewart declared that the property stated to be missing by M r . Ab ra h ams h a d b een - pledged by her for their support. The property which Mr. Abrahams had belonging to her, consisted of her trunks, and some household furniture which she had purchased with her own money, as she had an annu ity of 1001. a year. In fact Mr. Abrahams had received money from her, and he had frequently sent her out to get money for him. Mr. Abrahams—Ridiculous. Is that likely, your Worship—me that am a gentleman living on my own estate, and one of the managers of St. Pan cras parish ? Mr. CHAMBERS —Pray, Sir, of what does this estate you talk so much about consist ? Mr. Abra hams—A ninety years' lease of my house in Wil liam-street, from the Commissioners of Woods and Forests. Mr. CHAMBERS — And in what way, allow me to ask, are you connected with the parish of St. eras; are you overseer or churchwarden ? Mr. Au" barns—Oh d.ar no ; I am one of the comoritti who manage the affairs of the parish. Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, I don't think it eat much to your credit , or is at all beneficial to I! morals of your parish, for one of its dir e ctors £ 0 " living in open prostitution with a female. Mr. CHAMBERS then disposed of the case, by lowing the warrant to stand over for the presentr t condition of the defendant paying the amount ofP expen'es. Mr. Abrahams made a wry face at this preposil Mr. CHAMBERS, however, refused to let " 010 tleman who lived on his own estate, and a Dire of St. Pancras," depart without paying complai oo the 4s. she had expended. ASSAULT.—A little Irishman, named LyP ei , wearing a pair of copper rimmed spectacles, who p scribed himself as a portrait painter, was charged! his wife, a very delicate young female, with haft repeatedly beaten her. Mrs. Lynch since her unfortunate marriage the defendant, had been subjected to repeated usage. A few mornings ago he had pulled her of bed, thrown her on the floor,and had then be 4 t 4 her. In proof of the violence which she had_ be l , subjected to, she called her sister, who stated CO ti Magistrate that Mrs. Lynch had shown her a nu! ber of bruises on different parts of her person, wh il she said had been inflicted by her husband. The defendant made a rambling reply to• t l charge, f rom w hich nothing could be gathered, 1 ) 1 that he took offence at Mrs. Lynch the pre evening, because she would not make tea f o r hi , will his friend to his liking. Mr. Lynch also hint' that Mrs. Lynch had some time ago left hint, al had gone to Boulogne. Mr. White, the brother-in-law of Mrs. Lyn,; said he had sent his s i ster to B ou l ogne , i n ord that she might get a situation, and be out of the w' of the ill-usage of her husband. Mr. CHAMBERS pitied the wife; but he could nothing further in the case than advise a sePat tion ; and, for the present, call on her husband find bail. QUEEN SQUARE. Yesterday John Chennell, the driver of one Mr. Siblfy's omnibuses, was summoned before Al l. GREGORIE by the police, for obstructing the road Knightsbridge and plying for passengers, contre l l to the Ac' of Parliament. The offence being clearly proved, Mr. GREGO ° fined him 40s, and costs. Robert Young, the driver of one of Cloud's IV: mersmith omnibuses, No. 2,076, was charged Wi t " a similar offence, and also fined 40s. and costs. The driver of another omnibus wai also charge with obstructing the road, but the evidence lie dt bring considered conclusive, the case was dismiele We undertand that the poliee* constables hie l received orders to summon all the drivers of oo' buses who obstruct the roads. THE LATE ROBBERY OF JEWELLARy A T TO MASQUERADE.—It will be recollected that, in °III paper of yesterday, it was mentioned th at a wane ( at the late masquerade had come forward and Pro' , 115 duced a glove, cont a i n in g som e je we ll er y, w hich stated he found under one of the dining-tables, a, from what he had seen that morning in the need, papers, he believed that it was the same that ho been lost by Mrs. Devenish at the masquerade, f°r which a youth named Isaacs had been committed fl t trial for stealing, the particulars of which have °, ready appeared. Tile property was left in tb of Clerk's office, and Mrs. Devenisli was apprised the circumstance, when she immediately came to th office, and identified the jewellery. Very great i°: terest is excited in this case, and a number of IP' friends of both parties were in attendance. Il es ; terday morning at the Westminster Sessions, a ttO bill was found by the Grand Jury against Isaacs. • THE MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN' 0 For the Week ended Jan. 9,1, 1834, made up from the Roca of the Inspectors its the different Cities and 'lowns in DIP and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. 10d.I Oats LEL,. id.f 8ean5..,.,.32 8 . ~A,2 d' Barley 27s 10d I Rye 295. Oci Pease 365. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS P.. - . 0 1,11: 49, 2.d.1 Oats 18s. 9d. 335, gid .' Id,l Rye rev"... 325. I 381. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 9d. 8(1.1 Oats 19s. 94 Beans.-- 19 1 . 6d. Barley 19s . 10d.1 Rye 21s. 3(1.1Pea5e....~ 121- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wj Wheat. Barley. Oats. I_2 . e . !> s • Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to s. S. 0 Blandford i 53 27 22 3f t Brigg 4O 58 36 40 15 22 30 gg Cambridge 48 27 16 Chard 48 54 24 28 17 20 4 4, Huntingdon 58 63 23 .28 14 19 26 i 5 Long 5utt0n........ 56 64 17 22 32 Louth 48 54 28 32 18 22 40 1 Lynn 5O 60 22 25 16 20 3 2 '4O Newark 57 60 29 40 16 22 37 Nottingham 46 51 29 33 IS 24 32 4 Peterborough 38 48 25 29 13 21 28 Plymouth 150 64 30 34 20 23 67 43 27 45 Sleaford Uppingbam 42 47 28 32 22 26 36 4 .4 Wisbech 48 (12 20 33 14 22 30 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan.2B. WHEAT, English, White, per 70Ib. -- Red 67 76 1 22 20 733 .6 g . -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White -- Red GE.--Jan. 28. 7s. 84. to 8(1. - 72 7 ' .. OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b : 7: l i ! 7 11 8 6; - Irish - Foreign s. BARLEY, English, - Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 Q ~- 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. - Feeding 3 6 3 ?, BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 34 0 41 v - Irish, &c• - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 4 4 0 - ---- Foreign FLOUR, English, per 28011) - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 2l 6 23 6 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter I MPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 27. ~ Wheal Oats. I Barley Flour. 04 16 ? Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. •--I Foreign, Brls.llrish,&c. Scks. Loa d' 4,624 4,624 3,716 756 -- 5,882 4,2 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Fee. 1. A. W. Mills, law-stationer, Carey-street r o at 1 ..... BIRTHS. On the 2Sth inst., in Mansfield.street, the lady of Lieu t.. General Sir John Townshend Walker, G.C.8., of a son. On the 29th inst., at Bellary Cottage, Brixton, the lady' Major John Race Godfrey, of the let Regiment Madras lO U ' try, of a daughter. ft On the 29th inst., Mrs. Ambrose Poynter, Poet's Corne t' of a daughter. MARRIED. On the :Nth inst., at Bransby, Yorkshire, William Plowdell" Esq., to Barbara, the eldest daughter of F. Cholmeley, Esq. i d On the 30th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, 1441:i Gore Browne, of the Royal Artillery, to Mary Anne, daugb of Benjamin Benyon, Esq., of Wilton-crescent, Belgrav e ; square, and one of the Representative s in P ar l iament f or Borough of Stafford. 0( On the th inst., at St. Pancras, John Johnson, Esl , Calcutta, to Ann, second daughter of the late John Kelso, FA 44. of Londonderry. bin) 11'.1 t St. P. On the 30th inst., at Jancras New Church, Joaci. C. Friederichs, Esq., of Altona, to Carolina Helena Maris' daughter of Matthias Von Holst, Esq., of Howland-stre et " Fitzroy-square. On the 28th inst., at St. Nicholas Church, Brighton, Captai n H. D. C. Douglas, R.N. ,to Ann St. Aubin, niece of John Aubin, Esq., of Brighton. On the 30th inst., at Trinity Church, Chelsea, Peter We6t cott, Esq., of Oundle, to Elizabeth Mary Hill, of Cadogan-Place' DIED, On the 29th inst., at Ito Heston, Staffordshire, the Rev. Jo , I3P Peplot Mosley, A.M., rector of that parish for 44 years, aged v`: On the 27th of November last, at Portland, Jamaica, in hi; 36th year, William, the second son of John West, Esq., of that island, and of Brixton-place, Surrey. On the 29th inst., at Epsom, George William Story, Esq., in his 77th year. On the 26th inst., at Boulogne.sur-Mer, Sir Wm GlaYt 01 :: Bart., of Marden-park, Surrey, and Harlyford, Bucks, in I , ' 72d year. On the 25th inst., at Bridgewater, John Arthur, the infa n t son of J. Anstice, Esq. On the 30th inst., at Pier Head, Wapping, Denis Chapm an ' Esq., aged 69. On the 28th inst., aged 82, Henry Malpas, Esq., of Knigh t'' bridge. pRINTRD AND pUBLIFHED syMURDO YOUNU,►T I :Sum Omog, 112, STIUND. qu ab of lan the ♦er of i of Col poi 10, Eu FC nu N(