The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The intercepted despatch from Montealegre to the Queen Dowager of Portugal (published exclusively in the Times of Saturday), taken in connexion with private ac counts, which state the complicity of numerous indi viduals professing allegiance to the Royal Charter, in schemes devised for its overthrow, furnishes matter of very grave reflection, and must, in our judgment, force the British Government to prompt and decisive resolutions. - In the second paragraph of the secret despatch, the rebel General declares expressly his deep sense of abligation to King Ferdinand (" her Majesty's august brother") for the most signal benefits to himself " and his division," while he was organizing the latter within the Spanish territory. In the third paragraph it is as clearly recorded by the writer, that on his being admitted to the presence of the King, and of the Portuguese Princesses (married to the two Infants of Spain), he, Montealegre was actually appointed by Ferdinand Commander en second of the invading army of Portuguese rebels, and Chaves Com mander-in-Chief! As this is a remarkable and important passage, we shall quote the writer's words :—" There I had likewise the singular honour of kissing his (Ferdi nand's) Royal hand, and that of the most Serene Princesses, the Princess of Beira and the Infanta of Spain, having been on that occasion required by the first, to take the command en second, and to consider as General in Chief, my nephew the Marquis of Chaves—that being the Sove reign Will of his Catholic Majesty ; to which I submitted without any hesitation !"—We have it then pretty safely established, that the Commander-in-Chief, and second in command, of the rebel army equipped in Spain for the in vasion of our Portuguese ally, were named and commis sioned for that service by " the Sovereign will and plea sure of Ferdinand the Vllth.!! " Is England then, and will she suffer the Court of Portugal, to be cajoled any longer—or bullied, rather—by the cavalier " assurances" of this unprincipled King and Cabinet, that he disapproves the conduct of his provincial Governors, in lending aid to that rebel armament, the Commanders of which were actu ally nominated by himself? If England listens to the subsequent protestations of Ferdinand, and the odious hypocrites who surround him, she courts, we must say, her own disgrace. " Longa," forsooth, " has been recalled, and his successor appointed." It is a barefaced falsehood—both one and the other of these assertions : Longa has not received the slightest mark of real displeasure from Ferdinand; while the creature osten sibly appointed, to succeed him has been bedridden for many months, and can never move a step towards the frontier. It is time, therefore, for Great Britain to lay aside the affectation of a credulity, by which she can no longer pretend to be deceived, and the assumption of which can only be disgraceful, when it leads to no practical and benefcial object. The effrontery and treachery of Ferdinand has mingled insult in the same cup with wrong. But, on the other hand, according to private letters, the Portuguese Government itself has been accused, and, it would seem, not quite unjustly, of paltering and coquetting with rebellion, instead of em ploying any strenuous efforts to extinguish it. From the last accounts, we are led to suppose that treason has been working more extensively, and that crimes against the state have been detected of a more re volting nature, considering the individuals thereby im plicated, than the public had been at first aware.— We are compelled to ask, can any thing be more calculated to rouse an honest Englishman's indigna tion, than the open impunity with which rebels of all ranks have bearded the Government of the Regent ?- We have read of various noblemen, who had taken more or less active parts in the rebellion, being suffered, on the discomfiture of .their troops, to retire unmolested to their country seats, and thence get ready fresh engines of attack upon the Constitutional Sovereign. It is true, that Chaves and the other traitors of his family, with those of one or two other houses, have not yet been seized, and cannot, therefore, be punished in their own persons ; but why should the law be silent in regard to them, or why should the Ministers of the Regent, with the Houses of the Legislatnre, be fast asleep ? Months ago we called upon the Portuguese Constitutional Authorities to confis cate by law the estates of these incorrigible rebels, and to set by proclamation, a price upon their heads. If no steps of the kind be adopted, it is plain that the Go vernment chooses to be a party with the rebels, and that no greater outrage was ever practised upon a friendly nation, than the demand made by Portugal from England of a body of troops, which are retained as spectators of their own approaching circumvention, where their active services were professedly required ; retained to be made the laughing stock of both Portuguese factions, to be wasted in useless enarehings towards the frontier, and to have their retreat eventually cut off by the growing strength of the rebel cause, which is encouraged and re cruited for, by the criminal forbearance of the Portuguese Government to act with becoming resolution against the most guilty of the enemy. England, we say, has an ob vious right, and it has long since been the bounden duty of her Minister, to exact from Portugal the immediate adoption of penal measures against the rebels, or at once to withdraw the British troops from a land where their safety and honour are thus compromised by the weak or wicked lenity which the rebel chiefs, with their families and associates, have experienced from the Power profess ing to be an ally of Great Britain._Times. The Catholic Question comet on to-night in the House of Cemmons. Hitherto the Question has been/whether will the conceding of the claims of the Catholics, or the rejecting, he most conducive to the security of the Empire? The possibility of an event, the belief of which gives a new shape to the question, never once occurred to any Member of the Legislature. No one till now ever sup posed that there was any process by which the proportion between the Catholics and Protestants could be materially altered. But there is now a party in the House, and a still larger party out of it, who say, let us alone—only stave off the settlement of the Catholic Question for a year or two, and we will answer for it there will be no Catho lics to emancipate. If it be doubtful, they say, whether it would be safer to give or withhold political power to Catholics, there can be no doubt that it would be the safest of all to have none but Protestants in the posses sion of power from necessity, in consequence of the ex tinction of Catholicism. We have heard it stated on good authority, that the most distinguished member of the Protestant Church of Ireland, has actually committed him s,,lf by the Declaration, that the Reformation now begun i n I :reland, will be terminated in less than seven years by the complete withdrawal of the Catholics from Popery.— From the: tone of Mr. Leslie Foster, on Friday night, it is clear the). he supposes the Catholics are quite ready for a rush. We isenow nothing personally of Lord Farnham ; but gentlemen of the North of Ireland assure us that he is a sober-minded woridly-man, whose general character is anything rather than a disposition to cut blocks with razors. For our parts we never attempt to reason as to the effects of enthusiasm ; and it is clear that the - enthusiasm which is to work the conversion of a whole Catholic population to the religion of a people to whom they have never borne much love, must be of no ordinary strength.— Enthusiasm alone is equal to the production of so ex traordinary a result ; for the buying over two or three of the wretched outcasts who are without bread, and even in want of rags, would only make the whole matter ridiculous. What staggers us very much is, that in England we have never understood, that in the Manufacturing districts—as in Lancashire, for instance—where the Catholics form large bodies, the Methodists, the most successful of all our converters, have made any impression on the former. At Preston, and about Blackburn, thc! Catholics keep their - ground, if they do not gain on their neighbours. The Catholics form a large part of the population of Britain. Now, we should think this island is a much fairer field for conversion than Ireland, and yet no progress is made in ' that work. The Puritans, who once had an ascendancy in England, and who could boast of such a host of eminent Divines, some of whom are yet without their equals in the Church for learning and subtlety—as Richard Baxter for instance—are now nearly extinct in this part of the island. There are now no Presbyterian gentry, though at one time they were as twenty'to one to the Catholic gentry ; but the Catholic gentry keep their ground as well as the Catholic commonalty. Judging, therefore, from analogy, we should doubt the possibility of the Irish Reformation. But this is not an affair of reasoning. If the flame of enthusiasm which, in former times, spread rapidly through nations, and carried them even en masse, as it were, to the doctrines of the Reformation, be now, after an interval of centuries, kindled once more in Ireland, the same cause may produce the same effect. But the wonder of the se cond Reformation will be greater than that of the first. In the Roman Church, large revenues had led to luxury and laziness; and Luther appeared not only as the Apostle of purer doctrines, but as the advocate of a purer life. But the Church of England, and still more that of Ireland, possess reN enues sufficient to corrupt. all the Clergy of Europe ; and the whole of this second Reformation origi nated on the part of the Church, in a wish not so much to convert the Catholics as to secure this immense wealth. How an enthusiasm originating in so gross a cause is to work such wonders is to us incomprehensible—but all miracles transcend comprehension.—Morning Chronicle. It is hardly possible for there to have been a greater con trast between two efforts of the genius of one master, than is apparent between Mr. Canning's speech upon the Corn Laws, and that which he so recently delivered on the af fairs of the Peninsula. The one is as the quiet scenery of Claude by the side of the wild, romantic beauties of Sal vator Rosa. Whether Mr. Canning's subdued tone upon this latter occasion was the result of discretion or of phy sical weakness ; or (as perhaps was really the case) of a tinion of both, we are inclined to think that it showed quite as much of the skill of the master as could have been exhibited on an occasion of so mud? difficulty. 'Whatever may be the ultimate judgment of Parliament upon the propositions submitted by the speech, no terms could be better adapted at once to simplify the statement and con ciliate conflicting interests and opinions than those chosen by the Foreign Minister upon the occasion. There was nothing, however, in the speech itself, or in the way in which the subject was handled, calculated to convince the country that no one but Mr. Canning was qualified to approach the subject ; or that it need, have been dropped in the Lords on account of Lord Liverpool's illness. Still less was there any thing in the pro positions themselves to justify the delay, or the mighty secrecy which has attended them. The scheme, after all, is avowed to be Mr. Ricardo's; and we cannot bring ourselves to believe that much midnight oil, or the rime of many grave conclaves of the Cabinet, can have been consumed in concocting a measure, certainly vary plain and intelligible in its details, but which, in our apprehension at least, might as well have been di vulged if not in June, at least in November last, without the parade, the difficulty, and importance which has been attached to it. That the measure at length divulged by Ministers on this important subject will please all parties, is not to be expected; and on the contrary, that it will quite satisfy none, may be its best recommendation. It is seldom that an arbitrator, if he is a just one, entirely pleases either party at the moment. A middle course is what can, in its nature, never be expected to satisfy those who are contending for extremes ; though, in the end, the good sense, both of individuals and of mankind in general, usually sobers down into whatever is clearly dictated by impartial justice. So we apprehend it will be with the propositions of Mr. Canning. They will be found fault with mutually by agriculturists and manufacturers; but both, we suspect, will, in the end, agree, that though they suit net the extreme of either, they are as fairly appor tioned to the claims of both as a fair view of their relative circumstances would permit. If we have any fault to find with Mr. Canning's speech, it is, that for the sake of brevity, or to avoid discussion, he assumed—or, if we may so say, jumped at once to conclusions which he ought to have proved and reasoned upon. We do not deny, for instance, that 60s. may be the lowest sum- at which the British farmer, generally speaking, can now afford to grow wheat, and 30s. as the price of barley. From all that we have heard, or read, or seen, we believe this to be the case. But Mr. Canning, we think, should have told the House why it is so, and what pro spect, and means, if any, there are, of seeing that price diminished. The burdens to which land is subject are, we know, the principal cause of this. But facts admitted without reasoning, and without cause, are apt to remain stationary and immovable. The landed interest in either H?use of Parliament are never likely to be very strenuous advocates for economy or retrenchment, if they can find a Ministry ready to afford them a permanent indemnity against the consequence of their mutual extravagance.—lt would have been as well, too, if Mr. Canning had advert ed a little to the actual and probable prices at which foreign corn is likely to be obtained on an average of years and seasons. Even Mr. Jacob's data were not alluded to; and wisely, perhaps, as they are more than suspected to be, in some measure, apocryphal. It is well known in the corn trade,.that there is a considerable quantity of good Dantzic wheat at this moment in this country, which has been bonded here, with all expences paid, at little more than ;245. a quart er. Now, it is quite clear, that a duty of 20s. upon such wheat will not reach the price which it is assumed the British grower ought to obtain for his, and it is therefore material that that part of the subject should not have been passed over so lightly as it has been. We throw out these, however, merely as sug gestions; not as as opposing ourselves to the resolutions which Government have brought forward, which, as far as we can at present see, combine as fair and prudent a view of the subject as the moderate persons on either side of the question could have teen led to expect.—Morning Herald. " I wish," said Sit M. W. Ridley, in a former debate in the House of Commons, " to see the system of the Court of Chancery altered; but I must object to the mode in which au individual is attacked night after night. I am persuaded such attacks do no good; for Lord Eldon stands very high in the estimation of the people of .Eng land." This was good advice given to his party, by a very zealous, but a sensible and honourable Whig; and it was founded on fact. The people have no sympathy with that disappointed ambition, and that cowardly envy of great talents and great virtues, which seduce a few politi cal intriguants, and their subordinate tools, to disgorge, day after day, torrents of nauseous abuse against Lord Eldon. That clarum et venerabile nomen excites warmer feelings of esteem and attachment in the great mass of the English nation. His Lordship has lived before the public for half a century—the artificer of his own fortune and dignity, which he has built up to its present elevation by superior learning, and talents, and virtue. Enemies and calumniators may assail him as they please. It is as vain to attempt to deprive him of the confidence and admira tion of the people of England, as it would be to turn aside the venerable sage himself from the strict path of judicial integrity. Whence, then, proceed those base at tacks upon him, which, day after day, degrade some of our political declaimers, and their subordinate agents? Why, from no more noble source than a bigotted, unrea soning hatred, founded on ignorance, and cherished by the malice of petty minds,—.New Times. DOUBLE DUTIES.—We feel much pleasure in giving the following information to our readers :—His Grace the Governor has issued directions to the officers of the Customs, in which, after adverting to the communication from the commis sioners of accounts, he directs that the duties collected or to he collected by the officers of customs on goods which were in bond on the 9th of December last, be paid over to the Receiver-. General without any deduction. Thus far, says his Grace's order. But we understand that the officers of the customs will continue to take bonds on all imports, so that should any countermanding order arrive from the Treasury, the goods then in bond may be subject thereto. This is in pursuance of the 34th clause of 6 Geo. IV. cap. 114. (a British Act of Parliament), but it will not affect goods taken out of bond at any time previous to the arrival of such countermanding order, should any such arrive, which however is not expected. --Jamaica Courant, Jan. 8. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, MARCH 3. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE. HARRIS V. ICEMBLE AND OTHERS. In this cause a Bill was filed by the - plaintiff, one of the proprietors of Covent Garden Theatre, against the defendants, Messrs.. Kem ble, Willett, and Forbes, for the specific performance of a con tract. It appeared from the bill and the statements made by . Counsel, that, upon the rebuilding of the Theatre after its de struction by fire, the father of the plaintiff became the Manager, and continued to act in that capacity at the salary of 1,0001. a year, up to his death, which took place in 1820. The plaintiff, on his father's death, was the proprietor of 7-12ths of the theatre, and his share with those of the three defendants amounted to iths of the whole establishment. Some disputes had commenced be tween the parties as to the manner in which the Theatre was to he conducted. Mr. Harris would by no means consent that it should be under the management of Mr. Charles Kemble, whilst on the other hand, the defendants ware unwilling that the plaintiff should continue as his father's successor. It was therefore deemed adviseable that one party or the other should retire, and a proposal was made by Mr. Harris, either to dispose of his share to the defendants, or to take theirs at a reasonable value. After much negociation, it was at length arranged that the defendants should pay to the plaintiff an annual rent of twelve thousand pounds for his share. In order to carry this arrangement into effect the parties signed a contract, by which they transferred their respective shares, for a nominal consideration, to a Mr. Harrison, in trust that he should afterwards grant a lease of them to the defendants for twelve thousand pounds a year, which sum he was to pay over to the plaintiff. This contract was entered into in the year 1822, and it was for its specific performance that the present bill was filed. It prayed that the defendants be compelled, by the order of the Court, to fulfil the contract, or at least of such parts of it as were not inconsistent with the rights of Mr. Const, who was proprietor of the remaining one-eighth share. On the part of the defendants it was now insisted that the contract ought not to stand and the following, among others, were the reasons advanced in support of their case. 'They charged the plaintiff with having in duced them to promise too high a rent by grossly misrepresenting to them the average profits of the Theatre, of which they themselves had been in ignorance, and by hob ling out to them expectations which had never been fulfilled, and which the experience of former years did not at all justify. The plaintiff, they stated, had the custody of the books of the Theatre, or at all events such access to them as must have enabled him to ascertain the precise ieceipts and expenditure of the establishment, whilst on the other hand, they did not enjoy the same opportunity, and of course, were in total ignorance of the amount. The defendants also in sisted that at the time of their entering into the contract they were not aware of the existence of a deed which had been ex ecuted in 1812 between all the then proprietors of the Theatec. They stated that they never heard of this deed until proceedings had been commenced respecting it in the Court of Chancery, and a receiver appOinted to the Theatre. They therefore submitted; that as the plaintiff was not able to fulfil the contract on his part, the Court ought not to compel them to fulfil their portion of it. The rent of twelve thousand pounds was promised under the im pression that they were to have the control of the Theatre, free from the slightest interference, and yet a receiver had been put over them, under an instrument which existed previously to their entering into the contract in question, and they charged the plain tiff with being fully aware of its existence, and wilfully concealing it from them ; and finally they urged, in opposition to the prayer of the plaintiff's bill, that it would utterly ruin them if the Court were to enforce the agreement which had been so made. Mr. Harris, on the other hand, denied that the defendants had the means of in forming themselves as to the average profits of the theatre, and insisted that the falling off of the receipts was attributable to the bad ma nagement of Mr. Charles Kemble, who had, by seeking to put himself forward hs an actor, displaced others who were far more competent to represent some of the characters which he - had ap propriated to himself. Some authority was wanting to interfere between Mr. Charles Kemble, the manager, and Mr. Charles Kemble, the actor. The Counsel for the plaintiff expressed the greatest possible respect for Mr. Kemble, as a private gentleman, and admiration of his professional abilities ; but, when he turned round and said that the theatre had diminished in value, they insisted on the right of charging him with being partly the cause of that deterioration. They also stated that Mr. Kemble had adopted the contract, and had, under the powers granted to him by it, altered the interior of the theatre materially; among other things he had removed what are called the " baskets," boxes in which, according to Mr. Sugden, the modest apprentice was wont to hide himself, and seek retirement from the public gaze, until he acquired sufficient confidence to expose himself in all the glare of a front box. The plaintiff further urged, that the defend ants were not injured by the appointment of a receiver, as, in fact, the gentleman who now acted in that capacity was the identical person who had for many vears been their own treasurer, so that the decree of the Lord Chancellor did nothing more than clothe the individual with a new denomination. This is a short outline of the arguments which have been used on both sides. They have not yet concluded, and it is likely that the case will occupy the Court at least another day. It has already been three days before the Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. — Owen Daintrey, a most respectable looking young man, a clerk in the Inland Department of the Ge neral Post-office, was brought up for final examination, on the charge of having broken open letters which came into his hands in the course of his employment, and embezzling money contained in them. The prisoner had undergone two examinations on the charge of embezzling a 5/. note, which had been transmitted, by letter, from Messrs Codd and Co., Army-agents, in Fludyer-street, Westmin ster, addressed to Messrs. Henderson and Co., of Ramsey, in the Isle of Man ; but on Saturday, Mr. Peacock, the Solicitor to the Post-office, preferred another charge against the prisoner, for em bezzling five 101. Bank post-hills, which had been forwarded, by Messrs. Drummond, the bankers, in a letter addressed to a Mrs. Routledge, of Birmingham. The forwarding of these bills was clearly proved by Mr. T. E. Rush, a clerk in Messrs. Drum mond's house ; but, owing to a link being wanting in the chain of evidence, the Post-office Solicitor abandoned this charge, and referred back to the prior one of the Si. note, upon which the fol lowing evidence was adduced : J. Lyndon, a clerk to Messrs. Codd and Co., stated that, on Saturday, the 10th of February last, he wrote a letter to Messrs. Henderson and Co., of Ramsey, Isle of Man, in which letter a bl. note was to be enclosed. He handed the letter up to Mr. Septi mus Codd, Mr. S. Codd received the letter, signed it, and placed in it a 5/. Bank of England note, dated Qd of Jan. 1527, No. 5,941. After inclosing the note, he either put the letter into the Post-office in Scotland-yard or else gave it to the General Postman in St. James's-street, he did not recollect which. Mr. Watmore—ls one of the Presidents in the Inland Depart ment of the General Post-office ; the prisoner is a clerk in that office ; he was on duty on the 10th of February, at the Liverpool rbad ; a letter addressed to the Isle of Man would pass through the prisoner's hands. Mr. Cope, the City Marshal, was called in to apprehend the prisoner on Monday the 12th of February ; it was early in the morning ; he searched him, and in his breeches pocket, he found the note, No. 5,911. The note was identified as being the same that was inclosed in Messrs. Codd and Co.'s letter. Mr. Humphreys, who attended as Solicitor for the prisoner, declined putting any questions to the witnesses, and recommended the prisoner to say nothing in the present stage of the proceedings. The Loan MAYOR then addressed the prisoner in a most feel ing manner. He said that since he had the honour of being a Magistrate he had never been called upon to exercise a more pain ful duty than on the present occasion. He did not by any means wish to prejudge the prisoner's case, but he could not help ob serving that it was one that, in the event of a conviction, it was extremely probable the law would take its crnirse. The prisoner appeared quite callous during his Lordship's ad dress, and at the conclusion complained of some of his clothes having been kept back from him by the officers; and he wished to know whether he was not entitled to have them delivered to him? The Post-office Solicitor said that the clothes had been detained for very obvious reasons pending the examination ; but now that the examination was closed there would not be the least objection to giving up the clothes. The LORD MAYOR. was sorry that the prisoner should make such a remark at such a moment ; the clothes had been very properly detained, but they would now be given up.--Committed. A Jew named Elias Abrahams, WRY charged with robbing a Mr. Allan Lambert, of Bromley, Kent, tallow-chandler, of a silver hunting watch, gold chain, and two gold seals, value about 151. The prisoner felt indignant at the charge, declared he was equally as respectable as the prosecutor, that his father had lived in one house upwards of twenty years, and that he could find bail to any amount. The Loan MAYOR at first thought of availing himself of Mr. Secretary Peel's Statute, empowering two Magistrates to take bail in cases , of felony, and calling in a second Magistrate ; but, after strictly interrogating the prosecutor, he was so well satisfied that he sent the prisoner to Newgate for trial. INQUEST ON MR. BURY. The Leicester Journal gives the inquest of this unfortunate gentleman (who was killed by the overturning of the Manchester mail) at great length. It was held on Wednesday last, at the Greyhound inn, at Glen, before CIDIRLES MEREDITH, Gent., Coroner for the county. The Jury, after being sworn, proceeded to the room where the deceased lay; there was a bruise on the head, but none externally about the body, which was.much swol len, particularly round the cheat. He appeared to be about 35 years of age, and rather muscular than otherwise. After return ing to the jury -room, the Coroner examined the witnesses. The witness described the manner of the deceased's death, and exonerated the coachman from all blame. The accident was Mainly caused by the breaking of the reins. The Jury retired, and after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of one pound on each of thehorses, and one pound ()lithe coach, as that fell upon the man, and caused his death ; and also stating, that the road was an extremely dangerous nuisance at that part where the fatal ac cident happened. The brother of the deceased arrived on Tuesday evening, and removed the body in a hearse, after the jury had taken a view of it, to be interred at Manchester. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.--TUESDAY, MARCH 6.—(At the Court of Conamisioners, Basinghall-street.) Allan, J., Truro, tea-dealer--10 Bean, J., George-street, horse-dealer-10 Carpenter, T., St. John-street, butcher-11 Chappell, W., Strand, pork-butcher-11 Clay, T., Coleman-street, warehouseman-10 Collins and Co., Blshopsgate-street, merchants-11 Craig, G., Hoxton, oilman-9 Cranfield, J., Newington, tailor-11 Dutton, F., Holborn, bookseller-11 Edwards, J., Brighton, bookseller-11 Garrett and Co., Bishopsgate-street, drapers-11 Hardcastle, W., Covent-garden, bookseller-11 Lloyd, D., Bankside, timber merchant-11 Moody, W., Aldersgate-street, coachmaster-11 Patterson, J., Bridge-street, Blackfriars, ironmonger-11 Peak, J., New Ormond-street, bricklayer-11 COUNTRY DIARY, TUESDAY, MARCH 6. Atkinson, J., Lancaster—King's Arms, Lancaster-11 Breuell and Co., Livorpool—George, Liverpool-1 Brierley and Co., Manchester—White's, Manchester-2 Charlton, F., Blyth, Northumberland—George, Newcastle upon-Tyne-1 Chase, J., Eastington—Ram, Gioncester-10 Cox, E., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury-11 Cross, F., Birtsmorton—Feathers, Ledbury-11 Drosier, T., Blakeney—Angel, Norwich-11 Fenton, J., Hanley—Swan, Hanley-12 Ferryman, J., Cheltenham—Royal Hotel, Cheltenham-5 Fletcher, J., Liverpool—Star and Garter, Liverpool-1 Hall, P. J., Ashton in Mackerfield--Buck i' the Vine Inn, Wigan-5 Harrison, J., Wigan—Buck i' the Vine Inn, Wigan-12 Hill, S., Kidderminster—White Hart, Hartlebury-11 Hopkins, J., Bristol—Rummer, Bristol-12 Hudson, T., Ramsgate—Guildhall, Canterbury-11 Jalland, C., Mansfield—Swan, Mansfield-10 Johnson, A., York—Old George, York-11 Macsinger, J., Wigton—Half Moon, Wigton-12 Ogden, T , Manchester—Star, Manchester-2 Owen, C., Whitley—Guildhall, Shrewsbury-10 Penlington, J., Liverpool—Mr. Leather's, Liverpool-11 Penner, T., Newent--Feathers, Ledbury-11 Seddon, T., Liverpool—Mr. Kaye, Liverpool-11 Slater and Co., Belton—Star, Manchester-1 Smith, S., Manchester—Star, Manchester-11 Williams, T., Northwich—Crown, Northwich-11 INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED. Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Lincoln's-Inn-Fields, MARCH 7, AT NINE. Amory, J., Wapping, mariner Adey, J., Old-street, carpenter Devonshire, R., Hoxton, silversmith Heginbottom, W., Manchester, clothier Henley, J., Hoxton; green-grocer Hobbs, W., Southwark, cattle-dealer Hnghes; H., Bermondsey, fishmonger Humphrys, W., Poplar, painter Jennings, C., St. Pancras, chemist Morris, T., Mile-end, hat manufacturer Rackstraw, W., Chelsea, baker Rood, NV., Ormond-street, baker Roper, T., Poplar, dealer Scott, J., Titchfield-street, cabinet-maker Walker, W., Carey-street, law-stationer COUNTRY.—At the Court-house, at Durham, March 6, at Ten o'clock. Liverseed, J., Easington, farmer Ratcliffe, T., Darlington, carrier Gibbon, J., Auckland, labourer Railton, E., Newcastle, cordwainer Jackson, G:, Low Stanley, farmer Corner, M., Darlington, gardener Walton, J., Bowes, miller Horn, M., Houghton, engineer Kerss, S., South Shields, clerk Ward, J., Hurworth, cordwainer Lambert, T., St. Giles, linen-manufacturer Blakey, G., Chester-le-Street, innkeeper Gowland, J., Durham, cordwainer Taylor, R., Auckland, farmer Stamper, R., Sedgefield, farmer METHOD OF QUELLING A RIOT.--The High landers of Scotland are much disposed to quarrel, when affected by the exhalations of the mountain dew. A certain fiscal was recently disturbed, while enjoying the society of a friend, by " Mary, the Maid of the Inn," who broke in upon them, and an nounced, in a lamentable tone, that two men were fighting in Mac—'s, and the fiscal was wanted immediately. The worthy official, after scratching his head for some time, (for who would not consult the crown lawyers in such a dilemma) turned to Mary, and told her to go to Mac— and tell him, " to give the men a gill, provided they gave over fighting." " But if they'll no do't, Sir," said Mary. "In that case," rejoined the fiscal, (turning to his toddy,) " tell him to make the rascals . fight till I come."—Ply mouth Journal. LIVERPOOL COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE The demand for British Plantation Sugar this week has been limited, the sales amount only to 300 hhds. ; prices, however, re main steady; besides which, a small lot of fine white Bengal Sugar was sold at 7'7s. 6d. per cwt. Nothing done in Foreign Sugar. About 380 punchs. .Berbice and Demerara Molasses, principally sold by auction, brought 258. per cwt. for the former, ordinary quality, and 265. 9d. to 275. 6d. for the latter. The business done in Coffee consists of small lots of Jamaica to the grocers at former rates. A few begs of Para Cocoa have been disposed of at 355. per cwt. Ginger dull. A small parcel of Pi mento has been sold at 91d. per lb. for fair quality. Rums steady but not much doing. Our Cotton Market was dull in the early part of the week, and some sales of Boweds were made at a reduction of id. per lb. from our last quotations (says at sia. for middling fair quality); during the last three days, however, there has been more inquiry from the trade, and the holders are in consequence less disposed to sell at those rates, but the prices of most kinds may, on the whole, be considered a shade lower. The public sale yesterday consisted of 65S bags Demerara and Berbice of which 405 sold at 71d. to Sid. for inferior to fair; 9d. to 1 OP. for good fair to fine ; also 45 Barbadoes at '7d. to 7id. per lb. The sales by private contract consist of 6,120 Bowed, 61d. a 71d., chiefly at 6. a sp. for fair and fully fair quality ; 670 Orleans, 6P. a 9 4 d., principally at 7id. a 71d. for middling to fair ; SO Alabama, 7d. ; 170 Sea Island, 11 d. a 1111 ; SO stained ditto at 7d. a B{d. ; 150 Pernambuco, 9i-d. a lOid. ; 450 Maranham, Sid. a 91d. ; 290 Bahia, 81d. a 9d. ; 260 Egyptian, 7d. a 9d. ; 20 Demerara, 9d.; 120 Surat, 5i -d. a 6d. making a total, including those sold by auction, of about 8,800 bigs. The arrivals are 11,736 bags, beside several vessels not yet reported. The demand for Stemmed Tobacco for the trade has remained steady since our last, and in some instances a small advance in prices has been paid. Imported into Liverpool, from the 24th February to the 2d March, 1827, inclusive, by two vessels from New York, one Philadelphia, three Charleston, three Savannah, two New Or leans, one Lisbon, one Charente, one St. Michael, one Zante, one Sicily, one Jersey, and one Ireland : Brandy, 300 casks ; Orchella Weed, 58 bales ; American Flour, 1,000 barrels; Currants, S butts; New Orleans and Mobile Cotton, 914 bales ; Rest United States, 10,812 ; Ireland, 10; Rice, 220 tierces, 16 half tierces ; Nicaragua Wood, 10 tons ; Flax-seed, 304 tierces ; Madder Roots, 410 bales ; Yellow HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—March 2. There was a large supply of all kinds of Grain. Wheat was higher than last week ; Oats were lower, and nearly one-half of the supply re mained unsold; Barley without altera'oon. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First Second Third sls Od 38s Od 35s Qd .564 (k 1 56a Od There were 336 quarters of Wheat in market, whereof 330 so d thus : 4 at... 635. Od. 1 40 at... 60s. Od. 79 at... 571. Od. 1 22 at... mb. 0 , 1. 2 13 6 Unsold-20 Grey Average, 21. 16s. Ild. 4-12th per quarter. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday Average Produce 8 0 Quantity of fine Copper 204 ti Amount of Sale, £13,836 ss. N.—Average Standard, £lOl 2s. Od. BIRTHS. On the 27th ult., at Cleeve-house, Somerset, the lady of Dr. Burrows, of a son. On the 2d inst., in Great Coram-itreet, Russell-square, the lady of Frederick Allen, Esq., of a daughter• • DIED. On the 28th ult., after a short but very severe illness, aged 64., Sir John Lister Kaye, Bart., of Denby Grange, in the County of York. • On Saturday, March 3, Mary Frances, the beloved wife of Mr. Henry Althans, corn-factor, of Tower-hill. Printed and Pablieh•d by M. YOUNG, at the g eN _Q md „, No. 112, STRAXD. Berries, 14 bales; Brimstone, 230 tons; Cow and Ox Hides, No. 497. The arrival of several vessels from America without bringing any Turpentine has occasioned some inquiries for this article, with an inclination to buy at about the prices last obtained, but holders now demand 13s. 9d. to 14s. for old, and 14s. 6d. to 15s. for new. There is some inquiry for Stockholm Tar; for export 20s. per barrel is obtained for small parcels ; in American, a sale of 1,400 barrels has been effected at 13s. 6d. ; small parcels bring 14s. 6d. per barrel. A considerable parcel of Rosin has been bought for the London market, at 7s. per cwt. The speculative demand which appeared last week for Ashes having subsided, there has since been but little business doing ; the total sales this week are about 150 barrels new Montreal Pot at 255. to 255. 6d., 60 barrels old and stained ditto at 21s. to 245. and 70 barrels Pearl at 265. to 265. 6d., for new, and 255. 6d. for old ; of States' Ashes few barrels have brought 275. per cwt. The transactions in Dyewoods have been trifling; 40 tons Campeachy Logwood at Si. 7s. 6d. to Si. 12s. 6d., eight tons Ja maica at 71. 2s. 6d., with 30 tons Spanish Fustic at 6/. 10s., and 10 tons Cuba at 101. per ton, comprise the entire business of the week.-In Rough Brimstone but little doing, 10 tons very fine Sicily have been sold at 71. per ton.-Fine White Argol is inquired for, 15 casks Naples small have sold at 505., fine will bring 655. to 68s. per cwt. Cream of Tartar meets a ready sale at 7'7s. to 80s. per cwt.-The sales of Shumac are trifling, but prices remain without alteration.-Valonia is rather lower; 100 tons Smyrna of good quality were offered on Monday by auction, a small part sold at 16/. 10s., the remainder withdrawn.-Fifty tons Dutch Oak Bark brought yesterday by auction 61. 15s. to 71. 10s. per ton.-In Quercitron Bark nothing done.-Indigo meets a steady demand, and prices fully supported.--Thirteen chests Lac Dye, mark NM, have brought 2s. 9d. per lb. in bond. There has been more inquiry for Flax Seed, at improving prices ; three hundred hogsheads of New York Sowing have brought 635. to 655. and 100 hogsheads Dutch 645. per hogshead, 220 quarters Canada have also brought 445. to 455. per quarter imperial.-But little Clover Seed has yet arrived here, this article is inquired for, and meets a ready sale; 30 casks American Red have been taken at 535. for old, and 655. for new, 48 bags French at 50s. for old, and 665. for new ; fine Dutch would bring 70s. to 725. per cwt.-A parcel of 10 barrels American Bees' Wax has been sold at 111. per cwt. The sales of Olive Oil are only about 10 tons at 441. to 451. for Sicily, Gallipoli is held for 481. to 50/. per ton.-Seed Oils are in good demand.-Fish Oils have for some weeks been very dull of sale and declining, on Wednesday some considerable orders ap pearing in the market, about 100 tons Ness foundland Cod have been sold at 231. 10s. to 24/. 10s. per ton ; the principal holders now demanding higher prices, the sales of Seal are trifling-Palm, Oil brings 27/. per ton.-011 of Turpentine remains steady at 621. per ton.-Some parcels of new Carolina Rice are now landing, part will be offered by auction next week, a few casks fine have already been sold at 235., 120 casks screened have brought 365. 6d. duty paid, and 250 bags East India 17s. 6d. to 19s. 6d. in bond. -The transactions in Hides have been very extensive, this week about 8,000 dry Valparaiso Ox and Cow at 7id. to 10-ad., 1,000 salted Ox and Cow at sid. to 54d., 1,000 Buenos Ayres salted Ox and Cow at 6d., 2,000 North American salted at 4/d. at 41d., 2,500 dry salted Brazil at bid. to 74d., and 90 West India salted at 44-d. per lb. ; the only business in Horse Hides is a parcel of Buenos Ayres at ss. each.-Hemp is still dull of sale.-There has been little doing in Tallow this week, and the price may be stated 6d. lower. CORN EXCHANGE-SATURDAY. The intelligence which reached us this morning relative to the measures upon the Corn question, as submitted to the House by Mr. Canning, had the effect of making holders of free wheat de mand an advance of fully 6d. per bushel on the prices of Tuesday last. The business done, however, was very limited, and as no decided law has yet been founded on the proposed measure, the market is likely to remain quiet until the question be completely set at rest by the alteration, adoption, or rejection of those measures. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEER. 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. s. to s. 50 60 59 48 60 46 55 49 59 48 56 56 60 s. d. s. d. 74 84 70 76 94 96 69 79 00 77 90 96 70 7 6 72 78 i 11 0 16 61 12 9 15 01 12 6 14 9 13 0 13 9 129 110 ,1t 6 14 61 S. to S. 30 38 37 43 34 38 28 42 38 42 s. d. s. d. 59 66 56 62 66 70 50 56 00 50 76 80 56 63 8 64 1 1 10 0 11 0 )10 6 11 0 1199 1 00 100 ) 00 00 fi 0 0 106 s. to s. 28 30 40 24 40 24 31 24 36 29 38 s. d. s. d.l 49 56 1 50 60' 5i 60 80 49 4 8 0 0 60 76 50 60 49 56 7 0 80 1 7 0 10 70 90 70 00 60 88 76 96 s. to 3. 48 54 45 50 s. d. s. d. 84 88 72 80 9 0 10 60 79 00 00 100 106 70 80 84 90 0 1S C 126 13C 10 0 12 C 00 0c 00 0( 00 IC a. to I. 46 50 50 u 50 b 4 a. d. Lll. 00 00 00 00 00 00 0• 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 90110 -8 139 hl3O 148 1011 118 00 Se 00 SO OS SO Per Quarter. Andover.-,...—. Carlisle. Hexharn Morpeth NeS:ealitle Romsey Sunderland. Winchester —.— Per Bushel. Birmingham Coventry Newcastle (Staff) Northallerton Penrith Stafford - Warwick Worcester Per Doll. Barnardeactle --- Darlington Durham.--. Stanhope - Stockton Wolsingham NOTTINGHAM CATTLE MARKET.—Feb. 118. Beef (st. of 141b.)_ 7 s. Od. to B s, Od. I Veal - 7 s , dd . to S q. el Mutton --. 0 8 3 Pork ~,M,I 6 7 6 supply moderate, and trade rather brisk, at improved prices. SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Feb. 28. We had a fair supply of all sorts of Grain to-day, particularly of Oats, which was large, and all sold at fully as high prices as laSt week. Wheat. Barley. \ Oats. Pease. 1 Beans. First S ec ond 29s Od 29s Od 29s Od 28s 6d 28s 6d Third 27s Od 27s Od 26s 6d 26s 6d 26s ad There were 603 bolls of Wheat in market, of whic 530 sold as under :- 7 at... 325. Od. 1 16 at... 30s. 6d. I 27 at... 295. 6(1. I 137 at... 28s. Od. 12 26 Gray, 8.-Unsold, '70.-Average, 295. 2d. 2.12 EDINBURGH CATTLE MARK .—Feb. 28. The supply of Sheep was larger than last week's:os2oFandprices fully as high. White-faced Wedders, from 275. to 355. ; Blac -faced, from 255. to 335. Ewes, from 15s. to 20s. A quick sale.—There were 205 Cattle. in the market ; best is. 6d. to Bs. 6d. ; inferior from 6s. to is. A brisk sale for good Cattle, at rather an advance on last week's prices; but inferior stood long in the market. PRICES OF PR Beef, per lb. .......os. 544. to Os. 7d. Mutton .0 6 0 8 Veall 0 8 0 10 Pork ..-- 0 4 0 6 Lamb, per quarter 10 0 15 0 Tallow, per 1b....... 0 0 0 0 Puartern Loaf . 0 7 0 8 otatoes, per 141 b. 0' 6 0 0 IvlsloNs, Sm. . _ Fresh Butter, per 80. Od. to Is. !d. Salt Ditto 10 0 0 Ditto, per 6 g g Eggs, per dozen 0 S 0 0 Oat Straw (kemp.) 0 0 17 0 Wheat Ditto 0 • 14 0 Barley Ditto 0 14 I Good Hay, per it. :0 10 0 11 MARKET.—Feb. which sold at last week's prices : Per Stone of I4th. Imp. Oatmeal KO 410 Barleyme.ll Peasemeal 0 9 2 I, 166.-3 d, M.—Pearl ditto 243. EDINBURGH MEA We had a smailspply of Oatmeal . Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp.: First Oatmeal £2 15 0 Second ditto 2 13 0 Barleymeal Peasemeal 1 W 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. Fla.—, GLASGOW CORN MARKET, —Feb. 28. Wheat in demand, and rather dearer. No alteration in Barley. A fair business doing in Oats, at about previous rates. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. Oats, per 3641 b. S. s. 4. B r itish, old ............... 30 o to 3l 0 ' Irish 22 6toVT 6 —. new 29 0 "' 1 British — 0 • Beans, per 2601 b English Scottish Pease, Scottish Ti 0 :29 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 b 22 0 24 0 Flour, per 2801 b. Canada, free 29 0 ii o Irish B 27 0 29 6 arley, per 3201 b English 34 0 35 0 Scottish Irish 2B 0 32 0 DALKEITH The supply of Grain CORN MARKET.— was moderate, and pri, Barley. I Oats. 6d 30s Od 32s 28s Od 30s Od I 265 Od 2ss Od Wheat. First Second Third 2Ss Od .March 1. ces as last week. Peas.. Beans. 30s Od Bog od 1118 s Od 28s 0.1 258 Od I 2bs Od Pease.