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THE LONDON JOURNALS. DAll,y Extracti from the 3lormna P apers , Aug. 17, 1825. [BRITISH PRESS. i The , Paris Papers of Sunday arrived last night. At-Hayti we are informed President 3oyer was prel4ring to have the Royal Ordinance registered by -,tie ; Senate .with becoming solemnity. The Haytians are represented to have received the concessioti of their independence with transports of joy, and it was reported, that so great was their eagern.ess to avail themselves of .the terms of the Ordinance, that 'the - Bearnaise, by which the 4ispacches were brought from Port-au-Prince, sv4tthe hearer also of 15 millions of francs in cash and 19 millions in letters of Credit and bills of exchangs, remitted by the Haytian Govern ment,, as a first instalment of the indemnity pay; able to the old French colonists. This report is howeyer ,evidently unworthy of belief. The -iiaytian Government has been too long lode pendent, in spite of. France, to rush into such blind anttabsUrd excesses, because - tit last it happens to suit the policy of the French Cabinet to issue an equivocal instrument agreeing in form- to that which all - . its ; power, could not prevent in fact. There would necessarily be some time consumed in the deliberations of the Haytian legislature. Boyer 'is not, like Christophe or Dessa lines, an arbitrary monarch. He is but the chief officer of the exe cutive. department. Until we have the details, of the proceedings of the Haytiaus, ire can know little of the true character of the recent transac , tipns . that have taken place in their island. Meanwhile, tVe Ministerial Journals of Paris are publishing commentaries on the King's Ordinance, which are calculated to create serious difficulties, should they reach the eyes of the Haytians be fore the negociation be concluded in all its parts. The Prapeau Blanc, a Paper principally be longing to M. de Villele, and understood, therefore, peculiarly to speak his sentiments, sAatea t tha t " the officer who was the bearer of the PrdinanCe gave the people of St. Domingo the alternative to accept it within fifteen days or - to commence hostilities." According 0) this „state ment, the Haytian authorities submitted to me nace? instead of receiving the conditions offered .to them " with respect .or gratitude." But the statement is certainly incorrect. The Haytian government has not shown itself so easily ter rified into concessions. —if it was now alarmed, as the French journalists affirm, at-the name and greatness of Charles. X., why did it tiOt yield : last year on the terms which _were then proposed to it ? . . [THENt.Es.] If the decree of tl • King of France, which has Itien construed into his Majesty's recognition of thip ‘e independence of St. Domingo, were analyzed in a suspicious or even critical spirit, it might: be said, perhaps, to resemble any thing • - acknowledgment of what we understand hy the word " Sovereignty" in that Republic.-- 103 a curious mode of disclaimittg the dominion uxer a colony, to begin by issuing various. Orders for its future administration. The King of France ages not commence his ordinance by saying, that for several .weighty reasons him thereto moving, he renounces henceforth all authority and power. over Hayti, and therefore that the Ilaytians may .a.ct.as they think fit in their own harbours,receive sohvessels, and impose such duties as they please: ffe . , sets out, on the contrary, not with a permis siou, but with a comstAND, that the poctS. of St. Domingo shall be open to the ships of ull nations, and that the.duties on all foreign - vessels shall be equal, except oh those of France, which are to bear . only half the amount levied on the rest of the world. This really is-more in form, as well as substance, the assertion, than the-surrender of Ii ( sovereignty. It states-no ground for the regu latiOns particularized, no treaty with Boyer,' no' . • • pUblid act, beyond the sic volo of Charles X., t.ixereSsed- in a decree which his Ministers have cOntersigned, hut . to which there is not annexed one. line on behalf 'of any other contracting party, nor the name of a single Haytian Minister. The independence of their Government iSacknowledg. editor the actual'.' inhabitants . of_llayti, but nn toting is stipulated for their successors. Neverthe. • i4j45 - ,if the 131a,c1; power be satisfied with its bargain we.have no reason ,to be. other Wis. .Charles.; X. I'oounces : that he has laboured to secure by. a 454/4 . rf.s,tolation, specified in his ordinance,: a monopoly of the market of St. Domingo' •as coo"- ' elite as ever before existed by virtue of the.most nigorpgs..corcpiat, policy, seeing that in the face of..double duties it would be difficult for the Re. •puhbc. to, supply its wants through any other clifinnel but that .of French commerce. The be, nelit t however, thus designed for French ships, rasp, have orte consequence not clearly anticipated. by thq negOcJators—(that is,, if any treaty has been sikteed)---the Ilaytians may choose to- be . heir own etWierA, rakher than remain subject to a monopoly ipl a vgur of, the French marine., One of the ef- Octs we have already spoken - of as fairly'to • h i e ilnfe,ried:from an arraoiotent. .between France aria- St,. Domingo, was a .breaking'; - .44,..,,. - of 'the s - fli. p fkrygrp legitimacy with regard to the uu . k.S,(ates of 'North, anct.Sonth Anterica.' That l'esultipppears to be now on. the its:,ac.. ...4bitifiliiinnetit...foetters have arrived from Dor'- dux, iOnfh l ing."us. that, the .French Govern, Enent have. finthnrized tl a ad.rniSSiOn,"Of vessels (i'otnthe-new.Republics into the ports or France: • *Vikt'A'itc'e;ipe,treated as friends,but to display • • ziftliag,:tior„at, it vvool.s.eern s :. to, be protected - , ?bile: Ministers or agents. The ice, right of resistance is ptacacakly 144nYiledged, anti the monarchical 1 4)Aciplirs, # : • ititherg , be• any logic in the heads .44itt,gs 4 : given up ai.,,ontCttable by .his Most - dirighmi-Majesty. 'l7 here can, indeed, be 'title •, 414141e,the reluctance with which - this decisive irsiaa are -has - embraced 4y, the goose of • T;Blitirbon, The argument on which legitimacy, suisdp . ,‘cotv.no, qualification or compromise. * • IS: Is t , • tLai el I,.power, all. privilege, ay , po ".• prai-'',.reht, , - no matter how necessary, must. fl'.l • ti** • .` - 'h r d _my*, tht'e, rown, oo urn as positive usurpation. the system, therefore, is at an end, the doctrine becomes a dead letter, - when those who have expelled their despot by force of arms from his possessions are re cognized as lawful sovereigns of the territory which they have so acquired—the' recognition being made by the .original teachers and pro mulgators of the " legitimate" philosophy. Here, then, in the English Revolution of 1688 acceded to in principle by the Bourbons after their resto ration ; and the unwillingness, the tardiness, and extreme repugnance,' with which the point has been yielded by this family, is to us a source of joy, for one reason only—because it proves as well the irresistible force as the rapid pro gress of those principles which carry with them the emancipation of the world. 7 —t Powerfully will the establishment of freedom in America ' re-act upon the spirit of Europe; and the very approximation produced by that commerce with the New World, which both France and Eng land have fOund indispensable to their own wel fare, must add wings to the return of liberty across the friendly. ocean. For the .mere mer cantile effects of this opening between France and South America, we view with unmingled pleasure. Whatever serves the interests of the American Republics must conduce to ours ; but there is a nobler object which animates us—the general happiness of nations. [MORNING POST.] French Papers to the 15th inst. *ith the Etoile of Monday arrived last night by Express. They contain intelligence from Greece of a more au thentic nature than any received since the official Reports of General Roche, and which though of too early a date to confirm the capture of Ibra him ,Dacha, states important facts which greatly encrease the probability of that event. It was brought by an English packet which left Napoli di Romania on th” 4th of July, and arrived at Marseilles the 7th instant, with Dispatches for our Government from Captain Hamilton. It was to have sailed on the 2d, but Captain Hamilton detained it till the 4th, as in formation of great moment was expected every hour. Whether this information had arrived and was communicated in that Officer's dispatches, can only be known when they shall reach this country. The Captain of the Packet would not or could not say more than that 4 6 the affairs of Greece were in the most satisfactory state, and that Greece would certainly again emerge tri umphant this year out of the sanguinary strug gle." The private letters do not come down later than the 2d of July : but even then their statements are highly encouraging and gratifying. [NEW TIMES.). Our Paris letters speak of the warm anticipa tions of profit in which the French merchants in dulge, from the•liberal principles adopted by our Government; but they confess that a reciprocal liberality is not to be expected from their own Ministers. M. de Villele does not appear in dined to make any concessions: in return to our commerce. French silks were last week ship ping direct from a French port in a French vessel to Barbadoes ; but we fear it will be long before our Spitalfields weavers will be allowed. to try the Martinique market, al though perhaps in some articles they could well bear a competition with the fabrics of Lyon. The old colonists of St Domingo are ,much di iided on the subject of the Ordonnance recog nising the independence of that' island. The more reasonable had long ago ceased to entertain any ,hope orreconquest, and are therefore - well pleased to.receive an. indemnity. for property irrecover ably lost ; while another class of old - proprietors are less 'satisfied with the payment they have to receive than they • are vexed at the final disap pointment of hopes which they have never till now ceased to entertain. ' [THE PUBLIC LEDGE/I:1 A report prevailed yesterday in the City, that intelligence, had been received highly fa vourable to the Greeks, without the nature of it, however,, _htti , ,ing transpired. The report appears to., have originated in large purchases having been made of Greek Scrip by an eminent Capitalist, who has the credit of obtaining .the best as well as •the earliest information. .In the French Papers, which have reached us, we cannot discoier any thing capable of throwing the least, light on the subject. They have articles, it is true, in which the Most flattering picture of the affairs of Greece is pre sented ; but they haie the appeardnce of being speculatiOhs, rather th an of news. Beyond these, and strictures on the plan for•the.conversion of the Rentes, with remarks on the Treaty con clode.d- with St. Domingo, they contain nothing else worth noticing. . . • • - • [MORNING HERALD.] The profession of the Law has'seldom had to boait a member io every. way more truly an hon our to it than the late Mr. Sergeant Legs: -After acquiring the highest character arthe -Universi ty, he gave himself up sedulou.sly to the study of his profession, in .which• he gradually rose to a' degree of attainment seldom equalled, and, in our time, -certainly not surpassed ; and though, from advanced- age and gradual decay,. he has for the', last four , or five years withdrawn himself from professional pursuits, his death must be looked upon` as entailing a serious loss on . the profession, of which be was undoubtedly one of the bright est ornaments. With a diffidence attendant only upon,. high talents; and with a political consist ency of, which this, profession' affOrds, but few examples, he declined.'its..highest honours;—ho- Ours, which he' wai calculated: to have ex. celled every competitor.. .In speaking as. we have lately been called upon to do, in terms of warmer censure .than .we could have wished of modern . .lawyers, it is with a melancholy satisfaction that we turn to th e chara c t er o f - a man. who, like Mr. .embodied all that was amiable and just, with talents and attainments of the highest order. Let those who think our censure too severe, turn .but to Lens, and mike his . professional character thetnodelof their owil;and our censure shall be as speedily and-readily:exchanged for a p Pla W hile attending to 'this subject, w,e y cannot but in some degree' regret that' our observations appear 'to have had the most influence where they were the least intended to apply. It was not because some. thini . that was said to have occurred on the Nor•' them Circuit gave rise to our remarks, that they were levelled at that quarter. The truth is,they had principally reference to Courts and pro ceedings, in which the two distinguished leaders of that Circuit are seldom, if ever, engaged. And we should take shame to ourselves if we could be supposed to have aimed at dis tinguished"merit the shaft. which was intended to alight on a very different and inferior quarter. We still say that the race of modern advocates has not that high tone of character which dis tinguishes the Dunnirigs, the Lees, the Wedder burnes, the Mansfields, and the Erskines ; but we know too well the merit, of those who ap proach the nearest to these models, to single _them out as objects of a censure,lrom which, though they may not be wholly free, experience tells us that they are least of all the proper objects of it. We wish to see the Bar assume a high and independent tone—we wish to see its members acting from some higher motive than mere gain; and this can only be at tained, first, by advocates themselves resolving On a higher course of ambition than the thirst of mere emolument can ever inspire; and secondly, by the public singling out such persons us ob jects of fanie and patronage. • [MORNING CHRONICLE.' The heaviness in the Money Market continued yesterday undiminished ; Consols for the present Account were all the morning 894, alternately buyers and sellers, the money price a lower, and the October Account h i higher. The pressure for money was on Monday extreme, and Exche quer Bills were in consequence sold so low as 155., the scarcity still continues, and the quota tion of Exchequer. Bills was yesterday 16s. to 18s. In, the absence _of active business in the morning, the brokers and jobbers were busily engaged in settling the cause of the fall in the English and the Foreign Funds here, and the 3 per Cents. at Paris, from day to day ; one.great cause is the alteration in the value of .. mo ney.. W hen Consols were 96, the interest in the City was at the rate of 2.t0-22 per cent.; it is now worth 4 per cent. -Whether this arises from the various channels opened for capital; or %Ilea ther from a restriction -in the issues of the Bank, followed up by the Country Bankers and others, is a more difficult question. The fall at Paris may in ,some. measure be attributed to stock jobbing, joined to the scarcity of money in Eng land, and the unpopularity of the reduction of the rate of interest, and the sales made or ex pected by the emigrants, who are receiving their indemnity in 3 per cents. In the Foreign Market there was but little doing yesterday, the jobbers taking breathing time after the excitement of the Monday's settlin g ; the prices were in conse quence little varied, except in the two most de pressed stocks—Greek Scrip and Spanish Bonds, both of -which were higher—Greek Scrip 'l3l dis., Spanish Bonds 224 23. South American Stocks, and those of Continental Europe, were heavy at the prices of Monday. In Shares there was little doing yesterday, except in the new started Companies, which appeared to bear a good premium, on account of the lessons iately given to the Gentlemen who sell (Bear-) all those Companies the moment they are issued to the public. CONFESSION OF HANNAH BEAD, Who was executed last week at Leicester for the Aliuder of her Husband. Her husband had left her; she said, and was absent some time to evade the payment of a debt he had contractedin , the- pur chase of a calf; it was during this interval that she becarne.ac quainted with Waterfield, who was little more than 19 years of age; his wife was confined in child-bed, and she (prisoner) was called in to nurse her. She was safely delivered of a fine child, but both died shortly afterwards, in conseq.uence; it was supposed, of a wilful application of damp linen by some 'one. She continued to cohabit with Waterfield after this period, and he was the father of her last child. Her husband at length returned, having settled his affairs, and insisted that she should again live under his protection ; to this she was utterly averse, as she " doted the ground tat Waterfield walked upon." She left Sheepahead; however,with the deceased, and would have accomplished her object then, having planned it all the way, but had not an opportunity. On her return to Shearsby, the neighbours said, " Hannah, if you Will not consent to live with your husband, and sleep with him to-night, we will douse you in the water." She replied, " she would rather have a naked sword run through her than consent to any such proposals." She next meditated within herself in what manner she should dispose of him. The following are het own words :—" On Monday (April 25), I sent one of the chit-. dren to him with a message, that if he would accompany me in the afternoon to Foxton, on a visit to my relations, I would live :peaceably with him afterwards ; he came and seemed quite overjoyed, saying, Hannah, I hope you will stick to your promise;' he then took the child which 1 had by Waterfield, in his arms, and kissed it several times ; matters being thus ami cably arranged, we started—he carried the infant; on the road he repeated his'observation, that " he hoped I would not forget the promise ;" I took him several times round the reservoir, eagerly watching a good opportunity to push him in, -but there were too many people about, and we made our way along the towing path, towards Foxton.bridge, till we were entirely, as I considered, out of public view ; as we passed under the bridge, I said, " Jetn ' you look such a figure' in that smock frock, if you don't pull it off, I won't go any farther." He then gave me the child, after kissing it again, and took off his hat; which he placed on the ground, l ay i ng is stick near it. ..He next pro ceeded to pull his frock over his head, and at that moment I plunged him headlong into the Navigation ; he rose to the,sur face of the water three times, and came near the edge, but to' prevent the possibility of his getting out, I jobbed him with the stick till he sunk to the bottom : all this I did without feeling the slightest emotion. I then proceeded towards Gumley, where I crossed the Navigation again, but in the centre of the' bridge I felt for the first time, something check me, telling me that I should be hanged.; and a flame of fire at the saute ma ment'seemed gathering round my body : the heat and pain I felt is indescribable. Having recovered from this sensation, I prayed to God that I might never feel a conviction that .I had done wrong. Waterfield; I declare, was wholly unconscious of niy intentions ' having, on the contrary, repeatedly wished me to leave him and live with my husband ; but to this I never would consent, and threatened self-destruction if he persisted in our separation." One of the first commercial houses at Antwerp has just received accounts from the Havanna, dated in June, which state that a storm, accompanied by a dreadful deluge. of rain, had totally destroyed one of the richest crops of sugar and coffee. The damage is estimated at above four millions of dollars..r.-nearly a million sterling ! The females of Grand • Cairo ore often seen in the public streets riding upon asses and upon mules; they sit in the masculine attitude, Jike the women of Naples and other parts of Italy.. Their dress consists of a hood and cloak, ex tending to the feet, with a•stripe of white calico in front, con, cealing the face and breast, but having two small holes for the eyes. In this disguise, if a man were to meet his own wife, or sister, he would not be able to recognise her; unless she were to speak to'hiin ; and this is seldom done, because the suspicious Mosletps, observing such an intercourse, might suppose an in trigue to be going on. in which case they would put one, if not both of their, to death. ' • - • Last week, an. immense quantity of spurge was putioto The river Feale, convenient to the town of Abbeyfeale, the result of which was, that sixty-three poisoned salmon and about three hundred trout were taken out of the river.— (Limerick Observer.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. PERSEVERING THIEF. GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Mary Cogan, an old Irishwoman, was charged before the Sitting Magistrate, Mr. Alderman MAGN AY, with stealing about 121bs. weight of bacon from the shop of Mr. Hill, cheesemonger, Broadway, Black friars. The miserable appearance of the prisoner, when placed at the bar, excited at first, as indeed it was well calculated to do, much commiseration; but the curious changes her counte nance underwent, and the singular contortions into which she worked her features in her attempts to express sorrow and sup plication, were so remarkable, that it was almost impossible to look at her and refrain from laughter. The prosecutor, it seems, occupies two shops in the Broadway, nearly opposite each other, and while at the one, he observed the prisoner, who had gone into the other shop under pretence of purchasing an egg, very cautiously secrete a piece of bacon of about albs. under her shawl. He ran over directly, took the bacon from her, and turning her out of the shop, permitted her to go about her business. In about a quarter of an hour he observed her again in the shop, at the same game, only that on this occasion the piece of bacon she had taken was half as large again. As the woman was evidently drunk, he did not wish to be troubled with her; he again took the bacon from her, and turned her out of the shop, threatening if he caught her again he would send her to Newgate. Neither this threat, nor the double detection, could overcome, it seems, Molly Cogan's at tachment to Mr:Hill's bacon, for a short time afterwards she darted into the shop again, and snatching up a piece of bacon, weighing upwards of Gibs., fairly ran off with it ; he, however, pursued and overtook her, and finding there was no other way of preserving his property, gave her into the custody of an Officer. Potter, a beadle of Blackfriars, the Officer called in, took from her a bag, which was found to contain a large piece of beef, consisting of five ribs, the greater part of a loin of mutton, and several small loaves of bread, which seemed to be the pro ceeds of some previous depredations ; and he assured the Ma gistrate, that poor and decrepid as' she appeared to be, and drunk as she certainly was, she managed very nearly to outrun him, although encumbered with her bag, which, with its con tents, weighed very little less than 3 qrs. cwt. He had - learnt that her husband was ill in St. Thomas's Hospital, that she had two children in St. Patrick's School, and - that she had been so determined a drunkard all her life, that it was doubtful whether she was in her right senses. As Mr. Hill had no Wish to press the charge, the Magistrate thought the best thing to do with her was to send her to her pa rish, and Potter was directed to take her accordingly to St. Olave's, Southwark. This decision - operated like a miracle upon the prisoner. Her whole frame, which had been shaking US if under the effect of palsy, now became firm and erect, hercountenance assumed its natural form, and her mouth, which had been drawn into all manner of shapes, now opened - wide to claim that the bacon she. had stolen should be given to her. As there would have been some difficulty to convice her of the injustice of this demand, the officer pacified her with something like a half promise for the moment, and took her from the bar. THE CELEBRATED LADY BARRYMORE. Bow-ST REE T.—On Monday morning, Mary Pearce, the wretched woman known about the town as Ladyßarrymore, was brought up charged with a riot and breaking windows at the Queen's Head in Long Acre, and on her expressing contrition and promising not to offend again, she was discharged. In the evening, however, her Ladyship again made her appearance, in a state of most uproarious drunkenness, and surrounded by se. veral constables and others, who, notwithstanding their superio rity of numbers, had found it no easy task to bring her before the MagiStrate. The charge against her was, that very soon after her release from this - office, she went into the Star and Garter public-house in St. Martin's-lane, and without saying a word to any one, she walked into the parlour, where some per sons were sitting, and at once swept off' the whole of the glasses and pots that were on the table upon thefloor. She then picked up some of the pieces, which she flourished about amongst the customers, and ended her exploits by dashing her hands through several panes of glass. When an attempt was made to take her into custody, she exhibited &degree of strength and power so incompatible with her emaciated appearance, that Mr. Hawkins, the landlord, and his friends, were almost induced to regard her as something supernatural. She laid about her with astonish ing rapidity,. and many hard knocks, were received by those who attempted to interfere.with her amusements, before she was secured. • Mr. WILLIAMS, a County Magistrate, sitting for Sir R. Bir nie,,:said to her--"..1s it notastonishing, Pearce, that you will persist in these vicious practices? No woman is more capable of distinguishing right from w - o , ng than you are, as your con duct in prison, where in my duty I have often seen you, amply proves. There, your humanity to the sick, your attention to religious duties, and the general propriety of your demeanour, are almost proverbial ; and yet, the moment you are released from confinement you become tine of the veriest : profligates in the metropolis. I, as well as others, have taker, infinite , pains with yOu, and I really wish we could be more successful. ' Prisone. —Well, as you have taken such pains with me, and seem-so-much 'interested for my welfare, show your kindness. now by forgiving me, and let me go about my business. Mr. Witi..LrAms —I cannot—this man's property has been destroyed, and you must pay for it, or go to prison. _Prisoner—Sir R. Birnie shewed mevey to me this morning, and you refuse to do so—so much for your anxiety for my wel fare. Mr. WILLIAMS—I must cut the matter short are you pre pared to pay the damage ? Prisoner-1 ! How the devil should I ? Mr. WILLIAMS-7 hen you must go to prison. Prisoner—Look over it, pray do.: Mr. WILL' A MS—I cannot—l have no alternative. Mr. WILLIAMS gave the order for her committal, and in one moment down went her ladyship on the floor, and she humedi ately commenced swearing, kicking, biting, and struggling with those who endeavoured to take her into the lock-up-room. The officers here, however, are used to her vagaries, and they secur ed her without receiving much damage. Shestands committed to the Sessions. - • _ - CHARGE OF BIGAMY. WonsurP-STREET.--Yestterday a young man named 7'. Wyatt, who - had. been in: the service of Mr. Christie, of Hackney-Wick, as groont.and coachman, was brought Wore Mr. TWYFORD for final_ examination, on a charge of inter marrying with Sarah . Borton, a former wife being still alive. The circumstances ' as detailed in evidence, were as follow : In May, 1820, the prisoner married a young woman named Martha Daly, in the parish of Newington-Butts, who shortly after their marriage went.into the service of a respectable trades man in St. Paul's Church-yard,: and the prisoner himself after wards entered into the service of Mr. Christie, where he became enamoured of his fellow-servant; Sarah Horton, and in August, 1322, married her at the -parish church of St. John, Hackney. Here he was frequently visited - by-his first wife, between whom and the second a sort of intimacy sommenced, but so artfully were matters conducted; that each wife , was unconscious of the claim the other had. .In process of time the second wife, being deserted by her husband, .became chargeable to the parish,and the prisoner was taken into custody for the desertion, and brought before the Magistrate. The parish officers having then heard of his former marriage,lhe was remanded until yesterday to give time for the production of evidenceof The first marriage. Yesterday the first marriage - was proved-by the evidence of a brother-in-law, a subscribing , witness, who swore to the person of the prisoner. Sarah Horton deposed that, on the 10th August, 1822, she was married to the prisoner, and produced the certificate of such marriage. - - • The prisoner was then fully committed for trial. COURSE OF-E-X-01-I.ANGE, Aug. M. i mstet dam -.... —.. 12 2F. C. Ditto, at Sight Rotterdam ... l2 3 Antwerp ........................ l2 ...3 flamlntrgh 36 10 ti Us. Allona - Paris, 3 Day's sight Ditto - • Boni deanx, ditto. Berlin 7 0 Frankfort on the Maio ,..•,. . .., 151 Ex. Money Pete' sburgh 9l , Vienna 9 57 Trieste Mad rid ................... ... ~ . - Cadiz .. Bilboa 37 Ef f ective Barertona , eville — .Gibraltat . 3l 1 Leghorn ciet,a • 45 —Venice, Ital. Lir. 27 Nialta Palermo Lisbon Oporto Rio Janeiro Bahia 52 Dublin .... 9i . Cork 9i pet Cent. BULLION. f'ortugal Gold,in Coin . / 0 0 0 per Ui Foreign Gold; in Dm s s‘l7 IOi• New Doubloons .... 0 0 0 New Dollari 0 4 llt Silver Standard n► Bars). 0 5 1 ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD CIRCUIT-GLOUCESTER, AU°. 15. LIBEL.—JONES v. 131NC/CES. Mr. CAMPBELL opened the pleadings. " Mr. TAUNTON stated, that this action was brought to Clem the character of the plaintiff from calumnies cast upon it bY defendant in a letter sent by him to a person named Woodn It would be necessary that they should know that a lady, navies Smith, who resided near Worcester, had several daughters , of whom married a person also named Smith, and anotherh.t. married Mr. Woodley, the person to whom the letter wassa., There had been for a considerable time an attachment bet w e e ff , the plaintiff and Miss Mary Smith, one of the daughtere:fr Mrs. Smith ; and in the latter part of last year the visited Mr. Woodley. About this time it was reported that daughter of Mrs. Smith, who had married a person of the i'rc l name pear Bridgnorth, had eloped with a Capt. Jones. It wflistet that circumstance the letter referred. (The Learned CO' dt , read the letter.) Sucha libel required no comment. Tile. , e; fendant was an opulent man, carrying on business as a w ill I at Cheltenham. The plaintiff had also been in he , trade, but had retired and was living on his propertY,l,, should prove the libel to be of the defendant's hand;w 1.4 ,,74 and should ask such damages at the hands of the Jury as s!",. vindicate the character of the plaintiff. t he . Mr. Thomas Woodley said, I live at Cambridge. 1 a r ", - 4 fie brother-in-law of the defendant. We Married two ho t daughters of Mrs. Smith, who resides near Worcester. Shegt l a daughter named Mary, who is unmarried ; another, na'.ho Sophia, married Mr. Smith of Bridgnorth. I believe t hat? o does not now live with him. I know that the plaintiff hello attention to Miss Mary Smith for 7 years. She is a da u g of Mrs. Smith. I invited her and also the plaintiff' to in Cambridgeshire. They came on the Ist of October; ' 1 7,4 They came together. The plaintiff stayed three weeket2if Miss Mary Smith stayed several months. I received th is. "oo (the libel) by the post, while Miss Smith was in my houseL;,4 plaintiff' being gone. It is of the handwritting of the clefet I had heard from Miss Smith that her sister at Brill had had eloped with a Captain Jones, who is the brother ca plaintiff. Cross-examined by Mr. Walawr—The courtship be te the plaintiff and Miss Smith was of seven years' stanOingpid was not so long on account of the plaintiff's youth, he ""' about 50. The first wife of the defendant was my siar e 'd considered the letter to be written in confidence. I reee' v rc li; on a Sunday morning, when I was dressing to go to Cho oo my wife asked to see it. I told her she should not, bn i _ f t it said she would never rest easy without she did. I told ,"'''„l je t contained something very unpleaSant, and she must not tefrfe sister .see it. She promised she would not, and 1 church. On my return, the first thing I saw was. the 1e,, 4 f4 , e the mantle-piece, and my wife and her sister StandiagArr fire. Miss Mary Smith said, " Here is a ;pretty Set,,"' - 0 and I said, " Mrs. Woodley; have you let Mary se.C.O, letter?" She said, " Mary teazed me for an hour and A l ift , and I could not help it, but she has promised not 0 t?" `Jones." Mr. Justice BURROUGIT—How could you be so f O O to trust a woman with a secret The letter was put in and read. It was to the folio! effect:— Addressed to Mr. Woodley, Cheltenham, Nov. 11, 18 '" Dear Thomas " I quite expected ' you to have replied to ours. Mr' 41d Smith is at the Mythe ; I saw him the other diy, and he;yam that Mr. Jones had called upon him in - town, which We;,,coo surprised to hear ; whether Mary was with him or no We not learn, as I was from home when Mr. J. called. I 40.tpit; he has left you ; if he has it is quite as well , as it has coaNitt he is and has been playing a double and deceitfullai t • j o atto are no doubt aware of the circumstances between CaPt and Sophia. at t he " Will you believe it when I tell you that Mr. J. itt tat. bottom of every thing, and was the cause of that un ha l /P _r e sines, ? Will you believe it, the Captain threatens to a' r him, .and you may rest assured that what I tell yeti' is, tell proved and substantiated. I have not heard and c an e half the diabolical schemes he has put in practice , wit ll r: ,,,,W . to the above affair, and if Mary did but know wit , ri r birg and how he talks of her, she would never see or speak" k le again. Mr. Longmore says he shall never enter his bet' Mrs. Smith says the same. All this I tell you in est 704 0 act as you please. Mamma desires her kind,loye to 91, tell you that she intends to write soon. - -.• " I remain, clear Thomas, " Yours most sincerely, „ I ,' al. J . Bran , t or Mr. C. PrtutrP adresse the Jury for the defen d i ji n e , contended that the lette d r having been written le gj could not be considered a libel. • Mr. Justice BU-RROUGH gave it as his opinion ion letter was clearly a libel. The defendant in the letter op that these matters had been nroved an substantiateal not merely that he had heard them. If the defendan t,t , el f only stated it as heresay, or had now proved it as 1;01 e ll observations would have had great weight; but f,a•,:eollso that, he takes upon himself to state dig the Ial: 04 ,10° 4 been guilty of diabolical conduct, and that'. he deea" 4 o„ed , ,:f half of what he has been guilty of. As it was p,o4 l; i:!:itio?' muSt be taken to be false : and on the Mere pa„1 1 .,1 0 0 such matter the law implied malice. The put, c7 0 ,04. tho proved ; the damages were a question for the JtlY.P . .;asat'" amount of them ought com b to be a fair and mo d era te co) _ A for the injury done. fee' The Jury having deliberated for a considerable dm — a verdict for the defendant. Some other cases of no interest were disposed of. too ogh This evening the basiness of the Oxfor C leu't wa s • • to a conclusion. kil l RED GAME OR GROUSE.—The season f Co r e' ing commenced on Friday last, safA a lop'', spondent from the North, and we expe ct jolt' ance of sport, as the birds are very a ba P large, and vigorous. T.Mc. BELL, of Alnwick, has inve er#oo .4! what he calls a marine cravat, to prevF,- P „ from drowning. 'lt is a cylinder of leail- 9 floe°lll ter-proof, three inches in diameter , , a long to surround the neck and fasteO•L'- oef with a buckle or clasp. It possesses a b tleA t hi ffi sucient to keep a person's head over, sn titli!tetv • h its use any one, though unable toskwitn,olg Day ture into the deepest water, and remain s u . s r , ed in security. 2--( Worcester Herold BIRTHS. • 1 o t he r On the 13th inst., at Lancing Vicarage, SUSS e ' o the Rev. Thomas Nash, -of a eon. . the lov On the 13th inst., at Brafield-house, Melts, wor Lieutenant-Colonel Bourchier, of a (laugh*. of , k On Monday, at Grinstel-hall, Essei; the la de " Ord, KAI., of the Royal Artillery, of a daughter. sptiO" On Monday, at his Lordship's seat, Shugbortalkill, shire, the Viscountess Anson, of a son and - rf ' MARRIED. - i a ai or Yesterday morning, at St. James's Church, 0 opt, Barrington, late of the 3d Dragoons, to Miss Bre it me , Barnes, in the county of Surrey. " TrisOn' of ~* v On Saturday, the 13th inst., Mr. William ,a . da 80• ment's-latte, to Jane, eldst daughter of Mr. Area" - O.* of Mi St. le-end. At John's, Southwark, the Rev. Richard to rid, chaplain to the Hon. Corporation of Trinity 1 - 1 0 1 second daughter of William Carless, Ea+, of dram, Carless, and Co. DIED A qualkier On Saturday last, in Berkeley-street, Partilaan,,,? 44, Mary, widow of the l a te Thom a s Berke, • be" field, near Birmingham. O . )00 10 1 erg On the sth inst., Andrew Bonar, Esq., Berwickshire, banker, of Edinburgh. s " --.be On the 9th inst., at the residence of his daugh,teceir'.lo:.: to eon-house, Berks, John M'Combe, of Waleoe - P m ! • in the 86th year of his age. of a On Sunday, Mrs. Rich a rd Hodgea, of Majua - t te On Friday, in Queen-square, I3ristol Anne, Ste the C. Leman, Esq. Sha lt -of At Ardgowan, ott the 3d inst , Sir Michae te hant, g a of Greenock and Blackhall, Ba . rt., Lord Li e ' oc t ger bf county of Renfrew. He is succeeded in hit title a . 13iet oe , , hiseldest son, Michael Stewart Nicholson , Es c P Ar tbut,..dilie ff On Thursday, the 14th tilt., at Gib r altar, a l" o f youngest child of Lieutenant- Colonel PaYtiet „ ifa e peet aged 14 months. . • the On the 14th inst., at Brompton, Martha P a- t ", r oceoP . William John Playters, Esq. , ' LOCP * - On the 16th inst., at Hendon, Mies Charlott e ~, 0 4 ' ' On the bth inst., at her residence at Stanwiar` f r i o ttired ley, the widow of the late Robert BettsleY , °On Monday, the 15th inst., at-his house, , e 100' 111 ham -terrace, Regent's-park, Sarah. P0' 1 4,4,4 0 ",'. Philip Lyne, Esq., fO r i n erly of the island of ' 44th yea( of her age. $O l Printed P ublished ant.nernrvrolij, OFFICE, No. 112, Strand, by J. R. CAll*