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or monied fortunes in France. But the electoral system of our neighbours, though founded in pro perty, and in so far entitled to the approbation of certain British politicians, must be allowed to be deficient in those variegated forms and venerable anomalies, which, next to property; are the chief . objects of admiration with such idolaters of our own highly-prized representative fabric. In the presence of such exclusive statesmen, a Frenchman must confess with a sigh that France has not yet acquired the blessings of rotten boroughs and close corporations,—that she has no scot-and-lot-paying freemen, or 40s. freeholders,--that she can boast of no pot-walloping burgesses or noble borough pro prietors,—that she does not see deputies re turned by universal suffrage, sitting by the side of the nominees of borouglimongers,—that she witnesses no jobbing in seats, and has no Jew who can make a batch of Christian legislators, —that she has no hustings riots, no venal treating, no direct bribes, and no poll-book perjuries—that there is not a Corfe Castle nor an Old Surum in the whole kingdom—that her Treasury has no snug stalls to confer on Under Secretaries or Lords of the Admiralty, and that the Members of the Upper Chamber, instead of nominating a half or a third of the Deputies, as in a certain other country, cannot influence a single electoral college. These may be blemishes or beauties in the constitution of our neigh bours, but whatever be their character, they certainly form a remarkable distinction between our system and theirs. Nor ought the latter to be treated with too great severity, because being yet in its teens, it has not required the mature virtues'of ages. Though a constitution may " work well," and may end well, with rotten boroughs and borouglimongers, the most strenuous advocates for ancient abuses would scarcely propose to begin with them, or to make them an element in a new system. The rust on the shield of Scriblerus may have constituted its chief value, when considered as " the venerable verdure of ages," but the most frantic antiquary would never endeavour to give value to a new shield by covering it with verdigris. But though a Frenchman might put in this plea against the exclusive admirers of the English elec toral system, he would find other, perhaps more judicious, politicians, with whom ancient perver sions are no beauties, and who would consider an approximation to the French system of representa tion an eligible reform. On these points, however, we shall not at present dwell. Our object in making the above statement was neither to hold up the French electoral system as a model of perfect wisdom, or to point out its comparative defects, but merely in a brief sketch to describe it as it exists. But we can never join those shallow and prejudiced persons who find out that our neighbours are monstrous fools because they differ from us,—who, without knowing any thing about France, insist, as a matter of course, that Frenchmen are unfit for freedom,—who see in a constitutional struggle between a bigotted King and a people jealous of their rights, only a choice be tween despotism and revolution, and who cry out for the farmer in order to get rid of their idle alarms for the latter. Whatever may be thought in this country of the wisdom or moderation of the late Chamber of Deputies, it may be stated in its favour that it showed far less faction than has sometimes been witnessed among the wise Commons of Eng land, and was probably as fair a representation of French property, of French feeling, and of French intelligence, as any assembly that could have been elected by any union of boroughmongers and radical reformers.—Times. Hume, in his Essay on the Balance of Power, alluding to the mischievous meddling disposition which so long characterized the Government of this country, observes that our Allies " always reckon upon our force as upon their own ; and expecting to carry on war at our expense, refuse all reasonable terms of accommodation;" that " we are such true combatants that, when once engaged, we lose all concern for ourselves and our posterity, and consider only how we may best annoy the enemy. To mort gage our revenues at so deep a rate, in wars where we were only accessdsies, was surely the most fatal delusion that a nation, who had any pretension to politics and prudence, has ever yet been guilty of;" that the " remedy of funding, if it be a remedy, and not rather a poison, ought in all reason to be reserved to the last extremity; and no evil, but the greatest and most urgent, should ever induce us to embrace so dangerous an expedient." lle adds, that our ex cesses " may, perhaps, in time become still more prejudicial another way, by begetting, as is usual, the opposite extreme, and rendering us totally care less and supine with regard to the fate of Europe ;" and that " the Athenians, from the most bustling, intriguing, warlike people of Greece, finding their error in thrusting themselves into every quarrel, abandoned all attention to foreign affairs ; and in no .contest even took party on either side, except by their flatteries and complaisance to the victor."— Whatever be the cause, it is certain that matters, that, before the revolutionary war, would have been eigerly seized on by politicians, are in the present day viewed with apathy by the nation. Falkland bland, Nootka Sound, or any place, was sufficient to draw forth the forces of parties in Parliament, who held forth to the great admiration of a gaping public. But thew palmy days for politicians are gone—we fear for ever. Even Greece, which has Occupied so long the High Allies, and respecting which many hundred folio papa have been printed by order of Parliament, Greece ceases to interest us. Several of our contemporaries even laugh at our public men for occupying themselves with it. Thus an evening contemporary (the Globe), of Saturday observes There was some rather animated conversation last night in the House of Lords, on the Greek question, which seems very well suited for the amusement of that illustrious body, while the delays in the Commons prevent it from engaging in the important business of the country. Though we feel as little concern so our readers can do in the Jana eaprina, which will be the chief produce of the disputed territory on the Greek frontier, thediscussions on the question will have a personal interest." .A weekly contemporary (the Examiner) ob serves ; " The farce of The Upholsterer ought to be performed for the benefit of the Houses of Parliament, whose Mem bers may profit by seeing, veluti in speculum, a foolish person concerning himself immoderately about the Em peror of Morocco, wk le his own affairs are going to rack and ruin. Who, but a few Quidnuncs that delight in any subject of declamation clear of mirth: utility, is not weary of the incessant discussion of the affairs of Greece in the House of Lords, and the Commons ? It might not be un natural in the people of England to sympathise with the Greeks, whose morality is of a kindred quality to that which distinguishes oar nation, and makes it precious in he sight of Mercury ; but the truth is, that even this claim has no force, and despite or affinity and classical sen timent, the people of this country care not a rush. about Greece ; and the talk in Parliament neither represents nor creates any interest, and is a mere waste of time and op portunities for snore profitable exertions. If our own affairs required less attention, it would be generous to ex .tend concern to a distant peop!e ; but under circumstances, pee hold that our domestic affairs call for exclusive conei dera‘rn, and that the mismanagement of the most paltry parish Ls the kingdom is more im p or t ant than the adjust ment of the boundaries of Greece, or the understanding of the negociations with Turkey. The interest of our great declaimers, however, disdains to touch upon familiar j topics, and it vibrates with a magnificent sweep from Greece to Terceira, and from Terceira to Greece. It is quite right that the tracasseries of foreign politics should be watched and exposed, but we only represent the common sentiment, when we urge that in both the instances named the work bas been overdone." The people certainly care very . little about Greece, and, Oierefore, Lord Aberdeen and Prince Metter- nich m i g i,,t perhaps have reduced still more the limits of that count:7 with impunity, as far as public opi nion in England js concerned. It is a great conso lation to a Minister t„o know, that provided he keeps at home the noiseless tip or of his way, in his fo reign policy he may lend birnaeg to as much injustice as he has a mind for, without danger. In the case of Greece, it is clear that England had no interest in curtailing its limits; but then, as Austria has some purpose to serve, why may not Lord Aberdeen erve Austria when he can do it on such safe terms? But our contemporary (the Examiner) says the talk in Parliament is a mere waste of time and opportunities for more profitable exertions. Profitable to whom ? To politicians in Parliament, foreign affairs are a safe account. Not so domestic affairs. A party falls to pieces the moment you leave the field of foreign politics. Hence the great use of a war to politicians. So long as the war lasts, it fur nishes matter to an Opposition which can be wrought without much danger of disagreement. But with peace comes the necessity of discussing domestic affairs; and here every step leads to disagreement. There was indeed one great domestic question which did as well as war for holding parties together—the Catholic question ; but that question is no more. It was one of the most beautiful abstractions which could possibly be devised for a politician ; for no one interest could be said to be affected by the carry ing of the measure. It is needless to say that there is hardly another question of which the same thing may be practicable. Touch on Reform, for instance, and you will find yourself deserted. Propose any measure of efficacious retrenchment, and in ordi nary cases you will have at most a couple of dozen votes. Mr. Herries and Mr. Goulburn have both told the House this Session that they were defeated in their measures of economy by a coalition of both sides. If the higher regions were safe the Duke of Wellington might set a hundred Terceiras and a hundred Greeces at defiance. But when the danger is in these regions, a question respecting Greece will doli as well as another for a trial of strength. Any stick will do to boat a dog with. The public may not care about Greece, but the public does not keep in or turn out a Minister. And if the disposition to look Gut for a pretext should exist, though the pub lic do not take a deep interest in the affairs of Greece, most assuredly the conduct of Lord Aber deen would not give to the Ministry the support of public opinion. Politicians do not, as we have said, possess now the ad vantage their predecessors pos sessed of having a public interested in foreign affairs to sympathise with them. They have the fight now nearly all to themselves when they quit this king dom. But there are weighty reasons for steering as clear of domestic interests as possible in political warfare. There is a fable of a bear who was in alli ance with man, and to drive away a fly threw a stone at the fly which broke the man's skull. Our parties are too cunning to recur to a popular alliance which may, like that of the bear, be somewhat un manageable.—Morning Chronicle. Sir Robert Peel's remark, that " twenty such Members as Mr. Hume in the House of Commons would put a stop to business altogether," was very complimentary to that gentleman—for stronger tes timony than this could not be borne to his steady and indefatigable zeal in watching over the interests of his constituents and the public. We wish there were many other of our Representatives who deserved to be comprehended along with the Hon. Member for Aberdeen in this sentence of Ministerial reprobation. Then that sort of business which Ministers are most anxious to hurry through the House—namely, the votes of money to Government, under the head of supplies, estimates, &c.—would certainly be stopped, unless they were reduced to a scale more consistent than they now are with the resources of the country and the professions of retrenchment and economy, of which Ministers were so liberal when they first as sumed the administration of affairs. There is, in dead, another Hon. Member, whose exertions of late in the same useful line of arresting the progress of profuse expenditure which has long distinguished Mr. Hume, entitles him to a large share of Minis. terial obloquy and public approbation. We allude to Sir James Graham, whose exposure of the "con sular jobs" will not be easily forgiven by the official consumers of the public taxes, nor, we trust, be soon forgotten by the tax-paying people, whose bur dens he so industriously labours to relieve. The smallness of the majority which Ministers were enabled to muster, with all their efforts, on Friday night, when the " consular charges " came under discussion, ought to make them ashamed of persist ing with a vote which many of those who usually divide with them had not sufficient disregard for their own consciences or for public opinion to sup. port. On such a question a majority of only 23 looks more like a defeat than a victory. Ministers should have understood it as such, and have imme diately reduced the vote demanded for the consular charges, which was 87,9701., to the amount of the proposed amendment, which still left them the very liberal sum of 79,9701. No person could have the least doubt that the latter sum would have been amply sufficient for all just and reasonable purposes, and for supporting the dignity and efficiency of our consular appointments, though it would certainly be too little to supply the prodigal and reckless ex penditure, of which the Hon. Baronet who moved the amendment furnished some striking instances to the House. Let us take one or two of these in- stances to show what has been the nature of the economy practised in the Foreign Department, of which Lord Aberdeen has the superintendence. The lion. Baronet stated, if rightly reported, that Mr. Rickets, who was Consul at Rome, went out in 1825; and during the first year he received 3,8551. In 1826 he received, including salary, house-dent, and a few other items, 3,7631. In 1827, being en the voyage home, he received 2,812/. During the years 1828 and 1829 he remained at home receiving his full salary—so that for five years of service, two of which were spent at home, he received 13,6001. of the public money ! It is true, as the Honourable Baronet observed, the present Ministers were not in office when this appointment took place; but they were in office during the years 1828 and 1829, which were the years in which Mr. Rickets received his full salary as Consul at Rome while he remained in England. Nobody can blame Mr. Rickets for this—he could not be expected to refuse what was so bountifully allowed him—but the system, and the Ministers who support it, after making the loudest professions of retrenchment and economy, deserve the severest re probation of a country which their conduct has so bitterly disappointed. The case of Mr. Nugent, the Consul to Chili, was another instance. He also went out in 1825. He received during the first year 3,050/. The second year he received the same amount, having remained the whole of that year at his post. In 1827 he received 2 , 500 /. In June, 1828, be returned to England, receiving during half that year his full salary for doing nothing ; and during the whole of 1829—during what Sir James Graham sarcastically called " the golden reign of Lord Aberdeen, the conscientious economist"—he still continued to receive his full salary. Such are the proofs which, in this department, Ministers have given of their determination to redeem their pledge of cutting down all unnecessary expenditure,and lighten ing the burden of grinding taxation, which presses the industry of the people to the earth ! If any of the majority on this occasion represent open and populous places, we hope their constituents will not forget their conduct when they come, at no distant day, to give an account of their stewardship.— Morning herald, An extended traffic in spurious copper coin, and an extremely profitable, if not a strictly honourable one, is carrying on at this moment with Brazil. It is well known that the currency of that country is in tho most deplorable state, so much so, that gold and silver ;re Oriven almost wholly out of circu lation, and the chief, ii not the only media of ex change, are paper and copper, which latter is at a premium, by the last accounts, of about 35 per cent. In order to keep up such a supply of copper cur rency as is absolutely essential for the wants of the country, the Brazilian Government has lately trans mitted large orders to England for copper blanks, which, on arrival, receive the Government stamp, and are put in circulation. The nominal value of these blanks, when coined, is 80 reis, which, at-the par of exchange, would be equivalent to about ed., but, in the present depreciated state of Brazilian paper, would be something less than sterling. The "seignorage" of the Brazilian mint is, in this case, a pretty considerable one, as a pound of copper, which makes iG of the blanks, costs I ld., and the profit, therefore, is Somewhere between 300 and 400 per cent. This has afforded, it appears, too great a' temptation to the cupidity of commercial enterprise to be overlooked. It has occurred without doubt to those persons who supplied the Brazilian Mint with the copper blanks, that a much superior ad vantage would result, if, instead of being content with the ordinary profit and commission on such transactions, the same copper could lit got into cir culation in Brazil in the shape of coin. But if the hint has first been given in England, we do not be lieve that English merchants will as yet have to bear the reproach of acting upon it. There is no doubt, however, that copper blanks, of the same kind as those ordered by the Brazilian Government, have been shipped off to the United States, where they have received the stamp of the currency of Brazil ; they have been sent in large quantities to Pernambuco, Bahia, Mararkham ' and other places on the coast, and introduced by degrees largely into circulation. This is the consequence to which all Governments are exposed who take a large seigno_ rage, or alter a coin much below its nominal value , but the situation of Brazil offered peculiar induce' meats to such an enterprise, in the difficulty of de_ tection, in the great extent of its copper circulation and in the largeness of the profit.-IVfol ning Herald' It is not difficult to foresee the fate of Sir C. Wetherell's motion, of which the object is to pledge the House of Commons not to agree to the ap pointment of an additional Judge in the Court of Chancery without first hearing evidence at the Bar to establish the necessity of this increase to the force of the Court. On the failure of his motion the Hon. and Learned Member himself will be, we imagine, as little surprised as any of his opponents. It is impossible indeed to read his speech and to re tain the impression that he is in earnest when he insists upon the adequacy of the Court of Chan cery, as at present constituted, to the proper and regular discharge of its important duties; or that he is in earnest at all, except in the desire to fire off against his political adversaries and his professional rivals, a succession of effective sarcasms from be hind the masked battery of his motion. How far the Honourable and Learned Gentleman is likely to exalt his reputation either:as a lawyer, a statesman, or a patriot, by rendering a proposed reform of the Court of Chancery subservient to such a pur pose, we stop not to inquire. It is sufficient to say, that so much of his sarcasm as was not pointless recoiled upon himself; for it was levelled against others on account of some real or sup posed changes of opinion, while, upon the very subject under discussion, his own notions were seen to have undergone a very considerable change since the period of his expulsion from office. We aban don, however, with alacrity this unseemly and of fensive feature of Sir Charles Wetherell's speech, in order to advert to his single argument against the proposed measure for giving greater efficiency to the Ccurt of Chancery. The Hon. and Learned Gentle man asses is that the actual number of Judges are sufficient to perform the business of the Court of Chancery with all the celerity that can be desired, and deprecates the proposed change, because it will leave the Lord Chancellor no judicial duties to per form, and thus lead, in future times, to the appoint ment of persons to that high office, with a view to their fitness for political rather than legal services. The apprehension, if it be real, that the appointment of another Chancery Judge will admit of all future Chancellors being idle men, intriguing courtiers, hangers on to political parties to whom the posses sion of legal learning and experience is not essential, may be fairly classed among the most chimerical of all human apprehensions. The insufficiency of force in the Court of Chancery to decide the causes brought before it, without delays the most inconve nient, and often ruinous to the suitors,has been a sub ject of complaint, and of well-founded complaint, for upwards of two hundred years. And we are per suaded we are greatly within the mark, when We say that, since the accession of George 111. from a variety of concurring causes—the increase of wealth and population— the extension of commerce —its more varied and complicated character—the successive and important inroads of equitable upon the former boundaries of legal jurisdiction—the ag gregate of business falling within the province of the Court of Chancery, has increased in at least a fourfold proportion. It must here be observed that the business actually brought before the Court is no adequate criterion of the increased demands and necessities of the public, for nothing can be more certain than that the everlasting delays and accu mulated arrears of the Court of Chancery have re pelled suitors in great and incalculable !lumbers. People have not reverted to our Courts of Equity, because they knew that all access was blocked up. The Judges have been oppressed by an excess of labour, while to the public, with the exception of a comparatively small number of resolute and unfor tunate applicants, the benefits of , the tribunal have been denied. Is there any shadow of ground, then, for the apprehension that the introduction of a fourth Judge will convert the office of Lord High Chancellor into the reward of political partizans, the closet of political intrigues, or the refuge of in dolent and unlearned favourites ? Was the office generally prostituted to such purposes prior to the accession of George 111., although it may very safely be asserted that its duties were then much lighter than they would now be if two or three additional Judges, instead of one, were to be immediately created ?—.2llorning Post. HYDROPHOBIA. (From the London Medical Gazette, June 12.) We were inclined to hope that the alarm on the subject of hydrophobia had been very much exaggerated. We think it right, however, to state that we have instituted some inquiries upon this subject, and find that, at one of the veteri nary establishments at the west end of the town, not less than sixty rabid dogs have been received during the last three months ; being a number greatly exceeding what has been met with during any former season. It appears, indeed, to pre vail epidemically, and not to be much, if at all, connected with the state of the weather—at least as to heat. We saw two mad dogs and a hydro phobic cat, at Mr. Youatt's, in Nassau-street, all at the same time, during the coldest part of last winter. The best thing which persons having dogs which they are unwilling to destroy can do, is to send them to a veterinary in firmary the moment they shew the least symptom of illness. If it prove hydrophobia, they are pre vented from doing harm ; and if not, they are taken care of till they recover. As to the number less remedies which have been published within this fortnight, there is not one of them good for any thing ; indeed, they are calculated to do harm, by leading persons to place confidence where they will not find safety. There is no cure, and but a short period for prevention. We have known the disease come on though the part was cut out within half au hour after the receipt of the bite : the excision ought, therefore, to be instantaneous. Two sisters, named HARvEi, who were young . women of loose character, and lived with their parents at Durweston, near Blandford, have been recently suspected to be in a state of pregnancy ; and one of them having been seen early on Saturday morning last, walking hastily by tl.e side of the river, into which she threw a bundle, su spicion was excited, and an examination, which was made by the proper authorities, left no doubt that the other young woman had been delivered of a child. Upon opening the bundle it was found to contain the body of a female chill, which there is every reason to believe was born alive. Something had been tied round its head, by which the features were disfigured, and a piece of iron was enclosed in the covering, to sink the body. After a mi nute investigation, a verdict was returned of " Wilful murder" against the mother and her two daughters. It is stated that the two sisters had mutually agreed to destroy each other's chill as soon as born,—.Dorset County chnnticle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JUNE 12. SPECIAL INJUNCTION-- , BRETTLE V. BATES. Mr. BEAMES, at the sitting of the Court this morning,, applied for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from digging brick earth from land of which the plaintiffs brother was the owner, the defendant being his tenant. By the will of the plaintiffs father, in default of the plaintiff's brother having issue, the land in question went to the plaintiff and to her children. The VicE-Cmuicru.on wished to know whether the brother of the plaintiff was tenant for life, without im peachment of waste. Mr. BEAMIZS observed that he was not. He thought it right to inform the Court, that it was stated the digging of brick-earth had been going on since 1828. His HONOUR thought, under such circumstances, be ought to hear the other side. He would do so on Monday se'nnight ; notice of which was to be given to the de fendant immediately. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JuNE 12. BUSINESS or THE COURT. I.ord TENTERDEN said be wished to mention for the convenience of the Bar, that it was the intention of the Court on Tuesday and Wednesday, and probably on Friday and Saturday in next week, to proceed with the Middlesex new trials, instead of the Crown paper. The ArronNEY-GENErtm. reminded his Lordship, that Saturday next was appointed for the hearing of a most important case before the Privy Council. Lord TENTERDEN was glad he had been reminded of it. It would, therefore, perhaps, be found necessary to alter the present arrangement of the business as it related to that day. HOUGHTON V. SMYTH. This was an action tried before Lord Tenterden, at Guildhall, and was brought to recover between two and three pounds, the amount of goods supplied to the wife of the defendant, who was, at the time, living apart from her husband. The verdict was in favour of tbe plaintiff. Mr. Smyth (in person) now applied for a rule to chew cause why that verdict should not be set aside, a nonsuit entered, or a new trial granted. He made the present motion on several grounds ; one of which was, that be was not legally bound to pay any debt contracted by his wife, as no reasons had existed why she should absent herself from Mm. The other grounds were, the re jection of evidence that ought to have been received, and the reception of evidence that ought not to have been received. Mr. Smyth addressed the Court at very great length, he trusted the verdict that had been ob tained against him would not be allowed to stand, if it was, it would be most injurious, as be bad since then had another action commenced, and if it succeeded, be should soon have a dozen more. In answer to a question from one of their Lordships, Mr. Smyth said, that his wife absented herself on her own account, it was not the least fault of his, she had in stituted a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court for a separation on the ground of cruelty, but after that suit had proceeded some stages it was abandoned by the mutual consent of both parties. If therefore she refused without any cause to live with him, it was hard that he should be called upon to pay the debts she might contract. The Court consulted for some time, after which . Lord TENTEROEN said—Mr. Smyth you may take a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial on the two following points, viz. " On the legal effect of the termination of the suit in the Ecclesiastical Courts by convent; and on the rejection of evidence which it is con. tended ought to have been received." Rule .Nisi granted. THE KING V. THE CORPORATION OP NORWICH. Mr. CAMPBELL showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Patteson last term for a mandamus, calling upon the Mayor and Corporation of Norwich to elect 20 guardians of the poor, for that city. By an Act passed in the Bth year of his present Majesty's reign it was enacted that there should be 68 guardians of the poor in the city of Norwich, twenty of whom were to be chosen on the .4th of May in each year, by the Corporation, and the remain der by the rate-payers at large. This year, however, the Corporation, either by accident or design, had neglected to elect the twenty guardians—hence the presentapplica tion. After hearing Mr. Patteson in support of the rule, The COURT ordered it to be made absolute, and the mandamus to issue. PATTISON V. MORNAP, ESQ. CAMPBELL moved fora rule to show cause why the verdict obtained by the plaintiff in this case should not be set aside and a new trial granted ; or, in the alternative, why the judgment should not be arrested. The grounds of the first part of the motion were, that the verdict was against evidence, and the damages were excessive. The action, it will be recollected, was brought by Wm. Patti s,m, the late butler of Mr. Jones, the Marshal of the King's Bench, against Mr. Mornay, a gentleman residing at Putney, to recover a compensation in damages for an alleged loss sustained by the plaintiff by the non-attendance of the defendant as a witness, duly subpoenaed on the part of the plaintiff Pattison, in an action which behind brought against his former master, Mr. Jones. The foundation of that action was a libellous letter written by Mr. Jones to Mr. Mornay, on the occasion of the plaintiff's applying to the latter gentleman for a situation in his service. Mr. Mornay declined, in consequence of that letter, to engage the plaintiff, who alleged, therefore, in his declaration against Mr. Jones, that he had sustained special damage. Mr. Mornay was subpoenaed to prove the special damage, and attended in Court for several days before the cause came on, but did not attend on the day of the trial. The plaintiff, without his testimony to prove the special damage, recovered a verdict for 701. The pre sent action was brought on the ground that the damages recovered were less than they would or might have been, had the special damage been proved. At the• trial be fore Mr. Justice James Parke, on the 3d inst., evidence was given on the part of the defendant, Mr. Mornay, to show that he was preVented by illness from attending on the day that the cause was called on; and the case went to the jury upon the question whether or not that fact had been satisfactorily established. The jury, considering that it had not, found a verdict for the plaintiff for 501. The learned counsel, Mr. Campbell, now adverted to the evi dence of Mr. Shillito, a medical man residing at Putney, who was the principal witness to prove the defendant's in ability to attend on the day of the trial, and observed, that he (Mr. Sbillito), a respectable man, whose credit was unimpeached, and whose testitneny was uncontradicted, had completely established that fact. Mr. Shillito, it was true, bad made use of an unlucky expression in his exami• nation in chief. He said it was "physically impossible" for Mr. Mornay to attend in Court on the day in question ; and Mr. Denman interpreted that expression to mean that it bad been rendered impossible by physic I Lord TENTERDEN...-It was medically impossible, I sup pose.—(A laugh.) Mr. CAMPBELL-After this jest had passed, Mr. Den man, in his reply, took advantage of the expression, and in a most eloquent and inflamed speech, put it seriously to the jury whether Mr. Shillito had not himself intentionally endeavoured to prevent Mr. Mornay from attending by administering to him strong doses of medicine ; and the jury, to reward the jest, gave a verdict against Mr. Mornay. Lord TENTERDEN-Take a rule nisi for a new trial. THE KING V. THE INHABITANTS OF WEEKS. This was an application for leave to file a criminal infor mation against certain inhabitants of the parish of Weeks in Essex, (35 in number), for making an alleged false re turn to a writ of mandamus, by which they were com manded to proceed to the election of churchwardens for that parish. The return stated that there had not, from time imme morial, been any election of churchwardens for the parish in question, and the affidavits in support of that return, and in answer to the present rule, although they admitted that the custom had been for the Minister to appoint one churchwarden, denied that a second had ever been elected by tie parishioners ; and they stated that the parish never, in fact, had any churchwarden. Mr. DEACON now showed cause against the rule. Mr. PATTESON, in support of the rule, appeared on the part of the Archdeacon, who felt desirous of trying the question as to the al:eged custom. Lord TENTERDEN thought that the parish had better at once appoint a churchwarden, and so put an end to liti gation, as otherwise the money which might be appro priated to the repairing or ornamenting the church would be spent in law. . _ Mr. DEACON observed that no inconvenience bad hitherto resulted from there being no churchwarden ; and the church was not at present out of repair. Lord TENTERDEN-But perhaps it soon will be, if there is no one to look after it. After some further observations, The Couivr directed the rule to be enlarged for the pur pose of giving Mr. Patteson an opportunity, in case no arrangement should be come to, of moving to quash the return as insufficient, and for a perempto7 y mandamus to compel the election. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE U. BULL V. PRICE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a surveyor, against the defendant, Mrs. Price, to recover a sum of SU as compensation for his trouble in negotiating for the dis c defendant's interest in the premises lately posal of the known by the name of .he Key Hotel, in Chandos.street, of which she was the freeholder. These premises having fallen within the line of the Charing- cross and Strand im provements, it became necessary to pull them down, and the plaintiff was employed by Mrs. Price to negotiate with the Commissioners for the sale of her interest in them, she agreeing to pay him "21. per cent. on the sum which might be obtained for the same, either by private contract, by arbitration, or by the verdict of a jury." He accord ingly entered into a negotiation with the Commissioners, and obtained an offer of 4,600/. ; but the defendant, act ing on the advice of another person, declined the offer, and the case went before a jury, who awarded her only 4,000!. There being some incumbrances on the property, she had not yet been able to make out a perfect title, and, consequently, the money was still unpaid. It was upon this ground that she resisted the plaintiff's demand, contending that, according to the terms of their agreement, he was not entitled to any re muneration until the money was "obtained " by her. The cause was tried at the last Middlesex sittings, before Lord Chief Justice Tindal, who, being of opinion that by the terms of the contract, which was a written one, the plaintiff was bound to wait until the money was actually obtained or received by the defendant (unless prevented by some wilful act of fraud or negligence on her own part), decided that the present action was prematurely brought, and therefore nonsuitenhe plaintiff. Mr. Serjeant JONES now moved to set aside the non suit.—The Court granted a rule to show cause. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JUNE 12. Henry Satchwell, a surgeon dentist, late of Chester place, Kennington, was opposed by Mr. COOKE, on behalf of Mrs. Mary Hull, an upholsterer; by Mr. BARRY on behalf of Mr. Collins, a silk-mercer in Sloane-street, and several other creditors; and by J. MACNAMARA, Esq., a 'barrister, in person. The insolvent, in his examination by Mr. COOKE, stated, that about June or July last year, his mother, who holds a situation in the King's household, purchased, on his account, from Mrs. Hull, a large quantity of furniture, the payment for which she guaranteed; all of this furni ture he had since pledged at different periods, for about 1001., and in March last he delivered over all the duplicates to his mother ; she was not in Court, as he did not think it would be necessary to produce her. He had no cata logue of the duplicates, and could not say how many there. were, but they were under 100. Mr. COOKE—Having given all these duplicates to your mother, you did not think it necessary that she should come here to explain the transaction. Insolvent—" Oh dear, no."—(Laughter)—He then stated that his servant lad, Richard Waters, pledged them for him. The order for the goods was given in June last, and they were sent to his house, Phoenix-house, Black heath ; he would not swear that he did not begin pledg ing them in July ; he left Phoenix-house in January last, but he could not tell how many duplicates he had accu mulated up to that period. He bad not then pledged more than a third of the furniture. He then went to re side at the Museum Hotel, in Blackfriars-road, having removed the remains of the furniture to some place in Southwark, but he could not tell the name of the street, or of the landlord of the house. It remained there for five or six weeks, when it was removed to another house, hut he could not tell where that house was; this second place was a pawnbroker's shop, Commissioner BOWEN—I never heard such prevarica tion ; you are disgracing yourself in a manner that I never saw a person of the lowest rank do. Insolvent could not tell who the pawnbroker was, or where he lived ; his servant Waters arranged it for him ; he could give no information as to what was raised on that furniture. Mr. Coors—Then what business have you to come to this Court, unless you can explain your affairs? I never saw such a disgraceful exhibition. You have pawned all this property, and given all the duplicates to your mother, and now you refuse to give the Court any information about it. Was it not 6001. worth of furniture you had from my poor client, Mrs. Hull, which you have pawned ? Insolvent—l believe it was. Mr. COOKE—And don't you know that your mother, who guaranteed the payment of it, now refuses to pay one shilling 7—The insolvent did not know that ; he never spoke to his mother about the payment of it ; he sent the duplicates to his mother's solicitors, Messrs. Abbott and Arney, by a friend. The insolvent was pressed for the name of that friend, and after a long hesitation he said be did not know his name, and that he was merely a slight acquaintance. The insolvent was living in Chester-place, Kennington, when he sent the duplicates. During all that period he had no means of support but the proceeds of this furniture, -which he was continually pledging. After he bad pawned all these goods, he and his wife went to Paris, where be stayed four or five weeks, living on the money so obtained. Mr. Edward S. Bailey, solicitor for Mrs. Hull, had applied to Messrs. Abbott and Arney, to know if Mrs. Satchwell, insolvent's mother, would pay for the furni ture, and the answer was, that she would not. No money had been paid up to the present period. The insolvent was then examined by Mr. BARRY on behalf of his clients. In 1826, he lived entirely on the bounty of his friends; in 1827 and 1828, he only re ceived 551. by his profession ; and since then he had lived upon his friends and the proceeds of this furniture. He could not tell how many taverns he had lived at during the last two or three years. He was four or five weeks at the Museum Tavern. Mr. BARRY—Did you not at that place live at the rate of a guinea a-day ? Insolvent.--." Oh ! upwards of that." He stopped first at one tavern, and then at another, two or three days at each. He had lived at Oliver's Hotel, Bridge-street, Westminster, and left it to avoid being ar rested. He bad also lived in Half-Moon-street, Picca dilly, Orpington in Kent, Gravesend, &c. The COURT adjourned the case to re-advertise insol vent's late residence at Chester-place, Kennington, and also to produce his mother, with all the duplicates in her possession. A man charged with marrying two wives ex pressed his readiness to be transported rather than live with either of them! SPINSTERS.--Formerly it was a maxim that a young woman should not get married until she had spun herself a set of body and table linen. From this custom all unmarried women were termed spinsters—an appe'la tion they still retsin in England in all deeds and legal proceedings. Early on Sunday morning last a considerable degree of alarm was excited in Galway, in consequence of some pet sons having found a young man suspended from the door of a house. Dr. BODKIN having been sent for, he instantly applied the usual remedies resorted to for the resuscitation of such patients. After being copiously bled and galvanized, the ill-fated individual recovered, and in the course of some time he gave a melancholy account of the reasons which induced hint to attempt this rash act. Love, ungovernable love, was the cause. The object of his admiration, "fat, fair, and forty," was already the sole mistress of another ; bet this parer of soles was unbound, and tried his ends and his ails to make the fair un-penitent the partner of his life. Poor MacnortNELL, for that was his name, has, however, recovered, and waxeth not in wroth, for we understand that his experiment has suc ceeded, as he has returned to Ballinasloe with the object of this cruel and almost Ltd suspension. —Connaught Journal. ANOTIIER DEATH BY FIGHTING.—An in quisition was taken at the Leather Bottle, at Leverdtock green, on Wednesday, the 2d of June, before 0. OSBAL• oEsToN, Esq., Coroner, on the body of RHIN KING, aged about 20, who came by his death in a pitched battle. It appears that a fair is held on Whit Monday, at which a race for a whip was to be run by ploughmen. A tailor, of 'the name of KITCIIINEIt, dressed in a round frock, ran for it, and came in first; but after pulling off his round frock, it was discovered that he was not a ploughman. The man who came in second, therefore, claimed it. A person of the name of Wm. G►tIFFITH, who is a plough.. man, sided against KITCHENICII, upon which JOHN KING struck him. The deceased repeated his blows several times, till at last GRIFFITH went out with him to fight. They fought for an hour and ten minutes, the by-standers encouraging them ; but towards the end of the battle, be fore the last round but two, one of the seconds recom mended them to desist, and GRIFFITH was desirous of doing so ; Kaxo, however, said he would lick his op ponent or die. During the first of the battle KING had the best of it ; towards the end they were more equal. In the la.t round GRITTITII struck KING under the ear; he fell backwards, became insensible, and died on Tuesday morning about eight o'clock. During the inquisition a post 711040 m examination was instituted by Mr. CIIER raNaToN, of Hemel Ilempsted, and Mr. Itouzas, of St. Alban's, when a rupture of the vessels leading to the brain was ascertained to be the cause of death. The Jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter against WILLIAM Gra:.l . :Tit," who is committed for trial at the next As sizes ; and, at the request of the Jury, the seconds were reprimanded by the Coroner.—Bucks Gazette. —[The victor has since expired in the gaol, mortification having taken place through the severe injuries he sustained. The seconds are bound over to appear at the nest Hertford Sessions. STEAM-BOATS AND WATERMEN. On Saturday morning the Navigation Committee of the City of London met for the purpose of view ing the site of the proposed new pier, at the end of the Custom-house, for the embarkation and disem barkation of passengers on board the steam-boats. It was, however, rumoured in the morning, that active and powerful interest was made by various persons concerned in the St. Katherine's Docks to secure to them a monopoly of the convenience of embarking passengers at once from their wharf. A petition was presented to the Committee from cer tain inhabitants of Gravesend, setting forth that the inhabitantslof Gravesend and Milton, by grant of Richard the Second, and by virtue of divers Acts of Parliament, have the exclusive privilege of convey ing passengerson the River Thames from Gravesend to the city of London, and that the Citizens of London had the like privilege of conveying pas sengers from the City to Gravesend. These privi leges had been exercised for nearly five centuries, the Gravesend sailing boats having the right of taking passengers direct from the wharf to Billingsgate, without the intervention of small boats to put pas sengers on board. At length these sailing boats and passage boats were superseded by the use of steam-boats, which were at first introduced by strangers. The petitioners had expended a sum of between 20,0001. and 30,000/. in building steam vessels suitable to the passage, and those vessels bad . ever been moored within the boundaries of the City in pursuance of their Charters. They prayed that they might now be allowed accommodation similar to that which had been obtained by the proprietors of St. Katherine's Dock, and that permission be given them to drive piles into the bed of the ri ver, for the erection of a temporary pl a tf or m f o r the em barkation of passengers. Unless this permission was given them, they would be oblig e d to stop short of the e;ty boundaries, to _ the grievous injury of the property of the petitioners, to the great menu venience of the citizens of London and of the pub lic in general, and also the destruction of the ancient ferry. uttgliti At half-past one o'clock the Navigation Com‘ mittee, attended by the Water-bailiff, the Harbour master, and the City Surveyor, went in their barge to the spot where it is proposed to erect the tempo rary pier, opposite the east end of the Custom house. Mr. Hall, the proprietor of the adjacent wharf, waited upon the Committee and asked of them permission to drive piles eleven feet beyond the piles at present placed there, which world make a projection of 71 feet from the side of the wharf. The CHAIRMAN said the Committee were disposed to grant that space, but he wished to know how it could be made use of, since that distance still left a considerable space between the outer piles and the vessels. Mr. HALL endeavoured to show that a platform might be projected from a lighter or covered vessel, which was to be kept within the proposed piles, and that this platform might be made to reach the steam vessels. The details of the plan were, how ever, not matured, and the Chairman professed his inability to understand it. Mr. MATTIIEWX, the Town Clerk of Gravesend, said, he attended on behalf of a body of freemen of that town, who were also citizens of London. He submitted, that for the preservation of their an cient passage the Corporation of London were bound to provide accommodotion for the embarka tion of passengers with the same safety and conve nience that had always been insured in the case of the old passage boats. One of the Committee observed, that the Cor poration had not the means of effecting every pro posed improvement or alteration. Mr. MATTHEws said, that rather than allow pecu niary considerations to be interposed as an obstacle to the improvement, the petitioners would under take to make the erection at their own expence. He did not disguise from the Committee that they con sidered the improvement could not be effected, unless they were permitted to drive piles to the extent of low water mark, or thirty feet beyond the space usually occupied by vessels loading from the wharf. The CHAIRMAN said, they could not be allowed to do that by any means. We understood him to say, in answer to a further pressing inquiry from:Mrs Matthews, as to the ground for stating that permission could not be given to drive piles down at the low water-mark, that an im pediment to the navigation must be the result. The petitioners then left the Committee-barge, and were put ashore. The watermen on shore having learned what had taken place, were in high glee, and exclaimed, " they won't do us with their Pier." It would appear, from what has occurred, that we are to have a continuance of the existing nuisance, inconvenience, and danger. 9 BIRTHS. On the I2th inst. Mrs. Alsager, Mecklenburgh-squaref of a daughter. On the 13th inst. in Gui!dford-street, the wife of E. Bellasis, Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th inst. in Eaton-square, the lady of C. Laisne, E.q. Surgeon to the Forces, of a daughter. On the sth inst. at Dingwall, Ross-shire, N.B. the lady of H. I. Cameron, Esq., of a son. On the 9th inst. at Walworth, the lady of Dr. S. Hall, of a daughter. On the Bth inst. the lady of J. Harding, Esq. of Mar garet-street, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. in Torrington-square, the lady of C. U. Barry, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the 10th inst. at Marylebone, the Rev. C. Baring, youngest son of Sir T. Baring, Bart. M.P., to Miss Sealy, only daughter of the late Major Charles Sealy, of the Bengal Artillery. On the 12th inst. at St. Pancras, J. F. Smith, E3q., Edinburgh, to Caroline, third daughter of D. S. Turner, Esq. of Clarendon, Jamaica. On the 12th inst. at St. John's, Hackney, George Ashlin, EN. of New London-street, to Aliss Duffield, of Upper Clapton. On the 12th inst. at Islington, Mr. P. Witherhy, of Hornsey.row, to Ann, second daughter of the late Mr. Theophilus Frederick Goatenhofer, of Park-street, in the same parish. . _ _ On the 1I th of January, at Bombay, Dr. J. Inglis to Miss Jane K. Arnot. I On the 10th inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, G. Soulby, Esq., surgeon, Canterbury, to Eliza, youngest daughter of F. Ullathorne, Esq., Woburn-place, Russell square. On the 10th inst. at Islington, R. Percival, Esq. jun., of Lombard-street, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late H. Atkinson, Esq., of Colebrook-row. On the 9th inst. at Ewell, Capt. H. W. Scott, It. N., of Bath, to Miss Lane, of the former place. DIED. On the 10th inst. in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, Mr. J. Rocker, in his 61st year. On the 10th inst. at Lambeth, Colonel Edw. Jackson, Member of his Majesty's Council for the island of St. Vin cent, and a very distinguished officer during the invasion of that colony by the French and Charaibs, in 1795. On the 11th inst. at Dulwich College, the Rev. T. J. Smith, during 47 years Fellow of that Society, in the 71st year of his age. On the 11th inst. H. S. Bryant, Esq.;of Westmorland place, City-road. On the 10th inst. at Holloway, Sarah Barbara, the beloved wife of Mr. J. Lias, of Holloway, and of Fins bury-street, Finsbury-square. At Florence, on the 23d ult. in the 7Sth year of his age, the Rev. D. D. Bergner, 8.D., Rector of Everley, in the county of Wilts, and formerly of Trinity College, Cambridge. On the 10th inst. at Seymour-place, Euston-square, Harry Hugh, the fourth son of J. J. Wilkinson, Esq. of the Temple. _ . Lately, S. M. Parnworth, Esq. for nearly forty years an eminent and highly -respected merchant of the city of London. On the 10th inst. Mr. W. Lumley, of Siclmouth-plat', Gray's-inn-road. On the 10th inst. W. Yapp, Esq. in Half Moon-street, Piccadilly. On the 9th inst. aged 17, Thomas, youngest son of T. Kinder, Esq. of Sandridge-poun I, St. Alban's. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT THE, SUN OLTICE, 112, SRRAND, LONDON• I ' ro~any M' eligil COME ieveral able anl desirabl all time The pr going a aierifie4 , For 24, Bu Par ford-rc Buckle Vslual sent AUC I in On An u Gre THRI Glary, leadin presen quit Th. ing scarce Thl at the of Mr Cala bad , York eon,: Fred SAL at T A C. eligil to Al at tli doh let c 12/ T leas e Men, ticul row Buc Doi nth , in Thy Ap hoi Wit exp PR real and Tb in Pa T 1 eo