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SPIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS. The French Globe—a clever and philosophi cal, though somewhat affected and coxcomical, journal—contains in its number of Wednesday, which reached us last night, an article on the foreign policy of France, which, as speaking the sentiments of a large French party respecting this country, deserves from us some notice. It begins by telling us that France, under the pre sent Ministry, is destined to act only an inferior part in European diplomacy, and it ascribes this state of huro2niation to the pernicious influence or English counsels on the French Government.— An allusion its then made to the charge so often repeated, and so often contradicted, that the no mination of the present Cabinet is the work of the English Ministry, who, jealous of the rising greatness and improving liberties of our neigh bours, intrigued to inflict upon them Prince Po lignac and his detested colleagues, as a source of weakness abroad, by creating alarm and menacing counter-revolution at home. But considering this point as already settled, or looking upon the journalist in that happy state or secure prejudice that he would resist the most authoritative expla nation, we shall pass on to some of his other re marks. While the writer admits that " no real or permanent interest can lead England to _desire the abasement of Fr a nce," a nd th a t no mercantile calculation exists to induce us to obstruct her prosperity, he yet asserts, that it is a received maxim in England that we must exert ourselves to keep France a secondary power. Where he obtained this information, or from. what premises he drew his conclusion, we kre unable to divine. We have not seen it avowed in any English publication—we have not heard it in any English society—we are not aware of any public act of the English Govern ment from which it can be inferred. Though we were even ready to allow (which we are not) that the present discredited and insulted Cabinet of France had been recommended to Charles X. more by English influence than his own politi cal tastes, still we would deny that the motive was either envy of French greatness, hatred of French liberty, or a desire to cripple French power. The Government of this country might find and avow that a Ministry taken from one party in France might, on certain points, be more congenial to its wishes, as being more disposed to co-operate in its views than one taken from another, without at all affording any ground for believing that it indulged such a partiality from a desire of arresting the progress of French pros perity, or of endangering French constitutional freedom. The objects to be obtained by a change of Councils night even appear to be as much in the interest of the one country as of the other, or to he indifferent to the internal institu tions of both. Though, therefore, the nomi nation of the chief of the French Cabinet had been placed as directly in our First Lord of the Treasury as that of his own secretary, and he had selected Prince Polignac, it would not fol low that the unpopular choice was made for the purpose of overturning the French Charter, or diniinishing French power. This could only be considered as demonstrably proved by the same writer, who can see nothing in the long struggle between the two countries, from the commence ment of revolution to the restoration of the Bourbons, but a furious opposition of Mr. Pitt and his successors to the real interests and glory of France. Governments and nations have their passions and prejudices as well as individuals, but it would betray an uncommon refinement in malignity to labour to obstruct the welfare of others without any prospect of benefitting our selves. " Arthur Wellesley," says the Globe, " cannot love France; France hates him even to injustice. There is between him and her a difference that cannot be made up, and it would be a senseless pretension to demand either from the patriotism of a great nation, or the pride of a great captain, a shadow of impartiality !" In this case the writer may speak .for. his own feel- ings ; but he has no commission to become the interpreter of those of others. We can by no means believe that it is a duty of French " pa triotism," though it may be the characteristic of a French faction, to hate the Duke of Welling ton ; and our gallant neighbours may rest as sured that the Noble Duke, satisfied with the glory of having overpowered that faction in the field for the benefit of his country and the tran quillity of Europe, terminated his antipathies with the war, and has no desire to re-visit on the mass of a generous and high-minded people, in the character of a British Minister, any of those humiliations which he inflicted on its mili tary partisans in the character of a British General. But the French journalist is not con tented with imputing hostile feelings to our Go vernment : he ascribes an unworthy jealousy of France to the great body . ol the English nation, while lie seems to hug himself in the belief that he is exempted from similar prejudices. It seldom happens that two nations can justly appreciate the defects or excellencies, the vices or good qualities, of each other : it never happens that they agree in the judgment mutually pronounced. Having no common or admitted standard, their deci sions are often the result of a compromise be tween pride and prejudice, conceit and misap prehension. But in striking the balance between ourselves and our neighbours, as to partialities and prejudices, we should require to borrow a greater share of modesty than is usually found in domestic estimates of national character, to allow that the account is against us. We never read an article about France or Frenchman in any French book or jouriial, without seeing their country extolled as the centre of civiliva tion, the grand depot of art and knowledge, the model of every excellence, the seat of every social delight—of every civil, moral, and intel lectual perfection. How far we ourselves pro ceed in this strain on fitting occasions, we leave our rivals to say ; but whatever are our compa rative opinions of them or ourselves, the desire to see their liberties overturned, their prosperity arrested, or their grandeur decay, seldom ac tuates the lowest or the most ignorant portion of cur population. Prince Metternich may be anxious to see a check put to the develop ment of free institutions in France, from a fear that the contagion may spread to Germany and Italy ; but in this country we require no poli tical quarantine, as we dread no liberal pesti lence, and therefore have no need:to secure our selves by using our influence to elevate Abso lutists and Jesuits to administer the rights of Frenchmen. If the liberal party in France is viewed with any suspicion on this side the Chan nel, it is not because we envy them the greatest latitude of their constitutional freedom,—it is not because we would grudge them the fullest development of the industry of_ their active people, and-of the resources of theiafine country, —it is not because we dread the estimation in which France may be held in Europe, or wish to reduce it to " a secondary power,"—but be sting,. Some of that party have avowed projects of ambition and territorial aggrandizement, which are as dishonest and flagitious in themselves as they would be calamitous to Europe. We of couse allude to plans announced and defended by Baron de Richemont for the conquest of Iclgium, and its annexation to France,—a pro posal made in the time of profound peace, with out any provocation from the King of the Ne therlands or any threat of aggression on the part of his allies. Though these dishonourable and dangerous designs were embraced by a consider able faction, we are happy to see that the Globe, whose article has been the subject of the above remarks, lends no countenance to the Baron's views. It calls his invective against England useless and passionate." With what epithets ought it to have branded his projected invasion of Belgium and his intended appropriation of the Rhine.— Times. We look forward with much anxiety to the approaching Session of Parliament for the re vival of those measures of legal reform on which Lord Lyndhurst was about to enter, when, in a manner, and' for reason's never satisfactorily ex plained, his Lordship's initiatory Bill was last year withdrawn by Mr. Peel in the House of Commons after it had passed the Lords. We are quite aware that the veteran sticklers for abuses have availed themselves of the interval thus afforded, to magnify the real difficulties attendant upon carrying the proposed measures into effect ; and that they have tasked their in vention to suggest numbers of other mischiefs, sure, according to their ill-omened augury, to spring froni innovating upon the established order of things. That in modifying a juridical system so subtle, complicated, and ramified as ours, some partial inconveniences are to be en countered, there is no advocate of reform so sanguine as to deny; and that as more nearly viewed, such inconveniences should enlarge both in importance and in number was to be expected. But after a survey of the frightful and enormous evils engendered by the present system, there will not be much to scare us in the aspect of the projected amendments or their train of consequences. Of Lord Lyndhurst's disposi tions on this subject we are disposed to think well. We should say, indeed, that he is pledged to proceed, were it not that we appre hended the doubtful virtue of consistency holds a mean place in his Lordship's system of Ethics ; and that with him such an argument would have little force. Our expressions are rather founded upon his peculiar situation, and on what is known of his Lordship's powers of mind and energy of character. He is a person of excellent practical good sense ; and as such, must regard with aversion all those hindrances to the dispatch of business which the frivolous sub tleties and ill-contrived processes 'of our Courts occasion. Flis understanding does not seem oppressed, as was that of his predecessor on the woolsack, by the learning of cases ; nor is it affected by that passion for refining which, with all his powers of intellect, rendered Lord Eldon so inefficient a Judge. Although a very com petent lawyer in that department of the profes sion which was the theatre of his practice, we doubt if, with the exception of the great Lord Mansfield, any man ever sat on the Bench less a bigot to the established system of Juris prudence than Lord Lyndhurst. Called at an advanced period of life to administer justice in a Court the doctrines and practice of which are altogether alien to his previous pursuits, and prevented by the variety and multiplicity of Mi nisterial duties from applying himself to acquire the knowledge necessary to enable him to dis charge the functions of that tribunal with lustre, it is natural (supposing him to possess any honest love of fame) that he should aspire to repay that debt of obligation which Lord Bacon says every man owes to his profession, i❑ the only mode which remains to him—that is, by renovat ing and purifying its practice and principles, and ac commoitating them to the enlarged exigencies of society. In this way, although precluded the praise of becoming a Great Equity Judge, Lord Lyndhurst may earn for himself a nobler and a higher name.. Such are the considerations which induce us to indulge the hope of seeing him ameliorate, according to the suggestions of the two Commissions of Common Law and Real Property, the present defective, and at the same time cumbrous machinery of our judicial insti tutions. There is, however, one point on which a warning may be needful to him. Of all the schemes at various times suggested for lightening the oppressive weight of business in the Court of Chancery, there is none so simple nor any more effective than the separation of the jurisdic tion in bankruptcy from the other functions of the Court, on which that jurisdiction is an ex crescence of recent origin. For the public inte rests, however ; it happens very unfortunately that bankruptcy is a department of business with which Lord Lyndhurst's common law practice has rendered him familiar, and in which he is able to make a much better figure than in the more appropriate jurisdiction of the Great Seal. It may, therefore, be apprehended, that personal considerations might make him loth to surrender that branch of business ; and as no inconsider able portion of the Chancellor's income is de rived from fees payable in bankruptcy, the inter ference of motives less respectable may, possibly, be suspected by those who attribute to eminent public servants the same interested views which too often govern men in humbler stations , Nor is it merely as a measure of relief to the- Court of Chancery that the erection of a new bankrupt jurisdiction is desirable. The turbulence of the meetings of the Commissioners, the small degree of respectability and authority belonging to tri bunals constituted as they are—the Commis• sioners being for the most part the mere Tyrones or Emeriti of the profession—together with the enormous expense of the system, loudly call for reformation. It was only on Saturday that' our columns presented a specimen of the disgraceful turbulence to which we refer. By the report of the proceedings at a meeting under the Com mission of Marsh and Stracey, it appeared that a gentleman's pocket was picked ; but, at the time, such was the confusion, that, although an alarm was instantly given, the thief escaped in the crowd. 11 have the Lord Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor been labouring ever since the holidays to reduce the bankrupt petitions spring ing :out of this jurisdiction ; while all the other business of the Court remains at a stand ! Morning Chronicle. • We refer our readers to our Report, for an account of the proceedings at the County of Norfolk Meeting, on Saturday last. The Re solutions adopted only go the length of the abolition of the Malt Tax. " The repeal of the Duties on Malt (it is said in the eighth resolution) would greatly benefit the consumer generally, but more especially would it relieve the labonring and industrious classes, by placing within their reach the means of brewing their own beer, and making their own bread, by the want of which they are now driven to the use of ardent spirits, to the destruction of their health and morals:' * Ultimately we have no do - Uhi,if the duty on malt were repealed (allowing the Beer Duty to continue), means would be fallen upon to enable the poor to dispense with the common brewer. Associations might, for in stance, be formed, for buying malt and brewing for those belonging to them. This, however, must be the work of time. As to the idea of brewing ever becoming again general among the labouring classes, it is visionary. In the infancy of society each family does everything for itself. In Norway, at this day, every farmer is also blacksmith, weaver, tailor, shoemaker, butcher, baker, brewer, &c. With the progress of society labour comes always to be more end more divided. The Norfolk genttemen may be quite assured, that whenever in a society like ours, any practice is once laid aside, it will never become general again. There is no impediment in the way of baking ; but whenever a baker is within reach, the making of bread in families is abandoned. Nothing but necessity will ever induce a recur rence to practices once abandoned. But - the Norfolk gentlemen are wise in their generation. They think, that by asking only the repeal of the Malt Tax they may succeed, but that if they ask the repeal of both Malt and Beer Tax they can not succeed. Besides, said one of the speakers, Mr. Postle, " there was, likewise, another con sideration which demanded their attention. If they asked for the remission of both the Malt and Beer Tax there would be danger of a Pro perty Tax being imposed upon the country, and not one confined exclusively to mortgages on property and Government securities,.. but like wire extending to all landed property. Now, if this were the case, would not the Members of Parliament be sure to oppose anything that was likely to produce a tax calculated to bear so hard upon themselves ? In the Upper House, in particular, where they were all men of landed property, every exertion should be made under such circumstances to prevent the remission prayed for." What a libel this on the House of Lords I Would their Lordships, guided as they are exclusively in their decisions by considerations of what is most advantageous generally to the country, after hearing the pathetic tale of the Norfolk 'Squires, of the demoralization and suffering caused by the malt and beer duties, hesitate one moment to re peal such obnoxious duties, because the conse quence might be a tax affecting themselves more particularly ? No ;we know that British Sena tors are never influenced by sucli narrow conside tions. They excluded foreign corn, not to raise their own rents or to keep them from falling, but on the contrary, to make corn cheap ; and lest there should be any doubt about the matter, we have their own recorded declarations of the ex pectation that the Corn Bill would make corn cheaper. No ; Nlr. Postle is not aware of the disinterestedness of the body which lie thus libels. Self-interest is never felt within the walls of Par liament. Nothing but the community, the good of the whole community, is known there. We rejoice to hear such a general condemnation of the Licensing System from the country gentle men. Mr. Postle was applauded for declaring that it should be imperative on Magistrates to grant licenses—that they should have no dis cretion whatever. Mr. Wodehouse, not con tent with the Repeal of the Beer as well as the Malt Tax, wished also the Repeal of the Du ties on Tea, Sugar, and Coals. "It was evi dent (he said) that by this high rate of taxa tion, the comforts of the lower classes were abridged ; and while things remained in this state, it was a scandal to the Aristocracy of the country.—(Cheers.)" A scandal indeed. But Mr. Wodehouse should remember what a load of national honour and glory we have obtained as a counterpoise to the load of debts and taxes ! How often have we not balanced and re-balanced Europe, subsidizing this Power one day, and that Power the next ! It is now a scandal ; but it was glorious when we were contracting the burden. But so it is always—wisdom comes with lack of food. It would not surprise us if the members of the Pitt Club were to couple the name of the Heaven-born Statesman with the Pope and the Pretender ; and in truth we have suffered far more from Mr. Pitt's bank ruptcy of 1797, than ever we suffered from the other two. Indeed, Mr. Coke candidly owned " that the revolutionary war had been the cause of all the distress and bankruptcy which had taken place since, and of the present impending danger to the country." The allu sion of the Hon. Gentleman to the lives and fortune men whom he saw alive around him, was most appropriate.—/bid. The provincial papers-, with the exception of a notice of some foolish speculations in cotton, are almost totally silent with respect to the state of trade. It is intimated, however, that neither wages or profits live increased ; and as we ob serve in almost all these papers repeated inti mations of the benevolence of the rich to great numbers of the poor, we fear it may be but truly inferred that no improvement has yet taken tilace. This circumstance reminds us of a duty, h ich, as public journalists, we must not omit to perform—we mean, to call the attention of our readers to the innumerable claims upon their benevolence, which the poverty of great numbers in the metropolis, and the extreme in clemency of the season, present. Notwithstand ing the legislative provisions for the poor, the fact is notorious that great numbers die from want of the necessaries of life, and that there are still greater numbers who, especially during a severe winter, drag on a painful existence. To these, rupplies of clothes, of food, and of coals, would be of inestimable benefi.. ; and truly be nevolent as the metropolis has always proved itself to be, we entertain a confident hope, not only that every exertion will be made to aid the funds of those institutions which are expressly destined for the relief of the poor, but that the hand of private charity will be diligent in minis tering to the wants of those who have no means of relieving themselves. —Morning Advertiser. Six hundred carts and 4,000 men were employed in carrying away the ice and snow in Paris on the 4th inst. A few days since a young lady, and daughter of a gentleman of a large estate in Shropshire, was missing from her brother's house, who is also a Bev. Gentleman in an adjoining county. Being informed that his sister had long evinced a strong regard for the footman, who a few days before had suddenly left his situation, and, as it now appears, to enter into the service fur life of the fair one, he having since been married to her at Manchester, her brother, on Christmas-eve, in pursuit of the f u gitives, steered his course towards the eastern part of Staffordshire, and reaching his father's mansion at midnight, a pair of horses were in immediate readiness, and be, attended by an,ther brother, soon arrived at the village where they supposed them to be, and eallieg at the Shrewsbury Arms, the inmates of which they speedily roused from their beds. The doors being opened, up stairs they went, and drew poor old Ezra, the footman's father, out of bed by the hair cf his head, demanding at the same time, to know where his son was. The old man pleaded ignorance, notwith standing their positive assertions to the contrary, and they left the house, still ignorant of their retreat.—Stockport Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCg, COURT OF KING'S BENCII, JAN. 16. TBOXSON V. ROBINSON. This was an action to recover damages against the defendant for his refusal to load a ship, the Superior, with a cargo at the MaUritiul. The plaintiff, Mr. James Duncan Thomson, a merchant of London, was the charterer, under Mr. Gtmston, of the Superior, on a voyage to the Cape of Good Hope and the Mauritius, and from thence to London or Liverpool. By a charter-party made between the plaintiff and the defendant, it was agreed that the Superior, after discharging her cargo at the Cape, should proceed to the Mauritius, and there receive front the defendant a cargo of sugar, proceeding from thence to London ; 25 days to be al lowed for discharging the cargo at the Cape of Good Hope. The ship was detained at the Cape 34 days, and on the ground, therefore, of a deviation from the terms of the charter-party, the defendant contended that he was discharged from the contract. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages, 1,4286. ISAAC V. IMPEY, ESQ., AND OTHERS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL stated, that the plain tiff, Mr. Alexander Isaac, a merchant of the city of London, of great respectability, and of considerable fortune, had brought this action in respect of a mat ter which he felt to be of deep interest to his cha racter, as also to the society in which he lived. The action was brought against three gentlemen of the profession of the law. Mr. Impey was a gentleman whom he (the Attorney-General) had known from early life. He was a man of great intelligence, of uncommon acuteness, and, no doubt, of competent learning ; and although he had not practised as a barrister, his name had been long distinguished at the head of a list of Commissioners of Bankrupt, and his name was as well known in the commercial world as that of any gentleman practising at the bar. Mr. Ainsley, the second defendant, was a❑ old personal friend of his own. Mr. Surtees, the other defendant, he had not the honour of knowing, but he had no doubt that he also was a gentleman of respectability. These gentlemen were three of the Commissioners of the celebrated 14th list, who, in the discharge of , shat they conceived to be their duty to the putt• lic, were likely to increase the business of the Court of King's Bench, by their committals of so large a number of bankrupts and witnesses who appeared be fore them. The plaintiff, Mr. Isaac, was of the Jewish persuasion : he was, nevertheless, a person of afflu ence and of great respectability. He had a brother who had taken the name of Leon in addition to that of Isaac, and was resident in Jamaica, where he conducted some very extensive concerns. The plaintiff, Mr. Isaac, carried on business as a mer chant, and resided in Finsbury-square, where he was well known. His brother, Mr. Leon, before , lie quitted England for Jamaica, left Ivith him a ge neral power of attorney to enable him to transact his concerns in London. He left a considerable sum of money with the plaintiff, and empowered him to lay it out in the funds, or invest it in any other way that he thought proper. Part of his (Mr. Leon's) property consisted of Russian stock, and Ole plaintiff was authorized to manage that and his other property according to his own discretion. An account was kept at the banking house of Sir John Lubbock and Co. in the joint names of Isaac and Lcon ; and the plaintiff was at liberty to ope rate upon that account in the absence of his brother in any manner that he thought proper. A sum of 7,0001., part of Mr. Leon's money, had been lent to Samuel Owen on mortgage of the ship Exmouth. Of that ship, and of the Bussorah Merchant, in which Mr. Leon was also concerned, the plaintiff —„.. . had become ship's husband. Owen having become a bankrupt, the defendants, as Commissioners, had a full right to inquire into the history of this mort gage debt of 7,0001. For the purpose of doing so, they summoned the plaintiff before them. He had been allowed as ship's husband a Commission of 175/. on the sale of the Exmouth to the bankrupt Owen. The Commissioners wanted to make it ap pear that the mortgage transaction was tainted with usury, in order to prevent that debt from being brought against the bankrupt's estate. They wanted to show that the money was the plaintiff's own, although stated to have been advanced on his brother's account. The plaintiff denied this, and then the Commissioners got hold of his books, and commenced an examination upon them which ran into a detail of all his concerns; and because he did not give them all the information they required, they committed him to prison no less than four times. He now came to the specific ground of commitment in respect of which the action had been brought.— The plaintiff was brought up before tke Commis sioners on the 29th of April last. His ledger was then produced, and he was asked " Does that ac count contain the particulars of all the purchases and sales made by you ?" and he answered, " Yes, it does." He was then requested to read all the entries in the account. His Counsel objected to his doing so, on the ground that this was not an in quiry relating to the affairs of the bankrupt; and he (rite plaintiff) having declined to read the entries, a warrant of committal was made out for refusing to answer what the Commissioners called a ques tion, but which was no question at all. Under that warrant the plaintiff had been kept in custody fif teen days, fourteen of which he had been confined in Newgate. The learned Counsel, after a few further observations, concluded his address by making a strong appeal to the Jury for damages. The plaintiff's attornies put in their bill of costs, connected with the plaintiff's commitment, and the application to the Court of Exchequer for his dis charge. It amounted to 86/. 2•. 4d., including a charge cf 10/. 2s. for a copy of the warrant of com mitment, which, it was stated, consisted of up wards of 300 folios. It was proved also that the plaintiff had paid 31. a week for his board and lodg ing with Mr. Wontner in Newgate. Mr. F. POLLOCK, for the defendants, then ad dressed the Jury at great length, who after three or four minutes' deliberation, found for the plaintiff— Damages 2501. The case was not concluded till half-past seven o'clock. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Ji.x. 16. SMITH AND OTHERS V. CAMPBELL AND OTHERS. This was an action for use and occupation. Mr. Serjeant 'FADDY stated the plaintiffs case. The plaintiffs, J. Smith, J. Stephens, and J. Cook, were lessees of two persons named Wyatt and Far rell, under whom they occupied a place of public amusement stalled the Pavilion Theatre. Shortly after the destruction of the Brunswick Theatre, the defendants, Campbell, Schuler, and Cooper, took the Pavilion Theatre from the plaintiffs under an agreement by which the rent now claimed was pay able. The agreement commenced on the 28th of March, 18!S, and was to continue in force till the following Michaelmas, during which period the de fendants undertook to pay a rent of 151. a week for the use of the theatre. They entered into possession, and occupied the house for a considerable time; but failing to pay the rent, the present action was brought for its recovery. Mr. Serjeant WILDE said, the house in question had been taken under an agreement from the plain tiffs, who were themselves lessees of Wyatt and Far rell. These persons had formerly used the premises for the exhibition of stage plays, but afterwards quitted London and went to Liverpool. On their return from that place they were desirous of again possessing themselves of the premises, and the plaintiffs and their lessors endeavoured to turn out the defendants by force. Peace-officers were, how ever, sent for, and this attempt was defeated. They then resolved to attempt by fraud what they could not accomplish by force. With this view, Wyatt and Farrell sent in a broker to levy a distress for a pretended claim of rent, amounting to 520/., and alleged to be due to them from the present plaintiffs. As the defendants did not know whether this claim was or was not well-founded, and us they were un willing to have their own property in the theatre taken under the distress, they proposed to Messrs. Wyatt and Farrell to deliver up the theatre with the iittings-up as they then stood, in satisfaction or the alaini. Wyatt and Farrell consented, and having taken the receipts of the night's performance, and then being allowed to take possession of the theatre, they dis charged the defendants from any further claim. Yet, notwithstanding the performance of this agreement on the pat: of the defendants, the plaintiffs now ven tured to claim from them rent alleged to have been due before the distress was put in by Wyatt and Farrell. This unjust attempt, however, would be defeated ; for, not only would the defendants set up their payment of the sum alleged to have been due by the plaintiffs to Messrs. Wyatt and Farrell, but they would prove that the place had not been duly licensed, and that by the terms of the agreement it was to be fitted up and used as a theatre. As this was an illegal purpose, under the provisions of the 25th Geo. 11. cap. 36, the plaintiffs could not 1./elver rent for a place intended to be thus illegally employed. Samuel Abraham, a broker, was called, and proved the levy of the distress, and the agreement thereupon made. He stated that while the defendants had the house, plays were performed there. He often went and saw dancing. . Mr. Semjeant WILDS—That brings it within the Act, according to the case of " Gallini v. Laforet." Justice PARK••-•I think so. Mr. Serjeant TADDT—Oh I my Lord, that case only applies to good dancing.—(A laugh.) It was an Opera-house case. They were not Opera dancers at the Pavilion Theatre.—(Laughter.) The witness was asked what performances he saw at the Pavilion Theatre ? Ile answered—Plays of all sorts : the regular drama, like Drury-lane and Covent•garden, but not so grand." Why, what regular drama did you ever see there? —Raising the Wind.—(Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant‘TADDY—l wish they had raised.-it high enough to pay our rent. Mr. Sedeant WILDE—Did you ever see a tragedy there ?—Yes, I have seen Douglas and Othello. Mr. Justice PARK—There, brother Taddy, you have one of Shakspeare's plays. Mr. Setjeaut TADDY —BLit they played it very badly, my Lord; did they not, Mr. Abraham ? Witness—Oh, they acted it in their own way, not very well—they were only lame actors.—(Laughter.) Mr. Serjeant TADDY—My Lord, he says they were lame actors ; that gets rid of the dancing.— (Laughter.)— Were there not horses there ? Not at that time; there were horses there before the de fendants took the place, but the horses were seized under a commission of bankruptcy ; when the de fendants had the place, there were plays, and music, singing, and dancing. Mr. Serjeant 'FADDY—What do you call dancing ? Mr. Justice PARK—Brother Teddy, you know what dancing is; you are a younger max than I, and probably dance still; in my time, 1 could have told what dancing was, but my dancing days are aver.— Verdict for the defendants. FLOWER V. MOORE. Mr. Seijeant TADDY stated the case. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a journeyman silk weaver, to recover compensation in 4w:taps from his employer, Mr. Ambrose Moore, for an assault and false imprisonment, to which he had been subjected by the defendant's order. The plaintiff Flower \VW; in the employment of the respectable firm to which the defendant belonged as a silk-weaver. The de fendant carried on business as a silk-merchant in Milk-street, Cheapside. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages, 101. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSZ. On Saturday, a scene of rather an extraordinary kind took place in the Juitice-room, where Sir P. LAURIE sat for the Lord Mayor. The following is a brief account : _ _ The driver of a cab was summoned by Sir Charles Flower, for having refused to take him up, and for having accompanied the refusal with unbecoming language. Sir Charles having had occasion, a few days ago, to take a drive, called a cab, and the driver lime diately threw up the cover to receive him. The worthy Baronet shoved his stick into the vehicle, and was endeavouring to follow it. I•Iis legs, how ever, are so short that it was impossible for him to succeed without assistance. " Haag the steps," said he, " why don't you get them made lower ?" " Lower !" said the cab driver, " 'tis a pity they an't made to commodate your stumps. • Why, if every body was made lice you, we'd have nothing whatsomever for to do." " Well, my good fellow, you'd better not he saucy," said Sir C., and made another attempt to get in. The driver, who was not accustomed to argumentative fares, let down the leather of his cab, and saying, " Hang me, if I drive you at all," whipped on his horse. Sir Charles bustled after him as fast as he could, crying " The cab, the cab, my stick ; he has got my stick." This appeal was at length noticed by a man, who ran after the cab, and got the number, and Sir Charles's stick was afterwards procured. Sir P. LAURIE observed that such accommoda tion could not be expected in a cab as Sir Charles was accustomed to in his coach and four; and if cab-drivers did not think proper to proportion the size of their steps to the capabilities of the multitude, they would find that the majority—videlicet, those who had short legs—would not deal with them in their commodity.—(A laugh.) S;r Charles said that the driver had been pleased to extend the compliment to the whole of his per son, which he had designated by the term" punchy," and had said that the cabs were not made to be used by such persons.—(Laughter) Sir P. LAURIE asked the driver, who appeared to be quite terrified at being confronted with an Alder man, what he had to say for himself ?—The driver just at the moment recollected that he had been engaged to a gentleman, and was driving off to his fare. Sir Charles declared that the only gentleman the man could have been engaged to was the walking stick, with which he certainly drove off in a great hurry. Sir P. LAURIE said it was evident that the driver had objected to Sir Charles on account of the diffi culty which he found in getting into the cab. He thought, however, that as the worthy Baronet had such splendid modes of travelling at his command, and as he was a City Magistrate, it would be most grateful to him that the lowest fine should be in flicted.—The defendant was then fined 53. B OW-STREET. William Sheller, a corporal of the 10th Hussars, and corporal Alexander Houghton, of the satne re giment, were brought before Mr. MlNsnum., charged with having, by means of threats, extorted a suns of 11. Is. 6d. froth Mr. Morgan Iloram, tailor, No. 6, Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. The pri soners are on the riding establishment at St. John's wood, under the command of Colonel Taylor. The following are the circumstances : Mr. Horam, it appeared, took the sans of a friend to Drury-lane Theatre on the evening of Wednes day week, and happened to stand, while waiting for the door of the two-shilling gallery to be opened, near the prisoners. The crowd was great, and the prisoner Shetter raised the younger of the two boys up in his arms to prevent him from being crushed, and for this kindness Mr. Horam gave him 6s. 6d., all the money he had in got in his pocket. Being obliged to return home for some more money, Mr. Horam left the child with the separated.the p e rformance s T_hust the whenmatter had nlu they c all edsat together they antil , r ested until the Friday following, when Shetter t eod called at Mr. , fHoratn's residence with a letter, in which he threatened to expose him unless he com pensated him for an insult which he alleged had been offered to him. To be rid of him, Mr. Horan) gave him the sum above mentioned ; and on Friday evening he was mentioning the circumstance to Mr. R. Tate, surgeoflywhen a second letter was brought by a boy, the purport of which was the same as the former. ny the advice of Mr. Tate, Mr. Horam . • . went out to the prisoner, and Mr. Tale followed them as they walked up Bow-street, and heard Me Horam say it was an infamous and unfounded eharel and the prisoner admitted that it was, but that 111 could not help it, as Ins serjeant insisted on mot'. money. As they got into Long-acre Mr. Horael offered the prisoner half-a-crown, and Mr. Tate col' Tared him at the instant, and gave him into custody of an officer. The prisoner was greatly agitate d, and nearly fainted on reaching the watch-house. The prisoner said that Mr. Horam had insultee him, and, in addition to the Gs. 6d., slipped 10s. 10 0 his hand as they were separating, hoping at the WO time that he would say no more about it. This Mr. Horam positively denied. The elder boy E aid, that as they were standing° the gallery stairs, he heard the prisoner Shetter to the other prisoner, " You observed the insult received, and I hope you will mark it," winking s i him at the same time. Mr. MlNsnum, asked in whose hand-writing letters were ? No one %vas able to say; but A serjeant from the riding-school stated that be would bring persons forward who knew Shette l hand-writing. Mr. MlNsum. discharged Houghton, but se' mantled Shetter. "! • Z . -4 ~~ SPL r W ti• • in • &w of the ' force hiss to gratitude for I has received, ti•ns at a sti .tahis Bound in e celebrated AL at lbo. Pbtb • Contains 2, • by various Ar lisped at 21e: EnalatllNlted bound in silk, 'Superbly b Most beautifu &c. from pail ; eminent Arti lame fur 1831 graving of I greatly super Elegantly engravings 1) , T• Lttverenet: 'Watts. bidden* u L Sontaing 1 rem paietinl from the m of it 4 ' • -ThWt 1$ fin e the ororikia bating, ►n the day. S This bean Balled with ter, *erre% ameog *the of Jairus," Rev. Thorn: at 12e. A New A shed with I hound in sill at 6s. 6d, EmbeHist frern drawin at es. 6d. Handsome gratings by snort celebra la 12s, Contains Artists, bow lished at 12 'Neatly bo Sold at 103. TL is beat engravings, llitford, Di kstructive roeeo. Ed •f Irish Cli: ACKE R Contain s &c., the pi well, Miss Edited by I THE NEW Embellisl Edwards, E Mrs. Opie, by Mrs. Al Contains ; AC Porter, valier, Cart 7. Publish The Erni eiate. Prise The Mai all the ♦nn Ladies' a fine engravi Hailed at 2s Peuseek' manacle, Peacock's I Published leaved, in Kearney' mercial Led Time's 'I Guide*, I Books, eqtr The Bri other deseri UNPRECE W. H. f. lity, Gent.] and other 1 Superfine ti post Ditto, gilt Superfine th hot.pressel Ditto, gilt Superfine thi Ditto,, hot.r gilt keor, old dl Ditto do *** Ditto, Outside pos t Ditto: Po°1" .„SuPertin s 4 ' , Jito, Supe r t6i s f i ,Sroo,o , do te ,itt S uPerfin4, post (vario gilt ...... S uper d di o i tto, tto ditto.. oulperd n poet, hot.p broad bond black UNION.HALL. On Saturday a man named Donovan was brougit before Mr. HONE, charged with committing a mor' brutal assault on Stephen Barnes the preceding afternoon. 11:. Flow said, that he should call upon til l aggressor to find sureties to answer the charge 61 the Sessions. Robert Reynolds, who,dt‘scribed himself a watch' maker, residing in- tte New -cut, Lambeth, if o brought up foretimination, on a charge of defraud ,ing several individuals of their watches. The prisoner, it appeared, took up his quarters in the New -cut, and having placed a few old watch° in his window, rare out that he repaired watches ° I a cheaper rate than any other main in the same line in London ; he also issued cards of a similar dency, and by these means in a very short time oh' tained several customers. Soma of the individua l° who had left watches with him to mend, called st the time they were desired, but " the ;nester" w° 6 always from home, and therefore they failed in getting back their property. This continued fo r some length of time, until an officer was pro c ured? and the prisoner, oat being taken into custody, de; livered up the duplicates of a great number o '. watches, all of which he had pledged the momen t he had them to repair. There were ten individuals in attendance frern trhoin the prisoner had watches, but instead of re' pairing them, he carried them off to the par' . brokers and raised money upon them there. Mr. CHAMBERS, on referring to the Act applicabl e to the offence, found that the prisoner had not Oil. rendered himself liable to imprisonment, but also to the punishment of flogging. The Magistrate per; • ceiving that some of the watches were taken in s i , Mr. Tarrant's shop in the New•eut in an unfinisbe n ' state, from the defendant, remarked that the pawn" broker had also rendered himself amenable to th e law for lending money on articles in the *tele some of those produced then appeared. The punish' meet in such cases, if rigorously enforced, e ras heavy penalty, the non-payment of which subjecte d the pawnbroker to flagellation. Mr. Tarrant's shopman said that pawnbroke r° finished a s k ta er t es watchmakers; ypekr7ws the o d m ere t were in the habit of taking in w a t c h es i n a n ar e e d y an k t n t e o w b e t to and very naturally supposed them to have belonge to himself. Mr. Ch AMBERS condemned the practice of pet s : brokers in lending money on watches in the slo t ' described. In this case money had been lent 00 the movements of some watches without the case!: and also on the rases alone, by which it was OV,, enough for pawnbrokers to know—that is, if', E . 134 wished to know —property of this kind often fell Jott o the hands of thieves, who separated the pat! 31/ order to render it the more difficult to prove WOW!' The shopman hoped the magistrate would no/, compel his employer to deliver the watches Op . !! the owners without the principal and interest bemio paid. - Mr. CHAMBERS said that he should dec ide order the property taken in under such eircull stances to be delivered up to the owners witho ti paying. It haring been stated that there w e re several ot h 4 cases against the prisoner, he was remanded ant l Tuesday. DBSTRUCTIVEFIREIN RATIIISONE-PLACI' —About half-past twelve on Friday night a deatruetki fire broke out in the house of Mr. Wmn, linen-draper , f i No. 31, Rathbone-place, adjoining the Percy Hotel. flames were first discovered at the lower part of the brier; a:id such was the fury with which they raged, that the mates were obliged to jump Ifrom the windows in tht r night-clothes, in doing which we regret to say that fl{ p•rsons (females) were so seriously injured as to root it necessity to convey them t o t h e Middl esex Hos The wines of these females are—Mrs. WILD, the wife, - the proprietor of the hous e ; t wo y oung l a di es , sisto - h ; named ADIMTT ; and the servan t- g i r l o f Mr. WILD. boy was also injured, but not in so serious a manner. '" l4 , elderly gentleman, named F LICKER, h a d a very narr° ll , ' ,c a pe ; he is aged and infirm, and was rescued 0 ,, great di ffi culty. The P erc y H ote l was at one t i me on 66. 0 . but the flames were extinguished. By half-pal 4 the flames were so far subdued as to leave no , fear their extending farther. Yesterday evening Mrs,; lo- • was considered in a very dangerous state, and faint b O PI are entertained of her recovery. Mr. WILD escaped 11 , 1 0 , • only a sprained ancle and a few slight bruises. The females, named ABBOTT, assisted Mrs. WILD in the ness. The eldest was last night perfectly insensible, he t received a concussion of the brain, and the other h a s PI arm broken and collar-bone fractured. Th e servant4 l % . ‘ (JANIE Monty) is so far recovered that sh e h as left v A hospital and gone home to her parent s . M r . WILD T A give no account as to the origi n .of th e fi re . He was ;$ Ol last up in the house, and retired to his bed-chamber, e hl il` twelve o'clock. Half an hour afterwards he was &last s • by a policeman, when he found the lower part of r 'd house in flames, and, finding there was no other meartoo, escape, himself and Mrs. WILD jumped out of the wind ( The young females hastened down stairs with only they; on, but, finding the passage in flames, i • returned up stairs, and jumped out of the first-floor 0.1,10" dow. If the policeman had not discovered the fir e whole of the inmates must have perOhed. The stock . 0 `!• furniture are insured in the Melina and British Fit offices. TRAVI 12-inch soul t2-ditto, pat( . .. . _.-- ; 4 -ditto, goo BIRTHS. 1 4 -ditto, pat( ,v °sti-inch inu On the 15th inst. in South-street, Park-lane, IA oravelling 111:1:4:1:°dittt,ktttb,°.1.elptit vie. Kiiintine, of a son. On the 12th inst. at Paris, the lady of J. P. Hod reys, of a daughter. i f . ditto ilia On the 11th hot. at Ham-lodge, Surrey, the lady o' G. Gardiner, El. of a sm. Itl i ' - t ctitig at i c i MARRIED. double wr bf iodr,.essng ca On the 16th inst. at Christ Church, Marylebone, 1 1° , 0 , >a-ditto rt Hutton, Esq. of Herne Hill, to Catherine Olivia Rich . 1 1 :k trave niece to Mrs. Snell, of Gloucester-place, New-road. ~,o, hoot lock On the 16th inst. at Hampstead, G. S. Evans, r O , itditt o A. M. of North-end-house, Hampstead, to Harriett, yo'3, ' oittG real 4° l'llilea.-4, gest daughter of the late Thomas Strother, Esq. of Pic Itt4ent IoCI lane, Leeds. t C o, , gitto, d On the 13th inst. at Kingston, near Portses, ISIt , i , - "if all(' dr ro lit""er.t loci Baker, of Wandsworth, Surrey, to Mary Ann, e l' 0 . ttrong Out daughter of the lake Rev., D. Dusautny, of Buriton, 11a° e c) ,..ng Pouc DIED. ~.....e, itistrr e li 4,7, , rant e d, On the 15th hot. Matilda, wife of the Re , q J. 111itok dorms , Russia Rector of St. Nit:holas Cole Abbey, London. 1,!rI .c , f er Oa the 16th inst. at her residence, Kensington-sel i a • tu\''arraent!eT, in her 76th year, J.me, widow of the late Majqr J ° i h ,",g Pouch h 'rurrients Sarnuel Torriano. t "QUI On the 14th inst. at her house in Montagu-square, ° lle *llk " ' . 1 1 , ; pewti an illness of eight days, Lady Leigh. •( 0 41 's, rule On the 15th inst. at Camberwell, Sarah Jane, Wl' e • 11 44 ete W. Sims, Esq., of Leeds. 1 4 , , 5(1' ' A l bums L S On the 16th inst. in his Slat year, John Heath, 4 :l, : , ;:usrid ` r, n , S of Queen-square. t ; rltte r On the 15th inst. at Vauxhall, Susan, wife of Mr . I , er n • I Dimes, aged 54. e / te '' flats ru' On the 13th ir.st. the Rev. C. Atkinson, for SS ''k 'th e ._ most ininister of the congregational church at Tacket-btv Ali 0 Ipwich. A tl iti rde tg e. k ) . 192 l'itucrco AND Peut.tsizED er AfT/RDO YOUNG, Tax fkrti OrkICIL I 11; Sillikled LONIS/Sis L -,r