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authority of the Diet, and have either dismissed or dissolved their refractory assemblies, without giving them satisfaction, or promising them re dress. In Baden the last words of the popular Chamber to their Grand Duke contained a demand for the restoration of their privileges, and the abolition of the censorship, with the expression of a solemn warning that the causes which led to the expulsion of the Burbons might produce a similar catastrophe in other countries, where a similar despotism was attempted to be established. The States of Wirtemberg, particularly the Chamber of Representatives, were equally decided. In Hesse-Darmstadt the Prince dissolved his Legislative Assemblies with precipitation, because they insisted on their rights as against the arbitrary authority of the Federal Council ; and the political trials which have been going on in the Bavarian provinces of the Rhine sufficiently attest the excitement which the tyranny of the Diet, seconded by the tyranny of the 'Bavarian Government, has created in that part of the Confederation. It is needless to say that the pretensions of the Diet, if enforced by the troops of the Confederation, would destroy every vestige of national freedom or independence, and leave the smaller states entirely at the mercy of the stronger. If one journal is suppressed because it supports princi ples, which, though in unison with the feelings of the state where it appears, may be disliked by the arbitrary Governments of the Confederacy, all other journals may be suppressed on the same ground. If the speakers of the Legislative Assemblies are only permitted to address their fellow-citizens on such topics as to federal com missioners shall seem agreeable and safe, their mouths may be entirely stopped, or their language may be perverted by the same a...ithority. But the abolition of the right of refusing supplies more directly strikes at the root of all representative govern ment. One of the great uses of a Legislative assembly elected by the people is to control the public expenditure, and the only check on a bad or an extravagant Prince or Administra tion, short of actual revolution, is a refusal of the pecuniary means of realizing their crimes or their follies. The purse-strings may thus, in certain cases, be the only cords by which such parties can be bound. Yet such preten sions do the German Diet not only maintain in principle, but enforce in practice, against the protestations and remonstrances of the Con stitutional States ; and there is no doubt that the Ministerial Conferences at Vienna are in tended to extend the principle of interference, and to arrange the means of its more efficient or prompt execution. The distinguishing fea ture in the situation of the German Constitu tional Kings and Princes is, that they have one set of duties to perform towards the great Council of the Confederation at Frankfort, and another towards their own Constitutional As• semblieS at home, and that these two kinds of obligation may sometimes be not only at vari ance with each other, but even in absolute contradiction. The Diet of Germany, be it remembered, is only a Congress of Ambas sadors, delegated from the different Govern ments composing the Federal Union, to speak the sentiments of these Governments, and to a legislative assembly elected and deputed by the people of each state, like the Federal Congress at Washington. The former does not therefore necessarily, or even probably, express the sense of the people like the latter, and therefore are moreliicelY to clash with the domestic legislatures which are chosen by the people to control their princes. This is the most likely to happen when we consider the nature of the Governments and the principles of the Sovereigns represented by their Ministers in the Germanic Diet. Were they nearly uniform in their institutions, or nearly equal in their power or influence, little danger or embarrassment might he apprehended from their Federal Councils. Had they all legislative assemblies,—had they all a free press, —had they all popular elections,—a general political sympathy might be established, through the medium of a common language, strengthened by common interests, and, at any rate, all motives for a central control on these points, and of course all grounds for an arbitrary military interference, would be removed. But the state of Germany furnishes a perfect contrast to this representation. In the Federal Union there are two vast monarchies whose rulers are European Sovereigns in one capacity, capable of entering into alliances and engaging in wars in dependent of their confederates, and component members of the German Confederation in an- other, and therefore enabled to sway its policy by an external influence. But even this influ ence of Hungary and Lombardy, belong to Austria,—of Poland and the northern Prussian provinces, belonging to the Court of Berlin, though it may tell in the Diet at Frankfort as more than a counterbalance to the opposing votes of the princes whose dominions are bounded by the limits of the Confederation, is not to be compared in its malignant effects to their differ ence of political principles. These monarchies are not only powerful by extra-federal territories, but they are despotic in the principles of their domestic government, and, in order to preserve themselves from the contagion of freedom, must either endeavour to lay it under quarantine, or to distinguish it among their neighbour confede rates. Hence the development of the most enlightened institutions,—hence the freedom of the press, and the freedom of legislative discussion —must be resisted, curtailed, or controlled by Governments which have made the least progress in political improvement,—hence an article of po litical intelligence, the announcement of a political doctrine, or the adoption of a civil institution which would he displeasing to the absolute functionaries at Vienna or Berlin, must be pro hibited or persecuted at Munich, Stutgard, or Carlsrhue. Not satisfied with what has been done already against the rights of the constitu tional states, the Conferences, under the direc tion of Prince Metternich, at Vienna will endeavour further to extend the tyranny of the Diet, and to organize the military means of its intervention. The stipulations adopted at the late Congress of despots in Bohemia, against what they call propaganelism, will thus first be tried in Germany, as in corpore viii ; and if the attempt succeeds, the despotic experiment will be extended with new confidence to a wider Happily, h owever, Europe range of Europe. will be prepared for resistance. Its free states will know where to look for protection so long as the alliance of continental despots is balanced by the liberal alliance of France and England, and the first act of invasion on the sovereign rights of any German principality, to whose rights we are guarantees, must be met by a prompt energy of interference. We shall return to the subject.—Times. Alinisters having, as we always suspected they would, put off the evil day to the latest possible period, have at length definitively fixed to meet Parliament on the 4th of Feb. On this occasion, besides their own share in the important business of the State, and whatever new matter may have arisen to fall hito other hands, they have to meet no less than 134 notices which already stand entered for discussion on the order book of the House of Commons. This prospect, looking at the past, it must be confessed, is somewhat ap palling. But when a man of business sees himself likely to be overwhelmed with labour, in the multiplicity of his concerns, instead or wait ing with his arms folded till the whole weight comes simultaneously upon him, he endeavours, by timely foresight and arrangement, to antici pate the difficulty, and seldom fails, by method, to lessen the labour, and greatly facilitate the accomplishment of that which remains. It is one of the misfortunes of this country that her public men, generally speaking, are rarely men of business—that neither education nor habit tends to make them such. Both at our public schools and universities, though the higher sciences are successfully cultivated—that is, if the aspirant chooses to apply himself to them—at neither one nor the other are the very first rules of arithmetic, or any of those branches of education which necessarily diverge from them, either taught or thought of. Young men can speak and com pose fluently and elegantly in the dead languages, to whom their mother tongue, as well as the modern languages of French, German, snd Italian, are, in fact, the literary terra incognita ; but as for keeping accounts, or any of those qualities tor which it might be supposed that Napoleon bestowed upon us the sarcastic appel lation of " a nation of shopkeepers," those who have to conduct the business of the nation rarely know enough to enable them to manage their own. This, we repeat, is a national, not a party opprobrium ; and if it may hitherto have applied more to the present Ministers than their prede cessors, it has only been because the latter, so long habituated to office, were, of necessity, somewhat more expert at its details than mere novices could be expected to be. But to return to the load of business which the next Session pre. sents ; there is one mode of facilitating it, which both Ministers themselves, and Members of Par lisment in general would do well to adopt, and that is, by avoiding the too common habit of overtalking everything. This, too, is one of the vices of the age, and is a sad unbusiness like habit. Though we should be sorry to see the higher class of eloquence lost, as it nearly is, from among us, yet the eloquence of business (if such it can be called) may, and ought to be of a very concise and simple nature, far removed, indeed, from that species of rhuho montade in which would-be orators, and too many of them official persons, too often strive to envelop the plainest subjects. This habit, which arises in a great measure, if not wholly, from a meretricious love of display, has become so great a hindrance to public affairs that it would well become a Reformed Parliament and a Reform Ministry, to reform it altogether. Laying aside great national questions, public business cannot be made too much to assimilate to the affairs of private life, and we need not ask any man acquainted with them, how the affairs of the counting-house, the manufactory, the dock, the warehouse, or the office, would proceed, if every topic were made a subject of lengthened debate, in which, while the speakers were contending for victory, the subject matter of discussion actually passed away, or became nugatory, and that to the total exclusion and neglect of more pressing and important con cerns.—Morning Herald. The mountebank Commissioners, acting under the spurious authority of a lawless Commission, mounted their stage yesterday at the Guildhall of the city of London, for the first time. They had, it seems, the license of the Lord Mayor for the exhibition of their disorderly gambols, which, in our opinion, ought to have been withheld, and accordingly they were neither hunted out of the city by the police, nor hooted out of it by the mob. Yet it is evident that they went into the city of London humbled, mortified, crestfallen men ; and, as might be expected in such circumstances, their per formances failed to excite the least applause, or even to attract much attention. Mr. Charles Pearson, and a few other Members of the Common Council of similar cha racter, attended to give to the scene all the eclat that their presence could impart, but, from the scantiness and poverty of the audi ence, they seem to have thought it better to omit the usual ceremony at the conclusion of such exhibitions of going round with the hat. The city authorities should have protected the metropolis from this disgraceful mummery, and we deeply lament that they have not done so. But, if the authorities have failed in their duty to the community, it is pleasant to reflect that there are corporations and individuals in the city of London whose bearing, towards these unau thorized pretenders to inquisitorial power, has had the salutary effect of abating the arrogance of their original pretensions. They dare not trifle in the city of London, as their colleagues have trifled in so many other places, with the solemnity of an oath ; so that if the citizens could not be spared the disgust which solemn buffoonery must always inspire, their feelings, at least, are not to he shocked by the open exhibition of impiety. Mr. Merryman Blackburne, in formed the assembled group, " that some difficulty had arisen from the clause in the Com mission empowering the Commissioners to ad minister an oath, and that some necessary wit nesses would object to be sworn. The Com missioners had not the slightest wish to ad minister an oath, for he was quite sure no man would come forward to state anything which was not founded in truth, and therefore the Com missioners would not put any party to his oath." We should very much like to know how Mr. 1/lerryman Blackburne can be quite sure, that no man will come forward to state anything which is not founded in truth, and still more should we like to know, how Mr. Merryman Blackburne and his colleagues can expect to touch their pay, for receiving loose declara tions under a Commission of Inquiry which directed them to collect evidence upon oath. Their easy substitution of gossip, in the place of oaths, proves the entire worthlessness and emptiness of the whole proceeding, and proves, moreover, that the Commissioners have been well chosen, that they are entirely worthy of the authority under which they assume to act, that the mode of executing their job is to them of little importance so that they do not permit it wholly to slip through their fingers. There seems to have been no attempt on the part of the Commis sioners to preserve regularity or order in their proceedings. Several witnesses and several examiners were all speaking at once. This was quite natural, for in a promiscuous assemblage, where every man present has the same right to speak and be heard, it would be very odd indeed if only one at a time should be in the humour to talk. And what coal-porter or drayman who passes along Cheapside has not as much right to examine witnesses in Guildhall upon any subject as Mr. Blackburne, Sir Francis Pa'grave, Mr. Drinkwater, Mr. Ellis, and Mr. Joseph Parkes ?—illorning Post. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 16. MADDEFORD V. AUSTWICII. This was a case which had been appealed from a decision of the Vice-Chancellor. There were two suits ; the first was instituted for the purpose of setting aside an agreement between the parties, respectin g the purchase, by one partner in the business of carriers, of the share of the other, on the ground that accounts had been withheld, and an insufficient consideration given. The other suit was for the specific performance of the same agree ment. The Vice-Chancellor decreed the setting aide the agreement, and the accounts consequent upon that proceeding. The LORD CHANCELLOR said that he had come to the conclusion that his Honour's decision ought to be affirmed, with the costs of the original suit and of the present appeal. DC3IMER V. PITCHER. This case arose upon the construction of a will. Thomas Glass Pitcher, the husband of Mary Pitcher, between whose personal representatives and the defendant the present question arose, trans ferred 2,000). 5 per Cent, stock, and 2,5001. 3i- per Cent. stock, into the joint names of himself and his wife. By his will he gave to Samuel Dunn mer the whole of his funded property upon trust, 'to pay the interest to his wife for her life, and after her death to his sisters-in-law ; and then (which raised the main question in the suit) he gave 5001. in the 4 per Cents. to the present defendant, Thomas Pitcher, with direc tions,that if he should die single, and without issue, the bequest should go to the testator's executors. The testator's wife, it appeared, had lent the de fendant 5004 in money, upon his promissory note, and this, it was argued, was an arrangement for giving him (the defendant) the bequest he was en titled to under the testator's will. Such a conclu sion was not by any means clear, and the very fact of the defendant giving his promissory note for the amount advanced precluded the supposition. The Vice-Chancellor decided that the stock was se cured to the wife by the will of the testator, and his Lordship agreed with his Honour. He felt, there fore, bound to affirm the decision of the Court be low, with costs. BENNITT V. COLLEY. The question in this case was as to the effect of a clause in a will, and there were some peculiar cir cumstances connected with it. A person of the name of Bennitt held for an unexpired term of 21 years a renewable lease of the tithes of a parish in Cheshire, which he devised along with his real estates to his nephew for life, and after his death to John Bennitt, the eldest son of his nephew, with a proviso that the tenant for life should renew the lease of the tithes. The father entered into possession of the tithes, but suffered the lease to ex pire in 1798. He (lied in 1830, and in 1831 the preent suit was instituted by the plaintiff, who by his will sought to obtain compensation for the non renewal of the lease. The answer contained several defences, but his Lordship was of opinion that these defences were not supported by the evidence, but that, on the contrary, the evidence adduced on the other side entirely rebutted them. For this and other reasons, which his Lordship stated, he was of opinion that the judgment of the Court below must be affirmed, with costs. DARE V. FLETCHER. This was an appeal upon exceptions, and the case stood over to consider whether an issue should be directed to try the fact of the payment by Fletcher, Alexander, and Co. to Alexander and Co., of Cal cutta. His Lordship had formerly stated his opi nion on the main question,—namely, whether the firm of Fletcher and Co. were bound to account for a cargo of saltpetre, sent from India hither by the ship Golconda, to the whole of the owners of the Golconda, or only to Captain Edwards, who was the master, and interested in the cargo. His LORDSHIP was of opinion, that as to the second and third exceptions, they must be disal• lowed; but with respect to the first exception, he was of opinion that there was ground for directing it for further inquiry. He therefore directed an issue. SMITH V. SMITH. His LORDSHIP after giving o great deal of con sideration to this case, felt bound, though with great reluctance, to refuse the motion, but he should do so without costs. His decision was, that he would make no order in the matter. MACKINNON V. SEWELL. The question in this case turned upon the con struction of the terms of the will of Lady Taverner, who bequeathed the residue of her property to Caroline Lydia, her daughter; and, in case she died wider age, to such other of her children as should survive her, and attain the age of 21; and, if all should die under age, then the residue of the pro perty was to go to Louisa Mackinnon. Caroline Lydia died before her mother, and under the age of 21, and John, her brother, survived, but also died in the lifetime of his mother, though not before he had attained the age of 21. The question was whether, under these circumstances, the gift to John had ever taken effect, or whether his death before his mother did not exclude him from the residue. The case came into this Court upon an appeal from the Court below, where his Honour the Vice- Chancellor decided that John was excluded from the residue ; and his Lordship, after going at length through all the authorities on the point, concluded by affirming the judgment of the Court below, but without costs, and ordered the deposit to be returned to the appellant, because this was a case of some doubt, and proper enough for an appeal. KNIGHT V. KEMP. This was an appeal case, and arose upon the construction of a will. The testatrix appointed three trustees for certain purposes, and after giving them as a remuneration for the services they were to perform, legacies of 1001. each, she gave the residue of her property to her executors therein after named, to enable them to pay certain legacies, and the remainder to be divided equally between them. One of the executors died before the tes tatrix, and the question which thus arose was as to the disposition of the share of the executor so dying in the residue of the property. The Master of the Rolls decided that the two other executors who had proved and undertook the execution of the will took the whole residue as joint tenants. The next of kin of the testatrix claimed one-third of the residue as a lapsed legacy, contending that the executors took the residue as tenants in common, and that one of them dying in the lifetime of the testatrix, the next of kin were entitled to his l egacy . Hi s Lordship affirmed the judgment of the Court below, and dismissed the appeal with costs. .. .... The delivering these judgments occupied the Court until nearly six o'clock. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 16. SPECIAL INJUNCTION.—LYON V. REITTER. Mr. HAYTER applied ex parte, upon certi fi ca t e of bill filed and affidavit, for a special i n j unct i on to restrain the defendant from appropriatin g th e h ouse sNeori.pBo,o\nVoartearlgoaom-pilnagce, house.to the From the purposes of a sub statement of the Learned Counsel, supported by affiilavit, it appeared that a gentleman named Field obtained a lease of the premises in question from the Commis sioners of Woods and Forests, the covenants in that lease being that he should not carry On the business of a tavern, coffee-house, hotel, and several other objectionable trades, and among the rest a subscrip tion or gaming house. Mr. Field assigned that lease to the plaintiff, who assigned it to a person named Crook, who re-assigned it to the defendant, who, ac- cording to the statements of the bill, was about to carry on a gaming house there. The VICE-CHANCELLOR immediately granted the injunction. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 16. (London Sittings at Nisi Prim; before Lord ChiefJustiee DENMAN and a Common Jury.) THE CHURCHWARDENS OF THE PARISH OF LEW ISHAM v. TANNER. This was an action against the defendant, a gen tleman residing in the parish of Lewisham, in Kent, as the surety of a bond for 5001. The bond was entered into in order to secure the parish against any failure of payments on the part of Grant, a col lector of rates, between 1818 and 1832. The case on the part of the parish having been proved, The Jury found a verdict for the amount of the bond, subject to reference upon the matter of accounts. BOWLER V. BROWN. This was an action brought by an attorney to recover 9/. 16s. for business done for the defendant. Evidence was given of the business having been done, and of the plaintiff's charges being fair and reasonable. The defence was that the plaintiff was not a certificated attorney at the time the business was done. Attorney's certificates are taken out on the 16th of November. The plaintiff did not take out. his certificate for 1831 until the 13th Novem ber, only three days before the time for which it was granted would expire. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that the taking out of a certificate at any time before the expira tion of the year would entitle the plaintiff to reco ver kr business done previous to the certificate being taken out. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Dl. 169. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. ALLEGED ABDUCTION OF MR. MILLS, JUN.— Yesterday Mr. Mills, jun., stated to have been forcibly detained on board ship by Captain Gaylor, and Mr. Brown, who succeeded by a manoeuvre in rescuing him from his bondage, waited upon the LORD MAYOR to detail the circumstances of the extraordinary case. After Mr. Brown delivered a statement of the facts of the case, to the truth of which he expressed a wish to be sworn, Mr. Mills read his own depo sition, which detailed the facts of his abduction in terms similar to those already given to the public. It appears, that when the Captain and Mr. Mills got on board the ship, the Captain asked the depo nent if he knew where he was going ? "Yes (said deponent), I am going as far as Gravesend with you." " No," said the Captain, " you are not ; you are my prisoner, arid shall go back again to Demerara with me." Deponent was thunderstruck, and said, " For God's sake, Gaylor, you don't mean what you say." " Yes, indeed, William, I do," said the Captain; " Bow you can write to your friends and let them know how you are situated, and the devil shan't take you out of the ship. I have got you now, and you must go back with me." Deponent immediately wrote a letter and sent it ashore by the pilot's son at Gravesend. Before the ship got to Gravesend the same night, at about twelve o'clock, the deponent got up and went ont of the ca bin ; the Custom-house officer was sitting by the fire in the cabin, the pilot was lying on the sofa, and the Captain was in his state-room in bed. The Captain, upon hearing the deponent go out of the cabin, called out to the custom-house officer, who followed deponent wherever he went. After some immaterial occurrences, deponent went again into his cabin, and at half-past six o'clock he got up. The Captain rose soon after, and asked him how he slept, and he said " Not at all ;" and added that there was a pilot's boat along-side in the night. "Yes," said the Captain, "it was the pilot's boat, and if I had seen you dare make any attempt to leave the vessel, I would put you in irons imme diately, and put you below; and not only that, but if I had seen you attempt to get into the boat, I have a brace of pistols in my state-room, which are loaded for you, and I would have shot you im mediately if I had seen you attempt to leave with the boat. Moreover, I have put a watch over you night and day." The LORD MAYOR said that the statement was certainly one of a most romantic character, and the publicity which had been given to the assertions in accusation and in vindication, was calculated to do much good, by deterring men from unduly exer cising the power which their professional circurn stances clothed them with. The pilots were right in one thing. Mr. Mills had not been put in irons, but the case appeared to be quite bad enough with out that species of aggravation. BO W- STREET. AN IMPOSTOR.—EIiza Price, a Welsh woman was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having obtained sums of money from divers persons, whom she had succeeded in imposing upon by means of fictitious letters of distress. The prisoner was remanded in order that inqui ries might be made into her character. EMBEZZLEMENT--A man named Couzens was charged with having embezzled various sums of money, the property of his employer, Mr. Hodgson, the soda.water-manufacturer, in Bedford-street, Covent-garden.—Committed. SECOND CIIARGE.---Mr. Bell, clerk to Mr. Del valle, residing on Cornhill, paid the prisoner 9s. for soda water supplied to his employer by Mr. Hodgson. Mr. Hodgson never received any such sum from the prisoner. Upon this charge the prisoner was also committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A MEMBER OF THE TRADES' UNIONS.--A jour neyman tailor, named Sherwood, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS yesterday, charged with having violently assaulted a young man belonging to the same trade. The complainant on Saturday evening met the defendant, and was accused by him of having pro cured his dismissal from a shop at which he had been employed. Words ensued, and he was struck and knocked down several times by the defendant, who continued to ill-use him, until the police came to his assistance. The defendant, in reply to the charge, certainly did accuse the complainant of getting him out of work, as he had very good evidence that such was the fact. The policeman who took him into custody, did not see the commencement of the affray, which took place in Cooke's-circus, where they had gone for the purpose of being " sworn in" as members of the Union. Mr. CHAMBERS—Sworn in ! And pray what is the nature of the oath you took ? The defendant appeared here to recollect himself, and endeavoured to explain away his observation, by saying, that he meant he was " initiated." Mr. CHAMBERS then proceeded to put questions to the defendant, to elicit the nature and the ob ject of the Union, but the answers were purposely evasive. Mr. CHAMBERS then asked the complainant, who was a newly elected member of the Union, what were the rules he had been required to swear to ? Complainant—The rules are not yet printed. There is no oath required to be taken that I am aware of. Mr. CHAMBERS—On your oath, was there not a Bible presented you to kiss ? Complainant —I did not not see any Bible, nor was I required to kiss any book. I was blindfolded when first introduced. Mr. CHAMBERS—Were there any persons with swords ? Complainant—There might be such a thing. Mr. CHAMBERS—What was required of you ? Complainant—To maintain the interests of our trade Mr. CHAMBERS—I suppose by that was meant, that our coats were to be made as dear as possible. What was the price you fixed upon for making a coat 1 4 Complainant—We did not fix any price. We only agreed that we would have six shillings a day for day work. Mr. CHAMBERS—Is not one of your rules to this effect-- , -" That if a stranger, not a member of your Union, is engaged by a master tailor, you will not permit him to work." Complainant—Yes, it is. The members would not work with any one who is not a member of some of the Unions, and it would soon be discovered if the applicant was not amember, as all the Unions are in correspondence. Mr. CHAMBERS said it was quite clear the par ties had become members of one of those conspira cies which had so extensively spread of late among the working classes. The complainant declared he would no longer be a member of a society to which the defendant be longed, as it would be a disgrace to him. The de fendant bad deserted his wife and family, and taken up with a common prostitute. The defendant denied this, but Mr. Baker, in spector of the C division, informed the magistrate it was quite true ; for a well.known prostitute had brought him his breakfast in the station-house, and when his wife came to him to ask if she could as sist him in any way he treated her with the coarsest brutality. Mr. CHAMBERS said it appeared that the Trades' Unions were not at all particular as to the character of the members they admitted. From what had been stated, he thought the defendant a very fit ob ject for admission into one of these Unions. The defendant was, on the decision of two ma gistrates, fined 40s. for the assault. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. AN INSOLENT APPRENTICE.--Yesterday a youth, named James Abbott, was brought before Messrs. WHITE and BURRELL by a policeman of the L di ' vision, and charged with assaulting his master, Mr. W'isker, proprietor of the Vauxhall Potteries. The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 40s. for the assault and also the amount of damage done, and in default, to stand committed to prison for one month. LAMBETH- S TREE T. Yesterday Jeremiah Callaghan and John Leonard, together with five youths, were brought up under the following circumstances : Miller, the officer, on Sunday evening proceeded, in consequence of information, to a small court off Blue Anchor-yard, Rosemary-lane, where there are but one or two houses, and in one of them he found from fifty to sixty persons, principally boys and girls from the age of ten to twenty years, some of whom were dancing to the tune of a violin player. He questioned the girls particularly, and found that many of them were young females of bad character, who had come from different parts of the town to have a dance, and who had paid a penny for admission, besides an additional penny for every time they stood up to dance. Finding that the prisoner Callaghan was the occupier of the apart ment, he had him and Leonard, the fiddler, together with the other five prisoners, taken into custody. Mr. HARDWICK read the following passage from a letter, signed by a respectable householder of Whirechapel, which he received on Saturday : " Every Sunday evening, from seven o'clock, until two or three the following morning, a vagabond Irish fiddler has a juvenile ball, or innocent hop,' as be calls it, at which young boys and girls, from the ages of twelve to eighteen, congregate weekly, to the amount of from 100 to 200, who pay a penny each for admission, and a penny each for every dance they stand up to while they remain, and there is a convenient dark recess, where the novices are ini tiated into the mysteries which lead to their ulti mate destruction. Gentlemen, this is no tale of fiction, it is a melancholy fact ; and I assure you 1 feel it most acutely, for one of the female members of my family has by stratagem (and totally unknown to me) fallen a victim to this hitherto hidden scene of iniquity." The prisoners were held to heavy bail, to appear at the sessions. The other persons, not being re puted characters, were discharged with a severe admonition. The churchwardens of 'Whitechapel have inti mated their intention to prosecute. HA TT ON- GARDEN. EXTRAORDINARY VISIT TO LONDON.—A coun try lad, about 16 years of age, " deformed, un finished," with a horrible squint, and exhibiting all the concomitants of idiotcy, was brought to this office in the custody of a policeman of G division, charged with being a " houseless vagrant." The constable yesterday morning, at an early hour, found the prisoner sleeping on the step of a door on Saffron-hill, with scarcely anything to cover him but an old smock frock, arid dripping wet. On questioning him, he said that he had no place to go to, and he took him to the station-house for shelter. Mr. LAING—What are you ? Prisoner (vacantly) —Eh, he ! What be I ? Nothing at all. Mr. LAlNG—Where do you come from ? Pri soner (scratching his head)—Where do I come from ? Hampshire. Mr. LAING—What part of Hampshire ? Pri soner—Stoneham, Maester. Mr. LAING—How long have you been in Lon don ? Prisoner (smiling)--- Ounly a fortnight, eh, eh. Mr. LAING—What made you come to London ? Prisoner—Why I cumd to Lunnun becase I never teed before, and I want to zee what sort ov a place it be. Mr. LAING—What ! was that all that brought you here ? Prisoner—Na, I want to zee the soights; besides, down at Stoneham the boys used to follow I, and pelt I through the town. Mr. LAING—And it is very likely that the boys will follow and pelt you here if you do not make haste back. Prisoner—Eh, eh ! Thank ye, zur. Mr. LAING—You had better make the best of your way back to Stoneham, or you'll find your way into the House of Correction. He discharged the prisoner, on which he quitted the office. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT-LEWES, DEC. M. The Judges arrived from Maidstone on Saturday evening at nine o'clock, and immediately opened the Commission. Their Lordships took their seats on Monday morning at ten o'clock. There are fifty prisoners fur trial, and the business is not expected to be concluded till Wednesday evening. John Crawford and George Chapman were in dicted for buiglariously breaking open and entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Huggett, shoemaker, at Lewes, with intent to commit a felony therein. They were both found Guilty, and sentence of death was recorded against them. SURREY SESSIONS, DEC. 16. James Brooks, the man charged with robbing a great number of medical practitioners in the metro polis, by calling at their houses with letters pur porting to come from patients urgently requiring medical assistance, was tried for feloniously stealing two coats in the dwelling-house of Mr. Morgan, surgeon, residing in Trinity-terrace, Newington. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. A question, however, was raised, whether the prisoner ought not to have been indicted capitally for privately stealing in a dwelling-house above the value of 5L Sentence was not passed on the pri soner, but whether on account of the doubt as to his being legally convicted did not transpire. John Minter Hart is now at large, having put in the required bail, to answer at the Sessions the charge of obtaining Mr. Stinnard's acceptance to a bill of ex change for 301. FOOLS AND THEIR MONEY.--it is pecu liar to the English to lavish m ore money upon inus.eians than the whole of Europe besides, and yet to he ..bused throughout the Continent for having no music them elves, and e knowing little or nothing about it, CORPORATION COMMISSION. (Concluded from T11:3 Son of yestetda! , .) Mr. Newman, the City solicitor, was next exv mined. He stated, that by a charter of Edward VI., the borough of Southwark was annexed to th e corporation of the city of London, under the nato ° of the Ward of Bridge-without. The corporatio n appointed an alderman for the new ward, but th e charter had never been fully carried into effect. Th e alderman of the Ward of Bridge-without at th e present day held no wardmo'e. All aldermen who passed the chair became, under the charter, justice' of Southwark ; but the Court of Aldermen were, accustomed to appoint the two senior aldermen t ° act in the Borough, with a salary. Mr. K n owlyet the ex-Recorder, is steward of the Borough. The water jurisdiction of the City of London extended westward as far as Staines, and eastward to a little beyond Lea, on the Essex coast, and to lrantlet Creek, and thence tip the Medway to Cockham Wood, on the Kent coast. Cockham Wood We' about half a mile on this side of Rochester-bridge. Mr. Wood was recalled and examined—He s tated that the technical title of the corporation was the " Mayor, and Commonalty, and Citizens of Lon' don." The corporation consisted of 26 aldermen , and included tie lord mayor and 240 councilmen. tie then read from a book printed by the corpora' tion a list of all the officers appointed by that body. The reading of this list having been concluded, Mr. C. Pearson read another list of officer', ' who he said were paid by the Corporation though not appointed by them, their offices having been purchased. The following are the names of some of these officers :—Clerk of the estreats under t he green wax ; the city carver ; the sergeant of the channel; the yeoman of the channel; the first, second, and third sergeants of the chamber; the first and second yeoman of the waterside; the sword-bearer's first and second young man ; the common crier's young man; five young men of the Lord Mayor's household ; three waits and seven trumpeters ; the under water-bailiff; two fruit.. meters ; collector of customs of Grove-park; the under and upper city labourers; four ale-con ners, Sze. Mr. Alderman VENABLES remarked that these offices were all in the course of being extinguished. It being now half-past three o'clock, the Court adjourned till to-morrow. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 9%c1. fot the lib. Loaf. There are others who sell from sd. to 134 d. that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Dec. 16. New English tied Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 565. fine 635. 668. Old Ditto Ditto —s. 51s. fine —B. 658. New Foreign Ditto. ........ --s. —s fine —s. —s• Old Ditto New White C10ver.....—............ * . 565. 60s. fine 635. 668• Old Ditto Ditto ...--- —s. —s. fine —s. —e. New Trefoil ...........--.............*. 18s. 20s. fine 225. 248. 3ld Ditto (lib Grass English Carraway Seed —s. ..S. 84s. fine 88+• Fureign Ditto Coriander .....,...---...... _.-- -. —s. I Is. fine —s. 13s. St. Foin (per Quarter)—.......... 41s. 465. fine 48s. 500- Rye Grass Pacey Ditto ---- —s. —s. new —s. —8• Linseed, for feeding —s. 635. fine —a. 648. Ditto, for crushing 4Bs. 565. —s. fine —e• Canary Seed, New —s. —s. 61s fine 70s. ''•• , t.. ltto Old White Mustard Seed —(per Bushel)..—... —s. I:2s. I3s. fine. Brown Ditto .., —s. 17s. ISs. finc --s. , Turnip Seeds, Bounds _ —s. —s. 18s. fine 20s. Green and Red Ditto - . —s. —s. Ms. fine 2ls. Tares, Old 4s. Od. fine 4s. gd. Ditto New 4s. 6d. fine ss, Od. Ita,eticed, English, tine (per Last; 251. 271......... Foreign 241. 264 Pit ICES 0t" HOPS —Dec. 16. New Kent P , ckets (per cwt.) .... 5/ Os. 6/. Os. to 61. 101. Choice 71 Os. 81. Os to 91. Os. East Kest 71. 05. 0/. Os. to 8/. 00. Choice 81. 105. 01. Os. to 9/ Os. New S, , ssex Pockets..--- 51. I.s. VI. Os. to 51. 10$. Superfine Ditto 6/. 06 0/. Os. to 61. Gs• Farnham (fine)., 111. Ils. 0/. Os to 121. 128. Ditto (seconds) Os. 0/ Os to 11/. Os._ PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6s. ...we Refined 1 , ( 3 , 12 1 2 5 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton --- I'IOCE OF POTATOES.—Dec. 16. Middling Marsh Champions Scotch ltedc Chats .3/. Os. to 3/. lOs. per ton. .01. Os. to 21. ss. ditto. .41. Os. to 41. 105. ditto. .31. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. .01. Os. to 2/. Cs. ditto. WH 'TECH APEL HAI MARKET.—Dec. 14. [lay 655. Od. to B.ls. Od. I Clover 70s lki. to 90s. Od. Straw 2.45. Od. to als. Od. RICE OF RAW F Price of Tallow (as stated by th PRICE OF TA LIMY Pown Tallow 488. Od. Yellow Russiv. 4Bs. Od. White _ —s. Od. Soap Ditto _-s. Od. Melted Stun' .378. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d • English Horse Hides— 14 19 Spanish Ditto 17 26 Per dozen. Calf Skins., SO to 411ib. 13 21 Ditto ...,........ 40 to 60Ib. 17 2 3 Ditto 70 to 901 b. 20 23 Small Seals, Greenland 16 18 Large ditto . 12 16 . _ , AT, per stone of Slb. le Tallow Me1ter5),..........25. 101 d. ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 625. 1)(1. Mottled 7os. 00. White...--- Graves - Good Dregs I4s. Odd• ss. Od. I'LIICE o}' CANDLES. l'he price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows: — Candles, per doz. 7s. lid. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen—....9s. 6d. COAL MARKET.—Dec. 16. Per Tor,, s. d. Per Ton. s. ( 1 . kdair's .... 16 0 I Walls End Newrnarch....., 15 6 Bishop's Main—J.:L.: 14 0 I Walls End Riddell's ...... 17 0 Chester Main,..,--.. 14 9 Walls End Braddyll's—... 18 3 East Percy— —........--- 14 0 Walls End Hetton —.. 18 9 Hebburn Maui ..... _ 15 3 Walls End Lyons —.. 17 0 Holywell .....~.. Ord's Redhugh ., 13 6 Walls End Stewart'R......... 18 g I'ontop Wind50r...,..,...,,,. 15 6 Dixon's Butterknowl— 16 6 Shipcote --.—... 14 0 Walls End Ciordon —... 16 9 Tantield Townley l5 3 W. E South Durham., 17 0 West Hartley . 15 6 Walls End Tees —...... 17 6 Wylam ---.. l6 9 Howard'sNethertonMain 14 6 W.E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 16 6 Hartley -----..,........ 15 6 W.E. Clarke and C 0.—....... 15 0 Silkstone Simpson...---.. 14 6 Walls End Gosforth -- 17 6 Walls End E1gin....—....... 17 0 \Valls End Killingworth 16 9 Ships arrived since last market-day, 155.: MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, DEC. 18. M. R. M. Last and Co., silk-merchants, Great Winchester-street 1 at 11 DIVIDENDS. N. W. Sell, bookseller, St. Martin's-lone at 12 13. Gummow and Co., furnishing-ironmongers, Duke-street, Portland-place J. Furbank, draper, Cambridge J. Vize, stationer, Crawford-street 2 Eft ICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Batts, English 14 25 Ditto, Foreign 13 '2l Dressing 11 15 Ditto 14 16 Ditto, ►ight pop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto 40 to 501 b, 13 161 Ditto .. 14 1S BIRTHS. O❑ the 16th inst., Mrs. Firth, of York-place, Walworth, of a son. On the 15th inst., at West-lodge, East Bergholt, Suffolk, the lady of Edward Godfrey, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst., in Qucen.square, Bloomsbury, of a son, who survived his birth only a few hours, the wife of Thomas Chandless, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. On the 13th inst., at Stoke Poges, Bucks, the lady of the Bev. T. C. Evans, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at Culzean Castle, the seat of the Marquis of Ailsa, Ayrshire, North Britain, Richard Oswald, Esq., of Cavets, only son of Richard Alexander Oswald, Esq., of Audio) Cruive, Member for the county of Ayr, to Lady Mary Kennedy, second and only unmarried daughter of the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailsa. _ On the 15th inst., at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Jas. Nichols, Esq., surgeon, Castle-street, Leicester-square, to Maria, only (laughter of George Fawley, Esq., of the Quarter. Master-Ge neral's Department, Horse Guards. On the 14th inst., at Leamington, Captain Hamilton, of the Scots Fusileer Guards, to Catherine Emily, second daughter of William Wynne, Esq., of Dublin. On the 9.6 th ult., at the Hotel of the British Ambassador at Paris, George Marton, Esq., only son of Colonel Marton, of Capernwray Hall, Lancashire, to Lucy Sarah, daughter of the late Right Hon. Lord Chief Justice Dallas. DIED. On the Bth inst., at Rotterdam, Mary , the wife of Jamul Macdonald, Esq., third daughter of A lexander F errier, Esq., Consul to his Britannic Majesty. On the :2(1 inst., at Ventnor, Isl e of Wi g ht, Isabella, fourth s 1 :tE a s u go g ,n h l t at e ht theo mB f tebrc, hn merchant a tn. t l e aot D f ihaa N nt V ,,t i i e, t s, e nt r e. is On the 15th inst., at Ham p stead, Louisa, widow of the late o r titno h nof Newbury, Berks. 70th year, John Close, ;George Daniell, Esq., of Westhumble, Surrey, in her 72d year. i On the 13th inst., in her 49th year, Mary, wife of Mr. Samuel ;Punier, British Tar Works, Blackwall. ,On the 10th inst. in Rodney -street, Liverpool, Mary, the vife of David Lamb, Esq. I On the 14th inst., at Wick-hill, near Brighton, Henrietta Tersis, youngest daughter of the Rev. Thomas Rich." Rooper, rector of Abbot's Ripton, Huntingdonshire. PRINTED AND PtIBLIPIIID UV MURDO YOUNG, AT TDB :1171.4 °MOE ) lig, *TREND. L )N D PEA 11 BAN ge terms okra. 1" esons °ank with( plane, ma. / 1 4 4 onuall; ageed up Tb Bank " r oiliren Pc r Tr° per I)i n 1e grant 7 tekhdracv ril l Deposit ?Ftctnent. 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