The Sun. — London, England, 1833-01-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It was stated some time ago that Mr. Joseph Hume intended to support, nay, to propose. Mr. Manners Sutton as Speaker of the House of Commons, on the fair and intelligible princi ple that the re-appointment of the Right Hon. Gentleman would save the country the retiring pension of 4,0001. a-year. When Mr. Ilume expressed this (we will call it) reasonable inten tion, there was a rumour afloat of a disunion among the Ministers, who were understood ti be divided between the rival and almost equa' claims of Messrs. Abercrombie and Littleton. The Conservatives, who certainly do not sleep at their posts, and who have numerous spies it the Ministerial camp, were soon acquainted with these discussions, and, with a sagacity extreme]' unusual to them, hit upon the expedient of beating a divided Cabinet by the proposal o' re-appointing a gentleman against whom m very strong opposition could reasonably be made, even by the Ministers, and whose claims the economists of the House could not fail to fa vour, based as they were on the principle 'of reasonable saving in the public expenditure. Joseph Hume began to be alarmed at this " Conservative " invasion of his favourite terri tory of cheap government, and determined tt take the lead in this arrangement. At last this no table project, which everybody was talking about. reached by slow and " regular approach" the ears of those most concerned—the Ministers them. selves ; and we must do them the justice to say, that though they obtained their information some what too tardily, they acted upon it with suffi cient tact and promptitude. They saw thei. position correctly, and immediately, throwinv aside all selfish considerations and false pride. volunteered in a very handsome manner to place Mr. Sutton in that chair, which, thougl, he had himself given it up on the ground of personal conviction that he could no longer properly fill it, everybody else thought he would still occupy with dignity and advantage. This arrangement had the advantage of baffling th€ Conservatives, and had, besides, the substantial merit of economy ; the Conservatives were mor tified, but had the sense to see that they muse silently acquiesce. Not so Mr. Joseph Hume his pride is piqued ; the ball is taken out of hi. hands, and in the rage of di)appointed vanity, he is said to be ready to give up his great, and just, and favourite principle of economy, and to propose some other person for the chair. We will not affront the gentleman by naming him who has been mentioned to us as degraded b) Mr. Hume's patronage, but we will venture to predict a signal defeat for one of the absurdest attempts ever yet made by infatuated and fac tious conceit.— Times. We unfeignedly and deeply deplore that the first act of the Reformed Parliament—the choice of a Speaker—should involve a division amonL , the common friends of Reform and the natural allies of a liberal Administration. The critical and imminent questions of State policy, which the new Legislature must immediately discuss and determine, render union and a suspension of minor party differences of opinion absolutely essential. On the first rumour of the return of Mr. Manners Sutton to the Chair, and before that inauspicious probability was believed to be sanctioned by the Cabinet, we protested against a palpable impolicy and political inconsistency. The reasons which induced us to denounce the re election of the Ex-Speaker were tenfold increased when his intended nomination was reported to have received the approbation of the Govern ment, if not to have originated with Ministers themselves. We argued that the selection of a Tory—and of Mr. Manners Sutton in par ticular, prejudiced in the old and defective modes of conducting the business of British legislation—would infallibly be received by the Reformers as a bad political indication in a Whig Cabinet, and could not fail to impede those reforms and arrangements in the conduct of the public business of the House of Com mons, which are indispensable if that branch of the Legislature is to yield any fruit to the people in real " Reform Acts." The responsible power and nature of the office of Speaker, ren dered it also highly important that the Chair should be filled by sonic enlightened Mem ber representing the altered spirit of the House of Commons, and friendly to the Administra tion of Lord Grey. The minute saving of an annual pension of 4,0001., was not the real motive of the Ministry in sanctioning the return of the Ex-Speaker to the Chair, and is no sort of equivalent for the manifOld evils of his re appointment. Some of the thick and thin friends of Ministers defend their intention of proposing Mr. Manners Sutton on the untenable ground of defeating a plot of the Tories who meditated the same act. Such a defence is an ill compliment to the Cabinet, and represents Ministers as more intent on party manoeuvres. than in the selection of a gentleman best quali fied for the Speaker's Chair. Admitting, fot argument's sake, that the Tories, in alliance with the personal friends of Mr. Manners Sutton, could have outvoted the Ministerial candidate. Mr. Littleton—a gross . improbability and reflection on a House of Commons, nearly foul fifths of which is composed of liberal Members —would it not have been infinitely more politic and creditable in Ministers to have fixed the disgrace of such a vote on a base majority, who so sacrificed principle to faction and personal affection ? The worst result could but have been the re-election of Mr. Manners Sutton ; and could such a vote have weakened the Mi• nistry in public opinion or in the House of Commons ? We know that old Parliamentary tactitions would answer, Yes; but times are changed, and all these miserable party manoeu vres must be abandoned. We do not impugn the integrity of Ministers ; we only question their judgment and foresight. We warned them of the effect on the public mind—assured that an opposition would infallibly ensue. It was currently reported on Saturday, and yesterday. that Mr. Hume, in concurrence with a consider able body of independent Members, comprising many most anxious to support Ministers, intends to propose Mr. Littleton in opposition to Mr. Manners Sutton, notwithstanding the quondam friends of the former had transferred their sup port thus singularly to the Ex-Speaker, and al though Mr. Littleton desired to retire his claims, and not to encourage an unfortunate and portentous opposition to the Government. Such a resolution may be highly creditable to Mr. Littleton, but the same motives of disin terested feeling cannot prevail with those inde pendent Members who condemn the nomination of Mr. Manners Sutton, and the discourtesy of the prior dictation of that Right Honourabl e Gentleman for their " choice." We again re peat our most ardent hope that this " collision" between the different allies of the Ministry may he arrested by a timely act of wisdom, and that She first division in the House of Commons will not discover the lamentable position of a Minis ,erial majority made up of " Conservatives." We should not envy the position of the imme • diate friends of Ministers forced to defend an original error—occupying indefensible ground— md justifying on false pretences the nomination of Mr. Manners Sutton ; and least of all should we covet the curious situation of Mr. Manners Sutton himself, thus raised from the dead, and walking out of the mausoleum of schedule A. The dexterity and oratorical experience of the !ate " Speaker" will doubtless accomplish a sery ingenuous and natural self-defence. He will probably not allude to his disappointment in failing to reach the altitude of the Upper House of Parliament ; but he will ingeniously al lude to the unexpected circumstance of his return for the University of Cambridge, and the equally unsought honour desired to be conferred upon him by the " revolutionized" House of Commons! Ministers, who tolerably complimented the Right Honourable Gentle man on his premature interment, will be at no loss to express their gratification at his re-ap pearance on the political stage. Altogether, it will be a very curious scene—something resem bling " High Life below Stairs," where all the parties are conscious of their artificial relations. More curious would be the after and suspicious scene—if we may be permitted the anticipation of his " real last appearance," when, in subdued accents, solemn pauses, and studied appeals, the Ex-Speaker shall enact his last farewell. The late parting scene at the close of the last Session will be now briefly interpreted, " I am now in Hades ; but if I can slip out, I will be with you on the 29th January !" We remember to have heard a well-authenticated anecdote of a street :weeper, possessed of the " vested right" of the crossing in Blackfriars, who, for a breach of the laws, was hanged at the Old Bailey, but by the sxertions of the " faculty" restored to life. A little altered in visage, he returned to his calling, and his old companions found it extremely diffi cult to offer him theircongratulations. The mourn ers were turned into rejoicers, but nevertheless .he connection became mutually unpleasant, and the case of suspended animation soon quitted his old spot. A similar result may not irra tionally be predicted from this most unnatural political union. But more seriously to consider the position and expected qualifications of a new Speaker. The experienced, independent, and enlightened Members of the House of Com mons, must condemn the imperfections of our existing legislative system, and must see the ab solute necessity of new arrangements for the dis posal of the infinity of matters which now choke up the attention and crowd on the time of Parliament. Sir Robert Peel, in 1826, declared that " Parlia ment was overwhelmed with business." The Ex-Speaker himself, in May of the preceding session, avowed that the " increase of business in Parliament had come to be such, that it was impossible to say what matter would be in-ought on upon any appointed day, and what would not ;" a state of things, he said, " from which the greatest inconvenience resulted both to Members and to the public." In a Report of a Commons' Committee, in 1825, appointed to provide additional accommodation, it is officially stated, that " during the present session, the Members' waiting-rooms, the long gallery, the House of Commons itself, and even the Court of Exchequer, have been occupied by committees. Two hundred and seventy-six sittings have been held of public committees. Four of the public committees, and thirty committees on private business, have met on a single day, nineteen of the latter hav ing been fixed to meet in one room." Acts of Parliament are annually piled in volcanic coati ,ion one on another ; and it has been calculated that the printed papers of the House of Com mons now average nearly fifty full sized and closely printed folio volumes per session ! Our representatives have been overlayed with legisla tion. The Crown Law Officers in Parliament —the Attorney anti Solicitor-Generals—sup posed to be responsible legal advisers in this motley legislation, have no leisure, and in fact do not superintend the medley work ; and the Trea sury Barristers, who draw certain public Acts, work by the piece, and are not likely to " stand in their own light." The jobbery on private Bills, and the evils of two separate jurisdictions exer cised on different principles in the Houses of Lords and Commons—not improved by the absolute despotism of Lord Shaftesbury —re quire no exposition, being sufficiently notorious. The late hours—the foul air—the utter want of subdivision of legislative labour, in the proce dure of the House of Commons, are nuisances which must be abated. All these long-standing evils have grown up—at least to their present magnitude—under the Presidency of Mr. Man ners Sutton. We call upon any partisan of the Ex-Speaker to name a single act of legisla tive economy, or improved procedure, which emanated from the chair, so long enjoyed by Mr. Sutton. The excellent letter of our correspon dent " Daleth," on Saturday, ably stated the necessary qualifications and important duties of a Speaker. Surely they are not diminished at the present moment. It is for these many and weighty reasons, that we ardently hope Ministers will have the magnanimity to retrace their steps—to avoid an unnecessary and injurious division and discussion on the first assemblage of the Commons—to suffer the Members to elect their own Speaker. Much as we deprecate any fac tious hostility to the Government in their present difficult situation, we never will uphold such in consistencies as their elevation of Mr. Manners Sutton to the Speakership. Is the Right Honourable Gentleman likely to continue in the chair, if he attain it ? Will he not, in all human probability, soon receive the honour of the Peerage ? What possible motives, therefore, can exist for his " resuscitation," when the evils of it are so palpable, and when literally no benefit to the country can accrue ? The Tories are, in " a Parliamentary sense," defunct, unless re stored to life by the Whigs. But it appears that the " Conservatives" are a species of crotalus or rattlesnake. Like that venomous serpent, the Tories possess the fascinating influence attributed to the crotalus genus. Their charm ing or attractive powers draw to them the poli tical creatures they seek to devour. They open their snake-like jaws—their innocent prey, re gardless of danger, fly into the reptile's mouth, which takes them in, and instantly swallows them. A Ministry overcome by power is respected if it fall —overcome by fear, its fate is certain and unla mented. Surely Lord Grey, to propitiate a handful of enemies, will not raise an insurrection of his friends.—Morning Chronicle. We find, from a report in the Caledonian Mercury, that the Tories of Mid Lothian have been regaling themselves and their ejected can didate, Sir George Clerk, with a dinner of con dolence. We find that Sir George Murray, another of their ejected candidates, was present also, and that he, as well as his brother in mis fortune, had recourse to speech-making on a full stomach, as one of the palliatives by which calamity may be tempered it not subdued. There can be no objection to the principle of good eating and drinking, as a source of com fort in affliction ; it has had its advocates in all ages. But when gentlemen assume that they have been exceedingly ill used by the world, and put forth in angry speeches that ground of dis content, they challenge criticism directly ; and the first and most obvious rule of criticism against which they appear to offend is, the simple rule which recommends modesty, or the affectation of modesty, as one of the sources of persuasion. If, therefore, it were only for the reputation of their eloquence, Sir George Clerk and Sir George Murray—nay, the whole of the little, shrivelled, shrunken Tory party to which they belong—should deal more sparingly in the language of censure, when the object of that censure is the mass of tile public, and the ' standard by reference to which they are con demned is the opinion of the isolated few who are already in the last stage of political exist ence. Sir George Clerk said— ,, I trust that when the delusion dies away, and I hope that ere long that period will arrive, the country will do us justice and acknowledge, that, in our opposition to the Reform Bill, we acted from conscientious motives." In the same spirit, Sir George Murray, in alluding to the triumph of the people, observed—" It appeared to him that it was the very same system that was em ployed some centuries ago by an artful and grasping priesthood. They deluded the people under the name of religion ; and in the same manner were they now deluded under the sacred name of liberty, and were induced to believe that they were serving the cause of general freedom, while they were cramping the opinions and actions of men,in their individual freedom." This is pretty . well, in the way of modesty. We do not say it is peculiar to Sir George Clerk or Sir George Murray, or even to their party, to suppose all the wisdom on their own side, and all the folly on the side of the public or the world, when their sentiments happen to clash. On the contrary, we believe it to be a very common mode of deciding such differences ; but then we must not be expected to feel any strong sentiments of regret for the disappointment of people who are so well satis fied with themselves. It would appear, from the speech of Sir George Clerk, that the Tories have not yet given over time hope of a reaction. How desperately they have stuck to that hope was sufficiently manifested before. Still they live in the same expectation. Instead of think ing it likely that they may in time come round to the opinion of the mass, they conclude, in spite of every appearance and indication to the contrary, that the mass will come round to theirs. This is sufficiently absurd, but it be comes still more so when we reflect that the doctrine to which they hope to convert the na tion is one of which it has already had dear experience, in the extent to which it has been plundered under it. No doubt there are con scientious men amongst the Tories, who think it would be a great blessing to the people to be restored to that happy state of things again, when those whose hands are now dangling idly at their sides, should be inserted once more into their pockets ; but the people cannot be brought to think so too. We have therefore more faith in the efficacy of the good eating and drinking which took place on the occasion to sustain the party under their late defeat, than in what would be considered the more intellectual effort of their speeches. The one may raise their spirits and support their strength; the other can scarcely impose upon their own understandings.—Morn ing Herald. We have received many communications on the subject of the speculations we have hazarded on the course which Ministers might be expected to take in the proceedings of the new Parliament. Of such communications we do not think it necessary to notice more than one. Crito remarks upon our observations on Mr. Stanley, disputing some of our statements, recognising the accuracy of others ; and he calls our attention to another of the " new men,"whoin he thinks "it would be desirable for Conservatives to conciliate," He alludes to Mr. Macaulay, and he supports his opinion by a reference to the battle which he says that gentleman has honestly fought " against universal suffrage, against triennial Parliaments, against ballot." Mr. Macaulay is an accomplished scholar and a splendid rhetori cian. Many writers possess knowledge more deep and varied ; no one so aptly concentrates that which he possesses upon the point at which it may be serviceable. Many Speak ers address the judgment with a more im pressive tone, and invoke the reason with a sounder logic ; no man awakens a prejudice with a more passionate appeal, or revives a pas sion with a more intense enthusiasm. We be lieve that his private character is estimable; and, for his public character, while we hold his prin ciples in the most perfect abhorrence, we do not accuse him of treachery or insincerity in his ad vocacy of them. We will tell our correspondent, in a few words, why we had not proposed to bestow upon so distinguished a man any notice —why out notice of him, now that it is called from us, is brief. Mr. Macaulay cannot become, in any contingency, the supporter of an aristo cracy. His genius is essentially plebeian. Of the ennobling influences of high birth he knows nothing ; to the voice with which the memory of the dead speaks to the ambition of the living he is deaf. He sees nothing in a coat of arms but its gules and its sables, nothing in a coronet but its balls and its strawberry leaves. The Church is to him but brick and mortar, and the Bible but a printed book. As it suits his taste, so it conduces to his interest, to fight the fight of the many against the few, of the apron against the mantle, of the tub against the pulpit. Henceforth our illustrious nobility, our opulent proprietors, cannot intro duce to public life the laborious energy a nd fervid zeal of such politicians. They who neigh' have found support from above must seek it from below. Mr. Macaulay was once the nomi nee of a patron ; henceforth he must be the nominee of a populace. He has argued against universal suffrage. True. But what has been the tenor of his argument ? He can conceive, he says, a country in such a state that suffrage may be safely intrusted in it to every male. England is not yet in such a state. Let the clamour of the Unions for universal suffrage be half as loud as it was for the Bill, and it will be easy for Mr. Macaulay to see in the state of the country such a change as will enable him to support it. He has argued against triennial Parliaments. Granted. But what has been the basis of his opposition ? Reluctance to endanger the success of one measure by the forced discussion of another ; willingness to give time Act a fair trial ; anything but a preference for the longer period over the shorter ; anything but a professed desire to leave to the Council of the Nation such a freedom of judgment as shall make them wise Senators rather than servile Delegates. Let the clamour of the Unions be as loud for trien nial Parliaments as it was for the Bill, and it will be easy for Mr. Macaulay to discover an impor tance in the question which makes its intru sion justifiable, and a result of the fair trial of the Bill which proves its operation imper fect. He has argued against ballot. Un doubtedly. But what strength is there in the position he takes up against it ? Let us try ;he says, how we can go on without it ; if we fail to satisfy the people, if they require the additional protection, they are entitled to ask it at our hands. Let the clamour of the Unions be as loud for the ballot as it was for the Bill, and it will be easy for Mr. Macaulay to give them, nay it will be impossible for him to deny them, his cordial co-operation. Upon every question on which the Conservatives and the Levellers shall join issue this part Mr. Macaulay will play. He will assert with an if, and he will deny with a but, until it shall be clearly as certained to which side the numbers will attach themselves. He will act thus because he is unprincipled ; unprincipled rather in mind than in morals. He has read much and reflected much. But one man reads to become a scholar, and another to become a statesman ; one man reflects till he has pointed a phrase, another until he has established a principle. For these reasons we do not speculate upon the course which Mr. Macaulay individually may pursue. It is not that we underrate his abilities, but that we think them irretrievably enlisted on the side of democracy. He has, indeed, declared him self more decidedly, more distinctly, than any other Reformer for the finality of the Bill. From those,•declarations we understand, not what his own conduct will probably be, but rather what were the inclinations of Ministers who ra tified and adopted the expositions of their most popular interpreter. Considered in this latter point of view, the opinions he has expressed become at the present moment important ; and to-morrow, when we purpose to inquire how far the Cabinet is now, by its own pledges and pro mises, conservative, we shall look for those pledges and promises not only in the speeches of Lord Grey, of Lord John Russell, of Mr. Stanley, but in those of the late Member for Lord Lansdowne's borough of Calne.—Morn ing Post. We see by one of the papers, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has stated his intention of redu cing the stamp duty on newspapers, but at the same time expressed a doubt as to whether he will be able, in the present state of the revenue, to repeal that duty altogether. It does not appear that his Lord ship has made any promise on the subject of the advertisement duty. Now, although we are warm advocates for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge, we would not accept that repeal unless accompanied by the abolition, or extensive reduction, of the duty on advertisements; for if there be one tax upon industry more oppressive than another, it is the heavy duty imposed by the Government upon the ad% ertiser. Under the present law, a shopkeeper, newly commencing business, must expend a large sum in order to give the necessary degree of publi city to his undertaking, the greater part of which goes in the shape of tax; and even a poor servant out of place has to pay three shillings and sixpence to Government on advertising for a situation, even though the advertisement be only two lines in length. Upon what principle this tax is imposed we know not—it does not exist in any other country, and it would almost seem that it originally formed part of a gagging system, by which despotic Ministers hoped to narrow the means of success in newspaper speculation, knowing, as they did, that without ad vertisements—which are a material source of income to a newspaper—no undertaking of that kind could succeed; and, therefore, that the less advertisements appeared the more limited would be the number of newspapers.—Merle's Weekly Register. A very numerous and influential meeting has been held in the city of London, for the purpose of in structing its representatives as to the course which they are to pursue in the new Parliament. On three points—the repeal of the Septennial Act, the aboli tion of the assessed taxes, and vote by ballot—the meeting were unanimous as to the propriety and necessi•y of those measures ; and the three Members who were present t Mr. Alderman Waithman being absent from illness) declared their readiness to sup port those propositions in Parliament; Mr. Grote, the respectable city banker, undertaking to bring forward immediately a motion for the adoption of vote by ballot. The Times, which has lately be come a Ministerial hack, calls this meeting a failure. How that could be a failure, where at least 2,000 respectable citzens, headed by their representatives, unanimously agreed on the objects of their meeting, we are at a loss to imagine, unless, indeed, it be that these 2,000 persons failed in bringing the Times to a sense of public principle, or even public decency. It is lamentable to find a paper, which was once the organ of public opinion, degenerated into a slave of the Treasury. What the inducement may have been we know not ; but this we know—the Times can not hope to maintain its circulation if, without refe rence to pi inciple, it shall continue to be the organ of the Administration of the d.,y.—illerle'siVeekly Register. ROLLS COURT, JAN. 26. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CULVERWELL. The principal object of this information was the appointment of new trustees, under the direction of the Court. The Pentoaville charity school, being in possession of two sums of stock, the subscribers to that institution at a general meeting appointed, as the trustees, Mr. Taylor, the relator in this in formation, two other persons who were dead, and a Mr. William Cook, who for some years had been abroad in embarrassed circumstances, and of course wasanimproper person to continue in the trust. . . His HONOUR said, it was quite unnecessary to call for the interference of the Court in this case. The subscribers at their general meeting would be perfectly well justified in appointing new trustees in ►he room of those who were dead, and of Cook, who, residing abroad, was entirely unfit to execute the trust. On the appointment of new trustees at such a meeting, a petition might be presented under the statute of William IV., for the purpose of effect ing the necessary transfer of the stock. STACEY V. ELPII. This was a bill filed for the purpose of charging the defendant, as trustee and executor, with the amount of certain sales of some real estates effected about thirty years ago, for the benefit of the plain tiffs, his cestuiquc trusts. His Honour's judgment embraced the material facts of the case ; and, under all the circumstances, the Court was of opinion that this being an attempt to charge the defendant for his friendly interference with respect to the family on mere technical grounds, the bill should be dismissed with costs. DAVID V. FROWI). Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. LYNCH appeared in this case for the plaintiff. The bill was filed by Mary David, claiming, as next of kin to a gentle. man named Williams, to be entitled to the residue of his personal estate. The estate of the intestate had been administered and distributed, under the orders of the Court, among the defendants, who had been found by the Master to be the next of kin; and the present bill was filed for the purpose of having it refunded for the benefit of the plaintiff. The intestate died in January, 1828; before the 22d of February, in the same year, Mr. Frowd, a solicitor in Serle-street, procured administration to be granted to him of the personal estate, which was sworn at about the amount of 5,0001., and on the day after letters of administration were granted, a suit was instituted by the defendants for having the property distributed, when a decree was made by consent ; and it was not till afi er that distribu tion had taken place, that the plaintiff was enabled to institute such proceedings as were necessary in order to establish his right to the fund. Being in rxtremely indigent circumstances, and receiving parish relief, she had been in the habit of receiving from the intestate small sums of 2s. 61 and 3s. 6th from time to time, for her support. She was now 90 yews of age, bed-ridden, and unable to read or write, and resided in a remote district of Glamor ganshire, where the intestate had lived. On his death, it seemed, she did entertain a notion, know ing that she was a near relation, that she had some claim on his property, but she understood it could nor be divided for twelve months. Under these circumstances, the present bill was filed, and the material question was, assuming that the plaintiff could establish her title as sole next of kin, whether the distribution of the fund, under the order of the Court, was sufficient to conclude and bar her right. The question was one of great importance, and the precise point had never occurred. • His HONOUR said the prayer of the bill should be granted. His Honour then referred it to the Master, to inquire whether the plaintiff was the sole next of kin, or one of the next of kin to the intestate. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 26. THE KING V. ATTWOOD, ESQ. In this case, which was not concluded on Satur day when our reporter left, and in which a rule Nisi had been granted for a quo warranto, calling on Mat thias Attwood, Esq., to show by what authority he held the office of Master of the Merchant Tailors' Company, the Court ordered the rule to be dis charged. COURT OF 'EXCHEQUER, JAR' 26 LOGAN V. ALDER. This was an action on a bond, tried bef ere ( Baron Bo!land at Guildhall on Friday iast 'j the following evidence was given. The ban produced, in the body of which the de fendol, described as William Roland Alder, of T horne ; house, in the county of Durham, and it apPe a ,, , be executed by W. R. Ald e r. The s ubs " . witness was called, and proved that he s aw BPI execute this bond, but he did not know w ho , person was, having never seen him before n" r , that occasion. The Learned Judge not d e y this to he suffic;ent evidence of the identity d4endant with that of the person who e%ec ut , moved for a rule to show cause nonsuited the plaintiff. Mr. WATstho should not be set aside, and a verdict the plaintiff. lie contended that a printa P ie ( I was made out; but Mr. Baron BAYLEY satda9r' ea,, under smiilar circumstances, was Pe t ' the Court, and that therefore the postea 5 11°- ; main with the officer until the decision of Mr. WATSON afterwards applied for a " e ", on payment of costs, and the Court said 0 8 `,,, would grant a rule Nisi, if rendered necessary CICCV decision of the case under similar • 19° , already in Court. w hy tit:lost:10i! THE KING V. WATKINSON. Sir J. SCARLETT and Mr. DUNDAS showed cause against a rule for an information in the nature of a quo warrant° to Mr. John Watkinson, calling upon him to show .by what authority he claimed to ex ercise the office of chief constable of the wapentake of Stanton in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It appeared that the West Riding of Yorkshire was divided into seven wapentakes, each of which had a chief constable. On the death of Mr. Carr, chief constable of Stanton, it became neccessary to make a new appointment, and Mr. Watkinson and Mr. Edmonson were the candidates. Mr. Watkin son had been appointed at the Quarter Session-, and Mr. Edmonson was appointed by a majority of the Magistrates, at a meeting held by them. The question was whether the right of appointment was in the Magistrates or in the General Quarter Sessions. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL contended that the right was in the Magistrates. Sir JAMES SCARLETT contended that the appoint ment by the Magistrates was not supported by any law or custom. The COURT thought that there were suff►cient grounds for having the point of law discussed, and therefore directed the rule to be made absolute. EXPARTE LAMBERT. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against \l'llliatn Hannain, Esq., a gentleman residing in the county of Dorset. This application was made at the instance of Mr. Lam bert, of Knowle, in the same county, who had to complain of a series of injuries and insults which he had met with from Mr. Hannam, injuries and in sults which were unexampled. Mr. Lambert, on the 12th of January, was on a visit with his wife at the residence, in Dorsetshire, of Mr. Hannam. He (Mr. Lambert) retired to bed at about one o'clock in the morning, Mrs. Lambert having gone up stairs about half an hour before. He found her in her bed-room, but not in bed, and she assigned some reason why it was not convenient to her to go to bed immediately. Mr. Lambert went to bed and fell asleep, and he slept about an hour. Upon his awaking he found that his wife had not come to bed, and was not in the room. He rose, and opened the bed-room door, and watched there for half an hour. Mr. Hannam's bed•room door was close adjoining. No one passed while Mr. Lambert was watching, but at the expiration of about half an hour Mr. Hannam, in his shirt, opened his bed-room door. Mr. Lambert entered Mr. Hannam's bed-room, and there he saw Mrs. Lambert, and it was clear that the bed had been used. He immediately charged Mr. Hannam with adultery, and seized him ; there was a struggle, and Mr. Lambert struck Mr. Hannam, and used some strong language respecting his (Mr. Hannam's) con duct. The inmates were alarmed, and came up to the passage where the bed-rooms were. Mr. Han nam escaped down stairs in his shirr, and concealed himself in some room in the lower part of the house. Mr. Lambert stayed in the house about an hour and a quarter afterwards; but at the end of that time, not being able to find Mr. Hannam, he left the house and came to London on the 14th of the present month. Upon consulting with his friends, he was advised to bring an action against Mr. Hannam for a criminal conversation ;that action was brought, the writ was sued out, arid on the 18th of January was served on the attorneys of Mr. Hannam. Oa the 21st of January Mr. Lambert received a message that a Captain Smith wished to have an interview with him, on the part of Mr. Hannam. Mr. Lam bert saw Captain Smith, on which Captain Smith delivered to him a letter from Mr. Hannam, which he (the Learned Counsel) would read to the Court : " Sir,—Having bet n informed by my friends that it was your intention to ,end me a hostile message, I patiently waited at High-bill four lays in expectation of the saint . Receiving from your solicitors in town a letter c l eArly in dicating the new course you intended pursuing, it is my imperative duty to immediately require frun you an apo logy or satisfaction for the gross insult offere I tne in my own house,—such as a riking me, and using false and un gentlemanlike language is the presence of my yisiters and servante. Captain G. Smith, of the Royal Horse Guards will deliver this, and is instructed to take such steps as the case may require." In answer to this demand for an apology from the injured husband, Mr. Lambert merely sent the an swer which he would now read, and of which he thought the Court would highly approve " Sir,—The circumstances do not entitle you to demand satisfaction from me, and I refuse to give you any." On the following day Mr. Hannam addressed a letter to Mr. Lambert to the following effect:— " Sir,—Having received from you a decided refusal to give me an apology, or that satisfaction which one gentle man has a right to demand at the hands of another for the grossest of all possible insults, it is with the greatest pain and deepest regret for your own degradation that I dro,compelled to pronounce you entirely unworthy of my resentment, and this my opinion shall be freely expressed on every occasion." fhe'CoußTlmmediately granted a rule iVisi. TILE KING V. lIEMING. Sir JA➢IES SCARLETT moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the Rev. Samuel Bracebridge Heming. The charge against Mr. Heming was, that he was an ac tive partisan in creating riots, and exciting the mob to acts of outtage and, violence at the late election for the county of Warwick.—Rule Nisi granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 26. MYERS AND ANOTHER V. HOLMES. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs, who ne to for re s c o o o v / e . r , are general m erchants, at Birmingham,. against the :t or e Pearsall on ls and indorsed by thetad, nr e idd f e a t t i man d ceo a c n ueo t np , t tthefeodorfr for y e r o r formerly cle a l e a fdf c er h eanx%dv p can r hi o :t p nb, proprietor, Pearsall to the plaintiffs. Pearsall had been agent to the plaintiffs for the sale of their goods in London, and became indebted to them for money received on their account. After hearing evidence, the Jury returned a ver dict for the plaintiffs for the amount of the 3001. t ill only, together with the interest. NV heat. Barley. Oats. To YO U eIi t 4 R CHIT t ' ° ° t (ft. Ar4 .3 i : 7, Bur I ' d ay was I PAS SA P tl; e Edit( ) HY‘ p r ,r. cc.nted for ( "Y Was [ t T to Tou t' k STATE, tiedicati.(l, tomi)uted fo r N n end 1 tIPINBt ° : s - t of , ;'n Ma c hi r lo aß Zeal an (f the 8 o ` l. 4 , rrine s L a 1'"I Nlalin r Craent th t i .._oan and lc. tit ni • TH Nobilit ki, g i a "iped St tea4:,u. at the 413,,tbna11-stre( ° Act of I " 0 t. uragem '0 Produce tr th et ets i n •.1 4411. SKr o::t e tt fialiog an kit tt t ' , t ent I t : l i d *** 'Nje r l, l th fur s ti t i e t & t " 4 straw ......... r tatOttr e' ... li it tst "hea4l : free fat r r t F, et flan. ti x best Nt fee t .... , ........ q 4 l b ol ' , X tlo( 4 t ilter ...... yPl,i,r,lit4ei chain , t r I) l )l! a . pa4 ne . ci .. Ci; ...... f ile t f ie t)l "hyt''ers gan x ditty , ....... light i Are e st and pai ......... sofa bet tit, vi stead beds st, 'ogan: fun ,•apenc eastic id......... 'Mall by J. Ville-8 Chymi Irou g i San Mem periei ' 4 O al , per of -'n chi irpose, ' 1 apes , Mar the Cu] ' ' v eness ' B , Ivo l lhide] effiea Jaun ve aft th ey 'e St ' 'nee 'Ole et neve eith e 411)1 41 and tot 'la,. 444 -et ~ddle NYal `lary t eY; itabb t )d rtfol Wit] ' 4 , To, and '. 40 03'4" ' 1 Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to 0,, ra,,,,,,, Car1i51e.......,.,,.,.,,,,,,,. 53 - I 24 - 18 --",,, ~ 1 0,;; feet ,• ' Hexham.---....... 48 60 128 33 18 " 4 ' 0 I. 44,,,,,„" t x M.wpeth ---...... 44 53 29 30 15 2 1 ...., kti, 4 wer' '-'`') s Penrith ..-.............. - 58 I - 26 - IS 0 0 n ,ga,, 5 , .. : . Sheffield ---......,. - 56 I - 33 - 19 46, 4110,44 et, nil Winchester 48 56 '22 30 22 9 " 1 8." ll W ith" Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. S. it. F. d. s. d. to . d. 0 1 t 11', bide thr Carmarthen «,.,. 5 6 6 0 2 9 3 3 1 3 1 ‘ , B 5 6 ,1 t el. 4 itt e n t an Coventry 70 90 48 54 36 4 4' 51 * ,K,%, al .„,," Newcastle (Staff.) 8 0 8 6 5 6 5 9 2 9 3 ',., 5„" 1 'lli . ,',Lres s iW ,' Northallerton ...... 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 '' 6V A V b ed ' s itone------.. 84 90 53 60 32 40 0i ' r ~.ed . . Swansea 6 9 7 0 3 9 4 0 1 9 ~2 ,"" I' 4 o " t ***** Warwick 90 10 0 4 6 50 22 '..; " t& ?et "t 1 ' Barnardeastle ........ 1 1 11 2 1t 8 1 0 ) 1 11 6 64 6 63 8 67 6 0 0 8 87 0 6 0 44 5 60 0 54 5 6 ::__2 ‘i p li ,,,A ` ° \.......,elu i t : t o 4i el iiini i: t d e ah .r... ,: j , Per 8011. , 1 10 6 , 441 Richmond Durha m - ---..... Stockton ....-.....-..... ill 3 12 6 9 6 10 0 4 0 4 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Jan,..._ 00 . ; s.,, ANc 2 5 ' i Ps, Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufffilk -5. 465. to 5.- 60 , 1 14, , --- Lin. and Cam. -s. 425. to 5 3 , 5 ' 60'i -.1 r., u! -- Yorkshire -s. 425. to 5 ,?: 60') th,, h,i., White -s. 475. to 5 ,5 ' (0) n . N rn ' 1 r Foreign, Red -a. _ a. t o 44R olti ,'N "Priet o White s. —S. to -± V I ! te. 4 1111 Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk Lincolnshire 29s. to ~,,,,36 4' 011'; t , l'h they I Yorkshire Wold 3ls. to ~"''' Or''' ` l ll ' Y hay - Foreign -s. to ..-- 4 ' 00$ II VIII e Beans, Small Tick 325. to 3 4 ' . 00 e ; I.,,"ess n Oats, Potato 2os. to 2 2 3 • 60 1 t1, 16 ty,, 41 , Poland s. his. t 2° ,.! 0 11 s ,1 ( cetor at . Friezland and Small -s. 16s. to I"°' i• to lon Mealing Fld. to 10; • ,rr,: i - i„, ess Shelling .18. to 265. Od• i re ,„ 44 .ipa ny 1 Malt 33s. 42s fine 4 53 . ,st Ilihild Rapeseed. 201.08. 221. Os. 23/. 1 0 ''' 1 11 ren ---ossis.—_ 1 ;' Per g n , SCOTCH MARKETS. ......4 1,0 . kv A sklal He ot, / of, ~ Il,rs, Wheat. Barley Oats. _...., 0 , n tioo 3 _ ---- 7-' 9 3 1 Slat Aberdeen 40 54 21 23 16 18 - .... , ,4 / e o f Berwick—. 32 35 17 19 12 14 22 ~,1 Coldstream - 34 38 19 21 14 15 19 ;',', l ..., 4 (1 4 Cupar .-......... 48 70 28 32 20 24 26 ""i /' . l i, a, Pill, Dundee.-- 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 13 ~0 ,i, Itort („,,, , Elgin ~_...,,.,.,•., 40 47 24 26 17 20 23 7',ii ',; A; , et t .no Inverness,.,,.,. 40 46 24 28 16 23 23 1,, ' 4 ..N. tilt, i Kelso --.... 33 37 17 19 13 14 23 'll l 'his Kirkaldy-....... 40 45 27 39 25 32 1 45 1, t 'at 00 $° CO I ' N (1) t!to Perth ...—. 54 57 29 31 21 2 - ,ne /). 11.::, , The size of the measure varies throughout st ete , e Yiene " EDINBURGH CORN NI A RKET.-Jao• o f, Itti Ys I G • t ° ' 1'1, 4 g We had a large supply of all kinds of rain dr, '1 , or u Barley, and the sales in general were rather brisk. F , y ~.. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 74 . 0, 14, ''',', I First .59s Od 34s Od 21s Ooil 304 04 ",. 1 f„ - 'itti„ whos i Second s2s Od 303 6d 19s Od s ill v i'lt 'to A r Third 3Ss Od 23s Od 14s Od 25s 0 11 'o4ifer y i ; PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Ac. 1, t'l 1P •1t0,,:%t a ,.,., Beef, per lb. ... Os. 42. to Os. 7d. Freshßutter, lb. 5 . 1 0 ? tt,j'‘ol i i e "u %fawn—. 0 : I , t, s l i h cot, Veal 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per cut. 0 , 1 't, Y eith 'ork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. o' o 1 eto li i/ zsl t Lamb, per qr. 2 0 3 6 OatStraw(lo.) S fallow, cwt.... 37 0 40 0 Wheat Ditto.. 5 0 I r ,,,ctj..' dra Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto... 5 8j14 `c 191 Potatoes. 1711 b. 0 3-:, 0 0 Hay, per st.-..... 0 ,...../ 1 5 ‘..zti , , i 2 1 , 0 1 t l't., 5 , ra)i NBU Mi . 1-1 MEAL MARKET. s- ,3- '.l ! tvwir. l S- 'l'he supply of Oatmeal at this day's market i' ,3 , - ,.,40 0, r,,. 1. `'. h the sale brisk, at an advance of Is. per sack on last 0 „ . 11, - ;lit t ,"atlr y i Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp Per Stone of 1 4 ' ,P c ui t d, 44,1 eirst Oatmeal Second ditto Barleymeal £l ll 1 48 0 40 0 ) BB F e i ac r r s oi t eny t d ) m a d t ei m attio e .. a .. l ... ..............:: : :: :: , c , , t<,,,,:........14 c,ll l , l 44 ,:t t L re, ' t e hr b , Peaseia eal l3 0 Peasemeal .......... ::::r 4 ' ttli Co.l Pot Barley-No. I, pet cwt. 125.-22, 145.-3 d. 16 3 • k; --• - 2 3 ' cllk. GLASGOW CORN MARKET. --J an• .t, i We have a considerable arrival of Barley, for wi i . l o l ' i is ° ,;, " elni, a fair demand, at previous rates. Of other descript , 4 ,g0 4t arid . the supplies are moderate and prices steady. A lb a ,iet„. l h,, . eI P Wheat, per 2401 h. 8. d. s. o. 1 Oats, per 21;a•-• 1.,, n , 14,8- sap British, old 25 0 to 31 0 i Irish / v 6 %t, , in b r -..-- new Canada, free Irish Barley, per 3201 b, Scottish English - 0 - 0 Pease, Scottish ..• 10 l'h I thi Ito Scottish 22 0 24 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 6 • 45' a , ty h e and Irish _—........____ sOR., lit i h iN 'a th, CORNWALL MA RKETS. Apt.", api ti 0, . Tauao-Wheat (average) 20s. Od; Barley, 108.". c4 10-1 0) , 4a1.,. -, ns, Sr. AUSTELL-Wheat, -s. to 205.-Barley, ---5. ' , m glto, "'sti r , ils. to 7s. Od. i,v, di ti ht PENZANCE-Wheat, 20s. to 21K-Barley, 9 5 . L t , ° 0 ,1 4 a , 4°l lle, 41 ' 7s. to Bs. 6.1-Beef and Mutton, CAL to fxl.-York' In % •, it) Butter, 120. per lb. . t i,l, liti a tr u i 9 , ' 'Y t LA II NC EsTox-Wheat (average) 193.6.1-Barleys I N tr 's Ai, rta 6 6'. 62.-Beef, 5(1-Mutton, 62. 6J• 141 at , Limas:Alto-Wheat, -s. to 19s. 62.-Barley, 94. ph ithl n ative to 6s. 3d. th e (oh the ~pn , a a . Bo (average)2ol.-Barley, a0.i6.1.--"" qt i "qta ' HELSTON-Wheat, 20s. &I-Barley, 103 Od. I°lor Nrit the Sr. COLONS-Wheat, 20s. to -8.- and Mutton, sd. to 6d.-Veal, 0.1.-Lamb. Od. .'elth `lle ~,,, 04, el, "( Barley, 91. t ° h_ ate .. a , ind, Tol l ttl, -onm MINING INTELLIGENCE , 0,1", all!' 44 1 ,, Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last ThurdaY I), l ti h. my, , "re Quantity of fine Copper-----..............--............" v,, I 1 Wad hi Average Produce --..... OL---------1 " gt , a, Amount of Sale, 22,498/. Is. 6.1.-Average Standards 1 00 .' 0 , ' 4 11 11 ________ C il l ti ) t ali aY rtr , ti 'th MEETINGS OF CREDITO , - 0-11 Q 1. kt• t ~p, , th in n AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-S'L l i ef • 'ln 1, Ip, at a , .et 0. 4 . (From the iLutotn)dwon, JAN. 29. co 4 11 . : 11 . 1 v i;Z te t . :,, e4 E. Whithourn, coach-proprietor, Percival-street? ~, , ,,h, 'ln , T kenwell " I. 111 "et' 'et A1' 4 8 4 11 41 / 1 °I L. Abrahams, wine -merchant, St. James's•place, ~ ~ r et al. rh o , T. Bye, victualler, Rathbone-place, Oxford-streel3l?„'ellt e ,, l / 4 1 tt n i ' S. Stright, hat-manufactu:er, Charlotte-street, .:,1 4 .21. ~, 0g friars-road ............................................................ ..._,';' th 4 :( 0 ,i, U. Score, scrivener, Lincoln's Inn-fields ............ • 44 , , Tveribi li 3 h a „ 1). Farrow, gunsmith, Farringdon-street .......... IV / b e a l ty R. Drew, currier, Great Sutton-street, Clerkeno` _ . 'NI ' sts ______-/ '} eor i ao t ......14 - t'r po a . BIRTHS. Oli p'Pot 0)1, of 8 . ttl On the 27th inst. in Whitehall-place, the lady 4 4. qt.. an, Seymour, of a daughter. . ' • f Cre 9l 64 • I t ' V ', a On the 3d of November at Mexico, the lady' 0-., t to0;0 10 ato, p ~i II man, Es.i., of the United Mexican Mining •A'ssciel l .on Itn ati ar t ,,, On the 222 inst. at Tenby, the lady of Arnold .1 4 0 ay 4ri. ,"gd, Wright, Esq., of a daughter. ~ 0 1 . ' 3 20 , '.' C On the 222 inst. Mrs..lohn Mackenzie, of a soli'' :grad). At,„,„ I,t. It t " 1 11 I, o' On the 26th inst. at Edmonton, Andrew John e r ''' i tt I. liar tlll)°e4::l',anttieini Downing 6 1 ° 4 1 ' h . le N i g n a e s s , t 1 C . 1, a a E n t ' s b q 4 r . i , i r d ee o g t e ' n h w t Hyde-house. cdlle)-:-IbiSOiarrbt.seejt.lo'h, John 7.:gc Jot' ' it t • t r i l 4 . 'i ; ,: ? . ",,: il . tr ; I t ' t, et ut, b . L i a o i r , e gi s e t y r , ee l t :s , q t . , o . fSaGrraehenJwaniceh, Hospital. r; .s il l ti . t 5 7 : 4 .. a t ...:: DIED. „ o , ~, . 04 , On the , 23d inst. Patrick Robertson, M.D., ou t , 'th. ati 3 O ; cians to the Islington Dispensary. „ 'Nth j e tto Ch _... PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU It D 0 ., ... 11 n os, . ! 4 , 4:4, : h 0 t1 17. in SON Or vice , 112, STRAND 1. , 0 , ` -- " li te s. , • • ' th y, ~ D it tp. k- COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Y.'l' EX PARTE TANNER AND ANOTHER, IN 0 i ro Mr. MONTAGU stated that this was the P et " o t i two creditors to supersede the commissioti, ground of midescription and no trading' 1 bankrupt had obtained his cert;ficate. f ii h r e years previors to the 24th of July, 18320 - st) of the commission), he h a d b een clerk in the r tom of the custom-ho use , at a sa l a ry 0 ) yea-. Rosster, the petitio n i ng creditor, w i1 ,, ° , 1 1 clerk in the South Loudon W a t er - wor ks, "u . ,, the bankrupt 3001. on two promissory-note s ', were afterwards dishonoured, and remained promissory-notes'' , The commission issued against the bankrutf sFrtling him as a commission-agent and En cu ' s i ' siding in Arundel-str ee t, S tran d, where it o ' B % he had removed to afte r t h e issu ing of the co sion, anti then only resid e d th ere a few M s ' I trading was completely disproved, nor 015 0 any evidence of his having kept any boololap counts. The debts proved amoun ted c°l s a d there was not sufficient assets to pay thee , of working the commission. Mr. SwANSTON, for the petitioning credit °f ,j ; Mr. BETHELL, for the bankrupt, admitted :0 was true the bankrupt had been a cleik I d long room of the Custom-house, but he b a g been a commission-agent and broker far the 1° years. Commission to be superseded, with C04 91/1 both respondents. .RKET 9 K. i COUNTRY CORN MA. DURING LAST WEE