The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-27 00:00:00

r._;. • "*.• _:-' l 4ltr• M: -totes into sovereigns, coupled with a I ".*• lliAtiori of that class of bank-notes which is ;•S iiiSt likely to be so converted. But it is clear that a combination exists throughout the country, for tormenting the Duke of Wel lington, whom some of the aristocratic turn-outs have indecently called upon by name, into a po licy ruinous to the nation, by Grand Jury and Quarter Sessions (a species of hole-and-corner) clamour, for measures affecting the currency. — The Magistrates of Wilts have got up (among themselves) a petition to the King and Parlia • went, setting forth that the distress which per vades the agricultural " and manufacturing" in terests, cannot be expected to abate, " without legislative interference. Then their worships go on in the accustomed strain, pretending to de plore the condition, not merely of the owner, but of the " occupier" of land,—(whose fault is it if he be distressed?) —of" the master-manufac turer and his workmen,—the tradesman and his labourer," &c. - Why do the Squires pre sume to meddle with so many matters in which they have no concern ? In talking as they do about the manufacturers, they are either grossly ignorant or disgracefully dishonest. We have seen gentlemen of the first credit and intelligence, who have recently visited all the great seats of manufacture in the north and central parts of England, and they declare, that with the exception of certain branches of the iron -trade, and principally those which are affected by changes of fashion, the manufacturers are generally in employment ; but profits are low, and wages low ; but that there has been a fall in prices as compared with the war price, not far short of the fall in wages compared with the rate of wages during war. We Lave not ourselves lately travelled through tiir districts referred, but such is the information w hi c h h a . s leL , l,!ed us from quarters which, being a t once i n t e lli gen t anu ;disinterested, we deem snore entitled to implicit er . : l 4 t!ian the partisan cry of any bench of Squires in the kingdom. We cannot dismiss this subject :or the present without a brief notice of the Meeting at Doncaster, to petition in favour of agricultural interest, which does seem to have assembled its federal parliaments by signal, to strike a blow that shall be felt on the 4th of February, and shall give a stubborn bias to the Imperial policy of the ensuing session. Mr. Gaily Knight's speech is well worthy of a degree of notice which we have not space to bestow upon it. That gentleman did not concur with the supporters of the petition. Instead of' re -9 unify.). t' measures exclusively partial to the landed Interest, he stated his belief that much of the existing distress arose from the seasons, and would be remedied, at least in part, without legislative interference ; and that instead of straitening prohibitory laws, or plundering the public creditor of his property, a commutation:of the assessed taxes for a property-tax, not an income-tax, would be a measure of great efficacy : assfi wisdom.— Times. We present as much as we are able, and pro bably more than our readers may thank us for, of a public meeting and resolutions at Birming ham. The whole thing is nonsense, and may probably die away quietly. However, as non sense does sometimes succeed for a while, we may, perhaps, be able to quicken the receding motions of this by a kick. That which professes itself to be a political union is, in reality, a con federacy for no other purpose, though Parlia mentary reform is ostensibly coupled with it, than for that of forcing upon the nation a fresh dose of the very same poison (namely, one pound notes), from the evacuation of which it is now palpitating, ricketty, and, as it is asserted, insecure. A Mr. Attwood is a chief speaker on this occasion : there is a Mr. Attwood here in Loo don, who was a director in we know not how many of the mischievous joint-stock companies, some of them even rivals and opposed to each other ; ' and if the Attwood of Birmingham had meant to rescue his name from participation in these transactions, he would have acted much more e isely in proposing a resolution to this effect : " That though, undoubtedly, some difficulties had been sustained in a return to a wholesome currency, yet that it was the getting-up of those detestable joint-stock companies, which had, above all things, tended to paralyze mercantile confidence, to injure the character of commer cial transactions, and to destroy that trust which men of business, in this great trading country, ought to repose in each other ;" and that " hence it was necessary to establish, not apoliti cal club or union, but an honcst club and union, to protect individuals, by timely warnings, against the machinations of united craft, and th© alluring temptations of unbounded wealth, put forth by counting-house conspirators !" This would have been a very proper resolution on the part of the Birmingham Mr. Attwood, and, under existing circumstances, would have done credit to his name. What he and those who have talked, and written, and acted with him, propose, is a parcel of trash, not having the ob ject in view which is professed, but another, and that a very reprehensible one. As to recom mendations of economy, we go as far as the farthest of these Birmingham people ; but again, when Mr. Attwood describes barter as blood stied and plunder, it is obvious that he does not know what he is talking about: he is borrowing, though bad be the loan, nonsense from old Cob ett,—without comparison the stupidest and ;nog drivelling of all public writers.—lbid. The change of the currency, and consequent increase of taxation, are now occupying the at tention of every class of his Majesty's subjects. The report of a very important Meeting at Bir mingham, connected with this subject, will be found in another part of our paper ; to wii;eli report we beg to call the serious attention of our readers. We have no doubt that the object and views of the gentlemen who took a part with this Meeting, will be ridiculed or treated with affeet ed contempt by the Whig Ministerial Journals, hut we strongly suspect that his Majesty's Mi nisters will look upon them in a very different light. It appears that die promoters of the as senby in question are desitous of forming a political union of the industrious classes, and of appointing a" Political, Council" to invire, con ftdt, consider, and determine, and report from tune to time upon the rights of the people, and upon the politicaf - measures which it may be legal and advisable to have recourse to. The proposed union la in tended to consist of all classes of persons said one of its principal objects, indeed, is to ; promote a close alliance between the rich and the poor. For our part vve do not wish to give au opinion upon either the propriety or the practicability of this plan, but when we see that men of wealth, Sailenss, and respectability, bankers and large eisausufaeteirers, lend their snunes to it, and take a leading part ;p the pro ceedings 4onnected with it, we cannot itelp:i9o.4- ing upon :the thing as one of the important signs of the times. 11, however, we refrain from ,t t giving any opinion upon the principal object of insolvency and pauperism. The banker has the Meeting, we cannot help expressing our no business, the landowner can obtain no rents, cordial assent to the sentiments which the per- the manufacturer makes goods only to sell them sons, upwards of 10,000 in number, have at a loss, the farmer is subsisting on his capital, adopted, with regard to the calumnies which the miner excavates the earth only to turn his have been so industriously circulated against the ' gold into dust, the shipowner receives no re- King. Their observations, which, on more ac- ' turns except from an accidental shipwreck, and counts than one, are worthy of attention, are as the weaver of silks, woollens, and cottons toils follow : sixteen hours a day to earn a pittance scarcely Above all things we rely upon the benevolence sufficient to provide salt for the potatoes he and paternal affection of our good and patriot King. receives from the workhouse. And is this We deprecate sinc ere ly t h e i ns idi ous an d cr i m i na l a stete of things to be borne ? It might attempts which we frequently witness to hold up our gracious Sovereign before the eyes of his people loaf and ' be borne, aye it would be borne, to the last the last rag, if there were the smallest in any unworthy and derogatory light, and those . ' ' equally insidious efforts which are also made to hold hope that the present Ministry had the confi up before the Royal eyes the faithful and affectionate dente of the country, or felt disposed, by a sa subjects of his Majesty as disaffected to his Royal rifice of their principles and professions, to re person or to his Kingly office and Government. All turn to better measures and a more salutary and these attempts we deprecate, as calculated and intend- remedial policy. But the country has no con ed to sow distrust and dislike between his Majesty and fidence in the Administration of the Duke of his faithful and loyal people, in order that the guilty Wellington. 'rite moral influence of these parties concerned is these calumnies may find the Ministers suffered martyrdom at the feet of the means of controulling and circumscribing the Royal prerogatives on the one hand, and the just rights A sso ciation, Catholic and their reputation and and liberties of the people on the other. It is with consistency perished with the Popish Relief this guilty object that these atrocious calumnies are Bill. On them no dependence can be placed. propagated. It shall be our study to counteract Even if their intentions were good their them, as far as lies in our humble power, by exhibit- pledges are ageing the policy required. The ing, upon every occasion, the most sincere attach- Duke of 'Wellington is pledged to the merit to the sacred person of the King, and the new currency measures, to the free-trade most dutiful submission to the laws. measures, to his own Corn Bill, and to We repeat that the sentiments contained in all the mischievous Acts which have given the above extract have our cordial assent. We the foreigner an advantage over the Bri believe, with the Meeting, that the daily calum- tish manufacturer, and driven the trade' nies which are heaped upon the head of " our and commerce of the country to distant shores. good and patriot King," are concocted for no But now, thank Heaven, we have arrived at the other purpose than for controuling and circum- climax. We are now entering upon that fiery . scribing the Royal prerogatives, which are alike ordeal which is to try the strength of parties and essential to the welfare of the people, and for the value of principles ; That the Duke of Wel the due administration of the Kingly Govern- lington cell save 113 is entirely out of the ques ment. We are glad to find that the people tion. That the Noble Duke is to be trusted is themselves properly appreciate these. eaiumnies— that equally out of the question. The country is they see the object of them—and that, roused to a sense of its injuries, and resolved to above all, they justly estimate the character •1 take redress by storm. The hurricane has be- his Majesty, than whom we do not believe that gun to blow that will sweep the imperious Mi a better, a more humane, or more noble-minded nister and all his subservient tools from the man, ever reigned over a free state. It must be high places of power, trust, patronage, snd quite evident to every man of reflection who official influence. And we defy him or reads the daily papers, that there is a party in this them to restrain its fury. Look at Binning country who imagine that their own ascendancy ham ( the proceedings of its meeting are re depends upon lowering the character, and conse- ported in to-day's paper), and see what quently weakening the power of the King. public spirit can do when driven to extremities. They know full well that even the exercise A grand political union, dictated by distress, is of the Royal prerogative, unsupported by public formed, the ramifications of which we trust will opinion, can avail little, and, therefore, in extend through every portion of the United stead of inculcating the maxim of the Consti- Kingdom. The object of this union is to pro tution, that the King cart do no wrong, they tect the middle and poorer classes against the wish it to be believed that the present King can wealthy—the landowner and the artisan against do no right. In conformity with the atrocious the monied, the foreign, and the stock-jobbing policy the Press is tampered with, and a por- interests. Its first measure will be an applica tion of it prevailed upon to publish the most dis- tion to the Parliament about to assemble, and gusting and most unfounded libels against his to which all eyes and hearts are turned. The Majesty. Luckily, however, the people seethe language employed b y t h e spea k ers at t hi s object of these attacks, which, instead of injur- meeting is not the language of men likely to ing the King', only bring disgrace upon their be hoodwinked or cajoled, or shuffled off from heartless and unprincipled concoctors. There are the object they have in view. The character many persons, we know, who think that the im of Mr. Thomas Attwood and his friends is purity with which these libels are published re- a sufficient guarantee that activity, since fleet no credit upon the law officers of the Crown. rity, and resolution will characterise the pro- If, indeed, the non-prosecution of them proceed ceedings of the union. We are quite certain from a Constitutional desire not to trench upon that they will carve out enough of work for the the liberty of the Press, the officers alluded to ensuing Session. The reading of the various deserve praise rather than censure, for truly, we petitions that will be presented to it will con believe, it would be impolitic to proceed against sume nearly all its time, unless the House in its their authors, and certainly render no service to wisdom order that the reading be " postponed his Majesty, whose real character, in despite of to the next Session." And God knows it has calumny, appears to be so well appreciated by his not a moment to spare upon tire reading of pe people. But we are afraid the public may come titions. There are matters for its consideration to a different conclusion. " What is sauce for wh i ch, accor di ng to t h e a d m i tte d ru l es o f d e b a t e , the goose is sauce for the gander" is a vulgar, must occupy it for the next three years, a term but by no means an unmeaning proverb; and of existence to which we hope it does not aspire. when people see that the libellers of the King go Even if' it were to sit constantly during all this unnoticed they will naturally ask, why were the period it is impossible for it to go through the libellers of the Duke of Wellington proceeded immense business. In proof of this let us con against ?—Horning Herald. sider the various topics prepared for its con- At no period ince the termlnation of the last sideration. There are : French war have the public looked forward with 1. The i Sove . reig . . t Sovereignty of Greece—tire Duke and the more anxiety to the meeting of Parliament than in India nni i o r . 2. The East Company—the Company in a they do to that which is expected to take place m inority. next weeks The country i s unques ti o n a bly in a 3. Tire State of the Country—the motion post most perilous situation, and a few weeks will poned by a majority of ten. decide whether it is to be extricated from its difli- 4. The Malt and Beer Duties—the Ministry de cuities, or left, like a stranded ship, to perish feared. 5. The Commutation of Tithes—the question re amine the breakers—from the collapsing , re b ferred to s Select Committee. lapsing, intermingiing, and repulsion of contend- 6. The Irish Poor Laws—referred to a Committee. ing parties. For several Sessions the various lead- 7. The Reduction of the Standing . Army—Minis ing interests of the nation, and the condition of ters in a majority of twenty-three. the middle and lower classes, have been totally 8. West . India Question, and the Manumission neglected. The intermediate Popish claims, and Clause—the Saints triumphant by a large the personal jarrings of Ministers th e m se lv es , majority. 9. The Wool Trade—the farmers beaten by the seem to have supplied a sufficiency of subjects for monied people. discussion to the exclusion of every motion or 10. The Silk Trade—the Weavers beaten—and measure of importance. Weeks and months have the Foot Guards surrounding the House. been expended in both Houses, within the last 11. The Shipping Interest—Ministers in a ma few years, in explaining how this Minister was jority as usual, and the seamen of Newcastle, dismissed, how this Viceroy was recalled, how Hull, Bristol and Greenock, all thrown out of this Cabinet broke down, and how Mr. So-and- employment. So should be appointed so unexpectedly in pre. These are the leading questions which will un ference to Mr. This or That. And when these doubtedly come under discussion in the ensuing interesting questions were disposed of then came session, provided the King be not advised to dis- Popery . solve Parliament, and make an appeal to the na and its new-made converts—the epos- . non" Phis, however, is probable. It is even tates with their reformed creed—the sycophants • with their coats turned—the renegade tories said to be contemplated by the Duke of Wel •th their new faces, and all the band of hungry hligton / who expects thereby to gain more time placemen and retainers ready to eat t heir words, wl • for the projects he is maturing. But it is idle and lick, at the word of command, the very floor Nil no tave talking—the th Duke of Wellington'll t I ta mg— e of the House if upon it there should appear thepower to meet a new Parliament as Prime it in his 1 d. . Journal. least stain of their former sentiments. While Minister of Eng an —Morillng there follies were amusing one portion of the In another part of our Paper will be found a public aed disgusting another the welfare report of one of the most extraordinary of the country yeas left to the mercy of men who and remarkable meetings which has ever appear in all their measures to have studied only been held in the kingdom, and to which the interests of foreign nations, Our trade was we have devoted a large portion of our declining while the Minister was silent, and columns. We allude to the meeting at Binning while the avaricious charlatan looked on and ham, the proceedings at which are well worthy smiled. The monied capitalist was doubling of the attention of our readers. The speakers the amount of his wealth, while the industrious did not agree on every point ; but in all the tradesman, the hard working farmer, the advert-. main subjects broached lat the meeting, there 4:Tons seaman, and the toiling mechanic and la- was no contrariety of r. sentiment. Though com bourer, were struggling with increasing difficul- posed of Whigs and , . Fories of aristocrats and tiee, and fast sinking into a state of hopeless working men, every isi one allow ed that the dis pauper •n. The seifiels Minister, who was the tress of the country had now risen to a pitch author of these evils still looked on and smiled. which threatened the peace of the realm, The corrupt Parliament who sanctioned these iinel that it ought to be an object with evils still cheered the Minister, and drowned a ll to promote, by all lawful means, a the cry of distress in tbe noise and clamour of thorough and radical reform of the House of Jse . less and idle debate. Time, we were told, Commons ! This is strange language to come woieid bring relief—Providence, we were as- from the mouth of an old To r y , as Mr. Attwood sured, would owe to the assistance of the vi- declared himself to be ; but we suspect that it is sionary—and the winter of calamity be followed now the feeling, as well as the language, of more by a genial spring, bearing o,e sts bosom the th an th re e-fourths of the aristocracy, as well as rewards of patriotism and philosophy. *every of the people of the country. The times, in poor man wee; told he would soon have a fact, have sadly changed of late ; and it is but guinea in his po asset end aboiling in his na t ura l th a t men and things and opinions should capon pot. The labourer bore with his misfortunes to change with them. The " life-and-fortune the last hour. He reposed confiderfee in the men are now feeling in their own pockets and Minister till a x l e ra iment flipped in the wind, persons the extent of the injury which they in till the shoes were worn off' his feet, till his flicted on the country, by encouraging a long, wife was in tears and Iris children starving unnecessary, and expensive, war ; and they, and rags. He trusted in the Minister's pro- in consequence, join the people in tine hope eidence in vain. every day rendered iris pro,- of bringing back, through their instrumen mised relief more hopeless, anrl reduced him tality, those halcyon days when trade aod manu nearer to a state of absolute want and s despair factures and agriculture flourished, and lucrative From one end o f the kin g d om to t h e ot h er no, piece?, were to be procured for younger sons el thjeig is now heard but th e wa il o f di stress . most for the reeking, Be it So. The people All'ranks ttml clitsses of men are struggling with arc too feebly represented in the Legiklature not to accept of aid from any quarter ; and if the aristocracy will but now join them in procuring a redress of grievances, and a reduction of taxes, we question not that the dark clouds which overspread the horizon will be speedily dispersed, and that peace and prosperity will succeed the angry feelings and the deplorable distress which are now the main characteristics of the people and of the country. The danger is that they will not, and that the peace of the country will be sacrifice to exploded theories and interested vie ws.—Morning Advertiser. MURDER AT PORTSMOUTH. In our paper of last week we mentioned the circumstance of William Whiney, a convict on board the York hulk, having been discovered on the pre vious Friday morning in a store-house in the Gun wharf, with his throat cut in a shocking manner. In consequence of a report which shortly afterwards became prevalent, that the deceased had not com mitted the act himself, a jury was summoned by F. HOWARD, Esq., Coroner, to inquire into the cause of his death. The Jury accordingly assembled on Tuesday morning, and daily by adjournment until Friday night, on board the York, when the following facts were elicited. From the evidence of Drs. Porter and Meadows, and of Messrs. Martell, Garrington, and Prowse, surgeons, it appeared that the head of the deceased was almost severed from the body, and the skull near the temple fractured; and from a careful examination of the fracture and its effect, it was clear that the wound must have been inflicted by some blunt instrument before the throat was cut ; and as the fracture was sufficient to cause death, it was in their opinion im possible that the deceased could have cut his own :liroat. At eight o'olock on Friday morning, he, with several others, went to the Gun-wharf, where he was seen, about half-past eight, talking to a la bourer ; and at a quarter past nine he was found in the shed as before described. By the evidence of a convict named Powell, to whom suspicion at tached, it appeares that he (Powell) was at work that morning in the Gun-wharf, and that he left his party at half-past eight to go to Winney to purchase a halfpenny-worth of tobacco; that he inquired for him at several places, but could not find him ; that he afterwards went to the shed (No. fl), and about ten yards from the door he saw a man lying on the floor, weltering in his blood ; that he thought it was Winney ; but that he was so frightened, he left the shed immediately ; (Lowther convict, named Brow*, however, who saw Powell enter the shed, stated that he remained at the saw-pit for some minutes, during which time Powell certainly did not come out) ; that he went to Mr. Wolfe's cabin to inform him of the circumstance (this cabin is a consider able distance from the shed, yet it appears he must go there in preference to informing another convict named Willis, whe by his own account, was within sight and call); that he and Mr. Wolfe returned to the shed together, where they found that the de ceased was Whiney. The most material point about the evidence was, that Powell denied having gone into the shed No. 9, positively declared that he merely peeped in, and went away immediately. This however, was con tradicted by Brown, who said he was standing at a saw-pit, looking towards No. 9, when he saw Powell come out of the dinner-shed, open the door of No. 9, and go in; that he (Brown) continued looking in that direction for about three minutes, and that Powell did not come out again during that time. Brown's evidence was confirmed by another convict (Briggs), who deposed to having seen Brown looking in that direction. The whole of the witnesses having been examined, the CoRoNEe. said he did not think there was sufficient evidence against any particular person to justify their returning a ver dict of wilful murder against any individual. The Jury, however, thought otherwise, and after having consulted for about an hour and ahalf, they returned a verdict at nine o'clock on Friday evening of " Wil- ful murder against John Powell." A previous inquest had been held on the same body on Friday, the 15th instant, on board the Ra coon, before G.L.GftErrIIAN, Esq., Coioner within the jurisdiction of the Admiralty, when, in accord ance with the evidence then adduced, a verdict was returned that the deceased cut his throat in a fit of delirium. In consequence, however, of a report that the deceased had not committed the act him self, Mr. Greetham applied to Edward Carter, Esq., that a further investigation night take place on the subject. John Powell, suspected of the murder of William Winney, is twenty-five years of age, stands five feet four inches and a half high; he was born in Sun street, Finsbury-square, and was convicted at the Old Bailey on the 10th of April, 1828, of stealing a coat. His real name is Langley Pearce, and he was a good workman as a mathematical instrument maker, and formerly worked for Mr. Stebbing, the optician, of this to wn.—Portsmouth Herald. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S. The principal favourites for the Derby are now making a close race of it ; yesterday Brunswicker made all the running, and at the close bad got his head in front ; Mum mer, however, is tight in hand, and not be long out of his place; Mouse is immediately behind, creeping up apace, and will, no doubt, give them some trouble to beat him off. Cressida, Cetus, and Wat Tyler, are well up ; the latter, in particular, has so dangerous a look, that the horses in advance will have all their work to keep their places. With the exception of Mahmoud, who holds a negative position, all the others are some distance astern, without offering any reason to believe that will lessen the space between them and their antagonists in the fore ground. The following will better explain the relative positions of the horses : DERBY. 8 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Brunswieker (taken freely) 84 to 1 agst Sir Mark Wood's The Mummer 10 to 1 agst Lord Cavendish's Mouse colt 12 to 1 agst Mr. Chifney's Cressida colt 13 to 1 agst Sir M. Wood's Cetus 14 to 1 ag.tt Lord Cleveland's Wet Tyler (taken) 18 to 1 agst Lord Exeter's Mahmoud (taken) 25 to 1 agst Lord Egretnont's Brother to Grampus 25 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Sal colt 30 to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Captain Arthur 30 to I agst Mr. Ramsbottom's Zueharelli 35 to l agst Lord Sefton's Mouche 1000 to 600 ou the Mummer agst Wet Tyler (token) OAIN. 6i to 1 agst Lord Sefton's Mouehe V to 1 agst Lord Queensberry's Maria 10 to 1 agst Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly No betting en the Sr. Leger. HUNTING INTELLIGENCE. ♦PPOINTMENTS FOL Till PRESENT WX!I. Mr. Meytiell's Honed., oa Monday, at Bradby ; 'Thurs day, at Foston; and Saturday, at Wichnor--at Half past Ten. Mr. Caldwell's Stag hounds, on Monday, at Westaere Buck ; and Friday, at Swaff ham Splashes—at Eleven. The Keinpstone Hounds, on Tuesday, at Wicken Castleaere ; Wednesday, at Newton Grange ; and Satur day, at Brisley—at Eleven. Mr. 11, Villebois's Harriers, en Tuesday, at the Kennel; Thursday, at Barton ; and Saturday, at Stoke Ferry Windmill—at Eleven. The Shropshire Fox Hounds, an Monday, at Cross houses ; Wednesday, at Acton Rey aald ; Friday, at W) the ford Wood ; and Saturday, at the Fox, Albrightou--at Half-past Ten. Lord Yarborough's Hounds, on Monday, at Bradley Wood; Wednesday, at Goxhill Cross Lanes ; Friday, at Elkington Cow Pasture ; and Saturday, at Swallow Cross Lanes —at Eleven. The Worcestershire Fox Hounds, on Tuesday, a t Hal low ; and Fiiday, at Virgin's Tavern—at Half-past Ten. The Brookside Harriers, on Monday, at Newmarket- Hill ; Wednesday, at Ashaxnbe, the alternate Werluesday at the Kennel ; and Friday, at Telsoomise 'Tye.--u Half past Ten. Mr. R. K. Sampson's Hounds, on Monday, at West dean ; Thursday, at Bourne ; and Uatarday, at Mr. Ades, llUttles—at Ten. The Brighton Harriers OR Monday, at Patcha!n; W•cl ueadaY, at the Rase Course ; and Friday, at the Dyke--at Half-past Ten, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, jaw. 26. ISAAC V. lIIPEY, ESQ., AND OTHERS. Mr. F. POLLOCK moved for a rule to show cause why the ver di ct o b ta i ne d b y the plaintiff should not be set asid e , and a nonsuit ent er ed. The action was against M essrs . I mpey, A i nsley, an d S urtees , the Commissio ners o f B an k rupt o f the 4 t h li st, an d wa s brought by M r . Al exan d er I saac, a merc h ant , f or an illegal commitment to Newgate under the warrant of the defendants, for refusing, as it was alleged, to an swer a question put by them touching the affairs of a bankrupt of the name of Owen, under whose com mission the defendants were acting, and had sum moned the plaintiff before them to examine him as a witness. At the trial at Guildhall at the late sittings, Lord Tenterden held that the commitment was ille gal, no question having been put by the Commis sioners ; and the case having gone to the jury, they found for the plaintiff for 25N. After the case had been argued at some length, Mr. Justice BAYLEY observed, that this was a com mitment for refusing to answer a question, and he (the Learned Judge) thought it impossible to say that any question either in form or substance had been put to the witness ; and the commitment was there fore illegal. The other Judges concurred ; and the Learned Counsel took nothing by his motion. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-MOUSIL TALLYMEN IY COALS.—Yesterday Mr. Broderick appeared upon the part of the Corporation of Lon don to prosecute two persons, named Daniel Bishop and James Bishop, for offences in the vending of coals. The City solicitor also attended upon the part of the Corporation ; Mr. W. Cam Humphries attended for the defence. Mr. Broderick stated that the first case, which was of considerable importance, inasmuch as it re lated to the labouring classes of society, was brought against Daniel Bishop, a vender of coals. Formerly what was called tally business was confined to green-grocers, haberdashers, and a few other trades, but now it was becoming more general, and the defendant in each of these cases kept his tally or score with the classes alluded to, and went about soliciting custom from the lower ranks, whom they charged in proportion to the extent of the accom modation by the week, until the whole amount was liquidated. The defendant received Is. 6d. a-week if he sent a quarter of a chaldron, and 2s. a-week if he sent in half a chaldron, and so on in proportion to the quantity. When the tallyman collected as much as a waggon-load at a wharf he sent off the batch for delivery to his respective customers. Mr. Daniel Bishop, however, contrived to load his waggon at night after the departure of the meter from the wharf, and to send it off next morning be fore the arrival of that officer, whose duty it was to attend from six o'clock in the morning until six in the evening as this time of the year. The coals, therefore, were not in this instance measured in the presence of a meter. The defendant delivered in a vendor's ticket, but it was not countersigned, as it ought according to law to have been, and he did not deliver in a meter's ticket. Joseph Freeman, a cabinet-maker, residing near Bethnal-green, proved that a few days before the Ist of December last a clerk of the defendant called on him to solicit an order for coals on the tally plan. Witness gave an order for six sacks of the best Walls-end Riddell's coals. On the 2d December a loaded waggon came to the house, and out of it were taken siz sacks of Walls-end Riddell's coals. The vendor's ticket was not countersigned by the meter, nor had any meter's ticket been delivered with the coals. Witness re-measured the coals, in which there was a deficiency of two bushels and a quarter out of eighteen bushels. Mr. W. C. Hnmphries made several technical objections, which were overruled. Sir P. LAURIE declared that he would overrule as often as possible objections of the kind. The defendant was their fined in the full penalty of 101. and costs. In the second case, that against James Bishop, a shoemaker, named Thomas Boyd, of Coalharbour street, Bethnal-green, was the complainant. Boyd was solicited by defendant's clerk, and ordered six sacks of coals, without specifying any particular sort ; three of those were shot into the premises, but Boyd re-measured one of them, and found it to contain two instead of three bushels, and he refused to take any more. A vendor's ticket had been de• livered with the coals, but no meter's. The full:penalty of 101. was likewise inflicted in this case. THAMES-POLICE OFFICE. Tile LATE RIOTS AT WAPPING.—Johrt Sullivan, Giles Sullivan, Jeremiah lady, and Dennis Mur phy, four athletic Irishmen, were charged yesterday before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRODERIP, the sitting Magistrates, with having been concerned in the late dreadful riots in Wapping, when several of the officers of this establishment were cruelly beaten and maltreated. The prisoners are coal-whippers, and belong to the tow-row club, the members of which have formed a determined hostility to all those of their fellow-labourers who may obtain employment with out a general and joint concurrence. Timothy Murrall—On the night of the 7th inst. was in the kitchen of the City of Quebec public. house, at Shadwell, when a mob of Irishmen, amongst whom were the prisoners, rushed in and seized him. He was cruelly beaten, and had his clothes torn from his back. He was afterwards taken into the street and planked, that is, he was placed on a plank, and carried on the shoulders of several persons by torch-light. They carried him through the street s with vociferous jeers, during which time he was pelted with mud. The mob were about to take him to the river side and duck him, when the police-officers came to his rescue, and carried him into a house for safety. Mr. Ilarmer's clerk was about to address the Magistrates on behalf of the prisoners, when Mr. BALLANTINR said there was no occasion for any defence, as they did not intend in this case sum marily to convict. He should send the prisoners to the Sessions for trial, but good bail would be taken for their appearance. Mr. BRODERIP concurred with his brother !Magis trate in the decision, and observed to the prisoners that their criminal acts, he feared, would, in the end, lead them to murder. The prisoners said they should soon get bail. (We believe the reason the Magistrates did not dispose of the case in the usual summary way, by a fine of 51., was, that the great body of coal-whippers contribute the amount immediately the conviction is made, and the punishment is, consequently, nominal and inoperative.) Naples, during a short period of ten years, suffered greater calamity than any place on record. After the famine, and the revolt of MISANIELLO, in 1647, and various alarming eruptions of Vesuvius, the great plague iu 1656 came to fill up the measure of distress, on which occasion more than 200,000 persons perished. MEDICO-BOTANICAL SOCIETY.—A meet ing of this Society was held yesterday evening at their Rooms in Sackville-street, Earl Swanorr, President, in the Chair. The minutes of the Meeting on the Bth of DecenabTr were read, after which Lord STANIIOPF. said he had a pleasing duty to perform, in submitting to the Meet ing a letter from Mr. Faos-r, dated the 24th instant, ad dressed to the Secretary, which, with their permission, he would read to them. (This letter announced the in tention of the writer to deliver up, on Tuesday, the 260 i instant, the hooks, herbaria, library, and all other pro perty belonging to the Society, of which he had hitherto had custody.) The Noble Earl then proceeded to say, that in conformity with his promise, Mr. Fmosr had that morning surrendered into his hands the signature-book, sl t vv li ao e So sr nofb ci ya e t m y' theos more bulky and the eus , ildkeynut. a go tt:,,e,i:e l w d c r oesu lai n a tildofb be yielded the property, d i nedals e,i up to usually hti ,21, i: proper Officers on Friday next. lie knew that this ad justment of differences would prove satisfactory to the Members of the Society, and to none did it afford greate:. gratification than to himelf. THE NAVY. NSW ARRANGEMENT OF THE CABINS OF FIRST* RATES. A new arrangement of the Officers' cabins on lioard ships of 120 guns, is to take place, in comer pence of a recommendation to that effect from the ;ate Committee of Naval Officers. The Caledonia, rt dock at this port, and now nearly ready to receive he Port Admiral's flag at Portsmouth, has her •abins disposed on the new plan. In the fore-cock. , Pit the junior Lieutenant of the ship, Second Master, .trid Boatswain, will be on the larboard side; the junior Lieutenant of Marines, carpenter, and gunner, on the starboard side. The cabin formerly occupied by the gunner amidships is thrown into the sail room, which will now extend from the main to the fore-hatchways, thus affording abundance of room for the stowage of all the sails, besides admitting of those belonging to the foremast, &c. being all passed up the fore-hatchway. In the after-cockpit there are cabins on one side for the Mates, the Surgeon's Assistants, Captain's Clerk, the Second Lieutenant of Marines and Surgeons. On the other side the Midshipmen, the Interpreter, the First Lieutenant of Marines, the Purser, and Purser's Steward. By this disposition two cabins from each side of the middle deck have been taken away, thereby leaving less bulk head to be pulled down when the capstan is to be worked, or when the ship is to be cleared for battle. In the latter case it will prove an important advantage; for only persons who are familiar with these things can form any idea of the amazing quantity of fixtures on board large ships, which must be removed before the guns can be left clear for action. Possibly also the placing of so many officers in the fore-cockpit may be intended to operate as a check to any irregularities, which not unfrequently occur in that part of the ship at unsea sonable hours.—Devonport Telegraph. THE ROYAL ACADEMY. On Monday the members of the Royal Academy assembled in their Council-room, and proceeded to elect a President, in the room of the fate Sir Thomas Lawrence. The choice of the Academi cians was declared to be in favour of Martin Archer Shee, Esq. Mr. Shee is an Irishman and a Roman Catholic. He is a portrait painter, but does not hold the highest rank even in this department of art, which has been generally designated as the inferior, but to which Great Britain in mainly indebted for the high station assigned to her on the Continent. It will, consequently, be matter of surprise to many that the choice of the Academy did not fall upon some more distinguished individual. His portraits are certainly not equal to those of either Jackson, Pickersgill, or Phillips ; yet his works have much excellence. His paintings are graceful, and his copies of nature, we believe, al ways accurate. We should imagine, however, that he is indebted for elevation less to his pencil than to his gentle manly manners, the skill with which he guides his pen, and the power that he possesses to a remark able extent of producing dfect upon an audience by ease of delivery and eloquence of language. Mr. Shee is a good speaker, a poet of no ordinary ta lent, and a gentleman. His " Rhymes on Art" have been and are deservedly popular. We have heard him speak only at the annual dinners of the Artists' Benevolent Fund ; but we feel assured that few men could deliver the academical" lectures" and " addresses," of which he will now have his share, with greater ability or with more credit. He is, as we have said, a gentleman ; and in his manners has much in common with the elegant mid accomplished gentknian he has been destined to succeed. la private life we have heard him spoken of in the highest terms. It is stated, we believe on g ood authority, that Mr. Wilkie would have been elected, but that his state of health precluded the possibility of his discharging the duties of the oflice.—Moro ing Journal. A small party being assembled last year at the B►itish Embassy at Brussels, several musical amateurs un dertook to entertain the company. Among others a young lady, a native of Scotland, sung several ballatds with great taste,—a favour which she afterwards invalidated by per secuting the various persona present to replace her at the piano. The American President, who, by his age and station, should have been secured from her flippant solici tations, became at length the object of her pert peraifiegye, and ♦ainly attempted to extricate kimoelf, by assuring Miss sing, and was not master of a single stanza. ‘. At hou t t," persisted the young lady, with singular ill-breeding, •' you eau favour us with your national anthem of Yankee Doodle ! " Certainly," replied Mr. H-----, on condition that you oblige me with - an accompaniment ea your national instrument --the Scottisk Addle !" Coati Journal. Loss OF A COAST-GUARD BOAT--Si% Pxasoxs Dttowrrin.—We regret to learn, from intelli gence which was kindly transmitted to oar office Tester day, that a Coast-guard boat, which was proceeding on Thursday evening from Bantry to the station at Blue Hill, when about a mile from the shore was upset by a sudden squall, and, melancholy to relate, the ehief boatman, with four of his men and one of their wires, unfortunately perished ! They have all left families to deplore their boo. —Cork Constitution. MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK.—On the night between Wednesday and Thursday it blew a very heavy gale of wind from the eastward, which in a short time raised a heavier sea on the coast than has been witnessed for several years. Yesterday morning, between five and six o'clock, the smack Fame, of Findhorn, Capt.CL.amcv front Loudon for Inverness, with goods and paseengerst was driven on shore about five or six miles to the North ward of this place, the wind blowing at thy time from E. to E. by N. The rum-zing being very dark, it was some time before Captain CLAIM could ascertain at what dis tance the vessel was from the land ; but between eight and nine o'clock he sent the passengers (three gentlemen and two ladies) on shore in the boat, along with two of the crew, and the whole of them were landed on the beach in safety. We are sorry to state, however, that the boat, in returning to the vessel, `►as swamped, is eonsequence of the rope attached to it breaking, and the two s e amen were unfortunately drowned. Th e vesse l li e , with her stern towards the land, and as both anchors have been put out to seaward, it is expected that, if the weather mode rate, she may be got al.—Aberdeen Observer. BIRTHS. On the 24th inst. at Bath, the lady of Col. Payne, of a daughter. On the 25th inst. in Upper Berkeley-street, Portnnta square, the lady of Capt. R. Kirwan, of a son. On the 23d inst. at St. Breoke Rectory, Cornwall, the lady of the Rey. W. Molesworth, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 25th inst. at St. John's church, Hackney, O. Deane, Esq. of Clapton-square, to Mrs. S. Howling,, of Clare, Suffolk. At Mullaginore, county Tyrone, the Rev. A. G ra h a n4 to Georgiana, eldest daughter of the late F. 4, I.,onut Esq. R. N. DIED. Lately, at Deal, Charles Crickeit, Esq. at the adeascol age of SI years. For some years put he had b een afflic ted with a paralysis of one side, which condition o f in firmity lie endured with great resignation. His naturally cheerful and facetious disposition remained unimpaired to the last, and afforded a remarkable example that no s tate of existence is insupportable to a man rightl y const i tute d. On the 26th inst. after an illness of tw o d ays f rom a paralytic attack, A. R. Ilankey, Esq, of F tne b urch-etreert banker, aged 62. On the 2btli inst. in Castle-street, Reg.nt-street, Mr. Owen Owens, clerk to Sir Samuel Shepherd, (the Lord Chief Baron of Scotland) for upwards of 36 years, a nd afterwards Deputy-Keeper of the Seal of the Exchequer of Scotland. On the 23d inst. at the iforitme, Iferefordshice, Peploe, the youngest daughter of John Peploe Birch, I❑ Euston-square, at his Con's house, J. Rowlatt, Esq., aged 88. on the 24th inst. at Dulwich, blvs. Elizabeth Adanle, aged 74. On the ISth inst. T. Bromfield, Esq. of Acton-veva lodge, Aliddlesex. PILINTID AND l'Elil.kiliED . IT DIIIHDO YOUNG, At 5t SWAM 1.4148014, TH 1 ENGL, give N o That STOCK next, at ti That said C ol street or o'clo c k i That Will be I NES DA Y• Alornin of SIX 'ears. . And Coln parr • Tu vsn This day tl Social at numbe r stituting Prints to be hic ONE Creat Bi Guine a I ECONO Thi :THI t Literary, dotes, on Print to he line 1. T 1: Thousan and One 2. 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