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respect to the character and opinions of their associates, provided they a g ree in one thing—a sturdy hatred, an d an adventurous abuse, of the existing Government. The institutions of the country, which stand between the parties, as if to prevent their fraternal embrace, are nothing when they have this common object in view. The Church is nothing—the monarchy is nothing—religion is nothing. Into their Con servative army, for offensive operations against the Administration, recruits of all kinds are re ceived, and no questions as to character are asked. They may be Jew or Gentile, Dissenter or Churchman, Infidel or Believer, Royalist or Republican. 1 his same Mr. Faithful), for in stance, who is now considered a champion in the Conservative cause, for no other reason than because he abuses the ‘Vhigs for acting too much on Conservative principles, last Session made a speech in the House of Commons for pulling down the English Church ; and, be cause the House e ould not just consent to pull down the Church without further ceremony, the Hon. Member for Brighton now finds that the said House is not half reformed ! Yet his speech is now emblazoned in the Tory prints with more care than Lord Eldon's last weeping oration. Such are the blind excesses of factious rage, which would provoke our laughter did they not awaken a stronger feeling of com passion.— Times. Mr. Cobbett, in his Register of this day, seems bent on the destruction of the Church— first, because it has not answered its purpose by holding the people in the bond of faith ; and next, because the establishment being a hotbed for breeding gentlemen and ladies, the necessity of obtaining provision for their children makes them servile tools of all who have the disposal of the public money. Mr. Cobbett, it appears, thinks that all would be right if the clergy were not allowed to marry, and has taken it into his bead that " it is the only establishment in the world, or that there ever was in the world, the priests of which are allowed to marry." Though Mr. Cobbett be a Church historian, he is not over familiar with ecclesiastical matters. Marriage is allowed to the priests of the Greek Church—a very large divisicn of the Christian world—to say nothing of the Protestant churches of France, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway. But marriage is, even in the Catholic Church, a matter of discipline, and not of doctrine ; and the strict prohibition of marriage of Catholic priests goes no farther hack than the time of Gregory VII. That ambitious Pope did not certainly prohibit marriage in order to prevent the quartering of children of priests on the peo ple, but because a married priest could not devote himself to the interests of his corporation with the intense and exclusive feeling of the man who has no other cares to distract him. But it may be true that a priesthood must, more or less, be disposed, for the sake of placing out their chil dren to become slavish supporters of all who have the command of the public money. We suspect, however, that Mr. Cobbett greatly over rates his powers of persuasion if he thinks that he can ever make the people of England in love with an unmarried priesthood. But though we cannot prevent a clergyman with a large hunily from being servile, if the Parliament do its duty we may expect tlrat an economical administra tion of the public money will secure the public against that servility. What Mr. Cobbett says of the Clergy applies with equal force to the Aristocracy of the country. An economical expenditure of the public money will, however, in time cut up the Aristocracy by the roots. `We defy all the Aristocracies in the world to perpetuate themselves without the aid of an ex travagant expenditure. Landowners have fami lies, like other people, and they have affection for their children ; and nature, in making no distinction between rich and poor in this respect, has sufficiently provided for the due distribution of property. We have not a doubt that a Reformed Parliament will in time secure us against the Aristocracy and the Church, which is bound up with the Aristocracy, and has assisted to produce the glaring inequality of pro perty in England, which is the cause of so many evils. We may observe, that to judge from the copiousness of the abuse in the present Register, Cobbett is beginning to be himself again. During the Session he was quite overlaid. People have been so long accustomed to his ex travagant igotism and his racy abuse, that the absence of his weekly exhibitions was a sort of calamnity. The Scotchman reconciled himself to his wile's flying (scolding), because when a woman ceased tojlyte, it was all over with her. But for the edification of our readers we sub join the first fruits of his reviving energy, for which the Church will no doubt feel due gra titude " It is clear, from all that we behold, that the Church, as by law established, has not answered, or at least that it does not now answer, the purposes for which it was in tended. It does not hold the people in the bond of faith ; it does not promote peace and good will: but, on the con trary, creates eternal divisions and feuds, while it con. sumes uselessly a large part of the produce of the land, and takes from the farmer the means of giving you, the labourers, wages sufficient fur you to support your wives and children. 13esicles, this establishment is a hot bed for breeding ladies and gentlemen, who must be kept without work all their lives, somehow or other; and taxed must be raised, and are raised upon you, and upon all of us, to pay them salaries, stipends, pen sions, or something or other. This is so now, and it must be so as long as this establishment shall exist. The sons of the parsons are, for the far greater part, kept by the public in some shape or other ; the husbands of the daughters are kept in the same way; they engross the offices, and the employments, and shut out the sons of farmers and tradesmen. Ido not blame the Government for this, for, in the nature of things it must be so; it is a necessary effect of the estaL,lisbnient. It is the only establishment in the world, or that there ever was in the world, the priests of which are allowed to marry. Wher ever there are priests paid by the public, they are not allowed to marry ; and it is clear that they ought not to be so allowed ; for, otherwise, what is it but to tax the people to keep a race of men and women to breed persons to be maintained by the public, and to take away from all he industrious classes the chance, even the ebance, of sharing in the honours and powers of the country ? It is, in short, an establishment which makes the people keep fathers and mothers, that they may breed children for them to keep also. And such a thing never was heard of before in the whole world. " My friends, labourers of England, there is a Parson of the name of Alalthus, who has written a book to show that you breed too last ; and in order to check your breed ing, he proposes that, if you be married, you shall have no relief from the parish, but shall be left to starve. The Scotch and Irish place-hunters, whe live, or want to live, on your labour, applaud this parson Malthus to the skies, and so do our pensioners and parsons. But neither Mal thus, nor any of his crew, ever propose to check the breeding of the parsons and the pensioners! Think of that. They grudge you, who make all the food, clothing, houses, an d i tie l—they grudge you parish relief—hut they do not grudge to parsons and pensio ln n e er t s, r p u a ffi id an o s u i t 0 1 f . the thre e not a just and taxes raised on you ! Oh, merciful God; the i and nso is his hand for ever to b e stayed ? The ruffians have seen, of late years, a million and a half of guineas given by the Parliament, out of the taxes, for the relief of the Clergy of tie Church of England ;' they know that por yo o upay alarg e part of these taxes; and yet they would refuse you relief in eases even of the ex tremest distress." In like manner, as on the question of the celibacy of priests, Mr. Cobbett displays his question of Corporate Reform. If a liberal Ministry continue Tories in office, Mr. Cob bett protests and abuses ; if they select men of liberal, or even Radical political opinions, to accomplish or clear the way for necessary re forms, Mr. Cobbett vilifies their promoters, and denounces those honourably appointed to useful station. His notions of Corporation Reform are very curious, and still more ridiculous:— " Gracious God ! Why, the persons to perform this task ought to have been profound lawyers ; lawyers thoroughly skilled in all the ancient laws and customs of the kingdom ; in tenures of every description ; in the rights still retained of all the guilds and fraternities and chartered establishments. Two men, at least, of this de scription, associated with magistrates well know❑ for their impartiality, and deeply interested in the well-being of the kingdom ; such a commission, having the most learned of the Judges occasionally to advise with, is what ought to have been, and without any regard whatsover to any of the distinctions of party politics." Mr. Cobbett would have two musty antiquaries —a few Magistrates and Judges, employed to in vestigate the state and amend our municipal institutions ; that is to say, he would entrust their reformation to the very persons whom he has all his life represented as the patrons of Corporate abuses ! Mr. Cobbett the❑ pours out his last vial of wrath on the members of the Corporation Commission, and especially on Mr. Parkes, whose name has been long actively associated with the cause of Reform in times preceding the administration or probable rule of the Whigs, and whose publications on the laws and judicial institutions of his own country and Republican America are some proof of his honest capacity and competency. Indeed the nomination of the Commissioners to revise the Criminal and Statute Law, and to investi gate the present state of Corporations, is justly regarded as the most honourable act of the present Administration,—the names of Mr. Starkie, Mr. John Austin, Mr. Amos, Mr. Blackburne, Mr. Serjt. Perrin, Mr. Bingham, Mr. Charles Austin, Mr. Henry Roscoe, Mr. Rushtons, Mr. Parkes, and in deed of all the gentlemen on the Commissions, being proof of the political intentions of the Government, and security for an effective and popular result. We believe we are rightly in formed that the Irish Corporation Commission is half composed of Catholic barristers, some of them even " Repealers," selected for their pro fessionsl ability and political sentiments. Such is the Ministerial demonstration of real and practical reforms, gratefully received by the country. which Mr. Cobbett denounces in that habitual style of vituperation, which in rotation lie indulges in against all public men—indeed all men, save one, with whom he is never out of conceit, namely, himself. It is by this habit and vice of contemptible detraction and vulgar prejudice that he has long lost all moral station as a political writer, and is read only by those ho estimate his real power, and are amused by his command ofthe vulgar tongue at the same time but despise his prejudices and slanders. Like the man who, under the lash, was dissatisfied whether the drummer hit high or low, we may observe, that Mr.Cobbett hates some commis sions because they are paid, and others because they are unpaid. In short, hating with him is the great matter; and one reason serves his turn as well as another. It is not astonishing that Mr. Cobbett should revile Mr. Spring Rice, Sir Robert Peel, and the Members of the Reformed House of Commons, among whom, as a senator and logician, he speedily found his level, as all such persons do in a representative assembly; but it is somewhat unnatural that any man, excepting Mr. Cobbett, should spend a long public life, now drawing to a close, in constant enmity to those most nearly approximating to his own popular opinions.We remember hearing ii observed on one occasion, by a certain indivi dual, that Mr. Cobbett hated all mankind— those who thought as he did, as rivals ; and those who differed with him, as enemies. We recollect, a few years, when he wrote, in one week's Register, against the Bible, potatoes, and inoculation for the cow-pox. This week lie opposes education, the diffusion of know ledge, corporation reform, and marriage ; and, nevertheless, recommends the study of the Scriptures as a means of putting down the Church of England !—Morning Chronicle. The one great boon which Earl Grey has con ferred upon the country is sufficient to entitle him to its lasting gratitude and esteem, and, as such, he is the very last man whose venial errors we would attempt to magnify, or towards whom we would say, if we could fairly avoid it, one unkind word. But Lord Grey has one besetting sin as a Minister, which our duty to the public has heretofore compelled us not to overlook, and which we regret to see persisted in, notwith standing the loud and almost unanimous voice in which public opinion has, again and again, been expressed concerning it. We need hardly say that we allude to the indiscriminate profu sion with which his Lordship has loaded, and continues to load, his own family with the honours and emoluments of the State—of which a fresh and most objectionable instance has just occurred in the appointment of his Lordship's brother, the Bishop of Hereford, to a stall in Westminster Abbey. We know that we should but reiterate the sentiments of the great bulk of well-judging and impartial persons were we to describe this act in terms of reproba tion of the strongest kind. If we are deterred from doing so, it is by the feeling we have first alluded to, and it is infinitely more in sorrow than in anger that we allude to it at all. We would have Lord Grey's name descend to pos terity as the benefactor of his country without any alloy ; but, alas ! the portion of alloy be comes great, indeed, when the reformer, nay, the parent of reform, exhibits in his own practice the very reverse of those principles for which he has been all his life contending. Hitherto the practice we allude to has been so rife, that when the country sees plurality upon plurality heaped upon the Premier's family, the only question which it asks is, " what next ?"—Morning Herald. During the week nothing of the least interest has occurred in respect to the affairs of the Ne therlands. By the steam-boat which arrived on Wednesday from Holland, M. Verstolk received an intimation that his further stay in this coun try being for the present useless, his presence at the Hague would be desirable. In consequence of this communication, his Excellency proposes to leave England to-morrow by the Batavier steam-vessel. It is expected that this gentleman will return in a short time, with a view to resume the negotiations in which he has been engaged ; but we have reason to believe that he has long ►manifested a disposition to retire from that field of political exertion in which he has done himself great honour, and rendered important services to his country. His coadjutor, Al. S. Dedel, remains here for the present ; but we understand t h at ther e is no ground for expectin g any conces sion on the part of the King of the Netherlands, and that, therefore, in pursuance of the deter. 1111 l Ittlltill UI WIC .IVlllllSterS 01 Cireat 13r►- tain and France, the proceedings of the Conference may be considered as indefinitely suspended. Affairs thus remain in statu quo, and we cannot refrain from asking whether it is just or generous on the part of England and France, after having, by means of a lawless em bargo, forced Holland into the Treaty of the 21st May, by which Treaty the statu quo was rendered as unfavourable as possible to that weaker power, to take advantage of the first difficulty ariing in the negotiations to suspend further proceedings ? Is it honourable, gene rous, or just to arrest the progress of a negotia tion commenced in these circumstances, upon such a question as that of the King of Holland obtaining the consent of the Germanic Confede ration to the cession of a portion of Luxemburg, which may justly be regarded as a premature question, so long as other and more important points of the settlement between Holland and Belgium remain undecided ? Caprice, ill tern per, arrogance, and tyranny seem to predo minate in this amicable Conference, rather than the principles of equity, moderation, or good sense. First one party takes it into his head that nothing must be done before the Citadel of Antwerp is placed in the hands of the Belgian Government. Now every thing is to remain in suspense until another object of a subordinate or collateral nature is attained. And if, after all, the latter, as well as the former of these objects were accomplished, the most essen tial points of the negotiation would still remain, unrelieved from any one of the numerous em barrassments and perplexities in which they are now involved. The duty of proceedings with the utmost possible speed to narrow the ground, and subtract from the questions of controversy, is one which it certainly would not be neces sary to preach to any candid and honest media tor. This duty, however, the Conference of London obstinately refuses to learn.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B 0 W- STREET. COMMITTAL OF WILLIAM TREEN FOR FORGING THE MARKS OF THE GOLDSMITHS' COMPANY.— Yesterday having been appointed for the re-exami nation of William Treen, who stands charged with having forged the marks of the Goldsmiths' Com pany on divers articles of wrought silver plate, while he was in the employment of T. C. Savory, silversmith, Cornhill, the office was crowded at an early hour by persons who came to witness the pro ceedings, under the impression that the examination would take place in the public office. Their expec tations, however, were disappointed, the prisoner having been examined by Sir F. ROE in his private room; and, upon inquiry, we found that the course adopted by the Magistrate was with the view to forward the ends of justice, it being considered ad visable, in the present stage of the proceedings, that the evidence against the prisoner should not be made public until it came out on his trial at the next Old Bailey Sessions. The several witnesses who attended on behalf of the prosecution having been examined, they were all bound over to appear before the Grand Jury of Middlesex, and subsequently at the trial of the pri soner. The prisoner having intimated a wish to com municate with his friends in the country, it was finally arranged that he should be brought up again on Friday next, for the purpose stated, on which day he will be sent to Newgate for trial. The description of forgery alleged against the prisoner is supposed to have been carried on to an immense extent, and it is said that a great majority of the London pawnbrokers have been imposed upon by advancing money on plate bearing the forged marks of the Goldsmiths' Company, and the loss to such persons will, in many instances, be con siderable, as it is well known that pawnbrokers are in the habit of advancing on plate nearly three fourths of its actual value. The advertisement in the newspapers, inviting the purchasers of plate to come forward, in order that the marks might be tried at Goldsmiths' Hall, has had the effect of bringing several forgeries to light, and it is said that new discoveries are made every day. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE.—Thonzas Graves appeared to answer to an information preferred by Byers, the informer, under the 12th 13th and 18th of Geo. 11., for the suppression of Private Lotteries and Little Goes, for suffering to be played on his premises in the Strand, known by the name of the Lowther Bazaar, a certain unlawful game of chance, called the Wheel of Fortune. The defendant pleaded not guilty to the in formation. Charles Digby, the informer's witness, lived at No. 8, New-road, Chelsea, and was a labourer. At eight o'clock on the evening of Thursday, the 29th of August last, he went into the Bazaar, kept by the defendant, in the Strand, known by the name of the Lowther Risaar, arid saw a great number of persons in the shop. He observed several men and women, each of whom put a shilling down on a table, and a young woman, who sat behind the counter took the money up. On the counter there was a wheel, made in the form of a box, and _ _ inside of it were a great many tickets for different sums, from 6d. to .ss. The young woman, who sat at the counter behind the wheel, turned it round, and as soon as it stopped a door at one side of it opened, and the persons who paid a shil ling put in their hands and each drew a ticket out. After witness had seen several persons do this, he paid a shilling himself, and did the same. He drew from the wheel a round piece of bone, marked one shilling, and he was told that if he went with it to any of the stalls in the shop he would re ceive the value. He saw several articles on the counter, marked a shilling, and, amongst others, he observed an inkstand and a chimney ornament. He saw one person put down a shilling, and draw a sixpenny prize. He then put a sixpence to it, and tried his luck six times more, but with the same success.—(A laugh.) Mr. Phillips (pointing to Mr. Graves)—Did you see that person there ?—No. Then how can you call him the defendant? Byers—The name of T. Graves is over the door, and the gentleman has answered to the name by ap pearing to the summons. Mr. — Phillips —You have not in any way proved him to be the proprietor. Byers—He holds himself out as the proprietor of the house by his name being over the door. Mr. Phillips—No such thing; there may be 20 T. Graveses. Sir F. ROE—It is not proved who the proprietor is, and I must therefore dismiss the complaint. Byers—l must only try my luck again. MANSION -HOUSE. Yesterday considerabl e i nterest was excited by a case under investigation before the LORD MAYOR, on an information laid by an extensive manufacturer of flints, named Burgon, against the firm of Oxley and Taylor, who also do considerable business in the flint trade. Mr. ADOLIIIUS, for the prosecution, stated that the warehouse of Mr. Burgon at Brandon, in Suf folk, had been broken open at the top, and robbed from time to time of flints to the value of upwards of 6001. Casks of those flints had been traced to the house of a man of the n ame o f J acob Jacobs, who was the recognised agent of th e fi rm of Oxley and Co. This Jacobs admitted. Up on b e i ng called upon to account for receiving the property, he said that he kept a place where he received at n i g h t property of this kind, without inquiring w h o con veyed it thither, and that he paid for it in the morning. The Magistrates before whom th e agent was examined, were so dissatisfied bail was with this m o d e required o f urgon bai pursu.dl, and naturally defence,accordingly g th iv a e t they n.mr. Burgon try, the result of which was such that he had thought proper to lay the information. Mr. Oxley, who arrived in town on the preceding night to meet the charge, was attended by Mr. BODKIN. As he required a postponement in order to supply himself with a full defence, which he stated he could produce in a few days, we shall merely give an outline of what occurred, without using any of the strong language which was resorted to on the occasion ; we do this in justice to Mr. Oxley, who stated that he looked upon it to be of the highest importance to have the transaction com pletely cleared up. M'Lean, the inspector of police in the City, went, accompanied by two men in Mr. Burgon's employ ment, to the premises of Messrs. Oxley and Co. with a search -warrant. The men identified two empty firkins, and some observations were made about flints, which were in another part of the warehouse. The officer encountered not the slightest difficulty in executing the warrant, and nothing but the firkins were given into his custody. Edward Snare, counter of flints to Mr. Burgon, said that a great quantity of flints had been stolen out of his master's warehouse. A spar in the roof had been cut through, and the casks were pulled out through the hole. The discovery was made in July. The flints were old and good. He saw at Oxley and Taylor's a large cask, and asked what was in it, and the warehouseman said, "common musket flints ;" and he required the head to be opened, which was done. His companion said, " Oh, here they are !" meaning that they were Mr. Burgon's fine flints. They corresponded exactly with what had been stolen from Mr. Burgon's premises, and witness believed them to be his master's, but could not swear that they were. Another cask was opened, and another, and many, and although the warehouseman declared that all the casks contained nothing but common gun and musket and second horse-pistol flints, they all proved to be fine, and had the appearance of age upon them; in fact they were the reverse of what they were said to be. He admitted that men who worked for different masters sometimes worked in the same room, for it was the practice for the men to work at home, and to take it when complete to the warehouse of their em ployers; and he admitted too that it he had beer, compelled by law to give up some deeds to which he had considered himself entitled. He never sold to other masters, but he believed that men who could not sell to their masters sold to others where they could. The LORD MAYOR expressed much surprise that not any of the flints which were so firmly believed to be his master's had been brought away to be exhibited and examined at the Justice-room. Sheen, the companion of Snare, described the state of Messrs. Oxley and Taylor's warehouse. He believed the flints in the casks to be his master's, from the quantity he saw, as well as the quality. His evidence was confirmatory of that of the pre ceding witness. Jacobs had never been agent to Mr. Burgon. Mr. Burgon said he had proof to show that at the time the thieves must have been engaged in robbing his warehouse, Mr. Oxley's premises received into them immensely more than had been received within the same space of time at any other period. Mr. Oxley could produce the invoices to show that his dealings had been most honourable. As for the fact of the empty casks of another house being found in his warehouse, that was a thing of too common occurrence to deserve notice. Mr. Adolphus—Produce your invoices, and sa tisfy us that this transaction was an honourable one, and we'll walk out of Court at once. The LORD MAYOR said the investigation was one of very great importance to both parties, and if Mr. Oxley was not able to produce the necessary evi dence he must give bail. Mr. Oxley requested time, and the case was adjourned. The case was exceedingly long and complicated. GUILDHALL. A young man, who gave the name of John Wood hall, was brought before Mr. Alderman KELLY, yesterday, charged with being engaged in an ex tensive burglary, committed on the preceding even ing, at the warehouse of Mr. Earl, cloth-factor, Basinghall-street. Mr. Alderman KELLY remanded the prisoner for further examination. MARLB OR 0 UGB= STREET. A middle-aged woman, named Eleanor Deere, was brought before Mr. DYER yesterday, from the Vine-street station-house, where she had been con fined the previous night, on the following charge:— A policeman, C division, said the members of the Junior United Service Club-house in Regent street had complained of being waylaid at night by some of the numerous prostitutes which infest that quarter, and therefore the pol semen on that beat had received orders to put a stop to the annoyance. Observing a number of loose females standing near the Club-house yesterday evening, the policemen desired them to move on, which they all did with the exception of the prisoner. On returning in about ten minutes, the policeman found her still at the door; and when he attempted to compel her to go on, she, as he alleged, " discharged a volley of vile abuse" at him, and conducted herself in so disorderly a manner that he was obliged to take her to the station-house. This policeman swore that he knew the prisoner to be a common prostitute. Another policeman, of the same division, a l so had seen the prisoner pick up men in the street s , and had known her for some time as a common pro stitute. Mr. DYER was about to commit her on this testi mony for fourteen days to the House of Correction, when the prisoner declared most solemnly that the assertion of the policemen was totally untrue, as to her being a prostitute. She was the widow of an officer, and being in much distress with her family, she had certainly on more than one occasion gone to the Club-house, in the hope of seeing some officer who knew her late husband, from whom site could solicit the help of a trifle. She was Well known to persons of respectability, and if the Magistrate would send and ascertain he would find that her story was correct. She then handed Mr. Dyer some documents which showed that, on the death of her husband, being unable to obtain the usual pension, through the kindness of the Duke of Wel lington, she had been presented with 100/. from the Royal Bounty Fund. Mr. DYER requested her to name some person to whom she was known, in order that the truth of her story might be inquired into. Mrs. Deere named a respectable tradesman in the Strand, and the Magistrate immediately sent Scho field to make the requisite inquiries. In a short time the officer returned, and stated to the Magis trate that he had seen this individual, and he had told him that Mrs. Deere was the widow of an officer, and though he was aware that she was in embarrassed circumstances, yet he never had any reason to believe that her conduct was otherwise than correct. Mr. DYER immediately directed Mrs. Deere to be discharged, remarking that he felt quite sure the policemen must have made a mistake in supposing they had seen her accost individuals with improper motives. POOR LAWS.—The overseers of St. Giles's, brought a young Irish girl, in the last state of preg. Nancy, before Mr. CHAMBERS, for the purpose of having her passed to Ireland. The overseer said this was one of the frequent cases which added so severely to the burdens borne by the parish. The young woman had scarcely been in London a month, having come over from Ireland with the view apparently of lying-in in some parish in Lon don, well knowing that her of f spring would thus ac quire a right to be maintained at the expense of those who paid poor rates. She was a single wo man, and her story was, that she had come to seek after the father of her child. The woman belonged to Kerry, and did not want to go back until after her confinement. Mr. CHAMBERS said she must return to Ireland, for the parish could not encourage immorality, by allowing single women to come from Ireland, and make a convenience of an English workhouse. Th e girl would not go back to Kerry. The overseer remarked, that if the girl even stopped here after her confinement, the probability was, that she would abandon her offspring to the clue of the parish, as the case was not uncommon among the labouring Irish. Mr. CHAMBERS recommended him to take steps for her immediate removal. A stout fat Irishwoman in the prime of life next applied for a pass to Ireland. She had come over here with her husband and family a very short time ago, and, as she said, her husband had left her and taken the children with him back to Ireland, and she was anxions to get a pass to rejoin them. Mr. CHAMBERS said it was a shame to appropriate the funds to the purpose of passing such applicants. There were nearly 30,000 Irish on the road back wards and forwards from Liverpool to London, most, if not all, of them in a state of pauperism. Ireland ought to support its own poor, and a fact ought to be generally known throughout Ireland, that in January next an Act of Parliament would come into operation which would put an end to the pre sent system of Irish passes. There would be no more passes given. The women were then ordered to be passed back to Ireland. It may be stated that the expense of transmission to Liverpool for each Irish pauper is somewhere between 4/ and 51. ORSHIP.STREE 7'. PIG SHOOTING.—A Mr. Samuel Furness, a nur sery man in the Hackney-road, was yesterday charged before the sitting magistrate (Mr. Twyford) with shooting a pig, the property of his neighbour, Mr. William Ingram. Mr. TWYFORD—What are you, nQ r. Ingram ? Complainant—l keep a farm-house for the poor. On the sth of August the defendant thought proper to shoot one of my pigs. James Hopkins, a servant of the complainant, de posed to hearing, on the day mentioned, the report of a gun near his master's premises, and the next moment seeing his master's pig running towards him bleeding, and in a few moments after it " ex pired." Mr. TWYFORD—Now, Mr. Furness, what have you to say for yourself? Why did you shoot this gentleman's pig ? Defendant—Because she has de stroyed and eaten up all my crops. Sometimes I have no less than from seven to twelve of his pigs in my garden at one time. I have lost above 10/. by his pigs walking in my gardens. Mr. TWYFORD—What is your pig worth, Mr. Ingram ? Complainant —Fifty shillings. Mr. TWYFORD—Then Mr. Furness you must pay the 50s. You have no right to shoot his pig. (To the complainant)—Wa s it a large pig ? Cam. plainant—She weighed seven stone. Your Wor ship I should not have taken notice of the affair, but he has since shot another of my pigs, which weighed 16 stone. Mr. TWYFORD—Did you see him shoot it P—No. Defendmt—He says his pig is worth 50s. Now, my butcher values her at only 255. Complainant —Why my butcher said that she was worth 50s. after she was dead, if she had been taken up and killed.—(A laugh.) Mr. TwvFoup—Let the value of the pig be as certained, and bring the case before me on Monday, unless you can arrange matters between yourselves in the meanwhile. Here the parties left the office. QUEEN-SQUARE. CAUTION TO THE PROPRIETORS OF OYSTER ROOMS,— Yesterday Mr. Thomas Knight,a shell-fish dealer at Charing-cross, appeared before Mr. WHITE, to answer an information laid against him by the New Police, for serving his customers at an impro per hour in the morning, contrary to the Act of Parliament, whereby he had incurred a penalty of any sum not exceeding 101. By a clause in the Act of Parliament, all oyster rooms must be closed at one o'clock in the morning, and not opened before five the same morning, under the above-mentioned penalty. A police constable of the A division went to the defendant's house at half -past two o'clock in the morning, and saw several persons being served in the oyster-rooms. In answer to a question by the Magivrate, the constable did not see any improper characters there. The defendant was convicted at this office a short time ago for a similar offence, and fined forty shil lings; and he had, since that time, been repeatedly cautioned to close his house at a proper time. Mr. Knight, in reply, complained of the pro ceedings instituted against him since he had been convicted. Byers the informer had laid four infor mations against him at Bow-street for keeping his house open. He was certainly convicted upon them, but Sir Frederick Roe only fined him 2s. 6d. as he considered the offence so trivial, and told him that he might keep open all night if he did not har bour bad characters. Mr. WHITE-Mr. Knight, Sir Frederick Roe may dispense with the laws altogether, if he thinks proper; but I will not do so. It has been clearly proved that your house was open at half-past two o'clock in the morning, arid you cannot plead igno rance of the law. You will therefore pay a penalty of 5/. this time, and had it been proved that any bad characters had been in your rooms, I should have 'nflicted the full penalty of 101. The defendant paid the fine. LAMBETH-STREET. AN UNWELCOM GUEsT.—Yesterday Thomas Hooper, the conductor of one of Haycion's omni buses, was brought before the magistrates on a war rant charging him with assaulting George Smithers, a caffeeshop-keeper, in Essex-place, Mile End-road. The complainant on the afternoon of that day week went to Bartholomew Fair, and promised his wife that he should be home by eleven o'clock ; but, in consequence of some delays, which he had met with, he did not reach his residence before twelve, when he knocked repeatedly for admittance but could make no person hear him. After knock. ing for a length of time he succeeded in getting into the back yard, and from thence into the house, and finding no person there, and that his wife and sister in-law had left the house during his absence, he was determined to ascertain their reason, and with this view he secreted himself under the bed, and re mained there until they came home, between three and four o'clock in the morning. At that hour the defendant entered the bed-room with his wife, and on his questioning him as to his business there and ordering him out, he became most impertinent, and gave him a violent blow on the face. The defendant, in reply to the charge, had ac companied Mrs. Smithers and her sister to Bartho lomew-fair at their invitation, and after remaining there for some time and enjoying the fun, he re. turned with them to their residence. On entering the house Mrs. Smithers struck a light and pro ceeded up stairs to ►ee that all was right. She was scarcely a minute absent when he heard her scream out " murder," and not knowing what was the matter, be proceeded to the bed-room, when he saw the compainant getting from under the bed with a red handkerchief on his head. On getting on his legs he rushed towards a sharp-pointed knife that lay on the table, an d k now i ng that he had on a previous occasion threatened to cut his wife's throat he caught a hold of him, but was subsequently ob liged to run away and leave his hat behind him. In conclusion he said that the wife and sister-in-law of the complainant were in attendanee, and ready to confirm what he had stated. The complainant said that on the same evening he had intreated his wife to accompany him to the fair, but she peremptorily refused to do so, though she subsequently went there with the defendant, and acted in th e manner he had described; and, beskes, he had no doubt, from a conversation which he had heard between his wife and her sister, while he was under the bed, that it was the intention of the former to give a part of her bed to the defen dant, for the night. The wife, a very goodly-looking and smartly dressed young woman, was then called, and admitted going to the fair, as had been stated, and returning with the defendant and her sister. Mr. NORTON—If you were disposed to go to the Fair, why not, as a prudent woman, have accompa- nied your husband there when he asked you Mrs. Smithers—Because I don't consider uO to safe in his company. If I happen i na dvertentlY 4 look at an y p erson i n t h e street, he thinks 1 10 t 11 0 , 0 of knocking me down on the spot. Besides, it o only last Sund a y wee k h e attempte d to cute d throat with a razor. I have the scar to show, hid he would have accomplished his object, but b fha not sufficient man li ness or nerve to d o so , 911 " heart failed him. cll . Mr. NORTON t o ld t h e part i es t h at, un d e r t"e t o cumstances, it would be much better for the° separate. The MAGISTRATES ultimately dismissed t 1.4 c c ° o9 l plaint, by or d er i ng t h e d e f endant to pay tile of the warrant. h Of On the pa r ti es l eav i ng the office Mrs. Sio, Ce ;f e r a. in the p resence o f h er h us b and, handed t he' dant the 4s. to pay the expenses. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF SUGAR. t The Average Price of B rown or M uscovado Sugar,„Tij, from the Returns m a d e i n t h e week ending the Sept., 133, is 365. 20. per Hundred Weight, exclust Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the lOW thereof into Great Britain. rxicEs OF HOPS —Sept. 13. 61. New Kqnt Pock e t s (p er cwt.) —4/. 133. 0/, Os. to Choice —.. _ 5i ss. 01. 0s to "" 41.7011. ( O eiss s 00 0 / It: . 0 0 0 t t s t g o o ct 01 Os. 01. Os to y 51. Os. 0/. Os. to '; The Hop Duty is e w stim s a L ted °' at 10515-,oo°ols:.t°_>s'. East K K •nc Magi Choice „• New S.,ise: rfine I)it PRICE OF OIL. 0 9 Rape Oil, brown —....-37/. O. -,..... Refined ...... v,/ ti Linseed Oil .......... II , .. , 5,0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton _ I'ECH A I'EL HAY PdAItKE I .—sept. A Hay 755. Od. to 95i. Od. I od. to lv" 24g. Od. to 30.. Od. Middling Chats -- -Sept. 13. wt. to 3s. ext. per c to 2s. (Kl. ditto. to Is. (id. ditt_o_..... Ctioic PRICE OF POTATOES.- - 2s. 3d. Is. 9d. Os. Od. PRICES 01. Per lb. d. to d. Butts, Englisli w , 15 25 Ditto, 14 21 Dressing 12 15 Ditto-- LEATHER. to y ; Per lb. 4 ,1" .° English Horse Hides... 1,• Spanish Ditto Jitto 13 15 Ditto, Crop Hides, 1ight....,,,,. 12 13i Ditto —,—...40 to 50th. 13 17 D tto Per dozen. 4 Calf Skins... SO to 4A lb. Ditto ....a,. 40 to 6011). „ 4 1 ' '% 4 ` Ditto 70 to yoth, a , " p Small Seals. Grcei lan d 16 16 Large ditto SHEEP SKINS. Polled Lambs 3s. Od. to 45.6 d. I Polled Skins Down Lambs 2 6 3 6 i Downs —..— A 2 25. gd:_./.t°a55'971 ?MCI; Ok' TALLO% Town Tallow .........--___.4Ss. Cd. Yellow Russia 48s. Od. White— —s. Od. Soap Ditto -----s. Od. Melted Stuff 37s. Od. Ditto Rough -21 s. Od. 0° ', SOAP, &c. per 112 egg. o p. Yellow 7t/. Mottled-' T 2.4. White— , _ 1 0 '0 Graves . be. Good Dregs PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. jt/ Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow IVlelters).w--.'',/ PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store C an dl es, i n the retail shops, is as fol l o - e !, Candles, per doz. 85. Od. to 7s. Od. I Moulds, per dozen..-^''. .—Sept. 13. g #6, Par Ton. 1 3 6 Walls End Heat0n...,...' 16 6 Walls End to 6 Ditto Killingworth j 6 6 Ditto Northumberlan d. ' 16 Walls End Perkins &C ° 11 6 lA'alls End Riddell's Walls End Lambton 19 6 Walls End Stewart's.••"' 11 6 Walls End G0rd0n......r , ig 6 Walls End Tees 11 0 Hartley 0 Llangennech ice last market-day, 3. COAL MAR: Per Ton. s. d. Adair's 15 0 Chester Main-- l3 0 Hebburn Main l5 6 Holy well 15 9 Ord's Red h ugh 14 0 Pontop Windsor 14 0 16 0 Townley 15 3 Wylain 15 6 Walls End Bewicke & Co. l 3 Walls End Brown's... , 15 9 Walls End Carr and Co. 16 0 W.E. Clarke and Co.—. 15 9 Ships arrived sin BB C :is O +Piigne U egr N ssvQta ' o l ut ' ke ß aerr y t.....,........L C: It i N 556532 M A 665 11, 082 KTE 2625 . 28 fS D 2s3O3 :lll_ 2O N lB G T_ 22 H 35 .. , ... / L: ...-- 81 THE SC''' j- s: ca ii Wheat. 1 Barley. } Oats'.,_ ..----"' 40 --- --- --, , Ashburn Bath 46 5 8 24 32 20 2(3 08 41 4% Bristol 4B 56 23 32 16 20 6 Chesterfield .......-.. 44 56 24 30 20 24 - 3 - Derby --............... 57 58 25 27 21 24 3(5) 44 D0nca5ter.,,,.,,,.,,,., 48 60 24 28 17 28 . A lr, D0rche5ter........... 57 23 _- _ 20 .-- / 1 Exeter 46 60 24 28 18 2'2 Si 31 Gloucester. 45 56 23 31 16 24 ~, n i Hungerford ............ 46 60 22 30 18 ,•• Leice5ter.,,.,,.,,,,,.,.,.,, I 58 33 ~ 30 46 Newbury,,,,,.,.,„,,.„ 56 60 26 32 15 ."' 40 1 4 Romsey .....—.......... 56 62 26 28 18 .-' 4 Shaftesbury 54 25 --- ,n-i -.. ' Shepton Mallet ... 51 58 28 30 20 ~,,.."- 3 6 ri Sherborne--..... 48 56 22 26 2 0 ~`"' 32 51 Taunt0n.,..,,,,...,, 50 56 24 28 2 1 ~--' a 9 4,1 Yarmouth-........-. 54 56 23 26 2 0 „II s 3 if Yeovil 32 58 30 18 .'•., . d„'o Per Bushel. s. d. s.d. s. d. 8. d. g. d. cu• - 0 u Shrewsbury .............- 7 6 8 4 4 0 5 0 4 0 4 6,0 Wheat, Old _ CULL MARKET.—Sept. 10. s l ' `2 , '• 565. 583 Now ..... 5 —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —. 3 . /. —s. IBs. 20s. Old --8.""' ••° 16g. 18s —s. —s. I6s. 'Ss --s. 00 0 ' l• —s 00s. 00s. Line. & %Vold —5. u"" —s. -6. —s. 365. :18s. Foreign..„..... —s. 00s. ON. GrZy o o s' pN 0 0 °' —s. 003. 00s. Foreign • none.. ..... ... Free, per last - Foreign 04s, Poland - Small or Feel - Foreign Barley, Norf. & Su, - Foreign Beans Pease, fares Rapeseed, in bend, DEVIZES CORN MARKET ii —Sept. 12. e. 0 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. ,', d d to Best Wheat 3O. 0 to 33 0 Barley Second 25 0 27 6 Oats lB 0 0 0 Thirds 22 0 24 0 Beans (per sack) IS 0 41 0 1103 Sacks of Wheat sold/ 26 3 Flour (per bag).. 40 0 0 , at the average of GUILFORD MA B l r t e li ad E ( l l '. )e — r Se ga i l it i) .. 7 . 1 :"..°.--.. ro ' ,l ‘ Wheat (Per Load) ...131. to 16/. O a t s (P er Q r .) ....0 X ..... la. 4, .. . 2 ---- Old 4 17 B eans ................... 0. Barley (Per (2r.) 9 8s. 325. Pease ..................... .., • MEETINGS OF CREDITORt w r, I' - AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STB (From the London Gazette.) ON MONDAY, Sept. 16. I I'. Richardson and Co., p r i n t ers, Hi g h H01b0rn ......... DIVIDEND. g o 0 1 ' t G. Liversedge, coach-maker, Great Dover-street, wark ..................................................................... e d 0P1.4 BLASTING ROCKS UNDER WATV MEANS OF THE DIVING BELL.—Three men are !-: in the divin g b e ll ; one h o ld s t h e j umper, or bor l "tri l ', which he keeps constantly turning, the other tvvo,oo; alternately quick smart strokes with h a mmers.. tr iV the hole is bored o f th e requ i s i te d ept h, a tin c'! o r filled with gunpowder, about two inches in diaa% a foot in length, is inserted, and sand placed abov e s : 3 , / itig o , the top of the cart r id ge a ti n p i pe i s so ld ere d, R.i brass screw at th e u pp er en d. Th e di v i ng bell :b V e r t i raised up slowly, an d a dditi ona l t i n p ipes to too f e screws are attached, until th e pip es are about 9 to ci i above the surface of the wa t er . Th e man 1 0 ° 1 tbe ,v the charge is placed in a boat close to the tube, t l dit!,o of which a piece of cord is attach e d, whi c h he b° pro left hand. Having in the boat a brazier with srlfrei l e i p of iron red-hot, he drops one of them down the :he rfd; immediately ignites the powder, and blows upl eo trO r el A small part of the tube next the cartridge / 9 `.; ref et ic° but the greater part, which is held by the cord , j 'oe f } the for future service. The workmen in the boat. e pa ° c od no shock ; the only effect is a violent ebull' e t io water, arising from the explosion ; but thofie o rte° T he on the shore, and upon any part of the rock co° ioa.,,, oc vtb those blowing up, f ee l a ver y s t rong con cul oe c only difference between the mode of blasting Irp t c ho d . c ° , l l) e ptli and Plymouth is, th a t a t th e ot h er p l ace 0 10 le e the tin pieces by a cemen t o f w hi te l ea d . A c b rooC be 'hof°' of water is n ecessary f or sa f ety, which shou'-fool then eight or ten feet. —Repertory of Patent ••••••• • MMIEMeI•MCM.II.••• y yJJ BIRTHS. n th e On the 12th inst., a t Cannonbury-place, of On San of a daughter. ter, the 13th inst., dys, Mrs. Borradaile, of a daugh & o vacl, of On the 11th inst., at Faulkbourn, Mrs. Henry son. „DOC ° ' MARRIED. Sc — tpe ,JAor n f On the 10th inst., at Chiddingstone, Kent, • - "" g hter - of the 81st Regiment, to Jane Esther, third (14°- John' late Henry Streatfeild, Esq., Chiddingstone. nip tolls t o. ~ On the 12th inst., at Trinity Church, B r° daUS li te 5 ” Roberts, of the Middle Temple, Esq., to lqa ri .' t he 1 L . 13. Edward Gibbons, Esq., and grandaughter c" and 'Welt; John Gibbons, of Stanwell-place, Middlesex, 133 1iis0,;11e, On the llth inst., at Stoke Damerel, Dere" , Vi s a rah - Are' Lea, Esq., of Beaudesert, Warwickshire, t ° f rarlt"" isO S eldest daughter of the late Robert Bigg, E s q'' °- oo o t Bristol. f i s , g r ' „ CO On the 7th inst., at St. John's the Bap"" -t An" Standage, of Carey-street, Lincoln's-inn, to }far' daughter of the late John Hope, Esq. of Islingt on* of OP DIED. Ma ria, s tli C On the 10th inst., at Blackheath-park, Jane 13 111 '1 John Burgess, Esq. lohn C ' ' 01 ' 6 On the llth inst., at Tunbridge Wells , -- re , sg sir ' second son of George Meek, Esq., of Russell-squti3s-h.too' -cl On the sth inst., at Camden-terrace, Ken Maria Grace Audibert, aged 85. h reel lus ' tbifa ' f " it' On the 10th inst., at Kingsland, JogeP- - fa wife e of Mr. Whaley, aged 13, r.rV th e to On the 9th inst., at Blackfriars.road , IS--- --, t 1 Alfred Lucas, aged 9. n cor ding , Joh n the lt2th inst., 2 of apoplexy, Ai r ' Strand, silversmith. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY UR D YOU SUN OFFICE, 1121 STah" ?, , 'I Ili Li P, . "tittu Ph. 35, kT IT , the, . t h „ I‘nAen, T TR lo Nt torit4l,: I, t AOf to tfi 1.0, 4 of 1 11 T 1344 4`,;k r, 1.,4 1 .41, ili t :ro 4ly Pain' are