The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The public must have been amused (albeit somewhat puzzled) by the correspondence be tween Colonel Verner and Lord Gosford, and next between the same Colonel Verner and Mr. Littleton. A Colonel Blacker ) an ascendancy buck of the first water,—an Irish Prince of Orange, —was, for reasons which seemed good to the Government, dismissed from the magis tracy and sent about his business, All the world knows that the appointment of justices of the peace, and their •continuance in that im portant, though oftentimes much abused office, rest with the discretion of the Crown (in Ireland • the Lord. Lieutenant) and its legal " Every fool" we thought knew this ; but there are, it appears, some exceptions. A Colonel Verner, an Orange boy also, writes to Lord Gosford, Lord-Lieutenant of the county for which Colonel Blacker has ceased to act, and demands to he made acquainted with the grounds on which the executive Government was pleased to exercise, as against Colonel Blacker, its right of deposition from the magistracy. Lord Gos ford, a straightforward, manly sort of nobleman, with a little more sense that his interrogator, answers Colonel Verner in substance, though in phrase more polished, to this effect— " Sir,—Whatever you may think of yourself, you are but a private person, and the dismissal of another magistrate by the Government is no affair of yours." The gallant cross-examiner, however, no way daunted, instantly attacks the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. Littleton, and repeats the same question he had already put to Lord Gosford, but, we are happy to say, with just the same success. Mr. Littleton replies to him—" Sir,—You are but a private individual, and have no right to any explanation." Justice Verner upon this takes sulk, and begs leave to throw up his commission ;—joy be with him. However, we in our turn must " take the liberty of asking," was there ever an instance, since the days of Shallow or of Dogberry—was there ever, we repeat, an instance of such preposterous conceit and folly ? Will the reader but imagine that such a case had happened in England of a factious and mischievous local magistrate being struck off the roll by the Lord Chancellor, and an adjacent squire belettering first the Lord- Lieutenant of Northumberland for example, and, failing satisfaction in that quarter, aprealing to the Secretary of State himself to know how and why the Government had dared to exert its acknowledged preroga tive without his (the said squire's) permis sion ! In this country the blockhead would have been hooted at, wherever he showed himself,—the village dogs would have barked at his extravagauce,—Justice Midas would have seemed, to English eyes, King So lomon, when compared with such a booby. But so it is,,,—lreland has ever been ruled by insolent and drunken faction. Every ab surdity that could render government farcical, and obedience humbling, has reigned there, until within the last 12 years, unmolested. All law was framed by a predominant party in the mixed spirit of arrogance and persecution. A sect which had been enriched by unnumbered con fiscations, was suffered to wield the force of Britain against its own enemies, which it per suaded her were hers, and which its tyranny made so,—power being confined, as wealth was, to Protestantism. Fortune and Protestantism became convertible terms with authority. Every Protestant felt himself to be "a man in autho rity," and, all acting as a body, they compelled dm Government to have the same feeling. Every Protestant felt himself to be of the King's Councils, and any political act which assumed for its principle and justification equal rights to all the King's subjects, was deemed an out rage upon that class which claimed for itself the legal as well as prescriptive privilege of committing wrong with impunity. The Go vernment of Ireland was a coterie ; politi cal prejudices and habits became stronger than the progressive amendments of the law, and the interference of any formal authority with their settled operation was resented by the whole of that coterie, for whose exclusive benefit they had been fostered. The dismissal of Blacker was a declaration of war against the fundamental principle of a great party—viz., that of oppressing Catholics under the name of Protestant ascend ancy. The mutiny of Venter was virtually and almost ostensibly, though he durst not quite avow it, the act of a delegate of the Orange body, till then, however crippled, a de facto power in the state, though not for decency to be recognized by the Legislature or the Govern ment. This blow, nevertheless, is fatal to the remnant of Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. It is the ceremonial of her dethronement, and the " pride, pomp, and circumstance" of that most offensive imperium in imperio will now be easily annihilated. We are bound to add, that the supposed necessity of tolerating injustice and violence on the opposite side of the question, because it was unavoidably tolerated on the Orange side, is henceforth at an end.—Times. The necessity of' a legal provision for setting to work, or otherwise maintaining, the destitute population of Ireland is a proposition from which, we apprehend, there are now but few dissentients beyond those who derive enormous and disproportionate rents from having hitherto been able to evade this natural claim u; on the soil, by leaving multitudes to linger out an ex istence scarcely worthy of being called such, or by handing them over to the English landowner, householder, and even labourer, to maintain. Yet it is extremely desirable that those who argue the same proposition should do so upon the same or similar data, for though men may come to the same conclusion by different roads, the result is not in all respects so satisfactory. Titus part of the press, though it does not deny the necessity of a poor law for Ireland, has lately been labouring to convince its readers that such necessity has been overrated, and that the mi sery and destitution of the Irish peasantry exists by n o means in the degree or to the extent which has been stated and contended for ; in short, that such is die exception, and not the rule. We heartily wish that such were in reality the case. There is no topic upon which we should be at once more ready and more happy to acknowledge ourselves to have been deceived. But unhappily the deception, if' any, is all the other way. We do not deny that there are dis tricts in Ireland where the state of the peasantry is far different from what it is in others, and to their hono ur , many re that there are, much sident landowners, and a few non-resident ones, whose estates are managed upoi , i , the old English maxim of " Live and let live. We wish we could add that the contagion of good were as catching as that of evil ; but, while avarice and selfishness hold their dominion over the human heart, such, we fear, is not very likely to be the case; and it is least of all likely to be so with the man who, like the absentee landowner of Ireland, neither hears nor sees t e misery of which he is the cause. Like another of the drains of Ireland ; to these persons " the rent" is everything, regardless, and often wilfully ig norant, of the fact that it is wrung from the sweat and toil of those who, to pay it, are deprived-of the means of existence, and of the comforts which men of common humanity do not deny to the lowest a the brute creation. To such men the "populus me sibilat" of the Roman poet strictly applies. Lost in the crowd, the indig nation which their conduct excites teld6m reaches them individually', and mien it does they scorn fully hug tireir. 'Money bags, with gloating eyes, scan the capacious rent-roll, and "laugh at those who lose." To return to the state of the lower classes in Ireland, we feel convinced that we do not at all exaggerate their t ontlition,When we assert that full three-fourths of them are in a state which calls for legal amelioration. Of this the proof readiest at hand is the fact to which we have already adverted, of the countless crowds which fly to this country for that protection and assistance which they cannot obtain at home; while the precarious existence which by far the majority of them obtain here is proof sufficient that nothing but a dire necessity would drive theta to a remedy but one degree less irk some and less fatal than disease. We arc more anxious, for the sake of all parties, that this point should not be misrepre sented or misunderstood. The opponents of a system of legal provision for the poor of Ireland are a powerful body—they have the ear of persons in power, some of whom have them selves an interest in defeating or starving off a project which may diminish their own rent-roll. They are alive, therefore, to every plea, to every objection, to every excuse which can be offered in opposition to any plan which may have the effect of lessening their own disproportionate incomes. The abuses of the poor laws in England have been hitherto their favourite and almost sole theme; but only furnish them with such an argument as that to which we have adverted —viz., that the evil is exaggerated, and that, therefore the necessity does not exist, and you furnish them at once with the means of securing their own wealth, and postponing the happiness and regeneration of Ireland, if not for ever, to a very remote period. Facts, however, are stubborn things, and that of the misery of the lower orders in Ireland, and its extent, are too well known, and may be too readily esta blished to be got rid of by mere assertion.— Morning Herald. The accounts from the north of Spain, de rived through the French Papers, though they afford us little specific information, state enough to produce an impression that Saarsfield is unable to make head against his opponents, and that Carlism is on the ascendant in the north of Spain. Still, admitting the superiority of Carlos in the north of Spain, it would be rash to infer, if there shall be no foreign intervention, that he will prevail over the young Queen. We are too imperfectly acquainted with the state of parties to speak with confidence on so digficult a question. There is one point, however, on which there can be little difficulty in coming to a decision, and that is, that France ought not to interfere in the matter. If the liberal Spaniards do not incline to make common cause with the Queen, or if her adherents and the Liberals united are no match for the Carlists, it is quite clear that no other power ought to take the part of the former. The intervention of one country in the affairs of another can only be justified on the ground of self-preservation. This is a ground of justification, however, which ought always to be looked to with great suspicion, because, under the pretext of extinguishing flames which might reach the contiguous countries, we may be com pelling the majority of a country to yield to the minority, and thus become the means of perpetrating great injustice, and lay the founda tion for endless disturbances. We, however, in this case, trust less to the justice of the French Government than to its prudence, the fruit of extensive experience. The French are aware that there is no force which could offer any effectual opposition to them in the field. They know that they could march from one end of the Peninsula to the other ; but they also know, that with the presence of a French army in the capital their difficulties would only commence. The invasion would be attended with an enor mous expense, and, after all, it would not benefit the young Queen. The pride of the people, which has already been deeply wounded by the former invasion, would, by a fresh inva sion, revenge itself on the Queen ; and we should perhaps see both Liberals and Carlists take part against the Queen. Upon the whole, we think the French will not break bonds. If the Queen, in possession of the seat of Go vernment, and with all the advantages derived from a succession favoured by the late King, her father, cannot maintain her ground against Carlos, this would prove the latter to be the Sove reign of the nation. But, as we have said, we by no means assume any such inferiority on the part of the Queen. It is probable, how ever, that if the Carlists gain on her, it will he necessary for her to throw herself more decidedly on the Liberals. Indeed it is generally under stood that they would not be sorry to see her still more embarrassed than she is, as this would enhance their importance. However this may be, we trust that the French Government will not move an army into Spain. Such an inter ference with Spain would be equally unjust and impolitic ; and in the present temper of the French nation with regard to taxation, the con sequences might be serious.—Morn. Chronicle. It is with great and unfeigned pleasure that we direct the attention of the public to the sensible and manly resolutions in which the Merchant Tailors' Company, in the city of London, have proclaimed their determina tion not to submit to the illegal and arbitrary au thority of the Corporation Commissioners. These resolutions are conceived in the true old Eng lish spirit of reverence for the law, and opposi tion to all who usurp a power which the law does not authorize and support. These true friends of liberty and law are no doubt prepared for the calumnies by which they will be assailed, in consequence of their noble determination, by those who, while they arrogate to themselves the peculiar and exclusive merit of respect and attachment to the rights and interests of the community, are in reality the worst enemies of law and liberty. The patriotic members of this Corporation must expect such attacks, but, in the consciousness of having done their duty, they may well feel themselves entitled to despise them. Of the many appalling circumstances of the present times, which are calculated to suggest gloomy anticipations as to the future destinies of this country, that which has produced greater dis may than any other in the minds of thinking men is, perhaps, the general prostration of spirit evinced by the Corporations of Great Britain, in submitting themselves without resistance to the authority of an illegal and tyrannical Com mission, and lending their assistance to its law less and arbitrary proceedings. This abject subserviency might well be thought to indicate decay at the very core bf Our most venerable anti most national institutions. We witnessed oppression triumphant and uncontrolled in the very sanctuaries which our wise and generous ancestors had established,, .in their dread and hatred of oppression. We beheld the very ciadels of every right and franchise invaded, and saw those to whom their defence had been intrusted, become at once the active auxiliaries and the willing victims of the insolent and law less invaders. Vortunately for the honour and the interests of the country, however, this mean and timid servility Will not be universal. The Corporation of Merchant Tailors have set a noble example, which will not fail to be exten sively followed ; and; should it be followed only by a few of the Corporations which yet re main to be visited, even these feN instances of meritorious defiance will consign the wrong doers to contempt, and all that they have per formed, or may yet perform, to worthless insignificance. We cannot refrain from tran scribing the concluding reason assigned by this Corporation for their resistance to the power assumed by the Commissioners. They refuse to submit to an inquisition which they think unlawful from " the persuasion that the universal, though reluctant, submission of all the Corpora tions in the kingdom to a Commission so manifestly unlawful, and, in their judgment, so inconsistent with the security of the property and rights of the subject, could not fail to be treated as a sanction to such an exercise of the prerogative, and to become a precedent full of danger to future times. Wherefore they con ceive it to be the more especial duty of such of these bodies as have no favour to expect and no danger to fear to meet this un lawful encroachment of power with unqualified resistance." Nor is the persuasion by which these honourable and high spirited citizens pro fess themselves to be actuated upon this im portant occasion unsupported by the highest legal authorities, whether of past times or of the present day. Let our readers peruse the ad mirable answers of Sir James Scralett, and of the other Learned Gentlemen who follow him, to the questions submitted for their considera tion, and let them then, as they must, unite with us in stigmatizing the authors of this Commis sion, and all who venture to act under it, as wrongdoers, as lawless assailants of the rights, franchises, and property of their fellow-subjects, whom it is the duty, the legal, p o liti ca l, an d mora l duty, of all good citizens and faithful subjects, by every means in their power, to resist and obstruct. Earnestly referring once more to the resolutions and opinions which will be found elsewhere, and which we need not say are much more worthy of an attentive pe rusal than any thing we can write, we now dismiss this important subject for the present. We cannot conclude, however, without noticing the singular felicity with which Sir J. Scarlett, in seeking some definite meaning to affix to the terms " Municipal Corporation," discovers at once the means of elucidating what is obscure in the language of our modern law givers, and explaining, by an ancient example, what is pecuiiar in their political character : " Municipium' then signified a town or city enfranchised by a decree of the Senate from the obligation of receiving the Roman law, or sub• mitting to a Roman Prefect. Note : These Municipia were in effect what are now corporate towns or cities, governed by their own Magis trates, and freed, more or less, from the services to which other towns were liable. They had be come very numerous and powerful during the existence of a free Government in Rome, inso much that Sylla the Dictator passed a law, entitled De Municipiis,' to disfranchise those who had given support to Marius and Cinna iu their resistance to him. He considered these Corporations as the last stronghold of the party which he made it the object of his policy to destroy."— Morning Post. ROLLS' COURT, Nor. 18. SITTINGS OF THE COURT. In the course of the morning his HoNotnt inti mated that for the future he should not sit after the last day of term till the first seal. He thought this would better suit the convenience of the Bar, as it would assimilate the practice to that pursued both by the Lord Chancellor and the Vice-Chancellor iu their respective Courts. Besides, he required some time to make up his opinions on the important cases which stood for decision, and the intervals of leisure so occurring he should devote to that purpose. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 18. EX PARTE THE EARL OF DURHAM. The SOLCITOR-GENERAL said he was instructed, on behalf of the Earl of Durham, to move for a rule to show causa why a criminal information should not be filed against the printer, publisher, and sole proprietor of the Newcastle Journal, for a libel published in that paper. It was with the greatest reluctance that Lord Durham made this application, but whPri facts which, if true, would be most discreditable to his Lordship were stated in public newspapers—facts which were untrue, - and must have been known to be untrue by the person who published them—Lord Durham felt he had no alternative but to apply to the Court for its inter ference and protection. This application was made in a shape in which the truth or falsehood of the charges might come before the Court, because a prosecutor, on applying for a criminal information, was bound to deny the truth of the charges made in the paragraph of which he complained. On the 28th of September last, there appeared in the New castle Journal the following paragraph : " LOYALTY.—THE EARL OF DURllAM.—Yes terday the tricolour was flying from the mast-head of the Earl of Durham's yacht Louisa now anchored in the Tyne. This disgraceful exhibition roused the sterling English feelings of hundreds of brave fellows, inhabitants of the two Shields, who fought the battles of their country during the last war, and who vented their indignation against the revolu tionary flag of France in curses loud and deep. After the insult offered by the ambitious Earl to the Royal flag of England in Cherburg harbour, by ordering his own arms to be placed above it, we were pre pared to expect a good deal, but certainly did not anticipate that he would outrage the feelings of Englishmen in the mariner we have described." This paragraph contained a circumstantial ac count of facts which were professed to be within the knowledge of the narrator. He (the Learned Counsel) would now, with the indulgence of the Court, read the affidavits of the Earl of Durham an d the mate of his vessel. The Earl of Durham stated in his affidavit that he was the owner of the yacht called the Louisa, which sailed into the river Tyne a day or two before the 25th of September last, and was, on that day mentioned in the para graph, anchored in that river ; but that the para graph ,vas in every other respect false and without any foundation whatever; that the tricoloured flag (which the deponent believed to be the national flag of the kingdom of France) was never at any time fly ing on his vessel while in the river Tyne; that he never ordered his own arms to be placed above the royal flag of England at any time or place, neither had he on board any flag or ensign on which his family arms were painted; that he never gave any directions for the hoisting of the tricoloured flag or any such flag, either at the mast-head or at any other part of his vessel; while in the harbour of CherbUrg, or while in the river Tyne, or any other place ; and that he did not believe that the tricoloured flag was ever hoisted or displayed in any part of the vessel, except in the month of September last, when the vessel was lying in the harbour of Cherburg with several others of the Yacht Squadron, when the King and Queen of France having announced their intention of visiting the harbour, orders were given by Lord Yarborough, the commodore and acting commander of the squadron; that the ships should display their flags in honour of the King and Queen, while they continued there ; that, according to the usage in such cases, the several vessels of the squadron hung out their flags of different nations, and that on that occasion the Louisa and several other vessels dis played the tricolour or standard of France; but that during his Lordship's sojourn at Cherburg he did not reside on board his vessel, but dwelt in the town, and never a: any time gave directions for the tricolour to be hoisted on the above or any other occasion, but left it entirely to the Captain whom he employed to navigate the vessel; that he believed the object of publishing the before-mentioned false statement was to irritate and excite the minds of his Majesty's subjects against him, and that this was only one of a series of false statements which had appeared in the newspaper in question. Mi.' Justice JAMES PARKE- - kOll have stated enough for a rule to show cause. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL-YOUr Lordship will allow me to state that the mate most distinctly ne gatives the assertion that any private flag of Lord Durham's ever was on board ; and he also states that the tricolour never was hoisted except during the three days when Louis Philip, the King of France, was visiting Cherburg ; that that was done with out the interference of Lord Durham, and was done by various other yachts, so that the assertions made in the paragraph are without the semblance of anything like truth.—Rule Nisi granted. EX PARTE SCALES. Sif J. SCARLETT moved for a rule Nisi for a quo warranto information to Thomas Johnston, Esq., calling on him to show by what authority he claimed to exercise the office of an Alderman of the city of London. The affidavit stated the mode of election, which was by the freemen householders residing in the ward; that a vacancy having occurred in the office of Alderman fur the ward of Portsoken, a precept was issued by the Lord Mayor and Alder man for the election, which afterwards took place; that on that occasion there were two candidates, for one of whom there were 155, and for the other 107 votes ; that the gentleman who had the majority was returned to the Cuurt of Aldermen duly elected, but they had thought fit to reject him, and had sworn in Mr. Johnston. Under these circumstances, the Court would see that the only remedy was by quo warranto; for the office being full, Mr. Scales would not be entitled to a mandamus, even if he should succeed in the action now pending for a false return. Mr. Justice .TAMES PARKE—Very well; as you have stated a prima facie case, you may take a rule to show cause.—Rule granted. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 18. CUNNINGHAM V. FONBLkNQUE. This action was brought to recover 64/., the amount of a printer's bill. The plaintiff printed the Examiner, a newspaper of which the defendant was the proprietor and publisher. The claim was composed of a demand for certain matter, which was set up, but not used, end also for a month's salary, on the ground that the plaintiff was dis- charged without a month's notice, the wage of the trade being a month's notice or a month's salary. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Park at the Middlesex Sittings after last Term, when a verdict passed for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant JONES to-day showed cause. The COURT, however, suggested that the ver dict should be reduced to 111. 65., which arrange ment was adopted. —The rule was accordingly discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. There was an incident of rather a remarkable kind in the evidence in a common case of pick pockets at the Justice-room yesterday. Three boys, named Nathan, Jacobs, and Clarke, were brought before the LORD MAYOR charged with having stolen a pocket-handkerchief from a person who belongs to the Potteries, in Staffordshire. Nathan, who was the youngest, was the boy who most adroitly whipped the handkerchief out of the complainant's pocket ; but, clever as he was, he was both felt and seen at the work, whilst the other two endeavoured to act as a screen to him. The mother of Nathan, an industrious poor woman, who has a large family, and sells fruit in the street, declared that her son was so completely in league with the other prisoners that a reformation upon this side of the water was quite impossible. She was, in consequence of the public nature of her calling, in the constant habit of observing . the manceuvres of the pickpockets, and the three boys at the bar were of and on every gentleman they came across. When they committed the last robbery she ran after Clarke, whom she considered the worst, and seized him ; he pummelled her desperately, but she grabbed him so tight that he could not escape. She after wards went into a beer-house, where Jacobs was sitting with three other thieves, each of whom was able to take his own part, but she lugged him our, and gave him into the custody of the police. Her own boy had been ruined by these two, and there fore she did not care to what hazard she exposed herself for retribution's sake. The LORD MAYOR asked the complainant whe ther his employment wonld permit him to attend to a prosecution at the Old Bailey ? The com plainant said his absence from his business would be extremely diserviceable to him. The father and mother of Nathan begged that he might be bound over to prosecute. The LORD MAYOR refused to comply with this request, as lie could send the prisoners to Bridewell. Mr. Nathan said that 131idewell would do no good, and again besought his Lordship to send the boys to the Old Bailey ; but The LORD MAYOR rejected the appeal, and sen tenced the boys to solitary confinement for the term of three months. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. John Cook and John Dean, the former of whom was a diminutive country-looking fellow, equipped in a fustian sh oo ti ng jacket, were yesterday placed at the bar, charged on suspicion of stealing a port. manteau from the Three King's Tavern, Piccadilly. The portmanteau was deposited in a room in which Cook slept, and the principal cause of suspi cion against him was, that he absconded on Thursday morning immediately after the property was missed. The other prisoner was usually loitering about the yard, and he was absent with the other man, and they were apprehended in company. Mr. CHAMBERS (to Cook) —How do you get your living? Cook—l be independent. Mr. CHAMBERS—lndependent ! Prisoner—Ees, I be. Mr. CHAMBERS—Where do you live ? Prisoner —At Devizes. Mr. CHAMBERS — What are you doing here ? Prisoner —Why, I be just corned up to see Lunnun. Mr. CHAMBERS—And, pray, is that other person with you an independent gentleman ? Prisoner— Noa ; he be employed by me, to show me Lunnun. Mr. CHAMBERS—And you employ him to show you about ? Prisoner—Why, if I go to the Tower, or any other place, to see the sights, I pay for him. Mr. CHAMBERS—And, pray, where is your lug gage ? Prisoner—Oh, my l uggage ! Why, I be got 'un in my pocket.—(Laughter.) Mr. CHAMBERS—What ! an independent gentle man carry his wardrobe in his pocket ? Prisoner— And here it be (pulling a dirty shirt and a 'pair of stockings out of his pocket.) Mr. CHAMBERS—And where are your outward clothes ? Prisoner—Why, they be here (putting his hand on his shooting jacket). Mr. CHAMBERS—Where's your money ? Pri soner—Some of it be in the Bank, in some part or other of it. Mr. CHAMBERS—I should like to know what cor ner of the Bank it is to be found in ? Prisoner—l dare say you would.—(Much laughter.) The other prisoner admitted that he was employed by, the gehiAn to Show hiffi about town: George Ellis, one of the officers of this establish ment, identified the country gentleman as a person who knew town very well. lie had, upwards of 10 years ago, been living at Brixton, and had ridden two or three matches for sporting butchers. Mr. CHAMBERS—Now you find you are known, I suppose that the money in the Bank is gone ? Pri soner--Ees, I'm afraid it is.=(Laughter.) Mr. ChASiBERS—WeII, I should like to know where your property is ? Prisoner—And so should 1.---(Much laughter.) Ml'. CHAMBERS remanded the prisoners. MARYLEBONE. A PASSIONATE CAPTAIN.—Capt. Joseph Breck nell, of the Royal Horse Guards Blue, residing at No. 10, Somerset-street, Manchester-square, ap peared to answer a warrant obtained against him by a footlad in his service, named William Morris. Complainant had been in the Captain's service about seven months, during which time he (the Captain) had been in the habit of indulging himself (without having had any inattention or disrespect shown him), by caning him (the complainant) round the drawing-room. On Wednesday last, complainant could not find a certain pair of gloves that the Captain wished to wear, when the latter, on being made acquainted with the fact, seized a cane, with which he gave complainant several strokes across the back, and threatened to throw him out of a window. Witness, in consequence of such treatment, applied at this office for a warrant. Mr. RAWLINSON (to complainant)—What did he beat you on former occasions for ? Complainant— I don't know, Sir. Mr. RAWLINSON—Why, I suppose he didn't ring the bell and say, when you went up to answer it, " Come in, and be caned."—(Laughter.) Complainant—No, Sir; it was for as trivial of fences as the one of not being able to find the gloves. The Captain, in reply, said he had a set of rebellious servants. Sometimes the complainant would not get up till nine o'clock, while he himself was up at seven. To correct such idle habits he therefore had now arid then just given him a slight touch with a cane.—(Laughter.) An uncle of the complainant, from what his ne phew had told him, thought proper to wait on the Captain, who, having learned his business, said, " Your nephew is a sleepy dog, and if you don't go I'll beat you the same. I'm a King's soldier, Sir." —( Laughter.) Mr. RAWLINSON—What answer did you make ? Witness—l said to him, " Then we're both King's men." Mr. RAWLINSON—What are you, then ? Wit ness—l'm in the service of the King.—(Laughter.) Mr.RAWLINSON—In what capacity ? Witness— One of the grooms in the Royal stables.—(A laugh.) Mr. RAWLINSON hoped that the Captain would not be so hasty in future, and for his frequent amusement in caning the complainant fined him 20s. which the Gallant Captain paid, with the expenses of the warrant. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Joseph Wood, a footman in the service of J. Biddulph, Esq., of No. 14, Spring-gardens, of the firm of Cocks, Biddulph, and Co., bankers, 43, Charing-cross, was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar before Mr. BURRELL, charged with stealing wine and other articles, the property of his master.—He was fully committed for trial. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE FROM DISTRESS IN ST. JAMES'S PARK.—Julia Dellakay, a young female about 20 years of age, of very prepossessing ap pearance, %alas brought up in custody from the sta tion-house of the A division in Gardener's-lane, where she had been taken the greatest care of since Sunday morning, charged with attempting to drown herself in the canal in St. James's Park. Mr. Dixon, coachmaker, of No. 16, Cross-lane, Long Acre, on Sunday morning, about eight o'clock, was going with a friend to Pimlico. They were passing through the enclosure in St. James's Park, %%hen he observed the unfortunate defendant leaning against one of the iron hurdles near the canal. He and his friend were struck with her melancholy and disconsolate appearance, and strong suspicions arose in his mind that she intended to drown herself. Under these impressions they both determined to watch her for a short time, and retired behind one of the shrubberies. In a few minutes his friend called out to him, " She is doing it." He ran to to the spot. She had thrown her reticule and bon net into the water, and he was just in time to catch hold of her clothes, but so sudden was the occur rence that they both fell into the canal. The sensa tion he felt from the shock was such that he was not ashamed to confess that he fainted away, and had not his friend come up at the moment he must have been drowned. Assistance was procured, and they took her to the nearest station-house, where he desired that every attention might be paid to het comfort. The unfortunate young woman, in reply, had no lodging, relatives, or friends in the country. She was born in Calcutta, where all her friends resided; she had been brought to this country by a person who had deserted her, and left her destitute upon the world. A short time ago she went down to Newmarket, where she supposed her brother was residing, but found that he had gone back to India. She was weary of her life. Mr. BuRRELL, atter putting several questions to her, desired her to be taken care of until the over seers arrived, when she was taken into the work house for the present, and Mr. axon very hu manely gave her some pecuniary relief. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday George Bennett, Cornelius Dixon, John Dibbon, - Baker, Isaac Light, and Alcsry Connell, were brought to this office, charged on sus picion of being concerned in a burglary in the dwel ling-house of John Brimmer, Esq., of Mornington place, Hampstead-road. The evidence of the case was not fully entered into, and the whole of the prisoners, with the ex ception of Connell and Light, were remanded unti Saturday next. 1 UNION-HALL. Mr. Oliver, a hop-merchant, residing in the vi inity of this office, was charged with neglecting to maintain his illegitimate child. Breaks, the beadle of Newington, had relieved Ann Baniton, who alleged that Mr. Oliver was the father of a boy, aged twelve years, who had accompanied her to the office. Ann Baulton, on being sworn, stated that the de fendant was the father of the little boy then present, who was, unfortunately, imbecile in his mind. She added, that she was compelled to apply to the paro chial authorities for relief, Mr. Oliver having refused to contribute to his own offspring's support. The defendant very much doubted the alleged fact of his being the father of the boy. Ann Baulton " flared up" upon this imputation on her credibility, and with minuteness detailed where she had first met with Mr. Oliver. The Magistrate said that as no evidence had been brought forward to contradict the woman's state ment, he was bound to make an order for ss. a week on the defendant, as long as the boy was chargeable to the parish. The order having been made the parties left the office, the defendant not having noticed the poor little boy while the mother was under examination. THAMES-POLICE. Yesterday two Prussian sailors, named L'eclwig Schmidt and Johan Wittenberg, were brought befor e Mr. BALLANTINE arid Mr. COMB), charged, on a Custom-house information, with smuggling five quarts of foreign corn brandy. The penalty of '- 06 each was sued for by the Crown. William Judge and James White, ThameW i g ic t , sUrveyors, met the prisoners in Wapping-itree t t George's, on Saturday evening, and suspecting (6/led their appearance that they had spirits cone: about them, they stopped them. They rn a " e ott desperate resistance, and every effort to escape. t . overhauling Schmidt they discovered a tin brea L fi ii plate, made to fit his stomach and sides, round Pt, person. It was holl ow , an d con t a i ne d three q uar r . and htff:pint of brandy. On Wittenberg P e r d son they found concealed a bladder; cog6irik'i over with his jacket, and a bottle, containing b . n i jg gallon of brandy. Th e bl a dd er was s l un g round neck. a poch Mr. COMBE passed th e sen t ence o f the m - t be that the prison ers d o p a y a fi ne o f 1001. ea ch t ° 4 - 1, King, and be imp r i sone d unt il suc h fi ne is P - u i s t Any application f or a re mi s si on o f t h e penalty ni be made to the Commissioners of Customs. LONDON MARKETS. 41b. Loa. There are others who sell from %d. to Oid* that price. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 9 PRICE OF SEEDS.—Noy. 18. „, lIP New Englisn tied Clover Seed (per C w t.) — s . tiOg . fine ~' 60 Old Ditto Ditto ~..... s. 50s. fine- 4 ' , . New Foreign Ditto __s. —s fine -- - ' 6 ',l' Old Ditto .. • . —B. —s. fine - .4 I*, New White Clover . 7os. 665. fine 66 5 . e s Old Ditto Ditto .. - , s. —s. fine •-' 4 'O4. New Trefoil -s. -s. fine d 1— 1420 3k! Ditto Rib Grass s fine -. 4 ' 19. English Carraway Seed .--s. —s. SOs fin:#* Foreign Ditto ..—............---.. —s. —s. 775. On - IP Coriander ........ ..—.. —s. 14s. fine .." 4. s4* St. Foin - (per Quarter) ........ 4ls. 465. fine 4 ,1g '4.11. Rye Grass -s. ...s. new 40.. ; * Pacey Ditto —s. —s. new '''''r fleb Linseed, for feeding —a. 5135. fine ...I / 4 Ditto, for crushing —....-. 465. 50s. —s. 6 11 `79,1. Canary Seed, New —s. --s. 683 BO ~4, ' 'itto Old —s. —s. —S. fine, White Mustard Seed.--(per Bushel).—. —s. 12s. 14s. fin`....l , Brown Ditto.., —s. 16s. 18s. fin‘lol , Fureip Seeds, Rounds— —s. —s. 18s. fine 01 , Green and Red Ditto ............-...................... —S. —a. 18s. lin e e e, Fares, Old - 3 s. 6d. fine o 'o Ditto New 4s. 6d. fine Y. i to Rat eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 281. 26/........ Foreign PrtICES HOPS.—Nov. 18. / New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) _Nov. 61. I2s. to 7 9g, Choice East Kent..... , ,.,,........................................ 11. Os. oi. Os. to Si. 0 :: Choice .......«.., .9/. Os. 01. Os. to 101. , New S:issex P0cket5.............5/ P .......—.. 51. ha. 01. Os. to ~.,• os. Superfine I)itto ......... 61. Os. 01. Os. to oh of. Farnham (fine)... 111. I Is. 01. Os to 111. '',,',, Ditto (seconds) .............................................101 Os. 01. Os to 111. 7 _. The'llop Duty is estimated at 155,066/. PRICE OF OIL. .364 6s. Refined 0 15 ij '2 Rape Oil, brown Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton- Shaves,,. Middling —,— Marsh Champions Scotch Reds---- Chats PRICE OF POTATOES.—Nov. 18. Os. to t 2 to 3 1 1 . 5s . I°s '. ditto. 41. 51 Os. 4/, Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. ' 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto. Os. to 2/. Os. ditto WHITECH A PEL HAY M A RKET.—Nov, 18• pd Hay 755. Od. to 995. Od. J Clover ...... 82s. Od. to 05' Straw, ;Ig, Od. to 33i. LEATHER. Per lb. !., 1 1' - English Horse Hides... 14 Spanish Ditto 16 Per dozen. Calf Skins-. 30 to 40lb. 13 Ditto 40 to 601 b. 1 d 3I Ditto 70 to 901 b. lA' V Small Seals. Greenland IF, IV Large PRICES O. Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 25 Ditto, Foreign 14 21 Dressing 12 15 Ditto Ditto, light Clop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto 40 to 501 b. 13 18 Ditto l4 20 RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. 'rice of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow blelters).. PRICE OF TALLOV fown Tallow , 48s. Od. Yellow 48s. Od. White - .—s. Od. Soap Ditto .—s. Od. Melted Stuff 375. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. g , 4 Yellow 50ap.,....................`45i3 0 Mottled _ ...V'' 0 1 ' White .... 1 44.4, Graves ... -0 b 0.." Good Dregs ....................,* CANDLES. e retail shops, is as . follol? 6d. Moulds, per dozen.••••••••' . COAL MARKET.—Nov. 18. Per Ton. s. d. Par Ton. Pi 1, 6 4dair's 16 6 Walls End Killingwort , 8 A Holywel I 17 0 Walls End Newmarch ,,,, op u Ord's Red h ugh 16 0 Walls End Riddell's Pontop 16 3 Walls End Lainbton 18 9 Ditto Russell's Lyore B ^"" 21 I West Hartley 17 0 Walk End Stewart's.** , 2 0 W.E. Clarke amt C 0...—. 17 0 W. E South Durham.* PRICE OE The price of Store Candles, in th Candles, per doz. 78. Od, to tis. Od. Ships arrived since' last ntarket-day, 5. GUILDFORD MARKE P.—Nov. 16. 0 1 ' Wheat (Per Load) ...10/. to 16/.loata (Per Qr.) 20 400 Old 14 16 Beans Barley (Per Qr.) 2Bs. 345. Pease 37 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Nov. 20. DIVIDEND. AL I 11. Askham, tailor, Norfolk-street, Strand ........................ J. Jackson, brush-maker, Rochester ................................. J. 0. Kettle, tailor, Southampton-street, Strand ............... IQ J. Burke, licensed victualler, Greenwich ........................ J. Hill, hatter, Strand ...................................................... D. Grant, butcher, Kensington .................................... COLOUR OF THE EYE.--That the CO' of the eyes should affect their strength may seem streli yet that such is the case need not at this time of dei r d proved, and those whose eyes are brown or dark-eek iu r should be informed that they are weaker and more 1 0 1. tible of injury from various cautes than grey or blue g Light blue eyes are, cateris paribus, generally the S'ort powerful, and next to these are grey. The lighle r , of pupil the greater and longer continued is the der" tension the eye can sustain.—Curtis on the Eye. jg Amongst the numerous projects on 10014, one for miking a tunnel and railway to extend frote . t b' north end of London Bridge to the Uxbridge•roadt..da branches to the entrance of the Birmingham rali t or, adjoining the Hampstead-road, and to the entrance 'Poi great western railway at Milbank. The work is iota°, to be carried under ground, beneath some of the III " populous streets of the metropolis, in the same way' tunnel at Liverpool. The distance will be about five • BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at his residence, Pond House, Vl' 0 ,4,0 ham Common, the lady of Joseph Chapell Woolnough , Commander in the Royal Navy, of a son and heir. On the 16th inst., the lady of Joseph Ratton, Grange-walk, Hoxton, of a son. 19 too, On the 17th inst., at Weston-green, Thames Hitt( lady of the Rev. Edward Woodhouse, of a son. On the 17th inst., at Walthamstow, the lady of J" Thorp, Esq., of a son. tD t On the Ist inst., in North Great George-street, Dublir'' lady of George Harrison, Esq., of a son. On the Bth inst., at Glenbervie, the lady of S. D. - r Esq., ofa daughter. .. of° On the 7th inst., at' Penicuik House, Lady Cleric , daughter. di ol On the 11th inst., in Upper Gardiner street, the I° Edmond Taaffe, Esq., of the county Mayo, of a son. MARRIED. On the 18th ult., Mr. Paul Crcssall, Whitechapel, to 06 ( youngest daughter of Esau Hitchcock, Esq., of Scrag street, Ball's pond. 4,c On the 12th inst., E. H. St. Quintin, Esq., surgeon. 4, , of the Precincts, to Jane, daughter of R. Spencer. Thorpe. ltSnct, On the 13th inst., at Thorpe, Captain Neville CLIO Frances, eldest daughter of Charles Weston, Esq. „„tiO cl On the Bth inst., John Bolton, Esq., of Harrowston; in tt / c i Meath, second son of Richard Bolton, of Castlering, Ef county of Louth, Esq., to Elizabeth, eldest daulib t the late John Cochrane, of Clones, county Monaghan. A, fr j On the 11th inst., at Knockbridge Church, Charl es Zander, Esq., to Miss Dorothea A. Adams, eldest datig" the Dean of Cashel. ft °ll DIED. On the 12th ult., at Leek, of a lingering illness, 14°- .4 p s ' Condlyffe, aged 16. On the Bth inst., in her 58th year, of paralysis, the wife of J, Vaughan Barber, Esq., of the Red Hou se `' Barr. 0 44 On the 11th inst., Mary Ann, wife of Wm. White, 1 Hamilton-row, Merrion-square, Dublin. On the 7th inst., in Ely-place, aged 71, Alicia, r John Rothwell, Esq., of Staffordstown, county Meath• t ioil• On the 11th inst., in Ely-place, Grace, wife of the Leeson. d el On the 9th inst., in Stephen's-green, Catherine , Arundel C. Best, Esq., of Best Villa, county CarloW. o Pr On the 9th inst., at No. 1, Oxford-street, Laurie.' infant son of Mr. David Robin. rule 0 1' On the 9th inst., at Charlotte-street, Mrs. Jean wife of Mr. James Wilson, lately surgeon and drugg'' , li ter lowgate. On the 9th inst., at Govan, Henrietta, second (. 3-- the late Mr. It. Austin, merchant, Glasgow.' O l d On the 14th inst., at the Rev. John Sa;idford's, % vil! street, Grosvenor-place, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Dixon, Esq., of Govan-hill, Glasgow. A if PRINTED AND PUBLIFII/111 NV MO Y o. ,SV.V . OSFICE, 11:?, STRAND. P r j ao °4er \°: `!1 ~ ~, r oves rl 3' C I) ti lt I I y • \ RI t „ C u ' 41,, ir o 2 . 1` 4tl (i*t° I'l' 4 6 g P I ,h! 'II tri o ‘ g te Sc