The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF IHE 'PUBLIC JOURNALS, We have had frequent opportunities, within the last two months, of recording the courage. zeal, and efficiency, with which the municipal commissioners have plunged their sickle into the harvest of corporate abuses, and prepared materials for corporate reform. The crop was, indeed, rich, and required only industry and and honesty to collect its chief stores; but though these are now reaped in most parts of England, the gleanings, which are in propor tion to the original rankness of the produce, de serve notice when thrown into a common stock. We despair, it is true, of finding anything so splendid. over the whole range of borough mal vemation as the admitted corruption and contu macious resistance of Leicester; but we cannot on that account pass over the facts which the country papers have more recently communicated respecting Tiverton, Cambridge, and Warwick. The Western Times, the Cambridge Inde pendent Press, and the Leamington Spa Cou rier, of recent dates, contain, in their accounts of the proceedings of the commissioners in those places, matter enough to have justified the ap pointment of a commission, though the boroughs which they celebrate could not have boasted of so many partners or rivals in corporate abuses. Th t great evil in all the cases where enormous violations of law, justice, and freedom have been proved against these municipal bodies, has had its origin in Parliamentary corruption, or in the perversion of aristocratic influence to annihilate electoral rights—to destroy the control of the people over their (miscalled) representatives, and to invest an oligarchical faction with all the powers, places, honours, and emoluments of the state. It was because the voice, which should 'have issued from the majority of the property, intelligence, and numbers of the nation was not heard in the Senate, and because the nominees of obscure villages, or of limited juntas, occupied the place of the national representatives, that the ancient deposi!aries of municipal privileges abused their trusts, mismanaged the funds placed, for the benefit of the inhabitants, at their disposal, tyrannized over their fellow citizens, and perverted the course of justice. It was because they could influence the des tinies of the nation, through their electoral votes, that they were alternately courted or oppressed by the great. It was because they were " part and parcel" of that lucra tive machinery which disposed of promotions it, the army and navy—which engrossed the patronage of the Church, and all the appoint ments, civil or political, of the State—that a commerce of corruption was carried on between them and the aristocracy of rank or wealth. It was because they could manufacture legislators or rulers for a great nation, that we find haughty peers or great landowners mixing in their petty squabbles,—fomenting their factious discords,— adninisterirg to their intemperate feasts, — accepting of their disgraceful livery,—serving their magisterial offices,—in short, making them presents of places or of wine, of commissiot;s or of venison, and condescending to become their stewards, their recorders, or their mayors. Most of this evil system would, of course, have ultimately ceased of its own accord after the passing of the Reform Bill, and the extension of the elective franchise to the body of tl‘e inha- bitants ; but the inquides of the Municipa; Commission cannot fail to he of extensive henefil. in recording its misdeeds, in hastening its dissolu tion, anti ih cleansing the nation front its pollution. The borough of Tivertoo is a case in point. Fees persons ho head at the time, or who have s:nce read the eel( braicd speech of Lord Har• • ruwby against the second leading of the Reform Bill, can have forgotten the eloquent, impressive, and even pathetic account which his Lordship gave of his own connection, and of the con nection of his family, with ghat borough. The attachment was, indeed, romantic in its origin and more than romantic in i s ardour and con stancy. It began without interest on either side, and was continued without any barter of support for patronage. The family of the Ryders and the corporation of Tiverton, uni;er like two fond lovers, had never even suffered any of those drawbacks on their ardent attach ments which are enumerated by the comic write; in the accidents to which fond love is exposed— " Injurite, Suspii ion«s, inimicitir, indueise, Baum, adz rut sum."--- Their intercourse was marked by a generous de votedness, by an unvarying confidence. and an undiminished fondness ; and his Lordship pro mised himself, and assured the House, that no Nabob's gold, no intriguer's arts, could ever step in to sever the connexion so fondly cherished. But what has happened since that glowing speech was delivered ? Why, out of the two members returned by his Lordship's influence under the reign of the corporation, he has not been able to return one for the town, and seeing the dawn of corporation reform above the ho rizon last summer, he has himself thought pro per to resign his corporation honours But we even find in the evidence given before the Mu nicipal Commissioners, that the connexion be tween his Lordship's family and the corporation was not so disinterested or so innocent as he had represented it. Mr. Patch and Mr. Wood, the present and the late Town Clerk for the borough, give a less romantic account of the affair than that given in the House of Lords. Lord liar rowby, though not a resident in the borough, and therefore against the terms of the charter, which requires residence in order to secure the voluntary influence of the corporation in his favour, con sented to become Mayor. " Under this old system," said Mr. Patch, " we had no contests for Members of Parliament. About a century ago there had been a contest, when 12 divided against 13." Happy borough, when 13 cor porators, with a Noble Lord at their head, bound by his honour not to interfere with the elections of the Commons, could return two Members to St. Stephen's ! In his character of mayor or of patron, or in some other unde fined capacity, his Lordship, besides, was in the habit of givin g the corporation annually a pipe of wine. The following testimony on this bulject may be as amusin g though not so ro manuc as the statement in the House of Lords : Did either Mr. R y der or Lord llarrowh y contr ib ute gh 7—S ows o f money any sum s of money t o the borou rs;,,, certainly ; no „,„ Yvu beard yehterday that the to n•clerk told you that v hail given latterly a p i p , of wine?—Yes. Annually they did tu,t giv e uz, many. Mr. Barnes--Please to understand that they h had e use of our e cellar and u sed it gratuitously, goy an a d many ()theta who are doing all they can against u., but n ver again." The whole disclosures made on the constitu tion of this borough—on its mode of electing, eorporators,—on the qualifications of its Re corder, who is not to be learned in t he law-- the selection of persons for Ma) ors, wno were sometimes clergymen, sometimes noblemen, and who were often non-resident, though bound to residenee,—on its mode of administering justice in the Court of Record,—on its management of charitable property, and on some of the sources of its funds, are extremely curious. Connected with the latter point are two disgraceful transac tions, in which the Corporation exerted their patronage—derived, no doubt, from their Par liamentary influence—to procure situations un der Government for a Sir John Duntze and a Mr. Hamilton), on condition of their contributing respectively 801. and 741. annually to their revenue. We have not room to detail the cir cumstances of this corrupt contract, and must, for the same reason, postpone to another oppor tunity our intended notice of the proceedings of the Commissioners at Cambridge and Warwick. —Times. Our Correspondent 0. P. Q. has, in a second letter, combatted some of the notions of the combinations of workmen in France and Ger many—such as that no workman should work more than ten hours a day, nor receive less than five francs. In this country the Trades' Unions go more skilfully to work. Combina tions in trades there always have been and always will be ; but they can never embrace the whole system of labour of a country, and henever they attempt to do this, they must break down. In trades in which much skill is demanded, it may be possible by limit ing the number of apprentices, and by other means, to keep up wages ; but in general the attempt to keep up a rate of wages in any place much higher than the average, can only have the effect of driving the trade to other towns. In Ireland there is a disposable fund of labour, suf ficient to swamp the labourers in any branch of industry in England, in which great skill is not required. Mr. John M'Mahon, a surveyor of lands and farms, intimately acquainted with the counties of Cork, Clare, Limerick, and Kerry, examined by the Agricultural Committee, states that in the large tracts of country on the Shan non, in which the growing of wheat is rapidly spreading, and in which there is every facility for exporting wheat to the English markets, yet that in these fine countries the condition of the labourers is almost hopeless. "In ' what respect is the condition of the labourer worse ?—ln not having employment. "Is his food more scanty than it was?—Many have told me that they would be the happiest people that there could be in the world if they could have employment six months in the year at eightpence a day. " What is the rate of wages now in your neighbour- hood for an able-bodied man ?—Eightpenee a-day is all we give now ; but they get their breakfast and dinner from some : but all will not give it them. " Have all tho'e labourers little patches of land of their own ?—Yes. " How much?—Generally an acre. " What do they pay ?--A fortunate man will have to pay from 51. to 81. for it and the cabin, and will have to veil his pig to pay his rent? " Tlen the conition of the labourer is this—he occu pies his cabin and about an acre of ground, for which he pays from Si. to 81. an acre ; and when he can get work, he gets about Sit. a day for it ?—Yes. " How many months in the year may he have work ? —V,ry few , some may employ him four months in the year ; it depends upon the farmer, and tvht ther he has suns who are expert to manage the horses." With a country alongside of us, swarming with wretches in this condition, who in a few hours can pass by steam-boats to our sh3res, all attempts on the part of the labourers in Bri tain to keep up wages, must be hopeless. The flor laws are the only security of the English labourers. Without the minimum guaranteed to them under the poor laws, they would soon he as effectually destroyed by the Irish, as the English rats have been destroyed by the Nor way rats.—Morning Chronicle. The preliminary investigation of a charge of forgery connected with the transfer of stock, which took place at the Mansion-house on Tuesday, drew forth some judicious observa tions from the new Lord Mayor, who, we are glad to perceive, does not pursue the mode of 'xamination which was represented as being so acceptable at the Home Office, although con trary to the law of England, and condemned by ail the Judges of the realm. But what we wish to point public attention more particularly to in the present case is what fell from his Lord ship in relation to the loose mode of transact• ing business by the London brokers, which he very justly described as affording great facilities to practises of a fraudulent nature. As to the merits of the case, we abstain from entering into them, because it is contrary to our notions of justice to prejudge any person accused of crime, and to brand him as a convict before his defence has been fully heard. All Magistrates, and all who comment upon proceedings in a court of criminal law, ought to ever bear in mind the im portant truth, that it is as much the interest, and should be the object of justice, to protect innocence as to punish guilt. But the scales can never be held even between the public and the prisoner when passion disturbs the judgment, or when an intemperate zeal gives itself up to Rust impressions, for in such cases accusation is usually held tantamount to proof. In bill tran sactions it is well known that a great proportion of the forgeries committed, when the crime was punishable with death, and since, might have been prevented, if it were not for a careless and slo venly mode of transacting these matters, by persons relying on the penalties of the law, which no man ought to do, but is bound, on the contrary, to take every possible precaution to prevent fraud. There are cases, indeed, in which, from the very nature of the fraud, no precautions can avail towards preventing it ; in such cases the party defrauded is, of course, blameless ; but not so in those instances where the negligent mode of doing business invites the commission of the offence, and, perhaps, sug gests the guilty idea. In those instances the party whose rights of property are deceptiously invaded is an accessary to the frauds upon him self. A great deal of crime might be prevented, at least that species of crime which consists in circumventing and defrauding others, if only common prudence were exercised in the daily transactions of the mercantile world. We do not ascertain from the report whether the pri soner in the case to which we have alluded, who was cotrustee of the Stock said to be fraudu lently transferred, stands charged with having forged the name of his cotrustee or coexecutor, to the power of attorney to transfer, or whether the charge is for having forged the name in the transfer book at the Bank, though it would seem as if the signature in the transfer book was written by another person, who falsely personated the coexecutor ; but however this may be, the circum stances detailed on the part of the prosecution induc e d the Lord Mayor to make the observa tions which we have stated in reprobation of a mode of transacting business which made the perpetration of fraud a work of comparative fa cility. The stockbroker's clerk said his business was done, as all other resp ti e le c i t t a s b . le stockbrokers" were in the habit of doing N it. The observations of the Chief Magistrate doubtagistr of ate were applied, not to the practice of the individual house, but to the system—a system calculated to encourage and create crime, by removing those difficulties which proper scrutiny and precaution 1 1 would throw in the way of persons contriving the fraudulent transfer of Stock. The Lord Mayor stated that he "did not impute to the stock broker or his clerk any impropriety of conduct ; he believed the transaction to be irreproachable as far as regarded them, but he must repeat that the practice was a bad one, and gave men of fraudulent intentions opportunities of defraud ing." Prevention is better than punishment.. Morning Herald. - A conversation took place in the Lord Chan cellor's Court on Tuesday, with regard to the selection of a day for the hearing of a particular motion, in which Sir Edward Sugden was en gaged. In the course of this conversation that gentleman expressed a wish that his Lordship, would fix as early a day as possible, as he in- tended after a short time to decline the holding of briefs in his Lordship's Court. We wit tressed this little incident when it took place, and we did not notice it yesterday morning, locause the determination of an advocate, how ever eminent, as to the arrangement of his practice, did not appear to. us a fair subject for public criticism, and because there was really nothing either i-n the' occasion or the manner of Sir Edward Sugden's announcement, which could properly expose it to remark. The Times, however, takes this opportunity to calumniate one of the first lawyers of his day. It thinks fit to attribute the secession of Sir Edward Sugden to a petty spleen against the Chancellor, and insinuates that the speedy diminution of his professional in come, will make him regret the indul gence of this unworthy sentiment. Sir Ed ward Sugden, as a gentleman, cannot like to practise in Lord Brougham's Court, be cause Lord Brougham has vituperated him in language of more than his habitual vulgarity. Sir Edward Sugden, as a lawyer, cannot like to practise in Lord Brougham's Court, because Lord Brougham is the worst Equity Judge that political necessity ever placed upon the Woolsack. Nevertheless, Sir Edward Sugden's retirement is not by his brethren of the Bar attributed either to resentment at his Lordship's ribaldry, or to disgust at his Lordship's igno rance. The fact is, that the Chancellor now gets through the business of his Court not only very badly, but also very slowly. This being so, and the progress of the Vice-Chancellor being far more rapid, it is plain to every one who is acquainted with the course of business in these Courts, that Sir Edward Sugden incurs pecu niary loss, not by leaving the Chancellor's Court, but by remaining in it. We ought ,to beg Sir Edward's pardon for suggesting this very obvi ous interpretation of a design which, we are well aware, it is not our business to interpret. A jour nalist has no more right to quarrel with a bar rister's choice of an arena, for the exertion of his talents, than with a merchant's selection of a commodity for the investment of his capital. — Morning Post. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 13. CUSTOM IN THE CORN-MARKET.—HAICT V. CHA RINGTON AND OTHERS. This was a question to try a custom in the Corn Market. The plaintiff, through his agent, a Mr. Gibson, sold to the defendant 280 quarters of barley for 1181., and according to the custom of the trade tw. , months' credit was to be given. Before the expi ration of the credit Gibson received the money and became a bankrupt, or stopped payment. It was contended at the trial that the defendant, by the custom of the trade, was not bound to pay the money until the expiration of the two months, and that, having paid it in his own wrong, the plaintiff was entitled to recover. The Jury, upon all the facts, found a verdict for the defendant. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aide and a new trial had, on the ground that the plaintiff had ❑o right to receive money before the expiration of the credit. Sir J. SCARLETT opposed the rule. Upon the general principle, Mr. Gibson having received the money as the agent of the plaintiff, the defendant could not be called upon to pay it again. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in teply, submitted that the vei diet could not stand. Upon the custom of the corn trade the merchant was to give two months' credit. The vendor had no right to call oil the purchaser or the broker before the end of two months. Here the COURT interposed, and expressed an opinion that the custom should be further inquired into. Rule for a new trial made absolute. LIBEL ON THE EARL OF DURHAM. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL ,novel for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the proprietors of the Durham Ad vertiser newspaper for a libel on the Earl of Dur ham. On the 11th of October there appeared in the Durham Advertiser a paragraph to the following effect :—" The Earl and Countess of Durham took a drive in the neighbourhood a few days ago, and had occasion to pass through the village of Phila delphia. A crowd of workmen assembled to play the game of quoits. His Lordship's carriage was somewhat obstructed by the persons who thus assem bled and stopped the way. The Noble Earl could not brook the insult. He said I will riot suffer this inter ruption again; this village shall be rased from the earth.' That this was not an unmeaning threat was apparent by subsequent orders of his Lordship being given to remove the different buildings." It ap peared from the affidavits that Philadelphia was about three miles from Lambton Castle. It was chiefly inhabited by pitmen in Lord Durham's ser vice, and there was reason to believe the paragraph was inserted for the purpose of injuring him in the opinion of those men, by representing that it was his intention to remove the habitations of work men from the face of the earth. He (the Solicitor- General) had the affidavit of Lord Durham stating that the paragraph was utterly fills.. It was with out foundation. Neither himself nor the Countess of Durham, since their arrival at Lambton Castle, had passed through the village of Philadelphia. He had only rod e t h roug h t h e v illage on one occasion with his brother, and neither in passing th r ough the said village, nor a t an y o ther place, was his passag!impeded in the way stated in the paragraphs nor did he ever at such place say, " I will never suffer this again ; the village shall be removed and rased from the earth." He gave no orders what ever respecting the villa ge , as state d i n the para graph, nor had he signified his intention to do so in any other way. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE—Take a rule. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—My Lord, I have also to make the same motion against two other news papers, the Standard arid the John Bull. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—The publication i proved? The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—Y e s, my Lord. The LORD CIIIEF JUSTICE —Take your rules. TIIE KING V. JOHN MINTER HART. Mr. PLATT moved for the writ of certiorari to re move an indictment for felony found at Hicks's Clerkenwell, against the defendant into this Court - . The defendant, with several others, was indicted for conspiring to obtain by fraud certain bills of exchange. A long affidavit made by the de fendant imputed to B. Rotch, Esq., M.P., gross partiality upon the trial of John Palmer, lately found guilty and sentenced to transportation. The de ponent also swore that the prejudice against him was so strong on the part of Mr. Rotch, the Chat t man at the Middlesex Sessions, that he could not obtain a fair trial in that Court. The JUDGES granted a rule to show cause. CARLILE V. DUNN AND OTHERS. The plaintiff attended according to the directions of the Court, with en amended affidavit, and was allowed, on payment of costs, to have discharged a rule obtained against him for judgment, as in case of a nonsuit, for not proceeding to trial. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13. CORONER'S INQUEST. DEATH OF MR. TUFFNEL. Yesterday evening, at half-past six, an inquest was held at the Marlborough Head, Marlborough street, on the body of Mr. William Tuffnel, late of the Audit-office. The unfortunate deceased, it will be remembered, was one of the parties engaged in the extraordinary case of Mrs. Hampton, the wife of Lieutenant- Colonel Hampton, of the East India Company's service. Mr. John Finney, of No. 14, Henrietta -street, Cavendish-square, gentleman, sworn—l knew the deceased very well, and had had that pleasure for many years. On Saturday, the 19 , h of the last month, I received a letter from Mr. Tuffitel, de siring me to call on him the following day. He alluded to some circumstances of distress, and made some allusion as to the reports which appeared in the morning papers of that day .I called on him at 19, Princes-street, Hanover-.quare, and in consequence of the distressed state of his mind, I invited h;m to breakfast the following morning, to have some unin terrupted conversation. He accordingly came on the Sunday, and remained with me all the day. He was much distressed in mind, and was so ill in health as to send for his medical attendant. He expressed great anxiety to see his father, whom he expected. He said that had he had a razor near his reach on the Friday night he would have cot his throw. Deceased remained at my house all that night. He complained of having had no rest for some nights previous. I went into his room last about eleven o'clock at night, when the deceased bade me a good night. At about four in the morn ing I was awoke by the breaking of glass, followed by a loud noise. I got up and went to his room. I found him sitting on the floor deluged in his blood. I immediately called up the male part of the family. The noise was very distressing, but I do not know whether it was moaning from pain, or whether it was calling for assistance. Mr. John Probert, of New Cavendish -street, surgeon, sworn—On Sunday, the 28:h ult., I was called to the deceased. I found him dreadfully agitated, and he complained of giddiness in the head. I accordingly administered such remedies as I thought applicable to his case, I took a cupper with me when I went at night again, intending to have taken blood from him if I had not found him more tranquil. He expressed himself much relieved on my second visit. I saw the deceased next in the Middlesex Hospital, immediately after his arrival. I found a very deep incision on the right side of the neck, about four inches in depth. He was en tirely insensible. There was no pulse at the wrist and in this state he remained the greater part of Monday. On the following Wednesday he was removed to his residence in King -street, Regent street, where I continued to attend him. The wound went on favourably for about eight days, when the bleeding broke out afresh. The main artery was taken up, and he again went on for a about a week, when it broke out again, and was again taken up. The head was affected by the ex treme irritation which had been going on some time previous to the wound being given. He was sen sible occasionally, with a little wildness, which showed the brain was affected. Deceased became insensible on Sunday, and remained so. I have this day exa mined the head of the deceased, and discovered an extensive abscess in the brain, and a great deal of water. The foundation of the disorder in the head was general excitement, which must have occurred some time before the wound was given. I am firmly of opinion, that if he had never touched his throat he could not have lived, in consequence of the ab scess formed on his brain. By the CO*ONER—Deceased died from the dis order of the brain. It might have been accelerated by the wound, but I should not suppose he could have survived over to-day. Juror—Did he say anything relative to the wound ? Witness—He frequently regretted the circumstance, but did not know what he was about at the time, nor had he for days. Mr. Humphreys—Did the abscess produce de, rangement ? Witness-01), most decidedly. I must have been sometime forming. The Jury consulted together a few minutes, and returned their verdict, that the deceased died a na tural death, from the abscess on his brain. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, NOV. 12. —Sales of Cotton to-day 2,000 bales ; prices as yester day. A brisk business to-day in Manchester. No stimulus given to-day by the packet's advices. BRUTAL ACT.—Monday evening, as Ha zleburst, the keeper of a beer shop, in George street, was playing at cards with his family, a soldier of the 2d battalion grenadier guards entered the room, and wished to join the►a in play ; he was refused, and in consequence commenced threatening and swearing, and ffizlehurst attempted to put him out of the house; a scuffle ensued, in which the wretch hit off the ear of his antagonist, and part of his nose.—Berkshire Chronicle. We regret to learn that the brig Stqff of Life, Captain Softley, which sailed from our harbour on the lst instant, with a cargo of wheat, for Liverpool was loot in the gale of Sunday morning, on Carnarvon Bar, and, melancholy to relate, all hands periThed. Every exertion was humanely made by the collector of Carnarvon to save the lives of the crew, who were seen for a considerable time clinging to the rigging, but to no effect. —Cork Herald. Mr. Heber's will has not yet been discovered, although the most diligent search has been made for it, both in London and at his house at Hodnet. We under- stand it is ascertained that at one time there was a will, and that one of the subscribing witnesses to the document survives. It is now said this testamentary paper may be deposited in his archives at Paris, or at one of his nume rous residences in the Low Countries, to which place accredited and responsible agents have been or will be sent by his sister, Mrs. Cholmondely. - - Louisa and Maria Chinnery, daughters of the late Sir G. Chinnery, by his second marriage with Alice Boyle, Lady Chinnery, who died last October, are declared of unsound mind. Their brother, Richard Boyle Chinnery, is likewise insane. The provision for those females is 7,0001. each. The body of their de ceased mother has been closed up in a leaden coffin, and has remained in their house in Dublin since the lst of last month, the daughters having outrageously scouted eve!) , effort to inter her remains. Both young ladies were fondly attached to each other, and highly accomplished, previous to the dreadful malady which now deranges their intellect. — Limerick Chronicle. A most melancholy accident occured at Las borough Park, Glouce.tershire, on Wednesday week last, to Mrs. Walrond, widow of the late Joseph Lyons Wal rond, E.q., who was sitting by herself in the library after dinner and dozing, when her cap caught fire at the candle, and in attempting to extinguish it her sleeves, and ulti. mately her whole dress, were in a blaze, and before it could be extinguished the unfortunate lady was so dread fully burnt as to cause her death on the following after noon. Mrs. Walrond was sister of Sir C. Bethell Codrington, Bart., and mother of Bethell Walrond, Esq., late Member of Parliament for Saltash.— Gloucester Journal. " Don't talk so loud, man," observed the Magistrates at the Devizes Petty Sessions on Tuesday, to a person, who was making the hall ring with his voice. " Don't talk so loud (reiterated the officer of the Court) —the Magistrates be'ant deef !" "Ibe a little hard of hearing," replied the man, at the same time raising his hand mechanically to his ear, " and so it is impossible that I can do any better." —Salisbury Herald. SUICIDE.—On Friday last Miss Creak, a young lady, the daughter of Mr. Creak, a highly respec table pawnbroker, in Charlotte-row, Bermondsey, com mitted suicide in a fit of religious frenzy by hanging her self to the hook of a trap door at the top of her father'. house. It appeared that latterly she had devoted her thoughts very much to religion, and read works constantly on divinity, and was very active in distributing tracts. She contrived in the morning to send the servant out on an errand, and during her absence committed the act which terminated her life. An inquest has since been held on the body, and a verdict of Insanity returne Mi s C. was a young lady of very promising abilities, and much beloved by all who knew her. To the poor she was a most liberal benefactor. HAMER V. RIDSDALE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover the amount of a bill of exchange for 5001. from the defendant, a gentleman of sporting cele brity on the turf, and the owner of the celebrated horse Giles, who won the Derby stakes last year. A person of the name of William Ford, %sell known in the sporting world, had many transactions with the plaintiff to the amount of several hundred pounds, and so far back as 1828 he (the plaintiff) discounted for Ford the bill in question the accept ance of the defendant, and which, from numerous circumstances, remained over unpaid until about a year age, when the present action was brought for the recovery of it. For the plaintiff the defendant's hand-writing was proved. On the part of the defendant Mr. William Ford was called, and he appeared most fashionably dressed, and stated that the plaintiff and he had numerous transactions since the period of the date of the bill, so much so that he had paid 1,7001. bills for his ac commodation at his bankers, and that to close all ac counts he passed plaintiff a bond for 1,0001. with a policy of insurance, which he subsequently re deemed, and the 5001. bill in question was included in the bond which he had then in his possession. He was on the turf; many thousands passed through his hands in sporting transactions. Mr. Sergeant TADDY then put in a letter from the witness to the plaintiff, stating his anxiety that the bill in question would be taken up, and that he had the acceptance of the defendant on a 12s. 6d. stamp, and if he (the plaintiff) would take the bill up, be would be enabled to meet any renewal of it. The reading of the letter caused great laughter. It stated that he would not wish to exhibit the de fendant's acceptance in the county town, lest it might injure him, as the stupidity of the Yorkshire people prevented their understanding the system of " finance." _ . The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury round for the plaintiff—Damages, 500/. COURT OF ADMIRALTY, Nov. 13. (Before Sir Jons NicuoLL.) THE RAPID.-IMPORTANT DECISION TO SHIPOWNERS, Dr. ADDAMS stated this was a proceeding insti tuted by a seaman named Tulloch, against the owners of the Rapid, for wages due to him, but which the owners had paid into Greenwich Hospi tal, notice having been served upon them that the mariner had deserted from the Sir John Beresford while at Montreal. The case was an important one to the shipping interest, as it involved a question as to the construction to be placed on the 4th Geo. IV., relative to the desertion of seamen, which had not yet been decided. The claim of the seaman was at first resisted on the ground that, though hired at Montreal at 71. per month, yet that as he was not ca pable of efficient duty he was only entitled to wages at the rate of 41. per month. Notice, however, having been served upon the owners of the Rapid that Tulloch had deserted, the wages, pursuant to the Act stated, had been paid into Greenwich Hospi tal for the use of that esiablishment, after the ex penses of the owners occasioned by the desertion had been first deducted. The summary petition given on behalf of the owners admitted the - hiring of the man at Montreal, and also that he had done his duty ; and on his behalf he claimed at least the minimum of wages the owners said were due, if the Court should not think fit to give the full claim, which he considered ought to be allowed, as the owners of the Rapid had not complied with the Act, which (hinted that the wages should be paid into Greenwich Hospital as soon as notice was served upon them that the mariner in question had deserted, the money having been paid in only re cently, and the seaman had no opportunity to pre pare his defence. Sir J. Nteriou, felt no difficulty as to the duty of the Court. The Court must protect the mariners as well as the shipping interest. A case of deser tion had been set up, arid the owners of the Rapid ought to have been satisfied that the party bring ing the suit was a deserter. It was admitted that the seaman had been hired at 71. a month, and that he had done his duty. The charge of desertion had riot been established, as the Captain of the Rapid had riot inquired if the seaman had deserted, arid the Court was bound to decide that the mariner was entitled to his full wages, with costs. A few nights ago, a shoemaker named Wright, who resides a short distance from Wisbeacb, re turn, d home in a state of intoxication, and on awakening from his sleep the next morning, found his wite lying dead by his side.—Boston THE AMERICAN NAVY. -- I don't like Atneticans ; I never did, and never shall like them ; I have seldom met with an American gentleman, in the large and complete sense of the term. I have no wish to eat with them, drink with them, deal with or consort with them in any way ; but I,t me tell the whole truth, nor to fight with them, were it not for the laurels to be acquired, by overcoming an enemy so brave, determined, and alert, and every way so worthy of one's steel, as they havd always proved. One used to fight with a Frenchman as a matter of course, and for the fun of the thing, as it were, never dreaming of the possibility of Johnny Crapeau beating us, where there was any thing ap proaching to an equality of force; but, say as mush as we please about larger ships and more men, and a variety of excuses which proud John Bull, with some truth very often, I will admit, has pertinaciously thrust forward to palliate his losses during the short war, a regard for truth and fair dealing, which I hope are no scarce qualities amongst British seamen, compels me to admit, that although I would of course peril my life and credit more readily with an English crew, yet I believe a feather would turn the scale between the two countries, so far as courage and seamanship goes ; and let it not be for gotten, although we have now regained our superiority in this respect, yet, in gunnery and small-arm practice, we were as thoroughly weathered on by the Americans during the war, as we overtopped them in the bull-dog courage with which our boarders handled those genuine English weapons, the cutlass and the pike.— Tom Cringle's Log. THE ALLIGATOR.—Upon commencing our voyage up this magnificent river (the Ganges), we were particularly struck by the exquisite delicacy of form and grace of motion displayed by the young Hindoo women, who were continually performing their daily lustrataans in the sacred stream, or bearing away its consecrated waters with a sedate reverence either for domestic or devotional purposes. They carry the water on their heads in three globular vessels of brass or of earthenware, placed upon each other, each diminishing in size and forming the figure of an indented cone with the apex flattened, and nothing can exceed the ease and elegance of their movements under these becoming burdens. lam indebted to the kindness of Sir Charles Wilkins for the following melancholy nar rative of one of these beautiful Hindoos :—As he was once passing up the Hoogley, he saw an immense alligator plunge in among a party of bathers, and seize a lovely girl just rising into womanhood, with whom he dashed into the middle of the current that was them running at the ra'e of eight miles an hour. The creature darted through it like an arrow, defying pursuit, which was immediately attempted by the lighter boats that were then upon the river. They could not, however, make head against the force of the stream. Meanwhile the poor girl who had been seized, her legs hanging on one side of the monster's jaws, and her head and shoulders on the other, was seen to raise her hand as if supplicating that assistance which no one' bad the power of rendering her. The alligator rushed with his burden up the most rapid part of the current, as if determined at once to baffle all attempts at a rescue; and having then turned into the calm deep water, sank with his prey, and was seen no more. Alli gators have been frequently caught in the Hoogley, and opened, when several pounds weight of armlets and ankle rings, with other ornaments worn by women and chil dren, have been found in their stomachs.--Oriental Annual. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR s. d. Adair's 0./....M.M000 "WWI 16 3 Beaumont l5 6 Dean's Primrose 15 6 East Percy-- l6 0 Graham's Main 16 0 Ilebburn Main 17 9 Holywell Ord's Redhugh 15 6 Pontop 16 0 18 0 West Hartley 16 6 Willington . 18 6 WE. Bell, ltobson, & Co. 18 6 W.E. Clarke and C 0....,. 16 9 Walls End Gosforth 19 9 Ships arrived since Per Ton. .E.C.—Nov. 13. s . Per Ton. 1 9 7 Walls End 17 Walls End Hotspur...r h 6 Walls End Killintrworw 1 7 6 Walls End Newmareb..." 1 7 S Ditto Northumberland., a 6 Walls End Perkins &Co' 1 9 6 Walls End Riddell's 1 9 6 Walls End Walker 1 9 6 Lambton's Primrose...," 2 1 0 Walls End Hetton S Walls End Larnbton 1 9 6 Walls End G 0r d0n.....: 6 Haney 17 6 Walls End ast market-day, 4. ; WNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING BE_ P an'. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. . 0 .. 0 0 01 Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. a. to A Abingd0n............ 62 81 31 43 22 30 •"' And0ver.,.,...,.,.,..,. 50 61 24 28 40 Birmingham«....«. 56 58 30 40 16 22 - Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 •50 Cirencester 40 56 24 29 18 28 haringdon......--... 54 86 36 40 26 34 Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 35 Hen1ey....,.,.,. —«. 54 83 30 35 20 30 Hereford 64 68 32 34 22 28 "" Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 „ A . ' Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 "" Monmouth«.--.... 66 69 32 36 24 28 Reading 40 66 22 36 14 26 54 Salisbury 44 54 26 29 20 24 36 4 1 Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 Stroud 64 78 37 38 2'2 32 Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 Uxbridge 48 74 26 34 20 26 Wastage 58 80 27 32 17 23 •Th„, Warminster 48 58 25 31 2-2 26 v, Windsor 59 21 22 ••-• Worcester.--... 50 57 30 3 , 24 32 •••"" LEWES MARKET.—Nov 12. White Wheat (per quarter)........X2 13 otoo 2 A i r Red ditto 2 10 0 2 0 Barley . 112 0 11g 0 Oats, New Pea5e.......... Oil Cake. 1 iov 12. 0 13 0 to X 2 1 " it, r to o g 1 0 12 0 1 19 7 18 0 1 0 19 0 2 0 ,,(1. 0 0 per thous•_ >--- [ A RICET.—Nov. 12. off. Pet lb. o. g Beef 6l 1 0 1 Mutton Veal Pork Lamb CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. Wheat Barley Oats Beans Pease s. d. to s. d. 60 69 30 40 26 33 46 53 50 70 31. 10s DUMFRIES Al s. d. s.d. Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 0 to 7 0 Barley Oats ...... 2 0 2 6 Flour, 1411). Oatmeal 1 6 1 9 Potatoes. cwt. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL•STRED'i 0. (From the London Gazette.) th A it TO-MORROW, NOT. 15. 4 0 11 C. Waud, confectioner, New Bond-street ................. g S. Phillips, furrier, Russell-street, Bermondsey ..... C. Burrell, cheesemonger, Northumberland-place, Coro' m erc ial- road ll J. Cecil , leather-seller, Upper Thames-street J. E. It. Cracknell, engineer, Acorn-yard, Limehouse 'l'. Harcourt, brass-founder, Great Sutton-street, Cler I 1l - kenwell J. A. Roden, needle-manufacturer, Drury-I ............ J. E. Farr, carpenter, Baldock, Hertfordshire ............... DIVIDENDS. t i' A. K. Mackenzie and Co, merchants, Austin.friars .•••• . , S. James, grocer, Everett.street, Brunswick.square ......... In the Conqueror's time a widow w ho o w ried within the year forfeited her land. The 1$ Saxon. , t he "In the new tale entitled Trevelyan , t re° authoress has depicted a scene alleged to have occu r ( 0 0 fl—d house. Tnis, it can hardly be doubted, Wi ll ° O 4 be alluded to by the numerous readers of the storYtve will be thought to exceed in peculiar interest any oft o( incidents which gave so great fame to the former av eoe i 0 the same pen, A Martiage in High Life.' The eemecitt question Is wrought out by so my minute and cP e " p ot touches, as to raise a question whether the novelist P' u r been more indebted to her knowledge of an ac tual e to rence than to her own invention, fertile as that aPrareet be. At all events, it is quite clear that her purpose' s iptlf if she should have pressed fact into the serv i c e of Pc is a high and noble one."—Alldon. of Three large cheeses, weighing 871b5. , 'hick - afr funds minus, were found secrete. which was tew pot. dunghill, on Tue.day last, by a person emplo., - ved lictet Slack, Esq., of Portinscale, to remove some loose "re therefrom. The cheeses were tied up in a bag, so'hicli supposed to Lace belonged to a dairy of cheeses, nbe were put into a neighbouring 'tarn to remain froror Saturday night until Monday morning. lint how' s ip% what means they had thus chinged quarters, reue• yet a secret, anti as the person to whom the dairYbsd longed resides at some distance, and has not Ye t 001 the opportunity of examining the article in qil iar eo nothing satiefictory can yet he made out. — White Herald. JJ aPa On the 12th inst., of a daughter , the lady of Edwar tso Johnston, Esq., of Lower Seymour-r treat, Portman -S q uare the Priory, Kew, Surrey. On the 12th inst., in Devonshire-place, the lady of J°h° Scott, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 12th inst , at the Rectory, East Clandon, the the Rev. Edward John Ward, of a son. On the 12th inst., the lady of Richard Bright, surge °° ' A Audley.street, of a son. Sal l° On the 11th inst., at Nottingham, the lady of Jam es of Esq., of the 2d Dragoon Guards, of a son. la d On the Bth inst., in Rutland square, Dublin, th e , Charles Higgins, Esq., of a son and heir. On the Sth inst., in Gardiner's-place, the lady of .1°- P P, son, Esq., of a son. • lO C On the 4th inst., in Westport, the lady of Math ias fe nell, Esq., of twin sons. ,i ' BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—On the 28th ult., the •-• " He shoemaker named Bliss, residing in King street, C helte d, was delivered of four children—two living and two d:30../ united ages of Bliss and his wife do not amount to 39. MARRIED. s d On the 12th inst., at St. John the Evangelist, West ° , Henry Arthur Hunt, Esq., of Horseferry.road, to Eli s° ' daughter of Joseph Bennett, Esq., of the same place. On the 12th inst., at Acton Church, E. J. Onion, YeiSl.s, Alf r ed-place, Bedford square, to Maria Ann, fourth ti° of the late Benjamin Philpot, Esq., of Stamford-street, .4 friars. Cf " f i On the 9th inst., at St. Peter's Church, Du blin, 000 1 Thomas Vandeleur, Esq., of the 34th Regiment, ° &1 e l the late General Vandeleur, to Elizabeth, eldest dads of the Right Hon. M. Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry. cf;! 1 $ 0 On the 12th inst., at St. Benet's Church, Canabridg e 'oo , Maxey, Esq., of Thavies-inn, London, to Miss Sophi a of the former place. " 0/t On the 7111 inst., at Cheltenham, the Rev. John v O'Grady, of Kilbally Owen, county Limerick, to Eli /3 ' t (laughter of John Peel, Esq., of Burton-on-Trent. DIED. On the 7th inst., at her residence, St. Jame s Dover, Mrs. Jane Atkins, in her 77th year. „ e l; i v- 0 1 ; On the '7th inst., Mr. Joseph Chambers, lessee a t ", 40 1 1, Old Well. The deceased had for many year s faith il l, tended the late Garter King at Arms, Sir Isaac 1-1"-$11 C at was throughout his life esteemed and respected by 1,1 j knew him. His death will long be sincerely t.'" afflicted widow and numerous friends. A i lig On the Ilth inst., aged three years, Anna, the ofoto Thomas Fishe of Wilton.crescent. m the 12th r, st in., of scarletina, Mary Ann, eldes t da OOl of Mr. Robert Gamman, of Bethnal-green-road. tr t,°` On the 12th inst., in his 59th year, Mr. Joseph St rli ef the late Mr. Joseph Strutt, the Antiquary, auti t o $ 0 1 1 :, " Common place Book to the Holy Scriptures , " an eft ld rl keeper to the Duke of Northumberland, afte r an 31"- g terrupted course of suffering for 30 years, leasi° eV_ family to deplore the loss. On the 7th inst., in Thayer-street, Mrs. Ann Ha rr j t Y • d of the late W. Harriott, Esq., of St. Elizabeth 's, aged (4. On the Ist., from a fall, while hunting wit h Let t - P hounds, Richard Charles Hamond, Esq., of Ma t° 0 1 Oxford, third son of the late Philip Hamond, t acre, in the county of Norfolk. r'l o lo , On the 13th May last, at Calcutta, Sir John JP 0, deaux, Bart., of the Bengal Military Retired List, I rj of the 37th Regiment of Native Infantry. fet e( 4; On the 9th inst., William Henry, infant son 01 AP' Kelly, Esq., of Rowfant, Sussex. j,f On the Bth inst., in her 73 d yea r, Sarah, the w - 001 Lys, Esq., of Took's-court, Chancery-lane. On lr' oi l A PP ALLING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH," l el morning last, Mr. William B r a dle y , a coachron'et., dead in his bed, at his lodg in g s in St. James's-streoe of ham. An inquest was held on Saturday, at I.re,tiO; t oi Arms, before J. Cooke,„Esq. , Coroner, and a resr';iknifi when a verdict was returned of " Died by Woe God." The deceased enjoyed good health up t° his death. th e SECOND INSTANCE 01 , SUDDEN DEATH. -"'"'n e O A ' Friday last, a man who was a stranger to Chel te :a 0 40 11, at No. 5, Stanhope-street, for a bed. He a pp ear in perfect health, but on the following raorni ng ., o r a corpse. There was no money in his pockets, not s pi a that could lead to the disclosure of his name, $ Vele ) be about forty years of age. An inquest r :, Of body on Monday, before J. Cooke, Esq.—• l i erdi Died by the Visitation of God." tjl 4°' PRINTED AND PUBLIPMID BY MURDO Y Sim Orrica, 112, VW 'to 3/. 15s. OcL per ton' RKETS.—Nov. 6. d. 0 „IL '9 Butter, 16os. ......... S',„iv Eggs, 22 ....... .... 0 9O Beef, per score .......... „ 0 0 b a Mutton, per 'I 0 eal 4 1 !Q .artern Loaf ..» 0 0