The Sun. — London, England, 1830-03-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Committees of both Houses, employed in examining the merits of the great India question, ought to beware of two things—lst, the indulgence of any office-like prepossessions in favour of the monopoly which is now on trial; 2d, the appear- IlliCe of giving way to such prepossessions. We state the thing broadly, that, composed as the Com mittees have been, there exists no danger of any prejudice affecting their judgments on the other side of the question ; nor any suspicion in the public mind, that either Committee will ingraft upon its report a single suggestion unduly adverse to the in tere-ts of the Honourable Company. It is there fore that we notice two facts which have been communicated to us, and which bear undoubtedly, while, unexplained, a sinister and disagreeable com plexion. One is, that the Committee of the House of Lords have decided, by a majority of 9 to 6, and against the precedent established for them by their brethren of the House of Commons, that the dele gates from the outports of this country, and from India, shall not be admitted to hear the evidence, or to witness their Lordships' proceedings. This must, undoubtedly, render it most difficult for the commercial interest of Great Britain, or of India, to guess what sort of case the Company has attempted to set up, and, by consequence, what species of testimony ought to be brought forward in answer to it. There seems to us to be something quite monstrous in the scheme of shutting out, we do not say merely the chosen representatives of the commercial interest, but the public them selves, who have a great staple interest as con sumers on this occasion, from observing the manner in which an inquiry is conducted, on the result of which inquiry E 0 much of individual comfort, of mercantile freedom, of manufacturing prosperity, and of national greatness must depend. The Com mons' Committee do indeed, by special grace, per mit one or more of the delegates, as we have heard, to witness the course of the investigation ; therefore the more singular that the Lords do not. Again, the Committee of the Commons, we are told, are hesitating as to paying the expenses of any wit nesses who may be summoned by the friends of free trade. The Company, which has an interest di rectly adverse to that of the nation,—videlicet, an interest in excluding the nation from enjoyments which are the common right of Englishmen,—the Company is a concentrated power, with an immense treasury at its command. Witnesses for the Corn. rainy may be brought from China, or the Lord krisiws where ; and who will call the Directors to account for indemnifying them for their expenses ? We may be sure that the Company's witnesses will not return home unpaid. But we fear that if the witnesses fur the nation be not paid, the national interest will go to the wall upon this question, and the Company must have the eastern world to them selves. By every rule of common sense and justice, t} e party on whose behalf a witness appears, ought to indemnify him for his reasonable costs and charges. Those who are brought forward for the country seem to have a rightful claim upon the pub lic purse. We suppose, therefore, that the Com mittee will agree to recommend to the whole House the indemnification of those persons who give evi dence on behalf of the country. Precedent, like wise, as well as reason, is on the side of this claim for the witnesses against monopoly. We are in formed that the Coal-trade Committee paid the torts of the several witnesses; so the wool-trade; and in both these cases the question of monopoly yeas involved.—Times. Sir John Newport brought the state of the Church of Ireland before the House last night, and in the course of his speech gave a most distressing account of the condition of the Curates. One Curate, whom he described as a most respectable man, had done duty for. non-resident incumbents for fifty-five years. " Six successive Bishops had passed him by, and promoted those who were junior to him. It was rather remarkable that one of these six Bishops happened to be the present Bishop of Ferns, who could see no abuse in the present state of the Irish Church. Lord L. Gower observed, in answer to this part of the speech of Sir John, that " melan choly as the facts were which the Right Hen. Ba ronet had stated with regard to the Curates of Ire land, he must say that he knew of no profession (not even excepting that of the law) in which the merit of particular individuals would so long linger on in obscurity lt was, he repeated, hardly fair to single out this individual (the Bishop of Ferns) for reproof or sarcasm, because it hap pened that there were Curates in his diocese who were living in poverty and neglect. He could take upon himself to state, that there was every dispo sition it. the Bench of Ireland to bring forward and remunerate the Curates of that country."— There is no doubt a great disposition on the part of the Good Bishops to reward merit ; but, unfortunately for the Curates, distinguished merit is always so ex tensively possessed by the sons and brothers of the good Bishopeond the husbands of their daughters, that the livings are not sufficient for them, especially as the merit of some Gf the sons and brothers, and sons in-law, is so very great that half a dozen livings a niece is thought hardly a suilizient reward for them. The disposition, however, is undoubted ; and as Sir Robert Inglis thinks there will be a great im provement in the Irish Church some of these days, it is possible that the Bishops may be so far hurried away by it, as to evince that ardour of their disposi tion in behalf of the Curates, by bestowing no liv ings on their relations till the former are provided f o r. Mr. Hume, notwithstanding the abundant testimonies borne to the high character of the Irish Church, and the excellent disposition of the Bishops it, behalf of the Curates, " hoped to see the Esta blishment reduced to two or four Bishops. He should like that sixteen or eighteen Bishops were swept off at once—(A laugh)—and he heartily believed the population of England and Ireland would go along with him. Instead of repairing the Cathedrals, if they could not be converted into parish churches, he would pull them down." Mr. Peel's speech indicated a very different feeling re• specting Ecclesiastical matters than Government has been accustomed to entertain. Alluding to an in temperate speech from Mr. Trent, he asked " Did the Hon. Member for Dover, professing his anxiety to maintain the interests of religion, conceive that be could impose upon any man by his cry of the Church in Danger."—Morning Chronicle. The presentation in the House of Lords last night, of a petition from the county of Suffolk, give rise to some observations on the subject of retrenchment. 'The Duke of Wellington remarked that " all he errald say upon the subject was, that he and his Majesty's servants had done all in their power to reduce our expeuces within the smallest limits possi ble. We were incurring no expence at the present moment, that he knew of, which was not necessary to maintain the honour and interests of the country, in all parts of the world. Although it was • true that this was a small island, its interests were spread all over the world, and must be maintained." Its interests ! No, no, not its interests. It is, however unfortunate for England, the interest of the Aristocracy that every spot throughout the four quarters of the world to which troops can be con veyed should be occupied, that their poor relations may obtain pretexts for receiving money from the taxes. It never can be the interest of the nation that the taxes wrung from the people should be waste . d on coloni es o f no use to use M any o f th e colonies which are now a heavy burgle;; on us tealld defend themselves ; and the experiee not incurred in benefiting them, but in retard log their improvement. To take only the ease of Canada—it is notorious that this burden some colony is merely burdensome because we choose to ;maintain interests hostile to the popula tion. These interests are not the interests of the people of England, which are,oa the contrary, identi cal with those of the Colonists. The manner in which English misgovernment injures both the Canadians and the people of this country, has been detailed in a very eenaible work published lately, under the title of A Political and Historical Account of Lower Canada, of which we shall one of these days give an account. It is of great importance that the people of this country should not remain under an illusion that they benefit the colonists by what they expend in them. We expend money to create feuds and dissensions, to carve out work for the dependants of our aristocracy. It was observed by the Marquis of Lansdowne that " Colonies were of two classes. Those which were purely military stations must al ways be a burden upon the mother country ; but there were others connected with this country by trade and commerce, but possessed of a numerous and wealthy population, who, in proportion as we imparted to them the advantage of good govern ment, would, in his opinion, imbibe a disposition to share our expenditure respecting them, and, in many instances, if they received a secure naval defence from us, would take upon themselves the whole of their military expenditure. He would not go then into any detail, but he would state at once that he considered Canada to be one of those colonies. Witls respect to some of the colonies in our posses sion, it might also be a matter of serious considera tion whether or not they were worth retaining."— Some people seem to think that we never can pos sess too many colonies. The best way of showing the absurdity of ;line notions is to push them to an extreme. A projector in Moliere proposes to the French Government that, as a certain number of sea-ports yielded a certain revenue, the whole coast of France should be converted into sea-ports, the revenue increasing with every port. If colonies are in all cases beneficial to the mother country, let us increase the number of them by all means. Let us imitate the projector in Moliere. In this way we should soon have the advantage or disadvantages of colonies brought forcibly home to us. We should soon see that all colonies are not advantageous to us, and that would lead to the inquiry what colonies are, and what are not, advantageous. An empire does not always gain either in wealth or strength by ex tending its possessions.—Alorning Chronicle. There was something very inconsistent, if not absurd, in a Morning Paper congratulating the Greeks upon their delivery from foreign bondeee, in the very article which announced the determination of the Allies to establish and support Prince Leopold on the throne of that country by the instrumentality of foreign troops. If that be not foreign dominion which consists of a foreign Prince supported by foreign bayonets, we know not what is. We be lieve the House of Saxe Coburg has as little con nection with a Greek origin as that of the Sultan Mahmoud. if the Journal in question had informed us that a civilised Government was to be este. Wished in place of one inveterately barbarous, we could understand it ; but we cannot see why the Greeks should be felicitated for having escaped from a foreign yoke, because a German family supplants the descendants of Omar, and the scimitar gives way to the bayonet. Just as difficult is it to believe that the new dynasty can be acceptable to the people, while it rests for support not upon public esteem, but on military power. If Leopold must commence his reign by protecting himself against his new subjects, we do not augur much for the tran qwillity dins future Government. Teen the question suggests itself, if the Greeks should disapprove more effectually than by words of the Prince whom the Allies have appointed to rule over them, has this country pledged itself to fight his battles, and maintain him, at all hazards, on the throne Should it not be so, Leopold will have to trust more to those regal vir tues which conciliate and command the feelings and confidence of a nation, than to the prowess of Bri tish warriors and the political Quixotism of British statesmen. If, on the other hand, our rulers are bound to support on the throne of Greece the Prince whom they have placed there, it would not be mat ter of astonishment to any reflecting mind if, before a very distant period, the materials of an European war would be collected and kindled on this long contested soil. Russia has attained one great ob ject in severing Greece from Turkey, but her policy would hardly he considered as consummated until that coveted portion of the dismembered empire of our " ancient faithful Ally" shall hare been attached to herself. What the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh would not at present think it prudent to attempt openly by arms, it may bring about by intrigue. Certainly it is not probable that Russia will allow England to establish an undisputed ascendancy in Greece, and render rain the active ambition of cen turies.—Morning Herald. The Times of yesterday contains the following portion of a leading article : " Sure we are that had the expedient of contemptuous tolerance been fortunately adopted towards the Morning Journal, the career of that foolish and worthless print would long since have run itself out. The nuisance would have been Mated by dint of its own palpable gross ness, nor would the amateurs of malice and licentiousness have been daily feasted, during the last four months, with diatribes against the Duke of Wellington and the Attorney- General in one column, and, in the next, with impudent demands upon the latter officer, urging hint to institute against other prints the very same power of ex- officio information which, when brought into play against the most libellous paper in the empire, he had been re- Froached with as an unpardonable crime." When a thief or a debauchee turns Methodist he invariably becomes the loudest in condemning vice, and when a faded street-walker begins to affect vir tue she uniformly preaches like a termagant against licentiousness. Such is the case with the Times— with this difference, that our contemporary, with out relinquishing any one of his old and bad habits —without becoming more respectable or less wicked —without pretending even to an awakened sanctity or evincing any symptoms of penitence—has the insolence to censure us for certain misdemeanours of which we are not guilty. Our contemporary must, at the moment when he wrote this piece of impu dence, have been looking into his own conscience and pondering over his own sins, and impelled by remorse he has attributed to us a portion of the guilt he found corroding his own bosom. This is not the way to wash the Ethiopian white, or balance accounts with the devil. Ili s Satanic Majesty not to be balked of his due in this way for the sake of a Whig Attorney-General ; nor is the Times likely to enhance its character by traducing others, like Lady M. and Lady L., to the dank and revolt ing level of its own infamy. We shall notice the latter portion of the last sentence of the above para. graph first. The Times charges us IN ith urging Sir James Scarlett to institute proceedings against other newspapers. Our reply to the charge is, that it is false! We deny the charge, we deny the inuendo, we deny the possibility of construing any word or words we ever wrote into a wish on our parts to see the Attorney-General proceed against any of our con temporaries. What we did say, and what we say now is, that the Attorney-General has evinced the most marked and malignant partiality in singling us out for his vengeance, while he allows other writers to indulge in the most wanton attacks upon inch el duals of much higher rank in the State than Mr. Peel, Lord Lyndhurst, or the Duke of Wellington. We charged Sir James Scarlett, and we charge him again, with gross dereliction of his duty, as the self-constituted censor of the press, in prosecuting us for a squib, and not prosecuting the Times for some of the most infamous libels that ever appeared in print. Suppose we had insinuated corruption against Lord Lyndhurst, which we did not—suppose we had called him a bankrupt, and a dangeerms and unjust Judge, which we did not, and which God forbid we should do_ eswould any of those imputa tions have been of to heinous and offensive a na ture as the imputation of murder r had been ps....,iehed for the first charge, and the Times no: punishes a: fc.r the second, what would the world have said ? Weeld there have been a man in England above the i;ttellectual grade of an idiot—Sir James Scarlett alweez excepted—who would not have called such treatment injustice —injustice of the blackest, basest, and most atro cious nature ? If we thought there could be found only one man in England of different opinion we should give our case up in despair. But we know that no such roan, the Attorney-General excepted, is to be found. Wu are persuaded that the whole country looks with loathing and disgust upon the invidious and vindictive conduct of Sir James Scarlett. His own friends out of doors—his nearest relations—men of the same party and the same profession—all look upon his proceedings as partial, wanton, and dictatorial. It is very well for the Times, and the writer of this article, who is honoured with the friendship of the Attorney• Gen eral—an honour which in a recent instance at the University Club it would have been well to have foregone—it is wet? for them to condemn our in temperance in order to cover their own. But the manoeuvre will not succeed. It will not be for gotten that while we were prosecuted for pitying the King—God help us for daring to pity his Majesty !—the Times was not prosecuted for call ing that same King an extravagant son and an un just brother—for expending his royal income on toys and baubles while the debts of the late Duke of York remained unpaid, his memory being the scoff of his creditors, and his dishonoured bills the reproach of his Sovereign. All this said the Times even much more. But its attecks on the Duke of Cumberland were of a still more ferocious and cri minal nature. That illustrious person was in the most direct terms called - a m:aderer—he was re presented as a Cataline who ought to be expelled from society,and whom it would scarcely be a crime to assassinate in the streets. We know that his Royal Highness has complained to those who feel for his situation of the insult and odium heaped upon Hun by these libels. He has made them the ground of complpint in a high quarter—he is ready to ' meet Its accaserF, but where is the Attorney- General ? A e the smites of Mr. Peel to he vindi cated, cod tite woonded piide of Lord Lyndhurst to be sow"ted, et ocr expense, and yet is there to be no law, no ro ju: , ice at the hands of the King's At oi iley-Gen 2i for 'hat injured King's in jured brother? The whole world must cry shame at this specimen of Witig imp.aziality and English justice. Sir James Scarlett will stand for ever de graded and despised—a thing odious in the sight of all men— " A f !red figu-e for the time of scorn To point his slow unmoving finger at,"— if he allow us to remain in prison and institute no proceedings against the Times—against his friend, and his friend's employers. Not that we desire to see this Censor-General so employed. But let him be dismissed from office and we shall cheerfully bear our severe sentence, consoled by the reflection that we have assisted to rid the country of one of its greatest anti most vindictive oppressors. Having said thus .much in fairness towards our contempo rary we are half inclined to let the first portion of the paragraph pass unnoticed. The Times talks of our " malice and licentiousness!" To say the least of them these terms evince exceeding bad taste, and must have been written during some obvious minute between three and five o'clock in the morning. Has the Tunes forgotten the days of Queen Caro line ? Has it forgot that since that period to the present its depraved pages have been devoted to every thing that is bad in polities and de ' basing in morals? When did it ever pursue any other course than that which panders to the licentiousness of the age ? When did it ever advocate a good cause or renounce a bad one ? Its history is a nuisance—its profligacy as proverbial and its venality as notorious as the dead sea. With the mob to-day and with the Ministers to-morrow it casts off the one whom it has beggared, and clings to the other merely be cause they are the only party who have either favour or patrorage to bestow. Its principles are based upon licentiousness, and its dishonest patrons revel on the spoils of those measures which it has advo cated for its own purposes, and which have plunged the great mass of the population into ruin and mi sery. It supports the prevailing theories solely because they are profitable; and it adheres to the fundholders, the pensioners, and the annuitants, chiefly because they are the only classes who can pay , for its support. It wishes to overturn the India Company because it anticipates a share of the spoil, and backs their assailants in the hope of receiving a lieral commission upon the free trade. In one word, it is unlike any thing but itself—it is as cor rupt as—the Times! —Morning Journal. The Duke of Wellington declared in the House of Lords last night that the expenditure of the country, both at home and abroad, had been reduced to the lowest possible point consistently with the maintenance of the honour and interests of the country, and that no further diminution was to be ex pected. That his Grace has done every thing i n t h e way of economy that he could, or deemed to be ne cessary, we entertain no doubt; but when he states that our colonial expenditure is less now than in 1792, we must beg leave to remind him, first, that some of the colonies are burthens upon the country instead of benefits to it ; secondly, that they ought to maintain themselves; and, thirdly, that if the colonial expenditure be less now than in 1792, the general expenditure has been quadrupled. In a Pamphlet lately published for Mr. James Thick, by Effingham Wilson, which contains innumerable cal culations and facts relative to the debt, taxation, expenditure, and commerce, of Great Britain, we find the following summary of the public accounts, from 1693 up to 1820, which we would fain com mend to his Grace's attentive consideration:— " It appears by an extract from Mr. Gregory King's estimates of the state of the nation, in the year 1695, that the annual income ofthe nation was then but 42,500,000/. ; the taxes 5,000,000/. ; and the amount of coined gold and silver 7,500,0001. It appears also, by a statement of Mr. King, th it the year:y produce of land up to 1700 was 13,000,0001. ; by an estimate of Mr. Pitt, in 1796, it was 25,000,0001. ; by returns to property tax in 1804 38,000,000/. ; in 1815, 51,000,000/. ; and in 1820 the rental of land was computed at 54,000,0001. The peace establishment of 1793 amounted to only 6,000,000/., it is now upwards of 20,000,0001. On the 9th of June, 1802, the navy and army estimates were moved in the House of Camtnons for the remainder of that year; by which it ap pears that the annual expenditure for seventy thousand men, cmnpor-JI of fourteen thousand cavalry and fifty thousand infantry, including the Guards, was 2,500,000/, The supplies vo , nl for 1807-8 were—for the army and extraordinariea 16,000,000/. ; fur the navy and extraordi navies 18,000,000/ ; for the ordnance and extraordinarics 3,000,000/. ; the civil list 2,000,000/. ; miscellaneous 3,000,000/. ; subsidies 5,000,000/. ; and the dividends and sinking fund 28,000,0001.:—total 75,000,000/. The peace :::tablishment of 1813, including the interest of the debt, wa's 56,001,8241. In 1825 the army estimates were 7,911,000/. ; the ordnance 1,751,0001.; and the total ex penditere for the year was 55,330,00 W. The expenditure for the army I..st year (1823) including the ordnance, was upwards of 8,000,000/. ; and the tot's'. expenditure upwards of 50,000,0001. In 1813 these wc:e expended, besides all sums applicable to the reduction of the debt, 105,000,000 1 .; in 1814, 106,000,000/. ; and in 1815, 9.2,135,000/. ; making a total for three years of 303,135,000/. ! Was it possible fur so large an expenditure io Le circulated, and so large an amount of revenue, cs must have been collected in till three years to have lr'en accomplished, if there had been no paper in circulation, or had there been no restricLion in existence ? " Ihe national debt in 1790 IV2S but 2g 1,000,00 01 . ; the t-les 16,800,0001. ; and the poor rates 2,000,000 1 ; In 1620, the debt IL-1 increa-ed to 850,000,000/. ; the taxes t 380,000,000/. ; and the poor rates to 8,000,000/. What, I would ersain r , k, has produced all this great in cre--3 of the public burdens but the paper system, and limy is it po:sible to get back through the great labyrinth other wi-3 tlu,n by the aid of pap^r ; or by a total abandonment of the pr.:lit system of finance, end an alteration of the state of the national debt '"—Morning Advertiser. It is said that the King of DENMARX is about to give a new constitution ti his dominions, including a n?tional reprcsen• - itim. It will be rememberd that the kling . s of tint country have b.m eblolut2 sovereigns fur from the volunt-uy surrender of their privileges by the represez:taayes of the st7lt2s. A steam tug-boat has just been brought into use uran the river Severn between. Gloucester and Wor c:at?r, by means of which the int . - 2rcourse between the two ports :a fiery materially facilitated and a saving of 48 hours accomplished. A trial has been made by Me. , rs. BROWN and Son's steam-tug, the Sabrina, which towed a ves , el laden with GO or 70 tons, at the rate of eight miles an hour. The engines are constructed upon a new principle, with horizontal motion,._Both Chronicle. SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Whitehall, March 3, 1830. The King has been pleased to nominate and appoint Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Byam Martin, Knight Com-. mander of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath, to he a Knight Grand Cross of the said Most Ho neurable Military Order, vice Admiral Sir George Mon tagu, deceased. Crown Office, March 5, 1830. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR- LIAMENT. TOWN AND PORT OF RYE. Philip Pusey, of Pusey, in the county of Berks, Esq. in the room of Henry Bonham, Esq. who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. COUNTY OF RADNOR.. The Right Hon. Thomas Frankland Lewis, of Harpton court, in the said county of Radnor. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. George Gelson, Cross-street, Blackfriars-road, timber merchant. John Adamson, Rye, Sussex, surgeon. William Gough, New Windsor, Berks, coach-maker. BANKRUPTCY ENLARGED. William Mortlock, Rochester, Kent, linen-draper, from March 9 to March 23, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners. BANKRUPTS. John Hyde and Henry New, Birmingham, common-car riers, to surrender March 9, 16, at eleven, and April 16, at two, at the Court of Commissioneis. Winter, Williams, Fossick and Jeffries, Bedford-row, London. Isaac Lees, Oldham, Lancashire, cotton-spinner, March 19, 20, and April 16, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Ratcliffe, Oldham; Milne and Parry, Temple, London. John William Bell, Pinner's-hall, Broad-street, mer chant, March 16, at ten, 23, and April 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Dyer, Took's-court, Chan cery-lane. Thomas Moulton, Warwick, grocer, March 11, at five, 12, and April 16, at eleven, at the Warwick Arms, War wick. Sharp and Field, Bread-street, Cheapside; Poole and Edwards, Kenilworth ; and Haynes, Warwick. Horatio Atkinson, Doncaster, York, druggist, March 11, at two, 12, and April 16, at eleven, at the Guildhall, Doncaster. Wiglesworth and Ridsdale, Gray's-inn ; Nicholson, Wath, Rotherham. William Walker, Drury-line, March 12, at one, 23, at three, and April 16, at one, at the Court of Commis sioners. Walton, Lawledge, and Coles, Girdler's-hall, Basin nghal 1- stree t. William Moulton, Warwick, grocer, March 11, at five, 12, and April 16, at eleven, at :the Warwick Arms Inn, Warwick. Poole and Edwards, Kenilworth ; Haynes, Warwick ; Taylor, John's-street, Bedford-row, London William Pearce, Bodmin, Cornwall, chemist, March 16, at four, 17, at ten, and April 16, at eleven, at Oliver's Hotel, Bodmin. Taylor, Clemen's-inn, London ; Chap man, Devonport. James Mortlock, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, inn keeper, March 15, at six, 16, at ten, and April 16, at two, at the Bowling- green Inn, Norwich. Richards and Medcalf, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Kingsbury and Margitson, Bungay. Philip Brown, Prince's place, Commercial-road, dealer, March 9, at eleven, 16, and April 16, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Parry, Newgate-street. John Hyde, Manchester, cotton manufacturer, March 19, 20, and April 16, at nine, at the York Hotel, Man chester. Scott, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London; Greenhalgh, Manchester Thomas Crumpton, Shrewsbury, cordwainer, March 25, 26, and April 16, at eleven, at the Talbot Inn, Shrews bury. Medcalf, Lincoln's-inn-fields ; 'Williaarns, Shrews bury. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending March 2, is 245. 10d. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. SHAKERLEY'S DIVORCE BILL. Counsel were heard, and witnesses examined on this Bill, the further consideration of which was postponed till Monday next three o'clock. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL brought up the Illusory Ap pointments Bill, the Equity Contempt Bill, the Bill to fa cilitate the Payment of Debts out of Real Property, toge ther with several Private Bills. Mr. PORTMAN brought up the Jersey Poor Bill. Several other Private Bills were brought up by other Members of the House of Commons. The Duke of WELLINGTON moved for a Return of the Wheat imported into this country from Ireland from the 18th of July, 1828, to the present time. Several Bills were forwarded a stage, and the House adjourned at Twenty Minutes to Six o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. FRANKLAND LEWIS and Mr. PHILIP PUSEY teok the oaths and their seats. DISTRESS OF THE COUNTRY. Sir WILLIAM HEATHCOTE presented seven peti tions from parishes in the county of Southampton, com plaining of general distress. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented thirteen similar petitions from places in the county of Kent. CL A REN CE BRIDGE. Mr. CHARLES PALLMER brought in a Bill for building a Bridge across the River Thames from Church street, Lambeth, to the Horseferry-road. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CHARTER. • Mr. DUGDALE presented a petition numerously signed by the merchants, manufacturers, and others of the town of Birmingham, praying that the House would not grant a renewal of the East India Company's Charter; and also, that the pitition might be heard by Counsel at the Bar of the House. The Hon. Gentleman presented another peti tion from Nuneaton, against the system of flee trade ; and also one from a place in the county of Warwick, com plaining of general distress. EMANCIPATION OF THE JEWS. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from the Jews of Liverpool, praying for Emancipation. The Hon. Member said the petition had his support. Sir JOHN LOWT HER presented a petition from the Shipowners of Alaryport, complaining of general distress. Mr. SANDERSON presented a petition from Mr. John Brady, of Cavan, praying for a revision of the laws re specting tolls and customs in Ireland. HAWKERS. Sir T. LETHBRIDGE presented a petition from the grocers and other tradesmen of Bath, complaining of the injury the sustain by hawkers. SUFFOLK PETITION. Sir T. GOOCH presented a petition from the county of Suffolk, complaining of agricultural distress. After a few observations from Sir E. KNATCIIBULL and Mr. ilumE, the petition was ordered to lie upon the table. (LEFT SITTING.) The following singular occurrence has been mentioned to us as connected with the doubts anti un cntaiaties which prevailed as to IfaastlNG's fate. Some twelve or fourteen years ago the Worcriter Militia was s . :tt'oncd at Portsmouth. A female servant of an officer of ere rejrcent, who lived at the house adjoining to that Nupicl by the reassin at Droitwich, on going one day to answer a ring - at her master's door, was thunder s; uek at finding at it a man whcte features she inn gir 1 she knew, end who carried upon his arm a basket cont7'oirg threads end tapes for sale. The encounter, P 4 tie girl relates, appeared to be as embarrassing and sur prle'ng to the man es to herself. She, however, doired him to welt until she could enquire whether any of his wares were warted, and on her going to her mistrcs, 9113 tald her " that if ever she saw lismirrsat, who murdered Vie prson at Oddingley, he was now at the door." Her mistrcs ordcred her to return to tae man, to make some small purcluve of him, so as to enable her more closely to obt-nve his person, and satisfy herself whether her suspi • cior,s wzre or were not correct. The girl went back to the door for this purpose, but the man bad fled ! 'fhis, coupled with his confusion at first beholding her, naturally more strongly impressed the conviction upon the girl's mind that she was correct in her conjecture. The circumstance was accordingly mide known to the autho• cities of Portsmouth, who immediately issued warrants for the apprehension of the supposed fiNwliscr POLICE INTELLICENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man named Robert Wilson Turtell was brought before the Loan Maros. on a charge of having been concerned in numerous felonies in various parts of the country. He is charged with one forgery committed in London, with several robberies committed in Cam bridgeshire, and with having on the 10th of last month broken open the dwelling-house of the Rev. G. Boldero, of Ixworth, near Bury St. Edmund's, and stolen about 100/. in money and a great quantity of clothes and jewel lery. The pursuit of the prisoner was mast extraordinary, and on Wednesday afternoon a crowd of persons assembled in Fenchurch-street to witness the event. Thomas Herds field, the officer, heard that he had been seen lurking about that neighbourhood, and went in quest of him. The officer got sight of him near Pope'a•head-alley. Torten, the moment he found he was nosed, rushed into a house and soon appeared on the roof. Herdsfield followed and dodged him for some time round the chimneys of build ings. At length the prisoner descended upon some leads by a waterspout, and having jumped from a height of about 20 feet, succeeded in getting in at an open window of a chemist's house. He for some time concealed him self, and being again nosed he made his way to the top of the houses, where Herdsfield seized him, and threatened to shoot him if he attempted to escape. In the prisoner's possession were found about 40 sove reigns, and several articles, which, it is believed, are part of the property stolen at Bury St. Edmund's. His Lordship ordered that the prisoner should be taken to Bury St. Edmund's. CLTILDIIALL. Yesterday se'nnight Mr. Bagster, an inhabitant of the parish of St. Bartholomew the Great, attended !Before Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER (Mr. Alderman Aueuty, the sitting Magistrate for the day, having retired to make way for the worthy Alderman just before the case was called on), to show cause why he refused to pay the paving and lighting rate. Mr. Dougall attended as the defendant's professional adviser, and urged several objections, the principal of which was that the ra►e had been amended under the authority of the Metropolitan Paving Act, which, however, only gave power to amend a rate for paving alone, and not where it was applied to lighting or other objects jointly. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER ruled that any objections, save that the defendant was not liable to be rated at all, must be made by appeal to the Sessions; and that, as the rate appeared upon the face of it to be good, he was bound to enforce r.yment. Nine other inhabitants had been summoned at the same time for the same rate ; but, as the decision in the first case governed the whole, Mr. Adolphus and Mr. Dougall agreed that the other summonses should stand adjourned till yesterday, the overseers anticipating that, in the in terim, all the parties would pay the money. Seven only, however, did co pay, and, yesterday, the rest of the defen dants came with Mr. AP.Dougall to coatest the question. About two o'clock, while PrrEa LAURIE was dis posing of some routine business, Mr. Alderman WIN.. CUE3TER came into the private room, and was joined by the parish officers, and the defendants were requested to attend them there; but Mr. Dougall refused, insisting that the business ought to be public. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER then came forward and requested Sir PETER LAURIE to allow him to dispose of these summonses, as he had already decided the cases. Mr. Dougall denied that these cases had been heard at all. The case of Bagster only had been decided before. Sir PETER said, if the cases had not been heard before, he was ready to hear them. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER repeated that they bad been decided before, and called for the clerk's minutes. From these minutes it appeared the case of Baxter only was decided, and the rest adjourned for one week, to give the parties time to pay, and by that to prevent the war rants issuing. . . Mr. Alderman Wprcnasrxx said the single ease settled the whole question. Sir PETER replied it did not necessarily do so. Mr. Dougell had new objections to make. Every man's case stood on its own foundation. Here some confusion arose from Mr. Dougall charging the Overseers with trickery, in keeping the defendants waitinc , two hours at the office, while they (the Overseers) were hunting. after Mr. Alderman . Winchester. Mr. Midge, one of the trustees, or select vestrymen, admitted he had fetched the Alderman, and he thought he was justified in doing so by the breach, on the part of the defendants, of the tacit agreement to pay, implied by the adjournment. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER still urged, that he should be permitted to finish the cases, they having commenced before him. This was contradicted and re-asserted clamorously by the several parties, till Sir PETER cried out that he had yet heard nothing but noise. He scarcely knew what they were about to do. In the performance of his public dutic3 he knew not par tie on the right band or the left, and, as the regular way of commencing business, be should now call for the complainant. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER instantly clapped on his bat, and was hurrying away unceremoniously, when Sir PETER called him back, to assure him he did not intend to hear any case he had decided a second time. Mr. Alderman WINCHESTER remained at the desk for a few moments, while the controversy was warmly re newed as to what was understood to be meant by ad journing the -hearing for a week ; but when Sir Peter again attempted to go into one of the cases, Mr. Alderman Winchester and the select vestrymen withdrew from the room. Upon this Mr. Dougall exclaimed, " Let the Alderman beware who signs the warrant upon these cases," and he invited the Magistrate, to dismiss the summonses se riatim, for the absence of the complaining parties. Sir PETER seemed to be about to do this, but one of the select returned with the vestry clerk, who declined entering into the subject at all before Sir Peter, but noti fied that he should apply for warrants to the Alderma❑ who had heard the matter and determined o❑ it. All the parties concerned then retired. EOW-STREET. Yesterday James Stowe and William Douyley, the one a well-dressed fellow, and the other having the ap pearance of a mechanic, were brought before Sir RICHARD Blamt, charged with having been in the crowd, at the pit entrance into Covent-garden Theatre, on Monday night, with intent to commit felony. Dreyer, the police constable, on duty at the theatre, strted, that observing the prisoners backing out of the crowd at a moment when there seemed no occasion for doing so, he suspected their design, and accordingly took them into custody. On one of the prisoners he found a crimson and white purse, containing 12 sovereigns ; and on the other a pair of very sh.irp scissors, evidently for this purpose of cutting watch-ribbons and pockets. The prisoners protested their innocence, and assured the Magistrates that they were persons of respectability. Sir RICHARD asked Stowe whether he had not lately visited Union Hall ?. Stowe—Oh dear, no, your Worship ; I wrs never in no such place in my life. . . Freyer—What, do you forget the transaction of the snuff-box, and Lambeth-street Stowe (after some hesi tation)—Well, but I was honourably acquitted. Freyer—llad'itt you a solicitor employed ; and did'nt you refuse to pay him ? Sir RICHARD-What, I wonder, did an innocent man want with a solicitor? Stowe—The solicitor was em ployed by another party, and not by me. Freyer—But did not that other party put an execution into your house for your share of the solicitor's costs ? Sir RtetrAtty —I see how it is very well, you are inti mate with this man's afftirs. I strongly suspect the purse to have been stolen, and I shall not part with the prisoner. Dougley—l bought the purse, your Worship, I can prove that. _ Sir RICHARD-Well, do so; but when did you buy it? Dougley—l think it was on the day of Sir Thomas Law rence's funeral, at a shop in Fleet-street. Sir Ric:Hann—A very awkward day truly. It is said that mony purses changed owners on that day ; but how did you come by the money ? Dougley—l earned it at my business. Sir RICHARD—You must bring your master forward to prove that fact. Dougley said that his master could not speak as to his having so much money, but that he could bring another party, who had seen him with it, forward. Sir RICHARD observed that he might do so on another day, and a'..cordin,gly remanded him, in order that inquiries might he made after the supposed owner of the purse and money. MA RLBOROUGH-STREET. Ellen Miller, John Archer, Anne Archer, and Cathe rine Sweringer. were yesterday placed at the bar before the presiding Magistrates, the first prisoner charged with stealing, and the three latter w th having received, know ing them to have been stolen, a large quantity of cigars, snuff, tobacco, glasses, and other articles, the property of Mr. Bigglestor, a tobacconist, residing off Beak-street. Ellen Miller said nothing; but Archer said the girl Miller had brought the articles to his house They were all remanded to this fay. LEWES MA HKE'r.—March 2. Beet -,--. 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d. I Veal —..........—... 4s, tki. to,:bs. ed. Mutton .—... 3 6 4 B Pork II 8 14 0 Supply good, and trade rather dull. RKET.—Mareh 3. RUSIFOItD MA. s. d. to 5. d. a. d. a. a. Beef 2lO 3 8 I Veal Mutton 3 4 4 4 Pork .......... ......... 3 0 4 • Suckling Calves from Its. ton! ; Quarter old Pigsl2l.to 10s. eaot• Supply limited. and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK• Barley. THE MARKETS. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. s. d. to s. d. Beet 2 2 3 4 Veal Mutton 2 S 310 Pork.- 52 4. d 4 0 t o HAY AIA lIKETS.—( At per Load of 96 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow May £2 8 to £9 ° New Meadow Hay Useful Old Ditto . .. 3 0 Sl 5 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass flay... ..... 4 b b Clover Hay 9 15 b l a ° Oat Straw XI 6to £2 10 I Wheat Straw.— 10 Supply of Hay great, of Straw limited; trade dull at Taeg turd.ay's prices. SOUTIIALL MARKET.—March 3. In our market of to-day, which was but moderately supplied, and by no means numerously attended by buyer's the trade throughout was very dull, at the following prices per stone of Slb. to sink the offals: Beef, 2s. Sd. to 4s. Od 10d. to 4a. 10d. Mutton 3 0 4 2 f Pork ---3 10 -4 r B The foregoing quotations are inferior Beef 4d., Mutton to 4d., and Veal Gd. to Is. per stone lower; Pork 4d. to 6d. pet' stone higher than on this day se'imight ; in prices of prime Beef no alteration —Beasts, 248 ; Sheep, 2,454; Calves, 23; Pigs' 24. A considerable number of Sheep and Beasts left the market unsold. Per Quarter. Blandford Brigg Cambridg e Chard - . I. to I. 59 50 56i 62 56 70 56 07 50 58 52 58 44 66 57 67 56 65 56 70 53 74 S. B. to S. 22 90 25 IV 24 30 17 94 16 21 16 V 16 24 15 25 12 30 18 25 20 26 L to A. - iS 34 3g - 20 42 4 21 26 26 48 24 2 to 26 so 4g 40 43 27 4g 23 43 - 43 30 40 30 a 28 20 25 - 25 32 38 22 31 Huntingdon Long Sutton- Louth Lynn...,. — Newark 22 96 94 82 25 37 30 30 27 40 25 36 - 31 93 90 24 24 Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth .—.„,... Pontefract—,..—,- 51eafont ....--. Uppi n gh am Wisbec h 4S) 61 58 62 50 63 lb 21 18 28 18 21 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANOL—March 9. The Wheat trade was not very lively this m orn i n g, but Id. to 2d. per 701 b. dearer than on this day se'nnigh! , with a very limited show of samples. A moderate butt' ness was done in Oats, at an advance of Id. per 451 b. and holders very firm. No change in the value of Barley there were very few samples of English, and none of Scotch or Cumberland on sale. Prices of Flour unvaried• Oatmeal was 6d. to Is. per sack dearer. WHRAT, English, White, per 70Ib. ......... 9s. 3d. to I Is. 0 1 Red ---- Scotch, Welch, and Manz Irish, White 9 0 9 6 Red 8 9 9 3 - Foreign lO 0 11 0 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 0 9 6 - Irish - Foreign vn sl BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 94 0 lib 6 - Scotch and Irish, per Nibs. Feeding 4 0 1.4 2 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 43 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign PRASE, English, per Imperial quarter 3O 0 42 0 - Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. 25 0 28 6 INDIAN CORN, per 44011, Rya, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending March 1. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. O a tmeal Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I I Foreign, Br!' &c. Sad Loads -6,436 4,413 21)0 3,482 3,230 2,195 LEEDS CORN DIARKET.—March 9. We have had a good supply of most kinds of Grain tO this day's market. Fine fresh Wheat has been takeo freely at full as good prices as last Tuesday, the middling and inferior damp samples have been sold on about the same terms as last week. The best heavy Barley has no t varied in price, but the light and stained samples have been lower if sales have been effected. In Oats and Shell ing no alteration in price. Good dry Old Beans, and bard New Ones have each been full as well sold ; damp New ones, and black unsound Old ones have each been dull sale. In Pease no alteration in price. Malt, Flour, An d Rapesed, without material alteration in price. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 6011). Brrley, Norfolk and Suffolk • Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, I'otatoe —stealing, Foreign 10d. to 11%il....English 10d. to 12d. per st• Shelling 325. to 365. per load• Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —l. to —l. por fait CANTERBURY, Feb. 27. Wheat, white s6s to :Os. red 40s. to Os. Barley, Malting 2sa. to 325. Oats Beans ll2s. to 325. Pease 32s. to 38s EXETER MAR. Beef (score) 7s. rd. 8.. 6(1. Mutton (113.) 0 4 1 }-0 5 Veal and Lamb 0 5 —0 6 Pork 0 4 —0 6 Geese (each) 3 6 —5 0 Ducks (coup!e) 3 62-4 6 Fowls 2 2 —3 6 KE U.S.—Feb. 26. Wheat (bushel) os. Od. Ds. 0 1 ' Barley 4 0 —4 d Oats 2 6—o 0 Beans .5 e--a t Butter (lb) 1 o—l 4 Eggs (9) 0 o—l 0 Potatoea (peck) OlO —1 0 A report has been prevalent for the last twO days, that Mr. Sergeant LEFIIO7 has resigned, in cons( quence of the selection of his junior, Mr. Sergeant 11LAO' BURNE, as one of the Judges of Assize for the Munster cif' cuit.—Dublin Morning Register. BIRTHS. On the 2d inst. the lady of William B. Bell, EVI d of a son. On the 3(1 inst. is Upper Bedford-place, the lady of SC' L. Lowndes, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst. in Bedford-place, the lady of the J. Galloway, of a daughter. On the 28th ult. Mrs. James Sutherland, of Feughttrob' street, of a son. MARRIED. On the Sd inst. at St. Pancras, Capt. N. R. Tompkiel 55th Regt. of Foot, to Kate, the only daughter of the 10 Mr. H. Smart, of Poling, near Arund e l, Sussex. On the 4th inst. at Tottenham, J. Lambert; Esq• Brixton, to Miss Lydia Hobson, daughter of W. 4610 Esq. of Markfield, Stamford-bill. On the 4th inst. at Christ-church, Marylebone, Ecil; Binns, Es q ., M.D., o f J ama i ca , t o Ch ar l otte , youngel:, daughter of Michael Smith, Esq., of Glouceeter-p, New-rood. DIED. On the 4th inst, at her uncle's, the resident gagistrO of Lambeth-street police district, Rosabelle Mary, tide ° daughter of James Wyatt, E.q., of Stamford -street, Ao Northfleet, Kent. On the 4th inst. at Stratford-green, the wife of Heil' Cheape, Esq. On the 28th ult., at Waddon, Mr. William Rawle aged 70. On the 28th ult. at Kennington, J. H. Duraad, aged 68. EAST INDIA.—DEATHS. At Calcutta, Oct. 1, Mr. Walter. H. Sutherland, tG eldest ton of Patrick Sutherland, Esq., of the MiliV Board Office. At Cal, At icutta, Oct. 2, J. Crosier, Esq. second office: the Hon. Company's ship Thomas Grenville. At Cawnpore, Sept. 15, Lieut. A. T. Browne, of Horse Artillery, aged 19. At Kidderpoor, Oct. SI, Charlotte, wife of Mr. J. Forth, aged 30. At Belleiar, Oct. 2, J. J. Sparrow, Esq., third Men l° of Council at the Bombay Presidency, aged 49, At Cawnpore, Oct. 5, Cornet F. 13eauclerk, of the Regt. Light Cava'ry. At Massoorie, Aug. 20, the lady of R. H. Scott, fi of the Civil Service. At Allepy, Aug. 24, Capt. J. Power, 3d Regt. Lis Infantry, aged 26. At Kurnal, Sept. 27, A. Stratton, Esq., surgeon , Light Cavalry. At llingolie, Sept. 8, in consequence of a fall frai l y i horse when fox-hunting, Lieut. J. Williamson, of Highness the Nizam's 3d Regiment of Infantry. lie e pired in six hours. At Vizianagrain, Aug. 6, Ensign J. Foster, of the I• Regt. N. I. At Barrackpore, Oct. 24, Ensign A. M. Wyllie, ofl i Native Infantry. At Cawnpore, Oct. 12, Mr. F. Wren, Riding-n' of the Pension Establishment. At Allahabad, Oct. 14, the lady of J. M'Citnra, At Culpee, Sept. 27, Lieut. E. B. Buc•kham, preter, 7th Light Cavalry. At Trichinopoly, Sept. 14, Mr. J. W. Albany, in' 29th year. PIINNTIOD AND PUBLISHILD By MIII{DO YOITh G, Thti 15sti Orton, 112, STItAND, LONDOIS. Wheat. Oats. Beans in g en RANI blOS] greate Open favour J. I portun unifori have f and a• relax i forts o is in c , be con feel gr, fixing and ait tionabl This d. Li Hen ton -stri PORT Just (DEDIC At engrave ture by Prints, ditto, b AI (DEDIC. Engr Anthon Paper, ' TB from Non uri b aneluiH ell &e., are Sex a 1 resting 0 Part 11. i kbjects, e: Ey G, • Ornnihu "Si' 2. The arising fro ke with eve Praet 3 . By" Thd. inP° th, „ u6e, reeting and Qua f " Whither The abei CLapplQ, I Strand, Lc itia chett an 114 b4•ck, 13 ath hte, Dul ! i n t, SRN./ ev"poel ; lluhl T • 411 g obi ; .t, S i libt44; ll , ll , ;" .tY d ay, ta l tix. oest,,i for A 'Part of Strw t . 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