The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-21 00:00:00

to merit better bishoprics by voting as they are directed, which they seldom- fail to do. . . . . Which thing put me in mind of an answer the Lord Carteret made some time since to Bishop Hare, who, when he complained of the hard words that Lord had given some of the Bishops in a speech in the House of Lords, put him in mind that his Lordship might one day be a Minister of State himself, and might then want the Bishops' votes. This Lord replied, If I want you, I know how to have you ;' the meaning of which words are easily understood without a comment." With respect to " the strong attachment of the people to their Church," that means merely the strong attachment of the Church of England people to their Chinch, but it does not disprove what is every day alleged, that the number of people hav ing such attachment has long been decreasing.— This at least is the natural inference to be drawn from the great change which has taken place in the relative numbers of Dissenters and Church men. In the Memoirs of Sir John Dalrymple, there is an enumeration of the Dissenters and Papists throughout England at the Revolution, and the amount does not materially vary from that stated by Bishop Sherlock some time be fore. The Dissenters and Catholics were never at that time estimated as more than a twentieth part of the population. At present the Dis seaters are generally estimated as being to the rest of the population as about two to one. — There are upwards of 1,200 Dissenting Chapels in Yorkshire alone. The attachment of the people who belong to the Church may be very fervid, but we can hardly suppose the attachment of the Dissenters to be very fervid to the Church. This comes of - using terms such as people to a fraction of the people ; and with respect even to that fraction, the proximity of a Dissentin g Cha pel would often be found too ha rd a trial for their attachment. But we wish to waive all arguments calculated to weigh only with one class. Church going people and Dissenters are both equally in terested in a settlement of tithes. We meet, therefore, our Contemporary on his own ground. " Turning (he says) from the Church to the people, we would ask, is it not the extreme of folly to raise a cry against tithes, the abolition of which to-morrow would only destroy a parti cular class by whose expenditure you profit ; and would destroy it, merely in order to make good the deficiency of taxes, failing by the gross mismanagement of public affiiirs, or to provide new funds to be squandered in idle experiinents ? 'Whatever, indeed is now sup plied to the revenue from new resources is, in fact, a subsidy to the economists—a contribution to enable them to perpetuate their ruinous domination. In destroying the Church, too, an ally to the popular interests will be de stroyed—a natural ally, and almost the only one from which the body of the people can reasonably look for their restoration. If community of danger ought to be a bond of union, as it is in ;pct the best, the landed interest, at least, are concerned deeply to support the Church against the attack made upon it." Now the question is not at present the abolition of Tithes, but their commutation. The nation may at any time, no doubt, come to any determination respecting tithes, whether they are or are not commuted. But at present it is proposed to do nothing more than fix the amount of a tax, which, so long as it fluctuates, is peculiarly injurious to the coun try. Nothing so easy as to ascertain the amount of tithe in any parish on an average of years ; and nothing so easy, having once fixed it, as to declare it a permanent burden on the land, either of so much money or so much gain. It is the uncertainty and fluctuation of this tax which reader it at one time detrimental to the land owners, and at another to consumers. While the corn Monopoly is operative, the tax presses on consumers. But when foreign corn comes into competition with our own, the burden falls on the landowner. From the prospect which Ireland opens up to us, many persons think that for some time we shall be obliged to compete with foreigners by exporting food ; in which case the landowners will be exclusively exposed to the pressure of the burden. It never was in tended that tithe should be more than a tenth part of the produce of land cultivated in the simplest manner ; and in Italy, to this day, no latids pay tithe but the lands in culti v a tion from time immemorial, forming . but a small part of every parish. Land brought into cultivation by the a pplication of capital is never tithed. Arthur 'Young, when in Italy, paid particular attention to this subject. Thus he says, vol. ii. sec. 3, of Tithe tied Church Lands.—" Piedmont — Throughout this Principality tithe is an object of no account. I made enquiries c oncerning it every where : the greatest part of the lands pay none ; and upon the rest it is so light, as not to amount to more than from a twentieth to a fiftieth of the produce." Milanese—At Moz eatta the tithes, as everywhere else, arc so low as to be no object ; grain pays, but not on all land ; it is confined to the lands anciently in culture ; for even the ancestors of these people were much too wise to allow the Church to tax efiern in such a spirit as to take tithes of new improvements. Never did such a measure enter their heads or hearts ! The titheable hinds are small districts ; .ere near to the villages that have been in cultivation many centuries ; and in some of these tithe is not taken on all sorts of corn ; only on those sorts anciently cultivated. The varieties in this respect are many; but on what ever it is taken it never exceeds a sixteenth, usually from one..seventeenth to one-twentieth." ,‘ At Codogno, and through most of the Lodi- Zell, tithe is so very inconsiderable that it is not wor th mentioning. Ecclesiastical State. Tithes ore so low throughout all the Bolognese that I couid get no satisfactory isecount of the very small p a ysnents that are yet the& to the Church ; every one assured me that they were next to nothing." B.efore the French Revo lution there was nothing in assy part of Europe at all resembling the Tithe System : of England; and in Italy, even under the nose of the Pope, the burden was hardly felt. ii All I conversed with in Italy (says Mr. Young), on the subject of tithes, expressed amazement at the tithes we are subject to." But, confining ourselves to England., it is quite clear that if any impropria tor were at present to offer his property for sale, he could only expect to be paid a certa;n num ber of years' purchase on the tithes received by hint on an average of years. Let, then, a com mission be Appointed to estimate the tithes, and. in the case of impropriators, pay them by means of a loan, which Government could easily ob tain on the security of the tithes so fixed. With respect to the Church and CorpolatiPns, the question is easy. There can be no g round of complaint, if the amount of the tithe is at once made a fixed charge on the land, of so much _money or produce. The agriculturists will then be at liberty to speculate on the improvement of laud, by the application of capital, without having to dread being ruined by the demand of time titheholder—a serious drawback, in case 01 failure. Surely the Church must be avaricious indeed, if the tenth part of the present produce of England, fairly estimated, do not satisfy it. When we say tenth part of the produce of Eng- land, we mean, of course, the parishes of which the tithes do not belong to impropriators. As to Ireland, we say nothing ; the attachment of the people of that country to the Church Lein e ° so notorious, and the labours of the Church being so valuable to the nation.--Morning Chronicle. It has been cur pleasing duty to record, from time to time, the laudable efforts of the Solicitor General in behalf of poor prisoners confined for an indefinite period for what are called " con tempts of Chancery." We know nothing more enviable than the possession of power and station humanely employed in the correction of an op pressive system, and the deliverance of its victim. \Ve announced, a short time ago, that the Soli citor-General intends to introduce a Bill into Parliament to control and reform the practice of committals for constructive contempts. In the mean time we are glad to find that the Learned Gentleman does not relax his labours in search.. ing out and relieving individual instances of cruel and protracted suffering under the existing system. -We have laid before the public several cases where his personal interference has been instrumental in obtaining the release of poor and friendless beings from the grasp of Chancery op pression, and where he has freely opened his purse to purchase for such persons the invaluable blessing of liberty. Delightful must be the consciousness of such a use of power and affluence to a sensitive mind—and beneficial must be the example of such practical humanity 1 A few acts of this nature are worth a long life of noisy and speculative patriotism ; they shed a splendour upon the honours which talent and in dustry have acquired, and give to professional eminence the lustre of a pure and virtuous fame. In another part of our columns to-day will be found further proof of the persevering exertions of the Solicitor-General in the cause of benevo lence. It will be seen, by our report of the cases of Wright and Richardson v. Wegener, that he has obtained the discharge of another person, one who had been immured for the dreary space of thirteen years within the walls of a prison— the victim of a system which is a disgrace to a Christian people. It appears, from the state ment of the Learned Gentleman, that this unfortunate person had been tonfined under two suits in Chancery—the first of which was a family suit, in which Mr. Wegener had entered an ap pearance, and the parties were willing to discharge him without costs. The second suit pre sented circumstances of peculiar hardship. There were two plaintiffs—one of them long since dead, and nobody had come forward to repre sent that person. In the affidavit of Mr. Wege ner it was sworn, that in the lifetime of that plaintiff he saw him in the company of others, and he (the plaintiff) protested he knew nothing about the filing of the bill. The other - plaintiff had been unfortunate in business, and had re tired to Mexico, where he is now living, and not a single step has been taken in the cause by any person representing him during the long years of Wegener s confinement. His solicitor is also residing abroad, and the Clerk in Court died about twelve years ago, since which event no pro ceedings whatever had been taken. The result, therefore, was, to use the words of the Solicitor- General, in moving for the discharge of the pri soner, that " there is no plaintiff, no attorney, no clerk in Court, and no demand ;" but we might add, there was a prison, a gaoler, and a victim ! Such is the real punishment incurred by constructive contempt. For grievous crimes, where the term of imprisonment is at the dis cretion of the Judge, two, or at most three years is the maximum of confinement generally allotted to the violator of the laws— even al though he should have set moral and divine obli gations at defiance with a guilty audacity ; but here is a person who has committed no crime— whose only offence, perhaps is ignorance, and whose only guilt is poverty—for thirteen years, he is left to breathe or perish in the gloom of a prison, and might have lingered out a miserable existence as many more years if it had not been for the kind interference of the Learned Gentle- man, who brought his case under the notice of the Court, and succeeded in obtaining his dis charge without payment of costs. We are glad to see the part which the Lord Chancellor took in this transaction. Having asked why he did not apply a long time since, and being informed that it was because he did not know or had not inquired into the circumstances, his Lordship, with that feeling of humanity which became his exalted station, said " There should be some person appointed to give advice to such unfor tunate persons, and that the evil must be reme died." The Solicitor-General took occasion to observe, " I hope we shall remedy that with your Lordship's assistance. I hope measures will be adopted to prevent such things occurring in future," We hope so, too. It is, indeed, impossible but exposures of this nature must lead to a reform in the system under which such appalling scenes of suffering and injustice can arise. Eventually, by the exertions of the Solicitor-General, poor Wegener was discharged from both contempts, without payment of costs ; but who can compensate him for the cruel de privation of his liberty during so large a portion of his existence ? To the Solicitor-General we say " I, made virtute"—" persevere in this course of benevolence ; the prisoner whose dun ' gem is unbarred, the victim of oppression who is restored to light and liberty by your humane exer ti o ns, will offer you that homage of the heart which does not often grace the triumph's of conquerors ;—the blessing of him that is re4ily to perish' shall come upon you—and others, who have the power and the means, copying your example, will learn the luxury of .doing good,' "—Morning Ergrad. When the merchants of England are reduced to the dire extremity of courting information at the hands of Mr. Buckingham, and consulting him, as to those imaginary channels of commerce which, in their despair, they think may be found to give a new impetus to their languishing in dustry, it is no wonder that another Glass of politicians .4lionld be eagerly listening to the " lecture speechas" of Mr, Cobbett. And when Mr. Buckingham and Mr. Cobbett are lecturing, it is not wonderful that Mr. Western should be writing. Out it is even less surprising, when these three are abroa.d, that Mr. Robert Owen should also be revived, and taking the field with his heavy artillery in the cause of tho '" science of Circumstances" and the new co operative system. If we coolf.l be induced to think that the latter gentleman coni4 benefit his e o 4 ntry by the propagation of his opi nions, we shonid bid him God speed ! even though we did not corripr4end the nature of his moral or parallelogramical e;.pctlients, But with all our desire to wish him well, and think. well of him, we are also bound in candour to state that we have much more faith in the probability of the people or England being fed with manna from Heaven than relieved by the specifics of our excellent friend Mr. Owen. And we are the more disposed to place these senti ments on record from having been obliged to digest an address which will be found by the cu rious reader in some corner or other of this morning's Paper. It is called "An Address to the Religious of every Denomination," and its object is to convince these persons that they have no mind or sentiments of their own—that they are a parcel of " ir rational" fools that their principles are the mal-formations of their stupid parents — that they have been in " error" all their lives—and that the " rewards" they expect in a future state of existence are doubtful and unintel ligible trifles of which it is beneath the dignity of man in this enlightened age to make a matter of serious concernment. We are afraid that this address will prove an effectual antidote to the co-operative system. Because, if all men be in error—if all men be irrational—if all our ideas be founded on fallacious suppositions—who is to be the redeeming angel that shall dispel our mental blindness, and lead us into the broad highway of pure philosophy? Can Mr. Robert Owen be the real Messiah expected by the scat tered sons of Abraham ? But we must permit the reader to judge for himself, and for that purpose we request his attention to the extraor dinary address to which we allude.—Morning Journal. The recent Meeting of the county of Devon, the proceedings at which were fully reported in our Paper of yesterday, illustrated at• least as forcibly the dangers which are inseparable from any attempt to remodel the property of the Church, as the advantages which the advocates of any measure of this nature anticipate from its adoption. Those who are really anxious that a revision should take place of our national system for the support of the Parochial Clergy, and that it should be undertaken and conducted in a spirit of prudence and equity, will cautiously abstain from blending complaints of the hard ships inflicted by the collection of tithe upon any particular class of the community, with the arguments of a more general character which they may deem likely to promote their views.— The term hardship, and all the terms equivalent to it, and all the epithets by which they are usually attended, are words without meaning when opposed to the exercise of a legal and long-established right, unless they are intended to intimate, on the part of those who employ them, a disposition not to compound with that right, but to invade and subvert it.— Such language must always operate as a cau tion to the Government and the Legislature against affording cry sanction or encourage ment to the agitation of a great practical question, which so many persons are deter mined from the beginning not even to dis cuss fairly. The flag of truce which may I be the precursor of an amicable and just arrangement will not be surrounded by armed men in the actual commission .of acts of hostility. We are happy, however, to perceive in the language of the petition adopted by the Devon Meeting, a much greater portion of wisdom and moderation than can be found in some of the speeches delivered upon the occa sion. It asks for "no innovations on the prin ciples of the British Constitution, nor for any unfair or improper sacrifice from any party.", The evils it describes as consequences of the tithe system are undeniable, and are stated, as it seems to us, without any violent or mischievous exaggeration. It is just in all similar cases, and highly satisfactory in this, to infer the general character of the Meeting, and its pre dominant feeling and opinions, from the lan guage of the petition, rather than from the less authoritative and matured effusions of individual eloquence. But while we agree with these pe titioners that the tithe system is in many in stances injurious to religion, by impairing the harmony and confidence which ought to exist between the Clergyman and his parishioners ; and that it impedes the progress of agriculture, by diverting capital from the most beneficial of dl possible employments in a na tional point of view, that of reclaiming and im proving the poorer descriptions of land, we must contend that these evils, great as they are, are still insignificant in comparison of those which must inevitably ensue from the act of giving legitimacy to the principle of spoliation, and of degrading and impoverishing the 1 National Church by an unjust invasion of its property and rights. If every man who seeks the removal of the former evils manifested at the same time a just sense of the latter, the difficulty and danger of - the subject would be almost wholly removed, and we should not despair .of an arrangement being accom plished, under the auspices of a wise and patriotic Legislature, which would be highly ad vantageous to the country, while it would ac cord with the wishes, and eminently conduce to the interest and comfort, of all the parties imme diately concerned. It is evident, however, that the general prevalence among public men, and particularly among popular leaders, of respect to the Church of England, and a disposition to do her ample justice, as well as a high degree of public confidence in the body of exalted Church men, whose duty during the progress of any change it would become to watch over and, pro sect the interests of that invaluable corporation, are conditions indispensable to any attempt at innovation, unless innovation is to be attempted in utter disregard of the public alarm, jealousy, and confusion to which otherwise it must, and of the intestine strife to which it might not impro bably, give rise. These considerations suffice to convince us that the present is not the fittest moment for agitating the question.— morning Post. Verily the country is at length roused to I something like a sense of its distress I and VI ever there was a Session of Parliament which promised to be fruitful in important discussions, the ensuing is that which is likely to bear away the palm. The malt and the beer duties—the tea monopoly and the currency—the taxes and the public e xpenditure—and lastly, the tithes, and a more equal distribution of the property of the church among its pastors ;—these are the questions which must come before the Legisla ture, and which will be pressed upon its atten tion by petitions, not from the people only— those who work with their heads or their hands —but from the owners of the soil itself, who have never yet lifted up their voice unanimously without accomplishing. their object, whether it was for good or for evil. But the tithes and the Church property, would you meddle with them ? exclaims some young scion of the no bility, who expects to clutch a bishopric on the first vacancy. Aye, we say, meddle with them as they have o ften been meddled with before, and the country will not only be benefited, and the morality of the people improved, but the hearts of the great body of the clergy made to leap for joy. We do not say rob the church of the property appertaining to her, but distribute it more equally —give it to those who work for it, and not to the drones who only live to consume it—add to the incomes of the curates and the working clergy, and take from the revenues of the rectors, the archdeacons, the bishops, and the archbishops —and let it no longer be the disgrace of the country, that while the curate starves on 75/. a year, his right reverend father is wallowing in the luxury of his thousands. We are no e nemies to the church or its members ; we are only de sirous of seeing the one as respectable in the eyes of men, as its doctrines are confessedly pure, and the other as much respected and be loved by their flocks as they are learned, and in every respect fitted by their education for in structing the people. But neither will or can be the case while such inequality exists between the incomes of the higher and the working clergy—while pluralities continue to be unli mited, and nonresidence to be a matter of in difference—while the revenues of the church, or any part of them, are levied in the shape of tithes, or in any other shape calculated to give rise to heartburnings and bickerings and lawsuits between the pastor and his flock. We are confi dent that we do not exaggerate in the slightest degree, when we state that the church has been more wounded in the affections of the people, and religion exposed to greater danger in their estimation, from the tithe system, than from all that has been written and said and done by its most inveterate enemies ; and that to it, more than to any other cause, except the exorbitant revenues of the higher clergy is to be ascribed the great number of dissenters of all denomina tions from its doctrines and discipline. Nay, so injurious has it been, and still is, that it is not too much to say that the very existence of the church, as an establishment, depends upon a thorough and radical reform in both . these re spects. The work of reformation was, in fact, but half done in England. The doctrines of the church were purified from the inventions and ad ditions of men ; but the outward part—the part most calculated to wean from it the affections of the people—was allowed to remain. The case was different in Scotland. There the hand of the reformer swept away both battlement and buttress, and having demolished, even to every vestige which could remind the people of the past, laid the foundation for an edifice which nothing but the misconduct of the Clergy them selves could pull down. And what has been the consequence ? Why that the clergy of the one kingdom, having no occasion to intermeddle with their flocks in secular matters, are almost universally beloved and venerated ; and that in this country, although every one reveres the doctrines of the Church, and respects those of its members, with whom they are not brought into hosti'e collision by worldly dealings, a seciet feeling of dissatisfaction has long per vaded more than three-fourths of the commu nity, and is now breaking forth against the Church generally, in the shape of county and city meetings, for a reform of its abuses. The Clergy of Scotland gained every thing but wealth, in fact, by the reformation ; those of this country lost every thing that could serve to make them beloved and respected—but their incomes. The operation of the tithe system, in other respects, we must defer to another day. Morning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, J.►x. 20. PRITCUARD V. BULL. - --- - The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment in this case, the facts of which appeared to be, that the tes tator bequeathed certain estates to trustees for the benefit of Mrs. Bull, his daughter, for her life, and after her death the same to be divided amongst such children as she might have. The question in the suit then arose, whether this limitation, the estate being personalty, was not too remote. Lord Gif ford, then Master of the Rolls, decided that it as, and that Mrs. Bull, being the testator's sole next of kin, took the estate given to her for life, and that the remainder over being void, she took the entirety of the residue. The effect of this decree was, that the whole property became vested in Mrs. Bull and in her husband in her right. There were certain claims on the testator's estate ; but as they were unaffected by the decree, it was not now necessary to advert to them. The decree was acquiesced in by the parties, and had never been appealed from. His Lordship thought that, under these circum stances, the parties were entitled to have the full benefit of the decree, and he so ordered accordingly, on the prayer of this petition. With respect to certain dilapidation!, for which the trustee might be liable, he directed 1,0001. to be set apart as an indemnity. No case of any interest was heard during the day. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 20. GOLDSMID V. MORGAN. This was an action for a common assault: Mr. Serjeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's case.— The plaintiff and defendant occupied that rank in society which made the bodily pain occasioned by an assault the least part of the injury. Mr. Gold amid was a gentleman well known in the monied and commercial world, and Mr. Morgan was a stock-broker of respectability. A meeting of the holders of Colombian Stock took place last summer, at which both the plaintiff and the defendant were present. Some discussion took place at this meet ing relative to a proposition made by the defendant for the reduction of the Colombian Stock, of which Mr. Goldsmid was a holder to a considerable amount. The plaintiff opposed the reduction, and censured the conduct of Mr. Morgan, in making a proposition to the Colombian Government to lower the interest of the loan, without authority from the bondholders at large. Some time afterwards, the defendant meeting Mr. Goldsmid, committed the assault which had given rise to this action, and was probably intended to expose the plaintiff to ridicule. Mr. Page was acquainted with both plaintiff and defendant, and had attended the Meeting men tioned. He was afterwards standing talking to Mr. Goldsmid, about a quarter-past four in the day, at the corner of Sweeting's-alley, Cornhill. " I saw (continued the witness) Mr. Morgan coming right towards both of us where we stood. He came but ting with his head like a ram, as I may say, towards us.—(Laughter.) I, thinking it a Stock Exchange joke, said, Billy, what are you about ?'—( A laugh.) But he made no answer, and approached close to Mr. Goldsmid and me. His head was held down in the manner of a ram's, so that it might have touched Mr. Goldsinid's head ; and at last I saw that he was not in jest, but in earnest. He held up his tist, called Mr. Goldsmid a stuttering rascal — (Laughter)—and said he had a good mind to thrash him; observing, ' What right had you to traduce my character ?' Mr. Goldsmid said, ' I don't know that I have traduced your character. I did no more than any other man would have done under similar circumstances.' The defendant only butted once with his head; that is, be came along all the way butting.—(Laughter.) He raised his hand up to plaintiff's face, and appeared very angry. A fter a little while witness went away." Cross-examined by Mr. SerjeantTADDY — Mo r g an is worthy and good-natured a man as ever lived. We sometimes have very rough jokes upon the Ro y al Exchange ; in point of fact, what may becalled prac tical jokes.—(Laughter.) Mr. Gold smid was stand- ing nearest to the Exchange—l farthest from it) and Mr. Morgan would see me first as he came along. So that, in point of fact, if he was going to butt any body, you would be the buttee?—(A laugh.) Ye.. Mr. Goldsmid said to Morgan, " Why did you not answer me at the meeting ?" It was Goldsmid who referred to the meeting. The defendant held up his fist, and not his forefinger, to Mr. Goldsmid's face. I know the difference between a man's fore finger and his fist.—(A laugh.) Mr. William Plowman deposed to having seen Mr. Goldsmid going along Sweeting's-alley, in the direction of his counting-house, accompanied by the defendant, who stuck close to his side. Morgan called Goldsmid "a scoundrel" in the hearing of witness. Did not recollect the time of the day when this happened. Cross-examined by Mr. BRODERICK—WeII, though you cannot recollect the time of the day, perhaps you remember the time of the year when this terrible business took place ?—lt happened be tween March and September. That is very precise. Mr. Serjeant WlLDE—Rascal means much the same thing in summer as in winter.—(A laugh.) Mr. Serjeant TARDY for the defendant, observed that serious imputations had been made upon Mr. Morgan's character, and it was not surprising if the defendant, notwithstanding his beinga most "worthy, good-natured man," felt indignant at these attacks. Here was this gentleman running along at the close of business, butting it might be, like a ram or a bull, at his friend Mr. Page, for it was clear enough be had no intention to injure Mr. Goldsmid with hoof or'horn, and suddenly seeing the plaintiff, and being reminded by him of the meeting,—the witness said distinctly that the reference to the meeting was by Goldsmid,—the defendant naturally expressed in dignation at the scandalous and unfounded asper sions cast upon him. At most it was a mere Stock- Exchange quarrel. A philosopher, arguing upon the perfectibility of the human species, once said that man was capable of perpetual improvement ; but that it was not so with bears, or other irrational animals : for, says he, if you take the first bear that ever licked his offspring into elegance of proportion immediately after the deluge, you will find him just as polite a brute as any bear of the present day : bears, unlike men and women, in an age distin guished by the march of intellect, being incapable of improvement. However that might be, be was afraid that the bulls and bears of the present day were much less polite than formerly.—(A laugh.) — One thing was certain, that these animals had no 3 per Cent. Consols, French Scrip, or Colombian Loan, to quarrel about in the time of Noah.— (Laughter.)—They did not go together by the ears, or butt, about 4 per cent. or 6 per cent. then. The Learned Gentleman characterized the assault (it had been so termed by plaintiff's Counsel) as of a , most trivial nature, and one for which a farthing damages would be a most ample compensation. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned ' their verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 501. lIIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, JAN. 20. WYATT V. INGRAM. The Judges delegate in this commission assem bled to-day, at twelve, to give judgment in this im portant case, which is an appeal from the sentence of the Judge of the Prerogative Court, by which an alleged will of Mr. John Clopton, of Clopton-hall, Warwick, in favour of Mr. Henry Wyatt, was set aside, on the ground that it was obtained by fraud and circumvention. After remaining in deliberation till half•past two, the Counsel and the public were admitted, when Mr. Justice LirrLEDALE, the presses, informed the parties, that the Court had come to the deter mination to adjourn their decision, without naming a day to deliver it. The parties might, in the mean time, consider whether they could come to any str ' rangement which would render it uncecessary to re quire the judgment of this Court. TYRRELL AND lIARDING V. MARS V. When the Judges in the preceding commission retired, the Delegates in this commission deliberated about half an hour, when the doors were opened, and the Registrar read the order of the Court, which was, that the Cout t was divided in opinion, and as neither of the three common law Judges concurred with the majority (the Delegates from the Civil Courts), their Lordships gave no deceision. ARCHES' COURT, JAN. 20. This being the first day of Term, the Court was opened with the usual formalities. No business of any moment occurred. Sir HERBERT JENNER presided in the absence of Sir John Nicholl. FRENCH STATISTICAL ACCOUNTS, The following are the principal results of the returns made to the French Government on the population of Paris and the departments, and the consumption of the capital, as stated in the Annuaire. There were born in Paris during 1828, in mar riage and in private houses, 9,609 boys, 9,094 girls ; —out of marriage, 2,608 boys, and 2,555 girls. In the Lying-in hospitals for married women, 262 boys, and 261 girls ;—in the Lying-in hospitals, for unmarried women, 2,738 boys, and 2,574 girls. Total of births, 29,601; of which 15,117 were boys, arid 14,484 girls. This number comprises 2,291 acknowledged, and 8,184 abandoned natural children. There have been in the same year 5,970 marriages between bachelors and spinsters; --. 7 353 between bachelors and widows;-749 between widowers and spinsters ; —and 210 between widowers and widows. Total, 7,282. Deaths in private houses, 6,930 men, 8037 women ;—in the civil hospitals, 4,093 men, 4,492 women ; —in the military hospitals, 597 men, 1 w oman ;—in the prisons, 29 men, 45 wo men. There have been deposited in the Morgue, during the year, 279 male, and 54 female corpses. Total number of deaths, 24,557. During 1828, the small-pox destroyed 176 per sons, of all ages tied both sexes. During the same year, there were consumed at Paris 960,117 hectolitres of wine; 30,920 of brandy; 6,352 of cider; 117,131 of beer. In edibles, 71,382 cattle ; 13,895 heifers; 63,667 calves; 366,229 sheep; 83,125 hogs; 3,283,727 killogrammes of viands a la main; 1,298,523 killo grammes of airy cheeses. There has been sold at Paris 4,283,632 francs-worth of sea fish, 970,393 francs-worth of oysters, 611,569 francs-worth of fresh-water fish, 8,542,721 francs-worth of fowls and poultry, 9,863.519 francs-worth of butter, and 4,510,169 francs-worth of eggs. There have entered Paris, 9,480,714 bottles of hay, 14,073,187 bottles yeard 1 1 , 8 13 2 7 7 , , 18 6 2 er h e ec w to e l r i e tre b s o o ro f oiantst.ie whole of of Ir stra w , t h e France , an 469,209 legitimate boys, and 440,219 legitimate girls. The number of natural male chil dren was as high as 36,098, and that of natural female children as 34,670, which gives the total number of births at 980,196. There were 255,738 marriages, and 791,125 deaths, male and female. The population has therefore sustained an increase of 189,071 individuals. The result of the observa tions made on the number of births of both sexes, from 1817 to 1827, is, that the births of boys have exceeded those of girls by a fifteenth. To learn whether climate had any influence in that respect, 30 departments mete considered separately. The same result was found all over France, which proves that the excess of the number of male over that of female births does not depend in any sensible de gree upon climate. With regard to natural chil dren, the number of girls approaches more closely that of boys. We are informed, from very good authority, that the smugglers on the Sussex coast have beea more successful this winter than for many winters. In the neighbourhood of Rye more tubs have been run in one month than in any winter for the last seven years past; out of 3,000, only one solitary tub was captured. — Brighton Guardian. OLD BAILEY, JAN. 24. Samuel Clough, a young man of decent *9 nearance, was put on his trial , charged with ',urglariously entering a warehouse belonging •to the ...ast India Company, and stealing silk shawls aid arious articles of Indian manufacture, about the value of 6001. The Jury, without a moment's hesitation,returued verdict of Guilty. Mr. BRODERICK stated that there was another ,rosecution against the prisoner for stealing money lelonging to the India Company. _ _ The RECORDER observed, that u the robbery vas not committed in a dwelling-house, the pri goner could not be capitally convicted. The prisoner was then called up for judgment, and the RECORDER sentenced him to transportation for life. NEW COURT. James Butler, aged 32, and Joke Piehott, 25. were indicted for stealing, on the 23d September last, a necklace, and a quantity of linen, the property of James Billinghant. The Jury acquitted Pichott, and found Butler Guilty. The latter prisoner has been, in the course of 'the sessions, convicted in the Old Court of three burglaries, and will in all probability suffer the late penalty of the law. THE MARKETS. COAL M A RIC ET.—Jan. Pit eft 111 ola t «wow.. Sgs. 6d. Lambton's Primrose sec oci• Charlotte 34 6 Walls End Stewart's 31 Killingworth 311 0 Culm Drim - ln 6 WallsEndßewickeitCo. 37 0 Ships at market, 75%--Shli sold. n—thuoi hi. 711%. COUNTRY CORN HARM'S DURII46 TH WeEg• Wheat. Earley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to a. a. t Abingdon... 55 62 39 SS 21 29 Andover 55 62 22 34 20 93 , 5.! Birmingham 64 '7O 22 38 28 20 Bridport 56 '74 32 39 26 34 b' Cirencester 43 70 20 38 • 93 Faringdon 54 86 36 40 98 SS Guildford 49 74 94 35 20 710 —. Henley 54 83 30 35 26 SO 6 1 2. Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 High worth 69 80 32 42 29 34 -- OP Maidenhead 65 84 98 38 22 30 0 1 Oakingh am 56 76 30 36 19 sit 411 , 1 Reading Salisbury, _ Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 411 Stroud , 66 80 34 38 92 82 Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 SO 38 Uxbridge . 4B 81 21 32 19 32 —. 46 73 20 36 16 29 Warminster 42 72 23 42 90 32 Windsor 54 76 24 36 12 34 Worcester—.......— 70 77 36 40 24 22 MARKET.—Jan. t I Per lb. d. to 6 . A Beef ~. Mutton Veal Laud) I Pork L. to SI. 15e. per tom. CHELTENHAM Per BusheL s. d. to 6. d. Wheat 7 0 0 0 Barley Oats 3 0 4 3 Beaus 4 9 5 6 Pease 5 0 8 0 Hay 31. 11 4 8 " 6 6 it I LEWES MARKET.—Jan. I. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 00to£3 4 0 Red ditto Barley Oats. New 0 19 0 1 0 0 Beaus 1 9 0 1:12 0 Oil Cake. New l2 10 0 per thousand. KETS.—Jan. 13. DUMFRIES MA. s. d. s. e. s. d. C a ; Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 6to 7 0 Butter 16oz B ar l e y 3 3 3 6 Eggs, dozen ..... ....... .0 0 0 ) Oats 2 3 2 9 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 1 9 2 0 Veal 0 3 0 Potatoes. ewt. °,, CATTLE. — The market to-day was again very shor t '', supplied, the total number being only '74. The h eSli eAttle were in fair condition, but the buyers were 14 1 ; i : means bnv:o us to do business, indeed we are not fasi of a single offer being made for dump COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS ♦ND RIPON'S, 111 PO ATZD. r .------A---, , Same pc- rid ' • This riod last II; 0. • year. year. ro r ' ---..-- ...-- ..... li nap. &e. Bags, ace. . Bass, it, • 16,41.1 Liverpool 4,0111 4g* London l5 137 „ I . Gl asgow 455 —. Total exported lo 1829 516. JLX PORTO,. Same peiiod 18 . 28 ............ ......... At the Court of Aldermen held on Tues( 4 / a case was decided which has for some time past oeell sioned much discussion among the licensed victualler': the metropolis. It was an appeal by Messrs. I NNL 0 W A LTERS, WESTBROOK, and Davis, licensed victue , -,, of the Ward of Cheap, against being compelled to le t of constables, having been chosen on St. Thomas's DOA, pay the fine. By Act of Parliament, any licensed vidli o ler serving as constable absolutely loses his license. op licensed victuallers referred to gave notice of appel t , being chosen, and on Tuesday the ease was heard to Court of Aldermen, at which Mr. Alderman Woo° P' - t ; sided for the Loan Maxon. The appellants allude.l4 several portions of the Acts of Parliament reguli si to licensed victuallers, to prove that they were not liable d be called upon to serve as constables. By the Sd o f Geoi, IV., it is enacted that licensed victuallers shall be " i :j qualified to serve as constables, and that, if any licee'do victualler did take upon himself the office, he should I his license. The appellants submitted they were ero bound to find a deputy or act themselves. The Cr° after some deliberation, decided that the appellants s'eeo excused from serving the office of constable, and lb° s the question at rest. —.OOl BIRTHS. 6' On the 17th inst. in Connaught-terrace, ht terrace the lady o f g - 2 S. Hayter, Esq. of a daughter. - 6 01 At Portsmouth, the lady of Major Chichester , Rifles, of a son. 0 On the 17th inst. at Clifton Wood, near Bristol, 1 lady of W. P. Brigetock, Esq. of Stoke-hill, Sorrel' a daughter. 00 At Castlecomer, the lady of the Rev. James of a La s te n. Sriil er Lately, at Wareslay, the lady of the Rev. W. of a son. On the 18th inst. Mrs. T. Cabell, of slot'. MARRIED. „ h olt On the 19th inst. at East Barnet, Thomas Cros.- . .0 Esq. of Dolly-mount, in the county of Dublin, to P " - 0 only daughter of the late Rev. Philip Castle Sbeer of Glatton, in the county of Huntingdon, and of Harley-street, London. • On the 14th inat. at Paris, first at the manic and afterwards at the chapel of the British Embassy t! Vicomte Afentque, to Caroline, second daughter 0' Hon. John Spencer, of WheatSeld. On the 17th inst. at St. Mary-10-Seraud, Mr. SO Henning', to Miss Ann Crouch. On the 19th inst. at Brighton, the Rev. Philip WI I I Douglas, M.A., rector of Bonby and Harkstow, Lio,l shire, and nephew of the Bishop of Durham, .to 0 1 1 3 ',1 lotto, daughter of the late John Barber, Esq. of On the 20th inst. at Christchurch, St. mark-hill. Marjle bri ; William Madox, Esq. of Upper Gloneester-plaee , 0° if square, to Maria Eleanor, eldest daughter of the let s Lucas, Esq. of Church-street, Soho. ° ( lt At Newport, Isle of Wight, C. Sturgeons Es t i* / sir Inner Temple, to Harriet Eleanor, eldtst daught er ° Rev. P. Geary. At Cove, Ireland, Major Wilson, 6 5 th Regiffielltei? o', 1 1 Mary Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of WilliVa I ' Esq., R.N. DIED. ~t On the 16th inst. in Portman-strcet, Cbristo2o9 of ‘1 third son ; and on the 18th inst. the infant son , Mills, Esq. col ft At Castle Irvine, Eleanor Jones , at the Elio of 104. ~i 9 At Gosport, Miss Halstead, sister of Viee-Adoor- L. Halstead. 140 On the 11th inst. the Rev. William Roby, Mio-00 Grosvenor-street Chapel, Manchester, in the 64th 1 , his age. 1 On the helB r th inst. in Welbeck-street, the Rev. 1 . /3 " 0 P. Let On the 17th inst. at his residence, Sussex-i lace , , Kent-road, Mr. Thomas Creasy, in the 78th Yell ; his age. On the 18thlinst. W. Dinwiddie, Esq. in the'72(lll of his age. , o f On the 19th inst. in Upp er Berkely-street, P. r_,Si 4 square, Ph;lip Perry , Esq. of Moor-hall, sitar 111 ' Essex, aged 60. P AINT ID AND PUBLISHED sy MURDO YOUF' ..I k 81114 Ornez, II; STRAND LCII 01 W H. • ii a few of the forge h t. t aadtim a for kaa r oos i vei l , tione takes is pros Bound in celebrgted IV at bia. Pal Contains i Isy. various Ai l iahe4l at 21s, Embellished bound in silk BnTuorbly vuoet beautify !kn. from psi eminent Art Inge for 18$ graving •f greatly super ' tegantly engrAvinga T. Lawrence Watts. Thi >lCildons as L tioattins I Gem paiatim rFora the mm htheii at 1$• This Tole ! 18 Alas engrl the works of 'scions, in I 'the day. S 4 teri. R ail;a e hj i :s . anWhdigi T rswna ia rbes: • :::h ltl ha::: 7l :l l at lb. A Now A] Ashod with e haul in silk At 6s. 64. Luballishl frame drawini at es. 6d. ] Nendsomel Staving* by 1 law celebrat 4t 128. Contains t Artists, bona iilshed at 12 Neatly b ou Sold at 10$. 1 This beau s e ngravings, a iiitford, Dr. i nstructirs s rose°. Edit •f Irish Chat ACKEItt Gutting C &1., the Pro ►ell, Miss Xclitsel by Fr rith Nitvr Embellish, Eiwards, ki firs. Op is, by Mrs. Alai Certain, U. Psrter, I "nor, Carte] 7s. Pablishe The Enig slate. Prise The Alusi4 all the ♦nnu Ladiee' an Ana eagrarin liahrd at 2s. Pa'a►cock's nunuck, sno Peacock's lii h■bli•h•i al leayed, in eai Kearney's, rnercial Ledg Time'• Te l Guid••, Di 16 )ko, equal, Th• Briti other daserip UNPItIiCED A W. 11. S. litY, Gantry, and other Pa Superfine this post ..... Ditto, gilt. B uperfine this; hot pr essed pbt"tot, . 4Li IPerflne thiel Dr tto s, t ilt h t :l3 r t l i i t le o r Utto:l,7, gilt Sualityr' fool Of; • d o. . u aT 11 Pertin e .t)itto, LT' Eirt pert, t satin Ditto, do,, ii tilt s'kthertine-t t e Poet (various tilt„ . " o , tir . ateditto . "'Perilne thic) roe, hot-pre oroad or vtari black border 12 TRAVEL -ioch souffle IT•chtt o, patent t-ditto, good I iiji, ditto, patent n imPr( 12 -ditto ng , , t ditto i rqitt o , patent ;ditto impro travel li t4 'ito, patent -ditt o imp double writi 10 elinl case a :ditto real t travellii leZtent lock . ), `-th tt o 1t 4 441ttt.0 real ' le I ,:Tb n le travel 1111.n,0 d dou ress gtZ , ent lock outside g Pouch c Instrum 11,,Trr!n 'ranted , ti . in essin a case arranted str 1 14 ,k Pouch dr meats rout AtA ' pewter -4 :es, rulers, p Anextensi ° l tket L e d ge 4 40,- nO, Scri . h ttlt rn• Per ve hundred. hrnals ru l e d ti most ell All Orders 41 5. 192,