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the- impottatit matter is settled, we 0411 not be tardy in communicating the name, and canvassing the pr et elisions, of the successful candidate.— Times. The currency question is so settled, in point of fact and practice, as well as in reason, that Mr. Att wood's motion attracts no attention either in or out of the House. He preaches to the winds; and it is certainly highly honourable to this country to find itself in the same situation, with respect to the cir culating medium, as before the war began, and be fore the Bank stopped payment. How many pro phecies were rung into our ears, that it was totally impossible either to resume payments in cash, or to recall the small notes ! Both have been effected, and that without corn sinking to nothing in price, or any great misery inflicted on the various classes of society. What any one can mean, except mischief, by asking for the re-issue of small notes, we cannot understand. It is asking for a state of danger to the country, and for fresh panics. Gold, discharging as_ it does now the office of small notes, supplies a fund which would be easily attainable in case there were a run upon the Bank. But were small notes to appear again, gold would vanish, and then, should a run take place, there would be nothing to meet it—at least till after an importa tion from the continent—but the specie preserved in the Bank coffers, be that more or less. The public may not generally be aware that silver is a much more perishable article than gold, not only because it is more worn when coined into specie, but also because its specific gravity is less. Surely, therefore, it is rational to assume the more fixed and unvarying substance as the standard. When the silver coinage is worn light, a fresh issue should take place, but gold should always be the criterion to which it should be referred. But the great objec tion to Mr. Attwood's proposition is, that it is, in fact, a direct attempt to change the common stan dard of property throughout the realm, which would have been equivalent to a disturbance of every con tract made by the possessors of property since paper ceased to be the circulating medium of Great Bri tain. The best possible way of describing the hope less attitude of the paper schemers, was taken •by Mr. Herries in his reply; when, alluding to, the thin attendance of the House of Commons, he assured the Honourable Mover, that if ever so remote an idea had gone abroad, that his mo tion stood the least chance of being carried, Members would have flocked in from every quarter to oppose it. " The two Hon. Members (the mover and seconder), said Mr. Herries, " might depend upon it, that if the majority of the house thought there was the slightest probability of this motion ending in an alteration of the cur rency, the House would be crowded by the fullest possible attendance of Members, who would be drawn down for the express purpose of preventing such alteration." The plan of the two standards, viz., gold and silver, being compelled by Act of Parliament to circulate at fixed proportions to each other—viz., as in the year 1798—such proportions being essentially different from those which they now actually bear to each other, from the extraor dinary changes which have occurred in the supply and management of the respective metals—that plan, we say, resembles no other in history but the immortal one of poor Mr. Vansittart, for voting truth to be a liar," and a paper guinea and a golden one of precisely the same value ! Enough, and more than enough, on this wearisome theme, which is worth about as much as a fiddlestick by way of a text for dissertation.—Times. We understand that much inconvenience has been experienced during the last month, in consequence of the slow, or rather the uncertain progress of Scotch Judicial business in the House of Lords. The 'Lord Chancellor, in bringing forward his Equity Bill, some time ago, engaged to extinguish the arrear of appeals, before the close of the present session of Parliament. That arrear we believe, con sisted of sixty'-four Scotch appeals; of which only twenty-seven cases have been yet completely heard ; and of these, only seventeen have received the final judgment of the House. Whether their Lordships mean to proceed further this Session we know not. Recent circumstances, tio doubt, have thrown an unexpected pressure of other business on the Chan cellor; and delay has also been occasioned by Lord Wynford's indisposition. But if, as generally sup posed, the Session is to be a long one, we can see no reason why the Lord Chancellor should not re deem—we do not say the whole, but a moiety of the pledge which he has given. At all events.the parties should not be kept in a state of uncer tainty and suspense. Several Advocates and Agents from Scotland are, we hear, detained 'n London, not only with much inconvenience to themselves, but at a grievous expense to the litigants who employ them. 'fhis evil may easily be remedied by the Lord Chan cellor announcing his intentions distinctly to the public.—. Morning Chronicle. One of the greatest improvements in the Poor Laws would be to confine settlement to birth. In an article on the Causes and Remedies of Pauper ism, in the Quarterly Review (from many of the conclusions of which we dissent), this point of a birth-settlement is strongly contended for. " The law of parochial settlement (says the writer) may be mentioned as another check to the most advan tageous employment of labour. It tends to prevent farmers and tradesmen from employing those who might by such service, or by residence, acquire a settlement, and ultimately become charge able on them, and in this way checks the • migration of labour from districts where it is tedundsnt to those where there is a deficiency.— ~. Birth is the most rational ground for settling a pauper on any parish ; it is the easiest of all to he ascertained; and by restricting the question within these narrow limits an immense mass of expensive litigation would be at once annihilated." It h as long been a boast of our English agriculture, that in consequence of a good rotation of crops, and an economy of labour, the number of labourers bears here a much smaller proportion to the produce ob tained than. in other countries. Hence, in many parishes in flourishing agricultural districts, though the produce may not be less than thirty times what it was at the Conquest, the population is much the same now as it was then. But the tendency of the present Law of Settlement unquestionably is to counteract agricultural improvement, by retaining labourers where they are not wanted. The paying wages out of rates, which has latterly attained to such a height in the South and West of England, had, it is believed, its origin in the redundancy caused by agricultural improvements; and under a birth-set tlement the evil would probably have soon remedied itself. In Sir F. Morton Eden's invaluable work on the Poor, the roundsmen are said, in many of the parish returns, to have had their origin in im provements. Thus, for, instance, in the parish of Winslow, in Buckinghamshire, it is said—" In 1774., a hamlet belonging to the parish, containing; about four hundred acres, was enclosed; and in .1776, the other part of the parish was enclosed. The rise of the rates is chiefly ascribed to the en closure of common fields, which, it is said, has leE %cited the number of farms, and from the conversion of ,arable into pasture, has much reduced the de mand for labourers. An old man of the parish says, that, lieke the enclosures took place, land did not let for 4,aa acre, arid that, when he was young, the name of roundsmen was unknown in the parish. It must, however, be considered, that now a great part of the labour done in the parish is paid for out o f the nor'a rate in money given to roundsmen (1795), .In Xibworth Beauchamp, Leicester . shire; it is said, ‘ No account of the rates in any of . the divisions, previous to the enclosures of the helds,.couldbe obtained ; but it is said that they were not one-third of what they are at present ; and the . people attribute the rise of them to the en- 4 closure ; for they say that, before the fields were enclosed, they were solely applied to the production of corn ; that the poor had then plenty of employ- ment in weeding, reaping, thrashing, &c.. and could also collect a great deal of corn by gleaning ; but that the fields being now in pasturage, the farmers have little occasion for labourers, and that the poor being thereby thrown out of employment, must, of course, be supported by the partsh." Every one kr.ows that the wretched system here alluded to kept a number of people employed in raising what hardly exceeded their own consumption. The change added greatly to the food of the country ; and till that is regretted is, that the population Should have been penned in where there was no demand for them. After all, however, we suspect there is much exaggeration in the account of the deterio rat:on of the condition of the labourers ever► in the home counties. But into this subject we will not now enter.—Morning Chronicle. Every country ought to be left to settle its own affairs, and to choose that sort of Government which it may deem the best. We formerly censured the conduct of Mr. Canning in interfering with the in ternal affairs of Portugal—we equally condemn the present Government fur its intermeddling, policy with regard to Greece. A man who, in private life, troubles himself much about his neighbours' affairs, acquires a reputation which is never spoken of with respect. It is best for both individuals and nations to mind their own business, which they never can do well as long as they are possessed with the officious zeal of intermeddling with the concerns of others. Interference with the political regulations of other States has already cost England dear. Her National Debt, chiefly incurred during the last French war, is the evidence, and ought to be the corrective, of such Quixotic folly. Are not the pro per interests of this country sufficient to give full employment to all the intelligence and talents which Ministers have at their command, without taking upon themselves the unnecessary and gratuitous labour of " settling," as it is called, the affairs of Greece ? Our Ministers talk of having assisted in giving freedom to the Greeks at the very moment in which they deny them the first privilege of a free people—that of choosing their own form of Govern ment. When Prince Leopold was first spoken of as the appointed Sovereign of what was styled the new " independent" State, we deprecated the ap pointment as likely to involve England at future time in foreign wars. He is a British subject—pen sioned by Great Britain—allied to our Royal Family: and if he had finally accepted the Sovereignty to which British influence had nominated him, the na- tional honour would have been pledged to support him on the throne of that country at any expense of blood and treasure. It mattered not whether our "ancient and faithful ally," the Sultan, whose em pire we so kindly assisted in dismembering, chose at some future time to reconquer his hereditary pro vinces ; or Russia, or Austria, found circumstances favourable for the ambitious design of annexing the new State to the empire of one or the other ; England would be bound, in the true spirit of knight-errantry, to run a tilt against all corners, and employ her money and armies for the defence of Greece, as she had before done for Hanover, with out the prospect of deriving the least advantage from the most successful issue of the contest. On this account we are glad that Prince Leopold de clined the proffered crown of a people who have not the means of preserving their own independence, and who, if they had, would not allow a foreign Prince to be imposed upon them by the dictation of strangers, without permitting them to have the least participation in the choice of their Sovereign, or of the Government which he was to administer. By the refusal of the Prince to expose himself to the risks of this dangerous and precarious elevation, England has now a good opportunity of getting out of this foolish business altogether. Our public debt, and the taxes mcessery to pay its interest, can ill brook any augmentation. We are now in the fifteenth year of peace, and the bur dens which former wars have entailed on the country still press heavily on the industry of the people. What would be the consequence of getting into new wars, while this load of debt remains upon the country, it is not difficult to anti cipate. The result which occurs to any one of common sagacity is so bad that imagination recoils from the prospect. Nothing, therefore, short of absolute necessity, should induce us to place our selves in such a position as might, by possibility, lead to war. Where, indeed, the national honour or the national existence is at stake, we must de fend ourselves with all the means in our power; but we are not bound by any such pressing and para mount consideration to mix up the interests of this country with the affairs of Greece. No country is fit for independence that is destitute of either the spirit or the means to defend herself. o say that her independence must be preserved by the arms of a foreign Power involves a contradiction, for there can be nu independence where there is no self-sup port. In the negociation our Ministers talked us readily about guaranteeing loans of money and troops to Greece as if we were a people in the highest state of national prosperity, and had our public coffers overflowing with wealth ! Our Govern ment should lay aside this ostentatious style of di plomacy, and first enable the nation to pay its own debts before they talk of guaranteeing the loans of other people. As we have said before, our Mini sters have now a good excuse for disentangling themselves and the country from the Greek nego tiation. They will avail themselves of it if they are wise ; and, if they are riot, the country may yet hare reason to lament the day her Statesmen were possessed with the strange ambition of dictating a Sovereigns to a :state whose independence they ac knowledged.—Morning Herald. Mr. Sheridan's celebrated sarcasm upon the Whigs, that they " built a wall to run their own heads against," has been in some measure realised by Sir Robert Peel in the case of his Forgery Bill. What earthly occasion there could be to render that a party question, and issue pressing Treasury cir culars, only as preludes to a defeat, we have not the smallest conception. Besides, Sir Robert Peel must know, we should imagine, that the Government is not so overburthened with strength as to make it advisable that it should be called forth upon doubt ful eccasions ; and yet here is a defeat sustained after every effort has in vain been tried to secure a victory. These are mortifying matters, arid are felt, we have no doubt, by the head of the Ad ministration more keenly than his Grace would have the world believe. Indeed the Duke is well known to be unusually sensitive on the subject of these untoward divisions. The other night, in the House of Lords, on a question whether the East Retford or a Divorce Bill should take the precedence, a division ensued, in which the Duke and five other Cabinet Ministers were left in a minority. Though the affair was in no respect a Ministerial one, his Grace's mortification upon the occasion is represented to have been marked and extreme, and shows how feelingly alive those are who are used to give the word of command, when called upon in their ; turn to obey. But all these sources of mortification the Duke of Wellington has brought upon himself. No man was ever placed at the head of affairs with more decided means of commanding popularity than the Duke. No man ever brought to office so high a previous reputation. Why is the Duke not the popular Minister lie might have been ? Why, as a general election approaches, do even the willing satellites of any Administration shrink from supporting him ? Shall- we tell his Grace ? It is because he has not shown that deci sion in the Cabinet which the world had witnessed , from him in the field.—lllorning Herald. Those persons, in Parliament or out of it, who habitually display a spirit of hostility to the Esta blished Church, have never been very scrupulous on the point of veracity. But we do not recollect upon any occasion a more absurd or outrageous vio lation of truth and probability than was committed the other night by Mr. Hume, when, on presenting a petition from certain inhabitants of the parish o' St. Luke, he charged the Commissioners for Build ing and Repairing Churches with the offence of forcing new churches and chapels upon parishes which had no need of them. It would be worse than idle to reason upon such a subject with per sons who express the opinion that a parish like St. Luke's was adequately supplied with places of worship, in which the ritual and doctrine of the established religion of the country are observed and expounded, notwithstanding their knowledge of the facts that the population of the parish exceeds 40,000 persons, and that before the new churches and chapels, of which complaint is made, were provided, there was accommodation for the purposes of public worship for no more than 1,200. To argue with such persons on the neces sity or importance of religious observances of any kind, or on any subject indeed connected with reli gion, would be almost as foolish as to discourse to a blind man about colours. But it is a consolation to believe that the public does not generally par ticipate in this depravity or moral blindness, and that it will not see much to censure in the Commis sioners for thinking that a population of above 40,000 persons required church-room for more than 1,200, and for acting firmly and steadily upon this conviction, in defiance of the obstructions and the obloquy they must have been prepared to encounter from hardened unbelievers and fanatical schismatics. If the assertion of Mr. Hume were true, that the people of this populous parish had so far lost the habit of going to church as to leave an insufficient number of worshippers even for the scanty and in adequate accommodation already provided for them, what would it prove, but the fatal tendency of scanty and inadequate accommodation in our churches to foster the growth of profligacy, infidelity, and dissent ? Could a stronger' argument be urged to show the necessity of substituting exertion in place of the apathy which had heretofore so fatally prevailed—of awakening the attention of the people, and loudly claiming their regard to the National Church, by presenting it to their view, active, vigilant, and zealous to maintain its character, to assert its pretensions, to enforce its pure and holy doctrines ? Could any thing have established more conclusively the relation of cause and effect between a dormant church and an irreligious or misguided people ? To • assert that the Commissioners for Promoting the Building of Churches and Chapels have in any ease interfered unnecessarily, or with-1 out pressing and urgent necessity, is to assert not only a falsehood, but an absurdity. Is their field of necessary exertion so limited that they can have aay inducement to travel out of it ? Are there so few places in England where additional churches are undeniably required, that they need to expend their superabundant energy, their leisure time, their overflowing means and resources, upon places where their interference is not a duty ? What should induce them so to transgress the bounds of their commission? It cannot be the desire of popularity, for they must know that nothing is so sure to render them unpopular as an officious inter meddling in the local affairs of parishes upon slight grounds. It cannot be the desire of creating pa trorage, for they must know that a new church built where it is not wanted will attract a very small congregation, and yield accordingly a very incompe tent income to its Minister. It cannot be the de sire to prolong the period of their official existence, for they must know that there is no probability of the commission expiring for want of employment, during the life of the youngest of its actual mem bers. There-is no conceivable motive, in short, to lead the Commissioners to an unwarrantable or needless exercise of their powers in any case. Arid this would be sufficient to convince every reasonable man that they had never exercised them needlessly or unwarrantably, even if he did not concur with us in the opinion that a very satisfactory security against the abuse of power is afforded by the cha racters of the distinguished persons whose names are included in the commission.—Morning Post. The Agriculturists are mistaken in supposing that it would be injurious to their interests to have an additional duty of Is. per gallon levied upon Corn Spirit, because the only effect would be to prevent a very extensive importation of Foreign Corn. It has been proved by the official returns to Parliament, that in the last five years the average quantity per annum of Foreign Corn imported was equal to 15,466,280 gallons of Corn Spirit; whereas the average quantity of Rum annually imported for the same period was 3,288,625 gallons, only one-fifth of the Corn Spirit, and if no Rum had been imported, the quantity of Foreign Corn imported would have been much greater. It therefore follows that it is advantageous to the landed interest to encourage the importation and consumption of Rum (even by addi tional duties on Corn Spirits) to the extent of pre venting the importation of Foreign Corn; for it is well known that an over-large supply of Foreign Corn, bonded here, has frequently glutted and de pressed the British Corn Market to a ruinous extent, and for months and years continuance, without a remedy. Whereas the duty on Corn Spirit could be lowered at any moment, and the price of Corn would rise. So that Rum might be made to act as a safety valve, to prevent British Corn rising too high, or sinking too low; and save it from the in jurious effects of a glutted market, by the over whelming importation of Foreign Corn. It would also have this national advantage, that the money derived from Rum would be spent in this country, whereas the money derived from Foreign Corn would be spent in foreign countries.—Morning Post. It is not, perhaps, possible for us to divert the attention of our readers at present from the all engrossing topics of the demise of the Crown, and the political changes which may result from it ; but we cannot, nevertheless, allow one of the very many ri diculous op;nions broached on Tuesday night on the sulject of the currency, to pass without notice. The idea to which we allude, and to which Mr. Hus• kisson lent the sanction of his name, is, that if silver were made a legal tender, the shillings and six- pences would chase the sovereigns, and all other gold coins, out of the country. Now, in answer to this objection to Mr. Attwood's motion, it must strike every one, first, that no harm could possibly ensue from a preference on the part of the public to silver over gold, as a medium of exchange; and, secondly, that if the gold were really driven out, we should, at all events, have an equivalent quantity of silver, or of some equally valuable commodity, in lieu of it. Both the gold and the silver are, in fact, articles of commerce, quite as much as flour or bacon. If gold or silver be in demand, whether for coinage, or for any other species of manufac ture, they will naturally be high-priced ; and, vice versa, if they be not in demand, they will be bought for a proportionally less value. Nov it happens that the one is sometimes in abundance, and that the other is scarce ; and the consequence is, that he who may have come under obligations in one coin, is, from the necessity of the case, com pelledto pay in anot h er o f greater va l ue . Thi s , a t least, is not fair towards either debtor or creditor, and it is the less fair, because if silver and gold were equally legal tenders, or were duly valued, every one would know much more exa ctly than he now does what available property he possessed, as well as be enabled to guard himself against a ruinous variation in prices. The most ridiculous part of the objection to Mr. Attwood's motion, however, is, that silver would drive gold permanently out of the Country. With as much j ust i ce i t might be said, that paper would drive both gold and silver out of it. The first effect of the measure proposed by Mr. Attwood would unquestionably be to render gold of less value, and to raise the price of silver—to send the former to markets where it was in more request, and bring forth the latent stores of the latter; but it is as much a property of all commercial articles to find their level in the long run, as water itself, and we have no doubt that the respective value, as well us the respective quantity, of each, which might be required for general use, would be adjusted in the course of a few weeks. The effect of the present standard is to confer an extravagant value on gold, and tb depress that of silver in a similar proportion, while were both decreed by the Legislature to be equally legal tenders, their value would be more duly 'proportioned, and the country, besides, guarded Against the evil consequences of any extraordinary scarcity or superabundance of either.—Morn. Adver. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Putland, a boot maker in the city, applied to Alderman VENABLES, who sat during part of the day for the Lord Mayor, for advice in what manner to act under the following circumstances : He employed several men, and they were in the habit of drawing up a list of prices by which they consented to abide. This list he and they signed, and the men regularly were paid according to the terms thus prescribed by themselves. The men had, however, found it necessary to violate this compact, and they accordingly informed him that they could not work except at advanced prices. To this mode of proceeding they had, it appeared, been obliged to resort, in consequence of a threat from others in the trade, so that unless he (Mr. Putland) consented to pay according to the new scale, his business must remain suspended. He thought it a very hard mat ter to be subject to such an injurious breach of agreement. It was evidently a regular conspiracy. Alderman VENABLES said, that as the law at pre sent stood, workmen had a right to combine, but he apprehended that they might carry the spirit to an unwarrantable extent. He by no means considered that the general body had the right conferred upon them by the Act of Parliament to annoy individuals, or pursue any measures towards them calculated to force the adoption of a list of prices in opposition to that by which they were satisfied to be governed. He should grant summonses if Mr. Putland wished to try the question ; and if it appeared upon the investigation that the body of the journeymen sub stantially obliged the men employed by the appli• cant to abandon their work, by holding out to them a prospect of greater evil, he should certainly feel inclined to convict. Mr. Putland intimated that he should act upon the advice of the Alderman, and it is expected that in a few days the case will come on for a full hearing. Accounts of bites from dogs are daily brought to the Justice-room. Yesterday one of the parish offi cers waited upon the LORD MAYOR, and informed him that several persons had lately been bitten by truck-dogs, which started suddenly from beneath the trucks and fastened their teeth in passengers. He requested to know whether his Lordship could not oblige the owners of trucks to have their names and addresses painted on the trucks, in order that they might be made responsible for any mischief commit ted by their dogs. The LORD MAYOR—I would have you not be over nice on the subject at all. If you have the least suspicion that a dog is mad, kill it. I shall be answerable for the consequences. I wish it to be known as publicly as possible, and do not care a pin who is the owner. The accounts I receive are dreadful, and I know of only one way of checking so horrible an evil. 1 he Officer—But the officers do not like to go to those truck-dogs, they are so savage and they snap at every body. The LORD MAYOR—I shall inquire whether we cannot compel the owners to abate the evil. In the mean time I would have the officers destroy all- the dogs they suspect of madness. A person told the Lord Mayor that be and his family were kept awake all night by the noise of dogs which were locked up behind his premises. The LORD MAYOR—Poison them by all means. — His Lordship repeated his directions to the ° officer, to destroy all dogs that wandered about unmuzzled without masters. BOW.STREET. Charles Canfield Harman, a respectable-looking young man, by trade a coach-trimmer, was yester day charged before Mr. MINsuuLL, with having de serted his wife, who represented to the parish-offi cers of St. Martin'i-in-the-fields, that her husband was about to leave this country for America in a clandestine manner. _ _ The defendant tlenied that he had entertained any intention of deserting the complainant, although he had reason to believe that she was not his legal wife, notwithstanding that they had been regularly married. Upon being desired to explain what he meant, the defendant said that the complainant was the lawful wife of a man named Denby, who, in the year 1822, was tried for bigamy, found guilty, and sentenced to be transported for seven years. The complainant was the first wife of Denby, who after wards intermarried with a young woman named Brown, upon proof of which his conviction took place. The complainant- admitted her marriage with Denby, but said that in consequence of his having been transported she had regained her freedom, and had a right to form a new connection. Mr. HALLS observed, that she was still as much the wife of Denby as she had ever been, and no sentence which he might have received, short of death, could have released her from her first mar riage. The Magistrate (Mr. Halls) added, that it was somewhat singular that the husband (Denby) should have been transported for bigamy, and that the wife should afterwards have committed the very same offence. The defendant said, he had no intention whatever to injure the complainant, and he would have sup ported her under every circumstance, but that she had robbed him of property to a considerable amount. Mr. MINSHULL and Mr. HALLS agreed that they could not interfere, as the complainant was not, in point of law, the wife of the defendant. The charge of desertion was consequently dis missed, and the parties left the office, the com plainant declaring that, notwithstanding the decision of the Magistrates, she would stick to the defendant to the last, and compel him to support her as his wife. Messrs. Mears and Tumour, of the vocal depart ment of Covent-garden theatre, came before the Ma gistrates to complain of a fraud which had been practised upon them on the occasion of their joint benefit, which took place some nights ago. Mr. Mears said that a lady, residing in Broad court, Bow -street, applied to him on the day of his benefit for six box tickets, which she wanted, she said, for some company in her house. The tickets were given to her, and she promised payment the next morning ;,but upon application to her for it, she only laughed at him, A few days before this oc curred he received an order for five tickets, purport ing to be signed by Mr. Wm. Vining, the comedian. Upon application, however, to that gentleman, he declared that the signature was a forgery, and he (Mr. Mears) had good reason to suspect that the lady who had favoured him with the order for the six tickets, had made free with Mr. Vining's name to obtain the other five. Mr. Turnour complained also of having been simi larly tricked out of a number of tickets by the same lady. The tickets, he had reason to know, were distributed to women about the doors of the theatre, who disposed of them:for half price. Mr. HALLS regretted that he could not interfere in the matter, unless the forgery of Mr. Vining's name could be traced to the lady alluded to. The applicants soon after withdrew. MARYLEI3ONE. Yesterday Lord Manvers carne to this office and told Mr. RAWLINSON he had acted too cautiously to' be robbed himself, but for the sake of the public he' had caused a woman to be apprehended who made the attempt upon him. . His Lordship produced a letter which he received' some days ago; purporting to come from Ann Brown-I I ing, in Little Queen-street, Holborn, and solicitine his Lordship's Ocuniary assistance in behalf of th& writer, who d e s cr ibed herself' to be " severely! afflicted with a cancer in her breast," and' destitutl of support for herself and five children. The names, of several distinguished persons were mentioned in the letter as having given her relief, and recommend ing her case, and one of them was that,of the Rev. Dr. Moore, Rector of St. Pancras ; Lord Manvers mentioned this circumstance to Dr. Moore, and found that his name had been used without his knowledge, and that a sovereign, which was said to have been received from him, he had not given ; and Dr. Moore advised his Lordship to cause what ever person might call for an answer to the letter to be taken into custody. This was done ; and after his Lordship had finished the above statement, a woman of decent appearance, about 40 years of age, was placed at the bar. John Rider, his Lordship's porter, stated, that about twelve o'clock that (yesterday) morning, the prisoner rang the bell of his Lordship's house, in Portman-square, and asked for an answer to the letter which came from Little Queen-street; and in pursuance of his Lordship's orders, he detained her until the butler fetched a policeman, to bring her to the office. In answer to Mr. RAWLINSON, the witness said the prisoner mentioned the name of Ann Browning, as being the writer of the letter ; and he remem bered that when formerly in the service of Lord Car digan, she came to that house with begging letters. William Hooker, a serjeant of the new police, took her into custody. She told him the letter was sent to Lord Manvers by a person living at No. 13, Little Queen-street; she was desired to call for an answer to it, but was innocent with respect to its c3ntents. _ _ The prisoner gave her name and address, Mary Clifton, No. 12, Marylebone-court, High -street, and said she was the mother of II children. In her de fence, she said as she was passing along Portman square, a man she never saw till that moment sent her to Lord Manvers's house to ask for an answer to a letter. Mr. RAWLlNsoN—Produce that man. Prisoner—My dear Sir I can't, if I am to die for it. Mr. RAWIANSON sent Hooker to No. 13, Little Queen-Street. He found respectable persons there, who knew no Ann Browning, and Mr. Rawlinson committed the prisoner to the House of Correction for three months. L A MBETH-STREET. Notice has been stuck up in the district of this office, by order of the magistrates, that all dogs found wandering in the streets of the parish, unmuzzled or without owners, will be destroyed. UNION-HALL Isaac Drew, a man in tattered garments, was charged with preaching in the open air. At three o'clock in the morning he commenced preaching in one of the narrow courts in the Mint. He was sur rounded by half-:t-dozen drunken people, who inter rupted the preacher, and endeavoured to drown his voice by mimicking end shouting out while he was holding forth. The prisoner was so drunk that, when desired by a policeman to come down from his elevated position, he tumbled into the mud. The MAGISTRATE asked the deferdant what trade he followed besides that of preaching ? Defendant — I am a pig -killer, your Worship, and the morning in question I got up fo'to kill a pig, but, afore I went to work, I thought as how I might read a prayer, and so I gets my book, and out I goes to the gash afore the house, and begins for to read out a bit, but that ere policyman comes up, and, in a roughish indecent-like kind of a manner, tells me to have done, and so as how I did not leave off momently, he grips me tight, heaving me like a bunch of cat's meat into a barrow, and hauls me off to the watchus. The MAGISTRATE remarked that three o'clock in the morning was nn unseasonable hour to commence praying, and fined him five shillings for drunkenness. The defendant, on leaving the office, declared that, as long as he lived, he would never make an other attempt to reform the bad and immoral habits of the many sinners 1010 dwelt in the Mint. THE MARKETS. COAL. MAR Adair's 30s. 0(1. Beaumont 27 6 Charlotte East Purcy„......--* 28 0 liebburn Main 31 3 Holywell. 3O 0 Kenton West 39 6 Killingworth 30 9 Ord's Redhugh 27 0 Percy 29 6 larilield Townley 2B 0 Wylam Walls End Bell and Co. 32 0 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 31 3 Ditto Bewicke and Co..— 32 6. Walls End Brown's 32 0 Ditto Burraton 31 3 Ditto 28 0 Ditto Cram1ingt00.......... 27 0 Ditto Callerton —..-- 29 0 Ships at market, 7634—Shii KET.—Juue 9. Walls End Newmarch.... 325. Oil. Ditto Gosforth 33 0 Ditto Hotspur,----- 31 3 Ditto Northumberland 30 9 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 31 3 Ditto Walker 32 6 Walls End Hetton 34 0 Walls End Larlibton---- 33 9 Walls End Stewart's ..- 34 0 Russell's Hetton's W.E 33 9 Ditto Russell's Lyon's-- 33 0 Blyth *NM* 30 0 Culm Trimsaram 27 0 Fordel 39 0 Hartley I Silkstod Bluth Trader —. 25 6 26 9 31 3 20 0 18 0 1934. 31 6 29 0 Liadell's Trader. Wylam Trader Hebbnrn small Old Etherley small rs *old, 56 3 4 -:--Unsol CMINTRY CORN MARKITS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. r. s. Abingdon.--..—.. 55 6 2 32 38 21 32 42 Andover. 55 65 22 34 20 M 52 Birmingham...—. 55 66 32 38 28 30 53 Bridport 56 74 32 39 25 30 54 Cirencester 48 tis 20 37 18 23 40 Faringd0n........... 54 80 35 40 26 38 46 Guildford .--. 48 74 24 35 20 30 42 Henley _ 54 83 30 35 29 30 40 Hereford 64 84 38 45 Gti 40 (40 Hi gwor t h 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 65 84 28 38 22 51 Oakingham ......—. 56 70 30 36 18 32 42 Reading 41 86 18 41 16 31 44 56 68 27 37 20 28 50 Southampton 7O 37 40 28 32 42 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 78 40 43 30 38 44 Uxbridge 48 74 21 32 19 32 41 Wantage.--...... 46 73 20 31 16 28 44 Warminster 41 74 21 42 24 30 46 Windsor ..........—.... 48 84 20 34 15 28 40 Worcester.--....... 60 63 :32 36 24 26 52 LEWES MARKET.—June 8. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 3 0 to 10 0 Red ditto 2 18 0 3 4 0 Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1 5 0 Beans 1 16 0 2 0 0 Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand. CHELTENHAM MARKET.—June 8. Per Bushel. a. d. to a. d. Pet lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 0 0 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork . ... 5 6 Hay 31. los. to 3/. 15s. per ton. HULL MARKET.—June 8. This market has been met to-day with only a moderate supply of Wheat from the farmers ; the supply this week from abroad is only limited, and the demand for either is very trifling ; yet, on the business done, an advance of Is. per qr. has been submitted to. The holders, especially of foreign, are firm, and the anticipation of better prices general. There is some little enquiry for lock Wheats ; the prices demanded are less the duty, but not much passing. There is scarcely any Oats offering' either English or foreign, and prices without alteration ; very little passing in Oats under lock. No Barley offering, and prices nominal. Beans are held at late prices, and but little pas sing. Linseed is held firmly at the quotations below. Very little passing in Rapeseed, and prices without al teration. _ _ -- ----- Wheat, Old —s. 60s 68s New —s 56s 634 Foreign —s. 635. 665. ln bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —s. 20s. Ns. Old --s. —s. 263. Small or Feed.... —s. 123. 188. -s. —II. —s. Foreign —s. 20s. 235. Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —s. 30s. 355. Linc. & Wold —s. 30s 350. Foreign Beans 31s. 38s. 425. Foreign .. —s. 303. 365. Pease, White —s. 3'2s. 375. Grey --s. -s. —s. Taros —s 308. 365. Foreign —s. 265. 30s. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —/. 281. 311. ,KETS.—June 2. DUMFRIES MA s. d. 8. d. s. d. s. d Wheat, Imp. Bush... 79to80Butter,16oz Barley 39 40 Eggs, dozen OO 04 Oats 32 39Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal "2 20 Veal O3 04 Potatoes, cwt. Among the emigrants who have of late left this part of the country for America, a considerable num ber have gone from the town of Lanark and neighbour hood. Among them there has been a great proportion of young men. In the beginning of this week no fewer than thirty individuals left that district with the intention of sailing from Greenock with the George Canning, lying at that port.— Glasgow Chronicle. A well-dressed man threw himself from the parapet of Waterloo-bridge between one and two o'clock' on Tuesday morning. A passenger gave the alarm to TYRRELL, the toll-keeper, but the tide was running strong, and no waterrnan at hand. A girl of the town' made three attempts to drown herself in the course of the night at the same place, but was prevented by the police, and at length lodged in the watch-house. rostoPrlct. PARLIAMENTARY PAPER. PROPOSED UNION OF GENERAL POST AND TWOPENNY' POST RECEIVING HOUSES, AND ATIOLISHINO THE ofricm OF COMPTROLLER OF THE TWOPENNY POST DEPART. DIENT. r: ;.~, The Twenty-first Report of the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry, lately published by order of the House of Commons, relates entirely to the Post- Office Department, in the management of which some improvements are suggested. It recommends; that the General Post letters and Twopenny Post: letters should be received at the same houses, anti that in each division there should be at least one: •üb-sorting office, where letter•carriers might attends, for the purpose of sorting the letters received, anal thereby greatly abridging the time necessary for that purpose, previous to their despatch from the, General Pos!-Office. The following extracts from the Report refer to these suggested changes : " The evidence of the acting officer at the General Post-office at Charing-cross seems to favour, on grounds not hitherto urged by us, our recommendtv tion to unite the duties of collecting the General:- Post and Twopenny Post correspondence at the' same receiving -houses. The business connected' with the General Post correspondence commences , at a late period of the day, prior to which there little employment for the officiating personc. It is within that period that the greater portion of the Twopenny Post correspondence is received; in dis- - • posing of which, the services of these persons, n ow partially lost by being made applicable exclusively. to the business of the General Post, we conceive might be made usefully available. " Without entering into more minute details of the duties performed in the Twopenny Post receiv ing-lionses, it would occur to us to propose a reduc tion of the total number of receiving -houses, and the. • establishment of at least one in each division, which should be considered a sub-sorting or sub-office, • where a sorting might be effected (if not by a re ceiver) by letter-carriers attending for the purpose, as suggested in our Eighteenth Report, or by other responsible persons belonging to the establishment. # • " As it is our intention to propose the diseonti nuance altogether of the Office of Comptroller of the Twopenny Post Department, in Gerrard-street, Soho, (Mr. Musgrave) we must advert to the very important duty which is described as belonging to. him by the senior clerk, of regulating the town and country letter-carriers' walks; to see what "alteration , can be made for the ,benefit of the public. Front the evidence above referred to, it is apparent that although the checking and controlling the expend] , ture is enumerated among his duties, the Comptrol ler contributes very little towards any inveitigatiew of the necessity of the expenditure, or of the accu racy of the charges; and though it is stated that the warrants for the payments prepared in the , Comptroller's office pass through the Secretary's office, and are seen by the Assistant -secretary, they do not seem to have been subject to the scrutiny or controul of any superior officer." The Commissioners, in conclusion, recomiriend , ,. the abolition of the following offices :—Of Comp troller, salary and emoluments, 8531. 6s. Bd.; the . First Assistant-clerk, 2151.; Second and Third Clerks, 864 and 801.; the Office of Accountant, •1001.; First Clerk, 1401.; Second, 1001.; Collector, 2201.; three Sub-Collectors at 1951., 1304, and . 100/. a-year ; and they suggest that the numbers of all others should be rendered proportionate to the wants of the service. The whole amount thus saved will be about 2,5001. a-year. COURT DINNER AT ST. PETERSBURGH. The women all sat on one side, and the men on the other, a very barbarous, unmeaning, ungallant mode of accommodating friends; in one respect it has an advantage, which is, the having a very pretty object before your eyes; and no spur in life is equal to having a very pleasant picture constantly in view• These maidens, as aforesaid, all wore the order of St. Catherine. A young and very pretty maid, in answer to a question, relative to the star, said that she was a Major-General--this was a piece of infor mation which accounted at once for half the mistakes of the first Russian campaign, as I concluded the commanding officers were generally old women. The repast was sumptuous, of course, every luxury of life seemed abundant, and wines of all kinds sparkled in the glass; but I should say the femalp part of the society were not half so well behaved as the men—l mean according to those little nice distinctions which mark the difference between well-bred and vulgar people, such, for instance, as eating, or conveying the food into one's mouth with a knife as broad as a shovel, or as sharp as a lancet ; seizing a carafe, and instead of allowing the limpid stream to run silently and elegantly into the glass, turning the glass mouth of the bottle sud dtn'y over, and allowing the water to go any where but to its proper destination; cutting hunches of bread &c.; but the most amusing part was the finale. We bad drunk the health of poor Constan tine, it being his birth-day, in solemn silence, being a great deal too knowing to wish him to have his own before the sledge roads were formed. When the Em press suddenly rose, I was instantly as upright as a hop-pole ; but my fat friend, and some of the delicate maidens, made a regular seizure of the bons-bons, sweetmeats, &c., in which they were assisted by the servants, who did not exactly admire this purloining of what they considered their own. I never saw such a disgraceful scramble, female Major-Generals, Lieutenant-Colonels- in petticoatr. Chamberlains with their useless embroidered keys, and all other ranks, actually pocketing the remnants : " eat fair, but pocket none," was unknown to these harpies, and it finished by our all jumbling out of the room, with a rush somewhat resembling that exhibited at the Lord Mayor's feast some few months ago.— Anecdotes of Russia in the New Monthly Magazine. BIRTHS. On the 9th inst. at Clipham-coturnon, Mrs. T. An derson, of a son. On the Sth inst. the lady of J. Chitty, jun., Esq. of Great Coram-street, of a daughter. On the Sth inst. at Hampstead, Mrs. E. Toiler, of a daughter. On the 9th inst. Mrs. R. Aylwin, of Nelson-square, of a daughter. On the 9th inst. in Hanover terrace, the lady of A. Bosanquet, Esq., of a daughter. At the Presidency, Demerara, the lady of his Honour Charles Wray, of a son. MARRIED. On the 9th inst. at Edmonton, J. R. Soden, Esq. •of Southgate, to Maria Darling, eldest daughter of the /ate S. T. Gmtd, Egg., of the Bengal Civil Service. On the 9th inst. Mr. Wm. Phillips, of St. Dunstan's hill, to Jane, second daughter of the late Mr. J. Bouch, of Monument-square. On the Bth inst. at Romell, Gloucestershire, J. J. Amory, Esq., only son of the late B. Amory, Esq. of tha island of St. Christopher, to Frances, second daughter of the late A. Gore, Eq. On the 7th inst. at Lydd, Kent, the Rev. E. R. ?tares, eldest eon of the Rev. Dr. Nares, Rector of Biddenden an'l N e wchurch, Kent, to Cecilia, third daughter of the late D. Denne, E.g. of Lydd. DIED. On the 7th inst. in Baker-street, Mrs. Poyntz Ricketts, relict of G. Poyntz Ricketts, Esq., Governor of Barbadoegs and aunt of the late Earl of Liverpool. On the 9th inst. in York•street, Portman-square, Lieut. General Raymond. On the Bth inst. at Camberwell, Benjamin Jolliffe, M.D., aged '79. On the Bth inst. at Woodford, Essex, J. H. Weeds Esq., of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, in the 20th year of his age. On the sth inst. at Brighton, Jane, relict of T. MAR-. lind, Esq. of Shrub's-hill, Lyndhurst, the only surviving child of the late General and Lady Jane Mathew, in the 74th year of her age. On the Bth inst suddenly, at Dalaton, Mrs. E. Kidd, age d 77, sister of Sir C. Flower, Bart. PAINTED AND PUBLISHED JSY AIEIEII3O YOUN6, THE SUN Orrzcz, 112, STP4ifin, LONDON. '•. ' • I/ N°: cies fur 1 To his 3 and To his 11 and To his 11 ments,. ate,. 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