The Sun. — London, England, 1830-02-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are heartily tired, and we are sure the jr refiecting,part of the public must be so, by the es;- • effkons of nonsense on the endless and uselegg topic of the " currency." We wish I people would let the currency alone, and, above all things, that they would not make of it a prts Vence for diverting their own attention and that of Ministers and of Parliament from questions of real and solid importance, to fight with names, when they have things enough to contend with. A clever and ingenious gentleman has written a letter, with the signature of " M.," wherein he, by several " sundry kinds of reasons," would persuade the country that its embarrassments arise in a great degree —guess from what, reader—from having the standard of value " fixed." To remedy this Curious description of evil, he would have the pound sterling made to be worth a greater or smaller amount of shil lings, according to the rise or fall in the prices of other articles, or, in his own words, to fluctuate with the " supply" of money. This of all currency nostrums we conceive to be the e plus ultra. The sovereign, then, was to ,ave no determinate value whatever; it was to vary with every exchange from abroad,—with every issue of Bank -notes in town or country at home. Mr. " M." would have more or less rent paid, according to the variations in the Gazette value of the King's coin. He would have all contracts of all descriptions shift from week to week, in the obligations imposed by them upon buyer and seller, upon borrower and lender, according to the currency averages which would be struck, we take for granted, like those of corn, and with equally edifying integrity and precision. Why, the currencyhdoctors have run stark-staring mad. There must be an end put to all this despicable trash. Money, if let alone—that is if knaves and fools be kept from dabbling with it —money, we say like water, will find its own level ; aye, and as invariably as water. It is by quacking with it only that there ever can be an average excess or an average de ficiency of money. When the circulating medium consists of the precious metals, which is the common medium of all known communities, an excessive quantity, and deficient value of money, evidenced by a rise of prices, will be cured by the export of the precious metals: a deficient quantity, and undue fall of prices, will be re paired by their import. It is utter idiotism to talk of an Act of Parliament being made able to make " money" more a b un d ant or more scarce than the transactions of England with other countries admits of, unless by money our cur rency doctors mean rags, which have no intrinsic value whatever. So convinced are we of the waste of time and words which " currency-mon gers" have already entailed upon the public, that we shall be disposed to make but one answer to any of their future propositions, viz., fudge, fudge, fudge.— li mes . On looking into the account of the Debate on the Bank Restriction Bill in 1797, one is struck with the want of foresight of the public men of that day. Mr. Pitt had evidently no idea of the consequences which would follow from his measure ; and Messrs. Fox, — Sheridan, and Tier ney, did not see that the Minister having once entered on this desperate course, would be un able to retrace his steps. The only speaker who had a distinct conception of the nature of the measure was Mr. John Nicholls, who spoke twice on the question. On the Order of the Day for going into a Committee on the Bill, Mr. Nicholls observed, that " the plan seemed to have in view the converting of the Bank into a mint for the coining of paper currency ; and if the Bill remained in its present shape, it would be impossible to place any limitation to the issue of notes. At the first establishment of the Bank, they were restricted in their emission of notes to the sum owed to them by Government; afterwards the emission was increased, but they were forced to. pay their notes in cash, if cash was demanded. The power of get ting cash for the notes no longer existed ; and in this state of things he knew of no law by which the Bank could be restrained from pouring forth bills to the amount of one bundled millions sterling. He wished the House to weigh the subject wells The iocreas jag issue of paper money would compel the Government to incur an enormous and ruinous debt. The sure consequences of a paper cur rency would be a debt so enormous that it would never be removed. A revolution in property might produce a revolution in Government, and all those scene; of blood which had disgraced France." In the Committee, Mr. Nicholls moved for leave " to bring up a clause for li mning the amount of the debts which the Bank might be allowed to contract during . the conti ance of the Bill. He said that antecedent to the failure of the Bank, there was a natural limi tation to the issue of Bank bills, viz.—that if more were issued than were wanted for the pur poses of commercial intercourse, the holders of the bills would carry them in and demand cash. The present bill would take away this natural restriction ; it was, therefore, neces sary to substitute some positive restric tion. To what sum the Bank should be restricted he did not himself mean to suggest. He had left the Hank to be filled up by the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; and if the sum which might be suggested by him was not very much out of proportion, he would acquiesce in it. If the Bill passed without such restriction, the Bank would be converted into a mint, which might coin Bills to any amount." In fact, after the Restriction Act had passed, the Minister could never be in any difficulty as to a Loan to any amount. The Contractors could not be aware that through the influence of Ministers they could obtain money fiom the Bank either on the Discount of Bills or by a pledge of their Scrip. If the men of the present day be not models of wisdom, they will at all events hear comparison with the men of 1797. But the only use of recurring to the past is to derive in struction, for the future. The nation has been foolishly and inconsiderately plunged into diffi culties. It is too late to complain of the evils of an enormous debt, when the debt is already in curred. The question now is, in what manner the pressure of taxation can be lightened as much as possible, without a departure from justice ? At the Cumberland Meeting, Sir James Graham observed— " Although he did not like the . military aspect of the Duke's Government, and very much disapproved of the late prosecutions of the Press— (Applause)—still he could never forget the debt of gratitude this country owed to the Duke for his noble military achievements ; he could not forget that he was the conqueror of Napoleon, and the foremost man of all the world; that prudence, fore sight, and decision, had always marked his progress; and that now, more than ever, were these qualities requisite to save the country from ruin. He (Sir J. G.) hoped the Duke would emancipate himself from those Councillors who were wedded to parti cular theories, and revise their monitory measures which had produced a greater change in property than the Revolution of 16S8, or even the great civil wars. The Duke's Government rested en public opinion. It was known that he was no favourite at Court; and the Aristocracy held aloof from him Sir James hoped, they ef 're, he would tale timely warning, and secure to himself the affections of the people, by Rtttb.lition to those measures of economy and re trenchtnent which were recommended to him by rreetings such as that he no* had the honour to address." What a satire upon our glorious Constitu tion to say that a Minister is disliked by the Court, disliked by the aristocracy, and only held in regard by the people ! The truth is ) that the harmonious play of otir Constitution depends entirely on the abandonment of all attempt to pt-otett tht people. The King can do no good of himself, but he can do mischief. The aristo cracy can do no good of themselves, but they can do mischief. If a patriot King were de sirous of protecting the people from spoliation, the wheels of Parliament would stand still. If, again, a majority of the aristocracy were desirous of enforcing measures of economy and retrench ment, they would have the Court against them. The Court, in ordinary times, can always secure its share of the good things, by coquetting be tween two parties. The late King always car ried his point by playing off one public man against another. But we seem now to have ar rived at the natural termination of this wretched syntetn. Things have come to that pass that the situation of Minister is no longer desir able. If, as Sir James Graham says, the Court is inimical to the Duke of Wellington, his Grace may hold that enmity at defiance, and boldly say, my situation at present is any thing but enviable—if you can find men will ing to conduct the vessel of the State through the shoals of the present period, take these men in God's name, and on their heads be the re sponsibility. What gives power to the Duke of Wellington at present is the utter impossi bility of continuing longer the corrupt system, and the necessity for measures of reform and re trenchment to save us from a convulsion. The question is not now what will please the Court, and the Aristocracy—they have had their day ; but which measure of justice to the nation can preserve all—Court, Aristocracy and People— from a common calamity. We live in eventful times, and the signs' of which it is not difficult to read. We have no doubt that the Duke of Wellington has read them correctly. In ordinary times he could only govern this country as his predecessors have governed it—by corruption and subserviency—by lending himself to the transaction between Court and Aristocracy, to the effect that, if you do not baulk us we will not baulk you, and the people must bear all. But this policy would now ruin him, and ruin those for whose sakes he should enter on it. He has already reaped laurels and wealth—he does not retain office for selfish ends. Ile has office on his own terms—he may act boldly and fearlessly ; for who would dare to attempt, in the present state of the country, what would be detrimental to its interests.—Morning Chron. The Evening Paper which devotes itself to the service of the few and insignificent public men who once called themselves Tories, and who now profess themselves Reformers, defends their consistency and sincerity by the assertion that " the body who rule the House of Com mons is very easily described—the Borough mongers, they who inherit and they who sell seats." The defence is insufficient, unless it can be shown that " the Boroughmongers, they who inherit and they who sell seats," have in creased in number or in power since the period when the same persons who now advocate reform were the zealous and determined opponents of that measure. To show this, however, we believe impossible. Yet this lame defence is all .that an ingenious advocate can bring forward on behalf the Tory deserters to the . standard of revolution. He says much more certainly, but all that he says beyond this is not defence, but recrimination. We must remind our contemporary that recrimination, when resorted to as a defence, differs but little from a confession of guilt. We know that we need not remind any genuine Tory that it is.un : worthy of him and of his cause to emulate the qualities or to imitate the conduct he condemns in other men. Man is by nature fallible. Human institutions are of necessity imperfect ; but we are not thence to infer the certain declension and ruin of our country. Gradual decay and final destruction would be, however, the certain con sequences of a state of society in which error could be successfully pleaded as the defence of error—apostasy of apostacy.—Morning Post. The Courier, which would have the world believe it to be the veritable " Sir Oracle" upon all matters of official import, every now and then lets out the very minor source of authority from which its unauthentic nothings proceed. Of this we have a specimen in our contempo rary's columns of Saturday, in which a nervous, feverish, kind of allusion is made to what we had quoted the day before as the late Mr. Tier ney's statements of what were the onerous na ture of the duties belonging to the high-sounding office of Treasurer of the Navy. The Courier feels quite scandalised that it should be thought this peculiar office is a sinecure ; yet takes at the same time rather a singular mode of dis -1 proving it, viz., by stating that it is united with the Presidentship of the Board of Trade, tha, the joint salaries of the two offices may make a competent provision for one great officer of State, which either of them alone would not. Now this is "backing one's friends" with a vengeance, and flavours exceedingly of that sage maxim, which accommodates the office to the man, rather than the man to the office. It also brings down modern patriotism more nearly and merely to the standard of Cocker than the class of office-bearers themselves (those, at least, of the higher grade) are for the most part willing to acknowledge. So the ground on which the tax ridden people of this country are to be told that one sinecure office is defensible is, that it may serve to swell the emoluments of another. But we are better friends to office than the Courier, after all. We contend that the office of Trea surer of the Navy ought not to be a sinecure ; but that the due supervision of the receipts and outlay of the immense sums required for the British Navy call for the whole time and atten tion of a responsible officer; and that it is for want of this supervision, and by transferring th e responsibility to minor hands, that so much money has been stolen, lost, and wasted, in this very department. The duties, of course, must be widely different in times of war and peace ; and we see, therefore, no reason why this office (like another, with the nature of which the Cou rier, probably, is still better acquainted) should not be paid by a war and peace salary. At all events, that it should be kept alive as a decep tion, and as a kind of make-weight to some thing' else, is what we wholly condemn. If a Treasurer of the Navy is not wanted, let the ' office be abolished ; if the head of the Board of Trade is ►►ot sufficiently remunerated, let him be better paid ; but do not let the country be aMused (abused we might say) with any thing so preposterous as this, that it is necessary a gen tleman should have a sinecure office, with a mag nificent residence in Somerset-House, because he has inadequately-paid duties to perform at Whitehall.—Morning Herald. We have before us a host of letters on the subject of the informations which are daily, brought against Licensed Victuallers, for offend ing, in some way or other, against the Licensing Act ; but they contain no new observations on the subject, nor any fact which is worth parti cularising, except, what must now be but too well known to every one, namely, that, of all classes of society, the Licensed Victuallers are the most oppressed. Notwithstanding that they have done honour to themselves and their coun try, by establishing three of the most valuable charities which are to be found in any part of the kingdom, the fact is but too notorious, that while they have been oppressed with legislative enactments, with the strict letter of which no one could comply, a portion of the public has, on the other hand, shewn a pitiful envy of their industry, and exerted itself to blacken their character, by charging them with practices of which they have not as a body been guilty. What, however, is worse than all is, that Magistrates are to be found Ivho are on every occasion ready to listen to complaints and informations against them from parties whose oaths would not be taken at the Old Bailey—nay, not only to listen to them, but even to require the evidence of at least two re spectable persons to rebut that of the interested, and, we fear, in many instances, perjured, in former. Such a state of things neither can, or ought to, exist ; and, as we perceive that the Middlesex Magistrates have resolved on a peti tion to Mr. Peel respecting gin-shops, we think the Licensed Victuallers cannot do better than meet the accusations brought against them by a counter statement of the real facts of the case, and of the grievances under which they labour. They have justice on their side, and we will not fOr a moment think so poorly either of Mr. Peel or of the Legislature, as to conclude that they will not do them right.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Matthew Carter, who for many years has been one of the substitute constables of Bread-street ward, and who keeps a small fishmonger's shop in Little Carter-lane, was brought before Mr. Alder man WINCHESTER yesterday, charged with stabbing his wife in the abdomen, with a sharp-pointed table-knife. John Haslam, a young man, who cried while giving evidence, stated that the prisoner had mar ried his mother ; and on Friday night, about eleven o'clock, he was fetched to the house in Carter-lane, where he found his mother sitting down and weep ing with a hand over a wound below her star, which did not bleed much then, but flom which there was a great effusion during the night. Mr. Holmes, the surgeon who attended her, stated that the depth of the wound appeared to be an inch and a half, and that he did not consider her out of danger. He had questioned his mother about the cause of this sad affair, and learnt that the prisoner had been out on some particular business that day, and came home drunk, upon which his wife told him to go to bed, and that he was not fit to be trusted with business. He threatened to stab her with the knife, if she did not instantly leave the room ; but, not expecting that he would be so violent, she re mained, and he inflicted the wound upon her. The prisoner did not make any defence, and The Alderman remanded him, remarking that his being drunk would not excuse him in the eye of the law. Joseph Der Wattine, a Swiss valet in the service of Mr. Rothschild, attended before Aldermen ANsi.Ev and WINCHESTER, to show cause why an order of filiation should not be made upon him in respect to a female child which Anstice Keogh, a married woman, had given birth to, and which had become chargeable to the parish of St. Ann and Agnes, Aldersgate. Anstice Keogh, a decent-looking young woman, had lived in Dyer's-court, Noble-street, about two months before the child was born. She passed by the defendent's name there, and he visited her fre quently till the last week or two before the birth of the child on the 31st of August. She had not seen her husband for the last eleven or twelve years.— She lived about two months at Mrs. Long's, in Gutter-lane, prior to her removal to Dyer's•court. She was visited here also by the defendant, who used to inquire for her as Mrs. Der Wattine. About Michaelmas, 1826, she went to lodge at No. 7, Cripplegate-building, where she remained till a week before Christmas, 1828, when she removed to No. 16, Doggett's-court, Elden -street, Finsbury, and from thence to Gutter-lane. She passed by the name of Miss Whitchurch in Ciipplegate-buildings and Doggett's-court, and the defendant visited her all the time. . . Cross-examined by Mr. Alley—Was married on the 10th of May, 1817, and her huslond is a sol dier in the 9th Lancers. Never had any children before the girl in question. Re-examined--Went to live with her husband in Hounslow Barracks when first married, but they se parated after living together only six weeks. By the COURT—Had seen her husband but twice since; in March and May, 1818. Maria Long deposed that Miss Whitchurch, as she called herself, lodged with her about a twelve month, and left her about a fortnight before Christ mas, 1828. Mrs. Keogh went to Oxford, as she understood, in the July of that year, and returned just Wore Bartholomew fair, in the beginning of September, from which time she slept in the same bed with her every night till she removed. By the COURT—Was positive she was not ab sent a single night during that term. By Mr Alley—Could not tell where Miss Whit church slept on that day. Mr. Der Wattine used to visit her, and take her out for a walk, or so. Mr. Alley—Or so ?—(A laugh.) Witness—No other gentleman used to walk with her; but gentlemen, by whom she was employed as a stock-maker, used to bring her work. Peter Ratnage,a serjeant in the 9th Lancers, de- Posed that Corporal Keogh, who had been in the regiment 13 years, was not absent from the roll calls at six in the morning and nine in the evening, from the latter end of October till the 23d of Dec. On that day he set off with a deserter from Leeds (where the regiment had been stationed some time) for Hull, and he returned on the 28th. The dis tance was 60 miles, and he went an foot. Their quarters were afterwards shifted to Nottingham ; but the corporal had never been absent from roll-call at any time since the 28th of December. Never saw Mr:. Keogh either at Leeds or Nottingham. Mr. Alley rested his case on the well•known prin ciple that the law inferred the access of the husband where the absolute impossibility of access was not proved, and this had not been done in the present case. Mr. Adolphus said the matter was allowed to be decided by common sense and facts, and the maxim, that a child born during coverture must be the hus band's, unless he be beyond the four seas at the time it was begotten, was now quite exploded. He had proved that at the particular time which would be looked at in this case, the last week of November the husband was never absent from Leeds, nor the wife from London, for twelve hours at a time; and unless the Magistrates could suppose the husband ' had flown from Leeds to London, to steal a kiss from his dear deserted wife, and had returned within twelve hours, they would adjudge Der \Vattine the father of this child. The Aldermen immediately decided that Der ViTattine was the father, Mr. Alderman WINCHES TER observing, that if there was any abstract prin ciple of law involved, that might still be argued and decided elsewhere. They ordered the defendant to Pay DI. 17s. 6d. costs, and 2/. 9s. for maintenance already due. Mr. Harmer's clerk gave notice that he should appeal to the Sessions. BOW-STREET. On Saturday night a young man, who gave the name of John Webb, was charged before Mr. HALLS with having stolen a hat containing the sum of 1001. in sovereigns and silver. William Topham was clerk to Mr. Wilcot, a builder, who lives in Doughty-street, Brunswick square. On Saturday he went to the city with a cheque for 1001., which his master required for the payment of his men. On his way to Doughty street he went into Hand-court, Holborn, and stop ped at a coffee shop there, where he ordered some refreshments, and, placing his hat upon the table, put the money, which was contained in two canvas bags, into it. The prisoner was in the room at the time. In a few minutes witness missed his hat, and ran after th 3 prisoner, who had just left the room. Saw him turn the corner of Hand -court, and pursued him down Holborn, crying " atop thief." The prisoner ran as fast as he could, and just as he got to the corner of Kingsgate-street some person passing pushed him against a shop window. The prisoner stumbled, and the hat which he wore fell off his head, arid a bag containing 90 sovereigns fell on the pavement. Witness seized the hat and the bag. In the former he found the other bag containing 10/. in silver. The hat be longed to witness, and the money was the property of his master. Police constable, No. 144, letter F. division, hear ing the cry of stop thief pursued the prisoner whom he saw running, came up as he stumbled against the shop-window, and took him into custody. The prisoner was remanded. UEEIsT-SQUA On Satuiday, John Thompson, police constable, S. division, No. 48, brought before the sitting Ma gistrate, Mr. MARRIOTT, a young lad named John Briggs, about 14 years of age, in a state of the most abject wretchedness and misery, and also of starvation from cold and hunger. The constable at an early hour in the morning, while going his rounds at Knightsbridge, saw the lad fast asleep tinder a cart, lying on a small whisp of straw ; he appeared nearly perished, he was without stockings, and had only a pair of old slip pers on his feet; he instantly awoke him, and when he got up, he could scarcely stand, he was so be numbed from cold. He immediately took him to the watchhouse, or he must have soon perished from the cold ; his feet were covered with chilblains, and he could scarcely walk. On questioning him, he said he had neither father nor mother, and was quite deFtitute of either home or friends; he had belonged to the workhouse in Shoe-lane, which place he left when it was pulled down for the new im provements. In answer to questions by the Magistrate, the lad said his father had been an inmate of St. An drew's workhouse and died there about two years ago. He left the house about two days after his death, and had supported himself ever since by begging, sleeping wherever he could get shelter. Mr. MARRIOTT wrote a note to the master of the workhouse of St. Andrew's Holborn, to admit him without delay, and sent the constable with him. THE ORDINARY. This important branch of our Naval Service will, we are informed, share in the reductions which are progressively extending themselves, with an indiscriminating rigour, to all our great national establishments. The new regulations fer the Ordinary are to come into operation on Monday next (the Ist Feb.), when the Senior Captains' boats crew will be reduced to a cox swain and six men. Only four men will be allowed to the Commander, and each of the four Lieutenants, for the purpose of attending to the vessels laid up in ordinary. The crews of ships newly launched, or under repair, are to be with drawn from the command of the Captain of the Ordinary. A small sum is to be deducted from the full pay of the warrant officers of ships building, or under repair. And about one hun dred and fifty men and boys will be discharged from the Ordinary under the new system. Such of boys, however, as are able and willing to go to sea, will be provided for in the navy. Sen sibly as we feel the necessity, the unavoidable necessity, of carrying the system of retrenchment to its utmost possible extent in our various public establishments, we are far from viewing with complacency any reduction which tend to impair the vigour, and sap the foundations of the mari time power. The Ordinary, under a good system, might be converted into a most valu able nursery for seamen, and a practical school of nautical science. While other nations might feel disposed to view with jealous suspicion any considerable increase of our naval force in actual commission cluing a period of universal peace, the Ordinary might safely he converted into a depot for young active sailors, who might be kept in constant training by being frequently sent out in sea-going ships to cruise in rotation, and would thus not only be ready for active service at a moment's notice, but saved from the neces sity of seeking a livelihood in the ships of other countries. Such a system, though unavoidably productive of an increased expenditure in the department of the Ordinary, would, we are con fident, be eventually far more beneficial to the nation than the trifling, and we cannot but think unwise, reduction about. to take place—it would enable us on any sudden emergency—and who can tell how soon such may arise—to man a considerable fleet at a few hours' notice, without having recourse either to the exceptionable and often cruel system of impressment, or the more expensive and more precarious one of recruiting. The elements of discord are fermenting through out the world, and he must be bold indeed who would venture to assign the period of explosion; but it must be sufficiently evident that a wise nation should be ever prepared, and never liable to be taken by surprise. The legitimate strength of an insular nation is her navy : her outworks and her bastions should be on the bosom of the deep, her wooden walls shouli be ever fully manned, and her utmost vigilance exerted to preserve their strength unimpaired. Whatever reductions, therefore, may be deemed advisable in other departments, that of the navy, and of the Ordinary, as a nursery for the navy, should be rather augmented than diminished.—Ply mouth Journal. About nine weeks since, a child of Air. JOHN WEBB, at Trowbridge, was attacked with a complaint which was thought to be the croup ; and the usual re medies —as blistering, leeching, &r. were resorted to. Still the child became worsc—for which, however, a pretty substantial reason can be assigned. On a minute exa minatiun of the throat, a hard substance was discovered, which was speedily extracted, and proved to be "neither more nor less " than a wooden cup and saucer, such as children play with, and which measured an inch and 3-16ths in diameter. Strange to say, these extraneous substances had been lodging in the throat of the child far eight weeks and three days! NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTit, JAN. 30.—The Winchester, 52, Capt. C. J. Austen, arrived on Wednesday from Chatham, to receive the flag of Vice-Admiral Griffith Colpoys. The command to which the Vice-Admiral is appointed, comprehends Jamaica and Halifax, hitherto separate stations. The Win chester will sail in a few days to Teneriffe, thence to Barbadoes, where it is expected she will find Vice- Admiral Fleeming, who will then return to England. Admiral Colpoys arrived here on Thursday, and hoisted his flag yesterday morning. The Winches ter takes out two Consuls, two supernumerary Sur geons, and two Marine Officers, &c. as passengers. The Dartmouth frigate, Capt. Sir T. FeHowes, is on her passage to England, from the Mediterranean, she may be daily expected. On Wednesday sailed the Cracker and Sylvia cutters, on a cruize, and yesterday the Sparrow cutter, for Plymouth. The Java, 52, Captain Carroll, C.B. was paid off on Thursday, on which occasion a sumptuous dinner was given at the George Inn, by the gun room officers of that ship, to Rear-Admiral Gage, in testimony of their sense of his kindness to them on all occasions, and to evince their gratification at the unanimity and good feeling that had prevailed throughout the period they bribed the honour and pleasure of serving under his flag. The Admiral came from town for the purpose. Captain Carroll, Mr. Irving (secretary), Captain Delme, and several other officers in the neighbourhood, who hal for merly belonged to, and had been promoted from the Java in India, were invited to meet the Admiral. The evening was passed with the greatest con viviality, and all parted towards morning with the same friendly feeling that had characterised the Java during the period of her service in India. 'the dinner ' was served up in most excellent style by Mr. Guy, and together with the wines, called forth the most unqualified approbation and satisfaction. The Admiral set off for Cams (Mr. Delme's), when the party broke up. The Midshipmen of the Java have presented a handsome silver cup to Captain Carrol, in token of respect for this esteemed officer. The Talbot, 28, has been brought down the har bour, for commission. Arrived, on Thursday, the Marshal Blucher, Davis, from St. Michael's; and the Minstrel, Davis, from Galway. Arrived, on Friday, the Underwood, Wood, from Demarara, in 64 days; spoke, on tbe 23d inst., in lat. 49. 11. N. long. 6. 3. W., the Ju liana, 90 days from Buenos Ayres, bound to Ant werp. Passed the Kerswell, Armstrong, from the Cape of Good Hope—sailed the sth of Novem ber, and from St. Helena the 27th. Remain at Spithead.—Winchester. In the har bour, Royal George (yacht), Victory, Ganges, Ga latea, and North Star. The following number of workmen were this day superannuated from the dock-yard :—Thirty seven shipwrights, four caulkers, nine smiths, two joiners, two house carpenters, eleven sawyers, one scabelman—in all 66. To these severally are allot ted pensions according to the periods of service and circumstance'. Three shipwrights, two caulkers, and two smiths were discharged without pension. No further reduction is at present calculated on. Mr. John Brown, late a quarterman in the Dock yard, is this day appointed to succeed Mr. Middle ton as a measurer. Lieut. Horatio James and Lieut. Prattent, with the blockade men under their orders, were the in dividuals by whose active exertions ten Frenchmen were saved from a wreck which had bilged, in a gale of wind, on some rocks near Hastings, on the 20th instant. The Frenchmen were so much ex hausted, that our seamen, nearly worn-out in their endeavours to save them, were obliged to carry them, through the deep snow, nearly three miles, to No. 38 Tower, where warm restoratives and dry clothes effected their preservation. Mr. Allen, a Master's - Assistant of the Sybille, who lost both his legs by the accidental explosion of some cartridges in the Black Joke tender, when in chase of a slave vessel, has been granted a pension of 45/. per anuum. We trust this gentleman's case will be again considered, and that an allowance suf ficient for his future subsistence will be made him, in his now helpless state. A spirited individual in the mercantile line, who has issued a circular letter, accompanied with a map of the Portsmouth harbour and Spithead, arid has sent it to all the foreign anchorages, points out the decided superiority of Spithead, as a resort for English and Foreign merchant ships, over any an chorage in the Channel, as a point where the readiest communication can be had with London, where assistance and supplies can be furnished in the largest proportion, and where the greatest safety is a i ff ii o s ta N it i a , l , je to sh sty,s ip s p h i i rg j r )p iti severe andora2l n B T 2 at t lrr. the Hon. Com mander J. F. Gordon, arrived yesterday from the East Indies, having been obliged to bear up off Portland, on Thursday, by the foul wind. She left Trincomalee on 3d September, Madras 22d September, the Isle of France 30th October, St. Helena sth December, and Ascension 15th De cember. The Maidstone, 42, Commodore Schoen berg, was at the Isle of France, where accounts had been received from Madagascar that a French squad ron, consisting of two frigates, one bearing anAdmiral's flag, three sloops of war, and several smaller vessels, had taken possession of part of the island, and that an engagement with the natives had ensued, in which 300 of the latter were killed. Should this report proYe correct, it will considerably lessen the French influence at Tamativa, which it was believed, some time ago, had very much increased since the death of Radama, late King of Madagascar. The South ampton, 52, Capt. P. Fisher, was gone to Madras for provisions, and the Admiral's flag was flying on board her tender, at Trincomalee. The Satellite, 18, Commander J. M. Laws, was at Batavia ; Suc cess, 28, Capt. W. C. Jervoise, at New South Wales; Crocodile, 28, Capt. J. W. Montagu, was refitting at Trincomalee.--Hampshire Telegraph. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—The Cracker cutter, Lieut. Roepel, and Sylvia, Lieut. Morgan, sailed from Portsmouth on Wednesday, for Jersey, for the pro tection of the British oyster fishery about to com mence in the vicinity of that Island. His Majesty's ship Blonde sailed from Constan tinople, for Rodosto and the Dardanelles, the 10th December. The Emulous arrived at Gibraltar, from Falmouth and Cadiz, the 27th December. 'lhe Wolf and Weasel were at Smyrna the 3d Decem ber. The Tyne, Champion, and Columbine, were at Bermuda the 9th December; and Hussar and Rose at Halifax the 28th December. The Comet arrived at Madras, from Trincomalee, the 25th August, and sailed for Penang the 29th. The Pan dora arrived at Madras, from Trincomalee, sth Sep tember. The Crocodile sailed from Madras, for a cruise, 16th August, and Cruiser 22d ditto. Remaining in Hamoaze—St. Vincent, Kent, Druid, Ariadne, Reindeer packet, and Meteor steamer. Island—Bramble. Sound—Pandora. Commander William Morier, of his Majesty's sloop Childers, is promoted to the rank of Captain ; Mr. William Folds, Assistant-Surgeon of the Java, to the rank of Surgeon ; Mr. J. M. Knight is ap pointed Pur-er of the Trinculo, vice Barrett; Mr. ' T. Holloway, to be Master of the Galatea, vice Causdell ; Lieut. F. P. Blackwood, of the Ariadne, is appointed to the Alligator, vice Lieut. D. De Saumarez, who exchanges.—Devonport Telegraph. LORD BYRON'S FAMILY.—It is a curious proof of the slender fortunes of Lord BYttox's family at his accession to the title, that the produce of the sale of hie mother's effects, with the exception of her plate and linen, netted only 74/. 17s. 7d. DISCRIMINATION.--A country friend of Sir ROBERT WALrOLE, hearing the celebrated Mr. Parr, afterwards Lord CHATHAM, speak just after he had taken his seat in the House of Commons, he being at that time only a Cornet, observed to Sir ROBERT that it would be worth his while to make that young man a Captain. " My dear Sir," replied Sir ROBERT, " make him my friend and I will give him a regiment." AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR JAN VARY; The commencement of the frost put an immediate stop to field labour, with the exception of carting manure upon the land, and taking back bank and ditch ear' h, as a fresh supply. To speak of the weather, during the last thirteen months, our climate, however proverbially variable, has surely outdone all its former outdoings. No hying man, we apprehend, ever before witnessed such incessant alternations of ‘sind and weather. We now look for a cheering appearance of the late sown wheats which have lain dormant and hidden in the soil, an unprecedented length of time. The deep covering of snow has been beneficial to the lands in a double view; as a preventive of the frost from penetrating too deeply into the soil, and as a manure, by its nitrous and fructifying quality. Some time and labour have been thrown away by attempting to cart and even plough during the intervals of frost and thaw; par ticularly upon heavy lands, which such weather leaves in the same sodden and puddled state as con stant rain. The snow has also protected the turnipti, hut they cannot be expected to remain long sound afier a change of weather. The sheep are said to do very well upon them ; and these animals, to which moisture is known to be the great bane, are, by an English custom, left abroad in deluges of wet, their fleeces constantly soaked through, and their loins chilled; yet they generally escape in some sort of condition. But surely a superior condition of our flocks, both on wool and carcase, would well reply the labour and expense of sheltering and of supply ing them with food, which, at any rate, must be done, whilst they remain in the field covered with snow. The late crop of wheat is again represented variously, with more complaint of late, both of the yield and the quality.—Those farmers who have •no other resource, have nearly cleared off the whole of their corn and disposable live stock. The rabbits and hares, near the great preserves, have done im mense mischief by cropping the young buds of the wood, during the hard weather. The former con tinue to increase in such multitudes, that neither the national consumption, nor any means that can be adopted, are sufficient to reduce them. Game is said to be scarce, excepting where preserved. The wages of labourers in regular employ, from 12s. to 9s. per week in the best counties; Ss. and 9s. in the poor land districts. The reports from Scotland are more favourable in all respects than from any part of South Britain. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. - Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. Carlisle 59 27 21 -- Carmarthen 55 31 14 .36 Ele ham 52 72 33 41 22 29 50 52 Morpeth I 4ti 55 28 32 18 24 34 36 Peurith I 60 — 31 23 -- Skettield 73 29 41 Winchester 140 02 123 34 17 22 42 46 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s. d. Coventry Newcastle (Staft:) 90 93 50 56 34 39 59 60. Northallerton 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 5 9 61 , Stafford Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardeastle 12 6 16 0I 8 6 9 0 5 6 6 4 9 6 12 6 Durham 1 .20 15 6 80 90 49 64 916 10 0 Richmond —.112 0 hi 0 90 10 6 70 86 11 0 120 Stockton 6 14,6 80 90 48 70 00 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARK: .ET.—Jan. 29. There is a good supply of all Grain from the farmers here to-day, but very little up the river, the n wigation having been closed. Fine Wheat fully maintains the prices of last week ; but all other sorts are very dull sale. Oats are without alteration. Barley, even of the best quality, is dull sale at last Friday's prices, and middling sorts are offering at rather less money. Beans are un altered. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suflblk 525. 565. to 58s. fine 61s. New Ms. 565. to 61s. fine 645. -- White Old 555. 575. to 645. fine 675. -- New 50s 568. to 595. fine 635. -- Foreign, Red 47s. Ms. to 60s. fine 61 5 . White s4s. 595. to 635. fine 665. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Lincolnshire 24s. to 31s. fine 335. - Yorkshire Wold 26s. to 295. fine 305. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -s. 1 11 to 2n Beans, Old - New 30s. to 335. fine 245. Oats, Potato Vs. to 255. fine 275. - Poland 20s. 225. to 245.' fine 255. - Friezland and Small 8s -- Mealing - Shelling 27s. to 30s. Od. per Load. Malt 36s 395. tine 41s. per Load. _. „ Rapeseed ... Aberdeen Berwick— Coldstream Cupar Dundee,,,.-- Elgin Ini , erness- Kelso Kirkaldy-- Perth The size 271. Os. 291. Os. 30/. Os, per last. + , SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley 50 68 23 28 34 39 18 20 35 38 18 20 44 69 25 28 48 10 27 30 :co 82 20 25 48 54 21 26 35 39 19 20 64) 76 33 38 48 70 19 21 of the measure va Oats. • 22 24 20 25 27 22 --- 26 27 19 21 19 20 40 •-• 24 27 30 34 26 32 :hout the countrY• 17 22 15 17 15 17 22 25 21 24 20 23 19 21 16 17 26 22 19 21 Les througl Beans. lOatrneal_7 ; 33 23 360 HADDINGTON CORN Al A It KET.—Jan. 29. The market continues to be thinly supplied with Bar. ley, only 36 quarters sold, and 5 unsold—top down 1 0 - average same as last. Oats are down 6d. on the top price —average the same to a small fraction : 197 quarters sold, 51 unsold. Wheat is down 6d. on the top, and 11 d. on the average. Wheat. Barley. First s9s Od 30s Od Second s6s Od 29s Od Third There were 477 qrs. of Wheat • 52 Unsold. A verage Oats. 25, Od 22s 0(1 206 Od in market,. —0 Grey 2/. 12s. Pease. Beans• 29s Od 30s Od 2Ss Od 29s Od 27s Od YEls Od 5 whereof were sold• DALKEF The supply of ket wai large ; se'nnight. Wheat. Barley. Oats First 62s 04 31s Od I 12.54 Od Second sls Od 288 Od 24s Od Third 4Bs Od 26s 01 20s Od CORP all kinds •ices rather MA R KE' of Grain ►ower tha s.l2tbs. T.--Jan. at this ti, An those of lay's mar f this day Pease. Beans. 33s Od 338 Od_, 30s Od 30s 0 0, aii Od 28s Od CORNWALL MARKETS. Tnu RO.—Wh eat (average) 225. Od.—Barley, 12s.—Oats, Ss. 3d• lIEL3ToN—Wheat, 225. ed.—Barley, 12s. Od. ST. AusTELL—Wheat, 225. to 24a.—Barley, 123. to 13s.—OatS, Bs. to 9s. Od. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 225. Od.—Barley, 1 ls.—Oats, Bs. Lau CESTON—Wh ea t (average) '23s. Od.—Barley, 12s. od.—Oats , 76. o.l.—Beef, Sd.—Mutton, sd. PENZANCE—Wheat, 235. to 24s.—Barley, —s. to 16s.—Oats , Ss. to 10s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, 4d. to 5 0:—Pork, 31d. to Ode"" Butter, 11d. per lb. Ltsksasn—Wheat, 225. 641. to 25 s.—Barley,13s. 1 0 .• to I Is. Od. ST. Cc:mums—Wheat, 21s. to 23s.—BarIey, Hs. to 12s.—Beer , and Mutton, sd. to spl.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 61 ALINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt• Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 3,621 0 Average Produce B% 0 Quantity of fine Copper 3lO IS Amount of Sale, '22,1;21. 14s. fid.—Average Standard, 1031. 7s. Ocl. On Thursday last the- Marquis of DowN swum was entertained at a dinner in the Corporation , Arms, Hillsborough, by a large and respectable portion of his tenantry of the Kilwarlin estate. The object of this public entertainment was to manifest the esteem in which his Lordship is held by his tenantry; and_to testify how , grateful they are for his Lordship's uniform attention to their best interests.—lrisla Paper. BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. Mrs. Win. Lawson, of St. Mary-at hill, of a son. On the 29th ult. the lady of Frederick Keene, Esq. of Belle-Vue Cottage, Hampstead, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 21st oh. at Hamburg, Richard Godeffroy, Esq• of London, to Miss E. Schulback, of Hamburg. On the 26th ult. at Hutton, the Rev. C. Hall, M.A., Rector of Tevington and Routh, to Mary, daughter. of R. P. Stainfoath, Esq. of Hutton Lodge. DIED On the 29th ult. the Rev. Thomas Hay, D.D., Canon of Christ Church, and Rector of Button, Suffolk, and of. North Repps, Norfolk. He took the degree of M.A. 1683, B. and D.D. in 1795, and was appointed Carlon of Chi ist Church the same year. On the 24th ult. in Spencer-street, Northampton . square, aged 54, Mr. Wm. Score, of the Bank of Eng - ho land, greatly beloved, and sincerely lamented by a ll knew him. A rare example of punctuality and virt ue. On the 29th ult. in Bernard-street, Russell - sq uare, S. Pryer, Esq. aged 7 8 , Member of the Hon. S ociet y of Gray's-inn. On the 28th ult. in Edgeware•road, Paddington/ W Watson, Esq. aged 70. On the 28th ult. at Mile-end, Elisa, wife of J. 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