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ever, forego the gratification of mentioning that none of the present men remain ; and that all who come in, with one exception (and he the first diplo matist of the day), are Protestants." Any body but the writer of this paragraph must have felt that the only ground of belief in such a story was its utter impossibility. The Duke of Richmond Prime Minister! That worthy and modest nobleman will himself feel too strongly the ridiculous nature of such a supposition to make it worth our while to point the jest. And the Ministry (God wot 1) to be all Protestants This childish application of the term Protestant means (among the party to which our egregious contemporary belongs),that the Ministry would consist of men who would re peal the Catholic Relief Act, and would raise a rebellion in Ireland to exhibit their skill in quell ing it. They would " steer among the sands to show their wit." But the writer does not tell us who these sages are. This is tantalizing. We are really anxious to see a list of the persons whom our contemporary thinks fit to govern the State :it must be an amusing catalogue,—a col lection of real zoological curiosities. Then, the exception made in favour of the first diplomatist of the age I This concession is liberal, but does it not a little compromise the pure high-flying principles of the great Protestant party ? We really think the exception is precipitate; and, for the sake of their own dignity and consistency (we can have no other motive), we recommend them to reconsider this point. By the way, the new Cabinet has been more than usually re served, and even discourteous, in their suppres sion of all previous mention of this important change. Their own friends, for want of the ne cessary information, have been daily deserting them ; while the Duke of Wellington and his Cabinet, being dismissed without notice, have no time to make even a decent retreat, much less to prepare their minds for so sad a reverse of for. tune. Perhaps no:courtesy was owing to the Duke, who has himself, it must be confessed, a somewhat rapid and abrupt way of getting rid of opponents; but surely, it was cruel not to give their own friends notice, in time to save them from the awkwardness of a double apostacY. But we feel that it would be tiring our readers to go on with the dissection of this prodigious narrative : they will pronounce it at once—what w e our selves know it to be pure absolute fudge.—lbid. The Message of the President of the United States to Congress will be found in another cu.. lumn. Its main feature is the extensive reforms, both cGnstitutional and administrative, which are recommended. The object of these reforms is to purge the institutions of the ccuntry from all impediments to the constant action of the will , of the people on those who govern. Dur ing the course of the year 1829, no less than 12,405,005 dollars has been paid towards the reduction of the Debt, which, on the 1t of January, 1830, amounted to 48,565,406 dol lars, including 7,000,000 dollars of 5 pr Cent. Stock subscribed to the Bank of the United States. The balance in the Treasury on the Ist of January, 1829, was 5,972,435 dollars. The receipts of the year 1829 are estimated at _ _ 24,602,230 dolhp,•,-„nom - tiirexpenditure for the same time at 26,164,595 dollars, leaving a ha lance in the Treasury, on the Ist of January, 1830, of 4,410,070 dollars. The whole of the Debt of the United States amounts, therefore, to about two years' income of the Government. In a short time it will cease to exist. Towards this country the language is most friendly. With Great Britain (he says), alike distin guished in peace or war, we may look forward w years of peaceful, honourable, and elevated competition. Every thing in the condition and history of the two nations is calculated to in spire sentiments of mutual respect, and to carry conviction to the minds of both that it is their policy to preserve the most cordial relations. Sueh are my own views, and it is not to be doubted that such are also the prevailing senti ments of our constituents." Curiosity has been ~,powerfully directed to the subject of the tariff ; a - . 4 ,:se tun. and , •nrnnulce tent io the zenexA..exneetatinn and it will be seen tom, to I of a change is not belied. " The operation of the Tariff (says the President) has not proved so injurious to the two former (agri culture and commerce,) nor as beneficial to the latter (manufactures) as was anticipated. Importations of fore;gn goods have not been sensibly diminished; while domestic competition, under an illusive excite ment, has increased the production much beyond the demand for home consumption. The consequences have been low prices, temporary embarrassment, and partial lose, Thst such of our manufacturing establishments as are based upon capital, and are prudently managed, will survive the shock, and be ultimately profitable, there is no reason to doubt. To regulate its conduct; so as to promote equally the prosperity of these three cardinal inter ests, is one of the most difficult tasks of Govern ment; and it may be regretted that the complicated restrictions which now embarrass the intercourse of nations could not, by common consent, be abolished, and commerce allowed to flow in those channels to which individual enterprise—always its surest guide —might direct it. But we must ever expect selfish legislation in other nations; and are, therefore, com pelled to adapt our own to their regulations, in the manner best calculated to avoid serious injury, and to harmonize the conflicting interests of our agricul ture, our commerce, and our manufactures. Under these impressions, I invite your attention to the ex isting Tariff, believing that some of its provisions require modification. " The general rule to be applied in graduating the duties upon articles o f foreign growth or manufac ture, is that which plate our own in fair competition with those of other countries ; and the inducements to advance even a step beyond this point are con trolling in regard to those articles which are of pri mary necessity in time of war. When we reflect upon the difficulty and delicacy of this operation, it is important that it should never be attempted but with the utmost caution. Frequent legislation in regard to any branch of industry, affecting its value, and by which its capital may be transferred to new channels, must always be productive of hazardous speculation and loss," One of the consequences of the attempts to bolster up any commodity by high duties on im portation is an increase of smuggling ; and we find from the Message that the Tariff' has pro duced in this respect, in the United States, what all men expected from it : " It is worthy of notice (says the President), that the laws for the collection and security of the Revenue, arising from imposts, were chiefly framed when the rates of duties on imported goods pre.ent ed much less temptation for illicit trade than at pre- Dent exists. There is reason to belies(' that these laws are, in some respects, quite insufficient for the proper security of the Revenue, and the protection of the interests of those who are disposed to observe them. The injurious and demoralizing tendency of a successful system of smuggling is so obvious as not to require a comment, and cannot be too care-. fully guarded against . I therefore suggest to on greas the propriety of adopting e ffi cient measures to prevent this evil; avoiding, however, as much as possible, every unnecessary infringement of indivi dual liberty, and embarrassment of fair and lawful business." The domestic ref arms recommended are com pletely in accordance with the views of the De mocrats or Republicans. It is hardly necessary for us to observe, that the great problem in Go vernment, after it becomes necessary to delegate power, is to prevent men in office from using the ' power committed to them for their own separate benefit to the detriment of the community.— To guard against the possibility of men in office considering their situations as vested rights created for their benefit, the President recommends, that all offices, from the highest to the lowest, should be held only for four years. This is certainly something very different from the European system. And yet, when the principles which ought to prevail in a De. mocracy are considered, this change will be found strictly in accordance with them. In this country, the Government of which is not in the people but in an Aristocracy, a limitation of office to four years would merely have the effect of giving us the most useless persons of the community—namely, men of overgrown fortunes —to conduct the public business. But the ob ject in America is completely to eradicate all re mains of Government for the sake of separate interests. " Office (says the President) is con sidered as a species of property, and Govern ment rather as a means of promoting individual interests than as an instrument created solely for the service of the people. Corruption in some, and in others a perversion of correct feelings and principles, divert Government from its legitimate ends, and make it an engine for the support of the few at the eapence of the many. The duties of all public officers are, or at least admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelli gence may readily qualify themselves for their performance ; and I cannot but believe that more is lost by the long continuance of men in offiee, than is generally to be gained by their expe- The proposed limitations rience. would destroy the idea of property, now so gene rally connected with official station ;and although individual distress may be sometimes produced, it would, by promoting that rotation which con stitutes a leading principle in the Republican creed, give healthful action to the system." The great object of the Federalists, of whom Hamil ton was the head, was to make all business as complicated as possible, that it might not be un derstood by the public ; to create offices right and left ; in short, to have the Government conducted for the benefi' of nten in office. The people of the United States had a narrow :escape from becoming, like the people of every other country, the property of their Government. They :were running fast into debt. All sorts of jobbers and depredators of money were let loose on them, and they might have bid adieu for ever to the hope of getting rid of internal taxes and a heavy national debt. There was no lack of men In the United States, more than in other coun- tries, to , lend themselves as readily to the-bus ness of dishonesiy and corruption. Fortunately, two or three individuals, possessed of singular ability, and still more singular disinterestedness, rushed to the relief of their country at the critical period, and saved it from those calamities. which are now weighing us down. Who knows what changes the example of America may yet pro duce in the world I It is a standing exposure of • the mystific — ations , abused. We see here twelve millions of men in the full employment of the advantages of self-government ; and, from the simplicity of their system, five hundred millions may as easily be governed under it as five millions. The healthy play of the system turns on the limita tion of the powers of the general Government to specific objects, while the affairs of the people generally are managed in the separate States.— It was the remark of Jefferson, that if the Fe deral Government were to draw to itself general powers over the whole of so extended a country, it would be the most corrupt Govern ment under the sun ; and there are sufficient indications in his Memoirs and Correspondence of the soundness of his opinion. True in this respect to the democratic principles, the Pre sident observes— " The great mass of legislation relating to our in ternal affairs was intended to be left where tine matt' to ihe'clatrtlitislift — ill it—in the. State Govern !' carat I ments. Nothing is clearer, in my view, than that we are chiefly indebted for the success of the Con stitution under which we are now acting, to the watchful and auxiliary operation of the State autho.. rides. This is not the reflection of a day, bu t belongs to the most deeply-rooted conviction of m y mind. I cannot, therefore too stro n g l y or to earnestly, for my own sense of its importance, warn you against all encroachments upon the legitimat e sphere of State sovereignty. Sustained by it healthful and invigorating influence , t h e Federa l system can never fall." The permanence of this system depends on the intelligence and easy circumstances of the population. The question in which the world is so much interested is, can we hope that the circumstances which render self-government now practicable will continue ? 'Why not ? In Europe the people have not so much sunk, as they have not risen high. The lower orders were more degraded formerly than they are now, in every country of Europe. Rob bers, and plunderers, and villains and slaves, were the materials which first formed European society. The Americans started under more favourable circumstances ; the New England colonists, the parents of the United States, were the elite of England, as far as integrity was con cerned ; and the prejudices they took with them have gradually disappeared. Why should we anticipate from time what time does not exhibit elsewhere, a deterioration of character ? The population of Europe is wretched, but almost everywhere improving under great disadvantages, and why should increasing population in Ame rica lead to increasing wretchedness ? An in creasing population in America will avail them selves, in the various changes of circumstances, of increasing intelligence. We have sometimes wished that the plan of D'Alembert, to make a bonfire of all books every fifty years, were car ried into execution. As it is in Europe, the great business of after life is to rid ourselves of the erroneous notions imbibed in the books put iiito our hands in youth. Thus we hear every day, from one writer repeating it after another, that small states only are fitted for Republics. There is an admirable passage with respect to this point in a letter from Jefferson to D'lvernois, dated 6th Feb., 1795 :—" 1 suspect that the doctrine that ' small States alone are fitted to be Republics will be exploded by experience, with some other brilliant fallacies accredited by Montesquieu and other' potitical writers. Perhaps it will be found, that to obtain a just Republic and it is to secure our just rights that we resort to Go vernment at all), it must be so extensive as that local egotisms may never reach its greater part ; that on every particular question a majority may be found in its Councils free from particular in terests, and giving, therefore, an uniform pre valence to the principles of justice. The smaller the Societies the more violent and convulsive their schisms. 'We have chanced to live in an age which will probably be distinguished in his- tory for its experiments in Government on a larger scale than has yet taken place. But we shall not live to see the result." We have at tributed to space and numbers, what we ought to have attributed to ignorance, and debasement, and poverty, which, as long as human nature is human nature, will be taken advantage of.— Morning Chronicle. The account of the state of the public finances, as given in the American President's Message to Congress, which we publish to-day, forms a striking contrast to our own. It will be seen that the balance in the Treasury on Ja nuary 1, 1829, was 5,972,455 dollars ; that the receipts of the current year were 24,602,230 dol lars ; the expenditure 26,164,595, leaving a balance in the Treasury on January 1, 1830, of 4,410,070 dollars. It also appears that the ex penditure for 1829 included a payment on account of the public debt of 12,405,205 dol lars, reducing the debt of the Government to 48,565,406 dollars, including seven millions of Five per Cent. Stock subscribed to the Bank of the United States. Under this aspect of affairs, well may the First Magistrate of this great Re public address the people, over whose interests it is his duty, and ought to be his pride, care fully and unremittingly to watch, in language such as the following :—" This state of the finances exhibits the resources of the nation in an aspect highly flattering to its in dustry, and auspicious of the ability of Government, in a very short time, to ex tinguish the public debt. When this shall be done, our population will be relieved from a considerable portion of its present burdens ; and will find not only new motives to patriotic affec tion, but additional means for the display of in dividual enterprise. The fiscal power of the States will also be increased, and may be more extensively exerted in favour of education and other public objects ; while ample means will re main in the Federal Government to promote the general weal, in all the modes permitted to its authority. Thus we see that the American President is far from considering the public debt as a " blessing," like some of our more enlightened" legislators, that he congratulates the country on its anticipated extinction. There is no such prospect as the annihilation of her debt for England ; it remains, and will long re main, a monument of the prodigal folly of the most calculating nation in the world—the price of the laurels of some sanguinary struggles and the bauble of military glory. There never was a nation that paid more dearly than England has done for Quixotic interference in the affairs of other people. 'We hope she has not laid out so much money without purchasing some wis dom.—Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M kNSION-HOUSE. , A middle-aged person of highly respectable ap pearance was charged with having maliciously de stroyed a silk cloak, the property of a girl of the town, of the name of Ann Blifield. The prosecutrix stated, that a little after nine o'clock on the preceding night, herself and her ecen nae.ne_iere met by the prisoner who walked and talked with them, and asked them to take ':;:!17!..."7 - ; They accompanied him to the Bengal Arms, in White Lion-court, near the East India House, where he gave them some wine. The prisoner, after they had left the bar of that house, put his arm round her waist once or twice, a familiarity which she resented, and desired he would not repeat. — When they had gone a small distance from the house she smelt something fiery, and on turning round she perceived that a 191 e was rapidly extend ing at the back of her silk cloak. The prisoner put his band upon it, and said, " Why, it is vitriol."— He went and washed his bend in the kennel. She was greatly agitated, and at first suspected that the mischief had been done by two waiters, who stood near the public-house. They went back and charged them with having committed the injury; they freely gave up themselves to be examined, and nothing ap peared to excite suspicions against them. On going into the bar, however, she found on the floor, just where she had stood, same drops of a liquid, as if it had fallen down behind her or had been spilt from n phial. She considered that the mischief could not have been done before she went to the bar of the public-house, for, had it been, her companion must have observed it. No one was present with them but the prisoner, and no one else, except the two waiters, was near them between the time of their leaving the house and the discovery. The prosecutrix's companion corroborated her statement. The LORD MAYOR could not, on the evidence be- fore him, divest himself of the belief that the pri soner had committed the injury. He therefore sen tenced him to pay a penalty of 21. 10s., which was a moderate estimate of the value of the cloak de stroyed. The Captain instantly paid the fine, which his Lordship directed should be given to the girl who had sustained the injury. The Giptain then protested in the most solemn manner now, when he could get nothing by a de nial, that he was entirely innocent. The prevailing opinion in the Justice-room was entirely in favour of the Captain's innocence. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young man named Cogan, who drives one of the Fulham stages, was charged ►with having assaulted Thomas Barham, a drummer belonging to the Coldstream Guards.—Warrant discharged. A man named Somers appeared to an►wer the complaint of Mr. Gempe►tc, honorary secretary to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani mals, for wanton and cruel treatment to a horse. — Complaint withdrawn. - - lIATTON-GARDEN. Ellen Warner was charged with breaking into and robbing the lodginizs of Hannah Murphy, in White's-yard, Saffron-hill, on Monday night last. She was fully committed for trial. QUEEN-SQUARE. William Bowen, a paper-stainer, and Elizabeth, his wife, were brought up on an assault warrant, charged with having stained the eyes of their land lord, Samuel Mitchell, of Exeter-buildings, Chelsea, a jet black with their fists. The complainant detailed his grievances at acme length, from which it appeared that the defendant kept two dogs, which were a nuisance to the whole house, and on Saturday evening last, after he had got quietly and comfortably into bed, he was aroused by the said dogs, which had got into his room, and commenced a howling and yelping about, to his great annoyance. He accordingly got out of bed to turn out the intruders, when he heard a violent knocking and kicking at the door, and, on opening it, the defendant knocked him down, and struck him several blows while he was on the ground, in which he was assisted by his wife. The defendant asked permission of the Magis trates to cross-examine the complainant, to which they assented. Defendant—Now, Sir, tell me what religion you are of? Witness—Why, what has that go: to do with it ? Defendant—Answer my question, Sir. What religion do you profess ? Witness—Why, then, I belongs to the Church of England. Defendant—Now, Sir, do you believe in a future state of rewards and punishments ? Witness— . That's out of the question here ; its out of rny way. Defendant—Do you believe if you take a false oath here, you will be punished hereafter ? Wit ness—That has nothing to do with it ; you only • put these questions to me to show your great tarn- ing, because you are a fine scholar, and I am a poor man, and cannot write my own name. Defendant—Answer my question, Sir. Do you believe you will be punished for swearing falsely ? Witness—Why, then, I cannot be punished here after, for I have not taken a false oath. Defendant—Now, Sir, dare you look in my face and say you did not strike the first blow. Now, re• collect, on your oath ? Witness—That I dare. You struck first. Defendant—Now, Sir, do you recollect, on the 12th July last, when your wife threw a pail of water over my wife ? Witness—Stop there, Mr. Bowen ; you are putting the cart before the horse, with all your laming; it was your wife that threw the pail of water over my wife. The Magistrates interrupted the examination, and said what occurred on the 12th July last had nothing to do with the case, and asked the defendant what he had to say in his defence ?—The defendant, after several " hems," commenced as follows :—" May it please this Honourable Bench, I will a round unvarnished tale' deliver of this transaction, and prove to your satisfaction that this man, Mitchell, has most grossly perjured himself. On the 12th July last"— Mr. WHlTE—Never mind the 12th July, tell us what occurred last Saturday 7—The defendant could not go on with his story without commencing on the 12th July; when, after a long history of his grievances, and being in daily expectation of being murdered by his landlord through spite, he at last got to Saturday night, and complained of being out of work, and that the c omplainant was beating his dogs, and struck him first. Mr. WHITE—How comes it you keep dogs when you are out of work 2—The defendant was very fond of dogs. Mr. WHITE—Pray, Mr. Bowen, do you pay the tax for your dogs ?—The defendant was taken quite aback by this unexpected question, and gazed at the Bench with a vacant stare, his oratory having quite forsook him : he at length admitted, on the question being pressed, that he did not pay the dog tax. Mr. WHITE—Then you are liable to have an in formation laid against you, and subject to a heavy penalty. The Magistrates ordered him to pay a fine of 10s. to the King, or be imprisoned a week. " I have no money," replied the defendant, "and must go to prison." The complainant did not wish to send him to pri son, all he wanted was to get rid of h i m and his ' two dogs. ' The defendant agreed to this, and the judgment ' of the Magistrates was to stand over. LAMBETILSTREF,T. Charles Baptist, alias Charles Lill; alias Little Charley, was yesterday brought before Mr. HARD ,WiaK to undergo a final examinatiott, on a charge of being concerned in a burglary committed in the house of a Mr. Simmons, a baker, residing at Wan stead, Essex. Several witnesses deposed to seeing the prisoner near the prosecutor's house on the night of the rob bery, and a knife which was left behind was proved to have belonged to the prisoner. A quantity of the property stolen was also traced to him. He was fully committed for trial. A poor black woman, who had been waiting to make application to the Magistrates for relief from the parish of St. George, suddenly fell down in a fit from exhaustion aid waHt of food. A medical gentleman present immediately bled her, arid she was after a few minutes sufficiently recovered to he sent to St. George's workhouse ; and an Irishwo man, seeing this, a few minuets afterwards threw herself dawn in the passage of the office, and pre tanded_tair in a fit • j„ k er,fis, 11-3Weltr, turned out to be a tlivalten one, aril', she was ordereo to he turned out, and not to be :ern there again. A. man who stated himself to be afflicted with the King's evil applied for relief from the parish of St. George. Mr. WALKER told him he should have a sum mons, and have his case investigated. A number of publicans were yesterday summoned to this office, for keeping their houses open during the ht urs of divine service on Sunday. The informer's witness swore in every case that he went into the defendants' liouses within a minute or two of the time that they were entitled to open, and that there was no person there but himself. The Magistrates both expressed their decided in tention never to convict any publican when there was no person present but the informer. Every summons was then, with the entire con currence of both Magistrates, dismissed. THE MARKETS. , roint,,snUTllALL. 61 A RKET.—Jan. 6. which was etoughout largely . In our market to - day, supplied, and but thinly attended by buyers, the trade with each kind of meat was unusually dull, at the fol lowing prices per stone of Slb. to mink the offals:- 21.8 d. to 3s. Sd 3s. Sd. to 4s. 2d. Mutton -- 2.8 4 0 I Pork 3 2 4 4 The foregoing quotations are Beef from 2d. to 4d., Mutton 2d. per stone lower; best Veal 2d. per stone higher than on this day se'nnight; in prices of Pork and inior Veal no a lteration. A very great part of the supply left the m ferarket unsold. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 5. Beet...----. Ss. Ed. to 3s. 10d. I Veal .---.. Mutton ~,,..»3 1, 4 6 Pork ............... Supply good, and trade dull. Od. t• 0.. Od. 5 10 4 2 RUM FORD MA RKEL—Jan. 6. s. d. to s. d. s. d. 6. d. Reef 2 6 3 6 Veal Mutton 3 0 4 2 Quarter old Pigs 125.t0 lss. each. ork Suckling Calves from 14s. to 28 5 , ".; Supply modcralely good, and trade dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK Vii heat. Barley. Oats, s. to s. 19 24 - 18 24 30 17 23 16 21 16 21 16 24 17 30 23 30 18 25 19 27 Beans. s. to s. •—• 56 49 54 56 76 5(4 67 44 56 42 52 44 62 54 60 57 6:3 5(3 '7O 54 76 S. 8, 25 30 32 SS 24 33 22 2 8 24 32 27 36 30 2 8 37 40 20 34 25 33 24 34 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Jut. 5. To this day's market there Las been a fair supply of Barley, but that of Wheat and other kinds of Grain has been small. The best qualities of New and Old Wheat have supported the price of last week, but other descrip tions of New and Old have been dull, and in hunted de mand. The best heavy Malting Barley has not varied in price, but for other descriptions the demand has been limited. No alteration c.tn be noted in the price of Oats. Shelling 6d. to Is. per load lower. Good Old and dry New Beans have been sold on about the same terms as last week, but the inferior Old and damp New ones have been very dull. In Pease not any alteration. Flour, Malt, and Rapeseed have not varied in price. The river below Leeds, and the canal above, are now so that vessels can pass. Wheat, Norfolk and Sullblk, 6011). --- York. and Lincoln. 6011). tf Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ---- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ' Grinding Beans 6311). 28s. to 375. e,, Oats, Potatoe ----Mealing, Foreign 10d. to 1110.,..English 10d. to 1241. per st Shelling 28s. to 30s. per load. Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —l. to —l. per last. ------- - LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--Jan. b. WHEAT, English, Wh e d ite, per 70Ib. ------- ----• Scotch, Welch, and Manz .---- Irish, White .....« 8 3 9 3 —.------ Red 7 6 9 0 -----. Foreign 9 6 10 IS OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 3 4 ----- Irish ---- Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 35 0 38 0 ------ Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. _----- Feeding 4 0 4 4 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 43 0 -Irish & c. __--- Foreign Pcase, English, per Imperial quarter 39 0 42 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per :2801b. 47 0 49 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 26 0 28 0 INDIAN CORN, per 44011 x. EINE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 1. Wheal Oats. 1 B ar l e y Flour. Oatme.ll, Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Foreign,&ls Irish , ea. Seks. Loads. 6,950 7,029 SW .-- I 2,350 2,835 (From a Correspoudent of the Times.) The Commission appointed to inquire into the state of the Ecclesiastical Law, is understood to consist of the Archbishop of Canterbury,the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Lincoln, the Bishop of Gloucester, the Bishop of Exeter, Lord Wynford, Sir John Nichol], Dr. Luahington, Lord Stowell's name was, we believe, originally inserted, but from his age and infirmities he probably will not attend. The object of this Commission is believed to be limited. As the law now stands, the Ecclesias tical Courts have power over personal property, wholly at variance with our present advanced and complicated state of society. When these laws were made, little respect was paid to personal property, which, indeed, in the feudal times, could hardly be said to have existence, and hence the civil courts had not jurisdiction over it. A reform in this matter the Commission are to hold in view; also to suggest the means of punishing neg lect of duty, and delinquencies on the part of the clergy, in their clerical character. Some alarm is felt, lest, under this head, the Bishops should endea vow- to (-slitp an pi- ,:trary pctie7 over the clergy, which, under the pretence of pruvu.ting crimes against the church, might become a source of the most odious tyranny, No alteration ir. the liturgy is contemplated, nor I any investigation Into the abuses complained of in the unequal distribution of thcwealtli un4 enormous revenue of the church. No correction of this coil is within the scope of the powers given to the Commission. TIIE SPLENDID BRADWELL OX. There is now exhibiting ender this name, at the Horse Bazasr, Portman-square, an immense ox weighing between 4,000 and 5,000 pounds, 17 hands high, .and nearly 11 feet in length. And this is called the greatest curiosity of the kind ever exhi bited in the metropolis. Perhaps it is; but in the name of reason, what is .the object of making a mast useful animal perfectly useless, by encouraging this wholesome, excessivearidunnatural _ ti growth ? The flesh cannot -Waite of food in produeing it is obviously culpable. When nature produces im mense quadrupeds like the elephant, we are struck with wonder at the perfection of her stupendous work, the strength suited to the proportions, and the noble uses " even in camps and courts," tg which such animas can be applied. But when " nature's journeyman" sets to.work and produced instead of strength and majesty, is a huge mass of de formity, disgust the sensation produced in a well regulated mind, by such a persevering attention to show how time and food can be misapplied to create a spectacle for a tribe of Smithfield graziers. It is time that this practice of cramming poor animals until they are suffoceted by repletion had ceased ; :it has been abandoned by the older and better members of the Smithfield Club. The agriculturist who can economize in food, whocan bring sterile land cheaply into tillage, who can practically add to the produce tive powers of the soil, is a useful member of the community; but vviv: benefit accrues (unless the mere sensual gaping of a crowd be one) by over feeding cattle in till. manner, making them appa rently wretched to theniselyes.,,and worse; I..;!riuse.. .to the consurlio It is a silly fashion, and has lasted beyond its day. This unhappy ox cer tainly looks better than his fellows, who sometimes pass as prodigies at some of the annual Smithfield exhibitions, because his frame appears to have been naturally of large proportions, and therefore the de formity produced by his incessant feeding does not look so repulsive ; nevertheless, his fore-legs totter under him, and lie furnishes no exception to the just objection to this expensive and absurd practice. — Timer. THE SIAMESE TWINS. We are indebted to a correspondent for the fol lowing parallel in the case of the Siamese youths. Both the extracts, it is evident, refer to the same instance : (From Lindsay of Pitscottie's History of Scotland —reign of James IV.) ' _, " In this mean time there was a great marve, seen in Scotland. A bairn was born reckoned to be a man child ; but from the waist up, was two fair persons, with all members and portraitures per taining to two bodies,—to wit, two heads, well eyed, well eared, and well handed. The two bodies the one's back was fast to the other's; but from the waist down, they were but one personage, and could not know, by the ingiue of man, from which of the two bodies the legs and privy members pro ceeded. Notwithstanding the King's Majesty caused take great care and diligence upon the up bringing of thir (these) two bodies in one person age, caused nourish them, and learn them to sing and play upon instruments of music; who, within a short time, became very ingenious and cunning in the art of music, whereby they could play and sing two parts, the one the treble, and the other the tenor, which was very duke and melodious to hear, The common people, who treated them also, won dered that they could speak diverse and sundry lan guages—that is to say, Latin, French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Danish, English, and Irish. Their two bodies long continued to the age of 28 years, and the one departed long before the other, which was dolorous and heavy to the other, for which many required of the other to be merry. Ile an swered, How can Ibe merry, that have my true marrow [compan'oa] as a dead carrion about my back, which was wont to sing and play with me ? When I was sad he would give me comfort, and I would do the like to him. But now I have nothing but dolour of the bearing so_heavy a burden, dead, cold, and unsavoury, on my back, which taketh all earthy pleasure from me in this present life. There fore I pray to Almighty God to deliver me out of this present life, that we may be laid and dissolved in the earth wherefrom we came.' " (From Johnstone's Thaumatagrraphia Naturalia.) " In Scotia autem alter inferiore parte maris specie, utithilicurn vero supra geminis membris et ad usum et ad speciem discretis fuit. Hoc monstrum iu musicis educatum, varias linguae calluit, in com mune consultavit, dissensu orto, in jurgia et rixas szepissime erupit, annos viginti et octo vixit. Et cum alter= corpus complures ante adterum dies obiisset, quod superstes fuit, dimidio sui computre• :mute, contabuit." The CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER V I sited Mr. VIISICT FITZGERALD yesterday. Per Quarter. Blandford Brigg Catnbridge . Chard Huntingdon —..... Long Sutton--- Louth ....*. Newark Nottingham Peterborough —.— Plymouth PontefraeL--~-. Sleafonl Uppingham Wisbcch 47 56 50 60 45 58 17 23 19 V 18 lit 38 42 24 45 V.l 31 Lynn F. to a 34 39 - 31 42 46 21 36 25 30 24 30 96 36 29 42 37 42 DUBLIN COMMISSION, JAN. 4. THE COMBINATION MURDER. At the sitting of the Court, William Roberts, William Clinton, Thomas Mellon alias Mullion, Water Jackson, and Michael Byrne, arraigned on Saturday for the murder of Thomas Hanlon, were placed at the bar, and asked by the Clerk of the Crown if they were ready for their trials. SOLICITOR-GENERAL—I do not wish to press on the Court the trial this day, but perhaps your Lord ships would appoint to-morrow; and I beg to men tion that it is not the intention of the Postmaster- General to proceed with the trial of Mr. Harrison at the present commission, in which case, I pre sume, the Court will have no difficulty in detaining that gentleman in custody till the next commission. Mr. GRAYDON addressed the Court on behalf of Mr. Harrison, and said, he hoped they would not decide on the application until Mr. O'Connell, who was engaged with him, was present ; that he was at present out of town, and Mr. Harrison was ready to take his trial at the present commission. Judge MOORE—There is no bill before the Court in this case ; when there is, we will know how to deal with it. The trials of the five sawyers before-mentioned were then fixed for to-morrow. In the course of the day the City Grand Jury returned true bills against six more sawyers, charged with the murder of the ill-fated Hanlon. ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. SHERIFFS' COURT, JAN. 7. CIIEAPE AND ♦NOTIIER V. HAYES. This was a writ of inquiry directed to the Sheriff of Middlesex, to assess damages in an action wherein George Clark Cheape and David Charles Guthrie were plaintiffs; and James Haves, a floor-cloth ma nufacturer, at Reading, in Berkshire, was the detest-, 41ant, and had suffered judgment to go by default. Samuel Prentice, chief clerk and traveller to the plaintiffs, who are wholesale yarn manufacturers, proved the delivery of the goods, and that he had called on the defendant for payment at various times. The defendant had made repeated promises to pay, and had compared with witness each separate item in the plaintiff's account with - kis books and the invoices delivered to him, and had admitted the cor rectness of the plaintiff's account. The debt was originally upwards of 1,0001., off which various sums had been paid on account, which reduced the plain tiff's claim to 4731. 2s. Verdict for the plaintiffs for this amount. SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. War-Office, Jan. 7. 3d Regiment of Foot—Lieut. J. Lukis, from the 59th Foot, to be Paymaster, vice Boyd, deceased. Dated Dec. 24, 1829. 59th Foot, Capt. W. E. Grant, from half-pay 6th West India Regiment, to be Paymoster, rice Wright, deceased. Dec. 24. Office of Ordinance, Jan. 6, 1830. Royal Regiment of Artillery. Gentleman Cadet W, H. Aekwith to be Second Lieu tenant, vice Gosset t promoted. Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet F. Dunlop to be ditto, vice Beau champ, promoted. Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet F. Dick to he ditto, vice Strickland, resigned, Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet A. Tylee to be ditto, vice Skinner, promoted, Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet E. J. Jones to be ditto, vice Alcock, promoted, Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet C. J. Dalton to be ditto, vice R. Luard, promoted. Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet W. H. Forbes to be Second Lieu tenant, vice Teasdale, promoted. Dec. 18. Gentleman Cadet D. E. Wood to be ditto, vice Gore, promoted. Dec. 18. Commission in the Worcestershire Militia, signed by the Vic.l-7.:tuteuant of the County of Worcester. C. M.ttaule, Gent.. to be Ensign, Dec. 31. Whitehall. Jan. 5. The Lord Chancellor hab appointed John Silacox the yonnger, of Birmingham, in the 'county of Warwick, Cent. to be a Naate: lixtraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATIONS Or INSOLVENCY. Willlimn Philip Moters Craft, Qua:en-erect, horse-dealer. _ BANKRUPTS. Thorass George Hall, Kingston-upon-1101, - .nen lant, to surrender Jan. 12, /a tkn, 19, aNI Feb. 19, at toren, at the Court of Goonnissloner4. Walker, OW Btu& street. Thnrna9 Richmond, Stones-end, Forough, corn-dealer, JIM. 15, at eleven, 2‘.7„, at ten, and Feb. 19, at ele*en, at the at the Court of Commissioners. Tilson and Somi Coleman-street,. Thomas Farrant, F.gham, Surrey, upholsterer, Jan. l 2 19, at twelve, and Feb. 19, at ten, at the Court of Coin► missioners. Yat , ,s Sydney, Bury-street, Saint Mary-' _ _ _ Charles Edward Crorn-street, Soho, vie burlier, Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 19, at eie:or., of Commissioners. Evans and Harpur, KenningLon-cross.l ! 'John Rowe, St. George's-place, Back-lane, St. George's in the East, ship-owner, Jan. 15, 22, and Feb. 19, at Ceeen, at the Court of Commissioners. Wells; 'York terrace, Commercial-road East. Thomas Smith, Mason's-hill-farm, Bromley, Kent,. Jan. 19, at eleven, 22, and Feb. 19, at one, at the COO of Commissioners. Addison, Veruiant-buildings, inn. Thomas Stocks Petrie, Liverpool, wine-me; chant, Jam S 25, 26, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Clarendon Roma. •, Liverpool. Battye, Fisher, and Sudlow, Chancery-lave; Crump, Old Church-yard, Liverpool. Thomas Brancker, Leeds, Yorkshire, merchant, Jan. 28, 29, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Clarendon Room'. Richardson. Shield, and Thompson, Poultry; Richardsons Leeds ; and Devenport, Liverpool. .Nathaniel Lang, Teignmoutli, Devon.hire, grocer, Jaa. 2?,, 23, and Feb, 19, at eleven, at the George Inni, Exeter. Darke, Rid Lion-square, ; Hern, Exeter. Edmund Gore, St. Nicholas, Worcestershire, Jan, 19, ' 20, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Hyde, Worcester; Platt and Hall, New BoeweL-court, „Lincoln's Inn. • itoriert XayLia; ~TX.'y'Arnlsfreet, Maryleboree, iron monger, Jan. 15, at eleven, 22, at ten, and Feb. at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Orchards, Hat ton-Garden. William Sainter, Kingston-upon-Hull, worsted-mane' facturer, Jan. 25, at five, 26, and Feb. 19, at ten, at the Down Arnie Inn, Snaith. Capes, Gray's-inn, London ; Shearburn, Snaith. John Ilaxby, Brotherton, Yorkshire, lime-dealer, Feb. 1,3, and 19, at two, at the Star inn, Manchester. Milne and Parry, Temple, London; Walker and Jesse, Manchester. Wade Audley, Grafton-street East, victualler, Jan. 15s at ten, 22, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Court of Corn' missioners. Stevenson, Paternoster-row. John Sisley, East Peckham, Kent, shopkeeper, Jan. 22, 29, at one, Feb. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Cony. missioners. Bigg, Soutbampton-buildings, Chancery-lane. Edward Tidman, Birmingham, victualler, Jan. 12, 20, F e b. 19, at eleven, at the Royal Hotel, Birmingham. Homing and Baxter, Lincoln's-inn-fields, London ; Bird, Birmingham. William Scott, Bristol, merchant, Jan. 23, 25, and Feb. 19, at one, at the Bush Tavern, Bristol. Tanner and Son, Bristol; Hicks and Brakenridge, Bartlett's .. buildings, London. William Pays, Leeds, coach-maker, Jan. 27, 29, and Feb. 19, at eleven, at the Commercial-buildings, Leeds. Woodhouse and Weston, Temple, London ; Stott, Leeds. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corn' puted from the Returns made in the week ending Jan. 5 is 225. Bd. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of costoo l paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. in Brook•streat, the lady of Dr. Chambers, of a sou. On the 6th inst. the lady of S. H. J. Ellis, Esq. of Ker pel-street, Russell-square, of a sin. MARRIED. On the 7th inst. at Leyton, Essex, Frederick Robert eldest son of R. Gore, Esq., if Castle-house, Waltham' stow, to Charlotte Goodwin, eldest daughter ef J. Corer Esq., of Etloe-house, Leyton. On the sth inst. at Llangedwin, R. H. Miens, Erie son of the late 3. N. Aliens, Esq., of Cadorton-Lodges Glamorganshire, to Elizabeth Jane, daughter of J. Boo' nor, Esq. of Bryn y Gwalie, Denbigh. On the 2d inst. at Great Amwell, P. Harden, Est' second son of N. Harden, Esq. of Hadley, Middlesex, I° Caroline, widow of the late Thos. Christo p her, Es q . Crutehed-frisrP, and youngest daughter of J. Seton, Ent' of the Adelphi. On the let inst. J. Vincent, Esq. of Westfield, Shipdlieult Norfolk, to Anne, only daughter of IL W. Robinson, Est' of Bedford. r A N, rfn m H baneful 8441 , ar Rexual rootin g fart II tbjects, 04, _ t. tr, 3. II Campl a litti e in ' bt4 clin 'n; au 4.i n Cit 4:414. hill DIED. • qt . i a PPit On the 7th inst. at Whitehall, the Dowager Lad/ vtr is ,,,, , Grantham, in the 74th year of her age. :/., 1111 1, a cheti On the sth inst. at Tingrith House, Beds., the Iv" - .1 . , t it of Robert Trevor, Esq. On the 6th inst. Jane Margaret, the beloved Wil e g%te, C., of John Josiah Holford, Esq. of York-place, PortrnaW ditt g , 3 ' square. 5i,.,,,_1 On the 4th inst. at Shepley•hall , Lancashire , Joll • B a, T r , Lowe, Esq., a magistrate of the counties of Lancaster al l 4.iti1i,,,, Chester, aged 68. t 4 %„ 11,1 ei On the 6th inst. at his sister's, Miss Pskington, _ 1 st e ,,, Hampton-court, Sir John Pakington, Bart. of Westwoir ' i terr di Park, Worcester, aged 69. t,„ 11411 11, la ' On the 6th inst. Mrs. Caasroux , late of Fultham-b'' • -1 4 e g ct , Middlesex. sh y 4 • n kr ~_, , ,,04 1 P11.11011E1 3 AND PVELISHED By 11111tDO YOUNG, yen Bu Oninkek, lit, &mimeo LONDON, • V L- l On oil' tinurf Numl enloir N E containi three kii on steel now heft tress, an an nude tion in dearest ptetente this pal "hearts , *Arnica' told be' ;Ilesex ling. .f a xrni in price, mimes t A mrstircv Jamtary " Topogn tient ini phieal:l its bearl tiserui p Printed, first atm Alt rem at a ma " A too 4 of aad ina up with /hit it Lond W. Lid , and sold Ti If not Itaya aay c T' On e H littastvi the pari Thia tains lai extent 15 Ea pab Lime been fot It forms land, extensh pipers o from ti be taken Emtate r looney, 1110 T A ni the nor Lieuter of Deli Baird a mamma. compre Correct I 'anmor Coskim brain" rent e d Lot March FARM Ina, Ar reline,' urn Kt Preeent about Lot' , Vett, wi the Sp Knapp, Gordon betwixt racidle c in th e i four ; r Fure /V• Pa Llinb u Great in brew or b o b in tow, G° "Mr Lot ,; , _,'