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SPIRIT ,OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Our readers will find in another part of our paper tables of the produce of the revenue, for the years and the quarters ending on the sth of January, 1830 and 1831. The comparative result, we are happy to say, is more satisfactory than had been anticipated, and presents a fairer prospect of improvement in the resources of the country than we have had for several years. It is no doubt true that even in the last quarter there has been a falling off, but the deficiency is extremely slight. Out of a revenue of more than 12,500,0001. the decrease is only 29,503/. We should naturally have looked for a much greater de falcation from the repeal of the beer duties, of the tax upon leather, and other reductions of taxation which have been effected in the course of the last year. The Customs have fallen off 82,1811. a cir cumstance likewise to be accounted for by the financial arrangements of last Session, without the necessity of supposing any deterioration in the state of trade. On the Stamps, Post-office, Assessed and Miscellaneous Taxes, an increase has taken place of 90,503/. Comparing the produce of the revenue for the whole year which has just expired with its amount for the preceding year, we find a deficiency of 640,4501.; but it is gratifying to observe, that in every successive quarter this deficiency has been liminishing,and has now nearly become an evanescent quantity. In the quarter ending the sth of April, it was 245,812/. ; in that of the sth of .July, 177,3241. ; in that ending the 10th of October, 188,8341. ; and in the quarter which has just ex pired, only 29,4801.—Tines. The Revenue Accounts for the quarter, to which we refer our readers, exhibit a much more favour- able appearance than we were prepared for. The Repeal of the Beer Duty alone, to say nothing of the Duties on Hides, &c., would, it was thought, produce a considerable defalcation. We are happy, however, to find that the decrease on the quarter ended sth January, 1531, as compared with the quarter ended sth January, 1830, amounts only to 29,4801. The decrease on the year ended sth Jan. 1831, as compared with the year ended sth Jan. 1830, amounts to 640,5491. In the quarter there has been a decrease of 82,1911. in the Customs, and 37,8021. in the Excise. The Stamps hare increased 27,1101., the Taxes 44,9551., and the Post Office 9,0051. In the year the Customs increased 319,7011., the Taxes 116,8391., and the Excise decreased 853,9461. The flourishing state of the Revenue proves that high taxes do not always yield much to the Exchequer, nor re peals of taxes create much defalcation. The repeal enables the people to increase their con sumption, so that the Revenue seldom suffers much. This fact has so often been proved, that Parliament ought to take courage, and make further attempts in the way of repeal. The energy of the country is great, as is abundantly proved by the manner it continues to bear up under the pressure of such a load of taxation.—Morning Chronicle. By the quarterly returns of the produce of the different branches of the Revenue for the last year there appears to be upon the whole year, as com pared with the preceding one, a deficiency of 610,450/. ; and upon the last quarter, made up to the sth January, 1831, as compared with the cor responding period of the last year, of 29,4801. The great falling off occurs in the Customs and Excise, which alone show a loss of 120,0001. i❑ the last quarter. This is to be accounted for by the beer and leather duties ceasing. Against this decrease is, however, to be set off an increase, in other matters, of 90,503/. for the same quarter—which makes the net deficiency what we have stated it, 29,480/. The Post-office exhibits an increase for the last quarter of 9,0051., but a decrease on the year of 17,989/. ; Stamps, an increase on the quarter of 27,1101., but a falling off for the year of 39,344/.; Taxes, of 44,9551. for the quarter, and of 116,839/. for the year; and miscellaneous, of 9,433/. for the quarter, but a decrease of 165,711/. for the whole year. The Customs show an increase upon the year of 319,701/., but a decrease upon the quarter of 82,181/.; but the Excise a decrease upon the whole year of 853,946/., and upon the quarter of 37,802/. Under the head of " Charge" upon the Consolidated Fund some savings appear to be made; but the amount of the naval and military pensions, and the Civil List, not being yet fixed, the tables are necessarily imper fect. In Exchequer Annuities about one-seventh has been struck off. To the South Sea Company we pay some 3,000/. or 4,000/. less than last year. The dividends appear to be 300,000/. less, but they are transferred to the next item; and pensions are 15,000/. less than lust year. The amount of un funded debt, which is to be re-issued, is stated at 4,354,706/. Upon the whole, the results, consider ing the duties which have been repealed, and all the circumstances of the country, must be regarded as gratifying. The deficiency in the produce of the beer and leather duties would have been much more serious, had not increased consumption of these ar ticles filled up the void in another way.—Morning Herald. We have great satisfaction in laying before our readers tho official tables of the net receipt of the Revenue for the year and quarter which ended yes terday, with a comparative statement of the Na tional Income for the year and quarter which ter minated on the sth of January, 1830. From these document% it is manifest that the diminution of the National Income in the quarter just ended, when compared with the corresponding quarter of the last year, is no more than 29,4801. notwithstanding the very considerable reduction of taxes which was effected in the last session of Parliament, and which has during the last three months been in full opera tion. Without entering into any detailed computation of the loss which the Revenue must have sustained by the reduction of taxes, bad not this relief given au impulse to the consumption of the country, and in the same degree of course promoted the general welfare of the community, it may suffice to say that the repeal of the beer duty alone would have oc casioned a diminution of income in the quarter just ended to the amount of not less than 750,000/. The actual diminution is, as we have already stated, 29,4801., or something less than a twenty-fifth part of that which the repeal of the beer duty, had it not been attended by a positive increase of the national consumption, and of the comforts and enjoyments of the people, would alone have produced. This re sult of diminished taxation affords a most gratifying proof that the resources of the country are unim paired, and that no very considerable portion of the community, even under the former unmitigated load of taxes, were suffering that extremity of distress, in the exaggerated description of which so many persons take a factious or a misanthropical de• light. If the labouring classes generally had been able to procure only an inadequate supply of the mere necessaries of life before the repeal of the beer duty, the relief afforded them by that measure would have enabled them, no doubt, to obtain more abundantly than before articles of prime and indis pensable necessity ; but as such articles are for the most part not subject to taxation, the revenue would have suffered to an extent nearly equal to the whole amount of the duty taken off. That such was not generally the condition of the labouring classes of our countrymen is sufficiently proved by the facts which the official statements now before us supply, that a greater consumption of other taxed articles— of articles of comfort or luxury, has taken place since the repeal of the beer duty, and that the increase of revenue from these sources has been nearly sufficient to make good the deficiency occasioned by this repeal. We take pleasure in regarding the subject in this, which we believe to be the correct, point of view. It presents to a philanthropic Statesman the strongest conceivable inducement to reduce the public expellees to the narrowest limits which are really consistent with the credit, the dignity, and the security of the State. But it dissipates alto gether the mela nchol y delusion which some persons exert themselves to propagate, and many are prone to indulge, that abatement of taxes had become ne cessary in order to preserve the permanent resources of the country from dilapidation and decay, and that this necessity was so urgent and ab solute as even to have justified Government in sa crificing or endangering something of national se curity or honour for the sake of economy and re trenchment. Such economy and retrenchment would in any circumstances be real extravagance and prodigality. We must rejoice, nevertheless, on every new proof that there is nothing in the circum stances of the country which can afford the least shadow of excuse for a grovelling, ignoble, and short-sighted parsimony, or the least inducement to snatch any momentary saving at the hazard of future and permanent evil.—Morning, Post. It is to be hoped that, in the new arrangement of the Civil List, the present Ministers will carry into effect the principle which they advocated when in opposition—that of separating the King's House hold expenses from all other items of expenditure with which they have no necessary connection, and settling upon his Majesty the sum required to defray those expenses, exclusive of all salaries to Judges, or other public officers, pensions, &c.—that so the public may know exactly what sum it is which the Royal establishment costs the country. On this subject most erroneous notions are entertained by people in general ; and well they may, for the plan hitherto pursued with regard to the Civil List was what might not inaptly be called an " arrangement of confusion ;" for, though the Civil List was under stood to be the special provision made by Parlia ment for the personal expenses of the King and his immediate household, yet matters were mixed up with it which were of a distinct nature, and which would not have continued to be so mixed up if it were not for the purpose of political mystification. Under the feudal system, which prevailed in this country in all its vigour from the time of William the Norman until the reign of Charles 1., the Crown having great landed possessions, the King, partly out of the revenues of its demesne lands, and partly out of subsidies and taxes, defrayed all the great expenses of the State—such as the charges of the army and navy, the salaries of Judges, and other officers, whose remuneration was derived, not from fees of office, but from fixed stipends. The era of the Commonwealth brought about a new order of things, but the Restoration brought about—as re storations always do—the revival of the old system, which made a new revolution necessary ; and that revolution having been accomplished, the Parlia ment took into its own hands the annual support of both the army and navy, and settled on King Wil liam and Queen Mary a Civil List revenue, which, together with what are called the " hereditary du ties," amounted only to 700,0001. per annum.— This continued the same during the reign of Queen Anne and George the First, as we stated when ex plaining the nature of this financial arrangement when the Civil List was under discussion. In the reign of George the Second this sum was aug mented to 800,0001. that is, if the hereditary re venues did not amount, at any time, to 800,0001. Parliament was bound to make good the deficiency. A new arrangement was introduced when George the Third signified to Parliament his consent that his hereditary revenues should be placed at their disposal, to manage them as they might think best for the advantage of the public. It was then, for the first time, that a sum of 800,000/. altogether in dependent of the hereditary revenues, was settled, by way of Civil List, on the Crown, which was in creased some years afterwards to 900,000/.. then to 1,000,000/., but amounted, with other sources of re venue, such as the Duchy of Lancaster and Cornwall, droits of the Admiralty, &c. to upwards of 1,200,000/. Under this arrangement the hereditary revenues which the King placed at the dispoSal of Parliament were, by the Act of the Ist George 111., cap. 1, car ried into, and made a part of, the aggregate fund ; and the aggregate fund was charged with the payment of the whole annuity of 800,000/., as originally fixed to the Crown. All this yearly sum, with the sub sequent additions which have been made to it, is supposed by the public in general to be expended by the King upon his own establishment; but this is very far from being the case, inasmuch as out of the Civil List are defrayed, besides the expences of the Royal Household, the salaries allotted to the Judges previously to the year 1758, salaries to officers of State, the appointments to Foreign Ambassadors, the maintenance of the Queen and members of the Royal Family until they receive separate establish ments of their own, secret service money, pensions, and various bounties. At the era of the Revolution all these expellees, as well as those of the army and navy, ought to have been separated from the Civil List, and then the public would not have been led into the error that the King's establishment cost the nation a vast deal more than it really did. The Ministers of the Crown, however, found it conve nient to preserve an arrangement which allowed diem to " job" in secret for the benefit of their relations, dependents, and parasites, while all the popular odium of the extravagant and corrupt mis application of public money fell on the King. The late Ministry wished to preserve this deltion, and even to render the Civil List more perplexed and mystified than ever. The present Government have here an opportunity of financial reform ;—we trust they will not neglect it.—Morning Herald. If the repeal of the Union were a question, or were ever to become so, between the English and Irish nations,--that is to say, if the greater number of men of education and property in Ireland were to countenance the proceedings of Mr. O'Connell, his partisans, and their mob,—it would not be enough to say that the Union ought in such case to be re pealed, and that the British people and their Go vernment ought to regard the compact of 1800 as no longer binding on the Irish, because it is evident that against the deliberate and general sense of one of the contracting parties, no treaty of the intimate and domestic nature of that alluded to could be considered as physically tenable, much less as ca pable, by its continuance, of producing benefit to either country. What we have contended for is, that the only advocates for the repeal of the Union do not represent the intelligence, the property, or nationality of Ireland,—that they are confined to Mr. O'Connell himself, and to a faction whose organs are, and have been for many years, a limited set of noisy individuals, with no profession but that of agitators, and no motive but the mean one of pushing thenßselves up in the world through the notoriety of their indefatigable turbulence. if die nobility, gentry, merchants, men of professions, with any portion worth mentioning of Irish Pro testants, were indeed desirous of a repeal of the Union, we should have petitions pouring in to Par liament on the subject, of a different statnp and character from those which have yet found access to that body. The cause of emancipation was sup ported by the rank and property of Ireland, and by the all but unanimous intelligence both of Ireland and Great Britain. The most numerous and illustrious proportion of the Irish _Peerage which has ever arrayed itself on any question, published memorable declaration in defence of that great measure; but not more clearly indicative of the favour in which religious liberty was held by those who signed it, than the recent Leinster declaration ought to he considered, of the resolute hostility en tertained by the mass of educated Irishmen against hat civil and spiritual slavery, which, under the name of a " Repeal of the Union," or as its in evitable and almost immediate consequence, would en thral themselves and their 7,000,000 of countrymen, so long as a Popish hierarchy should exist in Ireland to re-establish a similar sway over the counsels of weak and violent, though uncrowned, politicians, as that of which the course was cut short by the manly wisdom of our Protestant ancestors in 1688, and the supremacy of which has been overturned by the contemptuous impatience of the French people, who saw in the brethren of Jesus and St. Dominic the everlasting foes of all that man in civilized society ought to hold most dear. It is not, therefore, be cause the independence and enlightened part of the . Irish nation, whether Catholic or Protestant, or mixed, would acquire the power of self-government by a repeal of the Union, that we deprecate the prospect of such a revolution as most dreadful, both fur Ireland and for our own country of Cheat Britain. We hold in abhorrence the whole scheme, on the contrary, because it would deprive the better mind of Ireland of every chance of free agency, or of the exercise of political power ;—because we see, from the complexion of Irish politics, that the rabble, the frantic rabble, goaded on by its chiefs, would make all government degenerate into a persecution of the upper classes, and of the reformed religion. Property, no matter whose, and Protestantism,—the two great elements of personal independence,—would, it is so confessed in the re ported speeches of the revolutionists, become early sacrifices to the revived glories of " College-green." It is not the Catholic gentlemen we fear—they are like other educated gentlemen ; nor the Catholic tradesmen—they are, like Protestants of their own degree, well-informed, and peaceable, industrious, and honest : no, it is the incendiaries of faction, — the domineering spirit of demagogue ambition, — having for its instruments a barbarian multitude, and having, in the words of a contemporary Jour nal, its own " wires pulled," though pulled in secret, by a far more refined and systematic power. When we see, for instance, a Jesuit Bishop obtruding himself upon the field of temporal politics, and ve hemently writing up the repeal of the Union,—when we see a Dominican friar brought forward as an orator at a public meeting, to mingle with an inflam matory address upon the Union, a laboured panegyric upon the brethren of St. Dominic—that order of the church of Rome in whose hands have been placed, and in whose diabolical spirit have been administered, the revolting powers of the Inquisi tion,—when such actors come forth and speak the prologue, we may guess what a tragedy is to follow. Again, let us declare most emphatically, that the Catholic aristocracy, and the bulk of the industrious and respectable lay Catholics, are as much our friends, and the friends of civil liberty, as our own Protestant fellow-subjects, and have as much to dread from a repeal of the Union; for they do really fear as much as we do, the double-handed encroach ments of the Popish priesthood and of the savage mob. It is the shocking degradation of the whole community which would become the rational subject of alarm. Let a Popish theocracy once get footing in Ireland, and under the pretence of national inde pendence throw off the restraint of a Protestant le gislature and of the Royal Government, the country will not for many generations have the same power of self-redemption from bondage as was exhibited by Great Britain and Ireland in 1688, and by France in 1830. The lower orders of Irish are little if any thing more advanced beyond the gcasp of superstition than they were in the 17th century; and they would, in the case supposed, have now five times the physical force that they possessed at the former period to assist them in rivetting their own chains. They are not like the working classes of Frenchmen, quicksighted to the ridicule as well as hatefulness of priestly rule; they would more resemble the Portu guese arid Spanish peasantry in blind submission to the mandates of their church, though sensible of their own power over the finances of the parochial clergy. In fine, for every description of Catholic and Protestant in the empire, except the agitating faction of Dublin, and the Popish hierarchy with its immediate dupes, the formal repeal of the Union is irrevocable ruin. Whether, at the same time, a great deal may not still be necessary to render the Union real, which it has never been from 1800 to this hour—whether enormous hardships and griev ances are not still to be redressed—whether, if they be not zealously, promptly, effectually attended to by the Imperial Parliament, they may not gain con verts to the " Repeal of the Union," even amongst those who are now its conscientious enemies—must be regarded as very important questions ; and such as we shall feel it a duty, even towards Mr. O'Con nell, to touch upon at an early opportunity.—Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A deputation called yesterday upon the LORD MAYOR, and stated that they waited upon his Lord ship for the purpose of requesting his signAturc to a petition to his Majesty to spare the lives of the un fortunate men who were sentenced to die for ma chine breaking at Winchester. The petition was as follows " We, your Majesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, inha bitant householders, and others, of the metropolis and its environs, most humbly and earnestly solicit your Majesty's merciful attention to the prayer of this our petition. " Sincerely deploring, as we do, the general distress which pervades the country, and which has in part occa sioned the proceedings we deprecate, but knowing thatyour Majesty has on various occasions shown a greater disposi- _ . Lion to mercy than to severity in judgment, we there fore, with the most profound respect, approach your Royal person, and implore mercy on those poor deluded and un fortunate men who are now lying under the awful sentence of death at Winchester. " Your petitioners unfeignedly regret that under the ex isting circumstances of the case no mercy, save that of the Crown, can be extended towards those unhappy objects who have thus offended ; we therefore most fervently en treat some commutation of their sentence. We would not presume to advise your Majesty what should be their pu nishment, but we do most earnestly implore your Majesty to spare their lives. " Your petitioners look with the confidence of children to your Majesty as their father, and humbly cry fur mercy on their guilty yet misguided fellow-subjects. " And your Majesty's petitioners, &c." The LORD MAYOR was, as it seemed, about to sign this petition ; but he afterwards begged that it should be left for !inn to reflect upon. A young chimney-sweeper named James Haynes was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having conspired, with several other chimney sweepers, to annoy the masters in the trade. A master-sweeper stated that several of the boys called at his house in the dusk of the evening, when on account of their" complexion," it was very difficult to see them, and began to knock about the furniture and do all the mischief they could think of. The prisoner was one of the most active of the rioters, and was caught just as he was running to that outlet which would have proved a haven of security to him—the chimney. It was then found he had under his " cassock" a brass candlestick, the property of the complainant; so that the affair was not quite such a joke as some would have it appear. One of the Society of Chimney-sweepers told the Lord Mayor that many of the boys had become quite ungovernable in consequence of the bad con duct of others. A spirit of insubOrdination bad begun to show itself, and under the pretence of " larking" the greatest annoyance and inconvenience had been produced. He (the witness) had been threatened by a dozen or more of them. Another master-sweeper said that a crowd of boys, some out of work, and others in employment, had gone to "lark" in his house when he was out, and did not decamp until they broke the windows. It was here stated, that it was not very probable that the sweeping machinery had given offence, as the apparatus had been in use several years, and the master-sweepers present had many apprentices. Besides, the machinery was not likely to affect any but small children, who would not be very likely to combine against the fraternity of master-sweepers. The LORD MAYOR said, that the boys alluded to in this complaint, were qualified more perhaps than any others, from the very nature of their occupa tion, to give annoyance to people. His Lordship observed, that the master-sweepers were perfectly right in proceeding to check such a mode of joking, and he should commit as many of the offenders as should be brought before him. A gentleman here assured the Loid Mayor that the young chimney-sweepers acted together in bands of 20 or 30. On the first night of the pan tomimes, about 40 of the juniors of the trade got into the gallery of the Adelphi, and annoyed the respectable part of the audience very much ; and upon being hooted at, they threatened to beat those who found fault with them as black as themselves. The LORD MAYOR ordered that the defendant should be remanded. BONY-STREET. On Tuesday evening, police constable, No. 138, !otter F division, brought before Mr. MINSHULL, the sitting Magistrate, four women, one of whom held an infant in her arms. The constable stated, that he was on duty, in Monmouth-street, about half an hour before, when he heard a violent noise in the house No. 40, around which a great crowd had assembled, and feeling it his duty to ascertain the cause, he entered the house, and found two of the women in loud altercation, the one claiming a right to the infant which the other did not seem disposed to admit, but as violently insisted that the child belonged to her. Under these circumstances, and fearing that the innocent cause of the contention might be injured by the violence of the claimants, the constable felt himself called upon to bring all the parties whom he found in the room before the Magistrate, to account for their conduct. Mr. MINsLIULL appeared somewhat surprised, and asked if both, or which of the women, claimed to be the mother of the infant. A miserable-looking young woman here came forward, and announced herself as the mother of the child, and told the Magistrate that Mrs. Green, one of the women present, had taken her infant from her immediately after its birth, which occurred about three weeks before. The young woman then went on to state, that her name was Ruth Jones, that she was very poor, and had been obliged to sup port herself by selling matches in the streets. In the month of September last, while following this miserable calling on the New-road, Mrs. Green, the lady who was now present, and who told her that her name was Wilkinson, came up to her and said, " I perceive, young woman, you are in the family way; how soon do you expect to be confined ?" She answered that she did not think it would occur for three months to come. The lady was then very particular in her inquiries, and asked her how she meant to provide for the infant when it should come into the world. She replied, that she did not know, that slae was unmarried, had formed an unfortunate acquaintance with a young man, and was quite de stitute of the means to provide either for herself or the infant which she carried. .The lady then, with great apparent kindness, took down her address (Dudley -court, St. Giles's), gave her a shilling and promised to call upon her, and finally to provide her with a nurse, and other requisites fitting for her ex pected situation. Early in the month of December the lady, who then called herself Mrs. Wilkinson, called at her lodgings, and asked her if she did not ex pect very shortly to be confined ? She answered, yes. The lady then said, she would take care she should be comfortably provided for ; and asked her if, when the infant was born, she would have any objection to come and live in her house, and sickle the baby there ? She expressed her acknowledgments for such unexpected kindness, and the lady then pro mised to allow her a shilling a day until she should be confined, and this promise she certainly fulfilled. On the very day of her confinement the lady came to her lodgings and remained with her nearly the whole of the day. She was accompanied by Mrs. Watts, one of the females who now appeared before his worship, and whom the lady introduced as the nurse she had provided for the infant. As soon as she was delivered, this Mrs. Watts took the infant away from her, wrapped it up in some flannel, and immediately left the room accompanied by the lady. She heard nothing either of the lady or the nurse for a fortnight after, when, feeling great anxiety for the fate of her infant, she went to the address of the lady in Queen Anne-street, but she could find no thing of her there. She learned, however, that the lady lived at N 0.40, Monmouth-street, and on going to the house thst evening she found her in a white bed-gown, and having all the appearances about her of having recently lain in. Her infant was in the room in the arms of the nurse, and upon claiming it us her's, the lady refused to give it up. This re fusal had given rise to the altercation which had caused the.interference of the police constable. Mrs. Green, the person who claimed the child, a young and respectably dressed woman, was then called forward, and said that the mother of the in. fant had disposed of it to her, and had willingly consented to forego all right to the baby as soon as it came into the world. She then gave an account of her having met the young woman in a state of great seeming distress, selling matches in the New road, and feeling pity for her apparent destitution, particularly under the circumstances in which she then appeared, she proffered her assistance, and offered to provide her with a midwife, nurse, and every requisite befitting her situation, so soon as she should be confined. She then asked the young wo man if she had the means of providing for the in fant which she bore. She answered that she did not know what would become of it, and perhaps her distress was so great she should be obliged either to abandon or destroy it. Having a great attach ment for children, she proposed to the young wo man to take charge of the infant, and adopt it as her own, to which a willing consent was given, and with that understanding she provided a midwife and everything necessary for the young woman who ap peared very grateful that so great a burden should be taken off her hands. Mr. NIINSHULL observed that the conduct both of th e mother and Mrs. Green appeared to be most extraordinary, and asked the latter if she was a married woman? Mia. Green replied that she was a widow, having lost her husband about 18 months ago. She had, however, ample means of providing for the infant. A violent altercation here took place, each party endeavouring by force of arms to obtain possession of the child. The young woman who appeared to have the best claim to the infant was considerably excited, while the mother by adoption appeared equally determined to regain the object to which she seemed to attach so much value. The struggle was so violent, that the Magistrate was obliged to call for the assistance of the gaolers to separate the parties, and protect from injury the unconscious cause of the contest. After a long and fruitless endeavour to affect an amicable arrangement, Mr. MlNsttuu, decided that it would be impro per to trust the infant to either of the claimants, while they both appeared to be so far excited. The Magistrate then directed that the mother of the child should be sent to St. Giles's workhouse, that the nurse and child should be provided for in the same manner, for the night, and that all the parties should appear before him again in the morning. Mrs. Green pressed hard to be included in the order for admission to the workhouse, but the Magistrate refused to accede to her request. In the course of yesterday the parties were again brought forward, and after a lengthened investi gation, Mr. MINSHULL decided that the mother should have her child. Mrs. Green appeared to offer no objection, but claimed some article of clothing which was round the infant, and the cost of which the Magistrate humanely paid out of his own pocket, observing, that he hoped the poor infant would be properly provided for. The mother appeared greatly delighted in having obtained possession of the child, and thanked the Magistrate for his decision. The parties then retired. MAItLBOROUGH-STREET. A rough-looking son of Neptune, named Hors wood, was charged with being drunk, and creating a mob in Regent -street. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said, I should like to know what that lubber calls a noise ? Why, your Honour, I was only chaunting— " All in the Downs a fleet lay moored." Mr. CONANT—What are you? Defendant—Why, m y noble Captain, I've been at sea all my life, and having just left board-ship, I steered up Regency street, just to be able to let Poll know what sort of a place this London was. Mr. CONANT—You must pay ss. Defendant — Lord love your Honour, I hav'lit a single shot in my locker, and so how I can pay nobody knows; but perhaps your Honour will lend me the money; and if King William, who, Lord love him, is a true Bri tish sailor, were to hear of it, he'd do all he could to help a brother tar out of limbo. At this time a man said the prisoner had assaulted him. Defendant—Why, you land-lubber, if I'd given you a regular broadside, you would not have been able to bring your hulk into port, much more to come and palaver his Honour. Here, you, Sir, (to one of the constables), go down to the Port Admiral (his Majesty) and tell him that Jack's in trouble. Mr. CONANT informed him that when he was sober he should be liberated. The defendant, on hearing this, swore most hear tily that he'd drink a can of grog regularly every day to his Honour's health (which probably he will most religiously adhere to), and he'd take care as how Poll should do the same. On leaving the office he struck up with more strength than harmony— Storms that the mast to splinters rend, Can't shake our jovial life, In every mess we find a friend, In every port a wife. TOWN-HALL An old Irishwoman, from the Borough-market, named Bridget Ford, charged George Brent, a mar ket-gardener, with spilling her blood. " Spilling your blood, good woman ?" said Al derman ANSLEY, " I perceive neither wound nor scar."—Faith, your Reverence, then it's my own precious blood that was spilt sure enough; didn't be take up a big root, myself forgets the name of it, and nearly bate the two eyes out o' me, and wasn't I bate then ?—bate ! oh that's the name of the root sure enough. " Beet-root," exclaimed the Alderman, laughing; " then it was the juice of the beet-root you mistook for blood ?"'—Biddy bridled, and said she had seen her own blood too often not to know it from other people's. The defendant said he was unloading his cart and Biddy happening to pop her head in the way, a piece of beet-root went against her by accident. He was discharged by paying the expenses, and giving Biddy half-a-crown. UNION-HALL. Yesterday an elderly man, named Thomas Prince, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, on a charge of bigamy. Both wives were present, and are many years younger than the prisoner. The certificates of both marriages having been •produced, the woman to whom the prisoner had been married, his first wife being still alive, showed great reluctance to appear as a witness against him, and this was explained to arise from the circumstance of her having been fully aware at the time of her marriage to the prisoner that he was then a married man, for she had lived servant with him and his wife a short time previously. Mr. CIIAMBERS said, that the fact of the second wife knowing that the prisoner's first wife was alive at the time, made her equally as bad as him, and that she deserved to stand in the same place with him. At all events, said the Magistrate, if this case is sent for trial, I shall either make the second wife find bail to appear at the trial as a witness, or send her to gaol in default of procuring the necessary sureties. The first wife said that she had three children now chargeable to Lambeth pariah, owing to the desertion of her husband. Prisoner—You know perfectly well that I am no more the father of the 'three children you speak of than the greatest stranger in this office to you. Come tell the troth to the Magistrate yourself, or else it will be told him by the parish officers. Have you not had those three children by a Frenchman; that's coming to the point ?—The first wife said she declined to answer the question, as she considered it was a very inde licate and a very improper one to put to her. — (Laughter.)—She, however had no objection to answer it if the Magistrate considered she was bound to do so. Mr. OR:smuts said, that he had a few questions to put to the second wife before the first need an swer the interrogatory of her husband. The Ma gistrate then asked the second wife if it were true that she had been living in the service of the pri soner and his wife a short time previously to the second marriage?—She replied in the affirmative, saying that she was young and inexperienced at the time, and not aware of the consequences of such a step. Mr. CHAMBERS—You do not appear to be such a chicken. You must be on the wrong side of 40, I should suppose. The second wife said that she was not 30 years of age,---that she was not more than 17 when the prisoner's wife first ran off with the Frenchman by whom she had three children, and that, after such disgraceful conduct on her part, she (witness) thought there was no sin in marrying the man whom she had treated so ill. " Besides," added she, " the prisoner and his first wife were legally separated—that is, there were regular articles of se paration drawn up between them, and signed by both. I have had three children by the prisoner, and that is more than his first wife can say, for her brats were all by a lousy Frenchman." Mr. CHAMBERS now inquired of the first wife whether her children were illegitimate, as had been insinuated that day.—First wife—lf I must answer that question, I don't intend to deny that the three children now living are by another man, and not by my husband. Prisoner—Before you commit me, I trust you will hear what I have got to say. At the time I was married to my first wife my circumstances were much better than they are now. I unfortunately took a Frenchman to lodge in my house, and he had not been long under my roof before he made a deep impression on my wife. The Frenchman was fond of plays, and my wife being also fond of the amuse ment, and some other amusement besides, site and Mr. Monsieur used to be off together to the theatres, and one night I had the curiosity to follow them, and saw them enter, not the theatre, but Lucky Bob's, a noted brothel, near Covent-garden. This was a physicker for me, so I thought it high time that there should be a change; and when I up braided my wife with her infidelity, instead of evincing contrition for her amour with the French man, she ultimately eloped with him, and has been living with him for 10 years. Roberts, a beadle of Lambeth, stated, that he had apprehended the prisoner in consequence of the first wife making application for relief for her three children. Mr. CHAMBERS said, that the prisoner was not bound to maintain the children that his wife had by the Frenchman she was living with. The prisoner said, that his first wife brought two men to his house the other day, and pretended they were constables, in order to extort money from him. The fact was, the Frenchman had decamped from her, and that was the reason she now wanted him (the prisoner) to support her bastards. Mr. CHAMBERS said that the Frenchman was responsible to the parish. First wife—But he has bolted off to America. Mr. CHAMBERS said that he should discharge the case altogether, for no Jury would find the prisoner guilty, ►►ere he even to commit him, owing to the scandalous conduct of all parties concerned. It was a difficult question as to which of the trio was most in fault, whether the prisoner, his first, or his second wife ; therefore, on those grounds he should send them all about their business, and at the same time assured the first wife that he should make no order on the parish fur the support of her children, whom she mist now maintain in the best way she could. Madame DE GENETS, for two days previous to her death, had as usual, been occupied with her literary and other labours until a late hour. Up to twelve at night she was dictating to her attendant, after which she com menced arranging a letter to the KING. Scarcely a day passed in which some of the Royal Family failed in some token of kind remembrance to her. To a letter offering for her acceptance splendid apartments in the Palace of the Tuileries, where the present reigning Family of France ate expected in a short time to take up their own abode, the Countess was engaged in writing a grateful denial, and her reasons for it to his MAJESTY, until nearly three o'clock on the morning of her decease. At that hour she was put to bed, and at ten o'clock, as before stated, she was found a corpse. The wife of General GXaARD was her grand-daughter, and was in her house when it was made known that the distinguished lady had been found dead. THE ARMY. The following Regiments are now stationed in Trellis —lst King's Dragoons, 6th Carbineurs,Gth Enniskillt 7th Hussars, Bth Hussars, 12th and 17th Lancers-- battalion 3 , 1 Foot Guards, sth, 9th, 21st, 28th, 50 56th, 59ith, 64th, 67th, 68th, 69th, 70th, 74th, 76 83d, 92d, and depots of the 10th, 12th, 23d, 27th, 29 32d, 34th, 36th, 37th, 58th, Ist battalion 60th, 61 65th, 66th, 77th, 97th, and 99th Regiments. The Reserve Companies of the 18th Royal Irish Re ment, under the command of Major Pratt, hare marcl from Chester to Stockport, to relieve part of the 4th King's Own Regiment, ordered to Ashton. The 23d Fusileera depot is at Drogheda. Robert Power, Esq. is appointed Brigade-Major Yeomanry in Ireland, vice Hamilton. Captain Edward Galway, the eldest of a list of Post Captains submitted by Sir James Graham to Lc Anglesea, the new Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, has be appointed to the command of the Royal Charlotte yac in attendance upon the Lord Lieutenant. A detachment of recruits from Ennis left this city terday morning for Templemore, to join the 50th Rel ment, stationed there. The Reserve Companies of the 60th Rifle Corps hi beat up for recruits in Clonmel. A recruiting party the 60th is detached to Killeshandra, county Cavan, a others to England. e i't:A.lnr: e fi :a au : a t e e d ,n d: c, T ge l s i d l i c i aonf) s " : 1( a tEl n ,ne d e y S u, a ia n oi pg. t , m. D ij • This i vie w of wha Arboricultu The following official notice relative to the pt , • chases for the Sinking Fund, in the quarter about' London training of commence, has just been issued : Parent Tr ' and Green ; " The Lords Commissioners of his 14ajesty's Trees"! i gt i nutdiiing e t e l i having certified to the Commissioners for the reduction the National Debt, in pursuance of the Act 10th GI IV. c. 27, s. 1, that the actual surplus revenue of t' plant, th pl United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, be o f and the a e uli the actual expenditure thereof, for the year ended Oct..! 1830, amounted to the sum of £2,979,523/. 15s. llr Larch, q ualities are " The Commissioners for the Redaction of the Nation, Debt hereby give notice, that the following sums will ' the prospect applicable, under the provisions of the said Act, toward . Power ; p • K th i e ng red do u ni c , ti b o e n tw of ee t n he th N e a s t t i h on d a a l y D of eb j t an o u f ar t y h , e lB u 3 i l d , a U nd si t tt sth day of April 1831—viz. £. s. ti. KEITH'S " One-fourth part of the said surplus 744,880 18 11 " Interest receivable on account of do oinAntshoen A NE nations and bequests 2,720 9 9 GLI __--- and Heaven £747,601 8 8, Magnitude, " S. HIGHAM, Comptroller-General. Changes of " National Debt-office, Jan. 3, 1831." & c. 12mo. It has been thought remarkable that the sum avail tai The EL] able for the redemption of debt should be so mtlel Dr larger than usual, as all the quarters of last ye which are have exhibited more or less a decline in the revenue propositions It may be explained, perhaps, by the suppositio' an i the i ir g Ir that there has occurred a more than correspondefll Solids. Tl saving in the expenditure; or, as some imagine, t ll , Au INTI omission of voting several large sums—the Citi TICE of List, for example, and others—may have prevente 4 METRY, a their being hitherto carried to account; and there 11 including tl hence a larger fund, though that can be but tee' lariet Y of 11 plication s to porary, available for this purpose .-- Tires. &c. &c. Svc A SYST plan, in whi the Contine , 1 2mo. Gs. h The ARI Exercise Bo Teachers. 12mo. 2s. 6 A KEY An INT METIC, in Directions ti LINEUX. Part 11. 4th Printed f rinatthaiii THE SINKING FUND. A is This day Wi larged, THE duct piled for the 45 48 Per Quarter. Andover. Britiport Cirencester Faringdon. Guildford „ Henley Hereford Highworth Maidenhead Oakingham Reading Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury - Uxbridge Wantage ... Warminster Windsor . Worcester An EN( LECT WO to be comm Reading ant 2s. 6d. bout An INT: LOGY anti 18 tne. 411. I An INT from the B tinuation 01 History. I bound. MORAL Men : for Price 3s. 6( An EN( HULL MARKET.-Jan. 4. Cl alses. B at to m i;; ; 1 4 15 8 71 B la A ne R ol There was a fair supply of farmers' Wheat to.day, but gene htlf-hound. goodo t s a rally of indifferent condition ; the best parcels brought higlic prices, other sorts unaltered. Barley supports late prices, 0, .... j A LEG, i, parcels dße. a n r s e maytakebne freely;otf considered the t middlingu turn dearer, qualities and ba not of either description offering. Linseed maintains the adyanC boards. quoted in our last. Rapeseed without alteration. Wheat, Old -s. 655. 70s. New -e. COL 6 14 ' CONVE - Foreign -a. 665. 72s ln bond... -a. -L ---e' boards. Oats, Poland -a. 20s. 245. 01d......... -a. -I. '2 6 '' - Sinai! or Feed -a. 20s. 245. --Foreign -a. 225. 245. -.-B. -a . ---4‘ -H EARCRC Barley, Norf. & Suf.... -a. 395. 425. Line. & Wold -a. 34s 38 6 ' PR ACTI - Foreign Beans 365. 40s. 445. Foreign...-. --s. 40s. 4 ....6 4' Teachi ng S Pease, White -a. 50s. 525. Grey _B. -.s.' Method of 'Laos -3 30a. 365. F0reign......... -s. 28s. 5 0 ' " p j • Rapeseed. in bond none. The PO CHELTENHAM MARKET.-Jan. 4, Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d sele c t an d m Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Laud, 0 0 A SEAL Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork 5 6 and ori g i na l Hay 3l. 10s. to 31. 156. per ton. ...... ARCHB DUMFRIES MARKETS.-Dec. 0. J CATECHL Wheat, Imp. Bush... B s.d. 3to 9 0 Butter 0 th e the of , 0 0 16oz 0 0 too bound. Oats 3 0 4 4 Eggs, dozen 0 0 . 0 11nd. 5 .._, Oats 2 9 3 3 Beef, per lb. Flour, 1111). Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. o 19'2 0 Quartern L0af......... 0 7 y ~- 1-4ADLEY 41- ki ''' 17. ii-1 .., 4 ss 4i 42 4° - 4°. i d al I MARCH OP REFINEMENT.—A certain "'au) A`' F of all work," hired for such service, within the sound of hem the bells of St. Michael's timer, called, during the Christ illustrated b Inas week, at the place of her future residence to "apol(); eise Z E T II w( gize fir her protracted absence," u she was "engaged to rdition, 4.. 0 ball" on Thursday evening. —Macclesfield Courier. An ABI „. .... ENGLISH i Edition, 111. i ENGLIS 1 Lab Gramm A KEY i Edition, 2 e 1 had togethe INTROT Selection of seventh Edi i T he EN '' ' '' e trY, sele Edition, 4s v ,E S QUI 'elrctions ir INTROI It , tette.'der le l , .es et d e Edition, 33- ~ LXCTEI "eerie t ose et en a e'. DIED. Fifth Editio On the Ist inst. at Calais, the Hon. Philip Roper' /..4: 11 EN( lather of Major Roper, broth e r o f th e e l event h an d uncle Ili . Ediths, ads of the present Lord Teynhan nth i, aged 94. Pitt s , 1 ' On the 28th ult. at Edinbur g h, L a dy D un b ar , iv dote' 6 , cl. serv e d . of the late Sir G. Dunbar, Bart. of Mochrum, iv.i i r.: . a i i - 41 : 1: r rt i e: nt ik_Lo: f r On the 17th ult. at Neufchatel, Switzerland, 11. v ti t , Salusbury, LL.D., late Fellow of Trinity Hall, Caw v eY and bridge, and brother of Sir 'l'. Salusbury, Bart. of Liao" • wern, Monmouthshire. s e l f 8 . On the 4th inst. in Hanover-terrace, Regent's-park, J. Shoubridge. 9 • L On the 4th inst. at Blybro'-hall, near Lincoln, Lout ° ir krnma _ relict of the late J. P. Luard, Esq. aged 70. .4 Ar ,,,,i - ~-. On the 3d inst. at Walcot-terrace, Lambeth-road, 'l' 'en s i fier t- . b ,Y Lowden, Esq. aged 61. PiRsTl BIRTHS. On the 2d inst. at Blozworth Horse, Dorset, th e lady of J. H. Lethbridge, Esq. of a son. On the 3d inst. at Cheltenham, the lady of Capt. 0 Farquharson, of a son. On the 4th inst. at the Hon. Mrs. Leigh's, Portuto' square, Mrs. G. Berkeley, of a daughter. On the 4th inst. Mrs. J. H. Pentonville, of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th ult. Capt. Edward Twopeny, '7Bth MO' lenders, eon of the Rer. R. Twopeny, Rector of Litt!' Caeterton, to Elizabeth Deborah, eldest daughter of 0 1 late J. Burnett, Esq., Judge-Admiral of Scotland. On the 4th inst. at Mitcham, by the Venerable Arch' deacon Hoare, the Rer. Thomas Lsgden Rameden, to Sophia Harriet, youngest daughter of the late Lieut' General Sir Harry Oakes, Bart., of Mitcham Hall, countl of Starry. On the sth inst. at Westham Church, Lieut. D. A' Malcolm, of the Bombay army, to Caroline Charlotte' daughter of the late William Stanley, Esq. of Maryland' point, Essex. !, i ttled PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, A' t kikr,„ll"W ar 'l. THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Adair's Beaumont 32 6 Bensham Main --......... 31 3 Helburn Main 34 6 HolywelL 33 6 Killingworth 34 9 Orel's Bedhugh 31 6 PelatYl ---...... 30 0 "cownley--.. 3`2 0 West Hartley 31 6 Wylam 32 9 Walls End Bell and Co. 36 0 Ditto Bell Botison &Co. 35 3 Ditto Blake _ 33 3 Walls End Brown's —.. 33 9 Ditto Burraton ..—......... 34 3 Ditto Callerton 31 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 33 3 Ditto Clarke and Co. 33 6 Ships at market, 5231-8111] :ET.—Jan. 5. Walls End Hotspur..., 36s (! 1 ' )itto Heaton 36 ? Walls End Hilda . 33 v Walls End Newniarch.„ 35 . Ditto Northumberland 35 Walls End Russell's...—. 36 6 Ditto Walker 35 6 Walls End Iletton ...—. 37 Walls End Lyons...—. 35 ?, Walls End Stewart's ..37 ,Y Ar. E. Russell's Helton 37 U, Ditto Adelaide 35 U, W. E. Etlierley unser. :33 F, Culm Trimsaram ....... l 7 u Ditto Haverland—....—....., 31 N , w Flockton, Milne id Co. 3l 6 am Tani Trader--..—. 29 u Stobart's small —....—. 22 0 Walls End small .--. 29 s sold, 29.54-IJrUold. 23)4. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. i Barley. 0 ate. Beaus• , ~..~i . • IMPF hiNjold atO tThei GEN THURSDAY, Precisely, tc the room of peed of Se Auditors. This clay n•i AME and C M.D. F.R.: 01 Physician g cc. E CURRIE. Printed for