The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-05 00:00:00

front -one.ev al of the country t o th e o th er at t h e prosp e re-4 - 4,p. eing -effect mice snore given to t h e law. 11- i thf law were clear and di s ti nc t, wr shou'd!ireFtliy be afraid or Judges ; but the evi is, tligat'present any thing can be made a libel.. John•Jteeves, for instance, was ordered by tin liouie of Commons to be prosecuted for the expreSsion of a mere speculative opinion. If it were law that no man should be called to ac count for the expression of any opinion what• ever, we do not believe that any Judge would dare to fly in the race of it. _ The mischief with us is, that the law is any thing or nothing; It is observed by the Examiner that— " There is no safety for the Press but the instant amendment of the law, which would clear away 01. confusion which serves to paralyse the plain intelli gence of Jurors. The averment of tendencies, fot CatiMple, is an ingenious artifice of deceit, for a ten. dency may be of any degree of slightness, and of an infinitely remote relation to a practicable effect.— Toe lightest down as it falls gravitates to the centre uf the earth, but it will not surely reach that point. There is this monstrous contradiction too, that ten dency is often criminal, where the effect in view would not he so ; nay, when the effect, instead of involving the author of the tendency in penal con sequences, may lead to results giving him grounds for demanding redress. As thus :—Let us suppose the Times and Chronicle to publish precisely the same strictures on the conduct of an individual. The party goes to the Times office, and assaults the Editor, and he goes into a Court of Law and indict: the Chronicle for the same provocation. The Chro• nick Proprietor is found guilty of a libel tending to provoke a breach of the peace. The Times Editor brings an action for the breach of the peace, to which his publication, in common with that of the Chronicle, has tended, and recovers damages. Thus, while the tendency is criminal, its effect is not sa, but on the contrary, furnishes ground of redress to i:s whor. Colonel Berkeley horsewhipped the Editor of a Cheltenham Paper for some impertinent com ments on his family. Had Colonel Berkeley prose. voted the man by indictment, he would pretty err tau* have thrown him into jail for writings tending to a breach of the peace, but as the tendency was sufficiently strong to amount to the effect which the policy of the law would avoid, the provoking party was absolved from culpability, anti the provoked sen tenced to damages. While tendency is inoperative, it is, though of any degree of fineness, punishable; when it has produced its worst effect, it, in private eases, ceases to be offence. Such are the wild ab surdities involved in fictions, which constitute the main malignity of the libel law." —Morn. Chron. If it be true, as we now see it reiterated, that Prince Leopold is destined to occupy the in tended throne of Greece, we presume the subject will be made a topic of discussion, perhaps through a direct Message to Parliament. His Royal Highness can assume the office in no other character than as a British subject and a British Prince ; and it becomes a matter of no small import to consider how far this country may eventually be benefitted by, or involved in, the consequences of such an appointment. In this country the Prince is only known as a pri vate gentleman. In politics he has taken no part. Ile was denied a British Peerage, and therefore his qualifications for that or any other office can only be judged of by the tenor of his private life. We know nothing of him as a Statesman or a Senator, nor in any situation which would enable us to form an opinion of his talents for Government. He has had no political —we may say no public—existence in this country. It is indeed highly creditable to him that he lived in more of domestic happiness than regal splendour with that amiable and lamented daughter of England, whose vir tues filled the country with hope, and whose early death was felt as a national bereavement. lie is also known for enjoying a princely fortune with a spirit of frugality, which circumstances at one time made necessary, and which habit has confirmed. Economy, when not carried too far, is an estimable virtue, even in the highest fortune, and the best pre servative of independence. But, should the kingly power confer the kingly capacity, there still remains another question—it is, whether placing a British Prince in what may be likely enough to become the centre of new wars and intrigues be a position desirable for this country ? This is a question which deserves to be well weighed before it is finally decided upon. On the first view the appointment may be tempting and complimentary, both to this country and the individual ; but whether it is likely to add to the permanent interests of the one, or to the welfare and happiness of the other, arc points which hitherto appear to have been but slightly, if at all, considered. On the favourable side of the subject it cannot but he borne in mind that the important interests of this country, as con- nected with the commerce and Naval sovereignty of the Mediterranean, cannot but be materially promoted by adding the virtual Sovereignty of Greece to those of Malta and the lonian Isles. But, on the other hand, commerce and territorial dominion - are very different things ; and we are not at all convinced that, were Greece to become even a colony of the British Empire, the latter would be likely to be in any great degree benefitted by the new appendage. At the same time, if Turkish interests are to be cultivated, and there remains any hope of keeping up the Turkish power in Europe, the appointment of a British Prince to rule over Greece seems calculated to operate both ways. On the one hand, it will naturally I be the object of the new Sovereign to conciliate the Porte by every possible means towards the country to whose influence he will owe his Crown ; while, on the other, the Porte will hardly look—for some time, at least—with a friendly eye towards the Representative of its ancient Ally, as the apparent usurper of so large and favourite a portion of its ancient territory. Then comes the growing power, jealousy, and ambition of Russia, as likely enough to lead to - fresh wars, in which this country may become •involved, for interests not materially her own.— ' We rather throw out these hints as materials for 'thinking than as representing any decided opi nions of our own. It is too much the fashion I in our days for Statesmen to decide first, and look to consequences afterwards. Half the evils which this country is now experiencing might probably have been avoided, if those who decide on public measure's had given themselves the trouble to think first, and act afterwards, instead of reversing, as they have - too often 'done, the most obvious use of wisdom, experience, and common sense. Morning Herald.' It is very generally asserted and believed that Mr. Peel will not appear in Parliament as a Mi . pister of the Crown. That he will not be ele vated to the Peerage is certain, but wl ;Sher he will join the Opposition, or sit mute upon the cross benches, or be non cst altogether, are queries which, of course, we cannot reasonably be called upon to answer. It is, however, con sidered as certain, that Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald has been removed from, or, what is more the Court style, has vacated, his seat at the Board of Trade. The Right Honourable Gentleman is represented in the Newspapers and the " Court Tircular" as being seriously indisposed. This a mistake. He may be ill at ease, mitt ,his' nind may be disquieted, in which east we Iceply sympathise with him, but the vacation, n- the removal, is the cause of his disorder from vhich we sincerely wish him a speedy delive -nee. Mr. Spring Rice is among those who ire already named as his successor. Lord Wal lace, it is said, will succeed Mr. Peel. There is eo truth whatever, as we stated within the last •e , ,v days, in the report of Mr. Huskisson being bout to join the present Ministry. The Right Hon. Gentleman, not six days ago, was heard o speak in the harshest terms of the Duke of Wellington's conduct towards himself, and to express his conscientious belief that the present Administration could not exist four months without bringing down the most disastrous and alarming consequences on the country. Mr. Huskisson is master of the secret, and we take his word on this point. —Morning Journal. The change which is intended in the ap pointment of the Preachers at 'Whitehall has given rise to much unfounded remark, and much dissembled or gratuitous jealousy on the part of those who avail themselves of every oppor tunity to cast aspersions upon the character, and excite mistrust of the intentions of his Majesty's Government. The appeal to a proceeding of this comparatively insignificant description, in support ef a charge so grave as that of a syste matic design to despoil and degrade the Church, is susceptible of one very obvious interpretation, which cannot fail to be highly satisfactory to all who entertain feelings of respect for the Admi nistration, and attachment to our excellent and venerable religious Establishment. '1 his appeal shews nothing su clearly as the absence of any sub stantial or rational grounds for the suspicion either that the Church is in danger, or that Mi nisters are indifferent to its interests or hostile to its welfare. The system by which Whitehall Chapel has hitherto been supplied with Preachers, it may be necessary to inform our readers, is the election by each of the Univer sities of twelve of its clerical members to per form the duty in monthly rotation; that by which it is about to be superseded is the appointment of permanent Preachers by the Bishop of Lon don. In noticing the intended change, it is unnecessary to advert to the assumption in which some of our contemporaries have indulged, that it is an invasion of the right and privileges of the Universities. It will be time enough to consi der the subject in this point of view when any complaint is heard to proceed from either of those learned bodies, who fortunately possess the means, and we trust the disposition also, to withstand any proceeding of an aggressive cha racter. . If the Universities acquiesce in the change, we mey safely enough presume that it involves no disparagement and no injury to them. We are convinced that the proposed change does not indicate any system of hostility to the interests either of the Church of England or of those venerable seats of learning- , which contribute so much to her ornament and her strength ; and to impart the same conviction to all candid men, it can scarcely be necessary to do more than remind them, that if patronage is withdrawn from the Universities, it is to the same extent, and in a more effective form, placed • in the hands of the virtuous, zealous, and cu -1 lightened Prelate within whose ecclesiastical d• • juris iction the duty is to be performed. But if more than this be required, in order to disarm censure and dissipate apprehension upon the subject, we suppose the most jealous friends of the Church will be satisfied, and the least favourable observers of the conduct of Go vernment be appeased, when they are ap prised of the fact, that the change now about to take place in the mode of supply ing preachers to the King's Chapel, White hall, had become expedient from an antecedent change in the character of the congregation habitually assembling there for divine worship. 1 In the time of George the First, when the esta iblishment of the twenty-four University Preacher ships took place, the Chapel was attended prin cipally by persons more or less connected with the Court, and of course belonging to the supe rior and better educated and more refitted class of society. The object being to present an at traction to this class of persons which might draw them to Church, and such means of re ligious instruction as seemed best calculated to promote their edification when there, a succes sion and variety of Preachers, each bringing with him the sanction and authority which an Uni versity election, in the estimation of' persons of education and refinement, can never fail to con fer, was perhaps the arrangement which of all others held out the strongest promise of success. Nor were the collateral advantages unimportant, which might naturally be expected to arise from thus bringing the ablest Preachers of our two Uni versities under the notice °fa congregation which comprehended, at that time, many powerful dis pensers of ecclesiastical patronage. The road to preferment was opened to merit, against which it might otherwise have been closed in many instances for ever, and a new stimulus was given to the cultivation of those peculiar talents and attainments which are conducive to the dig nified, impressive, and successful eloquence of the pulpit. Such were the circumstances and motives that gave rise to the institution which it has now been thought proper to abolish ; and before we condemn its suppression, it is surely proper to enquire whether any of those circum stances or motives remain. If it were necessary, it would not be difficult to explain the causes which led to the gradual but total desertion of Whitehall Chapel, by the class of' persons who in a former age were in the habit of worshipping God within its walls. All that is important to our present purpose is the fact which nobody mill dispute, that it was so deserted. It had long been a temple without worshippers, when Government, very laudably as we • think, appro priated it to, and fitted it up properly for, the accommodation of the Regiments 'of Guards in quarters or barracks in the western part of the metropolis, of whom the congregation would wholly consist, were it not for the tew straggling and occasional visitors sometimes drawn to the Military Chapel, as it. is now called, by curio sity. The real question then is, whether men can justly be suspected of indifference or enmity to the interests of the Church of England, or of any dangerous designs against her privileges, rights, or dignity, merely because they think and have acted upon the opinion, that the same eccle siastical provision which was perhaps the best calculated to promote the edification of the Courtiers of George the First, is not equally adapted to convey religious instruction to the rank -and file of the Foot Guards of George the Fourth. In the answer that may be given to this question we feel con siderable luiterot, because we entertain the opi nion not only that permanent and stationary instructors are likely to be more intelligible, more the objects of attention and reverence, and therefore more useful to plain and unlettered men than an endless variety of teachers, how ever well qualified for the task, but also that the resident members of the Universities are less likely than other Clergymen who have been or are to be in the constant habit of preaching to mixed or unlearned congregations, to administer religious instruction in the form and manner best calculated to render it acceptable and beneficial to such a class of persons. We trust, however, that we do not, by the avowal of these opinions, expose ourselves to the imputation of indiffer ence or hostility to the interests of the Church of England.—Morning Post. It is now generally reported that it is the in tention of Ministers, to appease the wrath of the landowners, at the fall of rents. and agricultural produce, by a repeal of the Malt and Beer Du ties, but that no other reduction of taxes will take place. Should this report prove to be cor rect, it may be safely averred that, although no inconsiderable benefit will accrue to the commu nity even from such a partial measure, the general distress of the country will not be materially mi tigated. The reduction in question involves but a very small portion of revenue, and could not greatly subtract from the pressure of taxation. — But we are inclined to believe that the Duke of Wellington has snore comprehensive plans in view, and that along with the repeal of the Malt and Beer duties, other measuies, both for the purpose of reducing the taxes, and reducing the expenditure, will be proposed and passed. No Prime Minister assuredly ever had it so much in his power to benefit his country as he has ; and although hitherto the reductions which have taken place have been on a small scale, yet it ought not to be forgotten, that, without any previous pledge on the sub- ject, he brought forward, and carried to success ful completion, a measure which is now con fessed to have been beneficial, and which none of his predecessors were ever able to accomplish. From such conduct great hopes ought in justice to be entertained ; while, on the other hand, it ought not to be forgotten, that governments are seldom inclined to be economical unless strongly urged thereto by the people, and it is, in conse quence, the duty of every one who feels ag grieved by the pressure of the taxes, to petition for their reduction. Without any wish to em barrass Government, we strongly trust that this will be the case, and the table of the House of Commcns will be covered with petitions, with in the first week of its meeting.—Morning Advertise?. No political prediction was ever more com pletely verified by the event than that whicl was put forth by the opponents of the Small Note Abolition Bill. They declared that it would produce great distress throughout the country, and distress is every where vi sible— they said that prices would fall in con sequence of it, and they have fallen--they as sured the propounders of the measure that it would cause rents to fall, and now, from one end of the country to the other, we hear of nothing but landlords being obliged to give back from fifteen to five-and-twenty per cent. of the sums which the farmers had agreed to pay for the oc cupancy of the land, when paper money formed the circulating medium. Yet the abettors of a gold currency still persist in opposing a return to paper money ; and for what reason let us in quire ? For none that we know of, or have ever known to be alleged, except that gold is better than paper !—a fact of which no one ever doubted who could distinguish between a far thing and a pound sterling, any more than he could doubt of obtaining a better dinner at the London Tavern than at a hedge alehouse. But the quality does not always suppose the capa bility. The question is not which is best, but which we can procure—not that which we would prefer, but that which we can afford to obtain. Had the country, at the period of abolishing the one pounds, been possessed of an extra capital equal to their amount 'which had not found a previous channel of employment, it would only have had to lay its hand upon it, and put it into circulation instead of these small notes; but, in stead of this being the case, the measure was adopted, as if for the very purpose of ruin, at a period of great national calamity, when there was not only no spare capital to bring into play to supply their place, but when the want of it was producing ruin among thousands, and the temporary sinking of it in various quarters of the globe, rendered the measure most inconve nient and impolitic. A wise Government would no more, under such circumstances, have at- tempted to put an end to the paper-money, than a prudent nurse would think of making a child walk that had not got out of leading strings—it would, on the contrary, have allowed the paper money, bad as it was, to circulate, and waited for a more convenient period for intro ducing its gold currency. The ferment, how ever, which existed at the time, either seized his Majesty's Ministers, or they were glad of any excuse for casting the blame of the panic upon other shoulders than their own ;—the Abolition Bill was passed—the small notes offered up as a sacrifice, and now the country is distressed be cause of their destruction ! 'he effects of the measure by increasing the amount of all pecu niary obligations, and at the same time diminish ing the facilities of meeting them, would have been sufficiently distressing, even although it had been accompanied by a corresponding re.• duction of the taxes; but up to this moment no reduction has taken place, nor any effectual at tempt been made to reduce the national expen diture. A few public boards, costing the country a few thousand pounds, have been .united—and numbers of workmen discharged from dock-yards, and clerks from offices, whose wages and salaries formed but a small item of expense; but there has been no reduction where the reduction would have been felt as• a benefit —there has been no squaring of the expenditure to the altered circumstances of the country—no reduction to the amount of the increased value .of the currency. The time, however, is now come, when, if the landowners have any sense, they will either compel the Government to re turn to the former currency of the country, or to reduce the taxes in proportion, and pass a legislative measure for the equalization of all con tracts and engagements made during the exist ence of a paper currency, and still remaining to be fulfilled. The farmers, they must now know, cannot continue to pay their rents while agricul tural produce is selling at such low prices —they must also know that if they attempt to exact them, the land will be thrown upon their hands, and that without exacting them they cannot meet their own engagements—and, finally, that the only remedy for these grievances is to be found in the adoption of one or other of the measures which we have pointed out. Let them - then come forward as boldly in behalf of the commu nity in this matter, as they have frequently done in their own ; and they will deserve as well of it as they have but too often deserved ill. The power is in their hands, and their efforts, if united, must be successful.—lbid. SHERIFF'S COURT, JAN. 4. ROYSTON V. EICKE. This was a writ of inquiry directed to the Sheriff of Middlesex, to assess damages in an action brought by Messrs. W. and J. P. Royston, stationers, of Broad-street, against the defendant, Detleve Eicke, an insurance -broker, at Lloyd's (who had suffered judgment to go by default), to recover the sum of 181. 18s. 9d, for goods sold and delivered. John Brown, t; - clerk to the plaintiffs, produced their journal, and proved from the entries the sale and delivery of the goods, which were various stamped policies of insurance. The original amount of the debt was 231. 18s. 9d., off which, it was admitted, the defendant had paid .5/. Verdict for the plaintiff for 18/. 18s. 9d. SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. War Office, Jan. 4, 1830. 3fl Regiment of Foot—General Sir G. Don, 0.0 8., from the 36th Foot, to he Colonel, vice Lieut.-General Sir Henry Clinton, deceased, dated Dec. 21. 36th Foot—Lieut.-General Sir R. H.- Sheaffe, Bart. to he Colonel, vice Sir G. Don, appointed to the coin tnand of the 311 Foon. Dec 21. 48th Foot—Lieut.-Gen. sir T. Hislop, Bart., G.C.B. from the 51st Foot, to be Colonel, vice General Lord C. Fitzroy, deceased, Dec. 25. 51st Foot—Major-General Sir Benjamin D'Uibm, K.C.B. to be Colonel, vice Sir Thomas Hislop, appoint d to the command of the 48th Foot, Dec. 25. DSFAIOAANDUM. His Majesty has been pleased to approve of the 11411 Regiment of Foot being permitted to return on its colours and appointments, the word " Corunna," which was granted to the late 2d Battalion of the Regi ment, in commemoration of its distinguished conduct in the action near Corunns, on the 16th Janalry, 1809. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Henry Joseph Wilkinson, Leicester, printer. Richard Rowe, Crediton, Devonshire, tallow-chandler. Samuel Jacob and Jacob Joseph, Gun-square, Hounds ditch, furriers. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. GERMAN PAPERS. CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 27.—0 n the intelligence of the surrender of the fortress of Giurdsevo, ac cording to the treaty of peace, being received by the Russians in Adrianople, that city was evacuated on the 20th of November by the Russian troops, in whose possession it had remained three months. Only the sick of the Russian army have, in virtue of stipulations entered into under the treaty of the 14th of September, been left in Adrianople. Some days before the evacuation of Adrianople, a military manoeuvre took place under the personal inspection of Count Diebitsch, in the neighbourhood of the old Imperial Palace (Eski-Serai). On this occasion 15,000 infantry, 1,000 cavalry, with 24 pieces of cannon, executed a variety of evolutions. Before commencing his march from Adrianople, he made most judicious arrangements for the mainte nance of public tranquillity and security. The Greek inhabitants, several of whom had shown a disposition to disturb the peace of the town, were summoned through the medium of their resident Archbishop, to deliver up their arms within three days, and it was declared that cases of disobedience should be punished with death. The Russian troops have directed their march through Karnabat, and the places situated on the coast of the Black Sea. The head-quarters are for the present established at Burgos, and not at Se limno, as has been said. On the other hand, the Turkish regular troops, under Alish Pacha, have moved upon Adrianople, to re-occupy that city. At the same time, the corps under General Geismar, which was established at Sophia, has broken up for the Danube, so that the great road from Constanti nople to Belgrade is now free from foreign troops. The corps of the Pacha of Scutari, which was en camped between Phil ippopoli and Sophia, has received orders to march back without delay to Albania. Within these few days past changes have been made in the situations of several Officers of State, among which the following deserve to be men tioned Bey, Head Inspector of the Cus toms in Nicomeira, is appointed Chief Director of the Customs in Constantinople. His predecessor in that office, Reis Effendi, is made Sarbaha Emini, or Intendant of the Imperial Mint. Nasic Effendi, the former Intendant of the Mint, is appointed In tendant of the li.venue of the Muskataa, or state farmings. Kiaja•Beg Hadshi-Said•Effendi, the for mer Intendant of the Expenditure of the Mukataa, and Sayah-Effendi, formerly Chief Director of the Customs, are raised to the dignity of Chaush-Bashi, or Marshals of the Empire. Mehmed, Pacha of Nicopoli, is made a Paella of Three Horse Tails; and Yussuff. Pacha of Scio, is appointed Governor and Commandant of Smyrna, in the place of the lately deceased Hassan Pacha. A still more important change than any of these, and one which promises much for the permanent restoration of tranquillity in that part of Asia Minor, which has recently been the theatre of great dis orders, is the re-establishment of the head of the heretofore powerful family of Kara-Osmanoglu, in the greater part of the possessions which belonged to his house. Kutshuk•Mehmed-Aga-Kara-Os manoglu (this is the name of the present head of the family) has already set out for Magnesia, where his presence is much wanted, as the mountaineers of the districts of Aidin, whose activity, notwithstanding the re-occupation of GueselhiEsar, is not yet relaxed, have lately threatened not only Magnesia but the environs of Smyrna, and have taken Kassaba with oat resistance. The restoration of the formerly great and powerful families tinder whose protection im portant districts of Asia Minor had been accustomed to enjoy an uncommon negree of prosperity, is most ardently wished, not only by the Mahometan, but by the Christian inhabitants of these countries. By satisfying this wish, the Porte hopes to have dis covered the means of terminating the disorders which the oppressions of some of her commanders have caused in this quarter, without resorting to rigorous measures. - The greatest tranquillity continues to prevail in this capital. Notwithstanding the danger of the com munication of the plague, unfortunately again broken out at Odessa,* in consequence of the re-opening of the navigation of the Black Sea, the health of this city and its environs is excellent. VIENNA, DEC. 22.—Baron Von Rothschild has unexpectedly gone from Vienna to Warsaw. It is said that he will negociate a loan with the Russian Government. Our stock-jobbers are much excited by this report.—Allgetneinc Zeitung, Dec. 28. WARSAW, DEC. 22.—1 n the last sitting of the Society of Friends of the Sciences, Dr. Wolff read an interesting Essay on the Medical Topography of Warsaw. With respect to the mortality of our city, the author observed that it was much greater among the Christians than among the Jews. The reasons he assigned for this difference were, first, the earlier marriages of the Jews, by which youth are preserved from dangerous vices; secondly, greater care in seeking medical rdvice ; and thirdly, greater moderation in the use of spirituous liquors. —Prussian Stales Gazelle, Dec. 28. * According to the latest accounts from Odessa, given by the Austrian Observer, which are dated December 11, the severe cold had arrested the progress of the plague, and cases of plague had ceased to occur, both in the sur rounded part and other qu irters of the town. The com munication with the interior was to be re-opened in a few days, but the cordon was to be maintained for twenty four days longer. THE GENEVESE GOVERNMENT.—What a contrast does the Genevese Government afford to all the Governments of Italy ! But then Geneva is a republic, and its religion the Protestant. Never was this superio rity more strikingly demonstrated to me than in a little incident which occurred on journeying from Geneva to Bryg. There was a French family behind me on the road, who were very anxious to get before me, and, know ing I was an Englishman, the postilion assaured himself that I was therefore quite ignorant of the posting regula tions. He therefore put his horses to full speed —but, when in the act of passing me, I called out to him that I would complain to the proper authorities. The postilion instantly stopped—alighted—fell on his knees, and prayed my forgiveness. Of course I was appeased, and he again resumed his place. The punishment for this small offence is the galleys for seven years, and, if I had complained, the sentence would have been rigorously enforced. The Ge nevese Government may be called severe—but, after all, severity is the only mode to be exercised towards the nations of the Continent, and I begin to think Alrrrea- NICH is right. BANKRUPTCIES ENLABGBD. George Pricstnall, Stockport, Cheshire, silk-spinner, from Jan. 12 to at nine, at the Warren Bulkeley Arms Inn, Stockport. Edward Kelly, North Wharf-road, Paddington, scaven ger, from Jan. 12 to 15, at twelve, at the Court of Com missioners. BANKRUPTS. Phillip Marcu4 Preis and William Donna, Park-ter race, Regent's-park, wine-merchant. Edward Oki., Falmouth, tailor. John Fraser, Bath, Somersetshire, perfumer. James Goodchild, Reading, Becks, grocer. Samuel Crawley, Hemel-Hompstead, linen-draper. James Hendrey, Great Newport-street, Long-acre, linen-draper. John Peters, Hoxton, ale-brewer. Joseph Rattail, Kilburn, Middlesex, carpenter. Robert Moody, Romsey, Plumber. Edward Davenport, Bristol, grocer. John Tliackeray, Manchester, cotton-spinner. Rees Howells, Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, shopkeeper. Joseph Wright and John-Davies, Liverpool, grocers. Samuel James Buckingham, Liverpool-road, Islington, victualler. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 4. Thomas Smyth, who described himself as a deputy purveyor of the forces on half-pay, cleat to a wine -merchant, and general dealer, was opposed by Mr. CRESWELL, on behalf of Messrs. William and James Sharp. The insolvent stated, in his examination by Mr. CuEsWELL, that, independent of his half-pay, he had also a pension allowed him by Government. The whole amount of debts now on his schedule amounted to 18,762/. ls. 6d., of which his own private debts were only 621/., and the remainder, 18,141/., consisted of liabilities in having put his name to a number of bills to that amount, for none of which he had ever received a shilling considera tion. A great number of those bills he accepted for Mr. Flaskett, a wine -merchant, in Gracechurch street, to whom he was clerk, and the rest he had accepted for other persons, but they were all accom modation bills. He swore that he was merely a clerk to Mr. Flaskett, and not in any way connected with him by partnership. One of these accommo dation bills for 1411., at two months, he accepted on the 20th of Septerr.ber, 1828, in Mr. Fla.kett's &lice, and by him (Flaskett) paid to Messrs. Sharp, the opposing creditors, for money which Flaskett owed them. Mr. James Sharp was in the office when the insolvent accepted it, and he con sented to take it, and he was of opinion that Mr. Sharp knew he was only a clerk to Mr. Flaskett. Tile CHIEF CommtsstoNEß said, however ba this system was, yet it seemed that Mr. Sharp took this bill with his eyes opeti. Commissioner BowEN—Yes, and he chooses to take the acceptance of a man of straw. Mr. James Sharp, one of the opposing creditors, stated that Mr. Flaskett owed him and his brother 144/. After repeated applications for the money, Mr. Flaskett asked the witness one day, when he called at the office in Gracechurch-street, if he would take a good bill; upon the witness answering in the affirmative, he called the insolvent up stairs, and the bill was drawn by Flaskett, and accepted by the insolvent. When the bill became due, it was dishonoured. The lower part of the house in which Mr. Flaskett's office was, was occupied as a patent ink-stand manufactory; and, as the witness had fre quently teen the insolvent in the shop, he supposed the concern to belong to him. The witness never, until this moment, heard of the insolvent -being a clerk to Mr. Flaskett, or of his having accepted a number of accommodation bills ; if be had been aware of either of those facts, he certainly should not have taken the bill in question_ The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said, that respecting the bill held by Messrs. Sharp, the Court were of opinion that sufficient caution had not been used by those gentlemen previous to taking the bill. The Court, therefore, would not remand the insolvent at their suit, and they must take the consequences of their own want of prudence. The COURT then ordered the insolvent to be dis charged, and apportion 30/. a year out of his half pay towards•the liquidation of his debts. An action for defamation, we hear, is talked about, by a gentleman who carries what an inveterate punster calls " a pugilist's name." If we were to tell the story as certain evil disposed people Lave told it, we sus- MODERN LATIN I T Y.—The Italians pride pent that some friend to the Press would make a new themselves vastly on their Latinity, and laugh at our at- effort to protect its liberty, in a way that would not be to our taste, so we . only giro the outline. A celebrated son t e mpts in this way. Gr a nt e d th a t th e mo d ern I ta li ans of Harmony, a short time since, visited one of the prin excel us in this particular, and it mu s t a l so b e admitted cipal watering places on a professional speculation, and by that they make a very unnecessary and prodigal display of a mos t unaccountable forgetfulness, omitted to leave at their accomplishments. Lest I should condemn, h ow _ home with his chere antis I, l iss - lady wife) provision for ever, without adducing an instance, you shall judge. On the butcher and baker, who might, during his absence, entering the inn at Ferrara, I was surprised to fad twenty call to pay tl4eir custcmary compliments. These rapacious or thirty coats of arms emblazoned in fresco on the walls. people, not having their demands instantly complied with, These were the bearings, crests, &c., of the King of seized upon all they could lay their hands on, and, among NAPLEg, the Emperor of GERMANY, the King of Faussra, other treasures, upon a billet dons from a tuneful Bell the Emperor of Russia, the Duchess of WußrEmasa u , to the before-mentioned great borer, (who is said to be and our Duke of SUSSEX (as well as I remembor) ; each " old Nick" himself in gallantry), breathing all love and of whom, with half a dozen more crowned heads, had, a t devotion, and declaring that the lovely writer could not some time or other during their mortal lives, breakfa s t e d, exist without him. The lady, who, in fact, had not the dined, slept, or lunched in the house. Under .the arms of least idea that more than one love could be cherished by Austria it was pompously announced that the Em entoa, any human being, waa now most furious. While the Prandium et jentaculum sumpsisset ;" and the excuse happy swain was harping on far different subjects, and assigned for putting up the inscription was, "et in tetcrnum the fend fair one, unconscious of the dreadful expose, was fulgeut memoria." The Emperor of Russia, wh om t h e contentedly warbling " Charlie is my darling," all at once inscription indicated to be " Seculi nostri ornamentum et that occurred which changed the tune from allegro to decus !" was graciously pleased to sleep under this for.. penseroso, and Harmony fled frightened by the growl of tunate roof ; and the inscription was comi,osed, "Ne tern- i Discord. The injured consort printed the melting epistle, purls longitude, felicitotem ! obliterat." If any t u t or or and gave it a wide circulation, which brought the gay Lo head of a College in England penned such tr as h as thi s , Mario, half distracted, to town ; when who should he he would be sent straightway to St. Luke's ; but it i s th e I meet but the father of the belle, who, to add to his vexa- vogue in Italy, where nothing is natur a l, and every thi ng tions, threatens him with an action, which caused him to —even religion—dramatical. A man who would write sing, with musical pathos, a tune something about a as he feels here would not be read. Jt is necessary always " pretty belle, whom he loved so very well," and "Roses to be on the etreteh.—Morning Paper. have thorns.".—Sunday Times. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD, The highest price of Bread in the . llletr;polis is 10.1. fot the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from }id. to 134.1. boo* that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Jan. 4. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) t2s. 525. tine 58s. 700. Old Ditto Ditto —6 —4 fine —4. —6. New Foreign Ditto. _ 41s. 50s five 605.1/ss. Old Ditto 30s. 40s. fine ,(71s. Coo. New White Clover lO6 AO6 fine 70s. 860. Old Ditto Ditto. 6os. 70a. fine 90s. Std. New Trefoil —12 s. 245. fine 30s. 923. Old Ditto ..... Rib Grass —. English Carraway Sec Foreign Ditto ...,........... Coriander --s. —s. fine --s 40e. 16s. 2Ss. fine —6. —4. —s. 40s. 448. fine —B. fine —I! —s. 144. fine —it. 2ffs. St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing_ Canary Seed, New 0" .(per Quarter)--...... --s. —s. 325. fine 425. 20s. 38s. new —s. —5. 365. 455. new —s. —s. —5. 38s. fine —s. 40s. —s. 41s. 425. fine —6. —s. 425. fine —s. 48s. Ditto Old—. —5. --S. —4l. fine —l. White Mustard Seed—(per Bushel) .05. 6s. 9s. Od. fin* --.. Brown Ditto —.—- --s. 9s. 145. fins —s. Turnip Seeds, Rounds--.......--.. —s. —s. 10s. tine 12s. Green and Red Ditto —s. —s. 12s. fine I6s. Tares, Old ... --s. 345. 40s. fine —s. Ditto New —s. —s. fine 41s. 495. Rate Seed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 32/. .., Foreign 271. 30s. PRICES OF HOPS.—Jau. 4. Kent Pockets 6l 6s. 71. lOs. to t)1 Sprsex I)itto Irsex Ditto al. Os. 71. Os. to 91. Fstr, ham I)itte, Fine 01. Os. 131. Os. to IS/ Seconds 0/. N. 101. Os to M. 6!. Os. '7l. 7s. to 8/. 3/. 15s. 61. 66. to 6/. 6/. Os. 71. Os. to 8/. Kent Raj Essex Dato.., Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES.--Jan. 4. Kidneys 4l. Os. to 01. Os. per ton. Scotch Rcds— 41. Os. to 01. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws 21. ss. to 31. 3s. ditto. PRICE. OF OIL. Ripe Oil, brown 411. Os. Refined 0 Linseed Oil 11 11 5 0 Linseed Oil Cako at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton LEATH F.ll. I'er lb. • d. to di Tanned Horse Hides... 16 18 Spanish Ditto 19 21 l'er dozen. Calf Skins... 33 to 441tb. 16 21 Ditto 50 to 7111 b. 22 27 Ditto to 801 b. 19 21 Small Seals. Greenland 20 21 PRICES OF Per lb. d. tort. Rutts i 0 to ;Alb.— PSI 191 Ditt0.,.... 60 to 661 b..,. 21 22 Dresging 14 16 Fine Coach (Sides 18 19 Crop Hides. 35 to 401 b. 14 16 Ditto 45 to 501 b 16 18 Ditto _ 18 20 APEL HAY MAIIKKE—Jan. 2. LI ty LO.. od. to 844. Od. 1 (lover Ai. to 105 t. Od. 30s. Od. to 40s. Od. RAW I, EiIDES. Per Stone. a. d. to R. (I. Per Stone. a. d. to a. 4. Best Ileiters&Stcerx3 4 3 6 Ordinary 2 0 9 4 Middlings 2 8 3 0 Market 6 0 emeh. SHEEP SKINS. DOs. Oct. to Os. Od. I 4d. to as. AI. 0wn5....., Is. 3d. to Od. Wool COAL MALI' Adair'a Greenwich Ho:Taal—. 35 6 —. 33 It Tanfield 32 0 Walls End Brown's 35 0 Ditto Cramlingtom— 3J 0 Ditto Denton 3i o Ditto Linda St 6 Ditto. Northumberland 36 0 slops at market, 119N—Shij IC ET. —Ja n . 4, Wy lam 'iris. 311. Limbton'a Primrose 30 0 Walls End Stewart's _ 40 St Culm Drim. 28 0 PembertenLiangennech 36 0 Wall's End Elgin a 0 Holywell Trader 34 6 Tyne small rps Sold, 9 %---Unsold. 1401 A. ANCII ESI ER CORN 31A RKET.—Jan. 2. During the present week the business transacted is .7e3 of Grain, Malt, or Flour, has been trifling, in eon quence of the Ivater conveyances being in general stopped , We hail a very small market to-dav ; also very few emu' pits offering ; most descriptions that could be deliverrd immediately were 2d. to 3d. per bushel &suer. Grind' ing Barley as last noted. Cargoes of Oats in Manchestee commanded Id. per bushel above last week's prices. Boiling Peas:, at hand are a trifle dearer. Beans remaie unaltered. A few fine parcels of Malt up sold rather better. Flour is Is. to 2e. per sack dearer. Customary Bushel Quar. of 8 Imp. Bash. Wheat (701 b.) s. d. to s. d. s. d. to a. ti. English, Old 9 7 911 69 0 71 4' Fine New—,— BIC 9 563 7 67 9 Second (tun 5..,... 8 7 810 61 9 63 7 Scotch & Welch 8 1 9 158 2 65 4 Irish, Fine Old 8 4 811 GO 0 at 2 Nere------ 8 I 6'759 $ al 9 Inferior 7 4 7 639 9 64 0 Foreign, Free 710 0 256 4 os o Barley (601 b ) English, Fine Irish -- Inferior for grinding 4 Oats (45113.) English, Fine Poland and,..,.. 3 4 Scotch, Potatoe 3 1 Irish, for Meriting 3 I Provender—.-- 3 3 Foreign, Old _ _ _ 2 9 3 10 5 0 4 9 3 7 a 8 3 3 3 4 3 0 3A A 43 0 35 S 97 4 34 10 35 031 *4-,74 • p r ont . ; 6 0 5 3 (Per S k lour, 24 10 20 9' 23 0 00 1 23 0 24 3 24 3 24 10 20 0 28 4. Pease (Imp. Rush.) Blue, (boilers) 6 White (ditto) deans (Imp. Qr.) s. d. to s. d. English, 43 0 44 0 Inferior... 40 0 41 0 Irish, Old 40 0 41 0 Foreign 4O 0 42 0 Malt (per load of 6 Imp. Bush.) Nottingham, tine— 44 0 46 0 Yorkshire —43 0 44 0 Irish and Inferior— 36 0 39 0 44 0 48 0 38 8 42 0 ck 2801ba.) s. d. to 4. iorfolk and 0 it Fine 47 0 4.9 iorks., Fine 46 0 47 ; ------ Seconds 42 0 44; -- Irish, Fine « . 46 0 48; - ----superfine 49 0 bff -Heatedor stAle 46 0 41 Per load of 2401 b. Oatmeal, English... 28 0 90 o -Scotch 0e Irish 27 0 29 n ---- Feeding 23 0 2 4 0 IRISH MARKETS. Per Sack of 28011). Imp, - Flour, Notts. Fine 47 0 44 0 Sup. 50 0 58 0 Wheat, 1 Barley. per barrel per barrel 20 stone. 16 stone. d. a s. d. Cork *422 0-29 0, Limerick IS 0-28 0' NVaterfordi24 0-30 0 Clomnel 21 0-391 i Car10w.,,,,,, 16 0-30 0 Cork ---- Limerick— Waterford Cloinnel s. d. a s. d.l H R-15 01 10 0-12 01 10 0-11 01 11 0-14 01 12 0-14/ 01 Beef, I Mutton, per lb. per lb. Oats. per barrel 14 stone. Flour, s. d. a s. d. as. Al. 9 0-10 9 16 6-41 0 8 9 9 4 IN 0-11 0 9 6-11 0 18 0-44 0 10 B—U 0 20 0-95 0 10 0-16 0 10 6-21 0 Pork, per cwt. d. a d. d. a d. s. d. aa. dis. d. 3#-5; 4 —6 18 0-21 0117 0 4 —5 6 23 0-30 060 0 @t-5 3 51 23 0— 26 0168 0 131 —4l 3 41 25 0-28 0161 0 14 —5l 0 00— 0 0171 0 d. 61 ( 54 C 68C 56 70 0 I. il.as. A . 6 0-11 i „ v 00-15 ° 10 0-15 12 0-11L i ° 0 0— g?„:.: Iluttei.' R. d. 58 0 48 0 57 54 0 60 0 d r— . 50 553 1 t ; )ou g 1 r4 ;3 s_ KILKENNT.—Butter 66c. to 68s. per cwt'; Wheat 28s. to SP' per barrel ; Flour 'Ss. to 31s. per bag; Oats 9s. to Ils. per bar s rel ; B•aley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 534F1. per lb. ; Mutton to 4d. ; Pota'oes sd. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt.; Baco" Pigs 245. to 26s per cwt. Two students of the University of Berlin fought a duel, in which one of them fell. The survive was placed in custody for trial. Soon after, the Judge before whom the prisoner was to be tried, on returning fres° Court, found a Polish carriage at his door, and a Po lish Jewess and a venerable Jew waiting his return. The latiP who was the mother of the student that had fallen, threw herself at the Judge's feet, exclaiming, " Vengeance, Judge! vengeance !" She had travelled night and day, el demand vengeance for the death of her son, and declare' her determioation to witness the excretion of his murderer' The Judge endeavoured to Booth her,—told her th e 111 0 , did not punish killing in a duel as a M ur d er , b u t issure; her that justice ehouH be done. The Jewess then requeste d to have an interview with the prisoner, which, on his col' sent being obtained, was granted. She and her companio n entered the room of the prison together. The prisone r advanced to meet her, and expre sse d hi s sorrow f or wb" l. hail happened. The Jew e ss l a id h er h an d upon hi s b e e ,' ' and in the most solemn tones pronounced the most ire mentions execrations upon him ; her companion, at the same time displaying her son's bloody shirt. They tbrn immediately left Berlin. BIRTHS. On the Slit ult. at Maim., the Hon. Mrs. Fergus..' of a daughter. On the 2d inst. in Gunton-park, Norfolk, P a l Suffield, of a son. On the 3d inst. the lady of J. Montefiore, Esq. Woburn' place, Russell.square, of a son. On the 3d inst. Mrs. H. Whitehead, of Whitehead" grove, Chelsea, of a daughter. Ou the Ist inst. Mrs. Alderson, Tavistock-street, 130" ford-squsre, of a son. MARRIED. On the 24 inst. at Bickmansworth, Edmund Mort* Esq. of Chorley-wood, Herts, to Laura, wont( daugittO of Captain John Ritso. At Cork, the Rey. C. T. Coghlan, of Anurnottnt, that county, to Eliza Louisa, only daughter .f'A. Clark" Esq. of Belmont, county ofponegal. • DIED On the 27th ult. in Euston-street., Easton-square, R. Haldane, Esq. surgeon, in the 34th year . of his age. On the 3d inst. in Ely-place, Frances, the younlgef daughter of the l a t e R e v. &mine! Crowther, v i ca r ° Christ Church, Newgate-street, aged 15. On the 3d inst. Clarissa, the wife of Mr. C. P. Bart' ley, of Somerset-street, Portman-square. • On flit 2d inst., at Hampstead, Mr. J. White, late ? Choliham, Surrey, aged 24. On Christmas-day, at •Prestnu, Mrs. Penny, valid 0( the Rev. J. Penny, Visor of that place. On the 3d inst. in Great Coram-street, the infaO S daughter of Dr. N. Wallich. a l Vice-Admiral Alexander Fraser, Equerry to hie RoP., 'Highness the Duke of Cambridge. This officer was bov in 1750, and entered the 'navel ',service ,when -only rii° years of age. At Edinburgh, D. Beatson,' Esq., I(eeper,of the CIO' cil Records. • P ut; rz n AND PUBLISH ND DY II III{ DO YOUNG, ° ll , Tfrz Su s Orucs, 112, STN 4 lti 1.111111151111. b.~s ES its comeq u well a. fitructio culture, Publish This do TII first col' Print Lmilon The reror o French B +'o. 41. Thiida R° THA MAP CUM MIN( PILL TALI CAR! for 1814 A VI, Printed T u The I New Ye among nt Satirical a Chan( 1830__.1 vomit dist Costume, and all tl Week. This merely o Breakfttsi Clay Mor anti sent the king who desi- New y e , to thtir swer thei copies, w in Future Pritite (Mice, N received 1 !toads. Thiii du ES . 11 -4 rill Anglois a petit Di c twili ter l' u,eu t rev Paris. Y( in t e t and (keel Richards,. Co. ; W. Dulau ai Duncan ; Cit. ; liodu-son 01m RECU A SEC GRA, VOCA Le 1.11 ANGLIC CIL II bound BELIS bound. 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