The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-05 00:00:00

OV TILL PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is announced in the Paris Papers of Wednes day, which arrived yesterday, that the Royal ordi nance was expected to appear on the following day, nominating the Presidents .of the electoral College , for the ensuing elections. At the same time a Royal proclamation is anticipated, pointing out to the elec tors the nature of their duties, directing their choice to candidates whom the Court recommends, and ex horting them to resist all the solicitations of the enemies of the throne and the altar. The Minister of the Interior is simultaneously to address his cir culars to all the Prefects, while the heads of the dif ferent administrations connected with the Treasury, or the collection of the revenue, are to second the general movement. The prelacy, the clergy, and the congregation, will not be backward in lending their aid to the good cause. The Keeper of the Seals will call upon the different advocates and attornies-general in the different royal courts spread over France, to exert their influence with the members of the bar, and the inferior officers of the tribunals entitled to exercise the elective franchise, to induce them to vote for the friends of the Ministry. The electoral campaign will be con ducted on the part of the Cabinet with an active vigour, if not with an unscrupulous violence, pro portioned to the importance of the crisis, to the opposition which they are sure to encounter, and the magnitude of the disgrace which would follow de feat. The telegraph for the next month will be as active in communicating orders and conveying intel ligence, as if foreign enemies had effected au inva sion on every part of the French frontier. The power which is vested in the Crown of nominating the Presidents of the electoral colleges would appear in this country an alarming interference with the freedom of election. Nor would a closer inspection of the circumstances which are usually connected with their nomination, and the mode in which they exercise their functions, remove our objections.— These Presidents may be either Peers or Com moners, but it is generally contrived that they should be the latter, and moreover candidates for the suffrages of the very colleges whose proceedings they are appointed to open an-I direct. As there are no hustings for the can didates—as no public discussion is allowed on the merits or principles of those who claim the support of the electors, the President, who is allowed to make an opening address, has thus a great advantage over his competitors. He can expose their preten sions, traduce their characters, and excite abhorrence of their alleged principles, without the possibility of explanation, refutation, or reply. It is true that the electors are afterwards empowered to appoint their definitive President, and may dispense with the King's nominee ; but the evil may be already done, the calamity may be already spread, the panic of a Liberal pestilence may be already created, and no opportunity is allowed of counteracting the inflam matory or incendiary address of the provisional Pre sident, who may be the Court candidate, and must be the Court advocate. The other arts and stratagems by which the Ministry may act on the electoral colleges through the medium of their armies of public functionaries—the direct menace of persecu tion held out to the refractory, and the profit. able favours of power presented to the hopes of the selfish,—are so numerous and so recklessly employed that the return of a majority of Deputies against the Administration, would seem a miracle of per sonal independence and civil virtue in the French electoral body, did we not find a motive probably stronger than either in their party alarms arid poli tical antipathies. Arm extraordinary evidence of the force and blindness of these latter passions is to be found in a discussion which has commenced between the liberal and ultra Journals, respecting the cause of the conflagrations, or the character of the incen diaries, in Britanny and Normandy. Extensive da mage has been done by burning in the arrondisements of Bire, • Falaise, and other districts. The houses of the peasantry both at solitary farms and in villages have been set on fire an.' consumed; even the dwell ings of the rich have been attacked, and a general panic has spread over the country. Such an exten sive, simultaneous, and apparently systematic range of conflagration cannot be ascribed to accident; yet no incendiaries have yet been discovered. The po lice are said to be on the alert, and additional troops have been sent to the alarmed districts; but none of the incendiaries have been apprehended. In this state of ignorance as to the real authors of calamities inflicted, and crimes perpetrated, with no apparent object, who would believe that party jour nalists could ascribe them to their respective political opponents ? Yet such is the case in France. The Conititutionnel broadly insinuates that Government, and their friends the Royalists, have taken this method of attacking the charter, and wreaking disir vengeance on the Liberals; while the Gazelle de Prance, with a factious absurdity no less revolting, accuses the Liberal directing Committee of the Elections, of hiring and employing this body of in cendiaries. If such be the prelude to the electoral contest, what can be expected from its issue ? In this country no party as an election manoeuvre would accuse another of hiring ruffians to set villages and districts on fire. Our political squibs, though often annoying, are never lighted at the torch of the incendiary.—Times. We have always thought it disgraceful to our selves, and disgusting to our readers, to notice the barbarous, filthy, and swindling exhibitions called prize-fights ; but we do now summon general atten tion to the fatal effects of that which took place on Wednesday last. One of the poor wretches, it ap pears, hired for the sport, Mackay by name, a Scotchman, has died of his blows. As to the other miscreant who worked for hire, and has the re f ore accidentally come under the denomination of an assassin, we say nothing; but we do hope, however he might be spared by Royal clemency, if the matter be as represented, and law and justice be not mere terms of mockery in this country when applied to the rich, that an example will be made of the more wealthy monsters in this affair of blood—the san guinary cowards who stood by and saw a fellow creature beaten to death for their sport and gain Times. We are glad to see that the late ex-officio pro ceedings against the Press—so disgraceful to the age of intellect," and to a liberal Administration, have again become a topic of Parliamentary animad version. On the resolution moved in the Com mittee of Supply, last night, that there be granted 15,0001. for law expences, an animated and pro tracted discussion arose respecting the recent State prosecutions for libel, and the conduct of the Whig Attorney-General, by wham they were instituted. Mr. R. Gordon designated them by the name of " persecutions," and said he should like to know whether any portion of the sum demanded of-Par liament went to pay the costs of the Lord Chancel lor's case. The Attorney-General complained of his well-meant proceedings to purify and elevate the Press being desciibed as " persecutions," and asked if they were deemed ground of Parliamentary com plaint, why was not a distinct motion on the saject submitted to the House ? Sir James knows that nothing is more regular or constitutional than for a Member to complain of grievances previously to voting supplies; but, besides that, in the present instance, the subject naturally arose out of the resolution then before the House, which went to take large sums out of the public taxes -to pay for the paltry triumphs which had signalized the ex-officio crusade of Crown- Lawyers against the Press--triumphs, which had the effect of crushing one adverse Journalist, and, in his fall, wrought more mischief to the present Administration than all the talents of all the lawyers in their servi ce . can ev er repa i r ! W e t h an k G o d that we live m an age, and a country, in which the vindictive exercise of power inevitably draws upon itself the corrective re-action of public opinion. If the Government were attacked by some newspapers, in no very measured terms of reproach, they were as wildly and as immoderately eulogized by others.— Surely, their avidity for fame, if offended by the harsh language of their political adversaries, ought to have been fully compensated by the fulsome flat tery of their sycophants. We recollect, that on the trials, the Attorney-General stated that the Press being degraded by licentiousness, his object in instituting the prosecutions was to render it re spectable. He forgot, however, that the licen- • tiousness of flattery is as degrading as the licen tiousness of vituperation. His friendly dispo sition towards the Press only led him to attack the latter—he left the former in all its un pruned luxuriance. There were some who were ill-natured enough to suppose that his notion of the freedom of the Press only meant its being free to flatter and to play the parasite to the fortunate oc cupants of power—free also to abuse, in the grossest terms bad taste and worse feelings could suggest, all who were not smitten with equal admiration of the virtues, the wisdom, the statesman-like qualities of the rulers of the nation, and refused to join in the Paeans of idolatrous praise which is pleasant to the ears of those earthly divinities who hold the golden key of honours and preferment. To return to the discussion, the Attorney-General gave a reason for preferring a distinct motion to the interlocutory judgment pronounced upon his proceedings in a Committee of Supply. lie said such a motion would enable him to answer remarks. We do not see why he could not answer them as well in one case as in the other ; but we imagine it is difficult to please him now, by any mode of adverting to a subject which is the only part of his official life likely to be long remembered. To this plea in bar of the Attorney-General, Mr. R. Gor don replied that so long as he held a seat in Parliament, he would exercise the freedom of speech, and would call those prosecutions, as they were before called, " persecutions :" he con sidered them to have been such, and he believed his constituents and the country admitted the cor rectness of the description. After various com ments, Mr. Hume made a speech, in which he ad. ministered severe castigation to the Attorney-Gene ral. Among other things, he said, Now I will return to the subject before the Committee, and to the censures cast upon my Hon. Friends for styling the proceedings taken against the Press as persecu tions. Now, I say they were persecutions, and I state this fairly and openly. The imagination, per haps, of the Hon. and Learned Attorney-General became perverted, and the situation to which he has been raised may have changed his views from what they were while he sat on this side of the House; for here I have heard him with pleasure, and looked upon him as one of the truest friends of freedom. He has forgotten his opinions, and I will say that the opinions he has changed are those which earned for him the character of one of the leading Liberals, and a true Whig—that is, if any Whigs be left in our days. I appeal to all around me—l appeal to every one in the House—if there has been one Whig —or, if there has been any one amongst the Hon. and Learned Gentleman's for mer friends that has ever applauded his con duct. I may be mistaken; but I have never heard any one individual, be he Whig, or be he Liberal, who has not regretted the change that the Honourable and Learned Gentle man has undergone, and that he should have be come the prosecutor of those liberal opinions of which he was fo rme rly th e a dvo ca te." Th ese ob servations were received with great cheering by the House. After this Sir Edward Knatchbull rose, and said he wished distinctly to know whether the expenses of the prosecution for the libel on the Lord Chancellor were included in the sum now de manded. Mr. G. Dawson answered in the affirma tive. It was thereupon declared by Sir C. Wetherell. that the prosecutions were unconstitutionally con ducted, and he added that, if no one else moved, he would propose that so much of the amount in the estimate as consisted of the prosecution of the libel on the Lord Chancellor be deducted. The Attorney-General complained of those attacks being made without any previous intimation having been given that it was intended to discuss his conduct, and he, at considerable length, attempted to defend himself ; but, like a man who has a bad cause, did not make it better by losing his temper—so irri tated, indeed, did he become, that be frequently spoke in broken sentences almost unintelligible, and was sometimes bereft of expression by the fervour of his excitement. The motion which Sir C. Wethe rell had threatened, was not eventually made, but it was understood the discussion of this subject is to stand over until the bringing up of the report of the Committee.—Morning Herald. The following article appeared in a Morning Paper, and was, no doubt, published with the lau dable intention of relieving the Legislature from the reproach of not having done any thing to afford the public protection against the most dangerous nui sance that can infest society : " A correspondent suggests that neither the police nor the Magistracy need to be very apprehensive of the conse quence of ordering dogs running about the streets to be shot, for though an action lies against any person that detains a dog from another, or unlawfully destroys it, yet this redress endures only so long as the dogs are domites nature,' and the property in them ceases the instant they are out of possession. Our correspondent refers to vol. 2 Black. Com. p. 393, and to the case of David v. Sex ton,' 3 Term Reports, p. 37." As the above paragraph has been copied into other Journals without comment, and as it is calculated to lead the public into error upon a most important question, and to ensnare Magistrates and others into acts of awkward responsibility, we take the trouble of showing how ignorant the writer is of the legal bearing of the question which he undertakes to elu cidate, as he would soon find, to his cost, if he at tempted to carry his . own interpretation of the law into effect. lie says that " though an action lies against any person that detains a dog from another, or unlawfully destroys it, yet this redress endures only so long as the dogs are domitce nature, and the property in them ceases the moment they are out of possession. There is, no doubt, a great deal of novelty in telling us that a person is liable to answer in law for unlawfully destroying a dogbut the public want to know when a dog may be lawfully destroyed. The writer says he may be killed when he is;out of the possession of his master, for then all property in him ceases. A dog, therefore, according to this intelligent commentator upon the laws, may be destroyed when he is running about the streets; for then he is out of his master's possession. To show the absurdity of this position, we ask whe ther a person stealing a dog so running about the streets would not be liable to indictment for theft, or whether a person who found a dog so run ning about.and detained him, after demand, would not be liable to an action of trover ? We say he would be liable to the criminal proceeding in the one case, and to the civil action in the other ; how, then, can a dog be lawfully destroyed in circum stances under which he can neither be stolen nor detained ? The dog may be out of the sight, and out of the actual possession of his master, and be in his legal or constructive possession. If the pro perty in a dog ceased the instant he was out of the view and actual possession of his master, he could not be the subject of the theft ; for no theft can be com mitted of that in which there is no property ; but dog-stealers do not steal dogs when they are in the presence of their master—they watch for them and carry them off in places where they ramble, and where their owners have no immediate possession of them, and yet they are liable to the penalties of the law; arid, we presume, it will be admitted that a man cannot lawfully kill an animal which he can not lawfully reduce into his possession alive. We are aware that by the common law a man could not be criminally proceeded against for stealing a dog. This violation of the right of property was only made penal by an express statute ; but the existence of the right was always recognized by a civil remedy, for the unlawful taking away of animals donata: nature, which dogs kept either for pleasure or for use are, until they return to a state of savage wild ness, which is evinced by their escaping from the dominion of man, to prowl about and prey, without any intention of returning to a master—or, as the law has it, without the animus revertendi. It is clear, from what we have stated, that a dog, walk ing or running about the streets, cannot be lawfully destroyed, unless he betrays the usual symptoms of madness, and then any person may kill him, because he is fere nature, and any animal, fence nature, at large in the public streets, may be killed. But the writer refers us, in support of his opinion, to Blackstone's Commentaries, p. 393, and to the case of " David and Sexton," 3 Term Reports, p. 37. Now what does Blackstone say ? Here are his words—" Our law apprehends the most obvious distinction to be between such ani mals as we generally see tame, and are, therefore, seldom if ever found wandering at large, which it calls domite nature, and such creatures us are ' usually found at liberty, which are, therefore, sup posed to be more emphatically force nature, though it may happen that the latter shall he sometimes tamed and confined by the art and industry of man; such as are deer in a park, hares or rabbits in an enclosed warren, doves in a dove-house, pheasants or partridges in a mew, hawks that are fed and com manded by their owner, and fish in a private pond or in trunks. These are no longer the property of a man than they continue in keeping or actual pos session ; but if at any time they regain their natural liberty his property instantly ceases, unless they have the azzinzum revertendi, which is only to he known by their usual custom of returning," a maxim which is borrowed from the civil law, revcrtendi animum vidcntur desinere babere tune cum revertendi con suetudinenz deseruerint. The law, therefore, extends this possession farther than the mere manual occupa tion, for my tame hawk that is pursing his quarry in my presence, though he is at liberty to go where he pleases, is nevertheless my property, for lie bath animum revcrtendi; so are my pigeons that are flying at a distance from their home, &c. which re main still in my possession, and I still preserve my qualified property in them." We believe it is cus tomary with dogs in general that run about in the streets to return to their masters, and the onus of proving that they had no intention of returning would be thrown upon any person► who destroyed them, and who wotdd probably find it difficult to establish this proof of their having returned to a state of natural wildness. So much for Blackstone! As to the Term Reports, they contain no such case as " David v. Sexton," but there is the case of " Dand v. Sexton," for which, perhaps, the other was a misprint, and that case, if it prove any thing connected with this question, proves in favour of the liability which persons in cur by destroying dogs. That silts an action of trespass, vi et arntis, for heating the plain tiff's dog, whereby the dog was hurt, and the plain tiff lost the use of him ; the defendant pleaded the general issue, and there was a verdict against him, with Is. damages. Now in an action of this nature damages of the lowest amount would carry costs, unless the Judge certified under the 43d Eliz. cap. vi., that the damages were under 405., which would have the effect of depriving the plaintiff of his cost , . We do not know what the merits of this case were, as there is no note of the evidence, but Lord Ken yon, being of opinion that it was a frivolous action, under all the circumstances, exercised the privilege of certifying, and deprived the plaintiff of costs. It was afterwards moved that the certificate should be set aside, On the ground that the Statute in ques tion did not apply to this description of, action, and a rule Nisi was obtained ; but the Judges, on cause being shown, discharged the rule, thereby establish ing t his point, aiid nothing more, that if the plaintiff in trespass vi et armis, for beating the plaintiff's dog, recover less than 40s. the Judge may certify under the 43d Eliz. cap. vi., to prevent his recovering more costs than damages. We cannot tell whether, in this case, the dog was beaten in his master's pre sence or not—nothing turned on that point—but let it be under what circumstances it might, there was no doubt expressed that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict—and he had it, though it was not a case in which the Jury thought that he had established a claim to more than nominal damages. Thus we see that the writer of the paragraph in question is wholly mistaken as to the law, and the application of the legal authorities to which he refers. We re gret that the law is so. We think it a mischief to the public, and a disgrace to our police system, that dogs are allowed to go about the streets of towns and villages unrestrained while hydrophobia is pre valent, and that a magistrate cannot give orders for their destruction without subjecting himself to a civil action. This omission of the law is calculated to give a dreadful increase and circulation to the most appalling distemper that can afflict mankind. It cries aloud for immediate alteration.—lllorning Herald. Our readers will perceive by our Parliamentary Report that there are at length some hopes of the formation of a New Street from Waterloo Bridge to the British Museum. Lord Lowther thought that he could recommend the Government to go to the extent of perhaps 25,000/. upon the undertak ing ; but Mr. Hothouse, who followed, expressed himself sorry that the Noble Lord did not feel au thorised to go further, and hoped that the higher powers would give the Noble Lord permission to hold out some expectation that Government would lend its aid for this great national improvement. Other Members expressed the same hope. The subject will probably be again alluded to ere long.._ Morning Chronicle. In our remarks yesterday upon the observations made by Mr. Spring Rice on the preceding evening in the debate on Dr. Phillimore's Motion, we were led into a great error; which, although entirely un intentional on our part, we most s'ncerely lament. lhe facts are these :—Our Reporter had written his report of Mr. Spring Rice's speech as we quoted it. In the course of the night, however, having reason to apprehend that he had misunderstood the Honourable Gentleman's meaning, he consulted the report of the speech made by a brother Reporter, which confirmed his apprehensions ; and he accord ingly re-wrote his own report ; which re-written report is the report that appeared in our account of the Parliamentary proceedings. In the mean while, however, the original report had unfortunately- been sent up to the Editor, who remained entirely unac quainted with the subsequent correction ; and hence arose the remarks in question, for the appearance of which we repeat the expression of our unfeigned regret.—Morning Chronicle. The Four and a Half per Cent. Duties was again brought before the House last night, by Sir James Graham, who proposed a sort of compromise. His proposition was— " That his Majesty's Ministers should undertake, with out loss of time, to bring in a Bill to limit the preroga tive of the Crown to import commodities free of duty to such commodities as were for the use of the Crown, and not allowing it to import commodities free of duty for sale, particularly the tutor which was sent here in payment of the Four and a Half per Cent. Duties from Barbadoes and the Leeward Islands." From Sir Robert Peel's answer we should sup pose him to have been lately studying Buseubaum, or some other casuist. "The proceeds of these duties" (the Four and a Half per Cents.), he said, " though evidently belonging to the Crown, were not appropriated to any personal objects, but to public objects; they were applied to diminish the charges on some other public funds. At the same time he was not prepared to contend that the Crown could im port commodities for sale in the market, except on pay ment of duties, like other persons. Neither was lie prepared to say that the prerogative, though existing constitutionally to this extent, might not lead to public inconvenience. He was not prepared to say that the prerogative, if wholly unlimited, might not lead to abus - e. It was, therefore, the intention of Ministers to place the prerogative under such a limitation, that the sugar for sale should not be brought into the market without payirg the duties, leav ing those duties to be appropriated by die Crown, as if it had disposed of the sugar without paying them." How do the duties evidently belong to the Crown? The Crown's right to West India duties ; the Crown's right to the revenue of Gibraltar; the Crown's claim to Molts of Admiralty ! Are we never to have done with this nonsense ? The King of England is the first Magistrate of the country, who is supported, like other public functionaries, by taxes raised from the people. He ought to have ►what is fitting for his expenditure, and not more than what is fitting for his expenditure. But how, in God's name, can it be known whether he receives enough or too little, or too much, if the subject is magnified by a number of inroads into the revenue such as those above alluded to. The King can have no West Indian duties for himself, but for the public, whose representative he is; and the separation of such like petty branches of revenue from the remainder, can merely have for object the misleading the public ►with respect to the appropriation of the revenue. Are we in the year 1830 to be told that the whole amount of the revenue, and the whole amount of the expenditure, ought not to be placed clearly and distinctly before the public ? The English of the transaction which led to the recourse to prero gative law on the case of the West Indian Duties, ►was, that the fund for disgraceful payments, or at least payments of a kind not calculated to bear exa mination, had been exhausted by the West Indian Church Establishment, and the ravens were calling for their accustomed food. But let us see how Mr. Peel places the matter. He was not prepared to say the Crown would import commodities for sale, ex cept on payment of duties, and though the preroga tive existed constitutionally to this extent, he was not prepared to say it would not lead to public in convenience. Then the Right Hon. Baronet has recommended an exercise of the prerogative leading to public inconvenience. The sugar hereafter, therefore, is to pay the duties, leaving the Crown to appropriate the duties as if the sugar had been disposed of without paying them. The source of corrupt expenditure is not to be diminished in the least; but the great improvement is, that the sugar shall pay the duties at the Custom-house, and that the amount shall be transferred from the Customs to the hands by which it was to be ultimately dis tributed. This would be all very silly, if it were not very profligate. The Crown can and ought to have no funds unknown to the nation.— The nation enables the Crown to make conquests, and pays the deficiencies of the Colonial Esta blishments; and yet forsooth, the Revenues of our conquests and Colonies are to form a fund distinct from the funds of the nation for the disposal of the Crown, that, is,of those who possess political power. Iluskisson pointed at an inconvenience from this precious prerogative law which had not before been adverted to. " A person," he said, " went into the market and bought some of this sugar that was sent here in payment of the Four and a Half per Cents.; he would buy it at the market price, and he would pay for it, ►which was called the long price, which included the duty ; the broker who sold the sugar would hand over the proceeds, duty and all, to the agent for the Four and a Half per Cents., but the purchaser might go immediately afterwards to the Custom-house, and if he exported that sugar de mand the whole drawback." In fact, the public may thus be cheated out of the duty and out of the drawback ; for the agent of the Four and a Half per Cent. and t he purchaser may be in an understanding, and the whole sugar may be exported. Such are the consequences of having recourse to these disreputable shifts. And yet the Right Hon. Baronet was com plimented on all hands for his readiness to place the prerogative under some restriction, as if he had not persisted in the practice as long as he could. So much for prerogative laws. If the Hon. Gentlemen will stand out for prerogative, they ought to abandon taxation.—Morning C hronicle. FROM THE GAZETTE OF LAST NIGHT, White!,A, May 31, 1330. The King has been pleased to appoint the Right Hon, Charles Lord Farnborough, General Sir William Keppel, and Major-General Sir Andrew Francis Barnard, to be his Commissioners for affixing his Majesty's signature to in struments requiring the same. Office of Ordnance, June 3. Corps of Royal Engineers—Captain J. M. F. Smith to 1;e Lieutenant Colonel, vice Smart, retired, March 16. Second Captain J. W. Pringle to be Captain, ♦ice Smith, promoted, March 16. First Lieutenant H. R. Brandreth to be Second Cap tain, vice Pringle, promoted, March 16. _ Second Lieutenant S. H. Knocker to be First Lieu tenant, ♦ice Brandreth, promoted, March 16. R0y.,1 Regiment of Artillery. Second Lieutenant A. H. Frazer to be First Lieutenant, vice T. U. Walker, resigned, March 1. Second Lieutenant T. G. Marlay to be First Lieutenant, vice Dawson, deceased, April 11. Office of Ordnance, June 3. Ordnance Medical Department. Second Assistant-Surgeon Henry John Lucas, M.D., to be First Assistant-Surgeon, vice Chisholm, placed on half-pay, Jan. 1. A. P. Mahon, Gent. to be Second Assistant-Surgeon, March 11. J. E. T. Parratt, Gent. to be Second Assistant-Sur• geon, March 11. Commission in the Oxfordshire Regular Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Oxford. Ensign C. J. Preedy, Gent. to be Lieutenant, vice Dal mar, deceased, May 7. Commission in the Worcestershire Regiment of Militia, signed by the Vice-Lieutenant of the County of Wor cester. G. Atkins, Gent. to be Ensign, May SO. Commi.sion in the Forfar and Kincardine Regiment of Militia, signed by the Lord-Lieutenant of the County of Forfar. Ensign J. Smith to be Lieutenant, vice Bryiner, de ceased, May 22. Commission in the South Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Salop. Lieutenant R. Burton to be Captain, vice Leighton, re signed. Whitehall, May 29. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Edward Barry, of the city of Bristol, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. Whitehall, May 26. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Thomas Wiggins, of Sevenoaks, in the county of Kent, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION OF INSOLVENCY. Ann and Thomas Rivers, Egham, Surrey, coal-mer chants. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Thomas Hussey, High-Holborn, hat-manufacturer. BANKRUPTS. Charles Hollis, Upper Stamford-street, Surrey, engineer, to surrender June 11, at two, June 22, at eleven, and July 16, It two, at the Court of Commissioners. Cole, Furni v4l's Inn, Holborn ; Griffiths, Monmouth. John Taylor, Carlisle, Cumberland, wine and spirit merchant, June 30, July 1, and 16, at eleven, at the King's Arms Inn, Wigton, Cumberland. Mounsey and Gray, Staple-inn; Hodgbon, Wigton. John Thomas, Shepton Mallet, Somersetshire, vic tualler, June 18, 19, and July 16, at eleven, at the Mer maid Inn, Yeovil. Williams, Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn, London ; Watts, Yeovil. Joseph Hobbs, Arlington-place, St. John-street, iron monger, June 18, 25, at eleven, and July 16, at nine, at the Court of Commissioners. Patten and Smith, Hatton garden. Simeon Me , z, Gerrard-street, Soho, bill-broker, June 15, 22, and July 16, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Westlake, Tavistock-kreet, Covent-garden. Henry Kain, Tyseen-place, Kingsland-road, commercial agent, June 11, 18, and July 16, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Statton and Overton, ShOreditch. Samuel Salisbury, Liverpool, sail-maker, June 18, 19, and July 16, at two, at the Clarendon Rooms, Liverpool. 131ackstock and Bunce, Temple, London ; Deane, Liverpool. Ann Sellars, Manchester, chemist, June 21, at five, 22, and July 16, at ten, at the Bridge Inn, Little Bolton, Lan cashire. Pcndiebury, Bolton-le-Moors ; Hurd and Johnson, Temple. At - rdrew Reid, Bishop Auckland, Durham, draper, June 15, 29, and July 17, at eleven, at the Queen's Head Inn, Durham. Taylor, Clement's-Inn ; Marshall, Durham. Andrew Dobbie, Manchester, wine-mert hant, June 17, 18, and July 16, at eleven, at the White Bear, Manches ter. Cole, Serjeant's-Inn ; Dumvile, Manchester. DIVIDENDS. J. Nicholls, St. Alban's, cabinet-maker, June 25, ;it ten, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Harley, Cheapside, warehouseman, June 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—.. Wm. Evans, King and Queen dock, Rotherhithe, oldp-builder, June 15, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—D. Wood, Milk-street, Cheapside, woollen-warehouseman, June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—C. Baglehole and J. Red graar.., Mark-lane, merchants, June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—W. Franklin, Jertnyn-street, tai lor, June '25, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—G. Mattison, Grove-house tavern, Camberwell, licensed-vic tualler, June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners --W. Bradley, R. Darch, E. Parry, and J. Baddeley, Grove, Great Guildford-street, Southwark, iron-founders, June 25, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners—J. Tapp and C. Tapp, Wigmore street, Cavendish-square, coach-makers, June 25, at ten, at the Court of Commis sioners—E. Oke, Falmouth, tailor, June 25, at one, at the Court of Commissioners—R. Wheater, Greensted-Lodge- Farm, Essex, farmer, June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners—F. Ewer and W. F. Scholfield, Lad lane, warehousemen, June 25, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners—T. B. Clark and W. Clark, Woodbridge, Suffolk, drapers, June 25, at eleven, at the Court of Com missioners—T. Kelshaw, Liverpool, merchant, June 28 at two, at the office of Messrs. Lace and Son, Liverpool— G. Lake, Heaton-Norris, Lancashire, hat-manufacturer, June 26, at four, at the Red Lion Inn, Heaton-Norris— J. Lewthwaite end W. Lewthwaite, Lancaster, scriveners, June 28, at twelve, at the King's Arms Inn, Lancaster— W. Bower, Moorgate, clarborough, Nottinghamshire, seed-merchant, June 28, Zone, at the White Halt Inn, East Bedard, Nottinghamshire—J. Coekshett,Warrington, Lancashire, J. Green, Manchester, and R. Swarbrick, Ince, cotton-manufacturers, June 28, at eleven, at the Star Inn, Manch, star—G. Leech, Lane-End, Stock-upon- Trent, Staffordshire, grocer, June 28, at two, at the Roe- Buck Inn, Newcastle-under-Lyne. CERTIFICATES—Jura 25. J. Dunn, New-road, St. George in the East, victualler —D. Smith, Walharn-green, stage coach proprietor—W. J. Curtis, New -street, Doekhead, St. John, Southwark, engineer —T. and T. Oriel, Poland-street, Oxford-street, tailors—P. Somerfield, Bloxwich, Walsall, Staffordshire, victualler. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Chandler and W. H. Renwick, Canterbury, sur geons—J. and J. H. Richman, Lymington, Southampton, attorneys—J. B. Harwood and E. Daniell, Bristol, whole sale grocers—A. Gregory and J. Swain, St. Albm's, Hertfordshire, stone-masons—T. Rutherford, and W. Pen dlebury, Bolton-le-Moors, stone-masons—J. Smith and R. Charles, Loughborough, Leicestershire and Nottingham, merchant. , —D. Jones and A. S. Lillyman, Liverpool, ap praisers—W. H. Mendham, G. H. Timmins, and J. L. and J. P. J. Cailler, Messina, dealers—D. and J. Waddington and J. Walton, Newton, Manchester, glue manufacturets— A. Colville, J. Wedderburn, A. Seton, and J. Wedderburn, London, West India merchants—C. James. Merthyrtydfil, merchant, and L. Thomas, Llandatf, Glamorganshire, bargeman—H. Cayser and M. Willis, Maeclesfi,ld, - dyers—J. and J. B. Moody, 13tabant-court, Philpst-lane, wholesale tea-dealers—R. F. and .T. Rattenbury, W. Wake ham, and J. Steer, jun., Plymouth, Roman cement-manu facturers—T., W., and J. Powell, Bristol, glass-merchants —J. Manp, Bradford, J. Mann, Horton, B. Williamson, Bradford, and J.i Mann, jun., Horton, Yorkshire, mer chants—J., NV., and C. Paget, J. Wallis, and the execu tors of the late J. Wallis, deceased, viz., J. Wallis, E. Linthwaite, and J. North, Loughborough, Leicestershire, lace.manuiacturers—E. West and W. H. King, Camel ford, Cornwall, surgeons—J. Morris and J. Robertson, Glasgow, silk-manufacturers—W., J., T., H., and J. Slingsby, Everton, Lancashire, Manchester, and Carlton, Yorkshire, graziers and cattle dealers—R. l'L'Morran and J. Clokey, Kingston. upon-Mull, dealers in Irish linens— L. and J. T. Thomas, Sheffield, merchants. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the Returns made in the week ending June 1, is 235. 5-id. per cwt., exclusive of the duties of customs paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. CONVEYANCE OF ARTICLES BY MAIL AND STAGE COACHES. AB•TRACT OF A BILL ma TIDE MORE EFFECTUAL PRO• TECTION OF MAIL CONTRACTORS, AND STAGE COACH PROPRIETORS, AGAINST LOSSES BY THE UNDUE CON CEALMENT OF THE VALUE OF PARCELS AND PACKAGE, DELIVERED TO THEM FOR CONVEYANCE OR CUSTODY. The preamble recites that " Whereas by reason of the frequent practice of Bankers and others, of sending by the public mail and other public stage coaches, parcels and packages containing money, bills, noteF, and other articles of great value, much valuable property is rendered liable to depredation, and the responsibility of such Mail Contractors and Stage Coach Proprietors is greatly increased." Clause I.—Enacts therefore that from the passing of this Act Mail Contractors and Coach Proprietors shall not be liable for loss of goods above the value of 201., unless the value and nature of the contents shall he declared itt writ ing, signed in the name of the person sending the same, and delivered with such parcel to the book-keeper or ser ♦ant receiving the same. ll.—Notice of the same to be affixed in coach offices; and all persons sending such parcels shall be bound by such notice without further proof of the same having come to their knowledge. lll.—Coach Proprietors not to be liable except in cases of felony. IV.—Notice to be published, twice at least yearly, in some newspaper circulated in the county wherein such offices may be situate. V.—No such notice to limit the common law liability of currier, as to the carriage of packages containing hops, groceries, nor any furniture, liquors coot fined in casks or bottles, nor any manufactured goods of iron, lead, or other inferior metal, the nature and contents whereof is suf ficiently notified to such carriers. Vl.—Any one Coach Proprietor to be liable. Vll.—This Act not to affect Contracts. Vlll.—Provides that where any parcel shall have been delivered at any such office, and the value and contents de clared as aforesaid, and the increased rate of charges been paid, and such parcels shall have been lost, the party entitled to recover damages in respect of such loss shall also be entitled to recover back such increased charges so paid as aforesaid, in addition to the value of such parcel. IX.—This Act shall not protect any Mail Contractor or Coach Proprietor from liability to answer for loss aris ing from the fel minus acts of any coachman, guard, book keeper, porter, or other servant in their employ. X.—Coach Proprietors liable only to such Damages as are proved. Xl.—This to be deemed a public Act. BOUNTIES RELATIVE TO SLAVES. ABSTRACT OF A BILL TO REDUCE THE RATE OF BOUNTIES MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SuGA a —The show of good Sugars this week has cal' iiderahly increased, and the average daily sal s are, in curt" sequence, above 1,000 Wads ; the demand continues - oe' oeral and brisk, and the late prices are fully supported:-- - ' ['here was some interest excited this day by the sale of 2 Mids. Demerara Sugars, cured by the patent ofJehn burAs Esq. ; the colour was uncommonly fine ; they sold rather lower than generally anticipated, chiefly 625. 6d. a 645." fit the Refined Market there is little alteration in prieetP the stocks continue very limited, but the buyers wait quietls for further supplies, and will give no advance; they el " pect to buy on easier terms in a week or two. hlolasse g are rather higher. Although there is no apparent bris:t. ; es , in Refined this afternoon, yet there is a good deal g business doing, and goods are taken off quietly as the 9 come forward, and, in many instances, a fortnight or the , weeks before they are ready, at steady prices. For, ti . 16 Mediterranean the inquiries for Crashed are still nutneroe and sales continue to be made at about the quotationo, b i many of the offers are 6d. to Is. below those prices,- l t consequently the orders cannot be executed at present. A , fine Loaves Crushed (for the double Refined bounty) ars% there have been several sales made at 38s. a 395. In th* Grocery goods there has been a good deal doing, and price o ' ate firmly maintained. FOREIGN SUGAR. —By public sale 164 chests Pernarn 4 on Wednesday last, but only the damaged sold ; there were no offers for the sound ; a small parcel of white her' rams was disposed of by private contract, at 30s. There are inquiries after new Havanna!, Sugar,".hut no sales 1411 yet reported. EAST INDIA SUGAR. —lncluding !the sale - of this - deri under 4,500 bigs Mauritius have been offered this sit ' ee„ the whole sold with some briskness, brown 435. I 4 3 ": The Mauritius Sugars to-day were a fine parcel, and with great briskness, generally, we think, I s. higher thew any previous sale. CoPFEE.—The Coffee Market is doll, but there is -WI reduction in the prices ; only a small part of the Coffee 04.-- fered yesterday was disposed of, but what sold brought i 4 El market prices ; 400 bags good La Guayra taken in about: 325. ; Brazil, 31s. a 325. ; pale good ord. St.DotningoS Is.6d:. a 325. 6d. G.-od and fine ordinary Jamaica, for which; there is at present a good demand for home consumptions sold early in the week at an advance of 2s. The 13erhice offered this week has been unfit for the home trade, WI in consequence a very small proportion sold. There Con tinues to be some inquiry for coloury Foreign Coffee, but there are few parcels of these qualities at market. This day the good ordinary Jamaica sold at 325. a 385., fine ordinary 40s. a 441., midd:ing 435.; the market not quite so firm in Jamaica Coffee. RUM, BRANDY, ANI) HOLLANDS. , --The uncertainty sg to the duty on Rum prevents all business; the only pur" chase reported is a parcel of Demerara 37 over, at 2tt. 8d• In Brandy or Geneva there is no alteration. Hoes...---The Hop Market is dull, notwithstanding the report of the increase of fly and vermin; there is little doirg yet in the duty. COTTON.-The Cotton Market is very dull. The PP; chases for the week ending last night inclusive, consist of 50 Bengal at 4 7 1.1.-400 Surat at 4441. a 4d. 20 dras at 4/1 1. PRICES OF HOPS.—June 4. Kent Pockets 6l Os. 61. 164. to 111 04. SursexDitto Freex Ditto (31. Os. (31. 10s. to 71. 73. Fem.liam Ditto, Fine O/. Os. 101. Os. to 121. 03. Seconds 0/. Os. 8/. Bs. to SU. Os. Kent 5/. Os. 64 Os. to 71. Os. Essex Ditto. 4/. 15s. 5/. ss. to 6/. ()iv Susagx Ditto Old I)uty laid at £120,000. PAYABLE uroN THE SEIZURE OF SLAVES. The preamble states that it is expedient to reduce the different Rates of Bounties payable under former Acts. Clause I.—Enacts that for all slaves seized from the fifth day of October one thousand eight hundred and thirty, the different rates of bounties heretofore granted shall be repealed ; and in lieu of the former bounties, there shall be paid, out of the. Consolidated Fund, to the seizor or to the seizor and governor respectively, in those cases where the Governor of any of his Majesty's colonies or plantations is or may be entitled, a bounty of five pounds each upon every man, woman, and child slave seized and condemned as forfeited or delivered over agreeably to the several provisions of the above recited Acts II —Where any Slaves shall be seized after and shall he considered liable to forfeiture under the pro •isions of the Treaties with Portugal, Spain, the .Nether lands, and the Brazils, but who shall not have beau pro nounced forfeited in consequence of death, sickness, or other inevitable circumstance, it shall he lawful for the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury, if to their dis cretion it shall seem meet, to direct payment of one moiety of the bounty which would have been due if the said slaves had been proceeded against and pronounced forfeited. WoOLWICH, MAY 29.—A circumstance of a very extraordinary nature has recently occurred in the Royal Artil!ery, emanating from a court-martial held on a non-commissioned officer in the regiment, who being found guilty, pleaded the inability of the Court to pass sentence on him, in consequence of his not having been sworn in. Upon inquiry, this allegation was found to be true, not only as regarded the prisoner, but also a great number of others in the corps, to the amount of upwards of 600 men. It appears that these men are the sons of artillery men, and that as soon as they were enab!eil to wicld a drumstick, they were made drummers, and being young, the oaths were dispensed with until they should be old enough to understand the nature of them, and were even tually forgotten. A few of the men have availed them selves of this opportunity of leaving the regiment, and among others, five who were in the band ; but the greater number have been sworn in, on an understanding that their services shall lie reckoned from the day they joined the regiment..—Kentish Gazette. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Refined X39l* Linseed Oil ---- 24 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, pia thousand - 9 IS Itape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEI. HAY MARKET.—June 3 Hay 40s. 0,1. to 90, 0,1. I lover —5.55..0ki. to 110 s. Straw 384. 0d:t;48,. Od RAW HIDES. Per Stone. . s. el. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. a. Rest Heitors & Stuerb2 8 30 l Ordinary —„ _ , 1 8 2 ichti ings 2 2 6 Market Calf 6 (leach, SHEEP SKINS. Polled 3.. sa. to 54. Ott. 5hear1ing5............ Os. Od., to Os. 6 I 2634 1 3 1 9 PRICE OF POTATOES—Junco. Kidneys --.... Scotch Reds 0/. Os. to 31. Os. per lon. 01. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto. PRICES OF Per lb. Hut to t461b.... 18j 191 Ditto.--. 00 to 661 b.... 21 22 Dressing 14 16 Fine Coach Mides 17 10 Crop Hides, 35 to 40Ib. 14 15} Ditto 45 to 501 b. 14i 174 Ditto LEATHER. Per lb. d. to (I. Tanned Horse Hides.. la 19 Sonish Ditto 21 2.4 Per dozen. Calf Skins.,., 36 to Mb. 14 18 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 21 36 Ditto to SOlb. 18 21 Small Seals, Greenland 20 oft PRICE OF TALLOW, SO Town Tallow 335. Od. Yellow 365. Od. White— -375. Ott. Soap 355. 6d. Melted Stuff.-- O. Ditto Od. AP, &c. per 1121b.—June 4. Yellow 725. Od. 78s. N. White 82, Otl. Graves ..........•••••••••,••••••••• 01:14 , Good Ss. Od• PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone et 81b.—June 4 Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) Oj& PRICE Ok' CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :-- Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. J Moulds, per dozen COA 1. NI Alt eleamnont 26s 6d. Bishop's Main.-- 27 (1 li st rQrcy. 27 0 ilolywell 3O 0 Killiogworth 31 0 27 0 Ortl's Itedlingh Pontop Wilidsor—.....— '25 9 fanfield Tanfield Le.L 27 3 3 Wylam Walls En ti Bets icke& Co. 32 0 Ditto Bell liohson & Co. 31 6 Walls End Brown's 39 (I Ditto Clarke and Co. .» 29 0 Ditto ("ram1ingt0n......... 27 0 Ditto ('allerton 2".) 0 Ditto Gosforth . 33 0 Slips at market, 78%—Sld E l'.—June 4. Walls End Newmarch_ 318.6 d. Ditto 1-leatonw. 32 6 Ditto ililda 30 6 Ditto 31 0 Ditto Northumberland 30 Ditto MI , 32 0 Ditto Russell's 33 3 Lyon's Diain 31 6 Walls End /lotto,' 33 3. Walls End Lanibton...... 33 0 Walls End Stewart's 33 3 Walls End Tees Co.-- 31 6. 26 0 Culm 27 0 Culat 'l'rimsaram 24 0 Warde's Llanelly 33 0 Tatifield Trader....---. 28 0 Ellison small 20 0 " Old Etherley small 18 0 dins sold, 3731—Unsold, 41. RUMFORD MARKET.—June 2. s. d. to.. d. B 1 Beef 210 310 Mutton 3 0 4 0 Land) Suckling Calves from 14s. tons ; A limited supply, a. d. Veal Pork 3 0 4 41. Bd.' to 56. Bd. Quarter old Pigel2s.to 16s. each. and a dull trade. The TALLOW market is firm at 355. per cwt., and 365. per cwt. on arrival. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Per Quarter. Ashburn Basingstoke Bath ri f 2 56 73 46 72 CA 68 62 (6 60 70 70 72 6S 72 CO 70 5-1 76 CS 76 64 68 58 80 34 35 25 36 24 35 24 38 36 38 30 35 24 28 20 32 22 34 22 26 20 26 21 28 28 30 26 33 22 32 24 34 28 32 25 28 21 33 42 46 38 45 40 56 30 48 34 44 40 46 39 44 34 48 45 47 Bridgewater Bristol— Chesterfield Derby Devizes — Doncaster 25 39 33 33 30 38 32 34 28 32 25 36 Glonee,ter--. Hungerford 36 40 37 40 Newbury Itomsey . 4S SO 56 68 `2l. 34 23 3i 23 34 24 30 28 20 9.5 20 20 IB 24 24 28 F. d. a. d. 50 70 38 45 Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet -- Sherbonle--. 48 62 60 88 40 74 60 72 s. 4. s. d . ilO 0 It 0 21 31 24 30 18 38 28 36 s. d. e. d. 46 60 40 40 48 a 0 45 40 44 s. d. s. d. 00 00 Yeovil Per thistle!. Shrewsbury BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. at Upper Clipton, the wife of Mr. I. Robson, of a son. _ _ On the 4th inst. at Leytonstone, Mrs. John Capper, of a son. On the 2d inst. at Wilton-crescent, Belgrave-sqnsre, the lady of W. Sandys, Eqq. of a son. MA 11111E.D. On the 3d inst. at Kennington, G. W. Barron, Esq., second son of R. Barron, Esq., of Caroline-place, Meek- Lmburgh-square, to Sarah, eldest daughter of J. Tucker, Esq. of Clapham. On the 3d inst. at Camberwell, G. J. Jackson, Esq., of Streatham-hill, Surrey. to Arabella Charlot'e, youngest daughter of the late W. Feilde, EN. of Camberwell. On the 3d inst. at Hackney, 111 r. J. Tayior, of Fen church-street, to Maria Richardson, youngest daughter of C. Reynolds, Esq., surgeon R N., of Clapton-square. On t h n 3d inst. at Trinity Church, T. B. Fleming;, Esq., of Trinity-square, Sonthwark, to Nary Dawson, daughter of W. Raincoch, Esq. of Dulwich. DIEU At Mansfield Woodhouse, on the 20th ult., supposed to he at least 100 years of Age, Hannah Stranglement, the cc cress woman, --so called from her - having supplied Mans— field and its vicinity with water-cresses and fruit for pettily 40 years. The eresses she actually waded for, at soma distance from her abode, till within the last three years. She was in service when the rebels entered Derby in 1745. —Lincoln Mercury. On the 2d inst. Eliza, third daughter of P. W. Thomas, E,(l . of Higlibury-grove. On the Ist inst. Jane, the wife of J. Bonnor, Esq., of Bryn-y- Gwalie, county of Denbigh. PHI NT ED A tin BLISII ED BY Al URDO YOUNG, AT THE SUN OFFICE ; 112, STRAND, LONDON. A •GEoI For on the Captain Galle, round 1 Botb for'. pas known th e y, p o - Each APIA CR( Valuabl exten Cour rial Prop At Ga Well sti With a house, ex tensii sified ( Garden ; Lodges, , ngs, C of capit the rive derable Lease tt together A va ACRE. Enclusu is contil and NE Atm& table, with a ( tietropc A cot of these there is To bi Premise Head, ' Crown Hill ; o' Alarlbm No. 17( be seen. Capital cello] Kenn Sixty At Gar Titurt AN Comi HUNT: The Situate orient, c 13oxes, and Sc Corn Ili Houses, Boxes ; at Garr street, c ----___ Capit a l temii about Ten Fast Quar tural Acre: To B A 1 tenhani Ilundre LATEI derable FERY of a No all desc Ground fish, pla (Chiefly plantati and int( The t Atoun c Toll@ of In tl Cornm c and v ar , contia u , der a bi e Canal r PENN] With el E] Of rid Land, i The worth 1 field ep or invel Part solicitor eitors, eitors, etreet,