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aste for their recorder, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn, to rescue them from their difficulties, or to ward off their disgrace, and the Learned Gentleman made his appearance in Leicester after the town clerk had made some of his extraordinary dis closures, and was probably on the eve of revealing the whole iniquities of the corporation. The recorder backed the town-clerk with his appro bation immediately after his arrival, and appeared with him before the Commissioners, to guide him in what questions he might innocently answer and to what interrogatories he should demur. Such an interference the Commissioners could not, of course, permit, and the Learned Sergeant was obliged, therefore, to retire from a disgraceful situation which he ought never to have occupied for a moment. The inquiry had now gone on for a fortnight, and the Commis stoners wanted chiefly some documents to support previous depositions or admissions, when the corporation all at once, taking counsel either of their fears, or acting under the advice of their Learned Recorder, " called a halt" and refused any further to " criminate themselves." They therefore withdrew their confidential agent from the Castle, invited their junta to what they denominated a Guildhall meeting, or Common Ball, and passed resolutions prohibiting their office-bearer to com municate the demanded documents relative to their corporate management. The law of the case we have already explained. We have shown, and the invariable course of Govern ment superintendence over corpor - ate manage ment has proved, that the King has a right to appoint commissions like the present, and that the commissioners could not have exceeded their authority in requiring the inspection of the documents adverted to, without which their whole investigation would have been a farce. But let us hear the reasons which the wise and honest corporation of Leicester, inspired, no doubt, by their Learned Recorder, have assigned for resisting the King's writ. 1. In the first place, their town-clerk, in their Guildhall ad vertisement, defends his contumacy, on the ground that the inquiry was conducted in public ; that what he calls " the private income and ex penditure of the corporation would have been disclosed to all the town ;" that the documents demanded, if furnished, would have been shown to all the world, and " particularly to the poli tical opponents of the corporation ;" that he had seen former documents supplied by him in the hands of political adversaries ; and, in short, that the most unlimited pub licity would be given to the facts which • he had declined to explain, or the papers which he had refused to furnish. Now, it is quite evident that the town-clerk and the corporation of Leicester in this case pretend to dictate to the King's commissioners in matters over which they ought to have no control—namely, in what manner, or with what degree of publicity, they shall conduct their inquiries. His Majesty's confidential agents and responsible advisers are the proper judges how far they shall reveal to the world, or at what time they shall so reveal, the information which the commission shall elicit and collect. The town-clerk and the corporation object to the publicity of their accounts, because that publicity would gratify their " political opponents ;" but the commissioners know no thing, and can hear nothing, about " political opponents," or political friends, as reasons for restricting or extending their disclosures. As well might a culprit decline the authority of a lawful Court because the result of his trial would be grateful to his enemies, as a corporation re fuse to answer lawful questions because " poli tical opponents" are present to witness the ex posure. Beside, if publicity of disclosure was their real and only ground of objection on the part of the corporation to the proceedings of the commissioners, why did they not decline the jurisdiction of an open Court at once from the commencement ? Why did the town-clerk at all obey the summons to appear at the castle, except to protest against it ? Why did the Learnedßecorder attend the Commissioners to guide the corporate functionary in his public answers? Why, after having answered for four or five days, and having furnished a certain quantity o f documents, did he refuse to answer towards the close of the exa mination, and resist the production of the re maining deeds and records ? The reply to these questions is obvious to all the world : publicity was not assigned as a reason for declining to supply the demanded documents, till the mort gage deed, by which the corporation had pledged the town property for their late electioneering expenses, was demanded. It was then that they felt all the evils of an open court, and appealed from the Commissioners to the Common Hall. 2. The second reason for declining to comply with time order of the Commissioners, for the production of the books and papers of the cor porate body, is still more ridiculous than the last —namely, an alleged intimidation of the corpo rate officers by the populace who attended the Court. What ! was Mr. Thomas Burbidge, the town-clerk, e xamined for four or five days without danger or alarm, when he was all the time fencing with the Court, assisted on one of those days by his friend the Recorder; and was he to be subjected to any hardship or indignity when he complied with a summons to present the books, accounts, deeds, and docu ments relative to the estates of the corporation ? The whole story of the intimidation is an evi dent falsehood ; but if there had been any inti midation, it would not have extended to the cyphers of an account-book, or to innocent pieces of parchment. If the town-clerk did not choose to attend himself with these documents, he might have sent them, and the purpose of the Commissioners and of the public would have been answered. 3. But having no reasons which they can own for refusing the required papers, the corporation, in the third place, pre tend that they can see no advantage in the in quiry, which is not, according to them, con ducted in an impartial manner. The town cletk is made officially to declare—" That from the mode in which his own examination has been conducted, and that of other witnesses, submitted by him to the examination of the Commissioners, on behalf of the corporation, his mind is impressed tuith the belief that the further prosecution of this inquiry cannot tend to an impartial elucidation offacts." So this corporate official is to resist the King's commis kion, because, conscious that disclosures would b e dangerous to his employers, he chooses to d form an of about. the actual conduct an probable result of the i n vestigation ! Was ever s uch impertinence, such k corp or ation of Leices nown beyond the To r y ter ? We might allude to some of the other still more flimsy pretexts with I,vhich the Leicester corporation endeavour to disguise from their fel low-citizens the real motive for disobeying the King's commission ; but the exposure would be superfluous. They are perfectly conscious that all the world comprehends their position, and that their extraordinary malversation of the borough property must subject them to serious responsibility. Hence, in order to parry the blow, they have set on foot, " a declaration among the burgesses, of which the following is a copy, as we find it in the Leicester Herald, signed, it is said, by 1,000 inhabitants :—" We whose names are hereunto subscribed, inhabitants of the town of Leicester, beg leave to state that we are perfectly satisfied that the magistrates of this borough administer justice to all parties with impartiality, and discharge the duty they are called upon to perform with intelligence and discrimination : that they are at all times assi duous to preserve good order in the town, and that we can safely place confidence in them." These persons, it will be noticed, say nothing about the jobbing in votes, mortgage, or the abuse of the trust funds, and though they did, the corporation would find it now too late to call witnesses to character. One of the late Re corders of the city of London, who long presided at the sessions in the Old Bailey, was in the habit, after summing up the evidence on criminal trials, of concluding in the following words : " Gentlemen of the Jurv, you have now seen the strength of the evidence against the prisoner, and heard the facts alleged in his defence. He has subsequently called witnesses as to character —but, Gentlemen of the Jury, I place very little reliance on such testimony. You know, Gen tlemen, that we have all a tolerably good cha. racter till we are found out." And so we might say of the corporation of Leicester ! Times. We extract from the Leicester Journal o Friday a most extraordinary, and, we presume, the first public communication vouchsafed by the Leicester Corporation for a century past. Our extracts from the local papers have fully informed our readers that a creditable and re spectful obedience has hitherto been paid to the Corporation Commissioners in every district. But an exception has now occurred at Leicester, and apparently under circumstances peculiarly illustrative of the existing corrupt state of our municipal institutions. From the public docu ment, signed by the Town Clerk of Leicester, we can collect the facts of this political contu macy ; in their own publications the Corporators and Town Clerk stand before the public self condemned. It appears that on Saturday the 14th instant, the Town Clerk duly attended the Commissioners, Mr. Whitcombe and Mr. Cock burn, on their requisition to examine him by virtue of his Majesty's Commission ; that the Town Clerk submitted to a public examination of two entire days, answering on oath "to the best of his knowledge and ability, all questions put to him by the Commissioners relative to the constitution of the Corporation, and to its in come and expenditure;" and that his examination was subsequently often renewed during the fol lowing week. The Town Clerk, it appears, in his simplicity, considered that his first two days' examination "closed apparently to the satisfaction of the Commissioners," but in this supposition he was palpably mistaken and "reckoned without his host." The Commissioners subsequently served him with a summons to produce various muni cipal and legal documents, "particularizing the copy of a certain MORTGAGE executed by the Corporation." This summons naturally excited alarm in the corporators and their solicitor and town clerk, and they had recourse to the special advice of their " Conservative" Recorder, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn. A " Common Hall," we presume a meeting of the Self-Elect, was there upon assembled, and the result of their secret discussions and conference with their Recorder was a point blank refusal of the required muni ments and documents. We now proceed to analyse the reasons publicly assigned by the cor porators for refusing obedience to the summons of the Commissioners, and in which reasons they have curiously committed themselves and betrayed their real motives of contumacy. They first profess to feel " towards his Majesty's Commission the greatest possible deference and respect," and " desire to yield obedience to it," Their loyalty and fidelity as subjects, however, appear to be considerably limited by a shrewd preference of their own personal interests. They object to the publicity of the intended examina tion of the required documents, and that there fore the town clerk be instructed to refuse them. Now as no riots or fires occurred at the previous examination of the town clerk, or any reasonable apprehension of such casualties, and as the corporators must know that the ob ject of the commission is a report to Par liament of the result of the municipal in quiry, this excuse is evidently a mere pre tence involving other and real sieister objections to the production of the papers. Equally men dacious must have been the objections of the Town Clerk founded on the violation of his official oath. Of any oath of office standing in the way of the Commissioners, we are utterly ignorant ; and none such can exist, or other Town Clerks would have cheerfully taken the benefit of its protection. The Leicester Town Clerk, Mr. Burbidge, had moreover palpably overcome this scruple of conscience, as he had voluntarily submitted to the prior examinations of the Commissioners,and doubtless was satisfied with the absolution from his " oath" afforded by their authority. The inconvenience and nuisance of his public examination are apparent to all who know the secrecy and misdoings of Corporators. If the Corporation of Leicester had honourably and faithfully discharged its municipal trust, publicity would be courted instead of being shunned and condemned. It is the Corporators therefore, who now notoriously object to " an impartial elucidation of facts" and to " the dis passionate investigation of truth," though they artfully but weakly endeavour to cast reflections on the mode of examination adopted by the Commissioners. As to the claim of the Town Clerk for the attendant advice of the Recorder during his examination, nothing can be more absurd or obviously improper. The Commis sioners not the Recorder are tine arbiters of their own examinations, and the Town Clerk not the Recorder was under examination. Non-resident Recorders notoriously must be ignorant and little informed or consulted on the pecuniary and gene ral municipal affairs of Corporators ; the province of the former is simply judicial, and Recorders are not responsible for the administration of corpo rate funds, or for the acts of mayors, aldermen, and town clerks. We suspect that Mr. Sergeant Goulburn would prefer not to be responsible for the precedin g acts of this corporation. The town clerk must also have been apprised by public rumour of the appointment of the Cor poration Commission, and of the nature of its intended inquiries ; and he had therefore had ample time to consult his recorder. The real motives of this contumacy a detection. The Common Hall,r not beyond on Tuesday last, passed a resolution, warmly thankine Mr. Sergeant Goulburn " for his valuable advice and assistance in the emergency in which they find themselves placed." This " emergency" is tolerably obvious. In the early examinations of the town clerk, as extracted from the Leicester papers the week before last, the town clerk, as the News of yesterday quaintly observes, had let " half the cat out of the bag." The Com missioners wished to shake out the other half of the animal. The fact of the scandalous appro- priation of 10,0001. of the corporate funds to the Tory election contest of 1826 had transpired. The false justification of this illegal expenditure was founded on the pretence that a part of the cor porate property was privately purchased centuries since by the then members of the Leicester corporation. But if such was really the fact— of such a particular ancient origin of a portion of the present corporate funds—it had become trust property, and how could the present corpora tors be justified in an illegal and shameful election expenditure? The "emergency" was evidently the unexpected demand for " the copy of a certain mortgage,"the facts connected with which nefarious alienation of the Corporate estates probably involve the Corporators in the natural dread of future pro ' ceedings and punishment. Ilinc ill e lacltunue, and we admit that the " emergency" was dis• agreeable and fearful. What a revelation of black political corruption is involved in this sin gular case of detection ! The immaculate and self-congratulatory Corporation, discerning in 1824 , the growing strength of a popular local party, and that its own close municipal influence and all its means of corruption and electioneer- ing management would not achieve the return o ultra Tory members opposed to the Catholic Question, in close divan assembled, make a wholesale manufacture of 800 " honorary" non resident freemen, and misappropriate Ten Thousand Pounds in the expenditure of a subsequent contest for two representatives in the House of Commons. The Head of this Corporation, the Mayor of 1826, participating in all this corruption, was the impartial and disinterested Returning Officer of the borough ; his Assessor, we perceive by referring to the Morning Chronicle of that year, was Mr. Sergeant Goulburn ; the mode of polling appears to have been an unusual and illegal arrangement called " pens," by which free access to the poll was impossible ; the constables are alleged to have been partially selected from one (the cor porate) party ; the most alarming riots occurred ; and lastly, the selfelect, as the exclusive local Magistrates, solemnly presided at the committal and any trial of offenders! Well might this remarkable specimen of a defective and corrupt English Corporation require the patch-work aid of a " character" now averred to be warranted by upwards of 900 signatures (the Honorary Freemen not being distinguished), and duly advertised in the County Papers as follows ; " We whose names are hereunto subscribed, inhabitants of the town of Leicester, beg leave to state that we are perfectly satisfied that the magistrates of this borough administer justice to all parties with impartiality, and dis charge the duty they are called upon to perform with in telligence and discrimination ; that they are at all times assiduous to preserve good order in the town, and that we can safely place confidence in them." We do not doubt, from the composition of this curious and questionable document, that it originated with the town-clerk, and was proba bly maturely determined on in a previous " Common Hall." We can now only gratu itously advise the corporators of Leicester, if they have any sense of shame, standing as they thus do at the bar of public opinion, that they will make some atonement for their notorious misdeeds by a full submission to the authority of of the commissioners, and in the language of the comment of the Leicester Journal, " looking with no small curiosity to the result of the in quiry which will be resumed on Monday week." Possibly the " valuable advice and assistance" of Mr. SergeantGoulburn,more maturely considered, will suggest to all the respectable private individuals, members of the corporation of Leicester, that information refused to the commissioners will be extracted at the bar of a reformed House of Commons ; and that their temporary contumacy will be of no avail. Ultimate concealment is impracticable and impossible ; and we should further advise the corporation and their recorder that their present course only plunges them in deeper suspicion, and, persevered, in will pro bably terminate in a worse end. This local case now assumes a character of great public interest and justice demands an acute attention to the future movements of the Leicester corporators. If the commissioners had abandoned the great principle of publicity of procedure, they would have compromised their authority and justly sub• jected themselves to public animadversion.— Morning Chronicle. The proposed junction of the Royal Academy of Painting, &c., with the new National Gal lery, however feasible, as far as their objects are concerned, is in some respects of so question able a nature, that it was not till we saw the name of Sir M. Shee, the President of the former, as one of the Committee for superin tending the plans, &c., of the other, that we could bring ourselves to believe that the Aca demy had given its assent to the arrangement. George 111,, when he established the Royal Academy, and assigned it a noble suite of apartments in Somerset House, omitted that which, perhaps, he had not the power to ac complish. We mean the assigning adequate, or indeed any funds for its support; and the con sequence, therefore, has been that the Academy has been mainly, if not wholly, supported by the profits of its annual exhibition. But what will become of these, when the exhibition is transferred from Somerset House to the pro posed National Gallery ? We pass no unmerited reflection upon modern artists, when we assume that the treasures of the National Gallery will far surpass any productions which one year's labour of modern artists can produce ; nor do we much admire the judgment of those who propose to place their respective merits in such close juxtaposition. But what, we say, will became of the profits of the exhibition? Though no animal has ever been made to bleed so freely on the score of payment as John Bull, yet no one pays so unwillingly, or with so bad a grace. And place Juhn and his whole family on the landing of a staircase, on the right hand of which there is a picture gallery, which he may see for nothing, and on the other, one for ad ' mission to which a shilling is demanded, and another for the catalogue, and John's very na ture will have been wholly altered if it does not prefer the gratuitous to the pay door, especially when he learns that which he can see for no thing is the one by far the most worth seeing. This would be by no means the case if the ex hibition were under different roofs and at a w reasonable henlo 0 k in d g is a t t zu iclee headfro m of e expense, other. Nor, p ' ense, is it at all unreasonable to imagine that if this falling off in its present resources should happen, the Academy will of necessity be compelled to look to the public for an indemnity, as its only means of' existence. If we are right in these conjectures, they only furnish another instance of the want of foresight which distinguish most of our public undertakings ; and, as Baron D'Haussez says of the French engineers, that they dig canals first, and have to find the water to fill them after wards, so it may be said of most public buildings in England, that we seldom look to their adapta tion with half so much care as that they shall turn out profitable jobs to their projectors. — Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday Peter Moore, a poor scholar from Ireland, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, having been found on the preceding night without a ceat, and with scarcely a shirt on his back. The police who caught him in this unfledged condition heard him address some gentlemen who passed in a lan guage different from that which is generally intelli gible to the police, and supposed that it was "beg ging Latin." The gentlemen, however, either did not understand the language or disliked the theme, for they gave him nothing, and as the poor fellow looked as if his stomach was empty, the police took him to the Compter, where it . was filled for him from the police soup and cabbage tub of Mr. Teague, who has been for thirty years exercising the com plicated virtue of punishing the wicked, feeding the hungry, and clothing the naked, by order of the _ worshipful Court o(Aldermen. The LORD MAYOR—I am sorry to see a man of education in such a condition. What on earth can have reduced you to this state ? Moore—Po ' verty, my Lord, poverty—that crimen vastuni in forme —that terrific offence has converted my fair garment into about as much rags as would mop a staircase. lam poor and without friends. The LORD MAYOR—It is odd that a scholar should be totally destitute. Have you no relations who might assist you ? Moore—Nobody by my own good spirits to feed and clothe me. My rela tions clapped a 51. note in my pocket five years ago, after having sto Ned me up to the throat with Latin, and Greek, and Italian; but I find that a little bread would be sometimes asagreeable.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—What use have you been making of your knowledge of the classics ? Moore —I wish I had been a tailor or a cobbler, for a needle or an awl would never have played me such tricks as Homer and Virgil have played me. Food for the mind, or what we al etherial cibus, is not worth a thrawneen, if the body is to feed like mine —o' the chameleon's di,h. I have been a school- master. The LORD MAYOR—A very good occupation to a man who takes care of himself; but you must have been very improvident ? Moore—l argued some, and I slashed others into the classics for 201. a year ; why, the pain I got in the shoulder from one of my ways of instructing was worth double the money. Well, I had to eat, drink, sleep, and clean myself for that mod:cum, besides being laughed at by the boys, and spit at through quills and pop guns. Now, I'd be glad to know what an Irishman could save out of that ; I don't know what a Scotch man might do !—(Laughter, in which the Lord Mayor joined). The LORD MAYOR—But what have you done with your coat, waistcoat, and hat ? Moore—l clothed my stomach with them by the assistance of the magic of a pawnbroker's shop ; I made an expe riment upon my vitals for three days, and I dare say I could have got into the knack of starving, like many others in this country, if I hadn't, by ill luck, passed by the beef-shop in the Old Bailey. I was hit right on the nose—l almost fainted, and on re coveting, I found myself coming out of my " uncle's" in my shirt, with 4s. sd. in one hand, and a dupli cate in the other.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—And you have been begging since ? Moore—lf I have, your officer is the only person who understood me ; but I don't wonder at not being understood. The question I asked would not, I dare say, have been a bit better answered in Oxford or Cambridge ; the subject matter was quite obsolete, and passed like the idle wind. The LORD MAYOR—I'II give you a coat and waistcoat, a shirt, a pair of shoes, and a few shillings. Moore—Do tibigratias,Domine. Isincerely thank your Lordship. Believe my experienced lips and stomach that poverty is a hitter pill. Telum mag num et acutum habet inopia, Doinine. The LORD MAYOR—I dare say you will be able to get into some school or other ? Moore—lf I could only get into a school during the winter I could retire in the hot weather into the country and make hay.---(Loud laughter.) The poor fellow was once more taken under the kind protection of Mr. Teague, who had instruc tions to give him another jorum of soup and cab bage, and to enable him, by a decent covering, to recommence his old trade of " pouring the fresh in struction o'er the mind." HATTON-GARDEN. ELOPEMENT, ALLEGED ROBBERY, AND DIS TRESS OF THE HUSBAND.-A middle-aged man, of reduced appearance, applied for advice under the following circumstances:— He stated that sometime since he was living in ease and comfort with his wife at Hampstead, where he carried on the business of a corn-chandler, when he formed an acquaintance with an individual, who took advantage of his hospitality to seduce his wife. On returning from London, about six months ago, he discovered that every article of furniture in the house, together with money, consisting of notes, gold, and foreign coins, to the amount of nearly 1,0001. had been taken away, and his wife was missing, leaving him with o nly sixpence in his pos session, and he was necessitated to seek for shelter in the house of a friend. After much inquiry he found his wife living with his friend near Graves end ; but on going there they treated him with scorn, and the man threatened to kill him if he came near the place again. The unfortunate applicant, who, some years ago, was a constant visitant at Offley's ale-rooms; the Eccentric Society, May's buildings; the Coal-hole, Strand; the Wrekin, Shakspeare, Oxberry's, the Craven Head, Drury lane; and the companion of the late Mr. Kean and the most celebrated actors of the day, and was then a perfect bun vivant, now appeared imbecile and half paralysed, and was scarcely able to give utter ance to his sorrow. He wished to know what mode to adopt to punish the seducer. Mr. LAING told him that, if he was robbed, his remedy was to give him into custody. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. FELONY.—George Avery, a young man of genteel appearance, was brought before Messrs. CONANT and CHAMBERS, charged with having, by means of forged orders, purporting to come from Mr. J. Andrews, bookseller, Bond -street, obtained goods from different tradesmen. The prisoner, who appeared deeply affected at his situation, by the advice of his solicitor, Mr. J. Wooller, declined to say anything at present, and was fully committed. HEARTLESS PROFLIGACY.—Peter Littlejohn, a remarkably ugly man, was brought up by the parish officers of St. James's for having refused to support his illegitimate offspring. The case, it appeared, was replete with those disgusting traits of immora lity which are happily by no means common in this country. The man, it appeared, had cohabited with a young woman for eleven years, and, during that time he had six children by her, four of v , horn, at a very tender age, were now alive. While this connection existed a sister of the woman arrived from the country, in a state of extreme destitution, and was received and sheltered by her sister. In a short time she got intimate with Littlejohn, awl continued an incestuous intercourse with the fellow, which ended in both of them leaving the house, and, as asserted by the man, getting married at a neighbouring church. The defendant totally aban doned his offspring and the unfortunate woman, and took up his residence with the sister. In con sequence of his desertion, the defendant had been a pprehended, for the purpose of compelling him by law to do that which common humanity and feeling ought to have suggested—namely, contribute some thing towards the maintenance of his own offspring. The Magistrate called in the sister of the unfor tunate woman, and asked her if it was true that she had acted as described? The young woman, who was of strumpet-like ap pearance, said she lard been guilty of that little error. Mr. CONANT said he could not term it an error ; it was nothing else than profligacy of the most dis graceful character. A scene of recrimination ensued between the sis ters, in which the alleged wife conducted herself with so much heartless effrontery, that she was turned out of the office amidst the execrations of the spectators. As the man was not prepared to pay the ex penses incurred by the parish, Mr. Bryant, the overseer, pressed for his commitment, which was made out accordingly by the Magistrate. MARY LEB ONE. COMMITTAL eF PEAT, THE NOTORIOUS SWIND LER.—This office was thronged by respectable tradesmen from all parts of the town, who eagerly pressed forward to prefer charges against James Trillianz Peat and Mary Ann Peat, who passes for his wife. The prisoners were placed at the bar for re-exa mination, having been remanded from Saturday week. The male prisoner, it will be recollected, has been, for some years past, the active leader of an extensive and well-organized gang of swindlers, many of whom have been repeatedly in custody at this and other offices for defrauding various trades men, some of whom suffered to a large amount. Mr. Cooke, tobacconist, Pimlico ; Mr. Broad, oilman, of Tavistock-street, Covent-garden ; and many other tradesmen, completely established seve ral cases of flagrant swindling against the male pri soner, who was fully committed for trial. It came out in evidence that Peat was formerly a letter-carrier in the Pest-office, and was discharged from his situation, and prosecuted for breaking open several letters and abstracting their contents. He was also prosecuted and convicted for other crimi nal acts. Q UEEN-S Q UARE. OPPOSITION AMONGST THE INFORMERS.—Cathe rine Taylor, a carrier at Hounslow, was summoned by Digby, one of Byers's journeymen, for not hav ing her name written in a straight line on her cart, according to the Act of Parliament. Digby swore that the name was painted in a circular form, and he saw it at Knightsbridge on the 16th of September. A man named George Bowley was called for the defence, who swore that there were two boards on the cart on the day in question, and that on one the name was written straight, and on the other circular. Digby—Pray Sir, what are you ? Bowley---I am a common informer, like yourself. Digby—Do you get your living by the perfes sion ? Bowley—l does. Digby—Does you ? Will you swear that ? Bowley—Yes; I swears that there were two boards on the cart. Digby—Well, I think you will swear anything ! Bowley—And I think you will, too. You don't mean to say I'm a liar ! Digby—Oh no—by no means ! The evidence being so nicely balanced, Mr. GREGORIE gave the defendant the benefit of the doubt, and dismissed the case, whereby Digby had to pay the costs, amounting to ten shillings, which he did with a very bad grace. UNION-HALL. John Hensley, a livery servant, in the service of the Under-Sheriffs of the city of London, was brought up by the parish officers for refusing to maintain his wife. The wife had been married to the defendant two years and a half, and he had deserted her and the child, and refused to afford them any maintenance. Proof was also given that the defendant's wife had received parochial relief since her desertion. The defendant's solicitor proceeded to question the defendant's wife, with a view to show that she had forfeited all claims upon him. "Have you not been living with another man since you left your husband ?" inquired the solicitor. Wife—l admit I have taken up with another man, because my husband turned me out. Who is that person ?—A half-pay officer. Pray to whom does the child belong—to your husband or to the Captain ?—lt belongs to the Captain. The Solicitor, after such an admission on the part of the wife, trusted that the Magistrates would reject the order. She admitted that she was living in adultery with another man, and that the child was illegitimate. In reply to the Magistrates, the woman said the Captain assi,ted her now and then, but his means were so limited that he could not keep himself in the style of a gentleman, and support the child besides. Defendant—And so poor Pilgarlick is to pay. No, I'll sooner suffer perpetual imprisonment titan submit to it. The Magistrates decided that neither wife nor child had any claim upon the defendant; and there fore refused to make any order upon him. TO IVN- HALL. Two sailors, who have just returned from a long voyage, were charged with having assaulted an old woman at the Spread Eagle, Mill-lane, Tooley street, and stolen her walnuts at the time. One defendant, named Evans, in excuse, said " he had been freshining the nip, and had gone a little by the bead." The other said he knew no- thing about the matter, as his memory fell over board a long time ago. Alderman THORP remarked, it was very unusual for sailors to ill-treat female•. The defendant said, " Well, your Worship, I'll pay for the walnuts and treat the old hen." Evans—lf your Honour don't let us go, we shall be like Barney's brig, hard up on a lea shore for want of boats. _ . The defendants were allowed to settle the case. We regret to have to announce the decease, early on the morning of Friday, Sept. 27, after a short illness, of R-,jih Rammohun Roy (ot Calcutta), while on a visit at Stapleton Grove, near Bristol. Rowland Stephenson, the runaway banker, was arrested last month at New York, and is now in prison. He had been living since his arrival in America in a very humble style, at Bristol, Pennsylvania. Ste phenson is now confined in the same building with the ex•sheriff Parkins, who was one of his creditors, and by whom he was arrested for a sum of 8,000 dollars. The meeting between these worthies is said to have bee❑ ex ceedingly ludicrous. EXTRAORDINARY FORTITUDE.—A gen tleman came from Camborne, Cornwall, two years since, and consulted the medical officer of the Plymouth Eye Infirmary, on account - of a shot which entered his left eye-ball four years and a half before, namely, in February, 1827, from a gun fired at a woodcock by another person, producing instant blindness in the left eye, and unceasing pain from that time. In exploring the eye for the shot, through a fistulous opening in the schlerotica, a honey and crystalized lens was extracted, and with it the supposed cause of his suffering, then attributed to the spiculus of bone. In February, 1833, the same gentleman returned to Plymouth, and said that the shot must still be lodged in the eye, as his pain was most acute, and his fear of losing the other eye from sympathy was very great. A second operation was performed, at his particular request, and the anterior part of his left eye removed, and the vi treous humour scooped out. The eye suppurated and sunk, but still no shot was found. On the 23d inSt., he came a third time to Plymouth, fearing blindness also in his right eye, and requested to have the rem a i n i ng portion of his left eye extirpated ; this was done. In that part of the optic nerve which expands and f o rms th e retina was found a duck s h o t, impacted so firmly that a considerable effort was required to detach it from its bad, in which it must hive be.!n fixed for six years and six months, closely embraced by the nerve. Such was the ' patient's extreme fortitude, that not even was his hand raised nor a syllable of complaint uttered during the whole operation, certainly the most painful that can be performed on the human frame. The patient is doing remaikably well, and already rewarded with relief for his perseverance and fortitude.—Plytnouth Journal. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to 5 . S. a. Carlisle .. 55 129 20 40 Hex ham 49 53 125 29 19 9:2 3 ,2 Morpeth 49 53 24 26 18 21 30 Penrith 54 26 19 54 35 22 4 4, Winchester 50 58 22 26 22 24 42 Per Bushel. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s• d• 1. 0 0 Carmarthen........... 6 0 66! 2 6 2 9 1 4 1 8 o a u 0 Cowbridge 66 70, 2 9 40 26 3 5 53 Newcastle (Staff.) 8 0 8 9 4 6 lo 0 3 0 3 4 5 1-„' 6 0 Northallerton 70 9 3 3 6 46 33 40 56 67 80 86 40 48 30 34 6 0 06 Swansea 68 70 36 39 1 9 22 0 0 6 0 Warwick 90 110 30 46 20 33 5 6 Per 8011. I g 0 Barnardcastle 12 0 16 6 8 0 8 6 5 0 60 10 g 0 Durham 14 0 70 80 40 56 7 70 Richmond 11 0 16 6 66 90 50 64 0 g 6 Stockton 11 6 12 6 9 6 10 0 5 0 5 4 7 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—Sept. 7. a d , Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk —s. 465. to 545. fine•j u . Lin. and Cam. —s. 465. to 525. fine fi,,, -- Yorkshire —s. 445. to 535. fine 7- White —s. 50s. to 675. fi ... n p e 5,' Foreign, Red , —s —s. to .—s. fine r White —s. —s. to —s. rale Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Lincolnshire Yorkshire Wold Foreign 3 32 0, 0 sBs 308. . . t t t 0 0 0 3 33 22 4 8:: finefine e 5 : 4g:‘ —s. to —s. fine " Beans, Old New Oats, Potato Poland — s. 3 3 1 7 58, s ssB .... t ttt 0 0 00 i l l s, 22 , 2 9 1 s a ss .1. fine tine fiflnt ee 4 4i 1 1 Friezland and Small —s. 178. to 20s. fine 0 Mealing Shelling Ms. to 265. Od. per Lo a d, Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per 1 , 2_, 3 t , Rapeseed 'CH MARKETS, SCOTCH MARKETS. ....."... .die , Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. 0 3 6 - ,/ -- ---- ----, - ,7,3 Aberdeen ...... 4S 54 23 25 16 20 - - 2- 4 5 , 1 Berwick-....., 30 37 17 19 12 14 18 23 26 / Coldstream - 35 42 18 19 13 14 20 22 ..• Cupar ............. 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 26 --• ~. Dundee-- 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 31 --• ~.... Elgin .....--- 40 50 24 26 16 20 23 30 .... Inverness.,-,. 36 50 25 26 18 20 23 27 46 .... Kelso 35 37 19 20 13 14 19 20 -. 4 1 Kirkaldy...-., 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 48 43 Perth ...-....-.. 50 56 23 26 20 22 22 25 I - , c in, The size of the measure varies throughout the 0u2215'... EDINBURGH CORN We had a large supply of all k sales were heavy, except Barley. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 64s Od 34s 6d I 24s Od Second sss Od 30s Od 20s Od Third 4Bs Od 23s Od 18s Od PARK. inds of ET.—Sept. Grain to-d . 5. d di e 1, an Pease. —s (ki —s Od —s Od Been , ' --s --o Od 0.1 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. l a ' Beef, per lb. Os. :31(1. to Os . 6(1. Fresh Butter, lb. Os. 9. g to Dluttou 0 0 6 Salt 0 8 0 Veal 0 5 0 8 Ditto, per cwt. 70 0 74 0 Pork 0 4 0 5 Eggs, per doz. 0 9 4 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 0 3 0 OatStraw(kpl.) 6 0 6 Tallow, cwt.... 35 0 37 6 Wheat Ditto., 6 0 y 0 Quartern Loaf 0 71 0 0 Barley Ditto 4 6 g Potatoes, 1741 b. 0 4 0 0 Hay,perst...,...o '7 " EDINBURGH MEAL There was a very good supply and the sales were heavy, at a r top price. Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 11 0 Second ditto 1 9 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 Peas ervt eal 1 4 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12: MARK ET.—Sept. k e t, of Oatmeal at this day's mar t he 'eduction of Is. per sack. on Per Stone of 141 b. IMP., S First Oatmeal £0 6 Second ditto Barleymeal 1 0 6 Peasemeal 0 „ i l , .-2d, 145.-3 d. 16.5. —Van. 1.:3.i MA It ICET.—Sept. 25. ic e• 1, with little alteration in P 4, ,I. Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. i s 0 Irish .., l4 6 tolev _., British l5 0 Beans, per 2601 b. ....0 English - 0 ) s 0 Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l3 0 45 Flour, per 2801 b 43 0 GLASGOW CORN A:fair business doing in Gran Wheat, per 9.-10113. s. d. s. d. British, old 26 0 to 28 6 , - new 230 260 Canada, free 2B 0 30 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 0 C Scottish... Irish ...., . CORNWALL. MARKETS. TRURO—Wheat (average) 205.6 d —Barley, Os. fid.—Oats , ST. AUSTELL—Wheat, —s. to 9.ls.—Barley, O. to 100.-* 7s. to Bs. 9d. DeW PENZANCE—Wheat, 21s. to 22s.—Barley, 9s. to 103.1 i,/ Os. to 7s. Pd.—Beef and Mutton, Od. to s}d.—Pork, Od. 1 0 B utter,per lb. La u scßsToN—Wheat (average) 19s. 6.l.—Barley, 9s. Od.-••• ° ss. 3d.—Beef, 50.—Mutton, 6d. LISREARD—Wheat, —s. to 225. Od.—Barley, 9s. 0 , 1-' O3 " to 7s. Od. fl , " BODMIN—Wheat (average) 21s.—Barley, 10s. Od.—Oats, HELSTON—Wheat, 9.15. Od.—Barley, lOs Od. ST. COLUNID—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. to 106. -10 and Mutton, 51d. to 6d.—Veal. 00.—Lamb, Od. t• MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. O 0 Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Red rut!' last Thurday 2,788 Average Produ 7!4 0 Quantity of fine 211 s Amount of Sale, 17,2081. Os. 6d.— Average Standard, 1174 ld MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) 1t• TO-MORROW, Oct. 1. M . i .. ` t W. Lloyd, grocer, Union-street, Southwark .............. ' t i T. Dennis, grocer, Bermondsey , ...................... 2 I H. K. Eyler, hatter, Canterbury ,T ................................. 2 j q Z. Delcroix, milliner, New Bond.street ....... ............... 1 J. Bryant, draper, Watlington, Sussex ........................ 1 , 1 DIVIDENDS. J. Gregory, grocer, Sun-street, Bishopsgate ............ . ...... . .. .......... 1, 1 ; J. Page, grocer, Chatham .............. . ................... J. and "N. Hardiman, ship-agents, SI.. ... ............. ........ To THOSE WHO SHAVE.--A recent be covery of a process of scraping off the chin along wi tb ;1 0 0 1 beard 11413 excited much laughter. The Journal du ',epo naissances Usuelles gives the following process for dering the beard softer for the operation of the raze° l , is , t; " Many persons having strong beards suffer m uc olta ..` shaving. A simple method of avoiding this is to to!r60 1 beard twice before applying the razor. The soap l e ar taken up with the napkin, and rubbed into the o il " rather strongly ; this softens it, and renders the 0 , t ie quent operation easy. In using the lather the seeotl° 000 care should be taken Rot to touch the part of 41 0 4 until just before shaving it. This method saves og twice over the same part of the face with the raz° l. ' o pif The last weekly bill of mortality gives four cases of death by cholera in this metropolis. 0' RE-APPEARANCE OF CHOLERA IN PA r dr et —The Medical Gazette of Saturday says, "W e lf t ' to announce that cholera has again broken out it' to the On the 20th and 21st, eighteen cases were brough t fen Hotel Dieu, seven of which proved fatal with in t' t hi hours, beiug quite as many cases and as many t les ,,eti; took place at this great hospital within the salv e it I , at the outset of the epidemic of 1832. Of eolt. t !att i , impossible, in a disease so inscrutable, to prethc..oil may be the fate of Paris on this Recision ; but 0 0 0 0 1 ' is now clear—that it is quite visionary, an the par t oeri European Governments, and that of France among ° i O 4 to attempt, by any rigour of quarantine, the exel ug oltr e ti an evil that is already in the midst of them, with 5 0i` f every portion of the continent is now embued, ana to .o ll : 4 requires but the aid of favouring circumstances t° for developed. They might just as well i ssue 1 10 against small pox, scarlatina, and measles." ff WARFARE AGAINST THE INDIA°, THE ANDES.—The Government of Buenos Ayres c °P ii tti ll i o its exterminating campaign against these Indiana tr for i', / creased success. In a despatch from General it ° '. 4 ltr, l 'O stated that, on the 26th ult., the vanguard of bi surprised the tribe of the famous Cacique Paillarerce; Ite all the males, and making prisoners of their farri'll, thrbe Cacique was among the killed. The victors 11 °'i 0 g l o t soldiers and a sergeant, who were drowned in cr °9 o river in pursuit of the enemy. The horses ta t° t he ie li the Indians were in a starving condition, owing t ° ,„ drought in those parts; and also from the straits ~'"F t lie f the Indians themselves were reduced for want t". e ,g l o sions, and, not being able to plunder in the pro °° il°oo were obliged to use their horses in order to r u j o hares fur subsistence. The Cacique ChacorY , e ig: e or Indians, had gone towards Bahia Blanca, with t " o Jeg tion of stealing cattle. A detachment, colotr a o f Colonel Pedro Ramos, had proceeded in pursto t o trO b el and it was expected these Indians would b e „ s te l og Should they endeavour to return by the same r e d of would he intercepted ; and if they take the r ° pa' r ef Cordillera, they can hardly escape falling into the the right division, encamped there.--Bu e Papers, July 6. BIRTH. On the 13th inst., at Relugas, North Brita in, 144°. Patrick, of a daughter. fr MARRIED. gr, tte On the 24th inst., at St. Martin's in the Field'' , of dr, Capper, of the Strand, to Hannah, only daughter od tn Mr. Henry Bower, of Great Marlborough-S treet 3O' anre gent's-park. gr. o f On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's, _rsungtOrl, wor Ashili, of the Island of Antigua, to Eliza, da" t Whitmore, of the former place. On the 25th inst., at Edinburgh, Geo. Combe,.irs, to the Signet, to Cecilia, daughter of the laXe Upper Baker-street, London. . I;° ' DIED. ff On the 27th inst., at Kennington, in his 71.1 , E1 Y . c 3 " Edwards, Esq., late of Cliffe and Rochester, he1 . , ',. 00 a ffr On the 27th i ns t., in his 35th year, Hen r y , only orit jo jj t Edineades, Esq., of Owletts, Cobham , K ent. 8 1 On the' sth inst., from a fall from In! h o rse val l ' rep no Edward Burnet, Esq., of Cookestown, ItilkeunY, Koppel-street, Russell-square. ---------- YO UNOr, PRINTED AND PUBLISH ED DY M U SUN OFEICII, 112, STRAND. • E 41 1, Ch t Ali 1, 04 Ot t Ito