The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIE PUBLIC JOURNALS• Yesterday a General Court of Bank Proprie tors was held at their house in Threadneedle street, to pass through the necessary cere mony of what they call considering or de claring a dividend. The whole considera tion of the affair consisted in an announcement by the Governor, and in an acquiescence by the Proprietors, that a dividend of 4 per cent. for the last six months, or of 8 per cent. for the year, had been recommended by the Directors, and was proper to be adopted by the Court. With this amount of profit all parties seemed satisfied ; asking no questions with respect to their capital, and proposing no changes in its management, worthy of the slightest comment or discussion. As this is the first meeting for declaring a dividend which has occurred since the passing of the new Charter Act, it might have been expected that the attendance of pro prietors would have been more numerous, and that their proceedings would hay e been more interesting. In saying so, however, we have no desire to see a house of business converted into a debating club, or to propose that the management of a body of Bank Directors, elected by the proprietors, should on every oc casion be subjected to a hostile scrutiny; but we fullyexpected to witness after the enactment of the new bill a meeting so large as to show that the pro prietors were alive to its importance, and so in quisitive as to prove that they were anxious to ascertain all its bearin g s . The large dividend of 8 per cent. on the increased capital of 14,686,0001. is still continued, and the pro prietors are assured that no portion of this amount is derived from the capital or the reserve fund of the corporation. They have still, there fore nearly 3,000,000/. of rest untouched, to be employed in their future business, or divided among the Proprietors, as the Court of Di rectors and the General Court of Proprietors shall see fit. They will likewise at one of their general meetings between the Ist of October next and Ist of October, 1834, or within the course of a year, have to decide whether the one fourth part of the debt now due from the public to the Bank (or 3,638,2501.), and to be repaid by Government, shall be divided as a Longs among the proprietors, or shall be kept as a part of their trading capital, at their own dis posal, like the reserve fund, and not bound up in any Government security. In the former case their capital will be reduced from 14,553,000/. to 10,914,7501., on which latter sum their dividend will in future be declared ; in the latter their capital may remain as at present, though a fourth part of it may have been paid up by Government. This will form a most in teresting question for the Court of Proprietors, and involve only such principles as are within their usual sphere of judgment. One striking result of the late examinations into the concerns of the Bank, and one immense improvement in its proposed management, are to be found in that perfect disclosure of all its affairs which has been laid before the public, and in that pe riodical exposure of its accounts which the Act in future secures. Though we had obtained nothing but this from the late discussions, the gain would have been of the greatest import ance. We shall no longer hear Bank Proprietors, at meetings like that of yesterday, inquiring in vain into the amount of bank notes in circu lation—into the extent of the reserve fund — into the amount of deposits, or into the quan tity of bullion locked up in the Bank cellars. These facts will be known to all the world who can read the Gazette, and we only regret that Parliament did not insist on having the weekly =cows ordered to be transmitted to the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, instead of the conso lidation of them at the end of every month, and the publication of the average taken from these consolidated accounts at the end of every three months. The accounts might have been kept back for three months or one month ; but ;When they are published, they ought to he published as they are transmitted in the weekly returns, so as to enable the country to form their own judgment on an extensive body of facts as well as the organ of Government. This speci fication we have always insisted upon as neces sary for public protection, and it still appears to us that the operation of public vigilance on Bank affairs will be very imperfect or inefficient with out it. By removing from the Bill for renewing the Bank Charter, and postponing to a future session, some proposed measures relative to the country banks' circulation and the establishment of joint-stock banking companies, several of the general principles involved in the Bank Act as originally brought forward by Government are now in a state of abeyance. One great point, however, of a general character, has been gained, not by the Noble Chancellor of the Exchequer, but by the Law Officers of the Crown, on which we expected again to have heard some comments at the meeting of yesterday. The new Act de clares, that no restrictions :ire to be placed on to number of partners in a banking company avlria'h does not issue promissory notes, whether that company be within 65 miles of London or not. On looking at the successive Acts of Par liament which are relied on for establishing the hostile privilege of the Bank of England in this respect, it appears altogether surprising that their import and intention should have been so long neglected or misconceived. The declaratory clause on this point, about which the Court of Proprietors were formerly so clamorous, but about which nothing yesterday was said, must go far to reconcile the public to some of the most objectionable provisions of the :Bank arrangement. With the exception of the ia , Drovident bargain made for the public, by ae eepting the paltry sum of 120,0001. as a deduc tion from the immense gains of the Bank, for renewing privileges in which the public ought to have equally shared, the only really doubtful clauses of a general nature now embodied in the Act; are those which relate to the legal tender qualifica!ion of the Bank note, and to the modi fication of the usury laws. On th e f ormer p o i n t we have often expressed our objections and our fears. Its operation can avowedly b e o f no use except in a season of panic. At ail other times its best recommendation would be that it was totally inefficient, dormant, and inactive ; and what wise statesman would provide for extra- ordinary emergencies, in which rules are ge nerally disregarded, at the hazard of inju r i ng those permanent interests which we ought al ways to consult, and the neglect of which may lead on the apprehended crisis ? We therefore beseech the public to watch carefully the operation of the legal tender clause ; and, if they find that it either reduces the faci lities of procuring gold in country districts, or introduces anything like an agio with country bankers, to address their rem onstrances and petitions on the subject. If ever a country note, or a Bank of England:note, for any interme diate sum between _51.. and 101. is issued, its appearance should be taken as evidence that mischief is intended, and ought instantly to be denounced. The legal tender provision is hap pily no privilege of the Bank of England on the preservation of which it can insist, as it is enacted in the very clause itself that it may be repealed, the words being, " And be it further ' enacted, that from and after the first day of August, 1834, unless and until Parliament shall otherwise direct, a tender of a Bank note shall be a legal tender." The modification of the usury laws, or rather their repeal, in the case of bills of three months and under, may be useful in unlocking capital at a time of commer cial distress, and can scarcely be felt at any other period. Though this part of the act may have already the force of law, we believe that in pre sent circumstances it will be a dead letter. Happily the Bank is not likely to consider this enactment as any portion of their exclusive privileges, as their dividends will not be likely to be increased by risking their money in loans on usurious interest to the distressed or the necessitous. Their 8 per cent., which they declared yesterday, should abundantly satisfy all their desires, as it more than exceeds their rights. —Times. The first annual meeting of the London and Birmingham Rail-way Company was held yes terday, when the Committees were appointed, and active measures determined for the com mencement of this important and national un dertaking. The wonderful properties of steam, and the extraordinary political consequences which must result from its power and applica tion, have been little considered by the public and Governments. At this moment practical projects are in progress for economising time and expense in human transit, and for diminish ing the risk of life by loco-motion, which, only twenty years since, would have been ridiculed and considered utterly impracticable. A Bill for connecting Liverpool with Birmingham, passed in the present session, will abridge more than one half the time and cost of travel be tween the great western seaport and the metro polis, via Birmingham. A public Company, under most respectable auspices, is forming, to obtain an Act next session for a railway com munication between London and Brighton. M. Thiers, the French Minister of Commerce is stated to be visiting the country, among other objects, with the view of determining the prac ticability and most expedient plan of connecting by railway the French coast opposite England with Paris ; and if Dover or Dieppe is selected, as the sea-port termination of the Gallican line, the merchant of Liverpool may leave his Ex change and appear on the Bourse at Paris the next morning, without rumbling four days and nights in coaches and diligences ! France and England will thus become accessible to their re spective inhabitants at a saving of more than half the present time and cost of travel. The poli tical and military consequences of this connection of the two countries, especially in the present state of Europe, are beyond calculation, and can scarcely be exaggerated. Thus the progress of British science, the industry and genius of our native mechanics, will be the real destructives of the Holy Alliance, the great solvent of despotism, and impel civilization in a rapidly progressive ratio. In the meanwhile, the ef- feet on, and enhancement of, the value of pro perty will be equally wonderful. The estates within twenty miles of the vicinity of the large towns will become the locality of country villas of merchants and manufacturers. We do not doubt that by the certain increase of capital and products, and the tributary streams of transit, even water-communication—the affrighted op ponent of rail-way lines—will greatly benefit. Some few present private interests must suffer at first, but the aggregate prosperity of the nation will be vastly promoted. Recollecting that the application of steam to the propelling of boats and locomotive carriages on iron rails, was only " yesterday" denounced as an impossibility, we entertain little doubt that carriages will also soon be successfully moved by steam on the turnpike-roads. The first difficulties are indis putably overcome : and the fact of so much present (though hitherto unsuccessful) talent being applied to accomplish this great deside ratum, is some proof of the practicability. The letter in the Chronicle of Monday, of a " Civil Engineer," has excited considerable attention ; and it is unquestionably expedient that these great projected national lines of inter-communi cation should be constructed with reference to the superiority and defects of existing rail-roads. We have never lent our columns to the " Doustcrswivel" schemes of sinister projectors and jobbing lawyers and surveyors, nor puffed up the imposing scrip of bubble Companies to trade to the moon and the milky way. But the practical and national projects of the midland rail-ways, opening such a wide vista of prosperity and political good, cannot but be an object of intense local interest and public concern. Even the Tory Peers this Session retired their objec tions to railways ; and who can tell but that their Lordships may not give in to the use of the po litical plough of Reform. Government, we should not marvel, may one day be accomplished by steam—a singular economy and new distri bution of power.—Morning Chronicle. The report made by Captain Chads to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, re specting the circumstances attending the loss of the Amphitrite off the coast of Boulogne, will nct, we suspect, prove satisfactory to the coun try. It is true the Captain has to make another report relative to the conduct of the British Consul, but the following passage in the report just made seems to dispose of the whole mz.tter, by representing that as an unavoidable calamity which it was believed might have been very easily avoided. The Captain says-- ,, From the numerous vessels passing up and down Channel, it ought to he expected that occasional disasters should occur, and that, too, without misconduct being imputable. The present instance of the Amphitrite I consider to be one of this de scription." If the dreadful loss of lifewhich resulted from this shipwreck was " adeaster, without misconduct being imputable," we do not see what necessity there is for further inquiry into the conduct of the Consul. He must be, of course, blameless. Whether he was present performing the duties which his station and humanity imposed upon him, or whe ther he was absent, it was quite clear that a mis fortune for which nobody is to be blamed can reflect no discredit upon him. But is Captain Chads justified i n stat i ng that there i s no m i scon d uct imputable to ificcdertauinndettriatcainur yep:l:fiaesrrttslaosi:tic,e?fs j3nNoVwe liveswhich, k were o f p t sr . aocpre lt i .r measures had been taken, between the time of the strikin g of the v esse l and the flood-tide, which was several hours, theyig have been 1 all saved. VVe look a t t he case in much the same point of view as our Contemporary of the Standard, who says " It would appear, from the statement of Captain Chads, that neither the commander of the Amphitrite nor any of the crew were at all aware of the certain destruction that awaited the vessel where she was placed, though every one in Boulogne was fully con vinced of the impossibility of her escape. This we cannot help thinking makes the case of the British Consul and the French authorities by a great deal the worse. There may be doubts whether they could lawfully command or permit the landing of the convicts, but there could be none whatever that they were bound by every obligation of humanity to give to Captain Hunter the most solemn and authentic assurance of that danger of which he was manifestly unconscious, and his unconscious ness of which lost the lives of 132 of our fellow creatures. The Consul, it is true, was absent; but this, we cannot help think ing, to be a bad excuse. Without requiring to make the seat of his consulate a place of im prisonment, it is surely not too much to expect from an officer charged with the most important interests of his country, that he will not leave his post unoccupied by an adequate representa tive." The conduct of the French Custom house officers, which was disgraceful to a civi lised country, made it more necessary that the British Consul should have been present ; there are harpies in every country, whose fingers are never stretched forth but for spoil ; but in France, we are told that the possibility of such functionaries acting upon a humane instinct, in a case of overwhelming misfortune like a shipwreck, is prevented by orders truly barbarous, and upon which, it appears, the Custom-house officers of Boulogne but too faithfully acted. Is this a proof of the dose and cordial connection between England and France, of which the Ministerial papers tell us so much ? Is this a proof of the liberality which such English doctrinnaires as Poulett Thomson, and others of his school, have infused into the doctrinnaires of the French Go vernment ? After three years of " liberal " intercourse with the Government of Louis Philip, we are told that the local authorities at Bou logne are not only prevented by the orders of their Government from giving assistance to the drowning subjects of England, but are even obliged to prevent that assistance being ren dered by others ! Ah ! such orders are a sad commentary on such a hollow interchange of compliments as took place the other day at Cherbourg. In the one instance they cost the lives of upwards of 130 British subjects. It will not do to stifle this affair whether as re gards the French Government or the British Consul ; it must become a subject of Parlia mentary inquiry. It is well known that every one of those lives could have been saved. Somebody must be responsible. It is stated that everybody on shore knew the vessel was lost from the moment that it struck, yet the Captain was allowed to indulge in his ignorant anticipations of getting off with the flood tide. This dreadful catastrophe, and the unaccountable loss of life on board the Leith packet the Wemyss, must undergo a full, searching, and rigid investigation.—Morning Herald. We rejoice at its being in our power to com municate to our readers some authentic accounts relating to the situation of Lisbon, respecting which the most intense anxiety prevails. These will be found in two Lisbon letters written by distinct persons, and detailing the military opera tions of the sth, together with all other me- , morable incidents to the 7th inclusive. A more perfect picture could not be drawn on the same space of paper. For these details our readers would, however, be in some measure prepared by the contents of the Paris letter, which we yesterday published. The facts therein men tioned are now mainly confirmed ; and the hasty sketch of the Pedroite lines, on comparison, will also be found essenthilly correct. The affair of the sth, although a mere reconnoissance, was still a serious one, and the loss considerable on both sides. The Royalists, it is acknowledged, advanced under a heavy fire to within pistol shot of the city intrenchments, when the elite of the garrison sallied forth with the evident intention of cutting them off. A very sharp conflict en sued, and the Royalists withdrew to their posi tions, after losing three field pieces and three or four hundred men. The Pedroites suffered in the same proportion, but the Miguelites gained the object for which their movement was made. A very large force was collecting, and every pre paration making for a general attack. In the meanwhile, as we anticipated, the King's troops had taken possession of Belem, and he himself is stated to have fixed his residence at his palace of the Ajuda. A 7e Deum had been sung at the patriarchal church near it. The Royalists were therefore in possession of the third of Lisbon. We refer to the details themselves, and, in answer to the remarks of an Evening Contemporary respecting the means of supplying the capital with water without the aid of the aqueduct, we beg him to notice what is said upon this subject by the writers of both our Lisbon letters. The wells of which he speaks are chiefly situated on that ground now occupied by the Royalists ; and the Lisbonians, for well known reasons, are not very fond of drinking well water. The fact of there being plenty of wheat in store and no mills to grind it is a curious one. We shall close these remarks by merely observing that the last Madrid letters announce that the fall of Lisbon was daily expected there. We subjoin the extract of a letter, dated Paris, 17th inst.:— " I confidently believe that ere this Don Miguel's troops will have obtained possession of Lisbon. Such was the impression in Madrid when the last accounts left there. The Pedroites lost their sons-s by the c ipture of two field pieces, not considering the sacrifice at which the capture was made; but the next day they looked sad and despond ing, when they saw the formidable preparations around them. They already fi,el that they are not the gainers by the theatre of the war having been changed. Those who were at Ornto begin to think that harder work awaits them in the Lisbo n lines than in their old intrenchments. Neus verrons ; but, in the meantime, we cannot think that tbe British Government will have sent off the be trothed of a Leuelvenberg till all the stormy weather is over in the Tagus. If they have, it will be amusing to see her come back with a flea in her ear. It would seem that the cholera is making great and melancholy progress in Spain. It is a travelling disorder, and has already made some havoc in Seville, Badajcz, Ayamonte, and Huelva. The Government, however, is extremely vigi lant, and the best preventive precautions have . been adopted."—Morning Post. When the rebels during the civil war were ravaging the cathedral and plundering the Royalists of Exeter, the resident Canon, Archdeacon Helvar, then be tween eighty and ninety years of age, was dragged from his bed at midnight and hurried on board a ship, where he was detained in close custody, and subjected to the most barbarous treatment until he had consented to pay the sum of 800/. for his redemption. The following is a copy of the protection he thus purchased :—" Whereas Archdeacon Helyar has submitted, and sent 8001. to the Parliament to the Parliament apon the propositions. These are therefore to require all thc, forces of the Parlia ment to take notice thereof, and protect him in his per son, family, and goods, strictly charging and commanding that no man henceforth molest or trouble him. Jan. 19, 1642, Signed for Northcote, Sam. Rolle," &c. INSOLVENTS' COURT, SEPT. 19. Jane Crowder, a young widow, applied on her petition for her discharge. The insolvent had only one creditor, who is a fe male; her husband had died some months ago, upon which she had gone into service in Chancery-lane, in which situation she had remained only five days, when she was arrested on a debt contracted by her husband, for which she was not liable; she had, however, gone to prison, from which she now came up to the Court for her release. Mr. Commissioner HARRIS expressed his indig nation at the course pursued in regard to the insol vent, and, after directing her to be immediately dis charged, ordered the attendance of the attorney by whom she had been arrested (who is an attorney of this Court) to-morrow morning, for the purpose of an explanation of his conduct. Willianz Stovin, an attorney-at-law, was opposed by Mr. Woodriffe, for a Mr. Bird, an attorney of Birmingham. He was supported by Mr Cooke. The insolvent had been admitted an attorney in 1830. Ile is still certificated. He had commenced business without any capital. The amount of his debts was 4,720/., of which sum he had received no consideration for 3,259/. He had accepted several accommodation bills for the Hon. Mrs. Leigh, one of which bills, for the sum of 2504, had got into the hands of the opposing creditor, Mr. Bird, who had commenced legal proceedings against the insol• vent for the amount. The insolvent had pleaded to the action. At the trial Mr. Bird obtained a verdict, but got no money; his costs and expenses amounted to 48/. The insolvent, however, per• sisted that he had had a good defence to the action, on account of the bill being tainted with usury, and the Learned Counsel, Mr. Cooke, sup ported his client in that affirmation with great zeal and pertinacity, but did not succeed in convincing the Learned Commissioner that the defence had not been frivolous and vexatious. It appeared by the examination that the insolvent had con tracted a debt for money lost at play for 254, and that he was indebted to Mr. Evans, the keeper of Joy's Hotel, Covent-garden, for a tavern bill. The Learned Commissioner HARRIS adjudged that the insolvent should be imprisoned six calendar months, at the suit of Mr. Bird. MIDDLESEX ADJOURNED SESSIONS, SEPT. 19. (Before B. ROTCII, Esq., M.P., and a full Bench of Alagistrates.) John Lenin, an ill-looking man, was cl , arged with an abominable assault upon his own child, a little girl, aged eight years only. The trial of this prisoner had been postponed, in consequence of the mother having absconded with the child, to screen her husband from justice. She was, however, discovered by the police on Sunday last, and the child taken from her. The little girl was examined at length, but the evidence was of too disgusting a nature to be re peated. It went to prove the frequent commission of a diabolical offence by the prisoner. The prisoner said his child had been tutored to make the complaint—Guilty. The prisoner was sentenced to two years' im prisonment and hard labour, the maximunz of punish ment which the Court had power to award. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A young man of respectable appearance, named Cave, who stated he was a shopkeeper, residing in Tottenham-court-road, was yesterday brought before Sir F. Roe, charged by a person named Symonds, who keeps a penny show-room in High Holborn, near Drury-lane, for the exhibition of wax figures and other " natural curiosities," with having caused a crowd to assemble before his door for the purpose of picking pockets. The defendant was passing the door of the com plainant, when some object in the window tickled his fancy, and stopping in front of the house, he burs: into a loud fit of laughter, which naturally attracted the attention of the passengers, and as laughing is said to be contagious the persons assembled soon joined in the merriment, and a general horse-laugh was raised, without any visible motive to induce it. Now, Mr. Symonds had no objection whatever that the public should be amused at his expense, provi ded always that he first received his penny tribute; but rightly considering that a laugh outside Isis show-room was very different from a laugh within, he grew somewhat wroth at the unseemly inter ruption, which prevented his trumpeter at the door from pursuing his vociferous calling, and desired the defendant to move on, or he should call a policeman to take him into custody for caus ing a crowd to assemble in front of his door. The de fendant retrogaded a few paces, but only, as it appear ed, for the purpose of expanding his lungs and taking in a supply of air, for, like " a giant refresh. ed," he turned to the charge with a troop of merry disciples at his heels, and fixing his arms akimbo, in order to support his sides, he placed himself right in the front of the showman's window, and gave vent to a second roar of laughter, enough to make the welkin ring, and animate the waxen representa tives of Bishop and Willliams that grace the exhibi tion of the ingenious Mr. Symonds, dressed in the very clothes in which they made their final exit at the drop of the Old Bailey. Mr. Symonds now lust all patience, and, rushing from his door, he pushed his way through the grinning crowd, and gave the prisoner in charge to a policeman, who forthwith conveyed him before Sir F. ROE. The 'Magistrate asked the constable if the defend ant was intoxicated. The constable replied that the defendant appeared as if lie had been drinking, but he was not so far gone, as not to know what he was about. The defendant was not aware he had commilted any offence, by indulg►ng in a harmless laugh. The complainant charged him with being a pickpocket; and, as a respectable tradesman, he naturally felt hurt at such an imputation on his character. Sir F. ROE said that the conduct of the defend ant was, to say the least of it, very foolish, and ordered him to pay a fine of 53. The defendant had no money about him. Sir F. ROE—You must send for it. Let him be lodged in the station until the fine is paid. The defendant was accordingly removed to the station, and after the lapse of nearly an hour he was again brought before the Magistrate, .vithout his coat. The police inspector explained, that as soon as the defendant was lodged in the station, he gave his coat to a strange man to pawn, in order to pay the fine, but the person whom he had trusted with it had made off with the coat. The defendant, who appeared any thing now but a votary of the laughing god, begged hard that the Magistrate would remit the fine, in consideration of the loss he had sustained. lie trusted the man with his coat, conceiving that he belonged to the police, fur he never could have supposed that im proper characters were admitted to the station, where he considered he ought to be protected. Sir F. ROE observed that he had acted very in discreetly, first in creating a crowd around the door of the complainant, and secondly in trusting his coat to an entire stranger. He was sorry for his loss, but could not think of remitting the fine. The defendant was aga►n sent to the station, but, having by some means raised the amount of the fine, he was discharged, observing that he would take care for the future how he laughed in public, as he had no taste whatever for Bow -street justice. giIdRLBOROUGILSTREI A question upon the law of affiliation has been decided by Mr. CHAMBERS at this office, which it is important parish officers should b e informed of as the reverse of the decision has hitherto been held to be, arid acted upon, as the law in such cases. The overseers of St. Giles's brought a person before Mr. CHAMBERS on Wednesday, for having neglected to pay up the arrears of 291. which the parish had paid for the maintenance of an illegiti mate child affiliated upon him. The defence was, that in October last the de fendant had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act, and this, it was contended, relieved him from the claim of the parish. The overseers, on the other hand, asserted that the Insolvent Act could not be pleaded as a bar to the prosecution of their demand, and Mr. Cham bers inclined to that opinion until he perused a portion of the Act, which, after enumerating the liabilities a person became freed from on procur ing his discharge under the Act, expressly included those liabilities incurred in all civil and ecclesias tical courts. Mr. CHAMBERS, after considering the tenour of this clause, was of opinion that the Insolvent Act relieved the defendant of just so much of the arrears claimed by the parish as was due at the time of ob taining his discharge, but as arrears had accumulated since that time, he considered that the defendant was clearly liable to the parish for them, and for all arrears which might accumulate in future. This would reduce the amount of the claims of the parish to somewhere about 91., which, if not paid, he should order the committal of the defendant. The parties retired after this ; but the decision of Mr. CHAMBERS having been reported to the ves try clerk of the parish, that gentleman came to the office for the purpose of showing cause why the judgment should be reversed. The argument was, however, directed to stand over until the next sitting day of Mr. CHAMBERS. QUEEN- S QUARE. Yesterday, Mary Mitchell, a black lady, well known on the pave, whose residence is in the Al monry, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged by police constable Barton, of the B division, 68, with being very drunk and disorderly at four o'clock in the morning, in the Broad Sanctuary, near West minster Abbey. The constable found Mary Mitchell rolling on the Pavement, bawling and shouting " Liberty for ever ;" he endeavoured to persuade her to go home, but she declared that she was a free woman and in a land of liberty, and she would not go home until she thought proper. She was so drunk that she could not stand upon her legs. Mr. GREGORIE—WeII, Mary Mitchell, what have you got to say to the charge ? Mary Mitchell— Him polishman he talk de tam lies. I not disor dedly. I live in de Ammery, but I do not valk dere, it such a tammed low place, no lady to be seen dere but me; I not trouble your Vestminster, I valk in de City, vhere I get de good friends, all gendlemen ; then suppose I valk in de City, how can me be disorderly in Vestminster ? Vy not de po lishman take me up before ? Mr. GREGORIE-Why you have been here, I am certain, above twenty times. Mary Mitchell—Oh, not for weddy long time before. Me be free subject, and have de right to go home when me like. Mr. GREGORIE could nct allow the inhabitants to be disturbed in such a manner. Mary Mitchell—Me no sturb nobody, nobody say I sturb in de City, all weddy polite to me dere, only dis tam low place, Vestminster. Mr. GREGORIE should commit her for 14 days to the House of Correction. Mary Mitchell (in a rage)—Me go to prison all through dis tam rascal of a polishnaan. I sal gib it him. I sal hab his lipe. Hereupon Mary Mitchell flew at Barton the con stable, seized him by the hair, and then struck him right and left. The constable struggled, and the whole office was in confusion, Mary crying out, " I'll kill this tam lying rascal." With the aid of three of the officers, they with difficulty secured her, and Mr. GREGORIE ordered her to be again put to the bar, and evidence of the assault was taken down, during which time she used every endeavour to break from the officers and get hold of the constable. Mr. GREGORIE ordered her to pay 40s. for the assault, or to be imprisoned for a further term of one month. Mary Mitchell—When me come out me give it him again, a tam liar, if me get a twelvemont for it. Mary Mitchell was then locked up, swearing vengeance against the constable when she came out of prison. THAMES-POLICE. Yesterday Mr. James Sergeant, the assistant over seer of St. Paul's, Shadwell, applied to 11.1 r. BRODE RIP for a warrant of bastardy to apprehend a man named Michael Sullivan, in order that he might be compelled to show cause why he should not enter into sureties to indemnify the parish in the event of the birth of a child, of which a very decent and pretty young Irish woman, named Ellen Cavanagh, was then pregnant. Mr. Sergeant said the circumstances of the case were rather peculiar. The young woman who stood by his side was married to Sullivan according to the rites of the Roman Catholic Church, at Virginia-street Chapel, on the 18th of February last, hut on the wedding night the fellow beat her severely, and after living with her for three months, during which time she experienced very bad treat ment from him, he basely deserted her, and had since married another woman in the forms of the Protestant religion, at Stepney church. He under stood that Sullivan was about to leave this country for New York, and to prevent the infant becoming chargeable to the parish, he wished to obtain a warrant of bastardy. The young woman, who appeared overwhelmed with grief, became greatly affected on the overseer using the offensive term. Mr. I S vo eme n a , nt w k h n o e: e v c i t h a w ra a e s t e a r p wa n s fu i l a t e h p i r n o g a efohrabt iheeyoung, but the parish had no other resource. Mr. BRODERIP assured (he girl that she had corn.. mitted no moral offence: Though the law declared the marriage null and void, it was, in the eye of GOD, a just and binding contract, and her character was not at all affected. He was sorry to see such an excellent young woman in this situation. He did really hope that the Legislature would do something to put the law on a different footing. The it jury it frequently caused was dreadful. In this case the prospects of an innocent girl had been ruined, and her child must be declared a bastard. Ellen Cavanagh said, if she had not believed the marriage was binding, she would not have married Sullivan, and handed in a certificate from the Catho lic priest, to show that it was not solemnized clan destinely, but in the presence of witnesses. The document was read as follows :—" It appears by the register of marriages kept at Virginia-street Chapel, that Michael Sullivan and Ellen Cavanagh were married on the 18th day of February, 1833, by the Rev. R. Horrabin, M.A., P. This marriage was celebrated in the presence of John Dane, M. White, and Ann Cavanaoh. Extracted from the Matrimo nial Register, this 19th day of September, 1833, Catholic Chapel, Virginia-street, Wellclose-square, by me, R. Horrauin." caslSelr; Brvr. itioDsEnytmPonssa, the idth c at hief it Clerk—That is impossible t charge Sullivan with bigamy. Was not that the cer tainly the case ; she can only swear the child to Sullivan. The young woman burst into tears and said she had left a goo d p l ace f or t h e purpose o f marrying Sullivan. Mr. BRODERIP pitied her most sincerely, and he was sorry he could not make Sullivan support her. He hoped the law would soon be altered; he was only surprised it had been allowed to remain on the statute-book so long. A gentleman present took the liberty of suggest i ig to the magistrate that it would be advisable for the Catholic Priest who married any of his flock to direct them to have the marriage again solemnised in a Protestant church while the law was in its present state. lie had recently been present at a marriage of twoColiolics where that had been done. Mr. BRODERIP said it would he as well if the Catholic Priests would always do so, and they would prevent those scenes of distress which often fol lowed a Catholic marriage in England. The warrant was then made out. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MA RK ET.—Sept.lS. This day's supply of Beasts, Sheep, Lambs, and Calveso.,,,h tolerably good ; of Porkers moderate. The assemblage of ~ ,,""e st London and country buyers was rather numerme, but of the former having purchased the greater part of their W a t supply at Smithfield on Monday, was very dull thronghoul the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the offals sd, Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. M. 3s. ed. to; • 4 Mutton 3 6 4 6 I Pork Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss. 2d. f.}.(l. Pe r The foregoing quotations were Beef and Mutton ir gob, stone cheaper than on this day se'nnight ; prices of ripbs, Veal, and Pork, stationary. Beasts, 263; Sheep and O f the 3,353;; Calves, 66; Pigs, 30. A considerable proportion o f stock left the market unsold. HAILS HAM MA RK E r.—Sept. 18. ~ fd• Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. Od. I Vea1.................. 4s. 2d. to ';',.,, Mutton— ..... —.. 4 0 4 8 1 Pork 3 0 ' Lamb ...—......,.... 4s. 6d. to ss. 4d. ''' ol t Supply moderately good throughout ; bade with priule brisk, but otherwise dull. _...../. ARUNDEL MARKET —Sept. 17. A , 0. 8eeL,...,............... 3s. Od. to 4s. Cd 1 Veal 4s. 2d. to ","4 Mutton ,--., 3 6 4 8 I Pork=7..-- 4 0 " Lamb 4s. 4d. to 5s Cd. Supply good, and trade rather dull. _......, - —..-- CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—Sept. 18. , 6 1 ' Beef ....................... 3s. Od. to 4s. Oct 1 Veal, —.....-4 s. 2d. to .'• 4 Mutton ..,..... 3 S 4 8 1 Pork .....—........4 0 Lamb 4s. Od. to ss. Od. d i Supply of both fat and lean stock good; trade rather throughout. _....". RUM FORD MARKET.—Sept. 18 . d. ' ''' ti s. d. to s. d. P. Beef 3 0 4 0 I Veal 4 6 Mutton 3 6 4 6 Pork. 3 6 1 amb 4s. Od. to ss. Od. lE" Suckling Calves, 145. to 345. ; Quarter old Store Pigs, l2c to Supply limited, and trade sluggish. ING THE Ni/q_j. COUNTRY CORNIMARKETS DURING THE WE...9" Wheat. Barley. Oats. 12e> 14. . Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. 8 t O ito Blandford 56 28 20-- Brigg 4O 58 3ti 40 15 22 30 54 Cambridge 54 31 18 40 Chard Huntingdon 58 63 21 23 14 20 3 1 g 5 Long Sutton— 56 64 17 22 3 2 42 Louth 4B 54 28 32 18 22 40 9 4 Lynn 5O 60 22 25 16 20 32 40 Newark .., 57 60 29 40 16 22 37 Nottingham . 44 60 25 27 18 23 3 6 40 Peterborough 48 60 30 36 14 22 30 „. Plymouth 50 64 30 34 20 23 4 9 Pontefract .... 67 41 27 49 SI ea fo ril 65 70 36 38 22 28 41 40 U_Niingh atn 50 60 28 36 18 26 36 s:j Wisbecit—..--,, 48 62 ,20 33 14 22 30 LEEDS CORN MA RK ET.—Sept. 17. 55 5 1 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suilblk, 6olb. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 3ss. to 5 55 ' Barley, Norfolk and Sufli,lk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Shelling Eng. 9J . to 2 72°1 2884 1 1 0 : t Ni tttt 00000 d 4 E:P O 7:l,: : gi I g ! ' 225. to 255. pc , :: ipt , Rapeseed, English, 23/. to 27, Foreign, —/. to —/_L2:5...%./ LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Sept. WiirAT, English. White, per 70Ib. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 0 , 7 1 9 - Red 6 8 g ' 9 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 10 lO ;", / - Irish - Foreign 54 ' 0 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 3O 0 3 1. 9 - Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. - Feeding 34 10 i) BEANS, English, per Imperial quart e r 42 6 0 ~ - Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 --„ 44 0 - Fforeign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 42 0 44 0 - Irish OATMEAL, English ancilrish, per 2401bs 2l 0 '') 0 INDIAN CORN, per 44011). RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Sept. 16 . vi ~ e Qrs. Wheat. O Qrs. ats. I Barley Flour. oat ° Qrs. (Foreign, Brls.llrish, &c. Scks 1 1 - s ° ;qo ..0,522. 4,274 , 253 , 4,026 1 4,142 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, 13ASINGHALL-STREET' (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Sept. 21. 0 DIVIDEN I)S. ig J. H. and J. Skelton, woollen-drapers. Chandos-street, Co- t • vent-gard mercer, en. .—" '' ..ia . ;:y . '' ''''''''''''''''''' ********** ********************************************** i R. Richards,° NEW APPLICATION OP MECHANIL POWER.—SUBSTITUTE FOIL THE CRANE.—An ifig eol 7; very simple, and cheap method of transferring he a b i e bodies to short distances, and, by affording a m a/ea ,. point of suspension, enabling builders, where it is ne: :0 sary to use large blocks of stone, to lay them down W t l b i l precision, has been contrived lately by Mr. Moon, of neighbourhood, and successfully employed in the construe, tion of a dam dyke which he is at present erectiagje t ß o u w s a se rd li s M ea il i i ! . h oTtlwieor strong p r p o o p l r a j y s e s t t a u y p e d a t b a a , k s , m a a r l e l P a l p nld 4 at each end of the proposed erection, over which a atr ° ,4 rope—in the present case three smaller ropes ruli;,", parallel are used—is thus passed at a considerable heifilje This rope is traversed by a block sheath, from which S bi stone is suspended in the usual manner, and raised, t o means of a compound pulley ; guy ropes are attacht;„, the sheath, so that the stone is easily made to tear eye backwards or forwards, and brought with accuracy to o f situation where it is wanted. By this means blocit,6olf 15 cwt. have been readily transported upwards of tblot yards. It is obvious that, by a little complication, oj apparatus might be easily constructed so as to con,"):0, the stone where required, in a lateral as well as log, I ;, dinal direction ; and thus might become of general aPio cability in circumstances where the use of the crane oA it i be inadmissible, or at least inexpedient, either fronio, more confined latitude of motion, or, what must be an to portant consideration in regard of small jobs in a con : of situation, the expense of the transference or erec tion such a ponderous instrument. —Fife Herald. vS'fs ll CAMBRIAN LONDON AND GLOI.JC- ro' RAILROAD..," We last week britfly noticed that a Peeli was in contemplation to form a rail-road throtii,e Wales, by way of Gloucester, to L intlon, and so great i' t e lf excitement by the prospect of 'national 'wealth,' t"theif classes seem roused to a sense of their interest and t he duty, for surely nothing can be more advantageous to the manufacturer thaa to send his produce at once int°,,i,,e market, where it will be consumed, and thus obtain 'of./ self the full value for his goods. That both time eV money will be saved to an unlimited amount will h k e ro d e ' dent by looking at the direction of the proposed i jo 1 1, From Gloucester the line will be through Usk, to°" P t po ali Merthyr tramroad, near Troad-v•rhyw, by P, v / icli Crumlyn, Panllwyn, Panellti, and Cawch Mill, the JO ° branch to tike the Cynon Valley; from Usk t e ; p ar t t comprehends that beautiful country by way Of S p r il° . ° o Cardiff, Landaff, Lanharran,Ewenny, Newton, an d te yb' oe , Ferry, to Swaneea, from whence by way Of 1'3"9,a to (where there will be a short tunnel and a bridge ac r o f eil Towy river), thus terminating a line of above 2 5 . o g i ; at Milfoid, of unequalled level in the United : 1- 1 0 The extraordinary advantage to the trade of this.:ool4:j by such a road, cannot, for a moment, be donbted ° , :v ef a i tradicted. In most instances the produce will de fe r from the iron •works, and p u t i n t o th e t ra ms on t b li el ° ,l 3 e e line of road that is to convey it to London, an d A :Pi t at facility will be giv e n to coals, which will be lea mouth of the level, and never disturbed till tr e ' . its destination.— Cambrian." -•••"* t he MARRIED. On the 19th inst., John Ward, Esq., of Plto- s t as t o county of Kent, to Rachel Louisa Frayne, young ° c 000" of the late Parsons Frayne, Esq., of Bormouo t, r ee' Wexford. PI)" otliY On the 19th in s t., a t St. James's, Westminste r, to por p4 ,, man, Esq., of Leamington Priors, Warwickshir e ', ose , Lyttelton, only dau g ht er o f th e l ate Willi am Whit e " ) id'. of Alveston, in the same county. • fu t ij On the f29th of Au gus t, at the British Legati o- Charles Woodmass, of Montagu-square, Londo" , ght „et' Hon. Harriet Erskine, seven th d aug hter of th e n Lord Erskine, his Majesty's Envoy Extraor di n ary 5 tte I'lenipotenti ar y t o hi s M a je s ty the King of B a vari 3 ' e rt Cl-u p sr On the 19th inst., at St. Botolph, Mr. James n',.. o " r lee ° r ;io / buck, of Charterhouse-square, second son of c"E"anuY, Clutterbuck, Esq., of North Cadbury, Somerset, W daughter of the late John Laurie, Esq., of Loll o " . vy re sof t of On the 19th inst., at Lee, in Kent, Thoma s s of , ~o r Esq., of the Grove-cottage, Camberwell, sec c d ' d og" Wyche, Esq., of Grove-hill, to Caroline, s ec( ' Thomas Myers, of Lee -terrace, Blackheath, Esq' 4, I il" tc 4l DIED. a inel li a .of 0. At Wootton Bassett, Wilts, after a long 90- 23, 0 0 ° e 3" t of the Rev. T. Hooper, of Elkstone, near Chelteo,. NtrUP On the 13th inst., in his 15th year, Egbe rt I$ T which he bore with exemplary patience, Albert, 1, 3 3 w, ag 4i es 0 4,1 1 0 son of Thomas Harral, Esq. rc , IC) On the 3d ult ,on his passage from Opor , g e.,01 Captain Samuel Chinnock, in the 31st year ofh2:orelYairt,it indefatigable and enterprising officer, after esealT l _,%al e 011 life from all the actions in which he bad so ba",.. 0 ,,,e2' 0 0 ia guished himself, accidentally met with a w ater: . !„ 1 , ot o. „rd leaning over the side of the vessel during a viole t M att r /0 On the 19th inst., at Norwood, in Surrey. - D re b ,, e los Esq., aged 77. ty s ` l " f CO' gee On the 10th inst., at Calais, llugh Doner tate o 10 ‘1 the Right Hon. the Lord Chief Justice Doherty; pi g eP street, St. James's-square, London, and - Herts. „ c lo t° PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU it D Y (j' SUN OFFICE, 112, 810" t c AME win welt of Lon, ( ' ) lnunicat day, wish zAttY or G lie most re Address h Itstioner, 7 IJI A Jo' SIT 4pitaliste, bireetors, fence, is nc 1) he 10,0 ihares of ?er share tvi tllory interes th e haul addition t, Pectn s will to n upon t Pocured, by 4 PPlicati on All letters wor, THE 44„.. , API er ous at ll'vy Witt: cc Alicatio N n4th for :! th a ey f s . at wh "7 th. first _e.