The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-29 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Derby Meeting was treated in this jour nal in a way which, to use a homely expression, " will place the - saddle upon the right horSe," with respect to the presumed agricultural difficul ties of that county ; and we have no doubt but the Chairman, Mr. Chandos Pole, Sir Roger Gresley, Sir Henry Fitzherbert, rc. &c., begin to find their own distresses less urgent, and are preparing to grant ample re;ief to their tenants, who, in their two, find employment and adequate pay for their labourers. The meet ing at Chester, which %vas a county meeting, was of a more extensive and important character, and its result was yet more remarkable ; for not only were resolutions embodying the foolish fancies of political economists on the paper cur rency simplified into something like good sense by the petition adopted, but also a manly decla ration of Lord Delamere, " that there was only one remedy for the agricultural distress, and that was a reduction of rents." This declaration, we say, from Lord Delatnere was•received with one of those tremendous bursts of applause which at once indicate the truth of the senti ment, and the sincere conviction of those who hear it. Let this, then, be the standard doc trine and principle of the day,—that on the part of the people, there is only one remedy for the agricultural distress—viz., the reduction of rents ; and on the part of Government, but one—eco nomy. Let these two remedies be applied, and in six months we shall hear no more of distress' of any kind.—Times. A l•.!tter from a correspondent signing " H. T." is pressed upon us for insertion, and if the apologist of Mr. Western promises himself that the Member for Essex will be much the better for this exposition of his case, why let him make what lie can of it. Our imputation of motives to Mr. Westeen went no further than might be inferred from our tiew of the consequences to which his apparent wishes tended. The positive complaints of the Hon. Gentleman, when coupled with his vague (we admit) though vehement indications of remedy, could have no meaning but this one, that too many of the comforts of life were to be had for money formed of the precious metals, and therefore that a species of money should be resorted to, of which a larger nominal amount would be re quired t:) procure an equal portion of such ar ticles. Neither Mr. Western nor his advocate, if they be different persons, will deny, we take for granted, that such is the whole gist of the 'lon. Gentleman's dissatisfaction. Yet the a pologist of the Essex landholder cJiarges us with unfairness, for ascribing as the motive of the paper-money schcme, a wish to serve the interests of one class at the expence of the rest of the community. Why, what other intelligible motive can actuate the persevering solicitor for paper-money ? We know well enough, and so do all men who can judge from past experience, that the 'Squires are mistaken,—that they are guilty of a gross blunder, in conceiving that the substitution of a paper for a golden cur ... . . rene v would benefit them, while it injured all tim rest of the community. But it is no argument against their enter framing such a hope to say that in the contem- Ogzion of men who are not squires, such a hope is utterly fallacious. If Mr. Western does not Inean the: a paper currency should be substi tuted for a metallic, let bin: explain the following I,assage, quoted by his advocate from his own address to the landowners in the year 1822, and quotcd as a refutation of our statement, that f.tiiy. Western did, in fact, propose the return to pver-curieney:—" I shall not, I hope," wi•ltes J,i;.e Member for Essex, "be considered the advok4e of an unlimited paper-currency. There must bo some standard or measure by vvhieh it may be tried, and at which it must be coirvatible into the precious metals; but com- 112011 sense .anti justice point out the necessity of rendering such measure conformable to that by which we borrowed," Very well; but what was ,k6t standard ? lies it not, on Mr. Western's sown §howing, the double perfection of being a imeasurst at once depreciatei and impracticable? WestQrp. says, that " in 1813 and 1814, a period during which we borrowed upwards of 100,000,000 E. •the price of gold rose to and 4s. ; when, therefore, our r .,a,eer was made convertible. into gold at N. *7s. 101 d. per ounce, it is clear that iipward; ,of 20 per cost. was added to the value of rite eight contracted in those two years." i'sTew what is Mes Western's project, but to bring back gold to a higher ‘nominal) value per ounce, 2ild to lezalize en issue of 11. notes by the iliankem? The 'ariter of the letter before us ..reposes that the standard of value ehoi.ld be tip a d (according tow plan attributed to oh Lord Liverpool) by the average price of gold for a certain number of years, Tbtoi what was to be the stand A by which gold itself should be mea- s: sured ?—itilver standard ? Yes; f o r all ;clue is relative, and there is no way of measuring one precious metal but by another ; and does Mr. Western mean t.o say, that merely by peaking the word an Englia,s; Parliament could forte a certain amount of gold to pass for a certain amount of silver, differing from the pro portions which the two metals bore actually to feAch other in the several markets of the world ? The law might gay an ounce of gold shall lie worth an hundred standard shillings, instead of seventy-three shillings and 7 ,01 d., just as that wise lawgiver Mr. Nicholas Vansittart made 21 p a p e r shillings (by law) equal to a ste.nf'sard guinea, But what would Mr. Charles Western gain by vietch a vote, any more than was effected by Mr. Isikholas Vansittart ? Would the act of-Parliarnent-wvereign purchase in the one ease more silver than it vas really worth in tile several exchanges and marketis e, , f the world ? Or did the Vansittart Bank-note buy more gold, fur all the hocus-pocus of the House of C.e;,mnons re volution ? But Mr. Western may rejoi:n:,-- " Oh, it is not five poiiods of silver that I would make the measure of the golden ounce, it is five pounds of paper !" Is it, indeedyeand pray what paper—by whom issued—and uncle.. what restraints as to quantity ? If you will not have silver for the measure of gold,—..and we have proved that you cannot have it, but according to the proportions which the two metals really bear to each other in exchange, a proportion with which ir. Western might as well propose to tamper by " act of Parliament," as with the changes of the " silver =on" herself,—if, we say, you will not have the convertibility of gold into silver, how, in the name of heaven, or on what principles, can you regulate its .corevertibi bility into paper, orT the conversion of paper into gold ? Unless paper is made convertible into so vereigns, and according to the known standard of 31. 17s. laid. per ounce, the precious mecalssre at cnce banished, and the fita:ldard of the currency debased. Then, with respect to a limit upon the issues of paper: that also, of course, Airs Wes tern would regulate by an act of the collective wisdom of Parliament. He "paid have the Bank-books produced, no doubt, and referred to a Committee, who should sit in judgment on the greater or less issues of the Bank ! Ay, a blessed judgment we might look for at the hands of a committee of 'squires ! That rents might be infinite, why Bank-notes must be voted infinite, and glorious days would come fen tile agricultural interest i'fackens. Let the cur rency alone, Air. Western : it is too heavy for you. Lower your rents, and relieve your far mers ;—assign an acre of ground to each cot tiger's habitatin, and withdraw him from the de-hcuse and the workhowe, and raise him and ids family in the scale of independent beings, and make them ashamed of parish sustenance, :Ind so lighten the burden of the poor rates, de ucing a financial from a political and moral good. Do these things, Mr. Western, and you ne.A not cudgel your own brains or the public patience about projects which have nothing on earth to do with the real substance of that great national question, namely—how best to promote the well-being of the poor of England.—/bid. Mr. Charles Pearson's suggestion that the Corporation of London ought to make good the losses sustained by individuals through the frauds, the negligence, or connivance of Coal-meters ap nointed by that body might with great propriety he extended to much higher offices and depart ments than those connected with the coal trade. The system of coal-meterage, as it is for the most part practiced in London and Westminster, riot only affords no sort of safeguard or security to the consumers of this expensive necessary of life, but is itself one main source of fraud ; for it disarms suspicion, and tends to enhance the price while it lessons the quantity. Who, then, are benefitted by this system but those who enjoy the ill-gotten gains on the one hand, and the ill applied patronage on the other, If the civic or any other body appoint persons to iluties which they do not perform, and thereby occa sion losses to the public, who so fit to make good those losses as the party who make the appoint ment ? We have said that the principle is ap plicable to other and higher departments ; by which we mean those various offices in the State that are filled by persons receiving high salaries and emoluments for supposed responsibilities and duties of supervision, which they either never at all, or at the most very superficially, perform. We never instance the office of Trea surer of the Navy, and the various frauds which have been from time to time committed upon the country by persons holding subordinate places in that department. Every one must remember the ludicrous, and some what too candid account which the late Mr. Tierney gave of the onerous nature of the du ties which he had to execute when he held the office—duties which he frankly confessed to con sist of nothing, or very little more, than signing the receipts Ear each quarter's salary ! The Master of the Mint, too—judging from his re sidence elsewhere, and the recent robbery of that department—is one of those well-paid public servants whose duties have hitherto been very little more than of the quarterly kind described by Mr. Tierney. Indeed we are told that among the intended objects of retrenchment which the Duke of Wellington has in view is the abolition of this latter office. The abolition of offices which are useless is certainly very proper; but e think it would be a better thing for the coun try if principals were made responsible, as well for the active discharge of their own duties, as for the integrity and attention of those who hold office under them. It is desirable, we think, that persons of rank and talent should become acquainted with the details of public business ; but that is not to be obtained by allowing what ought to be places of active responsibility, to become sinecures nor is the public interest ever likely to be consulted by deputies, who take the tone of carelessness and indifference from principals who work only on quarter day.—Morn. Herald. We have much pleasure in stating that his Majesty has completely recovered from the slight attack of cold which confined him to his apart ments during the late severe weather. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland has, for the last few days, been indisposed, and unable to leave hi& residence at Kew, in consequence of a rather severe attack of rheumatism. We are happy to add, however, that his Royal High ness is much better, and is expected to come to town on Wednesday next, in order to attend to his duties in Parliament. The resignation of Lord Mountcharles, as <me of the Lords of the Treasury, has originated in the reluctance of the Noble Lord to identify himself with the mea sures of the Duke of - Wellington, and v,e are empowered to state that it has been tendered with the cordial approbation of his Majesty. Parliament is not expected to prolong its si.tings muc h h c eon:.l the month of March. It is even said • . chatcsscouas the intitiny bill is passed the session will be closed by a dissolution, followed by a new Parliament, which will assemble in the month of M 4 y, It is untrue that the King has consented to the c ler;.:tp!,) of Prince Leopold to the throne Of Greece. The proposition will be submitted to Parliament, but no definite arrangements are expected to be entered upon for some consider.. able time. The rumours Ivllich have been put into circulation with respect to the intention of his P e oyalighness the Duke of Cumberland to leave this fur the Continent are unfounded. His Royal Highness will remain in England during the Session of Parliament, and in the course of the year, or rather towards the end of summer, he should deem it necessary to visit i3eitlin, it will only be for a few weeks, in order to break up the ps;ablishment which he has in that city. Prince George, we understand, will tot leave England, but will remain at Kew. — The reported junction of the Marquis of Chan!, dos with the I:ee4nt Ministers has excited con siderable surprise and no hula speculation among two distinct elassed of persons, both of whoa) may be, or rather may have been, considered the poj.:tic4l friends of the Noble Lord. We allude to the Frote. - ;;;;.nt party and the West India body. The forme(' ens.der that the repeated pledges of Lord Chandos were th.enied a OM i2llt paran'ee that he would form ro connexion with a Ca! yet whose conduct on a late occa sion.7,.was so repoo,nant to his avowed feelings and principles. The latter Mate that Lord Chandoa was placed at the head of the We;t: India /I..sociation pn the ground of his avowed principles and acknowledged independence; and they further assert that the treatment which this body has exper;(4lced at the hands of the Duke of Wellington should have prevented the Noble. Marquis: from becoming a member of his Go vernment. But let us explain more fully what we me,an„ it is well known that the Duke of Wellington, if fr.: (lid not promise in formal terms, did at least intimatt hie intention to re duce the duty on West India sugars to the ex tent of t , ..-apty or twenty-five per cent. This oc curred several months ago. At the last inter view, however, his Grace fie;:lind the reduction, ta which the associated repeated, and which they understood had been promised by the Premier. In these circumstances, if the Marquis of Chan dos had been animated by a sense of feeling for the interests of his constituents, he would have hesitated before he compromised himself by accepting office. For, after all, it is nothing else than a compromise. It is impossible the Noble Marquis can serve the West India eroprietors so well shackled by office as he might do as an independent senator. Besides, he knows that the party at present in power, and particularly the Peel party, if that can be called a party which is composed of a few stray sectarians, are inimical to the colonial system. The cares of office must supersede the cares of his constituents. — He cannot oppose the Wellington policy, no matter how injurious that may be to the pro prietors and planters of the West Indies, and we naturally conclude that if he be appointed to the Mint he must resign his Chairmanship of the Colonial Club. But with regard to the Pro testant party we cannot think the Noble Marquis can have already forgotten his repeated pledges. He knows to what we allude, and he also knows whom we point to as the parties to whom he made these pledges under peculiar circumstances. But we drop the matter for the present till we see the result.—Morning Journal. Nothing now with the Tories but Parliamen tary Reform. This is a new era, indeed. " We believe (sap ,the:striiKked of last night) few propositions werernothitesented to the count commanding so complete an unanigunpk„. ward approbation, at least, as the's4ool§ . ! formation of the Commons House OfPiiiiiiibent. Every publication with the slightest pretension to . either talent or independence, from the Quarterly Review and BlacS-woods Magazine downward, contends for that change, which is also the uni versal desideratum in all private conversations connected with politics, in circles of all ranks." Bravo, Gentlemen. But, indeed, it is nothing new for Tories in opposition to become Reformers. Swift, after the accession of the Hanover Family, warmly advocated Parliamentary Re form ; and hence we suppose SirTrancis Burdett, when he submitted his motions for Reform in the House, called himself a Tory of the reign of Queen Anne. If we are ',tie e :,believe the Standard, the Tories will be great":gainers by Reform. But we will allow our contemporary to speak for himself:— " As far as the Tory party are conceited, there is withing surprising in this; they are, Pi truth, the representatives of the popular feeling, is they have always proved themselves the guardians of the popular rights. Whatever the people gain is gained by the Tory party ; they will, there fore, but assert their own interests in extending the popular interests. We know that same delusion exists upon this subject; a few words, however, will dissipate it. It is hastily supposed, that because the question of Parliamentary Reform has been chiefly in the hands of Whigs and Jacobins, and the vernacular rabble of towns, that it is to such only it would prove advantageous—that it would give us, in fact, a constitution of Pat liement scarcely better than what we Lave (worse it could not in flict), and fill St. Stephen's Chapel with a congeries of Burdetts, llobbouses, Wilsons, and Humes, to the exclusion of such valuable Representatives of the People as the Member for 'Westbury. Now the very reverse of this would be the case. Any plan of Reform which should proportion the right of repre sentation to the property of the represented, or to the numbers of the represented, or to a scale com pounded of both, would return at least three-fourths good Tories to Parliament. The town population of Great Britain—excluding villages and those very small towns where the habits of the people are essentially agricultural—the town population of Greet Britain does not exceed three millions, or a fifth of the whole; take this away, and you have four-fifths of the electors agricultural, or so closely connected with agriculture, as to be perfectly iden tified in interests with the English, that is the Tory party. It is so far a question in arithmetic; but we feel that in giving up the town population we give up a great deal too much. We are persuaded that it is the want of a Parliamentary Reform which has given to such places as Westminster the disgrace of Representatives like Sir Francis Burdett and his colleague. In the first place, these adventurers have found the grievance of imperfect representetion, bearing, as it does hear, with peculiar hardship upon Westminster, a chonuni vacans,' and they have availed themselves of it ; but what other ques tion could have lifted Sir Francis Burdett or Mr. Hobheuse into notice ? Or even with that question, can it be supposed that any rea sonably small district of Westminster should have returned either of them in preference to an honest and respectable competitor in the same district ? The truth is, that in a place like Westminster, where the franchise is distributed among very many thousands, the value of the vote is diluted to nothing —men regard it as a plaything merely, and, for the sske of the fortnight's amusement, will freely bestow it upon the Jack-pudding Lkely to afford the most sport. Cut Westminster, however, into half-a-dozen districts, give its electors a definite political value in their votes, and they will bestow them more warily. Still it is right that the lowest canaille should be represented ; and therefore that there should be Bur detts, and Hobhouses, and Wilson; but if they are to be admitted, we ought to have something better than Westbury-men or Armagli•men (alas! for Ar magh) to keep them in order. " If we have succeeded in showing that Parlia mentary Reform must be advantageous to the Tory party, we have shown also why we ought to re gard with considerable suspicion the professed sup port of the Whigs and Radicals. The first are no thing if not Boroughmougers—the second lose all their interest in the question when it ceases to be their exclusive property. The Whigs took it up, upon the confession of one of their own body, Mr. heeat;se it wets that best of grievances which admitted of no redress, and might be there fore traded on, as they thought, for ever. The Radicals adopted the proposition merely as a mea sure of disguised jacobinism, which, did they suc ceed, would lead to the subversion of the Monarchy, as during the last ten years of the eighteenth cen tury, or the first fifteen of the nineteenth, it pro bebly would have done." Let us pause a little. So then the Tories harp a deep interest in carrying l'arliamentary R e f orm ! Thi s suggests a question. Who plunged the country into the war with France ? Who voted for the bankruptcy of 1727, and, consequently, for the depreciation which fol lowed ? Who loaded the country with the burdens wilifJ4 now weigh us down to the earth ? The Tories, to be sure. Why they must have done all this to disgust the nation with Parliae 'Dent, in order to obtain that reform from which they are to gain so much. They knew that an Englishman's head is always soonest reached through his pocket, and that, without draining him, lie might have consented to rub on with Parliement as at present constituted. What (Leo clogs the Tories roust be ! We were before unable to understand how they should become so suddenly alive to the imbecility of the repree sentatives of the people. We never though: very highly of the wisdom of Parliament ; but we could not see any greater degree of folly or meanness in the men of the present day than in the men of former days. They who voted that a pound note and a shilling were equal in value to a guinea, at a tinge IP:lieu it . vi4s known that twenty-eight shillings could be ob tallied for a guinea anywhere, seemed to us to have as good a claim to the palm for folly and baseness as any men that ever sat in St. Stephen's Chapel. But then we were not in the secret. We did not dream that this was a deep scheme to dispossess:: the Whigs of their boroughs, which, with ou t a heavy national debt, they would have contrived to retain, and to give the Tories an opportunity of proving their identification with the people. They consented to play the fools in appearance, in order that they might bring P a rliament into disrepute. And yet we have a strong suspicion that the Tories them selves were not so long-sighted as our contem porary would have us to infer they were. We are inclined to think that they owe their present wisdom to their former folly. It is a saying in America, that no Englishman can have an insight into business in that country, till he have lost all his money, The sensitiveness of the Tories to the blunders of Parliament commenced with the fall of rents. If the currency were but depreciated 50 per cent. rents would be paid ; and the estates which, at present, cannot be sold, because the price would be swal lowed up by the mortgagee, might then find purchasers. No matter what happen afterwards, provided the needy 'Squires obtain a little mo ney. But we are to have a Reform in Parlia- ' ment first : that is fixed. A reformed Parlia ment would, of course, insist on the currency being again depreciated, with a view to turn the bles on the fundholders, and creditors in • ge iteral. The moneyed men live in towns, and `.fey will be beaten by the 'Squires and their de pendents. " A Reform in Parliament would savejhe Monarchy, and the Church, and the ;Country, from urgent peril." Good Heavens ! who would have thought that the Bishops and Farmers throughout the country should unite in demanding Parliamentary Reform, in order that the former may have the pleasure of continuing to receive tithes, and the latter the pleasure of continuing to pay them ; for, to save the Church, means to save the tithes, to save pluralities, to save to Bishops the privilege of portioning off their daughters with the livings in their gift, and to starve curates ?—Morning Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAR. 28. The COURT took the new trial paper to-day. THE KING V. REDAWAY. This was a rule nisi, obtained by the ATTORNEY GENERAL, to set aside the verdict of guilty in this case, and for a new trial. The indictment was against George Redaway, an attorney, for perjury, alleged to have been committed by him in an affi davit made in the Court of Common Pleas. The COURT ordered the rule to be made abso ute, on payment by defendant of the coats of the former trial. HOLDSWORTH V. HUNTER. In this case a rule nisi had been obtained to set aside the verdict obt.ined by the plaintiff, and for a nota•uit or new trial. The action was brought on two bills of exchange, one for 5,0001., and the other for 4,399/.194. 7d., drawn by John Mackenzie and Co. of Calcutta, on and accepted by the defendant, James Hunter, who was a partner in a mercantile house in London (that of James Hunter and Co.), and p flyable to the order of William Hunter and Co., of which house the defendant was also a part ner. It appeared that the bills had been drawn in sets, there being Nos. 1,2, and 3, in each set. The first which arrived was No. 2of each set. These arrived on the 15th of December, 1826, were ac cepted by the defendant on the 19th, and paid on the 20:11 to the defendant's father, who was a cre ditor to the amount of 10,0001. or 12,0001. of the firms both of \Vin. Hunter and Co., and .Tames Hunter and Co. On the 16th of January, 1827, Nos. 1 of the bills arrived, and were accepted by the defendant for the accommodation of a broker of the r,arne of Fennel, for the purpose of enabling him to procure a loan of money from his bankers. Fen nel afterwards endorsed them to the plaintiff, who was a relation of his ; and the plaintiff, as the en dorsee, brought the present action. The accept ances were antedated on the 14th of November, 1826, so as to make them fall due two months be fore the proper time. At the trial before Lord Ten terden at Guildhall, the Jury, being of opinion that Nos. 2 of the bills, which had been endorsed to the defendant's father, had been given him to be kept wily until other securities should be given to him, found for the plaintiff for 10,6671., the amount cf principal and interest on the two bills. Mr. F. PoLLocifc and Mr. PATTISON were now heard against the rule. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL and Mr. CAMPBELL speke in support of it.—Rule discharged. It was agreed that this decision should bind the defendant oil another action which had been brought against him as endorser. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 28. CLARKSON V. LAWSON. Mr. Serjeant CROSS moved for a rule to show cause why the plaintiff should not he at liberty to withdraw his tepFcation to the defendant's third pita, and either treat it as a nullity or demur to it. It was an action of libel brought by the plaintiff, a proctor in Doctors'-Commons, against the defendant for charging him with having been thrice suspended from the exercise of his profession. The COURT granted a rule. ARCHES' COURT, JAN. 28. SCALES AGAINST HOYLE. This was an appeal from the sentence of the Chancellor of the Consistory Court, in a suit pro moted by Mr. William Hoyle, churchwarden of St. Mary-le-Bow, against Mr. Michael Scales, a pa. riehioner, for brawling and smiting in the church. yard of the parish, and laying violent hands on Mr. Thomas Bilton. The matter arose out of some pa rochial disputes; and the alleged smiting was com mitted in November, 1828, at the vestry-room, situated in the church-yard, on the person of the legal adviser of the chairman at the vestry. The Learned Judge of the Consistory Court held that the brawling was not proved, but that the smiting was proved ; and he pronounced the appellant (then defendant) excommunicate, and, under a late statute, sentenced him to a short imprisonment, which has not been, and was not intended to be, enforced by the other party, by suing out a signifi cavii ; and he condemned Mr. Scales in the costs. From this sentence an appeal was prosecuted by Mr. Scales. Sir JoHN Nwitot.t, gave sentence. He said this was a proceeding under the statute 5 and 6 Edward VI., which enacted that if any person should smite, or lay violent hands on, another, in a church or church-yard, every such person, ipso facto, should be deemed excommunicate. 'l he simple question was, whether Mr. Scales had so offended. The Learned Judge then went through the evidence, and considered that the result of the evidence was, t h a t the laying violent hands had been sufficiently proved. As he should not vary the sentence of the Court below, all he had to do was to affirm that sentence, and to allow the other party the costs of the :weal. INSOLVENT DEBTOtS' COURT, JAN. 28. John iVarroz, a Captain of the 7th Fusileers, on b a lf. vi y, was opposed by Mr. CRESWEILL, on behalf of two creditors named Dickie and Morgan. The insolvent stated that his half-pay amounted to 1271. 15s. a-year, and he had a wife and three children. He attriLuted his insolveni:y to having put his name to an accommodaticn•bill for a person named "nun', which 1311 was in the hands of Mr. Dickie, his opposing creditor. The COURT ordered the insolvent to be disehargedt and recommended 20/, a-year to be set aside out of his half-pay, to be applied to the gradual liquidation of his debts. William -Percival, a farmer, late of Deeping, in Lincolnshire, was opposed by a creditor named George Bowles. The insolvent was examined at great length and with extreme particularity relative to his detaining creditor's debt, and the circumstances of his arrest. After which his petition was dismissed. ORIGIN OF THE PRESENT ROYAL ACADEMY. While West was painting the departure of Regulus, the present Royal Academy was plan ned. The Society of Incorporated Artists, of which he was a member, had grown rich by yearly exhibitions, and how to lay out this mo ney became the subject of vehement debate. The Architects were for a house, the Sculptors for statues, arid the Painters proposed a large gallery for historical works, while a mean and sordid member or two voted to let it lie and grow more, for it was pleasant to see riches ac cumulate. West, who happened to be a direc tor, approved of none of these notions, and with Reynolds witkdrew from the association. The newspapers of the day noticed these inde cent bickerings, and the King, learning the cause from the lips of West, declared that he was ready to patronize any association formed on principles calculated to advance the interests of art. A plan was proposed by some of the dis senters, and submitted to his Majesty, who cor rected it, and drew up some additional articles with his own hand. Meanwhile the Incorporated Artists continued their debates, in total ignorace that their dissent ing :brethren were laying the foundation of a surer structure than their own. Kirby, teacher of perspective to the King, had been chosen President : but so secretly was all managed, that he had never heard a whisper in the palace con cerning the new Academy, and in his inaugural address from the chair he assured his compa nions that his Majesty would not countenance the schismatics. While West was one day busy with his Regulus, the King and Queen looking on, Kirby was announced,. and his Majesty hav ing consulted his consort in German, admitted him, and introduced him to West, to whose per son he was a stranger. He looked at the pic ture, praised it warmly, and congratulated the artist; then, turning to the King, said, " Your Majesty never mentioned anything of this work to me—who made the frame?—it is not made by one of your Majesty's workmen—it ought to have been made by the royal carver and gilder." To this impertinence the King answered with great calmness, " Kirby, whenever you are able to paint me such a picture as this, your friend shall make the frame." " I hope, Mr. West," said Kirby, " that you intend to exhibit this picture ?" "It is painted for the palace," said West, " and its exhibition must depend upon his Majesty's pleasure." " Assuredly," said the King, " I shall be very happy to let the work be shown to the public." " Then, Mr. West," said Kirby, " you will send it to my exhibiton." " No," interrupted his Majesty, " it must go to nzy exhibition—to that of the Royal Aca demy. The President of the Associated Artists bowed with much humility and retired. He did not long survive this mortification, and his death was imputed, by the founders of the new Academy, to jealousy of their rising esta blishment, but by those who knew him well to a more ea dinary cause, the decay of nature. The Royal Academy was founded, and in its first exhibition appeared the Regulus.—Family Li brau, No. X. Lives of the Artists. EGYPT. The newspaper established in Egypt by authority of Mahomet Paella, is printed at Boulac, near Cairo, and contains a report of all public transactions of consequence, in particular of the debates of the Central Assembly or Parliament. This Assembly is composed as follows : Of the Ministers of the Pacha; the Ulemas (or heads of the law) ; the managers of the manufac turing establishments conducted for Government account. Of the Cachefs, or P►efects of Districts, to the number of twenty-eight. Of the Cheyks-el•Belad, or beads of villages, who form the representatives of the people, and are niaety-three in nu►rber, chiefly from Lower Egypt. The Sessions was opened by a long speech from Ibrahim Pacha, who declared that his father's policy was to cultivate peace with all nations, and to be stow unremitted attention on the internal improve ment of the country. Of this he has given a sub stantial proof in the public works lately finished, and which are described in the newspaper in ques tion as follow : " A new dock for building ships of war has been opened at Alexandria. The number of workmen employed there is 1,700, chiefly shipwrights, rope makers, and blacksmiths. " A large powder magazine has been erected at a town of the interior called Cadamnebe; it coat about 12,0001. sterling, and is fitted to contain about 1,000 tons of gunpowder. A guard of 100 me❑ is con stantly in attendance." This newspaper contains also a copy - of a new Penal Code for Egypt, which, on the whole, appears to be well adapted to the existing state of civilization in that country. Custom house, Whitby, occasione d b y the damage sustained during the late kale, In clearing away the rub bish near the two bottles of gooseberries were found, in a moderatostate of preservation, the stalks and husks being era perfect, and a little acid in the berry. Three have been 26 years under ground, and were part of what had been placed there in the time of the late F. Gummi, Esq. Col lector at that port, which was his usual method of pre serving gooseberries for winter use. ACCIDENT IN NEW CHURCH -COURT, STRAND.-About six o'clock yesterday evening, the inha bitants of New Church-court, in the strand, exactly oppo site Somerset-house, wale dreadfully alarmed by the fall ing in of the whole of the back part of No. 26, situate in that court, and the alarm was considerably increased, when it was ascertained that above eight persons were in the house at the time. The cries of the unfortunate sufferers soon attracted a considerable number of persons was then ascer tained the spot, and upon opening the front do n o ,s r la,: i ir t de N h v e( a irt s lig: found oit: t: that every floor in the house had given way, and that the poor inmates were all buried in the rums. Several work men from Somerset house, with praiseworthy alacrity, • • . 1 0 1 to extricate the suff i r ai r ti e i rs b , ce a u nd se i , u ,n ainshtiiiiret back prOOl.A. a few moments before the three w,itho t n i iterrie,cteiivvoi receiving in!;!! seriousen,n a n i d :,,,,,,j a oil w ry i .Ni i . r i a l i t i L , , il N ' l iii l i er t e o the a a d , - trwrioeionrieendlootfliisatstii,oaegpiol and tosidfl- o o i a n osr a n t , oh ler! y accident took place, fear* were enter tabled that they were both kill ad or suffocated. After the lapse of nearly two hours, the poor woman BENVLELD and her infant were dug out of the rubbish, and singular to say, they were both alive. although the mother was no irly insensible. ad joining g ss i t i e ( r m e s o r: n a i o o d v e in d l :c l • i r ,, o h , 3 s k t i l y ie p b u a t ci t z. o ya b r . d d both of which ' • s . .stant of Mr. SrANTON, the apothecary in the Strand arrived, and did all that was requisite for the sufferers. The infant escaped with merely a few scratches ou its face but the poor mother complains of her legs, were dreadfuPy bruised. The house, belongs to an elderly trail named PaoriToa, and the acc.dent is attributed to the falling in of a new stack of chirunies, which he Was erect ing on the old materials of the house, without duly con sidering the consequences of such a step. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Jan. 21. In our market of to-day, which was moderately w e , 9 , :pplied throughout, e a c h ki n d o f mea t, owing w an : inced terms having been demanded, met with a Ye r l ( IA salt, at the followi ng prime per stone of 811'. to ; s l . 0 8d. to 4 35. I 2 od. I i V ,o e r a k l = 40 2 • 81 4 to.SP• utton ti • he foregoing quotations are B ee f an d M u tt on 2d . , Veal oni, F.:. per stone higher, an d P or k 2d . per stone lower than on t.: 41 y se'nnight. A considerable number of Sheep and Beasts 1 ti.r2 market unsold. HAILSHABI MARK ET.--Jan. 27. ed. - Ss. Od. to 4s. Sd. to 4• 0 Niutton--..... 3 4 4 6 Pork 0 0 Supply goal, and trade dull. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Jan. 2R. 3s. Od. to 3s. 10d. Veal 4s. 4d. to 5i ..r,..,..1 Mutton 3 4 4 4 Pork 310 4 A moderately good supply, and a sluggish trade.. CHICHESTER AI ARK ET.—Jan. l7. i m. Beef 2s: 10,1. to 3s. &I. Veal.. ..4s. 0,1. to 4s. L ‘ , Mutton -- 3 0 4 4 Pork-- 3 6 4 " A good supply, and a dull trade. RUMFORD MARKET.—Jan. V. 11. s. d. to s. d. s. d. 14 , i Reef 2 8 3 8 Veal Mutton 3 0 4 '2 Pork ................... g 4 4 4 Suckling Calves from 14s. to 32s ; Quarter old Pigsllts.to 16s. eae" A moderate supply, and a dull trade. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Vrfigi' 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. 1 Beaus -1 .....r.......... ............,... ....................• Per Quarter. s. , to s. s. 1. a. to a. s. t• L Blandford .--..... ,-I.i 54 5 25 30 28 — l9 a -- 3, 5 4 ; Brigg. Cambridge.......—.. 58 -- 97 16 ....., 42 Chard 56 70 32 33 24 30 4.2 49 Huntingdon...—. 56 67 23 . 38 17 94 21 95 Long 5utt0n........ 46 57 16 21 26- ' 49 Louth 42 52 22 23 16' 52 24 56 93 Lynn......... 44 62 24 22 16 94 29 Newark ...,,—,............. 55 61 25 S 7 15 24 30. Nottingham ......... 50 62 28 39 20 Wi 42 44 Peterborcugh 56 '7O 37 40 18 25 57 ,„42 Plymouth —........... 56 '74 27 38 19 94 - 32 . """, P0ntefraet............. 55 31 91 • ~, Sleafonl ........... . 47 56 23 30 15 11.1 30 ~, Uppingham ...—... 50 60 24 34 18 26 30 :7 Wished] ..........—. 46 58 —. 16 91 98 ." LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Jan. 26.. Few vessels having got up since last market, the itIPP I T of Grain has been small, and prices remain nearly tb e same as last week, the only alterations being in the IS Wheat, which made rather more money, and Shelling vis. full 6s. per load higher. Wheat, Norfolk and Sablk, 601 b. -- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ...... ....... Barley, Norfolk and Sulibik -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . Grinding Beans 63lb. ...... -- ..... ...... 275. to SU. Oats, Potatoe —pleating, Foreign 10d. to 1134 d....Eriglisli 10d. to 12d, per St Shelling .325. to 3.55. per loath Rapeseed, English, 271. to nt Foreign, —l. to —J. per t ' , LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGL—Jan. 26. ' . There was a large di.play of samples at this =ruing . market, but the frost still continuing, so as to prevent all speedy prospect of transit to the interior, the yowl"' millers were not purchasers, and the sal es w e re mostly li inked to this immediate neighbourhood. A modera te amount of business was transacted in Wheat, a t a bout tit s rates of this day se'nnight ; but very few Oats were soft' although they could have been bought on quite as good terms. No change in the value of Flour. Oatmeal wa s rather cheaper. The Barley trade was dull, at a deli° of fully Is. per quarter; the greatest proportion of th e English remains unsold. WHEAT, English, White, par 70th. Red —. Scotch, Welch, and Manz Irish, White 8 3 9 , -- Red 7 6 9 ! Foreign 9 6 10 l' OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 3 4 I riAll -- Foreign .: Scotch anti Irish, per Nibs. --- Feeding 4 0 4 6 Basxs, English, per Imperial quarter 56 0 43 0 Irish, Rte. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial qu a rt er 99 0 U F oreign Elmira, English, per 2801 b.... 47 0 49 '1 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, p e r 2401 be 25 . 0 . 28 ° 1 xtua x Coax, per 4.101 h. lira, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter 1 m Kiwi' or GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 25. Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. lOatrc,''''" Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign, Brig 'lrish, &c. Scks. 1.00 ,0 * fa 3,1,83 11,160 2,384 3,317 1 3,387 2,319 An inquest was held yesterday at the Rea Lion, Westminster, on the body of Mr. W. E. To'oo' jun., of Richmond-terrace, who cut his throat under tb' influence of temporary insanity. The Jury -returned verdict accordingly. A striking exemplification of the uncertainti of life occurred on Friday in the west end of the city. " 4 respectable individual, who had been abroad at supper, : e 1 , 3 1 returning home f e lt hims e lf ra th er unwe ll . Having 04 j this to some of th e mem b ers o f hi s f am il y, he thought resting for a moment on a chair ; but so awfully sueldeP was the stroke of death, that scarcely had he reached 4h seat when he was lifeless. During the day he had boo I° ordinary health.— Glasgow Chronicle. PARIS, JAN. 23.----After two months of th g severest weather known here for several years, a favourable change commenced on Wednesday last. The thaw whi ch then set in continues, and there is every likelihood that We shall have an early and a tine spring —such, at least, is the expectation of those best qualified to form an opinion 0 ° this subject. We anticipate, however, from the e ol4 ' many unpleasant communicati ons , as we ll on accou nt p` the casualties which always follow the rapid dissoluti" ° of deep snow, as from the coincidence of the heavy ga le with which the thaw was introduced. But, lamentable these may be, the change must be regarded as a blessiog; fur, bad the cold remained much longer undiminished , the mortality, which I mentioned to you as already alarto" ing, would have increased to a depopulating extent. E s ' tresses meet; nearly every day, during the last fortnight' has supplied us with instances of apoplexy, or other affer tions of the brain, similar precisely to those which resit" from a high state of the temperature. Among others,. M. Clinton, one of the editors of the Moniteer, died within a few moments after receiving the shock. 1 7 many cases the fatal atta c k was pro d uce d b y t h e us e ° " neat brandy." I mention this upon the beet anthoritli and as the almost universal consequence here of the Use ° A ardent spirits by those exposed to the cold. S o convino" are the authorities here of the similarity of eff ec t of e%_ 4 ' treme cold and extreme h e at, th a t y es t er d ay was 40' an ordinance of the police, headed " Catttion eonceruing Dogs," and which directed that, during the present se t ° weather, all dogs not led by the collar shall be muzzled. * On his journey from Moscow, NAPOLEON recognize d ' among the many dead and dying from the severity of tl: e cold who lined the road, a 'f avour i te General. He still breathed, when NAPOLEON ordered him to be taken "l' and he recovered, apparently, on swallowing a little brandy. He was then placed in the back of the carriag e ' hut, at the next halt they made, he was found quite dad , from the operation of brandy upon the system. BIRTHS. On the 27th inst. at Waltone Hall, Essex, the 11'4 e i A. G. Wright, a son and heir. . On the 28th inst. Mrs. J. H. Goodhart, Surrey-pt" ' of a daughter. On the 27th inst. in Bernard-street, Mrs. E. Addisoth of a daughter. On the 23d inst. the l a d y o f T . W . Chevalier, Zoo °I Tot rington-square, of a daughter. On the 26th inst. Mrs. E. Stodart, of Jermyn-stmt' of a son. On the 23d inst. the lady of J. S. Learler, Esq . . °/ Boyles, near Brentwood, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 28th inst. at Kennington, Mr. C. D. Borer * of Cannon-street, to Mrs. Abbot, of Lambeth- Onte26 :l h det 't tiangi atC ae h r ig o w f the R ' eli L lln ev. 1 .Bt lrsu. John andridge' to Harriett, ford, D.D. I On the 25th inst. at Wapping, Win. Morgan, Egg' ; of liore's-wharf, to Miss Jane Dawson, of Hermitage' street, Wapping. On ti e 26th of November last, at George-town, Derve' rata, Laurence Fitzgerald, Esq. of Plantation, Richinoll hill, to Sarah Antonia, eldest daughter of Lie u t.-Colung Goodman. DIED. • 1 On the 27th inst. in Great Rusaell•street, Blootunbu r y • square, A. Murray, Esq. On the 26th inst. of apoplexy,. J. Stanifot th, Es+ I " his 58th year. On the 26th inst. Mr. Willoughby, of Serjeant's-lu s t Fleet-street, aged 72. On the 25th inst. in her 59th year, Sarah, elchst d a ngly ter of the late Rev. J. Stafford, D.D. On the 31st of December last, suddenly, at Port Sti Mary, Spain, Donna Maria Antonia, wife of Chin' Phelps, Esq. PX.INTXI) AND PUBLISH En BY AlUltlio YOUNG, DM SUN Oisioc s 112, Sze aa LeNIiQN C., ICU' -• To with Plates, Published Chariog-ero The.Autl p apers frot Marshal Jou Rtuart de %%Men); eithei in thi Bular War. ----- colonel Nal but for all This clay 1 : STC 2 • PR O( ty the Aut This day v ADV 1 1 IT (N The Sec JOIJRNA: porti tional quar I. QLestion-- Chrrespint Zillah Cot Aloore—P This i; 1 Puhlished Publiskell 1 pUB PR: Rion to ex of Society Pocket Pt Pocket Ti A letlitatica Doddrid g t Life of Jo. 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