The Sun. — London, England, 1830-10-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have inserted, in another part of our paper, the report of the Committee of the French Chamber of Deputies on the project or law fur reducing the duties on the impartation of foreign corn. This document is drawn up by M. Saint-Cricq, the Mi nister of Trade in the Martignac Cabinet. Though making no pretensions to a discussion of the whole law, it is so full in its explanations of its existing in conveniences, and so conclusive in its defence of the projected modifications, that it requires neither com ment nor addition. As the object of the proposed change is to permit importation on diminished duties, the reporter of the commission was not bound to say any thing Aiwa that provision of the French corn-laws which prohibits exportation when home grown corn has reached a certain price. That price is for the different classes of the departments two franca the hectolitre beyond the rate at which im portutioti is freely permitted. Thus in the class of departments where importation is permitted at 21 francs per hectolitre, exportation is prohibited at 26; and in those where the limit of importation falls to 22, that of exportation is fixed at 21 francs. The same ratio is observed with respect to the two re maining classes. M. de Saint Cricq mentions, as an absurd consequence of the impolitic classification of districts whose markets by the existing law regu lated the prices of importation, that in order to have a cargo of foreign grain at Marseilles, the importer found it sometimes profitable or necessary to go round to some port on the west of Vrance to luau rdize his corn, and thence to return to the port whence he sailed. " Ships," says he, " sail from Marseilles loaded with foreign corn, which has not been admitted into consumption, go to naturalize themselves in an Atlantic port on paying the low duty of 25c., and bring it back to Marseilles loaded with charges greatly exceeding the duties at which it would have been admitted at Marseilles." Our own system of averages sometimes occasioned con sequences as ridiculous and as distant from the in tenti:ins of the Legislature.—Times. It is rightly observed by the inhabitants of Bir mingharn, in their Address to his Majesty, that " it is the general misfortune of Kings to be surrounded by Ministers and Courtiers who are continually withholding unpleasant facts from their itoyal Mass tees knowledge, and who-e conduct is too frequently imitated by their interested or servile dependents throughout the country." This was ememplified in the last session of Parliament, when Ministers, in stead of exerting themselves to relieve the distresses of the industrious population of this country, were only anxious to conceal from the Sovereign the me lancholy truth of the sufferings of his people. In Parliament they affected to be ignorant of a state of distress among the working classes, which, we will venture to say, was never equalled at any former time in this country, in the fifteenth year of peace The paid advisers of. the Crown, whose bounden duty it is to collect the most accurate information of the state of the country, and to convey it, whether of a pleasant or unpleasant nature, to the Royal mind, resisted the evidence of facts, poured in upon them (tom all quarters with the most heartless ob duracy, while their sycophants in the Press, imi tating their example, sneered at the misery which was the bitter fruit of a vicious policy, and laughed to scorn the petitions of the people. We appre hend that the time approaches when more serious attention must be given by the individuals who are intrusted with the administration of our affairs to the complaints of those who form the strength and sinews of the nation. The taunts and contempt with which the supplicationi and remonstrances of the working decreer' have been met, will, we venture to predict, not be so lavishly bestowed during the ensuing Session of Parliament, us they had been .for the last two or three years. The people of England are patient and long suffraing. ".Iliey are as loyal as they are brave, and, as long as men in power express sympathy for their pri vations and distresses, they will show that the want of exemplary endurance is not a fault of their chits meter. Well would it have been for that fugitive King, who has been compelled to descend from the throne of a mighty nation, to seek an obscure asylum in a private station on the English shores, if hia Ministers had rightly informed him of the cons dition and sentiments of his subjects, But they thought it their interest to conceal the truth from him ; and, by the habit of deceiving their Sovereign, they, like all who habitually indulge in misrepresen mime deeeived themselves. The wretched men who are now about to appear at the bar of public justice in France, may fairly ascribe the destruction • which has overtaken them, in the midst of their power and grandeur, to the contempt which they entertained for the people. In teaching their Royul Master to despise public opinion, they learned to de spise it themselves, They thought it the highest quality of statesmanship to be above tieing turned Aside from the projects of their own selfish policy by any adverse demonstration of public sentiment. This was nut decision, but obstinacy—not firmness, but infatuation 1 Their ears were closed, their hearts were callous, to every disagreeable truth which was uttered by the public voice, or they would have taken warning from the bold awl honest sentiments which the Chamber of Deputies con veyed to the throne only the year before they were hurled from the lofty station which they had so wretchedly abused. Instead of listening to truth, they persecuted the Press for daring to utter it; in stead of attewling to the remonstrances of the people, or their representatives, they sent legions of spies and informers through society to entrap, de nounce, and proscribe ; instead of attaching the popular affections to the Crown, they sur rounded it themselves with double awl triple lines of foreign .hniasaries ; and in three days ell these defence' of tyranny were struck down soul utterly ennihilated by the irresistible re-action of the public will. It is scarcely possible that such a less sort us this oats be lost upon the Ministers of some other countries where freedom of opinion has also been persecuted, beramse Ministers found it more difficult to confute their opponents by argument than to silence them by the vindictive operation of the law. Whether Or no, it is peculimly fortunate for Great Britain to have at the present crisis a Sove reign who seems determined to hear and see the teeth, by personally and unceremoniously going asemig hirn subjects, end disdaining to shroud his dignity In - the mysterious gloom of a haughty seclu iriole Such e ruler comet ho so easily imposed upon by his Ministers as a King who only Wool from them and their parasites how the world WWI going on beyond the precincts of his own place of luxurious retirement. 0 80. a Monarch, if this ia,ei tants of nirminghein sohmit in vein the me lancholy tide of the distresses whichs#ffeet the winlis ing clussee, we shall be greatly disappointed. It is with too much truth that they tell his Majesty " the holiest worktneu, the pride and strength of their country, redirect' in their wages and in their employment, arid in the independence which the na tural and healthy demand for their labour produces, become dispirited and broken down;" and that " the industrious classes toil on, from year to year, under the influence of disappointed hope, until their capital is wasted away, and they are then urged on by !messily until inevitable ruin ensues." It is thus we sea that the classes whose sufferings had been treated by arrogant placemen with flippant levity or contemptuous neglect, turn (win the Ministers Of the (Drown to lay the recitals of their distress at the feet of hiss Majesty himseffss-and thus the Throne beeomet, as it were, the last refuge of an etilieted people. May it justify their expectatioos.—More pig fleraists The garrison et Antwerp have, it seems, caught the general spirit,aud have risen against the King's Government. As thegreateryart of the garrison are, we believe, Belgians, 'tile probable that this strong place will $OOll *here the fete of the other garrisons of Belgium. A nurniser of our country. men arrived from the Netherlands yesterdNy. Though, from all accounts, Belgium will soon be rid of Dutch tioops, it does Hot hold Out u very in. viting prospect tor ;how who showe that country merely for 'the sake of obtaining luxuries cheaper than at home. The States-General have been (Bs- solved, and a commission appointed for the purpose of arranging matters 4 l'onliablc. But we are satis fied that all this is labour in vain. Confidence can never be restored between the King and the Bel gians; and we think we may safely predict that the Belgians and the King have separated for ever. The Sovereign who draws the sword against his own people has little to hope for from success, but every thing to fear from failure. The attempt on Brussels was a renunciation on the part of the Nassau family of all title to Belgium. Kings ought to bear con stantly in mind that the attachment of subjects can not be conquered, and that when they submit their title to the issue of the sword they must abide by that issue. With respect to other countries, it is of little consequence whether Belgium be a Republic or part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. As a kingdom, the Netherlands could not defend itself against any of -its great neighbours, and, as a Re public, Belgium will only be as little able for such defence. Why may we not have a Belgian Republic as well as a Swiss Republic? The neighbours might object to Belgium being added to France ; and if France show no disposition to acquire Bel gium, site gives no handle for complaint. That France may occupy Belgium in case of war says nothing, because France could equally occupy Bel gium whether an independent Republic or part of the kingdom of the .Netherhinds. All attempts at acquiring countries on the pretext of rounding terri tories, or obtaining natural limits, ought of coarse to be condemned,snd we are glad to find the French no longer agitated by the ambition of extending her frontiers to the Rhine. France possesses as much territory as she needs. lt is of immense conse quence, however, that_nations should abandon all idea of conquests and accessions. The general disposition to consider the interest of the people never advanced by conquest, is a far better security than any which can be derived from extension of frontier: Every man who has any influence on public opinion, - should never omit the condemnation of every doctrine which tends to favour extension of territory, whether by violence or intrigue.—Morning Chronicle. We were induced by the commendations of our contemporary (the Times) to look into an account of the late events at Bru.sels, given,by a correspon dent of that paper. It is described Hs " a most in tereating narrative of the conflict between the Royal troops of the King of the 'Netherlands and his re-' volted subjects of Brussels, by a hand very different from the correspondent of our contemporary. The • narrator participated in the scenes which he de scribes • and as from his known character he may be implicitly relied upon, his account will tend to correct many errors and misrepresentations." When we came to the passage where an Aille•de•Camp to the Prince was dragged from his horse, and read that" the gallant man, as he was carried through the streets, manifested no particle of fear ; his cheek was oriblanehed, and no sign of dread came over him; occasionally his fine aristocratical face was lightened by a smile of scorn, to cut on his base asaailants," we at first exclaimed, " Captain Basil Hull, for all the world !" But recollecting that Captain Hall is a Scotchman, and that this touch of the fine aristocratical Ace is a flight somewhat be yowl that of a Scotchman, either intoxicated with aristocracy or with whiskey, we bethought our selves of the deceased Catholic Association, in which this correspondent must, we think, have first tried his powers of description. We could almost offer a bet that be is one of " the two young Irishmen, who (he says) distinguished themselves right va liantly, and made repeated attempts to induce the Bourgeois to resort to the bayonet." We wonder they did not endeavour to induce the Bourgeois to throw down their barricades also, that the Prince's army might have no cause to complain of fighting at any disadvantage. The letter, in truth, is puerile and extravagant in the highest degree. The Dutch troops are very probably not the best troops in the world ; for the Dutch are not a military people, and have always preferred paying foreigners to fight for them, to fighting themselves. It is probably with them as with ourselves, the soldiers are not taken • from the most respectable class of the community, and they may also be a flogged soldiery like our own. But we are almost certain that the drunken ness and cowardice of the Dutch soldiers are grossly caricatured. Take the following as a specimen :—. " ` On Monday, the 27th, when the Park was evacuated, I did not see so much as twelve bodies; there might have been more, but I speak of what I saw, and I walked through .the whole Pork; but there was an immense as semblage of empty bottles, from which the spirit had de parted, but certainly not entered the hearts of the Dutch men, for even their proverbial Dutch courage did not avail them, how the Dutch came to quit the Park Ido not know, as I did not see them decamp; bnt my opinion is, that they . 1 summoned up a coward mind, and ran away.' The cowardice of the Dutch is, I fear, unbelievable, ex cepting by eye-witnesses. I, who saw the wonder, can hardly imagine it possible. " Doting all the period of the four days the Dutch threw occasional bombs, rockets, and red-hot shot into the city ; they destroyed one or two houses, and excited the hatred and contempt of ell classes. These soldiers of Holland kept themselves out of the way of all danger, but made a must vigorous attavk i upou the dram-bottles, as the untenanted bodies of the numerous slain I found at their quarters amply evinced. The homely apophthegm says, that Dutchmeu require their courage to be excited ; but naught excited that of the Dutch at Brussels. Oxen and wain-ropes may drag them to the combat, but native courage never they resist even the charms of their bottles. A plague of all cowards " That the Dutch have, under able leaders, fought well, is known to Englidnnett, who owe to the Dutch guards of William the Revolution of 1688. In Queen Anne's wars, too, the Dutch regiments fought as well as our own. On the late occasion they probably had no confidence in their leaders.— Not a few English regiments, during the Peninsular war, behaved at one time very ill, and, at another like heroes, according as they were officered. If the Itev. Mr. Kinsey has been too ready to credit Dutch inhumanity, we do not think this picture of Dutch cowardice, so applauded by our cotemporary, wilt help to mend the matter.--.lllorning Chronicle. It would appear from the content', of the German Papers, that the spirit of discontent and insurrec tion is taking its way eastward, with as much rapi dity as might have been expected,and that although no explosion of any magnitude has taken place, tranquillity has been more or less disturbed. This spirit is, as usual, held out by the German journal- iota as the work of secret societies end clubs, two of whose members are said to be in safe keeping; but had the writer been inclined to reflect, or rather perhaps have dared to put his reflections in print , h e would have found that the spirit, as well.us the secret societies in question, had their origin, first, in the misgovernment which has so long been the bane of the German States, and, secondly, in the ex ample held forth for the imitation 'of the people, in the revolutions of France and Belgium. Changes, more especially when they assume the seductive form of liberty, and have been effected with no iti• considereble risk of personal or national danger, are always . infectious, and might not unreasonably be expected to visit a people in the shape of innovation, less needful of their beneficial influence than the subjects of the petty German States; but when it is remembered that, in point of practical oppres slim, there are few who could reckon more real grievances then the latter, the rational wonder will be, not that tranquillity has been somewhat disturbed, but that there has not been an universal explo sion. The people also, be it observed, have neither seen the printing press at work without taking 4 lesson horn it, nor republican armies march through their territories without.imbibing some; hing of their I spirit; for the Germans, take them altogether, are a reading and a reflecting people, and it would argue a degree of stupidity in them, not exceeded by any thing in ancient or modern history, were they eat sensible of the uncongenial nature of their different Governments, and being sensible of it, anxious to introduce s more rational system. The true hoe of policy, therefore, to be observed by their rulers, is, not to endeavour to suppress by force the march of liberal opinions, or to take any steps which might irritate those who have exposed themselves to danger in the cause ; but to float Ant; with the current, and yield compliance with every just demand which may be made. It is thus only that they can either avoid revolution and bloodshed, or save themselves eventually from being dealt with in the same way as the ex-King who is now performing the part of penitent at Lulwortb Castle.—Morning Advertiser. In adverting to the numerous meetings which have been lately held in the metropolis relative to the new police, it may be as well, for the sake of perspicuity and fairness, to state seriatim the grounds of complaint which have been made against it.— They resolve themselves into charges Of its being more expensive than the old system. 2. Of the new policemen ►nisconducting themselves in the discharge of their duty, and being protected by their superiors in such misbehaviour. S. Of its being unconstitutional and dangerous to the liberties of the country. These at least form the gravamen of the charges brought against the new police system, though, we are apt to suspect, with a more sweeping couclu• sion against its utility than is warranted by the cir cumstances of the case. That the expense is univer sally greater than that of the old watching system, we know not to be the case; for in one parish at least the expense is less, while it may be very fairly urged on those who pay more than they formerly did, that they have the benefit of being watched during the day as well as during the night. The second objection admits also of considerable abatement. — Some policemen have, no doubt, very egregiously misconducted themselves, and it has been said, though we think unjustly, that they have been pro tected in such conduct by their chiefs; but the mis conduct of a few is no condemnation of the many, and still less does it form an argument against the system itself. Policemen, like all other classes, are, no doubt, actuated by a sort of esprit de emus, and as their officers cannot be expected to be wholly free from the bias, it would have been much better had the law provided that all com plaints against them should be decided before the usual authorities, instead of being placed at the disposal of the Commissioners; but the objec tion which arises on this point only goes to an alteration of the system, not to a total abolition of • it. The third objection is of much more serious import, and we frankly own that, dthough we fear no invasion of our liberties from the establishment of the New Police force, we consider its constitution extremely repugnant to English ideas of freedom, and perfectly capable, under a bad Minister, of being converted into an engine of annoyance and oppres sion. Why should it be under the orders of the Secretary of State for the Home Department ? Why should it not be appointed and directed by the different parishes of the metropolis and its neigh bourhood ? Why should not the complaints against it be heard by the ordinary Magistrates, and fluidly decided by the parish authorities ? These are ques tions which comprise the whole of our objections to the new system; but the objections only go to change, not to an overthrowing, of the system. The New Police is a decidedly better invention than the old system of watching, arid so far us our own-ex perience goes we have seen little reason to find Guilt with the conduct of those who carry it into effect; and we say, therefore, let it remain—but remain, not under the direction of the Secretary of State, but under that of the parochial authorities. This is a change which, for obvious reasons, ought to be made, and which, we are confident, would re move at once every objection of any magnitude which really exists against the New Police.—Morn ing Advertiser. REDUCTION OF TAXATION. (Frotu the Brighton Guardian.) We had no time last week to advert to the letter of " Civis" on the Assessed Taxes and en force its recommendation. Now,—before Par liament meets,—is the time for the people to in struct their representatives what they are to tell the Government from them, and what they are to require that Government to do. We there fore join our voice to that of our correspondent, and summon the people to petition earnestly, seriously, and determinedly, for a reduction of taxation. We do not recommend them to de mand the repeal of any particular tax ; but that each county, each town, each village, each ham. let, each man, should petition for the repeal of that tax which he feels most burdensome. To the inhabitants of towns generally, the Assessed Taxes are the great grievance. They are odious from their inquisitorial nature, and they are oner ous from the almost impossibility of avoiding the payment of them. '1 are other taxes, however, which, being equally burdensome and inquisitorial as the As sessed Taxes, are more injurious to the national welfine. We consider the Excise and most of the Custom Duties of this description. The taxes on soap, on candles, on salt, on spirits, and on sea-borne coals, with the indiscriminat- ing ditties on East and West India sugar, on Baltic and Canada timber, on Portuguese and French wines, &c., all press heavily on different classes of the people ; but they have, in addi tion, the injurious effects of hampering the gene ral industry, and diverting it from the snort pro fitable channels. Science can make no improve ment in the arts of distillation, of making malt, and of manufacturing soap and candles, because the process in each of these arts is prescribed by law. If the same sort of Excise laws had ex tended to the manufacture of cottons, instead of now buying that necessary article of clothing at 6d. or Is. a yard, we should have been obliged, like our ancestors before the modern improve ments in spinning, weaving, bleaching and dye ing, to pay for it 5a., 65., or 7s. a-yard. In all arts there is a constant and natural tendency to improvement ; and Excise laws, which prescribe the process of any manufacturer,—which prevent him from waking experiments and applying the discoveries of science to his daily operations, are not less absurd and injurious than laws directly prohibiting the progress of knowledge. The tax on coals has ruined the manufactures of the South of England and d impoverishe all this part of the country. The discriminating duties on timber, sugar; wine, &c., compel us to use inferior articles. They not only tax the people for the support of the Government,—but for the benefit of some classes of men, such as the West India Proprietors, the Ship Owners, or the Oporto Company ; which latter, being a monopoly of the Portuguese Government, the people of England are actually taxed by the dis criminating duty on Po . , , rtugal . _wines, t o pa y f o r , the extravavagance van well as the expences of their own Government. The double injury inflicted by this class of taxes is well illustrated by the late debates on the reduction of the duties on beer. it was then stated in Parliament over and over again by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and not contra. dieted, that the repeal of those duties would be a benefit to the country equivalent to reducing taxation to the amount of 4,500,000/. The actual redOction oftaxation was only 3,000,0001. and he estimated the restraints which the Excise duties on beer imposed on industry as equal to one half of the whole amount of the tax. We remember that it was stated by. Mr. C. Ferguson in the debates on the subject of the duties on can. dies, that if a shepherd on the hills of Scotland Made a candle or a pound of soap out o f the fat of his owa sheep, unless he went through all the formalities required by a licensed soap-maker, he was liable to most ruinous penalties. We have no doubt that the same penalties are a great in jury to all the farmers and all the peasantry of this part of the island. Throughout Germany, where there are no such Excise taxes on these articles, soap and candles are made in the houses of the farmers. They are a species of domestic manufacture ; and nothing prevents our own farmers and peasantry from making candles and soap for themselves,—for which they have plenty of time in winter and many advantages in the fat of the animals they slaughter,--just as they brew their own beer and make their own bread,—nothing prevents them, we say, being to a certain extent manufacturers of soap and candles, but the necessity of taking out a license and of calling in the inspection of an excise officer. Looking then at the restrictions which Excise duties lay on the industry and ingenuity of the people, we should prefer the repeal of them to the assessed taxes. Still, we are not fastidious, and we will cordially lend our aid to the inhabitants of towns in demanding the abo lition of the assessed taxes, or to the inhabitants of the country in requiring that the duties on malt, on soap, and on candles, shall be given tip. We are indeed extremely glad to see that the in habitants of Reading and other places have already had meetings to petition Parliament against the assessed taxes, being convinced, to use the language of Mr. Hume at Glasgow on a late occasion, " that no reduction will ever be effected unless it be loudly demanded." Let the people have no fear of demanding too much.— fhe Government will take care to give up nothing which it can help, and it will stop re duction far within the bounds of necessity. To keep faith with the public creditor does not imply pensioning the sons of the aristocracy by commissions in the Army and Nary ; it does not imply expending 650,0001. a year on the Privy Council ; it does not imply disbursing 300,0001. a year for diplomatic expenses, be sides half as much for Consuls ; it does not imply expenditure for the Colonies, the amount of which nobody knows ; and though the de mantling an immense annual revenue therefore may be clothed the pretext of preserving public faith, that we believe is the last consideration which disturbs the repose of those who devise schemes of taxation, without any risk to the public creditor. We would have the people not be checked in their demands of relief by any consideration of the wants of the Government; as they 'nay be thoroughly assured that the Go vernment will get all which it possibly can, and will willingly receive anti use whatever the people may leave in its possession. It is not the busi ness of the people to be careful that the wants of the Government, real and imaginary, are amply supplied ; but it is their business to shut up their pockets and keep them as close as possible against the hands of the Aristocracy ; whose ingenuity in getting at the contents of them, though the means it employs may Le different, is quite equal to that displayed by the celebrated Barrington. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE. A coal-meter, named Facey, was charged before the LORD MAYOR with having violated the confi dence reposed in him, by signing a meter's ticket for one chaldron (12 sacks) of coals, which proved to be three bushels and a half deficient. Mr. Staunton stated that the coals were sold by Samuel Johnson, of Rutland-place wharf, and that witness desired the carman to measure a certain sack which he pointed out. There was a demur about measuring that particular sack, but the wit ness insisted upon it ; and in consequence of the remarkable deficiency, he sent for a coat-meter to the coal-meters' office, and had the whole chuldron measured. The deficiency proved to be three bushels and a half. Mr. Staunton said that another coal-meter en deavoured to screen the defendant, and offered to send a sack of coals to him (witness) if he would forego the remeasurement. _ _ The LORD MAYOR considered the interposition of the second coal-meter a proof of conspiracy, and ordered the defendant to be suspended for one month. Edward Edwards, a coal -meter, was then charged by Mr. Reeve and Mr. Bumstead, the principal coal-meters, with having improperly interfered to prevent the remeasurement of the above-mentioned coals, by offerint,T a sack of coals as a recompense. The LORD MAYOR suspended him for a month. Soon after the parties left the room, Mr. Strum ton returned, and informed the Lord Mayor that Edwards had just shook his fist in his face, and called him a " perjured villain." A warrant was issued for the apprehension of Ed wards, who, upon being taken, was so penitent that the Lord Mayor, at the request of Mr. Staunton, discharged him. A great quantity of unwholesome salmon bus been lately imported. The exposure which the practice of selling unwholesome salmon got a few years ago, for a considerable time checked it. The fact is, that the public were so much shocked at the hazard they ran by eating kipper and shedder salmon, that they would not touch any, anti an enormous loss was sustained by the importers of good salmon. This result was a caution to the salesmen, who suf fered severely, and the market remained clear of the offensive article. _ _ Robert Wilson, a fish salesman, was summoned by Mr. Goldharn, the clerk of the market, to whose un ceasing exertions the public are indebted for protec tion from this dangerous food, for having exposed some of it for sale. Mr. Goldbam produced a sample of the fish, with a prodigious roe in it, and which, he said, would, if allowed to remain in its proper element, have Rm. &iced 1,000 young in the course of the year. The fish was speckled on the back with red spots, and was what the salesmen called a " harlequin." It was extremely injurious to the constitution. It was also what the judges culled " a hook-nose " a com mon deformity with fish out of season. The tavern keepers in some instances played tricks with the roe of the unwholesome fish. They frequently served them up as lobster sauce, and those who ate this nice substitute for that delicious sauce, did not know what to ascribe the belly-ache to after having in dulged themselves. In the city the deception could not be easily practised, but at the west-end of the was quite common. Ile had destroyed of these fish alreadT, arid the loss to the public 8t1::0iwg:hn0 t b it e onD MAYOR veryweil ordered inlagined. he L that the fish produced should be destroyed, and that the defendant should pay the expenses. W. Beeeroft, a bummaree, or retailer of salmon i n uiiiingsgate-market, was next charged with having exposed u nwholesome salmon for sale. The LORD MAYOR asked what could be the mo. Live' of the defendant for selling fish of the kind lc— mr. (3oldham said, they.got it for 3d. or 4d. a pound, and could not resist the temptation of the great profit. The LORD lvlaTott ordered the fish to be destroyed, an d assured the bummaree that he should, if agai n r o und exposing such an article for sale,deprived nd. ; of T hi b s on st m a l-1 Gilson was charged w i t h a similar offence. be d The fish s ordered to b e destroye d, and the de fendant was told that if he repeated the tactics he should be deprived of his stand. LAMBETILBTREET. Peter Saunders, a man having the appearance of a naval officer, but who has for a long time been 4 , upon the town," and has figured M the bars of the Thames Police-office and Union-Hall, upon different charges of swindling, was brought before Mr. WALKER, charged with stealing two watches, under the following circumstances : Mrs. Baggs, a lady residing in Mount-street, Whitechapel, said, on the 28th of last month, the prisoner came to her house, and wished to .hire lodging, saying, he had just come home from New South Wales, in the George. She was induced to let him sleep there, and as he suid he had no clean linen, she lent him a shirt. The next morning he went away, and did not return, and she soon after missed two watches. Lee an officer, from information he received, went to the White Swan public-house, Rateliff-high way, and took the prisoner into custody. On searching him, he found the duplicate of a watch, which had also been identified by Mrs. Baggh.—Com mitted to Newgate for trial. Mrs. Kitty M'Coy, a tidy little Irish woman, charged Miss Norah Regan with having inflicted upon her a couple of black eyes. Mrs. M‘Coy detailed with great precision the whole of the affray, bue totally omitted to state the original provocation. " Will 1 get lave to spoke now, phase yer Wurt ships ?" said Miss Norah, who had contained her self with much difficulty. " Well, what have you to say ?" inquired Mr. WALKER,..-." Then phase yer Honors' Wurtship," said Norah, " I was standing all alone be meself, selling me (rule, whin up comes Mishtress M'Coy, who was owing me an ould Bridge. Och r says 1, warn't that yourself and Patrick Muhony tha,t was cooghling about in White's-yard last night ?'— Sorrow the harm o' that!' says she; ' isn't Patrick my own darling ?" That he is nal,' says I, • he whident wipe his shoes on the likes o' you— he's male for your mishtress!" Oh!' says she, do you mane to calf-yourself me mishtress?' Wid that, your Wurtship, she called me names l'd be ashamed to repate; then I gave her a whack, and she gave me another, and so we at it till we were parted." The Magistrate, finding the assault to have been mutual, dismissed the charge. 11A170WiGARDEN. Yesterday William Turner, a drayman in the ser vice of Reid and Co., brewers, appeared upon a summons before Mr. Rot - actts, to answer the com plaint of Mr. Simmons, of Euston-square, for negli gent driving. Mr. ROGERS observed, that as a caution to him against endangering his own and the lives of others in future, he should fine him in the penalty of 10s. and the costs; and, turning to Mr. Simmonds, he said the public, no doubt, would be very much obliged to him for the trouble he had undertaken in in the business. The defendant having paid the penalty, Mr. Simmonds handed over the 10s. fine to the Magis trate, to be deposited in the poor-box. The Magistrate thanked him, and he withdrew. IMPORTANT TO TRAVELLERS. At Cuckfield, on Monday, the 28th ult., Richstd Norris, collector of tolls at Hapsted-gate appeared before Sir Henry Rycroft, Knight, and I. Chewy, Esq. two of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace;ta answer the complaint of Mr. %tigers, tithe-contrite tor at Artlingly,—who, being sworn, said that the defendant did, on the preceding Monday, - take of him Is. 6d., instead of Is., contrary to the 4th Geo. IV., for the toll of a cart, having the fellies of the, wheels of a less breadth than four and shall 'newt and drawn by two horses only. In support of the information, Mr. Rodgers stated that the Trustees of the turnpike in question (the New Chappel,Lind field and Ditcheling line to Brighto n ) had provided, by their local act, (passed in the 49th of 11610.1 11 . , and continued by the Ilth Geo. IV.) a " toll of 6d. on every horse or other beast drawing any carriage of whatsoever description." This toll was in creased by the 13th Geo. 111., E. 84, and Subse quently, by the 3d Geo. IV., c. 95, sec. 7. The defendant admitted that he had taken le. 6d.for the toll, and the Solicitor for the Trustees, Who con ducted the defence, admitted that they bad increase d their tolls by the 13th Geo. 111., also that they bad acted upon the 3d of Geo. IV.; but best the Uwe time contended that their tolls were not by the 3d Geo. IV., that Act hosing OnlY re" them the same amount that they were entitled to by the 13th Geo. 111. He therefore submitted that the Trustees did not come under the 4th.aeo. Its thtit upont of a t c. 95, sec. 7. Their Worships said when the 13th Geo. H on ly entitled was repealed, the Trustee s were the entitled to what their local Act provided eice r , y j G A e c o t I ( V t h. e 3 t h d e o r e f fo G re e , o. as w t . et a ny W. lected and increased their tolls by it, d came within the provisions of the 4th of Oto• lv • The Bench decided in favour of Mt. Bodg e that the toll was only 6d. on each horse.--BIA" Guardian. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday Michael Skelly and Patrick Cafray, two Irish cowl-whippers, appeared before Mr. BAL. LANTINE, on an information laid against them under the 148th section of the Coal Act, for refusing to attend upon a summons of one of the Magistrates of this office, to give evidence against Captain Richard Wardell, master of the ship Triune, by which they had incurred a penalty of 201., and all the costs on conviction. The information was the first laid under thtclause named in the act, and the hearing of the case excited much interest. Mr. F. M. Wegener, in support of the informa tion, stated that several informations had lately been preferred against the masters of colliers, coal-under takers, publicans, and others, for taking what is termed in the coal-trade " tow-row,"--that is, a gratuity exacted from the coal-whippers em ployed in clearing the coal-ships in the river, and which is divided amongst the publican, the master, and the undertaker, after being deducted from the bard earnings of the poor labourers. The, penalty for exacting " tow-row" is 20/. and although pro ceedings had been instituted for the sole purpose of securing to the men the whole oMheir hard-earned wages, it was but seldom any of them would come forward to give evidence against those who exacted the money. Under these circumstances, they were compelled to adopt the present proceedings. George Ellis, a Thames police-officer, on Monday, the 20th of September, served summonses on both defendants, for them to attend and give evidence against Captain Wardell for exacting money from certain coal-whippers employed in clearing his ves sel. The summonses were signed by Captain Rich bell, but neither of the defendants appeared. Mr, BALLANTINK inquired if the information was dismissed in consequence of the non-attendance of the two men ?—Mr. Wegener replied in the affirmative. The defendants were not aware of the conse rquences of not obeying the summonses, or they would have attended. Mr. BALLANTINE, as the case W 49 proved, had no ether alternative than to convict in the full penalty of 20/. and costs. The Act gave him no power of mitigation. Ihe defendants being unable to pay the penalties were consigned to the House of Correction. UNION-HALL Yesterday four men, employed in pulling dam houses in High-street, Southwark, to make way for the approaches to the new London-bridge, were brought up on the following charge. Waubey, the street-keeper, after having described the wretched state of the thoroughfare in High-street, owing to the work going forward there, said that no attention whatever was paid by the superintendents of the new improvements in that quarter to the ac commodation of the public. The manner in which the houses were pulled down by the workmen was exceedingly dangerous to those who happened to be passing near the spot, for instead of using the neces sary precaution of placing a board in front of the buildings, no such course was udopted, and the workmen, to save trouble, were in the habit of making ropes fast to the external walls, and then a number of them pulled away until they brought the whale mass of rubbish into the street. The street-keeper said, that the defendants were all at work in the centre of the street that morning clearing bricks, and although they were told to re move the impediment thus created, they refused. Mr. CHAMBERS convicted the defendants in a pe nalty of 40s. each, and intimated his determination of inflicting fines on all those who were brought before him for offences of a similar description. NEW VOYAGE ROUND THE WOrtf.D.- The English reader ► in perusing the recent voyages of dis covery made by his countrymen, must have been struck with the repeated reference in such works to the new en terprise of Captain KeTzrsux ► who was sent on his peri lous task of circumnavigation by the Esnperor of Russia, in whose navy he holds a high rank. The narrative of Ks:meting becomes, therefore, in a manner A subject of national interest to ourselves; and it is gratifying to find that it will shortly appear in an English drew Nothing snore excites and satisfies curiosity than details connected with such expeditions : witness the volumes of our own Captain Cuox. On Saturday night, JOHN MANBY, 45 years of age, formerly a letter.carrier in the Post-office, was discovered hanging front the bannister of the kitchen stairs in a house at the top of New Dorset-street, Church-hill. . It appears that the deceased, who was in the habit of in dulging in liquor, was occasionally suljeet to fits of de spondency, in one of which it is forppored he committed the rash act. The Inquest was held on Monday, and a verdict of "Insanity" returned. The deceased attempted suicide some ten years ago, while living at the King's Arms publie.house,—Brighton Guardian. AMERICAN PRECOCITY.—A Yankee friend, respecting whose veracity we do not entertain the slightest doubt, assures us that he has a little girl at home, who, when only nine weeks old, surprised the heftily while at dinner by saying, in an audible voice, " Papa, I guess them there 'tater. are Madan nit* V' THE MARKETS. COAL.I►IAR Benham Main 031.6 d. Bishop's "itt U Dean's 31 0 Bast Percy. 3O 0 Felling Main 30 d Hebleurn Main 32 0 liolywell _ 31 d Kenton West. 33 0 Killingworth 33 0 Liddell's 30 0 Ord's Itedhugh - 94 0 Pelaw Percy Bensham—. 33 0 Pontop 30 0 Ship:Ole fan field .. 3l Kralla"—edt.blitentnarch. Oa" Ditto Peareth...;...... 31 Ditto retkins tirs6C 6 .* '0 Ditto a Ditto Russell's Ditto Wa ; 0 ' Wea Wall r s End iletton ; Walls End L 1 as abton , .... Walls End 140115..-...1 0 Wlla End Stew art 's ... W. E. fitissell'a HAW au 2 Ditto Norwood l Ditta 00 0 Ditto 'Wear Ditto Adelaide W. E. aereland Co t...—.."'.--- 32 6 Hartiey 51 $ Silkstonitll ► ho 0 stone toad 34 6 W a rd 311Pront 40 0 I,Veinyo 26 6 GreenwiCS H O / 118 0 Walls kjtd 0 Ditto Denuersoo Blyth Trader r rail dew ; Stobart's Wan 0 Tees email a 0 Brovrri's Walla End small • s sold,N7-^'t J t uoitl. 107 , 1 _ Tanaeia 31 6 lownley _ 31 0 Willington 34 6 Wylain .32 3 WallsEndliewieke&Co. 35 3 Ditto Hell Robson do Co. 34 0 Walls DM Brown's 34 6 Ditto Callerton 30 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 32 0 Ditto Cramlington.—..... 311 0 Ditto Gosforth 35 0 Ditto 35 0 Ditto Hilda Ditto 33 0 Ditto Northumberland 33 3 Ships at market, 17.33i.--shl; . _ . ---- Col/Nl'BY COHN DIAKKETS DUltl— 11410 'Wheat. 1 llarle ---- y. 1 Oat& ligal". --- -------,........---........----.-.-". l'er Quarter. s. to 1. it. to s. s. to s. Abingdon*. 55 62 32 38 to :II .'" 5 0 A adorer ...........--.. 55 6 20 34 9 0 : ... toi ltirnoinghain.,-...-. 5tS etS N 1113 ..4 , 4 JO • 54 flridport ................- 56 74 '3l 39 26 3 0 '''' 40 Cirencester ............. 48 6.5 '2O 37 18 93 ."' 4 4 Furingdon.,..----. 54 86 36 40 08 38 •-• 4 0 Guildford .............* 43 74 :24 35 20 39 lienley.----............. 51 t:.3 30 3.5 98 3 0 tp Hereford .-.....--. 64 84 38 45 35 40 - 0 1 Highworth ...--.. 69 SO 32 49 28 3 4 ""' 41 Maidenhead ........... 65 84 31 38 99 3 0 41 Oakingivain ........-. 56 76 30 55 18 SI 1. 4 8 Reading ~........-,,* 48 80 18 41 95 3 3 4 Salihury-.--..- 56 68 27 37 911 'll4 ... Southampton ........ 54 76 37 -40 *3 &..1 44 Stroud ..................-... 54 74 34 98 22 32 "" 4 4 Tewkesbury ...--. 65 78 40 43 30 38 ••"... 4 , 4 Uxbridge ...---.... 48 74 91 39 10 99 ,„, 4 0 Wantage..-..-....... 56 73 t 3l 35 23 44 :4 5 0 ‘Vanninster.....-... 59 76 5) 36 90 32, .... 40 indsor, , ..,,,..... 48 84 i 4 3S 34 Is r ,,, .... 4141 ~....--- Woreester—,-....... 60 63 131 36 34__---'' . _Lt.. Worceste i......,.,.. H &LI, it A ilk ET. ;:iiit ~ A ble The weather during the past sveek has been isvour . v an d to -rfaY P. for the operation' of harvest, Ye l te rdis ' en tiy buoy 'in eularly so. The farmers have been courielu t fair su p, securing their Gan ; notwithstanding there Is k il . c h il be' ply of New Wheat o ff ering, the condition of " t i ll, at d e . ter than last week, the trade, howe ver ' " la " ' l ' f a ruining prices—say m iddling ` es., and the finer psrL de, Is. per quarter Wow last week's quotations. T he thei I or bl iv 'nand fur Old foreign Wheats it not so siteely, isin ~i . J o t soh posing only to a limited extent, the,f i t e ,: t ithe' week. Thera is no alteration in the vsloe el ".; ' m eg , for feed or mewling ; New ones meet buyers a 'T, I 0 tile to etis. as in quality. Bettis art in fair den ) " t; the quotation* below. Grinding Pease ITC in relit': r i c o, quantity here is limited, and they are held w i i : o ' 4 l , :so res oo e nie re Several parcels of New Ilarley offering; effected, last week's prices are paid ; there is ;I' o a lterP little inqu i ry after Grinding Barleys tinu iu either ltapeed or Linseed. ge 151 ,,t' Wheat, 01d... .. —s 6 1 1 s. ao .... New ..».. -4 ...+, ' in bond. Foreign ....... —s. llOs. (Ks . . .... ....ln bond... : „,„1,1 4 t . Oats, Poland --a gn i ati, ...... old ...... ... , ~... -- Small or Feed —s. 211 a: 114 s, .......... . ......... - ... 1 . .„ ..4. 7 - Foreign tra ley, Nort. & Sot. Foreign ....................................... • • •"" ,s. :e' ' Beans :Os. 4tis. Vs, Ennio.... ..... ...„, .....s. Pease, White —s. 4:!s. 465. Grey. ............ .... 4. 0. ....,i lanes —a ins. 3t 3 a Foreign. ...... „,..1 SO' Rapeseed, in Y. tend none. .. . ....... Yree, per is , " ' bigik r ost :76.---6° 6 ' 41. to it lb ._, .. i . 6 Beet •..............--_,.. 1 II 1 .. Mutton .......•:;, Vela ..... ...i... . 0 6 L aus b .....«. •«' .. ."* I York .........»10. Vs. to 31. lbs. l'" CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to I. d. Wheat 7 0 0 0 Barley ...... 4 0 5 6 Oats ........ 2 6 4 8 Beans 4 0 5 6 Pease ...... . 5 0 8 0 .... ......... 31. 1 .11 ------.lP• Ell.... Sept. ,o otuo' Eng, boo ....••••"". 0 4 ) 'Medea ................. • ; tl VOL.. „ . ............ 0 0 ellettent Lozr ....... . DUMFRIES DIA L s. d. s.d. Wheat, Imp. bush 7 9 to 9 3 Barley 4 0 4 9 0at5............ Flour, Rib. Oatmeal 3 0 3 Potatoes, cwt. te h tal i r g eeatil h ° a lfOa t u t : rac eiwi t al i L o rklie announced fur Publiesti(i' o b_ . ° t_o r__ , li i:,,. . 4 , t l_ llll .,i 'its t : , s .sv uriirlit is 'lt'ic_ , s eght n iu d : o r i do nt s p ta le h e diandsLlEiiiceA;RhDßtionoiezn:wipht.e.elicia..ll iijetariv.o.en,_ . fo On atube.g e h n ter d 6 e uladt r i;h:w e te m ittinarf. o c ti th.c o a ns .affords gritet atiodo::::lors of the t heroine w... atterest all tO WtONO I and tti siltetchaidionolf, Indian life given in this delis htf ul ' t o r ; oveo scarce " CGorgyalillneurrPassiid by CnaltautttasP, : an the the 4 t sth l i n : n n s a o t . t. . sa vagenna e t t i c h pi Ph e art a a r r il v i s r r n ar n a m dTe w t o co il it tir l n e l a n' ..is n r i t'usidlion7t:nitiolitleiteeitr6ll:l 4 1 l ,, l. " ': 1 1 (1 1 :;: linis:j" Ne ? v o .... the .. 4t t h inst. the wife iSfielYeddeofilab3faelluvrr.4°ll::77:(t. 1.:r4111Lr.::( , Mgl ' ~ T ' ion, ° Boarb.s reet, of a daughter. t o liai 9 _At 29, Upper Gower-street, Bedford4tlu4rel Kenyon S. Parker, Esq. of a daughter. of `aril's, t ill ''' d daughteroCht. On the Chester-place, phh-peenol Gloucester -place, 6e e t ti Gt h ho h, u l ic t o n iS !; °l r d a n a . e tp t iara gM ci st a it t °i Lambe th, c E k ng g a ; a ita°o r Sara Ws t h, 114. .; a i rlef i wstr:C .; a ;: irt i i 1; 'i ° 41:111 Y .' oDfaßwohwaioeyid, Kirk, Yorkshire, I> 0 I teCI T house, f righten, YworGthrirgei,nza an: otorroursicisiejroll'ileell: ter of the late Captain C. Petty, R.N. .. ti o f OO P At Ilamul Batt b, near Algiers, en Ow n t h C l/1 at the residence of Captain Stuart Corbett, ity.,:r7 Doi tnissioaer in Kumaon, LieUtirlillt J. Glo a , L .'ista E-uffineetre, to Olive, seventh daughter DI t"' Britten, Esq. of Suffolk-lane, London. "g. On the sth jest. at Eyton, Hereford, the D o . : ` i OO O Benyon, Rector of Dowabsta, and of North„„— Ei.aer, to Jane, only daughter of E. EWA Pis; gall On the sth inst. at Cheltenham, BA 1 0/. Miss Amelia Octivis itlilward. of Rodney -tom— DIED. On the 30th ult. at Brighton, Lieut.-C*4 P 4 °IP' late of the Grenadier Guards. hie 414 7., ' ..t Chlt fil Lately, at Canton Villa, its f 0 1 Piers Eyre, Ellq. d ogbt* c 4/ On the 24th ult. Eliza, aged 81, nidY a ' . i . i Bull, solicitor, Aylesbury. „ I wry tho'" On the 29th ult. at Brighton, aged xii , . ro :, of T. Walker, Esq., of Sand Hutton, Vorkent PAWED AND PtIALISIISD DT MVO°