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• been recommended here. Believing , as we do, civil civil rights, to the tribunes of the people ? We that it is a system essentially rotten , we depre- may do so when we get rid of those historical cite its introduction into English economy or recollections which identify the popular pried commerce. A wholesome proposal was made pies of our Government with the proudest eras some few years ago,—viz., that bankers should , of the grandeur and prosperity of England.— be forced to give security to the amount of the ' Until then we shall maintain the , maxim—that notes which they might desire to circulate. It ought to be inscribed on the portals of every was a Wise'ainLsound expedient, and if realized, Commonwealth—cedant arma togs. Until might have enabled us to dispense with the' cost then we shall say let popular abuses be reformed, of a metallic-currency,: and to confide securely but let popular principles be preserved. We in one of paper, resting on the basis of solid I never denied that the self-government of pa property. But what was the consequence ? rishes had in practice fallen into scandalous de- Why the bankers did all but rebel. They raised dine. We never denied that a thorough reform such an outcry about oppression, inquisition, of this system, particularly as it affected the persecution, and the Lord knows what, that the police of the metropolis, was necessary; but we country gentlemen, many of whom these intro- cannot admit that a case was made out to justify cents had got pretty deeply into their books, a forfeiture of the privileges of the people. If the were dragooned, against their own conviction, Executive Power of the State, with the aid of to join the chorus of the ragmen, and so the Parliament, had taken such measures as were Minister, whose hands were as much tied up within their reach to correct the practice of the by the aristocracy as those of the latter were by system which had grown up with our Consti the papyrocracy, was compelled, whether he tution, and failed, they would have had a would or not, to forego a scheme supported by reasonable excuse for acting upon the principle good sense and upright feeling. No, without of subversion instead of reform. It. is ge security, no more small notes, if it so pleases nerally admitted now, that the greatest of all the Esquires and their keepers.—lbid. our popular institutions—the House of Com- Our Paris Correspondent has given a spirited mons—wants reform ; but will any one say that its degeneracy would justify its abolition ? The and, we believe, impartial account of some of follies and absurdities which it has inflicted on the Members of the Administration. It seems the country, under the name of law, have pro to be as dangerous to a man's reputation in duce(' mischief enough to make the country France to accuse him of religion, as it is in this sorely feel the incapacity of its Representatives; country to accuse him of infidelity, and accord but still, with all its infirmity of intellect—with ingly our Correspondent deems it but just to all its ignorant ambition of legislation—the prin- Bourmont to prove that he is sufficiently in ciple of its existence is a noble one, and worthy different in that respect.—" Bourmont, " he says, of a soil enriched by the recollections, and con " has been classed by those who know nothing serrated by . . the triumPlis of freedom. That about him with the High Church faction, an b d ii, ie which says that " Englishmen shall not has been made, forsooth, a Jesuit. The real be . taxed without their own consent," gave birth fact is, that Bourmont never thought an hour in to the House of Commons ; and however it may his life about religion. Ho finds the Roman have been overlayed by the abuses of practice, is Catholic Faith the religion of the State, and, as still capable of a•glorious regeneration. Vicious, he knows no other, lie professes the national re indeed, is the political logic that, from an igno ligion. Depend on it, no religion gives so little rant, a vacillating, arid inefficient House of trouble to its professors an an ' Act of Parlia- Commons, would infer the necessity of a ment religion.' If Bourmont had been born simple despotism ; yet, this specimen of false at Constantinople, he would have made an reasoning and bad patriotism is only a higher admirable Mussulman, and no followers of the 0 degree of error than that on which the advocates Sacred Standard would hare been, from habit of a military system of police have gone, in con and education, more sincere. But when it is tending that, because the popular system had been alleged that Bourmont is jealous of the interests abused, we should abolish it altogether, and of the Catholic Church—would enlist in a suffer another to be substituted of a military jesuitical crusade against other sects—and is a character, and not responsible to the people. Let devotee—then his enemies announce their igno- • it never be forgotten, too, that persons who had rance or manifest their malice." It is an longargu carried on the trade of a noisy patriotism, anent, we believe, of Bishop Hare, that it was a were most zealous in favour of this violent de very foolish thing to inquire into the grounds of re parture from the spirit of cur free Constitution ligion' when a man could gain no more by inquiry —so 0 little do intemperance and faction partake than he was sure of without inquiry, and might, of any fixed principles, or any steady intelligence on the other hand, arrive at results which might of purpose. When Sir Francis Burdett de he very prejudicial to him. The opinion of the dared in the House of Commons that the army world is certainly with those who, like General _even the standing army—against which he Bourmont, take whatever they find established. had eloquently railed for years, was the " best We remember, in a case of competition for an school for Statesmen," we need not wonder at office connected with the Church, a candidate seeing Westminster, of which he is the "glory," laid great stress on the circumstance of his family quietly, or rather gladly submitting to the sure freeing been good Protestants ever since the veillance of a military police. To produce a reign of Henry the Eighth, which meant, no uniformity of style, as it may be called, in our doubt, ever since Protestantism was the most • • • institutions, the leading civic patriots seem to be profitable (for he would probably have been employed in inoculating their fellow-citizens puzzled to establish the family orthodoxy during with a hatred for their old-fashioned popular she reign of Bloody Mary). The argument was regulations, and an admiration of the simple not thrown away. Whatever philosophers may • energy of arbitrary power. Foremost amongst ,say, we have always found in this country a those who are apparently pioneering the way strong prejudice in favour of hereditary Lelief. for the new re g ime is Alderman Wood, Philosophically speaking, there is more merit in whose expressions on this subject on a man overcoming the prejudices of education, several occasions, but more especially at and becoming a member of the Established the last meeting of the corporate body, are not to Church, than in his merely being a Protestant be mistaken. The occasion of the funeral of by succession. But s convert is always hated Sir Thomas Lawrence was chosen to draw a by those he has left, and trot beloved by those contrast between the activity of the police out he has joined ; and we know that in the case of side of Temple-bar and the inefficiency of those Country Gentlemen aspiring to the Magistracy, within. Alderman Wood was particularly anxi tho e i the family for three generations have be uol eus to have this contrast remarked ; but we ask Joneed to the Established Church, the great 0 him and other Aldermen—the chartered con grandfathers' taint has operated as a bar against servitors of the peace of the city—=whether, if the claimant in Tory counties, Bourmont takes they themselves had done their duty, .the civic the reli g ion of his nurse, but it is not said that police would have fallen into the state of neglect he could be induced to take another ; and this and contempt which reflects so much disgrace is, in every country with .which we are ac q uainted, upon the, Corporate authority ? In the Courts the ne plus ultra of a good subject and a good in which Aldermen preside for the sacred duty Christian. With Chabrol it would seem to be of the administration of justice, is not business otherwise. Montbel, Minister of the Interior, often and scandalously delayed on account of the again, is a zealous Catholic, and personally reli- Densattendance of Aldermen ? How many of gious, not merely because he was educated a those Magistrates are resident within the Wards Catholic, but because religious zeal is at a pre over which they are supposed to preside ? How mium at Court. He is now rigorous agai nst many of them display zeal and activity under the the venders of Portraits of Napoleon or the trappings of the fur gown and gold chain in the Duke of Reichstadt. " Yet let us do M. Mont- prosecution of any other official labours than bel justice (observes our correspondent). those of a civic feast ? Some active and intel- When Napoleon was Emperor, no one dared i • went Magistrates, we admit, are among them, publish or exhibit any portrait of the flour- whose constant and regular execution of their !ems, or even any book which referred to them ; dutiesdeserve re public esteem, and places them the ' except as an extinguished race. Now the Bour in honourable contrast with their brethren. But Pions reign. ' Each one his turn,' as we say in there is no doubt that the indolence and remissness France. The Bourbons adopt the rule of Na- of a lame number of tire Aldermanic body cause whilst against Napoleon'e rule no poison—and 9 a certain degree of relaxation and weakness to one said a word, against the same rule, when pervade tire who l e system of civic government. adopted by the Bourbons, there are a thousand, Hence vices of practice have crept into that sys nay a million dissentients." Tire principle tem,which make it neceseary to reform it through which governs men like M. Montbel wrs very ~ authe gradations of authority. Let it be re natvely stated by au honest Scotch Jacobite, modelled, not destroyed ; for it is quite possible Lord Balmerino, at whose trial was present, to make life and property secure by an efficient among others, Si ray, the poet, who, in a police, without endangering the liberty of the letter to Wharton, 13 th of August , 1746, subject. Unity of action, and simplicity of ar relates the following conversation as Irving ranpment, may be introduced into a system of been overheard by him :—" The Duke of Are pooee, without the sacrifice of the wholesome oyle telling him how sorry and how astonished he principle of popular controul. The Magistrates was to see him engaged iti such a cause, my of the City, as weil as the New Police Commis- Lord, says he, for the two Kings and their sinners, can obtain the services of active and rights I eared not a farthing which prevailed ; able-bodied men in sufficient number. They but I was staining • and, by God, if Mahomet 0 ' -ail also pay them well enough to enable them had set up his stan4erd in the Highlands, I had to live comfortable without accepting the wages been a good IVlussultrien for bread, and stuck of corrupt connivenee, They can discipline close to the party, for I must eat." . It would and oreanize them, if they will take tire trouble ; be difficult to g ive a clearer :conception of the they can . • i can stimulate them to tire emulous cum prineiplee of a good many people no the world tion of their duties, by a judicious plan of re *hart his Lordship has here given in a few words. ward and promotion ; and they can institute that ~...._Morning Cironicle. defined 4nti intelligent controul that will make Nobody Call doubt the necessity o f re-model- every subordinate - member of, the body know li ng tins city Police ; the state of inertness and whom he is to obey, and what instructions he inefficieney into which it has fallen calls loudly is to follow. Let the experiment of reforming for reform. Advantage is taken of this state of the present system, at all events, be fairly tried ; things by the egettte, of the Executive to pro- and if it fail, it will be then time enough for the pose the introduction of till~ new, or Government civic patriots to eerrender the most valuable of Police, within the limits of the chartered juris- their chartered privilegea at the feet of the Home diction. From the manner in which we have Secretary, and acknowledge that tire Crown had seen chartered privileges abused of late years, to confirmed certain valuable franchises to their the promotion of jobs and the oppression of tire in ee rS t a te rs, which their degenerate posterity subject, we are not inclined to advocate their wer e incom exercise said unworthy topeieet te inviolability, We see nothing in the wisdom retain.—Morning Herald, or purity of civic patriots that peculiarly etitities Our table is at the present moment actuelly them to the charter by which their authority is coveeeed with letters and communications on the created to our veneration. But we are not • .er ashamed, even in these days of innovation, to state of the coootry—some of them urging an confess ourselves devotedly attached to the old equitable adjustment—others ceiling for a seizure popular principles of En g lish government. of the Church property—avid all for a reduetiop, Modern " philosophy" sneers at the name of or an exchainge, of taxes. We have also a letter Alfred, and the gothic antiquity of Anglo, signed " justitia," on what may be termed Saxon institutions. So did the sophists of " politics in general," or the present aspect of degenerate Rome, and are flatterers of the the times, in which many bold truths are stated, Cesare, decry the examples of early virtue and much sound advice, we are afraid, thrown rend the institutions of ancient wisdom which away for the present. What, however, we wish raised the city of Numa and Fabricius to the to impress upon our readers and upon the empire of tire world. Shall we, too, prefer tire pohlie, is, that owing to the distressed state of leaders of Imperial cohorts as . the guardians of our the country, the'p is a spirit now abroad which will not brook delay in reform and retrenchment —which calls loudly for a revision of the wholt of our internal - policy—and which, if it db not succeed in obtaining some part of its demand, may ultimately prove dangerous. It is many years, in fact, if indeed ever, since such unanimity prevailed among all classes. At one time the table of the House of Commons has been covered with petitions from the manu facturersat another with those of the land owners ; but now all classes may be said to be up in arms in pursuit of one common cause. The " march of intellect" has marched through out the whole laud :—cities and towns, mer chants and manufacturers, landowners and work , men are equally seized by it, and the complaint is distress, and the cry a reduction of taxes I We do not pretend to foresee the end of all these things; but we think that it is high time for his Majesty's . Ministers to be " setting their house in order," and casting about for remedies against the evil day. Political evils may be averted, as well as physical diseases prevented ; and we would fain hope that his Majesty's Ministers are deeply engaged, not in devising how they can quiet the present alarm for a season, but how they may put an end to it entirely. No Minister ever had such an opportunity of doing so as the Duke of Wellington now has ; and he may rest assured that no one will stand so high in the estimation of posterity as he will, if he succeeds in termi nating with equal success the internal evils of the kingdom, as he once terminated the most dangerous and expensive war in which the country was ever engaged.—Morning Adv. SECOND EDITION SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. ['liE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Lord Chamberlain's-Office, Jan. 28, 1830. MANCHESTER MEETING ON THE EAST INDIA MONOPOLY. (Erom the Leeds Mercury.) On Thursday last a numerous and respect.ble meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, and others of the town of Manchester, interested in the trade to India and China, took place in the Town-hall; BULKELEY PRICE, Esq. Bmoughreere, in the chair; for the purpose of petitioning for a free trade to the East Indies and China. Mr. G. W. WooD, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, before moving the first resolution, requested that the resolutions adopted at the meet big last year, upon which petitions to Parliament were then founded, might he read. This having been done, he proceeded to state that the necessity for further and immediate exertion on this im• portant subject had become pressing from the cir cumstance that there was soma reason to believe, on grounds which hardly admitted of question, that about twelve months ago, a part, at least of his Majesty's Ministers were favourable to a renewal of the East India Company's charter in the course of the present year. It was therefore extremely im portant that the commercial interests of the country should at once be roused; and that no advantage should be allowed to be taken of any apparent apathy on their part to obtain a premature renewal of the charter on terms inimical to their interests. Mr. Wood then made a variety of important statements tending strongly to show the great advantages to be anticipated from opening the trade to India and China, referring frequently to the papers concern ing the India trade that were laid before Parlia ment at the latter end of the last Session in proof of his statements. He concluded by moving a re solution, expressive of the full concurrence of that meeting in the petitions presented to Parliament from the public meeting of 1829. Mr. HUGH Hortsinv BIRLEY said, that although he had been almost wholly confined to his house by indisposition for the last two months, he felt ex tremely anxious, having been absent from town when the last meeting was held, to take the present opportunity of coming forward to express his full concurrence in the proceedings which had then taken place, and his sense of the importance of an active and vigorous exertion on the part of the mercantile and commercial interests at the present time. After some allusions to the circumstances connected with the last t enewal of the charter, Mr. Birley added, there was one other subject on which he would say a few words. He was extremely anxious that the proceedings of commercial bodies in reference to the East India Company's charter should be strictly limited to the commercial bearings of the question. With the future political government of India they, as merchants, had nothing to do ; that was a matter for the consideration of Parliament, and upon Parlia ment he felt that it devolved a tremendous responsi bility--a responsibility which he trusted they would take care not to divide with it. Mr. Birley con cluded by seconding Mr. Wood's resolution. Mr. SIIUTTLEIVORTII then addressed the meeting in a very long speech, containing much important and elaborate argument and detail, in support of the motion; after which the resolution was put, and carried unanimously. The other speakers were Mr. John Bradshaw, Mr. Robert Hyde Greg, Mr. James Wood, Mr. Thomas Sharpe, Mr. Henry Tootal, Mr. Mark Philips, Mr. George Fraser, &c.; and the various resolutions were all put and carried unanimously. A subscription was opened to defray the expenses incurred in the prosecution of this measure, and con tributions to the amount, we believe, of upwards of 2001. were announced. The meeting terminated) at two o'clock, having lasted three hours. Mr. G. W. Wow), the President of the Man chester Chamber of Commerce, said at the meeting on Thursday, " That the necessity for further and immediate exertion on this important subject, had become pressing from the circumstance that there was some reason to believe, on grounds which hardly admitted of question, that about twelve months ago, a part at least of his Majesty's Ministers were fa vourable to a renewal of the East India Company's Charter in the course of the present year. It was therefore extremely important that the commercial interests of the country should at once be roused ; and that no advantage should be allowed to be taken of an apparent apathy on their part to obtain a pre mature renewal of the Charter on terms inimical to their interests." We have ourselves received infor formation corresponding with that of Mr. Wood, re garding the disposition of some of his Majesty's Ministers ; and we are induced to urge strongly that the Leeds Committea for the opening of the trade to the East should take immediate measures to call a public meeting for the promotion of that object. There is not a day to be lost in reusing th e coun t r y to an assertion of its own rights.and interests at this important crisis. The small-pox is exceedingly prevalent in the neighbourhood of Howarth, and a person named Mull- GATROrn has unfortunately lost five children, being all that he had, from the ravages of this dreadful malady,— Hafificr Chronicle. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of tl e appointment of David Wilkie, Esq., as Principal Painter in Ordinary to his Majesty, in the room of Sir Thomas Law rence, deceased. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of Northum berland and Newcastle•upon-Tyne. George Shatlforth, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant for the town and county of the town of Newcastle-upon- Tyne. Dated Dec. 31, 1829. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Burton, Hillingdon, Middlesex, brick•maker. William Edwards, Woodcliester, Gloucestershire, baker. Edward Dubbins, Brighton, plumber. Eliezar Lloyd Williams, St. John-street, West Smith field. BANKRUPTS. Henry Cooper, Upper Clapton, Middlesex, paper-ma nufacturer. Charles Young, Swan Brewery, Osborne-street, Brick lane, Whitechapel, common-brewer. William Turton, Moseley-hall, l3ashbury, Staffordshire, ceal-merehant. Robert Makin, Liverpool merchant. John Whitelock, Stranton-New-Mill, Durham, miller. James Dickson, Liverpool, merchant. Henry Hooper, Maiden-lane, Clicapside, hosier. James Curtis, Queen-street, Oxford, plumber. Thomas Stone, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, innkeeper. - John Carr, Barnsley, Yorkshire, linen-manufacturer. John Holbein, Horselydown, Surrey, corn-dealer. Hugh Watson, Willingale Spain, Essex, cattle-salesman. Charles Arnold, Waleot, Somersetshire, bookseller. George Dixon, Cockfield, Durham, common-brewer. William Robinson, jun., Liverpool, merchant. William Keighley, Bristol, woollen-draper. John Martin Simmons, Lewes, Sussex, linen-draper.": Robert Sand William Winson, Loeds, Yorkshire, linen draper. Jesse Hobson, Leadrnhall-street, wine-merchant. Joseph Tippett, Bristol, ship-builder. Edward Pittway, Tewkesbury, Glouceslershire, butcher. Thomas Neale, Exeter, haberdasher. William Bothwell and Samuel Bothwell, Elton, Lan cashire, bleachers. William Spencer, Coventry, ribbon-manufacturer• LAW INTELLIGINCIL COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 25. DAVIS V. GARRATT. This was an action against the defendant 23 owner of a barge, to recover the value of a cargo of lime, which had been lost in consequence of the alleged misconduct of the master of the barge. It appeared on the trial, which took place before the Lord Chief Justice at the last London sittings, that the defendant's barge was hired to convey the lime from the plaintiff's kilns, near Rochester, to Lon don ; but the master of the barge, having taken two passengers, who were supposed to have been smug glers, on board, on arriving at the mouth of the Medway, instead of steering up the river towards London, took the opposite direction, and proceeded down the East Swale, and took shelter its a little port celebrated for smuggling. Here he was de layed, as alleged by him, through stress of weather, for a day and a half, and was then proceeding along the south and south-east coast of the Isle of Sheppy, on his course to London, when, owing to the tem pestuous state of the weather, the lime becoming wet, ignited; and both cargo and barge were burned to the water's edge, the crew having effected their escape with considerable difficulty. As to the alleged smuggling part of the transaction, there was conflicting evidence; but the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the amount of the damages claimed. Mr. Seijeant TADDY now moved to set aside the verdict, on the ground that it was contrary to the weight of the evidence, as there had been 110 agreement to bind the barge-master not to deviate from any particular course, nor to take any passen gers on board. The Learned Seijeant also moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the decla ration, after alleging that the goods had been deli vered to the defendant for carriage to London, aver red, by way of inference from that fact, that it was his duty to carry them in a direct course, which in ference was too large to be supported in law by the premises. The COURT said that the general question, upon the facts of the case, had been properly disposed of by the Jury, but granted a rule to show cause on the minor point of deviation, and also upon the point in arrest of judgment. POLICE INTELLIGIiaNCE. tANSION-riOUSE. dir PETER LAURIE, who continues to sit for the Lord Mayor, observed to Mr. Cope, the Marshal, who attended at the justice-room, that his Lordship regretted to learn from the reports in the news papers that a charge of negligence had been brought against the city police. It appeared that Alderman Wood had said in the Court of Common Council, in allusion to the conduct of the city police during the funeral procession of Sir Thomas Lawrence to St. Paul's, that the streets in the immediate neigh bourhood had been most disgracefully neglected, and that he had not seen in the whole line from Temple bar to St. Paul's any officers to restrain the labours of the pick-pockets, and protect the public. Sir Peter wished to know whether Mr. Cope, as one of the directors of the police, had any observations to make on the subject of the charge. Mr. Cope had precepted the constables of the se veral wards of Castle-baynard, Furringdon-within and Furringdon-without, through which the proces sion had been ordered to pas', and they had all at tended in waiting at the various watch-houses. In conformity with the usual practice, a due regard had been had to the traffic in the city, but the streets were all cleared of vehicles of all kinds before the procession entered the gates. Sir PETER LAURIE never saw a line of coaches more regularly kept than that alluded to. For his own part he did not know at what time Alderman Wood passed through the street, but when he (Sir Peter) passed there appeared to have been much more regularity and order kept at the east than at the west of Temple-bar. (It appears that Alderman Wood had instituted a comparison between the con duct of the new police and the city police greatly in favour of the former.) If there were to be reforms of the police, measured and temperate statements should be made in bringing charges against those who now did the duty, and not an attack of sweep ing and general nature. Sir PETER LAURIR said, that the Lord Mayor had received a letter of thanks from the executors (as we understood him) of Sir Thomas Lawrence on the subject. A man named Page, alias Nicholls, was brought up charged wtth having broken into two shops in Sweeting's-alley, and from thence through a wall into another house and into the cellars, and with having stolen a quantity of plate, &c. The prisoner was remanded for further exami nation. SINGULAR OCCURRENCE.—Four very fine rein-deer, recently landed at Bristol, were being conveyed in a waggon to the Royal Menagerie, King' s _ rnews , Char ing -cross, far which purpose the front of the waggon was prepared for them, and they were placed in it securely, as •UILDMALL ;t was thought. On the waggon arriving. at Maidenhead - on Wednu M day night, the man who had charge of the animals -r• Showell, the keeper of a farm-house for - lane, Southwark, waited upon Mr. fed them, and ascertained their safety , but in the morning in paupers, Bear when about to unload at the inn in the Old Bailey, he lis- Alderman COPELAND to meet the complaint of a covered that one was MiS s igg ; inquiry was made, but in man named Welsh, respecting the dampness of the vain, and th e man re t ur ned to Maidenhead in search of it; room in which he was placed, the want of fuel, &c. in the evening a gentleman, who was aware of the circum- The overseers of St. Andrew's, Holborn, who had stance, was mentioning it to sonic friends, whea one of placed Welch at this asylum, were also in attendance. them observed that he had been the means of saving a rein- I The Alderman having caused the minutes of the deer from being killed that morning. It was found on the paupers to be read, road by the Reading waggoner, who brought it to town, Mr. Showell said Welch had been in the house and not knowing its value, was about to kill it. It seems , five weeks , ng petiod he had not made a that the animal must have effected it, escape at Maiden- ; sillgle complaint of the dampness of the room or of head, and run with great speed towards London ; when found by the Reading waggoner .it was ne ar ly exhausted, hi s bed-clothing. He had once asked for some and he without difficulty placed it in his waggon, and it coals, and was told that if he would sit up so late actually arrived in London four Lours before the others, ias eleven o'clock at night ? and so unnecessarily ex , pend his supply of coals, he must suffer for his folly ; but more coals were given to him after 'he had been thus admonished. One day he complained of being ill, and a nurse and a medical man were sent to him. It was unnecessary to say more upon the subject, as the worthy Alderman had himself sent a person over to inspect the premises on• the same day that the pauper made his complaint. This person had questioned the paupers as he pleased, when no party belonging to the establishment was present to in fluence them as to their replies. The pauper had himself selected the ward he would live in. Mr. Alderman COPELAND said the complainant's account of the dampness of the room was much overcharged, and the quantity of provisions allowed to the inmates seemed to be ample. He was quite satisfied with the treatment of the paupers at Mr. Showell's. Mr. Showell thanked the Alderman and retired. BOW-STREET. Yesterday, Mr. Stockdale, the publisher of Har- 1 riette Wilson's Memoirs, and the lady by whom he I was accompanied when he appeared, in the course of last week, to answer a charge of assault, came be fore Sir R. BIRDIE, for the purpose of obtaining a summons, calling upon Mr. George Delmar, solicitor, of Norfolk -street, in the Strand, to show cause why he withheld or disposed of a certain bond, whereby the female applicant was deprived of an annuity of 5001. Sir R. BIRNIE had no power to grant a summons to compel a solicitor to give up documents. An ap plication for that purpose must be made to the Court of King's Bench. Mr. Stockdale was under the impression that a Magistrate could interfere to compel the restitution of papers deposited for safe custody. He had also to apply for a summons against Colonel Bailey, of 31, Manchester-square, to compel that gentleman to . restore a draft in favour of the lady who was present, and who had received part of the amount, whereby her claim to the entire was .acknowledged. Sir R. BIRNIR had no power to interfere, and re ferred Mr. Stockdale to his attorney. Mr. Stockdale then adverted to the reports in the newspapers of the assault case to which he had lately been a party, and observed, that the report published in the Times vas the most correct of any he had seen, with the single exception, that the lady on whose behalf he appeared was described as the widow of an officer, whereas her husband was still living. The lady here came forward, and produced to Sir R. Birnie her marriage certificate. Mr. Stockdale then made some observations re specting the solicitor whom he had named ; but as that gentleman was not present to reply to them, we of course abstain► from giving then publicity.— Mr. Stockdale soon after withdrew, accompanied by the lady. Ephraim Bond, alias Cohen, a smartly-dressed young man, was brought forward, in custody of Ledbitter, upon the double charge of felony and as sault. The charge of felony was preferred by Mrs. Macbeth, of Norfolk-street, Strand, and that of as sault was made by her son, William John Macbeth, an attorney residing in the same street. It appeared that on Saturday last the defendant came to the house of Mrs. Macbeth, and entering her bed-room, behaved with so much violence, that she was obliged to send for her son, who resided in the adjoining house. The son came, and after a short altercation, was knocked down by the defend ant, who soon after left the room. A gold chain and eye-glass, which lay upon a chest of drawers, were then missed ; and a little girl who was in Mrs. Macbeth's room when the assault took place, de po►ed, that she saw the defendant reach his hand towards the drawers, and immediately after she missed both the chain and glass. A police con stable was soon after called in, but refused to take the defendant into custody, es he did not see the assault committed, and nothing was said to him of the other charge, although the defendant remained in the house, and near the premises, for some time after the affair took place. He then drove off in his gig, which was waiting for him at the door, and both warrants were subsequently applied for and obtained at Bow street. A vast deal of abuse and recrimination was exchanged between the parties, in the course of w hick the charge of felony was en deavoured to be fixed upon the defendant, but Sir R. BIRNIE declared, that there was no evi dence to warrant him in entertaining the charge. It appeared that the articles were lost in a lodging house, and it would be too much, in the absence of direct proof, to fix the charge upon the defendant. He then directed that the charge of assault should be gone into. Mr. C. Phillips, on beisalf of the defendant, should offer no defence to that charge, to which his client put in the required bail, and the parties left the office. Mr. Rowbottom, of the " Finish," and other sporting characters, were present, and retired with the parties. MARLBOROU GH-STREET. Yesterday a well-dressed female of the pave, named Jane Doyle, was brought before Mr. ROR, the sitting Magistrate, charged with the following robbery : A young gentleman, who holds a commission in the 10th Regiment of Hussars, whose name we could not learn, stated that as he was on his way home, about four o'clock that morning, considerably affected by a quantity of wine he had been drinking, he met the prisoner, who accosted him somewhere about the tlaymarket, and invited him to accompany her to one of those low infamous brothels in Whitcomb street, which invitation he had the folly to accept of, and remained there with the prisoner for a short time, after which they came out of 'the house toge ther, and separated. The separation, however, had not taken place above ten minutes when he missed his watch, &c., which he knew had been safe in his fob when he entered the house ; and, satisfied that the prisoner had taken it, he gave information of the robbery to the first police constable he ,met, with a description of the prisoner's person, at the same time giving the constable his name and address ; and in the course of the morning the constable called upon him and told him that he had recovered the watch, and had taken the prisoner into custody. Police Constable, letter C, 159, on being in formed by the prosecutor of the robbery, immedi ately set about tracing out the prisoner; and after a search of four hours, he found her in Tothill.fields, near Westminster Abbey, - and charged her with the robbery, which she at first denied all knowledge of; bnt as he was bringing her along to the watch house, she admitted that she had got the watch, and pulling it down from under her gown sleeve, gave it to him. She then begged he would let her go, as she had restored the watch; but this he refused to do, as being contrary to his duty. She was fully committed for trial. Scarcely a night passes of late that some daring burglary is not either attempted or effected at the west end of the town. On Friday night last the house of Mr. Myers, the King's tailor, was broken into, and on Sunday night the house of Archdeacon Prosser, its Bruton-street, and another house in the -same street, were very nearly entered before the thieves were disturbed. William Langley, John Langley, and Elizabeth Langley, who were in custody, charged with being concerned in a robbery of a large sum in sovereigns from a Mr. Durant, the father of the female pri soner, residing in Kent, were brought up for re examination, but Mr. Durant, who attended, not being able to speak with any certainty on the sub ject, the prisoners were all discharged. UNION-HALL Yesterday, a young man named Charles Hedge, in the employ of Messrs. Harvey, linen-drapers, Bridge-road, Lambeth, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS, charged with robbing his employers. The prisoner cried incessantly while at the bar, but did not attempt to palliate his conduct, and was fully committed. A rugged, half-starved looking young man, who gavo his IMMO Smith; was charged with stealing three half-quartern loaves from a baker's Trinity-square, Worby, a constable, said that he saw the prisoner running along with the loaves under his arm, end , from the fright he exhibited, having knocked down two old basket-women in his career, the constable pursued him, and eventually secured him. The prisoner admitted the theft, but declared that distress and hunger were the excitements; he had come up from Somersetshire to look for work, but finding, on his arrival, that employment was equal' as difficult to be had in town ai in the country, be was reduced to his last penny, and had since been wandering and starving about the streets, having neither house nor home to put his head into. He added, that the bread looked so very tempting on, the board that he could n o t res i st t h e crav i ngs . o l appetite, and snatched at a loaf. The Magistrate said, that he should hale been, at all events, satisfied with one instead of running-off with three. The prisoner, when he first s aw th e bread, thought they were single loaves, and made a snatch at one, but then found that they were all stuck together, so that he was obliged to run away with three loavesior else none at all. The baker had no wish to- prosecute under such circumstances. Mr. CHAMBERS, to save the accused frorn further misery, should commit him for fourteen days to Brixton, and at the expirati on o f t h at per i od t h e parish fficers should send him into Somergetshire. Yesterday three sovereigns were transmitted to the office by two benevolent gentlemen for Mre. Richardson, whose distressing case appeared in the newspapers on Saturday. GlN.—Yesterday morning a very comely-looking young woman, with all the simplicity of a co u ntry wench about her, came to complain to the Magic' tales that she had been almost poisoned in conse quence of having drank of some stuff contained in s+ small half-pint bottle which she held in her hands and which she presented to the gentlemen on the bench, in order that their worships might take a taste and be poisoned also; but this Mr. Chambers re fused to do, good hum oure dl y stat i ng t h at h e h a d no wish to leave the world just yet, at the same time he asked the complainant how the Magistrates could serve her,and what was the nature of her application. The complainant then told their worships that on Saturday night last, finding herself "rather badly in her bowels," and understanding that a d ro p of Lunnun gin wos quite a cure-all for folk in that way, she went to a dram-shop and procured half " a quartern." When she got back to her lodgings she poured some of it out into a spoon, but imme' diately after having swallowed it, her poor bowels felt all on fire, her tongue became rough and drys and her lips were all over little blisters. Shortly afterwards she was seized with a violent sickness, when she found herself censidersbly relieved from the strange and painful sensations she had exile' rienced, as well as from the horrible thoughts that she had been poisoned. At first the simple com plainant fancied these symptoms had been created from the nature of her disorder, as she termed it (for it proved that the was married, and " in the state that women wish to be who love their lords.") However, on looking at the pewter spoon, the bowl of the spoon had turned as black as a piece of coal. Complainant now felt 5 1 ' titied that what she had taken bad been poie. son, and that if she had been so unfortunate as . to have drunk the whole at one draught she would have been as dead as a door nail. When her husband came in he was made acquainted with what liar pened. Tt was then agreed the remainder of the s:ulf should be carefully locked up, and taken 6 0 Monday morning to some druggist to knoW %chat it seal. Accordingly yesterday morning the cow plainant posted off to a druggist, who, upon exams' nation of the liquid said it was nothing but vitriol; lie put some white into it, and it boiled and fizzed oP in a minute. Some of it was then poured on to the blade of a knife, and it was directly turned q uite blue. The person who examined the liquid told her that to drink such trash was enough to burn her iuside out, and advised her to go and compli a t the seller to the Magistrates. Mr. CHAMBERS hereupon got a silver spoon front the private room, but thi s i n f amous compound h a d no effect upon the colour of that metal. The Magistrates told the complainant' they could not interfere; but recommended her to go to , au excise -officer, who in all probability would sif t the affair to the bottom, and, haye.._ the s eller punished and exposed for using ingredients in his liquors contrary to the excise laws of a most deadly and poisonous nature. - Upon Mr. CHAMBERS saying to the complainant that he hoped it would give her for ever a dislike 1 0 drinking gin: Complainant replied, she did not think she could ever taste it again on any consideration. Mr. CHAMBERS—WeII, then, " out of evil corneal good," and under those circumstances I dare elf that your husband will not regret that you have been almost poisoned. A constable was then directed to show -her the way to the Excise-office. BRADFORD.—Owing partly, no dbulit; to the present hinderance to travelling, little business wel done on Thursday, at Bradford. There was, however, we believe, no reduction in prices, and it seems to be' the re ceived opinion that we may anticipate some improvemen t in business generally. In Rochdale the flannel trade je much improved of late. —llahfax Chronicle. An advantageous plan for employing the poor has been adopted at Borehaus, since the 20th of last month► when the parishioners met at vestr► and unanimously re solved, in order to prevent the possibility of their poor rr tnaining idle, that for every 251. in the rate-book the on' copier should employ one man, and in the like proportion to such parties as may be assessed a larger sum. Th e ar rangement has hitherto proved very satisfactory; n ot man has remained an hour in want of employ, the rate having been formed according to the number of labourer' in the parish, who, when discharged by one master, or ° directed to apply to the overseer, and he, knowing not pall where every man is stationed, is also advised of the vaeancie" as they occur. This system has worked so well, that th e painful necessity has not presented itself of discharging many deserving objects, who continue in their respectiv e places, notwithstanding they belong to other parishes. Chelmsford Chronicle. BIRTHS. On the 23d inst. at Highbury-terrace, the lady of 13. Laurence, Esq., of a daughter. Ou the 24th iust. at Euston-place, Mrs. J. Walton, of a daughter. On the 24th inst. in Wimpole-street, the lady o f E. C' Kindersley, of a daughter. On the 231 inst. in Great Cumberland -street, the lau!Y of P. hi Eroy, Esq. of a daughter. On the 23d inst. in Crutched-friars, Mrs. Q. Ilirrigt of a daughter. MARRIED. ..... _ On the 23d inst. at Kensington, the Rev. S. Bradshates of Halme, near Manchester, to Elisabeth, witlaw o f the late J. Aldwinkle, Esq. of Mark-lane. On the 231 inst. at Brightost, W. H. Covey, E sq . of Uckfield, Susses, to Emma, eldest daughter ; and at the same time, Lewir Cubitt, Esq. to Sophia, second dough . " ter of H. E. Kendall, Esq., of Suffolk-street, Pall-mall , and Kemp 'town, Brighton. DIED. On the 21st inst. Ann, the wife of Mr. B a k er , of Chapel-street, May-fair, in the 60th year of her age. On the 19th inst. in Upper Grosvenor-street, Major T. Otway Can, second son of the late Henry Ot way , Esq.' of Stanford Hall, in the comity of Leicester, and of Castle Otway, in Ireland. On the 23d inst. at Chelsea,h lobert Molter, Esq. i ° his::lnsttthlhree year. On Jo Li i c i t n it so . y . ou D n r g e es ' t 8f of ~11 1 , ;rt t h u e g i a l l e - sy t . r p e e r t : Lincoln's-inn -fields. 13usa lL e ii l t : 11 1, : o 2 f 2s C sd i a d isrnitio:t i Carlton yi Craven, ilk,;tteter em o em, r R k . Yorkshire. fr c 010 l n reen, Maiyf 0 Mary, wife of J. Fairlie, E sq . On 13. G. Windus, Esq. aged 35. If On the 22d init. iirs. Kuapton, of Ilaniiiton.p4c.er New-road. PAINTED AND PUBLUHED sT IIIIRDO YOUNG, AS * llll Sim ()Ping, U$ *MANS lintaft4 Vill be publisl tAST the DERED to ' embers 'Third Coma ~Jol VONSOI N••'.THE LA 4r Sir HUMP] Jot Of whom ER ' This dl THREE taming Al and Goyernmen Thrsity of Oxfori By NASS '-ata Fellow of Jo} ia the THREE LEPeen, C 1 OF 1 On Frid THE 14/ 1 G smata•in• na an *i gl% th at rais4 Reur 13 1 y `Gn-Street. Sh ortly will be M 0 U By, Londo n • P • This day wcui S fe.ri_oa ß iif y uTtib t lic h ee e op: A esnoe u .cirod t t h ie! alld occasion is Pottle feeling, i s the world, a t f o the tlevartati( that recent exhi ' l llation of Mu 12 L t it i li !i . G : 14f aie n t. t t t g l E STATE IN Valuable and E: FOR SAL THE lying in I~yt "neR, consii ielgreater part i' adjacent, Advertisements. If the Estate a unt erent Lot s , m and Feu -duties 4 ' 648 /. 2s. 8d shore about 1,8 told at from 10 about bL os. p, aufacture of Ke it is expected tb 'lid during the I Farther iufoi /f turs. Hunter ArcLibald Swir kid at London, ally of whom w the Properties ; at Nunton, in I the Lands. • PRONI THI Lord CI The King ha appointment of Ordinary to his tenet, daceesed. Commission Nig bed! George Sbail the town and Type. Dated DECI TLo►naa Bur William Edv Edward Dab Elieaar Lloyd tett t hf 3' Coop. aet urer, Fel 3 4 t the Co ur t o f "nea- street, I Charles You Whiteelot at ten, and At Igaioners. F Spt c a ; e l 6, and M. ap t ' :'try. Au "4, Covet j ittl tarard Pitt ' 29 at thi