The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-25 00:00:00

;-.:..T.Arepz;. • writer. We might be excused all commentary on his tirade, and his last return to the hobgoblin terror of " attacks on property ;" but our con temporary, as in all false reasoning and misre presentation of fact, has laid himself too open for us to resist the temptation. We apologise for the inadvertent mistake of citing his reply to the Morning Herald, as a controversy with the Spectator, which our quotation of the unan swerable remarks of the latter paper occasioned. We deny in tote the proposition of the alleged insecurity of the property titles of this country. No real property lawyers could maintain such an absurd fallacy. The mystery of convey ancing, and the conveniency of increasing business, and exhibiting professional erudi tion, has certainly made " legal " or mar ketable titles to land an increasing diffi culty ; but this evil has no relation to an uncer tain tenure or doubtful possession. In no country in Europe is there less litigation on the title to real property than in this, though the difficulty of its passage, from vender to purchaser, by the technicalities of practice, has been constantly growing more expensive and dilatory. But this evil has originated in our mystical " terms for years," in " legal estates," outstanding with persons who knew not of their former titles ; in the fee-gathering mystification of fines" and " recoveries ;" in the utter want , of all civil registration of birthr, marriages, and burials ; in primogeniture and contingent re mainders ; and lastly, in the stupid and inte rested prejudices against the registration of titles. We do not hesitate to say, that Doctors' Com mons, and the Diocesan Record of Wills, have alone preserved any practical system of title to real property ; and if we could suppose that la s tamentary registration did not exist, and was now to be first proposed, what a cloud of pre judice and invincible opposition would arise against its introduction. Hobgoblin arguments, and ghosts in profusion, would haunt the affrighted imaginations of the " landed gentry," and armies of lawyers would rise up in hostile array against the record of wills, gravely affecting anxiety for their clients when their real appre hension was absurdly for their own pockets. 'The Bills, however, recommended by the Real Property Commissioners, and introduced by the Lord Chancellor and Sir John Campbell, will speedily allay the amiable fears of the Standard for the security of private property, and we apprise our contemporary that the municipal question has no possible relation to any question of private property. It is an improved administration of the public revenue of the Corporation, of which the people are the cestui qui trust, which is the constitutional and legitimate object of the mu nicipal commission ; and we can hardly believe that the acuteness of our contemporary is igno rant of the fact. It is to confirm titles, not to loosen them, that this important investigation has been established. Nor will it serve any purpose of successful prejudice to raise a hue and cry of consequent danger to the sub-pur chasers and tenants of Corporation. This " Inquisition," as the Standard with intentional prejudice but literal justice terms the commis sion, is simply an inquiry—the taking an inventory of the public property. Legislation is an after-object, and no reformed House of Commons will allow the tenure of private pro perty to be disturbed, because close and corrupt corporators have abused their trust. The venders, not the purchasers, must suffer where justice demands retribution ; but the far more important object of the commission is to investi g ate the present and legislate for the future, rather than to grope through centuries of past municipal misrule. We pass over the lamentations of our contemporary over the "brick-bat and bludgeon" warfare which he alleges vanquished the ho roughinongers. If these political usurpers were stoned it was their desert, and the gain of the people ; and during the Catholic question, and in the fall of 1830, no Journal wrote more ably than the Standard, against the " Borough System," of which the Corporations were the body and soul. Our contemporary de sires the creation of " new Corporations where they are wanted," and protests against the " swamping of such as exist." He misunder stands or misrepresents the popular object ; it is to swamp the usurpation of the Corporators, not to overturn the institutions. In such new Corporations, as the Standard admits may be required, would he adopt the standard of the existing system as a rule of construction ? and if he would not, will he contend that the unin corporated communities are to have one muni cipal system, and the Corporate towns another of the old antique fashion ? On this point, if necessary, we will join issue with our contem porary. As for the means of legal redress o' corporate malversation, through the Court of Chancery, surely our contemporary roust be ?waggish. What sensible man will venture his private property to redress public wrong, in the cost, anxiety, and uncertainty of a snail suit in Equity ? How did Lord Eldon and Lord Lyndhurst, as Equity Judges, justify Corpo rators ? How has the Court of King's Bench upheld the Magistracy and Corporators ? Give us future prevention, and we will surrender such an empirical cure. The Standard further con tends, that to extend Corporations would be greatly to increase instead of diminish ing the misapplication of trust property. Ty this bold proposition we answer—and one assertion is as good as another when both are unattended by reasons—that the misapplica tion cannot be worse than at present. But we will close this long commentary, as the Standard admits the Corporations will be reformed, because the Whig Government possesses power as well as will to accomplish the reformation. This ava - also admit but the reason that the present Gover,:snent enjoys that power is, that the people desire alien led and improved municipal institu tions, and after a memorable and glorious na tional struggle have elected a Reformed House of Commons, who unanimously voted an address to the Crown to appoint the Commission.— Xorning Chronicle. It must have been highly gratifying to every lover of good order and of the progress of civili zation, to have read that part of the Mansion house police report of yesterday relative to the apprehension and committal of Paiish, the prize fighter. The .Morning Herald is not charged, we believe, with being apt to over-rate the exer tions of public men—indeed we are sometimes thought to be rather sparing in our commelida lion. This may occasionally be true ; but in the present instance wen annot, wireatthou t satisf inj action ustice, , refrain from expressing our g not only at the manner wuhalso the Lord Mayor examined the cidprit,but for ?the ssed his indi nation manner in which he e x p re, against the degrading practices of the riot'. We cannot refrain from repeating his Lordship's words as they are found in the report. Lordship said, " I think I see around you a good many of what the humbug gentlemen who support the ring call thefaney—(Here the crown behind the box drew back, as if by instinct). I advise them to drop the trade, which I believe to be connected with the most nefarious system of plunder. Let them look at your present condition, and learn to benefit by it ; for you are clearly guilty of a robbery, and certainly will be punished for it. This pugilistic school is a bad school ; if you don't happen to be thieves when you get into the ring, it soon makes thieves of you." This we take to be the proper mode and language to adopt with such charac ters. It is justly emphatic, and is calculated to do great good to society. We wish that all our sitting Magistrates, paid and unpaid, would take the hint from Sir Peter Laurie on such occasions, and we should soon see a great im provement in the habits, manners, and morals of the lower orders. But sonic Magistrates have an odd way of repressing delinquency. Several of these gentlemen appear to feel more compassion for the gambler or thief (and the terms are synonymous), than they do for the injured victim of rapine and violence. It is on such occasions that the Morning Herald, as in duty bound, not only withholds its praise, but expresses its indignation at such mistaken notions ; but it is with the highest pleasure we record acts and sentiments that do honour to the Magistracy, and tend to uphold the laws and regulations of civilised society.—Morn. Herald. The Royal Commission issued for " Inquir ing into the State of the Municipal Corpora tions of Scotland," and the heads of inquiry, or set of instructions, drawn up by the commis , sioners, " in relation to the state and condition of the several cities, burghs, and towns," alluded to in the commission, show that the investiga tion into corporate management and the expo. sure of corporate abuses, are to be conducted with the same vigour north of the Tweed as in this more important division of the United Kingdom. The Scotch public seem to repose perfect confidence in the honesty, energy, and knowledge, of the gentlemen nominated on the commission ; and the comparatively short time allotted them for the completion of their task must urge them, for the sake of their reputation, to activity and diligence in its prosecution. The abuses into which they will have to inquire are, in many respects, more flagrant than those of the English boroughs ; but the commissioners will have the advantage of finding the system of mis management more uniform, and the benefit of being directed in their labours by the reports of three or four committees of the House of Com mons, who have traversed the path before them in 1793, in 1819, 1820, and 1821. The broad glare of day which has been let in, or is about to be let in, on the whole of the close corporation system in both divisions of the island, seems to have occasioned the greatest consterna tion, and to have excited the most violent rage among the jobbing corporators and their Con servative partisans. They are conscious that more inquiry and exposure must be their ruin, and therefore, unlike the Grecian hero, they pray and struggle, that, if slain, they " may not be slain in the light"—a mode of death which must add posthumous disgrace to the dissolution of their corporate existence. To such persons the infliction of the Reform Bill was nothing to the terrors of these municipal commissions, as the enactment 'of thelornaer merely deprived them of a little political influence, while the labours of the latter will annihilate their corrupt gains, and strip them of their local importance. They are, therefore, panic-stricken at this sudden irruption into their secret domain, and start at the seal of the Royal Commission, as Homer represents his subterranean divinity when the rays of the sun were let down upon his dark abode. The mode of defence, or of warfare, which they have adopted in such circumstances is in ad mirable keeping with the nature of their cause. As the thief calls the aid of his gang against the thief-catcher, they hare set all their Conservative organs in motion, both metropolitan and pro vincial, to decry the commission—to abuse the commissioners, as the agents of revolutionary robbery—and to represent an inquiry into the abuses of corporate trust as an attack on the rights of private property. The cry of revolution and spoliation has been raised in England, and will probably be echoed from each of the sixty four ro,al burghs north of the Tweed. In the confusion of intellect produced by their just alarms, their wounded selfishness, and their impotent resentment, the Conservatives forget three things, which, if remembered, might tend, if not to calm their passions, at least to prevent their boisterous expression for the present. In the first place, they forget, and ought to recollect, that the able and respectable persons to whom the Royal commission in England is addressed, and whom they so foully slander, are only an swerable for the active and discreet manner in which they perform an imperative duty, and that, though the original conception of the measure (however meritorious we regard it) is not theirs, they would be grossly culpable if, having undertaken it, they did not evince the zeal, the learning, the courageous firmness, and the searching sagacity for which they were se lected to execute their difficult task. In the second place, they ought to know or to recollect that the commissioners do not pretend to be legislators—that they can neither grant charters nor take them away—that they are only employed to collect information and to suggest improve mints for the use of the Government—that where municipal magistrates or councillors are honest and firmly founded in their rights, they have no reason to apprehend the fullest disclo sure of their public conduct—that inquiry is not decision, nor the r ecommendations of a report the law of the land ; and that when the subject comes to be discussed on a Bill to cor rect abuses, the Conservatives will have ample opportunities of displaying their eloquence in favour of hateful privileges or against advisable innovations. Anti in the third place, such sticklers for antiquity and precedent as our Con servatives pretend to be, should be informed, or should bear in mind, that the power of issuing commissions like the present, is expressly re served to the Crown by statute, and has on several occasions been exercised in less pressing circumstances than the present. In some excel lent observations " on corporations," addressed by Mr. Stephenson, formerly Member for W est n bury, to Mr. Abercromby, as Chairma of the late Corporation Committee, we find the 10th section of the Ist of Edward IV. cited, in which it is expressly reserved to the King "to direct commissions under the Great Seal, to have full power and authority, as well to survey all and singular lay corporations, guilds , fraternities, compani e s, aid fellowships of mys t er i es or crafts, incorporate, and every one of them, as all other the said fraternities, brother hoods, and guilds, within the limits of their commission to them directed, and all the evi dences, compositions, books of account, and other zvritin,s of every of their, to the intent thereby to know what money and other thin gs were paid in the finding of any priest or priests' anniversary or obit." This Act, it is properly observed, though it refers to the chantry contains in the above section powers and princi ples applicable to the deeds and charters of lay as well as clerical corporations. But if there were any doubt upon the subject, it would be removed by the Act of William and Mary, 1693, applicable to the Scotch burghs, to which we mean more particularly to advert. That Act, as we find it quoted in the report of the Committee on the Scotch burghs in 1821, pro ceeds on the narrative that great mat-administra tion had taken place in those corporations, and adds—ct That the care, oversight, and control of the said public good and revenues, and of the ad ministration thereof doth undoubtedly belong to their Majesties by virtue of their prerogative royal. They have therefore thought fit to declare in plene Parliament, like as they do hereby declare, that as well from what has passed as in time coming, their Majesties will give commissions, one or more, to such persons as they shall be pleased to nominate, to inquire into the state of the common good and revenues whatsoever of all the Royal burghs, and how the same bath been heretofore, or shall hereafter be employed, or misemployed, and to call the malversers and their employers to account, and to ordain and decree them, and every one of them, to refund and repay as the said commissioners shall find them liable." Such are the c onsiderations which the Tory adversaries of the corpora,ion commission ought to bear in mind, when they are invited to rail against the proceedings of the commissioners, who best show the efficiency of the zeal with which they perform their duty by the loudness of the complaints which they excite among the corrupt and the interested. The people or the great body of the inhabitants in every town which they have visited, hail their approach as the promise of reform, and are pre pared to second their efforts with their sympathy and approbation. The commissioners open their doors to all persons who choose to attend their investigations, and have thus avoided the error of the factory commissioners, who were reproached with unfair play in keeping their sit tings private. But though they have avoided the mistake of the latter, they have not been exempted from a censure of a totally opposite kind—namely, that of divulging prematurely to all the world the secrets of the corporations which they are sent to examine. It would be difficult, indeed, to please all tastes in a case of positive contradictions, where there cannot possibly be a juste milieu. If the commission ers were to hold their sittings private, they would be called a court of inquisition ; when they render them public, they are accused of appealing from the magistrates to the mob. And truly in the case of the investigations con ducted at Leicester the corporators had reason to dread publicity, and to court a secret trial. Abominations almost incredible have been de tected and revealed in the conduct of the rulers of that borough. Would it be believed, unless it had been well attested and openly admitted, that in 1825 the select few sent out 2,000 circulars to non-resident parsons and Tories, inviting them to take up their freedom to vote at the election, and that for the 800 who did so the corporation iemitted their fees, but paid the town clerk out of the trust finds of the borough ? Would it be believed that, in the succeeding election, the corporation spent in op• posing Mr. Evans, the present member, and sup porting his antagonists, the sum of 10,0001.? Would it be believed that, not having this money at their command, they would have the effrontery to borrow it on bond, and to mort gage the corporate property for the amount? Such bold, bare-faced, and gigantic corruption is, we allow, almost incredible ; but it is, never theless, true, 'though probably it could never have been divulged except by the power of this commission. But is the mere disclosure of such frightful abuses to be enough ? Is there no law or equity to make the parties repair such a profligate waste, or restore such an un disguised plunder, of the borough property ? If we cannot on due proof of the facts " call " (in the words of the Scotch statute of William and Mary already quoted) " the malversers and their employers to account, and ordain and decree them, and every one of them, to refund or repay these moneys, and the said commis sioners may find them liable," then we say there is no justice " extant" in England. The length to which these remarks have already extended obliges us to postpone till to-morrow some further comments on the Scotch Commission. We are still of opinion that no overtures re specting the final settlement of the Portuguese question have passed from the Royalist camp to Lisbon, notwithstanding the good wishes and benevolent intentions of some of Lord W. Rus sell's attaches. The incidents of the war, or th e approaching attack, may have led to communi i cations between the belligerents, but we consider them as more connected with military etiquette than as indicative of any new and sudden symp tom of reconciliation. Matters have gone too far to admit of any compromise that at all in volves the sacrifice of a principle, or partakes of humiliation. If we have judged the character of the Portuguese rightly, we should say that the Royalists stand in a position too advantageous to offer terms ; and, when we look to the other side, we cannot help thinking that Don Pedro has, at length, found that he has over-reached himself. The Portuguese—and it is a pecu liar trait of the Pyrennean Peninsulas—are cool and deliberate ; they possess the faculty of foresight to an e minent degree ; and, On mature consideration of all the stages of the present contest, we feel convinced that there is not a respectable inhabitant of either Lisbon or Oporto (and it must be borne in mind that in both places the rabble only were left behind) who can arrive at any other con clusion than this, viz., that Portugal never can be satisfied or rendered happy by a Government which makes disorder and spoliation its basis —a Government under which corruption in all its deformity stalks unabashed. In what is passing around them the Portuguese see nothing but " wild democracy, which, with _all its unbridled passions, is sure to end in oppression. In Don Pedro's Government they behold none but men who have survived the forfeiture of cha racter, and who cannot again be trusted. The great and influential part of the Portuguese po pulation is interested in the King's c ause, because they are fully convinced that it is their only means of salvation—th e only mode of stopping the inroads of anarchy. Resistance, therefore, has become a duty, prescribed alike by honour and by interest. At every pore the Portuguese have bled, and there is not a sacrifice which men can make in defence of their invaded and outraged country in whi c h th e y have not joyfully acquiesced. Their efforts, it cannot be , disguised, have not been always well directed , but nevertheless there is every reason to . believe that a new era has commenced Portugal, and at all events the ardour and devotion of the King's partisans have not diminished. In stead of a solution, two years of war, delusion , and havoc have produced rather a complication and an aggravation of the Portuguese question, because the preliminary part, that part which involves the right of sovereignty in every inde pendent State, has been totally disregarded. This point ought early to have been set at rest, and, had it been so, Portugal would long ago have been tranquil, and on the high road to im provement. Mr. Canning was the first who led us into error ; but had he lived he would have been the foremost to rectify his mistake. The contest was susceptible of a safe and just settle ment if the matter had been fairly taken up at the commencement ; but time has only increased the vehemence of the controversy, and irritated the feelings of those Portuguese who were made sensible of the indignities levelled at the national honour. In an unguarded moment we be came partisans in the cause, and as such have been inconsiderately acting ever since. We did this in defiance of a principle recog nised in all the public acts of our Govern ment—in contempt of an admitted rule of common justice, since it was not for us to discuss the forms or question the principles by which other nations govern their domestic concerns ; and much less had we the right to impeach the laws which establish the succession to the throne in foreign countries. We may still imagine that we are labouring in the cause of legitimacy, and even suppose that we are befriending the Portuguese people ; but let us look nearer, and we shall find the case to be quite the reverse. It is, therefore, time to acknowledge our error, and in a manly manner make the atonement still in our power, by bringing the question back to its primitive stage. Let it be ascertained afresh, if the award of 1828 does not suffice, who is entitled to the throne according to the! laws, interests, and wishes of Portugal. Don Pedro cannot be both judge and party, nor have his friends the right of sitting as exclusive umpires. Let the case of each claimant be fairly stated, and then let the Sovereigns of Europe decide upon the legal merits. The sentiments of the great body of the Portuguese people are already known. Except by the sword, we decidedly think that this is the only mode of settling the dispute. Unless the question of right be decided, no overtures or negotiations can have any perma nent effect. We must retrace our steps, and, this done, every thing else will be easy. If, on the other hand, we persist in an error, a general war will be the inevitable consequence of our obstinacy and folly.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. PARENTAL CRUELTY.—An anonymous letter was on Monday evening last sent to Mr. BROUGHTON, stating that a child, only eight years of age, had been, for some time past, beaten so cruelly, and de prived of the common necessaries of life, that, unless the parents were taken into custody, the child could not survive their cruelty many days longer. The Worthy Magistrates immediately sent Hanley, one of the officers, to their residence in an obscure court in Bethnal-green, who, yesterday morning, brought the father and mother of the boy to the office. The latter, on being placed at the bar before Mr. T%VYFORD, gave their names William and Catherine Bray, and stated that they were willow-workers. Hanley, the officer, on going to make inquiries that morning in Reform-place, Bethnal-green, where the prisoners lived, was informed by one of the neighbours that the child had been cruelly ill-used. " Hark," said she, " don't you now hear the screams of the child ? His father is beating him again." Witness immediately ran over to the prisoner's house, and, bursting open the house door, saw him throw the child from off a chair, which he had been beating him on, to the ground. Witness told him the nature of his errand, and expressed his surprise that he should be then beating the child. '" The boy had then," said Hanley, a bruise over his temple, and a shocking black eye. Prisoner (impudently)—Which he got by a fall while he was fighting. I merely beat him with a strap. The poor boy, by the desire of the Magistrate, was partially stripped, when a sight presented it self that drew forth an exclamation of " horrid" from every one present. The boy's breastbone was all but protruding through the skin. Mr. TWYFORD—Dreadful ! (to the male priso ner)—Are you married to that woman ? Prisoner —Yes; but the boy before you is by a former wife. Have you any other child ? Yes ; but she is only four years old. She is in the office. Let me see her. This child was also stripped, but a very different scene presented itself. This child had been well fed and taken care of. It was fat and healthy. Prisoner—The other child was always a thin child, and always ill. Mrs. Sarah l)oud, a neighbour, deposed to having every day heard the boy screaming. On one oc casion she looked through the curtain, and saw his father knock him off a chair like a bullock. On mentioning the circumstances to the mother, she said she would Ike to see the little —in the workhouse. A Mrs. Saunders, another neighbour, said she had heard the child beaten eight times a day and the poor thing screaming for assistance. Mr. TWYFORD—Did you never remonstrate with him on his cruelty ? Witness—Repeatedly. The only answer I got was that I might kiss --, and that he would beat the boy still more. Several other witnesses corroborated the account given by the last witness. Hanky, the officer—On my taking the prisoner into custody, the poor boy shuddered at the sight of his father, and ran away from him. Mr. TWYFORD (to the father) —Have you any thing to say for yourself ? Prisoner—He spoils my work, and therefore I am obliged to beat him. What ! do you employ that child to work ? Yes. Preparing willow. As to his being starved, 'tis false. He is naturally thin and skinny. Mr. TWYFORD asked the boy what he had to eat when with his parents? lle said two thin slices of bread and butter in the morning, and two in the evening, and got up to work every morning at five o'clock. rs. a G n o d df s r a e rd , a s r h io e th h e a r d ‘ i v ie i a tr r i d ess t e here e s e o n f t e rt the d e boythe office, A 1 (froml his being beaten) every day. After site heard him knocked down, and, on his crying from pain, she heard the parents say, " Hush, you —; hold your noise, or we will kill you.'' Mr. TWYFORD said he had heard quite enough of the brutality of the prisoners to send them to prison, in order that the parish authorities might pro secute them. The prisoners were committed to prison. The child was sent to the workhouse. MARY LER ONE. THE ANNOYANCE JURY.—Yesterday several gen tlemen belonging to the Annoyance Jury attended at this office, accompanied by Mr. Flood, chief clerk at the Marylebone Court-house, and stated to Mr. RA WLINSON that in the discharge of their duties they had visited, in addition to the shops of trades men, the workhouse of Nlarvlebone, and there found, in the kitchen, several weights which were deficient. Mr. Thillery, the steward of the house, who was in attendance, stated that the weights in question were not at present in use. Mr. Flood, in reply, apprehended the weights were used chiefly in weighing out the bread to the poor. Mr. RAWLINSON said that if such was the case it was a shameful fraud upon the poor inmates of the establishment, who were thus deprived of their due portion of the staff of life. The case, however, was involved in considerable difficulty, inasmuch as it did not appear to him whom he ought to amerce in the penalty. He should take time to consider the subject ; and, as it was highly desirable that the fullest inquiry should take place, be should postpone the further consideration of the matter till Monday next, when he expected the principal officers would attend, and give a more satisfactory explanation of the affair. He then complimented the deputation upon the fearless and creditable manner in which they had discharged tie important duty which had devolved upon them. A number of tradesmen who were in attendance wore amerced in penalties, and some were excused. THAMES-POLICE. SEAMEN'S WAGES.—Yesterday Mr. Fletcher, the owner of the United Kingdom, West Indiaman, which was lately run down by the Quees of Scot land steam-vessel, in the river, appeared to answer the complaint of William Vickery, a seaman, who claimed the sum of 101., wages due to him for a voyage to Jamaica and back to the port of London, under articles at 21. 10s. a month. The claims of the rest of the crew depended on the decision. The complainant having been sworn, deposed to having performed the voyage, and that on the morn ing of Sunday, the 15th, instant, while the ship was riding at anchor in Northileet Hope, she was run down by the steamer. Mr. BALLANTINE asked what had become of the ship ? Mr. Fletcher—She is lying sunk now in Gravesend Reach. Mr. BALLANTINE—Arid I suppose your answer :o this is that the crew have not earned freight ? Mr. Fletcher said his answer to the case was not that they had not earned freight, but that alter the ship was run on board by the Queen of Scotland steamer, the crew abandoned her and left her to her fate. About three quarters of an hour after the steamer struck the ship, she went down, but not in deep water, and the whole of the crew, with the ex ception of the mate and the boatswain, left her and came to London. On Monday morning, the day after the occurrence, he went on board, and, on asking for the crew, was surprised to hear that they had deserted her. He was three days and nights on the ship assisting to get her off, and, owing to the absence of the ship's company, was obliged to employ lumpers and lightermen. Sailor—l asked the mate what we were to do, and he said there was no more for us to do, and we left. I risked my life to cut away the tackle of the jib. Mr. BALLANTINE could not order payment of the wages. The law said that a seaman could not earn wages unless he earned freight, which was the mother of wages. The crew had not earned freight; they left the vessel before the freight was secured, and if they abandoned the ship they abandoned their wages. Mr. Fletcher would certainly have paid the men their wages if they had made any effort to save the ship and cargo. To show that he had not acted on a hasty conclusion, be handed in a letter he had re cently received from his mate, in answer to one he had written, in which the fact of the desertion of the crew was placed beyond doubt. Mr. BALLANTINE—I am of opinion this claim is not made out, and I dismiss the case. Mr. Fletcher said the crew had commenced pro ceedings against him in the Admiralty Court, and he had instructed his proctor to resist the demand. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGARS.-The extensive arrivals of last week occa sioned a very heavy Sugar market, and the prices of Muscovadoes generally declined le. per cwt. ; the total estimated sales were 2,000 Mids. and tierces. The Sugar Market has again been uncommonly heavy ; the estimated sales this day a few hundred hhds. and tierces; the prices ere Is. to ls. 6d. lower than on this day week. The Barbadoes Sugar to-day went off 6d. to Is. lower. By public sale this day 134 hhds. Barbadoes Sugtr, all sold 595. Gd. a 645. 61., being full Gd. hewer than last sale. The stock of West India Sugar is now 49,963 lards. and trs., being 5,435 more than last year. The stock of Mauritius 95,924 bags, being 46,463 more than last year. The delivery of. West India is 2,162 hhds. and trs , being 1,192 less than last year The delivery of Mauritius is 6,430 b.gs, being 3,503 more than the corresponding week of 1832. The Refined Market continued in a very depressed state all the last week ; offers were made for fine Crushed at 345. to 345. 6.1. ; a few sales at the latter were reported, but the holders generally ask 355., and few sellers even at that price; some low Crushed sold at 31s. In the inferior Goods for export no transactions were reported. The wholesale Grocers bought the fine Goods for the home consumption on the most confined scale, and only purchased for their immediate wants. There is no alteration in the Refined Market this afternoon. MAURITIUS SUGAR.-The Sugar last week went off generally Is. per cwt lower, about the same decline as West India Sugars. By public sale this day, 1,707 bags Mauritius Sugars sold from 525. 6d. to 635. per cwt, fully sustaining last Friday's prices. Ease INDIA SUGAR.-The few sales of East India Sugars last week were at a further reduction of Is. per cwt. No business in East India of any description, prices nominally the same. FOREIGN SUGAR.-In addition to the late extensive private contract sales of Havannah for Russia, which we enumerated about 1,000 boxes were taken at 355. last w i eek aa ed white, for still l o dx bg v lu h ete i t t e ea . d gAon,t, dypublic sale h the p i public partat lei d ii of o l iad 4: 3 b oxes 22:l1. tos 325. 6d., the remainder taken in at high rates. Brazil Sugar g is chests Havannah Sugar .were offered, 1,400 chests were yellow, all of which were bought in at 255. 6d. to 275., and the white at 335. 6d. to 365., excepting 40 chests of strong middling white at 335. 6d. per cwt, which is Is. 61. lower than previous transactions. Average price of Sugar 1/. 15s. 6i- I. per cwt. COYFF:E.-There was no animation in Coffee last week, but the large buyers still watch the market. At a public sale, 1,000 bags St. Domingo were offered, and 655. 6d. appeared to be the highest offer ; the whole of the sound was taken in at 665. 6d. A floating cargo of St. Do mingo at Cowes sold at 669. deliverable at Hamburg, the buyers to pay the trade dues. Some good ordinary Brazil sold at 651. ; Sumatra 555. to 575. In British Plantation Coffee very few sales were reported, the prices were with out alteration. The Coffee M t rket exceedingly quiet. Cocoa..-A parcel of Brazil Cocoa has been sold by private contract at 275. Last week at public sale, 300 bags Trinidad met with no buyers; the whole was taken in. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS..-The extensive arri vals of Rum have occasioned a very dull Market ; but there are no sellers at any reduction, and in consequence, the sales reported are quite inconsiderable. Brandy is still held with much firmness-In Geneva there is no alteration. A JULACK.-487 cases Batavia Arrack, 6 per cent. over 2s. 6d. per gallon, all sold at full prices. TALL ow.—The Tallow Market continues very heavy, a reduction of Is. 6d. a 2s. has taken place in the prices. ec.—The accounts from the Straits Fishery proving very favourable, all common Oils have fallen 21. to 4/. per tun, and are heavy of sale. Rape al is also a shade lower. Sperm Oil, owing to large arrival, from Sydney, is flit at the late advance. Linseed Oil is still in great request, and considerable sales making for present use, and for monthly delivery up to March next. Tur. pentine, for a small lot this week, 12s. 4id. per cwt, has been paid. S hasb r e ic en Es— firml y P e p m p a e i r n h t a a i s n b e ( e l e .. n brisk, Pimento aml is late to advance d. lower. SALTPETRE.-The market has been doll, the prices nearly nominal. At the Company's sale on Friday, 235 tons uncleared, sold at from 3Ss. 6d. to 415., being 3s. a os. lower than it was sold far at the Company's list sale. This saltpetre was bought by a speculator, and when he found there was no chance of the market rising, be forfeited his deposit ; the Company had therefore no alternative but to sell the article at the best price they could obtain. larsit Pnovisfoss..—The arrivals in the last week were —of Foreign Butter 3,394 casks—of Irish 16,514 firks., and of Bacon only :370 bales.—Fine Friesland Butter moves off heavily at the quay at 52e. a 83s. per cwt ; bus although the arrivals of Irish were large last week, there was not only a corresponding large delivery from the tha wharfs, but rather unpreeeJented for the sewn d year. Sellers are in general demanding a n advance Or, almost all description., particularly upon Limerick sou good assortments of Coil; ; we quote Carlow as to reridt! of the shippers 765. a 795. on board, 77.. a 809. la>s ; Belfast 765. on hoard, '77s. a '789. landed ; Cork 76d, a 745. on board, 755. a 765. landed; Limerick 1:3" 1 745. on board, 765. a 765. 6d. landed ; Waterford I.7's'rd 765. on board, 755. a 775. landed; Sligo 71s. on , b f a ot : '73s. a 74e. landed ; Newry 695. and Bainbridge '7""e„' board. The holders of old Bacon evince more 6rrijt•ree and for new prime singed of small weights there tag, sale as it arrives at 40s. a 41s, per cwt, and at qe 395. on board for immediate shipment. Bale Mid' 6 4 t4 • quote 28s. to 30e.; Belfast Tierce. Middles 32" t° ,,, 6 60 '. ': Limerick 295. to 40e .- Prime Bladder Lard 57 " '" lo dits Limerick small Hams 745. India Beef 61. 10s• ; Pork Si. to 51. 2'. 6d. Prime Mess Beef 51. 'p o rk second quality 41. 12s. 6d. to Si. Prime Mess 31. 2s. 6d. and second quality 21. 15s. to 21. 17e , 6d ; t he FRUIT.-Currants continue inquired after ; b u ' nfe cl holders do not appear inclined to effect sales at the itoP,„ ' currency. There are few currants left in the iinpor h ands. d el SILKS.-Since our last report, long and s l,ort to Brutia Rawl have advanced 6d. per lb.; Italian Ra 44 ;ad and a further advance upon all descriptions of Raw Thrown Silk is expected. sci ; COTTON.-The Cotton market has been very• the quantity exported from the United States is vel d $ tensive, and if the great speculations are continue l e o further very extensive capital must be laid out. sales made here last week were at a reduction of id. toi per lb., hut they were forced sales. Hops.—There has been some briskness in the hi t Market, and higher prices have been paid. The duty fallen to 14 —ln RicB,oo/. Rlcs. o e there is little alteration ; the O rket continues very heavy. INDIOO.-There is no alteration in Indigo. TEA. —Bobeas are selling at cost price ; in other oe rtfi no particular alteration since the sale. CoUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE W Per Quartet: s. to 8. s. to S. s. to s. S. 0 51 Boston , 48 53 211 32 26 22 36 40 Gainsborough .... 57 34 18 --• Si) Grantham .... . 52 58 36 41 17 25 37 43 Grimsby lO CO 20 25 18 20 40 4i 4 Ho rn cas t I e—.............. 44 54 20 24 15 '2O 3 6, 0, Lincoln . 5O 58 36 38 17 '2l 4 :t. 4% Spi Ist) y 46 52 26 '2B 16 20 3 6 4I Stamford 49 58 28 38 18 23 3 --- 6 0 York,. 44 60 26 35 16 22 4_?.....„/ NORWICH. Sept. 21. 30' Wheat (per qr.) 445. Ms. 58s. I Beans (per qr.) Barley 20s. 265. 2Ss. Pease, 45s Oats Wheat, white....- - Barley, Malting Oats Beans _ Pease CANTERBU RI, Sept. '2l 575. to 635...,.... Old* —O . to .... „*" 4. 48s. to 60s. —O. to f 21.0. 265. to 325. Grulding.. 225. too. 20s. to 255. .--. Old 20s. t° ,s. 31s to 355..,.,,.,. W 5,41. 30s. to 365. M.. Grey...—. 30s. to MANCHESTER, Sept. 21. • 0 ,11 Wheat, per 701 b. Bs. Od. to Ss. 2d. Red 75.94. to 66 5 Barley, per 601 b 5 0 5 6 Oats 3 2 oa S 0 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 0 4'2 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 3B 0 4 3 Flour, per Sack of 2801 h 4O 0 IRISH MA] DUBLIN MARKET NO' From ,RKETS. ITK—Fen • !DAY ' Sept. 2 0 ' Are. To Ave r y) .3 0 94 12 6 12 It 15 0 14 0 1° 0 21 0 "" 9 14 0 1° 14 0 21 0 17 Flour 435. 4d. per 5 acK,.,,,,1 1,1 _, from 19i. Od. to from 14i. Od. to ; UP Od. to "`""chi 3,575 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 20 0 379 Bere l6 stone 12 0 38 16 stone 14 0 2,551 Oats 12 stone 8 3 11,443 Cwt. Flour 9 stonel 5 0 834 8 stone) 8 0 Sold to Bakers only. %RBI Cwt. Flout Average price of Wheat am Receipts of Flour, 12,952 IL irst 'h Sales of Do. 11,443 Thirds ?RICE OF tAd. ~............ ir BREAD. Half Quai Quartern Loaf. CORK MARKF'I'S.—Sept. 21. Wheat (per 20st.) Barley (per 16st.) Oats (per 14st.) Flour (per cwt.) Oatmeal (per cwt.) 0 0 10 0, , Beef, sd. to 6cl. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. • Veal, tki. to eo• ' Pork, '2d. to 21d. ; Fresh Butter, lid, to 12d. Per lb ' PRICE OF BUTTER. C un t'l' To the Merchants. To the o First Quality 7ss. 6 53 • Second 7l 6O Third 62 52 43 Fourth 53 Fifth ' ` I lk:,. : ::::: 35 Sixth CLONMELL MARKETS.—Sept. 20. Per Cwt. s , d s. d. s. d. s 0 0 . 0. New Butter 7'2 0t073 0 Hides (raw) ....... s tO 0 0 , 0 Oatmeal 11 0 0 Bacon Pigs ........ .-- ..0 Rendered Lard.-- 0 40 0 Heads 610 0 0 Per ag. 0 0 0 Flour, Second .... 0 34 0: Flour, Thirds 25 0 ..• —Household— 0 32 0: Fourths 14 0 6 Per Barrel. 11 i Rapeseed '2O 0 0l Barley P 2 Bere 0 11 0 Coals ..... 3 Per Stone. 2 1 31Tallow (rough)... 5 7 001 Potatoes 0 Per Pound. 0 1 2; Mutton .... 81 0 atiVeal..- 0 6 6 4; Wheat I Oats 0 4 0, Fresh Butter 1 Beef 0 o KILKENNY.—Butter 765. to 78s. per cwt. ; Wheat 2 3 '• 01,j, per barrel ; Flour Hs. to 323. per bag; Oats Bs. to !Os. trt 5 rel ; Barley 12s. to 13s. ; Beef 4d. to 54 . per lb. ; 0 t. to 51d. ; Potatoes 4d. per stone • Coals Is. Okper cW figs 265. to 275. Od. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. , , 20 .„,, HA DDI NGTON CORN Al A lIKET.--SeP" - i;efl'ii,l Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 53s 0 ,1 First 64s Od I 31s Od I 214 04 32s Od ols 0 ,1 Second Ms Gd 27s Od 193 lid 313 Od Os" , Third - There were 477 qrs. of Wheat in ma B rket, 4' 6 wher eot 14 Unsold --0 Grey. Average. 21 155.5,1.'7-Wtb'' r. DA LK 1 E*ll2H CO ItN ivl Alt KET.—SeP L 19. 0e!il, Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. I tease. I :0' th', First Ws Od 29s Gd 9:25, 4d 335 Od O.P . e , Second s2s Od 26s Od 21s Od 345 (I ' "third 4230(1 22s Od 18s 8d 32s G. 0 :. ---- . t rg I 4P, THE DUCHESS OF BERRY IN LA ' ".o'g ill —ln consequence of important documents havablidoe received privately from France yesterday, th e „ P n ut. A lil j of the above work is deferred until to.toc r ', - i c ti "„,01 1 remarkable tenor of this additional matter, wi i ,' o , ii,v ii ,ol not be inserted in the Paris edition of the 07 ,.. r „ yol' i e the risk of being suppressed there, impeaches tm ` f olf i e ;1 0 character of some of the leading men of Fran ce ' o gsg, ; b e lady that of Marshal Sault, who, it is sai d ' 5 1 . y, l ' o ec' insure success to the cause of the Duchess of ne , frs , would promise him the high office of Constable o' , g O ll tie rs 7, POOR-LAW COMMISSION.--We oa r oa r-, that a Commission of Inquiry, on the subject of Poet!, V in Ireland, which was made the subject of mu ch I li `;,rell in the last Session of Parliament, is iturned i %pe O f issued, and that Mr. More O'Ferrall has bee n bidb%git' Chief Commissioner, conjointly with the Arc' or 06 Dublin. The circumstances under which o ° , l . o :pie ment has taken place are no less complimen ta ;itre character of the Hon. Member for Kildare tboi :1 to P e e, to the choice of the Government, and calcul A ll o t 0 ' security and confidence to the Irish people. os ioi 9 t ietli' abled to say that, in this first step towards the 3 o f the ire a most desirable object—a knowledge of the srateto iagl i f i r e , ' tute population of Ireland—there is everything„pirit ° f ro' hope that the inquiry will be carried on in, , t iro ° C :eoc i and unprejudiced investigation. The intrOa tle er ta,ioe c oo' vision for the poor will depend on th e asc,, to are ellii, dition of the country, without any refere°- ~,,el4lrri ceived notions or favourite theories. 113e9e id• CI , O le shied to say, are the terms on which Mr' " w et has undertaken the arduous and important Ju t / ___,,,,,, Commissioner.—Dublin Freeman's Joni's ° ' Commissioner.—Dublin Freeman's dm.,-- (t he BIRTIIS. h O P 4 , On the 23d inst. at Aldbury Rectory, lier t ' S ' t. e SW * Rev. James Galloway, of a daughter, of B.lf ° A I: On the 23d inst., in Portland-place, at the htt e er, ° .,, f° 1 0-- Curtis, Bart., the lady of the Rev. Montagu e' . s . '" l 'w e ~.„,100 , o f On the 22. d lost. , at Etchilhampton, near li` oli of the Rev. T. V. Fosbery, of a daughter. Wig ht,. ti le On the 20th inst., at Woodlands, Isle of Charles Cooch, Esq., of a daughter. :5 ; 0 1 MARRIED. ~ ix 119 ; 004 ,, On the 19th inst., at West Raynharn, I`TIN W .,:t/0 0 41' George Townsnend Hudson, Captain FrederieXl-- 0 to er v i son of the late General and Lady Elizabeth Ilif tu t .'stif c V ). second daughter of the late Rich. Phayre, E g i i .. ° ,,jie t eets i On the 22d and 23d inst., at the Boman Cati.‘' , ,01 , .. ° Warwick.street, and at St. James's Church, W e : ilf f , M. Fraser, of Antwerp, to Emilie, only clailgMe' ',lellfot Nottebohm, Esq., of the same place. Jo l llo l7‘ o On the 24th inst., at St. Giles's, Cambervia, ~, 1 . 1 iti Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-lasv,?)10 Cooke, only daughter of Wm. Moseley, Esq., Surrey. 14(' 0 0 , 1 ov DIED. n e •on On the 22. d inst, in his 74th year, a t Darkii--400e, :4, Thomas Walter, 32 years of his Majesty's Stage' 001 sally beloved and respected by all who knew hire:_. , fiii , On the 21st inst., at Emmetts, near Sevenoaio r, 94' Biggs, Esq., aged 60. as On the 23d inst., in the Regent's-park. Tholli 4 111 of Lincoln's Inn-fields. ---- .1 * ----.--11---il 00 PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY NI U R El CO Y° SUN OFFICS, 112, 8111012 Qtr, ~bi G er , bilit, t. P 4 , .. %ci it s 9 ), c °CI th