The Sun. — London, England, 1839-10-03 00:00:00

E V N LNG EDITION LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL. The very interesting ceremony attendant upon the ad mission of the 40 children who had been last month elected to be inmates of this admirable Institution, took place on Tuesday, at the School-house, Kennington-lane. At three o'clock, a large number of the friends of the suesreaful candidates and of the Society, all of whom took a very lively interest in the proceedings, assem bled in the boys' school-room, and immediately after wards the children in the establishment were assem bled there—the twenty boys and twenty girls who had been recently elected being placed in the front. The Governor, Mr. Reader, accompanied by the Trustees and Committee, then entered the apartment, and The GOVERNOR, addressing the assembly, said—La dies and Gentlemen, I beg sincerely to congratulate the friends of the children who, at the last election, were chosen to become the inmates of this establishment ; and, in stating this, I feel assured that in seeing these children to-day before us, the circumstances which have placed them there are as much a subject of gratification to the Committee as they can be to yourselves.—( Hear.) The objects of this charity are so well known to you all, that little has been left to me to say upon this subject. You are all aware that the children fostered by this es tablishment are with the most zealous care protected and educated, and it must be a matter of the highest gratifi cation to all who are interested in the happiness of those children who tosday have been fortunate enough to be admitted as inmates of this school, that they have been She successful candidates.—( Hear, hear.) It would have been most satieactory to me if all who pre sented themselves could have been admitted. This , 'however, was impossible, and I can only hope that those who have been lately unsuccessful may be admitted neat year.—(Hear, hear.) Ladies and Gentlemen, you now see around you all the children protected by this Institution. It is gratifying to reflect that many of them are about to leave the e stablishment after having derived from it all the benefits that could be be s t owe d by it upon them during the period for which they have been protected here, and I heartily hope that, w h en t h ey do leave the school, from the education they bavereceived, and the principles which have been inculcated upon their minds, they may all become good and prosperous members of society.—(Hear.) I have known many instances in which children who were educated in this school have oc cupied a fterwards most respectable situations, and become tradesmen well off in the world. I have known many such, and have still the pleasure of the acquaintance of many such—and I feel it always a source of great pleasure to be in the company of those who, having been children educated in this school, are now pros perous and respected members of society; and I sin cerely trust that every child educated here may live to fill a similar position.—(Hear, hear.) Many of those to whom I have alluded arc now life subscribers to this Institution.—( Hear, hear.) And it cannot fail to be satisfactory to all who are connected with it to learn that this is the fact—(Hear, hear)—and to think that those individuals have so appreciated the benefits and advantages of the Institution in which they have been educated, that they willingly and anxiously " put their hands in the pockets" to aid the means by which it is maintained. I hope, then, Ladies and Gentlemen, that the children who are now about to leave the school—and they are many—may endea vour to preserve the character which the education they have received has tended to promote, in whatever situations they may be placed, and I trust also that when they have left their present home, to occupy those situations, they may reflect credit upon and look with gratitude to this Institution ; and that they may never regret that they have been brought up in it.— ( Hear.) I hope also, Ladies and Gentlemen, that the children woo are now before you, as well those who have been for sonic time here, as those who to day have been admitted, may pay such regard to their master and mistress as will tend to the happiness that must result to them, if they attend to their advice and instruction.—( Hear, hear.) Let me hope also (address ing the children) that none of you will ever be guilty of telling an untruth—always tell the truth, be the con sequences what they may, and you will never re gret it. Never take from another that which does not belong to you, for this will inevitably lead to that system of misconduct which has produced the worst members of society.—(Hear, hear.) To you, children, who have been admitted to-day, I feel pride and plea sure in addressing myself. I trust that you will pay strict attention to the instructions of those to whose superiatendence you are entrusted ; and I feel satisfied at the same time, that the gentlemen who compose the Committee will do all that is possible to contribute to your present comfort and to the prosperity of your future lives.—( Hear.) lam happy to announce that in the present year as in the last, we have been enabled to admit 40 children to the school, who make the entire number now in the establishment 170 children.—(Hear and cheers.) This is a larger number than could be enumerated at any former period—( Hear)—and I trust, therefore, that all who are here present will endeavour, by every means within their power, to persuade such of their friends as have not yet subscribed to it, to support this institution—(Hear,hear)--tor if all of you knew,as I do, the good it has done and the benefits it daily con fers, I am satisfied there is no one who would hesitate a moment in coining forward cheeeully and handsomely to support an institution so useful as this must be acknow ledged to be.—(Hear, hear.) By such means 1 hape— as I have before stated—that we any be enabled next year to admit all the children ,who may present them selves, without an election.—(Hear, hear.) lam sorry I have detained you so long.—( No, no.) I shall, how ever, conclude with this remark, I am eatisfi d that when the friends of the children te-day admitted return home, they will do so with the conviction that they leave them possessed of all the comfort and happiness they could wish for, and with every reason to thank their benefactors for their kindness and attention from the moment they have entered the school to that in which they may leave it.—( Hear.) I have also to hope that the friends of the children will pay strict attention to the rules and regulations under which they have been admitted, and that they will not ask for their ab sence from the school unless in cases of the sickness or death of their relatives. Upon the regularity with which the school is conducted depends its success, and I trust, therefore, that no person will attempt to infringe upon the rules which have le-cn estaidished for its direction.—CHear, hear, bear.) I now beg to bid fart:we] to the parents of the children who have teen to-day admitted, wishing to them every happiness, end assuring them that whenever they may visit the school they will find their children in such a state as cannot fail to afford them the greatest pleasure. —('Hear, hear.) The Governor concluded by stating, that as so delightful an occasion as the present could ne• rr again occur to him, he would present ail the children in the school with a fourpenny-piece each.—(Hear, and cheers.) The' children accordingly clme up in succession to the Governor's chair, and each was presented by him with the promised gratuity. The children next sang their last anniversary hymn in a very affecting and impressive manner, after which the boys gave three times three hearty cheers and one cheer more, and the assembly then separated. DEAFNESS AND DEFECTIVE VISION.—At length these dreadful maladies arc completely obviated, without torture end serious risk by medical treatment. The Messrs. S. and B. Solomons, Opticians and Aurists to their Majesties the King alai Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Prinusses Augusta and Sophia, &c. &c., have constructed a Voice-Conductor, and newly invented Spectacle Lenses, which will be found in most ex treme cases to effect instant relief. It is seldom or ever That an invention of striking merit is laid before the public that ignorant pretenders do not start forth ; in RO ea.e is this more observable than in Leland as well as England, by persons who not only assume the name of So lomons, but actually as having a connection with thtir house. Numerous ladies and gentlemen are daily calling who have been misled by these pretenders, and who have made purchases of their spurious imitations, which they term Voice t ! ,, nductera and Spectacle a, suilposing them to be the Messrs. Solomons' inventio not only proved to be useless but productive of very ill efficts. The Messrs. Solomons do not employ any agents or travellers—their improvements in the materials are secrets to themselves, and are solely co,fincd to their e,tablish scent, Albemarle-strett and 96, Cheapsidfa. THE v! D , ikONIANCE OF PRIVATE LIFE. BY hes Buituirr.—The absolute truth and singular force stud spirit novel which c h aracter i se t h e d eta il s o f this admira bleskill which theare rendered d ou bly e ff ec ti ve by the happy writer has evinced in the construction and management of her plot. We have nothi ng in our wildest &Orions more exciting the curi os ity ; w hil e th e m i n ute truth of detail s b y the st ory i s wor k e d out g i ves an air and effect of reality tuld o the wh o l e , f or t h e a b sence of which no ether quality could compensate. falle n Miss Bur ney has, in fact, scarc e ly short her celeb ra t e d relative in the troth of her ite nse consecutive sustained by delineations of act ua l lif e , while site has surpassed h er i n that s interest which is only to he excelledn and the skilful development of a carefully digested aplot. ANECDOTE OF DANIEL WEBSTER.—.A few years since Mr. Webster was near his grounds and close to the bank of a small stream. The showers had been old man and this river was full to the brim. Webster man came along on foot, and meeting N without knowing him, inquired the way to a certai n house in tot e vicinity. Mr. Webster told him that he must brake a path which led across the stream. The old man remarked that the river apperred to be deep, an d asked if theca was no other way of reaching the place of his destination. Being informed that there was no other, he seemed to be in some anxiety, when Mr. Web ster offered to carry him over. After some parley this offer was accepted, and, mounting a pair of broad slsoulders, the old man rode safely across the stream on Daniel Webster's back. But there was nothing in the circumstance which seemed to strike him as peculiar, save the good nature o f t h e act ; an d i n t hi s wa y h e mentioned it at the place he was going to. The story led to some i nquiries, and the old - mansoon learnt who it was that, ai a friend in need, had been a friend in deed.--Vein York Evangelist, THE a 'REVIVALS AT PAISLEY. A Correspondent who was present at the ser on delivered by Mr. Burns, of Dundee, in the High Ch rch on Tuesday evening, has handed us a number o re markable sayings expressed by this zealous found r of Scottish revivalism in the course of the evenidg, of which the following are a few that every reade may form his own opinion of ; In the course of his opening prayer, Mr. Burns expressed his thankfulness that he " was not born either before or after this period, but at the time when the out pouring of the spirit was taking place ;" and, " as at Kilsyth they bad beat a whole battalion of devils, and the teeth were chattering in Satan's head in con sequence, he, therefore, earnestly prayed for strength that they might continue the fight. In the course of his sermon, he declared that thou sands who had sat in the pews before him were now in hell. He wished the solid square of fellow-beings he saw around him might he saved ; but this wish was need less, for they were rocked in the cradle of carnal ease, and the devil was rocking the cradle. After a lengthened description of the horrors of the pit, he said thousands were rushing to it ; and they went by the counting-room, the ball-room, the theatre, and the church. Popery was destroying its millions, Socinianism its thousands, and lukewarmness its tens of thousands. The last declaration of this celebrated modern preacher which we quote, was, that it ought to be written over the door of every public house, " this is the nearest road to hell !" In referring to this sen tence, our Correspondent argues, that if public houses be the nearest road to hell, it must be by the liquor the people drink who go to them. Ergo, he never expects to see another town's statement published, like those of the last five years, with an item so intimately con nected with the road to the infernal regions as " Thirteen pounds, sixteen and eight pence, for wine and brandy for the private use of the Ministers and Kirk Sessions." And this providod at the public expense. At the close of the sermon delivered by Mr. Burns, Mr. M'Naughtan rose and stated that he believed it was from want of time that his young friend had omitted to mention another road to the pit besides those he had pointed out, and that was through the church (as by law established, we presume). lie then intimated that be would preach himself on the following evening ( Wednesday) in the same place ; and, accordingly, Mr. Naughtan did preach on Wednesday evening to a respectable audience, a serious sermon, free from the coarse debasing allusions we have quoted, and remark able for nothing but the ability Mr. M'N. usually dis plays in his discourses. There was also a sermon in the High Church on Thursday and Friday evenings ; but neither at these, nor at any of the other nightly preachings, was there either fainting, crying, or the slightest breach of deco rum, if we except the conduct of one woman who was turned out, crying, " I'm no fou," " I'm no fou," but whether the woman was " fou" or not, was not ascer tained by the bulk of the audience.—Glasgow Chron. THE WEATHER. The fine weather enjoyed in London for several suc cessive days seems to have been pretty general through out the country, and the progress of the harvest has consequently been but little interrupted. From Scot land and Ireland, too, the reports received are fa vourable. In the latter country Connaught, with the exception of Sligo, seems to have been this year pecu liarly exempted from the bad effects of the heavy rains which fell during the two last months. The Dun fries Courier says—" After a brief interval, which promised much, and induced many to open sheaves which would have remained closed were prescience granted to erring man, the weather in this quarter was most distressing up to Saturday last ; and many a time and oft the thought recurred— • The rain, it raineth every day.' This day (Monday) promises well, as the barometer has now reached a pretty high point. No rain having fallen since Saturday forenoon, leading has already been prac ic,tble ; a result mainly owing to the favourable breezes of Sunday ; and we sincerely trust that the hopes of all will not be again damped, as was the case in the begin ning of last week." MANCHESTER AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S EXHIBITION.-Tim seventy-second annual meeting of this Society for the show of stock, and exhibition of implements, roots, and seeds, for agricultural purposes, took place on Tuesday, in the Police Yard, Clarence street, Princes-street. The competition was announced to be open to stock from any part of the United Kingdom. The members assembled at ten o'clock in the morning, to elect new members and adjudge the premiums. There was a dinner to conclude with, at which Mr. Lech, was in the chair. NEW POLICE OFFICE.—The spot selected by Mr. Ray and the clerk of the Thames Police Court, for the new office, is a piece of ground on the south -ide of the Commercial-road, opposite Arbour-square, bout a mile and a quarter from Whitechapol Church. , The alterations proposed in the erection of the new Court; and another at Hackney, are these :—The Court at Hackney will have a district assigned to it, consisting of Hackney and the places adjacent, and part of the district of Worship-street, which is over burthened with business. The new Court in the Com mercial-road will take part of the present Lambeth street district, the land district at present assigned to the Thames Police Office, and the cases from the river below bridge and the docks. From this arrangement it ill he seen that the number of Police Offices will not be increased at the east end of the metropolis, but the business will. The Tnamcs Police Magistrates will go to the new Court in the Commercial-road, and those of Lambeth-street to Hackney. The present Thames Police Office will be used as a station for the Thames or Marine Division of the Metropolitan Police. The Animals' Friend Society, last week, caused Samuel Evard to be fined 20s. by Mr. Greenwood, for having cruelly whipped a horse, and Samuel Darnell 7s. by Mr. Trail', for cruelty to a horse while breaking it in. Mr. Burrell, however, we were surprised to find, dismissed two most aggravated cases of two fellows without badges or number having lashed an omnibus horse all the way from the Lambeth-road to the north end of Westminster-bridge, the evidence having beer given by two e itnesses. Several other cases in London and Dover were brought forward by its officers during the week. The Society also held a very large and hi2hly respectable meeting of its friends in Dover last Friday evening, Mr. Horsenail in the Chair, when Dr. Styles (author of the prize essay and member of the London Committee of this valuable institution), attended cud eloquently pleaded the cause, as did also Mr. Horse nail, the Rev. Messrs. Thompson and Lillicrop, and Messrs. Elwin and John Mummery, and several other gentlemen of talent and influence. COACH ACCIDENTS.—On Monday, the 30th September, at about a quarter to eight P.M., the Paul Pry Cheltenham, coach SN as overturned in London -street, Paddington, at the entrance of the Great Western Rail way station, when it was about to be placed on tne eight o'clock train. As it was passing the gate the near horse took fright at a man who was passing by, and turned so suddenly as to run the wheels into the side drain of the road, in spite of all the efforts of the coachman, who was a very steady roan, and who has long been in the employ of Messrs. Gilbert, the proprietors of the coach. There was a considerable load on the roof, and seven outside and one inside passengers, who all escaped, with the ex ception of one gentleman, who was thrown against the pier of the gate ; the body of the coach crushed his head against the brickwork. He was immediately ex tricated and conveyed to St. George's Hospital, where he lies in a precarious state. The other passen gers and luggage proceeded on their journey by a later train.—On Wednesday evening last, when near Stretford, the axletree of the coach running between Northwich and Manchester, known as " Ruffley's" coach, broke, and several of the passengers were thrown off, but no injuries sustained beyond the inflic tion of a few scratches. With a little delay an omnibus was procured, and the horses taken from the coach being put to it the passengers proceeded onwards. At the Unicorn Inn in Altrincham the driver pulled up, and having to adjust some lugguge on the roof, kit the horses standing alone. The horses finding their heads freed, started off at full gallop, taking the Stockport road. Some 4,7 the passengers escaped by jumping out ; but others in doing so were severely injured. The last passengers in the omnibus were a female and her two little children. With these, one of which she tied upon her back, and the other grasped under her arm, she too, jumped out, and falling upon her head was killed upon the spot. The horses proceeded at full speed through Timperley, until coming in contact with the toll-gate, the omnibus was literally knocked to pieces. The wheels yet remaining to the horses they continued on, and were ultimately stopped about four miles from Al trincham. The females who thus shockingly met her death was the wife of a journeyman tailor near North wich, and the mother of four children. She had been away from home a fortnight, on a visit, and was on her return when the accident happened.—Macclesfield Courier. On Tuesday Wm. Merritt, a coal-whipper, was charged before the Hon. G. C. Norton, at Lambeth- Street, with stabbing his wife with a table knife on the left arm, in so serious a mrnner that she is considered in great danger. From the evidence it appeared that at a late hour on Saturday the prisoner returned home, and having a slight altercation with his wife, he took up a table knife and stabbed her in the right arm with such vi o l ence t h at the blade passed r i ght t h roug h th e fleshy part, about four inches from the shoulder. Prisoner, being asked what he had to say, replied—" lied—" It's all the effect o f jealousy, I was drunyl;P at the time." Mr. Norton---" Jealousy, y' so pr eva l ent t h at some ser i ous indeed This abominable system of stabbi ng is becoming examples must be made to check it The certificate from one of th e medical officers cer belonging ." to the Lon don Hospital was h ere banded in, and it appearing from it that the woman was in danger , 'andnoti n a fit state to be removed, the prisoner was remanded to a future day. THE SUN, LONDON. THURSDAY, OCTOBREZ 3. 1839 EXTENSION OF THE SUFFRAGE. TO THE RIGHT HON. LORD BROUGHAM AND VAUX. My Lord,—l am induced to address myself to you I Lordship thus familiarly in the hope that you will excuse the liberty I have taken in doing so, on a subject, poli tically speaking, dearest to my heart, and I firmly be lieve, viewed with intense interest by a vast number of the intelligent working men of the United Kingdom. I beg to state my political opinions are, and have been for some years, what is termed ultra-Radical, believing that until the Parliament is made truly responsible to the majority of the people it is in vain to seek for good and cheap Government. Holding such opinions, it is not surprising that on the promulgation of the principles in an embodied form, called the People's Charter, I be came an advocate and supporter of such measure, con sidering that the enactment of it as the law of the land would have the effect of rendering one branch of the Legislature, the Commons' House of Parliament, in the fullest sense of the word, controllable by the people. The only cause of apprehension was that such mea sure, by enfranchising indiscriminately all the male population of the empire, might in practice for a short period enable a corrupt and wealthy Aristocracy still to domineer over the people by the means of bribing the ignorant or apathetic amongst the labouring classes, and intimidating their immediate dependants and retainers. But this evil seemed to sink into a trifle when I con sidered the influence which would be derived from the other points of the Charter, as equal electoral districts. The Ballot,absence of property qualification, &c., which I thought would enable the sincere Reformers to coun teract much, if not all, the unjust influence brought to bear against the people, and likewise that is no case could greater errors be committed than under the pre sent system, and that even what were committed, by the spread of knowledge and the exercise of the thinking faculties generated by the mere fact of having a vote to dispose of, would speedily be rectified, and their recurrence effectually guarded against. Considering therefore that a short time would suffice to remove these obstacles, I supported the Charter and Universal Suf frage, as embodied in it, as the only just basis of r epre sentation which had been laid open to the public, and I fully expected to find that it would receive the sup port of a large portion of those electors who have avowed themselves dissatisfied with the working of the pre sent system, as well as all those who, though not feeling the evils under which the great body of the labouring classes are now suffering, were yet open to conviction,and ready to support any measure for the benefit of the people which could lay claim to be founded in justice. Judge then of my disappointment at finding that n early all those classes by whose means such a measure could be peaceably carried, either stood aloof or stigmatized the whole body as robbers, levellers, incendiaries, and even murderers ; who, instead of attempting to forward mea sures calculated to produce union between themselves and the working classes, either from apathy or opposi tion, aided the enemies of all Reform to imprison many of our most worthy advocates, and overrun th e coun t r y with an ob nox i ous police and increased military force, which may one day be used to prostrate the few re maining liberties of the country, aye, and even used against themselves should they dare to agitate for the removal of their grievances. But, although the con duct of the electors towards the working classes has been, to say the least of it, very reprehensible, I am willing to believe that a great deal of the apathy and opposition displayed by them may spring from the im pression assiduously propagated by the great part ,of the press, that the Chartists would accept nothing short of Universal Suffrage ; and hostility likewise may have been induced by the belief that a great proportion of the labouring population were not in a sufficiently in telligent state to exercise the right of voting with benefit to the country at large. Such scruples as the above having a plausible appearance, I was in hopes some one would suggest some plan of representation which, whilst founded on a comprehensive basis, would be likely to obtain the support of a majority of both classes ; but in this, as far as the middle classes are concerned, I have been deceived. I therefore think it expedient that they should have another opportunity, and should we fail a second time in obtaining their aid under a change of circumstances, we shall have only our own resources to rely upon, and whatever may be the result of our determination to share the Elective Franchise, no evils that may befal the country through our endeavours to obtain our just rights can fairly be laid to our charge, but must be charged to those who, having the power, refused to concede justice, or inquire into our griev ances with a view of affording redress. Acting under these views, and believing it yZ , t possible to array the great body of electors with the non-electors in de manding equal rights, I have thought it would have the desired effect if your Lordship would give some tangible form to a plan of intellectual suffrage, which your Lordship hinted at in some of your speeches during the present year, and although aware that in embodying such a measure, there are many difficulties to contend with, yet I know of no mind more capable than your Lordship's, of surmounting those obstacles, and produ cing a system of representation which would (by means of education, mechanics' institutions, mutual instruction societies, working men's associations, awl the like) lead us eventually to Universal Suffrage by the safest and easiest road, thereby avoiding the evils of investing with votes those who would not, from want of education or otherwise, make a proper use of them ; at the same time enabling any man who chose to impro his mind in his leisure hours to qualify himself as a voter instead of spending his time in those haunts of iniquity and vice, the gin palaces and beer shops. Such a measure 1 believe would meet with the support of nearly, if not all, the Chartists, and combined with the repeal of the Corn-laws, I can see no reason why the middle classes should not join in demanding such measures, and thus obviate the charge of selfishness made against them, I must say with a great show of reason, in asking our as sistance to obtain a repeal of the Corn-laws, and neg lecting or refusing to assist us in obtaining the franchise, which we are struggling for. But apart from all this your Lordship owes it to yourself and the country to endeavour to work out such a system, or at least to launch the bark of intellectual suffrage on the ocean of public opinion, that by discussion and conside ration its details might, if possible, be perfected and car ried into effect,—and a glorious task it would move. I have no hesitation in saying that any Government taking office and making it a Cabinet question might carry it as easily, if not more so, than the Reform Bill was carried ; and if determined to govern on the prin ciple of responsibility to the people, might long hold the reins of power in this country with credit and glory to themselves, and prosperity and happiness to the people at large. That the present state of political affairs, or the present system of representation, can long withstand the force of public opinion directed against it, no one can be so credulous as to imagine ; and no other system can give satisfaction any more than the present, which excludes from the body of electors those who cannot come up to a certain property qualification, and yet possess all the most necessary qualities to the due exer cise of the franchise. No : to give satisfaction it must be based on a just and intelligible principle ; therefore, household suffrage would be open to the same objection as the present 101. qualification. Nothing short of intellectual suffrage, with free access to knowledge, will ever satisfy the people ; and if this cannot be obtained, we must fall back on Universal Suffrage, with a deter mination never to rest till we have compelled the Go vernment to concede our demand's. I beg to conclude by hoping your Lordship will give this subject your serious consideration, and if possible, by uniting under one banner all the sincere reformers of Great Britain, and Ireland, raise to yourself a monument in the hearts of the people, which shall endure so long as liberty and happiness continue to be prized by the inhabitants of the empire. Wishing your Lordship health and long life, I beg to subscribe myself ONE OF THE UNREPRESENTED. Sept. 30, 1839. ESQUIRES," AND “GENTLEMEN." At a Special Petty Sessions of the Justices acting in and for the Kensington diNision of the county of Mid dlesex, held on Tuesday, for the revision of the lists of persons qualified to serve the office of Jurors for the year ensuing, Messrs. Jones, Hawkes, and others, claimed to be designated as " esquires" on the ground that they held her Majesty's commission as Commissioners of Sewers. Capt. Bague said they were certainly entitled to be so designated, the commission for the governance of the sewers being issued direct to the Commissioners by her Majesty, and the bench held that Commis. sioners of Sewers were entitled to the designation of " esquires," even although they were merely tradesmen. In the Kensington list, on the name of Wm. Sedge ley, of No. 2, Ailen-terrace, being read, his designa tion of " Esquire" was objected to by Mr. Hawkes, Commissioner of Sewers, who contended that Mr. Sedgeley, not holding her Majesty's commission, ought to be designated simply as " Gentleman," and not as " Esquire.' Captain Bague said one thing was clear—it was laid down by Mr. Blackstone that " an Esquire is not a Gentleman." Mr. Sedgeley said he was a commissioner of land and assessed taxes, and as such had surely as good a right to the designation of Esquire as a Commissioner of Sewers. He had qualified for the office to the amount of five thousand pounds, which was even mucb more than the qualification required for a Justice of the Peace, and a far different thing to the qualification necessary for a Commissioner of the Sewers viz.: " forty groats." , Mr: Moss said the question had been raised in De vonshire, in which case the Judges had decided that a Commissioner of Taxes was a n E., qu i re. The Bench, then, after some f urther statement, post poned their decision on this knotty point until Friday, and directed their clerk to ascertain by that day if any Commission from her M a j e sty existed as to t axes ; an d Colle g e i t, in th e op i n i ons of 'Lott s arse G entlemen ottoiriuntiquirra,eriedasst: tcheonfineirsa,lidson'eCrsolobt. LAW INTELLIGENCE. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Ocr. 2. John Henry Temple Torrens Browne, a young man holding the situation of a clerk in the Slave Compen sation Office, applied for his discharge. The insolvent had been an officer in the Spanish army, and having a claim on the Government two of his creditors applied to the Court for the assigneeship, as they thought Spanish affairs were now looking brighter. He had also a salary of 1201. a year from his situation in the Foreign Office. The detaining creditor applied to the Court that a small portion of the salary be set aide for the benefit of the creditors, the insolvent being an unmarried man. Commissioner REYNOLDS asked the insolvent what amount he was willing to set aside for the benefit of his creditors? The Insolvent-201. a year. I have already offered that sum. Commissioner REYNOLDS—WeII, that is a very fair offer. The COURT then stated that they would not appoint an assignee, but the officer of the Court would receive the money, and pay it to the creditors, for they found that assignees sometimes neglected their duties and be came bankrupt, or the money was swallowed up in attorneys' bills. The case was then adjourned, in order that a creditor might be served. The insolvent was out on bail. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. FRAUDULENTLY OBTAINING MEDICAL CERTIFI CATES.—A medical gentleman, named Roycroft, ap plied yesterday to the Chief Clerk at Bow -street, to obtain his advice under the following circumstances : About a month since an advertisement appeared in the Lancet for a medical attendant to a Di s p ensary i n th e country, and requiring certificates and testimonials, to be left for Mr. Thomas, at the Lancet office. Mr. Roycroft, and three or four other medical gentlemen left their testimonials, which were taken away by a per son culling himself Mr. .Thomas, who p ro d uce d a l etter from Dr. Ingleby, of Birmingham, authorizing him to receive the testimonials. This letter, it has since been discovered, is a forgery. The applicant further stated that Mr. Wakley, the Editor of the Lancet, had kindly undertaken to use every exertion for the recovery of the certificates, and had promised to insert an advertisement in the Lancet to that effect. Mr. Burnaby told the applicant that the offence did not come within that class which might be published in the Hue and Cry, but recommended him, in the event of his not recovering his certificates, to make an affidavit before the Magistrates, which he was satisfied would induce the Medical Board at the Surgeons' and Apothe- caries' Hall to renew the certificates. The applicant having thanked Mr. Burnaby, then withdrew. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. THE NEW POLICE ACT—ASSAULTING THE Po- LlCE.—Thomas a respectable tradesman, re siding in the neighbourhood, was placed at the bar on the following charge : Police-constable No. 72, C division, stated that at about half-past one yesterday morning, while on duty in Regent-street, he observed the defendant and two other persons of respectable appev.rance, walking on the footway pavement, and insulting and pushing against any persons they happened to meet with. He desired them to pass quietly on, when they all three commenced assaulting him in a brutal manner, threw him down with great violence, and while on the ground kicked him several times about the head, face, and body. His hat fell off in the scuffle, and the defendant gave him a most violent kick on the top of - his head, which lacerated the scalp quite through to the bone of the skull, and be was obliged to obtain surgical assistance. He, however, contrived to secure the defendant, but his companions effected their escape. The defendant pleaded intoxi cation, and said he was very sorry for his misconduct. Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate—l am bound to protect officers in the proper discharge of their duties to the public. The assault was wanton and unprovoked, and I fine you 405., and in default of payment you will be committed for one month. The defendant was locked up until he could send home for the money. John Houghton, a man of respectable appearance, was fined 10e. for wlntonly ringing the door bell of No. 9, Peter-street, Soho, at half-past one o'clock yes terday morning. Mr. DYER said the Magistrates were determined to put an end to this silly and annoying practice. James Temple, who is known as an occasional preacher at a conventicle in the neighbourhood, and .vho was primly dressed in black, was tined ss. for being found drunk in Rupert street, and incapable of taking care of himself, at balf•past two yesterday morning. Mary Tunstell, a respectable married woman, was fined 10s. for being found drunk in the street, at twelve o'clock on Tuesday night, and using insulting language at the station-house. The defendant said she had no money, and she well knew her husband would not pay it for her. She was committed for three days. HAT TON-GARD EN. ASSAULTING A BROKER.—.I. Hader, his wife, his son, and his daughter, and lff. Bar, a bird fancier, were placed at the bar, charged with violently as ,;aulting and ejecting two broker's men from the pre tnises of Hader. It appeared from the evidence that the landlord of Hader, who was in arrears for rent, had placed a broker in possession of his goods, and that last night the defendant Bar, for whom Hader was making some bird-cages, came to Hader's house, having been sent for to get away the bird-cages, and, according to :he broker's account, Bar, who is a first-rate pugilist, joined with the prisoners in a violent attack on the )roker, who called for the assistance of the police, and they were all taken into custody. Th e p r i soners said they were all drinking together, and that what was done was merely in joke. Mr. COMBE ordered each of the prisoners to pay a fine of ten shillings, or in default be imprisoned ten days. OUTRAGEOUS AND COWARDLY ASSAULT.—Robert Banks, a respectable looking young mats, who de scribed himself as an undertaker, was charged with as a.alting Bridget Shecan. The prosecutrix stated that, as she was passing down Litee Coram-street, on Tuesday afternoon about four o'clock, the prisoner, who was intoxicated, accosted her, and jostled her ; that, on remonstrating with him, he commenced abusing her on account of her country, and then struck her to the ground with a blow of his fist. Inspector Campbell, who was passing by at the time in plain clothes, witnessed the whole transaction, and took the prisoner into custody as he was about to repeat the blow. The prisoner said he was very sorry, but the prose cutrix bad abused him violently. _ . The Inspector said she was well-known in the neigh. bourhood as an honest and virtuous woman. Mr. COMBE commented very severely on the pri soner's atrocious conduct, and sentenced him to pay a fine of 31., or to be imprisoned three munths. SHOPLIFTING.—Mary Guy, .1 most respectable look ing woman, was plaoed at the bar, remanded from * Tuesday, on a charge of stealing several quantities of riband, and two yards and a half of silk, the property of George Evans, a li nen d ra p er , res idi ng at 149 an d .15t1, Tottenham-court-road. James Creighton Nelson is shopman to Mr. Evans. On Monday the prisoner came into the shop, and wit ness served her with some calico. She asked to see some riband. He showed her some, and observed her secrete the riband produced. Told the foreman of it. On attempting to quit the shop, she was taken into the counting-house mid accused, and she gave up the riband. W. H. Drover knows the prisoner, as a customer at Mr. Evans's shop, where he is an assistant. About three weeks ago was serving her with some silk, on which occasion he miss:A the remnant produced, which was found by the policeman at the prisoner's lodgings. He mentioned the circumstance at the time it occurred, in order to put others in the shop on their guard, but did not like to accuse the prisoner, as she was a respectable person. Mr. Thomas Tomkinson is a pianoforte maker. Pri goner has lived on his premises for 21 years with her husband, who is in his employ ; has trusted her confi dentially, and has the greatest c onfidence in her honesty. The prisoner, who seemed dreadfully affected, begged for mercy, as it was her first offence. Mr. G. Evans, the owner of the shop, on being bound over to prosecute, said that he wished not to prosecute, as it would put him to great inconvenience. Mr. COMBE—Is that the only reason ? I have heard something else. M r . E vans —That is my only reason. Mr. COMBE---I believe you have received two papers ? Mr. Evans—Y es , I have. • Mr. ComBE---I will not allude more particularly to it unless you are desirous of my doing so ; but you must give up those papers to the Inspector, and the whole of that transaction must be considered at an end. Mr. Evans then promised to give up the documents to Inspector Campbell, and was bound over to prosecute. Tile prisoner was then fully committed for trial. UNION-HALL. ROBBERY AT MESSRS. BARCLAY'S, THE BREWERS.-- The three men, Reece, Magrath, and Jones, who were charged on 'Monday with robbing Messrs. Barclays, of thirteen gallons of beer, were placed in the dock yester ddy, shortly after one o'clock. Mr. HUMPHRIES, on the' part of the Messrs. Barclay, stated that he had no further evidence to offer, and after a short conversrtiou between Mr. CLARKSON and the prosecutors, Mr. TRAILL fully committed them for trial. BRIGHTON RAIL WA Y.—Notwitstanding the repeated depression in the Money Market, we hear that the shareholders of this railway have responded to the call just made on them in a very prompt manner. Railway Magazine. So bountiful has been the supply of herrings, that at Scarborough they have been sold at 6s. per thousand. One yaul brought in 90,000 herrings. IMPROVED PRISON DISCIPLINE. Our townsman, Mr. Cromhie, pointed to a man, on Saturday week, standing behind a drove of cattle, who for three successive years was much oftener within than without the Dumfries gaol. Under the old system he was tolerably well fed, with nothing to do ; and this mode of life, with liberty to loiter about in the court-yard, he preferred vastly to lawful industry. The prison to him was a perfect palace, and the moment one period of incarceration expired, he contrived to commit another petty theft, as the readiest means of getting back to his old quar ters. From his connection with the Town Council, Mr. C. and the cattle driver were old acquaintances; and beingcurious to know whether hispreviously bad habits had improved, he questioned him jocularly on the occasion mentioned—" I am glad to see you so well employed ; you are decenter looking than I ever saw you, and that comes of keeping your hands clean, and your feet out of the heart of Buc cleuch-street. It is well when people mend, and turn over a new leaf in the hook of life." "As to that," said the man, " I'm no very sure ; but as for my auld howf up bye, I've nae wish to be there again. The gaol was ance a snug eneuch bit ; we got our meat brawly, ate had naething to do except amuse oorsel's ; but everything is changed noo. The new gaoler's a perfect deevil, an' the place a wee hell, compared to what it was afore. Every ane maun work at something or ither, women as weel as men, an' gif ye wunna do that, ye get nae meat. Some stood out an' got a look o' their dinner, for a smell and sicht was a', if nae wark was dune ; but the sulks sune leave a hungry man, an' the auld sneck drawer kens ow'r weel that the surest way to mak' the hands eident is to blockade the belly. He's a perfect tyrant, an' pits on sic looks, an's say yaul an' supple, that they're a' feared to meddle wi' him. In place o' the reckettin' o' the gude auld times, yell no hear a moose cheepin' noo. For the maist part there waur thirty-five o' us ; but they tell me there's only twal prisoners Loo; an' I dinna wonder—for wha wad stay wi' yon saucy deevil that can get awa' frae him, an' his looms for weavers, stalls for shoemakers, shears and lap hoards for tailors, musl►ns to he sewed, oakum to be teased, stanes to be broken for roads, an' a' the rest o't. If the gaol's to be painted, ootside or in, or aught else that's wrang putten richt, the prisoners maun do it themsel's, and no the toon's tradesmen as afore. I ken something o' sodgering, but o' a' the corporals or sergeants I ever forgathered wi', by far the maist curnstary js that dour deevil M'Far lane. Ae day twa poachers cam' in that the offi cers had grippet, and as the coast happened to be gey clear, the chaps took it into their heads that they had naething to do but knock him doon, and gang their wa's oot again. Baith, therefore, I=-A drive at the same time ; but my faith they little keut their customer—for in place o' couping owre hirnsel', he gaed ane a bash wi' the right hand, air' took the tither wi' the left, and had them baith sprawling like cats at his feet, before ye could weel say Jack Robison. Sooner than leeve under his roof, I'd beg my bread frae door to door, as I'll maybe hae to do yet, when the nowt trade fails me. But onything afore the Dumfries Gaol, as ling at least's M'Farlane's yonder ! His verra name sometimes mak's me stunner ; an' it maun be a cursed place that Highlan's if a the men in't be like him." ADVANTAGES OF MIGRATIONS OF ANI mALs.—If we give Phis subject of the migration of animals due consideration, and reflect what would be the consequence if no animals ever changed their quarters, we shall find abundant reasons for thankful ness to the Almighty Father of the universe, for the care he has taken of his whole family, and of his creature man in particular, consulting not only his sustentation and the gratification of his palate by multiplying and varying his food, but also that of his other senses, by the beauty, mo tions, and music of the animals that are his summer or winter visitors ; did the nightingale forsake our groves, the swallow our houses and gardens, the cod fish, mackerel, salmon, and herring our seas, and all the other animals that occasionally visit us, .their several haunts, how vast would be the abstraction from the pleasure and comfort of our lives ! By means of 'here migrations, the profits and enjoyments derivable froM the animal creation are also more equally divided, at one season visiting the south, and enlivening their winter, and at another adding to the vernal and summer delights of the inhabitant of the less genial regions of tae north, and making up to him for the privations of winter. Had the Creator so willed, all these animals might have been organized so as not to require I a warmer or colder climate for the breeding or rearing of their young ; but his will was, that some of his best gifts should thus oscillate, as it were, between two paints, that the benefit they conferred !night be more widely distributed, 'and not become the sole property of the inhabitants of one climate. Tnus the swallotv gladdens the sight both of the Briton and the African ; and the herring visits the coasts, arid the salmon the rivers, of every r pion of the globe. What can more strongly mark design, and the intention of an all-powerful, all-wise, and beneficent Being, than that such a variety of animals should be so organized end circumstanced as to be directed annually, by some pressing want, to seek distant climates, and alter a certain period, to return again to their former quar ters ; and that this instinct should be productive of so much good to mankind, and at the same time be neces ,:ary, under its present circumstances, for the preserve tien or propagation of the species of these several ani mals !—Kirby on the Habits and Instincts (If Ani»ials. ARREST OF ARMS.—For some months back many ships from this, as well as from other ports, in tended for foreign voyages, have been in the habit of shipping a sufficient quantity of arms to protect the vessels against any piratical attack which might be made upon them during the voyage. Accordingly, a number of arms, consisting of guns and pikes, was on Thursday forenoon last sent from the shop of Mr. Greener, gun.tnaker, to the shop of Mr. Snowdon, ship-chandler, on the Quay, being for the ship Agricola, and for the purpose above specified. The boys in charge of the arms were directed to put them on board of the Swan steam-boat, where other stores belonging to the same vessel were, in order to their being con veyed down the river, and the boys proceeded t o de liver them as directed. Between Mr. Snowdon's shop and the Lead Stairs, where the steam-boat was lying, they were taken into custody, both arms and boys, by polic:man, and by the airection, as he stated, of Mr. Alderman Potter ; under this direction the officer was obliged to act, notwithstanding the remonstrances and explanation which the boys made. To the police-station they were taken, and Mr. Greener was sent to state for what use and purpose the arms were intended, which he did satisfactorily, and after a great deal of delay, which might have been of some consequence, as it was expected the ship was ready for sea, the arms were conveyed to their destination.—Tyne Mercury. THE CONFESSIONS OF A MILKMAID. " What a great deal of milk there must be sent into Manchester in the course of a year," said Ito Mary one morning, as I was passing her at the door. Two or three carts, laden with cans of milk, were passing along the street at the time, and it was this gave rise to the ob servation. " And water too, mestur," said Mary, looking rather archly, as though she knew something about the matter. "Do you think then, that they water the milk much in this part of the country, Mary ?" I inquired. " Aye," observed Mary," there be cheating in all trades but our'n, as they say, but I used to think our mestur at Eccles were a pretty good 'un at it, too. I should think that when I was milkmaid there, the milk the cows gave was somewhere about sixty cans a day ; and to carry this milk to market, in Manchester, we en!- ployed two men. Now every farthing of these men s wages were paid out of the water." " Then they could not have had very good wages, I should think," said I, interrupting her story. " Nay, nay," continued Mary, " not so bad for farmers' servants, either. Ten quarts of water every morning, and six every evening, at threepence a-quart, comes to a good deal of money in the week." " Then you put more to it in the morning than in the evening, did you, Mary ?" " Why yes, mestur," she replied, " because the cows would give more in the morning than in the evening, for we began milking at three in the afternoon while the milking in the morning did not commence till five. I shell never forget," continued Mary, lau4hing hear tily, " what a man said to me one morning, who came to live servant with us. He were a droll chap, and used to say some funny things to us girls. Polly,' says he to me, Polly, which o' all the cows i' the dairy dost thou think gives most railk ?' That there red un,' says I, to be sure. Nay, nay, Poll,' says he, that there black un' wi' one urn (horn), at the back door. That were th' pump, wi' one handle, you know,' said Mary, fearing I should not understand the allusion, and she again laughed heartily at the joke. " But how," I asked, " if they obtained threepence a quart for it in Manchester, Mary, did the retailer make his profit by it ?" "Oh " said she, " by putting more water to it, happen." " Well," I could not help ob serving, "it must be sad stuff by the time it reaches the consumer's hands." " Sky blue, I reckon," added Mary, casting her weather-eye up at the fine azure above as." —.Manchester chronicle. CHILD STRIPPING.--on Saturday afternoon a child about four years of age was enticed away from Balmanno-street . by a wo man , an d str i ppe d o f its entire clothing except its over-all and cap, and left e xposed to the inclemency of the weather in this destitute state. The child was found by the police in WFarlan e-street, Gallowgate, and taken t o t h e office, where ho was got by his parents.—Glasgo w Chronicle. TEXAS. The following Memorial on the Texas question hns been pr esen t e d to L or d P a l mers t on , b y th e C o mmittee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society : To the Right Honourable Lord Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, &c. &c. &c.. My Lord,—The Committee of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society beg permission to express their sentiments to your Lordship on a subject deeply interesting to all the friends of liberty and justice, and which they feel to be of paramount importance at the present time, as affecting the dearest interests and future bappin?ss of a large portion of the human race, and one to which it is understood the attention of your Lordship and her Majesty's Government has already been offici ally directed. It is currently reported, that from the revolted pro vince of the Mexican empire, Texas, envoys have been sent to this country to solicit its recognition by the British Government as an independent State. With such a negotiation, considered as relating to political interests alone—although they conceive these to be of the gravest importance as respects the interest of British subjects, and even the integrity of the British empire, in the Gulf of Mexico and Carribean Sea—it would be quite out of the province of the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society to interfere : but there is a peculiar feature in the present case, which renders it not only proper for them, but imperative tin them, to express to your Lordship their sentiments on the sub ject, and to entreat for them a serious consit:eratiou at the hands of the Government. The Committee will not trouble your Lordship with a detail of the unjust and atrocious manner in which the Mexican province of Texas has been wrested from the parent State by unprincipled adventurers, land-job bers, and slave-holders from the United States, whose conduct deserves the most indignant rebuke, and must attach lasting dishonour to all who may become impli cated in it, but to press on the consideration of your Lordship and the Government the well-kno en fact that the Legislature of Texas has abolished the universal freedom which, with such admirable justice and pro priety had been decreed by the Mexican Government. and have re-established slavery in its worst forms. The Committee would also call your Lordship's attention to the fact that the Texian laws also provide for the ex pulsion from its territory of all Africans, and the de scendants of Africans, whether in whole or in part born free, as well as of the native Indian tribes ; an iniquity not less cruel than it is infamous and unparalleled in the history of any civilized people. It will be no more than consistent, the Committee conceive, with the noble attitude whieh Great Britain has taken before the world on the great subject of slavery, to refuse in the most positive terms the recogni tion of any nee- State in which the unrighteous system of slavery is recognised, and measures so repugnant to every principle of equity and religion as those referred to are established by constitutional law ; nor can it, the Committee would respectfully observe, be otherwise than a matter of plain and imperative obligation, that the British Government should avail itself of so just and striking an opportunity of using its mighty moral influ ence for diffusing through other countries the same freedom which at so much cost has been happily, and the Committee trust permanently, established in the dependences of our own. The whole of the case before the Committee, how ever, is not yet stated. The establishment of slavery in Texas will open an immense market for the slave breeders of the United States, and will inevitably en large to an unprecedented extent, and raise to a pitch of unprecedented horrors a traffic so infamous and de plorable. Nor can it be doubted but in spite of the law which prohibits it the slave trade with Africa, against which the whole power of the British empire is arrayed, will be extensively carried on, as there is too great reason to believe it has already begun. Under these circumstances, the Committee trust that her Majesty's Government will regard the proposed re cognition of Texas with the greatest abhorrence, and cherish an earnest hope that in their decisions conside rations of humanity, justice, and liberty, will be firmly held paramount to every other. On behalf of the Committee, GEO. WM. ALEXANDER, Chairman. British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society, 27, New Broad-street, London, September 29, 1839. BEAR SiIOOTING. The following morning I in vain endeavoured to rouse my chum G— : he declared he would have a regular caulker after two such IMP' days' march. I was, therefore, obliged to sally • out alone, or rather in company with my old horsekeeper Chennoo, in quest of Orsino, and determined, in spite of rocks and briars, to penetrate into the heart of his stronghold, and beard the lion in his very den ; but in to doing had to encounter a thousand difficulties, for, after proceeding some dis tance up the hill— " Furtht r way 1 found none, so thick entwin'd As one continued brake, the undergrowth Of shrubs and tangling bushes had perpli•x'd All path of man or beast that pass'd that way."--MILTON. —and was often obliged in the course of the progress to creep along on all.fours through this intricate maze. I had just 'tmerged from this awkward position, fol lowed by Chentioo, when, at the turn of a rock, a large bear appeared within ten paces. The brute w.is advancing very slowly, and looking up in my face with the most ludicrous gravity, which I soon put an end to by giving him my left barrel through the head, Whereupon the fhcetious monster rose capering on his hind legs : bang went No. 2 barrel, and over rolled friend Bruin apparently life!: ss. Immediately from the spot whereon he lay extended arose a din which might have awakened the dead ; for an instant I was taken quite aback, but soon recollected it to be a second edition of the music I had heard some days before from the top of the rock ; and hastening to as certain the cause, to my surprise I beheld two young cubs holding on like sick monkeys by the long and shaggy coat of their prostrate dam, and, d—u their eyes, roaring most lustily. I had no idea of letting the youngsters slip through my fingers ; so running up I laid hold .f each by the scruff of the neck, and at tempted to drag them Off their maternal hold. In the meantime the old lady, who apparently had only been in a trance, feeling something unusual going on, with an effort recovered her legs, and began with one fore-paw to wipe away the blood and brains which were trickling over her eyes, and obscuring her visual organs : luckily Chennoo, who carried my spear and rifle, was at hand, and applying the muzzle of the latter to her ear, I set tled her instanter. The young 'uns still singing out, but making no at tempt to escape, I remained a moment looking at the old hag to see if she were now really dead or only shamming. Chennoo was likewise steadfastly contem plating the cratur, till at last giving utterance to his reflections, he exclaimed, " Dekho, Sahib, you see, Sur, that d—n Bhan-Choot, him come night time into willage, him get into house, and him take off woman to the jungle ; 1 bhot khoosh (very glad) Sahib kill d—n rascal." After this sentimental effusion, not being able without assistance to move the old one, we secured a cub each, and, in spite of their cries, carried them in triumph to the tent.—Old Sporting Magazine for October. WATFORD POLIOE.—At the Watford Police Office, on Tuesday, Mr. Job Johnson, the landlord of the White Horse, Rickmansworth, was charged upon an information with knowingly suffering arid permitting drunkenness in his house, whereby he had incurred a penalty of 51. and not less than 40s. Allingham, the constable of Rickmansworth, stated that soon after twelve o'clock on Saturday night, the 28th inst., he went round the parish, accompanied by Mr Vender meulen, one of the parish officers, and on going into the defendant's house they found three men, one of whom was drunk. He did not see any beer served. Mr. Blegg, the Magistrate's Clerk, expressed an opi nion that the evidence was insufficient to support the charge as laid in the information. There ought to be some proof that the man had been drinking at the house, and it was not sufficient to find a drunken man in a publican's house to punish hid] for permitting drunkenness, because the man might have been drunk when he went in. The Bench expressed an opinion that the defendant was liable to be fined for keeping his house open so late at night. Mr. Bit gg said this was no offence, a licensed house might he kept open all night if the proprietor chose to do so. Tile defendant's wife, who appeared to answer the information, said that on the night in question some men came into her house, and they had some beer, and the man, who was stated to be drunk, partook of it. Mr. Blegg said the defendant ought to have taken the hint, and held her tongue, but after what she had said he thought the Bench might convict, Mrs Johnson complained of this course of proceeding, but the Bench decided that her statement, coupled with the evidence of the officer, made out the charge, and they inflicted a fine of 40s. and costs. MARRlAGE.—Appended to a paper OR the Education a l Statistics of Birmingham, recently read to the British Association, are some pathological and phy siological remarks, from which it appears that the irn pec rfe tion of the senses mos t fre q uentl y occurs in the offspring of marriages between first cousins, and other near relations. INCENDIARY ------- FIRE AT KINGSTON.--On Sa turday evening, between eight and nine o'clock, a wheat rick, belonging to Mr. Francis Gamer, of Coombe Farm, was discovered to be on fire by one of the me tropolitan mounted police, who immediat e ly gave t h e Kingston a larm, and the engine from was speedily brought to the spot, but before any measures could be taken to arrest the progress of the flames, the r i c k was completely enveloped by fire. The only wat e r that could be obtained was from a e. pond in a field at a short distance, but the engine was t o l era bl y we ll sup plied by the pers ons who ad assembled, and in about two hours the fire was put out, but not before the rick, which contained fifty quartet s o f w h ea t, was en tirely destroyed. There is not the least doubt but that the fire was occasioned by some diabolical incendiary. The property w as insured in the Norwich Union Office BIRTHS. On the 28th ult., at Newbattle Abbey, Dalkeith, the Mar chioness of Lothian, of a son. On the 26th ult., at Spring-hill, near Stockport, Telonen, the wife of Colonel Ti.omas, C. 8., and M.P., of the 20th Re giment, of a son. On the 29th ult., in Montagu-place, Montagu-square, Mrs. S. Steward, of a daughter. MinliiED. On the 26th ult., at Buxton, William Lacon Childe, Est' of Kenlet, Shropshire, to Barbara Denise, daughter of the l ate Thomas Giffard, Esq., of Chillington, Staffordshire, and the Lady Charlotte Giffard. On the 30th ult., at West Hackney Church, Mr. John Free man, only son of David Freeman Esq , of Grove-end -roan, St. John's-wood, to Lydia H arr i o t , fourth. daughter of the bite c, W. Glynis, Esq., of America-square. DIED. On the 23d ult., at Felix-place, Liverpool-road, Islingto"P Mr. Charles Young, chronometer -maker, aged 74. On the 23d ult., in South-street, Peckham, Mrs. Elizabeth Marsh, aged 86. On the 27th ult., Mr. William Pugh, jun., of Blackman" street, Southwark, aged 33. On the 28th ult., at Mile-end-road, and the Stock Exchange, •Peter Bacon, Esq., aged 75. 51- On the 28th ult., Nevile Reid, Esq., of Runnymede , ag — On the 30th u lt., at Leamington, the Hon. Mrs. Antrobl: the wife of Gibb s Cra \Nfurd Antrobus, Esq., of Eaton -hall , Cheshire. QUARTERLY NAVAL OBITUARY. Flag Officers.—Admiral Sir Isaac Coffin. Bart., G.Cg• Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Masterman Hardy, G.C. B. ; Be ar " Admiral Jas. Master, Ret. Captains.--J o hn Joyce, Thomas Stamp. G. W. Hoop er, David Buchan. Commanders...-:Robert T. Haverfield ; John C. Wool nough, K. H. , William H. H. Carew ; George S. Wintour, Ret. ; Wm. Leyden, Ret. ; William Brown, Ret. Lieutennnts.—John P. Dutton, Thom as Doorne, Joseph R• Thomas, William L. Rees, John Wood, Abraham Robtnson, John Andrew Reeves, John Bundock, Daniel Leary, William L. Tucker, Thomas Hewett, H. A. A. Symmes Frederick Freeman, James Gibson, Charles Webb, James E. ' F. Murray , Jonathan S. Christian, John A. A. Riddell. Masters.—George Hermes, W. Fothergill, W. Pitt. Surgeon.—James M‘Donnald. Assistant-Surgeons.—Thomas Kidd, Robert A. Arnott, W. Steel. W. Moorhead, Christopher F. Waters. Purser.—Alezauder Laidlaw. Royal Marines.—Colonel Sir Rich. Williams, R. C. 11. ; Captain John Maughan ; First Lieutenants, Lewis P. Mad den and Christopher Fottrell ; Second Lieutenant, Thomas Hawkins. London ; Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG) L °l N o . In, Strand, at The Sun Office, No 112, Strand, in " county of Aliddlesex.—Thursdav, October 8, 1839. EVENING EDITION. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER.—We had, so far as the we ,ather is concerned, a much brighter day yesterday ; and that not unfrequently exercises sonic influence upon the market. We cannot, however, say that such was tb.e case in this instance. The unsettled state of the money market still causes a great depression ; and though there was some demand for particular descriptions of yarns, we can note no improvement in prices. Goods also continue without improvement from the state men tionectin our last report. ROCIIDALE FLANNEL MARKET, 'MONDAY, SEPT. :30. —There is yet a steady demand for flanne.s ; but the manufacturers complain of the prices being too low to remunerate them for their labour. In the wool market there is little change, except broken and skin wool may be quoted a shade lower. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET, OCT. I.—There was decided improvement in the market to-day, the detlird for almost every description of woollen goods be,.ng animated. Superfine broads may, perhaps, be quoted as being still ditii , ult to sell, but even in them there is an evident move for the better. The fine weather has given an impulse by inspiring confidence ; and as stocks in the country are well known to be very small, a good at.umn trade is expected. The warehouses continue doing a fair business. THE MARKET t;.-(YESTERDAY.) • CAL MARKET. IS M i 5. d• Adair's CqT's Harty y Hebburn Main ..... . Hu well qain..... .......... 24 3 I...paze4 Main original i..i. in 'sot's l'tintop 2 , (-• Walls End arrington Tees - 1 ! Polito') Windsor 2 Walls End CLiretice Hetto.i :I 0 West Hartley .... 2l W Its End G 'Won Wylam. . .......—. _ _ Walls Fnd . rice a!ls nd Hea on „ IA Ali Er Hilda -'2 0 w.ills End Tees Hetton .... !' 1 0 Walls End Horspur I' ills End Kiilii , gworth Walls Encl Newmarch .... 21 1 Aa Is End Devonshire W.lls End , orthumberland 21 I. Wails End HO, . " I :-Is End 11444e11's . :le. 4 Barrin ton Te_s Trader ... 2 1 6 Walls Endliratidyll'sHetton .3 I; arrival once iast ni,rket.d,y, 170. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 4. to lc. 39 43 Beans. et. to B. 20 29 27 29 16 22 Pease. Ve - r (Nat ter. s to G. S. to Boston Brainttee - B ighton 66 73 30 40 62 Chiche ter Dunmow 56 70 i 26 30 Grantham 08 79 28 35 Grimshv Halisham Hitchin 64 70 32 42 Ipswich 6l 75 35 42 L , :wes 64 74 32 34 Lno 54 741:'6 38 '— Maidstone 66 75 36 30 26 30 40 50 Norwich Cetwoith Rom ford lO4 74 45 32 40 Sandwich 65 75 28 32 17 28 40 Thetford withech Witham 64 70 I I 21 22 —25 1 armouth 65 69 34 36 08 32 38 40 Li V ERPOOL CORN MARKET.—Oct. 1 WHEAT, English, White, per 7010. lla 3,1 -- Red 10 Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 9 0 as 23 29 20 30 20 30 23 20 22 29 28 - 34 26 33 22 29 43 53 - 49 - 43 - 48 39 43 - 22 - II ... •••• 4e 35 44 42 44 - - 42 - 40 40 44 r011;.0d. 10 0 10 0 10 e 9 8 11 6 4 10 4 6 0 0 48 0 5 9 5 6 48 0 44 48 $1 414 0 4t% 0 57 d 58 0 41 48 0 40 0 70 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 0 Irish Foreign MAritcv, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 4? 0 Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. Feeding 5 3 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 45 ii Irish, &c. .. I oreiea PEASE, Eng liin, par Imperial quarter 46 0 Foreign FLovit, English, per 250113. —.-.-- Irish OATMPAL, English and 'lrish, per 2401bs 77 0 IN' lAN Cpar4, per 4Sllib. .... 44 0 RTE, per Imperal quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter HULL CORN MARKET. Wheal, White (per Quarter) 6os. 66a. mu, lied 5-s. t2s. 64. Foreign Barley, Mal , ing ...5....4. —S. Grinding Oats, Briti,h Foreign (in Pond) Beans 345. 565. 375. Pease, Grey _ - Blue and White Linseed ... 4ts 495. Flour Iper sack-s':Os, 558, Rapebeek. (pc r ;o quarters) 221. 21i. 241. CANTERBURY lIARKr.T. Wheat, 725.: to 758. 70s. to 775. 678. to —5. 645. to :Is. Barley, Malting -- —s. to —5. Grinding.. —s. to Oats —B. to Old---.. 265. to 325. Beans —s, to —5. :185. to 40s. Pease to —s.— HAMBUR AIN. GR. Wheat. Marks 465 to 51$ - Magdeburg Annalt, white .Its to 541 - - red 46.'i to 54 --'Brun..+e ick 4511 to 5I - Mecklenburg 4:hi to ;".?-1 ----- Polish Rutstein Rye, 'Mecklenburg ISO to 11 - Dantzic nd Ko naburg 195 to id. ..---- Upland - Riga ; rey ............. —I. MARKETS. .sa Cirri Carolina and Tennessee 7%t0 Georgia. la sort II 10 t2d :id and 4th COF 9 to 114 54 8 6 Sumatra MI,( Ratav,a Rio 4% 54 Bahia SUGAR._ (Wit flay.2nnah, White 8r0wn.... sy, 5N Rio, White 6 7 , Brown Manila Brow Barley, Mecklenburgh 216 to 248 Maglieburgh —to Holstein 216 to 24 Summer :S6 to 201 Eitter • 120 to 132 - - Mecclenburg 1511 to :71 Holstein 135 to Ira - 121 to ,3: - ) iPease, Meekl••r burg e:34 tonll Beans 231 to •,.1,1 Buck Whew — to -- apeheeti, iianover 930 w 414 Malt Fares ar.ti ham Madras ti Surat s .. ska 6 Domingo ........... . 1)( ritngo La Porto Rico Havannah 44 4 to 54 5 (I 5U !Li 5!4 h 8% Discount.) Tu tol , v Bania, White .............•,.• "' 57. 8r0wn.............. his i ., %, Pernambuco, White ... 7 b i, w, Brown ...5 'u, 5i to 5. ORIGIN OF THE WORD " FARM."—dn the Saxon time the estates which the lords of manors granted to the freemen were at the first but for years, with a render of a rent, which in those days were of corn or of victuals, and thence . the leases so made were called formes or flumes, which word signifieth victuals ; but times ensuing turned the victuals into money, and terms of years to terms of life and inheritance re taining the rents and those called quit rents, or the rents of those persons who were acquitted or free.—Farinet's Magazine. " We are informed," says the Courrier Francais, " that immediately on the arrival of Don Carlos at 13.1yonne, King Louis Philippe sent 100,000 f. to the Prince." LOVE AT SIGHT.—We understand that one of the marriages which appear in another part of our paper was brought about in the following menner :—The par ties met on the race-course on Friday afternoon, not having been, we are informed, at all acquainted pre viously. Whilst there, however, the gentleman was— precisely by what means we know not—so captivated by the charms of his new acquaintance that he resolved upon making her his companion for life ; and she, having parted from a former suitor, who was now on the point of marriage to a rival fair one, speedily con sented, and, without the knowledge of her friends, the nuptial ceremony was performed at St. Margaret's on Sunday morning.—Leicester Mercury. The Coal Masters in and around Glasgow have advanced the price of coals is. a waggon.] LADIES' GOLD WATCHES. -- A variety of excellent and carefully finished Ladies' Seeopci hand Gold Watches, many of them in accordance w'th the latest taste, with Gold Dials, Jewelled, &c., are offered for selec tion, price from Six to Eight Guineas each, at T. COX SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Gold and Silversmith, 47, Cornhill, Lon On (Seven Doers from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange• 35 42 34 40 ,-- 1