The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-06 00:00:00

EVEN ING EDITION. MANCHESTER ELECTION. MANCHESTER, THURSDAY NIGHT. The second nomination of a fit person to represent this town in Parliament took place under the precept of the Mayor and Municipal Corporation this morning, on the hustings in St. Ann's-square, erected by the Boroughreeve and constables. Shortly after nine o'clock the proclamation was made for the election. Mr. THOMAS POTTER then said, this day we are met to elect a Member to serve in Parliament in the place of the Right Hon. Charles Poulett Thomson, in pur suance of a precept I received on the 28th day of last month, which the clerk will now read. Mr. Joseph Heron then read the precept. Mr. M AUDE , t h e st i pen di ary M ag i strate , nex t ad ministered the oath taken by the returning officer to Mr. Th omas P otter. The Act o f P ar li ament aga i nst bribery and corruption at elections was then read. Mr. POTTER—I am sure you will hear the proposers and seconders of every candidate, and the candidates themselves, with patience, and that you will not inter rupt any of them. I now call upon the electors to pro pose a candidate for the representation of this borough in Parliament. —(Cheers and hisses.) Mr. JOHN BROOKES proposed Robert Hyde Greg as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament. He delivered a long speech in favour of Mr. Greg's pretensions, which was received with min gled hisses and cheers. Mr. DAVID PRICE briefly seconded the nomination. The friends of Colonel Thompson here entered a pro test against the nomination of Mr. Gregg, on . the ground of hi s not b e i ng present to prove hi s qualification. GEORGE CLARKE, Esq., then proposed the Right Hon. Sir George Murray, G.C.8., as a fit and proper person to represent the borough. The nomination was received with enthusiastic cheers. JAMES HIBBERT WANKLYN, Esq., seconded the no mination. Colonel THOMP3ON was not put in nomination, his friends protesting against the authority of " the Mayor" to hold the election, against the whole of the present pro coedings, against Mr. Greg being put in nomination in his absence, and without making the declaration of quali ficat ion. - This declaration made by Colonel Thompson's Com mittee, it is said, was received with great cheering by the crowd, amongst whom were a great number of the working classes. Sir G. MURRAY then addressed the electors in a speech, in the course of which he was repeatedly inter rupted by general cheering. A number of questions were then put to the Right Hon. and Gallant Candidate. Mr. POTTER called for a show of hands, and declared It to be in favour of Sir George Murray. Mr. BROOKES demanded a poll, and Mr. Potter fixed it to commence to-morrow (this day). A vote of thanks having been given to Mr. Potter, the meetin g separated. The poll opened this morning at eight o'clock, in conformity with the nomination yesterday, and conti nued throughout the day. Sir George Murray was ahead of Mr. Greg until about two o'clock, when he gradually began to lose ground, and it was evident that he Cou l d not retain the position which he had taken. The town has been in a good deal of excitement, but the most perfect order and decorum prevailed through out the day. The following were the numbers at th e clos e : Mr. Greg Sir George Murray 3,102 2,962 -----140 Majority for Mr. Greg The poll has closed, but the declaration will not be made b y t h e B oroughreeve unt il to - morro w morning. There is no doubt, however, that the result is in favour of Mr. Greg. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. (THURSDAY EVENING.) POST.—The reports which prevailed in the money circles yesterday, with regard to the probable move ments of thc Bank of England at their weekly meeting of to-day, have been verified in every panicular. Oa the breaking up of the Court of Directors the following notice was issued for the regulation of the public : '• The Governor and Company of the Bank of England are ready, until further notice, to receive applications for loans, upon deposit of approved bills of exchange, net having more than six months to run. Such loans to be repaid on or before the 18th October next, with interest at the rate of 61. per cent. per annum, and to be for sums not less than 2,0001. each. " Bank of England, Sept. 5, 1839." This notification has given much satisfaction, but its appearance had jieen so generally anticipated, that it created but little surprise. The arrangements of the Directors are calculated to afford the requisite assis tance to the commercial classes, but to them almost exclusively. The Stock Exchange people consider it desirable, perhaps, that Exchequer bills, and other " approved securities," should have been comprehended in the announcement ; but such a course at a moment like the present, when speculation cannot but have a very mischievous operation on the national interests, was greatly to be deprecated ; and, as regards Exchequer bills in particular, those who have taken a share in the late conversion would, we presume, think it very inconsiderate in the Bank authorities to be making advances on, and withdrawing from circulation, that species of security when so large an amount is needed to enable them to make goad their engagements to Go vernment. We state this much rather to meet than to answer the objections of those who, without troubling themselves to reflect on the state of the exchanges and other circumstances peculiar to the period, are disposed to insist upon long-established usages being rigidly per severed in. If Stock Exchange gentlemen embark in undertakings which are too large for their means it is their own fault, and when the day comes round for the adjustment of differences arising out of time bargains they must be content to provide for their deficiencies out of their ordinary resources. CHRONICLE.—By the above it will be seen that the accommodation to the public on this occasion, con trary to custom, is confined to the deposit of " ap proved bills ;" " Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, and other approved securities," which arc gene►ally inserted, being rendered of no utility as guarantee for loans from the Bank of England. The determination of the Di rectors has not surprised any body ; for, from what has occurred recently, and the line of policy which has been adopted by the Board for some time, it was almost certain that the issue of bank notes would be as limited as possible. There is, however, a peculiar feature in the present notice which was quite unexpected, and to which particular attention ought to be paid. It will be observed that the Directors reserve to them selves the right of rescinding this resolution whenever they think proper, for they expressly state that they will only receive applications " until further notice," and not during the whole period, which has hitherto been the case, except in the recent instances when they so suddenly increased the rate, and refused to take in Exchequer bills. It is, consequently, quite possible that next week, or at some other period, the Directors will make some further change, according as events may arise. On this occasion no blame can be attached to the board ; for, as they openly declare that they do not consider the present notice bind ing for the whole period, the public will be able to act and make arrangements accordingly ; and, as monetary and commercial matters are in such a critical and deranged state, there is of course no telling what may occur from week to week, thereby justifying certainly a departure from usual practice, especially when openly and fairly declared. Indeed the Bank Directors have acted on this occasion in a manner quite extraordinary, for they have displayed foresight and prudence. The present notice at any other period of the year would no doubt have produced considerable depression in the Exchequer Bill market ; but as a very large amount has yet to be ' brought to complete the terms of the funding opera tion, the premium has been, and possibly may, be maintained. js has been rather a tranquil day in the Eng. lisp Stock Market, and matters remain there much in the same state as yesterday. The demand for Money was certainly much less than it has been for some time, and loans upon Government Secu rities could be readily effected at five per cent., but this cannot be taken as any criterion of the value of money generally, for circumstances have occurred to ren der money more abundant at the Stock Ex change. There has, in fact, been a considerable amount of bank notes invested in Consols and other Bri tish stocks, in small sums, during the last few days, which, indeed, is almost invariably the case, when any marked depression in the value of the Funds continues fora short time, without any other cause than the ope ration of the market. This circumstance consequently brought a good deal of money to the Stock Exchange, and rendered Stock much less abundant ; but at the same time depriving the market for some time of the feature of acting as the barometer of money matters ge nerally. In Lombard -street, however, we are happy to say money has been much more easy, and the bills which fell due yesterday were, we understand, all liquidated. Of course the amount of first-rate paper afloat is now comparatively very small indeed, and the 4th of the month is not looked for with so much interest or appre hension as on some occasions. Consols closed at 90i to 4 for money, and 90i to 3 -3- for the account ; Ex chequer bills, 6 to 8 prem. ; India Stock, 247 to 249 ; and Long Annuities 3 per cent. reduced, ditto 8 per cent., and Bank Stock are now shut, preparatory to the payment of the dividends. TIMES.—The Bank notice for temporary loans has appeared, qualified exactly in the manner which has been anticipated. Thus the Directors have adhered to their practice in regard to the continuance of these accommodations, but have confined the range of them within the nar rowest limit possible. The rise of the Funds which has taken place within the last two days seems to have been connected with this notice, and there was an expectation in some quarters that the advances would be extended to Exchequer bills, which renders .it probable that a division of opinion prevailed in the Rank parlour as to the securities to be included in it. The bad principle of these accommodations as an occasional part of Bank practice has been frequently pointed out ; but since they have now been so long in use as to make their discon- tinuance a source of uneasiness to the monied interest, many persons appear to wish that they should become, under some modifications, permanent, so far at least as to have it understood that the Bank are always open to propositions for advances on good security, at the same rate of interest as for absolute discounts. It is believed that among the favoured connexions of the Bank this is already the case, and it would be but fair, therefore, to make it general. This would put an end to the excitement which commonly prevails, in critical periods, at about the time when the notices are issued as well as near to their expiration, when it happens to be material whether the Bank will or will not enforce repayment at the exact day appointed. They have often been compelled by circumstances to grant indulgence in that respect ; and when it is considered that these notices, in four periods of six weeks each extend already nearly over one-half of the year, the transition cannot be difficult to some uni form system to regulate advances which shall embrace the whole of the year. These notices had their origin in stock-jobbing, which they were manifestly fitted to encourage, by including, as they did at first, Govern ment securities as well as Bills of Exchange ; in any shape they never can be frz,e from that taint, and have in consequence often led to imputations against the Di rectors themselves, of being influenced by such motives. They can never be altogether approved of as sound banking practice ; but the custom, having been so long continued, cannot easily, or perhaps at all, be got rid of, and the only palliative would appear to be that of incor porating them avowedly, under certain restrictions and regulations, with the general business of the Bank. HERALD.—A Morning Contemporary appears to consider that the late transactions of the Bank of Eng. lard in the exchanges, &c., have necessarily deranged all the money markets of Europe, and grounds his re marks upon the assumption that there has been a great rise in the value of money in the northern commercial markets of Europe. " Had the trade with England," says our able Contemporary, " pursued its regular course, and had the balance due to them (the fo reigners) been remitted in bullion, instead of these artificial bills of exchange, thr , ir situation would have been wholly different." We do not doubt this, but the expressions of our Contemporary in favour of a foreign preponderance of trade, which has affected our commerce seriously, ex c it e b ut lit t l e sympathy for his opinions. Continental artificial bills of exchange seldom or ever are saleable in our Money Market ; but what a pretty predica ment our foreign commerce must be in, if, to en sure the safety of the Bank of England, we must pay for ou r i mports i n b u lli on , w hich the paragraph we have quoted intimates as being the basis of a better mode of composing the feelings of the leading money interests of the Continent. This would, were it the fact, be free trade with vengeance ; and though foreign merchants undoubtedly watch the operations of the Bank of England with much soli c i tu d e, i t does not follow that t h e comm erce of this country is to he crippled by continental anxiety , be cause the B an k of England is fettered by our curre nc y laws, i n a manner frog which the monetary and corn mercial i n t erests of the whole Continent are free. AN IRISII L . ETTER-WRITER, For some time past, an Irishman, named Ward, has made several applica tions at the Gateshead post. o ffi ce, to ascertain if a letter had arrived for him, p rom i sing not only to pay the post age, but also to ‘• thrat e " t h e Postmaster ,c like a jintle man," when the expected epistle was forthcoming. At length, on Tuesday, a letter came, beari ng the following address :—" Barne Ward Gateshid Post offiis if Borne Ward cant be found by the same token, the post man may open it and tell Game what it manes 1 ! 1 " CAMBRIDGE ELECTION. The polling commenced yesterday, Sutton heading throughout the day the Liberal candidate : at four o'clock the poll closed. The numbers are variously stated. The Cambridge Advertiser gives them thus Gibson 616 Sutton But all the other reports we have seen reduce Mr. Manners Sutton's majority. Our Cambridge Contem porary has the following remarks on the subject : " We will not affect to conceal our mortification at the temporary defeat the Liberal party in Cambridge has this day sustained. We have descended from the proud position till now we have been enabled to occupy ; and it is too true that this result is in some—we are compelled to say in a great degree, attributable to the want of unanimity and good feeling amongst the Reform ers themselves. Five times in Cambridge since the Re form Bill was passed has the great battle of Reform been fought with signal success ; but after each conflict—we say it with regret—the temporary bond of union was thrown aside by those whose duty it was ever most religiously to preserve it intact and inviolate ; and hence arose a feeling of dissatisfaction and indisposition to act, on the part of the great body of the Liberal constituency, which has had its share in producing the present state of things. But the principal cause of the result of the present day's proceedings is the indefensible and flagrant conduct of our Tory opponent. " During the last two or three days scenes of the most disgraceful character have been enacted. Bribery has been carried on to an unprecedented and most alarm ing extent : at the poll the votes of persons in the Tory interest who have lost their qualification have been recorded in prodigious numbers, and we have no hesita tion in saying that the seat which Mr. Manners Sutton has this day so dearly purchased must very shortly be removed from under him. It would have been better —far better to have beaten him, as might have been done with ease, if we had but have been true to ourselves at the poll ; but he and our leaders may be assured that the effect of the petition which will certainly be pre sented against the return, will be to afford him the op portunity of seeking a seat elsewhere if, indeed, it should not disqualify him altogether for a place in the House of Commons. DEATH IN THE PENITENTIARY.—On Wed detLiay afternoon an inquest was held at the Penitentiary, Milbaok, on the body of R becca Fowler, a con vict,, who died i n th at p r i son on Tu e sday. Mr. NI ade the surgeon of the Penitentiary, said the deceased was ad mitted into the infirmary on the Ist of May, she being too i"11 to be sent out to the penal settlement. She was labour mg under cold and inflammation of the lungs, caused pro bably by the ch angea bl e state of the weather at that t i me. She had every att ent i on pa i d to her, but she got wove, and died of consumption on Tuesday. By the Coroner— He had seen her every day since she had - been in the Srmary, anl she had all she wanted. Verdict—" Natural death." FORGED LETTERS OF CREDIT. At the Mansion-House yesterday the individual who stands charged with attempting to commit a fraud by means of forged letters of credit, th e part i culars of which case were published last week, was brought up for re-examination. Mr. Bilfoc, who appeared on behalf of the Swiss Govern ment, produced a letter from the director of police at Berne, Switzerland, stating that the prisoner had de frauded the Swiss Government of 3,000 francs, and re questing the Lord Mayor would remand the prisoner for a fortnight, in order that they:might transmit their proofs. Mr. Wontner, who defended the prisoner, contended that no case had been made out against his client, and that he was entitled to his discharge, or, at all events, to be ad tr itted to bail. The Lord Mayor said that after the inti mation from the Swiss authorities he roust give them an opportunity of substantiating their charge, and he should therefore remand him for a week ; but unless they made out a stronger case, he would then discharge the prisoner. COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE Foil. SEPTENIBER opens with a domestic West Indian tale, from the skilful pen of the editor, intitled " The Planter's Birth Day," which sparkles with those beautiful touches of nature that so peculiarly mark his productions. Mrs. Trollope's " Widow Married' introduces several new cha racters, and is continued with much humour. The illus trotions by Buss are capital. " A Stir among the Letter Wri;ers" is an amusing essay on the Penny Postage Bill. " The Fuegians" describes the country, climate, manners, and customs of the inhabitants, and every known particu lar respecting Tierra del Fuego, derived from the valu.•ble and interesting " Narrative of the Voyages of the Beagle and Adventure, under Captains King and Fitzroy, and Mr. Darwin, just published. " The Man Eater" is a spirited account of the killing of a furious tiger of Shirks poor, by the old Forest Ranger. " The Life and Times of Peter Priggins" recounts some most amusing spurting adventures of Mr. Nathan Never-Miss, in the author's best style. " Snuffs and Scuff-takers" is a most delightful article, which should be read by every snuff taker, maker, and seller in the three kingdoms. Mr. Howard has an amusing story, " The Clause in the Will," the " Per sonal Narrative of Tristram Dumps" is brought to a close, and a variety of interesting articles are continued. PORTSMOUTH.—The new three- decker, Queen, 110, guns, recently launched at this port, is in prep ration for sea service , and will be commi ss i oned shortly to 3 relleve the Princess Charlotte, 104, as the flag -ship in the Medi terranean. There is no truth wh a t ever i n the reported re turn of the Donegal, 78 , to Plymouth. Sh e was at Lisbon 72,t 21st ult., as also the Hercules, 72, and [Listings, 72, recently arrived on the station, which were kept in constant readiness for sea. The Tender a b y rig by , Adei Pantaloon,iral Admiralty 10, Lieuionant Tryon, o was d o.rde.re.d.aw. . . r Thursday to Yarmouth, it is supposed for telegraph on , . the purP ose of bringiog Minto, First Lord of t... colleagues, have arrived at this pore, unteer seamen to this port E a l •a e A miralt), accompanied by his colleagues,on a visit of inspecs tion.—Brighton Gazette. UNLICENSED BROKERS was understood on Thursday„on the Stock Exchang e , t h at many parties, to their dismay, IN THE C ITY .—I t have been acting as brokers w i t h out d ue qualification, have received notice from the Court of Aldermen, that unless they immedtately . qualify th emse l ves un d er the Act of Anne,the against ta t i s ty 1001. will henc e f or th be rigorously enforced gaiit all parties evading that statute. BERLIN, AUG. 28.—A countrywoman of 'ours resident in Bavaria ( I believe in :llunich itself) published, three or four months ago, a detailed account of tcrimes connected with the sad tale of Caspar Hauser. According to these revelations, he was the son of an Hun ga rian the i Princess and a cavalry officer, and was murdered by on \,agency of those who gave him life, not without the .. c t. semus and self-interested aid of an English Aristocrat. This account has not yet been refuted, notwithstanding. the \ hein.ous accusations it involves. Is the world to believe r thatthe Gtehrismmenalapnrcehvoelrvh_his,t,ory smallis o t n h ly iev a ee n e a w re c i o l a n .. ones are suffered to escape."—Letter in the Chronicle.nfimedatin ( g reato THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6, 1839. METROPOLITAN POLITIC AL SUMMARY. The Globe of last evening has the following observa tions upon the pretensions of Colonel Thompson to re present the people of Manchester, in opposition to Mr. Greg, the other Reform Cedidate :—" We do not know how far gentlemen of Col. Thonmson's temper de ceive themselves ; how far they mistake the irritations of self-opinion for public spirit. We can tell them this, however, if they do not know it. They are retarding, not advancing, the cause of progressive Reforms by these vagaries. They put themselves forward, as they say, to divide the Reformers from the Non- Reformers. This they certainly accomplish, at the risk of benefiting the Anti-Reformers. We may differ, however, from these Gentlemen as to who are, and who are not, Reformers. We admit that they would be very good Revolutionists, if that were the game. The insatiate pretensions of vanity, the hot-headed extremes of opinion, the utter want of consideration for all views or interests but their own—these are qualifications for leaders in a vio lent revolution, exactly in proportion as they are dis qualifications for taking the lead in well-considered, and just, and reasonable reforms. If these men are accele rating a revolution by disgusting the cautious and mo derate, and promoting a Tory re-ascendancy, they may possibly in that way be preparing the way for their future triumph, as they imagine they are doing—but assuredly in no other. They are affording the enemies of all changes the pitiable spectacle of the extremes in language and con duct which even educated men will espouse, when they find they cannot make a figure in parts more worthy of them. These are amongst the undeniable dangers of times of reformation—the perverted efforts of persons not without talent, and not without energy ; but who find that moderate changes will not place them where they desire to stand—that they cannot get moderate men to think Mein suitable leaders." The Courier has the following remarks upon the same subject :—" We regret to find that Colonel Thomp son, whose writings have sn essentially served the cause of just and liberal principles, and whose political conduct was for so long a time in harmony with his professions—leaving no more question of his pru dence as a practical Reformer than there could be of the power and ability which he brought to the advocacy of freedom—is determined to fulfil his threat of becoming the third candidate in Manchester, and of thus repeating the Marylebone game—Which we had imagined to be far too inglorious for repetition. Nobody can be a gainer by this perverse step but Sr George Murray. Colonel Thompson himself must be the heaviest loser." The Standard is indignant at the appointment of General Jackson to succeed Sir John Colborne as Military Commander-in-Chief in Canada. " Whatever he the talents of General Jackson," says the Standard— " and we cannot learn that he has had the slightest expe rience as a Colonial Governor in any part of the world— it will not, we pi esume, he anticipated that he will prove as adequate to the delicate and complicated duties of Commander of the Forces in Canada as the expe rienced officer who now fills that post. We are therefore, to have a new Commander in Chief and a new Governor General at the same moment ; (when all that energy, gallantry, and experience can offer, has scarcely been found adequate to preserve the peace of the country), and such a Governor-General as it would have been almost an insult to its inhabitants to have sent to the torpid, turtle-seeking Island oiAscension. So conscious, indeed, do Ministers appear to be of the enormous absurdity of the appointment,that, in order that hisdeparture may anticipate the petitions which are in course of signature in different parts of the country on the subject, Mr. Poulett Thompson is to be shipped off on Saturday next by the Pique ! The job is to be ren dered irrevocable, unless at the expense of a retiring pension, even although the whole country unite in the expression of its opinion on the subject !" The Times of this morning has - the following coarse remarks on the rejection of Mr. Gibson by the electors of Cambridge :—" Poor Mr. Gibson has been not only beaten, but soundly beaten, at Cambridge, and Mr. Sutton returned by a glorious majority of near one hundred. It is clear Gibson won't do in this country. His shabby conduct has sealed his fate with the consti tuency of England, and unless Daniel will take pity on him (for a consideration-1,0001.----say 1,0001.), and get him returned for some Papist borough, he has no chance of every sitting in the House of Commons and betraying a party again. It is clear what must be done with him. He must be sent in some capacity or other to Canada. Why not match the appointment of Mr. Thomson to the office of Governor-General by making Mr. Gibson Commander of the Forces ? His father, we believe, is, or was, a Major - in the army, and that certainly constitutes as good a qualification for this post as anybody can possibly allege for Mr. Thomson's ap pointment." The Morning Chronicle remarks as follows, upon Mr. O'Connell's avowed determination to devote the rest of his life to the effecting the Repeal of the Union : " We admit all that Mr. O'Connell can possibly ad vance, as to the injury which Ireland has suffered from her connection with England. It is impossible to account for the matchless misery of the great body of the people on any other principle than that the bayonets and guns of England enabled the English aristocracy, transplanted to Ireland, to perpe trate all manner of abuses and oppressions with impunity. The English have made the Irish a nation of pauper peasants ; and the extremity of the evil is such, that it is difficult to conc.ive a remedy for it. Even if the people of England were willing to consent to improve the condition of the peasantry by an alteration of their relations with the Irish landlords, the English aristo cracy, who make common cause with their brethren in Ireland, would never consent to it. But the people of England. though unable to prevent the misery of Ire land, will never suffer the Irish to effect a separation. It is impossible to persuade them 'that, with an hide pendent Irish Parliament, Ireland might not, in critical times, be the means of placing England in jeopardy." In the Morning Post we find the late announcement of the Ministerial changes thus called in question : " We have reason to belie% e that the official arrange ments announced last week by the Ministerial Papers,- upon authority,' as having been fully determined on, have encountered considerable difficulties, and under gone some material alterations. Sir George Grey has, we understand, refused the seat in the Cabinet which was offered him ; but we are not able to say whe ther this refusal has arisen from the conviction of Sir George Grey that the office of Judge-Advocate is one which ought not to be held by a Cabinet Mi nister, as from an apprehension on his part that the less intimate his connection with the present Govern ment the more likely it is to conduce to his own last in, honour and advantage. To the appointment of Mr. It Gordon to • the Treasury, some of the Lords, we arc told, manifested an insuperable objection. It is said that matters, which, a day or two ago, were very crooked indeed, have been put straight again by giving Mr. Gordon the office of Secretary at War without a seat in the Cabinet. 'I he Morning Herald concludes an article denouncing the appointment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Go vernor- Generalship of the Canadas in the following; acrimonious strain :—" If Mr. Thomson's Administra tion, as Commercial Minister of the Crown, has been e decided and miserable failure, as it surely has, how is it to be expected that he can successfully discharge the duties of Governor-General of Canada? OF affairs of trade he has a smattering, but of the science and prin ciples requisite to the government of provinces circum stanced like the Canadas he absolutely knows nothing. If Lord Melbourne mere l y wante d to get r i d of him as an incumbrance on the Cabinet, without wishing to Gieneig him, after the m anner o f L or d H •ek, why (m did he not give him some sinecure office, like that which Lord Holland has in the Duchy of Lancaster, or Sir John Newport in the Exchequer ? To sacrifice the two Canadas, in order to make a provision out of the Cabinet, for one whom it was not convenient to retain any longer in it, is rather too serious a price to pay for the accom modation or whim of the fribble chief of the Bed-cham ber Administration." The Morning Advertiser takes quite a different view of Mr. P. Thomson's appointment :—" The appoint ment of Mr. Poulett Thomson to the Government of Canada," says our Liberal Contemporary, "13, we hold, one of Vie wisest and best which Ministers could have made. Lord John Russell is now the Secretary for the Colo• nies, and as such will have to introduce into the House of Commons and take charge of all measures affecting the Canadas. Need we say how desirable it is that there. should be an entire unity of feeling and a friendly inter change of sentiment on Canadian affairs—considering the critical state in which those affairs have been placed for some time past—between the Governor-Ge neral and the Colonial Secretary ? And where, let us ask, is there a man to be found, between whom and Lord John Russell a greater harmony of principle and purpose exists on this subject, than between the Right Honourable Gentleman entertain, on most and t, t d N ble , s, Lord t consequently?h an‘r :l ee ' They are not only personal friends, anti f .orim portant years in the t s s a t m h e e C s a a m b e i n political e b s o ia o ni p en i tt n eo i t o ni n it s viil o tah n it only ec:aenr nn m g i l a n t " e a, ec c rh o s ,nhvbaesurtsaanr transpired2t ‘ e v q i t i h ud y a i n c w h te hl o le tl C e c e cia ' momentous question. a AN INCORRIGIBLE TIIIEF.—On Wednesday at the Uxbridge Petty Sessions William Dunderdale, 18 years of age, who has previously been committed to the House of Correction and for trial no less than 23 times, was charged before Sir William Wiseman, Bart , the sit ting Magistrate, with felony. lle was once more com mitted to Newgate. After his removal to the station house, Winder, the sergeant of the local police, went to the lock-up to see if Lhe prisoner wanted anything, when he discovered him sitting on the floor, and notwithstanding his hands were handcuffed behind him, and his legs ironed, his neckerchief was found tied by a slip knot round his throat, and the other end fastened to one of his leg irons, which he was stretching out with his full power. lie was entirely black in the face, and his eyes were almost burst in.' 1 orn their sockets. The sergeant immediately cut the neckerchief, when the prisoner fell on the floor, and al though surgeons were instantly fetched, sonic time elapsed before he returned to consciousness. PRICE OF SUGAR. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY Table showing the ex-duty price of West India Sugar, n Mincing Lane, and comparing the same against that of cr - eigt: sugars:— London, September 6, 1839. The Gazette of this night will quote the ave. Per Cwt. rage price of British Plantation Muscovado Sugar, exclusive of duty, at The actual quantity sold in the week ending the 31 inst. on account of the importers, en which the above price is computed, consisted, according West India sugar brokers,of 1,111 hhds. 44 trcs. and 126 barrels, and not of 1,400 hhds., as estimated in the market. _ to the returns of the Foreign Sugars have been sold from 19s. to 255. per cwt. this week, demonstrating that they are quality for quality 17s. per cwt. cheaper than West India Sugar. The market remains unusually quiet. THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ABROAD.—At the window of a private house in Cleveland-street, Fi:z roy-square, is a bill exhibited, from which the follow ing is correctly copied :-_" A day seem;nary for children, by Jane Maddox. Needel work and tooition taught on r.cw and improved principela. Bonets cleaned and altered to the prevailing fashion." OUR NATURALIZED FRUITS AND VEGE TABLEa,—Vegetables were i mporte d f rom th e Netherl ends in 1500, there being no kitchen gardens in England. Be fore this time sugar was eaten with meat to correct its pu treseency. Turnips and carr o t s are th oug ht to be indigenoua roots of France. Our cauliflowers came from Cyprus, our artichokes from Sicily, lettuces from Cos, a name vul garly corrupted into Gos. Shallots or eshallots from Asca lon. What roving ideas on commerce and civilization may arise from a dinner and dessert ! The cherry and filberts are from Cartana, in Asia Minor; the peach and walnut from Persia ; the plum from Syria ; the pomegranate from Cy prus ; the quince front Sidon ; the olive and fig from Greece, as also the best apples and pears, though also found wild in France and even in this country ; the apricot is from Armedia. The mountain wines come from the mountains around Malaga. Tent is tinto tinged, or red wine. Sherry from Xeres-Xeres (the Spanish Xis pro nounced sh or ch), in the south of Spain, where the great battle fought between the Christians and the Saracens ended in the conquest of Spain by the latter. Malmsey was from Malvasia in the Peloponnesua, but afterwards propagated at Alicant, the Canaries, and Madeira. GROUSE SHOOTING.—One rule, the golden rule, " give your dogs the wind," has paramount import ance, and ought to be particularly observed in grouse shooting. The nature of the ground is strongly opposed to the spreading of scent ; and as a dog may consequently come within three feet of a pack and not wind, but sprieg them, it is most essential to sport that you should never hunt them to such disadvantage. At the beginning of the season it is very common to see the old cock running cackling, and leading the whole pack from the impending danger, and unless you luckily floor him the first rise, you may be sure of no little bother in getting at the pack. Leave your keeper,and dogs about the pace they last rose from ; let him be as little visible as possible, but sufficiently so for him to guide. you to a point beyond the place where you suppose the birds to have dropped ; having obtained the point, walk briskly towards the marked ground, and if they do not rise within shot at your approach, the old cock's tongue is almost sure to betray their place of con cealment; then kill the gentleman, and the rest of the d park are as good as bagged.—Sporting R ev i ew . The Journal de Lot et Garonne mentions a horrible outrage as having been committed lately at Tonneins, in that department. An inhabitant of that town, accompanied by his daughter, twenty-one years of age, and of great beauty, a young female friend of hers, and three young men of their acquaint ance, had been enjoying an evening walk by the I,a -side, and were returning home across the fields, when they were attacked by eight or ten men, who at once declared their intention of possessing themselves of the persons of the young worn an A desperate conflict en. sued ; four cf the ruffians kept the young men at bay, while the remainder set on the father and the two girls. They soon forced his daughter from his arms, and dragged her away, while h:r father who was an i nvalid , hung on by her dress, and was drawn along t he g round . One of the men turned round, and, giving him some violent blows on the head, left hint for dead. They then car ried the poor young girl to a great distance across the open country, until they arrived at a house, where a woman allowed them to enter; and where they perpe trated their atrocious crime on their victim. In the mean- time the other young woman had escaped after some bad treatment, and, running to the river, concealed hersrlf among some rushes on the bank, in which place , she was afterwards found. The three young men had defended themselves courageously against their assailants, who were much stronger, and one of them, armed with a poinard, wounded two of the ruffians so badly that they succeeded in capturing them, while the two others escaped. luformation was immediately given to the gendarmerie of Tonneins, and they set out in quest of the poor young woman who bad been carried off. The father was found and brought back ; and at length they discovered his daughter sitting under a tree, to which, after the villains had turned her cut of the house, she had, with great difficulty, dragged herself. Independently of the wounds and other severe injuries which she had received, her cars bad been slit by the pulling cut of her ear-rings .by vio lence, and her ravishers had forced her rings off her fin gers with their teeth, leaving her hands dreadfully ice rated. She was conveyed back to Tonneins in a most dangerous condition. The men who had been guilty of this diabolical attempt, with the exception of the two al ready mentioned, had not been arrested. The utmost in dignation and excitement is stated to prevail at Tonneins and in the surrounding districts.— Golignani. THE AGRICULTURAL ASSOCIATION AND THE DUKE Or BUCKINGHAM.—It is well known that the Duke of Buckingham, when Marquis of Chandos, inte rested himself greatly in getting up the Agricultural Asso eiation, with a view to party political purposes. Some surprise was occasioned at his Grace's delay in sending in his adhesion to the great meeting lately held at Ox ford ; and still more was the surprise at his Grace's having invited the Judges and the Grand Jury to dire with him on the very day on which that meeting took plsce—a circumstance which, bad he been disposed, he could easily have avoided. His Grace, however, we have reason to know, k composedn o wded g etthhee great toast re a t wrote to Mr. William Heyward, formerly a staunch Libe ral, but now a rabid Tory, renting a farm under his Grace, requesting him to apologise for his absence, and to ac wrnheeentiltiii s a healtht _was ix f s o h ,r o d u I n d e b ,e e r drunk; s o m much hut, asss that h h is is C h r e a a e l g e th. wa Ti? existence, alas ! fur the Duke of Buckingham, the gentlemen who led it o n t s h the a d y is i c i :r m v discovery a n o d f this i,sx:aoc3ti picked remembered who had taken his speech, thought of drinking " cut a w n 'e d re ciry " to Mr. Heyward, up a b t i circumstancestj:ierneighbour hoodHeY which d, of Wheatly.—Staffordshire ' Exan P THE FLEET.---The abolition of this prison is cont..mplated. The expense of maintaining it is upwards of 10,000/., and that of the Marshalsea 3,0001. per annum, whilst in the latter prison the average debt of each of the 84 persons confined was on l y 10 1 ., t h us s howing that on e year's expenses would pay the whole amount. It should also be observed that the c h ange w ill n ot add one iota of expense in sending the prisoners to the Queen's Bench, as there has been the same establishment of gaolers kept up since the years 1814 and 1815, and will save at least 13,000/. per year to the country. THE POPULAR MAN, AND THE MAN OF ORIGINALITY.—The Popul ar man , and the man of true, or at least of great originality, a re seldom one and the same; we suspect that, till after a strong struggle on the part they are never so . Reasons arc obvious et o ugi f h the later, po popular ma n s t an ds on our own level, or a hair's breadth higher ; he shows us a truth which we can. not see without shitting our present intellectual position. This is a highly convenient arrangement. The original man, again, stands above us ; he wishes to wrench us from our old fixtures, and elevate us to a higher and clearer level : but to quit our old fixtures, especially if we have sat in them with moderate comfort fur some score or tw o of years, is no such easy business; accordingly we de , mur, we resist, we even give battle ; we still suspect that he is above us, but try to persuade ourselves (lazi ness and vanity earnestly assenting) that he is below. For is it not the very essence of such a man that he be new ? And who will warrant us that, at the same time, lie shall only be an intensation and continuation of the old, which, in general, is what we lonr , and look fur ? No one can warrant us. And, granting him to be a man of real genius, real depth, and that speaks not till after earnest meditation, what sort of a philosophy were hie, could we estimate the length, breadth, and thickness of it at a single glance ? And when did criticism give two glances? Criticism, therefore, opens on such a man its greater and lesser batteries, on every side : he has no security but to go on disregarding it; and " in the end," says Goethe, " criticism itself comes to relish that me thod." But now let a speaker of the ether class come forward ; one of those men that " have, more than any one, the opinion which all men have !" No sooner does Ile speak, than all and sundry of us feel as if we had betel wishing to speak that very thing as if we ourselves might have spoken it ; and forthwith resounds from the united universe a Celebration of that surprising feat. What clear ness, brilliancy, justness, penetration ! Who can doubt that this man is right, when so many thousand votes are ready to back him ? Doubtless, he is right ; doubtless, he is a clever man ; and his praise will long be in all the Ma gazines.—Carlyle. ,c Lord John Hay and Colonel Colquhoun," says a Spanish correspondent of the lifessager, .‘ had a long interview with General Umie.la. Ituriza and an aide-de-camp of Maroto on the 29th at • Simon la Torre, chief of the army of Biscay, eight battalions strong, has adhered to the first conditions which were accepted by Esparterei and has remained neutral. This paralyses the Carlists. On Thursday about two hundred children be lcnging to the various parochial charity schools in the city, and east of London, were admitted to the exhibition of the Works of Modern Artists now taking p l ace at the Eastern Institution, Commercial-road. The children were all admitted gratis, as well as five hundred others on the previous Menday, by the kind invitation of the President, the Vice-Presidents, and Council of the Institution, and appeared highly delighted with the treat thus liberally af forded them. This exhibition is the first of the kind that has been opened in the Tower Hamlets. THE LATE GOLD-DUST ROBBERY.—At the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court, which commence next week, Money N-oses, his daughter, MN. Abrahams; and the Caspers, who were convicted a few months ago of the gold-dust robbery, will be brought up to receive judgment. It may be useful for many of our readers to know that Newspapers directed to Wiesbaden, and we suppose to other places also in that vicinity, with " via France" written at the top, and " Germany" omitted, and on which twopence has been paid in England, cost only twopence more on delivery there, going by Paris quite as quickly as by any other way ; while, if sent by the German mail, through Ostend, the charge is 2s. &I.—Brighton Gazette. MANCHESTER ELECTIONS. The first election after the passing of the Reform Act took place in the month of December, 1832, when the fol lowing was the final close of the poll Mark Philips 2,923 H. T. Hope (C)... 1,560 P. Thomson ...... 2 068 Mr. Cobbett 1,305 Jones Loyd The second election (consequent upon the dissolution in Dec. 28, 1834) took place in January, 1835, with the fol lowing results . P. Thomson 3,356 Braidley (C) 2,535 Mark Philips 3,163 I Sir Chas. Wolseley 583 Another contest took place in May, 1835, on the occasion of Mr. Poulett Thomson having vacated the office of Vice- President, and accepted that of President of the Board of Trade. Mr. P. Thomson was again opposed by Mr. Braidley. the Conservative. The numbers were— Mr. P. Thomson The last election was that which followed the death of the late King William the Fourth P. Thomson 4,127 I W. E Gladstone( C) 2,324 Mark Philips 3,759 SLAVE-TRADE.-PORTUGAL. Much allusion has been-made to a note lately ad dressed to the leadinc , Governments by the Portuguese Minister on the subject of the Slave-trade. The fol lowing is a tran3lation of the document : " Office of the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. " Copy of a Circular which, under date of the 4th inst., was addressed by the Minister for Foreign Af fairs to the Governments of the Powers parties to the Gongress of Vienna, and to other Governments, as well of Europe as America, respecting the Bill presented to the British Parliament by Lord Palmerston for power to capture by British cruizers, and to confiscate Portuguese vessels engaged, or sus pected of being engaged, in the Slave-trade, which they may fall in with to the south of the Equator. (' Most Illustrious and Excellent Senhor—Her most Faithful Majesty the Queen of Portugal, my august Sovereign, has just learned, with the most profound grief and astonishment, that the British Government has effectively realised the threat held out to the Por tuguese Government by Lord Palmerston, the Bth of March last, in the House of Commons, of presenting to the British Parliament a Bill which authorises its Government to cause to be captured by the cruisers of its nation, and to confiscate all the Portuguese merchant ships they may fall in with to the south of the Equator, the same being engaged, or suspected of being engaged, in the slave-trade. " The additional convention of London, signed the 28th of July, 1817, prohibits expressly the detention of vessels to the south of the Equator (Art. 4. of in structions). The separate article of the 11th of Sep tember of the same year declares that this convention shall remain in force for the space of 15 years, counting from the day on which the traffic in slaves should be totally abolished by her most Faithful Majesty, in case the two Crowns should not be able to execute a new treaty. " The decree by which her Majesty spontaneously abolished in all the Portuguese dominions the traffic in slaves having been published the 10th of December, 1836, it is evident that the said convention ought to con. tinue in force till the 10th of December, 1851, as the treaty concluded between the Seohor Viscount Sada Bandeira, Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of her Most Faithful Majesty, and Lord Howard de Walden, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipo tentiary of her Britannic Majesty;could not be signed by those Plenipotentiaries in consequence of the depar ture of the said Lord for London the 22d of May, 1838. " The measure proposed to Parliament by the British Government is not only contrary to the stipulation cited of the additional Convention, but to the most solemn confession to the effect, that the British Go vernment did not feel itself authorized by the treaties to give orders to make prizes to the south of the Equator, and which may consequently be regarded as public testimony of the illegality with which such prizes have heretofore been made by their cruizers. This measure is so much the more unjust in so far as it is taken precisely at an epoch in which the Portu guese Government, in order to puta stop to the slave- trade in all its African dominions, was earryino. into execution more rigorous orders, the force of which recognised by the Brazilian Minister for Foreign Affairs in his last report to the Chambers, and which is actually proved by the prizes that have been made by the Portuguese cruisers, one of which (the brig Maria Virginia, taken by her Most Faithful Majesty's vessel of war Fayal) has lately been brought. into the Tagus. " Such a measure must be of the greatest interest to the Governments of both worlds, for the reason that it is a most flagrant violation of the rights of nations, and the most direct attack on the Sovereignty and the iin prescriptive rights of the Crown of an independent monarchy ; of one not liable, in default of its consent in any treaty whatever, to have the . _ same supplied by the decision of the legislative body of a foreign nation. Time does not permit the Portuguese Government to . present with clearness and precision the whole of this unjust and unprovoked aggression of the British Government in detail, but against which the Queen commands me to protest in a manner the most formal by her Minister in London. Her Majesty, firm in her rights, which sh 3 is resolved to uphold in a way- worthy of her crown, thinks it proper to address the Sovereigns parties to the Congress of Vienna, as firm supporters of the European equili brium, and guarantees of tho solemn declaration made at the said Congress—to the effect that the determina tion of the epoch in which the slave-trade ought to cease universally would been object of negociation be- tween the respective Powers—which precludes all idea that she should ever be permitted to obtain it by means of coercion. " It is accordingly under these considerations that her Majesty the Queen, confiding in the spirit of justice and impartiality which directs the Government of his Majesty the King of has commanded me to call his most benevolent attention to this offensive and unheard-of pro ceeding of the British Government, by reason of the con sequences that may arise to Portugal and to all Europe from this new and extraordinary example of the greatest abuse of force towards an independent sovereignty and nation, with which friendly relations and a faithful and uninterrupted alliance have been maintained for more than four centuries, I hare the honour to be, &c. (Signed)" The Baron DA RIBEIRA DE SABROSA " Lisbon, Aug. 4, 1839." MEXICO. (From the New Orleans Bulletin.) By the schooner Eclipse, Captain Delaville, which arrived here yesterday, we have received our files of papers and letters from the city of Mexico to the Bth, and from Vera Cruz. to the 13th instant inclusive. Santa Anna was still President ad interim, and though, in a precarious state of health, exercising the functions of his office with increasing applause and success. At the date of our correspondent's letter Busiamcnte was momentarily expected in the capital. The expedition to Tampico being crown;:d with such entire success, his return was everywhere greeted with the most enthusiastic demonstrations of affection and regard. According to the Diaria del Gobierno, Santa Anna and he are to effect the most salutary reform in the Constitution, to do away with the cause of the late disastrous disaffection, conciliate all parties, and to crown the whole with re-conquering the " ungrateful colony." For accomplishing this great undertaking the Executive is to be empowered to raise the necessary means. All the Federalists who gave themselves up to the dirposal of the Government are to retire to their farms, and never to reside in a city, or .near a fortification, under pain of death. Urrea was sentenced by Santa Anna to be banished for six years ; but a perverse man of French descent, who had him in charge, allowing him too much of his parole of honour, the quondam Generalissimo, while cn his way- to Vera Cruz for embarkation, made his escape at Perot° on the 30th ult., and has not been heard of s►nce. Lemes was chased out of Monterry by Canalizo ; and his brother fled to Monclavo. According to the papers in our possession the career of this General is of late marked by much barbarity. In several States in the interior the small-pox is raging with great virulence. Throughout the whole republic the censorship of the press is maintained with the greatest rigour, but the foreign merchants resident in Vera Cruz have been al lowed and are about establishing a splendid exchange or reading-room in that city. Two hundred thousand dollars of the second instal ment are on the way from Mexico to Vera Cruz. This money will arrive only a few days after being due. Commercial affairs have a good appearance. There has not been as yet any arrivals from Europe, and the want of goods is immense. General Urena is to go to Europe. INTERESTING DISCOVERY.--A short time ago, in a field adjoining the road leading from Rudston to Kilham, a tesselated pavement, about six inches from •the surface, was uncovered ; the tessetaa d.ffering in size from one and a half inch to half an inch ; colours white, red, and blue, white prevailing ; laid in lines and forming diamonds, extending over a surface of about four yards by three yards, walled round on three sides with large rough stones, similar to the chalk stones of the \Voids. A great part of the pavement had been destroyed at a former period by some labourers who had dug it up in the hope of finding treasure, and the place filled up again promiscuously ; it contained red bricks of a square form 9 inch by inch, and II inch thick'; pieces of plaster, smooth on one side and painted, some red all over, some in lines, and some in dashes of red and green, appr rently water colours. The size of each tile is about 15 inches by 11A-, and about a of an inch in thickness. Immediately under these was another layer of the same sort of tiles, laid in the same manner, but traversely with the other. Below these wasi a small quantity of exceed lingly black ashes, and near were some pieces of a rather bony-like substance, porous, and saving a great sem blance to the encrusted moss from the Dropping Well at Knaresborough. Still lower, was a layer of fine rich earth, a few inches in thickness, and then a bed of fine natural red day, probably the material similar to that of which the bricks and tiles had been formed.—York Courant. EVENING EDITION. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. SUNDAY FISHING.—It will be recollected that on Mon day last several fishermen belonging to Teddington ap peared before the LORD IlaYoa, charged with the offence of allowing their boats to be used for the purpose of angling on last Sunday week, and that they were allowed until yesterday for the purpose of producing the gentlemen who had hired them; failing which, they were to be fined in the penalty of 40s. each. Yesterday morning the parties were again in attendance, and one of them produced a Mr. Holder, as the gentleman who hired him on the occasion alluded to. Mr. Holder appeared by his solicitor, who admitted the offence, but as it was the first time any one had been punished under the Act, and as Mr. Holder had a large family, he trusted, by his paying the expenses, there would be no conviction. The Solicitor for the Kemps, the fishermen complained against, said . the Lord. Mayor was determined to bold, against all precedents, that a rod, line, and hook, was a device for catching fish, and as it was the first time such a construction had been put on the Act, also, as the parties had done all in their power to produce the real offenders, he trusted enough had been done, and that they might be allowed to depart upon payment of the expenses. _ _ The complainants (also fishermen) said they did not want money—that was not their object—all they wanted was protection. They were not allowed to fish on Sun day, and they did not see that any others should. The LORD MAYOR fully believed that they had no other object in view, although he had received a great number of most important letters upon the subject, which not only grossly abused him, but imputed other motives to the complainants. He could assure those gentlemen anglers that their ungentlemanly and anonymous abuse would not deter him from pursuing that course his conscience prompted. H was assured that there were more fish taken out of the River on a Sunday than the poor fishermen took during the whole of the week. The Justice-room appeared to be crowded with followers of old Izaac Walton, and a simultaneous cry of dissent was given. The LORD MAYOR supposed many of those were present who had been his correspondents on the occasion. He was assured such was the fact, and that one angler with a cer tain wind frequently took as much as 100Ibs. of fish. Mr. Hall said the decision of his Lordship would give much satisfaction to the anglers on the river Thames. He was one himself, though not a Sunday one. Another Angler—But what are those to do who cannot get out on any other day--it was ridiculous to talk of so much as 100 lbs. for one rod in a day. The Fisherniens' Solicitor said he was well acquainted with angling, and he could assure his Lordship that 51bs. was a very good average. His clients had no objection to his Lordship's decision—all they wanted was that it should be made clearly known, so that others might not profit by what they were deprived of. Another angler, who gave his name Floris, contended strongly for the right of Sunday angling. He said he was one of a large body in the metropolis, who were at work every day from nine o'clock in the morning till seven or eight o'clock in the evening, and that, not for a few weeks or months, but from year to year. Sunday was the only day they had for enjoying the sport, and it was too bad to be deprived of it. Besides, the fishermen would be great losers, as toe money they got on Sundays enabled them to provide for the winter. The LORD MAYOR was very sorry to interfere with the amusements of any one, but he must put the law in force when a case was brought before him, and he must inflict the penalty upon all brought before him of whatever de gree. He had taken great pains to increase the stock of fish—it was increasing fast, and if allowed to go on the fishermen would be able to make a living by the trade once more. Mr. Goldham, the Clerk of Billingsgate, said some3o or 40 years ago the fishermen on the Thames amounted to 400, every one of them employing a boy. On many occasions they had brought to market as many as 20,000 smelts in a day, and at that time tbey sent to Market 3,000 salmon in a year. There was no such thing now. The complainant then withdrew the summonses, their expenses to be repaid them. The decision of his Lordship appeared to give great dissatisfaction to the numerous body of anglers present. WORSHIP- STREET. MAGISTERIAL NEGLECT.—The usual hour of ing business at the different Police Courts in tb lis is ten o'clock. The police have orders to hi prisoners, incl u ding thos e ou t on b a il, marshal station house by a - quarter before ten, so as to• I at the Police C o urt, by ten o ' c l o ck p re cisely. ~' in the recollection of most of our readers, that in th • • - mitten on the Metropolis Courts Bill, when that indliat't was before the House of Commons, the Recorder of Lon don expressed a strong opinion that nine o'clock should bo the hour of commencing business in all the Polic e C ourts w i t hi n t h e metropo li tan di str i cts. This proposition, h owever , was overru l e d, b ut i t was agree d on all sides that business ought to commence in those Courts not later th an ten o ' c l oc k . Th e W ort h y Magistrate, who administers justice at Worship-street s - :ems, however, to be by no means of this opinion. At ten o'clock yesterday morning th e eflice was opened, and police and prisoners, prosecutors and witne sses , were i n attend ance. Nothing was wanting to proceed to business save the one thing needful, the presence of a Magistrate. At length, at half-past ten, Mr. Broughton made his appear ance on the Bench, and those w ho had been detained unne cessarily for half an hour from their avocations, indulged the hope that at length justice would be administered ; but in this, as in many other instances, " Hope told a fl a tt er i ng tale," for after whispering something to one of the officials; he again made his exit, and re t urned at a quarter to twelve o'clock. By one of the provisions of Magna Charta it is provided that "Justice shall not he delayed." CHARGE OF ROBBERY AT A STATION HCEME.—Ann Mitchell, aged 14, was charged with attempting to commit a robbery at the police station in Chapel-street The priso ner is the daughter of a policeman of the 11 division, who with his family, resides in the station house in Chapel street. It appears that the kitchen of the station-house i s occupied solely by the single men, who there keep the i r boxes, coats, 8;e: From the evidence of Stokes , a poli▪ ce man, 178 11, it appeared, that when passing the stati▪ on house last evening at eleven o'clock, be perceived a li▪ ght in the kitchen, which being an unusual occurrence, in duced him to stoop down and look in at the window, when he perceived the prisoner in the act of endeavouring to open one of the men's boxes. He then called to 181 H, who watched -the girl's proceedin gs, while Stokes went down into the kitchen Oa hearin g him approach, the prisoner extinguished the light. He then called, but received no answer ; upon which he sta tioned 181 El on the stairs, while he fetched a light, found the prisoner, and accused her of attempting to open the box, which she denied, and said she had gone to fetch a light. She is employed occasionally by the single men as a domestic, but had no business in the kitchen at that hour of the night. Puliceman 75 H, the owner of the box, deposed that on going on duty the previous evenirg, he had locked his box, and afterwards had lost the key. On his return he found the box unlocked, but rothing had. been taken from it. BOW-STREET. Yesterday John K'rby, Mary Anne Freeyrove, and Louisa Bell, sere brought before Mr. TWYFORD, by three of the officers who had lately been attached to the Court, charged with stealing a piece of carpetting, value 51., the property of Mr. Emerson, 393, Strand. The pi isoners are connected with others at present in custody, for stealing various articles of property, amounting to about 300/., the greater part of which has been identified by the persons to whom it belongs. This was the last capture which had been made by the officers previous to tho passing of the late Act, and the circumstances con nected with it, shows that no small degree of tact and in genuity were required to recover the property and bring :he prisoners to justice, Mr. WOLFF, from the office of Mr. Flower, solicitor, of Hatton.garden, attended for the prisoners. Mr. George Smith, managing clerk to Messrs. Emerson and Co., upholsterers, Strand, stated that the roll of Kid derminster carpet produced was the property of his em ployers. It consisted of about forty-five yards, and was worth 51. He saw it safe near the door of the shop on the Policeman 181 11, corroborated the testimony of 178, and added that, during the absence of 178, he saw the pri soner examine the pockets of the men's coats in the kitchen, and be st )pped hrr going up. stairs. The prisoner in her defence said she had been employed by a policeman named Burt to watch his gloves, which she had hung in the yard to dry, and she, fancying she heard him in the kitchen laughing, went down to tell him to fetch in his gloves, as it was raining, and she was afraid to go out then. She thought he had hid himielf behind the dresser fur a fßolic, and stooped down to look for hm, in doing which, she might have touched the dresser or the coat, but she never touched the box. The Inspector said the father bal been some time in the force, and was an honest s!eady mnn. - He had not been informed of the circumstance until the in isener was brought to the office. The mother of the girl attributed the charge to malice, because she had forbidden the child to go on errands for the 7 po.tceman. The Sergeant of the H division stated that be had re side,' eleven months under the same roof with the prisoner at another station-house, and never missed any thing. M. 3noccvroN said he thought the father should have been informed of the occurrence earlier. As nothing was lost, the case could nct go to a Jury He was averse to ruining the girl for life and hurting the feelings of an old officer, by committing her to the House of Correction ; and he thought the better way would be to deliver her up to her parents, and that the family should be removed from the station. house. The Inspector said he thought this would meet the jus tice of the case, and would recommend the parents to send her from London as soon as possible. The prisoner, after a suitable admonition from Mr. BrougLton, was discharged. ATTEMPT AT MURDER. —.Join Ham, a dirty, squalid looking man, by trade a weaver, was then pieced 'at the bar, charged wilh attempting to murder his wife. Policeman, 144 11, deposed that he was on duty last night in Flo.l erdew-itreet, Spitalfields, when, about twelve o'clock he heard cries of murder proceeding from one of the houses in the said street, ant a person begged him to go up stairs, as a man was attempting to hang his wife. lie accordingly went up, and found the prisoner hanging out of the window by a rope, fastened round his arm, and attached to - the window-frame, and endeavouring to drag his wife out after him by the arm. - He assisted the prisoner in, and his wife gave - him in custody on a charge of attempting to murder her. The prisoner in his defence said that his wife hal locked the door to prevent his going out to di ink, and that he cras getting out of the w indyw by moans of the rope, in order to avoid a quarrel with her. Mr..BROUGIITON said his only surprise was that the wife did not take a knife and cut the rope, and so get rid of him at once. The wife not being in attendance, he was rc of Friday, the 16th of August; and he missed it about o'c'ock on the following day. It had never been sold from the shop, and it consequently must have been stolen. D ,niel Woolridge, porter to the firm, proved that on Saturday, the 17th of August, he placed the carpet at the door, and he missed it in the afternoon of the same day. Edward Terry, a cabman, was on the stand near to the corner of Adelaide-street, on the 17th August, between nigh three BEA UFORT CASTLE, INVERNESS-SII I RF.- the hours of eleven and one o'clock, as ben a young man Lord and Lady Lovat are entertaining a distinguished I hired his cabriolet, and, on maving on to the corner, he party; and many visitors are e x p ec t e d i n t h e cnse i ng week. saw another young man standing with the roll of carpet like The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Petro have arrived, and the Hon. that produced in his possession. The carpet was put into Stafford Jerningliam, one of the knights at the recent tour the cab, and the young man who was standing by the corner namcnt at Eglinton Castle, and Mrs. Jarnin e ha m :.re desired him to drive by a circuitous route to Comptot,- expected, and have arrange d to stay h ere f or t h ree 11.o:101s. street; at the end of which having stopped,. the men leaped out, and having entered a house where he delayed FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL FETE AT about a minute, be returned, and, after paying the fare, YtiliK —The important agricultural assemblage, et Leeds, he took away the carpet with him. on Wcdinsday, was succeeded by an elaeant display in When witness first saw him there was mud upon his this city on the following day, in the second grand annual trousers and upon the carpet which he said had happened floral and horticultural exhibition, in the delightful grounds accidentally. of the Yorkshire Museum. The rapid succession of these Keys, the late officer, proved that on the day in question sort of meetings is a pleasing feature of the present times, he was standing at the corner of Compton-street, in and gives earnest of a great advancement in those useful company with England Goodson, son of the door-keeper and intellectual pursuits, by which the comforts of life shall of the Court, when he saw the last witness drive past with be-enhanced, and a knowledge of natural science extended. the carpet and the male prisoner in his cabriolet, and —York Courant. suspecting something wrong, he ran after the vehicle, and EAS'f LOTHIAN.--In the eatly part of August aserved that it drew up near to the corner of the street. the weather in this quarter was very propitious, and :tie There appeared some mud on the prisoner's trousers, and partial rains with which we were visited, so far from in. on his getting down, the carpet was put on his shoulder, juring the crops, rather have benefited them. About the with which he entered into 73 in that street. Witness middle of the month the weather took a turn less favour delayed ab ou t an hour, watching the house, during which able, having rained at intervals exceedingly heavy, which time he saw the prisoner Freegrove look out of the win- was occasionally succeeded by a strong sun and sultry heat dew on the second floor. Having watched them such a _and in many places the crops were considerably lodged in length of time, he suspected they might observe him, and consequence. Fortunately, however, they were well filled he desired the witness Goodson to follow after the prisoner previously, and therefore less damage is to be apprehended Kirby and another man who had left the house, and in than if they had been laid at an earlier period. Within about holf an hour after he was joined by Fletcher and these few days the weather has assumed a beautiful and Ballard, who searched the room on the second floor, settled aspect, and the prospects of the coming harvest is where they discovered the carpet. The female prisoners rather more cheering. What the husbandman sighs tor who were in the room were then taken into custody. now is a high temperature and an unclouded sky ; rain England Goodson, stn of the door-keeper of the Court, might be dispensed with till aft er harvest—heat, too, is corroborated the greater part of the last witness's state- wanted to swel the turnips, and to render the potatoes ment, adding that when he followed the prisoner Kirby he mealy and large. The late refreshing showers have been saw him go into Norfolk -street, Middlesex Hospital, and rather beneficial to the growth of the turnips, potatoes, supposing that he resided there he left. On the follow- and pasture grass. Harvest commenced partially eight ing Tuesday, having met him near st. Giles's Church, he days ago, by cutting barley in some early sheltered situa-. gave him into the custody of a policeman. tions. The operations of harvest, so far as they were be- Ballard went with Keys to the house in Compton-street, gun, have been consequently a little interrupted lax, where he found the female prisoner on the landing place. showers ; but should the atmosphere set in calm and dry, On their asking him what he wanted he said " I want reaping will be general in the course of the ensuing week. that door to be opened," pointing to the front door. Wheat and oats are this year later than the barley. Wheat, After some conversation between the women Freegrove - from the cold backwaad spring, is not luxuriant in bulk, asked Bell for the keys, and they went in. On seeing so that hardly a single acre in any field is to be seen even the roll of carpet he asked how they came by it? They partially laid by the weather ; but the straw is clean, of both said they had bought it from a man in the streets, a firm texture, with a fine long ear, free of disease of all but presently they said that a man having brought it in descriptions, and affording everywhere the most gratifying and laid it down, he went away, and subsequently they prospect of an abundant crop. Barley has at the said it had been brought in during their absence. They same time made great improvement, and promises to be were taken into custody. fully more than an average crop. Oats are also gene- The prisoners, by the directions of their legal adviser, rally good, and sufficiently bulky to yield a full average declined making any defence, and they were fully com. mitred for trial. return in the high as the low districts of the c ount y ; while pease and beans, both in straw and corn, are every- Wm. Freegrove was next - charged, with the female pri- thing that can reasonably be desired. The potatoes, not. toners, with stealing a desk, containing various articles of withstanding some partial failures, have still a very healthy property, from the apartments of Mr. Riecards, a law and luxuriant appearance, and all that is wanted is f a . student. vourable weather to secure a most abundant crop. The Mr. Russell Martyn Riccards stated that he holds turnip crop never had a better appearance, through chambers in Furnivals'-Inn, and in the month of August out the county. With rare exceptions; every field pre test be resided at 37, Frederick -street, Gray's-Inn-lane. scuts a splendid appearance. On the whole, the On the 6th of that month the desk was safe in his par- crops of the county have rarely exhibited a mere lour; and it contained the two gold seals and the pencil- flattering prospect than what they do at the present case produced, with many other valuable articles, which moment. So much rain cannot be over good for them, have not yet been recovered. On the following Thursday but improvement we should fain hope is clo se at hand ; and be missed the desk, with its contents, and about the same judging from the sales of standing corn which have lately time a gold guard chain was stolen from the mantel-piece in the parlour. Witness also missed silk handkerchiefs,at least a fair average. At a late extensive takenbe considered place, the majority ofthe im cro e p ri s abol i fen acret h t t b oi issaweneotrueanrtnye nearness, similar to those produced. sale, from I U. Lae to i 2/. per bwa p rillely reali z ed Miss Anne Latham, re siding w ith h er father-in-law, 36, for wheat; ill per acre for oats; and barley from 10/. Frederick street, proved that at about eight o'clock on the to I t/. 53. per acre. These, however, were ye t a o r p , spricesgrowth ' day in question she saw the desk safe, and she missed it about ten o'clock on the same evening ; she also missed the gold guard chain. The door is usually fastened by a latch- wereapentei' at' acre. S a mples d l e n t . 0 s 'lcrt of fC o ... m arkett.s average " d o n Friday last. They were lock, and witness believed it was so on the night in clues- c onsidered ve r y Ta' • I lie oats fetched 30s. p er quar t er , tion. As there were no marks on the door, the thieves and the barley 38s. 6d. per quarter. Of all sorts of grain, must have entered the house by a false key. there was but a moderate supply, and prices were bigher Ballard proved that on the 17th August the male priso- on t:e N a o ve T r i a i g E e it .— B Sc o o ti tti N s/ Dt Pilot. nor ner Freegrove, and another man, entered the house while A WAR.—The Missou he had the females in custody. He had previouslyse_e e n male titans and lowaians are just now engaged iu a most san ,_ euinary war upon paper, about the boundary line betvieen watch chain and seals lying on a bureau, and oi h i theou brought wi Freegrove telling her husband what business r r e g p t. , The those two powerful empires. It seems that there is a small ortion of territory over which the authorities of both ness there, he said he knew nothing of female Freegrove then said to her thehusbhaen..-Id'ys,cooau. The pri. claim jurisdiction, and it is very evident that that portion had better P put your watch in your pocket, and di toner then wanted to get out of the room, sa y ing that .it of the world i s lik e ly for a time to be governed too much. Th e other prisoners also The tax-g a the re r from Missouri has made his appearance was not his, but his brother's. had some difficulty i n upon it, and the intimation is very plainly given, that if he wanted to get away. and witn , .cesasrching the male prisoner, again comes, quarters will be found for him in some gaol in keeping them in. Keys, upon • took the watch from him , an d Fletcher took the desk, s ue - lowa. peeling that it must have b ee n staler, as it appeared to h ave The Officers and Hon. Secretary of the Atli been forced open. • e upon confirming the evidence of William White to be fined 10s. each far cruelty to asse s ; orals' Friend Society last week caused Willia m North and The other witnesses, 1 us. at Worship • male prisoner said the watch, chain, and William Robert Mears to be fined sorry Mr. by him, and were his property.We were, however, sorry and c l i I s e: a d :sn added, e r were o 0 u e, Gli • sear landlord of the I s in to find that Mr. Jeremy dismissed two important cases— Compton-street, i„,ase street . for cruelty ‘. to a horse. o li v e ed that the Free Clarke, for having carried a in the usual cruel way, grovcs lodged in his the first against Thomas about three weeks, and the other prisoner was in number of sucking calves in a cart d . house Mr. W. Glenpvri d d V - hanging an ang in the habit of coming to see them occasionally. with their legs tied, and their hea . . g said it was not wanton Mr. TWYFORD ordered the prisoners to be fully cora- out of the cart. Mr. Je n rem r y actice ; and dismissed the mitted on this charge, but to be brought up again this day I cruelty—it was a codminfe was P that of Thomas Morris, of for the purpose of having the evidence in six other eases charge. The second case effence lie did not * taken against them. ! great cruelty to a horse; , deny, was the driver of the horse tb Shortly after the prisoners were taken into custody an I and confessed that hee al a so that no other personeve r one anonymous letter was received through the post by Mr. 1 day of the offence; unfortunately,• required the Riccards, threatening his life should he dare to come for- it. Put Mr. Jeremy, prose ward and prosecute. . cute,. to swear positively , from recollection, as to the per- The Court was crowded the entire of the day waiting son of the which not being offender ; to be called on to g i ve ev id ence i n c a ses in which they as well as the other, was dismissed, with costs on the were concerned. i Society. ti r 2 - A Jl,6)•\ ‘4 N,e4,01,4rap2 rasmag