The Sun. — London, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROX THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Courier.) There are no mysteries to-day in diplomacy. No sooner is a determination taken, than it transpires through the indiscretion of some agent or other. This Ps particularly true of the Eastern question in its imme diate bearings on European politics. We all know now the stage at which the negotiations have arrived, and the labyrinth of intrigue through which they had to pass. First, the Four Great Powers were unanimous, or at least lure represented as such ; then France fell off from the Clition, then Austria. At the present moment, the Autocrat—to whom we have reason to believe Lord Palmerston made, not many months ago, the needless proposal of an alliance, from which he was only di verted by the joint opposition of all his colleagues, is almost inclined to join in the determination of France and Austria. But let us state briefly the na ture of the negotiations now pending. It is about two months since France proposed to Mehemet Ali an arrangement on the following basis :—For him self, Egypt and Syria, with the exception of the two northern Pachalicks of the latter country, which were to be bestowed on his sons, and the district of Adana, which was to return to tae Sultan. The island of Crete was only to belong to Mehemet during his Own life ; at his demise it was to be restored to Turley; ,When these conditions were first started they met with to approbation both of Austria and Prussia. Prince Metternich, it is said, only dreaded one thing—that the Pacha would not consent to them. Lord Palmer aiton, to whom they were also submitted, it is under stood, refused to hear of any thing of the kind ; and 'declared then, as he has done repeatedly of late, that Mehemet Ali had no right to any thing beyond Egypt, and that England never would consent to his establishing his rule in Syria. The Cabinet of the Tuileries, nevertheless, persisted in their plan. They sent off a messenger to Alexandria with the above proposals, to which the Pacha, after a little hesitation, acceded. This answer has been received by the last steamer, and engrosses, at the present =- meat, we are informed, the whole attention of every di plomatist in Paris. What will be the result of the dis cussions now pending ? That Austria and Prussia viewed the matter in the same light as the French Ca hinet, when the latter made the proposals to Mehemet 1 Ali which have met with his approbation, is certain. That their opinions have not since changed is highly probable. It; then, the P.Tha is seconded by three Lech powerful allies, while Russia stands aloof; what course does Lord Palmerston mean to follow ? lie has threatened, indeed ; but is he disposed to follow up his ; threat; and take the castigation of the rebellious Pacha t into his own hands ? We very much doubt it. (From the Globe.) We have received a pamdhlet by " A Merchant," entitled " How shall we get through the Winter" and though we do not agree to the full extent with the writer in the alarms expressed, and still less in the summary pro cess of cure recommended by him—we find enough of im portant truth in his statements and arguments to induce 1 us to make his brochure a text for a few observations. The writer places " the laws on Corn and Currency in immediate collision," and labours to show how the for mer act to set the latter in operation, to screw and oppress the commercial and industrial cla=ses of the population. That such a screwing process has been for some time in operation, is a matter of fact ; and whether it is a law of nature, or only a law of our present sys tem of landed and monetary monopoly, that we should go through the same process whenever the same cir cumstances recur—is a question at least worth ask ing. It is a matter of fact that, with an inereasint , population, and extending transactions, we arc sub jected periodically to be suddenly pulled up in our dealings, to have all the facilities of credit abruptly withdrawn, and all the power of the most powerful monied corporation in the world exerted to effect a contraction of currency and reduction of prices. The Bank of England is endowed with its exclusive privileges, in order that it may regulate the currency ; and re gulation of the currency may mean legitimately, for aught we know, alternate expansion and contraction, on rules framed to promote the profits, and secure the safety, of a single Company. This twofold object pur sued by one gigantic establishment with all the mo nopolist power which the State, in its wisdom, has lent to it—may possibly exactly coincide with the public interest. On the other hand, it is possible that what is nom called regulation of the currency is a Will-o'- the-Wisp—a mere chimera—that a community which is senseless enough to trust a body of Bank proprietors with the public function of regulating to its private advantage the currency (or conventional medium of commercial exchanges) will have regulation enough in deed, but will have no steady currency ; and will he doomed to alternate hot and cold fits of artificial excite ment and depression—occasioned simply by trusting quacks to treat a case which requires no medicine. (From the Standard.) It is formally announced by the Ministerial journals that the marriage of the Queen is to be ce lebrated in April nest. The Consort selected for her Majesty is Prince Albert of Saxe Coburg, a Prince so young (for be is the Queen's junior) that it would be absurd to say anything of his personal character. We have heard, bowev.er, that he is an amiable and ingenuous youth, and we earnestly hope that he will contribute to the happi ness of the Princess who is to bring him so near to the malt splendid and exalted throne of the world. It is, indeed, a promise of tranquillity and honour to the Sovereign's future life, and of benefit to her people, that she will have near her one faithful friend above the temptation of official salary, or the lure that influences needy dependents, who will tell her the truth ; and, with the knowledge of character which a man must acquire, and which a husband will not fail to act upon, must purify " the private and social circle" of the Court. One such friend the Queen had at the commencement of her reign in her admirable mother—but we believe it to be certain that the influence of that excellent adviser, was early im paired by the arts of low agents, suborned %by the Minister : the influence of a husband may be supposed to stand upon a firmer foundation, and sooner or later, if he prove a man of prudence and good feeling, it will be exercised for the honour of his wife and Queen, and for the good of her people. On the whole, therefore, the country, we think, has reason to rejoice in the prospect of the Queen's marriage ; and while we adhere to the system of excluding the natives of Britain from all approach to the Throne—a system as impolitic in regard to the interests of the Royal Family as it is insulting to a nation possessed of an aristocracy, wealthier, more ac complished, more independent in spirit, and more highly descended, than any Princes of the Continent, while, we say, this system is adhered to, probably no family of the Continent ought to be preferred in a Royal alliance to the family of Saxe Coburg. IRISH \VIT.—A Glasgow traveller, fond of a joke, and a corpulent jolly-looking fellow, lately on a business-visit to a town not above fifty miles from Irvine, happened to be taking a walk in company with one of his customers, when they met a "rough, rude, ready witted" Hibernian, driving a small cart drawn by a jackass, when the following dialogue ensued :—" Well, Pat, what kind of an animal is this you have got ?" " Arrah, now, don't be after denying your friends when you meet with them. Sure you have not forgot your cousin, Mr. Jack Ass."—" Oh, ho so you deal amongst asses." " Well, in troth I do, Sur."—" And what is the price of a good one just now ?" "In troth, Sur, that greatly depends on titileir appearance ; a little Jacky like this un might be got for a pound—but, by japers, a big fat caddy like yourself would cost thurty shillans!"—Ayr Observer. CARDIFF, NOV. !S.—EXTRACT OF A „LET TER.—You would not recognise Cardiff, which resem bles a garrison town. The station-house is head quar ters, and the old workhouse opposite accommodates a company of the 45th as barracks. A sergeant's guard is placed with our guns. We soon expect to be regular soldiers. Drums beat morning and evening. Th e G o . vernment may thank their stars for having had such a Superintendent of Police, who. will render the system more palatable than all the speeches of Whigs and Tories put together in Parliament. UNEMPLOYED.—We are sorry to state that there is at present a considerable number of weavers out of employment in town ; a meeting of them was held in the Low Church, yesterday, when a committee, consistin g of four individuals from each ward, was ap pointed to take up the numbers at present out of work, with a view to the laying of their case before the au tborities.—Paisley Advertiser. t ACCIDENT A T A TAN PlT.—Yesterdav morning. between nine and ten o'clock, Robert Wake field, a man in the employ of Mr. Sneedon, a tanner, in Bermondsey, was wheeling a barrow over a plank, when h e slipped and fell into one of the pits. He was ex tricated with great difficulty, and conveyed to the hos pital in a deplorable condition. Seven houses were broken open and rohbbed last Friday, in the village of Ruishton, withi n two miles of Taunton. At Thorn, robberies were also committed in the course of the week, and amongst others Li fat pig' was stolen from Mr. Jacob ; some of the thieves amused the family with singing as if drunk, at the d oor, whilst others slaughtered the pig on the prem ises, and c arr i ed it off.—Taunton Courier. PItIVILEGES OF THE COLLEGE OF JU STICE. —Notice has be en g i ven of an intention to bring i n a Bill into P ar li amen t t o a b o li s h the privileges of the Colle ge o f J ust i ce , so f ir as t h ey con f er e xemption from the annuity tax and poors' rates. Four and a half per cent, on th e po li ce renta l (i nc l u di ng i n i t t h e properties occupied b y t h e C o ll ege o f Justice, and ta k ing into ac count th e sav i ng w hi c h would be effected b y abolishing the present establishment cf stentmasters), will yield about the same net amount of revenue as six per cent. on the properties now liable according to the present survey. This would reduce the poor's money and an nuity from tw e l ve to nine per cent. which would be a great relief to the inhabitants.—Scolantan. piiiielsoftWolgolemoimigummoipmemen— LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nor 21. (Sittings in Banco.) HOLMES v. NEWLAND. Lord DENMAN gave judgment in this case, which was tried before his Lordship at the last Croydon Assizes. The Court was of opinion that the verdict of the Jury was not impeachable, and therefore the rule for setting aside the verdict must be discharged. SHORT V. CALLoWAY. This was an action upon a breach of covenant. In 1833 a lease had been made by Elizabeth Parnell to the defendant by which the latter covenanted to put a house into perfect repair, and during the time of occu pation to keep it in sufficient repair. In 1836 the de- 1 fendant assigned the lease to the plaintiff, with a cove nant that it was good and sufficient, and that the lease had not become void or voidable. The breach as signed was, that the covenant to keep in repair had been broken, by which the plaintiff had been obliged to pay a sum of 1001., and an additional sum of 1191. in costs incurred in the course of the defence of an ac tion brought by Mr. Clarice. The defendant pleaded payment of 5/. into Court. The Jury at the trial found that 501. further damage had been sustained, and they also found that it had been proved that the plaintiff had incurred an expence of 1191. in the defence of an action brought by Clarke for a breach of covenant. The case was tried before Lord Denman at the last London Sittings, and leave was given to the parties—to the plaintiff to increase the damages, and to the defendant to enter a nonsuit. The Counr, taking all the circumstances into consi deration, was of opinion that the verdict ought not to be disturbed, and that both these rules must be dis charged. PITT V. JOHNSTONE. In this case a rule had been obtained to show cause why the defendant's attorney, David Shuter, should not be exonerated from an undertaking to render the defendant, why all further proceedings in the cause should not be stayed, and why the execution should not he set aside The application was grounded upon the following circumstances :—first, that the defendant Johnstone had been discharged from all liability by the Insolvent Court ; and, secondly, that he was privileged from arrest as being a Scotch Peer. Mr. RICHARDS and Mr. PEACOCK now appeared to show cause against the rule, and contended that there was no ground for interfering with the proceedings of the Court. The affidavit of the defendant set forth that be was entitled to the Earldom of Annandale, and that his claim was pending before a Committee of Pri vileges of the House of Lords, but although he attended at the election of the Scotch representative Peers, there was no proof that he had voted as a Peer, nor was there any proof of his title having been recognised in that country. It was, on the contrary, shown that his vote would not be received, and that he had put in a protest. The claim of privilege could not, therefore, be sustained. The other point was, that the defendant had been discharged by the Insolvent Court from all obligation'as regarded the bill upon which the action was brought. It had not been specifically in cluded in the defendant's schedule—the only reference to it being a statement, that he had accepted several accommodation bills in the year 1820. On these grounds the Learned Counsel submitted that the rule must be discharged. Mr. HUMPHREYS was beard at some length in sup port of the rule. The Court was of opinion, looking at the whole his tory of the case that the judgment aryl undertaking should be set aside on the payment of costs, the defen dant having the privilege of pleading to the merits of the action, but not the privilege of his peeracr" e, of which there was no proof before the Court at all. The action to be pleaded to within a fortnight, otherwise the rule to be discharged with costs. . THE QUERN V. HILL AND OTHERS. This was an indictment charging the defendants, Nicholas Hill, Henry Hill, Joshua Bill Crane, Samuel Taylor, Wakeman, and Pinfield, with having, on the 14th of February, 1839, with divers others, un lawfully and riotously assembled and assaulted the Rev. Thomas Cary Moore, curate of Bromsgrove, in the county of Worcester. The circumstances oc curred at a Vestry meeting, held for the purpose of making a Church-rate for the parish. Previously to the day in question a Vestry had been held, when the mation for a Church-rate had been negatived by a large majority ; and on the 14th of February a meet ing of the parishioners was called, and a Mr. Green hill took the chair. The curate, the Rev. Mr. Moore, arrived shortly afterwards, but was unable to obtain ad mittance. An adjournment of the meeting to the Town-hall took place, and several resolutions were there passed, and meantime Mr. Moore presided at a meeting of another body of the pa- rishioners, in the school-room, when a motion for a Church-rate was proposed and seconded—Mr. Crane, one of the defendants, who had been previously attend ing the meeting in the Town Hall with the other defendants, came to the meeting at the school-room, made a speech against the rate, and objected to the meeting as illegal. After a good deal of noisy discus sion, a rush was made to the chair, and an attempt made by Mr. Nicholas Hill (who was one of the Churchwardens) to obtain possession of the vestry book, in the course of which the assault took place. The defendants having appeared on the floor of the Court to receive judgment, Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, before whom the indictment was tried, read over the evidence. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD observed that the judg ment of the Court would not be prayed against two of the defendants, Wakeman and Pinfield, they having expressed contrition for the part they had acted. Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW said he was instructed to move for a rule to show cause why the ♦erdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had. He objected in the first place to the legality of the meeting, and in the next place, the evidence was not sufficient to establish a conviction for either riot or assault. The Learned Counsel then went into a detail of the facts of the case connected with the original meeting and the subsequent one on the 14th of February in the Vestry-room. The adjournment took place to the Town•ha I !I and meeting also took place in the school-room, and it ap peered that Mr. Moore went to the latter and took the Chair, although he certainly was not entitled legally to take it—he was not either rector or vicar or curate, being only a short time in the parish, and was not called to it by the voice of the parties assembled. He sub mitted, therefore, that the meeting was altogether ille gal for the purposes of the Act of Parliament. While that meeting was going on, another, which he should term the legal meeting, was being held at the Town hall, and at which Mr. Greenhill presided. Mr. Crane, Mr. Hill, and others, after attending at the Town-hall meeting, went to that in the school-room. A Church rate was proposed, which Mr. Crane (as he was fully entitled to do) spoke against, designating it a tyrannical Tory trick. Shortly afterwards a rush took place to the upper part of the school-room, behind where the Chair was placed. Mr. Nicholas Hill being a church warden, seemed to have been anxious to procure the book, in order that the proceedings at the Town-ball meeting should be entered in it, and took the book from before Mr. Moore, who, ho (Sergeant Ludlow) apprehended, had no title to it. That was the only assault which could be proved against Mr. Hill, and he submitted that it was not sufficient evidence to sus tain an indictment for assault. If that were so, Mr. Hill had been improperly found guilty. He would now come to the evidence as regarded the riot charged against Henry Hill, Taylor, and the others ; he would observe that to constitute a riot it must be proved that the parties were illegally assembled and for an illegal purpose, which they had predetermined to do. Now although there might be evidence to support a charge of an affray, there was certainly no evidence which would support the charge of riot against any of the defendants. On these grounds he submitted that there must be a now trial in the present case. The COURT, after conferring together, said they were of opinion the..there wag n o groun d f or grant i ng a ru l e for a new trial. It was given in evidence that after these disputes had been carried on for some time, Mr. Hill waved his hand, and a rush of persons took place to the chair, and the prosecutor deposed that the book was dragged from him with violence, causing him a great deal of pain. Now the facts had been left very clearly to the Jury by the Learned Judge, and they had found them affirmatively, namely, that a riot and assault had taken place. There being no affidavits in aggravation or mitigation of punishment, _ Mr. Sergeant LUDLOW briefly addressed the Court on behalf of the defendants. They had been subjected already to v e ry great inconvenience and much expense, there being no less than four special trials had ; and he believed the ends of justice would be sufficiently an swered by having them bound over in their own recog nixances. Mr. GODSON followed on the same side. He feared very much that the course taken by the party prosecuting would not tend much to the peace of the pari s h. I t was pressing matters to extremity to bring up respect able tradesmen and inhabitants to receive the judgment of that Court. He trusted the whole circumstance s would be fairly considered by their Lordships, and that they would consider a nominal punishment fully equal to the exigencies of the case. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD (with whom was Mr. Ri chards) addressed the Court on behalf of the prosecutor. The evidence before their Lordships was that these par ties had been conducting themselves in a most illegal and improper manner. That had been established by the verdict of the Jury, and he must say that it was rather unfair to complain of the conduct of the prosecu tor in the present case, when no contrition or sorrow had been expressed by any of the defendants now on the felt, as floor against of th e C ourt for their conduct. Two of them had done so, an d t h e prosecutor had at once declined to ims e l f. themand the; andr respectable t R a b e l v e . Gpreensstlemfoar judgment it e Gentleman to gentleman by whom he had been supported on the pre sent occasion to leave the entire case in their Lordships' hands. The COURT said the four defendants had been con victed at the last Worcester Assizes, three of them of a riot, and the fourth, Nicholas Hill, of an assault on the Rev. Mr. Moore. If the meeting had been illegal, or if the vestry-book had been improperly withheld from them, the law was ope❑ to them, and they could have established these rights in another and more peaceable way. Two of the defendants who had been convicted had expressed their contrition, and had been permitted to go at large, and in that the prosecutor had acted most properly and leniently. The sentence of the Court under all the circumstances was, that Nicholas Hill be imprisoned in the gaol of Worcester for six weeks, and that the other three defendants be imprisoned in the same gaol for four weeks each. The defendants were then removed in custody. THE SUN, LONDON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER', 22, 1839. COMMON PLEAS' Nor. 21. In consequence of the absence (from illness we un derstand) of Mr. Justice Coltman, and the engage ment of Mr. Justice Erskine, at Guildhall, The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said the case of Small v. Attwood, which was appointed for today, had better be put off till next term, as it was not possible to have a full Court this term, seeing that Mr. Justice Maule had been Counsel in the case, STORY V. RICHARDSON. The arguments in this case occupied the greater part of the day. An action had been brought by one mem ber of a firm, consisting of three partners, against the defendant, an accountant, who had been retained by them to adjust their accounts, for a mistake, through ne gligence hi making up the accounts, by which mistake he (the plaintiff) bad been damaged in some thousands of pounds. At the trial Sir F. Pollock, for the de fendant, raised an objection that the retainer had been by the three partners jointly, whereas the declarations stated that the contract was with the plaintiff only. The verdict was, by consent, taken for the plaintiff reserv ing this point, which was now argued. For the plaintiff, Mr. Sergeant WILDE (with whom were Mr. Crowder and Mr. Noggins) contended that the action could not be laid for the three partners, seeing that the injury was sustained solely by the plaintiff, and that the other two had benefited by the error of de fendant. If, therefore, these two must be parties to the action redress would never be obtained, as they would doubtless not quarrel with a mistake by which they had profited. Sir F. POLLOCK (with Mr. Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. V. Lee) for the defendant, supported the objection, urging that the duty of the plaintiff, when considered as retained by all three partners, would be quite different from his duty when considered as being retained only by one. In the first case he ought to give each person their just and fair proportion. In the latter case he would naturally seek to make as large a balance as possible for his employer. In the one ease he would be a referee— in the other, a partizan. Now here the contract was joint, and it should have been stated so in the declaration. The COURT held that the objection bad no weight, for that the joint retainer did not exclude a separate duty, that the duty to all included the duty to each, the breach of which was actionable. BAIL COURT, Nor. 2; . THE QUEEN V. GRIFFITH.-CRIMINAL INFORMATION. Mr. CRESWELL moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against Mr. Griffith, the printer, proprietor, and publisher of the Wigan Gazette, for a libel upon Richard Fegan, Esq., a Magistrate of that borough. It appeared from the affidavits that the defendant was in the habit of speak ing of Mr. Fegan as King Fegan, and of another indi vidual as Robinhood Greenough, and that at the end of September he promised to give a history of these two " Radical Justices," on a future occasion. Mr. Fegan stated that at the tine when the municipal lists were under revision, an indi vidual swore to facts which he (Mr. Fegan) had reason to believe were untrue ; and that on a subse quent day a person proved the evidence given by the individual alluded to to have been false, on which Mr. Fegan said he thought it became him as a Magistrate to express his sense of the impropriety of the conduct of the person who had committed the perjury. In the next paper p,ublished by Mr. Griffith the following ar ticle appeared : "We perceive that our very esteemed friend, Richard Fegan, Esq., formerly dealer in eggs, herrings, potatoes, and matches, on Monday, in the Court for revising the Municipal List, expressed his great horror at the crime of perjury, and stated that it was the duty of all persons, and as a Magistrate he for one could not help setting his face against it. It is said that lovers are sometimes in the habit of swearing eternal fidelity, and so on ; now, we have a little curiosity on this point, and should wonderfully like to be informed whether a Mr. King, who said certain things to a lady at Manchester made any such vows as those we have alluded to, and whether the very respectable Magistrate Mr. Fegan, had then the same horror of the same crime ? And further, if these pledgei given by a man already married ware not given with the full knowledge that that they never would be redeemed ?" This was an imputation on Mr. regan of a very gross description, and he stated that the insinu tion respecting a lady at Manchester, was utterly with out foundation. If such statements were allowed to circulate in Wigan with impunity, Mr. Fegan could never have that authority which he ought to maintain. His LORDSHIP granted a rule to show cause. THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR OF KING'S LYNN. _ . In this case a rule was granted a few days ago calling upon the Mayor of Lynn to show cause why he had refused to insert the name of Mr. James Bowker on the burgess roll of the borough. The question turned en tirely on the legality of the rate. Mr. KELLY said the Mayor submitted entirely to the pleasure of the Court, merely wishing for its direction in the matter, and His LORDSHIP made the rule absolute, in order that a return might be made, and the point fully discussed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nor. 21. CHAMBERS BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLRoYD.) A meeting of the creditors of Mr. Chambers was held this day, in Basinghall-street, for the purpose of appointing assignees in the room of those deceased. A considerable portion of time was consumed in objections made, and discussions upon those objections, to the right of certain persons, representatives of deceased creditors, vestry clerks of parishes, &c., to vote. The Learned COMMISSIONER was of of opinion that any person who stood in the situation of an actual cre ditor had a right to vote for assignees. A very angry and violent discussion then took place upon a statement made by Mr. Hamilton, that powers of attorney had been issued by certain parties, which he characterised as a very ingenious trick to neutralise the votes of bona fide creditors. Mr. Williams claimed to vote i❑ the choice of assig nees on behalf of Signor De Begnis, from whom he had a power of attorney to act generally in all his affairs in this country during his absence. Mr. Arnold, on the behalf of Messrs. Mayhew and Johnson, objected to the claim, on the ground that a power of attorney of so general a character would not give a right to vote in the choice of assignees. Mr. Dixon submitted that Mr. Williams was entitled to vote. He considered the proposition of his Learned Friend Mr. Arnold contrary to all the provisions of the Bankrupt Act, and contrary to common sense. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD felt satisfied in his own mind that the power given by Signor De Begnis to Mr. Williams was insufficient to enable him to vote in the choice of assignees. He would, however, consult with some of his brother Commissioners on the subject.— (The Learned Gentleman then left the Court for that purpose, and after being ahs9nt for nearly an hour, on his return stated, that Mr. Commissioner Merivale and Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque differing from him as to the sufficiency of the authority, although he still enter tcrtained his own impression, he would admit the right to vote. The right of three gentlemen on behalf of the parish of St. George, Hanover-square, to vote in the choice of assignees, was admitted after a short discussion. Mr. Johnson, after a considerable pause, said he sup posed that Mr. Hamilton would now put in his list of voters for the choice of certain assignees. Mr. Hamilton said that it was not his intention to put in any list until the opposite party had put in theirs. Mr. Johnson said lie had no list to out in at present. The parties he appeared tor were quite satisfied with things as they were.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. Hamilton said if no other list was offered he had one to put in, but he was not going to put in that list unless it was understood that the other side had closed their case. Mr. Wright wished to know who Mr. Johnson ap peared for. If he appeared for any one, he trusted he would not keep him in his pocket.—(A laugh.) Why did he not state to the meeting boldly who he appeared for ?—(Cheers.) Did he appear for the assignees ? Mr. Johnson said he did not ; he appeared for Mr. Frederick Robertson, and if Mr. Hamilton was waiting for him to bring forward a list, he could tell him he was not nt e t d o i y d o pu so t at present. him as to whom he a As the question p had been so poi peared for, he thought he was entitled to ask Mr- Hamilton the same question. Mr. Hamilton appeared for a great body of the cre ditors, and among them, for Mr. London, the represen tative of Mrs. Farmer. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD wished to know whether there was one or two lists to he proposed, because if there was only one there would he no necessity for ad journing the meeting ; if there acre two, perhaps the better course would be to adjourn till to-morrow. In his opinion, if the latter was the case, it was immaterial which list was put in first, as he should take care that no injury was done to either party. Mr. Hamilton said it was useless for paities to hide the fact from the Commissioners that there were two li s t s , but the gentlemen on the other side wished him to complete his list before their s ; that he did not consider himself justified in n doing, objection ing, jebnutitanaltlotihtsatbehinez wanted understood fair play. He that the lists were now closed, and wou ld ta k e th e was chance of the result ; but he objected now to hand in his list, leaving it to the other side to open the matter the next day they met, by producing new powers of attorney. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD said that if all parties had signed who wished to do so, the lists ought to be put in, when they would be examined by the officer of the Court, who would decide as to which party had the most votes. Mr. Wright said the fact was, that the parties on the other side were lying by till the time when the Com missioner was called upon to sign the list. Mr. Johnson—The fact is, we are satisfied with things as they are, and desire no change. Mr. Dixon—No doubt you are, and have been so for a long time. Mr. Johnson considered such observations uncalled • for from the Learned Gentleman. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD—This appears to be what it ought not to be, a contest between two solici tors. All the solicitors have to do is, if they have powers of attorney to vote, to put them in on each side, and then it will be for the officer of the Court to see who has the most votes. Mr. Johnson—We consider a new choice of assig nees an evil, and therefore we don't wish to adopt it, unless that proposition is brought forward from another quarter. Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD—You are not to state what you wish ; all you have to do is to hand in your lists on each side, leaving it to the officer of the Court to decide. Mr. Johnson—Our difficulty is, that we doubt whe ther there will be a list from the other side. After some further discussion it was decided that both parties should still be at liberty to put in any war rants of attorney they had, and object to any other par ties who claimed to vote, and the meeting was adjourned to Thursday next for that purpose. Mr. Tooke, late M.P. for Truro, attended on behalf of General Reynardson and Mr. Birch, the Chief Clerk of the House of Lords, who were creditors to the ex• tent of 10,0004 SHERIFFS COURT, Nor. 21. BERRY V. PENTON. The plaintiff in this case is an eating-housekeeper in the Minorite, and the defendant a farmer residing at Ilford. The action was brought to recover a balance of account due by the defendant for hogs' wash, to which the defendant pleaded the statute of limitations. On the part of the plaintiff his son proved that the defendant had deliveredgoods to the plaintiff on account as late as January 1834 ; and a servant of the plaintiff proved the payment of a sovereign on account, at the same period. For the defendant it was contended that these trans actions took place in 1832, since which time there had been no acknowledgment of the debt. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for a ba. lance of 3/. 12s. l Id. SPRIGG V. CRAWLEY. The plaintiff in this case is an attorney residing in Judd-place, and the defendant a grocer, residing in Judd -street, and the action was brought to recover 71. 3s. 10d. for work and labour done. Mr. FISH appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. PREN DERGAST for the defendant. Mr. FISH stated that the defendant had been em ployed by the plaintiff to issue a writ of capias against a man named Jenkins in 1838, which writ became abor tive in consequence of the abolition of imprisonment for debt. The cost of the capias was liquidated by the plaintiff, who had given a written retainer to the plaintiff to issue it. The plaintiff waited on the defendant and explained to him the nature of what occurred, and received his further instructions, in consequence of which summons and dis triages had issued. The plaintiff had not had the bill taxed, but had applied to the Judge to stay proceedings, and therefore he supposed the defence would be that his client had not been employed. W. C. Gates, a clerk in the employ of the plaintiff, deposed to the transactions mentioned by the Learned Counsel in his opening, and stated that he was present when certain letters were read to defendant from Mr. Story, of St. Alban's, relating to the case. Cross-examined—Knows defendant and his wife have both sworn affidavits contradicting his testimony. The witness was cross-examined, and after some re marks by the Counsel on both sides, Mr. BURCIIELL summed up, and the jury returned a a verdict for the defendant. WESTMINSTER COURT OF RE- QUESTS. AN IRISH FRUIT MIRCHANT.—A raw-boned, po tatoe-faced Munster boy, mounted the rostrum in this Court, and, with a brogue rivalling that of a celebrated Tipperary orator, detailed the circum stances which had induced him to apply to the Com missioners for an award of 4s. 6d. against a Covent garden commission salesman. " I wint, yer banners," said the plaintiff, " to the Garden wid me market money for a bishol ov hopples. Ho mitch,' says I, misther, for these here Ribstones ?' Four and shixpence, Paddy,' sa3s he. Fruppenee is me money,' says I. They're yours,' says he, so down wid the brads, and lave eightpince on the basket. Do you warrant thim,' says I, tap and bottom ?" Does a pig squake ?' says he. So I pays him the money, and takes the hopples ; but och ! my, whin I turned 'em out, Here's robbery on a poor man,' says one ; Here's murther on an Irishman,' said another ; for by me own oath all but the tap was rotten and speckt, and not worth a hapenny a bishol. I axed the salesman won't he give me back my money, but he treatens to kick (what I won't mintion) if I did not be ail'. Thin, plaso yer banners, I leaves the hopples and come here for justice, which I hopes I'll get, though I'm only a poor Irishman. Commissioner—What has your being Irish to do with the matter ? All we want to get at is the truth. Has the defendant any proof that the apples he sold were sound, according to the warrant? Defendant—The apples were sold in the regular way, and when the plaintiff complained of them I offered to give him sixpence rather than have any bother. Now this man is a very troublesome character ; he went and got drunk, and came and kicked up a row, and both himself and his brother and sister got into trouble. A Commissioner—Mr. Chairman, I do not see what this statement has to do with the case. Another Commissioner opposite—Mr. Chairman, this interruption is uncalled for. The defendant was telling his story ; we sit here as commissioners to hear peo ple's stories. Now, I put it to you, gentlemen, whether we ought not to hear both sides before we decide. Third Commissioner (with solemnity)—Certainly, oh, certainly. As a general principle, I do think be fore we give our decision we ought to hear the case. The Chairman, who evidently wished to conciliate both sides, said the defendant only travelled a little way out of the record. First Commissioner—The shortest way to put a stop J can suspect prove t t h o eh apples s p r f: l u e r s t h w e e r r travels r o iN tt i I n ') e w t h o i c a h s k the basket h a d un d ergone th e process o f " t opp i ng ." h l e 'im so i l f d. he We often have such cases here. Chairman—Why did you not return the man's money when he brought back the apples? Defendant—W e could not carry on business if we made that a re gu l ar pract i ce. Chairman —The Court is of opinion that you must pay this poor man his money back again, together with all the expenses immediately. The salesman looked very blank. The fruit mer chant began to utter a string of benedictions, but he was cut short by the officer desiring him to "hold his blarney," and come at the appointed time for his money. DEPLORABLE CASE OF DESTITUTION.— On Wednesday an inquiry took place before Mr. Car ter, the Coroner for Surrey, atthe Fountain, Lambeth walk, on the body of Elizabeth Wright, aged 35. A suspicion had been excit e d th a t p o i son h a d been given to her, and the Coroner ordered a'post marten: examina tion of the body. It appeared that the deceased went into Kent with her husband for the purpose of " hop ping," where she caught a severe cold. On Sun day she complained of being very ill, and lay down upon an old piece of bed-ticking, almost the only thing in the miserable room, and in her day (her only) clothes. She got worse, complained of dreadful pains in her stomach, lungs, and head, and per spired profusely. Her husband lifted her up, but she soon afterwards died in his arms. Mr. Wagstaff, the parish surgeon, said that, to a certain extent, the death was natural though violent. He found the vessels of the heart and lungs in a state of congestion. But the immediate cause of death was the manner in which the deceased h a d b een l y i ng , a l m ost on the floor. The Jury returned a verdict of " Natural Death." The Coroner, having ascertained that the husband, an in dustrious and sober man, had had no food for sometime, and possessed not a farthing to get any, gave him 2s. Gd. The Ju y also subscribed Is. each. This little fortune came so unexpectedly upon the poor fello w that when he left th e room he b urst i nto t ea rs. EQUIVOCAL GENERATION. — ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY.-At t h e or di nary sc ientific meeting, on Tues day ev en i ng, F . Wishaw, Esq., in the Chair, the first communication read was a letter from Mr. Mackay, of the British Consulate at INlaracaibo, on a plant called Protojoy in the country from which it is derived, and which attains the condition of a plant from the strange metamorphose of an insect. In the insect, which was described, some of the legs have already changed into roots, and in this state it was presented to the contri butor. It was announced that a similar insect had lately been discovered in North Carolina. When the creature assumes the form of an insect or animal, it is about an 1 inch in length, and much resembles a wasp in appearance. When the insect has attained its full length, it disap pears under the surface of the ground and dies, soon after which, the two fore-legs begin to sprout and vege tate, the shoots extending upwards, and the plants in a short time reaching a height of six inches. The branches and the leaves are like trefoil, and at the extremities of the former there are buds which contain neither leaves nor flowers, but an insect, which as it grows falls to the ground or remains on its parent plant, feeding on the leaves till the plant is exhausted, when the insect re turns to the earth and the plant roots forth again.— Dionfrics Courier. The witness Love produced a quantity of bed-cur tains, plate, blankets, sheets, decanters, and other pro perty, which he said had been pledged by the prisoner previous to his employer being proprietor of the busi ness, which was only a few months past. Mr. TWYFORD asked the witness if he had never taken in any of the property belonging to Mr. Stam mers from the prisoner ? Witness said that he had not ; but it was pawned during the time of Mr. Sowerby, the late proprietor, who would attend on the next examina tion, and that he (witness) had renewed it for her in September last. The servant girl, who found the 36 dupticates, pro duced them, and it appeared that the property had all been pledged in the name of " Ann Parker, Maiden lane." The prisoner declined making, any defence, and she was ordered to be fully committed on the charge of arson, and to be remanded for the robberies. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. Sharpe, of the firm of Smith and Sharpe, proprietors of a coke wharf, Macclesfield-street, City-road, was summoned before Mr. Greenwood, under the 14th of George the 3d, to show cause why he refused to pay the rewards to Brown, the engine keeper of Islington, and a turreock for their attend ance at a chimney on fire. Mr. GREENWOOD, addressing Mr, Mallett, the clerk, said that he had been informed by nume rous friends that, in cases where parties claimed rewards for their attendance at fires, the most infamous frauds were practised, and he had been put upon his guard to pay strict attention, and thoroughly investigate such cases before he made an order for payment, and he had formed a determination not to examine any witnesses who were interested, or who had to receive any part of such rewards, and such proceeding was a gross irregularity, as would never be satisfactory to him. Mr. Mallett said that, according to the Act of Par liament, he was afraid the Bench could not dispense with such evidence ; it ought to be received as a matter of necessity. Mr. GREENWOOD—I can only say that I will not receive such evidence ; they must produce disinterested witnesses to satisfy me. He refused to swear Brown or the turncock, who were to receive the rewards. Brown stated, however, that on Saturday evening last he was called to a chimney on fire at the Coke Wharf, of the defendant's firm, and he proceeded thither with his engine. Stanwell, a street-keeper, was now called. In answer to a question, he said he was to receive no portion of the reward, and then stated that on Saturday night last he saw a flame issue from a chimney connected with the coke ovens of the defendant's wharf. Mr. GREENWOOD said that he would not interfere, and refusing to make out the order, he dismissed the case, saying that at Birmingham, Wolverhampton, and other manufacturing towns, it was quite common to see chins nies with a flame at such manufactories without danger. KILRUSII PETTY SESSIONS. " Come, give us a taste of your quality."—HAMLET. A GENERAL BREEZE.—A young gentleman calling himself Micky Leary, whose appearance fully warranted the application of the genuine Irish term " Kee-raw' to his tout ensemble, came before their Worships apparently most solicitous to impress them with an unfavourable opinion of another young gentleman on his right, who looked not a whit more interesting than Miste'r Micky, and announced himself as " one Pat Doyle, a weaver be thrade." A numerous cortege of their respective friends were in attendance, and Mr. Leary commenced proceed ings by assuring " their honourable Worships that he had very great doubts on his mind—so he had—whether 'twas in his rale right rinses he was, at all at all, afther the father of a hannelin' he got from that divil of all divils—Pat Doyle." It appeared that the parties had been assisting at pri vate theatricals, wherein sundry tinkers and tailors offi ciated ; the " Battle of Aughrim" was the piece chosen for' representation ; and as Mr. Leary sported something hovering on the confines of a black eye, and had only partially removed the red ochre used to impart a more ferocious expression to his physiognomy, he looked for midable and bewildered enough. In the casting of the parts, Pat Doyle had contended for the honour of representing General St. Ruth, as his (D's) mode of pronunciation embraced the dis, dal, and de style, and was therefore supposed to resemble the in different English of the Francis Commander. Mlcky Leary also coveted enacting the said part ; this led to bickerings at rehearsal, and finally to a regular shindy. That was jest the ins an' outs ov the whole bizzness (continued Micky) ; nothing ud answer this dandy gintle man, ounly shoulderin' uz all over an hothir, as if we belonged to nobody on airth—wavin' the long soord he borryed in all direcshins, an' shoutin' out from his share ov the play,— " Return again, an' ov de dare pursue, Tell 'em St. Root is near, and dat 'll do." —(Great laughter.) Magistrates—But it seems he singles you out for spe cial ill will. Micky Leary—'Pon me word he did, Sir. I was helpin to carry him (and sure so I ought to give him a lift) in that part of the actin' where he's kilt be the cannon-cannon ball: we had two {lentos an' a clarinet, an' a fiddle playin' the "Dead March" out before uz, an' he left his hand hangin' down till he watched his oppOr runity an gev meself a great dthrive ov a corkin pin ! Doyle—Oh dear me ! listen to dis! Oh perdishin to you, Mick Leary, and don't offer to say de like. You know you wor de unruliest of de whole ov uz. E'thin do you recollect de tech o' de cutlass ? But Mr. Leary came the non nii ricordo, on that point, and went on to say that when he hopped away on getting the prod, and dropped his quarter of the Ge neral, the latter came to life instanter, and kicked and cuffed him to his heart's content. Look at dat your worship! (exclaimed Pat, exhibit ing a smart bruise on the elbow.) See dere's where he hot me a welt ov a cutlass, an' we at reharsin'—dat I might'nt sin, but I taught de arm was ov me, clear and clane. Magistrate—Why did he strike you so hard ? Doyle—Because - he's ignorant den, an' I used to cor rect his pronunsheashun. Notin ud do him only to call " De seas, de Bos-forus, an' de Ex-uine ;" so he gev me de rap for exposin'him.—(Laughter.) [Mr. Doyle communicated this version of the affair with a large accompaniment of nods and winks, which he divided pretty equally between the Bench and his friends in court.] Be the light that shines (exclaimed Leary emphati cally) but I was only jest steppin' ov the stage, an' goin' behind the quilt we had for a screen, after repatin'--- " Sind fo: our tints, an' we will be all night Encamped along the valleys in their sight," . . when he met me face to face, an' " divil sind you a tint 1" ses he, hittin' me a peg into the very eye that knocked rale fire out ov id. Well, I hot him a kick in the sto mach, and a peg in the ribs, an' only for General Says field an' the ghost, an' General 0' Niel comin' an' dthraw ing uz, be cripes there ud be bloodshed.—(Laughter.) Magistrate—We'll bind you both to the peace. Oh, plaze yourselves, gintlemen, (said Pat) ; but I know dis boy med rags ov me white gingham coat, wid green facins ; de dear knows he did. Micky Leary, in return, assured the Court that the peer of Pat Doyle was not to be found nearer than Botany Bay. The " brethren in arms, but rivals in renown," were then directed to find security for their good behaviour, advised to attend to their respective trades, .and eschew theatricals. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Elizabeth Parker, an elderly woman, was yesterday brought before Mr. TWYFORD, for final examination, charged with stealing a quantity of plate, wearing ap parel, and other articles, the property of Mr. Stammers, jeweller and goldsmith, 100, Strand, her master. The prisoner was also charged with setting fire to the pre mises for the purpose of preventing a discovery of rob beries she had committed upon persons lodging in the prosecutor's house. Mr. Barber Beaumont, Secretary of the County Fire Insurance Office, was in attendance to watch the pro ceedings. Constable M'Gregor, 72 F., stated that a few mi nutes before 12 o'clock, on the night of the 14th inst.. he saw the prisoner standing at the door of her master's house, when she told him there was a fire in the house, and that she had called the shopman, uho did not answer, as he was fast asleep. He then went up to the second floor, and the prisoner entering the room before him, returned, saying the smoke was so great she would go down to call assistance to put out the fire, but seeing there was no great danger, he said he would put it out himself,: and prevented her. On his entering the room, she pointed out a chest of drawers, and observing that smoke issued from it, he procured water to put it out. On examining the drawers, he observed that the lower and middle drawers were on fire, and being alarmed, he went down stairs to the shopman, and be fore the firemen arrived he burst open the second drawer, in which he found a few papers burning, but there were no clothes, only a bit of rag in a smouldering condition ; there was also a pair of sheets airing at the fire on a chair, the bottom of which was on fire. Sus pecting something was wrong, witness gave information to the Sergeant, and in the mean time Inspector Mullins coming in with Mr. Westmacott, who lodged in the house, the prisoner said she had been out all the even ing, and she could give no account of the clothes, nor of a broach, which were missing. Inspector Mullins proved that on seeing Mr. West macott in the first floor he accompanied him up stairs, they found the chair partly burned; and the chest of drawers also burned outside, which had been apparently done by design, and it was his opinion that the contents of the drawers could not have been burned. Since the discovery had been made a numb er o f pawn b ro k ers duplicates answering to the stolen property had been found. Mr. Westmacott, on being sworn, said ho had ar rived at his lodgings about half-past one o'clock, and seeing that great suspicion was attached to the circum stance, he sent for the last witness, but at that time there was no appearance of his h av i ng l ost such a quantity of property. O n go i ng to hi s country house, at Kingston, he discovered lie had beeen robbed of a considerable number of articles of wearing apparel, the list of which he sent to the inspector, who found them all pawned in the neighbourhood. On searching for the articles, 36 duplicates were found in a purse on the top of a bed in the second floor, by which it appeared the property had been pledged with one pawnbroker ; and he begged to call the attention of the bench to a circumstance so fla gitious, that the very same pawnbroker should have taken such a quantity of articles, varying from sd. to 51., there being the greatest probability that the property did not belong to her. Win. Love, shopman to Mr. Burgess, pawnbroker, of Longacre, produced a vast quantity of wearing ap parel and household furniture, which had been pawned by the prisoner on the very day the fire occurred. Mr. TWYFORD asked the witness why he took in such property from the prisoner, when it was evident it could not belong to her? Witness said that she had pledged the clothes to re deem some plate which she had previously pawned, and she was in the habit for a considerable time past of backing articles which she had put in ; but he knew nothing of the plate, which had been taken in by another person, and the sum for which she had pawned the clothes was W. 125., with which she released the plate. Inspector Mullins said that the plate in question be longed to the prosecutor, and to some ladies who lodged in his house. Mr. Twvroau observed that there should be two indictments for robbery, but it did not appear from the evidence that the prisoner intended to burn the house, but to conceal the robbery. Mr. Westmacott said that if he had seen the pre mises, he would be of a different opinion. Mr. Beaumont asked if any of the freehold had been damaged by the fire ? Mr. Westmacott said that a part of the floor had been damaged. Mr. TWYFORD then said he would commit the pri soner for trial for the graver offence, and order her to be remanded until the evidence in the robberies should be complete against her. W OR SHIP- STREET. MORE MONEY THAN WlT.—Charles BarHeti, a hawker, was charged with having stolen from Mr. Lewcroft, a cabinet-maker, the half of a 5/. Bank of England note. On the preceding evening, it appeared, the com plainant entered the Dun Horse public-house, Kings land-road, in a state of semi-intoxication, and after tak ing a seat in a room where the prisoner was drinking with several other persons, he called for a pipe of to bacco, which he lit with a fragment of paper torn from a piece which he carelessly pulled out of his pocket without looking at it. Upon filling his second pipe, he handed the remnant of the paper to a lad in the room, whom he requested to light it, but the latter chanced to cast his eye on it as he was twisting it round, an Per ceived that it was part of a .5/. note, which containo the number 29,499. He returned it to the complainant, who then recollected that he had put in two .51. notes loose in his pocket, of one of which it formed the fragment. The prisoner expressed a desire to inspect the pipe light, but he had no sooner received it than he very coolly thrust it into his pocket. The landlord, on being called, sent for a policeman, on whose arrival the pri soner was searched, but the property was no where to be found, and the prisoner was accordingly taken to the station-house. Mr. BROUGIiTON said that every individual in the room ought to have undergone a strict search before they were suffered to leave the place, but as it was p o sitively sworn that the prisoner possessed himself of the property, he should remand him for the present. The prisoner (who declared himself to be innocent) was remanded until Saturday next. CATCHING A TARTAR.—,frchn Samuel Evans, a me dical student, was charged with having presented a loaded pistol at the head of William Knowles, a porter at a woollen warehouse in Wood-street, Cheapside. From the complainant's statement it appeared that he was walking quietly along Shoreditch at about ten o'clock on the evening before, when the prisoner came up with another gentleman and very unceremoniously thrust him off the pavement into the gutter. As be thought at first that it was done accidentally he allowed them to pass on, but perceiving that they served two young women, and afterwards a respectable looking man, in a similar manner, he went up and began to expostulate with them, whereupon the prisoner turned fiercely round and asked him if he could fight, and at the same moment pulled out a pistol, which he presented at him with the exclamation, " Stand back, or I will shoot you." The complainant immediately closed with him and gave him a drubbing that black ened one of his eyes and brought the blood from his nose. Mr. BROUGHTON said the prisoner and his friend had happened to catch n Tartar, who had given them a lesson he hoped would do them good. In addition to the sum mary punishment he had received the prisoner must pay a fine of 20s. or be imprisoned for one month.—The penalty was paid. CONDITION OF SOUTH AMERICA. We have received private advices from Monte Video of the date September 20 inclusive. The information with which they supply us indicates the speedy approach of a crisis, by the intervention of which the disputes by whiCh English commerce has long and grievously been impeded, may be adjusted effectually and at once. The Entre Rios party have advanced to the neighbourhood of the capital, and the belligerents are within sight of each other. The Monte Videans are indebted to those most attached of all the allies with whom they ever vamped up a treaty for the nonce, the French, for the loan of 500 soldiers, whose duty it will be to garrison the town. A conflict was hourly expected to ensue, but the opinions hazarded as to the result of it are so various and conflicting, that the only conclusion to which they warrant us to arrive is, that the battle will be severely contested, and that the superior chances of victory on which either antagonist can rely are slight. A force under the command of Oribe is preparing at Buenos Ayres, to confront Lavelle, and, as the latter General is in a condition to reinforce himself by the accession of a numerous body of personal friends and adherents, the result of the expedition is considered to be doubtful. President Rosas has attempted a fresh emission of 4,000,000 of paper money. The alternatives to which the oppressed BuenoS Ayreans have been driven are ab solutely fearful. In the city there did exist an establish ment the funds of which were provided by the voluntary contributions of the inhabitants, and within the precincts of which were lodged all those unhappy paupers whom it hid pleased Providence to deprive of their reason. The city is besieged by an insolent foe, its trade is stopped, its tranquillity is destroyed, its internal re sources are closed against enterprise, its revenue, once devoted to the purposes of internal improvement, is clutched by the griping necessity of preparing a de fence against an armament dispatched to secure the condem nation of the most dastardly and preposterous attempt which inflated and self-complacent vanity ever allowed a nation to dare. The merchants are bankrupt—the labour ing classes are perishing in the streets—and now forty maniacs, for witt;ln it was at once hoped that a safe and certain domicile had provided, are compell e d, f rom the very pauperism of its i natrons, to be turned ou t o f the asylum, within the walls o; which they had be e n se cluded, naked, starved, and raving, . I .;ke famished wild beasts hunted from their lairs, " to sque ,:k and gibber" in the streets of a capital whose undeserved n:isfortunes forbid it any longer to conceal or protect them. It is rumoured that Rosas has dispatched an expedi tion to Tucuman, a dependency of his province, to check some outbreak, of the incidents of which we are not informed. Exchange at Buonos Ayres is quoted at 3d. to aid. ; Monte Video, 45d. to 46d.—Evening Paper. SPAIN. The Correspondent of a Contemporary writes as follows: MADRID, Nov. 10.—Th e new Mi n i stry i s to b e settled this week. The plan of the Jovellanistas is 1. To name the Ma rqu i s d e Mi ra fl ores P res id en t of the Council, r with a se t o f retrogra d e co ll eagues . 2. F . o send Count T oreno as A m b assa d or to Paris, to maintain the infl uence o f t h e Tuileries in the a ffairs o 1 Spain, and to procure to the Ministry, by means of ruicous contracts and loans, the money they want to go on with, to the utter ruin of credit and of the whole nation. 3. To dissolve the Cortes or prorogue them ; further preparing f o r n ew e l ec tions bypacking the provincial authorities ; to coerce public opinion, and correct excesses. 4. To declare the most liberal provinces in a state of siege, and tyrannise all Spain. 5. To name a certain personage of Absolutist me mory as Military Governor of Madrid to ' •mar( h troops to the capita l, and, b y their removal from La Mancha, revive the vigour of the faction there. 6. Should Esp artero not be dis p osed to co-operate in this plan, Generals Cordova and Narvaez are to be recalled to the service, for which purpose an influential Jovellanista has been already sent o toGibralor. The Chevalier Oriez is likely to receive a portftuille the Marquis with i d i e i F n al e the rs, and new Ist U riz , Ministry.ar ein c o o n n n. constant an t faila' communication (l chiefe a a o. n i d o PC f aerr S ei . i t zs . t Sebastian, has6French Embassy. The ~t i formerly c?mmanding the lines declined joining under the Con vention of Bergara, preferred to expatriate him self. He went to ' and and published a violent ma nifesto against Nlirotroance, The Lord Mayor has issued a notice prohibiting public preaching in Smithfield, and all other parts of the City, as it has proved only an excuse for disorderly meetings to the disturbance of the peace. Chartists " sermons," as the Chartists call them, have hitherto been frequent, and freneraily ended in serous breaches of the peace, to the alarm of the peaceably disposed inhabitants. ON • aF 4 EVENING- E?)lTi JOHN THOROGOO TO THE EDITOR OF THE SW' t o Stit,—As an Einzlishman I have fe. I b national pride wounded by the remark mad( t o foreigners, who say we are, as it regards our 1. lbw an unjust nation. I will not describe how fort I felt the propriety cf this' remark, after r e ' en mg in your journal the cruelties t hat have be , inflicted on that poor but noi,le-spirited indi vidua John Thorogood, who has been now pearly a Ye . t 0 incarcerated because he has had the courag e " t t violate the dictates of his conscience , a l. ' d to re:"; an unjust demand made on him for the su,lP°r%; at " a Church that ,affects a lcts to consider she hasof right to make all consciences bow to her artiere%rje faith. 1 have yet to learn that the Thirty- r , h Articles, or any part of the doctrine o f the Chu ,c.d of England, is to be obeyed before the law la 1$ down in the Bible. One of the ministers uf th Church, who has sworn to he moved by the Holy Ghost to take this sa cred office upon him, has been found guilty by the laws of his corintry, of an in famous libel on some I.hat profess the Roma n Catholic faith, and he has only been imprison.d for a definite time, and is um . / at la r g e to vdtrY another sect of Christians, the. Metho,dists, while poor Ftiorogood is still detained lu for no moral offence, or any violation of duty laid for be,ello down in the Bible. Yes, this poor luau prevented administering to the wants of B . f il y n n s father, is restrained from providing for his family, and when his health required change °` ; even this has not moved his cruel tormentor" ' he must still hieathe the foul air of a gaol'', and there cheered by the least hope of a deliverance. I '' ) ",, - 1, 5 ; there is yet some energy and love of justice the breasts of Englishmen, and that the day is " °t distant when every man with right feelings " r come forward, and, in a constitutional mantle • demand that this execrable law be expunge d from' the Statute Book. I remain, Sir, t'our's respectfully', ,rt Tbung7ay, Nov. 21. A dONSTANT READIe SPORTEN G IN TELLIa-BN". TATTE RSA LLTS.—YRsTanni to shop Very little was done yesterday, but enough vvas . d escribe d that tl:e positions of the favourites varied from th ose • l spectl in our report of Monday's proceedings. An infittentdie . t be lator offered to take 17 to 1 to two hundred r 0,.. th S is i o ggi named the winner, and to stake 600 to 500 that Iquu'el ' hint for beat anything ; as an offer to back Wardan ; wain° tha t the 500 even was refused, we feel justified in stating se vera Stockbridge Nag had the call. Bro. to Euclid ha 50, but friends present, the only bet against him was 1,000 to, tat the as several attempts were afterwards made to back 1111 y little same odds, and no offer made in return, he must be ve l • to say behind the first two; we cannot take upon ourselves' tvas what his actual price was at the close. The Ange lica cu do not in much favour, and 20 to 1 was offered against Latin, o c era Bokhara was backed freely at 25 to 1, at which price the l a gua have gone on. A few other bets were nsade pit producing any material change. THE DERBY. 16 to 1 the field 18 to I agst _Angelica colt—taken i 20 to 1 agst La u lncelot 25 to 1 agst Bokhalla— taken freely 30 to 1 agst Lady Sarai: colt—taken 30 to 1 agst St. Andrew—taken 40 to 1 agst Gambia—taken 50 to 1 agst May Boy 2,000 to 25 agst Primrose colt—taken 1,200 to 1,000 on Bokhara agst St. Andreif—taken* PRICE OF SUGAR.. EFFECT OF MONOPOLY-, S uga r. Table showing the ex-duty price of West Istlia in Mincing-lane, and comparing the same- ega'n" that of Foreign Sugars. London, Nov. 22, 1 83A. The Gazette of this evening will quote the 1 3,1 r C average price of British Plantation Musco vado Sugar, exclusive of duty , at 3Ba. 6d. The actual quantity of Sugar sold on account e l the importers, in the week ending the 18th inst., acco to the returns made upon oath by the West 100 Sugar-brokers, in conformity with the Act of Parlia ment, and on which quantity the above price is oortv puted, consisted of 2,286 hhds. 169 trs. and 107 barrels . Foreign Sugars have not maintained the pries tiles com manded last week. Sugar produced in the Matt by free labour may be quoted at from 19s. to 225.- r e er e cwt., being about 17 s. per cwt. c hea p er, quality 'l°' quality than West India Sugar. The , grocers and refiners having now supplied the be selves with a sufficient quantity of sugar to meet t Christmas demand, the market has become extreme '; heavy and lower prices have been accepted. After the dismal predictions of the Wet India ns that the ell P , I 0 of sugar for 1839 would fall off at least one - th ird of et annual average quantity, we learn it is estimated t" the landings will fully equal those of 1837, a nd th s at t , stock on the 31st December next will excee d "/ hhds., the stock on hand on the 31st Dec. 10t.,„ 7 . dians have, in addition to the 20,000 Since the emancipation of the negroes the v' es- d to t fie them by Parliament, received from the nation ino, excess of price obtained through the mischievous a t f t , e ing of their monopolies at least a sum equivalent r e misnamed compensation money. How muc h lenge it , 1 7 13 , Government will, by a continuance of this fa v°ur i t v :to to West India interests, allow the British comillu a " - be thus pillaged, remains to be seen. ry $ l3- The intelligence from the Mauritius is of a e d to ) ,0001. g!ante tisfactory character. The crop of Sugar prouuc e ' year in that colony (the larger portion of which is wiv be te e on its way to England, and may be exp ected to a•rf in the course of a few weeks , prov ided the winds 0 . r favourable), is reported to be heavier, and of a 5t quality than any which has preceded it, clearly den Or strating that if the West Indians had not grieve , 115 '7 erred in their management, particularly as regards t,l) labourers, we should have imported also an abun apo t supply of Sugar from their plantations. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY MARKETS. __.....-^ — r _ ......'''' to *- 9. • 4 0 ..... .... ...'" .••• W heat. Barney. ) Oats. Per Quarter Bath Blandford - Bridport Chard Gloucester Exe er Guildford Newbury Reading Salisbury Shtrhorne Shepton Mallet Uxbridge Winchester Yeovil P. to S. (SR 86 65 70 64 73 72 75 70 84 59 PO 55 72 8) - .2 78 60 S 54 14 a. L L to a. :33 ;43 29 88 45 46 24 g 32 42 20 24 45 48 30 34 27 34 j2l 211 36 38 30 33 3'2 50 j2l 32 25 47 22 34 40 50 314 34 39 46 0 3i 30 54 30 34 :.57 43 23 32 36 55 '27 36 Mea..s. to a. 4n bei 46 DO 4S 56 41 43 40 - .42 44 42 k 2 411 44 42 52 w -..--- -- 4. 37 .- - ...• -0: .... •••• ...s. •••• 50 58 1 --. 64 76 1—• —' --- I -..- .. -- 63 •78, 36 49: :6 30i 46 0 LEEDS CORN MARKET. —Nor. ;Pi o ,. „ ,sos. l ' , f Wheat, Norfolk and Safi:lk, 60Ib. .................. . .. .. a,. to 745. ,_ . York. and Lincoln. 601 b. ........................ ." 445. to 475. , f . , Barley, Norfolk and Sti/Iblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire .................... ▪ „„,. t o 3 , , Grinding ............................................... .. ▪ 'Z',. to 50 4 . L. Beans 63lb. ........................... 0 to 3"r t ae tats, Potatoe . . .................................................... ...I:151: per 0 j t omi. 1 3 ° _— Plealmg, For..—d. to—d Png. 1 3 % 4 . to aSA. P er Shelling GUILDFORD MARKET , u „, to 214 5... n . 4 . Wheat, Old (Per Load) Mk to 201. 1 , s.—N' W ' . 4 "— 44 Barley (Per Qr.) Oats 2-1 •.>4. Rye ...... ............. Grey Pease, 425. to 445. d DEVIZES CORN MARK ET ' s. d . , NI •II Par Sack. s. d. s. B. Per Quarte r . .. 90 o to tgj P First Wheat 0 t 19 oto4l 0 Oats ... ... ; . ;*;,10 . ... 21 60 0 Second 35 I) 37 6 Beans (Pc bag) ....• -- 0 ..„. 2F lour (P e e r r - .11. ) i 31 o 10 r Bread 2 .... .„' g .,.. ..* 6 Thi r d Barley_ TV , I GEE S . I . IOCKING ACCIDENT BY LANDING A ;00 in the e - ' m Y i, es it terday morning John Archdeacon, a p er for supplying 13 0(11 " sz o cn y a :f ,ei t. a E nd gg s , h a ow d s e . a ‘ l v e a r s i n aso l v s i t l i d nic b i n ea T st : , 3 . oo , in the Pool, near the l' ° b A a tiger from a siliP Docks, when he was b - . tel l a iddenly caught across the ° of the neck and head by tl: animal, and Was lace !hill. in a shocking manner. He wasiemoved to the hosr r t O . EIGHT-DAy • C L 0 ‘-', e l f Three and a Halt guineas each, warranted. :rhelJareei in s r : 11 gant cases, about 7i Lehes high, suitable to st,: n- h ti t f e e ris.' . ter a b a r b a t c e ket or mantel-piece, For Five Guineas ea". 0.0013, variety may be selected L-oin both in Bronze, -, ~ .ton movements, Alabast er, Rosewood, and Mahogany Cases ; also the so"ii,'s a e t nts, showing the entire mechanism, under A * shade, T. C SAVORY'S Goldsmith, Silversmith, OX an d Watchmaker,' 47, Cornhillr L.°. don (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street). ~a c b. REAL BRILLIANT RINGS, V- Os• - A. B. B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornhill, Loudon,:aid prate ii.il lh i e_l:l l , 4 n .t ic, ;Remit for selection ailLar-egeenSatel otfooflec.i.l! RINGS, which th ey very low prices, from having recently purchased revere -1-;':, ma,ttiitelsOarnndamGeenntstiemwehnic,sh Rthinegys.halTrehennrserticoend re mouu T ri : s from Two to Sixteen Guineas and upwards; ii i? /;;' jlitivreg:f the finest water and of a brilliancy rarely met with. A. B. SAVORY and SONS, No. 9, Cornbill, London, opposite the Bank. •1NM........J.er• , ___._.___,.......,./ - . Tll B . lianCOCk, B I _ e. On the 20th inst., in Harley-street, Mrs. Henry of a son. A of 14°55 On the 20th inst., in Upper Wimpolc-street, the lay - D. Mangles, Esq. , of a dau g hter. e, d M On the 20th inst. , in Portland -place, the lady of . No' Weyer, the - ;-ielgian Minister, of a son. On the 18th of November. at Kidbroke, Sussex, the LEV Colchester, of a ( laughter, still born. MARRIED. 'the On the 20th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Ric Verity, Esq., M.D., of Dean Lodge, near Kimbolton, to Susao Werden, daughter of Admiral Sir Henry Baynton, G. On the 21st inst., at St. 31argarets, Westminster, Jain-- Murray, Esq., late Captain 29th Regiment, to Elizabeth iloe, only daughter of John Kemp, of her Majesty's DIED. On the 19th ins t., at Brid p ort, Dorset, Colone S. S. G an " nor, of the Madras Army. On the 15 th inst., at Edinbur g h . Caroline Lucy, the wife O f Thomas Prendergast, Esq., Madras Civ (Service LO/14011. Prilited Strand, No. 112, Strand , at The Sun Office, No 110, Stra in tbe cou nty of Middlesex.—Friday, November 22,1839.