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SPTLRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It gives us great pleasure to be able to state that the three unfortunate glee-singers committed by Mr. Laing, g Hatton-garden, to the House of Correction, are n ow at liberty. The following letter on the subject was re ceived on Saturday evening Saturday Evening, Jan. 16, 1836, Cumb-terrace. " Sir,—l have the pleasure to inform you, that Lord John Russell having considered the statement made by you on the case of Evans, Martin, and Hurd, with the Report of tho convicting Magistrate, has given directions for their discharge. " I am, Sir, your obedient Servant, g , J. PHILLIPS." " Barber Beaumont, Esq." These three men had been ordered to the treadmill, and they came from the wheel to the gentleman who kindly interested himself in their behalf, in the degrad ing prison-dress. They are well behaved and appa rently educated men, and they were utterly unconscious of having given any offence. None of them had ever been in custody before, or even in a station-house. There was no crowd about them at the time they were taken up, so that there was not the pretext of any ob struction to the public. They were taken first to the Mendicity Society-house, in Red Lion-square, then to the station-house, St. Giles's, and then to the police office, Hatton-garden. The Mendicity Society, which is supported by public subscription, owes an apology of some sort to the community for the misconduct of its servants. It ought to state what steps have been adopted with regard to these servants, that the public may feel assured there will not be a repetition of the offence, and that a meritorious institution may not suffer in general esti mation, from the fault of its functionaries. We sup ported the Mendicity Society when attempts were made to run it down, some years ago, being persuaded that some such institution is of the greatest use in a metropolis like this, which swarms with worthless im postors, who extort from :benevolence what ought to be sacred to deserving povemy. It is indeed difficult to conceive a greater nuisani ee than the persecution in the streets from clamorous ho :ggars some years ago. But if the Mendicity Society allow its servants to excite the hostile feelings of the people against it by imper tinent interference with ;their innocent pleasures, it will defeat the object of the institution, by drying up the source of its existence. After the decisive step taken by the Noble Secretary of State for the Home De partment, the Society ought not to hesitate as to the course it ought to pursue . The public are greatly in debted to Mr. Barber Beaumont for his -prompt and ef fectual interference on . .behalf of the suffering glee singers. There is more me rit in such an interference than the public may be perlaaps aware of. It is one of the evils of our unpaid system, that there is a sort of esprit de corps among jaastices of peace, by which they support each other against the community. This shows itself in many \rays, to the great injury of the public. There is asort of understanding, for instance, that one Magistrate shall not interfere with the con viction of another Magistrate, however improper it may have been, and am ay Justice who, from a feeling of humanity, or hatred , af oppression and injustice, is in duced to disregard ale rule, is sure to be visited by the displeasure of his brethren. Not only do l‘lagistrates refuse to interfere with the convictions of each other (this was exemplified the other day only, in the case of the conviction of an actor), but we have known repeated instances of fruitless applications to all the Magistrates of a neighbourhood for redress, every one refusing to act in a case because the Justice to whom application was first made had from particular motives declined to attend to it. Understandings of this kind are very injurious, as the protection of the whole body is thrown round its least deserving members. Justices of Peace in England possess enormous discretionary power ; and we have seen how op pressively that power may be exercised. Imprison ment for a number of weeks in a House of Correction, with the aggravation of appearing in a degrading prison -dress, and submitting to the discipline of the tread-mill with the most worthless characters, must to a deserving man, who has never done anything by which he has fotfeited self-respect, a most horrible pu nizhrnent. It is therefore of the greatest importance to the humble classes, who are peculiarly exposed to the risk of suffering from this discretionary power, that the Home Secretary should exercise a vigilant control over magistrates. During the Tory reign it.was the fashion to protect magistrates in all their doings, and no man is improved by the possession of uncontrolled el:,scretionary power. The supercilious apathy shown Le the Tories in power, when complaints were made to them of the cruel wrongs suffered by their inferiors, is matter of notoriety. How different the conduct of the -present Administration ! Lord John Russell feels that he is responsible for the due discharge of the duties of his office. He feels that the people of Eno-- land are entitled to approach him with complaints of oppression from those whose conduct it is his duty to superintend. In this case, there appeared to him sufficient grounds for calling on Mr. Laing for ex planation. Mr. Laing accordingly reported to his Lordship, and the result is the instant liberation of the three men, consequently the ccndemnation of Mr. Laing's conviction. This course has uniformly been pursued by the present Government in Ireland, and the consequence is a visible improvement of the ma gistracy. Every Justice of Peace feels that there is an eye on him, and he is careful how he acts. On complaint of misconduct, the magistrate is called en to report, and in several instances the report has been followed by striking the magistrate's name from the Commission. We are grateful for a change from which the people have already benefited much. In the mean time we are not sorry to learn that this case, and the whole subject of interference with the harmless amusements of the people is to be brought before Par liament soon after its meeting.—Morning Chronicle. With the understood sanction of the Whiff-Radical Government, Mr. Daniel O'C onne ll p rocee d e d' through the northern counties, denouncing the measures of the House of Lords, and threatening the Peers with an nihilation. Certainly not without the sanction of the Whig Ministers did Sir John Campbell, their Attor ney-General, re-echo the denunciations of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, and imply at least, if not express, the same threats of national vengeance against the Upper House of Parliament. Some of the most prominent charges against the Peers have been, to the present hour, the incompetency of many of the persons selected for the Peerage to execute the functions of legislators or judges—the mischief of the Peerage descending to those who were not possessed of hereditary fortune equal to the maintenance of their rank, without spung ing upon the public purse—and the preposterous ab surdity of permitting men to succeed by inheritanc e to the legislative and judicial office. The first and second of the above complaints go merely to an abuse of the prerogative of creating Peers. The third applies to the existence of an hereditary Peerage, under any circum stances. It will strike everybody as not a little curious, that if there could be imagined a creation of nobility more liable than any other to those objections which have been brought from Whig-Radical quarters against the notorious abuse of the King's prerogative in the choice of persons for introduction to the peerage, it would be this which confident rumour assigns to the family of Sir John Campbell. Had the learned and able Attor ney-General himself been the individual elevated to the House of Lords, as an usual accompaniment to any high professional promotion, few critics would have murmured at either branch of the proceeding on the scare of the Attorney-General's personal unfitness for the bench, the woolsack, or the peerage. But it is not Sir John Campbell who has been created a Peer. To obviate the charge of abusing the prerogative by the promotion of commoners who are incapable of exercisin g a sound opinion as law-makers or judges, his Majesty's Whig-Radical Ministers pass by the Learned G ent l eman , however well qualified for either of those difficult functions, and nominate his Lady ! to fulfil them in his stead. So, with regard to fortune, they limit this peerage to the sons of one who, being yet not much beyond middle age, cannot by possi bility have ensured to his descendants a fortune suffi cient for the becoming support of a nobleman, or for their exemption from the consequences of a similar contingency to that which befell Lord Gifford in the prime of life. There are, at the same time, other cir cumstances to be considered. No Whig-Radical, in or out of office, will now have the courage to deny, . , D mpbell did really resign his Attorney , ei!-' _ !J. • earing of the promotions of Sir C. NA, 1 - J 1 -5 4 - -4 , p - -r) Pepys and Mr. Bickersteth. There are, if we mistake no t, witnesses among the gravest and most learned per sonages in the kingdom who can attest the fact of the learned Gentleman having announced to them his self-dismissal from office, as an event which had actually taken place, and moreover, that something was said on the occasion, touching the slighted dignity of the Attorney-Generalship, and the honour of the profes sion, requiring and justifying such a manly sacrifice. Strange then to say, our next aceount of the matter is, that the resignation of the husband's effective place has been revoked, and that the wife is promoted to the empty sinecure of a peerage. By what name shall we designate a transaction such as this ? For what end was the prerogative of creating Peers bestowed ? To obtain for the country the services of Legisla tors in the Upper House of Parliament, chosen from among the independent Aristocracy, or from among persons eminent for ability and character in professional or public life. Which of these condi tions is complied with here ? Does Lady Campbell (amiable though she be, and none can respect her more than we do) represent any one of the above classes ? Can her Ladyship be quoted as an example of political merit rewarded—or of judicial or states manlike talent secured to the public service ? Was the creation of peerages ever vested ill the Crown as an engine whereby a Minister on his official death bed might sop the irritation of a dissatisfied adherent ? This too on the part of men whose talk is of holding jobbery in contempt, and of excluding all motive to co-operation but that of common principles from the science and system of their policy. With regard to the learned Attorney-General, we, who know his powers as a lawyer and an advocate, and have had the good fortue to profit by them more than once, can imagine how forcibly he would himself state the case against an individual who had accepted a compliment to his person or family as adequate reparation for a professional or public wrong. Having already disclaimed all wish to impugn the competency of Sir Christopher Pepys or Mr. Bickersteth for the discharge of the duties now devolving upon them, we repeat that those appointments are satisfactory enough, quoad the persons ; but in every other re spect they are not less disgraceful to their authors, nor less provoking to the temper of the country, than any former among the shameful manoeuvres by which the Whig-O'Connell dynasty has been branded since its accession to office. If these be good appointments now, in January, 1836, were they not equally so in April, 1835 ? Why, Sir C. Pepys and Mr. Bicker steth being then, as fully as they now are, in pos session of their faculties and of their legal reputation, were they not promoted when Lord Melbourne first resumed his seat in Downing-street ? Why was the Great Seal put into commission, and the equity admi nistration of the kingdom so obstructed that it will now be impossible for any Chancellor, were he ever so highlygifted (and Sir C. Pepys is certainly no more than " par negotiis"), to carry on the current business of his Court, and at the same time to wipe off a nine months' arrear—an arrear which has been suffered wantonly, or rather corruptly, to accumulate—because certain of the quack firm about Downing-street were at their wits end how to get rid of Lord Brougham, between the dread of his open attacks if left out, and of his more peril ous hostility as a within-doors intriguer ? A Cabinet that has neither pluck, nor skill, nor influence, with the bar, to provide a Lord Chancellor for the country, is a Cabinet which ought never to have been endured for one hoUr in office. Here was my Lord Melbourne conscious that the price of his becoming First Lord of the Treasury would be on one side a total stoppage of the great equity jurisdiction throughout Great Britain, and on the other a subjection of the whole political Government to an Irish desperado, who laughed at while he trampled on the wretched Viscount and his colleagues, vet never once daring to look round but seizing the whip without the reins, and in pure selfish spite, or party delirium, dashing headlong down the precipice of revolution. That Lord Melbourne had numberless embarrassments to contend with, and was therefore perp!exed- how to settle his law appoint ments, is no excuse in the eyes of King or country. It might be a good reason for his declining to be Minister, but none for his making a 'scapegoat of the nation. So the shameful neglect of Sir W. Horne's claims upon the Melbourne Government, the necessity of bribing the Attorney-General by a Peerage to his wife, which, with the learned Gentleman's recorded sentiments about the House of Lords, ought by him to have been scornfully rejected, and was in fact a grosser insult to Sir J. Campbell than if the Cabi net had clubbed a month's pay a-piece to buy a diamond necklace for her Ladyship, in expiation of their professional affront to her husband,—th is abo- minable prostitution, we repeat, of the highest ho nour in the gift of the Crown may prove the despe rate condition in which Lord Melbourne finds him self ; but is it not monstrous that the monarchy should thus pour out its heart's blood to relieve him ? Then see what a further vista of execrable soppery still threatens us as a supplement to what we have already noticed. Lord Denman (says well-supported rumour) , is to be removed from the Court of King's Bench, not even for the pardonable object of preventing a further removal of its proper business from that Court, but as a completion of the patch work by which Sir John Campbell's soreness is to be healed, and the hemorrhage of his wounded " magnanimity" put a stop to. Lord Denman, it is presumed, if not quite a Lord Mansfield on the bench, may prove no unworthy successor of Lord Brougham, as Speaker of the House of Lords, upon the woolsack ; and after a service of some three years or so as Lord Chief justice, is, at a cost of perhaps 10,0001. more per annum, to be made Chief Judge of a newly-erected Court of Appeal. Poor Lord Denman is to be advanced from a Court, of whose business he is not accused of knowing at all too much, to a Court of whose proceedings or whose principles he can know absolutely nothing Such is Whiggery, from which, wishing for our readers and ourselves a deliverance as speedy and as effectual as is still on the cards, we take our leave, for the present at least, of this unsavoury subject.—Times. Much curiosity exists as to the peculiar position which the new Lord Chancellor will assume. If he takes this high office, as it is generally supposed that he does, upon an understanding that it is to be dis robed of its Parliamentary and political character as soon as an Act of Parliament can be obtained for that purpose, then it becomes a matter of serious doubt and perplexity what his Lordship's ad interim cha racter is to be. At present the new Chancellor must be considered, in fact, to hold the same office, with all its attributes that his predecessors have done. Will he then be called like them, to Council ?—or upon what plea will he be excluded? Will he, for instance, attend the King on the first day of the approaching Session, in the same high capacity as his predeceSsors have always done ?—or by what authority, and upon what principle will his official attendance be dispensed with ? It will be a novel and singular spectacle to see the first law officer of the Crown conforming, in his own person, by anticipation, to an embryo project, which, for aught he knows, may never become a law. On the other hand, to assume high functions, such as keeper of the King's conscience, the head of his Council, the first Peer of the realm, the distributor of law and church patronage, only to lay them all aside as soon as entered upon, will be, at least, a specimen of self-denial, if not of proficiency in " the art of sink ing," of which the world has, we believe, no similar instance upon record.--Morning Herald. It was stated, though we doubt not, on misinforma- tion, in the columns of our contemporary the Morn • ing Chronicle, on Saturday last, that there was no foundation for the report which appeared in this jour nal that Lord Melbourne and some of his colleagues would dine at Kennington on the 21st instant, after laying the Foundation Stone of the Licensed Vic tuallers' School, and that his Lordship had merely un dertaken to lay the first stone of the building. Such is not the fact. Lord Melbourne, so far back as nearly two months ago, not only accepted his Majesty's no mination as his representative to lay the foundation stone' of the new building, but also very kindly conde scended to accept an invitation to dine with the sub scribers to that noble and unrivalled institution. Letters were ;also subsequently received from several of his Lordship's colleagues, including Lord Glenelg, Lord Palmerston, Mr. S. Rice, and Mr. P. Thomson, to the same effect. We regret that his Lordship is at THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 18, 1836 at present not only confined to his house, but to his bed, by an attack of gout ; but there is, nevertheless, every reason to hope that his Lordship will be suffi ciently recovered by Thursday, the 21st inst., to lay the first stone of the building ; and further, that he will be accompanied by those of his colleagues who We have by lett er , un d erta k en to ass i st hi m . find it necessary to make this statement, in order that the Noblemen and Gentlemen who have been invited to witness the ceremony and dine with the Subscribers, may not infer from the erroneous paragraph in the Morning Chronicle, either that the Trustees and Committee had imposed upon them an unfounded statement, or that the ceremony would not take place on the day originally stated.—Morning Advertiser. Day not one pregnant single woman had been received into the workhouse, or relieved out of it !! ! Attention being turned to the list of persons receiving money-allowance out of the house, two month's notice was given to all mothers of illegitimate children above six years old, that at the expira tion of the notice, that money would cease, instead of which there would be provided for the child, board, lodging, clothing and EDUCATION. The child would be taken from the streets, from poverty and sin, and cloathed, fed, " and trained to habits of industry, and in the paths of religion and knowledge." The whole question is now treated as.a moral one, and the pecuniary saving effected thereby " will nearly approach one thousand pounds for the present year." Need we say one word more in support of the bastardy clauses of the belied Amendment Act ? We will conclude by recommending every parish in the country, every rate payer, every father of a family, every one that has been misled by the opponents of the New Act, to read and study Mr. Leslie's excellent pamphlet. THE NEW POOR-LAWS. (From the New Bell's Weekly Messenger.) " Whatever difference of opinion may exist as to the other provisions of the New Poor Law, both its advocates and op ponents are, we believe, very fast falling into an entire coin cidence as to the injustice, the cruelty and impolicy of the clauses regarding illegitimate children. Under this head the worst prognostics of the opponents of the measure are every day being fulfilled to the letter, while parishes, which were to have been benefited by the measure, are, next to mothers and helpless infants, the greatest sufferers by it—being in most cases left without any remedy at all. That abortion, child murder, and desertion, are among its consequences, now admits of no doubt." The above is from the Morning Herald : we give the passage, because it is a summary of all that has been said against the clauses in the Poor Law Amendment Act concerning illegitimate children, and we are pre pared with, what we trust will be considered by all our readers, a most satisfactory reply. All that our contem porary states in the above extract is false, and we are in a condition to prove it false. We are aware that upon this subject we have the feelings of many kind hearts against us ; but we request their attention for a few moments only, that we may explain the error of prevailing opinions, and show that so far from the bastardy-clauses of the New Poor Laws having a tendency to cause infanticide, and the rest of the horrors pictured by the Herald, they are calculated to check the increase of illegitimacy, while at the same time the pauper mother and the pauper child are much better treated, in a moral sense, than they were under the old system. Is prostitution a thing to be encouraged ? Is immorality in such repute, that the increase of illegitimate children is become the popular wish ? Is there such a love of depra vity among the rate-payers, and the rest of society, that so far from their considering the prostitute who burthens the parish with illegitimate children to be deserving of punish. ment, they would give her a premium—a reward for every fresh burthen she puts upon their shoulders ? Modest readers will be horrified at the bare supposition of the en couragement of vice and immorality, but it is themselves that encourage them ! It is themselves that have sanctioned the increase of crime, by their outcries against the original bastardy-clauses o f the Poor Law Amendment Act, wich they contrived to maim in the progress of that Act through the Legislature ! The Herald affirms that " abortion, child murder, and desertion" are among the consequences of the Amendment Act. We challenge our contemporary to the proof. We defy him to establish what he has so roundly asserted. We accuse him of a wilful and deliberate false hood, and entreat our readers not to be misled by the re presentations of a mere man of words. Were there no cases of infanticide before the passing of the Amendment Act ? Was child-murder a thing un unknown ? Was desertion what the world had never heard of before the Legislature passed an act for the relief of the rate-payers, who were almost eaten out of house ard home by the illegitimate offspring of wanton women ? God forbid that we should shut the parish-doors against th e helpless one in the hour of her need ! The Poor Law Amendment Act advises no such thing : we should hate it if it did. No ; it provides these unhappy ones, and the less virtuous, with a home and every necessary attendance ; but it does not offer a premium to vice ; it does not com pel the parish to give a woman a reward for every ille gitimate child she pleases to produce. Mr. Leslie's admirable pamphlet (which has been the subject of some previous commentaries of ours) furnishes all the evidence that can be required to prove the utter groundlessness of the allegations of the Herald and the Herald's followers. The good people who objected to the bastardy-clauses as originally proposed, and who also object to them in their present form, commiserate the unfortu nate woman who has been betrayed and seduced, and are desirous of punishing the seducer. But, as Mr. Leslie justly states, " this was not the question before the legis ture. The real question was—How can the Legislature best preserve the virtue and integrity of female character in the poor of England ?" The sympathy of those who object tb the Amendment Act has no reference to the virtue of the female 4 they put its preservation entirely out of the question, and allowing her to be victimized without one effort to save her, would overpower her with humanity when the evil is done, and " the purity of the female cha racter is lost." Now, this we take to be a virtueless method of preserving female virtue, and we trust that the preservation of female virtue is the desideratum of the good people (fathers and mothers of children many of them are) that are misled by the false representations of the Herald, and other more in terested parties. Preserve the virtue of your children, say we, by setting before them the deformity and the painful consequences of vice. " What has been the practice under the bastardy laws," asks Mr. Leslie, "and what have been the consequences? The parishes, eager to indemnify themselves, have almost invariably appealed to the justices: who thereupon have made an order for so much to be paid weekly by the reputed father, which the parish officers, whether they obtained the money from the re puted father or not, paid over to the female; and this process of indemnifying the parish, as it was called, has plundered the honest and industrious rate-payers to an incredible extent, and which none but those who have been behind the scenes and closely investigated the working of such a plan can form any conception of. If this were the only evil of the law and prac tice, it were bad enough ; but the consequences are much worse than any pecuniary loss, for the result has been, that it has established in all the 15,000 parishes in England and Wales A PUBLIC FUND, receivable through the overseers of the poor, FOR TILE DIRECT ENCOURAGEMENT OF PROSTITUTION, PRO FLIGACY, AND PERJURY." Thousands, we may say, of profligate women were en couraged in their course of life by the certainty which they had of receiving parish-pay for their illegitimate offspring. It mattered not to them who the fathers were, the parish was the paying parent, and it being necessary to swear to one man, in many instances the poorest one in the parish has been fixed upon. We might ask the amount of perjury in the neighbourhood of our Universities. It was to remedy this evil that the bastardy-clauses of the Amendment Act were conceived. The cases of accidental error do not constitute a hundredth part of the whole, and it is to the evil in the mass that public attention ought to be directed ; from that opinions should be formed, and not from solitary cases. The Herald says that this new law promotes infanti cide. "We think," says Mr. Leslie, " the last reflection will prove that the cause of infanticide does not originate in a dread of not being able to support the infant, but that it arises from a desire to prevent the exposure and loss of character which a discovery of the mother's conduct would insure." In reply to the allegation of cruelty, we feel persuaded that we need only set before our readers an example from the plan adopted by Mr. Leslie's parish (St. George, Ha nover-square). " A pregnant single woman presents her self to the parochial authorities : she states that she has been betrayed under false promises, and that in consequence of her loss of character all her friends shun her, and she is in circumstances of destitution. Taking the applicant's state ment as true, she is told—we will receive you into the work house, you will be immediately provided with such work as your present condition will allow you to per form ; you shall be furnished with every necessary me dical and other attendance • you will there also rece i ve the daily consolations which religious instruction can afford you : that as you are the proper source of nurture for the infant you are about to bring into the world, you must remain in the workhouse to suckle your child ; and that, as you recover from your confinement, you will gradually be set to work for the two-fold purpose of assisting to pay the expense the rate-payers will be put to, in supporting yourself and child, and to prepare you,Avhen you quit the workhouse, to commence a course of beneficial occupation to maintain yourself and child. In opposition to the cry of cruelty to the poor, we submit that in this plan there is everything which the most humane can desire —a shelter is given to the outcast from society ; protection afforded to her in the hour of Nature's sorrow—and the daily advantage of religious instruction by a conscientiou s Minister of the Gospel, at a season when the mind is eleven deeply susceptible of consolation and instruction. But there is no pecuniary temptation ofered to the woman as example to others to imitate her conduct." Where, an where, we ask, is the cruelty of this plan ? Where is the father of a family that will not admit its justness—its hu manity ? And now let us see the consequences. Th e commencedereonin Mount -street at w • de women, and eight others with their infants ; pregnant sin,„ also, 267 receivingthe average, weekly, 2s. upon .. 6d, each, the most of whom had been plhainchwtaism time n delivered in the work-house theress , of Mount Street—and —after their confinement —were discharged from the workhouse, and placed upo n the out-door pay list. At Lady Day, 1835, there were but two pregnant s i ng l e women i n the workhouse, and when Mr. Leslie's pamphlet was written (4th August 1835) there was not one pregnant single woman chargeable either in or out of the workhouse to the ratfrpayers. And since Lady KING'S BENCH.-SATURDAY. At the sitting of the Court this morning, The ATTORNEY-GRNEBAL wished to apologise to their Lordships for his absence yesterday, and to request, as a personal favour, that the interest of his clients might not suffer in consequence, as it did not arise out of any disres pect, but was occasioned by urgent public business else where. He therefore hoped those cases which were struck out in consequence of his non-attendance might be rein stated on the paper. Lord DENMAN—The Court cannot think any disrespect was intended, and under the circumstances will order the cases to be restored to the paper. Mr. WILLIAMS and Mr. KELLY made similar applica tions to have causes restored to the paper, as in consequence of the absence of the Attorney-General, they were called on sooner than was expected. Lord DENMAN said that the Court would grant the ap plication on:the present occasion, but he wished gentlemen of the Bar to understand that in future it would be ex pected that Counsel should be in attendance when a case was called on. _ _ The Crown paper was then proceeded with, the cases in which were merely questions of parish settlement, involving no matter of public interest. The Court rose at one o'clock. O'Gorman Mahon is to be brought up for judgment (for an assault on Mr. Wigley) on Monday morning (this day.) BAIL COURT. GOODMAN V. LORD TORRINGTON AND OTHERS. This was an action to recover 1,500/. from the defendants, Lord Torrington and four others, officers of the 7th Fusi leers. One of the defendants being in want of the sum of 1,000/., applied some time ago to a person of the name of Goshen, resident in the Haymarket, for a loan of that amount. Goshen stated that it was inconvenient for him at the time to advance the money, but he had a friend who he thought would advance the sum, or at least a sum of 800/. The person to whom Goshen referred (Goodman, the plaintiff) could not advance the whole sum, but he agreed to lend 500/., provided the borrower and the other four defendants would agree to give him a bond for 1,500/., payable at the end of two years. This arrangement was acceded to, and a bond for 1,500/. was made out and sub scribed by the defendants, and delivered to the plaintiff. Various other collateral securities were at the same time granted. When the money came to be paid, and the trans action ultimately settled, the borrower found that, after de ducting the expenses of the loan, there was due to him a sum only a little exceeding the half of the 500/. The de fendants having allowed judgment to pass against them by default, Mr. SMITH to-day moved the Court for an arrest of judg ment, and for a reference to the Master to take an account of, and report upon, the sums actually due to the plaintiff. The COURT granted the motion as prayed for. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLB OR 0 UGH- STREET. The following application was made to Mr. DYER : A cab-driver, named Cook, residing at No. 74, Great George-street, Hampstead-road, picked up a large pocket book on Friday, about one o'clock, in South Audley-street. He had two persons (a publican and a gunsmith) in his cab; whom he was driving to the Red House. He put the pocket-book under him, and on reaching the White ferry-house, Pimlico, he got down to assist his fare to alight. The two persons possessed themselves of the pocket-book, and went into the public-house. The book was opened, and in it the cab-driver saw a 201. note, a check, and several papers. The two persons shut up the book hastily, and gave it to the landlord of the Whiteferry house, telling the cab-driver it was to remain there until the owner was found. The cab-driver called at the White ferry-house on Saturday, and, on asking about the book, was told by the landlord that one of the persons had re turned for it, and had got it away, telling him he wanted the money to pay his brewers with. The cab-driver wished to know what he was to do in the matter. Mr. DYER desired Schofield, the officer, to make the needful inquiries. UNION-HALL. Inn. Ball, a medical student, attached to one of the Borough Hospitals, was charged with personating a police sergeant, and obstructing a policeman in the execution of his duty. The defendant was frequently in the habit of appearing on the Surrey side of the water, and prowling about the streets as a sergeant, on which occasions he wore a stand up collar to his waistcoat, on which was marked All, so as to make it appear that he belonged to the Whitehall division, and that he was specially sent to look after the men in various parts, to ascertain if they were doing their duty. He also wore a lantern with a regular bull's eye, which was made fast round his waist with a strap similar to those used by the force. Thus equipped he entered se veral houses of known disrepute in Kent -street, and alarmed the inmates by his swagger and threats to punish them for the course of life they were pursuing. The policemen also were doubly vigilant whenever he approached, believing him him for a time to be one of the great A's from Whitehall. At length the imposition was discovered, and a report of the circumstance made known to the inspectors of the M division. At two o'clock on Saturday morning he was again seen, and on policeman Shields meeting him at the corner of King-street, the soi cloisant sergeant was con veyed to the station, but not before a severe struggle had ensued, in which the student appeared to have come off second best. The defendant, in reply to the charge, said he was very much intoxicated, and was very sorry he had acted as he had done. He declared that he had no improper motive in view, further than having '° a lark," and if he was let off he would not offend again. Mr. JExsi►tY severely lectured him, and then fined him five shillings for being intoxicated, promising him at the same time that if he was again caught at such tricks he should be fined heavily, and, in default of payment, com mitted to prison. THAMES- OFFICE. The family of Mr. Jarratt, of No. 46, Upper Cornwall street, St. George's-in-the-East, have been greatly annoyed, and the whole neighbourhood disturbed, by the conduct of some malicious persons who, on the evening of the 4th inst. commenced throwing stones, pieces of brick, and other missiles through the back windows of the lower part of the house, by which several persons have been severely injured, and property to a considerable amount destroyed. At length some clue was obtained, which led to the ap prehension of a boy named Edward Ellis, aged fourteen, the son of a respectable tradesman in Worcester-street, St. George's-in-the-East, and an apprentice to Mr. Shirley, a blacksmith in the Back-road, St. George's. The youth was this morning brought before the Magistrates. Policeman Holmes while on the watch on Thursday morning, saw the prisoner enter the out-house in Mr. Shirley's yard, and shortly after the door opened, and a brick came from that direction. Policeman Parker stated that, while on the watch, a stone was thrown, and immediately after he saw the pri soner run from the passage of his master's house. Mr. BRoDERIP said enough had been proved to call upon the boy to put in good bail to answer the charge at the Sessions. Bail was then put in, and Mr, BRoDERIP _requested the police to keep still on the watch. STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. Saturday the agents for the City of Aberdeen steam-ship waited on the sitting Magistrates at the Thames Police Office on the subject of the accident which had occurred off Purfleet on Sunday morning, and whioh was stated to have been imputed to the careless conduct of those in charge of that vessel. They stated it was impossible for the City of Aberdeen to hare come in contact with the barge in ques tion at the time mentioned (four o'clock), as she did not leave Miller's Wharf till an hour afterwards, and could not be off Purfleet till between six and seven. The Ma gistrate stated the application made to him by Mr. Farlow, and the steps which he (the Magistrate) had ordered to be taken in consequence. He then referred them to Mr. Evans, Chief Surveyor of the Thames Police, to whom the orders had been given. Mr. Evans referred them to Mr. Harty, chief mate of the Albion steamer, who had given him all the information which he possessed on the subject. They then called upon that gentleman, who stated that on Sunday morning last, about ten or fifteen minutes past seven o'clock, the Albion was towing a ship down the river, and just below Purfleet a large steam vessel passed them, which he afterwards understood to be the City of Aberdeen. In a few minutes he heard a call ing out for help, and he understood the voice to say a barge was sinking. A collier going down had just before passed the Albion's bows, and he saw a boat put off from the col lier to the aid of the people in the barge, which was in a sinking state close on the north shore. Soon afterwards the crew of the Albion saw something drifting close to the bows, which appeared to be the hatches of a barge, and Captain Reid, the master of the Albion, called out that some wreck was passing close to the bows, and that the City (f Aberdeen steam-ship had just passed them. Mr. Ball, who was at the Albion's wheel, also said it was the City of Aberdeen. Mr. Evans said if the steamer left Miller's Wharf at five, she would reach Purfleet about the time the accident happened. The agents admitted this to be the case, but said if the barge went down on the north shore she could not have been struck by the City of Aberdeen, which, from her large draught of water, always kept the middle of the stream. Mr. Evans said it was very probable the barge was swamped by the heavy swell raised by the City of Aberdeen. That the accident had occurred, and that the three persons were drowned, there could be no doubt. After some further conversation, Messrs. Hosie and Jen kins left the office, expressing their determination to make every inquiry, in order to ascertain whether any blame at tached to their steamer. The Thames Police made some further inquiries respect ing this melancholy occurrence on Saturday night, and as certained that the barge was laden with manure, and was on her way to the Gravesend Canal on Sunday morning. After the accident two watermen discovered the barge on her beam ends, drifting close to the Purfleet shore, with her main sheet fast. The watermen got the anchor from her bow, let it go, and brought her up, and she then carried away her mast in three pieces and turned bottom upwards. The Magistrates have directed a strict investigation into all the circumstances of the transaction. THE GRAVESEND PIER. Robert Fairburn, Captain of the Princess Victoria steam boat, belonging to the Commercial Company, appeared be fore M. TROUGIITON, Esq., Mayor of Gravesend, and Mr. Justice EAGLE, to answer the complaint of the Deputy Pier Master at Gravesend, for violating one of the clauses in the Pier Act. It was stated that on the 6th inst. the vessel in question came alongside after the bell had done ringing, and took on board passengers who were waiting on the . Pier. She then moved forward about 200 yards and took in three persons from a boat from the Kent shore. Mr. Scott, one of the Directors of the Commercial Steam Company, contended that the Princess Victoria was a coaster, inasmuch as she called at Gravesend to and - from Sheerness. Mr. Eagle said the Captain having landed and embarked passengers from the pier, had decidedly come within the meaning of the Act of Parliament, which prohibits any steam-vessel, after leaving the pier head, taking in passen gers within the parishes of Gravesend and Milton. The MAYOR coincided with Mr. Eagle. The defendant pleaded ignorance of the provisions of the Pier Act. The MAYOR said, that as it was his first offence he should only fine him ss. and costs. Mr. Scott then applied to lay an information against the Pier Management for allowing more than one decked ves sel to lie at the same time at the head of the pier, contrary the Act. HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP STAR• We are enabled at length to relieve the public anxiety as to the melancholy fate of his Majesty's packet Star, by pub lishing the following extract from a despatch received on Saturday at the Admiralty, from Mr. James Brown, Master and Acting Commander of that vessel. It will be seen that Lieutenant Binney, the Commander, and thirteen of the crew have been lost. The despatch is dated at sea, the 9th of December, 1835 : " On the 20th of November, in lat. 45. 57. North long. 38. 0. West, a heavy gale came on from south west, which increased so as to oblige us to lay to on the larboard tack until the 22d, when we were with our head to S.W., the wind varying from W.S.W. to N.W., with very heavy squalls of wind and hail. On this day we lost our gig from the quarter, with all our hammock nettings. On the 23d, the gale still increasing, with a tremendous cross sea, shortened sail to main trisail and fore storm staysail. At two o'clock on the morning of the 24th a heavy sea struck the ship on the starboard beam, throwing her on her beam ends, and stove in all our sky and dead lights, washed overboard one seaman, and fractured the thigh of another. In about a minute she righted, with the loss of fore-topsail-yard and tiller ; shipped a spare one, which went immediately ; shipped a third one, which also went ; succeeded at length in securing the rudder with iron stanchions. At daylight observed a bark to windward, under the lee clew of main-topsail, with loss of foremast and bowsprit, standing to the S.W., the gale increasing to a severe hurricane. Ship this time under the main trisail, and no possibility of showing another stitch of canvass, as a new fore storm-staysail had just blown out of the boltrope. Eleven A.M., lost sight of the vessel to windward, supposed to have foundered. At noon a tre mendous sea struck the ship on the starboard beam, which threw her on her beam ends, with her tops in the water, dead lights a second time stove in, washed the Commander, Lieut. I. Binney, and myself with eleven seamen overboard, I being the only person out of the number who regained the ship. Fortunately our, watch was kept below, otherwise a greater sacrifice of life would have inevitably followed : the sea swept the ship from stem to stern-post, carrying everything away to the covering, hoards, which in many places were ripped up, obliging us to fill up between the timbers with oakum and wedges, to pre vent her going down, having nothing above the gunwale but the starboard cat-head, and anchor. ln about two or three minutes the ship righted, with the loss of masts and bowsprit : found between five and six feet of water in her hold. Employed pumping, securing the hatches, and clearing the wreck from the ship, the sea making a com plete breach over us. Found the rudder-head split and shaking - the stern-post, so as to endanger starting it. On clearing the deck below, found the Commander's boy dead in the assistant-surgeon's cabin, under the wreck of bulk heads, &c. At eight P.M. succeeded in securing the rudder with iron stanchions ; the sea breaking over us so as to endanger the lives of the crew remaining, I deemed it neces sary to send them below, after securing the last hatch. On the morning of the 25th made an attempt to get a sail on the stump of foremast,but could not succeed,owing to a heavy sea still breaking over us ; found she was not making much water; sent the crew below as before. All hands suffering severely, both officers and men, some from severe contusions, and others from scalds, owing to the water being upset from the coppers ; employed below trimming the ship with the few hands that were capable of exerting themselves, every thing having settled to port. On the 26th, a little more moderate, found the mail considerably damaged ; succeeded in getting a topgallant-sail on the stump of the foremast, which enabled us to keep before the sea, as it was breaking over us, so as to endanger the decks ; fortunately the foremast went in the wake of the trusses, which enabled us to make sail on it, the driver boom and part of the gaff being the only spars left on board, the mainmast went by the wedges, mizenmast four feet above deck, and bowsprit by the gam moning ; at four P.M., this day, spoke a ship, name un known, which, owing to the heavy sea, could render us no assistance. Strong breezes still continuing from the north ward, deemed it prudent to run to the southward. On the .27th examined the magazine, and found much powder da maged ; also a tank of bread quite spoiled. With the driver-boom as a spread yard, we succeeded in setting a lower studding-sail as a square-sail ; officers employed in drying the mail ; people cleaning lower deck cabin ; furni ture totally destroyed, and bulkhead more or less stove in. I am now making the best of my way for Antigua, which I expect to reach in about three weeks." INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. The Matters of the Petitions and Schedules of the Prisoners hereinafter named (the same having been filed in the Court' are appointed to be heard at the Court-house, in Portugal street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, on Tuesday, January Ig, 1836, at Nine o'clock in the Forenoon. Dutton, W., Pier-place, llerne Bay, carpenter. Gray, W., Lower Marsh, Lambeth, baker. Brown, C., Church-row, Limehouse, coal-merchant. Cunningham, J. Love-lane, Aldermanbury, hat- manu f acturer. Phillips, W., Ch Church-yard, Barnstaple, Devon, baker. Cogger, J., St. George's-place, North Brixton, Surrey, wire worker. Jordan, T., Frederick-street, Hampstead-road, labourer. Garrett, J., Wardour-street, Oxford-street, carver. Onley, T., George-street, Chelsea, dealer in potatoes. Scholefield, J., Wood-street, City, cloth-factor. Prina, J., High-street, Margate, Kent, pianiste. Hales, P., Farringdon-street, slaughterman. The mildness of the weather in this town and county is very remarkable, while we hear and read statements of its severity in other counties in England, and in countries abroad. On Tuesday . and Wednesday last, the air was soft and bland in this vicinity ; but we learned from a gentleman who arrived in this town the latter evening from Worcester, that snow covered the country nearly all the way from that city, until his arrival within twelve miles of Shrewsbury. The mails have been delayed in Herefordshire, and other counties around us, by the depth of snow ; while little or none has fallen in Shropshire and those parts of Wales which adjoin this county. In France, and other parts of the continent, the season has been severe.—Letters from Bordeaux state that the ice has entirely destroyed the foun dation of the new bridge about to be built at C,ubzac, on the Dordogne. —The Lyons papers state that on the 2d of January, the centigrade thermometer fell in that pity to ten degrees below zero. —Shrewsbury Chronicle. THE MARKETS. uOUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST VEI'l K. Wheat. 19ean;. I 'ea, P. to 1 34 CM s d. s. d. 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 0 0 00 70 76 0 0 0 00 00 Barley. ; Oats, s„. to 5. 1 37 24 2 - 5 20 39 27 19 41 31 :32 39 25 30 25 26 s.d. s.d. s. d. d. s. d. 49 5 2 6 30: 1 4 20 00 6 0 3 9 009. 9 30 60 69 36 4 3 0 34 60 7 3 3 6 461 3 3 40 80 8 6 4 0 48, 3 0 34 59 6 6 2 9 301 2 6 39 80 9 0 3 0 461 2 0 3 3 8 6 9 6 80 80 R 6 96 86 11 0 70 S 70 761 50 70 40 70 46 8! 83 93 86 90 44 501 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET—Jan. IS Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. 31s. to —s. fine 34;,.. Lin. and Cam. Yorkshire —s. 335, to —s. find Ms. ----- N'Ohite ~.. —s. 31s. to —s. fine ..Ift. -- Foreign, Red ' —s. —s. to —s. fine —4. White —s. —s. to —s. nne —s.• Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ls. to 345. tine 37a Lincolnshire '3ls. to 345. fine 57s 31s. - Yorkshire Vold to 345. fine 375. —...„.. Foreign V —s. to —s. fine --ks Beans, Old 39s to 48s, fine —s. ---- New Oats, Potato —s. to 245. fine 295. Poland —s. —s. to 245. fine •'913. Friezland and Small —s. 168. to 185. fine 2013. ➢lealing Shelling Malt —s. 375. fine 438. per Load. Rapeseed 3O/. Os 361. Os. 401. Os. per Lad. sco Beans. to 30 31 23 30 - 32 33 19 20 45 48 43 22 25 ,ut the country. —Jan. 13. .day, and thl Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 4's. I'd. 24s 6d. ‘.'6s Bd. V6s. 6d 39 0 30 0 22 u 33 0 31 0 24 6 17 4 31 0 rage price of Wheat IL 18s. 2,(1. PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. ....... Os. 4d. to 05.6,1. Freshßutter,lb....—s.Jld. to ls:Od. Mutton —.........—.. 041 0.6 Salt Ditto—...... 010 011 Veal ...... 0 7 010 Ditto, per cat..,, .. 0 0 91 0 P0rk.................. 0 3 0 5 Eggs, per doz..— 0 0 011 Lamb, per qr. —. 0 0 0 0 OatStraw(kpl.).. 9 0 10 0 Tallow, ewt.......36 0 38 0 Wheat Ditto.... 8 0 9 0 2uartern Loaf —.O 6 061 Barley Ditto ....—.. 6 0 7 0 Potatoes, 141 b. ....... 0 1 0 0 Hay, per 5t..,........ 01 1 1 0 First 5ec0nd....... third Avel Beans 36s 9d 33 0 31 0 EDINBURGH MBA. There was a middling supply of Oi sales were rather brisk. LL MARKET.—Jan. 12. latmeal at this day's markt% anti the Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto Per Stone of 141 b It First Oatmeal Second ditto Barleymeal Peasemeal ;t3 1 10 II 1 8 0 1 4 0 1 4 Barleymeat ..... 1 4 0 Peasenaeal 1 4 0 , Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 10s.-2d , 125.-3 d ,14s —4th, 168.—Pesil, 18s. 11ARKET.—Jan. 13. rain ; little alteration in prices. Oats, per 2tAlb. s. n. M. 41. I Irish l5 C to 18 0 British l7 6 19 A Beans, per 2601 b. English Scottish Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, per 1401 b l4 0 17 0 Flour, per 2801 b 29 0 32 0 1 oats. Wheat. GLASGOW CORN A moderate business doing in Wheat, per 2401 h. s. d. s. cf. British, old 2l 0t093 0 . _ new Canada, free 23 0 25 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b English 23 A 26 0 Scottish 2O 0 21 0 Irish )RNWALL MARKETS. !ulated at 24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. Barley. B. d. t. 8. d. s. d. to s. d. —O9O 0 8 0 90— 0 6 6 - 0 90— o 7 6 —O9O 0 7 3 0 6 3 0 9 0, —O9O 0 0 0 8690 6 0 6 6 —OBO 0 7 6 'ORS TO-MORROW. R. Hollingdale, grocer, Strood, Kent G. Mayor and Co., spirit merchants, Little Distaff:Jane 2 11 W. Shott and Co., wharfingers, Shad Thames 2 II A. Levey. jeweller, Ramsgate W. P. Willams, draper, Newton Abbott, Devonshire .. ..... ... 2 1 S. Gray, baker, Rose-court, Covent garden .... 2 1 G. Little, corn-dealer, Church-street, Lisson-grove T. Sadd, grocer. Bungay, Suffolk' B. G. Levien, oilman, Bishopsgate 2 1 W Thomas, tailor, Foley-place, Great Portland-street .... 2 11 J. Tulley, bazaar-keeper, High Holborn 2 11 G. Hewitt, coachmaster, Brixton-road 1 2 B Brook, surgeon, Seuth Lambcth COLBURN'S MODERN NOVELISTS, VOL. GRA Nny.—Speaking of the power of this brilliant novel, in fix ing the attention of the reader, the " Edinburgh Review" plea stly contradiction, says, ‘ and it inattentive, makes him imt ev late if a efor. dinner, impatient of bishop is making- an observation, or a gentleman, lately from the Pyramids or the Upper Cataracts, is let loose upon the drawing-roost Who can read Mr. Hallam's Middle Ages,' or extract thee root of an impossible quantity, or draw up a bond, when be. is engaged with Mr. Trebeck and Lady Harriet Duncan ? How can the boy's lesson be heard, about the Jove-nou rished Achilles, or his six miserable verses upon Dido be corrected, when Henry Granby and Mr. Courtenay are both making love to Miss Jermyn ? All is emotion when the book is open—all dull, flat, and feeble, when it is shut !" The total - amount paid into the Treasury by the Sa vings' Banks of France during 1835, was 27,516,00 A francs, namely, 15,670,000 francs by that of Paris ; and 13,846,000 francs by those of the Departments. The sums withdrawn amount to 441,000 francs. On the 31st De cember the funds in the Treasury belonging to the ,Savings' Banks amounted to 62,279,000 francs. At that period there were in existence 155 , banks duly authorised. (ADvEwrisEmENT.)—T. COX SAVORY, Golds.mith, &c., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public, that he offers DESSERT FRUIT KNIVES and FORKS, with plain ivory handles, silver ferrules, plated on s t ee l bl a d es , at Th ree Gu i neas dozen pair, or with solid silver blades, at Eight Guineas and one- Half per dozen pair. N.B. Carved ivory handles at 13s. 6d. extra per dozen pair. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst., in New Burlington-street, Mrs. Richard Bentley, of a son. On the 15th inst., the lady of Osborne Delano Osborne, Esq., of Mount House, Hadley, Of a son. On the 16th inst., at. Lisson-lodge, Lisson-grove, the lady of J. Berkeley, Esq., of the Island of Grenada, of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Eastbridge, Crandall, Hants, ther lady of J. A. Johnston, Esq., of a son. On the 13th inst., at North-bank, Regent's-park, the lady of J. D. Close, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., Mrs. Wm. Gilbertson, Hobart-place, Eaton square, of a son. On the 15th inst., in Montagu-square, the lady of Wm. Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 14th inst., at Pall-mall, Mrs. Spence, of a son. On the 14th inst. ,at Clapham-rise, Surrey, Mrs. Jeremiah Evans, of a ,on. On the 15th inst., at Tottenham, Elizabeth, the wife of John Hodgkin, Esq., jun., of a son. On the 15th inst., at 41, Tavistock-square, Mrs. J. Remini Eton Mills, of a son. On the 10th inst., at Hatfield, the wife of the Rev. Benjamin Pelle, of a daughter. On the 15th inst., in Charlotte-street, Portland-place, Mrs. R. Winter, of a son. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at St. Martin's, Worcester, Mr. Thomas Lloyd, of 30, Bartlett's-buildings, Holborn, to Lydia, neice of Mr. E. Yeomans, of Worcester. On the 14th inst., at North Stoneham Church, James Fenier Armstrong, Esq., of Castle Iver, King's County, Ireland, to Hono ria, eldest daughter of John Fleming, Esq., M.P. for the Southern Division of Hants. On the 9th inst., at Christ Church, Surrey, Mr. George Heil, to Emma, only daughter of W. J. Phillips, Esq., of Kennington oval. On the 15th inst., at St: James's Church, Clerloenwell, Frede rick Bryant, Esq., to Emma Sophia Aldridge. DIED. On the 13th inst., at Hammersmith, George Mann ers Sutton, Esq., Commander, R.N., aged 49. On the 16th inst., at Hampstead Heath, aged 71, Sarah, wife of Richard Hart Davis, Esq., lately M.P. for Bristol. On the 14th inst., Sophia, wife of the Rev. W. Buller, of East Stoke, Dorsetshire. On the 14th inst., at the Warden's, Merton College, Oxford, Anne Erskine Dewar, daughter of the late Major-General Dewar, of Gilston, Fifeshire. . _ On the I 7th inst., at Montpelier, South Lambeth, aged 78, Ann,. relict of the late Charles Brown, Esq., and mother of Mr. Alder— man Brown. On the 13th inst., at Wandsworth Common, J. Warner, the in— fant son of Captain P. Ripley, of York-terrace, Regent's-park. On the 12th inst., at Chamelton, near Daventry, James Merest, eldest son of the Rev. J. Freeman, aged 19. On the 16th inst., at West Hill, Wandsworth, Richard Phillips , aged 81. On board ship, between Muscat and Bombay, Lieutenant Elias Durnford, of the Royal Engineers. On the 16th inst.. aged 70, Mr. William Eaton, of his Majesty's Excise. On the 30th ult., at Madrid, Mary, the wife of Colonel Don Ber nardo de Echaluce, of the 11th Regiment of the Li ne , d aug h ter o f the late Lewis Meagher O'Brien, - Esq., British Vice-Consul at Santander. On the 15th inst., at Brighton-terrace, Brixton -road, John, the only son of Mr. T. M. King, Essex-street, Strand. At the Royal Marine Infirmary, Woolwich, H. H. Parker, M.D., M. R. C. S. L. , aged 23. On the 10th inst., at Cologne, John Paynter Musson, Esq., the Middle Temple, late Chief Justice of St. Lucia. On the 14th inst., at Stoke Newington, aged 81, Mrs. Catherine Boch. On the 14th inst., aged 12, Harriet Sharp, eldest daughter of S. Cater, Esq., Stamford-hill. On the 14th inst., at Camberwell• green, Mrs. Pring, aged 55. On the 15th inst., at Powis-place, Hampstead-road, Sarah, the eldest daughter of the late E. Allen, Esq., of Carlisle-street, Soho square. .0n the 15th inst., at Lawn Cottage, Battersea, aged 76; Letitia, relict of N. Ridley, Esq. On the 15th inst., at Moore-terrace, Peckham, in his 80th year, Mr. William Wyatt, formerly of Cobham-court Farm, Surrey. • M-J .ondon : Printed and Published by AIURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The SUN. Office, No, 112, Strand, in the county of Middlesex. Per Quarter. Cat lisle Flexham Morpeth Petirith Sheffield Winchester s. to s. 39 38 - i 23 40 f.:5 Per Bushel. Carmarthen Cowbridge-- Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton--.. Swansea e...e.MMINIM Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle - I Durham ....-...... Richmond Stockton Aberdeen_ Berµ•ick_ 28 to 32 22 27 25 28 48 56 48 58 40 50 30 40 23 27 37 42 50 56 :e of the m 21 to 25 15 1) 17 18 26 31 30 33 24 26 28 130 16 20 23 31 23 26 leasure vari, Coldstream Cupar (Eifel Dundee Elgin Inverness Kelso Kirkaldy Perth 11:, The si D I NBUR GI Ding supply I U-I CORN of all kind: We had a midi rather quick. Truro Helstone St. Austell Bodmin Liskeard Launceston Camelford Penzance s. d. to s. d. 0 J 6 0 0 15 0 0 16 0 0 16 0 •0 13 0 0 19 6 14 0 16 0 15 0 16 6 MEETINGS OF CREDI 8. to 8. 20 16 17 5. II 36 - RKETS. Oats. al rill 15 to 18 13 16 13 15 IS 22 20 25 16 20 21 24 15 16 20 23 20 22 tes through 42 44 tr. d. 00 00 50 00 50 53 5 6 6 0 60 67 00 00 56 60 MARKET. s of Grain to. 8 6 100 90 96 so 100 S 0 8C Oatmea 24 to 24 28 :**A sales Were 'CH MX Barley. I.