The Sun. — London, England, 1839-09-03 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION. ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT—LzrzaPooz, Ave. 30. (Before Mr. Baron Maims) GISBORNE V. HART. This was an action to recover the sum of 22/. 12s. 9d., being the amount of a promissory note made by the de fendant. Mr. Creswell and Mr. Martin conducted the case of the plaintiff, and Mr. Alexander and Mr. Wightman that of the defendant. It appeared that the plaintiff is the Member of Par liament for Carlow, and the defendant is an attorney, who, having had the misfortune to get into the hands of the sheriff's officer by way of execution, was anxious to get out ag lin, and for this purpose an offer was made of the note in question. On the part of the defendant it was insisted that a discharge should be signed before the note was given ; this was resisted by the officer, and at length the note was delivered over. The officer then insisted upon ascertaining whether there was any other detainer against the prisoner before he let him go. Upon this a scuffle ensued, and an attempt was made to get back the note, which, however, did not succeed. It turned out that there was another detainer lodged with the sheriff, and the prisoner did not get his liberty till that was discharged also. An action being brought on the note it was referred to the award of a gentleman of the bar, whose award was set aside upon a technical objection, and the present action was brought. Mr. Baron MAIILE, in summing up the case to the Jury, told them i ithey were of opinion that the note was obtained under a fraudulent representation that the defendant should thereby regain his liberty, they would find a verdict for him ; but the sheriff's officer was bound not to let the p r isoner go until every det ainer against him was satisfied ; and if they thought the trans action a bona fide one, they would find for the plaintiff. Verdict accordingly for the amount demanded. One or two cases yet remain , which will be taken either at a late sitting to-night or to-morrow morning, when the Assizes will conclude. George Howard, a waterman was then charged with I having allowed a gentleman to fish from his boat, on the 24th ult. There was an error in the summons as to the place in which the offence was said to have been commit ted, but the defendant waised any objection to that • iror, as be was informed that he should be obliged to a pear again upon a corrected summons if he pleaded the infor mality. The fishing was proved. The defendant mixed the bait. The defendant said that he was privileged as a vraterman to follow his occupation on a Sunday. The Lord MAYOR—Yes, but you are not allowed to follow other people's occupation and to help gentlemen to fish. Defendant—My defence is that I went out for hire in my lawful occupation. The LORD MAYOR—And the fault I find with you is that you had a person in your boat acting illegally. Defendant—l did not know that he was going to fish when he hired me. If your Lordship will fine a free Waterman for pursuing his occupation, you ought to stop the steamers, which have almost knocked us all up. The LORD MAYORI don't want to fine you. Pro duce the gentleman who fished from your boat. Defendant—l don't know who he is, or anything about him. _ The LORD MAYOR—Then you are fined 40 shillings. Defendant-1 have no money, my Lord. The Loan MAYOR—Then a warrant of distress must issue against your goods. A stranger here protested against the penalty. The LORD MAYOR —Who are you ? Stranger—The defendant served his time to me, and I am now his partner. The LORD MAYOR—Very well. Then of course half of the penalty will fall upon you. The day on which the summonses to the gentleman fisherman are returnable, is Thursday next, and a regular scene is expected. A gentleman complained to the Lord Mayor that the placard daubers not only covered all the hoarding round the space on which the Royal Exchange stood with their large bills of all kinds, but actually covered the notices which the tradesmen and brokers, who formerly bad shops and offices round the late building, had put up stating to what places they had removed. The conduct of these fellows had already, the applicant stated, occasioned much inconvenience. The Loan MA/ OR immediately gave directions to the police on the subject, and stated that by the new Act those who put up any bills were liable to a penalty, and that the conduct of these bill-stickers was a serious aggravation of the offence. Mr. Whithair, the Superintendent of the City Police, in answer to a question from the' Lord Mayor, said that not one of the publicans in the City opened his house until the time allowed by law on the Sund'ty just gone by, and that the decisive manner in which his Lordship had acted in the ca=c of the person who transgressed in the Minories on the 25th of August had evidently settled the question as to the chance of impun'ty. Q UEEIV. S Q UA RE. William Walker, a powerful looking man, was brought up charged with having assaulted no less than five private individuals and nine police constables. Mrs. Charlotte Baxter, upon whom the severest assault had been made, and who, from the injuries she had re ceived, was obliged to be taken to the Westminster Hos pital, from whence she had only just come to give evidence against the prisoner, and was now so weak as to be inca pable of giving her evidence standing, was accommodated with a chair, when she stated that on Sunday morning she went to visit her mother in Windsor-place, and had not been in the house but a few minutes before she heard a great uproar in the adjoining house. A great crowd had assembled outside, and her sister and herself went to see what was the matter : dome person near them said " What's this ?" when the prisoner, who seemed to be raging mad, struck her sister a violent blow, which felled her to the ground; be then attacked • the complainant, knocked her down, knelt upon her chest and stomach, and beat her so severely as to make her insensible, and make her removal to the Hospital necessary. Inspector Barefoot said that it was at first thought the prisoner bad killed the complainant. It took nine con stables to take him to the station, and when he got to the station he was almost naked, he having been so violent on the way as to tear every article of clothing off himself, and he had likewise done damage to the constables' c:oth ing to the extent of four shillings. Mr. Gas GOP.IE said this being the most serious com plaint, he should content himself with hearing that, and asked what the prisoner had to . say.in defence ?—The pri soner merely replied that he was drunk Mr. GREeORIE told him he had been guilty of most ruf fianly conduct, and he should inflict the extreme penalty of 5/ for the assault, or two months' imprisonment with hard labour is default, in addition to which he would pay the four shillings damage, or go to prison for a further period of fourteen days.—Committed in dthult. THE SUN, L SURRENDER 0 F DON CARLOS. (From the Globe of last Night.) We can only call the attention of our readers he rumour which will be found under our City head, dated Two o'Clock, to the effect that Don Carlos has surren dered to Espartero, and that Maroto has joined his forces to those of his legitimate Sovereign the Queen of Spain. Another rumour current is that Don Carlos has sur rendered to Lord John Hay, and claimed the protection of the British flag. In either case the war in Spain is necessarily at an end. It will be seen by the following letter rom our Paris correspondent, that there is every probability of the above rumour being well founded PARIS, Au°. 31.—" A telegraphic despatch was received yesterday by the Government, dated Ba yonne, August the 30th, stating that the coo ference between the Carlist Chiefs had broke;, up, and that the conclusion being unfavouroble to any arrangement between themselves, Maroto had recom menced his march, and made his dispositions for putting himself into correspondence with Espartero. " It was expected that this despatch would appear in the Moniteur this morning, which is not the case ; but you may rely upon the authenticity of the information. The position of Don Carlos is therefore hopeless, and the Spanish affair, which your Chartists and our soi disant Liberals have represented as disgraceful to the English and French Governments by their re fraining from a forcible intervention, is likely, through a prudent and patient course of conduct, to be settled as quietly and permanently as the affair of Belgium, respecting which the Tories so long reproached Lord Palmerston. Any other course than the cautious one which has been taken might have plunged Europe in a general war ; whereas the French and English Cabinets, having been throughout agreed on their line of policy, have arrived at the desired result without giving an excuse for active demonstrations in favour of Don Carlos by other parties had they been so disposed. A Cabinet Council was held yes terday , immediately after the receipt of the tele graphic despatch, and before five o'clock a telegraphic despatch in return was sent off to Bayonne, It is stated, and I believe truly, that Maroto has made over tures to France and England, inviting them to interfere to put an end to the civil war. Despatches were sent off to England last night, which had reference probably to this circumstance. " The Government had not, up to two o'clock, re ceived anything new from the East, but the last communications are said to have been very satisfactory. It is generally believed that the question of Syria will be partially ceded to the Viceroy, but that good guarantees will be taken against the probability hereafter of any disturbance of the peace between Turkey and Egypt, through the warlike propensities of Ibrahim. " It is rumoured on 'Change this afternoon that Do Carlos has expressed a wish to quit Spain; finding hi . . cause hopeless, and to leave the arrangement in bandy of the great Powers of Europe. Tnis is not probable, but no official information of the kind been received. " The newspapers and large bills on the walls a r nounce an extraordinary exhibition in the Cham de Mars for t o - morrow , an d th e f o ll ow i ng d ay s A M. Enhiot pretends to have discovere , the infallible means of navigating balloons, ani invites people to inspect his balloon. It is of an oblon ; shape with a boat or car, with a long rudder and paddle resembling the sails of a windmill." We are enabled to state, on the best official authority that the alleged refusal of MEHEMET ALI to give u the Turkish fleet on the requisition of the five Power., is altogether untrue. METROPOLI FAN POLITICAL SUMMARY. The Globe of last even comments with just seve rity on the shameful Tory trick of perverting the Dover banquet to the Duke of Wellington, into a political ex hibition for the display of Conservative hatred tt the present Liberal Government. " The Dover B in. quet in honour of the Duke of Wellington,' says our Contemporary, " whatever might la the splendour of its decorations, the richness and abut, dance of its provisions, and the rank and number of ; guests—was by no means calculated to answer professed design. It was, in the first in. stance, proposed to be a demonstration of respect toward the illustrious Duke, from which, order to secure the accordance and co-opera- Lion of men of all parties, politics were to be exclude:l. As the Time: of this meriting admits, nominally, it only a dinner given by the inhabitants of the Citiqtie Ports, as a tribute of respect to their Lord Warden.' The inhabitants of the Cinque Ports, aitbout resp-et party, concurred in the object, and aided in its accomplisli meta. Several of the most distinguished Liberals ,' the district, both in and out of Parliament, lent thci, aid to carry out the professed designs of the pro jectors, and were present at the banquet. L adopting this course they .were, doubtless, influence( by the laudable desire of showing to their (ip n. nents that no play distinctions could interpose a barne, between the respect and honour which Englishmen o all parties concur in paying to the Illustrious warrior b ) whom their armies were led forth to battle and t., victory, the despot who aimed at nothing short of uni versal empire was hurled from his throne, and the Con tinent of Europe delivered from his tyranny, and made debtor to Britain for that deliverance. The grateful recollection of those eminent services will never be obliterated from the hearts of English men. Neither the honours of a dukedom, which the Crown conferred, nor the splendid demesne of Strath fieldsaye, with a grant of money from the national re sources equal to a Prince's ransom, which the people's representatives bestowed, were deemed too vast a re compense for services so eminent. It was an evil day for Wellington s character when the nation's hero stooped from his elevation, where he stood the object of that nation's pride, to become the prop of a falling party. The Tories, conscious of their hopeless condition, sought re fuge under the popularity of his name acquired in fields far different from those in which they now sought his aid—where they could lose nothing in character failure which they had nut already lost, but in which he would jeopardise the affectionate veneration of at least a part of the people for whom he fought and conquered, and from whom he possessed the ample rewards they in their admiring gratitude had awarded The Tories' unwearied efforts to connect Wellington with them as their leader, and the stratagems they can ploy to share in the honours which Englishmen still pay to his military character, are too evident to pas: unnoticed. They are expressive of conscious weakness : of their inability to attain, by their own legitimate claims as a political party, the power they have lost, and for which they hopelessly lament. To afford their discom fited party a drop of consolation under the heavy appointment of last May, when the Queen irsterpos , 4l and saved the nation from the evils of rester; d Tory domination, the Dover banquet to the Duke a Wellington was projected—its prospectus was issued— the usual profession of " no political object—the occa sion is too national to be prescribed within tlo , narrow limits of party"—was adopted. The re sult was illustrative of the low arts to which Toryism will stoop—the name of the Duke of Wt:;- lington was again made—as it has on former occasions of similar exigency—a cloak with which to cover their specious designs. The arrangements of the meetiiig were of a decidedly political character—the design of its projectors was that they should be so—in order that the journals of the party might be able to describe it as a grand demonstration in favour of Toryism." The Courier takes the same view of this question It having been specifically stated from the first," says that Journal, " and the fact having been universa4 understood, that the entertainment given on Friday last at Dover to the Duke of Wellington was simply a tribute of respect and admiration with which political feeling had nothing whatever to do, some persons must be surprised to find that the true secret of the gathering in the Cinque Ports is the enthu siastic sympathy svith the political opinions of tha illustrious guest upoia that occasion, which prevails lin from the cliffs of Dower to the opposite extremity .4 the land ! It was' admitted on all hands th t there were to be no politics--every delicacy of the season else—but politics were forbidden fruit ; and yet it is now proclaimed that it was nothing if not political. Could we believe that the Dover demonstration was nothing more than a mere - supplement to those fugitive honours with which the Duke has long been satiated, we should immediately pronounce it a vain and unprofitable pageant. Batt we know that it was far otherwise. Advat:cing daily in a correct appreciation of his Grace's political wisdom, the majority of our countrymen are Liesiroui of awarding it that elevated moral requital which Con sists in a practical submission to its guidance. This as the true secret of that magnificent gathering.' It may he ; but if so, it is a pity that the parties did not openly state the fact at first. There ought to have I been no • secret' in the matter. Look at the result o their suppression of the real design of the dinner—whiel was, it seems, to swallow at a single magnificent meal the whole political doctrine of the Duke—in cluding his Grace's views of the rotten boroughs, which he would have invented but for two reasons, first, that they were already in existence, and next that he could never have hoped for inspiration enough to con ceive an idea of such invaluable expedients ; in cluding also, his Grace's inwardly directed views, when after csilmly comparing his own capacity with the capacity requisite for the Premiership, he declared hat he should be road to accept office. Observe, we say, one of the results of suppressing the real object of these hypocritical devourers in Dover." The Standard prudently abstains from all allusion to the Dover Bar quet, and contents itself with lauding the Conservatives of Manchester in Choosing Sir George Murray to represent them, to the exclusion of Colonel Thompson and Mr. Greg. •riley (the Conservative:.) have shown," observes the Standard. " their good so - Se and greatly increased the chances in their favour, by inviting one of the ablest and most upright TOIVIV-HALL. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY.—Robert Hatred n' a s brought before Alderman KELLY, charged by R'obert Longsden, officer, No. 11, to the Croydon Raiway Company, with being drunk and disorderly on the Railway oa Sunday, and with attempting to de fraud the Company out of their just fare. From the statement of the officer it appeared that Mr. Hatred got into the Railway carriages at the .1 ., ,11v Sailor station, and rode to Tooley.street, for which - the fare was Is. 3d. On arriving a> the latter place, it ap geared that he bad not paid, although the rules of the Company were, that a party going by the Railway, should pay befo e lin entered the Company's carriages. Upon the Aire being demanded, he stated that he had only ls., and being rather intoxicated the cfficer took him into custody and brought him to this office. Hatred said that he had all the money but 3d., and that he offered to leave his trunk in pledge for that. Mr. Alderman KELLY—You ought to have paid before you started. Hatred—And so I intended your Worship, but the train went off so quick, that I was afraid I should lose my chance if I stopped. Mr. Aid. KELLY—WeII you must pay the remaining fare, and then you will be discharged. George Creed, the proprietor of one of the Peckham otnnibtr,ses, was summoned to this office by Stowell the informer, for having violated the Act of the 2d of Victoria, commonly called the Carriage Act, in not having a plate at the back of his omnibus. Mr. Lewis, the Solicitor, appeared for Mr. Creed, and submitted that the summons should be dismissed, inasmuch as although the Act inflicted a penalty for the offence, it did not say by whom that penalty was to be paid. Stowell said that objection was met by the Statute of the 3d of George the Fourth. Mr. Alderman KELLY—The common sense of the thing shows that the proprietor is the party who should be fined. Mr. Lewis considered that the Magistrates had no juris diction in the matter, and Mr. Stowell must know that the question had been decided both at Queen-square and Marlborough-street. Stowell:—Several convictions have taken place under the statute in the city. Mr. Alderman KELLY said he recollected several cases, similar to the present in which convictions had taken place. Mr. Lewis--Yes, but no warrant has issued. Mr. Ald. KELLY—WeII, if it be necessary, we crust issue the warrant in the present case. Mr. Lewis—Very well, Sir. We submit that you have no authority in the matter, and if after the objection I have taken you think it right to convict, we must pursue our own course. Stowell said he had no objection to the case being allowed to stand over for the purpose of the point being cleared up. Mr. Lewis wished the case to b, disposed of; and if the present objection failed, he had several others to urge to the summons. Mr. Alderman KELLY thought he had better consider the point before he decided it. Mr. Lewis then objected to the summons,. on the ground that it was the summons to produce the drivor, and not the proprietor. Mr. Alderman KELLY held that the objection was fatal, and dismissed the case, very much to the discoinfiture of Stowell POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANS JUN- HO USE. A case of importance to gentlemen who are in the habit of angling on Sundays came on before the LORD MAYOR yesterday. Some fishermen, who were on Friday last charged with having fished in the night, and with unlawful nets, and convicted, complained that the gentlemen anglers of the Thames were constantly oppressing them, and grudged then, every fish they caught, although they were themselves constantly violating the law every Sunday by Angling in the same river. The LDRD MAYOR asked whether the fishermen had observed any gentlemen fishing on the preceding Sunday, and vihetirr on Sun:lays much fish was caught, to which the defendants replied that they had seen several gentle men engaged in angling from boats on Sunday the 25th of August, but were not acquainted with their names. They however knew, they stated, the narees of the boatmen from whose punts they fished, and with respect to the " catch" elfish, it was frequently the case that a single amateur caught from 130 to 150 pounds weight of fish, from which fact his Lordship could make some calculation of the injury done to those who were to fish to support their families on the following day. His Lordship then said that the fishermen should have fair play, and that if the gentlemen anglers wete not produced, he should inflict the penalty upon the owners of the boats, whom bis Lordship recommended the fishermen to summon forthwith. Yesterday being the day appointed for hearing the sum monses, the Justice-room was crowded with those who were interested in the matter. William' Kemp, a fisherman, was then charged with having allinwed a gentleman to fish from his boat near Ted dingtou lock. on Sunday, the 25th of August. A solicitor attended for the defendant. John Deer, a fisherman, residiag at Brentford, stated that he was bred and born a fisherman The Solicitor—Da you not expect to have a share of any penalties hich may be inlcted ? Witness—Not at all. I don't want a share of the penalties. The Solicitor said he believed that the penalty was the Loßc MAYO% declared that he was convinced that th, men w 1,0 appeared in the case were influenced by no such mo,ive, The witness deposed that on the day specified, at about 'a quarter before one o clock, he saw three gentlemen in the defendant's boat fishing. The defendant's servant was in the boat with them, and was mixing up the groued bait to draw the fish to the immediate neighbourhood of the boat. The Solicitor said that he was himself an old fisherman, and knew th it the prActice existed. The gentlemen were trying to catch, and the man who accompanied them was fiadi .g the fedi. 1 Mr. GoWham (the Clerk of Billingsgate Market) said that en such occasions it wee also the practice for the man to rake the bottom of the river to stir up the worms, in order to entice the fish to the spot. The LeRD MAYOR asked the Solicitor why he should not convict iii a case so clear ? The Solicitor aid that there were two grounds of tie ' fence. The firth clause was to the following effect, that no person shall fish with any net, or lay or haul any net, or I.:y or use any net, cagine, or device whatever, to take fi.h in ti.e Thames, front sunset on S nurday-ni g ht, until s.;.n-rising on Monday mornin g , at any tame of the year, i upon the penalty of forfeiting forty shillings for every such offence." flee, r o Oct nor engine, nor device was used on the occasion. It would, he submitted, Le very hard ndeed, to out such a construction upon a rod and lire us to place them wader that designation. The corn plainante, his Lordship should consider, provoked by the condemnation of their nets on Friday, were now determind to ply themselves by the division of the penalties which they Kiticipeted against the defendant, who would not join them in the unlawful practice for which they had suffered. The gentlemen who had fished, and who if any offence at all was committed were the guilty parties, were not summoned. The LORD Maarcia said that the Solicitor was quite mistaken. The complainants whom he had on the occasion alluded to convicted, distinctly stated to him, and he had reason to believe them, that the gentleman anglers who most loudly cried out against them, took such an immense quantity of fish onSundays as must seriously interfered with their chances of success for the rest of the week, and they thought it was only fair that if some men were punished " for transgressing the law in one respect, those who com plained of that violation ought not to be spared when they broke it themselves in another. ( The Solicitor said ibat the men who brought the charge of angling on Sunday, were notorious for fishing with il legal nets, the most mischievous of all sorts of fishing. The fact was, if the Lord Mayor convicted in this case, numbers of gentlemen, who occupied themselves in this most innocent and peaceable amusement on Sunday s, would be greatly inconvenienced. Nothing could be more sober or less tending to riot and debauchery than fishing. The LORD MAYOR—These men du not complain of being debarred amusement ; they say that the Sunday's amuse ment of these gentlemen fishermen deprives them of bread. You say you are an old fisherman. Now if one gentleman could pick up from 100Ibs. to 150Ibs. of fish on the Sun- day, do you not think that 100 or 200 gentlemen might diminish the stock of fish considerably ? The Solicitor replied that he did not think any angler caught so much at all as 100 lbs. of fish on a Sunday. It was, however, in the power of the fishermen every other day. He pressed in a very urgent manner the propriety of allowing the gentlemen to continue their amusement on the Sabbath, and argued that his Lordship's hostile inter ference would deprive many gentlemen of a great deal of plea.ure, The LORD MAYeß—What do you suppose was the object of those who made the Act? Was it to give the fish a holiday ?—( A laugh.) The Solicitor—The object, I know, was to prevent the violation of the Sabbath day, by the drawing of nets and the use of those engines and devices of which the Act speaks, but I submit that it has no reference to angling in the way in which it is carried on in the Thames. Besides my client was not in the boat at all. The LORD MAYOR—How will you get over the clause 53, which states that any person who lends or lets out his boat for hire to be used tor fishing, shall be answerable for and liable to pay all such money as shall be forfeited by the breach of any of the orders by the person using or occupying the boat ? It is quite absurd to speak in this way—to talk of gentlemen's amusement as being a more important consideration with me than the livelihood of poor men and their families. DEPARTURE OF THE BRITISIT QU-TEN STEAM SHIP.—On Sunday this large and powerful steam vessel, commanded by Lieutenant Robarts, R.N., sailed from Gravesend for New York, with nearly a full comple ment of passengers, and , a valuable cargo. DR. CHANNING S REMARKS ON ENGLAND. —England is a privileged nation. On one part of her history she can look with unmixed self-respect. With the The Solicitor said that former Lord Mayors had by their exception of the promulgation of Christianity, I know not conduct given a sanction and authority to the practice. a moral effort so glorious as the long, painful, and victo- The LORD MAYOR--I am not obliged to be led by the rious struggle of her philanthropists against that concen authority of any other Chief Magistrate. I judg e f or tey . tration of all horrors, cruelties, and crimes, the slave self in every case that is brought before me. trade. Next to this, her recent Emancipation Act, is the The S o li c i tor h a d no d ou b t o f t h e i n d epen d ent f eeling of most s i gnal expression afforded by our times of the pro his Lord s hi p , but he supposed that his Lordship might be {tress of civilization and a purer Christianity. Other disposed to follow the precedent in such a case. At all rations have won imperishable honours by heroic sting events, if the penalt were to be inflicted, it would be only gles for their own rights ; but there was wanting the ex fair that the gentleman who fished should pay it. ample of a nation espousing with disinterestedness, and The LmOltel!amidst great obstacles, the rights of those who had no Nwla. toosa—Let the gentleman be produced, and the claim but that of a common humanity, the rights of the most halts; we ennly wanthe boats were used will escape the pe fallen of the race. Great Britain, loaded with an unpreceden the gentlemen.—( Laughter.) The Solieitor—l differ from your Lordship as to the ted debt, and with a grinding taxation, contracted a opinion that the gentle en have violated the law; bet my new debt of a hundred million of dollars, to ' give freedom client will procure their names, and no doubt your Lord- not to Englishmen, but to the d egra d e d Af r i can. This ship will have an opportunity of hearin g the whole of the was not an act of policy, nor a week o f statesmen. Par merits. The LORD MAY oft—The defendant is fi ne d 40 shillings _l_s ine aent but registered the edict of tbe p eo pl e . Th e Eng li h nation, with one heart and one voice, under a strong if he do not discover and bring befor, me, within seven dace after the complaint made aga - Christian impulse, and without distinction of rank, sex, mat him of the breach of the law. T hat is the the e offenders built} party, or religious names, decreed freedom to the slave.. I Mr. HOWER observed that the fi,heurnderstanding: know not that history records a national act so dim- In the progress of ages, England's for their families had for several years bee n e c n on w st h ,,n o tiwy oerokined. naval tereSt e triumphs s o sublime... will shrink into a more and more narrow plaining of the Sunday amusement of then gentlemen whose space, pleasure they considered to be death to them. whilst, in the records of our race, this moral triumph will fill a broader, brighter, page. Is not England, re- The LORD MAYOR—I have tied dow n all these .. men who support their families by fishing to the s - • in the name poor presenting as she does in this case, the civilized world, strict authorized, and even bound to remonstrate, observance of the law. I have ply on additional aasistantt of humanity and religion, to great tit work-1 for which water-bailiffs to watch and follow them at all hours, i n I order to prevent illegal fishing, and any thing calculated destroy the brood an I expect that by carrying out these A. VENERABLE.y postponed ? Excise Assistants, toiled is to be in sheaghaaisnsstoalorrinegasure by which the measures rigidly, I shall enable them all to get a comfort- 44 individuals who in as her Majesty s H p FUNCTIONARY. —Among the were sworn able living ; but if 100 or 200 gentlemen dedicate their Sundays to the occupation, and catch to the enormous ninetieth year hadthat I'. walked Leominst , r extent described, how can these men stand against such a his native . mornin g from was John N•whiod, who although in 1 is Pie ce ' a nd appeared more bale and beat ty than competition ? many of Li brother offi • juniors by score. Lers, who are his Another fisherman, named Thomas Dear, was then of years. Newto n is a potter a striking illustration of 'e .. charged :with a simiLr cfnnee,3 and was held in similar of ternperaree and industry in the Preservation of health responsibility. and the pr 1 o.cti a - ri of l • . . , i ... on life, informant has KnoWn Our The LORD MAYOR—If you don't both • preduce the par- him as a fulhgrown * ties who had your boats, 3ou shell certainly be fined. .Flereford Times. man for upwards of 65 years..-- The defendants expressed a hope that the Lord Mayor DESPERATE ASSAULT ----A man named Ben ( prevent fishin g on the Sunday all through rils juris- jamin Staines, living at 5- ~ o, Chureh-street, Whitechapel, 1 eletion, that the fishermen on the liver might be upon was on S at urday taken i « qnal termsnto custody by • for having fractured the skull of hi Jamey K,,,, R son a , young man p anti Amos Kemp were held responsible -- about twenty-five years of a ge . h far the a!appears that a quarrel po itte ce of the gentleman who angled from their I t oo k placi• relative to fam;ly boats. W - led to blows e understood tha t s-v, l of 'h were e. , , aids, when the elder matter,,Staines which . :1 venal ,, e gentry emongst those who anel e d • Seedry the th ult and / the head with a pair of tongs. The latter tt at On Sunday last not one wa ' - - •' was conveyed sto be seen o the upper f to the London Hospital, and his recovery is at present part ef the river eneeiged in that ameserrient. I deemed hopeless. )NDON, TUTSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3. 1839. politicians of wh ch the House of Commons has ever been able to boast, Sir George Murray, to un take the honourable duty of representing them. We rejoice to find that he has not only accepted the invitation, but has gone through the preliminary cere mony of entering into an exposition of his sentiments with every prospect of success." CHARACTER OF LAFAYETTE. (From the Etudes sur les Orateurs Parlementaires, by Timon. Opinion has its prejudices, and thus it has been said of three Liberals, namely Lafitte. Dupont (de l'Eure), and Lafayette, that Lafitte did not make his own speeches, that Dupont was a good sort of man and no thing else, and that Lafayette was a simpleton. Now Lafitte has the most extended and the clearest financial mind of our time ; the good sense of Dupont, as far as it goes, could hew out more speeches than one; and then Lafayette is only a simpleton—is he ? Oh very simple, I confess, for he confided, like a lot of ns other simpletons, in the promises of the governocracy of July. He has fancied (the simpleton !) that he could meat with kings totally unlike other kines ; that people liked liberty because they strained their throats in singing liberal bravuras ; that the golden age had returned, and that we should let the reins of power fall on its neck, and that it was perfectly fit to curb itself. Since then, when be saw the same piece still acting on the great theatre, and that the only change of decoration was the substitution of a cock for a lily, he repented, wept bit terly, beat his breast, and exclaimed, that he had been the dupe, and not the deceiver. Not the deceiver ! I believe it, but it was too bad for Lafayette to be duped. There are few men to whom Providence has given the means and the opportunity of regenerating their country and establishing liberty, end a neglent by these of this opportunity is a a crime against their county. Lafayette has committed two great faults from which posterity will not absolve him. By opposing Napoleon after the battle of Waterloo, ▪ both in the tribune and the Cabinet, he divided our forces, and thus, without willing it, contributed to the dismetrbermant of France. He did not perceive, like 5 the great Carnot, that Napoleon alone could save the ' country, whereas national independence ought so to possess the mind of a citizen, that (parvis componeie magna) I should not hesitate myself, in spite of my indi vidual repugnance, to talk like Manuel, or to follow the ranks of a certain person, if it were clearly demon strated to me that that person alone, under certain cir eumetances, would prevent the enslaving and dismem berment of France : for the safety of the nation, as a nation, stands before all liberty, all forms of govern• meat, all social and political organization, all interior power--in short, before everything. Lafayette's second fault was his fault of July. The seat of Government was vacant: Lafayette reigned over Paris on the third day, and Paris over France. Three pumice (I need not mention names) were deli berating. What was expected by our youth, our army, and our people, is well known. Lafayette, however, allowed himself to be twirled giddy by the hands of the Orleanists. Visions of the tri coloured flag was made to dance before the old man's eyes, his hands were seized and covered with kisses, he was stunned with the sonorous words, " Eighty-nine," JemallPe," " Va!my," America," " Liberty," " Na tional Guard," " Republican, citizen, bourgeoise," and " Transatlantic monarchy," mad Heaven knows what. In short, in the Place de Greve, and before the people, the jugglers clapped him like a ball under their cup, and played legerdemain tricks with him. Lafayette, with his childish simplicity, never dreamed that he had to do with roues who were more roues than those of the Government. \ Vhen the patriots intrusted him with their apprehensions, he laid his hand upon his heart, and, judging from his own fidelity to liberty, answered for that of others. In his deplorable state of blindness he left all to be done by the majority of the Chamber, who had done nothing, and nothing to be don, by the people, who hid done all. If the patriot s had not trusted Lafayette's word, who innocently repeated all that had been told him, things would have heel) ordered very cliff renily, and /I (tor my part) should nor have Ven hindered by the laws of September front writing a history of that. politiicel drama in which all tai members of the Chamber were 'actors, and which no ore could write more faithfully alien myself, because tie piece was played at the wing where I stood, and when I alone was not one of the pl ayers. " Oft ! ye actors," cried Lafayette, when they had dragged him from the stage, and shown him the door, "Oh actors, you only trayestie liberty ! This is no tile liberty of which I dreamed, and which I has , served. No ! I cannot recograize her!" The actors 0. July laughed at his lamentations , they had put on tie buskin, and stalked about the stage in their epilogiun, f silk and pu"pie. Geld rings were sparkling on thee fingers, instead of the daggev- of the Carbonari. Wi!l, a diadem on their brow, th ey recited pompous decla mations against the monst yr of anarchy, and dreg applause from the stupid null ititudt , . At this fatal and decisive moment, Lallyette want,l character and genius, and, it 3deed, it would have beet , better for us and for liaise! 1, had he not been there. However, his illusion lasted ;it a day ; nor.e saw waner or further than he where vie led, and we may say the, history does not offer an exPl.nsple of a more artful an: tnigrareful act of treachery , ”tercised on a more nohl, - veteran. • Lafayette was no orator—if by oratory we mean tha• 1 emphatic and sonorous moth! of speaking which stuns the hearers, and lets nothing ;but wind enter their ear, He had a serious yet far:3i ;liar conversational style. • grammatically incorrect, if you will, and alittle dit fuse, but pointed and set off' by felicitous turns of ex • pression. He had no figh t es nor highly coloured • images, but his words were it ist calculated to expres; his meaning and no more. There was no passionate ,ctinn, but his discourse hot •s the acc.ent of convictioh. His logic was not powerful, o v erwhelmiog, or elaborat., hut his arguments were well put together, followed ont another without effort, and naturally flowed from the exposition of facts. When ca h Pane and s a id, " I am a R e p u n, "no ascended onetemp lvas the tri ted t o as k w h at h e meant i e by that, and why he said it , for every one knew tha , the friend of Washington co tid not be otherwise than a Republican. Ho spoke fr eely about the kings 0! Europe, whom he unceremo ni ously treated as despots, kindling against them in hi s vast propaganda all the fires of popular insurrection. To the oppressed of all countries he opened his pun; to , his house, and his heart. He obstinately opposed at Ole tribune the cowardly abandonment of the Poles aad Romagnols. Then his indignation, let loose, flow, t cl forth in vast torrents, virtue held :he place of t tlequence, and his words, generally mild, were armed • sith fire and lightning. Lafayette had more th; in mere ideas, he had prin ciples, fundamental princii ;.es, to which lie adhered with inexterminable obstin aey. Both in theory and in practice he desired the sovereignty of the people ; ;Intl, indeed, that is all. But, he did not like the tyranny of the whole better than the tyranny of one. He considered foundation befor e form, justice before law, principles before go. vernments, and the hums n race before nations. He wished for minorities to be free under triumphant ma jorities. When the strongest ell, tractors gave way, when the geniuses passed in seccessir in under the triumphal forks of Napoleon, and the nation, mad with glory and con quest, ran before his car, L infayette resisted the stream of men and things, without violence towards others, or struggle with himself, by th( firmness of his convictions alone, resembling a rock wl 3ich stands upright amid the fluctuating agitation of the waves. His great mind was nev( tr tormented by the passion for gold, which can govern kings themselves. The vul gar ambition for a throne v ras beneath him, and had he not been Lafayette, he tvo• aid have desired to be Wash ington. Even in his old age, Laf 'ayette was beloved by every body—the greatest deligh; of an affectionate heart: But this noble clime of being loved, which is so sweet in private life, is, in politi cal life, nearly always hazar dous. A true statesman s hould be able to sacrifice his friendship and even his par ularity to the interests of his country. While he remained Corr mender-General of the Na tional Guard of the kingd om, and thus walked nearly hand in hand with Louis I Philippe, the Camarillas shel tered their own fears um kr his popularity, and heard his words in respectful sate ace. But when, after havint made all the use it could of him, the Court dismissed him, together with Dupont (de l'Eure), Lafitte, and C Idillon Barrot, these gentry of the centre no longer rest rained themselves, but turned their low whispers of in( lifferenee into low murmurs. The base flatterers! The Opposition, however, which has not the ungrateful Cc iurt memory, always retained its veneration, and when tl le venerable old man appeared in the Assembly all the E teputies rose spontaneously to pay him homag e , In his face and person there was a happy mixture of French grace, American l Allegin, and antique calmness. Lafayette was the most ; really and resolutely revolu tiotory man of our time. He entered with ardour and impetuosity into every col ispiracy which had for its eud the overtik.row• of despotic m, and life itself was to him a stake of small importanc e . Had he fallen a martyr to his political failit, he woi 31d have mounted the scaffold and presented his bead t, ) the executioner with all the serenity of a young - igiri wlt 0 falls asleep at the close of a banquet, with a wrytth of b sec on her brow. It is said that at the .clos,s of a funeral oration, some conspirators had the horrible design of killing Lafayette in the triumphal car in wi t ich they were conducting him, and, like Mark Antony, ad" el -Posing his bleeding corpse to the people, and thus in ti‘i .ing them. When this was told Lafayette, he only s m . ' % \,t ;d, as if he thought the design natural and the stratagem ngen ious. I believe, with out posi - ti.vely affirming it (for who can affirm it or contradict it 1)) that Lafayette, on his death bed, snd in his last flicke rings of thought, flattered him self that a popular instil Tection would break out when his ashes passed, would reatiaiate liberty, and thus ce lebrate his obsequies. There are stormy love very aristocratic if they ra of democracy who Hould be had been born among ariato- crats. Their love of equality is bat a vain jealousy oo account of privileges they have not themselves. It is difficult to discover whether they are Liberals from con viction or from spite. But when great lords turn demo crats, the people surround them with confidence, because it feels honoured by their abjuration. One of tlice was Lafayette. Of the old aristocsacy he had only preserved that sprightly and refined naivete which adorns discourse, and that elegant simplicity of manners which is no more seen, and will not again return. But his soul was en tirely plebeian, he ►oved the people from the bottom of his heart, as a father loves his children, and was -ready, every hour of the day or night, to rise, march, fight, suffer, conquer, or be conquered for the people ; to give up his fame, fortune, liberty, blood, and life. STATE OF THE CHINA TRADE In the annals of commerce there does not present itsel so extraordinary an instance of traffic as that which charac. tensed up to a very late date the trade of India with Coin — a company of merchants, representatives of the first Chris. tian nation of the globe, and governors over a hundred mil lions of subjects, engaged in the growing and manufactur ;ng of poison, to be exported and exchanged for an sliwen prod.,ced by another overgrown nation. The Chinese, whose" resources for supporting their popu lation are so restricted that it is a common practice with their to put to death their children for want of means of maintaining them, have recourse to opium to give them imaginary pleasures and excite ment amidst their misery, in the same way as our manufacturing population have recourse to gin. The effects of the former pure poison are much more baneful, and, when once addicted to it, its victim adhi refs to it unto toe grave. However, until the year 1813, the distribution of this poison was comparatively limited. The , s"zartation from the East In !les amounted to only enests at the utinewt, or which only tour-fifths were taken to China, and there sold at the high price of 4,000 rupees, or about 4001. per chest ; so that a very large quantity of specie got into the hands of the Chinese as balance for the purchase of tea. The East India Company were, however, very soon able to balance more nearly the pur chases of that agreeable article of refreshment. Immense tracts of land were devoted to the cultivations of the poppy, and, in 1829, 24,000 chets were exported from India, of which 20,000 were sent to its v;ctirns of the Celestial Empire; and, to increase the evil, this baneful article was put within the reach of the poorest classes, the price of the chest being reduced to 85/., or 850 rupees I A still more extraordinary tact is, that this lame - Ilse trade was carried on from the beginning by smuggling. Decree after decree is• sued from the Governmese prohibiting the use of the dele terious ding. However, as long as this nefarious trade remained to the hands of th,.. East India Company, it was easy for the later, through its agent at Canton, to bribe the Mandarins, and through their silent acquies cence and collusions, as well as aided by the miseraebl slaves of the intoxicating drug, to introduce it in quan. titles, however immense, along the wide extending shores of the great empire of China; but since the commerce has been opened to speculators in general, the collisions of private interest and jealousies have prevented the trade irom being carried on with that secrecy and discretion its horrid nature required in the face of the most just amid necessary laws. The Chinese Government at last were so vigilant and so determined that there appears but little chance of its being continued any longer. The conse quence is that 17,000 chests of opium amounting in value to 1 ,260,0001., have been stopped in their progress at Canton from December up to the middle of April, the date of our last information. The drug, therefore, remains un saleable. The bills upon great houses in London, by which the opium was paid, are now being due, and must be cashewin the p resen t cr i s i s o f monetary affairs, with the uncer tainty whether the drawers of the bills in the present state of the market for their poisonous produce will be able to face the pressure of circumstances. The decline in the value of opium is already enormous. No nation but the Chinese and their immediate neighbours have recourse to this drug in any large quantities, unless it be the Turks and Per slang, who, of late, setting the Koran and Mehemet at defi ance, have found a more agreeable stimulant in cham pagne, which has just burried the greatest reformer of our times to the grave. The Arabs and Africans find their ana logous in bang arid }welly, which being extracted from limp, is not so exclusively produced under the torrid stn. of India. Last year the opium was introduced into China by main force, in spite of the Celestial decrees. We know Indians who will tell us that an insurrection. amongst the people of China will forge their Govern ,cent to submit to the introduction of the intoxicatitip poison once more, arid restore the trade of India. Bu ,ve also know many wise and judicious men, conversant with the affairs of the gist, who think that the trade is abrogated for ever. Every man gifted with the slightest legree of philanthropy can but hcipe that such will be the ease, and that one of the blackest pages of the modem oi s tory of English commerce will be torn from its ledger foe fields of India will then be restored to the cultivation 1 the elements of natural food (of which its miierable in. labitants stand in such need that in favourable years thou ands ' die of want), whilst opium will no longer be user, but to calm the agonies of the sick, instead of being aestowed in hurrying to the grave thousands of human, icings in the ravings of riebauchery. CALF REEDS.-"Phis may seem a strange title a paragraph, hut we are fond of peering into - odd -orners, and picking up, as opportunity serves, eve, 'andle ends and cheese parings of statistical information Reeds, as they are called, or the stomachs of calves, sub -.erve important purposes in the business of the dairy. Co. 'gulation is the first step towards making cheese, and every ..ahful housewife must be prepared with a teaspoonful of reed liquid before he can make a dish of curds and cream It is true there are substitutes in the shape of whisky, Irish moss, and the various acids ; but agents of this s , irt leave a flavour behind which is the reverse of agree. able, and are, on that account, only used in cases of no. cessity. Reeds, therefore, maintain their ground, and sell, According to size and quality, at from Is. 6d. to 2s. each. lint the time has been when they were higher priced ; for when the mart system was universal, and men on land foolishly subjected themselves to privations, which are, in a great m easure , unavo id a bl e at sea, b y eating salted meat during a great part of the year, far fewer calves were killed. The stomach of a bullock, heifer, cow, or bull, is suitable for curding purposes, a:.d the same remark applies , o such calves as are debarred from draining the udder; and, as this sometimes happens, bad articles are occasion ally brought to market unknown to the venders. The reeds of hares, pigs, and lambs possess curding properties ; out as th,t size must be attended to, as well as adaptation. they are very rarely if ever tried. A fortnight or so ago, our attention was directed to this subject by the number of curious looking substances we observed laid out to dry in front of some of the principal butchers' shops in town. An exhibition so novel to eyes led to a series of conversations and the elicitation of the following facts:—When a calf is killed its stomach is laid aside, and as soon as possible salted; and, week after week, the fleshers are engaged in accumulating such articles during the whole of the veal season. There is a trader in Maiwell.town: who purchases calves very exi - en - - iively, when only a few days old ; few of these cost him more than five shillings, a sum he covers by the skin and the reed, and findsa very fair profit on the carcase, which, tiny as it may be, he cuts into small pieces, down to a pound or two, which are eagerly bought by such as cannot conveniently aspire to a joint. Reeds are most in demand in summer, and, in a g eneral way, lie in salt fo r th e b e tt er p ar t o f a year; and as the dried ones go off, the green ones are collected, so that the trade is unremitting. In such districts as Ayrshire, Che- Aire, and Gloucester, the sale of calf stomachs must be astoundingly great, and were it possible to get at what the Hon Member for Kilkenny calls " the tottle of the hole," the return would form a new and curious item in rural statistics. From the Messrs. Primrose we learn that they purchased from their neighbour, Mr. Kerr, 256 calf- Alas in one year; and if even err better employed butchers kill veal in anything like the same ratio, the annual supply in Dumfries alone must amount to some thousands. When a reed requires to be used, it is steeped in water, which has the eff.et of extracting the gastric juice, or cording principle, and we learn from a lady, who keeps a fine bowers of cows, hat a single teaspoonful will curd a pint of sweet milk Reeds, as we have said, vary greatly in quality ; but when a good one is obtained it will curd all the milk which six cows yield during the cheese-making part of the season. The trade, in short, into which we have dipped for the first time, if small in the detail, is great in the aggregate, and must yield, over the whole country, a sum of money which would go far to purchase a large landed estate. Let Mr. M Culloch, therefore, look to it, and be prepared for quite a new article in the next edition of his Diction ary of Commerce. The late Deacon Roan, who was long in business, and than whom no man was more deservedly respected, whether as a tradesman or a member of society, used to say, in speaking of doubtful characters—" I would hardly trust him a calf's reed."—Dumfries Courier. TESSELATED PAVEMENT.—In a field adjoin ing the road.leading from Rudaton to Kilham, a tesselated pavement, about six inches from the surface, was uncovered —the tessera) differing in size from one inch and a half to half. an inch, colours white, red, and blue, white prevail ing; laid in lines and forming diamonds, extending over a 'surface of four yards by three, walled round on three sides With large rough stones, similar to the chalk stones of the Wolds. A great part of the pavement had been destroyed at a former period by some labourers, who had dug it up in the hope of finding treasure, and the place filled up again promiscuously.—Hull Advertiser. A BOTTOMLESS MEADOW.--AS the line of the Glasgow and Ayrshire Railway crosses from Ayrshire into Renfrewshire, there is a meadow, about three miles long, belonging to W. Patrick, Esq., W. S., through which it has to pass. and where it has to be embanked four or five feet high. The conti actors lately entered upon it, and commenced the embankment, but were not a little sur prised to find that their labours, like those of Tantalus, threatened to be of an endless nature ; as, after having embanked 30 yards, they found that about 10 had sunk or subsided below the level of the line. They next day re peated their work, re-forming the embankment to the ordi nary level • but, strange t o sa y, th e un d erso il aga i n gave way, and although they have since continued day and night to heap earth upon the spot, having put about 300 square yards upon a surface not exceeding 36 feet, the greedy bowels of the meadow receive it as fast as it is app lied, . and the workmen are now , not w i t h out reason, despa i ring of finding a solid foundation. This most singular pheno menon attracted a party of engineers to the spot t n Satur day week, who could account for it in no other way than that the meaflow is floating on water ; which supposition seems the more feasable, as the ground rises on each side of the sinking portion, and splits into deep cracks or hagr. have ocular people of the dist r i c t h ave fl oc k e d in hundreds to ocular demonstration of the above facts.— Glasgow aurter. A small body of Chartists attended Halifax parish church on Sunday; and many of them were griev ously wearied long bolore the service Some of them attempted to go out, but were vasconcluded. not allowed to quit the place, daring service. DRUNKEN POLICE CASES. Return of the Number of Drunken Cases brought to th Stations between Twelve o'Clock on Saturday night and One, P. 11. on Sunday, for the last Four We,•l:-. ? 8 :-..-... t DATES. 0 :::; E ? _ t 8 •,* 2 6 ._.... U2 ' Q Aug. 4. Aug. 11. Aug. 18. -- Aug. 25. A•• ••• ••• 1 B 15 13 15 2 C 13 6 16 2 D 4 3 8 5 E 3 2 1 2 F 13 8 11 3 G 12 3 H 3 H 6 I 11 I 6 4 • K 7 6 ! 12 3 L 11 i • 1 3 1 M 74 : 5 2 N 3 3 3 ft P 3 I 2 fi ••• R 4 2 3 2 SB' 4 3 2 T 54 ' 3 5 ✓ 2 ••• 5 1 ----, -- Total •—• 113 73 107 38 N. B.—Th, Fighting, &e, 27th of August, 1839. above are exclusive of Disorderly Conduct, THE HARVEST. The latest intelligence supplied by the provincial pa pers on the condition of the crops and the progress of the harvest: is, on the whole, favourable. The all-im portant question, however, of quality and quantity, of course, remains undecided, and whether the present harvest will turn out well is a matter of much uncer tainty. The general character of the reports may be gathered from the following notices : Sunshine and shower alternately have filled up almost every hour of four out of the seven days since our last, and altogether tl.e complexion of the weather has been most April-like ; and yet a great progress has been Inade in harvest work. From all parts of the coun try we have accounts of cutting and hauling of grain, and, from what we can learn, both in quantity and quality, the crops are turning out very satisfactory.— Worcester Herald. Luckily for the farmers of South Wilts, a few fine days in the preceding week, and one or two in the early part of that which is drawing to a close, were most auspicious for their work, and well employed in getting in their wheat crops, which may now be considered as toleeably secured. Though the straw is abundant and fine, we regret to state that the grain is not of the qua. lay upon which, but for the ungenial frosts in May, they might have calculated. The ear is but too generally , hrivelled, and the grain consequently defective. But For the rains of the last three days, it was hoped that mother fortnight would have completed the harvest work, with full crops of barley and oats. But now it appears almost impossible to speculate with any safety on the result.—Wiltshire Herald. The harvest is rapidly progressing in this neighbour hood. Owing to the favourable state of the weather during the past week, considerable quantities of wheat and other grain have been housed in the best condition, and if the dry weather should continue for ten days or a fortnight, the harvest h ere wou ld b e brought to a close under most favourable circumstances.—Leicester shire Mercury. The reaping -hook seems to be pretty generally in use now that the weather has become a little more settled, and fields presenting stocks of corn, are studded pretty thickly throughout the country. We regret to state that much has been materially damaged from the iate rains and windy weather, having been laid very :much in exposed situations, and owing to the long con iinuance of the wet weather, has not been able to rear its head above ground again.. —Cambrian. The weather is now everything that could be desired, and the crops are now fast advancing to a state of ma turity. Several spots of barley have been cut down 'round us, and a few days must bring a general har vest. The prospect of a good crop is excellent. Al i hough some smart showers have fallen this week they lave caused no apparent injury. —Berwick Advertiser. The hay harvest may be stud to be finished in the vicinity of Lancaster. In Hornby, Wray, Beecham, Tatham, and Mewith, there is still a little remains to he got in, but the greater part is housed, and that in pretty fair condition. The crop, however, falls below h e average of former years. In the mountainous dis filets about Ingleton, Seiside, Horton, Settle, and Clap ;lam, the hay harvest is much more forward than could iave been expected, and the crop has been a good one. The crops of grain iu many places have been laid or beaten down by the rain and wind ; and unless very fin weather conies, we fear they will sustain considerable damage. In the vicinity of Lancaster some barley and oats have been cut, hut higher up the vale of Lune they are very backward and green.—Kendal Mercury. IRELAND. The weather in the neighbourhood of Dublin has been fair and favourable, and the accounts from the country are, for the most part, satisfactory. The harvest, however, is a late one. On yesterday Friday) twelve months—there were 600 barrels of ew Wheat offered for sale at the Corn Exchange, Dublin. Yesterday there were about twenty. The Wheat, in Ireland, at least, will unquestionably be 4hort. It has been injured by the frost, and suffered severely by the subsequent rains. In some places it has been prostrated—in many it has been knee'd, that is, bent from a joint of the plant, so as to impede the cir culation of the vegetable. juice. We speak of the Home Counties principally. We hope and trust• they have fared better in the remoter districts. F rom th e l atter we certainly have heard no complaints on this score. The reports of the Oats and Potatoes are most fa vourable. If—" there's great virtue in if—the Wheat crop in England turns out comparatively as deficient as we apprehend it will prove in Ireland—there must be a further importation from the Continent of Europe, or from the United States. We rather think that specu lation in Foreign Grain has commenced already. We have heard that certain British capitalists are buying pretty freely—and storing their purchases in warehouses in the North of Germany, and even on the coast of France. The harvest in Poland is said to be exceed ingly short. In France and the Netherlands it is above an average—but we have not as yet sufficient data to judge of the amount generally. We should say, how ever, from what we have read on the subject, that the Continenta'. Wheat will be dearer next year.—Dublin Evening Post. TRICKS OP HORSEDEALERS.—For this pur• pose I will suppose a horse brought out for inspection that -a a little lame before ; the factotum brings him out well gingered, and probably after having administered three or four sharp cuts to his belly or legs—places where wheals do not readily show themselves—the animal rushes out of the stable, his tail on end, his nostrils dilated, and looking altogether exceedingly plucky--abas extremely frightened. He is led to rising ground, where he appears higher than he really is, as his fore-legs are raised above the spot whence you examine him. You proceed to inspect him, and when you are about to feel the doubtful leg, a sly wave of the whip— which the poor brute is all along ex pecting to be applied to him—produces a caper, which probably induces you to get out of the way of being trod. den on ; and this manoeuvre is constantly resorted to whenever you wish to pass your hand down the game leg. At length. when you get rather tired of this, the word is given, " Run on, Tom." Crack goes the whip, the bat is taken off, and a rattling noise is made by beating it with the fig.. away goes the horse, prancing, capering, and cantering up the yard and back again, his head well sup_ ported by a tight-held bit, and his shoulder by that of the man who leads him. " I want to see him trot, Mr. So and- So; he seems to do nothing but canter." The dealer well knows the lameness will be seen at this pace. " Wby don't you let the horse trot, Tom ?—the gen'leman wants to see him trot" (crack—crack—rattle—rattle.) Upon this ensues a second edition of the capering and cantering. " Beautiful trotter, Sir, 'pon my word—but he won't set tle into a trot here, Sir ; did fourteen miles within the hour no longer ago than yesterday, with his knee up to his chin.—That'll do, Tom, go in.—" Stop, stop, I want to see a little more of him." "Go in, Tom, go in : you give for him, Sir? He's worth a hundred—he is in. deed. I refused a deal of money for him last week, but I must go down to fair the day after to-morrow, and so I'm determined to sell off what I've got." Supposing he finds you peremptory in adhering to your first offer, b e comes I, down , n I s h b a i l s demands l sel 18,, in sa t i h de afore, following fore,huw but you you ay m l ze spring a little, Sir. Now do you try and —Sporting buy him, Sir, and I dare.say we shall not fal l out. mug. witches." from Thisthe meal known i s exc el .y NEW MEAL.—Ott W e d nesda y l ast , Mr. John Webster, Bowlroad, 'Farces, brought into tow n a small t q h u e a nutaitnyi name f of n , w La oatmeal,nasr milled e lent , and if the stock be like the sa mple , there will be no cause . for complaint this season, either of' quantity or qnal ity. --Aberdeen Herald. FATAL MISTAKE..—A most melancholy case has l ate ly happened at Threeways in the parish of St. Breock, which has been attended with fatal consequences to three persons. On Monday, the 191 h instant, an old man named John Julian, gathered, as be thought, some mushrooms, which he had fried for dinner ; but they proved to be a species of fungus, commonly known by the name of toad stools." The old man, his wife, and grandson partook o f them, and about twelve hours after they were all taken violently ill. In spite of every effort, death put an end to the sufferings of the little boy on Wednesday evening ; the old woman died on Thursday, and the old man man's sons, Sunday morning, when h e a l so ex pi re d. One lingeredof theold who lived under the same roof, came home rather late to dinner, and partook of a small quantity of the poison ; but although ha has suffered severely, he is now doing well. A verdict of " Died in consequence of eating fungus in mistake for mushrooms, ' was returned by the jury at the Coroner's inquest.— West _Briton. the No PATENT LEVER W A TCHE With silver deuble.bottom cases ...... ........... , 6 t ' With silver hunting ca ses ................................ 6lf „ This celebrated construction (ih , t most aeeurate en which a watch can be made) is now offered, with the latest improve.. ments i. e. the detached escapement, jewelled in four hole*, caw d, hand to mark the seconds, hard enamel dial, and main taining power to continue going while winding up, at the abov e price, at T. CON SAVORY'S, Watchmaker, Silver and Goldsmith, 47, C•rnhill, Lv j don, (Seven doors from Gracechurch-street). N.B.—Second-hand Watches purchased in ev,hange. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., at Kegt the lady of Benjamin NI hams, Esq., of the Madras Medical SrJrvice, of a son. On the Ist inst., at Norwood, .Surrey, the wife of Lea Nil- On Esq., of a daughter. William On the 2d inst„ at Groat James-street, Bedford-row, 3) "' Tredway Clar',c, of a daughter. On the 2d inst., in Lower Bedford-plate, Mrs. John Bethel , of a daughter, MARRIED. On the 27th ult., at High Wycombe, William Rose, E sq " jun., t o Anne Susanna Shrimpton, youngest daughter of John Carter, Esq., of that place. On the 28th ult., at the house of her Britannic Majef,ty's Minister Plenipot en ti ary t o t h e Di et at Frankfort, the 'Hon' Mary Stuart, third daughter of General the Lord Fo'rbes, to Charles Benjamin Lee, Esq., of the Abbey, KnP,rer;borough , Yorkshire; and at the same time, the Hon. Isabela Drummond, fifth daughter of Lord Forbes, to the Baron Ernest d e p e anitz , Capitaine et Gentilhomme d'Honneur a la roar du Due Beg nant de Saxe Coburg. DIED. On the Ist of July, at Bombay, of spas mo di c c h o l era , Georre,. Rousseau, Esq., Examine r in equity in th e S upreme Cour. or Judicatui c, abed 36. On the 26th ult., Aruirew. eldest surviving son of Sir . Archi bald Christie, of Stirling Castle, Noi th Britain, aged 27. On the 27th ult., Ali-. Theophilus Seymour, of Lower Ken nington-lane, aged 16. On the 2t9th alt., James Wilson, Esq., of Hi ghbur terrace, aged .53. y - On the 31st ult., at the residenc e o f Vi scount Sichnontbr ; Richmond-park, Ursula Henrietta, th e i n f ant daug h ter o f T.. Barker Wall, Esq., and the Hon. Mrs. Barker Wall, aged 4 mon hs. On the Ist inst., Mr. John Doughney, of St. J••:nn' s ' I Hersel3 down, solicitcr. aged 42. -.-.- • Prinferi and 112, Strand, at county ox Published by MURTIO YOVIN". The Stu, (:);Tice, No, v), strand, !ex..--Tueslay, September 3, 1b59. of ; is EVENINE = 141,DITTON. ANOTHER FRENCH OUTRkGE UPON BRITISH SUBJECTS AND PROPERTY. (From Saturday's Shipping and Mercantile Gazelle.) We received ;11, annexed communication this day (Saturday) from our Berwick correspondent. We, have had, latterly, some comp l a i nts o f th e abseticio Of all protection by a vessel of war for our fishermen on the north-east coast of England and of Scotland ; but the outrage committed in this instance is of so gross a na ture that it is impossible to suppose that it will be over' looked by Government. At home and abroad it seems to be taken for granted by the French that they can commit outrage upon British subjects and destroy British property with impunity. Abroad our merchants are injured in their trade or plundered, and our flag is outraged and insulted. At home, within our own har bours—on our own fishing ground —upon our own coast our fishermen are ruined by the havoc and plunder of their nets ; and had they offered resistance to this daring aggression upon their property, there can he no doubt but that the lives of several of them, from the superior size of the French boats and number of thu men, would have fallen a sacrifice : " TO THE EDITOR OF THE SHIPPING AND MERCANTILE GAZETTE. " Berwick Spittal, Aug. 29. "Sir,—There was great destruction committed last night by the French fishermen getting amongst our herring boats, and cutting and carrying away Lot fewer than 10 or 19 boats' nets. A fleet of nets costs up wards of 60 guineas, so that the poor fishermen ;those nets are destroyed are ruined for the season. A French boat is about 40 tons, with from 14 to 16 men our boats, about nine or ten tons, with four, or at most, five men. We have a Government that will protect foreigner, but a native may go and beg. I hope y° will expose this in a proper manner. There is no ship of war to afford protection to our fishing, although Government says there is one. If there be, she "ha s not been in sight of this place fir I think now five weeks.—l remain, Sir, your humble servant, " YOUR CORRESPONDENT. HOP INTELLIGENCE. WORCESTER AUG. 30.—The late warm weather has done a deal of good to the hop plantations of this dis trict, and some early sorts are growing and looking very healthy in " bop" but many of the weak grounds are late, some of which are now only coming in blow, and some are in burr, so that upon the whole the crop will be very irregular, and the issue will entirely depend on the weather for the next three weeks as to quantity and quality, as picking cannot he general till the end of Sep tember. The duty this week has been backed at 2 0 and 21,0001. in a few instances, but there are m any chances, which may operate against paying it, strcb as frosty nights or high winds ; and we have many yards short of bine that cannot produce more than a short 44 t o p crop." We have little trade in our market, a nd prices are nominal.—Worcester Herald. MAIDSTONE, AUG. 28.—The last week has produced: a great improvement in the Hops generally in this neighbourhood, particularly in the strong grounds. Notwithstanding this improvement, however, the pro bability is that there is not bine enough to raise the duty to 200,0001. West of Maidstone, it is the opinion ni some of the best judges that the planters will not g row as much by one-fourth as last year. Sussex and Wor cester will grow an increase—East Kent will probably be short, and the Weald of Kent will grow something more than last year.-1 - Vlaidstone Gazette. THE MARKETS --(YESTERDAY•) PKICE or The highest price of Bread in th. Loaf, Good Bread may he had at 8 • BREA D. le Metropolis is 10t1, for the 4 1 b 3,4 d, PRICES a SEED& Per Cwt. Per Quarter. New English lied C10v e r...50., S4 ss S t. F o i n — s. Old D.tto Ditto —s. —3. .. Ryc Grass .—.s, ...o 4 0, 4.4 i• . New Foreign Ditto ...—s. 606. li3s. is.giey Grass - —s. Old Ditto Ditto s —•••-, Linse,i, for feeditig —6, 41s. 5 4 ' New White Clover 456. 555. 655. Ditto, for sowing —5..545. 5 ' 4 Old Ditto Ditto ...... ...—a. —s. —s. Ditto, for crushing —s 426... 4(i ' i wNe Trefoil —s. 16s. 30 .. Cana r y - Os 6 t • SO .. ~. Old Ditto — s. 12- '2.2s Hemp _ s. 4U Trefolium Per Bushel. English Carraway —s. 545. 58s. White Mustard;...lls. OA. 14:'• fhi. !Foreign Ditto —4. 505. 553. Brown Ditto ......17s. od. il 4 " Coriander —a 20s. •• , ss. Tares Si.. od. 8,• 61 Bape..oed, Engli, h fine (per Last) 3t)l. 3'l. PRICES OF HOPS. V-, , - i! ham Pockets (per cwt.) 0 - Us. 0/, os. to 01. 0 ' I: • - Kiitii. Pockets. Limo Bag.; "5 105. 0.. - 01, to 4. , 4 ' . Mid Kent Pockets 3l. 103. 41.105. to 5' l'!" . Ditto Bag,. '3 , lOs 0 .0u t., 4 ,I- 1' ()=. 01. Os to :s 5 , (V. OA. at. a., to 34 til , . 01. 0= I , Iss. to '2 BO ld Dut esated at 220, 0 A pocket of New O Hops arriv ed at markat on oo/. Saturday, and sold tt .Qs. per cwt. Yearlings Old / lids PRICES OF LEATHER. • Per lb. d, to d P er lb . d, to ,4 . 2 Cropilides,3' , to4olb.each 11 I 3 Ho rse Hid es, 4 erman ... 12 2 „ 4 __.to 5 4 , l'? 16 —.— --- Spanish ... 13 :; 2 ---....--:B 6..1,~,. Bull Hides ......._, lO 13 ----1 , 1 :41 Butts, V trio! .. ... .. 17 19 Engl sh . .. 15 24 —79 100 F.reign () reign Elides ..... . In 1: .-- small .. Dressing Elides .. . ... 11 14 l 'Kips . —Shaved... 1.1 17 Bas 1‘... ... .. .., 6 11 Be, Saddlers' Hides.,. 15 10/ Bellies Horse Hicks, Eng.ish ... II I Shoul ers 9 12 Call Skins, if rounded 2d. to 4d, por lb. more. - PRICE OF OIL RapeOil,brown, pe' ton, 261 Os. —ReS -ed,37/.65. —I inseed 0 il, 2e l . los Lin,eed oil Cake at the Mill (11.410), 131. l's.— Ra : ,e C a k e, per ton,' PRICE of TALLOW Si)AP, &c. per 110 b. • Town Tallow ' 518 tid. Yel w Soap „ Yellow Russia. 3(s. I'd. Mottled ... — s . yd. White Soap Ditto ... Melting Stuff Ditto Rough .. PRICE F RAW FA'?, per stone of 61q. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) • 2s. 100. PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of good Store i andles in the Retail Shops is as follows Candles, pkr dozen, Bs. Od. ; inferior, 7s. ed. • Moulds, 9s, 643. . , - - Sixpence per doier ICOAL:111 s. d. Buddles' West Hartley 2l ( Ch ster Holywell Main 2O 6 Lazes Main Ord's Redhugh Pontop Windsor Smith'; Pontop l9 6 Townley lB 3 West Har►ley 2l 6 Wylam. Walls End Killingworth '2l 3 Wa!ls End Hidden's . 22 3 Walls End Belmont Walls Endßraddyll'sHetton 23 0 Wal's End Haswell Walls End Hetton .. ...... 23 1 Ships arrived since! R- , discount for cash. ARKET. s. el; Walls End Lambton . 23 . ':3 Walla End Stewart' s o Wails ..:nd Whirwell .... Walls End Flartlepool 23 6 Walk End Adel 'de; Wall , End Barrett Walls End Clarence Hetton 211 o W ,its End Gordon 2l !,) W. E.Richard,ion's Hartley IS y. walls End South Durham 2.4 ~', Walls End Seymour Tees 2l „' Walls End Tees 22 % Walls End Tennant .... ': 3 X Blythe., l7 ~,, Brampton Main ast market-day, 10, Tenbury, on Monday, the 26th nstant, a number of people assembled to witness the de cision of a wager of two sovereigns, between Mr. William Jefferies and Mr. Samuel Wilding, which was the 0 1 9! t dexterous and experienced in using the sickle. The ground chosen was a quarter of an acre of very strong wheat, upon Mr. Jewson's farm, which was cut by these knights of the sickle in the short space of one hour and twenty minutes,—the crop when cut being at the proportion of forty-two thraves to the acre. The umpires decided the wager in favour of Mr. Wm. Jefferies.— Worcester Herald. HINT. TO GARDENERS.—At a meeting of th e Entomological Society on Tuesday evening, Mr. T. Fen nell communicated a new method of preventing the de structive ravages of caterpillars and earwigs on fruit trees, which he had practised with much success. He employs Indian rubber submitted to the action of beat till it has lost all its solidity, and becomes a viscid juice. With this he saturates twine, which is twined round the stem of the tree in various parts, and effectually prevents the insects getting up. The value of 3d. is sufficient for the protection of twenty fruit trees. PLATED CORNER DISHES, SEVEN GUINEAS the SET.—A. B. SAVORY and SONS% Manufacturing Silversmiths, No. 14, Cornhill, London (or - posite the Bank of England), submit for choice in their 11' ate Rooms, many patterns of strongly Plated Corner Dishes , with Silver Handles and Shields, for Engraving, from'? Gui neas to 10 Guineas the Se, of four; by removing ti , , e handle+ from the covers, eight dishes are formed when reqP:tred. N.B. A Pamphlet of th e P r i ces o f Pl a t e may be. bad on appli cation.