The Sun. — London, England, 1832-04-25 00:00:00

b !MACES OF STOCKS Tuts DAY AT ONE O'CLoCK. .oark St % o, -k Per Cm Red. t. 1 -84 N 4 4 India Stock r Cent.Con. 851.4 51 Ditto Bonds 2il3 pm. ",..,; e l , er Cent. 911.i South Sea Stock 92 3••itto R e d 91%% Old Annuities — ‘v3per Cent 931 i 3 New Ditto — 4 Per Cent Ann. 1729 .... S per C en t. A nn. 1751 tper Cent. 1829 101 1 4 100 X Ex. Bills, .61,000 ll 12 PT l '. °tk Long Ann. to expire Ditt0....... 500.-- 12 13 p rn • Jan. 5, 1860... ...... 19 9-16 • 5 ,4 Ditto Small Ott. 19, 1859 16 .;, 9-16 Ditto Commercial —pm Jan. 5, 1860 - Ditto Advertised —. PT, Jan. 5, 1880 - Bank for Account l9° liprils, 1880 - India for Account. :105 J: 4 5!,c an. 5. Fo ,4 r hICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. A Ustrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds Z elgian Bonds D i tto A ccoun t II — I.;2 Ditto Scrip Ditto Account 2344 pm. I Ditto Account — ttazßian Bonds R eg ency Scrip — . Ditto Acco un t 43,4 1 1 Ditto Account __ , Prussian Bonds kende Ares Bonds... ......% 99 .Dittb Itc y cotlnt • —1 Ditto Account — Chilian Bo n d s Ditto Account — iltu!ssian Ponds, 1822 qBt4 Columbian Bonds. nyz 10 Ditto Account 95L Ditto Account — New Loan 9319 Ditto Bonds 1824 ll% Spanish Bonds, 1821 — Danish Bonds' 66% Ditto Account 14 1 .; Ditto Account • Ditto Bonds, 18 - 23 Greek Bonds 223 Ditto Account l3 Ditto Bonds, !825 Ditto Account- Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent. —— 3 per cent. —f —c. Ditto Account — Exchange ...... --f —c. Ditto, 6 per cent 31% Dutch Scrip 44 4 D itto Account 3214 Ditto Account 44110,4 Neapolita r , —,French Scrin .. ... A ~. . ............ . PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONX 0" cLucIL. Anglo Mex. Min. C o . (i ss. a t 51 . pm.) .£ Pai loo d. Per S 7 are. 13olanos Mining Compan) £l5O 125 Brazilian Imp. Min. Co. (185. at 51. pm.) £2O 4554 Ditto St. John Del Rey Ditto Cocaei British Iron alining Company £so 8 Co lumbian Mining Co. (is s . at 51. p m .) 4 75 3 1 ' E nglish Mining Company 1 256 O. General Mining Association £1234 2134 Real del Monte Mining Co United Mex. 1511 n. Co. (iss.. at 2/. pm.) 40 4 Alliance Fire Insurance Comp lO 874 Protector insurance Conn). Canada Company l7 43 - General Steam Navigation Co. —_____________ _ t • RIcES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 21. Bank Stock . """"'••• •• 20414 :St. Patrick Insur.(perShare Gov. Consols, 3 Der cent, ...., Royal Irish Ditto — Ditto Stock 3, per cent. 91% i4ational Ditto _ , Nev; . 91. 1 4 Patriotic Ditto 4 G p o e v r . Cat .... .. ~............".................. ' Hibernian Bank ... Royal__----'• oN, per cent ..„ 86 3 1 Provincial Ditto Canal Stock . ---' , Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock — imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 ..t* cent. Ball t 0 --. Mining Co. of Ireland as —rerommercial Buildings 24V, flis.Deb 4p. c. COURSE OF EXCFIJ C.F 12 2 Arn sterdarn '1 Ditto, at sight l9 N ot terdam 0 U 12 2 Antw erp 12 7 lian-iburg ............. m, IL 14 1 Altona ............ . l4 If P aris, 3 da .. ys' si g ht 25 85 BDitto .............. or deaux ......... ......... U. 26 .......... 6 5 10 Berlin ..................... . .... han k fort on VMaine, 1 Ex. 31,154 e rsburgh, ruble 3 Us. 10 0 Tri ana, effective A. 2 M. 10 i 0 Cene ...... do ........... ....I0 011 drid 3sli Bilbadiz 36 Ilareoa I elon ... .............. " 35 Vi 1::68e,"bir1a1eiti“....................' 4 3 7 5 I, i ,NGE YESTERDAY. Leghorn 47% Genoa '5 90 Venice 47 Malta 46 Naples Palermo per oz. 119% Lisbon Oporto 47% Rio Janeiro Bahia 29 Buenos Ayres Dublin, 21 dap.' sight l% Cork BULLION, PER OZ. 6. d. Portugal Gold, coin... 0 0 0 Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17 9 New Doubloons 3 15 3 New Dollars ,Silverbars,standard 0 0 0 Arriv ed rial Ls. CI Due. Arrived. Due. 0 flrr Ameri ca 0 0 Hamburg _4211 (.) Buenos Ayres 11, Carthagena 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 0 Leeward Islands ~, Dublin 0 1 1 Lisbon I " Flanders 1 g 0 i 0 Malta 0 ,France 0 1 0 Sweden 'lleri -- -- - -______lrlL___;,J erse r : . v.. 0 1 1 Waterford Morn . WATER AT LONDON BRIDG TO-MORRW. minutes after 10.1 Evenin E g... 14 minutes a O fter 11. HE EARL OF MULGRAVE'S NEW NOVEL. This day was published, in 3 vols. post Bvo. 11" E CONTR AST. By the Author of " Matilda" and " Yes and No." r eq. Near Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington- C , . ebe LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1832. We direct attention to a report of a meeting of the Northern Political Union, which will he f ound in another part of The Sun. All of the Speakers at this meeting were remarkable for the animated and determined spirit in which they delivered their opinions on the subject of the present ticklish situation of the Reform Bill, and more particularly of that portion of it which regard s the ten-pound franchise. Mr. C. ATT WOOD stated, that he saw in the conduct of the Ministers, something calculated to alarm him with respect to the ten-pound clause —.a clause for the success of which he was remarkably anxious, because if that clause suffered mutilation, the people would be further removed from any control over the representation than if the Bill had never passed at all. Mr. FIFE said, " There never was in this world a position at once more ludicrous and degrading than that which is now the plan of the Tory faction ; having plunged this country into unjust wars, and brought it to the verge of national bankruptcy, they declared that nothing could be better, and that no Reform should be granted ! Hurl e d from power, disowned by the more virtuous part of the aristocracy, ejected from par liament by the middle orders, derided and scorned by the labouring classes of the people, they began to stammer out that a little bit of a Reform might do.—(Laughter.) Thus meanly shuffling to sneak out of the scrape they had so pompously strutted into.' Their day is past, but if, as a last effort, they spoil the Bill, let us re ject it with disdain---(Cheers.) No longer will I p a y taxes in money.—(Cheers.) Let them Confiscate my land.--( Cheers.) Let them seize my goods.—(Cheers.) I am prepared to endure the last extremity--(Cheers)—eternal banishment— (Cheers)—death itself—(Cheers)—rather than be the willing slave of a tyrannical, unprincipled, Tory administration.—(Long and continued cheering.)" But the most eloquent and im passioned speaker was decidedly Mr. LA RKIN, whose strictures on the Bishop of EXETER'S late speech in the House of Lords, are marked by far more point and meaning, by far more caustic powers of sarcasm, than ever appeared in any of the Rev. Prelate's Anti-Catholic addresses to Mr. CANNING. The meeting was most numerously and respectably attended, and, as expressing the unequivocal sense of the people, is deserving of every attention. Other Political Unions, we understand, have announced their intention of meeting in the course of the week earnest is the wish among all classes of Reformers to have the Bill passed promptly, " without let or hindrance." Tier We have just seen the third edition of a little w ork, entitled " The People's Manual," which, though it has been some time before the public, cannot be too often quoted, as it contains some extremely edifying particulars respecting those among the Peers who have distinguished them selves by their hostility to the Reform Bill. We shall occasionally entertain our readers with ex tracts from this useful: pamphlet ; but for the present must content ourselves with two brief novices respecting the " popular" Bishop o! EXETER, and that paragon of wit and humou. the Earl of LAUDERDALE, to whose brilliant powers MOORE has done justice in the following happy stanza : Bright Peer: to whom Nature and Berwickshire gave A genius endowed with effects so provoking, That when the whole House looks unusually grave, You may always conclude that Lord Lauderdale's joking. "LAUDERDALE, Lord—Earl of Lauderdale, in Scot land.—This Nobleman was once a Republican, and oar of the Friends of the People. He hoped the time was soon coming when he should be only ' Citizen Maitland. The late Duchess of Gordon, to whom the remark was addressed, replied, that if she were reduced to be merely Mrs. Gordon, she doubted not she could find many ways of providing for herself; hut if Lord L. were in the smut plight, she pitied him from the bottom of her heart, cause, as far as she could perceive, his Lordship was des titute of every recommendatory qualification on earth, ex cept his title ! He continued for many years a friend n Lord Grey's; and is now become, in hia old age, a violent Tory, and supporter of the Duke of Wellington. P u s_ sews borough int rest in Scotland, which will be de stroyed by the Bill." " Bishop of EXETER, Dr. PIIILLTOTTS.—This political adventurer is well known. He was promoted by the lat. Bishop of Durham, for taking a violent Church and King part in the Durham county elections. He then vvrot. violent pamphlets against the Catholic Question and Mr. Canning. 'When, however, the Duke of Wellington cam, in, and supported the question, he became silent—and was soon afterwards made a Dean and a Bishop !!" Brussels and German Papers have been received. The Belgian Foreign Minister informed the Chamber of Representatives that Prussia and Austria had exchanged the ratification without any restriction on the part of Prussia, and with only the reser vation by Austria of the approbation of the Ger man Diet with respect to Luxemburg. Th e conduct of Austria is considered equivocal by some members, as the King of HOLLAND can render the approbation of the German Diet of no avail—he being a member (of course a dissentient one), and unanimity being indispensable to give effect to the decisions of that body. If this be correct, the whole affair is mere juggling for ulterior purposes. We are happy to understand that the members o f the Literary Union have raised, by subscrip tion among themselves, a sum equal to their loss by the failure of Messrs.l)uckett and Co.'s bank. The Club is more wealthy than it was before the failure of its bankers, by the amount of the proba ble dividends it may receive. We think this spon taneous subscription to repair a loss so unex pected, is highly honourable to the feelings of this liberal and literary association, whose num bers are daily increasing. THE FUNDS -(THIS DAY.) CITY, T WEL VE O' CLOCK. Up to the present hour we have a complete blank morn ing for intelligence ; not even a single ship letter has come to hand; but a Lisbon mail has arrived off Falmouth— letterr not yet received ; also a frigate from Madeira : the information she brings has not transpired as yet. Consols, which left off yesterday at Ssi toe for the account, opened at the same price, since which they have been 851, alternately sellers and buyers, with little doing. The speculators are waiting the express from Penis, to ascertain the French prices, and the health of M. Perier. There is a great scarcity of stock in the market, which has a tendency to keep the market up. Dutch and BelgianS'ecurities maintain yesterday's prices. HALF-PAST ONE. We have received by express the Constitutionnel of Monday last, from which we copy the following :—•French Funds, Three per Cents. 70f. (From the Gazette de Augsburgh.) ANCONA, ArtclL 18.—Although we are without a Government affairs are going on well. It appears that the Papal troops wanted to blockade us, as they would net let the people who were conveying provisions into the town pass. This is incomprehensible, as the port is open by sea, since which the communication has been ►e established, and the market to-day is well supplied. Last week the Chief of the Et it-Major, General Cubieres, ar rived from Paris in seve❑ days, and brought some protno tioas with him. An Adjutant of the Minister of War has also arrived, and the frigate Bellone is daily expected. A report prevails here that the French are going to occupy the five Legations, while the Austrians will occupy those of Bologna, Ferli, Farrare, and Ravenna. It appears that the Coutt of Rome will not, as yet, listen to any con cessions. FRONTIERS OF ITALY, APRIL l3.—The Count Saint Auhire has received orders from Paris to annul the treaty concluded with General Cubieres, for the provisioning of French troops in the environs of Ancona. On the 9th of April the King of Bavaria arrived at Florence under the name of Count Augusta. After a short stay be con tinued his route to It ,me. BOLOGNA, APRIL 13.—The Austrians are forming two camps, one near Plaisance, the other near Brescia. New troops are arriving on the line of the Po, and on every point they are raising fortifications. The position of the Papal troops and the Austrians round Ancona remains the same. Nothing is suffered to pass for th it town, since the French flag floated on the citadel. A proclamation has been issued by the President Capo d'lstrias to the Greeks, stating that a general amnesty was granted to all citizens, military and civil, who have taken part in the revolution, and says, " Hellens, listen to the voice of hint who in a few days is going to leave you, and put an end to your disorders." PARIS, TEN O'CLOCK - ♦T NIGHT.—M. the Count Artout is out of all danger, and has slept during psrt of the day. Marshal Count Lobau was attacked yesterday by symptoms of the cholera, but physical aid was administered to him, and this morning at nine o'clock he was out of danger. No mention is made in the Constitutionnd of the health of AL Perier. THE FUNDS. Consols have continued most part of the morning at 85i with little doing for the Account, 85 for Money. Report says that the cholera is very bad at Paris, and great fear is entertained of the life of M. Peeler. The Dutch Funds 44i. Little or nothing in any other Foreign Securities at present. 7 lIREIS 0 CLOCK. Consols for Account 85k. KINGHORN.—As every Reformer must be allowed to choose his own way of manifesting his anxiety regarding the success of the cause of Reform, an inge nious mechanician of this place has been employing his leisure hours, for these few months, in preparing a ship, which he has named Earl Grey, to be commemorative of the Reform Bill. Th e progress o f h is work has been keeping pace wi t h th e tar d y progress of the Bill, she being just ready to laun c h w h en t h e c h eer i ng i ntelligence of the majority of the House of Lords reached this place. The vessel rates a 74, and is to be furnished with guns ; measures three feet from stem to stern, in other respects in propor tion. The head presents a burst of the Noble Earl, with the Reform Bill in one hand, on which these words are neatly written, " I will stand or fall with the Bill." There are some neat designs on the stern of the vessel. The whole workmanship will give much satisfaction to the curious, and discovers considerable taste and ingenui , y. This ingenious operative hopes to have the Earl finished by the time the Bill becomes the law of the land. __Scotsman. VERY SLTSPICIOUS.—A respectable London tailor hired a horse at Osivestry, a few day s ago , f or t h e purpose of proceeding to Llanfyllin. The animal being, doubtless, unaccustomed to cockney management, thought proper to make a slip near the Llansantffrail toll-gate, when the rider, becoming alarmed, availing himself of the mane to save the fall which seemed impending, grasped it so firmly, that the horse, not relishing such Brentford treat ment, fairly tossed him into a lit ap of stones. But his misfortunes did not end bare. A road-inspector, reputed to tie a cockney also, who was on the spot, had him taken into custialy, and charged him before a magistrate with stealing the horse, asserting that he was inducefito suspect him of the cri me b ecause b e prevaricated, When asked in what way the unfortunate knight of the shears had pre waricated, he explained it by saying that he had given him saucy answers. I t i s nee dl ess t o sa y that the mag ic. gate thought the accused had been sufficiently punished tor his sauce, and so dismissed him. —CarmartAen Jour. KING'S BENCH.--(THIS DAY) As soon as their Lottkilips had tak( n t'ipir seats, the M rquess of Anelesea was introduced on the Bench an( to ;k the usual oaths upon his appointment to the offices ro Constable of Carnarvon Castle, and of Vice-Admiral o North Wales. Sir John Gurney, Knight, also took the usual oaths ar a Baron of his Majerty's Court of Exchequer. The Court was occupied during the morning in hearini argumenti upon speci ei cases sent up from Quarter Ses °nu., but none of them possessed any thing of public in terest. BAIL COURT-(THIS DAY.) (Before Mr. Justice TAUNTON, and a Common Jury.) L18EL...--BELLCUAMBERS Y. UTADLEY. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Mr. PLATT), stated the case for the plaintiff. It was an a , tion brought by Mr. Edmund Bellchambers, against the defendant, Mr. John Joseph Allen Hadley, proprietor of the Cheltenham Journal, for publishing a libel of and concerning the plaintiff, in a report of what was said to be a speech of a Learned Counsel (Mr. Campbell) at the Gloucester tosize. during a cause in which a Mr. Griffith was the plaintiff, and Mr. Gardner and Mr. Bell chambers (the present plaintiff), were defendants. Messrs. Gardner and B llchambers had le en concerned in I Newspaper called the Cheltenham Chronicle, in which Paper some libels had been published concerning Mr. Griffiths, for which Mr. Griffiths brought his action. The trial came on at the Gloucester Assizes, in 1828, upon which °cession the then plaintiff accepted an apology from Mr. Gardner, against whom a nominal verdict passed, but nothing was said abnut Mr. Bellehambers, and the cause terminated. The present defendant, in pur porting to give in his Netvspaner a tsport of what Mr. Campbell, the Counsel for Mr. Gri Pith, then said, had published observations which he (tht A tot ney-General ) was confident his Learned Friend hail never uttered, for they imputed to Mr. Bellchambambers, the present plantiff, that he was a person of so disreputable a charac ter that no apology would he receive' fro n him, and that any communication with him, directly or in lirectly, would he deemed a contamination—that he w bankrupt, and n gaol, and that it would he disreputable in any person to have any thing to do with him. Tbose expressions, as they were not at all connected with the subject of that action, he (the Attorney-Gets ral) was confident were never used by his Learned Fr . enb, and that, therefore, the defendant must have had tine :malicioui .votive, or some strong feeling, towards Mr. Bellcham hers, who was his competitor and rival in trade. The plaintiff had naturally felt indignant that it should be pub lished of him that the sole reason why an apology was not received from him but fromhis partner, Mr Gardner, was, that be was a person of so disreputable a character that an apology from him would be a contamination, and therefore ise felt himself obliged to bring the present ection in order to vitlicats his character, and to obtain such cotnpedsatien as the injury which he received entitled him to. The week following the publication of the reputed reports of Mr. Campbell's speech, the defendant publ shed in his paper what he termed some correction of the first state ment, but he made the matter worse by repeating the more gross part of the first libel. Now, if Mr. Campbell had—which he did not believe—uttered the expressions which the defends , t published, still the publication of them was unjustifiable. He there fore hoped the Jury would award the plaintiff the must ample damages. Octavius Dillingham Mordaunt, clerk to the plaintiff's attorney, produced a copy of the defendant's affidavit, lodged in the St imp-office, stating him to he sole pro- prietor, printer, and publisher of the Cheltenham Jour nal. He also producel two copies of the Paper, dated the l'th and 14th April, 1828. They were read. The former purported to give account of what had occurred at the as sizes in the cause of Griffith v. Gardner and Bellchambers, which was terminated by an apology, and Mr. Campbell in accepting the apology from Mr. Gardner, who was a re spectable attorney in Gloucester, and part proprietor of the paper in which the libel appeared, proceeded thus, " as to Mr. Bellchambers, the other defendant, he was a bankrupt in trade; the Learned Counsel would say nothing more about him; his praise or censure could not harm Mr. Griffith, who felt indifferent to the slanders of such a man; he asked for no apology, and would receive none from Bellchambers, for Mr. Griffith felt that any sort of communication with such a man, either directly or indirectly, wou'd be a contamination." The paper of the 14th of April contained this paragraph In the report in our last paper of the trial of the cause Griffith v. Girdner and Bellchambers, we unintentionally committed an error. Mr. Campbell was represented to have said that he asked for no apology, and would receive none from Bellchambers, fur Mr. Griffith felt tt at any sort of communication with such a man, either directly or in directly, would be a contamination ; whereas Mr. Camp bell's observation should have been his praise or censure, can in no di gree affect Mr. Griffith, and even an apology from him, Mr. Griffith would consider a contamination." It was also proved, by way of accounting for the lapse of time since the publication of the libels, that the present action was commenced in Michaelmas Term, 1828 ; but that the defendant put is several pleas of justification, which were demurred to, and ultimately they were held to be bad : great delay consequently ensued. ➢lr. WILLIAMS then addressed the Jury for the de. fendant. He said, that if it were of any consequence that what passed in Courts of Justice should be reported for the perusal of the public, the present case was of very great importance. If they should be of opinion that the statement complained of was a fair and faithful report of what took place in Court, he thought they would agree with him, that actions like the present should not be encouraged, as it would be setting up a dangerous precedent, and would ultimately cut up by the root all full and fair accounts of proceedings in Courts of Justice. After the practice of reporting had prevailed to so great an extent, and was, he might ■ay, so inveterate, it would be a very strong measure indeed to attempt at once to prevent a perusal by the public of the trials in Courts of Justice, which information could only be communicated through the ordinary channel—the public Press. The libel purported to be a speech of a Learned Counsel, in a cause to which the defendant was no party, and be was now dragged before a Jury for having reported that which had occurred in a Court of Justice, and which he was desirous of giving to the public with some de gree of particularity. He, Mr. Williams, intreated the Jury to read the statement, and then say whether it did not appear to be a fair report of what had actually taken place, rather than to be a wil ful and malignant interposition of expressions that were never uttered. He admitted, that strictly speaking a publisher had no right to publish exactly what an advo cate might say of another party, but if there appeared no attempt to invent facts, and with a m dicious motive pub lish them, it was a stront , reason why the Jury should give ♦ery trifling damages. Counsel were allowed great lati tude in conducting cases—a privilege that was said to be granted for the benefit of their clients, bet whether it was always used for the benefit of their clients or not he would not say. It appeared from the report of the libel complained of, that the Learned Judge gave a strong opinion upon the libels against Mr. Griffith, and as an apology was only received from one defendant, Mr. Gardner, it was not improbable that the Learned Counsel stated some reason why he did not accept an apology also from the other defendant, Mr. 13, llchambers. If the expressions which Mr. Campbell used were untrue, and if he had travelled out of his duty, (which could not be believed of that Learned Counsel) lie would be responsible for theconsequences, so that the pre sent plaintiff was catching at a mouse when he might catch a lion. If Mr. Campbell's observations were correctly re ported, then the Jury would surely give the most trifling damages, otherwise, an editor or publisher, bef re he wrote a report of any trial, must consult his attorney and him counsel to see it there was anything improper in pub lishing that which had actually occurred. Counsel must also exercise great ciution, so that, in fu ture, what mutilated, milk and water sort of reports they would have. What mealy-mouthed speeches would Counsel make ! What oil would be swimming over their expressions. —(Laughter.) However, there was nomo tive charge d or proved against the defendant. The plain tiff had chosen, instead of trying the cause in Gloucester shire, where all parties were known, to come before a Middlesex Jury, who could not know bim, and from the very appearance of the report, every person might fairly conclude that the words were uttered by Mr. Campbell. It was therefore to be hoped that the Jury would discourage such actions, and give the smallest possible amount of damages. His LORDSHIP then summed up. He observed that Council in Courts of Law, as Members of Parliament in their places, possessed a privilege of latitude of expression which was given them for the benefit of the public in the one case, and of the suitors in Courts, the clients, in the other. It might be, that in the zeal which an advocate displayed, he might sometimes exceed the fair and proper bounds of moderation, and therefore the privilege should he confined (being a mere personal ~nr ) to the Counsel themselves and to the locality —the Court in which it was exercised; for it by no means followed that other persons not possessing that privilege should be allowed to publish those observa tions, arid thereby circulate words of reproach against a party tvboac conduct might hive been too strongly an;. madverted upon in Court ; because, if it were a llowed, t Court of justice might be made the v e hi c l e an d instrument of every species of private slander. Hi s L or d s hip sa h. ieed not trouble himself by laying down the bound within which persons should confine themselves it tublishing what occurred in Courts of justice, because th. defendant had pleaded a justification of the libel. He the , read the libel of the subsequent statement, and stated that zb e plaintiff alleged in his declaration, that by such publi ,cations the defendant meant to insinuate, and hive it be lieved, that h., the plaintiff, had been and was a bankrupt, trid guilty of disgraceful and dishonourable conduct, ano not fir to be associated with. It was the province of the jury ta decide whether that was the proper interpretation o' he passages complained of ; if it were, then the plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict for such damages as they ..onceived him entitled to. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages.. One Shilling. COININION PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) HILL V. LEE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover -IL 10s. from the defendant, who is the master-tailor of the regiment of the 9th Lancers, for a quarter's use and oc cupation of a house in Prospect-place, Hounslow, near where the regiment is stationed. For the plaintiff it was proved, that the house was let to the defendant upon an agreement for three months cer tain, and at the end of the first quarter, the defendant agreed to take it for three months longer, and continual to occupy it for three quarters under the same terms. At the end of the third quarter, however, he lrfr without a notice, and delivered up puss-scion of the keys, and the action was brought to recover the last quarter's rent. On the part of the defendant, it was proved that he had given a month's notice to the plaintiff to quit the house, and Lord Loughborough, the Colonrl of the regiment, had promised him a re'ia.lence in the baraacks, but that the piain'iff had refused to receive it, unless the ensuing quar ter was paid. The jury found a verdict for the defendant. ASSAULT AT A VESTRY DINNRR• JAMES V. CAMPBELL. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the proprie tor of some public baths at Hampstead, against the de fendant, a gardener, to recover compensation for an assault committed by him on the person ‘if the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant ANnaEws stated the case to the jury, from which it appeared, that the plaintiff was, some time ago, a member of the Annoyance Jury, and, in the performance of that unpleasant duty, he had occasion to inspect the weights and measures of the defendant, which it would appear was the only cause and provocation the defendant could have had for having committed this outrage upon his client, for every opportunity that pre sented itself aft-rwards the defendant embraced to insult the plaintiff. In December last there was a meeting of the vestry to make some pat ish rate, and after the busi• ness was over, the parish officers adjourned to the Holly Bush Tavern to dinner. Here the plaintiff and the de fendant met, and after dinner Campbell took the opportu nity to annoy Mr. James, and lie repeatedly called him a " vagabond," using every means he could to excite his anger, and the churchwarden, Mr. Dixon, who was in the chair, was frequently oldiged to call him to order. In the end, Campbell struck the plain tiff a tremendous blow, which knocked him down, and blackened both his eyes. Some friends interfered, and a Mr. Paxton, a friend, drew up an apology to Mr. James, in which he (Campbell) was made to say he was sorry for having struck him; but when it was read publicly, in stead of admitting the apology, he said "Me sorry for it, I am not sorry at all, and I will beat him again, and serve him out worse than I have done." The - Le trned Sergeant concluded his statement by saying, that Mr. James hail no alternative than to bring the present action, and he trusted that the Jury would, by their verdict, teach Mr. Campbell, that he could not com mit such en outragtous and unprovoked assault as this, with impunity. Mr. Paxton, the vestry clerk of the parish, was ex amined, and proved the assault had been committed at the vestry dinner. In his cross-examination by Mr. Bomax for the de- fendant, he said that many sarcastic observations were made by both parties. Mr. James told the defendant that he was a pretty fellow to go out shooting, that he had gone to shoot dicky-birds in his garden, hut bad shot a cat.— (Lauehter.) Campbell had taunted Mr. James respecting his mother falling into the cess-pool, and said, " you, I wish you bad fallen in instead of her, nobody would have pulled you out." He (witness) on hearing Mr. James's mother abused, gave the defendant a thump on the head. Mr. Dixon, the Churchwarden, gave a similar account of the transaction. Mr. S'ephenson, a medical gentleman, proved attending the plaintiff. He suffered under a ♦iolent pain in the chest ; he had a swelled nose, and his eyes were black. He attended him about five days. The plaintiff's case had not concluded when our re porter left. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) DIMES V. HART. The defendant in this cause, a miller in Stratford, ap peared in person, and applied for a rule to alley: , cause why there should not be a new trial granted, on payment of costs, under the following circumstances;—The plain tiff is an attorney, and was employed to transact some business by Mr. Hart, which was not conducted t o his satisfaction. A bill was delivered and a sum paid by him, as be contends in satisfaction of all claim that Mr. Dines had; but soon after, that gentleman made an application for 371. 2s. 6d., as the balance due to him. This being refused by Mr. Hart, an action was commenced in this Court, and was tried before Mr. Baron Bolland, at the sittings at Guildhall, after last term. The cause was called upon on the first day of the sittings, and no one ap pearing for the defendant, a verdict for the full amount passed against him. He now made affidavit that he had instracted an attorney to prepare his defence, which he meant to conduct at the trial, in person, but through some neglect on the part of that attorney, he bad not re ceived notice of the time when the trial would come on. He also produced an affidavit from the attorney, stating that he not being an atcorney of this Court, had employed another one as agent, but on the notice of trial being de livered, he was called into the country on very particular and urgent business, and in the burry of departure he had forgot to give the instructions to either the agent or the defendant. Mr. HART, when he found that the cause had been dis posed of, made application to the Lord Chief Baron, at Gray's Inn, by whom be was referred to Mr. Baron Bol land, who stayed judgment on the facts b , .ing laid before him. The defendant now stated, that be had a good defence, and was most anxious that the case should go before a Jury. Their Lordships, under these circumstances, granted the rule. Having got through the business, the Court rose at twelve o'clock. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY.) FROM LLOYD'S. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Wind N., fresh.—Arrived his Majesty's ship Briton, from Lisbon. Sai ed the Am phitrite transport, for Plymouth ; and the Neva transport, for Chatham. FALMOUTH, APRIL 23.—Wind N.W. to N.N.W., fresh and squally. —Arrived off port the Duke of Marl borough packet, from Lisbon. Sailed the Princess Eliza beth packer, for St. Domingo, Jamaica, and the Ha vannah.--The Duke of Marlborough packet, from Lis bon, is in the offing, making for the harbour, but it is likely her mail will save the post. RaatscuTa, APRIL 24.—Arrived the Asia, White, from London, bound to Quebec. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Buoyant, Pon sonby, from La Guayra ; Sportsman, Hutchinson, from St. Domingo; Elizabeth, Grey, from New Orleans; Aim well, Power, from Mobile ; Nestor, from Savannah ; and St. Antonio, Proggio, from Geneva. Sailed the Minerva, for Bombay. DUBLIN, APRIL 23.—Arrived the Czar, Ashwood, from Oporto. Com:, A ralL22.—Arrived the Rival, Bell, from Odessa. SCA aisortouctr, Aram 23. —Arrived the Findlay, Gray, from Aleinel, leaky. Toaaav, Arum 23.—Wind N.—Sailed the General Hackett, Fotheriogham, for New South Wales. The Royal Recovery, from Youghal to Cardiff, sunk off the Smalls on the 22d inst.,—crew saved. THE MUGS.--Captain POGSON has brought to Calcutta, from Chittagong a copy of the Zuboor, or Book of Psalms, in the Burman character, on which the dugs are sworn. Captain P. has upon this tact, en deavoured, in a work which he has published at Calcutta, to support the hypothesis of Sir Wm. JONES, that the Mugs are a set of Jews. The Captain has made another im. portant discovery—namely, that Chittagong is the cele brated Land of Ophir---Atiaiic Josonal. cs • I • • I • a to : , g E y ou ups A g g 15 or, Total 1f..40 55 26 IS 191 275. 9 1171 Total from places where the disease has ceased and from which no return has been this day received 6334 1693 Grand Total 8623 13061 LONDON.— APRIL 24, at FIVE P.M. 4,, • I 43 `• *Ag C 5 5. , .2 U § Z E Total 6l 5 I 9 156 2069 1041 Cases from places before reported 452 284 Grand Total 2321 1325 (Signed) Grand Tc WM. M 'otal... EACL ii ,EAN, Secretary. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS. The Right Hon. Charles Manners Sutton, at St. Stephen's. 'ourt, New Palace-yard; W. R. Cartwright, Esq., in Halt Nfoon-street, from his seat in Northamptonshire; Captah. Garth, R.N., at the St. George's Hotel, Albemarle-street, fron nis scat in Berks ; Alexander Sinclair, Esq., at Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, from the North ; Mr., Mrs., and Miss Adams, Symmons's Hotel, St. James's-street, from Worcestershire ; Sir William and Lady Maria Oglander and family, at Thomas' , Hotel, Berkeley.square, from their seat in Dorsetshire ; R. Sneyd, Esq., from Brighton. DEPARTURES. The Marquess and Marchioness of Staffhrd, for their seat, West Hill, Wandsworth, Surrey; the Marquess and Mar chioness of Salisbury, for their seat, Hatfield; the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, from Arlington. street, for ditto ; the Earl and Countess of Surrey, for Little Hampton ; Coun tess de Grey, for her seat, Putney-heath ; the Earl and Coun tess of Jersey, for Southampton ; Lord and Lady Holland, for their seat, Amplhill, Bedfordshire; Mr. and Mrs. Brookbank, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Surrey; Lord and Lady Belhaven and family, from Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley_ square, for their seat in Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. Jennings and family, from ditto, for Tonbridge Wells ; Lord Morley, and Messrs. Stewart, from ditto, for Scotland ; Lord Stuart de Rothesay, Earl Caledon, and Lord Alexander, from St. James's. square, for the Earl of Hardwick's seat, Wimpole Hall, Cam bridgeshire. CHOLERA 11ORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE. WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. CORN EXCHANGE. There are moderate supplies this week of English Grain, but a considerable arrival of Oats and Flour 'mom Ireland. The Wheat trade continues in a very dull state at Monday's prices Barley, Beans, and Pease, remain as last reported. Oats that are sweet and fine support Monday's terms, other sorts are very dull, and rather cheaper. Flour unaltered. A It KIVA LS. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Flour. 3,274 qrs. 996 qrs. 2,742 qrs. 9 , ,616 sacks. 1,650 21,188 4,810 5,60) 909 English .... Irish Foreign -- brls. When the father of Lord GRANTHAM was elevated to the Peerage, GRORGE 111. made some dif ficulty as to the extent of his property, which was in his MAJESTY'S opinion too small for the maintenance of that rank. The prep-nt LPrd, however, is already a wealthy Peer, and he will ultimately be among the very wealthiest of his order. He is heir to the title and estates of the venerable Countess DE GREY, and also to the bulk of th. vast possessions of Mrs. LAURF.NCE, of Studeley Park. and Fountain's Abbey. in Yotksbire. His Lordship has no family ; so that the infant son of his brother, Viscount GODERICH, may be regarded as heir presumptive of three Peer us and four very large fortunes. Lady GODERICH surcee.ted, on the death of her father, the late Earl of BUCKINGHASHIRE, to all the unentailed estates of the HOBART family, including their splendid seat of Nocton Hall, near Lincoln.—Boston Gaselie. PRISCILLA WOODFORD, the girl who was condemned to be hanged at the late assizes at Lincoln, for arson, but who was afterwards reprieved. has been playing pranks which perhaps may have a claim to originality, and certainly show her to be wl at she really is,—an artful young jade. After her condemnation, she was confined in an apartment with a woman who was convicted of perjury, and who it is supposed must have instilled in the girl a notion that if she had been pregnant, she would have es caped the execution of her sentence. However, she told the Chaplain, and others who were in attendance on her, that she was " in the family way," and certainly was borne out in her statement by her personal appearance, until the matron discovered that she had stuffed the articles of her dress in such a way as to indicate pregnancy in a very precise mariner ! —Boston Gazette. FoG.—SHIPWRECK.--On the evening of the 10th inst. a dense fog came on at Thurso and in the Pentland Frith, which nearly proved fatal to several vessels passing through, bound mostly to America. Had the weather not been calm at the time, the consequences must have been serious, as no less than three ships, tw o brigs, and a schooner were thrown on shore at one time; they all got off, however, with but little damage, except the ship Lord Suffield, of and from Hull, bound for Quebec with emigrants, which is a total wreck on the rocks of Tills, in the Frith. The emigrants came round to 'fburso, where they will remain until a ves-el calls to convey them to their place of destination.—Edinburgh Paper. INHUMANITY OF THE ARCHDUKE CON STANTINIC.—His most infamous act, if it be possible to give any pre-eminence in acts all most pre-eminently , wicked, was performed on the following occasion:—A boyte playfulness nine years of o c f h a il g d e, lloo a d s ( - i of C n n r itt en o t e h P a L I k A , TE o a had in n , one of the fortes, " The 3d of :flay for ever !" that being the anniversary of KOSCIUSKO'S Constitution. The fact was discovered by some of the innumerable spies, employed even among these infants, to Nowortuoir, who insti tuted an inquiry among the boys. Not one would betray poor PLATER ; they were all ordered to be flogged with the utmost severity! The unhappy offender declared that he had written the offensive words. The GRAND DUKE condemned him to be a sol her for life, incapable of ad vancement in the army; and when his mother threw her self before his carriage to implore forgiveness for her wretched child, he spurned her like a dog with his foot ! SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—A singular circumstance happened during a hunt in Wales :—The hounds having found a fox upon the Great Skirrid, pressed on him closely, when reynard skirted a ledge of rocks, nearly on the top of the precipice on the side of that mountain, and on being perceived by three stanch old hounds, they made a dart at him, and overbalancing them se:ves, fell headlong upon a ridge of rock about mid-way, and bounding off again, fell with great force to the bottom, a distance of 70 feet. A gentleman who was near the foot immediately rode up, expecting to find the three dogs killed, but to his great surprise he saw them all join the rest of the pack in pursuit of the fox, without appearing to feel any ill effects from their fall.— CarmarthenJournal BEAR -CATCHING.—The inhabitants of the mountainous parts of Siberia fasten a very heavy block to a rope that terminates at the other end with a loop. This is laid near a steep precipice, in the path in which the bear is accustomed to go. On getting his neck into the noose, and finding himself impeded by the log, he takes it up in a rage, and, to free himself from it, throws it down the precipice ; it naturally pulls the bear after it, and he is killed by the fall. Should this, however, accidentally not prove the case, he drags the block again up the mountain, and r'iterares his efforts with increasing fury, till he either sinks exhausted to the ground, or ends his life by a de cisive plunge.—Cabinet of Arts. THE MAMMOTH.—Among the natural curi osities preserved in the Museum of St. Petersburgh, is the skeleton of a mammoth that was found buried in an iceberg in Siberia. As the ice gradually dissolved in a summer more than usually warm, bears attacked the flesh, which was in a state of preservation, and destroyed the skin, but the skeleton was secured, with the exception cif a single foot. It now stands close to that of a large ele pliant, and though the one is not much less in height than the other, a comparison of their joints shows bow superior the mammoth must have been in strength and bulk. From a part of the skin which has been preserved, it ap pears that the animal was furnished with long Bair, a fact affording strong presumptive evidence that it inhabited the cold latitude in which the body was discovered. and that it was not, as some theorists have supposed, the native of a tropical region.—Elliot's Letters from the North of . Europe. DURABILITY 01 VEGETABLE LIFE.— Perhaps the most extraordinary tact on record with re gard to the durability of vegetable life, and one that we can seldom expect to meet with, says Dr. G. RKEII (in his recently published Lectures on Carbon, Oxygen, and Vitality), occurred some few years ago in the dissection. or rather the examination of an Egyptian mammy, whirl bad probably been preserved 3,000 yeare, in the hand of which was found a bulbous root; this was put into the ground, and found to vegetate as fresh as if it bad been re cently transplanted...—Neu. Entertaining Press. SPIRIT Cr T"P PT'PLIC JOUR'S LS. We have received a letter from a correspon dent signing himself " Scotus," which evinces a total misunderstanding of what we said )ester (lry in explanation of Lord Grey's announce ment respecting the nature of the amendments which the admitted principles of the Reform Biel may warrant, and to which, in the Committee of the Peers, he might be induced to give his as sent. The misapprehension of our corre spondent is so glating, and the means of correct ing it are so obvious, that we would content ourselves with a simple recommendation to re peruse our article itself, were our object in re curring to the subject only the correction of an individual mistake, or the defence of a particular interpretation of a Ministerial speech. The latter, we think, has been sufficiently effected already. But as the thorough-paced Anti-Reformers, reinforced by a detachment from " the Wa verers," have announced their hostility to one of the " principles," or (if you will) to one of the chief provisions, of the Bill,—namely, the 101. qualification,—and to one of the main articles in the enfranchisement clause, namely, the new pri vilege to be conferred on the metropolitan dis tricts,—as they have, notwithstanding our repeated efforts to reconcile them to these parts of the measure, shown no disposition to sheath the sword,—and, as even on such unreasonable ground they might appear to the careless or iny different spectator to make good fight for amend ments which have already been defeated, we shall make no apology for entering a little further into the subject, even at the risk of some tepetition. All the enemies of the Bill who profess to be the friends of any reform, however moderate, admit that they would extend the qualification to the enjoyment of the franchises which the Bill creates or enlarges, to such classee of the inhabitants of the old and new boroughs as in their opinion can give securities by the pos session of property, knowledge, or respectability, that they will exercise their rights without. abusing their trust. The most moderate Re= formers of the Anti-Reform school can never imagine fora moment that a narrow corporation, like that of Bath, should continue to engross the electoral privileges of a large and wealthy com munity, or that in conferting, for the first time, on Manchester, Birmingham, and Leeds, the right of sending Members to Parliament, the mode of election at Bath should be taken as a model. No converted Anti. Reformer has yet stood up for any of the old plans of proceeding in adjusting the new electoral rights : none of them have contended for the monopoly of a close corporation or the universal suffrage of a pot. walloping constituency. The only general qualir fication which could be suggested in this case was one of property, and the only question was, what amount of property should be taken as the measure of an electoral right. To have fixed upon the payment of a rent of 201. as the only electoral census, would have disqualified more than two-thirds of the pers , ns jnstly entitled to express their opinions on pun lie affairs by nominating a representative oftheir choice. To have given a vote to every persen paying 41. or 51., would have been nea,l) equi valent to universal suffrage. The proper, or at any rate a reasonable medium, therefore,—. a pable of general application, and neither creating dissatisfaction by arbitrary exclusions nor a mob constituency by general admission,—was some thing between these extremes, or a 101. qualifi cation. Had a rent of 201 been made the elec toral census, large boroughs of from 5,000 to 10,000 inhabitants and upwards would have seen their voters reduced to the very manageable dimensions of a parish select vestry. Thus, to take from the Parliamentary returns a few in stances at random, Newark would only have had 157 electors, having only that number of 201. householders, though its population be 8,084 ; Abingdon, with 5,137 inhabitants, would only have had 36 voters; Reading, with a popu:a tion of 12,867, only 452 ; and Oxford, with population of nearly 15,000, only 339. None of the boroughs in schedule B, having a popu lation of between 2,000 and 4000, would have had 50 voters ; and the whole of the boroughs in the county of Cornwall, which now send 40 representatives to the Commons House of Par liament, could not have mustered more than 229 electors, or five electors and a fraction for each member. Even with the 10/. qua lification, which is represented as so de mocratical, there is not one of the 47 boroughs at first included in schedule B, and still con tinued in the partial or unimpaired exercise of their privileges, which could boast of 300 house holders entitled to a vote ; and of 84 large or considerable boroughs left untouched by the Bill, because they exceeded the prescribed limits of 4,000 inhabitants, there are only two,—namely, Bath and Reading ; only 14 cities and towns now returning Members to Parliament will be able to muster above 1,000 electors, or will have a constituency of above 1,000 by the 101. qualification. These, we need scarcely mention, are London, 'Westminster, Liverpool, Bristol, Southwark, Newcastle-on-Tyne, Norwich, Hull, Plymouth, Exeter, York, Oxford, Nottingham, and Southampton. But to show still further that the constituency of England would not con stitute a mob, though every householder in town or country, paying a rent of 101. a year, were entitled to vote, we need only mention the fact (which we derive from official returns), that, ex clusive of the metropolitan county of Middlesex, the whole 101. householders of this division of the island amounts only to 262,000, of whom not more than one-half inhabit boroughs or cities where such a rent entitles to electoral privileges. Compared with our population of 14,000,000, most reasonable persons would consider this limited number of voters rather as a select body of privileged aristocrats, than as an overwhelming host of democracy. It is true, indeed, that Manchester, Leeds, Birming ham, Bristol, Liverpool, and two or three other towns, will have a large constituency under the Bill ; but when reduced to fi g u res , or str ipp e d o f of Antistheirsitihnui oe e bsjfo r te e rcm v st c o ,etait l oleurhseltejoiftpougiivnlltaueiaremirinioyaobrmeeetxriehmanoagtifs,dg. examinationvea eo r idtn a to t eer i rmw o nso t eiy i with oettebfiii ia partwhich s ß e y nte a d ' t e l e p onsrpoeeuett seen l aa r ir t i a l i p :s a mo t w p t t r e h h e r e e - . number of new qualifications created in twenty six of the largest towns enfranchised by the Bill (includmg even Liverpool) will not exceed 33,0000 ; or form on an average not more than 1,000 electors for each place. Having gut this admission, the pretended amenders but the real adversaries of the Bill turn round upon us and s ay, that if the 101. qualification leaves so tew voters in the smaller boroughs, and confers elec toral rights on so many in the larger, why nut endeavour to adjust the difference, and prevent anticipated confusic,n by raising the qualification in the latter from 101. to 151. or 20/.? With the adoption of this change they pretend that they would be satisfied, because, with the success of this amendment they could overturn the ilia