The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-16 00:00:00

- LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 16 1832. It is gratifying to all true friends of Reform :o see the perplexities, and contradictions, and inconsistencies into which the factious oppo nents of that measure are perpetually plunging themselves. It is scarcely a week since one of the most elaborately abusive and absurd of the Anti-Reform Journals took occasion to praise, in no very measured terms, the remarks of Earl GREY on the subject of the tithe question ; to talk of his sincerity, good intentions, and so forth ; the same Journal now turns round " the same Earl GREY, denies, or, at least, endeavours to deny, all that it had before said in his praise, and has the still further assurance to declare, that it " had no very firm faith in the declaration so emphatically made eight days ago by Earl GREY in the House of Lords, that it was the determination of his MAJESTY'S Goverment to protect the rights of the Church in Ireland, and to vindicate the au thority of the existing law." And yet this Journal, thus notoriously inconsistent, takes credit to itself for the aound, unswerving, unhesitating character of its opposition to Whig Ministers and Whig measures ! Luckily, irs opposition is without the power to do harm, or its arguments to produce conviction ; for it is impossible that even its own party can place confidence in an advocate which blows hot and cold at the same time, and has so little regard for truth and decency as to deny this week what it has roundly asserted the week before. We direct attention to an article headed " Warwickshire Anti-Reformers," which will be found in another column. As our contempo rary, the Chronicle, has so well exposed the trickery of the Warwickshire Ultras, in getting up their mock petition, it is almost un necessary for us to enlarge upon the matter. We may, however, remark that we have re ceived several communications from Birming ham, Coventry, and other places, all of which are highly, and very justly indignant at the bare faced attempts of a few individuals to mis represent public feeling in the county. One of our correspondents says that out of 776 , the whole number signing a petition to the KING from the populous county of War wick, Birmingham and its neighbourhood only furnishes 90 ! The city of Coventry 58 ! and for the rest no fewer than eighty (Jerome?: figure in the list ! ! This is surely enough in all conscience. But the Earl of WARWICK, Earl HowE, and the remainder of! the Noble petitioners, Clergy and all, are a day too late in crying up a re-action. The time is gone by the Reform Bill will pass—and the country be saved. The French Papers of Tuesday contain no tiews of any interest. The Funds were 661.35 e. FRRNciI FUNDS, PARIS, FEB. 13.-Five per Cents., 96f, 75c. 6 er- 70c. 65c. 70c. 75c. 70c. 65c. 70c. 96f. 60c. 50c. 55c. 60c. 65c. ;! 1 ", 6 5c. 55c. 65c. 96E Mc. ; Four per Cents., 89f. ; Three per 66 L 25c. 20c. 25c. 15c. 66f. 66f. sc. 66f. 66f. sc. 66f. 10c. 15c. ; Bank Stock, 1,620 f. 1,615 E ; Rente de Naples, 77E 60c. V e ; Route d'Espagne, 10 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 76 7.5!' ; yerpetuelle d'Espage, IA 53; tiaytian Loan, r.Exchange on London, one month, paper, '2sf. 40c. ; money, e; three months , paper, 25f. 20c.; money, 25f. 20c.- out s Authentique. " -- Brussels and German Papers, received this morning, contain little news. The Austrians seem to be well satisfied with their adroit ma nagement of the Italian insurrection : 423RUSSELS, FEB. 13.—A Tournay Journal of the 11th an_ the 2 "'flees t hat his M a j esty i s expected in that city on Saturday, s th inst. Shth It ssems certain th at M. Coghen is resolved to retire from e " fl ee of Mi nister of Finance, but not till after the discus -4 °f the budget, which he will support, with his colleagues. A letter f Fo t , tan rorn Luxembourg of the 11th says—." M. Stifft, of tet t , -.le, has been set at liberty. It is affirmed that he has n, k ~ 13RiT s " o tne• grant, ' E LS, Fes. 14 .— W e l earn t h at t h e King has just am At. " on -- . 4°,0 00 francs families. Gana. S teven c eased yesterday to be editor of the Messagcr dc tribu t ,,, Th e cause will come on before the Supreme Military A ; tu-d a)'• tiro i 13elgi 3 nto ,a. a nnounces that all the English officers now ' Glik,: k '.„ ° e received in us to 111"0-1, FEB: la—The orders to return to England. first regiment of Infantry leaves 1 village s , -rr " , to go into cantonments in the neighbouring ties of Aro The 12th will come here in its room. Large quanti. M . p:o4llnition continue to be carried to thecitadel. •opohi I ' cotter has published a long letter, addressed to t' th, nT }(i ng of the Belgians, the tendency of which is to i aje,,t y er tainty and instability of the situation in whic h fis " Pla ce d c--" " I wish to prove to you," he says• i n conclusion," that the above is enough, and more than enough, for you to rid yourself, as saon a; possible, of a burden, the weight of which will daily became more insupportable to you." VIENNA, Fi.a. 3.—A courier from. Paris brought the news yesterday, that the question of the demolition of Op, Belgian fortresses was amicably settled. ThiS with the satisfaCtory news from Italy, caused 'i t small improvement in our funds. 'lle Just thin Obskniet icontai ns a remarkalile artfcte on the late events in Italy, from which it appears that on the obstinate resistance: of the insurgents at Forli, our troops were indeed called in to support the Papal troops, and that when order was restored part of them remained to protect the peaceable inha bitants, but that the column sent from Modena to the Legations, immediately quitted the Papal territory. This repeated proof of the disinterested and pacific intentions of the Austrian Cabinet will be received with satisfaction at Paris; and as it refutes all the malicious insinuations respecting the system followed by our Cabinet towards Italy, it may be expected that M. Perier will not meet with any well founded reproaches on his conduct in the affairs of Italy ; for Austria does not aim, as has been sup_ posed, and as the party of the mourenzent would perhaps he glad to see, to obtain possession of the Legations, in order to seize a favourable opportunity of throwing a great body of troops into them, but as soon as order was restored it left only a small num ber in Bologna to preserve tranquillity. . _ - VIESNA, Feb. 3. 4. Five per Cents. ti; ) ,-', Four per Cents 76 Bank Shares llls The very plain and satisfactory declarations 0: Lord ALTHORP and Mr. STANLEY have left ,no room for doubt that the tithe system in Ireland is, at length, doomed to extinction. The view of the Comlnittee appears to be, to substi tute a land-tax for the tithes to be extin guished, to the end that the payment may not, in any case, find its way from the pocket of the parson to that of the landlord. This plan seems to satisfy Mr. SHELL, Mr. O'CONNELL, and other especial enemies of tithes, who, at the same time, state broadly, that no measure having for its object merely to secure the incomes of the Law-Clergy, can ever content the people of Ireland. The Irish nation has been suffi ciently impressed with the force of Dr. DoYLE's sentiment, " May their hatred to tithes be as lasting as their love of justice." It is quite a misrepresentation to assert that the opposition to tithes arises wholly from the Catholics, The payment has been resisted for years by every sect in Ireland, and the probability is, that if it were not for the holding together, for party purposes, of the Orangeists, it would not now he sought to be upheld by any indivi dual in that country. The feeling in England among orthodox Churchmen upon this sub ject, may serve to illustrate the real state of opinion in Ireland ; nothing being more noto rious, than that the landed interest in Eng land is decidedly hostile to the payment, how ever friendly the landed gentlemen may be sup posed to be to the ascendancy of Protestant Orthodoxy, and to the perpetuation of a system which provides so largely, and so well, for the cadets of aristocratic families. The No-Popery Squirearchy of Britain are in their hearts as desirous of a change in the tithe system, as the Catholic peasantry of Ireland, nor can there be any wonder at the universal dislike of a system, full and running over, of vexation and oppression to all parties concerned in it, not excluding the recipients. The information and opinions given by the Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. WHATELY), who was summoned to London in reference to this question, have, it is said, somewhat startled Ministers. The Archbishop, whose attachment to his own Church is undoubted, is reported not to have minced his sentiments on the anomalous footing of the two religions in Ireland. Happy would it, indeed, be, for any Bishop-ridden country, if all her Bishops were as enlightened philosophers as Dr. WHATELY, whose conduct in regard to education has been such as to acquire for him, already, an unusual share of public confi dence in the sincerity of his purposes Let Govern ment infuse into the English Episcopal Bench some of the spirit which animates Dr. WHATELY, and they will do the utmost they can to preserve the Parliamentary existence of the Lords Spiri tual. We do hope and trust that the Bishops will have tact enough, when the Tithe Bill comes before them, to avoid the public scandal of any indecent exhibition of hostility to its objects. If they do not avoid such an indiscretion, it may be out of the power of Ministers to preserve their Parliamentary rights to the Episcopal Bench, even though opportunity should have enabled Ministers, in the meantime, to support Dr. MALTBY by the elevation of other Divines of their own way of thinking to the spiritual Peerage. Lord GREY'S speech having been fully ex plained in the sense in which we, at the time, remarked it ought properly to he taken, there will be an end of any misconception upon that subject. The incident may, however, be useful, as affording a proof of the necessity of public men expressing themselves with the utmost clear ness and precision in their public declaratiwis. e regret to state that Lord TENTER DEN is in a very delicate state of health. His Lordship presided at Guildhall on Tuesday last, but was evidently labouring under much exhaustion and debility ; and yebteiday he was unable to attend. It is said that an agent of the English post office has been in Paris, endeavouring to induce the French Government to put a stop to all conveyance of newspapers by private expresses, so that there may be a complete mo nopoly of the two post-offices. The French Government is said to have refused the application. What will the Duke of IlicumoNn say, if this should prove true ?— Courier. Of the 5,000 shares which are to be sub scribed for the Bristol Joint Stock Banking Company, previous to the commencement of business, 4,117 have been taken. A good deal of anxiety is manifested in the city to ascertain the nature of the mission of Count O. LOFF, deputed by the Emperor NICHOLAS to proceed to the King of HOLLAND. The feeling is on the increase that NICHOLAS is disposed to ratify the treaty ; but should the King of HoLLA NI) remain inflexible in his determina tion to reject the proposals of the London Conference, it is said that the Emperor of Russia, will endeavour, if pos sible, to renew the negotiations, with the view of obtain. ing terms more congenial to the wishes of the King of HOLLAND. HEARTBREAKING AF F A IR.—A short time since Lord Viscount 'MAYNARD presented to the Essex hunting establishment two stags, which, from the diffi. culty in catching them in Elston Lodge Park, it w as expected would produce some excellent sport. Yesterday se'nnight one of those fleet animals was turned down at Canfield. The chase had lasted two hours and twenty minutes and the spirit of the animal did not appear to have failed ; but whilst running, apparently with re doubled speed, the game dropped suddenly before the hounds and was found lifeless. A post mortem examina tion of the dear deceased took - pile:, when it was dis covered that death had been occasioned by the hurting 01 the heart.—Brighlon Guardian. • en L • Places and Date. *E F. 7 J v a Uc; Newcastle, Feb. 14 6 1 I 1 1 5 937 293 North Shiekls &c. Feb. 14 63 10 i 4 10 61 280 73 Hetton, &T., Feb. 14, Haddington, Feb. 13, 9 1 0 0 10 122 57 Tranent, Feb.l3, Bl 9 1 18 71 261 63 Preston Pans, Feb. 13, 2l 2 0 0 24 98 18 North Berwick, Feb. 12 3 0 0 0 3 16 , 7 Musselburgh, Feb. 13 Ilawick, Feb. In to 13 2 0 0 1 1 17 :4 Edinburgh, Feb. 13 1 01 1 0 0 12 7 Kirkintilloch, Feb. 13 Glasgow, &c., Feb. 13 1 5 3 0 3 8 5 1— Total 17 39 13 43 268 2649 825 Total from places where the disease has ceased, 1 or from which no returns hwc been this day received 1842 521 Grand Total 4491 X 1346 LONDON—THIS MORNING, FEB. 16. Rotherhithe Limehouse 1 0 0I 0 1 1 4 3 .Afloat in the River..., 12 0I 0 0 2 2 0 Ratcliff Highway 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 Lambeth 1 1 1 0 1 f 2 1 Southwark -- 11 2 --- 16 4 Total 1 6 112 5 411 112 (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. COUNCIL-OFFICE, WHITEHALL, FEB. 13, 1932. The Lords of the Council have just received intimation that the Bishop of London has directed the Clergy in his Diocese, in no cases to permit the bodies of persons dying of cholera to be carried into the church previous to interment. SURREY DISPENSARY, UNTION.STREET, SOUTH. WARK. This day a special meeting of the Committee was held, to take further precautionary measures in relation to the cholera, when it was determined that the rules of the Institution, re quiring letters of recommendation, be, as to cases of cholera, for the present suspended, and that the Medical Officers be re. quested to attend all cases applying at the Dispensary without such letters. Every step seems to be taken by the Committee that the emergency requires. Feb. 15, 1832. Authenticated by George Whiting, London-bridge, South wark, Secretary to the Dispensary. FS PRIG or Inv sTOCKS T f. Pan . F4ock 19 5 1,4 5 k; 3 pe C•ma. Red. ....-ft2T4 3 271. 3 ; er Cent.Conr. ...... 8'24 k I ,i 91., pc: Cent. 90 % 1 4 New 3sper 3 per (.ent Ann. 17'26 4 pee Cent. if 13..0k Long Ann to expire • JMa ISM l3-16 I/ (H t. In, ~ A.ss ) 163 i Jan. 5, VIM; April 5, IRV) Jan. 5. Inn i • ...11.4.S .or f: - I:E1:3/i FT:-D3 A — Or,' < . , ,.r, ' ~ F .. . ..... .... Bclgi•in Scrip ... Br.: :n.ln nn , ... pne z, X A yres T i.onfl , C 'II an Re.r.,,, CoL ,, rnt is ~ a Ponds attn, 11•424 ( - 3 - Ti t)aniah (i re,-.4c n0nd5....... ........... , 1 ,3 - ..i tco, IFSZ . Onatimata. :f' O. ti , , Ift'b -- PRICKS OF SHARES Till: Real del Monte Mining Co. Protector Insurance Comp. General Steam Navigation Co , PRICES OF 'KISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, FEB. 13. B ink .Mock o,nsols, 3 ner cent. - 'Royal Irish Ditto Gov. Stock, 3 per cent. 89% National Ditt:", — Ditto, New 4 per Cent — 'Hibennan Bank Go , . Deb.:A, percent.... 85!,i Provincial Ditto Royal ( anal Steer - Royal Irish Mine Grand Canal Stock - Imperial Mine — City Deb. 4 per cent, — Mining Co. of Ireland Billast office l'eb. 4n. c. Commercial Buildings — A rrte r a Due. America Etrazil 0 Buenos Ayrt• 0 Cart liagena 0 I Dublin 0 I Flander, 0 I France 0 0 Guernse & Jersey— 0 Arrived. Due. 0 Hamburg 0 Holland 0 Jamaica 0 Leeward Islands 0 Lisbon 0 0 Malta.... 0 0 Sweden . 2 1 Waterford HIGH WATER AT LONnON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Mor ning ... 17 minutes after :3. Evening... 39 minracs after 3 eiweg, v. r • f b,,,- -„ , ...e,,__ -\_ It)11134, s -,, ~ "--, •;., 0 ,-,1 7 --: - ' . ' _ ti IS OA V AT oNr ()'(COCK. New .' per Cent. !India Stock IDitto Bond.. ;South Sell Stock 101 d Annuitie, INew Ditto. .... ... 13 per Cent. Ann. t 751 -- E. ....8 10 . 'Ditto. _so' 8 10 pin. :Ditto Small Ditto Commercial Ditto Advertised — r m. flank r Account India Gar AetYiunt - CO.ns Feb THIS 145 +'Lt,t •l r, Ne7,p4Ait,ul E'er 'ortug , k ,3 e -q-uvoan,, OV. 140, New , panish, Fkr 18313 Frereh ilentes, sp. r. —r. —c. Exchange • --- -- 3 per cent Exci - arig , Dutch Scrip 40!.; DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK. Paid. .£:]o 13 Per Share. 13 £1 S 0 614 OLD BAILEY.-(THI S DAY.) This morning these Sessions commenced before the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, Sheriffs, Mr. Baron Bayley, and Mr. Justice Bost nquet. Henry Stockwell, a private in the Scotch Fusileers, aged 22, was indicted for assaulting Robert Brayley on the King's high way, and stealing from his person 1/. 17s. 6d. in money, and a tobacco box. The prosecutor stated that he was a private in the 91st Regi_ went, but on Thursday, the 12th of January, he was discharged by the Chelsea Board. On Saturday forenoon, the 11th January, being desirous of going to Rochdale by*the Manchester boat, he was snaking his way towards the place from which the boat started ; meeting the prisoner in Park-lane, he asked him to di_ rect him the nearest way ; they went into a public_hous e together and had a pint of beer ; he then left the house, and when he had got about .200 yards the prisoner thilowed him and knocked him down in the open street; the prisoner instantly assisted him up, and took that opportunity of robbing him of his purse, containing 1/. 17s. 6d., and his tobacco-box. The prisoner then ran towards Portman-street barracks, followed by the prosecutor, who at length lost sight of him. The prose cutor, in a few minutes, saw him in the guard-room, and the box was found in his jacket-pocket. John Taylor stated that he saw the prisoner knock the pro 3ecutor down, and take the purse out of his pocket as he was picking him up. Witness accompanied the prosecutor to the barracks, where they found the prisoner. Serjeant Wlntyre stated, that he found the prisoner's jacket hanging up in the barracks, and in the pocket was the prose cutor's tobacco box, which he now produced. There was no money found. The prisoner, in his defence, denied the robbery, and said that he bought the box for twopence of a private in the Cold stream Guards. Mr. Baron BAYLEY, in summing up, said it certainly was an extraordinary circumstance that a man should be knocked down and robbed in the middle of the day, and in such a frequented place as Park.lane. If, however, the Jury believed the positive testimony of the prosecutor and Taylor. who both swore to the prisoner's identity, and also that the to_ bacco-box found in the prisoner's jacket was that which the pro. secutor had lost, they were bound to find Min guilty. The Jury, after some consultation, found the prisoner Guilty— Death. John Wilson, aged 11, was indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Richard Haines, and stealing a quantity of wearing apparel. The prosecutor resided in Bedford-place, Kensington. On the morning of the I6th of January he went out for a short time, leaving no person in the house. A woman living opposite saw the prisoner and another man go to the prosecutor's door; the prisoner got over the area railings into the kitchen, and, coming up stairs, let the other man in at the door. In a few minutes the prosecutor returned home, and, on going into the house, he found the two men in the parlour; they rushed by him, and rail directly out of the house ; but the prosecutor secured the prisoner; the other man made his escape. A police.officer named Hart was sent for, and the prisoner was given into his custody, On examining the pre mises, a bundle was found in the parlour tied up, and ready to be carried away; it contained a large quantity of wearing appa rel, including frocks, shoes, stockings, caps, ribands, &c. The police-officer Hart on being called did not appear; his brother stated that Hart had last night apprehended four men at Kensington, and was obliged to attend at Queen-square Police-office this morning. His LORDSHIP said it was Hart's first duty to attend this Court to give evidence, and ordered his recognizances to be entreated.—The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. CIIOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL COUNCIL OFFICE, DAILY REPO BOARD OF HEALTH. , WHITEHALL.—(THIS DAY.) IRT of CHOLERA CASES. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWRI,VE O'CLOCK. We have no arrivals as yet, not even the French mail, sup_ posed to be owing to the foggy weather. THE FUNDS. The alarm of the extension of the cholera morbus in the capi tal and in the city begins to subside, and the agitation of the public mind is hourly decreasing. Had this dreadful disease made any further progress in the various outskirts of London, no doubt we should have had it communicated to us in the city this morning ; but all is quiet, and by ar more tranquil on the subject than for the last two days. We have seen a pamphlet just published in London by Dr. Gencken, who has lately re turned from St. Petersburgh, in which he states that out of forty attendants and six physicians in the hospital at St. Petersburgh, to which he was appointed, not a single individual sickened of the real cholera ; and he further states, that all proofs of the contagious nature of the cholera as vet adduced, remain subject to doubt. He also adds, that the minds of persons going to be sent to the hospitals were so agitated, that he saved more persons who lay in cellars on straw than in the hospitals. In the first stage 01 the disease he recommended the following to be taken in a proportionate quantity:— Liquor ammonia carbon. and pepperrnint oil. Consols, which left off yesterday at 82Vfor the account, opened at 82%, at present they may be quoted at 82% Up to the present hour we have no political news or reports. The Foreign Market is inactive at present. HALF-PAST ONE. The French mail has arrived, and the letters just deli►ered. They write from Brussels that the new concession which Hol. land demands from Belgium is that the navigation of the waters which join the Scheldt shall be interdicted. She also requires to have her frontiers only ten leagues from Brussels, and pro poses to sell to Belgium, as a personal profit, the title of King of the Pays Bat, as also that of the Grand Duke of Luxembourg. A letter from Vienna states that a courier arrived from St. Petersburgh to one of the first banking houses in that city, stat ing that it was only an invention that the Emperor was going to Berlin, and it was believed his intention was to be at the head of his grand army to march to the East. They write from Antwerp of the id February, that some dis orders had taken place there amongst the workmen on the forti fications, in consequence of which several persons have been arrested. The) accounts received from ',the Hague mention that pre parations were making for the approaching encampment of the troops in West Brabant, and that the marine preparations also continue with great vigour. The Prince of Orange and Prince Frederick are at Bois.le-Duc. Consols are not so geod as in the early part of the morning, when they were done at 8 01 4 for the Account, at present they are 82%. We hear that the estafette from Paris brought the French Itentes 66f. ax., which is an improvement of 20c. In the Foreign Market scarcely a bargain doing. Console 821 THREE O'CLOCK JUST IN TIME. —Lately was married, after forty-six years' courtship, M r . J. W icics , age d eighty four, to 1111. S ENGLISH, both of Creeting, Suffolk. The Vandals in the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark, have been so twitted and ridiculed by the triumphant majority in favour of the preservation of the Lady Chapel," that they say the chapel to them it any thing-but a chapel of ease. EXTRAORDINARY FEAT I .—Mr. ROBERT RoessoN, of Moor Now, Cartmel Fell, lately walked from his own house to Liverpool in to d ay, a distance of 78 miles ! Mr. R. is nearly sixty y'ars of age 1-1(mrlal Chronicle. COURT OF CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) PERRY r. GILLOTT. The part heard arguments were resumed in this case upon the application of the defendant, to dissolve the ex-parte in_ junction obtained by the plaintiff' the " Patent Perryian Pen manufacturer," upon the ground that the invention which be claimed to be a new invention, was not so, but a prin ciple that had been acted upon long prior to the date of the patent (18:31), and that the defendant's alleged piracy was consequently no infringement of the right, of the patentee. Six disinterested metallic pen manufac_ turers and scientific persons swore, on behalf of the de ! fendant (besides the. defendant himself, and his brother), that the invention on which the patent was granted was not new; and many metallic pens were exhibited which had been made long prior to the date of the patent, and which it was contended had been manufactured on the same principle as that on which the Perryan pens are. The plaintiff complained of the short time that had been allowed to him to meet the defendant's case. Between the period of filing the affidavits of the defendant and the bringing on the motion, he had only been able to bring forward the affidavits of three of his own workmen (men stated to be of great skill) in support of his statement, that the inven_ tion was new. The LORD CHANCELLOR said had all the facts been before him when he granted the injunction that he had now been made acquainted with, he certainly would not have granted the injunction. He considered himself bound to dissolve the injunction, but to order the defendant to keep an account until the plaintiff could try his right at law upon an action. Sir E' SUGDEN, on the part of the plaintiff', undertook to deliver the declaration within a month from this time. The LORD CHANCELLOR then dissolved the injunction, ordering the defendant to keep an account, and desiring it to be understood that his present judgment was entirely without prejudice to the goodness or worthlessness of the patent. ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) His Honour the MASTER of the ROLLS was occupied the whole morning with arguments in the part heard case of the Attorney_ General and the Brentwood School, which were not concluded when our reporter left. VICE-CHANCERY.-(TIIIS DAY.) This being the Second Seal, his HONOUR (the Vice-Chan. cellor) took motions to-clay. SHREWSBURY v. COTTINGHAM. Mr. KNIGHT applied, on behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury, for a special injunction to restrain the defendant from getting coal under the estuary of the river Dee, the royalty of which belonged to the plaintiff: The Learned Counsel had not con cluded his opening when we left. BANKRUPTCY COURT.-(THIS DAY.) LOWE v. AARON. Mr. TWISS, at the sitting of the Court, proceeded to reply in this bankrupt petition, and had not concluded when our reporter [eft. We shall give the facts of the case in detail, when their Ronourm pronounce judgment. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-( THIS DAY. FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, FEB. 15.—Wind N.W. light.—Sailed the Catharine, Fenn, for Bombay ; and Marquis Camden, Larkins, for China FALMOUTH, FEB. 14.—Wind N.E.—Arrived the Gilstaff, Loffman, from Tarragona. LIVERPOOL FEB. 14.—Arrived off port, the Pero, Roberts, from Odessa ; British King, Moncrief, from Marseilles ; and Matilda, Moor, from Palermo. An inward-bound brig is aground on the North Bank, supposed to be the Argus, Rubens, from Mobile. GREENOCK, FEB. la—Arrived the Borealis, Wright, from Demerara. CORK, FEB. 13.—Wind N.E—Arrived his Majesty's ship Onyx, from Plymouth. BELFAST, FEB. I3.—Arrived the Heroine, Benson, from, Alicant; and Zephyr, Fitzsimons, from London. WHITEHAVEN, FEB. 14.—The Ann, Moore, from Dublin, which was on shore near Maryport, was got off', and towed into that harbour on the 2il inst. The Apparence, Blmnbery, from -- to London, wa , seen on Wintert on Beach, on Tuesday, with to of masts and water-logged, having struck on the Hasbro' Sands. THE MARKETS.-(THIS -DAY.) GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Feb. 9, 1832, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and 'Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 595. 9d.l Oats ‘2ls. 7d.1 Beans-- 355. 2d.Barley-355. 4d.l Rye -- 375. Od.l Pease.- 365. Ild. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat-- 595. 7,11 Oats 21s. 7d. Beans. .... 35, 9d. 355. 7d.1 Rye -. 365. Id.l Pease-- 375. 6d. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat---275. Bd. Oats 15s. 3d. I6s. 9d. Barley-- 9s. 44.1 Rye 15s. 6d. 1 Pease.—..., 14s. Od. HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 frtisses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2. 5 to .£2 10 New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto " 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 9 Clover Hay 4 10 5 15 Oat Straw ..... _V 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 Best Meadow Hay ss. per load lower than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. Supply moderate, and trade dull. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay.... ...... .. ..... ...... .......... Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 4 Clover Hay (extra tine)....£6 0 ..Generally ()at Straw _€l 12 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw 1 16 1 18 Straw 2s. per load higher than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. Supply short, and trade dull. THE YOUNG HARPER.—A Welsh child, named HUGHES, not yet five years old, has been for some time past entertaining various fashionable assemblies at the West-end of the town with his extraordinary performances on the pedal-harp, in which he developed some talent at the early age of two years. He is considered quite a pro digy in the use of that instrument. We understand that he makes his first appearance before the public at the New Strand Theatre this evening. The bald-headed gentleman with Louis PHI LIPPE is M. FONTAIN E, the architect. They are concert ing a plan for a Royal Bazaar. His MAJESTY has a great turn for such projects : in fact, between you and me, his character has been mistaken—he only looks on the Crown as a great commercial speculation. He has at once the soul and the civility of a tax. gatherer ; and if he loses the throne, give him a patent for building shops on a new plan, with a certain gain, and he will be at once the happiest and most popular man in the kingdom.-IVew Monthly Magazine. The forthcoming volumes, written by a cele brated public character, and entitled " Adventures of a Younger Son," are said to detail the remarkable passages in the life of the author, from his school-days to the ter mination of his sojourn in India. It is to be expected that the author's intimacy with Lord BYRON, the late Mr. Siixu.sy, and some of the Greek chiefs, will furnish rich materials for this extraordinary production. which h as b ee n a d o pt e d amongs t th e H e b rews i n L on d on A correspondent proposes the followin g pl an , for several years past, and which has saved a great many of their families from starvation :—During the four severe months of the winter they have a lottery amongst them ; the prizes consist of coals, meat, and bread, and the subscrip tion is 1/. and upwards per annum. A housekeeper, or any charitable person who subscribes 1/. per annum is en titled to one prize ; those who subscribe 21. per annum have two prizes, and the rest of the subscriptions in pro portion. After this lottery is drawn, each subscriber has sent to his house every week a ticket, one for coals, one for meat, and another for bread, which he gives to the dis tressed, and the tradesman who furnishes these articles takes the paper tickets to the Hebrew Treasury, and receives the money. For our own part we should recommend this example to all the parishes, with persons appointed as overseers, to see that the tickets are not sold for money. No doubt by this means there would be a great savin g to the parishes, for the subscriptions would not be heavy. A Highland trout died lately in a well at Greene •Id, parish of Moneydie, which was put into it ex actly 17 years ago; it died a natural death.—Scots Times. ANECDOTE OF MR. JEFFREY.—Th pre sent Lord Ad vocate for Scotland was the son of ane under clerk of Session, and was born in the upper part of a house in the Lawnrnarket, very near the spot where the celebrated DAVID HUME is said to have also first seen the light. The house happened to take fire at the time when in the hurry of s av i ng the future Lord Advocate was only about a y ear o ld, an d other things, the child in the garret was for a time forgotten. When it was almost too late h e was remembered, and an honest man, by trade a slater, volunteered his services in rescuing the infant from his perilous situation. With much difficulty, and no little danger, he was brought forth from the burning house, and delivered into the arms of his anxious friends. Thus was a life, which assuredly has been of some importance in Scottish literary and political history, preserved by the courage of a poor tradesman. It is pleasant to have it to record, that many years after this ev en t, wh en Mr. JE r _ F . RE y had commenced his career at the bar, the poor slater, happening to get involved, by no misconduct of hi s own, in a ruinous series of legal troubles, applied for ad vice to Mr. JEFFREY, who, in gratitude to his disinte. rested preserver, exerted himself in such a way as com-1 p l ete ly to extricate him in a very short time. We believe we may safely add, t h at this conduct on t h e part o f t h e Lord Advocate is no more than what all who know hires wou ld expect f rom him under such circumstances.-- Chambers'' -Edinburgh Journal—a weekly publicatid!, price lid. y . _rr~ SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC ,ibUIINALS W e frankly convey to the public all the in telligence we have received, or have been able to collect, on the all-engrosing 'subj ec t o f th e choler a now supposed to be in East London, and shall as frankly communicate our ideas on the subject. That there is a considerable in - crease of severe disease, and of the tendency to disease, from the causes which we have before , nutnerated, in those most populous parts of London respecting which apprehensions are en tertained, we have little doubt : but our OWn persuasion is, that there is not that fearfully contagious malady (of which we have read so often) that desolated whole districts in India ; at least there is no satisfactory evidence—ther e is n o proof from the result—that any such disesae has appeared on the banks of the Thames, or even on those of the Tyne, from whence the contagion is generally supposed to have been conveyed to London. We therefore infer that there is no reason for the degree of terror which now oppresses a considerable portion of this vast city. We may be thought by some to be acting unwisely in making such a declaration ; bin the promulgation of the truth is always the best course, and it will not appear that we are encouraging negligence or indifference to the existing evil, and to the condition of our fellow-creatures whom it is most likely to visit, when we state that to a certain extent the same measures which would be necessary to guard against the spread of cholera are applicable and requisite in the present case. We approve of the cleansing of houses and streets—of attention •0 the poor, and improvement of their condition. far as they will co-operate voluntarily, and b .) constraint when they are obstinately attached to pernicious habits, for the corrupt are not now to endanger their neighbours, as well as destroy themselves ; but to any measure that shall con troul trade and commerce, and diminish the means of general employment, we are decidedly hostile, because we think such measure calcu- ated to increase the evil, whatever it may he, and to create as many deaths by starvation, or insuffi cient support, as could occur even from Indian cholera if it existed. But it may be said that our neighbours will abridge the employment of our mechanics and labourers by cutting short their intercouse with the port of London and imposing onerous quarantine. To this we can ugly answer, that they have a right to do so if they please ; but we think they will act most unwisely, even with respect to their own po pulation ; for they will introduce the tnalath of starvation, which is much worse than ant thing we have seen of what some have been pleased to call cholera in this country. We per. ceive, by the official returns from the whole north of England and Scotland,—from New castle, Shields, Musselburgh, Edinburgh, Sze.— that the total number of deaths by this imputed disease of cholera has, during nearly four months, among an immense population, amounted to 1,331 ! With how little ceremony or considera tion France has been known to declare war against England, and England against France, from the very first encounters of which wars tens of thousands of children have been made orphans, and wives widows ! Can it then be fearful for France, or for any other foreign nation whi c h does not dread the loss of myriads in the state of wars, to keep up the friendly commercial rela tions of peace with us, because thirteen hundred patients—a less number than usually die in the same extent of country in the same time—have been known to die of a something which some body calls the cholera morbus? The idea is ab surd. Our journal contains the Bill which Go vernment have prepared for the prevention of the disease. In the provisions of the Bill we agree, but we cannot recede from the opinion before given, that the real causes of the disease are po verty, bad living, insufficient clothing, dirty streets and dwellings, united to occasional excess : and that the cure which we hope to see speedily effected will be found in the reverse of all these,—in cleanliness and wholesome diet, and regular habits. Among the documents oil which Government have founded their Bill, which was last night passed in the House of Commons, is a series of letters, chiefly from the ministers of the infected parts, or parts liable to infection. The rector o f Stepney, Dr. Barneby, writes that " when pro posals were made to his parish, at a town meet ing to raise the funds necessary for providing a temporary hospital, &c., the proposals were ne gatived by a large majority !" and this result of the meeting is printed, as we have printed it, in italics, in the official document. If every per son constituting that majority should have a severe attack of the cholera, it would really be just retribution ; for undoubtedly great exertions and great sacrifices are necessary on this occa sion, and those who will not take a part in alle viating the sufferings of their fellow -creatures are unworthy to live amongst them. lii the House of Commons last night Sir J. Malcolm gave an account of the remedies for the supposed malady, which, in the mouth of a less grave Member, would appear a burlesque. Why will this Gallant Officer talk away a well-earned and hard earned reputation ? We repeat our doubts of the existence of India cholera, but we state, without any doubt, that there is a degree of miserable privation existing at present among the poor classes in the metropolis, which demands the asistance of every man who has any thing to spare.—Times. There will probably be little difference of opi nion throughout the country, as to the extent and value of the Reform in the civil departments of the navy, proposed by Sir James Graham on Tuesday evening. It is unquestionable that great extravagance must have existed somewhere, because the civil division of the estimates has hitherto absorbed so very large a proportion of the whole sum voted by Parliament for the ser vice of the British navy. It is likewise manifest that an extreme want of clearness and openness must have been permitted, if not encouraged, in one or more of those departments, which ought to have been, if they were not, subordi nate to the Board of Admiralty, since it ap pears, according to Sir James Graham's state, meet, that there was no possibility, until within these last few months, of ascertaining the real cost of any ship in the navy ! So studiously adapted for concealment and deception were the modes of calculation employed by later rimes Board,—the sums charged for timber, iron, a u p i s o n y n s em, some it,_ public \vi stores, Sre-, being confo \ r v m e abl s e hm t i o ld ti t ' l e h i e k N e a o v t l y l prices, and:cnodmtehrmeriestfutte:rdhe y war stances, 40 per cent. above the market prevent the most frightful tlepreda unde as b a ei ß ng oard under the ostensible con rs:,s,lf.tetaoonfmtdlof Itnone t r , o u a iluoi,f as e acknowledgedA b ut r y ea s l independent ir (3eorg e c ock o . l habitually disposed to thwart its orders, c a h o t l i l u tr h tic , ) ebnyilfiracrtriatsiosuists measures,— th i e f saurcthiciaesßopaurir..t A..- ;.1.• . • • •-':,;'),ttelk•••• • • • • ; :talk .11"...••••.• • : • :.:•-•-•;, • _ 41+, •-•- • ••• • .••• •'• • • chased by it, anti what Sir James Graham called " cabalistic figures," manage to keep the Admi ralty itself in ignorance of a matter so vitally im portant as the building-cost of the ships com posing the navy, it seems inconceivable to us by what process the House of Commons could ever arrive at the knowledge of what was successfully concealed from those who called themselves heads of the marine department ; and, by consequence, now it could even be guessed to what extent the nation was robbed by its own servants. We have heard, indeed, the most mortifying and scarcely credible accounts of the consumption of' publi c money under the head, not merely of the !wilding, but of the "alterations and re > iirs" of the ships, undertaken at the orders —or, as rumour went, at the caprice —of certain persons long used to domineer in the office of surveyors o f t h e navy. I n relation to this particular branch of the service, we have re csaved a letter which confirms much that had Already reached us durin g many years, and from various sources, descriptive of the overbearing And injurious jealousy by which mechanical abi lity, not in favour at head-quarters, had been put down, and the public service deprived of' hose advantages which must ever result from the fair struggle of' competitors impartially en couraged. One striking characteristic of the Re form introduced by Sir James Graham in this great arm of the public service is, the restoration ,f power to those—viz., the Lords of the Ad miralty—who are officially responsible for its exercise, by the extinction of that same Navy Board as an independent body, and of the Vic tualling Board with it. Another and most im portant guarantee afforded to the public is, ill the system by which it will be hereafter impracticable to create such enormous discrepancies between the sums voted and expended as have appeared in former years, and as must inevitably have furnished opportunity for much fraud upon the public. The saving upon the general estimates may be termed quite extraordinary, as ompared with past naval budgets. In round !lumbers it amounts to near a million sterling. Now when it is cons'lered that of the whole esti mates upwards of 1,600,0001. is appropriated for half-pay and pensions, which being for past -ervices cannot be touched, and that the part of account which admitted of reduction was, n 1831, including Naval and Victualling, but In round numbers 4,278,0001., it will, we must :ay, be regarded by every candid mind as an smcommon effort of official economy, to take off rom that sum for the two branches of expendi ure in question no less than 983,0001., or about 22 per cent. upon the whole. It ought further o be recollected that the real force of the Navy has not been reduced, or in an exceedingly trifling degree, notwithstanding the diminution of the gross expenditure, inasmuch as Sir James Graham has proposed that the number of marines and seamen shall this year be no less than 32,000, including 10,000 marines. There is still another view in which this exposition of a strict and upright system of economy de serves to be upheld and applauded. It serves 'a redeem the pledges given by the First Lord of the Ad m i ra lty, an d t h e Ad m i n i stration of which he forms part, before or soon after they .Lime to the possession of office, and so far to justify from reproaches, which are often too sweeping and indiscriminate, the characters of public men in this country. All that remains to hope upon the subject of Sir James Gra ham's conduct of the naval interests of England is, that in practice his scheme may be tound to work as easily and freely as it promises. That it should be impugned by anticipation, and op posed in Parliament, it is but natural to expect. Inveterate prejudices are entwined with ancient habits of proceeding, and a display of jealousy against Reform is almost unavoidable when Re formers happen to have their predecessors for their critics. From a return of civil officers re duced from the 26th of November, 1830, to the Ist of April, 1832, it appears that the salaries reduced amount to 50,000/. per annum,—the pensions to 18,0001.-7'ft/res. The Cholera Prevention Bill went through a Committee last night, and the report was re ceived and agreed to. It will be read a third time this day. Sir John Malcolm, who said that for a period of four years he had commanded a body of no less than six thousand men, and for three years afterwards he had traversed-provinces of seven millions of inhabitants among whom the cholera was raging, observed, that " cholera was not by any means so fatal a disease as many already common in this country." We believe this is universally allowed by medical men. Sir John observed, also, that " fear was a great pro moter of it, and that so long as people were under the alarm from cholera, every disease to which humanity was subject would be imagined cholera." The cholera is a new disease among us (at least it is supposed to be new), and the appearance of a new disease is always alarming, though it may be less mortal than some of the diseases to which we are accustomed. We do not believe, for instance, that the mortality of any of the districts of the island in which the cholera has raged will exceed the usual average t his year. The great point to be aimed at is the taking due precautions against unnecessarily spreading the disease, without at the same time paralysing industry by unnecessary obstructions. There is, surely, a material difference between such heedless conduct as that described by Mr. Warburton on Tuesday night, where numbers of persons entered the close apartment in which a person who had died of the cholera was lying, and breathed an infecti ous a i r , an d t h e mak i ng due preparations for the reception of cholera patients, and adopting means for purifying low neighbourhoods. We do not believe there is in Europe a population in so wretched a condition as the half a million of people who inhabit the eastern part of the metropolis. They live in an undrained swamp ; the lanes are not even paved ; the houses are damp and offensive, itid the inhabitants in their appearance exhibit all the marks of physical and moral degeneracy. Such a population must be the ready prey of disease ; and we should suppose that at all times infectious fevers commit ravages among the in habitants. The mortality in such neighbour hoodS from cholera or typhus may be very great, while in better situations, where the population is less wretched, it may be trifling. Sir John Malcolm observed that " the result of his ex- perience in _ India was that the cholera is locally infectious. There were what they used to call lines of cholera in that country, and they invariably found that in marching a regiment across those lines, they lost some 30 or 40 men. Sir John does not say that the regiments which lost men in passing through the cholera lines spread the cholera beyond the lines. In march ing a regiment th roug h an ague district, sc'fim the men would probably take 'the disease, but though they - carried 'with them the disease 'into otherd ‘a districts, ets im it rs - , : i . not spread intot in debateal,Lsac them. \V„ Flo nof