The Sun. — London, England, 1832-01-19 00:00:00

i L .. "'. ..."' ,. tr: •, ,,' 3 7,0 P' , m.................., I), RP, , , - 8 Or THE STOCKS THIS DAY AT ON E O 'CLOCK. Stock r Cent. Red 19 4 ,,G 414 New 5 per Cent. 9.3 ~ ~, India Stock Cent. Cons. B27i , A l ,-4 1 ,4 Ditto Bonds 2 -1 dis. W t t-r Cent. p r 90 South , Sea Stock - 0 - 91! • Red. 9O 89N Old Annuities - 0 I; l ' 3 lPer Cent. 89g , !i% New Ditto -- l'er eta A nn . 1726 .... -- 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751 -g I , tr c ent.l926 , k T j Long Ann. to expwe Ditto 500 810 pm. n L 4. 5, 18 6 rs l6 9-16 Ditto Small $ 10 pm. wyt. 10, 1A59 / pri- 5, 1860 a 'n. 5, 1880 Aprils 18841 J , ak 5. 1870 -- Ditto Commercial -. Ditto Athertised - Bank for Opening India for Account. - Pm. p _. pin. - - - Cons. for Feb. 23 132 %34 ---- C :ItICIS OF YOAKUM FUNDS THIS DAT AT OXK O'CLOCK. o'l risn Bo n d s Neapolitan ~_ari Scrip r'Lliall ponds Portuguese Bonds - C tj e 'os Ayres Bonds Prussian. Old - t. il, an Bonds - a ,SralBan Bonds Russian [ 4 O, 1824 keish 6 6514 --- 1823 - reek 8 0nd ,........ ..... .. ..... - French Rentes, sp. c. -f --(.. Itt o , t u ? 18.5 - Exchange -f. - , t k 4 timala - --- 3 per cent -f. -c t ~."Lican Bonds - - Exchange...... -t. -c. , , tt., 1 ....-, ....., me) - Dutch Scrip P't theGENERAL AVERJAaGE PR IB32 CIE made uOF BRITISHthe Returns CORN, W ee k ended n. 13, plfrom °f the Inspectors is the different 'Cities and Towns in England t i,,,,k , (1 Wales, per Imperial Quarter. , 1,',eat......-..- 595. 211 Oats --........ 21s. 7d.1 8ean5,......... 365. 3d. ""e---,.- ss. Od.l Rye ............ 3SA. &LI Pease.,- 375. 4d. ‘I,I.ItXIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF TEE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. 3 g,n,eat............ 595. 6,1 I Oats ........... 22,. 2d.1 Beans.-..... 386. 11d. i 4 1eY......... 356. ltd.' Rye .--.. s 10d. I Pease....-..... 40s. Od. WI, DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. I es Pa.......-. f 278. 841. I Oats ......... 13s. %LI 8ean5«.,....145. O(l.'itY. 9 1 . 4d.1 Rye ....--„,.. 15s. 611 Pease.* Os. (3d. ____ DEACLE versus BARING. This day was published, price Od. REPLY to a LETTER by W. BING' . M HAM BARING, M.P., concerning the arrest of r• and Mrs. DEACLE, addressed to the Electors of w inchester. By the Rev. D. WILLIAMS, A.M., F.G.S. Publi s h e d by Effingham Wilson, 88, Royal Exchange, , "I'don; and Jacob Jacob, Winchester. Of whom may be had, price Is., Second Edition, SWING UNMASKED ; or the Cause of Rural In tendiarism. By EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD, L q . ..__.---_______ st . 446_ , .., tb *Ara, ia ...........K,.-40. 4,1- , t ......., ..,_,,.......5"..t.i. ~,....._ .-,..._ . , ^ , I.r a" - .•.. •••• • do. ...‘lll.. .:. . 1 -,_ I LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19, 1832. CIIOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. COUNCIL OFFICE, WHITEHALL.-(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. L " . .3 .3 . • = ..t be ,-. G . g ' , CE: i6dE = R Places. a r e 3 t ' ,E . •"-) r..) P,, 4 ~.., Ti ' .' 1E . 5 . tg•-' t 1 ,1. = 3.' A .1 , 3 z 4 H '' ~ t zegg, t . g -......____ - Newcastle Jan.l7 a 3 15 4 9 65 752 233 Gateshead Ncrth Shields and TYrt emout h „„ `lowden Dock (Wallsend) Hetton, Houghton le-Spring, Pen /haw, Ike. l7 40 22 2 21 39 166 45 Durha m Haddingtoa and vi cinity, N.B. l6 311 0 1 3 49 120 Tranent, N.B. l6 3 2 1 0 4 7 3 - - - - - - --- - ____ Total... ..... and Walker. Secretary. No reports received from Sunderland, Newburn, (Signed) WM. MACLEAN The petition now lying for signature at Bristol, beseeching the Crown to extend its mercy to the criminals convicted of participating in the late riots, is rapidly filling up. We are glad to hear of this ; it does credit to the humanity of the Bristolians. The punishment of death should never be inflicted except in cases of most aggravated guilt, such for instance as mur der, which reason, religion, and the first and commonest instinct of nature warrants society in visiting with the severest penalties of the law. When inflicted in more ordinary cases of delin quency, this punishment not only ceases to ope rate beneficially as an example, but throws dis credit on the Legislature which exacts it. We are far from intending to assert that the Bristol riots were cases of ordinary delinquency ; we share with the rest of the world, the horror, dis gust, and indignation which they were so Well calculated to provoke ; but we think that there are strong circumstances of pal. liation which may be pleaded in mitigation of punishment. There was no deliberate at tempt at mischief on the part of the rioters ; no thing transpired at their trials to prove that they acted on any preconcerted plan ; they were guilty, deeply guilty ; but their guilt was that of infatuation, of phrenzy, rather than of cold, studied, methodical malignity. Had the civil Power done its duty, these misguided men would never have had an opportu nity of effecting mischief. Their riotous disposition would have been checked at Once ; their passions quelled before they had had time to overthrow the reason. But by their scandalous, unexampled—nay, we will even add unprincipled—lethargy, the civil authorities ab solutely invited the riots, which they now, in the true spirit of poltroonery—for all cow ards are cruel—thirst to revenge in blood. If the Bristol rioters were guilty, the Bristol magis tracy was doubly so ; if the one party had a right to stand at the bar of justice, the other had an equal right to stand there be side them; nor do we know any earthly reason why the brave military and the misguided popu lace should be made the victims of a slothful, chicken-hearted Magistracy. In the sacred name of justice we demand an investigation into the conduct of the civil authorities of Bristol ! Till this be instituted, we shall not cease to think that the weaker has been made the scape-goat of th e stronger party, and that vengeance, not right, has had its dues. When there were few or no indications of aught but an ordinary tumult at Bristol, who so brave—who so chivalrous as the civil authori_ ties ? Flow these doughty Quixotes cuffed and kicked the people about, so long as they ima gined they might do so with impunity ; and oh, how they shrunk like foxes into their holes, the very instant the peril became im• ininent, and they fancied their sacred per sons might be endangered ! Yes, they scampered, like curs, from the very storm they had them- selves raised. True however to all the forms of Office, abounding as mach in cunning as they were deficient in courage, they shuffled the load of re sponsibility off their own shoulders, and threw it on the backs of some seventy or eighty brave soldiers, headed by a gallant veteran who had served thirty years in his MAJESTY'S service, and would have been alive at this moment, had not the quick honour of the British officer mas tered the cool sagacity of the man of the world. These things must not, nay, they shall not, be forgotten ; neither shall it be forgotten that on Friday the 27th of .Idnuary, five misguided wretches are to be sent before the judgment seat of their GOD, while those who by their negli gence actually furnished them with the opportu nity of becoming criminal, are as yet, not even put upon their trials Brussels and German Papers have been re ceived.iiiThe prolongation of the time allowed for the exchange of the ratifications, is to the 31st of this month. In the meantime the Belgians are preparing for any untoward consequences. The following are extracts : BRUSSELS, JAN. 14.—The Government received yes•. terday evening the news that the Conference has prolonged the time fixed for the ratification to the 31st January (not the 30th, as a journal has stated). This decision - forms the subject of the 54th protocol. LIEGE, JAN. 13, —Major Capia Aumont's corps of par tisane closely invests Maestricht, and interrupts all commu- nication.—Politi e. BRUSSELS, Jaw. 14.—The King returned to Brussels at ten o'clock last night. His Majesty stopped at Alost to accept a supper offered him by the Magistrates and . .. principal inhabitants. General Belliard, who did not stop at Aloft, arrived here at five o'clock. We hear that the Ministers intend to present to the Chambers a project of law, authorising the creation of a military order, to be called the " Order of Leopold." It was reported at Antwerp that Colonel Bergen is going to return to his regiment, which is in the province of Luxembourg, General Belliard having been appointed Commandant of Antwerp in his room. The Ist regiment of cuirassiers, the 2d regiment of chasseurs at Mons, and the artillery of the line at Namur, which were to have left these places on the 11th and 12th to join the army, have received counter orders. We hear one of the principal manufacturers of arms at Liege has received an order for 40,000 muskets from the Paella of Egypt. BRUSSELS, JAN. 15.—The Minister of War has written to all the officers and commanders of the Civic Guards, desiring them to send him a list of the men of the first ban, who have not yet been called into active service, as also of the men armed and equipped, as well as those who are not. He has also ordered them to assemble the in complete companies, and to be in readiness to mach with their corps at the first summons. The Government having given up the plan of forming a foreign legion, M. A. Murat has resigned his commission as Colonel of it. _ General Goblet arrived the evening before yesterday at Brussels with the 54th protocol. Two battalions of the first regiment of Chasseurs, which were on their march to the province of Luxembourg, are on their return to Liege. JAN. 16.—Yesterday the King gave a private audience to Sir R. Adair, General Belliard, and General Desprez. His Majesty transacted business successively with his Mi nisters. M. Steven, editor of the Messager de Gaud, was ar rested yesterday morning at six o'clock, and taken as a prisoner to the Citadel. His office was surround by ' the armed force, while the police were making a sear& in it. Our troops will not be on the frontiers on the 15th. The Government has taken such measures that 50,000 men may be assembled within twenty-four hours. BRUSSELS, JAN. 16.—The Journal des Flandres says, " We have this moment learnt that this afternoon, the 16th, at three o'clock, the presses and printing-office of M. A. B. Steven have been again put under seal." CHAMBER OF REPRESENTATIVES. In the sitting of the 14th the Minister for Foreign Affairs communicated to the Chamber. 1. The note of the Conference relative to the protocol of Aix-la-Chapelle. 2. The answer to the Memorial of the King of Holland on the 24 articles; and 3. The pro tocol of the 11th inst., which prolongs to the 31st the time for the ratification of the 24 articles by the Five Powers; the reasons assigned for this are the difficulty of the communications at this season, and the desire of the ' Powers that the ratifications may be announced simulta neously. The Chamber has been chiefly engaged in considering a project of law relative to the mines. VIENNA, JAN. s.—An English courier was despatched yesterday to London ; his despatches are supposed to re late to Don Pedro's intended expedition against Portugal, and to the prevention of the re-action in the Peninsula in case Don Pedro should succeed. We bear hardly anything of Poland. It seems that our Cabinet leaves it entirely to the wisdom of the Em peror of Russia to regulate the affairs of that kingdom as his own generosity shall prescribe, and as the wants of the country, with which he is well acquainted, require. Of what use, it is asked by some, would complete independ ence be to Poland, if the sentiment of nationality must be purchased by the destruction of all manufactures and trade. If Russia excludes the productions of Poland from its markets, the trade of the country is ruined, and it can never recover its ancient prosperity. The expedition of the Pacha of Egypt to Syria also gives rise to a frequent exchange of couriers. The conduct of Me hemet Ali has always been so prudent, that we must suppose either that he is sure of his object, or that he has in case of failure some means in reserve which will secure him from personal danger. At all events, his rebellion would be far more dangerous to the Porte than that of the Pacha of Scutari ; we therefore look forward with im patience for news from Constantinople and Egypt. It is said that the projected marriage of the King of Naples with a Princess of Sardinia will not take place. AUSTRIAN FUNDS. Jan. 6. 7. Five per Cents. 8 5 1,4 B s s ;i Four per Cents. Bank Shares. 1158 Thratxx, JAN. IL—The two last cholera patients were dismissed as cured on the 9th in the afternoon, and no new cases have since occurred. At Konigsberg the two last patients left the hospital on the 4th, and up to the 6th there had been no new case. At Breslaw there was no new case from the 4th to the 7th. VIENNA, JAN. s.—Only one cholera patient re tnaining. We have great pleasure in directing public attention to an advertisement in The Sun of this day. respecting capital punishment in cases of forgery and other offences. The Society for the diffusion of information on this all important subject deserves the best thanks of the public, for its humanity and unwearied exertions in endeavouring to ameliorate the sanguinary character of our Criminal Code. It must be obvious to every reflecting mind that if the extreme punishment of the law be inflicted in cases of minor crime, the justice and morality of inflicting only the same punishment in cases of aggravated enormity are completely destroyed. Let us hope that one of the first acts of a reformed Parliament will be to make our criminal code more consonant to reason by abolishing all statutes that adjudge criminals to' death for any offences but those of the most heinous character. It transpired this morning in the city that the provincial bank of WATERS, JONES, and Co., Carmarthen, has stopped payment. Its notes were refused by the Lon don house at which they are made payable, with the re • mark that they must be referred to the acceptors. It is understood that the failure has been caused by incautious advances to a large agricultural district. Of the extent of the failure, and the consequences with which it is likely to be attended in other respects, nothing is yet known.— Another failure was mentioned on 'Change of an English house connected principally with the Portuguese trade, but the transactions were on a small scale, and the event itself wholly unimportant. — Times. It is said that the Tories have obtained a conviction so certain that the Ktsca will create Peers, and that the Minister will recommend the creation, that they begin to despair and acknowledge tatt the Bill must pass. A good sign of success is, that the Bishops are re ported to have ratted. They only showed their hostility to the late Bill, because they thought they could turn out the Ministry; and being now convinced of the contrary, they are going to support Reform. Their repentance however, comes too late. They are no longer wanted, and the people will henceforth dispense with their services. —Brighton Guardian. • WILKIE has finished his picture of KNox preaching at St. Andrew's to the utter confusion of the Roman hierarchy. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE. Lord GOWER'S tragic drama—as he modestly styl, s it—entitled Catherine of Cleves, was hst night produced it this theatre. It was highly successful, and deservedly so, being replete with incident, simple and unambi guous in plot, chaste, elegant, and unambitious in lan guage. It does the noble adapter, we believe we may esti him the author, infinite credit, and induces us to hope that he will one day favour the stage with a tragedy of his own, unassisted composition. A Peer of the realm is far more nobly employed, inspires a far stronger reverence for his order in the hearts of the people, by cultivating and enlarging the realms of intellect, than by patronizing Crockford's, or showing himself off as a lion at New market. The first act of this clever drama is occupied with an interview with Ruggieri, an Italian astrologer (G. BENNETT), anti Catherine de Medicis, the Queen Mother (Mrs. LOVELL), the latter of whom, for reasons not needful here to explain, having a design to promote an intrigue between St. Megrin (C. KEMBLE) and Cathe rine of Cleves (Miss KEMBLE), wife of the Duke de Guise (WARDE), has brought Catherine, in a swoon magically caused, to the astrologer's abode, which she is aware St. Megrin will shortly visit. She retires, St. Megrin art rives, and the astrologer, introducing Catherine, leaves them together. A scene ensues in which Catherine be trays her secret that she loves St. Megrin, hut their interview is interrupted by the arrival of her husband. She escapes undiscovered, ; and St. Megrin, after a brief and angry interview with De Guise, follows. The latter left alone discovers his wife's handkerchief on the couch whereon she had been reclining, and vows vengeance against the lover. The second act commences with another angry interview between the husband and the lover in the presence of Henry the Third of France (J. MAsoN), ending by an agreement that their quarrel shall be settled by a single combat. We are then introduced to the boudour of Catherine, where she is soon visited by her husband, who forces her by manual violence to write an invitation to St. Megrin, determining on his arrival at night, the time appointed, to have him assas sinated. The letter is despatched to him by Arthur, her page (Miss TAYLOR), who delivers it duly at the commencement of the third act. The lover, suspecting no treachery, attends at the appointed hour, an inter view of fondness and despair ensues between Catherine and himself, but finally, while attempting an escape, he is attacked and slain by De Guise's hand. Cathe rine immediately swallows poison, and the piece con cludes with her death and her husband's remorse.— Such is a brief outline of the plot. The characters were all Alit supported. Miss KEMBLE, as Catherine, dis played a judgment beyond her years ; and a sensibility that in the more impassioned scenes riveted the attention of the audience. C. KEMBLE made a truly chivalrous lover, and in his interview with De Guise, in the presence of the King, displayed much of that glowing animation, which we have so often admired in his Faulconbridge. The stern, haughty character of De Guise could nut have fallen into better hands than WARDE'S. He failed only in an adequate expression of that tenderness which he is supposed to feel when kneeling beside the corpse of his young wife. Mr. Mssost made a very respectable monarch, and created his one Peer with a promptitude and energy that our Whig Ministers will do well to fol low. The audience seemed to be of the same opinion, for they applauded the impromptu elevation of Count St. Megrin to a Dukedom, with the utmost heartiness and abet ity. We must not omit to notice the performance of Miss TAYLOR, who as Catherine's page exhibited a comic archnesss of manner and delivery, that re minded us of Madame VESTRIS in her earlier days. There are one or two points in the play which struck us as injudicious. We particularly allude to the somewhat haeknied incident of Catherine's thrusting her hand through the staple, and the ungenerous conduct of her lover in leaving her defenceless in such a situation. To be sure, the author has furbished up an excuse for St. Mcyrin, but it is like Mr. CROKER'S Anti-Reform diatribes, a mere begging of the question. Another defect is, that some of the earlier scenes of the drama are too much spun out. The action at times halts, in order that the characters may prose. Now we like a plot that bowls on like a chariot, without let or hindrance, and whose progress we can track step by step. But these are motes in the sun-beam. Taken as a whole the play is an excel lent one, and will, we doubt not, have its fair share of popularity. Having already done well, let Lord GOWER ti y and do better. He has good stuff in him ; in jus tice to himself, therefore, he should give his abilities fair play. But in order to do so, he must eschew all un reasonable fastidiousness, the besetting sin of modern pa trician literature.; bear in mind that the applause of a circle is not the applause of a world ; and above all, that SHAKSPEARE, who was the least fastidious, was, and ever will be, the most successful of dramatists. We subjoin a specimen of the versification. The lines marked in italics, strike us as being remarkable graceful and melodious . . . Wretch! the time has been When, in this vast and lonely room, at midnight, Tempest without, and every wind of Heaven Demanding entrance at the clattering pane, With those grim portraits of my tyrant's ancestors, Where'er I moved or bent my sight, still following, Or meeting every motion with a frown— I should have blest that human footstep's sound, And rusli'd to meet it, and have almost died Of disappointment when it died. But now The hissing of the coit'd snake in my car, The raven's croak upon the murderer's gibbet, The mandrake's shriek, were music to the sound Of love's light step, and youth's elastic tread, Upon the wrought and inlaid marquetry Of yonder corridor. Yet I despair not. He will not come—he will not risk his life On that anonymous scroll's encouragement. He deem'd another's hand let fall the dowers Into that den. His words were courtier's compliments— He loves me not. 0, God, that I could think so ! (She goes to the window and opens the casement.) I yet might warn him, were the night less dark. Some sign! (She returns in ecstacy.) The portal closes ! He is saved! Saved for to-night ! The scroll has fail'd to reach him, His better angel's hand has misdirected The blind and innocent messenger of death; And means may yet be found to arm the victim Against the future vengeance of my husband. He shall not perish ! Hark ! that sound returns — That dreadful sound of footsteps on the stair! Is it my husband ? Is it some consi*ator ? It mounts—it hesitates--arrest it, Heaven ! No—it approaches ! Fly ! for mercy's sake, Seek not this fatal threshold! Hence! avoid ! I rave! Is not the portal closed behind him ? What means of flight, then ? Hell is leagued against us_ Heaven yields, and hope is fled, and prayer is powerless! [The door opens. Enter St. Megrin.] THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY. TWELVE O'CLOCK. The information in regard to the state of foreign po litics, and particularly that which we communicated to the public in our City article of the 12th of January, that the difficult impediments in the negotiations between Hol land and Belgium had been removed, and that in a few days we should bear of important events on that sub ject, is in a great measure verified this morning, by the estafette from Paris, which announces that Prussia and Austria have sent their ratification. Now there cannot be a question of doubt that these two Powers have previously consulted Russia on the point before they sent their ratifi cation ; therefore, in a short period, we may naturally ex pect the ratification of that Power also. The estafette from Paris brings French rentes 66f. 85c. Consols, which left off yesterday 82i _ a (ex-dividend), opened at the same price this morning, and at present may be quoted 82A ; for February account 821 This is settling day in the Coniaal Market. The chief business doing is settling their accounts, and the fluctua tion during the account has been about 2 per cent. At present we do not hear of a failure. The great city capitalist has again maintained the field of battle, and taken all his stock. Belgium Scrip, 1, : l f dis. By the French :nail, this morning, we have the follow ing from Vienna :—" We learn that the Egyptian at my made an attack on St. Jean d'Acre, and were repulsed in the storming of it with great loss." They write from Toulon, Jan. 11, that a ves , el arrived there bearing the Russian flag, with important despatches for the Russian Ambassador at Paris, Pen° di Borgo, which were instantly despatched by a confidential mes senger. The sailors report that the Russian squadron was going to leave the Levant for the Tagus to oppose Don Pedro's expedition. .11ALF-PAST ONE. The fluctuation of Consols this morning has no t been of much consequence—from 82a down to 82-a for money, ex•dividend ; at present they are S2-a 1. The account appears going well, and is a Bull account, the erJn tango being about two per cent. Accounts from Constantinople, to the 19th ult., state that the army of the Paella of Egypt was defeated in storming St. Jean d'Acre. Consols for Account, 82,i:1 THREE 0' CL 0 CK. FOUR O'CLOCK.—CLOSING PRICES. Consols B2l i Danish Ditto for Account 82 4- Greek, 1825 -- Brazilian Bonds.. Mexican, 1825 -- Buenos Ayret.... Chilian Ditto .... Columbian, 1824 Peruvian ....... • Russian ...... 9S Spanish Lord WYNFORD, it is said, is particularly hostile to the creation of any new Lords, apprehensive that it might detract from the dignity of the Peerage ! OJAY think of it.--411orning Paper. COURT OF KING'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) THE KING V. THE. INHABITANTS OF THE FARM cr. CALYERWILL, IN YORKSHIRE. This was an indictment against the defendants for not repairing a road, and was tried before Mr. Justice Little dale at York, when a point of law was raised for the opi nion of the Court. The road in question extended eleven and a half miles, and it was male by the Commissioners, in pursuanctt of an Act of Parliament passed on the 2d of 1825 ; but the whole line of road contempt ted by the Act had never been completed. The inhabitants of the parish of Culverwell resisted the demand for re pairing that part of it, which was within the parish, on the ground that they were not legally responsible for re pairing a road which had never been completed. In support of the indictment it was submitted, as the public used the road, although it was unfinished, the in habitants were bound to keep it in repair. Their Lordships delivered their judgment seriatim They ware of opinion, that the obtaining an Act of Par liament for making a road to an extent therein named, implied an undertaking to carry the Act into effect, and therefore, as the Act had not been in this instance complied with, the Commissioners had no power to call upon the inhabitants to support the road. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, addressing the bar, said the Judges of this Court, and those of the Courts of Common Pleas and Exchequer, had conferred together, and agreed to a set of rules which should in future guide and assimi late the practice of the three Courts, so as to make their proceedings uniform. The rules were not those of one Court only, but were taken, sorte from one Court, and some from another, but assimilating the practice of the three Courts. The Registrar then read the rules, which were of very great length, and which will be immediately printed. It is confidently expected that great benefit will be derived from them particularly, as regards some of the greatest ob jections to the present system.—The proceedings of all the Courts will be much simplified, and much delay and expence will be prevented. The rules are to take effect from the Ist day of Easter Term. BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) On a former day Mr. Thessiger obtained a rule, calling on the Justices of the county of Huntingdon to show cause why a mandamus should not issue, commanding them to comply with a rule of this Court, which required them to ascertain and determine the amount of profit accruing upon two farms in tke parish of Gelling, in that county. Mr. GUNNING to-day showed cause against the rule. The cause arose out of one which had been argued in this Court in 1828, viz.—" The King v. Joddrill," in which the decision was that the Justices of Huntingdon should hear and determine what was the amount of profit on the two farms in question, with a view of determin ing the Rector's claims upon them, and also to as ' certain the amount of the ecelesiastical dues and the land tax. The case went accordingly to the Quarter Sessions, where only two witnesses were examined, who were surveyors and resided 20 miles distant, and had only been used to the valuation of fen land, these farms being upland. That evidence was deemed by the Court of Quarter Sessions so insufficient, that the Court without hearing the respondent's case, decided that the appellant had given no evidence to enable them to ascertain the annual profits. Indeed those witnesses bad merely sur mised the value, for they admitted that they had never enquired the number of men or horses employed upon the land, nor the amount of the outgoings. The amount of the ecclesiastical dues and the land tax was agreed upon on both sides, and therefore as to those points the rule of Court had been complied with ; as to the value of the farms an op portunity had been given to the appellant to call his wit nesses and prove his case, and having failed to do se, Mr. Gunning submitted that this Court would not send a man damus to compel the Justices to re-hear the case. Mr. THESSIGER, contended that the rule of the Court had not been complied with, and it did not appear that the case argued in this Court had been referred to by the Court of Quarter Sessions. If that case had been laid before the Sessions, it would have been seen what the intention of this Court was. It was evidently an attempt to evade an order of the Court, which would not however succeed. His LORDSUIP interrupted the Learned Counsel by stat ing that it had been admitted that there was some profit, and there could be no difficulty in ascertaining what the amount of profit was. The mandamus was then directed to issue. COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY. ATTORNEY-GENERAI. V. RIDDLE. This was an action which was tried before the Lord Chief Baron in the sittings after last term, at Westminster, when a verdict was found for the defendant. The action was brought for a breach of the Excise Laws. The de fendant is a paper-maker, and early in 1831 a quantity of paper was found by some Excise-officer in the shop of Mr. Sherrin, a grocer, which paper they seized because it had no covers nor labels on it to prove that the duty had been paid. It appeared that the paper had been left in the pos session of Mr. Sherrin by the wife of the defendant as security for 51. which she had borrowed of him, in order, as she said, to make up a sum of money to pay the duty on a quantity of paper. This morning the ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial granted, on the ground that the Lord Chief Baron had withheld evidence from the Jury which ought to have gone to them. The Learned Gentleman said that the question in the case sons, whether the de fendant was liable for the acts of his wife, and he con tended that he had clearly made out at the trial that she acted for him in his business, that she had signed notices for the officers of three different kinds, and one of the wit nesses had heard her give orders to the foreman in the ab sence of her husband. _ _ _ Lord LrxrittuxsT said that the case was one of very great importance, and the rule in his opinion ought to he granted. The rest of their Lordships concurred, and the rule was granted accordingly. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. 18.—Wind W.—Arrived from the river and remains, the Hero, Thompson, for the Cape of Good Hope. MARGATE, JAN. 18.—Arrived off port, the Lady Day, JameQ, and Galway, Ellen, from Wexford. DOVER, JAN. 18.—Arrived off port, the Rose, Dob bins, from Messina, with boom, bowsprit, &c. lost. STANDGATE CREEK, JAN. 18.—Arrived the Fiora, Grabbe, from Nyberg. PENZANCE, JAN. 17.—Arrived off port, the Ann and Mary, Evans, from Trieste. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 17..—Arrived the Porter, Gibson, from Lima. GREENOCK, JAN. 16.—Arrived the Helen, Nickol, and Susannah, Robertson, from Demerara. NEWRY, JAN. I7.—Arrived the Confidence, Craigie, from Riga. OSTEND, JAN. 18.—The Good-Intent, Wiseman, from London, has been brought into the harbour with loss of rudder, stern post, and much strained. WIIITEIIAVEN, Jaw. 17.—The Chester, Paring, from Whitehaven to Douglas, Isle of Man, was totally wrecked the 12th inst. on Langress Point ; the crew with much difficulty saved. His Majesty's ship Warspite, bound to Rio Janeiro, wa spoken with the 29th of November, in lat. 23. 2S. long 21. W., by the Porter, Gibson, arrived at Liverpool, from Lima. The Deborah and Lucy Cook, from Providence to Halifax, put into Fayal the 27th ult. with damage, and leaky, and has been condemned. The British Tar, Moore, from Cocagne to Liverpool was wrecked on Prince Edward's Island the 6th ult. crew saved. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) HAY Al A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 In New Meadow Hay 0 0 0 0 Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 4 0 4 .5 Clover Hay 4 10 6 0 Oat Straw £1 10 to £1 12 I Wheat Straw... 114 116 Supply good, trade rather dull, and prices as last quoted. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10 Useful Old l)itto 3 0 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 4 ',lover Hay (extra tine)...X6 o... Generally oat Straw £ I 10 to XI 12 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 Best Meadow Hay 45., and Straw 2s. per load lower than last quoted ; prices otherwise stationary. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 18.—In the libel case of PRICE v. IVES, which was not concluded when we went to pr e y, the Jury returned a verdict for the plain tiff—D atnages , The cost of conveying flour from Quebec to Liverpool or Manchester is scarcely more now than that of its land carriage, a century back, from a distance of fifty miles. COMMON COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.) This morning a Court was held for the despatch of city business, being the first that has been convened since the last election for Common Councilmen, on St. Thomas's day. The LORD MAYOR. took the chair at twelve o'clock. Among the motions which were fixed for discussion to-day was one that the city solicitor la directed to make a report of the whole of the proceedings in the matter of the Court of Aldermen, and Mr. Michael Scales, to a special Committee appointed by this Court, and that the Committee he appointed to enquire and to report whether in any, and what respects the judzment of the Cour; of King's Bench may affect the rights of the citizens of Loudon. TrIE NEW LONDON RRII)OF. Mr. JONES, the chairman of the London Bridge Corn mittee, presented a report from the Committee, in which it was recommended that a further sum of 50,0001. should be borrowed from the Bank of England, for carrying into effect the Acts of Parliament as regards the approaches. The report was agreed to, and the city seal was or dered to be fixed to a bond for that purpose. A petition was presented from the inhabitants of Cripplegate within, very numerously signed, expressing a hope that measures would be taken by the Court to up hold the dignity of the Court and the privileges of the city, by adopting steps by which men of property should be returned to the Court. Mr. TAYLOR thought the arguments introduced into the petition ought to have been mooted at the Wardmote. Alderman WOOD, Mr. STEVENS, and other members addressed the Court upon the subject. The Court was left in discussion upon the matter. COUNTY OF CAITHNESS. (COPY.) Mr DEAR SIR,--I only received this morning the en closed letter from Lord Melbourne, acknowledging the re ceipt, and announcing the presentation of the Address from the county of Caithness. Lord M.'s letter was sent to Edinburgh, and followed me from thence, as I had set out on Thursday evening, and arrived here on Saturday night, in order to give my personal and hearty support to those principles of extensive Reform in which I cordially concur with my constituents, and of which I now hope to witness and to aid the triumph. Believe me ever to remain most truly your's!, (Signed) GEORGE SINCLAIR. Capt. Macdonald, of Shebster. (COPY.) SIR,--I have had the honour to lay before the King, the loyal and dutiful Address of the Freeholders, Heritors, Justices of the Peace, Commissioners of Supply, and other inhabitants of the county of Caithness (on the subject 0 1 Parliamentary Reform), which accompanied your letter to Earl Grey, and I have the satisfaction to inform you that his Majesty was pleased to receive the same in the most gracious manner. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient servant, (Signed) MELBOURNE. George Sinclair, Esq. M.P. It is evident, from the avidity with which the Duke of WELLINGTON pursued his claim to the whale which was stranded in Whitstable Bay, that his Grace, although out of office, has still an eye, if not to the loaves, at least to the fishes ! The Hon. GEO. JoHN VERNON, M.P. f o r Derbyshire, has arrived in Wilton-crescent, from the Con tinent. Mr. VERNON quitted England shortly after the prorogation of Parliament in October last, and he has sine,: visited the principal cities in the north of Europe. Viscount DUNCANNON has recently removed from Cavendish-square, and taken possession of the man sion in Whitehall-place, adjoining the office of Woods and Forests, and which is assigned as the official residence of the First Commissioner. Lord LOWTHER now occupies a small house in Cleveland-row, to which his Lordship re moved subsequent to his resignation of office. It is confidently rumoured that a Noble Duke, allied by marriage to en Ex-Minister, at the head of ❑o less than forty other Reform Peers, intimated to Lord GREY that, in the event of a creatio❑ of Peers to pass the Bill, they shall withdraw their support from it.-1 ornitig Paper. THE NEW PEERS.—The list of distin guished individuals upon whom it was said the honour o' the Peerage was to be conferred, has not yet appeared in the Gazette, and it is now asserted by the persons who pretend to be in the secret, that a compromise, in bringing about which Lord WHARNCLIFFE has, it is supposed, been the active agent, and which has been so long reported, has actually taken - , lace, and that on Saturday night every arrangement was nude by the Whigs to lull into repose the animosity of the Tories. We give this intelligence a• we have heard it, stating at the same time, that the per sons who put it forth not only pretend, but they actually ought to know well what they assert, for they possess the means of acquiring good official intelligence. The Reform Bill will go into Committee on Friday. —Brighton , Guardian. The new number of the Quarterly is very hard upon Louts PHILIPPE; they lay on the lash as to certain recent disclosures with rare good will. They have reduced their " Civil List," as regards the Citizen KING, most amazingly. By a mistake of the copyist, an examinant in the Court of Chancery was made to swear that he had been " dead" for 20 years ! The poor man only meant to assert the fact that ha had been quite " deaf" for that period ! _ _ We understand that all the impediments which have so long retarded the re• building of the English Opera house are at length removed, and that Mr. BEATELY, the architect, is about to commence building forthwith on the site of the old theatre. Mr. CROKER has taken the field early, as the champion in debate of the Tories, and notwithstanding his characteristic modesty, is not inclined to yield the leadership in the louse of Commons to Sir R. PEEL. When he next quotes English history, he will endeavour to avoid those anachronisms which called forth such severe animadversions on former occasions :—a friend of his endeavouring to account for these mistakes, observed, that it arose from the flippant orator thinking in Irish, and Ito speaking in English, a language which, judging from his pronunciation and brogue, it was evident he did not clearly understand.—Morning ,Paper. During the spring of life the most humble members .. Of society indulge in gilded dreams of future greatness, riches, and happiness. It is in vain for sober men, who have braved the storms of existence, to find fault with these feelings—these buildings of joyous expec tation. Thus it has ever been, and ever will be. The rosy-cheeked brunette still slips her last sixpence under the gypsy's red cloak, and " crosses her hand with silver," to catch a glimpse of the happiness of futurity, which to her imagination consists in being " dressed as fine as a lady." Nearly allied to these feelings are the dreams to many of the other sex, who fancy that in the busy scenes of political change something many " turn up" for their advancement and aggrandisement. We seldom know the secret springs, the real motives which influence men; and sometimes, indeed, the visions of our youth become re alised in after-life. When GEORGE the Fourth and hi. present MAJESTY were boys they had a trifling dispute about some mimic ships, in the course of which GEORGL told his brother that he ought to pay snore deference to his future sovereign. " And who knows," replied WiLt.tam, " tint I also may be a King ? and then I'll have ships of my own, and nobody shall take them from me !" BONAPARTE seems to have had, or at least be supposed that he had, some ‘• overshadowings" of his future greatness ; and the impression appears never to have been erased from his Mind.—Brighton Gazette. A cheque, purporting to bear the signatures of MACHIN, DEBENHAM, and STORR, of King-street, Covent-garden, auctioneers, and drawn on Messrs. Hoe- KINSONS, bankers, Regent-street, for 2551., was paid by them in Bank of England notes on the Slat of October last, and since proved to have been a forgery. The person who presented the cheque received a 1001 note and three 50/., the balance being in gold. On the same afternoon the 1001. note was exchanged for gold at the Bank with the name of EDWARD WALLts endorsed both on it and the cheque. One of the 504 notes was changed at the Co ventry bank nn the 221 of October, endorsed "T. AN DREWS, West Smithfield, London," and another 50/. note was changed at the Birmingham Branch Bank on the same day, the individual receiving five 5/. notes, and the remaining 251. in gold. The utmost exertions have been used to trace the guilty party, but hitherto without effect. ANOTHER ORANGE MASSACRE.—We have just heard a report that on Friday evening last a party of armed Orangemen, returning from the county Cavan Pro testant mPeting, attacked the country people near Baillie borough, and butchered six or seven of them. We cannot vouch for the authenticity of the statement, but we have no rea , nn to doubt its truth, particularly as it rests on authority entitled to our reliance.—Pilot, SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Several correspondents suggest to us the pro .. priety of convening a public meeting for the purpose of deliberating about a resolution in honour of the unfortunate Colonel Brereton, and a subscription towards the support of his infant and orphan daughters. Some grave considera tions may by possibility be involved in such a measure, according to the precise object for which it shall be undertaken. Doubtless every kind-hearted man in England must deeply sym pathize, as well with the feelings of generous humanity, which, however overstrained, were what moved Colonel Brereton to his long for bearance towards the incendiary mob of Bristol, as with those pangs of apprehensive honour which prompted him to the last deplorable act of his life. If a subscription be entered into, and money raised, for the sole purpose of assist ing to support the helpless children of one who fell a sacrifice to his own softness and tenderness ' of disposition, nobody would or could reject an appeal of such force to all the better affections. In that case the meeting ought to be held, and the orphan fund would, we trust, be of a magni tude alike honourable to the dead, and useful to his offspring. But if the ostensible purpose of such a meeting were the expression of a public decision respecting the professional behaviour of a soldier, commanding a certain garrison, on a highly critical occasion, and the consequent erection of a standard whereby to discriminate and admeasure the professional merits of the in dividual in the conduct of that important com mand, we can imagine that many evils—or in conveniences at least—might result from the adoption of such an expedient in the present in stance, and from the creation of a precedent for such tribunals to sit in judgment on the pro ceedings of military men hereafter. There is nothing more to be reprehended—we might use a far stronger term—than the language of one set of public, or rather party, journals, which in culcate from week to week, and oftener, the necessity, the propriety, the wisdom, the beauty, of acting with military promptitude and vigour, in putting down " revolutionary assemblages" of the people. We know what they mean by revolutionary assemblages,—they are all popu ar meetings held for any but Tory interests, or at Tory instigation. Be sure" shed blood enough," is the party cry. It was the true Tory war whoop at Manchester in 1819. It would have been so at Birmingham when the famous 150,000 met, though to support the King and his Ministers, because it was for other thin a boroughmongering-job. So, before a symptom efhousebreaking, house-burning, felon-liberating, Nlansion-house-mauling, or before even an attempt at any of those outrages by which B istol was desolated and its Magistracy disgraced, the yell of Toryism was—" shed blood enough." Nor is this terrible and revolting passion for wholesale murder confined to newspapers ; we have heard it echoed, though less loudly, from publications calling themselves " professional." Further, we have heard whispers of the same tendency from men who occasionally wear red coats upon their backs,—members (and not ill-meaning mem bers) of a profession, which exists in this free country, but as the ephemeral creature of the people's will, and of which the sole domestic use, as at home and abroad the chief glory, is, to be the protector of the people. Reprobating, in common with all constitutional Englishmen, this, in one case factious, in the other unsoldier like, alacrity to turn the sword against the breasts of unarmed Englishmen, we must render justice to the better portion of the Tory gentle men of Great Britain, by disclaiming for them the least community of feeling with the low and base panders to the most odious of despotisms, because the most rapacious ; and equal justice is due from us to the great bulk of the British army, not more distinguished for cou.age against the foreign enemy than for exemplary and elagnanimous forbearance under the extremest provocations of insult at the hands of its own blind and phrenzied countrymen, by de claring that in ninety-nine cases out of an hundred the temper and humanity of English soldiers, when called out for the suppres sion of lawless tumult of any description, have been such as to gain for them the grateful ap plauses of all brave and generous men. Nor, let the worst arts of incitement and exasperation be employed to whet the British troops against their fellow-subjects, is it possible they ever can succeed. With this hatred of barbarity, and this strong feeling of the gentleness which best becomes a soldier towards a citizen, our motives will not be misconstrued when we avow a de cided objection to the proposal of recording, in any form whatsoever, the sense entertained by a popular meeting of Colonel Brereton's profes sional demeanour in the affair of the Bristol riots. It is no secret that the ground on which that officer was subjected to a trial by court-mar tial, was a serious conviction on the minds of the Government, that if he had applied judi ciously the force, however small, under his com mand, so much destruction as did actually take place could not have been perpetrated, and would not have been attempted. It is not for us to pass judgment on an amiable and generous minded man who has withdrawn himself from all human authority ; but we would submit the danger of holding out to military men, who, whilst the nuisance of a standing army exists at all (and how is it to be wholly dispensed with ?) must be ruled by certain fixed laws of discipline, and feel themselves amenable to certain long-esta blished and well-known tribunals—we submit, we say, the danger of holding out to such men, that they will be tried and judged, and are to be re warded or (negatively) punished by other Courts than those which the Mutiny Act and the com mon law of England have assigned for their controul ; that instead of steadily and conscien tiously discharging their professional obligations, and maintaining the public peace, they are to keep in mind the late Colonel Brereton for their model—Colonel Brereton, who, by orders of the Sovereign, was put on his trial for the alleged dereliction of the duties imposed .on him—an officer to whose command the garrison of Bristol was intrusted when it fell into the power of a brutal mob. Might not a popular expression in honour of Col. Brereton be construed, by tnili tary functionaries, hereafter, into a public stigma, by anticipation, by all who should do more to preserve the peace than he did, into a sort of threat, that if they should exert their,eives ever so little more strenuously than he hid dune, to preserve the towns of England from plunder and destruction, their thanks from the people would be a general vote of censure ?—that, in fact, to stand well with public opinion, they must so act as to make sure of being brought to a court martial by the Crown ? For these re asons, we • t ook place, hope and trust, that if any mee t ing or subscription be raised in conn ec tion with ih name of Colonel Brereton, both may strictl : confine themselves to the compassionate 1n of helping to support his daughters. As for the