The Sun. — London, England, 1832-02-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT or TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Our account of the dinner at the Mansion house will be read with much interest. On pro posing Earl Grey, the Lord Mayor remarked that " the Noble Lord and his colleagues in office had had great difficulties to contend against, and they had mastered those difficulties with a degree of skill and integrity which did them infinite honour ; and they might now look forward to the reward of those high qualities in the complete success of that great measure which the public had been so long and so anxiously anticipating." The speech of Earl Grey, in returning thanks, was that of a mar quite assured that the great - object for which he had been so long struggling was now out of danger. " That they had had difficulties to contend with (said his Lordship) all would he ready to admit, but none except those who had shared those difficulties could justly appreciate their amount. lie hoped, however, that in time they would all be overcome originating the question of Reform, then under the consideration of the Legislature, he was sure that he had incurred a great responsibility, but he could no more doubt of the propriety of incur ring that responsibility than he could doubt that that great measure would be eventually crowned with success. He was aware of the anxiety felt on this subject by the public ; and he would not allow himself to doubt that their wishes would realized—forhe the great measure was advanc ing steadily to a certain and successful issue." His Lordship was here loudly cheered. This marked declaration of his Lordship will go far tr) dispel the uneasiness of the people. They may rest assured that his Lordship would not have expressed himself in this marked manner in public, if he had not been assured that the Bill is now perfectly safe.—Morning Chronicle. The movements of the Opposition, with re gard to the Reform Bill, resemble the writhings of a half-scotched serpent. They hiss, but hurt not—the magazine of venom is expended. Their Bill has been prepared for some time past, —the boroughmonger Bill of Reform ! But, whatever the period of gestation may have been, we learn that the faculty are neither agreed as to the measures necessary for a successful parturi tion, nor in what " chamber " that important event is to take place. As an amendment to the present Reform Bill in the Lords, it has its partisans: others, in their tenderness to that de licate assembly, are for throwing out the Minis terial Bill in the Peers, and by consequence, as is assumed, the Mini , ters with it ; and then in troducing the Tory Bill, de novo, in the Houst of Commons. " First," says the cookery-book. " catch your fish,—then dress it." If the truth were told, we apprehend that the elements of opposition are not quite in harmony with each other. The Duke of Wellington, judging rightly that to be consistent with himself hip Grace can admit no compromise with Reform, i. presumed to be altogether adverse to any of the middle or half and-half courses in which Lord Wharncliffe and Harrowby have declared them selves willing to acquiesce ; but towards which it is utterly impossible for Lord Grey to make th, slightest approximation. Any resiatance within the circle of Lord Grey's own subalterns to tin one and only effectual step that can promote th( accomplishment of that great object,—we meat the creation of a large body of Peers,—we hoh to he such a crime against the principles of a reforming Government, as, if such resistant, should really show itself, to call for dismissal or the spot. We may state here, that Lord Grey' reception at the Mansion-house dinner on Sa turday was very cordial, and that his declaratim of his hope and trust that the Bill would bi carried gave great satisfaction ; but there wen some nice observers who would have beet pl ease d with a more confident tone, knowing as they do that Lord Grey can, by one determined atep, secure his measure beyond the possibility (A doubt.— Times. The inquiries universally made respecting cholera begin to be couched in different term from those employed only three or four ()ay es:9, and are directed to different objects; and tin only rational answers given to them have already. in very many i cases, provoked a spirit o f ex treme—nor, n our opinion, by any means unnatural—disgust and indignation among rea sonable and upright men. Here there is an outcry about something called " Asiatic• cholera," and pestilence, and frightful , conta aion • and certain doctors have thought fit to Fro , flounce that this " terrible visitation" has taken a gripe of London ; where there are 1,500,000 of inhabitants crowded together ; and what are the consequences ?—where is the mortality ? where are the proofs ?—where the shadow of evidence that any such disease exists at all ? that any disease exists in any quarter of the me tropolis, which has not been recognized for ages in this country, and of which the very worst symptoms that have yet appeared are not to be found distinctly stated in the Encyclopedia Britannica, published twenty years ago, and in so common a book as Buchan's Domestic Me dicine, which belonged to the last generation. We aver it as a fact within our own personal knowledge, that some of the ablest and most estimable physicians in London and in other parts of England have, within the last forty-eight hours, declared the official manifes toes, assertions, injunctions, precautions, reports, and so forth, to be one mass of humbug, degrading to medical science. Why, if any thing like an in fectious cholera had reached London, and exhi- • bited the same virulence and power of commu nication as have been ascribed to it elsewhere, we must have seen by this time some thousands of deaths, instead of the 18 instances which are reported, from the commencement, in this day's Papsr. Of course it would be uneandid to throw blame on any shoulders but those of the profes sional authorities which have from prejudice, gross ignorance, or something far worse than either, pronounced judgments on this question of the existence of a new malady, whereby the Govern ment has been misled, the public terrified, hun dreds of families induced to leave their homes, and tens of thousands of unhappy labourers already dismissed from that. employments. If poverty and destitution be predisposing cases of cholera, what have those men to answer for whose stupid or mercenary miere presentations of facts have tended so cruelly to aggravate them ? There is here one question which we beg leave to suggest. as of no mean importance. Are there any, and how many, medical men in this country who receive salaries in consideration of their being ap pointed members of Boards of Health, or in spectors, or superintendents, or whatever may be the title of hospitals for the reception of cho lera patients ? Or, in short, are there any mem bers of the profession who receive pay from the Treasury on the ground or pretext of Asiatic cholera being in tins country, and who expect to receive such salaries so lona as cholera shall be ' reported to exist ? Again, are there any me dical grandees who enjoy the privilege of n nating the above salaried personages ? Because • if these questions be answered in the affirmative, it follows directly that the possessors of pa tronage, and their creatures the receivers o salary, have an obvious though vile and sordid interest in getting up a cholera panic, and more over in keeping up the humbug to all eternity, or at least so long as the Government and people are soft enough to bribe them for transforming every fit of illness that occurs, into " spasmodic cholera,"—an exercise of ingenuity which we are inclined to fear has been practised in hundreds of instances since the first alarm was spread in the north of England. What the sages of the " Board of Health" are doing, it might not be easy to decide. What useful information have they ever given to the public? What well-reasoned or intelligible statement has ever come from them, or any of them, as to the nature, history, or existence of the alleged disease within our island ? The medical profession throughout this country, and more in London than any where else, has been brought into utter contempt by the system of charlatanism to which truth and common sense, and the comfort and welfare of society, have within the last three months been made victims. If matters proceed at their present rate, there will not be a parish in_ or near the metropolis without a cholera-doctor saddled on it, at a dozen guineas a day. In the mean time, the state of the shipping on the Thames is deplorable, trade being totally at an end.— Times. The Lord Mayor gave another dinner at the Mansion-house on Saturday. We really pity his Lordship for the expedients he is thus in duced to resort to in order to accomplish an unworthy political purpose. Still more however do we pity and deplore the degradation to which the present hopeful Ministers of the Crown are reduced in accepting so frequently, with a mere view to mob popularity, the invitations of per haps the most imbecile and obnoxious Mayor that ever presided over the magisterial affairs of the British metropolis. Lord Grey, when called upon for a speech on his health being drank, made a most miserable exhibition. He was evi dently afraid to avow, in reply to the allusions tnade, the actual purpose which he means to pursue in regard to the revolutionary project which he has so thoughtlessly, if not mischiev wsly, caused to be introduced ; but, from all chat we have been able to collect on this as well as other occasions, we fearlessly come to the conclusion that the Constitution is still safe.— Morning Post. The alarms so imprudently excited in the me• tropolis, in regard to the supposed introduction of the cholera amongst us, subside as rapidly as cite good sense of the momentarily frightened people is permitted to return. Every thing that has transpired since our last satisfactory state ment upon this subject will be found in other parts of our Paper of this day ; and the conch-- -ion to which we arrive on the whole is this— hat on a due examination of the cases and real facts the satisfactory truth will become manifest ro all, that divested of the typhus disorder, dways more or less prevalent at this season of .he year, and the diarrhoea affections no less fre- quent in all variable climes, not a single instance •f Asiatic cholera will be found to remain.— Morning Post. Whenever any member of the late Adminis tration accuses the present Ministers of a waste 'id application of the public money, the defence esorted to by Ministers or their friends is to re -on the charge by calling to mind some act 04, extravagance or some gross job which disgraced the reign of the Tory power. This mode of .lefence is sufficient as between the Ins and the Outs, and, if there were no third party interested in the matter, the argument ad hominem would 'le conclusive ;—the charge of the accuser, in hat case, must be silenced by the recrimination of the accused. But there is , a third party whose interests are very seriously involved in these natters; that party is the public. Now we can not understand why the public should be satis ied with a mere recriminatory defence to an ac cusation made against Ministers of a corrupt or foolish misapplication of the money of the public. As far as their interests are involved in these disputes, nothing but the argument ad renz— the reasoning which goes to the merits of the case—can be satisfactory. if the Ministers cannot with truth deny the facts charged, or, admitting the facts, account for them on grounds of justice, public necessity, or good govern ment, they do not make out any defence of alleged misconduct at the bar of public opinion by stating tacts which inculpate in an equal or greater degree the official wisdom or honesty of their adversaries. When we observe a Member (f Parliament, who has for years objected to Tory extravagance, getting up in his place to defend Ministers from the charge of some job by stating that their adversaries had been Guilty of most extravagant proceedings, and that they had been still more prodigal of the public money than those whom they accuse, we naturally ask what satisfaction is it to the public to know that, if plundered by one party, they have been still more plundered, at a former time, by another By believing the mutual accusations of both parties the public are reduced to the un pleasant situation of not being able to place any confidence in either. We say, then, that it eminently behoves Ministers who have been raised into offices upon pledges given not to imitate errors—the political vices or the extrava 'gance of their predecessors—but to counteract the consequences of misgovernment, to econo mise the resources of the State, and to rec- tify its abuses :—we say it eminently be hoves such Ministers to show, whenever a charge of jobbing or wasteful expenditure is made against them, that there has been no job, and no wasteful expenditure ; and it matters not that Alr. Hume reminds the country of what it cannot forget—that Mr. Dawson and his party were very prodigal of that public money which they now watch with so economical a vigilance, or that Mr. P. Thomson proves Mr. Goulburn to have committed as unfortunate blunders in finance as Lord Althorp. The question is, are Ministers guilty or innocent of the specific acts of error or delinquency laid to their charge ? The arguments that affect this issue are the only arguments that can be conclusive with the public, Let us take an example ;—lt has been said in Parliament that the 900/. which Government gave to a gentleman to investigate and report upon the French mode of keeping the accounts of the public revenue and expenditure was a job. How is that charge to he met Not by show ing that the other party are chargeable wit:: worse jobs, but by proving that the French system of keeping public ac2ounts, under which a cashier had it lately in his power to become a defaulter to the amount of between 200,0001. and 300,000/. sterling, is really better than the English system, under which we never hear of so extensive a defalcation taking place ? We believe, indeed, that the EnVish mode of keep. ing the financial a0.,-ounts ia far from being the best possible ; but we always thought it arose not so much from ignorance as from wilful mys. tification that the public accounts are not kept in the best possible manner in this great corm Inercial country.—Morning Herald. Our contemporary, The Sun, says, in a leading article of Saturday:—" We learn, on what we deem competent authority, that at the last interview which took place between Earl Grey and Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby, the two leaders of the moderate Reform party, after a long and animated conversation, in the course of which they suggested a variety of amendments, which were all successively rejected by the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government, came to the resolution of giving in their adhe 'sion to the Reform Bill. Previously, however, to this decision, frequent and angry interviews hJd taken place between the two Tory parties, and it , was, we understand, at one of the latest and most intemperate of these, that Lords Wharncliffe and Harrowby, finding that they differed in opi nion less with the Ministerial Reformers, than the avowed Ultra-Antis, came to the resolution to which we have just alluded. The Bill will i n consequence be carried with very slight modifi cations, not one of which will trench even in the • remotest degree on its great leading principles. We may add that in every interview ( ami d they have been numerous) that the Noble Earl at the head of his Majesty's Government has had with the leaders of the two opposing parties, the moderate Reformers, and the hopeless thick and•thin Ultras, he has uniformly held the same language, that of inflexible determination to swerve, in no one point, from the main fea j tures of the Bill." If this statement be not in every respect correct, it has at least a very strong likeness of truth in it. We have little doubt, however, that in all the main points it is a very fair out-door version of what took place inside ; and our reasons for thinking so, putting aside the authority of our cotemporarv, are, first, that we know of several interviews having taken place between the Noble Earl and the Tory leaders— secondly, that we cannot believe the former to act in any other manner than that which is here represented—and lastly, because it must have been foreseen from the beginning, that,—when all hope of successfully opposing the Reform Bill in the House of Comm onsh bondad v an i os union, swoopupic:it form t r i m t s having lost their great themselves into parties less hostile to one ano ther than to the Government which they had united to oppose. Though we are inclined to believe, however, that the ultra and moderate To ries have all but parted companionship in their opposition, and that the more moderate portion of them will not attempt to offer anything like effectual opposition to the great principles of the Bill, we would not, by any means, have Lord Grey take it for granted, either that he can safely rely on their support, or that he has fairly conciliated them. No such thing. He cannot safely rely upon their support of the Bill ; for, however they may keep the promise to the ear, of not opposing its main principles, they may break it in spirit, either by staying away from divisions—not dividing with him, or attempting to introduce amendments but ill according with the spirit of the Bill ; while, on the other hand, he may reckon with equal certainty, that instead of being reconciled to his admi nistration and his measures, they hate both as cordially as they did when the Reform Bill was first brought into the House of Commons. It is not in accordance with human practice, and more especially with the practice of political parties, to forego at once the most rancorous hatred and envenomed op position, for earnest regard and cordial support ; and it is not, therefore fitting, either that Lord Grey should dream for a moment, however cer tain of carrying the Reform Bill without the adoption of certain measures, of not availing himself of the means at his command, of not only making himself sure of the final result of the Re form Bill, but of strengthening his Government in the Upper House upon all other questions which lie may be anxious to settle, and which, he must know, will be contested by the Tory party. Look at the matter, in fact, in whatever point of view we may, we see no possibility of dispensing with a large creation of Peers—that is to say, such a creation as will hold out to the people the prospect of a good Government, by ensuring. to Earl Grey, and his colleagues, the certainty , of a fair hearing, and a fair support, in the Upper House, on all occasions and on al' sub j eccs.—Morning Advertiser. OLD BAILEY, FEB. 18. Jane Taylor was indicted for killing and slaying Isabella Richardson on the 7 , h of the pres en t mont h . The particulars of . this case h ave so fully appeared in the police reports w i thin the last few days that they will be fresh in the tecollection of our readers. The prisoner was f i un d Three men, named Gadd, 'lran, and Roberts, were indicted, th e t wo f ormer fur stealing three trusses o f mea dow hay, the property of their employer, Mr. Walker, a farmer at Enfield-highway ; and the latter, who was the ostler at the White Lion Inn, in the same village, Was charged with receiving the property knowing it to be stolen. re heated losses in his stock of hay, which induced him to The prosecutor bad suffered to a great extent by the keep a look out, and in order to detect the robbers, he put a piece of paper, marked, into forty-one trusses of his hay. One of his servants on the night mentioned in the indictment saw the two prisoners carrying three trusses of the marked hay, and pitch it into the yard of the White Lion, and saw the prisoner Roberts remove the same into the stable, upon which he caused the whole of the prisoners to he apprehended. Ott searching the hay the marked paper Was found. Mr. Walker stated, that the losses he had sustained by the peculations of his labourers had been immense, and he hail been a visiter at these ses sions upon three successive oce talons. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and the JUDOE told them they would he transport e d. • THE OPERA.—One among m an y of the amusing features of the highly-popul ar nove l designated as ahove, the p;cture give!' of the rivalry of several of our young Noblemen to obtain the smiles of a prima donna, whose beauty, talents, and mysterious history, ad create , ' a _neat sen,lation at the Kin,g'i Theatre. In reading this piquant " tale of the times" the public will no longer ponder how fortunes are lost and won in the English me tropolis. JEANIE DEANS.—A handsome monument to the memory of the female who was the model Sir WA L TER SCOTT took for the character of Jeanie Deans, is to be erected in the church-yard of Irongray, Dumfries shire, at the expense of the talented Baronet. The mono ment,'Whicia is of a sarcophagus shape, with a flat top for the inscription, is now finished, anti may beseen in the mason shade to the west of Sr. Giles's church. 'rile monument is of Cullulo stone, and has been executed by Mr. RAst- SAY, the gentleman whose taste and knowledge in the execution of Gothic architecture, is so conspicuously dis played in the repairs of St. Giles 's church. The follow ing ii t h e i tthei iption, from the pen of Sir W ALTER SCOTT :—" This stone was erected by the Author of Waverley to the memory of ll . Ef.r:s WAr kea , w h o di e d in ihe year of GOD 1'79 I. This humble individual prac t;sed in real life the virtue+ mit) which fiction has investe' the imaginary character of Jean Deans. R-fusing the slightest departure from veracity, even to save the lif e of a sister, she nevertheless showed her kindn ess an d f ort i tu d e , in rescuing her from the severity of th e l aws at t h e expenee of personal exertions, which the time rendered as difficult as the motive was lawasble. Respect the grave of poverty, when combined with leve of truth anti dear effegtion.” COURT OF CHANCERY, Fn. IR. lURISDICTION IN BANKRUPTCY, The argument of the question which has arisen as to the power possessed by the Court of Review to hear and decide upon cases which before the passing of the late statute had been appealed to the Lord Chancellor, was brought on to-day in pursuance of his Lordship's order for that purpose. The Vice- Chancellor, at his Lordship's request, was present. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL addressed the Court is the matter of Harding, in which the question as to the jurisdiction has arisen. The statute law in bankruptcy was contained in the Act of the 6th year of the late King's reign, and in the various decisions which had been from time to time pro nounced in the Courts of Law and Equity on the cases brought before them. In all respects in which the statute he had referred to remained unrepealed, and so far as no new statue controulled the decisions made, that statute and those cases formed still the law of the land relating to bankruptcy. The clues. tion DOW before the Court was, whether the cases in bankruptcy which at the time the statute of the Ist and 2,1 of the present King were pending fell within the provisions of the latter Act, and were t o be transferred at once to the jurisdiction created by that Act. In examining this question, he proposed to limit himself to the very letter of the stature, and the case which he was instructed to support. In the first place, it was clear that tire sta ture of the Ist and 2d of William IV. did not repeal, nor did it mean to repeal, the 6th of George IV. He did not, therefore, suppose that it could be con tended that the jurisdiction conferred by the last mentioned Act was annihilated. It could trot be said either that the new statute contained provisions so far inconsistent with those of the former Act that it was impossible for them both to exist toget her, and therefore that the provisions of the former Act were by implication to be extinguished. The preamble of the ne , v Act recited that of the 6th George IV., and stated that it was expedient to provide means of administering the effects of bankrup a, and of deter mining questions touching the same, " other" than are provided by the said Act. The question which arose upon this was, whether the word " other" meant in addition to the existing tribunals, or in substitution for them. So far as the preamble at , forded a key, it could not be argued that it was in tended thereby to repeal the 6th George IV. The new Act also enabled his Majesty to establish a C , urt of B inkruptcy, but the ancient jurisdiction was riot put an end to. If it was to be contended that such jusisdiciion was by such a clause put an end to, as well might it he said that the jurisdiction of the Courts of King's Bench and Common Pleas were put an end to in all cases where the validity of commissions of bankrupt were to be tried, and where he believed many such questions would still be very often tried. The second section of the Act, enacted that the Judges in Bankruptcy, or any three of them, should form a Court of Review, which should have superintendence and controul in all matters of b inkruptcy, and should also have power, jurisdiction, and authority to hear and deter mine, order, and allow, all such matters in bank ruptcy as usually were, or lawfully might be, brought by petition or otherwise before the Laird Chan cellor, whether such matters should have arisen in the said Court of Bankruptcy or elsewhere. This clause, however, he contended, did not give an ex clusive controul to the Court of Review. The new Curt was constituted to aid the old, not to take away its juri,dic , ion. The petition in the present case had never been in the Court of Bankruptcy. It was a proceeding under the old law, and there was nothing in the new Act to take away the juris diction of this Court from matters pending in it he file the passing of this Act. This petition had been presented to his Lordship, an order for hearing it had been obtained, and it had been partly heard. This could not, therefore, be a case for the interfe rence of the Court of Review,—it was not a matter " in the Court of Bankruptcy,"—his client had not petitioned or moved the Court of Review ; and unless he had applied to that Court, what right had the Judees to take to them-elves a petition presented to this Court ? The Act did not extinguish exist ing proceedings, and there must be some Judge to decide upon them. The new Judges could not and would not hear it, because it was nut addressed to them. The petition would be extinguished if it were riot heard in this Court. No other tribunal could decide it. Sir E. SuGDEs proceeded to argue on the same side. The question was, he admitted, one of diffi culty, and more particularly as the late statute, con stituting the Court of Review, contained no provi ' ions to meet those cases of a similar description with the present which had arisen under it. He held it to be perfectly clear—too clear to make it necessary for him to address any argument upon the j point—that no established jurisdiction could be re moved without either an express enactment, or by such an imperative provision in a new law, as ren dered it inconsistent with former statutes, and there fore impossible for the old jurisdiction to continue. There was nothing in the Act to provide for this case. Could it be said that there was anything in it to take away this petition from his Lordship's paper ? There was not even an implication that his Lordship's power was to he taken away. In sec tion 39 of the new statute, where the power of the old Commissioners was determined, it was done by express enactments. The same remark applied to the section which took away the jurisdiction of the Vice-Chancellor. So that wherever the Act ap peared designed to take away jurisdiction, it did so expressly, and not by implication ; and it would be most unfortunate for the suitors, and for the public generally, if the laws were framed upon any less accurate and intelligible principles. According to the known rule in construing statutes, the word "elsewhere" most apply to inferior Courts, and could riot comprehend a superior Curt. He con ceived the true construction of the Act to be, that where a matter was originally before the Lord Chan cellor, he had power to conclude it. Lr this case there had been a decision by Lord Lyndhurst, which was afterwards brought for rehearing before the Lord Chancellor, who, if he should have it discussed before him, would have to decide on the law, the facts, and the evidence. It' the Court of ILvie%v, on the contrary, should be thought to have the power of deal , ng with the case, and should be per-. mitred to rehear the petition, and if they should think fit to reverse the decision which Lord Lynd hurst had pronounced, the rights of the parties would be most unjustly limited, for from their de cision it could only be appealed to the present Lord Chancellor in matters of law or equity, or refusal of evidence. The Lord Chancellor would therefore be bound hand and foot in the exercise of his appellate jurisdiction. If the former deeisioti of Lord Lynd hurst should prove to be r ight, and they wrong, the Lord Chancellor could still be powerless. Such a mischievous stare of things could never have been intended by the Legislature, and could not be etiffered to remain. The expense of furnishing the four Judges of the Court of R e view, wit h a copy of the petition amounted, where the petition was long, as in heavy cases it often was, to almost a d e nial of jestice. The delivery of briefs to Counsel in this Court, and the being afterwards deprived of their assistance in consequence of the petition being transferred to the new Judges, Was an expense fi t,„ of a very serious amount, and might besides occasion a n inconvenience for which there was no prospect of compensation or relief. Mr. MONTAGU followed on the same side. The LORD CHANCELLOR inquired if there was any Counsel instructed on the other side ? Sir E. SUGDEN said, notice had been given to the O pposite party, hut he did not ktrow that any one was instructed to appear. He rather believed it was meant to leave the matter to the decision of the Court. Mr. JACOB afterwards appeared to oppose the ap plication, and argued shortly in favour of the right of he Court of Review to dispose of all the existing petitions in ternkruptcy generally. An argument to the same effect was then addressed to the Court in the bankruptcy of " Dilworth cr- parte the Lancaiter Guilt Compeny," 4!1.1 on another petition in the same matter. The Court took time to cutusidet of the decuion. ROLLS' COURT, FEB. 18. HANCOCK V. TEAGUE. This was a bill filed for the purpose of having an account taken of the plaintiff's interest in certain shares in a mining association, which in 1817 had been formed for working a district in Cornwall. It appeared that four individuals, the defendant being one of them, having determined to take on lease the dis:rict, comprising four different mines, known under the appellation of Wheals, issued a prospectus in contemplation of the adventure, for sale of shares, to those who should be willing to participate in the 'peculation; and the plaintiff, being resident in I.i4ndon, arid a friend of Teague's, agreed to accept of ten, which it was arranged should remain in the defendant's name. The lease having subsequently bee❑ granted, the adventure vtas carried on, un successfully, however, except in one mine. In the mean time the plaintiff became insolvent, and his assigni-es being desirous to have his interest in this speculation disposed of, re-assigned to him his title, in order to enable him to institute this proceed ing. Oa the part of the defendant it was alleged that Hancock had bein entitled to a share in one particular mine only, called Wheal Harmony, and not to a general interest in the whole concern, which, it was contended, was proved by the fact that in communicating with his assignees, the plaintiff had represented his interest as being confined to the Harmony mine alone. His HONOUR directed the account prayed for by the bill. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, FEB. IS. The eternal me of " Small v. Attwood," with the particulars of which the public are by this time fully acquainted, came on again on Saturday, before Lord LYNDHURST, but %Ns's not brought to a termi ndtion. The case possesses little or no interest except to the parties concerned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-I/O USE. Mr. Lawrence, a gentleman residing in the neigh bourhood of Hoxton, waited upon the LORD MAYOR to !pate, that in consequence of the publicity which a suoposed ca•e of cholera had obtained through the public prints, he had deemed it his duty to investi gate the matter, and the result was that he !had clearly ascertained no grounds exited for presuming, as had been the case, that the man had been at- tacked with Asiatic cholera. He had even found that Mr. Hunt, in the House of Commons, had alluded to it as a case of true cholera, and had brought it forward as evidence of the necessity for the immediate establishment of public receptacles. Now the truth of the matter was this. The man hail, for the last 16 years, been subject to violent attacks of spasm or cramp in the stomach, and for this complaint he had been three or four times in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. For the last few days previous to the attack from his old complaint in Pit field-street, he had been suffering wader the incipient symptoms, insomuch that he been unable to go to his ork. On the morning in tpiestion he h a d been seized with a slid ht attack of cramp, and had stepped into a baker's shop, where he got a glass of brandy. He was afterwards more violently attacked, arid taken off to St. Bartholomew's H .spital, where the surgeons pronounced his case to be the true Asiatic cholera, and they in consequence sent him to the Lord Mayor's house in Abehurch-lane, from whence he was sent to the Surrey D spensarv, the surgean there agreeing in the opinion that it was true Asiatic cholera, although the man had lost 18 ounces of blood from bleeding, and one of the principal symp toms of cholera being stagnation of blood. In fact, he could prove, by reference to persona who had known the man, that all the appearances, such as becoming livid and speechless, which were pro nounced by the surgeons as infallible indications of the Asiatic cholera, had invariably attended the at tacks of spasm which he had undergone for the last sixteen years. He begged, however, to state his surprise that the man had been refused admission in Abchurch-lane, where there was a place expressly prov ded for such cases. There were subscriptions for the purpose of providing such places, and he considered that the public would have an impression, from the fact of a case being refused, that the city wished to monopolize the benefits, in place of ex tending relief all over the metropolis. The LORD MAYOR had certainly given up his house in Abchurch-larie for the purpose of receiving cholera cas s, but he begged it most distinctly to be understood that he never contemplated receiving indiscriminate applications. His premises were only to be devoted to the reception of those attacked in the immediate neighbourhood. He regretted that the man should have been sent about from place to piaci-, but he considered the surgeons at Sr. Bar tholomew's Hospital were most to blame. With re spect to the funds sub-cribed, he begged to state that he considered money obtained at the :Mansion-house was more particularly applicable to city precautions. If the other parts of the metropolis required recep tacles, there were plenty of affluent men who ought to come forward and provide them. barlotte Wilson, a miserable looking young girl, aged 19, was charged with having broken a pane of glass value 21., in the shop of Mr. Rawlins, Minories, for the purpose of committing a trang felony. It was evident that the girl's object was to csmmit an offence whereby she could relieve her destitute situation by transportation, as she made no attempt to escape. She was taken to the Otd Bidcy immediately, as the Grand Jury were not discharged. As the LORD 51Avort was about to quit the office a dark dirty little Jew, not much bi4 , ger than a full-grown mon key, bustled into the room in a state of ludicrous excite ment, and, add , essing his Lordship with vehemence, said " I go in danger of rny hf', mark that ; I want a sum mons against my chum, whom I intend to murder if I don't get justice. I have been insulted by him—l have been called this morning a little black son of a female dog by him. Now nay attention, "It I take a knife and cut him over the face, what will he the consequence?" Mr. Holder—Why, you'll commit a felony, and probably get hung. Applicant—Hung ! I don't care if Ido get hung. I've got a knife in my pocket, and I'll do hi» business with it. LORD MAYOR—Has he assaulted you. Applicant— Yes, he has, and I'm determined to murder him. Here's my knife (pulling out a large deep knife), and if this won't do, I've got the poker in my pocket.—This was ac tually the case, as the handle was observed protruding from his pocket. LORD MAI-oft—Well, go and consult Forrester ; he'll tell you whit to do. Applicant—Oh ! I see how it iv ; here's bribery and corruption, and wherever there is such things the long, purse is wily of use. I don't care if Fin starved to death —and that's worse than being hung—but I'll murder my chum. The applicant, wltose meagre appearance seemed to bear witness to the accuracy of his remark respectine starva tion, left the room in company with one of the officers. WORSHIP. e rnin a STREET. A man nam ed years of a g e , an d hi s wife, apparently about fifty somewha' i p orter, older, were charged with having murdered his mother, who resided with them, in Warwick-court, hirecrois-street. On Thursday he obtained an order from the churchwardens of St. Luke's for the interment of his mother, who had been dead a week. Suspicion being excited as to the mariner in which the tie ceased had come by her death, Mr. Brooks, the parish surgeon, inspected the body, and in eons, - quence both the prisoners were apprehended, and on Saturday a long examination to.tk place. Graven, a Worship-street officer, on going to the house, found the deceased placed in a coffin, inn there were several marks of severe injuries *bout the head and face. Various female neighbours of the prisoners on the night of Wednesday week, heard quarrelling at the res , dence of the prisoners, and a cry of " Murder." EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Feb. 15. We had a middling supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, and although sales are heavy, one parcel of Talavera Wheat brought 695., and one parcel of Beans brought 38s. Wheat up 2s. on the top, and down 25.3 d. on the average Barley 287 quarters; same top, and down Is. sd. on the average. Slats 159 quarters, down 3s. Id. on the top, and Is. sd. on the average. Pease and Beans 8162 quarters ; up ss. on the top, and 2s. 2d. on the average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. ('ease. tseans. First 69s Od 37s Od 26s Od 38s Od 38s Od Second 'Third sos Od 29s Od 20s ed 29s Oa 29 Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C„ Beef, peer lb. Os. 3d, to 06.6d.i Fresh Butter, lb . 8. 104 . to Is. al Siuttun 0 4 0 6 0 10 1 0 • a L a lo Ditto, per cv. t. 84 0 94 0 a 4 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 0 II Lamb, per qr. 1 3 3 0 Fallow, cwt.... 0 0 40 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 9 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 3/ 0 0 0 0 EDINBURGH I%IFAI We had a middling supply of which met with a dull sale, at la Per Sack of '2Bolb. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto ll6 0 Barleytneal 1 10 0 Peasemeal 1 10 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per ewt. N.., OaStriw(ki, .)12 0 13 0 Wheat Ditto —lO 0 11 0 Barley Ditto ._lO 0 11 0 Hay, per st.-- 1 2 1 4 M A R KET..—Feb. 14. Oatmeal at this day's market, st week's prices. I'er Stone 01 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal .i 0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal Peaserneal .-2(1. 155.-3 d. 18s.—Peat1 225. MARKET.—Feb. 15. lull this week, with little alters- GLASGOW CORN Our Grain market has been d rim' in the price. Wheat, per 2401 t. s. d. e. d. Oats, per 2.341 b. s. d. s. d. British, old . 2.50t030 0 Irish lBoto 186 new 2BO 290 British —o —0 Canada, free 27 0 -29 It Beans, per 28011 r. Irish Barley, per :1..N)1b. Scottish ......... l9 0 10 0 English 0 0 Pease, Scottish ... 17 0 19 0 Scottish 2O 0 27 ti Oatmeal, per 140%. 15 0 17 0 Irish CORNWALL MARKETS. Tau ao—Wheat (average) 2 - 2 s. 3d.—Barley, I Is. 3d.....0 4t5. g s Os. ST At' Nl.LL—Wheat, —s. to 2Gs.—Barley, —3. to 12s.—O ats . o Ss. Ile, 0 4..=13ZitS, 7a BoDmIN— Wheat (average)223. Od.—Barley, 27a. Od.—.Barley,los.44l.—Oats. HEtsToN—Wheat, 235. Od.—Barley, Ils tid. PENZANCE—Wheat, 2•25. `2.4s.—Barley, t o 12 . , 0atg, Os. to Bs. Od.—Beet and Mutton, sd. 1%1.--Pork, 30. to (hi.-- Butter, 1.11. per lb. LtsKEAtto—Wheat, —s. Ott. to s.—Barley, Bs. ed.—Oats, Oe. to Bs. Od. ST. Cocumu—Wheat, 22.. to —Bailey, Ile. to 12..—Beef, and Mutton, 4d. to Nl.—Veal, 4d.—Latub, 7 2. 0 A i u . lc B E ee sr fo,Nsd—.N_Vhmeuattto(anv,e:Ti.ge) MININC INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity uantit of of tine Copper Ore solcat Redruth 1 tThurd<y 2,718 0 tS Average Produce 213; 0 Amount of Sale, 14,417/. 3s. Oti. —Average Standard, 102/. 145.0,1. BIRTHS. On the 18th inst. in Lamb's Conduit.street, the lady of George &Allies, Esq., of a daughter. On the 17th inst. Mrs. tVilham Brown, of Duncan-temice : Islington, of a son. . on the 17th inst. in Essex -street, Mrs. J. Gurney, of a son. MARIIIED. On the 14th inst. at St. Asaph, Wm. Owen Stanley unge:t son of Sir John Th omas Stanley, of Alderl ey-ped - 1". ,Bart. to Ellen, the youngest sister of John N't illiams, Bart., of Bode'. wyddan. On the lfith inst. at Banwell, H. Williams, Esq., son of Wm. Williams ' Esq., Castle Hill, D orse t, to Maria, relict of W. Aitree, Esq., and (laughter of George Emery, Esq., of Grange lianwell, Somerset. On the 18th'inst. at Streatham, 11. Purkle, E.sq., of Doctors'. commons, to Charlotte Warrington, youngest daughter of J. Kaye, Esq., of Wandsworth-common. DIED. On the he 8•24 year 17tofh i h.s nst. age. In Manehecr er . s t reet, Edward Cole, Esq., in On the 16th ink. in A rlingtono , treet, Louisa, eldest daughter . oi 31 W. Andrews, Esq., aged 29. A; , in PUBLI9HRT) 1141,11LD0 YOUN G. tS , SrX Ovricg, 112, STigiD, LONDOY, They were refused admittance on linack;ni'. Olt Thursday they visited her. She was - in . adying state; and ou being► asked what had been dune to her, she pointed to her face, which was lacera'ed and bloody. She died soon afterwards. The pri soners, who merely declared their innocence, were remanded. Jl,-112 Y LEB ONE. An old woman, named Hyde, was charged with feigning an attack of the cholera, for the purpose of getting money. About ten o'clock on Saturday morning a policeman found her streched iu the road leading to Kentish.town, surrounded by a crowd. and apparently in great agony. She said that s he had pains in her bead and violent spasms i n her stomach. There was a bundle in her lap whief looked like a child, and on being asked if it was so. she replied in the affirmative. It, however, turned out to be a blanket. She was then taken to the statiomhouse, where the cholera left her. She was remanded. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.. OXFORD, FEB. IB.—ln a Convocation, on %due&lsy last, the Rev. W. F. Lloyd, M.A., and Student of Christ Church, was unanimously eh-cted Professor of Political Economy, in the room of his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, who had resigned that office. Thursday last the following degrees were conferred MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. S. If. Whittuck, St. Mary Hall. W. B. Clark, University. Rev. W. Monkhouse, Taberdar of Queen's. Edward Davis, Jesus. _ _ In a Convoc tion, holden on the afternoon of the saws day, the Rev. B. P. Symons, D. D., Warden of Wadhaan College, was unanimously chosen one of the Curators of the Sheldonian Theatre. On the 11 , h inst., B. Owen, M.A., Second Master of B aura .rie School, Anglesea, and Scholar of Jesus College, was elected a Fellow of 'hit Society. The Examiners appointi•d by the Trustees of Dean Ire land's Foundation have given notice, that an Examinatica will be holden in the Schools on Thursday the 6th of March next, and the folowing days, for the purpose of electing a Scholar on that Foundation. The Scholarship is open to all Undereraduate Members of the University who have not exceeded their six eenth term. ECCLESIASTICAL PIIEFERSIENTS. The Lord Bi•hop of Salishury has instituted the R-v. F. Close, M.A., to the Rectory of Hatford, Berke, on the presentation of F. Paynter, Esq., of k Hill, Surrey. The Rev. E. G. Walford, of Elsfield, an Alderman of the Corporation of Banbury, to the Living of Chipping Warden, vacant by the death of Dr. Lamb. The Lord Bishop of Exeter has instituted the Rev. T. H. Walker, A.AI., Vicar of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire, • and Chaplain to the Marquis of Chohnondeley, to the Vic ,rage of Bickleigh, with the Chapelry of Sheepster, iu hi* Lordship's diocese, on the presentation of Sir R. Lopez, Bart., M.P. The Rev. J. Wing, of Therney, is presented, by his Grace the Duke of Bedford, to the Rectory of Thornhaugh• with-Wansford, Northamptonshire ; and the Rev. Wm. Wing, of Thoinhaugh, to the Rectory of Sibson-cum.Stih bing ton, Hunts; both vacant by the death of the Rev. W. Wing, seri. The Rev. H. Harvey, Prebendary of Bristol, has been inducted into the Vicarage of Sr. Atiguqine, in that city. by the Rev. R. G. Belford, Mini►ter of St. Angustiae's Chapel, patron, the Dean and Chapter. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Per Quarter. Carlisle. Hexham. Morpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen ~,, Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick — Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton .... . DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. s. to s. 61 56 54 S. to 8. 29 62 30 35 61 33 36 57 60 40 54 C 6 29 37 s. d. s. d. a. el. s. d. 66 70 3 6 3 9 70 90 48 54 93 9 6 60 66 70 93 36 46 94 96 58 60 76 80 39 40 90 10 0 4 6 50 146 166 ' 90 100 140 160 90 100 14 6 18 0 9 0 10 0 146 15 6 9 6 100 8. to 8. 23 20 25 20 25 23 22 24 s. d. 0. d. 14 20 36 40 36 40 33 40 36 40 24 2 8 22 26 54 66 46 70 50 80 50 70 Beans. n 40 44 42 46 s. d. 0 0 0 0 56 60 56 6 0 58 60 76 80 00 00 73 :6 00 110 90 100 90 100 00 00 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Feb. 17. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufttilit 8. 528. to 58s. fine tile. Lin. and Cam. -s. 525. to 58s fine ties. -- Yorkshire -a. 545. to 58s. fine 61k4. - White -s. 565. to 61s. fine 645. Foreign, Red -s. 475. to 525. fine 59a. White -a, -a. to -s. fine 645. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire 13s. to 37s fine 41s. --- Yorkshire Wold --- Foreign -R. to -s. fine -s. Beans, Small 'tick 32*, to 345. fine ak; Oats, Potato 223. to 245. fine 256. - Poland -s. 20s. to 236. fine 245. - Friezland and Small -s. 18; to 20s. fine 2:14. - Mealing lod. to ltd. per Stone. Shelling `.is to 295. 4kl. per Load. Malt 32s Vs. fine 445. per Load. Rapeseed 221. Os. 251. Os. 26/. les. per Last. Aberdeen Coldstream Cupar Dundee I n;erness— Kelso Kirkaldy—.—. Perth I jrl=. The size SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. 25 30 19 23 20 29, 27 32 32 36 26 32 32 al 2'2 23 27 39 28 30 sure va 15 17 16 18 21 24 2.1 26 20 24 20 22 17 .21 25 32 23 24 Tics throe; 50 58 40 43 40 43 44 ti 2 50 58 5 4 2 58 50 56 40 43 40 45 f 4 66 of the nil Beans. i 22 24 30 91 '26 30 26 28 20 24 30 34 48 43 lOatineal. 30 3•2 3 45 48 43 44 20 25 hout the countrY.