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ADMIRALTY, JUNE 9, 1832. HIS MAJESTY having been pleased to rel yoke his Letters Patent, constituting Cornini shiner s fur conducting the Affairs of the Navy. Victual ling and Sick and Hurt Boards, all Letters on Public Servic , and all Documents of whatsoever description from Pubb, Officers relating to the Naval Service, heretofore addresse , to the Commissioners of the Navy and Victualling, or t their Secretaries, whether from Officers of the Navy ii or out of Commission, or in any of the Civil or Marin , Departments of the Navy, or from Individuals upot Naval Business, are to be addressed henceforward to tin Secretary of the Admiralty. (Signed) JOHN BARROW. e4e / (r '. :‘ , 44 / ,& - / r4,,,e . ..„1› .. 4 ;A , t„,, ~,...4-6, li i 1 }t. i ~,.. 4 i - - .. ;o, l = l !./ . .y3; .° - /100 4- -',4 , . 1 - ' 7' 39 6i` * 1 ~.:I'l., _...V . ll 7 e .- -- )=1 .... / ,e, -) , . .:J '') 1. , 111 f r 1t . ..! ir ,vt e....../ A ....' _e.„4i.....4:‘, * . ...0 eke 0- , ~ A.,. , t,) , , ...t. rat.A. ..C.k V'' " - -6 - iv rIP '-- - I - , - 0041— N . 3... c e-1 I to i ?`' 7 .. r, ~---,- - , e... ft._ ~.• _ k Lin de r o• ~,, ,Itu,,. ._ i 467,1 ~ - \,•,101 • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (FROM TILE TIMES PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, SATURDAY, JUNE 9. Tranquillity has been maintained here since I last wrote to you, and there is every appearance that no attempts will, at least for some time to come, ha made again to disturb it. The rioters have been entirely put down, and the Government's triumph is complete. The courts-martial have commenced proceedings since yeSterday, and it is said that not less than 1,600 prisoners will:have to appear before them. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 11, 1832. (No. 12,401.) (PRICE 7130.) ST. ALBAN'S ABBEY. THE Public are respectfully informed, that a MEETING will be held at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street, on WEDNESDAY NEXT, the 13th day of June next, at One o'clock precisely, for the purpose of adopting measures for the Preservation of this venerable specimen of Ecclesiastical Architecture. The Lord Bishop of LONDON in the Chair. St. Alban's, June 7, 1832- CONSISTORY COURT, JUNE 9. till the beginning of 1821, when he was discharged by order of the Court, in consequence of obtaining his certificate under that commission. In 1823, the present commission against Govett and Leigh was issued, which having run for three years, Mr. Sher. !ock put upon the proceedings proof of his debt, consisting of these bills, and interest amounting to gether to 7001. 18s. Such being the facts of the case, he submitted that Mr. Sherlock had no right at all against the creditors under the present com mission to take advantage of the bills obtained in the manner he had stated in Ireland. STOREY V. STOREY. ARIGNA IRON AND COAL COMPANY'S OFFICE, 9, Liverpool-street, London, June 8, 1832. 111-1 E DIRECTORS of the ARIGNA IRON and COAL COMPANY hereby give Notice, that the HALF YEARLY GENERAL MEET ING of the slid COMPANY will he held (pursuant to Act of Parliament) at the Company's Office, being No. 9, Liverpool-street, Bishopsgate, in the City of London, on THURSDAY, the sth day of July next, at Twelve o'clock at Noon precisely, for the purpose of receiving a Report from the Directors on the Affairs of shad Company. By Order of the Beard of Directors, HENRY ENGLISH, Secretary. A NEWSPAPER FOR SALE. T1 -1E TITLE, PRESS, and TYPES of a NEWSPAPER, some time established in one of the most populous counties in England, and the only Paper published its that County. To a person who can command but a small capital, this offers one of the most advantageous opportunities. Apply by letter (post-paid) to B. C., at Mr. Barker's Country Newspaper and General Advertising Office, 33, Fleet -street. PURSUANT to an Order of the HIGH COURT OF CHANCERY, made in a cause " GIBSON v. BOTT," any person or persons claiming to be the child or children of Jenny Davies, formerly of Astey's-row, Lower-street, Islington, afterwards of Birnsbury-place, Islington, in the county of Mid dlesex, and late of Worthing, in the county of Sussex, widow, (who died on the 4th day of September, 1820), or of Letitia Gibson, formerly of Garston Down and late of Croydon, in the county of Surrey, widow, (who died on tho 20th day of May, 1831), or the personal represen tative or representatives of such of them as are since dead, are, on or before the 25th day of June, 1832, by their solicitors, to come in and prove their kindred before GEORGE BOONE ROUPELL, Esq., one of the Mas ters of the said Court, at his Chambers in Southampton buildings, Chancery-lane, London, or, in default thereof, they will be peremptorily excluded the benefit of the said Decree. CARPETS. --CARTER and CO., 2, Cheapaide, near St. Paul's. 120 Pieces BRUSSELS CARPETING, of first-rate quality, price 3a. 1041. per yard. Many of the Patterns are perfectly novel and elegant.—Also, 7,000 yard-wide KIDDERMINSTER and VENE TIAN CARPETING, excellent quality for bed-rooms, Ste., at 2s. 4d. and 2s. 6d. per yard. 5,000 ditto, superior quality, at 2s. 10d. and 3a. per yard. _ 4,000 wide STAIR CARPETING, at is. 4d. and 2s. 2d. per yard. 500 HEARTH-RUGS, with Flooreloths, Druggets, and other articles connected with the trade, equally cheap. N.B. In addition to the above, the Stock comprises the largest assortment of the most elegant Drawing Room Pat terns in the Trade. Patterns forwarded in Town or Country. MINERAL SUCCEDANEUM FOR FILLING DE CAYED TEETH, without Heat or Pressure, and IN CORRODIBLE ARTIFICIAL TEETH, without Wires or other Ligatures. MONSIEUR MALLAN and SONS, Sur geon-Dentists, No. 32, GREAT RUSSELL STREET, BLOOMSBURY, and 9, HALF-MOON STREET, PICCADILLY, grateful for the high and extensive patronage which has so eminently distinguished their professional exertions since their al rival in the British Metropolis, respectfully announce to their Friends and the Public in general, that they still continue to restore DE CAYED TEETH, with their celebrated MINERAL S UCCEDANEUM, so universally recommended by the Faculty of London and Paris. The operation of Filling Teeth is pea formed in a few seconds, without the slightest Pain, heat, or pressure. They also FASTEN LOOSE TEETH, in a manner singularly efficacious, and SUPPLY WHOLE or PARTIAL SETS of TEETH formed of the above INCORRODIBLE MINERAL, or of Natural Sub stances, without WIRE or other LlGATURES—guaran teed to answer every purpose for Articulating and Masti eating.—Charges as in Paris. The Faculty are respectfully invited to witness the suc cessful result of the Mineral Succedaneum. , N.B. One of the above firm may he consulted Mon "Pi and Thursdays, at King-street, Great Yarmouth, and the int erme di ate d ays , at t h e H ay - mar k e t, N or wich, until the 30th of June. ESTATE. SUSSEX, ON THE THE BORDERS OF HAMPSHIRE. Upwards of One Thousand Eight Hundred Acres, and the Manor of Wenham, Fishery, &c. TO BE SOED BY AUCTION, By Mr. REID, Son-in-law and Successor to the late Mr. JOHN ROBINS, (Of Warwick House, Regent•street,) At Garraway's Coffee-house, 'Change -alley, Cornhill, on Thump/kr, the sth J u l y, 1832, at Tw ' elve in ' One Lot, by direction of T rustees , and subject to ' the ap proval of the Lord High Chancellor, AVALUABLE, DESIRABLE, and very COMPACT FREEHOLD ESTATE, situate in the Parish of Rogate, County of Sussex, between the capital Market Towns of Petersfield and Midhurst, and skirted by the high road to Portsmouth, about six miles from Liphook ; comprising BOGATE LODGE, A comfortable, eleant, and pleasant residence, beautifully situate, commanding pleasing and interesting views, com bining every comfort and convenience for a gentleman's family and establishment, now in the occupation of John Gage, Esq. with excellent attached and detached offices, pleasure grounds, productive gardens, part walled, melon ground, orchard, &c. ; stables, coach-houses, farm-yard, buildings, &c. THE MANOR OF WENHAM, Extending over Three Thousand Acres of Land, forming one of the best sporting districts in the county of Sussex, abounding with Game, including the RARITY OF BLACK GAME. The Fishery, of nearly Two Miles in Extent, in the River Rotber, abounding with Trout and other Fish. The Lands are divided into elligible Farms, with farm houses, yards, barns, and all requisite agricultural build ings, containing about ONE THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED ACRES Of excell en t mea d ow, marsh, arable, wood-land, and plan tation, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Hall, C. Ball, W. Ayling, a n d ot h er respectable tenant. The Woods and Plantations in hand ; sundry Cottages, Gardens, &c. BORDEN WOOD AND COMMON, Cinin ONE HUNDREDonta g about AND THIRTEEN ACRES Of ry O n i Plantation, in a tine thiing state. Cottage and Gar den hand. Also a Portion of the RECTORIAL TITHES of the Parish of ROG ATE. The Rental and Estimated value nearly ONE THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED POUNDS. Affording a most desirable Property for Residence and investment. Distant front the Metropolis about fifty miles, four from Peterstield, and eight from Midhurst, in a fine sporting part of the County, and nearly in a Ring Fence. The Residence to he . view e d, b y permission of the Ten a nt, with Ti c k ets only ; the Faruts on application to the respective Tenants. F Particulars may be had o f M r. Guldring, near the Lt4te lying Bull, on the Portsmouth Ro a d, who will s h ow th e at the Red Lion and Dolphin, Petetfield ; Foun tain, Po rtsmouth ; Anchor, Lipho o k ; King ' s Arms, Guildford and Godahning ; Swan, Petworth ; Angel, Midhurst; Mr. Weller, and the Dolphin, Chichester; Li braries, Brighton; Mr. Adam's, Hillhampton, near Worcester; of Messrs. Broughton and White, solicitors, Great Nlarlb orough.stieet ; at Garraway's ; and of Mr. Reid, No. 170, Regent -street, where a plan of the Estate inisy he seen, Mr. DopsoN stated that this was an applicatioi on the part of his client, Mr. Storey, a respectabl, attorney, residing at St. Alban's, praying a divorce, on the ground of adultery committed by his wif, with John Alexander Harper, his nephew. Th, affidavit of Miss Mary Storey, a near relative of the husband, stated, that on the night of the 21st May, 1831, she was awoke out of her sleep at the hous(- of Mr. Harpur, of Hackney, where Mrs. Storey was then on a visit, by a noise which she supposed proceeded from persons trying to get into her bed room window ; the noise appeared like the sawing of timber. She listened, and ascertained that the noise proceeded from Mrs. Storey's room, which was separated from her's by a slight partition. She went to Mrs. Storey's room door, and distinctly heard her in conversation with her nephew, John Alexander Harpur. The conversation appeared to be affectionate. She asked Mrs. Storey whether she was ill, but without opening the door, and was answered by her that she was not. She then, for greater confirmation, went into Mr. Harpur's room (opposite to Mrs. Storey's), and found he was ab sent. She then went to Mrs. Storey's door, which she found locked ; but after a short time, and some confused noise in the room, Mrs. Storey admitted her; and, in answer to her inquiry for Mr. Har pur, she said she did not know where he was; that if he was not in his bed, he was probably gone to the water-closet. Witness said she was not satis fied that Mr. Harpur was not in the room ; and look ing under the bed, saw him lying at full length in his shirt and night-cap. She understood that he usually slept in satin drawers, but could not say whether he had them on. On seeing him, she exclaimed, " Oh, Mrs. Storey, I have heard much of you, but never till now believed it !" and reproached her with having committed adultery with her husband's ne phew, and left the room with feelings of indigna tion. Mrs. Storey followed her to her room, and requested her to return with her to her's ; she did so, and there Mrs. Storey attempted to explain Mr. Harpur's being in her room, saying he came in to light his candle. Miss Storey asked why she con. cealed him under the bed ? She admitted that it was an awkward situation; but said she was ashamed to have him seen in her room at so late an hour, and was so confused, that she allowed him to get under the bed. Witness consented to keep the matter secret, from feelings of respect for Mrs. Storey's children and her husband ; but requested Mrs. Storey to leave the house the next day. To this Mrs. Storey objected, saying it would be sure to lead to an ex posure ; and witness consented to her staying some time longer. Witness was convinced that an adul terous intercourse had taken place between Mrs. Storey and Mr. Harpur at the time ; and she ac cused Mrs. Storey, who was advanced in life, and the mother of six or seven children, as being more to blame than Mr. Harpur, who was a youth of 20, arid Mrs. Storey admitted that it was more her fault than his. The witness stated that Mr. Storey was in the habit of treating his wife with indifference. Mr. Anthony Browne, half-brother to Mr. Storey, some days after the commission of the unlawful act at Hackney, having been informed of it by Miss Storey, followed Mrs Storey to Brighton, where, in the presence of her mother, Mrs. Bridon, he intro duced the subject. Mrs. Storey said, " I know what you mean—you allude to Alexander Harpur." Her mother said, in a tone of surprise, " What's that ?" Mrs. Storey replied, " Oh, nothing mother, Alexander Harpur came into my room while I was in bed. I asked him how he dared to do it ? and he said, don't be alarmed, I frequently go into my aunt Mary's room while she is in bed.' So he seated himself in the arm-chair, and began giving me an account of the Epsom races, and the heavy losses he suffered there, which plunged him into difficulties that embarrassed and agitated him very much ; on which I gave him advice, and remon strated with him on his conduct." To this he (Mr. Browne) replied, " not caught in the arm-chair, Mrs. Storey, but under your bed." She admitted that it was so; but did not admit any criminal intercourse. Dr. ADAMS, for Mrs. Storey, contended that the charge was the effect of a conspiracy on the part of her husband against his client. It was clearly proved by Mrs. Driver, who visited them, that he treated her with the greatest indifference; and Mrs. W. Harpur, Mrs. Storey's greatest enemy, admitted that he treated her harshly. Was it to be sup posed that a lady 44 years of age, and the mother of seven children, would be guilty of a criminal in tercourse with a youth of 19, and he her own nephew? The Court, he was sure, would not pronounce a separation on the single evidence of Miss Mary Storey, who, after she said she was convinced of the criminal intercourse, kissed Mrs. Storey on leaving her bedroora - Zand kissed her again the ne x t morning at the breakfast table. It was, besides, in evidence that this youth was in the habit of going into all the ladies' bed-rooms; that he I,vent one night into that of Mrs. William Bell, who turned him out in a rage; and that he rolled Mrs. 'William Harpur on the carpet at the Jerusalem Coffee-house. Doctor LUSIIINGTON took a review of all the facts in the case, acquitted Mr. Storey of all blame, and pronounced the sentence of divorce prayed for. The case excited great interest, and lasted till six o'clock. BANKRUPTCY COURT, JUNE 9. EX-PARTE MORLEY, IN RE GOVETT AND LEIGH. Mr. Twtss stated yesterday that this was a peti tion by Mr. Morley, a separate creditor of Mr. Leigh's, praying that proof of the debt of Mr. Sherlock, claiming also to be a separate creditor, might be expunged. The debt proved by Mr. Sherlock was for 7001. 18s. upon bills of exchange. Mr. Leigh had already been before the Court as in partnership with Mr. Govett, and as having been often a bankrupt. He was a bankrupt in 1803, and again in 1811. Under his second commission he did not pay 15s. in the pound. After this he pur chased, in 1814 and 1815, goods from Sherlock, merchant of Dublin, to the amount of 4641. After this, a third commission of bankrupt was issued against Leigh in 1815. As the law stood at that time, a third commission was deemed valid, even against a person who had not paid 15s. in the pound under the second commission. Such being the state of the law, it became the duty of Mr. Sherlock to prove, if he meant to prove at all, under the third commission. He did not, however, do so, arid Mr. Leigh obtained his certificate. In 1819, Mr. Leigh being, as he stated, upon business in Ireland Sherlock threatened that he would take immediate proceedings against him for his old debt, sin less he gave him some security for it. Mr. Liegh being informed, that, according to the law of Ireland, his certificate would not protect him, and it being essential to the business upon which he went that he should remain at liberty, gave bills to Sherlock to the a mount of 638/. 12s. for princi pal and interest of his old debt. He (Mr. Twiss) contended ►hat Mr. Sherlock had no right to arrest Mr. Leigh, after having neglected to take the reme dy he was entitled to under the commission. But in 1820 there was another commission issued againt Leigh, so that supposing the bills obtained by Sher lock were worth anything, now was the time for him to prove them. He did not, however, do that which he might have done, but lodged a detainer against Mr. Leigh whilst lie was in the Fleet. Leigh remained in prison from a period subsequent to the issuing of the fourth commission it► 1820 The COURT said the case was quite clear. The bills given in 1819 took the debt out of the Statute of Limitations, and in 1823 that statute had not run. Mr. Sherlock was not affected by the commissions of 1803 and 1811, for this debt did not arise till 1814 and 1815. It was true he did not prove un der the commission of 1815; but he was not obliged to do so, if he chose to preserve his remedy at law. Then with respect to the manner in which the bills were obtained from the bankrupt, if duresse had been made out, no doubt the case would would have stood upon a very different footing. All that Mr. Sher lock threatened was to take proceedings, and he had every right to do so. It might be a hardship upon the creditors under the present commission, that the goods with which they had trusted the bankrupt should go to form a fund out of which old creditors like Mr. Sherlock might be satisfied, but it was no greater hardship than if Mr. Sherlock had taken the bankrupt's goods in execution, as he had a right to do within a week of the creditors under this com mission having trusted them with him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. B OW-STREET. Colin Ross, Esq., a gentleman known on the turf, applied for a warrant against Captain G. Rose, of the 17th Lancers. The applicant alleged that he was on the Epsom Race Course on Thursday, and words occurred between him and the Captain in consequence of some previous transaction. Appli cant, deeming himself insulted, asked the Captain for his card, which was refused. He followed him about for some time, observing, " If you are a gen man, why refuse to give me your card?" and, as he still refused to give his name or address, he said, " Then, Sir, you are an ungentlemanly fellow." The Captain, on this, struck him several times on the head and face with a loaded whip. [The applicant exhi bited a black eye, several cuts on the head, and a wound over the left temple.] Mr. MINSIIULL granted the warrant, and it was placed in the hands of Taunton. Saturday night a young man of dark complexion, who gave his name John Lamb Rudd, was brought to this office by Stevens, the officer, charged, under extremely singular citcumstances, with having robbed his father of bank notes and otherproperty, amount ing to about 2601. It will be recollected, that at the inquest on Mr. Paas, at Leicester, it was stated that he had been seen on the road to Loughborough, in company with a young man, and that they had with them a small black trunk. Before the appre hension of Cook, the murderer, was known in Lon don, information was received, that young man, sup posed to be that miscreant, had arrived in London by one of the Northern coaches, and had with him a black box. Stevens was sent in pursuit, and succeeded in discovering that a young man, of genteel appear ance, having with him a black trunk, and accompanied by a fashionably attired cyprian, had made an excur sion to Richmond. The officer did not succeed in se curing him, and he returned to town. When it was ascertained that Cook had been apprehended, it oc curred that the young man, of whom the officer had been in search, was the same who was seen with Cook, as described ; and under the impression that he might be an accessary after the fact, and was still in possession of a part of the money taken from Mr. Paas, Stevens continued his pursuit. After great exertion, he traced him on Saturday after noon to a tavern at Woolwich, dining with a dash ing female. Stevens called him aside, and told him he was a Bow-street officer, and that he must consider himself a prisoner. He made no resist ance, and Stevens, upon searching him, found a 50/. bank note, a 20/. bank post bill, sixty sove reigns, a silver watch, and a great quantity of wearing apparel, silk handkerchiefs and other arti cles, chiefly new. Stevens also found a Savings' Bank book, in the name of " Henry Rudd, Pres cott-street, Liverpool," from which it appeared that 1001. had beers drawn from that Bank within the last few days. He also found a black box. He asked the prisoner if he had any remark to make ? And he said, " I should not have done it if my fa ther had found me in clothes and money sufficient." Stevens, who was at once convinced that the pri soner had nothing to do with the horrible crime of a participation in which he was at first suspected, said, " that was no reason why you should rob your father." To which he replied, "It may be very true, but I did it, and I must take the consequences." He was then brought to London, and admitted, by the way, that during• the few (lays he had been in town, he had spent a considerable sum. Mr. CHOPPING, the solicitor, attended, and said it was quite clear the prisoner could not have been the supposed companion of Cook after the murder, but the circums . ances were still very singular. The prisoner, when asked if he had anything to say, admitted that his father was Mr. Henry Rudd, of No. 3, Prescott-street, Liverpool, Excise Offiaer; but declined saying anything more at present. The new apparel he had purchased himself. Mr. MiNsitum, after some remarks upon the very singular manner in which the robbery was detected, remanded the prisoner for a week. MAR Y LEB 0117 E. William' Young, a policeman, and Sarah, his wife, were charged with robbing a young woman, named Eliza Thompson, of her reticule, containing a 51 bank note. The prosecutrix resides with her sister in Cleveland -street; she had just left the service of the Hon. Mrs. Lee, of St. James's Palace, from whom, last Thursday evening, she received a Si. note in payment of her wages, which she put in her reticule ; she was returning home about ten o'clock, and met the prisoner, who asked what she had in her hand ? She replied, "Itis my reticule ; I hope you won't take it from me." He said vo more, but snatched it, and made off. She walked towards home crying, and met a gentleman in Portland place, who asked her what was the matter, to whom she told what had happened, and he accom panied her home. Mr. James Supden (the gentleman) corroborated this evidence, as far as related to him. A butcher proved that the female prisoner changed a SI. note with him on Friday morning : he had passed the note, but could trace it. The policeman said in his defence, that he met ►he prosecutrix, who took him to the Coach and Horses public-house, where they had some gin• She had no reticule, and must have lost her money. The people of the Coach and Horses were sent for, and proved that the male prisoner came there, but had no female with him. The male prisoner was committed for trial, and his wife discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr.Brettell, printer, residing in Rupert-street, Hay market, appeared on an . assault warr an t, t o a nswer the complaint of Henry Berthold, publisher of the Political Handkerchief, and celebrated at this and other offices for his distribution of political publica tions with a tri-coloured border. It appeared that oihi:e Mr. Brettell was standing in his shop, en gaged in conversation With signor de Begnis, the Opera singer, Berthold went in and thrust into thl defendant's hand a penny publication, entitled:" A Lesson to Kings ;" at the same time observing that it would do Mr. Brettell good to peruse it. Th. defendant immediately saw sufficient of the work to ascertain its real worth, and he threw the paper down, and told him he would have nothing to do with his trash. This so exasperated Berthold that he applied several unceremonious epithets to Mr. Brettell, and in conclusion said, that he had pub lished it for the edification of such great fools as him. Such expressions, from a man whom he had never seen in his life before, naturally surprised the de fendant, and he instantly pushed him out of his shop. Berthold, who had a stick in his hand, raised it against Mr. Brettell, when the latter took the former by the nose, and, according to the evidence of two women, "slapped his face." The magistrates, after considerable deliberation, observed, that they must take the case upon the evidence before them, and they should call upon the defendant to pay a fine of 20s. to the King. Berthold, who had repeatedly said he intended to take the case to a higher Court, on hearing the decision, became outrageous. He told the Magis trate that he should appeal against the decision; and on being informed that it was not in his power to do so, after the Magis•rates had summarily disposed of the case, he made a long speech, and concluded by observing that he supposed, if a " sub ject had been nearly killed, the King would receive the benefit." Q UEEN. SQUARE. The driver of the cabriolet, No. 1,188, was sum moned by Mr. Levy, lessee of the Hammersmith turnpike, for " bilking" the toll-gate. Mr. Levy engaged the cab, arid on approaching his own gate, the driver, who had been giving an edifying account of "what a knowing one he was," said he should easily do the toll. Mr. Levy told him to beware; but the driver did not know what kind of customer he had got, and he showed the tollman a ticket with which he had passed through in the morning with another fare. Mr. Roe, the owner of the cab was in attendance, but the driver was not. The summons was discharged as against Mr. Roe, and another summons was issued against the driver. Among the disorderlies appeared Lord Francis Russell, of 6, Belgrave-square, who was charged with being drunk, and assaulting Henry Stratton, of 44, Grosvenor-Mews, and Edward Jones, of 25, Wellesley -street, Chelsea, at Knightsbridge, about one in the morning. His Lordship appeared to have suffered in the fray, one of his eyes being much swollen and quite black. As the prosecutors did not appear in time the defendant was liberated. THE HAMBACH FETE. FRANKFORT, MAY 29.—Before you receive this you will have seen in all the German papers accounts of the Hambach fete; for although it does not pro perly finish till this evening, yet Sunday the 27th was not only the first but the most important of the three days' meeting. As party feelings may, how ever, discolour, or at least overcharge the picture in some points, I may give you, in a few touches, a truer view tha❑ those more lengthened descriptions which)ou will find elsewhere. Full 20,000 persons were drawn together, despite the various discouraging obstacles which the BAvarian Government threw in the way. The theatrical effect of the scene was magnificent. The national flag of Germany, of most imposing pro portions, with an immense number of smaller ones of various colours and designs, were exhibited, and paraded about, escorted by armed bands, music, and every other display of enthusiasm. Tents were pitched in the valley, under the old ruins of Ham bach Castle, ornamented with banners and inscrip tions; and nothing of " scenery, machinery, and decorations" omitted, which could gratify the eye, or interest the imagination. So far so well. But with regard to the political management, and the moral results of the spectacle, something more solid than mere show is looked for ; and as far as I can learn, that has not been found to the extent desired by the steady and theoretic patriots, who watched the proceedings, but did not mix in them. The Committee who had the direction of the fete, puzzled in the complicated arrangements of an affair so novel in this country, and having the deli cate task of making the thing effective, without committing themselves with the Government, seem, either from caution or want of experience, or per haps a conflicting mixture of both, to have acted on no settled plan. Matters were therefore left, in a great measure, to chance. And so much the better, I think. The grand object of such oc casions, and in the peculiar circumstances of these countries, is to excite the people into a display of spontaneous and undrilled feeling, and to let them strike out ways to the attainment of their great de sign, energetic•, national, and original, out of the beaten track of political travelling. No President was electedand no order assigned for either speakers or listeners. Various scattered and undisciplined groups a'sembled in consequence, to hear sundry volunteer orators, such Dr. Wirth, Siebenpfeiffer, and Harald (the editor of the Deutsche Tribune, the Hochwachter, and the Constitutionelle Deutsch. land), as well as Dr. Borne, Harro-Harring, and some other still more violent demagogues (I tr,e the word without offence or reproach), whose names I will not inflict on you. But I must not omit to mention, that the Polish patriot, Grzymal (pronounce him, if yon can, but at any rate print him fairly) made a speech of much energy. He was ac companied by about twenty of his fellow-exiles ; and a letter from General Dembinski to the German people was read with considerable applause. Many patriotic songs were sung in loud chorus, and several printed addresses circulated. Of the latter I enclose you one, from the society of " the Friends of thr People" of Strasbourg. It will show you how the nzouvement party in France are working on the ele ments of German excitement. So much for the open-air proceeding of this me morable day. At a private meeting—a consider able one too—in the Schieshaus, the portraits of all the reigHing German Princes, or caricatures meant to represent them (a month ago that of the Grand Duke of Baden would have been excepted), were trampled on, torn up, and burnt ; and the National Union of Germany solemnly pledged and sworn to, amid orgies of which the details are of small impor tance. Ext erna lly every t hi ng went o ff w i t h out violence. No attempt was made by military or police to interfere with the proceedings. It would pave been, indeed, insanity to oppose what could not be suppressed; arid perhaps the Government of Bavaria is not sorry to have an opportunity of see ing (as they no doubt did by their spies) so many heretofore concealed enemies throw off the mask and avow themselves fully. But no public man of leading respectability or in fluence was present; no Rotteck, nor Mittermaier, nor Jordan, nor Welcker. The whole assemblage was, in fact, under the control of the Republican French, or (for want of a better word) the Jacobi nical party. This, perhaps, will be looked upon as unfortunate by the steadier and less violent patriots, who abstained from attending. The Government will probably think it lucky, inasmuch as it will give a colour of excuse to the harsh measures they were, without it even, prepared to adopt. Severe stric tures from the various Cabinets, and fulminating anathemas front the Francfurtlz _Bundestag (as our Divan of despotism is generally called) may be is •ued—paper blockades against the open ports of liberty—but what of all that ? Let the prudent patriots hold back, let Monarchs and Ministers threaten, let Diets denounce ; :the free spirit of Germany is now awake and up. The people ar , daily, hourly gaining knowledge of their own power ; they may make blunders in the early operations of their great work, and run counter to all the line and squares of political geometry. But if they. have fairly taken the work in hand, it will be sure tt, right itself. When the vessel is once launched, pilots enough will be found to pittide its course. Mien who now hang back, from fear of premature attempts, will soon step forward to direct the rising spirit, which no set of men can by any possibility control. It is of little consequence how public meetings like the present are managed, so as they do not infringe the existing laws. It is no matter how far or how short certain speakers may go, so as they show the people the real object to aim at — political liberty; and that the salutary misgivings of the despots grow in a proportionate ratio with the public courage. There is no danger of the people of any country, with the recent examples of France and England before them, overshooting the mark which civilized Europe now looks to with a steady and most determined eye. But the main point of the many which the universal subject em braces is the countenance and encouragement of France and England, united in the generous and resolute desire to see other nations as free as they are themselves. That is the only society for the common good; the great seal to be set on the bond of human happiness. When will the pledge be given ? When acted on ? And where will its first effects be seen ? In Hanover ? I hope so—but very faintly. HIGH AND LOW DUTIES. It is a well-known principle, that in taxation two and two do not make four—that is, if a government receive one sum from a low or a moderate duty upon an article of common use, that receipt will not be doubled by doubling the duty. In some cases it will be even lessened. This result is produced by the diminished consumption arising out of the higher price to the consumer; which higher price includes the additional profit which the manufacturer and the retailer must charge for the additional capital em ployed upon the article in consequence of the tax. Suppose a tax of a penny were put upon the " Penny Magazine." Let us see, in that case, how the tax would affect the consumption, and what the government would gain by the tax. In the first place the tax would raise the price of the magazine to threepence; for, as the retailer receives one-third of the present price, he would require to receive one third of the additional price :—the stamp of a penny would therefore immediately become three halfpence to the consumer, by the profit of the retailer alone. The remaining halfpenny would be necessary to compensate the publisher for this additional advance of capital, and for the diminished return upon the original outlay for authors, artists, and that branch of the printing process which is called composition. There are certain expenses which are the same whether a work sells one hundred copies, or one hundred thousand. The price being therefore raised to threepence, we may fairly cowclude that the consumption would be diminished nine-tenths—that ten thousand copies would be sold instead of a hun dred thousand. Let us see how the revenue would be affected by these altered circumstances:— The paper for 100,000 copies of the Penny Magazine weighs 3,4001b5. upon which a duty is paid of 3d. per lb., amounting to The imposition of a stamp of !d. per copy would have the effect of raising the retail price of the Penny Magazine to 3d. At that rate it is presumed that the sale of the Threepenny Magazine, instead of being 100,000 copies, would be reduced to 10,000 at the utmost. Upon 10,000 copies, with Id. stamp, the revenue would receive as under : Duty of 3d. in the lb. upon paper £4 5 0 Stamp of Id. upon 10,000 copies £4l 13 0 Deduct discount of 'Alper cent. allowed upon news stamps ... S C 6 33 6 G 37 II 6 Weekly loss to the revenue from the high duty 4 18 Or, Annual duty upon sixty-four impressions of 100,000 copies of the Penny Magazine, using 217,0001b5. of paper, taxed at 3d. per lb. 2,720 0 0 Annual produce of a Penny stamp, and paper duty upon 10,000 copies 2,404 16 0 Annual loss to the revenue from the high duty 315 4 0 By this operation, therefore, the government would sustain that loss which invariably results from the diminished consumption of an article of general use upon which a high duty is imposed; and ninety thousand persons would be excluded from the pur chase of a little work from which they derive instruc tion and amusement. By this diminished consump tion of nine-tenths of the Penny Magazine, nearly nine-tenths of the paper-makers, printers, type founders, ink-makers, bookbinders, carriers arid re tailers, to whom the sale of a hundred thousand copies weekly affords profitable employment, would, as far as the Penny Magazine goes, be deprived of that employment ; and that diminution of profitable employment would in a degree diminish their power of continning consumers, of other articles contributing to the revenue, and thus still more affect the amount of taxation dependent upon the Penny Magazine. PUBLIC REJOICINGS.—The Reformers of Leeds have come to the determination to celebrate the passing of the Reform Bill by a public dinner, consisting of the good old English fare—of roast beef, plum pudding, and strong beer; which will he honoured by the attend ance of the liberal candidates for the representation of the borough, who will address the inhabitants. Great prepa rations are making for this celebration, which is intended to be as general as possible, and the day will be enlivened by music, banners, processions, the ringing of bells, firing of cannon, and every other public demonstration of joy, in commemoration of the triumph of constitutional princi ples, and the establishment of a sound representative system. We venture to say that never in the annals of the country was there a festival in which the people of England were more interested than that which is now approaching ; and at no time have the rejoicings been more general and heartfelt than those which will take place on the present occasion. In the approaching festival, the rich and the poor, the workman and his master, will all sit down toge ther to such a repast as has never before been witnessed in Leeds. As the masters are buying hundreds of tickets for their men, it is desirable that the friends of Reform should be as early in their application as possible to avoid disappointment. More splendid dinners have often been given, but never was there a feast for an object more truly patriotic, or more worthy of men and of Englishmen.— Leeds Mercury. THE APPROACHING JUBILEE.—The Trades are continuing their meetings with great spirit, and de vising, most liberal things in anticipation of the approach ing Jubilee. The flags and insignia carried on that oc casion will exceed in splendour and novelty any thing of the kind ever seen in Edinburgh, and as all hearts are en thusiastic in the cause, there will be no lack of funds to make the procession a magnificent one. We hope the different Committees entrusted with the mangement will adapt their banners and mottos to the bright side of our History, and refrain from any display which might tend to keep alive political animosities beyond the natura! period of their existence. Ali will then be freemen, and, as such must act with the nobleness of mind and genero sity of heart which the atmosphere of freedom inspires. We observe from the provincial papers, that preparations for rejoicing are making in every town, village, hamlet, and clachan, throughout the kingdom. Public meetings o 1 trades, working classes, professions, and other bodies, have taken place, that never took place before, and the people every where seem to have thrown the rein on the neck w enthusiasm, to give lull scope to their feelings of joy. This evening the United Tobacco Spinners of Edinburgh ire to meet and arrange the order of their procession. The Merchants and Shopkeepers are to meet to-morrow for the same purpose, in the Merchants' Hall, and the Printers in Bakers' Hall.—Scotsman. STATE OF TRADE.—The woollen trade still continues much depressed. In the worsted stuff busincs• more is doing, and we hope with somewhat improve': prospects, ■.. Leeds Yleicurp The report respecting the arrest of M. de Clia teaubriand, which I mentioned in my last, has not been confirmed. Nothing is, however, more likely than that such a thing should speedily occur. It is now said that the Duke of Fitz-James has been ar rested, and is in close confinement. Orders have been given to take into custody the three Deputies, Messrs. Gamier-Pages, Laboissiere, and Cabet, as well as M. Carrel, the principal editor of the Arational, the announcement of whose arrest, two days ago was then premature. Besides several redueteurs of the Quotidienne, the Tribune, and the Courrier de l'Europe, a very great number of individuals of less note have been arrested and imprisoned on some suspicion or another. It is intended immediately to expel from France all ,foreigners in any way sus pected of intentions or feelings inimical to the Go vernment. The refugees especially are to be treated with the utmost rigour. Thus Carlists, Republi cans, and Liberals of foreign countries, are all indis criminately to experience the effects of the power which the Government has taken into its own hands. The fruits of the victory which the rulers of France have recently obtained, are hardly less to be deplored than might have been the state of things resulting from the triumph of the adverse parry. Martial law will probably continue in force so long as it may suit the Government to keep it up. The press is entirely annihilated, and every vestige of liberty has disappeared from the land which con quered it in 1830. I said in my last that the proclamation of martial law was of questionable legality. All doubts about its illegality have since been set aside. It appears that at the Cabinet Council held last Wednesday, in which it was proposed to de clare Paris in a state of siege, two old laws were referred to as giving to the King the power, of doing so. The first was passed in the eighth year of the republic, but it required that the legislature, if not sitting, should be convoked for the purpose of giving its sanction to the suspension of the laws. The other was a decree of Napoleon, published in .1811, in which no legislative sanction is of course mentioned. Marshal Soult preferred the Imperial law, because it dispensed with the ne cessity of calling the Chambers on the present emer gency. He strongly urged its adoption, and al though opinions were divided, the majority finally gave way to the Marshal, who declared repeatedly that there was no other means of rescuing the coun try from the hands of contending factions. But, however desirous the great bulk of the na tion may be for the establishment of permanent tranquillity, even the most peaceably disposed view with painful surprise so great a departure from all principles of constitutional government, as that which has been hastily resolved upon at the sugge,- don of a General brought up entirely in the 13tiona parte school of military despotism. The Government papers, which are now fully at liberty to make things appear exactly as may suit the purposes of the ruling powers, are using great exertions to justify the extraordinary step which has been taken. They deem it incontestable that the right of proclaimis►g martial law is ever inherent in the Government, which may perpetually hold it t p in terrorenz, over the people, precisely for the pee pose of preventing any acts of insurrection. This is equivalent to nothing less than a revival of the 14th article of the old Charter, upon which King Charles's celebrated ordinances of the 25th of July were founded, and which has since been formally reprieved. It goes, in feet, to place the nation not only where it stood previously to the revolution of 1830, but on a footing of still greater depen dence of the King's will, inasmuch as Charles took the Charter as the only legal grounds on which his ordinances could be founded, whereas the present proceeding is based on a mere pretext of the exist ence of laws long since forgotten and obselete, and which the promulgation of the actual as well as the late charter had positively set aside. If this pre ceeding is formally countenanced by the Legislature, it must establish the legality of the imperial regime, which is totally incompatible with that of the charter. The great Ultra-Royalist doctrine during the res toration, which the liberals labouted incessantly to controvert, was, that Louis XVIII., being the author of the charter, possessed the right to modify it, and even to abrogate it, whenever he thought fit. His successor appealed to the 14th article as decla ratory of that right, and was dethroned in conse quence. If then the late dynasty was overturned for attempting but partial alterations in the Consti tution, how can it be expected that the nation should sanction, in the Government which has suc ceeded.to it, the power of suspending it altogether, and of substituting arbitrary and military force ? But this is not all. The Government intends to give retroactive power to the ordinance which places Paris in a state of siege, and has already been en couraged in the execution of that intention by the opinion of the Cour Royale. That ordinance was signed on the afternoon of the 6th, and only pub lished on the 7th, when it appeared in the official part of the .211oniteur. M. Persil, the Procureur- Gen6ral, was instructed to move the Cour Royale for a declaration, that all criminal causes of which the Court had not taken cognizance previous to the date of the ordinance, were amenable to the juris diction of the military courts which that ordinal ce established. Had the Government consulted the Court on the legality of the ordinance itself, perhaps ► less favourable opinion would have been obtained. it is by this retroactive power that Ministers intend to defend the violence of the proceedings with re card to the Tribune, Quotidienne, and Courrier rlr l'Europe journal, during the night of the sth and 6th instant. A general review of the National Guards of Paris by the King, is to take place to-morrow. I am assured that several of the legions intend to avail themselves of that opportunity for the purpose of presenting written addresses to his Majesty, stating that although they readily complied with the call lately made on their services to aid in the restoration of order, that it is not thereby to be inferred that they approve of the system of terror which the Go vernment has since thought proper to adopt. I know that papers to this effect have been going round 'tmong the members of the National Guards, and hat they have already obtained a great nu:nber of signatures. Notwithstanding the still unsettled aspect of aCirs, the funds continue to advance. The speculators augur favourably, as they are generally apt to do, From what they call the " strong measures" of the Government. But this is not the only cause to which the rise is to be ascribed. A great number of large purchases were yesterday made, and it is strongly suspected that the Government's secret funds were brought into the market for the express purpose of raising prices. This practice is not new. Within the last eighteen months it has been fre quently resorted to. Four o'clock, p.m. No particulars have yet transpired regarding the rising in La Vendee. It is known, however, to he zeneral both in that department and in the Deux - Sevres. The Duchess de Berri wits still in the Boccage last Monday. She might easily have cm ►atked had she chosen, as the Government agents themselves throw in her way every facility for so toing; but she has preferred remaining, and it is •xpected she will attempt repairing . to the ths•rir•t; vhere the number of her adherents is greatest. The tie WS of the rising' in La Vendee and Deux Sevres Nearly ready, in 2 vols. poet Svo. T HE EAST INDIAN SKETCH-BOOK By A LADY. Henry Coltman and Richard Bentley, New Burlington street.