The Sun. — London, England, 1822-06-06 00:00:00

TIIE LONDON JOURNALS. =THU'S- FROM THE DULY MORNING PAPERS, June G, [NEW TIM.ES.] An animated discussion arose last night in the House of Commons on a motion of Mr. Peel for leave to bring in a Bill to continue the Alien Act. The motion was ultimately carried by a majority of 189 to 92. Consols for the Account opened at 801 yester day. Scarcely any business was transacted during the whole of the day. At one time, however, a few bargains were done at 4, but towards the close of the market I f was the current price. At 4 o'clock the Exchange closed, and there were buyers at the opening figure:---The new Russian Certificat4sare still very fiat at 811, and scarcely inquired after. The same may be said of the Chili Bonds : they continue at 764 immovable. 'We had not a single arrival from any part of the Continent yesterday,—(Thid.) [THE TIMES.] By letters of a very recent date, which yes terday reached us from Leghorn, we learn that houses have been engaged in Florence for the Em perors of Russia and Austria, who are expected to arrive itr that capital to attend a Congress, about the middle of July. The subjects ap pointed for deliberation and decision in the con ferences of that assembly, are said to be the relative state of Greece and Turkey, and the settlement .of the affairs of Italy. •The stage is larger than that of the late Congresses of Troppau and Laybach (where the two Emperors could enjoy as profound a seclusion as two monks of Datrappe) : but whether the royal actors are to be increased, we cannot as yet ascertain. At any rate, as the spectators of the extetnal show will be more numerous, the world will hear more of it than of the secret conclaves on the German territory. It is extremely probable that both England and France, which formerly rather watched than joined the two former meetings, will send Mi nisters to this, as, its range of deliberation will be more extensive, and its decisions more final. It is likewise probable that those " substitutes for Kings," the Austrian Satraps of Naples and Sardinia, with the other tributary Princes south of the Alps,. will be permitted to come and pay their homage to the authors of their fate. [MORNING POST.] A private letter from Madrid, of the 23d ult., speaks of fresh advantages gained over the insur gents in Catalonia, and states that in the Sitting of the 22d, the Cortes rejected, by a majority of 82 to 4S, the. Martial Law proposed by the Spe cial Commission, to repress insurrection. The ground on which it was opposed was not its ex cessive severity, but the facility with which, in the hands of a Ministry hosti!e to the Patriots, it might be turned against the latter. The discussion on this important subject was very animated, but the Patriots triumphed ; " the two-edged sword," as it was termed, was re fused to the Government; but the Extraordinary Commission was instructed to propose , other measures, and it was announcedthat in k few days a project of law would be submitted to the Cortes, " as energetic and severe as the former, but the application of which could only reach the Serviles and the foes to liberty." The Cortes have also passed a resolution, declaring " that they have seen with sovereign displeasure, the neglected state in which the Government has left the Navy." An article of the 26th ult. from Pampeluna re-asserts that the King has ordered an army of 30,000 men to march imme diately towards the provinces bordering on the Pyrenees, and that it is to he divided into three corps, to be commanded by Generals Ballesteros, Espoz y Mina,. and the Mat'4uis of La zan. r BRITISH PRESS.] Sir John Newport last night in the House of Commons reminded Ministers of the expectation which they held out of a full inquiry into the grievances of Ireland, and the Marquis of Lon donderry, in answer, stated that the expectation had been realised, the state of Ireland having been fully considered in the present Session. There are men " who do good by'stealth and blush to find it,fame.7! There.are Ministers, we presume, of the same description. For how, or where, or when, the wretched state - of Ireland was duly dis cussed and considered in the present Session, the public are left wholly iu the dark. It is very true Ministers propose to remit the window and fire-hearth taxes in that country, but then this relief is•accompanied by an arrangement of the salt duty injurious to the provision trade, that neutralizes the intended - boon. The people of the South of Ireland, of Cork, Waterford, and Limerick, the scene of the present distress, would probably prefer the present taxes, odious and onerous as they are, to the new arrangement. With this exception then, to which so little praise is due,• we ask when or how has the case of Ireland occupied tine attention of Parlia ment in the present Session ? Something has been thrown out very indistinctly about the ame lioration of. the system of tithes, but nothing specific has been yet proposed, from which much, improvement can be eicpected on that head.— The ,Insurrection Act has been also renewed ; but will Ministers claim credit for that as a re medy for the preseut distress ? for any relief. of which. the Country is indebted to the charity of individuals. [MORNING- HERALD.] A correspondent informs us that " after the division on Mr. D4fenport's amendment on the third reading of the Navigation Bill on Tuesday night, and whilst strangers were excluded from the gallery, Mr. Davenport moved that the words ' Thrown Silk.' should he struck out, which was agreed to without a division ; so that the article of thrown silk is excluded from the operation of the Bill."—N. B. We would wish that the whole of the manufacturing interest of the United Kingdom would exert themselves as actively in this business as the •silk •throwsters Piave done ; they might thee render Mr. Wallace's Bill, comparatively a nullity. The supineness' of the manufacturing interests, generally, in suffering this Bill to pass in its present shape, is truly surprising.. But there is an old adage, that " what is every body's business is no body's bu siness." What is the ".Manchester Chamber of Commerce" about ? Why do they not enter the lists with the " Board of Trade ?" When the Bill is, passed, and when the cotton, the silk, the woollen, and other manufacturers, will find that the South and North Americans, the West Indian and other merchants will take, in the Port of Liverpool and other ports, silk, woollen, cotton, and other goods, in preference to British goods, which they have hitherto purchased in return for their cargoes of hides, cotton, colonial, and other foreign produce, then they will open their eyes to the effect of Mr. Wallace's Bill. But Cham bers of Commerce, like all concerns managed by means of Committees, are slow movers. While they ought to be acting, they are too frequently deliberating. We believe that there is also " a Chamber of Commerce" in Glasgow, in Birming ham, in Liverpool, &c. But they all Seem to be fast asleep, and to abandon themselves too confidently to Mr. Wallace, who, it is evident, knows nothing whatever of the manufacturing interests of England ; and to the Board of Trade, helped by the theoretical Mr. Ricardo, who, we believe, some time since reduced his calculations to such a nicety on the subject of payments in cash in comparison with payments in paper, as to assert that it made just 42 per cent. difference in the price of agricultural pro duce, &c. [MORNING CHRONICLE.] We received the Paris Papers of Monday at a late hour last night, by express.—No farther in telligence is communicated respecting Russia and Turkey.—The Quotidienne in its Madrid corre spondence states, that the Tercerola, the Yurriago, the Tribuno, and several other pamphlets preach vehemently the King's forfeiture of the Throne. As it is generally understood that this Mo narch has failed in his duty to the Spanish nation since swearing to the new order of things, the sooner he is deprived of all power the better perhaps it would be for the country. By sending him out of it, and givitig the Throne to a stranger, they would at least have the advantage of having an Executive attached to the new order of things, for its own sake. The Cortes might then either declare Ferdinand to have forfeited the Throne, as the Scots Parliament did, or like the English Parlia ment (with its love of fiction, which it caught from the English law), declare that he had abdi cated the Throne, though his unwillingness to quit it might be as notorious to the whole world as was that of our James. The Ultras are quite elated that the Abbe Frayssinous, the Court Preacher, who recommended that the mass of the people silould not be allowed to learn to read and write, is placed at the head of the education of France. The Quotidienne expresses very naively its hope that he will gradually suc ceed in allaying the spirit of innovation which in fluences the age. Such are the fruits of Legitimacy. And yet the credulity resulting from that igno rance of which the Ultras are so enamoured, is sometimes productive of no little inconvenience to themselves. Thus, for instance, an Ultra Correspondent in the Allgemeine Zeitung (for that Journal has both Ultra and Liberal Cor respondents), complains bitterly " that. there is nothing so absurd that it will not be readily be lieved by the French common people ; that with re spect to tile late conflagrations in the Departments round Paris, the Peasants have been told that the Noblesse are setting fire to their cottages from revenge, as they formerly set fire to their castles, that they might emigrate and take arms against the people ; that the Noblesse imagine they can by these means regain possession of the National Estates, and all this is confidently believed." Thus we see that those who take pains to brutalize and degrade the people, are always the very first to complain of the effects when they are themselves affected by them. PROVINCIAL JOURNALS. The following letter appeared yesterday in The Bury Gazette, a loyal and spirited Journal : Ti Sir HENRY BUNBURY, Bart. K.C.B. Sin—The tone of personal respect which the forms of society require us to affect towards a man of your rank in life, even when his conduct calls for our severest censure, is so irksome, that rather than subject our indignation or contempt to the shackles which decorum would impose on the public expression of either, we are silent, and the delinquent thus escapes the reproof and correction his offences merit. It is to this feeling alone, that I can attribute your hitherto undisturbed career ; and this feeling would, probably, have still suffered you to pro ceed without interruption, had you been prudent enough to keep within its pale; but you disown it, and we no longer feel re strained ; the bonds of courtesy are broken, and broken by you. Let me, however, do you the justice to confess that you seek no unfair advantage: you are as ready to endure as to in flict the keenest arrows of reproach, and the coarsest terms of invective. You profess yourself prepared to be stigmatized as a " rebel" and an " atheist," or any thing that could be found worse. Still I cannot conceal from myself the mortifying fact, that our skill in the use of the weapons you have chosen is in ferior to your's, and that we shall not meet on equal terms. You have the whole nomenclature of abuse at command. Soundrel and Hireling flow from your tongue with a grace and facility which surprise those who are aware of the de. tects of a Court education in this particular, and it is only on referring. to the list of your new friends and associates that they cease to be astonished at your acquirements. But, Sir, though scoundrel and hireling be " prave 'ords" as a man shall see in a summer's day, they are, perhaps, as well omitted; for, as philosophers have been eternally quarrelling about defini tions, so, amongst .politicians, the said terms must ever give rise to much discussion, and will always admit of various in. terpretations. You, for instance, apply those epithets to every man who ventures to doubt thatißeformers are patriots, and his Majesty's present Ministers knaves. I deny the accuracy of your definition ; and, if I might be allowed to substitute one which I think more general and more correct, I should say that, politically speaking, that man is a venal scoundrel who, holding opinions decidedly hostile to an administration—ac cepts office under, and devotes his services for many years to, that administration—who, viewing its measures as a series of guilt and folly, scruples not to be an instrument, however hum ble, to promote the success of those measures—who pockets his feelings with his salary, and sacrifices what he deems the best interests of his country at the shrine of gain or convenience— and who, if dismissed with place, pension, and marks of distinction, produces his hoarded patriotism, when his hy pocrisy is no longer marketable. Such, Sir, is my no tion of a " meaner scoundrel." It - is perhaps the beau ideal of political venality ; but there have been public men who approached so near to this standard of excellence, that it is suf ficiently in nature for all practical purposes. Let me not, how ever, so far follow-your example as to Judge too harshly of my fellow "men. We arc, no doubt, exposed in every situation of life, even the most bscure, to temptations dangerous to our virtue and our peace ; and 1 am willing to suppose that, in public life, there.are temptations to which even the sternest patriot must succumb ; happy then is he " neither whose habits, health, nor inclination, fit him for it," who, in the bosom of his loved retirement, can exclaim with the Poet : Suave, marl magno iurbantibus xquora vends, I E terra magnum alterius spectare laborerii.* But I will no longer occupy your time, nor my own, with stale morality and dry discussion ; we have more serious business in hand.. To a " family" party of Reformers, lately assembled for the purpose of " enlightening the public mind, and aiding the growing knowledge of the country," you are reported to have said, in speaking of " the military execution of the people at Manchester, and the late judicial proceedings arising from it," that, "upon the latter subject, you felt unmixed pain, for there was nothing in the whole proceedings that tended more to unsettle the public confidence in the purity of British justice than the transaction to which you had just alluded." Good God ! is it an " English Gentleman" that speaks ? Is it an " English Gentleman" who thus arraigns the justice of his country, and charges a jury of his countrymen with perjury ? And will it be believed that upwards of 100 English gentlemen could patiently hear, nay applaud, the atrocious insinuation ? Is it to be credited, that Sir H. Bunbury should offer an insult to his countrymen, and an outrage to decency,- of which even Henry Hunt, that prototype of demagogues, that mighty mas ter of effrontery, was incapable ? But, " I cannot," to use your own words, " trust myself with a subject which is likely to make me forget my temper and prudence." I leave it to the consideration of cooler heads. I leave it to all who are friends of good order and good morals. I leave it to all who reverence that bulwark of our Constitution—Trial by Jury. I leave it to all who really uphold the character of Eng lish Gentlemen to avenge this foul slander on their country men. I am, Sir, AN ANTI-REFORMER. It is delightful, when the ocean rages, To view from shore another's misery. CORN IMPORTATION BILL. CLAUSE ADDED TO THE BILL IN A COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE HOUSE. And be it further enacted, that any foreign wheat which may have been in warehouse on the thirteenth day of May, 1822, and which shall continue in warehouse at the passing of this act, may be delivered or. taken out of warehouse previously to the period which foreign wheat and flour would be admis sible for home consumption under the provisions of the said recited Act of the 55th year of the reign of his late Majesty, for the purpose of being ground into flour, subject to the conditions hereinafter mentioned ; that is to say, First, That the owner or owners, or consignee or consig-nees of such foreign wheat, shall, before the delivery thereof from the warehouse, give sufficient security, in the sum of one hundred shillings for every quarter of wheat so to be delivered from the warehouse (which security the collector or other principal officer of the customs at the port where such wheat shall be warehoused is hereby required and authorized to take in his Ma jesty's name and for his Majesty's use), with condition that for every quarter of wheat so delivered from the warehouse, four hundred and forty-eight pounds of fine flour shall, within six weeks from the delivery - thereof, either be exported, or fail ing such exportation, shall be deposited in warehouse according to the laws now in force relating to the warehousing of foreign flour; such flour to be inspected and approved, and marked or branded ac cordingly,by such officer or officers of his Maj esty's customs as shall be duly authorized and appointed for that purpose ; secondly, that the owner or owners, or consignee or consignees of such wheat or flour, shall comply with such further regulations as to the Commissioners of his Majesty's Treasury shall ap pear necessary and sufficient for guarding against the intro duction, into home consumption, previously to the period at which it would by the said Act of the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty be admissible, of any additional quantity of wheat or flour the produce thereof, under the plea or in consequence of the process of such taking out of warehouse and grinding : provided always that so much of the said flour as shall not have been export ed previously to the opening of the ports under the provi sions of the said Act of the fifty-fifth year of the reign of his late Majesty, shall, upon such opening of the ports, be admis sible for home consumption, on the same • terms and conditions as any foreign flour which may have been in warehouse on the 13th day of May, 1822, and which may continue in warehouse at the passing of this Act.—Provided also, and be it further enacted, that it shall not be lawful to deposit in warehouse as aforesaid, in return for the wheat hereby allowed to be taken out of warehOuse, any foreign flour imported into the United Kingdom subsequent to the 13th day of May, 1822. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 5. TELBTiRY V. MORRISON. The plaintiff, who keeps livery stables, brought his action to recover 451. the alleged value of a horse which the defendant had seized in payment of rent incurred by a person named Clare. It appeared that Clare, si ho lodged in the house of the defendant, in the neighbourhood of .Manchester-square, had hired a horse of the plaintiff for a week; and whilst it was stand ing at the defendant's door, Mr. Morrison distrained it as the property of Clare, for arrears of rent. The horse was sold by auction for 241. and the plaintiff was present at the sale. The conversion of the property could not be supported in a legal point of view ; and the Jury, under all the circumstances, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 241. The Loin CHIEF JUST ICE finished the Sittings after Term in Middlesex. PREROGATIVE COURT, JUNE 5. EFFECTS OF HIS LATE MAJESTY GEORGE THE THIRD Dr. LuSIIINGTON stated, that this was an application to the Court, requiring its authority towards carrying into effect the testamentary directions of his late Majesty to his heirs and successors, to pay a certain sum or sums of money after his de mise (no mention was made either of the suns or the parties to whom it should be paid). Sir J. Nicsior, observed, that there was no constat for the present application, and the Court would wish to have some precedent before it took any steps towards interposing its au thority to give effect to such a paper as that containing direc tions to our present Sovereign. It should also wish the Officers of the Crown to have notice of the application previous to its inquiry how far it had authority to call upon the Sovereign to do an act as directed by the will of his late father. Dr. LUSHINGTON observed, the Court was surely autho rized to carry into effect an Act of Parliament which he re cited, empowering his 'Majesty to will and devise in trust to his heirs and successors, all and singular his lands, here ditaments, freehold, copyhold, and personal estates, and which called upon them to convey, assign, and make over in manner aforesaid ; and that such, his Majesty's will and testament should be as. effectual in willing and disposing of the same as the testamentary instrument of any of his subjects. Dr. L. concluded, he should be happy if his Learned Friends on the other side wbuld put the case in any form in which it might be proper to argue it. The most convenient way, per haps, might he in the shape of protest, in order to argue the question. _ . . Sir J. NICHOL.—" It is probable there may be a mutual understanding between you as to what course can be pur sued." KING'S ADVOCATE.—" We should undoubtedly require instructions before interposing in a matter of so much delicacy." Sir J. NICROL—" The Court would wish to proceed with all manner of caution, but without compromising its jurisdic tion as to whether or no the matter in dispute could be settled here. It also desires to know if the testamentary paper refer red to has been brought into the Registry." The Registrar answered in the affirmative. Sir J. Nicnor.—" Your - course is, to apply for a decree against the King's Proctor, who will show cause, and of course the Court will take steps ; but this being an extraordinary case, the Court should not like to take any steps without some in structions to be guided by." AWFUL CATASTROPHE AT SANDWICIL—On the,. 2d inst., as two young men, JOHN and HENRI CURLING, 19 and 21 years of age, were amusing themselves with a sail on the river Stour, close to their father's house, the boat, from some cause unknown, upset, when JOHN, the younger, got entangled, it is supposed, in the sail, and sunk to rise t►o -more ; the elder HENRY)( was picked up ,alive but has been insensible ever since ; the river running close to the garden their cries of distress twere heard by their mother and sisters, who could afford them no assistance, and who had no idea at the time that it proceeded from them. The consternation and grief of the whole town shewed t'►e high estimation in which these youths were held. They are the sons of Mr. W. CURLING, of Sandwich, and nephews to Dr. CURLING, of Upper. Brook-street. . FOR THE SUN. ENGLISH EMIGRANTS. MR. EDITOR—WiII you have the goodness to publish the following shameful business, as it may be the means of preventing any more poor mechanics from leaving their own country to be starved and ill treated in this : " A Mr. ll—, proprietor of large Iron Works, near Rocray, Department of Ardennes, has for some months past succeeded in getting many men and their families to leave their homes (most of them are Welch), under a promise, that be sides their travelling expences allowed, they were to have from the moment they commenced work, two guineas per week. As money was remitted (to enable them to come over), in rather a liberal manner, the thing seemed very plausible, and the poor fellows eagerly caught at the bait ; no town in France could be better situated than Rocray for the honest schemes of Mons. ll—, it being 220 miles distant from Calais on the frontiers of Belgique, 150 miles from any public road, conse quently no public conveyance of any sort, and so difficult of access, in consequence of the num ber of cross roads, that the natives themselves find a vast deal of trouble to get there; his direc tions are on their arrival at Calais to hire a cart (as they generally come over in troops of seven or eight) ; this, with the length of time on the road, finishes all the cash remitted, so that on their arrival at Rocray, having no means to return,Mr. H. has them upon his own terms, which is for subsistence only, and that a very scanty one; it appears that he is the richest man in that part of the country, in short, quite a little King, therefore all complaints against him are useless ; this he is perfectly aware of by the scandalous manner these poor people are treated ; to return without money and without knowing one word of the language, I to beg for their support and direction on the road, particularly to those who have brought over their wives and children, (and these are the men he prefers on that account), is almost impos sible, to starve equally so ; what can they do ? why e'en stay until Mons. ll's speculations are answered, or at any rate, until they have taught a sufficient number of Frenchmen their trade, to enable him to do without them; he even threatens those who should attempt to leave him with im prisonment, for the money advanced to bring them over, and has actually put his threat in exe cution upon three young.men who had the spirit to resist, and made their escape to Calais, for they are now, and have been for the last ten days, clol.e prisoners in the common gaol here, (I need not point out to you the horrors of a French jail, where not even straw is allowed unless the pri soners can pay for it,) and they are not to be released, I understand, until they consent to go back and work for nothing. Such is the encourage ment mechanics in general meet with who come to this country, for Mr. 11. is not the only one who behaves in this honourable manner. A number of men, Millwrights, passed through Calais lately on their way to England, who had been engaged by some person near St. Omer's, for a certain number of years; before the expira tion of one, a sufficient insight to answer the pro prietor's purpose had been obtained into the business, by men expressly employed for the oc casion, and they were all discharged, in spite of written agreements, remonstrances, and every thing else ; their answer was, when applying for redress, what may easily be imagined, your mas ter has no further occasion for your services." Calais, May 30. NATIONAL SCHOOL SOClETY.—Yesterday the Annual Meeting of the Subscribers to this Insti tution was held at the Central School House, Baldwin's-gardens, Gray's-inn-lane. There were present tone Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishops of London, Salisbury, Ches ter, Worcester, Exeter and Landaff, Lords Ken yon and Calthorpe, Sir James Laugham, Mr. Wilberforce, &c. &c.—The Archbishop of CAN TERBURY took the Chair. The Rev. Dr.Walmsly, Hon. Secretary, read the Report of the Com mittee for the last year, by which it appeared that 82 new schools had been formed in different parts of the kingdom, making the total number of schools 1790, in which were instructed upwards of 250,000 children ; being an increase of up wards of 12,000 over the number of the preced ing year. The Committee had given 3,4251. to wards establishing 39 schools. The total receipts of the Society for the year amounted to 3,6341. and their funded property amounted to 3,6001. — The Archbishop of Canterbury said, considering the great utility of the institution, he could not but entertain sanguine hopes that it would soon receive a more general support from the public. It must be painful to all to hear that 13 schools had been discontinued.—After several votes of thanks the meeting elected the Governors for the ensuing year, and then separated. WESTERN DISPENSARY.—Yesterday evening the Anniversary Festival of this Institution was held at the Crown and Anchor Tavern in the Strand, when nearly 200 persons of the highest respectability sat down to a sumptuous dinner, Colonel ELLIOT in the Chair. The Report stated, that in the last year 2,554 patients have been admitted into the Institution ; 2,240 have been cured and relieved, 23 discharged, 63 have died, and there remained under cure on the 31st of December, 1821, 228 patients ; 758 of the above were attended at their own residences.— From the commencement of the Charity in 1789, 53,604 patients have been admitted. Yesterday a Public Meeting of the Provisional Committee for Encouragement of Industry, and Reduction of Poor's Rates, was held at the King's Head Tavern, Poultry, TnomAsWarcaur, Esq. in the Chair : when it was determined to be necessary that an application should be made to the Legislature for the purpose of obtaining small portions of land for the labourers now re ceiving from Poor's Rates, for the benefit of the labourers, and of the stable interests of the soil and manufactures, the products of which they would hereby acquire an ability to consume, IRELAND. The Lord Lieutenant had, on Saturday last, au audience, which was numerously attended; and immediately afterwards his Excellency held a Council.—Nothing can be more truly charac' teristic of the unrivalled talents and peculiar energy of this illustrious Nobleman, than th e , mode in which he de v ot e s th e momen ts 0' his inestimable time to the public service , and to the happiness of his country.—Th e . Lord Lieutenant resides at the Lodge in th e Phoenix Park, and not, as one of the ETV:" ing Papers erroneously stated, at Woodstock. li e ,. occasionally visits Woodst oc k ; b u t h e t ransa cts al: the business of the State with such dispatch aoa precision, that, were it not for the anxiety wit h which the public look at all his movements, his cellency would be supposed never to have left the precincts of Dublin Castle. Even the few mo' ments of relaxation, which he allows for the Pre' servation of his health, are made subservient to the public welfare by his Excellency, who also, that respect, rivals the great Statesmen of anti' quity. The commissioners for the relief of the f poor sit every alt e rnate d a y, f or th e purpo se of receiving the orders of the Lord Lieutenant; bu t though the business which they have to transact is voluminous, yet, such is the lucid arrange' ment of the instructions thus given, that they are able to execut e , i n th e a ll o tted time, whatever his Excellency directs to b e done, to mitigate the distr e ss i n some p l aces , an d to to avert the evil in other districts. We are haPPI in being able to communicate to the public, tha t the Engineers, under the new Act, are makig arrangements for the immediate relief of th e wants of the peasantry.—(Dublin Corresponded , June 3.) A letter, written by a Gentleman resident at Skibbereen, dated the 31st of May, saysf -- a " The miseries of this season were never equa lle here in my time, though I well remember th e year 1800, and the year 1801. There are thou' sands of famishing c rea t ures cry i ng f or f oo d ; but the fund from which they have been hithert ° scantily supplied will b e s oon ex h aus t e d, if t replenished by additi ona l a id f rom t h e Charitabl e Committees of London and Dublin. We have received an order fro m D u bli n C as tl e f or 150 1 and the gratitude of the inhabitants of this pla ce is boundless, for every person is incessantly ju t ; ploring the bl e ssi ngs o f H eaven f or t h e Lot Lieutenant, whose clemency, justice, and beli e " volence, are the constant topics of conversatin We have not, however, received the money. hear that there is a l arge f un d a t th e disposal f the Lord Mayor of Dublin, an d h ope th a t the poor creatures in this neighbourhood will n ot be overlooked in the distribution of the relief."' (Ibid.) We have much satisfaction in being enabled t ° state,that his Majesty's G overnmen t h ave made _, important concession t o th e C ommerc i a l i n t er est. - Hitherto it had been the custom to oblige the ine r : chant to pay duty on all bonded goods ac cordi l to the weight, measur e , o r quan tity, a t the tim e of lodging them in th e Ki ng ' s s t ores —b y which t he merchant was placed in the very disagreeable s - v h tuation of being compell e d, no t on l y to suffer "' loss of time and interest on capital—by leakag e 7 accidental waste, evapo ra ti on , or pillage-L- 13ut ' t to the loss thus sustained was added the a mours of duties on the whole quantity wasted, sh stracted, or evaporated. Th e j o i n t repre sentation s of the merchants of both countries on the suf e ject, have at length ind u c e d th e L or ds of °i Treasury to order th e a b an d onmen t o f this pra v cis tice; and in future the duty on all bonded go ii , will be paid only on th e quan tity ac t ua lly d e ', vered out of the King's stores.—(Dublin ing Post.) MURDER OF MRS. DONATTY.—CHARLES 13° 141 ABDY, Esq. the Chairman at Epping Court Hou se/ yesterday attended at Hatton-Garden Pel le ; office, and had a long interview with the M a g i l k , trates respecting John Williams and John Fail o f ner, the men who are in custody on suspicion t , burglary at the house of WILLIAM CARROLL-P a 1-lERST, Esq. and who, it w ill b e reco ll ec ted, a' suspected of the murder of M rs . DONATTY,II.O to .„ 0 the circumstance that th e y resem bl e the , t " h t men who were seen running away on the Ing o d of the murder from Robert-street. Some 03 discovered on the sleeve o f th e grea t c oat W ' a 4 by one of them strengthened the suspicion/ all to Read the officer was questioned with respec t to this particular, but he had nothing material 1 , add to his former statement, which has been a a, ready before the public. It was th en direct e d that all the witnesses w h o c ou ld th row any upon the matter should attend at the Court 11° 0, at Epping on Saturday next, as well as , TAYLOR, the Solicitor, wh o h a s b een indel a fg , gable in his exertions to di s c over th e murderen'a when the above prisoners will b e b roug ht'uP B .„ s t finally examined upon all th e ch arge s agar them before the Court. of . On Tuesday night a young m an 2 a residen", oo , Alcester, accompanied a female into a house of ill famee don 'Prentice-street, in Birmingham, where it apPei s L f ere' robbed him of the money he had about him, a nd upon x is" deavouring to repossess himself of it, she called to her T r oia tance some men, who immedi a tely knock e d hi m down, shires him on the head and breast with a poker, jumped uPol t and at length attempted to strangle him. He made $ bt resistance, and the neighbourhood were happily alavo g i beir the cries of murder in time to rescue hi m a li v e flora the grasp. The police officers soon after arrived, and too thre e girl into custody : they have also since a pp re hended oe men and two other women implicated in the outrage- cti eet , unfortunate man continues at a public-house in the same " in a very precarious state. MARRIED. tios ter , On Tuesday last, at St. Margaret's Church, Ni r est illin r 7o , R. Drummond, Esq., of the Royal Navy, to Jane 0 31 . 3 t he daughter of Richard Ellisqn, Esq. of Sudbrooke Holme, the county of Lincoln. Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant o p, Royal North Lincoln Militia, Recorder of the City of L ine and many years Meiriber of Parliament for that City 1 ,1 DIED. 'ha On Tuesday last, in Bolton -street, Charlotte, wife of lt, a ic t. Verity, Esq. and second daughter of Sir Rupert George , i" On Monday last, at his mother's house, in Portman -sq l. John Pepper„ Esq., of Rigod's-hall, in the county of E g ' se tr eetl On Tuesday last, at her house, Upper Grosvenor -s col Mrs. Coote Manningham, widow of the late Major -Gen Coote Manningham, Colonel of the Rifle Corps. vi i2' On the 2d inst., at "Brompton, in her 38th year, Mrs.. l- 4 - beth Sarah Rely, wife of Brevet Lieut.-Col. Hely, F a ts 0 . or llth Regt. of Foot, and daughter of the late Mr. John F° s ' St. Mary's, Southampton. Printed and Published for the PROPRIETORS, at the Office, No. 112, Strand, by J. 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