The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Certain bankers, merchants, and others, Con servatives of the town of Rochdale, in Lanca shire, and ex-officio worryers (if they knew how) of the Reform Government, have thought proper to address his Majesty, through that minister of peace the Duke of Wellington, against the mea sures in progress for enforcing the execution of the protocols and treaties agreed upon by A ustria,- France, Great Britain, Prussia, and Russia, con jointly, with regard to Belgium. Now, the right of petition is a sacred right, and one of those the value of which will never, we trust, be im paired in the minds of Englishmen ; but un questionable it is, that if a large proportion of our countrymen shall hereafter become indifferent to any one privilege assured to them by the Con stitutimi, or doubtful of the benefits derivable from it, such carelessness or scepticism can never so naturally he produced.as by the general dis gust arising from a series of gross perversions to foolish or malignant ends of that power which has been vested in the people for wise and good ones. An abuse of the right of pe tition—that is, a prayer against the public interest—is treason to the right of petition. An address to the King for such a pernicious purpose, and on such silly grounds, as are set forth by these Conservatives of Rochdale, might, if it had any effect at all, beget a wish in the minds of the more intelligent of their fellow-subjects that stupid blockheads should have a muzzle put upon them, and that the decree of nature which had already disqualified them should be con firmed by Act of Parliament. The Rochdale Tories proclaim their terror at the warlike pre parations going on, and their condemnation of the objects, as being ruinous, dishonourable, wicked, and uncalled for; they put forth a com mon-place against war at all times, and tinder all aspects, as deplorable, even when unavoidable, —how much more so this, which is a war " not for our own safety, but for the coercion of an old ally, and in aid of French aggression," &c. &c. ! Why, if this war (as it is falsely called) be not for our own safety, so neither was the original Conference, nor the conclusion to which the Conference came from the first moment—viz., that Belgium should be separated from Holland. If it had not been for the security of Europe, and of England more especially, against the evils of a universal war, why should a general deliberation of the leading European States have been called for ? and if the deliberation were desirable, was it also desirable that it should have no re sults? If the leading Powers, after much and anxious consultation, agreed that the esta blishment of certain principles for the fu ture guidance of Holland and Belgium had become necessary to the . future repose of Europe, would the Rochdale politicians allege that it was also expedient for those principles to remain a dead letter, with the temptation to quarrel fresh as ever, and the original scources of danger still unclosed ? All Europe says that Belgium and Holland being to exist in a separate condition, each shall withdraw from the other's territory. Holland stands out against the authority of all these Powers, four of whom had been invited by herself to arbitrate ; and the question arises, shall she be permitted to oppose a settlement deemed by the whole of Europe essential to its common safety, and to abide in a position which menaces mankind with a deadly and far-spreading war of opinion,— or shall Belgium be enabled to recover her own city, and the aggression of Holland be repelled This question can, upon principles either of com mon sense or humanity, be answered but in one manner. Belgium must receive justice, and William of Holland must be forced to render it—or Europe can never be at peace. Long ago we have described this wholesome restraint upon the King of Holland as a meaaure not of war, but of strict and direct pacification. We shall not insist upon the folly of designating as " the old allies" of England, a people who have taken more than one occasion of joining the fiercest coalitions against her, and from the most ungenerous motives ; but we do assert positively that the British Government has em barked in the present effort for the " coercion" of the King of Holland without one particle of enmity towards him, or towards the Dutch na tion, but with the most conscientious anxiety for the future security of both against dangers with which the stubborn continuance of their own system of aggression . would unavoidably surround them. The moment the Belgic city shall have been restored to its own King and people—that moment does England prepare to stand between the Dutch and all their enemies, and to nego tiate, in a spirit of confidence and friendship, upon whatever commercial or territorial ques tions may arise in relation to Luxemburg or the traffic of the Scheldt. But, in fact, we are fighting with shadows. These tools of Rochdale do not speak the language of London, nor of any other great trading com munity. The intelligent and affluent classes of the metropolis are only reconciled to Ministers because they procrastinate no longer. Had they acted with more promptitude in putting an end to the sore and sickly condition of the continent springing peculiarly from the Belgic dispute, London would have been far better pleased. So, it is equally true that whatever measures are to be adopted, ought to be effectual measures, otherwise they become ridiculous. If Antwerp be not relieved from its present visitation of a hostile garrison, by such an earnest of the ultimate intentions of Great Britain and 'France as their combined squadron may exhibit, an army must be resorted to, and that army can be no other than French. As for the impudent and viciously meant allegation that any opposition to Eng land or France will be given by the other great Powers, we declare for the hundredth time that it is a positive falsehood. The continental Powers have one and all pronounced their full conviction, that if the King of Holland will not peaceably yield Anttverp, he must be made to yield by that species of interference now in course of execution.— Times. The last week has been pregnant with striking events. So many interests are involved in the measures adopted with regard to Holland, that the public attention has been almost entirely absorbed by this subject, so that Portugal has been comparatively unheeded. The Portuguese question is one, however, .of too much im portance to this country to be neglected. We have always foreseen that, should the cause of Pedro be unsuccessful, the British merchants connected with Portugal would be loud in their complaints against Ministers for not acting with more decision, when the most important in terests were in danger. - Though we ought not to mix up ourselves with the affairs of other countries, yet Portugal may almost be said to exception to the rule, from the peculiar lattfure of the connection which has long sub sisted ,bei,;"teen , that country and England. The ~.te!i;,, O riunaph of Miguel would be the -signal for a r \ war on British property, to say nothing of out rages against persons. These merchants natu rally enough think, that had Ministers exerted themselves energetically, the contest would have ended long ago ; and it will be difficult to per suade them that Ministers ought not to bestir themselves to terminate a contest without delay, which is so ruinous to British interests. Besides, Miguel, by his unjustifiable conduct towards Bri tish subjects, had furnished Ministers with a valid ground for interference, without violating international law. They might have carried off his fleet as a means of securing an indemnity for British claims; and we need not say that such a step would have alone had the most es sential influence on the warfare. So long as exist- ing treaties between Portugal and England were respected, we certainly would have no right to interfere with the domestic broils of the House of Braganza, or to concern ourselves whether a Pedro or a Miguel was on the Throne, if these broils did not tend to produce a general war, in which England, by treaty, would have been bound to have taken a part. But from the hour that existing treaties were broken, the security and protection of British subjects outraged, it became the duty of the British Government to interpose its authority, and, if requisite, to enforce and re-establish that order of things which would secure to us all the protection to which we are en titled. It is difficult to understand the motives of the policy towards Portugal for the last two years the Tories were in office ; it is still more difficult to comprehend the motives which induce the present Ministers to adhere to it; for they cannot plead, as an excuse for doing nothing, the state in which the affairs of Portugal were involved when they came into office. Abundance of events have since occurred to justify open interference in the affairs of Portugal, but none for admittin,g, of the extensive armaments which have been per mitted to leave our shores for the invasion of Portugal. The Standard of Thursday night, with regard to Holland, says, " Had the flag of England been insulted, or any of her treaties violated, they would have been justified in de manding redress, and avenging the wrong with out the delay of a moment." So say we with regard to Portugal. The flag of England has been repeatedly and grossly insulted, the blood of her unoffending and innocent tars has been spilt, her merchants have been unjustly impri soned and despoiled of their property, injury after injury has been heaped upon cruelty and oppression, redress has publicly been demanded by our Government, but con temptuously and indignantly refused. There is something extremely unaccountable and very un satisfactory in permitting of all this. It is a manifest compromise of the best interests of the nation. Let us, however, hope better for the future. We most anxiously and fervently en treat of Ministers to adopt some measures that will instantly secure British merchants from the ruin with which they are at the present moment threatened. We can hardly believe that Minis ters will longer hesitate as to the course they should pursue with regard to Portugal. The interests of England and the interests of Portu gal equally demand that a stop should be put to the contest in the latter country.—Morning Chronicle. The general belief is that Holland, notwith standing all that has taken place, will yield, and that the application to Prussia to mediate is merely a course adopted to save appearances a little. We never believed that Prussia would fly in the face of the arrangements sanctioned by herself and the remaining Powers ; and it would be little less than madness on the part of Hol land to engage in hostilities which could have no earthly object. Holland may hold out a longer or a shorter period, but submit she must at lasr.—Morning Chronicle. We are not aware that we are specially called upon, by the necessity of the case, to en ter at any length into the spirit and matter of a pamphlet which has just been published by Ridgway, and is entitled " Whig Government, or Two Years' Retrospect;" but it may, never theless, be useful at the present moment, — when the Conservative faction is making such desperate efforts to regain its power over the country, by procuring the return of a majority of Conservative Members to the ensuing Par- !lament, and thwarting that of those who stood so nobly forward in the people's cause, when that cause was considered to be hopeless,—to glance briefly at a few of those useful measures which have been accomplished during the last two years, and at those of whose speedy attainment a rational expectation may be entertained. When Lord Grey accepted office in November, 1830, he did so, as an nounced by himself, on certain conditions, the very announcement of which maybe said to have electrified the country, and by their moral in fluence to have checked those dreadful conflagra tions which raged from one end of the kingdom to the other. They were Reform,Retrenchment, Peace. How amply the first of these pledges has been redeemed, considering the opposition which his Majesty's Ministers had to encounter — how strenuously they battled it, night after night, with the enemies of all Reform—how readily they consented to sacrifice power and emolument rather than be even the apparent abettors of alterations in the, Bill, which would have destroyed its efficiency—it is not necessary for us to repeat. Never, in the annals of the country, was such a battle fought—never was such a struggle so ably, maintained—never was a more glorious victory obtained than when the King, through the firmness of his Ministers, was persuaded to put his hand and seal to the new Charter of the people's rights. Had Lord Grey's Cabinet done nothing more, they might safely have demitted the power entrusted to them, and challenged posterity to grant them that im perishable remembrance which will be the por tion of the names of Grey, Althorp, and Russell, —but they did not stop here—they did not merely content themselves with giving to the people the means of obtaining a real, instead of a sham, representation—they also proceeded to confer benefits upon it of a more practical cha racter, by reducing with one hand the expendi ture of the country, and repealing with the other many of those taxes which pressed most heavily upon the industry and comforts of the poor. lhe amount of reduction in thelatter is no less than two millions and a quarter, as will be seen from the following statement : Thus the duty on Seaborne Coals has been remitted, amounting to £900,000 Also on Candles, to the amount of And on Printed Cottons, ditto Also on 200 Articles, chiefly used for manufacturing purpo ses Tl - ie y on Hemp has been reduced 40 per cent., af fording a relief of Making a Total of 2,271,000 " It is true," as observed by the author of the pam phlet, " that a slight duty was imposed on Raw Cotton, but this was more than counterbalanced by the benefit the trade received, by the remission of all the duties on printed cotton, for though these have just been stated at 650,000/. , yet the gross amount of the duties on printed Cottons, both for the home and foreign market, reached two millions, and was actually levied from the manufacturer, though the difference, amounting to nearly one million and a half, was returned to him on exportation ; by which complex and absurd practice, an idle payment and re-plyinent of duties took place, more numerous collectors were required, and the home consumer was saddled, not only with his own portion of the duty, but with the interest upon that float ing million and a half, which was kept idly passing and re-passing between the tax gatherer and the manufacturer. Other remissions of taxes, pressing upon the knowledge or industry, as those on Newspapers, Glass, &c., were at tempted, but failed, in consequence of tho ,, e countermarch ing tactics of some of the Ex-Ministers, which have al. ready been remarked on." Now, when it is remembered that, previously to the accession of the Grey Cabinet to office, the Administration of the Duke of Wellington had taken off taxes to the amount of three millions and a half, and that it had declared that no fur ther reductions could be made with safety to the revenue, the payment of the interest of the debt, and the maintenance, in a state of efficiency, of the different branches of the public service, is there not great and just credit due to the efforts which have been made to reduce the public bur dens, as well as a strong foundation for hope that more extensive blessings will flow from the same source ? In retrenchment of the public expenditure, which was said by the Wellington Cabinet to have been reduced to the lowest pos sible scale, their efforts have been not less con spicuous. The enormous amount of the Civil List is the only error which can be brought against them ; but then it must be remembered that the Parliament with which they had to deal was one returned by a corrupt constituency, and that, on other grounds, it would not perhaps have been very prudent to have acted otherwise than they did. With this exception, however, the highest credit is due to them. The army has necessarily been augmented as well as the navy ; but what, nevertheless, is the result ? Let the author of the pamphlet give the enumeration of the savings effected by them. That they have reduced the general Estimates of Ex penditure, by £2,361,000 That they have placed the Civil List on a more intel ligible footing, and effected a prospective saving in its absolute Pension List to the amount of They have abolished some 500 useless places and ap pointments, and thereby effected an immediatesaving of some With a prospective saving, as the temporary arrange ments and pensions and compensations consequent to these reductions fall in, of That the Lord Chancellor's Reforms, in the Bankruptcy Courts, and other abolitions of Sinecures, relieve the country immediately to the extent of 45,000 While the additional prospective relief will come to Reductions have, therefore, been made in the standing expenses of the country, which will come into imme diate or proximate operation, to the total amount of 2,868,000 That the Ministers do not intend to stop short with these reductions, may be safely enough in ferred from the fact that the salary of the Lord Chief Justice has been reduced from 10,0001. to 8,0001. a year, and that arrangements are making for effecting similar reductions in other appointments as vacancies may occur ; but th e truth is, that itis needless to say a word more on this subject. Retrenchment, Reform, and reduction of taxation, Ministers have effected to an extent which it was scarcely hoped to be pos sible to realize ; and if much still remains to be accomplished, it is not surely very unreasonable for them to point to what they have done as a cer tain guarantee of what they will still endeavour to accomplish.—Morning Advertiser. In withdrawing its Minister from the political Conference at Rome relative to the disputes be tween the Pope and his subjects, our Govern ment has acted with prudence and sound discre tion. It is clear, from the letter of Mr. Sey mour, that the proceedings of the Conference led to no result—because Austria and her two despotic Allies never intended that they should lead to any, except it might be the extension and confirmation of the tyrannic sway of A ustria, whose policy it is that the Pope should continue to be unpopular, that, under the pretence of protecting him with her bayonets, she may keep the country in a state of military occupation. If our Government had acted with as much prudence in the Belgic affair—if, instead of con tinuing to negotiate, after it was plain to the un derstanding of the most ordinary observer that our High Allies were playing us false, our Go vernment had " thrown up its cards," and retired from the company of the political gamblers, whom it had sufficient reason to know were clever at nothing but cheating, it would have done wisely, and we would have bestowed upon it the praise which conduct at the same time so just, so decisive, and so discreet, would have me rited. But, alas ! different councils prevailed, and the overtaxed people of England are now dragged into the expenses, if not the bloodshed, of a war, in direct opposition to their commercial interests — against an ancient ally, and a profitable customer —without any just or necessary cause of hostility, and for a quarrel not their own. In our inter ference between the Pope and his present sub jects we professed to act, upon invitation, as a mediator. We profedsed also to act as a media tor, in the beginning, between the King of the Netherlands and his late subjects. Indeed, in neither case had we a right to act in any other capacity, for independent nations, be they small 'or be they great, cannot be independent if others exercise over them the power of arbitrary dicta tion. Neither England, Russia, Austria, nor Prussia, or all put together, have any more right to dictate to Belgium and Holland, than Belgium or Holland would have to dictate to them, except that right which the strong as sumes over the weak—the right which Spain once assumed to exercise over Portugal—which Austria once exercised over Switzerland—the right which the three despotic Powers that par titioned Poland exercised over that heroic and ill-fated nation—the right which the op pressor and the robber has exercised in all ages—the right of power over justice ! When our Government found itself deceived and duped by the despotic members of the Confe rence of London, in like manner as it was de ceived and duped by the despotic members of the Conference of Rome, it should have with drawn from the one as it did from the other, and left the litigant parties to settle their own disputes between themselves as well as they could. We deny that any difference of circum stances justified one line of policy at Rome and a totally opposite one at London. But this comes of politicians acting upon what they call expediency, and neglecting all fixed and intelli gible principle. We warned our Government from the beginning of "the immortal labours" of the London Conference that they would be circumvented and deceived by the crafty and treacherous agents of the Holy Alli ance . Dur ing all the deception and chicanery of nearly two years past, the Ministerial Journals have expressed themselves with indign a ti on t h at we should suspect the " honou rable intentions" of our High Allies of the Lond on C on f erence . Nevertheless, we continued to express our sus picion in pretty strong terms—n a y, more, we charged them with equivocation, shuffling, and duplicity. The Government Papers — the servile organs of power, endeavoured repeatedly to repel the charge ; and while we attempted to open the eyes of the public, and even of the Ministers themselves, to the system of delusion which the Holy Allies were practising, all manner of taunts and sneers, and a liberal portion of coarse invective, were levelled at us, for daring to bring into suspicion the earnest and sincere desire of the Holy Allies to co-operate with England in bringing the Belgic question to a peaceable and speedy settle ment. There is not now a man in England who does not know that our Government was the dupe and tool of the Holy Alliance, who, underhand, encouraged the King of Holland to resist the Belgic claims as they encouraged the Pope to resist the claims of his subjects, while, during 15 months, not one of the political im provements suggested in the memorandum of the Five Powers was adopted. We say again, our Government acted wisely in withdrawing from the Roman Conference under such circum stances ; and if it had withdrawn from the Lon don Conference a year ago it would not have been led into the rash and foolish engagements in which it is now entangled.—Morn. Herald. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 10. CRIMINAL I NFORM ATION.-EX-PART E THE EARL OF LONSDALE. Sir JAMES SCARLETT, on behalf of the Earl of Lonsdale, applied to the Court for a rule Nisi for filing a criminal information against a Mr. Taylor (as we understood), the proprietor and publisher of a newspaper called the Packet, or the Whitehaven Packet, for publishing in that paper at various times, and particularly in August last, two separate libels upon his Lordship. The Earl of Lonsdale, in the affidavit on which he made the present application, stated that the affairs of the harbour of Whitehaven were managed, under Acts of Parliament, by twenty one trustees, of which his Lordship bail the ap pointment of six, another individual of one, and the rest were chosen by a certain body of the towns men by ballot. His Lordship positively swore that be did not exercise any improper or corrupt influ ence in the appointment of the trustees, or in di recting them as to the application of the revenues of the harbour. These revenues amounted to 6,0001. per annum, and his Lordship swore he had never diverted any part of the money from its proper object, nor applied it to his own use and be nefit, except that he took for the use of a stone quarry a rent below that which he could have got from other quarters. These denials went directly to contradict the charges in one of the libels, which was, that Lord Lonsdale had used improper influ ence in the appointment of the trustees, and had, by that and other means, diverted a great proportion of the harbour revenues from their proper purpose, arid applied them to his own private use and benefit, to the amount of 50,0001. As to the other libel, his Lordship stated that an ancient lease (1742) of some charity lands had come into his possession, which land was surrounded by his own coal lands ; and that he had, in 1819, sunk a shaft in the charity field, and wrought a seam of coal there. This was no injury to the charity, but rather a benefit. Some few years ago the Attorney-General filed an infor mation in Chancery relative to this charity field and other lands in the occupation or possession of his Lord ship, and prayed for an account. To this his Lord ship made no opposition, but immediately rendered his accounts, arid the moment that he found that there was any doubt about the matter he referred it to the Attorney-General himself, to say what he ought to pay, arid he did immediately pay the money into Court. Now the second libel charged his Lord ship with having converted money belonging to the charity to his own u . se, to the extent of 200,0001. All these charges Lord Lonsdale distinctly denied. LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Take a rule to show cause. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 10. FREEMAN V. M ITFORD . Mr. WHITMORE showed cause against a rule ob tained to discharge the defendant out of custody, on the ground that she was a married woman. The plaintiff, in the affidavits tiled against the rule, ad mitted that the defendant had not actually repre sented herself as a married woman; but he denied all the other statements made in the affidavits on which the rule had been obtained. He stated that in May, 1830, she had come to his shop at Wor• tester, and had applied to him to supply her with goods to furnish a house she had recently taken at Great-Morven. She was then accompanied by her daughter, a most respectable married lady, whose name the Learned Counsel forbore to mention; and the plaintiff had at once consented to supply her with goods, and had done so to the amount of 571. He now distinctly swore that during the time he was supplying her with these goods he be lieved her to be a widow. There were also affida vits of other tradesmen, speaking as to their having believed that the defendant was a widow, and their having trusted her under that impression. Mr. WILSON, in support of the rule, contended that the plaintiff was bound to make some inquiry before he furnished the goods; and that the fact of the daughter ought to have shown the plaintiff that the lady was, or had been married.—Rule absolute. -BANKRUPTCY COURT, Nov. 10. JOY'S BANKRUPTCY. Mr. BLACKMORE appeared for the bankrupt. Mr. Clarke, the official assignee, in reply to a question from the Court, had not been enabled to elicit much further actual information relative to the sum claimed (about 500/0 by John Geale, head waiter at Joy's Hotel, but that, in all probability, the information would be ready at the meeting for the dividend. The COMMISSIONER wished to know whether the outrageous usury alleged against the waiter was matter of fact ?—Mr. Clarke replied, certainly; 10 and 15 per cent. had been frequently exacted, and even more. He had procured from the claimant an acknowledgment to this effect. The COMMISSIONER would never sanction illegal usury, and the present appeared to him a most atro- cious instance ; the claimant acknowledged to the exaction of 10 and 15 per cent.; and, not content with lending his own money to his master at this monstrous interest, he gets his friends to advance further sums, dividing the enormous interest he exacts first with them. Mr. Clarke had learnt that, in three years alone, the claimant had exacted 3871. excess of interest from his unfortunate master. The COMMISSIONER expressed his indignation at such conduct, and assured Mr. Geale that he would get no claim allowed by him. Mr. Caldron proved debts to the amount of 2661. ss. 4.1. Mr. Andree to the amount of 71. 13s. Mr. Chaffers claimed 1301. on three bills for 501. each, which he said had come to him through an intermediate channel ; 201. had been paid, which he had deducted. This claim was met with some discussion. Mr. Joy had paid the claimant personally interest on those and other bills at the rate of 10, 15, and 20 per He (Mr. Joy) had paid him money for inte rest at this illegal rate over and over again. He had no witness to prove it, but could swear it. In compliance with the wishes of the assignees, the further examination into this case was adjourned to Saturday, the 24th instant, at one o'clock. The example of something like contumacy exhibited by Earl GUILFORD, in refusing to answer the queries submitted to the clergy of the Established Church, has not been followed, we are informed, in any one in stance. The Bishop of LONDON has been particularly anxious that the fullest information should be furnished by every beneficed clergyman in his diocese to the Church omm►ssioners. The returns are now nearly completed, and afford—at least we have heard so—a complete refuta• tion of the Ultra-radical assertions as to the extent of Church property. — Court Journal. 70,000 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Ellen Shaw and Catherine Pike were brought before Sir PETER LAURIE, the new Lord Mayor, who sat for the first time, charged with having ut tered a counterfeit shilling. The prisoners went into a public-house, called for gin, drank it, and threw down a counterfeit shilling. The publican called an officer ; upon which Mrs. Pike said, " Here goes !" and swallowed two shillings, supposed to be made of the greasy material of which the shilling given to the publican was composed. As the women walked to the Compter, Mrs. Pike said to the officer, " Pooh ! I cool] swallow twenty on 'ern, and they wouldn't do me no harm, for I am used to such wittles." Mr. Powell, the Solicitor to the Mint, knew the prisoners perfectly well to be confirmed smashers. He stated also that the hawkers and pedlars were generally employed by the coiners in conveying the bad money to all parts of the country.—They were remanded. The LORD MAYOR was occupied during the day in hearing cases possessing not the slightest public interest. Miss Zoucii.—On the last du of the sitting of Sir John Key in the Justice-room, an eminent so licitor waited upon him for the purpose of requesting his interference in vindication of the character of Miss Zouch, a lady who had been greatly oppressed. Some time ago an account had appeared in the Ob server newspaper, which had been copied into all the Morning Papers of the next day. It stated that a courtship had been carried on between Miss Zouch and an elderly gentleman, whom she had met in the Zoological Gardens, and after representing several ludicrous circumstances, mentioned that the aged Romeo broke off in astonishment and affright at finding that the name of his Juliet began with the last letter of the alphabet. The object of Miss Zouch in thus applying to Sir John Key, was to re quest that the Hon. Baronet would call the gentle man who had made this statement, and the gentle man who was equally an object of ridicule with her self to confront her at the Mansion-house. Sir JOHN KEY, in consequence of a letter from Miss Zouch, had written to the gentleman who had mentioned the circumstances at the Mansion-house, and had been assured by him that the heroine of the story had, for some cause or other, taken the li berty to represent herself as Miss Zouch, and that it had been ascertained beyond all doubt that Miss Zouch was as utter stranger to the occurrence and to the person who had been described as her lover. Sir John expressed his regret that the feelings of the lady had suffered, but observed that the para graph did not contain a syllable reflecting upon her character. _ The Solicitor said the explanation was perfectly satisfactory. It was true that the account contained no serious calumny, but it had tended to affect his client's interests in the noble family to which she belonged. Miss Zouch was in the neighbourhood, ready to meet at the Mansion-house any person who had erroneously supposed that she had been at all concerned in the affair. G UILDHALL. CRACKING A JOKE.-Mr. Charles Jacobs, a re• spectable fruit salesman in Farringdon Market wa ,, summoned by a poor Israelite, named Levi, who complained that he had put a lighted cracker into his coat pocket, whereby his coat was damaged, and se veral eggs in it broken; Levi did not see the thing done, but a man named Lewis Jacobs positively stated that Mr. Jacobs slipped the cracker into his pocket. Mr. Jolly, jun., of Farringdon-street, and Mr. Elston, a baker in the Old Bailey, on the other hand, deposed that the " lark" was played off by a lad who lit the cracker with a short pipe. Alderman KELLY dismissed the case, and Mr. C. Jacobs said he should prosecute the witness Jacobs for perjury. QUEEN-SQUARE. A SHOAL OF PICKPOCKETS.—The Magistrates were occupied some time in disposing of no less than fourteen charges for picking pockets, on West miuster-bridge, on Friday, during the procession of the Lord Mayor, &c., on the river. MARY LEB ONE. CABRIOLET FARES.—The driver of a cab, belong ing to Messrs. Rayner and Fitzgerald, was sum moned by Dr. Ashburner for exacting more than his legal fare. The Doctor on Wednesday morning got into his cab at the door of his house, No. 5, Wimpole-street, about half-past eleven, and, on his return home, it was ten minutes past two. He had the option to pay by time or distance, and he offered the defendant 4s. paying him by time. The cab man refused to take this, declaring he had been uut more than two hours and a half. He then gave him ss. The cabman, in his defence, said he was engaged before eleven. It was true the Doctor showed him his watch when he got home, but he omitted to do so on setting off. Dr. Ashburner said he was not bound to show his watch, and Mr. HosToNs fined the defendant ss. Dr. Ashburner—You may be very well satisfied at getting off so easily, as the Act empowers the Magistrate to fine you 40s. MARLB OR 0 U GH- STREET. ROBBERY BY A SERVANT,—A young man em ployed as cellarman by Messrs. Harrison and Bon ney, wine -merchants, Lower Grove, Brompton, was brought before Mr. DYER, on suspicion of having, for a considerable period past, plundered his em ployers of wines and spirits to a large extent.—He was remanded. _ _ _ One of the C. division of police brought before Mr. CONANT a little boy, whom he had just detected in the enormity of selling baked potatoes about Ox ford-street. It appears that a very flourishing trade is carried on in these edibles in the neighbourhood of St. Giles's, among that class of operatives with whom potatoes form the " staple" article of food, and consequently at stated periods of the day a batch of peripatetic potatoe-merchants go their customary rounds for the purpose of supplying their hungry customers with their " piping hot commodity." The policeman on duty, disapproving of the traffic, determined to make an example of the first offender he should discover, and, having spied the prisoner in the very act of supplying a baked potatoe to a passenger, he made a pounce, and succeeded in taking the merchant and his portable potatoe-shop into custody. The po liceman stated that the sale of baked potatoes had latterly become " quite a nuisance," and he dwelt particularly on the aggravation of the present of fender, by the fact of a lady and gentleman having to make a detour round the boy's basket, as it was placed in the middle of the street. Mr. CONANT, who did not appear to agree with the policeman in considering that any offence of a very serious nature had been committed, told the young potatoe-merchant, if he followed his calling he must not obstruct the footpath. Boy—l never does. I vos sarving a gemman vith a hapenny baked tater at the time. Mr. CONANT-But you had no occasion to place your basket on the pavement. Boy—lt is unpossible to help it, 'cause gemmen as vonts hapenny baked taters vont buy none vith out I gies em some butter and bit o' pepper and salt, to make 'em eat relishing. After a proper caution, Mr. CONANT ordered the "tin shop" of the boy to be restored, and then dis- charged him. EXTENSIVE SWINDLING.—In the Chronicle of Monday last appeared, under the head of " Marlbo rough-street," an account of an application made by several tradesmen for a warrant against some fo reigners carrying on business in Dean-street, Soho, as jewellers and importers of French goods, which could not be granted, as the goods of which the applicants had been defrauded had been regularly sold to the parties. A meetng of their creditors, or rather of their victims, took place on Thursday evening, when it appeared that the firm had ob tained goods on credit to the amount of above 5,000/. The partner who has fled is, it appears, a Polish Jew, named iliullinol; about 30 years of age. He and his partners were in business about two years, and commenced by making their purchases for cash. In a little time they extended their dealings and obtained credit, by giving references to the tradesmen with whom they had previously dealt; and when they had gained sufficient credit to have their bills taken, for a time they were duly ho noured, which enabled them to obtain credit to so large an amount. No suspicion was entertained of their intentions till Saturday week, when some of the creditors inquiring for Mr. Mullinoff, were informed by the partner that he was gone to Chel tenham for some days. A similar inquiry having been made of a female who resided in the house, her answer was, that Mr. Mullinoff left London, by a steamer, for Rotterdam, on Wednesday; and, on inquiry at the Alien-office, this was ascertained to be the fact. One of the creditors received a letter from him on Tuesday, dated from Rotterdam, in which he stated that he was to sail for Batavia in a few days, and if he should succeed in his specula tions he would not forget his good friends in Lon don. The embargo on vessels bound for Holland prevented any pursuit of the fugitive. The pro perty left behind will not produce a dividend of more than 6d. in the pound. THAMES-POLICE.A BEAUTIFUL COUPLE.—George Iforden, cockney coal-whipper, of Herculean dimensions, and standing six feet high, was charged by a puny ►ittle girl, not more than four feet in height, named Harriet Barber, with being the father of her child, now chargeable on Ratcliffe parish. Miss Barber •aid she was 16, and " the vicked man afore their Wosships had induced her, and taken the disvan tage of her." The defendant strenuously denied this. " Ask her," said he to Mr. Broderip, " vere I took the adwantage of her, vich I never did." Miss Barber answered the question. The defendant still continued to deny his liability. " Have you any witnesses ?" said Mr. BRODE RIP. " Vy, no," he replied ; "DO von vas ever vith us."—(Laughter.) Mr. BRODERIP said, this showed the truth of the accusation, and ordered him to pay 1/. 6s. expenses, and 3s. a week for the child. UNION-HALL. AN AMOROUS TAILOR.—James Simmons, a tailor, was charged with having assaulted Miss Curry, a young lady residing at Brixton Hill. The corn plciinant, on Friday evening, was going to the house of a neighbour, with the hood of her cloak thrown over her head, when the tailor, who had just popped out of the " Red Lion," where he had been indulg irig in his cups, clasped her round the waist, and softly swore that he would have a kiss. Miss Curry endeavoured to get away from his rude em brace, but the tailor pulled her head to him with some violence ; and, pressing his lips to her mouth, ;aid that a kiss he would have, were she a Princess. A policeman had great difficulty in bearing off the defendant to the watch-house. He was fined 3/, and in default of payment, committed for three months. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Per Quarter. Carlisle Hexham bturpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond Stockton DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley, s. to s. 124 50 I 25 33 s. to s. 52 40 42 Oats. Beans. 51 128 32 26 59 35 4S 53 26 30 s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. 56 63 30 33 70 90 48 54 83 89 64 66 70 93 36 46 86 93 56 60 70 74 40 46 90 10 0 4 6 50 126 17 0 9 0 100 126 146 90 100 140 180 90 100 ,126 140 96 100 Aberdeen ... Berwick-- Coldstream Cupar .---........ Dundee...—. Elgin .......» s. to s. 3. B. 40 --- 30 32 42 46 s. d. 5.d. 00 00 56 60 54 59 56 60 64 70 00 00 73 76 Inverness,...... Kelso ............... Kirk51c1y........, Perth .....---- n- The size 00 110 90 110 90 106 00 00 17 22 17 22 22 24 s.d. s.d. 13 18 36 40 33 39 33 • 4 0 30 39 22 24 22 26 50 58 50 66 50 68 44 58 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Nov. 9 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sutiblk -s. 475. to 545. tine 565. Lin. and Cam. -- Yorkshire -s. 408. to 51s. fine 545. - White -s. 50s. to 58s. fine 60s. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to 465. fine 545. White -s. -s. to -s. fine 60s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Lincolnshire Wis. to 395. fine 40s. - Yorkshire Wold 365. to 395. fine 40s. - Foreign -s. to --s. fine -s. Beans, Small -- Tick 33s. to 355. fine 36s Oats, Potato 2os. to 225. fine 235. --- Poland -s. 19s. to 21s. fine 24.5. - Friezland and Small -s. 17s. to 20s. fine 21s. - Mealing Shelling 23s. to 268. Od. per Load. Malt 34s. 435. fine 465. per Load. Rapeseed 221. Os. 241. Os. 25/. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. I Barley 22 24 28 a" 19 20 -" 26 29 •••• 30 31 23 30 23 30 46 23 24 45 48 43 44 26 30 -- hout the countrY. Oats. I Beans. ---- lOatmeal 50 58 30 34 30 36 48 70 50 60 45 53 40 46 32 35 40 45 54 57 of the 20 25 17 19 17 18 28 32 30 33 28 30 24 28 17 19 27 39 29 31 !asure vari 15 17 13 18 13 15 20 24 20 25 18 - 21 16 23 14 15 25 32 21 24 *les thronj EDINBURGH COR We had a large supply of the sales were brisk. Wheat. \ Barley. \ Oats. I Pease. Beane' First 62s Od 36s Od 22s Od 34s Od 314 Od Second 568 Od 328 Od IN Od 32s Od 32s Oa_ 42s Od 24s Od 15s 4d 28s Od 284 Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 31d. toOs.6d. Freshßutter,lb.os.9.l. to Is 0 3 0 6 Salt Ditto—.... 0 9 010 Veal 0 6 010 Ditto, per cwt. 80 0 84 g Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 1 6 2 6 OatStrawtkpl.) 7 0 6 0 Fallow, cwt.... 35 6 38 0 Wheat Ditto«. 6 0 7 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto 6 0 Potatoes. 1711 b. 0 0 0 4 Hay, per st... .N MARIO all kinds of ET.—Nov. If Grain t LY, and EDINBURGH MEA The supply of Oatmeal at this sold readily, at last week's price L MA itKET. —Nov. 0. and day's market was middling, Per SaCii of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 10 0 Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 5 0 1 Peasemeal Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12. Per Stone of 141 b. IMP. g First Oatmeal £0 1 6 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 —, Peasemeal 0 I " .—:ld, 145.-3 d, 16 s .—Paat I 2_!.....11. GLASGOW CORN The supplies of Grain are agai all descriptions. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 030t02t30 new Canada, free 26 0 29 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 Scottish 22 6 25 0 Irish MARKET.—Nov. 7. in small, and the market firra Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. Irish l2 6 to 15 0 British — 0 * 0 Beans, per 2001 b. t ng li s h Scot t is h l6 6 IS v Pease, Scottish Oatmeal, perl4olb ' 13 0 14 0 Flour, per2Bolb 43 0 46 0 MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt . Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 1,895 0 Quantity of fine C0pper........--.,—......... ...... 147 12 Average Produce ..........., *II 7 8 ,4 / 0 Amount of Sale, 11,p01. 128. CA—Average Standard, 1141. 166.0d' MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) it , TO-MORROW, Nov. 13. m• , it J. S. Feaks, Cambridge, cordwainer 2a.jo W. G. Clover, Holborn, linen-draper 2 0 J. Collins, Pulborough, Sussex, grocer 2 it H. Pearce,:Bishopsgate-strect Within, tavern-keeper • I l i J. Lindsay, Warnford-court merchant J. Haines, Waterloo-road, Surrey, shoe-manufacturer 1 DIVIDENDS. Fenchurch-- ..... s t 1 _ _.....,urch-street, tailor .............................•• T. Shirley, New Bridge-street, Blackfriars, wine-inercn 4 ..... J. Hudson, Oxford-street, tobacconist .......................... J. Adams. " - PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MU RDO YOUNG,- if ; SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. BIRTHS. ge e ' On the 9th inst. at Walton Rectory, the Lady of the Lo On rd ohn '1 hynne, of a son. loal the On he 9th inst. at Osnaburgh-terrace, Regent's Park, b _,. of Adam Chadwick, E sq, of a son. 3 0., °' On the 9th inst. th e lady of James D un l ap , E s q., ~, Baker-street, Portm a n- square , o f a son , still-born. $ O' On the 28th ult. at Bayswather, the lady of J. C. Loudon , of a daughter. MARRIED. Edward On the 10th in s t. a t B r i g ht on , by the Rev. Eds Chaplain to the House of Commons, Charles Cecil Martyrs' to Maria Georgi a n a , third daughter of the late John Ell , ' t of Pimlico Lodge. On the 7th inst. at Gresford, Captain Mostyn, of sog, Denbighshire, to Susanna, youngest daughter John Stanislaus Townshend, Esq., of Trevallyn, in tb county. • .(1 DIED. Cr $ll 04 On the 10th inst. at Brompton, Elizabeth Price Pug l ' ref 17, only child of the late Price Pughe, Esq., Finsbury- 5 4 0 y, Waltham Cross, Herts. 11 , On the 7th inst. suddenly, in Southampton-row, 13100 Isaac Tooke, Esq., aged tis. .....er-<;- I [ ha 'ffe eli , ev hi,