The Sun. — London, England, 1822-01-11 00:00:00

THE LONDON J0U1t.N..3,,.. DiIAY EXTRACTS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS, January 11, 1522. [MORNING HERALD.] 'the accounts from Spain direct, and through the Paris Papers, are of the 27th, three days later than the last arrivals. Nothing can be mos, gross than the arts resorted to by the French Papers to -exaggerate and distort troubles in that kingdom. The same stories are repeated for several days from dif ferent quarters ; and there are, in the corre spondence from distant places, those treacherous coincidences, which are the surest proofs of faliehood and fabrication. The best argu ment _of the spuriousness of these accounts is, that though the Spanish Journals are confess edly free, even to licentiousness, yet they con tain nothing of the armies',.battles, massacres, Sz.c. related by the private correspondents. Spain, any time for months past, has been on the eve of a convulsion—yet she appaars no nearer to it at preient. Then again, all has been anarchy and confusion among the Ultra-liberals, Whilst the Armies of the Faith" have been carrying all before them; yet does it appear, upon an im partial view, that, in the former case, there is nothing beyond an organised insubordination to resist an incompetent, and probably ill-inten tioned Ministry—whilst in the latter, some bands of plunderers have merely alarmed a few villages, and then fled before the military power. The following is the real state of the Spanish pro vinces, as we collect them from the extracts of Spanish papers (in opposition to the private letters) given in the " liberal" Paris Journals. The Political Chief of Cadiz published the address of the Cortes, and the appointment of new. A uthorities, civil and military, in the room of those who had been rejected, and was ready to submit, when the news of the continuance of the Minis try in office excited fresh ferment among the people, and, for the preservation of tranquillity, he suspended the execution of the order until further instructions from Madrid. In Murcia, there was nothing beyond a mere scuffle be tween the soldiers and some of the inhabitants. Every body knows how easily occurrences of this kind are exaggerated. In Navarre, the " Army of the Faith" has been wholly broken up . by Gen. Lopez Banos. It was commanded by a priest of Pampeluna, named Lecarra, - who has fled to the mountains. The following blunder shows the lengths to which false accounts from Navarre have been carried. The name of ore of the " Chiefs of the Faith" was blazoned forth in the Paris Papers as a great Guerilla leader under Mina during the war of invasion. It turns out that there is not, and that there was no such leader—the name appertaining to one of the public promenades of Pampeluna. [BRITISH PRESS.] The state of Spain appears to be very much disturbed ; but it is very evident that by far the largest portion of the evils which the excesses and crimes of individuals bring upon their coun try, is to be attributed, not to the promoters of the late revolution, but to those pretended friends of undiminished Royal power who seek to over turn the Constitution. How far the great mass cf the people in any part of Spain concurs in the views of the factious upon either extreme of po litical feeling, it is impossible to' collect with any degree of certainty. We are told, indeed, that the entire population oithe cities of Cadiz and Seville is unanimous in refusing obedience to the present Ministers of the Crown, and that generally the pro vince of Andalusia shares the determination of these cities. Valencia is also said to entertain the same sentiments. On the other hand we are assured, with equal confidence, that Biscay and Navarre have resolved to denounce the existing Constitution, and to assert the empire of abso lute Monarchy. The King seems to maintain much firmness in these difficulties, and upholds the Ministry in spite of the vote of the Cortes. The Cabinet, encouraged by his spirit and em- Loldened by his favour, has taken measures to .restore the tranquillity of the State, and for this purpose troops have been moved towards the dis turbed points. The Republicans of the South and the Royalists of the North are alike enemies to the Constitution, and the power of the Go vernment is directed with impartiality and equal energy against all parties who, under whatever denomination, may have suffered their zeal to deviate from the strict line of moderation that is prescribed 1y the King.and the Cortes. _.~ ~ . We stated yesterday that a.:Board was held at the Treasury on Wednesday, to take into consi deration the reductions at the different public offices, and a minute was signed by Lord Liver pool, &c, that thoSe who now. setire should re ceive an allowance "according to the scale men tioned to their Lordships' letter in the year 1821. Thi4leductionis•s/. per cent, upon original sala tiei, 'and 10 - i. per cent. upon the increased sala— ries; the'surns thus deducted to form a superan nuated fund,- applicable also to a provision for the widows of officers in possession of• salaries thus reduced. From the difficulties in the way of this arrancement, and the strong objections raised to it, we think it probable that this plan will receive some furtherand material rnodifica ,tion.—( Ibid.) • [MORNING POST.] ,Te-have received German Papers to the 2d .They contain a long and laboured article fiom,,Vienna, the object of.. which is to disprove due-asaertions made in a communication of De cember 2,. from - .Odessa, which,. has appeared. in all the Continental and English Papers, and which mentioned the existence of considerable disorders . at Constantinople, oil the 23d and 25th of November: Theke disorders the Vienna Ga zctte takes. upan itself to 'represent as wholly imaginary, forgetting, or perhaps knowing not, that Odessa was Jaof • the - only source from whence the accounts of them proceeded, and that they also came in private letters, by sea. .o.nd lanct,j from Constantinople itself.= The whole is. in tfzct .little more ;thatt a quibble on the epithet 44 dreadful" applied by the Odessa article to these disorders ; for after having declared that " public order was not dis turbed," the contradiction contradicts itself, and admits the existence of " Single excesses com mitted by rude men of the lowest class of the populace." In order, however, to do away the value of this admission, it adds, that excesses of that kind "are scarcely observed in so great and populous a city, and in the present irritated state of people's mind." But the next sentence is a still more gross self-contradiction, for it states that those" single excesses" which were" scarcely \observed," had yet not only attracted the no- tice of the Austrian and British Ambassadors, but had caused them to interfere " in order to prevent them," and to " require from the Divan a new and stricter Ordinance, which they ob tained," and which we give this day in another part of our columns. The language of the Ordi nance itself is sufficient to skew that the disturb ances were of no small magnitude and of the very worst character, and the fact of its having been wanted and asked for is more eloquent, in proof of their extent, than the whole rhetoric of ten Vienna Gazettes arguing as the present has done. [THE TIMES.] The different public bodies and denominations of people in Dublin appear anxious to bespeak, by the alacrity and warmth of their addresses to the new Viceroy, the most favourable feelings from his Excellency towards his countrymen.— Lord Meath, the great proprietor of that part of the metropolis called the Liberty, went up at the head of a deputation of the poor weavers, by whom it is inhabited, to congratulate Lord Welles ley on his assumption of the Government. His Lordship's answer contained a strong assurance of his disposition to diffuse the spirit of concord and union which had been recommended in the parting letter of the Sovereign—a promise which has been anxiously laid hold upon by the Journals, as the harbinger of a wise and useful, and, as it would seem, somewhat novel, system of Admi nistration in Ireland. The Catholics, too, are going to address his Lordship; and Mr. O'Con nell ushered in the business on Monday last with a speech, containing the highest panegyric on the public conduct of the Lord Lieutenant, so far as concerned his Excellency's constant sup port of the Catholic question. As the learned gentleman expatiated on the debt of gratitude which was due from the Catholics towards Lord Wellesley, it may be as well to remind him, that although the Noble Marquis was undoubtedly one of the most zealous, and perhaps the most powerful of their advocates in the House of Lords, yet, before his Lordship was named to office, occasions have arisen in which thanks, though profusely offered to other members of the legislative body for their exertions, have been withheld from him. Now, however, all is as it should be. The Noble Marquis is at the head of the Irish Government. His influence, as the Author of the " Sketch of Ireland past and pre " sent" says in the dedication to the new edition this day published, is an increasing influence ;" and " gratitude," we know well, from an excel lent judge of political men, is " a sense of obliga " tion for favours to be hereafter received." An article under the head of Brussels contains a most heroico-tragical piece of ❑ews ; which is no other, than that the Graud Turk, calling his family around him, and destroying with his ow❑ hand his three daughters and his only son, ex claiming meanwhile that" the times were accom plished," at last put a period to his own existence. lie ought to have burnt down the dome of St. Sophia, and the whole would have made a fa mous subject for a future tragedy by Lord Byron. The city of Constantinople was ravaged by the Janissaries, while the above sanguinary scene was acting in the Seraglio.—(lbid.) [NEW TIMES.] The letters from St. Petersburgh, which were received yesterday by the Hamburgh Mail, are not of ao pacific a nature as they have recently been ; and in consequence of the general appre hension that the pending negociations between the Russian and Ottoman Governments will not terminate amicably, the Exchange, has again de clined. The following is an extract of a letter received by an eminent house in the City : " Our apprehensions of a war have, within the last few days, been renewed by the frequent interchange . of couriers which is constantly taking place between this capital and the neighbouring European Powers. A general epinion prevails here, that the alteration in the French Cabinet will produce a very ma terial change in the ultimate determination of the French Chambers with respect to the differ ences between our. Government and Turkey. It it well known that the Emperor Alexander pos sessed considerable influence over the Duke de Richelieu, and the Duke having lost all official power, and the influence which the Emperor pos sessed having sunk with it, there is little oxpec tation of finding the present Ministers of France joining in the views of Russia. In a commercial point of view this affair excites much less at tention than you would expect. It is true all the nekociations are conducted with great secrecy, and on that account, it being so little a matter of conversation, our silence is perhaps attri buted. The soldiery, however, are very much on the qui rive on the occasion. It opens a fine ideal field of promotion for them, and they are a good deal goaded on to the public - expression of their sentiments by the open approbation of the Noblesse, 'nearly the Whole of whom are de cidedly bent on war, particularly since the'return of Baron Strogonoff.—Much anxiety prevails for the arrival of the answer of the Porte to the last Note of the Russian Cabinet, which we are daily expecting." -- [MORNING CIIRONICLE.] city, Thursday Evening, Jan. 10.—There are accounts in town this morning, of the 10th of December, from . Constantinople, at which time the same uncertainty continued respecting a Russian war, and a vessel had arrived on the 24th of December at Trieste, in eleven days from Smyrna, the Captain - of: which reported, that when -.he sailed that town 'was tolerably quiet and that bn:inessliad in some meacure been again resumed.—The funds have declined this day a little. Consols for Account opened at 754, and closed at 77i. This is occasioned partly, no doubt, from the " rumours that the differ ences betwixt Russia and Turkey had been ad justed," not receiving any confirmation by the ad vices received this morning by the foreign mails. Some of the party have been jobbing their accounts over to February, which also assisted in causing the depression ; besides the St. Petersburgh letters bring the Exchanges lower.—The Danish Bonds which ought to have been delivered this day, have not arrived, but the contractors' engage ments to deliver them as soon as they ar rive have been generally accepted of, and they now fetch currently 80.-13 y letters re ceived this day from different quarters, it ap pears that the storms which were so fatally felt on the British coast last December have been ge neral throughout Europe. At Genoa the houses were filled wit%► water, and the coast covered with wrecks. At Trieste, Naples, Corunna, and many other places their effects were equally un fortunate.—There is some demand this day for coffee, and sales have been made at from 2 to 3s. advance. Mercantile letters received by the Mail of yesterday from Seville and Cadiz, mention, that every thing was quiet there, and that, for the sake of tranquillity, the orders from Govern ment to change several of the Authorities had been observed. By this step they did not however consider themselves reconciled to the present Ministry, of whose conduct they highly disap prove ; but following the example of Galicia, they had deemed it best to shew their willing ness to submit to a superior authority and await the result. Murcia still remained in a state of open defiance to the Government. On the 16th December, a meeting had taken place, and a re monstrance to the Cortes was agreed upon, in which it was stated, " that when evils increase, remedies partially applied do not suffice, and that it is necessary to have recourse to more energetic means." This' address was signed by all the Authorities, the militia, and a great number of the inhabitants. No answer had been received to this Address ; but the people had pledged to defend themselves if at / tacked by orders of the Ministry.—ln Spain there is a project to organise the Italian emigrants who had sought an asylum there, with a view to send them to the aid of the Greeks in their present struggle.—(Mid.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 10. GAME LAWS. LUYWARD V. nonNEn. This was a penal action under the statute, the sth of Ann, against the defendant for keeping a setting dog. The cause came on for trial before Mr. Justice Bun RO UG H, at the Essex Assizes 1821, when evidence was given of keeping the dog, but evidence on the other hand negativing its use for the purpose of killing game. The defendant is a farmer renting above five hundred acres. - Mr. Justice Burtaoueur, although he die approved of the action, directed the Jury that evidence of keep, ing only was sufficient under the statute; and the Jury very unwillingly found a verdict for the plaintiff. Mr. GURNEY last term made a motion for nonsuit. Mr. Man RYAT now shewed cause againSt the rulelNisi, contending that the finding of the Jury should be affirmed. Mr. Justice HorathYD bara note of a case tried before Mr. Justice Buller at, York, in which an action had been brought against a Magistrate for seizing a greyhound. The seizure was defended under, statute of Ann, and by proof that the plaintiff was an unqualified persbn ; but it being shewn that the dog had not been used for killing game, the Judge directed a verdict against the Magistrate. Mr. NI AIIRVAT believed that the case at York could be distinguished from the present case. It was proved that the greyhound had never been used for killing game ; the setter (in the present case) was only proved not to have been used for that purpose within the time limited for the bringing of the action. But for what purpose, except to kill game, could the dog (a bitch it was) be kept ? Mr. Justice BAY E breeding, perhaps. - The LORD CirrEr JusTicE.—And is it not left to the Jury to say whether the dog is not kept for the purpose of de stroying ? The Learned Judge tells them (although unwilling- I)', he says) thet the mere keeping is enough. Mr. Justice BE S T.— E at', tly. The Learned Judge says, that he thinks it a disgraceful action ; but he is of opinion that keeping is sufficient under he statute. Mr. GURNEY.—And the jury, my Lord, express themselves in these words If your Lordship says we must find for the keeping, why we must." Mr. MAnnYAT contended that the words of the Art extend ed to the keeping or using any dog or engine. Nets and en gines were seizable for mere keeping, and the dog, by the sta tute, stood in the same situation. Mr. Justice BAYLEY said, that the words of the Act were— " keep or use any engine or setting dog for the purpose of de stroying game." There must be ground for believing the use either of dog or engine. The LORD Curer JusTrcE,—lf you allege in your decla ration that the dog is kept for the purpose of 'destroying game, how can you make your allegation out, unless you spew use for destroying, or at least something approaching to it ? A man may keep a lurcher to guard his house, or a greyhound for the a m u sement of his children; and would he therefore be liable to .an action ? _ _ Mr. Justice BAYLEY.—The doctrine is extravagant. A man who keeps sporting dogs for sale would be liable to a to nally for, each doghe kept; and as to the engines, a tunnel for instance, [ a net used for taking game], a tunnel is one of the engines named in the statute; but.you must at least have show of probable,use. It a man had a Museum, and kept a tunnel in it by 'way of specimen, would he. he therefore liable to a penalty ? Mr. Justice BEST.—;.The mistake of the Learned. Judge, if I may so express myself, has been this :—Keeping is prima facie evidence of keeping for use, but it is not conclusive evi dence.: Prima facie evidence may be rebutted, and it appears to me to have been fully rebutted in the present case. In my time I have been engaged in many actions of this description, but I always gave proof; at least, that the dog had been seen abroad and ranging ; and I never supposed that mere evidence of keeping. would be , even sufficient evidence to go to the jury. Rule abiolute for nonsuit. WEST V. ANDREWS. • . . . This was an action under the 5Mh Geo. ITU, to recover a penalty, of 1001. The defendant, being a guardian of the 'poor for the parish of Westhampton, supplied, contrary to the pro visions of the act, a sheep for the use and consumption of the workhouse. The cause was tried at the Essex _Assizes, in the spring of last year ;. and: the Jury, on the ground that a fair price had been charged - for the sheep, found a verdict for the de fendant. Mr. GURN•tv, in the course of last term, obtained a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a ver dict taken for the plaintiff; The act, he contended, was precisely that which it had been the especial object of the Legislature to prevent. • • Mr. M AIIIIYAT argued, in support of the verdict, that unless the price had been exorbitant, or the pro7ision bad in quality, the defendant could not be liable to the penalty. The COURT thoUght otherwise ; and made the rule absolato for setting aside the verdict. A. Sheep, the property of John Hall, Esq. of Little Marshall, near this city, died a few days since, considered by all who have seen it a great curiosity :—I t was only 2 feet 9 inches from the neck to the setting on of the tail ; 21 inches wide on th'e back., and between 7 and 8 inches thick in meat on the fore flank. • It was one of Mr. Hall's high bred little new Leicester sheep, and weighed 421bs. per quarter; was fed only on' grass, hay, arid turnips.----(Exeter Flying Post.) FOR THE SLIN MODERN POLITICAL ECONOMY. [LETT - Er. V.l Mn. EDlToa—Having puffed aside all this froth your Readers will expect to be treated pre sently with a draught of the real juice of malt and hops ; I wish I could promise them any such matter, but truly the subject is froth at the top, and froth to the bottom ; when the sum and substance, such as it is, is made up of such ele ments as I have exhibited, the whole can be no better than its parts, for there is no vital prin ciple to connect them. Previously to forming his conclusion, and letting all the world know that rent falls always on the consumers, and that the farmer pays no part of the landlord's rent, Alr.RicAnno tells us, besides what I quoted before, that " Corn is not high because a rent is paid, but .a rent is paid because corn is high." p. 62. That is to say, as popula tion - and capital increase, the value of products advances, and land will let for more money ; so will houses, taverns, gardens, stables, and all other real property. This is the natural consequence, and every little boy just come from school may see it. I understand the fact and the reason ; high rents can no more advance the price of corn than they can in crease the custom of a slop-seller in Houndsditch, who, if his rent is too high, may break for lack of profits. High rents and high taxes, however, have a tendency to raise the prices of all articles in trade, because the dealers must set their profits at such a rate as will cover their unavoidable ex pences ; as long as this is practicable, and they meet with trade sufficient, all goes well ; but it makes this difference, that a little business will not maintain a family, and though tradesmen can fix their prices, they cannot force custom. There fore high expences are evils to trade when money is scarce, and business is fiat. , These remarks are very obvious, and may appear childish to your readers, but I assure you if they were written in a book on political economy, they ivould be con sidered as important elementary truths. In such flowery paths as these of this infant science, it is no wonder that we should wander a little astray, and I must beg your readers to excuse my gambols. I was speaking of the origin and na ture of Rent—and so Revennons sous a 110 S 11101a071S. llr. Ricardo speaks flat contradictions in the passages just quoted ; but because it suited the views of prejudice, our critics and news writ ers have received the doctrine in the worst sense ; and it has been bruited with great diligence that the rent cflandfalls alwass on the consumer ; I will therefore add another sentence or two from the founder of the new school, that his most valuable tenets may not be lost—" No reduction would take place in the price of corn, although land- lords should forego the whole of their rents." — He means not for this reason ; but that other cir cumstances must be in operation, affecting the general prosperity of the kingdom, which raise or depress the price of corn, without any regard to whether land is let cheap or dear; or, indeed, whether it be let at all, or cultivated by the owners. Mr. Ricardo adds—" Such a measure (taking off all rent) would enable some farmers to live like gentlemen, but would not diminish the quantity of labour necessary to raise raw pro duce on the least productive land in cultivation." —Our master of scholars has here got into a slough of ignorance and nonsense, hick he is often bemired, as we shall see hereafter. The other sentence, which I cannot forbear to quote, is this—" Raw material enters into the composi tion of most commodities ; but the value cf that raw material, as well as corn, is regulated by the productiveness of the portion of capital last em ployed 'on the land,* and paying no rent ; and therefore rent is not a component part of the price of cwnniodities."—The conclusion is very true, although the premises should ,(as t suspect they will) turn out to be false. I hope by this time it will be admitted and be lieved that high rents do not make dear bread, because ,Mr. Ricardo says so ; it is, to be sure. most fatally demonstrated that high charges, viz. rents, taxes, . rates, tithes, &c. may all tend to ruin the Cultivators, and impoverish the King, dom, but they never can raise the price of corn ; moreover, the price of corn has excessively fluc tuated during •the whole of the late war, and through all the period of the rise of rents an I taxes ; and it has steadily declined during a long period in which these have been kept up as mach as possible to their highest standard ; therefore it is as true as if Mr. Ricardo had not said it ; it is true, likewise, that rents generally had been too much advanced, and that out goings of all kinds have been pressed too much on the .profits of. the.. cultivators, and have not. left them room to bear the fluctuations of price, and the uncertainty of seasons, I remain, Sir, yOur's &c.' APERTUS. DESTRUCTION OF Sin JACOB ASTTAY'S SEAT BY FIB the.3d inst. a most destructive fire took place at Seaton Delaval, the property of Sir JACOB A STLEY 7 which in a few hours con sumed a noble mansion house, which, for mag nificence and grandeur, was equal to any in the North of England. Every endeavour to preserve the body of the building was. unavailing.. The two wings (one of which comprised a large and spacious kitchen, with various other apartments ; the other, a beautiful stable in a style of princely magnificence), were happily saved, by the great and active exertions usedinmaking a separation between them and the honse. The fire originated in a . chimney to which a large beam of wood in the roof was affixed ; the flames burnt with such fury as to bid defiance to all human efforts. The glass in the windows, by the intense beat, was rednced to a • liquid state, and the lead on the roof poured down like water. The fire com menced its ravages about four o'clock in the af ternoon of Thursday, and it was not before nine o'clocic the devouring element could be checked, when it ceased, and left the building in its pre sent state, a mass of splendid ruins: OLD BAILEY. EXTENSIVI TRAFFIC IN FORGED,tiQIj,F.S• _ . Yesterday L. Tye, alias Job - Jones, was charged Withforg , i . ing and uttering a five pound Bank-note, with the intention to defraud the Bank of England. Mr. Serjeant BOSAXQUET, in stating the circumitartees of the case to the Jury . , observed, that since the detectiOn of the gang of forgers at Birmingham about twelve month a since, tnree of whom had been executell, there had been a very con siderable decrease in the circulation of forged notes ; not were-, the dank aware of the existence of but one plate now in work, of which the notes he should produce were impressions. Harriet Goff, wife to Goff the officer, was employed by.tier; husband and another officer, named Kinsey, to meet the pri; ,, soner. She was introduced to him by a woman, as a perm* , who dealt in smuggled goods, at the Horse Shoe, in Gosweil.e. street, and her companion told him that she wished to purchaie skrecns, viz. five pound notes. He said that it was too late that night, but by appointment she met Mind-he next night at the Jacob's Well, when she bought a 51. note for a sovereign, - he observing that 101. notes were by far the hest.. She returned to Kinsey, and told him. On the l'ith she saw the prisoner • again, but he did not sell her any, as he said the man he got them from was out of town. On the 213th she saw him, but he was too busy to serve her, and appointed to meet her next day. She went then to the horse Shoe, and purchased another. five pound note, which she paid for in wanted money. She - pur- . chased again on the 22d for the last time ; she paid in.marked money, and wrapped it in half a lottery bill of Haxard!s, Kin sey keeping the other half. Mary Dowling was the, woman syho introduced her to the prisoner. Ile told her that he .could. supply her to any amount. H. Kinsey, the officer, corroborated this evidence, He took - the prisoner into custody, and found on his person the marked . . sovereigns with which he had furnished last witness ; • also the corresponding half of Hazard's lottery-bill and another five- • pound forged note. - George L'ioff, the husband of the first witness, deposed to the same effect. I'. Glover, the Bank Inspector, proved the five notet produc ed to be forgeries in every respect. Impressions from this plate had been seen by the Bank about the commencement of last year. - The prisoner, in his defence, said that the M. note 'stated to be found in his pocket was put there by one of the ofliCers—he could not say which. He called one witness to character, .who had known him for thirty years, and be believed hi►u to be as honest man. The Cuitr BAttoi4 summed up the evidence ;—there was no testimony to prove the charge of forging ; it was for the Jury to say if they were not satisfied, as it regarded the pri soner's- uttering them with 'a guilty knowledge.—Verdict, . Guilty. Wm. Rivers, only 17 years of age, was indicted for uttering as true, a note, purporting to be for 101. well knowing the sam3 to be forged, in the month of 'December last, in the parish of • Saint James, Clerkenwell, .with intent to defraud. the Governor and Company of the Bank of England. This pri'. soner, though so young in years, and had been .twice suffered to go at liberty on account of his youth, had in addition passed a note for 101. to a Mr. Brown, and had attempted to pass the one for which he now c.Looa indicted, to Mr. Wedgwood. The prisoner in his defence said I have, my Lord, only to ask you to show me mercy, and spare my life."—flitilty--• Death ; but recommended strongly to mercy by the Jury,. on account of his youth, in which Mr. Wedgwood joined. - . ATTEMPT TO MURDER. John Crooks stood indicted capitally for stabbing, with intent to kill, on the 3d of December last, Mary . Ann Nekzon. - The principal witness against bins was his wife, the prosectt4 trix, whom he had'married eight years since, and by whom he had had a famili, having at the same time.another wife living, The parties had gone through a scene- of much doMMie ani mosity, and the prosecutrix on the day in question had gone to his lodgings, where she admitted,she had tried to aggravate hitt= by every means in her power. The prisoner, on his part, put in along written defence, ill which he accused his wife of • inconstancy and with being an abandoned character. ' He also called two witnesses, who gave' him a good character fOr Immanitf aT:d honesty.--is'ot Guilty- Chief Baron IticuArtss—`.` Pi - isomer,. before I part with yott let me repeat - to you the advice of Lee (one of the witnesses)-' namely, that in future, you will govern your passion." Read (the officer) said the prisoner was indicted for biganryt and the Court ordered bias to be detained in custody. The bridge,of Killaloe.over the Shannon, pre' sents a most frightful appearance—six arches have been swept away in the centre, and oue - at the county of Tipperary side. it was caused by the breaking of the cam? bank above the bridtee, the materials of which were carried with thti flood, and choked the arches. It is said that the re-building of the bridge will devolve on the Grand Canal Co (Tatty. For the last two days there has not been 5 single London smack in the harbour of Leith, either loading . or unloading, or under repair—a like circumstance•has not occurred for many year• —( Edinburgh (ottratai Jan. 7.) There are at this time, iJ Fulham-fields, broad jeans in•blossoth, a circumstance, at this time of he year, of very rare occurrence. There is also :o be SPeTI growintr, the Nyitsdow - of- a house adjoining the Red Lion, Chelsea, in a pot, a car iation, which has three fall blossoms on one stall:, ' AWFUL CATASTP.-Qplll;.—Mr. SMITH, a respect able master tailor,reiliding.at the corner of Pea's street, Tooley-street, left his home in apparent good health and .spirits, for the Turpose, as be. stated, and as was generally in p pose d of going to the parish church, to be present at• the.soten) . nization of his daughter's marriage, which was to take place that niorninri: ; but, to the surprise of the bride and bridegroom, he never arrived ; ar.l ll, after considerable protraction, the ceremony Was performed withant. hinh The happy couple then returned home spend the day with their fa' tiler, but had not been t'sere long before I r. S;vrlTtt was carried house—a corpse! The feelings ex ; cited by such a melancholy and unexpected catas trophe may be easily conceived ; the friends who had been invited to par Llce of the bridal repast , separated in the most abrupt manner, and thus in a few moments a 'scene of boundless joy and hi lathy' was converted into one'of grief and despair' It appears 'that tlv! deceased . on.his way to the church felt himself very ill, and raising his hand to his chest, uttered a slight exclamation, dropped down, and expired ! 13111 TM. 'On the Lady of James Be' shaw, Yici. of a daught,r. At Douglass, on the lath ult., the Lady of Lieut. floot,l , formerly of the .38th, or Ayrshire militia, • and, late of the 91 r regiment, of a daughter. MARRIED. Yesterday, the 100: irritant, at St. Mary's, Islington, by d i c e ( Rev. Calvert Fitzgerald Moore, James Peachey , Esq. , Salisbury.square, to Amelia Bridget, only daughter of the late James Mayor, Esq., of Islington. On Monday the 31s.t ult., at Dursley, Mr. Edward Smitlif Member of the London 'ito,ia . College of 'Sutgeons, to Eliz 3 ' beth, youngest daughter of Mr. Player, of that place. 11, On Wednesday Morning, the Oth inst., itt St. °lave§ Churc . 4. Exeter, -Mr. Reuben , Phillips, jun. .to Aran, eldest dtughter (- the late Burnet Patch, Esq. Exeter. Aof On Saturday, the lith inst., at Stonehouse, Cot: Mitchell, the brig Nautilus, to Eliza,, second daughter of Mrs. Elms. : - DIED. • .. . . On Wednesday morning, the 9th i9st., Mr. D. Davis, °f the firm of CleMend and Co., Cheapside. - . t" On Tuesday evening, at her lodgings in Longbrooke-s.tre e j Exeter, at an advanced age, Madame de Rondeau , teacher ' the French language. . ' . . . At Ileavitree, on Friday last, in the 30th year of her ag t Miss Allardicd, of Aberdeen, Scotland. . ' _.oe Printed and Published, fur the Pnoi)lZ/ETOI 9, at the Ur OFFICE, 112, Strand, by J. B.,CilitsTAFfis