The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF Ti!'. PUBLIC JOURNALS. A desperate push is making by a section of the Conservative interest in the city, who have contrived to hook in some of our most respect able merchants, hitherto passive, at least in poli tical affairs, against his Majesty's Ministers. The pretence, or cheval de battaille, is the Belgic question. Remembering what the cla mour of the Opposition and its partisans has been for the last twelve months—that nothing has been heard among these Tories hut loud and contemptuous laughter at the long delay in settling the dispute between Holland and Bel gium--a man who looked for anything like con sistency in the conduct of political factions, might expect that the purpose of a meeting, the advertisement for which will be found in this day's Times, was to congratulate the country and the Government that the season of pro tocols and procrastination had at length been ended, and that now at last some decisive mea sures were on the point of being executed for repelling a system of stubborn aggression, con demned alike by England and by every con tinental Power, for quieting the terrors of the commercial world, and removing the causes through which trade has been every where para lyzed, as well as the peace of Europe exposed to most imminent danger. Such a man would show himself an egregious simpleton. A meeting of merchants, shipowners, and others, has, indeed, been called, but it is not to rejoice at the cutting short of imbecile and abortive diplomacy, or at the settlement of a question which must inevitably, if left three months longer undecided, have involved all Europe in open war. No ; the gentlemen who project this meeting describe themselves as persons " anxious for the preserva tion of pacific relations between this country and Holland." These requisitionists certainly have contrived to put the best face upon their intended meeting. They bring forward "pacific relations with Holland" as the one thing needful, and prudently keep out of sight the alternative, which is nothing more than war and convulsion throughout the civilized globe. If they say such an evil could he avoided through any other ex pedient than the clapping a strait-waistcoat upon the Dutchman's lunacy, will they be pleased to point out to us the nature of that expedient ? We know that there are grave persons to be found who still prescribe the restoration of Bel gium to the Dutch sceptre, the crushing the mutiny of King William's " revolted subjects," and the settlement of the whole question by the very " pacific" method of marching. in Holy Al liance armies upon Belgium, to put down a spirit " subversive," as Prince Metternich has it, " of law and order," and so forth. These men are your honest ultras of the old school, who make treaties in the hot blood of recent and momentary victory,—treaties setting all na tional records, interests, habits, and feelings, at defiance, and who nickname this moral butchery " the settlement of Europe." To do such politicians justice, however, they do not call out for war for its own sake, but only when war might, in their opinion, he made subservient to the overthrow of free and popular institutions. We are aware that if Louis Phillippe had set up a more stern and rigorous despotism than that of Charles X. these honest men would not have made much stir about the revolution of 1830 ; or if Don Carlos had succeeded in usurping his niece's throne, they would have forgiven the traitor in complaisance to the tyrant, as we all see they have done in the case of Donna Maria and her exemplary uncle. So with regard to Holland and Belgium, had the " revolt" of the Belgians been professedly not against misgovern ment, but only against Dutch government, and, instead of a very limited monarchy, had they declared for one allied in principle to the auto cracy of Russia, there would have been no bounds to the indignation of our " honest ul tras" against Holland for seizing the keys of Antwerp, and shutting up the navigation of the Scheldt. Then, indeed, we should have heard little about the necessity of maintaining " pa cific relations with Holland ;" then the com mercial spirit would have coalesced with the political ; the opening of the Scheldt, and the Tory principles of Belgium, would have found equal favour in the sight of our Conser vatives of the counting-house, and would have supplied a text for a somewhat different sort of meeting. But we do not address ourselves to the swashbucklers of legitimacy. We ask those who deem themselves the more soberminded,— we ask those who have been drawn in against their better judgment to support the meeting,— what objection do they state against this present endeavour to replace the Belgians by means of a joint French and British armament in possession of their own territory, which would not lie with far greater weight against any other proceeding ? Are Holland and Belgium to be reunited by force ? Would that be a " pacific " measure ? Would its consetifuences be " pacific ? " Would France and Belgium look on quietly and suffer it ? Could Belgium be retained in Dutch do minion but by arms ? Would any army, such as Holland could supply, be sufficient to perpe tuate that dominion—in the teeth of France, mark you, the rooted determination of whose people of all ranks, upon that subject, must be taken as a preponderating element in the discus sion of it ? Besides, would the Dutch them selves spend life or money for such a conquest ? Again, if Belgium and Holland are to remain separated, and the former an independent state, as was long ago pronounced by the Duke of Wellington to be indispensable, and since repeat edly confirmed by all the great Powers of Europe —Russia, Prussia, and Austria included—is, in that case, the most important and commanding point of the Belgic soil to be kept for ever in the gripe of a Dutch garrison ? Would that be Belgic independence ? Would that be the " se paration" in which all Europe has concurred ? Well, then, Belgium is to have possession of -Antwerp, as Amsterdam and Rotterdam are (we presume) to be held by the Government of Holland. But Holland says, " I will not sur render Antwerp !" We turn to our Tory " pa cific relation" men, and pause for a reply. What will they do in the predicament now proposed to them ? The question comes upon them in a thousand shapes. How is Antwerp to be re stored to Belgium, it never yet havin g been a part 9f Holland ? They tell u s that England must not meddle in the business. Is it, then, the will and pleasure of the city Conservatives that Belgium and France (for it is vain to blink this mattter)—Belgium anti France united, shall proceed against Holland in their own way ? If so, who can calculate the consequences ? Who can predict the point at which France and Bel gium may think fit to terminate their joint mi litary operations ? Now, with England for her active ally, France is tied down by terms of part nership, specified in a solemn treaty, to limit her hostilities to the release of Antwerp, and then im mediately to withdraw her troops. Was there ever a more rational or effective precaution devised for the arrest of all coercive measures beyond that single recognized object, the datum of all disinterested parties to whom the Belgic question in its various bearings has been submitted ? Let England but retire from this convention, against which the worthy Mr. Baring and his brother malcontents are to-day to set up their protest, and what follows ? Why, the Holy Alliance Courts will at once step in as parties to the ge neral conflict. England,—the presence,—the known pacific policy,—the known integrity,— the understood feelings and interests of Eng land,—these are the powers which restrain the Courts of Europe. All these, as long as Eng land marches by the side of France, are consi dered by the Holy Alliance Kings as forming a solid guarantee and surety that they themselves need not intermeddle by force of arms. The next hour they take the field—the moment Great Britain withdraws her hand from the helm—away runs the peace of Europe into irre parable shipwreck. These unreflecting Tories, therefore, little know what is the tendency of their unfortunate requisition. They mean it, we are quite as sensible as they are, for no more vicious object than to worry Ministers, per. chance to shake them, on the eve of a general election. But the. consequence of their success would be an instantaneous explosion throughout the continent. We shall watch the meeting of this dav, and if there be matter for commentary produced there, we shall not be wanting to our duty.— Times. The consequences of the arrest of the Duchess of Berry are magnified into matters of great im portance by the journals of this country which espouse the hopeless cause of the Doctrinnaires of France. They use language such as this : " To the sincere exertions of the present Cabi net the capture may, perhaps, bring an accession of credit. It will be something striking to an nounce in the King's Speech on the opening of the Session on the 19th instant. It will be pro duced as an evidence of the decided resolution of the Government to overpower the enemies of the new institutions and the disturbers of the public tranquillity, whether Royalist or Repub lican." We have no doubt this " mighty affair" will be made use of for the purpose above described—and we believe the whole thing is " got up" for that purpose—namely, to intro duce a clap-trap into the Citizen King's Speech, whose popularity is at such a miserably low ebb, that even the military display in the neighbour• hood of Belgium fails to gain him the plaudits of the people ; and hence a new tragi-comic divertissement, of which the Duchess of Berry is the heroine, has been produced on the Paris boards. It is worthy of the authors of the " Flags of Ulm," and other political farces. It will not deceive the people of France, who know that the movements of the Duchess have been all along under the eyes of the Police, who could lay hands on her whenever they pleased. The whole affair breathes of romance more than of reallife.—Morning Herald. That writer must presume upon the British public being gifted with an exceedingly short memory who states that " the Continental Powers, have, one and all, pronounced their full conviction that, if the King of Holland will not peaceably yield Antwerp, he must be made to yield by that species of interference now in course of execution." We say - the writer of this state- Mott must presume on the British public having a very short memory, for it is only a few days since the two Plenipotentiaries of the greatest of those Powers—namely, Russia—officially noti fied that they had no authority to agree to coercive measures against Holland, and they were under the necessity of withdrawing from the Conference because England and France had intimated their intention of adopting coercive measures. Hence it is evident there is more boldness than truth in asserting that " the Con tinental Powers have, one and all, pronounced their full conviction that the King of Holland must be made to yield by the species of inter ference now in the course of execution." Let us remind the public once more of the exact terms of the Russian notification. It says, " The adoption ofmeasures ofcoercion which France and Great Britain have resolved to take against Hol land brings the circumstances of the case to that position in which the Plenipotentiaries of Rus sia, in virtue of the instructions with which they are furnished, and with the tenor of which the Plenipotentiaries of the allied Cabinets are not unacquainted, find themselves under the necessity of retiring from the Conference." The Plenipotentiaries proceed to say, " they will transmit immediately to their Court a statement 'of the important circumstances which, in alter ing the character of the pacific mediation in which they were invited to take part, permit them no longer to associate themselves in the labours of their colleagues." If this be an ex pression of the Russian assent to coercive mea sures against Holland, then " white" means " black, that is all. The Government Papers now admit that the recent proposal of Prussia to settle the question, without the interven tion of the French army or the Anglo-Gallic squadron, was a mere pretext to gain time on behalf of Holland, and, as such, has been re jected by the French and English Ministers. This is rather an awkward sort of fact to trans pire just at the moment when the Government Papers would make the public believe that Prussia has also assented to the adoption of war like proceedings against the Dutch people and their King. To a mind that looks for truth, unclouded by the noxious fumes of party, it affords conclusive evidence that the sympathy of Prussia is on the side of Holland, in whose favour she still practises a tortuous and deceptive policy. As to the third great Power of the Conference, Austria, whosoever believes that she would take a part opposed to Russia and Prussia, in a ques tion involving a struggle between the monar chical and revolutionary principle, must have a faith as implicit as that of Tertullian when he said, " Credo quia impossibile est."—Morning Herald. We were not altogether unprepared for the present concerted movement of the Conserva tives and their allies throughout the country. Too many interests are affected by any interrup tion of the commercial intercourse with Holland to allow them to remain idle, when so promising a subject supplies them with the materials for agitation. As England is the greatest commer cial country in the world, it must always suffer greatly from an interruption of the tranquillity of , Europe. A regard for the interests of the country ought, therefore, at all times to induce a British Ministry to exert their utmost influence in preserving a good understanding among the different Powers. We have always contended that England ought not to mix itself up in the quarrels of Europe, and that a great deal of our blood and treasure has been unnecessarily ex pended in wars for the restoration of the balance of power—wars for the honour and glory of the nation—wars for the maintenance of our holy religion—wars to put down Jacobinism, &c. We have contended that England, being, itself invulnerable, could in no case have anything to fear from the Continent, and having no need of assistance from any Continental Power, ought not to form any alliance with any Continental Power, which might draw it into a participation in a Continental war. But in the present case, England interfered not as a hostile Power in the quarrel between Holland and Belgium which grew out of the separation of these two countries, but in order to prevent a war which could hardly fail in time to embroil all Europe. England, France, Russia, Prussia, and Austria forined themselves into a sort of tribunal for determining the controversy between the two minor States. The parties were heard, great patience was manifested by the representatives of the great Powers, and at length the decision was pronounced by all the Powers. With respect to the decision itself, the Powers were fully agreed ; but all were not equally ready to compel obedience, should both, or either of the two minor States prove refrac tory. This task, however, has been undertaken by England and France, the latter from a just dread of the consequences of a continuance of the present state of things in the Netherlands on ' her own tranquillity ; the former, as having a deep interest in the preservation of the peace of the Continent, and as possessing, in greater abundance than the other Powers, the means of acting with effect against a country in the pecu liar situation of Holland. France and England, possessing as they do forty times the resources of Holland, were not warranted in anticipating from Holland any resistance, when peremptorily demanding that that country should acquiesce in the arrangements of the Conference ; for why should Holland, with the sense of Europe so decidedly against her, be guilty of the incon ceivable madness of opposing her pitiful re sources in a fruitless struggle with the two most powerful nations of the world—with no ally to aid her, and with no sympathy to sup port her. In calculating probabilities, we cannot take madness into consideration ; and the determination of Holland to resist France and England is downright madness. Eng land and France, then, are not making war on Holland ; but adopting such measures, with re gard to Holland, as shall prevent that power from involving all Europe in war. The present interruption of peaceful relations with Holland will be necessarily short ; and it has for object to prevent a war, in which the commerce of the country would suffer incomparably more. We submit to a powerful operation, in the hope of averting a disease of great severity and of long continuance. But a question now forces itself on us. What has induced Holland to resist England and France, and to render it impera tive on the latter to have recourse to force ? The treacherous advice of the Conservatives, who are now hypocritically lamenting the interruption of tranquillity. They have all along encouraged the King of Holland in his obstinacy. They have buoyed him up with the idea that the sym pathy of the people of England with their old allies, the Dutch, would never allow them to sub mit to any coercive measures against him. The in trigue is as mere an intrigue as can well be con ceived. Unfortunately for the Conservatives, the people of England must be as blind as bats if they do not see through the policy of the Conservatives. Under the mask of sympathy with British traders, they are anxious only to embroil Europe. They long to see Europe once more involved in war, and this country dragged into it, that internal improvements may be de layed, and the reforms they dread may not take place. There is to be a meeting this day at the City of London Tavern of all those anxious for the preservation of pacific relations between this country and Holland. Who is not anxious for the preservation of pacific relations between England and Holland ? But the object of those who profess this anxiety at present is not to pre serve pacific relations between England and Hol land, but to retard the settlement of the quarrel between Holland and Belgium, and to involve all Europe in war and conflagration. We trust to the good sense of Englishmen at this trying conjuncture. Do not let them be led away by the hypocritical pretext of anxiety for peace of the Conservatives. They long only for blood. They have been baulked of their desire at home, and they dream that they may yet obtain their object by a general war.—Morning Chronicle. Some of the leading houses in the city con nected with the Mauritius have prepared a memorial to Government on the subject of the late transactions there, and on the expulsion of Mr. JEREMIE. It has received, we understand, many most respectable signatures,—nearly the whole of those, in fact, who have a direct interest in the colony, and who have made advances on mortgage or otherwise to the owners of plantations there. The memo rialists do not offer any justification of the violent conduct of the planters, nor do they object to the appointment of Mr. JEREMIE, but they endeavour to show that a perse verance in the intention of Government to send that gen tleman back to the Mauritius, will produce a dangerous de gree of excitement among the planters, by which they, who have a large stake in the colony, must either be ruined or suffer very severe losses. The property placed at hazard in the manner thus described is undoubtedly large enough to make its protection a fair object of the at tention of the Government, but the difficulty in which it will be placed, on the other hand, of appearing to encou rage opposition in the planters, by allowing them to carry their point with respect to Mr. JEREMIE, is felt by all who have considered the subject to be very great. Mr. Jutxmix's embarkation, on his return to the Mauritius, was intended to take place in a few days from the present time. GERALDINE HAMILTON:—" Many endea vours have been made, we understand, and some of them with not the best intention, to identify the character of the heroine of this remarkable story, with several ladies at present moving in the first society, whom it would be in vidious to particularise. If, however, the noble authoress, in constructing the novel, had really any particular event or personage in contemplation (which cannot be affirmed) the reader would be more likely to detect the real origin of the tale, were he to refer, not to the immediate topics of the present day, but to the fashionable annals of the year 1829."—Morning Post. MARCH OF MlND.—Walking up street the other day, we were stopped by an urchin scarcely in his teens, who bad already begun to pay some attention to political economy; he pointed out to us the immense con venience it would be, could all the apple-wome u in the kingdom be induced to take white pebbles instead of half pence, in exchange for their apples and tarts,—and then, added our young casuist, if other people would take the white pebbles from them, how could they be losers ? We, not having time to argue the point, referred our interro gator to Mr. ATHERLEY, who, we have no doubt, will ex plain to him why 140 millions of white pebbles would not relieve the distresses of the country quite as well as 140 millions of bank notes.—Carlisle Journal. On the Ist instant a child, six years of age, was buried at St. Alban's Abbey-church, and followed to the grave by its father and mother, grandfather and grand mother, and its great gr andfather and great gran d mother. We find, from the registers of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, that, as a consequence of their temperance, one half of those that are born live to the age of 47 years ; whereas, Dr. ParcE tells us that, of the general population of London, half that are born live only 2 years ! Among the Quakers one in 10 arrive at 80 years of age ; of the general population of London only one in 40. Never did a more powerful argument iupport the practice of temperance and virtue.— Colin M'Kenzie. THIRD EDITION. SUN-OFFICE, Seven o'clock. rHE LONDON GAZETTE THIS EVENING. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Nov. 13, 1832. The King has been graciously pleased to approve of Mr. James Reid, as Consul at Newcastle for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. WHITEHALL, Nov. 12. The King has been pleased to grant unto the Right Hon. William George Earl of Erroll, the office of Knight Marishall of Scotland, in the room of Sir Alexander Keith, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, Nov. 13. 2d Regiment of Dragoon Guards — Lieut. H. W . Chalton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Grove, who retires ; Cornet It Dann to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Charlton; H. C. Paulet , Gent. to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Dann, Nov. 13. 21st Regiment of Foot—Captain F. H. A. Forth, from the 75th Foot, to be Captain, vice Magra, who exchanges ; Cornet W. P. Jervis, from half-pay 3d Dragoons, to be Second Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Wemyss, deceased, Nov. 13. 26th Foot, Lieut. M. M‘lnnes to be Captain , without p urchase, vice Lord Ramsay, deceased; Ensign J. Shum to be Lieutenant, vice M'lnne, Oct. 27; and A. H. Barnard, Gent. to be Ensign, vice Shum, Nov. 13. 36th Foot, Ensign G. B. Bourchier to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Creswell, promoted in the 48 th F oot ; Ca p tain T. Phistlethwayte, from half-pay 62d Foot (with temporar& rank), to be ensign, vice Bourchier, Nov. 13. 37th Foot—Lieut. Hon. C. S. Clements to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Dyer, who retires ; Ensign G. A. Hatton to be Lieu. tenant, by purchase, vice Clements; G. Green, Gent., to be En. sign, by purchase, vice Hatton, Nov. 13. 40th Foot—Ensign J. I. Macheath, from half-pay 89th Foot, to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Lord G. Thynne, deceased, Nov. 13. 48th Foot—Lieut. G. Creswell, from the 36th Foot, to be Cap tam, without purchase, vice King, cashiered by the sentence of a General Court Martial, Nov. 13. 55th Foot—Lieut. E. Fairfield, from half-pay 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Vereker, who exchanges , Nov. 13. 59th Foot—Lieut. N. Kane to be Captain, by purchase, vice Smith, who retires ; Ensign M. G. Matson to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Kane; E. Glover, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase Matson, Nov. 13. 05th Foot—Captain H. G. Baylee, from half-pay, 87th Foot, to be Captain, vice R. L. Dundas, who exchanges, Nov. 13. 75th Foot—Captain C. W. P. Magra, from the 21st Foot, to be Captain, vice Forth, who exchanges, Nov. 13. 86th Foot—Captain J. Twigg, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice P. North, who exchanges, Nov. 13. 94th Foot—C. S. Still, Gent., to be Assistant-Snrgeon, vice G. Woods, placed upon half-pay, Oct. 26. HOSPITAL STAFF. J. Mitchell, M. D. to be Staff-Assistant-Surgeon, vice Fitz Gerald, appointed to the 66th Foot. Nov. 13. MEMORANDA. ' The under-mentioned appointments, as stated in the Gazette of the Pith ultimo, have not taken place : Assistant-Surgeon Humphrey, from the 95th Foot, to be As sistant-Surgeon in the 94th Foot. Charles Stewart Still, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon in the 95th Foot. It should have been stated in the Gazette of the 14th Septem. ber last, that Lieutenant Watson, of the 3d Light Dragoons received the difference upon exchanging to half-pay. The half-pay of the under-mentioned Officers has been can. celled from the 13th instant, inclusive, they having been per mitted to receive a commuted allowance for their commissions, viz.:— Lieut. C. J. Allingham, half-pay 12th Light Dragoons. Ensign J. Reynolds, half-pay 93d Foot. Lieut. J. Ralston, half-pay 71st Foot. Lieut, J. Hewitt, half-pav Dillon's Regiment. Capt. T. De Grenier de fonblanque, half pay 2d Garrison Bat talion. Lieut. T. Stephens, half-pay 22d Foot. Hospital-Assistant P. M'Mahon, half-pay Hospital Staff. Ensign J. Carr, half-pay 10th Foot. Capt. E. D'Aubreville, half-pay Canadian Voltigeurs. Assistant-Surgeon W. T. Gilder, half-pay 3d Foot Guards. Ensign M Richardson, half-pay 45th Foot. Assistant-Surgeon, T. Stobo, half-pay, Hospital Staff. Ensign E. W. Carter, half-pay Newfoundland Fencibles. Ensign G. K. Tucker, half-pay 24th Foot. Lieut. J. Anthony, of the 22d Foot, has also been permitted to retire from the service, receiving a commuted allowance for his commission, Nov. 13. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. SHAKESPEAR GARRIcK SIKES, banker, Huddersfield. ISIDORE HEILBRONN, merchant, Basinghall-Etre t JOHN ESCUDIER, hotel-keeper, Albemarle-street, Picca dilly BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. WILLIAM COCKRILL, corn-factor, East Butterwick, Lin• colnshire. BANKRUPTS. JOHN PEACHEY, ironmonger, Regent-street, to surrender Nov. 26, at eleven, and Dec. 24, at ten, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Hitchcock, Davies-street, Berkeley-square; Wright, Golden-square ; Clark, St. Swithin's-lane, official assignee. SAMUEL BURRELL, linen-draper, St. Ives, Huntingdon shire, Nov. 29, and Dec, 28, at eleven, at the Crown Inn, St. Ives. Wright, Huntingdon ; Lloyd, Bartlett's-buildings, Hol born. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. GEORGE REID, merchant, Glasgow, Nov. 22 and Dee. 6, at e'even, at the Sheriff-clerk's Office, Glasgow. JOHN REID, grocer, King-street, Glasgow, Nov. 2;2 and Dec 6, at one, at the Sheriff-clerk's Office, Glasgow. WILLIAM GRAY, manufacturer, Kirkintilloch, Nov. 24 and Dec. 13, at eleven, at the Sheriff-clerk's Office, Dumbarton. JAMES KAY, weaver, Partick, Nov. 23 and Dec. 7, at ele ven, at the Sheriff-clerk's Office, Glasgow. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. QUEEN- S QUA RE. Yesterday, a man, named William Smith, and Mary, his wife, a young woman with a child at her breast, were brought up by Colley and Currie, the Stamp-office agents, and placed at the bar before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with selling the Poor Man's Guardian, and the Cosmopolite Almanack, the same not being duly stamped. Colley saw the defendants in Parliament-street selling the papers which he produced ; he bought a Poor Man's Guardian of the man, and one of the almanacks of the woman. Mr. GREGORIE asked the defendants what they had to say to the charge ?—Smith was a weaver, and came from Manchester, being unable to gain em ployment in that town, in the hope of getting work in London, but he had been disappointed. He was therefore compelled to do something for the support of hie family, and he found nothing so profitable as selling the papers. On Saturday he made from half-a-crown to 3. Mr. GREGORIE should discharge the wife, as she appeared to be acting under the influence of her husband, and he should commit him for one month to prison. Smith was then locked up, and the wife was dis charged. The woman, on leaving the office, de clared t hat she would go and purchase more papers, and sell them. Mr. GREGORIE then signed the certificate of the conviction, which was given to the complainants. Mr. Henry Winship Dodd, a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, on half-pay, was brought up in the custody of Mr. Carter, one of the inspectors of the A or home division of the police, charged by Mr. T. Crofton Croker, one of the clerks of the Admiralty, with threatening to do himself and other persons in the Admiralty some personal violence. The de fendant, it appeared, had gone to the Admiralty, and his conduct was such that Mr. Croker found it ne cessary to send to the metropolitan police-office for an officer to take him into custody, It appeared, from Mr. Croker's statement, that the defendant's half-pay had been suspended, and that he had been sending some violent letters to the Admiralty, threatening to cut his throat. Mr. Dodd complained of ill-treatment, and said that he had done nothing to cause his half-pay to be suspended, and that he had suffered severe priva tions in consequence. Mr. Croker said that Mr. Dodd's case would be investigated immediately before the Board of Ad miralty. Mr. GREGORIE said it was a case in which he c,:tt)tid not pledge h interfere, is word an a 4 a n s d k ed honourthe to appear defendant pear a i t f t hh the otlice on a future day. Mr. Dodd promised that he would, and he was discharged. MAR YLEB ONE. Yesterday Peter Chil litson, a cab-driver, was brought before Mr. HOSKINS, the sitting Magistrate, charged with committing the following wanton and unprovoked assault upon Mr. John Goss, of 36, Paternoster -row. The prisoner was then committed. HATT ON- GARDEN. Charles Ward, the driver of the Hope Omnibus, and George Mitchell, the driver of the 'Waterloo omnibus, appeared at this office on summonses charging them with furious driving. The Magistrates sentenced each of the defendants to pay a penalty of .5/., and to he imprison e d th r ee months in the House of Correction in default of payment. William Barrett, a greengrocer, residing in Church -place, St. G . iles's, was ch arge d w i t h h av i ng assau l te d Mary Linch. The complainant, who is a woman of the town, between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning, heard a child screaming violently in the defendant's house. On approaching the house she perceived the defendant at t he door, brandishing a bludgeon, and threaten ing to murder any one who i n t er f ere d w i t h hi m . At this moment his daughter, about seven years of age, made her appearance, and was instantly felled by a blow from the bludgeon. The complainant ran forward to rescue the child, when the defen dant knocked her down by a blow which rendered her insensible. Mr. LAING asked the defendant what he had to say to the charge ?—He replied, that the compla'- nant was the terror of St. Giles's; that she made an attack on him, and he struck her in his own defence. _ _ _ Mr. LAING—You are fined 51., and if you don't pay it you'll go to prison for two months. Mr. ROGERS—I think 403. quite sufficient. I know the complainant to be a most desperate cha racter. Mr. LAING—That is no reason why she should be half murdered. Where is the weapon with which he assaulted the complainant? The officer handed it to the Magistrates. It was covered with blood, was about three feet in length, and nine inches round. Mr. LAING—I should not like a slight tap with it on my head, I can tell ye. Mr. ROGERS—Then let it, remain .5/. The defendant was then locked up. THAMES-POLICE Yesterday Mr. Alley, the barrister, accompanied by several pawnbrokers and others, waited on Mr. BALLANTINE, on the part of Mr. Cording, for whose committal to prison, in default of complying with an order to make restitution for a gun, alleged io have been destroyed by fire, a warrant was issued last Wednesday. The object of the Learned Gentle man's attendance was, to endeavour to prevail on the worthy Magistrate to reconsider his decision. He contended, that if the Magistrate did anything, he must convict the pawnbroker. Mr. BALLANTINE answered Mr. Alley's objec tions. He was of opinion a Magistrate could make an order. The Act of Parliament was clear in au thorizing the justice to" award compensation by or der," which could not be considered as a conviction against which there was an appeal. After some further discussion, during which Mr. Alley advised the Magistrate to rescind his de cision, otherwise legal proceedings would be warranttuteu a m gam u s s t t n , against him, Mr. BALLANTINE said that the I be: xecui ed. Mr. Alley then advised Mr. Hurst, solicitor to Mr. Cording, to offer the sureties, and give formal notice of appeal. This was done, but no notice was taken of it. The Learned Gentleman then said, that both the officer who captured, and the gaoler who detained Mr. Cording, would be trespassers. A pawnbroker said Mr. Cording would be ruined if he was compelled to make restitution for all the pledges lost. Mr. Cording and his friends then left the office, followed by Boyd and Silvester, a land officer of the Thames-police. Mr. Cording had no sooner reached the street than Silvester produced the warrant, and said " You are my prisoner, Sir." He offered to read the warrant, but Mr. Cording declined hearing it, and Silvester conducted Mr. Cording to a coach, and conveyed him to the House of Correction. UNION-HALL. Under the head of this office it will be recollected , that a poor woman, named Porter, attended before the Magistrates, about 10 days ago, for the purpose of giving an account of her son, a lad between 14 and 15 years of age, having been missing from home , under rather mysterious circumstances. The boy had left his mother's which is within a short dis tance of the office, on last Thursday week, and pro ceeded to the shop of a grocer at Walworth to inquire after a situation. Having been unsuccessful in his application he had scarcely left the shop when he was accosted by a tall gentlemanly looking person, who having inquired whether he wanted a place, and being answered in the affirmative, he then I desired the boy to meet him at the L Bee Hive, near the Zoological-gardens, the same afternoon, and that he should then take him home,and that all that would be required of him was to clean hoots, and occasion ally light the fires in the house. The lad Porter went to the place of appointment, and although he had strict directions from his mother to come home the same evening for his clothes, and to acquaint her where his new master lived, yet he neglected doing so, and his absence creating alarm, the poor woman came to this office, and upon mentioning the facts to Mr. Murray (the presiding Magistrate), he sent Pople, the officer, to make inquiries into the affair. When Pople commenced his inquiries, the boy was then nearly two days away from home, and the former went to the Bee Hive in the ex pectation of obtaining some clue to him, but upon inquiry there ascertained that neither of the parties alluded to had been at that house. By dint of inquiry, however, the officers at length discovered that the boy had been taken to a small cottage in a by-court in the neighbourhood of the Zoological-gardens. Pople subsequently met the boy himself, and brought him up to this office, and upon the lad being questioned as to the reason he absented himself from home without acquainting his mother, he gave such an account of the treatment he experienced at the cottage in question as to leave no doubt that he had been inveigled there by a wretch for purposes of brutality, and that a capital offence had been committed. Upon this informa tion no time was lost in despatching an officer to the cottage to apprehend the offender, whose name is Henry Nicholl, a Captain on half-pay, formerly be longing to the 14th Foot, but it was too late; for it appeared that he, suspecting the boy had divulged what had happened to him, had absconded. The officer, however, found two young men in the cottage, and upon questioning them relative to Captain Nicholl, their answers were so contradictory and full of equi vocation, that he took them both into custody, and brought them to this office. One of them said that he lived in the service of Captain Nicholl, and the other said that he had come there to see his brother. When the officer entered the cot tage, which was miserably furnished, arid only one bed in the place, the prisoners were wash ing clothes in a tub. They still remain in custody, as it is suspected that a gang of miscreants have made the cottage their place of rendezvous. Subse quently to the apprehension of the two men just mentioned another individual, named John Goode, who represented himself to be clerk to a tailor in Regent-street, has also been taken into custody under these circumstances. When the boy Porter was brought to this office, shortly after he had been questioned by the Magistrate, Goode called at a public-house in the neighbourhood, and in anin terview with a person who is in the habit of at tending the office professionally for parties, said that he was recommended to him, and that he was de puted to engage a solicitor on the behalf of the boy Porter, who, he said, it was understood had been taken into custody on some charge. During the conversation, he assumed to be ignorant of the na ture of the affair upon which the boy had been there,' but told the person to whom he made the application that friends would be ready to pay whatever ex. penses might be incurred in defending the boy. In the mean time, the metropolitan police having re ceived information of the charge against Captain Nicholl, an inspector of the A division took Goode into custody, and it was discovered that he had been in communication with Nicholl from the time of the alleged offence ; and that he had been to that person's agent in Fludyer-street, Westminster, to obtain an advance of half-pay to liquidate the expenses that might be incurred in obtaining legal advice for the boy, as the Captain at that time imagined he would not have divulged the nature of the outrage committed upon his per son at the cottage. When Goode was brought be fore the Magistrate he admitted that he was ac quainted with Captain Nicholl, and also that he had received written instructions from him to call at his agent's, in Fludyer-street, to obtain his half-pay. He (Goode) intended to have paid the Captain's debts with the money. The lette r containing these instructions was put into his hand by a messenger, and he had not seen Nicholl since last Friday week, upon which day he (Nicholl) called on him in Re gent-street. A letter found on the prisoner was pro duced, dated from Folkstone, in which the writer directs him to sell off his property immediately. It purported to be from Captain Nicholl. An officer was despatched to Folkatone in quest of Nicholl, hut no trace of him has been discovered since he first absconded from the cottage, although officers of the old and new police are employed in looking af ter him. Nicholl previously inhabited a small cot tage in an obscure place in Lambeth, and removed from thence in consequence of the suspicions thrown out by the neighbours, who, never observing any but men enter the place, imagined that they were all " smashers." The three men in custody have been remanded. BANKRUPTCY COURT, Nov. 12. EX-PARTE PATTEN IN RE HAMEL Mr. WALCOT stated that this was a commission issued so long ago as 30 years. The assignees, the solicitor to the commission, and many of the credi tors, were dead, and every thing respecting the commission was forgotten, when the bankrupt dis covered a short time back that there were 5001. and upwards lying in the banker's hands, part of which consisted of unclaimed dividends, and part, it was supposed, of the residue of the bankrupt's estate. The bankrupt informed what creditors he could find of his discovery, and a fiat was obtained from the Lord Chancellor in the nature of a renewed commission. Under this fiat a creditors' assignee had been chosen, and an official assignee appointed; but the Commissioner had declared himself incom petent to order a dividend of the fund to be made, and two of the creditors now petitioned the Court to direct the Commissioner to make a division of it. The COURT feared it could not assist the peti tioners. Mr. WALCOT said that the official assignee had made every possible inquiry in the matter, but could not obtain the wished-for particulars ; and it was to be feared, that unless the Court ordered the distri bution of the money, it must remain in the banker's hands another thirty years. _ _ _ His Honour the CHIEF JUDGE said that all the Court could do was, to order the money to be in vested in the funds at compound interest, so that it might be increasing. An order to that effect was accordingly made, the applicants being allowed their costs out of the estate. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 12. Charles Michael Magan was supported by Mr. COOKE, aad opposed by a Mr. Carpenter, in person. The opposing creditor was a dissenting minister. His claim was for 2p/. ss. for board and lodging fur nished to the insolvent, and the ground of opposi tion the having made a false representation as to his means Of payment. The dissenting minister called a witness to prove that a representation had been made as to the in solvent'a having married a " rieh widow," but his witness completely negatived the statement which he wished to establish, and in the course of the case it came out that the insolvent had admitted the amount of the debt to be seventeen pounds, and that his wife had been willing to pay that amount at Christmas next. He was ordered to be discharged. Joseph Welsh, who has already taken the benefit of the Act four times, now made his fifth applica tion to the Court for his discharge from prison. His debts amounted to 4001. His case was adjourned, for one of his places of residence, which had not been stated in the schedule, to be advertised. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is BNld. fot the 41h. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I%tl. btlow that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Nov. 12. Jew Englishßed Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. —s. fine —s. —s. Old Ditto Ditto -.. —s. 60s. fine —IL 725. New Foreign Dit , Old Ditto —s. —s fine —s. —s. —s. 60s. fine —s. 725. New White Clover. ...fl. ....S. fine ....S. ....11. Old Ditto Ditl New Trefoil . 31d Ditto -- —a. 58s. fine —s. 725. 30s. 355. line 365. 40s. ...I. 265. fine 32$ —s. Rib Grass —s. 315. fine --5. 425. English Carraway Foreign Ditto ..,—,. Coriander ...,......—..., —s. —s. 635. fine 70s. —s. —s. 60s. fine 695. —s. Its. fine —6. 20s. St. Poin -- (per Quarter).---- 40s. 445. fine —s. 48a. Rye Grass - —s. —s. new 265. 30s. Pacey Ditto _ 40s. 565. new .-4. .s. Linseed, for feeding —s. 425. fine —6. 48s. Ditto, for crushing 4os. 4.35. —s. fine—s. Canary Seed, New. , —s. —s. 68s fine 78s. "itto Old --s. —s. —s. fine —B. White Mustard Seed—(per —B. Bs. 9s. fine..-e. Brown Ditto Turnip Seeds, Rounds Green and Red Ditto -6. —6. 18s. tine 20s. —e. —s. 18s. tine 21e. Fares, Old Ditto New, -8. 4s. fine ss. ed. —B. ss. fine 6s. Od. Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 221. Foreign 211. 234 PRICES OF HOPS.—Nov. 12. Kent Pockets, 71 Os. O. to W. Os. Sussex Ditto 61 10i. 71. Os. to 71. 156. Essex Ditto Ol. Os. 01. Os. to 01. Os. Farrell= Ditto, Fine O/. Os. 121. Os. to 141 Os. Seconds - O/. Os. 101 lOs to 111 11s. Kent 8ag5...,.,,., 7l. Cs. 01. Os to 91. 9s. Sussex Ditto w e - Ol. Os. 01. Os. to W. Os. Essex Ditto Old Duty laid at 139,0001. PRICE OF OIL. - Rape Oil, brown 6s. Refined 6 Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 12 nave Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY 11IARKET.—Nov. 10 Hay Od. to 755. Od. I 60s Od. to 951. Od. Od. to 30s. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—Nov. 12. Kidneys (York) . 01. Os. to 31. 10s. per ton. Scotch Reds Ol. Os. to 31. 10s. ditto. Marsh Champions 3l. 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto. Oximbles and Shaws --..—. 2/. 15s. to 3/. Os. ditto. PRICES OF LEATHER Per lb. lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 23 English Horse Hides.. 11 14 Ditto, Foreign 14 20 Spanish Ditto 14 19 Dressing Htdes 12 15 Per dozen. Ditto l4 161 Calf Skins.. SO to 4Clb. 14 18 Ditto, light —.......— Ditto 50 to 701 b. 16 24 Ctop Hides, light 12 139 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 19 24 Ditto 40 to 451 b. 121 151 Small Seals. Greenland 16 17 Ditto l4 169 Large 12 15 RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. el. to s.d. Per Stone. a. d. to s. d. tiest Heifers& Steers 9. 4 2 8 Ordinary 0 1 8 10 2 0 Market Calf 7 0 each, SHEEP SKINS. Best Polled 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Half-bred 5...,..... 2s. 9d. to 3s. 6 d. I Middling Polled 3 0 4 0 Downs---. 2 6 3 3 PRICE OF TALLOW town Tallow 465. 6d. Yellow 455. Od. White 455. 6d. Soap Ditto 44s. Od. Melted Stuff 365. Od. Ditto Rough •••••••••••••.•••• 21s. Od. ', SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 50ap...................... 69.5. Od• Mottled „,„....,—.... 70s. Od. White. 79.5. od. Graves ..•••••—..........—.• 16s. Od. Good Dregs ...........—.—. ss. Od. COAL MA : Per Ton. s. d. Garesfield l6 0 Holywell 19 6 Ord 's Redhugh 17 3 Pontop Windsor 17 0 St. Lawrence Main......,. 19 0 20 0 17 6 Walls End Boundary.... 18 6 Walls End Callerton 17 6 Walls End Gosforth....., 21 6 Walls End Hotspur...—. 20 0 Walls End Hilda 20 6 Ditto Killingworth .......... 20 9 Walls End Newbiggen 17 0 Ships arrived sin, KET.—Nov. 12. Per lon. d. oo 6 Walls End Nevionarch.—. , Walls End Riddell's '22 0 BellsP ATd r ile e t *-" ton 2 16 1 6 Walls 9 Walls End Lambton 22 9 W. E. Russell's Hetton..., 22 9 Walls End Tees 23 0 Barnsley New-, l7 6 Hartley 19 6 Howard'sNethertonMain 18 0 W. E. Preston Grange_ 16 h West Hartley Walls End Selby 17 0 ice last market-day, 0. BIRTHS. On the 11th inst. in Hamilton-place, the Countess Gower, of a son. On the Ilth inst. at Grosvenor-gate, Park-lane, the lady of J • Fairlie, Esq , of a daughter. On the 11th inst. the wife of B. G. Simpson, Esq. of UPPe r Seymour-street, Portman-square, of a daughter. 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