The Sun. — London, England, 1832-11-03 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF ME PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are pleased to find that the example of the inhabitants of the parish of St. Paul's, Co vent-garden is about to be followed in that of St. James, and that a committee has been ap pointed to re-value the parish, with a view to the placing of the houses of the nobility and gen• try on something like the same footing with that on which the houses of the middling classes are placed. A correspondent, W. T ., in endea vouring to trace the source of the inequality of assessments, has stumbled on another equally glaring partiality. The Act of Parliament lay ing down the rule for rating in the case of the assessed taxes, has reference to the rating for poor rates. If the aristocracy have withdrawn their houses from the assessed taxes, he concludes they have also withdrawn them from the poor rates, county rates, &c. This is a subject that must he looked into. It has been often remarked that London alone pays one half of the whole as sessed taxes of the country. This is only to be accounted for by the supposition that in the me tropolis the valuation approximates the rack-rent, whereas,elsewhere, the valuation is greatly below it. A gentleman who lately went to Dorsetshire for his health took a house there at a rent of 501. per annum. He found that it was rated to the assessed taxes at only 101. In any of the pa rishes in the metropolis or its neighbourhood, a house paying 50/. rent would have been rated at 40/. at least. When the Jury Bill for Scotland was first framed, the qualification for Special Jurors was the possessing of a house rated to the assessed taxes at 301. per annum. It so hap pened that, in one county, and that by no means one of the smallest in Scotland, there was not one person possessed of the qualification. The parish of Lewisham, in. Kent, of which the population in 1831 was 9,659, pays, according to a late Parliamentary Return, considerably more than the double of the assessed taxes paid by the great town of Paisley, in Scotland, with nearly 60,000 inhabitants. There can be no proportion between the wealth of Lewisham and Paisley. The annual value of real property in Lewisham, assessed to the property tax in 1815, was 27,0071., while that of Paisley at the same period was 75,1251. In short, there is a gene ral system of connivance throughout most parts of the country. The surveyors and assessors either dare not or will not do their duty. But they make amends for their indulgence to the Nobility and Gentry, by their excessive rigour in the metropolis and neighbourbood.—Mor, ing Chronicle. By the arrival of the steam-packet, which left Rotterdam on Wednesday last, we have not as yet been made acquainted with the final deci- sion of the Court of the Hague as to the reten tion or surrender of Antwerp—its retention by force, or its surrender without a struggle. The time for announcing this decision expired yes. terday (the 2d inst.), and therefore if that deci sion conveys an assent to the proposition of England and France, it cannot be long delayed. The steam-boat which carried over the last de spatches from the British Government to Hol land remained at Helvoetsluys for the answer. The Dutch Government had received on Sunday night a copy of the convention ratified in Lot►- don this day se'nnight, and had employed Mon day and Tuesday in deliberating on the conduct which it ought to pursue in the new circum stances in which it was placed. The result of these deliberations cannot be delayed for more than a day or two. In the mean time public alarm, as usually happens, has outrun diplomatic decision, and inferences have been drawn from se veral unimportant circumstances which their nature and direct bearing by no means warrant. The steam-boat,owned by Dutchmen (the Batavier), has not ret urned in its regular turn. What then ? May it hot be detained (as it often has been be fore) for the despatches ofthe Dutch Government ? But the mate and the stewardess, it is said, who are English, have left the Batavier, from an apprehension that an immediate declaration of war would prevent their return to England. Surely the apprehensions of these two persons are not decisive proof of Dutch hostilities. Again, we are informed that the British Consul had given warning to the Captains of English vessels in the Dutch waters to be ready to sail, and to the British merchants in the Dutch ports to be ready to move their establishments on the shortest notice. This was a prudent pre caution, which the Consul, in his official capa city, was bound to take on the probable con tingency of a rupture between the two coun tries, but does not prove that this functionary had any particular information en the designs of the Court of the Hague beyond that of other well-instructed individuals. We are not, of course, so absurd as to resist the proof of facts ; we merely say that these facts are not decisive. We might pass in review all other circumstances on which public anxiety has hung the certainty of approaching hostilities, and show that they implied no positive information ; but the task would be almost useless, as within the next two or three days, or probably before our next pub lication, all reasoning and conjecture must yield to official announcement on the subject. In de claring that as yet nothing certain is known on this side of the water, we beg to enter, by anticipation, our protest against being considered as sponsors for the good sense and reasonable resolves of his Dutch Majesty,or against the imputation of having given any voucher for his repentance at the last hour. If we were to infer the future conduct of the king of Holland from what we know to be his direct interest, or were to take as sincere the repeated pledges of his desire to make peace on reason able terms, we should not hesitate even now to say that he would yield to the summons of the two great Powers at present arrayed against him. But we are not prepared to deny that there are many indications of an opposite resolution, and we can easily allow that the stubborness which has hitherto braved the menaces may for a short time defy the arms of the two Powers which have united to bring his Dutch Majesty to better councils. At any rate, let us not be alarmed at the sinister auguries attempted to be drawn by an Evening Paper from the conduct of the other three Powers of the Conference which have de clined to become parties to our mode of enforc ing against him the execution of the treaty to w hi c h they had all agreed. We copy from that Paper what is called the dissent of the Russian Plenipotentiaries, which, in fact, states nothing, reveals nothing, and menaces nothing with which we were not previously acquainted. We never saw anything so ridiculously slight as this foun dation, or this scaffolding for a theory of a Eu ropean war. It is quite evident that after the five Powers had agreed to the treaty of the 15th of November, 1831,—after they had endea voured in vain, by repeated special missions to the Hague, to procure the assent of the King of Holland,—and after they had fruitlessly tried, by modifications in the articles, to bring him to treat with Belgium for an amicable arrangement,— nothing remained but to enforce theiraward, or to abandon tl►e result of their labours, amid the scorn and derision of the world, to the chances of a war which they had for two years been ne gotiating to prevent. In this situation of affairs, the three absolute Powers of the Con ference seemed inclined, from their peculiar con nexion with the Court of the Hague, to go no further than a pecuniary mulct to induce his Dutch Majesty to accept of their finished arbi tration ; while the Cabinets of France and Eng land, being nearer Holland, not havi►►g the same ties with the Dutch Court, and, moreover, be ing more deeply interested in the menaced hostilities between the conflicting parties in the Netherlands, resolved on more active and effec tive measures of coercion. Hence the conven tion of the 23d tilt. between the two latter Powers—a convention to which they alone are parties, and to which from. ace whole tenour of the latter negotiations in Downing-street, they did not, and could not, expect the active concur rence of the absolute Courts. From the moment that this convention was signed and ratified, the Conference of London was, of course, at an end, or virtually dissolved ; and nothing can be more natural than for the Russian Plenipoten tiaries to answer the communication of the docu ment by declaring that they henceforth with drew from all diplomatic meetings on the affairs of Belgium until they receive further instructions from their Court. It would be absurd, there fore, to consider the Russian note either as a protest or a menace : it is simply a concluding expression of that dissent from the proposed co ercive measures which had repeatedly been con signed to the protocols of the Conference during its active existence. All the warlike inferences which the Tory print, therefore, endeavours to deduce from it are mere moonshine. Nor is the Tory journalist more happy in attempting to convert it into au evidence that the mission of Lord Durham has been useless, or that our account of its beneficial effect has been exagge r►ted. We never expected, as a result of his Lordship's embassy, that the Emperor of Russia would be - induced formally to declare himself in favour of an attack on the father-in-law of his sister, even for the laudable object of promoting his ultimate security. It is enough, as we have stated, that his Imperial Majesty is convinced that a coercive measure is necessary, in which he is required to take no part, aid that though his Am bassadors in London may dissent from the Con ference, and wait for further instructions, lie is now too well informed on English opiniona, and the changes in the political condition of England,- to expect any assistance from the Tories in case of a rupture with the present councillors of the English Crown.— Times. There seems, unfortunately, to be a little doubt but that Ministers will soon be called upon to appoint the highest Common Law Functionary in the kingdom ; and perhaps the highest com pliment which can be paid to the present Chief Justice is the difficulty, not to say impossibility, of finding among those from whom the selec tion must he made any one at all approaching to what may be called an adequate successor. Though by no means servile admirers of Lord Tenterden, or therefore blind to his defects, we are free to confess that, in learning, in patience, and perspicuity, very few men have been, and fewer still, we apprehend, are, his equals. Had his Lordship only allowed his fame to rest upon his judicial character, without, to a certain de gree, marring his reputation by accepting a Peerage, and becoming a very meagre politician, his reputation would probably have stood higher with posterity than any Judge of the present or last century. The very same may be said of the person best qualified, i❑ the main ingredients, to succeed him ; but such has been the tortuous course, to call it no worse, of that person's political career, that we fear all re spect and confidence, where respect and confidence are most required, would be lost, if that persot were to succeed to an office which he in other re. spects is best qualified to fill. But it would he well, let whoever be the person, that, previously to his appointment, the Government would pause, and insist upon the previous adoption of regulations which would give the public some convenience in return for the expense which has been incurred in adding three new Judges to the three Law Courts of Westminster Hall. At present such is not at all the case. In the King's Bench especially, the arrear of causes is greater than ever, which need not be the case if one or more of the Puisne Judges were to assist in trying them simultaneously with the Chief Justice. If it be true that it is a question of fees which prevents this arrangement, the op portunity which is likely to occur ought not to be passed by without providing a remedy. The subject of the patronage and the abuses con nected with the King's Bench Prison ought also to be strictly and honestly inquired into, and re medied, before any new appointment of Chief Justice, or, through him, of a Marshal, is al lowed to take place. We hear a good deal of a traffic in human flesh, which, naturally enough, horrifies our better feelings ; but here is a traffic in human misfortune, not much less disgusting, and evidently of much readier cure. The time, we trust, is not far distant when much at least of the hateful system of arrest and imprisonment for debt, at least upon mesne pro cess, must and will be done away ; but, whe ther done away or not, the evils and abuses of our metropolitan debtor prisons ought at least to be put an end to. Let us not hear of vested interests either in the gaoler or the hangman, still less in their respective appointees. In the main, we cannot look without some apprehen sion at the probable consequences of Lord Ten terden's retirement. Though we abound in lawyers, it may be doubted, we fear, whether . _ any great mass of splendid talent exists. Above all others, constitutional lawyers are most scarce —such as are qualified to hold the balance justly between Crown and subject, who, regardless on the one hand of Ministerial favour and displea sure, or, on the other, of popular favour and reproach, can so fearlessly hold the scales ofjus tice as to sati,fy upon reflection all reasonable minds. This no man, whatever he his attain- ments, or even his endeavours, will do, who al- lows himself to be, in any common acceptation of the word, a politician.—Morning Herald. We rejoice that we have to add the borough of Cambridge to the list of places in which we shall probably witness the triumph of the Con servative cause at the approaching election. We had not anticipated this. We knew indeed that amo►►g many of the more respectable tradesmen of the town a strong desire had long existed to put forward a candidate less immediately con nected with a Whig Cabinet than the Ex- Member for Limerick, and less deeply dipped in the blunders of Whig philosophy, than Mr. George Pryme. lint the Conservative party desired something.. more in their representative than the qualifications of talent and Toryism. They desired that he should be personally known to his constituents, resident among them, acquainted with their interests, cognizant of their inclinations. In the endeavour to find such a man they lost much valuable time ; and in the mean time Mr. Spring Rice, a stranger and an Irishman, supported with marvellous incon• sistency by the very men who had quarrelled with Lord Graham because he was a stranger, and with Colonel Trench because he was an Irishman, came forward, and made a canvass, which certainly was sufficiently successful to alarm the friends of the constitutional cause. We were therefore by no means sanguine as to the result of Sir Edward Sugden's canvass. But we are happy to find that in this, as in many other instances, we hare been too ready to despair. We have looked over with attention the requisi tion by which Sir Edward was invited to come into the field. It contains such names as will convince any one who knows Cambridge that, whether he be first or last on the poll, Sir Edward will be supported by a great majority of those inhabitants w h o are b est qua lifi e d to exercise the elective franchise. We have made inquiries as to the reception which he has generally expe rienced; and we are gratified at learning that the sound sense of the constituency at large leads them to accept with a cordial welcome the selection of the requisitionists. We have said that time was lost by the Conservatives in look ing for a candidate who should represent fully not only the political opinions but the local in terests of his constituents. In this respect, un doubtedly, the adoption by the Conservatives of Sir Edward Sugden is not more fortunate than that of Mr. Spring Rice by the Levellers. But we think too much importance has been at tached in Cambridge, as in many other towns, to this qualification. The smaller boroughs, through the means of which men known for their abilities, their military exploits, or their professional skill, were sent to the Great Coun- cil, where we desired to aqsemble all our country had of great and wise and virtuous, these smaller boroughs have been blotted out from the book of the Constitution. Constitn. encies like that of Cambridge, having no - very extensive or peculiar local interests, will best dis charge their duty t o th e common wea l o f w hi c h they form a part by sending to Parliament men who may be qualified to advance the general good of the whole country by their independence of any close connection with the separate cir cumstances of a particular district. At all events, such constituencies may have their own private affairs sufficiently superintended by one Member; let them contribute the o.her to the general exigencies of the State. Cambridge will do much for Great Britain in giving to her Parlia ment the constitutional knowledge, the legal acquirements, and the honest integrity of Sir Edward Sudden. Cambridge will do enough for herself when she commits the welfare of Trumpington-street and Jesus-lane to the vigi lant guardianship of Mr. Professor Pryine.— Morning Post. MIDDLESEX SESSIO NS, Nov. 3. THOMAS BLOW, RESPONDENT, AND LEIVIS LEVY, APPELLANT. This appeal arose out of a decision of D. W. Gregorie, a Magistrate of Queen-square Police office, when Thomas Blow, one of his Majesty's coachmen, was summoned to answer the complaint of Mr. Levy, the toll-contractor, in consequence of his refusal to pay the toll demanded on a " break" and pair of horses belonging to his Majesty, and who pleaded in exemption that, by Act of Parlia ment, all horses and carriages the property of Roy alty were free from the payment of toll. The Ma gistrate was of a different opinion, and ordered Blow to pay the demand made upon him ; this he object ed to, and denied the jurisdiction of the Magistrate, but he was convicted in the full penalty of 51., and hence the appeal arose, which was argued last Ses sion, when, upon grounds hereafter stated, it was adjourned for further consideration. This day Mr. BODKIN, for the respondent, after referring to what passed before the late Chairman (Mr. Const), said, that it was contended on the other side that, by certain Acts of Parliament passed in the last two reigns, the Royal Family were ex empt, but another Act (alluding to their Majesties, the Mince of Wales, and other branches of the Royal Family) had since passed, commonly called the Local Act, upon which another co►►struction had been put, and which stated no exemption. The CHAIRMAN thought that that Act had never found its way into a public Statute. Mr. BODKIN then proceeded to call his witnesses. John Coulson was formerly lessee or collector of the West-end tolls, of which the Queen's Elms gate was one. He was so under the Act 7th of George 111. During the continuance of that Act, which had been repealed, the members of the Royal Family were liable to pay toll on a Sunday. On working days the Royal Family did not pay, if pi e sent in person; but if their carriages passed with out them they paid. Witness had demanded and taken the toll himself a hundred times. The King's eight cream-coloured state horses were never exempted when out for exercise; but the toll was always paid without dispute. He did not feel him self quite satisfied as a trustee, hence he took an opinion upon it five years ago when his lease ex pired, and before he renewed it. Amongst others he consulted Mr. Const, the late Chairman, and Mr. Alley. Mr. ALLEY—Me! Oh, yes 1 very likely; you may have an opinion upon any thing. CHAIRMAN—WouId you shut the gate against the King ? Witness—Yes; I should for the Sun day toll. CEIAIR3IAN—What is your reason for making that distinction ?—Because 1 consider I had power to demand toll on Sundays from the Royal Family, but not on the week day. Daniel B:ites examined—Witness was formerly collector of tolls on the Kensington trust, and com menced twenty years ago, and had taken toll from King George 111. at Ball's Pond-gate, when in company with General Garth and the servant in Royal livery, but he bad never done so at the gate at Hyde Park. Had taken toll regularly for the King's horses when the Royal Family were not with them. Mr. C. PIIILLIPS—Pray, Sir, did you take op!. nions too ? Witness--No, I took. money. Joseph Haines—Was collector at Hyde Park gate from 1814 to 1822, and had taken toll fre quently for the Royal carriages which passed through it. On some occasions on account of his late Majesty's carriage whenßegent, but not when he was in it. When the Royal Household removed back wards and forwards from Windsor, he had taken toil for 10 carriages a day. The CHAIRMAN (Mr. Marriott) said that the Ma gistrates were all of opinion that the conviction ought to he splashed. Mr. Gregorie's conviction was accordingly an nulled, and the right of his Majesty's servants to pass with his horses and vehicles, toll.free, established. The first part of Mr. BURKE'S long expected and very desirable work, " The Hist or y o f t h e English Gentry," a companion to his " Peerage," and " Baronet age," has at length appeared. Among the numerous dis• tinguished families, of whom accounts are given, we ob serve those of the Champion DYMOKE, COKE of Norfolk, BERKELEY PORTMAN of Brianston, PLUMER, WARD, MUNDY of Markeaton, FITZIIERBERT of S w i nnerton, FLOOD of Flood Hall, WYNDHAM. of Dinton, Vav Asoua of Weston, MOURRAY of Cociirrne, SHIRLEY of Eating ton, LoFrus of Kilbride, DARELL Of C3lOllll, WHARTCN MIDDLETON of Old Park, & &c. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A gentleman appeared before Alderman WILSON, who sat on Thursday for the Lord Mayor, and re quF to know whether a summons could be granted against the proprietors of the Leith and Glasgow wharf, for having unnecessarily delayed the delivery of parcels coming by their steam-vessels. Alderman AVILsoN said, that although there was a law which obliged the proprietors of coach offices to deliver their parcels within a certain time after they arrive, yet it did not apply to vessels corning by sea, and he could, therefore, afford no redress. Alderman Copeland appeared before the Alder man, to complain of a letter which he had received from Ady, in consequence of the notice that had been taken by the public Press of the impudence and presumption of that person in mentioning " Alderman Copeland," as a referee, in the letter directed to Thompson, the pour black man at St. Kitt's. Adv's letter to Alderman Copeland was received by the Alderman at Layton, in Essex, and was as follows : " OCT. 23. " A letter for George Thompson, Esq., at Kitts, has fell into the hands of a poor man remarkably stupid, who came over as steward, and showing his black fice to Ady, was pronounced the wrong man. Well, what then ? Why Alderman Copeland, or some other person has shown him up at the Mansion-house. Now, Mr. Copeland, I have, for some months, left off printing your name for fear your election to Parliament might be injured thereby. But if I can bring home to you such a foolish exhibition, you shall repent it. " J. ADY." " It is the undoubted right of every British subject to employ his capital and exertions in any manner he thinks proper, not contrary to the laws of his country."—Judge Vaughan. Alderman WILSON had consulted the city solicitor as well as his own upon the subject, and he much regretted that they could not point out to him any mode of proceeding, by which a person who was constantly doing so much mischief could be punished. By means of the public press several persons to whom Ady had subsequently written, inviting them to give him money " to hear something to their ad vantage," were cautioned against venturing to con sult such an oracle, and escaped any more expense than the postage of the letters. The black man who had the simplicity to come over to England from . St. Kitt's was present, and stated that he had got a berth through the kindness of Mr. Pixie, and hoped to set sail the next day. Amelia Pearks, a poor woman chargeable to the parish of Whitechapel, summoned the officers of Bishopsgate some days ago, for having refused to pass her regularly to her own parish. The case, which was subsequently investigated, presented the conduct of the Magistrates who administer justice blended with mercy, at Lambeth-street Office, in rather an extraordinary light. The paupe' said that her husband had lately ceased to give her an allowance of 3s. a week, and being in an utterly destitute condition, she had ap plied to the Magistrates at Lambeth -street, for a summons to the parish officers. Their Worships, however, had positively refused to interfere, as they considered the overseers the best judges in such cases, and left every thing of the kind to their de cision. In this extremity, and having been refused assistance of any kind, she had gone to the parish of Bishopsgate,where she had previously been treated with humanity, and had been compelled to bring the matter before the city authorities, to save her self from the absolute starvation to which her own parish consigned her. One of the officers of Bishopsgate, a man greatly respected for his humanity, had three weeks before passed the pauper to her parish, but she soon re turned, and declared that the overseers had gi .-en her 6d. and refused her a farthing more,and told her to go away. The parish of Bishopsgate relieved her, but could not repass her to Whitechapel, as it was against the law to do so, so that the unfortunate woman was in a most desperate condition. The LORD MAYOR, who presided when the first complaint was made, asked whether it was pos sible that the Magistrates of Lambeth-street left the poor so completely at the mercy of the parish officers ? The Bishopsgate officer said it was the general cry of the paupers of Whitechapel, that the Magistrates totally abandoned them to the overseers. The LORD MAYOR -- I declare that the accusa- tion is quite incredible. If the Magistrates refused to listen to the poor, the poor had no appeal, and must, in many instances, perish. I have heard reports of the kind; but never supposed the thing possible; and I hope the matter may reach the ears of the Magistrates, im order that they may publicly deny the imputation, and remove any wrong impression which may have gone abroad. The Bishopsgate officer said that the pauper begged that, instead of being sent back to White chapel parish, she might be sent, together with her child, to prison. The pauper—Yes, I'd thank you to send me to prison, for my child is starving. The LORD MAYOR gave the poor woman some relief, and sent an officer with her to the overseers of Whitechapel; but•no attention was paid to the message. The further investigation took place before Alder man WILS9N. Mr. Smart, the vestry-clerk of Bishopsgate, at tended, and stated, that the pretext upon which the overseers of Whitechapel refused to assist the pauper was, that her husband was able to support her, and that they could not get anything from him. Mr. Hobler observed, that this was another of the innumerable evidences of the defective state of the poor laws. This poor woman was resolutely cast off from a parish, which did not at all deny her claim upon it, and must have perished but for the humanity of the neighbouring parish-officers. The Bishopsgate officers then told the Alderman that they would take care of the pauper until the Magistrates should be again applied to; and The ALDERMAN hoped that the case would, by some means, meet the eye of the Secretary of State. MARLBORO U GH- STREET. this waS FURIOUS DRIVING.—Henry Man n , d r i ver o f 216 Paddington omnibus, was fined 255. for ga ll op i ng lr o, by Henryngoxfod-street. The offence clearly provGoddard,an en officer c of e establishment, who saw the defendant apparently racing with an opposition omnibus. John Combs, the driver of the other omnibus was likewise fined 255. for the same offence. The pro prietor of the latter vehicle attributed the speed at which they were going to the nature of his horses, using the expression to the Magistrate of by while attempting to show the difficulty of restraining them. Mr. CONANT immediately fined him two shillings for swearing. WORSHIP-STREET. George Lambert, a young man in the employ of Mr. Underwood, a butcher, in Featherstone -street, St. Luke's, was charged before Mr. TWYFORD with having robbed his master of sums of money to a considerable amount. The prisoner, at the request of the prosecutor, was remanded for further examination. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday and during the week several women, some with infants in their arms, and others far ad vanced in pregnancy, and the greater portion with two, three, or four children, have applied to the Magistrates for orders for their admission into the workhouse, or to compel the overseers to support them, in consequence of their husbands having de serted them to join Dan Pedro's expedition, and l e ft England without leaving them any thing for Their maintenance. One young woman who was enciente, and appeared overwhelmed with grief, said she had only been married five months, arid her husband had induced her to leave Warwick, her native place, and come to London, where he had not been many days before he enlisted in the service of D on Pedro, and was by this time at Oporto. She was relieved by the parish authorities, arid re• moved to her native place. Other applicants said their husbands had gone out in the Lord Wellington to join the fleet of Admiral Sartorius. The MAGISTRATES said the women and their fa milies must he relieved and taken into the work house, or passed to their legal settlement. The overseers complained that they can find no means to attach the wages of Din Pedro's sailors in the manner adopted by them according to law when a seaman in the English merchant service leaves his wife and family chargeable to a parish. The burden thrown on the poor -rates is, in many cages, very heavy. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Joseph Wingate, a coachman in her Majesty's service, attended upon a summons to an swer the complaint of Mr. Everett, one of the lessees of the Surrey arid Sussex roads, for passing through the Vauxhall turnpike -gate, and refusing to pay toll for four horses, which he was driving. The Magistrate inflicted a tine of 31. and costs, on the defendant. BANKRUPTCY OF MR. MASON, LATE PROPRIETOR OF THE KING'S THEATRE. In the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday, some of the creditors of Mr. Thomas Monk Mason, late proprietor of the King's Theatre, whose declaration of insolvency appeared last week in the Gazette, attended to make the necessary affidavits of debt, acid to furnish evidence of Mr. ALson having been a trader, in order that a commission of bankruptcy might be issued against him. Mr. Goldney, mercer, of Regent -street, proved that Mr. Monk Mason was indebted to him 9001. Mr. Chappell, the music publisher, of Bond-street, to prove that Mr. Mason was a trader, stated that he had published for Mr. Mason the music and translation of " Robert Le Diable ;" Mr. Mason paid the expenses of printing, and derived profit from the sale. He believed Mr. Mason had profited to the amount of 1501. from the sale of the musk, and about 5001. from the translation. Mr. Marsh, a bookseller in Oxford -street, proved that Mr. Mason had sent him three copies of the translation, which he desired him to sell for him. Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS held this evidence sufficient as to the trading. Mr. Mason then appeared, and surrendered him self. He said he should require some weeks to prepare his accounts, in consequence of the absence of Mr. Seguin, the box-keeper, who was at Paris. Mr. Commissioner WILLIAms inquired if any sums were due for the hire of boxes ? Mr. Mason answered, that several persons fre quently paid for their boxes nightly, but others would only pay their accounts at particular periods, aod would probably feel highly offended if an appli cation were made before that time. Mr. Commissioner WILLIAMS said that every courtesy and attention should be paid to them, but they must remember that the Court of Bankruptcy could exercise a power over them that they did not expect. The parties then retired. PRESENT STA FE OF ANTWERP. A correspondent, who recently returned from Antwerp, gives us the following account of the present state of that city, which may be read with interest at this period. Besit'es the cit die! of Antwerp the Dutch have in their possession Burgarclt, which is on the left bank of the Scheldt. This place, it is known, was strongly fortified by CA RNOT, when Governor under NAPOLEON, and commands An twerp on the land side. On the right bank tl.ey possess Fort Label, the Tete de Flandres, and also the banks of the liver ❑early up to 13111garch, behind which extent of banks they have by opening the dykes, completely inun dated the country for miles. It must strike every casual observer that Antwerp could not long withstand the Dutch forces,—Fort Isabel commanding the grand and lesser basins, while the banks between the fort and the Tete de Flandres command the whole line of quays from the basins to the spot where the ruins of the entrepot con nect the city with the citadel. The river is now lined with Dutch gun-boats, 16 of which, ranged in tiers, stand from below the 'fete de Flandres, for the double purpose of keeping up a communication I with the citadel, and of being in readiness to drop down with tile tide to any part of the river where they may be required. In opposition to this hostile array, the 13,1gians possess the city, the stronger part of which, lying rather to the left of the citadel, must prove of little service in defending the town, exposed as it is un the side of the river, anti next the citadel. The Belgians however, have not been idle dating the progress of time discussions of the Conference. In every street of Antwerp which leads, however remotely, in the direction of the citadel or the river, a strong barricade of earth has been thrown up, fortified externally by stout palisades ranged en chevaux de frieze. Behind, some of the larger cannon are planted, and many of the principal streets are thus rendered impassable. Along the quays the Belgians have erected ramparts of earth, and planted guns. In that direction the streets are totally impassable. The beauti ful tower of the Cathedral is transformed into a military post for sign Ils, and many of the valuables connected with the church have been removed. Ti e two celebrated pic tures, by Ru BE N s, are covered with a thick planking extend. ing several feet forwards. The troops mount guard every day fully equipped for immediate action, and, in short, ry thing wears such a warlike aspect, that whatever may be the result, it is clear both parties are prepared for a hostile on?. —Morning Paper. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) Sucau —The demand for Museovades commenced with great briskness on Tuesday last, and the prices again advanced I s., brown Sugars being sold at 521. ; the fine has risen more in proportion than the brown. The de mand has since been rather dull; the advance in the prices fully maintained ; the estimated purchases fur the week are 2,800 hhds. and trs. In the Refined Market there has been much firmness. This afternoon, owing to the advance in the Raw Sugar Market, many of the Refiners have withdrawn their goods for the present. The Ship pers offer 601. 6d. for ordinary large lumps, and 61s. 6d. for good large, at which prices nothing ca❑ be obtained ; some ordinary large have been taken by our melters at 615., and good small from 635. to 645., being rather dearer for the latter. Fine crashed, entitled to the double refined bounty, is still to be had at 305., and, although the price is allowed to be very low, there are but few buyers ; the brownest British Plantation Muscovades Su gar cannot be put on board under 275. EAST INDIA SUGARS.-There continues to be very little demand for this article, and 359 canisters 868 bags brought to public sale on Wednesday, went off about Is. cheaper than at preceding sales. Java, in canisters, sold as follows :—Low heavy to good dry white from 20s. a 255., damaged ditto 17s. and 21s. 6d. ; Siam, in bags, mid. and good dry brown sold from 19s. and 205., low soft to fine white 21s. and 248.6 d., damaged ditto 185.6 d. and 21s. 6d. MAURITIUS SUGARS.—We are still without arrivals of any magnitude; the public sales have, therefore, only con sisted of 4,226 bags, two-thirds of which were generally of soft quality ; prices, however, are about Is. a Is. 64., higher, browns selling at 50s. 6d. a 515., low yellow 51s. a 51s. 6d., mid. yellow 525. 64., good to fine ditto 535. a 55., good grey 525. a 525. 6d. 3,366 bags have been landed here since the 25th ult. FOREIGN SUGARS.—The reduction that bag been sub mitted to at the la►t public sales of Brazil has caused more inquiry for this article. A public sale, which had b,en advertised for Wednesday, of 354 chests and 50 barrels Pernambuco Sugar, has been withdrawn, and it is said the whole hts been sold by private contract: 709 boxes white, and 89 boxes yellow, H tvannah were brought to public auction this week; for the sound white of good middling colour and quality there were no buyers, and these were all bought in at 355. ; damaged white sold at former rates, from 255. 6d. a 275. 6d. ; sound yellow of middling to good colour sold from 225. a 245., damaged ditto 21s. a 225. 'Since last week there are no arrivals. COFFEE. ---The same stagnation still prevails in this article generally, and it is difficult to effect sales, even at the decline of la. which has taken place since this day week in Foreign and East India. The result of the late Dutch sales (of which only about one-third was sold), although not lower, is not sufficiently encouraging to buyers. Continued large sales are advertised here which retard the rally of confidence; and there being no orders from the other side unless at a further reduction, tlitse parcels are chiefly withdrawn. In British Plantation also there is but little inclination to make purchases, but the mid. and fine sorts are supported, while the ord. and un clean are rather lower. The quantity brought to public sale is as follows :-97 casks 31 bags of Jamaica, 600 bags of Havannah, 1,451 bags Brazil, 2,232 bags Ceylon ; and 747 kilts Mocha. Ord. and low line ord. Jamaica soli at 675. a 745., and low mid. at 791. 6d. ; the Brazil al withdrawn ; Ceylon good ord. sold at 61s a 51s. 6d., being also Is. lower; and the Mocha co►cmon and good quality brought 655. a 69 , . 6d. This day's public sal( 115 caAks 2,329 bsgs St. Domingo Coffee sold Is. a Is. tid. lower, good quality 525. 6,1. a 535. 111.131; BRANDY; AND HoLLANos —The late advance in Rum has checked the demand; the buyers will not give the advance, and the holders do not press sales in the pre. sent unsettled state of political aff.irs. Brandy and Ge neva are wits out alteration. Woot..—Tivo of the Wool Sales are over, and the other two take place this evening ; there is a large attendance of buyers from the country, and the prices paid have been an advance on former sales, with every appearance of a con tinuation of the same firmness to the end of the sales. SPICES. -About 10,000 bags of Pepper have been offered at public sale; about 8,000 bags, free from dust, sold id. a id. lower, say from 30. a 3d. ; dusty and inferior quality bought in 3d. About '7OO bags of Pi. mento have been lately offered and chiefly bought in ; a few lots good sd. a 541., ord. 41-d. a 444. Rice.—The late sales are good, white dusty Bengal, 15s. 6,1. a 17s. 6d. ; Java, chiefly in husks, taken in at 12s. ; good bold white African, 255. SALTPETRE.—The prices are steady ; rough 355. 6d. and 365. This day by public sale 1,639 bags South American Saltpetre, or Nitrate of Soda, in bond, most sold 275. 6d. to 25,,. TEA. —The market continues firm ; Bohcas are worth 3s. I q-d. a 4s. (lid. per lb., duty paid, and Cougous ahout 4d. per lb. advance on sale's cost ; in Orange he. koes not quite so much doing. INDIGO. —The Indigo Market continues languid. COTTON.—There are few purchases of Cotton to re port; the market is heavy. This day's public sale 200 bales East India Cotton, in bond, good fair Surats 54d. to sad., all sold, about id. lower than the highest price. RICE F SUGAR. The Average Price P of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the week ending the o.li day of Oct., 1832, is 275, 6id. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain. Kent FRICES OF HOPS..—Nov. 2. PM".•••••••••••••••••w/A• 7/ Os. St. O. 01 10:. 71. Os. 01. as. 01. Os. F arch= Ditto, Pine, , 0/. Os. 12/. 03. Seconds .....-- 0/. Os. 101. 103 ....... 71. Cs. 01. , Os 0/. Os. 0/. Os. 01. Os 01. Os. Old Duty laid at 130,0004 t;vssex Di' Weerx Di' to 101. 05. to 71. 128. to 0/. Os. ,to IQ Os. to 111 lls. to 91. 91. to IV. Os. to 0/, Os. (tent La; Essex Ditto PRICE of. OIL. Ripe Oil, brown Refined .130 6 Linseed Oil 12 0 5 5 linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand nape Cake, per ton WHITECHAPEL HAY ilAttftlll.—Nov. 1 Hay --..... 55i. Od. to SOS. Od. Clover.-- 60s Od. to 1051. Od. 24s Od. to 30.. OF roTATOES.—Nov. 2. Kidneys (York) 01. Os. to 3L 10s, per ton. Scotch Reds . 3/. Os. to 31. 10s. ditto, Marsh Champions 3/. 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws . 3/. O. to 3l. ss. ditto. ritlt;r.b ur Per lb. Butts, English 15 Ditto, Foreign...—.... 14 20 Dressing 12 15 Ditto j4 16 Ditto, light etop Hides, light— 12 13 Ditto 40 to 451 b 14 15t Ditto ll 163 LI , A I HER, Per lb. d. to d. English Horse Hides.. 11 14 Spanish Ditto , .14 19 Per dozen. Calf Skins., 30 to 411 b. 14 18 Ditto 50 to 7111 b. 16 24 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 19 24 Small Seals. Greenland 16 17 Large ditto l2 15 ttA W HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. 8. d. to thd. ;est Heifers & Stuers2 4 '2 8 Ordinary 0 0 1 8 111(1.11i ogg---..-1 10 2 0 blanket Cal 7 Ouch. SHEEP SKINS. Short Wool Os. Ocl. to Os. Od. I Lambs Is. Gd. to 2s. ed. Shear 0,1. to Is. Gown 'fallow Yellow Russia NI) i te OF TALLOW, .......,...... 465. 6d. ...-- 455. Od. —...--,. 455. till. ............. 445. Od. —....—... 365. Od. —21 s. Od. Soap Ditto— Melted Stuff. Ditto Rough. , SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Yellow 02s. Od. Mottled 70s. Oct. White Od. Graves Od. Good Dregs ss. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, ptrstoneolBlb. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Metiers) ---2 s. 7d, (ANKLES. .he retail shops, is as follows :- 1 Moulds, per duzen-N. R KET.—Nov. 2. Per 'Pori. s. d.: Walls End Newinarch...... 20 3 Ditto Perkins and C0...* 19 6 Walls End Riddell's —,. 21 0 Walls End Hetton ........-... 22 2 Walls End Lyons —.—...., 20 6 Walls End lambton ...........2 3 Walls End Stewart',........ 22 6 Walls End Adelaide —. 20 9 W. E South Durham....,2o 6 Walls End Tees --... 22 3 Hartley ...---.—...—.. 19 0 Howard'sNethertonMain 16 6 Methley --...—....-- 16 ii W. E. Preston Grange.. 16 0 Walls End Selby . _ 16 0 Drewes Welch, damaged (small) —.—. 15 0 :e last market-day, 4 ETS DURING THE WEEK. Barley. ! Oats. Beans. 60 66 1 24 27 36 40 40 58 24 al 17 23 30 43 40 50 28 36 22 28 35 46 54 70 26 29 22 26 42 44 51 60 36 38 16 20 34 40 52 66 18 28 36 42 58 62 38 42 20 24 40 42 48 60 28 45 jl6 24 40 .14 52 58 32 30 22 22 40 44 56 GO 32 38 16 2') 40 44 55 27 40 16 22 32 42 40 59 24 31 19 2i) 34 40 63 39 23 3 7 49 60 23 34 17 32 28 44 56 62 30 as 23 27 53 56 37 27 44 52 60 30 36 22 26 35 4 0 52 60 30 36 ,22 '26 35 40 58 72 -- 35 20 34 48 57 21 34 '2O 2,1 30 5.2 54 58 32 36 20 22 32 3S s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s . 6 . s . d 86 93 50 59' 5 0 56 0 0 00 ( OF HUMAN SKELETONS.---' PRICE Of. The price of Store Candles, in t 7anc lies. per doz. 7s. lid. to Bs. nd C ,AL MA Per Ton. Bc.ailinont Bensham Main riolywell 18 t ; l'ontop Windsor 17 3 Fowl)ley l7 0 West Hartley 18 Willington 20 9 Wylam 20 9 Wall- En , tallerion 17 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 21 6 Ditto 17 6 Wall= End Gostorth.«..... 21 0 Walls End Heaton—. 21 3 Walls End Hotspur...— 31 3 Walls End Hilda 19 3 Ditto Killingworth Ditto Northumlierland . 19 0 , Ships arrived sins COUNFRY CORN MARK Wheat. Per Quarter. Ashburn Basingstoke Bath Bridgewater -.. 8ri5t01,.,,.,. Chesterfield Derby Doncaster ................. D0rche5ter..,,.,,.,,.,, Exater.—..........„.......... Hungerford !%:ewbury--. liernsey ••••••.. Shaftesbury Shcpton Mallet Slierborne—. l'aunton ......—...... Yarmouth ....,,,,,,...... t eovil ----., Per Bushel. Shrewsbury ........ DISCOVERY OF The workmen employed at the stone quarry situated on Clark's-hilt, near Bowood-house (the residence of the Mar quis of LANSDOWNE), have, in the course of the last two years, disinterred no less than five human skeletons. The first was discovered in 1829, three more during the sum mer of the present year, and the last a few days since. They all lay in the space of about 10 square yards; four within two feet of, and one just underneath, the surface. Their burial seems to have ranked among the 't tumultuarY burials of the slain," inasmuch as each body appears to have been crumpled up, as it were, more or less, in its grave, and the last (the skeleton of a full-grown men) re clined within the compass of a yard, the thigh bones being bent one over the other. A great quantity of pottery has been exhumed near the spot, of a coarse manufacture, and dirk blue cidour ; also one of those coins called by the Wiltshire peasantry " monks," now in the possession of the Marchioness of LANSDOWNE, who, accompanied by her noble husband, and Lady LoursA FIUJIAURICE, vi sited the quarry soon after one of the above-mentioned dis interments had taken place. Mr. OGILVIE, a surgeon of Caine, who was also present', is of opinion that one of the skeletons is a female's. No light is thrown, either by his tory or tiadition, on the probable cause or date of these in terments ; the mysterious discovery has therefore excited no small degree of wonder amongst the surrounding rustic circles, the deed of the t.eles,tho v s feel vengeancequite e c o o ia i fi a d d en h t that av n have wrought cause than t er death, and no other hand than his consigned the wretehel victims to this their lone and unhallowed grave ! Devizes Gazette. BIRTHS, On the 30th ult. at Bicester House, the Viscountess Chet wynd, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. at the Manor-house at Swanbourne, Bucks, the lady of Matthew Knapp, Esq., of a son and heir. On the 3:st of May, at Sydney, New South Wales, the lady of Captain Wea son. stmacott, Aide.de-Camp to his E xcellency Genera l Bo On the Ist inst. the lady of K. S. Webb, of Milford-house, in the county of Surrey, Esq,, of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist ult. at the Palace, Valetta, Robert Anstruther, 1 ;r1: of Thirdpart, Fife, Major in the 73d ltegiment, to youngest daughter of Sir Howard Elphinstone, Bart., of Om place, Sussex, Colonel in the Corps of Royal Engineers. . At Farlington, Sussex, J o h n Seeker, Esq., of Windsor and St Katharine's, Regent-park, to Sarah, only daughter of John po well, Esq., of Drayton, in the county of Southampton. On the Ist inst. at E ng l efleld DlED. green, Mr. Robert Stone, of pai l. ton•street, Haymarket, in the 70th year of his age. On the '27th ult. on his way to . Corfu, in the 51st year of h is age, the Rev. George W innock,•Chaplain to the Forces. On the Ist inst. in Great Pulteney-street, Frances Eleanor, the wife of Mr. Edmund Chambers. On the '26th ult. at Milton, near Gravesend, after a 10tig,.., 0 . painfnl illness, Sa ra h , third daughter of the late Natha w niel 3 ' reh; Esq., M.P., of Nielstown.house, near Dublin. . On the 31st ult. after a few hours' illness, in Bassell.row, ton, and formerly of Craven-street, Strand, John Smith, Esq., ' the 73d year of his age. On the 29th of September, at Oporto, while bravely defending his post, Lieutenant James Charles Burton, eldest son of Burton, of Queen-square, Bloomsbury, in the 22d year of his aft On the 3Uth ult, at Lower Harrowgate, Hannah Dove, the wife of Captain Richard Warner. On the Ist inst. at Camberwell, Mr. James Palmer, of Woo street, Cheapside, builder, of an inflammatory disorder, after at: illness of four d ays. B y hi s d ea th a vacancy occurs in the rept % sentation of the Ward of Crippl ega t e i n t h e C ourt of Cortut to Council, which ward he had represented for many years. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT 1 0 ° SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. 17 3 17 6