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In addition to the customary Reviews, Reports, Fine Arts, Theatres, &e. it contains—Original Papers and Poems by Allan Cunningham James Everett J. Hamilton Rey. T. Carlyle Thos. Hood nolds Rev. Hobart Caunter 'l'. K. Hervey Leitch Ritchie The Author of the Miss Jcwsbury The late W. Roscoe Corn Law Rhymes J. Thos. Roscoe Charles Dance W. J. TheEttrick Shepherd Tqe Author of the Charles Lamb Rev. H. Stebbing Dorninies Legacy The Author ofTaylor Edw. Herbert, (ofthe don in the Olden J. Mackay Wilson Old London Mag.) Time &c. &c. &c. Ete Z. '` LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 7, 1832. CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT, COUNCIL OFFICE.—(THIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES, SUNDERLAND, JAN. 5, 1832. Remained at last report 1 New eases 1 Total Died fl Retoreted 0 0 Remaining at this date, S o'clock A.)l ° Vico] the C•innieneement of the Disease, on Oct. 1831. Cases, 532.—Died, 200. NEWCASTLE, JAR. 5. Remained at last report New oases 120 10 Died Total. 110 Recovered 5 Remaining at this date, 8 o'clock A.M 120 From the Commencement of the Disease, on Dec. 7, 1831. Cases, 52.1.—Died, 161. G ATESHEAD, JAN. 5. Remained at last report 98 New cases l5 Died 9 Recovered Remaining at this date From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 325.—Died, 102. NORTH SHIELDS AND TYNEMOUTH, JAN. 5. Remained at last repo r t 9 New cases 4 Died 1 Recovered 2 Remaining at this date lO From the Commencement of the Disease. Cases, 37.—Died, 17. HOUGHTON-LE -SPRING AND PENSHER, JAN. 5. Remained at last report New cases Died lO Recovered Remained at this date 1 10 From the Commen cemen t o f t h e Disease. Cases, 50.—Died, 22. WALLSEND, JAN. 3. New cases Other particulars n o t s t a t e d . 3 WALKER COLLIERY, Jag. 3. Remained at last report New cages Died Recovered Remaining at this date JAN. 4.—No report received for this date. 5. Remaining at last report JAN. 3 New cases Died Recovered 0 Remaining at this date lIADDINGTON, N. 8., JAN. 4. Remained:at last report New case s Died 3 Recovered 0 Remaining at this d a t e 8 From the Com mencement of the Disease. Cases, 24.—Died, 7. Miffned) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. Earl GREY arrived in town this forenoon at twelve o'clock from the Pavilion at Brighton, and almost immediately after summonses were issued to all the Ministers in town to attend a Cabinet Council, at one o'clock. The sub ject of the creation of Peers is understood to b e the principal object for which the Council is summoned. We have heard it stated that about forty new Peers will be created —and that there will be four elevations to the Dukedom. The country may rest assured that Ministers will carry the Reform Bill through the Rouse of Lords with as much alacrity as possible. Even the Tories themselves begin to confess that as the Bill must be carried, the sooner the better—and they are right for once. The busi ness of the nation is at a stand-still till the Re form question is settled. It would appear by the German Papers re t ceived this morning that there is no necessity 1 for wa i t i ng t ill the 15th of this month for the 1 { ratification of the Belgian treaty by three of the ' Powers, parties to the mock protocols—for now it is boldly asserted that Russia will I not ratify !---that Austria will not ratify ! !....._ '. and that Prussia will not ratify !! ! No ! : thes e P owers have been all along playing upon France and England, till the appointed ° " t ime arriv e d, an d now, we wish all the parties ), i nterested—th e d upers and the duped, much joy of their labours ! From the first, we said, ' t hat Holland was a mere cat's-paw in the ' hands of the Continental Despots, and now , behold how well their machinations have worked. 1 We do not say that if these Powers had acted 1 r u p honest% to thei r p ro f ess i ons, t h e treaty would ) not now have been ratified. But honesty 1. the t ouch -ston e of private life—is a bug bear • In diplomacy, and seldom respected but 0 wh en it serves the 0 cris Y• purpose o f am bi t i on or hypo f, and And w h y have Russia, Austria, Prussia, And why 4so long ? Holland and p ro t este d so o f ten and it tion of unhappy Merely to ga i n t i me t h at t h e revolu and unfriended Poland might i I I -- be suppressed. Poland has been sacrificed by France and England to propitiate the Iloly Alliance—and now comes their bitter re ward ! Insult is superadded to treachery, and the boasted discipline of recruited armies, pointed at in answer to scorned remonstrance That the Tories have been at the bottom of all this we know, for the boroughmougers would sacrifice England rather than pass the Reform Bill. During the reign of protocols in London, our liberal but over-trusting Government had Tory representatives at the Courts of our secret foes. At St. Petersburgh, England was represented by an Ambassador who had the singular fortune of having wit nessed the death or strangulation of free Con stitutions in every country in Europe where the people had attempted to establish their inde pendence—himself the representative of a free people! In Vienna—there was the brother of the very Minister who yielded office to his political rival, watching with Prince METTERNICH over the subjugation of Italy, and the Censor ship of the Press in Germany ! In Berlin too —and Holland—but why should we enumerate —the Tories were so well-versed in Continental politics that they considered themselves to have as good a right to monopoly abroad as at home, and the misfortune is, that our unsuspecting Mi nistry thought so too. Since the days of Mr. CANNING the foreign policy of England has retrograded in firmness of purpose and prompti tude of action. We have hesitated where we should have been resolute—temporized where we should have commanded, and lost by tameness or endurance what might have been accomplished by straightforward energy of purpose—asserting our undoubted right and displaying a readiness to vindicate that right. And what is now the consequence of England's condescension ? Th e thanks of her mock Allies that she has ministered to their manoeuvres !—that her acquiescence has left them now nothing to wish for but the suppres sion of the Freedom of the Press in England, as it is on the Continent—together with the re establishment of the BOURBONS on the throne of France—and then the Revolution of July will be only like that of Poland, matter of history. BERLIN, DEC. 24:—(From a letter.)—Since the re turn of Prince Albert from the Netherlands, and of Prince William from the Rhenish provinces, our Court has been very lively. It is said that the latter will return to Co logne, as Governor-General, in the spring, if his pre sence there should should not be required earlier; for since it appears that Austria and Russia have rejected the twenty-four articles of the Conference, the peace of Europe seems to be again in danger. Prussia, how ever, is the first State which has made a beginning with the disarming, so often recommended by the present French Ministry, all the corps of marine having been dis banded, and the army placed on the peace establishment. Btcamx, DEC. 28.—1 t is more and more confidently reported that not only Russia and Austria, but Prussia also, will not ratify the treaty with Belgium. The Cabinet or der of the 17th instant for the re -commencement of the levy of recruits in its whole force and rigour is supposed to be connected with this circumstance. Privy Counsellor Count Alvenaliben is going on a mis sion to Vienna, which is supposed to allude to the republic of Cracow. KAISERSLAUTEN, DEC. 29.--M. Wirth finds ob stacles in the publication of the Tribune. A printer of this town =not even obtain permission to remove his office to Hamburg for that purpose : the Magistrates of that place are said to Lave received the most positive in junctions not to suffer the Tribune to be printed at Ham burg. It is, however, confidently affirmed, that the Tribune will certainly appear in the new year. FRANKFORT, DEC. 30. —The Chambers of Bavaria, in their Session this year, have procured the country a reduction of the taxes to the amount of 2,350,047 florins annually. As out of the sums granted 342,000 florins more than usual are be employed in improvements in the Department of Justice and Public Instruction, there is a real saving of 2,700,000 florins. ROME, DEC. 17.-Yesterday a remarkable proclama tion was posted up at the corner of the streets of this capital. It begins with great encomiums on the recent ordinances relative to the administration of Justice. Among the subjects of praise made use of is the re-introduction of the Italian languages, though this benefit is not extended to the two highest tribunals the Rota and the Signature. These ordinances, continue the proclamation, which are admired and commended by foreigners, were received and executed with appro bation by all the provinces, and Bologna itself, the centre of the opposition, manifested its satisfac tion. The new tribunals were installed there peaceably, and without any remonstrance. Meantime the new organization of the criminal courts was made known on the sth November, which was to be put in force on the Ist of January, 1832; and while this time was every where impatiently expected, and the new ordinances relative to the administration and the civil tribunals have been carried into effect, they pretend in Bologna that what had already been exe cuted in the other parts of the State was impracticable. The Pro-Legate was compelled to issue, on the 2d Dec., a notice, which exceeded his authority, by which he suspended the judicial areangements in the city and provinces of Bo logna, and restored the old system]. His Holiness cannot sanction by his silence such a violation of his sovereign authority; and notice is, therefore, given,—lst, That the notice of the 2d of December, signed by the Pro-Legate of Bologna, is declared null and void. 2d, All acts of tri bunals and Judges not constituted by the new ordinances, are also null and void ; and, 3d, Unless the new ordi nances are carried into execution at Bologna by the 21st instant, the Court of Appeal of the Four Legations shall be removed to Ferrara. On the 23d the Pro-Legate will appoint a President and six Judges of the new Court of Appeal, which will immediately enter on its functions. NVe have just received the Messager des Chambres, dated yesterday. It seems that a tumultuous debate took place on Thursday in the Chamber of Deputies, on the Civil List : PARIS, JAN. s.—The Opposition Journals felicitate themselves this morning at the scandalous scenes which took place at the latter part of the sitting yesterday, and regret they terminated so soon, and to the great disadvan tage of those who interrupted the discussions. This inci dental discussion terminated in the midst of a storm of personal explanations which fatigued the Chamber, and caused a great majority to vote for the Order of the Day. A Journal announces that after the issue of the sitting yesterday, a great number of Deputies of the Opposition proposed a protest against the expressions of the Minister of Instruction, which caused a lively rumour. This dis cussion was on the Civil List. The recent article in the North American Review on the progress of Reform in England, which is understood to be the production of Mr' EVERETT, the writer of the former article on Reform in Europe, contains among other pas , sages the following remarkable one applicable to Ireland If the Catholic population of Ire land shall in each and every respect be placed on a footing with their Protestant brethren, and every point of distinction be removed—and if Ireland be admitted to a share of the representa tion proportioned to her numbers, it may be re tained in its connection with England. If this is not done, it can only be kept by military pos session." As we have uniformly deprecated any such agitation either in England or Ireland, as may tend to impede the Reform Bill, we s h a ll not, we trust, be suspected of favouring the agitation in progiess, if we add a few remarks by way of commentary upon Mr. EVERETT'S text. It is hard to assign any valid reason for not giving to Ireland, by the new Bill, the additional Members that her population entitles her to ex pect. The addition of only five Members to the number limited at the Union, is not propor tionate either to the increase of people, of wealth, or of civilization, which Ireland has of late years attained. And the Bill exposes itself to the censure for want of principle inflicted upon it by the American writer, when it bestows upon Ireland only five-eighths of the new Mem bers it assigns to Scotland, where population is only about a fourth of that of Ireland. This ar rangement is certainly not very consistent with the Rule of Three plan laid down by Mr. EVERETT in his former article, as the only sound theory of representation ; wherein we are disposed to agree with him, dif fering only in so far as the Reform Billl l ought to be supported, not as the best in itself, but as the best measure for which there is, under present circumstances, a prospect of success. However, it is quite proper for the Irish Members, while they support the principle of the Bill, to use their efforts to obtain such an augmentation of Irish Members as may be rea sonably required in reference to the importance of Ireland as compared to Great Britain ; and we are inclined to think such efforts would, in all probability, be attended with success. In regard to placing Catholics on a level with Protestants, that can never be done whilst the Law Church is suffered to remain on its present footing. It is a mockery to talk of placing the two religions upon an equality, so long as the Catholic is obliged to contribute to both Churches, one of which he believes to be true, and the other false. The tithes must be com muted for a rent charge ; and it must then be considered whether the Protestant clergy have any just claim to maintenance out of that rent charge, beyond the lives of the present incum bents. Mr. O'CONNELL seems to intimate, that the Catholic clergy have no desire to be pro vided for as an establishment, but would prefer con tinuing to subsist upon the alms of the faithful ; and if this be really so, the only course seems to be, to prepare for the total extinguishment of any ecclesiastical payment beyond such as may provide for the existing generation of Protestant ministers. But how this is to be peacefully ac complished, against the struggle of the impla cable Orange faction, is a question full of care and difficulty, and enough to perplex even a Ministry of which Mr. O ' CONNELL should be a member. The situation of Ireland is not so dissimilar to that of Belgium before its Revolution, but that a lesson may be learnt from the events that have happened in the latter country. We have seen Belgium deprived of a due share of repre sentation—her national religion oppressed and discountenanced by a Protestant Government— her civil and military offices filled by others than natives—her welfare, in short, made, in all re spects, subordinate to that of her consort-nation to which she had been united without her own will being consulted ; we have seen the Bel gians persecuted by a series of annoyances, whose gravamen lay in the undue favour shewn to Holland in all things—and we have finally witnessed the result whereby Belgium has be come an independent State. It is to be feared that in many of these points the recapitulation of grievances would apply to Ireland almost totidem verbis,and it is therefore not wholly without sur prise that the Irish agitations may now be re marked. However much we may deprecate the proceedings of the agitators as ill-timed and cal culated to embarrass Government, it is impos sible not to - entertain fears that Ireland will never rest in peace until those grievances are redressed, which are the remains of centuries of misgovern ment, and whose tendency is to dispose people's minds to entertain that question of the Repeal of the Union, against which the opinion of the Government has been strongly and unequivocally pronounced. The KING was closeted, during a great por tion of Wednesday, with Earl GREY, at the Pavilion, at Brighton. We are informed, that so extremely secret was the interview on this occasion, that the confidential Se cretary of his MAJESTY was not present. In the evening of that day, Earl GRET, the Duke of DEVONSHIRE, the Marquis and Marchioness of BRISTOL, and their son and daughter-in-law, the Earl and Countess JERMYN, Lord and Lady FALKLAND, the Earl and Countess of Bxvsa- LET, and Lord and Lady WHARNCLIFFE were of the dinner party. His MAJESTY appeared in excellent health and spirits. After dinner there was a Concert in the drawing-room, by the QuaEx's private band. We learn that a meeting of the Clergy of the Established Church, which will be attended from all parts of Ireland, will take place at the Rotunda, on Tuesday, the 10th of January, for the purpose of addressing his MAJESTY on the deplorable and persecuted state of the Church of Ireland.—Dublin Warder. An address is covertly obtaining signatures to the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, from the county of Somerset, expressive of " the deepest gratitude to them for havin g , by their memorable vote, been rescued from the ' extreme peril' with which they were threatened by a Bill • called' the Reform A circular addressed from a newspaper-office in Bristol has been sent to most of the Magistrates of this county, requesting them to sign and procure signatures to this ill-timed effusion of party zeal, which certainly does not acquire either dignity or attrac tion from its adoption of this " hole-and-corner" process of getting up a county address.— Taunton Courier. Tne Sligo mail, on its way to Dublin on Sun day night last, was attacked by a large party at a place called Ballinskill, between Edgworthstown and Mullingar. Several stones struck the carriage and horses, upon which the guard instantly fired, and with effect, as one of the miscreants fell, either killed or mortally wounded. It was then perceived that the hedges at both sides of the road were lined with armed men, and the shot from the guard was directly returned, and the ball lodged in the luggage Placed on the roof of the coach. The horses being at full speed the ambush was quickly passed, and the coach reached its ultimate destination in safety.—Dublin Ere" - ing Mail. In the counties of Kilkenny and Carlow, in the course of a very few month., not less than sixty lives have been sacrificed for tithes not more than SW. in amount.—Dublin Paper. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.--(THIS Mr. John Nicholls Walters, who was convicted of the crime of enticing Mr. JAMES PTE STEELE, a medical student, to set fire to his premises in Tottenharn-court road, was sentenced to eighteen calendar months in the House of Correction. CHOLERA.—It will be seen that the cholera is increasing in virulence at Haddington. A letter dated yesterday, states that business is greatly impeded by it. The few medical men in the place are kept extremely busy, and the writer expresses his surprise that some of the young surgeons of Edinburgh have not paid them a visit, in order to study the disease. The cholera is said to have appeared in Wales, but it should he kept in view that single cases of spasmodic cholera occur in all large towns every season, and that till three or four appear to gether, we can have no clear proof of the existence of the present spidemic.....Seotsman. NOTTINGHAM SPECIAL COMMISSION, FRIDA Y.-B Y EXPRESS. This morning . the Court met at half-past eight, and the Judges having taken their seats, the Court was instantly crowded. The prisoners, 13 in number, were placed at the bar, rind pleaded Not Guilty. It having been arranged that they should be tried singly, G. Beck, aged 20, was placed at the bar, charged with setting fire to the silk-mill of Mr. Lowe, of Beeston. There were several other counts in the indictment. Mr. GURNEY, Mr. CLERK, and Mr. ADIOS (King's Counsel) conducted the prosecution, and Mr. 'Luz was for the prisoner. Mr. CLERK opened the case, and said a Reform meet ing had been held on the loth of October, and in the night the prisoner and others tumultuously assembled. He was the leader of the mob, and it was resolved to attack Mr. Lowe's mill, when the prisoner called out to the mob —" Fall to and do your duty." The mob then destroyed the mill and machinery, valued at 13,0001., and two dwelling-houses, which were occupied by persons named Turton. Mr. Turton was called, and stated that he was em ployed at Beeston mill on the 11 th of October ; a great mob came there between twelve and one o'clock, apparently from Nottingham. There were between two and three thousand, as near as witness could guess. They came on in ranks of two deep, and ended in a regular crowd. There were about forty in the first rank. The prisoner was in front carrying a pole with some coloured ribbons tied to the end. He said when the mob came opposite the mill, " This is the place," and the mob immediately threw stones at the windows of the mill. They marched till they came opposite to the mill, when he said " Halt, front, fall round and do your duty." The front rank marched to the doors of the mill armed with pump handles, pallisading, hammers, &c. They broke a hole and crept through the door and broke the lock. The door were thrown open ; the crowd all rushed into the yard with Beck, the flag -man. Witness then went to his workshop, which was near enough to see what was going on. Saw them inside the mill breaking the windows and throwing silk, soap, and candles out of the windows. Other parts of the mob were employed in breaking the machinery and setting fire to the place. The mill was burnt down, and every thing belonging to it was consumed. A dwel ling-house near the mill, occupied by Turton, the engi neer, was also burnt at the same time. The mob were very noisy, and some were quarrelling with others for pelting the windows while some of their own men were inside. There was also firing of pistols. The mob then dispersed, and separated in different ways. A great many went towards the public-house. George Turton, jun. sworn—l was foreman in Mr. Lowe's mill in October last. It was a silk mill, where silk is wound, doubled, spun, and thrown or milled. I was in the factory on the 11th at twenty minutes past twelve, at the time the mob came. Had heard previously that the mob was coming to attack the mill. Some of the hands who were then leaving work came back again and said that the mob was coming. I looked out from one of the highest windows and saw a crowd of about three or four thousand. I heard somebody say, "Halt, this is the place," and a shower of stones was immediately thrown at the windows. This witness gave the same evidence as the last witness as to the entrance of the mob. He begged them not to destroy the place, as the bread of 160 persons depended on it and were all doing well. They, however, took no notice of what he said, but proceeded to destroy the mill. Saw them set fire to the machines by pulling down the window blinds and burning them under the machines. Saw one of the rioters pour liquid on a blind, set it on fire and throw it under a machine which was composed of light deal. They said of Mr. Lowe, " Where is he, we'll cut him in pieces and frizzle him." The mill fell in in about fifty minutes. They broke into witness's father's house, smashed everything within it, and burnt it to the ground. William Lowe proved the locality, and that the property destroyed was worth about 14 or 15,0001. Samuel Chambers deposed that he lived at Beeston, and kept a shop there. On the llth of October saw the mob come at about a quarter past twelve. Saw Beck there. He was the first man-,- Thomas Sedger, a constable of Redford, deposed to the apprehending -of the prisoner on the 17th of October. Did not tell him what it was for. Had neither used pro mise or threat to induce him to confess. Asked him, what be (Beck) had been doing, as he was to be taken up. Beck said that Tom Smith, as he was coming out of a public-house in Narrow Marsh, pressed and made him go with them, that they gave him a stick with tri-coloured ribands, which he carried, and they halted on the Derby road, that he was in the front of the mob, and halted them for the second time at Beeston silk mill. Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE summed up, observing that it did not appear that the prisoner had with his own hand destroyed property, but the only question the Jury had to consider was, if he aided or abetted it. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty just as the post left. He was recommended to mercy on account of good character. OLD BAILEY.-(TIIIS DAY.) OLD COURT. MURDER OF MARGARET DUFF Y. Bridget Calkin, aged 19, a respectable and rather an interesting looking female, was placed at the bar upon an indictment, charging her with having by means of pressure o❑ the throat, chest, &e. murdered Margaret Duffy, a child, aged about six years. She was also charged upon the Coroner's inquisition. „ . The prisoner when she was called upon to plead to the charge, appeared quite unconcerned, and said ” Not Guilty." Mr. AnoLrnus having opened the case called the fol lowing witnesses:— Illa;y Cane sworn—Knew a privy in Hartshorn -court, Little Cheapside. On Saturday night, the 3d of Decem ber, at ten o'clock, went there, and, it being dark, she put her foot on the body of the child. She ran out and gave an alarm, when some persons went there with a light. Witness then saw the dead body of the deceased lying on its back in a corner of the privy. One of its legs was doubled up, and the clothes were above the knees. No person could get into the place but those who knew the way thither, and knew how to open the door. The privy was common to the inhabitants of seven houses. Prisoner lived next door to witness. Wm. Newton, a boy, twelve years old, lived at No. 7, Payne's-buildings, near Hartshorn-court. On the night in question first witness told bins what he had seen, and he went to the privy with a light and pushed the door, hut could not push it quite back ; a man then rushed out, past witness, pushing him against an opposite door, and extinguishing his candle. The man was lusty, wore a black coat, and bad a crape round his hat. A woman also came out, who had on a light shawl, and a high cap or bonnet ; she was a " littlish" woman. Two men, Shookers and Nolan, came up and took the body of the child from the privy. Patrick Nolan described the state in which he found the body. He fires took it up. John Shookers, a costermonger, of No. 1, Hartshorn court, stated that on the night of the 3d of December, shortly before ten o'clock, he heard Mary Cane scream and went towards her. When he got to the privy he saw the preceding witness with a candle, and he likewise saw the body of the child. Witness took the child to Mr. Smith, a surgeon, but it was dead. Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Witness took the child from the ground first, and not Nolan, the preceding witness. James Duffy was father of the deceased child, and lived in Broad Arrow-court. The deceased was between five and six yea rs o ld, was very healthy, and never subject to fits since she had the pooping -cough two years ago. Saw her last alive at half-past five o'clock on the 3d of Decem ber, when sh e was go i ng out with the prisoner. Knew the prisoner, who often nursed the child and appeared always to behave kindly to her. The next time witness saw the child was at the station-house, Bunhill-row, about a quarter befor e ten o'clock, when she was quite dead. Cross- examined—Appeared always uncommonly fond of the children and kind to them. Eleanor Jennings, a child, twelve years old, was play ing with the deceased between five and six o'clock, on the 3d December, in her, witness's parents' room. The prisoner then came to the door of the room, and asked if Margaret Duffy was there, and on being told she was, the prisoner took her down stairs, and witness never saw the deceased alive afterwards. Elizabeth Kenny, of No. 12, Prospect-place, Pump alley, about five minutes' walk from Hartshorn -court, stated that on the night of the 3d December, about half past five or a quarter before six o'clock, she saw the prisoner f or the first time; pr i soner ha d on a light dress, a light sh aw l , and a black bonnet. Th e c hi ld had hold of her b an d walking by ber side ; the child had neith er shoes or s t oc ki ngs on, and was cry i ng ; pr i soner told her not to cry for she would be soon at home. Prisoner was going towards Hartshorn-court. Martin Bayley, a labourer, knew Hartshorn-court ; was coming through there on the night of the 3d Decem ber, shortly before eight o'clock, and saw the prisoner coming away from the privy door; was then only a few yards from the privy; he walked away quick towards Little Cheapside. Cross-examined—First gave this account on the follow ing day, when the prisoner was in custody ; was now a dresser of skins ; dressed foreign skins—not cat skins; worked for Mr. Read, in Brick-lane, but not since last August ; never was charged with any offence ; not of any kind of theft that he knew of; did not know but he might have been charged with little simple things of no consequence ; was once charged with thieving or taking away a man's daughter. The trial was proceeding when we went to press. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY, FROM LLOYD'S. DEAL, JAN. E.S.E.—Arrived from the river and sailed the Lady 'Wellington, Cliffe, for Van Die man's Land. PORTSMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind E.—Arrived his Ma jesty's ship Pearl, from the West Indies. PORTSMOUTkI, JAN. G.—Wind E.N.E.—Sailed the Lady Kennaway, Moncrieff, for Madras and Bengal ; and his Majesty's ship Tweed, for the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, JAN. s.—Wind E., strong breeze.—Ar rived the Minerva, Mudd, from Miramiehi ; London, Faulkner, from Quebec; and Daniel, Champion, from Lisbon. FALmouTu, JAN. s.—Wind E.S.E , strong breeze.— Arrived the John, Macfarlane, from Pernambuco ; and Daphne, Sprague, from Lisbon. BRISTOL, JAN. s.—Arrived the Janet and Barbara, Betters, from Demerara; and Ann, Webb, from Valencia. STANDGATE CREEL, JAN. 6.—Arrived the St. Law rence, Freese, and Henrick, Adolph, from Hamburg. PENZANCE, JAN. s.—Arrived the Nymph, Barbat, from Guadaloupe, leaky, bound to Bordeaux. Off port the Virginia, Platt, from Havannab ; and Olympil, Lar kins, from New Orleans. Livxaroot, JAN. s.—Arrived the Alexander, Sulli van, from Bahia ; Britannia, Weakner, from Quebec ; and Mary Ann, Wake, from Odessa. Off port the Sarah, Chesney, from Demerara. CARDIFF, JAW. 6.—Wind E.S.E.—The Lord Strang ford, Grey, bound to Constantinople, was driven from her anchor last night, and this morning was not in sight. AMSTERDAM, JAN. 3.—The frost baying set i❑ since Saturday last, the inland navigation is completely stopped. SCILLY, JAN. 4.—Arrived the Albion, Cheminant, from Rio Janeiro; Melantho, Wheelwright, from St. Do mingo ; Caroline, Barnard, from Lisbon ; and Coiling_ wood, Thornton, from Charente. The Acorn, Heard, from Newport to Sligo, was driven on shore near the latter port on the 2d instant, and it was feared would be wrecked. The Leopold, Parker, from Buenos Ayres to Boston, was totally wrecked on the coast of Brazil, Oct. 24. The Salstander Kest, Gstie, from St. Übe's to Dron theim, was stranded the 2d ult. near Bergen, and it was feared would be wrecked. The Tobago, Deranges, from Tobago, arrived at Si Michael's on the 22d ult., in distress, bound to Si Andrew's, N.B. The Hammerfest, Steen, from St. Martin's, sunk off Havre, the end of November. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. There was a tolerably good supply at this morning's market, but the trade was :dull. Most kinds of Vegetables and Fruits were dearer than on this day se'nnight. s.d. s.d. Potatoes (cwt.) 3 oto6 0 Ceibages (12 heads) 0 0 0 0 Red ditto 3 0 5 0 Savoy ditto 0 9 1 6 Horse Radish(bundle) 3 0 60, Brocoli 1 0 '2 0 Celery Carrots ;12 bunches) 4 6 6 6 Turnips Coleworts or Greens 1 9 2 6 Leeks 1 6 2 0 Radishes (12 hands) 0 6 0 Endive (pummet) 0 9 1 s. d. s. d. Spinage (half-sieve) 0 Si to 1 0 Apples 5 0 8 0 Onions (for pickling) 3 0 6 0 Span. Chesnuts (peck) 6 0 10 French ditto Spanish Hazlenuts French Walnuts 4 0 6 0 Brazilian Nuts '2 0 4 0 For. Grapes (per lb.) 0 6 1 3 Pine Apples (lb.) Sweet Oranges (100) 7 0 14 0 Seville Oranges 8 0 14 0 Lemons 10 0 17 0 HAY M A RKETS.—(At per Load of 36 trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE ST. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 5 to £2 10 New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 2 15 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0 Clover Hay 4 10 5 15 Oat Straw......X I Bto .£1 10 1 Wheat Straw 1 12 1 14 A moderately good supply, and a dull trade ; prices as last quoted. • - . . SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 10 to £2 15 New Meadow Hay 2 15 3 10 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 10 Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 0 Clover Hay (extra fine)....£s 15... Generally Oat Straw £ I 10 to £1 121 Wheat Straw 1 14 1 16 Supply moderate, and trade steady; prices stationary. COAL MAR' Per Ton. Adair's 21s. Od. 13ensham Main Holywell 2l 0 Killingworth 20 6 Ord's Redhugh 19 6 Pontop Windsor lB 0 17 0 Shipcote 21 3 Walls End Boundary.. 19 6 Ditto Bewicke and Co. 22 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 20 0 Walls End Gosforth.... 23 0 Walls End Heaton...—. 23 0 Walls End Hllda 22 0 Ditto Killingworth 22 0 Arrived sine ,ET.—Jan. 6. Per Ton. Walls End Newmarch.. 225. Od Ditto Northumberland 20 6 Ditto Peareth---. 20 0 Ditto Perkins and Co..— 21 6 Walls End Russell's... 20 3 Bell's Primrose —...... 17 3 Walls End Hetton 23 6 Walls End Lambton.„. 23 6 W. E. Russell's Hetton 23 7 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 21 9 Walls End Stewart's 23 6 Cewpen Hartley .....,,,,,...22 0 Tantield Trader,—....... 19 0 Felling Main small 10 6 last day, 48. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK The New York Papers recently received contain the following, from the Philadelphia Gazette : " It is understood that the deliberations of the Cabinet, during some of the most recent meetings, have been very discordant, and that differences at one moment assumed so portentous an aspect as to menace another dissolution. By what process the storm was assuaged, and tranquillity re stored, we have yet to learn." The accounts from Washington also state that great ap prehensions were entertained of a second rupture in the Cabinet, and that the friends of the President had great difficulty in quieting matters for the present. THE FUNDS. Saturday is a day in general on which we have but few arrivals and little intelligence, and we are in the same situation to-day, without any arrivals of the least con sequence, and the only expectation we have is the express from Paris, which is hourly looked for by the speculators in the Funds, who are waiting to ascertain the French prices before they commence their operations. Conse quently Console opened at the same price they left off yes terday, Si to k for the Account. The public are somewhat disappointed that the Gazette does not contain the new batch of Peers, which they anxiously expected. Information of some importance may soon be expected from Paris, as it appears that the French Government are going to take the lead in the adjustment of the Belgian affairs with Holland. In the Foreign market nothing doing as yet. Belgian Scrip i to i premium. TWO O'CLOCK. The express from Paris brings a very tumultuous debate on the Civil List, which caused great agitation in the Chamber of Deputies. Consols have fallen in conse quence, and have been done at 83i; at present they are 83i i for the Account. Belgian Scrip has declined, and been done at i discount to i premium. French Three per Cents., 661. 65c.; Five per Cents., 951. 85c. THREE 0 CLOCK. Console for Aceonnt, 83i I. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--WC are happy to state that the differences between Mr. HARRis and the present Managers of this Theatre have been ami cably settled ; the articles of peace were signed and sealed on Thursday last. A new farce, entitled The First Day of Term, is in a forward state of preparation at Drury-lane Theatre. One of its chief attractions will be a grand moving Diorama, by STANFIELD, of the procession of the Lord High Chancellor and all the Judges and other Law Officers, from Berkeley-square to Westminster Hall, through most of the newly-improved streets. At the Bristol Special Commission on Thurs day, on the trial of MATTHEW WARNEY, JOHN TOWELL WILLIAM OSGOOD, WM. CLARKE, and PATRICK KEN NEY, who were charged with assisting to set fire to the Bridewell, and whose trial, inserted in TAe Sun of yes terday, was not concluded when our reporter left, all the prisoners, with the exception of Wm. OSGOOD, were found Guilty. At the meeting of the Irish National Political Union, on Tuesday, Mr. JOHN REYNOLDS moved for the appointment of a Committee of twenty-one, with a view to their considering the best and most effectual mode of making permanent provision for the Irish poor. Mr. O'CowNxi.r., in seconding the motion, said that the establishment of poor laws would aggravate rather than remove the dis tresses and suffering of the poor of Ireland, but he would gladly consent to a poor law for the maintenance of the sick, the maimed, and the infirm ; in fact for those who could not support themselves. The Committee was ulti mAtely appointed; 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE B 0 TV-STREET. Mr. Roe, an extensive cabriolet proprietor, ap peared yesterday before Mr. MlNstium,, the Sitting Magistrate, and stated that he came to lay an in formation against the omnibus numbered 4,53.5, of which George Shillibeer was the owner, for takin g op a fare in St. Gile s 's, arid setting down in Oxford- arrect, being contrary to the provisions of the 55th of Geo. 111. cap. 12. Mr. Roe said that his object was to bring to an issue the question whether stage coaches were allowed by the new Act to ply for hire in the streets. He then went on to contend that the several statutes passed for the protection of hackney coaches, and which prohibited public stages from taking up passengers in the streets, were still unrepealed,inasmuch as the new Act merely repealed so much of the old law as referred to the licensing and regulating hackney coaches. Mr. Burnaby, the Magistrate's clerk, said that Mr. Roe was in error in supposing that the new Act had left the law exactly as it was. The 57th of Geo. I. cap. 2, section 3, inflicted a penalty of Si. on sta g e coachmen wh o s h ou ld b e conv i cte d o f p l y i ng for hire in the streets. The 3d of Geo. IV. cap. 95, section 13, after referring to the former Act, de scribed the class of persons liable to be :so fined ; and the new Act now in force repealed the 57th of Geo. I. from section 1 to section 5, including the clause which inflicted the 51. penalty, but overlooked the 3d of Geo. IV., which had direct reference to it, so that, as the law now stood, the persons liable to be fined were described in the unrepealed Act while the Act which stated the amount of the fine, and gave Magistrates the power to inflict it, was in point of fact a dead letter; and no proceeding would be had under the 3d of Geo. IV. inasmuch as it was a nullity. Mr. MINsnULL observed that the question was one of great importance to the public, and it was also of importance to the proprietors of vehicles subject to the Act, many of whom he understood had embarked large sums of money in building new carriages, under the supposition that they would ply for hire in the streets. Mr. Roe said that the number of vehicles would occasion a serious loss to the old proprietors of hackney-coaches and cabriolets. He was himself the proprietor of ten cabriolets, and the extension of the number of vehicles of that description had already diminished his receipts upwards of 1,0001. a-year. _ Mr. MnssituLL then said that, in order to bring the question to a speedy decision, he would reserve his opinion on it for the present, in order to give Mr. Roe and the parties interested an opportunity of having the question fully and fairly argued, and decided according to the best judgment which he could give it. Mr:Roe then said that he would lose no time in laying a regular information before the Magistrate. He then retired to obtain the professional assistance of Mr. Harmer, the solicitor. Mr. Roe is brother to the Marlborough-street Magistrate. George Page, alias Potts, was brought up for a re-examination, charged with having been concerned in robbing the Glasgow Bank, in the month of De cember, 1830, of Bank notes and cash to the amount. of 6,0001. and upwards. No evidence was offered in support of the charge, but the prisoner was or dered to be detained on suspicion of having returned from transportation before the term had expired for which he was sentenced. This man whose examination we have given above, escaped last night from the cell at Bow-street, where he was confined until his removal to the House of Correction. During the temporary ab sence of Dodd, the gaoler, from the cell, the outer door was opened by a pick-lock key, and a boy, hav ing been let into the yard, unbolted the cell door, and throwing a coat at the prisoner, with which to disguise himself, ran away. The prisoner instantly threw off his own coat, and flinging it at one of his fellow-prisoners, said, " Take that, it will keep you warm." He then slipped on the other coat, and instantly darted through the door, down the long pas sage, and into the street. The whole affair was the work of a few moments. He was formerly an adept at picking pockets, and belonged to" the swell mob," but latterly he sprung higher game, and nothing short of a bank robbery, and a booty of some thou sands, would suit him. Officers have been sent in pursuit of him in various directions. GREENWICH OBSERVATORY.--It has been found by Mr. LLOYD, in his late observations on the height of the river Thames, that a block of stone under the transit instrument in the Royal Observatory at Green wich is 158.8 feet above the mean level of the sea. The marshes of Greenwich are half a foot higher than those of Woolwich, which latter arc only three feet above the mean level of the sea. CAMBRIDGE ; JAN. 4.—Seatonian Prize— The subject of the poem for the recent year is, " The Plague Stayed.—Numb. xvi. 48. Hu!seen -Prize Sub ject—A premium exceeding 1001. will this year be given for the best dissertation on the following subject :—" The advantages which have resulted from the Christian religion being conveyed in a narrative rather than a didactic form." In speaking of Mr. BULWER'S new novel of " Eugene Aram," the Tatler says, " we can now evince our gratitude for all the amiable, and wise, and lively and touching things, which Mr. BULWER'S novel contains, by saying it is the one which has most interested us since the appearance of the best novels of Sir WALTER. Indeed, the whole work abounds in beauties of all sorts, calling for every species of sympathy, and exalting the author in our estimation as a writer and as a man." It appears from the registries of deaths lit Paris, that during the last year they were one-fifth less than the ordinary rate of mortality in the capital; the number in 1831 does not exceed 19,500 though the an nual average has been 24,000.—Galignani's Messenger. By the price lists returned to Dec. 3], the average price of corn for all France is 22fr. 18c. Last month it was 22fr. 52c. The fall was chiefly in the markets of Gray, St. Laurent, Le Grand-Lesseps, Dlul hausen, Strasbourg, Rouen, Paris, and the principal markets to the north of the capital. There was some rise at Marans, Bordeaux, Toulouse. The regime of im ports and exports established for the preceding saonth re mains unaltered. MAGNA CHARTA.—It is vulgar to assume that the Barons, in proposing the terms of Magna Charts, considered they were doing any thing for the people at large. It must be remembered, that although Peers led the army, people composed it ; and it is curious to sce that in the articles the Barons presented to the KING, they include restrictions on taillage, a tax which fell upon the people, and scutage, which bore upon themselves—but in the Charter, scutage is alone remembered. In fact, Magna Charts is the Charter of the Barons, and it hap pened to contain some excellent maxims, which they made for themselves, but which have been subsequently applied by the people.—[From an excellent and interesting sup plement to last week's Spectator, called the Spectator's Anatomy of the Peerage.] A MILD AND AGREEABLE REMEDY FOR CHOLERA.—A curious case, illustrative of the utility of external irritants, occurred to Dr. SCHOLTZ. He was called to see a house-servant (Dvoßmcx,) whom he found in the last stage of the paralytic ferm of cholera, and ap parently in agonici mortis. In this situation, Dr. SCHOLTZ could not resolve to send him to the hospital, fearing he might die on the road, and thought it even su perfluous to prescribe for him, especially as he declared that he could take nothing. He therefore merely desired the patient's comrade to rub his abdomen with warm tar, and left him, in the supposition that he had not above half an hour to live. The next day, Dr. ScHoLTz, on inquiring for the patient, was much astonished to hear that he was thge completely out of danger, and not l e ss eo to learn ho w his prescription bad been foll o w e d. The comrade of the ,pa tient had immediately set a pot of tar on th e fire, .h a laes g o ne was gone, along b brush,heated had t o la id ebullition,ona t hick a nd t o h o e a n t , of with boilinga tar over wuhto the le who l e abdomen a k o i f n the of th p e at a i with it. It is remarkable th at at the be g innin g of th i s terrible operation the pa tient hardly felt it, though, " might naturally be e x p ected, he suffered severel y befor e ls w as over. He said himself , that he felt the general he it of the body g raduall y increasin g , and th at he was relieve at f ro m the severest pains by making wattr. He got per t f e ctly well...iliediCai Gaßik e ennotintedT p h a e rt csbwora