The Sun. — London, England, 1822-09-03 00:00:00

THE LONDON JOURNALS. VATRAcTS FROM THE DAILY MORNING PIPERS, September 3/, 1822, ,:MORNING POST.] The new Ministerial Arrangements not being yet completely formed, the Council which was expected to be held yesterday by his Majesty did not take place. The Earl of Liverpool and the Lord Chancellor, however, had audience of the King upon this important subject; and the final arrangements will, in all probability, take place this day or to-morrow at farthest. Mr. Canning, we believe, has not yet returned to town; so that all is still uncertainty with respect to that Gentleman, though hopes 'continue to be entertained that he will have a'diStinguished seat in the Cabinet. We understand; that Mr. Ro binson will be promoted to a Principal Secretar yship, and have the management of the House of Commons ; and that he will be succeeded by Mr. Huskisson in the offices of Treasurer of the Navy and President of the Board' of Trade. [MORNING HERALD.] All the Sovereigns will meet at Verona in the beginning of October. It is again said that M . Chateaubriant is to go to the Congress at Verona ; ' and that the Viscount Montmorency, who has set out this evening, will act alone at the conference at Vienna. During his absence, the business of the Foreign Office is confided to M. de Villele. We are assured that the Secretary to the'Eng glish Legation in Spain, who departed • for London after the events of the 7th of July, has brought most important despatches to' his Government.----:The report at Madrid is, that England has offered every assistance, as well as troops to be embarked, in case that the Spaniards shall be menaced with a foreign invasion. MORNING CHRONICLE.] In adverting on Saturday to the prObable ar rangements in the Cabinet before next Session, we noticed • the manner in which public business is conducted in the Colonial Department. A circumstance connected with this subject has been mentioned to us, which, though apparently incredible, we fear some of our most respectable Merchants have but too much reason for believ ing to be true. The public are doubtless aware, that settlers going out to British Colonies, such as the Cape of Good Hope or Van Dieman's Land, are obliged in the first instance to obtain licences at the Colonial Office. In granting passports of this sort, it is, of course, in the power of official persons either to afford facili ties to the emigrant, or to throw obstruc tions in his way. Men, too, however firm of purpose or independent of principle, in leaving their native homes, and perhaps .em barking their whole property in a distant and hazardous speculation, must naturally wish to commence the enterprise on comfortable terms with the influential agents in that office of the State under whose immediate controul their future fortunes are to be pursued. Can it be possible, then, that these circumstances are taken advantage of by any person holding an appoint ment of trust and responsibility under the Crown, in order to promote the ends of private friend ship, or perhaps some improper object ? Can it be possible that any individual in the Co lonial Office:dares to step beyond the limits of his public duty, or to avail himself of the accidental opportunity which his situation may afford, to interfere in the remotest degree with the private affairs of Emigrants.? We trust, upon in vestigation, it will turn out otherwise ; but re ports have been circulated tending to produce a belief in the existence of the practice alluded to. During Lord Bathurst's absence it would be well if Mr. W ilmot were to inquire whether some person in his department is not in the habit, when an Emigrant applies for a license to settle (let us say in Van Dieman's Land) to thrust upon him a card with the address of a particular house in the City, engaged in freighting vessels and sending out passengers to that Colony ? We do not profess to know who the identic:e person is who is reported to act thus, if any one really does so; but we ask Mr. Wilmot to investigate the charge, and satisfy himself at least on the subject. It is needless to say, that if the de linquency is committed, the consequences are highly injurious to the emigrant, and unfair to the mercantile interest concerned in that branch of our colonial trade. Let the truth, ho ever, be ascertained, and we shall be satisfied. [NEW Tires.] The Clergy- are accused, in The Morning Chronicle, of neglecting their pastoral duties.-- This charge, indeed, does not apply to the case of St. Andrew's Parish ; for there' the Rector is uniformly admitted to be an exemplary character. But to a general imputation we . feel it right to make a general reply. An invidious comparison is drawn between the Clergy of England and those of Scotland. We are happy in bearing our warmest testimony (from a pretty extensive per sonal and local experience) to the very admirable character and very great efficiency of the Scottish Clergy. A more respectable, a more venerable,, a more useful body of men, in proportion to their numbers, does not exist ; but it. must be observed that they possess a vast advantage over the Ministers of the English Church, in those habits of deference and sub mission to their spiritual authority, which have continued unbroken for above two cen turies among the mass of the Scottish people — habits which never existed to the same degree in England, and which the progress of modern liberalism in this, part of the island .has gone very far indeed to extinguish. It is but of late years that the infidel Press has made .any, and that corbparatively a slight progress in Scot land : Nve need not say what dreadful encourage menrit has received in• England. Would Scot tish Juries have been found to shield the blasphemies of Hone, or the obscenities of Benbow ? Would the Magistrates - of Edinburgh have tolerated for so many months the horrible nuisance of a public and avowed ""Mart for Sedition and gistspfiemy in the heart of that ' Metropolis ?" The English Clergy are re proached for not offering to their flocks the same religious consolations which the Scottish Clergy do. They are not generally found backward in doing what the habits and feelings of the country permit / in this respect but were they to go further their conduct would be resented as impertinent interference with domestic con cerns/ or denounced as an insidious attempt to establish sacerdotal tyranny. Far indeed are we from justifying those Clergymen who neglect any of their_ practicable duties, or who decline a steady and persevering opposition to the growing impiety and immorality of the times. But in all such cases let the individual answer for his own misconduct : and when we speak of the Church, as a body, let us pay it that reverence and respect which its many virtues, its great learning, its piety, and its inestimable public utility, demand. [TILE TIM Es.] The known preparations making for the de parture of the Duke of Wellington to the Con gress, have a curious coincidence in point of time, with ,a story, that he is, or has recently been, exposed to some risk of assassination. Ab surd as such a tale appears upon the face of it, and unfounded as we trust it will prove, the Po lice Magistrates are said to have felt so much alarm, that they have, for several days past (if a Morning Paper can be credited), stationed their officers in Apsley House. The Noble Duke seems to have treated this unworthy danger with the contempt inspired by his native intre pidity, and to. have been overruled by the Magistrates in his reluctance to admit of even the most simple and least troublesome precautions. An anonymous letter is repre sented as the source of the alarm. Per haps this tale may have originated in the same gossipping spirit as the. report that the Duke had fallen by the vindictive hand of the son of Mar shal Ney. horrible as would be such an attempt under any circumstances, or from any quarter, the national feeling would be doubly,shocked, if Englishmen were found capable of undertaking it. The account is probably the invention of some idler, or of some tactician in politics, who fancies that his Grace's popularity, on the eve of his entrance upon rather a suspected work,might be helped by raising an alarm for his personal safety. We are not anxious to disguise our wish that the mission to Vienna had been intrusted to some other Minister. Military men are seldom very sound or generous politicians. Their instinct is so strong on the side of power, that they would (at least nine out of ten among them) extend to whole nations the discipline inseparable from an army, and weigh the resistance of a people to oppres sion in the same scale with mutiny against the articles of war. To what degree the mind of the Duke of Wellington may have been affected by this leaning towards the principles of despotism, derived not only from professional prejudice, but from the long exercise of discretiimary and almost unbounded command, parties of course will differ : but the main point will not be disputed— that although at the head of an army no man ever carried himself with more uniform regard to equity, moderation, and humanity, than this great and successful Commander, he has become less admired and less popular, with every year that he has formed part of the Civil Government, and almost with every vote that he has given on questions of National Politics. For his own sake, therefore, it is that we are anxious to see the Duke of Wellington less forward in affairs of State. His administration of the Ordnance has displayed, we are told, much of that judgment and activity which might be ex- , pected from one so familiar with all branches of military mechanism : but at the Congress of Vienna, with his tendencies and prepossessions, what can he accomplish for his own fame, for the interests of his country, or for the cause of free dom? [BRITISH PRESS.] If the alternative of oriental dignity on the one hand, and of office at home on the other, were sub mitted to Mr. Canning,we cannot doubt, as he takes the trouble to assure us, that his " decision would be formed upon an honest and impartial review of public considerations" alone, and that he would be determined not by any thing so contemptible as a consideration of his personal " interests"— " but upon a balance of his duties;" but we should not think him very censurable if his judgment were eventually to decide that the welfare of his country would be better promoted by his remaining in England, and assisting the rCouncil by his wisdom, than if he were to cross the seas for the purpose of controlling the desti nies of our Indian empire.We strongly suspect that the whisperings of early ambition would prompt Mr. Canning to accept the high distinction of being the Chief Secretary for Foreign Affairs, to which, undoubtedly, his talents entitle him far beyond any individual of the same party, but will not speak plainly upon so delicate a topic ; and while he complains in one part of his speech that his silence at the former dinner was mis construed, as if he " ostentatiously abjured of fice at home," he expresses a hope in another part that he may not be considered, in consequence of what had fallen from him on this occasion, as expressing an anxiety for a seat in the Cabinet. We are not aware that any construction had been put upon the silence or the words of Mr. Canning, such as he seems to have apprehended, nor are there, we believe, many persons in the country who would attribute to him at any time an unwillingness to accept of office ; but if such an impression ever prevailed in any quarter, this last speech of the Right Honourable Gentle man will no doubt effectually remove it. We must confess that we should suspect the present Ca binet to be more than ordinarily deficient in common sense, if in their existing emergency they should decline to take advantage of Mr. Canning's talents. It is, indeed, very possible that some among them may think that he rates these talents at too high a price, and that however desirous they may feel of having the benefit of them upon occasion of a hard-fought field in Par liament, they would yet be unwilling to purchase them by making their proprietor one of the prin cipal Secretaries of State. But who are they that affect to set a vaiue upon Mr. Canning ? What higher claim does any Member of the Ca binet possess to a high and efficient office ? Com pared with him they sink for the most part into utter insignificance., and he would undoubtedly betray his own respectability if he were to join their party as second in official rank to any of them. FROM SATURDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Smith and W. C. Taylor, Greenwich, surgeons—J. Whiteside and T. Waistell, Liverpool, coopers—W. Athcarn and \V. Weir, Peckham, surveyors—R. L. Chance and J. Dixon, Paul's wharf, merchants—J. Allan and R. Jones, Nel son-place, Fountain-place, City-road, Leghorn hat pressers — C. H. and H. P. Moring—J. Pearson and T. Carver, Notting ham, hosiers—A. C. Johnston and 11. Mitchell, St. Martin's le-grand, coffeehouse keepers—H. Hodson and'J. Lanebridge, Lancashire, ironfounders—J. S. Jackson and W. Maurice, Stockport, merchants—D. Dunbar and T. Gillan, Fore-street, Limehouse, wine merchants—E. and S. A. Moore, and J. Hunt, Hanway-street,Oxford-street, mercers—G. and Mr. Milward, and N. Skottow, Waterford—T. Fishburn and T. Brodrick, Whitby, shipbuilders—J. B. Charlesworth and J. B. Meggcson, Leeds, woolstaplers—R. Gibson and J. L. Pasteur, St. Helena-terrace, Spa-fields, .jewellers—R. and T. Partington, Stockport, timber-dealers. DIVIDENDS. Sept. 21, J. Reay, Mark-lane, wine merchant—Sept. 28, W. Fromow, Great Yarmouth, chymist—Oct. 2, J. Lavers, Kings bridge, Devonshire, woollen manufacturer—Nov. 12, D. Mait land, New Bridge-street, merchant—Sept. 28, W. G. Jackson, and W. Hardley, Great Surrey-street, linendrapers—Oct. 5, H. Hudson, Cannon coffeehouse, Charing-cross, tavern keeper —Sept. 23, W. Tucker, J. Fenton, and G. Machon, Sheffield, silverplaters—Sept. 23, T. and W. Windeatt, Tavistock, mongers—Sept. 28, W. H. Lawrence, Bath, linen-draper.-- Sept. 26, J. W. Keene, Birmingham, factor—Sept. 26, W. Neilson, Liverpool, merchant. • CERTIFICATES, SEPT. 21. T. PoWell, Old Forge, Herefordshire, corn-dealer—T. F. and J. Gibson, Nottingham, .merchants—W. Wickham, jun. Chichester, butcher—lL W. Dean, Sugar Loaf-alley, Bethnal. green, brewer. SURREY SESSIONS. Yesterday the adjourned Sessions for this County commenced before J. Harinrsox, Esq., Chairman, and a full bench of Illagistrates. The effects of the" Treading Mill," introduced by the Ma gistrates into Brixton House of Correction, have been already manifested, in the reduction of the calendar, which, these Ses sions, is extremely Three brothers of the name of Lock were indicted for felo niously stealing a copper, the property of Mrs. Stewart, at her cottage in Dulwich. It appeared from the evidence that the copper had been missed from the premises of Mrs. Stewart on the Ist of August, and was traced by the black marks, made in dragging it over the grass to a ditch in the neigh bourhood. The constables to whom information had been given of the affair, and who had traced the copper, stationed two men in separate stations to watch for the return of the thieves for the copper. One of the men was stationed at the top of a tree to watch, and after dark three men came to the copper, and were busily at work in getting it out of the ditch, when they were disturbed by the fall of the watchman in the tree, who came down with a loud crash in consequence of the bough breaking from under him. The three prisoners started off, but the con stable, who was also on the watch, ran after them and swore he would lodge a bullet in the head of the first man if lie did not stop and surrender. This intimation made the prisoners halt, and the watchmen coming up, they were all secured. The eldest brother said, when taken into custody, " I hope you are satisfied now—you have been trying for us a long time ; but you can only give us 84 months, after all, for it; and, if ever we come back, we will make the parish Of Camberwell know it." The Jury found all the prisoners guilty ; and the Court said they would disappoint their calculations, and, therefore, they sentenced each of them to 24 months hard labour " at the Treading Mill," in the Brixton House of Correction. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANsicw-liousE.—(NutsaNcE.)— Yesterday, a man named Channon appeared before the LORD MAYOR, to an swer the complaint of the watermen who ply at the Tower wharf, who stated that he was in the habit of committing, at the instance of another person, a most offensive and dangerous nuisance on the causeway.—Mr. Smith, the wharfinger, also attended to confirm the accusation. The complainants stated that the defendant was in the con stant habit of burning pitch and tar barrels under lighters that lay at the Tower-wharf, which he was employed to repair, and that in consequence of the nuisance gentlemen were prevented from taking boat at the stairs, their clothes being constantly exposed to injury from the quantity of " blacks" that flew about while the combustibles were burning, and the pieces of tar that occasionally fell in the boats, which were often large enough, when they fell on the seats, to hold fast any one that came in contact with them. The defendant had been often told that he was subject to prosecution for such conduct, but he still persisted, and the watermen now brought him before the Lord Mayor, not for the purpose of having him punished, but of having him instructed in his duty. Mr. Smith, the wharanger, stated, that besides the injury to the watermen, other mischiefs arose from the practice of burn ing tar barrels under the lighters ; serious apprehensions were frequently entertained by those who had premises in the neigh bourhood for their safety, as well as for the safety of the craft in the river, when the wind blew in a certain direction ; and it was the earnest wish of all the parties interested that some de cision should be come to in the case. The Lonn MAYOR said, the practice complained of was a nuisance that could not be allowed to be continued; there was no knowing what evils it might cause, and if any complaint on the same subject was again made, he would give directions to the City Solicitor to prosecute the person complained of. MARLROROUGII-STREET.—(CUTTING AND MAIMING.) —Yesterday Joseph Casby, a black man of desperate appear ance, was brought from St. Giles's watch-house, charged by Daniel' Sullivan, a shoemaker, of Tottenham Court-road, under Lord Ellenborough's Act, of Cutting and Maiming.— It appeared in evidence that on Sunday .night last the prisoner was in Broad-street, Bloomsbury, ill using a female ; on which the prosecutor remonstrated with him, and advised him to leave her alone, on which the prisoner challenged him to fight, and they had two or three rounds. On the prosecutor going away he was followed by the prisoner, who at the corner of' Buckridge-street, St. Giles's, rushed on him with a naked knife, and inflicted several deep incisions on the witness's per son. He called " Watch," and " Murder ;" on which the prisoner was secured and taken to the watch-house, with the knife in his possession—the prosecutor was taken to a surgeon to have his wounds dressed. The prisoner, on his arrival at the watch-house, pretended to be dead , and surgeon was sent for. The prisoner carried the joke on so well as to deceive all present, and Bartlett, the beadle, proceeded to procure a shell to deposit the body in ; but, on that part of the ceremony being performed, the prisoner started up with the greatest alacrity, and endeavoured to escape. He is a well known character, and has been before at this office on violent charges. He was or dered to procure good bail, in default of ,which lie was com mitted. Woßstur-STREET.—(GirstEs•)—About two o'clock yes terday, five men and six women, with about twenty children, were brought before SAMUEI. TWYFORD, Esq. the presiding Magistrate, on a charge of vagrancy. It was stated by Jonn Joss and his brother officers, two of the Bow-street Patrol, that about eight o'clock in the morning they met with these Gipsies in a green lane, situated between Copenhagen-house and Holloway. They were all encamped with regular tents, and amongst them they found two good carts and two horses, and one of them had a violin, with which he charmed this little tribe of wanderers. The men were stout, and all the women had children in their arms. They behaved to the Magistrate with due respect, and endeavoured to move him with all the eloquence they possessed, which was not the less interesting on account of the dark spark ling eyes and swarthy complexions of the orators. The women assured him they knew nothing of fortune-telling, and that they neither pretended to be nor were they in reality Gipsies, for, said one, " I am certain we were never in Egypt." The men pleaded hard for the consideration of the Magistrates ; that they each had a wife and five or six children, and that they worked hard at their several pursuits of tinkers, razor-grinders, &c. and that although they were encamped in this lane, they had houses and homes in the metropolis. The Magistrate informed them lie hardly knew how to deal with them but they must know their lodging in the open air rendered them liable to punishment under the New Vagrant Act, and therefore he should commit the five men to the House of Correction for fourteen days, but the women lie should dis charge, who, with their numerous children, had better remove to a distance. The women and children innnediately with drew, and the men were committed, one of whom observed, it was very well, and he did not see how the Magistrate could do otherwise. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING-ROOM, SEPT. 2.—STATE OF THE ODDS. DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 15 to 8 agst Swap 30 to 1 agst Negotiator 13 to 2 agst 11andane 30 to 1 agst Newbyth 11 to 1 agst Ajax 30 to 1 agst Pilgarlick 13 to 1 agst Marcellus 30 to 1 agst Theodore 16 to 1 agst Gascoigne's c. 33 to 1 agst Sycorax 25 to 1 agst Euphrosyne 35 to 1 agst Young Cypress to 1 agst Bro. to Antonio 4O to 1 agst Violet. NEWMARKET ST. LEGER. I sto 2 agst Posthuma. Even on Moses ROCHESTER and CHATHAM RACES, AUG. 30. We understand that through the exertions of W. P. Hony wood, Esq. ; D. H. Day, Esq. ; and the other Stewards, these Races are likely to be permanent. The course, which is one mile, is not inferior to any in the kingdom, and was attended by nearly 30,000 spectators, who have been much gratified by al most every race being well contested. The ToWn Plate of 501. Mr. Brown's gr. f. Gift, aged - Mr. Friend's b. g. Philip, 6 yrs old WI - Mr. Glew's b. m. Souvenir, 4 yrs old - - Mr. E. T. D. Hulkes's bl. h. Chanceboy, 5 yrs old Mr. Jones's b. h. Sir John, 5 yrs old - - A Sweepstakes of 51. with 351. added. Mr. Jones's Legal Tender, 4 yrs old - - 21 1 Mr. Brown's ch. m. Prosody, 4 yrs old - - 1 2 0 Mr. Davis's ch. g. Liberty, 6 yrs old - - 3dr Prosody fell lame, and Legal Tender walked over the course for the last heat. Hunters Stakes.—A Sweepstakes of Si. with a Purse given by the Officers of the Army and Navy in garrison. Mr. Lacy's ch. m. Frolic, 6 yrs old - Mr. Smith's b. h. Harkaway, 5 yrs old Mr. Howard's bl. g. Philanthropist, 6 yrt old Mr. Cook's ch. m. White Stocking, aged Mr. Coleman's gr. g. Tom Tough, aged 1 1 3 2 4 3 2 4 . bolted 5 2 2 3 3 dr 4 dr DERBY RACES, WEDNESDAY, Auo. 28. The Noblemen and Gentlemen's Plate of Ogs, for horses, &c. of all ages. Three-mile heats. Mr. Painter's br. h. The Main, 5 yrs old, Bst. 71b. - 1 1 Mi. Beardsworth's b. f. Lena, 4 yrs old, 7st. slb. - 2 2 Mr. Moody's b. h. Alderman Wood, 6 yrs, Ost.lolb. - dr The first a dead heat between The Main and Lfena. Sweepstakes of sgs each, for three-year-olds. Heat, one mile and a half. Sir R. Gresley's b. f. by Middlethorpe, Bst. 41b. - 1 D. of Devonshire's ch. f. Lady Jane, by Woful, Bst. 41b. - 2 Ld G. H. Cavendish's b. c. The Ranzelman, Bst. 71b. - 3 Six paid, and one Subscriber did not name. For the Handicap Sweepstakes, to which was to have been added the Ladies' Purse, there was no race. The Macaroni Stakes did not fill. CRICKET. A grand Match was played on Monday se'nnight on West bourn Common, for 22 Sovereigns, between 11 of the parish of 'Westbourn, and 11 of the parish of Havant ; 'Westbourn, having repeatedly challenged the latter place, went in fully con fident of success, but, to their utter astonishment, the whole were put out in the first innings, for 10 runs, and having only 36 balls trolled to the eleven ; in their second inningsthey made 40 runs—Total 50. Havant, first innings, 48; second, 4, and ten wickets to go down. On Monday se'nnight, a Match was played at Cosham, be tween 11 young men of that place, and the like number of Portsmouth and Portsea, which was won by the former. The Return Match between the Newport and Ryde Gentle men was played on Monday se'nnight, at New Village, and, after a smart contest, was decided in favour of the latter. On Monday se'nnight, a match was played on Titchfield C omm on, between the parishes of Titchfield and Fareham, which was won by the latter in a single innings, by 101 runs. The Return Match between Winchester and Alresford was played on Monday and Tuesday last, on Twyford Down, near Winchester, and terminated in favour of Winchester. ALRESFORD. WINCHESTER. Ist Innings - - 48 Ist Innings 2d Ditto - - - 86 2d Ditto - - . 112 - 24 134 136 Winchester won without one of i the mates being put out in the second innings. On Tuesday and Wednesday last, the Return Grand Match between 11 of the Emsworth Club and 11 ~f the Portsea Island Club, was played on Cold Harbour Lawn, near Emsworth, and won by the latter by five wickets. EitSWORTII. Ist Innings - 2d ditto - PORTSEA. - 61 lst Innings 33 2d ditto - 3 ... . . 64 95 An extraordinary Match, which excited considerable attrac tion, was played on Wednesday, on Gander's Down, near Alresford. Cairiages of every description, and even waggons, were put in requisition on the occasion. The players, on both sides, were 22 Women-11 single, of Cheriton and Beauworth, and the like number of married women of Cheriton. The per formers were of all ages and sizes, and were generally distin guished by the names of Pinks and Blues—the sin!le wearing pink, and the married blue ribbons. Much play was shown on both sides, and particularly by . the • inks, who won the match by 118 runs. Afterwards prizes were given for Girls to run for, which occasioned much mirth. Upwards of 1000 spectators were present. PINKS. BLUES. Ist Innings 2d Ditto - . 25 153 40 The Return Match is to be played to-morrow, on Milberry Down. PEDESTRIANISM. MATCH FROM CANTERBURY TO LONDON.—Mr. BAR. HARD WEST, the celebrated pedestrian, having backed him self last week to travel on foot from Canterbury to 'Westmin ster Bridge (58 miles) in eleven hours, for one hundred sove reigns, he commenced his laborious task at three o'clock yes terday morning, as private as possible. He went off at the rate of six miles an hour, and did eighteen miles in three hours, when he halted for the space of a few minutes,. and took some light refreshment. He did the next ten miles in one hour and fifty minutes, and the half was completed in two minutes under five hours. The pedestrian ate a chicken, and stretched him self on a straw mattress, and having halted half an hour, he proceeded at the rate of five miles an hour ; he had done forty two miles in seven hours and three quarters, and, after resting again a quarter of an hour, he started evidently fatigued to do the remaining fourteen miles in three hours. He did ten a minute over two hours, and lie won the match with three minutes to spare. It was a great pedestrian feat, and was won by game. The Cow Gate ( Newcastle ) Pedestrians, Thursday noon.- 111iMuLtAx has just finished 327 miles and poles in his 1000 hour-task, and is confident of success. He is much fatigued this morning from the effects of the rain, which fell in torrents last night ; besides attendants he has two regular time-keepers, so that every thing is conducted with the utmost accuracy. Townsend, on his 1000 miles task, half backwards, in 18 days, also suffered from the storm, and in consequence is a little be hind his time ; he has completed his 7th day and walked 374 miles, 180 of which backwards. His strength and agility in walking backwards astonish every one. Several amateurs have attended during the week, and strewed their good wishes by liberal donations. The pedestrian, Wm. .11I'llIunnAN, a youth only 15 years of age, who walked 40 miles in 8 hours, on the road at the north end of Stockton, on the 17th instant undertook, with no other inducement than such small donations as might be made him by passengers and spectators, to walk 100 miles in 25 suc cessive hours, which he completed on Saturday evening last in 24 hours and 15 minutes. • EDINBURGH, AUG. 27.—A pedestrian feat of some merit was performed here to-day. A travelling bookseller, of the name of RUSSELL, undertook to walk 102 miles within the twenty-four hours. He started at one o'clock yesterday, and went on with apparent ease, gaining upon time, till eight this morning, when all of a sudden he grew so lame and fatigued as to turn the odds completely against him ; from this, how ever, he miraculously recovered in about half an hour, and won with ease in 17 minutes less than his time. The ground he chose was about a quarter of a mile measured off, in the hollow between the North Bridge and the Mound. As a continual communication was kept up between the Royal Hotel and the tent in which he rested, it is surmised that there were large bets depending on his success. Good sport is expected at Stockbridge Races, which take place on the Bth and 9th of October. The East Sussex Fox Hounds are in high condition, and will shortly take the field, to the gratification of the neighbouring gentry. Great sport is expected. LONDON MARKETS, PRICE OF BREAD THIS WEEK. The highest price of the best Wheaten Bread throalrb°at the Metropolis, is stated by the principal Bakers to be t d• the Quartern Loaf.—Some Bakers sell the Quartern 1 0 '" from one penny to two pence lower. 113. 01 ' lb. oz. 4 Peck Loaf to weigh .. 17 6 Quartern Loaf to W 014.1 Half ditto.. ditto .... 81 1 Half Quartern ditty IMPORTATIONS OF GRAIN LAST WEEK. . English. Irish. Wheat 4,544 vo Barley Malt Oats Rye Beans .. 554 Peas Tares Rapeseed Mustard ... • • .. '. ...... • • . . ---- a....... am.IIIIMO v. , ..' . ...... .......' ...•••• - ..."'' .--.. 773 225 622 505 _ I ..---• 325 .....-- Igo ..----' ...-- Seeds 240 Flour Brank - Linseed - _ ...,.° .....-. -...- -- ...--•- 850 SEEDS, Sept. 2. Red Clover (Foreign).. 24s 32s—fine, 44s 52s —s per c f.. t Ditto English R. 205 35s—fine new, 44s 52 s 6. ' White ditto 3os 46s—fine, 565 . 60s Trefoil Ribgrass ... 4Bs 34s—fine, 40s 44s Carraway Seeds s4s to 58s—fine, 60s 62 1 Coriander do. Spring Tares Cinque loin , Rye-Grass ... l4s to 2 ls—new, 261.30 s per Canary per qr —s 30s to 34s 0d per rlr• White Mustard Seed Bs to 10s Od Brown ditto 9s to 1 Is Od Winter Tares 2Bs to 36s Od per qr. Rape Seed Turnip Seeds. —s Od tis to is pr. bush. Linseed ST. JAMES'S HAY MAlt.s.l.:l', Aug. 31. l, N. Hay 21 12s Od to 31 12s Ott 1 Clover, .... 3t 6s to 41 a Old Hay 31 8s 0d to 41 Os Od 1 Straw 11 5s Od to 1 117 i SMITHFIELD. ,s 04 Old Hay .... 31 Os Od to 41 Os od-Ayerage, 31 Iv . a Straw Clover - 31 lOs Od to 41 4s 00--Average, 31 15i IVHITECH APE L. a. Ot l Hay 3l 6s Od to 41 Os Od-Average, 31 I-- s o o .. - k -...,,,,._ 01 O NrW ditto 01 Os Od to 01 Os Straw ll 8s Oil to 41 los Clover 3l 15s Od to 4! 13s od-Average, of s ad od-Average, t 1 COs ad 0(1-Average. PRICE OF HOPS, per Cat., Aug. 31. Pockets. Bags. 81 1 ° . Kent .. 21 Os a3l3s a 31 les I Kent .. 216 s a3l Os a - 14 % Sussex.. 214 s a2l 12s a2l 18s Sussex 21 Os a2 l lO s a l i a i of Essex .. 21 Ss a2l 16s a3l Ss Essex.. 21 4s a 2l 10 5 a " Farnham, fine, 31 lOs to 61 los—Second, 21 Os to 31 1 05 Old Duty laid at 170,0001. NEIVGATE AND LEADENHALL MAnt,...b.'fb• By the Carcasc. Si Beef ls 8d to 2s sd I Veal 2s Od t o 3 „ . ell Mutton .......ls 8d tots 6d I Pork 25 Od to 6 Lamb, 2s od to 3s 4d RAW HIDES. 1 4 B il Best Heifers & Steers, per st. .... 9s 6d to ,‘ 5 5 04 3s 2il to 3s 4d Market Ordinary Calf .. eacb.• I v, O d Middlings is 1041 to 3s Od Eng. Horse Os Od to . SHEEP SKINS. il - - d d t t o o — ...._ d d 1 Shee p —d tt —d Lambs i_____2>.. l6d 1 : o Fells Downs PRICE OF LEATHER. to siO. Butts, 50 to 56Ibs each per lb isd ._ .....4 Ditto, 56 to ddlbs each --d t ° i gid Dressing Hides igid to i o ta Coach Hides Crop Hides, 35 to 401bs for cutting 19d t o e ll Ditto .... 45 to 501bs Calf Skins..so to 40Ibs ssd t : 3 4(1: Ditto 50 to 701bs ssd to t qs34. Ditto 7O to solbs 26d acia Small Seals (Greenland) 18d to : 0 4 Large ditto 16d tO ,1 Tanned Horse Hides c l o l 15d Spanish Horse Hideq l6d t° PItiCES OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per I Leib • O 6, 1!: Town Tallow 40s Od —s Od I Yellow Soap ......... Yellow Russia 40s Od —s od Mottled ............... White ditto .. —s od —s 00. Curd ................ Soap ditto.... 37s od —s od Graves ............. Melting Stuff 43s Od —s Od Good Dregs...... • Ditto Rough.. 18s od —s od PRICE OF CANDLES, FRO, Price of Candles, per dozer 6d per dozen allow T 9 it s LL o o d w_ClA io s u lr d E st it . :::6l. fr :d for ready money PRICE OF RAW FAT, per Stone of gib.--A O P,„ 1 11 Price of 'fallow (as stated by thc±j'±lL___)W COUNTRY GI , I LDFORD NI Wheat per 1. 610 s to 131 Os New Wheat .. 0; Os to 01 Os Oats, per qr... 01 18, to 11 5s New ditto.... 01 Os to 01 Os MARKET. Aug.3l. , Barley, new, IS. t o 0., Beans, per qr. 1145 04;065 Pease, per qr. 11 Si t Rye, per q r. 211 t° COAL MARKET, Si pt. 2. price' Ships at Market. Ships sold. , A a 4 0 0 a Newcastle - - 6 Sunderland FIRE IN OLD ROUND COURT, sTRAY,iodh Yesterday afternoon, about half-pas t 40 STRAP, coop a great stagnation to business prevailed in the Stran„, a ' A 110 0 ', 0 sequence of an alarming fire breaking out in v" - c tielis'e Court, which in a short time threatened total des the neighbourhood, the houses being built of v 70 ;;olter: fire originated in the front attic of a Venetian Blir% eo l° No. 5, in the court, which is situated in the left The Tv - do leading through into St. Martin's Church-yard. ifia,.telej was occupied as a workshop, and the calamity endes s account of the glue pot boiling, over. The and A u" - ip their devastation with surprising rapidity, destOrte of Mr. Currie, a tailor, was enveloped m the last ed 0 ) effects, and then the devouring element colana ti— OP",be the coal ' shed (No. 6.) occupied by a poor named Baker. Appearances were now truly an wretched inhabitants of Newton-court, Vine-Wee' t o Round-court in the rear of the conflagration, were 5e,,,,y1 in all directions carrying that little of their furnitureql;ooS4 extricate from their burning habitations ; and , not die sp e d ; all the fire-engines in the Metropolis were soon °I• di_e_d To 4eo o and were all well supplied with water, the full of bu ment baffled all their efforts ; and in addition W o rpe i jat ea already enumerated, the house of Mr. Neil/ 6 ba r, the bottom part of which was occupied by bu t, fire, and the roof soon fell in with a tremen dous_c ie at - 0 0 burning embers spread to the house of Mr. Mawail•los merchant, in New Round-court, in the rear, ha, 11 „. d osC reduced to ruins. By this time the house of t he I , t le • maker to the late King, took fire, and burnt wit an celerity. From the confined situation of the houseSliitte-sP.;,i, being now seven on fire, it was thought that those bl b u t, f‘P; l l , would likewise fall a prey to the devouring elemen,t,!, the r oe nately, by the promptitude of the firemen, assistea any lace, the devastation ended at about seven o'cloelt% nc edl• belonging to- the blind-maker, where it bit; alce' th. Baker's, Mr. Neil the carpenter, Adams, the bit, aloe' Manley, yeast merchant, Watson, a barber, an tw enty iet! tailor, were completely demolished. Upwards el...„,itareeat families have been burnt out and their little 1 1 7, 0 ,,c W,O , need, a the v 'the troyed.—Soon after the conflagration comme der At of the first battalion of the Coldstream Guards, I . l a_l st ens mand of Major Bentinck, arrived and eon s tatiaacb ea, a sse_ f oo? o , avenues, to keep off the multitude of he to retain a free passage for the firemen and ot_orivcspe!'oo' gaged. The engine belonging to INleux and U t i e l e nolvi tis ioP larly powerful and useful, and was worked t hy nu ot 0 0 ' 0 r ployed in the brewery. Notwithstanding the g t. it 0 4 0 i that a dprevaile, we did not hear of a single accident' on i ll ported that mother and her child had perished,' .nastioe' we were happy to learn that the report had no fo u rs sr e ' MARRIED• On Monday, the 26th ult., at St• George's, 'Cilannoiltaluiloglilletie Mr. C. J. Brown, of Islington, to Mary An °, s??„cir - rine C ree 'CO ° ' of On n e 3 la i t o e n 'A d l a i y le , s ti N ie Vi 2 ll d ia i m ns s t o a n n , t, Es a q t . s , .: 00 ,hmet hall-street, Von Dassel, M. D., of Billiter-streweling-5 eldest daughter of Robert Scothrui E °f " s Of it°4 . 11 Sv" , 0 lit g o' -e Printed Office,and No. Publishedll2, Strand, r n tr b P y i I J o , no ni . - 0 11 ; r . amen ukti—•• - tu.7 DIED. „ soli° On the Ist inst., at Margate, John Smith, & eV llatton-garden, and the Terrace, Xentish-town;ife of ar'i, On Saturday l Mrs, Elizabeth Powell., , er b ist pi Powell, Esq., of York-buildings, Islington, heap' oeP On Wednesday, the 28th ult.; a Brockwea the wich, Miss Susanna Hobson. Sir, ( 4 2)(