The Sun. — London, England, 1832-12-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC. JOURNALS. _-.••...L Having already expressed our high satisfac tion at the result of the elections in the metropo- ]is and in the metropolitan boroughs, and having congratulated the authorities and the electors on the admirable organization of the Reform Bill, by which confusion at polling-booths has been prevented,—by which leisurely and orderly voting has been secured,—by which the time of the voter and the purse of the candidate have been saved,—and by which all occasions of riot and tumult have been avoided, it is now our pleasing duty to express a similar feeling with respect to most of the other elections of whose progress or whose termination we have yet received intelli gence. The great body of electors over the kingdom seem even perversely and mali ciously resolved to falsify all the predictions of the Conservatives, and to disappoint all the an ticipations of the Radicals, however well intended, or however fondly cherished. If the anarchists and their Tory allies, who post poned their hopes of a riot in the metropolis from the nomination day to the days of polling, and from the poll to the final declaration of the returns, are not now convinced of the chimerical grounds on which their miscalculations were founded, they are scarcely persons with whom it would be safe or of any use to reason. The decent epilogue of thanksgiving on the part of the successful actors, and of apologizing for past errors, or soliciting future favours, on the part of their less fortunate rivals, went off yesterday as quietly as the other portions of the electoral drama. The audience, who had exercised their undoubted privilege of approbation or of disap probation, seemed in excellent good humour at the conclusion of the piece,—the stage was cleared without disturbance as soon as the legal per formance was concluded, and the curtain dropped amid general applause. If one or two volunteer orators at Covent-garden Market chose to main tain their position on the boards till they had explained why their grand favourite had failed in attracting popular favour, or insisted on apo logizing for his having started for another stage before he had taken his leave of his friends in " the Garden," their proceedings attracted little attention, as the stage-manager and the other chief actors had gone. In the intelligence which we present of electoral proceedings and returns beyond the circuit of the metropolis will be found equal cause for confidence and satisfaction. Referring to the accounts themselves, without any extended comments, we may, however, call the special attention of our readers to the contests of Cambridge, of Oxford, of Ipswich, of Lincoln, of Winchester, of Exeter, of Gloucester, of Derby, of Wycomb, of Nottingham, and of Dudley. In all these cases the Tories anticipated success for their party candidates, and have seen them, or are likely to see them, signally defeated. At Cambridge, Mr. Spring Rice, the Secre ary to the Treasury, was on the first day's polling placed at a great height above his anta gonist, Sir E. Sugden, the late Solicitor-General, and the recent opponent of Reform, the former having obtained 643, and the latter only 456. In the city of Oxford, Sir C. 'Wetherell, the great champion of rotten boroughs and corporate usurpations, was in a position as " unsatisfac tory" as his brother Conservative in Cambridge. Poor Sir Charles we almost regret to see hies excluded from the House of Commons, where, if he was not always instructive, he was always ingenious, and where at least, it was always amusing to listen to his grotesque good humoured vehemence, and to catch a portion of that odd phraseology which Hudibras has properly described as " a leash of lan guages." Had it been possible to preserve a borough in schedule A for the natural life of any Conservative, we should willing!} have made the temporary reserve in favour of the Learned Knight. Colonel Sibthorpe is rewarded for his absurd opposition to the Reform Bill, b) being the lowest on the Lincoln poll. At Ips wich the most popular Tory does not reach the half of the suffrages of his Reform antagonists. At Gloucester the Melville candidate has only 547 votes, while his opponent has 685 ; and fin Nottingham, the return of two Ministerial can didates, General Fergusson and Lord Duncan non, is secured by an overwhelming majority. Even the confident prediction of Tory success at Dudley has been falsified by 89 on the poll in favour of the Solicitor-General. Never having apprehended any social revolution in the state of England from the enactment of the Reform Bill,—never having supposed it possible that the nature of Englishmen would be changed to the worse by the restoration or establishment of their political rights,—and having always contended that the alarms of the Anti-Reformers on this subject were either hypocritical or chimerical, it is with infinite satisfaction that we record these facts in the working of the measure, which prove the correctness of our opinions and anticipations. We contemplated afreer expression of popular sen timent on the affairs of Government from Re form—and we have found our expectation veri fied, The voice of the people, overpowered by corruption and aristocratic despotism, had ceased to control the assembly which disposed of their pu;se, anal by which they ought to be :ere sented.—that control is now established or about to be established. But the electors of the king dom to whom the new franchise has been ex tended did not desire mob government,—they did not desire to forward the selfish objects of demagogues or Jacobins, any more than to promote those of Conservatives or enemies of improvement,—they did not wish to send men to Parliament to overthrow our institutions, but to free them from defects which obstruct their beneficial operation. Hence, they have gene rally adhered to their old-tried friends, or have selected new ones from among men of good character and solid pretensions, instead oi choosing persons who professed to act as the puppets of their caprice. The sober and orderly manner in which the electors were prepared to execute their electoral trust has corresponded w the general wisdom of their choice. We regret to add that in some 1- , stances there have been exhibitions of that ti t' pleeree and tumult which were the usual accom paniments of the old elections, but in all cases these riots have resulted from the manoeuvres of the Conservative faction, whom the Bill has defeated. Resolved to die hard rather than be Iv anguished, they have at Hull, Hert. Is, and. some other places, excited which, in the long run, can onl) their more signal and complete clis- What shall be thought, for instance, ay candidate for the representation of who has sent up to town to engage 'fighters to stand by him on the a to intimidate the voters of his Whig from coming to the polling-booth ? acts likely to obstruct the progress of Reform ? or are they not more likely to overwhelm quietly exti '* - fil - rli l lord Lee& ' A 5 ,... : , f, ~• ante; _q) d to 0: is .. ~.3 7 , 7 .: , l:or f 4 S4' t ; , ,f24 A , • tze : 4 zzr. E ,.. . ..:.1 s, 01 ~.,-4 . , . .-nent ft ----1--- lire such al ,ts enemies with irretrievable confusion and dis- grace ? Times. The Reform Bill may now be said to be on its trial. If it prove competent to secure the great object of rational elections, an enlightened and strictly Conservative House of Commons, the people will not, perhaps, ask many questions as to how it became law. But if the contrary should take place—if the Parliament should be a mere assemblage of nondescripts and adven turers, disposed to tolerate a Dutch war Minis try, or seeking to establish their own supremacy, like the long Parliament of old over the King and the Peers, the people, we presume, will look closely into the equitable title of such a Parlia ment to require their obedience. If such inspec tion of title proved unsatisfactory, the immediate restoration would probably be demanded of the ancient Constitution of King, Lords, and Com mons, of which the nation would appear to have been deprived by a band of daring miscreants during the present disastrous year. That such a Government is the immemorial right of the people of this realm, and that every change in the Constitution without the full consent of the three Powers is necessarily null and void, can not be doubted ; and the manner in which the recent change was imposed upon the King and the Peers by a " brick-bat-and-bludgeon" House of Commons must be fresh in the recollection of all parties. 'Weary of revolution, it is our wish that the Bill Parliament may be found not intole rable ; and we therefore submit it to the electors, and especially to the Reformers, the importance of choosing Conservative Members, lest the whole of the new system should be swept away by the indignation of a deceived and insulted people. Our reforming friends must be aware that there is a defect, perchance a fatal one, in their title-deeds, and this, we think, may well teach them moderation and humility. We pro est, as a portion, however insignificant, of the people of this country, against the idea that they have as yet done anything that implies the acceptance of Earl Grey's miserable pro ject in exchange for that old time-honoured Constitution which is their birthright. If the Times should reply to this, " The people have accepted it—witness the meet ings we puffed last year," our answer must he that of direct contradiction, " The people have not accepted it." The Reform Bill, we repeat, is on its trial. The result of the city election is, in our judgment, fatal to the preten sions of the Bill, while it furnishes a most striking instance of the accuracy of Conservative anticipations. We said that the 10/. qualifica tion would create a Radical constituency, and lo ! at the very first election the metropolis of Great Britain and the world sends four Radical Members to Parliament. Mr. Grote, the most .espectable of the group, is a Radical Doctrin /Imre ; he spurns the Bill as a final measure, and advocates among other pleasant items triennial Parliaments and the ballot. Key professes to be Radical to any amount required, and the others have been the well-known hacks of vulgar Radi- calism through the whole of their lives. The eeling of the merchants, bankers, and leading commercial men in London at the present time is perfectly understood, but they have in vain endeavoured to procure the return of one Con ,ervative Member out of four. As we pre. dieted, the constituency is so intensely Radical that the concentrated respectability and intelli gence of the metropolis attempts in vain to im press either dignity or wisdom upon its decisions. The foremost class of the electors in the empire ror wealth and character, who ought, for the sake of the public good, to exercise a predomi nant influence in public affairs, are practically disfranchised by the Bill ! The strength of the Conservative interest is proved by the spontaneous ffort of five thousand eminently respectable ‘'oters ; the infamy of the Bill by the incompe tence of such a body of men to make their voice heard in Parliament. It is obvious that if this election were a sample of the rest, the House of Commons would be an unmanageable mob, and the Constitution a democracy of the worst kind, incompetent to the business of Govern ment, and unable to save the empire from dis- memberment and ruin. The Ministerialists at. -empt to conceal the truth by calling Radical Members Whigs; but the subterfuge is suffi ciently transparent. The expected imperium in impel-to has already begun in Westminster, a Committee being appointed to watch the con duct of Members in reference to their elec cioneering pledges. We commend these consi derations to the attention of reflecting men, who are not even yet, as the Standard justly ob serves, sufficiently aware of the dangers of their position. And we again call upon the Con servatives everywhere fearlessly to do their duty, whether in a majority or a minority, as they value the salvation of their country.-Morn. Post. Mr. Hume has addressed a letter to us, which will be found in another column, under the impression that some general observations in the Chronicle of Tuesday last, had particular reference to him. We are not called on to state what might have been passing in our mind when we made the observations ; but as they were quite general, we do not feel ourselves hound either to admit or deny the truth of the inference. Mr. Hume says it is proper that the electors should free the candidate from all elec tion expenses. We do not in the least differ from Mr. Hume on this subject. He is speak ing of what ought to be, and we are speaking of what exists. When we said that " the poorer description of freeholders must be conveyed to the poll, and it often happens that the same man who would not take a tolerably large bribe to give a vote of which his conscience disapproves, will not put himself to one shilling of expense to assist in returning the man whom he conceives Able to render the most essential services to his country," and that " this is a feature in the cha racter of the people, and it ought to be taken into account by all who are ambitious of being returned for counties," we by no means meant to say that this was a disgraceful feature in the character of the people. Why is it that Eng land is covered with gaols ? that the number of her thieves to that of her honest men is, at the very least, as three to one, compared with the proportions of any other country ? that her paupers and degraded persons are out of all pro portion beyond what is known elsewhere ? Ex cessive taxation and misgovernment are account.- able for these things. We look with pity ra sher than anger on the disgraceful scenes which have just taken place in Norwich, where a pau perised population have yielded to the tempta tion of receiving the money of corrupters. We wish a large portion of our countrymen were not so poor and so degraded as to pocket the money, and eat and drink at the expense of can didates. But if it is impossible by washing to make an Ethiopian white, we cannot by wishes free a population instantaneously from the fail ings and views derived from a century of subjec tion to a corrupt and corrupting oligarchy. The warmest partisans of abolition of slavery admit that great precautions will be necessary to prevent the slave, ',when liberated, from abusing his liberty. Mr. Hume says, that " the man who for a ride or a dinner will vote for my opponent in preference to me, cannot be one of that honest constituency I wish to repre sent ; he who, for lack of these, will refrain from going to the poll can have little value for my ser vices; and if the majority of the Middlesex electors consisted of such men (which they will shortly prove it does not), my desire to serve them would not be greater than theirs to obtain my services." Here we are directly at issue with Mr. Hume. A man's desire to do good should not be repressed by the incapacity of others to appreciate it. It has happened in all ages, that the people, when ignorant, have turned on their greatest benefactors. The man who dedicates himself to the service of his fellow-creatures should consider their faults as the result of cir cumstances over which they have no control. He should bear in mind the language of Christ to a cruel and ungrateful multitude—" Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do. There are many worthy, honourable electors in Middlesex, and these men will be eager, accord ing to their means, to insure the return of Mr. Hume ; but, because there are also many poor electors, tainted with the grovelling inclination to eat, drink, and be carried to the poll at the expense of the man Rho is willing to give his gratuitous services to the benefit of them and the whole empire, Mr. Hume—knowing, as he does, that he can greatly benefit the country by his services—is not justified in refusing to em ploy the means by which he can have an oppor tunity of doing good, if the means be indis pensable, and do not exceed the measure of his ability. We have no hesitation in saying that Mr. Hume hasdone more good in Parliament, since he entered it, than any ten men living. The very extent of the good he has done is the cause of the coolness towards him of some who have acted with him from necessity rather than choice. These men feel his activity the reproach of their indulgence. A public man must lay his ac count with jealousy and detraction. Mr. Hume raised the standard by which the public estimate the services of public men ; and therefore all those who wish to have credit for patriotism without much labour, hate him. Sir Francis Burdett, by his countenance to Reform, and his integrity, rendered great service to the people, at a time when men of his rank dreaded to ap pear as Reformers. We remember the time when, on entering the House of Commons, not a soul vouchsafed even to notice him. The gratitude of the people is, therefore, due to Sir Francis, for what he has done. We must make allowance for the faults of such a man. He naturally feels the activity of a man like Mr. Flume a reproach to his own indolence. There are others like Sir Francis, who would rather see the devil in the House, than an ho nest, single-minded, laborious man like Mr. Hume. These things, however, should neither disconcert nor surprise him ; he should rather place them to the account of the weaknesses of human nature. We conclude our observations with the remark, that the electors of Middlesex are merely the medium through which he will obtain the means of rendering to his country and to the world services beyond all price ; and, therefore, should he not be returned to Parlia ment, Middlesex would, no doubt, be disgraced, but the loss would be that of the empire at large. We trust his election is far beyond dan ger, but we do not the less feel ourselves bound to urge him to neglect no means (from any ab stract notion of what belongs to electors) that may be necessary to secure to himself a noble field of ambition, necessary to his own happiness and peace of mind, and of the utmost conse quence to his country. There are hundreds of men in England who, on occasion, can make flashy speeches ; but there has hitherto been but one Mr. Hume in Parliament.—Morn.Chronicle. To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Bryanston-square, Dec. 11, 1832. Sir,—As I have usually looked to your Paper for sound constitutional principles, great was my astonishment at perusing that part of your editorial article of this day, which alludes to the line of conduct you deem necessary to be adopted by gentlemen " ambitious of representing counties" in the Reformed Parliament ; and denouncing the penalty of exclurion against those who should not conform to it. I think I need not seek far to produce some articles of your own, penned in a much purer spirit, pointing out to electors the necessity of relieving candidates from all ex pense, if they desired to be represented by men not belong ing exclusively to the wealthy aris'ocracy, and of removing from these men the temptation to remunerate themselves for money wasted in treating, &c. I, Sir, shall perhaps astonish you in return by announc ing myself as one " ambitious" of representing a county— aye, and the metropolitan county too—and yet resolved not to " pay for the ambition." I have been applied to from various parts to know whether I mean to provide conveyances and entertainment for my supporters at the ensuing election? I have answered, " No ! though it should coat me my election." " But (say many) the other candidates, or some of them, will do so." I reply, " Their conduct in Parliament has been no guide for mine, neither shall it be out of doors. I have ever advocated the broad principle, " give no bribes—take none.' " Bribes need not be pecuniary ones. For my unbending principles in Parliament, I have received contempt and abuse. Honour and civility might have been my portion, had I joined either Whigs or To ries ; but I was not vexed or disappointed. I knew that such a course could please neither of the dominant parties, and the few who acted with me, from time to time, I was prepared to see drop off when the fitting time arrived. I was content to have stood even alone in the House, for it was to the public, who were to benefit by the Reforms I ' hoped to effect, that I looked for support, and among them I have found, and still expect to find it. Nor will I be lieve, till the fact is proved to demonstration, that Eng. lishmen, now gloriously freed from the tyranny of borough_ mongers, are so base as you seem disposed to believe them. The man who, for a ride or a dinner, will vote for my opponent in preference to me, cannot be one of that ho nest constituency I wish to represent. He who, for lack of these, will refrain from going to the poll, can have little value for my services. And if the majority of the Middlesex electors consisted of such men (which they will shortly prove it does net), my desire to serve them would not be greater than theirs to obtain my services. I remain, Sir, your obed ent servant, JOSEPH HUME. We cannot refrain from paying a just tribute of applause to an Evening Contemporary, from whose eyes the scales of darkness appear to have dropped, and who now sees, what every one saw two years ago at least, that practical reform is only on the eve of commencement. " Lastly," says our Conservative Contemporary, " if there were any who doubted the working of the Bill—who disbelieved us when we denied its finality, they m ust now see that it is but the beginning of re volution ; that the sole tenure by which any Minister can hold office is the opinion that he is ready to go with the movement.' It may be that he may not go at a hand gallop with Colonel Evans, hut go lie must; and if h e only give proof that he will not stand upon the ancient institutions of the country, h e may, according to the creed of the metropolita n elec tors, commit any folly or wickedness that shall please him—even crimes as wanton, wasteful, Ind atrocious as the attack upon the King of the Netherlands." True, most true it is, that the Reform Act is only the beginning of a revolu tion —of a revolution for the good of the people, not for the benefit of the few ; and on this ac count, and on this only, is it really valuable in our estimation. It is not a " good" in itself, but an instrument of " good ;" and, thank Hea ven, it is working its -effects with a rapidity and an efficiency which we had scarcely hoped for—not that it was not time that a counter revolution should commence ; for, God knows, the Tories have done enough to bring it about; but because, in con sequence of the influence of the latter, it was scarcely to be hoped that it would so soon go to the root of the matter. Public opinion is progressive, and but for the sins of the Tories, the heavy burdens which they imposed upon the people, and their opposition to all Reform, it would have progressed much more slowly here than in any other country. Englishmen are not fond of change, for the mere sake of change, and would rather bear the ills they suffer, than encounter those of which they have no knowledge; but thanks to the exertions of the Tories—thanks to their endeavours to keep the people in ignorance—thanks to their en deavours to enrich themselves, their wives and widows, their daughters and sons—their con nections and dependents, at the public expense —Reform has been gained, at a great expense undoubtedly, but in a sweeping and efficient manner. Farewell, indeed, we may now truly say, to exorbitant Church revenues—farewell to tithes—and a long—long—farewell to pensions and sinecures! The fate of all these things is settled and sealed—no Government that advo cates their existence can possibly maintain itself at any future period in this country, and with another election, and the return of another Par liament, we doubt not that every abuse from which the people now suffer will be thoroughly expunged. From that even, however, which is about to meet, much is to be expected. — Morning Advertiser. COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 12. The LORD CHANCELLOR entered the Court to day at half-past twelve, and proceeded to give judg ment in those cases which stood over for conside- ration. WALBURN V. INGLEBY. The rarties in this case are shareholders in the Potosi Milling Company. The plaintiff had prayed that the defendants, as Directors, be compelled to account for 40,0001., which, he alleged they had im properly applied to their own use. To this bill the defendants put in two demurrers, which were argued before his Lordship at Westminster. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in giving judgment, said, that in his opinion the demurrers must now be allowed. If they had rested on the objection raised, that the company was illegal at common law, he should have been of a very different opinion, be cause, to say that upon such grounds the company was illegal, would be equivalent to deciding that all joint stock compapies were contrary to the policy of the law--a conclusion to which he could not arrive, and which was opposed to the principle of the re cent Statute by which the Bubble Act had been re pealed. He was of opinion, too, that the clause re lating to the notice was not enough to support the demurrer; that being merely a regulation which was binding on the original shareholders, and not intended by the company to be operative be tween them and the persons to whom the shares might be transferred. He did not think either that the demurrer could be sustained because the bill was to be considered defective in not praying a dissolution of the partnership. The bill did not pray for a general account, but sought relief with respect to particular transactions. The non-joinders of certain defendants, and the omission of parties as defendants, were not objections of weight enough in themselves to support the demurrer, and particu larly when the same class of cases in which parties had been nnmerous were referred to. There was, however, one objection raised by the demurrer, which he could not get rid of, notwithstanding the desire he felt to permit the case to go on if it could properly be allowed to do so. That objection was founded on the plaintiff's title. He alleged in his bill that he was a shareholder by purchase,and that, for a valuable consideration, he had become the possessor of a large number of shares, on which the deposit of N. was regularly paid. Now the rules of the company provided, that no transfer of shares was to be valid, unless the person to whom they were to be transferred should first exe cute an instrument binding him to conform to the regulations of the company. This the plaintiff did not allege he had done, and therefore it was con tended on the part of the defendant, that he was not, in fact, a shareholder; on the other hand, it was insisted that the demurrer, in terms, and by its nature, admitted the facts alleged in the bill, and that one of these facts being that the plaintiff was a shareholder, the defendants could not now di , pute his title, or say that he had not conformed to the rules prescribed by the Company, and by which its members were bound. He (the Lord Chancellor) could not bring himself to admit the consequences which the plaintiff sought to draw from this admis sion. The term, shareholder, was so vague and so little known in law, that he could not say the ad mission that the plaintiff was a shareholder in the manner the demurrer admitted him to be could be construed into recognising the right on which the bill in that case could be sustained. The share 4, too, were not of such a nature as to supply the deft• ciency. Shares might be of many kinds, and the modes of transferring them as various. Bills of ex change, for example, were by the custom of mer chants transferrable, although choses in action, but the manner in which they were transferred must be stated in pleading. Even, however, if the demurrer could be overruled on this point, the weight of the objection would not be removed, because the de fendants might avail themselves of it with equal force in the event of the proceedings going on to other stages of the cause. His Lordship concluded by ordering that the demurrers be allowed, but without costs. LANDON V. MORRIS. In this case his Lordship affirmed the decision of the Court below, and ordered the sums in dispute to be paid into Court. The costs of the appeal to be paid by the appellant. IVYLLIE V. NODEN. In this case an injunction had been obtained in the Vice-Chancellor's Court, restraining the defendant from disposing of, and the West India Company from parting with, certain parcels of sugar and rum, claimed by the plaintiff. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in giving judgment to day, observed that if the whole case opened on the part of the appellant had been originally disclosed to the Vice-Chancellor, he was confident the injunc tion would not have been granted. As it was, lie felt it his duty now to dissolve that injunction with costs. HUGHES V. WYNN. It will be recollected that in this case a petition was presented, praying his Lordship to order cer- rain exceptions set down for hearing before the Vice Chancellor to be struck off, in order that the de- ' fendant might be compelled to set them down for hearing before the Master of the Rolls, in whose paper there were other exceptions of the same kind, and arising out of the same facts. The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed his decision, for the purpose of consulting their Honours on the question of jurisdiction, and now observed that ques tion was of too much importance to be decided without more elaborate argument before the three Judges in Equity sitting together. Under these c i rcu mstances, therefore, and having consulted their Honours on the subject, he should request the Master of the Rolls to hear the exceptions set down in the Vice-Chancellor's pager for him, and he should further request his Honour to hear them ac cordingly on Monday next. Mr. KNIGHT, feeling some doubts whether Coun sel could be fairly instructed by that time, notice was ordered to be given to-morrow of the day when they would be ready. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 12. FIELD, V. BEZANT, GENT. This was an action brought to recover a sum of 3331., alleged to be due on six bills and promissory notes, drawn by the plaintiff and accepted by the defendant, and dated in 1818. Mr. PLATT, for the plaintiff, stated that, against this demand, the defendant intended to set off a bill of costs, which the defendant claimed for business done by him, as solicitor in the Court of Chancery for the plaintiff. That bill of costs, as presented by the defendant, amounted to 7071., and that was reduced on taxation in the Court of Chancery to 3031., and, giving credit for that sum, the plaintiff would still have to receive 301. Mr. LAW, for the defendant, observed that the amount of the sum charged in the bill of costs, although it extended over transactions for many years, had only been reduced on the business done, to 5701. Out of that sum the defendant admitted the payment of money on account, which reduced the claim to 4221., which was the amount of the taxed bill; so that this was much more than sufficient to cover the whole of the sum claimed by the plaintiff. But then, as the bill of costs, as given in by the defendant, had been re duced by taxation by more than one-sixth, the costs of the taxation, by a rule of the Court of Chan cery, were fixed on the defendant ; and those costs of taxation amounted to the exorbitant sum of about 118/. or thereabouts, which reduced the bill to the 3031. at which it was taken by the plaintiff. But, besides this, he had to set off a sum of 1951. due from the plaintiff to the defendant, on a settled ac count, authenticated by the plaintiff himself, and he had also to set off a sum charged for extra, or usurious interest on these bill and notes, up to 1826. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 291. and a fraction. Mr. LAW craved leave to move the Court on the point whether the bill of costs ought to be taken at 422/. or at 303/., and to enter a verdict for the de fendant in case the Court should be of opinion that the amount of the bill ought to be taken at 422/. ; and leave was given. JAMES V. ALCOCK. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is a stationer, against the defendant, who is a tailor in Jermyn• street, to recover compensation in damages for injury done to the plaintiff's wife by her being thrown out of a chaise through the negligence and bad driving of the defendant. The case was proved, and there was no defence. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 701. HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, DEC. 12. SIR FRANCIS A. COLLIER v. THE LORDS OF THE TREASURY.—THE. DONNA BARBARA. This was an important appeal from the decision of the Court of Admiralty, as to the construction of the Act founded on the treaty entered into between this Government and Spain, Portugal, and the Ne therlands, for putting down the slave trade. Mr. Justice PARKE, Mr. Justice ALDERSON, Drs. DAUBENEY, BURNABY, HAGGARD, and CUR. TIES, sat to hear the case, a protest having been entered on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury, against the jurisdiction of the Court. It appeared by the memorial presented by Sir F. A. Collier, late Commander of his Majesty's ship I Sybille, that while off Frutocion the Paul Pry, a tender belonging to the Sybille, captured the Donna Barbara, with 357 slaves on board, which she had shipped at Lagos, to the north of the Equator, thus rendering her liable to condemnation in committing a breach of the treaty entered into between this country and the Brazils to suppress the slave trade. The slave-ship was taken into Sierra Leone and condemned by the Mixed Commission Court there, was sold, and the slaves, which consisted of 86 men, 129 women, and 136 children, were emancipated. Sir F. A. Collier, on behalf of the officers and crew of the Sybille, memoralized Government for a moiety of the proceeds obtained by the sale of the Donna Barbara, together with the bounty money, which the Slave Act allows for the capture of all slaves. The Lords of the Treasury, after considering the question, returned an answer to the effect :—" That, finding many of the circum stances regarding the capture were novel and in volved in doubt, their Lordships were of opinion that the claimant should revert to the High Court of Admiralty for its judgment." Proceedings were accordingly commenced on behalf of Sir F. A. Col lier, the officers, and crew of his Majesty's ship Sy bille; and the Judge rejected the claim, his Ma jesty's Procurator-General appearing previously on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury to oppose it. Sir F. A. Collier now appealed to the High Court to set aside this decision ; but on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury a protest was given in objecting to the jurisdiction of the Court, on the ground that under the 71st clause of the Slave Act no appeal from the decision of the Judge of the Admiralty Court was provided for. This protest came on for consideration to-day. The amount for which Sir F. A. Collier, the of ficers, and crew of the Sybille are proceeding, for bounty money, &c., is between 3,000/. and 4,000/. The KING'S ADVOCATE, with whom was Dr. DODSON, on behalf of the respondents (the Lords of the Treasury), contended that the point at issue not being either a civil or maritime question, the Court had no power to decide. By the sth of Geo, IV., which was an Act to amend and consolidate the Slave Laws, provision was made for granting bounty for captured slaves; but the present claim was not contemplated. The Court of Admiralty had a summary jurisdiction, and the whole tenor of the Act of Parliament showed that there was no appeal from such decision. The omission of the right of appeal in the Act from the decision of the High Court of Admiralty showed that it was not intended so to appeal. The Learned Civilian, after referring to the Act of Parliament to establish his point, con tended the Court must pronounce for the protest, and dismiss his parties from further observance of • justice in the cause. Dr. ADDAMS said he appeared for Sir F. A. Col lier, and should have to contend that the protest given in on behalf of the Lords of the Treasury must be overruled, and their Lordships assigned to appear absolutely. Appeals were admitted in all cases unless specially provided against. The Learned Counsel at some length addressed the Court in sup ' port of its jurisdiction, as his party could appeal to ' no other Court. The stake at issue was nearly 4,000/., and it ought not to be proceeded upon sum marily; he therefore prayed the Court to dismiss the protest, and direct the Lords of the Treasury to appear personally. Their LORDSHIPS, after some consultation, post poned their decision till a future day. HYDROPHOBIA.—At the meeting of the Medico• Botanical Society Sir ANTHONY CARLISLE ad dressed the members on the subject of a remedy for hydro phobia, new to this country. The Learned Baronet stated that he had received from South America three bottles (containing about a quart each) of the extracted juice of a plant of the cactus family, which are well known to be harmless in their effects, some of them being used as a salad, and cattle being fed on others when there is a dearth of grass. The mode of application in South America is to put the patient up to his neck in sand or earth, and pour two ounces and a half of the extract down his thrust by force, as soon after the bite as possible; it has, however, been cured effectually even when given after confirmed symptoms of the disease have set in. Sir ANTHONY stated, on the authority of his informant, that the strait waistcoat of sand or earth was net absolutely ne cessary to the cure. Sir ANTHONY stated that he would be ready to accompany any medical practitioner, partien lirly one of a public institution, to witness its exhibition, in any case occurring in their practice. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR s. d &dair's 17 0 Beaumont _ 15 9 Bensham Main 17 0 Hebburn Main 18 9 Holywell _ 17 6 Ord 's Redhugh 15 6 fanfield Townley . 16 6 Wylam West Hartley . 17 0 Walls End Bell & Brown 19 9 Ditto Bewicke and C 0..., 18 9 Walls End Caperton .—. 16 0 Ditto Clarke and Co.. l7 6 Walls End G05f0rth......., 19 3 Walls End 19 0 Walls End Hilda 18 6 Ditto 15 6 Ditto Killingworth 18 0 Walls End Newmarch.... 18 6 Ditto Northumberland.. 18 0 Ships arrived since Per Ton. .KET.—Dec. 12. Per Ton. s. d. Ditto Perkins and IS 0 Walls End Riddell's ..—.. 19 0 Walls End Russell's.... 17 3 Walls End Hetton ....... 19 9 Walls End Lyons 18 0 Walls End Lambton —.. 20 0 W. E. Russell's Hetton.... 19 9 Walls End Stewart'',..... 20 0 Walls End Adelaide 18 0 Walls End Butter Knowl 18 3 Walls End Gordon...* 19 (1 Walls End Tees .......... 20 6 Walls End Elgin .......... 16 Howard'sNethertonMain 16 9 New Flockton, Milne, ... and Co. , 18 3 Silkstone Field and Co.,- 18 0 Scremerstone Engine,..... 15 6 Strafford Main 21 0 Swallow Wood 16 6 Hotspur 12 0 last market-day, 104. CoUN'TRY CORN MARKEL'S DURING 111 E WEEP. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. 62 81 31 43 22 no 38 Andover—. 73 80 37 41 Binningham..--.. 56 66 40 44 24 32 52 flridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 54 Cirencester 48 60 28 36 19 28 56 40 54 86 36 40 26 34 46 Guildford --- 48 74 23 32 26 85 41 Henley--,--- 54 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford , 84 92 44 48 52 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 37 34 58 23 32 17 32 Reading 65 70 31 47 21 27 34 42 46 54 28 34 20 23 36 54 Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 48 Stroud 64 78 37 38 22 32 48 'Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 4 4 Uxbridge 48 74 37 40 23 33 46 58 80 27 43 21 30 34 42 Warminster 44 56 26 36 21 27 34 46 59 21 22 be. Worcester 65 66 44 51 31 34 50 LEWES MARKET.—Dec.II. White Wheat (per quarter) X 2 15 0 to £3 0 0 Red ditto -- 2 10 0 2 14 0 1 10 0 1 12 0 Oats. New 0 17 0 0 18 0 LEWES MARKET.— White Wheat (per quarter).-- X 2 Red ditto--,.. Barleyw.— Oats, New ... Pease Oil Cake. New, 0 per th 1 17 0 tousand. HULL MARKET.—Dec. 11. Wheat, Old s. 50s. 60s. New —s. 40s. fills. Foreign —s. 50s. Ms. In bond... —4. —s. —s. 20s. 225. .Old. Oats, Poland - —s. Small or Feed.... —s. 14s. 20s .-.4. —s. S. Foreign ,..... —s. 15s. 16s Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —5. 345. 355. Linc. & Wold —B. 32s 345. Foreign —s. -- s. ---11. Beans 30s. 325. 345. Foreign —a. 324. 348. Pease, White... —s. 365. 38s. Grey —s. 30s. 345. l'ares ---s. —s. —s. Foreign —s. 30s. 325. Rapeseed, in bond n0ne.......... Free, per last 221. 231. Os. CHELTENHAM.: Per Bushel. a. d. to s. d, Wheat 6 0 8 0 Barley 4 0 5 6 . Oats 4O 43 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay Si. 10s 'IIA RKET.—Dec. 11. Pet lb. d. to d. Beef 6 7 Mutton 6l 7 Veal Pork Laud) 0 0 to Si. 15s. Od. per ton RKETS.—Dec. 5. a. d. 5. d• Butter, l6oz. 0 otoo 0 Eggs, dozen ........ 0 0 0 0 Beef, per lb. Mutton 0 4 0 5 Veal 0 4 0 0 Quartern Loaf 0 7 0 9 ,RKETS. )7'E.—FRIDAY, Dec. '7. To Average• 30 0 26 1 —0 0 15 0 14 0 11 0 9 4 22 0 0 14 0 11 4 122 0 Od. per om 19s. Od, om 14s. 6d. I 17 4% sack. I. to 9.24. Od. I. to 184. Od. L to 10s. Od DUMFRIES M s. d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 0 to 6 6 Barley Oats .......... 2 0 2 5 Flour, 141 b Oatmeal 1 8 1 9 Potatoes, cwt........... 1 6 201 IRISH MA' :DUBLIN MARKET NO From 1,805 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 9.2 0 0 Beze l6 stone 0 940 16 stone 13 0 1,888 Oats 12 stone 9 0 12,705 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 5 0 636 Oatmeal 8 stone 8 0 ..1 11' 6 4* Wheat and Flour ,445 Firsts, q ... 1 Seconds ' """ Thirds, I Sold to Bakers only 10,763 Cwt. Flour Average price e Receipts of Flour, 17, Sales of Do. 12, PRICE OF BREAD. ...--BWcl. I Half Qua Quartern Loaf 8W d. I Half Quartern,....................44 a:. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cVit. ----- per barrel per barrel per barrel ~.----:-,---- 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. lst. 2 0 . ------ —.---•- s. d. a s . d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as.d. s. d. as. d.I s. Cork 20 0 27 611 0 150 78 9015 0 176 50 15 0 Limerick 1200 268 12 0 134 12 0 136 16 0 19,0 0 0 15 0 Waterford 230 25 011 0 140 70 8017 0 18 010 0 15 0 Clonmel ..234 270 10 0 14 610 0 146 17 0 19 013 0 16 0 Carlow* 250 27 012 0 130 80 9020 6 210 00 00 Butter. Beef, I Mutton, per lb. per lb. , Pork. 0 1-- per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th.r.th . ---.—. —.— -.. ......... s. d. a s..i. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. d -30 0 35 8 0 0 76 660 050 0 340 350181 079 690 ,0 57 0 330 35 0850 82 760 0600 ,32 0 33082 78 o—o 9 0 00 0086 84 074 0 0— 0 id. a d. d. a d. Cork 5 6 5 6 Limerick— 31: 41 31 4 Waterford 3 6 3 5 Clonmel 3-1. 451 6j Carlow—. 4,5 j 0 0 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS, AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TOMORROW, DEc. 14. M. 11 . T. M. Mason, bookseller, Baker-street, Portman.square 2 at 12 o 11 . C. B. Wilson, scrivener, Red Lion-square C Brown, dealer in china, Tottenham-court-road H. Stapleton, fishmonger, St. Leonard's, Sussex 2 1 J. Furbank, grocer, Cambridge ....•••••• sc, T. Gibbs, ship-owner, Bishopsgate-street 2 I -2 11 J. Clarke tavern-keeper, Greenwich W. H. Main, painter, 1 / a ter-lane, Blackfriars n 12 C. White, builder, Nassau-street, Middlesex Hospital . P. W. Brass, oilman, Hammersmith 11 J. 0. Kettle, tailor, Southampton.street, Strand ' 1 - , W. Coles, jun. broker, Mincing-lane 1 1 1 M. 11. Dunn and Co merchants, London-street ........ J. B. Bowley, furnishing-ironmonger, Great Dover street o Newington 1 11 F. Taylor, carpenter, South Molton-street.... _ DIVIDEND. J. Burke, licensed-victualler, Greenwich .........................at 1° At a meeting of the subscribers to Lloyd's , held yesterday, the sum of 105/. was voted from their funds towards ' the subscription for the distressed widolvi and children at Shetland, and 50/. to the arctic land eic" ped ition. LIVERPOOL CORN-NIARKET.—The going on of election proceedings this forernoon caused a very small attendance at our market, and there being a large A show of samples of new wheat, which holders press'''. more anxiously than of late, sales could only be made to: small extent at a reduction of Id. to 2d. per 701 b. Old also found little inquiry, but was held at former priee g " f The demand for oats was less lively than at the end ° last week, and the then advance scarcely supported, though one choice lot brought 2s. Bd. per 451 b. barley, malt, or bean., scarcely anything done. Flour was Is. per sack lower, and oatmeal, too, gave way tid' pl. load. DISTRESSING CIRCUMSTANCE.--Abou t three weeks ago, a poor woman, named LUCAS, the wife of a labouring millwright, in the employ of Mr. NOP one of the candidates for the borough of Greenwich, W safely delivered of three children, two girls and a WY , which, with the mother, promised to do well; but, 001 fortunately, a few days afterwards, the nurse in attenden e i i on the mother gave her damp sheets to lie upon, 'l'l_9 through this shameful negligence the poor woman A thrown into a fever, from the effects of whic h she diu..; two days afterwards. The father of the babes; who going on favourably, has five other children living' n , party of benevolent ladies have, in the most humane moan, ner, raised a subscription for the purpose of rearin i g ibe y three infants who are deprived of their mother , and have been placed under the care of proper persons• sale bY A DEAR PENNYWORTH.--At the ri y Messrs. SOTHEBY and Son, on Thursday, of th e P r°- 0 1 of the late Mr. Wu. KNIGHT, F.S.A., assistan t arc h oog and superintendent to the new London .bridge, °r oo d other articles were several tnorceaux of antiqui t t.h re' luring the removal of the old bridge, some of v",'" f or alined extraordinary prices. A penny of Vi 7ll being Archbishop of Canterbury (very rare), 41. Is•r tr iasie nine hundred and seventy-two times its wo° d , value. A beautifully carved box, made of 6 , - , ra vo of the " sleepers" of the ancient bridge (a° silj er inscription inside), 21. 19s. A plain ditto, se. - tor plate on the lid, 2/. 17s. HENRY VIII. half sovera°o`o,4o nulet mint mark), 4/. The lower jaw, an d tbre? hones, of PETER of Cole Church, the original arc o f t he London-bridge, found on removing the foundation o f Ancient Chapel, 7s. ! of BIRTHS. ‘" On the 11th inst. at Tichborne Park, Hampshire, t he 14 , Lieut.-Colonel Charles Talbot, of a son. 9°9. On the Ilth inst. at Stamford-hill, Mrs. Josiah f MARRIED. ete.A' worc -.,,,.. On the 11th inst. at Fladbury, in the county o f ,ti A Margaret, second daughter of the Rev. NV. A. Prilen,,_°. r it " bury, to Captain T. R. Billamore, Ist Grenadier Regi l "_ ..., Bombay Native Infantry DIED. On the 10th inst. at Torquay, in the :16th year of he:fir Mary Ann, the wife of the Rev. Thomas Gron ow, of Com, bert, near 11th N inst. Glamorganshire. raf t On the Emily, the i n fant daughter of Wid ialn ter, Esq. On the 10th inst. at the Abbey, Winchest er, in the 6 5th r- o f of his age, Robert Jesset, Esq. On the inst. Sophia, the wife of Mr. Thomas get Manchester. PRINTPD AND PUBLISDE B D y MURDO YOUNO, A SUN OFFICA, IW, STRAND, LONDON, I