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addles:Ned such a note to the Conference a. that alluded to ; but we arc able to state, on the most positive authority, that there is not the slightest truth in the assertion of his having been badly seconded by Lord PALMERSTON. Whatever th e general conduct of Lord PALMERSTON may have been as regards the Belgic question—and w e are free to confess that we have frequently felt that the Noble Lord was carrying his cour tesy to the Holy Alliance deputies too far—we are bound to say, that latterly Lord PALMER STON has been a strenuous advocate for the just claims of the Belgians, and that the Belgian Minister has been recently heard to declare, that h e had every reason to be satisfied with the inte grity and firmness of the Noblo Secretary for Foreign Affairs (que sa droiture et sa fern/ell! en fizreur des Beiges meritoient deseloges). With respect to the present state of the Belgian question, we may observe, that all parties seem disposed to come to a settlement, and that the Conference hare adopted a new mode of treating it, which they expect will be approved of both by the Belgians and the Dutch. We understand that the Bank Question, although apparently dropped for the present, continues to be the subject of frequent discussion among those Members of the Government who understand it best, and that the representations made to Earl GREY by Mr. ATTWOOD, of Birmingham, are likely to produce a strong effect. Mr. ATTWOOD has communicated his views verbally, as well as by letter, to the Pre mier ; and we have reason to believe that the Noble Lord has signified, in an indirect way, his concurrence in many of them, at the same time, however, leaving it to be inferred, that there was some difference of opinion between him and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the subject. As soon as Ministers reassemble in tow n , i t is probable that the attention of the Cabinet will be more particularly directed, than • it hitherto appears to have been, to the state of the currency and the Bank affairs. At a meeting of the National Political Union held yesterday , Mr. 'WAKEFIELD observed that M r. SPALDING had assured him " that his father-in-law, the LORD CHANCELLOR, had changed his opinion respecting the ballot, no longer considering that it would make the whole of a man's life a lie,' as he had formerly asserted. It was a conversation with the late Mr. JEREMY BENTHAM that had changed his Lordship." This, if it be true ; which we have no reason to doubt, seeing that it is put forth on respectable authority, is a piece of intelli gence not less important than gratifying. JE REMY BENTHAM has made many converts, but never so illustrious a one as the present LORD C HANCELLOR of England. The Memoirs of Louis XVIIL lately pub lished in Paris, though possessing little literary merit, give considerable insight into the state of the French Court and Government under the old Bourbon dynasty. The character of the dethroned tyrant CHARLES X. is thus given by his brother, when speaking of his approaching marriage,— " As for D'ARTOIS (CHARLES X.), whose " marriage was now about to take place, he had " n 0 occasion to make any affected concealment " of his learning, for he hardly possessed the " very first rudiments of information of any " kind, literary or scientific, ancient or modern" 4 emoires de Louis XVIII. Chap. 10.), a nd yet the best interests of society, the happi ness of millions, were at one time committed to the caprice of this individual ! The wisdom of Louis XVIII. himself, is dis played in a light but little more favourable in these Memoirs. There is some boasting, it is true, of his learning, but we find few indications of it, excepting that he appears to have read RORACE, and all the scandalous chronicles of his time. His notions of the art of government appear, like those of the rest of his family, to have been chiefly imbibed from his nurse, and it is not difficult to guess what notions of govern ment a Bourbon nurse was likely to instil into the mind of a Bourbon Prince. The following is the account given of Louis XVIII. when Count de PROVENCE, going in public procession to the Parliament. " I pro ceeded as slowly as possible through the streets; " I bowed to the right and to the left with th e " most gracious smile ; and it was not without " satisfaction that I heard the compliments paid " to my person and my countenance, for I must " say they were not spared." In another part of the work is a history of LOUIS XVI. taking lessons in dancing long after his marriage, and of an almost incredible scene between him and his brother, CHARLES X. The latter, who was greatly amused at the awkwardness of the KING, expressed his feelings in a very offensive way, which brought down upon him the sovereign displeasure of his bro ther, after the school-boy fashion, when a scene succeeded to which the pen of FIELDING could alone do justice. The unfortunate Louis XVI., however, ap pears from these Memoirs to have been the only individual of the family who ever gave his mind to any rational study. He devoted much time to i me c h an i cal pursuits, an occupation that was ooked upon by his family as a disgrace ; they, however, appea r to have endeavoured in vain to prevent his indulging in it. Of such matters, of fati g uing accounts of the ceremonials of the bigotted Court of France, and of some obscene anecdotes, these Memoirs are chiefly made up ; and persons unacquainted with Courts will have some difficulty in believing that even on the brink of the Revolution, those most interested in its events could have occu pied themselves with matters so trifling and contemptible. The following are extracts from Dutch Pa pers received this morning:— AMSTERDAM, Scer. 4.--His Excellency Baron de Binder, 111inh,ter of Austria at the Court of the Nether lands, arrived here to-day. Boxs-Le-Dvc, SEPT. 2,-- The thy before yesterday sri order of the d a y was publi-led in the came at Ciers , tile, announ c i ng t h at t h e troops there (the 3d division) Were to leave it on the Sth inst. Nothing seems to have been announced respecting the camp at Pyen. con tracts for the subsistence of tie troops are to the loth, Last Friday the Duke of Saie Weimar rose on horseback; his horse stumbled in a covered hole and fell. The Duke hail one of his ribs broken. His Highness is at Tilburg, under the care of his surgeons. General Destomhs, who rode next the Duke. also fell, but was not seriously injured. Tif E HAGUE, Strr. 3 —Colonel Last, G,vernor of the Dutch possessions on the coast of Guinea, has lately returned home, after having been 16 years in that coon try. Our Court is rune into mourning for a fortnight, for her Serene Highness the Princess Wilbelmina Addheid, of Sixe Weimar Eisenach. BERLIN, AUG. Adalhert has returned from his tour in Hollind and Great Britain. Count Pozz , a di Borgo, Russian Ambassador at the Court of France, has arrived here from St. Petersburgh, on his return from Paris. Two Russian Cabinet mes semzer,, Large and Dobrowski, have arrived from London and St. Petersburgh. Prince Sergens Dolgurucky has !eft Berlin, going express to St. Petersbur4h. DUTCH FUNDS.—AmFrrugnAm, SEPT. 4. Actual Debt, 2lsj per cent 43Y4 to 44 1 ,i Amort Syndic, 4,5 per cent 74 to 74 ti Ditto, ditto, 3V, per cent 59 to 59 1 4 Voluntary Loan, 1831, 0 per cent 0834 to 97 Ditto, ditto, 1832, 5 per cent B3N to 84 Exchange on London l2 2 , , to 12 17 5-10 Ditto, two months l2 15 to 12 12 5-10 . _ —Dutch Papers, Sept. 5 THE CHOLERA. New Ca.es. Deaths Recoveries. AMSTERDAM, SEPT. 4 56 24 6 LEYDEN, SEPT. 4 4l 15 20 ROTTERDAM, SEPT. '2 2O 17 21 WARsaw, AuG. 26 —Prince Meszez:rski, formerly Dlrector of the Chancery of the Militaty-Government„ died he, yesterday, after a short idness. An ordinance has been published to day respecting the assistance and indemnity to be given to the Jews, for their losses during the revolution. Prince Pashewitseh repre sented to the Council of Administration some time ago, the necessity of considering the actual situation of the Jews in the kingdom, observing, that in the war with the re bels, the Jews had been the faithful and zealous adherents of the Government, to which they had rendered extraor dinary sery ces, and had on that account been in every way prosecuted and oppressed, stripped of their property, and ill-treated by the rebels, and it was therefor, the duty of Government, now that order is restored, to assist them, and to provide for the widows and orphans of those who have perished. An ordinance contains various regulations on the subject. The sum of 200,000 I),didi fl.trins is assigned as an indemnity to the Jews. ST. PETERSBURGII, Are. 22.—Her Imperial High ness, the Grand Duchess Helena, is gone to Moscow. PRUSSIAN FUNDS—BERLIN, •5G.30. St. Schuld Sah. 4 per cent 94 Pro-sian English Loan, 1815, 5 percent. 10 2 5 5', Ditto Ditto 1822, 5 per cent. 102% Ditto Bonds 1830, 4 percent... 87 Prussian State Gazette, Sept. 1. B russels and German Papers have been re ceived this morning ; the former say that Prince METTERNICH, whose passage through Paris was announced some days ago, has caused his passage to be taken on board the Earl of Li verpool steamboat, for London, which leaves Ostend to-morrow (Tuesday) : BRUSSELS, SEPT. S.—We are assured that the questor, of the Senate of the Chamber of Representatives, have received notice from the Minister of the Interior to prepare every thing in the palace of the national representatives by the 15th inst. Lord Rivers arrived at Brussels yesterday. A letter from Ostend say*—" Prince Talleyrand st out from Csl.tis for Dover on Saturday. Prince Metter nich, whose passage through Paris was announced some days ago, has caused hi* passage to be taken on board the Earl of Liverpool steam-boar, for London, which leave, Ostend to-morrow (Tuesday.) BRUSSELS, SErr. 4 -The Moniteur declares the re ports of the questors being ordered to prepare for the Session of the Chamber*, is unfounded. It is said that M. Kauffman is going to he sent to Ma drid as Minister from the King to the Court of Spain; and that M. Vdriderlinden, Member of the late Provi sional Government, will succeed M. Kauffman as intend ant of the King's Civil List. Count Vilain XIII. set out last night, at I I o'clock, on a mission to Paris. We hear from Flushing that the road looks like a forest of masts, being crowded with ships bound to Antwerp. In the " Memoirs of Linguet" there is a valuable do cument on the liberty of the Scheldt. It is the opinion of the States of Zealand, in 1646, on the question of the navigation of that river, which is still at issue between us and Holland. The States-General were hesitating between a durable peace and a mere truce. The States of Zealand declared against a peace. "If peace is made (they siy) the provinces, towns, and members of the Law Countries must be allowed to enjoy the conreniencies and the advan tages which God and nature have granted them, and of which they had the use and possession before the war, without its being possible, on any ground, or under any a pretext, to suffer the sta cles and the hindrancesintro duced during the war to affect them afterwards, BUT WHICH MIGHT BE CONTINUED DURING THE TRUCE. Even should it he attempted to stipulate to the contrary by a treaty, all nations will recognise the injustice of it; such a stipulation will he a constant source of disagree. tnents and misunderstaidings—troubies will ensue in which all the world will declare in favour of the said provinces and towns, because such impediments are contrary to commerce in genera!, and all those who frequent those pro • vinces and cities are interested in the question." Such then is the avowal of the States of Zealand, and it is with this document in their archives that the Dutch of our days maintain the justice of their impediments sti pulated according to them fur all eternity at Munster.— Brussels Papers, Sept. 5. VIENNA, AuG. 23.—The Messayer des Chambres, in its number of the 15th inst. aehemently attacks those who will not believe on its credit that war will speedily break out. " Yes," it exclaims, " war is inevitable." If the Messager had contented itself with this positive as sertion, it might have been difficult to give implicit credit to such an authority. Unluckily it again adduces in o taketsupport of it s p rop h ecy m aters whi c h may excite some doubts in the l mindslowi following, i which i readers. d: h r so.w th e value As a o pe ci the we i th rest :—" One of our friends," says the Afessager ' " who has lat e ly t rave ll e d t h roug h the Au'trian bonder provinces found them full of half Croats and half Hungarians, wh o hear the name of Groglians, fight without order like the Cossaclo, and are all thieves like the rest of their coun trymen." If the 31essager pays a large salary to this travelling correspondent, it must really have more money than it knows what to do with. We hope, however, that the friend will extend his excursions to the laud of the Groglians, the discovery of %Thiel, will, doubtless, be a valuable acquisition to our geographical knowledge.— Austrian Observer, Aug. 24. FRANKFORT. AUG. 30.—The official paper of the free city of Frankfurt, published to-day, contains—l. The official promulgation of the resolutions of the Diet of the 28th of June, with the following addition :—" These re solutions, therefore, so far as, by Art. 62 of the final act of Vienna, they are applicable to the constitution and rela tio❑s of this city, are hereby published, and all persons di rected to conform to them." 2. The promulgation of the resolution of the Diet of the 16th, suppressing the Uni versal Political Annals, published at Munich, Stuttgard, and Tubingen, and edited by C. Von Rotteck, because they are contrary to the maintenance of peace and tran quillity in Germany, and to the dignity of the Confedera tion ; prohibiting also M. Von Rotteck from editing any similar publication in any of the states of the Confedera tion for five years, and calling on the several Governments to enforce this decree. —Frankfort Papers, Aug. 31. Press of matter prevented us from noticing the particulars of a Bow-street Police report, which appeared in The Sun of yesterday, but which must not be suffered to pass without a word or two of comment. The circumstances of the case are as follows :—Mr. COULTMAN, a Magistrate of enormous wealth in Lincoln. shire, was proceeding on Tuesday evening in a cabriolet along Pall-Mall East, when " a fashionably-dressed, lady-like fema'e," by name JEFFREY, " came up, and forced herself into the vehicle. In the struggle to put her out, she tore his coat. She was in the habit of annoying him in the street, but as he entertained no vindictive feel ing towards her, he merely wished that she should be bound over to prevent a repetition of such conduct." The above is the substance of the plaintiff's statement, as it appears in the report. Let us now see what the defendant says :—" She denied that she had been guilty of any assault, and said, that if the coat had been torn, it was the c of accident and not dcsign. The truth waseit Mr. COULTMAN had himself ap pointeu to meet her where the occurrence took place, and she went to the side of the cabriolet for the purpose of reminding him of his pro mise, when he directed the man to drive on, a nd in order to prevent her leg from being broken, which would most probably have happened from the situation in which she stood, she threw herself forward into the vehicle, from which the defendant threw her with great violence and if some persons in the crowd had not caught her before she fell, she would have been se riously injured." This statement by no means satisfied the Magistrate, and accordingly the de fendant was ordered to find hail for the assault. But it is not so much the decision (though the propriety of this is far from unequivocal) that we complain of, as the abrupt way in which Mr. ROE stopped the defendant, whenever she ven tured to urge any thing which might throw light on what otherwise cannot but appear a most mysterious and unaccountable assault. He would hear nothing that was at all likely to im pugn that high sense of wisdom and morality which one Magistrate always possesses in the estimation of another. When Miss JEFFREY made some awkward allusion to the plaintiff's promise about money matters, the Magistrate re plied, '' I have nothing to do with that. Have you any witnesses ?" On which the defendant brought forward Miss CAROLINE JEFFREY, who stated that " her sister went by appointment to meet Mr. COULTMAN, who had promised to come to a settlement with her, after an ac quaintance of six years." The rest of the case we give in the words of the report : " Mr. ROE-Be good enough to come to the point Did your sister tear his coat? Witness—No; she made no attempt to tear his coat. " Mr. ROF.—But she had no business in the cabriolet. " Witness—She had business with Mr. Coultman, who had pledged his honour as a gentleman to meet her that evening. She merely mended to ask him why be had not come to the settlement he had promised, when he pushed her rudely out of the cabriolet, and caused her co be confined all night in the station. " Mr. Roe a'ked the cabriolet driver if the defendant tore the complainant's coat ? The driver replied in the affirmative, and said that the gentleman was obliged to get into a hackney-coach. " Mr. ROE must call upon the defendant to put in bail. " Miss Jeffrey, unfolding a large bundle of letters hoped that the Magistrate would alllow her to state the circum stances of her connection with Mr. Coultman, who had acted - " Mr. ROE would not hear a word upon the subject. He had nothing to do with the private circumst awes of parties who came before him on a public charge, nor would he ever consent to hear them. " Miss Jeffrey—l suppose, because Mr. Coultman is a MagistrAte I am not allowed to speak. " Mr. ROE.—You must find bail." The moral that we draw from this case is, that when a rich, influential Magistrate happens to find himself a plaintiff, and a poor, friendless female a defendant, at a Police-office, it is wholly impossible that the former can be in the wrong, or the latter in the right. The one may say what he pleases, the other has barely license to speak. Pretty thing, indeed, if the dignity of the Bench is to be jeopardized by the ugly, in solent, dry, matter-of-fact statements of a friend_ less, and, what is worse, a poor woman But Mr. ROE may rely on it, that these sort of re flections are pretty nearly worn out. The season of Magisterial impunity is fast drawing to a close. A day is coming when truth will be truth, and make its way as such, even though spoken by a poor against a rich individual. The peo ple have at length made the wholesome discovery that Magistrates are not always Solomons, but that they can sometimes be as wooden in their intellects as the bench on which they sit. The only man who seems to have taken a right measure of the true Magisterial capacity, is FIELDING. He knew it well, and has left his opi nions on record. We are sorry to say that the breed has not improved since his time. It has degenerated neither into wisdom nor quick-wit tedness. The same ridiculous assumption of authority, the same superficial acquaintance with the letter, and total ignorance of the spirit, of the law that characterized the provincial and me tropolitan Justices of our great novelist, still characterize those now flourishing among us. Of course there are many brilliant exceptions, but the majority still continue, by their acts, to impress on us the conviction, that though Magis. terial wisdom may expire, or become obsolete, Magisterial folly is immortal ; " For born a goddess, dulness never dies." SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WARWICK RACES, SEPT. 5. Sweepstak es of 25 sovs. each, for 2-yr.•old colts and fillic9. Lord Warwick's Trepidation Mr. Bristow's Uncle Toby Five others started, but were not placed. A good race. The Avon Stakes of 5080y13, each, h. ft., for foals of 1829. Once round and a distanc,. Mr. Sadler's Eleanor (Chappell) Mr. Beardsworth's Wolverhampton The second heat won easy. Chappell made too sure of the first, or he might have won. The Warwick Cup, of 100 sovs. and 70 in specie. Four miles. Mr. Watts's Mazeppa Mr. Lawley's Independence Four others started, but were not placed. A capital race. Won by a head. Through Members' Plate of 50 sovs. Two miles. Mr. Burton's b. g., by Catton Mr. Applewhaite's Lindly Mr. Lamb's b. f. by Sir Gray 2 dr Hunters' Sweepstakes of 10 sovs. each. Two miles. Mr. Hicks's g. c. by Ruben, 1 1 Mr. Pickernell's Sportsman CHATHAM - RACES, SEPT. 5. A Maiden Plate of 501. Mile heats. Mr. White's Matilda 1 1 0 0 Mr. Ricardo's ch. c. by Bizarre 5 3 1 1 Mr. Tilbury's Yorkshire Lizzy 2 4 3 2 Sir G. Heathcote's Ferdouise Mr. Pearce's Grasshopper 3 5 dr Matilda was objected to as not being a maiden horse, and the others ran two more heats. The Rockingham Stakes of 10 sovs. each, and 50 added, Wit% won in three heats by Mr. Rush's Guildford, beating Hindoo, The Witch, Keepsake, and Ta'quin. The Rochest,•r and Chatham Plate, of 501., was won in three heats by Mr. Robert's Zarina, beating Matilda, Timekeeper, and Blinker. - - YARMOUTH RAGES, SEPT 4. The Gold Cup Stakes of 601. was won in two heats by Lord Bvrner's Ringleader, beating Mr. Wilon's by Muley—Rosanne. Match, 50.—Mr. Pierson's Tristram beat Mr. Duppa's Gulnare. A Plate of 501. was won in two heats by Mr. G. Ed ward's Crispin, beating Lord Stradbroke's Gallopade and Lord Berner's ch. c. by Emi!ins. The Silver Cup f,r ponies was won by Mr. Neare's Meteor, heating Mr. Munro's Little Dodge. The sport WAS excellent. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—('rms DAY.) FROM LYD'S. PORTSMOUTH, SErT. s.—Wind S. light.--Arrived the Success, Hunter, from Archangel; Camilla, Dat iflson, frm Riga. Cowry, SEPT. s.—Arrived the Elizabeth, Spain, from Memel, and Ellen, Goodwin, from Gottenburg. DARTMOUTH, SEPT. 4.—Arrived off port, the Pene lope, Hutchinson, from New York ; Uridine, Weston, from Boston ; Rebecca, Hope, from Charleston ; and Resolution, Johns, from Lisbon. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Venus from New Brunswick. WinTEHAVEN, SEPT. 4.—Arrived the Medora, Cand lid), from St. Petershurgh. GREENOCK, SEPT. 3.—Arrived the Two Sisters, Ball, from Halifax. DUBLIN, SEM% 4.-_Arc•i ve d the Friendship, Tucker, from Leghorn. SErr. 3.—Arrived the Mary, Slater, from Daritzic. SUNDERLAND, SErr. 4. —Arrived the Buchanan, Hop per, from Quebec. JERSEY, SEPT. S.—Arrived the Somerset, Penson, from Oporto, and the Britannia, Le Grand, from St. Peters.burgh. PENZANCE; SEPT. 4.--Arrived the Liverpool Packet, from Smyrna. BORDEAUX, AUG. 25.— AU the vessels which were at the lower part of the river have been obliged to put back to Panillae, owing to bad weather, Arrived at Havre the Rose, from Batavia and St, 11,1 ens, and the Douro, Brown, from London. Arrived at Trieste the Charles, five, from BAbia, and t h e E.sequilio, Campbell, from the Clyde. The Jean, Voley, bound to St. Thomas, has lost ber two anchors, &c. OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. This morning these Sessions commenced before the Right Hon. the LORD MAYOR, the RECORDER, Mr. Utron BAYLEY, Mr. Baron GURNEY, and Mr. Justice PATTERSON. John Anderson was indicted for breaking into the dwelling-house of Thomas Davis, on the 21st of August, and stealing several articles of wearing apparel. It appeared from the evidence of several witnesses, that on the day laid in the indictment the prosecutor, who resided in Shoreditch, left home, pr , viously locking up his house. On his return he found his house had been forcibly en tered, and various articles stolen, besides others being ready packed up, by which it appeared that his return had disturbed the thieves. A policeman, who had seen the prisoner and two others lurking about the house, went and apprehended the prisoner, who bad a coat on which the prosecutor identified as one of the articles stolen. The prisoner in his defence said he found the coat, and denied being concerned in the robbery. The prisoner was found Guilty. Thomas Dubber was indicted for breaking and enter ing the dwelling-house of William James, and stealing therein two pairs of boots and three pairs of shoes, the pro petty of Joseph Vickery. The prosecutor, Mr. Vickery, was a shoemaker, and occupied the shop and part of the house of Mr. W. Jame 4, No. 8, Edgeware-road. About 1 o'clock in the morning of the 2 , 1 August, a lodger, named Edwards, going home, saw the shop door open, and on looking in he saw the pri soner and another man ; he called the police, who came to his assistance, and the prisoner was secured, but his companion escaped. The prisoner had in his possession two pair of boots and three pair of shoes; but several other pairs of shoes anti boots were missing, which no doubt the other man carried off with him. The prisoner was found Guilty. William Jones and Henry Smith, two respectable looking youths, were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling house of Thomas Corson, and stealing two watches, value 131., and two silver thimblcs. It appeared that on the 26th July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the prisoners were seen to lurk about the front, of the prosecutor's shop, who was a watch and clock-maker in High-street, Wapping, and watched their opportunity when the prosecutor left the shop and went into his back room ; they removed the wire guard from the front of the window, and then cut out a pane of glass, and took out two watches and the thimbles. Two neighbours, who had been watching then, from the opposite side of the way, crossed over and took them into custody with the property in their possession. They were found Guilty. NEW COURT. James Hater, a pot-boy to Mr. Charles James Hes cotte, of 3ermyn-street, St. James's, was indicted for stealing, on the 21st of April, three sovereigns, the pro perty of his master. . - Mr. Hescotte stated thst on the day in question he gave the prisoner three sovereigns to get changed, and that he decamped with them. The COMMON SERJEANT, in chsrging the Jury, stated that they must be satisfied that the prisoner did not get the sovereigns changed previous to decamping, otherwise he could not be guilty of the offence charged in the indictment. The Jury found the prisoner guilty of stealing the three sovereigns, but strongly recommended him to mercy. TVilliam Leggett, a boy about 13 years of age, was indicted for stealing several parcels of linen from his master, Mr. Joseph Pettinghall, of Mount-street, Gros venor-square, tailor, of the value of Bs. In consequence of the good character given of the prisoner by his master, the Common-Serjeant, though the prisoner was found Guilty, sentenced him to pay a fine of Id. and be discharged. Thomas Bites, who was indicted for stealing several articles, the property of the Countess of St. Germain's, on being placed at the bar, requested that his trial might be postponed to a later period of the day, as his solicitor was not in attendance. The COMMON-SERJEANT asked what solicitor he had employed ? Mr. Wontner said, that he understoo.l that a person named Turner had been employed by the prisoner, who he (Mr. W.) suspected was in the habit of defrauding prisoners by imposing upon them. The prisoner said that hi' wife was in attendance, and would state that she had given Turner three guineas last night for the purpose of employing Counsel. The Clerk of the Arraigns inquired among the gentle men of the bar if any of them were instructed to appear for the prisoner, and was answered in the negative. The COMMON SERJEANT directed the trial to stand over for the purpose of enabling the prisoner to find ou► the person whom he had employed as solicitor, or of pro curing legal assistance. James Brennan was indicted for stealing, on the 17th of August, a horse•cloth and other articles, the property of the Earl of Clarendon; and Chas. Davies and Thomas Shepherd, for receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen. The COMMON SEA.' EA NT thought the case was not suf ficiently strong to convict either Shepherd or Davis, and directed them to be discharged. A person of the name of Jell, living opposite to the stables of the Earl of Clarendon, saw Brennan (the pri soner) come out on the 17th of August with a large bundle on his arm, which he threw into an enclosed space. Several persons were called who gave the prisoner a good character, but said he was in distressed circumstances. The Jury found Brenna❑ Guilty of taking the articles with intent to steal, and The COMMON SERJEANT, in consideration of the dis tressed condition of the prisoner, sentenced him to ten days' imprisonment in Newgate. Thomas Eales was then placed at the bar, charged with stealing a lady's reticule and its contents, of the value of 288., the property of the Countess Dowager of St. Germains. Mr. Pilittays, who appeared for the prisoner, objected to the validity of the indictment, on the ground that Lady St. Germain was denominated in the indictment as the Countess Dowager of St. Germains, whereas, in fact, she was Countess of St. Germain , , the young Countess having died. The COMMON_SERJEANT, after consulting with the Judges, overruled the objection. The Countess of St. Germains was then examined— Her Ladyship had been to a review at Wormwood Scrubs o❑ the 23d of July. Her reticule was in her carriage, and the prisoner came to the carriage, took out the reti cule, and ran off. On cross-exatnination—Would positively swear to the prisoner. - - William Gunner, a servant out .of place, was on Wormwood Scrubs on the day in question. Heard the cry of s'op thief, and saw the prisoner running towards him ; he instantly seized him, when he threw away what witness thought was a reticule, and stated be was a Special Constable. On cross-examination, he said it was three months since he had been in place. Had a good character from his last master. Polietnan, N. 4, I division—The prisoner said that his character would be ruined if he was Oren up, and that he was perfectly innocent of the crime hid to his charge. The witness produced the reticule, whic h was identified by the Ct,untess. The prisoner said helwas innocent of the charge—that th officer who took him, A pe'sra of the name of Ford, offered to compromise the matter with the prisoner's wife for 5/. Mr. RawNum, the Magistrate, had reject•d Ford's evi (fence, and the prisoner firmly believed that he was the thi,f. A person for whom the prisoner had worked some time gave him a good character. Mr. Turner, a clerk to Mr. Gosdon, stated that he called last night on the prisoner's master, an engraver in St. John-street, who, in consequence of indisposition, and that only, was prevented from coming forward to give the prisoner a character. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY). GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISH CORN, For the Week ended Aug. 31, 1832, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. _ _ _ \VII eat 'ld.' Oats - 2ns. Id.l Bans- 365. ad. Barf e y_,.2.2 s . Od.l Rye 35.:. 7.1.1 Pease-- :3S& 2d. IMPERIAL. AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE NIX WEEKS PRECRDING. Cd.l Oats 9.05. 11 1 .113cans_ 30s. Rd. Barley 325. 11d.! Rye P.6s. Eta f 375. led. DITTIES ON FOREIGN CORN Wheat-- :14;. Rci.f Oats.. M :Fs. 9,1.1 Mean 5 ...,,,.,,, 153. 6,1 Batley -- 133. 101. Rye 15s. 61.1 Pease,- 143. lid. f-1 A T MA RK EFS.—(At per Lokd of 36 Trusses.) CUMBERLAND (LATE sr. JAMES'S.) Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 15 to £3 1 Kew :%leadow Hay 2 IS 3 15 Useful Old Ditto 3 0 3 15 Fine Uphind Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3 15 4 f Clover liay 4 0 6 f• Oat Straw. .f.l 14 to £1 161 Wheat :Atraw Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary. SMITHFIELD. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay — -CS 0 to £3 New Meadow Hay 3 0 3 1( Ugefal Old Ditto 3 5 3 15 Fine Upland Meadow and Ilye-grass Hay ...... Clover Flay (extra fine)....:£6 6 ..Generally ;, a t straw „, .£1 12 to £1 14 I Wheat Straw 1 14 1 1 , Supply rather limited, trade very dull, and prices as last quoted CHOLERA MORBUS, OFFICIAL REPORT. CENTRAL BOARD OF HEALTH. COUNCIL OFFICE, WIIITEILILL.—(TITIS DAY.) DAILY REPORT of CHOLERA CASES. COUNTRY. Remaining at last Report,2:497--I , :ew (_'.ases,sB9—Deaths,‘2l:l_ Recovered, 461—Remaining, 2.34.). Total Cases since the com mencement, 47,401—Deaths, 17,525. (Signed) WM. MACLEAN, Secretary. The Board of Health in Manchester have published a placard relative to the case of a child who had died of cholera in Swan street Hospital, and was found by the relations at the grave to have lost its head. The placard states that the only person who had access to it was the man who was appointed to watch, named Robert Oldham, and that the Board of Health were using ever:, eftbrt to apprehend and punish him, he having absconded. LIVERPOOL THEATRICALS. Mr. DAVIDCE, the spirited manager of the Coburg Theatre, we understand, leaves tow❑ to-day to proceed to Liverpool, for the purpose of making arrangements pre paratory to commencing his dramatic campaign at the extensive and beautiful amphitheatre in 'hat town a' Christmas. As an actor, Mr. DavincE has been long and deservedly •ery popular. Asa manager, it is well know', that he has spared neither pains nor expense, and wehavt often had the pleasing task of tendering him our meed o approbation. He has produced some of the best pieces original, and adaptations from the French, that have eve , been acted on the minor boards in London, as witness the Field of Cloth of Gold, the Three Generations, Isaare, the Victim of St. Vincent, Dominique, and the piece now playing at the Coburg with so much eclat, called the Tower of Nesle, all of which will be introduced for the first tithe to a Liverpool audience ; and we hav no doubt that the efforts of the Manager will be as high]) appreciated there as they have been here. He will carry with him the best portion of his present company in melo-drame and pantomime, together with several valu able auxiliaries. THE FUNDS.--(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. By the French mail this tri,rning, the recounts iron Berlin state that they are chiefly occupied there with tht preparations for the grand camp of exercise which is to take place in a few days both at Berlin and Potsdam. A number of persons of distinction are expected to attend. It is computed that not less than 80,000 troops are to mom the two camps. They write from St. Petersburgh that a new regulatior is going to take place in respect of the law for bills of ex change, and that the Emperor has ordered the formation of a committee for that purpose, to be composed of persons in the employment of the Government, and likewise somt members of the Chamber of Commerce, to revise the former laws. It is stated in a French Paper that the Spanish Go vernment send to Lisbon 6,000,000 of reaux every month. An agent of a company of capitalists is arrived at Madri ,, . to offer money on favourable conditions, but the Ministr have rejected his offers. THE FUNDS., We have no arrivals of ship letters, or any fresh infor• mation from Portugal, this morning. A vessel from Lisboa is on Lloyd's books, but we cannot ascertain as yet if sio is of a recent dat.-. The funds are heavy ; Consols, which opened at th, same price they left off at yesterday, 84 have receded t, 84i for the account ; at present they are 844 a, with litth or nothing doing. In the Foreign Market nothing doing as yet. HALF-PAST ONE. We have been favoured with the following private letter, which is both important and interesting, and from a quar ter upon which we cm place implicit reliance:— " BA D Eato, SEPT. have the honour to comma nicate to you the following intelligence, which I have beet. able to learn since I left London. The Dutch army i• far inferior to what it is reported to be in the Englisl newspapers, and does not amount to more than siats thousand men, of whom a great many are hardly fi , for war, as I have seen myself, at the fortress of Nymegut•. where the soldiers have any thing but a military appear ance. The whole Prussian army, both in Westphalia an•' i❑ the Rhenish provinces, is not a man more at present than it has always been these last 15 years. " Some Prussian staff officers with whom I am ac quainted, and from whom I received the most minute in formation about the Prussian forces in Westphalia and tilt Rhenish provinces, stated them to be as follows : Fight Regiments of Infantry 14,000 men. Eight ditto of Cavalry • , tioo Artillery (Horse and Foot) 6uo Sharp Shooters 330 Total 15,500 men. which may be considered as official." With such an army at the French and Belgian frontiers, which is no more than the regular peace establishment, people laugh here at the idea of war. As to the final settlement of the Belgi in question it is reported that the two points still in dispute, namely, the free navigation of th Dutch rivers, and the evacuation of the citadel of Antwerp are to be settled in the following manner :—Canals are to be made from Antwerp through the 13eL;ian territor) into the Rhine, whereby the trade of Antwerp has the same facility as being carried on through the Dutch tern tory, and the garrison of the citadel is to consist of troop , of the Allied Powers. Till these canals ate finished, a line of telegraphs is to be established forthwith from Ber lin to Coblentz, whereby intelligence can be transtnitte't from Berlin to London in three days. Consuls have continued during most part of the morn ing at 841 I for the account, with little doing. We have a report that the Bank is going to discount at a lower rate of interest. The Dutch mill has arrived, and we refer our reader• to the above important letter we have received by it. In the foreign market the Stocks are much the same as yesterday. THREE 0' CL 0 C.K. Consols 84i -3 for Account. FOUR O'CLOCK CLOSING PRICES. Consols Dittofor Account Mrtt Greek, 1825 2 5 11 Brazilian Bonds 5111 Mexican, 1825 Buenos Ayres... Peruvisn ...... Chilian Ditto.... Russian Columbia❑ 1824 Spanish BIRTII.-011 Wednesday the sth inst., in Bedford-place, Russell-square, the Lady of WILLIAM Tnomas JESIMETT, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of KENT and the Princess VicToatA on Saturday left Beau maris for Plasnewydd, Lord ANGLESEA'S beautiful man. sion on the banks of the Menai. A neat arch was erected over the toll gate at Llanfair, Anglesea, under the direc tions of the Rev. DAVID GRYYTYDII, curate of the pa rish, who was promptly seconded by the Rev. WILLIA - sts WYNNE WILLIAMS, the respected Rector of Llageirwer; and Llangaffo, Mrs. WYNNE WILLIAMS, and the other neighbours in general, rich and poor. Though rustic, and unadorned by crowns and coronets, it hid an im• posing effect, studded as it was by evergreens and flowers. At four o'clock the. Royal cavalcade arrived in five car riages and with somo horses, and were welcomed by hun dreds of honest Cambriana assembled before, in intense anxiety, with hearty and enthusiastic buzzes, which made the w e ik; n rever b erate to t h e i r l oya l and un f e i gne d voci feration of devotedness and respect. Carnarvon Herald. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, We published yesterday a curious document, as connected with the Belgic question, or rather with the disputed points of the treaty of separa tion between Belgium and Holland, lately rati fied, on which we had not room at the time to comment, and the full importance of which might, in consequence, escape the notice of some of our readers. We allude to the protocol of the central commission on the navigation of the Rhine, still sitting at Mentz, dated so re cently as the 30th of July last. This Commis sion consists, as we formerly , tated, of Plenipo tentiaries from all the eight States directly interested in the navigation of the Rhine, or in the na vigable rivers which join its waters. Ap pointed to apply and carry into effect the par ticular stipulations of the treaty of Vienna, which established the general principle of free river-navigation in all cases where the same rivers divide or traverse different states, this commission has now sat for several years, and its labours are not yet terminated. We have heard much of protocols on the Greek ques tion—of protocols on the Belgic question—and we have seen surprise often expressed that the Conference of London should have reached its grand climacteric of 58 or 59 of these diploma tic stages; but what will our readers say to the Commiasion of Mentz, whose duration hae been ao extended, or whose activity has been so great, as to be able to boast of its 512th pro tocol ? It is remarkable, that wherever our North) , and excellent ally the King of Holland is a party to any negotiation, there should always be a necessity for numerous protocols. He is not the man to surrender an inch of land or of water, tinder whatever tenure he may hold it, without a protocol. It is now 17 years since the Congress of Vienna decided that the vela gation of the Rhine and of its adjacent navigab!e rivers should be opened to the trade of all the States bordering on its banks ; and it is not much more than a twelvemonth since his Dutch Ma jesty, who holds the key of these rivers, could be brought to agree to the Mentz convention, of which we lately gave an account. In the ori ginal draught of this convention the right of the riverain States was admitted to the free navi gation of the Scheldt, and to that of the com municating waters between the Rhine and Ant werp. Whoever was henceforward to be ill posses sion of Antwerp, the right of these Powers to trade with it could not be denied. By necessary conse , quence, the mouth of the Scheidt must be left free, because the trade of Antwerp without such a f ie access would 1)0t be worth even the parchment of the Mentz convention. The King of Holhind, seeing on the 31st of .January, 1831, from the turn that his affairs were taking, that the port of Antwerp might not henceforward belong to the house of Orange, induced the other membere of the commission to strike out the sth and 6tit articles of their convention which related to the Scheldt, and to agree to its other stipulations, reserving their rights till after the settlement of the Belgic question. This arrangement was ac cordingly adopted on the 31st of March, 1831, and the high contracting parties for a time have sacrificed the interests of their subjects to their desire of peace and to their feeling of regard for their Dutch ally. All of them are now getting impatient for a definitive settlement, and several of them are highly displeased with the late pre tensions of the Dutch Government, disclos e d in the proposed Treaty offered by Holland to the Conference, or in the notes by which the Dutch Plenipotentiaries have resisted the treaty of the 24 articles. In the protocol of July 30, 1832, which we published yesterday, it will be seen that the Plenipotentiaries of the rivet aia States declare, " they never thought of re nouncing the use of an intermediate communi cation between the waters of the Rhine and those of the Scheldt, indispensable fir the trade (. 2 f the States bordering on the Rhine, and the chicfobject of the treaty." They therefore express their entire dissent from the doctrine laid down, and the assertion tnade by the Dutch Plea nipotentiaries, in their note of the 30th of Ja nuary, of the present year, in which they say, that '' there had been no understanding by the commission of Mentz, on the navigation of the intermediate waters between the Rhine and the Scheldt, and that the Cabinet of Holland could not see why conditions should be stipulated in favour of Belgium, which the riverain states never claimed on their own account." So far is this from being true, that the articles which sti pulated for a free navigation between these two rivers, had been actually inserted in the treaty, and were only erased from it under a reserve that they would be considered at a more conve nient season, when the separation of the Ne therland provinces had taken place. This pro test and declaration on the part of the Rhenish States, including Prussia, France, Bavaria, 13a den, Hesse-Darmstadt, and other smaller prin cipalities, decide the whole question. These States claim a right—already indeed regulated, and only suspended from circumstances of con venience—to a free communication between the Scheldt and the Rhine, by what are called the Dutch waters ; of this right they will insist upon the enjoyment. This communication con nects Antwerp with Western Germany. What is granted to the Powers above-named cannot be refused to Belgium, and on this head the King of Belgium may rest satisfied that his interests cannot be neglected or sacrificed.-- Times. In our extracts from the reported evidence of the Bank Committee will be found a continua- tion of the examination of the present Governor of the Bank, Mr. 11. Palmer, and a table of the amount of gold coin and bullion in the Bank cellars on the 28th of every February, for every year, from 1815 to 1832. The latter docu ment is remarkably curious. It will be seen by it, that in February, 1815, though Buonaparte had not yet returned from Elba—though, there fore, no new war was apprehended—and though, by the terms of the act, the Bank was bound to pay in specie at a short interval after the peace, of infiole ßa ua,,rl 7 ,tom m, store ooor of coin eot,hoaoto2l.,o and bullion 010,iioeooi I,i.c,rte to meet did „! e eotfistshu i e l e o isr t treasure is remarkable through the years 1816 and 1817, down to October, 1818, when it reached the amazing sum of nearly 12,000,000/. sterling, or nearly a half of their paper circula tion. The period of' 1816, 1817, and the beginning of 1818, while this great supply of gold was collecting, to enable the Bank to re sume cash payments, was one (it will be recol lected) of peculiar difficulty and pressure. The applicationf manufacturing the v is:iacerrp,ei depressed ss t se o eddo the ch credit ec irr o the eite a gains o distressed land-owners and farmers—tunt gave occasion to numerous inquiries into th e arrested o at fthe that industry—excited time,B. activity, and 1 7— excited tne cries o f causes of our sufferings and embarrassments. The expedition of the Blanketeers—the insur rection of Brandreth—and the special commission at Derby, were all connected with the proceed'