The Sun. — London, England, 1822-11-28 00:00:00

. . .' 427, 4 :4 10 i 37, ' 142, 1 81. O 4 :11, at' volence' 110, ~.n i $9, : 9 183, 51 587, _-- 'PETE ) hPage- 11111 l 4 0, ........ ...... ...... ..81ii )RR OI s after ____.........., 821 , [ice coun tri noW le, I k s ' of P 1 Sri , 0 1 :1 use 1 le • "tter by the victorious MINA, we must believe that th e (‘ rangers " are nothing more than a few straiglers s , whom the conquering party are Pursuing through the, mountainous districts which afford them a temporary refuge. The sudden change which the seditious move nlents of the-Janissaries have occasioned in the Ottoman, Cabinet may lead to results which will bade all the diplomatic calculations of the Con gressers, and may already have destroyed, in a Il loroeut, the pacific labours of the various Em bassies to the Porte during the last 18 months. We always said that the decision of the question of peace or war did not depend entirely either on the SULTAN or his Ministers, but would be ulti °lately determined by the capricious will of the ; goorant, ferocious, and ungovernable soldiery, and t he populace. It now appears that the late turbulent Proceedings originated in the popular opinion that t he Great Officers of the Government had been bribed by the Christian Governments to sub reit t o an ignominious peace ; and the ar regauce of the Turks, therefore, after the r ecent signal manifestation of their displeasure, Will not be satisfied unless the new Ministry fur 4ish them with some opportunity of evincing their detestation and contempt of Christians of all nations. The Porte, conscious of its Weakness, will of course put off the evil day as long as possible, but it appears to us that the Sultan has no alternative but to precipitate his empire and himself into ruin by an act of open outrage against Russia, or to await the stroke of the assassin, in order that he may be made to give place to a Successor, who will permit his barbarian subjects to rush upon their own de struction in their own way ! FRENCH FUNDS.-DEC. 16. Five per Cents. Highest Closed at B9 f. 55 c. Bank Stock 1641 f. 25 c. Neapolitan Five per Cents. Exchange on London—One Month 25 f. 45 c. Three Months 25 f. 30 c. (("ours Authentique.) For the account the following quotations are given : Five per Cents - 89 f. 75 c. Neapolitan Stock 77i f• Spanish Bonds of 1820 1021 IM PORTANT. SUN OFFICE, ONE o'CLocK.—Since the above Was written, we have received our usual communi cation from our Correspondent in the City. The rumours to which he alludes will of course be re received by our Readers with caution, particu larly that which regards the alleged revolt of two French regiments. That a bold,or even an insolent reply, has been received from Madrid, is very pro bable, and was expected. It must be exceedingly insolent indeed, however, if it provoke the French Government to war, after the altered sentiments with which it has lately viewed the meditated commencement of hostilities. If it be true that two French regiments have gone over to MINA, that is a fact which is alone sufficient to induce France to put up with the insolence which her own interference with the affairs of Spain has provoked ! We repeat, however, that the rumour is improbable ; and for this among other reasons, that before the actual com mencement of hostilities, MINA would not be so imprudent as openly to countenance defection in the French army. If the war, contrary to all well-founded calculation, should break out, the revolt of a part of the French army may be re . forded as inevitable. "STOCK EXCHANGE; Half-past Twelve o'Clock. -The panic in the above Market this morning was very great, owing to several Expresses hav ing arrived from Paris. The first Express brought the price of the French Funds at four o'clock, 8 8 f. 30 c. Soon after another Express, with the price after the closing of the French Market, 8 7 f. 50 c. The fall of the above Funds imme diately operated on our Funds : Consols, which' opened at 8021, went down to 80}, and up to this hour they are 801 to with a heavy market. The reports in circulation are that the French Government have received from Madrid an An swer to their Ultimatum sent to that Court,which is in very insolent language. Another report is, that .two French regiments are gone over to MINA, after haVing dismissed their Officers. Letters are certainly in town to that effect. A certain Party, who are great Bulls, came early into the Market to sell, but few Broker) would pur chase. " French Funds.--A great panic also pre vailed in the above Market this morning, in con sequence of four Expresses from Paris, with the fall of the French Stocks. New Spanish Bonds opened at 551 to 56, and little is doing in any of the Foreign Securities up to this hour." The following are the contents of the Mm burgh Papers received at a late hour this day IC HAMBURGII, DEC. 13.—According to ac counts directly from Constantinople of the 11th Nov. ) the removal of Hale) and his creature was caused b" an insurrection of the people, discon tented with the late financial measures of. the Jannissaries. This statement, if true, is a glaring contradiction to.that of the Austrian Observer— ' that the tranquillity of Constantinople was not interrupted for a moment.' " STOCKHOLM, Nov. 29.—Mr. Graeberg, our late Vice-Consul in Tangier, is appointed Consul at Tripoli. General Moreno, the Spanish Am bassador, has received orders from his Sovereign, to deliver to his Majesty the King, the Insignia of the Order of the Golden Fleece. 44 ST. PETERSBURGH, Nov. 26.—For the last fortnight we have again very warm weather, the thermometer is at 7, or 1 degrees Rearnur, and it rains incessantly. " Every fortnight a courier arrives here from Verona, and another is dispatched to that place. When the weather is more favourable, he makes the journey in fourteen or sixteen days; but when it is bad, in twenty or twenty-two days. The expenses of a courier to Verona and back are said to amount to 800 ducats. " The ships Go/ownin and Baranow, sent in 1821, by the Russian American Company to make discoveries on the north-west coast of Ame rica, have returned safe. Besides making a more accurate survey of the north-west coast, they have discovered a pretty large island called Numirak, situated, according to their account, in 59 deg. 54 mitt. 56 sec. north lat., and 193 deg. 17 min. 12 sec. east longitude. 44 WARSAW, Nov. `26.—The young Prince Morusi who, arrived here on the 16th from Odessa, has set out for Paris.—From 40 to 50 more Greek fugitives have arrived here. These poor people are the object of general compassion and curiosity. Coming from very different pro vinces of the Turkish -3 Empire, they appear• in manifold costumes ; Turkish, Hungarian, Mol davian, &c. One of them speaks good Polish. LETTERS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. " Nov. 10.—The apprehensions which we expressed in our communications on the last four post days, since the ominous measures of the Government with respect to the coin, were not without foundation. The discontent of the Jannissaries and the people has been expressed for some days in an alarming manner. —The Jannissaries crowded towards the Seraglio, uttering im precations against the Sultan and Haleb Effendi. No Chris tians ventured into the streets. The Sultan, presaging the danger, averted the storm this time by money, which was la vishly given. Haleb Effendi, too, sacrificed his treasures. 'The rage of the people against him is unfounded, and the obstinacy of the Sultan in protecting his favourite, will have still more serious consequences. The great fleet has returned from the 3lorea to 'Penedos, without having effected its object. ANOTHER LETTER FROM CONSTANTINOPLE, NOV. 11. " The destested favourite Haleb Effendi, who had sold him self to the Diplomatists, or asthe Turks say, to the Ghaurs (In fidels), has been deposed by the Sultan, in consequence of a great insurrection of the people and the .Jannissaries. The Grand Vizier and the Berber Pacha (Chief Barber) shared his fate. We are in the greatest danger, as the reign of the Jannis saries has begun again. • " BERLIN, DEC. 10.—We have received the following Particulars of the death of Prince Hardenburg. He was unwell at Milan, and the journey in bad weather through the mountainous country to Genoa made him worse. On the 21st, he was seized at Genoa with a cramp in the chest. Doctor Rust, • his physician, perceived 'the danger, and especially prescribed to the Prince, who was rather 'easier on the 22d and 23d, to refrain from exertion of every kind. i The Prince 'expected a courier on the 25th, and was mpa tient at his not coming, for he would by no means refrain from his usual employments. The courier arrived, and on the 26th, in the morning, the pains in his throat, with the rat tling and difficulty of breathing returned; the physician again forbade exertion; but the Prince answered, " Employment is my element—it is only when I work that I feel well." He read the dispatches, caused himself to be led upland down the room, and at the sight of the fine prospect of the sea, he ordered the doors and windows to be opened, because a draught of air did him goo - d. At noon he gave audience to the Prussian Consul, and thanked him for the attention that was shewn him in Genoa. He spoke with great animat'on, and sat down exhausted : at two o'clock he had an apoplectic stroke, which deprived him of speech and consciousness, and at eleven at night he expired. He had frequently fallen into a kind of dream or reverie, and several times observed, that the 26th of November was the clay of his father's death—as it proved to be his own. " Exchange on London, 36 7-36 10." New York Papers arrived this morning to the 25th of November. Intelligence from Callao to the end of August, and from Guayaquil to the Bth of September. Four thousand troops, dispatched by General BOLIVAR from Guayaquil at the solicitation of General SAN MARTIN, had arrived at Callao to aid in the expedition which was about to sail against the Royalist Spaniards in Upper Peru. ( From the Gazette of the 23d November.) FROM PENSACOLA.—The brig Franklin has arrived at Charlestown from Pensacola, whence she sailed about the lat instant. She brings the melancholy accounts of the ravages of the fever : It was supposed that from 300 to 350 persons, mostly Americans, had died at Barancas. Out of 5 companies of the . United States troops there had been 70 deaths. . We abstain from laying before our Readers the details of the outrage upon the person of the Lord Lieutenant in the Dublin Theatre, until we shall have seen the accounts of the affair given by all the Dublin Newspapers ; for the statements which have hitherto reached this country are evidently highly coloured by party feelings and for party purposes. At present, we see some reasons for sus pecting that the affair was got up; and that it will turn out, with the exception of the throwing of the bottle and of a small piece of wood, to have been nothing more than a common play-house row, in which the great majority of the audience took no part. The wretches who threw the missiles are in custody, and have been iden tified. To-moirow, or next day, we shall pro bably have it in our power to place the circum stances. attending the outrage in their true light. TIIE THEATRES. DRURY LANE."—The. rene6d competition of KEAN and YOUNG in Othello and lago took place again lait night, and though not - so numerously att!nded as on previous- occasions, was still very attractive. - An apology was made for Mrs. GLOVER, who from illness was unable to appear as Emilia. The part was taken by Mrs. EGERTON at a short notice, and performed with great spirit. COVENT-GARDENThe music, singing, and acting in Maid Marian excited much applause last night. Miss TREE'S delightful warbling,. and Mr. C. KEMBLE'S Friar Tuck, were much applauded. The London Hermit was repeated, and this extravagant but diverting . farce was well supported by CONNOR, JONES, BARTLEY, FAWCETT, Mrs. DAVENPORT, and Miss BEAU• MONT. MERCANTILE SHIPPING. Extract of a Letter from the Agents to 'Lloyd's, at Genoa dated the 7th of December.] " On the night of the 2nd and morning of the 3rd instant, this place was visited by another strong gale from S.W. with a tremendous sea, which has occasioned much damage to the shipping in the harbour, many of which broke adrift; a Sardi nian Brig and two Bombards were wrecked—The following British vessels received damage during the gale : " Britannia, Amy, of Jersey ; Atalanta, Jones ; Albion, Townsend, of Teignmouth t Flora, Cockings ; the Mary, Ste vens, with a very rich cargo of silk‘i, &c. bound to London, ro& out the gale - without suffering any other damage than the loss of her main-yard, quarter-piece, and other trifling articlest which are nearly replaced, and she will be ready to sail the firs fair wind." DEAL, DEC. 18.—Wind N.—Arrived and remain, the Aid, Chartin, from St. John's, N. B. Came down from the River last night, and sailed this morning, the Speculation, for Faro ; Britannia, for Grenada ; Louisa Matilda, for New York ; Reward, for Jamaica; Perseverance, for Charente; and the Flora, for St. Michael's. Also came down to-day and sailed, during a fog, the Stentin, Harris, for Madras and Bengal. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. lB.—Calm.—No arrivals or sailings. HAR wicH, DEC. 18.--Wind N.E.—Arrived the Lady Nepean packet from Cuxhaven ; and Jane packet from Gotten burgh. Sailed the Castlereagh packet for Holland. Falmouth and Plymouth Letters not arrived. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when the following ships were thus timed, viz. :—For Madras and Bengal—Princess Charlotte of Wales and Marquis of Wellington, to be afloat the 12th of March, 1823 ; sail to Gravesend the 26th of March ; stay there 30 days ; be in the Downs the Ist of May. For Bengal—Minerva and Thomas Grenville, to be afloat the 24th of April, 1023; sail to Graves end the 10th of May ; stay there 30 days ; be in the Downs the 15th of June. THE ARMY. Stations of the Third Battalion of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, with the Names of the Captains Commanding the different Companies. Head Quarters, Woolwich. Lieutenant-General John Ramsey, Colon e l ommandant. Ist Company, Major John Briscoe, Captain—Ceylon. 2d Ditto, Major Thomas Regers, Captain—Woolwich. 3d Ditto, Major John Taylor, Captain—Dover. 4th Ditto, Major Charles E gan, Captain -- z Woolwich. sth Ditto, Major Thomas Hutchesson, Captain—.Woolwich. 6th Ditto, Major Arthur Hunt, Captain—Plymouth. 7th Ditto, Major George Wilkes Imett, Captain—Woolwich. Bth Ditto, Major henry Bates, Captain—Ceylon. Extract of a Letter from a Private Soldier in the 91st Regiment to his friend in Glasgow, dated Fort Augusta (Jamaica), Oct. 22, 1822. " We have been unfortunate with regard to the sickness since we landed, having lost one captain, two lieutenants, one assistant-surgeon, our quarter-master serjeant, six serjeants, and about 112 men ; six women, and eleven children. How ever, since the end of May the sickness has abated, and we have continued very healthy since. This is what they call the hurricane season, although in this part we have experienced nothing of the kind as yet ; but since we have been in this fort there was a slight shock of an earthquake felt in Kingston." EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF LIBEL DOMINICA, OCT. 3.—One of the most singular, and, in fact, unprecedented trials for libel has just been decided here. The parties were S. Bridgewater, Esq. Collector of the Customs, plaintiff, and the proprietor of The Dominica Chronicle defendant. The libel was contained in a notice to correspond ents in the following words : " Castigator is wholly inadmissible. We have nothing to do with the robbery at G—n—a some years ago. It is a black faced business, and should have been tried in that Colony." I This notice, it was supposed, alluded to some communication handed to the editor of the Chronicle, relative to a transaction which occurred during the aesidence of Mr. Bridgewater in the island of Grenada, the place implied in the notice. It appears, that during Mr. B.'s residing there, he received some information that the premises of a resident on the island, named Waugh, had been broken open during the night and were in the act cf being robbed. Under that impression, he repaired to thespot with his servants, to render Waugh such assistance as he might stand in need of; but Waugh, under some misappre hension, and ignorant of the persons' designs who were thus disturbing him (for the robbery was a fabrication), called to the military guard, and gave Mr. Bridgewater into their cus tody, and accordingly• conveyed him to the guard-house.— Waugh, however, in the space of ten minutes, followed him there, accompanied by the brother of the plaintiff', and apolo gising for his hasty conduct, satisfied Mr. Bridgewater, and the whole of the iiarties proceeded to their respective homes. The paragraph above alluded to appearing to convey an in timation that Mr. Bridgewater had gone to Waugh's house for the purpose of committing a burglary, that Gentleman instant ly commenced an action against the proprietor of the Dominica Chronicle, for libel, and laid his damages at 5,0001. The Jury, after some deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff —Damage! 500/. • - Upon this decision, the ,defendant moved an arrest of judg ment; but failing in that, put in a Writ of Error, and the cause was argued before the four Judges, viz..:—the Earl of Hunting don, Mr. President Reid, Mr. Lockhart, and Mr. John Luel r , low, and, after hearing the case minutely, the Court divided, when it was found the votes were equal, the two former Judges being in favour of the Proprietor of the paper, and the two latter against him. This places the sentence in stall; quo, there being no other power of appeal, and the case has caused a considerable 'sensation in Dominica and the neighbouring Islands, as it is totally a novel and unprecedented occurrence, for which the Legislature has made no provision ; and the de fendant has been deprived of that benefit the law intended should operate for him when the Act which empowered him to appeal to a Court of Error was framed. The Marquis CAMDEN has paid over to the Consolidated Fund the sum of Nine Thousand and Seventy-one Pounds, Thirteen Shillings and Fivepence, being the amount of Fees which his Lordship has relinquished, as Teller of the Ex chequer for the Year 1822. RESPECT FOR HISTORY.—We learn from Ger many that the Austrian Dramatic Censor has lately caused the denouement of SCHILLER'S Tra gedy of William Tell to be altered. It is no longer true that GESSLER was the Oppressor, and TELL, the Liberator of Switzerland. In the new story, which alone is allowed to be performed on the stage, TELL misses GESSLER three times, and is three times pardoned by him, and the piece finishes with cries of " Long live Austria: long live Gessler!"—(Constitutionnel.) FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS. George RaUdolph, Esq. and Mrs:‘ Ratiaolph,. at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendsh-square; J. Marshal; Esq. and Mrs. Marshal, at ditto, from Preston ; , Gen. Cumming, Mrs. Cumming, and family, at ditto. DEPARTURES.—Mrs. Fecton, from Marshal Thompson's Hotel, for Kersey Abbey ; Master Fecton, from -ditto, to Scot land ; Capt. Hamil and Wm. Leigh, Esq. from ditto, to Raby Hall, Prescot, Lancashire ; Mrs. Wiggens, Mrs. Howarth, and W. Evans, Esq. from ditto to Brighton. WESTMINSTER GENERAL DISPENSARY. The friends to this very benevolent and useful Institution met at dinner yesterday, in the great morn at the Freemasons' Tavern. We noticed about 140 Gehtlemen of respectability. —Sir RICHARD BIRNIE took the Chair. The usual routine of toasts were ven after which the Re port was read by the Secretary, Dr. Macleod. The CHitn.fiwt, in proposing " Prosperity to the Institu tion," forcibly dwelt on the many claims it had on the public attention. He considered it one of the most useful charities in London. The particular 'situation which he filled in life gave him daily opportunities of witnessin.g its beneficial effects. He commended the great attention of the Medical Gentlemen and ,of the Treasurer of the Society. The , healths of the Treasurer and the Committee were then given, and drunk with applause. The company were favoured with some admirable glees, by Messrs. Jolly, Collier, and Smith.—The party did not sepliate until a late hour. „ ? • 0 *.• 4 • roN g, • ; 4 1 V • 4 6, 4 4i„, - ' •t' ” • 3 4. THE IRISH COURT. DUBLIN, DEC. 16.—His Excellency the LORD LIEUTEN ANT gave a splendid Dinner at the Viceregal-Lodge in the Park, yesterday (Sunday). Among the Company were,—the Earl of Limerick, Sir Stewart Bruce, Mr. Cuthbert, Mr. G. Sidenham, Mr. Roley (Grenadier Guards), Mr. Battie (Grena dier Guards), Mr, Vignoles, Mr. Johnston, Mr. Robertson, Mr. Hunter, Capt. Vignoles, the Earl of Kingston, Sir Fred. Flood, Mr. Webber, Mr. Greenwood (Grenadier Guards), Mr. M'Quin (Inniskillen Dragoons), Mr. Edwin Johnston, Mr. Montgomery, Capt. Creagh, Capt. Webster, &c. &c. PO ET R Y. NUPTIAL REPARTEE. CirAwt.Es to the Altar led the lovely KATE, • They from the Church return'd again in state, Where (to convey them on their wedding tour) Already stood a neat barouche and four; But lo! the gathering show'rs at once descend, Clouds roll on clouds, and angry winds contend, These move him not, but in lie hands his bride, Then seats himself enraptur'd by her side. And now to cheer the Fair he thus begun— I hope we soon shall have a little Sex. But she, to whom the weather gave no pain, Who shrunk not from the wind nor felt the rain, And, while the hope of future joys, bethought her. Replied, "My dear, I'd rather have a Daughter." Sandwich, Dcc. 18. " AUDI ALTERA3I PARTEIII." The maxim's bad, you may depend on't, For thus we ne'er should see an end on't : Hear but one side, the thing is plain; But when you come to hear the other, The question then's all buz and bother, And Judgment halts betwixt the twain. Had he who t'other day disputed, Thought why this Court was instituted, To censure he had sure been loth, For 'twas dispatch that it was set on, And how the devil can he get on, _ _ Who stops to hear what r s sail by both ! 'Twas shrewdly done, when 'twas decided The rat, who with both parties sided, A Judge impartial needs must prove ; But then dispatch !—things so uneven To keep in line was never given* To men below or Gods above. He should not then have been so rated, Who merits all that can be stated ; And he who censures is a dunce : For in dispatch you see his heart is, And still consistent with his parties, He wisely takes them one at once. " Nemo ad impossibilia tenetur.—Prin. Jur. SPORTING. The Earl of Derby's Stag Hounds will meet to-morrow at Purley Downs, two miles from Croydon, when one of the best deers will be turned out, and a good day's sport is expected. The Lewes Harriers have had some capital runs lately. They throw off to-morrow at Swanburgh at ten o'clock. PIGEON MATCH. The Match between eight shots from the counties of Hants and Berkshire, with one from the Ashton Club, and eight of the counties of Oxfordshire and Wiltshire, with one from the Midgham Club, took place on Tuesday on Bagshot Heath, for five guineas each, at seven birds from the trap, 21 yards from the gun, which was decided as follows : Hants &Berks. Killed. Oxon & Wilts. Killed. Bouverie - - - 6 Jebb - - - 7 Horton - - - 6 Humphries - 6 Hankey - Phillips - Holies - Shelton - Kemp - Humphreys Deacon Honeywood Harchnge - Meadows - }lerriot - Meadows - King - Knots - 5 5 5 5 4 4 3 —43 j —4 _ Messrs. Hankey and Honevwood were the Members of the ClUbs. The winners lost one bird, which was killed out of bounds more than 100 yards from the trap, and the losers five. PEDESTRIANISM.—HaIton, the champion of England, is matched against Dowson and llarcourt to run two miles over Lengton Wold this day, for 100 guineas aside. Dowson is to run the first mile, and Harcourt the second.—Betting 5 to 4 on Halton. The first book auction in England, of which we have any record, is of a date as far back as 1676, when the library of Dr. Seaman was brought to the hammer. Prefixed to the catalogue there is an address, which thus commences : " Reader, it hath not been usual here in England to make sale of books by way of auction, or who will give most for them, but it having been practised in other countries, to the great ad vantage of both buyers and sellers, it was therefore conceived, for the encouragement of learning, to publish the sale of these books in this manner of way." Another Prize of 220,000 Sold in Shares by CARROLL.—No.3,42S, Drawn on Tuesday last, a Prize of X 20,000, and N0.'16,522, Drawn last Friday week (Dec. 6,) a Prize of 820,000, were BOTH Sold in Shares by CARROLL, who also Sold Six other Capitals in the PRESENT LOTTERY.— On Monday the Lottery ends—there are 52 Ca pitals in the Wheel, amongst which are One of 220,000, Two of XlO,OOO, besides others of 22,000, 81,000, £5OO, &c. &c. the whole of which must be Drawn on Monday Next. War ranted Undrawn Tickets and Shares are Selling at CARROLL'S Fortunate Offices, 19, Cornhill, and 26 ) Oxford.street. TITHES OF THE CITY OF LONDON. MANstoN.HousE.—Yesterday the important question under the 37th of Henry VIII. as to the right of the_ Curates of the several Parishes in the City of London and Li berties to tithes, to the amount of 2s. 9d. in the pound on the rental of the inhabitants, came on before the Loan MAYOR. His Lordship was attended by the Common Serjeant and the City Solicitor; Dr. Bult Owen, the Rector of St. Olave, Hart-Streei 9 at tended himself to establish his claim, and had nn professional assistance. The defendant, Mr. George Abbott, whn; we un derstand; is a Solicitor, did not appear when called upon to the summons which Brand, the Marshalman, proved had been pro perly served. - ' Dr. Owen shortly stated, that he founded his claim against the defendant under the Act of the 37th of Henry VI. cap. 12. Although that Act authorised him to claim two shillings and nine-pence in the pound, he only claimed two shillings, and now proceeded against the defendant. for a quarter's tithes. at . that rate. upon a rental of 2001. per annum. He had made various applications for the money to the defendant, who had removed about three doors out of the parish without having paid it. He (Dr. Owen) now therefore applied foilt coinpul sory order against the defendant to compel him to pay the money. The defendant, as the Rev. Gentleman was under stood, occupied a part only of the premises, but the law alowed him to go to every occupier of a house, unless the rent was Im p der 101. when the principal was made liable. The Loan MAYOR said, as this was a question of great mag. nitude to the citizens of London, he had delayed •acting upon. the case, in order to have the opinion of the City Law Officers, The COMMON SERJEANT adverting to the Act of Parlia.: ment upon which the present claim was founded; observed that it positively directed that the decree of the Archbishop of , Canterbury must be enrolled before it could become an ope rative law. In his opinion, therefore, the question depended entirely on the point whether or not the decree had been,en. rolled. Now, there was no evidence of the enrolment of that decree, and in his opinion the- Acts' Act was inoperative to all intents and purposes, without such tyidence. • • • The City Solicitor said, that he had searched the Parliament Office, and found that there was no enrolment of the decree... Dr. Owen said, the case had already been decided in a Coett of Law, and upon those decisions he relied ; the Judges had. distinctly stated the right to exist. in the case ef ftelam•tr. Adams, the enrolment was admitted, and a - eerdiet . given eats blishing the claim. It had been decided in three instancei:- . - , had been carried to the House of Lords and confirmed—and the decision had been acted upon in the Courts beldw. Ile presumed that the law had been properly administered in those Courts, and that their decisions were well-founded; and he concluded, that the fact of the . otrolment had been presumed, for many documents were now acted upon that had long been lost.—Many documents had recently been destroyed by the fire at Cotton-garden. The COMMON SERJEANT said he was not aware of the existence of the case alluded to, and asked whether it had been reported. The City Solicitor said the case was not reported, but it amounted to nothing, for the question as to the enrolment of the decree was not put in issue : it was admitted. The COMMON SERJEANT had no doubt that the Act had been enforced upon the presumption that the decree had been enrolled, but he had no hesitation in declaring that if the de cree was not enrolled the Act was without efficacy. Dr. Owen again submitted that the question had been de cided in the Courts of Law, sufficiently to authorize the Ma gistrate to act. The East India Company had done the Cler gymen of the City the greatest service, by carrying the ques tion into a Court of Law, by which the claim had been con firmed. The CITY SOLICITOR said, that in that case also, the question of the enrolment had never been raised. It was the amount of the claim, and not the right to make it, that had been disputed. The Lou!) MAYOR said, that for himself he gave no opilion upon the law of the question, but under that of the two Learned_ Gentlemen who assisted him he had certainly very great diffi culty in proceeding against the defendant. As the question was one of great magnitude, which agitates the whole City, and wasleading to extensive litigation, he thought it could'not be too cautiously considered; be, therefore, would adopt the suggestions of the two Law Officers who assisted him, and take further advice from those Counsel who had been deeply en gaged in the subject. His Lordship directed that the case should stand over, and he suggested to Dr. Owen that he should come prepared with professional assistance. The Recorder would be called upon to attend. Dr. OWEN said, he had not the slightest objection that the case should be most fully canvassed. Ile brought it before his Lordship that his parishioners might not be put to ex pence ; otherwise he might have taken it to the Court of Ex chequer. The LORD MAYOR was satisfied that Dr. Owen was ac tuated by the best motives. The case was then ordered to be resumed on a future day. At the last Middlesex Sessions, an order - was made by the Magistrates that the friends of the prisoners in the House of Correction should not be allowed to send or carry any provisions to those confined there. On Saturday this order was first put in execution, when the prisoners rose in a state of mutiny, and they all refused to work. The keeper of the prison applied on Monday to the Sitting Magistrate at Hatton. Garden Office, when Mr. ROGERS and Mr. LAING proceeded to the House of Correction. —The most active in the mutiny - were imme diately summoned before them, and the Ma gistrates directed them to be separately locked. up, and put upon one quarter allowance.— Four of the most violent were directed 'to be well flogged in the presence of all the prisoners, which sentence was • immediately eXecuted, and. it had the desired effect upon the others who re turned to their work, and on the following morn ing the prisoners, through the medium of one of the Magistrates, ma e a respectful application to the Prison Committe, for an increase . of the prison allowance, in case t e order of Session was to be enforced. The prisoners stated that the present allowance was quite inadequate to their support, if they were prevented accepting the assistance of their friends. We understand that the allowance is a pound and a half of the best wheaten bread per day for each prisoner, with a portion of gruel, and half a pound of meat on Sundays.—(Morning Herald.) For some years past the Court-room of Melrose has been so much decayed, that the Justices of the Peace and Road Trustees, &c: were obliged to hold their meetings in the inn.. The circum stance being made known to the guardians for his Grace the Duke of BUCCLEUCH, they, at his Grace's sole expense, have erected a most hand some and complete Court-room, Nvhichi the Justices took possession of on Saturday, Jast.. A. jail is also attached to the building. MILDNESS OF WEATIIER.—As proofs' of. the extraordinary mildness - of -the' weather, several birds nests have been found in the parishes of Chilham and Godmersham, Kent, some with four, others with five eggs, and the old ones sitting on them. There is also in the parish of Worneborne, a pear tree in blossom, as beautiful as in the month of June. On Tuesday morning, about 'two o'clock, as the watchman of Mary-le-bone was .pro ceeding on his rounds through Oxford-street, his attention was attracted by a man lying on the ground, weltering in his blood, who on being raised up evinced no symptoms of life : on taking him , to, the watchhouse.a large wound was discovered to have been inflicted across his head, from whit' the blood had proceeded :fie so far recovered as to give his name, ''Hughes, ; ' but nothing more whatever;—whether he was knocked down for the purpose of being robbed still remains a doubt ; but he was, however, taken to St. George's Hospital, where he now lies in a dangerous state. DEC , Ir•e e .he 'or d i t Ca' led , m 1 Gore' and me Lye ~u~s~ con ° LIV ° of ►Ve uni t the ) )f *(1 dat e° , l 8 d ,41111 0 0 0