The Sun. — London, England, 1840-08-31 00:00:00

1 !„? /./ ~,,_ ~. ~~. ENJNG EDITION• Y MARKET and CITY NEWS• ./t2:l - ar. • SATL;ii,DAY EVENING.) ....._„ 1 • ____ca!>' ; 7:, i"-- - 11 S.—A letter has been received from a respect \ A' 4 o) rm who act as the solicitors of a great number of tl.e original holders of the Spanish " titulos," in ex- t on that declaration es the original holder, for both have relied on Spauish faith. If by wrongly declaring a tiocument negotiable which by the English law is not so, they have misled a number of persons (including the original holders themselves, who thought they had a marketable title), they are bound to take the conse quences of such an act. If the declaration of de')t constitutes the claim of the original holder, the declara tion of negotiability constitutes a claim of the trans feree, and when the transfer is not proved to be fraudu hot the Spanish Government will have no right to appeal to the English law. HERALD.—Private letters received this morning in the City from Paris represent political affairs in a more encouraging point of view. France, it is observed, will get out of the scrape in which she has been involved by the precipitation of the Ministry by means of a corn binution to something like the following purport. It will be formally laid down that Constantinople is in no case to be occupied by any foreign power. In the next place Mehemet Ali is not to be allowed to take such a position as to enable him at any future period to place in peril the independence and integrity of Turkey. And as a means to this end that Egypt only should be con ceded to him with a very small if any part of Turkey. To these conditions the French Government, it was believed, had signified its adhesion, and would undertake to persuade and procure the assent of the Pacha of Egypt, or, persuasion failing, to enter into the coalition against him, and thus convert the quadruple into a quintuple alliance. M. niters, it is asserted, has as sured all his friends and habitues that everything is settled, although not perhaps to the particular pleasure of Russia, and it was reported that shortly there will appear a formal declaration of all the Powers in con formity. It may be remarked, however, in respect of these statements that they are of tcro favourable a colour perhaps, since in fact France is known to have refused accession to terms considerably better for the Pacha than these, and assuredly neither one nor the other would be disposed to forego advantages previously and voluntarily offered in preference for arrangements of a less satisfactory nature. CHRONICLE.—The temporary improvement this morning was occasioned by the higher quotation of the French Renter received from Paris of Thursday, and an expeotation that the Continental exchanges had arrived at their lowest point of depression. The rates are now so low, indeed more so than they have been for sonic years, that we can scarcely anticipate that any further decline of importance will be experienced. We obsme some difference between the different accounts as to yesterday's exchange in the columns of ourselves and our contemporaries, some of whom state that the rates showed an improvement as compared with those of the preceding post. We stated, on the contrary, that there was no difference on the whole ; and we think our statement was correct. Indeed, at one period there was an indifference exhibited to continue the former rates, although, owing to a slight improve ment before the close, the quotations came at last within a fraction of those immediately preceding. The importance of ascertaining the true state of our foreign exchanges at the present moment induced us to make these remarks ; and we should observe i❑ ad d.tion, that notwithstanding the comparatively low price of gold on the Continent, some considerable shipments h tve been made within the last few days ; and, although it may not be done on terms which bear a remunerat ing profit in the common way of export, yet the facili ties which it offers of borrowing at very low rates of interest in the continents). cities enable those well versed in exchange operations to turn it to account, sup posing that the exportation had been entirely made on mercantile account. Be that as it may, it is quite ascertained that a good deal of gold has lateiy left us, and a rise took place here yesterday ill the price both of gold and silver, The former, which had been previously worth 3/. 17s. 9d. standard gold, rose to 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce. Dcllars from 4s. 100. rose to 4s. IO d. ; and silver in bars from ss. ()Lid. advanced to 53. Op. We have yet to see what , effect this advance in the prices of gold and silver may produce as a means of giving a favLurable turn to the foreign exchanges. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The French Journals have found in the Times and in Charles Attwood a couple of auxiliaries, of which tWy !seem determined to make the utmost use. The Court send Ministerial organs in Paris, indeed, feel the of their pleading themselves and insisting in favour of Frcuch interests—they therefore remain silent, and wisely quote the Times, which has taken up the gauntlet for the warlike French and for the partisans of Mehemet Ali. The Times, in the article which all the French Journals adopt, trgins by admitting that it associated itself to the aim of the Treaty of the 15th • of July, which certainly was to ensure the independence of the Turkish empire by limiting that of Mehemet Ali. It teed blames and anathematizes all the means by which such aim could possibly be obtained. That it could be coreteived, or acted on, without somewhat offending the French, was impossible ; or that it could be attained with al, some concert with Russia was equally impossible. Tti: Times condemns both of these. It must, therefore, mean that England should attempt, single handed, to attain its oloje e t, and that it should achieve the limita tion of Egyptian ambition by bowing to France and defying Russia. W e should, according to the Times, quarrel with Russia, even when it agrees with us. The idea is absurd. The Times must either condemn the trewy and declare its object visionary, or it must admit s o me means of accomplishin g it. For the Tories to cane forward . and say, " Th e treaty is wise and neces sary, sign it ;'• and the n , w h en i t i s signed, get up and o b,. ree , " Oh, yes ! but you must not risk war, you t not offend the French, you must in nothi ng trust or aocept her co-operation"—such conduct r iv implies that this great question of national interests has been regarded by the Tories as one ;.oactueive to their party purposes, and that they care ittle for Syria being Franco-Egyptian, and for the Tu kish Empire being reduced to a childish and helpless .staNe tutelage in the hands of its nearest neighbours, peo,ided they gain their only object, of getting a Whig Alirebtry into embarrassment. (From the Times.) Whilst ne are awaiting the events in the E . ast whinh rr av givo a decided turn to the policy of England, Russia, or France, it can neither be denied nor con cealed that this country is placed in the most unaccount able and ambiguous situation which was cvlesryithoutoccu pied by a pow e r of first-rate magnitude. the slightest intention of engaging in a war, we find ourselves exposed to a two-fold chance of hostilities. The English Government has pledged itself, in con cert with three other Powers, to certain modes of violent intervention directed against the Pacha of Egypt ' which may provoke a determined resistance on the part of a veteran desperado, whose superstitious obstinacy and implacable animosity to the Christian Powers are only to be matched by his cruelty and (oppression to his own subjects. If this scheme of in tervention succeeds, it can hardly be without the em ployment of means calculated to givo fresh grounds of umbrage to France ; if it fails, we have to apprehend - .the sudden and violent introduction of a Russian force, pia nation of the recent conduct of the Spanish Govern ment towards the purchasers. The great point to be explained was, how an injunction applying to one indi idual case only, and granted on account of the circum stances of that individual case, could be made to all the purchasers collectively. It appears that, before obtain ing this injunction, the solicitors waited on General Alava, and requested him, provided the Vice-Chan ce:ler should decide in their favour in the case which was coming before him, to allow the decision to extend to all cases in which fraud had likewise been practised, on their giving him notice of these cases, and the particular " titulos" to which they referred. Now assuming (which is in reality too much to assume) that tlse Spanish representative was justified in acceding to such a request, and in suspending payment on the mere no tice of private individuals, still it will be observed that the solicitors merely asked for a suspension ot payment in particular cases, the pointing out of which they re served to themselves, but never asked for such a sweep ing determination as was declared in the advertisement of the 20th of August, and which postponed vine die the payment of all purchasers, even though not a hint had been thrown out against time title under which their certificates were held. Assuming that General Alava thought it right to co-operate with these solicitors, who stated the hardships that would be felt by a number of destitute persons, were a separate injunction to be re qured for each, with the attendant expense, still that is no reason for taking a measure which the solicitors had never contemplated. The same gentlemen state, that in many cases the grossest fraud was practised ; that parties who knew that the Spanish Government was going to remit some money to meet the " titulos " made many of the unsuspecting holders believe that they would never be paid, and thus bought at a depreciation which they themselves had caused. Of course nothing could be more desirable than that parties guilty of such practices should meet with their deserts,but still the argument against confounding the ienocent with the guilty remains as before, and it is well known that many " titulos" are held by honourable persons, who purchased them at a fair price. The strongest argument urged by the soli el!ers is, that they do not belkye the instruments to be risesotiable (this indeed is the legal point now at issue), a- tt pay" is not assignable, end the " titulo" is a mere ..iration of debt, without a stamp or any other re quisite to put it in the position of a bill of exchange or prianissory note. This, in the eyes of the English law, may possibly make is case against the title of the pur chasers, but a decision on such principles will by no means exonerate the Spanish Government. They have so l. mnly that the document is transferable, and ti;e transferee is as much entitled to call upon them to no less calculated to give umbrage to ourselves. So that, in reality, England has been placed by Lord Palmerston's acquiescence in M. de Brunow'a contri vance in the position of a second-rate power, with a great deal to be apprehended, and very little to be gained, by either event, and a total absence of control over the complicated elements of the question. In such a state of things it is not surprising that a strong feeling of uneasiness should pervade the country. The danger of war is apparent ; the enormous, incalculable, and execra ble evil of war is still more so ; but such is the mystery and the confusion in which these negotiations have been buried, that we do not even know what war it is that threatens us. An accidental collision between a French and English brig in the Levant may suddenly bring down on us a declaration of war from France ; or the slightest indication of a movement on the part of Russia may require the most decided and rapid mea sures to prevent the occupation of Constantinople. This stat of things has now lasted a month or six wicks ; andi it is not surprising that we hear serious complaints from the quarters most interested in the preservation of peace. Merchants are uncertain as to tie chances to which their ships and cargoes are ex posed ; the rates of marine insurance have risen to an extraordinary height in many instances ; and the general uneasiness and ignorance of the real state of the case wl.i h prevail tend to paralyze several of our most im portant branches of commerce. (From the Morning Advertiser.) Notwithstanding the undeniable wrongs which ac companied the Union of Ireladd to England, and the corruption and perfidy by which it was accomplished, it must yet be ranked among the wisest and most politic acts of Mr. Pitt's Administration. Granted, as Mr. O'Connell proved in his energetic speech to the people of Liverpool, the other day, that millions were spent in bribing her corrupt Members to vote for its accomplishment ; that every obligation of honour, nay, of right, under which it was assented to, was violated ; that had it been a private compact, coming within the jurisdiction of a Court of Law, instead of a solemn covenant of the Legislature, it must have been held void and null, from the failure of one party to perform the stipulated conditions—granted all this, it remains an undoubted truth that good has been the result of evil in this instance, in a far greater degree even than it was in the case of the union of England to Scotland : compassed by the same foul ends, abused by the Scotch for a quarter of a century as the ruin of their country and its liberties, and finally acknowledged by every unprejudiced man as the corner-stone of their physical amelioration. It cannot be denied that every condition promised to Ire land at the time of the Union has now been performed. Ireland has now got Catholic emancipation. That great justice, so long and so fraudulently denied to her in the teeth of terms upon which the Union, even in her corrupt Parliament, was passed, cannot be pleaded as an unfulfilled condition. Neither can the advocates of Repeal plead the non-fulfilment of any of the com mercial or fiscal conditions agreed to at the time. So long as Catholic emancipation was refused we grant that Ireland had a right to hold the Union an empty parch ment ; but if at present every condition agreed to by England at the period of its signature be fulfilled, we cannot see how, legally speaking, Ireland can depart from her pledge merely because her repesenta tires were corrupt and sold their country. That misfortune was the business of Ireland herself, and not of England, and it was then that she should have seen to it. She is equally bound by the act of her native Parliament, as England is by those of her unreformed Parliament of boroughmongers. No man, surely, will argue that Ireland has the right to demand Repeal, because she did not obtain immediately thereafter absolute justice from England ; because she did not obtain the abolition of tithes, the acknowledg ment of the Catholic Clergy, the reform of her Uni versity and Corporations, a suitable number of Mem bers of Parliament, and, finally, a five-pound franchise and a Parliamentary Reform. In demanding these things she would have been demanding more than Eng land and Scotland themselves enjoyed at the time. She may certainly demand them if she thinks proper now, but sbe has no right to demand the alternative of Repeal if they be refused ; for the conditions of the Union are specific and precise, and once fulfilled, the Union is binding for ever. (From the Morning Herald.) We believe it will be found that we gave some time since the true explanation of the conduct of M. Thiers, in imputing to a morbid rage for popularity the national excitement which he has stirred up in France touching the Egyptian question and the Convention of the Four Powers. We have told Thiers already, and we are sure he will find it so, that it is easier to raise the spirit of military ambition in France than to lay it again. According to Lord Palmerston, the French Govern ment has repeatedly pledged itself that " in no case will France oppose the measures which the Jour Courts, in concert with the Sultan, may deem necessary to obtain the assent of the Pacha of Egypt." Unless, then, France means to observe her Egyptian pledge as she did her Algerine pledge to England, her threats and preparations of war on account of the Pacha of Egypt must be idle and bombastic demonstrations, only calcu lated to lower her diameter in the eyes of the civilised world. If Mehemet Ali should even prove to be as " obstinate "in maintaining his pretensions as the King of Holland was, France stands pledged not to interfere on his behalf—that is, unless Thiers can positively deny, as we before observed, the material averments of Lord Palmerston's letter to M. Guizot. Whatever may be 'the means which the four Powers choose now, or even tua'ly, to adopt in order to compel the assent of Mehe met Ali to their demands, the French Government has tied itself to a strict abstinence from all intervention. The sooner, then, the political tone of France suits with its moral position in reference to the affairs of the Le vant, the seoner will it consult for its own dignity, which is now sacrificed for the sake of a brilliant chimera. 1 Whether our own Government is acting wisely in unit ing with the three great despotic Powers of Europe, in the perhaps vain hope of restoring vitality and strength to the decrepitude of the Ottoman empire, is quite another question. Whatever becomes of Turkey or Egypt, Russia will take care to turn the bargain to her own advantage. (From the Morning Post.) Commercial letters from Constantinople state that the decision of the Northern Powers, in regard to the affairs of that part of the world, obtained publicity there on the 6th instant. The effect was, it appears, quite electrical. Not an:inhabitant could calculate upon his personal safety, or that of his family, for the period of a single month. That Mehemet Ali would take the more desperate course open to him there was no doubt whatever. He is ;not now a young man, and it was felt that, so far horn submitting quietly to the dictation of the parties to the quintuple treaty, as a mere stripling unconfirmed in power might have been disposad to do, with the chances so much against him in the event of resistance, he would determine upon march ing at once upon Constantinople. The consternation of the people of the Turkish capital was evidently not much diminished by the knowledge they possessed that, although the Sultan had but an inferior force at hand to defend the city, the Russians were at a con venient distance, and that they would be prepared to face the invader the moment the bugle should give in timation of his presence. The march of the Egyptian troops would occupy about twenty-five days only, the country being perfectly free and practicable. The underwriters at Lloyd's have ceased insuring sea risks otherwise than at war premiums. This change neces sarily opens the eyes of all commercial men to the deep importance of the pending difficulty. ST. MARK'S CHURCH AT VENICE.—St. Mark's Church reminds one certainly of St. Sophia's, at Con,tantinople, but, on the other hand, has so much that is original, contains so many peculiar works of art, and is erected amid so many extraordinary surrounding objects, that, aster all the books already written about it, abundant materials may be found for as many more. Less imposing than St. Peter's, less solemn than the cathedral of Milan, St. Mark's may, neverthe less, say anch' io son chiesa I and will go unconquered nay, in some respects unequalled, from the conflict. Yesterday evening I saw the church lighted up, and beheld in reality what is seldom seen, except as a theatrical decoration. On the one side, the pomp, solemnity, and festivity of Catholicism, together with its outward evidences of faith, impress the mind strongly ; but on the other side, I was disturbed, as I have often been before, by the chattering, thu running to and fro—l may almost say the bawling, of the clergy. More purely sounded the choir as it struck in at intervals. A handsome, well-dressed girl knelt before a small picture of a saint, that was preserved under a glass case. I was about, in spite of all my protestantism, to commend, nay, t') envy her zeal and faith, but when I saw her spit upon her handkerchief, and wipe the glass, pre paratory to kissing it, the whole Fata Morgana, I must own, vanished in a moment —Raunier's Italy and the S, en r T m . Bt A o rr th l- e i O b L od o ie M s Eainvd re ' S CHURCH.—The UR ns is . being— T int( with as m uc h d ecorum as possible, none being removed conducted di sin - after six o ' c l oc k in the morning, and the vaults and graves remains are well ventilated with chloride of lime in order to neu tralise any unpleasant smell or dangerous effluvia. The interi.r of the church is excavated throughout, and there is scarcely a pew under which is not a rep'sitory for many of the dead. Tee excavations have been made to a depth of 15 to 18 feet, and every portion of a skeleton, however small, is carefully deposited in a shell, which, when filled, is removed to the neighbouring church of St. Margaret. Fi fty - seven shell s h ave b een removed to the vaults of this church, which have been enlarged for the ac commodation of as many more. Some of the leaden coffins present a singularly decayed a p pearance, having been acted upon by the lime with which the soil is strongly impreg nated. It is proper to add th at every propriety of atten tion is shown in consultin g the feelings of friends and re lations. BITTER OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH On Monday, Me!moth WP. alters, , —., summoned tw .--- industrious individuals for violating the Sabbath , for be e i l n v g e in a tent on Sun d ay p r ece di ng Lansdown fair,on the ground whore the fair was held, The Nlagistrates asked the gentleman if any disturbance or r i otous conduct too k place ? To which be answered " No." The whole of the summonses were i consequence immediately dismissed.— Bath Journal. MARYLEBONE. Lady Alice Palmer, of 16, Hanov.n-terrace, Re gent's-park, attended at this Court to prefer a corn. plaint against Cornelius Leonard, her footman, who was brought up on a summons by Hooker, the officer, for the all( ged unlawful detention of various articles of ap. parel. Her Ladyship briefly stated that the defendant re fused to give up the property, and had, moreover, made upon her a demand for money not due to him. In reply to the charge, defendant said that he had been in his situation six months, and that on the previous day (Friday), in consequence of some words which arose between him and her Ladyship, the latter desired him to strip off and give up a suit of mourning which had been presented him by the nephew of his late master, Sir William Palmer. Ha refused to comply with her mandate, considering that the clothes were his own ; and in consequence of his non-compliance, her Lady ship abused him, and objected to pay him his demand, amounting to 81., alleging as her reason for not settling with him that 21. which had been given him as a pre sent by the deceased Sir William should be deducted from the bill. Lady Palmer further stated that the defendant with ' held his suit of livery. Defendant denied this, and called the butler, who proved that the whole of it had been given up, and was still in his (the butler's) possession. The MAGISTRATE decided that the defendant was undoubtedly entitled to the mourning, and told him that with regard to the wages he must proceed against her in another Court. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. EXTENSIVE BURGLARY.—,John 11. Healey, shopman o Mr. Bartrarn, an extensive pawnbroker, in Princes treat, Soho, was placed at the bar on suspicion of teing concerned in a burglary committed at his master's ouse. It appeared from the evidence adduced against the prisoner, that on Friday night he had asked permission to go out for two or three hours, and did not return be fore a quarter to twelve. Mr. Howell, who conducts the business of the firm, and who had with his ffimily paid a visit to a friend that evening, on arriving home saw that everything was secure before retiring to rest. On the following morning he was informed that a visit had been paid during tha night by thieves, and on going into the shop discovered that upwards of 70 watches, some gold seals, ear-rings, and other articles to the value of 1001., had been carried off. On a close examination of the fastenings of the premises the general belief was, that. the robbery must either have been committed by some person concealed on the premises, or with the connivance of some of the inmates, as there were no marks to warrant the idea of a breaking in. The police were called, and the prisoner was questioned as to where he had spent the previous evening. He said be had been to the theatre ; but as the officers considered he was not sufficiently communicative on the subject of the performances, and did not reply to their interroga_ tories, he was charged on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery. Prisoner, who simply denied the charge, was remanded until Monday. HATTON-GARDEN. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY, &C.—Eliza beth White, housemaid, and Sarah Connor, cook to Mr. Pritchard, the Common Councilman, of No. 3, Duncan-terrace. Islington, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Oreenwood, charged with suspicion of having been concerned in stealing a considerable quantity of jewel lery, two gold watches, and other property. It appeared that the Misses Pritchard, on Friday last, left their residence at two o'clock for the purpose of witnessing the ceremony of presenting to Prince Albert the freedom of the city, prior to which they deposited their jewellery, two gold watches, and a pocket-book containing gold and notes to a considerable amount, in their chamber at the upper part of the house. Their father left home, arid returned at four o'clock in the afternoon, having left the prisoners alone in the house. On the return of the young ladies home, about seven o'clock, they repaired to their chamber, when they missed their watches, and on examining their drawers they discovered that the whole of their jewellery had been stolen, together with their pocket-book, &c. They made an alarm, when police-constable Scott, 9 N division, was called in, and on making inquiries, and examining the doors and windows, he was satisfied that thieves had not entered the house unless admitted by the servants, and that the robbery must have been com mitted with the concurrence of or by somebody in the house. The prisoners were given into custody, and on being searched nothing was found upon them to impli cate them, and the affair was involved in the greates mystery. The prisoners denied all knowledge of the robbery. Mr. GuEENwoon ordered the prisoner White to be taken outside whilst he questioned the prisoner Connor. Connor said that they were allowed no followers, but White wrs visited by a young man, her sweetheart, a lawyer's clerk, in the neighbourhood. She did not see him there on the day of the robbery. Mr. GREENWOOD had no doubt that White and the lawyer's clerk were concerned in the robbery, and he should remand her, but he was inclined to believe that Connor had no hand in the affair. Miss Pritchard said that she suspected both the pri soners, and pressed for their detention until further in quiries could be made. Mr. GREENWOOD remanded White until Wednesday next, and ordered Connor to find bail to appear to an swer any charge that might be brou g ht aga i nst h er, and he directed Sergeants King and Scott to exerc i se t h e i r utmost exertions during the interim to trace the robbery. Q UE EN- S Q UARE. George Siewait, a dissolute youth, wa s c h arge d b y his father, - Mr. Stewart, of Vincent -square, with obtain ing money under false pretences. It appe ars th a t th e priso ner h a d b een d e t ec t e d in various acts of dishonesty, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1840. -.r BKENTFORD PETTY SESSION A decisicn of considerable importance to licensed victuallers, residing within the jurisdiction of the Me tropolitan Police, was on Fi ilay come to by Colonel Ciitherow, Rev. Dr. Walmeslev, and Messrs. Pownall, Baillie, and Turner, the Sitting Magistrates. On the 22d inst., Mr. Halford, of the Chequers public-house, in the Twickenham•road, and Mr. Break well, the proprietor of the Coach and Horses Inn, at Brentford-end, were summoned at the instance of the police under the New Police Act (2d and 3d Vie., cap. 47. sec. 42), for having their houses open for the sale of beer, &c., before one o'clock in the forenoon of Sunday, the 16th inst., whereby they had each incurred a penalty not exceeding 51. • Tile police proved that at twenty minutes past eleven o'clock on the day in question there were five vans and two light chaise-carts standing at the door of the de fendant Halford, and in the bar parlour were seven men and one woman, none of whom were, however, drinking, but up stairs were six men and four women, who had two pots on the table containing malt liquor. There were also empty pots. On corning: down stairs they told Halford he was serving, which he admitted. The horses in the vans were having hay and water. The defendant Breakwell admitted having served the persons who came in vans to his house on the day specified. Mr. Sleap, a solicitor, who attended for both defend ants, denied that his clients had committed any offence. The clause in the Act under which the defendants were summoned, made an exemption in favour of travellers, of which class were the persons who were found in the defendants' houses. The vans were on their way from town to Hampton Court, and as many of them came from the eastern end of the metropolis, he confidently contended the persons who came with t hem were travellers" to all intents and purposes, to the extent contemplated in the Act. The BENCH, however, entertained a different opi nion, conceiving that persons who left their houses and hired vans for the purposes of pleasure, were not " travellers," as contemplated by the Ley,islature in pass ing the Act, but that if they required refreshment be fore the hour allowed for the opening of public-houses, they must provide themselves with it previously. The final decision on the point was ultimately de ferred for a week. On Saturday the Court was crowded by licensed victuallers, and others interested in the matter. On the case being called on, Mr. Sleap again addressed the Bench, who convicted Mr. Halford in the sum of 635. and costs. Mr. Halford immediately entered into three securi ties of 401. each, to appeal to the Quarter Session, that the point may be decided. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W-STREET. SPEEDY JUSTlCE.—Elizabeth Eddington was brought up on the following charge shopman to Mr. Wa pelt, stated that on Saturday morning the prisoner came to his employer's shop and offered a shawl in pledge. He saw a ticket on the corner of it with the name of Lamb, a neighbouring pawnbroker, upon it, and ques tioned the prisoner as to how she came possessed of it, when she replied that she bought it at Mr. Lamb's ; but on his taking down a bill which is weekly sent round to the different pawnbrokers, giving a description of various articles that have been stolen, to see if the shawl in question was mentioned in it, the prisoner sud denly bolted out of the shop ; he, however, followed her and gave her in charge to a policeman. One of Mr. Lamb's shopmen proved that the shawl had been stolen from his master's shop a few minutes before the prisoner was taken into custody. The prisoner, in defence, said she had been requested to pawn the shawl by a woman with whom she had but a slight acquaintance, and that on the first witness questioning her about it she thought there was sometbing wrong, and ran out of the shop to find the woman who had given her the shawl to pledge, but before she could do so was taken into custody. The prisoner was committed for trial. The whole transaction, from the time the rolebery was committed to that of the prisoner's committal, did not occupy more than half an hour. and the following case was proved against him :—The prisoner went to an old lady, a friend of the family, and telling her that his father could not immediately makz. , up a sum of money to send his grandfather to ScotlanA, ob tained of her 10s. on this plea.—He was fully committed for trial. John Lambert, an Irishman, was charged with the following violent assault upon Daniel \Vence :—The complainant and defendant were employed in John ston's stone-yard, Westminster, and on Saturday morn ing some of the workmen were jeering the former, upon which he took up a block of granite weighing more than SOlbs., and threw it at Wence's head. For tunately the stone fell on the poor fellow's shoulder ; he must have been killed on the spot if it had hit head. The MAGISTRATE reprobated the prison - 2r's brutal conduct, and fined him 51., or two months' imprison ment. LAMBETH -STREET. Henry Ploughait, an officer of the K division, but who is acting as a servant of the Blackwall Railway Company, appeared, by order of the Commissioners of Police, to answer the complaint or J. D. Norton, Esq., the Chancery barrister, of Old•square, Lincoln's inn. Mr. Norton stated that he, his son, and another gen tlemen, accompanied his nephew to Blackwall on the 18th instant, and o❑ their return the defendant went up to his nephew, who had just entered the station with a cigar in his mouth, and pulled it forcibly from him, burning his hand with it. Mr. Norton expostulated with him, when he jeeringly took a pinch of snuff before him in a very insolent manner The solicitor who appeared for the defendant stated the man did not take snuff, upon which Mr. Norton said his going through the action of so doing in the manner he did was more offensive still. The metropo litan police were taking tickets, and acting the same as paid servants of the Company. Mr. Norton, jun., who gave his evidence with some warmth, confirmed his father's statement. On his cross-examination he admitted that the policeman told him that no smoking was allowed on the premises, but not in a civil manner. The solicitor asked why the young gentleman who had the cigar taken from him was not there ? Mr. Norton said because he had sailed for Calcutta. A clerk in the station said that the policeman was a very civil man, and did nothing at all offensive to the gentlemen in his presence. The MAGISTRATE looked at the Railway Act, and, finding that it was forbidden to smoke either on the premises or in the carriages, under a penalty of five pounds, dismissed the case. UNION-HA L L. In the course of the day a young female, resembling the Queen, applied for a warrant against her husband, under the following circumstances':—The applicant stated that she was married on the same day as the Queen's nuptials were solemnized, and that in three months afterwards she was compelled to leave her husband, in consequence of his ill-treatment of her. That since their separation she had placed herself under the pro tection of it gentleman, who provided her with apart ments in Stamford -street, and that she neither applied for nor wanted assistance from the man to whom she was married. On Friday night she went to bed at her usual time, and was awoke by the noise occasioned by the lifting up the sash of her windows, which she forgot to fasten when she retired to rest. At the same moment her husband jumped through the window in•o the room, and insisted upon remaining there, urging his claim as husband, declaring that no power should remove him. She tried to eject him, but finding that her strength was not sufficient fiar the purpose, shy• then alarmed the house, but no one would interfere, es the interloper was her husband ; and he having assaulted her, she now wanted a warrant against him. She added that she wanted the process seived as soon as possible, as she wanted to go to Windsor. As the applicant bore a strong resemblance to the Queen in the face, she was asked what she was going to do at Windsor, and from her reply it was gathered that ever since her marriage she was in the habit of going to Windsor when her Majesty was there, but for what purpose she refused to disclose. From subsequent conversation with her it was evident that she was labour ing under the delusion that she was nearly allied to royalty, and that she frequently placed herself in pro minent situations when the Queen and Prince Albert were together, in order to attract their attention. The MAGISTRATE granted the application. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LirEapoor., Aua. 29. HEARNE, CLERK V. STOWELL, CLERK. This was an action for libel, brought by the Catholic priest of St. Patrick's, Manchester, against the Rev. Hugh Stowell, Protestant minister of Christchurch, in the same city. The case seemed to excite great interest. Mr. DUNDAS, for the plaintiff, stated the facts of the case. On the 28th of April last a meeting was held at Manchester to petition against the grant to Maynooth. The defendant was Chairman, and was received with loud acclamations. He noticed this but to show the great power this gentleman possessed either for good or evil. He addressed the audi ence, and spoke for about half an hour, princi cipally against Maynooth. fie came at last to the subject of the present action, and said he would give an instance of the truth of what he had asserted. He gave it from a document he held in his hand,of which he said that it had been given him by a person whose name he would not disclose, unless the Papists required proof, when that proof would be given. He said, " I will just give you a specimen of what these priests in doctrinated at Maynooth teach these poor creatures in reference to the way of salvation, how they grind them down and debase almost as low as the beasts that perish." He then proceeded to charge on Mr. Hearne that he enjoined a penanc e on some poor person of so disgraceful a character that had he done so it would not only have degraded him in the estimation of society, but deprived hies beyond a doubt of his benefice. He e a e nn to prove. she The proceeded. L ear nd ItCoun sel ra n came with this accusati on cut and dry, and read it out of a document whi c h , at the proper time, he said then proceeded t o read the statement of the de fendant,e w ' commenting preparedm tig e it as give not believe lie I ve will it ll ; not but nien_ the thus :—" The c i rcumstance which I am Doing to nar rate did not oc c u r i n I re l and, in the darkness of Popery there ; but here, i n M anc h ester, in the midst of all our daylight. witnesses are prepar e d t o come forward and prove the iant nr I would will perhapsie it to yol d not g tion their names, lest it. should expose them to persecu tion ; but if the Papists choose to conic foe ward end demand the evidence, that evidence is forthcoming, j hear in my hand, then, a document subscribed by three of the police of Manchester; one is not a po.iceman at the presery, moment, but he was at the time thac he Furnished this document. lie states that he was a po liceman then, in Smedley-lane, and that one morning, fortnight before that period, a dyer, going to his work, asked me if I had seen a man walking on his hands and knees the two last nights. I said that I had not, but that I had seen him doing it the last two mornings, and that I at first thought he was makin g his es cane, or concealing himself from some pu-sui e 4, bet that I subsequently took him for a Cripp:e." Who was this myste eous person? In about ten minutes after this, the dupe (these are the wit ness's own words) made his appearance, crawling with his hands and knees on the roug :est part of the pavement. I then resalved to satisfy myself, when I elicited the following answers from him :—I askr.d ' What are you doi ig all that about? It is penance for my sins.—( Hear, and laughter.) I am more dls. posed to wt es than to laugh, my dear It Bids ; for allow me to ?ay I lament that a man should think that he was s av i ng hi s soul, and suffering the work of the Lamb of Gcd, by thus degrading himself under the , k)a n of a P op i s h Priest. I say I deeply lament it. Could you not atone for your sins without doing that ?'' ' No.' " Why ?" " Because e priest will not ad minister the sacrament to m e a t ill I have done it." How long have you done it ?" " Four days." " How many days more will it take you before you finish ?" I cannot tell." " But when will you go to your priest to know ?" When I have done it nine days more I shall go." " How many hours do you do it each day ?" At one time ?" " No, " Four hours." two in the morning, and two at night." " Do you work at anything? " I work in a factory." Poor fellow ! working in a factory for twelve hours a day, and then drag gring on his hands and knees over the rough stones for four hours a-day more. The priest should have taken his place and done it for him. Who is your priest?' Mr. Hearne.' What c hapel do you g o to?' St. Patrick's.' i s What our - name ' ? ' 'John O'Hara.' You h a d better com e on the path or go into that field, where it will be softer and easy for you ?" Oh, no; that will not b e doing penance.' We now looked at his kne es , w hi ch were m uch lacerated. We ex postulated w i t h hi m, but it was o f no a vail. He said he was a great sinner. We insisted on his desisting, but he resisted violently, took the sergeant's stick front It was with great him, and l a id on us with it furiously. I difficulty that we succeeded in subduing him, when I deprived hi m of h i s beads, his cruc ifix, and The Gar. den of th e Soul,' whi c h are now at the police station. The undersigned police constables ar e ready to give testimony of this." This was, the Learnednsel went on to say, t h e lib e l o f w hi c h the plaintiffcom plained, and th e statement i n it, he need hardly Counsel te them, was ut ter l y f a l se. M r . Hearne never the sacra any such d e b as i ng penance ;h e n ever interdicted enjoined ment to John O'H ara , or any one else, h on i s suchchurc grounds.and He could no t d o so b y t h e di s cipline of 'The Learned if he did would be li a bl e to be degraded. Counsel proceeded to read and commen t on the condo. sion of the matter ch a r g ed as libellous and then said-- ; Mr. Hearne was at that time a) Ireland, but th e , , moment the accusation came to his knowledge he took steps to clear his character. Oa the 6th of May h e wrote to his attorney, Mr. G!bson, to take immediat e steps to refute the charge. Mr. Gibson wrote to M r . Stowell, who had said a week before that at the prop e r time and place he would come forward and prove all that he had said. This letter referred to the report in the Mane!tester Courier, asking if it were correct, and if ouch a slecunele_ .t reported had been read et the meeting. Mr. Stowell, it would seem, was absent, and did not receive that letter. Mr. Gibson, two days after repeated the application, referred to what Mr. Stowell had said of his readiness to prove what he had stated, asked for a copy of the original document, and the appointment of time and place for the production of the original. An an swer was received on the 12th from Mr. Goulden, Mr. Stowell's attorney in London, saying that Mr. Stowell had received the letter, and that the report in the Courier was as usual, from the rapidity with which the Rev. Gentleman spoke, extremely incorrect, but that the document was correctly given. Notice had been given to produce that document, and it would, it ap peared, be produced. The letter concluded by re questing that any further communications might be addressed to him (the attorney). Mr. Gibson wrote in reply, asking if he was to deem this communication final, or whether Mr. Stowell would point out what part of this report was correct. The letter received in reply stated teat Mr. Stowell was willing to enter into any expl anat i on , an d , if he had b een led into any mistake, fully and frankly to acknowledge it ; but in the present instance, application had been made through a solicitor, and questions had been proposed, which might lead to consequences of great importance, though not material to the merits of the case. At the same time it declared that Mr. Stowell entertained a firm conviction that Mr. Gibson's client was perfectly conscious of the substantial truth of the allegations against hug, so that, twenty days after making this charge false from first to last, he reiterates the miserable story, and puts it to Mr. Hearn that he is guilty, and knows that he is guilty. The latter declined to give any other answer, " as Mr. Stowell held himself prepared to prove before any legal tribunal the gener it truth of what he has stated." But he had put no justification on the record. He did not say in this action, on the pleadings, that the story was true ; but he said merely that he was not guilty ; that is, either that he did not speak the words imputed, or did not speak them in the sense imputed. The letter went on, it would seem, to say, " Mr. Stowell did not entertain the slightest particle of personal feeling egainst Mr. Hearne." Now, this was too bad. If he (the Learned Counsel), who never saw Mr. Stowell, were to pick up this night in the street some miserable story dishonouring his character and endangering his benefice, and retail this in every company, professing to have documents which would prove its truth, what would be said if when it was proved to be utterly false it should be said in reply, " Oh, there was not the slightest particle of personal feeling against Mr. Stowell ?" The law presumes malice. If a man fires a pistol into a crowd, certain to kill some one, will it be urged the per son who fires it has no malice against the man he mur ders. If a man slander and traduce another he has ill-will and malice against that other. He must be taught to keep his tongue in order, and if he has allowed his zeal to outrun his discretion he must take the con sequences. The Learned Counsel proceeded to state that he would put in the witness-box high authorities in the Church of Rome to show that the penance said to be imposed by Mr. Hearne was contrary to the dis cipline of the Church, and that if he refused the sacra ment to any of his flock for not performing it he would be deprived of his benefice. It would be for the other side to make their defence. It would not surely be contended that this was within the limits of fair dis cussion. If so, eo man was safe. He need not expa tiate on the value of character, especially to a gentle man of the sacred profession of the plaintiff. The plaintiff came before them and placed that character, as he would place his life, in the hands of the Jury, well :Assured that in the sacred halls of justice rich and poor, Protestant and Catholic, met on equal terms, and that they would give as gentlemen such damages as a gen tleman had a right to ask in reparation for a most se rious injury. The reporter was then put in the box, but by con sent the speech of Mr. Stowell was read: from the newspaper, except that portion which referred to the document which lie read. This being called for was produced by the counsel for the defendant. It was a statement signed by three police officers at Manchester, and addressed to Mr. Pratt, a printer, in Manchester. Mr. Cresswell said he did not, unless his Learned Friend desired it, wish the whole of the remainder of Mr. Stowell's speech to be read. He would only ask the clerk to read the last paragraph, in which Mr. Stowell disclaimed all feeling of enmity towards the Roman Catholics. The Rev. James Crook was then called. He stated he was senior priest at St. Augustine's, in Manchester, and knew the plaintiff, who is senior priest at St. Pa trick's. He had been so fourteen years. He is much respected, No individual priest has power to impose such a penance as that stated to have been imposed by him. Such a statement would, in the opinion of the witness, i., calculated to bring him into odium and dis repute. If a Roman Catholic clergyman imposed such a penance his Bishop would interfere, and would have the power to deprive him of his benefice. In cross-examination, the witness stated that the priests have the power of imposing penances, but not such as would degrade a man, either before the public or in his own eyes. They have no power to impose a penance by crawling on the ground. He knew of no custom to impose such penances. Penances are partly medicinal and partly in satisfaction for sin, but solely in connexion with the merits of Christ. It is the opinions of some divines that priests imposing small penances for great offences become partakers of other men's sins. That is a matter of opinion, by which lie was not bound. The canons of the Council of Trent are of authority in the Church in doctrinal matters. The Learned Counsel was proceeding to put some questions to the witness on points of doctrine connected with these canons, who declined to answer them, on the ground that they would require a careful collation of many passages of the canons. His LORDSHIP said he thought they were treading on difficult and dangerous ground, and he could not say that the witness was bound to answer the question, or that it bore on the point at issue. The witness, in reply to other questions, stated that a priest had power to forgive sins under the words of Christ—that the penance for each sin was much in the discretion of the priest, whose authority in the matter was somewhat similar to that of a parent over a child. As a matter of ecclesiastical history he knew that many persons were held up as objects of admiration in the Ca tholic Church who had infite .ed extraordinary penances on themselves, but it was not on account of these pe nances, but on account of their general piety and good works. On re-examination he stated the penances en. joined by the Church are prayer, fasting, almsgiving, and practice of self-denial. Dr. John Hanlon, professor of theology a• May nooth, and Dr. John Murdock, Roman Catholic Bishop in Scotland, gave a similar account of the doctrines of the Church. Mr. CRESSWELL for the defence said, the object of this action was to suppress free discussion by the Pro testant people of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, with reference to the College of Maynooth• He did not seek to enter into theo:ogical discussion ; but they had ample materials from tne evidence which had neon laid before them to show that Mr. Stowell had acted only as every Englishman might do, as any conscientious clergy man might think it his duty to do —come forward to op. pose a grant to a college in which he believed doc trines were inculcated which might well alarm a cleri.:)- roan of the Protestant Establishment. No one could for a moment believe that Mr. Stowell acted otherwise t.ia❑ in sincerity and truth ; and he put:the case on the ground that Mr. Stowell acted bona fide, for the pur pose of warning against the errors of the Church of Rome, and in the Fut! belief of the truth of what he stated. The document itself fully exonerated the de- His LORDSHIP, in summing up, saidithe simple ques tion before them was, whether the plaintiff had esta blished his alleged ground of complaint against the de fendant. With a great part of the defendant's speech no fault conld be found ; but the plaintiff complained thatopportunity had been taken in that speech to libel him personally, and to say that of him which would degrade his character No man had a right to come to a public meeting to say anything libellous of an individual, and then justify it by saying, " Some one put the statement into myband, and I thought it true." The plaintiff would be entitled to a verdict. As to the amount of damages, they would look at all the circumstances. He thought they would be of opinion that Mr. Stowell was acting at least with sincerity in the matter, and he thought they should take care not to allow their feelings for the plaintiff to lead them into giving excessive damages on the occasion. The Jury consulted a few minutes, and returned a verdict for the plaintiff.—Damages 40s. On Saturday afternoon, a tragical occurrence took place at Messrs. Pellatt's glass factory, in Holland street, Blackfriar's. A workman, named Vincent, resid ing at No. 10, Brunswick -street, was in the act of sweep ing up some coke, when a fellow-workman, named Shee, took the broom from him. Vincent, after a struggle, suc ceeded in regaining possession of the broom, upon which Shee observed, " I will serve you out," and immediately picked up a brick and hurled it at Vincent. The missile struck Vincent on the spine, and he immediately staggered and fell down lifeless on the ground. The fellow-work men of Shee called in the police, and he was apprehended on the charge of murder. HOP INTELLIGENCE.— WORCESTER, AUG. 28 —Our Hop trade was brisk at Saturday's market last, at the undermentioned currency. The duty is estimated at 3001., and the present warm weather is very favourable for bringing the hops to perfection ; and, although the quantity w ill b e small, the quality will be good. Prices. ! per cwt. :-1839, from 100 s. to 1403.; choice, 1603. to 18 93. ; yearlings and 1537, from 9th. to 1263. EGYPT.—One of our private letters from Cairo, dated 3d inst., states that the " sidemnity of the inv,nd,„ tion of the Nile, when its waters have riZeil to a certain height, and are let into the canals through which they are conveyed over the acjoining country, was celebrated this year with extraordinary pomp. Under Providence the most spler.di..t crops are assured to us," NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (Front the iiampsoiic intlepota'ea.) PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 29.—The Atholl troop-ship yes terday from Plymouth, and remains at Spithead. The Pique frigate, Captain Boxer, arrived at Gibral tar on the 6th instant. In addition to the 60 Marine Artillerymen and 112 Supernumerary Marines, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Walker, which she embarked from this port and Plymouth, she took on board at Gibraltar 43 Sappers and Miners, ammunition, 600 stand of arms, tents, sand-bags, barroNs, shovels, &c., for making fortifications, &c., and sailed the follow ing day, it was rumoured, for the Syrian coast. The Brisk arrived at St. Helena on the Bth of July, having three slavers in charge—the Portuguese schoo ners, Andolivina, and Corringe, and Munte Videan schooner, Dictator. The Southampton, frigate, Capt. S. Hillier, with the flag of Admiral Sir D. King, left Chatham on Mon day last, and brought up at the Little Nore. She is hourly expected at this port to complete her stores, crew, &c., previous to proceeding to South America. The Stag, Crescent, Arrow, and Fawn, were at Rio on the 22d of June. The President, frigate, with the flag of Admiral Ross, was lying at Lima, on the Bth of May—all well. The Apollo, troop shit), A. Karley, commander, sailed on Sunday last, for Plymouth, Cork, and Corfu. The Snearwatcr steamer, Lieut. Steane, is hourly expected at this port on her way to the West Indies. The Calcutta, 84, has been commissioned at Ply mouth, by Captain Sir Samuel Roberts. The Illustrious, 72, is daily expected to ba put into commission at this pot t. The Wari,pite, 50, was undocked on Monday last, and now lies in the basin. This beautiful vessel is fitting for ordinary. The Imaum, 84, was taken into dock on Thursday ; and on the same day the Indus, 84, was brought into the bon. She is to be brought forward for commis sioning. The Vanguard still remains at Spithead, in every re spect ready for immediate service. She yesterday shipped twelve GS-pounders for the Asia and Bellero phon, and it is expected that after being inspected by the Board of Admiralty, she will immediately proceed to the Mediterranean. APPOINTMENTS. The Stromboli is increasing her armament by the ad dition of two more 32-pounders. The Meteor steamer, Lieut. Pritchard, arrived yes terday from the westward, with volunteers—some for the Vanguard ; she proceeded with the remainder to Woolv‘ich, for the Medea. The True Briton and Windsor sailed for India on Tuesday. The Lord LynPdoch, convict-ship, arrived on Sun day, from Woolwich ; on Tuesday embarked 220 priso ners from the hulks, and sailed on Wednesday for Van Diemen's Land. The subaltern and party of Royal Marines, 35, to complete the Britannia, as a first-rate, will embark on Tuesday. Captai❑ Jeremiah Coghlae, C,8., has had a service pension of 130/, per annum awarded him ; this mark of approbation on the part of the Admiralty to a most de serving and gallant officer, will be highly appreciated by the whole service. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENT S . PROMOTION. —Mate—Willi am Greet to the rank of Lieutenant. APPOINTMENTS.---C.lptilin Sir Samuel Roberts to the Calcutta. Commander W. Chasman, to the Southampton. Lieutenants—Bulkalcy G. Le Mesurier, pro tem pore, to the Daphne ; R. T. J. Levinge to command the Buzzard, vies Fitzgerald, invalided ; C. Edmunds and R. J. Otway to the Calcutta, Masters—William Purdo (1807) to be Master-At tendant at Portsmouth Dockyard, vice Hepburn, su perannuated ; Frederick Win. Richard Sadler (1810), to be Master -Attendant at Chatham, vice Purdo ; C. Brown (181.5) to be Assistant Master-Attendant at Portsmouth Dockyard, vice Sadler ; Richard Easto (1814) to be Assistant Master -Attendant at Sheerness, vice Brown ; Alexander Karley (1814), from the Apollo troop-ship, to be Assistant-Master•Attendant at Chatham. W. White, b (181:4 to command the Apollo troop-ship, vice Karley ; David Gossman to the Impregnable, vice White. Mate.—B. B. Hawke to the Excellent. Assistant-Surgeon —Wm. Hobbs to the Cygnet. Boatswain —Mr. Palmer to the Calcutta. Carpenter—Mr. Hall to the Calcutta. COAST GUARD.—Lieutenant —Thomas Samuel Hall to be Chief Officer. ROYAL MARINES. —Captain Puddicombe to be Pay master at Plymouth, vice Kinsman, deceased ; Lieut. C. A. Parker. t o b e Q uarter -Master in the Chatham Division, vice Savage, promoted. CARES OF MATRIMONY,—If youth could pro , perly estimate the responsibility which marriage entails, . they would not so lightly contract an engagement which must go far to render them happy or miserable for the rest of their days. And yet how many, even in this great me tropolis, never calculate upon the consequences of such a step, but thoughtlessly picture everything couleur de rose. Experience, which comes too late, often sadly undeceives them. I mean not by these remarks to declaim against matrimony, but to warn the inconsiderate from rashly en tering upon so solemn and lasting a compact.—A Summer's Day at Greenwich. A Board of Admiralty, composed of Earl Minto, Vice. Admiral Sir C. Adam, and Sir W. Parker, with Mr. Clifton, pro Secretary, and accompanied by the Surveyor of the Navy, &r W. Symonds, and the Engineer to the Board, Captain Brandreth, arrived at Portsmouth on Saturday morning, on an official visit, in the Firebrand steamer, from Southampton, and were saluted by the flag ship and the garrison, Their Lordships afterwards in spected various departments in the dock-yard, and wit_ flossed the gunnery practices on board the Excel/Pitt. In the evening they were entertained at dinne r by the Commander-in- Chief. Saturday morning they visited the _Britannia, and mustered the Ordinary and the artisans in the do, k yard ; and Lord Mnito, Sir C. Adam, and Sir W. Parker, respectively held levees at the building erected for the School of Naval Architecture, which were flume. rously attended by officers. Captain—Sir Samuel Roberts, C. 13., to Calcutta. Lieutenants—John R. Engledue, Wm. N. Russel Chas. Edmund, Robert J. Otway, to Calcutta; Right Hon. Lord Henry Russell (additional), to Princess Charlotte, to do duty in Vanguard. Master—G. J. Forthcote, to Calcutta. Mates—C. Willer, to join Niger expedition ;E. M. Leycester, to Vanguard ; Chas. Hawkey, to Stromboli. MANNING THE NAM—This subject has been often brought under the notice of the public—certainly not without rea'on. Some measures have been tried, by advertising, &c., in which the advantages of the ser vice have been fully developed ; but still no visible alteration has resulted from these means—the want of seamen continues unabated. In no instance that we know of has this want been more severely felt than during the past week, in the case of the Vanguard. This ship has had a draft from the Victory of 50 men —not seamen mind—and the men in ordinary have also been taken almost to a man, which has led to an entry for pensioners for the ordinary, who are to enj , )y their pensions in addition to their pay ! We think that this instance may be very fairly adduced as another proof, and that a very strong one, of the actual want of seamen. An expensive or sickly station, a bad captain, or troublesome first-lieutenani, are so many obstacles for preventing men from joining ; but in the case of the Vanguard, as far as we can hear, none of these causes can be said to operate. Surely, then, the case is de ivonstrty)le from this fact. A remedy ought certainly to be found and applied, if pos,ible. Tne importance of the subject has induced us to make these few re marks, and we shall feel it our duty to pursue it further on another occasion. (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, AUG. 29.—Orders were received here on Thursday to send the Britannia, 120, to Spithead, to take in her guns and stores, to complete her comple ment of 820 men, and fit her for foreign service with all possible dispatch. The Caloutta, 84, has been commis sioned this week at Plymouth ; and the Queen, 110, at this port, is ordered to be masted and rigged, and fitted for commission forthwith. One hundred peesioners have also been ordered to be entered on board the Victory, as A B.'s and Ordinary, for the service of the Ordinary, to retain their pensions, and will be employed during the winter, or longer if required. The Mutine packet, Lieut. Parole, - arrived at Fal mouth on Saturday last from the West Indies. The packet Spey, Lieut. James, arrived on Saturday at Falmouth, from the Brazils. Tue Prince George transport, Lieutenant Davison, Agent, sailed on Wednesday, with a detachment of the 50th Regiment (200 men) for Sydney. The Acteaon, 26, arrived at Buenos Ayres on the 16th May. The Vanguard, 84, Captain Sir David Dunn, is to proceed to Cork, for a wing of the 19th Regiment, to convey them to Malta, calliier at Plymouth to put some of her stores on board the Rodney. She has on board several 8-inch guns and other stores for ships in the Mediterranean. She has more than completed her complement of men, and will be paid advance wages on Monday. The Styx, La Tomarel, and Georgeois, French men of war staam-vessels, arrived at Gibraltar, from Toulon, on the 10th August, The Sovereign trans port, with powder, from Woolwich, arrived there on the following day. The Vesuvius steamer arrived at Plymouth on 'Wed nesday, having completed the changes of troops for the season, last from Pembroke, Cork, and Davonport, at which latter place the 68th were landed and the 81st conveyed to Cork from thence. On Wednesday the Tweed and Bittern were taken out, and the Indus, 78, was taken into the Basin. The Imaum,72, was taken into dock on Wednesday, and the Atholl, troop-ship, on the following day. The Pantaloon, 10, Lieutenant Tryon, arrived at Dublin on Sunday, and has since entered seamen and boys. She was to go thence to Belfast for the same purpose. EVENING EDITION_i THE APPROACHING BARTHOLO MEW FMT2. Oa Saturday the Markets Committee sat at Guild hall, for the purpose, principally, of taking into conside ration matters having reference to Bartholomew Fair, which will commence under circumstances very different indeed from those whi c h h ave hi t h er t o attended t he aunuaf return of the Smithfield scene of disorder. Th e strongest instance that can be given to show tnat 13 8 " tholomew Fair is upon its last legs is, that neither Wombwell nor any other great wild-beast proPtie,W has applied to the Committee for ground on vsibieloo erect menageries, f or th e t wo d a y s to which the four days have been cut down, by vinue of the ancient auth e ; rity produ ce d by t h e Ci ty S o li c i tor, li m i t i ng the fair k t that wholeso m e d urat i on . I n consequence , it is u e. lieved, of the secession of so important an exhibition a; Wombwell, two or three small risen in his line 10 . e taken ground, u p on th e d angerous ca l cu l at i o n that 131. absence will remunera t e t h em f or t h e expens e of tlll_ erection of booths, the removal of their " article, a n the c;ances of foul weather, which often, as it were Pro' videntially, visits the metropolis at the exact time eP' pointed for the repetition of this horrible nuisance. Applications were made for ground for the erec ti° ,, of booths f or w h a t are ca ll e d d ramat i c ex hibi t ionstn withstandi ng th e p u bli cat i on o f t h e l ate ru l es , by Wa" e o , they are peremptorily excluded, the managers n e , having suppo se d th a t so str i ct a construct i on w ould I placed upon th e li st o f or di nances b y w hi c h t he fair is ed announced to be regul a t e d ; b ut t h ey were inform that the terms of th e no ti ce w i t h w hi c h t h ey wer e so le will be most strictly observed. • lit, The fair will close a t t en o ' c l oc k on S a t ur day I) , l ci be according to the regul a ti ons o f t h e C omm i ttee , and t he City Police have re ce i ve d di rect i ons to watc h all, t . ti avenues and public-houses i n S m i t hfi e ld an d its Vie ° in the most scrupulous manner. der It may be here p ro p er t o sta t e t h at t h e f or ce un der the direction of Mr. Harvey, the City Police C° 113113 .,1 1- 3 : sinner, have become, by the excellence of the reg; tions, and the judicious conduct of the su and inspectors, extremely efficient. On Friday l e t when Prince Albert visited Guildhall for the Pu r P a p i c i of receiving the freedom of the City, nothing L e° , - be exceed the order, regularity, and tact with wbl° vs tnen performed their duties, particularly in those Pt er in which there were vast assemblages of people ef/ : to see the great object of interest. There was one house in the more eastern part of the City where ": assembled several persons or swell-mob notoril; perinteneca but so narrowly watched was it, that 1143 t one of them ventured out to do business during it bustle occasioned by the Royal visit. The t ,,y to be apprehended on occas i ons o f ex traordin' o , stir and excitement am ongs t th e pu bli c, i s t h a t the P o i lice will catch the impulse and overstep the lim it d e , restrai n i ng their duty in the excesses of the multitu to There were on Saturd a y b roug ht b e f ore Sir re to Laurie, at the M a nsi on -h ouse a f ew c h arges imputing e some of the force unnece ssar y an d i n j u di c i ous siolencip; but in no tingle case was a com pl a i nt cons id er ed bY te. Alderman who presided, an d w h o i nvest i gate d e'ieP cusatioa most scrupulously, to have any foundatifin• o d the contrary, the i m p ress i on u p on t h e Alderer,an' sll l, l i d was that the Inspe c t ors , th e S ergeants, anti tie menr acted not only with judgment but with forbearance' THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST VI: , ---- pe t. 1 Wheat. Barley. O ats. 1 Beans. 1.:.....? Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. t o s. s. to 8. ‘ 't to , Carlisle Hexham ; -.0 72 32 38 21 31 —. ~,---- 42 Morpeth 44 68 51 31 28 31 48 01 *" Penrith cis :37 31 33 "" 5 1 SO, tlield 65 3 . 30 49 -"' 31, Winchest r 60 76 28 :=0 28 27 42 45 35 ti.u, Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d. s.d. s. d. s.d ~ d 0 , ; Carmarthen , + o 8 4 0 0 50' 0 0 3 0 5 6 11 ~ n ° ~ ':' 0 0 ti 0 Cowbri ge .10 0— 0 5 0 5 6 3 6 , 0 5 0 ss' 6 v Swansea B.B 90 54 5/i 46 48 56 60 0 Per 8011. 192 Barnardcastl 11 0 21 0 8 0 9n, 7 4 8 (111 0 12 6:0 g J.), Durham l4 6176 8 0 90; 7 9 8 11 013 (} 0 ig 1 Y," R chmond ll 0 400 70 9,1 5 6 R 0; 90 11 6 in " 0/ v Stockton 1 6 ,0 _2B 0 _9 . o_ 90i 7 0 861 7 6 8.1 - , - 1 NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. NVlilte. Red. Wheat, Northumlserland Norfolk and Suffolk 4S. —5....... ;7 , 6 0 g5 2 . .1 70s. 7:3, ....... , t! , .r . ;". Berwick and Scotch Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk : : 61,... ( 7 ts : ...... .. .. z ,... :, ...... 73 %: 168 345....... --s .....,,_ Foreign 3os. 34s ....... - - s- : Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —5....... — - Grinding and Feeding 3os. 335. ..... ---,.- , Malt, Norfolk and Suffiilk 64s 6 .....« ---8- . ....„,,---- 1 Beans, Small -s• 408. 485....... , ......s. 1 Pease, White IOW RH -• ---.-... ...4. 448. 4aS •• . ....g. I Gray . „ —s. —s. ...... ~-s Oats, Northumberland, P otatoe . ..... ... 3 , 28. 34 8 .....•. ..........8. ----- -- Feed 30e ~.. , gi,s ....... ....'..., F oreign Flour (par sack) s2s, r i sa, ...... kberdeen Berwick Ooltlstream Cupar (Fife) Dunbar Elgin Inverness Kelso Kirkaldy Perth Tha 32 to 35 2 2.7 24 26 26 31 26 49 3 3 34 33 SS 24 27 13(4 qp measure NN qGfON Ci Barley. 393 Od 343 Od 31s Od First Second :all COI Barley. 37s Od 3 . 2 s Od 9.4 s Oct First Second Third Y a 1 r~ u , ... , oesfy,,b' 603 v`" • GLASGOW CORI', Mt RKET.—Aug. 26. 5., , 1i Wheat, iter 2i0113. s. d. s. T i. Oats, per 2t lb. 2 5 3 ' 6d. to2AO Mritish, old 370 to°,o 0 Irish "". _ new O4 0 S 4 0 British 55 0 ' Canada, free — 0 0 Beans, p'lr an .--- ognlb• 20 24 0 2 4 Irish English Ol 9 29 0 Pease, Scottish .••••• 20 0 5 00 Scottish 24 0 490 Oatorzal , per 140Ib.••• 40 0 Irish • n• from Lord Wrottesley, who bRs been sufferlnbt, severe indispositio n , i s , we are happy to state, convalesce/ EXECUTION OR TWO BUSH-R.A I4 "" -. DISGUSTING SCENE. On Monday morning, 8t e c r ig irs o'clock, George Hughes and Henry Currar., 11 / 1 "„ pt convicted at the last sessions of bush ran inr and " A ; ii; ing to murder, suffered the extreme - penalty g2 f 00' the square of the new police barracks. Since o tl ie [ g c b o demnation the conduct of the nirm had been anYt hin ' 0 0 ; what would be expected from persons crmscious of Of atio ful fate which was awaiting them. y ate, dran'ai that smoke from morn i ng to night, and cc are inforn le- tb , one of them was actually bo'rder'.ngoniUtoxicatWeor' evening before the exe... , ution ; nor did the sight of tbe eei° fold and the multitu-e assembl e d to w tness them t oa the reward of their crimes seem to have much one of them at least—Hurhes. His; conduct to 1 " - „sti°' moment evinced the mos c perfect indifference to fat - tbs to ever thing—be seemed actually t, ) have gone 1/I " W n 0114 lin o demarcation v; bleb subsists 13, !twrei the 11113 ,: r e the brute creation.. He walked fr tm the romp W7 to otht was conkned on to the scaffold wii:h a pile i zi l/111 smoking c,ite coolly, arpirentl t ; staff e v Co' attended by the Rev. Mr. Sto Y vv . , deavour to bring the unfurturiate vre te bu u h ' to a seng e , s „ ° se situation, but apparently withouv. effc c When t he e e ck, cutioner approached to put the fatal round 11-5 11 bif he rushed on him, and would have* struck him, bad,bne°lc%e: arms been pinioned behind nim. Several times hot cutioner attempted to g,el,antdhether Hughes kicked at him obliged to get two men to hold hi Peround executioner W 59 at Oa' his Y his was got round his neck, an d th e . ca m. .‘iveedhtheen I l- _ rif f : a l drawn over b'r'ing it he then seemed quiet, being e:,therP stupid, or ko - n 7 i er, was no use to resist. The conduct of the otbe': P rig ;ired Curran, on the scaffold, was quite different. F . , „,, e .ltttr i°l penitent, and resigned to his fate.—P or t Ph of April 13. itif PRIZE CUPS.—New rind Second-hat S< r l i ' v g so t PRIZE CUPS are off ere d at very REDUCED PRi's—i selection may b e ma d e from a great variety, be th 0 ' —le Patterns, at T. COX SAVORY'S, D o ers -- Goldsmith and Watchmake r , 47, Cornbill ( Sit ve tt Drawing s o f Cu Graceehur c h- street ) , London. a e t paid application. ps will be for war d e d i n &I ,wer to el It is de s i ra bl e L etters for Drawings should 1 nig ht in ; t-en sti ate' the size or a b out t h e price of the Cup or Cv ps t"" required. BIR On the 25th i nst., the lady of B. THS. M. ter, Esq.' A ' 1 f IJPFe Gower. street, of a daught er . On the 29th i nst., Mrs. James Trim, tierWilliams' of , bang-place, Aib any-road, Camberwell, of a son,. latv „ ° f On the 29 t h i nst., at West-hill, Wa, idswr_ath, t he Henry Rucker, Esq., Of a daughter. Ali IRRIED., 4 ,,,,, gel. On the 29th inst., at St. Mary's, flewson, D.D., William Gibson Cr 4 , g, E s q . 31 p ., e oet sel swans ea, hY '-- i c iest son i r of Sir James Gibson Craig, of Rjecartoi , ' Bart., ° AP. Sarah, daughter of J. H. Vivian. E sq., „i i Si n gleton( ch oten t ; On Wednesday, Aug. 26, at ham, the Rev. Thomas Da , xson Allen„ of North ' o .i i los 4 e Jane, daughter of E. HorlcJek Mortim c .-, Esq., an d the late Rev. Charles Hen r y, f o rd► At.. illar:_y% Church , rer eep f d SNP' liar On the 6th inst., at Malta, Lieut, mant Edwar 0 Jo :illiam Wilbrah: ins,,Esq• commanding her .I‘la,sty's steamet i, Confiancey t , . 0 ,,, of g b' ,at Bowden, Hi mry, young"' ,S daug'' dau o g n ht t e h r e of lB th a e i l: t V . Woodcock, Esq., Bank llouse, Wiga ii, to Jane, secon.". ter, of the late l'homas Marriott, Es , 1., of Aberystwill 2._____.....---"' DIED. f lorla' On the 26th i ns t., i n L ondon, t ' ,ii Hen. Dudley --ac son of Alexander, first Lord Alaech _m a l e % aged 54. Per o.i the 25th of June last, Warren, Esq., formerly Captain i n he:e 3lajestys 6u `• ric orp° - ment of Foot, and lately Alajor of . the 3d battalion of i On the 22d inst., at Car',, err , rated tia on the Niagara f rotiti n njaP 2i° Near ( .:oburv, in Canada , ;,; Regi - Bell, Esq., writer to the Si gl ''' ' le ,_ un hter On the 25th inst., at ( ..:heltenlia Mary, youngest,o44l a nd of the late G. N. 0 — ol . l ingwood, Es n' ' of Hawkhurst, iu•e" granddaughter Of Lord Collingwoli, aged 19. nd• On the 28th inst., Commissar G eneral P. Turqu a , _ inn t, Ofi On the 28th inst., at Merry . ( )ak, near s e itii4 a ,... - v, Matilda Sophia Caroline, daughter of Capt 1 " youngest i f Stevenson, aged 5. '. ar Edinburgh, Be we Ye ' On the 28th inst., at Wimpole..! i f i .,4et, Helen , t 4 George, Young, Esq. On the 29th inst , Mr. VB . h m of I 1 I.P.na Gr.t. a , St. Jam es 9 street, ag ed 86. . ' 7 ---.....1T".: Print'm and Publi,slicd by 1111112D0 YO tUs indon : traNd 12 No. 112 . S'.rami, at. Vic Sit: , (Mice, ' , AO' 1 ": ~, ' S O, the count ,v • o f M iddlese.,.l.-. -Monday, Au l vast 31, 1 . (;• 0 SCOTCH MARKET Wheat. I Barley. Oat... if to &I 40 5 , i 46 30 43 65 49 68 6.i 65 64 72 40 45 6'2 67 60 ^4 tz:: of the 11A DUD Wheat. 84s Od 65s Od .56s Od .verage DALKE Wheat St2s Cu 6Es Od Od 30 tth 35 .21 24 17 18 18 22 23 27 48 33 26 34 24 28 Beans. Ua to _ 46 c" 46 33 35 43 —.. 30 22 26 40 92 40 4$ 54' 32 'O3 , 34 03 I 45, 48 ;43 25 35 141 44 ; tties throughth ,t the c untrY• /RN MARE ET. O ats. Pease. Be d Od 3 5 04 —; 1 47 1 Od od Od Od 2 .8 Od 43: Od 6,2 d 2 12ths. MARKET. Oats. I Pease. 32: Od ';O: Od _ -- ;',O; - —: 0 9ls Od —s Od odi s 24s Od ...s 01