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I LtiNDON, HOLYHEAD, AND LIVERPOOL STEAM COACH AND ROAD COMPANY. .C4PITA I, 050,000, in Shares of £2) each, Deposit £2 per Share. Subscriber; will not be answerator beyond the amount of their respec!ive Shares. PROVISIONAL COMMITTEE. The Right Honourable Sit Henry Parnell, Bart., M.P. William Re.l i th Cartwright, Es', M.P. C. D. 0. Jephson, Esq.. M.P. William Stuart Esq., M.P. Sir Charles Knightley, Bart. T:ICSTEES. W. R. Keith Douglas, Esq. Sir Andrew Agnew, Bart. M.P. Henry Handley, Esq., M.P. BANKERS. Messrs. Cuutts and Co. LONDON ?Messrs. Smith, Payne. and Smith. DAVENTRY Messrs. Watkins and Son. COVENTRY Messrs_ Beck and Prime. BIRMINGHAM LIVERPOOL The Bank of Liverpool. SHREWSSI Ry Messrs. Beck, Dodson, and Co. NORTHAMPTON . Messrs. Watkins, Tawn A ll, and Gillet. ACTING SECRETARY. V A. M. Robertson, Esq., 2, Parliament-street. SOLICITORS. Messrs. Green, Pemberton, Crawley, and Gardner, Salisbury square, and E. S. Burton, Esq., Daventry. CONSULTING ENGINEER.—Thomas Telford, Esq. ACTING ENGINEER.--John MaCueill, Esq. INSPECTOR OF ENGINES. Applications for Shares to be addressed to the Secretary, No. 2, Parliament-street, London. THE practicability and economy of employing Steam Car riages as a means of Transport for Passengers, upon Tut n pike-roads, having been fully established to the satisfaction of eminent Engineers, and scientific Gentlemen, who have given their attention to the subject, a Company is now forming, to be incorporated under the name of "THE LONDON, H OLYH EAD, AND LIVERPOOL STEAM-COACH AND ROAD CompAar."—The Capital proposed is £350,00(); to be raised in Shares of £2O each. A deposit of £2 per Share to be paid, upon Subscribers being recorded as Shareholders, and no further Sum to be called for, until an Act of Parliament has been obtained. Although it has been satisfactorily proved that Steam-Car riages are capable of travelling on a well formed Turnpike road, with a speed which is unattainable by Horses on the same Road, yet the attention of the Company will be directed to such further improvement of the Line of Road they have selected, and particularly, in the first instance, to that part of it between London and Birmingham, as will enable Locomotive Steam- Carriages to proceed with still greater facility; and it is consi as--sa that thia,stsia,t may be attained by a comparat,se!y small investment of Capital.. Notice has, therefore,. been given of an intended application to Parliament, during the ensuing Session, for the purpose of obtaining power to reconstruct and improve a portion of the present Road between London and Birtninghan. ~irmin am. - The Estimates for Improving the Road between and Liverpool, and between Birmingham and- rlelyhead, not having been completed in time, to comply with the Standing Orders of the House of Commons, it has been determined to submit to the Public, in the first instance, that portion' of the project which relates to the Road between - London and Bir mingham. The estimated Cost of the proposed .improvement of the Road, —of Locomotive Engines,- 7 -of Dcp&s, and Water Stations, — together with other charges contingent upon the measure, amounts to £350,000,—as stated in detail in the Estimate sub joined hereto. The same Estimate also shows in detail the Daily Charge to be incurred in the hire and wear of Carriages, the repair of Stearn-Engines, the purchase of Fuel, and the payment of En gineers and Firemen, to which is also added, the Expense of the Establishments at London, Birmingham, and the Depots, and a ae appropriated for the purchase of new Engines, is the whole, to £2ll 2s. 6d. per diem. If to this Sam he addeal Interest and Profit on the Capital, at the rate of 1, tO per cent. per abstain, and a reserved anus for the future re pair of the Road, the total Daily Charge, including Tolls, will be £375 I7s. 6d. 1 'Whilst thsse Estimate: of Expenditure have been deduced from calculations of the extreme prices which might by any possibi lity be demanded and paid for the various works and services required, corroborated by offers of the most respectable Trades men and Manufacturers, as to the tetras upon which they would be willing to contract for the supply of the Materials and the performance of the Work,—the Lstimated Return has been cal culated, on an assumption that only five hundred daily Passen gers might travel in the .Company's Carriages ,•—the average number of Persons travelling the same Road by the present Conveyances being five hundred and fifty. The Rate of Speed at which the Company's Carriages will travel will only be limited by a due regard to the safety of the Passengers • and it is prop ose d th a t th e P r ices of Conveyance should be about one-half the present Fares by the Light Coaches. As these Estimates show a profit exceeding £lOO per diem, in addition to the Interest and Profit on the Sum expended in Road-making, which is to be secured by an additional Toll on Steam-Carriages, it has been d eeme d ex pedient to present them in fuller detail than has been adopted in any similar Prospectus, in order that men of business and experience may the more readily form an idea of the practicability of the measure. It is proposed that the Directors should be elected by the Shareholders, under such regulations, as to qualification and rotation of service, as may ultimately be agreed upon, but in the mean time a Provisional Committee has been appointed for taking charge of the ill in Parliament, and for arranging other preliminary measures. Mr. W. R. KEITH DOUGLAS, Sir ANDREW AGNEW, Bart., M.P., and Mr. HENRY HANDLEY, M.P., having consented to become Trustees for the Company, accounts have been opened in their names with the several Bankers above-mentioned, to whom Deposits are to be paid. AN ESTIMATE TOR TRH IMPROVEMENT OF THE ROAD AND THE ESTABLISH MINT OF STEAM-CARRIAGE CONVEYANCES BETWEEN LONDON- ANTI BIRMINGHAM. ORIGINAL OUTLAY. r. d. Parliamentary and other preliminary Expenses, 5,000 0 0 Road-making 300,000 0 0 Depots and Water Stations Engines Contingencies £350,000 0 0' Standard Office, Three o'clock. CORN EXCHANGE,—FRIDAY, Two o'CLocK. Very little business done in Wheat since Tuesday, and prices *of that day maintained. Oats continue scarce, and in demand, prime samples bringing 2s. 9d. Oat meal is also in good sale, at 235. 9d. 5 some choice marks brought 245. No alteration in price of Flour; the de mand continues dull. COTTON MARKET,—FRIDAY, 2 WC' ocK. At the public sale to-day of 4500 Surat, there was a large attendance of buyers, and the whole was sold at an advance of ad. per lb upon the quotations of Fi iday last. By private there is a good demand, and our market closes firmly at the above advance for all de scriptions. REPORTED ARR From the, 13th to the 101 DAILY EXPENDITURE. £ s. d. Hire of 30 Carriages, to run 108 miles each, at ld. per mile 3) Engines kept in repair, at 6d. per mile each Bl 0 0 Coke for 3E) Engines, three quarters of a bushel per mile each. at 7d. per bushel Engineer, Assistant Engineer, and Fireman, for 30 Engines, 18s. each Establishment at London, Birmingham, and the Depots Reserved Fund for the purchase of new Engines, equal to 10 per cent. per annum on the original cost 8 15 0 10 0 0 211 2 6 , Tolls payable to Trustees, at 40s. each Engine 6O 0 0 Interest and Profit equal to £lO per cent. per annum on Capital of £350,(X/0, and £3O per mile per an `aura for the Repair of the Road, to be secured by an additional Toll on Steam-Carriages lO4 15 0 "..„: cat Daily Charge.. £375 17 6 RET ,olgera, at 235. each 172 10 0 350 : Dairxr:t,,i,,gerq, at 13r. each t27 10 0 N.B.—.- e average numl,er of Piissenk,:rs tra velling daily, between London arid Birming ham, exclusive of the intermediate Stageoissso, and the pres,.:t Coach Fares are 41a. &gide, and 20s. Outside. Parcels Daily Return Deduct Daily Charge 375 17 Daily Surplus, after paying Interest and all Charges £lOl 2 6 December, 1 LOSS OF THI ADDITIONAL SUBSCR DOWS and CHILDR No. 1 PILOT BOAT. PILOT-BOAT. E s. Rev. A. Campbell, Rector 1 ( C. Shiels. Esq 1 t Jos. B. Yates, Esq 2 C. - James Judson, Esq: 1 ( W. II Hutchinson, Esq 1 -v, Solicitor 1 1 • 0 11 PTIONS received for the Wl of the PILOTS LOST in E s. Rev.G. Ford, North Meols 1 0 :41r. John Holding 1 0 'J. N. Wood, Esq 1 0 Rev. J. C. Prince 0 10 Wm. Hadfield, Esq. 1 0 Waddington, Holt, & Co 2 0 E. I. Mozely, Esq. 1 0 Holliwell and S" 1 0 . ti ~.., ~ 4. BY WS MAJESTY'S APPOINTMENT. P,friIACLA DISTILLERY. t — IENUVNTE.AriALT WHISKY, from the above Distiller):, kir sold be JOMN FEASEE, Commission-Agent, NO. 6, Poo, lane, Liver - 0001. Also, 'for the convernencedl-Famiues, two Gallow and upwards. C Best, Scotch ALE and London PORTER. PARTNERSHIP. A GENTLEMAN, fully couversantin the Wholesale WINE Ilk_ and SPIRIT TRAllt4.:, in which he -has been engaged for some ycars,"who has excellent connexions,. and who is free of all pecuniary engage :rents, but who' requiries an increase of capital, wishes to form a connexion with a.Wene wilting to in vest from £3`.L to £590 in the business, to take an active part or otiterwise.—Address M. N., (post paid;) with real milks and address, Pustolfice. Liverpool. CONTRACTS. THE TRUSTEES of the DOCKS will be ready on Tues day, the 31st December instant, to receive Tenders fur the supply of COAL, SLACK, and COKE, for a.period of twelve form months, commencing lit January, 183- _ ' Further particulars, and printed for of Tender, may be had on application at the Dock Survey° s office, in Trentham street. Sealed Tenders to•be addressed to the Committee of the Dock Trustees, and to be left at this (ace, un or before the 30th inst. Dock-yard, Trentha'Woireet, Dec. 5, 1833. Knourante Noticeo. rip HE LONDON ASSURANCE CORPORATION, es tablished by Royal Charter, A.D. 1721, submit to the Public a new plan for LIFE ASSURANCES, offering the following advantages to persons assured for the whole term of life : Abatements of Premium, without liability of p ership ; ample security for payment of losses, and x ption from charges of management. The scale of Pr mins for Insu rances on the old plan lately revised and red ced. Prospectuses, Ste. may be obtained from the Agents. Fire Insurances at the usual premiums. Also Marine In surances. Coasting risks taken without reference to London. AGENTS. GEO. GODDARD, 16, Chapel-street, CHAS. LORIMER, Exchange-buildings. SUN FIRE OFFICE, Established 1710, BANK BUILDINGS, CORNHILL ; - . • 4nd CIii.A.I.G'S.,COURT, CHARING CROSS, LONDON. MANAGERS. les Pole, Esq., Treasurer. Charles Boultnn, Esq. Felix Calvert Ladbroke, Esq. The Hca. P; Pleydell . 13:)u, Felix Ladbroke, Esq. verie. C. Shaw Lefevre, Esq., /11. P. William Burnie, Esq. The Hon. Hugh Lindsay. John Cockerell, Esq.• Charles Littleda.le, Esq. James Campbell, jun:, Esq.- Henry Littledale, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, Esq. Geo. ifa'rde Norman, Esq. Thomas Dorrien, jun., Esq. John Pearse, Esq. John Drummond, Esq. Charles Richard Pole, Esq. Charles Bell Ford, -Esq. Brice-Pearse, Esq. William Rd. Hatnilton, Esq. C. George Thornton, Esq. Edward Harman.,Esq. Geo. Smith Thornton, Esq. •. The Printed Receipts for Premium and Duty on Policies, as they become due, are ready for delivery, and are in the hands of the undermentioned Agents of the Sun Fire and Sun Life Offices. AGENTS. Liverpool.. S N. D. BOLD, ?JAMES BUNNELL, Manchester and Chorley, Robt. I Ulcerstone, John Carter. Duck. Douglas, Isle of Man, James Blackburn, James Cross. Moore, Preston, J. Green. Warrington, James Davis. Lancaster, John Blackburne. Bolton, Giles Cross. Wigan and Ormskirk, Samuel Rochdale, George Haworth. J. Hopwood. Persons may insure for more insurances an allowanceof five interest, will be made on the p every year, except the first. years than one ; and in such per cent. per Annum, compound .emium, and duty received for SECONI EDITION. DESCRIPTIONS. WHEAT Qrs BARLEY.. Qrs OATS. •Qrs FLOUR. . Sack Do BRAN. Cwt OATMEAL Loads MALT .. Qrs B EANS Qrs PEAS RYE . Qrs SHELLED BARLEY • • ..Cwt RAPESEED Barrels INDIAN CORN ........ Qrs SKIPPING INTELL • Wind, West—fresh gale. No I The Gipsy, Highat, hence for Bombay, 18th instant, all well. The Carthage, Tappaw, hence for Bost spoken on the 9th instant, in lat. 42, long. GENCE. 'oreign arrivals. put into Studwell Roads ,ton, sailed 12th Nov., was 31. CAPTAIN CRAM'S SPORTING APHORISMS. Rule I.—Always load your gun when on the cock, by which you lose no time in bringing your piece to your shoulder, a great• advantage; and if you possess common caution, you run no risk of blowing your head off while ramming down your charge. Rule 2.—When a covey gets up, always fire bang into the middle of it. It is all nonsense about singling out a particular bird; take my word, it is easier to miss one bird than to miss' a dozen. _ _ ii-le3.—When you are very desirous of game, instead of ' By this plan you may spit three brace ^ it done. able through a hedge, b y all means :k. Caution should be the aurae- a; if you shoot your friend,' you will Rule 5.-11 a single bi f rd gets up on your friend's side, shoot at it by all means. Thf old system is milt to fire at those on your own side, which 1 hotel to be a loosing ‘ game ; for if your friend brings down his bird, he bags it; wnereas, if you fire also, you have the - benefit of the doubt, which is settled by tossing up. Never mind the old gag of its b•-i!lg unfair—the ardour of a sportsman is a good excuse. Rule 6.—Vs heii yOu - meet with a hare on her form, kill it if you can. It' is Alf staff about being unsportsmanlike; don't attend to such rubbish, My advice is, fill your bag. • Rule 7.—Never brag of being a good shot. hold this as a maxim; if, for exanipie, you have leave to shoot over a gentle ulan'S grounds, and are successful, which you are pretty sure to be, if follaw Toy roles, and are any thing of a shot, send your Irvin home with the game, then call at the house and leave a bmce . of birds, being the whole contents of your bag— you will be tohricileti with, and have unlimited leave to shoot. ""!,, R.—When you cuter a field, holloa and bawl as loud as It will save you much trouble, for you will see at .r there are any birds there. . I WaYs trattl your dog to chop his bird from each a gootbrace of dogs, so trained, and a double- I bag more game than any man in Eng- mow. your dogs of the highest possible courage. don you can gratify yourself by thrashing your you miss, without fear of spoiling him. le instant a pheasant rises, blaze away at him. his.innovation is, that it you miss, you will have .ur hat at bim.--Monthly Magazine. CORE OF DRUNKENNESS.—It is related of Prichard, vicar of Llandingad, hut better known is History of South Wales,) as the "Vicar of 7ho died in the year 1664, that while a young h addicted to drinking, and he is said to have is habit by au accidental circumstance, which - upled to consider miraculous. In his visits to , e was usually followed by a goat. On one iled on his companion to participate in his drink ale till it became inebriated. Thi s n more than satisfied the goat. It could prevailed upon to repeat the experiment. trifling, led the master to reflect on his duced a resolution to abstain thenceforth —Mirror. LINGTON AND TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES. !ton has given his sanction to the intro 'ocieties into the army. A regimenta trds, of which his grace is colonel, is in it is stated that his grace "has in ance societies exist amor? them;" If the great advantage which might Istematic measures to repress habits -- -irao.e sobriety," adding, "that :tracter of the English sol +4 excess could be el-aril - of temperance, and -ervice will receive it their disabili, y ;." Such a dis -41 steady soldier, r time.—K entish )1(1, 'd of old." days' feast after won, which is a wine latitudes. orrible ravages nk so freely of 4 suffocated at red the empire IVALS OF CORN. DECEMBER, nclusiVe BRITISI AMER. COAST WISE. TOTAL. THE L I VER POOL STANDARD. LONDON LAW COURTS. ROLLS COURT. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORDWAINERS' COMPANY. In this case a testator of the name of Fisher, by his will, which was made in 1617, bequeathed the Falcon Inn, and two other inessuages, situate in Fleet-street, opposite St. Dunstan's Church, to the master, wardens, and fellowship of the craft or mystery of the ‘cordwainers, "for the only intent, use, and per formation" of his last will - aud. testament. The premises in question at the date of this bequest produced only the sum of £i2 6s. Bd. ; and as to the application of it, the testator directed that the annuity of £6 should be paid to his brother during his hfe ; that £5 should be distributed per annum among poor householders of the neighbourhood; and 6s. Bd. among what he called random pow., besides several other small payments to es tablish a dirge or mass to be said or sung for the good of his soul in - the parish church, and to reasimesate the master, war dens, &c., for superinteuding the services and the distribution of the money fan's time to time, the whole thus disposed of amounting to within a few shillings of the entire rents of the property bequeathed to the company by the will. The value of the premises had now increased to a very considerable amount, and produced annually no less a sum than £358. The object of this information was to have it declared that the de fendants were trustees of the rents and profits of the premises in question, to be applied in augmentation of the charitable ob jects mentioned in the will of the testator, and to have the usual accounts taken, and a scheme settled by the master for the fu ture administration of the property. Mr. Bickersteth and Mr. Anderdon appeared in support of the information. Mr. Pemberton (with whom was Mr. Wakefield) appeared for the defendants, and reprobated such pi oceedings being in stituted after the commissioners for charitable purposes had on the fullest investigation declared themselves perfectly satisfied with the manner in which this charity had been administered for nearly 300 years. This was a case got up on the report of the commissioners by some litigious individuals for the . purpose of involving the company in ail the expenses of a chancery suit, without the least shadow of a foundation in justice or equity for the declaration which was prayed. The learned counsel went on to contend that the devise here was not generally in trust for charitable purposes. In order to prove that the whole rents of the estate were sUbjeet to charity, it was necessary to show that by the will it was wholly given to charitable purposes, specifically named, or, on the other hand, that the rents at the date of the will were completely absorbed by charitable uses. Neither of these positions, however, could be maintained in the present case; in fact, the first declaration in the will had no connexion whatever with charity, and referred to the payment of an annuity of £6 to the testator's brother, on whose death 40s. was to be paid to his widow, which sums afterwards were wholly undisposed of, and therefore, went beneficially to the general purposes of the corporation. Mr. Bickersteth, in reply, insisted, that as fhe rents had greatly increased, there'shoubl, at least, be a proportionate aug mentation to the extent in which they were originally dedicated to charitable purposes. His Honour said the first question was, whether it was in tended that the corporation should be mere trustees, or whether a beneficial interest was given to them; and the next consider ation was, whether, if they were trustees, they were intended to be trustees for charitable purposes. It did not appear to him that the words of this devise constituted the corporation mere, tiuetees. The estate was absolutely given to them, not on trust, but " for the use, intent, and performation of this my will." It was rather a'gift upon condition than a gift upon trust. They were to take the estate so devised to them on condition of their performing the duties which, in the terms of the will , were im posed on them. Those duties were not for mere charitable pur poses, but by way of annuity to his brother of £6 for life, and 40s. for his widow, which, on their failure, was altogether undisposed of. It was plain that a beneficial interest had been intended for the corporation, because, if they failed in the duty of paying, the brother was to be entitled to enter into possession, and de feat the estate so given to them. Had it been on trust, in respect of which there was no intended benefit, how could such a con: dition have been imposed ? The testator clearly intended that they should have a beneficial interest on the terms of complying with the directions in his will. There was no trust either ex pressed or implied with respect to charity, other than to the ex tent of the specifically imposed chaiges ; and, therefore, ac cording to all the principles applicable to such cases, this infor mation should be dismissed. It was to be regretted that the name of the Attorney-General had been used in such a case, because, if his attention had been sufficiently,called to the na ture of it, he never would have given his sanction to such a pro ceeding. he court, however, must presume that he had not been made aware of all the circumstances, and, considering the real merits of the case, or rather its demerits, the information should be dismissed with costs. [The concluding part of his honour'sjudgment we recommend to the particular notice of the Lord Chancellor, and all corpo ration refotmers.—EDlT. LIVERPOOL STANDARD.] COURT OF EXCHEQUER.-WEDNESDAY. LIBEL-FURSEY V. CLEMENT. This was an action for libel. The plaintiff will be recollected as the individual who was charged with taking an active part in the Calthorpe-street affair, for which he was apprehended, and subsequently tried at the Old Bailey on the capital charge of stabbing a policeman named Culley, of which, however, he was acquitted by the jury. Shortly previous to the plaintiff's trial a paragraph appeared in the Morning Chronicle newspaper, purporting to be a communication from a correspondent, which was headed " Murder of Cully the policeman. "That para graph was to the following effect : " It is confidently stated that Fursey, who was committed to Newgate on the capital charge of stabbing two policemen at the ealthorpe-street meeting, is clearly identified by a disin terested witness as the murderer of the unfortunate Colley. A person was taken into Newgate a few days ago, and selected Fursey from among several other prisoners, as the person whom he had seen give the fatal blow, and this individual will appear at the ensuing Old Bailey sessions and prove that fact." Mr. Phillips conducted the plaintiff's cause in an eloquent speech, from which we make the following extracts : .The jury remembered that in May last a silly meeting was summoned to assemble in Calthorpe-street, or in a waste ground adjoining that street, fur the purpose of allowing some ridiculous ebulition of political visionaries to evaporate. On that occasion, he thouht, the Government would have done. wisely to , have allowed' the evaporation, to have permitted the meeting to take place, and the concocters of it to depart with the contempt of some and the ridicule of others. But that did not seem fit to the authorities at the Home-office; and then the jury, perhaps, would expect that, for prudent men awl statesmen, the course would have been to prevent the meeting from taking place at all. It was not his business, however, to criticise the conduct of the Secretary of State, who suffered that rabble of men, women, and children to assemble in full force, and when the idle business of the day was about to commence, a body of about one thousand eight hundred policemen charged them in military style, beating down and trampling . under foot the defenceless and unresisting, the and and infirm of both sexes, without mercy and distinction. Now, the Morning Chronicle newspaper, of which Mr. Clement, the defendant, was proprietor, had for many years advocated the principles of the persons who composed the present. govern ment. Of course he did not blame the conductors of the paper for that. Every man was entitled to defend and to enforce his own opinions, and to choose his own party, without being called to account by either of the two parties which now di vided the public mind. The Morning Chronicle had always ad vocated the cause of the Whigs out of place with all the eager ness of men wanting place; and had supported them in office with all the love of ieteution which could actuate piacemen. On the occasion of the affray in Calthorpe-street, the editor of that paper felt himself called upon to justify by any means the conduct of the Whig government, and to make it appear that the police had been most foully treated; and in the whole press the govern ment bad no more zealous or able advocate than the editor of that paper. If there was one principle of Bi itish law better established than another, or more consonant with the constitution and with humanity, it was that, when a man was called upon to answer a charge affecting his life and character, he should be sent to trial without prejudice; his perfect innocence being presumed until the 'verdict of a jury should have pronounced him guilty. It was, therefore, that he (Mr. I'.) complained, this day, that the' proprietor. or the editor deliberately intended to violate that principle, and that he sat down in cold blood, either for pecuniary profit, or through political zeal, to send a fellow ..reature to his doom. That was certainly a grave charge for him (Mr. P.) to make against any man ; but it was still more grave; and it was inconsistent as much with worldly honour as with Christian charity, to make the charge of murder against a man so situated as Fursey was, and that, too, either with deli berate falsehood or upon groundless rumour. That the editor of the Morning Chronicle had dune so admitted of no dispute. I could have adverted to my own feelings, when it fell to my lot to defend this unfortunate plaintiff. From those feelings I can estimate his. Never shall I forget the day, when alt that was dear to him, depended upon that poor descretion which this libel had well nigh incapacitated. I had enough to con tend with, God knows. It was not the strength of the govern ment that I feared. It was not the stratagems of the Home office. It was not the corruption of the Treasury. It was not the strength of the bar. Nor was it the willingness—the over willingness of the government witnesses; it was not these that I feared to encounter; but it was this (holding up the Morning Chronicle) monstrous and bloody record which seemed to glow upon the wall, and to smite me as I stood up. Mr. Platt here interrupted the learned counsel. Mr. Phillips proceeded.-'--I am glad that the defendant can feel this mode of putting the case. I am glad that he can feel that the tortured feelings of the plaintiff could not be compen sated by all the money in the world. Put yourselves, gentlemen of the jury, for one instant, in this man's place. Imagine him as he stood in the clock-, 'looking assaiously..rouniL--ssearching. every man's face, to discoVer it' the horror of a murderer could be seen upon it. Tell me, then, what money could compensate him for fifteen hours of agony so exaggerated?. I call upon you in the name of the violated laws and of the sacred privilege of trial by jury; I call upon you for the true interests of the press itself, not to turn a deaf ear to this poor man's complaint ; if there be in the land a single infidel in the rich man's sympathy with the poor; if there be a single sceptic 'in the excellence o f our institution, 1 call upon you to rebuke him. by your verdict this day. .„ Mr. Platt replied on the part of the defendant.—The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff, damages £4O. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, TUESDAY, Dec. 17, LEVOY V. PARKEit. This was an action brought to recover from the defendant, who is a carrier, damages for the detention of household furni ture, which he undertook to convey for the plaintiff from London to Gloucester. Mr. Sergeant Talfourd appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Comyn for the defendant. It appeared from the statement for the plaintiff that he had sent to the defendant about £3OO worth of fltrniture to be for warded Lo Gloucester, for the purpose of being there sold by auction; that the defendant had undertaken to carry it thither at the rate of 2s. per cwt., provided the plaintiff did not require him to send it all at once, as he had no boat large enough to take it all. The goods were accordingly shipped in several parcels, and arrived in Gloucester—the first parcel in June and the last in August. When the consignee came for the goods, the defendant refused to give them up until he was paid4os. per ton, by measurement, at the rate of 60 cubic feet to the ton, for the carriage of the goods The defendant also charged for 30 tons, but the gOods being subsequently measured, they . only came to 24 tons when measured in bulk, and to 19M tons when measured separately. The plaintiff contended that £l2. would have been a sufficient remuneration, but he had paid £2ll into court, being something over what he alleged that he agreed to pay for tke carriage in the fist instance. For the defendant; evidence was called to prove an agreement, on the part of the plaintiff, to pay 40s. per ton by measurement, and to prove also that the goods were measured before taken out of the vans in which the plaintiff sent them to the wharf, and were found, to come to 30 tons, and that a card had been given to the plaintiff, stating the terms on which household furniture was carried by the defendant's boats to Gloucester to be 40s. per ton by measurement of 60 cubic feet to the ton. The Chief Justice left it to the jury to decide whether they believed any contract had been entered into such as that alleged by the plaintiff. If they believed there had been they must find a verdict in his favour. If, on the other hand, they should be lieve that no such contract was entered into, they would then have to consider whether there bad been a contract, such as had been alleged by the defendant, because, in that case, however high the terms, a man was bound by his contract, and they would find a verdict in favour of the defendant, it' they believed the contract had been made. If they should, however, be of opinion that neither of these contracts, as alleged, had been made, they wouid then have to consider as to what might be a reasonable sum for the carriage of the goods to Gloucester. If they thought £2O a sufficient sum, they would find their verdict for the plaintiff, with such damages as they might think a suffi cient remuneration for the detention of the goods. If they thought £2O not sufficient, they would then find for the defendant. The j ury returned a verdict for the plaintiff with £3OO damages, to be reduced, on the.giviug up of the furniture, to such a sum as a person to be chosen by . both parties shall think a sufficient compensation fur the detention and-injury, if any, which it may have sustained. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, DE.c. 17. ' Henry Harrison was opposef by Messrs. Nicholls and Wood rale, fur Mr. Briudell and Mr. Hall; he was supported by Mr. Cooke. _ _ . The insolvent had been three times a bankrupt; his debts under each of the commissions had been toe very large amount; . ou the second bankruptcy to the extent of £30,000. He had obtained his certificate under each of the commissions. His present debts amounted to £3,400, and had been contracted be tween May, 1832, and October, 1833; since his last bankruptcy, which-was in May, 1832, he had warehouses both in Manches ter and Liverpool, and for the last three years had resided at Liverpoel, and traded as a commission-agent and merchant. The arrest had taken place in Fleet-street, and it was contended that it had been a friendly arrest. The learned counsel also urged a remand on the part of Mr. Hall, on the ground that the debt due to that person, amounting to £3JO for goods, had been contracted in a fraudulent manner. There was little or nothing left for the creditors. The Court said two points have been urged,—the first a col lusive arrest, and secondly, the manner in which the debt due to Hall was contracted. This is a case under which the Court will remand under the 39th section, and under that section the insolvent shall not be entitled to his discharge until he shall have been in custody twelve mouths for fraudulently contract ing the debt due to Mr. Hall. The Rev. Edward Martin, who formerly kept a school at Durham-house, Chelsea, was opposed by Mr. Cooke, for Mr. Sambrooke, a coal-merchant, by a Mr. Strange, a baker, in person, and by Miss Charlotte Zouch in person. The demand of Mr. Sambrooke was for coals supplied to Durham-house, to the amount of £5 12s. For these coals, no payment having been received, an action was brought and a verdict recovered. The verdict proved an unprofitable one, and the plaintiff was put to the expense of £2B costs. The ground of opposition was a vexatious defence. The demand of Strangc was £22 for bread. Mr. Strange swore that the insolvent had represented to him-that he had an income of £6OO a-year in right of his wife, throu"h, the hands of Loid , Lonsdale, apd upon that representation he had given . the cridit. This assertion the insolvent affroled he bad never made to his &editor. The opposition of Miss Charlotte Zouch was grounded upon a claim of that lady under the will of Mr. Zouch, to which she had administered, and also upon a claim for £360, under the will of her sister Frances. It appeared that the insolvent had married a-sister of Miss Charlotte Zouch; that Miss Charlotte Zouch, Miss Frances Zouch, and the wife of the insolvent had each £720; that Miss Frances Zouch had by will left her £720 to the . wife of the insolvent and to a younger sister, and that the £350 bequeathed to that younger sister had been expended in her (the youngest sister's) support by the wife of the insolvent, who had been appointed by the will to bring her up. It was decided by the court that the opposition of Miss Char lotte Zouch could not be supported. She had no right to claim the £350 bequeathed to her younger sister, nor was she in a si tuation to oppose at all, intimater' as she had herself taken the benefit of the act, and an assignee of her estate had been ap poioted. The insolvent had, unfortunately, in order to raise money, put his name to four bills for £lOO each, which bills had got into the hands of John Minter Hart. Ile had been obliged to take up two 'of these bills, but had never received a farthing for any part of them. He affirmed that Lord Lonsdale had kindly under taken on one occasion to assist him to the amount of £5OO or £6OO, but that he had never made the representation as to his income which had been stated by Strange. If it had not been for the bills in the hands of Minter Hart. and other bills of a si milar character, his real creditors would have been paid, and he should not have been obliged to apply to this court. There was nothing for the creditors. The court observed—This insolvent will be remanded upon the opposition of Mr. Sambrooke. We will not remand on the ground of a fraudulent representation being made to Mr. Strange, as it is probable that creditor might have misunderstood what the insolvent said to him with regard to his income. The judg ment is, that he shall not be entitled to the benefit of the act until he shall have been in prison three calendar mouths, fur making a vexatious defence to the action. LONDON POLICE REPORT. MANSION lIOUSE. A poor young Irishwoman, whose husband is confined in the hospital on account of a broken leg, complained on Monday that the , officers of the parish of Aldgate refused to.give her relief in her destitute condition. Kiunersley, the beadle of the parish, said to the Lord Mayor in a compassionate tone, "My lord, I am willing to pass this poor woman and her child home to Ireland." The Lord Mayor:—What! separate her from her husband? Kinnersley.—Oh ! my lord, her husband is in the hospital: The Lord Mayor.—Aud so you would console the unfortu nate man in the hospital by sending his wife and child away from him! What rapid marches . some of us make in humanit; ! (A laugh.) The Irishwoman.—l don't wish to go to Ireland, my lord; I know nobody there. I wish to stay with my husband. The Lord Mayor.—To be sure you do, and you shall stay with him. I never heard of a more cruel proposition than that of separating these poor people under such circumstances. Kinnersley said he had apainful duty to perform, but he was expected to go through with it. Nobody but a parish officer hail any idea of the gross impositions practised. The Lord Mayor said he was quite aware of the ruinous im positions carried into effect; but it could not, suroly, be expected that a poor man, with a broken leg, could support his faMily without the assistance of the parish. His lordship then peremp torily ordered that the woman and her child should he relieved until ,the husband recovered so far as to be able to resume his labours. The Lord Mayor, it is but justice to say, never fails to inves tigate scrupulously the cases of pauperism which are so .fre quently brought forward in the justice-room, having observed that many of the parish officers are so narrow-minded and so hard-hearted as to draw inferences from a few testimonies of imposture to the prejudice of every wretched person who pre sents himself for a morsel of bread. Two sailors' wives, named Pomeroy and Biass, complained to the Lord Mayor that the iigeuts to the owner of a ship in which their husbands were able-bodied sailors, had refused to pay them the monthly notes given to them at parting. The young women said that their husbands went away from them fully impressed that not the most distant objection would be made to the payment of the notes. Upon applying, however, a plump refusal was given, and they were advised then to repre sent the circumstances to the chief magistrate. The Lord Mayor asked when the husbands of the complain ants were expected home ? The young women said the ship had gone to New York, and was to go on a trading voyage, which would, prolaibly, detain them two or three years. The Lord Mayor having sent to the agents, a gentleman from their office attended, and his lordship requested to know why the wives of the seamen were treated as had been described? The agent said that Mr. Hawkins, of Hull, who was the owner of the ship, had instructed his agents in London not to pay the monthly notes. They were, therefore, obliged to refuse the young women ; because if, after having received such an order, they honoured their notes, they never would be reim bursed by th 3 owner. The Lord Mayor.—This is most cruel treatment. Able young men are induced by you to go upon a long voyage under the conviction that their wives will have support in their absence, and the moment they get to sea you deny to their poor wives what they had every right to expect. The agent said that the house he represented had not engaged the then. It certainly appeared from the ship's list, which he had in his hand, that the men were of the crew, but the owner had issued directions which it was compulsory upon the agents to observe. _ The Lord Mayor (to the women.)—Are you now in distress? The Sailors' Wives.—No, my lord,'we have a little money remaining. The Lord Mayor.--Because, if you were in necessity, the parish in which you reside would relieve you, and take care to call upon Mr. Hawkins to reimburse them. The agent said that he would at once write to the owner upon the subject. The Lord Mayor.—Very well; let me know the result. I repeat that it is a most cruel thing to mislead poor seamen by pretending a readiness to supply their wives, who, the moment after separation, are left to shift for themselves, in such a place as London. BOW-STREET. REFUSAL TO MAINTAIN A WIFE ON THE GROUND OF HER INFIORLITY.—James Brown, a serjeaut in the 2d regiment of Coldstream Guards, appeared on Monday before Sir F. Roe, Mr. Halls, the Rev. Mr. Thursby, and Mr. Grove, charged by the officers of St. Martin's parish with refusing to maintain his wife. She stated that her name was Mary Ann Brown, and that the defendant was her, husband. About three . weeks ago he turned her out of doors, and had since refused fotiiaTuraiii7tier, in con seqtience of which she was obliged to become chargeable to the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. The defendant, when asked by Sir F. Roe why be refused to maintain his wife, replied that he had been married to her for eight years, arid they lived happily together until lately, when he had reason to suspect her fidelity, and in fact discovered that she was carrying on an adulterous intercom se with a coirral who belonged to the company to which he was attached. L oder these circumstances he had made up his mind not to pay for the support of a wernan who had forfeited all claim upon him by her gross misconduct. Sir F. line said that the fact of his wife's misconduct, even if it could be proved to the extent he had stated, could not. alter the law, and the only question which the magistrates were called upon to decide was the amount which he ought to pay for the maintenance of his wife, in order that she might not become a burden to the parish. Defendant.---I leave it to your worship's judgment whether I am bound, either in law or justice, to. support a woman for another man? lam sure it is neither reason nor common sense that I should do so. • Sir F. - floe.—lf your statement be true I fully admit the hard ship of your case, and no man can feel it more than I do. But, on the other hand, the woman is not to be twined out into the street to starve, neither must she become chargeable to the pa rish. The fact is, you are bound by law to support her. • The wife, in general terms, denied the charge, anti said he could not prove that she had ever been improperly intimate with the corporal. The trot" was, she said, that her husband wished long ago to get rid of her. Defendant—l am prepared with evidence now to prove her guilt if his worship will allow me to bling it far ward. There is the schoolmaster of the regiment ( pointing to another ser jeant who stood'in the body of the office), anti he can prove that when we were quartered in Dublin she slept with the corporal whenever 1 was obliged to be on guard; and he will also prove that.their guilty intercourse is still kept up, without much at tempt to disguise it either. 'The wife, in a faint and rather tremulous voice, denied her husband's statement, who again requested 'that his witness might be heard. • Sir F. Roe, after consulting his brother magistrates, said that the bench could not try the question as to the guilt or innocence of his wife; but if,le observed, what you have stated to be correct, the magistrates are not disposed to press hard upon you. They therefore will not at t i r iz esent make any order in the case; but as your wif e mus t no t starved they recom mend you to make such reasonable provL,ion for her support as the parish may, under the circumstances, feel disposed to ac cept; for which purpose you had bettem go to the workhouse to morrow morning, and confer with the overseers on the subject. Defendant—lt is no use, your worship; lam determined to make no allowance. He then added, in a low but determined under tone—l would rot in prison first. Sir F. Roe—lf you persist, serjeant, in refusing to support put. wife, I shotl be obliged to adopt measures to compel you, You had better see and make terms with the parish; Defendant—l am convinced in my own mind .of her guilt, and nothing can alter my determination. The defendant then bowed respectfully to the bench, and left the office with three of his brother serjeants. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A MEMBER of Tkiti 'fRADEs' UNroNS.—A journeyman tai lor, named Sherwood, was brought before Mr. Chambers, on Monday, charged with having violently assaulted a young man belonging to the same trade. The complainant's statement was, that, on Saturday even ing, he met the defendant, and was accused by him of having procured his dismissal from a shop at which he hid been em ployed. Words ensued and he was struck and kdocked down several times by th e defendant, who continued to ill-use him until the police came to his assistance. The defendant, iu reply to the charge, said he certainly did accuse the complainant of getting, him out of work, as he had very good evidence that such was the fact. The complainant, after denying the charge, abused him grossly, and struck the first blow. The policeman who took him into custody certainly witnessed him strike the complainant* in the street, but he did not see the commencement of the affray, which took place in Cooke's Circus, where they had ~, - rone for the purpose of being " sworn in" as memb e rs of th e Union. Mr. Chambers—Sworn in ! and pray what is •the raature of the oath you took? The defendant appeared here to recollect hiniself, and endea voured to explain away his observation by saying that he meant that he was " initiated." Mr. Chambers then proceeded to put questions to the defend ant, to elicit the nature and the object of the Uuion, but the answers were purposely evasive. Mr. Chambers then asked the complainant, who was • also a newly-elected member of the Union, what were the rules he had been required to swear to? Complainant—The rules are not yet printed. There is no oath required to bz. taken that I am eware of ? On your oath, was there not a Bible presented to you to kiss ?—I did not see any Bible, nor was I required to kiss any book. I was blindfolded when first introduced. Mr. Chambers Were there any persons with swords ? There might be such things. What was required of you?—To maintain the interests of our trade? _ _ I suppose by that was meant that our coats were to be 'made as dear as possible. What was the price you fixed upon for making a coat ?—We did not fix any price; we only agreed that we would have six shillings a day f'or "day-work. Is not one of your rules to this effect—that if a stranger. not a member of your Union, is engaged by a master tailor, you would not permit him to work?—'i es, it is. The members would not work 'with any one who is -not a member of: "Owe. of the a Unions, and it would soon be, discovered if the appli cant was not Member, as all the Unions' are in "cOrrespondence. Mr. Chambers said it was quite clear the parties had,become members of one of those conspiracies which had so extensively spread of late among the working classes. The complainant declared that he would no longer be a .mern ber of a society to which the defendant belonged, as it would be a disgrace to him. The defendant had deserted his wife and family, and had taken up with a common prostitute. The defendant denied this, but Mr. Baker, inspector of the C division, informed the magis trate it was quite true, for a well-known prostitute had brought him his breakfast to the station-house, and when his wile came to him, to ask if she could assist him in any way, he treated her with the coarsest brutality. Mr. Chambers said, it appeared that the Trades' Unions were not at all particular as to the character of the members they admitted. From what had been stated, he thought the defendant a very fit object of admission into one of these Unions. The defendant was, on the decision of two magistrates, fined 40s. for the assault. PROTESTING CORPORATIONS. The Corporation of Ludlow, following the example of that of Norwich, Maidstone, Lichfield, and other ancient Protestant bodies corporate, has recorded its protest against the legality of the Lord Chancellor's municipal law commissioners. On Friday last Messrs. Hogg and Wilkinson opened their commission in the Guildhall of Ludlow, when " Edmund Lechmere Charlton, Esq. said he must now intro duce himself. to their notice as holding the situation of High Bailiff of the corporation of Ludlow; and he had to announce in the first place that he was directed by that corporation to protest against the legality of the present commission; he was directed to do this not from any want of those feelings of respect which ought to exist towards the authority under which the commission was issued, as well as to those by whom it was in tha course of being carried into effect, but lest, if this were as a matter of course submitted to, further encroachments might hereafter be attempted. If there was one duty that he had to discharge under the oath that he had taken to 'the corporation of Ludlow, by which he felt' more constrained than another, it was that he should keep secret their records; and he therefore felt happy that, in the terms of their resolution,by which the pro test against the commission was made, he should still be able to place that part of his oath on the shelf, and to put himself under the obligation of another oath which the commissioners were about to administer, and thus,. as far as in him lay, to facilitate the present inquiry, so that the Legislature might be enabled to frame an act of Parliament that should hereafter prevent the possibility of a corrupt corporation continuing in existence, and that the name of a corrupt corporation should no longer be known. He had but one further remark to make, and that was, that in order to facilitate the iaquiry he trusted ail per sons present would preserve the most strict silence and decorum; and he must ask the commissioners, as a favour, but with the same object, and to prevent frivolous annoyances, , that. ail questions that were to be put to the members of the body cor porate or their officers, should be put throught the commis sioners." "Mr. Wilkinson asked if there was a corporation meeting held to authorise the protest referred to ?—Mr. Charlton - said there was; and then tho commissioners requested a copy 'of the pro test, and that the entry of the same on the books of the corpora tion should be read. ".John Williams, Esq., the town-clerk, read the,entrT as fol lows:—' It being a subject of notoriety that a coMmission • has been issued, directing an inquiry into divers matters connected with corporations of cities and boroughs within Great Britain— Resolved,—That it is desirable the officers of this corporation should have instructions for their guidance in the event of the commissioners arriving in this town.—That the high and low bailiffs be requested to wait upon the commissioners and record the solemn protest of the body corporate assembled this day, to the commission, as being illegal; but, having discharged that duty, they be directed to inform the commissioners they are dis posed, under the circumstances, to offer no impediMent whatever to every fair investigation.' " The commissioners, then proceeded in the inquiry secundem artem. If Mr. Charlton be a lawyer he must know that the oath un der the obligation of which he voluntarily placed himself, is a nul lity; and that an oath administered on any but a legal occasion, and before a legally constituted authority, is a direct violation of an act of Parliament formed expressly to prevent illegal oaths. If, therefore, the commissioners.have no right to compel him to give evidence on oath, no prosecution for perjury can be main tained against him, supposing that he perjured himself. Again, suppose Mr. Charlton were cognizant of, or a party to, any mal practices in the borough of Ludlow. An exculpatory or a self criminating oath is in either case bad, and contrary to all our received notions of English law and justice. The chief commissioner, Mr.Blackburne, who is now engaged in executing bis office on the Corporation of London, begins to entertain doubts, or perhaps Sir Edward Sugden may have sup plied the learned gentleman's noble and learned friend with a little law on the subject. However this may be, in his address to the good people of London, he said, " He understood that some difficulty had arisen from the clause in the commission empowering the cbmrnissioners to ad minister an oath, and that it would be objected to by some necessary witnesses to be sworn. The commissioners had not the slightest wish to administer an oath, for he was quite sure that no man would come forward to state anything which was not founded in truth, and therefore the cornmisstiiners would not pucany party to his oath." We hear that the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield intend to remain about six weeks in Paris. Earl Cadogan, or Lord Radstock, is expected to succeed the late lamented Viscount Exmouth, as naval aide-de-camp to his Majesty. Both their lordship s bold the same rank, that is, cap tain, and are at present at the head of the list of extra aide-de camps to the King. There are no emoluments attached to the office of naval aid .de-camp to the sovereign. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry have given up all idea of visiting the French capital this,Winter; they will remain at Wynyard until after Christmas, at Which festive sea son they will keep open house. A select party of friends, in cluding the . young Earl of Eglintown, Viscount Chelsea, son of Earl Cauogau, the lion. Arthur Trevor, &c., have been recently visitants at Wynyard. The youuffiSeount-Seahani, an 'Eaton scholar, hai left -tioldernesse Hottie, to spend the holydays with his noble parents in the north. Viscountess Canning has taken on lease (orTurchased) the mansion in Grosvenor-square, so many years the abOde of the late Lady Julia Petre, at whose demise it beeame the property of the present Lord Petre. Her ladyship, we believe, and her daughter the Marchioness of Clanricarde, are no w o n a v i s it t o . the Duke and Duchess of Portland, at \Velbeek, Nottingham shire. The Hon. William Henry Tennison Pery; second son of Lord Gleutworth, and grandson to the Earl of Limerick, fills the comparativel y subordinate office of clerk-to_-the p o st-mast er at Sydney (New South Wales). Mr. Pery is a young gentle man, in his 22d year, and his aunt is Latlylleodosia Spring Rice, the lady of the secretary of the treasury._ BERWICK.—ECONOMY !—Some weeks ago government sent down the Hon. Captain _Duncan to inspect the state of the Ordnance Department here. It is well knaWn that the" walls" which belong to the Ordnance office are a very great bar to the improvement and prosperity of the town. Captain Duncan, we understand, stated that, he would it:commend government to give the whole, or at least a part of them, up. 'I he north wall at.least ought to be taken down, and the sooner the better.— Whether crovernment intend to give up the - walls or nut we cannot tell; but they have done sotnethingthe,y have made a beginning—they have ordered the flag-staff. to be struck, and the flag and the pJ e awl the rope to be laid in - store !—" the poor flag-staff!" says some one ;'but it is. not the poor flag staff, ij is the poor government. This is economy. It will save (we suppose) the sixpences or the shillings which some old veteran was wont to receive for hoisting the flag on Sundays and on holydays. IV l 'e are strong advocates for economy, and would have had_government to carry it a little farther. We would have had theta to sell the pole and the flag, and the rope, . instead of laying them in store.—Berwick Advertiser. STIRLING tIERIFF'S COUR T.—COMB INA ZION LA WS.—A Criminal Court was held at Stirling on Wednesday week, at which the Sher' -Depute, Mr. Ma c d ona ld 'of Staff's , presided. Th o mas Stoddatt, James.Roup, and William Marshall, all, ap prentices in the .ernplovment of Messrs. D. and H. Inglis, calicd-Printers at I..irti..ai-d9eld, were accused at the instance of . the Procurator with having, upon the 30th day of No vember last, by threats and inti m id a ti on, mo l ested and obstruct ed, in :.he regular cours 1-Ofhis business, Hubert Taylor, foreman to the said Messrs. a f and 11. Inglis, for the purpose of forcing him to give, or contilibute , or pay a cer t a i n sum or sums of money for the supporZ.: , -.0 certain journeymen orother printers, • at least to a co mmon iumNor the support of these printers. The prisonerspleaded nut but the e v id ence a d duced was so .ult in find ing th e pr i soners clear that the sheriff had - n o al t guilty, who were sentenced. tok be imprisoned . i n S t i rling Gaol b t . t h e period of one month. Ebt Eiberpool Atantlarb. FRIDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 20, 1831 A morning ministerial journal of London has been la bouring hard for some time to provoke a war between., England and Russia. Whether the war-note which it sounds is composed in Downing:street we are unable to tell. Whether the complaints it utters, or the griev ances it dwells upon, or the abhorrence of autocratic despotism which it now deprecates almost daily, receives its impulse from some craven minister behind the cur pin, is an important question which we must leave time and events to decide. All we know is, that the Times is a ministerial paper, and that it never drops a hint or - sounds an alarm without cause, whether that cause be . merely instructions to threaten, or instructions to inti' mate the course of policy about to be pursued. We ob serve also by the journals received last night, that the Russian and Austrian ambassadors have had an inter view with Lord PALMERSTpN, and it LS stated that the object of the conference was the unsettled position of af fairs in the east of Europe. Questionless the affairs, in the east, as far as •Englall d • is concerned, are, in a very disjointed state; but in wha t other part of the world, where the people of this C O'llo -try are interested, are they otherwise ? In our immen' e territories beyond the Cape—in our western possessi° lls —in Portugal--in the Low Countries--and, last not lea st ! in Turkey and Greece—we are embroiled by revolution ary movements, acts of usurpation, rash innova.tio lg ' discontented subjects, or by Some hostile and injurions interruptions of our trade and commerce. Whateve r the Whig ministers of England have touched, they ha ve polluted or destroyed. Wherever they have interfered' mischief and civil war have sprung up. Whatever the, have failed to overthrow by hostile aggressions, theY have injured by their ignorant 'interposition. For years. to the serious detriment of our trade, the have covertly supported the pretensions of a mercenary adventurer r n Portugal—who has already been kicked out of one killg dorn seemingly to produce confusion in another—who i" supported by foreign bayonets, in the hands of foreign miscreants, and whose confederated object—the object a t the employer and the employed—is plunder. In -1 101- land and Belgium the same pernicious interference of the Whigs has produced 'the same disastrous conse quences. They have placed a worthless and heartleso pensioner of England upon what is'waggishlv called the " throne" of Belgium, and they connive at the paymen t of his pension, which he Pretended to resign, in order to support him upon that mockery of a throne. Thief well know that the so-called KING of the Belgians is a mere satrap of Lours PHILIPPE-a paltry tool in the hands of a revolutionary tyrant, who is governing France at this moment with a more iron rule than ever was ex erted by the most absolute of its BOURBON monarcbs' DECEMBER '2O, 1.833. ARTIFICIAL FAMINE IN INDIA Accounts from Vellore represent that place, as well as the countries adjacent, to be in a very distressing state. An under standing evidently exists among the dealers in rice to raise the price of this commodity to such an extent as would favour the supposition that all India was suffering under the severest fa mine. Grain of every description is sold so excessively hi $h that the poorer classes of the people are almost deprived of Me means of subsistence . ; and this, coupled with the failure which the cultivators in various districts have recently sustained, leads to the most fearful apprehensions. Every man, it is contended, has a right to do what he pleases with his own, so long as he does not thereby injure auother. — To force a merchant to sell his goods against his will would be to deprive him of the liberty of disposing of his property to his greatest advAntage. But in extreme cases, few will deny, that some interference on the part of government would be pro ductive of general good. He who invests his capital iu the par chase of any commodity h as a n undo u bt e d titl e t o a fair com pensation • but when it is evident that a systematic m onopolY exists to the prejudice of th e public, the em erge n c y i m peratively demands the n o tic e o f au th or ity. It is nut to be believed th a t the gr a nari es o f I n di a are abso lutely empty =that there is really not sufficient lice in the coun try for the support of its inhabitants; on the contrary, it is ge nerally, and we are inclined to think truly asserted, that there is au abundance of this article in the stores of merchants who deal exclusively in it; and shall they be allowed to demand any price they may think proper when the people are perishing in the streets from a c tual w a nt? Shall it be in their power to starve the inhabitants if they are unable to pay the exorbitant . price demanded as the value of this article of food ? Shall ere vernment look on with criminal indifference while their subject.' are driven to desperation by the exercise of the monopoly to which they allude ? It is almost impossible to conceive the distress - which our cor respondent mentions as being prevalent at Velure. Mee is there sold at four and half measures the rupee; grain at eight,. • and inferior grain is dear in proportion. The poor are actually starving; and will it be believed when we state, on the most undoubted authority, that at Vellore, on the 4th instant, hun dreds witnessed the horrible and disgusting sight of a dead in fant partly devoured by its own mother! This unhappy woman had been several days without any sustenance whatever, and when death relieved her babe from misery, satisfied the cravings of hunger by preying upon her lifeless child ! The shipwrecked have been known to murder one another to shed the blood of a fellow-sufferer—and to subsist on the flesh of a butchered comrade ;—but men in populous cities , in wealthy towns, with food before their eyes, will suffer the sor did miser to hoard his riches, by extorting from them their last fraction, will submit to all the miseries of want, and will prefer the agonies of starvation, to boldly demanding their just rights! We.would not, of course, say that poverty alone is any excuse for the perpetration of an unlawful act; but if government will - not interfere, if authoritywillibe indifferent to.the wrongs of the subject, if individuals in power will be both blind to the sufferings and deaf to the complaints of the inhabitants, how long will the people bear what they do now--how long can this state of things coutinue—how long can they be patient under . their accumulated ills? Already do they show what they are driven toalready it is evident that they must and will resort to crime to satisfy , their wants, and that they will compel the wretch to resign what his detestable avarice induced him to re fuse to part with upon reasonable terms. Highway robbery, we understand, is almost daily committed in the interior; and one, in particular, was perpetrated on the road from Trinchino poly to Vellore, which, as it was attended with considerable lose` of life, we shall relate, in the hope that it will have the salutary effect of leading government to perceive the absolute necessity of adopting measures, not only for the security of the public peace, but also for the protecti o n of the public s afety.—About fifty natives, who were travelling in company to Vellore, were attacked near Tinnamalay, on the Trichinopoly road, by a baud of about a hundred desperate men, who, meeting with resist ance, fired upon the travellers, killing as many as nineteen eft twenty, and wounding several others. After the sanguinary contest they were robbed of every article they possessed, and left to prosecute their journey throdgh an aimost desolate country, dependent for subsistence on precarious charity. THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL. THE LAST NIGHT OF THE SEASON. First Night of Two New Pieces, NATURAL MAGIC AND GRACE HUNTLY. For the BENEFIT of Mr. LLOYDS, Prompter, on which occasion Mr. H AMMOND will appear in Two Principal Chat -- meters. Mr. LLOYDS, having laboured in the ficiduous duties of his Situation for eighteen years, begs leave Id announce this. as hi" First Benefit, respectfully soliciting till support of the Liver pool Public, and trusting that, thmigh his exertions for the interests of the Drama have not been in view of its Patrons they will not be out of their remembrance. rlll-IIS present FRIDAY, the 20th instant, will be per -11. formed Morton's Comedy of SPEED THE PLOUGH. After which, for the first time, a New Farce, called NATURAL MAGIC ; OR, THE CHIMNEYPIECE. In the course of the Evening a variety of Songs. To conclude with, for the first time here, a new doestic Drag"' in of intense interest, called GRACE HUNTLY ; OR, THE PRICE OF: GUILT. THE QUEEN'S THEATRE, CHRISTIAN-STREET , WILL OPEN FOR THE SEASON, (IN MONDAY next, the 23d inst., under the sole Manage ment of Ms. H. BEVERLY. The Performances will commence with entire new Tale of Interest, called • THE SEA ! THE , EA ! OR, THE OCEAN'S CHILD; In which will be exhibited a VESSEL, Thirty Feet long, lo the terrors of a Storm. To which will be added the Burletta of HOOKEY WALKER. The character of Hookey Walker by Mr. H. Beverly. In the course of the evening the ,celebrated jockey Dave, by Master BICKERSTAFFE. To conclude with a new Melo-Drama, called GUSTAVUS, THE CONSPIRACY, AND THE MASKED BALL. Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. 6d.; Gallery, 6d.; Half-price at Half past Eight; Boxes, Is. 6d. ; Pit, Is. No Half-price to the . Gallery. LIVER THEATRE. GRAND CONCERT, VOCAL AND INSTRUMENTAL. MONS. DEVIN respectfully begs to inform the Nohipty; ► Gentry, and Public of Liverpool, that his CONCEIt will take place on MONDAY, December 2.3, Ig33.—The follow ing Performers already engaged are : PRINCIPAL VOCAL PERFORMERS, Miss CASSIDY, (from the Rotunda and Nobility's Concerts, Dublin,) Miss E. CASSIDY, Miss JOHNSON, (being positively the last time she will have the honour to api*ar before a 1 ;' - verpool audience,) Mr. DAVIES, and Mons. DilviN. PRINCIPAL INSTRUMENTAL AND SOLO PER FORMERS, I f Mr. TAI;LEUEE, (ITOIEI Mr. C. H. QUARYEEMAN, the King's and NobilOsCon - Mr. CUDMORE, Mr. G. ErioN, Mr. COOPER, Mr. D. STUBBS, certs, COndon and ri n deor• Mr. J ACKSON, I Mr. C. N. Weiss. Leader, Mr. CUDMORE. Conductor, Mr. C. H. QUARTER:4A r• Boxes, 55.; Pit, 35.; and Gallery, 2s. Juvenile Tickets for Children under thirteen years old, 2s. 6rl. May be had at all the Music Warehouses ; at the Box-office of the Liver Theatre and at Mons. 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