The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1826-09-12 00:00:00

THE WEATHER.

We regret to find, from letters received at Lloyd's, that
very considerable damage has been sustained by the ship-
ping along the coast, from the severe gales of the 6th and
7th instant.

The hops, we understand, have heon greatly injured by
the high winds which prevailed last incl.—Sussex Ad-
rertiarr.

This city (Canterbury) and neighbourhood were visited
on Saturday with one of the heaviest rains we ever wit-
nessed. It more resembled the rains which fall within the
tropics than those which usually descend in our temperate
clime. The streets were anon flooded, and the vale of the
Stour, both above and below this city, was covered with
water to some depth, and the cattle were obliged to he re-
moved. The roads in many places are much injured.
The rain was accompanied by a little thunder.—Kent He-
rald.

The recent rains have clothed our surrounding meadows
with • verdure not only refreshing to the sight, hut consol-
ing to the other views of the occupants. From the warmth
which may be still expected, there is now a prospect, if
frosty nights do not intervene, of an aftermath, which may
prove a seasonable saving to the scanty stock of fodder pro-
vided for the consumption of the winter and spring months.
—fitdfurd

One of the heaviest storms of thunder, lightning, and
heavy rain, witness►ti this summer, visited this ei•y enWed-
tiesilay last ; the water ► usheil down the streets 1:► torrents,
whilst the vivid flashes of lightning and the vale of thun-
der were truly terrific.—Bri.itul Journal.
In consequence of the late welcome rains, the pastures
around us are beginning to recover their usual verdure;
turnips will also be much benefited, and we therefore hope
the farmers will not experience so much distress for au-
tumn and winter keep as was at one e anticipated.—
Wm/wester Journal.

The genial effects of the copious showers for the last three
days are already visible upon the face of the country. The
Rau is springing fast, and the meadows and pastures are
exhibiting the promise of a considerable aftermath, whilst
the turnips are improving rapidly, so that there are the
hopes of a good, if not an abundant winter's feed. And it is
not in these respects cnly that the rain has proved benefi-
cial. From the extreme drought of the summer, the Se-
vern was reduced so low, and in many places so little water
covered its bed as to be scarcely navigable, amounting
almost to an absolute stoppage, even to the smallest craft,
to the great interruption and inconvenience of trade. The
river is now rising fast, and it is expected that in another
21 hours it will float vessels of the largest draught scene-
tome) to ply upon it.—Woreester Herald.
On Wednesday last a long-continued and heavy rain,
accompanied by a strong gale of wind from the N. h., was
experienced here. The morning had been very dull, with
occasional showers, with the wind from the east. Towards
afternoon the wind veered to the N.E., and about six a
heavy rain and strong gale set in, and continued without
intermission till next day. The quantity of rain which
fell was excessive; all the low grounds in the neighbour-
hood of rivers were flooded next day. If any of the crops
are still capable of improvement from the effect of rain,
that must surely be effected by the rain of IV( dnesday ;
110 want of moisture need be again apprehended this sea-
son. should it even prove dry.
We have, within the last few days, experienced a strik-
ing change in the state of the weather. On Wednesday
afternoon, the slight showers which Lad visited its in the
previous part of the day, and which had, more or less, pre-
vailed for some days before, were succeeded by exceedingly
heavy rain, accompanied with a high wind from the north-
east, which continued without intermission during the
whole of the night, and the greater part of Thursday. In
the course of the afternoon it became and yet continues
fair, though the heavens still have a lowering aspect. It
is satisfactory, however, to know, that but little injury can
be done to the harvest, as nearly all the crops of grain have
been got off the ground, if, indeed, they have not been en-
tirely removed, while those of potatoes and turnips, and the
fogs and pastures, must be entirely benefited, particularly
as the rains have not cawed any very considerable diminu-
tion of warmth. We fear that much damage has been
done at sea, and we have :mord of a vessel being wrecked
off Retlear.—Derham Chroxitle.

COSONATION FLEET.—A number of vessels of various
clubs, composing what is, by Royal permission, called the
" Coronation Fleet," sail for the " Silver Cup" this day.
Should the weather prove fine, the Thames, from Black-
well to the \ore, will I roma an animated scene. Several
of the steam vessels of the respective companies, we ob-
serve, are to have excursion parties for the (lay. In a
maritime country like England, such trials of skill are no
less useful than amusing ; and we rejoice to find a taste for
aquatic specs take the precedence of all others ; nor ought
at to be forgotten that it was his ll'ajesty who first set the
exemp7e.
We lately gave a letter from one of the agents to Lloyd's,
in France, addressed to the Secretary, Mr. Wro: Bennett,
containing extracts of the orders transmitted by the French
Government to their naval commanders, and to the autho-
rities at the different pone, with a view of offering every
impediment to the prosecution of the slave trade. It is
difficult to ascertain with what degree of rigour the pre-
scribed regulations are enforced; but certain it is that
this odious traffic has been and is still carried on to a
frightful extent on French account, and by vessels under
French colours. The persons engaged in it are chiefly re-
sident at Nantz ; and it is a well-known fact that several
cargoes have bet n landed this year at St. Jago de Cuba and
Martinique, but particularly at the farmer place. A French
correspondent informs us that the identical brig which we
mentioned on a former occasion to have recently landed 640
slaves in Martinique, is at the present time in the port of
Havre, the memoranda made upon her papers by the offi-
cer of the British frigate who boarded her, not having, as
it appears, prevented her return to France.
latsu POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—The mail ar-
rived via Holyhead at seven o'clock, and no newspaper or
letter could be got out of the Post-office, save those which
are delivered by the Express department! Thus an enor-
MOM expense is incurred to expedite the correspondence
with England—that is, to get the letters and papers nerves
naiad; but, having them sting locked up in our Post-
office here, we cannot get at them : they are embargoed—
laid, as if under a quarantine, for fifteen or sixteen hours,
although to (spade them, on arrival at this side, would
cost nothing.—Dridin 41furstisg• Post, Fs iday.
Isis's Paunuez.—The fair of Croom, on Friday, pre-
sented a large show of live stock, but buying was not
brisk, except for pigs and prime lots, the former purchased
by jobbers for the Cork and Waterford Markets, at an
average of 3911. per cwt. Graziers anticipating a crop of
after-grass bought up a few lots of two-year-old wethera.
at 3os. each, but a scarcity of winter fodder prevented
their looking after heavy cattle. The fair of Rockhill,
between Abbeyfeale and Newmarket, was well attended
on Monday, and prices generally advancing. The fair of
Ennis, on )Monday, was tether (lull ; fat sheep and lambs
were almost the ouly description of stock in demand; pigs
' rated bight. The late rains in the county Clare have had
a most beneficial effect woe all the late crops, and also
upon grass lands. No semslty of the potato crop is an-
ticipated, and in many parts this most useful plant is most
abundant. A sufficiency of hider for the winter feeding
i. only apprehended. Hay is a wretched crop in the county
Cork this season.

THE BRITISH PRESS,

ST. PATRICK'S MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.

AIC2fDAY Erzwrwo.
The report of the meeting of this Company on Friday
last, in Dublin, leas not reached town, but the result is de-
tailed in the private letters received this morning, which
state that the " Company has resolved to discontinue
Marine Insurance." It is to be hoped that other Com-
panies, instituted for similar purposes, will profit le the
example here set them, and abandon a business which it is
impos,ible they can carry on without loss to themseFees,
and danger to the public. From the existing state of the
Marine Insurance Companies, both of England and Ireland,
it is impossible but that the Resolution of the St. Patrick's
Company must excite a lively interest among them ; and it
is but fair that they ,Itould have the advantage of fully
considering the propriety of following a similar line of coa-
-1 duct. Should such, however, not be the case, then a de-
-1 tailed statement of particulars will be supplied, for the
purpose of showing the utter impossibility of Insurance
business being safely carried on by such bodies.
' A finer example of national honour and probity cannot
be afforded than that which was displayed by ;he Under-
writers of Lloyd's during the late long and protracted war.
It is only in the hands of such persons, possessing such
fortunes, and acting upon their own individual responsi-
bilities, that such a description of business as underwriting
can be safely and effectively pursued. Every day adds
its portion of experience to correct the mania with which
the public was so suddenly 'eked for the employment of
its monies ; and it is quite clear that, although the Com-
panies in question are formed upon just and honourable
principles, they are wholly ineffective in the grand material
—capital, and, consequently, the sooner they are dissolved
the better will it be for the Shareholders as well as the
public. Z.

One of the Manchester Papers contains loud complaints
of the obstructions of the streets by the soldiers quartered
in that town. Similar obstructions are, to a certain degree,
unavoidable when any large crowd of persons, in or out of
red coats, are assembled together. But it is discreditable
to the sense of propriety of the commandinkoffieers that
they do not study to make their men as small s nuisance as
possible. We have seen the great western road blocked up,
and a great accumulation of stage coaches, and all sorts of
carriages, stopped for some minutes, while a regiment of
the Guards, after a review, has been filing from Hyde
Park to the Green Park, merely because the officers did
not choose to direct the men to march in more compact
lxxlies, or at some intervals. On the other hand, on a
narrow footway, it is very rarely that the men condescended
to walk its single file. Ott the parades and places specially
set apart for the exercise of troops, no one can blame
whatever regulations the officers choose to adopt for the
convenience of their men, or for their own ; but in pnblic
thoroughfares they are on the footing of other passengers,
and should pay attention to the convenience of others.
To presume upon their numbers end arms is as indecent
as it would be for a strong man to jostle his weaker neigh-
bour, and to thrust women and children into the kennel.—
tobe.

SCIENTIrIC DISCOVERY.-It is affirmed that Dr. Fuchs,
at Munich, of the Academy of Sciences, has just discovered
a tnethod of rendering wood incombustible. and has proved
the efficaciousness of it by experience. Ile has combined
caustic slcali in solution with a certain earthy substance,
washed and sifted, and applied on the wood, to which it
gives a nitreous surface, which renders it also impervious
to water, and to all kinds of humidity. The Architectural
Committee of the 'l'heatre Royal at Munich has made trial
of this method on two small buildings, one of which was
prepared according to Dr. Fuchs' plan, the other not. Fire
having been lighted in both these buildings, the one was
burnt, the other received no injury. The expense of the
application is only two francs for 100 feet, or two centimes
per foot.—Brussels Paper.
The alarming state of fever in this city has obliged the
Governors of the Hospital to forward a requisition to the
Mayor for a meeting of the inhabitants. The symptoms
attendant on this disease, we are happy to learn, are not of
that malignant type which, under other circumstances,
proved fatal in many cases. The patients, in general, are
affectril with low fever, produced in a great measure by the
privation they suffer from want Or food and raiment : some
of them are absolutely introduced in a starving state.
There were 1,746 persons admitted into the Hospital within
the last nine months.—Limerick Chronicle.
Things are certainly wearing a more smiling appearance
at Brighton than had been expected from the general aspect
of the country. A vast accession has been made to its
fashionable population in the course of the last week, and
the industrious classes of the community are pretty gene-
rally employed. A proof of this may be found in the in-
creased number of small sums deposited in the Savings
Rank there lately. On last Satrt•lay evening several per-
sons became depositors for the first time, and many sums
were left by parties who had been long cowl ibutors to the
institution, but whose investments had received no pre-
vious increase during the whole year. At the close of that
evening more than 2001. were found to have been received
over and above the monies withdrawn.—Sussex Adver-
tiser.

SINGULAR PIIENOMENA•—On Friday se'nnigbt a sin-
gular whirlwind and waterspout made their appearance In
the air above the farm of Calside, in the parish of Anwoth,
and, by their striking appearance, excited not less the ad-
miration than dismay of those who beheld them. The wa-
terspout was observed at a great distance, resembling,
pretty nearly, a sugar-loaf; but to such as witnessed it
mingling with the whirlwind, when it became tossed and
broken, and fell, shattered into immense drops of rain,
the spectacle which the two elements exhibited, rivalled
in sublimity an Alpine tempest. The contents of the
aqueous meteor were scattered over the extent of a
square mile, and the united gushing of the water, and
roaring of the whirlwind, formed one of the mightiest
notes of nature's music—exceeding in loudness the
voice of the sea, when the tempest is sweeping over
and agitating its waves. A little boy, named Carson, who
is herd upon the farm of Calside, had the misfortune to
be within the circle of the whirlwind, and was hurried
along by it upwards of a hundred yards, until, having
reached a gate, he caught hold of one of its posts, and in
that manner saved himself, perhaps from destruction.
While he clung resolutely to this support, the force of the
wind tossed his heels repeatedly in the air; but terror lent
him strength to maintain his hold, and fortunately he re-
ceived little personal injury. Upwards of two roods of a
strong dike were at the same time overthrown; six ricks of
hay were swept from their seats, and scattered in every
direction; nineteen stooks of oats were in like manner die-
persed ; and a quantity of lint, which was spread out in a
Held to dry, became embodied with the other wrecks of
the tempest, and totally disappeared. The small stream
of Skyreburn, beside which this occurred, was tossed into
surges of uncommon magnitude and snowy whiteness, and
emitted a sound of such loud and unnatural wildness, as
to appal every one who heard it.—Caledonian Mercury.

DEATH D: Fla TI N G—Two men, named Sellers and
Gore, having had some trifling quarrel, whilst at work in
a field, at Sonning, near Reading, Berks, on Monday
morning, Gore tauntingly challenged Sellers to fight. They
fought with great desperation upwards of an hour, when
Gore received a tremendous blow under the right ear, and
he fell to rise no more.

Eta Es PENSIONS.—The following letter was received
from the War Office, in answer to a communication from
Leith, requesting information whether a pensioner was
obliged to employ the collector's clerk to make out an
affidavit, and whether he was bound to pay him for doing
so:—

-
War Office, August 25,1826.
In reply to your inquiry, I am directed to acquaint you, that
all that to 'Nutted of a pensioner is, that when he applies WWI
out.peosion, he should produce a correct affidavit, but that he tam
make it out himself, or employ any one he chooses to do lei am
that the collector's clerks cannot therefore compel the man m posy
any thing to them for making out the affidavit. memos they amMet
compel the pensioner to hive it made out by them.
With respect to the deduction of b per cent. bent the aromewt
of a man's pension, the same is authorised by LIP to be nide by
the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital.
I am further directed to acquaint you, that the Pendell=
to appeal to the Magistrates as to the fee of it peeny each demanded
by the offiva in Court who hands the affidavit to the Magistrate.
I am, .Ic.
(Signed) W. MERRY.

THE COUNTY MI-OFFICE AND THE COMMIS-
SIONERS OF REVENUE INQUIRY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE BRITISH PRESS.
Sin—lt WAS only three days since, while on a journey in the
North of England, that. in lookivg over a London newspaper, I
cast toy eye on an extract frdm the Report of the Commissioners of
Revenue Inquiry, in wl'lcli the animadversions on the Stamp-office
are varied into an attack on the County Fire-office.
That attack is so injurious to the honour of the Directors, and to
the interests of :he (Nike. that I think it necessary to adopt the
earliest means of exposing its untruths, end demolishing its insi.
nitations. Considerable difficulties, .t Is true, lie in my way, for,
to this day, I hove been unaole to learn who ate the accusers of the
QoYnty Fire-office ? what are the specific fans alleged? and what
is the evidence received in support of those facts? Every necessary
preliminary in the administration of justice Is here inverted, and
yet Alic Commissioners have thought tit to proceed 0 a public con-
demnalion of one of the meat respectable establishments of its kind
in the country. Their Report at length throws some light on the
accusation hut here, although profuse in eriminatory assertions
and insinuatlens, the Commissioners are very guarded In ditklosihg
the evidence. But to the accusation. _

It Is first made a matter Of complaint against the County Fire-
office, that it " is in the habit of debiting itself in the quarterly
accounts, for the amount of duties due, or supposed to be due, on
all policies issued. or expected to be issued, for the ensuing quer-
ter. ; and then, in the succeeding, or some subsequent quarterly
account, 1112 office took credit for all paytneats on account of duties
or policies not taken up." It 1/1 added, "the principle of paying
the amount of duty its above &scribed, sr, in appearance, con-
trary to the interests of the County Firc-Mitee, by inducing a con-
siderable advance of moray; and it would he difficult to account
for such deviation from the general practice, it It had not had, the
effect of giving to thnt office the appearance cif lining more business
than it really did." Now this Is untrue. The office does not
debit itself with policies expected to be issued for the ensuing
quarter, Roc.; nor is there any such effect aimed at, or produced,
Asia stated.

What we hove done is this :—The Act of Parliament requiring
that the duty on all policies, and renewals of policies, issued from
a Fire Office, should be minutely accounted for, add paid into the
Stamp Office within a certain number of days after the end of the
' quarter in which they are issued, under heavy penalties, advice was'
taken, nearly twenty years ago, as to the proper nicde of complying
with this direction ; and it was determined, as the only rude mode,
at the end of every quarter to pay to the Stamp Office rite amount
of duty on all policies and renewals issued from the Office during
such quarter; but as it would happen that many of the renewals
issued to agents would not be taken up, the Office toot! credit, in a
subsequent quarter, for such renewals, as the agents had not re-
ceived payment for.
The present practice of the Fire Offices generally, it now ap-
pears, is not to charge themselves to the St imp Office with the
duty on renewals of policies issued through agents, till after they
have accounts from the agents of their having actually received the
duty on such renewals; but these accouuts frequently do not
reach them until half a year, or longer, subsequent to their being
Issued. I therefore think, with others, that under this practice,
the directions of the Act are not, and cannot be complied with ;
and I know hot how, if informations for the penalties rare filed
against the offices, they could answer them.
Be this as it may, our mode of prompt payment for every policy
and renewal we issued evinced anything but a desire to ovoid
payment of duties, and gave an advantage to the revenue of not
less than PO/. a year in the value of interest on our prompt pay-
ments. Yet, strange as it may steal, this is made theound-
work of the accusation raised ageing the Office. The Cogrmmis-
sionera even go om of their way so far as to assign, for our motive
in paying immediately, that " it had the effect of giving to the
office an appearance of doing more busincis than it really did."
But the amounts of duty quoted, to show the amount of business,
are the net payments Indy, i.e. aflee deducting returns ; and it re-
quires no great knowledge of arithmetic to see, that if we pay for
the duty on all the policies or renewals issued from the office at
the end of every quarter, and, in succeeding (Marten, deduct the
amount of duty for such policies and renewals as are not, in
fact, taken up and paid for to the agents, it will amount to
just the same thing at the end of a year, iss if we had de-,
leered paying the duty till such time at the agents' accounts
were collected, and we then paid for no more than had been
actually received. This misrepresentation is the more unaccount-
able, because Mr. Wallace, the Chairman, in examining me—`Or
I was examined by these Commissioners at my own particular
desire—advanced the same idea, viz.—that the County Fire Office
paid more in advance than the other offices, to make a show cf
more business than it really did. This notion I dispiovtd in my
evidence, and one of the Commitatoners present repeated and en.
forced my argument to Mr. Wallace, who then seemed satisfied
that he was wrong, and was silent. In consequence, howeVer, of
the misrepresentations on the mode of prompt payment adopted by
the County Fire Office, the office has, since Midsummer 1825, re-
served its peyments of duty, till accounts from the Agents were re-
ceived, and In consequence paid In abont 12,0001. short of its usual
amount of duty for the last year. This alteration will be a loss to
the relic. ue, and a saving to die County Fire Office of upwards of
5001. annually in the value of interest.
It is difficult to conceive how the Commissioners could reconcile
the two contradictory propositions; first, that the County Fire
Office was making the above sacrifice to increase the amount of
.duty far the effect aforesaid; and, secondly, wu at the same time
instructing its clerks to claim returns of duty paid, to which the
Office was not entitled, and which would lessen diet effect; a
course too, which could produce a sating of of ly a few pounds, and
was certain to involve it in a prosecution and heavy penalties. in
these, two propositions, however, the whole of the accusation against
the C.ounty Fire-office is contained. The investigation of the lat-
ter charge the Commissioners entered into with energy and deter.
mination ; and they had every means they could desire at their
' command, to prove the case sought to be established. if it bad had
existence. The dismissed clerk, who had made the questionable
entries, was their informer, and had been in the office ten or eleven
' years. The clerks remaining in the County Fire Office, were re-
peatedly and severely examined on oath by the Commissioners, for
hours together. The books and papers of the office, amounting
to several coach-loads, were removed to the Commissioners',
by their order, and were kept in their hands ft r nearly a week ;
and it is not alleged that any information or document sought
for was not produced. The investigation at Edinburgh, so
much alluded to in the Report, shows the keenness with
which the inquiry was followed up out of doors. The
whole of the affkire of the Office for nearly twenty years—.he
entries of a million of Policies and renewals—of the Insurances of
90,000 persons—of payments of Duty to the amount of several han-
dled thousand pounds, were before them—and yet, with till this
mass of materials, and the great labour and pains bestowed on
them, so far from there being any fraud established, it does not ap.
pear that the Office or any agent, with the knowledge of the office,
has received a girlie's:Tier Duty which the Office has not duly ac-
counted for and paid to the Stamp Office
What does the case at Edinburgh, so much dwelt upon,
amount to? The agent there, an aged, single man, died there.
after a long illness, in which the business of the office had been
neglected; his papers had been dispersed, and no account
could be obtained of his collection for some time previously;
but it appeared that several policies, through his neglec, l.ad
been dropped. The Office, therefore, having paid the duty on
the first issue of all the renewals, might properly claim a return
for such as they could procure no accoust that the Agent had
received for. This would be petfectly consistent with the prac-
tice of all the other Offices, they not paying for duty received by
agents, till after they had accounts from the agents of their having
received such duty, would not, in such a case as the above, pay the
duty at all. But every Office is liable to be misled in the e 'cot of
an agent's absconding, or of his death, without an account hiving
been rendered. In such cases the agent may have received the
duty upon a policy, without the office being aware of it; and by
the result of the investigation, this appears to have been the case
at Edinburgh. The agent there had received ditty to the amount of
about 3/. upon two polities, of which the Office lied no account,
and In consequence claimed a return of the duty they had paid to
the Stamp-office in the first instance. This unavoidable error of
about 31. appears to be the only fact of questionable entry. esta-
blished by the Commissioncis as the foundation of their imputa-
tion of fraud. The day will come, however, when I &hall have po-
sitive knowledge on this head. I have called the above " an un-
avoidable error," because it is one from which no office can be se-
cure; but when I consider that the entry was made by the in-
former, and I consider also the character of that man, 1 am by no
means sere that it may not have been a wilful error.
TMs brings me to notice a most remarkable omission in the Re.
port. The presumed informer had been a clerk in the County Fire
Office, whom I had repeatedly dismissed, but had suffered to re-
main, in compassion to his family, until his conduct and character
became so bad that I turned him of finally. This man, when re-
proved, would frequently boast to the other clerks of having plans
in hand to ruin my character, and knock up the County Fire
Office, and that he had powerful supporters to back him. When
the period fur his quitting arrived he begged to stop a few dais
longer, which was suffered. Now, during the inquiry, in ex amin-
ing the books ,as
discovered a series of fictitious entries for allowance
of duty, suchas had never appeared in the books before; and,
upon further reference, found that they had been made by this men
daring the few extra days lie was allowed to stop. The inference
was irresistible : these entries could only hove been made to afford
materiels for an accusation or information for penalties. That the
entries after all were not so used is not imposing, as It must have
occulted to him or his advisers, upon reflection, that the time and
circumstances under which they were made, proved the guilty in.
tention entertained ; indeed, in his informationa to the Commis-
sioners, be appears cautiously to lose kept these entries out of
*big akbettgb they were the only ones which might with any im.
Vy be tamed fraudulent; for on my showing them to 31r.
id. "c., he observed, with an expression of surprise, " this is the
fret we have lewd at these."
The above, sod we& mire, I gave in "Mena i and also the
names and ruddiness agent= forwent, ear dab, to whew this
man had avowed Ide Won, ad Vow he- hid Wised ',join
bin in lan designs. Mame, pereing that aloe
alleged lesidaea main wale= aid amperatrusli deeie ie.
wilnae hank perinea went dnibeed,ia ef, with a
bile murk, that I alleged that a llsktspirsey and h is
added, " We have see felt it to be any part of oar duty to extend
oar exientsedese tell this subject, with a view to ascertain the
=IV dt.c.
if however, the substantial interests of justice were the objeetof
the inquiry, was 4 sit their inateden duty to have extended their
anataloadons tall they bad "ascertained the truth;" fig if the
evidence tendered against their informer were true, with what
judge can they have reported his statements as accredited facts,

and mede them the groupd.work of insinuations of fraud', med..
featly tending to brand the character and injure the interests of thi
County Fire Office. 1 shall here riope. The prigin and objet
of, Mird extraordinary attack, mid the mune used to make it er-
fective, may be better developed on,a future occasion.
I remain, Sir, Ate.
./. P. BARBEA BEAUMONT.
County Fire Office, London, Sept. 1,

LAW INTELLibIiNCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, MONDAY, SrPT. 11.
oTEAD v. iracsnirrEnn,
The Loup Ctratektt.t.ort stated, that he could not give
ment in this case to•day as he had intended, upon the plaintiff's
application to tax the defendant's bill of costs, because he had re-
ceived a letter only last night, from Mr. Freshgeld, solicidng
postponement of the judgntent, that he might have an opportunity
of answering the affidavits the MAintiff had furnished the Court with
at its suggestion, which he lthe Lord Chancellor) could nut but
comply with.
Air. S crsn wished to know if his Lordship would limit th.t time
for answering the affidavits, which opportunity he was by no means
anxious to withhold.
The Lo n CHAWCELLO it thought It proper that the opportunit
should lie afforded, but as prper that it should be limited to a wet-
or ten days.
OLAPPINGTOiT THWAITES.
The Lonn CPAs LLI.OIt stated, that in the whole course of hie
experience, in the business of this Court, now between forty and
fifty years, he had not met with a more entangled case, nor one OW
hud puiwied him so much a* the present. He regretted that Cottn-
eel were not in attendrnce. because the facts required w great deal
of further consideration before he could undertake to make au.
I order.

A Gentleman present informed the Lord Chancellor, thet if he
chose to go into the case, the statement should be laid befoie
Counsel.
The Loan Cpdxemt.on, upon this statement being mode to
him, went fully in* a detail of the proceedings that had fikert
place from the commencement of the suit until the present day,
makirit comments thereon. which occupied no inconsiderable por-
tion oldie morning; aecompanying this detail with his earnest
wish that the statement might not be conveyed beyond the eye of
the Counsel, and parties in the cause. This wish he entertained
from an arwietv that the ease might not be prejudiced in any way,
from what tell from him, In the absence of the gentlemen In wheat
hands the protection of the illtoTbit of both
parties was. The Re-
porters, however, were permitted to remain in his Lordship's room
during the making of the detail, and we apprehend we shall not
abuse his Lordship's courtesy in permitting us to remain in his
room, by making this short statement of the representation of the
case—that to the plaintift"s bill.. alleging misconduct in the ma-
nagement of the Morning Herald partnership concern, and callitif
for an account, the defendant Mr. Phillip put in what he called at
answer and disclaimer, that the plaintiff, Mr. Glassington, did not
except to tbat thing, so called ; that he amended his bill; that to
that amended record the acme sort of thing was put in as was put
in to the original recOrtl4 Ind that the great question now was,
whether the plaintiff ought to have special leave to take exceptions
to the first answer and disclaimer, having, from what he had done,
let pass the regular opportunity of taking throw exceptions ? Sub-
ject to/ what his Lordship may hear from Counsel en both sides, in
November, his present opinion was, that the justice of the case re-
quired that the special leave sought by 31r. Glassington should ba
grinted, notwithstanding any thing he had done.

BEACH r. ntAcir.
3lr. RUSSELL moved for an inimetion, re•parrte, upon an of.
fularit of Mr. Beach, the elder, stating that he and his son, the de-
fendant were in partnership together as oil.coopers, at Dock.head,
Bermondsey. That the defendant had, (tom the company he had
kept, become idle and dissipated, and was most improperly using
the partnership property. The injunction, therefore, sought, was
to restrain him from charring, accepting, or negotiating any hills of
exchange in the name of the partnership, and from interfering in
any way iu the partnership business. The injunction was also
called against the holder of a 290/. bill parting with the same.
Injtinetioit granted.
SOLICITOR-GENERA L.
Sir C. il'itrfttgni.c had another lung interview with the Loud
CHANCELLOR in the coarse of the day.
The Loaf, Cuiwc ELLOR saw all parties who wished admittance.
on the subject of their cases, and then rose.

INSOLVENT COURT.
Veszeiday the Court resumed ih sitting tor the first time since
the amendment in the late Act of Parliament for the relief of In-
solvent Debtors.

Robert Fitken was temanded owing) to an informality in his.
notices and schedule.
The insolvent said he hofed the Court would not remand him,
as the intormelity did not rest with him, but with his attorney.
The Attorney pleaded indisposition.
Commissioner &W.—The notices, &c. are nearly the same as
before, but they are more explicit. I.Then addressing himself to
the insolvent.l It certainly is a hard case upon you, but if you
think proper hereafter to moye the Court to change attorneys,
every attention will be paid to the application.
There were no cases of importance before the Court.
MIDDG£SE. SESSIOXS.
Yesterday these Sessions commenced at Hicks's Hall, Clerkea
well green, before Francis Const. Esq. Chairman. The Sessions
are expected to lest ten days. Thirty.eight bills were found by
the Orand Jury before the rising of the Court yesterday.
Santee! Oxenham and William Fielding were indicted for art
assault on Lewis Nathan on the 16th of June. Mr. Chatham is
an auctioneer in Oxford.street ; Fielding Is his porter. Lewis Na.than is a Jew dealer in antiques.
Lewis Nathan sworn on the Old Testament.—Begged to state
that his witness was in the country, and cannot attend. On the
14th or 13th of June, attended a sale at 31r. Ozenliam's Romns,
where he made a purchase of • mkt.), of goods. He paid for his
bidding'., and took away part. On the 16th, he went to take away
the remainder, and was prevented by the defendant', Mr. Oxen-
ham refusing his removal of the rest, because witness's father owed,
a balance on a purchase. Is in business for himself, and remon-
strated with 31r. Oxenham ou his stopping his purchases for his
father's debt. Was about to remote some of the things, and laid
hold of an antique chair, when he was assaulted by both thede.
fendants ; Fielding struck hint first on the throat, and Oxenhart
struck him on the other side of the throat. Witness had a pot-
ter with him, who witnessed the assault. He was gone into the
country.
Cross-examined by 111 r. ADOLPHUL—David Alliston is the
name of the porter ; he was been three years in witness's service ;
his father and witness both attend Mr. Olenham's sales; not hay-
ing a place of his own to place the purchases, his father gave blur
permission to put them in his rooms ; the bidding, are not knock,
down to either, or both ; said it was nothing to hint what his (ether
owed Alr. Oxenham ; he had no right to stop his things on his
father's account; is not in partnership with his father ; don't know
that Mr. Oxenham sent for a constable to remove him ; will swear,
that on that day, and at that hour, Mr. Oxenham struck him.
Mr. Anot.rizus rose for the defencO.—How this case came into
Court he could sot tell ; he must leave that to Mr. Nathan. If he
intended it as a puff extraordinary, he had certainly taken a good
opp r unity. Every one knew the method in which Jews carry in
their dealings. The Nathana always bid one for the other; if •
thing was knocked down to one, it became the property of both
there was nothing to induce a belief in all their dealings at Mr.
°sadism's, but that old Nathan and young Nathan were one and
the same person. Old Nathan, in January, was giving credit for
• purchase, amounting to between 51. and Cl., and instead of
clearing his lot at the time, promised to pay next week. Both
father and son were present, and were suffered to take the
things away, on the promise to pay the following week.
However, week after week went on with the same promise
that old Nathan would send the sum. On the purchase of the
15th of June, young Nathan brought a porter to take away
the purchases, when Mr. Oxenham told him he should
not let the things go till the old account of 3/. odd was paid, but
still received for answer the money should be paid next week.
Then comes young Nathan the next day, saying, I've paid you
for what I've bought, and will have them." " No," said Mr.
Oxenham, " you shall not, till I have my money," for it wit, clear
to him that the debt of the father was the debt of the sou. The
hero of this slay comes with his father', porter to take the things
to his father's rooms. All 31r. Oxenham did was to say the things
should not go unless the old debt was paid, and so far from striking
the prosecutor, he stood witn his arm behind him all the while.
This he should prove by more than one respectable witness. Mr.
Oxenham never Idled his hand. Nathan understands how to
manage these things ; he pays the 61 i goes to a police-office for
a warrant, and the Magistrate takes Mr. Oxenham's word for his
appearance. He should prove that the porter never struck the
prosecutor he merely laid hold of a chair to prevent Nathan taking
it away. The abuse and outrageous behaviour of Nathan was
such, that Mr. Oxenham sent for a conetable to remove him ; the
office being closed for the day, prevented Mr. Oxenham giving
him in charge, and Nathan went away. Never did a man enter
the walks of impudence with greater confidence than the prosecutor
had that day done. He received notice of trial on the 26th of
August, and now tells you lie cannot bring forth his witness—his
own potter, in his own service, and then gets into the box to Le
an apology.
John Palmer lives at Brampton ; is not interested in Sir. Oxen.
ham's affairs; is doing business for Slr. Squibb. On the 16th oi
June was at Mr. Oxenham's; saw Nathan come in while talking
to Mr. Oxenham ;he made a great bustle ; said he would be d—d• If
he would not have the goods. Mr. Olenhant told Fielding not to
let him have the lots till the old account was paid ; Nathan behaved
very riotously • called Sir. Oxenham a .I—d rascal, and swore
desperately. .11r. Osmium sent his eon for an officer. Fielding
held the chair, and said the other should not have it. Mr. Oxen.
ham did not lift his hand to Nathan ; he was near enough to strd.e
him.

Hugh Osmium is son to the defendant ; was present on the IGth
of June. His father did not in near the prosecutor ; Fielding did
not strike him. Is Jo Aim ietikar's etwoldwy. The Math ns bath
dealt with his father ; the lots were booked to either ; the urchasss
of both went to one account.
The Jury found the prisoners Not Guilly.
JanaDimond, perfumer and hair.4ressev, at the corner of
Hurlington.gardens, wee indicted for an assault on Alfred Me.
nell. his apprentices, on the 10th June.
Alfred !Hassell, the son of a German, was spptenticel to M.
Dimond. at a premium of 701. An African. who wan brougin
over by ltlajor Denham, lodged at his tuesttes, against whom he

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t referred a complaint at the police office, which gave offtnce to
his reamer. He was at work in a little room, when his master
stuck him with a stick over the head and shoulders : his arms
Vele bl *clic and blue, and a bump was mised on his head the size of
a walnut ; witness went to llow•street to make a complaint,
where his master sent a person to speak fur him, and did not at.
tend • that nelson. • journeyman, said his master would make it
nut they could nut agree on the terms ; his master wanted 201.
th cancel the indentures.
Aim Wjer, the grandmother or the last witness, paid, the pro-
secutor came to her and stripped himself to show his bruises ; his
shoulders were bruised and swelled, and a large lump was on his
head.
Mr. PIT NTIERGAIIT said. it was unfortunate fee the defendant
he had no witness to call ; his 'limier we, anzinus not to lose the
6.1 Idle years of the lad's apprenticeship, or he would have agreed
to cancel the indentures. It the Chairman would postpone the
judgment of the Court till Siturslay,rin arrangement might be come
to. atter the defendant had etmsulted with hisattorney.
The wine of the prosecutor said, he had no vindictive feeling
towards Mr. Dimond ; he only wanted to remove his son front his
service. if Mr. D. would cancel the indenture.
Mr. Comer agreed to the postponement, but 31t. Dimond mid
lie would not give up the lad.
The defendant was fined 20/.
Later in the day, Mr. Dimond offered to cancel the indenture, to
save tie fine ; but the Chairman told him that, after positively re.
fusing an adjustment, he should not now alter the sentence.
Edward Burrow was indicted with two others not in custody,
toe an assault on James Williams, on the 13th of June last year.
The defendant was schoolmaster of Cripplegate Within, and be-
cause the prosecutor had voted him out of his situation he had,
uotattheat him on the day laid in the indictment. The prosecutor
had not been able to find the prisoner since, and that was the reason
tor no, Indicting him sooner.
James Williams was at the Haberdasher's Arms, in Houton,
on the 13th of June, 1825, drinking wine with two friends,
when the defendant, who was sitting on the opposite side of
the MOM, crossed over and asked if he was talking of him ; wit.
nets told him he was not, when the prisoner pulled him by the
collar called him a scoundrel, an assassin, a blackguard, and
prejudiced the company so much against him that the landlord
was inclined to turn him out. Witness is a fishmonger, in Wood-
street, Chespaide ; has known the prisoner for the ten years he had
been a subscribe, to the school ; the conduct of the defendant was
such, that the subscribers came to a resolution to remove him, and
witness voted against him; this it was that caused the defendant to
call him a 4. rascal ; the defendant and the two others waited
for him outside the puldic.house, swearing he should not go till the
three had hail satisfaction. Did not go before a Magistrate, but
employed Mr. Harmer, and preferred his bill at the Sessions a
tortnight after. The prisoner had kept nut of the way ever since.
Stephen Howard proved the collaring, and that there was no pre-
vious provocation.
The prosecutor expressing an absence of all hostile feeling to-
*ards tie defendant, he was fined 13s. 41.
James Brazier, a horse.dealcr, was indicted for an assault on
Anthony Laurence, on the 15th of June.
Laurence was passing on the Bagnigge-wells road, when one of
dues ch'ldren said a man in the company of tour others hail stolen
het necklace. He ran after the man. crying " stop thief," when
the others all set upon him, struck hirn,•and nearly knocked him
into the ditch. Ile was bruised in the body and arm, cut in the
mouth, and laid up for four weeks. Ile had seized the man that
had stole the necklace, when the prisoner and his companions
revved li`m.
Cross-examined by 31r. Pitt tante—Don't know what he (Mr.
Pt is. Believes he has taken the wrong end of the case. Pet.
hap% he did go before a 3latistrate. The first time he laid hold of
the man the prisoner pointed to his house and said, if he wanted
any thing he would he answerable for the man. Was not pulling
the lad about; had him in custody. Ilad a think of porter since
lie had been there. That was not all he had had that day. Had
had a ti as of gin. Went to a Magistrate the next day.
Tills witness so fenced with the questions, that the Chairman
told him he was behaving very ill, and was destroying his own
credit.
Francis Sutton is a printer; lives near Bagnigge-wells ; saw the
last witness struggling with the man. A great mob was collected
of thieves, brick-makers. dustmen, and all sorts of characters.
One of the men (not the prisoner) struck Laurence in the mouth.
Was not half a.yarel distant. The prisoner said, " D—n me if he
shall he taken. ' The others collected round the man who took
the necklace, and he escaped.
Another witness saw Laurence running after the young man that
maned. The prisoner told him that nobody had a right to take
the man without a warrant, and called out, " Muzzle him, Jem;
manic him !" The prosecutor was bleeding at the mouth.
Mr. PHIL Ltreasiti the prosecutor told him he had taken the wrong
end of the case, but the reverse seemed to be the fact ; instead of in.
dieting she prisoner for the rescue, the prosecutor had indicted him
to' the ass mit. There was not a single word proved about the as.
Rauh by the prisoner ; he had meetly said you shall not take the
man, and it you want any thing farther come to me, showing the
hot* he lived in. The prosecutor must come again and indict the
prisoner for the rescue, wlien he was sober; at present he was under
toe combined influence of gin and porter rioting in his head ; he
dare any he was a very honest man, but not in his right character—
he was a little disguised.
The Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
William Nurse, a publican in Charlev.atreet, Westminster.
was indicted for an assault on John Wilinan Payne, a police
utbeer.
The parties lire next door to each other, and had;some difference
previous to the I.lth of June, the day stated in the indictment.
Payne Brea with his mother, who keeps an oysttr.shop and sells
ginger.beer. As the daughter of Nurse was passing the door, the
proseentor was lighting his gas-lamp. and threw the lighted paper
sin the child's bonnet, and burnt it. 'Nurse came to speak about it,
word. ensued, Payne struck him on the head with his staff, and
Nurse knocked him down by a blow on the eye; he got up and was
knocked down a second time by Nurse, who trampled on him and
kicked him. Susan Payne, his mother, came out of her parlour
with a hot flatiron and burnt the prisoner's face.
*wend witnesses deposed to certain parts of the transaction, and
the prisoner was acquitted.
Mr. ALLEY said, there was an Act of Parliament which did
sway with burning with hot irons.
Mr. Ant:menus remarked that that was after conviction ; as it
was, they had committed a larceny, by bringing away the iron to
profuse in Court.
/teary Howes, a botcher, was indicted for assaulting Elizabeth,
theswife of John Martin, on the 15th of May. and saying he would
as lieve kill her as a pig. The parties are neighbours. The pro.
riecinrix detected the daughter of the prisoner stealing some wood ;
her husband beat the girl, and the father came to the shop and beat
both man and wife.
The sober was fined 10/. with liberty to speak to the protects.
ens: He said he would not pay 10,6
The Clerk of the Arraigns—Keep him till It Is paid.
4rtchavidels Wombwell, a cow-keeper, in Etlwarda'a-bine, Stoke
Newington, was indicted for an alosault on Harriet Stent Beck, a
:coward girl of 13, on the 2rl of June.
The girl went to beg acme hay for her rabbits ; the prisoner took
her to the c..w.house under pectence of seeing two calves and a little
pig, where the assault took place. She went away with her hay,
and though the hay-barn adjoins the kitchen where two or three
were at dinner, she made no remark till she went home. There
had been a dispute between the patentee( the girl and the prisoner
aboht a bit of land ; there was no surgeon consulted, nor any evi-
itenee given before a Magistrate.
The observations of the Chairman and Counsel were very point.
'ld, and the Jury acquitted the prisoner without hesitation.
Hobert Phillips, a hairdresser, was indicted for assaulting Elba
Allenby, the wife of an artist, while walking in Laicoln s Inn.
bell..
The prisoner and husband of the prosecutrix had a dispute four
y tars ago, which rankled in his blond. The prosecuttix was far
advanced in die family way, and. to provoke the husband, stopped
them, called him a thief, and asked whose bastard was that, allud-
ing to her situation, saying he should like to pummel his thick
head. The prisoner aggravated his case by sending a sheet of ri-
baldry to the prosseuttix, of such indecency as not fit to be read
in Court.
rke prisoner denied sending the letter; said he did not intend to
assault. the wise ; was fi,ett 811. lid. and entered into sureties of 201.
to keep die peace foe twelve months.

Tus M`KEAND/I.—The late melancholy event at Win-
ton, for which the WKeands forfeited their lives, has been
made the subject of a melo-drama, which is advertised to
be performed at Manchester.
DREADFUL EFFECT/ or UNGOVERNABLE PASSION.—
We are truly sorry to observe that Mr. Eburne, a farmer,
of Royton-on-Dunsmore, near this city (Coventry), se-
verely wounded his youngest son, on Thursday last, by
discharging a gun at him, in his house. It appears that
the young man had been at Warwick Races, and on his
return some altercation ensued between him and his father,
and the shocking result was as has been above stated. We
lament to add, the son lies in imminent danger ; and the
father, who absconded, has not yet been apprehended.—
Cot/ tarry Paper.
About seven o'clock on Thursday evening an explosion
o, gas took place in a shop in Argyle-street. The inmates
of the shop had been for some time annoyed with the smell,
!pit it could not be discovered from wind part of their pipes
proceeded. It appears, however, that the escaping gas
'nod gathered about the ceiling of the shop, RINI becoming
?gutted by some unknown means, it tore off a large quan-
tity of the plaster in three places, Forced open the press,
and one of the lobby doors, broke the counter, extinguish-
ed the lights, and shook the whole tenement to the foun-
dation. One of the shopmen was struck, and slightly cut
on the head, but fortunately no other person was hurt.—
(elasgow Chronicle.
Tits COMET STLAM BOAT.—The hull of this vessel
was sold by auction at Crourock, on Wednesday, for st/.
her boilers, which were useless, except as old metal, were
rapped to sale at the same time, when SI per pound,
amounting to about 440/., was offered and refused. We
understand they have since been purchased by Mr. Stephen
Millar, of Glasgow, for not leas than 6001. !