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London, England, 1837-05-30 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1837,

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PRICE OF S

Per Cwt.
New English Red C/oversos. 60s. 70s
OW Ditto Ditto
New Foreign Ditto sos. 60s. 655.
Old Ditto Ditto —4. —s. --s.
New White Clover 545. 60s. 70s.
Old Ditto Ditto —B. —S. —B.
Nzw Trefoil l4s. Ns. 225.
Old Ditto --s. 12s. 161.
Trefolium 16s. 18s. 22s
English Carraway —4. 435. 475.
Foreign Ditto s"s. 525.
Coriander --s. 14s. 16s*,
Rapeseed, English fine (per Las

lEEDS.—May 29.

Per Quarter.
St. Foin '6s. 38s 42r.
Rye Grass 28s. 355. 455.
Pacey Grass —s. 40*. 455.
Linseed, for feeding 46s 50s. —B.
Ditto, for sowing. —s. 52*. 565.
Ditto, for crushing —s 425. 461.
Canary .36s 465. 535.
Hemp —a. 465. 565.
Per Bushel

White Mustard 7s. Pi. gs. Od.
Brown Ditto ls. (M. 12s. O.
Tares 4s. 3d. 53. Od
t) 321. 341. Foreign 31./z. 321.

PRICES OF HOPS.—May 29.
Farnham Pbckets (per cwt.) Ol Os. 61 Os. to 71. Os.
K.nt Pockets
Choice ditto CI Os. 41. los to s'. Oi.
Kent Bags 3/. 10s. 4!. Cs. to St. f!..
Sussex Pockets Ol. Us. 3!. Os. to 3/ 16;.
Superfine ditto

PRICES OF POTATO}
York Reds (from vessel) ......
Scotch Reds ditto
Common Reds
Marsh Champions .........
Maws
Middling
Chats

ES AT SPI L'A Ll,l ELDS
ss. to 41 10s. per ton.

41. Os. to 4/. 5s ditto
4/. ss. t• I/. 10s. ditto
31. Os. to 41. Os ditto
, 31. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto
, 01. Os. is 2/. Os. ditto
I/. 15s. to 0/. Os. ditto
PRICES OF LEATHER

Per lb. d. to d.
Crop Hides, 30 to 401 b. each 11 13
-- -40 50 12 15
50 00 l4 /6
Bull Hides
Butts, Vitriol .....»._.....» , 16 17
- English l4 24
----- Foreign
Foreign Hides lO 12
Dressing Hides
Shared
Best Saddlers Hides l5 16i
Horse 'Hides, English
• If rounded 2d.,

Per lb 4. to 4.
Horse Hides, German 12 22
Spanish
Calf Skins, 30 to 401 b. (dos )• 14 20

40 51. •16 "i 2
—— 50 60 •18 22
70 100 •14 21
Seal Skins, ....... 11 15
---- small l9 20

Kips
Basils 7 14
Bellies

Shoulders Y l 2
to 4d par lb more

PRICE OF

Rape Oil, brown, per ton, 461. Os.—Refined, 42/. Os.—Linseed 011,314 Os.
Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, (1000 , 12:. lOs —Rape Cake, per ton, 5/ ss.

PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.
Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow :Welters) 2s. 7d.

PRICE OF T A LLO W. SO A P,' Sec per 1121 b.
"town Tallow 46s. 6d. Yellow Soap —s. Od.
' Yellow Russia
White —s. Od. Curd —s. 04.
Soap Ditto —a. Od. Graves l6s at.
Melting Stuff 33s. Od. Good Dregs
Ditto Rough 2.:s. Od.

PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of good Store Candles ir. the Retail Shops is as follows:
Candles. per dozen. 7s. 6d. ; inferior, Gs. 6d.—Moulds, 9s. Od.
Sixpence per dozen discount for cash.

COAL MAI
s. d.
Artair's 2O 0
Burden 2O 3
Bute's Tanfield Moor 2l 0
Holywell 22 0
Lease's Main
Ord's ltedhugh
Picton l6 9
South Hartley 2l 0
l'anfleld 23 0
Townley lB 0
wylam 20 0
Walls End Bell and Brown
W IlEnd Bewicke and Co 2l 6
Walls End Bemont 22 6
Ships arrived since

Per Too.

KEE—May 29
Per Ton. s. d
Walls End Gosforth 22 3
Walls End Heaton 2l 9
Walls End Hilda 2l 0
Walls End Hotspur ...... 0
Walls End Killingworth
Walls End Newraarch 2O 3
Walls End 20 0
Walls End Stanhope Steam l7 6
Walls End Hetton 23 6
walls Eno Lambton 23. 0
Walls End Stewart's 0
Walls End Butterknowl
Walls End t. Helen's Tees 2l 9
Howard's Netherton Main 2l 0
last market-day. 4

GLASGOW ELECTION.

(Prom a Morning Pipet.)

Accustomed as I am to see the writers In the ditorial
columns of the Standard allow themselves a tolerable lat.'•
tude in the way of assertion, I was startled on reading the
following cool statement with referfnco to the Glasgow
election in that journal this morning

" The trick played in forwarding the writ by express has
had, we believe, the effect of determining the election, by
retaining upon the registry, on the day of poll, between
300 and 400 votes that are at this time legally extinct, and
excluding from it a much greater number that arc at this
time legally acquired."
The latter clause is an explicit statement of what is not
true. No person can be put on the roll except at the one
time of registration in each year, which does not take
place for two months yet. No legal delay of the writ
could possibly have added new voters before the election.
The first clause, although stating nothing but fact, is
intended to mislead. It is meant to make the readers
of the Standard believe that the Glasgow voters who
would cease to have the power of voting on Monday (this
day) would also cease to possess a legal qualification. The
fact is, that owing to their being only one registration court
in the year—be the circumstances of neither of the terms
at which renters of houses give up and enter upon posses-
sion, coinciding with the season at which that court is held
—and be the voter's oath under tbe Reform Act bearing
that the voter is actually in possession of the identical pre-
mises upon which he registered—a considerable proportion
of the most unexceptionable electors in every burgh is dis-
qualified for several months in every year, It so happened
that the time of Mr. Oswald's resignation brought the
probable day of election very close upon one of the terms
above alluded to. The occurrence of the Whitsun ho-
lidays prevented the issuing of the writ in due course ;
and the liberal electors began to fear that the election
might be put off until , the period commenced during
which a large number of unexceptionable voters are an-
nually incapacitated, by a point of form, from exer-
cising their undoubted right. A representation to this
effect was made at head-quarters, with a request that not a
moment might be lost in dispatching the writ ; and had
this request not been complied with, the electors of Glas-
gow would have had good right to complain that they
had been juggled out of their privilege. The fair way
was evidently to bring on the election at the time when
the full tale of voters were on the roll. Ninety-nine in
every hundred incapacited to vote by change of residence
now will be registered in the beginning of August, and
before that time no new voters can be added to the roll.
Let us then assume that the whole 300 or 400 of whom
the Standard speaks as now disqualified are Reformers,
there is still a majority left for the Reform cause.
Still more ridiculous is the figment of Mr. Monteith's
committee echoed by the Morning Post, that owing to the
Sheriff's calling first for a show of hands for Mr. Dennis-
toun, Mr. Monteith's friends held up their hands by mis-
take, and that otherwise the show would have been in
favour of the latter gentleman. Why, the very report in
which this silly story is embodied complains that the crowd
would not hear Mr. Monteith.
The truth is, that the Tories will at this moment tell
any falsehood to conceal their chagrin and disappointment.
No wonder they are mortified. The unsubstantial theatrical
character of the Peel pageant has been demonstrated. Not-
withstanding that display—notwithstanding the Carlton
Club pressing the division on the Church-rates—notwith-
standing the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
barefacedly sent its emissary Colquhoun to canvass for the
Conservative candidate in Glasgow, with which he had no
connection, Glasgow stands exactly where it did. The
first election was no test—Tories voted for Oswald, and
Reformers for Ewing. The first test of the Glasgow con-
stituency was when Peel dissolved Parliament. There
were 2,297 votes for the Tory candidate Ewing then, and
there are 2,292 votes for Monteith, the Tory candidate, now.
Intimidation and other causes kept back 217 Reform
voters (3,267 voted for Dunlop, 3,050 for Dennistoun), but
there has been no accession of strength to the Tory phalanx.
Honour to the men of Glasgow ! Let us apply to
them the words misapplied to Peel, in a song composed for
his banquet :
" True in the sunshine and tried in the storm."
GLASCUENSIS.

MR. D'ISRAELI'S VENRTIA.—The talent, and the
still higher quality of genius, which are the gifts of Mr.
D'lsracli, are too well-known to the literary world to require
any new notice or eulogy from us. His present work affords
sufficient examples, both of the more ordinary, and more rare
endowment. It displays throughout very considerable talent,
and, in many parts, is redolent of the genius of the writer.
The story is shaped upon the character of Lord Byron, and
some of the events of his life. He figures here, as in his own
poems, as the hero of the piece.—Literary Gazette.

Yesterday morning two nursery maids, belonging to
T. Grafton, Esq., of Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park, were
sent out with the children, three in number, for the purpose of
taking a walk; they proceeded along St. John's-wood road,
when, on arriving at the bridge which crosses the canal, the
girl who carried the youngest child incautiously placed it on
the parapet of the bridge. From some cause the child threw
itself suddenly backwards, and fell over the parapet, and the
girl, in endeavouring to catch at the child as it fell, los: her
balance, and was precipitated into the canal. The cries of the
other servant immediately drew a number of persons to the
spot, several of whom clambered over the walls, and rushed to
the water side. The young woman shortly rose to the sur-
face, and was dragged, out, but the child could not be seen.
Two persons immediately threw off their coats and dived near
the bridge, and one of them fortunately succeeded in finding
the child, which he described to have been gently struggling
near the bottom. The two were conveyed home in a coach,"
and recovered after a short interval. The young man who
rescued the child (a carpenter, named Jones, residing in Earl-
street, Lisson-grove) was rewarded by Mr. Grafton with 101.

Dupuytren excelled in a degree in forming a
diagnosis of disease. A man had received, a considerable
time before he applied to Dupuytren, a blow on the head.
The original accident was not severe, but nervous symptoms
subsequently appeared, which obliged him to apply to a sur-
geon. Dupuytren having examined the man, said to his as-
sistants, ‘‘ Have the trepanning instruments ready to-morrow."
The students were astonished at this decision, as the symptoms
did not appear to them to require such a serious meat,s of
cure. But Dupuytren had detected (or divined some might
say) the presence of an abscess in the cerebral matter. The
hone was sawn through ; no diseased appearance was exhi-
bited ; the dura mater was healthy ; it waa cut through and
still no disease appeared. It was then that Dupuytren, with
a degree of boldness which has seldom been equalled in the
annals of surgery, plunged a bistoury into the substance of the
brain. An abundant discharge of purulent matter was the
consequence 1 Numerous other instances of his diagnostic
powers are well remembered. A lady had been treated dur-
ing several years for cancer of the uterus. A surgeon of
distinction had so designated the disease. Dupuytren was
at last conlulted ; he declared that the disease was polypus,
and that an operation would be attended with perfect success.
lie operated, and in three days the lady went to the opera.
Lancet.

A letter from Odessa gives the following account of
the progress of the manufacture of beet-root sugar in Russia.
In Moscow and its neighbouring Governments, the richest,
most populous, and enterprising of the empire, these Esta-
blishments have, during the last five years, increased at the
rate of 40 per annum. A number of the landowners have in-
duced their tenants, by offering premiums, to substitute the
cultivation of the beet-root for that ,of hemp. In Southern
Russia they arc more backward in this respect. A Polish No-
bleman, now a refugee in Paris, endeavoured about ten years
ago to introduce the manufactory of beet-root sugar on his es-
tate in Podolia; but the infant establishment shared the fate
of its founder, whose property was confiscated, and the manu-
factory was ruined. An impression, however, was made by
the example ; and now, from the Danube to the Don, nothing
is talked of but the numbers of wealthy landowners who are
becoming plan tors of beet-root and manufacturers of sugar ;
so that, where eighteen months ago 1001bs. were produced, it
is expected that the quantity made during tho present year
will amount to 100,000Ibs. An expectation is said to be en-
tertained that, in ten or fifteen years at the utmost, Russia
will produce sugar enough, not only for her own consumption
but for the supply of Turkey in Europe.

The commanding officers of the Yeomanry Cavalry
of England held their annual banquet on Saturday at Willis's
Rooms. Earl de Gray presided in the chair, and the scene
was very brilliant from the company appearing in their rich
uniforms. Ills Lordship in the course of the evening alluded
to the valuable services of this important branch of the country's
forces, and adduced the opinion of Sir Robert Peel and other
Statesmen as to their great utility. Their services were ren-
dered gratuitously,4but not less valuable on that account.
When he (Lord de Grey) had to wait on Sir Robert Peel to
report the services of a particular corps in a time of great ex-
citement, the Right lion. Baronet expressed himself strongly
in approbation of this truly national guard, and only felt sur-
prise that so numerous and respectable a body of gentlemen
should voluntarily run the risk of broken heads for the good
of their country. A variety of loyal and patriotic toasts were
drunk with the customary honours. The dinner and. wines
were of the first description, and the company did not retire
until a late hour.

The Essex Herald of to-dad• reports the particulars
of several sudden deaths which have occurred in that county
durieg the past week.

PRICE sd.

THE ADMISSION OF THE PUBLIC

TO THE EXHIBITIONS.

(Concluded from The Sqn of yesterday.)
Mr. H. HOPE, M.P., in bringing forward the second
resolution, said it was the interest of all ranks and pursuits
to promote the object for which they had met. He was
glad that what he had always believed to be a libel upon the
people had been so completely refuted.—(Hear.) When it
was remembered that every Englishman had an interest in
the memory of men who had served their country, whether
a Pitt, or a Fox, or a Nelson, and when they had erected
monuments to commemorate the services they had rendered,
was it right or just to ask that they should pay fora sight
of them —(Hear.) He was happy to have an opportunity
of attending the meeting, and he trusted that all would join
to carry a great national benefit, and relieve the country
from a great national disgrace.—(Cheers.) He begged to
move—" That a free and gratuitous access to every national
building or establishment, containing works of art, historical
and literary monuments, and objects of natural history, is
essentially conducive to the happiness of the people of these
kingdoms, at whose expense such buildings and such esta-
blishments have been constructed or maintained."
Dr. BIRKBECK seconded the motion.
Sir G. SINCLAIR, M.P., cordially supported the motion.

After a few words from Mr. RENNIE,
Mr. WAGSTAFF moved an amendment—" That national
building=, containing national monuments only, should come
within the meaning of the resolution."
Mr. REINAGLE, R.A., seconded the amendment.
The CHAIRMAN said the Committee had well considered
the question, and he thought that they would be a suffi-
cient security that private property would be protected.
An individual, in the body of the Hall, said that they
ought to tell the Government they had no right to give up
a national establishment for a private purpose.—( Hear.)
After some observations from Mr. Reinagle, Mr. Wag-
staff, and Mr. Hope, the amendment was put and lost, and
the original resolution carried.
Mr. EWART, M.P., then came forward to propose the
next resolution. He hoped that a brighter dawn was
opening upon the country, by the unanimity that was ex-
pressed that their noble buildings and noble monuments
should be opened not the few but to the many.—(Hear,
hear.) Westminster Abbey belonged to a Reverend but
exclusive corporation. If a stranger wished to see it 3d.
was demanded, not by a clerical extortioner, but by a cle-
rical tax-gatherer, he would call him—{a laugh)—to let
him in at the door. If he wished to go further heti
must pay a shilling to another in clerical habiliments.'
Thus the Dean and Chapter acted as some others did, by
proxy.—(Har, and a laugh.) If he went to St. Paul's they
were moderate at first, and only asked 2d. But if he
wished to go to the whispering gallery he was called upon
to pay is. 6d., and if anxious to go outside to the dome
and cross he must pay 2s. 6d. more, making together
4s. 2d.—(Shame.) Then, if he had any subterranean
curiosity, and wished to see the regions below, to view the
tomb of the immortal Nelson, he must pay another shilling,
making together ss. 2d. He would ask, was this worthy
of the country in which they lived ?—(Chers.) He had
always wished to see these monuments under the con-
troul of the Government.—(Hear, hear.) The question
came to this—were they not entitled to have those build-
ings, which they had built, open to them ?—( Hear.) How
could it be, expected that people would appreciate works of
art, when they refused to let them see them ? It was like
a parent presenting a book to a child, and the condition on
which it was given was that it should not be opened.—
(Hear, and laughter.) The Hon. Gentleman concluded
by moving the resolution :—" That the virtual exclusion of
the public from the monuments in Westminster Abbey and
St. Paul's, erected at the cost and for the honour of the
country, is discreditable to the nation, while the exaction of
admission fees is prejudicial to the cause of education and

Dr. BOWRING, M.P., seconded it. The present meet-
ing was a subject for congratulation. It would be found
that the arts not only made a young nation great, but they
regenerate the old.—(Hear.) No one could walk the
streets of the metropolis but would say the arts were pro-
gressing. The Italian boys, with their beautiful models,
were the missionaries of art.—(Cheers
Mr. ANGERSTEIN, M.P., and Dr. WADE, having spoken
in favour of the resolution, it was put, and carried una-
nimously.

......
Mr. WysE, M.P., moved the next resolution, and in the
course of a long and very able speech, ref-erred to what he
had seen at Bologna, which at certain times of the year is
repaired. Then it is that the pictures are removed from
the galleries, and placed under the public arcades. These
magnificent works are submitted to the admiration of the
people, and the national taste is found to be the best pro-
tection.—(Hear.) And should they who boasted of their
Shakspeare and their Milton, of their Newton and their
Locke, be behind the peasant of Italy.--(Cheers.) The
Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving the resolution—
" That to open to the public without charge the exhibition
of modern art in the National Gallery, a building erected
at the public expense, will be attended with great advan-
tages in the improvement of the national taste."
Mr. C. But-LER, M.P., seconded it. He thought that
those who objected to place private property before the
public view, had no occasion to do so unless they liked.—
(Hear, hear.) What the nation had built no one had a
right to exclude the nation from.—(Cheers.)
Mr. REINAGLE hoped that the public would not be
losers by any alteration in the management of the Royal
Academy, and that it would provide a School of Arts
similar to what that Institution now did.
Mr. MURPHY supported the resolution, and expressed his
hope that the institutions of the country would be open and
free to all.—( Hear.)
An amendment was moved by Mr. VINCENT, and
seconded by Mr. HORE, which was ultimately negatived,
and the original resolution carried. -
Mr. WILKs, M.P., n.oved that an address to his Majesty,
and petitions to both Houses of Parliament, be presented,
embodying the above resolutions, and that a deputation be
appointed to wait upon his Majesty.
The motion having been seconded, was carried. The
address and petition having been read and agreed to, a vote
of thanks passed to the Chair, the meeting separated.

THE HIPPODROME.—At the Kensington Petty
Sessions yesterday, Mr. John Whyte, of Brace-cottage, Not.-
ting-hill, proprietor of the Hippodrome race-course, appeared
before the bench to answer an information preferred against
Itirn, under the new Highway Act, by the parochial surveyors,
for having, " on the 4th instant, obstructed the passage of a
certain footway, situate in the parish of St. Mary Abbotts,
Kensington." The inquiry excited great interest, and the
office was crowded with persons anxious to hear the result.
Mr. Shea, a barrister, who attended on behalf of Mr. Whyte,
to save the time of the Magistrates, at once admitted that the
Obstruction had been caused ; but stated, that as an inquiry into
the right of way claimed by the parish was now pending in the
Superior Courts at Westminster, the Magistrates at Petty
Sessions had no jurisdiction in the matter. lie denied, on the
part of Mr. Whyte, that the parish had any right whatever to
the disputed path, and stated the determination of that gentle-
man to abide only by the decision of the higher and more com-
petent tribunal. The Magistrates, however, overruled the ob-
jection•as to their right to interfere ; and after having heard a
number of witnesses, who swore in the most positive terms that
the path in question had been a public path for•fifty years, fined
Mr. Whyte in the penalty of forty shillings and costs. Mr.
Shea, on the part of Mr. Whyte, had previously stated, that if
a floe were inflicted, his client would submit quietly to the
amount being taken, but would bring actions against every one
who enforced it.

Friday- morning the eldest daughter of an auc-
tioneer of Eynesbury, near St. Neots, escaped by the front
door from her residence, notwithstanding the precaution her
mother had taken of sleeping with her, Ina, being quickly
pursued, was overtaken and conveyed back. She started
rather earlier than the time appointed, so that the chaise had
not arrived with her admirer (who is also of the "going, go-
ing !" fraternity, and residing at St. Neots), and in her hurry
to escape fell down and hurt her wrist. Shortly afterwards
her father was going to St. Neots for a surgeon, and on his
way he met her admirer, upon whom he inflicted a sound
drubbing, the young knight of the hammer offering no re-
sistance. Nothing daunted by the above unsuccessful attempt,
the young lady on Sunday morning complained of being un-
well, and consequently did not ri-c at her accustomed hour ;
but feeling somewhat better about 11, she availed herself of
the opportunity (her father being from home, and her mother
and one of her sisters at meeting) of fleeing into the arms of
her lover, and next morning they were married at St. Neots.
_Cambridge Chronicle.
The following is an extract of a letter from Calais :
—" Improvements here are going on rapidly. The jetty is
being extended, the floodgate at Sas is in progress, and the
project for a canal and a floating dock, will shortly be brought
befdre the Chamber. There wants but a rail-road to complete
the commercial advantages suitable to the position of this port.
The gates of the town, which are open all night to carriages
and foot passengers, are about to be furnished with handsome
balustrades. A museum has been added to the old public
library, and a spacious concert-rrom has just been erected. A
sea-bathing establishment is building at the west .of `the port,
the best posible position, where everything will be found that
can add to the enjoyment of the bathers, and every exertion is
making for the accommodation of visitors, during the approach-
ing season,"

This as an action of libel. The cause was tried in
December, 1833, before Lord Denman, at Westminster.
Tile plaintiff was Mr. Alaric Watts, and the defendant
was the putylisher of Fraser's Majazine. The action was
brouglii to recover damages for two libels published in
that magazine—Gee nember for November, 1834,
and the other in that of June, Js3s. The defence was,
that these libels, the first of which was entitled " A Cri-
ticism on the Annuals," and the last of which was ac-
companied with a likeness of Mr. Watts, were fair cri-
tical attacks upon his works in general and his style of
• composition in the Literary S aivenir in particular, or that
• if they exceeded the line of fair criticism, it was because
the defendant had been provoked,. by repeated attacks
made upon him by the plaintiff, in various publications with
which the plaintiff was connected. The defendant had
only pleaded the general issue, and to prove the latter part
of his defence he offered in evidence copies of the United
Service Gazette, of the Old England, and of the Alfred,
in all of which were articles attackiir him, and these
articles were attempted to he proved to have been
the composition of the plaintiff, or to have been inserted
in these papers at his desire. Many points of objection
were taken to the admissibility of these papers, but the chief
objection was founded upon the 38th Geo. 111. c. 78, sec-
tions 9, 11, and 17. That Act was passed to render the
proof of libellous publications more easy, and, as the plain-
tiff's Counsel contended, was confined to cases where this
proof was required on behalf of " plaintiff's prosecutors or
informers," they being the only persons described in the
Act, and was not extended to cases like the present, where
the defendant sought to give in evidence publications al-
leged to be of that nature, for the purpose of reducing the
damages in an action of hbel brought against him. The pa-
pers were rejected as inadmissible in evidence on the ground
of this objection, and the defendant was called upon to bring
home to the plaintiff personally a knowledge of each of the
alleged libels thus offered in mitigation of damages. The
Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 1501. and a rule
had since been obtained to set that verdict aside.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL showed cause against the rule
and Mr. ERLE was heard in support of it.
The COURT took time to consider the question.

BAIL COURT.
HAMLET V. LORD PORTARLINGTON.

In this casqth;ottrgranted a rule to show cause why
Mr. Gurney, an important witness in the cause, should not
be examined viva voce before the Master, on the ground
that, as his present residence was in Germany, it was
extremely inconvenient to him to remain in England until
the case came on for trial. Mr. Gurney had been the arbi-
trator between the parties, and in that capacity had made
an award of 4,000/. to the plaintiff, the well known jew-
eller. His examination, therefore, was of the utmost impor-
tance in this case.
Mr. CLARKSON now showed cause.—Rule discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOTV-STREET.

Yesterday the Count de Rutter was brought up on a
warrant in custody of Goddard, the officer of this establish-
ment, charged with being the person against whom a true
bill was sometime since found at the Clerkenwell Sessions
for keeping a gaming-house in the parish of St..• James,
Westminster.

A gentleman of respectability was tendered as one of the
bail for the defendant, the proper notice being given ; but
in consequence of the heavy amount of security required, he
declined to justify.
The defendant was then taken to the lock-up at the back
of the office, but shortly afterwards, at his own request, was
brought back again, when he said that he would rather be
committed to prison at once to stand his trial than be
bailed out. There were several writs out against him in
civil actions, and it would be useless for him to be dis-
charged from custody on this charge if he would be imme-
diately seized at the, suit of his creditors.
Mr. A'Beckett, the solicitor, of Golden-square, attorney
for the prosecution, subsequently applied to the Magis-
trates, and thought the statement made by the defendant
was a mere ruse, to direct attention from him, in order that
he might the more easily escape by putting in straw bail.
He had already deceived the Court twice by statements
made that he was ill with the cholera, and that he was shot
in a duel ; and this was merely a subterfuge to aid his
escape from gaol.
The MAGISTRATE assured Mr. A'Beckett that the de-
fendant could not be let out of prison except on bail being
perfected at this office ; the usual notice would besides be
required.