The Sun.
London, England, 1839-06-12 00:00:00

MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

.._
CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of Grain. and Flour, this week, have been mode-
rate, and Foreign.
s value, other qualities have been The best Wheat has ob-
able. In Barley, Beans, and P.eas.
•, no change. Oatsobtained
rtaaitneedboAtihonodfay
rather higher rates. Little doing in the Flour trade.
A RRIVALs.
' Barley.
0 ,ir,.

English .....•...• 2, Rio qrs.
Wheat.
Irish ......•••••• 4,2C0
n '''''''''''''''' AND LEADENHALLI.
I
Foreign
The supply was large, but trade dull, and prices lower. Pee
3s. to 4s. Mutton 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. Lamb ss. to ss. Bd,
Veal 35. 4EI. to 45. Bd. Pork 3s. dd. to 4s. Bd. Irish 3s.
to 3s. 6d. Poultry in small supply, few buyers at market, and
prices lower. Fowls 3s. 6d. to 4s. 6d. Geese 4s. to es. 6d.
Rabbits Is. to Is. 6d. Leverets 3s. to Gs. Quails Is. 6d. to
Is. 9d. Dottrells 2s. to 3s. 6d. Ducks 2s. to 2s. 9d.
Chickens 2s. to 3s. Peafowls Os. to I Is.. Guineafowls 3s.
to 4s. 6d. Eggs 4s. 6d. to ss. 3d. per 120.
CITY FISH MARKET.
Supplies good, and prices much as before. Turblt, 4s. egl•
2
to 155.: Solo, 6d. to 3s. 6d. per pair ; Salmon, I.A. and 25.
perW h i tlirib.g;s , 11
4d. laekt
od
a 70.
1, Bd. to Is. d. ; Haddocks, 6d. to Is. ;

Oata. I Flour
980 qm 1,3110 acks
6,29
brls.

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

DEAL, JUNE 11.—Wind S.W. fin© weather.—Arrived
the J( hn, Smith, from Calcutta; Mary Eliza, Pattison,
Do. ; Captain Cooke, Ceylon ; Eiiza Stewart, Miller,
Canton ; Runnymede, Manilla; John7Roruily, Kendall,
Cape of Good Hope; Loyal William, Fannel, River
Gambia; Annanda'e, Burgess, Jamaica; Osbert, Domi-
nica ; Imogene, Maxwell, Canton; Leontine, Samarang;
Biencystock, Cuba ; Orient, St. Thomas ; Proven,
Charleston.

PORTSMOUTH, JUNE 4.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the
Montreal, Griffin, from New York ; her Majesty's ship
Bolivar, Bermuda; and Emily, Walch, Youghal. Sail d
her Mjesty's ship Childers, Mediterranean; and Spey,
Brauly, Qacbec.

Pr.l7NtotTrn, JUNE 10.—Arrived Willmct, Miller, from
Batavia ; Wm. Glen, Anderson Clering, Sierra Leone;
and Mary, Jackson, Hamburg. Sailed Amelia Thompson,
Dawson, Sydney.
FALMOUTH, JUNE 10.—Wind S S.W. to W. S.W.
fresh breczae.__.Arrived the Chas. Buchan;from Port-au-
Pfince. Sailed Royal Tar (steamer), Vigo. Off port—
Gustava, Bolair, New York; and Dement, Reddell, Ho-
bart Town..

LivrarooL, JUNE 10.—Wind, N. W., fresh Isreezes.—
Arrived the Adrastus, Day, from the Mauritius ; Black
Prince, Martin, Valparaiso ; Priscilla, Pernambuco ;
Dyson, Miler, Utica; Governor, Jamaica; Ocean Queen,
M‘Master, Laguna ; Paragon, Hardy, Trinidad; Delhi,
Crocker, New Oilcans ; Waterville, Monte Video ;
North Britain, Sullivan, New Orleans ; Osciola, Child,
ditto ; Laurens, Micry, ditto ; Catherine, Morat, ditto ;
Almatia, Winsor, ditto; Gulnare, Barnharn, Mobile ;
Seajil, Leslie, ditto; Harriet, Muneford, ditto; Alfred,
Churas, Savannah ; Hillsborough, Lamb, ditto; Harriet and
Jessie, Rogers, Charleston ; Chieftain, Steel, ditto ;
Mary, Shepperd, ditto; Laguna, Freeman, Virginia;
Magura, New York; Sheffield, Allen, ditto; Cubi;t,
Sumner, ditto; Orange Branch, Lisbon. Off port, Al-
batros, Africa; Phoenix, Antigua; Clyde, New Orleans ;
Helens, ditto.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, FRIDAY.—We have had
a fair demand for cotton to-day, and prices have been fully
maintained. The sales are :3,000 hags, all to the trade.
Arrivals this morning—French mail ; and ship letters
from Valparaiso ; Sydney 19th January ; Hobart Town
16th February ; Cape of Good Hope 28th March ; Sin-
gapore ; New. York by the Montreal.
From Hubert town papers received to the 16th February :
—The Derwent will sail for England this evening, the
Colonial Secretary and family take their passage in her.
We have received Canton papers to the 13th February.
The above papers contain a long proclamation from the
Governor, ordering the back-doors of the factories to be
blocked up with loose bricks.
(Extract.)
" Tang, Governor of Canton, etc., proclaims to the
security merchants, for their full information:—
" Whereas, on the 22d day of the 12th moon (26th Jan.)
I received a despatch from the Hopp°, setting forth
the following :—lt appears that in reference to the
foreigners' factories, they are inking back doors fronting
the north, I already gave forth my edict, command-
ing that, agreeably with the memorial presented
to the Emperor in the time of Keen Ling, these
should be stopped up to conform exactly with the old
rule, and prevent leaking (out and in); and at the same
time I wrote to your Excellency that your Excellency
should issue orders for the same being put into force, as on
record ; however it appears that the Hong merchants have
petitioned me to the following eliect:—We the Hong
merchants, with deep respect to all 11” particulars
your Excellency's Edict, several times impressed upon
them, the said foreigners, that they should take the
back doors fronting the north and have them stopped up
when it appears they all said with one voice that they had
not opened these back doors for the intention of smuggling,
but as a precaution in case of fire."

TEA PROSPECTS OF UPPER ASSAM.
September 8.
My dear Sir,—l write these few lines, knowing it will
be agreeable to you to learn about tea, and our ings in
this quarter. lam happy to say that the manufacturing ;s
now finally over for the season, with treble the quantity of
tea made last year, and very likely more, as it is not
weighed. I sadly fear we shall not have hands to manu-
facture next year, for the people are engaged in sowing
their rice crops, and will not work for us.
We are happy to learn that C,:ptain Elliot has at length
been empowered by the Home Government to establish a
maritime police at \Vhampoa; for the serious mutinies on
board the John Bull and Imogen loudly called for some
severe coercive measures for the preservation of order
among the crews of the British ve.ist:ls, and for the pro-
tection of life and property.
COMMERCIAL REMARKS.-Cotton.-In the Bengal
staple there has been no transactions of any importance ;
the holders maintained higher prices than the dealers at
present were disposed to give. During the week, various
sales ',were made, to the extent, of Bombay cotton, of
4,000 bales, of good and middling qualities.
Cotton Yarn—Sale of about 200 bales of Water Twist
have been made, but Mule Twist, is very low.
Long Cloths.—A few thousand pieces white and grey
have changed hands at a shade lower than the previous
prices. . .

Opium—A seizure on the river was made a few days
since from a Chinese boat, nhich led to the detection of a
smuggling transaction of some opium connected with if,
and which has caused much investigation by the Govern-
ment, and c•msiderable alarm among the dealers.
The deliveries from fling-Kong during the past
have been of Old Patna 4, New Patna 119, Old Benarcs
11, New Benares 26, Malwa 107,—total 227 chests, prin-
cipally sent to Macao and the Westward; but no estimate
of sales can be given.
Woollens—Pretty extensive sales have been made last
week, say 4 to .5,005 pieces, but at low prices.
We have the arrival of two more New York packet
ships, bound to Liverpool and London, but they are of old
dates.

The exportation of the precious metals from the port of
London in the week ending on Saturday last were as fol-
lows :—According to the ot1;ial returns 4,580 ounces of
gold bars shipped to Hamburg, 3,750 ounces of gold coin
to the same place, 7,400 of silver coin to the West In-
dies, and 20,000 ounces of silver bars to Bombay ; thus it
will be seen that the shipment of bullion from this country
has greatly diminished.

The Governor of the Mauritius has issued a proclamation
for the final termination of the apprenticeships in that
colony, which is to take place on the 31st of March.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday were at much the same
rate as on the previous post day.
Consols opened this morning at the same quotation
they closed at, 94 to e, for the Account ; Reduced 924 /I.
The reports at the west end of the town of some of the
Ministers going to resign, requires as yet confirmation.
No credit is given to the above reports in the City, which
may be observed by the steadiness of the British funds.
The Foreign Market is quite inactive, and the prices
are nominal as yet, Spanish Active, 191-i ; Portuguese
351 ; Three per Cents. 211 ; Brazilian, 791 a ;
Bel-
gian, 1011 102 • Colombian, 31 ; Mexican, 261 ; Dutch
Two-and-a• Half per Cents. 561;
Fire per Cents., 1021
108 k.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock lll3 IY, 21 . India Stock -
3 per Cent. Red. s23‘l4 1 Ditto Bonds 34 31
pni.
3 per Cent. Cons -i South Sea Stock —
3 per Cent 99% 1 Old Annuities -
Ditto Red. -
New 3% per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire Ditto 500 .. —32 urn.
Jan. 5, 1800 14% 5-16 Ditto Small 34 32 pin.
Oct. 10, 1559......„ ........... Ditto Commercial — Irv'.
Jan. 5, MO — Ditto Advertised ..... —— r -u.
Jan. 5, 1880 — sank Stock fer Account .. li/4 3
April 5, 1880 -- India Stock for Account ...
Jan . 5. 1870 - Consos for Aoceunt 94%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS TIII3 DAI A'r ON L O'CLOCK
Austrian Bonds — i Peruvian Bonds ....
Belgian Bonds
—! Porttiguese Bonds.
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres Bends —l Ditto, 3 per Cent.
`fig
Ditto Account ....... ..
Chilian Bands ' —' Prussian Bonds —
D tto Account
Spanishitto Metallic
) Ditto Account — Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, H 24 ... 31%14 '.—
It% Ditto Account
-- Passive
Ditto Account — Def,rred B%
Greek Bonds French, 5 per sent.... —f. —e.
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account --- 3
per c 4 per cent ent
...." —I: —c.
—f. —r.
-----
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. --- Exchange. —f. --•
Ditto account ......... ...... Dutch, 2% per cent.
Ditto, G per Cent , Ditto Account — Ditto Account —, Ditto, 5 per cent
.102%
Neapolitan. .....', Ditto Acc0unt........ —
PRICES OF SHARES Tills DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
16 10%
:ompzny III )„1116%
AN GE YESTERDAY.
I Gibraltar 4B
Leghorn .30 30
Genoa 25 75
Milan.... 3l
Venice
Naples
Pa:enno . per oz. 120
Lisbon ... .......... ........... ..... .. 54%
Opor'o 54%
Rio Janeiro ns
Bahia 27
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 days' sight
Philadelphia 4n
PRICE OF BULLION, per OZ.
Portugal Gold, c0in.....i0 0 0
Foreign Gold, in br.rs... S IS 0
New Doubloons . ..... .... 0 0 0
New Dollars 4 10 05A
Silver in Bars
MALP-PAST GIVE.
The British and foreign markets have continued inactive
during the morning, but the most important feature is a
decline of Bank Stock from If to 2 per Cent. ; the cause
of this sudden del): e3sion is not exactly known, report says
the joint stock banks have Leen selling the above stock ;
others are of opinion that it is owing to the scarcity of
money, which no doubt exists at present, particularly:in the
Foreign market, for which an enormous rate of discount
is demanded.

Eastern Counties Railway ......
London and Greenwich rtailway CI
COUItSE OF EXCHI
A nsterdam C.F. 12 5W
at sight
R...... U l2 6
A itwerp...
I,mburg •
Altona
3 days' sight 25 45
..................3Otto Ms 25 75
.......... 25 t-13
13 mrdeaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 152
?etersbutgh, ruble... 3 Us ION
Berlin
i%cieien,ntea.,..e.tf.decitttiove 6-3 M 13107 3
Madrid.
Cadiz 37g
Gilboa
Bircelona
36%
Serille

Cape of Good Hope papers ar ! just receive I. They
contain a very long correspondence respcctir g the furnishing
of gunpowder and arms to the Cafffes ; but there is no
news in them from the Borders.

The Batavier, Dutch steamer, has arrived. The Dutch
Two-and..a-Half per Cents. are 5-1-,1 15-16, lower than
the last prices ; Fire per Cents 102 7-16.
Consols same as in the morning, ; Reduced 92i, has
Bank Stock receded upwards of 2 per cm'.
been done at 92j ; Exchequer illlls, 30 31 ; India Bands,
a3t431;1934,
present,
191.
Spanish Active, 19i ; Portuguese, 351; Three per
Cents., 21i; Colombian, 311 ; Brazilian, 791 ; Dtitch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 564 ; Five per Cents., 1021.

Died, on the 4th inst., at Bath, aged 72,
Clive, Esq., brother of Henry Clive, Esq., late candidate
for the representation of Ludlow, and Mr. E. B. Clive,
M. P. for this city. The news of the melancholy event
reached Mr. Henry Clive, on Thursday, by letter, which
he found waiting his arrival at Dinham House, from th,..
Guildhall, where he had been returning thanks to his
friends and supporters. The Hon. Gentleman took his
departurefrom tyLcuodulonw,
Press.inconsequence, a few minutes
after.—Hereford

LITERATURE.

FACTS ILLUSTRATIVE of the MODE in
which the LAW is ADMINISTERED by
COUNTRY MAGISTRATES.

This is the title of a pamphlet which has just been
published by Ridgway. It is from the pen of Major
Handley, a Magistrate of Lincolnshire, and gives an
instructive dektil of certain proceedings of his brethren
the worshipful Justices of the Peace for the Parts
of Kesteven. A more unscrupulous set than the
author makes out these Lincolnshire worthies
to be, it is not easy to imagine. More than the half of
them, to be sure, are parsons, and when we have said
that, our readers will be prepared for any deviation from
truth, for any perversion of justice, for any malignity of
feeling, for any low tricks of circumvention—in short,
for any kind or degree of misconduct to which power in
improper hands has always been known to lead. Of all
t',►e numerous evils connected ►sith the legal establish-
ment of a dominant sect, that of investing its priests
►with temporal power is the greatest. In any hands power
is a dangerous deposit—in those of a priest it is a
positive curse, both to society, and to the individual
who exercises it, under so many temptations, not merely-
to abuse it, but to pervert it to the worst of purposes.
Mr. Waters, the Rev. Magistrate with whom origi-
nated the persecuting proceedings against Major Hand-
ley, which have inflicted so much disgrace on the Magis-
tracy of the Kesteven district, was caught by the Major
in the act of strangling a case brought before him as a
Magistrate. His conduct was represented, as it ought
to have been, to the Deputy Lieutenant of the county ;
and in order to extricate himself from a not very pleasant
(dilemma, this wealthy clergyman, putting a confident, ec-
clesiastical face upon the matter, sits down and concocts
a statement, by way of a counter-charge against his
detector in the aforesaid act, who had, in the justifiable
warmth of the moment, expressed himself somewhat un-
courteously in regard to his conduct, which statement
he transmits to a brother Magistrate, to be used as a
weapon of attack. It appears to hare been put into
skilful hands. General Johnson, the Chairman of the
Sessions, becomes the willing instrument of Waters'
plans. He carefully treasures up the document en-
trusted to him, reading just so much of it as suite his
purpose—of bringing a charee of assault against Major
Handley, but refusing—will it be believed ?—to
give the accused either a copy or a sight of the paper
containing the accusation. Whether this be a mode of
acting consistent either with the spirit of justice or the
practice of Courts, we shall leave others to determine,
but it certainly is very convenient to those ►who adopt it,
as it enables them to shift their ground as occasion may
require—a species of tactics at which the Hon. and
Gallant Officer has proved himself to be singularly
expert. It may not be quite out of place, if we here
consider the defence which Gen. Johnson sets up for
this departure from the ordinary course of procedure, and
also the qualifications which he possessed for carrying
on, with a due degree of ardour and perseverance, the
persecution of Major Handley. The following extract
will throw a little light on the subject :
In the letter to Mr. Chaplin, the Vice-Lieutenant;
above quoted, General Johnson, then thoroughly enlisted
as a partizan, hints " that Mr. Waters may carry the
affair into a court of law, when Major Handley's having a
copy of this early written letter might be injurious." In.
jurious to whom ? It, could not be so to Major Hand-
ley, for in a court of law Mr. Waters could not make
evidence for himself, whatever party spirit may enable
him to effect in the Parts of Kesteven. Then it seems
Mr. Waters' " early written letter" might not benefit his
own case. Therefore it is, his friend, General Johnsen,
refuses to supply Major Handley with a copy of a docu-
ment which ultimately is used as a bill of indictment
against him, and upon the allegations of which an
application is made to the Secretary of State. Yet
this gentleman thinks fit, as will be seen hereafter,
to shelter himself against all personal conse-
quences under cover of " public duty." And whence
proceeds this conduct on the part of a man of station and
character? The answer is short. At a meeting in Lon-
don, on the 9th of February, 183 S, General Johnson held
up to public odium the conduct of the Guardians of the
Bourn Union, as wanting in humanity towards the poor,
and quoted three cases as within his own knowledge. On
the 22d of the same month the Bourn Guardians, by let-
ter, requested General Johnson to furnish them with the
names and parishes of the parties said to have been treated
with inhumanity, and expressed an anxious desire to give
explanations as soon as they learned in what quarter to
direct inquiry.
To this request General Johnson replied by saying—
" I feel there would be no end to this sulject, if I was to
enter into an explanation with every Board of Guardians
to whom I may allude when expressing my dislike of the
Now Poor-law ; at the same time I thank those at Bourn
for the offer of explanation on their part, which I will
avail myself of when I see occasion." Of this Board
Major liandley is Chairman ; and such was the feeling
excited amongst the Guardians by the loose charges made
by General Johnson, and his cavalier manner of refusing
explanation, that an effort was made to lking the matter
before Parliament. A Select Committee of the House of
Lords was appointed, General Johnson and witnesses from
Bourn were examined, mad a complete exoneration of the
Guardians was the result. Indeed it is only neoessery to
read General Johnson's own evidence to be convinced of
time utter fivility of his charges, and the unscrupulous way
in which he adopts a story jumping with his own preju.
dices. Extracts from the Report cf the Committee have
been circulated in the neighbotirhood of Bourn under the
direction of the Poor-law Commissioners. This is be-

lieved to have supplied General Johnson with that senti-
ment of active hostility he exhibited towards Major Hand-
Icy in the affair of Mr. Waters.
The narrative then goes on to describe a series of ma-
gisterial meetings, at which the greatest irregularity in
point of form, the grossest partiality towards the
Reverend delinquent, and the most barefaced in-
justice towards Major Handley, are perpetrated,
seemingly without the least compunction. So far
do these worshipful Reverends and their lay co-
adjutors carry their insolence, that they actually
presume to represent to the Secretary of State that the
object of their persecution, in whose case they had
violated every rule of law, every principle of justice, and
every dictate of charity, was not a fit person to sit on
the same bench with them ; and then, to crown all, pre-
tend that they arc ill used, because he will not listen to
their application, and become the tool of their vindic-
tive spite. The merits of these gentry and of their
proceedings are thus summed up by the author of the
pamphlet :
No cue can have read this narrative without involuntarily
saving, " Can such things be done in England ? In what
does this conclave of country justices differ from a Star
Chamber ?" They erect themselves into a tribunal, an in-
quisition for judging the conduct of their brother Magis-
trates ; they receive communications of accusation, upon
which they act, judge, condemn, but refuse to allow the
person most implicated to have a copy of " the indict-
ment," an indictment absolutely framed subsequently to
the investigation. Then look at their course of procedure.
They refuse to take hearsay evidence tending to show the
motives and feelings which actuated Major Handley's
opponents ; his witnesses are tied down to the rigid
rules of the common law courts ; he is harshly and
coarsely told by the Vice-Lieutenant and his instrument,
the Clerk of the Peace, " that the business of the
meeting is to be strictly confined to the charges brought
by him against Mr. Waters," and that the " Vice-
Lieutenant will not sanction any attempt to trifle with the
time of the Magistrates on subjects unconnected with
the business of the meeting." Not such is the measure
dealt out to Mr. Waters. He is permitted to cast the
grossest charges, such as violence, and an assault upon the
Bench, upon Major Handley, without the ordinary fair-
ness of disclosing to the accused the whole of the terms in
which such charges are made. No rigid legal or tech-
nical rules bind his witnesses. Mr. Hildyard, his colleague
and abettor in the act which Major Handley charged
against him as wrongful, is allowed to give evidence, and
make statements at his discretion. Against the recep-
tion of Mr. Hildyard's evidence at all Major Handley
strongly protested ; and in ordinary cases, decency
would have induced a person sustaining the charac-
ters of a party, witness, and judge, to be guarded
in his statements; but all ordinary rules seem violated in
this case. Mr. Hildyard, under colour of defending Mr.
Waters, his defence being the proper "business of the
meeting," makes the most virulent general attack upon
Major Handley in a written statement, which is by no
means the substance of what the Reverend Gentleman
delivered viva coce. Nothing like this was said in the
hearing of Major Handley; Major Handley is there re.
preseeted as " angry arid violent ;" and his intimation to
the shifting Magistrate that the law should not be evaded,
is said to have been made in " his usual violent manner."
Mr. Hildyard had been called upon by Major Handley
to affirm or deny the assault, imputed Post by General
Johnson and then by Mr. Chaplin in the presence of
Mr. Hildyard, which he bad refused to do, and then insi-
nuated, in his deliberately prepared statement, imputa-
tions of habitual violence. Having the same disposition to
wound, without the audacity of Mr. Waters, he fritters
the original charge of actual 'assault into ,an intangible
one of " habitual violence."
Those who know any thing of Major Handley, know
the absurdity, the malicious folly of such a
charge as " habitual violence ;" but then Mr. Waters'
method of dealing with favoured cases was to be
protected, and a favouring tribunal had been obtained,
which, though professing to judge of charges against
Mr. \Voters, was in truth sitsing in judgment upon
Major Handley. Of Mr. Waters' motives enough has
been said ; and a cause for General Johnson's eager
hostility has been intimat, d. He has been convicted
by a high tribunal, a Committee of the House of Lords_
convictsd cut of his own mouth, of msking the most
baseless and unsupported charges of inhumanity against
the Guardians of Bourn, and yet he is still permitted
to act as the head of a body of Justices, and
sit in judgment upon one of those Guardians. flaw
d fferent is the fate of another opponent of the New Poor
Law, the Rev. Mr. Stephens ; he for doing as an indivi-
dual what General Johnson did as a
.Magistrate, is sub-
jected to a criminal prosecution. NI ho would not be a
Justice of the Peace ! Is it the alleged violence, the falsely
imputed violence, of Mejor Handley's demeanour which has
shocked the Vice_ Lieutenant, and rendered him blind to
the one-sided character of these proceedings? It cannot
be. That gentleman cannot have forgotten his own public
outbreak of temper at I3ocesa's Lincoln concert. Neither
will the Tory zaal of Lord Winehiisca and Mr. Chris-
, toplier be overlooked.
It is to be hoped the Reverend Magistrates, Messrs.
Waters and II ldyard, are not to be taken as average
specimens of the Clerical Magistracy; if so, the crom-
monly reesived opinion, that the Clergy are unfitted for
the judgment-seat, will have been demonstrated ; and
those who say there will always be found in a Clerical
Justice an absence of any grave sentiment of responsibility,

EVENING tprrrox.

of that calm determination to administer the law as it is,
regardless of all personal wishes of the administrator, the
sole safeguard of public justice, which has so generally
caused their r.cts to be likened to those of women; wherein
passion, sympathy, antipathy, and prejudice usually prevail
over evidence and reason.

That the present publication will not tend to raise the
country Magistracy in public estimation, is regretted by no
one more than by Major Handley, who, in his own defence,
has been compelled to put it forth ; but the fault is not his.
In the excess of his zeal the Vice-Lieutenant hag caused
an imperfect, one-sided, and garbled statement of the pro-
ceedings to be disseminated; and even now the local
journal, supposed to be under the influence of the Clerk of
the Peace, is scattering abroad its vituperations with all
the fury of an antiquated scold ; and Major Handley has
only to lay the whole of the facts before the tribunal of the
public, where he is satisfied the judgment of the Folking-
ham conclave will be speedily reversed.

SMITH'S STANDARD LIBRARY.
We have here three new parts of this elegant and
useful miscellany ; one, containing the poems of Gray
and Collins ; another, Auson's Voyages round the
World ; and the third, Coleridge's translation of Schil-
ler's Wallenstein. Each part is got up with singular
neatness, as respects print and paper, and is published
at so cheap a price as to bring it within the means of
the poorest man in the community.