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publicly announced that if the Chiefs and people
did not come in, in two or three days, messengers
Would be sent to seize them. Before the ex-
piration of this term the Chiefs with their
families submitted to Mr. SCOTT. Tranquillity
had by, this time been restored.

By the accounts from Montreal we learn that
the season had set in with a very favourable ap-
pearance. Ploughing commenced on the 7th
April, and some wheat had been sown in dry
Some of the Canada Papers are strongly
recommending « Temperate Societies," and the
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formaton ofsuch Associations had commenced
-at Montreal.

Letters from Carthagena of the 28th March
state that an army of 3,000 men had passed
through that place from Chagres on their way to
Maracaibo against General PAEZ, but that they
were •attacked by the Indians and compelled to
retreat. The country continued in a very un-
aettled state, and the troops were dissatisfied in
consequence of being so badly paid.

The Bill for affixing the KING'S Sign Manual
to instruments requiring the Royal Signature,
was last night read a third time and passed in
the House of Lords, and read a first and second
time in the Commons. The Earl of WIN-
CHILSEA, in the former House, made some
allusions with regard to his MAJESTY'S malady,
Which he afterwards retracted. The Bill will
pass the Commons to-night, and receive the
Royal Assent to-morrow.

It is impossible to peruse the Parliamentary
papers relating to Greece without being struck
with the sincerity of purpose with which the
treaty of London has been pursued by each of
the three Allied Powers, from its erection down
to the present time ; and although in the course
of the negociations differences of opinion have
arisen, it would be judging harshly to question
the good faith of such of the parties as may have
exhibited less fervour than the rest in favour of
the Greek cause, whilst contracted obligations
have been manifestly treated with the most seru-
Pulous respect both in letter and spirit. Pre-
Mising this observation more especially with re-
ference to our own Government, it will not, we
trust, be assumed that what we are about to re-
mark is written in any temper of hostility, or any
desire of fastening upon Ministers a charge of
attempting to recede from the principles laid
down in the Treaty of London. Yet, if the
question be asked, to which of the three Powers
is Greece the most indebted for the independ-
ence she at length enjoys, we fear the general
answer would by no means be—to Great Britain.
It will probably be thought in many quarters
that the refusal of the British Government to
'concur, in the proposal made by the Russian
Ambassador on the 10th of September, 1827,
to blockade the Dardanelles by the allied
squadron, whilst Russia performed the same
operation on the Bosphorus, exhibited a leaning
towards our 4, ancient ally" not very consistent
‘'6lll our professions towards Greece. France
Concurred in the principle of the proposal,
and although the design was suggested be-
fore the battle of Navarin, yet its accomplish-
ment after that event might the more effec-
tually have brought to a crisis that anoma-
lous state of our relations with the PORTE,
which more amicable mediations so vainly, and
so hazardously, protracted. The want of deci-
sion, after the destruction of the Turkish fleet,
gave to Russia the opportunity of gaining victo-
ries which have added both to her glory and her
Power ; and though this be chargeable even more
to the GODERICIT than the WELI,INGTON
Administration, it seems not the less free from
blame, with reference to the views which influ-
enced Mr. CANNING in bringing about the
Greek Treaty. The different reception of the
victory of Navarin by Great Britain from that of
France and Russia, tallies exactly with the diffe-
rence of their views on the subject of the blockade,
4isenssed at the conferences held on the 10th
September and 15th October, 1827. The in-
structions given to the Admirals in pursuance of
the Protocol of the last of those dates, direct
them to concert the most effectual mode of pre-
tenting any movements by sea on the part of the
Turkish or Egyptian forces; and give other di-
rections which seem by:no means inapplicable to
the battle, supposing it to have been fought after
instead of before those instructions lead been

received.
The first document having reference to the
limits of the new State, is the Protocol of the
Ambassadors at Constantinople of the 4th Sep-
tember, 1827, which limits the operation of the
Greek blockade to a line to be drawn from the
Guff Volo to themouth of the river Aspropo-
tamos, embracing within it Eubcea, Salamis,
FEgina, Poros, Hydra, Spezzia, and other
Small islands of the Archipelago, contiguous
to, and dependent on, the continent of Greece,
leaving out Candia and Samos. It was pro-
posed by Count NESSELRODE, in his letter to
Prince LIEVEN, annexed to the Protocol of
10th March, 1828, that this limit should serve
for the base of the demands of the three medi-
ating Powers in this respect, in reply to which
Proposal Earl DUDLEY informed Prince
LlEvitx that the Court of the Tuileries
had expressed an opinion that, under certain
circumstances, the line of demarcation ought to
be narrowed, and that although those circum-
stances had not yet arisen, it was a subject for
consideration whether, with a view of giving the
Greeks a clearly defined and strong mountain
frontier, it might not be expedient to confine
them to the line nearest to the Morea. On the
6th April following Earl DUDLEY writes to
Prince POLIGNAC that his MAJESTY'S Govern-
ment was of opinion that the most convenient
limit Would be found in the Morea and the ad-
jacent islands. The French Government re-
plied through Count de la FERRONAYS, on the
28th April, that the new state of things, since the
limitation to the Morea had been suggested by
France, had altered their opinion, and that the
plan of England encountering opposition from

the Turks, the Greeks, and Russia, could not
be carried into effect ; and that Greece, confined
within the MQrea, and unprotected by Attica
or Eubtea, would be utterly defenceless. M.
de la FERRONAYS lays much stress upon the
early associations from which the Greek question
has derived an importance, and on the public
mind of Europe being filled with the idea of
her resuscitation, and exclaims, " a cry of grief
" and indignation will be raised if Athens, still

arrayed in ber glorious and noble renown, falls

" again under the humiliating dominion of the
" Sultana VALIDE." The Protocol of 30th
September, 1828, refers to a despatch of Count
NESSELRODE of the 28th August preceding,
stating that the Russian Government had long
been, and still was, of opinion that the boundary
traced by the conference of Ambassadors at Con-
stantinople was that of which Greece stood in need;
and at the conference of 16th Nov., 1828, this
necessity was re-echoed by Prince POLIGNAC
with reference to the passage of the Isthmus of
Corinth by the French troops, which Lord
ABERDEEN strenuously resisted. Thus matters
stood up to the date of the Protocol of 22d
March, 1829, which fixed the limits to be a line
from Arta to Volo, and annexed to which is a
memorandum of the French Plenipotentiary,
(among other things, intimating the desirable-
ness of annexing Candia to the new State,) and
a memorandum of the British Plenipotentiary,
protesting against the extension of the frontier
beyond the Morea, as inconsistent with the true
objects of the Treaty,—against •the " injustice
" of including in the Greek territory the Island
" of Eubcea,"--and against " the supposed ne-

" cessity for an enlarged territory and extensive
" resources, in order to secure the freedom and
" tranquillity of Greece," because, as the British
Minister says, " the Porte itself must be the
" natural protector of Greece against foreign
" hostility ; and against Turkish oppression or

injustice the support of the Allied Powers

" will suffice !" Of this memorandum,
passing over the singularity of the notion of
making wolves the protectors of sheep, we will
only say that we cannot help regretting that such
sentiments should have proceeded from the Go-
vernment of this free country, nor can we won-
der at the unfavourable impression that such a
tone has generally produced throughout the

Continent.
When the Protocol of the 22d March was
made known to the PORTE, it positively refused
adherence to the proposed limits ; and, in conse-
quence of such refusal, the Protocol made on the
3d February last states, that " in consideration
" of the advantages granted to the new State,
" (viz. in securing its complete independence,)
" and in deference to the desire expressed by the
" PORTE to obtain the reduction of the frontiers
fixed by the Protocol of the 22d of March,
" the line of demarcation shall take its departure
" from the mouth of the Aspropotamos, ascend
" that river as far as the latitude of Lake Angelo
" Castro, and traversing that lake, as well as

those of Vrachori and Saurovitza, shall strike
Mount Artofina, from whence it shall follow
" Mount Oxas, Calouri, and Mount CEta, as
" far as the Gulph of Zeitoun, which it shall
" reach at the mouth of the Sperchius." To
these limits the POPiTE, on the 24th of April
last, signified its adhesion ; and the Provisional
Government of Greece, in its answer of the 16th
of April, also seems to have promised, though
somewhat ambiguously, its concurrence. The
answer, however, states, that the definitive ar-
rangements in question ought, before their ac-
ceptance, to be submitted to the Deputies Ple-

nipotentiaries of the Nation, and to be ratified
by them. This ratification, we are now informed,
has been refused, and hence Prince LEoPoLD's
abdication of his throne.

The above abstract of Greek diplomacy fur-
nishes abundant food for discussion, but we have
no space to enlarge on the arguments that might
be raised on one side or the other. It should,
however, be observed, that there is no founda-
tion for saying that Greece has received, or
ought to receive, Eubcea as a substitute for
Acarnania, inasmuch as Eubcea was proposed to
be included in Greece at the first conference at
which her limits were spoken of—viz. that of
Constantinople, on the 4th September, 1827.

SECOND EDITION.
SUN OFFICE, Half-past Four.

EPSOM RACES.

BY EXPRESS.

SECOND YEAR Of the RENEWAL Of the
OAKS STAKES of 50 sovs. each, h. ft.
for three years old fillies, 8 st. 4 lb. Las
mile and half. The second to receive 100
sovs. out of the Stakes. (79 Subscribers.)
Mr. Stonehewer's Leeway filly
Lord Sefton's Moitehe (Edwards) 2
18 started.—Won by two lengths.

The competition of Spain with this country
n the supply of lend, mentioned in last night's debate, is
of recent date ; the mines are in the neighbourhood of
Almeira, a sea-port on the Mediterranean, and are worked,
we understand, by English capital, and in part by English
superintendents.

(PROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—A very
curious and interesting experiment Las been recently made
at the Royal Mint, in the presence of its principal officers.
A set of Chinese weights, perhaps the first ever exhibited
in this country, was compared with the English standard,
and the results were found perfectly to correspond with
similar comparisons made in China nearly a century ago,
by the Missionary DUHALDE, of scientific memory.

RUTLAND NEWS.—BEES.—A swarm of
bees settled on a how-window of the house of Mrs. EvE-
KARD HILL, of Uppingham, four years ago, and took up
their abode in the aperture between the lead and ceiling of
the window, which they entered by a crevice in front.
They were not destroyed till this week, when on opening
the lead the honeycomb of three distinct swarms and the
beginning of a fourth were discovered. and a large quan-
tity of honey wal taken.—Siantford News.

DISGUSTING SPECTACLE.—A pitched battle
was fought last week at Preston between a scavenger and
a woman, the wife of a pavior. The parties stripped for
the onset, and a ring being regularly formed, a battle of
some duration ensued, till at last the female ruffian proved
the victor.—Scotsman.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY).

HOUSE OF LORDS.
COMMITTEE OF PRIVILEGES,

The House sat this morning in a Commit tee of Privileges,
on the claim of Matthew Montagu, Lord Ilokeby, to vote
at the election of Representative Peers for irel tnd. Several
witnesses were examined, the register of the baptisms and
burials of many membets of the family produced, and the
further consideration of the case postponed till the next
day on which the House sits in a Committee of Privileges.
At twelve o'clock the LORD CHANCELLOR and Lords
NORTHWICK and 13Aatram sat on appeals, and proceeded
with the part-heard Welsh case of Spenc-r v. Gott.
To•.inQrrow being the anniversary of the Restordtion of
Charles the Second, and both Houses of Parliament having
to meet on that day for the purpose of bearing the Royal
assent given to the Bill for enabling his Majesty's signature
to be affixed to public documents by means of a stamp,
pursuant to ancient custom both Houses will attend
Divine Worship in State. The Members of the House of
Lords going to Westminster Abbey, and those of the
House of Commons to the church of St. Margaret's.
The sermon in' Westminster Abbey, we understand,
will be preached by the Bishop of Carlisle, and that in St.
Margaret's by the Speaker's Chaplain.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

THE KING, AT THE PROSECUTION OF THE SOCIETY FOR

THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE, V. FERGUSSON.

This was an indictment, instituted by the Society for
the Suppression of Vice, against the defendant, who is a
book and printseller. The prosecution was brought on
account of the defendant having exposed for sale, as well
as having sold, a number of indecent publications.
Mr. GURNEY conducted the case for the prosecution,
and Mr. TALIOURD appeared on behalf of the defendant.
After some prefatory conversation between the Learned
Counsel on either side,

Mr. GURNEY intimated to the Court, that owing to a
communication which had been made to him by his
Learned Ft lend (Mr. Talfourd) he was willing on the part
of the Society for the Suppression of Vice, to take a ver-
dict of guilty, and thus save the Court the trouble and
pain of going through the evidence on the case. He con-
sented to adopt this course, however, only on the con-
dition that the defendant should enter on his own recog•
nizance to keep the peace, and hold himself ready when
called upon to receive judgment. That the defendant
should be moreover compelled to give up all the remaining
copies of the objectionable publications he might still have
in his possession, anti that he should make an affidavit to
that effect ;—and, finally, that he should make a promise
not to offend in the same manner in future.

Mr. TALFOURD assented to the Learned Counsel's pro-
position, and expressed his acknowledgments on the part
of his client for the kind and considerate discretion by
which the Learned Counsel had been actuated.
Lord TENTERDEN said the Learned Counsel had acted
with kind discretion, and in such a manner as the repre-
sentative of the society which had instituted the present
proceedings might have been expected to act. The only
object which the Society for the Suppression of Vice hsd
in view, was the abolition of indecent and improper pub-
lications ; and, unless such works were suppressed by some
means or other, these baneful tendencies could not fail of
exercising a most pernicious and dangerous influence over
the minds especially of the youthful portion of the corn-
inunity. His Lordship thought the defendant's Counsel
had alio exercised a sound discretion in thus readily
accepting the terms which had been offered—his client
had much reason to be thankful to the B,lciety.

A verdict of Guilty was then entered against the defendant.

THE KING V. TRUST.

This was a precisely similar prosecution to the last,
instituted by the Society for the Suppression of Vice
against the defendant Trust, a bookseller, living in Russell-
court, Drury-lane.
A copy of the objectionable work was produced, and
proved to have been bought at the defendant's shop, and of
him personally.—Verdict, Guilty.
Mr. GURNEY, who conducted the case for the prosecu-
tion, said that this was the third time the defendant had
been convicted of a similar offence.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SEDDON.

This was an information against the defendant, Seddon,
for having concealed a large quantity of smuggled tobacco,
and also for using a false permit.
The defendant was a tobacconist, residing at No. 45, Old
Bailey, in partnership with a person of the name of Bent.
Verdict for the Crown, with a recommendation from
the majority of the Jury for a mitigation of the penalty on
the second count.

OLD BAILEY SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.:

OLD COURT.

Sophia Morgan, a respectable looking woman (a widow)
whose case was remanded from the last Sessions, was this
morning placed at the bar, charged on the Coroner's in-
quisition with the wilful murder of her new-born male
child.

The prisoner plea led Not Guilty.
Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the cise for the prosecution.
Mr. PHILLIPS was Counsel for the prisoner.
Mr. Hugh Eastcot examined—l am assistant surgeon
of the parish of St. Pancras. On the 13th of April 1
was called in to the workhouse to examine the body of a
male infant ; from its appearance I should think it had
been ten days or a fortnight.—(The prisoner here fainted,
which caused a short delay in the proceedings, on her re-
covery she was, by order of the Learned Judge, accommo-
dated with a seat.)
Examination continued—The infant was in a putrid
state—on the right side of the head was a contused bruise
as if inflicted by some hard instrument, or by a fall. I
could not from its state examine the lungs. The child
was full grown—such a wound as appeared on the
head might, or might not, have caused death.__
The wound must have been inflicted whilst the child vras
alive, or immediately after death. Such an appearance
would not have manifested itself from a blow on a body
that had been dead for a length of time. I cannot form
any opinion as to whether or not the chill was born
alive. The naval string was not tied.
Richard Edwards, a police officer, examined—ln conse-
quence of information that I received on the 13th of April,
I went to No. 7, Suffolk-street, St. Pancras. I there
saw the prisoner in company with Mrs. Williams, when
I told her that it was a very serious charge
against her, and cautioned her not to say anything
that might injure her hereafter. I then said, is
it true that you have been delivered of a child ?
The prisoner said, by attempting to hide one crime she
had committed a greater. I then said it is true
that you have be-n delivered of a child ? She replied,
yes, it is. I .asked her if the child was born alive ; she
said that she could not tell. I then asked her if she had
heard it cry ; she said no. In answer to further questions
she said that she threw the child down the privy ; she did
not look after it, or take any means to force it under the
soil, and that it had been there about a fortnight.
I then took her into custody, and shortly afterwards
I and another officer searched the privy. The prisoner
also told me that she believed the child had slipped
from her. On searching the pi ivy, a child was found,
there was a bruise on the right side of the head about the
size of a halfpenny. Oa looking round the prisoner's
room I found a platerer'shammer. which.' compared with
the bruise on the child's head, and it appeared exactly to
correspond. I then took the prisoner to Maryltbone-office.
On the road I asked her who the father of the child was ;
she said she could not tell his name, that shehad been living
with a Mrs. Cox in Hunter-street, and during her mis-
tress's absence from home a gentleman called and prevailed
over her.

Abraham Deller, another police officer, confirmed the
evidence of the last witness.

Tne trial was proceeding when our Reporter left the
Court, and from the-number of witnesses then to be exa-
rnined:would inall probability occupy nearly the entire day.

NEW COURT.

John Murray, aged 30, late clerk to Messrs. Adling-
ton, Gregory, and Faulkner, solicitors, Bedford-row, Was
indicted for receiving and embezzling various sum," of
money, to the amount of 91. Gs. 9d. the property of hiS-
emp'oyers. ' •
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The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty on the second
count, hut recommended the prisoner to mercy oopczo.uot
of his previous good character.

EXTRACT OF A LETTER, DATED MAY 23.
—" With feelings of regret I have to communicate to
you the death of Sir JOHN Flax, of Smithfield and
Ilaystown, Bart., senior partner of the banking-house of
Sir WILLIAM FORBES and Co. This melancholy event
took place this morning in the neighbourhood of Edin-
burgh, after a short illness ; and it is but due to the me-
mory of so excellent a man to say that he has died la-
mented by all who knew him."
M. BOUQUET has obtained his liberation
provisionally by giving hail to the amount of 500 franca,
and left the Conciergerie yesterday. He is to appear
shortly before the Correctional Police, being accused of
having kept an illegal money-lending concern, and of
usurious practices.— Quotidienne.

SHIPPINC. INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.

DIRT, MAY ',7.—Wind W., squally.—Arrived and remain his'
Majesty's ship Isis, and the African steamer, from the Mediter-
ranean ; Clyde, Munro, from Bengal; 'assail, Tremaine, and
Cumberland, Haney, from Lisbon; and Unanimity, Herbert,
from Oporto.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 27.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived his Ma-
jesty's ship Asia and Infernal bomb, from the Mediterranean ;
his Majesty's ship Tyne, from Halifax ; and his Majesty's ship
Canadian, from Africa and St. Michael's.
FALNIOUTII, MAY 46.—Wind N.W. to W., fresh gale.—Ar-
rived the Helena, Astrope, from 13nlette.
COWES, MAY 'il—Arrived the Maranatha, Roust, from Sours-
haya ; •Conolanus, Jones, from Rio Janeiro ; and. Fancy, Tyrer,
from Gigon.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 26.—Arrived the' Porter, "Gibson, and
Amelia, M'Taggart, from Bahia; Belgrave, Fleming, from
Paraiba ; Oporto, Martin, and Camoens, Haram, from Oporto.
OFF THE WIGHT, MAY o.—The Sarah Ward, Merritt, from
St. Vincent's; and Alnwick, M'Kie, from Ceylon.

The Mameluke, Todd, from Buenos Ayres to London, was
totally lost near River San Francesca on the 15th of Marth—the
crew and passengers saved.
The William, young, from London, has arrived at Sydney.
The Freeland, Jones, sailed from Singapore for Manilla
`an. Id ; the next day she grounded on a reef in the Straits of
Rio, but got off, after throwing about 20 tons of iron gverboard,
and proceeded on her voyage.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY)

CORN EXCHANGE.

There are small supplies of all kinds of Grain this week, and
not much Flour. The Wheat trade is firm at Monday's prices,
the demand is chiefly for foreign red parcels. Barley, Beans,
and Pease, are unaltered. Rather more money is asked for Oats,
and the prices of Monday have been readily obtained this morn-
ing. Flour unvaried.

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