The Sun.
London, England, 1825-10-21 00:00:00

LONDON MA R K ETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, 0CT.21..
The supplies of most kinds of Grain this week are tolerably
good, with a large quantity of Flour. Wheat meets a reatl:
Sale at last quotations. Barley goes off heavily, but is not
lower. Beans and Pease remain as last quoted. Oats rind
buyers at full as good terms as Monday. •
ARRIVALS—EngIish Wheat, 5,200 ; Barley, 5,800 ; .Oats,
8,950 ; Irish Wheat, 5; Barley, 45 ; Oats, 5.700 ; Foreign
Wheat, 1,560 ; Barley, 3,900; Oats, 5,400 quarters ; Flour,
9,250 sacks.

SMITHFIELD MARKET, Ocr. 21.
The following is an accuzate Report of the numbers sad
prices at Smithfield Market this morning :

CATTLE AT MARKET ,
Beasts 736 I Sheep -
Calves
To sink the Offal, per stone of 811).
Beef 4s 6d to bs 2d I Veal s 41(1 to 6s 6d .
Mutton 6,4 Cd to bs 6d I Pork
Lamb Os Od to Os Od.
)I,lv- AND 01' RAW, PER LOAD. .
hay -
Straw £1 16s to .E 2 2,

A MANIAC.---Au unfortunate maniac of the .
name of Walker, belonging to Ayr, has been wandering; shout
Calton and vicinity for some days. He was formerly in the
Royal Artificers, and had fought in the battles of the Pyrenean
mountains; and it is recorded of him that on one occasion be,.
left his corps, and entered a French guard-room, with hi
pick and shovel on his back, to get his pipe lighted.. 'lie
French expecting that the whole of the British army w.s
coming upon them, immediately fled, and when cur
troops came up, instead of finding him killed, as thy-
expects.d, he was coolly smoking his pipe at the tire ade,
and had the whole place to himself. After he came home. his
mind became affected, and he escaped about three year. ago.
He has been wandering about the country ever sines, and
whenever he can find a regiment he follows it—like the war-
horse, the sound of a trumpet re-animates his martial fire. His
arrears of pension havexun up to 301.—( Glasgow Paper.)
A meeting of the working mechanics of
Brighton was held on Tuesday last, in aid of the B:adfnrd
comber; and weavers. After an ineffectual oppositicn to the
proceedings by a sensible tradesman, named Phillips, a string
of resolutions was pat,sed, binding the members of the meeting
to enter into an immediate subscription to enable the Bradford
woo/combers to maintain the cdntest with their masters, and to
form an Union of alt the trades and occupations of the town.
Yesterday tbe'visarters who stand committed
for trial at the ensuilSessions at the Old Bailey,
wete removed from the lifferent prisons to New-
next. There are
at the Sessions,
gwahtiec,hperoetpnamiaetnocrey
onto Trl
already about 200 prisoners.
A few days since, as some men were sawing
through an elm tree, of three tt.ls weight,
they found in the centre of it, four.een feet
from the base, the remains of a rook, t4,nsist.,
ing of the beak and
,entire bones of the hei.d.—
The part of the tree which was cut off was cp.ite
sound, as was the whole of the surrounding
thickness; except the rotten cavity where the
remains were found, and which was about one
foot in diameter, and extended, in a diminisnin
line, to within three feet of the head of the tree,
—(Taunton Courier.)

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TnE LONDON :JOURNALS.

DAILY

Iructsfrom the Morning Papers, 4%1.21, 1825:

[MORNING POST.]
The weather has, we fear, beers severe and
tempestuous in the .Channel, for some of our Ex-
presses. which had regularly arrived for a consi-
ierttble period, have lately failed. Yesterday
indeed proved a day of almost complete separa-
tion from the Continent ; and since the invention
of Steam-boats it is no common agitation of the
steep which can prevent communications between
the opposite coasts. There have been eras, and
they are not long past, when the absence of one
slay's Continental news would have proved a
source of serious anxiety : but happily we now
live in times when weeks might elapse in silence
and seclusion, without any chance of our find-
lug the great world at our return tossed out
of the position in which it jogs on, or guilty
cif any attempt calculated to alarm our
fears. The foundations of peace are so firm-
ly established, that even those prophecies
for years denounced its fragility, have
teased to be uttered, and we are allowed to en.
joy present rest and prosperity, without being
(unanimity threatened with future ruin. Vicious
is are the principles'on which the Holy Alliance
Us been erected, and hostile as its members
iseve shown themselves to the liberties of nations,
yet if it be to their unbending determination that
this state of security is due, they are not without'
alaises to public gratitude. It has been imagined
by some, however, that the events which have
lately occurred, the recognition of Ilaytian in-
Liependence by the French Government, and
The offer of Greece to place herself under our
-protection, might endanger the general tranquil-
lity. The recognition of the independence of
any State was deemed so abhorrent an act in the
eyes of the Holy Alliance, that it was generally
expected it would have been visited upon us,
when we sinned by acknowledging the Repub-
lics of the New World ; and it might perhaps
have been, had we not been placed beyond the
reach of Continental armies. But our guilt was
nothing in comparison to that of France. We had
recognised communities like our own : men of
similar habits and complexions ; but she—she
had given independence to revolted slaves, and
those slaves negroes ! She had set her seal to
the erection of a new State, and that State a Re-
public! Her King had fraternized with a Black
President, and European Diplomatists would
h'
hare to interchange civilities with. the Statesmen
of Hayti! This was an innovation in the politi-
eal world, nay almost in the natural, which
could not be forgiven to a Power, whose
frontiers had been proved to he not im.
passable by armies. Such were the decla-
mations of all the Ultras in France, and
evin of other Royalists who since they have
bPen removed from a share in the Administration
have forgotten that they once advocated the re.
cognition of Hayti with all their might. These
declamations, though unjust, were not entirely
empty. There might be some foundation, as far
as feeling was concerned, for the expectation of
'displeasure on the part of the Holy Allies ; but
policy would not permit France to be air .aten-
ed, and still less attacked, as the necessary
consequence must have been the recal of her
troops from Spain, and the certain result of that
recal, the immediate return of the whole Pen-
insula to a Constitutional existence ; an ex-
ample, which neither Italy, nor many States of
Germany, would have viewed with passive indif-
ference. Besides, France would have been secure
of our support, and standing as kite do at the head
of the New World, the weight which we should
i:aTe brought into the scale could not fail to have
proved decisive. The Allied Monarchs may
pave privately, and bitterly perhaps, blamed
the French Government for its liberal folly
in selling emancipation to the already emanci-
pated ; but they will do nothing more. In
their love for peace, they have learned to resign
themselves to what they see they cannot pre.
vent, or to what it would be difficult to undo.
France will consequently persevere in the
course which she has adopted, and when the
heat of the moment shall have subsided, and she
Shall have wholly subdued the feeling of decency
towards Spain which still contends with the con-
sciousness of her own interests, she will extend to
the late Spanish Colonies the full recognition of
independence which she has granted to her own.
The general peace of Europe is therefore now
exposed to no perit from the acknowledgment
of liaytian independence.

[VIC PUBLIC LEI:Mk:R.]
Diere are advices in town from Alexandria, of
as late a date as the 15th ult. A letter of this
date expresses itself in terms of great admiration,
in speaking of the preparations of the Pacha to
reinforce his son in the Mores. Another letter,
in noticrig the same subject, says, that the arms-
. meat wilt-not he able to sail before the end of
Oct*4er. The Captain Pacha tits arrived at-
that port, for the purpose, it was supposed, of
.conveying the troops to their •destination: but
should they escape the vigilance of- the Greek
squadron, which was cruizing in the neighbour-
hood with the design of interceptingthern, they
would arrive much too late to assist In thr pre-
sent campaign,
tints from the which must terminate shoat this
mere force of natural c
Ircumstances.
One of the French Generals,. ,'ho had been
employed in training the new,ljviesr had/ shortly
before left Alexandria for F-4fice ; but, whether
from disgust, or with the view of heating up on
the prolific soil of 11;., native country, for auxi-
•liaries in the traintig line, is not mentioned. In
he mean time, r.te singular personage, who go-
-Vriis Egypt, 4emetl to be as intent on his
miii-
'tl-y preparkions, as if he had, no other occupa-
i•-• •
, and .tie. superintended them in person with
as inch
.ardour as if his existence depended on
thee-subjection of the Greeks to the intolerable
yok, which, in spite of this circumstance, We
hoPithey have cast off for ever. It is difficult
to atount for the teal, with which the Pacha
has s,tered into the views of the Porte ; but the
.faeLielf is undeniable; and if we .were to ascribe

it to mere ardour of temperament, such a suppol
sitiou would not accord with his wily, calcula-
ting, and highly ambitious character. That he is
not actuated by religious fanaticism, is proved by
the full measure of protection which the,Greeks
enjoy in his Pachalick ; but, whatever may be
the cause, the effects, we fear, will operate long
to the disadvantage of the Greeks, and render
their final deliverance, if not problematical, at
least a work of protracted exertions, sacrifices,
and bloodshed on their part. However, there
are many things which-may divert him from the
pursuit ; and his present policy is of so artifi-
cial a character, and so inconsistent with the inde-
pendent position in which he has so long placed
himself, with respect to the Turkish Councils at
Constantinople, that it would be hazardous to cal-
culate upon his steady adherence to the same line.
If his object were to extend his power, by annex-
ing the Morel and the most valuable of the Greek
islands to his present possessions, his motive for
the costly exertions lie is making would be intel-
ligible enough ; but other parts of his conduct
are at variance with this supposition ; and, upon
the whole, his efforts to put down the Greek in-
surrection are a perfect riddle. It is fortunate,
however, that his zeal and activity are subject to
the controul of the elements; and aided by the
rigours of the approaching season, the Greeks
may, for six months at least, laugh at his arma-
ments.

[NEW TimEs.]
The bad weather about the coast continues to
deprive us of the French Papers. We must con-
fess that we think their want just now a rather
unimportant circumstance, for they have of late
been engaged with nothing but an uninterrupted
babbling about Spain and Greece, mixed up
with prosing speculations on affairs among them-
selves of little more than parochial importance.
With regard to the two first of these topics,
we believe all-well-tkinking men in this country
are agreed ; and as for the domestic affairs of
France, no one but those whose official duty
compels them to get through the French papers
on the subject, can form any idea of their utter
jejuneness. People about Mechanics Institutes
here, would be disgraced by the tenor of the
arguments which figure in the best informed of
the French Journals on the subject which came
before them.

rTHE TIMES.]
We have said from the first, with regard to
combinations, that as there is but one rational or
effectual mode of dealing with a bully—namely,
that of setting him at defiance—so is there no
other chance of putting down the ambitious and
turbulent desperadoes who have placed them-
selves at the head of the several Unions of jour-
neymen throughout the kingdom, but by showing
them that the masters are resolved inexorably to
break with them and their mulish followers,
to discard them, one and all, from their em-
ployment, and to hire no workman who will
not be satisfied to obey his master, instead
of presuming to command him. Common
sense might have suggested this plain rule to
every master manufacturer in the Empire, had
not experience proved its immediate and signal
efficacy in the case of the iron-masters near Glas-
gow. At the Calder works, except those of Car.
ron, the greatest in Scotland, the spirit and wis-
dom of the Messrs. Dixon have all but extirpated
the combination. These gentlemen have dis-
charged the tyrants who had been eating their
bread, and trampling on their rights and property.
They have assembled large numbers of labouring
men, who have set to work joyfully, side by side,
with, and under the tuition of, the colliers who re-
mained faithful to their duty ; the chiefs of the
mutineers are consequently in despair. With a view
to counteract the good effect of the increar.e thus
added to the produce of the Calder coal-mines,
these incendiaries have issued an ordinance to
the miserable followers who still adhere to them
in other pits, to reduce the quantity of coal
brought to the surface ; but this device is success-
fully met by a still more vigorous prosecution of
their salutary policy by the masters ; so much
so, Om the heart of the confederacy is in a great
measure broken. What must the nation think
of the " operatives," who raise this unnatural
rebellion against the public interest and their
own, when it is acknowledged that a collier can
earn from ls. 3d. to Is. 6d. per hour ! The effect
of such extravagant wages is, that they only work
for three or four days in a week, and seldom for
so many as six hours in a day and that when
there are more colliers than one in the same fa.
wily, only half of them will go to work at once,
the remainder looking on or drinking. The
high wages have in this last respect been of in-
finite injury to the workmen themselves and to
their families. Instead of saving any money,
the men have but indulged more shameful ha-
bits of intoxication, and their wives and children
have been worse off than ever.—The mischief al-
ready brought upon the iron-trade of Scotland by
these unprincipled and disgusting transactions, is
most sensibly felt throughout the country. Dur-
ing the present year there is stated to have been
made one-fourth less iron in that part of the king-
dom than the usual quantity, owing to the want
of coals ! At Brighton, too, it seems, the conta-
gion has recently been spreading ; the worthy
Chairman of the Mechanic Meeting there, was of
opinion that every journeyman and labourer
ought " to demand such wages as would support
C` his wife and family, without their working
" at all ; and those who could obtain employ-
" ment for three months only, ought also
" to demand as much for that time as would
maintain thian and their families in idle-
-44 ness all the rest of the year!" So that the less
work there is, the higher must be the rate of
wages. At the Brighton meeting, wo are told
by the Gazette. that The Times was called for to
suppiart some reasonings employed by Mr. Philips,
who strove to bring the " operatives" to their
senses ; but The Times was found to contradict
so flatly the statements of the " Trades' News-
paper"—God forbid it should not—that they
would not listen to us. They have got, we fear,
some Gusts among them—fellows who, like Gast,
the destroyer of the Thames shipping trade, have
been acquainted formerly with the Thistlereood
Reformers, and have regularly harangued at their

meetings. They must be put down,we say—with
a strong hand put down by the masters—or
there is an end of peace and property in Eng-
land; for all these leagues are but embryo con-
spiracies, to be converted, when occasion serves)
to politics, and politics of no honest end or cha-
racter.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.3
Mr. Moore, in his Life of Sheridan, quotes an
observation of Mr. Fox respecting a speech which
had been described to him in terms of praise,—
that if the Report read well It must have been a
bad speech. This observation sounds somewhat
paradoxical, but we suspect it will be found
perfectly just. To produce a strong impres-
sion on auy ''popular assembly, the orator
should ,never presume much on the capacity
of hii 'audience, and consequently the more
common place his ideas are, the more they are
likely to be generally acceptable. It would ap-
pear that the leading orators of the Legislature dur-
ing the last century were all aware of the truth
of the observation, for, with the exception of
Burke, who displays research and knowledge,
and who, in consequence, was deemed a bore by
all the Country Gentlemen, they seldom, if ever,
even by accident, stumbled on any remarks
which deserved to be remembered after the occa-
sion that called them forth was past. Nothing is
so fatiguing as the perusal of the Parliamentary
debates of a period some years anterior to that
when they are read. During the days when the
House of Commons was most. celebrated for elo-
quence, the leading speakers seem to have care-
fully abstained from the perusal even of works
from which any thing like a knowledge of any
particular science might have been derived. She-
ridan's ignorance was notorious. Though Smith's
immortal work had been hailed by the learned of
every country of Europe, shortly after its appear-
ance, as one of the most valuable gifts ever be-
stowed by science on mankind, we find that Mr.
Fox was utterly a stranger to it. ' General
positions of all kinds (he observed) ought to
be very cautiously admitted ; indeed on sub-
jects so infinitely complex and mutable as
politics and commerce, a wise man hesitates at
giving too implicit a credit to any general maxim
of any denomination." This determination not
even to inquire whether there were any rules of
general application in the matters above alluded
to, is certainly calculated to excite surprise in the
present day. But whatever may be thought of
the determination, it will be allowed that the
state of vagueness and uncertainty which result-
ed from the exclusion of all positive science, left
the orator a boundless field for debate. The mea-
sure which he reprobated one year, he could ad-
vocate the next, without at all being inconsistent
with himself.

[MORNING HERALD.]
The British Annuity Market still continues in
a state of languor, with little business doing, but
an opinion seems to be vet), generally prevalent,
that the stagnation will terminate in a decline.
As far as yesterday's quotations can be taken in
proof, this opinion is borne out ; Consols for Ac-
count having opened at 88/, and closed at 874,
and for Money 871. The scarcity of money in-
creases daily, and out of doors nothing but first-
, rate commercial paper is discountable. It was
reported yesterday that the Bank Directors had
resolved to discontinue making advances on %ae-
posits of their own Annuities, by which means
it is calculated nearly another half million of
their paper will be withdrawn from circulation.
If this measure be carried into effect, it is be.:
lieved that it will put a number of the Stock
Exchange gamblers to their shifts. It is said
that many of these crafty gentry contrived to get
possession of Bank Annuities, for the sole pur.
pose of borrowing upon them when they could
no longer obtain advances on Consols and Foreign
Bonds. There was no movement of consequence
in Trans-atlantics, but it was pretty evident,
from the general appearance of the Market, that
if Consols recede, most of them will speedily fol-
low. There was some more dabbling in Mining
Shares, and a new one, called the Royal Sisters,
was brought out ; but so ungallant were the
gamblers to these ladies, that it is said not even
a solitary 1001. bit of paper was disposed of.
Another Account.—Throughout yesterday the
Market exhibited a very melancholy appearance ; the want of
money was severely felt, and every description of Security in
consequence declined in value. There was a considerable quan-
tity of Money Stock thrown on the Market for sale; neverthe-
less Consols kept up their price much better than might have
been expected; for, after the Bears had strained every nerve to
send Consols down, they did not succeed in lowering them more
than I per cent., their last price being 88k.—The various Fo-
reign Funds remained in a very steady state ; in fact, the busi-
ness doing in them was very trifling, and the fluctuations were
upon a very small scale. A more dull week than the present
was perhaps never known on the Money Market. The Scheme-
mongers were very unhappy yesterday. A new thing called
the Sisters was produced, but they did not attract, and there-
fore no premium could be got for them. From the state of the
Market it would appear that the Sisters must confer their fa.
yours gratis, if at the prices of Shares were nominal.
It is supposed that most of the schemes will be extinct before
this day three months, John Bull having set his face so com-
pletely against them. The lawyers are in a terrible pucker lest
they should not get their hills for concocting these iniquitous
thing% paid. They are terribly afraid that the secretaries will
pocket all the loose money. The stock brokers say that the law-
yers are much to be pitied, for that they really will be out of
pocket, so far as the deed stamps are concerned.

[BRITISH PR I.:SS.]
The Paris Papers of Sunday have been re-
ceived ; but their contents, with the exception of
the financial article from the illoniteur, of which
we have given the substance in another column,
are entirely without interest. The contrary winds
have prevented the arrival of the Papers of Mon-
day and Tuesday, which ought to have reached
us last night by our usual express.

Thera was a great langour in Consols almost
the whole of yesterday morning. They opened for the Novem-
ber Account at 88k, and there were alternately buyers and sel-
lers at that price for the first hour of the Market. The price
afterwards was 88, buyers; and that, at the close of the day, was
871 88. The causes assigned for this depression were, that the
Equitable Assurance Company, in fulfilment of certain in-
ternal arrangements, was selling stock to a large amount, and
that the Bank was calling in their advances on Bank Stock.—
These reasons operated powerfully upon the Market, and heavy
sales were made during the middle and latter part of the day.—
The Foreign Market had verylittle business doing in it, and
the price in most of the Securities drooped. Greek Bonds were
29i, and Colombian Bonds 741 i 5. Mexican Scrip was 81 dis-
count; Brazilian ditto, Bif discount; and Guatemala ditto,
54f discount. Danish Bonds were 66h, and Old Spanish
Bonds were 17} 4. The Share Market transactions were very
.unimportant. Bolivar Shares were 29, Anglo-Mexican ditto
36, and those of the Brazilian Company 1 premium.—The
Colonial Market was very dull. There were scarcely any Shares
of Sugar, Coffee, or Rum- The accounts from the manufac-
turing districts continue fovousable,—(lbid.)

POLICE INTELLIGENGE.
INFORMERS AND COAL MERCHANTS.

HATTON-GARDEN.—A case of very considerable interest
to persons in the coal trade, and indeed to the public in ge-
neral, came on to be heard, yesterday, before Mr. Sergeant
SSLLON.

Mr. Henry Dunkin, a respectable coal merchant, residing in
Upper Thames-street, appeared to a summons, issued on the
complaint of Thomas Little, for having delivered coals from a
waggon, without being provided with a regular bushel mea-
sure, agreeable to the 112th section of the 47th George 111.,
commonly called " The Coal Act."
Mr. Dunkin was accompanied by his Solicitor, and in an.
swer to the charge alleged in the information, a general plea of
" Not Guilty" was put in.
Thomas Little was then sworn, and was proceeding to state
the points of his case from his common-place-book, or diary of
observations, when

Mr. Dunkin's Solicitor objected to the reading of any me-
moranda as legal evidence.
Sergeant SELLON (to the witness)—When did you make
those notes from Which you are reading ?
Little—l made them at the time, your Worship, merely to
assist my memory.
Sergeant SELLON—if made at the time, they are admissible.
Little then went ors with his evidence. On the 12th October,
he saw a waggon of coals coming from Bridge-street, Black-
friars, without any bushel measure being annexed to it ; he fol.
lowed it, and saw the coals fully delivered at No. 8, Gray's.
Inn-terrace, Gray'-Inn-lane. He then asked the driver where
was his bushel, and the man said he had not got one, but that
his master told him if he could to getone on the way, and if not
to manage without it. On the head of the waggon was painted,
" Henry Dunkin, Shad Thames, No, 102,142."
William I'odger, (the informer) corroborated the statement
of his worthy colleague in every particular.
The Solicitor then took an objection to the form of the sum-
mons, which in general terms expressed the offence as being
contrary to the Statute, &c., without specifying under what
particular Act the information was laid, and therefore his client
was quite at large as to his defence.
The informer observed that it would be found that it was the
same in form as directed by Act of Parliament.
Serjeant SELLON, on referring to the Act, said that it was
not necessary to rely on any technical objection, when a better
ground of defence was presented on the broad principles of the
case. The words of the Act were very explicit upon this point
—they required that it should be proved in evidence that the
party accused was either a " vender, dealer, or carrier of coals for
sale." Now, so far as the complainant and informant had gone,
they had not shown Mr. Dunkin in any of those capacities ; had
the information been laid against the carman, it might have been
sustained, because he was actually the carrier, and would have
been liable to a penalty of 10/. if convicted, whilst the owner or
principal was subject to a penalty of 20/. But in the present in.
stance, it was not enough to say that the name of Henry Dunkin
was on the waggon, to prove that the coals were either vended
or carried by him, because it was quite possible that a man en-
gaged in any other profession or calling, who had a waggon at
command, might have lent it to another person for the trans-
fer of coals.

Mr. Dunkin's Solicitor said he would Undertake to prove
that Mr. Dunkin was a corn dealer, and had never sold a coal
in his life, and that the waggon had actually been lent for the
very purpose stated by his Worship.
Mr. Sergeant SELLON said that if the informant could not
bring further evidence on this point, the case should be die-
missed.

This information had a paralytic effect on the faculties of
these worthies—they were dumbfoundered, and the information
was accordingly quashed.

CRUELTY TO AN ASS.

LINIoN-Ham..—Yesterday, a man named Turner was
brought before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. BALLAXTYNE,
charged with cruelty to an ass, his property. A Mr. Gom-
pertz proved the case. lie stated, that on the 17th inst., as he
was passing along Clayton-street, Kennington, he observed the
defendant beating an ass, which was heavily laden, and which
he was the driver of, in a brutal manner. The poor ass seemed
to be getting along with his heavy load as well as he could,
without exhibiting any fits.of stubbornness ; but notwithstand-
ing, the defendant, who carried a long and thick stick, more
resembling a bludgeon than the proper instrument for quick-
ening its pace, kept beating the poor animal over the head and
shoulders in a very scandalous manner, although he (Mr.
Gompertz) could discover no visible reason, more than the mere
gratification of punishing his ass.
Johns, the officer, who executed the warrant on the de-
fendant, said, that upon inquiry in the neighbourhood where
Turner resided, he ascertained that he bore a most excellent
character, and had always shown the greatest attachment for
his ass, and treated it, in fact, more like a Christian than a
dumb animal. The defendant, he added, bad also a wife and
a large family to support.
Mr. Gompertz, upon hearing the character given of the de-
fendant, interceded with the Magistrate to have the warrant
dismissed altogether; this, however, the Magistrate refused to
accede to, observing that the ease of cruelty had been com-
pletely made out against the defendant, hut under the circum-
stances he would mitigate the penalty to 10s.
Mr. BALLANTYNE took an opportunity of expressing the
impropriety of persons bringing charges of the description be.
fore Magistrates, proving them, and afterwards either paying
the fine levied upon the offenders themselves, or interceding for
their discharge ; it was a practice that did mischief, and he de-
clared that nothing should induce him to relax his convictions
in cases which were proved to his satisfaction.

Gurt.nitaLt.—Joseph Ginger was charged with detaining a
501. note. The complainant, Mr. W. Furnell, an ostrich feather
manufacturer, residing in Noble-street, stated, that happening
to call in at the Sun public-house, in London Wall, on Wed-
nesday night, he found some persons playing at dominoes ;
in the course of conversation, as to their skill in the game, he
offered to play any man in England for a sovereign. At that
moment the prisoner entered, and haVing suspected him of
cheating him upon a former night, he added to his challenge
an exception against Ginger. t length, however, he said he
would play with Ginger for 501. a-side, when the latter imme-
diately cried out that he would bet him (Furnell), a sovereign
that he was unable to produce SCI. Each then placed a sove-
reign in the hand of a third person, and he (witness) exhibited
a 50/. note to the persons present, from one of whom the pri-
soner snatched it, and then declared he would keep it until his
sovereign, which he had fairly lost, was returned to him.
Mr. Alderman VENABLES—WeII, who has the note now?
Mr. Furnell—The officer.
Mr. Alderman VENABLE9—Let the prisoner look at it, and
say if it is the same he took from Mr. Furnell.
Ginger—lt is the same, Sir.
Mr. Alderman VEtfanuEs—Then give it to Mr. Furnell;
you are discharged, and let me hear no more now about this
public-house gambling-bet ; but let the landlord be summoned
for permitting dominoes to be played in his house.
The Stakeholder then applied to know how he should dis-
pose of the sovereigns ? The Alderman, lOwever, declined
making any order.

EXPLOSION OF A POWDER.MLLL.—Yesterday
morning, about four o'clock, the neighbourllood of Hounslow
Heath, Hatton, and its vicinity, were dreadfully alarmed by
the explosion of a powder-mill, belonging to Mr. Taylor, the
report of which was extremely loud : many persons rose from
their beds, and hurried to the spot, and on their arrival, the
powder-mill was discovered to be completely unroofed, and
all the wood-work shattered to pieces. It was known that a
man named Young was at work in the mill alone, during the
night, and great apprehension being felt for his safety, instant
search was made after him. The lifeless boa), of the poor fellow
was soon found blown a considerable distance from the mill,
and presented a shocking spectacle. It appears that the quan-
tity of composition at which he was at work was not very great,
or the consequences might have been still:more dreadful. The
means by which the explosion took place can only be conjectur-
ed. The unfortunate sufferer has left a wife and large family.
AMERICAN SPIDER.—There exists in America
whosehalf long) lo nsize
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'as observed by him at Martinique. It spins
no web, but lodges in the crevices of the
rocks, and throws itself with main force upon
its prey ; it kills humming-birds, fly-birds,
and small lizards, taking care to seize them by
the nape of the neck,
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