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LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 16, 1836.

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PURSUANT to opetyo of,t4 High fibiirt 8f
in a Cause wherein " BEN-
AMtI.LLIA P LLAN and others are Plaintiffs, and
WILL AM MANNING and others are Defendants," Joseph
Rawlins the son, and Ann Hutchinson Waliwyn, Mary Estridge
Hartman, Elizabeth Vanwyck, Rebecca Huteltinsom Rawlins,
and
Frances Akers, the dattallterly and ltrifiA 1-lilitry Rawlins, the'
grand-children of !til'ePh Rawlins, formerly of the Island of St.
C4Aristtlpher, and late of the town of Baltimore, in the state of
Maryland, merchant, deceased, who died in or about the year
1794, if living, and if dead, their respective issue and legal per-
sonal Representatives and the Heir it Law or the said Testator
Joseph Rawlins, are, on or before the first day of July next, to
come in and prove their relationship before WILLIAM 131i011G.-
nAM, Esq., one of the Masters of the said Court, at his Chambers
in Southampton Buildings, Chancer3-lane, London, or in default.
thereof they will peremptorily be excluded the benefit of the said
Decree.

FORBES, HALL, and BOYS,
Plaintiff's Solicitors, 6, Ely Place.

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In 2 vols. post Bvo.,
THE MONARCHY OF
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—New Monthly Magazine.
Richard Bentley, 8, New Burlington-street.

This day was published, in 2 vols. Bvo., with Plates,
TEN YEARS IN SOUTH • AFRICA.
By Lieut. J. W. MOODIt.
An interesting work, containing thn history of experiments in
South African colonitatiOtt, made by a person excellently qualified
for descrlblug human manners and natural scenery. It is, indeed,
one of the most amusing books we have lately met with,"—Quar-
terly Review.

Ut. 1411 E iitIBLIC JOURNALS.

Few Ministers have been placed in a more difficult
situation than that in which M. Mendizabal has stood
for §orite. tittle: He has had to contend, on one side,
against the whole Spanish atistdetricyi whose pride
has prevented them from co-operating cordially with a
man who has sprung from the people. On the other,
he has had to avoid the danger of throwing himself
into the arms of the democrats, who, he must have
felt persuaded, would hurry him into measures incon-
sistent with the future repose of the kingdom. It is
to a certain extent unfortunate that, although he has
held the Presidency of the Council for more than six
months, he has not yet been enabled to complete his
Cabinet. It is, hoverer, to be observed, that let
Who will be in the Cabinet of Madrid, matters go on
there at all times very slow. Three or four Minis-
ters are perfectly competent, so far as personal exer7
tion goes, to get through the whole of the business
devolving on the Government. They have few or no
colonies to look after ; scarcely any marine to at-
tend to ; they suffer trade to pursue its old path
undisturbed ; they may easily confine to a dis-
patch or two in the course of the week the
whole of their foreign affairs ; all matters relating
,tojustice pursue their old routine ; and the only de-
partments which require any great activity are those of
War and the Finances. The attacks, therefore, which
were made on M. Mendizabal, in the sitting of the
Cortes on the sth instant, for not having filled up his
Cabinet, deserve very little attention. There is no-
thing in the duties of the Spanish Government which
two or three active men might not discharge. Pro-
crastination is the habit of every body in Madrid, from
the Minister down to the lowest clerk in his office.
The Cortes seem well-disposed to enter upon every
subject except that on which the safety of the kingdom
depends. M. Isturiz, instead of calling the attention
of the Procuradores to the civil war raging in the
northern provinces, thought fit to explain, though very
imperfectly, why he had not entered into the Cabinet.
Nero fiddled while Rome was burning. So these Par-
liamentaryacombatants deem it much more useful to
their country to talk of their own personal affairs, than
of the measures by which the civil war is to be sup-
pressed. But while we reprobate this indifference of
the Cortes, we cannot close our eyes to the fact,
that M. Mendizabal will incur a serious responsibi-
lity, if he do not adopt some immediate and decided
course to rescue the Queen's Government from the dif-
ficulties in which it is involved. As a Minister, he
owes it to his own character—as a patriot to the wel-
fare of the country, whose destinies are committed to
his care—to sacrifice all personal feeling, and dealing
frankly by the people, demand from their representa-
tives that assistance without which, we confess, every
prospect of a successful issue to the present struggle
seems utterly hopeless. What matters it that M. Men-
dizabal may have passed his word as a Minister that
he should have recourse to no new loan ? Can he do
without it ? Is the welfare of his country, the peace
of the Peninsula, the stability of liberal institutions in
Western Europe, to be outweighed by the determina-
tion of a Minister to adhere, for the sake of preserving
consistency, to a promise given at a time when he was
not in possession of correct information with regard to
the state of affairs, and when he was led to entertain
expectations that have not been realised, and which of
course, dissolves any imaginary obligation by which he
might have conceived himself bound ? We anxiously
hope, for the sake of those mighty interests that are at
issue, that the Spanish Minister will see the necessity
of directly appealing to theyorte§pp nriiksgkl
to put an end to the present contest, and lay the foun-
dation of the future good government of the country.
—Morning Chronicle.

The Radical prints arc daily toiling with their ac-
customed honesty to revive the forlorn hope of a col-
lision between the Houses of Lords and Commons,
which shall be fatal to the former ; moreover, they
charge against other, and unoffending persons, a
partnership in this their own scheme of revolution. A
sentiment is palmed upon the Duke of Beaufort, for
instance, as having fallen from that Nobleman at the
Conservative dinner, on Wednesday last, to which it is
quite clear his Grace never thought of giving utterance.
The Noble Duke is accused of having avowed a wish
for the speedy arrival of that collision so loudly invoked
by the Revolutionists. His Grace has in this respect
been foully slandered. He gave countenance to no such
unconstitutional and unprincipled a desire. What the
Noble Duke did express was, in substance, his confident
" hope, that the House of Lords would still be able to
thwart the attempts that were in progress, to subvert the
Monarchy, the Church, and the Constitution. Talk
apprehensively as they might of collision between the
two Houses of Parliament, he for one would see if the
Lords were to be deterred from carrying those measures
which they conscientiously believed to be for the good
of the nation—let collision come as soon as it might,
they should mayrdly stand forward and do their
duty." These were the words of the Duke of Beau-
fort : this, at least, was the signification conveyed by
them ; and what, let us ask, is there in such language,
which any Peer of the realm need be ashamed of, or of
which any Englishman, Peer or Commoner, would not
have reason to be proud ? The Noble Duke, having re-
cently acceded to the honours of his elevated rank, and
become the head of one of the most ancient and illus-
trious houses in the empire, has, with a fitting sense
of what his political and social station required from
him, stood forward, and declared that nothing should
deter him from supporting such measures as he thought
most conducive to the public good, and that, whatever
collision might be threatened with a view to intimidate
the House of Lords, that House would " do its duty."
We respect his Grace for this manly employment of
the first opportunity which circumstances have afforded
him of assuming his right post as Duke of Beaufort,
in the face of his country, and reflecting that there has
devolved upon him a stake in the institutions, the mo-
narchy, the welfare, and honour of Great Britain, not
inferior to that of any existing Englishman. We trust
that the Noble Duke will continue steadily in the
course which he has now begun ; that he will be found
at all times a stanch defender of the Constitution, and
thereby draw upon himself the hatred of those who
would destroy it, as the most solid title to the regard of
all honest men, and the surest guarantee of public
esteem, and confidence.—Timcs.

Great credit is due to Mr. Lawrance for the manly
stand he made in the Common Council against the per-
petuation of the Smithfield market nuisance, and for his
clear statement of the loss which the City sustains by
its continuance. It says but little for the vaunted
pithlic spirit of that reforming and patriotic body, that
he was so indifferently supported. The civic body arc
fond of taking up the besom of reform to sweep out the
Augean stable of the State, but they would rather be
excused from sweeping away any of the nuisances
which they themselves create. The Hercules of reform
in all other departments of the State becomes within
the precincts of the corporate jurisdiction the protector
of abuses, and the conservator of nuisances. No one
can deny that a live cattle market in the centre of a
crowded metropolis, is, to use the words Of the City
Remembrancer, "an intolerable nuisance." It pre-
sents notonly
disgusting objects to the eye, but ope-
rates Prejudicially to public health and to personal
safety. If the City were under the government of a
proper police of health, it would be one of its first du-
ties to have such a nuisance abated. But Smithfield
Market is at length threatened to be removed, and great
alarm and dismay are thereby excited in the Corpora-
tion. What is the cause of this consternation ? Let us
just look at the facts. A public-spirited individual
erects a market, by Act of Parliament, on an im-
proved plan, and in an unobjectionable locality. He
is immediately denounced by the monopolising Cor-
porators as a monopolist. It may be true, as stated
by .Mr. Hicks, that the Islington
_Market Bill yeas

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applied for on the ground of competition ; but that
was before the compensation clauses were introduced
by the City ; and it is right that the public should be
made aware of the nature of the compensation. The
profits of Smithfield Market average about 3,0001. a
year ; and if this sum be reduced to 1,5001. or 1,0001.;
Mr, Perkins is compellable to make up the deficiency.
It is, therefore, sheer nonsense to talk of competition ;
the better Islington _Market is made, the greater the
amount of compensation. The new Bill, conse-
quently, goes to this, to take away Sinithfie!d Market
altogether, and to paythe Corporation ail they lose. But
out of whose pockets will that compensation come? Cer-
tainly out of the pockets of the public—the consumers—
ay, the consumers of theprocluee of the Islington Market
will be obliged to pay the Corporation of London the full
amount of the annual profits of their lost monopoly. It
must be admitted that the Corporation has not made
a bad bargain, as far as the compensation clauses are
concerned. The liberal and patriotic body that cries
out against the Church for not parting with its pro-
perty without an equivalent, will not part with a pro-
fitable nuisance without being well paid for it. The
disinterestedness of such patriotism cannot be too much
admired. But, say the advocates of Smithfield Market,
a monopoly is a horrible thing. So it is, most patriotic
Gentlemen. But when tolls arc fixed brlket of Par-
liament, and cannot be increased at the will of the re-

ceiver of those tolls, the charge of monopoly is absurd.
Waterloo-bridge and the Bridgewater-canal are just
as much monopolies as the new market. But when
did the Corporation first conceive a dislike to a mo-
nopoly ? Is it not upon the very Bound that Smith-
field Market is their monopoly that they claim the
large amount of compensation to which we have al-
luded ? The Corporation, indeed, admit that the site of
Smithfield Market would be more profitable if otherwise
appropriated than to the purposes of a market ; but then
the butchers would be inconvenienced. Now butchers
are generally very shrewd men ; and it will not require
their shrewdness to discover that meat must be pro-
cured. It is certain that the inhabitants of London will
not abstain from the consumption of meat, and keep a
" black lent" until the Corporation and the owner of
Islington Market have settled their differences. In

the mean time we apprehend the public will be of opi-
nion that this disgusting nuisance—this seminary of
cruelty and vice, is to be continued solely for the con-
venience of some dozen butchers, who find themselves
located very comfortably in Newgate Market. The
London markets'are, in truth, a disgrace to the country
and to civilisation. It is high time that something
effective was done to remedy this •crying evil. With
all the improvements which have taken place in the
metropolis of late yenrs, our markets still present to
sight and smell all the offensiveness of primitive bar-
barism. The Corporation have already expended
about 50,0001. of the public money to please " the
Market Committee" and their leader. They have been
defied to collect tolls on the petty enlargement they
have made at the expense of 6,5001., although,
strange to say, by their own Bill, brought in • last
Session, they proposed, as absolutely necessary, an
enlargement requiring 70,0001. These are facts that
cannot be controverted ; and the public interest de-
' mantis that these facts should be placed under the eye
of the public without gloss or colour. We perform that
duty, not caring who may be pleased or displeased,
provided the information be useful to the public.—
Morning Herald.
The most remarkable distinction of the present Ad-
ministration is the success with which it has la-
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state of apathy and indifference dangerous to the pub-
lic welfare whenever an important appointment is about
to be made in any of the departments or professions
in .ivhich the Government enjoys patronage. What-
ever failures the present Ministers May have expe-
rienced in other matters, in respect to .this it cannot
be denied that their triumph has been complete.
Whether the appointment to be made be that of a
Bishop or a Judge—of a Commissioner or a Mas-
ter in Chancery—the sense of security that a proper
person would be selected for the vacant office, which
was sometimes perhaps carried to the extent of cul-
pable and dangerous inattention on the part of the
community, is succeeded by an anxiety which, if it
be in some degree painful, may be expected ultimately
to produce beneficial effects. The apprehension of a
job, whenever the Whigs have a good thing to give
away, has progressively under their management be-
come more and more acute, and the expression of it
more and more distinct, so that some regard to the
claims and qualification of aspirants even by the Whigs
will ere long, it may be expected, be though neces-
sary for important office. These reflections have been
suggested to us by numerous correspondents of the
legal profession, who express with great unanimity and
force their apprehension that, in the appointment about
to be made, of a new Master in Chancery,,the inte-
rests of the suitors in that Court, and the regular and
efficient execution of its important functions, are the
very last things which arc likely to be consulted. One
correspondent, whose qualifications to offer an opinion
upon such a subfrct few men in the profession of the
law would venture to dispute, and who by character
and position is far above thc suspicion of personal or
party objects, informs us that of the various gentlemen
!
whose names have been whispered,).), way of feeling
the pulse of the Bar, there is not one who is compe-
tent to discharge in a satisfactory and cffic,..N it manner
the duties of the office. Several of out' coriPspon-
dents complain that no one of the present masters has.
that degree of knowledge of conveyancing the exis-
tence of which in at least one of the Master's
offices is essential to the clue progress of the business
of the Court, and the adequate protection of the
interests of the suitors. They state that much of the
business in the office of a Master in Chancery is con-
nected with conveyancing, and add that none of the
present masters know anything about it, in consequence
of which they sustain great Inconvenience, and their
clients very serious injury in thoae cases,.of very frequent
occurrence, in which objections to El tithe have to be de-
termined, or a draft to be settled. These stawinents,
of the truth of which we entertain no- doubt, are suf-
ficient to show that the public interests have not been
the paramount consideration in all past appointments
to this important Act, ttit (Agee Upon tlig adequate
occupation of which it depends almost entirely whether
Chancery suits shall generally be brougq!! to a Prompt
and satisfactory termination, or litigation shall be pro-
longed and aggravated to an. indefinite- and mincing
extent. It is, we believe, (lie anxious desire of the
profession of the law, though they dare not indulge the
hope of its gratification, that in the appointment of the
new Master care should be taken to remej.,": at IcaNt
in
some degree, the evils, the great and enormoug
evils, to which we have thus briefly referred. It is ab-
solutely frightful to read over the representations which
cover our table of the indecision, the delays, the ob-
jections to be subsequently argued before the Court,
the grievous expanse, the still more grievous uncer-
tainty and anxiety to the suitors, which now spring
out of the proceedings in the offices of the Masters in
Chancery. Nor is there much of consolation or en-
couragement in the reflection that, whether these in-
calculable evils are to be mitigated or increased de-
pends upon an appointment now about to be made by
the present Ministers of the Crown.—Mornine- Post.
Mr. Wakley, the Member for Finsbury, has just
published a Letter to the People of Enoland, on the
subject of the Reduction of the Stamp-duty on News-
papers, which, on his title page, he designates as
new project for " gagging the press." It abounds with
bitter expressions of astonishment, contempt, and in-
dignation at the • measure. It is excessively violent,
but, we are also bound to say, that it is also extremely
eloquent. It is, nevertheless, an eloquence which is
Wasted on a series of misconceptions,
• and on an inac-
curate view of the entire subject. Mr. Wakley takes
a position from which he draws inferences with which

weestiriuoe.uld be the first to concur, were the p osition
He conjures up a case of grievance which
S 110 t CXISt, and then exhausts the whole
artil-
of his vituperation ou the imaginary phantom.
To Use the language
malts the giants first, and they:
of Fielding's Tom Thumb, he
he slays them. In
plain lang,ttsge, the basis of his reasoning is, gene-
rally speaking, hollow and groundless. We have
nothing to do but to demorngrato that it is so, and the
whole superstructure of impassioned argument and
vehement appeal must fall straightway to the ground.
Mr. Wakley gives a tolerably fair history'of tile mea-
sure proposed by Government, up to the -time of the
meeting at the Foreign Office on the 14th of Watch,
the day pteeeding the notice which he lied given of a
motion for thetabolition of the stamp duties. But the
initiatory fact of the amount of the reduction proposed
by the Minister, Mr. Wakley either carelessly or pur-
posely, for the sake of his argument, mis-states. It As
not a reduction of three parts out of four, as he terms
it, which the Chancellor of the Exchequer's measure
proposes. The reduction is less. It is a reduction
from a stamp of fourpence, with a discount of 20 per
cent., to a stamp of a penny, having no discount.
This is a most material distinction, as the proprietors
of newspapers know well: it involves the question
whether, in accommodating the new prices to the new
beak of duty, the proprietors of papers, on the one hand,
may not lose a considerable part of their present profi.es,
or, on the other, open a wide door to underselling compe-
tition. It moreover leaves a door still open for un-
stamped publications. This error, which furnishes
scope for a great
,waste of the bitterness of the Hon.
Gentleman's eloquence "on The desert •" is air, only
one of the many inaccuracies wie,ch run through the
whole of this hasty, though talem:;ed, composition.
Mr. Wakley implies that the various clatises of the
Chancellor of the Exchequer's Bill have been sug-
gested or concocted at the instance of a few interested
individuals, either at the Stamp-office or in the Press.
He would have it inferred that certain members of the
Press.have had an influence in obtaining clauses which
they consider expedient or advantageous, without- the
concurrence of their colleagues. But the real fact, is,
that all the representatives of the London Press hav-
ing formed themselves into Committee upon the
ter, have acted with perfect community of sentiment-
in all their communications with the Chancellor of
the Exchequer on a subject of so vital an interest to
the whole body. A phantom is conjured up by
Mr. Wakley—some wood demon in the back-ground
—on whom he exhausts the whole vengeance of
his rhetoric—some diabolical agent in mixing that
imaginary poisonous bowl which he denounces as
pregnant with destruction to the liberties of England,
and to the future existence of a free Press. To him
he attributes the non-fulfilment of the Chancel-
lor's pledge for the " repeal of the 60th of George
3d, chapter 9, • commonly called the Trash Act
of the iedamous Six Acts." To him he ascribes the
239th secticen of the Bill—empowering forcible entry
into the prem;ses of an unstamped newspaper, ors
which we shall have a concluding word to say. That
he means some rea.l individual is quite evident ; for
he haunts the imaginaton of the Honourable Member
for Finsbury like a nights: are, and he appears at least
in the most vehement passages of the pamphlet half-
a-dozen times. Who does he refer to ? That per-
son, " by whose suggestions the Min:ster ignorantly
sins, while personally despising his character"—
this " fellow" whom he calls the " eight wonder of
the world"—this " monster"—this " doltish dog"—
this "assassin of liberty under the mask of freedom"--
who ought " to be tied to the tail of a cart, and whip-
ped from Somerset House to Whitechapel." That
he means somebody is quite clear ; why does he not
specify the individual ? Why does he leave hint the
chance, by being confounded with others, of escaping
the infamy which we admit, if Mr. Wakley's libeet-
cide charges are true, are justly due to him ? Why
does he. not in a manly way specify the individual, and
specify also the grievance? But the charge, as we
have said, is an imaginary one, and it chn be proved to
be the exaggeration of an inflamed imagination, on
the showing of his own namnillpt_ Thorn ;c•
tiOn•ot unstamped newspapers, under the pretence of
being pamphlets, at regular intervals. The object is
to put,down an unfair contraband traffic, which strikes
a blow at the rights of property and industry. Why
should the Hon. Member for Finsbury exhaust his
sympathies upon a future and contingent violation of
the law ? . The reduction of the duty proposed by the
Ministers ought, in the. mind of every reasonable man,
to remove all pretext for unstamped publications.
It is a strange sympathy which the Hon. Member for
Finsbury extends towards these foster-children of his
legislative partiality, and which he would seem to ex-
tend beyond the future period of their decease, and
even to their posthumous condition, after being con-
signed to the tomb of the Capulets. His susceptible
fear for them, indeed, stimulates all the inflated imagery,
and metaphorical fire al his oratory, on the subject of
the 239th clause. No words arc strong enough to
express his feelings of horror at the idea of a forcible
entry being made where au unstamped newspaper is
likely to be found. One would imagine, to hear him,
that every privilege of Englishmen was about to he
violated by a new law, which would consign all liberty
for ever to irreparable bonds. But the simple fact
is, that the clause merely protects newspaper
property on the same footing as other property
is protected by the excise laws, from being dete-
riorated or destroyed by contraband speculations.
Access to contraband newspapers is granted to officers
of stamps, exactly on the same principle as access is
granted to officers of excise to premises where illicit
stills or contraband spirits exist. If the analogous
power be made more peremptory or stringent in the
epese of the contraband' newspaper than in the case of
the contraband still, it is simply for the practical cause,
that in the former case more promptinrde in executing
the entry is necessary, inasmuch as in a few minutes
the types employed in the illicit publication might be
distributed, and all evidence of the offence obliterated
by the destruction of the copies taken from the distri-
`'euted types. Mr. Wakley would not, we are sure,
daia)erately advocate the perpetration of frauds on the
revenue, or sanction a system of contraband plunder,
when carried on at the expense of a large property,
fairly invested in the trade of a newspaper.—Morning
eldverliser.