The Sun.
London, England, 1825-07-26 00:00:00

THE ARMY.

Yesterday the Ist Battalion of the Grenadier Guards, march-4
from IVindsor to the 'rower, for the purpose of relieving the.2‘f
Battalion of the same Regiment, which embarked at the City
Canal for Liverpool, on their route to Ireland. The Ist Batta-
lion of the 2d Regiment or Coldstream Guards, marched from
the Birdcage walk for Windsor.
A detachment belonging to the 17th Regment of Light Dra-
goons (Lancers) marched yesterday from Westminster fix-
Brighton.
Detachments belonging to the 16th and 811 Regiments of
Infantry marched yesterday from Westminster for Harwich.
A detachment belonging to the 56th Regiment of Fooc
marched yesterday from Westminster for Hull
A detachment of the 55th Regiment of Infantry embarked on
Saturday on board a Leith vessel in the River, and sailed yes-
terday for Carlisle.

A detachment of the 77th Regiment of Foot sailed yesterday
from the River for Edinburgh Castle.

MERCANTILE SHIPPING.

Dant., JULY 2s.—Wind N.E.—The Java, for India,
Swedish brig Henrietta, and the Elizabeth, for Gibraltar, re-
main ; the rest have sailed.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 25.—Wind the
Catharine -Stewart Forbes, Chapman, from London, foeiew
South Wales. Sailed his Majesty's ship Camelio4,for,, ;he
Coast of Africa ; and the Elbe, Wearne, for Petershurglr.' ,
FarAttouTiz, JULY 24.—Wind E.—Arrived the Velottitr,
Brooks, front London, for Lima, and a frigate built ship,.uod-rr
Dutch colours, from the eastward, name unknown:. Sailed the
Duke of Kent packet for Lisbon:
LIVERPOOL, JULY 24.—Wind E.--Arrived- the Onto,
Williams, from Sierra Leone, sailed the 29th May. , The
Martha, Duchess of Richtnond, and-two other vesselS:Thi:lng•
land, were to sail in three or four days ; Charlotte, Shearer,
from Quebec, sailed the 14th June.

Arrived off Cork, the Florida, Tinknam, from Ni g, York,
sailed the Ist of June.
The Two Brothers, Graam, from Malaga to the Havannu.b,
was captured off Cuba by a Pirate, and the whole of •the ciew
murdered.

The East India Company's chartered ship 13oyne arrived at-
Falmouth the 21st inst. She left Madras the 16th February,
the'Cape the 9th May, and St. Helena the 28th May, with the
General Hewitt, already arrived.

CORONER'S INQUEST.-Last evening a Coro.
ner's Inquisition was taken at the Crown, High-
street, Lambeth, before R. CARTER, Esq. Coro-
ner for Surrey, on the mutilated body of a young
gentleman, named Mark Salter, who was dis-
covered lying dead in Larkhall.lane, South Lam-
beth, with his bead nearly severed from his body.
The deceased, e, ho was respectably connected,
was about 22 years of age, and had formed an
ardent attachment to a young. Ind y, named
Cooper, about his own age ; but his ad-
dresses had latterly been received with ‘cool-
ness, which had so preyed on his mind, that
a short time since he attempted to commit Ali-
c:cle, but happily was prevented by his friends
and relatives from perpetrating the rash act.—
Ilowever, from that period he became melan.
choly and desponding; and although every means
had been resorted to, to turn the dreadful malady
by amusing him, it seemed to increase in an
alarming degree, 04 he took himself daily.to
some fields adjoining Larkhall•lane, where be
indulged in the deepest melancholy, and...kept
himself secluded from all society. Ws mast-
ners were so singular, that he excited , the
notice of the inhabitants of .some hutmeai
near the spot he had chosen for his meditd.
Lions. On Sunday morning, as usual, the un-
happy young man was seen by a gentleman
nataed Burford, parading about in a very ques-
amiable manner, and all of a sudden he lost sight
of him, and on looking about he found him slt.
Ling, absorbed in thought, in a gup in the field,
and after acting very incoherently, he proceeded
into Larkhall-lane, where he was shortly after
found with his throat cut, and the dreadful in-
strument (a razor) was lying by his side, covered
with clotted gore. Evidence having beet► given
to the above facts, the Jury returned a verdict of
—" Insanity."

The spire of Neon Church, Shrewsbury, •was
•.
burnt down by lightning on Wedtiesitly
A great reduction has taken place in the price
of American timber. A cargo, or rather part of two cargee
of American pine, was disposed of by public sale at Leith' Oc.
Thursday, sixpence to ninepence a foot below what it could be
bought for a few weeks ago, and this notwithstanding an unpre-
cedented consumption of that article in this City and . else-
where. The reduction can therefore be only ascribed to very
extensive importation. The Leith Wet Docks are at prevent
nearly covered wira floating timber, and there is a number of
vessels in the Roads, timber-loaded, besides what are yet ex-
pected.—(Caledonian Mercury.)

At the Wexford Assizes, on Wednesthiv lad',
an action of some importance was tried, in which John
Nixon Nunn, Esq., was plaintiff, and Francis Wyse., EN.
defendant. t was an action brought by the plaintiff against
the defendant, for writing and publishing a falSe and ma-
licious libel, reflecting on the plaintiff's character ,as - a
Magistrate of the county of Wexford, which libel was contain-
ed in two letters, one (a private one) written to John flrc..
Esq., barrister-at-law, the other enclosed therein to N. P.
O'Gorman, Esq., being to the Catholics of Ireland,-and both
directed to the care of Counsellor O'Connell, Merlon-square,
Dublin.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 5001. and costs.

About the Ist June last, a Walrus, or Sea-
horse, was discovered on the rocks of Fierceness, on Eday, oth-
ney ; ur.d having been shot at and wounded by one of 111 r. Lain-g'„
shepherds there, it took to sea, and was followed by him, and
some others, in a boat.' The man fired a second time, and .had
the good fortune to pierce the animal through the eyes : he now
lay on the water apparently lifeless ; but, upon the boat coming
alongside, and one of the men catching hold of the fore-paw,
the walrus made a sudden plunge, and carried the man .to the
bottom with him ; and it was with difficulty, upon his risi.ag
to the surface, that he was got back to the boat. Another ef-
fective shot, however, enabled them to finish the animal, and
they towed him ashore in triumph. The skin of the walrus,
which is now dried, measures 15 feet by 14 feet ; and the .usks,
which appear much worn at the ends, protrude from the head'
about 12 inches. The entire skull is in the possessiob of Mr.
Scarth, Mr. Lain F's factor, and is to be sent to the Edinburgrt
hluseum. This is the first instance of any of those formidable
inhabitants of the polar regions having been seen off the coasts
of Great Britain.

ACCIDENT IN DUBLIN BA Y.— In cons.'quenCe
of :its being known that a nephew of Mr. Wright, of West-
morland.strtet, was one of the unfortunate' boating party dim.
sailed from Dunleary about three weeks ago, and of which.- tiJ
intelligence has since been received, two boatmen called ,On Mr.
Wright to inform him of their having picked up the body of a
man whilst sailing in the bay. Mr. W. immediately repaired
to Bullock, where the body was landed, and upon examining*, '
found the fat tart of the fade literally eatep -away.,-.and the Conn-
tenanee altogether so much disfigured that none of the features
were distinguishable. From other circumstances, however,
Mr. Wright was satisfied that the body was mot his nephew's.
The clothes were perfect, and consisted of a blue coat, black
vest, and dark cloth trousers, stripped red and white silk neck-
kerchief, and short grey stockings. About the person was dis-
covered a memorandum, with the following nr.mes:—" Sir Wm.
11 Mrs. Cope, Mrs. Casey, Miss Forth, M iles O'Reilly,
Mrs. Bloxham." There were several other names, which,
from the action of marine acid upon the ink, were totally illegi- •
ble. From those circumstances it is conjectured that he might
have been a steward belonging to some placket, who had. acci-
dentally fallen overboard.

On Wednesday morning last, CIiARLIS, the
youngest son of the late T. DYNE, Esq.(auctipoeer
of London), fell, by the breaking of the branch,
from a tree at Wick, and was so much injured as
to survive the accident but a very 'bort lilac.—
( Brig. litvo HeraklJ ' .

LONDON JOURNALS.

DAILY
ExtrGcts from the Nur-lung Papers, July '26,1825

[MORNING POST.]
The Lord Chancellor yesterday took consi-
derable trouble to read over all the affidavits
and documents in the question relating to Lord
Strathmore. Ws Lordship appeared most anxious
to avoid the least complaint of delay, and ex-
pressed u hope that no mischances (unnecessary
delay) might occur, as the proceedings of the
Court of Chancery are now watched with in-
•cressed anxiety. In all our Courts of Law too
rzieny facilities are afforded to those who wish
'to obstruct the course of justice ; too many op-
portunities exist, by which a dishonest suitor
may protract the settlement of any cause in
which he may be engaged : they exist in a
greater degree In the Equity tha❑ in the Com-
fit/CD Law Courts, but the Judge has no controul
over them ; they- must be remedied by an
Act of the Legislature, and in all probability,
the Report of the Commission at present em-
ployed in inquiring into the abuses of that Court,
will be the means of having them removed. Those
numberlh•ss delays are cuused by the Counsel,
-who; since the establishment of the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court, being frequently engaged both in
cases which are called o❑ in that Court, and in
others that are for a hearing before the Lord
Chancellor at the same time, are obliged to leave
one of them unattended to, which is then struck
out of the paper, and has to be entered afresh.
Some time ago a number of the leading Chancery
Solicitors entered into an agreement riot to ems
ploy any Counsel except such as would confine
themselves to one Cout t : we are afraid, however,
they have been thwarte:t by a power to which
-they were obliged to bow, for we do not
it rid that the regulation—judicious and praise-
worthy as it was—has been acted upon. The
evii we have here noticed has frequently
been reprobated hy his Lordship in very in-
dignant terms. The only topic on which,
it appears to us, that there is even the
atightest cause to impute—certainly not blame
even then, but only delay—to the Lord Chancel-
lor is, the time which he frequently takes to con-
side► a cause in all its bearings, before he will
pronounce a final judgment. But is not this in-
finitely more satisfactory to suitors, than to have
a judgment given quickly and given at the same
time unadvisedly ? There may be Judges who
make up their minds before they hear a case,
and who on that account never hesitate : this is
not the case with Lord Eldon, who unites with
the most extensive and profound knowledge pa-
tience and gravity of hearing. He considers it
no grace to a Judge first to find that which he
might have heard in due time from the Bar, or
to shew quickness of conceit in cutting off evi-
dence or counsel too short. No man can ac-
cuse him of meeting the cause half way, or giv-
ing occasion to the party to say his counsel or
proofs were not heard. And when heard, no
mein can say that they are not duly considered,
and properly estimated. What has been the conse-
quence ? Why, that out of the immense number
of judgmerts given by the Lord Chancellor, none
have been impeached. Is it not a disgrace, then,
to the age, and to the profession, that such a man
should be constantly attacked with a degree of
rencourous malignity, which ought not even to
he shewn towards a notorious delinquent Surely
a Sense of shame will in future restrain these at-
tacks; arid we hope we shall not be called upon
again to reprobate and denounce them.

[NEW TIMES.]
Much anxiety is felt in the City, as to the en-
forcement of the quarantine regulations. The ob.
jecforGovernrnent is manifestly to steer a middle
coorse between loading commerce with unneces-
sary restrictions, and leaving the health of the
country et the mercy of mere theorists. In-
dividual interests, on both sides, are of course
opposed to this wise and cautious policy ;
but' those who administer public affair,: will
be on their guard against partial state-
ments ; and if they have extended indulgence
where it could he done with safety, they will
take care that the precedent be no: abused, to
corer cases of actual infection. At the same
time, we do not think there is any ground to
apprehend that Government mean to tread back
their steps and recur to all the strictness of the
04d Quarantine Law. Before the recent Bill
was brought in, its bearings on our commerce
were well calculated ; and, unless experience
should altogether falsify those calculations, (of
which there appears hitherto no probability) we
may well believe that the spirit of the statute will
long predominate in this branch of our legislation,

from Sweden, and by two 46-gun frigates. The
first object of this squadron is, to cut off the com-
munication between Cuba and St. Juan d'Ulloa,
and by so doing, to compel it to surrender for
want of provisions. Its ulterior object is, how-
ever, we understand, of still greater import-
ance.—(/bid.)

[THE PUBLIC LEDGER.]
By an arrival from Jamaica we have received
a most interesting document—the copy of Presi-
dent Bolivar's Mssage to the Peruvian Congress
at the opening of that Assembly. That it is
worthy of the occasion, as well as of its au-
thor, we think it superfluous to inform those
who have studied his character ; but we would
recommend it to the earnest perusal of such
persons as may have been misled by fraudu-
lent insinuations, so far as to entertain doubts
of his political disinterestedness. If there be
any who have fallen into this error, let them
read this important Paper, and they will be
undeceived. After a rapid and glowing sketch
of the difficulties and misfortunes which befel
the Peruvians in their first attempts to establish
their independence, he congratulates them on the
progress they have made, since the battle of
Ayacucho, in the construction of their social
edifice ou the basis of independence and liberty.
Every thing had previously fallen into the utmost
anarchy ; the resources of the State were entirely
dissipated, and the fortunes of individuals left at
the mercy of the different adventurers who had
in succession usurped the management of their
concerns. To this state of confusion and inse-
curity has succeeded a Government of Law,
with Functionaries carefully selected from the
worthiest men of the nation. As this most import-
ant task—that Of selecting, in the first instance,
competent persons, devolved on Bolivar himself,
there is every reason to suppose that it has been
discharged with the impartiality and discrimina-
tion that so eminently belong to his character.
Thus a misfortune will be avoided, which at the •
very onset had polluted the life's blood, and
poisoned the existence of other free States—that
of choosing improper, though specious, persons, to
take the early management of their affairs. The
President,as being a stranger to the country, com-
plains, it is true, of the difficulty he has had in mak-
ing a proper choice ; but this complaint should be
received with due allowance for the modesty of the
man, which, in the event, will no doubt prove to
have been wholly unnecessary. In another place
he alludes to the necessity of re-establishing the
finances, which, under so well-constituted a Go-
vernment as has been formed by his care, and in
a country possessing such natural sources of
wealth, will neither be a difficult nor a tedious
undertaking. He concludes nith expressing his
determination, as soon as Callao has been re.
duced, and Upper Peru pacified, of returning to
Colombia, " to give an account of his proceed.
'ngs to the Representatives of the Colombian

People:

[IITUTISIT PRESS.!
We have great satisfaction in announcing the
important ititttligencP of 'the raising of the siege
of Missolonghi. The Ottoman forces were corn..
polled to nhandon all their artillery and warlike
stores of every description: They afro suffered

a Severe loss in mpn. This news was received

[TILE TIMES.J
The recent appointment of Norris to be
Chairman of the Manchester Quarter Sessions
appears to have given great dissatisfaction in the
quarter of the country over which his authority
is to be exercised. We should be unjust to the
Learned Gentleman if we boasted of knowing
much about his reputation for integrity or
talent but he has been the choice of the.
local magistrate* in opposition to Sergeant
Cross, a lawyer of more undoubted eminence ;
arid is said to have been elected as much from
the desire that he should have the benefit of a
larger salary, which, under a new Act of Par-
liament, fhe bench of Manchester Justices may
extend at their own discretion, as from any
view of conferring on the public the advantage of
those superior professional qualifications which it
must have been the intention of Parliament to
obtain by an augmented income. A judge chosen
by election—by local election mere especially—
we think would in most cases prove an unfortu-
nate choice. A bench of county justices, we
should suppose, may be looked upon as nearly
the worst of all elective bodies : the man who
humours their prejudices—who feels as they
do, and reasons as they are used to do—will
be more popular among such men than an abler
individual, whose range of intelligence is beyond
their ken. Justice Midas preferred Pan's piping
to the strains of Apollo, and would unquestion-
ably have raised the uncouth performer with cloven
feet to the Bench in preference. It seems to us that
the Crown ought, in all cases, to appoint the
Judges, high and low. If patronage be exclaimed
against, the answer is, that a stipendiary Chair-
man may be said to hold his office quarndiu se
beize gesserit, as well as any Judge at Westmin-
ster ; and that if we trust the King, under the
advice of responsible Ministers, with the appoint-
ment of a Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench,
at a salary of 10,0001. per annum, there seems
little. reasou for distruAting the judgment of his
Majesty's advisers where the salary does not ex-
ceed a fifth, at most, of that sum, Sergeant Cross,
it is asserted, will appeal to Lord Bexley, Chan-
cellor of the Duchy, against the Manchester
Bench of Justices.

reiterday in an official quarter, and we hope by
the q'eXt arrival to lay before the public a de- [monNtria IiERALD.]
tailed statement of the circumstances by which The anxiety expressed and felt by all ranks of
this gratifying event has been produced. The people, relative to the health of Mr. Canning,
ni!s from the Morea is equally satisfactory. The must be highly gratifying to that Gentleman.—
first movement made by Colocotroni has placed The Right lion. Gentleman's toe has only to
Ibrahhn Pacha in a situation of great peril. The ache, or' a 'physician's carriage to be seen at his
state of Greece, at the present moment, requires I door, or that of the Foreign Office, but the whole
the commanding talents of a General whose only town is in alarm (an alarm soon communicated to
object is the expulsion of the enemies of his the country), lest the frequent occurrence of
cot!' try from her fields. ft will be time enough illness should disable him from business or in-
to' found schools and promulgate a legal code duce his resignation. The press k called into
for the government of the citizens, after their requisition ; daily bulletins are published—and
freedom has been effectually secured by the es. next to that of the King, no man's health is more
tablishment of their independence. In General prized than that of this statesman, whose liberal
Colocotroni Greece has an officer equal to the and enlightened policy seems calculated at once
exigency of the moment. Ile has the faculty of to insure the peace of .the world, and to promote
governing the minds of his countrymen, and this the wealth, the glory, and prosperity of his court-
faculty must, by uniting them, lead to a success- try. Whether it be from a dearth of talent, or
ful issue of their struggle for life and liberty. j that the greatest mind will gain the ascendant
wherever its energies are called forth, there seems
Tile BrlexiCatt frigate the Stuart Castle, of 56 to have been generally in our Government, some
gung,:ainimanded by Captain Smith, has passed one person who was every thing, and the rest no-
down tihaitkefOr'Ve`ta Cruz. She will be joined thing.. Without going 'farther back, it may here-
las -by a. ship of
,larger j force Inanted) that IVlr.Pitt supposed to direct the
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affairs of every department; the Addington Admi-
nistration,having no head, soon fell to pieces ;—the
Whig Administration expired with Mr. Fox, and
now Lord Liverpool and his colleagues, though they
nominally preside over theirdifferent departments,
owe the reputation of their. Governments at home,
and its respect at Foreign Court•, almost entirely
to Mr. Canning. The life of such a man does
therefore become, in a more than ordinary degree,
important to the community ; and the press but
echoes, as it ought to do, the genuine feelings of
the country, when it announces with anxious
solicitude every thing which concerns an indivi-
dual so highly valued and distinguished. When
we say this, however, we do not mean to speak
of Mr. Canning as a statesman► without fault or
blemish. On the contrary, there are parts of his
past public life, which, we will venture to say,
he himself cannot look back upon without regret.
But his past errors are lost sight of in the splen-
dour of his present career ; and there never was
an instance to which the übi plura nitent, &c. of
Horace was more justly applicable.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY 25.
THOMAS V. MONTGOMERY.-QUEENSBERRY CASE.

Some conversation took place respecting this case. Some
money was desired to be obtained out of Court, the only diffi-
culty opposed to which was by a process which in Scotch law
was termed arrestment, whereby the money was prevented from
being paid to the parties whom the Court considered to be en-
titled to receive it.

The LORD CHANCELLOR wished to know the nature of an
arrestment ?

None of the bar seemed competent to furnish this informs
tion.

[MORNING CIIRONICLE.I
We have, from the first, expressed our per-
suasion that the Act to prevent Cruelty to Ani-
mals, would he rendered an instrument of frivo-
lous and vexatious prosecutions ; and the expe-
rience of every day serves to confirm us in this
opinion. With such bungling Legislators and bright
Magistrates as we are blessed with, it was easy to
foresee that a law intended to punish an offence
so vague and difficult of strict proof, would be
a measure of at least very doubtful policy.—
Where does necessary correction end and cruelty
begin, is the nice question ; and this query is
determined by the feelings of the spectator, which
may be brutally dull or morbidly acute. Ac-
cording to all the rules of justice, we ought to
have a clear view of the crime before we pro-
ceed to punish ; but this is seldom or never ob-
tained in these cases. The complainant thinks
that there has been cruelty, and this opinion, which
may be worth nothing or something as the party
happens to be a reasonable creature or not,
stands in the place of definition and proof.—
Let us imagine for a moment the infinite number
of silly things that persons with the very best
intentions will think in the course of a day,
and then conceive the danger of placing men's
liberties and property at the mercy of these un-
accountable thoughts. One man will think him-
, self a tea-pot, another a sugar-basin, a third
will think the Lord Chancellor efficient, a fourth
that Sir Richard Birrtie smote him on the head
at midnight with a silver mace, others, and
men of worship, will think shaving on Sunday,
either as shaver or shavee, a damnable sla—
in short, there would be no end to summoning
up the strange things that men will think, but
the commonest fantasy of all is, that whole droves
of them will daily be met with who actually
think that they do think. From these thoughts,good
Heaven deliver us, and let us be cautious how we
make them legal evidence against the meanest
of our fellow-creatures. Let us further reflect,
that there is at this moment prowling about town,
seeking whom he can fine, a worthy gentleman,
who, if he were suddenly asked, " which is your
right hand, and which is your left ?"—would,
unquestionably answer-44 Stay, now ; let me
think ;" but whose opinion nevertheless, by virtue
of an act of Parliament, is of force to amerce and
imprison his poor neighbours, who have to do
with cattle.

BRUCE'S BIRTII.DAY.-The anniversary of the
nativity of King Robert Bruce was celebrated, as
usual, on Monday the 11th curt., under the walls
of his ancient patrimonial castle of Lochmaben,
by a numerous party of ladies and gentlemen
from the town and neighbourhood. At four o'clock
the company, about 60 in number, sat down to an
excellent picnic dinner, in honour of the day. The
Honourable the Provost of the burgh in the
chair—Lieut.-Colonel Carruthers, of Denbie,
croupier. The cloth being removed, a number
of appropriate toasts followed ; among others
" The immortal memory of King, Robert Bruce,"
CC Sir William Wallace," &c. &c.„ which were
drank with that deep feeling the mention of
their very names must ever, produce in the
bosoms of all who cherish the remembrance of
the mighty dead. Nothing could exceed the
beauty of the evening—one party seated at tea—
another dancing below the ruins of the ancient
castle—the splendour and elegance of the scene,
and the recollections of the day, gave all that
harmony and elevation of spirit which must ever
accompany them, and it was only when the
shades of night descended, that the party left the
sacred ground, " where Bruce's turrets crum-
bling fall, the monument of ages passed a►i ay."—
(Caledonian Mercury.)

. Accounts from Panama state that the Blond,
of 44 guns, with the suite and bodies of their late Majesties,
the King and Queen of the SArrnwictz IsLarros, hid arrived
at CaMo.

AWFUL INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEAIII.--YPS-
terday morning, as an elderly Gentleman was walking along
Bow-lane, Broad-street, St. Giles's, apparently in good health,
he was observed to stagger as if intoxicated, when he fell back-
wards on the pavement. He was instantly surrounded by a
crowd of persons, who lifted him up, and perceived in his
countenance all the agonies of death. A surgeon was sent for,
while the unfortunate Gentleman was carried into a private
house, where every humane assistance was afforded; but on the
arrival of the surgeon, he was quite dead. On searching his
pockets. some gold and silver monies were found on him, toge-
ther with a valuable silver watch, and sonic letters, from which
it appeared he had been transacting business of a private na-
ture at the West End of the town. It is not positively known
who or what he was. The name of " Picton, Old-street," was
on one of the letters. He is of portly appearance, with pow-
dered hair, and of gentlemanly aspect, dressed in black. Green,
the beadle, was dispatched to Mr. Stirling, the Coroner, and
ordered to make every inquiry.

PIGEON ANECDOTE.--A carrier pigeon being
killed on its way from Scandaroon to Aleppo, the letter con-
veyed by it, instead of reaching the person for whom it was in-
tended, fell into the hands of an European merchant of a dif-
ferent nation. It contained information of the excessive price
to which gall-nuts, the most valuable article of commerce pro-
cured from Aleppo, had risen in Europe. The merchant who
had thus obtained the notice, immediately bought up all the
gall-nuts he could find, and by this means acquired a very con-
siderable gain. The circumstance naturally produced a great
deal of jealousy and ill-will among the Europeans, and at length,
to prevent the chance of a repetition of such dishonourable con-
duct, it. was resolved by them, that in future no couriers of the
kind should be used. Since that period, therefore, the practice
has been discontinued. be .pigeons had been known to Per-
form the journey in two: hours and a half. The distance be.
tureen the• two plaoe is between 60 and. 70 miles, in a straight
line. • . .

Mr. TREstovE observed, that there was this essential dif-
ference between the process of arrestment in Scotland. and a
somewhat analogous proceeding in the Lord Mayor's Court—
that in the latter the party attaching the funds was bound to
proceed ; whereas, according to the Scotch law, the party suing
out an arrestment was not bound to follow it up ; so that the
impediment might be delayed ad infinituna.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that he must look into
his Scotch law-books : in the meantime he wished the Counsel
on both sides (one of whom was Mr. Murray, of the Scotch
Bar) to prepare themselves with as much information as they
could procure on this point.
Mr. MURRAY replied, that being about to depart for Scot-
land in a steam-vessel in fl day or two, he feared he could not
comply with his Lordship's request.
The Loan CHANCELLOR would not be so unreasonable as
to-expect, if that were the case, that he should read in a day or
two what would require at bast four years.
Subsequently it was agreed that the sums upon which no
arrestment had been placed should be paid out of Court, and
that the Master should consider and report upon the litigated
item.