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VICTMILLING-OFFICE, July 30, 1823.

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their Benevolence, whereby they may be enabled to increase
the Number of the Society.
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-Full size tent Bedstead 11.65.-Bordered hair Mattress to
fit H. ls.-Mahogany Drawer, solid ends 31. 35.-Feather Bed
21. 10*.-Ditto, free from dust and smell, full size 81. 10s.-,-
:Six japanned Chairs of any description in oil 11. 65.-Best do.
Wash-hand-stand 165.-Ditto, Dressing Table IN.-Hearth
'Rugs 148.-3 ft. 6 inches Chest of Drawepi 41. 45.-Three-foot
mahogany Pembroke Table 11. IN.-Three-foot ditto on pil-
lars and claws 31. 165.-Mahogany Dressing Table 11.-Ditto
Bidett, best 11. 45.-Ditto Bedsteps 11. Bs.-Ditto ditto 11. 12s.
.--Ditto ditto 21. 2s -Ditto Box Glass, 2 drawers, best British
Plate 15g.-Ditto ditto ls. N.-Ditto ditto 11. 10s.-Ditto
Swing Glass, large size, commode 35.-Ditto ditto 55.--Ditto
ditto Bs.-Ditto ditto 125.-See Bed and Pillow ss. 6d.-Ditto
ditto 65.-Ditto ditto 75.-Tray Stand 75.--Long Mahogany
Tray 145.-Japanned Book Shelf 75.-Tea Caddy 10s.-Porta-
ble Desk 215.-Desk covers in number 145.-Music Chairs-
any pattern Bs. fid.-Eight Mahogany Chairs, covered with
horse hair, brass nailed 61. 65.-8 ditto ditto 61. 155.-8 ditto
ditto 71. 75.-8 Trafalgar ditto 91. 95.-Mahogany Sofa to match-
-71. 10s.-Ditto Couch 71. 10s.-Ditto dittoBl.los.-Ditto, with
Bedstead 71. 10s.--Set of Mahogany Card and Sofa Tables, on
turned legs, handed- in rose-wood 81. los.--.Set of Mahogany
Tables, two Card and Sofa, on pillars and claws 121. 125.-
Ditto, the best that can be made-to order or pattern 161. 10s.
-Handsome, 7 foot 6 pedestal, Sideboard, with carved
back 171.-Ditto 7 foot 161.-Ditto 6 foot six 151..:-Set of
Dining Tables, of the last patterh, 4 foot by 10 foot 61 11.-
Ditto, 4 foot 2by 11 foot 8, 151.-Ditto, 4 foot 6 by 12,f00t 6,
161. IN.--If Spanish, an advance of 31. 10.i.-Straw Palliasse
IL Is.-Tent Bedstead and furniture 31. 111.-Bamboo Bed.
stead and French elyptic top, with drapery and fringe, 81. 10s.
-Five.fuot mahogany four-post Bedstead and furniture, with
French draperies, lined all' through, complete, 161. 10s.-
Five-foot ditto, ditto 163. 10a.-Ditto ditto, with cornice, of a
superior make, 181. IN.-Ditto ditto, with gold cornice, ele-
gant drapery '201.-Drawing;-roomCurtains, of' the best Mo-
rine and Chintz, fitted for window, 61. 6d.-Ditto ditto 71. 7s.
-Ditto, of a superior and elegant style of work, 101. 10s.-...
Drawing-room rose-wood-Drawing-room Trafalgar Chairs
Ditto; inlaid with bUbl. 201.-Table' 2 Covers, and Sofa, 1111.
1a .-Ditto
I-nitto 11. is.-Drawing-room Sofa 61. N.-Ditto, 71. 73.
-Ditto 81. Bs.-Horse-hair Cushions, each ss. 6d.-Covered
iiittO 41. W. TH URNELL, Agent.
M':4311 DEALERS SUPPLIED.
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tci ail parts of Great Britain, and to the East and West In-
dies,.....Captaina fitted out, and merchants supplied with Ca-
binet Goods for Exportation.
,;* Apartments Famished at a few hours' notice, and
iiOUSCS two or four days.

FOR THE SUN.

TO THE POLITICAL ECONOMISTS.

It appears that the wisdom and labour of Succes-
sive ages are now to be abandoned, and rendered abortive by the
blind caprice and mischievous theories which visionary Econo-
mists are endeavouring to force into practice, and in direct
opposition to the remonstrances of those who have entered into
a most hazardous profession, and who have embarked their
.property under the faith of what has hithetto been considered
as indispensible statutes, "the Charter Maritima, the Palla-
dium, the tutelar Deity of the Commerce of England"—that
the plea for this Radical change has no better foundation than
a few loose phrases which are bandied about on all occasions :
such as liberal ideas, conciliation, reciprocity, and such like,
under the sanction of which they artfully prepare the poisoned
chalice for their victims. But everyone must observe with
what studied care they have avoided applying their sovereign
nostrum, which they soaurongly force on others,, to their own
cases ; add yet we have heard much complabit made from them
of the want of an efficacious remedy for themselves. Perhaps
Doctors are not much in the habit of taking medicine; and
this causes strong suspicion in others that their prescription is
far from infallible. Indeed there are still some common under-
standings who consider those measures humiliating and degrad-,
ing in the highest degree, and hope that ere long the country
will rouse from its Gethean slumbers, and discover that abyss of
destruction to which such measures lead. Having viewed with
astonishment the national apathy on this irnpornint subject, it
has caused me to look most attentively over the numerous Pe.
titions from the Ship-owners and seamen, which have been
presented against the alterations made in the Navigation Laws,
on the Colonial Policy, the Warehousing and Reciprocity of
Duties' Bills; and I find them all agree that on the great
questiori of Navigation, on which the whole hinges, that a pro-
tection is necessary against Foreign competition, and that the
departure which has been made from the Navigation Laws is
fraught with the most dangerous consequences to the State, and,
to British shipping and seamen, and will act diametrically op-
posite to those most essential interests.

After this full declaration .from them, there no longer re-
mains any pretence for the Economists to assert that the
Ship-owners and seamen, as a body, have not protested, in the
most solemn manner, against such alterations being made; and
they likewise protest against the establishment .fit a system of
seciprocity as a gross delusion in name. While all the sub-
stantial advantages are most decidedly in favour of foreigners,
they maintain that the British Legislature has no other means
to secure to them an equal reciprocity in navigation, but by a
protection to them on the same principles as are given to other
classes of the community, which are protected, and that pro-
tection they are in justice intituled to.
Therefore the measures which are about to be acted on, as.
=me a most serious and alarming shape, when viewed in their
-true and more enlarged sense, as if Britain was manifesting,
from fear, a general relaxation of opinion on her navigation
system; and that relaxation seems muted up with too much, of
the shopkeeping disposition, which is ever ready to sacrifice
fundamental principles to motives of avarice ; and a furthet
disposition ofrallowing the most humiliating concessions to fo.
reign powers, under the weak plea of conciliation.
Not warring with men, but with measures, and venerating
those laws, as we have been taught to do, let us cling to their
dying embers as the source front whence our vital strength bath
flowed ; let us endeavour again to cherish them into a flame of
resuscitation, that will once more infuse vigour into the whole ;
let us.carefully examine how this suicidal act comes reconi-
mended to us ; let us examine the question fairly and Calmly
if we can ; let us examine the opinions which have been given
on those-laws, and,the results which have arisen from them as
set forth by friends and by enemies.
Those who have a true British feeling may .not be so
calm on this subject as a cosmopolite, a commission-merchant,
or broker. A foreign Ambassador or a foreign Consul nut),
consider it as favourable to their viewsi. but professing a
strong feeling on this important question that has not yet
yielded implicit confidence to the golden dreams of swarm.=
ous speculators, nor to the illuminated visionaries, nor to
the vain self-sutlicieni pretensions of Political. ,Economists,
I will, in the first instance, qu'ote the opinion's of those who
have been ranked ainangst the bitterest enemies of Eog-
land ; anti it will itiogt certainly wear strange if we Lind
them coincide in opinion with our old statesmen on the great
value of the Navigation Laws of Great Britain ! which our
modern statesmen have just found out, are a disgrace to Our
Statute Book and Acts of Barbarism, and who all on a Sudden
seem eager to press themselves forward to avow what in the
jargon of the day is called Mote liberal firlings, and a morelizir
reciprocity; but what will appeal, still more strange, if made
out, is, that our Economists are pursuing the same measures
(under the erroneous and delusive information they are acting
on,) that our enemies, the illuminati of Fralice and Germany,
have proposed and planned, to haniby bar pride and subdue
Great Britain ! ! !

The merits or demerits of those liberal feelings we shall in-
quire into hereafter; let us now proceed to quote ilauterive,
who wrote from authority to excite till the powers of the world
against us, that the trident of the seas might fall into the hands
of the Great Napoleon lluonanarte. Wheit treating on our
dominion at sea, he writes as follois
" The celebrated Navigation Law laid the foundation of this
oppressive preponderance of the Navy and Commerce of Eng--
land—this unjust and hostile regulation induced a state of per-
petual warfare between the industry of the British and all na-
tions." Again—" England has contended for Colonies, Fac-
tories, Commercial Establishments, or Exclusive Privileges,
in all parts of the world, and actually acquired them to the
prejudice of all other nations, the unbounded and exclusive
enjoyment of every branch of industry, every source of riches,
and every valuable possession, whether territorial or comnier-.
cial, in the inhabited or uninhabited regions of the globe."
If this is true, then Great Britain must have benefited by
her navigation; here we find no symptoms of her energies be-
ing cramped by that law, nor of her having grown great in
spite of it.

Let ussigain quote from the same author on her 'commercial
tyranny. 4 fly this activity, an immense monopoly of the sale
of productions, she has suppressed or fettered the industry of
all the countries in Europe ; she has retarded the progress, and
imposed the most oppressive of all tributes upon them ; tyran-
nically depriving them of a most valuable right, the free exer-
cise of their powers, and at length establishing a political
tyranny as the natural consequence of her mercantile and peal.'
nary sway."
Taking this as an invective of en implacable enemy, can
there be, or need there be, a higher culogium paid to the wisdom
of those who framed and matured a system, which, if' national
greatness be the criterion on which our judgment is formed,
then what Englishman (not an economist) would require
stronger proofs ? But these liberal gentlemen will please to
take notice that the colonies and commerce, and the man.
time sway,-, share the same invective spleen, all are at-
tacked, and all must yield if British navigation is made
to yield to the enemies of Britain. The plan which Han.'
terive proposes to Europe in the name of the then French
Government to destroy this power is, that the commer-
cial intercourse of nations shall be exempt from every kind
of restriction, except with the trade between the different ports
of the same country and the Navigation between the Colonies
end Mother rowan/. And in order to compel England to
submit to those regulations, it is proposed, as regards the first,
that the Powers of Iturope should join to assert " a main
arm6e ;" and that to enforce the second they should agree to
font) a general Navigation Law, or a system of prohibition si-
milar to the Navigation Act of Great Britain, differing, how-
ever from it in this important point, that its operation should
not effect all nations alike, but that it should be exclusively
rested afainst England ! I
This as some resemblance to the principles of our Econo-
mists—the only difference is, that they have gone much fur-
ther than Hauterive; as the exclusive trade to the British East
and West India colonies are in a great measure indirectly given
up, and nearly
.all our prohibitory and restrictive laws on fo-
reigners' shipping are now to be swept away by a pretended
Reciprocity Act. And ditlirring from Bauterive's plan in this
important point that its operations may be made beneficial to
all nations who think reciprocity an advantage to them, anti
exclusively directed against Englsrui ! I by those who prefer
an exclusive vatetn,, Let us again quote from , another acute
'foreign writer, de Pradt, some of those passages, which bear

upon the subject, and whose intention in writing was, after the
war, for our destruction-had failed, *till to accomplish the de-
struction of British maritime power, by holding a congress
expressly for that purpose ; and the manner in which the
alterations in our navigation system have been made, and
evidently superintended and pressed forward avowedly to satis-
fy foreign powers, gives strong ground to, suspect that such
a congress has been held; and that Great Britain has been
urged, forced, or compelled to such a measure for such is
the fair construction of the argument used to adopt It. .
This writer, when describing the effect of the Navigation
Law, proceeds as follows :—" England is the poWer tlistin-
' guished above all other nations by the pre-eminence of her ma-
rine, by the greatness of her capital, and extent and fertility of
her colonies, over which she reigns. By her marine She keeps
the keys of them, holding possession by the same ingenious
hands which have woven the threads of it."
The real Neptune is the English Neptune ! We know very
well what England has derived from it—the empire of the seas,
which is never purchased too dearly !" Here then we find the
two great objects gained—naval pre-eminence and national
wealth. It is in this way our ancestors secured our insular si-
tuation ; England has had many severe struggles to maintain
this supremacy ; but in the last tremendous conflict, all the
powers of Europe, and the United StatesofAmerica, combined
in commercial regulations and interdictions, and in all the stra-
tagems of war, to ruin her commercial and natal power, (proud
Carthage was to perish,) when the British seamen, by their un.,
daunted bravery and perseverance, again settled the question,
as far as natal superiority can settle it. On the maintaining
such a race of men for her service on emergency rests the double
base of her power. It was under the conviction of that truth
which made the cunning Abbe de Pradt declare, " that war is
no longer the method by which she can be subdued. It is
, peace alone that can oblige her to make restitution, when nego.
ciatinn, more efficacious than force may obtain that which
force could not extort." These words may be prophetic, there
was no way to subdue England while her brave defenders
swept the ocean. In peace alone, when negociation more effi-
cacious than force, may obtain that which force could not ex-
tort ; this is a sufficient proof of the value of her ancient Ma-
ritime Laws. This should satisfy every Englishman, without
referring to any other authorities, although innumerable opi-
nions
might be quoted, both ancient and modern, which would
enumerate the greatest men England' has produced—the late
Earl of Liverpool, the present Minister's venerable father, gave
a strong proof of his attachment to them in the following ex-
tract They cannot doubt my being zealous in their cause,
for it is the cause in which I have interested myself from the
earliest period of my life. By the measures which have been end
are now now taken, it is evident that there are persons, who not
daring to attack the Laws of IVavigation and the Maritime right
of the Country openly, are endeavouring to sap the foundation
and undermine them, deceiving- the ignorant under various pre-
tences ! I wish that my infirmities did not prevent me from
affording the little assistance my talents might enable me to
give. But my principles aremanifest in what has already been
published, and in the protests I have entered against many at.
tempts of this nature, which one time or other will always be
seen by the Public."--(Extract from the Earl's Letter, 10th
March, 1807.—See THE Sux of 12th March, 1021.) Many
more opinions, and those from high authority, Might be added,
but perhaps the Economists may think that enough has been
produced, otherwise some of the supporters of the present mea-
sures might appear a little inconsistent,, should their forther
opinions be now quoted. A list of those who voted anti spoke on
the American Intercourse Bill in 1066- is now before me, and
the speeches are really all that an English seaman could wish
for in favour of British Navigation ! but the age o.* Chivalrg
is gone, and this is the age of Ecenomists and sephiids, and on
this important subject a memory that has passed through the
Letheen Stream may he both convenient and necessary—at any
rate, from the quotations that have been Made, it must.clearly
appear that our Political Economists, notwithstandtrig their
boasting, have not the credit (if any there be) of originating
this liberal system.-. But they have the demerit as Englishmen
of presging on this country, a system diametrically opposite to
that which they hive been compelled to acknowledge hiettaised
the character of Britain, as a Naval Power, higher than any:l
nation has stood tither in ancient or modern history--a :system •
which the wadtl in anus less more than once combined hostilely
ttl force Englafid to relinquish, and always failed to accomPlish
they have the detnei:itof having in profogied peicc most wantonly,
and without hewing any just cause, brought forward the spa-
tern which din illuminate of Germany and Prance (as set:forth,
by Ilauterive *rut others) hid struggled in vain to erect
system once most vehemently derreed by.tbose very Inca who,
are now found most urgent tier As adoption—yet by the way
of conciliation or iptimidatieti sortie friendly, hinti have been
thrown out that Great Britain must accede, oe,otheiwise would
be compelled to accede to the inettaure !!! Great Britain com-
pelled to sul»wt to such a measure? Great 11:ritain Compelled
to subunit to such a ineasere as tlifs (GM forbid), then are we
fallen indeed—this cannot ui 1411 hoPe that the time
is not yet conic when England has not eliergy,. strength, and
courage enotigh to resist it—if an appeal-wiismatle. If those qua-
lities are gone liberal feeling and of sminacy ba'Veso far stink
our national character that we are pusillaniimmaty to have such
a system forced on us (4 any nation or by the whole 11°1Y Al. hence) that will rapidly reduce our Mercantile shipping, the
nerve of our strength and glory—the safety valve of the State.
Take care ye Philosophers of the new school how you' manage
this speculation, fin over your heads hangs a wonderful respon-
sibility. If this dangerous and daring experiment is wrong,
the high and towering naval pre-eminence of Great Britain has
retched its Meridian altitude If that race of men which has
raised the naval pillar of our glory Is to be neglected anti re-
duced, insulted, and huinbled into insignificance, this Great
Britain will soon dwindle into little Britain ! .
The Political Ecenomits seem to have some qualms' of con-
science 'as to the justice of our old Navigation Laws ; some
have said gieyalre a permanent conspiracy against the intinsisiy
of all Nattonsi—others that they are a disgrace to our Statute
Book, and are infringements of the Laws of Nations.
At a future time I shall endeavour to refute such charges.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

MAIDSTONE, Aun. 2.

x: x.

CIVIL SIDE.-11.REACII OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE;

BOURNE V. FIMER.

This was an action to recover a compensation in damages for
a breach of promise of marriage.
Mr. ADOLPUUS (with 1010111 was Mr. PLATT) stated the
plaintiff's case.
Miss Mary Bourne,. a, sister of the plaintiff, deposed to the
handwriting. hanwriung. The defendant commenced his ad-
dresses to her sister about thrde years since. Witness Raw the
defendant about a tOrtnight since, and heard him then say, that
he had been then married to another woman for about ten
months. The lady was then far advanced in pregnancy.
' The defendant's letters were theU put in and read. They
contained repeated promises of marriage, and spoke of the flow-
fishing state of the defl:rlant business.

.John Bourne, a brother of the defendant, proved that he had
been shopman to the defendant and his partner, ?4r. Dixon,
a
until within the last month. The shop at (4reenwich had
good deal of custom. The defendant and his partnefemployed
three shopmen and two boys. Their receipts were from 254 to
301. per day. •
wilt.h'refalleerdieekreDmiirt g.oepnoi spmh
etcl„ce 0., , that he had been in partnership
when they dissolved partnership. l'lB2l, until lust Tuesday,
he defendant's family was
large, and he himself was poisessed of no property.
UrosS-extunined.— During the plaintiff 's visit to the defend.
ant, she slept up one pair of stnirs. Nobody else slept on the
her till break of clay. Witness bad
and after the family were
first floor. After the business of the day was Over, the defend_
were sitting tov...
ant used to visit the plaintiff in her bed room, lie used to go
into her room, and stop there more than an hour. In one
the defendant's remaining for
goneavi nil sseteontfait
wthheitiel.s
oaSiletp.i It:: iii f:attiiittitrle
andr' father's house,tile
defendant
itness was not aware of the defendant's in-
tention of marrying the plaintiff, and though ha observed the
leixoturramorinditnhaerypicatirnetuurtn,sotableliele.ronorm ,
he was too much engagosl to
hUend to the matter.
__

... .
This was_ the plaintiff's case.
3lr. tiultNEY (with whom was Mr. CHITTY) addressed the
Jury on behalf of the defendant.
Mr. Baron On A mast charged the Jury that the plaintiff was
entitled
to assm. r
itletlto a verdicohin liket.tTghedamages were peculiarly, for the
Jury ive
feelint
ought te
enter into their minds. l'he plaintiff had undou tetby ins.
tained very .serious injury; and in his Lordship's view of
the case, the fact of the plaintiff having submitted to the influ.:
MCC whieli the defendant might have had over her affections

and weakness in the manner alluded to, ought not to be received
as circumstance for mitigation.
The Jury deliberated a few minutes, and found their verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages 2501., observing that if the defend,
ant's circumstances had been better, the damages would have
been 0001.

USDAY, JULY 31.
dice Hot.ROYD.
nmenced this morning at eleven

NORTHU3IBERLANO
Before Mr. Jut
The business of the Court Wu
o'clock. Jury, • ,
Sir C. 11. 14. Mostcx, of &hie', Bart. Foreman,
Sir M. W. Ridley, Bart. 31. P: W. Clark, Esq.
Sir H. C. St. Paul, Batt. M. Bell, Esq.
Sir D. W. Smith, Bart. C.. 1. Clavering, Esq.
Sir Thos. Burdon, Kut. J. B. Coulson, Et+
Thomas Clennell, Esq. G. A. Askew, Esq.
Edward Craster, Esq. D. Brown, Esq.
C. W. Bigge, Esq., S. Ilderton, Esq.
William Burrell, Esq. W. Linskill Esq.
H. C. Selby, Esq.
W. Ord, I..sq. F. Sitwell, 13. sq.
F..lohnion Low Newton, Esq.
A. J. C. Baker, Esq. F. Forster,'Adderstone, Esq.
Edward Cavenor, aged 15, was convicted of stealing two
iron doors from the wreck,of the ship Pallas, then lying, on the
rocks near Tynemouth. The prisoner, it appeared, in corn.
pany with some other boys, went to the wreck on the evening
of the 9th March lain, and was taken Into custody a short
distance from it, by a constable who had
,been set to watch, and
thedoors found upon him. Several witnesses were ciamined,
who clearly proved the guilt of the prisoner, and the Jury, in
giving their verdict, recommended him to mercy on account of
his youth, which the Learned Judge said should be attended
to. Sentence of Death was then recorded against the prisoner ;
and the Learned Judge, in addressing him, expatiated upon
the great enormity of the crime of which be had been found
guilty. He had little doubt but the present prosecution had
been instituted more for the sake of deterring others, and let-
ting them know the severe penalties of the law, than for punish-
ing the prisoner. He hoped it would have that effect, other.
wise the law would most assuredly be allowed to take its course.
Civil', SIDE.
Be.fi)re Mr. Justice BAYLEY.)
LitcxsoN v. lionsoN.
Mr. Bnotrort.tx stated, this was an action brought by the
plaintiff; a labouring man, to recover compensation in damages
from die defendant, an opulent miller, residing near Illyth, in
this county. It arose out of the ill usage the plaintiff's wife
received from the defendant, a surly, violent character, who
was in the habit, from all he had heard, of acting upon the
impulse of his own fierce I:missions, and exercising summary
vengeance on any person who crossed him while in that mood.
Several witnesses were called, who were at the distance of
fifty yards from the stack-yard, where the assault was com-
mittee!. They saw the defendant strike the plaintiff's wife with
a stick. The parties then took hold of each other, and the de.
fendant dooned (knocked down) the woman. When she got
up, he struck her with his hand across the face. He afterwards
struck her severely with the stick, and when the witnesses came
up, they saw her army trickling with blood. ,
On their cross-examination by Messrs. SCARIVT.T and,
Wll.l.i.asts, it appeared that the 'defendant was between 00
ant), 70 years of age ; that the woman had interfered relative to
seine boys whom the defendant was puoishing for interfering
with the hay-ricks. The woman was above 40. The assault
took place in the month of December Vitt but (in answer to
Mr. Justice Bailey) they
,could not recollect whether it was be-
fore or after Christmas, or before or after the snow.
Mr. Chambers, a surgeon,. as waited upon by the vitirtian.
about the 10th of JanuarY last. She appeared bruised in, the
arms, shoulder, and sides. lie thought her fn. a state pf great
danger; be apprehended abortion. The bloWs seemed to have
been given by a blunt Weapon,. lie has received no payment
for his advice, but expects remuneration for it, and for his ex-
pences in attending the trial.
Mr. ScAnVETT aniituiveried with considerable
severity on
the vaxatious course taken by the plaintiff's attorney, whose
action alone it could be considered. The defendant was tti be
his prey in three, diffetent ways; first, by this, action on the
part of the husband; next, by the wife's indictment, which
woulil.come down for lila) from the Court of King's Bench.
next Spring Assiies ; and, eventually, by
.an action by the
wife irerself.for the asaault. NVould the Jury lend themselves;
to sucha speculation ? As to the,present action, his Lordship.
Would ;ell them there was not a tittle of evidence to support it.
17WItat hiss had the husband sustained ? Was it in. evidence'`,4leit, she was impeded, for the space of half an hour, from at-
tending to her proper concerns ? Unless, therefore, whatever
might be the nature of the assault, the luisband wait able to esta
blish the deprivation of .comfort and the incurring of expence,
the law did nut otherwise permit him to make the injuries of
Iris wife a spiirce of profit.
.31r. Justice IIArL Ey (in his charge) said, that unless they in-
ferred that, from the nature of the assault made upon the wife,
the husband incurred sonic actual loss, the present action did
not lie, and they were bound to find for the defendant.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.

NEWCASTLE.
On Thursday morning, .at nine o'clock, Mr. JUSticeB4Yr.EY
proceeded to the Town's Court to commence the business of
the Assizes.

Joseph Hedger and Atiehad Rurdii were tried for robbing
Thomas Brown, farmer, near Benton, on the highway, on the
14th of June last.,, From the evidence it appeared that the
prosecutor had been in company with the prisoners at a public
house in the butcher-market; that they had gone out with him
and left him at the top of what are called the Coburg steps.
When he had got a little way down, he heard some one follow.
• ing, when he turned round, and saw the prisoners, one of
whom struck him °ver the eye and knocked hit down • they,
then rifled his pockets of his watch, a red leather pocket book,
two half crowns a handkerchief. and a pair of spectacles.
They then left him ; he acknowledged that he was rather in.
toxicated. The woinan with whom iturdis lodgedoleposed to
his having been, out all night on the night in question', and that
a week after she saw a watch under his pillow, which she asked
him how he came by, never having seen it before, anti he said
it belonged to another person on, the other side of the water ;
he took it away, and she did not see it afterwards.
Thomas Forsyth proved, that on qpprehending Hedger hie,
home, he found in his box a handkerchief which he .acknow.
ledged to be his, and that he had, got it in exchange with ano.
tber person. This handkerchief was produced and proied by
Eliz. .31o1e, the prosecutor's servant, to be his, she having
hemmed it, anti otten washed it. The watch had been stopped
at a silversmith% where it was offered for, sale by a person who'
ran off as soon as any questions were asked, but the silversmith
did not thit4c either of the prisoners was that person.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the Jury returned
a verdict of Guilty against both prisoners.
A bill was preferred by tbe keelmen against the owners of
several coUieries on the Tyne, for a ninsanes occasioned by
the erection of spouts and staitlis on the river Tyne, but it was
returned by the Grand Jury, not a true Lill.

CIVIL SIDE.
wiLLotIGHEY v. JACIISON AND LYON.

This was an action for an assault arising out of
circumstances respecting the tenancy of a farm.
After a long trial, the Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff—
Datnageti 30 guineas.

'l'LlE I:1;EL Y N informs VS LiYrd
Datetts had a park in Sussex environed with a holly•hedge, to
FI3 to keep in any game ; and he adds, " I have seen hedges, or,
if you will, stout walls of holly, twenty feet in height, kept
upright, and the gilded sort but low, and in two or three
places one above another, shorn arni fashioned into columns and
pilasters, architectuxally shaped, and at due distance than
which nothing can pt!ssibly be more pleasant, the berry adorn.
Mg the intercolumw‘ ont with the scarlet festoons and en-
car a,"
M Mil CA r. RErieu.—A very healthy old gentle-
man was once asked in a mixed company, what physician. and
apothecary he employed, in reference to the unusual vigour and
healthfulness of his appearance; he answered, " t have in my
earlier days, expended a considerable forme in the purchase
of health, and in the continual search after professional skill.
and integrity. I have found it in combinations, as various es
its professors are numerous, but I have in no case Mundrayselt
so honestly served, or so completely satisfied, as with those I
have employed the last twenty years ; for during that time a
horse has been my physician; tin a.O my apothecary.
A blind beggar, above tiO years old, was
lately convicted before the Assize Court of Liege
of bigamy, and sentenced to five years' impri-
sonment.'