The Sun.
London, England, 1840-11-03 00:00:00

14IIFIRTMI LONDON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 1810.

CHANCERY COURT-(THIS DAY.)

lIAWKSWORTII V. BRA MMALI, -JUDGMENT.

, .
The Lotto CHANCELLOR gave iudginent this inorilin:;•
this appeal, which came before the Cent i,revious to ii►e
long vacation. The case came before his Lordship u;A:i
appeal from the judgment of his Honour the Vice-Chan-
cellor, decreeing the dissolution of a partnership carried
on between the plaintiff and defendant, and directing the
partnership accounts to be taken upon the footing of an
award. The defendant app•aled from this decision, upon
two grounds, insisting, in the first place, that the Court had
no jurisdiction, on account of the award not being made a
rule of the Queen's Bench within the prescribed time ;
and, secondly, that the Court. could not interfere, because
the arbitrators had not taken an account of the stock and
profits of the partnership. His Lordship was clearly of
opinion that the objections taken by the appellant were not
sustainable ; that he had failed in impeaching the decree
of his Honour the Vice-Chancellor, and the appeal, therc-
fore, must be dismissed, with costs.

EASAM V. APPLEFORO—JUDGMENT.
HIS LORDSHIP also gave judgment in this case, which
likewise came before the Court upon appeal from
the decision -of the Vice-Chancellor. The only
question in the case was, wheiher the sum of
2,7G01. was appcktted by the will of Mary Ann Easam,
or constituted part of the residue of the es:ate of
Matthew.- Easam. His Honour the Vice-Chancellor de-
creed that the amount in question was not appointed by the
will of Mrs. Easam ; and from that de&sion the appJlant
rouf!ht t'As appeal. The Lord Chancellor b,ing clearly
of opidon that the decree below was correct, ordered itr,
aili,mation, and dismissed the appeal with costs.
The Court, alter disposing of several appeal n ()lion;
totally devoid of interest, proceeded with the hearing of
lunatic petition 4. The petition in the matter of Coates's
patent was delayed till Thursday.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

THE QUEEN V. THE COMMISSIONERS OF CHELTENHAM.

Mr. D. POLLOCK moved for a lute to show cause why
a writ of mandamus. should not issue, directed to the de-
fendants, and commanding them to hold a meeting, and
make a rate. [t appeared that early in the present year
the defendants had made a rate of 9d. in the pound, which
stool for hearing before the Court of Queen's Bench, cn
a writ of certiorari. The Commissioners accordingly
gave notice that a valid rate having been questioned, they
would not make another rate until the Court had deter_
mined upon the validity of the former rate. Six years ago
the Commissioners had entered into a contract with the
Company to light the town of Cheltenham, by which the
Company were bound t,.) light the town, and the defendants
to make quarterly payments. In the month of August
last, a sum of 1,e3001. being due to the Company, they
gave notice that unless a rate was made, they would dis-
continue lighting the town, and a number of the most re-
spectable and influential inhabitants addressed a requisition
to the Commissioners, to hold a meeting and make a rate,
but they returned an answer similar to that already stated.
The inhabitants were consequently driven to that Court to
compel the Commissioners to make a rate.
Lord DENMAN—I think you have stated enough to
entitle you to the rule.—Rule granted.

grouted that the verdict was returned in misapprehension
oft the Judge's directimq ; the Lord Chief Justice 11,:ving
said that the action r. ,s very prc:;crly brought--that the
conduct of the dcf2i.ilant I.li:warrantable, sod the
slander of a very aggravat,:d nature ; but that it tv..s only
the object. of the plait:diff to vindicate his chat-cacti-6 and
therefore they shcu!d cive such damages as ought appear
The „Lay being or odinion that he sustained
a lea'°""ble c"raii,snati:4l for tbe ' injur y he had sus:aifi.:.l.
no Injury, tee not having been believed by any one, gave so scriFl
a sum, itt ignorance of the law, which in that case left the
plaintiff to pay his own costs.
The Lotto CIIIEF JUSTICE thought it must appear rather
a hard case for Mr. i%leers to be saddled with the costs ;
but the Jury were clearly of opinian that no one believed
the slander propagated by
Griffith, or that the plaintiff
swindled the emigrants, in whose affairs he was employed
under the Commissionersof Ernigrztion. Indeed it was
proved that he had behaved with integrity and great kind-
ness. But the Jury had rirht to take the question of
costs into their consideration, 'hey had no right to give
the plaintiff higher damages than they thought him justly
entitled to solely for the purpose of carrying his costs,
contrary to tho intention of the law.—Rule refused.

LANE U. BURGHART.
The defendant had
u-veli to the plaintiff an undertaking
in writing to securethe payment %I '761., the amount of
a debt, for which Lane at the time had caused General
Bacon to be taken in execution ; the condition of the
undertaking being, that the plaintiff should thereupon re-
lease the General from custody. But contemporaneously with
the release of the General, Lane insisted on and obt,ined
from him a warrant of attorney for the amount, payable by
instalments. These not having been fully paid, the action
was brought upon the defendant's undertaking, and the
verdict was for the plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL now moved for a rule to ent, r
a nonsuit on the ground that the defendant's undertaking
was released by the fact that the discharge of Bacon did not
take place upon it, but upon the General's own fresh secu-
rity in the form of a warrant of attorney.—Rule granted.

NEWTON V. HARDY.
Mr. CIIANNELL applied for a rut.. nisi for an attachment
against Anne Pizer for contempt, Mrs. Pizer having been
subveenaed to attend the trial of this case at York, and hay.
irig been conveyed at the expenec of the plaintiff from
Ripon to York, and maintained in the latter city for some
days, refused on the day of the trial to go into Court un-
less she received before hand the sum of 91. The plain-
tiff not choosing to give this sum, lost the advantage of
her evidence, which was stated in the affidavits to be ma-
terial.

The COURT held that Mrs. Pifer was entitled to make
.1 demand for her expenses hack to Ripon, alai as it did
not appear in the tftidavits that a.reasonatile sum_scas of-
fored, or indeed that any tender: was made to Ler by the
plaintiff, the attachment must he refused.
The Court rose at half-past one o'clock.

XCHEQUER COURT-THES DAY.

The Curt was occupied the whole of this morning with
e Peremptory paper, in which there was no case of public
Ito est.

The rules in Slade v. BarthOlornew, J,fferson v. War-
lington, oxd Thomas v. Puntan were discharged.
No Couiisel appearing for the defendant in Irwin v.
Lord Balcarras, the rule was made absolute.

THE MARKETS.--(THIS DAY.)

COLONIAL MARKET.

There was only a limited business transacted in produce
privately, and the public sales were of little moment ; but
prices were firm for all articles. The i►nports were large.

TEA MARKET.

Prices were firmer, and the market assumed a more ani-
mated appearance with a slight advarce in some instances.
The specuMive price ~of Company's Congou was 2s. .31d.
per lb. The stock is now very large, but it is the epinit n
of the best-informed persons that it will be reduced to a
very low ebb before the trade with China is resumed.
TALLOW MARKET.

The demand was limited for P.l. Candle. Both *on the
;pot and for arrival prices on-the decline.
WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.

A fair quantity of Hay was pitched, and the trade was
moderately brisk. Clover 41 to 51. 123. ; Meadow Hay
3/. to 4/. 103. ; Straw 30s to 323. per load.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING7(TIIIS DAY.)

LONDON, Nov. 3.—Wind this day at noon, moderate
breeze from the Eastward, and hazy weather.
LIVERPOOL, Nov. 2.--Wind S. S. E.—Arrived the Co-
lumbian, Clarke, from Mobile. Off • port, the Castrian,
from Bombay ; Donalds, Zapoti.. Sailed, the William
Gilles, Clark, for Bombay ; Heroine, Sister, Lima; Se-
nator, Pike, New Orleans. Put back, the Henry, Africa.
PorersmouTli, Nov. 2 —Wind S. to S. E.—Sailed the
British Queen, Roberts, for New York ; put back Dionesia
Catherine, Yorton, Batavia, with loss of fore-yard.
DOVER, Nov. 2.—Arrived off port the Elizabeth, Mans-
field, from the Mauritius ; Elmins. Baak, Dixcive (Africa).
MARGATE, Nov. 2.—Arrived off port the Caroline, Wil-
liams, from Singapore.
CowFs, Nov. 2.—Put back Lion, Smith, Bombay.
POOLE, Nov. 2.—Arrived Anglieana, Haynes, Quebec.
HULL, Nov, 2.—Wind S. by W. fresh gales.—Ar-
rived the Harrison, from Chilton ; Macgregor, Quebec;
Perseus, Rouen; Eleanor, Martin, Miramiehi; Markham,
Quebec.

PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 2.—The Christine Louise, Mo-
rison, bound to Valparaiso, has come into the harbour to
be coppered.
WIIITST A BLE, Nov. 2.—The Victory, from Bangor to
London, is on shore on the Spaniard Sand. Part of the
cargo has been thrown overboard to lighten her. A steam
!ug has been sent to her assistance.
STRANRAER. OCT. 31. —The Nerves, Williams, from
Falmouth to Gla.gow, got on the Ebb-stem., but was as-
sisted off by the Maid of GAllOway"(i.tcamer), with loss of
anchor and cable. and making no' water,. proceeded.
MAURITIUS, JULY • 29.—Tho 'Harriet, Pariahs,' from
Bourbon to this port, sprung a leak on the passage and
foundered. Six of the crew drowned.

VESSELS SPOKEN \VITO.- The Plato, from Sunderland
to Riehebucto, on the 27th ult., lat. 45, long. 51, by the
Mountaineer, Stikney, arrived in the Clyde. Gilmour
of Glasgow, 13 miles below Dalho:.sie; John and Mary of
Padstow, 2d inst., let. 46, long, 9 ; Pitt of Ayr, bound
to Dalhousie, 6th, lat. 46, long. 51 ; Onak, Oporto to
Nev.foundland, 7th, lat. 46, long. 49, by the Hibernia,
arrived at Grangemouth Lcandcr, Bridport to New-
foundland, lat. 4(;, long. 17, by the Nautilius, ar-
rived off Salcomhe. Margaret Pollock, Pyre, Clyde to
St. John's, New Brunswick, 19th MIL, lat. 54, long. 19,
by the Carlton, Allen, arrived in the Clyde. John Gilpin,
Canton to New York, 23d u't., lat. 27, long. 61, by the
Rose, Bailie, arrived off Salcombe. Lord of the isles,
honnd to Bristol, 11th inst., in the Gut of Gibraltar;
Cron°, Cardiff to Syria, 14th, cif Cape St. Vincent, by
the Rambler, Purdie, arrived at Falmouth. Malabar, Lot:-
don to Bombay, Ist ult., lat. 1 N., long. 19; Brilliant.
M.oite Video to London 11th, lat. 12 N. lon. 23, by the
Nautilus. Hughes, arrived off Falmouth. Cape Breton,
Calcutta to London, 26th August, lat. 09, S. long. 8, W:
Rolla, London to Rio Janeiro, ',lst, lat. 8, lon. 0:), bV
the Criterion, Fry, arrived off Falmouth. Fame, Liveri
pJol to Monte Video, 27th July, lat. 55 N. lon. 17 W. ;
Heart of Oak, Liverpool to Cape of Good Hope, 4th Au.
; Argyleshire, Liverpool to Newgsuh
12, lOn. 25 ; Princess Charlotte,
osutt, let. 17,
ales, 17, lo n. 26,
} 3. ItV.
Liverpool to Bombay, 14th, lat. 7, long. 20, by the Rcsen-
dale, arrived at Liverpool. Falcon, Mears, Liverpool to
Mauritius, 22d ult., lat. 11, lon. 25; Superior, Sicrra
Leone to London, lat. 14, lon. 25 ; Chalco, Dickinson,
Liverpool to Monte Video, 29th, lat. 15, lon. 27, by tin
Briton, Mason, arrived at Cork.

CAPTAIN REYNOLDS.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sir,—rray do lay bare the treachery of those
ir that
t?nded friends of Mr. Reynolds wwhoasaititsteoribf
a subscription fur him will inj,:re his chances of restora.
ton to the army. A subscription, as the surest and
widest test of popular sympathy, is the very best of al`
methods by which to knock with irresistible energy a,
the door of military justice. The veil' al"rm expressed
at it is the alarm on which we should build for the ex..
tuition of speedy restitution. Lord Cochrane was sub-
scribed for—Sir Robert Wilson
why not a victim who has been visited with theeltirguhsetes,t:i
and most crushing military punishment short of death ,
and all for an indiscretion ionpitiuorboilvitellie(rilioleolnlinet
ssweabrs,cided b
a superior officer ! While speaking of a subscription.
let me, however, warn good-hearted men to have a care'
in whose hands they place their contributions. The
zoom)r thoy require thom to he forwarded to the central
Committee the better. Let no mere half-known fn.
qwiii
telt: t
purses
soe is'
whichtaiy(iartnn s,n)saarro d
Sir, )'our
temptations to them /
AN ABIIOIIIIER OF [ln
'IUTALITY.
New-road, Nov. 2, 1840*

otiotnruwtilidi
AlfrednriageNtvhas been afpointed
ealisstna
e never gave credit
liussAilis•-1121piele.n
---_---- ,
THE ELEVENTH
to it. What man of honour or spirit would enter the
ttlotearopmormt
atnhcaitinLotirldis
regime
regiment under present circumstances, though corn-
be preferable.
A correspondent I\l its. FROST.-- . t requests us to
the
contradict a statement goi!lg round of the papers ro-
. the
alleged destitution. of Mrs. Frost and her
op,eting
that she is in easy if not
family Ibe st2.tes t , affluent circum.states that 1
m ended by a Peer of the realm f
stances. But he further
binc,
in t the families of many
now in prison are languis
eibther for obscurity and poverty,
and nothing has bean done
attempt them
or the widows
of _those who fell in their mad pt upon the :Westgate.
Salurian. •
' s in notici 0.
The Railway Time ' ll the injurious
efLcts of accidence upon railwayrot,erty, sta. ei that the
receipts of the London and
da • • South.. Western ( Southamp-
ton) Company, for the eight
frightful accident upon tl;at
line, were less by 700/ (orof
one iseventh part of the whole
amount) than the reccip:, the tight days immediately
p; eceding it.
THE WEALTH BREwER.—This day (Nov.
3) is the anniiersary of the death of Wm,.
Mucks, E,-(1,
an oppulent brewer of London,
who was for many years
M. I'. for Abingdon and Wallingford. According to Mr.
Noble, he was the person noticed ( when riding a beautiful
hunter) by Louis the Fdteenti I. That King having asked
who he was, a courtier replied that he was ~ Un Chevalier
do Malt." The subject of this witticism was brewer to
the household of George 1., and is reported to have been
very loyal. As a proof of his respect for his S;)‘ ercign,
he erected the statue of that 111,march upon Blo3rnshury
steeple, which gave nse. to.rhyuh:s by a „.„g..,
to the cff..et
that the brewer had made the King " head of the steeple,"
in addition to his former title of head of the Church. Mr.
Hucks died in 1740.

CAP IiAL-4 a. A. REYNOLDS.

MEETING-(H-HS DAY.)

A public meeting of the Friexi.s o Captain Rey-
nolds took place this day, at the British Coffee-house.
Coe:spur-street. 'At one o'clock, the hour appointed
I.)r the covolnencein:mt of the proe2edings, there was a
huge assetu'rhge 01 rcspeetahle pt;L;cris present, and
in the course of the day the room was dtnsely crowded
io every part. ::311ortly aftcr one o'clock,

Mr. itomNsoN cape forward and said he had been
rcciaested by the Committee to state thet the present
was a meeting perfectly independent of Captain Rey-
nolds—(Cheers)—and got up on public principle alone.
---( Hear, and cheers.) Tike Committee had thought
it hest that no gentleman should be appointed by them
to take the Chair, but that the gentlemen assem-
bled in the room to promote the cause of justice,
ticket their own chairman. II dare was any

%.ilitury Alexr present who took an interest ;n the eause
of justice and the nation, he would confer a great favour
on the aisemtiod gentlemen if he would allow himself
co he appointed to that position.
Mr. HINE was glad the public had at length an op-
portunity of meeting on the broad principles of British
jastice, and that the Committee had left the question
open for discussion, whoever was the sufferer, or whoever
;night be the p!rpetrator of oppression.—(Cheers.)
In his opinion no military nun should be asked to take
the chair.

" a civilian ought to

Several ;persons exclaimed,
preside."
Mr. HINE said they were all well aware that the
weakest would go to the wall, and if Lord Hid were
present he should like to put him in the chair—
(Cheers)—but any man below his rank should not be
present.—(Cries of " He would be a marked man.")
Mr. DuNnEv. then proposed, and several gentlemen
seconded the motion, that Mr. Hine do take the Chair.
Mr. HINE, having taken the Chair, said he felt him-
self not a little surprised at being placed in such a situa•
Lion ; he was sure .it was a station to which he had no
claim, and one for which he was in some measure unfit.
So far, however, as a feeling of rendering justice to
every Englishman was concerned, he yielded to no man.
—( Loud cheers.) Ho thought the gentleman who had
caded the meeting had done themselves great honour
in striking the key cote of a music which, he hoped,
would be played liom Dover to John o'Groat's house.
—(Renewed cheering.) He was surprised that the
composition had-bona so long in the hands of the com-
poser, but it was betteriate than never. The question
:nvotvect-prinripir.-41.101h were inimical to the feelings
of all Englishmen, and he thought no man but the
eeriest slave could submit to it.—(Much cheering.)
Were they to suppose- that when a gentleman entered
the army he was to forego all the feelings of liberty, in-
dependence, and justice which were instilled into them
by their fathers? Were they to submit to be the slaves
of every sprig of aristocracy ?—(Cheers and groans.)
They must inquire into these thingi—the weak must
be protected from the- strong, whenever any symptom
of injustice or oppression showed itself. lie believed
there were not two opinions among the public or the
Press on the subjeCt—there were not two persons who
did not fnl the injustice of the doctrines promulgated
by the Horse Guards, and he was sorry to say sanc-
tioned by her Majesty, that no justification would be
received in evidence by a military court-martial. It was
inculcated with their mother's milk that there was one
person in the realm who could do no wrong, but he hoped
hey would never see the day when every little petty com-
manding officer of a regiment should have a similar exensp-
ion. If such a principle was to he extended it would go to
he destruction of the country, because although they
,night deprecate the nature of a standing army—al
though they might detest war—yet while such things
acre afloat, something like justice should be preserved.
—(Cheers.) Were young officers, full of military ar-
dour, to place themselves under commanding officers
who were to insult them with impunity ?—(Cheers.)
Was it to be supposed that men of honourable feelings
were to be subject to such things? If they were, he would
venture to say that the army would soon be filled by a
parcel of lickspittles,4Checrs.) iie ought not to de-
tain them on the present occasion, but he could not sit
down and let the other orators who would address the
meeting have it all to themselves.—(Laughter.) He
thanked the meeting for haying placed him in the ho-
nourable situation he then was, and when he began to
disgrace it he trusted they would send to the Horse
Guards, and they would soon put him down.—(Cncers.)
Mr. ROBINSON, of. Cro3dA, proposed the first reso-
lution. He was sorry that duty had not fallen into
abler lianas ; they must, however, keep in mind that
the present was not a question between Captain Rey-
nolds and that meeting. It was a question involving
the liberties of the nation at large. He could not agree
hat at the present meeting a military man should have
aken the chair ; but -as he was asked by tie Commit-
tee to see if any miiitary gentleman would take the
chair, he had done so. They had had a specimen of
what was likely to take place if a military man had
been in the chair, by what had occurred at Brighton.-
-(Great cheering.) They were much indebted to the
press for the able manner in which it had stood forward
.n the cause of justice to release an individual from that
ruin, which the disgraceful tyranny of a few characters
had inflicted upon him.—(Cheers.) He was sure that
Captain RepaoldS must be proud of the manner in
which his name had been brought forward before the
- public.,7(Pbeers.) - Lord Cardigan and his Court-
martini woutd-tieoopre 'otproverli:-aud,a• bye-word, while
the name.and diameter of Captaia,Reynolds would stand
out in bold relief,Anditis,posterity would feel proud of
the conduct he had • pursued.—(Great cheering.)
He was sorry to say there were many Cardigans in this
country.—(Cheers.) The whole of the Court-martial
that had lately sat at Brighton were composed of Car-
digans.—(Cheers.) They were met that day to express
their abhorrence of •the old system in the army, by which
an individual might be condemned without hearing.
Such a system was infamous in the extreme, and the
• sooner it was put a stop to the better. There could be
no doubt that it was intended to condemn Captain
Rey nolds before he was heard, and that the Court-
martial had agreed to his sentence before he Entered
upon his defence.—(Cheers.) It was delightful to see
the manner in which the true natLual character had
displayed itself, in the cause of Captain Reynolds.
All England had stood forward to a man to shew their
hatred of oppression and love of justice..—(Cheers.)
Let them go on as they had begun—(Cheers)—let

them find out where the evil came from, and let them
hurl their oppressors from their seat of power, which
they had held without advantage to their country, but
to the injury of their countrymen.—(Loud cheers )
It was said that Mr. Reynolds could not and would not
accept of a subscription, and the tenor of his letter,
which had appeared in a Paper of that morning, se med
to bear out the idea. But they had nothing to do

with Mr. Reynolds.—(Cheers.) They were working
in favour of the cause.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Rey-
..

colds had fought the battle of the country—(Cheers)
—he had been crushed in it by the heel of power, and
it was the duty of the nation to see that that Gallant
Gentleman was reimbursed.—(Loud cheers.) It had
been beautifully written by one of our poets—" lie
that steals my purse, steals trash ; but he who filches
•

from me my" good name, steals that which not
enriches him, but makes me poor indeed."—

( Hear, hear.) Now they had stolen Mr. Reynolds'
purse, but they bad not been able to filch from him
his good name.—(Loud cheers.) No ; his name would
ro down with honour to his children, and to his chil-
lren's children, and along with it should go the mark
of the nation's esteem and regard.—(Cheers.) if the
injustice had been committed through an e7ror of judg-
ment—had it been done through a mistake—there might
have been some excuse ; but it was not. His judges
knew the right, but carefully avoided it—they knew the
wrong, and that road they had pursued. He begged
pardon for detaining them, and would now conclude by
proposing the first resolution. The Resolution ex-
pressed " alarm". at the state of the 11th Hussars.
After considerable discussion, the Resolution was al-
tered and passed as follows :
" Circumstances having lately transpired in our
Princes Regiment, the 11th Hussars, in documents
having set forth purporting to emanate from the Ge-
neral Commanding-in-Chief, declaring the Regiment
inefficient for serviU in quarters or in the field, by which
the greatest surprise and regret has been created in the
public mind, we are therefore of opinion that a petition
should be presented to her Majesty, praying that an in-
quiry into the state of the said regiment be immediately
instituted."
Mr. DUNDEE seconded the motion.
The resolution was then put and carried unanimously,
and with acclamation.
Dr. HENRY, Staff-Surgeon of the late British Auxili-
ary Legion, rose to move that a Committee of five be
appointed to draw up the petition. He had spent
many years in the army, but he bad failed in obtaining
promotion, because the same system was carried out in
the Spanish Legion as was pursued in the British army.
When General Evans went out he bad in the Legion
S 7 officers of the British army, but in consequence of
the sprigs of aristocracy, who were promoted over their
heads, and the manner in which they bad been treated
by them when they left Vittoria, there were only 10 of
the Si left.—(Cries of" Question.") He would simply
propose the Resolution.
Mr. HALFORD, of Dalston, seconded the motion,
being a decided hater of tyranny in all shapes.
Mr. WILLI/ors thought they would act most con-
sistently with the object of the present meeting, which
was the sympathy of the public in an act of gross
tary oppression, if no military man took any part in the
proceedings. The other parts of the country would
take their tone from the present meeting, and he trusted
that no military man would be called on either to move
or second any of the resolutions.
Mr. Ewan T concurred in much of what had fallen
from the last speaker, but he thought it went much too
far. It would be unfair to exclude men who had for-
merly been connected with military service, hilt who
had ceased to have any connexion with it. '1
hese men
sympathised deeply with the case of Captain Reynolds,
which was one of monstrous and most atrocious oppres-
sion, and he hoped they would not be exclt detl,

Mr. DE ST. Caotx inquired whether it was intended
to raise any subscr'ption to enable Captain Reynolds to
tz ke any proceedings that In.e.ht be necessary in LI.;
Courts of Law ?

The CHAIRNIAN was not aware of it.
Mr. DE ST. CROIX understood from very compe:,-nt
authority that the decision of the Horse Guards could be
entit ely overthrown,it being altogether illegal.--( Cheers.)
He was always ready to support the constituted autho-
rities, civil and military, while they acted impartially and
justly, but when they deviated from that they would
lose the support of; and be looked upon with suspicion
by, all honourable men.—(Hear, hear.) The question
before them was, bad Captain Reynolds been fairly
tried ?—(Hear, hear.) Whether the Court-martial had
heard his defence as well:as the charges against him ?
He thought the course pursued towards Captain Reynolds
was repugnant to every honourable man, and the at-
tention of the meeting ought to be directed to that
point. If he (M. de St. Croix) was provoked by the
repeated insults of any man to strike him down and
take 'his life, and if he was tried before a Judge and
a Jury of his Peers, when arraigned fur murder, would
it be tolerated, that when called upon for his defence,
the Judge should stand up and say, "I cannot listen to the
provocation you have received ?" Such a doctrine
would be scouted by every honest and independent man
the Bar would rise as one man to prevent his being
trampled on and treated with such gross injustice. He
beved, therefore, to propose a resolution that a sub-
scription be entered into to defray the expenses of any
action that might be brought forward in the courts of haw.

The CHAIRMAN said, that from the turn the meet-
ing had taken, he felt bound to say a few words. He
was afraid they were fighting shy of the question. The
first resolution was certainly a very good one, and he
was in hopes it would have been followed up with some
strong resolution. He bad come down himself with
resolutions which he should have proposed, had he not
been placed in the Chair. Those resolutions were, first,
" That it is the duty and interest of the British
public to come forward and endeavour to procure the
reinstatement of Captain Reynolds in his rank and
standing in the II th Hussars, of which he has beln so
unjustly deprived by the sentence of a Court-niartial.—
(Great cheering.) Such was the first resolution he had
intended to propose. The second was, that it was both
the interest and the duty of the British nation to pro-
cure the dismissal of the Earl of Cardigan—(Cheers.)—
from the army, as it appears but too manifest, both from
the recent instances of his conduct towards his brother
officers, as well as from the whole of his behaviour in the
army, together with the decisions of the authority that
he is utterly unfit to exercise authority over men of
spirit, honour, and military talent, or over any but slaves
and menials, who have no means whatever of resenting
tyraany, or of punishing oppression.—(Great cheering.)
The third resoluticn he had intended to propose was—
" That a petition to the Queen, embodying the fore-
gohig resolution, he presented to her Majesty, to re-
instate Captain Reynolds in his rank and positionl; and
also that her Majesty will he pleased to dismiss the
Earl of Cardigan fro-1i his present, and exclude him
from any future, command in the British array."
Six gentlemen were then appointed to draw up a
petition to the Queen, with power to add to their
numbers.

Mr. KING pressed upon the meeting the necessity of
expressing their determination to raise subscriptions, us
that was the only way of doing any good.
Mr. EVART said the proposed resolution was,
in his opinion, inconsistant and absurd. The
Courts of Law had no earthly power over
the decisions of Courts Martial—that decision being
approved of by the authorities of the Horse Guards and
her Majesty, was final. They were there as the friends
of Mr. Reynolds, and ought not to do any thing which
he thought would further compromise him at the Horse
Guards. lie would move as an amsndmcnt, that a
Committee he appointed to get up petitions
to Parliament, calling lupon them to insert a
clause in the Mutiny Act, providing that an appe
should lie from such Courts to the bightst judicial
Bench in the country.—(Cries of " No, no.'")
After a lengthened discussion, a Committee was ap•
pointed to prepare resolutions fur an adjourned meet-
ing, to be held on Thursday next, at one o'clock.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated,

AGRICULTURAL REPORT FOR

OCTOBE IL

The labours of the harvest have now come to a close,
and in a season of- splendour which has not had its
equal since the year 18:30. But brilliant as the sun
has been, the temperature has, upon the whole, been
cool, and not fewer than seven or eight 1•oar frosts hate
occurred. In 1830, both days and nights were op-
pressively warm, the mercury approaching 70 deg. as
its maximum in the shade.

Farmers were recently heard to complain that they
could not sow their wheat for want of rain ; and, in
fact, we had ocular proof, whit,: trenching a plot in a
field, that the spade brought up clods, dust :by, at
nearly two feet below the surface. Whatever the north
and west of the kingdom may have experienced, certain
it is that the southern countries have had no ground
rains for six months ; and deep wells reveal the fact,
inasmuch as they have lost twenty or thirty feet of water
during that period.
But showers have visited us of late, and no reason
whatever remains for any delay in wheat-sowing. ‘Ve
wish to meet one of the sources of alarm which farmers
are so ready to indulge in—it is that of "ground malting."
We would ask those who enter'ain the idea. whether
they unierstand what the procrss of malting is ? and
how they can by any parity of reasoning compare the
situation of aced in a dry drill, waiting for rain, with that
of barley saturated with water, and lying in the heated
atmosphere of a n.althouse;in masses ? The corn, or, in-
deed, any other seed, may remain unexcited for want of
water ; but if it meet with moisture sufficient to develop
the radicle, the spire will not remain long inactive.
" Ground malting" we regard as hypothetical ; of the
existence of which some rational doubts may be enter-
tained. Is it not, we inquire, one of those bugbears
which seize the imagination and retard the opera-
tion of rowing till the season be so far protracted as to
expose the young and tender plant to all the rigours of
a January frost ? Did we not suffer; very fatally, in
135, in consequence of retarded sowing ; and were not
our " reports" among the first to warn and caution
against the foreseen consequences ? But, perhaps,
there exists little cause of any fear ; for if conscnticnt
evidence be worthy of credence, such a seed-time has
rarely been witnessed ; and now that the few samples
of hastily carried wheat which had received injury from
another of the groundless alarms of the farmer have
vanished om the market, we hear of abundance'

heavy crof s, and auspicious " gatherings-in."
We se,! daily—flue hu,handry, great breadths well
and tim •ly sawn, and beautiful verdure of young plants
rising above the surface : and in an able general review
we re rd to the following effect :—" The sowing of
wheat has leen nearly finished in the more forward dis-
tricts ; tie farmers will therefore soon have leisure to
thrash. Adv ices from Scotland inform us that the
eataer has continued favourable for all agricultural
pursuits, of which farmers have availed themselves, and
the utmost activity has prevailed ; large tracts of land
have been prepared to receive autumn seed, and some
portion of wheat had be:n committed to the ground.
" From Ireland we continue to receive favourable ac-
counts respecting the weather, and the progress which
had been made with autumn sowing, and other out-door
labours ; in the northern parts of the island supplies had
falle I off, and prices had rather rallied, but in the
southern counties, fair quantities of both wheat and oats
had been brought forward, and the value of each of
these articles continued to have a downward tendency."
—Mark-lane Express.
We rely on these statements, for they bear out our own
observations, and the results of all our inquiries. We
are most perplexed to report the yield of the potato.
Our own have not returned us much more than on:-
third
of our usual produce : drought operated equally
on the size and number of the tubers. Local prices as-
sure us of what we hear on all sides—that, in the dry.
counties there has been a great falling off. Our autho-
rity just referred to, says, " The potato erod (in Scot-
land), which was being secured, seemed rather to dis-
appoint the growers, the yield being, in many cases,
lighter than had been expected ; the quality, however,
was generally good."
Prices, we think, must be dear, and this leads to the
remark that it is the duty of farmers to raise new seed-
lings, particularly as the droughted tubers of this year
offer bat a poor pledge of the crop of 1841. Three
years ago we raised a few seedlings of the most excel-
lent kidney, and have nursed them to the present sea-
son. The plot recently digged of the produce of these
seedlings is the only one which has returned us about
fifteen jidd the weight of the tubers planted! Hence
we argue the constitutional power of this newly-deve-
loped generation ; and though a solitary fact may carry
but little weight, yet certain we arc that great benefit,
and no evil, will result from the attempts to re-invigo-
rate our stock.
Our agricultural friends may, we hope, profit by this
suggestion.
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of Item t ne
has given fifty guineas to the Royal Naval
John Smith Wright, Esq., p 0 Hall,
SUPPRESSION OF CAMBERWELL FAIlt.--A
FLzomugaiiiebosiocuLgoohi.
memorial and reply have passed between the inhabitants of
Camberwell and Sir E. Bowyer Smyth, Bart, on the sub-
ject of suppressing Camberwell fair. The memorialists
and d Sir Edward are alike disposed to put down the fair, if
Itn
is said that the government of Upper Canada,
vacant by the return to England of Major-General Sir
has been offered to Major- General Sir
JamesGeor g George
er
dt huonre,
11, commanding in Quebec, but at present
absent on a tour in the neighbouring provinces and the
United States. Expresses had been sent to
where they are most likely to meet the General,
his return to Canada,
donell declining to hasten
In the event of Sir James Mac;
to go to Upper Canada, the goverrirnoonw:
the point
it is added, will be offered to Major-General Clit ler
who now commands in the Montreal district.
o_ . ,
Lord Plunket has been for some days indispcu
at his seat in Ireland.