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LONDON, TUESDAY, SEiTEMBER 24

1844.

We quote the following singular complaint from
an evening Contemporary of yesterday We have
sometimes thought, and provincial communications
have confirmed our impressions, that the Royal
Family of late divest themselves a little too en_
tirely of what the French call representation'
throughout their provincial progresses. It is not of
course to be expected that her MAJESTY should sub-
mit to pompous and triumphal doings immediately
after the fatigues of sea-voyages; or allow the atra
cura of Court ceremonial to pursue her to
Blair Athol. However, in our humble but very
loyal view, the disappointment expressed so often that
the QUEEN appears to all her remoter subjects just
like any other lady,' is not altogether without some
ground and without some claim on attention. We
have had long letters on former occasions in
grievous complaint of her MAJESTY'S fast trains, and
ok:her _plain straw bonnet. We were witnesses
','to decided disappointment last year on the
part of 'Young Bristol,' when Prince An-
Eltl --0.104-7 /to launon the Great Britain
in a Plft coat and white waistcoat, just like
any, othet gentleman I Provincial spectators under-

stand this tasteful and unassuming style just as little
as those habituated to splendours understand the pro-
vincial appetite for them." In reply to this odd com-
plaint, we may observe that her MAJESTY is not
bound to cater to the vulgar taste for gew-gaw splen-
dours on the part of " provincial spectators." It
forms no portion of her duty to do violence to
her own simple, unassuming habits, and
trick herself out on every occasion in all
the ostentatious paraphernalia of Royalty, merely
in order to gratify those who have no other no-
tion of a Queen, than that she should differfrom every
other lady in the land in point of external finery.
The more these coarse, vulgar ideas of royal dignity
are discouraged, the better, for Heaven knows we have
hal enough of them ; and a world of mischief they
have been the means of inflicting on the com-
munity by disseminating principles of false taste,
and encouraging the most absurd, ruinous
extravagance ! Look, for instance, at the
memorable " Regency of GEORGE the FOURTH."
Throughout that showy and artificial period, expense
and finery of attire were carried to the greatest height;
nature and simplicity were studiously kept in the
back ground ; dress—balls—dinners—and tawdry
ceremonials of all sorts were the order of the day ; and
the " First Gentleman in Europe" was never so much
in his element as when busied with the con-
coction of some new wasteful extravagance, such as
his notorious Regency file, when, among other idle
follies, gold and silver fishes were seen disporting in
tiny streams of water that meandered through the
supper tables ! These puerilities would have been
harmless, however ridiculous, enough, if they had
been confined exclusively to the Prince. But, unfor-
tunately, the folly became contagious ; the rich cour-
tiers adopted the example of their Royal Master;
the middle classes—always so prone to imi-
tate . their aristocratic superiors—followed in
the same track, and the consequence was, the
ruin of hundreds, we almost say thousands, and the
general dissemination of the falsest principles of taste
and feeling. But the evil did not stop here. Royalty,
of course, must be furnished with the means of
pampering its ostentatious love of show, and the result
was, that John Bull was saddled with a load of taxa-
tion, heavy enough to break the back of Atlas, which,
Mr. CANNING coolly observed, was merely " maintain-
ing the decent splendour of the Court:" Infinitely to
her credit, her MAJESTY has set her face against this
order of things. She does not allow the splendour of
her State to degenerate into mere ostentatious frip-
pery, and knows bow to be munificent without
being extravagant. Above all, she is endeavouring
to restore in her Court, and generally among her sub-
jects, a taste for nature and simplicity--two things
which have much more to do with the moral tone of
a nation than superficial people would imagine ? Her
" plain straw bonnet," and Prince ALBERT'S " plain
black coat and white waistcoat" may shock the vulgar
prejudices of those who would always desire to see
Royalty dressed out in holiday costume, as we see it
in RICHARDSON'S show-booth at Greenwich fair; but
all persons of judgment, feeling, and real, not spu-
rious, notions of refinement, will rejoice to see their
young SOVEREIGN desirous to be distinguished among
her subjects, not by her external finery, but by her
innate good taste, and her nice and healthful
appreciation of nature and simplicity. To the
credit of the Scotch, be it said, their notions on
this subject are far more sound than those of our
evening Contemporary's provincial correspondents,
for we learn by the last accounts from Blair Athol,
that " the simple and graceful affability with which
the QUEEN dispenses with the stately trammels and
ceremonies of a Court, have excited the liveliest en-
thusiasm among her Highland subjects; her tranquil
and modest seclusion, in fact, has produced an im-
mense effect on the Scottish people generally, and
her popularity has increased tenfold since her res
dente at Blair Athol."

It is long since we have perused a record of the
acts of any public body with feelings of indignation
much more intense than those which have been ex-
cited in us by the conduct of the Poor-law Commis-
sioners in the matter of the Master of the Bradfield
Union Workhouse. In recurring to the facts con-
nected with their treatment of the individual elected,
by vete of the board of guardians of Bradfield, to
that office, it will be unnecessary for us to charac-
terise proceedings which will tell their own tale, and
carry their own comment to the mind of every un-
prejudiced person under whose notice they may be
brought. But we should be wanting in our duty as
public journalists, were we not to denounce,
in the strongest and most emphatic manner, not
so much the arbitrary and insulting manner as the
unconstitutional principle of the conduct adopted by
the Commissioners in this affair. It is nothing to
urge in their vindication that, in the Now Poor-law
Act itself, the powers complained of are clearly vested
in the Board at Somerset House. There has not been
a session of Parliament, for many years past, in the
course of which some flagrant blunder of detail, or
some anomaly at common law, or some violation of the
constitutional rights of the subject, has not been in-
corporated into the preamble or enactments of more
than one statute, which, on that account, it
has been found necessary to repeal, or "alter
and amend" by an Act, remedial or explana-
tory, in a subsequent session. From the
careless and mischievous hurry with which Bills of
all kinds are dispatched at the approach of a recess or
a dissolution—especially in the House of Commons—
poor-law legislation has certainly enjoyed no peculiar
exemption. Were this not the fact, it would be im-
possible to understand how Parliament could have
overlooked, in the existing New Poor-law the as-
sumption of a right of control over private judgment
—an unquestionable infallibility—of official opinion,
which at this time of day none but the Grand Llama
of THIBET, the Pope of ROME, or the black King of
the Ashantees claim to exercise to the extent in-
sisted upon by the Somerset House junta.
For what are the facts ? In brief, that in the month
of April last, in consequence of a vacancy occurring
in the office of union workhouse master for the Brad-
field union (Berks), the guardians proceeded to elect
a qualified person thereto, by an unanimous vote of a
board of twenty-eight ; that their appointment in
this instance was for a term of three months upon
trial ; that the Commissioners having objected to the
election, as in due course reported to them, on the
grounds that the party elected (a Mr. BEANGWIN)
was " an inexperienced man," and that " his affairs
were in an unsettled state ;" the guardians remon-
strated that he could not be justly considered as " in-
experienced," because he had been for five years an
active member of their own board, bore a high cha-
racter there, and was greatly respected by all who
knew him, and that he was not amenable to the im•
putation on account of his affairs, since he had met
his creditors in a most handsome manner, and the 3
were fully satisfied, under the circumstances, with his
composition of 15s. in the pound. And what ensued
on this remonstrance ? The Commissioners withdrew
their objection to BRANGWIN on the score of pecuniary
embarrassments ; but without condescending to assign
any reason for their order, directed the guardians to
proceed to a fresh election.
Let it not be forgotten, in estimating the character
of this freak of official impertinence, that this board
of guardians necessarily consists of elected rate-
payers interested in, and conversant with the business
of their own locality, the moral characters and bus,

ness-talents of their co-parishioners, or ratepayers,
and neigbours ; that they give their services in the

administration of their strictly local trust gratui-
tously; that the Poor-law Commissioners are (to
their own singular satisfaction) fixtures in a certain
desecrated portion of Somerset House, London, re-
ceiving for the discharge of their duties, performance:
of this kind included, extremely ample salaries. So
' the Bradfield guardians, conceiving that it was
more than probable they were more competen,
judges (being on the spot, and having
personal, and even official knowledge of the
man) than the Poor-law Commissioners could
be of the eligibility of BRANGWIN for the office
of master, adhered to their former resolution in his
favour. The " Great Council of Three," exasperated
at the contumacy of these guardians, on the 28th 01
May fulminated a " bull," threatening to proceed
against BRANGWIN, and actually "incapacitate him
from holding any office under their commission there-
after, if he persisted in holding office, any longer."
BRANGWIN, like a half-penitent king of old, worn out
by the thundering invitations from the holy father,
to resign his crown into the hands of the successor

vertise for candidates ; and, lo ! the indestructible
BRANGWIN was again unanimously elected by a board
of eighteen irreclaimable guardians. There was a
voice of anger, as yet "not loud but deep," in Somer-
set House. The Great Council, however, concealed
for a time their terrible resentment. They merely
issued, on the 18th of June, an order for
BRANGWIN'S dismissal, and a polite "request" to the
guardians to proceed to the election of another master,
in his stead, at their earliest convenience. On that day
week, the 25th, they once more announced their re-
solution to take legal proceedings against him, if he
should presume to continue in office after the 2d of
July then ensuing. Some interviews and corres-
pondence on this subject now ensued between the
guardians and Mr. PALMER, M.P. for Reading; and
the latter " being satisfied," it is said, " that the
Poor-law Commissioners had been influenced by pri-
vate" information given to them, desired BRANGWIN
not to resign, as he once more offered to do, but to re-
tain his situation temporarily. On the 9th of July
the inexorable Commissioners renewed their threats,
accompanied with the intimation, that if he
persisted in keeping his office they would stop
the payment of any salary to him accruing
from it. After further correspondence with
Mr. PALMER, the board requested of a Mr.
HOPKINSON to be favoured with any information re-
flecting on BRANGWIN, which he had brought before
the Commissioners. This request was forwarded in
a letter. That letter remains—unanswered. But
what followed will not, we predict, remain unnoticed,
so soon as Parliament shall have re-assembled for the
dispatch of buiiness.. Up to this point, the highest
offence of the board had been, that, whether among
those who replied to their advertisement there. were
no stray German Princes, among the host of foreigners
who are now perambulating England, or no specula-
tive pauper-dietarians of rank and station adequate to
satisfy the expectations of the fastidious Commission-
ers, and themselves ambitious of this magnificent ap-
pointment—or for what other reason soever—BßANG-

WIN, the guardians' own choice, was always the
favourite and the elected candidate. But now
the guardians dared to " appeal unto CESAR.'
They insolently asked to be admitted into the
presence of Poor-law " Commissioners"—that
more dignified abstraction than Majesty itself.
"On the • 20th of July the board wrote
to the Poor-law Commissioners, offering a deputa-
tion to wait on them at any time or place they might
appoint, to explain, and endeavour to come to an ar-
rangement. On the 30th July, the Commissioners again
refused to sanction the- appointment, or to receive a
deputation of guardians to explain—when the board
passed a resolution not to elect another master until

the charges against Mr. BRANGWIN were made
known and proved." Hereupon an Assistant Poor-
law Commissioner attended the board, and announced
the nature of his instructions from the Great Coun-
cil of Three, by summoning the high delinquent
BRANGWIN before the Bench of Reading Magistrates,
who convicted him of the high crime of having dis-
obeyed the commands of " Commissionery," and fined
him in the penalty of—one farthing! BRANG•
WIN in his turn solicits advice from the
board, and they order him to remain in the
house and officiate as master. On the 27th August a
motion at the board to replace him by electing some
other master falls to the ground without even a se-
conder. On the 10th September the High Commis-
sioners of Poor-law, by order under their great seal,
command the board to proceed to such election within
one month, or failing therein, to answer proceedings
to be instituted against them in the Court of Queen's
Bench. Under these circumstances, there was a
public meeting held in the Town-hall of Reading on
Saturday last, at which resolutions were unanimously
come to, expressive of unqualified approbation of the
course adopted by the Bradfield guardians of the
views entertained of the conduct of the Commissioners,
and the course to be adopted as to further communi
cations, &c., in this matter, and of sympathy with
Mr. BRANGWIN, on whose. behalf a subscription has
been opened.

We have been thus particular in commenting on
the various stages of this case from a conviction that
it cannot fail to awaken public attention throughout
the country to the dangerous and oppressive powers
vested—by a very defective law—in a very absurdly
constituted Commission, and their inevitable tendency
to result in excesses of this ridiculous, but at the same
time overweening, insolent, and intolerable character,
The spee 2hes of Mr. MATHEWS, Mr. WALTER, and Mr.
A LIZIUTT, were, at the Reading meeting, temperate,
manly, and most effective.

Accounts from Madrid of the 16th of September
have been received. The Gazette of that day pub-
lishes the royal decree appointing M. MARTINEZ DE
LA ROSA Minister of Foreign Affairs. The appoint-
ment is dated the 21st of August. This antedating
the appointment saves M. MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA
from the necessity of again presenting himself before
his constituents for re-election. The Castellano is of
lopinion that the Cabinet, thus constituted, would open
the Cortes, but that the moment the wish of the
majority became known, a new Administration would
be formed under the auspices of M. MARTINEZ DE LA
ROSA. According to the Globo, General NARYAE•Z
had repeatedly offered to him the Presidency of the
Council, which he had obstinately declined accepting.
The same official organ contains the nomination
of General PAVIA to the post of Captain-General of
Naval!! e.

A long circular letter to the political chiefs is abo
published in the journals, whereby the Home Minis-
ter expresses the Government's determination to chas-
tise such as shall manifest, in the elections, any prima-
ples hostile to the QUEEN'S Government.

The Gazette further announces an economical rc
form iin the War Department, General NARVALZ
having. resolved that in future there should be kept u p
only elighteen regiments of cavalry, consisting each of
562 m .1n and 422 horses, the total being 10,116 men
and 7.596 horses, with 108 individuals of the staff.

A hatter from Gibraltar, on the subject of the nego-
tiations between France and Morocco appears in the
Heraldo. From it we learn, that in the course of
the negotiations, some difficulties appeared, but th Py
were overcome by the co-operation of the worthy
British Minister Plenipotentiary, Mr. BULWER.

The Duke de GLUCKSBERG was shortly expected at
MadriKi, where Mr. BULWER was to arrive on the
evening. of the 16th. On the 11th the latter was at
Tariffat with Mr. PEEL. All the accounts receivi3d
from that place, Cadiz, Algesiras, and Gibraltstr,
concur in stating that the conclusion of peace between
Franc* and Morocco was principally due to /Ir.
B ULM s exertions.

MP IDRID BOLZA, SEPT. 16.—Three per Cents., 27
at six ty days; Five per Cents, 201 at sixty days;
Floating Debt of the Treasury, 631 at sixty days;
Provis7ional Debt, 5 5-32 at sixty days. Exchange.—
London, 37i.

We have received the Paris papers of Sundd y.
All the Opposition papers continue to animadvert ion
the tr ei tty with Morocco, which, says the Constita-
tionnel,. M. GUIZOT will have difficulty in defending,
even 'm the opinion of his friends. The Constit
tionnet and the National also comment upon the nar-
rative ez tracted from the Sidney Morning Herald, al ad
entitloi "Tyranny of the. French at Otaheite," which
appeared in the London papers of Thursday. On tF, tis

of St. PETER, resigned his appointment. The board

other occasion the French authorities at Otaheite nre
, proclai)x) ed quite infallible. There is some truth in
the foil owing observations of the Constitutionnel, •on
the subject of the French occupation of Otaheite :
"Wr int is certain is, that Otaheite—that conqut st
which 7 11. Guizot wished to make, but which he has utot
dared t complete—is, become, thanks to the skilful]) vss
of our own statesmen, a source of embarrassment al id
misfort. Joe for us, of danger for our soldiers, and of dil R-
ealty ai id disgrace for our officers."

In the course of a long article on the subject of
Ireland ',the Journal des Debats has the following
o'iservatic ,ns on what will probably be the ultim ate
result of ti he acquittal of O'CONNELL :-" The acquittal
of the Irish prisoners is no doubt a grave event,
which i nay produce great changes in the rela the
situation . of parties, but we do not believe that it ;has
weakene d the union between England and Ireland.
We thin k quite the contrary. It has been a serious
check for the Tory Ministry, but at the same time it
has a rec( mediation and an approach to union between
the Irien. %and a great political party in Englai id
itself." Wi th regard to the report that a coalition
was about •to take place between the Whigs a: nd
Repealers, of ►e of the conditions of which was the
granting a federal union, the Journal des Debate
says :—" We do not believe it—the Whigs would
take good...care not to announce any such intention.

proceeded, as they had done in► the first instance, to ad-

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 24, 1844,

We are tempted to believe that it is their adversaries
who have originated the report, knowing well that it
will be an infallible means of preventing them from
obtaining power, or of immediately ousting them, if
by chance they should regain it."

The Journal du Cher publishes the following
speech, purporting to have been addressed by the
KING to M. LAROCIIEFOUCAULD LIANCOURT, who
presented to him, as President of the Society of
Christian Morality, various addresses forwarded to
him by the English and American Societies for the
Preservation of Peace :

" I am happy to receive these addresses, and feel par-
ticularly gratified to find that our American friends
should do justice to the pains I have taken to maintain
the general peace of Europe. There is no advantage in
making war, even when a nation has attained the object
for which it has fought, because ultimately the losses are
always greater than the gains. I have ever professed
that principle : when I was in America, 40 years ago,
I was often asked to propose toasts at public dinners, and
I almost invariably expressed the wish that universal and
permanent peace should exist among all nations. I was
then exiled from my country, and my anxious desire
was that it should enjoy peace and happiness. This is
what caused me to adopt that salutary precept. I could
not then forsee that I should be called upon one day to
exert my influence and act myself in favour of that
great cause. May the Almighty accord me the mainte-
nance of peace ! War appears to me a malediction ; and
war in Europe, between civilised nations, I regard as an
absurdity ; if the smaller states desired it we should
prevent them, and as peace between the great powers
becomes daily more consolidated, I hope, if I live a few
years longer, that a general war in Europe will have be-
come impossible."
The Siecle comments, in severe terms, on this
speech. " A Sovereign," says that paper, " should
not be made to speak the language of the Abbe de
St. Pierre, for there are circumstances in which the
most generous sentiments are unseasonable."

The Presse has an article strongly urging the Go-
vernment to prepare for a war with England, by
lessening the cost of the army and increasing the
efficiency of the navy. This diminution of the army
seems recommended for the purpose of preventing the
formation of any European alliance against France.
The article concludes in these words :

" There is nothing more simple than to maintain an
army which would cost less, and to prepare a navy which
would protect us better,—to diminish one without
weakening it, and to increase the other without raising
the amount of the budget ; to calm the just mistrust of
all powers who regulate their effective force by ours,
and to restrain the arrogance of England ; to give in
this manner a new pledge for the consolidation of peace,
which has no stronger partisan than ourselves, not ex-
cepting the Minister and the advocates of peace at any
price."

The Moniteur contains a dispatch from Rear-Ad-
miral GOURBEYRE, Governor of Guadaloupe, in which
the damage occasioned by the late fire at La Bas-
seterre is estimated at 2,500,000 f. It had been as-
certained that the fire broke out accidentally, and
that no lives were lost.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

BOROUGH OF MARYLEBONE RE-
GISTRATION—(THIS DAY.)
(Before D. C. MOYLAN, Esq.)
The revision of the list of voters for St. Mary's dis-
trict was proceeded with at the sitting of the Court this
morning.
The names of several persons were struck off the list,
who either had not resided twelve months at their places
of abode or had removed.
Sir George Quentin, of 11, Great Cumberland-street,
was objected to by both parties, on the ground that he
was a foreigner. It appeared that Sir George had re-
peatedly written to both the Liberals and Conservatives,
stating that he was disqualified to vote from his being
a native of Germany, his name, however, had as regu-
larly been placed on the list of voters for the last two or
three years by the overseers. His name was expunged.
Sir Edward Scott, of 45, Bryanstone•square, was
objected to by both parties, on the ground that, although
the landlord, he was not the occupier of the house in
question, which was let, furnished.—Objection allowed.
The name of Sir James Sutherland was objected to,
on similar grounds, and was allowed.

BOW-STREET-(THIS DAY.)
A PROBABLE STORY.—A little boy named Henry
Thompson was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with
having in his possession six pounds weight of tobacco,
supposed to have been stolen.
The officer who took the boy into custody, said he saw
him last night in Clare-market with the bundle in his
possession, which he seemed particularly anxious to con-
ceal. The officer went up to him and questioned him, and
his suspicions being confirmed by the boy's answers, he
took him into custody.
The boy in his defence said that he was coming home
last night from the Adelaide Gallery, when he was met
by a gentleman in a brown coat, who asked him to take
care of the tobacco till to-morrow, and in the mean time
endeavour to sell it. He had never seen the gentleman
before, and the gentleman did not ask for his (prisoner's)
address.

The name of Digby William Baron Middleton was
objected to, as being an English Peer, and his name was
erased by the Relising Barrister.
Several persons who claimed, had their tames placed
on the register.
The revision of the list of voters for the Christ Church
district was then proceeded with.
Considerable discussion then ensued, with respect to a
typographical mistake in the list, which had been cor-
rected after it had been placed on the church doors, by
Mr. Watts, the assistant vestry clerk.
The REVISING BARRISTER said this was an irregular
mode of proceeding, as the list ought to have been cor-
rected before it was placed on the church doors.
The name of Robert Edward Broughton, of No. 1,
Melcomb-place, one of the magistrates of Clerkenwell
Police-office, was objected to, as the nature of his office
disqualified him from voting, and his name was expunged.
Samuel Colver, of No. 39, Earl-street, East, was ob-
jected to by the Conservatives, on the ground that he had
not paid his assessed taxes, and that he had removed.

In answer to a question from the Magistrate the pri
soner said he lived in Field-lane.—(Laughter.)
Mr. JARDINE remanded him till Friday.

UNION-HALL.-(THIS DAY.)
Ilarriot Thorp, a dwarf, was charged before Mr. Cot
tingham with taking laudanum for the purpose of de.
stroying herself.

IC appeared that on Tuesday night a policeman found
the defendant lying asleep on the step of a door. He
awoke her with difficulty, and she then told him she had
taken laudanum; when he took her to the hospital, and
the stomach-pump having been used, it was brought
away, and she recovered.

In reply to Mr. COTTINGRAM, the defendant said that
she was a native of Bristol, at which place she joined a
travelling showman, and exhibited as a dwarf in his
caravan at the different fairs throughout the country;
that she had been lately exhibiting at Chelms-
ford, and that the business being slack, the man she
was with sent her up to London, saying that he would
soon follow her. She had but little money on her arrival,
and this being expended she was driven to want, and
obtained a little work, but this failing she was at last
reduced to a state of destitution, and while in that con-
dition bought some laudanum and swallowed it to put an
end to her misery.
The MAGISTRATE having condemned the conduct of
the chemist in selling the defendant such a quantity of
laudanum, said that as she had showed such a determina-
tion to destroy herself he could not let her go at large
without some person came forward, and was bound for
her future good behaviour.—She was then locked up.
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OYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, SEPT. 24.—Wind N. to N.E., fresh breeze
stud fine.

CORR, SEPT. 21.—Arrd. Prince Albert, Stewart,
Callao ; Aurora, Scott, Quebec. Sid. Albion and Bache,
WEvers, St. John's, New Brunswick.
PORTSMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind N.E., fine.—Arrd.
Leda, Ruaike, Matanzas fur Antwerp.
PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 23.—Wind E.N.E.—Off, Jairo,
Baltic for Havannah.

HARWICH, SEPT. 23.—Arrd. Aquatic, Ramsgate for
Newcastle, with loss of mainmast ; Johanne, Copenhagen
for Nantes, leaky, and with other damage.'
OFF PLYMOUTH, SEPT. 20.—Marys, North America.
OFF PORTLAND, SEPT. 22.—Finlatre, Quebec.
OFF KINSALE, SEPT. 20.—Fortitude, Read, Mer-
cury, Jold, Africa.

STRANGFORD, SEPT. 20.—Arrd. Arab, Quebec.
The Lord Oriel, sailed from Newport for Jersey, Ist
ult., was in Penarth Roads 2d inst., and has not since
been heard of.

LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 23.—Wind E., moderate.—Arrd.
Heywood, Simonds, Old Calabra, left June 30th, Fer-
nando Po July 15 ; Susan, Campbell, and Sarah, Atkin-
son, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Paragon, Bell, Que-
bec. Sld. 22, Booth, Columbia River ; Hope, New
Orleans ; Adumdack, New York. 23, Sarah Bell, La
Guayra , • Brenda, Montreal.

PERNAMBUCO.—Arrd. previous to Aug. 13th, Gwalior,
Edwards, London, for Bombay, with loss of topmasts.
The Petrel Packet, from Rio, had not arrived at Per-
nambuco up to Aug. 12.
OFF KINSALE.—Caen de Lun, Kendall, Calcutta.
ALDBOROUGIL SEPT. 24.—The figure-head of a large
ship, the bust of a man with his arms folded, was picked
up.yesterday. _ _ _

NEWPORT, SEPT. 21.—S1d. General Wolf, Demerara.
DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN, SEPT. 21.—A large dis-
masted ship, on her beam ends, in tow of a steamer,
was seen 21st inst., about 20 miles off this island by the
Neath tender, arrived here.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
HAY MAELETS.
SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 41 4s ;
Useful ditto, 41 6s to 41 18s ; fine Upland ditto, 51 to
515 s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 116 s to
1/ 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ lOs per load. The
best Meadow Hay sold steadily, at full prices ; but,
otherwise, the demand was in a sluggish state.
CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 15s to 4110 s;
Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, 512 s to
5l 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/; Oat Straw, 11 7s to 11
9s ; heat Straw, 1110 s to 11 12s per load. Supply
but moderate, and trade rather dull. Prices about
stationary.
WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 4/ss;
Useful ditto, 41 6s to 4/ 17s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 13s to
51 5s ; Clover Hay, 41 12s to 6/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 1/
6s to 11 8s ; Wheat Straw, 11 8s to 1/ 10s per load.
A. full average supply, and a steady demand.
COLONIAL
SUGAR.—Holders of British Plantation have accepted
rather lower prices for the inferior descriptions, and the
market is rather heavy, about 600 hhds having been sold.
The public sales have only offered 9,697 bags Mauritius,
all of which found buyers at 43s to 54s for very low to
fine brown, and low to fine yellow at 54s 6d to 665, being
for the better sorts rather dearer, whilst the low descrip-
tions must be quoted 6d to is cheaper. The only trans-
actions which have taken place, privately, worth reporting,
consisted of a cargo ofyellow and brown Havannah, which
has been sold afloat at 19s 9d, deliverable at a near port,
on the Continent. The quantity of British Plantation
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was
2,833 hhds 366 tierces 675 barrels, and there were taken
for home consumption 1,308 hhds 173 tierces 132 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 13,674 hhds 2,005 trcs
2,381 barrels.
COFFEE.-592 bags Ceylon and 485 bales Mocha of-
fered by auction were nearly all taken in at 57s for good
ord Ceylon, 66s to 75s for fine to fine fine ord ditto
British Plantation kind, and 563 to 72s for ord broken to
mid clean garbled Mocha, being about previous prices,
but at which there were not purchasers.
Ruitt.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 499 puns 3 hhds. There were
taken for home consumption 92 puns 17 hhds, and ex-
ported 98 puns 16 hhds. The stock in the same places
is 11,357 puns 2,140 hhds.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 41s to 41s 6d for old, and 41s 6d
to 41s 9d for new, per cwt, on the spot ; and town 43s 6d
per cwt.
TEA.—The market is dull, as there are public sales
to-morrow.

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A.collector said Colver was relieved of the payment of
his assessed taxes last year on the score of poverty, and
he had not paid them since April last. The poor-rates
had been paid.
Mr. Greenwood said the 26th section of the Act did
not, in his opinion, apply to persons who had been re-
lieved of their assessed taxes. The words in the section
were " shall have paid their assessed taxes," and, in his
opinion, the non-payment of the taxes disqualified a
person from voting.
Mr. Ivimey said no taxes could be due if a person had
been relieved of them.
The REVISING BARRISTER said he should reserve his
decision.—The Court then adjourned until to-morrow.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Deputy Judge ADAMS.)
This morning the second September session com-
menced at the Sessions-house, Hick's Hall. The ca-
lendar contains 44 prisoners for trial, 37 charged with
felony, and 7 with assaults.
Mr. Lewis, the solicitor, rose and said he wished to
address a few observations to the Court respecting him-
self before the commencement of the regular business.
At the last sitting of the Court when Mr. Walesby pre-
sided a prisoner named Fish alleged that he was not
ready to take his trial in consequence of his (Mr. Lewis)
having neglected to deliver a brief to counsel, although
he had received the instructions and necessary fees, and
the Chairman had passed a vote of censure on his con-
duct. He begged to assure the Court that ho was
never employed by the prisoner, and knew nothing what-
ever of the transaction, and Mr. Payne had informed
him that the brief was delivered without the name of an
attorney to it.
The Judge said Mr. Lewis's respectability was so well
known that be considered Mr. Lewis could not be guilty
of the neglect ascribed to him, and had he been on the
bench at the time the matter would have been cleared
up at once.
Several barristers bore testimony to the punctuality
and respectability of Mr. Lewis.
Mr. Lewis expressed himself perfectly satisfied and
retired.

BREAK DOWN OF A RAILWAY MAIL TRAIN.—
This morning the Rugby and other mails did not reach
the General Post-office, in St. Martin's-le-Grand until
p:,st seven o'clock, being two hours behind time. Great
anxiety was felt on the subject, and, on the arrival of
the mail, it was made known that, early in the morning,
the axle-tree of one of the railway carriages had
broken down, near Chesterfield, and caused the delay.
From inquiries of the passengers, it appears that no bodily
injury of any moment was sustained by any person.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE NEW HOUSES OF
PARLIAMENT.—Between seven and eight o'clock this
morning, Edward Carter, one of the masons' labourers,
employed in the building of the New Houses of Parlia-
ment, while at work on a scaffold, about thirty feet high,
overbalanced himself and fell to the ground on to a heap
of stone rubbish. When raised up blood was profusely
gushing from his mouth and ears ; he was immediately
conveyed to the new Westminster Hospital, and was
found to be suffering from injury of the brain of such a
severe nature that his surviving is utterly despaired of.
The unfortunate man was about thirty-two years of age
and has a wife and two children.
GREAT RUNNING MATCH FOR TWENTY POUNDS.
—Yesterday the great foo-trace between John Smith,
the London champion, and Benjamin Badcock, of Bir-
mingham, came off at the Beehive cricket-ground, Wal-
worth, in the presence of an immense number of specta-
tors. Both men had obtained great notoriety as pedes-
trians, and much interest was created. The contested
distance was 440 yards, and in which there were 12
hurdles placed at equal distances, over which the men
were to leap. In betting sto 4 were laid on Smith, and
money to a very large amount was pending the result of
this contest. The usual preliminaries being adjusted,
the men appeared at the starting-flag, and the signal
being made the men entered into the contest with great
speed. Smith was the first to clear the nearer hurdle,
closely pursued by Badcock, and at 200 yards the men
were in equal positions ; it was quite manifest that
Smith had superiority in speed, while Badcock excelled
in leaping the hurdles. A spirited race ensued the re-
maining distance, both competitors making strenuous
efforts for the winning goal, and running together to
the last hurdle, which they bounded over with elasticity,
and, after an admirable contest, Badcock came in the
winner, beating his opponent by two yards. The Lon-
doners parted with their money in great dismay, which
the Birmingham fancy pocketed with great alacrity.
CASE OF LIEUTENANT PUDDICOMBE.—We have
seen a letter from Lieutenant Puddicombe to a brother
officer, dated Hawlbowline, near Cork, in which he states
!hat, since his liberation on bail, he has been called upon
by Lieutenant-Colonel Burton to tender his immediate
resignation, a demand with which he refused to comply,
as he felt confident that he should, at his approaching
trial, which was to take place in Dublin, be enabled to
prove satisfactorily his complete and entire innocence of
the foul crime laid to his charge.
KIRKSANTON.—On Sunday morning last this place
presented a novel and awful appearance, the highway
and adjoining fields being inundated to the depth of
some feet. Almost all the grain that was out
was saved by great exertions, but in a damaged
condition. It may be mentioned as a somewhat curious
circumstance, that Anthony Myers, the parish clerk of
Whicham, who is well nigh fourscore years old, had to
be conveyed to his hebdomadal duties in a boat for up-
wards of half a mile. Worthy old Anthony, in spite of
the unusual mode of locomotion he had been compelled
to use, performed the functions of his office with his
well-known ability. He electrified the congregation,
however, when the usual prayer was being offered up
for the preservation "of all that travel by land or by
•ater," by suddenly making the response at the very
top of his sonorous voice, before the minister had con-
cluded the sentence. Honest Anthony's ideas were
evidently running upon the dangers he had so recently
incurred in his voyage.—Lancaster Guardian.
Lord Wharncliffe and the officers of the First West
York Yeomanry Cavalry have accepted an invitation
from the Mayor and Corporation of Doncaster, to dine
with them, at the Mansion-house, on Saturday next.

ROBBERY AT LORD DILLON'S.—John Kerry, aged 30,
was indicted for stealing two silver spoons, value 205.,
the property of Charles Viscount Dillon.
It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner was
apprehended at his lodgings on another charge, when
the two spoons, the property of Lord Dillon, were found.
'The prisoner was in the service of a florist, and was in
the habit of going to Lord Dillon's to attend to the
plants. _ _ _

The butler to Lord Dillon proved that the plate was
counted in April last and found correct, but on examining
it on the 19th August, the day after the prisoner was
apprehended, the spoons were found two short.
The spoons were produced and identified, having his
Thrdship's crest engraved upon them.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty.
A shawl, gold pencil case, two spoons, and other pro-
perty were found upon him.
Sentence—Seven years' transportation.

GUILDHALL.—(THIS DAY.)
John Smith, alias Sansone, was placed before Sir Peter
Laurie, on a charge of stealing a horse.
Mr. Wolfe attended to defend him.
' Lambert, a constable of the detective police said, that
on Friday last he went to Dixon's Repository, Barbican,
and observed a bay cob, which he thought answered the
description of one advertised in the Police Gazette, as
stolen from Ealing, The clerk could not inform him
who the person was from whom the cob had been re-
ceived, but stated that he would call again very shortly.
He (Lambert) then requested, that when the person
called again he should be detained until he could be
seen by witness. This was done, and as he gave a
wrong name, and could not satisfactorily. account for
the possession of the animal, he was taken into custody.
Witness had written to Ealing, and the owner of the
stolen animal came to town yesterday, when it was
ascertained that, though the cob resembled his very
much, yet it was not the same animal.
Mr. Woolfe—Then,in fact, you have no charge against
him ? Lambert—l wish hire remanded for a week, for "I
have ascertained that he iv a returned—l believe an es-
capetd on his person I found a watch and
chain,cwohniveihcy
from premises in Colchester, which happened to be on
have every reason to believe was stolen
fire. I shall write to that place, and also advertise the
the cob in the Gazette.

Mr. Woolfe trusted, that as the prisoner had been in
custody since Friday last, he would not be detained
longer at the mere request of the constable. At all
events, if the magistrate were inclined to remand him for
that time, he (Mr. Woolfe) hoped that the constable
would verify upon oath that he had good cause for de-
manding the delay.
Sir PETER LAURIE was no admirer of oaths, and he
hoped the time would soon come when a simple declara-
tion would be considered sufficient. If the constable
really wished the remand, and thought he could prove
his case, he (Sir P. Laurie) would at once accede to it.
Lambert was very certain that the facts would turn
out as he bad stated.—The prisoner was then remanded
for a week.