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London, England, 1828-08-25 00:00:00

SUNDAY PAPERS.

some of the Deck-yards ; and now he has smote the
second personage in the Empire I The quarrel with
the Royal Duke has been premeditatedly fixed ; his
intimacy with the family of Lord Holland could not
be tolerated; besides his Royal Highness was for a
policy that showed fight,--it a period when all other
powers were arming. There is much impatience in
the public mind on the event of the "Resignation ;"
and some politicians, connecting this event and Mr.
Dawson's speech in Ireland; together with the re-
ports of Mr. Peel's secession, and rumours of a dif-
ferent system of policy to be adopted in Irish affairs,
—expect a recast of the whole Ministry.
(FRom THE 3011 N BULL.

There appears as yet nothing decided as to the
formation of the Commission of Admiralty, a mea-
sure rendered necessary by the resignation of his
Royal Highness the Duke' of Clarence, although
several names have been mentioned as those of
Noblemen likely to take the head of the Board.
The generality of the public, we think, iucline to be-
lieve Earl Grey not an unlikely person to join the
present Administration as first Lord, his Lordship
having formerly filled that office ; while others speak
with something like confidence of the return of Mr.
Huskisson to the Cabinet, as Chief at the Admi-
ralty; but that which appears from circumstances
more probable than either, is the removal of Lord
Bathurst from the Presidency of the Council to the
Naval department.' This Ministerial change would
be one of considerable importance just at this crisis,
as leaving the Presidency of the Council open, the
filling up of which office would serve to settle the
doubts and apprehensions which have been so zeal-
ously excited in the public mind, of a change (upon
one vital question) in the opinion of our illustrious
Premier.

(FROM THE NEWS.)
STRAIGHT-FORWARDNESS AND SINGLE-MINDEDNESS.

" Why, man, he does bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus; and we petty men
Walk under his huge legs, and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves."—Shakspeare.

To create power, is to condense and simplify the
means of power; to strip it of its drawbacks in mul-
tiplied details ; to throw some dozen of its auxiliaries
into one ,• and to call in its most distant outposts,
under the eye of direct controul. Absolutism itself;
in the Lusitanian sense of the word, is to merge a
collective in an individual authority. This breaking
up of the midway subordinated ranks, enables a
King or a Minister to move straight forward on his
purpose, in a " single-minded," rather than a many-
tempered policy. We have men who are capable of
writing a recipe for this desideratum of Cabinets.
The nation, for a length of time after the decease of
Mr. Pitt, was left accidentally destitute of any great
mind as his successor. Fox, Castlereagh, Liverpool,
and Canning,—all successively took the " Bow of
Ulysses," in hand ; but. only to exhibit their own
weakness. The English nation was thus left for
years, languishing under the deprivation of any
" great mind," that was cut out for her neces-
sities ; when the Duke of Wellington, suffering
under a morbid irritation from a singing in one
of his ears, had been recommended by a Quack
Doctor to read the amusing German story of" Peter
Schmid'," or the " Man without a Shadow ;" as an
entertainment calculated to lead a mind wearied with
being chained down on the contemplation of its own
misfortune, into a wide field of inquiry as to what
was the object of the morale of the singular story in
question. It was on rising from the perusal of this
book, that the Marquess of Londonderry came down
to the house, and called Mr. Canning a "Man of
many Shadows," because he had filled up the skeleton
outline of a Cabinet with provisional occupants.
The Duke saw in a moment that Mr. Canning
had mistaken the profound design of the writer;
and when that Minister, both in substance and
shadow, had made his exit at the wing of the
political stage,—the Noble Duke, throwing down
his baton, and putting a pair of scissors in.his pocket,
made his grand entrée. He was first observed, in
the course of his new policy, to keep on a kind of
half-embracing, and half-kicking intercourse, with
his " dear Huskisson," in the sunshine; when look-
ing down on the fine depth of his friend's shadow,
as it was elongated by an evening sun, he rather
playfully proposed to purchase it. The proposition
was treated as a joke; it being considered that such
an appendage was quite unnecessary to a modern
Statesman; and that the Duke only sought to be gene-
rous under the plea of a bargain which could be of no sub-
stantial use to him. But " morels meant than meets
the ear." In purchasing their neighbours' shadows,
men become relatively of more account. Peter
Schemil directly tells us, that " when respectable
people walk out in the sun, it is usual to take their
shadows with them." But to the Duke. By some
political contrivance, his Grace ',lipped out his scis-
sors, and cutting off his friend's shadow at the heels,
rolled it up and put it in his pocket; and in this
state the unfortunate gentleman, after such depriva-
tion, walked into the shades of the Opposition ;
where he is now pursuing shadows that have lost
their substances. Similar tricks have been played
off anti attempted on others ; but the trade is spoil-
ed the moment it is detected and understood in its
true light, It is now about three weeks .since one
of the most profligate Tory Papers (which appears
to be in the confidence of a part of the Administra-
tion), told the public that the Duke of Wellington
had refused, as Premier, some allowances forfeast-
ing, processioning, &c., claimed by the Lord High
Admiral; and ordered the said charges to be placed
against the allowances made for the office. Nobody
then believed a syllable of what was said ; but it is
now evident, not only that this indirect medium was
chosen, to hold up the character of the Lord High Ad-
miral, on the score of a profligate expenditure of public
money, and' to laud that of the Premieras an unsparing
economist, even where the Royal Family was con-
cerned ; but it is equally clear that the resignation
of the Noble Duke is in consequence of a continued
disgust at the snake-like hostility that has systemati-
cally shown itself against the office, and the popular
feeling which it has called forth, from the earliest
stages of the Wellington Cabinet. The public are
entitled tp some official information on this subject ;
and to know what are the causes. of such a resigna-
tion, at a time when tho hopes of fair play in the
navy were reviving; and when the situation of
Europe was such as to make it a matter of doubt
whether the best defences of the country might not
be soon again placed in its hands. Perhaps the
Noble Premier so estimates the judgment of John
Bull, as to suppose that any rhodo»zontade that pre-
tended to make g saving of a few pounds, would be
quite sufficient to blind him, and stop his mouth
from farther babble. In this, the economical ruse
will prove a failure. The attempt to take away the
Duke's shadow, under false pretences, is really a
scurvy trick; and is not at all in keeping with the
'policy of the original shadow-monger. In the
" march" of the Premier, it is difficult to say whe-
ther he has taken the longer strides, by the hardi-
hood of walking over some people, 'or by shoving
others out of the way.. In many situations he
has strongly reminded us of Punch. In the opening
scenes, Punch enters with every corner very civilly
into common topics; and when he is observed to be
e,Xercising a somewhat laboured display of personal
scOurtessr,..—whack ! comes down his shilelah on the
astounded head pf his guest ! and in about three
rounds Mr. Premier ,Punch is, secundum orient,
left grand master of the field. " Doctor," " Con-
stable,"
and " Watch," all come in for the same
blarney and the same bumps. Punch is, in rapt, a
pattern of a Prime Minister,—singularly straight-
forward and single-minded: Like Buonaparte, he
will have no neutrals; he dispatches his opponents
off !sod ; and reigns by dint of using the rigl# end
of his trzotssVon, The Duke, having come to a sort
.1 loggerheads with a branch of the Royal Family—
/eaves town, as is usually dorw in all cases of " great
sensation ;" and goes to Cheltenham; just as though
he ids John Bull to chew the cud of the event in
question; and thus gaining time, and feeling the
poise of-public opini,on„ before he proceeded to act
for the like reason, as we suppose,
on it. Jr. Peel,
takes a trip to Brighton in the same Official 14Q40,4.
lance, The di:pos.olg of the Lord High Admiral
will remain A subject of curious investigation: it is a
nd it is a matter of surprise that
part of a system/ a
implicated. It is consolatory how-
f his own family is imp
the King can be blinded to its object, where the hpnor
h
enlist
Throne, it her not been found practicable to
ever 0 know that, as Presumptive Heir to the
the Noble Duke in the
-optricpon of a
policy. The reign of the pre.3,611L • 1,,w, it
retinue of an 'Ultra, Tory
Ministry has therefore its limit, berspnct
Premier,
Navy,—wei e
cannot hope tp go. To be at once, remier, and.
Commander-in• Chief of Ilse Army and
* stretch of power that most pgn (excepting always
Buouaparteand the Duke of Wellingstspf) sr,sald have
trembled so
,epntemplate. " I and the kinay? %yti;
' the phrase pf Wolsey, but " a greater than 'Wolsey
is hese." The Duke would `yield all the branches
of the public service; and smites high and low wher-
ever it suits the straightforwardness of the Piglish I
Colossus; he interfered even with a few operatives in

(FROM THE SPECTATOR.)

It is a pleasant reflection for the panic-loving in-
habitants of Great Britain, that so long as the world
rolls round the sue, there is reason for hoping that
Providence will supply a sufficient number of mur-
ders and mad dogs to keep them comfortably quak-
ing ; and should these unaccountably fail, it is but
stepping across the Channel to find in the disputes
and contentions of our neighbours--the impo-
tency of some, and the potency of others—ample
subjects of fearful excitation. The " raw head and
bloody bones" of the present hour—bating St.
Swithin and Mr. O'Connell, M.P.--is the uncon-
treullable power of Russia. Our alarmists have
adopted the motto of the old Baron of Bradwardine,
" Beware the bear;" and Lieut.-Colonel Evans
comes to their support with an essay, in the shape of
decent octavo, proving that the Czar has only to
open his tremendous mouth, and down goes Turkey,
India, and perhaps Ireland ! It is not our intention,
at present, to enter into a detailed examination
of the gallant and intelligent officer's essay ;
but it may not be amiss to state, in a very few
words, our opinion of the proposition, which it is his
object to demonstrate—that England should inter-
fere for the purpose of attempting to diminish the
power of the Emperor Nicholas ; we say attempting,
for we do not find in Colonel Evans's book any-
thing like proof that our interference would effect
what he considers to be so desirable. On a glance
at the map, it will be seen that Europe is virtually
held by four great powers—Russia, Austria, Prussia,
and France. Denmark and Sweden are too poor,
too thinly peopled, and too far removed from the
centre, to operate with effect; Italy is impotent,
from its numerous subdivisions; Spain and Portugal
from their political dissensions; and in the kingdom
of the Netherlends, the Northern and Southern
parts are so imperfectly cemented, that they would
probably fall asunder at the first shock. Of the
four great states, Russia and Austria are feudal aris-
tocracies, Prussia is a military despotism, and France
a limited monarchy. Of the whole, Prussia is the
weakest, both from the form of its government, end
the detached and dislocated nature of its territories.
The singularly compact arrangeinent, the intelli-
gence and activity of the people; but, above all,
the free institutions of France, render that king-
dom indisputably the most powerful. Austria,
also, in the more perfect consolidation of its go-
vernment, and the greater antiquity, even of its abuses,
has an advantage over her unwieldy neighbour.
Those who look to the surface that it claims rather
than possesses, may form very magnificent notions of
Russian grandeur; but for all the purposes of
offence, and even of defence, its Asiatic possessions
are about as available to Russia as the wilds of Ca-
nada or of New Holland are to England. We hear
much of the armies of Russia. One of them was
stated lately at the moderate amount of 300,000
men. We recollect, when Buonaparte returned front
Elba, that some of the newspapers mustered against
him a force of two millions ! We suspect that the
troops of the Emperor Nicholas are similarly rated.
It is, we admit, not at all impossible that Nicholas
may march to Constantinople; that he may chase
the Turk out of Europe ; that he may keep posses-
sion of Roumelia. It is also possible that France may
occupy the Morea, and Austria push her boundaries
eastward and southward, until they touch the limits
of Greece. And it is 'tot only possible, but probable,
if any such partition be attempted, that the three spo-
liators will quarrel about the terms. What would re-
sult, what could result from our threats, but to unite
three thieves—if they be such—against one honest
man ? There is, no doubt, a feeling of soreness in
France against England; but it is mingled with re-
spect. Into the dislike with which Frenchmen view
the barbarians of the north, to whose frozen clime the
greatest of all the disasters that ever bcfel the empire
is to be attributed, there enters no such qualifying
ingredient. We may safely calculate on this feeling.
As to the cant about England's " decay," we must
be decayed indeed were we to heed it. It is not by
peace that the resources of a nation are exhausted;
nor is it by war that they are recruited. We have
fought for frivolous causes too often ; and hence, if
we are weak, does our weakness arise. It would be
a whimsical mode of cure to plunge into war again,
without an overwhelming necessity; and such a ne-
cessity is not to be found in the dreams of political
alarmists.

(FROn THE SUNDAY HERALD.)

The great subject of domestic interest during the
last week has been the speech delivered by Mr.
Dawson, at a dinner held at Derry, at which tw o
hundred Protestant gentlemen were present, and in
the course of which the Right Hon. Gentleman de-
clared, in the most unequivocal terms, that he had
given up the opinions which he formerly held on the
subject of Catholic Emancipation, and was now con-
vinced that something must be, done for Ireland.
Such a declaration, if made by any other person,
would have been considered, both by the Catholics
and their opponents, as the mere addition of a vote
on one side, and its subtraction on the other; but
there are circumstances, connected with the conver-
sion of Mr. Dawson, which give to it a weight which
scarcely that of any other Member of Parliament, or of
the Government, would have had, with the exception
of that of Mr. Peel, or the Duke of Wellington,
Ja the first place, Mr. Dawson is closely connected
with the Beresford family, which, as every one
who knows any thing respecting Ireland is aware, is '
Protestant and Anti-Catholic all over; in the second,
he is married to a sister of Mr. Peel, the Secretary
for the Peme Department, and the great champion
of Protestant ascendancy itcthe House of Commons;
in the third, he holds a high office in the existing
Government (how long will it exist ?) ; and, lastly,
the declaration was made in such . time; place, and
manner, as to have made it be generally believed
that the conversion of the Right Hon. Gentleman
was was less that of Mr. Dawson, acting in his inde-
pendent capacity as a Member of the Legislature,
thc,ri of Mr. Dawson, the Secretary to the Treasury;
the Official organ of the (iovertnent, and of the
GovernMent itself of which he 'is 'a 'Member.--L
The Right Honourable Gentlethan, in fad, deli-
vered himself of his recantation iu a nianner
yhich could Scarcely fail to impress his hearers
with such a conviction. " I speak here," said
-
he, " as a Member of parliament, as a Mem-
ber of Government, and as a citizen of the world."
All these Aualifieations, howe'Ver, were Unable to
orocure him an attentive hearing from' the Wealthy,

and, as the world goes, respectable freeholders of 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
Derry. At the Conclusion of every sentence, the •
Right lion. Gentleman was assailed with hisses, • MANSION-HOUSE.—The proprietors of the Sons of
Commerce Gravesend steam-boat, navigating from London
hootings, and all manner of interruptions ; and it
to Gravesend, were summoned before the LORD Mayon On
was only by dint of actual threats, that he succeeded
. . • - • .
,Saturday, upon an information charging them with having
g 2s. 6d. for the conveyanceofa gentleman named
g
in
.concluding a speech which filled his former friends
with unutterable dismay, and spread, when it be- • Talbot, from the former to the latter place, the regular fare
came known, joy far and wide, among his Catholic being no more than Is. 6d.!
countrymen. Such ,is the history of this affair, Mr. Talbot stated the facts of the overcharge, and sub-
which has made more noise, both in Ireland and in mitted to the Lord Mayor that the steam-boat, being a pas.
this country, than any other event which we recol- I sage-boat, was liable to the regulations of the late act rela-
lect during the last twelve months. Whether Mr. ting to boats of this description.
Dawson was, or was not, authorised by the Duke of I Mr. Alley contended, that the vessel in question did not
Wellington, to make the declaration, appears to us come under thedenomination of passage. boat, and was not
extremely problematical. The circumstance of his at all under the controul of the Court of Aldermen ; that
property being situated in Ireland--of his re-
the act referred to wherries and boats propelled by ears, and
steam. not by He stated that clients 2' his had aid
eOOI.
turn being defeated at the next election, though
for steam-vessels
to- navigatefromLondon opGraxes, Gravesend
that the public derived the greatest accommodation from;
the power of the Catholic Association, and of i
such efforts, and that if the price demanded were to be re-
his influence in the country being wholly over-
thrown, as well of his rents remaining unpaid, (Need,
that accommodation must cease altogether.
in case of his persevering in his hostility to the Ca- The Loan MAYOR said that the steam-boat, as a passage-.
tholies, may all have had their clue weight with the boat from London to Gravesend, came directly under the
Right Honourable Gentleman ; but the fact is never-
jurisdiction of the Mayor and Aldermen, who had regulated
theless equally certain that the Duke of Wellington the fares. He had no doubt the Legislature meant to in-
is as much convinced as Mr. Dawson of the de-
elude steam-boats, and he should therefore convict the de-
fondants. The Lord Mayor also mentioned, that if the
soacce tba
ren
plorable state of Ireland, and of the necessity of
ourt of
doing something which shall effectually allay the td,oroutrtietthoz ‘wvoouulldd be pm
ly to C Aldermen, no
agitation which working people must be accommodated.
hopes prevails in, that country. Strong
inraodgateery.nt made ; but the
hopes are in consequence entertained that a measure
will be introduced with the sanction of the Govern-
BOW-STREET—Di:um; Scar rant.-70n Satur-
ment Navinfor its ob act the rant of Enianci a-
g
day, Edward Ma o was charged with stealing a breast of
, g j g p
anti from Mr. Chambers, a butcher, in rette lare
tion, in the, fullest sense of the word, but guarded
Scott, the street-keeper, who. took 1.-
theprisonerl into
by such securities as shall effectually prevent the custody, and who appeared as the prosecutor,,
addressed the
possibility of danger to the Protestant Establishment Magistrate (Mr. Haus) to the following effect Please
in Church and State. To us no securities appear your worship, after all my trouble in this here piece of busi-
either requisite or useful. The great object ought to ness, Mr. Chambers refuses to come forward andswear to
be the separation of the Irish clergy and laity, so the dientity of the meat
,(Laughter), although it is his
that the one should form a complete counterpoise to property. '
the sinister influence of the other; and this object Mr. flacr.s—Then the prisoner will get free, and you
would be effectually secured by granting ernancipa-
may dine scot free by taking the meat home with you.
ott—l humbly thank yO Wors ; have five children.
Lion, which, while it deptived the priests of all pre-
Sclo Mr. HALLs—Very well ;ur let themhip have the meat scot and
tence for intermeddling, would give to the laity a
t. But how did you apprehend the prisoner? Scott—
direct interest in preserving the State from foreign I heard the cry of " Stop thief,"and tripped up his heels.
interference. Mr. HALLS—Had he the meat in his possession at the
time? Scott—No, your Worship, he let it fall in the street.
Mr. HALLS—So then you took it. up? Scott----Yes,
your Worship; and I took him -up too. (Laughter.)
The prisoner was then discharged, and Scott charged
with the conveyance of the breast of lamb to his five children.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday, George
Barrow alias John Thomas Hopkinson, the person of
Colour in custody upon various charges of swindling, was
brought before Mr DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for final
examination. The office was as much crowded on this as
on any former occasion. The prisoner, in lieu of the tat-
tered old garment thrown over him when he was last at the
bar, as a substitute for Mr. Butler's coat and waistcoat,
wore on this occasion a fashionable brown close coat, which
it appeared he had the address to borrow from a fellow-
prisoner, with whom he has formed, an acquaintance since
his apprehension.
A vast number of fresh charges were again preferred against
the prisoner, but they all bore more or less the same cha-
racter as those already published, .and the only two of any
novel interest were those of Mr. Doubleday, a coal-mer-
chant, at Eaton-wharf, Pimlico, and Mr. Betts, a book-
seller, and one of the Society of Friends, residing in Comp-
ton-street, Brunswick-square.
Mr. Doubleday received a note, according to the usual
form of those written by the prisoner, describing the latter
as a gentleman of large West India estates, whose name was
Hopkinson, of Trinity College, Cambridge, and of Cowley-
grove, Uxbridge, that his name, fortune, and character
were too well known to need any reference, but that if Mr.
Doubleday did require any, lie might inquire of Lord
Grosvenor; the particular friend of the writer, or indeed of
any nobleman or gentleman connected with Demerara,
where the Hopkinson family were well known. The
writer then went an to say, that he had taken for a
town-house, No. 22, Park-road, St. John's-wood, and
begged that Mr. Doubleday would immediately send in
there a waggon-load of the best coals. Mr. Doubleday
sent first to the house in Park-read, where the prisoner
himself was seen, and confirmed the order for the coals, and
next Mr. Doubleday had inquiry made of Mr. Finlayson,
the landlord of the house in Park-road, who resides in
Baker-street, and who it seems let the house to the pri-
soner on a three years lease ; and owing
,to the represen-
tation of Mr. Finlayson, rather than any thing written or
said by the prisoner himself, Mr. Doubleday sent in
waggon-load of best coals, and in ten days after the coals
were sent in the prisoner had vanished from the place alto-
gether, and Mr. Finlayson had got possession of the house,
and of the waggon of coals into die bargain : and now, Mr.
Doubleday said, Mr. Finlayson refuses to give up the coals,
because he says the prisoner has commenced an action of
trover against him to recover the possession of the house
and what he left in it.
Mr. Betts, the bookseller, was about to make his com-
plaint, when some hesitation arose as to his giving evidence
in a criminal proceeding, as this was, against the prisoner,
without being sworn, until Mr. Betts reminded the Ma-
gistrate that an Act passed the Legislature in the last Ses-
sion of Parliament, admitting the evidence of Quakers upon
their affirmation, in all criminal as well as, civil cases in
future.
Mr. DYER referred to the Act of Parliament, and found
it to be as Mr. Betts stated ; the Magistrate said lie felt
much pleasure in being the first, at least in this office, to
afford Mr. Betts, or any of the society to which he be-
longed, an opportunity of exercising the privileges of tole-
ration extended to them.
The Chief Clerk then read the form of the affirmation
as directed by the Act of Parliament, which Mr. Betts
repeated after him, and then gave the following evidence :
On the Ist May last he said he received a letter from
the prisoner, describing himself as Mr. Hopkinson, of Tri-
nity College, Cambridge, and of Cowley-grove, Uxbridge,
saying that he was recommended by Mr. Walker Hinds, of
Gray's-inn, and requesting Mr. Betts to call at his cham-
bers, No. 6, Holborn-court, Gray's-inn ;he did accord-
ingly call at the chambers, on the door of which was
who
painted the name of " Hopkinson," and when he en-
tered
contentsh e
osfa wthet lie
note,
which prisoner,ic h
he admitted repeatedha to
him the
writ-
ten by bins. He spoke of his large estates in the West
Indies, and his intimacy with the Attorney-General,
whom he said was a relation of his, and with Mr. Fowell
Buxton. He then gave Mr. Betts a long list of books,
which be said Ise wanted immediately, and he also said that
he wanted a set of cards engraved, with his name and crest
on them. Mr. Betts observed that it was rather unusual
to have a gentleman's crest on his visiting cards, but the
prisoner replied that they always bad it so at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge. The next day Mr. Betts sent the pri-
soner home four sets of books,—viz. : " East's Term Re-
ports," " Phillips's Laws of Evidence," " Chitty on
Pleadings," and " Gifford's Equity Lawyer," in all worth
about 221. ; but before he sent home any more of the list,
Mr. 13ettl happened, he said, to see Mr. Fowell Buxton,
and he asked him, if he knew the prisoner. Mr. Iluxton
replied that he had not then any recollection of knowing
such a person, but he would inquire. In a few days after
that, it was discovered that the prisoner had disappeared
altogether from the chambers, and Mr. Betts heard no more
of him until lie learned that he was in custody.
Mr. Scott, a boot-maker in Southampton-buildings,
Chancery-lane, said that the prisoner had given him an
order for four pair of boots, of which two were delivered
to him.
The prisoner was finally committed for trial upon three
charges,—namely, those of Mr. Betts, Mr. Butler the
tailor, and Mr. Nettleton the tailor.
MARYLEBONE7OFFICE. —Robert Horne, a re-
spectable young man, has been taken into custody and was
brought before Mr. Hose-Isis on Saturday under the follow-
ing circumstances :—He was eating oysters on Friday
night at a shop in Stephen-street, Lisson-grove, with an-
other young man whoso name is Ayres, and just as
Horne was putting one to Isis mouth, Ayres, in a
frolic, knocked it out of his hand and ran away laugh-
ing. Horne instantly threw an o)ster-knife after him,
t1.6.i With a feeling of resentment, it appears, nor intending
to hurt him, but unguardedly, and the blade went through
his clothes and into the lower part of his back inure than
an inch in depth. The blood flowed copiously, and be was
taken to the shop of Anderson, a surgeon, followed by
Horne, in a state of distraction.
The fate of Ayres is very uocertain„ and the surgeon
thinks some days may pass before it can be ascertained.
/Imre was remanded by Mr. Lioaxlss, with tie pri-
vilege of giving hail for his appearance when required,
himself in 1001., and two sureties in 50/. each.
-Francis James, driver of the hackney chariot No. 696,
was fined 10s., under Mr. Martin's Act, for wantonly
driving one of • his master's horses eight hours 'on Friday
without a shoe, and otherwise ill-treating it,
HATTON-GARDEN.—Saturday Welt last a dustman
of the name of John Cost;:} was brought to this office, in
custody of ore of the officer's, upon the warrant of
Thomas Shelton, Esq., Coroner, charged with the wilful
Murder of his son, William Costin, a youth between nine
and ten years old.
It appears that on Friday week the prisoner, who was

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POOR RATES.—The system of paying labour from
rates originally raised and intended to be exclusively
appropriated to the support of the infirm and indi-
gent part of our population, has unquestionably
been the primary and most powerful agent in dete-
riorating the physical and moral condition of the
'once-boasted peasantry of England. Without en-
quiring into the moral obligation, or political expe-
diency of a community making compulsory assess-
ments for the support of its infirm and indigent
members, the English code of Poor Laws undoubt-
edly originated (in the reign of Elizabeth) in bene-
yolent motives, to meet the then existing necessities
of the country ; and it is equally certain, that the
evils which that code has engendered, have been
more the result of mil-administration than of any
radical error in its principle. Like many other of
the metropolitan parishes, St. Luke's had suf-
fered most severely from the grossest mismanage-
ment of. its affairs generally, and one of the most
prominent grounds of complaint was the enormous
amount of legal expenses annually incurred by the
vestry-clerk, who was a solicitor, and in all cases
acted in that capacity for, the parish. Prior to
Easter last year, the dissatisfaction became so gene-
ral, that the vestry-clerk was forced to re-
sign the situation, and it was made a sine qua
non with the majority of the Vestry that no
professional man should be elected to the office
in future. The duties to be performed by the
vestry-clerk were clearly defined to his suc-
cessor, and were to include the drawing of all con-
tract bonds for the parish, without any charge to the
contractors, except the price of the stamps ; and that
no solicitor should be employed on account of the
parish, but in special cases as they arose, and when
the services of a professional mart became indispens-
able. It was also strongly inculcated, that, when
any question arose with other palishes relative to
the removal. or settlement of paupers, that every
possible information should be freely interchanged on
the facts of the case, for mutual satisfaction as to
where the legal claim lay; and that no appeal should
ever be made until all extra-judicial arrangement to
resist improper encroachment had failed. The de-
tailed account of the expenditure of the parish, from
Lady-day 1827 to Lady-day 1828, under the new
system of management, has just been published, and
is now before us; and the comparative result of ex-
pences incurred at sessions, or removals and appeals,
is 84 follows :—The annual average expence for the
ten years from Lady-day 1817 to Lady-day 1827,
for appeals, &c., exclusive of all legal charges in
other departments of the parochial government, was
2821. ls. 3id. From Lady-day 1827 to Lady-day
1828 the same charge was 1041. 18s. Of this latter
sum, 831. Is. 10d. was incurred during the first
quarter of the year, for unsettled cases, left by the
former vestry-clerk; so that, for the last nine months,
the expence is reduced to 211. 16s. 2d., or to the
rate of 291. Is. 6id. per annum. We are aware
that many of the legal gentlemen filling the
office of vestry-clerk, measure the extent of their
usefulness by the number of settlements they
have successfully resisted; as if there were any
thing in the law of the case that any person
of common sense might not be made to comprehend
in a day ; while, at the same time, they carefully keep
the most important circumstance out of view : viz.
that if they were to communicate freely to the officers
of the parishes with whom they contend, all the facts
that come to their knowledge, in nine cases out of
ten no appeal would take place, and both parties
would thereby avoid the expense of litigation.

HERRING FISHING.—Owing to the preva-
lence of easterly winds, the herring fishing has lately been
very unsuccessful. On Saturday there were 32 vessels
detained in Cromarty Roads. Our correspondent at Burg.•
head states, that the present average take of the boats at
that port does not exceed forty crans, which is considered
but about one-fifth of a fishing, although two-thirds of the
season have expired. At Croinarty, the whole that has
been caught would scarcely make a cargo. At Portma-
homack, 209 barrels have been smoked and shipped for
London, and 274, barrels of white herrings exported to
Belfast. At Fraserburgh the fishing is more successful,
and both curers and fishermen anticipate a good season.
We regret to add, that on the night of the 11th instant
another man was carried overboard and drowned in the
Bay of Wick, being struck with the sail. He belonged to
Port-Gordon.—lnverness Courier.

The weather still continues unsettled, and
greatly retards the progress of the harvest, which may
now be said to be general in this neighbourhood. Great
quantities of corn have been cut this week, but very little
has yet been carried. On Thursday morning the weather
had a more favourable appearance, which .caused a great
demand for shearers in this town, and raised the wages of
women from Is. 6d. at which many were engaged on
Wednesday morning, to 2s. per day. The crops in this
vicinity appear to be nearly ripe for the sickle, and if the
ensuing week be dry, great part of them will be cut down,
and much secured. Several samples of new corn were ex-
hibited in sue market on Saturday, the 16th inst. and we
were gratified in seeing the goodness of the quality, which
was generally allowed to be considerably better than that
of last year.--Newcastle Chronicle, Aug. 23. 1

A few days ago, a man, residing at Trinity,
having eaten some mussels which he had purchased from
a enintrinp lnTker, was take s .4diletily ill, and exhibited
§yinptnms of being poiaoned. Medical assistance
was procured far him; but it was with no small difficulty
that he was relieved of his disease.—Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

A country gentleman, at the late Exhibition,
asked a spectator what was the meaning of " R. A." afqieci
to some of the painters' names, " Why, judging frosp
many of their 14ours,'•' s,vas tile reply, "it mast mean--
rather • • ,

A short time ago, a labpnrer, belonging to
Mr. I-lALLAst, of Wimeswould, observed a number of
crews and jackdaws alight in a barley field, at a distance,
and having a gun with him well loaded, he made for the
field ; but, to his surprise, when he entered the close, he
could not discover one bird; however, observing a motion,
or waving in the corn, he fired, as he expressed it, /hit or
miss, when io ! ho had kills a ten ja&daws and two. crows.
—Nottinoa77l Raley?,

employed by Sinnott; (hist con'trietdinf the *lst of C
kenwell, had been at work upon one of the dust-hills in
employer's yard, corner of Coppice-row, when the
ceased came to him with some tea in a pewter pint.
prisoner having drank, presented, the pint to his son
take also a draught, telling him at tkie same time not
drink too deeply ; but the little urchin, who had 'the c
racter of being a wayward youth, having exhausted
vessel to the dregs, returned it, laughing heartily nt
trick and the father's disappointment. The prisoner, fin
big that the pot contained nothing but the dregs of the
and provoked to rage at the mirthful behaviour of t
child, flung the pot at him, which hitting him on the rig
side of the head, knocked him senseless and bleeding on
ground. He was instantly taken to surgeon Lawrence's, i
Ray-street, who, finding that the head was severely
tured, and that the brain protruded, ordered him to be re*
moved to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where, having litr
gered for some days, he died en Thursday last. An it
quest was held upon the body on Saturday, when the Jurl
returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the' pr'
soner, and the Coroner accordingly issued a warrant 1$
his apprehension. He was immediately taken at work ie
Sinnott's yard. The sitting Magistrate, Mr. LAINca;
mantled him for further examination on Friday next.

UNION-HALL.—On.Saturtlay a young man, nplie
R. Perkins, apprentice to Mr. Whitby,' the pawnbrokef,
of Bermondsey, was brought before the sitting Magistratf
(Mr. Boxr), charged with robbing his master to a cone
derable extent. On complainant taking stock about a yea'
ago, he found a deficiency of nearly 200/.; and Suspectin,
his principal shopinan, he discharged him at the time
Since the discharge olthis person various articles of jewel'
lery and plate having been missed, stock was taken againi,
few days ago, when a further deficiency of 2001. worth 4%
property was ascertained. Suspicion was then, exciteJ
towards the prisoner ; and, on being searched, a vast 'taut
her of duplicates of articles that had been pledged at big
master's shop were found in his possession ; and he acknow
ledged that, subsequently to the articles 'hiving bee°
pledged, he took possession of them' himself, and had
money advanced upon them at the shops of different pawn',
brokers in town. In this manner he always contrived
raise as much money as not only to supply the eitravagancel
of a prostitute whom he kept in the New-road, hut also 1°
furnish a male companion of his with money, by whom 14
relates he was threatened with a disclosure of the system :
plunder that was going -forward on his master's propertf
if not supplied with cash when he wanted it. The cola'
plainant added, that the prisoner had told him that he
raised between St. and 10/. per week on the property which
he took from the shop, all of which was expended in Of
manner above described.

Mr. Whitby, and the officer who took the prisoner into
custody, said, that if he was remanded for a few days, $
further disclosure would be made of the full extent t°
which the former had been, plundered of his property ba
the accused.

During the investigation the prisoner covered his face
with his hands, and did not attempt to utter a word in hie
defence. He was remanded.

LAW NOTICES.
COURT OF CHANCERY.
SITTINOS APPOINTED PREVIOUS TO MICHAELMAS TERM, itia.

BEFORE THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
SEAL DAYS. '
First Seal—Saturday, Nov. 1.
Second Seal—Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Rehearings and Appeals—Monday, Nov. 3.
Petitions—Wednesday, Nov. 5.
BEFORE THE VICE-CHANCELLOR.
BANKRUPT PE lITIONS.
Thursday, Oct. 16, and two following days.
Monday, Oct. 20, and five following days.
Monday, Oct. 27, and four following days.
SEAL DAYS.
First Seal—Saturday, Nov. 1.
Second Seal--Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Pleas and Detnurrers—Monday, Nov. 3.
Petitions--Wednesday, ,Nov. 5.
The Court to sit each day at Lincoln's Inn.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL.

FRIDAY, AUG. 22.—High water 8 min. part 13.".
Arrived the Spartan, Eves, from St. Domingo; Halif3i't
Finlay, from Halifax. 1 ship, 1 brig,, 2 snows, off 11
eight o'clock.
CLEARED e UTW A EDS—ahe Alice, Powditch, for Bl-
tavia, and Sincapore ; Friendachaft, Malchon, for Bremen'sHerlette, Groet, for Elsineur ; Paragon;
_Austin, for Ja-
maica; Fortitude, Thomilson, ,for Messina; Commodore,
Hart, for Newfoundland ; Dove, Limond, for St. Johol#,
New Brunswick ; Alwick, Ward, for St. Petereburgh•
SATURDAY, Auo. 23.—High water 26 min. past
Wind W.—Arrived the Gute Hoffnung, Klavetta, from
Dantzic ; Dawson, Noyes, from Quebec; Brothers, Pottth
from Port William. 2 brigs off at seven o'clock.
CLEARED OUTWARDS.—..The Heroine, Sullivan, fc't.
St. Andrew's ; Isabella, Shanning, for New Orleans'
Fletcher, Foster, for Rio de Janeiro; Diana, Beckstrom, f°r
Elsineur ; Lady Dunmore, M'Clare, for St. Petersburgb.;
Ellen, Costen, for Riga ; 'Lady Victoria, Keeper, for
werp ; Lima, Brown, for Quebec ; Three Brothers, Log'
for New Brunswick ; Carlton, Collenden, for ditto;
Cherub, Selkirk, for Quebec.