The Sun.
London, England, 1826-08-28 00:00:00

SMUT OF THE PUBLIe ;JOURNALS.

It is said that facts have reached this country of high
interest and importance concerning the affairs of Portugal.
The indirect measures by which Spain, but more espe-
dally another and a superior Power, has been working for
the overthrow of the new constitution, and for the re-
establishment, as well of she old arbitrary system, as of
the Queen and Don Miguel, its not unworthy champions,
are dearly traced and intimated, according to the best pri-
vate accounts. A theory, or rather a sort of legal argu-
ment, by which a plausible construction of the late joint
act of John the Sixth, end his son Pedro, separating the
two crowns of Portugal and Brazils is made to invalidate
the right of Pedro to grant a charter 'to Portugal, after
making his election of the-throne of Brazil, will, it is pre-
sumed, be made the fundamental principle of the creed under
which the Ultra-Rrlalistbannersere without delay to be un-
folded. In the mean time, those practical,butinformul circum-
stances, which go frequently and irresistibly to solve great
deliberative questions, and to accelerate the roost fatal cri-
ses, are multiplying and closing round the scene of future
action in the Peninsula. Refugees from Spain fly to Por-
tugal, where they are sheltered by the people, and not
diecounte»aneed by the Regent. The factious Portuguese
military have betaken themselves to Spain, where the
authorities of Ferdituusa, under the sanction of the Church
and Court, have elicouraged them. 'Private lettere state
that a Royalist junta, on behalf of the Queen and Miguel
has been proclaimed in Tras-os-Montes, directed and sup-
ported by tie Apostolic Junta of Galicia, and by assuran-
ces frost France. From these combined causes, if not mis-
011.bsed, it is easy to foretell that a struggle is at hand, though
of what extent, or who may be compromised in it, we at
least are not bold enough to conjecture. England cannot
look on in tranquillity should Portugal receive molestation
from either branch of the House of Bourbon; and that
she will be molested our correspondents have little doubt.
Let Ferdinand, on the other side, but assemble an army,
and those who best know the present feelings of the Spa-
niards, declare that it will act as in 1820, and that the
'bulk of the nation will unite with it. What then remains
for France to do is a consideration with which we shall
not meddle, though possibly Mr. Canning may.---Times.
' Upon comparing the accounts from the manufacturing
district* during the last fortnight, it appears that the dis.
tress has not only ceased 'to increase, but is actually in a
'course of. diminution. In ii period of calamity, if the
causes which 'induced it continue to operate on it with it
uniform degree of force, the evil increases with a rapidity
which becomes greater every successive day ; for the
longer distress continues, the greater is the severity with
which a given degree of privation presses on the dimi-
nished resources of the sufferers. If, therefore, the evil
had merely. become stationary, that circumstance alone
would have been a proof, that the causes from which it
originally proceeded were no longer operating with their
original force. Its positive diminution is a still more.satis-
factory proof of the same thing, and shows also that the
springs of our prosperity are again in action. We have
all along contended that the evil arose from temporary
causes, and would be of only temporary duration. The
result, so far as it has yet gone, seems to prove that we
were not deluding ourselves or others by placing confi-
dence in too flattering a theory. It requires no small
steadiness in those who are at the head of affairs, and
imposes upon them no slight self-denial, to hear the cry
of distress raised, to know that they could, by applying
to that purpose a portion of the-resource, of the State,
,'administer temporary relief,' and yet, to. follow the stern
commands of reason and piudence, forbidding them to
adopt, incompliance with their feelings, a course which,
though 'it might give preient relief, would ultimately
aggravate the disease which it palliated at first. Cases
may arise in which it becomes the duty of a Government
to divert part of the public revenue from its usual desti-
nation, and to employ it in alleviating privations which
have reached, an extreme point, and for which .private
benevolence is insufficient to make an adequate provision.
'But such an interference is in itself always an evil ; it is
at departure from the proper functions of Govereme»ty it
places subjectaand rulers in a relation beneficial to neither;
while the relief which it affords is only transient, and
cannot be continued for any length of time without in..
volving the Government in great embarrassments. It is,
therefore, a matter of no small congratulation, that the
Government has not found it necessary to take upon itself
the' care of providing for • the wants of our population.
The patience of the working classes has beco most.meri-
torious and praiseworthy; and the benevolence of those,
to whom fortune had been more favourable, has been
worthi of the occasion which called it foith. That pas
tient endurance, arid that, benevolence, have done more
than arty political arrangement coold have effeeted.—New
Times and Representalioe.
The singular manner, in which mie of the' Wakefield'
has for ,the present eluded public justice; the nonchalance
with which the views of his flight was aimouneed and re-
ceived ; and the calmness with Which a bench-warrant was
applied for and granted for his re-apprehension; are cir-
cumstances which appear to give to the affair more of a
dramatic effect than one we should expect to see accompa-
ny an action of real life. We should have thought that some-
thing like is hue-and-cry would have been raised ; (weenie
witnesses, at least, examined, as to when and where he
was last seen, Ike. We should have thought that when his
attorney stood up in Court, and openly stated that his client
Would not appear, that the attorney would at least have
been asked how he knew that I' Not that we suppose that
any profiesional man could be so unwise, or so dishooesits
as to counsel that, the very concocting of which would
amoisnt, in all parties, to a high miedemeanor. Put we
Confess we should like to see a little more light thrown
upon this extraordinary affair, than, as' far as the public
is -concerned, it hits as yet received. There did seem to
he some inconsistency in the trial of the principal being
'postponed, and that of the accessory not. As we have the
Judge's own authority for saying that the propriety of that
postponement is much questioned, we May add, that the
more it is viewed the more questionable it must appear;
but being permitted, it would, we think, have been at
least as wise anti just that the one eesse should have fol-
lowed the other. However, the learned Judge determines
otherwise, the Counsel for the prisoner threaten to throw
up their briefs, while the accused himself cuts the matter
short by taking French leave of all parties; and that, as
far as we can see, without any very active means being
tikewto prevent him, or to bring him 'back. Now the
Afaions and the painful part ofc this is (and we say
it,is in perfect sincerity, without meaning offence to any
one), that people who know no better, are apt, when
such things as these otnr, to imagine that people who
have money can evade justice in a way that those who have
none cannot. We do not, rnean to insinuate that such is
the case here. But public justice should, like Ciesar's wife,
be above suspicion; anti we think, therefore, it would have
been better if the prosecutors at, least had made snore esir
about the matter, than we have as yet; heard that they have
done. It affords a striking instance, too, of the defect of our
law of sureties. What is there to prevent the hail in this
ease running away too, it they think proper ? Now, we
think, that in a case where' Justice wesoPenly set itt defiance,
it should have been io the power. of the Judges to have
instantly called for the sums the bail were bound in. But
this, we believe, SS the law vow Stands, ran only be done
m the Exchequer; at any raw
by some slow process fro
not so instantaneously, but that the bail may, if they are
inclined, follow the runseswey steps of the principal. One
thing seems to' us -quite- clear, that had there been no
Counsel from the first to the last employed iii this affair.
and had the matter been left to proceed in the ordinary
stertight-fOrWard course which it would othenyilse have
taken, complete justice would by this time have been done
ty.',C would
to all Ptkttles; much time and money, and sualet
have been saved, and the purity and credit of laws
rescued from the kind of scandal which dilatoriness and
evasion always, to a certain degree, bring upon them.—
Morning Herald'.
A second Meeting was held in Cork' on Tuesday last,
for the Purr-me of discussing a series of Resolutions, le-
commending the inttoduction into Ireland of a system of

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Poor Laws, similar in principle to that a totitivt,
speakers, with one or two exceptions, were all; in favour of
the Resolution*, but a. Committee of Inquiry was ap-
'pointed, and an adjournment agreed to for a week. It
was stated by Lord Carberry, wlio profestled to be himself
an advocate for a national provision for the indigent
classes of society, as it would not,Only make the rich man
support the poor, bat bring the rich mart acquainted with
the peasostry to the mutual advantage 'of both, that it
would be well if a Committee of 'the Gentlemen of the
city and county were appointed for the purpose of draw-
ing up qberies to be submitted to Protestant and Roman
Catholic Clergymen. The suggestion of his Lordship is
entitled to commendation. Before interfering with such a
country'as Ireland, we ought to possess better evidence
respecting its state, than shy yet obtained by Parliament.
We possess much evidence respecting the general condi-
tion of Ireland; but what is wanted is detailed informa-
tion respecting the different districts. Though we are
friendly to the principle of the English Poor 'Laws, we
confess we are at a loss to see in what manner they can
be extended.to a country like Ireland, the' population of
which hes been suffered to outrun. so very much the means
for employing them. Even if we were to allow that the
Irish gentry • ought to bear part of the burden, which
they have entailed on the empire at large, it by no
niers follows that they ought to be script of their pro-
petty altogether; and we can only view the introduc-
tion of Poor Rates into Ireland as a transference of the
whole property of the country to the unemployed poor.—
Some of those who oppose the introduction of Poor Laws
into Ireland, do so on what we conceive untenable
grounds. The tendency of Poor 'Laws, they say, is to
create a factitious population. The Nor Laws declare
that every human being is entitled to be fed, under all cir-
cumstances, and they thus remove one of the strongest
obstacles in the way of imprudence-,--the dread of starva-
tion. But those who reason in this way for that the
possessors of the property, which is chargeable with the
support of the poor, have the strongest of all inducements
to prevent its being consumed by a supernumerary popu-
lation,,and have the power to regulate the numbers of the
people through the number of the cottages they suffer to
he kept up. The Poor Laws, by fixing a 'minimum of
subsistence for the population, give to the possessors of
property a strong inducement to keep that population, if
possible, within the limits prescribed by the means of em-
ploynfent : they prevent the poor from falling into such a
state as to disturb the tranquillity of the country ; but
they do not prevent the poor from availing themselves of
an increase in the demand for labour, to raise their wages
and better their condition. By fixing ti rate of subsistence
below which thopootshali not descend, they keep the notions
of then poor respecting comforts, upon the whole, higher than
in countries in which there is no limit to their descent, but
famine and typhus fever. In Ireland the absence of a
poor-rate has greatly added to the factitious' population,
because, if there had been one, that ruinous competition
of the people for land, as a means of subsistence, which
has served so much to create a vicious and redundant po-
pulation, would have stopped at the limit when no more
eould'he extracted from the land, after paying rent, than
the subsistence already secured ; and' the landlord would
have soon seen the necessity of deVising means for pre-
venting the multiplication of people reduced to the legal
subsistence,. when the effort was not to increase; by com-
petition, his share of the produce, but to swallow up the
whole of it. In England, abuset have taken place, of late
year&, under
.the Poor. Laws, but this; ilia reason for de-
vising a remedy for the abuses, and tot against the Laws
themselves. The population .in particular districts has
been suffered to outgrow the means of employment; hut
then the redundancy bears no proportion to that of every
part of Ireland, and of all hut certain improved districts of
Scotland. However the remedy has been suggested by
Mr. Hodges, and we have no doubt it will be found ge-
nerally etlicacious,--namely, the power of charging the
builders of cottages with the burdens they create. At
present, a man possessed of WI acre of ground, may disturb
the economy of a, whole parish, by covering it with -cot-
tages, speculating on 'payment of rent nut of the pedal;
rates, A man may possess a whole parish, and only 'an
sere of ground in the adjoining parish, and by keeping
down the number of cottages in his own parish, and co-
vering the acre in the next with cottages, he may, by
creating a redundant population in it, reduce the rate 'of
wages, and obtain as many labourers from it as he chooses
at that reduced rate, the difference between the,reduced
rate and the actual cost of the subsistence of the labourers
and their families being paid by the parish. In this way
the proprietor of a whole parish, and a small part of an ad-
joining one, may literally ridge his own income consider-
ably at the expenei of that of his neighbours. But a
power given to proprietors or 'Vestries to control matters,
within their respective parishes, would serve to 'cheek, if
not prevent entirely, this evil. In speaking of Poor Laws,
let it never be forgotten that the population of England
was hats redundant' then that of any country of Europe,
during nearly all the last century, and the greatest part of
the preceding one. The wages of the districts, of Scot-
land, bordering on England, were lower thin on the Eng-
lish side, which proves the population was. more redun-
dant. Wages are not lower, at, this day, in Northumber-
land and Cumberland, than in Berwickshire, Roxburghshire,
and Dumfrie-sahire, but rather higher.—Morning Chrea.

THE CROWN IN DANORIte---011 Friday niht, dur-
ing the hurricane, the brass crown on the lamp at the door of the
Police-office, Hatton Garilen, was blown off with the lamp cover,
to which it was immediately attached, and, but for the intervention
of the front railing, on a spike of which it remained suspended,
would have been dashed to pieces. •
Thursday afternoon a bricklayer's labourer named
M'Carthy fell from a two story scaffolding in Deer's-place, Somers-
town, and was killed on the spot. It is said that about three
weeks ago he fell from nearly the same height mid escaped unhurt.
lie has left a wife and three young Children.
An English bricklayer war; attacked on Sunday
night, or Monday morning, when mitering Dumfries, by Eng-
lish-street. The attack made was both cruel and singular. The
assailants having overpowered their victim, tied a ripe two or
three times round his neck, and dragged him a considerable way
on the roil. They then rifled his pockets of some silver money,
and stripped him of coat, waistcoat, &c, The wretched man
was soon after found with the rope remaining tightly round his
neck, and his hands as tightly pinioned hchiod, in a state nearly
approaching to sufforiation. The barbarians have not yet been
discovered, and the poor sufferer is confined to bed from the in-
juries he has mietained. —Edinburg/4, aurant
DURORRIWC----A. Roman Villa, and other curious
remains of Roman antiquities, have recently been discovered on
the side orthe North' ROad near Water Newton, (seven miles
South of Staraftird,) which are in all probability connected with
thin* on the opposite side of the river Nene (at Castor), there
being.tifo Appearance of buildings above ground, nor a vestige of
material left that could have led to the discovery. We may pre-
sume the Romans had a detirmined plan on which they founded
their cities, as the author of these discoveries has within these last
.four years traced them through the several parishes of Castor, Al-
walton, Chesterton, Water Newton, and ifint-t0n...-an extent of
nearly nine miles in circumference, and• which remains are by far
the most curious and extensive that have been explored inliritsin.
The villa situated on the Mile of the row] near Water Newton, con-
sisted of a large mixture building; the floors (nf which theta are
several fragments remaining) consisted of small square stones or
teasel*, set in a durable cement, and appear to have been lintich
worn ; some parts of the walls bear the vestiges of colour; as fresh
as if but lately laid nn : yards to the East of these buildings,
several human skeletons Were dug up, some urns, and two kilos
resembling those used by the ancient portent. In IRV, and 5,
cereal kiln, of this description were discovered nu Sutton and Ner-.
n'angete field ; aleo vestiela containing the colour and glaze used ift
th:thet wi
tnannifa:ttire of Roman
uveral specimens of clay found with them, have been
eal'efully *unlined by. Mr. Artis, with a view, to .seceitsin the
Ingoalti4tyt stortdiengtoncotiff
it_bh.o.eesfinodeiieeriniirwallelot,hwitabsiheeeflne ofbedeiseever-
attnioullitoymeatret.A :abt Yreneb foal torn
more
Ae
the ancient Greek warn brret : some have asserted the glaze.
aoi
no subsume
caws
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arse
ittphaltum, while others contend that
Ira salt ; but, as- we, are informed
that Mr. Artie has resumed
pieting his
splendid
work
Ileoeemaarnclies for the purpose of coo:
hope for some new informatiori on the :Iliquitiuli'w6 l'ulthen
vessels, a branch of the ancieot arts with4aotfve reabiluttin' 'Ter;
.fectly acquainted...him& Alecto".

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MANSION-HOUSE.—A man' named Frisby; a salesman at,
Billingsgate, appeared to answer,* charge of selling a bad salmon,
which he bad warranted sound.
The complainant stated that he purchased the salmon in ques-
tion of the defendant at Bd. per pound, Which was a Blvd pricei
and the defendant warranted it to be good, hut he soOri'fflaCriVered
that it wakitotten ; he accordingly applied to the Lord
who directed the salmon to be examined by two respectable Wl-
mongers, both of whom declared that if any person was to partake
of it, it would certainly Naito disease.
The defendant said he Considered the salmon to be fresh, altho'
it might not be quite so firm as some salmon.
The complainant said, that when he went to the defendant on
the subject, he was very abusive; he d—. 4-4 him and the Lord.
Mayer too, and told him he might go to the Lord Mayer and be
d—d, if he liked.

The LORD MAYOR smiled, and said that Billingsgate was not
the place to expect to meet with much politeness, but people had
*right to expect to meet with good fish there ; it was of the ut-
most importance to the public that no fiah should he sold at Bil-
lingsgate, except such as was wholeiome, but as this was the,
first complaint he had had made to him, he should not direct *
prosecution; but would suffer the defendant to depart upon pay-
ing back the price of the fish, and paying the complainant for his'
loss of time ; he, however, would wish him to tell the other sales-
men that if another case of the sort was brought before him, he
certainly would direct a prosecution at the expellee of the-City,
the consequences of which would be heavy.
James Smith, a labouring man, was charged with an unpro-
voked assault on Richard Benjamins, in Ball-alley, Lombard-
street. The prisoner accidentally met the complainant, and se--
eused him of being a Jew, knocked him down, and swore that:
he would drag him to Cornhill amongst the other Jews ; neither'
of the parties had ever seen each other before, and the complanant
declared he was not a Jew.

The defendant could not deny the facts, but said that he had
been taking physic in the morning, and had drank some ale after-
wards, and he supposed that the phyaie and the ale together:
had got into into his head, an that he did not know what he was
about. •

The prisoner's landlord appeared on his behalf, .and said that
he was the most sober man that he ever knew.

The Loan MAY CPR—Well, notwithstanding he is the most sober
man that you ever knew, 1 shall line him Ave shillings for being
drunk ; and he must settle with the complainant.
A journeyman carpenter was charged with assaulting a very
respectable-looking young woman on Fish-street-hill. The com-
plainant had bun sent on an errand by her mistress, who lives in
Dishopegate-street, when elle met with the defendant and two of
his companions, who amused themselves with having what they
called a lark with her. The other two pushed and pulled her
about, and the defendant struck her bonnet with his besket, and
cut the bonnet through. The two companions escaped, but he
was seised by the street-keeper. The young woman's mistress at-
tended with her.

The defence was " not exactly drunk, and yet not sober. Had
been hard at work, and taken a good drop of beer."
The Loan MAYOR said that these assaults were increasing
daily, and it was not to be endured that decent young women,
going about the streets in their lawful business, should be in-
sulted by a set of fellows, who chose to take a little too much beer,
as they termed it; and in orderto put a stop to the practice, he
should make an example of this man, by ordering him to find hail
;or the assault, and to give ¢4 hours notice of bail. This decision
of his Lordship will cause this worthy gentleman to be kept in cos-
tody until Monday, ifhe can even then get bail.

GUILDHALL..—Soon after taking hie seat on Saturday, Mr.
Alderman Wantimax sent for the City Solicitor, and upon his
arrival he called to Canham, the Beadle of Castle Baynard, Ward,
Who was waiting in the room, to know if he had any application to
make, as he perceived some complaint had been made before the
Lord Mayor, ridative to a coach being seized, or attempted to be
seized, in, St. Paul's Church.yard.
Ca.nham said he had to complain of an assault committed upon
him by Cleveland, the owner of. the Hammersmith coach, which
he took to the Green-yard on Thursday last, for standing above ,
ten minutes in the street. lie fouCd Cleveland mounted on the
box of one of his coaches on the north side of the church-yard, on
Thursday evening, and he called to him to move off. Cleveland
said, Sneeringly, that he had better attempt to take that coach to
the Green-yard. Witness again ordered him to go on, or to come
down off, the box, anti he would explain what bed barn said to his
Man at Guildhall that day. Cleveland, however, only replied
with same expression of
,contempt ; 'end, upon the complainant
appraatihing the liniseet: 'hed*, coat:het !vegan , flogging away at
ltim with all his might; ott *Lit ittetiaptittic to ascend • to ties
box, heat hint (19w).1 with the butt end of the whip. The whip,
howt ver, lie arrested from him, and he had it now in his care.—
This was the assault he complained of.
Mr. Alderman WAITHIstAN said, he saw, by a morning paper,
that this very man (Cleveland) had been applying to the Lord
Mayor, complaining that he had been ill-used by the street-
keeper ; and that his Lordship was reported
,to have said.(of the
correctness of the report, however, be knew nothing) that .the
street-keeper had acted illegally, and that he had no right to
seize a stage-mesh, awl take it to the Gieeniard, except where
it was left without any person to take care of it, or some such
case. Now, he appealed to the City Solicitor, whether it was not
legal to seize the roach, if it was creating an obstruction within
the letter of the gewer'e Act, and whether he had . not given it as
his deliberate opinion, that where the party was summoned, the
law was generally evaded, because the penalty could only he en-
forced by seizing the coach?
The Cm Sortctroa replied in the affirmative. His atten-
tion had been directed to this subset by the Court of Aldermen,
and be had been desired by them to, make known his opinion to
the Sitting Magistrate, and he had done so, to the effect Mr. Al-
derman Waithinint had suited.

Mr. Alderman WALDMAN regretted that his Lordship should
have ventured to express an derided an opinion upon the illegality
of the conduct of the officer, because it was calculated to deter
that officer, from doing his duty; it was: withdrawing from him
the protection he, ought to receive; and indeed, such an opinion
coming from so high a quarter as the Chief illagistrate of the
City, might lead to a resistance of the. officer's authority.
The Alderman issued a summons for Cleveland's attendance on
a future day.

BOW-STREET.—A Mr. Cramer, au Irish gentleman, hie
wifry and three ehildfen, preeented themselves late on Friday
*evening, for the purpose of preferring a complaint against
Madame Pardon, the wife of a French restaurateur in the Hay-
market.

Mr. Cramer proceeded to state, that he had just come over
from Ireland, and wishing to indulge Mrs. Cramer, who had
a predilection for French habits and customs, • with a dinner 4
kiinode de Paris, he went with his fainily to the Ilayniarket,
whore he was told he could be Accommodated on reasonable
tering. The first French house he met with was that of Pardon,
andobserving a bill of fare in the window, lie limind these items,
viz. potage, Bd. ; roast rule, Is. fid. Conceiving that those
were moderate charges for a dinner for himself and family, he
went into the house, and calling for a private room, ordered
the items mentioned. The dinner was served up, and it was
certainly but just to observe that the cook displayed no corn-
son skill. The soup was excellent, and the fowl dressed to a
nicety. So far complainant felt quite satisfied, and Mrs.
Cramer and the children were equally- pleased with their
French repast. The hill, however, bring soon after called for,
complainant felt considerably surprised to find that it amount_
ed to ten shillings and fivepence, iiicluding a charge of two
and ciihtpenee for potagr, and six shillings for the' fowl,
being more than four times the amount Specified in the
bill which they had' previously moulted. Complainant
felt extremely :indignant at what he conceived to he a gross
attempt to impose on the ignorance of strangers, and deter-
smatiintede
titomer,eatiheattthheea
extravagant
willing
to pay
demand, telling the waiter at the
according to the terms of
their own bill of fare, but would not pay a sixpence beyond it.
Madame Pardon the; earn. up stairs, and after kissing him anti
his family, she seised compleinant's hat and gloves, declaring that
she would not gibe thetti up until the bill was paid. Under these
circumstances, complainant offered to deposit hie puree, containing
iteveral'sovereigns, as security for the amount of Madame Pardon's
demand; but the lady would not liettm to reason, declaring that
she would never mien* to part with the hat, hut On theta terms,
namely, the payment of her bill. Complainant was then obliged
to purehmA new het, and. couch, he put. hie Tamil into
It, and came to llow4treet to demand justice. y
Islatiatne Pardon, in, her defence, poured forth ft 'lipid volley of
French and broken Engliah, Sectoring the 'complainant of mean-
LIT: s and Pealtfliairorlfatillnlydnrii‘thiceewlinayg hthrieellietleid"' of supposing
she said, seemed to know a great deal of French habits and tile-
rsowiedgihut
,intf.tueligditharvnitethinereinsfb:titeitracit he hail- blended otithAii
necessary i don nation re-
specting the domestic economy of his tINVit cotintry, when lie would
have been saved from Aping into the ridiculous error of suppoo-
hig.lut could dine a family of five persons ore porn and roast pia,
-
for the sum: of 2N. Her demand, she contended, was ex-
trenielY moderate, and she was determines! not to give up the hat,
whigit eh hold - her hand, until it UM satisfied. tirottiieur rat-
dot), who mod by, aware that his ma was in good- harids

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Avocated by his better bdf, 4eelitiej tr4o 41191ifuphertrglitaniq
and merely ~,,Z.ided his assent to her last observation. L. •
Mr. Mr/fauna laid, that there was nothing in the case to WI (or
his interposition ; but, u the parties had taken the trouble to eon,
before him, he advised an amic•4l3l4,settlement, which would best
be effected by Air. Cramer consenting to defray Madame Pardon's
bill on condition of receiving back his hat. The gentleman had
evidently fallen into an error, for which, however, he was bound.
to pay ; and Madame Pardon, although not justified. in abusing
the complainant, had a right to seize the hat us a eeettrity for thO
amount of her demand.

Mr. Cramer then paid the bill with some reluctance, observing
that he should use snore caution where next he dined after the
French fashion ; and Madame Pardon, in handing 'him his hat;
said that the hatter from whom the new purchase had been made,
would be the only gainer by the transaction, unless Mr. Cramer
took a lesson from the circumstance, and *sided the, result to his
stock of experience.
Mr. Mixsum—You have gained your object, Madam, and I
beg you will reserve your remarks for the bar of your tavern, whes4
I have little doubt but you are very liberal of speech.
The parties then left the office.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.—On Saturday a man name',
Hall, and his wife ,R/ixobeth, were charged with stealing 170/.,'
the property of Mrs Allen, the attorney, of Carlisle-street. It ap-,
peared that the prisoner was formerly a grocer in the parish, of
Anne, but failing in business he was compelled to go into 'the;
poor-house, and from which place he was taken by Mr. Allen,
who employed him in his office at 1/. per week. On the 9th
instant, Mr. Allen returned home with a large sum of money, a
part of which he took out to pay to a person in the neighbourhood,
and left about 1'75/. on a desk. He thought that he had put this
sum in his cash-box, but on the Saturday following, when he
examined the box, he missed the money. The prisoner, who had
absconded from the office, was immediately suspected Of having
stolen it. The money left on the desk was a 100/. note, a 50/.
note, and the remainder in small notes. The 100/. note was
paid into the Bank by the female prisoner, who received 70.
sovereigns and 30/. in notes, and the 50/. note was exchanged by
Hall at a pawnbroker's shop in the Borough, where he purchased
a gold watch for his wife, and a silver one for himself. The day
before the money was stolen, the prisoner took a lodging in St.
Ann's-court, where, on the night of the 2d, they were overheard
talking about .the money, and the female prisoner advised her.
husband to restore it, and reproached him for robbing Mr. Allen,
who had been so kind to them. He, however, said be would not
return the money, but that they would spend it in travelling, and
would first go to. Dover, cross the Channel to Calais, and visit
other parts of the continent. The prisoner also told one of Mr. Al-
len'ackrks, on the 9th instant, when the young noun spoke of having
been out collecting money, that he had 170!. in his pocket, which he
found on the dealt, and be intended to return it to one of the partners.
From other facts which were laid. before the Magistrate, a doubt
could not exist that the male prisoner had stolen the money. In their
lodgings was found a box full of caps, gowns, and finery al-
though the :day before the money was stolen, the female pri-
soner pawned part of her clothes fur ,a few shillings. They
were committed for trial; Hall as the thief,' and his wife as
the receiver.

MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—On Friday Henry Smith, a
painter, living in Portland-town, asked Mr. Broughton to grant
him a summons, for a gentleman who bad insulted hie wife and
assaulted him; and on Saturday Lieutenant William Armit, of
the 4th Dragoon Guards, appeared befiye Mr. GRIFFITH and Mr.
BentiGarow, to answer the above charge. 8a was accompained
by a brother officer.
The wife of Henry Smith stated, that about eight o'clock on
Thursday evening her husband left her for a few minute in Port-
land-town, while he went into a baker's shop, and that in the
mean time Mr. Armit came • up to her, looked hard in her face,
and said to another officer who was near, " She is d—,d ugly,"
Mrs.. Smith desired him to go along,, when he mad. use of a most
offensive expression, which was overheard by her husband as he
left tin; shop.

Henry Smith said, that in consequence of what he heard, be
asked Mr. Armit what business he had to interfere with his wife.
Mr. Artnit replied, "What's that to you ?" Smith said, " (.3o along,
you lobster ;" upon which Mr. Armit used a horrid expression
to Smith, similar to the one before addressed to his wife ; end
Smith said, " You are no gentleman, or you would not use such
language." After that, Smith and his wife had not proceeded
homeward, in front of sons unfinished houses, more than twenty.
yards, when Mr. Armit followed them, struck him a blow on
the face with his fist, and gave his back a severe thrashing with
au ashen stick, threatening at the same drils to knock his
braius out. Mrs. Smith was so terrified, that she said.. to her hue-
band, •' Pray do not go further, or you will.get,murdered."
Mr. Gaterrret to Mr. Armit.—You have 'Mud the Ammo,
Sir, what have you to say ivartswertitit? • '

Mr- Armit.—l ecknowledge I struck the man, for he was very
insolent ; he called me a villain,' a red lobster, and a blackguard,
but I can take my oath I never used the language imputed to
me. ,

Mr. GRIFFITH.-I cannot take your oath; I Must call your
attention to the evidence; it is positivelY'sworn that you did
make use of a very improper expression.

Mr, Armit's brother officer..:—They have worm filo, by
G—d ;- and if yon will put me upon my oath, I will prove it,
Mr. GRIEVITH at first objected, but after some further argu-
ment, the oath was wiministered to him.

lie said, that as he was walking with Mr. Armit, they saw
the woman standing in the middle of the road in a strange way,
as loose women do, Mr.,Armit looked in her face, and said she
was ugly, but he said nothing else ; . the man camenp at t 4, time,
and called Mr. An nit a lobster, a blackguard, and s, villain', and
said,the woman was his wife ; but he doubted very much
ther, she was so, indeed he slid not believe she was.
Mrs. Sroith.—l am his wife—his lawful wife, and you are a
good-for-nothing fellow to say otherwise.
Mr. Gatrerrn.—There is no doubt of it, and there is .no rea-
son, but the, worst, in the world, for suggesting otherwise.
Mr. Armit.—She was standing in a very, enticing position.
Mr. G surrivi.—The first provocation was
*given: by you,
Sir, and you made use of very improper—very smproper(with
increased emphasis), rery,improper language ;, your friend sweats
he did not bear you, but he. cannot swear you did not illt! it; ylltt
must find bail,
Mr, &MORTON to Smith.... 4 sin convinced ahe is youriwife,
but after what has been said, upon Our oath, 1 ask you, whether
she is or not ?
SMith—She is my wife, and we have two children.

•
DANK • OF EgGLANDe-.4t appears that the arranger-
ments for the establishment of a rinch of the Bank of
England at 'Manchester are so far matured, that a
building is taken in King-street, in that town, for the
•
purpose.

SUBTXRUANEAN GALLERY.--A cavern of con-
siderable dimensions has been lately explored and ex-
amine(' at Finis, in the parish of Dromarragh, and
County of Down, on the farm of a Widow Kelly, and
the estate of ,Colonel Magenis. The ,excavataon is
noticed in an ancient history of the County of Down,
published two hundred yaws , ago, but latterly has
been little known, having been a most closed up with
a stone of several tons weight, Which left a passage
scarcely sufficient for a boy to slide down upon his
l
back. This stone, and a quantiof rubbish which
choked up the passage to the interior, were removed
with great labour ; insomuch that the opening of a
perpendicular descent of about ten feet, occupied a
number of men for several hours. In'sinking through
the earth some atone steps were found, 1 I .ear.ing to the
entrance of an arched passage 'of about five feet six
inches in height. From this point a gallery runs doe
west ninety feet long, and about four feet four inches
broad, and five feet eight inehea high ; the sides are
built with rude masonry, inwards towards the
top, which is cove red with treat slabs of granite. At
the distance of thirty feet, 'mu the entrance, another
ven teat long, branches off at right
gallery, twenty-seven
the north.
angles running unveil 8
The breadth of
this is Dearly the same' as in the main pllery; except
at the (100 r, which is contracted to two feet six inches:
end at a distance of thirty feet inore, a second, branch
of similar dimensions turns off in the same direction.
The
cavern is 'evidently of great antiro.; ty, and time
traditions of the country people vary as to Its me. By
some it is considered an ancient place of sepulture,
while.others hold the opinion that it was connected
with, religious rttes•—'l have, however, been no
marks discovered to favour either hypothesis. There
seems to be a deep accunntlation of:siend on the floor,
which possibly may conceal some relies of interest to
the antiquary.-- 4:h46lin Evening Post.