The Sun.
London, England, 1826-01-20 00:00:00

PARSON DROVE SKATING IL\TCII.

A race, for eight sovereigns, between sixteen of the first-rate
skaters in the country rook place near Parson Drove, in the Isle
of Ely, on Tue,day last. The following Is &list of the compe.
tilOrn for the prize
• • I. W. Barton, Thorney Fen, and flickling, Crowland.—
Won by Barton.
2. Green, March, and Trowcr, by Trowcr.
3. Germain, Whittlesey, and Ihrin, Ilttielt.—Won by
Germain.

• .
4. De Pear, Crowboul, and Tay10r......W0n by De Penr,
h. Farrow, Norde :wd Jac3o.ol), Crowland.--Won by
Farrow.

Puttrell, St. James', and Redhead, St.
by Redhead.
7. Smith, Nindelph, and PlOwright, Coats. Won by Ploiv.
right.
8. J. Barton, Thorney Fen, . and Forarque, Crowland..—
Won .b, J. Barton.
9. W. Barton, and Trower.—LWOn by WAlrirttin.
10. Germain, and De Peat'.—.Won by Germain. .
11. Farrow, and itedilead.—Won by Redhead.
12. Plowright, and J. llarton.—Won by J. Barton.
)3. W. Barton, and. Germain,--Wonby Germain.
14.- Redhead, and J. Barton.—Won by Redhead.
1.5. Germain, and Redhead.--liermain, winner.
The spirit with which the sport was likely-to
together with the extraordinary fineness of the day throughout,
induced an immense concourse of. persons (many from, a
considerable distance) to assemble at the place appointed, and
arnong the number present (which is coniputed at not Irk than
4,000) not one departed who did not .mipear highly plealed
with the day's amusement, the races bein generally.we,ll con.
tested.- An excellent female skater was also an additional and
rather a novel attraction to the risitori. 'A hand of ifiusiefrmit
Wisbech Was in attendance near the, einirse,-whish:played.
several popular airs, and added considerably to thebilarity
the scene.

MALTA.—Th. climate of Malta is very vittrin,
and the houses abound with mosquitoes, Rests;
&c. to such a degree, that 1 seldom slept more
than two or three hours in any one night. 1
was also much annoyed by the droves of hogs,
which are constantly ranging the Omits, and de-
file every place they approach. The inhabitants
are so partial to these animals, that they 'rebelled
against one of their Grand Masters, who ordered
the hogs to be confined, and compelled him to
rescind his order. Since that period they have
had free access to every part of the town, ex-
cept the square opposite the palace.

AGRECABLE MUSSAGE.—The New York Even-
ing Post mentions, that the day before the Into
adjournment of the Vermont Legislature, lb.
following message was delivered to the House of
Representatives :—" Mr. Bell informed the
House that he was requested by his Excellency
to invite the members to call and take a glass of
wine with bins at Cottrill's Hotel, tutu that his in-
vitation was predicated upon the cirtom,tance of
his Excellency's being about to relinquish the
gubernatorial chair. The House concurred."

M. Louts, the French giant, is now a mem.
her of the coops dramaiiiptit at Rrighton. This
surprising personage make his appearance in
in 'Turkishg iy
e contrastedost u
withand his great height is strik-
that of the performers on
the stage. lie walks arm-itt..arm with a Miss
Grosef tPs and lends a Mr. CollierJo the foot.
lights, whose forms shrink almost into nothing..
ness before the towering height of theircoudnetor.
He made. his last appearance on Monday, and
will shortly appear at a neighbouring theatre in
the character of Tom Thumb,

NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICAN-
' SI7IIISPRIPTION ROOM, Jaw. 19.
Papers received tilis morning :—Piiiindelpida,,
of the 20th Dec. ; Charleston, 224 ; Savannah, 14th,; Washing'.: ton, I.4th ; Baunica Ayres, 6th' Nov.
• vxa POOL., JAN. 111.—Wiml V.S.W. This evening rain,
'--Arrived the Algonquin, Dixey, from Philadelphia; sail 4
Dec..`.4), and, from the Capes, December 22; Arabin, Atkins,
from Savannah, sailed Dec. 17, in company with the Bettie; •
Banker., for Liverpool ; the Charlotte, Pratt, sailed Dec. 11
the George, Olinton, and Eliza, Grant, woolck Dec. •
Carp of the Arabian 1,130 bake oC Cotton to order.--rlgarar
Catherine, Pace, from Charleston, sailed Dec; 17; Trident,
Corm, front Charleston, saiple6tirtrtntic. 2iLinsis
174itinputn.Yitatietdh
the
I()liit3lht.e—liaThCeaTplisiertt'artfor ,
Carter,thi from New Orlearti and Ber.
muds; Areturve, Oliver, from Riga; Betem Guile; Jones 4
from Lisbon ; Christopher Colombia't fnim ieily." Severs
outer vessels have arrived in the river this evening; names un..
know,in. Off at sun-set, four ships. The Delaware. Remit;
ton, faint Liverpool to Philadelphia; Marmiim, Petrie, NM* -
Liverpool to Charleston ; General: Brow a," frota Liverpool ftf
Charleston ; Majestic,, Page, from, Liverpool ut Clutrleston.....-
The Ailerton, Davis, at New Orleans, No,v.. 22. On the tltb',
December, about nine a most desfrUctiVe tire broke' out
at Brunswick,Which destroyed twoektOil.MillS,
a doable saw.tnill, And another factory, and *ewel hogees.;
the loss of property is estimated at 1011,000 dollars." . •
Cowxs, J,sx. 11h.--Arrived the Archimedes, Bat,l4liins.
English brig, from Matanzas 57 dAytt, and` ordered to 'Priests:
Christopher Scott, Dunn. Englishi brig, frpm Batavia for not-
ter4m, sailed 15th Sept., left St. Helena i2d Nov, the ship
Hercules of Linidon, to leave St. Helena next day ; the ship,
Brown, Of and for Liverpool, sailed . the.day before; the ship
Harvey, Peach, was at Sidney loaded for itglangl ; the AAA.
Lelia Itookb, Stewart, was to leave Batavia in 4 days, for
Cowes. Spoke Bth Dec:, steam 'Vessel Falcon, lat. 5.0. N., len.
22.10. W.; touched at St. IlLiehaela 25th Dec.. The Schooner,
Blessing, of Dartmouth, and Prince of Wales, of Liver-,pool, were lying there with about 30 sail. Albion; Late,
American ship, from Charleston, 22 days' passage. The Ame.
:ken ship Trident, Coffin, of New York; and Oplielia, of ties,.''
toe, Chanelea ; both form Liverpool, tosilet.l, tit company with
the Albion—the American brigs Agenora, Windsor, and
Cynusure—Colbunt left nine days before for Cowes ; passed
on the Bth January the American ship Cicero. of New York.
lat. 44. 29. longL 8. 0. W. steering to the eastward. Smack
Thomas and Mary, Homes, from St. Michaele, 14 days, borw=
sprit badly sprung, mainsail and gallant top-sail, blown away,
and bulwarks and stantions on the larboard bow carried away.
Wind S.W. moderate.
Dov en, Jaw. 19.—Arrived the London line of packet ship,
Hudson, Champlin, from New York.
DEAL, JAX. 19.—Arrived the Hugh Crawford, c.,aptah;
Langdon, from Batavia, Singapore, and Penang ; sailed from
Penang Bth September. of I=ranee'l3th October, St. 11&
lena 23d November. On the filth November passed the Her.
rules, Vaughan ; I ilth December, lat. 21.:x. long. ;3. Af4
spoke the Alartha ; lat. 49. 44.. N., lung. 11. 10. N., spoke, nit•
well, the Brailsftird, front New Brunotwiek, -19th instant, wa-
ter-logged ; supplied leer with povisions and water, lat. 41/.
23, long. 9. Sailed the Ann, Heath, for New York ; New
Ilanipshire, fur New Orleans:; Berwtekshire, for Dena and
, China ; Ganges, for Aladras and Bengal ; Lord Lowther, far.
Sr. lichen, Bombay, and. China; Meriboroogh„ for Jamaica:
New Times, for cape of Good Hope.

[FROM LLOYD'S.]
DEAL, JAW. 19. Wind N. W.—Arrired aril remain, the*
Hugh Crawtbrd, Langdon. from Singapore, and Brilliant,
from Bilboa. Passed through from.the River tbe.'
William Bryant, Davis, Stir Jamaica ; Times-, Clark, for tha
Cape ; Symmetry, Watson., for Constantinople; Magnet, 'Wat., .
kins, for Oporto; Egeria, Cloak, for St. Domingo; Lord Wel:
litTton, ----, and 1A46, for Sierra Leone ;
and Lima Packet, for Ciibraltar. Ah American ship is coming:
in from the westward, with the letter 1. on her fbretop‘sair:
The Company's ships I.4eolge the Fourth and Berwiekshire, for:
India, wiled this day with the whole of the Outward bound.
POIMIATOUTTI, JAN. 19.--Wind N.N.W., 03'
rivet! the Royal Oak, Alanning, from London ; and John and.
Sally, smith, from Wexford.

Pwritn .lAN. 111.—Winc1 6.14 .—Arrived the Duke of,.
York, —, from. St. Michael's. Settled the Mary, Harrell
Slope, Russell; Oth, Posigate Fanny, MaddOeke Vdrierell
Mnyse ; 13enriettartloo4 Alonzo, Perkins T. Fivottrite,
Ford, and Commerce, for London, and Europe, Willis,
for Scarborough.
FA 1.310 ['Tic, JAl4.lo.—AVind S.W.—Arrived the Prince.
Regent Packet, front 13uenos A y rot, sailed the 7th of Nov., and
from Monte Video the'l2th ditto ; Dove, Quick, front London
for Vera Cruz. Sailed the Ileighington, Wilson • Ann, Brack
wood ; Good-intent, Connelly ; and Poletender,'Langdon, for
London.

•
LIVERPOOL, JA IL la.—Willa S. rrivqtt the Active,
Jarvis' from St. Michael's ; Christopher. Columbits, Itobert;
from Sicily ; Arabian, Atkins, from Savannah ; Trident,
Ckbtlin, • from Charhsito'n ; from' Philadel-
phia l• Illitry Catherine, 'ince., Ciotti Charleaton ; Christiana,
NViiite, from St. .I,ago de Cuba ; and Tekniaques, -, from
Cowes, ..Tax. 19.--,Arrived the Sir C. Scott (late. Wise)„,
from• Batavia ;. Albion, Lee, front ; and Tilolnas
and Mary, from Sf.'lllichael's. ' '

Off Dover the l.Jeanor., Stotts,
.frorn the Cape of Good ?lope.
The Eliza, Davis, nun Cor'sc, was wrecked Oil' Kinsale oil the:
IZtli 'inst.
The brig Agnes, of beith, was In with op tits
inn, in Ist. .51.10ng. 1:i. abandoned and water-logged.

Tlie East 'lndia Company's•mliiit'lloyal neorge. sailed front
Senior on the.2llth of_ Augiuit• for Tenang and China, and wad
off the Sand Heads, all well, on the 31st or the kone month:—,
The Gompany'N ship Charles Grant arrived tit Saogor on the
3d of, August. • • ' •
Ltitr.trelt, .Tatm. 4.—A large shin, alipposed to be a fo.••
reigacr,- sea* wrecked the 24 hist, on the island of 31onita, and
rill the crew drowned. ',Lite cargo, consisting of wont], is
mentecred along the adjacent shores. A letter has been found;
addressed to Cleptain Gabriel Hanson; nod ilatefl Oth itinv;ry'
11122. ••,• • --•• '

LONDON 111 A

CORN F.',U11.:1 NGE, .lasr. 20,
The supply of Grain to market this tieelds but small, exr.ept
of Oats ant Flour,whic.h is rather large. The frost is breakiut
nil, hut the River Is not yet free, consequently there is hutlittl4
daing. to-(10. We nosy expect on Monday that • trade yr ill
tesnoto it. 4 regular course. • . •
Aartrrat.s—linglish Whetet, 880 ; Barley, 2,300 ; 044,
10,200 ; Irish Oats, $,250; Foreign Barley,' 2,920 ; Ptireign
Oats, 510 qrs.; Flour, 7,200 sacks.' •

SMITHFIELD MARKET, .4)x.20.
The following Recutate Report of the nuoihertt'atut
priees.atSmithilehl Market t mornirrp—,

CATTLV ,V.l* MAIIK.I4T
liensti.. ..... ...... ....... ... :VP :Map
Calves
To sink the or n, , per stone of litb.
Beef 4l thl to 6s •d 1 Veal sB th! In 5e KA
Mutton 41 Ctl to be 041 Pock • As 4u to 8, '44
Lomb tVA kW to Os Oil.

...... t.,7Q
I 100

DAV AND STRAW, Plea LQAD.
HAY
14truw 14 to £2 0%.

DOVULE nUTV.—The Clergyman of t parish .
not twenty miles from Exeter, having. taken
rather to long a time at his dinner on New-
Year's-day, the people who had assembled in the
church for afternoon service be',c•ame imp tient,
and one of the parisl►ioners took his horse, and
rode to meet the tardy parson, whom he found
slowly pacing it on his nag. Oeittg toll the bells
had been chiming far beyond the usual tool., he
quickened hiA pace, and reached the church-ynt4
just as the co►►greegation issued forth en 'passe,
from the sacred edifice. To collect them together
again appeared a itopeli,,,s task ; hut anxious for
their spiritual welfare, he exclaimed Alt ye►n
who were not here thi,mornin,4 mast come twico
next Sunday."

The wretched woman Mass Cornt who qui-
fered death at Newxate nn Monday last for mite-
der, is then first instance Pr a 6411,1!1°, bel‘kg,
executed in London during the reign e! t 144
Stilt period 0,1 pearly yearai

l'ilE LONDON JOUtiNALS.

DA Il,'

Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. W, 1826.

[NEW TIMELI
REVENUE OF IRELAND.—It is with extreme
pleasure that we lay before our, readers the
official statement of the Irish Revenue for the
year recently elapied.—(See another column of
thelax.)—This account demonstrates, that,'not-
withstanding the' large repeal 9 and reductions of
duties by different Acts of the last Session, the
Revenue of Ireland for the year 1825 has vir-
tually exceeded that for 1824. Nor has the aug•
mentation arisen from a single source, but it has
embraced the most important branches of the
Public Revenue. Thu Customs and Excise, as
our readers know, cannot be fairly considered
under their separate heads, owing to the trans-
fers of duty recently made from the latter' of
these departments to the former t and it is there-
fore necessary to take them together, thus :
Customs and Excise, 18.25 X 2,827,133
Ditto, - - 102.1 - 2,742,766

Increase in IR2 . £84,378
The Stamp Duties have diminished, from causes
which it would be too long here to detail, but
which manifestly cannot imply any falling off in
the general resources of it country where the du-
ties on foreign importation and domestic con-
sumptiou are on the increase.—The Post Office
exhibits an increase of 1847/. The Miscellaneous
articles of 1824 included the payment of a large
debt due to the Crown. Deducting this, the
produce of the-year would be about 225,0001.,
whereas that of 1825 is above 268,0001. giving an
increase here of above 40,000/. This view of the
Irish Revenue strongly confirms the remarks
made on Ireland in the Chancellor of the Exclie.
quer's speech on opening his last budget—" No
port of the King's dominions," said he, 64 holds
out more powerful inducements to the application
of capital, no soil would be more productive of
valuable fruit, none would more gratefully re-
pay the labour of cultivation." The experiment of
cultivating it is in a course of trial ; and the re-
sult is seen in these gratifying financial state-
ments. But this is not the only use to be made
of the document before us. Let us see how it
bears on the Finances of the United Kingdom.
Mr. Robinson, in February last, estimated the
total produce of the year, including the sums
paid by the Trustees of Ilalt-pay, at 56,445,3701.,
su6:o-juently to which there was a return of duty
on wines iii stock, which exceeded 1,000,000.,
and there was an omission to exact the duty on
tobacco to the amount of 350,0006.; which two
deductions would reduce the estimate to sonic-
what less than 55090,0001. Now the actual
Produr(' the Revenue in England was
48,573,8191., and in Ireland 3,624,8001., and the
payment by the Trustees, 4,470,3701., making
altogether 56,1368198g1. ; tio that the actual and
estimated Income witl stand thus :----
Actual rothnle for 1825 • 4:311,1 ;1,909
Estinottatlitro (without deduction 9 456,40,370

• . !itirpho product
or, More correctly—
Actual Income for 1825
Eittithated ditto ( with deciactiona)

1:223,61

X 56,068,989
55,100,000

Surplus product . X 1,5110,9119
Again, if we compare the actual Income with the estimated
Expenditure, we shall still find a surplus:—
Actual Income
Estimated 'l3spenditure

J:50,668,909
66,001,842

Surplus income ,A1r7,147
rt is to be, observed, that Mr. Robinson only
took credit, in ,his Budget, for a surplus of
443,51281.: so that the acxual result is 2/3,6101,
better than the original estimate , and this, be
it remembered, in spite of all the, commercial
fficultie, incident to the late unprecidented
panic. Thus have we dkproved the false state•
ments of a large defalcation in the Revenue of
thelpar ; and have confirmed our own confident
anticipation, that, when the Itptorns of the Irk')
Revenue shotild route to be wade known, they
would place in a mott sztii4factory light the fivan•
Ural state of the United Kingdom,

LM9ILNING •POST.I
french Papers to the 15tb instant, and the
Etoile of Wednesday: reached us last night by
Express. Tlie 14terAtriludes to the depositions
of the Officers arrettto4 , 4t ‘:,.,t, Petershargh na
thougll
h
they.: were before the public, or it knew
their natoet.,, and , -declares, that what the other
Jotronlii, will publidi on tt• ut. subject is not to he
credited, This is rather an extraordinary anti
ciliation, tiro, mow . so •intletql as the:F/04e, has
not been, more in they se,Crp I ' of. what was passing
in limos'* throughout. Abu. late events than ,the.
outer Papers, and has lIQ right therefore to charge
them with want of information, or' to stigmatize'
them, as the fabricators of intentional falsehoods.
The real fact, perhupf, is, that the F
e )French Go-
vOitimnt .ii' "its 0( Ito, „.vid,,,,lrf, winch
hill been extracted from those individuals, one of
'wham it appears, is a Poet,". 4 RUISIon Tyr.
I P - •
tosna, its fortunate, how,rver, than biti,GrPgian
predecessor. This evidence may refer to occur.
ientes''whicit have' beep hitherto denied or con—
cealed, and as it will be li6pcilolble wholly to
suppress it, an attempt is outdo' to destroy its,
credit, even 10 tort, It ituii' rotio'd its Wny to the,
public. A. still more senseless, attempt is also
made to ascribe the ronicien4us reftisai of ow'
two Reel:tents of itossbo 6,06 to violate tb6,,
oftift and the slaughter which ensued to the
writings of Constitutional Journals, instead of the
righCcanse, the ,nott-produt:tio 0t cous n iAntin,
tic( Of (Orfilal abdictoiiin,' when the soidieis were
called u'poit to recognize' and to proclaim Nip
tt holai. no, latter ha's rewardell the olliceri,who
took *part with hill during the affair of the ‘2(ith
ult. by different degrees of 140111000 n. SOlnepf
thos, who post distinguished themselves have
bieir miide his A ith,.2,-de.Catrip. Tito sotott,bas
dedeed that vt Colossal Stlitiii. shrill he creeted to
the late Emperor, with this inscription I
Witossia to ~\ loy.;,noler the Firm„), hit Jour!sal
dis Deli/it, cOiltO:til,; tii:it tile !cite 'vents will cum,
1411001 as to coot I the fityoar hi"'llo,-r army with
;4-4,oiit. if tww reNts whether hi shall con.
flall'hr4 Ac ar or lay tiOVII Ilse Cl:9 wit, . I t ttekues
final it
'.lVrte a
`lnge we Mope correctly, that what-
ever 'his original intention may have been, !iii

will find it necessary to comply with the univer-
sal wish of ale military and the people; and to
take effectually the part of Greece, This is
highly probable, and indeed if letters from Con-
stantinople are to be credited, Nicholas in doing
this will only give effect to the last determina.
lion of his deceased brother. According to these
advice, the Porte had been secretly, informed,
that disgusted with the deceptions and the policy
of Austria, Alexander had resolved to occupy
the Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia,
which the Turks had never evacuated, and that
an army of 85,000• Russians was to cross the
Pruth early in the Spring, and to proceed to the
banks of the Danube, where the Ultimatum of
the Emperor would have been published. It
was in contemplation and in anticipation of this
event that the Porte, we are told, ordered the:
war to he carried on in winter, and sent Envoys
to the Morea to endeavour, if she could not put
down resistance by foree, to obtain by negocia-
lion the pacification or rather the submission of
Greece, before Russia had taken a decided step.

[BRITISH PRESS.]
The first day's
wproceedings of the Catholic
Association, with svhich we have been so long
threatened, took plai:e on Monday. The session
will be continued dui.ing fourteen days, that
being the period beyond whichoccording to law,
it cannot be extended. Some difficulty has oc-
cured in giving a name to this assembly. It is
styled by the members of it simply 4" a Catholic
Association," in order that it may not be ex-
pressly a revival of the body suppressed by Act
of Parliament. The. Morning Register of Dub-
lin the avowed organ of the party,' disdains,
however, to adopt this subterfuge, and openly
calls it 4' the Catholic Association." Some
time ago Mr. O'Connell published his ophiion,
"as lawyer," that the old Association might,
with certain modifications, be legally revived,
4' not only in name but in reality." From
this opinion he has, on cool reflection, deem-
ed it expedient to withdraw ; but .as his
object is still the same, he hopes to at-
tain it with security by, quibbling with
the indefinite article. The proceedings were
chiefly relative to the future regulation of the
business of the Association. Mr. O'Connell, as
usual, made half the speeches, and Mr. Sheil
delivered one of such a length, that the Dublin
Papers prudently postponed the publication ,of
three-fourths of it till the day following, when
they can print it correctly from the Learned Gen-
tleman's own manuscript. Among the other va-
rieties of the day was the " under-growl" of
" honest Jack Lawless." Mr. Shell in vain
raved about the " fiendlike spirit" which is ut
work among the Catholics. Lawless persisted in
his intention of bringing the conduct of Mr.
O'Connell again and again before the Associa-1
Lion, until he succeeded in bringing" Mr. O'Con-
nen back to himself." It is easy to perceive, from
the display of Monday, that this Catholic Ao.
elation, composed as it is of such discordent
parts, will, like all the other efforts of the Ca-
tholics themselves, only have the or,ct of rernov.
ing, all chance of success further than ever from
their reach.

f:rnc trams.]
The Catholics of Ireland have opened their
new Parliament, of which, from respect for the
w, they are to limit the session to one fortnight.
We should augur not much good or mischief from
this new congress of political and reliaktl4 111 11.
contents, but that the everlasting and unendu.
ruble Messrs. Shin! and O'Connell have taken
the lend in the proceedings, and, like other ill.
omened birds, fill the mind with sinister antici.
pillion. it is, on the face of it, a palpable ab-
surdity, that these men should mark their most
deliberate efforts in favour of a great national and
legislative measure by the furious invectives
against the people and their representatives,
through whom atone it can be carried into a law,
and should engage as their chief instruments in
advancing the cause throughout Ireland, where,it
has long been triumphant, the Popish priesthood--
that every order of beings from whom, if the laity
had common sense orjudgment, they would sepa-
rate themselves, so far as politics were concerned,
for ever. The Popish Church is, we repeat, and
always will be, an object of inextinguishable fear
to nil tonscientious and reflecting Protestants.
The Church'of Rome, with its pretensions to in.
fallibility, and its meddling, encroaching, and
intriguing. spirit, is the true and sole obstacle to
Roman, Catholic limanciontion. 1 t is tin un-
changeable and Intractable church : it tolerates
tie freedom, potiticni or tobroi; the priests not
only do interfere, through the medium of coefes-
sion, and exhortation, in nit worldly coat ters which
their areprehengive ingenuity eau COnileel, how..
ever, remotely, with the interests of the !Wilds!'
Church ; -but if they are honest bondsmen to
their holy despot, they tnnst interfere, where-
cover the opportunity is afforded them.—
Such men, therefore, we Protestants cannot
trust. We have ourselves been grossly mibinter-
preted in the opinions we have publkhed with
regard to them. We have been charged with
recommending emancipation, because it would
render the priesthood hi s Itoinan C4tholic. We
end could have said, no such thing. Our
ornpeiantt,
ifon
has been, and it remains nnshalten, that
the admission of Cetholio generally to ollice,
would tend to make the body at large less
itonnbb, by creating in the minds of Catholic
laymen It novel and immediate interest in the
COUVII 111 0 y}rul by withdrn wing them gradually
from the domination of thoir priests:

[ManNiNG ifintALIY,J
We obsorved -a ielter short. tiara bins e in n,
Morning Paper. profeptimr tO he written by " a
Middietuox Magistratti.," lartientinpilhe frequency
anti nn of Conithittals by the London Magis.
(rates " in default of 'bail," iri tlyteg .of 'OSSIIIIII,
a titt other trifling tnisdenten n on an m d posing,
tike Sikh niatters entirely nett of the hands of
Magistrates -Out of:Ses4ions, leaviwt partie,
Onenpinining tit their remedy by indictment. in (he
first We entirely agree with the triter
of that letter in' the'existence and frlililijtpde Of.
the evil; but we much doubt whether the remedy;
or rather alternative, which he proposes is calcu-'

lated to diminish it. To takE from Justices of
the Peace one main feature of that which gave
the title to their office appears an anomaly upon
the face of it. Besides, in more than half the
cases, that
,come before Magistrates, they are,
the most useful arbitrators, by allaying angry
feelings, reconciling disputants., and thus, pre-
venting litigation ; whereas,, if parties thus ag-
grieved had no rescource but by indictment, the
business of the Grand Juries—in London and
Middlesex at least, would be more than doubl-
ed, and the same evil, but much more enhanCid
would exist upon the apprehension of a defend-
ant upon a Bendr warrant, as now exists through
that of a Magistrate. In the former case, com-
mittal, without double the bail required in the
latter, follows as a matter of course, with all the
train of fees to the Jury, the clerk of the peace,
the criers and the whole train of such like;
whereas, before the Magistrate, differences of the
kind we allude to are generally compromised, or
personal recognizance accepted where sureties
cannot readily be found. Besides, though many Of
the cases in question are of a trifling nature they are
far from being all so, but many of them arise from
anti are ad'ompanied by a degree of violence and
personal danger, which renders instant protection
from the law indispensably necessary. To tell a
man who has been half murdered, and who is in
apprehension of further violence, that he may go,
if he is alive, ,a month hence, to Hicks's Hall,
and indit t the' assailant, or perhaps a mob of
assailants, would be a mockery. So far, there-
fore, from wishing to see these matters takeu out
of the hands of Magistrates, we think it would
be as well if they had some more summary and
effectual power' of dealing with most of them
than they at present possess. Most of the assaults
and trilling disputes of that nature, which come be-
fOreMagistrates,mightbe easily and satisfactorily
disposed of by the infliction of almall fine proper-
tioned'to the nature of the. offence and the ability
of the' party; and if. in. addition to this a more
kumakitry mode were established of making re-
eognitaM•es and sureties available, would tent
much. to lessen the number of such cases, while
the trouble, the risk, and the expence 'which now
dater.7so. many people from being sureties for
their neighbours and acquaintances would be ob-
viall-'4% Would it not be 4ulvisable that instead
of the antiquated form of entering into a bond in
IP/. or 201. to the King, a forfeiture,' if necessary,
of as many shillings should be incurred by any
man breaking the pence after. he is bound not to
do so, and repeating the forfeiture on each repe-
tition of the offence, and the amount made reco-
verable at once,. and applied for the benefit of the
injured party 1' .Something.of this kind might,.we
iihOUld• think,,be advantageously substituted for
committal 'to prison in such cases, where parties
often suffer a ten:limes. greater punishment before
trial than any Court would award for their of-
fence were they found guilty.

T HE PUB [slit: LEGUIt.]
1
10tettlay therewati ID
another arrival of German
Papets ; .and,yet not one of: them elucidates, or
fR) irwch as notices, the ceremony of taking the
Qath, which, acc..Ording.te tho 4.:toile,look place
at 'Warsaw on the Ist inst. The Paris Papers of
Tuesday,too, do not wholly disperse the doubts
in which his matter is still involved. Yet we
do, not pronounce the nows.a fabrication, though
it looks strange, if not
ext,retnely,Suqdcions, that
. •
intelligence of such troportance, shOuld not have
i'6und its way .to this,Country Through another
and a more direct channel. It is evideolly not
of that description, w bid, the
,jealous eye of
the Censorship would subject erasure ; 'on
-the contrary, every facility would he afforded
for its publication ; and therefore its non-
appearance in any of the German Journals, tl-,lt
have reached us for the last two days, is rather
mysterious.; for, without Soule StUdit'd omit MC,"
tion, it might have found its way into thentr
The principal. personage: in: the cerenn,ny could
not, consequently, have been very anxious to: let
the world know the impertalitstep he had taken;
anti hr this, as well as in every other circ'tiin-
stance connected with his renunciation, his
conduct remains a perfeCt enigma; The cere.
many,. itself,- according to the description of
it which the Mode. 111101 given, was imposing
epoUgh,,.,.ittdeed: studiously so, ,to judge from
the presence of the Princes of Loweitz',;
hat whether the part of the exhibition was
'Mended as an lippeai to the sympathies of,
at least, tic Polish part 'of the audience, or is to
be chousideretl new proof of ma g nanirnit y•on
OW part of- her Itild)andt a short time will pro.
bably decide. , Should the latter tern out to be
the case, condoxt of Constantine would he a •
greater riddle :than ever, n it: would be utterly
inconsistent, in the first place, with all the other.
passages Of his life ; and, in the next, with
the whole course of human experience. Had
. ever exhibited signs of glaring' entlm.
siasm, or even of that tame sort of charac.
ter, which :every artful 'knave might mould as
he pleaSeA; his refusal of a crown, though sin.
gular,,,woulti still present nothing capable of
shocking very much ate received notions of man.
kind. But he figf bilf'll always represented us-'
man of the mo.it dissipated, habits, of,the most
impetuous feelings at' 'the' same time, joined to
reckless courage, trild' certainly the very last to
give such ft rare instance of self denial. Either
his character must. have bevn etrrosit and sYste-
Matica lir misrepresented' and in a manlier wholly
unparalleled, or it testy undergone. a- ..sudden
reformation, which-also would' stand alone ip its
way.. -

EldOtt XING. ,61.110NICLV1
The' City people boast of the excellence of their
municipal :regulations4 and the activity of their
Police ; we, wish they would make these "things
appear in thple aumits, which stand greattpiii
need, of 'then). , We have seen Paris in its filthiest
Moments,' hut have never seen it wont filthy fluin
the City now is after n little rain or wilight
tint Netitiesdity ''‘,4tas ankle' deep in
mud on the .pavimenti and that,..only- beeatise
hoUsekeepers hac.l rii)t hvett,t ornisvM4.l to clear
away the dirt which had accunsu Wed, together
with a very small quantity of - snoW,' •before
their frostt tronhle of
daily cleaning the pavement hefi,re4trieh Vow: k
very trifling to the servants of each housekeeper,

and it !id great othent to the whole
Persons, however, will not ik these things unless
they are compelled, and they should be com-
pelled, by the imposition of moderate fines. As
for the state of the carriage ways, we say nothing
of that, because it is now worse than it was in
the line months of September and October, when
Fleet-street was a slough- knee deep. The whole.
City should be presented us a nuisance.

Yesterday was Settling Day on the Stock Ex-
change ; and notwithstanding the difficulties that
were anticipated, the adjustment of accounts
took place with comparative ease, We heard
only of three defaulters, and those only for a
small amount. Money Stock as scarce, and the
consequence was, that the prices were higher
than for the account, which continued low, in the
belief that there will be a further decline. In
Foreign Stocks little was done, and Shares still
remain a drug. It will be borne in mind that
Consols for Account were quoted without the
Half yearly Dividend of 805.—(Ibid.)

EXTREMES. OP TEMPELIATVRE.--11l no place on
the earth's surface, nor nt any, season, will a
thermometer, raised six or nine feet above. the
soil, and sheltered from all reverberation, attain
115 degrees of Fahrenheit. On the open sea,
the temperature of the air, whatever be the place
or season, will never rise to 89 degrees. The
greatest degree of cold ever Observed on our
globe with a thermometer suspended. in the air is
58 degrees below zero. The temperature of the
water of the ocean; in. airy latitude, or at-any
season, never exceeds 80 degrees.
EXEMPLARY HONESTio---011e Louis PIN'EL, a
respectable trader, at Carcassone, in the Smith of
France, being obliged at the beginning of the
Revolution to receive payment from his debtors
in assignats, found' himself under the necessity of
paying his own creditors in the same sort of cur,
rency. Still he felt it to be an injustice, and as
his death he charged his son to make up, the dif•
ference, if ever it should he in his power. The
son married, and his wife united her labours mak
his, to save money enough for the payment of
those debts of conscience, although in law they
were under no obligation whatever to do so.
However, the husband died in 1823, without
having been able to get together the sum neces-
sary for this.purpose. His widow has been more
successful, and has just issued a notice that she
will pay, by instalments all her late father-in-
law's debts of the above description, together
with interest on them from the year 1793
AMERICAN JUSTICE.-..There are some amusing
stories told about the mode of bringing justice
home is every man's door, in the country. A
few years since, it is said, no man was competent
to discharge the duties•of Justice of the Peace
in certain parts of our county, unless he wrisfirst-
rate at fistysicuffs. Almost every law-suit termi-
nated in a battle, either with the Justice, or be-
tween the pa riles, and not unfrequently the throne
of justice was overthrown, and her representative
tnrne(rout of doors with a pair of black eyes. A
cause had been heard by one of our 'Squires,
who concluded to give judgment contrary to
the wishes of one of the parties ; this, as
usual, occe•ioned • a row, and a tight. The
dissatisfied suitor turned the Justice out of,
the room, locked the door upon him, and, taking.
he WI Cala 4'itt of the Justice, very deliberately
entered judgment in his Owe favour. We have
all heard, of "Sitgft;ti. ,ve; eo,vskil
51.4t7,1:, by which a
refractory
JUSlfee is direeted
party until he behaves himself. Upon the spirit
of this law, another of our justices fumed en
obstreperous defendant " neck and' heels" out of;
the. Office, and, after barring the door, gave judg-1
rnent against him for default of nppearance.—
(Miner's Journal.)

MISEAY AND WANTe---An Inquest was held
yesterday evening, at Bishopsgate Workhouse,
on the body of Sarah Finch, aged 77. The de-
ceased, who was a poor distresed creatnre, went
into a public house in Bishopsgate, kept by Mr.
Holyman, on Monday, and havinx seated herself
in a corner of the room, she was supposed to be
closing; ,but, on Mr. ifolymati going to her, he
found her insensible. He rendered her every Ri-
OStatice, and giive her some tea and brandy in it,
and she was shortly restored. She was then
taken home to her miserable apartment, in which
Was no article of furniture, exCept an old chair
and a three-legged table. The only place
to repose nu was a few filthy rags, up in one
corner ~ of the wretched apartment, the
windows of which were mostly demolished.
There was nothing in the cupboard ; but on the
table, were some . old !mines. The. servant to
Mrs, Nash, who let the poor woman the room,
and who resides in the next house, refused to
allow a fire to be made in the room, as she was
fearful the house would be in danger, but pro-
raised to attend to the deceased, and take her
some cordial or gruel. She, however, did not
visit her, and in, the morning the boor woman was
found dead in the root-U.—The Coroner and Jury
censured the conduct of the servant, and, accord-
ing, to the surgeon's statement, they returned a
verdict—". That tlu deceased died from the 'inf
clemency of the weather."

A countryman having read in the newspapers
accounts of. different bunk failures, and having
1001. deposited with a respectable, bunking
company in Aberdeen, he became alarmed for its
safety, hastened to town, and calling at the bank,
presented his deposit receipt, and on demanding
his money, was paid, as is customary, with notes
of the bank ; be grasped thevn its his hand, and
having got
within reach of the door, turned round,
and witha sagacity well becoming a Hibernian
exclaimed, " Now, Sir, ye may Bruck when you
like."

An alarm was #.Xcitell in the Hit4h.otieet, yes-
Jerilny, about ihree o'clock, by ft,persou it, a
strait wajscoat, who exhibiLed A most furiou, np.
peuruoce, mid guide 'tome strong attemptft to (lig-
eisengf. )Jnittg a vOty tall and powerful
xrrin, no one for o tittle would venture to inter-
foie., The cootortions of hi' coutitemtnceovere
Ids() hideous and frightful. lie_ w„5,,,,t..1„,„gth'1
,orrouuded, however, and carried to o place of
safetv.—(..s'coti nines.)