The Sun.
London, England, 1826-11-14 00:00:00

THE GtAHAM STEAM PACKET:

.ON:4 Achitrtiter.)
On Thursday an Ingnest*fiS held at 'the MantiOn-hotteei
before G,EOR-GE tsq..4 Cdianiti on the bodies of
Mr, Cundit and *tam

Safriuut Waltham, foremast man of the rrrOettii wagon
Wird on Tuesday last, alongside the Otit#l filfigthinr,then
lying in. Grinislrroadt. the Graham, 'was fastened to
the United Kingaom with a head and 4 stern yOpe. She
had riot been in that situation above !eight or teti
before the accident took Oa*. Tile boiler then burst:
The paddles had stepOd, and the steam wet
escaping at
the time Saw the boy take the weight. offhe safetk.!
valve as soon as the OraAain get thitigside the United
Kingdom. The--,seerAii tlicii escaped in the nine! Manner.
Saw John eithaiu taken out of the water and assisted in
getkitl); him on board the Gridynni, and altetivaidt hi get:v
tmg him on board the Uniiid Kingdom. lle appeared
to be dcad at the tine. Witness supposes he was kill-
ed by th'e explosion. Did not see where he had re-
ritiVed any injury. Assisted in removing the body? as
well as that of Mellins, to the Old Ferry-boat landing,
in the evening of the same day. Mellins was taken on
board the Graham at Grimsby. He had left the United
Kingdom the day before, with the intention of going to
Scarborough. Had never seen Cundill before. Does not
know how Mellins came by his death.
George Stephenson, assistant-engineer, was not on
board the Graham at the time the accident happened.
Went on board the United Kingdom soon after they ar-
rived alongside. Has seen the boiler since the explosion.
The top was opened right across, like folding doors.
Did not notice • the thickness. Never thought it unu-
sually thin. The vessel is now lying in RedclitTe chan-
ge]. If it had been a good boiler, it certainly would not
have exploded.

Jacob Urwin, engineer of the Graham, took the com-
mand of the engine, and stopped, it on coming alongside
the United Kingdom. The weight was removed from the
2afety-valve by the boy, on witness's direction, before the
engine ewes stopped. The steam was then escaping in the
usual manner, as far as he could observe. Witness con-
sidered all safe, and then went on board the United King-
dote, but did not stop a minute. Witness hardly knows
whether he was on board or not, the time was so short.
He certainly did not stay. After the explosion, witness
only saw one person in the water, who belonged to the
United _kingdom. Witness .had been engineer of the
Graham eighteen months. He had accidents a little be-
fore, by this boiler. It has given way more than once.,---
Has been brought up among. steam-engines. Did every
thing in his power before leaving the vessel to prevent ac-
cidents. From the first has never considered this boiler a
good one. Has represented to the owners that it was de-
fective: He told them the state it was in, and left
the rest to their judgment. The first day he joined
the vessel, the boiler had to be repaired. He then
told, them it was not safe. Did not consider it safe even
after it was repaired. He took 2016. of weight from the
safety-valve, not thinking the boiler strong enough. The full
weight, when he came, was 561 b. and he diminished it 201 b.,
and it has remained 361 b. ever since. Considering the boiler
then safer, but always had a dread upon him. 361 b. is a very
light pressure. If it had been a good boiler, it would have
borne the 561 b. and a great deal more. Was at Selby when
the boiler was lately repaired. It is some months since
new boilers were ordered.' The- owners knew the boiler
was insecure soon after he went. Mr: Clay was the agent
and acting owner. Witness told him the boiler 'was in-
different, very soon after he first went.. Always thought
the boiler unsafe ; and in consequence of his representation
he had reason to think new boilers were ordered. This
boiler was not of the proper thickness, but very light. Had
a gauge on ;board, but did not use it, as the safety-valve
was a better gauge. Knows no other cause for the ex-
plosion but the unsoundness and weakness the boiler.
The plates varied from an eighth to a sixteenth in thickness.
When he complained, Mr. Clay said he should have new
boilers as soon as possible, and witness expected them
about Christmas. Cannot say whether this was some
months 'ago. He said so a considerable time since, and a
short time since. Does not know the names of the owners,
except Mr. Keddey and Mr. Clay. If he had been beside
the engine at the time of the accident, he could not have
done more than he had done.

As none of the witnesses could state who were pro-
lrietors of the Graham, and as the Jury were desirous, of
laving the testimony of some of the passengers on board
'bat vessel, the Coroner adjourned the inquest till this day
(Friday.)
Hull Advertiser Office, Four, P.m., Saturday.

The Coroner's Inquest was resumed at eleven o'clock
this morning. The Jury retired a little after twci
and have this moment returned a verdict of manslaughter
against Jacob Urwin,
_ the engineer of the Graham, and
Richard Clay, jun.,the acting agent and part owner of the
Graham. .

HARRIETTE WlLBt7N.—Thiii notorious character
is at her 'old game. 'The following is the copy of a
letter recently written by her from Paris to a highly
respectable gentleman in London, and who has trans-
mitted it to us, with. permission, if we choose, to print
Iris name, in so proper a light does he view the
strumpet's attempt to extortion:--
I don't much think you are worth the trouble of again addres-
sing, but I will not send your part of my Memoirs to the press
without once more offering to sell you the MS.'relative to your,
low intrigues, love of slave-trade, &c. ; because, though strict
truth is only related, I know it will make you very unpopular.
If I receive a letter from you directly, promising to pay me, for
old acquaintance sake, 90!. a-year as long as your name is not
mentioned in any present or future publication; and in case this
mode may please you better than buying the manuscript at once
for 2001., I shall be satisfied if you pay always 201. as a year's
annuity, in advance. If this doss not please you, your silence
will settle the business. You are very welcome to pUblish this
letter, if it so pleases you. No one will dispute your love of
flogging black women, and ffashingabout with all the lowest white
ones. 11. ROCHFORT.

Esq., W..-....street, London.

ALARMING AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.--Sun...
day morning, about three o'elock, the whole neighbourhood of
the Borough was thrown into alarm, in consequence of a fire being
discovered at the St. George's Coffee-Rooms, 46, Blackman-street.
The inmates of that, and the adjoining houses, were quickly
aroused to a sense of their perilous situation, and endeavoured to
effect a retreat, but the flames having obtained a firm hold of the
lower part of the coffee-house, its inhabitants, principally females,
were obliged to make their way to the roof, from whence, with
one unfortunate, exception, they reached a place of safety. ~A
young woman, named Barrett, a servant is the house, having, in
her hurry, lost her foot hold, was precipitated into the street,
from whence she was immediately removed to the Hospital. An
immense number of engines arrived on the spot, in quick suecee-
sion, but from the length of time occupied in procuring water
from the Southwark water•,works, the engine of which was not
at work, it was considerably after four o'clock before one of them
could commence playing, during the whole of which time the fire
was gaining ground. Water being at length procured, the firemen
commenced, and while eight or nine were playing on the front of
the burning mass, others ranged themselves in the rear, to protect
an immense range of stabling belonging to Mr. Lamb. About
five o'clock the roofing of three houses, No. 41$, 46, and 47, fell
in with a tremendous crash. To the circumatauce•af there being
no Party walls, and tht interior olthe houses principally of wood,
mayil he attributed the extent of the damage sustained. About
1,:t,1t-past six o'clock the fire was completely subdued, having de-
.l,4;tuled, and damaged, in its destructive career, no less than six
r, mutual, and
icolarnortinh: house.s of Mr. White, glover; the St. George's
at which it commenced ; and the premises of Messrs.
ruins ; 4,1,d theher, are reduced to a heap of smoking
premise; house, of Mr•. Fisher, hardwareman, and the ex-
tensiveam,. °rem,
it; (occupying Nos. 48 and 49), in the possession
Stc. are very considerablyand injured. The injury sustained is very
immix Offices. No"raineell are principally in the Union and
the spot At the same time,thi twenty-one engines were on
diately procured, the Aims and could water have been imme'
So Would have been comparatively
small.

Zbt *llll.

LONDON,
TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, M 6.

Parliament meeti to-day, but the proceedings dur-
ing this week will be confined to the swearing in the
Members, the electing a Speaker of the House of
Commons, and other preliminary business. The Ses-
sion will not be opened till Monday next, when it is
understood to be his MAJESTY'S gracious intention
to meet the new Parliament in person.
We trust we may he excused in availing ourselves
of this opportunity of assuring our Readers, that we
have made arrangements for giving the fullest and most
correct Report of the proceedings of both Houses of
Parliament during:the-Session ; hut that While such is
our intention, we shall not in any degree relax our
exertions to render our Journal, in other respects,
worthy of public patronage.

We shall endeavour to maintain the feature which
we have so exclusively possessed for some months, of
giving, in addition.to the news of the day, correct re.
ports of the proceedings in all the Courts of Law,
and at the several Police Offices, until a late hour of
the afternoon; and encouraged by the approbation of
the public, as evinced by the fact of our Sale being
nearly doubled, since the property of the Paper came
into our hands, we shall spare neither labour nor
expence to render it superior in every department of
intelligence.

The Paris Papers of Saturday and the Etoile of
Sunday morning reached us last night, but they are
less than usually interesting. Of political intelligence
thry are entirely destitute.

A tremendous fire took place. in Lyons on the night
of the '7th inst. which occasioned great damage in that
city. It broke out in a street, near the barracks of
La Charit6, which were entirely consumed; the
stables next caught fire, and a strong north-west. wind
having carried the flamer over to the other side of the
river, the safety of the whole city was endangered.—
The conflagration continued to spread for some hours,
notwithstanding thtexertions of the whole population,
who, without distinction of rank, or sex, laboured at
the pumps to subdue-the fire. It was tot got under
until the morning of the,Bth, by which time an immense
space presented nothing but a heap of ashes.
The trial of M. OtiVRARD terminated on Saturday,
but judgment was postponed for a week.

French Funds remain about the same.

Fitxmcit
,Fuwns.—PAms, Nov. 11.—Five per Cents., 99f.
55c. 75c. ; Three per Cents. 711.. 30c. 85c. ; Caine Hypothe-
caire, 910 ; Rents Naples Cert. Fal. 78f. 75c. ; Obl. Nap. com.
Roth.. 25. 50. ; Spanish Rents., 9 ; Royal Spanish Loan, 60 ;
Haytian Loan, 080.

A Lisbon mail has arrived this morning, brought
to Falmouth by the Duke of Kent packet, whiCh
Sailed from Lisbon on the 29th of. October. The
intelligence from the 'disturbed districts comes down
one day later only than the accounts before received
via France. Upon the whole, the state of Portugal
was becoming more satisfactory, and the next accounts
will probably announce the entire suppression of
rebellion.
(From the Lisbon Gesiette,' of Ott. 15.)
Her Serene Highness the Infanta Regent, considering
that on the 30th of this month, the solemnity of the open.
ing of the two Chambers of the general Cortes is to take
place, has thought fit to order that there shall be a grand
drawing-room, and that the mourning shall be suspended.
lasuori, 27,—The Gazette contains the following
official article

WAR-OFFICE, (icr. 2b.
Extract from a dispatch received this day :—The Ge-
neral Minister of War commanding the Army of Opera-
fitheadt h
one had just
the 2, artrhivetdo
Opera-
tion,_ writes front his head-quarters at Merolla, 21st inst.,
inspth:lth
embarking at .Castro town, whence the rebels
Marina fin. Ayamonte. In :consequence of his flight,
he had ordered the troops, some to march back to Beja,
others to occupy various points of the frOntier of Alen-
tejo. He intended tnset out on the 22d without troops
for Castro Marina, and thence to Tivira, wherehe would
arrive on the 23d, and 'ordered Count tie Alva to march
to the latter town. He had ordered the militia of Baja,
who were at Mertola, and had done 'great aervice, to be
Lastly; he declares, that wherever he has
been, the
edspirit of the inhabitants is the best that can be
desired.

•
The Cou►it de Alva writes from hie head-quart*" al
Louie, of the 21at, where be arrived on the 20ths that

the troops under his command chewed the firmest attach-
ment to the institutions which now gthern 1)5,.: and that
the generality of the inhabitants of Algarve and Alentejof
through which ,he passed, were animated by the same
spirii: tie Mentions the flight of the rebels to Spain,
,where they had itiielidk bort disarmed,
• The accounts from the Aid Pioviuces come down to
the 22d. Complete tranquillity reigned i theme The die-
iiidert in Algarve had had no effect in Mintd. le'Beira
Alta the tifindi of the people, agitated by the late evetiii
began to be calmed, (is they troW evidentlr saw the falsehood
9f the reports continually Ifanstnifted by the rebels who
have fled to Spain ; the zeal Of the authorities has pro-
duced these happy effects. In the dttorthts which the
General of that proviltet had received from Spain, it ap-
peared that the Portuguese rebel's, after one day's march
froth Salamanca for Palencia, had returned to the former
city, for what teem is not known'; they were extremely
discouraged, as they tic* know the falsehood of the pre-
texts by which they were misled I a payment had lately
been msde, and it was assured they would not have another.
(Signed) P. P. de SOUZA,
Chief of the First Division,
Extract from a despatch edeeived at the War Office,
25th inst., 6 P.M. from the General commanding the district
of Oporto :
Six--I have the honour to transmit to your Excellency, far
the information of the Princess Regent, the original communica-
tion inclosed, which I have just received from the Mayor (Juis de
Fora) of Villa Real, relative to the desertion of the battalion of
Cacadores, No. 7, which was stationed at Villa Pouca d'Aguiar.
THOS. WILLIAM STUBBS.
Head-quarters, Oporto, pct. 23.
Copy of the communication alluded to in the above :
Six—The battalion of Cacadores, No. 7, stationed at Villa
Pouca, mutinied on the 21st, at ten o'clock at night, endeavoured
to kill their officers, and fled towards Spain. Some of the officers
have been able to escape on the march, viz. Major Frederico,
Captain Nogueira, and Ensign Ilharco, and nine soldiers. At
present this place is quiet, and the detachment obedient.
(Signed)
M. M. COUTENHO DE ALBERGARIA FREIRE,
Mayor.
MANOEL JOAQUIM DE MENEZES,
Major commanding the detachment of the Battalion of
Cacadores, No. 9.
Villa Real, 99d Oct. 10 A.M.
To his Excellency T. W. Stubbs.
WAR .OFFICE, Oct. 27.
From despatches, received to-day, the Major command-
ing the battalion of Cacadores, No. 7, writes from Villa
Real, the 22d inst., that the battalion mentioned on the
21st abandoned its officers, who were ill-treated, and led
by the chief surgeon, quitted Villa Real and the environs,
and took the road to Spain. All the officers behaved with
the most laudable spirit and firmness, and none accompa-
nied the battalion ; they retired with their Commander to
Villa Real, where they have collected twelve serjeants,
musicians, Sze., and 32 privates, who have remained faithful.
The number of those who have deserted is 210.
The General in Traz-os-Montes writes from Chaves,
on the 2lst, that he hears that in part of that province
public tranquillity has not been disturbed. The accounts
received from Spain agree in stating that the rebels of
Verim retreated with the Marquis de Chaves, to Lugo;
and in the howlers of Braganza it is confidently affirmed
that no Portuguese are admitted into Spain without legal
passports from the authorities.
The despatches from Beira Alta, and the district of
Oporto, are of the 23ctand 24th. Notwithstanding the rebel-
lion of the Cacadores; No. 7, tranquillity was preserved.
The accounts from Beira, Baize, and Minho, are to the 22d
and 23d, tranquillity had not been interrupted.
P. Ps de SOUZA, Major,
Chief of the Ist Division.
The birth-day of the Infant Don Miguel was celebrated
on the 26th.

Letters from Corfu, dated 14th Oct. state, that
IBRAHINI PACIIA is preparing to embark with all the
forces which are remaining with him, and return to
Egypt, on account of the scarcity of provisions and
warlike equipments which he has felt at the theatre of
war; but it is also reported that the real cause of his
retreat, is an order from his father, in consequence of
the serious troubles which agitate Egypt.

Extract of a letter from Lloyd'srAgent, at Lisbon,
dated Oct. 28:—
The two Morroquin cruisers intend Nailing to-morrow. They
are reported to have taken two Prussian vessels previous to their
entering the Tagus. The Commander of the schooner has de-
clared he will capture vessels under the Brazilian flag. An official
account of the Algerine squadron having passed the Straits, is in
this day's Gazette.

BATA.VI/4 itINZ 29.6.--The Marquis of Hastings, Ostler, from
China to London, pia in here leaky; has been obliged to dis-
charge her cargo, part of which is damaged, and will be sold.—
It is expected she will soon be repaired and proceed on her •oyage.
The Marquis of Hastiugs has since arrived at St. Helena.
Istritirtue, JULY 27.—The Reliance, which put back leaky,
sailed from hence 23d inst. for England. The Marquis of iln-
gksect will sail for London on the let of next month.
Garzwocx, Nov. 11.—The Rosina, M'lntosb, arrived to-day
from Charleston, sailed 9th ult. The Isabella, Munn, from Ja-
maica for this port, which put in there in distress, had completed
her repairs, and would sail in a day or two after the Rosina.
The Holly, Lutchemy, from Columbio and Mauritius to Lon-
don, having sprung a leak was run on shore at Bourbon, July 7,
and was completely wrecked.
The Superb, Osborne, from Virginia to Madeira, and the .Tans,
White, from the same port, were completely wrecked at Fayal
during a heavy gale at South, on Sept. 28.
The 'Polly and _Eliza from Westport, and the Telemachus, were
wrecked during a hurricane, on 28th September, the former in
let. 28. lon. 84., and the latter in let. 39. lon. 45:, crews saved
by the Sir Charles M'earthy, Thomas, and arrived at Tayal,
13th ult.
The Brothers, Forbes, from Newfoundland to Cork, put into
St. Michael's 9th ult. very leaky, after throwing a considerable
part of her cargo overboard, the remainder being damaged, will
be sold. "
The William Maitland, Captain Morgan, arrived at Ports-
mouth yesterday, sailed from Honduras 12th Sept., lin company
with the Venerable, Burton ; and the Thomas Bouch, Bon&
Burton ; parted from the former in lat. 26. lon. 84., and from
the latter 3d ult., in Ist. 29. lon. 78, ; spoke on the 224 ult. in
lat, 40. lon. 53. the Hops, American frigate, from New York to
the Mediterranean.

N.B. The Hope is one of She Greek frigates, and mounting
64 guns.
•

There is nothing more characteristic of the, present
day than the very different light in which Ireland and
Greece are considered. The latter—hallowed by the
wisdom of ages, and illumined by the splindom• which
our modern enthusiasts have thrown - around it--ia
looked on as a martyred country, a fit subject- for a
classic crusade ; while the former, because, unfortu-
nately, itis without the attractions of romance, is
treated either with contempt, or what is still worse,
that daily
come before us in the papers—we shall
with sullen apathy. Yet if we examine the records of
history—setting aside the afflicting details-
find that Ire-
land (indepe,,dently of its superior claims on our at-
tention, from, its local, and commercial value as forming
an integral part of our dominions), is, in point of suffer-
jog only, far more deserving dour sympathy than Graeae;
for from the .reign of 14
--ENlt'li the Second, down, to the
present year, '1826, it has been more or less subjected
to the caprice, despotism, and dissimulatian of England.
All the world is familiar with its domestic history for
the last thirty or forty years, which appear to have ac-1
1

cumulated misfortune on misfortune up to the Present
'l
day, when the N,•liole mighty mass, unable longer to
sustain its own wet' ht,
the' country in ruin. threatens hourly to overwhelm
We are no alarmists, tier do we
wish to enlarge further Cnon the threadbare topic of
Irish grievan&v; but we do
f,hink that some little tt-
tention is due to the country whioh gave us,
within the
short space of half a century, a Btn,`KE, a G-iiiiTTPI,
•
a W/ILLINGToN, and a . CANNING; more especially
when we fittd, from the concurring testjmony of pro'
vincial papers, that, from North to Soutfir . ,
to West, it is in a state little short of dot ‘nrignt !:O. •
hellion. " Mayo," says a Carlow paper, " is risol
Jourrat
from one end to the other ;" a Westmeath
assures us that in that part of the country " t. h'',r,e kis
every symptom of an approaching rebellion ; ' t;or;
'Limerick, and Dublin, are afflicted' with . pestl '1e,,,,""
and famine, and the Rock notices are nightly "`'
coming more open, desperate, and lawless in th e,i
rr
r
i character. - Yet, with these facts staring us daily
the face ; with Counsellors SIIEILL, O'CoN/aat"
et hoc genus onzne quod odi, indirectly inculcating the
from East
doctrine of resistance as the sole means of regen
to Ireland, we blindly shut our eYes to the truth, and
waft our imaginations over seas to Greece, there to.
cant and sentimentalize about the " martyred hero!
of Athens and lonia,"—corixtly represented by thou
disinterested agents in Londoo--hile our Chest
and best allies are perishing unnOtieed before. I.lB'
is really high time to drop this maudlin affectationj
if we must be generous, -let us direct the etrelln
! inatesa
our generosity into a more appropriate dome., 5
of suffering it to flow abroad, where it can. be of !I
earthly use, except as it affords a striking is
.f tthee
spurious sensibility of the day. Greece is otltt!nt
granted ; so is Ireland ! let us then begin by reicol
(1,
the latter from her exigencies, and the eurPlaim
benevolence will be most creditably devoted to
former. erstion.

The New Times yesterday morning,
quentiy the Courier yesterday f
a-ternoon, announced,
with officid• pomposity, intelligence front Portugal,
" that the FRINCZ.ss REGXNT has found it 00°11
to apply to the British Adiniral, Tord A. DzAtxtille
414
commanding in the Tagus, for a ito dy Guard f 611: it
from the Royal Marine Corps under big' l'{leilbilff
orders." The readers of these papers ought to "P°
that this fact . was announced by us on ilie '23cl f:
and having been copied into the French pac`e"',t,:,,
and case
now found its way back to the columns of the ''',
Times and Courier, where it is given, as if it Wets l'l''''

It is a practice now of very common °cam-
for every body to lend, a hand in the amend
g° c(
the law, and scarce a day now passes hut some ne'l
scheme, some highly beneficial alteration in thee,
is proposed. If we were to attend to, all the 0i
less
ministration suggestions that are made for improving the 64'
istystisemweogfolaownoafbt ..11,
der a load of them ten times larger
how our forefathers endeavonZed
tors tell us are so might 1 rider 11°'
, we ressonab y WO
and
t of Oil,/ ' 11.
more so, _hi,,h ifoieto
us. Here one person fulminates his anger 11 Ile
seventy of the Criminal Code, another ridieztles
'se*
verbosity of the Statutes,sad h. d exclaims ago'
a t tr see
the cruel - • •
injustice of such a multiplicity of laws;
to
all talk of Codes and Consolidating Acts, with 4 it).
confidence that the most perfect ignorance of the alit)'
aajdlui stwuinh:iic:hr °srmuiconhdcalsimnwed:ogthuoid.bbeelietve;:_e:
ect
amendment'
may be the Yid
laws bad, our Legislators are ivorse, and
theo-
- le • •
, gislation, if poesible, even worse than ,
_hote,
and4n that with bad laws, and worse Legistilijiir,
w , a still worse system of Legislation, werpo
_ e have little to . hope in the way of•
hetseae so
mendment' is positively out of the question, the set
• Under these circumstances, seeing safise
a_these Utopian disciples either to be evict, or mt
bout the task assigned in the right ettess r'av the
them unite themselves to that respectoole il fi si" 101
mons, a similar cathartic will await the
Radical Reformers, and doubtless, when feet"
Reform,, purges the benches of the Ilouse ° books
siatute'of to
__and the whole legislative and judicial bodies he st,
kingdom. With what effect this revulsion foeY ress
tended we presume not to opine, but we Illt °POP
cab', ,
our wish that it may be deferred ad &too
i ttiY to:
.. These remarks have been occasioned by $;1000 put_
accordance with the new
orils etvheant
fished comparative statement of the law °I v- 'n duo
Scotland, France and Enland, and, ofcoursi, ' got
excellence
xelicee
inlet,mweh
named countries is beyond measure superhittve Jo.
very worst ot
the
bad. Although by no means prepared 10 L'ssro of
of
ifi
et
justicerule
d;
oi tish
ttehh
elea i3O;jfifgttillhise:::::,o4
rt 4
oi.:
arrest, we must nevertheless affirm
fish ."
arrest is to exist at all, the Englisn law is supcnciseii;
the laws both of France and Scotland, and recioo
for this very reason, viz. that it is more 611 boat
The notices of intention to arrest, which the Jibe rut
of Scotland and France require, before it cal, „I oetheti
in force, go very near to nullify the law aitif be $
For a debtor who cannot pay his debt, I'''lll,oll6
very pea C 1
t .00. to tarry an instant in a place '''' joy
knows he holds his liberty at .•the option of env If
he could
plaintiff and
therefore
he would run away,
Ile'
thereou d pay his debt, he would not run ewer droll
then he_were liable to arrest or not. The eTe vlaine
'tiff'
, 01 the notice in this case, is to deprive inl' t„,' old
tat of his right, against ' i el - •
a person w.lo, pe ' co°
have paid his debts if he had been_ put to the In tbe
triience of personal restraint. cannot Wooly
eason or the justice of the law, which requites °tip'',
tolt give notice to another of his intention to saes u'
~
appears to us to be a law without result or Peu'ropt
unless it really was intended that the 11itiall
should, upon such notice, forthwith decamp. '-',;:lger
in this view of the case it must be owneo) ht, er
ever unius,t the Scotch law is, :it is neverthel.; tot
suPPosed
to
impart tititi°l:—.lo::::;b.°
ceedingly powerful and operative. If it is Wafters.
the notice is in the nature of a warning, in 'the 1..,:„,,re
tive either to pay the debt or remain in whencusou the
reply, such alternative would be better given „,,,,st
of his
was in custody, than When he hes theirsivo
. I‘.hts own will to tack a third condition to the
notice
before-mentioned alternatives, and deal' with the or
either as a warning to pay the debtso go to pril°,llo',,bt
avail himself; whereas,
instantly run away. lAre cannot fa moment noltl
of which of the three conditions a needY 01111 14Liei•
mediately, he could not run away, but he might' „ri,
was so disposed, avoid detention by paying the &On j
Scotia°
The object of the English law, and that of
yore hs placed in enstntlYl il,

n,:l France, is the same : and we tletefore repeat, that
-the law which best attains that purpose, is of necessity
the wisest. The English law of arrest is much modi-
fied by the privilege of giving bail, and by limiting the
right of arrest to persons having demands beyond the
value of 101., but which we hope soon to see advanced
o 201. These modifications have removed a large
portion of the severity of the law, and it seems to us,
that so long as the right to arrest is at all given, the
English is as mild as it can be consistent with its ob-
ject, and that first requisite of every law—efficacy and
three.

Sir RICHARD BIRNIE is a caustic old critic,' and
frequently delights the public by the originality of his
conservations, founded on practical experience of men
;and manners, as delineated on that public stage---the
notorious hoards of Bow-street, which alternately
echo to' the agonising stamp of shame—the laugh
able caper of frivolity—or the solemn adjuration
of a drunken watchman invoking the spirits of
the midnight dungeon to attest the truth of his
rascality. Not a " loose fish," or stray bird gets into
that net, but feels the frown of justice borrowing con-
victing wrath from the brow of the Chief Magistrate,
who denounces iniquity with a glance, and whistles
off hypocrisy with a smile, as bitter as a dose of
:Epsom salts—and as ghastly as the last look of
.ROGER DODSWORTH. But the high merit of his
Worship is chiefly distinguished in giving directions to
his " men of office in their voyages of discovery,
`►herein he inimitably illustrates the maxim of setting
a thief to catch a thief.

In our paper of this day will be found a sample of
this generalship with reference to an expedition into
Kent—that happy home of hops tin si smuggling,
where an officer is directed to look after some itinerant
gin and brandy merchants, who forgot to take out a
_
travelling licence. The worthy MaEistrate, in direc-
tions to the officer, very iron;„„fly tells him to get his
warrant backed by a C0u...,,ty Magistrate, but to beware
of the Magistrates of tie Cinque Ports, lest his object
should be thwarted 'by information to the enemy, for
he no doiAt
,spected that there might be honour
among 'murders as well as thieves. Indeed, he
knew '.hat the Chief Magistrate in one of these re-
"Pt Ades of evil spirits had given information to the
I6A of one who had often called them from the vasty
`Jeep, that her husband would improve his health by
availing himself of a trip to Holland, and thereby
.eiljoy the freedom of the fresh air. The hint was as
'effectual as his Worship's interrogative, when the sea
-is rather rough, and the culprit refuses to answer a
Question conclusive of his destiny. The County Ma-
gistrates of Kent are « most of them honourable men,"
but not so the smugglers of the Cinque Ports, whose
morals have been rather tainted by the free use of
strong waters. We think it a great pity they are not
"all--all honourable men,"that they may thus escape the
sweeping vengeance of dishonour, which must attach to
them from the judgment-seat of Bow-street. But all
things have their day—the Cinque Ports' Magistrates
'in condemning the preventive guard, and his Worship
in denouncing the Cinque Port smugglers. We won-
der how ',tie Warden of the Cinque Ports will relish
the stro-Ag spirit here displayed against his worshipful
representatives, whom even lawless men admire, and
thark at the successful conclusion of their labours.—
B. Ad their fame is gone forth. Sir RICHARD
'aPoken the word—and the Magistrates of the
,'"?(Ine Ports will, in future, find it difficult to keep u
'th p
eir soirits in the company of honourable men,
for
his Worship has opened the secrets of the prison.
house, with as little ceremony as they discuss the inn
rite of a keg of Hollands.
Pr;

• ji:oate letters fron the City of Mexico to the let of *tem-
tle.rt bring favourable accounts of the state of trade, and state
'At all British manufactures were on the rise.
It was confidentially reported in the City to-day, that the
Fowls of Great Britain and France have agreed to issue a Circu-
-141t, addressed to the European-Powers, intimating their inten-
tion of mediating between the Greeks and Turks, with the view
Ihi.nducing the latter to agree to the independence of the former.
b document, it is reported, will be issued at the same time by
(2`g Powers.—lt is also reported in the City, that one of the
eat of the advance of Spanish Stock is, that finding both
:puttee and England determined to bring the demands of their
Governments into some tangible shape of payment, the Spanish
~,tovarnment will attempt to negociate a loan, under the guarantee
"44 France, and that England is to bold Cuba u a security.
• Letters from Batavia, of the 15th July, say, that
the insurrection which has broken out in the Moluc-
cas begins to assume an alarming character, and that
all the Dutch Authorities were hastening to quit those
islands.

A private meeting took place yesterday at the Man.
'lon-house, of some of the acting members of the coin-
-Ipittee for the relief of the poor in the manufacturing
I,44tricts, in order to consider how far it is advisable
to rnitke another appeal to the public for new siib-
acriptions to be applied to the purchase of clothing
end fuel, which, during the winter, are not less neces-
;4 than food to the destitute manufacturers. We
",P1 not learn to what decision the committee came on
'gat subject.---TiMeS•