The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-08 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.

[We copy the following spirited article from
the Liverpool Albion : we are unacquainted
with the real merits of the case, but if the exac-
tions of the Surveyor be as represented, and we
have no reason to 'doubt the respectable autho-
rity of our excellent cotemporary, we think the
qtlestlas"arOefthe rumours of
great reason to
peace or war
cinolmiapbliatiiiiils—olf Liverpool havewlnteresting,
anda i th
interesting'
ith
intended changes in the Ministry of this country,
there is one question, of a purely local and domestic
nature, infinitely more interesting to the inhabitants
of Liverpool, and one which attracts far more of
their attention, at the present moment, than the poli-
tical state of the East and the strife among our
politicians for office at home. That question is—
shall all-ranks, and classes of the inhabitants of this
great commercial town allow themselves to be
oppressed by a practical addition to the load of
direct taxation which for years they, in common with
the empire at large, have with difficulty borne? The
proceedings of the Board of Taxes, through their
surveyor, have spread alarm throughout almost every
dwelling in the town. Go where one will, the
principal topic of conversation is the new and into-
lerable system of surcharging which this individual
has, in the discharge of his duty and in the execu-
tion of his instructions, we suppose, deemed it
proper to cary into effect against thousands of our
fellow townsmen. The inquisitorial mannm in
which this Government inspector made his surveys
of houses and windows justly exasperated all classes
of housekeepers, and filled thew breasts with indig-
nation against a system under which any functionary
dare to obtrude himself into the very rooms of an
Englishman's boasted " castle," and-to put his wife
and his daughters almost to the blush. When, in-
deed, we consider the exacerbation of feeling which
the inquisitorial proceedings of the surveyor have
produced in the town, we wonder that he has still a
whole hide. Many of the surcharges which have
been made on houses and windows may, we will ad-
mit, be perfectly just and proper, as the law now
stands; but, when it is recollected, that the inhabi-
tants of this town have for years been saddled with
a greater weight of direct taxation than most of the
principal towns in this county as well as in other
parts of the kingdom the extreme hardship, nay, the
positive cruel tyof the surchargeswhich have been made
on houses and windows in Liverpool are evident.
The grievance is intolerable. It loudly calls for the
prompt interference of the Government, to suspend
the enforcement of the surcharges which have been
made on our fellow-townsmen within the last few
months. It may be said, that these surcharges, if
they arc illegal, will be quashed on being appealed
against before the Commissioners appointed to hear
appeals against the assessed taxes. But is it either
just or reasonable, that a man, in the character of an
inspector of taxes, should have the power, first ,to
invade the houses of the inhabitants in the manner
in which they have been invaded; and then, if the
people will not sutler themselves to be squeezed, like
sponges, by a person ".drest in a little brief autho-
rity," to compel them to dance attendance on a body
of commissioners who, we fear, arc too often, espe-
cially in ordinary times, led by the nose by the Go-
vernment surveyor? If the Government, whose
servant he is, will riot interfere in the business; if
the necessities of the Treasury are so great as to dis-
pose its guardians and purveyors to wink at pro-
ceedings which, however they exasperate they peo-
ple, will extract money, in the shape of taxes, out of
the pockets of the industrious housekeepers and ,
tradesmen of Liverpool, we trust that our fellow•
townsmen, before whom the appeals will be heard,
will do their duty manfully and courageously in this
juncture, and rescue a multitude of sufferers from
the scourgings of an inexorable taxgatherer, whose
perpetual cry, like the cry of the horse-leech, is
" Give, give !" LiVcrpool is not, we should hope,
the only town on which a harpy, in the shape of a
surveyor of taxes, has been let loose by the Board
of Taxes. If they have sent their myrmidons
into every city, and town, and village in
the empire, we shall rejoice exceedingly ; for then
the cry against the nuisance of the assessed taxes
will become as general throughout the kingdom, as
it is at the present moment in Liverpool; the tables
of Parliament will, at its meeting, be loaded with
petitions from all quarters for the repeal of the not
more obnoxious than cruel and impolitic taxes on
houses and windows : and the Government will be
compelled to attend to the voice of the country le-
gitimately expressed through their representatives
in the House of Com Mons. We would recall to
Lord Goderich's recollection the excitement which
the proceedings of the Board of Taxes caused in the
public mind in the year 1824 ; and would respect-
fully inform that nobleman, that the feelings of the
inhabitants of Liverpool are more highly excited on
the subject of the assessed taxes at the present mo-
ment, than were those of their fellow-countrymen
on the same subject at the former period. We call
upon his Lordship to redeem the pledge then given,
to make the survey general, with the view of ulti-
mately relieving the country from a portion of the
load of direct taxation. But if he should shrink
from carrying such a measure impartially into effect,
we protest; in the name of the inhabitants of Liver-
pool, against their being made by means, of indis-
criminating and shameful surcharges, to pay more
than their fair and just proportion of the assessed
taxes.

We are exceedingly glad that the Liverpool sur-
veyor, not satisfied with his success in surcharging
houses and windows, attacked the trading and mer-
cantile establishments of the town. This proceed-
ing was really indiscreet on the part of the surveyor;
and we are surprised that so experienced an officer
should have been guilty of such indiscretion. By
attacking these establishments, he has thrust his
hand into a nest of hornets, and, if they do not
sting the poor man until he roars and stamps with
pain, we shall be much astonished. He will not find
it so easy to deal with the merchants and traders of
Liverpool, as he found it to deal with the tame tits
of the ancient city of Bristol. They will remon-
strate with his masters on the subject ; and, if the
latter do not speedily clap an extinguisher on him
and the bulk of his preposterous surcharges, we will
confess, that the Government is as regardless of the
opinion of the people of Liverpool as the surveyor is
of our feelings.

Speaking of the altered state of the cities of
India, ViSCOUIIt CITATEAUBMAND says, " the carriages of
London are now seen travelling, together with palanquins
and caravans, the roads of the tiger and the elephant."
As Sir R. B. P. PHILIPS, Bart. of pica)"
Castle, Pembrokeshire, was passing over a teipporary
wooden bridge at St. Clear's, Cambridgeshire, Oa wheels
of the carriage came in contact with one of t baluster
posts, and carried it off. By the concussion, the carnage
swung over the cdgc of the bridge, and we'
considerable time suspended by In this Perilous actually
the traces, actually for a
situation
oi tf rgermeaaint exertion
e intni,tniil
assistance
illvasogig:eisdfuropctutrzc,l
,I, when
with
ropes, and the worthy Baronet and Lady Pliturs, who
with great presence
of
mind kept their scat, were relieved
from a situation the most noTA dangerous, and awful that
can .well be imagined; fer had the traces given way,
they must have been preclpated into the abyss below, and
the destruction of themselves and carriage would have
inevitably ensued, for the liver was heavily flooded at the
time.

BATTLE OF NAVARIN.

VISIT TO THE GENOA.

The Genoa is now nearly dismantled of he:
stores ai'd guns. An opportunity is thus afforded,
of surveying the effects of the Navarin contest.,
It appears, from various iitteresting conversations
with those present in the action, that the Turkish
and ERptian fleets were held rather too cheap
by the Allied squadrons, and it is generally
thought, that butfor the timely arrival of a se-
cond " Blusher," in the person of the Russian
Admiral, with his force, to draw off the attention
of the Turkish batteries, our ships would have
run great risk of being totally destroyed. The
instant Admiral Heiden corfltieneed his ball
practice at the forts there was a momentary pause
and general slackening of fire along the Turkish
line. The black smoke seen rising Above the
in
Point Forts indicated the destructive p dvie r
the bands of the Mussulmen, and sufficient; y ex-
plained the cause of the continued and quickened
step of the Admital, whose repeated reference to*
his time-piece shewed that he was calculating
the time which would elap':•,A. are shot could be.
rendered sufficiently hot for roving upon bun
with effect, at a moment, when hisYittle squadron
was engaged with the immensely superior
force of the enemies' fleets, drawn up in the
most advantageous situation. The exclamation
of " God be praised" had hardly escaped from.
his lips, before the thunders of Count Heiden s.
division caused the long wished for diversion of
the galling fire from the Turkish batteries. The
English ships were, however, on several occasions.
struck with hot balls, in circumference about the
ordinary size of argand lamps, one of which was
so unpleasantly Warm as to get into the gunner's
store-room of the Genoa, causing the jolly tars,
quartered at the starboard gun, abreast of the
fore cockpit ladder, to exclaim, that "theyfett
something within hail a sight hotter than
usual." The Genoa suffered most in the tar-:
board quarter from the oblique elevated`
fire of the Turkish ships, their shot generally'
striking just above the waterways of the
main deck, cutting through the upper encl-
poop decks. To this circumstance the - great
loss of life among the marines on the
poop is attributed, ten men having beer
killed at that point, before a shot was fired
from the Genoa. Those few left, with their
' gallant officer, Lieut. Miller, on being at last or-
dered down, could with the greatest difficulty see
their way to the quarter-deck, being literally co-
vered with the brain :3 and blood of their slaugh-
tered comrades. The appearance ofthe mizen-mast,
;
the following morning, almostt baffles description.
For ten feet above the deck .
t was studded with
the remnants of the killed, e.lemonstrating the
dreadful carnage which took
place in its imme-
diate vicinity. Captain Bathurst received his
death wound from part of a grape-shot, 7.veliglung
41bs., which entered the port before tho star-
board-pool; awning cabin, passing through ,the
middle of his body, and lodging above the lar--
hoard foremost port on the quarter deck. The,
Genoa was struck by a stone shot, weighing
about 102ihs. which entered her lower deck, five
feet above the water, leaving a gap that puzzled
the carpenters of the squadron to patch up. It
killed four men, aud afterwards split in pieces on
the deck. It appeared. to have been fired from
one of the line-of-battle ships. each of which had
two of these guns a-midship, which are only
fired in cases of forlorn hope. A son of Capt.
Sir Philip Broke, the hero of the ShalinGn, was
attached to the Genoa in the action, and though
but a young officer, Lieut. Broke's conduct
shelved that he carried the blood of his gallant,
father in his veins. Mr. Mitchell, the interpre--
preter and pilot, was killed on coming down the
side of Moharein Bey's ship -into the
boat, by a pistol-shot fired at him through the
main deck port, by a Turk, who called him a
Had
but
tihlcan,t oi‘dtihot.
illiaisrneagicnct
the
dNeveolElutld psoh;
ehaln‘).leeodo4dr
elytti.
sorielseukti
:ose
Admiral's thoughts, commenced operations,
which were returned by the Asia with such ra-
pidity, that Admiral de Rigny compared the
noise from the execution of her shot against the
sides of the Capitana Bey, to the " united
efforts of all the caulkers of England and France."
The emulation which prevailed between the
French and English line-of-battle, was worthy of
admiration. Each strove to be foremost in ac-
tion.—Devonport Telegraph.

PAssloN.—According to Dt, JoHN':.,ON, a
passionate man has a pretty life of it, •' spending his tiuLe-
in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation
GLOUCESTEIi.—A considerable sensation has
been excited here by the recent elopement of a young lady
from the Spa lintel. The lady in question is Miss DA-
NIEL, a young lady of about 19 years of age, possessing
considerable personal attractions, and a fortune of nearly
20,0001., independent of her relations. She is the daugh-
ter of a learned counsel of that name, who was at this
time absent from the neighbourhood, the young lady being
on a visit to her elder sister. The object of her choice was
a very handsome lad of about her own age, named Re,.
mzarsos,, whose father is the proprietor of a respectable
boarding-house situate near the Spa Hotel. The court-
ship was carried on with the most perfect secrecy, and the
youthful gallant had taken the precaution to cause the banns
to be three times published at a church i❑ Bristol, after
which the young lady, under pretence of paying some
morning visits, went a little way down the Bristol-road.
got into a chaise-and-four, with her youthful admirer, and
proceeded to Bristol, where the indissoluble knot was
tied. The parties, however, came back so speedily, that at
first nothing was suspected; but at the expiration of a
if)eo‘tvhdbayL,
leftthe happy bridegroom
tybroindetgbreoiornicl
ied
matrimonial htisoubr.ride, and

to have heard of. It
as i,
ge,erally the The man, named JAMES Sof GthenmiGoo::inlgYulliaoley
banishment from the county of Elgin, for theft, \ve re-
corded in our paper of the 21st ultimo, seems to have been,
if we may use the expression,
the numerous &predations
acio)npsetarrisiettie,adttlailiielymesst Ntsh'eeenv.ehrolie-eocto.llect
of which he was guilty were coromitted from a pure or
case with our ab-
stractlight-
love of stealing, and cot for the purpose of being
converted into cash,
fingered gentry. We
a, informed that he never made
any preparations for his acts of theft, or set out for the
ef stea.ling ; 1
ostensible purpose out then the abstracting
propensity, as a pb.,,nologist might express it, was so pro-
minently developed. in his cranium, that he could keep his
hands from 0,, article Whatever, with which he came ac
cidentally it, ((nth", provided he supposed there was no
individual ,vho witnessed his doings at the time. Bowls,
am/Plate able all sizes withit - k• • -
ongs, po LT s,
chair
1, ,
chairs, stoo s, ts, whether one, two, three, or four
k0.5.,..-bannners, axes, night-caps, shoe:, stockings, hilts,
trousers, cart-wheels, wheel-barrows, broken or whole—
oddies, bridles, boat-keels, (it was foe stealing a boat-keel he
was banished from the county), and etceteras without num-
ber—came all alike to honest JAMES Gitioorr. The co'
!equence of this system of thieving was, that JAME.' ',
bouse was a general, not to say universal, repository for
thi:l world's goods. It was literally brimful Of them—so
much so that there was scarcely a possibility of getting into
its interior. When any individual in the surrounding
country went to him in quest ~f artides supposed to have
been stolen, and accused him of being the guilty person,
he never attempted to deny it; but with the utmost sung
froid, would have requested him to " look about anion'
that things there, an' zee if he could fin' them," pointing
at the saint time to his amply, but rather confusedly, fur-
nished lodgings. When the stolen articles in question
were discovered, JAWS, in a manner perfectly inimitable,
and as if he bad conferred an actual favour on the in-
lividual by the trouble he had given him, was sure to ex-
claim, addressing himself to the person whose property he
bad abstracted,, ~ Noo,
noo,
ye're surely pleased not), arc
ua ye, sit' ye Ye gotteu yere amp ?",....Elgin Courier.

,
SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. This, to be sure, is a problematic conjecture-and POLICE INTELLIGENCE. all bound over to prosecute, and the prisoner 'Was tinder- COMMISSION OF OVER AND TERMINER. ) MEETINGS OF CREDITORS.
stood to stand fully committed for trial, and to he again FRIDAY, JAN. 4. ---.-------
in the absence of all positive data, we are forced to 1 . COUNTRY DIARY.-Tousisoar, Jao. 10.
Were the Grand Seignior and his Ministers ree- reason from probabilities. Suppose a war-what MANSION-HOUSE.-A man named John Donnellan, brought up pro forma, when Mr. Tornkins, sen., can
i I?arkinson, L. Dewsbury-Sessions-house Wakefield
Hampton and Co., Rhayader-Bear's Head, Newtown." ll
(From the Dublin Morning Post.) Haspell, T., Manchester-Albion, Manchester
coning, or rather reasonable men, we might be are we to gain by it ? Suppose a peace-how is ei
long known as an oysterman and sandwich cutter at the attend to give his evidence..
R.
. Sherwin and Co., Sheltomn
losrard, D.,. Dnkinfield-White's, Manchester
"tempted, by the interesting nature of the subject, to our condition to be improved ? In either case, if Stock Exchange, was summoned before the LORD MAYoR, A fellow, who gave his name !chard Jones, was The Judges took their seats at'the usual hour.
Thomas Hoare was indicted with Naving, on the Hunt, G., Birmingham-Royal hotel, Manchester la
risk some conjectures upon the possibility of peace we can remain at a stand still, to use the common for having refused to give even an halfpenny towards.. the. chargedE with breaking into the house of Joseph Mugeles-
-PoCtuurgt-ti hL:tu:eetei,Liednesoln's Inn Flsol4l-21
tletr, aacte, Ninewaot'eorliolroad,
supportlst Nov. last, at Rush, in the county of Dublin, i
being still preserved in Europe, notwithstanding the phrase, it is the utmost we can expect. But where of his two children. The officers of St. Stephen s, tone, .sq., INo. 2, Euston-strect, Euston-squire, tbe-ppre-
-_,----e--
departure of Mr. Stratford Canning and his col- is the British Government all the time-what have Coleman-street, were the complainants. The defendant vious afternoon, and robbing it of several articles of jewel- assaulted Frances Ross, Wife of James .
Ross ; and that he, by force, and against her will 1 IpNeStiOtioLnV. EtoNbeThSe
APPLYING TO BE DISCICARGYA
leagues from the Turkish capital. The Turks have they done-what do they contemplate ? Their no- was able to maintain his children, but, from the moment lery, silver spoons, wearing apparel, &c. The prisoner
he worked upon the humanity of the parish, to put them was committed for trial.
a and inclination, did violate her person, against the :
always been hard customers when there was a bar- minal organs tell us little or nothing; they deal in to nom, he never eared about them. Besides, he had Thomas Washbourne and Richard Mitchellwere corn
gain to drive : they have higgled, and evaded, and auguries, or the mysteries of Moore's Almanack; no right to hang upon the parish, as he was Irish, mitted to hard labour for one month, for having been found peace and statute. : Baker, T., Edgeware-road, "boot-maker
procrastinated, and bullied, and seemed to prepare they give us nothing in a decided character, and we although he pretended to belong to this country. in the area of the Duke of St. Alban's house, St. James's The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. Atkinson, W., Chujracnh...
1 Blincow, W., Edinburgh, silk.warehouseman
; East, A., Artillery-row, Westminster, tailor surveyor
themselves for the worst extremities, because, until are obliged to feel our way, upon the feasible Donnellan (with a tremendous Kerry brogue)--1 was square, that morning, with intent to steal something. The prosecutrix, apparently between CO and 70 i Ebb, J., Sutton, Lincolnshire, wheelwright
'the very last moment, a hope might still be indulged ground of our former probabilities. Hitherto we have once in Ireland to be sure. I don't deny that, but my WORSHIP-STREET.-Yesterday Charles Walker, years old at least, had, from
urer `yoga, , coal-dealer
ehilther is English as well as myself, and Coleman-street is John Smith, and William Nichols, were finally examined infirmities, to be assisted on the table, while the
that the opposite party negotiated in the:same puerile. not been mistaken ; and the splenetic grudge against Platt, Mi., Blackburn, Lancashire, victualler
my parish, and I hav'nt as much as would jingle on a tom - rwell, W., Gray's-inn-lane-road, 'plumber
Spirit, and did not prosecute an ascertained object, us has arisen from the fact, that we have calmly before Mr. BROUGHTON, on a charge Of extensive burglary traverser an extremely fine-looking young mare, ap-
ead, R., Great Yarmouth, hsh-curer
stone at the house of Mr. Barren, proprietor of the Anchor and peered to have scarcely attained his twentieth year. Russen, G., Kingston-upon-Thames, coachman
maturely calculated and determined on after full exposed the weakness of the enemy.-Morning Post. ' .
consideration of the advantages it would produce, If the present state of the Finances were such, means to kee a woman, however.
Donnellan
-You have . . p
ellan-The d-1 a farthing. But woman's my Castle, Tooley-street, on the sth of December last.
The evidence in the first case being concluded, Cross-examined by Mr. KEATINGE.-Witness had Waller, J._, Wal
Walker W wortb-common, brick-maker .
•, Castleford, near Leeds, wheelwright
been that day to a funeral at Lusk, three miles from ward, 'W., Lewisham, 'pastry-cook
and of the sacrifices it was likely to repay, but were 1
teat our expenditure could not be met by our in- pme .- Laughter, weakness. God bel ! () Walker was charged by Mr. Pritchard, a grocer, in R„ 1 Wathen, C., Walworth-common, commission-agent
1 : she had left the latter place with the funeral
merely scheming for what they could catch or filch come, there would be but three ways of rernedying The Loan MAYOII-if you not contribute to support
Banner-street, St. Luke's, with burglariously entering his "s '
'by the arts of diplomacy, from the moral weakness of the evil. We might economise, and thus reduce our your children, I'll send you to prison, my friend. shop on the morning of the 9111 of December, and stealing late in the evening, on a car, with a Miss Ward, j COUNTRY.-At the Gaol, at Ruthiri, Saturday, January 12,
emir adversaries, and were ready to yield when they outlay; we might, by increasing the commerce of Donnellan-Let them search me, and take all I have. a chest of tea, value 16/. ' of that place; site had drunk nothing before she left acmes, W. Abergelle, paatinT:rn o ',11k..
could intimidate or deceive no longer. The Turks a
, Le country, increase the amount of the present taxes; I'm xvilling to support my children when I am able, but
The prisoner was sworn to by Mr. Pritchard's shopman, Rush ; at Lusk she drank three dram-glasses of Wlliams, 'R., Tan
Graig, hoadfatrler
Acting on this tricky policy themselves, because they or, lastly, we might impose such additional taxes as You can't get blood out of a turnip. God help me!-(A who, roused by the noise, got up, and saw him going out punch at a public-house dept by Owen Quinn, and Williams, D., Pylla Glaison. labourer
'imputed it to others, have often ended, when war promised to be productive. The first of these plans laugh.) at the door. returned with Fanny Ward on the car ; she knows
appeared certain, by conceding the whole question is always the most acceptable to the community, Overseer-Every one knows that you are able to givek Being identified by the witnesses in both cases, he was nothing whatever of one Barney Devitt, she never LONDON MARKETS.
something to the parish. Before his wife was dead a wee , fully committed for trial. heard of such a person; he was not drinking with PRICE OF BREAD.
eat issue; and when- the consequences of their obsti- because its effects are pleasant and immediate ; the Lord, he , was seen creeping into a woman's bed- Nicholls and Smith, who were not recognized, were dis- them at Quinn's; she cannot swear whether Fanny The highest price of Bread in the Metrodolis is 9d. for the
vac were just on the eve of being realized, the ab- last will generally he most acceptable to the Go- chamber, ber where he lodges. ' 4W. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to I%d below charg d Ward were drunk or sober; Hoare and a man that price.
auptness with which they gave way has often been vernment, because it requires least labour to accom. Donnellan-Well sure Could 1 •the -e •
, I his Honour that
..• •
en proportion to the apparent boldness and inflexibi- plish it; the second is the most difficult of the three, women were my weakness, but I'm ready to swear against UNION-HALL.-A man named Britton was brought named Knight joined them at St. Laurence's; she WHITECHAPLE HAY MARKET.-Jan. 5.
.lity of their previous declarations,-hitting the exact and is the fruit only of time and forethought. Plans women and drink for a whole six months-I won't touch uP by the parish officers of St. George's for deserting his drank but one tumbler of punch there; the short- Hay-...... 70s. Od. to 955. Od. 1 (lover -.. 90s. Od. to llss. Od.
•
point at which action was about to become mevitablik of economy have been adopted by the present Mi- one or other of them, if Ido I'm - (Loud laughter.) wife, and leaving her chargeable to that parish. cut was about a quarter of a mile in length ; the Straw--........... 28s. Od. to 345. Od.
We cannot therefore surmise, even yet, whether the nisters, and have been in some departments, and to Overseer-Before his wife was dead, he was acting in the The assistant overseer having stated the period the violence took place convenient to the house Kent Pockets,
OF HOPS (p4ei Cyvt.)-J n
4s, 4/ alel•s7to 6/ Os.
representations of Baron Ottenfels, and of the a certain degree, carried into effect. The Finance same way, my Lord ; his wife was a very proper woman. defendant's wife was a burden on the parish, and the wife of one Coyle, the only one near the pathway, Sussex Ditto ------.- 3/.•18s. 4/. 45.. to 4/. 10.
herself having proved him. to be her lawful spouse, the
tither Christian Ministers who remain at Constar'. Committee which they are pledged to grant, will Donnellan (wiping his eyes)-06 then she was a lovelybetween which and the house was a small haggard, PraPaltto.------- 4/. Os. 4/. 10.:. to Si. Qs.
1 Ditto Fine
latter pleaded that be was justified. in the manner that he 01. Os. 7/. 10s. to 8/ Bs.
tinople, are destined to be altogether fruitless. if probably enable them to effect more. We have crathure, the Lord knows, and my slitter is as fine as any which was surrounded by a high stone wall; her Seconds --- 01. Os. 6/. Os to 7/. Os.
had his ' • ' acted towards ' faithless wife.
the Porte be governed by anger only, the absence of riot heard of any. new taxes to be imposed from you ever seen. The officers says I gives 'in nothing. The• Kent Bags -,-....... 3/. I2s. 4/. 6s. to 5/. Gs.
screams could not have been heard by persons in
Mr. CuA3 . • .
IBERS-Describe your roundsg of Justifica- Sussex Ditto . _ „
Lord knows, I goes to see them once a week or fortnight. 3/. 3s. Si. 10s. to Si. Iss.
the Ministers, from whose Governments it has re- any quarter that requires much consideration or
The Loan MAYOR Well, and what do you give them 9 tion, then. this house. Her husband is a pensioner, and her- Essex Ditto -- -. 3/. 10s. 41. 4s. to 4/. 10s.
'ceived so severe and mortifying a lesson, may pos- possesses much authority. One contemporary, we
-Donnellan -I always gives them an apple, if I've got Britton-There is a man in Court now that has caught self has: been at Waterloo-(laughter)-she does
Rape Oil, brown PRICE OF one
sibly tend to soften the violence of its revengeful recollect, recommended a tax on pianos,which, in his one.-(Laughter.) my wife and another man in bed together :on the last oe- not know Barney Devitt ; she did not say to him, Linseed Oil ---
351'
fis•
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Refined --- 13823 00
feelings, and induce it to listen more calmly to the wisdom, he seemed to imagine must be as common The LORD MAYOR-If you persist in refusing to assist casion Mrs. Fry obtained the remission of her sentence. " I believe you are Barney, let the girls alone."- Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand . 'l3. 0
arguments of dispassionate advisers. Even yet there all over the country as they are in town. The rum- in supporting your poor children, I'll certainly commit The wife acknowledged that she had been tried and con- (Laughter.)-Her husband it was who brought her Rape Cake, per ton
is ample time for a revocation of language that could ber of families in Great Britain is about 3,000,000, you.-Donnellan-Do what you choOse with me, my dear ; victed of felony twice, but declared that she refused to re- to a Magistrate to saTear the informations. PRICE OF POTATOES.-Jan. 7.
only lead to war; and, without venturing to pro- and of these, perhaps one in 500, or thereabouts, may I'm a miserable sinner, but I'm a strong fellow and able to turn home on account of ill-usage. Christopher Russell, the Superintendent of the Kidneys---------..- 3/. 10s. to 4/. Os. per ton.
Scotch Reds --........---- 3/. 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto.
notence upon futurity, we should not be in the least possess an instrument of some kind or other, which, work, and if I have no work, God help me ! what am 1 It was here stated that Mr. Britton kept a " lady "at Rush Dispensary, deposed to his having attended Marsh Champions-. - . 3/. 15s, to 4/. Os. ditto.
astonished to hear that Baron Ottenfels was audio- at a guinea a piece, that is about: 20 per cent. er
, to do ? home, and that was the principal cause of his anxiety to
her in
• his medical capacity, Oxnobles and Slaws ....--- 21. 10s. to 31. 3s. ditto.
get rid of his wifePRICES OF LEATIIEIt.
eised, on the part of Turkey, to recal whatever had beep - -
annum on the value of at least one half of them,- r Overseer-You can maintain your children, as well as •
The MAoisTaArE having been credibly informed of the toms; he could not say that the prisoner
had ever Perth, d. to d. Per lb. d. to d.
most hostile to the policy of the Allied Powers in her would produce the vast sum of 15,750/. at the you can a woman.-Donnellan-I tell you I'll never go near
above fact, observed that the defendant Was bound to su applied to him for advice under such circumstances, Butts---50 to :Alb-. 201 221 Tanned Horse Hides-. 14 17
preceding resolutions. Acting on pure impulse, it is utmost ; but, calculated fairly, we doubt if the tax a woman Tin, non m sowl Godflihelp me,,, I win't2l 27
port his wife instead of keeping a woman. The defendant such numbers were in the habit of coming to him.- he•ract,osivaiod t0661b.- r... 311 21,., Skein"
sillgirttd.ozer-7--
touch one foi another month.-(Roars. o laughter.)
. just conceivable that the Porte might run blindly would dthe thirdofthat So much pro uce
• •Donnellan was given a week to consider. Crop Hides 35 to 401 b. 14 15; Ditto -.......... 50 to 701 b, 23 26 into a contest with two-thirds of Christendom.- the only which h heardspecified.That y tax we have his wife a separate maintenance, or take her home again. Frances Ward, examined.-At Quinti's public-
Ditto.-w„-,-,45' to 501 b. 161 IE4 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 21 23
There is but a single hypothesis on which we could there may be others which would pay sufficiently to BOW-STREET.-Mother H's establishment, it ap-. s
After a little consideration, he said, " I shall send my house in Lusk, whither witness, accompanied by her Ditto
rceoncile her defiance of the power of Russia, with warrant their imposition we are not disposed to notwithstanding the recent conviction of 201., is
pears,
. . housekeeper away, and give the old woman (meaning his brother and some others, had gone after the funeral RAW HIDES.
carrying on trade with as much vigour,, as heretofore. Per Stone. s.d. to 3.d. Per Stone• sd. toe. d.
the another trial."-The parties, notwithstanding what was over,
.unc ,
she determined to drink some p h and Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 6 Ordinary ___„,...... i 2 i
the dictates of any thing like sober calculation- deny. In the absence, however, of any information A f 11. abl '-dressedyoung man who said his as ion y , .
.name had taken place, left the office very cheerfully together. where they were joined by the prosecutrix and her Middlings---- 26 2 9 Mai ket Calf----- 7 0 each
namely, that she reckoned on positive assistance on this • it be of sonic . point, may - was James Jones, and that he was a surveyor, living in
of Austria as well as on the forbearance at least of Sider how far the present state of the Revenue war- Duke-street, Manchester-square, and John Watson, who, - -- husband ; they had seven noggins of punch between SHEEP SKINS.
France and England, if not on their more active sac- rants or calls for any. There is an argument made it appears, is the porter employed at the above hopeful es- PORTSMOUTH. nine of them ; witness finiehed one glass outright ; Downs,----....P.0212d. to 3s. Od. 1 krrlb.st.-047.7d Os. Od. to Os. Od.
cour. These, Indeed, seem to be the chimeras of an use of respecting the taxes, which seems extremely tablisbment, were charged by Herring, one of the Patrol it came to her turn a number of times afterwards,
COAL MARKET.-Jan. 7,
idle fancy, to be realised, if ever, at some period specious, and which, when fairly stated, we are not Inspectors, who has lately been actively employed in col- (From the Hampshire Telegraph.) and she just tasted it every time it came round.-- Adair's ---- 365. Od, Walls End Newmarch.... 378 6(1.
comparatively indefinite and remote. Thu accounts disposed to deny. It is said that the Revenue, like lecting evidence against houses of this description, with A case which excited a considerable degree of (Laughter.) Charlotte ---- 34 9 Ditto Northumberland 36 • 3
Heaton --...:.-- 37 3 Ditto Peareth
which we see dated from the " froutiont of Poland," the commerce from which it arises, if not inc • reasing being riotous and disorderly at half-past 12 o'clock on the interest was heard at the Town-hall, Portsmouth, Mr. Graydon-Just " kissed
the cup to pass it to Ilebburn Main ---- 36 0 Ditto Perkins a :15
9an Ce. 38 3
pretending to designate divisions and regiments of __if merely stationary- • • • •
is in a precarious state ; morning of yesterday.
on Saturday last, before Win. Cooper, Esq. the rest ? Witness-Between finishing and tasting,
• Holy well-
Killl ; Ditto Iliddell's
ngworth -...- :4.'1 •6‘ Adair' -..-- 37 ofi
sTrader ---- 36 •-•
the army under Prince Coustantine, for service arid much more is its state precarious when it is re- Jones was passin.g through Beydges-street at the time
d Daniel Howard Ma or, an, Esq. one of the she thieks she might, in all, have taken about
a Liddell's Main 7.---. 31 (i Tanfield 'l`r d r 32. 3
against the Lurks, are worthy of but little atten- trogradinie But, in order to make this argument
. of heard of Mother II 's establishment
mentioned, and having . , y
thought he might as well look in and have an oyster.- Aldermen of the Borough. No less than 95 li glass and a half.-(A laug .) Old Walker----..... 35 0 Clark and Co.a Trader 36 0
Percy East------- 32 it Londonderry small .w-. 21 0
don. If war takes place, it needs no conjuror to Mr. Green-Then you got your share of the Pontop I,Vindsor---- 32 6 Russell's Hetton's small 20 0
any value, the comparison on which it is grounded \Val tl eview he knocked at the door, which was opened • f • '
tell us that troops must march from various quarters 1 I.la.
di,entrance,
in orrnatioi:hs under the 35th (Teo. 111. cap. 118, Tanfield Moor----- 53 0 Hetton,
ought unquestionably to be drawn from years at a. then •t
by Watson,atson who oppose ntrance, an • i . was seven noggins. Witness-I don't think I did- double-sceened 20 6
towards the seat of it ; and if it does not, why then ,- • - distance'for recovering the penalty of 20/. each, had been 't\c;i'i?.;cg}t'---on - -,t ',I. Hartle' --- 33 6
~.
another. Nothing
•onsiderable from one
these details, which are meant to be so imposing by be more untrue than to say, that commerce must ne- wlich, Herring and some watchmen came up. exhibited amunst Mr. Keele, a respectable brewer Barney Devitt (the same to whom the query of wY'arn
b
Maintain-- 32 0 ~'
Walls End Bell and Co. 38 0 Eden •
the " pomp and circumstance" of " chasseurs, his- cessarily be falling off, because it does not advance Mr. flas,s,s asked Watson what be Vas? of Titchfield, charging him with having on as " are not you ' Barney let the girls alone,' " was Dittonewieeeana co.- is 9 Main
7------. 35 6 •
b b ts am.-....-„„„ 36 OF
Inns, liorre artillery, and infantry," with " Adam of for one year, or even two : nor can it be said to be Watson.-I am a porter, your Worship, employed at many different days retailed beer at Portsea, insinuated by Counsel to have been put by the pro- Ditto
Wurtemburg," " Rosnucky," " Krasouski," and all desperate, because, for a year, or even two, it may the door to keep out disorderly and improper persons, and
without bainq duly licensed so to do. It appeared secutrix, and whose appearance, by the way, was pinto° (ardkae and Co. - I.(i. 0 Ditto Stewart'tsten--- V/ (tlt'.-.'
the other iskies, oskies, and out)kies, will just go slightly retrograde. We stated yesterday what we I also fetch coaches for gentlemen when they wish to return
in evidence,t'that 1 virtue ofthe 5 h Geo. IV )y - : 3(63 Russell's Hetton sW.E. 38 6. r
for nothing but so much wasted ink.-Times• are convinced is the real cause of the falling off the home.
for • cap. 54,, known, as the Retail Brewers' Act, Mr. question), .
new mounted the table amid peals of Ships at market, 171!2 _ships sold r
t ,--Unsold, 127%•
r ladies, too, I suppose," said Mr. HALLS. lauhter. Being sworn, hedeposed thathe too was
' -
------- Excise,-Tee--
namely, the 1 •
The talked-of changes of Ministers does not augurcertainly, your Worship," said Watson, "I am Keefe had, under the express sanction of the fileat , and oof course, in umn s public
funeral d • Q ' ' IRISH MARKETS. .
to suffer hi all cases of commercial embarrassment,DUßLlN MARKET NOTE.,-FRIDAY, Jan. 1 ••••'.
well. But the country is in ass awkward situation always obliging." Board of Excise, opened a shop at Portsca, for house-(a laugh)-where he saw Jew Ross and .
by reason of its debt. The Government expendi- and the last to recover when the embarrassment is Herring observed that Wratson appeared to be a quiet purpose re la alicense granted o un f
WiliCil l 1• d •
h 3 561 W
WI.C, ein eones an 111 e, an anot er gri , w ose ae „ heat, per barrel 20 stone'''. till To M.
P.
ture does not exceed twenty millions yearly, while over. But while we regret this as the principal man.
"1,30 u ...eye •••••••••••...r..........e. 16 stone 10 0 , ?..8 0 . 24 4,
14 0 12 14
did not know; the party were " keeping it 1,192 Bailey l6 stone 10 0 17 0 /3 94 the sum wanted. out of the taxation of the country cause that has depressed the Excise, it 'ought to be Dir. HALLS.-No doubt he is extremely fitted fig his by the collector or supervisor of the district. name he
• -) 10,:3.7iti Oats .14 stone 9 0 12 0 10
for the debt is thirty millions a-year. The taxation recollected, looking not to two years or three years, purpose, courteous and obliging-and strong-built also, to Mr. Missing, jun. conducted the prosecution, up," drinking away as hard as they could--(laughter •
„ - - i' 10,757 Cwt. Flour 9 stone S 0 29 0 _ 7,
but to the last six or seven,
that taxes to a large serve upon occasions like the present. He ought, however, and it was contended Ithe by Learned Counsel, Mrs. Ross was taking her share, as well as any other 223 Oatmeal. ll stone 10 0 16 0 11 436 altogether, including Iraland, amounts to about fifty- soar to Bakers only.
amount directly affecting this branch of the Re- to wear a large great-coat ornamented with old I W._ go._ .eler. It that inasmuch as the 7th section. of the sth Geo. in the company ;he (witness) had some converse-
five millions a- ear out of which twenty millions would grace the respectable establiehment to which he tion with her. 6,817 Cwt. Flour 14 0 22 0 15 4 •
have been taken off and that even had the IV. cap. 51, only empowered the officers of Average price of Wheat and Flour 40s. Od. per sack. are expended for the Government • thirty millions venue have , . belongs.
poor still possessed the same command over luxuries Counsel-Where was she sitting ? Witness- 'receipt 1 Fir5t5,'..,..,.,, from 20s. 0(1. to 228 Od .
for the debt • and five millions for the 'Sinking Fund. Jones was then ordered to find bail, and Herring directed Excise to grant a licence to such brewers as did. of Flour, 11,344 Seconds,
' as they did six years ago the Excise would, in all • She was sitting just alongside o'me on the table, Sales of Do. 10,73'7 .......... 0111. to 3. od.
fr 14s. Od lB , •
Altogether;in respect of the debt, there are thirty- to reduce his evidence to writing, in order to prefer a not reside zn a market-town, to retail beer in some Thirda,--.... from ss. Od. to lls. Od,
the same as lam sitting here now, your Worship. - ratez or'IIILEAD.
five millions a-year taken from the fifty-five millions probability, have been less productive. In the year second information against Mother H. adjoining market-town, that they had no autho- (L b)p dd 11. k Martin's boy,
aug ter. - a y Curraen, e ic Quartern Loaf, 4113..50z.-710. 1 lialttquartern.2lb..2oz.-3
%d•
raised by taxation. The King and his Ministers ending sth January, 1824, for instavce, to go back
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.-Yesterday Anthony to grant the licence in question to Mr. Keele, from Lusk, came over to me with it full quart i Bar- Wheat, Barley. pars. , FIG* peter„(
would, would, no doubt, like that there were 110 debt ; but t' •• deducting from it tl only five years, the xcise, the
Barnard alias Le Gendre, a Frenchman, who has been and that such licence would not protect him ney, sea he, wont you drink to me ? Yoh, Paddy, sea per barrel per barrel per barrel
20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone, e--177.4.-----N
Tobacco, Foreign Spirits, and Witte duties, which • 2d. ~
they do not know how to get rid of even a small in cus o y suite e ginning of November last, on a
t d • • the be • • against the penalties imposed on persons selling I, shore we have oshens of id here ourselves, fling
part of it, much less the whole. It is the debt are now included under the head of Customs,
char a
of • it.
chasge stealing tom the Gloucester Coffee-house, in s.d.as dsdas d s d.. atid c . d ----------
beer without being dub licensed, because Titcli•• big about as plenty as ditch water; thank you, Cork --.. 21 0-9.4 310 0-1.6 'i i) 0- . •a• as' •' d' as' d'
which puzzles both King and Ministers, and both amounted only to 171 millions. Since that Piccadilly, acheque for 800/. Jour 51. notes of the Bank ..1 ,
rho ,for Limerick 2•2 6-23 4 10 2- 00 8 i -.1 0
II 6 15 6-17 0 12 0-13 0
.6 • field, the place of his residence, was a market- - 914 6.-15 0
know that there is no virtue in the country to get of England, and other monies, the property of Francis 10 0 15 0-15 6 11 0-13 0
rid of the debt-the grand incubus, or log.-Morn- less than three or four millions •;-the Salt Joseph Laine, Esq., a native also of France, and who hap- town. Witnesses were then called to show that ka ho shead - Great laughter.)-Mrs. hter -Mrs cam 10-0-0012 0- 0 o
drunk g . ( g .) . Ross, ne -za , , 10 0- 00 12 0-16 0 0 0-0 0
who was planted alongside o' me, as I tould your 8e1fa5t.,.... 22 1)-23 912 0-14 0110-0 0 20 6-21 0 00- 0 0
it Herald. Tax alone was a millions and a half ; yet the pored to be sojourning at the Gloucester Coffee-house at formerly a market-house had stood in the centre
Worship before, on hi looked , Derry -00-0012 8- 0 0 11 1-12 900-00 0 0- 0 0
`his up at me, and wine- F.ariow- 20 024 010 0-15 0 80-9015 0- 0 0
difference between that year and the year just the same time with the prisoner, Wag brought before F. A. 0,
t Titchfield, and that there still was a market- o o- 00,
It was very generally reported yesterday in the expired is only a quarter of a million; so that, Roc, Esq., the magistrate, for final examination. rug to me, she ses, "Oh! ho ! she says, are not you _
i ralee- 0o- 0 0 00- 0 0 0 0-- 00 0 0- 0 0 0 0... 0 0'
''West End of the town that the Duke of Welling- durin-
g the last five h E • / ' years, t e Excise has rtsen, or, The part of the alleged offence which is expected to bring room, in which the fanners and inhabitants met , Barmy,
let the girls alone ;' " Yes, yes, says I, Beef, Mutton, Pork, • Butter.
ton, Lord Wellesley, anti Mr. Peel, were commanded in other words, the command of the people over ex- home guilt to the prisoner is confined to the circulation of every Saturday evening, at the Bugle Inn, al- I am, to be shure.' -(Laughter.)-She- said some-
to form a Ministry: The report is, we believe we ciseable goods Chas been augmented by several mil- one of the Si. notes, No. 16,644, dated the 18th of Sept., though, on cross-examination, it appears that the thing thin, which lam not going to tell you, bud d. ad. d. a d. s. d. as.d.a.d.s.d.S. d. s. d. s..d. '
may safely say, without the slightest foundation in 1827, and the difficulty of successfully tracing this note business of the meeting was to drink grog, and her sishter-in-law bid me not mind her •; she staid (arekerW: ::33 --- t 7. 221. g :-. (IR g:;4.5:43..3,558. 052 0
lions. The population has doubtless, increased
fact. It is, however, high time that an end were s,variety of hands from the Bank of -England,
through. a talk over the news of the week. about a quarter of an hour longer, still drink; .ng, Waterford 4- 6 1.1 - 6 '.e.9 0-33 076074 0- - 9 52.3 somewhat in the interval, mit not in any proportionionof the • and
where it was stopped, to the possess . e prisoner, . lonmel 3- 4 3 -41 0 0-. 0076074 0 70 66 50 0
P to a state of things which can only be produc- to the Revenue derived from its luxuries. Another vice Mr. JAMES H
versa, has added greatly to the delay in investigating . .osxnis then addressed the ma- when she walked out, but turned about at the door, C
Belfast ........ 4. -Si 0 - 0 00- 0 0132 0800 59 49 - 0
tire of the worst consequences. The uncertainty and winked at me again.-(lmmense laughter.) •, Derry 6-06 - 0 00-'OO-0-0 :.-0...- 0
proof, of even a less doubtful kind, may be found this case. gistrates, and having commented severely on the • 4- 5 5 6 0- 0
in which men now are, with respect to the future, in the amount of duty paid on those exciseable ar- The evidence as taken respecting this note ab previous
vindictive conduct of the individual by whom Cross-examined-Counsel-Tell me, are not you Carlow ,- 23 088081074 61 0 - 0
Tralee - 0 00- 0 0 80.0 74 0 55 046 0
is riot calculated to strengthen the preparations for tides which the middlin • d loiterorderschiefly • • yesterday', was this-That the prisoner • •
g an examinations up to y those informations had been laid contended that always called " Barney let the girls alone ?" Wit-
KILKENNY MARKET, Jan. 3.-Butter, 853. to 87s.
the approaching struggle.-Mototing, Chronicle. use. During the same interval we shall find an im. while lodging at the Gate-house tavern at Highgate, gave L.. ... . .. , ness-Not always, its a bad mine I think.
The courier observes, "In the Post-office Rere- provement in all of these. The Malt Duty, in round a Si- note of the Bank of England to the waiter, in pay- his client did not come within the meaning of
b Counsel-13ut would not you answer it ? Wit- 28s. to 3s. • •
per cwt. ; Bacon Pigs, 0 per ditto, Wheat,
20s. to 255. per barrel ; Barley, 9s. to 14s. ; Oats, Sc. to
_ nue there is a falling off, and this has been alluded hundreds of thousand pounds, during the four years ment of his bill ; that the waiter paid the same note to the 35th Geo. 111., that the licence granted to him ness-Likely enough I might, if I could get no 9e. ' Flour, 11s. to 30s. per bag; Beef and Mutton, Sd.
Mrs. Rogers, the landlady; that the landlady handed it by the officers of Excise was a sufficient rotes- other; when she winked at him at the door, he
to by some of our contemporaries, as proving that preceding 1827-the tables for that year are not yet
over to Miss Rogers, her daughter; that the latter paid it •
the industrious classes are -less actively engaged than published-was as follows :-tion against the penalties sought to be recovered, minded it, and spoke of going home; on going Is. 2d. per cwt.
to Mr. Atkins, a butcher; and that Mr. Atkins gave it to
heretofore. This reasonine• we hold to be unsound. 1823
egn,rornur Rl' A R 'vivre

The Courier observes, " In the Post-office Reve-
nue there is a falling off, and this has been alluded
to by some of our contemporaries, as proving that
the industricus classes are less actively engaged than
heretofore. This reasoning we hold to be unsound.
A year of very extraordinary calamity would be very
likely to swell the Post-office Returns, from the ex-
tensive correspondence inseparable from great fai-
lures, and other events connected with such a period
of distress too obvious to be insisted on." The in-
creasing prosperity of the year which has just ended
accounts for the decrease in the Post-office Revenue
of 111,0001. as compared with the preceding year.
But how, on this principle, are we to account for
the year ended sth January, 1826, being higher
than that ended sth January, 1827 ? The year
ended sth January, 1826, was 1,517,0001., while
the year ended sth January, 1827, was 1,496,000/.
There ought to have been, at this rate, more bank-
ruptcies in the year ended sth January, 1826, than
in the year ended sth January, 1827. We are in-
formed, however, that the real cause of the appa-
rent deficit in the Post-office is something very dif-
ferent from what either of us have assigned--
namely, the extent of the payments towards the
new

The Allied Ambassadors, according to all accounts
left Constantinople without let or hindrance from
the Government of the Porte. The result is as vet
in the womb of time. But it is not unworthy of
remark, that the Russian Ambassador should have
left the seat of Negociation before the French or
English Agents ; and as the Russian had a deeper
card to play, he has availed himself of the indulgence
of the latter, in order no doubt to give his Government
the earliest notice of the issue. This was however
to be expected. We have never gone out of the
way to charge any European Po o'er with ambitious
or tyrannical projects ; but we have undeviatingly
entered our protest against the romantic crusade
into which a liberal Government has pledged them.
Their situation, to say the least of it, is awkward
and dangerous in the extreme : and yet we have so
much good faith in the connnon sense and prudence
of the English people that we are not hastily indu-
ced to believe they will sanction the derider resort
without a paramount necessity. But then, every body
asks, what are we to do ? To keep up an expensive
naval armament—to quarter the idle troops now in
Lisbon between Gibraltar, the lonian Islands, and
Malta, to meet the casualties in the Levant ? To
this demand no satisfactory answer can be given—
because we have only a provisional Government.
Now, if there be one greater evil than another, it is
that of having no fixed Government to whom we
ran appeal for a redress of grievances—or of whom
we can make complaint in the event of their mis-
management of our affairs. This truth is admitted
upon all hands ; but the misfortune is, that while
we are advancing our naval and military prowess,
there are many who forget the principles upon
which alone we should be justified in embroiling our-
selves in the quarrels of other people. There is no
European State at present enabled to go to war—
at least successfully. Russia is overgrown—France
is on the eve of disorganization—England is
overloaded with debt and taxes; and so far a
general or continued war cannot be contemplated.

1824
In Home-distilled Spirits and in Beer the pro-
gress, though not so marked, is yet perceptible; and
it ought to be recollected that the duties on Spirits
have been immensely reduced in the interval. They
were as follows :

Spirits. Beer.
1823 . .. . 274-
1824 ...
1825 ... 2B
35 -
1826
The precise amount of duties on these three articles,
for the year 1827, we have said we cannot state,
but it must very considerably exceed that of 1823.
Again—the total revenue of the year 1823, deduct-
ing the repayment of the Austrian Lean, was 48i
millions, very nearly, while that of 1827 was no
mere than 463. The reduction of taxes of various
kinds, and in all the branches of the Revenue, dur-
ing those five years, cannot be less than five mil-
lions, so that, though there be a falling off, it arises
not from the falling off of the taxes, which have not
even been stationary, but progressive, during that
period. The item of duty on foreign grain has been
most ridiculously over-rated; a large quantity of
oats was admitted at a nominal duty, and a large
quantity at a very small duty. We said that the
state of the Revenue was of a very consolatory na-
ture, and we repeat the observation. It has been
generally so considered by all classes. That it would
have been a much pleasanter thing had it been some
three or four millions more, is very true; it would
be a very pleasant thing were every man's income
increased in a similar proportion ; but the nation, as
well as individuals, must ascend to prosperity by
degrees, and derive content, in the meanwhile, from
the consideration that the way is not so narrow nor
so steep as to shut out the hope of success to those
who climb assiduously and patiently.—New Times.

The evidence as taken respecting this note at previous
examinations up to yesterday, was this—That the prisoner
while lodging at the Gate-house tavern at Highgate, gave
a 5/. note of the Bank of England to the waiter, in pay-
ment of his bill ; that the waiter paid the same note to
Mrs. Rogers, the landlady; that the landlady handed it
over to Miss Rogers, her ;laughter ; that the latter paid it
to Mr. Atkins, a butcher; and that Mr. Atkins gave it to
Isis nephew to take into the city ; but not one of these wit-
nesses had ever marked the note, or knew either its number
or date, but all swore positively to the transfer of the same
note from each to the other, commencing with the waiter,
who had it direct from the prisoner. In this state was
the evidence yesterday, when the prisoner was placed at
the bar, and the first witness called was James Atkins, the
nephew of the last witness of the same name. He deposed,
that on the 22d of November last, lie received from his
uncle a Si. note, with other monies, which, by direction,
be took to the house of Mr. Chapman, a stock-broker, at
Crouch-end, Hornsey ; and Mr. Chapman not being at
home, he paid the same money as he had received to Henry
Browne, Mr. Chapman's gardener.
Henry Browne on the same evening paid to Mr. Chap-
man, on his return home, the Si. note, &c. so received
from Atkins.

A boat laden with oats, from Achill to West-
port, foundered during the severe gales on Saturday. Of
the crew, consisting o nine men, four perished before any
assistance could be rendered them.—Dublin Freeman's
Journal.

T. Chapman, stockbroker, deposed, that the last witness
paid him a 5/. note and other monies, amounting to 24/.
145., on the 22d of last November, and that the 5/. he so
received lie paid the next day with others of larger amount,
but none besides of the same, to Samuel Tomkins, jun. a
clerk in the banking-house of Messrs. Willis and Co. in
Lombard-street, to be placed to his account there.
Samuel Tomkins, jun. on the day named by Mr. Chap-
man, received of that gentleman a 5/. note and other
monies, which he, the witness, handed over as he received
them to his father, Samuel Tomkins, sen., who is also a
clerk in the same bank. This witness said, that his father
who was to have attended to prove the next step of this
note (ruin Willis's bank to the Bank of England, was pre-
vented from coming to the office by his being obliged to at-
tend that day on a trial to which he was subpoenaed at
Guildhall in the city. .

Mr. JAMES Hosxilis then addressed the ma-
gistrates, and having commented severely on the
vindictive conduct of the individual by whom
those informations had been laid, contended that
his client did not come within the meaning of
the 35th Geo. 111., that the licence granted to him
by the officers of Excise was a sufficient protec-
tion against the penalties sought to be recovered,
and that Titchfield was riot a market-town within
the meaning of the sth George IV. Whilst pro-
ceeding with his remarks, the defendant's solicitor
was stopped by the magistrates, who told him
they would not trouble him further, as they con-
sidered there was no sufficient proof adduced by
the prosecutor to show that Titchfield was a
market-town, and they therefore acquitted the de-
fendant. Mr. Hoskins then applied for costs on
behalf of the defendant, against the informer,
which was resisted by Mr. Missing, upon which
a long argument ensued, but at length the magis-
trates gave 101. costs in favour of the defendant.
Our respected Members for the county have
signified, as those for the borough had previously
done, in most gratifying terms, their entire ap-
Iproval of the object of the recently formed As-
sociation for superseding climbing-boys in sweep-
ing chimnies in these towns and neighbourhood,
and that they most cordially approve of their
names appearing as patrons to the Institution,
they being most desirous of promoting its bene-
volent object. Mr. Fleming expresses a desire
that similar associations might be formed in
every town throughout the county. We are in-
formed that several of the improved apparatus,
by Joseph Glass, have been ordered by the
Portsmouth and Portsea Committee, which, with
those of Smart's, already in the towns, will place
a sufficient number within the reach of the
master chimney-sweepers, to provide themselves
with for present use. This improved apparatus
of Glass's has been recently tried, with success,
in the flues of the King's new palace, under the
direction of Mr. Heart, the architect—his Ma-
jesty having been pleased to express his Royal
command that no flue in the building should
be so constructed as to require a child to sweep
it. Within the last few months Glass has clean-
sed 818 flues in London, by mechanical means
only, 70 of which were in buildings under the
Board of Excise. An apprentice of Mr. Glass
was last week sent, with his improved apparatus,
to Cheltenham, at the request of the committee
in that town. At Birmingham,
where a man
instructed by Glass had been for some months,
most complete success has attended the exertions
of the committee there. In a few months 715
flues were cleansed without meeting with more
than three in which difficulties occurred that
could not be surmounted, and these, it must be
observed, were of the most dangerous kind for
boys. The employment of climbing boys in the
buildings of our Dock-yard has been prohibited.
Machines are constructed for the exclusive use
of that establishment; the boys formerly em-
ployed as climbers are to be trained to the use
of the machines.

His father, he said, had taken counsel's opinion as to
whether he was to give the preference in his attendance
to the summons of the Magistrate here, or the subpcena of
the higher tribunal, and the opinion was in favour of Guild-
hall, and there he accordingly went.
Mr. RoE said there was no necessity at all for Mr. Tom_
kins, senior, going to the trouble and expense of taking
counsel's opinion on the subject, for the thing was quite
clear that a witness must attend on a trial rather than an
initiatory proceeding; but as Mr. Tomkins was the last
link of the chain to prove the receipt of the note front his
son, and the payment of the same note to the clerk of the
Bank of England, his evidence could be taken that evening
if be came to the office, or if not, on Wednesday next.
Watkin Jones, a clerk in the Accountant's office in the
Bank of England, deposed from his book, which he pro-
duced, that the 5/.0
was paid 0 heheldin
in to himhand,his on
No. 16,644,
the
24th
dated Sept. IS, 1827,
November last from the banking-house of Messrs. %His
and Co.
The note thus far disposed of, evidence was next gone
into to show the same note in the possession of Mr. Lame,
the prosecutor.
Robert Hoar, a clerk in the banking-house of Messrs.
Stevenson and Salt, in Lombard-street, on the 12th Nor.
last, paid to Mr. John Salt four 51. notes of the Bank of
England, one of which was No. 16,644, duted September
18, 1827, to be given to Mr. Laine, who was in another
room at the Bank..
John Salt is not a partner in the Bank, but is the son of
Mr. Salt, one of the firm of Stevenson and Co., and on the
day named by the last witness he received of the latter four
51. notes of the Bank of England for the use of Mr. Leine,
which he immediately paid over to that gentleman in an
adjoining room.
This being the whole of the evidence; the witnesses were

Counsel—Where was she sitting ? Witness—
She was sitting just alongside o'me on the table,
the same as I am sitting here now, your Worship.
(Laughter.)—Paddy Curraen, Mick Martin's boy,
from Lusk, came over to me with a full quart • Bar-
ney, scs he, wont you drink to me ? Yoh, Paddy, ses
I, share we have ()shells of id here ourselves, fling-
ing about as plenty as ditch water; thank you,
tho', for ask in, I'm as much ableccht to you as if I
drunk a hogshead.—(Great laughter.)—Mrs. Ross,
who was planted alongside o' me, as I tould your
Worship before, on this looked up at me, and wink-
ing to me, she ses, " Oh ! ho ! she says, are not you
Barney, let the girls alone ;' " Yes, yes, says I,
I am, to be shure. —(Laughter.)—She- said some-
thing thin, which I am not going to tell you, bud
her sishter-in-law bid me not mind her; she staid
about a quarter of an hour longer, still drinking,
when she walked out, but turned about at the door,
and winked at me again.—(Immense laughter.)
Cross-examined—Counsel—Tell me, are not you
always called " Barney let the girls alone ?" Wit-
ness—Not always, its a bad name I think.
Counsel---lint would not you answer it ? Wit-
ness—Likely enough I might, if I could get no
other; when she winked at him at the door, he
minded it, and spoke of going home; on going
home he cached the boys on the road—he came
upon them.
Counsel—Did you tell them any thing? Wit-
ness—Nothing only the pear capers I seen by this
woman.

Wheat.

lOatnieal.

Aberdeen 21 32
Berwick.-- 28 33
Coldstream 34 37
Cupar 24 31
Dundee..---. 24 32
25 27
Inverness—.... 28 30
Kelso 30 34
Kirkaldy--- 27 32
Perth 20 32
it Berwick, Coklstrea
price is given per quarter
Oatmeal., which is per sai

On Thursday sc'nnight, a poor Woman going
to gather sticks in a wood belonging to J. H. Moo-
GuinGE, Esq. in the parish of Machan, Monmouthshire,
about SO yards out of the path which leads from Pont-
. mister Iron Works towards Machon Village, stumbled on
the mutilated remains of a human body. Terrified at the
shocking spectacle, she hastened to call the tenant of the
adjoining farm, and on returning to the spot, the corpse of
a man was discovered on the ground, mangled in the most
horrible manner—the features totally obliterated, and the
flesh nearly all torn Irvin the hody--and a small portion
only of a coarse jacket remained. The alarm being given
in the neighbourhood, a further search at some distance
front the body was made, and a pair of shoes was found
hearing marks of a very peculiar kind, which, together
with the remains of the jacket, will lead to
it is probable
the identifying of the body, and to the discovery of the
perpetrator of the horrid deed. The most diligent inqui-
ries are making for the purpose of bringing to light the
Particulars of this mysterious and tragical affair.—Herc-
ford Independent.

Counsel—What do you mean by queer capers ?
Witness—Whenever a woman winks at me, I think
that's a queer caper—(Laughter.)
Counsel—ls a wink all you understand for queer
capers ? Witness—That's all.
Counsel—With which eye did she wink at you ?
Witness—l do not know with which; but shure
am I it was with one eye.
Counsel—And you said nothing of the matter
but to Paddy Curran and Bryan Doherty ? Wit-
ness—No; but Bryan Doyle was listening to me
telling them—(Laughter.)
Counsel—Did any other woman ever wink at
you before ? The witness smiled, shook his head,
looked knowingly, and was silent.
Mr. KEATINGE—I believe, my Lords, that the wit-
ness is not bound to criminate himself. _

Counsel—Upon your oath, when had you last a
conversation with any person about this ? The wit-
ness replied by shrugging his shoulders, and looking
towards the crowd in the body of the Court with a
significant grin.
Counsel—At whom do you laugh ? Witness—At
the whole of them.—(Laughter.)
Counsel—Name one of them ? Witness—l see
none of them now.

Counsel—Come, on your oath tell me who it was
you were speaking to in Court ? Witness—Well it
was only to a girl.—(Laughter.)
Counsel—Name her ? Witness—lt was to Anne
111`Cann.
Counsel—And were you talking with her ? Wit-
ness—l was.
Counsel—What were you saying to her about
this ?—Witness. Oh I said nothing at all to her
about this.—(Great laughter.)
Counsel—You may go down.
Evidence was then called, who deposed to the
traverser being a young man of excellent
wh character.
The LEARNED JUDGE summed up, en the
Jury acquitted the prisoner, who was forthwith dis-
charged.

On the night of Friday, the 21st ult. the sloop
Cambria, of Carmarthen, was upset in Loughor river, and
the master (DAVID OwErt) and the mate were unfortunately
drowned. It appears, that the vessel, without any pilot
on board, had arrived at Spitty Qaay on the night preced-
ing the accident, and that the master had moored her, if
not improperly, at least incautiously, with
th
flood tide, and in such a position that the tide took the ves-
sel on the quarter, so causing her to sheer off from the quay,
i her stern to the
and as the tide was one of the highest, and consequently the
most rapid, which had occurred for several years, 0: con-
sequence was, that when taken by the flood tide, the vessel
broke from her moorings and drifted before the stream, un-
til she struck on a sand-hank above Spitty, where she at
once upset, and her crew, consisting only of the cap-
tain and mate, were, as before stated, drowned.--The ves-
sel is now in the sand, but it expected that on the Gext high
spring tide, she may be raised,—.Cambrian.

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