The Sun.
London, England, 1826-10-17 00:00:00

HOP INTELLIGENCE.

BOROUGH, OCT. 16.--Owing
Volnviitiolf
Currency
oluirapne:airrkeittilliscas
Raldiavearnaebedic lefevuelra:mdiii,kialltf:igsa for
shortal dstocupprilly}:
to the Fair at Weybill iinhohing
Lags 650. to 88, ; Sussex pockets Os. to 76a. Doty called
as "der :**Ktlit P°C•ket* frt" 78s. to 100.. ; dicta
286,000/. ~,,,' ' ' '
ALAIDSTONR, Or. 1e...--iniA day we unaerstand inishes the
hop-picking in this neighbourhood, and we van safely add of a
produce far exceeding what was eippetted. The very low prices
which the necessitoue planters have beta compelled to submit to,
appear to hare had the effect of bringing tie buyer. more into the
market. ;tinny sales have been made within thew.few day,, and
our planters anticipate, at our Fair oat Tittsribry, much higher
priced and a great deal of Liminess.
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HAY MARKETS.—(Titis DAT.)
( At ptr Load of 36 'll'utsies.)
ST. JAMES'S.

lowland Meadow flay .fl sto 4 5 Clortr Hay ..... te s 6
Upland INtto ............ 4 6 4 1 Oat Straw . lll 1 10
Rya-grass Ilay ...... 4 6 i 1 Wheat Ditto llO 11$
New Meadow Nay 4 0 S 0
Supply moderately good, Ira a dull, and priewritationary,

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SMITHFIRLD..
Lowlund Meadow Ifity.o oto 4 0 aorta Huirel'4l7 AI4 10 le 6 0
upland Ditto
Ityo.tr_ass Hay._ .... 4 0 4 0 Oat Straw
New Meadow Huy ....:4 16 4IS Whoa Ditto llO I gt
Sootily short- and ttad*ltsttkur brifik, *t SatUrtiAlie reitout.

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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC 30171 NAL S.

A Meeting oCtand per ins was held at Huntingdon
on Saturday 'last, to petition Parliament against letting
the people have bread from any other corn but that of
their o,nss growing, and at their own price. This as-
semialage called a " spiiit from the vasty deep." The
B.egistrar of the Bedford Level made his appearance t
le conjured, but could net lay the storm. Thus a
preparative for an attack on the new Parliameut has
been made. The resolutions,_ though brief, are of un-
usual absurdity. The first, for example, showeth that
" the petitioners have invested large sumas of money in
the purchase and occupation of land." How did they
get these large sums of money to: invest ? From,- the
. land clearly, for that has been their line. Laudholth.
ing, then, and landlording, must
,have been pretty hi-
crative concerns, notwithstanding the clamours of
persons engaged in them. We can recollect, indeed,
when farming was so profitable,. that landlords of all
descriptions, dolta that had hardly sense to ride after a
pack of dogs, and not..sufficieet to get a degree gat the
Universities, suddenly commenced farming, and wrote
books aboutfarming, and took a great quantity of land,
into their -own hands. Then commenced the ruin ul
the true, old, homely, frugal British tinsuers. Few
such exist now. An extravagant system of agriculture
was introduced ; and men out of this very, class, who
now petition Parliament, were found capable of swearing
before Parliamentary committees that the farmer could
not live out of his tlinnwith wheat at 605., though be were
to pay no rent and no tithes ; rates, taxes,' and labour,
they averred, consuming the whole. Then was the
time also, when the British labourer began to be de-
graded into a pauper, being sent to the pariah for half
his wage's But we have to notice—and this is not
the last time that we shall mention the subject—that
a curious debate sprung up at this meeting resperting
tithes, whether they should be publicly shown up in
the petition as a grievance ; and after some shuffling,
they were omitted. But this, Gentlemen Agricultu-
rists, we know is what you are aiming at. You would
deprive the poor of bread, and' the whole country of
religious instruction. We are surprised to see the
Clergy lend themselves to such meetings ; without
whom, probably, there would not, in most cases, be
sense enough among the Country Gentlemen to draw
up a resolution. However, destroy tithes if you will,
or if you dare. But begin with those tithes that arc
most unjustly paid to laymen for no one duty what,.
ever. The labourer is worthy of his hire. But what
are these drones? They do nothing but commit
plunder. Let the Legislature then dissolve lay-imprO-
priatiows, reserving only an adequate stipend for the
officiating clergyman. We hope that no petition will
be presented to Parliament against foreign corn, with-
out a strict inquiry being immediately instituted,
whether that petition has been signed, or the meeting
from which it it emanated been attended, by any lay-
impropriator of great or small tithes. We hope also,
as an attempt is now made, or about to be made, to
destroy our commerce and manufactures, that the
tables of Parliament will be loaded with petitions
against lay-impropriations. They are the curse of the
Church and of the nations-Times.
Though we should be sorry to see any thing doue
which should have even the appearance of legalising
or in any degree sanctioning the depraved spirit of
gambling which has of late years aeysired so formi-
der& an ascendancy among us, we should not be sorry
if some steps were taken by Parliament to make it,
wherever it exists, in some way or other contributory
to the coffer's of the State. 'Had, for instance, the
shares, the dealings, and the transfers, in the late
bubble speculations, been all subject to a stamp duty,
a considerable revenue would have been derived from
them ; and we can perceive no valid reason that if the
person who borrows 1001. of another upon bond, or
who sells his shares in a fire-office, is subject in such
case to a heavy tax, why the Bonds of the Spanish
Cortes, or of the Colombian or Mexican Govern.
ments--or why Isaac Dickson's bits of paper, or the
many other pretty pictures with which the gullibility
of John Bull has been first tickled and then hooked,
should not have been subject to similar itnposts; or
why steps should not now be taken to catch such
of them as may be mill afloat. It is the practice
of our French neighbours to render this vice
(though they hardly think it one) coutributory to
the State ; but among us, the only direct mode in
whist) gaming is brought in aid of the public finan-
ces, is in a trifling tax upon cards and dice, which,
though carried perhaps as far as it will go in that
shape, produces very little, and bears no sort 01
proportion to the magnitude of the stakes which'
they are made to decide. Whether a method 'nigh
not be devised to tax not only gaming tables of al
descriptions, hut the players at them, is what we are
slot at earm prepared to say ; but at any rate the
principle, according to some of our present heads of
taxation, seems unexceptionable; for if the man whc
pursues the manly sports of the field, or who has his
crest engrave') upon his seal or spoons, or if the man
who sells those spoons, cannot do one or the other
without paying a tax to the State, there seems to be no
reason why the billiard and the card player, the pro-
fessor of rouge et noir, of hazard, and blind hookey,
"should not be also compelled to take out a licence,
and that a pretty thurnping one, for the pursuit of
that which is, in most cases, in him, not merely an
amusement but a trade. But it is the great gaming
shop in Bartholomew-lane which, above all others, we
should like to are made contributory to the State.—
cre we have the public debt and finances themselves
made the source of constant speculation mid fraud ;
here stints are daily and hourly lost and won to an ex-
tent which would well admit of aotne part of the plun-
der, at least, finding its way into the public treasury ;
but it will be said that nine-tenths of these trams
actions are illegal, and that to tax them would
be to recognise them. Here we are aware lies
the difficulty ; but though great, it may not turn
out to be insuperable. At an early period of the late
war, we remember, it was proposed that a tax, in the
nature of a stamp duty, should be laid upon every
transfer of stock. This was at the time objected to,
on the ground of its being a direct tax upon the
Funds. At a subsequent period, however, came the
Property Tax, which soon set that objection at rest,
and with a vengeance. But a stronger objection, we
think, at present, would be, that a tax on transfers
'would only reach hone fide transactions, while the
gambling ones, which we most wish to reach, would
!Neaps. An ad eglorent duty upon the brokers note,
perhaps, would remedy this. A Plan to effect this
object mat, we know, be ingenious, and so contrived,
as, if pOssible, to defeat the crafty evasions with which
• it would be met ; for, of course, those who live
cheating and plundering one another, are not very nice
in practising ghtuilar measures towards the State. We
are not, however, without a confident impresaion that
a Tiab of the kiint might be Wit upon,•by means; of
whop the vices of the worst part of the community
might he made to lessen the public burdens upon the

more reputable irni dest tokkg dart of sowly4 the
etratavour would, at least, be laudable, and worth the
trial. To increase taxation is not our object ; but to
check, and in some Measure harass, disgraceful pur-
suits, and to open a door for the remission of some of
the most onerous of the public burdens, by the substi-
on
, ,
tutianother, against which no one would'ven-
of
titre to complain.—Morning Herald.
We have been favoured with an early copy of The
Edinburgh ReviEtv, No. 88, which contains a laboured
and masterly article on the Corn 'Laws--a subject of
paramount interest at the present moment. Before
adverting to the arguments of the Reviewer, h favour
of a freedom of trade in Corn, we shall notice the con-
cluding portion of his article, which relates to the
taxes or burdens which. affect the cultivation of the
soil. As great stress is laid on the heavy taxation of
this country by the advocates of the:Restrictive System,
it is of infinite consequence that correct ideas should
be entetained on this point.- With respect to, general
taxation, it has always been allowed, by economists,
that it afforded no ground for peculiar protection to
the .Agriculturists ; but the 'Reviewer has shewn that
thu claim of the latter to protection has hitherto been
allowed "for particular burdens which really do not
affect thtm.
tit With respect," flays The Reviewer, " to those taxes
or burdens which affect the cultivators of the soil, or the
prodbcf,:rs of 'eerie they may be exceedingly heavy without
entitling theta to a prohibition from foreign competition.
It must be remembered that all imported corn must be
paid for, either !Tweedy or indirectly, by the exportation of
some epeties of manufactured Odds: And it is clear, on
the first blush of the matter, that the home producers of
corn have not the semblance of a claim to a protecting
duty on the importation of foreign corn, unless they can
show, that the taxes or public charges, affecting raw pro-
duce, exceed those which fall on manufactured goods.—
We are no apologists for heavy taxation ; hut however
oppressive it may be—though it were to abstract a fourth
or a third part of the income of every individual—still, if
it affected them all equally, it would leave the relative
velure of the commodities produced by them exactly where
it•found their t arid if it did this, it is clear to demonstra-
tion that it could not render any particular class less able
than the other's to withstand the unfettered competition of
foreigners, and could not, therefore, entitle them to a pro-
tecting
duty,"
The general taxation being disposed of, the Reviewer
proceeds to the consideration of the taxes peculiarly
affecting land t and here it appears to us that he has
arrived at a most important conclusion with respect to
one burden which has generally been supposed to fall
on ' agrieulture. Having estimated the taxes on the
pressure of which the agriculturists found their claim
to a protecting duty, as tithe, land tax, poor rates, and
other county rates, at about thirteen millions in all, he
then observes, that on examination it will be found that
by far the largest proportion of this sum has invariably
been paid out of rent, and that it has really no more to
do with the cost of producing corn, than the taxes laid
on tobacco or nutmegs. With respect to tithes, it has
been argued, that if the ports were now to be opened
for the importation of foreign corn free of duty, the
cultivators, unable, by limiting the supply, to raise
prices, would relinquish the tillage of bad land, whiCh
would have the effect to reduce the rent of the Land-
lords, and to throw a burden wholly on them that has
hitherto been borne by all classes.
" Although (says the Reviewer) the principle advanced
by Mr. 'Leavitt holds under the circumstances he has sup-
posed; it is essential to observe, that these era not the cir-
cumstances under which the Agriculturists of Great Bri-
tain are or ever have been placed.—So far, indeed, is it
from being true that all or nearly all our lands are affected
by the burden of tithes, that it. appears that about.a third
part of the land of England and Wales is exempted from
it, exclusive Of considerable tracts in Ireland, and of the
whole of Scotland ! And such being the ease, it is quite
idle to suppose that the cultivators of the tithed lands have
had any power an to narrow the supply of Corn brought
to market as to throw any considerable portion of the bur-
den of tidies on the consumers. DWI the extent of tithe-
free land been inconsiderable, they might have thrown the
greeter part of it upon them ; but when they have had to
conic into competition not with a few, but with a third of
the cultivators of England, and all those of Scotland, it is
obvious that the price of corn must have been ref ulatedby
the price for which it can be raised on the last lands culti-
vated that are free from tithe, and not for what it could
be raised for on the last lands cultivated that are sub-
ject to that charge. It appears, therefore, that if the
whole land of the Empire. had been subject to tithes, the
proposition advanced by Mr. Ricardo, that tithes do not fall
on rent, would, under the existing , restraints on importa-
tion, have been strictly true. Inasmuch, however, as this
is not our situation-,-as a very large proportion of our
land are not subject to tithes, and the cultivators of the
tithed lands arc, iii Consequence, without the means of
limiting the supply and raising prices—the proposition ad-
vanced by Dr. Smith, that tithes constitute fi portion of
the rent of the lend, and that their' payment has no effect
on the price of corn, is most certainly correct. Neither, it
is to be observed, is this a burden recently imposed upon
landlords. Tidies have existed for a thousand years ; and
having been constantly paid out of rent, it is clear to de-
monstration, on the principle previously laid down, that
this landlords,cannot urge the existence of this burden as a
reason why it corresponding duty should be laid on foreign
corn imported. Tithes forma portion of the rental of the
country appropriated by the State, to whom they really
belong,,to the support of the Church. And though they
may be, and we believe with Dr. Paley, really die, a most
noxious institution, they arc in no respect more injurious to
the landlords than to any other class of the community."
From our great respect for the Church, to which its
temporalities must always be the principal considera-
tion, we rejoice to find it so satisfactorily demonstrated
that tithes are only a diminution of the tent which
would otherwise be paid to the 'landlords, and not a tax
on the community at large: This proposition of the
Edinburgh Review ought to endear Scotchmett for
chveelrintilth,elteishiNmvrocithli,Eisntatthilliisshinniocinitesv.owforEBl:rplia)iii,tilg acid
tion, all the pastoral charges which
ed by all the Bishops of England tl d
tese min re years.
have been publish-
.
1 have all time benefit of it
as the consideration that t.tey
Nothing will so touch endear the Church to all classes
121 erer ltibuerdoelnlisy,
and shows that of all of them po .
for nothing. The Reviewer analyoserseS
duty
petty ; but that the _
which the agricu
triaieteost
tea are
one which presses heavier on land than nn other pray
be very wall in-
liarly affected by poor 's rates, I
entitled to claim on the ground of their being
,all
the side of too
bream. However, wishing to err o
indeed, perhaps not more than one per opt. ad va-
ten or twelve per cent.
object to its being as high as
much protection rather than of too little, be would not
orted into
price at which Foreign Wheat •might be " We have already seen
;Si" to ri•rrs, a
Eegland, in ordinary years, would- be from Pi.
in order
(he says), that the average
quarter; and we would therefore beg to
to get rid of the trickery and fraud insepant ble from the
suggest,
average system, that the ad valorem duty of
• or as. a
cent. should be converted into a fixed duty of be.
er
quarter on Wheat;, other grain in proportiOnll (is. 10 or 12 per
being at the same time granted to the Privy Connell
suspend the duty whenever prices in the London arket
exceed Os. or 'Ns. SO- high a duty would 'undoubtedly
be much, too favourable to the Landlords. Bet the vest
advantages that would result - from the freedom -of the
Corn Trade, and the total abolition of all restrictions ant

fetters Mt itilplirliititlri ought to idutie the public to waive,
all objections to its imposition. -
From the length of our notice of the part of the. Re-
venue relating to the extent of protection to which the
Agriculturists are entitled, we have left ourselves
little space for the preceding part, in which he enters
into a 'variety of statements respecting the consump,
tion of the people of England—the quantity of Corn
which we can import from other countries—and
the extent of the loss we sustain, from the monopoly.
The practical and real operation of the monstrous sys-
tem of the emit Laws, the Reviewer contehds, is, that
" Alternately
,prodtictive of famine and excess, it is
equally ruinous to the agricultural, manufactnring, and
commercial c4o4Sei; ; and, if riot put down, it will Most
probably eiid by destroying the eapital of the country,, and
by sinking all classes, high as well as low, below the level
of what was originally lowest."
In order to ascertain the extent of the loss sustained
by the nation from the monopoly, estimating our con-,
sumption at 48 millions of quarters, and supposing
that with a duty of ss. or 65., the average price of
wheat would not exceed b3s., he says—
" It is an iticontrovertible proposition, that every addl.!
tional shilling added to the price of the 48 millions of
quarters, by means of the prohibition against importation,
is really equivalent in its effects on the consumer to a tax
of 2,400,0004 laid directly on corn. And estimating the
difference between the average price of all sorts of grain
for the last eight or ten years, and its average price, were
the ports thrown open, at Ss. a quarter, this would make
a total aggregate loss to the consumer of not less than
nineteen millions seven hundred thousand pounds sterling
a year.;'
But of every five hundred thousand pounds so
drawn from the pockets of the consumers, scarcely
one hundred thousand finds its way into the pockets
of the Landlords. The rest is pure loss. He takes
the rent at one fourth of the produce, and it is only,
therefore, one fourth part of the additional price caused
by restrictions that falls to the share of the Landlord.
But it is not the fourth part of the produce which is
alone raised—the other three fourths which are partly
cast into the soil as seed, and partly consumed by the
men, horses, anti oxen employed by the farmer, are
also raised. This rise is in absolute and total loss.
" Instead then of its being true, as has sometimes been
alleged, that the Corn Laws assist in enabling the country
to make good the taxes necessary to pay the interest of
the National Debt and tke expenses of the Peace Este-
blislunent, it is obvious that they form of themselves by
far the greatest of all the burdens we have to sustain. The
Corn Laws do not, like an ordinary tax, transfer wealth
from one portion of the public to another; but on the most
moderate estimate, they occasion a positive destruction -:-a
dead annual loss to the public of not less than Fourteen or
ifteen Millions."—Morning Chronicle.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.—The business of Billingsgate-market ii
likely to be regulated in such a manner as to render much service
W the public of the metropolis. Mr. GoWham, one of the Cor.
poration, has been appointed clerk of the market. This gentle..
man has been for some years master of the ceremonies at the Man.
sion-house and whether or not it was there he became so admi-
rable a proficient, he certainly has proved himself adequate to the
extraordinary task of abating some of the most offensive ceremonies
of Billingsgate. It has been so long a practice that it is now
looked upon as a privilege for what are called mud-larks and lag.
gers to he employed about the boats which ply to the market: A
mud-lark is a person of either sex who gets into the mud close to
the fishing-bouts, and Nvith a pole with a hook at the end of it,
pretends to grope for dead fish, but occasionally, when a fisher-
man's eyes are turned away, contrives to hook away a live one,
which is dropped into the water by the bigger, whose business it
is to help the shover or person who lands the fish. These two do-
seriptions of ',croons are mordantly committing robberies upon this
poor fishermen, and, as they are employed to the prejudice of
limiest men, and only contribute to injure the morality of Bil-
lingsgate-market, the clerk determined to clear them away alto-
' gether. He accordingly watched one of the inters himself, and
caught him in the act of appropriating a large cod which a mud-
lark had picked up.
Mr. Goldham said that the plunder committed by fellows of this
kind was very ,considerable, and that if the Lord Mayor would
inflict punishment in this the first instance of complaint, the evil
would be remedied, as the moment it was known at Gravesend
that the Chief Magistrate had set his face against the. mud-larks
and the loggers, there would be no more employment for such
gentry.
The Loan MAYOR convicted the logger (who said in hisdefence
that be really took the live for a dead fish) to imprisonment for
two months, under the bum-boat act.
Mr. Goldhsm next preferred a charge against a salesman of
Billingsgate-market, who, ke admitted, was a very respectable
person in the trade, for having sold soles which were unfit for use.
The clerk of the market stated, that amongst the tricks play-
ed amongst fish-dealers Wall that of staging bad fish with good—
that is, placing fresh fish at the top of the barrel, and stale at
the bottom. By this mai-oeuvre the public often get hold 01
very abominable dishes, which are calculated to do great injury to
the constitution.
Several fish-dealers here cried out that it was only in the
case of bad salmon that people's constitutions are likely to be
injured. Indifferent fish of another kind had no such effect.—
(A laugh.)
The Loan MAYOR Said, that any body who would think for
a moment, must he convinced of the deleterious effect of eating
bad fish, whatever might be the recommendation giVen by those
who *AI it. His Lordship highly approved of the activity of Mr.
Gi;ldham, in detecting this horrible species of imposition, and maid
that he shosuld inflict a penalty in every Coe of this kind without

exception.
The salesman said, that when be sold the fish to the person 01
whose stall it was found, there could he no objection made to it.
It was the fault of the buyer if the fish appeared to be bad. It was
well known that a buyer could abuse, and was in the habit o
abusing fish for certain reasons.
The buyer declared that he had laid out the fish on his stal
just as he' had received it, and that he had sold some of it a
A Price considerably underthat which he had paid to the salesman.
The Loan MAYAK asked Mr. Goldham whether the fish was
really objectionable.
Mr. Ooldhatu replied, that it was nothing more nor less than
stinking.
The Loan Marcia immediately fined the defendant.
Yesterday a person named Menet, residing at Tottenham, ap-
plied to the Lord Mayor, and with tears in his eyes, begged his
lan dship'e assistance, or if that could not he given, his advice, as
against the directors of the Cornwall and Devonshire Mining
Company.
The applicant, who appeared. to -.
be a mechanic, of the more re-
spectable class, stated that he had fur SO years worked hard, and
that, during that time, having been foreman in a very respectable
he house,had saved a little money„which he endeavoured to put
out -, o the best " advantage, having A 1444 family. He had a pro-
spectus of the Cornwall and Devonshire Miming Company put into
of the statements set forth respecting
his hands, and seeing. the names of Lord Palmerston and Mr.
I cannot
Peter Moore at the head of it, could not help believing the truth
a concern in which men who
occupied such hi
The names of the noblemen and gentlemen The
Lou,
mAillyt:Rtttiozeainuyputililsic
you mention might be,
ilsifea wereeas cionnt:eviriniceAh.
interfere. It is like all the other cases of Joint Stock Companies.
and probebly were, used without their consent. •
The complainant wired his Lordship that such was not the
cue. He had gone to the office, where he saw and spoke to Mr.
Peter Monret who assured him that the concern was an honest
one, in which money might he invested to advantage. Upon his
representation he took 100 shares. Ile had never attempted, and
had never intended, to part with them ; hut, as we underattiod
him, he had paid hint 3L upon each share. He had since seen
what sad work was going on there—how much was given. to
Wilks, and how much had been taken by the directors; and die
was dreadfully alarmed for his hard earnings. But what Was
worse, he had received the following letter from Lord Palmer-
ston's solicitors, Melina. Shore. and Ashton :
"'Davies-street Grorvenor-tanners, Oct. 13, 1826.
ccSir,—Wo are desired by the Board of Directors of the Corn'
wall and Devonshire Mitting Company, held this day, to sPVIi4 ic
you for the payment of the stun of bl. per share on your share it
that company, made on the 14th September ; anal we beg to fl'
form you) that unless the amount is immediately paid, we We
instructions to adopt legal measures , to enforce the payment"'
step "kb it. would be entially unpleasant to us se to yOUVOY to
.., , . •

be obliged to adopt. We hope, he:fever, that your attention to
this will render any farther proceedings unnecessary."
(Signed, &c.)
The Loan Mairois asked him what these solicitors had to do
with Lord Palmerston ?
The complainant said, he understood they had been introduced

by him.
The Loan Maroa....—What you have been saying may be, and
probably is, mere matter of hearsay.
The complainant declared, that one Director had admitted to
him that he had 8001. or 9001. out of the thing ; and that a
second had admitted the receipt of a similar sum. Having em-
barked 3001. in the thing, upon the representations of those men,
he could not hazard any of his rema►ning prokrty with them.
He had a large family, and he could nut even afford to lose that
which he had advanced ; he was in a state of distraction re-

specting
The Loan Maroa expressed his sorrow at the condition of the
poor man, but could give him no relief. He had bound himself
to pay a large sum of money before he had made adequate in-
quiries respecting the nature of the plan. It was to be feared that
the suffering of this description was dreadfully extensive. His
Lordship recommended the applicant to go to the solicitors, who
were probably persons of respectabliity, and represent to them his
condition.
The Complainant—Oh, my Lord, I don't like to go before peo-
ple of that sort.
The Loan Mavoa—Why, truly it is not in every instance
safe; but in this it is all I eun recommend, unless it be to consult
your own solicitor.
The complainant said he had none, and declared that he had
lived all hie life without having occasion for one until now.
The Loan MAYOR regretted that lie could do nothing to aid
the complainant. There was not the slightest ground fur his in-
terference.
The complaint was then dismissed.
Four journeymen tailors were brought up on a charge of being
guilty of intoxication, and having created a riot soon after the pay-
ment of their wages.
The Loan MAeoa, in fining them each be., said, he knew not
how it was, but the journeymen tailors appeared to be the most
drunken and dissipated of all mechanics. More tailors were
brought before him for drunken outrages, breaches of the peace,
and other misdemeanors, than any other class of journeymen.
The next prisoner put to the bar was 11. Butt.
The Loan Mayon—Well, what is that man ?
Officer—lt's another tailor, my Lord.
Mr. J. Smith, one of *the churchwardens of St. Stephen's
church, stated, that the prisoner was found drunk in the streets
during divine service on Sunday. He was so noisy and riotous
in his cmnduct that it was found requisite to imprison him.
The Loan MATO% animadverted on his conduct, and fined him
ss. It were to be wished that this class of journeymen, whose
employments are Sedentary, would, instead of running to the
public-house immediately they get their money, and getting drunk,
avail themselves of the advantages offered by the cheap and excel.
lent institutions formed for the use of mechanics generally, lint
which lied weaned but a small number from the gin-shop. He
recommended them to try to canyon*: to find some innocent
bodily or mental recreation, which would supersede the nee of the
expensive and pernicious stimulants they now resorted to.
GUILDHALL.—DanieI Braggart, a very cadaverous and
seedy
covered so
with
tohf
apneriant e
nse withcr
opal of
coa uncoveredbla throat anti
ci aracranium;
hair whereof did "stand on end, like quills upon the fretful por-
cupine," was charged with having been very drunk at eleven
o'clock on Sunday morning in Smithfield.—" We found him
without his coat, your Worship, calling out for somebody to come
and fight with him," said the constable who, had him in charge ;
and it was as much as three of us could do to get him to the

Compter. •
Sir JOHN PERAING, upon hearing this, very naturally asked
Mr. Daniel Haggart if he was an Irishman?
" No, lam a Seotehman," replied he. At which the Worthy
Alderman, and every body else, was not a little surprised ; and
their surprise was not diminished when the constable said he
thought Mr. Haggart was " a sort of a Methodist preacher." In
support of that opinion he handed in a paper which he had taken
from Ilaggsirt's waistcoat-p►N:ket ; of which paper the following is
a true copy :---

Sheffield, 29th May, 1926.
Thin is to certify that the bearer, Daniel Haggart, is a Member
of the Society of • Primitive Methodists. He has been with me
for the space of six weeks; has a steady character; and he has
'efficient cause for removal.
(Signed) JONATHAN WOODWARD, Leader.
Sir JouN Paaetru, having read this certificate, hiked Mr. •
Haggart whether he had been a preacher among the primitive
Methodists hithself.
" I - haie" replied Mr. Haggart, with much hesitation ;
and in answer to other questions he said, that he had been in
London sax week or therebye, and was by trade a shoemaker.
" I am really surprised at your conduct," said 'Sir JOHN, " for
I have. always understood the Primitive Methodists to be a very
orderly body of people; and in this certificate you are described,
not only as a Primitive Methodist, but as a steady character.
Was there any thing very primitive or steady in getting intoxicat-
ed on a Sunday morning, do you think?"
Mr. Haggart muttered something in reply; which something,
as interpreted by the constable who Fitoal by his side, signified
that he "didna ken preceesely how it was ; but he met wi' some
auld acquaintances wha tempted him to tak a tip, or may be twa
cups, ower muckle ; and couldna answer for the consequences."
So the steady character was fined five shillings for having been
• drank ; and as he had not so. much by eighteen-pence, he was

locked up.
John Gray, a sturdy, surly-visaged, curly-headed man, in a
good suit of black, was charged with a very outrageous assault
upon one Mr. Anthony Cooper, and a constable. '
Mr. Anthony Cooper appeared with his' head bound up in a
bloody handkerchief, and deposed to the following facts :—John
Gray lodged on his second floor, in Ashen-tree-court, Bouverie-
street, and on Sunday night he cantle home with the wife of
the lodger on the first floor. There was nothing very extra-
ordinary in that; but they remained so long in the dark on
the landing-place, that Mr. Cooper began to entertain au idea
that there was something very like criminal conversation going on
between them, and therefore he took a candle and went up stairs,
with the intention of throwing a little light Upon the subject. Be-
fore be could reach them, however, John Grarleft the lady, and
went up to his own room on the second floor, and the lady went
into her own room on the first floor. Presently after, she and
her husband were at high Work- at which Mr. Cooper
was by no means surprised, under the circumstances, but
Ceding much scandalised at having such a disturbance
in his house, and well knowing that John Gray had
been the cause of it, he went up to his room, and told him to
provide himself with other lodgings, for he should not remain
there beyond the ensuing week. Whereupon John Gray rushed
upon him, knocked him down, grasped him by the throat, and
began battering his heartwith the candlestick—at the same time
swearing he would batter the life out of him, for interfering in
that which did not concern him. Mr. Cooper cried "Murder ;"
and his cries bringing another lodger, frog► above, to his assist-
ance, Jahn Gray was s►cured and handed over to the constable,
who was also very grossly assaulted by him as he was taking him

to prison.
In hi* defence he said he was in bed when Mr. Cooper came up
stairs, and not knowing who it was, he jumped out of bed and
defended himself as well as he could !
Ile was ordered to give notice of bail to answer both the
assaults at the sessions.

THAMES POLICE.--A singular instance of the amantimn
iris amoris intepratio eat was produced at this office, in the *-
son of Henry Carstang and Maria Carstany, a decent-looking
the first floor. She
always esteemed them
eeereom,plaint,
until
which was hcouple, who were charged by Matilda Elliott with having totally
*mil
destroyed a quantity of her crockery. - '
The complainant stated that she kept a sort of lodging-house, in
which the persons complained against owl)
the fracas, yterYe
took place. On Thursday last she was going through her • daily
occupation of acrnhhing and devising, when her eats were as-
sailed. with a tremenshitta crash, and finding it proceeded from the
ground-work andw very
of peaceable
hueresib present
lnodtgst
apartment of her lodgers, She hastened up to ascertain the cause,
when, judge her mortification, on beholding her beat claw-legged
turry, and het crockery, in broken con-
turn-tip table lying topsy-
fusinn, strewed all Over the room. The husband was seated on
one ride of the fire-Place, and the wife on the other, with her
handkerchief to her face, apparently in tears. In vain she asked
the cause of this shameful deMolition; both remained silent, and
she therefore sent for a constable, and had them taken into ens-
tOdy, to see if they would open their mouths before his
Nava Worship:
The Macorrsars, to the husband—
:Well sir, what l
lyou
to say to this?
Carstang-Why, your Worship, me and my wifts had a small
quarrel—All about nothing. The fact hi yourworship, having
met having
met some friends, from the country, - whom I had not seen for a
long time, I went and drank sonic ale with them, and got a little
„may ;I' never was-so before your Worah.ip,
since I have been
niatried; When I went home, my wife here, blowed me up, but
in a very mild manner, seeing at; how, I oupimsei it was no use
arguing with a drunken man. Next morning. however, she
began again, and upbraided ins in a ticklish manner, about
naughty women, and as I wile 'so unused to language like this