The Sun.
London, England, 1829-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

Two questions, we find, are mooted by the
Irish Newspapers in reference to the men found
guilty under the first of the three trials which
have recently taken place at Cork. One ques-
tion is, whether the convicts are likely to suffer
death, or to be spared by Government ? The
second is, whether they ought, or ought not, to
suffer ? The Evening Mail—a journal which
coneiets only of the outpourings of factious zeal
and violence—informs its readers, in a tone of
congratulation, that three of the four convicted
persons will " as surely pay the forfeit: of their
lives, as the author of the prediction is now writ-
ing the sentence which announces it." God
forbid, we eay, that the spirit which appears to
direct the above revolting prophecy should pass
over and contaminate the minds of those on
whom its fulfilment or disappointment must de-
pend. We are, indeed, very fully persuaded
that the issue of the first question we opened
this article by reciting, will be made by the dis-
pensers of public justice in Ireland to turn on
tie determination of the second question—viz.,
what ought to 1e the fate of Leary and his
partners, now left by the judges for execution ?
The law of England, and of reason, says that
.
justice shall be administered " mercy," which
last qualification of the rigour of justice, as we
at least regard the meaning of the words, does
not confine itself to the measure of punish-
ment only, but extends to the construction of
a prisoner's conduct. It is true that in the
conviction of Leary and his associates, the
rules and technicalities of evidence were com-
plied with, and that the sentence of death
was the only sentence which could or ought to
have followed such a conviction, had the trial of
these parties formed the sole business of the
commission, and had the testimony bremght for-
ward against them not been exposed (as provi-
dentially it has been) to any further scrutiny.
But let even a prejudiced person, so that he hag
the use of common understanding left to him,
and of a human heart, but read the proceedings
of the third prosecution, and study the conclud-
ing charge of Baron Pennefather. We do not
mean to affirm that a jury of honest men might
not have founded a verdict of " guilty " on the
facts as stated in the course of that trial, or even
as presented to them by the Learned Judge ; but
we can safely allege, that whoever studied either,
with the earnest and profound attention called
for by a case which affected the lives of his fele
low-creatures, would have such a host of doubts
and perplexities raised by every fresh considera-
tion of the subject, as:would compel him, if
there be any virtue in the rule which prescribes
a " merciful " administration of justice, to give
the prisoners the full benefit of such uncertainty,
and to pronounce a verdict of acquittal. The
more than average infamy of the witnesses,—the
almost unheard-of inconsistencies between their
evidence as given in Court, and their informa-
tions sworn before the magistrates,—the slender
accession, or nearly total absence of all cor-
roborative circumstances necessary to establish,
not the existence of a conspiracy, but the share
in it which was said to be held by the accused,—
all these would, we are convinced, have prevailed
with Baron Pennefather, notwithstanding his ac-
quiescence in the weight attachable to Me want
of all exculpatory proof on the part of the pri-
soners, and induced the learned Judge, had he
been a juryman, to concur in the acquittal of
those two men. Now, with this belief impressed
strongly on our judgments, we are bound to seek
for more satisfactory grounds of conviction against
Leary and his fellows than such as were ad-
duced on the final prosecution of the three, be-
fore we can imagine that any person of right
mind would state that Leary ought to be banged,
on the same evidence which led the same person
to doubt whether Burke, &c. ought net to have
been acquitted. The informers arc alike base
and vile in both instances ; the want of auxiliary
evidence was equal ; the grand features of the
two trials were so completely identified, that the
very fact of the two last prisoners being acquitted
would enhance the general dissatisfaction at the
four former ones being punished. We fear not
themultitude—their caprices, their excesses, or
their power; but where their fierce passions and
fallible judgment have an excuse for error, even
in such materials as would not serve to justify
the vehemence of more instructed minds,—
where they have argument's even plausible for
discontent with the administration of the laws,
it becomes matter of the gravest and most anxious
deliberation, how far punishment, though legal,
might in its consequences prove exemplary, and
how far it might be consistent with the best in-
terests of the State to substitute the fear of force,
though clad in all the pomp of authority, for that.
of calm and discriminating justice. ‘Ve are of
opinion, that unless the peasants generally can be
convinced of the equity of blowing hot and cold
upon two sets of men under the same accusation, and
hanging one set upon testimony which obtained
no belief against the other, the Irish, who are a
keen and suspicious people, may charge the
King's Government with acting in a vindictive
spirit, with an eagerness to fish for as many vic-
tims as it can catch, and with a design
to re-
venge itself on Leary and his company, because
Burke and Shine have escaped the net prepared
for them. In wisdom, therefore, as well as
mercy, the Irish Government (we cannot, with
our present lights upon the subject, avoid
hoping) will finally remit the sentence of death
pronounced by Judge Torrens upon the above
mentioned convicts.—limes.

The magnitude and splendour of the events
which have recently occurred in the East of
Europe have had the effect of withdrawing at-
tention from the less imposing, but not less im-
portant, relations, involving the interests and
destiny of an ancient Ally, in an opposite quar-
ter of the Continent. Of the policy which it
becomes Great Britain to pursue in the present
unsettled and anomalous condition of Portugal,
we must necessarily speak with diffidence, with
our present imperfect information ; but this much
is abundantly evident, that things cannot long
continue as they are—the inconvenience that the
great commercial intercourse, which has so long
subsisted between the two countries, sustains,
would be sufficient to enforce the necessity of
some definite arrangement, exclusive of all con-
siderations purely political. We have heard,
from no questionable authority, that it is the in-
tention of the British Cabinet steadily to steer
clear of any thing like direct interference in the
internal struggles of Portugal. Foreign expedi-
tions have been found too costly in the prepara-
tion, and too uncertain in the result, to be en-
tered upon in the present state of the national
resources ; and we must be content to forego
the ephemeral and mischievous popu!arity of a
brilliant campaign, from the vulgar and arith-
metical
i consideration of pounds, shillings, and
pence, t would of necessity cost. The obvious
line of
policy it becomes us to persevere in, is
the same upon which we have for some time
acted—to follow the course of evints—to leave

it to • the Portuguese nation to fix upon their
SOvereign ; aud so soon as a decided majority of
the nation shall have indicated unequivocally
their adherence to .a King de facto, to puzzle
ourselves no longer with abstract metaphysical
subtleties, • but at once proceed to re-establish
things upon their former footing. The great
difficulty will, in the present instance, be, to as-
certain what portion of the population should be
entitled to have their expressed opinion taken as
declaratory of the general sense of the nation.
That the present occupant of the Portuguese
Throne has th good wishes of a vast numerical
majority -ol' tbe.inhabitants taken generally, we
hold to be incontestable; but that majority does
not include the greater portion of the enlightened
classes. This state of things, the inevitable re-
sult of the spiritual domination under which Por-
tugal and the adjacent Spanish Monarchy have
so long groaned, adds considerably to the diffi-
culty of those Powers who are anxious so to
proceed as to avoid the appearance of officious
interference in the internal concerns of an hide-
pend•zet State.--Morning Chronicle.
In England, all power is in the Aristocracy •
9
and the class of secondary proprietors, and the
middle class in general, are strongly impelled,
by a variety of considerations of interest and am-
bition,
to lend themselves to the upholding the
system. The intelligence of the country receives,
therefore, a wrong direction. The interests of
the ruling class are not the interests of the
community ; but still the interests of the
ruling class powerfully influence the conduct
of the most energetic part of the community. The
consepience of this state of things is excessive
immorality, and the prevalence of hypocrisy and
cant. Men in all countries are governed by cir-
umstances, and in this country the force of cir-
cumstance's compels men to play with proles-
si.ms and principals as so many counters. Hear,
t'or instance,- the opinion of a man who has had
certainly a pretty extensive experience of what
are called religious people in this country, the
nev. Edward Irving, in his late publication on
the Last Days : " There is a hard scepticism,
which hath indurated men's hearts, so as they will
not feel the impression of a truly spiritual
consideration. .They either will not, or they
cannot, believe a thing, unless common opi-
nion sanction it, or immediate advantage attend
Lpon it. You may try your utmost—at least I
w I have done it oft—with religious people,
but it was in vain ; no truth for its own sake
cmcld I get them to believe." This coincides
with the view respecting the choice of a religion
delivered by Alderman Brown; are meeting
connected with the retirement of the Rev. Mr.
Clayton ; namely, that a young man entering the
world would find his success promoted by join-
ing the Dissenters. Some men, more honest
than many of their neighbours, admit that they
.dissimble, but, like Dr. Paley, they urge in
.their defence that they cannot afford to keep a
.conscience. The Revolution of France, by
tutting up the large properties, and throwing
.open all offices, civil and religious, to all men,
whatever their birth and whatever their religion,
and substituting no oligarchy in the place cf
the former regime, to monopolize political power
under a pretended representation, laid the axe
to the root of that which necessitates immo-
rality and h)pocrisy in England. The cir-
cumstances in which an Englishman is placed
compel him to a constant observance of prudence
in the malifestation of opinion, to watch the
quarter from which the wind blows, and to
praise or blame according as praise or blame
will be most likely to promote his advancement.
The Fr, nchman is placed in circumstances
which fe t.r him much less. Hence, where the
lower orders are ignorant, superstitious, and
prejudiced—as they are, according to the con-
currin,4 accounts of visitors, in. three-fourths of
the country—the ignorance and prejudice are
comparatively harmless, from the absence of
the circumstances which enable one class of men
to turn the deficiencies of another to a bad ac-
cona•:. There are many towns, for instance,
both in France and other countries, where there
is more ignorance among the lower orders than
there was in Birmingham and Manchester in
the beginning of the war ; but then in no coun-
try is there any party, having an interest in
mischief; possessed of one-tenth of the power
which our High Church party had then, from
various circumstances, to work on the lower
orders. But the prevalence of immorality
(using the word in a higher sense than that
given to it in England, where it is confined to
arThirs of the sexes), from the overwhelming
I)rce of circumstances, is not incompatible with
the possession of intelligence. The English
of the middle and higher classes do not choose
to see what it would be inconvenient to see.
Truth is often like a friend in a thread-bare coat
—it must be cut, to use a word for which there
is no synonyme in a foreign language, and which
alone indicates the god of the national idolatry.
Were circumstances to dissolve the connection
which binds the talent and energy of the country
with the system of the Aristocracy, many an eye
which now seems half shut would instantly be
wide open. We do not believe that there is any
country in Europe that could on the instant pro-
duce so many able and intelligent men. It is at
present clearly the interest of a literary man in
this country to profess such principles as are in
accordance with that system to which power
through all its ramifications, is attached. When
we know what is the interest of a man, we may
in nine cases out of ten anticipate what his con-
duct will he. Hence the dread of many good
men in England lest the extent of their good
intentions should be known, and lest the princi-
ples they really entertain should be proclaimed.
In the article in the Chronicle to which our
Contemporary alludes, we had said with refer-
ence to this—" OCcaSionally even in a canting
and hypocritical country like this, an individual,
no doubt, will be found, who frOm indifference to
the ordinary objects of ambition, and the acci-
dental determination of his inquiries to the
good of his fellow creatures, may occupy himself
with speculations,, of which the object is the ad-
vantage of the people. But even such an
indi-
vidual dreads nothing so much as to be knoWn
for ainan who has any other than selfish and vul,
ear aims. He knows
_that his only chance of
being able to do good must depend on his ob-
jects not being too clearly revealed, and that
numbers of the very people whose good he
seeks, from the ignorance and prejudice insepa-
rable from their degraded condition, would be
among the first to tear him to pieces, if set on
by their enernies." On this passage our con-
temporary remarks :—" We leave it to the,
Chronicle to explain in what sense, or in what
spirit, it asserted the superior intelligence of a
people, whom it thus describes as in the worst
blindness and brutality of ignorance.
ciently clear, thatno civilized country in the world
could take rank in the scale of intelligence below
the condition attributed in the abOve passage to
England." s The passage is, we. admit, strongly

expressed, and is written under the influence. of
a little too much impulse. But substantially it
is home out by reality. The interests adverse
to the people are peculiarly strong in England ;
and, as we have said, these interests dictate, and
too often ensure dissimulation. No man re-
proaches Galilei for having first said that the
earth moves round the sun, and then, to pacify '
the Priests, that the sun moves round the earth.
But numbers of the people may, from ignorance
and prejudice, tear to pieces, using the words
not exactly in their literal sense, their best friends
when instigated by interested enemies, and yet
greater numbers, propbrtionably, of the people
in question may be enlightened, than of the
people of other countries. Towns as we have
said, indicate the civilization of a country. Eng-
land is studded with great towns ; and though the
agricultural labourers are yet in a most degraded
condition, the inhabitants of our towns are be-
coming rapidly enlightened. What a desire for in-
truction is manifested in the spread of Mechanics'
Institutes throughout all our large towns. A great
deal of talent has been called forth in these
places. We had the other day an opportunity
of conversing with an intelligent civil engineer,
who has visited professionally a great part of
France, and he describes the artisans as far be-
low those of England in general intelligence.
We conclude with repeating our belief that more
information and intelligence are diffused through-
out the lower orders in towns in England, than
throughout the lower orders in towns in other
countries. As these, however, are not the
classes to whom men. anxious to promote their
wordly interest can devote themselves, our
fashionable and periodical literature is generally
aristocratical. But the lower classes are enabled
to command suitable books, and more and more
pains are taken every day to provide for their
mental wants. They are now indeed so far ad-
vanced, the love of knowledge having struck
deep root, that they may be almost said to be
able to dispense with assistance. Still numbers
of Englishmen are ignorant and prejudiced and
degraded, and still the worldly wise will not ad-
vocate the removal of the chief causes of the
ignorance and degradation—the political abuses
in the Government of the country.—lbid.

The state of opinion in Ireland, or among
those at least who represent and guide the popu-
lar feelings of that country, upon the subject of
the recent trials, is deeply to be deplored. They
assume a tone of triumph and exultation on the
failure of the prosecutions for the Doneraile con-
spiracy, which would have been justifiable and
natural enough had the investigation afforded any
grounds for doubting the existence of such a
crime ; but which can be accounted for, as

the case actually stands, only upon the sup-
position that they have so much sympathy
for the real criminals, be they whom they may,
as to consider their escape a fit subject for
national rejoicing; or so much hatred of Go-
vernment and Law,. as to exult in the proof

these trials present to us .of the feebleness of
both. If it could be•denied that Messrs, Low,
Creagh, and Admiral Evans, were devoted to
death by a murderous conspiracy ; or that the
members of this diabolical confederacy attempted

to carry their sanguinary decree into execution ;
or that similar plots exist in other parts of Ire-
land ; or that in many instances, and some very
recent ones, fatal success has attended their
designs—if any of these things could be de-
nied, then there might be some rational
and humane pretence for the joy which is
so extensively manifested in Ireland on the
result of the late trials. In triumph and
delight springing from such a source, who
is there that would not participate ? But
the occasion on which the Liberal party in
Ireland exult so much is of a very different cha-
racter. The effect' of the trials is not to show

that Ireland is free from the deep stain of such
odious and revolting guilt as was imputed to the
individuals charged, or that Irish society may
now enjoy the sense of security which would
arise from the persuasion that similar guilt is not
extensively diffused among the people. The
effect of the whole proceedings is, on the
contrary, to show the actual existence of this
guilt to an appalling extent—to show that it
is so strongly rooted in popular favour, and
so effectually screened by popular sympathy,
as to render the utmost vigilance and zeal of
Government ineffectual for its detection ; or if

these are exerted with success in the discovery
of any of the real criminals, to render the pro-
bability of their conviction by a Jury very small.
We are presented with a view of society equally
terrible and alarming by these trials, whether we
believe that the persons under accusation were
innocent or guilty. Yet this is the state of
society that affords joy and triumph to
a political and religious. party, which has
for centuries been the bane of Ireland,
and which is likely, if we may judge by
these :symptoms, to be her bane for centuries
to come. With respect to the wretched men
who have been pronounced gully by a Jury, we
hope and trust that the Irish Government will
act upon its own deliberate and conscientious
convictions, without any regard to clamour or

any anxiety for popularity. 'lt is now stigma-
tised by the party which is loud in its expres-
sions of sympathy for the whole of the accused,
and of triumph on the escape of some of them,
because it has entered on a prosecution which
the party affects to believe unjust. Nor can there
be the least doubt that the censures of this
party, with whom it is evidently the main
object to depreciate Government, will be re-
doubled, let the decision of the latter be what
it may. On the other hand, the wise and good,
while they must universally lament that a state of
society should exist in which the Most abominable
crimes are shielded from justice by the.impene-
trable veil which popular sympathy draws around
them, could certainly derive no consolation from
the sacrifice of victims, of whose criminality any
doubt might rationally be entertained.—Morn-
ing Post.

THE NEW LONDON BRIDGE APPROACHES.
—An especial Session was held on Wednesday at the
Town-hall, Southwark, before Mr. Serjeant ARABIN,
several of the Aldermen, and the High Bailiff, when Mr.
BROUGHAM and Mr. THESSIGER, on behalf of Join.;
Watour, the occupier of the Three Crowns public-house,
High-street, Borough, claimed the sum of 2,5531. 7s. 10d.
as a compensation for the lease, good-will, and fixtures,
and the other losses he was about to sustain by the build-
ing of the new bridge. Mr. Cosutiiii SERJEANT, Mr.
ROLLAND, and Mr. MIREHOUSF, on the behalf of the cor-
poration of London, resisted the claim, and after eight
hours' discussion the Jury returned a verdict of Is. for the
lease, and 6031. 14s. 6d. for the good-will, &c.—Yester-
day the Court again met, for the purpose of enquiring the
compensation to be paid to WILLIAM SENTANCE, carrying
lon the trade of a tea-dealer, being Nos. 299 and 300, in
High-street. Mr. BROUGHAM, Mr. Trussroxit, and
Mr. PLATT, appeared on the part of the claimant, to sup-
port the claim of 303/. for his lease, good-will, &c. .Mr.
COMMON SERJEANT, Mr. BOLLAND, and Mr. MIRE-
HOUSE, appeared on the part of the corporation to resist
this claim. After hearing evidence_ on the part of the cor-
poration and the claimant the Jury retired, after a short
absence a verdict of 100/. for the lease, and 1,2481. for
good-will, &c., was received.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. b.
CURTEIS V. CLARK.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, with whom were Mr.
Wigram and Mr. Bacon, appeared in support of a
petition presented by the defendants in the cause,
who are also persons interested in the borough and
harbour of Rye, praying that the decree formerly
made for removing certain obstructions in the navi-
gation of the river Rother might be carried into
execution by the plaintiffs.
Mr. HORNE, Mr. KNIGHT, and Mr. PEMBER-
TON, opposed the petition, and took some prelimi-
nary objections for want of parties, which were
answered by Mr. WIGRA3/.
Some discussion ensued, when it was intimated
by the plaintiffs, that an application was about to he
made to Parliament for a new Act, which would
render the further prosecution of the petition un-
necessary.
The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated an opinion
that it would be better to wait the result of that
application. At the same time he thought that the
petitioners should be placed in no worse situation if
they should afterwards find it necessary to resort to
the jurisdiction of the Court.
The matter was therefore ordered to stand over,
with the understanding that the petitioners should
be at liberty to amend their petition if they should
think fit, and that no technical objections should he
taken at any future hearing.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 5.
SMITH V. HARTLEY.
This was an action against Mr. James Hartley,
an attorney of Bridge-street, to recover damages
tinder the following circumstances. In February,
1827, the defendant was employed by the plaintiff,
who resided in Yorksbire, to bring an action against
a person of the name of Davis, for debt. Bailable
process was sued out, returnable in Hilary Term,
1827. Notice ofjustitication of bail was given for
the first day of the next term; but in the interval be-
tween the two terms, the plaintiff's father, acting as
his agent, made an arrangement with Davis for put-
ting an end to the action. The defendant, Mr.
Hartley, was informed of this, and requested to stay
the proceedings ; but, notwithstanding, in the fol-
lowing term he took au assignment of the bail-bond
from the Sheriff, in default of justification of bail,
and proceeded against Davis and the two bail. An
application was then made on their part to the
Court of Common Pleas, and the proceedings: were
ordered to be stayed. The costs of the application
were taxed at 8/. 145., which sum the plaintiff was
obliged to pay, arid now sought to recover it as da-
mages in this action.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 8/. 14s.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 5.
MITCHELL AND WIFE V. HOWELL.

This was an action of assault. The defendant,
at the time in question a constable, and now one of

the new police, called upon a Mrs. Cuet, then stay-
ing with the plaintiffs, who keep a public-house in
Oxford-street in the East, and demanded some rent,
which she promised to pay as soon as her husband,
who was a master mariner, returned home from his
voyage. The defendant then, according to this
woman's account, abused her, and called her by
improper names, upon which Mrs. Mitchell inter-
fi red, when the defendant said that she (Mrs.
Mitchell) was quite as bad as Mrs. Cuet, for bar.:
bouring such a woman. Mrs. Mitchell replied, that
she would harbour whom she liked, whereupon the
defendant shook his staff in her face, and, declaring
he would take her to the watch-house, seized her
by the arm and dragged her from the bar to the
street door, when she succeeded in extricating her-
self from his grasp, and returned to the bar.
Another woman, named Mrs. James, not the most
feminine in appearance, who swore she was preSent
at the time, bore testimony to the same facts, and
when cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant WILDE, on
the part of the defendant, added that Mrs. Mitchell
was so much affected by the defendant's ill-usage
that she fainted.

Mr. Sedeant WILDE—Of course you endeavoured
to rescue Mrs. Mitchell from the defendant's vio-
lence ? Witness—l am not in the habit of inter-
fering on such occasions.
Mr. Seijeant WILDE—But you say Mrs. Mitchell
;vas in the family way at the time : now women ge.
nerally come to each other's assistance in that situa-
tion ? Witness—l did not interfere. _ .

Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Pray how:long did the affair
last? Witness--le was using very absurd lan-
guage to her for an hour and a half.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What was the " absurd "
language he used ? Witness—lt was desperate
language.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Too bad, I suppose, for
you•to repeat ? Witness—Almost.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant 'WILDE—And how long was he
dragging her about? Witness—From five to ten
minutes.

Mr. Sleant WlLDE—Where did he take hold
of her? Vitness—By the thick part of the arm.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—But I don't know which
is the thin part.—(Laughter.) Witness pointed to
the 'middle of her arm.

Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Pray, have any serious
consequences ensued from this violent assault ?
Witness—Yes; she has not exactly recovered from
the effects of it vet.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What doctor attended her?
Witness—No doctor. I attended her.

Mr. Serjeant WILDE— What ! did you call in no
doctor? VVitness—No ;an old woman is some-
times of mote use than a doctor.

Mr. Serjeant Wm:on—You say she has not yet
recovered; pray, how is she affected at present ?
Witness—She feels great pain.
Mr. Serjeant WlLDE—Where, in the thick part
of the arm ?—( Great laughter.) Witness—Allover
her, from the great fright she received.
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Oh ! she was dreadfully
frightened, was.sle ? Witness—Yes; she sat down
in the bar, and cried until she came round to herself
again, and then fainted.—(Laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Then it had not occurred
to her to faint before ? Witness—Yes it had ; but
she was too much terrified.

Mr. Seljeant WILDE--At what time did • she tell
you it occurred to her to faint ? Witness—She did
not tell me.

Mr. Serjeant WILDE—How long was she in this
faint ? Witness—For two hours, off and on.

Mr. Serjeant.WlLDE—How long was she off, and.
how long was she on ? (Great laughter, in which
his Lordship heartily joined.) Witness—About
every five minutes.

Mr. Serjeant WILDE—What ! she fainted for two
hours every five minutes ? Witness—Yes.-
Mr. Serjeant WILDE—Did you call to inquire after
her health the next morning ? Witness—Of course
I did.
11r. Serjeant WILDE--Did she faint then? Wit-
ness—Oh ! i should not think it proper for her to
faint then.--(Continued laughter.)
Mr. Serjeant WILDE--May I ask, ma'am, when
you think it proper for a lady to faint in that part of
the town ?--(Great laughter.)
This information was not furnished to the Learned
Serjeant.
Two other witnesses were called on the part of
the plaintiff, who swore that all the abuse proceeded
from the ladies; that the defendant never touched
Mrs. Mitchell, but was pushed out of the house by

her; and that Mrs. James was not present at all on
the occasion. •

The plaintiff being thus sworn out of Court by his
own witnesses, his Counsel chose to be called, and
he was nonsuited accordingly. -

HIGH PRICE OF PROVISIONS.--A Corre-
spondent a.,,its why beef is 91-d., muttoa Bd.,.butter..l6d.,
cheese ls. a pounds, and bread five-and-twenty percent.
dearer in some, shops than others, when it is quite, noto-
rious that neither the farmer, the grazier, nor thOairy.
man are getting prices Which can,in any way iustify the
coOnnahce of euch_charri to Zhe cOnagrgyeti,,,

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