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London, England, 1827-07-07 00:00:00

FRENCH PAPERS.

(From the Gazette de France, dated Thursday, July 5.)
" CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 10.—The garrison of
the Acropolis having long struggled with numerous
privations, has surrendered by an honourable capi-
tulation granted by the Seraskier; and for the due
performance of which hostages were given on both
sides.

As for Lord Cochrane, who is said to have al-
ready lost two ships, little is said of him, and no
great things are now expected of him. His famous
Proclamation has had a bad effect on the Greeks
themselves and their friends.

" Nothing positive is yet known. respecting the
negotiations of the European Ministers. Freh in-
structions for M. de Ribeaupierre are expected from
St. Petersburgh.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 7, 1827.

The Paris Papers of Wednesday, and the
GLzette de France, of Thursday morning,
reached us last night. Their contents are en-
tirely unimportant. Intelligence of the capitula-
tion of the Acropolis had been received at Con-
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stantinople, on the 11th ult., to which date the
chi F .accounts from thence come down. Nothing of
Ca- 40111equence had taken place in that capital.
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The Gazette of last night contains the ap-
.ca pointment of ,Jte Duke of ARGYLL to be
trwy Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland, in the
Da- room of the Duke of GORDON, deceased ; and
th• elevation of Lord BINNING, only son of the
Scotch Earl Of HADDINGTON, to the dignity of
a British Peer, by the title of Baron' MELROSE
of TYNNINGHAME, in the County of Had-
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The Gazette also contains an order in Conn-
ell suspending the Ballot for the Local Militia
for one year from the 16th instant, and an Order
in Council approving of the proposals made by
His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral,
for a new distribution of seizures amongst the
Officers, Seamen, and Marines of his Majesty's
Fleet.

It is no matter of surprise to any one that
truth and honourable feeling should be held in
utter disregard by some Papers, which owe their
Origin to a temporary burst of party spirit, re-
sembling toad-stools raised on a hot-bed, both in
their probable duration, and in the purity of their
*curce ; but it is subject of regret to those who
have been long accustomed to enjoy the good-
humoured comments of the Morning Post
on the reigning fashions, when they find that
respectable Journal admitting into its columns
false and uncandid statements, which evidently
come from the pen of a person who has suffered
personally by the late political changes. It
is not the first time we have been led to
animadvert on the departure of our contempo-
rary from that unoffending course which has
gained him, for such a length of time, the sup-
port of the upper circles in this Kingdom, s'ven
in the face of superior talent and energy on the
part of his rivals.

which we
The instance to
at present allude
will be found in an extract from the Morning
Post of to-day, given in our pal)e
head of lc Spirit of the Public Journals.,, A
most .Itheow and contemptible endeavour is
made to convict Mr. CANNING of duplicity,•
by
the announcement of Lord BINNING's advance_
ment to the Peerage in the Gazette of last night.
The most superficial intellect can detect the
glaring fallacy of wishing to found a charge of
inconsistency on the fact of one individual being
raised to the Peerage, because Mr. CANNING
declared that the report of making a batch of
Peers to gain a majority in the House of Lords,
Was wild and idle, &c. It is delightful to observe
how the whole structure rests upon the
parenthesis (other intended creations which will
doubtless soon follow). But the whole article is
4 tissue of falsehood and folly.

We hope that his change of character answers

our contemporary as a commercial speculation,
for it would be intolerable to lose money and
respectability at the same time.

His Royal Highness the Lord High Admiral
left the Admiralty this morning at half-past nine
o'clock, for Deptford, where his Royal Highness
embarked on board the Royal Sovereign yacht, for
the purpose of proceeding to Plymouth, on his
tour of Inspection of all the Dock-yards and
Naval Establishments.

By the arrival of his Majesty's packet Emu-
lous, from Buenos Ayres and Rio Janeiro, we
have received Public Papers and Private Letters
to the 11th May

On the 3d of that month the Constitutional Assembly
of Rio Janeiro met, on which occasion the Emperor
Pedro opened the same with a speech, in which he gave
little indication of the probability of peace with
the Buenos Ayres Authorities. Two days prior to
the above letter being written, the British packet
had arrived at Rio Janeiro from the River Plate,
having on board Mr. Garcia, who is reported to be going
from Buenos Ayres, in the capacity of Ambassador, to the
court of St. James's. He was permitted to land and still
remains here, from which circumstance it is argued by some
that he is authorized to enter into some negociations, which
it is hoped may still take place ; in the mean time the Brazil
Government had come to the determination of sending to
Rio Grande considerable reinforcements, and would place
them under the command of Marshal Brown, who was ex-
tremely popular. The troops from Bahia had arrived at Rio,
and the Don Pedro the Fist had sailed for Pernambuco
to bring the contingent to be supplied by that province ;
trade continued extremely dull. • The Exchange had im-
proved from 35 to 35f per mikes. The premium on sil-
ver was 33 per cent. An attempt had been made to estab-
lish a bank at Pernambuco, for the issue of paper, and
the partner of a Jewish house is said to have sent
for that purpose ; on his arrival, however, he found his
plans put an end to, and the attempt so effectually opposed,
that he was under the necessity of leaving the place from
fear of personal violence, so determined was the hostility
to such a measure ; it is also said, that an endeavour
which had been made through British influenee and me-
diation, to bring about peace had lately failed ; and these ac-
counts are followed up by a hope expressed that if war
must be continued, that it will be carried on with vigour.
Another letter observes quaintly—if there is to be war,
where are the funds to carry this determination into effect'
to come from for the finances of the Brazilian Government
are understood to be ina crazy state, and the northern pro.
vinces have been squeezed out of every milrea they have
been able to supply.
We must defer the detailed account of the naval action
till Monday.

(From the Mensagero Argentino, No. 199.)

BLIZNOS-AYRRS, APRIL 6.

It seems that the crisis of our internal affairs is approach-
ing; and the Mensagero has good grounds for presuming
it will be favourable to the cause of the national organi-
zation.

The national squadron remains at anchor in the port.
No Brazilian vessels are in sight.

Yesterday morning De Jose Gabriel de la Oyuela,
arrived from the army of operations against Brazil, with
letters, and the 6th Bulletin, which we insert in this
Number :
" THE COUNTRY FOR EVER !

" HONOUR TO THE VICTORS AT PATAGONES.

" Citizens !—Read, and be persuaded that the Republic
is destined to great things.
" The undersigned has the pleasure to inform his Excel-
lency, the Minister of War and the Marine, that a Brazilian
expedition of four ships of war, manned with 654 men,
destined to invade this establishment, are in our power,
except the Derquesa de ,Goyas corvette, which was
wrecked on the banks of the mouth of the river.

" Our loss on this glorious triumph, was not con-
siderable. We bad only three killed and sic wounded ;
of the latter, four were officers. The enemy had seven
killed and five wounded, among whom was the commander
of the Escudero brigantine."
(Signed) " SANTIAGO JORGE BYSSON.
" Patagones, March 29, 1927."
In other dispatches, the following account is given of
the prizes:—
" The Itaparica corvette, earrving six brass nine
pounders, 14 iron carronades, 18-pounders, and six ditto
24-pounders.
" The Escudero schooner brig, carrying one brass 24-
pounder, and three iron carronades, 12-pounders.
" The Constantia schooner, with one brass 18-pounder,
and two iron carronades, 12-pounders.
A dispatch, signed Martin Lacarra, and dated Fuerte
del Carmen, March 20, states this affair to have taken
place on the '7th of March, and says, " that the troops and
all the inhabitants displayed the greatest energy and
enthusiasm in repulsing the enemy." He states the loss on
the side of the victors to have been four killed, including
one officer, and fourteen wounded, five of them officers.
The enemy had thirteen killed, including James Shepherd,
the commander of the expedition, and six wounded.
Between 35 and 40 of the crew of the Derquesa dt
Goyas perished in the waves when that vessel was wrecked.
The 6th Bulletin of the army is dated head-quarters, at
Arroyo de los Corrales, March 26. It says, " The
remains of the Imperial Army have retreated to the vici-
nity of the Rio Pardo, above San Lorenzo. Colonel
Bento Manuel, who was not in the battle of 20th February,
had joined them with 1000 men, and a number of horses."
The Bulletin gives an account of the destruction of the
enemy's depots ; and adds—" Thus all the magazines
which the Emperor had prepared for his army in El Con-
tinente, and which would have sufficed to maintain for two
years three times the force he had in the field, are com-
pletely destroyed."
" The battle of Ituzaingo bas rendered the inhabitants of
El Continente tractable : all the population from St. Maria
to Tacuarembo have returned to their homes, and are put
in quiet possession of their property. This part of El
Continente, one of the richest from its great flocks, has
been divided into four military districts, under four of the
principal inhabitants, and every measure has been taken to
insure respect to property.
A dispatch, dated Canelinal, March 20, 1827, from the
Governor of the Oriental Province to the Minister of the
Interior, acquaints him, that the General Constituent As-
sembly, at the Banda Oriental, had unanimously adopted
the Constitution of Buenos Ayres.

No. 200 to 203 of the Mensagero give very long ac-
counts of a naval action, which took place on the 7th in
the morning, between Admiral Brown, with four ships,
and 22 of the enemy's ships of very superior force.—
Two of Admiral Brown's ships ran aground, and were
entirely destroyed, after a long and vigorous resistance, by
the heavy ire of the enemy. Captain Drummond of the
Independencia was killed, and Admiral Brown wounded.
Captain Coe states the loss to have been 25 killed and 51
wounded. Captain Drummond and Lieutenant Thomas
are killed, and Captain Granville and Admiral Brown
wounded.

All the accounts speak in the highest terms of the
bravery of the Republicans, and there appears to be every
reason to suppose the loss of the enemy to hare been ex-
tremely great.

RIO DX JANEIRO, MAY 3.

After several preparatory sittings of the two Chambers,
the Session was opened on this day by his Majesty in
person. His Majesty having dwelt at some length on
the premature death of the late much-lamented Empress,
during his visit to the province of Rio Grande,
whither he had gone to exert himself to
.put an end
to the war, said, " This war will continue till the
Cisplatine province, which is ours, shall be free from such
iavaders, and till Buenos Ayres recognises its independence
of the Empire of Brazil, with the incorporation of the
Cisplatina, which freely and spontaneously desired to make
a part of this Empire." His Majesty expects that the As-
sembly will do its utmost to second his efforts, as it pro-
mised during the last Session.

His Maje;ty observes, that their first business during
this Session will be a well-organized system of finance, the
present being the worst possible. Numerous laws are still
necessary to complete the Constitution, and, though all
cannot be done in one Session, yet still they ought to begin.
The friendly relations with those Powers who have sent
their Ministers to Rio are unchanged, and the sudden and
unfounded departure of the Ambassador of the United
States need not cause any alarm, as the wisdom of the Pre-
sident, and the justice and impartiality of the United States
may be depended upon. The marriage of the Queen of Portu-
gal.has been celebrated at Vienna, and I hope, adds his Ma-
jesty, soon to see her husband my brother at this Court. The
Constitutional cause triumphs in Portugal, in spite of the
powerful parties, and it must succeed, as the Charter was
given in so legitimate a manner.

MAT 7.—The Diar7oFl;minense, gives an official
account, by the Baron de Rioda Prat - commander of the

fleet, of the affair' at Pattgoneg, and the aetlotii Of Ith and
Sth April, which agrees with the accounts given byithe
Buenos Ayres papers.

Extract of a Letter from Buenos Ayres, dated April 10.—
" Peace is still withheld, though great expectations conti-
nue to be entertained that it is not far off; in the mean
time, this port continues strictly blockaded, but notwith-
standing, we hear of several arrivals at Solado, and Rio
Negro, chiefly Brazilian coasters, prizes to the numerous
privateers that are now cruising under the flag of this
State. An action was fought on the Bth inst., near En-
sinado, between a division of vessels belonging to this
Government, and the blockading squadron, which termi-
nated in the destruction of two of the principal vessels be-
longing to the former, they having got aground."

A letter from Monte Video, dated the 25th of April,
from the captain of the Briton merchant vessel, which
had arrived from Liverpool, states that commerce was en-
tirely at a stand, and the place overstocked with European
goods of every denomination. No produce, and conse-
quently no freight. There was, therefore, no alternative
but proceeding from thence to Rio or Bahia no difficulty
with vessels coming with regular clearances ; but there are
several British vessels which have laid up for four or five
months, waiting with their cargoes, under the hope of the
blockade being raised. The Custom House has, however,
determined to land their cargoes, as there is no probability
of this event taking place.

The Gazette of last night contains an an-
nouncement which will afford great satisfaction
to our Naval Readers, and must receive the
approbation of all persons who have a regard for
fight and justice. We allude to the notification
from the Admiralty that three most respectable
Officers, who had been passed over at former
Naval Promotions, and placed on the list of
superannuated Rear Admirals, have been ad-
vanced to the respective ranks as Flag Officers
which they would have held if they had been
originally included in the Flag Promotions, at
which they were passed over, namely, JOHN
BAZELY, Esq., to be Vice Admiral of the
Blue ; and SHULDHAM PEARD, Esq., and
Esq., to be Rear Admirals of
MAN DOBSON,
the Red.

These highly respectable Officers owe this act
of justice to the Lord High Admiral, and
the act does equal honour to the judgment
and right feeling of his Royal Highness.
It will be duly appreciated by the service
over which he presides, and will be hailed
as a sure omen of the termination of the arbitrary
and uncertain practice which has of late years
governed the promotion of Admirals.
It may not be amiss on this occasion to take
a view of the rules, or practice, (for we believe
there are no regulations on the subject,) with
respect to the promotion of Flag Officers.
The KING, in delegating to the Lord High
Admiral various great and extensive powers,
reserves to himself the appointment of Flag
Officers ; but it follows of course that the recom-
mendation of Officers to his MAJESTY for that
distinguished rank, emanatea, from the Lord
High Admiral. In ancient times no general
rule for the selection of Officers for this high
station prevailed. The total number of Ad.
mirals was very small, and they were selected
without reference to their actual seniority as
Naval Officers. In time, however, as the Navy
of Great Britain, increased, and her Officers be-
came more numerous, more precise regulations
with respect to rank and command became ne-
cessary. Seniority as Captains constituted per-
manent rank, and the Flag Officers were only
selected from the top of the list which was then
formed. In this selection of course the KING
exercised his judgment, and passed by such
officers as from not having served at sea, or
from other causes, were not deemed fit for the
command of fleets, but as the service continued
to extend, promotion to the rank of Flag Officer
became more general, and was granted as the re-
ward of long service, without, perhaps, the pro-
bability of each of the Officers on whom it was
conferred being employed in that rank. Lord
HowE, however, while First Lord of the Ad-
miralty, made a strong endeavour to restore the
ancient practice of selection, and at one promo-
tion passed over nearly fifty Captains, amongst
whom were some Officers of the highest merit.
This course was not subsequently pursued, and
future Flag Promotions, included all Captains
at the top of the list, excepting those against
whose characters there might be some reproach,
and those who had not commanded line of battle
ships. This seems to have been the governing
principle, though, as we said before, no distinct
regulation exists on the subject, the KING re-
serving the power to himself of giving the rank
of Flag Officer to whom he pleases.
It is obvious, therefore, that when no certain
rule exists, and where the governing principle is
to give promotion only to those Officers who
have commanded line of battle ships, a principle
which has been often deviated from, and can
never with justice in a long peace be adhered to,
frequent cases of the most cruel injustice have
occurred of Officers having been passed over
who served with zeal and activity for years in
frigates, but have never been able to obtain the
command of line of battle ships, though anxious
for it, while others have obtained their flag from
having been, through the exertion of high
interest, put into ships for a few months, when
near the top of the list, after having n on
shore for 20 or 25 years.
We believe the officers no
promoted all to
have been active frigate , ptains, and to have
been hitherto exclud from their rank as Flag
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Officers, an yl
( a stigma thus attached to them
merely fro
Aheir never having been able to ob-
tain the
mmand of ships of the line.
Disroiguished and honourable as the station of
a 21 Officer of his MAJESTY'S fleet must
eve;
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4800 considered, it is not our wish to see ad-
..faitiCed to it Arm man whose character has re-

eeived the slightest tarnish, er Against whom the
most trivial objection as an officer or a gentle:
man can attach ; but if no such objection exists,
we do conceive that none should be considered to
arise from the circumstance of his not. having
commanded a line-of-battle ship, unless he has
declined employment. Men who have devoted
themselves to the service of their country, whose
early years have been actively employed in it,
and who have, perhaps, pleaded strongly though
in vain for subsequent employment, or have
been prevented by ill health from undertaking
active duties, ought not to be excluded from the
honourable though not lucrative provision which
:he Country has provided for her oldest officers,
and thereby be stigmatized as persons unfit for
the rank which their brother officers as Captains
attain. The subsequent selection of Flag Officers
for commands, should of course be made from
the officers of most experience and skill as
Captains.

ARCTIC En'SDITION.—We lately published an account
of the operations of the Arctic Expedition, under Captain
Franklin, which, we believe, was all that at that time had
transpired respecting it. The New Montreal Gazette of
Monday last, however, furnishes us with the following in-
teresting particulars, which we hasten to lay before our
readers :—Having reached Mackenzie River, they satisfac-
torily ascertained that they could have reached Icy Cape,
but for the simple circumstance of their not being able.
The expedition met with some annoyance from the Esqui-
maux, but these people they easily dispersed, by the hu-
mane process of shooting over them. The Hudson's Bay
ports in the interior are tranquil, with the exception of
several disturbances ; their prospects in regard to trade
are of the entire prohibition of the article in the greatest
consumption. The settlers in the Red River seem very
comfortable and happy, many of them being obliged to be-
take themselves to the plains and lakes for subsistence.
The remaining interesting particulars we have given some
weeks since.— Canadian Courant, June 6.

HALF-PAST Two.—A letter has just been
exhibited on the Royal Exchange from Buenos Ayres,
dated 13th April, stating, that the Government had se-
veral meetings to collect five hundred thousand pounds, to
give to the Emperor of the Brazils to make Peace.

THE FUNDS-(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twelve o' Clock.

Consols opened this morning at 88k, became soon after
rather heavy, having fallen to 874 recovered again to the
first price, but receded to 874 the present price. Ex-
chequer Bills had advanced one shilling per cent., and are
now 59 60 pm. ; India Bonds, 87 9. The Foreign Funds
have had little attention paid to them ; Mexican Bonds
continue flat at 684 ; Colombian are 31 4 ; Russian are
94 4; Brazilian, 60 i ; and Buenos Ayres, 62 4 ; both
these two latter powers seem determined, from the advices
which have been brought by the packet, to contemplate a
continuance of the war. The Emperor of Brazil, it is
said, will allow of no advice which recommends a settle-
ment of the differences, and treats with arrogance every
thing which bears the least appearance of a Republican Go-
vernment; in the mean time the Buenos Ayres authorities
are busily engaged in preparing to carry a conviction to his
Imperial Majesty's mind of the utter hopelessness of con-
tending with them by land. Both countries appear to be
in a desperate state, and the privations both suffer grew
the malignant feeling with which this war is carried on ;
how these powers are to continue paying their dividends on
the loan., under such circumstances, appears, at best doubt.
fu/. Shares are utterly forgot, except by the holders, and
there does not appear any better prospect for the present.
Three per Cent. Consols, shut ; Ditto for Account,
874 ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 87 4; Three and a-
half per Cent. Reduced, 934 ; Four per Cent., 1004 1 ;
Ditto 1826, 1021 4 ; India Bonds, Si 9 pm. ; Exchequer
Bills, 59 60 pm.

FOIL/M.N.—Brazilian, 60 i ; Buenos Ayres, 62 i ;
ColootTaian, 1824, 31 i; Danish, 63i I; Greek, 17 ;
Mexican 5 per Cent., 56 ; Ditto 6 per Cent., asi
Portuguese, 76 7 ; Russian, 844 3- ; SpaniA, 10,1 11.
Muirs.—Anglo Mexican, 45 2f die.; Colombian, 10
12 per Share ; Real del Monte, 80 70 die. ; United Mexi-
can, 19 18.

Two o' Clock.

Consols have been 87.1- f, but have recovered to
87 I. Colombian, 301 ; Mexican, 67 ; Greek,
16/ The report continues in the city, that the three
Allied Powers have signed a treaty relative to Greek affairs,
and that it was sent to France yesterday.

THREE 0' CL 0 CK.
Consols, 87i, buyers.
FOUR O'CLOCK--CLOSING PRICES.
Consols 861 f - Danish Bonds 63
Do. for Ac. 87i Greek Do. 1825, 17
Brazilian Bonds 591 Mexican Do. 1825 67A
Buenos Ayres Do. 62i Peruvian Do. 4
Chilian Do. Russian Do. 941
Columbia; 1824, 30,i- Spanish Do. WI

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FROM LLOYD'S.
Thud., Jos
6.—Wind E.S.E..—Arrived the Welling..
"PE:rasns:O from Madras.
o uvf, Jutx 6. —Wind S.E.—Arrived the
Hope, Rippolh from Memel. Sailed the Neptune, Cum_
berledge for Bombay ; and Underwood, Remmington, for
Demerara.
JuLy 6.---Wind S.W.—Arrived the Argus,
pLy,iooo,
Foster, front Quebec.
Em JULY. S.—Wind N.—Arrived the Emu-
lous packet, Griffin, from Buenos Ayres, sailed April 22 ;
s:11,
Monte and Rio Janeiro, May 11. The Sky-
lark May 7. Sailed the Duke of
Rent poet Lisbon.
for Lsbon.
The Florida Whaler, Hastings, of London, was pirati-
callyarrivedßio, takin possession of 28th of March, near the Castellas,
and the mister and crew turned on shore about 130 miles
fromitnkonado.
ThoPrlnce of. Saxe Coburg, from London, was wrecked
10th .)ec• last, in Fury Harbour, crew saved and arrived
at Arte Video.

WINDSOR, JULY 6.—On Wednesday, Sir
DRBERT TAYLOR arrived at the Royal Lodge, and had
a, audience of the Kiric ; after which he had the honour
cf dining and passing the evening with hie MAJESTY.
It i 9 daily expected that his MAJESTY will commence
sir aquatic excursions, the Royal marquees having been
lately erected on the same site at Virginia Water as last year.
ilia 111a.ix5nr continues to enjoy good health, and takes
hi, daily recreations.
The Queen of Wuwastunct continues to improve in
health. Her MaJzsTY takes an ciring daily in the plea-
sure-grounds of Frogmore:

The Duchess of KENT gave a grand dinner
yesterday, at hey apartments, in the King's Palace, at
Kensington, to a numerous party of Nobility and Gentry.

The Duchess of KENT, accompanied by the
Princess Fronoar, visited the Duke and Duchess of
CLARINCE at their residence, in Bushy Park, on Thursday.

Married on Thursday, by special licence, at
the seat of the Duke of CLAREwcz, in Bushy Park, the
Hon. Mr. KENNXDY, second son of the Earl and Countess
Of CASSIUS, to Miss AUGUSTA FITZ-CLARENCE. The
Duke of SussEx, and the heads and relatives of the two
families were present at the performance of the ceremony.
After the ceremony the happy pair came to town to the
residence of Earl Cassilis, in Privy Gardens. The new-
married couple left town yesterday, for the seat of the Earl
of Cassilis, Culzeane Castle, Ayrshire.

The domestics composing the establishments
of the Duke and Duchess of CLARENCE, the Duke of
Sussex, the Duchess of KENT, and of the other members
of the Royal family, went out of mourning on Thursday—
six months having elapsed since the decease of the late
Duke of YORK.

Prince PoLIGNAC, the French Ambassador,
triu-Ilacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary
of State 117 fWeir 441'

LAW INTELLTGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
COTTON V. SOMERS.

The plaintiff in this case is a tailor at Somers-town, and
the defendant a butcher there. The present action was
brought to recover compensation in damages for an injury
done to the plaintiff's child by a heifer belonging to the
defendant.

Mr. BROUGHAM and Mr. PLATT appeared for the plain-
tiff, and the ATTORNEY GENERAL for the defendant.
Susannah Joyce deposed, that on Wednesday, April 28,
1826, the defendant and two of his men were quietly
driving three beasts towards the defendant's yard, but when
they arrived at the gate, one of the beasts (the heifer men -
tioned) suddenly jumped aside and ran along the road,
kicking and tossing her horns, one ofwhich was broke, and
the other had a nut on it ; she was met by a young boy,
who waved his hat at her, whereupon she turned aside
into another road, which the plaintiff's child, about
two and a half years of age, was then unfortunately
crossing. The heifer, coming in contact with the child,
struck her horn into her forehead, and fractured the bone,
in consequence of which she bled profusely. The child was
immediately brought to the Northern Dispensary, of which
the late Mr. Parker was then apothecary, and dressed.
Several other witnesses corroborated the above witness.

The son of Mr. Parker, proved that his father had
attended the child till the 29th July. It was at the
plaintiff's house that he attended her. Witness could
not swear whether it was as apothecary for the Dispen-
sary, that his father attended her. Witness, however, at
his mother's desire, made out an account for his father's
attendance, amounting to about 301. There was a regula-
tion, that the apothecary for the Dispensary could not do
private business. His father was a bankrupt at the time
of his death.

Mr. Proctor, clerk to the Solicitors, who sued out a
Commission of Bankrupt against the late Mr. Parker,
proved that the assignees bad got a bill from the plaintiff
for the bankrupt's account, for attendance on the child.
Mr. Frederick Scale, surgeon to the dispensary, saw the
child there, and saw her very lately. She was far from
being yet well ; the bone does not cover the brain ; and she
will require great attention through life.
_ _ _

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL submitted that his Learned
Friends had not made out a case to go to the Jury. From
the evidence adduced, it did not appear that the
defendant was in any degree to blame for the accident.—
He and his servants were quietly driving the cattle
along ; and there was no evidence whatever that the
heifer was in the least unruly, previous to her coming
to the gate, and of course the defendant could not anticipate
her subsequent conduct. The Learned Counsel expressed
sorrow for the misfortune of the child ; but he felt confi-
dent, as the law at present stood, the defendant could not
be made responsible for it.
Mr. BROUGHAM contended that, from the circumstance
of the heifer having one horn broke, and the other having
a nut on it, it was clear that she must have been a furious
beast, and that the defendant had not used the necessary
precaution to prevent any accident. At all events, he
maintained it was a case peculiarly for the consideration of
the Jury.
Lord TENTERDIN said he was always unwilling to take
any case out of the bands of the Jury; but there were cer-
tain cases in which it was the duty of the Judge to inter-
pose, and he thought the present was one of them. His
Lordship then stated the same reasons as those given by the
Attorney-General. He hoped no man had a greater regard
to the interests of the poor than he had ; but he felt satis-
fied the present action could not be maintained ; and he
could not help blaming the plaintiff's advisers for bringing
it. With regard to Parker's claim, his Lordship said that
if the plaintiff bad not given a bill to his assignees, they
certainly could not recover.—Plaintiff nonsuited.

ARCHES COURT.
KING V. SANSON, FALSELY CALLING HERSELF KINCt.
This was a suit of nullity of marriage, upon the ground
of minority.
The COURT declared the marriage valid, thereby affirm-
ing the decision of the Judge of the Consistory Court.

THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)

COVENT-GARI
There was a great supply at 1
trade was tolerably brisk. The
in the highest state of perfection.
stationary, though, as will be a
some things were a little lower.

DEN MARKET.
this morning's market, and the
Vegetables and Ripe Fruits were
1. Prices, for the most part, were
seen by the quotations, those of

s. d. s. d.
Potatoes (per cwt.) 5 Otoll 0
Cabbages (12 heads) 1 0 2 0
Cauliflowers 2 6 5 0
Cos Lettuces (score) 0 9 1 6
Horseßadish (bundle) 2 0 4 0
Turnip Radishes 0 9 1 6
Brocoli lO 1 6
Celery 1 0 1 6
Rhubarb 0 6 0 9
Carrot: (l bunelleg) 6 0 12 0
Turnips
Coleworts or Greens 1 6 3 0
Young Onions
Leeks 1 0 1 6
Radishes (12 hands) 0 9 1 6
Cucumbers (brace) 0 3 0 9
Sweet Oranges (100) 6 0 11 0
Seville Ditto 8 0 15 0
Lemons '7 0 14

s. d. s. d.
French Beans (100) 1 Oto 2 0
Asparagus (100)
Spinage (half.sieve) 0 6 0
Green Pease 1 0 2 6
Cabbage Lettuces 1 0 2
Broad Beans 1 0 2 6
Currants 2 6 4 6
Gooseberries 1 9 4 6
Apples, Common 3 6 6
Ditto, Choice 7 9 °:2 0
Span.EnglishC nalunt us
t(
sp
e ir:) 13
3 62 06
Reerinechh ditto 2 6 5 0
is 2 6 4 0
Spanish I-k
z,enuts 3 0 4 6
Strawbrlries (pottle) 0 6 1
,1341, r:oerries 0 6 1 6
,nerries (121 b.)

HAY DIARKETs.:::(A
ST. JA
Lowland Mea' Ha 4s. s s. s.
oto 5 0 Clover Hay 4 15 to
Upland ~ y 5
10 610 Oat straw 1 18 2 2
Rye-grtss Hay 5106 10 Wheat Ditto 222 10
lir:: Ditto.... .... ...4 10 510
A short supply, and a brisk trade; prices as last quoted.
SMITHFIELD.
s. L. s.
Lowland Mead. Hay 3 1510 4 15
Upland Ditto . 415 515
Rye-grass Hay 415 515
New Meadow Hay 4 5 415
Supply short, trade rather

t per Load of ad Trussea.)
MES'S.

Cloy. Hay generally 4. 15 to 6 15
Do. extra fine 0 0 '7
Oat Straw 2 0 2 5
Wheat Ditto 2 5 2to
orisk, and prices stationary.

FISH-MARKET, BILLINGSGATE.
There was a considerable quantity of Salmon in the
market this morning, but chiefly of the small description ;
in other sorts of fish the supply was rather limited, as
little more was exhibited for sale than would answer the
ordinary demand, and the stock in the market was speedily
exhausted. The following were the prices :
Prime large Turbots, Ss. to 10s. each ; small do.
46. 6d. to 6s. each ; fine Salmon, 1.. 3d. per lb. ; do. in-
ferior, ls. do. ; Salmon Trout, 10d, ; fine Whitings, 3s. to
49. per basket (containing fifteen); large ditto, 3s. to 4s.
(containing seven) ; fine Brill, 3.. each ; Brighton Soles.
3s. per three pair ; Flounders, 2s. per quartern ; Eels,
3.. per 51b., or 12s. per draught ; fine Haddocks, Ss. to
10s. per dozen; fine Lobster., 15s. par score; small do.,
from 6s. upwards. Mackerel were not plentiful, none be-
ing in the market but those of land carriage ; the prices
were 20e. to 321. per hundred. In the prices of other
kinds of fish no variation.

In the Courts of Common Pleas and Ex-
chequer (this day), nothing of public moment occurred.
It is with the utmost pleasure we are enabled to an-
nounce that the Thalia, Capt. Biden, from Calcutta, for
whose safety so many fears have been entertained, having
on board 80 or 90 invalids, returning to Europe, has just
been posted at Lloyd's, as having arrived at Trincomalee,
Ceylon, on the 9th of February last.
DOVER, JULY 6, 1827.—Arrived from Calais
his Majesty's steam-packet Crusader, Capt. Mormort,
with his Serene Highness the Prince of LaININGIN and
suite. His Highness was saluted from the western heights,
and shortly after proceeded for Kensington Palace.—Ar-
rived from Boulogne the Britannia steam-boat, Captain
Bushell, having on board his Grace the Duke of GORDON,
with his family, from Switzerland, where the Noble Duke
was residing when intelligence reached him of the death of
the late Duke. His Grace has proceeded towards London.
—Mr. Poulett Thomson, M.P. for this town, accom-
panied by his friends, Lord Nugent and Mr. Warburton,
M.P. for Bridport, arrived at the York Hotel on Wednes-
day night. They yesterday dined with a very numerous
and respectable party of Dover freemen, in Mr. Thornson's
interest, in a large booth erected for the purpose in a field
near the town, and the day passed off with much convi-
viality, and highly to the satisfaction of the party. Mr.
Poulett Thomson addressed his constituents at much length
on the votes he had given, and on the line of conduct he
proposed to pursue. The two other Hon. Members also
addressed the meeting ; and it appears to-day the general
opinion that Mr. Poulett Thomson has increased his in-
terest in the town by the candid and manly way in which he
rendered to his constituents an account of his stewardship.
—The health of Mr. Thomson's worthy colleague, Mr.
Bootle Wilbraham, was drank with loud applause. About
nine o'clock Mr. Thomson's carriage arrived, and he pro-
ceeded with Lord Nugent and Mr. Warburton on his return
to London.

FAIRLoP FAlR.—This being the grand day
for the sports at Fairlop, the roads in the direction presented
a busy scene, at an early hour this inornjug, great num-
ber of persons were hastening down Whitcchapel-road to
enjoy the humours of the scene at this far-famed fair. Eyer 3
species of vehicle was in requisition, and from appearances
it would seem, that Fairlop will be more fully attended than
for pars

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

GITILDH A LL.
Richard Coster, the lit.,;: ~,gracter who was remand.
ed several times upon a charge of having attempted to pass
a bill of exchange supposed to have been the forged ac-
ceptance of an Irish gentleman named Pierce Power, was
again brought before the Sitting Magistrate, and discharg-
pd for want of evidence. The Magistrate recommended
him to be more cautious in future.

MERMAIDS on the COAST of CORNWALL.

The following is an extract of a letter received on
Sunday last from our Correspondent at St. Columb :
—" Within these last two or three days there have
been several mermaids seen on the rocks at Tre-
nance, in the parish of Mawgan. I will state the
particulars at length, as I have been enabled to col-
lect them, and which are from undoubted authority,
and you can make what extracts you think proper.
One evening this week,a young man who lives adjoin-
ing the beach at Mawgan Porth, had made an appoint-
ment to meet another person on the beach to catch
sprats with him. He went out about ten o'clock at
night, and coming near a point which runs into the
sea, he heard a screeching noise proceeding from a
large cavern which is left by the tide at low water,
but which has some deep pools in it, and communi-
cates with the sea by another outlet. He thought it
was the person he had appointed to meet, and called
out to him; but his astonishment is not to be de-
scribed, when on going up he saw something in the
shape of a human figure staring on him, with long
hair hanging all about it. He then ran away, think-
ing, as he says, that he had seen the devil. The.
next day, some men being on the cliffs near tlils
place, saw three creatures of the same description.
'['he following day five were seen. The persolis who
saw the last five describe them in this manner :
The mermaids were about forty feet below the men
(who stood on the cliff), and were lying on a rock,
separated from the land some yards by deep water;
two of them were large, about four feet and a half to
tive feet long, and these appeared to be sleephlg on
the rock; the other small ones were swimming
about, and went off once to sea, and then came back
e uetd theytobe wouldlyiog not
oi.
again. The men looked at them for more than an
hmour, and
ooff.
flung atones
larg e at
onesthemm
s le ;but b
their faces; their upper parts were like those of hu-
man beings, and Mack or dark-coloured, with very
long hair haneng around them; their lower parts
were of a Munch colour, and terminating in a fin, like
fish. rne sea would sometimes wash over them,
and then leave them dry again. Their movements
seemed to be slow. The hair of these mermaids ex-
tended to a distance of nine or ten feet.—Plymouth
,Tournal.

BRAY v. BRAY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR,—In consequence of an ex-parte statement, relative
to the suit instituted against me by my wife at the instiga-
tion of her family, which would injure me in the eyes of
those who do not know me to be incapable of the conduct
imputed, I feel it a duty I owe to my friends, as well as
to myself, to beg the public to suspend their judgment on
the case until I have been heard in answer to the libel ex-
hibited in the Consistory Court, and the indictment which
has been found against Mrs. Elizabeth Molken, my wife's
mother, and Mr. Spode alias Hammersley, her uncle, Mr.
Vance, and Mr. Robert Shank Atcheson, for conspiring to
institute this very suit, has been tried.—l am, Sir, your'a
very obediently, BIDLAKE BRAY.

SOLEMN ENTRY of THE CAMELEOPARD