The Sun.
London, England, 1827-07-25 00:00:00

SECOND HEAT.

1. Jamey Smart and George Holroyd—pick.
2. Charles Speed and John Perrarn—green.
3. Richard Westwood and George Afackay—yellow.
4. Samuel Piner and Robert Evans—brown.

THE FIRST Ils:Ar---Was started for at half-past three
o'clock, by Scarlet, Purple, White, and Light Blue. The
boats went off at the moment the pistol was fired, and kept
their way downwards almost together ; but Purple took
the lead at the turn near Soinerset-house, and kept it in
a very tine and skilful manner. Light Blue soon gained
the second place, and pressed hard upon Purple nearly to
the conclusion of the heat, when Scarlet, by a great ex-
ertion of strength, pushed by her, and came in second ;
and the heat was determined to have been won by Purple
and Scarlet. The heat was most excellently contested.
THE SECOND HEAL—Pink, Green, Yellow, and Brown,
at about five o'clock, started for this heat, and, after a
most skilful effort on the part of the last three boats, the
heat was decided in favour of Yellow and Brown. The
boat distinguished by the colour Green was third. Pink
appeared to have knocked up early in the .contest.
THE THIRD AND LAST HEAT..---At seven o'clock the
signal was given. The boats pressed on their course with
the tide ahnost in a level course, until Yellow, about
Hungerford, took the lead, and kept it throughout,
closely pressed by Purple, which came in second, Scarlet
third, and Brown last.

Several bands of music enlivened the scene, and per-
formed a variety of popular airs.

GRAND ROWING MATCH-PORTSMOUTH.

A Grand Rowing Match took place on Saturday last
at Portsmouth, which had caused much interest for some
days before, from the heavy betting and the equal good-
ness of boats and officers, between the Officers of his Ma-
jesty's ship 'Wellesley, in the Little Falcon, and the
Officers of the 18th Royal Irish, in the Hibernia ; they
started by signal at half-past two from the Clarence Rooms,
round the Prince in the harbour and back again, a dis-
tance of four miles, which the Little Falcon did in thirty-
eight minutes, beating the .Hibernia by a minute and a
half. The spectacle altogether, from the fineness of the
day, and•the bands of the different ships, stationed in boats
at equal distances, and the numerous boats that attended,
made one of the most imposing sights known for some
years at this place, and both parties were heartily cheered
on their landing, after the race, and the day ended with a
jovial dinner on board the Wellesley, to a grand party of
Military and Naval men. It always affords us great plea-
sure to record such events, when the two services are
Waited iu promotiog such tat:mui aniussuacats,

FASHtOt4ABLE Alv'D miSeELLANtOU,

WINDSOR, JULY 24.—Yesterday the KING
paid .a visit to the QueEit of WURTEMBERG and their
Royal Highnesses Princess AuGusrA and the Duchess of
GLOUCESTER, at Frogmore Lodge, where he remained up-
wards of an hour. On leaving the Lodge, her Royal
Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER. accompanied the
KING in his phaeton, when his MarEstir drove through
the Great Park and Norfolk Farm to Virginia Water. In

the course of the day, Lord FARNBOROUGH and Sir
SAMUEL HULSE arrived on a visit to his MAJESTY, with
whom and her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER,
they had the honour of dining at Virginia Water. The
Knac and his Royal party dined for the first time this
season on hoard of the mahogany dining boat. After
dinner her Royal Highness the Duchess of GLOUCESTER re-
turned in his AIA,YESIT'S phaeton (which she drove) to
Frogmore Lodge, where her Royal Highness continues on
a visit.

Yesterday the Queen of WURTEMBERG, ac-
companied by her Royal sister Princess AUGUSTA, took an
airing in the pony phaeton in the Great Park, and to St.
Leonard's, where they paid a visit to the Countess of HAR,.
COURT, and returned by the Horse Barracks, and through
-Windsor, to Frogmore Lodge.

This day the following Commissioners met at
the Castle, in order to inspect the works,.—the Earl of
ABERDEEN, Lord FARNBOROUGH, Viscount GODERICH,
and Mr. SruacEs BoURNE ; they were met by Mr. WvAx-
vlLLE,.who produced all the plans, and attended the Com-
missioners in the inspection of all the works—his Majesty
was expected but did not arrive.

Prince LEOPOLD left his residence in Pall.
mall, yesterday morning, for his seat at Claremont.

The Duke of SUSSEX gave a grand dinner
yesterday, to a numerousparty of Nobility and Gentry, at
his apartments in the King's Palace at Kensington.
The Duke of SUSSEX honoured Count Lu-
DOLF, the Neapolitan Minister, with his company to din-
ner on Monday, at his residence in •Gloncester-place. There
was a select party to meet his Royal Highness.

Prince POLIGNAC, the French Ambassador,
transacted business yesterday at the office of the Secretary
of State for Foreign Affairs.

Mr. and Mrs. PEEL arrived at their residence
in Privy-gardens yesterday afternoon, from the seat of the
Duke of Wellington, at Strathfieldsay, where they had
been staying on a visit to his Grace and the Duchess cf
WELLINGTON, since Thursday last. The Duke and
Duchess have been entertaining a numerous party of their
friends, at their seat at Strathfieldsay. The Judges of that
circuit dined with their Graces on Sunday. Earl and
Countess BATHURST took leave of their Noble host and
hostess yesterday morning, for their seat near Cirencester,
Gloucestershire.

Lord MELBOURNE entertained a distinguish-
ed Party to dinner, yesterday, at hie house, Whitehall.
Countess COWPER entertained an elegant
party of the haut ton, on Monday evening, at her house in
Little Maddox-street, Hanovcr-square.

The Duke de VILLA HERMOSA, the
Spanish Minister at Faris, who ratified the agreement of
February last, for the liquidation of the claims of British
subjects on the Court of Spain, has• just been rewarded
with the order of the Golden Fleece, for -his services on
the Spanish Embassy at Paris. The Chevalier de Coat-
DOVA, his Secretary, has been rewarded with the appoint-
thent of Ambassador to Denmark ; and yet the agreement
in question (forming certainly not the least important of
the acts of the Duke during his Parisian Embassy) is re-
pudiated by his Court, on The ground of his Excellency
having departed from his instructions.

A GYPSEY PARTY, OR PIC NIC.-A party
of this description having been proposed at the Opera on
Saturday night, by a young and beautiful Duchess, the
idea was considered a happy one, and instantly adopted.—
The party is chosen and the arrangements completed, i. e.
the Ladies will provide the eatables, and the Gentlemen
the wines. The spot fixed upon is the Putney Cedars, a
most romantic situation. The company will go up the
river in beautiful four-oared cutters, and the rowers will
be amateurs.

Mr. NoRmA N repeated the character of Philip,
in the piece of Luke the Labourer, at the Surrey Theatre,
last evening, and received the approbation of a fashionable
and crowded house.

JUDGE BURTON.—Nothing more was heard
on Saturday, in the Hall, relative to the Chancellorship,
than the echo of the statement in the Morning Register.
—There was nothing additional, touching the matter, in
the communications from England.—Dublin Morning
Register.

A POLITE CORRESPONDENT.—A Gentle-
man at Paris writing a few days since to a.lady at Saint
Petersburgh, thus commenced his letter :—" Madam, I
should apologise for writing to you in my shirtsleeves;
but the weather is so excessively hot that I have been under
the necessity of tucking them up."—Le Ford.
NAPPER TANDY had lived for some time in
a kind of exile at Bordeaux. He was not permitted to go
to Paris. Shortly after his death, a lady resident in Bor-
deaux wrote to a friend in Ireland, adding in a postcript to
her letter—" Napper Tandy, thank God ! is dead." A
police officer, who, it seems, had perused the letter, in.
dignant at this remark, returned it to the writer with a
second postscript at the bottom :—" N. T., Madam, is
not dead."

FRUIT MEASURE,—A correspondent appre-
hends, from the rapid decline the London fruit pottle has
suffered this season, that in another year (while the gar-
deners are careful to increase the size of their gooseberries
and strawberries) they will not be able to get these fruits
into the potties, even in single rows. " I think (he adds)
you will find my opinion very current, though the gar-
deners may feel rather tart at any public notice being taken
of the circumstance."

CURIOUS ACCIDENT.—A horse was this
morning observed galloping up to Waterloo-bridge, in a
chaise without a driver. The toll-gate was closed, and
the horse then made for the palisade on the side of the
bridge opposite the shot-manufactory, but, perhaps not much
relishing the leap, he turned down the boat-stairs, which
be descended very carefully, as far as the chaise would let
him, and was secured in that situation without any injury
to himself or the gig.
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM DUBLIN.
—" NEGLECTED GENIUS."—A curious scene occurred on
Wednesday night, which has not been noticed in the re-
ports of the performances. The opera of Guy Manneriny
was acted. Miss C— played Julia Illanneriny, and
sung her songs horribly out of. tune. In the duct " Now
hope, now fear," tier screaming was more discordant than
the notes of a peacock. The audience laughed and Braham
tittered. The lady became enraged, and the audience be-
came more funny. At length her fury rose to such a pitch
that hissing superseded the less angry manifestation of dis-
like. She darted forward, and commanded the orchestra
to cease, and she addressed the audience in the following
manner :—" To one of my sex it is painful to be obliged
to address an audience, but my natural timidity—(loud
laughter ;)—aye, to be sure, my delicacy—(increased laugh-
ter)—on this occasion, shall not prevent me. I have been
now for two years endeavouring to please you and I have
not succeeded.—(Hear, hear.)—You are hard to be pleased.
I shall leave you—(Cries from the gallcry---" Ah ! don',
—lave us a lock of your hair for a keepsake ;")—I shall
leave you—l quit you this moment for ever—aye, for
ever !" The lady strutted off, and shouts of laughter and
hissing accompanied her retirement. She did not appear
afterwards.

HORRIBLE MURDER AT GOSPORT.

RECEIVED THIS PAY AY Expßrs,

The town of Gosport was thrown into the greatest con-
eternationin consequence of its havinlg
on Sunday morning,
been rumoured that a seaman had been murdered under
peculiarly atrocious circumstances, in the houF4l of a
.female of had character, in the preceding evening. It ap-
peared on inquiry, that a person of the name of Alexander
Stroud, a native of Bermuda, and a seaman belonging to
the Primrose had been drinking at a public-house in that
town on Saturday evening, along with several of his
vompanions. Among these were an individual named
John Sullivan, and a female of improper oharactar,
called Elizabeth Hickson, well known in Gosport by
the appellation of Betsy 'Clarke. The deceased it ap-
peared, had retired with this woman to her lodgings, late
on the above evening, and was there joined shortly
afterwards by Sullivan. About two o'clock on Sunday
morning, some of the neighbours heard the window of
Clarke's lodgings thrown hastily up, and the cry of
" watchman " repeated three times, and one person was
said to have heard, about the same time, the cry of mut--
ler." These cries were followed up by the noise of violent
struggling, as if some one had been assaulted ; it became
fainter and fainter; and at length totally ceased, when a
lull sound was beard, as if some one was sinking heavily
to the ground. An investigation was set on foot next morn-
trig, when the body of a man, which turned out to be that of
Stroud, was discovered lying on the floor of Clarke's lodg-
ings, besmeared with blood and covered with bruises.
Life had been extinct for some hours previous. On the
..:lothes of Clarke, there were also marks of blood anti
violence.. It was then found out that Sullivan had been
Absent from his lodgings during the whole of Saturday
evening, having only returned between six and seven on
the following morning, and that he had accompanied the
leeeased to Clarke's room. Suspicion naturally fell upon
Sullivan and Clarke, and a warrant was immediately issued
for their apprehension.

On Monday an inquest was held on the body, before
Charles Longcroft, Esq., one of the Coroner's for the
County of Hants.' The following is the evidence laid before
the Jury
John Clark, of Gosport, waterman—l went into the
Navy Tavern, about a quarter before eight in the evening,
having seen the deceased go in there : I had something tc,
drink with him, and Betsy Clarke was the only pet-son with
him at that time ; MrLarin came in soon after, and thea
Ruth Scott and Sullivan afterwards came in, and we con-
Linued drinking till about ten o'cluelc, wliza I came away ;
I saw nothing more of the deceased, Clarke, 30
till the next morning, when about seven o'clock Ruth
Scott came to my house, and called me up, and said,• that
the man was dead, who was with Betsy Clarke, and desired
me to go with her to Betsy Clarke's lodgings ; I went ':wtith
her immediately, and on going into Betsy Clarke's room,,
saw the deceased lying dead at the foot of the bed ; there'
was a considerable quantity of blood on the pillows of the
bed, and on the floor. He had a shirt on, stockings, and
a black silk handkerchief round his neck, which was tight,
there was no person in the room. Ruth Scott Rent
with me.

Ruth Scott, wife of William Scott, a cooper in the Asia
ship, sworn, saith—l live at Gosport, and occupy two
rooms of the house in which Betsy Clarke lodges. I was
it the Navy Tavern all the evening iu company with the
deceased, Betsy Clarke, John Sullivan. and John Clark.
I did not perceive that the deceased was much in liquor.
Betsy Clarke was very tipsy when she left the room she was
in. I and John Clark left the room where the deeeused
and Betsy Clerks were about ten o'clock, and staid in the
tap room drinking with John Clark ; he and I left the
Navy Tavern about eleven o'clock, and left the cleceased
with Betsy Clarke and Sullivan. I heard no more &Icing
the night, nor saw any person till Betsy Clarke came ter
my room on Sunday morning about ten o'clock all over
blood ; she said, " Do get up and come down to my room,
for I-do think that the man I slept with last night is dead.
I got up immediately and ran down to her room, and there
saw the deceased lying dead at the foot of the bed, with
blood on his neck and hands. Betsy Clarke said nothing,
but laughed, and I told her that she had more reason to
cry than laugh; the was perfectly sober, and appeared in
her proper senses; the deceased had a black silk hand-
kerchief on, which was drawn tight, and I thought he had
been strangled ; when Betsy Clarke Caine in to me she was
dressed, and her gown was very bloody, as well as her hand.
kerchief; her lip was much swollen, and her face very
bloody; I asked her how that happened, and she told ma
that the man who was dead had been beating her.
Sarah, the wife of Thomas Davis, of Gosport, knows
John Sullivan and Betsy Clarke; and witness lives in the
very next house to them, and is well acquainted with both
their voices; between the hours of twelve and one o'clock
in the night of Friday last she knows Sullivan and Clarke
were together in their room, she having moat distinctly
heard Clarke say, " Are you going to choak me, Sullivan ?
Why don't you leave me alone, I tell you ?" And Clarke
called out several times "Murder !" and Sullivan desired
her to be quiet, and not disturb the neighbours; that on
Saturday night, or early on Sunday morning, witness
again heard Sullivan's voice, as witness verily believes, and
also the voice of another man, both quarrelling; that they
continued having violent words full an hour ; that Betsy
Clarke was crying a great part of that time, and witness
could not hear any thing she said ! that witness heard the
stranger's voice crying out " Watchman !" at the same
time the window was thrown up, which was broken, as
some of thu glass fell into the yard ; after which
she heard a noise exactly like a man falling down
heavily, and then there was perfect silence, and witness
heard no more.

Sarah Fitzgerald, wife of Daniel Fitzgerald, a sailor at
sea, sworn, saith—that John Sullivan lodges at my house ;
I generally hear him come to bed ; I went to bed on Sun-
day night last about nine o'clock; I did not hear Sullivan
come to bed, and heard nothing of him till about six o'clock
yesterday morning, when I heard him come up stairs and
go to his room which is over mine ; he almost immediately
went down again, and came up, and went down several
times in the conies of half an hour.

Ann Snell, wife of Wm. Snell, a sailor belonging to the
Pyramus—_l live in the same court with Betsy Clarke ;
my bed room is on the same floor with her's, and the head
of my bed comes to the foot of her's, and there is only a
thin partition between the rooms; I went to bed early,
about one o'clock, or a little before, on the morning of
yesterday ; I heard a window broke, which awoke me ; I
then, in about half an hour, heard a man's voice cry
" Watch," twice, then I heard Betsy Clarke (whose voice
I knew), say, " For God's sake, John, leave the man
alone," and I heard a moaning noise ; I heard the window
of Betsy Clarke's room thrown up after I heard her voice;
the noise proceeded from Betsy Clarke's room.
Christopher Hutchings, of Gosport—l am a constable
there; I took John Sullivan into custody; Sullivan said
he was very sorry he went to Betsy Clarke with the half-
gallon of beer, as hihen should not have been in the row -
I asked him if they were fighting; he said they were fight-
ing upstairs when he left them.

John Richard Horwood, of Gosport, surgeou—The death
of the deceased was strangulation, 'which, in my opinion,
was caused by the tightness of the handkerchief; in the
situation I found the deceased, he could not have strangled
himself ; none of the braises or scratches were sufficient to
cause death.

The CORONER recapitulated the evidence to the Jury,
who, after a short deliberation, brought in a verdict of
--Wilful Murder against John Sullivan and Elizabeth
Hickson, otherwise Betsy Clarke.
Both the prisoners seemed deeply ag►tatei at the an-
nouncement of the verdict. • They were both committed
to gaol to abide their trial at the ensuing Assiree, which
which will be held on Thursday or Friday next.

Nenagh,, after attending the sessions, and
On Wednesday last two men returning from
prose-
cuting their informations, were attacked near
Templemore by a gang of fellows, who killed
one of them on the spot and desperately wounded
the eecond.—Linterick Chronicle.

CORONER'S INQUEsT.—Yesterday, at one
o'clock, Thomas Stirling, Esq., the Coroner for
Middlesex, and a most respectable jury, assembled
at the Brill Tavern, Somers-town, for the pur-
pose of investigating the circumstances attendant
on the death of Frederick Wittenback, aged 41
years, who it was currently reported had been
poisoned by his wife. The inquiry created a
great sensation in the neighbourhood, and long
before the arrival of the coroner, the inquest-
room was crowded to excess, and the vicinity of
the house thronged by persons anxious to hear
the result of the investigation. The evidence
was nearly the same as the narrative in the SUN
of yesterday. The Jury, after a consideration
of ten minutes, returned a verdict of " Wilful
murder against Mary Wittenback, the wife of
the deceased." The Coroner's warrant has been
issued, and when she is removable from the in-
firmary-it will be executed.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

The intemperance of the rude and puny per;
yerters of the facts regarding the interview be-
tween the King and the Duke of Wellington,
does not as yet, in one quarter at least, appear to:
have experienced any sensible abatement. The'
lowest of this description of persons, thoughl
they obviously know nothing at all of the subject
upon which they presume to speak and vent
their impotent rage, true to their honourable vo-
'Cation, continue to deny, in teriiiB to which no
gentlentati ever thinks of resorting, the fact ar;
toritetly stated by us, and of course to adhere '
to their original unwarrantable assiertibn, that the
illustrious Wellington, 'en the occasion alluded!
to, was neither invited nor expected by his Ma-'
jesty. And all this, without attempting in the:
slightest 'degree to disprove any part of the state-
tnent which we have been enabled to make from
4 Aitarter of high and undoubted authenticity, of
to answer any one of the arguments which we:
have felt our duty to adduce upon the subject)
With such persons, devoid as they prove them=
selves to be alike of gentlemanly feeling and of
:all sense of shame, we of course have nothing
fi_irther to say or to do. But a more.respectable,
better informed, and decidedly more favoured ad-
herent of the Ministry, who tidies upon himself
to lay the question at'rest by, inuendos, candidly'
admits, from the circumstances mentioned, that
the Duke might be considered to have been sent;
for ; but that the interview was not of more, thai
'ten minutes or a quarter of an hour's durationi
This admission is perhaps as much as could havd
been reasonably expected from the leading MO
nisterial Advocate ; and forms a striking contrast
to the daring assertion of a less scrupulous
• Journalist, that the Noble Duke was not only
not sent for, but was not even expected. The
fact, however, is, that the interview, as we- have
. already stated, was quite private and very long
and that it tr%;k place by special invitation of tte
King.—.)__'lorning Post.
In another column our readers will find an
account of the Thetford Wool Fair, at which
Mr. Coke presided. There was a good deal
said about the present low price of wool, and
the chances with regard to a rise from the im
iorovernent in our manufactures. The proceed-1
lns at this Meeting form altogether a cutting
satire on our• Agriculturists, and the baxlers in
the two Houses of Parliament ; but more espel
cially the House of Lords, who pretend to ati•
vocate their interests. " A great deal (said Mr:
Fison, a manufacturer we presume) depended
upon the varying tastei of the day ; they had
heard much of supporting our own growth, to
produce higher prices: but he believed MD
Waller mild state, that if farmers entered his
shop, be never heard one, of them ask for a good
stinat cloth of English wool; but if they sans
such cloth upon his counter, they would be very
likely to say, We shall want some of that cloth
for -our workhouse.' For his part, he thought
that those narrow prejudices which would inter=
pose a barrier between one country and another,
should be broken down : and he differed from
those who attributed the present low prices t(s
the importation .of foreign wool." Mr. Cokei
" could not help observing, that it was a mys-4
eery to him why, he should pay the same pric6,
-for a coat now, when he got but 30s. for his wool,l
as he did when he sold it at SOs." Mr. Wallerl
told him in answer, "he could supply
.goodi
English cloths at fourteen shillings a yard, buti
was selling fine Saxony cloths at thirty
sind was elvergetl more for them in proporl
'ion, than -for the last seven years." And Mr.l
Fison observed, " that if agriculturists wouldi
turn their attention to the growth of a differenti
wool for combing, they would obtain a higher'
price. Till then lie did not see any chance.",
If all men were Stoics, and in clothing therei
selves looked merely for a covering from the!
cold ; if they built houses merely for shelter, midi
followed the prescription in Moliere, of " eating?
to live, instead of living to eat ;" if women!
were as well satisfied with linsey-woolseys as
with silks, and would look as kindly on the ineni
who supplied them with a piece of dowlas to be:
round their necks, as. with the richest mint
mented necklaces, British wool would, perhaps
be preferred to the wool of Saxony. But, if ini
all states of society, from that of the savage, to!
the present complicated one of England, all
ranks and conditions of men and women seem
constantly actuated by a disposition to surpass'
each other in the splendour of their mode of
living, their dress, taste in houses, &c., it is,
hardly reasonable • in British agriculturists to'
suppose, that if they have less ingenuity, and:
display less industry than the agriculturists of
Saxony in proving their wool, a preference will,
notwithstanding, -be given to their coarse com-a
modity. If one of the stupid, bawling Lords
were asked why•there should be Lords at all, or
why there should be any class who are allowed to
drink French wines of high price, instead of a
beverage made of British corn, to build palaces
instead of sheds, and to line their walls
with the works of Raphael, Correggio, and
Titian, he would answer, that it was proper
there should be such objects as Lords for
the admiration of the peoj..,-; that distinc-
tions were essential to well-ordered society ;
and that if a Lord had no advantage
over a pot-boy in distinction, no- body would
deign to look at him or admire him. But there
cannot be two principles in society; we cannot
both reverence Lords, and admire the splen-
dour of Lords, and yet remain stoics in every
-thing else ; and therefore it is inconsistent in
them to seek the admiration of the people, and
yet to attempt
.to check the operation of the
'principle which leads to that admiration. The
man who admires a Duke, and the female who
admires a Duchess, seek to be admired in turn
by their coats of Saxon wool, -and showy shawls ;
who looks with an eye of
-and the . lady's maid
envy on her mistress,
looks superciliously on the
-kitchen maid. Our- foreign commerce rests
greatly, on the skill of our rniniufacturers, and
if we seek by monopolies to cramp the opera-
tions of the latter,--;eveinjure._ our- commerce.
Almost all our manufacturers are affected by
the operations of foreign manufacturers, and
clothiers cannot, therefore, give high prices for
inferior British wool, while their competitors
abroad can obtain better wool at a lower price.
We have observed that a love of finery and dis:-
tinction is inherent in man. There are few ar-
ticles in Commerce that may not be dispensed
with ; and. as -bas been observed, perhaps as
imuch real happiness was enjoyed by our fore-
fathers when they slept on skins, as when they
slept on splendid bedS. But this. is not the
question. We cannot restrain the desires which
impel ue everlastingly. to „changes in our modes
of living, whiell.We liberally call improvements.
In the very amusing and instructive. work of the
late .Mr.. Harriot, " Struggles through Life,"
he tells us that, when .among the North Ameri-
can savages, he was indebted for the advantage
of being a favoured lover to his having two or

three feathers with him, which, in the eyes even
of these primitive ladies, outweighed years, of
courtship.--Morning Chronicle.
For some time past we have observed that the
exchange between this country and France has
been falling. If it should continue to fall it will
soon be at a price under par, and then the sove-
reigns would fly, and Mr. Peel's Bill, which
Mr. Canning said had put the cash payment
question to rest for ever, would have to be re-
pealed; and, until the exchange turned round
again in otir favour, one and two-pound notes
would have to be substituted for sovereigns.—
Should the latter circumstance, however, occur,
we should hope that the Ministry will let us have
notes of thirty and fifty shillings, for the conve-
nience of change,. for if gold disappeared, silver
would not be long in following it. In a financial
respect, it perhaps may be considered fortunate
that the late Corn Bill did not pass, for if it had
passed—and if, in consequence, a large quantity
of corn had been impdrted—and if, as it is very
likely would have been the case, the exporters
of the corn had insisted on payment in gold or
silver, the exchanges would, of course, have
fallen with greater rapidity than they have al-
ready. That the balance of remittances is gra-

dually becoming against us,- there does not ap
pear to be the least doubt, and the money to be
remitted to our summer continental excursionists
will increase such balance ; also, the money to
be remitted to our troops in Portugal ; and by
Mr. Rothschild to the Russian fleet in the Me-
diterranean ; and by the French to their ships in
the Mediterranean, will have an influence on the
Exchange. For many years, exchanges regularly
rose to be in our favour ; but when they got up
to be nearly 26 francs with France, they took a
turn, and since then they have been gradually
drooping. Should they still further continue to
droop, we shall have another panic, which in all
probability will bring down the price not only of
our Stocks, but all other Stocks. We would,
therefore, recommend the stock gamblers, as we
some short time since recommended the hop
gamblers, to take care what they are about, and
not be too bold in their speculations for a rise.
—Morning Herald.
It is much to be regretted that, at the time the
Judges' Salaries were increased, some effectual
steps had not been taken to bring about a more
equal distribution of their labours. A great deal,
weknow,was said about it, but nothing done. At
present, nothing can be more unequal than the
labours which devolve upon those learned per-
sons. The Judges of the Court of King's Bench
have probably five times more to do than those
of the Common Pleas, and ten times the work
of the Barons of the Exchequer ; for the latter
may be comparatively said to do little or nothing.
Lord Tenterden alone, who partakes of nearly
all the labours of his brethren, literally goes
through more actual work and labour than the
eleven other Judges put together. This, we are
well aware, is greatly owing to the high reputa-
tion his Lordship enjoys, not only for the highest
degree of legal attainments, but for the superio-
rity of temper—of manner—and just discrimi-
nation, with which every thing that comes before
him is disposed of. In law, as in every other
commodity, customers will naturally flock to the
place where they are best served. But still, if
attorneys consulted the interests of their clients a
little more, they would not crowd all their com-
mon causes into this one Court, where the utmost
labour and assiduity of the most able and indus-
trious men cannot get through them, but would at
leaottake those cases, which any Judge might dis-
pose of,where they might be more readily dispatch-
ed. But the great fault, as the Courts in Westmin-
ster Hall are at present constituted, is the c6m-
parative inutility of the Court of Exchequer as a
Court of Common Pleas. This is principally.
owing to its practice being arbitrarily confined to
some half dozen privileged attorneys or clerks
in Court, through whose hands alone, any com-
mon law business in it must proceed. This is
so obvious a hindrance of justice, and throws so
much more labour upon the other Judges than
they ought to undergo, that we wonder the
Judges themselves do not insist upon its being
put 'an end to. if vested interests, as usual,
stand in the way, why such vested interests should
be purchased and abolished. The great increase
of litigation is certainly in some degree owing to
the magnitude of the commercial concerns of
the country ; but still more, we apprehend, to
the great increase of lawyers themselves. Every
attorney must have clients, or how could he live?
and every attorney has got a barrister ready to
agree with him, that such and such an action or
suit is prudent and unavoidable. At the same
time, if there were but a little more prudence
and common sense exercised by mankind in
their every day dealings with each other ; and if,
instead of consulting his lawyer, a man now and
then consulted his friends, there would not be
quite so many law-suits to try, either in the
Court of King's Bench, or elsewhere.--Ibid.

Yesterday, two gentlemen were broug
before the sitting Magistrate, at Marlborough-
street, charged with disorderly conduct. Whei
the case came to be examined, it turned out thal
all the watchman could charge the gentlemei
With, was their calling on him to follow them,
which he refused. The gentlemen's story was,
that they had ignorantly strayed into George-
street, St. Giles s, where they were immediately
hustled and robbed ; and they called on the
watehman to follow; and assist them in seizing
the thieves. They were discharged. Another
case, exactly similar in its general features, im-
mediately followed. The parties in the latter
case were females, who were said to have been
disorderly. They also were discharged. We
find it almost invariably thus. The watchmen,
with great consideration, allow the offenders to
go free, pretty sure that the officers will not miss
them, and with a provident view to their em-
ployment, while they themselves lay hold of the
innocent. The only use of watchmen, is to
prevent the commission of crimes during the
night; and how do they fulfil this object?
What crime is ever prevented by their vigilance
—what thief scared by their interference ? Were
there no fixed guardians of property—were the
streets perambulated only -occasionally—we are
persuaded that half the burglaries and robberies
which cram our gaols, and load our gibbets,
would not occur. The thieves would not, in
that case, know when to begin. At present, the
watchman, to the disturbance of the sick, and
the annoyance of the healthy, bawls out, " at
chime of clock," the hour of the night, and
returns to his lair, afid, in . one. minute, is fast
asleep. When his voice is no.longetheard, his
interference is no longer. to be-dreaded, and the
pannel may be ,sawed, or. the lock picked, with
the most perfect ease, and free from all. ,manner
of-interruption. The passenger who stands,still
to shake harids with has friend, does not watch
those moments when Cerberus is slumbering, and
is dragged to the watch-house in consequence, as
a proof of the activity of these minions of
justice.—New Times.