The Sun.
London, England, 1827-12-24 00:00:00

Taunton, through Cross and Bridgewater, at Four.

Windsor and Einn, at Four.
Liverpool, through Coleshill and Lichfield, at Half-past
Two.

- Norwich, through Colchester and Ipswich, at Half-past
Eive.

Derby, through. Loioester and Northampton, a Quarter
before Six.

Edinburgh and Glasgow, through Carlisle, a Quarter
before Six.

Manchester, through Leek and Macclesfield, a Quarter
before Six.
Nottingham, through Leicester, a Quarter before Six.
Birmingham and Coventry, through Stony Stratford, a
Quarter before Six.

HolyheLd and Shrewsbury, a Quarter before Six.
Cambridge Enterprise, New Post Coach (in six hours),
through Buntingford, Royston, and Melbourne, a Quarter
before Six.

Wisbeach, superior fast coach, through Ely, Littleport,
and Lynn, (in twelve hours), a Quarter before Six.
Manchester New Independent, through Leek and Mac-
clesfield, a Quarter before Seven.

Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dumfries, and Carlisle, a Quarter
before Seven.
Canterbury and Dover, at Seven.
N.B. POST COACHES to evory City awl Manufac-
turing Town in the Kingdom.
W. WATERHOUSE and SON, Proprietors.

fkr The Proprietors of the above Carriages will not be
accountable for any Parcel or Package whatever, nor for
any Paesenger's Luggage above the value of Five Pounds,
unless the same be entered and paid for accordingly at the
time of the delivery of any such Parcel, Packg4, tar Pas-
senger's Luggage, to them or their Agents.

THE NOTTINGHAM ARTISANS' LITERARY
AND MECHANICAL Socirry.--The first meeting of the
members of this institution took place in the Artisans'
Li on 'Wednesday evening. Several new members
v
--Nottingham Review.
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admitted.--Nottingham

On Saturday last an inquest was held by the
Coroner for this Borough, at the Bede-honse, on the body
ofFItAIICIS ALLEN, an inmate of that hospital, who had
destroyed
himself early in the morning by precipitating
himself head foremost into a water-butt, where (his feet
hanging out) he was found a few minutes afterwards, but
too late to save his life. The deceased had been long se_
verely afflicted with hernia, and in a paroxysm of anguish
from that. disease, is supposed to have got out of his bed
and gone to the water-butt at some little distance, with
the rash purpose of putting an end to his sufferings and his
life, at 83 years . of
age.—Verdict " Insanity."—Linceln
Mercury.
INSTINCT IN RATS.—We are personally
assured by a respectable gentlemen that the following is
strictly and literally true. Some time ago an outbuilding
belonging to a gentleman in tbeneighbourbood of Oswestry
was very much infested with rats: at a distance of about
eight yards from the building, a constant stream of water
passes, and it has been observed that this species of vermin
are fond of a damp or wet situation. Either by age or acci-
dent one of the fraternity was entirely blind, and to show the
wonderful sagacity of the animals, one of its companions
actually carried a piece of straw several inches long in its
mouth, and placing one end of it in the mouth of its blind
companion, led it to the stream of water, a distance of
some yards, by the other end of the straw ! Whether this
was its usual manner er not, the person who witnessed the
fact had not an opportunity of observing.—Shretesbury
Chronicle.

DESPERATE AFFRAY WITH POACHERS
GAMEKEEPER KILLED.—The gamekeeper of H. WALLER,
Et* of Farrington, having recently received information
that a large body of poachers were in the neighbourhood,
summoned of his assistants to keep watch with him
in such parts of the preserves as were most likely to be
visited by such desperadoes. They accordingly took their
stations, and towards midnight perceived a gang of
poachers, eonsisting of eight or teu parsons, approaching,
whom they immediately accosted, and warned to leave the
grounds, but were furiously attacked with bludgeons, and
after a brave but ineffectual resistance with weapons of the
same description, were finally overpowered. One of the
keepers named BOUNCE, had his skull fractured in two
places, and we regret to add, that, notwithstanding the
most skilful treatment, be died in consequence of the in-.
kirk., received. The perpetrators of this outrage are still
ondiicovered, but a reward of 501. Las been offered for their
conviction.--Bath Herald.

Mr. GURNEY said, the plaintiffs in this ease were
Messrs. Cox and Biddulph,. the bankers, and the
defendants were Messrs: Masterman, Mildred,
and Co., who, as they must all know, were also
bankers, and who, as he believed, were only de-
fending this action for some persons who stood
behind them. He would now briefly state
.the
cir-
eumstances out of which this action arose. On the
24th of May there was presented for payment, at
the banking-house of Messrs. Cox•and Co., a bill for
1951. 195., purporting •to be accepted by their
customers, Messrs. Sewell and Cross, and drawn and
endorsed by a person of the name of Dutton, from
whose hands it came through several other persons,
to the last endorsers, Messrs. Masterman and Co.
The bill was paid, on presentment, by a clerk of
Messrs. Cox and Co. At half-past one o'clock of the
morning of the next day, it was discovered that the
acceptance of Messrs. Sewell and Cress was aforgery.
Mr. Cross went, at two o'clock of the same day, to
Messrs. Masterman and Co., to apprize them of that
circumstance. They had received the bill from a
person of the name of Sanderson, who had not, how-
ever, endorsed it. He had discounted it for a Mr.
Harris ; Mr. Harris had received it from a Mr. Hig-
ginbotham ; and Mr. Higginbotham had received it
from Mr. Dutton, the drawer and endorser. All the
persons whose names were on the bill were on the
same day apprised of the forgery by advice of Mr.
Gates, the solicitor to the Bankers' Association,—
a circumstance which distinguished this case from
several others of a similar description with which his
Lordship was acquainted. Whilst measures were
taking for the apprehension of the person who had
committed the forgery Mr. Dutton called at the
shop of Messrs. Sewell and Cross. Mr. Sewell en-
deavoured to detain him, without stating on what
account; but Mr. Dutton, being conscious of, the
forgery, which lie had committed, retired into one
of Mr. Sewell's rooms, and there drew a pistol from
his pocket, with which hi attempted to blow his
brains out. He shattered his head dreadfully, but
did not succeed in destroying his life. Whether it
was from commiseration or from any other cause, he
could not say, but Mr. Cross did not think it right to
prosecute Mr. Dutton. That circumstance however
made no alteration in the case of his clients. ,Their
case was this:—" You presented yr with a forged
acceptance, which we 6kn. tiwitigly Paid : we disco-
vered it to be a forgery on the next day, and gave
you notice of it in time for you to present it for pay-
ment to the person from whom you received it; and
we now say that, we are entitled to recover of you
the sum which we paid you under an erroneous sup-
position."

Two or three witnesses were then examined for
the purpose of establishing the facts. Among them
was Mr. Gates, the solicitor for the Association of
Bankers. He was called to prove that he had given
Mr. Higginbotham notice, by letter, that the bill
which he had received from Mr. Dutton was a for-
gery. His letter stated, that the bill in question
Ivas lying at Messrs. Cox and Biddulpb's, disho-
noured on account of its being a forgery.
A special verdict for 1981. I9s. was then taken
for the plaintiff, liable to the opinion of the Court
on the point of law.

SECONDARIES' OFFICE, Dm. 22.

♦7OODFOKD V. STEVER6.

In this cause, in which the defendant injudiciously,
it appeared, in the opinion of the Secondary, allowed
judgment to go by default, a jury was summoned to
assess damages. The plaintiff keeps a honse which
is let out in lodgings for single ladies, and he grants
them the privilege of receiving male visitors at all
hours of the night. The defendant is in possession
of considerable charms, but could not manage to be
so economical in her dress, 'lnd the expenditure neces-
sarily attached to her calling, as to be able to pay for
the occupation of her furnished apartments, which
were let to her at the rate of 1/. Ss. per week ; and
Mr. Woodford; who, together with his wife, did
every thing to make the defendant and her visitors
comfortable, found it expedient to press her with the
assistance of the lair. The want of punctuality upon
the part of Miss Stevens was aggravated by the fact
that the plaintiff's wife condescended occasionally to
lay aside her authority and wait upon the ladies who
resided under her roof (for there were several)
in her own person, and to give such answers and en-
tertainment to the male visitors as were adapted to
the condition of their purses. This accommodating
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and would not leave the house without the amount of
the last bill. Notwithstanding, however, all the obli-
gations which the defendant owed to Mrs. Wood-
ford, she was ungrateful enough, not to appropriate
to her the stun oi 1/. Bs. a-week out of the wages
of prostitution, which her landlady kindly did all she
could to encourage and promote for the benefit of
the concern.
The Jury, after a few minutes' consideration, re-
turned a verdict according to the suggestion of the
Secondary—Damages one farthing.
Had the defendant been advised to defend this
action in the Court of King's Bench, the whole of the
expences, which she will now have to pay either in
purse or person, would have fallen upon the plaintiff.
The cruelty of brothel-keepers to those unfortunate
creatures is matter of great notoriety; and juries
never fail to mark their consciousness of it whenever
such wretches dare to appeal to a court of justice.

ROYAL EXCHANGE.—Yesterday, the foun-
dation stone of the " Royal Exchange," Queen-street, was
laid by Jast.ws Evvitic,
Esq. and the Committee of Sub-
scribers to that building, in presence of a number of spec).
tat0r5........ Glasgow Chronicle.
DuELLING.--Mr. SAGE : I have never read
of a duel among the Romans, and yet their Nobility used
more liberty with their tongues, than one may now, do
without being challenged.—Sir Alaax : Perhaps the
Romans
were of opinion, that ill language and brutal
manners reflected only on those who were guilty of them ;
and that a man's reputation was not at all cleared by cutting
the person's throat who had reflected upon it ; but the
custom of those times had fixed the scandal in the action ;
whereas now it lies in the reproach.— Tam

f6rd, K.C.B. On 'Monday morning his Roy
Highness visited and inspected several ships of war
in the harbour, and the Elephant, .58 (razee),
state of ordinary ; after which, about four in the aft.
ternoon, he landed in the Dock-yard, and proceeded
to the Royal Naval College, in order to inspect the
Students, as they were usually employed. On TueS-
day morning, at nine o'clock, his Royal Highness
proceeded again to the Dock-yard, and commenced
a more particular inspection of the Royal Naval Col-
lege, accompaniedby the Commander-in-Chief of the
port, the Second in Command, and the Hon. Sir
George Grey, Commissioner of the Dock-yard, as
the usual visiting Committee. .His Royal Highness
directed the students about to be discharged into
his Majesty's Navy, to be examined very minutely,
before him, in Navigation, Naval G winery, and For-
tification, during which his Royal Highness was
pleased to express his great satisfaction. After-
wards the same, students were examined in History,
Geography, French, and Drawing. This examin-
ation took up about three hours, and brought under
his Royal Highness's view the full effective course
of instruction. The students still resident at the
College were afterwards brought before him, in
classes, and received peculiarly kind advice, as to
their conduct as students and British Naval Officers.
After this his Royal Highness directed the students
in Naval Architecture to be introduced; and having
inspected their drawings, plans, &c. he addressed to
them a few observations on the great importance of
a profession, on which the superior construction of
oUr ships of war must mainly depend. After this
his Royal Highness entered his carriage, and set off
for Plymouth. His Royal Highness directed medals
to be given to some of the most distinguished stu-
dents about to be discharged into the Royal Navy ;
and was pleased with his own hand, to deliver prizes
of less value to the most distinguished among the
junior students. His Royal Highness, before he left
the College, was also pleased to signify his intention
of giving a medal, in future, to the student who,
previous to his discharge, should most distinguish
himself in Naval Gunnery and Fortification.
The Chairman of the Victualling Board (the
Hon. MajoicGeneral Stapylton) has lately made an
official visit'here, having in view the removal of the
entire of the Victualling establishment at this port
to Weevil, on the Gosport shore, where the brewery
dep.rtment has always been carried on. It is ex-
pected that by consolidating the duties, the services
of fewer persons, as Clerks, Masters of Trades, Ar-
tificers, and Labourers, will be required, and that
a material annual saving may be thereby effected.
The Agent Victualler's office, it is said, will
be abolished, and its business consolidated with
that of the resident Commissioner at Hasler.
The officers are also to be placed on a re-
duced-establishment. A further saving, it is ex-
pected, will arise, by placing the Brewery and
Cooperage immediately under the inspection of the
principal officer, who will become resident on the
spot, with a foreman, and so dispense with the
Master Brewer and Master Cooper. The King's
Mill, with the present stores and manufactures, are
to be given up to the public service of other Boards,
chiefly to the Ordnance and Engineer departments.
The Slop branch of the pursery business is to be
transferred from the Navy Office to the Victualling
Office ; and those articles, from the Ist of January,
are to be procured by Pursers from the Victualling
department, and not from the Deck-yard, as hereto-
fore. Extensive preparations, in the way of fittings
up of some of the stores, and the enlargement of
others, at Weevil, are now going on. We under-
stand that the estimated expence of making all the
necessary erections and alterations there is 270,000/.
Captain Fitzclarence yesterday took the command
of the Challenger, 28, which ship arrived from Ply-
mouth, on Wednesday. Captain Fletcher has taken
the command of the Terror bomb.
Captain Lewis Davies, of the Rose, is appointed
to the Ariadne ; Lieutenant George Morris, and Mr.
T. W. Parker, Purser to the Erebus ; Lieut. F. D.
Hutchinson, and Mr. C. Hunter, Purser to the
iEtna; Lieutenant James CaUlfield, and Mr. F.
Harger, Purser, to the Infernal ; Lieut. H. Nurse,
anti Mr. G. Nicholls, Purser, to the Grasshopper;
Lieutenants E. N. Kendall and H. T. Austen, and
Mr. W. H. Bray, Purser, to the Chanticleer (not
Challenger, as stated in our last Paper), Mr. Lamb,
Purser, Mr. A. Simpson, Surgeon, and Mr. G.
Symes, Assistant, to the Terror; Mr. Stevenson,
Assistant Surgeon, to the Britannia; Mr. C.
Quesnel, to be Supernumerary Surgeon' of the
Sybille; Mr, Espie, Surgeon, and J. G. Lye.%
Assistant to the Mersey.
The following Gentlemen passed their examina-
tions for Lieutenants' Commissions, at the Royal
Naval College, last week:—Henry Perceval Lewis
Delafons, Henry Caisar Hawkins, George Martin
Hunter, Frederick Hennah, Richard Edward Bullen,
Charles Eden, James Webb, John Maxwell, and
Albert Lascelles Jenner.
Colonel Sir Richard Williams, K.C.B. is ap-
pointed to command the Portsmouth Division of
Royal Marines, in the room of Colonel Moncrieffe;
and Major Parke is appointed to command the Royal
Marine Artillery.
Lieutenant-Colonel Anwyl, late Major in the 4th
Foot, is appointed to command the 95th Regiment
at Malta, vice Wylly, deceased.—Hampshire Telc-
graph.

Sunday afternoon, the tide at Leith rose no
less than two feet and a half higher than on Saturday.
This circumstance is almost unprecedented at this period of
the moon's age, the greatest rise being after the moon's
change, which does not take place till Tuesday. On Satur-
day there was 11 feet of water on the bar; and on Sunday
13i feet, which, allowing 18 inches for the water run,
would give a depth, in the centre of the harbour of 15 feet.
It is supposed there must have been some heavy westerly
gales in the Atlantic, tocause such a sudden increase in the
quantity of water on this coast.—Edinburgh Evening
Courant.

RECIPE FOR A ROUT.—Take all the ladies
and gentlemen you can collect, and vut them into a room
with a slow fire. Stew them well. Have ready twelve
packs of cards, a pianoforte, a handful of prints or drawings,
and put them in, from time to time. As the mixture
thickens, sweeten with politesse, and season with wit, if
you have any, if not, flattery
will do, and is very cheap.
When all have stewed well for an hour, add some ices,
jellies, cakes, lemonade, and wines ; the more of these in-
gredients you put in, the more substantial will your rout
be. Fill your room quite full,
and let the setup run off !
—Sheffield Courant.

2,636 bags East India Sugar ; 269 cases. Brazil
ditto; 1621 hhds., 22 tees, 9 brls. Demerara ditto;
1026 casks Molasses; 146 punchs, 50 hlids. Rum;
66 tees., 2 bgs. Coffee ; 80 casks Brandy ; 351 bale
West India Cotton ; 1866 bales New Orleans ditty ;
2310 bales rest United States ditto; 8850 bales
Brazil ditto; 35 tees. American Rice; 1500 bags
East India ditto; 11 brls. Canada Flour; 2501 brls.
American tar ; 735 brls. Turpentine ; 70 brls.
Pitch; 300 tees. 27 bags American Flax seed;
2532 brie. Montreal Ashes; 100 bags Turmeric;
145 bags Shumac ; 97 casks Madder ; 264 bales
Madder Roots ; 90 tons Fustic ; 90 tons Brazilletto
Wood; 122 bales Spanish Wool; 170 casks Olive
Oil ; 357 chests Indigo ; 80 chests Lac Dye ; 91
bags Safflower; 5651 Ox and Cow Hides.
The transactions in Turpentine amount to 1536
brls., the whole taken by the trade at 10s. 9d. for
two thirds soft, and lls. for three-fourths soft, from
the quay. American Tar still declines in price ; the
sales are 1,156 brls. Virginia at 13s. 3d. to 13s. 9d.
Good Common Tar is now offering at I3s. from the
quay ; a cargo of 2300 brls. Stockholm has been
sold at 15s. 6d. to 16s. per brl. from the quay ; in
Archangel Tar nothing done. Rosin remains steady
at 6s. to Gs. 3d. per cwt.

The business in Ashes has not been so extensive
this week, but prices remain fully supported ; the
sales are about 480 lids. Montreal Pot, at 255. 6d.
to 275. 6d. for stained, 295. for brand 1826, and
60s. for late imports; the sales of Montreal Pearls
are about 120 brls. at 30s. 6d. for last year's brand
and 31s. for new; of States' Ashes only 20 brls.
Pearl, old import, have been sold at 31s. per cwt.-
A parcel of 35 hhds. Philadelphia Quercitron Bark,
just imported, has brought 14s. Gd. to 15s. 3d. per
cwt., the quality good to fine; inferior descriptions
are unsaleable. I ,ogwood is in better request, some
parcels of Campeachy having been offered at lower
rates; the total sales of this description are about
250 tons at 71. 10s. to 71. 12s. 6d., and now 71. 15s.
demanded ; Jamaica is scarce, and readily brings
6/. ss. from the quay. The sales of Fustic are 100
tons ordinary Spanish at 5/. 12s. 6d., and 20 tons
Cuba at 10/. per ton. A few tons Gaboon Barwood
have been sold at 71. 15s. In Nicaragua Wood
nothing has been done. 217 bags East India Galls,
mostly blue, have been sold at 645. to 655. per cwt.
in bonds. 95 serous silver and black Cochineal were
offered yesterday by auction, of which 73 serous were
sold from I Is. 2d. to 12s. per lb., duty paid, being
a further decline of 6d. to 9d. per lb. on the article.
10 bales fine East India Safflower have brought
l . 6
10;
s. d pe
. per 6 c wtr. , awnt.
d 12 bales Turkey Yellow Ber-
riesShumac rather lower, about 1,700 bags Sicily
have been sold, part from the quay, at 10s. per cwt.,
and part warehoused at the same price; of the quan-
tity sold about 600 bags were partially damaged, at
Bs. 3d. to 9s. 6d. per cwt.; a small parcel of Verona
has been sold at 75.-The sales of Saltpetre this
week are about 1,220 bags, at 265. to 275. Gd. for
ordinary to good strong, and 295. for fine white. Of
Valonia the only sales are 25 tons Smyrna, slightly
damaged, at 131. 10s. and five tons Morea at 14/. 10s.
per ton.-In Madders and Roots nothing done. In
Olive Oil the sales are trifling, eight tuns Malaga at
35/. from the quay, and two tuns Gallipoli at 40/.
per tun. There is more inquiry for pale Rape Oil.
Linseed is in limited request. The business doing
in Palm Oil is considerable. Fish Oils are dull of
sale, but prices remain steady. There is a disposition
to buy Oil of Turpentine for delivery in the spring,
but the distillers show no desire to effect sales of
this description. Sour Flour has become very
scarce, 325. is now paid for Canada, and 335. for
New Orleans. The transactions in Rice have been
mostly confined to East India, of which 600 bags
have been sold at 13s. Gd. tc.. 145., of Carolina only
10 casks at 20s. to 235. per cwt. The only business
done in Hides is 1,000 Dry Salted Brazil, at 71d. to
7id. per lb.-Hemp remains steady with a limited
demand.-Tallow is rather lower, Yellow Candle
now brings only 395. Gd. per cwt.

GRAND BALL AT THE EXCHANGE-ROOMS.
—Last evening (Thursday), the Annual Ball of the Sher-
wood Forest Cricket Club was held at the Exchange
Rooms, in this town. The orchestra was filled with able
performers, and the band of the 6th Dragoons. The
dancing commenced at half-past ten o'clock, with quadrilles
and continued till near twelve, when waltzing succeeded.
At two o'clock the dance was resumed, and was kept up
with spirit till four o'clock, when the company began to
separate.--Nottingham .Review.