The Sun.
London, England, 1827-05-15 00:00:00

SPORTING-(RECEIVED THIS DAY).

NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING, 1927.
MONDAY, MAY 14.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 move. each; for three-yr-olds
and upwards. A. F.
Mr. How's Skiff, 6 yrs, 9st.
Mr. Prendergast's f. by Comus, 3 yrs, 6st. 31b.
Mr. Scott Stonebewer's Wings, 5 yrs, Bst. 41b.
Lord Warwick's Double Entendre, 6 yrs, Bst. 111 b 4
Mr. Dilly's Maldonia, 4 yrs, Bst pd
An excellent race, and won by half a length.-5 to 2 agst
Skiff-5 to 2 agst Wings.
Match—D.M. 200, h. ft. Bst. 41b. each.
Mr. Payne's Babel .
Lord Wharncliffe's The Dragon
Won in a canter.—Even betting.
Match—A.F. 1000, h. ft. Bst. 71b.
Lord Darlington's Memnon 1
Lord Exeter's Enamel
The Yorkshire horse won the match with perfect ease by
many lengths.-7 to 4on Memnon.
Match—D. M. 100, h. ft. Bst. 41b. each.
Colonel Wilson's Lamplighter
Lord Wharncliffe's Pastime
Match—T.M.M. 100, h. ft.
Lord Tavistock's Leeway, Bst. 21b. rec. ft.
Lord Anson's Heroine, Set. 4Ib.

....rec. ft
* - pd

TATTERSALL'S.—May 14.
Several stragglers looked in this afternoon, and some few
bets were made. Ten to 1 was offered against Eliza Teazle,
and 12 to 1 was taken about Defence ; 7 to 4 was offered
against Glenartney, but no takers. The field for the Oaks
was offered to be backed at S to 1; and 13 to 1 was also
offered on the field for the St. Leger. No regular betting
took place, all the leading speculators being at Newmar-
ket. We therefore refrain from giving any other state-
ment of odds than the above.

FASHIONABLE AND MISCELLANEOUS.

The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, accom-
panied by the Princess Carlotti, left tow. s, on Saturday
morning, for their residence in Bushy Park. Their Ro,al
Highnesses and the Princess dined with the Duchess of
Kent, on Sunday, at her apartments in the King's Palace,
at Kensington. A select party were present to meet the
Duke and Duchess. Their Royal Highnesses proceeded in
the evening to their temporary residence, in Charles-street,
Berkeley-square.
The Duke and Duchess of Clarence, and the
Princess Carlotti, honoured the Caledonian Ball, at Willis's
Rooms, last night, with their presence.
The Duchess of Kent, the Princess Augusta,
and the Princess Feodore visited the Duchess of Clarence,
yesterday.
The Marquis of Lansdown had a long con-
ference yesterday with the Right Hon. G. Canning, at his
residence in Downing-street, The Noble Marquis had also
au interview on Sunday with Mr. Canning.
The Duke of Norfolk gave a Grand Enter-
tainment on Saturday, at his house in St. James's-square,
to the Duke of Wellington, the Duke of Devonshire, the
Earl and Countess of Rosebery, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Stafford, the Earl and Countess of Surrey, Earl
Jerinyn, Mr. Granville, Captain Woolaston, Miss Julia
Howard, &c.
Countess Munster entertained an elegant
circle of fashionable' on Sunday evening, at her house in
Grosvenor-place.
Lady Lambert had an elegant assembly yester-
day evening, at her house in Manchester-square.
The Earl of Aberdeen entertained a distin-
guished party to dinner yesterday, at Argyll House.
Sir Thomas Lennard, Bart. had a grand dinner
party yesterday, at his house in Bryanston-square.
The Countess of Jersey's rout; yesterday
evening, in Berkeley-square, was very numerously and
fashionably attended.
The Archbishop of Canterbury's third Public
Dinner, on Saturday, at Lambeth Palace, was attended by
the Duke of Beaufort, the Duke of Rutland, the Marquis
of Camden, the Marquis of Graham, the Earl of Clare, the
Earl of Winchelsea, Lord Tenterden, Lord Brownlow, the
Earl of Lonsdale, Lord Francis Somerset, Lord Loraine,
Lord Granville Somerset, Earl of Falmouth, the Right
Hon. George Canning, the Master of the Rolls, the Speaker
of the House of Commons, the Bishop of Litchfield, Arch-
deacon Prosser, the Rev. Dr. F. Clinton, Sir J. Beckett,
the Rev. Dr. Sheppard, Mr. Sturges Bourne, the Rev. Dr.
Webber, Mr. Ryder, Mr. Bankee, Mr. Askew, &e.
Sir Watkin Williams Wynn gave a Grand
Dinner ou Saturday, at his house in St. James's-square.

Mrs. Coutts gave an elegant dinner, on Sun-
day, to a select party of fashionables, at her residence,
Holley Lodge, Highgate. In the evening there was a con-
cert, in which Madame Pasta, Miss Wilkinson, the four
brothers Hermann (who made so successful a debut at
Covent-garden Theatre last Saturday), and Mr. Braham,
took part. Sir G. Smart presided at the pianoforte.
Mrs. George Byng has issued cards of incita-
tion for a ball on the 4th of June, at her house in St.
James's-square.
We are extremely sorry to hear it reported, on
the authority of a letter from Dublin, that the Rev. Mr.
Pope, who lately engaged with the Rev. Mr. Maguire, in a
controversial discussion, and who has been for tome time
in a very delicate state of health, is at present alarmingly
ill. It is said that he cannot survive more than three or
four months.— Waterford Chronicle.
NEW EXHIBITION OF PANORAMAS, OLD
BOND-STREET.-This is a very amusing exhibition, and
what is still better, painted with the strictest regard to
localities. The famous old city of Moscow, with its
equally famous Kremlin ; the Field of Waterloo, with the
Inn of La Belle Alliance ; the Sound at Copenhagen ;
St. Petersburgh in winter ; the Coronation of Charles X. ;
a View of St. Stephen's Church, Vienna, with the Empe-
ror and Imperial Family in procession ; all these various
paintings are brought under our notice with almost equal
effect, and, to those who have visited the several pi-ces,
must teem with the most interesting recollections.
FLATTENING OF THE EARTH.—At the
Academy of Sciences at Paris, a memoir was lately read
by Captain Duperrey, on the experiments made with the
invariable pendulum during the voyage of the Coquille
round the world. lie states that various experiments con-
firmed the fact of the flattening of the terrestrial globe.
conjectured by several travellers, who had remarked that
the number of oscillations which the pendulum made at
certain places differed from what had been observed in the
extent of the same parallel. The principal anomalies ob-
served by Captain Duperrey were at the Isle of France,
Mons, Gnam, and the Island of Ascension. At the Isle
of France, the invariable pendulum (as had been remarked
by M. Freycinet) made in one day, upon an average, thir-
teen or fourteen oscillations more than it ought, supposing
the depression to be 1.805, according to the lunar theory.
At Ascension, the acceleration, as noticed by Captain Sa-
bine, was five or six oscillations, even supposing the de-
pression to be 1.228. At other stations the difference was
almost nothing ; and in some the motion of the pendulum
was retarded. Such differences, Captain Duperrey re-
marks, between the results of experiment and those given
by theory, cannot be attributed to errors of observation.
He is disposed to refer the cause of the phenomena, with
Captain Sabine, to the want of homogeneousness in the
earth, considered as a mass, or to the were variations of
density in the superficial strata. What tends to confirm
this hypothesis, he says, is, that all observations show
that an acceleration of the pendulum generally takes place
on volcanic ground, and a retardation on such as is sandy
and argillaceous. A very important question to ascertain
is, whether the flattening is exactly the same in both he-
mispheres. From the observations of Captains Duperrey
and Freycinet, it appears that in the southern hemisphere
it is 1.291, and in the northern, I.2BB—that is to say, it
is sensibly the eagle, or 1.290 in each.

PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

enabled that Alliance to proceed so far in prepa-
ring hostile measures against Spain, that it was
difficidt- for it to stop with credit, or
for us to resist it with - consistency. The
Earl of Longford brought poetical imagery to
the aid of the Marquess of Londonderry, and de-
scribed " the foundation" of the Ministry as " com-
posed of two parts, which he might designate as the
quicksands of political instability, attempted to be
united with the mountain
.of revolutionary desola-
tion." No wonder the Marquess of Londonderry
termed it " a monstrous concubinage." By the
same rule of rhetoric, the Marquess of Londonderry
is Chinuera botnhinans in vacuo. Viscount Dudley
observed, that of all the Oppositions which the
country has for many years witnessed, the present is
the only one of which the principle is personal anti-
pathy to the Minister. This principle is the more
strange, as ix his present station Mr. Canninfr has
had no time to 'give offence, and as in his former
station his conduct was at least tacitly supported, if
not approved of, by those who oppose him. Lord
Melville, it appears, is anxious to prove that neither
he nor the other seceders will offer any factious op-
position to the present Ministry. That they would
he factious of course no one could suspect. The
only doubt was, whether their notions of faction
might agree with these of the rest of the world.—
Morning Chronicle.

Every body_ knows and feels that Mr. Can-
Mg's situation is even still a critical one : yet
there are some circumstances connected with it
-which are known, and which the public does not
duly consider ; others which are not known, but
a specimen of which we hasten to lay before
them. We were not, upon the whole, very fa-
vourable to the administration of Lord Liver-
pool ; yet we believe that by his personal inte-
grity, and upright intentions, he went far to
make up for the want of those qualities which
nature had denied him, but which nevertheless
his sycophants imputed to him in no ordinary
degree. We have learned, above ail, that he
laid a great
,restraint upon the rapacious cravings
of those by whom he surrounded, and that
he was even in soure degree a terror to them on
that account. . Hence, on what we
.may call his
Lordship's abdication, a strongidea prevailed
amonghis friends, thatjthey should have the course
free. " When the -cat's away the mice may
play," says the simple proverb. These people,
therefore, are the more offended on seeing one
spring up, who, having higher objects of ambi-
tion than mere plunder, would have been likely,
had they remained with him in office, to impose
the same, or even tighter restraints, (as he has a
keener view,) than those from which they now
looked for their emancipation. It is a remark-
able thing, that among the official papers of
Lord Liverpool,' is one which contains an ap-
plication for his diplomatic pension, out of the
prescribed practice, by a certain Marquis, raised
by matrimony and other causes to an immense
fortune ; and that tae paper in question is en-
dorsed by Lord Liverpool himself with the fol-
lowing note ;—.-" This is too bad-." No wonder
the Marquis is fierce, when the sentiment that
" This is too bad" perVades. the breast of Lord
Liverpool's successor in office. Among the cir-
cumstances which embarrass Mr. Canning's pre-
sent political- situation; and which are known,
but P‘ot duly' considered, may be counted his
Kofessed opposition to the Repeal of the Test
and Corporation Acts. .His opinion upon this
subject has been known all his life long ; why
should it be expected of him that he should re•
linquish it at this time ? We will frankly state
our conviction upon this subject, not argumen-
tatively nor with a view to make converts on
points of faith, but as what we conceive to be a
simple matter of fact. Mr. Canning.is already
loaded with the cause of the Irish Catholics;
this is the only pretext which his enemies allege
against him, though there are other reasons for
hating him. Let him 4-tit take upon him the
cause of the Protes.tent Dissenters also, and he
breaks down in P..n instant. To change our meta-
phor, if we may be allowed, the people of England
would pus him from office with the breath of their
nostrils. Twenty kings could not keep him there for
one day, though one king were a Catholic, and the
other nineteen Dissenters. of various kinds, and not
one of them a member of the Church of England.
The Dissenters say that they trust to the diffusion
t-If knowledge : they cannot say any thing more just
and fair. Let this be the umpire between them and
the Church ; but let them not precipitate the deci-
sion, for that must. now be fatal to them. If the
diffusion of knowledge shall strengthen their cause,
and assure their success, they will owe their 'victory •
to the most legitimate f all arms; and if the diffu-
sion of knowledge shall be found to thin their ranks
and baffle their hopes, they can then have no cause
to complain. -Let knowledge- diffused decide. At
present we are sure it is so partially extended, as
to be inimical to any change. It must, therefore,
be beneficial to them to wait.—Times.

We are happy to see the accounts from the
manufacturing districts concur in stating that a
marked improvement has taken place in the
principal branches of trade. The silk trade
(which was to have been ruined, but which, by
a fatality very unpleasant to the prophets, has
suffered less throughout the distressing times
than any other) is extending itielf, especially in
Scotland, while the cotton trade is also im-
' prOving. In wages there has been a marked
increase. Some of our Provincial Contempo-
raries attribute this improvement in part to the
confidence inspired by a change of Ministry.
Ready as we are to acknowledge all the benefit
derived from this change, we are persuaded many of
our countrywomen scarcely need the confidence
inspired in a liberal Administration, to venture on
the purchase of gowns and pelisses. Rash indivi-
duals too, in the worst of times, are emboldened to
wear shirts. The improvement was to be expected,
independently of any political changes ; it has been
delayed much longer than most men anticipated.
We hope, like a late spring, it will be the more
marked •n account of the delay.—lbid.

In the House of Peers last night, Lord Gode-
rich brought forward, pursuant to notice, his
motion for a Vote of Thanks to the Army and
Navy who had been employed in the recent war
in India. The Noble Lord expatiated at some
length upon the brilliant services which called
for this tribute, and he was succeeded by the
Duke of Wellington, who added his testimony
to the merits of the Officers and troops engaged
in those arduous campaigns. The several mo-
tions were unanimously agreed to ; after which,
the Marquis of Londonderry rose, and in a
speech, which our respect for the place where he
uttered it, forbids us to characteriie in appro-
priate terms, submitted his motion respecting the
charges incurred by the diplomatic branch of Go-
vernment. All we shall say of this speech is, that,
while we perused it, our minds involuntarily re-
curred to some memorable proceedings which took
place, a few years ago, in the Court of Chancery.
The reply of Lord Dudley and Ward, to the dis-
jointed phraseology and dislocated arguments of the
Noble Marquis, was a specimen of serene gravity,
which nothing but the consciousness that he was
addressing the House of Peers, as well as the Noble
Marquis, could possibly have extracted from him.
The motion, somewhat modified by the Noble Se-
cretary for Foreign Affairs, was agreed to.—Yew
Times.

It may be eollected from what passed last
night in the House of Commons, that the ru-
mour which had been circulated for a day or
two, with regard to an immediate and extensive
creation of Peers, has nothing to rest upon hut
the fears of those who wish success to Mr. Can-
ning's Ministry, or the malice of those who do
not. A 'connexion of the. Rutland family set
the notion afloat on Saturday last ; and with de-
signs which come under the description of the
Right Hon. Gentleman, as being " most mis-
chievous," and " circulated, as he well knew, to
create that very mischief." We rejoice to hear
that the Minister feels strong enough to dispense
with such an expedient, which at the same time
we should see no impropriety in adopting, if
the great interests which are now at stake re-
quired support from a direct application of. the
prerogative inherent in his Majesty. We infer,
however, from the flat contradiction given by Mr.
Canning to the above rumour, that in the Lords
as well as in the Commons the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman is secure of his game. Whatever may he
the causes of Lord Lansdown's recent hesitation
about an absolute entrance into the Cabinet, we
are bound, in justice to his Lordship and the Whigs
to repeat what Mr. Canning has within these few
days frankly testified—that it was not the Whigs
who courted office, but the Right Hon. Gentleman
who appealed to them to accept it. So little was
there of bargaining in their generous overture to Mr.
Canning—so little of what is commonly termed "
ne-
gociation" in the assurances which they tendered to
him of their free support As little sense is there
in the attempt at antithesis or epigram by a certain
Marquis, who talks of a Ministry being formed out
of Tories un-Toried, and Whigs un-Whigged. Any
other person would see, that if the Tory part of the
alliance were un-Toried, it must be quite super-
fluous to un-Whig the opposite members of it. But
the truth is, that a coalition of place growing out of
a concord of principle, cannot be conceived by men
who, after raving for weeks together against the Mi-
nister whom King and people have accepted, leave
no other impression on the mind than that they op-
pose Mr. Canning simply because they hate him.—
Ibid.

PRICE OF' OIL.

Rape Oil, brown 2SI. Os. Refined 6
Linseed Oil 24 0
Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 12 0
Rape Cake, per ton

WHITECHAPEI, HAY MARKET.—May 12.
Hay 84s. Od. to 120 s. Od. 90s. Od. to 1355. Oct.
Straw ads. Oct. to 425. Oct.

PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-May 11.
Kent Pockets 4l. 10s. 51. 6.i. to 6/. 6s.
Sussex Ditto
Essex Ditto 4l. 10i. Si. ss. to Si. 15s.
Farnham Ditto, Fine _ O/. Os. 9/. Os. to Si 15s.
Seconds N. Os. 71. Oa to N. Os.
41. 4s. 41. 15s. to 5/. ss.
Si. 121. 41. Os to 41. 105.
41. Os. 4/. 103. to 51. Os.
Old Duty laid at £lOO,OOO.

Kent

Sussex Ditto
Essex Ditto.

PRICE OF POTATOES.—May 14.
Yorkshire Kidneys 4/. Os. to 01. Os. per Ton.
Scotch Reds 4l. 10s. to 51. Os. ditto.
()ambles and Shows 3/. Os. to 3/. 10s. ditto.
Marsh Champions. 4/. 10s. to Si. Os. ditto.

PRICES OF LEATHER,

Per lb.
80tt5..,,...-50 to 561 b....
Ditto..--40 to 661 b.—
Dre,slng Hides
Fine Coach Hides
Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b.
Ditto.--.... 15 to 5011).
Ditto

d. to d.
19 21
21 23
131 15
15 18
14 IS
15 17
17 19

Per lb. d. to d.
Tanned Horse Hides— 13 16
Spanish Ditto 14 21
Per dozen.
Calf Skins-30 to 40Ib. 18 24
Ditto ..-- 50 to 701 b. 23 20
Ditto 70 to 801 b. 301)
Small Seals, Greenland IS 20

RAW HIDES.
Per Stone. a. d. to c. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d.
Best Heifers& Steers 210 3 0 Ordinary 110 2 0
2 4 2 6 Market Calf—. 7 0 ekch.

COAL MAlt
Beaumont _ 31s. Od.
Ellison 30 '0
Hebburn Main 30 6
32 0
Killingworth 33 6
Liddell's Main.. 30 0
Ord's lledhugh 29 3
Pontop Windsor 30 3
Tanfiekl Moor 32 2
Townley 32 6
Willington
Wylam
Walls End Bell and Co. 31 3
Ditto Bewicke and Co—.. 35 6
Ditto 32 6
Ditto Cramlington 3O 0
Ditto Hilda 32 0
Ships at Market, 161---uhip;

IRISH 1114
DUBLIN MARKET N,

KET.—May 14.
Walls End New/tun-ch.. 344.6 d
Ditto Northumberland 32 9
Ditto at 9
Ditto Walker 34 0
Blyth Trader 27 3
Tantield Trader 31 9
Londonderry small 18 6
Lambton small 18 0
Cowpen 28 0
Hartley ..,,.r..,,...29..—...--. 6
Eden Main . 32 6
Lambton's Primroses 32 9
Walls End Hetton— 38 9
Ditto Earibton 36 3
Ditto Lyons 32 9
Ditto 30 ()-
Ditto Stewart's —..— 36 3
sold, 433 —Unsokl, 120%.

.RKETS.
ITE.—FRI
Fram
33 0
17 6
21 0
15 .0
10 0
18 •

[DAT, May 11.
To M. P.
39 0 35 3
19 0 17 3%
22 0 2/
21 0 16 6X
26 0 0 0
20 0 19 1X

586 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone
0 Bere .. 16 stone
76 16 stone
2,056 Oats l4 stone
13,750 Cwt. Flour 9 stone
150 Oatmeal 11 stone
Sold to Bakers only.
11,72 t Cwt. Flour 1701 2601 19 0
Average price of Wheat and Flour 18s. 4d. per sack.
Receipts of Flour, 15,177 Firsts, from 25.5. Od. to 265. od,
Sales of Do. 13,759 , .
Seconds trom lbs. 6d. to 224. (Id.
front ILs. Od. to 158.6 d.
PRICE OF BREAD.
Quartern Loaf, 41b. soz. .... 9d. I Half-quartern, 211,.

Itl atone 0 2i 0
16 6
14 stone " " " ‘i *
The Marquis of Londonderry brought for- 2,01') 'irat7
13,700 Cwt. Flour
if: stone 10 0 26 0 0 0.74
ward his iaotion, last night, for Returns concern- stone 18 C 20 0 19 I X
Sold to Bakers only. - -
ing the Expenditure of the Foreign Department 11,721 Cwt. Flour - l7 o 26 0 19 0
e Average price of y‘Theat and Flour 18s. 4d. per sack.
at various periods, with a view of displaying his
15,1771 Firsts, ....--.... from 255. Od to 26s 0,1
Receipts of Flour,
peculiar talents of reason and ridicule. If the s.ie6 of Do. 13,759 Seconds, -.-., from Ris. fal.. to 225. od.
Thirds, —.... from Ils. Pd. to 15s: 6d,
Noble Marquis could have condescended to con- PRICE OF BREAD.
fine himself to the subject of his motion, and Quartern Loaf, 41b. soz. ~.. 9d. I Ilalf-quartern, 211 s. 20z.—..134d.
treated it in a familiar manner, suitable to the Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt.
capacity of his hearers, he might, we think, shave . per barrel per barrel per barrel
20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d,
given much. useful information. He was for —
d. a sti)(l.B NI-o.tsii)(l.6 1.86. as. cl. s. d. as. d.
some time himself at Vienna, with a salary of Cork 4.4c1.0-1-Idli lil
12,000/. a year, and large allowances for expellees
and losses. He ought to have given the Peers a aerLimerick°rd 28161i:38-11 3617816 tB-1137 litss L-11157 35 L 1672 0-17
0° —1
3 gs
Ig2 00:60:11?) oi)
minute description of the- subjects which he tlis- •.t.'7l°r:ileineet—t"96-.243
; r 1146:170 '?) It 0-15 !11 - tr—.l TO- f) 184 6 —lO5 00
cussed with' the astute Metternich, and of Saarli," —3l 8-33 11 18 0-19 018 0-19 0 0 1:1 °0 II oa7---- 0 0
ff_„..A...„o o o 0 0-17 0 II 0-0 0, 0 0— 0 0 0 0— 0 0
the jnanner in which he baffled this wary States- Beef, Mutton, Pork, - Butter.
man. Ons.thing..whieli the Noble Marquis as-.
eats, as,of ,his own knowledge—viz., that the i d. ad.d.ads.d,a s. d. 1. d. ~• d. s. d... 7— s.
Cork ........... 5 —8 4 s' 24 0-35 6900 66 066 0 54d. 44'10
Negoe:iatioiii- at Verona were conducted on the Isi..iflanteerirfrok-a-r gi
.....—.
,?)i 4,
....
15) 24 0-28 o?ig 0 84 874 064 6 52 (0)
principles of his late brother's Administration—
must seem very honourable to the memory of jc3-itoinasraterj --1 3: -- 5 —37 g--
g- ° " ° - ° "-
- - o
that Statesman m the minds of all who delight Toalee ~..,.. 3- 4 —.5 rao-23:.° D., 8 egg 4 —I3O
_ Carlow— 4—54—5—0—00900 80 0 70 0 0 -, 0
in the occupation of Spain by the French. we G01way........ o—o 0 0 —o 00 0-0 0.;-0-0
may regard the Congress of Verona and its con- SCOTCH MARKETS.
sequences as a legacy of the late Marquis of
Londonderry. If he had left office in 1821 in- Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Oaxacal.
..newrdeen ...... 27 30 27 .31 26 30 46 50
stead of 1822, the Congress of Vienna and the
cotasitt .- 41 43 -22 Z ;0`) 25 ri -—s° 5.
invasion of Sin would probably never have oc-40
I'aCUpar
curred. It was " the patience and forbearance Dumfries rs 286' 30 27
50 30
4 o s o - -
with which he watched the proceedings of the
KP::::e1= 28::41 . 1136 g 26 t2B 126.. 341. 24 26-31 4,s— 52=
Holy Alliance, and which by mistake (a natu-
ral mistake enough) the Allies and the rest of l':aririt"hlldY 273 i'li,?, .228 34 4728 293° 27,_ 22 --
t Dumfries the price is given per bushe l. The 27ot—r prices—
the world seem to have considered approbation, abere are per boll, except Oatmeal, which is per sack of 2801bs.

itt-7.5W
--
.. s. ti.
44 0
0 52 0
—0
—0
1 .... 0
I .13 0
j —.• 0
—O-0

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 14.
(Concluded from THE SUN of yesterday.)
THE WAKEFIELDS.

An affidavit made by Edw. G. Wakefield was put in and
read, which stated that he had been •imPrisoned for a con-
siderable time already in consequence of this proceeding ;
that he had been put to the expence of more than :3,0001.,
and to raise the necessary supplies of money for conducting
his defence, had been obliged to sell au annuity of 1,5001.
a year for a sum not exceeding two years' value of it ; that
he had always possessed the greatest inllueuce over
I)rother's mind, and that every step William Wakefield bad
taken in this affair, had been at the urgent request of depo-
nent, and against the inclination of the said Win. Wakefield.
William Wakefield's affidavit was also put in and read,
_ _

n•hich stated that he had been requestedtorucet his brother,

and to assist in getting a marriage settlement upon E. G.
Wakefield, drawn up and approved of by their father.—
That he knew nothing of his brother's intentions with re-
gard to Miss Turner, till he arrived at Macclesfield, and
that he himself was wholly dependent on his wife for a
participation in such allowance as her father-in •law might
think proper to allow her.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL appeared for William Wake-
field exclusively, and felt sensibly the impropriety of his
uttering a syllable in mitigation or even in palliation
of the crime of which he had been found guilty.—
There was, however, a considerable difference between
his age, and that of his brother, and as he had always
been under the influence of his elder brother, the learned
Counsel ventured to submit, that, the Court, in its judg-
ment, would not overlook that. As to his client having
absconded, and thereby, in a degree, frustrated the ends
of justice, he could pledge himself, that neither the At-
torney nor Counsel of War. Wakefield knew any thing of
that step until after it had taken place. For his own
part, he certainly felt, that if one of the brothers was
brought to trial without the other, one of them might
he materially prejudiced ; this opinion, however, he had
not expressed to William Wakefield, whom he had not then
seen, but still it might have been communicated to him.
EDWARD GIBBON WAKEFIELD now addressed the Court
at a very considerable length, ih a clear and firm tone of
voice, from a written paper which he held in his hand.
Though he felt the inconvenience of his being his own ad-
vocate, yet he considered he had ample reason for taking
that character on the present occasion. Though his re-
cognizance to the amount of 10,000/. had been continued,
yet he bad been kept in Lancaster Gaol ever since the
trial, and having only arrived here yesterday, had been
precluded from an opportunity of taking efficient advice
en the remarks which he was about to make. Those re-
marks were intended to be directed to the mitigation of the
unusually severe and heavy punishment he felt persuaded the
Counsel for the prosecution meant to ask. He knew that
this Court sat to administer justice, and not vengeance, and
he ventured to have a confidence that his offence did not
merit an unusually severe punishment. In the case of the
King against Bowditch, eight or nine defendants were
convicted of a conspiracy in carrying away a young lady,
and procuring her to marry one of them against her will.
She had a large fortune, and the individual who became
her husband was a labouring husbandman. He threatened
to' murder her, unless she married him. They raised her
in the middle of the night, half naked, and caused her to
swallow a stupifying potion, that they might the more
easily effect their object. They were convicted by a Spe-
cial Jury, and sentenced before an indictment for perjury
against them was tried. They had been guilty of gross
perin-y. In the present case, too, a count had charged a
capital offence ; but that count had failed, and he begged
to contrast his case with that of Bowditch, to show the
great distinction between the two, and particularly because
the Learned Sergeant (Cross), who conducted the prose-
cution at the trial, had stated he was bound
to believe, in 'lgnorance of the law and the fact,
that if the marl iage had taken place in England in-
stead of Scotland, lie (E. G. Wakefield) must have suf-
fered death by the hands of the common executioner, on
the walls of Lancaster Castle. This punishment, however,
had been repealed by au Act of Parliament; there had
been an attempt to show that he had used force in getting
hie wife to consent to marry him, but this had entirely
failed. It had been said, too, that nothing but a defect
in the law of venue had suffered him to escape from fe-
lony. This technicality had been introduced into the in-
dictment by the other side, and it had been done so for
the purpose, of having a fair trial upon the question. It
might he said that he had come here to day with a cut and
dried speech, written out witfrin the silent walls of a gaol,
but he rejoiced to think, that in all probability, he would
h rye another opportunity of bringing forward his witnesses
because he understood that the prosecutor would' make an
application to the House of Lords for a hill of pains and
penalties against him. He had not brought forward an
affidavit of the'circumstances he had now stated, because he
would have had to enter into a full detail of the circumstances,
and the same reason had prevented his bringing forward
the affidavits of others. Great part of the rest of his
speech was taken up in throwing reflections upon the
Counsel who had conducted the prosecution, and through-
out the speech he denominated Miss Turner as often as
possible his wife.
Mr. Sergeant Cross abstained from entering into any al,
tercation with the defendant. His conduct had sunk the pro-
secutor And his family in the deepest affliction, and it was only
to the sentence of this Court, they could look for any thing
like a compensation for the injury their feelings had sus-
tained. It was through intimidation that E. G. Wakefield
had compelled Miss Turner to take the step she did, and,
therefore, he considered the defendant, as he had always
done, guilty of a most heinous offence.
Mr. WILLIAMS followed on the same side, and though
he meant to say nothing which it did net become a gentle-
man to speak or a gentleman to hear, it would not be his
Fault if the defendants were not exhibited from this day
forth as an example to others, who might be found to have
the hardihood of being guilty of an offence so enormous as
that of which the defendants had been found guilty.
Suppose a person in the lower ranks of I; fe, without educa-
tion, and from want, had purloined from Mr. Turner pro-
perty to the amount of a few pounds, should be driven
from his country to make some reparation to the violated
laws of his country for that offence, what could be said of
a person, who for the take of getting the ample property
possessed by Mr. Turner, would be guilty, for that pur-
pose, of robbing them of the support, the honour, and the
delight of their declining age—their daughter? Edward
Gibbon Wakefield bad emphatically and decidedly stated
that there was not the slightest ground for supposing that
Miss T. had been contaminated, and yet he had enormously
increased his guilt to-day, by insinuating that that contami-
nation had taken place. This had been only done to keep
up the tissue of heart-rending misery he had occasioned to
this unfortunate lady and her parents; and he hoped that
the Court would this day make an example of the defend-
ants, which would prevent such a monstrous and unbounded
act of cupidity as had taken place in this case, bothfor the
sake of the honour of the country and public justice, espe-
cially as the defendants had chosen that this transaction should
not be known in these realms alone, but in other countries.
Mr. Baouoiraat said there had been delivered an ad-
dress by the principal criminal on the floor, which had
done that which he (Mr. B.) had thought before to be
impracticable—aggravated the malignity of the most un-
precedented misdemeanour. The address had not been
the effect of feelings of the moment, but sedulously pre-
pared and concocted in retirement, by the same crafty
spirit that had pervaded; the conduct, to the end, of
that person. in whase. sordid maehinatiOns the crime
had been originally hatclieC--that individual in whose
breast the same malignity, cold-blooded disregard of
the feelings of others, the same mighty contempt of
the law of the land, and the same utter disregard of all
truth, had prevailed. But he
,(Mr. B.) was restrained by
the party whom he represented, by those habitual feelings
of a gentleman which had teemed so fruitfully forth in the
address of the defendant, from entering at length into his
conduct. The defendant had said that he meant to con-
ceal something respecting her,, whom in utter contempt of
the law of the country, he slandered with the name of his
wife. , But . did the indiacretiop of Counsel bring
witnesses across the Channel? s Did the indiscretion of
.Counsel produce a plan of the Chambers, in which
the parties had slept in France, . showing the faci-
lity of access to each other Did the indiscretion
or Counsel dictate the scandalous and incredible defence
which had been urged to-day? The Man who had dared
to; make such.a defence had forgotten the letter which he
had written to his • brother, or ,if he did recollect
thiat letter, had little believed that it was in the
pdasession of Mr. Turner. The Learned Counsel granted
that any thing could be but little relied on, proceeding
uOder the hand of a man after the falsehoods and forgeries,
arild swindling falsehoods, that man had acknowledged him-
self to he guilty of, from the sordid, the most incomparably,
sordid motives he had ever yet heard betrayed, if that indie
vidnal had had any purpose to have answered ; but-that ,
ter written to his brother was a private document,a con-
fidential statement, above all suspicion, and intended for
nq personal purpose ; therefore, even taking it to have
come from that man, he would believe it, became he had
hail no purpose to lose in writing it, The secret and most
malignant feelings of the human heart might on most
occasions be known only to the all-seeing eye of the Deity,
lint the letter he had alluded to, coupled with the rest of
the defendants' conduct, have laid open the feelings
hearts in all their naked and native deformity.- o f their