The Sun.
London, England, 1827-02-14 00:00:00

PARLIAMENTARY PAPER.

COURTS OF JUSTICE.
A Itrirunt4 of the number of Causes entered for Trial in the
Court. of King's Bench, Common Pleas, and Exchequer, in
each of the last Seven Years ; distinguishing, the number of
Records made up in each Court for Trial in the County of
Middlesex, and in the City of London respectively :—And
also, the number of Bills filed during the same period in the
Equity Court of Exchequer ; stating the latest number re-
maining to be heard—so far as relates to the Court of Ex-
chequer.
I Certify, That the number of Causes entered for Trial in the Court
1 j 82,2. 1 1823. 1 1824. I 1825. 1 1826.
of Exchequer, during the Years aforesaid, in the County of Middlesex..
and in the City of London respectively, is as follows, Viz
Plea Causes ........................... . ..... . ........
_010.)
In the Year lB2O. 1821. 1822. 1823. 1824. 1825. 1826.
—.....
In Middlesex
In London 7 7 7 2 6 8 5
Revenue Cau5e5............ .... ... ................ (836).
(all entered in ...........)
1820. lB2l.
-- --- ----....,.....
..._........
144 93 136 1113 149 106 95

Total of Causes entered (1346.)
And I further Certify, That I am not able to make any Return to your
Honourable House of the number of Records MADE up in the Court of
Exchequer for Trial, during the Years aforesaid, because, as the duty
of the Associate does not extend to any Records but those which ARE
ENTERED for Trial, my means of information are limited to those Re-
cords only. A. J. WALLACE,
Marshal and Associate to the Lord Chief Baron.
Lord Chief Baron's Chambers, Dec. 14,, 1826.

This is the anniversary of Captain Cook, the Cir-
cumnavigator, being killed at Owyhee, 1779; death of Judge
Blackstone, 1780 ; and defeat of the French fleet off Cape St.
Vincent by Sir John Jervis, 1797.

A Very Rev. Dean, who appears go anxious to
contradict the prevalent report relating to the real baton of his
late Royal Highness the Duke of York, at the funeral. at Windsor,
is perfectly silent on the subject of an equally prevalent report of
another circumstance, which waA waid to have been derived from
high authority at the time, relating to the covering of the book
with black cloth, afterwards to be converted into a pair of gaiters.
—Morning Paper.

A certain noble Lord, who, although among the
most hospitable in entertaining his friends, cannot himself indulge.
In the bottle, has recourse to an expedient not generally known,
which would be of service to all those
whose inclinations, ex-
ceeding their power of drinking, are not satisfied unless they
quaff a brimtner. His Lordship uses a glass which the powers of
reflection make appear quite full, though a very small quantity
only is put into it. By these means, his Lordship not only has
the credit of being a strong-headed fellow, but very often floors
not a few of his company.—County Chronicle.

A good lady from the north, sending her darling, a
few ears since, to Trinity
College, Cambridge, not only took espe-
cialy care to load him with school-cakes and other confectionaries,
to be divided amongst his fellow collegians, but actually addressed
an epistle, couched in the usual dictatorial style 6f mothers to the
conductors of seminaries, to the lady of the late Bishop of Bristol,
Master of the College, desiring her " to see the sheets well aired."
Alma 'later.

'RICES OE STOCKS THI
R Ink 5t0ck...... 8 per Cent
. Re, . 83%%"31.;
34
Per Cent. Coy is.
_82% 3!4 2% 3
• ,/i per Cent.
Ditto Red....
90 89Y,
4 per Cet. >"iew 08 7% I°,lia
Ditto, 1826
99
./n .13an
diak
Stot Lou.re Ann. ... 19 1-16 7i% %
I .
-Ditto 80/ ids W -57 pm.

Pit:ICES FOriEIGN F
Austrian Bonds, per cent.
t.
n Bonds-
Bueno & Ayres B 65A%
Chili Bow i 5
a Bonds. 6' per.a.
` '3
'O/1 abian Bon?
DDitto 0824 1%4 % 9 an; ,h 3 per ct. mi 2 !
(ire ek licnct, en
nit' co 1f126
Gl' atnnals
Bonds
D P. 69 517 i 9% 9

PRICES OF SHAREP,

.trazilian Mining Company
Mexican Mining Company
Potosi La Paz and Peri;•;tan Asso
Tlalpuxahtia Mining ',:ompany
Protector Fire Insv:tance Compan
Canada Company.,„,

COUF/SE OF EXCHt
Amsterdam, .. , C.F. 12 5
Ditto, at silgh',
Rotterdam, .._ 2U. 12 6
Antwerp...,,. l2 6
Alton
Ilamba. • tirgh 2% U. 37
4,
3
U 37
Paris, 3 d;4, 2%
ys' sight
Ditto .
Mordea, ix 25 85
Merlin.
Frank tort on Maine, Ex.M. 154
Teter aburgh, rble . 3 Us. 9 0
Vienna, effective fi 2 M. 10 15
nit ate do.
Mar hid 33N,
Cac Liz 34
Bil boa
.
B. ireelona 3314 i
Sc •ville 33%
G ibraltar

MA
lathed. ' Due.
'0 America 1
(0 Brazil 1
'0 Buenos Ayres
O Donaghadee 0
•
1 Dublin
O Flanders 0
0 France
1 Gottenburgh a 1

; DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto
Ex. Bills, £l,OOO 2d. 37 35 37 pm.
Ditto 5OO 2d. 37 35 37 pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial —pm.
Bank for Account
India for Account
Cons. for Acct. 82% 3% 2%

INDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Neapolitan, 1824
Peruvian Bonds 33
Portuguese Bonds '7B
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New 95'4,
Russian, New, sp. :c 9OYz ..4
Spanish, 1851.1 12yi

French rtentes, 5 p. c —t. —c.
--Exchange —f. —c.
—3 per cent 6Bf. 75c.
Exchange 2st. 50c.

AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
£2O 21,
5
£1 6 .£1 4
196
£1 3 6

150

.NGE YESTERDAY.
Leghorn 47%
Genoa 4Zi
Venice ..
Malta
Naples 3S
Palermo per os. 114
Lisbon 51%
Oporto 5l
Rio Janeiro 4O
Bahia 42
Buenos Avres
Dublin, 21 days' sight
Cork l4
BULLION, PER OZ.
X. e. d.
Portugal Gold, in coin .... e 9 0
Foreign Gold, in bars 3 17
New Doubloons 313 3
New Dollars 0 4 pl
Silver, in bars, standard O,
-

I L S -'
Arrived.
Due,
00
HGuamerbn:!), Jersey'
0 HO
and •fgh
0
j, .
amaica 0
Leeward Islands
0 Lisbon 2
0 Malta 0
1, 1 Waterford 0

HJ.GH WATER AT VON-DON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Mo rrung l7 minutes ajtv,.. 4. I Evening ....... 34 minutes after 4'

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LONDON,
WEDNES,i)AY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1827.

The proceedings in Parliament last evening pos-
6essef'., but little general interest. In answer to some
(Pie Ations put by Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL re-
v ecting the course intended to be pursued by Mi-
r Asters with regard to the Corn Laws, Mr. PEEL
again declined to give any information as to the nature
of the proposed measure, but stated that the mode of
proceeding which it was at present intended to adopt,
-was to move Resolutions in a Committee of the
whole House, which Resolutions would contain the
plan in its nature, form, and details. These Resolu-
tions would then be printed, circulated, and committed
for a future day, that Members might have an oppor-
tunity of fully considering them.
The Report of the Committee of Supply on the
Navy Estimates was brought up and agreed to, after
some conversation respecting impressment and the
discipline of the Navy.

Amongst the various measures which have been

adopted by the present Board of Admiralty, for im-
-Iroving the comfort of the Seamen of the Fleet, there
seems to have been none which has attracted so much
attention, and to be so fully approved as the construc-
tion of a corn mill, now in progress at Deptford, for the
rivAnufacture of biscuit meal and flour, for the general use
Of the Navy. The fact, mentioned by Sir GEORGE
CLERK, in the discussion of the Naval Estimates, of
the large quantity of meal and flour, supplied by con-
tract, which is rojec;ted annually, has convinced every
one of the propriety of this measure ; but as the whole
case does not seem to be understood, and has not been
properly exp/:ained by our cotemporaries, we shall offer
-ftw observations upon it.

It must be already known, that the principle upon
'Which the Government acts in providing provisions for
the Navy, is to procure good and wholesome articles
of all species; to insure this, those articles which are
in°st liable to adulteration are manufactured in the
, 'vktualling Yards. Thus Beer and Biscuit arc al-
'waYs made under the immediate superintendence
'of Government Officers in those Yards. But un-
less the material of which biscuit is made is also
Prepared under the superintendence of the King's
Officers it is impossible to ensure a genuine article
for the seamen. This has been long felt, and mills at
Portsmouth and Plymouth have been for many years
established for grinding corn into flour and meal, for
the Navy—those mills being sufficiently capacious for
the manufacture of the quantity of the flour and meal
required at those ports during peace, but wholly inade-
quate to the wants of the service during war. At
Deptford, however, the great manufacturing Victualling
Yard, and from whence all the other ports are occa-
sionally supplied, and the ships on ioreign stations are
victualled, no corn-mill existed, and the whole sup-
plies both of biscuit-meal and flour have been pro-
vided by specific
The quality of Contracts taken by public tender.
flour and biscuit-meal obtained by that
mode, notwithstanding the caution in its receipt, al-
luded to by
Sir GEORGE CLERK, being found to
be inferior and less genuine, factored at the _ed Mills,than such as are mann-
Govmilrnment at Portsmouth and
Plymouth, the
Al
of miralty, very wisely, determined
to construct a
sufficient capacity to provide all
the flour and meal
Which
Naval Service, and for the might be required for the
abroad, which are victualled frsoemoholne
f troops and garrisons
By this means,
genuine and wholesome food will be'
as at home.
ensured for all
our sailors and soldiers abroad, as well
ptoiiatrt haveie
articles
It has been observed that the same
end
been gained by greater care in the recei
might
from Contractors, but experience has shewn that it is
impossible.
The system of Contracts which is acted upon in all
Government transactions, as less liable to abuse than
any other, is itself liable to many objections. It opens
the door of competition to every speculator. And as
the lowest tender must be accepted, contracts too often
calculate on
fall into the hands of men who, perhaps,

a profit only by evading, in some way or shape, the
conditions of the contract. Hence, in articles like
flour, or biscuit-meal, in which it is very difficult with
any test to discover the presence of meal of other
grain than wheat, it has been found almost im-
possible to prevent imposition, notwithstanding the
immense caution used in its receipt, as evi-
denced by Sir GEORGE CLERK'S statement, that
6,000 sacks of that tendered for delivery at Deptford,
in one year, had been rejected as not genuine, or as
inferior to the article stipulated for in the contract.

The Naval Administration of the country is en-
titled to the highest praise for the attention which
they have devoted to all the internal economy of the
service during peace. In no respect has this been
exhibited more than on the subject of victualling the
fleet. At no former period of our history were our
seamen so well and so amply fed as now. In fact we
have no hesitation in saying that the British sailor is
better fed than any labourir,g man in this or any other
country in the world.

Admiral the H
5n
K. C. B. is to ourable Sir ROBERT STOPFORD,
succeed Admiral Sir JAMES SAUMA-
REZ, RS C ummander-in-Chief of his MAJESTY'S
ships at :1:1„mouth.

We have given from the Times a sketch of suppos-
ed candidates for the Governor-Generalship of India.
To the parties alluded to we might add the names
of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and of a
Noble Duke, now holding an important Colonial Go-
vernment, whose appointment, it is said, would be ac-
ceptable in a high quarter.

In the Court of King's Bench, as stated in our
Paper of yesterday, the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE deli-
vered an opinion of some interest to the frequenters of
club-houses, who form rather an important portion
of the fashionable world. An action was brought
against Sir PHILIP MUSGRAVE, by the proprietor of
the Cocoa-tree Club-house in St. James's-street, for
the amount of his subscription, which Sir P. Mt's-
GRA VE resisted, on the ground of absence for
twelve months. Mr. SCARLETT thought that the
rules of a club were not binding on the Members in
law, but the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE held that the
members of clubs must be acquainted with their rules,
and were therefore bound by them. If this is to be
the law of the land, being admitted a member of a
club involves more serious consequences than people
generally suppose. Many men withdraw from them
quietly, and fancy that by simply discontinuing their
subscriptions, the connexion ceases, but under this de-
cision one may be called on for ten or twenty years sub-
scription which may have accumulated during a resi-
dence in India, or some foreign country. ,
We should strongly recommend all gentlemen going
abroad to keep this in view, and to give notice of their
intention to quit, when they expect their absence to
be protracted.

We are sorry to see two subjects of such vital
importance to the greatness of this country, as Im-
pressment and Naval Punishments, taken up hastily
by some Members of the House of Commons, in
a discussion upon the Naval Estimates. If these
great and important questions are to be .discussed,
let them be made the subjects of specific motions,
and be considered with all the attention which
they deserve—not incidentally mentioned on receiv-
ing the report of the Committee of Supply. We
are convinced that the most injurious consequences
frequently result from a partial discussion of questions
calculated to excite the feelings of mankind. Erro-
neous statements, get abroad, and wrong impres-
sions are consequently formed, which it is not
easy afterwards to remove. We would therefore, with
due deference, suggest to Hon. Members the propriety
of abstaining from the mention of questions involving,
as these perhaps do, the Naval power of Great Britain,
until they are fairly brought forward in such a Manner
as to allow of the arguments on both sides being fully
stated and considered.

After all, upon the subject of Impressment, we
shall only remark that this ancient prerogative of the
aCzywnwictoht,ild
withoutartiskpseuriegtt:tlie bfeutu wrelosllay;.etydoluief
the country. During peace it is never acted
upon, and its exercise, during a future war mall
it is hoped, be materially reduced • but still emergen-
cies'
have arisen where the salvation of the Empire
depended upon the Executive being
ablennin gto
aexfleretetthaist
prerogative, as the only
means of ma
a moment. The question must not be
as some Hon. Members are inclined to view it, as one
wto o
hich is becondemned
loked upon
of mere official convenience,
because Madame DE STAEL considers it to lm con-
trary to the spirit of the Constitution, but it may be
considered as one of absolute necessity for the preser-
vation of our national greatness. Individually it is at-
tended with hardship ; but so are many measures, which
public expediency justifies. Means may be found here-
after of keeping up the number of seamen necessary for
the British Fleet, without frequent recourse being had
to impressment, but we are afraid that the power of
impressing sea-faring men for the naval service cannot,
under existing circumstances, be wholly abolished con-
sistently with the safety of the Empire.

LORD NORB URIC'S LA ST PUN.—When Lord
Norbury, in reading the Chancellor's recent judgment in the
Wellesley cause, came to that part of it in which, referring to the
number of Mr. Wellesley's paramours, the Chancellor added, " It
has been explained that the number 1,003 was derived from the
play of Don Giovanni ; but it does not appear where he got the
number 12 dozen." "Why," exclaimed Lord Norbury, " what
number so proper for a man of gross habits?"

Our theatre, on Friday evening last, was crowded
to excess, the performances being for the benefit of the widow
of the late Mr. Auld, who met his death by falling over the
stairs leading to the pit. The talents of Mr. Auld had raised
him to the situation of Stage Manager at Astley's Amphitheatre,
in London, where he was much admired and respected; and in
consequence of which, Mr. West, one of the proprietors, now re-
siding at Topsham, so far interested himself, that Mrs. and
Master West gratuitously lent their assistance on this evening.
Mrs. West as Fatima in " Blue Beard," and Columbine in the
" Harlequin Pantomime," evinced much vivacity, feeling and ac-
tivity, and was warmly applauded; hut, were not this the case,
we might look to the motive as highly praiseworthy and ho-
nourable to the heart, and an apology for imperfections, had
they appeared. Master West's song, and the duet by Mrs. W.
and him, were simultaneously encored. The receipts of course,
were satisfactory to the widow and her friends.—Exeter Alfred.

TAE FUNDS--(THIS DAY).

CITY, Twelve o' Clock.

Another day has passed without any arrivals from the West-
ward, but as the wind has changed to the W.N.W. we cannot be
long without intelligence ; in the mean time the chief attention
of the monied interest in the City is anxiously directed to the
present state of our funds, which have been rising so rapidly for
some time. Consols opened this morning at 82i with the mar-
ket looking strong, and afterwards advanced to 83* 4 for this,
and 83+, buyers, for the next time ; a slight re-action then took
place, and, in consequence of some sales having been made, re
ceded to 82k, the present price ; India Bonds are 55 7 ;
,and Ex-
chequer Bills, 35 7 pm. In the Foreign Funds every kind par-
take of the rise in the English Fundt, together with the great
plenty of money, with the exception: of Spanish and Peruvian
Bonds, in which no improvement can be quoted ; Mexican Bonds
are 6Si 9 ; Colombian, 39+ 4 ; Russian, 90+ ; and Greek,
l6+ ; Portuguese are 77i Si. There is no alteration in the
quotation of Shares. nor scarcely any transaction in them.

Two o' Clock.

Consols remain steady at 82 83, without any business of im-
portance ; Ohree per Cent. Reduced 83/ ; no alteration in India
Bonds or Exchequer Bills; Colombian Bonds 381 9 ; Mexican
69 I.

THREE 0' CLOCK.

Consols for account-, 82i 1.
FOUR o'CLOCK—CLOSING PRICE.

A number of reports agitote the City, and Consols have fallen
to 82a; they are now 82i buyers for the account, and 82i for
next time.

Consols 82a
Do. for Ac 4, 82a
Brazilian Bonds 65

Danish Bonds 62-k
Greek Do. 1825 161
Mexican Do. 1825, 68a
Peruvian Do. 34-}
Russian De. 901
Spanish Do. 12#

Buenos Ayres De. 54
Chilian Do.

Columbian, 1824, 38i

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY).

FROM LLOYD'S:

DEAL, FEB. 13.—Wind N. by W.—Passed from London the
Lady East, Evans, for India ; Flora, transport, for Dublin, with
a detachment of artillery ; Comet, Ormstron, for Port-au-Prince;
Orion, Moore, for Demerara ; Smeaton Castle, Campbell, for
Jamaica ; Jupiter, Madala, for the Isle of France ; St. George,
M'Clure, for Jamaica ; D. Ricardo, Lacy, for Pernambuco ;
Williams, Matthews, for Bilboa ; and John Cato, Potts, for Lima.
Powrsmouni, FEB. N.E.—Arrived his Majesty's
cruiser Viper, from a cruise. Sailed his Majesty's ship, Clio.
Eastward.—Passed the Scaleby Castle, Newall, for Bengal and
Calcutta ; and the following sailed for London Persever-
verance, Si-•ers, Aurora (R. Edwards), Economy, Aurora,
Amelia and Sarah, Hope, Robert and Mary, and Parmelia..
CORK, FEB. 10.-Sailed the J. Morgan, Wallace, for Trini-
dad, passed the Mary, Smith, from Charleston.
GRAVESEND, FEB. 13.—Sailed the Inglis, Searle, for India ;
the Tulioch Castle, Pearce, for Jamaica; Effort, Wood, for Tene-
riffe ; and Mary, Plain, for Malta.
LAUNCESTON, FEB. 13.—The Union, of Aberdeen, and the
Alliance, of Sunderland, arrived off here last night, and are riding
on the South Road, both making anchor.
LIVERPOOL, FIEB. 11.*Passed, the Commerce, Clark, fur
Pernambuco ; Dee, Reisein, for; Demerara; Frances, Gillespie,
for Barbadoes ; and the Memnon, for St. Vincent's.

•
FEB. 12.—Sailed, the Janet, Oliphant, for Bahia ; Senta, Be-
veridge, and Stapleton, Hunter, for Pernambuco ; and the Hamil-
ton, Bunker, for New York.

LOWESTOFT, FEB. IS —The Union, of Aberdeen, and the
Alliance, of Sunderland, were, hove off this Strand last night,
toad are riding in the South Reach.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)
MOUSE OF LORD S. -.:-APPE AL S.

ARBUCKLE, ATNELLANT, INNER AND OTHERS, RESFOSTDENTS.
The LORD Cualicktunt yesterday intimated that he would
be prepared in a few dayito rk.liver.,their. Lortiships' judgment
on this appeal, and that due notice 'Would be given to the parties.
The Loan CHANCELLOR, Lords EXMOUTH, and TYNEH AM,
were in attendance this morning at ten o'clock, for the purpose of
hearing appeals.

LORDS ULSES: AND OTHERS, APPELLANTS, RHOADES, REsroNnENT.
This was an appeal from a decision of the Court of Chancery.
A bill had been filed in that Court for the purpose of annulling
a lease of a farm granted by the late Lord Selsey, and certain of
the appellants, to Rhoades the respondent, who had been the
steward and solicitor of the Selsey family. The bill was dis-
missed with costs, and the present appeal was against that, decision
of the Court below.

Mr. HORNS appeared ir. support of the appeal. The farm in
question he stated to have been held by Lord Selsey, under the
see of Chichester, by leases rativs,,able every
,seven years. The
respondent had persuaded his 14014) to enter into a contract in
the year 1804, to grant him a flojae, for twenty-one years abso-
lutely, commencing from Michaelmas, 1806, at which time the
interest of the then tenant was to determine. The Learned Gen-
tleman contended that it was inconsistent with the duty of
Rhoades, who, it must be remembered, was the confidential agent
of Lord Selscy, to advise its Lordship to enter into such a contract.
For in case Lord Selsey did not find it his interest to renew with the
See of Chichester, or in case the Bishop refused to grant a renewal, it
would have been impossible for his Lordship to grant to Rhoades
the term for which he had contracted, so that in fact Rhoades
had advised him to enter into a contract which might have sub-
jected him to an action in a Court of Law. The Learned Gen-
tleman entered into a. variety of details, with the view of chewing
that Rhoades had used undue influence in obtaining the lease, and
submitted that a Court of Equity ought not to have sanctioned an
instrument procured under such circumstances.

Messrs. HEALI) and Perrs appeared for the Respondent.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, WESTMINSTER.

SITTINGS IN BANCO AFTER TERM.
When the Learned Judges took their seats, they intimated, that
as Mr. Justice LITTLEDALZ would have to be at the Old Bailey
to-morrow and Friday, they were unwilling to go on with new
trials on either of those days, but wished to take as many of the
demurrers as possible ; and that instead of taking the Crown
paper on Wednesday next, as had been intended, they would take
it as soon as the demurrers were over. This notice they wished
to be left at the Crown Office, and also to he sent to the Gentle-
men on the Oxford Circuit.

Th, Court sat for about an hoer before it could get any Coun-
sel to attend. The Learned Judges had intended giving some
jndgments, but were prevented from doing so, because of there
being no persons present to hear them.