The Sun.
London, England, 1827-09-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TUB :)IJIILIC JOURNALS,

The contents of the Lisbon Papers published
in a part of our impression yesterday, and the let-
ters which we publish to-day, again bring under
our review the unsatisfactory and distracted state
of the Princess Regent's Government. The
spirit of inconstancy, inconsistency, andinirigue,
which some time ago took possession of her
councils seem now to have their full swing.—
We heard by the last mail of the dismissal of
two of her Ministers, and the reduction of her
Cabinet to three members, each occupying two
portfolios. We now learn that the Viscount de
Santarem, one of the favoured three, who signed
out his nephew, Saldanlia, and his other col-
leagues, and who happened to be the Minister
in waiting when the follies of Caldas were com-
mitted, has himself been dismissed, from motives
of caprice or from unexplained reasons of state.
General Stubbs, too, our countryman who so
gallantly defended Oporto during the late rebtl-
lion, is to have the sentence of a court martial
for his reward. In considering the facts of the
General's case, we must admit that his conduct
on the dismissal of Saldanhawas imprudent, and
his language to the Regent reprehensible. At
the head of an important garrison, and in coin-
mand of a considerable body of troops, it did
not become a military officer to interfere with the
exercise of the Royal prerogative in the
dismissal or appointment of Ministers, far less to
become the organ of a communication which pre-
sumed that the Princess was surrounded by un-
worthy favourites, and that his faithful army was
called upon to proceed to Lisbon for the purpose
of effecting her release from het Cainarilla.—
But why, in the relaxation of every principle of
government during the last year, and in the un-
certainty which prevails about the rights and du-
ties of the authorities under a new Charter, is
General Stubbs to be singled out for a display of
unwonted and incongruous rigour, when his dis-
missal alone might have been more than an ade-
quate atonement for his undesigned offence,
committed in a moment of patriotic excite-
ment, and in obedience to the impulse of
a great population? Even if no considera-
tion was due to his motives, ought his services
so soon to have been forgotten ? These frequent
changes of Ministers, and these capricious acts
of folly or rigour, which have brought the Go-
vernment of the Regent into disgrace, and have
rendered its history for the last three months
more like the annals of a nursery than'of a body
of Councillors, are calculated to be more fatal
to the security of the Charter than a northern
revolt, and tend to make us regret less their ne-
cessary termination in the arrival of Don Miguel.
No improvement of the Administration, no con-
solidation or development of The Constitutional
system, can be expected from a cabal of ill-in-
structed young women, directed by selfish cour-
tiers—from maids of honour who engage to
make and unmake a Cabinet for a purse or a
place—or from a set of disembergadors or cap-
tains of dragoons, who agree to take office under
the menials of the Palace. The reins of Go-
vernment in the present situation of the country
must be intrusted to a man ; and as they cannot
be beneficially held or directed by a hand on the
other side of the Atlantic, the only alternative
seem] to . be, the accession of the Emperor's
to,the Regency. We are ready to admit
that this is a great risk for the rising liberties of
Portugal ; but with the claims given to the
Prince by the terms of his marriage,—by the in-
definite expressions of the Charter, and by the
feelings of a great portion of the nation, it would
probably have been impossible long to have de-
layed, or finally to have prevented, the experi-
ment. In such a state of things, the only ques-
tion (as we have before stated) was whether the
Prince was to.be let loose from Vienna, and find
his way to Lisbon the best way he could, with-
out any renewed obligation to observe his
brother's institutions, or *as to be bound to
their support by every solemnity which could
render moral or political engagements impressive
and durable. The latter course, we are happy
to say, has been adopted ; and though we can-
not, at present enter into the details of the plaii
by which the Allied Powers, and particularly the
English Government, expect to render his return
to Portugal harmless or beneficial, we may yen•
Lure to assure our readers that every precaution
has been taken to secure his fidelity to the
Charter, and prevent a re-action against its
friends. On landing in the kingdom which he
is destined to administer,- he enters it as the
Lieutenant- of his brother, with his brother's com-
mission, and under an engagement to support his
brother's work. The Emperor has not only
written to the Prince, in earnest terms of advice
and exhortation, to be true to the new system,
and to preserve the chartered rights of his people,
but has addressed letters to the King of Eng-
land, and to some of the other Allied Sovereigns,
requesting them to exert their inflence with the
Infante for the same objects. Care is to be taken,
that in proceeding to Lisbon, he shall not pass
through Spain, to receive the salute of the rebels
who abused his name in the late insurrection, or
to be tutored in politics by his sister, the Princess
of Beira, or any of the other royal professors of
absolutism at the Court of Madrid. On his
arrival in the Tagus or before his disembarka-
tion, he is to issue a manifesto explanatory of
the conduct which he. means to pursue,—pro-
claiming the capacity in which he appears as
Regent by his brother's appointment, declaring
his adherence to the Charter, pronouncing those
rebels who resist it, and calling upon all his sub-
jects to respect it as the fundamental law of the
kingdom. In the first meeting of the Cortes,
his oath to maintain the new institutions will be
solemnly renewed. The Silveiras and the other
enemies of the Chaster will of course be kept at
a distance, and the Allies ofhis brother will re-
commend to him better counsellors. Thus it
may reasonably be expected, that a re-action will
be prevented,—that out of a decent regard to the
faith of engagements, the Charter will not be
instantly overthrown,--that civil war will not
immediately be renewed,—that the Constitu-
tionalists will not be imprisoned or massacred,—
that the country will not be deluged with the
blood of its beet citizens, and that liberty will
have one chance more of success. What may
happen in the course of six months, if the Prince
should fall into his old courses and instruct his
friends to get up addresses from the troops or
the municipalities, calling upon him to dissolve
the ,Chambers, and to assume absolute power, it
1/0144 not bedifficult to predict ; but the predic-
tion (*evil is..worse than useless, when its oc-
currence cannot be prevented.—Times.
Mi°l' has been said, and large praise be-
. stowed 40/1 w
sate called the " improve-
ments" projectd
in St.. James's-park, and in
• Irtikit weTe once. !th-
It wouM -grew,
.r .e
.gardens of Carlton House.
not merely,bea
/ttipcgce us. to see those places
and judiciouiir e„, I?nt tendered, by draining
health.and,Ac
commdate4tlre. tributary to public
prove highly es throwing openWe therefore ap-
the Park, and

rendering the interior of it, which was formerly
in grass, and accessible only to oxen and
graZiers' boys, a place of enjoyment to the mid=
dling and lower orders of the capital. But we
cannot admire—on the contrary, we complain of
--autlwr alteration to which the word improve-
ment has been rather strangely applied, viz. the
curtailment of St. James's-park in its gross di-
mensions, reckoning froth the north boundary-
wall, from Spring-gardens to St. James's Palace,
On one side, and the southern boundary of the
Bird-cage-walk on the other. Carlton-house
gardens have, until lately, been replenished with
noble trees, and free from houses. The public,
therefore, though not permitted to enter that
spacious area, enjoyed the benefit of the free'
currents of air which it circulated throughout the
neighbourhood. Henceforth, it appears, that
the same gardens are to be stripped of trees and
covered with houses, giving brick-work or stucco
for a spectacle instead of foliage, and smoke for
respiration instead of fresh air. So, on the Op-
posite side of the Park, what is now clear space,
• will be, at least partially, built and smoked over ;
and, therefore, although the central area of the Park
may be prettier to look at than in former times,
there will be, upon the whole, a sensible addition
to the number of conquous houses, and to the
volumes of coal smoke, which are, in fact, the
two grand evils to be considered, when " im-
provements" are in hand for this already over-
built metropolis. We have thrown out these
same hints, or others a-kin to them, many months
ago, and really without the slightest wish to
wound any body's feelings, or to raise capricious
obstacles to a plan contemplating the smallest
increase of solid benefit to the public ; nor are
we answerable for any error which may have oc-
curred in our conception of the particular changes
intended, as we have taken our nuns from
what has appeared in -print ; and shall be sin-
cerely happy to find that there will be no set-off
in the form of additional smoke or buildings,
against the gravel-walks or flowering shrubs, or
artificial islands, by which the pedestrians of
London, in their western migrations, are to be
regaled and exhilirated.--Ibid. •

Most of our readers must be familiar with the
anecdote of the distressed girl, who applied for
admission into a Magdalen Asylum, but who
was rejected, because she had not qualified. It
must be some reluctance, from the fruits of in-
struction and early habits, which prevents the
labouring population from qualifying more ge-
nerally than they do for admission into prisons, that
has prevented the commitments from increasing
more than only tenfold in the agricultural counties
within the last twenty years. From an artiele
in another column, headed Parochial Pay, it
appears that, in the counties of Wilts, Dorset,
and Somerset, where the rule is, that every la-
bourer should be a pauper, the allowance to in-
dividuals out of prison is one shilling and six-
pence hafpenny per week, while the allowance
per head for prisoners, in the same dietrict, is
two shillings and eleven pence halfpenny. Can-
not some benevolent individuals, in this age of
intellectual advancement, endeavour to free the
people of a prejudice which seems to be so much
in the way of their comfort; by demonstrating to
them, that when the authorities of the country
have marked in so conspicuous a manner their
preference of crime to industry, it is not for
them to set themselves against the opinions of
their betters ? Why should a labouring man
persist in working a whole day on a dinner of
cold potatoes, when, by qualifying himself for
admission into a prison, by a petty theft, he may
have meat as well as potatoes, and thus be able
to cover his bones with a little flesh, which he
can never hope to do out of prison ? Happy
the Englishman who can find his way into a pri-
son ; and when foreigners reproach us with the
increase in number and size of our prisons, we
may tell them, that this only proves the increas-
ing comfort of the people; far if those in prison
are happier than those without, the more the
number of prisoners increases, the more the stock
of general happiness is increased. It used to
be said, that an Englishman's house is his castle.
We may now say that the castle (for prisons
aught not to lose that proud title) is an English-
man's house.—Morning Chronicle.
The Rev. G. C. Smith, " formerly of his
Majesty's Navy, and for several years Minister
of the Gospel at Penzance, Cornwall," has pub-
lished a pamplet of 130 pages, under the title of
a " Serious Address to the Right Hon. the
Lord Mayor (Alderman Brown), respecting his
prohibitory command, delivered in the Justice-
room of the Mansion-house, in the month of
August, 1827, that he would exert his magiste-
rial authority to forbid the preaching of the Gos-
pel in the open air of the City." What the law
on the point is we do not profess to know. The
Rev. G. C. Smith maintains that there is no law
to prevent him from quietly gathering an assem-
bly in the open air, and simply preaching Chriit
crucified unto them. As the Lord Mayor is an
attorney, we should be disposed, in our state a
ignorance, to rely on his opinion rather than on
that of the preacher. " Will you take the Riot
Act ?" says Mr. S. " Do so in welcome ; but
you must read it first, and allow us an hour to
disperse, and in thataime I'll finish my sermon ;
so that this will not affect me. Will you try
the Vagrant Act ? I have read this, and I can-
not see a line that applies to preaching the Gos-
pel in the open air." But Mr. Smith falls here
into a very common error with respect to the
Riot Act. The Riot Act attached certain con-
sequences to remaining assembled, after its hav-
ing been read ; but it does not follow that an
obstruction may not be instantly removed by a
civil authority. The question we should take
to be, how far preaching in the streets of a city
could be considered an interruption of order.
This is altogether a question of circumstances.
• In wide and capacious places, no interruption to
order may be occasioned by preaching in the
open air, while in busy thoroughfares it may
be productive of very great disorder. In a trial
in Scotland (reported in Maclaurin), it was con-
tended that a farmer could not turn gleaners out
of his field, as the Old Testament expressly aIL
lowed gleaning ; but it was held that the Mo.-
saical Law was only binding on the Jews, and
could be no rule to Christians. But Christianity
is part and parcel of the law of England, and
Mr. Smith is at some pains to prove from the
commands and the example of our Saviour, who
preached in the open air in cities, that he has
Christianity on his side. The Lord Mayor,
who is a great Theologian as well as a Lawyer,
and M. Smith, must settle this matter between
them, for we cannot. Mr. Smith, citing the
encouragement he received from Dr. Chalmers,
I had an interview," he says,
of Glasgow,
with him at the house of William Hale, Esq.,
of Homerton, and I told him of my preaching in
the• open air, at Smithfield, and other parts,
which you, my Lord Mayor, forbid and con-
demn, but of which he heartily approved ; and
concerning which he said, with a most affec-
tionate grasp or the hand, Go forward, my

I dear Sir, and
God Almighty will bless you;'
and he quotes a long passage from a well-known
work of Dr. Chalmers, recommending preaching
in public in the haunts of depravity and guilt, so
as to reach those who, of themselves, would
eschew churches and tabernacles. Mr. Smith
also addresses some powerful arguments, ad
hominem, to his Lordship. " Has that amiable
and pious man of God, the Rev. Edw. Parsons,
your present Minister, son to a venerable Mi-
nister at Whitfield's tabernacle (a place reared
by out-door preaching)—has Mr. Parsons ever
taught you persecution for conscience sake, or
have you ever, in any sermon at the Weigh-
house (the Dissenting Meeting-house near Love-
lane, East-cheap, where the Lord Mayor re-
gularly attends), heard such proceedings lauded
by any Minister whatever ?" We are sorry to
find it insinuated by Mr. Smith, that the Lord
Mayor has, in his proceedings towards him, been
acting in the interest of a rivals He says he had
always been treated in a gentlemanly way by for-
mer Lord Mayors, when he went to the Man-
sion-house with starving sailors ; and that the
rudeness of his Lordship, on his applying for
such aid, when his Lordship went out of his
way to attack him for preaching, had a private
cause. " lam sorry to say I now recollect too
well the cause of it : you have perhaps family
connexions, among whom may be Mr. Robert
Humphrey Martyr'. That gentleman, in 1819,
because I formed the Bethel Union Society, be-
came most seriously prejudiced against me, lest
it should injure the Port of London Society.
From that time, as has been a thousand times
acknowledged by Mr. Thos. Phillips, his present
colleague, Mr. Martyn has possessed these feel-
ings, which it is as impossible for him to conceal
as it is for his immediate connexion not to be in-
fluenced by them. Mr. Martyn's ire has been
dreadfully increased since last winter, because of
my exertions to promote the Mariner's Church So-
ciety When I spoke to you also in the
Committee-room of the Tavern, after the public
Meeting, I saw but too plainly then that some
very untoward influence had taken possession of
your mind. This was confirmed when Mr.
Perkins, a Member of the port of London So-
ciety, told me, in much anger, at the house of
a gentleman, that the Lord Mayor knew all
about me ; intimating, by his manner, that the
same feelings he possessed were likely to have
someplace in your breast. . . . I mean not
to say, my Lord Mayor, that Mr. Martyn would
or could, as a Dissenter, influence you to forbid
my preaching in the open air ; but I do mean
to say, that your intimate family and church
connexion could not fail to give your mind a
particular bias against me, which you evinced on the
very first opportunity." It certainly appears sin-
gular, that an evangelical Lord Mayor should
strain a point to put down irregular preaching;
but we are far from wishing to insinuate that his
Lordship has not been guided by most conscien-
tious motives.—/bid.

We are glad to see that the Court of Common
Councii have met to take into consideration the
state of the nightly watch. To our surprise,
however, the subject seems to have excited but
little interest, and to have elicited remarks from
only two of the Aldermen, Messrs. Venables and
Atkins, whose speeches, it must be admitted, are,
however, very much to the purpose. Had the
meeting been one for considering the affairs of
the nation, which the Collective Wisdom of the
City is so fond of interfering with—merely, we
suppose, because they know little or nothing of
the matter—we should have had speeches with-
out number ; while on a subject which peculiarly
interests their constituents, and which, we may
presume they ought to understand, the Collec-
tive Wisdom are as mute as fishes. But where
is the eloquence which can willingly descend
from fleets, armies, constitutions, and metaphy-
sics, to a mere tale of Dogberries ; or who, after
revelling in furs and satins, would soil their
hands with " filthy dowlas ?" It seems, even
from what did pass upon the occasion, that the
evil, great as it is, admits of very easy remedy ;
and it only seems astonishing, that in what is
justly called an army of watchmen, patrols, and
beadles, amounting to no less than 757 persons,
such mismanagement can have existed, as to
allow of the numerous and scandalous depreda-
tions which the inhabitants are every day subject
to. The two most striking defects in the nightly
watch, not only in the City, but in other parts of
the town, are, first, the age and physical unfitness
of a large proportion of the watchmen ; and,
secondly, the total want of a proper superintend-
ence. Next to having persons competent to the
discharge of the duties, nothing would tend more
to spur and keep alive their vigilance and inte-
grity than a judicious distribution of rewards and
superannuated allowances. Where would be the
harm, for instance, were each ward or parish, at
the end of the year, to give a premium of from
2/. to 5/. to every watchman on whose beat no
undetected depredation had been committed ?
Or where a man has served faithfully, and is past
further service, where would be the harm of re-
warding his faithful services by some small pen-
sion for the remainder of his days? To procure
good servants we must make their places worth
keeping. But we would again urge while allu-
ding to this subject, that nothing would tend
more to protect the citizens than the obvious re-
medy of having a resident magistracy. This is
in some measure confirmed by the only two
Aldermen who took any part in this discussion
being, we believe, resident within their wards, as
the whole Court ought to be. Things are come
to a pretty pass, if Aldermen are to stand up and
upbraid their constituents and fellow-citizens
with locking up their counting-houses, and de-
serting their homes, when they themselves, whim
duty it is to be upon the spot, are, so many of
should
re but where they
be.—Morning
remosirdneinngts aHn
The crime for which General Stubbs is to
yerwalhde.
be tried by a Court Martial consists, according
to the Lisbon Papers, as we stated yesterday, in
his having addressed a Memorial to the Princess
Regent, requesting her to recall the Minister
Saldanha. It is extremely difficult to pronounce
on so general a charge. To
petition the su-
preme authority seems so essentially the
right
of
a freeman in a free state, that we can hardly at-
tach the shadow of criminality to its exercise,
Nor does it at all alter the state of the question,
that the petition comes from one possessing a
military commission ; for, although in his capa-
city as an officer, General Stubbs owed implicit
obedience to such commands as respected his
official duties ; yet, in his capacity as a citizen,
which he did not abandon when he took up
arms, and of which no official responsibility
could deprive him, he was quite as much entitled
to address the Regent as any other individual.—
If, therefore, the only crime committed by Gen.
Stubbs was the presenting of such a petition,
and if it contained no expressions which might
be construed as libellous ; and from that circum-
stance not being mentioned in aggravation, there
is- every ream to s
- -uPpse that A did not, the

General, on every principle of law and equity,
must be acquitted, and the trial, instead of strength-
honing the hands of the Regent, will bring her au-
thority into contempt. It is an ungracious act to
attempt the degradation of such a man as Stubbs.
The Portuguese may have forgotten his patriotic
and gallant conduct in the defence of Oporto, in
which he showed himself an honest man and a
good soldier ; but Europe has not forgotten it,
and Princes now-a-days responsible for their ac-
tions to more than the public of their own
States ! and, above all, the best ally of Portugal
—that one, without whom the activity and zeal
of the General would have proved insufficient to
preserve from falling the power which is now put
forth to crush him--,--has not forgotten, and will
not forget, his services. The people of this
country owe much to that brave man. It is not
easy to calculate how much English property
might have been sacrificed, and how much
English blood might have been spilled, had the
ruffian and undisciplined crew of Chaves got pos-
session of Oporto, which but for General
Stubbs they must inevitably have done.—New
Times.

COURT OF COMMISSIONERS OF BANK•

RUPTS.

BASINCHALL-STREET, SEtT. 14.

Strolling along Basinghall-street this morning, I
thought 1 would just take a look in here, and see if
there was any thing going forward. Observing in
the room for the meeting of the ninth list, an un-
usual crowd, I inquired the cause, and was informed
it was the last meeting of a gentleman, who about
three years ago had been presented at Court upon
his marriage !—that this was the day appointed for
his examination, and the passing of his accounts.
My curiosity being a little excited, I determined to
wait and see this gentleman. In the mean time,
from one creditor and another (all of whom seemed
quite full, and willing to communicate all they
knew), I learnt that the bankrupt ,was an officer in
the City Light Horse Volunteers, and being on duty
at the Coronation, a lady who filled a conspicuous
situation on that day, fell in love with him, and they
were married. After taking a tour on the Conti-
nent, they returned to an elegantly-furnished house
in the neighbourhood of Portman-square, and were
presented to his Majesty at the next Court. This
led to a country-house twenty miles from London,
carriages and horses upwards of a dozen, and an esta-
blishment of servants to correspond, and lastly, in
the Regent's Park.
Soon after twel re o'clock, the different persons
being seated at the table, the Commissioner looking
round inquired—
Who are you, Sir ?—Clerk to the Solicit Or.
Who are you, Sir ?—One of the AsSignees.
And you, Sir ?—Solicitor to the Commission.
Passing by the bankrupt, who sat with his accoun-
tant behind him, the next person was asked—
Who are you, Sir ?—I am solicitor to the bank-
rupt, come to protect his interest against this Indic-
:core of a Commission—pointing to the list of credi-
tors. The largest creditor, I observe, is under four
hundred pounds—the whole of his debts about four
thousand three hundred; and he has put his as-
signees in possession of property to pay above
twenty shillings in tile pound. lam only astonish-
ed at the smallness of his debts—a mere milk-score !

Commissioner—Really, Sir, I don't know what
you mean by such language. What is your object?—
are we going to have an examination ?—are you prepar-
ed with your accounts, or come to apply for further
time ? A mere milk-score ! !—Really, Sir—(the
Commissioner shaking his head.)
The Solicitor (who hereafter I shall call by his
favourite and elegant appellation of Milk-score, in
order to distinguish him from other gentlemen who
are connected with these proceedings) said he came
to apply for three weeks more time. The bankrupt
was not prepared with his accounts; he had not
been able to get them ready.
Commissioner (addressing the bankrupt)—l am
surprised, Sir, to hear this. A person well versed
in accounts, ought to have been prepared after six
weeks !—turning to the assignees, with a view to
hear what they had to say, and at the same time re-
peating, " Milk-score, indeed !"
One of them considered Mr. ---- had had
plenty of time, but he had been attending to sales,
and other things, to the neglect of his accounts.
They had not seen or heard any think about
them, and he thought it was not fair dealing with
the assignees, that if his accounts were in such for-
wardness he could show them to his solicitor, and
bring him there to make such a statement. Under
these circumstances, he should object to any post-
ponement of the examination, and in justice to him-
self and brother assignee, he begged to state the
amount that had really come into their hands, and
how they had been obliged to dispose of part of it.
Commissioner—No, Sir, not now; it is unneces-
sary. You are not upon your examination. At
the proper time I dare say you will be prepared with
your accounts. •
Assignee—But, Sir, should not the creditors be
undeceived ?

Milk-score (with a significarienod)—Yes; let us
have it !

The Commissioner waved his hand, and the as-
signee sat down.
The time was then enlarged, upon a promise that
the assignees should have the accounts at least seven
days before the meeting.
A butcher then presented himself to prove his
bill for 1681. A creditor, taking it up and seeing
upwards of 31. charged for one week's bill, said
there must have been a great many persons to con-
sume all this. Surely he must have had more than
six knives and four forks, which is all the assignees
have got. " Oh," says the butcher, "his forks were
silver.

There was a great number of private creditors of
this description, as well as journeymen cabinet-
makers, clerks, foremen, apprentices, men and
women servants, all applying for their wages, and
who, from the freedom of their remarks, appeared
exceedingly to annoy Milk-score. Amongst others,
a cook, for half a year's wages—ten guineas.
A hatter presented his bill for seven hats, and was
examined by the assignee as to the time they were
furnished, and for whom ?
Creditor—For his men-servants.
Assignee—And this forms part of the milk-score,
does it ?

.Milk-score—Pitiful ! disgraceful !
Assignee (addressing the Commissioners)—Sir,
I beg to claim the protection of the Court against
the language of the individual who spoke last, and
who appears to have been brought here to insult
the assignees.
Milk-score—l say it is pitiful.
Commissioner (looking at him)—Really, Sir,
this cannot be allowed.
Assignee continuing—l appeal, Sir, to the bank-
rupt if he has reason to complain of my conduct to
him; on the contrary, if I have not shown him
every indulgence—and this is the way he returns it.
I wish now, Sir, for your direction as to apparel.—
This gentleman has a very large and extensive ward-
robe and some of the creditors think that, as he is
not likely to go to Court till he gets his certificate,
they ought to have the benefit of the superfluous
dress. His tailor has informed one creditor that he
bas a cost which cost 60 guineas.
Milk-score (smiling, as if he wished to conci-
liate)—Hush hush!
Commissioner—l will hear you presently, Sir,
when we have got through a little of the business,
and let a few of these persons go, for you have not
room to move.

A. Creditor now took the book, and, after swear-
ing to his debt and answering the usual questions,
asked if he might be allowed -to speak.
Commissioner--Well,
Sir !
Creditor—My bill is about 151., upon which, Sir,
I have been put to 71. law expences, and on cominghere to-day; hoping to get some little redressor sat's-

faction for my grievance, lam told by the bank-
rupt's solicitor that I am a blackguard.
Commissioner—lf any person in this Court has
made use of disrespectful language co you, I am sorry
for it ; but I am glad it is not in my power or
my province to punish all who use improper language
here, or I should have had a great many to punish
before now. You must consider it an exceedingly
unpleasant business for all concerned, and each one
should endeavour to curb their feelings.
Creditor—Yes, Sir, but when the party who has
injured you brings a person to stir up those feelings
and to insult you (looking at Milk-score)—l say you
are no gentleman.
Commissioner—There, now you have had your
turn, you had better go.
A question now arose upon the payment of wages,
and Milk-score said he had seen it in the books that
a journeyman was a servant. _ _

Commissioner—The Act only specifies servants.
Suppose a bankrupt had a thousand journeymen,
are they all to be paid in full, the same as household
servants ? Perhaps you can refer us to the books
you have seen such a decision in ?

Milk-score—l cannot recollect at this moment.

Commissioner—Well, if you can against we meet
again I shall be glad. I believe the decision is
against you. _

The business having nearly been gone through--
The assignee said, many of the creditors were
waiting the decision of the Court upon the subject
of apparel. He had upon his own authority allowed
the bankrupt to take away the whole of his and his
wife's wardrobe, and other things, subject to being
returned, if called for by the creditors. There was a
meeting held yesterday, when it was determined to
give nothing but bed and bedding. The bankrupt
claimed apparel—he wished to know if the Court
dresses and military apparel and accoutrements were
to be given up to the creditors.
Commissioner—Certainly, every thing.
Milk-score—What Sir, a gentleman in his Ma-
jesty's service give up is military accoutrements ?
A Creditor replied he was a volunteer ; but if he
had been in the regular service the law required it,
and he would be obliged to give up every thing.
Assignee (addressing the bankrupt) said—Mr.
—, I consider you answerable for the acts of your
servant. You have brought this man here to-day to
insult me, because you could not do it yourself. I
have treated you kindly, and like a gentleman. I
now give you notice that if your Court wardrobe
(and all superfluous articles of dress, of which you
have taken away several boxes, together with the
silver forks, spoons, &c.), and every article belong-
ing to the creditors that I have lent you, is not re-
turned to Terrace before sunset this evening,
I will send the messenger into your present dwelling
house to keep possession of them, or take them
away. (Turning to the Commissioners)—He begged
to state, in answer to the assertion that above
4,0001. worth of property had been given up to the
assignees, MM. I Id. was the gross amount that
had come into the hands of the assignees, out of
which he had paid 2281. 18s. 9d., for rent, taxes,
wages, &c.; that it had been paid into the Bank of
England ; and that he had not 1001. in his hands.
Commissioner—Was that where the creditors
ordered it to be placed ?
Assignee—lt was, Sir, I believe ; the creditors
will be thankful to see 10s. in the pound; but if
there is twenty, I will do my best to obtain it for
them.

An accountant was about to complain of the man-
lier he had been treated by the bankrupt's solicitor,
but the Commissioners said, if they went on so,
they might be three or four hours more about it;
they had been nearly three, and the meeting was over.
A poor cabinet-maker complained of the hardship
of being obliged to prove for a small balance of
account for work, his own labour.

The Commissioner very feelingly said, " My good
fellow, I am sorry for yon, and the other creditors
also, but you have heard there is twenty shillings
in the pound, if that is any satisfaction for you; and
then turning round, said, in an under voice, Milk
-
score, indeed !' "

A. B. C.

ANECDOTE OF CATHERINE IL—When
Pallas, the celebrated naturalist, offered his col-
lection of minerals to the Russian Government,
he demanded, after calculating its value, the sum
of 10,000 rubles for it. Catherine herself exa-
mined the collection ; and, taking the letter
which M. Pallas had addressed to the Govern-
ment, wrote on the margin in reply—,, M.
Pallas is a learned mineralogist, but a very bad
calculator ; we direct that he be paid 20,000
rubles for his collection."—London Weekly
Review.

PERSIAN ANECDOTE.—Rita Kooli Khan,
the governor of Kazeroon, came to pay the
elchee a visit. This old nobleman had a silk
band over his eye-sockets, having had his eyes
put out during the late contest between the Zend
and Kajir farrVies for the throne of Persia. He
began, soon after he was seated, to relate his mis-
fortunes, and the tears actually came to my eyes
at the thoughts of the old man's sufferings, when
judge of my surprise to find it was to entertain;
not to distress us, he was giving the narration,
and that, in spite of the revolting subject, I was
compelled to smile at a tale, which in any coun-
try except Persia would have been deemed a
subject for a tragedy ; but as poisons may by
use becoMe aliment, so misfortunes, however
dreadful, when they are of daily occurrence, ap-
pear like common events of life. But it was the
manner and feelings of the narrator that, in this
instance, gave the comic effect to the tragedy of
which he was the hero. " I had been too active
a partisan," said Riza Kooli Khan, " of the
Kajir family, to expect much mercy when I fell
into the hands of the rascally tribe of Zend. I
looked for death, and was rather surprised at the
lenity which only condemned me to lose my eyes.
A stout fellow of a ferash came as .executioner
of the sentence ; he had in his hand a large
blunt knife, which he meant to make his instru-
ment : I offered.him twenty tomans if he would
use a penknife I showed him. He refused in
the most brutal manner, Called me a merciless
villain, asserting that I had slain his brother, and
that he had solicited the present office to gratify
his revenge, adding, his only regret was not
continuedsl for from this
iookfellow,pm psy braectke hede
seemedli,
sleeves,
being alloognwuv:ietdejaznatpodlKeplaaousioedt
me,
,yttsoheladf on
tucked" Seeing,"
t ealt l
had' '
brandishedsn uebssn'toB
his knife, and very composed put one
knee on my chest, and was proceeding to his
butchering work, as if I had been a stupid inno-
cent
he chose. lamb, th that was quite
teeonhtiemn:
ftroomletthhiismilno
what .
pression, off his guard, I raised one of my feet,
and planting it on the pit of his stomach, sent,
him heels over head, in a way that would have
made you laugh, (imitating 'with his foot the
action he described, and laughing heartily him-
self at the recollection of it.) I sprung up ; so
o
did my enemy.; we ._had a short tussle—but he
was the strongerd havingt knocked me down,
sucoeeded in taking an u
my eyes. The pain at
the moment," said the old Khan, awas lessened
by the warmth occasioned by the struggle. The
wounds Soon' headed ; and when the Kajirs ob-
taine4;the undisputed sovereignty of Persia, I
was rewarded for my suffering in their Cause."—
Sketches of Persia.

LONDON MARKETS.

(From the London Nets Price Current of Friday).

RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDs.—The sales of Ructi
this week are very limited. A few Demerara 3 and 4
ever, fine quality, bare sold uncommonly high, but it can-
not be given as a Market currency. Brandies continue to
he held for high prices in France, but little effect has yet
been produced on this Market. Geneva is without varia-
tion.

fame, FLAX, AND TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has'
lately attracted much attention, and very considerable sales
are reported at 375. 6d., 375. 9d., and 38s. ; the latter is
now the nearest quotation. The letters from St. Peters•
burgh are to the sth instant. Exchange 10. 15-32. Tal-
low 99 to 100 rubles. The Market prices here of Hemp
and Flax are little varied.

IRISH PROVISIONS-The purchases of Beef and Pork
continue confined to small parcels for shipping.—BaciM
steady.—The prices of Irish Butters are a shade lower on
account of the late large supply.
SarirrErav—Saltpetre continues in good demand at 245.
Itrntoo.—The Market for Indigo continues very heavy.
TOBACCO.—The late sales of Tobacco are confined to
small parcels to the trade. In the new Tobacco no sales
are yet effected.

SPICES.-East India Spices continue neglected. • The
only purchases are some Nutmegs 3s. 6d. a 3s. Rd. By
public sale this forenoon 160 bags Pimento sold rather
lower, good 10d. a 1011.
01Ls.—There is little variation in the prices of Oils.
The fishing is considered to be unfavourable, but it pro-
duces little effect on the Market.

Mrs.—The estimated Duty on Hops fluctuates about
120,0001. The new pockets brought to Market sell about
755. a 955.

Cor•rox.—Tlie Cotton Market continues without al-
teration. The purchases for the week ending last night in-
clusire, consist of
120 Bowed
410 Bengal
910 Surat . ........... 4d. a 544.
300 Egyptian 74d.

WIIITECHA PEL HAY MARKET.—Sept. 20.
80s. Od. to llOs. Od. I (lover 90s. Od. to Hos. 01
Straw 31.5. Od. to 40s. Od.

PRICES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)-Sept. 21.
Kent Pockets 3/. 12s. 3!. 18s. to 41. 2s.
Sussex Ditto
EASON. Ditto 3/. ss. Si. 15s. to 0/. Os.
Farnham Ditto, Fine 0!. Os. 4/. Os. to 51 12s.
Seconds 0/. Os. 0/. Os to 0/. Os.
Bt. Os. Si. 10s. to 0/. Os.
_ 2/. 10s. 31. ss. to 0/. Os.
2/. 15s. 3/. 10. to 0/. Os.
Whi Duty laid at £140,000.

Kent Sal

Sussex Ditto
Essex Ditto.

PRICE OF POTATOES.—Sept. 21.
New Ware 31. Oa. to 31. 15s. per ton

PRICES OF
Per lb. d. to d.
Butts.„—,so to ty6lb._
Ditto--GO to 661 b.—
Dressing Hides 131 151
Fine Coach Hides 161 1S
Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 17
Ditto 45 to 50Ib. 17 19
Ditto —

LEATHER.

Per lb.
Tanned Horse Hides—
Spanish Ditto

d. to (I.
12 15
IS 20

Per dozen.
Calf Skins— ld to 401 b. 20 2.1
Ditto —... 50 to 701 b. 23 26
Ditto 70 to 80th. 20 221
Small Seali, Oreenland 18 19

RAW HIDES.
Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. toe. d.
Best Heifers& Steers 3 0 3 4 Ordinary '2 0 2 41
Middlings . .4 6 2 8 Market 7 0 each.

Downs

SHEEP SKINS.
......Oa. fkl. to N. Od. Is. 6d. to 2s. S
Shearlings--......—. Is. 10d. to Os. Od.

PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121b.—Sept. 2L
To Tallow .--,......... 48s. Od. Yellow Soap 76g. 9d,'
Yellow Ru55ia........-__... 395. ed. Mottled 82s. o.
White , . .—............__ 41s. M. White..,....—. B6s. Oars,,'
Soap Ditto ...—..-........ 3135. ed. Graves —,. 20s. Od.
Melted Stuff 355, Od.' Good Dregs,... . Ss. on.
Ditto Rough . ... 21s. Od.

•
PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b.--Sept. 21.
Price by Tallow (as stated by the Tallow }letters) --..-.. Is. Bd.

- -
PRICE OF CANDLES.
The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows :--
Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to N. Od. I Mo.ilds, per doze* Ss. egl'

COAL MART
Adair's 343.9 d.
Eighton Main 30 6
Heaton - 37 3
Killingworth
Pontop Windsor ---. 11 0
l'antield Moor . 34 0
34 0
Willington 35 9
Walls End Brown's— 35 6
Walls End Bell and Co. 35 6
Ditto Carr and Co. 34 6
Ditto Cramlington 31 0
Ditto Hilda 35 0
Ditto Hotspur . 34 6
Ships at market, 503i—Sliii

--
CET.-_Sept. 21.
Walls End Newmarch_ 375:3(1.
Ditto Northumberland 37 31
Ditto Peareth 35 6
Ditto Iliddt4Ps--____ 37 9
Ditto Russell's —3B 3
Ellison small 17 0
o ----"."—w* 6
DHiatrttle:::„. 33
36 1)
Eden Main 34 9
Fawcett Main 6
Neshani Main 35 0
W. E. 37 ()
),DR:Liit,sltdsoe,lSsemiHr.......aerttto'snu—w.rBo—*:(Ec,
13895.:

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE IVEEK.

Wheat.

Barley.

Oats.

NUM!.

Per Quarter.
Ashburn ---,
Basingstoke ---
Bath
Bridgewater --
Bristol...,
Chesterfield
Derby
Devizes —.—
Doncaster
Dorchester
Gloucester .
Hungerford
Leicester
Mansfield
ltoznsey
Shaftesbury
Shepton Mallet
Sleaford
Taunton
Yeovil

56 62
5L 63
52 62

36 40
31 34
30 38

27 33
26 30
28 30
26
18 22
20 30
29 33
24 31
24 34
24 33
20 32
32 40
22 36
36 38
28 33
22 23

JS 60
42 6.•
60 65
144 tO --
f,?
60 66
40 4
50 64
5.4 63
50 64

51 58
54 64
57 64
50 64
48 65
52 C 4
C 4 72:
53 67
50 60
5R 66
54 58
DS 60

32 38

32 34
23 43
33 42
30 44
31 38
30 37
38 40
40 43
30 32

55 0
68 70
4t 50

60
26 29 60 6#
32 35 54 56
16 32 44 61.
22 44 56
a. d. s. d. a, d.
72 90 0 0 00
mghout the country.

52 56
54 56
54 64
56 a
s. d. s. d.
80 90
the measu

32 37
40 44

Per Bushel.
Shrewsbury ---.
/*". The size of

iii 36
s. d. s. d.
00 00
e varies thi

SCOTCH MARKETS.
EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—Sept. la

Our market was well supplied with all sorts of Grain
to-day. Oats and Barley sold readily at an advance Of
from 6d. to Is. on the top price of last day. Wheat was
flat, and prices were lower. Pease and Beans remain
,without any alteration from last market day.
Wheat. Barley. • Oats. Pease. '
First 74s Od 355 Od 29s 6d 56s Od
Second 67s 6cl 23s Od 24s Od 50s Od
Third
PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Le.
Beef, per lb. ...Os. 4d. to os. Bd. Fresh Butter,lb.s.lld. to Is."'
Mutt0n............. CI 4 0 7 Salt Ditto...—. O. p
0 10
Veal 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per es% t. 0 0 64 -00
Pork 0 5 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 010 ° °
03 04i
WOahtSetartaDsr
0 9 0
Potatoes,
Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditt0....,.. „ .
riltmlobw,,pieterrqlrb.. 01 134
Potatoes, 141 b. 0 0 0 5 Hay, per ft.-- 1-, 010
EDINBURGH MEAL ikttio4....)l°l 0° 'l2O 00

Bean 0.
568 thi
50d „,01
42d v.

gletha y s
average s
market f

We had a small supply of
which sold readily, at fully 1
last week's prices.

Per Sack-of 2801 b. Imp.
First Oatmeal £l 17 0
Second ditto 1 15 0
Barlermeal 1 10 0
Peasemeal 1 10 0
Pot Barley—No. 1,
____.--- _--,-_---:
per cwt. 13

Per Stone of 141 b.
First Oatmeal .......... 2
Second ditto ............ (1 1 10
Barleymeal ............... 1 111
Peasemeal ... ...... 0 1"
.-2d, 158.-34, 478.—15,,a11 21s._

ilsi.ApßerK E---71.;---'------boli.—SeNpot.
r 2401 b.
2t19. d.O
35.1d0. Oats,
8ean.7112:5426101b. d'
other kinds of Grain.
British, o
n to 20 u
----- new
. ****** - A
0 --
Canada, free
Irish
Barley, per 3-..:01b. Scottish 25 0 26 0
English
Wheat. r
0 0 Pease, Scottish .._. Ttz 0 25 0
Scottish 25 0 27 0 Oatmead.Perlialb- 17'1) "0
Meration in
---------------65New GOLatAs
Irish 2O 0 24 0 Flour, per 2601 b.... 4T 0 48 0
ShGardeclinitedN

BIRTHS.
On the 19th instant, the lady of Robert Hatkorn, Esq.
of a daughter.
On the 9th instant, the lady of William Henry Nevin.'
Esq., Esher, of a sun.
At Blackheath, Mrs. Greatorex, of Aldermanburp of a
son, which survived only 12 hours.
On the 21st instant, the lady of John Halcoinb, Esq.,
barrister at law, of a son.

MARRIED.
On the 20th instant, at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, by
the Rev. Charles M'Carthy, William Hall, Esq., of Prince-
of Wales's Island, to Isabella Mary Ann, the eldest
daughter of Mr. William Hughes, of High Holborn and
Hampstead.
On the 75th instant, at St. Gregory's, Sudbury, George
Humphry, Esq., of College-hill, London, to Miss Octavio
Gilson, of Great Beddow, in Essex.
On the 20th instant, at Marylebone Chureb, John Odell,
Esq., of Carriglea, county of Waterford, to Caroline, eldest
.daughter of Major-General the Hen. Henry King-

DIED.
On the 21at instant, at Dalston, Edward Thomson, third
son of Thomson Hankey, Esq.
On the 12th instant, at his residence, Rock Villa, Tun-
bridge Wells, Mr. Benjamin Chi Hey Pine, in the 49th year.
protracted
of his age.
Esq., R. N.
On the 20th instant, at Shepperton, Mr. John Sanders,
illnOeun,t
jhaemles6thpuingshtea,nt, at Shrewsbury, after a'
sen., builder, aged 55'
On the 29th ult., at Le Mans, Department de la Sarthe,
France, Colonel Keith Young, formerly of the 71st rest.
Lately, at her house, Croome-hill, Greenwich, Miss Eli'
sabeth Lenn.

PJUNTIKI an ilium by M. YOUNG, at 411.
No. 112, &road.
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N P.ou ;riot,