Star.
London, England, 1826-09-11 00:00:00

Flour, sacks

2,274 I Foreign Barley
SMITHFIELD MARKET

Ste n 11.
The Beef trade is improving, the best Oxen being Ss. 1.1. per
stone, and the interior 4s. to 4s. Id. per stone. In the Mutton trade
there is great firmness at 4s. Id. to 4s: 1041. per stone for the best
young Downs, and other fine Meat ; and 4s. to 4s. 4d. per stone for
the coarser. In Veal there is very little to notice, fine young Calves
being Ss. to Ss. 4d. per stone. Lamb is declining, the finest Meat
not reaching more than 4s. Id. to Ss. per stone. Pork is firm at last
quotations.—Beasts, 2,430 ; Sheep, 26,160 ; Pigs, 140 ; Calves, 272,
Beef, per stone, 4s. to Ss. 2d. Mutton, 4s. to Is. led. Veal, 4s.
4d. to Ss. 4d. Lamb, 4s. to ss. Pork. 4s. 641. to 6s.—Hay, per load,
£2 15s. to ZS Ss. Clover, £3 Ss. to £610.. Straw, OCI 10s. to Al 16s.
LIVERPOOL, Semmes 11.
Corson Woof.--The sales this week are 21,767 bags, at an ad-
vance of id. to,d. per lb. on American descriptions; 1,1100 bags
have been talOor export, and 4,000 bags on speculation I the
port is 2,721 bags.
Sanaa, Stc.—The demand for Plantation Sugar during the early
pan of the week was rather languid; but in consequence of the
advice. received from London of an improvement in that market,
the trade have purchased freely to the extent of 1,200 Mids. at fully
last week's prices.
Paovissons.—AU descriptions of Butters have been in good de.
mod at advanced prices. Beef and Pork as last week, and sales
have been limited.

Coss Bxcuattos—lt is next to impossible to describe the state
of Tuesday's market. There was a fair attendance of dealers; but.
with the exception of a parcel or two of free Wheat, which was
taken at a small decline upon last week's prices, there was nothing
done. Bonded corn of every description might have been had on
lower terms, but Oats very considerably below previous quotations;
still no buyers were to be found, but at a further and very serious
reduction; free Oats were, of course, greedy depressed in price;
indeed. with the knowledge of the duty now payable on Foreign
Oats, the whole stock in the market may be considered as free. It
is out of the power of any one to give quotations upon which boyer
and seller would have agreed; and, therefore, these we give are
regulated by what is ebnsidered to be the reflection to which, in
order to have effected sales, sellers mead have submitted.—Liverpool
Commercial Chroniek.

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NAVAL COURTS MARTIAL.

PoRT-4119UT1-1, SEPTEssza 9.

iitnlt THII HAMPSHIRE TELEGRAPH.

Accounts have been received of the following ships'
being on their passage to England :—the Thetis from
Rio Janeiro; Alligator, from the East Indies; Hussar,
from the West Indies ; Diamond, from South America,
Lisbon, and \laden a ; Naiad, from the Mediterranean ;
and the It:fleman, final North America. _ _

It appears from the following extract of a letter
from Rio Janeiro- witlx which we have been favoured,
that the Braw4iatis have te stained a serious loss on the
River l'iat(:
RIO JANEIRO, JUSZ 28.
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Lord Piinsonhy proceeds to Buenos Ayres, in the
Doris, Sir John Gordon Sinclair, -when she has refitted.
The Thetis returns to England direetly. The Doris has
brought us accounts from the River Plate of the Impe-
ril squadron, consisting of the Netheroy frigate, Cap-
tain Norton, mounting 38 gulls, two 22-gun corvettes,
sever al 18-grin brigs, schooners, and gun-boats, having
grit a confounded • hammering: 'The frigate and two
brigs were taken by the Buenos Ayrean squadron
sw•hich was composed of only two small ships and three
brigs! Several of the Brazilian vessels made a bolt
after the first broadside. The wreck of the blockading
squadron has returtiel to Monte Video, quite crest
fallen. The Buenos Ayrean vessels are manned entirely
•pith English and Yankees, who were all very hearty in
the cause. Most of the Brazilians, though officered by
EnAlish, have a very mixed crew, and mostly impressed
nii n. Imperial' justice has just made a most con-
spicuous figure here. It seems that the Redwing cap-
tured a slave schooner, on the coast of Africa, and put
on board her Lieutenant, a Master's Assistant (Mr.
Faulkner, whose passing certificate shows that he was
examined fur a Lieutenant in 1815), and four men ; but
the Lieutenant being afterwards taken out, and put on
board a French vessel, he took the papers belonging to
the schooner with him. The schooner parting company
in a gale of wind, was afterwards boarded by a Bra-
Hap sloop of war, who finding no papers on board, sent
her in here as a pirate. The officer and crew were sent
to prison, and the vessel has since been condemned as a
pirate.' The Redwing's stern chain, and several other
6 King's stores,' ate on board the schooner, which ought
to have been sufficient evidence that the vessel was not
a pirate. Notwithstanding, no rept esentations of the cir-
cumstances yei made by Our authorities have availed
anything; the crew ate continued in prison, with every
expectation, that Imperial justice will finish the case,
by banging the pirate's crew

In the regulations established by the King in Coun-
cil, relating to his. Majesty's service at Sea, and lately
published by authority of the Admiralty, we are glad
to find, that Art. G. Chap. 8. under the heads of Courts
Martial, is amended. The former instructions on this
subject, directing a junior Officer in the command of a
post ship to take precedence, at Courts Martial, of a
senior Officer in the command of a sloop, were not in
strict accordance with the 12th Section of the Courts
Martial Statutes rand we submit, that no regulations
established by the King in Council can destroy the
er..e'ct, nor do away with the meaning and intention of
an Act of Parliament. Courts Martial should be go-
verned, in respect to evidence, at any rate, by the same
rules and principles as the Courts of Common Law ;
and their general proceedings should fellow the same
totirse, when not rep:Wed by Act of Parliament.
We regret to state, that there is a woeful deficiency
of legal knowledge existing in the navy. In perusing the
minutes of the proceedings of eine Court Martial that
occurred, some years ago, in the East Indies, we were
astounded. On foreign stations, these Courts are de-
prived of the necessary legal advice and assistance of a
qualified Judge Advocate; for the person generally ap-
pointed, from necessity, to officiate as Judge Advocate,
is totally incompetent to discharge the functions at-
tached to his important office. In Civil Courts, on trials
for murder, we often notice hair-breadth distinctions
oracle between the cis cumstances necessary to constitute
that crime, and those that constitute the crime of an in-
ferior degree of homicide ; with these nice distinctions
every member of a Court Martial should be well ac-
quainted. Under the impression that a knowledge of
these facts will produce on the minds of every one that
has a faithful regard for the good of his Majesty's ser-
vice, we did hope to see, in the regulations lately pub-
lished, the instructions relating to Naval Jurisprudence
considerably extended. About one hundred short and
explicit rules of evidence, strictly applicable to naval
cases, prepared by the Law Officers of the Admiralty,
and issued with general printed instructions, would
carry an authority with them superior to that of any
work that has been published on the subject and would
serve as a material guidance, in •regard to evidence, to
Courts M.irtial held on foreign stations.
The Jasper, Capt. Blackwood, will sail hence in a few days with
specie for Berniuda, Halifax, and Newfoundland, and thence to
the Mediterranean.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Saturday, J rum was charged with embezzling varioWs SUM of
money received by him nn account of his employer.
The prosecutor, fslr. Itstall. a Sheriff's officer, stated, that the
prisoner had been employed by him about six months to deliver
out bilis, but without any authority to receive the amount of them.
He, however, had lately called on some of the Solicitors by whom
he was employed, when he discovered that the prisoner had on
several occasions received the amount at the time he delivered the
bills. He had never accounted to him for the moneys he had re-
ceived.—The prisoner, in his defence, said, that he was employed
jointly by the prosecutor and another Sheriff's officer, named Dun-
ham, with whom he was formerly in partnership, to collect the
outstanding debts of the firm ; that he was to receive a week for
his trouble, but this seas not paid.—On finding this to be the case,
the Loan MAYOR dismissed the charge.
GOATS AND DONCRTII.-4. Coat was charged with stealing a
Donkey, the property of a costermonger named Ferret. The sin-
gularity of the names of the parties caused considerable laughter.—
It appeared that the Goat, taking advantage of the absence of
the Donkey's owner, carried him off, panniers and all. Ile was,
however, ferretted out, and given in charge to an officer, who
brought bins before the Uare (Mayor) who not considering the evi-
dence against him sufficient (as on searching hint the Donkey could
not be found) ordered hint to be discharged.
Saturday, a girl of interesting appearance, mined Mary Connor,
was charged by her mother, who sells'froit in the streets, with
having run away from her, and enlisted into the service of a wo-
man who is said to be a most expert beggar, and regularly educates
children for that calling.
The mother stated. that she had in vain attempted to keep her
daughter at home. The beggar-maker enticed her away, and was
in the habit of displaying her, along with other poor children whom
she represented as her own, to the view of the people, in order to
raise their compassion for so large a family. Sometimes she sent
them about to sell any little trifles, and the poor children tints • left
to themselves soon fell victims to that vagabond sort of life. It was
stated that upwards of one hundred little girls had been enticed
away from their parents by this woman.—After having remained
with her some time begging, she took opportunities of disposing of
them more profitably, but much more wickedly. It was feared that
this poor child was a sufferer in the latter way.
the LORD Mayo* asked her why she had left her mother?

She replied that her mother indifferently fed, and severely beat
her without cause. A woman named Jemima bad prevailed upon
her to leave home, and introduced her to a lodging house in Went-
worth-street, where a great number of young girls slept nightly, at
the rare of four-pence per night, which they paid out of their earn-
ings as beggars, late-sellers, and match-sellers. She (the prisoner)
sold laces, and got about a shilling or fourteen pence a day at the
work, and she regularly retired after her day's work to her lodging.
Her mother, who sells fruit, could not afford to keep her so well as
she kept herself.
The Lotto Mayors asked the child whether there were men-
lodgers in the houselt---She replied that there were, but that they
slept in a different room.
e Officers said, that bad as the lodging-houses were, the owners
never allowed the sexes to come together. The society, however,
was sure in a short time to bring young creatures upon the town.
The Loan 31Avon said, that the neglect exhibited by the parents
of the lower orders in London was greater than ever he had wit-
nessed elsewhere. He really thought that this cue *hewed in a
very strong manner the necessity there was for discouraging the
practice of selling fruit, &e. in the streets. as if mothers were at
home, their children would necessarily be better attended to. His
Lordship reprimanded the mother of the girl, and ordered her to take
the child home, and attend to her more strictly.