DUEL AT CHALK FARM.-On Wednesday afternoon, a meeting took place in the neighbourhood of Chalk Farm, between M. T. Smith and Clement, Esqrs. owing to a dispute at the Chester Race Ball. The seconds used every effort to effect a reconciliation, but all mediation was declined, and they took their ground at twelve paces, and by a signal given (the dropping of a handkerchief) they fired, but without effect; Mr. Smith's bullet passing close to his adversary's neck. The seconds again interfered, but all interposition was refused; the signal was again given, and Mr. Smith's pistol missed fire. The seconds advanced on instant, and the antagonists now appearing satisfied, they shook hands and left the ground.-Morning Paper.

LAW.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

THE LANCET."

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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, &c.

On Monday, a boy, aged 13, was at play, and in leaping from a wall pitched upon the stump of a broken cherry-tree, which penetrated his body and caused his bowels to protrude. He was taken to the County Hospital, but surgical skill proved unavailing, and he expired after much suffering.

-York Courant.

On Tuesday two inquests were held in St. Bartholomew's Hospital.The first was on John Leary, a lad about twelve years of age, who was riding behind a hackney coach, when the coachman whipped him, and in endeavouring to get away, he was knocked down by the horses of the carriage of John Tabor, Esq., of Finsbury-square. The deceased raised himself for a moment on his knees, while under the horses' legs, and exclaimed "God help me!" when he received a kick on the temple from the off horse, which stunned him. He was immediately conveyed to the hospital, where he expired on the following day. The Jury returned a ver66 MR. ABERNETHY AND dict of "Accidental Death."-The other was on the body of John Hann. The CHANCELLOR gave judgment herein on Friday. He granted the The deceased had been sent to Mr. Butler's, the Chymist, in Cheapside, injunction prayed for by Mr. Abernethy, and that not only to restrain the with some hampers, and was dragging them across the warehouse, when publication of his future lectures, but the sale of those already published. he fell down a trap-door into the cellar, and in endeavouring to save himHis Lordship considered that a pupil, or any other person who was admit-self he caught hold of a cask of ginger, weighing more than 1 cwt. which ted to these lectures, committed a breach of trust in publishing them for fell upon him and broke several of his ribs, and otherwise so severely inprofit, whether he wrote them down in short-hand or carried them in his jured him that he died the following day. The Jury returned a verdict of memory. He was glad thus to be able to remove the apprehensions entertain "Accidental Death." The Coroner said, the improper practice of leaving ed by many public lecturers, regarding the integrity of their property in trap-doors open, could not be too strongly censured, and he hoped the ver them. His Lordship added, that if he did not intimate anything to the dict would teach Mr. Butler to be more cautious for the future. While Mr. contrary by Tuesday, the Registrar might make out the order. Birch, the house-surgeon, was attending to give evidence, he was called out to attend a lad who had been run over in a similar manner, and a woman who had been bitten by a mad dog.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
Thursday, June 16.

IN THE MATTER OF PETER TAYLOR, GENT.

Mr. SCARLETT showed cause against a rule obtained by Mr. Alderson, for striking off the rolls Mr. Taylor, an Attorney of this Court, practising in Gainsborough, York. It was not pretended that Mr. Taylor had been guilty of any misconduct, but merely that in consequence of his bolding the office of Surveyor of the Taxes during the period of his clerkship, he was not able to devote his time sufficiently to the service of the persons with whom he was articled. Mr. Taylor had been articled to and at the expiration of five years, having applied to be admitted, he was opposed on this ground, and the Court refused to admit him. He was accordingly articled to another Attorney, and, after having served two years and a half more, he again made application for admission, on the ground that the period of the first five years in which he had served bona fide, together with those additional two years and a half, would be equivalent to the whole five years required by the Act of Parliament. After some consideration he was admitted; but the same parties now moved the Court to strike him off the Rolls. Mr. S. went on to argue that it was not necessary that the service should be under the same articles, and that it was quite sufficient if there was, on the whole, a five years' service.

Mr. ALDERSON observed, that during the whole period of serving his articles, Mr. Taylor was in the receipt of 300l. a year, as Surveyor of Taxes; that in virtue of this office he had very extensive duties, and was at all times liable to be called on; and that the articles of clerkship required an undivided service, which the situation did not permit.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE-This question depends entirely on an Act of Parliament. The Legislature expressly requires a service of five years. The object in this enactment is to secure a competent knowledge of the profession in those persons applying to be admitted to practice it. It seems to me that such a service as is here set up, was not contemplated by the Legislature, and that it is not sufficient However, therefore, I may regret the necessity, I am of opinion that Mr. Taylor must be struck off the Rolls.-The rest of the Court concurred.

POLICE.

GUILDHALL.

On Tuesday, a very grave-looking, well-dressed personage, hetween 30 and 40 years of age (a sort of Philosopher Square) who gave his name Thomas Higgins, was charged with being disorderly, he having been found at a late hour in the house of a Mrs. Meeson, in Addle-street.-. Mrs. Meeson stated, that having received an intimation that some man had been let into the house several times about midnight, she desired the watchman to ring the bell violently the next time he saw the visiter enter. This event occurred about 12 o'clock on Monday night, and on hearing the alarm, Mrs. Meeson ran down stairs, found the prisoner in the passage, and gave him into custody, though one of her servant-girls acknowledged she had introduced him.-The Prisoner declared he had gone merely on a visit to Martha Hill, the housemaid.-Martha Hill, a pretty-looking lass, about 18, said her mistress allowed no followers to call openly, and it was extremely hard she should have no opportunity of exchanging a word with a person who was likely to be her husband. He came from the same part of the country that she did, and was her "confidencekeeper," and she had done nothing to disgrace herself.-Mrs. Meeson said, she was afraid she had two "confidence-keepers" besides the pri-Sir R. C. GLYN said he should discharge the defendant, and the best way Mrs. Meeson could adopt to avoid a repetition of his intrusions would be, not to permit the girl, to remain another hour in her service. He hoped her conduct had been as pure as she had declared; but it was not enough that it should be so in fact, the behaviour of a girl of her age should be above all suspicion.

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Mr. REDMOND BARRY.-We noticed, some years back, the case of this unfortunate man (the brother of the late eminent Artist), and we now have to record his death. He had long suffered under almost all the calamities which can afflict poor human nature. He had been reduced from affluence to abject poverty-had lost his sight by a stroke of lightning— and been obliged actually to beg his bread in the public streets! Lately, however, he became so weak, that he was obliged to remain at home in wretched hovel in Maynard-street, and his wife, being obliged to nurse him, could no longer earn a few shillings by needle-work. In this forlorn condition, the landlord pressed his lodgers for the rent due. Mr. Barry said he would get up and go out, and see what he could do. He however seemed greatly agitated, and fell back on his bed. On Sunday last, he did go out, but was very ill. After getting a few shillings, he proceeded to a house in Buckeridge-street, on entering which (alluding to his landlord) he exclaimed, "May the curse of Jehovah fall on his cruel head;" the words had just escaped his lips, when he fell and instantly expired! The parish surgeon was sent for, but to no purpose. He was in bis 66th year. The deceased was a very high-spirited man, and frequently the recollection of his former affluence and present poverty would almost drive him to madness.-A Jury assembled, who returned a verdict, "Died by the Visitation of God." He was on Friday buried at St. Pancras. Several persons have afforded aid to his widow.

MAD DOGS.-The public cannot be too careful against the canine species during the present heat of the weather.-On Wednesday, a little boy, son to Sergeant Stanborough, of the Guards, residing in Lamb-court, Westminster, was playing with some other children, when a little terrier dog, which had been for the last two or three days thought to be in a rabid state, bit the child in the thick part of the thigh, and actually took the piece out. Young Stanborough was carried to a medical man, in order that proper preventives might be applied. The dog shortly afterwards returned, and bit another child in the leg.

BIRTH.

On the 15th inst. at his house in Bloomsbury-square, the Lady of Ashby Smith, M.D. of a daughter.

MARRIED.

On Tuesday, at St. Pancras, Frederick Dawes Danvers, Esq. to Charlotte Maria, daughter of John Juland Rawlinson, Esq. of Doughty-street. On Tuesday, A. Scrivenor, Esq. of Great James-street, Bedford-row, to Jane, second surviving daughter of the late John Gilliat, Esq. of Clapham-terrace. On the 14th inst. at Wanstead, William Comfort, son of William Comfort, Esq. of Holloway, to Catherine Horner, daughter of the late John Horner, of Laytonstone. And at the same time, William Horner, farmer, of Laytonstone, son of the late John Horner, Esq. to Miss Sarah Comfort, daughter of Wm. Comfort, Esq. of Holloway.

On Wednesday, J. Greatorex, Esq. of Aldermanbury, to Eliza, only daughter of James Walford, Esq. of Chancery-lane.

On the 7th inst. at Chichester, the Rev. Thomas Baker, son of Thomas Baker, Esq. of Ashurst Lodge, Kent, to Elizabeth Lloyd Carr, third daughter of the Bishop of Chichester.

to Mrs. Ann Taverner, both of Boston: the united ages of the bride, bridegroom, On Monday, after a courtship of 24 years, Mr. Christopher Hawkes, shipwright, father, and bridemaid, are 280 years; being 72, 70, 69, 69.

DIED.

On the 9th inst. Thomas Porter, Esq. aged 88, who held distinguished appoint-
ments in the Custom-house for nearly half a century.
On the 14th inst. at Kennington-place, Caroline Savage, widow of Captain
Savage.
On the 15th inst. Sarah, wife of Mr. Lewis Cogan, of Holborn, in her 27th year.
At Taunton, on Thursday week, in the 74th year of his age, Angus Macdonald,

M.D. and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

On Friday week, at his Rectory of Pertenhall, Bedfordshire, at the advanced age of 59 years and eight months, the Rev. Thomas Martyn, B.D. F.R.S. Regius Professor of Botany in the University of Cambridge. On the 13th inst. Lady Mary Seymour, wife of Frederic Seymour, Esq. and third daughter to the Earl of Aboyne.

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THE LORD CHANCELLOR. The Lord Chancellor's decision in the case of the Lancet seems to us, in the main, just; but one cannot help being struck with the deficiency that prevails throughout it of that distinctness and comprehensiveness which renders the ground of a judgment easily intelligible, and therefore valuable as a rule of conduct.

We know that the eulogists of the Lord Chancellor, in answer to some remarks of the Edinburgh Review on the subject (perhaps rather too largely and vaguely expressed), have contended that this pretended vice of his decisions is a real merit; that a Judge deserves praise in proportion as he does not trespass upon the province of the Legislator, and that he must trespass upon it when he decides more than the case immediately before him, when he gives one of those comprehensive judgments which the Reviewer considered preferable to those of Lord Eldon.

This defence of his apologists is founded on an entire misconception of the points in which Lord Eldon's judgments are defective, of the ground on which it is mischievous for a Judge to assume the legislative power, and of the acts by which he can be said to assume it.

Undoubtedly the gratuitous laying down of principles not necessary to the decision of the cause before him, the throwing out of obiter dicta, or judgments on points not argued, is a vice of the worst character in a judge, because it is an assumption of the legislative power, and because the casual and uncalled for declarations must either possess the force of judgments without the deliberation necessary to correctness, or must hold out to the public the delusive appearance of validity while they are liable to be overturned by subsequent argument. But no one complains because Lord Eldon does not indulge in this practice; first, because it is vicious, and next, because he does indulge in it. There is no judge that goes more out of his way to talk about principles not at all necessary to the decision of the case before him. No one talks more of what he might or would do in certain cases. Of this there was a very signal example in the recent instance of the Real del Monte partnership, where the decision was simple, obvious, and just, and founded on a plain matter of fact; but where great part of his talking referred to any thing rather than that decision. Some of the other recent speeches about partnerships are of the same character. But there is a great difference between this vice with which the Chancellor is tinged, and the judicial virtue in which it is alleged that he is deficient. It is a merit in a judge, if, studiously setting aside those details which in no way determine his judgment, he puts forth alone the distinctive and conclusive circumstances, with the reason of the decision to which they lead him (which, to be valid, must be of general application, and may therefore be called the principle), so as at once to show the coherence of his conduct with that of his predecessors, and to make more plain the path of those who follow him. An example of this merit may be found very near the Lord Chancellor, in the person of Lord Stowell: but nothing can be more different from Lord Stowell's judgments than those of his brother, who, full of a garrulous ostentation of minute memory, seems to delight in the art of picking his road to a correct judgment, in a manner which it is difficult for any observer to comprehend, and in spite of the needless obstacles which he has thrown in his

own way.

The mischief of an assumption of legislative authority by a Judge is the uncertainty which the exercise of such an arbitrary power creates. This uncertainty is not increased, but guarded against, by that clearness and comprehensiveness in judgments which makes their strength or weakness apparent. On the other hand, that uncertainty, and the arbitrary power of a Judge, is raised to the highest pitch when it becomes impossible, from the confusion and perplexity of details in which his judgments are involved to know what future case, not coinciding with any previous one in every minute particular,

may or may not be embraced under a former decision.Globe and Traveller.

LEGAL REFORM.

It appears from one of the New York papers last received, that the barristers of that great commercial state have formed themselves into a committee, for the purpose of devising some remedy for the delays of justice incident to their present judiciary system. The head of the committee is Mr. Thomas Addis Emmett, an advocate of high reputation, and brother of that unfortunate but most eloquent youth, whose story is written in bloody characters in the annals of Irish suffering, and its natural consequences, Irish rebellion. It is somewhat curious that a nation so young as the United States should so soon feel the inconveniences which seem to be the necessary and peculiar appurtenances to old Governments fondly adhering to old systems of justice, even when the principles and reasons in which they originated have become obsolete and ceased to apply. But the fact is, that though America proudly asserted her rights and bravely conquered them, when the object was to degrade her into a dependent without a will or a voice, her hostile feeling, in a great measure, died away with her triumph. She clung with affection and even pride to the literature, to the customs, to the institutions, to the laws of the mother country, though that mother's ill-usage had forced her to a personal separation. Hence it is, that, to confine ourselves to the instance before us, she, with an inconsistency only to be explained by the force of habitual regard, has continued rigidly to act upon, and almost servilely to copy, those judicial forms and legal principles of the English system, which, being in their very constitution monarchical and even feudal, are essentially opposed to a republican community. We may mention as an illustration, that the demand from the United States for English law-books, even for the Term Reports, is immense. Such being the case, it is not to be wondered at now, when the separation of the States from the mother country has taken place long enough for a new generation to arise, and when, consequently, the motives of affection and natural feeling towards England have become weaker and weaker, that the system is found not to work well. It is discovered that courts of appeal-or, in other words, the applications to tribunals composed of members no wiser than those whose decisions they are to criticize, and whose only superiority consists in a more sounding titleconfer no advantage, except on attornies and barristers, whose fees are increased by the prolongation of a suit. The great object, therefore, of the New York barristers, is not indeed to destroy the appellate jurisdiction, but to limit it; or rather, by creating new courts of justice with high pow ers in the first instance, and filling them with judges of ac knowledged intellect and learning, to give the people a confidence in nisi prius decisions, and thus abridge the chances of protracted litigation. The new court which they propose to erect, they suggest should be called the court of Common Pleas, and they strenuously recommend that there should be no appeal from its judgment except to the highest court of the State-the Court of Errors-which answers in its functions to our House of Lords and the French Court of Cassation. The remedy seems plain and simple, and is undoubtedly called for by those multiplied elements of litigation-an enlarged population and constantly encreasing trade, with its various ramifications of property.

It is curious that at the time when the attention of our Parliament is directed to the great object of providing some remedy for the delays of justice, the United States where the evil must necessarily be so much less oppressive, should have occupied themselves with the same subject: and-what may perhaps operate as an argument ad verecundiam in Westminster Hall-it is still more curious that the Bar itself should have originated the inquiry. It reflects the highest

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honour on the people of the United States that they thus early look about for a remedy, and do not wait till the evil shall become sacred by prejudice, and be clung to as if it were an essential part, instead of a rotten excrescence, of the constitution. What will our lawyers and statesmen say when they hear that the Americans complain because the duration of a Chancery suit is from three to five years, when, for more than a century and a half, an English suit in Chancery is supposed to be very short if it does not last from two to three lives.-Times.

· ANECDOTES, BONS MOTS, &c. (From the new Volume of Horace Walpole's Letters.) "Lord Gower had been reputed the head of the Jacobites. Sir. H. C. Williams sneeringly call him' Hanoverian Gower;' and when he accepted office from the House of Brunswick, all the Jacobites in England were mortified and enraged. Dr. Johnson, a steady Tory, was, when compiling his dictionary, with difficulty persuaded not to add to his explanation of the word deserter sometimes it is called a Go'er.'"

"The Duke of Cumberland is quite recovered, after an incision of many inches in his knee. Ranby did not dare to propose that a hero should be tied, but was frightened out of his senses when the hero would hold the candle himself, which none of his generals could bear to do. In the middle of the operation, the Duke said, "Hold!' Ranby said, For God's sake, Sir, let me proceed now-it will be worse to renew it." The Duke repeated, 'I' say, hold!' and then calmly bade them give Ranby a clean waistcoat and cap, for, said he, the poor man has sweat through these.' It was true; but the Duke did not utter a groan."

seemed as willing to decline. It is said, that several of these members are extremely displeased with this appearance of neglect; and that the nomination of their President, M. Ravez, to the order of St. Esprit, has not tended to reconcile them to the suspected insult. At the same time other means have not been neglected to render the ceremony popular. The distribution of crosses of the Legion of Honour has been so general and indiscriminate, that a literary man when asked why he had not one, replied, "because I love distinction."

The Journal of Nantes mentions the arrival at that port of the Amphitrite, which had been boarded and plundered by a Colombian privateer on the 22d of April, in 4 North lat. and 19 West long. The French Government has demanded reparation for this insult offered to its flag.

The official part of the Moniteur contains the laws fixing the budget for 1825. The expenses of the consolidated debt, and the amortissement for 1826, are fixed at 241,585,785 francs. The general expenses are fixed at 672,918,714 francs. The revenue for 1826 is estimated at 924,095,704 francs.

We do not exactly agree with some of the Gentlemen who spoke on Sir Robert Wilson's case, that it is one in which the country at large takes any peculiar interest; but we are perfectly ready to confess, that the gallant officer's military conduct has been such as should insure some indulgent consideration to his political errors; and that the testimony borne by so many Members of Parliament to his private virtues, is not without its weight. We agree with Sir G. Murray, that if Sir Robert were to confine the exercise of his talents to their proper sphere, he would do more real credit to himself, and confer more important obligations on his country, than he has done by courting an ephemereal popularity among the electors of Southwark. It should not, however, be forgotten that Sir Robert Wilson rendered very essential service to the great cause of Europe, by the formation of the Royal Lusitanian Legion, the germ of the Portuguese "Lord Bath owed Lady Bel Finch half-a-crown; he sent force, which contributed afterwards so nobly to the liberait next day, with a wish that he could give her a crown. She tion of the Peninsula. In this, and many other important exreplied, that though he could not give her a crown, he could ertions, his enemies will not deny his merit; as his friends, on give her a coronet, and she was very ready to accept it." the other hand, are forced to confess that, in his political conduct, he has been occasionally betrayed into very erro neous measures. The question of restoring Sir Robert to his military rank, is one which is very properly referred to the grace and favour of a benevolent Sovereign.-New Times.

"Before I have done with Charles Townshend, I must tell you one of his admirable bon mots. Miss Draycote, the great fortune, is grown very fat: he says her tonnage is become equal to her poundage."

"I will tell you but one more folly, and hasten to my signature. Lady Beaulieu was complaining of being waked by a noise in the night: my Lord replied, "Oh, for my part, there is no disturbing me; if they don't wake me before I go to sleep, there is no waking me afterwards.'

"The last time the King was at Drury-lane, the play given out for next night was, All in the Wrong: The galleries clapped, and then cried out, Let us be all in the right! Wilkes and Liberty! When the King comes to a theatre, or goes out, or goes to the House, there is not a single applause; to the Queen there is a little: in short, Louis le bien-aimé is not French at present for King George."

POSTSCRIPT.

MONDAY, JUNE 20.

Papers and letters have arrived from Paris, dated Thursday and Friday last. Writers in that capital still think it worth their while to speak of the Sacre, and to assure us that it called forth little popular enthusiasm. One of them, however, alludes to a circumstance which has not yet appeared, either in the French or the English journals-namely, an attempt to degrade, or an omission to honour, the Deputation of the Lower Chamber. After the religious part of the ceremony had been completed, and the King had ascended the throne, it was remarked that he was surrounded with Cardinals and Bishops, mixed with the Grand Deputation of the Upper Chamber, but that no representatives of the Lawer appeared. In looking to the place of the Deputies at this time, a great agitation was observable, several of the members apparently urging the President to assume his proper station, which he

CONCUPISCENCE ECCLESIASTICAL.-One of the old prophets says, that some men are always neighing after their neighbours' wives, which may have been intended to describe certain persons sitting in a particular place, and decked out with ornamental head-dresses. These gentlemen are constantly neighing after their neighbours' wives, not certainly after the manner of the flesh; we do them no such injustice; but neighing after what may really be called their better halves their sees. The great object of episcopal life is, to obtain possession of their neighbours' spouse; they constantly look either to one procurer who sits on a soft woolsack, or to another procurer who has long retained a warm station near the fire-side. The reverend suitors only desire to be informed which of the two keeps the keys; we mean the keys of promotion: and such is the gallantry, and so easy is the virtue of these spiritual adulterers, that if they could only ascertain which of the two personages could put them in possession of the objects of their affection, they would be ready to make any offering at the shrine of their idolatry-Stamford News.

DESPERATE ESCAPE OF A PRISONER.-On Thursday afternoon, a most desperate and almost unexampled escape was effected by Wm. Thompson, a young man of very noted character, who was examined at the Mary-la-bonne-office on Monday last, on a charge of burglary and robbery in the house of Messrs. Swan, Horne, and Co. of Regent-street. Since his examination, other charges, on the clearest testi

mony, of burglaries and robberies have been advanced, and chequer has done a manifest injury to the distribution of justice in Enghe has been identified as the captain of a gang of desperate land, by nearly doubling the pay of Puisne Judges. The office is now. burglars. He was on Thursday brought up before Mr. Raw-too lucrative to be given to an independent or even a neutral man, whate ever be his merits; and the chance is greater than ever of its falling into linson, and underwent a very short examination, being again the hands of the "Lord Charles's," whose legal knowledge will be on a remanded until Monday next, as on that day the charges level with the theological acquirements of the noble and fashionable against him, it was contemplated, would fully be entered into. Deans and Bishops of Ireland. The old salary of the Puisne Judges was said to be too small to command the services of good lawyers. We should In the evening, at the usual hour, a few minutes before eight be glad to know whether, within the last twenty years, men of some o'clock, he was handcuffed to a woman named Alexander, standing at the bar have not been known to change their principles, desert and put into a coach with two other prisoners, named Tonks their friends, and barter their independence, to obtain the very offices and Turner (who were committed to the House of Correction which are now said to be inadequately paid.-Scotsman. CATHOLIC QUESTION.-There were two things, in the course of the for three months) in the charge of Godfrey, the gaoler of the last discussion of the question, that struck us forcibly. The first, that as office. On the way to the House of Correction, the female a majority of the Irish Members in both Houses of Parliament voted for (Alexander) repeatedly complained of the tightness of the the Relief Bill, it may be inferred that the measure would have been now carried, had Ireland preserved her separate Legislature; and hence that handcuffs, and requested Godfrey to remove them. This he Emancipation, which Pitt promised as the price of the Union, is withdeclined, until at length she burst out into the loudest cries, held by his followers because of the Union. An awkward reflection to and appeared in dreadful agony, her arm having at last press upon the conviction of the Irish, whom it is our policy to concili ate, and to make grow with us, as the preamble of the rejected Bill exi swollen to a very considerable extent, and even assuming a pressed it," into one people." The other point was, the remarkable si❤ livid colour. Godfrey, being importuned by the other pri- milarity between the prejudice and nonsense of the late Anti-Catholic soners, and pitying the woman's wretched situation, removed clamour, and the nonsense and prejudice of the clamour against the the fastenings from her arm, and of course the arms of Jews not many years ago, but which already is regarded with as general a contempt as the most wretched superstition of the middle ages. The Thompson became equally disencumbered. The prisoners parallel is so close, that a change of names would render the arguments having requested permission to take some refreshment before convertible. Their fate will be the same-in a few years more, both entering the gaol, the coach stopped at a public-house called will be classed among the absurdities of an exploded system.-Edinburgh the Apple Tree, nearly opposite the House of Correction, and Times. while the landlord was supplying them with some spirits and water, Thompson suddenly jumped out of the coach, and, knocking down the landlord of the public-house on one side, endeavoured to get away. Godfrey grasped the skirt of the fellow's coat, but he tore himself clear off, and left the tail only behind in the officer's custody. Several persons were on the spot looking at the act, and two of them, who advanced to stop him, he instantly knocked down, and darted, with the speed of a fawn, across Clerkenwell-close, in the direction of Saffron-hill. Mr. Price (an officer belonging to the County Court), being just at his heels, made a blow at him with his truncheon, but the fellow turned round, and putting himself in a boxing attitude, instantly levelled him with the earth. Mr. Coker (a master builder, of Whitechapel), also happening accidentally to be present, endeavoured to secure him, but was laid on the ground in the same cool and decided resolution. Godfrey having left the prisoners in the care of the landlord of the Apple Tree, with a crowd of persons joined in the pursuit; but although Thompson was always in their view until he reached Saffronhill, nobody could secure him. Every person (among the rest two Irish labourers) who attempted that object, he also in

THE LONDON MARKETS.
CORN EXCHANGE, FRIDAY, JUNE 17.

The arrival of Wheat since Monday has been rather moderate than other-
wise, though there has been some quantity of Flour during the same period,
and the trade on the whole is dull at that day's prices. Barley, Beans,
and Peas are steady in value, and Oats sell on much the same terms, but
568. 80s, Barley .........................
the trade is by no means brisk. In other articles no variation to notice.
Beans................ 40s. 48s. Pease..

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Oats,
Aggregate Average Prices of the Twelve Maritime Districts of Eng-
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in Great Britain.
Wheat per Quarter, 68s. 4d.-Barley, 34s. 10d.-Oats, 24s. 11d.-Rye,
39s. Od.-Beans, 38s. 6d.-Pease, 37s. 6d.

PRICE OF BREAD.

The price of the 4lb Loaf is stated at 10 d. by the high-priced Bakers; there are others who sell from 2d. to 3d. below that rate. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, computed from the Returns made in the Week ending June 15, 1825, is 36s. 11 d. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importation thereof into Great Britain.

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by so many persons of distinction and rank in society, that it is unnecessary
here to enlarge on their peculiar virtues.-Sold in boxes, at 1s. 14d. and 28. 98.
by Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's; Savory and Co. 136, New Bond
street, London; and by the principal Medicine Venders throughout the United
Kingdom; of whom may be had, PERRY'S ESSENCE, which has been de-
the Tooth and Ear-ache;" in bottles, at is. 1jd. and 2s. 9d.

JUDGES SALARIES.-Within the last twenty-five years the salaries of our Judges have been doubled. Have the profits of the capitalist, theclared, in highly respectable journals, to be the "best thing ever discovered for merchant, and the tradesman risen in the same ratio? The moment things begin to look flourishing, the placemen get their salaries increased. But once raised, they are never taken down again, although the taxes that pay them should be wrung from the sweat and blood of a suffering country. The scale on which men in office are paid in this country is generally extravagant. The President of the Supreme Court of this poor and small country, with two millions of inhabitants, has 4,300l. a year.How much does the reader think the Chief Justice of the United States receives, whose functions rise far in weight and importance beyond those of any Judge in Scotland, for he decides not only between man and man, but between state and state, in a country containing ten millions of people? This person has only 4000 dollars-about 9007. a year; and for this sum, the Americans, who never drivel about the dignity of the judicial office, but seek justice like every thing else on business principles-obtain the services of an able, faithful, and diligent judge, whose decisions give as much satisfaction as if he were covered with ermine and lace, and robed in state like a Lord Mayor. We think the Chancellor of the Ex-tions under similar titles)

FOR PRESERVING the TEETH & GUMS.-The VEGETABLE TOOTH POWDER has so long been in general use, that it is almost unné. cessary to offer any further recommendation of it. Composed of Vegetables, without the admixture of any Mineral or pernicious ingredient whatever, it is free from the usual objection against the use of other Dentrifices. Its detersive power is just sufficient to annihilate those destructive particles which adhere to the Gums and the Interstices of the Teeth; healing injuries in the former, and promoting a new Enamel (where it has been injured or corroded) on the latter. It likewise imparts a firmness and healthy redness to the Gums; and if used regularly, will preserve the Teeth in a sound state to old age. Sold in boxes, at 2s. 9d. by Butler, Chemist, 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's; Savory and Co. 136, New Bond-street, London; and by the principal Perfumers and Medicine Venders throughout the United Kingdom: of whom may be had, BUTLER'S superior SILVER-WIRED TOOTH BRUSHES, 18. each; and very fragrant LAVENDER WATER, in half-pints, at 3s. 6d.

Be careful to ask for Butler's Vegetable Tooth Powder, and to obserye the name and address of" Butler, 4, Cheapside," are engraved on the stamp

attached to each box of this esteemed Dentrifice, to distinguish it from imita

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