Star. — London, England, 1831-09-09 00:00:00

r¢ • I lin T., . . t • 1\ 44 .ITERATra.E. r. w • a Mieturine.— Sept atber. W only rery lately the August number 'At'ittlinit.ilifine. and for procrastinating our , duty late last month, we are induced to take time by the ffirelnek on the present. And we are tempted do this the more by perusing the first spirited -1 t;cle neml , er on the " Influence of the Kew sraners." We shall make some extracts from this a-gels. which we think contains much salutary altlionch commixed with a strain of political reasoninfr with which we cannot a'ivays coincide. Its etitiques on our morning coat mporaries are pungent, perhaps, in some instances, too much so. They are accused of accommodating their princi ples to the taste of their readers. and, no doubt. it is 7 true to a certain degree : but may they not often ermseientionslv accord with public sentiment ? While we often admire the ability, we as often con demn the swaggering arrogant manner of the Ti tap , and its pompous pretensions render its obser vations -tore conspicuons—but even at the risk of !wing classed among , twaddlers, we shall not con ceal the expression of our satisfation at perusing the argumentative and benevolent strain of reason hi; which frequently distinguishes the Herald,and the mounting independence of the Chronicle. But the author admits that " the abasement of the re neetable portion of the Press, it caused solely by the fi. A reemlations and the oppressive imposts of government." We are delighted to hear this from the pen of a w• its ao partial to the party, in whose principles the accursed taxes on knowledge originated. We trust o e are to see them removed during the pre- dent S , sion. The following is forcibly and truly said of the Corrc,:cy Bill of Sir Robert Peel : Tile crowning evil—thanks to Sir Robert Peel—that 4 which has struck at the marrow of society—that which has Wos n nut the furnaces in the iron districts, and compelled the ho tn. rand µratio to pay their rent out of their stock— that ich has ruined every small manufacturer;,and este blights] the truck system, is—The Currency Bill ! Do we make it a matter of accusation against the working daises, er the " enligh ened people,' that they did not understand nor foresee the consequences of this measure ? By no means. They knew as li tie upon this subject as did the honourable the representatives of the nation. The flippant talker in the Commons' Rouse of Parliament—the all.wise treatisesver.der of political economy—the gabbier against i• filthy rags"—the Blue coatsschool boy.of the Times. age- Twine cockney in mind and manners,' strong in its lungs, and impudent as well as wicked—none of these watts, receiving their wages in gold or bank notes. and estimating the resources of the nation by the thumbouldsnall rules of Fleet-street and Chespatde, knew any thing of the fatal Con sequences of this measure. It was no sooner passed, how. ever, than it deranged the Allies of every man in business. It wounded public credit in the moat vital part. It gave the large capitalist unlimited conteoul in the market, and can. pellet' the active and industrious manufacturer, whose com petition was salutary in restraining monopoly, either to re tire from business, or become the mere furnisher of those who could bike advantage of his cm . ..mammon'. By this nefarious and cruel hill, t' e value of a fixed annuity was doubled—the mortgagee was placed at the mercy of the lender—the salaried official had his income increased fifty per cent—the taxes were doubled, and wages and profits, among the middle classes, were reduced one half. This bill, in short, laid the foundation of all the privation and suffer ing we have endured as • nation since 1819. From that year may it stand aye accursed in the calendat I—to the pre. sent, we have been rapidly declining as a commercial pea. pie; contending with difficulties which we, being a nation of philosophers, ascribed to other causes ; meeting fresh emr h:terassments at every reduction of taxation, and finding our coats becoming more bare, and our comforts more narrowed, and our profits more reduced, and our wages verging nearer the starving point, without ever once dreaming of the real cause. or compelling the minister of the day to institute an it quill. No. 3, on " Parliamentary Elonuence" is ex tronely witty, but too personal to he always ap li The review of Taylor's " Historic Survey of German Poetry," is a valuable critique ; and there are several other excellent and amusing articles. We shall conclude this notice by a poetical extract, net less to our taste than anvtitine we have alluded to. It is really a lucky hit at the diterraceful church corruptiem in the showmen of Westmin mer Abbey: THE ARBET.A FRAGMENT. A reeling sad came o'er me, as I trod the sacr.d ground Nt here Tudors at d Plantager.ets were lying all around : I steep 'd with noiseless foot, as though the sound of mortal tread Might burst the bands of the deranges' sleep that wraps the mighty dead! The slanting ray of the evening sun shone through those cloisters pale, With fitful fight, on regal vest and warrior's sculptured mail ; Ai from the stained and storied pane it danced with quiver ing gleam, Each cold and prostrate form below seem'd quickening in the beam. Now sinking low, no more was heard the organ's solemn ;/ swell, e faint upon the listening car the last hosanna fell : 1i Iled—aand not a breath did stir ; above each knightly stall, Unmoved, the banner'd blazonry hung waveless as a pall. I t 'ood alone—a living thing midst those that were no • more.— tlidaght on ages that were past, the eletious deeds of yore— Ott ,Edward's sable panoply, on Cresay's tented plain, The fatal Roses twined at length, on great Mixes relive. I thought on Blenheim—when, at once, upon my startled elf There came a sound; it chi ed my veins, it froze my heart •• with fear, Ai -from a wild unearthly coke I heard these accents " &tyke is dont.--It's tuppence now fir them as vante to stop!" A grisly wight . . . . . G. Sometime ago, a clergxulau residing, no matter where, went to a blacksmith's ;hop, and, on finding the Inas. ter front home, who had gone to. or was in the act of going to church, intimated to his servant he must stand prepared to put a shoe on his horse by the time the services of the day were ended. Vulcan btareti, at d ti en excused himself, by stating what was true, that they had no iron shoes ready made. " Theo you oust just make one," was the imme. diate arswcr, uttered of course in the imperative mood. As ti is was really " too bad," the lad shrugged up his shoulders, examined die horse, and then told his reverence that, in place of one shoe, it would require two. " Set to work then to make thou," was the next pithy speech ; and it is a positive fact that the lad felt constrained to do as he was bid, and that the clergyman mounted his yad the mo. meet the " kirk &Wed," and went on his way—we lup. pose rejoicing. His conduct, however, was freely can. teased, and will not speedily be forgotten in a certain village, of rather a large district pf coun t r y d —D val f r i es Cowie?. PANORAMA OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. NORMIAJIPMMIII PREIS. In the Morsieg Post of this last week appeared a letter dated from Long Buekby, signed "T. P. L.' reflecting eery strongly upon Lord Milton for the conduct he pursued upon the Reform Bill. Prom the local date and initials, the Tory party have been very busy in asserting that it was written by Mr. Lucas, the highly respectable Solicitor, of Long Buckby, and se conder to the nomination of Lord Mil ton at the late general election. We have authority to state, that Mr. Lucas is not the writer of the letter, and that the language it contains is diametrically opposed to the senti ments he entertains of the parliamentary conduct of the Noble Levi. If by these means it is attempted to Mr. Lucas's public character, as well as to lessen the opinion which the freeholders of the county of Northampton enter. tain of that high-minded statesman Lord Milton, they have missed their mark—the knavishness of the transaction is exposed, and the name of the writer we hope to be in the possession of, as Mr. Lucas has written to the Editor of the Morning Post to ascertain it. Holism MURDER NIAR Weetronu.—Ere the first In. tense thrill of horror which must have been excited In the public mind by the dreadful details of the butchery of a female at Brighton, can have subsided, it has become our painful duty to record another crime of murder, committed upon a young and unoffending female at the little seques tered village of Sibbertoft, near Welford, in this county. — The victim was Mary Cheney. or, as she was more com monly called, Mary Wright, the latter surname being that of her father. She was an illegitimate child, and her mother's name at the time of giving birth to her was Cheney, but she has since married a labourer named Grant, who is uncle to the wretched man now lying in Northamp ton gaol, under the dreadful charge of murdering the poor girl. The murderer, William Grant, is, according to his own account, 41 years old ; he has been in the marines, but was discharged on account of deafness, with a pension of 245. per quatter, and has since been residing in this his na. tive village. The girl was 20 years old, and of prepossess.. ing appearance : notwithstanding the disparity of years, the prisoner conceived an ardent attachment for her, and not meeting a corresponding return, jealousy and rage took pos session of his breast, and hurried him to the commission of the fool crime for which he is now called upon to answer. The prisoner's mother died last week, at the advanced age of 70 and wax thus happily spared the bitter pang of witnessing her eldest son hurried from his native village on a charge of murder. She was buried on Sunday, and it should seem that the refusal of the deceased to walk with the prisoner In the funeral erne:talon was one of the circumstances which rankled in his breast. The deceased was servant to Mrs. Manton, and on Tuesday evening last was sent by her mistress to Mr. Bates, in the village for some berm, when she meet the prisoner, who accompanied her on her way home and when in a nitherretired part of the lane leading to he r mistress's, suddenly drew out a knife and stabbed her repeatedly in the neck and breast. The screams of the poor girl brought a I arson named Holman to her assistance. who secured the prisoner as he was in the act of kneeling on the g1:1 and repeating his blows. The girl died the next day ; and the same evening the prisoner was fully committed to North. ampton Gaol for the murder, by Mr Ward, a magistrate residing at Guilsborough Grange; to whom information of the frightful event was promptly conveyed, and who came over about two o'clock on the Wednesday afternoon, and held an enquiry into the subject at the house of Mr. Smea ton, in the village. The enquiry lasted till seven o'clock at right, and the result was the full committal of the prisoner, who the same evening was conveyed in a poet-chaise, pro. cured at the Talbot Inn, Welford, to Northampton, accom panied by the constable (Richard Cleaver), and Edward Chown. They reached Nortbampton about half-put II o'clock, and the gaol being then fina'ly closed for the night, were constrained to step at the Cross Keys Inn till next morn ing. The prisoner slept in the same bed as the constable, to whom he was secured by a hand-bolt. On the previous night the prisoner slept in the same custody, upon some chairs at the Red Lion Inn, at Stbbertoft, and waking in the middle of the night, looked at his hands, which were then bloody, and exclamed, " Where am 1, what have I been doing ?" The stains of blood, and they were numerous upon the prisoner's person, were not allowed to be washed away till after his committal to gaol. The father of the wretched man has reached the advanced age of SO, and has lived all his life in the village, where he Is much respected for his sta tion in life, that of a labourer, and it was mentioned at the inquest, to his high credit, that he had never applied for or received a single penny in the shape of parothial relief. IP Mr. Jacob Smith, surgeon, of Welford, before the luggage, deposed that he was sent for on Tuesday evening, me sae the deceased about half-past seven o'clock, at her atstbses cottage. She was stre:ched 04 a bed on the Seer, aid bed her clothes on, which were completely deluged wltb bleed. She was perfectly sensible, and in answer to a question frogn him as to who had hurt her replied William Grant: There were several persons about her at this tine. On exa. mining her person he found 5 wounds on the throat, and 2 in the chest, from most of these wounds blood was axing. There were also four caniderable wounds on hex bands, besides a great many scratches. lie dressed her wounds, tad ft matet-d with her till eleven o'clock at night. He had in tended remaining all night, but was at that hour called upon to attend a patient about eight miles distant. He returned and saw the deceased twice the following day ; the first time was about nine o'clock in the morn kg, and he then perceived air escaping front the wound on the left side of the chest. lie observed that she laboured under a difficulty in breathing. She was still sensible. No !loud had towed from the wounds sirce be dressed them the previous eve Meg. He gave her an opiate, ar.ei left her. He saw her again skint wo o'clock, and stand her in a State of delirium. He continued with her tall about three o'clock, when he was sent for to attend Mr. Ward, tie magistrate, who had cone ewer from Gilsborough Gra' ge to take the dei.usitittos of tie witnesses in the case. His next visit to the deceased was about six o'clock that veering, and he then found her dead. lie had since, in the presence of Mr. Hey gate, surgeon, of Market Harboruugh. made a post merles, examination of the body. The eruuuds on the neck were incised wounds; the lowest was two inches long, and that next above w.s four inches and a halt lung ; on the right extremity of this wound was a large opening into the e b b: sternuljegviar vein. Above was another wound five inches long. The other wounds on the tuck were superficial, dividing the skin and fascist bat no muscles. Between the first and second rib was an oblique puncture, about halt an tech in leugth,which had perlotat into the left side of the chest ; there was a corresponding wound on the left lobe of the lungs, and about a pint of water and serum in the cavity. On the right side of the chest, below the collar bone, was another sin:ibis puncture, and there was about the same quantity of blood and scum collected there. The commander of an East Indianian took out with him a few years since, as past of his cargo, a pack of hounds, which, upon his arrival in the territories of the kings of Leadenhall, he disposed of for 451. per couple Three dogs were kept during their voyage in excellent health, *P. rite, and condition; and sometimes amused the ship's can. pany not a little, by being brought on deck. and, for the sake of exercise, giving chase to a red herring I Their cost per couple originally was about GI. Ma. attests/ cut ast's Lecvu ans.— Saturday evening M. Buckingham terminated his course of Lectures at Co ventry. The attendance was far more numerous than on any other evening. At the close of the lecture, the Rev. J. Peggs, di:renting minister, came forward and pro, Geed the following resolution, which, being seconded by Mr. Hands, sen. was carried unanimously :—" That this audience cannot allow Mr. Buckingham to close his interesting lectures on the nature and mischievous edicts of the East - India mono poly, without tendering their wettest thanks for the valua ble information which they have contained, and oust that a strong feeling will rapidly pervade all classes of the com munity hi the United Kingdom, that India and the whole of the Eastern world may be opened to the free and beneficial influence of British commerce and philanthropy." Tug 8143111444 AX POLIIICAL UNIOX have invited the " Unions" throughout the Kingdom to make known their places of establishment, number of individuals enrolled, and the residence of their Chairman and Members of the Council. Ansow.—We are grieved to have to state the occurrence of a fire at the village of Oakington, in this county, and which was occasioned by the felon band of a vile incendiary. On Monday evening Air. Day, a respectable farmer of the vil• lege, gave his hawks, or merry-making to his harvest men; and while the people were enjoying themselves and pass. lag round the foaming tankard, same villains fired the stack-yard, thus converting a scene of testi:sty into one of consternation. The fire commenced on the side of the tick-yard the most remote from the house, about mid way down, and ins situation the best calculated to effect the most extensive devastation. Happily the wind blew strongly in such a quarter as to drive the flames from the direction of the farming places. Three ricks, one of wheat,' one of beans. and (we believe) one of dower, situate in the direction of the wind, we re e nti re ly consu med in a compara dvely short space of time. By the prompt exerdons of the neighbou:s, who covered the adjoining ricks with blan kets, which a plentiful supply of water enabled them com pletely to saturate, the firs was prevented from extending further and it is matter of moth surprise that, unaided by a fire engine, they were able to save a wheat case, width was only separated from the wheat rick first oat fire, or rather connected yids it, by a small shed, which, however, was promptly pulled down. NORTHAMPTON. SEPT. 3.—Wheat, red. (344 to des ; fine, 67. to 70s Barley, grinding, 36s to 375; malting, 38s to 411. M a l t , — e to —s. O a ts, Ws. to 30 s; feed ditto, 211 s to 275. Tick Beans, to —s; small ditto, 36e. to 41s. Peas, grey, —a to —a; white, —s to —s. Ryei Mk per qr. Flour, 4.9 s to 555. sack of 180 lbs. DAVINTRY. AUG. 31.—Wheat, 62s to WS; Barley, 35. to 365; Oats, ns to 321; Brans, 361 to 395. DIE D.—On Friday last., li. Stockdale, Esq.—On Satur. sennight. Uev. It. Clark, Pastor of the Baptist Church, Weston, near Weedon, aged 54—At Daventry, on Monday, suddenly, in the 80th year of his age, William Gibbard, being a tough whip maker (the staple trade of that place,) he was carried to the grave by his brethren of the whale bone craft—On Wednesday last, at Huntingdon, in the 67th year of his age, T. S. Robertson, Esq. manager of the Lin coln company of comedians. •"•-• LRICESTER CHRONICLE. LZICiSTER CORPORATION LOYALTY !—On the coro nation of King George the Third, the corporation of this borough, in order to give the inhabitants a lest to ejaculate " God save the King," caused the conduit in the Market. place to flow with wine. On the coronation of his late Ma jesty, the same body had the venerable pile filled with ale, for alike purpose; but on Thursday next, the coronation of his present Majesty, the same building is to pour forth, what with the above exceptions, it has always poured forth— namely, fine—pure—unadulterated water! Whether to typify the present state of purity of the said body; its pau city of cash from electioneering doings; or its lack of loy alty to King William the Fourth, we must leave the public to decide. LEICESTER. AND SWANINOTON RAILWAY —This railway commences from that part of the river Soar near the West Bridge, in the town of Leicester, called the Leicester shire and Northamptonshire Union Canal; whence it takes a northerly course by Fresle's Grounds, where It enters a tunnel rather more than one mile in length ; thence in a westerly course, running nearly parallel with the south side of the turnpike road leading from Leicester to Ashby-de-la- Zouch, across a small rivulet north of Glenfirld, along the western bank of which Itursues its course by Ratby, New town Unthank, to Desfor d, where it again bends notthetly hT li , rry bees, Thornton , and Bagworth ; on by the Birc h Tree Inn, on the above toad, westward by the Red House in Gorplane to the turnpike road from Hinckley to Blelbourne,l at the north end of Swanington, where it terminates at a dis tance of 15 mil, a and three quarters. EMPLOYMENT Or THE POOL—An Act has bees printed to amend the 59 Geo. 3. c. 12, which empowered churchwardens and overseen to provide for the employment of the poor, to an extent not exceeding 20 acres. The pre sent enacts that these officers may provide land to a certain extent (50 acres) for the employment of the poor. They may enclose part of waste lands for cultivation, with the consent of the Lord of the Manor, and the major part in value of the persons having right of common thereupon. These powers are extended to guardians of the poor, under the Act 22 Geo. 3, c. 83 ; the provision of which act to be extended to lands hired, &c. No settlement to be gained by residing on these lands. A cricket match between eleven of the Nottingham club and eleven of the Sheflield, commenced no Monday last, and terminated in the following manner t—Nottinghant Ist inning., 181; 2d ditto. 98; total, Ist innings, 67; 2d ditto 90; total, 157. The match con cluded on Wednesday afternoon, and hu completely de cided the point of superiority between these two rival clubs. The Hyde Park Cricket Ground, near Sheffield, was greatly crowded during the play. LEICESTER, BATURDAT.—Wheat, 65. 104; Rye, 60s; Barley. 40s 6d ; Oats, 314 9d ; Beans, 40s; Peas, 40s ; Fine Flour, 52a to 53a; Stand. Wheaten, 50s to 535; House -1 hold, 46s 50s.—Quarters Loaf, Wheaten, 10d ; Ditto Household. 9tl. Al A R RlRD.—Tbursday, at Holbeach, Geo. Harvey, Esq. late of Downham Market, to Miss Elis. Weston, late of Titteehall, In Norfolk.—At St. Turncll's, Pembroke, G. B. J. Price, Esq. to Ellen, third daughter of Sir John Owen, Bert. M.P. DlED.—Friday, the 26th ult. at Saddington, in this county, aged 78, Mary, relict of the late Joseph Haycock. Eq.—Friday, at Winfield Manor, in his 72d year, Winfield Holton, Esq. Colonel of the Derbyshire Regiment of Mi litia, and one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for that county.—At Godmanchester, on Monday last, aged 73, Mr. Jonathan Hulme y he was a remarkably stout man, weigh. last nearly 18 stone, and had served formerly in the Os ford Blues. DUBLIN MORNING REGISTER. _ A London correspondent has furnished us with the an. need petition from the Corporation of Dublin, recently pre. seated to the House of Commons by Lard Milton t PETITION Of THE LORD MAYOR, 5H11171114 COMMONS ) AND CITIZENS Of DUSILIY, Sbeweth, That your petitioners being a legitimate body, formed of component guilds appointed by ancient charter for the pro tection of trade and manufacture, cannot but view with deep and alarm the present de pressed condition (except in partial instances) of the trades and manufactures of the city and liberties of Dublin, most of which, from a state of former prosperity, are becoming daily more cleptessed, and some of them are entirely annihilated. Your petitioners have to regret that this state of depression and consequent distress is not confined to the manufactures of Dublin and its liberties, but appears to have extended it self throughout the country generally; its flax and linen trade, once the staple of Ireland, is receding trom the coun try, and other manufactures and pursuits are in a similar state.of decay throughout Ireland. That in consequence of such a state of things, numerous persons that formerly derived support from those sources of I industry, have been thrown into estate of destitution; those who could effect it have changed the labour of the loom and other fallen manufactures, to different pursuits, which has again led to an increase of distress in other troth./ and occupations, lessening as it has done the value of labour by the accession of such number of persons ; and great cumber s have emigrated from their native country. That this decline in the amts of manufacturing pursuits has rapidly increased within these few years and particu larla from the period when different legislative enactments took place promoting the importation into this country of Bridal and foreign manufactures, and other enactments af fecting trade and manufactures generally; and your peti tioners must therefore mainly attribute the effects which have followed to the Muses which have preceded them. Your petitioners have deeply to regret, that under such a state of suffering depresaion, and while Great Britain and Ire. land are so overrun with the manufactures of France, that nation allows no reciprocity on her part, but on the contrary (unless in trivial instances which she cannot avoid) her ports are strictly closed against the manufactures of the United Kingdom. Your petitioners beg permission to state as their opinion, that the real state of the local interests of Ireland does not appear to have been at all times before the Imperial Portia. mem, nor rightly understood in many instances, and to this they must mainly attribute the several measures that have from time to time been proposed or enacted for this country, and which have been so detrimeral to its various interests, and not front any want of good feeling towards Ireland. The frequent changes in the administration of Ireland, and the consequent want of local knowledge in the new members of such administration. must always operate against Irish interests in the Imperial Parliament, unless nu mires be taken to remedy such a vital defect. Your petitioners further beg leave to state, that exclusive of manufacturing employment in Ireland, she abounds with vast natural r. sources of wealth, even surrounding Dublin, which could be made applicable for the employment of her population ; besides her bogs, be: waste lands, her fisheries, the forwarding of public works an an be brought into operation for the promotion of employmen t , the bene fi t of society, and the wealth of the state; ttiterould require a board of commissioners to sit in Dublin to develops those mourns, and make them applicable to practical purposes, who would hold communication with the different persons in Ireland interested in trade, manufactures, fisheries, agri culture, and other local interests in Ireland, and report to the Lord Lieutenant, by which means the government of Ireland would always be in possession of the true state of her local interests. Such reports, your petitioners subnilt,would by the information they would convey, simplify, and lighten Irish affairs in the imperial patliament. Ireland would reap the decided benefit by the assistance she would In conse quence receive, and her people would be made prosperous, grateful, and happy. Such a measure your petitioners be. Here would remove much of the cause that exists in the minds of many, foe a repeal of the legislative with Great Britain, and primate an increased unity between the two countries. Tonepatitimons thud= humbly pray your honourable barns dm an wipsii beard et trade may be appointed by pidinnent ID elt hi Debbi, their objects being the trade, mssubeasno, monmeres, fisheries, agriculture. all public works, aid Morsel improvements in Ireland. That such board be _posed of persons particularly acquainted with such faisesses and said board be incorporated with such powers a the wisdom of your honourable beetle will °m older necessary to carry into practical of ects the objects herein stated by your petitioners. CURIA SZPIMIXEII MIZETING/The September meeting, the most interesting sporting asamblage in Ireland during the year, commenced on Monday ; the attendance was way numerous, and the running on the first day was of the best description. Ths Angleeeys and the Thirty Sove reigns Sweepstakes, both for two-year olds, afford opportu. nity for the display of the first efforts of Irish bred attic; and, as the entries were numerous, and some of them (by the celebrated Starch) now appeared in the lists for the drat time, the betting was very considerable, and the interest excited by those races was greater than any thing which has been witnessed at the Curragh for several years past. Mr. Attorney-General Bhckburne Mr. Solicitor• General Crampton, and Mr. B. W. Greene , his given it as their opi. aloe that no power now exists in the crown to direct a re valuation of the benefices in Ireland already valued, for the levying of first fruits. On Monday last, an immense number of the peasantry, well armed, assembled dose to the village of Emly, in order to prevent a seizure for rent about to be made by Mr. Bery, who, however, deemed it pendent not to enforce his claim, and the fellows went at, after having fired several shots.— Clowned Advertiser. DIMLIN CORN gitcnAwair, Tussnar.—There was an immense supply of wheat at market to-day, which sold at a reduction of Is to Is. Id, and in some instances towards the close, of full 21 per barrel. Oats sold nearly on the, same terms u last week, and bee rather dearer.—Wheat; red, 244 to 28s; ditto, white, 27s to 80; oats, lls to 1218 d bare, lis fTd to 12s Bd._ _ NIA RRIP.D.MarIa, daughter of the late Gee. Butler, of Jervis-street. Esq. to Mr. G;Butler, of this city..ln Bel fast, W. J. Eames, Esq. of Londonderry, to Elisabeth Anne, daughter of J. Comyns, Esq. DIED.—In Camden-street, Miss Jane Darley. Yesterday morning these sessions commenced proforma ; but, owing to the solemnity at Westminster, no bills of in. &anent were read, or prisoners put upon their challenge. Public notices had been posted in the purlieus of the Conti that the presence of prosecutors and witnesses would not be required. At nine o'clock the Remain' and Commow Sax- GIANT took their seats on the Bench in the Old Court to attend the calling the Middlesex Jurors, after which the like duty was performed in the New Court In respect tithe Lon don Inquest. The gentlemen were then dismissed, with or. dm to attend the respective Courts at nine o'clock this day. The Court then adjourned. AfIDDI,ESII,X SESSIONS. At the Middlesex Sessions, on Wednesday, a paltry ease of assault having terminated by a verdict of guilty, pro. nounced against the defendant, Mr. Serjeant Pau., whohad just entered the Court, rose, and said that he wished to make a few remarks upon the case which bad occupied the atten tion of the Court. What sentence the Court would pass upon the person convicted he did not anticipate; and be was quite sure that what he might say would not prejudice him; but he could not help remarking that the case, as far as he knew it, was one which ought not to have bee n brought into that or any other Court. He would not inquire what ma gistrate had committed the party, or held him to bail, be cause he was quite sure that no person would have thus ex. ercised his discretion, had no more been told him than had appeared in evidence adduced today. Mr. C. har.m ?. begged to correct the learned magistrate. As counsel foe the prosecution, he (Mr. C. Phillips) was aware of all the facts, and they were that s—the prosecutor did not go before any magistrate, and, therefore, was not held to bail; he went as every man ought to do, who respected trial by jury, before the grand inquest, who had found the bill proven. Mr. Sergeant PILL was obliged for this esplanation. He thought, however, that Hilo more had been said ex park than had been related at the issue, the bill would have been ignored. It was much to be lamented that in many eases, owing to a trifling dispute, an assault was committed =gni. sable by law, but which might be arranged without entailing upon the parties the expense of having their difference ad. juiced by a Jury. Ifs person, who, for instance, had a wife ' and eight children, was committed, in default of finding bail, to prison, perhaps for six weeks, the evils arising therefrom were numerous, both in a moral and political point of view. Suppose the accused was in work, his family were deprived of his support, and obliged to resort to the parish for relief; and, after a paltry fine had been imposed, be, perhaps, bad lost his work, and it was quite clear that his morals would not be improved by his confinement; for it should be rot membered that a person who, in the moment of irritatio n, committed an assault, might be a man of moral habits, and held In good repute among his neighbours. Other evils beyond pounds, shillings, and pence, might be enumerated; and he hoped that the day would arrive when those petty bickering. would be settled without occupying the time of a Court and Jury at a Quarter Sessions. Several Magistrates on the Bench appeared to coincide in the observations of the Learned Sergeant. CE REPO) MANSION HOIIII.—TeI UNTOSITITNATS SPANISH Riruolzs.—A truly affecting spectacle presented itself yesterday at the Mansion House, in the absence of the Lord Mayor. Three Spanish refugees, a Colonel, and two Comman&rs, with starvation strongly marked in their faces, besought Mr. Holier to endeavour to save them and ' others of their miserable countrymen, persons of rank and large hereditary claims, from perishing. They declared that they bad not tasted bread for the last forty-eight hours " but look," said they to Mr. nobler. " lock at us, and tell us whether you don't believe us. We are all starving.— Death has come to the relief of some. and is close at the heels of the rest; and we are driven to this hunger and na kedness by our resistance to the despotism which England has always detested." Mr. Nobler asked the poor misera ble creatures whether they had applied to his Majesty's go. vernment. Don Fernando Garcia produced a correspond ence between him, on behalf of the refugees, and some mem ben of the administration, from which correspondence it appeared that Government declined rendering them any as sistance. The refugees, upon finding that the fatigues of 1 1 office interfered wish the benevolent feelings of those to whom they applied, wrote a petition to his Majesty, de scribing their melancioly condition, and begging that he would be graciously pleased, at this time of general rejoicing at the approach of the coronation. and the security of the liberties of the people, to commiserate their desolate state. They would wait longer fee an answer. but the want of food drove them to this course, and there was nothing but a lin. gering death in prospect. Mr. Holder asked whether they bad been upon the Duke of Wellington's list; and, if they had. whether they had risked the allowance upon that het by leaving England r The refugees said that the Duke of Wellington had ordered some years back that those who re ceived the 101 aid as travelling expenses, on a departure from this country, should forfeit the right to the allowance in future. When the Lite French revolution took place, almost every good Spaniard, under the impression that the example would be followed, went over to his country, to rouse the people to a sense of theii( degraded condition. The experiment to deliver Spain from pries.craft and despotism, however, proved unavailing. The refugees fought against the tyrant, but they met with a strong army, and wets every where mailed by treachery. They were led into ambuscades, and shot or strangled like dogs. The chants of dying like men was de. nied to them, and those that escaped, alter die desperate but ineffectual struggle, were prevented by the French govern. ment from making any further effort, and struck off the list of claimants by the Duke of Wellington.—Mr. lioSLea said, that if the Duke of Wellington had not annexed some condition to the grant of the 101. it was apprehended that England, in the midst of her own privations, would have beet-overwhelmed by real and pretended claimants.—'list refugees said, they had learned, from authority, that the Duke of Wellington had still the disposal of the fund granted by his Majesty for the relief of the Spanish, at his command; that the fund amounted to 18,0001. and that but few of the exiles were deriving bandit from it. Finding that his Majesty's Government would not any more inter fere, the only akernative left to them was to appeal to the chief Magistrate of the great city wide:hind with suck libe rality subscribed some years ago, and saved many of their countrymen from the horrors of that starvation which the exiles were new literally undergoing. Mr. Holder said that the City fuud had been long since upended, and the W ads by which be thought any seecessful application Is Made would be that of a public appeal to the Iteilhrgedenalted. He knew that there were many amongst *tans "boss charitable feelings suffered no abatement Omni the political contentions which were going on. It was pails that the melancholy statement which bad been just made would in some shape or other meet dm * ge t a dore who were constantly looking abroad Oir on whom to exercise their benevolence.— no said dot, since they had applied to the Lord :=6.a wry few months ago, several of their number bid imo the grave front the mere want of the 031111111 SO II& osionries of life. Mr. Hoit.El gave them frees Ms um poise the means of supplying their immediate wants, and Mil limo to wait upon the Lord Mayor in a few day. The volbentnate patriots expressed their gratitude to the buten. hat wan, who has frequently assisted many of them from his own private mounts. and lef t the po lice-room for the next baker's shop. Manw-tee-Bowno—Yesterday Hannek creed, a little girl, only thirteen years of age, was charged before Mr. Gatemen' with the capital offence of breaking into a dwelling-house, and stealing therefrom 61 19s. It was proved in evidence that this young delinquent was occasionally implored to go on errands by M . Mary Davis, of Notting bill, kensington. On Monday last, Mrs. Davis came to town on some business, leaving the house without soy one In it, and on her return missed from a drawer up stairs a 51. note, two half-sovereigns, and 19s in silver. The pri. NINE was present a few days before, when the complainant smoked the uote. In the course of the same day the pri sour called on a young woman in the neighbourhood, and pissed in her hands a 61 note, two half-sovereigns, and 1111610 silver, which she received back on Wednesday, and ormo into town with a little girl about her own age, named Popes. In High-aneet, Mary-la-bonne, they met th e pris on . WS 1.1134 to oboist the money was shown, but who, inland of how a little creature like her could come into the of so much money. made the first assault upon it in the neighbouring gin.shop ; after which she pur chased some articles of dress for the prisoner. Peyote and the prisoner returned towards home, but on their way met a young fellow, named Bryan. with whom she had been pre. viously acquainted, and the whole party mine back again to town. After regaling themselves sumptuously, the 51. note was given to Bryan, who changed it at a hab e rdasher's shop in Oxford -street, where they purchased two shawls, an d t h e change remained in Bryan's possession. On their road to Kensington they passed some police constables, who spoke to them; and after they bad passed, Bryan pretended th ey were in quest of her, stooped. and alleged then that he had thrown three of the sovereigns away, in order that, the exact sum not being found upon them, no charge might be brought Masse to them. Mrs. Davis having heard of the large sums her protege had been spending, caused her to be ap. when she candidly admitted having enter e d L i I ligi s illai osee through one of the lower windows while Mn. Davis was absent on Monday, and having taken the messy. Bryan absconded, but the constable has received istormatisn that he was seen in the neighbourhood of Pyridines% go. Sing gloriously drunk—no doubt upon the sovereigns be bed *town away.—The prisoner made a full confession of Ls guilt to Mr. ORIFTITIS I do that she was privy WOW thee robbery but not the principal in it, which was a. milted in the same house, under similar circumstances, about two months ago, and received past of the plunder... The robbery was committed by a near neighbour of Mn. Davis, who suggested to the primer the means of effecting an entrance.—She was fully committed fur trial on the ca pital charge. Qu zaft -I Q IMILE .—ST AG Z-COAOR INFORMATIONS.— Yesterday, William Bray, the ether of the Bath and Bristol Company's coach, was fined M. and costs, for carry. ing one outside passenger more dna his number. The dri. ter of Robert Nelson's Ipswich each was fined 5L for a similar offence. Thomas Powell, proprietor of one of the Kew stages, was also fined 51. and costs, for a like offence. ENN ISKILLZI, SEPT. I.—The Marquis of Anglesey has ordered an investigation Into the conduct of William Darcy, Esq. as Captain of the Lowtherstown Corps of Yeomanry, to be held before Brigade-Major Scott, which was to take place yesterday at Irvinstown, county Fermanagh, upon a charge preferred by several mem. ben of the said corps, that he, Captain Deny, of the :Lowtherstown Corps .*(of Yeomanry, withheld from se. wadi members of the said Corps (by reason of their religion) the hew arms and appointments which were ordered by feweemnutt to be distributed to the Yeomanry Corps ISM* bon delivered to such other members of stud Corps as professed the Protestant religion their proper. don of arms and aposintosects, contrary t o t he MUM of the mid older of Government—Dublin Eurositse Put. redelivered CuLca Y.— We were shown, on Saturday last, two goodly beads a "Darted d celer y, which grew is the gth d, of Capt. hem, or Brooklands. In height, Mod. d. leaves, they manenred more than four feet, and after the stake, lc. had been freed from deep, one sew of live rued& The largest weighed is. ally two plumb tea emcee. The gardener, James D. 111 1 DA Mama, that was Ilene ago there were dusty-am at Illeseldeede that ebe deal of blossom Alta the fun hod dpeall awl b eam; and that at present helms an Minns pirmamea, contented with producing an alma= Ike seep, Is again putting forth a profusion of &wen, sure of which are formed, some forming, and elms again just about to follow the example set them of g the busy bee with a relay of sweets, and the owner e7t ill isiaterials with a fresh desert, which, tended and stored, may keep till the Christmas feast comes round.— Drem/ries Courser. TALIACOTIAIN OPBRATION.—Thii operation, which has hhbeno been so rare in this country, having never, we believe, until a few years ago introduced by kir. Limo , been known in Scotland, seems likely to become sofildently common. Within these few days two patients (a man and a woman) have been discharged from the infirmary, and ano ther will shortly be discharged in whom the o lf actor y org a n has been completely renovated. Another female, whose nose is almost entirely lost, is at pre se nt under tr eatment, and within the last few months three mere have bad different slighter repairs made upon their nasal protuberances. The materials for the new nose, as tar medical readers will be aware, are derived from the forehead; and it is as some'• log as it is pleasing to observe how rapidly these, at first, ilesible parts become consolidated and adapted to their new situation. The whole of these eases have been under the cars of Mr. Liston, who, in this operation, as in many other departments of surgery, hu introduced considerable WI. provetnents. Instead of taking the columns or septum, as it is technically called, from the forehead. he takes it, at ape tied subsequent to the first operation, from ti e e n t e rzer lip—a mulct which, we believe, surgeons now y allow nos considerable advantages. It would be justice to Mr. Lists°, were we not to say, that the whole operations were performed with a predawn and dexterity which, perhaps, few in Britain could have equalled.—Ediaburgh Courant. CORN MARKETS. Wheat was Is per quarter higher at Great - Norwich (for red only) and Buckingham ; and Ss haven; and It declined Is at Boston, Norwich (1 Warwick and Nottingham; Is to Ps at Stowmariet, Wakefield, Liverpool, Derby, Ipswich, Northampton, Manchester; 21 at Canterbury; Ss at Tavistock - at Diss (for ordinary); 4s to es at Guildford , Appleby. The supply was large at Liverpool, Norwich Appleby, Guildford, 'retested and good at Bristol, Boston, Heehaw, Dublin. Ii wick, Newport (Isle of Wight). Nottingham a.... ter ; moderate at Bury, Stowmarket, Canterbury, ... Berwick ; and short at Swansea, Chelmsfovd, lrakefield, Gainsborough, and Great Yarmouth. The demand brisk at Bristol, Swansea, Newport (Isle of Wigh pleby, and Tavistoek ; steady at Glasgow Hexham, tin, Great Yarmouth, Colchester, and Berwick ; and at Bury (for new, but not for old), Diu. Chelmsford, verpool, Wakefield, Stockton, Birmingham, N Ipswich, Canterbury , Warwick, Nottbegham. font Barley advanced Is per quarter at Canbrook ham:: 2s stranterbury, and 34 at Norwich, (\ and it : Is at Bury, Stowmarket, Al Whitebait's sad Tavistock. The supply Appleby and Worcester ; fair at B:owmarket, Ipswich, Nottingbam sad Berwick; that at Warwick, Yarmouth, Guildford, and Tartatork mend was brisk at Norwich. Canbrook, 'pas ich, Appleby, Berwick, and Falkirk; fair at Nottingham, heavy at Glasgow, IVresbant, and Tavistock. Oats declined is at Ipswich. Warwick, Appleby, and Manchester; Is to 24 at Buckingham', 3s at Tavistock. The supply was good. at N•••• Appleby, Tavianstk, and Worcester; fair . Guildford, and Berwick ; and slim at Derby, and YR/month. At Appkby the demand was I was sluggish at Heitham, Ipswich, Warwick,. Colchester, and Guildhads Lennon : Hinted and nasalised b — ifteirp *ran Orrice, Nu. L. Rislieu-plece b Temple - - ink Tom Diet. mm► Walsl Saab A Fo We A Nil A did AWa A N Oa H. I Sti of tbi dos I and o it a i II ISO Bin Whig Botd DM is to 1 chid fires Wm Sem Itilll wart Gra prey It Hop to a Peril ma* ben firm will how, so al MI dam' Wei and P tad Tlw with •ent Ufa rem Din bat nen Owl I. Al It. Aga Tie On Be -dts at Yarmouth. jpEi d 2s at White- ch (for white), =drat BM ad lock ; its to as apse • ; and tie at pieta wol, Stockton. -QUO rld Worcester: Ra her Ipswich. War- n and Colchew nterbuty, and and rd, Wakefield, are demand was used F Wight), Ap- used with Elezhant, Dab- rick ; and dull 1111111 helmsford, Li. bags Norwich. rem t. and Guild- Dort k and Notting- stair (for grinding) tpplcbg a dud was large at am) rket, Nersie. twits at Cantwo 4 . oek Tor j" kit, Warwick. -Peal Al. ottingitair, cud Ha k. , Nottinikor: ekitighain, our Tli t Noringhar. aPP 4 at Irwich. rby, Werv` k ' On ta brirk, bat it lie cif ettaltla Notsiegis T ' lama. • tor I I.