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:~ -~ i N0P.0!.1 OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. son, at Weson Turville, and stealing therefrom a waistcoat and other articles. Richard Walker for assaulting William Eg lr ton, at Monk's Risborough, and stealing from his person • purse containing 4s. 6d. Joshua Pond, for stealing three pieces of Irish linen, which were in the process of bleaching, from a field at Iver, value...ll. 12s. the property of Messrs. Henry Curtis and John Ellis; and also for a burglary in the house of James Johnson, of Tap low.—John Cremcr and Thomas Robinson, for stealing a sheep, the property of Mary Knight, of Great Briekhlll.—William King, for stealing a sheep, the property of Millard Adams, of Hockliffe.—Thos. Fall, for stealing a lamb, the property of Thomas Fountain, sen. of Stoke Hammond•—Moses Shaw, for stealing a watch at Aylesbury, Richard Bovingdow, for stealing two BiIIIGHTON GAZETTE, MARCH 12. The tow* , co - mmissions have published their accounts for the last six tvenilssi. The revenue was 7.1971. and 5,6001. was borrowed. 3,9511. eki.eded on public improvements; 7031. on the highways; 7471. in : 4.,0901. on the new town hall and market ; 1.0181. on po lio. rut! 1.1351. on law (! 1) and 13.1561. in purchasing property for hill rovetm.nts.. el: W. S. M. Turner. of Lincoln's Inn, has announced himself a the property of T. W. Field.-Itteste._ ta- 'edam for Bright._ Mr. T. A. Hone, and W. S. Cowell, also are sheep, the property of Robert Style. enteiidates. At Berkshire Assizes John Robinson was charged with killing his lc Mille havi:, staged the spri: •,..,, ur P.t•,- ea and Fulking, re- wife, by stabbing her with a knife. The prisoner, who is a carrier. re. ion.: • that they would enable the Brigii ion tV,.:, r :', -.npany to supply siding near Abingdon, it appeared, had a quarrel with his wife while at Ft ill.Olll trallons of the purest water per day. supper. when the prisoner, wounded her severely below the knee, and A: the close of last year, we gave a report of the meeting of the gen- she died in half an hour. Mr. Janice Patieson ruled that under all ileum; and lamas of Henfield, and the labouring poor, at which time the circumstances the offence was only manslaughter. The prisoner ,I eoi•siderable sum or money was subscribed by Mrs. Woods, of Chest. was sentenced to six mouths imprisonment. :..ilt. ele. Boner, of Henfield. Mr. W. Boner and Mr. Hamlin Bor. At Oxford assizes, Richard and William Watkins, were found ler, h. , ... to form a fund for employing the poor, and enabling the small guilty of stealing from 'Sir John Chandos Meade, Bart. plate value 5001 rartutr to pat an increase of wages. This fund, it appears, has be- The Judge told them they must leave the country for ever. ron , e exhausted, and the consequence has been a return to the old prices. NORTHAMPTON, Saturday.-Wheat 745. to 80s. Barley, 38s. to line late Mrs. Du Cane, of Horsham, was interred in the family 43e. Oats 255. to 30s. Beans, 38s. to 40s. Peas, 38a. to 431. vault. in the parish church, on the 2d inst. Since her decease many MARKET HARROROUGH, Tuesday.-Wheat, 725. to 80s. Barley, eetetletes are related, which for years had been almost forgotten, one of 38s. to 44.. Oats, 245. to 21s. Beans, 38s. to 483. Fine Flour, 85s. n hi, It is the following. Being out one day in her carriage taking an Thirds, 60e. Malt, 765. Butter, 14d. to 15d. per lb. Eggs, 20 for is. aitito , . the coachman began to cry " ha.' The footman then responded MARRIED-Mr. G. E. Thorne, of Stony Stratford, to Anne, " ba - which being continued, led the lady to enquire the reason eldest daughter of Mr. James Coombs, of Aldgate. " Why. Ma'am " said the men, " its owing to a distemper we have DIED.-The Rev. S. Smith, 111. A. Rector of Dry Drayton, Cam t ale:lit from eating so many sheep's heads. bridgeshire.-74, 111 r. Charles Fitzhugh, of Kingstborpe.-At Olney, Petitions arc getting up, in favour of reform, at Emsworth, Ha- Mr. Samuel Taylor Mason. vent, Portsmouth, and all the surrounding towns. EXETER ALFRED, MARCH 8. The new carriage-road in front of the Royal York Hotel was opened to the public on Tuesday. Great rejoicings have taken place in Barnstaple, Bideford, and all the Lewes CORN MARKET, March 5.-Wheat, red, 3L 13s. Oats, towns in the neighbourhood, in consequence of the duty being taken off 11. rns• to ii. Gs. Beans, IL 14s. to 21. Pease, 11. 183.--March 8.- coals. At Noteworthy , t h e mo rn in g was ushered in b y the ringing of Wheat, mixed, 31. 17s. ditto, red, 31. 14s. Barley, 21 Is. to 21.25. bells, and a band of music paraded the town, preceded by a man carry- Oil Cake, 121. per thousand. irg a large lump of coal, with a placard of " Lotd Althorpe for ever l'. DIED.-The Rev. W. Kemp, President of Cheshunt College. By some strange oversight, the town of Devonport, with hs Potty COLCHESTER GAZETTE, MA uctt 12. thousand inhabitants, the seat of the most important arsenal in the king- From and of the naval and military commands in the west, is omitted From East to West-from North to South the Reform Bill has en. kindled an enthusiasm which cannot be extinguished-the secret is out in the list of towns to which niinisters propose to extend the franchise -there has been a violation of the most sacred constitutional rights- on account of their population and national importance. Either undue franchises which are as dear to the Commons, as titles and privileges to influence has been exerted to prevent the rightful claims of this town from being considered In the proper quarter. or a real ignorance exists the nobles-have been bought and sold with a smirking smile in the' in that face of the law, and in outrageous defiance of all right. It cannot, i , quarter of ha relative position and political wants. The latter -t may possibly be the case as we perceive by Lord John Russell's speech will not be submitted to. The good sense of his Majesty leads him to concur with the opinions of his upright and faithful Cabinet, and all that the scheme now intr oduced is based upon the census of 1821, when Devonport was unknown by its present name, though it had long ex are ready to come forward and support the throne and the constitution, isted as a separate town, perfectly independent of Plymouth, and go whilst they seek for the total abolition of a system as opposed to their I veined by i t s own act of parliament. The importance of Devonpore it. just rights, as it is to the interests of the public. I not confined to its being the depositary of many millions of government An immense number of Swing Fires have occurred, which have never • property, but it is a p la ce of commerce, and mules on a foreign and appeared in an yof the papers, and we have 'good reason for expressing l co lonial trade. From its situation at the mouth of a navigable river, our belief that we could, any week, with tolerable diligence. fill a co ltnn of our paper with bare outlines of instances in which they have and on the bowlers of a rich agricultural district , it possesses many ad u ; wattages and facilities for supporting an extensive internal trade. occurred. ' By the decision of the Common Hall of Plymouth on Saturday The Ilergholt farmers employed numerous bands the whole of the i . se'nnight, 380 freemen will be added to the present list ; and it affords last autumnal seed time, in the setting of wheat by means of the dibble, ` us great pleasure in being enabled to state that the conduct of the Cor. and they have since adopted the same kind of hand labour in regard to potation has given satisfaction to the inhabitants generally, nearly 3410 their pease and beans ; and during the winter, when the earth was fre- of whom have publicly expressed their thanks to the Mayor and Cons quently covered deep with snow, and but little outdoor work of any „,„... sity. kind could be done, flail-thrashing in the barns became general front "''" Nearly 20001. have been subscribed within a few days, for the pur one end of the parish to the other. The happy results of these men- poof recting a suite of public rooms immediately over the entrance of mires are such as might reasonably be anticipated : viz. that there has th n ew s market in Fore-street, Tiverton. It is likely the work still be been little ground to complain of a redundancy of labourers; that I commenced next month; and when completed, will add greatly to the scarcely one able-bodied man has been a day without some profitable many attractions of this flourishing town. employment, and that the poor rate for the half-year does not exceed the moderate suns of 4s. fel. in the pound, viz. 3s. for the former quarter, On Tuesda y. y last, Mr. Charles Barnes , of the Exeter Frec Grammar and only Is. rel. in the pound for the lattet quarter. Sc h ool , son ot Ralph Barnes, Esq. of this city. was elected a scholar Saturday night, about half-past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in a barn of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, for the diocese of Exeter. This is Grammart te school. during I fo u r th Scholar which has been elected a, Corot., from the Exeter on the farm of Mr. George Fenn, at Beccles, which, .with a stable and shed, was entirely consumed in a short time. Happily the barn wasthe mastership of the Rev. Dr. Cullyns, viz empty, and the tire was discovered in time to remove the horses and three for the diocese of Exeter, and on e forthe county of Ke n t . bullocks from the yards. Engines were soon on the soot, and preserved The Taunton Courier has the following excellent precautionary ar a cottage standing near. This is the third time in the present winter tick rpon London advertising money lentieta : " One of these blood that Mr. Fenn's premises have been set on fire, suckers has sent us an advertisement, which he requested may be On Tuesday afternoon, about five o'clock. a fire broke out in a barn, inserted for e series of weeks. We have uniformly resisted the itmita. upon Montpellier Fenn, in the parish of Writtle, and in about twenty ; tion of these fellows to allow our columns to become the vehic les of minutes, levelled with the ground a range of buildings to the extent of . their depredatory practices, and have reason to know and to rejoice that nearly 140 feet, including two barns, a cowhouse, and a cattle shed.-' in more than one instance we have prevented a serious mischief to un- The oats had been that day removed from one barn into the other , _ and suspecting individuals. Why some of :he London (for all do not allow some of the men had not left the barn longer than five minutes before it) aid other pumpers, tolerate so cruel an imposition upon the needy and the themes were visible. credulnus is inexplicable. Perhaps they consider they have no better An amateur proposes to publish in London, by subscription, a History reason for scrutinizing the professions of a Jew money-broker than they of Tobacco, as used for smoking and snuff, in two volumes quarto.- hate far questioning the virtues of a quack-medicine ; yet there is this The first volume will contain a description of the nose, the size of the difference in the two cases-them may be efficacy in a pill, or harmless nose, a digression on Roman noses, whether long noses are symptom- nese in a potion ; hue the advertising bill-broker is a cheat and plum . atic, the origin of tobacco for smoking, the conversion of tobacco into derer, notorious and confessed at all times, and under whatever guise o f enuif, researches as to the individual who took the first pinch of snuff, name or firm he may aseutne." an essay on sneezing, whether the ancients sneezed, and upon what occa- IfARRIEI).-The Rev. Henry Woolcombe, Rector of Pillaton, to soon ; the origin of pocket handkerchiefs, Parliamentary snuff-takers, Sarah Baker, youngest daughter of the late nee, George Rhodes, Vicar disturbances ir. the time of Charles the First, as connected with of coly„,,,LAt Helaton, Frederick Hill, Esq. to Loveday Marshall, smoking. The second volume will contain-snuff-takers in the Perlin- I youngest daughter of the late Thos. Grylls. Kam-E. Tinkwood, Emn ment army, witticisms founded on a pinch of snuff, oval snuff boxes, to Miss Close, of :Slept, near Bodmin.-Mr. John Ends, of Stone first introduced by the Roundheads, manufacture of tobacco, tlissertn- , house, to Ann, youngest daughter of J. Parkyn, Esq. of Bodmits. two on the clay pipe-state of tobacco during the Republic, doting i DI ED.-51r. W. Hancock, aged 55 vears.-At Mouitonham, 74, the Union, Scotch snuff, when first introduced, how it was foundic- I Charles Carpenter, Faq.-At Torquay, Mrs. Slade, 76.-At Tiverton, quant and powerful. the accession of George the Second, the peri od of i Captain Richard Tucker, royal marines, 52.-Anne, wife of Mr. Sal gold and silvet snuff-boxes, George the Third, the introduction of ter, surgeon, Clisthydon.-At Bush, Spreyton, 75, Susanna, wife of scotch snuff to the court, when used by the Queen, German snuff- George Cann, Esq,boxes in fashion, ladies who take snuff, &c. &c. index, list of sub. NOTTINGHAM REVIEW, MARCH 11. scribers. COLCHESTER MARKET.-We bad a tolerable slew of samples.- On Wednesday at noon, a ile meeting of the burgesses and inha- The prices sustained our last quotation, but a very dull sale. White bitants of Notti ngham was h eld i n the great Exchange Hall, convened wheat, 76s to 80s per quarter ; red ditto, 68s to 70s t barley, 405 to ~ by the Mayor , in support of the ministerial measure of parliamentary Mr. Th Wakefield moved that William Wilson, Esq. to 46t; cats, 24s to 30s ; tick beans. 36s to 40s ; horse beans, 36s to reform. omits 44s ; white peas, 36s to cgs ; grey ditto, 345 to 38s. Mayor, should take the chair. Col. Wildman, of Newstead , proposed resolution, in every eloquent ', F etch. W. F. N. Norton,Esq. MARRIED.-George Wordley, second son of John Wordley, Esq. the first forest o f of Orsett, to Miss Massey, only daughter of -- Massey, Esquire, of agreed fully in the proposition, which le should second. A Northlands. hands was held up when the Mayor put the question, which was car- SUSSEX ADVERTISER, MARCH 7, rind unanimously, as were all the subsequent resolutions. A letter, which, is intended to be forwarded to Sir J. Shelley, Bart. Mr. Thomas Bailey then came forward, amidst loud cheers, and said.-I really pity the man who cannot exult and T. IL Kemp f Esq. the Representatives of this Borough, is now in the course of signature, and has already received the names of a stew in this measure. I commiserate him who is not suffi number of their constituents the most respectable merchants and wades- ciently alive to the interests of his native country. to join in this exul. , pe tation : I know there are many good men who are fearful, I regret that men of the town. • The undersigned constituents of Sir John Shelley and Mr. the tories ate absent. I respect their prejudices, and I pity them that • hei should deny themselves the high privilege of meeting with us, Kemp having seen and approved of the plan of Reform, presented to the t and shouting for joy at the renovation of England. If by revolution- House of Commons, by Lord John Russell, on the Ist of March last, ary, applied to the measure of his Majesty's Ministers, the opposition tle request the favour ot their support to the said measure, beiug fully - s mean that they are calculated to bring " a change over the dream" of tit opinion that the most beneficial results will follow, not only to thi perpetual possession of their present unconstitutional power, then are Borough, but to the nation at large."-Dated sth of nleach, 1831. they right : such measures are in truth revolutionary, and we are at A Committee from the body of local commissioners has been formed, I t Otis time in the very midst of a revolution-a mighty moral rev°. to point out the great advantages which would be derived in a public . most glorious revolution-compared to which any other point of view, by the holding of the Assizes for the western division a _____ lutionlutton recorded in the annals of nations is insignificant this county, at this place, in preference to any other. Every reasonable "'" and incomplete, and I pray (ion speedily to consummate expectation chews , that their laboura must be attended with the desired time great work with his blearing. A more magnificent spectacle I can success. scarcely conceive of, than that which England it m this moment pre- The streets within our Borough are in a most unpardonably dirty eenting to the eyes of' the world ; and who shall calculate to me the state, anti would be a disgrace to the by-ways in a country village. The force of those mom' considerations operating on the constitution of so. immense sum annually raised, by virtue of the local set, for the bur- vial man, from beholding such a mighty revolution, effected solely by pow of cleansing, lighting, &c. the streets of the Borugh, ought, at ,an enlightened public opinion ; who that shall behold the machine of least, to afford more comforts in this particular. 'government keep its steady, even way through such a revolution ; see A new entrance to the Palace, at the bottom of North -street, upon an ; public credit undistutbed and private indusiry uneuspended, sad net approved design, is now in progress, under the able superintendent of learn to abjure violence? Who, 1_ again ask, shall demonstrate to me Mr. Ranger. the extent of moral influence exercised over the present and future ge- Mr. Butting, of the Salts Farm, near Worthing, who had been can nerations of civilised men, by the spectacle of a bloodless, yet mighty muted, bail having been refused, to the gaol at Lewes, charged Under efficient revolution, accomplished in a society sustaining so many Lo d Lansdosne's Act, with wounding Mr. P. Cooper, with intent to _,;___,e, orders, and so many clashing interests,-so many do him some grievous noddy harm, was again broeght up, and under; 11;: w " e 7 f t u r pari e ett _ wben shall its momentum be spent ?- where shall went another long examination, with additional witnesses, before th e I r'' , its ge terminate ?-I answer but with the verge of the world ! but bench of alagagatee a, the Royal Sea House Hotel, inclusive of Sir 1). Scott, hart S. F . y Milford, and %V. Seymour, emirs. The prose. with the end of time ! If the opposers of the measure mean that this is the revolutionary character it sustains, then we will agree with them; eutor was present and gave evidence. The defendant was attended by but if they mean to awaken the fears of the timid and the ignorant by Mr. Clarkson, the barrister, whose object was to show, from existing circumstances. that bail ought no longer to be refused, and which he describing the measures as tending to scenes of violence and outrage, was in a condition to offer to any amount. The result was that bail then I call upon you to denounce the opposition as factious ; and in the terms of the resolution I am about to propose to declare, that In the was accepted ; the defendant, in his own recognizance of 3 0 0 1 . to meet strongest terms, we condemn the grounds a opposition taken in paella he charge at the ensuing assize*, with two sureties in 1001 . each. ment to this measure, by a class of self-interested persons, who owe From one to two thousand persons, perhaps, aseembled on New- their seats solely to the unconstitutional practice of borough teak. Inarket.hill thia day se'r.night, to be present at a Wretched exhibition Ott two men. named Godley, and Bignall, in their sabguinary attempts ( Cheers.) We hail the measure as a great triumph, not over the is bruise and bleed, and exhaust each other. borough proprietors, but as a victory for unborn generations; CILELTENHAM.-The steam-carriage which ran regularl kay twice a 1 regret the feelings of the man who can not enter into our day trout this place to Gloucester and hack again during the t week, triumph, now that the darkness is dissipated which hung over our des. doles, now that the fearful sound of coming tempest is hushed, now started this morning with a gentleman's carriage a ffi xed behind it, con that the frightful chill felt by the nation from the resistance of this miring six gentlemen, aar.ongst whom we observed Sir C. Dance and measure, is replaced by the genial warmth of popular confidence. I Mr. Gurney. In addition to the usual load on the steam carriage itself abhor the self-interested grounds on which this measure is opposed, I it went to Gloucester in fifty-five minutes, and returned from thence in long to see our country restored to her rights , to behold glory resting on fifty-nine MILUICIS thus making the journey in very nearly the same her mountains, and peace sitting in her valleys, I long to ses security, time tan by itself last week, which varied from forty to fifty minutes. restored to her palaces, and prosperity to her cottages, I long ones The gentleman's carriage was weighed on its return on the weighing more to be enabled to say, happy England ! We are met too machine of the Railway Ccmpany. It weighed one ton six hundred our satisfaction at this measure to which for many year, our best la • and a quarter. It therefore now travels at about ten miles an hour in hours, our highest hopes, our strongest energies hare been devoted. the wretched bad state of the roads. • • (Loud and continued cheering.) NORTHAMPTON MERCURY, MARCH 12. Mr. Richard Hopper then proposed the resolution for an address to At the assizes at Bedford, James Addington, aged 16, was indicted his Majesty. for having set fire to a hay stack, the p roperty of Thomas Dines, but Mr. Thomas Wakefield amidst loud cheers said, it is with feelings he was acquitted. Joseph Goaltle, I N 'illiam Ilium, Thomas Blows, unmixed with any alloy that 1 now present myself, beams we are John Payne, and Samuel Godfrey, labourers, were tried for having as- assembled to do all that Englishmen can, to amen if as coo. wielded tumultuously in the parish of Stotford, to obtain an increase duct of our beloved Monarch and his ministers ;.- die Iniso of dis of wages. 300 men assembled. Among them were the prisoners,and tension is bushed In peace, and in one firm anil isiold phalanx, most of the men were armed with bludgeons. They menaced Smith, we have pushed forward in spite of every se ear-1 the overseer of the parish. They were sentenced to various periods of •tain and complete success. I have it facts al mil* imptisonnient. e .. I can rely, that the measure must be carried, and slop apowills At the Aylesbury Assizes, judgment of death was recorded ' against that it will be carried even with the present House ef Qiumaisi James Alanders, for breaking open the house of Jeptha Good- • but if that should not be the case, if interested parties obsehl p.. vest it being carried, the Ministers and the Ring will at once appeal to the people,—(lond cheers)_-and that appeal will be answered ; (con tinued cheers]—it will be answered in such a way, that the borough. mongers *ball not again have the power of thwarting this measure. Aldermen Barber and Oldknow, Mr.W. P. Smith, Mr. Callow, Mr. Robinson, Mr. Hart, Mr. W. Taylor. and Mr. W. B. Martin, also supported the object of the meeting, and during the remainder of the afternoon and evening, more than two thousand signatures were put to the petition. Leicester has done its duty, like Nottingham, by publicly coming forward to express its approbation of the plan of reform brought forward by the present ministers. On Wednesday a numerous and respectable meeting was held for the purpose, in pursuance of a requisition signed by more than a hundred householders, T. Paget, Esq. in the chair, when that gentleman, and Meseta. Brewin, Babington, Ryley, and several other gentlemen, addressed the assemblage in excellent spathes. The Rev. S. C. Hope, mayor of Derby, and chairman of the Pitt club, has convened a public meeting, in favour of the reform bill, to be held on Monday ; and also a common hall of the corporation. The cap-and-drawer hands, who have turned out for an advance of wages, to the number of about 300, went in procession through the streets yesterday, from Mary-gate to the Exchange-hall, to sign the pe tition in favour of the reform bill ; and we are told that a number of the men belonging to the 15th Hussars now lying at the Barracks, have also signed the same petition. Nottingham March fair commenced on Monday. A large store of cheese was laid on the atones, the prices taked at first, were from 60s. to 655.; much however, remained unsold, and on Tuesday, a depres sion was submitted to, .nd prices may be quoted at from 541. to 60s. If the annual averages of wheat from 1721 to 1776, be put together, and a mean price taken therefrom, it will be found that the mean price was 36 shillings per quarter during that time, a period of 55 years before the American war.—lf the averages of wheat from 1776 to 1831, in like manner be put together, and a mean price Omit therefrom, It will be found that the mean price has been 69 shillings per quarter, fitly-five years after that war. Thus the price of wheat has been nearly double during the last fifty-five years, by the comparison of those mean rates. . NOTTINGHAM MARKET.—Wheat, (average per qr.) 4L 06:8141. Barley, 21. 2s. hid. Oats, 11.9.. 100. Beans, 11. Ills. 7d. Rye. 21. 11s. Flour (second quality, per sack), 31. Is. DIED.-64. Robert Toplia, of Mansfield Woodhouse, (lent.—At Wimeswould, 32, after hiving given birth to a daughter, Mary, wife , of Mr. Wm. Lacy, of that place, and daughter of J. Hadley, Gent. of Birmingham.—At Loughborough, Elizabeth, relict of Captain Simpson, of Alountsorrel, bB. SHEFFIELD COURANT, Attacit 11. On Monday, at noon, a public meeting of the inhabitants of the town end parish of Sheffield, convened by a requisition addressed to the Master Cutler, was held at the Town-hall, and by adjournment. in Paratlise.squue, to express their approbation of the Reform Bill intro. duced to Parliament by Lord John Russell, and to pray that the same might pass into a law. The meeting was one of the most numerous ever witnessed at this place. Enoch Barber, Esq. the Master Cutler, occupied the Chair. Eloquent speeches were made by Messrs. Parker, Shore, Palfreyman, Bailey, T. A. Wood, Branunall, Emerson, Bramley, Rodgers, Ellison, Dr. Knight, and the Rev. Dr. Philipps. At meetings of the Cuders' Company and Town Trustees, held ex pressly for the purpose of considering the subject, on Wednesday last, the Address and Petition in favour of the Minis terial Plan of Puna inentary Reform, were unanimously approved, and the seals of the two bodies were ordered to be affixed. A very few years ago, such a question would hardly have found a seconder. The address and petition from this town, in favour of the plan of Reform introduced into Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers, ob tained in two days upwards of 13,200 signatures, to which, by unani mous consent, have been added the corporate seals of the Cutlers' Coro pany and the Town Trustees. A meeting of the requisitionists was held at the Town Hall yesterday, when it was unanimously agreed, that a deputation consisting of H. Parker and Michael Ellison, Esqrs. should immediately proceed to London with the address and petition, and that our noble and patriotic townsman, the Duke of Norfolk, should be requested to present the former to his Majesty, if possible, without the intervention of any other person. The perish of Sheffield r.onsisu of six townships, five of which may be said to constitute the town, as is the case with Leeds and Hunslet, Manchester and Salford, lic e. The five townships constituting the " Town of Sheffield " are Sheffield .. &desalt Bierlow Brightside Bierlow ...... Atterelire Nether Hallam ••• .. ..• • 5,700 Upper Hallam (suburbs) 1,200 —87,600 Th annual amount of the County Rate is according to the following scale for the several Townships, being at the rate of about 7jd in the pound, or 7,7031. on 90,052 rental. Poor's rate (per book) on 78,0401. Rate payers, 8.930. The real number rated is about 19,500. The description of rate payers are-61. and under, 15,990 ; 61. to 101. 1900; 101. to ISL 630; 151. to 201. 250. Upwards of 201.-1,500. We have long opposed all systems of emigration. But the scheme of Lord Howick's is, without an particle of exception, the most de grading to moral feeling and sting in principle, that ever yet offered a bait to the suffering an easily-tempted r ural population of England. It proposes to empower a committee to appoint Commis. *Ma to regulate the outfit of emigrants—the expenses to be paid out of the poor's rates. The privilege of leaving their native country at the public expense is extended to emigrants; with a proviso, that shonld they ever find it ne ary to return, they shall never again be entitled to parochial relief. This plan of Lord Howick's ought to be called the Banishment Bill. Dreadful distress, after gradually growing greater and greater through out many years, is now suffered by all the working miners in the High Peak of Derbyshire—a distress which has become almost inconceivably grat, and yet, has been borne, not only without turbulent proceedings, but almost without complalnt, and in most instances without claiming, or even accepting of, relief from the parish, though it has been stated by respectable residents, that numbers, both of old and :young, have already fallen victims to want.—One fatal recent instance of the effect of distress occurred during the late storm when a poor man went in the morn ing into a mine near t astleton, it has been stated without food,and was there labouring, almost in vain, excluded from the light of day in the bowels of the earth—his own s ad melancholy thoughts his only compa nions—till night, when, on ascending from his dreadful prison -house, he found the surface of the earth deep covered with snow, and the storm then raging most furiously. He had about two miles to go to his me lancholy home. It was not the first storm that he had had to brave, and be probably did not then fear it much; however , he never reached his home alive. Weakened by long starvation' and recent abstinence, his strength failed him, and he fell a victim, more perhaps to want than to the storm. Under the present circumstances, the utmost that the aforesaid poor creature could have earned by his hard day's labour, would not have exceeded thirteen pence. Lead has been bought for twelve pounds per ton (the mines being at the same time poor), no man can be remunerated by the product for labour and tools only, even valuing an able man's labour at no more than six shillings per week. A respectable mine owner at Bradwell, is willing to permit any of the miners to get ore, on their own ac count, in one of the best mines, without paying him any thing. The fact is, that the mines cannot be worked at all, if they are to be taxed in any way. DlED.—Leamington, Mrs. Shore, relict of the late Sydney Shore, Esq. of Tickhill Castle, and Norton Hall. TYNE MERCURY, MARCH 8. Such is the enthusiasm in the cause of reform, that on Saturday last, about noon, several printed copies of a petition appeared in our streets, and before eight o'clock the same evening, the petition was forwarded to Sir M. W. Ridley', with 3820 names, one of the skins having been omitted, which would have swelled the number to above 44100. The pe tition was altogether unpremeditated, and written on the impulse of the moment by two or three friends of reform, who assert that 4000 names would have been added every day for a week could they have restrained the general impatience to press it on the house. The Vice-Chancellor has decided that the proprietors of the Man. cheater, Bolton, and Bury Canal cannot apply to Parliament for leave to convert it into a Railway, because one (and one only) of the proprietors dissents from the measure. This was intended to form a part of the intended Liverpool and Leeds Railway. MARRI RD.—At Sunderland, Mr. David Joseph, to Frances, el dest daughter of Mr. Philip Samuel, of North Shields; and 3lr. Lion Joseph, to Sarah, youngest daughter of Mr. P. Samuel, of North Shields.—Anthony Nicol. Esq. of this town, to Mary, eldest daughter of Rdward Cook, EAq. of Demerara.—Mr. Evan Hunter, of houth Shields, to Miss Elizabeth Robson. Short-Flatt, Wan. Dent, Esq. late lieut.-colonel of the Northumberland militia, and justice of the peace and deputplieute nut, aged 83. CLERICAL LEGISLATORS.- -The clergy ought to have a seat in Parliament, lest, instead of being subjects, they become slaves to the State. [ Wastowiets's Divim Alfissoo, I), 78.] It is of nn avail to give the clergy a seat in Parliament, unless, they be furnished with a negative. All the lay members nay di f f er rom them in rely. glom matters, a p. 170 nd earry measures without redress. [Pries*, on Go vernment, .] SNELZING.II ill a singular Rabbinical tradition that sussing, from the time of Adam's fall, wag a s certain sign of deal, until this was taken off by a special supplkodon of Jacob. It hence became a matter of thanksgiving to salute it, and bless the sneesii. Ro A/4 THEATRICA Ls 4 ,-Abliiat 390 years after the building of Rome, the city was Assaassil by the plague.* and, in order to stay its ravages, the Senate ordered plays to be sereillasd. MON the notion that amusements banish disease. In this cam, the remedy was triumphantly successful. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT—CHELMSFORD, Macs 12. Caowx Covivr.—(llefore Mr. Baron BAYLEY. THE STOCK awa.—Henry Griffin, butcher, Jo wit„„ baker, James Jarvis, sawyer, Robert Taylor, C'hurks Penny, J an , Jourdan, l'lsomas Hutt, and Charles Flack. labourers, and II idi sr : Hardy, baker, were Indicted for a nurober of bur g l ar i es and rot , barks committed in and near Stock. It appeared that them. r un were associated together for the purposes of plunder, and not , night passed but a robbery of some description or other occurrut It is strongly suspected that these men must hav e b een i n clot s connexion with London receivers, for very little trace of any of the property realized by these depredations has been obtainw . Two of them were admitted as King's evidence, Flack and Griffi n Taylor and Jarvis were first tried for stealing a sheep belonging to John Clark, of Buttesbury, but in consequence of the bad charact er o the witnesses, the Jury found the prisoners rot guilty. Hutt and Penny were then tried for stealing a lamb. belonging Mr. Bridge. with a similar result. Taylor, Wilson, Jourdan, and Jarvis, were next charged wits, stealing 17 turkies, belonging to Mr. Cleve, of Rettendon. The thrt, former were found yuidy, and Jarvis not guilty. Jourdan and Hardy were again indicted for stealing nine turkeys a , ..! two fowls, helonging to Mr. John Salmon, of Ramsden Jounlan guilty, Hardy not guilty. Wilson and Hutt were next tried for breaking and entering tr, dwelling-house of Mr. Afattain, of Stock, and stealing seven hams and five bottles of wine. The Jury acquitted both prisoners. 'Wit", succeeded in establishing an alibi. The JUDGE said he thought the Jury exercised a very proper dim. crimination. He had been adverse to their admission as King's eti. deuce but the Counsel who had die conducting of the ease assuredi:Or they should fail in the proof of the charges against the others. Taylot, Jourdan, and Wilson, were then ordered up tot sentence. The JUDGE maid it was clear they had for tt length of time lived br plunder, and, in fact, that they wore associated for no other purposr. He should take care that the connexion was dissolved, by transporting Taylor for life, Jourdan for 14 years, and Wilson for seven year. NISI PRIUS COURT. _ _ _ _ Before Mr. Baron -0-AR-11-0-W-. EFFECT, or JEALousr.--1114 was an Indictment for an assail!• committed upon the plaintiff under suspicion that he war seducing the affections of the wife of the defendant. The Learned JUDGE said it appeared to him that the defendanthad been made the victim of village gossiping Glands:, and sentenced him to pay a tine of 50L and enter into sureties to keep the peace. SALISBURY, blawcsr 11. RXTRAORDINARY AND HORRID CASS OP )(UDDER. Charles Giles was indicted for the wilful murder of a male child, tic son of Harriet Hone, at Warminster, on the lilt of Sept. last, by giving it poison. Harriet Hone (the mother of the child) denosed that she had a child by the prisoner. Before its birth he desired her to smother it, but shv did not think him to earnest. After it was twin he said she might a; well let him poison it. About a fortnight after he came to her at ten o'clock at night, and sent her out for change of a sovereign ; on her return he had the child in his arms, and on her taking it from him, and kissing it, she found something hot over its mouth, and said—" Oh ! mq 4.kxl, Charles, you have poisoned my child." The prisoner had buried the body in a chalk pit, but information being given to a Ma. gistrate by the mother, the body was dug up, and an inquest held upon whose verdict of wilful murder the prisoner was committed tar trial. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be hanged on Monday. LANCASTER, MARCH 10. Mewls Jones, aged 32, was found guilty of uttering, in Liverpo o i, a forged bill of exchange for 1201. lba. purporting to have been drawn by Pickford and Co. and accepted by James Marshall and Co. a ith in. tent to defraud iVilliam Winn. The prisoner was strongly teem. mended to mercy. POLICE REPORTS. HATTON GARDEN.—Saturday night, a young woman of the next of Charlotte Whitehead, was brought before the sitting magistrak. Mr. LAING, under the following circumstances : Police constable Britton, No. 141, division E, stated that on Fritts) night, at half-past eight o'clock, the young woman was found in Kings. gate-street, Holborn, in a very exhausted state, brought on by remand distress, and she was taken into a neighbouring coffee-house, where every attention was paid to her until she recovered. It being under stood that she had neither home nor friends to go to, he (the const4bl4 was called in, and requested to take het to the station-house for the night, and he did so. Mr. Laixo.—Why was she not brought to this office at II o'clock this morning ! Britton replied that he was instructed by Mr. Palmer, the clerk. take her, at ten o'clock that mooring, to the 31endicity Society's of in Red Lion-square, and he had left her there. 31e. Liaxo.--Who is Mr. Palmer? I know there are police-corn. missioners, police superintendents, police-inspectors, and police con stables, but I know of no such individuals as police-clerks. wa• the inspector on duty at the time? Britton replied, that Mr. List was the inspector before whom he had brought the young woman, and that Palmer was the acting inspector, wbo directed him to take her to the 3lendicity Society. I Mr. I•AING observed that both the inspector and his deputy had at - Irogated to themselves the duties of a magistrate, in sending the swag: to the Mendiciiy Society instead of bringing her to this office in the first instance, where she would have been dealt with as the magis. trate in his discretion might think proper, and he asked what was the charge against her ? Britton replied that he bad no charge against the young woman, but that finding her in a destitute condition, he had taken her from motives of bun - unity, as well as agreeably to his instructions as a constable, to the station-house for protection and relief. Mr. Lxixo.—She was in a coffee-house at the time, and you had no right to take her out of it. Where was she detained during the night ! Britton.—ln the guard-room, Sir. Mr. Larx6.—.ln the guard-room ! What do you mean ? Britton.—ln that room set apart for the reserve, Sir, at the watch . Mr. LAING.—Then, if there was no charge against her, hew comes it that she is brought before me now ? Mr. Stevens, the manager of the Mendicity Society, who was in at. tendance, observed, that the young woman was an exceedingly bad cha racter and a gross impostor, and he was very glad that there was now an opportunity of entering into some explanation, particulaly as than appeared lately some paragrnpha in the newspapers— Mr. LAING—Don't talk to me of newspapers, for we know per. fectly well that newspapers often contain the most notorious lies. la: me know why this young woman is now brought before me, after a lapse of nearly 24 hours that sate has been in custody. Mr. Stevens said that it had occupied nearly the whole of the day to make inquiries into the woman's character—that it was ascertained she had a respectable industrious mother residing in Kentish town—that she was herself a person of the very worst character—that she had in. posed as well on him as on the police, and that be therefore catutidered st his duty to bring her before the magistrate, either for reprimaed et punishment, if the magistrate should think proper to do so: that, in fact, she was nothing but a common vagrant. Mr. LAlNG—There is no evidence before me that she has committed any act of vagrancy ; in fact, there is no specific charge whatever against her, and therefore I have nothing to do with her. But the authority et the magistrate shall not be suverseded by police inspectors again; and let Mr. List be here on Monday morning, to explain his conduct to rm. and do so satisfactorily, otherwise I shall report the entire proceedings !lo the commissioners. If proceedings of this kind are to be suffered, X were as well to do away with magisterial authority altogether. Mr. Stevens observed, that he was sure that both the inspector and the clerk had acted from motives of pure humanity. Mr. Luxe said be certainly should have the matter inquired Into.-- 7 Ile told the young woman to go about her business, and the panics ktt theofflce. CORN-EXCHANGE-THIS DAY. Wheat,new,Kent, Rue: 74s 786 Peas, Grey . Eis 40 6 Old . —6 —8 , Beans, Small . . 40s 42s Suffolk. (White) . 726 788 j Tick . 328 Nig Norfolk & Suff. (Red), 666 726; Oats, Potato* • ilis 316 Rye . 306 346 j Poland . 2 6 ,, .2 . 0 . 4 • Barley. 38. 40s ..Fine 44, 478; Feed . • `:la 2 1 ' Peas, White . 40. 421 Flour, per sack, . . 80s Gtr Boilers . . 458 481 Rapeseed . 436 I'3B Ix' la" ARRIVAL/. Wheat, English (qrg.) - 3,435 I Barley, Foreign - Irish - - . .-- ; Oats, English Foreign - - - 4,6881 Irish - Barley, English -.. 7.523 ; Foreign Irish - . . .-- I Flour (sacks) SMITHRELD-THIS DAY. CATTLC AT WA IT : 12.00 4,110 11.0 T Beasts, 2,4ss—She4,l6,44o:Wgs;l4o—Calveg, 102. Beef ....... 4s 2d to 4s &I Pork 63 04 1 Alytton .... 41 6d Si 4d Lamb Os Od Os Veal.. ss Od 6s Od Hay (pet load), 42 12s. to 44 Os. Clover, 43 h. to ( 4 .-" Straw, 41 16s. to 42 Os. COAL-EXc RANGE—TR Is DAY. Ships arrived during the month ' 3,58 During the week Best Wallsend Coals Other sorts .. 1 T . , i .. ~, -,.Skillf, $4 MOW , 1 7 7 - _____ HIGH WA' klorning lORRO W. VI. 5774 ' • _-..••••P TEIt AT LONDON BRIDGE TO .. tri. U. Afternoon LONDON: Piloted and Published by JOHN AIATIII, it tile r.' 1.46 °rows, No. 1, Picketi.place, Temple Bu. ■ ; IP , R , ,'I 1