The Statesman. — London, England, 1823-03-03 00:00:00

f 4' - 4; j I " • andeiladent - 101 6 U 4be aaa — e f -.upon tdsh groat Stag as teat sis seithed4l llhomrnel, bow degrading is the situation of the blietweellsaurt A man must be a labourer , himself, *ad hounst wander from door to door, soliciting hie worm" "to gi'e 'him leers to toil." From fP door, " die fellow worm" mum spurn him like a lirtath Mune leper;" before he can feel that deadly de ity:Onion, that *-ttielsness of the hurt," that merle: 68- .km, which handrrds ot thousands of honest labourers now fiefs, and which all of theta must shortly feel, if this nellielteyetan is petsevered in I Let Übe thews is me, Siyileis the labourers are not injeredity this system; let isitit shows to me that they are not cruelly iajared..bues filed, and degraded, and that hundreds of thous& them must not ultimately die of henget before it eau potfibly be comlleted, I will never say another a urd against it. For I boon that the labourers settler. people, 1 only tegard the landowners, the farmers, the merchants, and the manufacturers as or acs of the pee pie's welfare. lf, therefore, the confiscation of their esmtes and capitals will serve the permanent interests al the pimple, for God's sake let the confute/tilos goon. In tdi countries. and in all ages, these claims of men Imre been the natural friends of the people, and it has hemeekrotigh their prosperity alone, that the 1 apple have bells entitled to exist. The • feandations of nature are now elmaged I suppose; for we live in a time of it enders§ when every thing monstrous and unnatural is breaght Wrwards and asserted; and tinder this state of things, I suppose ere are now to believe, that the interests of the people are changed; and that they will find a refuge from the extortions of their natural protectors, under the etreltering friendship of the sting, the drone, the locust, and the Harpy!! Lit this wonder of all wonders be proved, Sir, sod I sill contend no more on behalf of the feeple. I will leave them to their new fried*, and if they do find shelter sod protection from this imitators' union, it will beall that idesire to ire. • The same observations which hold good reepecting are contracts of rent, and the contract* of wages, will also Loktgood with regard to cearly all other contracts ex , Wing In the nation. They are all of them in A great de gree, yet formed upon the war prices, or fouWiled upon the war habits and calculations. The pay of the soldier* has net yet been rsduced to the metallic level, hoe have the missies of the Civil List, and of the Government de pendents iq general. Ail these were doubled In tin pa per mirrettry, and have now again to be reduced to the metallic level, however great any be the injury and the daneet of Itch reduction. I pointed this out ib my , letter in your journal of January 7, and I chewed that " to reestablish the old standard in society, and to ta " commodate the dimensions and relations of society to " that standard, would he like taking the heart out of " the bosom of every human being in England!" Is not this evidently the fact ? Does not every wan in sue cession feel lacerated and injured, when every man is his turn; is compelled to submit to that reduction in his psafils, wee% rents, pay, salaries, or dividends, which the reeduration of the ancient standard of value, neces sarily, though slowly involves? The farmers, the mer ch nits and the manufacturers first lose their prots, to which they have a better'elaim and a jester rig ht, than the landowner has to his dividends. They then lose their capitals, for the protection of which the faith of the maims is more strongly pledged than futile protec ten of those of the fundoo ner. When these reef con tracts were first violated, then the wages and the inde pendence of the labourers begin to fail; thee the rears of the landowners are neseetliesserifiee, and last bet surest, t'epey. salaries,andtlitidends of the governinent creditors, and Depehdents are forted to tiadergo, at least, an equal reduction I Why should net all this merry and this con fusion be preve n ted by gnarly retreat I The dividends od principal of the National Debt have scardely yet base touched Nlits tenths of the private mortgages sod hoed debts are yet unpaid; and Rarer can be paid in the ancient standard, neither by the confiscation of the estates sad property upon which they are contracted, Dor by the imprisonment or esik-of the parties who owe tbrin, and who are doomed to be first *spindled out of ' their properties, and then to be called" Fraudulent 1116 tors" by the very men who 'have sichedled them!! be other tenth, of such debts luta either ,broken up the debtors who have discharged it, or it has been paid in Suits; mouop, to which the present holdiers are not eini tied. -Why should these energies* tad multitudinous obligations be compelled to be-discharged in safest mo sey, which first sacrifices the Mortgager to tho Mortga gee. and then delivers op the Mortgagee a victim to the Grand Morigeger,untit this latter is rtself crushed under the ruins of its own making? One half of the tradesmen's bills are Vet founded upon Co war prices; and the (niter ball of the tradesmen ',nose prices have already been reduced, would experi ence more benefit from the rise of prices on their stocks, and from tit e . geseral prosperity of their trades, then they experience injury from being obliged to receive payment of their credits in the money to which alone tl:cy see entitled. We are still ()Wised to pay the same toms of money; or nearly the same , for a carriage, a pair of shoes, a hat, or a Lawyer's fee, as we paid during the war, which is full double what we ought.to pay. Where is the injustice of protecting those classes of men by a timely retreat, from the injury and degradation, through which clone the reduction of their contracts, and of those of their workmen and dependents can possibly be vied?of tic effected a retreat In 1817, without injury or injus tice, as Iwe heard no complaiot of either. Qn the con ey-sty, we sawed the coantry from the extreme misery, and the appioachiag anarchy, which afflicted it in the Spring at that year, and in 1816; and we gave security to the reVeivers of all fixed charges, who at that period felt their jot party seriously endangered. We hail then had three yews of.redueing prices and: icoreasing misery. We leteoe.now Willem:. years of reducing prices and increas iv misery. Surely one year can make no great differ ',Kee ft the persons who had made contract: in 1814, 15, and 16, did not complalnof the eiuhtion of those contracts ishen the prices and prosperity of the war Were restored in 11414, why should the persons who have mule contracts in Wl9, 18ith 21 and 22, conp lain of the a iolatiun of their con"- 'fore now again restore the prises and prosperity of the War? The question is absurd. The prices of the war. were all that the receivers of fixed charges, were en tit:cal to in 1818; and they are all that they are en titled to now. They uill not be injured by the restora tion of those prices, because their fired charge: will he stored:wed aid secure in their tall monied amounts ; whereas if they persevere in enforcing the payment of lhosefized charges in the prices which existed before the war, it is (lithe certain thatin many cases their security sriil fail, and in all cases their tentracts and fired cbsiger will be seriously reJuced. It is true it was nut by a due ct reduction of the metallic standard that ue TV& 4reared in ib47 ; but by forcing oat additional issues of pap Ts in rim Hank purchases of the national debt: and -by: continuing the suspension of the metallic standard, tuid tlieteby foreleg a continued depreciation upon gOid it,elt. ht e thus oh•ainell, fur a time, high prices .of propery and latour, and low prices of bullion; land it it is thought ao ireportant object to bring ah;et this sn.itnaly again, we may readily accom :Osila itibr a certain period, by restoring the paper aye tern for a ye -r or two, in order to give to the admirers of the vety slam profit from the holding or pm.- chase of bullion, as all other men would derive from the Loidiag or pnrchate of property and labour. It is extraordinary that men should still be found, who refer to the priers at bullion during the war, as furniais 7 tug a standard whereby to judge of the depreciation of e currency. They know that bullion less no standard Arial the soar, and yet they *molder it as a standard: They know that'it wit ilimphterahlard dealt \ was •thrown entirely opt of asat and dammed, and met of ill the thoughts, habitsiod calculations of nod . ; yet they p . retend to camdder tint it still furnished a standard in the ram manner as it does now, when lel its powers, uses, and applhietioas are ea the point of being restored to it. They know that during the war bullion was made by letieire enactments a mere drew that It was only used, seen ' or known by a few Birming ham Olden and platen; and that even these men fill nished so little demand for it, that intervals of two and three years frequently occurred, without a single trans action being quoted in the Prices Cu ! And yet, Gentlemen who know all threettity perfectly well, still persist in referring to the prices of - bullion, as furnishing a standard, whereby to minim the depreciation of the I currency during the war :1 Mr. Holdimand, whose knowledge upon the subject cannot be doubted, expressly slates In his evidence before ASS House of Emmons, that luring the war the bullion markets were so exceed ingly limited, that a single hundred Mounted pounds laid out in those markets would at any time roue the prices of bullion 2 per cent.!! And yet the Legislators' has been taught to believe, that TIITT MILLIONS sTERL. ING could be laid oat in those markets, ani that goon THOUSAND MILLIONS STERLING Of prOpCrey could be made convertible ST . LAW into bullion, without raisin; the prices or the value of bullion more than 3 per mt.!! I shall go mad if 1 dwell upon this part of the subject any longer, and therefore your readers must excuse gm: 1 have besides discussed it sufficiently upon former occa sione. To return then-to contractsforated since 1819, 1 think I must have satisfied your readers, that vary few of each *contract:would be injarionly affected, by &jostling' equit alsk arrangement of the currency; and that it would be easy to guard against any possible injustice of this kind, in most caser, by allowing the privilege of an optional release to both parties for a given period. In reducing the metallic standard to a just and equit able and practicable level, we shall secure to all men the full sums of money . which they are entitled to, without the possitiltty of their losing any thing either in princi pal or interest; and at the same SAM these Una of money thus rendered secure to every one, the same va lue, the same quantities of commodities and labour, to whirh the habits and calculations of the present genera tion have been accustomed. And it mast not be forgot ten that it is the pwantities of money which men rook to,‘ in the estimation of their rights and values, nod not to the weight or magnitude of the instrumen's, of which their money is composed. Men do not want one hail of the full sums which are due to them, in order totenabie them to pay hell their debts and fixed charges, and leave theut to be ruined by the other half But they want the whole of their jest credits in order to enable them to repay the whole of their just debits. Even the Fundhelders would prefer 1001: in "forte monnoie ;" and since they mast have one of those, why not give them the former ? The great body of the people are debtors. At least nine men in ten, are bound by some kind of legal monied obligations, and they are probably oe She average, About as mach creditors on the one band as they are debtors en the other; and it is in this way that they are at present engaged in tearing each ether in pieces! If, therefore, we make a pound sterling contain a ton of silver inste ad of art ounce, we do no good to the people oaten we can severe to them, full as msg. tons of silver as they now receive ounces, which is of course out of the question. It is not the weight of bold on, bat thspesetr of legal tender which men want in their money. They wain the fall sums of money which their property or their investments have cost them, in order to enable them to break open the prison doors whielagatifine them or to resist the distraiwte and Mo. rice warrants, which threaten them. They *ant IOU!. to enable their' to look Mob ereditort in tlenelsoe, and discharge all their just debts in fish, like Consist men, its the same money, and the same value in which these debts wens contracted; sad not Any polueds,in order to Liable their creditors first to rod.) them of their property, and then to rob them of their character and liberty, aid then to-drive them into a jail like fraudulent debtors! ! This Is sot what the people want. lt is what the plunderers and the swindlers of the people want. The people want only the money, which will pay the swum taxes, the same tithes, the same debts and expencee, and mime to theta the same value, the same quantities if thecae farts and necessaries of life, to which their habits and eskulatior.s have been accustomed ; and if their money will secure to them these great purposes, they care not it rusk. whether 4/. or four thousand pounds are coined out of the ounce of gold ! All this is a mere question of the national convenience, amt. ought to be regulated ac cordingly. if the coining of 41. or 61. or 81. out of the ounce of gold, will preserve the present obligations and realons of society on the same footing upon which they have been formed and built ny in that very degree ought the coinage to be carried into effect. But the men who brave fastened their fangs in the nation's throat, have disregarded all considerations of this kind. In their blind eagerness to exact the "letter of their Bond," as they call it, they have disregarded its spirit; they have forgotten the jeratice, the reason, the humanity of the contract. With Jewish cruelty, t hey have torn away their " Pound of Flesh," —aye, and they have drawn the Blood, that " is not in the Bond !" And after all, they will not succeed. They have un dertaken an object which, in the language of Air. Cob. bett, " they can no snore accomplish than they can " pluck the sun from the sky,"—or again, to use hie language to the best of my recollection, ad which I believe to he nothing snore than the frightful truth, they have attempted a sin asure of such a mortal character, that " Two millions of human beings must literally " die of hunger before it can possibly be conk pleted !" Why then, I again ask, should we not retreat ? Why should we madly persevere as I expressed it in my sera to Lord Liverpool in 11±19, " lit a rugged read, " whose course is tilled with difficulties and distresseh. " and whose gaol is death?" Would retreat retard reform? I believe it would.— But are we to persevere in such gigantic robberies, in or der to precipitate Reform through the miseries of an agonized people ? If so, we have only to persevere for a year or two longer, and we shall have liejiiro with a vengiance! We have only to wait a little longer, and we may be quite. sore that either the disposition to ad vance English Capital upon Foreign Loans and Securi ties will cease; or the paper currency will give • way un der the double t'urthen of the Paper Debts ; or the enormous expenditure of the Landed and Funded Inter ests, will be reduced in the course of nature. In either of these eases, the mechanics and labourers will again be throws, upon their country, as they were in 1816 ; end then will he nu yetnnat.ry to cot them down. The y,o inanry will he as peat Radicals as themselves ; and its SUED a state of things as this, it kill be strange, indeed, if we do not oh a n Reform to our heart's content! doubt the policy of buying Reit, rns at so dear a rate.- 1 doubt the policy of throwing the orlio'e country into misery and anarchy, in order to precipitate an early Re form. 1 would first arrest the present calamities, end prevent the fame. Aid then, if the nation wishes for Reform, 1 wuuld hive it. " For a nation to be free, it " is via:lent that she wills it." If she dues not will it, she does not deserve it. But it has keen said that a pledge was given; and that the Deposkurs in Socials Banks, would be de frauded by a retreat. These solojectis 1 purpose to treat of in my next letter. They amount to nothing. 1 am, Sir, Itoer obedient humble servant, THO3IAS ATWOOD, AVESMAN 004,111 OF COMllial eLliikS. *mace L - DAW 4 i. PR C liir..flerjeaat Vat:edam 'Stilted that, this was an amion brongiit Sy 'the plaintiff, an attorney helots rountry, and latrly a notary piddle at St John's, Nierfenodland, o ro omer, ePesponmtion•for the injury he bad atniteined front the publimition of a libel on hint by the delemlant. It appeared that in 1818 the defendant went out from this country as Governor of St. John's, Newfoundland; that on kis arrival atilt* island, he was applied to hyths plain tiff for an appointment as notary public there. The sle. fendant consulted the Chief Justice as to the plsintiff's character, and was informed that nothing unfavourable was known of him, and the defendant therefore gave him the appointment claim!. A fire subsequently occurred in the island, dmilitary an_ the m.,,tary . and civil power were united to stop its *images. A private individnal, l whose house was adjoining to the Government ordnance yard, .where the fite was then raging with great fury, at tempted to save some Jf his property, - when the soldiers I declared that private property should not be attteraled to, sa that of ,the public was in danger, and they were about to force this individual into the ordnance yard, Own the plaintiff interfered and prevented them, observ- i ing, et the same time, that every man bad a right to save losewis property if 111 could. A dispute folk between die plaintiff and some of the soldiers; the plaintiff woe assaulted, brought his action, and recovered damages. :Colonel Manners made a complaint coneerniog his coo. duct to the defendant, who waited until the decision of . the trial of assault, and then, without instituting anyl public investigation into hiseondoet, dismissed him from the office of notary Fable, elthough no complaint what ever had been made against him iii that character. The defendant then published l.is dismissal in the Gazette of, the island in the following terms:—" St. John's, New fonndland—Whereas I have deemed it proper, in cons.- , gnenee of several complaints made against Win. Darer, to farhichhimacting say longer as a notary public io this . island, I hereby give twice, that I have not only coin. muniented the same in the Courts here, but also to the Committee at Llnyd', to prevent hi. being employed in future in that Opacity." The defendant also wrote a letter in nearly the same terms to the Committee si Lloyd's, and these were the alleged libels on which the action was founded. Mr. Serjeant Less for the defendant, insisted that if the Governor had the right of appointment, he had also; the power of diemissal, and .that no dismissal could be rendered effectual, of he had not the right and power of pui . plisiiiag into the world, in order to prevent the party assuming that character with which be-had once been invested but which he bad lust through his miscon duct. The plaintiff had mistaken his remedy, .hick should have beeu an application to the Government to be reinstated in Lis office. Lord Chief Justice DAlriilll, is charging the Jury, said, *bat if they believed the detendant to have acted with a fair and bona fide interrion, though he might have been mistaken, they must find their verdict for him. If be had not dismissed the plaintiff from any malicious Intention, be was not liable fur the publication, as that uas necessary to the completion of the act of dismissal. The Jury immediately returned a verdict for the de fendant. RHCORDER'S COURT, Desists, Pea. 21. • BARUEICR POLK: Michael Jordai was indicted for stealing a barber's pule, the prispertyof ?booms O'Meara. The prisoner pleaded Not lisilty. Thomas O'lleara„ (as original a Dickey Gos s ip as eyes made his entree in a Couit of Jusice,) sworn end ex atnined.—Witness is of the profession of a barber; that's his occupation ; lives on Stoney-b suer ; the prisoner stole bin pole; witness mild Jo nothing without his pelt ; knows the prisoner stole it, because he (the prisoner) beeps his pole out for a W.olll2an—Ommuderatc law(laer); they ars rival barbers; the prisoner is anopposuton barber; wit ness lives at No. 3 ; the prisoner's mother lives at No. 1 •, witness went there tolook for his pole, hut could not find it; found it afterwards in:Cumberland-Lane, et Summer bill, with the prisoner atoLlsia wife ; -Heiden has a p o le out for prisoner's mother; slue hires a boy to suave; witness's pole was out nn the 3d of February ; when he went to arrest his pole on Tuesday morning, the head was cat off; it was a headless pole ; knew itby the Ilea I that was cat off; could pick it out of a thousand poles; the pole was a great object to witness, as he could do no ' thing without it; alien witness went to inquire after Isis pole, the prisoner came out in a robustic manner; knows his object was to put his mother in possession el the pole; saw his pole on Monday night, but did not attempt 'to take it then, as he knows he'd get himself and his pole smashed; he went abetter way to work; he went to the Police-office, and got two watchmen to accomplish him; the watchmen understood poles; when witness saw his pole again, he said " this calls isle master I" I'll take this, s sid he, meaning his pole, and do you (to the watch ! men) take that, meaning the prisoner. (Here the pole was produced in Court, it was painted in alternate stripes of red and white ; a chain was affixed I to the bottom of it.) That is witness's pole; linens his pole because be has ben using it these seven years ; the head was on it when witness had it; it is now off; witness saw the head on ; the prisoner sawed it off—(great laughter); since he got his pole back he fastened a chain to it to prevent say other barber from stealing it. (Here the witness, putting himself into a ludicrous a•- titude, presented she pole alternately at the Recorder and the Jury, and requested both to look at the head that was off`!) The prisoner in his def.:tee said, that he benght the pole for ten-pence ; that if be knew it was stolen, he might have got it painted over again a that his another four and thirty years in Stoney-batter, and that the - rosecutor would swear his life away, because he was a barber. It was all a barbarous proceeding. The prisoner was found Guilty, and sentenced to be imprisoned one week. One of the most afflictive dispensations of Providence which ever took place in the village of Bastord, occurred on Tuesday sen'night. Mr. Clayton, of Burton, removed with his family to Basford last week, and on Tuesday morning, Mrs. C.'s accouchemezt took place. lu the evening, her husband expressed his fears, that the room he was about to sleep in, was damp ; and although cau tioned by a neighboor that the ream amolvd, tie con• ceived that there could be no danger from that circum stance, and would hare a few red hot coals put into the fire-place. This was accordingly done, and wit!, a little irl, his daughter, about two years and live munths old, he retired to rest. The none and Mrs. U. say they heard him up uith the chill shout one o'clock, and it is ceriain he had the child out of bed some time in the night. About eight o'clock in the morning, the nurse rut led at the door, hut received no answer; ant supposing that as he had been disturbed the night before, he was still asleep, he nal not azain call id till near ten o'clock, when there was still no answer. She then orenail the door, bet could scarcely breathe, the sulphur uas so strong iu the room. Fearing the worst, Mr. Brawl-y' was immediately called in, and it was aseertainr.d that the unfortimate man was dead, and the lbtle child nearly so ; and it soon brettihed its las.. Mr. Stevens, the surgeon of the village, was immediately sent for, but he was trout home; Mr. list was fetched . front Bulwell, but alas too 14te: the vital spark w,ss extinct, and Mr. Best pronoun e• d that Mr. Clayton had been deal several hours! The Coroner has held his inquest over the bod:es, and a vet diet was returned of died by suffocation. - ion gatentilliy,fisint de &dom. winged been committed to the Hoare 9.f , einreCti o l l byPitgolti of th e A unt . Department, for threateni ng to blow. out the bniias of lirince Pint d'Esterliarr, was lrronght to this eller; ia aseistimence of the tiesir;•be hardinii m at e 'lt to the Magistrate to be traniferred to some teaser place of coolinement, till he could he adnipted w a it; He war ordered to be rembreil td the New Prise°, Clerk enwell. Notice of bail was tendered and in rose the parties are disposed to become sureties, the bail will be weepiest. It is tarderstaa.l that the threat was made at an interview which the Count obtained *Maths Prince; but the itomedi occasion has pot trani,iiresi, fit ARIAOnOVOII-STlteaT.—C. Ja. Kirk/bet, whO had andergooe several examinations at this office ui on charge of riding away with a horse, belonging to Mr. Mann. of Brightua; sod uttering Lag .41 hills oreccitange; drawn opon the banking-honse of Jones, Lloyd, and Co., was on Saturday fully committed fur trial, by Mr: Dyer, the sitting Magistrate. J. !tepid was Awed at ,the big stider the following elrcinaftances DebiriP; a fOreign lady, who herra a logging-House in High-street, Brighton, stated, that abbot two years aeo the prisoner and a lady, whom be r *resented as his wife, took a sire of apartments in her tease, where they continued a month. From their 1... ahlouable sppearronte sad misuser they obtained from several persons a .Brighton a number of erdetes of coasis derable ralne,'and among the rest a harp, worth GO gui. most which they hired of Mr. Wright, who keeps the Concert-rooms. 'Phis harp, however, was lent en as . aaderstamlitrg that Mrs.Debine sboald have an ey, in its safety. At toe exit:ration of the Rhona, Mrs. Debine had o..cas:ou to come to London on hp.siness, and during her absence her fashionable I xigers 4a-canoed, with the harp and all the other property they had collected, forgettin4 also to pay their rent. The prisoner said he knew no , Citing about the harp. That the woman who lived with li nt a t Bhp. Debine's, one day in his ahsence took all the things away, and lie had sine hrord melting of her. He wished, however, to base the baldness adjournedahet he 'night .suiploy a professional snail to state his C 34, .— Thai wee accordingly done, *ad a future day appointed lee is reasamiaatwa. Mr. Serjeant Bullock was sworn into office on Saturday before the Lord Chancellor, as oar of the Barons of the lixcheqtaer. Mr. Baron Bullock proceeds °lathe Wes tern Circuit, which commences to-day at Winchester. Dear arm Boma 1.10 f.-We learn from otr rerres position at Ikdwerth, that John Ilartnp, of Coilyeroft, the boy who seas to he deprived of his h aring an speeet for a month, according tirrhe predic ion signified to him la a vision, recovered the use of those facilites on Sa•u day las*, abeotthe Caine hour in the marniug that (on that iday-four weeks) be had lost the We of them. During the time he remained deaf and dumb, he played with other boys, and was often pushed shoat, bat never spice. :* - etweldisses guns acre discharged over his alsoulder un- Uwe so him, but the report did not in the kvlst s•artle Nag. Our iuformant assures us that n i:l•er the hey nor his patents received money of any one. SO that rain could not be the object of the imp Istare, if such it was. The lboy declines stating what pasted in ;tilt mind during the period of this exttatudivary visita ion.-(Cereetry Herald.) As two children about hie years old each, gills were playing on the beach, at Brignion, Thorssay mantillal. a high and sudden ware washed both or-I.th? Stecne groyne. A young man, named Leach, planer] into th water, and brought one hack to land, while the other, Idoating to sea, but I:ept partially buoyant by the wind which had gathered under her loose r 4rinritts, was pre served by a boat, which ts at purposely pot off Irani the works of thairsojected chain pi r. A subscri;Con lass been made for Leech alai t boatmen. -(Brightese Herald.) . Feint. 4ticismer.-06 Thursday se'nuight, about half-past one o'clock in the aternoon, a Intl:m:1101y and fatal enenreence took place in Wolverhampton. la open ing the ground to. replace Roane pipes, to carry water to a reservoir, under a large ehuisaey upwards of seventy feet. high, belonging to the works of Messrs. :Bander, Weaver, and Blander, of that town, the to:satiation gore way, and the whole came to the ground. la i•s deuce, *portion uafertunately fell on the worke.ops of William rfavies, a hinge-m.ll;er, adjoining, its which were his son, a youth about 17, and a workman named Wispy._ both of whom were nnhappily killed. Davies himse was at dinner, as wire also others of his workmen, or • they must have inevitably shared the :ame fat-. Du I!ey was a so b er , industrious workman, cal baa Heft a pregs cant widow and two children. YARMOUTII,FEIL 27.-Our Marketers Satan/ay was G. herally Impelled with Grain, which met ready sales; Wheat may banot•d 2 to 3a. per quaaC•r, and Baiky I to 2s. per quarter dearer. 04:i Is. per quarter, and 11-ann 2s. per quarter d . Note no &itemise in Grey Peas. LYNN, Fee. 27.-We had a geed supply of Wheat al Market on Tuesday, which sold readily at an advaneo of 3to 4a. per quarter. Making Barleys ate verysrarre, and the finest samples POLIO SJa. per quarter. Oats, Peas and Beans may also le noted Is. p• r. quarter dearer, anti in demand. Flour 3s. per nark higher. LEWES CORY MARKET, Fail. 2:/. --Mixed wheat!. red oitto 11. Iss. to il. Ifie.; oats Hs. to 195.; abdpeas 11. I Is.-Tuesday Feb. 25. White wheat 2/. 6s. to 21. 10.. ; high mixed ditto 21.4:. ; mixed ditto 2/. to 21. ; red ditto 2/. to 2/. 2s , Talavera ditto 21.45.; .old ditto, I!. 125.; barley It. Ws. to 11. 13:.; CRICIIRSTRR CORN Al tRKET.-The corn-if:splices averages, up to the 25th last. mere as follow ;-IYlielt, 2/. 05.,10fd.; Larley, U. 6s. 7d.; eats, 18e. 2;rl. ; beeps, 11. 124. • pas, IL I Is. 3;d. At Lewd! stock-maths:, on Tuesday, the supply of beef was good fur the 5021503. but manna - was rather scarce, in conseqnence of a London jobber hattioi bought largely, which ranted as advaoce in price. A must beats- Wu' ant compact two-year old wither sheep, supposed tor wegh 'lB atone, was exhibited by Ali% Brannan', BIRTH On Saturdvy last th• Lady of Captain Gurney of a daugh ter. DIED. Yesterday, in the filth year of his age, Charles Drone. mond, Esq. banker. Charing Cross. Oa the Iftla alt. in his nth year, Mr. W. Wilkinson, of Alelerenanbury. 011 Wednesday. the 26:h ult. on her I irth-day, aged, 19. Mary, the wife of Mr. R. Stevenson, jun. of Hill-street, iVal wortli, and Great Tower-street. Loudoo. At I.oeng leplecul, on the 3rd curt. Johns 11 , Celluni, it the 106th year-of bia.age. Ile enjoyed geed health frees infancy till a few weeks ago, and nithin these few Yates he frequently w:dii•tl to Inerrant' from Lock gilpheall, and reluraed the smut thy, a instance of 44 . . . . _ . . . At Bowmore, island of Is'ay, on the 5:11 curt. Malcolm Campbell, Esq. aged 102 years, fora long time in the service of the Customs. At Murraythoaite, on the 12th ult. aged 9k, .7. Murray. Esq. of Murraythwaite, late ti e-liente , ant of the coolly of llumfrit s. At toe int nse of Dryn:en, to the ►Oth nit. Mu.. Aire Allan, seed VO, widow• of the arr. Duncan Macfatlan, , , late tninicer of Dr 3 men, Si rlingshire. London : Edited, Printed, eat Pehltithed, at the 04•• f "The STATRaIIaX" N 0.197, Strand, L. R. WARDELL. LL.B. to whoa au coorranieatiou, Orders, la. ate requetod to •be addrasiodi- w 1 Ir-