The Sun. — London, England, 1829-05-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) The Chancellor of the Exchequer, in opening his budget on Friday last, made one or two statements which are worthy of attention. From the manner in which the accounts are presented, one might at first be led to suppose that the whole surplus revenue calculated on by the Right Holt. Gentleman for the current year, was the exact sum of 3,013,0001. Un les., however, we hare mistaken some passages of his speech which were meant to be explanatory of the nature and operation of the surplus, a• large amount of terminable annuities has been provided for, without touching on any portion of the above 3,000,0001. For instance,— Lonz Annuities Bank Annuities for loans advanced upon the £1,300,000 dead weight 585,000 Military Life Annuities created by 48th Geo. 111. Waterloo Annuities 130,000 700,000 In all of terminable Annuities ... X 2,715,000 If, again, we understood rightly the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the above annuities, which resolved into an equivalent annuity, not terminable, would amount to 645,0001. for ever, which, considered as so much interest on the National Debt, would add considerably to that portion of it which is to be covered by the estimated sur plus, and the Sinking Fund is to be credited with the excess. Upon the subject of the dead weight, Mr. Goulburn's statement is to us alto gether inexplicable. When the inimitable humbug, miscalled a provision for the " dead weight"—a provision for relieving the country from the annual payment of half-pay and military and naval pensions, amounting at that time to about, as they told us, 5,000,0001. per annum—when that scheme was first invented by Mr. Vansittart, the public were irieht that instead of their paying the said 6,000,000/. per annum, subject to diminution as the several lives should drop, somebody or other would be got to accept a fixed annual sum of about .2,800,0001. for forty or forty-five years, we believe; and would, in consideration of that yearly payment, undertake to pay the terminable annuities, consti tuting the above 5,000,000/. of dead weight, until the whole should expire. After the bargain had gone a-begging for some time, the south Sea Com pany and others being loth to burn their fingers with it, the Bank of England, the last resource of every floundering Minister, was prevailed upon to go a certain length towards lifting this ponderous dead weight, and has actually advanced a number of mil !lnns for the purpose, equivalent to an annuity of .58.5,0001., during the forty or forty-five years above. mentioned. These advances from the Bank having ceased since 1828, and the 585,000/. annuity being in full vigour, we desire to know what situation the conntry at this moment stands in with regard to the dead weight itself? If the whole dead weight of 5,000,0001. was to have been taken off our shoulders fo?a forty years' annuity of 2,800,0001., and if we are actually saddled with an annuity for the same term, and on the same account, but to the smaller extent of 585,0001., are we to understand that the dead weight itself, for which the country still remains responsible, has been reduced in the same proportion—that is to say, is the nation re lieved from military and naval pensions bearing the same ratio to 5,000,000/. that a fixed annuity of 585,0001. bears to One of 2,800,000/. ? In that case the dead weight now pressing on us ought not to exceed 3,950,0001. or 3,960,0001. per annum. Now is that the fact? Has the dead weight been actually reduced or not, to 3,A60,000/. per annum, besides the commuted sum of 585,0001. per annum. for forty years, which we are bound to pay to the Bank of England ? We have never been able to learn that the dead weight has been reduced by a single farthing. It is, on the contrary, represented to us as exceeding the original amount j So that instead of paying 2,800,0001. per annum for forty years, to get rid of 5,000,0001. for an un certain period, we have more than 5,000,0001. dead weight to army and navy still to pay, with a fixed annuity besides of 585,0001. to the pank of Eng land ! We do entreat some clear-headed and active member of Parliament to try to procure us the 4e cessdry information, of which we profess ourselves to be wholly destitute. If for mere curiosity, there isan odd kind of satisfaction in ascertaining through what sleight of hand, and to what extent, one has been cheated. With regard to those more general views upon the state of the country, in which so wide a difference was observable between Messrs. Goulburn and Hume, we are of opinion that the former of these gentlemen will find himself to have been more sanguine than the data on which he pro ceeds would justify. To us it seems that Mr. Goulburn has not taken into account the degree in which the powers of manufacturing production, from endless inventions in machinery, have outstripped the wants of all those consumers to whom our own bad laws, aided by foreign rivalry, give us access. — The oppressive corn laws of England have so re duced the profits of our manufacturers, and, com paratively with the price of bread, have so cut down the wages of our workmen, that it is pro bable the game proportion of the people as before, will nor, for the future, find employment in those branches of industry. That we should become less a manufacturing nation, would in nowise appal :grieve us, but for the dreadful crisis through which such a change in the condition pf the coun try must be brought about. The hands are there, the mouths are there, and must be filled, while Providence raises bread and meat from the soil of England. If capital cease to find beneficial employ ment here, a part of it at least will emigrate, what ever may become of the poor. But the debt will not emigrate, and the landed interest had better be think itself in time about the approaching reaction of its beloved corn laws, in forcing a large body of monied men, whose riches are transportable by a biJl of exchange, and whose country is their counting house, 1 `,2 leave the army—the navy—the ei - dil list— the dead wel;glit—the Exchequer Bills—the Thee per Cents.—the poor ;:ates—the assessed taxes—the Ministerial majorities—tlid Home, and Foreign Secretary's pattoriage,—with all other blessings entailed upon us by c ountry gene tlemen, to take care of themselves and of each ottr.7- The scheme of funding this last 3,000,000/. of Ex chequer Bills, we did not like from the outset. If a shilling of expense, which could be avoided in such a transaction, had been incurred and fixed upon the public, as would appear from the debates of Friday last, the thing is even more reprehensible than we had imagined ; but the total amount of Exchequer Bills outstanding still exceeds by 400,000/. the Bills of 1828, being so far, we admit, an argument for reducing the quantity, though none for an extravagant or wasteful boon to the parties who surrender them. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) The accounts from the Manufacturing Districts are, upon the whole, favourable, as far as the conti nuance of tranquillity is concerned. The 3fanches ter Advertiser of yesterday says, " Up to the time of our Paper going to pre-s ' all remained peace and quietness, nor was there the least symptom of this desirable state being interrupted." The number of killed and wounded at Rochdale, says the same Journal, is not less than twenty-two, exclusive of several slight cases. Several are desperately wounded. One man has had a hand amputated; a female, a leg amputated; a man, a leg amputated. A ball passed into the abdominal viscera of one man. At Stock port, riotous proceedings on Wednesday evening last led to the employment of soldiers, and of the civil authority. 'The soldiers .red with a view to intimidate rather than injure, and elevated the mouths of their pieces so that the balls might pass over the heads of the rioters; but several persons, notwithstanding, have been hurt by the firing. The town remained tranquil during the whole of Thurs day and Friday. Several of the mills in and round Stockport have detachments of military in them. 34any persons must have been unable to reconcile the account of the extremity of wretchedness in Manchester, described by our Correspondent from that place, with the fact that there are Poor Laws in England, which say that no human being shall be suffered to starve. The Manchester Advertiser, however, throws light on this subject. "To enable the public (says that Journal) to form a just notion of the present riots, it should be known that they have not embraced the whole of the working classes in the town ; but, on the contrary, have been limited to those engaged in a single branch of the cotton manufacture—the weavers of calicoes, cambrics, &c. They have also been locally circumscribed to that portion of the town considered the St. Giles's of Manchester, and densely peopled with weavers. Wiih every desire not to exaggerate, we are com pelled to say that the appearance of squalid misery which prevails in this district baffles description. During the conflagration of Messrs. Parkers' factory, we possessed an opportunity of estimating the wretched state of the population in the wide neighbourhood surrounding the fire—the houses having emptied their inmates into the streets — and such a mass of hideous poverty was enough to sicken the heart. Most of the men, women, and children looking as livid and ghastly as if they had issued out of a fever ward, and seemed, in other respects, as if habitual want and passion had cankered their very souls with vice.' It appears that the Messrs. Parkers, whose mill was burnt down, actually paid higher prices than other masters, and were driven in self-defence to make a reduction ; but, says the Journal in question, " We have it on unquestionable authority, that James Allen, the manager of Messrs. Parkers' mill, has of late received but nine shillings per week for overlooking three hundred and ninety six looms in that factory—a little more than one farthing per loom per week. . . . . The very best, and only the very best workmen, by sixteen or seventeen hours' constant labour, day and night, could make in this mill so much as nine shillings a week ; and the earnings of the rest, including women, have varied between that sum and three shillings and sixpence or four shillings per week, as the produce of incessant toil and half sustenance." To what follows we wish particularly to direct attention. " The real evil, though embraced in a narrow compass, is not of to-day, nor, we fear, easily remedied ; it is—that ' there are now in this country a far greater number of weavers of all sorts of fabrics than could by possibility be adequately employed, if the time were one of the greatest prosperity. Unfortunately a person taught to weave one species of manufac ture can turn himself to any other, and the whole mass are consequently reduced to a level with the lowest. But it is the peculiar misfortune of that trade in Greatßritain, that not only has manual labourbeen to a great extent supplanted by mechanical, but that the redundancy of hands thus produced in England and Scotland is augmented tenfold by the swarms of Irish linen and stuff weavers who crowd all our manufacturing towns, and by working for any wages drag others into the same abject poverty with them selves. Five-sixths of the hands employed in the mills attacked on Monday are Irishmen. Such, in a few words, is the true nature of the social disease that is now corroding the very vitals of the nation—that in Spitalfields, Coventry, Norwich, Macclesfield, Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumber land, Lanarkshire, &c., renders hundreds of thou. sands of human beings a pest to their country." Hear this, ye Spring Rises, Dawsons, Limericks, Clanricardes—that you may be able to profit by the competition for land, by millions of naked, half. starved savages, to whom a bit of land and the stye on it are the condition of existence, our cities are exposed to destruction, and our industrious classes sunk to the lowest state of wretchedness! Mr. spring Rice had even the assurance, not long ago, to mention in the face of all the misery inflicted on our working classes ? that England benefitted by the influx of Irish labourers, as it was enabled to have work cheaper performed ! What will opt imagined self-interest make a man utter without a blush This evil must be stopped at the fountain head. As wua well observed by Mr. Huskisson, on Friday night, fi the I-touse must take into its consideration the state of pauperism in Ireland ; for if something were not done, England would ;pettily be reduced to the same state ; and when it was so reduced, property would be exposed here to the same dam got', an 4 the public tranquillity to the same danger as in Ireland,'' We must prevent the manufacture of paupers in Ireland, to enable Irish Landlords to have large rent-rolls, at the expence of the English working classes. "If it be," (the fact is now as, certa;up.(l) said our contemporary the Globe, " to the population of Wapchester, who have no claim on the poor's rate, that the present riots are attributable, the fact may strengthen the arguments of those who contend for an application of some system for the relief of the poor to Ireland. Our Poor Laws, wha•ever evil they may be attended with, have been signally effectual, in all places where they have existed, and are excellent in preserving the peace; but it will be of little avail that the people of pro perty in Engluu.d submit to this burden, if the places most subject to want 5.:14 most exposed to turbu lence are inhabited by a mixed population, a great proportion of whom have no legal claim for relief, We shall have the burthen on property of the Poor Laws, and the destruction of property which attends the want of them." (FR.031 THE 31pRtipip HERALD) " Dupin has calculated that the productive powers of France in 1780, wei.a gqual to the employment of 38,792 665 hands, and in 1816, to 48,814,869, showing an increase of productive power equivalent tc the employ ment of 10,022,223 hands in 46 years. Fcr England he eriimates the same power, in 1780, to 31,281,052, and, in 1826, At *9,206,311, showing an increase in the same period of time equal yo 28,925.259 of new handl ! Such have been the rapid strides mule in the productive powers of both countries, mainly by the extended use and grow ing perfection of machinery and the arts of indaso7." .4thenceum. _ Now, if markets for the produce of these produc tive powers be not found, in what situations are not both countries placed in the cnorse of time ! Again, if markets be found abroad for the cocsomption of Elie goods produced by these productive power., and good.; in proportion be sent abroad, the next thing to be considered is what is to be done with the extra quantity of goods ;p be returned in pay ment. In questions of production, 4 4 of expo' ta ,;:su and importation, we should look not only at people abroad that we produce fur the nui:.'her of and export td, but also at the number and con suming power of tild Producers, who are to be repaid by the produce o fthese to whom they export. For instance—the present export of this country, containing a population of only 20 mil lions of people, is, we will say, 60 millions, but even with that export we have so deluged ail parts of the world with our goods, that, in numerous instances, they have been sold at prime cost, while the ex. poises and duties in foreign countries have, perhaps, been 5U per cent. But the mischief to the ex porters has not ended here, it has been extanie4 to ' the importation of the 50 millions in payment. , -. Now it is well knoWn that of late years almost all imported articles have been at extremely low prices, which alone shows that the import of foreign com modities has been overdone. Pepper is, we believe, at 4d. a pound, which at one time was perhaps 2s. a pound. Cotton from the East Indies 4d., which was once 2s. Cotton from the United States 6d., which once rose to 3s. Gd, A variety of other ar ticles could be mentioned, which are at very low prices,—the effect of excessive importation ; and this excessive importation has been brought about by excessive exportation. We, a population of only twenty millions, trade at present with at least 500 millions of people, and every now cnd then a mania seizes us for exporting as much as possible. A manufacturer has his eyes fixed on the powers of consumption of people abroad. He for gets that, in all parts of the world, there are manu facturers, as well as himself. The Marichgster, arid other manufacturers, have been making goods by machinery to a vast extent. Their warehouses have become loaded—they are sick of looking at their goods—the next thing they do is to get them out of their sight—they export them. The reujit we have mentioned follows—that is, loss the sale of the exported, as well as loss in the sale of the imported articles. The United Kingdom, as we have said, has a population of only 20 millions of people—but, in consequence of our machinery, this country, containing only 20 millions, could make goods sufficient for 500 millions of foreigners. Suppose that we were to produce goods suffi cient for the 500 millions of foreigners, and that the Governments of the 500 millions would meet Mr. Huskisson's views, and would do away with all duties so as to give the 20 millions and the 500 millions complete free trade, and that the 500 millions, on the principle of reciprocity, were to be so courteous towards us as to cease from manufac turing, and agree to take our manufactured goods for their sugar, rice, cotton, silk, tea, &c., and that we were to supply the 500 millions with one, two, or three hundred millions' worth of our goods in the course of the year; and that the 500 millions paid in kind, yet there would have to be remitted to this country one, two, or three hundred million pounds worth in the course of the year, of tea, nankeens, Chinese crapes, lac dye, indigo, hides, tallow, cotton, silk, wool, and a very great variety of et cetera:. But the next question would be, how would the 20 millions be able to consume this extra quantity of goods returned by the .500 millions of people ? It is very easy to talk of making goods for all the world, or of opening markets to all the world; and in the present state of the manufacturing by machinery, it would be easy to export a suffi ciency of goods to supply the markets of all the world, hut it is not quite so easy for 20 millions only of people to consume the goods imported in payment. The thing has been overdone in respect even of 50 millions export and import; but what would be the result of a one, two, or three hundred millions experiment ? It may be said that we have stated an extreme case, and we admit that we have; but when our manufacturers talk of manufacturing for all the world, yet, as there are 2,000 millions of people in the world, we, the 20 millions only, would be so deluged with the returns that the importers would be almost obliged to give their goods im ported away, or make manure of them. In treating of these subjects, the manufacturers—Messrs. Hus kisson, Waithman, Fyler, and others ought, when they talk so much of giving encouragement to ma nufacturers, in order to the exportation of their goods, to consider that there is such a thing as im portation consequent on exportation ; and that it is as easy for foreign nations to deluge us with their ar ticles, as it is for us to gorge them with ours. LEEDS BOROUGH SESSIONS, MAY 5. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CHILD STEALING. Hannah Atherton, the wife of Mr. William Ather ton, hardwareman, of Otley, was charged with steal ing a male inlaid child, of the age of five weeks, the son of Samuel Lee, a cloth-weaver, at Woodhouse, near Leeds. The prisoner was a well-dressed, re spectable, matronly woman. She appeared greatly agitated during the reading of the indictment, arid, at the request of her Counsel, was allowed a chair. Elizabeth Lee stated that she was the wife of Charles Lee, a cloth-weaver, at Woodhouse. She had been confined early in December last of a male child. Witness knows the lady at the bar. She saw her, for the first time, on Sunday, the II th of January. She said that the prisoner (whose name she did not then know) told her that she had been desired by two ladies to call and inquire into her circumstances. Witness told her that she had been much distressed, and if it had not been for the good ness of the ladies, she would have been much worse off. On the following day this lady came to her house again, and told her that she came with Mrs. Smith's compliments, and with a message, which she said would be hest explained by reading a letter, which stated that Mrs. Smith sent her compliments, and requested that she would let Mrs. Carroll have her child for a month or two, as she had lost her child, and was in danger of suffering from a milk fever, and unless she could have another infant to supply its place for a month or two, she would die. The lady added that the child would be well taken care of, and said that if she lost her milk, a nurse would be procured for the child. The witness asked the prisoner if the Mrs. Smith mentioned in the let ter was Mrs. George Smith, of Little Woodhouse ? The lady said she was the person ; and witness said she durst trust her life in her hands. Mrs, Atherton then produced a dress, which the witness put upon her child, instead of the clothes it had on. The lady gave her a sovereign, and witness accompanied her to the top of Woodhouse-moor, when she gave her the child. Witness said, from inquiries which she made at Mr. tieorge Smith's, she was induced im mediately to set out in search of her child, which she found at the prisoner's lodgings in Woodhouse. lane, about half-past one o'clock. The prisoner had the child in her lap, and was apparently in the act of suckling it. Witness exclaimed " That is my child ;" the prisoner said " iNo, it is mine." Wit r.es; however, took the child from her, and put it to her breast, on which Mrs. Atherton said " If the child is yours, the clothes are mine." Mrs. Alice Ibbetson stated, that Mrs. Atherton lodged at her house. She went out on Monday, about eleven o'clock, and returned about one o'clock on the same day with a baby, Witness soon after heard that Mrs. Lee had lost her child, which she mentioned to the prisoner, who seemed much struck with it, Witness said, she looked at the child, but from the difference of its dress, she did not think that it was Mrs. Lee's child. The mother of the child soon came and claimed it ; the prisoner at first said it was her own child, but soon after delivered it up to Mrs. Lee. Mrs. Atherton treated the in fant with the greatest tenderness. On the part of the prisoner, Mr. John Deighton, spirit-merchant, of O r l e y, was ca ll e d, who sta:ed that he had known Mrs. Atherton six or eight years; she was a woman of the most benevolent dis pozition, and was particularly attached to children, and her condua to the two orphans then in court (looking at two fine ruddy chilt.l t rep standing Con spicuously in the front of the bench) had been beyond all praise : she had taken them and edu ;ate(' them with the utmost care and tenderness at her own expanse. Three oilier witnesses, equally respectable, resi dent in Otley, concurred in the character given of t.he prisoner by Mr. Deighton, The RACP4pfft charged the Jwy at some length, who retired for about ten minutes, and on their re turn into Court found a verdict of !' gplty," but strongly recommended the prisoner to the mercy of the Court, on account of her previous good and humane character. The REcORpET!. sentenced the prisoner to be im prisoned one month in the Castle of York. QLI) BAILEY. ABSTRACT OF THE RLSPqr OF THE COM3IIT MENTS TO THE LAST OLD BAILEY SS4J(4NS. Convicted. Acquitted, &:. Worship-street Office MaTlhorough-street Hatton-gardeA . , 32 12 Marylebone • Bow-street Wlatechapel l6 $ Queen-square l2 5 Thames _,.. 12 4 Coroners and C o untry Magistrates 9 15 2i2 PO Lord Mayor and Aldermen Of the above cases— Lord Tenterden tried. Mr. Baron Garrow 8 Mr. Justice Ganlee 7 Mr. Justice Littledale 6 Mr. Justice ParlE ..., The Recorder 2 • „ .• 22 The Common Sergeant lO7 Mr. sergeaot Arabia POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday, the man named Leech, and Elizabeth Lane, who were examined on Saturday last, for having forged a bill of exchange for 1501., and having several other forgeries in their possession, were again brought up, No person attended on the part of the bankers to prosecute. A gentleman came forward, and stated that the female prisoner had passed him a bill of exchange for 60/., which was not yet due, but hie suspicion was excited by the ac count of the prisoners' examination in a newspaper of last Sunday, and he had since ascertained that the bill was a forgery ; however, he would rather submit to the loss than take her life. No prosecutor appearing, the LORD MAYOR cautioned the prisoners not to continue such a course after their narrow escape, and they were both discharged,--ap parently very grateful for their liberation. Several vagrants, who had been found begging in the streets of the city, were brought before the LORD MAYOR, and there were amongst the cases some of exceedingly gross and ludicrous imposition. One of the vagrants is in the habit of going about the streets half naked. This fellow had lost part of his toes, in a cold climate, and nothing can ever induce him to put en a pair of shoes, because the exhibition ceases the mo ment he covers his feet, which he contrives to keep raw by constantly inflicted wounds upon them. The street keeper saw this beggar importuning people, and asked him what he was about. " About ?" said he, " why begging to be sure ; what else could I be about ?"—(A laugh.) " But you must go out of this city to beg," observed the officer. "Ifl do I'm blest," said the beggar ; " I'll beg where I am—and no mistake." " Oh. that won't do," said the officer ; " come move on." This little scene took place near Lombard-street. The officer put his hand upon the beggar to remove him, but it was not so easily done. The latter, who was leaning on a large stick, with every appearance of being a cripple, was roused at this hint, " No , mar, shall insault me," said he, " or I'm blowed if I don't floor him, in three kicks." He then raised his staff and made a wipe at the officer, which, if it had taken effect on the head, would doubtless have caused an imme diate vacancy in the list of street-keepers. The aim was not, however, so effectively levelled as the intention was. The officer suddenly stooped, stud the beggar not finding any resietance, whirled round by the impetuosity of the exertion, and tumbled. But even on the ground he show ed a spirit above ordinary beggars, for when the officer approached him he whirled his stick about, said " he'd be blest if he wouldn't beg ;" and if the Lord Mayor himself came in his way he'd beg on his Lordship or any of " these here Haldermen, though he knowed there wan'nt one on 'em wat had the heart of a louse."—(Laughter. ) At length he was conveyed to the Compter in a coach, for he refused to walk, and there he also behaved very " un proper and obetropelous," to use the language of the officer, who declared no one could bear such dreadful words as we have above stated. The LORD MAYOR asked this beggar what he had to say in answer to so serious a charge. The beggar.—Vy all I has to say is, if your Lordship will give me something as I can do, I won't beg no more ; but seeing as how, your Lordship, as I am a poor cripple, I'm obligated for to beg, because you see, your Lordship, if I don't tell the people I wants something, they won't give me nothink. (Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR.—But what have you to say about this violent attack upon the officer ? 66 Vy, Ey Lord," cried the beggar, " I'm blest if he didn't hit me first. I only took up my little switch to hinder him from serving me out." The switch was here produced,—it was as thick as four of a man's fingers.' The Loan kayoa committed him as a rogue and vaga bond to the House of Correction, and ordered that he should be cured in the feet, and then put to labour. BOW-STREET. On Saturday evening, Edward M'Cormack and Ann .31'Cormack, his sister, were placed at the bar before Mr. HALLS, the former charged with having stolen a consi derable quantity of property belonging to Mr. Palmer, glover and hosier, of Fleet-market, at the corner of Lud gate-bill, and the latter with having received the same knowing it to have been stolen. A young man named John Boston was also charged with having bad is his possession a quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates of the stolen property. Mr. Palmer stated, that the prisoner, Edward APCor mack, had lived with him as foreman for nearly two years. In March last he left his service, and he had no cause to suspect him until within the last week, when he received such information as induced him to go to several pawn brokers, and at the shop of Mr. Gray, in Fleet -street, he found three lengths of drill, which he identified as his pro perty. He (the prosecutor) then obtained a search-war rant, and went in company with the officers Gardiner and Morgan to the house No. 25, St. Ann's-court, Dean-street, Soho, where the prisoner Boston resided, in whose box they found a great number of duplicates, and among others discovered one fur the three pieces of drill pledged at the shop of Mr. Gray. The shopman of Mr. Gray proved that the female prisoner pledged the drill at his master's shop on the 2d of December. A young woman deposed to her having purchased some duplicates from the female prisoner for flannel, silk stock ings, &E.., all of which the prosecutor identified as part of th e property stolen. The female prisoner declared that she had brought the goods from Leeds, in Yorkshire, and that the charge against her wa, false. Her brother also denied the charge, and the prisoner Boston said he knew nothing whatever of the matter. Gardiner, the officer, produced a circular letter found upon the premises of Edward M'Cortnack, who, it appeared, had set up in business on his own account, and had for warded lithographic letters soliciting the custom of the persons who dealt with his late employer. The prisoners were remanded. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday Ellis, a muffin-baker residing in Tyler street, Regent-street, was charged with the abduction of a young gill, only fourteen years of age, named Mary Ann Lawless, whose father was lately coachman in a distinguished family. It appeared 'that the prisoner was a single man, and upon separating from a very young girl during the last week, with whom he had cohabited, he introduced himself to the complainant, and persuaded her to leave her situation in Regent-street, and take up her abode at his house. It appeared. however, that he did not take any improper liberties with the girl until Thursday evening, when he persuaded her to drink two glasses and a half of gin, and al..° a portion of a quart of ale, after which she became quite senseless, and it was supposed, that whilst sh e continued in that state, he carried het. upstairs and ac complished his purpose, for she was utterly unconscious of 1 4ving beep removed. The girl was found at the prisoner's , residence in a state of nudity ; and owing to the quantity of liquor she had drank, it was some time before she was sufficiently recovered to proceed home. Lawless imme diately inflicted summary punishment on the prisoner. Mr. CONANT endeavoured to extract those particu lars from the girl which would enable him to punish tl.e prisoner, but either from a sense of shame or feeling reluctant to criminate him, she refused to state the neces sary facts. Ellis heard the charge with the utmost sang froid, and Mr. CoNatcr ordered him to be locked up until inquiry should have been made into his character, but he was e y e ntually liberated with au admonition from the magi''. trate ? and the girl was restored to her friends. Owen .Swift, a notorious young thief, was committed for t h r ee mouths as a rogue and vagabond, for attempting to s teal some articles of w e a r i ng a p pare l b e l ong i ng to t h e servants of c. Brougham, from his house in Hill-street, B e rkeley-square. LAMBETWSTREET. On Saturday Amelia Prestee, a well-looking young woman, was brought up by the parish officers to affiliate a f e male infant to which she bad given birth. On being w ,„ Fa , she pointed opt as the father a decrepit old man, supported pp. crptc4s. , The Magistrate desired her to state the circumstances. Shp said she had liyed servant with the old man, and 13e qyaileci himself of his wife's occasional absence to se duce her. D e fendant.—Amelis, how can you say that ? You know it was yourself that sent your mistress out of the w ay when our first affair took place.—(Loud laughter.) ___2l he defendant proceed to say that he was no more the father of the child than the magistrate. It was tree he had been Iptiinsqe with Amelia, btjt so bad his apprentice and a young grocer i n t h e ne i g hb our h oo d, an d h e would leav e it to his worship which was most likely to be the father, one of these young men or poor l a me old Jack. The magistrate observed, the defendant's being the Whelk' of the child was most di s ti nc tly be was a master baker, an order was made for the payment 2 afters. 6d. a week. sworn to; and, ofso me inquiry into his mea ns , f rom which it appeared The RECORDER will make his Report of the prisoners that were capitally convicted at the last Old B a il e y Sessions, to the Knza in Council, at two o'clock ou Wednesday ner, at Cl, James's Palace. LAW ,INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, 111Ay 9. WOOD AND OTHERS V. GRIMWOOD. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved for a rule nisi for a new trial in this case, which was tried at the sittings in Middlesex on the first instant. The action was one of trover to recover possession of a title deed deposited with the defendant. The COURT granted a rule nisi; and they also granted a rule, moved for by Sir James Scarlett, on the part of the plaintiffs, to extend the security of the verdict to all the title-deeds deposited with the defendant. ROTHSCHILD V. CORNET AND ANOTHER. Sir JAMES SCARLETT moved in this case for a rule to show cause why the verdict obtained by the de• fendants should not be set aside and a new trial had. The action was to recover the sum of 1,330/., the amount of two cheques drawn by the plaintiff,which it was alleged the defendants had received under circumstances which precluded them from retaining the proceeds. Rule refused. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAy 9. WATERHOUSE V. BOOTH. Mr. Serjeant JONES moved for a rule to show cause why the verdict found for the plaintiff should not be set aside, and a new trial granted. It was an action against a carrier to recover the value of certain goods intrusted to his care, and by him delivered to Messrs. Eastwood and Co., to whom the plaintiff was indebted. The cause was tried before Mr. Justice Bayley, at York, at the lust assizes, when the Jury found for the plaintiff. The COURT granted a rule to show cause. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PERIA L PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. THORNDIKEIS DIVORCE DILL Counsel were heard to-day at some length upon this Bill, and the further consideration of it ordered for Monday next. The Earl of TAN KERVI LE presented a petition from a parish in Essex with respect to Wool. Lord GOWER presented a petition against cruelty to animals. Sir Alexander Grant, General Gascoyne, Sir John Ashley, Colonel Chaplin, and Mr. Mundy, brought up several Private Bills. Mr. ROBERTSON brought up the third Report from the Commissioners of the Metropolitan Roads. Mr. Smith presented Papers with respect to the Clarence Railway, pursuant to order. Mr. Thompson presented Papers from the Court of Exchequer in Ireland. Several Private Bills were read a third time, and passed. Lord DURHAM presented a petition from New castle-upon-Tyne, in favour of the Newcastle Rail way. Also from Corbridge, to the same efiCct. The Noble Lord also presented a petition from the Shoe-makers of Newcastle, against the importation of French shoes. The Earl of FALMOUTH presented a petition against the importation of foreign wool, from Laun ceston, in the county of Cornwall. There was no subject he knew of more deserving the attention of Parliament than the distress of the British wool growers. Lord SKELNIERSDALE presented a petition from the manufacturers and merchants of Wigan, Lancaster, stating their distress, and praying for relief. The Marquis of LAN SDOWNE gave notice that he should to-morrow present a pttition from Manchester, against the East India Company's Charter. GAME LAWS. The Order of the Day was then called on for the second reading of this Bill. Lord WHARNCLIFFE then rose. He was now about to enter upon a subject to which he had often had occasion to draw the attention of the House. He confessed, that since he had last the honour of addressing their Lordships upon this important subject, circumstances had occurred which made it imperative upon the House to adopt some permanent measure with respect to the Game Laws. Since 1816, this question had never been allowed to remain quiet. Year after year, questions had been agitated in the other House. The present Bill bad been sent up to their Lordships without a dissentient voice. Their Lordships were not to suppose by this that it had not received great con sideration. He would not enter into the Bill brought forward last year, but it was quite clear, if circumstances had not occurred, that it would have been the' law of the land. There was no question that interested the morals of the people more than this, and yet it was exceedingly difficult to draw the attention of the House to it. Whenever the subject was talked of, it was considered beneath the dignity of statesmen, and only a topic for the consideration of country gentlemen. The Noble Lord had already stated that attempts, year after year, to reform the Game Laws, had been made, and bill after bill, more than one in the course of a Session, had been introduced with that view. On the evidence before the House, there were statements that the existing laws were systematically broken through. Every body was satisfied, that those laws secured a monopoly to a few individuals, and every body seemed dissatisfied with that monopoly. By papers produced a few days ago it appeared that in the course of last Lent Assizes no less than two hundred and fourteen persons were committed for poaching, twenty-nine of whom, being indicted for offences arising out of those conflicts, such as shooting or wounding game-keepers, received sen tence of death. One was transported for life, up wards of 40 for 14 years, 20 for seven years, and the rest underwent minor punishments. This was a state ofsociety their Lordships could by no possibility suffer to continue. The wealthier people of the country have declared they will have game : they hold out temptations to the poor to supply them with that game,—that temptation had, and would con tinue to succeed, as long as the restricting laws existed. The market was open at present only to the poacher, and the Noble Lord saw no way what ever of putting an end to poaching, except by throwing the market open to other individuals as well as to poachers. Having established the sale of game, the next consideration would he, the qualifications under which the sale should be per mated, (Leer SITTIN(I.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. Alderman WOOD brought up the report of the London Bridge Bill Committee. The SID3RIFFS of LONDON presented a petition for leave to bring in a Bill for the better regulation of the Port of London.—Referred to a Committee. CLERKENIVELL IMPROVEMENT BILL. The House resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House, on the Clerkenvvell Improvement Bill. Report ordered to be received, and the Bill engrossed. SMITHFIELD MARKET. Mr, I3YNG presented a petition from Hendon, against the Bill for enlarging Smithfield Market. Mr. PROTHEROE presented petitions from the parishes of St. James, Clerkenwell, and Har row, prajing that the days of holding Smithfield market might be changed from Monday to Tuesday Mr, GORDON considered this a fit subject for the attention of his Majesty's Ministers. It would be impossible v , : f oleb t es h eo e d rfvtab i t i)s ie • on :e Sabbath ve fr r om it Acioru.l changed, LdEbNeN that AßDa a enforced. nd P an r d APer S tre i o r r THOMAS FREEmANTf.,I4, the petitions were ordered to be printed, IMr. HUSkISSON presented a petition from the Ministers, Churchwardens, and Overseerd the Poor of a Parish in Liverpool, praying that that part of Mr. Slaney's Bill now before the Houses ri e l ; specting the employinent of able-bodied mot Pi * pass into a law. EAST INDIA TRADE. Mr. HUSKISSON then gave notice:t.n at Amid to-morrow present a Petition froin chants, Bankers, and others, of the town of P.% t pool, praying, th a t, on t h e exp i rat i on of the India Comp an y' s Ch arter , t h e same m i g ht n ot renewed.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. WODEHOUSE moved for various re test relating to the Be er an d M a l t T ra d e , f o r the years.—Ordered. Sir H. HARDINGE b roug h t i n a Bill for t he future regulation of the Militia.—Read a first and ordered to be read asecond time on Friday Def t. Admiral HARVEY p resente d a pet i t i o n froto.. parish in Ess e x, aga i nst t h e Metropolitan Road Bol„ Mr. SPRING RICE move d for various returns aria Fun relating to the sums o f money pa id to gran d j, in Ireland, an d lik ew i se f or accounts o f t h e of Charitable Inst tutions in that Country. t h e 'Sir J. GRAHAM p resente d a pet i t i on fro r t „ - o f county of Cumberland, p ra yi ng f or t h e imposit'°- i t a heavier duty o n f ore i gn woo l. H e o b serve d tha t was rather startling for the House to consider the anomaly that the wool-grower of this cou ntry complained that h e was obliged to sell his wool at s t ruinous loss, and the manufacturer complained o f he was obliged to sell the manufactured article I not at a loss, at a profit infinitely too low. After a few words from Mr. C. PELHAsi, Mr. ESTCOURT was sorry that the short Wo o l trade was in its p resent d epresse d state , as Wool which had sold a t 56 5 . was now se lli ng at 225. ail 235. He beli e v e d t h at no ot h er department o f trade had und ergone a s i m il ar d egree o f depressi? a ,: The Right Honour a bl e V. FITZGERALD le" that it would be at present impossible to follow the Hon. Gent. (Sir J. Graham) in the various topic° he had touched on in the course of his speech. At a proper time the qu e stio n r es p ect i ng t h e s tate o ' l the Wool Trade would no doubt receive from this House all the attention that it deserved. After a few words from Lord MILTON and 14 ' F. LEwis, the petition was laid on the Table. Sir J. GRAHAM presented a petition from al Individual in C um b er l an d, aga i nst t h e Assesse d Taxes. A Message was brought up from the Lords, .ig; nifying their Lordships having agreed to severs h r ta S u L t s A o N f E the Y presented ofa p i. p e t s i w t i o u n h Private Bills. Licensing Syst em . Inhabitants ,fraogmaincestrttahioe (LEFT SITTING. THE ARTISTS' BENEVOLENT FUND• The members and f r i en d s o f t h e A rt i s t s ' Fun d eg ll,. brated their twenty-fifth anniversary festival on Saturd 4 last, at Freemasons'-hall. The chair was taken by 11N Grace the Duke of SOMERSET, in consequence of the sir sence, occasioned by indispaNition, of the Prince of Sid Coburg ; and among the gu e st s were many noblemen . n d distinguished individuals, including the President n ° several members of the Royal Academy. After the health of " his Majesty, the patron of the Institution," had been drunk, and the usual loyal toass',, Lord GLENORCH Y proposed the health of his Grace Duke of Somerset, who returned thanks. The Noble CHAIRMAN then proposed the health of t he President and Members of the Royal Academy. , ; d g Sir THOMAS LAWRENCE retur ne d t h an k s , in ot i d which he had the happi ness t o s t ate t h at hi s M a j e sty that day given his sanction to the purchase of tie° P . tures of Sir Joshua Reynolds far the National Gael. (Applause. )—And to the Society he bad the additiona l happiness to communicate that his Majesty begged W I; sent to them his annual donation of 100 guineas.-r( l f il d applause. )— He should ther e f o r e p ro p ose The healt h his Most Gracious Majesty."—Four times four. d The toast was drunk amid s t l oa d and contiutg, applause. " Success to the Artiste Benevolent Fund" was nest drunk. A subscription was then entered into, which, including the King's donation, amounted to 635/. RECIPE FOR MAKING AN EXQUISITE." The following fine specimen of the " march of Dandyism' " was sent last week to en eminent furnishing tailor in dd .° city, accompanied by an order from the author for a u tt of clothes. The document will be amusing to some, a" useful to others, who may happen at present to be arraar ing the heads of a bill for cliSthing their bodies corporate: --" Coat. To have the very best patent buttons ; c anvass all the way down the breasts, a thick .beet wadding in each breast going round almost under the arm-pit ; th e wadding at shoulders to spread more than that in the brown coat (which is just like a ball), to be very full at the shoulders and also at the pocket-lids ; a full skirt ; broad stiff collar, and full lapells, also stiff; sleeves lined swan eki f t cotton ; velvet at cuffs, and all to b e v ery neatly do t c ': stitched ; pockets under flaps, and one on the sly. 1V A thick sheet wadding, firm sewn to the sailcloth in eae breast ; best buttons ; good calico lining, not too 03'1 peaked at bottom.— Trowsers. The least thing fon , f ( r o e much) in front ; firm waistband, stout pockets; in°9- :er come farther up than the grey pattern pair ; three qua the is wider all the way down, rounded in the fron t at bottom ; a broad turn up, one notch on each side , 1111 .1 . way down ; black cloth straps; two holes on ea ch slue ' broad, but narrowed in the centre under the foot; to hale double brace button s in front; and all, if possible, to bale extra work and care."— Glasgow Courier. BIRTH. On the 6th inst. at Tidenham Chase, Glouceatersh irer Mn. Trotter, of a sou. MARRIED. At Harbury, George Adolphus Owen, third son of th e Rev. Henry Butts Owen, D D., rector of St. Olave, Ha ri. street, London, t o A nna M ar i a S ara h, e ld es t daughte r/ ° Christoph er R o b er t s W ren , l ate o f W roxa ll Abb e y, il l the same county, 7th nty inst. Esq.,, he deceased. t On the Rev. Andrew 5 n Letithea, third daughter House, Northamptonshi re . On the 7th inst. at H ammersm i t h, W. Duneombe 1' wood, son of the lat e R ev . T. S. A twoo d, t o Charlot te ' youngest daughter of th e l a t e Li eut . J o h n A run d e l Hodr kin, R.N. of Bentl e y, H an t s . On the sth instant, a t St. Lawrence Jewty, by the W Y ' Mr. Smith, Mr. W. Rowlandson, of King-street, Che'r side, to Emma, second d aug ht er o f th e l a te Thomas Atit'" son, Esq., of Corbet-court, Gracechureh-street. 4 s l On the 4th inst. at the British Embassy in Paris , - h .:: Knollys Doratt, only daughter o f D r . D ora tt, to - 1 Fuller Ferrer, Esq. only son of the l a t e J. F. F e rrer, Esq. o f Ralphviilsloe,lchEeirci,. to o f J uittlii; of the Isle of Thanet, Kent. On the 9th inst. at St. Giles's, Camber we ll, Mr. Tho rtv l. Sprague, of Watling-street, to Helen, th e f our th clatig liK of Thomas Bond, Esq. of Nun Gteen, Peckham. On the 24th of October, at the cantonment of Mb °lt ,; Captain John Brooks, of the Hon. East India Cot/Ipaild 2d Regiment of Light Cavalry, Bombay, second re Benjamin Brooks, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn, to Miss Lot Op, Rind, youngest daughter of Thomas Rind, Esq. l ei * Stirlingahire, N.B. DIED. _A 681 On the Bth inst. in Smith-street, Chelsea, 1 1P — Rebecca, the wife of Thomas Vardon, Esq. and only ou ' - f riving daughter of the late Edward Bowman, flq . ° Suho:squ On the 4th inst. at Wortley, near Wotton-under - E dget Humphry Austin, Esq. On the 10th inst. at Lambeth, Sophia, the beloved aife of Mr. D. F. Tayler, late of Meeklenburgh-square. o f On the 7th inst. Mr. Richard Newnham 13Yrn e ', Abbey.atreet, Bermondsey, in his 46th year, and no 4 9th, Sarah, his wife, daughter of the late Mr. 11'.. C ° Greenwich, aged 49. On the 2d instant, on board the ship Esther, from B o o t bay, Edmund Charles Harrison, Esq., garrison surgeon that Presidency. On the 3d instant, at Springfield, Sussex, Thoto° Thornton, Esq., aged 76. On the Bth inst. at his father's house in Bartle ee s " buildings, Mr. A. Gwatkis, of Great Russell-street) P e "' ford-square, in his 24th year. On btli inst. at Morden College, Blackheath, St' Charles Weston, aged 90. On the Bth inst. Mr. Thomas Smart, of Be•- - Green, in the 85th year of his age. - - P RI NTED and PUBLISHED by AIURDO YOUltiG, asllB OFFICE, 119, SisAsD, LONDON. li" f 1