The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-13 00:00:00

would have been wofully disgraced by any at tempt to stifle inquiry into these horrid proceed ings, whomsoever it may affect. Slime surprise has been expressed at the apathy or Burke under his sentence, his undisturbed sleep by night, his unimpaired appeOtc, &c. But they who have reflected on the power of habit on men, can hardly be surprised at this. The man who first imbrues his hands in the blood of his feAow creatures has his mind filled with the horrid act. But familiarity with blood produces a reckless it“ l .:Terence. We have been assured by Officers of high honour that, in campaigns, soldiers be come at length so hardened, that in their ma rauding excursions they will take the lives of poor unoffending creatures, whom they pillage with out the slightest necessity, and without the slightest compunction. We have heard anecdotes of the French soldiers, more particularly in the Peninsula, that would hardly be credited.— With great propriety, therefore, has our inimi table Hogarth, in his " Stages of Cruelty," begun with a boy indulging in cruel sports at the ex pence of the interior animals, and ended with the man, a murderer, stretched on the dissecting table. The savage comes at length to take a creel delight in torturing his victims. We all know the delight with which the Romans viewed t h e fi g h ts o f g l a diators, and the horrible spec tacle of human beings torn to pieces by beasts of prey. In all colntries in which, either from the absence of law or the want of confidence in it, men are judges in their own cause, there is a most alarming indifference to human life. A dead body seen in the streets hardly ever pro vokes an inquiry. The influence of habit in hardening communities and individuals ought to impress on us the necessity of promoting, as far as we possibly can, a reverence for human life, by removing the motives for taking it away. — The comparative rarity of executions among us has certainly contributed greatly to the change in the English character with respect to reve rence for life which has been wrought of late years. Whatever faults we may have, we cer tainly are any thing but a bloodthirsty people. But should the bloody combats which are now fought every day between poachers and game-keepers, which are converting our pea santry into armed marauders, continue much longer, and should the present prices continue to be given for dead bodies, murders will again be frequent, and consequently cease to be viewed with the abhorrence which is now one of the best safeguards of the citizen. Some very striking instances of the influence of habit in communicating to men even a horrid enjoyment in human sufferings, are given in a very affect volume written against Torture, by John Grawius, a Remonstrant Clergyman, who, hav ing been banished with his brethren of the Ar enenian persuasion from Holland, was appre hended when visiting by stealth his friends, and thrown into prison at Amsterdam, where he was doomed to witness the frequent infliction of tor tore. The book was published at liamburgh in 1624. " Good God," he exclaims, " what kind of man must he be who can bear to look on these doings with delight, or at least without the utmost horror, the most heartfelt detesta tion ? TO see a man worn down with his squalid and lengthened imprisonment, naked, trembling, pale at the severe aspect of the Judge, already half dead with fear, bound hands and feet, and dragged to the instrument of torture ; where the horrible apparatus every where of pulleys, suspended ropes and weights, hot irons, pincers, tie., the terrible threats of the J udges,the cruel language used,thebitterlaughter, and more than all, the fiend -like eyes of the executioners fixed on the victims, rejoicing and bounding as it were :cith eagerness to lay their cruel hands upon them, inspire them with an in expressible sinking of the heart. - After de scribing processes, with the recital of which we will not shock our readers, he adds, when the torture ceases because the victims can suffer no more, " the Judges laugh at the frequent groans, lamentations, and dreadful convulsions of coun tenance of these miserable victims, and treat with contempt the tears end prayers of the poor wretches to mitigate the severity, and exhort, every now and then, the executioners to omit nothing which may add to the violence of the anguish ; nay, they occasio nall y p oint out in what - part the victims feel moat exquisitely, what part should be cut, what part burned, what part flayed ; and were they not withheld by shame, they would themselves tear off the clothes of the criminals, and flog, burn, and torture them them selves, and supply the places of the executioners. Ab, greater 3 tilt! cruelty of the torture which is daily shown in the torturing poor wretches, than language can express, and it never can be prac tised but by those who are already strangers to all humanity ; never can be approved of hut by those who will approve of any thing, however in human. So often as Christian men proceed to this excess of cruelty, pursuing some obscure offence with such horrid tortures, they seem de• generated into savages. Who will not say that these Christians gratify the Devil, by whom they have been so far blinded, as to believe that the torture is the palladium of justice, and that with out torture justice would he at an end ?" This description is instructive, as it shows how soon men are brought to ctke a savage delight in in flicting pain on their fellow-creatures. The moral is obvious, Let us destroy as much as we can all those pursuits which produce this woeful change in the human character. We have fos tered a class of truculent men—at best violators of the law—familier with the spectacle of dead bodies in their progress towards decomposition, hunted down as wild beasts, and, or course, ready to retaliate on society, especially when personal safety would be thereby promoted. Let these horrid practices be put an end to by consi derate laws, which, without violating the regard of the living for the remains of relations, may su pply the schools with those who have none to bury them, and who are themselves indifferent to the use which may lie made of their bodies after death —lbad. A Sunday Paper professes to be exceedingly indignant at the slur which, it says, is attempt ed to be cast upon the general body of bankers, owing to the ignominious frauds and flight of one of the body. Nothing, we agree with our contemporary, would be more unjust than such a proceeding. The Church might 'as wear be judged of by the case of a fugitive Bishop, se the trade of a banker by the solitary instance of Rowland Stephenson- Bnt, when the premises are false, the conclusion mast n ecessarily he er roneou-s. Stephenson's, doubtless, is a peculiar eaze, though unfortunately, even in its enormities not an unprecedented one ; while the mall point to the public, the insolvency of the concern, so far from being an unusual occurrence, is enlv a corr o boration of this fact, that within the last five years more banking houses have failed than the same proportion in any class of business whatever. We not court this avowal, but, as it is winner= us, we make it. We state, moreover, as a pro- position to which we defy contradiction, that the banking business is one, and almost the only one, in which insolvency can take place, without great blame, not to say moral turpitude, attach ing to the parties. We do not say that a banker's deposits can be at every moment within his reach, the profits of his business arising from dealing sqfi , ly with the money of his customers. Therefore, during a panic, or any other tempo rary and unlooked-for emergency, the most honest, and ultimately solvent bank in the uni verse, may be compelled to suspend its pay ments. Though we recognise such a crisis, we do not hold it as one ever very likely to happen under prudent management ; and, in fact, it scarcely has ever happened to any house possessing adequate property of its own, and with partners conducting their business, and conducting themselves, .as they ought to do. But the oracle, whose anathema has led to these remarks, ,:ontends that bankers have a right to live like gentlemen. Certainly ; who ever doubted it ? They may indulge, if they please, as the same authority contends they have a right to do, in all the luxury and extravagance of high life ; only let them not do it at other people's expense. A hanker, like every other man, should live upon his income, derived from the profits of his concern, added to the rents or interests of his own private fortune. Had this been the rule by which all bankers had governed them selves, we should have seen less ruin brought upon these whose deposits have been too often spent to maintain an appearance and an establish- ment, which their own legitimate means would not furnish. These remarks may be grating to those, if there are any such, to whose case they apply, but will be as harmless as any other truths Ito those " whose withers are unwrung."—Morn ing Herald. Of the one hundred and thirty regiments or corps, of every description of force, of which the British Army consists, only 24, including the Household Troops, are employed in England ; one in Scotland ; 23 in Ireland ; and all the rest (or nearly two-thirds) in some or other of the Colcuies. This is of itself a sufficient reason, we should imagine, why the Colonies should be looked to, to contribute more than they at pre sent do, towards their own defence. For let it he remembered, not only is our immense army an enormous annual drain for its own pay and subsistence, but the Pension is swelled ad infinitum in the shape of the famous dead weight, which appears to be called so merely be cause it never dies. It is a singular fact, that of the 99 marching regiments, of which the bulk of the British Army consists, only two, the 50th and S7th Regiments, appear to lee at home. Of that part which is in India, the Company pays the whole immediate expense; and that itself is a reason, as we mentioned the other day, wh) our other Colonies should do the same. It is gratifying to see how little Scotland costs the country in this respect, while Wales (the most peaceable part of the King's domi nion) subsists without a single soldier. Impor tant inferences may ho drawn from these facts, which Parliament and the Government would do well to attend to. We rather offer them as materials for thinking, than as professing to draw from them at this moment their obvious results. CLAVENHOUSE. After the Revolution, Claverhouse, then Viscount Dundee, rose in behalf of the exiled Monarch. The army destined to oppose him was entrusted by the existing Government to General Mackay ; and cluriug the marching and counter-marching, and occasional skirmishing which ensued between them, au incident is said to have occurred strongly indicative of the cha racter of the former. A young man had joined Dundee's army, the son of one of his old and intimate friende. Ile was employed upon acme reconnoitring service, in which a skirmish taking place, the new recruit's heart failed him, and he fairly fled out of the fray. Dundee covered hia dishonour, by pretending that he him self had despatched him to the rear, upon a message of importance. He then sent for the yputh to speak to him in private. " Young man," he said, " I have saved your honour; but I must needs tell you, that you have chosen a trade fur which you are constitutionally unfit. It is not, perhaps, your fault, but rather your reiefortune, that you do not possess the strength of nerves necessary to encounter the dangers of battle. Return to your father ; I will find an excuse for your doing so with honour ; and I will put you in the way of doing King James's cause effectual service without personally en gaging 41 the war." The young gentleman, penetrated with a sense of the deerest shame, threw himself at his Generd's feet. and pro tested that his failure in duty was only the effect of a momentary weakness, the recollection of which should be effaced by his future conduct, and entreated Dundee, for the love he bore to his father, to give him, at least, a chance of re gaiiiing his reputation. Dundee stilt endea voured to dissuade him from remaining with the army ; but as he continued urgent to be ad admitted to a second trial, he reluctantly gave way to the request. " But remember," he said, " that if your heart fails you a second time, you must die. The cause lam engaged in is a des perate one, and 1 can permit no man to serve under me who is not prepared to fight to the My own life, and those of all others who serve under me, are unsparingly devoted to the cause of King Ames, and death must be his lot who shows an example, of cowardice?' he un fortunate young man ernbraeed, with seeming eagerness, this stern proposal. But in the next skirmish in which he was engaged, hiscon stitutional timidity again prevailed. He turned his horse to fly ; when Dundee coming up to him said, " The son of pep' father is too good ' a man to be consiened to the rerceost Marshal," and, without another word, he shot him through the head with his pistol, with a sternness and inflexibility of purpose resembling the stoicism of the ancient Romans. A ct,,rioos circumstance occurred in this town last week. Furry years ago two children, whose parents live in Frankwell, left home, and have since resided in Wales. They came a few dais ego to see their parents here ; but during their life they hs.d iirt'iwn only the Welsh langpage, and their parents here the En g lish on l y, so that the meeting between them was merely dumb show. :;.;gi ther party could pnderatand eack other without au pretcr.—Siirewsbury chronicle. About a fortnight ainCe, a young woman, uzfrned E. Mitchell, was brought to be 41f an illegitimate child, 4.t Bradford, near Sberborne, which three days afterwards die. 4, and was burled. S u bsequently, itowaqe;, Suspicions arose, wh:ch induced the parish officers to disinter the body ; and on ez:arni s oation by Mr. Turner, of Sher burne, and Mr. Sboreland, of y e owil, sufficient evidence was discovered to prove that the child hr been strangled. A Coroner's inquest was held by T. cooks, Esq. on Friday last, and a vcrdict of " Wilful Murder" returned against the mother, who has been committed for trial.— Verborne iWercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDI! ALL. A NEW WAY or PAVING; OLD DEBTS.—A weather-beaten hard-visaged veteran, whose sand seemed nearly run, but who is still sailing towards his last anchorage comfortably on a small pension, the reward of a life spent in defending the" wooden walls of Old England," was charged by Mr. Benjamin Humphreys, proprietor of one of those collection of sundries yclept a green-grocer's shop, with loosening all his front teeth by a blow with a saucepan of " tulles." " About one o'clock on Sunday meriting, your Worship," began the green-grocer, " I called on that ere person for a trifle he owed we in the way of business. I lets him have credit from pension to pension. Well,' he says to me, says he, what do you want at this time o'night ?" Why,' I says, 4 I • wants to he paid my money." Oh, if that's all' says he, I'll pay you ;' and with that, your Wor ship, he makes a rap at my mouth, but I turned aside and escaped it. That won't do,' says he, so if you won't take payment, xrhy, clang it, YOU must have goods.' So saying, your Worship, he lays hold of a saucepan o' tithes that were on the fire, and hits me with them in the mouth. The water wan't hot, or I should be scalded ; but the tutice weve so hard that they loosened every tooth in ty head, and they are now ready to drop out." The veteran alleged that Mr. Ben. Humphreys first kicked in his door, struck himself and knocked him over a table, which was overturned and broken, and that it was all in self-defence that he saluted the green-grocer's front teeth with the saucepan. Be sides, he considered it a very unbecoming hour to call on a gentleman with his bill at one o'clock in the morning. The Magistrate entirely agreed with him, and be was discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. ROBBERY AT ROWLAND STSPHBNBO\'E.—YeS- terday Menu Braham, a groom im the employ - of Rowland Stephenson, end William l'idcher, were placed at the bar for re-examination, charged with steeling a doaen of wino and other articles, from the house of Rowland Stephenson, in St. Bartholomew's Hospital. Mt. Humphreys attended for the pri soners. Phillips, the officer, gave the same evi dence as on a former occasion.—The prisoners were both fully committed for trial. MA ItYLEPONE. On Saturday a young man, whose constitution appeared deeply injured, made his case known to Mr. Rawlinson, and asked for his advice and assist ance. He said he had imprudently brought a disease upon himself which required skilful treatment, and, having read of wonderful cures accomplished by doctors within the district of the office, he went there for assistance. The moment the doctor saw him he shook his head, and said, " Why, young fellow, you are a dead man."—" I hope not, Sir." " But you are," replied the doctor, " unless you undergo a course of my medicines." " What will it cost ?" " It ought to be 601., but I suppose you can't afford to pay so much, arid, if you put the money down I'll cure you for twenty-fire." He gave him all the money 17e had about him, and made good the sum of 251. the next night, and he was afterwards toll by his friends that he had acted indiscreetly, and advised to apply to the Magistrate. Mr. RAwuNsoti asked him when the circumstance occurred ? lie said on Twelfth Night ; and Mr. Rawlinsou desired Mr. Hewitt, the ehief constable, to interfere, and seek redress. Mr. Hewitt made application at the West London Establishment in Newman-street, Oxford -street, the place mentioned by complainant, and got back his money, and yesterday it was returned to his pos session. UN lON-ti ALL. Yesterday Huntington and his wife, the persons who claimed the body of a man who dropped down dead, and obtained possession of it by describing themselves as the relatives of the deceased, whose corpse they sold, were again brought up for exami nation. The woman, Harrington, also attended as a witness against them, and from what transpired on this occasion will be seen the degree of eredit which should be attached to her evidence. Owing to the publicity ; ; iven to the fsrmer pro ceedings in the newspapers, an elderly man, named Taylor, came forward to describe that the body of his wife had been stolen by the persona in custody, and sold by them for the purpose of dissection. His testimony also criminated the woman Harrington, who appears to have been as deeply engaged in pro curing dead bodies by representing herself as the re lative, as Huntington and his wife. The witness Taylor stated, that on the 23d of October his wife died, and a day or two after her decease, the woman Harrington came to his house, and, affecting great sorrow at her death, said that she was related to her, and that she had come there for the purpose of offer ing her services to sit up and watch the body, Taylor, it seems, believing that she might have been distinctly related to his late wife, accepted of her services, and left her in care of his house on the morning of the 24th, desiring her not to le:Lye it, and enjoining her to be most careful in watching the corpse in hia absence, in the event of any attempt being made to carry it away. He then left home, and in the evening, on his return ',tome, he found that the corpse had been removed, aud, from infor mation he subsequently received, had no doubt that the woman Harrington and the prisoners had carried it off, sold it at the hospital, end divided the money between them. Harrington admitted that she was left in care of the body by Taylor, and that subsequent to his de- ' parture for town, having occasion to go to the chandler's shop, she went out, closing the door after her, and when she returned the corpse was gone. She added, that she afterwards saw Huntington, and he confessed to her that he and a man named Page got into the house while she was gone to the chandler's shop, and stole the body of the deceased. Mr. CHAMBERS—Come, now, tell the truth, how much money were you to have for allowing Hunting ton to carry off the body of Mrs. Taylor ? Harrington (confused)—Well, your Worship, I will disclose the truth. Huntington came to rue when Mr. Taylor left the house to go to town, and " Harrington, I will give you four guineas if you let me have Mrs. Taylor." I rejected his offer with disdain, and soon after the refusal, when I went over to the chandler's shop, the body was taken. Mr. CHAMBERS—It is clear you were concerned with Huntington in disposing of the body of the poor woman. Have you received the money that Hunt ington offered to give you ? inquired the Magistrate. Harrington—No, fir ; I have had none of the money. It was here stated that Harrington lived with the prisoners, and that but for the quarrel that arose between them relative to the division of the money obtained for the corpse of the poor man who dropped down dead in Walworth, their stratagem for pro curing dead bodies would have remained undiscovered. Mr. CitAsaßErts—lt is evident the woman Bar rington is as heti VA the others. The fact is, she had qua r re lled pith Huntington abaut the money that the body produced, and to be revenged up on him has disclosed some of the circumstances, but she has taken care not to implicate herself in the busi ness. " This woman's evidence," added the Magis trate, " is unworthy of credit, and she may walk about her business." A person in the employ of Mr. Dunn, the under taker, stated that Huntington had employed him to ;Arens a corpse which he claimed by representing himself as tt relative. Mr. CrtAuttEas inp,nired whether Huntington had taken the clothes belonging to the deceased, and the answer being in the negative, the Magistrate said that there was no felony proved, therefore there was no use of entering further into the case. The charge against the prisoners relative to their claiming the lA* of the man who suddenly expired in - Walworth, of the pari.;ll officers, and demanding the cloth of these deceased, was thenl entered into. The principal circumstances have already appeared. 1 In the course of the investigation, Mr. Chambers remarked, that ill iyas 9f opinion, if a 100,7 was SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clocl.. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR RE LIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORs, SPRING CIRCUITS, 1829. • MIDLAND CIRCUIT. J. G. Haas.is, Esq. Commissioner. Hertfordshire—Hertford, Thursday, March 12. Essex—Chelmsford, Friday, March 13. Essex—Colchester, Saturday, March 14. Suffolk—lpswich and Borough, Monday, March 16. Norfolk—Yarmouth, Tuesday, March 17. Norfolk—Norwich and City, Wednesday, March 18. Norfolk—Lynn, Friday, March 20. Suffiilk-13ury St. Edmunds, Saturday, March 21. Cambridg-eshirc—Carnhridge, Monday, March 23. Catnbridgesliire—Ely, Tuesday, March 24. Huntingdonshire—Huntingdon, Wednesday, March 25. Bedfordshire—Bedford, Thursday, March 26. Northamptonshire—Northampton, Friday, March 27. Leicestershire—Leicester, Saturday, March 28. Staffordshire—Litchfield, Monday, March 80. Staffordshire—Statford, Tuesday, March SI . Shropshire—Shrewsbury, Thursday, April 2. Warwickshire—Coventry, Saturday, April 4. Warwickshire—Warwick, Monday, April 6. Buckinghamshire—Aylesbury, Wednesday, April 8- SOUTHRRN CIRCUIT. T. R. Boavr.:4, Esq. Commissioner. Berkshire—Reading, Tuesday, February 24. Oxfordshire—Oxford and City, Thursday, February 26. Worcestershire—Worcester and City, Saturday, Feb. 28. Herefordshire—Hereford and City, Tuesday, March 3. Monmouthshire—Monmouth, Tuesday, March 5. Gloucestershire—Gloucester and City, Saturday, March 7. Gblucestershire—Bristol, Tuesday, March 10, Somersetsbire—BAth, Friday, March 13. Somersetshire—Wells, Monday, March 16. Devonshire—Exeter and City, Wednesday, March 18. Cornwall—Bodmin, Saturday, March 21. Devonshire—Plymouth, Monday, March 23. Dorsetshire—Dorchester, Wednesday, March 25. Wiltshire—Salisbury, Friday, March 27. Hampshire—Winchester, Monday, March 30. Hampshire—Southampton, Tuesday, March 31. Sussex—Horsham, Thursday, April 2. Kent—Maidstone, Saturday, April 4. heat—Dovor, Monday, April 6. Kent—Canterbury, Tuesday, April 7. NORTHERN CIRCUIT. W.. 1. Law, Esq. Commissioner. Derbyshire—Derby, Wednesday, Feb. 95. Nottinghamshire—Nottingham and Town, Thursday, Feb. 26. Rutlandshire—Oakhain, Saturday, Feb. P 9. Lincolnshire—Lincoln and City, Monday, March 2. Yorkshire—Wakefield, Wednesday, March 4. Yorkshire—Kingston-upon.Hull, Tuesday, March 10. Yorkshire—York and City, Thursday, March 12. Yorkshire—Richmond, Monday, March 16. Durham—Durham, Wednesday, March 18. Northumberland—Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Town, Fri day, March 20. Cumberland—Kendal, Thursday, March 26. Lancashire—Lancaster, Friday, March 27. Lancashire—Liverpool, Friday, April 3. Cheshire—Chester, Tuesday, - April 7. Whitpliall, Jan. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Richard Anstice, of Bridgewater, in the county of Somerset, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. DECLARATION'S OF INSOLVENCY, Alexander Nelson, Deptford, draper. BANKRUPTS. Robert Mason, Norwich, earthenwareman, to surrender Jan. 26, at five, 27, at nine, and Feb. 24, at twelve, at the White Lion Inn, Norwich. Beart, Great Yarmouth ; and Francis, New Boswell-court, London. James C. Forsyth, Milk-street, silk-manufveturer, Jan. 20, at one, Feb. 23, and .24, at twelve, at the Court of Commissioners. Leigh, George-street, .Mansion-house. Jeremiah Firth, Heckmondwike, York, merchant, Jan. 29, at the George Inn, Huddersfield, Feb. 2, at the Black. Bull Inn, Goinersal, Feb. 24, at the Sessions House, Leeds, at eleven. Stevens and Evans, Gray's-Inn square, London, or Carr, Gomersal, Leeds. Rich. Williams, Great Surrey-street, Blackfriars-road, pianoforte-marker, Jan. 16, 17, and Feb. 24, at one, at at the Court of Commissioners. Hume and Smith, Great James-street, Bedford-row. Edward Hetherington, St. John-street, Clerkenwelt, cheesemonger, Jan. 16, 23, and Feb. 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Crowther, Newgate-street. Edward Thomas, and William Thomas, Park-lane, Mid dlesex, horse-dealer a, Jan. 16, 23, and Feb. 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Stevens, Hatton-garden. William Keer, Southend, Essex, linen-draper, Jan. 27, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Jones, Sise-lane. John George Pohlman, Craven-place, Kentish Town, Middlesex, bookseller, Jan. 16, at eleven, 23, and Feb. 24, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Parker, Furni val's-inn, Holborn. William Warburton, Harmood-street, Hanipstead-toad, jeweller, Jan. 27, at one, 30, at twelve, mid Feb. 24, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Floranee, Regent street. _ Robert Wright, Theohald's-road, builder, Jan. 20, 27, anti Feb. 21, at eleven, at the Court of Commissioners. Stokes and Hollingsworth, Cateatou-sheet. Frederick Brudie Rose, High•street, Southwtu•k, dealer, Jan. 20, 27, and Feb. 24, at ten, at the Court of Com missioners. Clutton, Carter, and Fearon, High-street, Southwark . . Duncombe, Rroomsgtove, Worcester, builder, Jan. 50, 31 and Feb. 2•t•, at twelve, at the !loyal Hotel, Birmingham. Simcox, Birmingham. Thomas Chadwick, Crab Eye, within Reap, Lancashire, cotton•spinner, Feb. 2,3, anti 24, at two, at White's Hotel, Manchester•. Wheeler, Gray's-Inn-place, London ; and Halsall, Middleton, near Manchester. Mort is Jones, Bt iurnawr, Brecon, ironmonger, Jan. 22, 27, and Feb. 24, at one, at the Commercial-rooms, Bris tol. Poole, and Gray's-ion square; Cornish and Son, Bristol. John Drew, Cheltenham, bnilder, Jan. 20, of four, 21, and Feb. 24, at eleven, at Yearsley Hotel, Cheltenham. Brusfield, Chatham-place, Blackfriars-road, London ; Ray ner and Winterhotham, Cheltenham. Joseph Pearson, Manchester, flour-dealer, Jan. 23, 24, at two, and Feb 21, at nine, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Hurd and Johnson, Tonpte ; Higson, 13agshaw, and Hig son, Manohester. Charles Rolling, Moorgreen, Nottingham, lace-munn facturer, Jan. 20, 22, and Feb. 24, at eleven, at the Ram Inn, Nottingham. Hopkinson, Nottingham ; Hurd and Johnson, Temple. John Hartley, Liverpool, victualler, Feb. 10, 11, and 24, at twelve, at Clarendon -buildings , Liverpool. Ad lington, Gregory, and Faulkner, Bedford-row ; and Brown, jun., Liverpool. Arthur Wadworth, Staverton-row, Newington, Survey, cheesemon2er, Jan. 16, 17, and Feb. 24, at one, at the Court of C o mmissioners. Brown and Martin, Mincing. lane. LARGE COCK.—Mr. John Shanks, clerk to Mr. John Forsythe, merchant, Elgin, has in his possession one of the largest cocks—of the silver game species, we believe—we have ever seen. This majestic member of the feathered fraternity, though only seven mouths old, weighs fully nine pounds and a half. The stout gentleman as Washington Irving might appropriately term him, is game to the very core. He is fond of fighting ; and disdaining to dispute the point on scientific principles, be tolerates no parley, and gives no quarter ; but proceeds to pull u p hi s adversaries with most unmerciful severity, and without any apparent " compunctious visitings." He is, in short, completely " lord of the ascendant" among the feather ed tribe in Elgin and its neighbourhood. —Elgin Courier. A daring attempt was made by, the prisoners P ARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. confined on charges of felony in the Borough Compter to John Lewis Minet , Is a ac Minet , John Stride , John escape out of that prison. The plan of their escape I Stride,T honi j u ns n . B o 1 , 1 c d ket Lewis at, d S j t r o i h d l e i , A c u o s d t f i , u , y Friars. Becket, as discovered on Sunday night, and for Lunately frustrated, Newark owing to the disclosure*, made by one of them. It ap- upo n -Trent, mercers. ek, w pears, that the plan of escape was laid some time ago, and Charles Halliday and George Huruphrys, Stroud, Glou was to have been carried into effect pi evious to the Bo- cestershire, appraisers. rough sessions, which commence this day, and at which James Leek and Robert Hawkswortb, Sheffield, table the prisocers confined on the felons' side of the above gaol are to he tried ; they amount to seven or eight, and Webb ers. Thomas and Robert Rowland, Broad-quay, amongst :them are two or three desperate characters. knife-manufacturers. j i f s e t h o . on :,s an t s c a uf ti a on t e u r r s . As soon as the gaoler received intimation of what was Joseph Holman, sen. Joseph Holman, jun. tailors, Bristol. going forward, he and the turnkeys immediately proceeded John James Edwards and John Francis William Brewer, to the felons' side of the prison, and discovered that a large herald-painters, Poppin's-court, Fleet-street. bole had nearly been cut through the wall which separate John Langford and Robert Engleburtt, Brick-lane, the felons'-yard from that of the debtors. The officers of Bethnal-green, potatoe-Inerchants. the prison then proceeded to the felons' ward, and, after a Richard Hopkins and William Hopkins, Poole, grocers. strict eacarnination, discovered that the whole of the rugs William Cook, Thomas Turner, and Lovell Pilter, belonging to the prisoners' beds had been torn up anti used Bristol, sail-makers. for the purpose of constructing a rope by which to escape James Panting and John Bennett, Oxford, tailors. over the wail which separates the debtors'-yard from Mill- Thomas Wilson, Thomas Ashmore, Thomas Hodgkin lane, Tooley-street- This, it seems, could have been son, John Hodgkinson, and William Illinshull, jun., easily effected had the prisoners once made their was chymists. from their own yard into that of the debtors, and a James Parry and Thomas Swettenharn, Chester, ale quarter of an hour's work, in addition to the time brewers. that had been already devoted to it, would have enabled i William Halley and Job Watson, Oundle, surgeons. effectuallythem to have carried their plan into execu- Hymen and Judah CoFen, Mansell-street, Goodman's tion. The line, which the prisoners made out of fields, merchants. their rugs, was of sufficient length to be carried over to Padley, Norburn, and Co., Sheffield, stove-grate-mauu the other side of the wall, on which it seems some person facturere. in the secret was to hold one end, while the prisoners, by Samuel Alsop and John Gooseman, Manchester, small- the aid aid of the ether, surmounted the wall, and then de- ware-manufacturers. PUTNTE-D and scolded into Mill-lane, 1 George and James Everitt, Suffolk, brewers, 5-itnS framed empowering parish-officers to deliver the bodies of persons unknown, who died in their dis trict, and no relatives came forward to claim them : up to the hospital for the puposes of dissection, and also the bodies of paupers whose friends or relatives did not apply. to have them interred, the profession would have a full supply, without requiring the aid of such infamous characters as Huntington and hi:: gang. Huntington, and the woman who called herself his wife, were then committed for steali n 6, the clothOb of a man who,i,e body they disposed of. GERMAN PAPERS. A`iPONA, DEC. 24.—The intention of the three Powers to restrict the limits of Greece, or the 11florea and the Cyclades, has disappointed many hopes, and in particular, has disagreeably surprised the friends of Greece, who but a few months since felt conv►nced that Athens with its glorious reminiscences would en hance the splendour of New Greece. Important poli tical considerations seem to have guided the councils of the C►binets, though it is affirmed that die French Court has declared itself in favour of the greatest practicable enlargement of the Greek bounda►ies, and has been induced only by the representa- tions of England to assent to the more contract ed limits of the new State. The relative diminution of the internal strength of the new State, pro portion as its boundaries should be extended, its greater vulnerability, if it had an extensive land frontier difficult to be defended, the jealousy of the Porte and its aversion to the intervention of the Foreign Powers, were the arguments which the English Cabinet is said to have adduced, in order to shew the impossibility of obtaining from the Porte the wished-for assent to the final pacification of Greece, according to the meaning of the treaty of 6th July. Considering that the independence of the Morea and the Cyclades does now in fact exist, England expects the assent of the Porte with more probability. It is said also, that the treaty of 6th July, in the spirit of which the French Cabinet professed to act, has been op posed to the proposals of France,on the ground that its stipulations regarded only the putting estop to the shedding of blood and the pacification of the revolted provinces; and that consequently the protection of the Powers could be extended only to the latter, arid give them secwrity. Many objections might be made to this interpretation of the treaty. However, the assertion of Mr. Stratford Canning himself, that Greeks and Turks can no more live peaceably to gether on the same spot, gives the Greeks the hope of experiencing a more rapid developement of their strength, and of becoming a nation in the true sense of the word; for if it is beceme impossible for Turks and Greeks to live together, the Turks, who live among the Greeks, must have a place assigned them to which they have to repair to temain at peace. The increase of the Christian population in the fertile provinces of the Morea, and which are so admirably situated for commerce and navigation, must power- fully contribute to the improvement of the Greeks and procure them au honourable place among the States of Europe. The Powers have ,therefore, in some measure, done the Greeks a service, by their resolution not to extend the boundaries of Greece, provided that the Greeks remaining in the Turkish territories have the right secured to them of remov ing, with their families, without any hindrance, and that measures are taken to guarantee the Greeks against further oppression by the Turks. CONsTANTINOPLU, DEC. B.—We are still without official intelligence from the army of the Grand Vizier; but it is affirmed that he has been prevented from doing any thing by the dreadful winter weather. According to accounts from Bourgas, several Russian ships, laden with military stores, had been driven on the coast, and had perished with their crews. HaluAsy Effendi, it is said, has made a re port to the Sultan on this subject, with the addition that the Turkish cannon taken in Varna, which were to be distributed as trophies among all the Russian provinces, were lost on this occasion. The Sultan immediately communicated this news to the Mufti, who endeavour to represent this cir- cumstance as a presage of future ♦ictories. It is na tural that the fanaticism of the Mussultnen should be inflamed by all this. We have received the news from Poros that the Ambassadors of the three Powers are going to Malta, and thence to Napoli, to continue the negociations respecting Greece. BERLIN, DEC. 29.—According to accounts from St. Petereburgh, which arc worthy of credit, it is the constant and earnest desire of the Emperor for peace, but only such a peace as may be con formable to his previous declarations. The war is generally popular in Russia and the resources are greater than might be supposed. The cam paign WIN in fact extremely severe and fatiguing, vet the details on the whole were such as to in crease the zeal and self-confidence of the army. It is f;rther affirmed, that the sentiments of the Em peror in the affairs of Portugal are in favour of the young Queen Donna Maria da Gloria, and that the Emperor's sentimentsto Sweden, respecting the title of Prince Gustavus, will probatdy be such as en tirely to satisfy the wishes and the expectations of the King o Sweden. VIILNNA, JAN. I.—Aletalliques, 95 9-16; Bank Shares, 1100. NEWPORT, JAN. 10.-On Sunday morning lust during a heavy squall of wind, a shop, with four men on board, foundered at her anchorage oil St. Helene, and distressing to relate every soul on board wet a watery grave. --Hants Advertiser. C RIT SlllO N OF TALENT.--A Oreet-sweeper, the other day, hearing some praises bestowed orrthe clean state of one of ti - ,e crossings at which a brother of the same craft officiated, somewhat petulantly observed, .‘ W e n, now, I don't think him any such great shakes after all.— Ile can get through common strait-forward jobs well enough, bat it is'nt them whit tells a man's abilities. Just put him to a bit of fancy ; let him try to sweep round the posts, and see bow he'll manage that !"—Nunts Advertiser. SHIPPING INTELLIOENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, JANUARY wham t 2 minutes past three.—Arrived the Belem Castle, , from Bristol; Garland, Grooves, from l'lscao; General Brock, , from Pernam buco ; Dickinson, , from Savannak ; Jane, ---, from Newpot t. Sailed—The Alexander, Turnbull, fur Barbadoes ; Williams, for Trinidad ; Emperor Alexander, Lee, for Virginia ; Emily, Godfrey, for ditto; Aurora, for New Orleana. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the AletropoUs le 1.2 d. fat the 41h. Loaf. There ar others who eel' from yid. to 1)0. below hat price. PRICE OF SEBIX3.—Jau. IR. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 40a. 50s. flue be*. 645. Old Ditto Ditto.,., —4. —4. boa --s. New Foreign Doti Old Ditto -- New Whitt, Clover. 00v. Are 011 v. ';Ob. 40a. flnebOv. 05v. 41.4. flue fiDa. 70s. Old Ditto Ditl 70e. dale 85e. fargi New Trefoil 21.14. flue SU. 41js -4. time —4 4w. 41n. tine —a. ♦14.4 Lino —B. flue —4. —a. I7r. fine —a. Wj,. Sl. ►Oc. 4,1. 40. 13 0 .6 /0 Oki Ditto Rib Gr& English Carraway Foreign Ditto Coriandor*---.. St. Foin Quarter)---- —a. --a. —4. tine —si Rye Grass 15a. 40a. new Pacey Ditto -40 s. 1,os. new —e. —s. Linseed, for feeding —e. St3s. •fine —s. 40s. Ditto, for crushing —a. 41s. 425. fine Canary Seed, 645. :Lae 512 e. Ditto •-•10. --s. this --s. White Mustard Seed--(per Bustle-1)-0a. os. 7s. Oat Sae —.a. Brown Ditto —s. Be. 10e. filar, Turnip Seeds, Rounds. Green and Rod Ditto Tare, Old Ditto New nl2ll —4l. Us. 19s. tine --b. Ma. 40a. fine —a, —4. --8. Sae 44. 48.5. ii;tirSecid, 3uoglish, tine ;pox Laat) 301. Forehiiia 49; 41. lOs. to Of Its 41. 4s. to 41. 11. ss. to 61. 04. $l. Os. to 91, 9s, 61. Os to 71.10 k. 41. 1(. t♦ 51. 10s. 81. Ida. to 4.1. 04. 41. I& to 51. gos. PIIICIA OF HOPS.—la Kent Pockets 4l 4d. gileE4IX Ditto Eastix Ditto Farnham Ditto, Fine. Seconds --....,—. Kent Sussex Ditto Essex Ditto., IN. la s. 44 lai. 01. 04, WHI'I'ECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. 19. Hay 506. Od. to %a. Od. I Clover 709. UL to Ilt2a. Od Straw.-- 390. Od. to 201. Od. PRICE OF OIL. Rape 011, brown 441. as. R.thoed U Linieed Oil - Liniteecl Oil Cake at the 3lill, por thousand Rape Coke. per ton PRICE OF POTATOES—Jun. 12. Baarsh Champions Ol. N. to 41. Os. per ton. Kidneys 04 Os. to 54 Gs. ditto St:etch Rods 31, be. to 31. IN, data Oxuoblos and Shawe 24 10a. to 31. Oks. ditto. Per lb. 8utte.........-31/ to A1b...- Ditto-1Y) to 6131 b.— DresAlng Htdes— Fine Coach tildes Crop Hidee, 3. to 401 b. Ditto ----AS to 601 b. Ditto PRICES OF LEATHEPL d. to d. Per lh. d. to d 12 20 Tanned Horse Hideo.- 16 82 22 23 Spanish Ditto .—..--. 22 2G 15 17 Per slozen. 18 2O Calf Etkins.-125 to 411► b. 111 34 15 17i Ditto —5O to 701 b. 24 30 18 20 Ditto 70 to 8011). 22 24 20 211 `dm all Beale, Grootthind 22 2‘3 RAW Per Stone. s. 4.. to s d. Bost Heil ors 8s Btoers.2 0 3 4 Middlings 9 8 2 8 I D ItS. Par Stsgse. d'. to s. d. Ordinary I 1Q • 2 ti Mat kat Calf—.--.—. IS etch. COAL MAL Adair's Uurdon , 36 Charlotte 28 Heaton 82 0 Killingworth SS 0 Liddell's Ira 8 Pelaw PQrcy East 30 0 Pon top Windsor Townley- 3.3 0 Willington _ Wylam Walls End Bede . 96 0 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 39 S Ditto Brown's*. 37 6 Ditto Burraton 82 8 Ditto Carr and Co.-. 35 0 Ditto Cramlington . %i kiiiips at market, IUSN-Shi K KT.—Jan. IE Wall's Elztd Hotspur Xt. 9d. Ditto Hilda liG 9 Ditto Northumberland 98 Ditto Perkins and Co. 36 U Ditto 36 Ditto Russell's 40 LS Ditto Vralkor ------ 39 Russell's Ly0n'5.......,.,, 7; 6 Walls End Lyons-- 36 Walla E.nd /Stewart's 40 0 Cowpell. 3l ti I Cannel (per 40 Silkitone Pitld and Co. 33 Walla End Elgin Ditto Bean 131 Ariair's Trader....._ 35 ti Walls End small --.. 13 U New Etherley 16 6 pesole!. 81 ---Utusold. 74.54. BIRMINGHAM MARKETS, JAN. 8. CORN MARKET.—At to-day's market the supply of Wheat was small, and the terms of last week were fully supported ; of all other descriptions of Grain the arrival was good, with a free sale for good Malting Barley.-- Wheat, 9e. 4d. to 10a. 4d. per 621b5.; Barley, 365. Od. to 42e.; Malt, 565. to 64e.; Pease, 40e. to 48s. per im perial quarter; Beaus, 158. Od. to 19e. per bag, ten seeea gross; Oats, Se. Bd. to ts. per 391 h. ; fine Flour, 61s. to 628. ; seconds, 575. to 595. per sack of 2601 b. BIRUINGHAII dly's market exhi bited a moderate supply of live stook, and the trade ge nerally was dull, at a reduction in the prices of most ar ticles, particularly Store Pige.—Beef, sd. to 61d. ; Mut ton, bid. to 611 per lb. ; Bacon Pigs, 9s. to 9s. 6d. ; Porkers, I la. to 13s. per score. IRISH MARKETS. Flour. per cwt. Wheat, I per barrel ) 720 stone. 4. d. a a. d. Cork ---20 O—S3 6 Limerick 85 0-40 0 Waterford 32 0— 590 Clonnicl „ 38 0-4 I 8 Carlow 29 6-34 9 Barley. [ per barrel 16 stone. a. d. a 8. di ID o--sei oi 10 6.-20 0 17 o—el 0 10 0-23 01 Ili 0-19 01 Oats. per barrel 14 stoic. I Ist. s.d. a s.d.l as -174 I() 4-18 0 00-140 12 8-14 0 ;190— 00 r 1 d. as. d. 91 0-26 0 6 6-94 0 t.i 0-94 0 20 U-94 0 20 6-21 0 S. ttai. d. 12 o—ei 0 0 0-15 0 10 0-20 0 19 0-10 0 0 0— 0 0 Beef, Ituttou,l Pork. I per lb. per Lb. per cwt. lat. IV. 4th. cl. t d. cl. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. a. d Cork b —7 4 6 VP 0-31 0 76 0 62 0 60 0 51 046 0 Lilaerick, 3 4 `44 0-845 (1.78 64 0580 52 0 4ti Waterford 4 —5 5 0-38 0720 70 —o 0— Clornuel 3 —4 4 33 0-35 0680 65 60 058 9i6 0 Carlow...—. 4 - 0 00-9 0 84 22 72 0 6.2 0 KILKENNY DIARKET, JAN. 7.—Butter, 77e. to 789. per cwt. ; Bacon Pigs, 358. to S7s. per ditto ; Wheat. 338. to 40s. per barrel ; Barley, 18s. to 20s. ; Oats, 12s. to 128. ; Flour, 201. to 488. per bag; Beet and Mottos, 4d. to 6.9. per lb. ; Potatoes, Od. to 2d. per atone; CoslB, Is 2d. per cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barkiy. Oats. Beans. Oatmeal Aberdeen 58 70 28 87 21 28 Berwick 47 55 26 27 18 ttl 86 ES 30 42 Coldstream 47 49 27 28 18 21 23 28 Cupar --- 70 Fid 3SI -14 :31) 27 a) Dundee 78 118 29 x 4 --- 68 71 112 2d 91 29 39 64) 70 26 30 20 25 t 1 96 48 —4 KeLso 57 20 24 17 21 20 28 -- Kirkzildy.-- fel 86 34 40 84 26 ar. -- 4 Perth --- 106 76 US hi 20 The size of the niciasure varies throughout the country. BIRTHS. On the 10th inst. in Chando.s-street, Cavendish-square, the lady of R. C. Blunt, Esq. of a daughter. On the 11th init. iu New Broad-street, the lady of Thomas Masterman, Esq. of a daughter. On the 11th inst. in Euston-square, the lady of Thos. Blake, Esq. of a daughter. On the 12th inst. in Prince's -court, Westminster, the lady of A. Dickinson, Esq. of a daughter. On the 30th ult. et the Onvernment-house, Guernsep the lady of Major-General RCM, of a son. On the Sth inst. at bar mother's, Mrs. Clerk's, Bramp ton-place, Bexley, Kent, Mre. Stephen Tucker, of daughter. MARRIED. On the 10tb inst. at Leytoo, by the Rev. G. E. Gillett, Thomas Dowker Woodall, Esq. of Scarborough, to Sara). Pitt, third daughter of B. :Find, Esq. of Leytonstone , Essex. On the 6th inst. at Putney, by the Rev. Henry St. John, Dlr. Charles Brunskill, Paternoster-row, to Mis 4 Tinkler, only daughter of Win. Tinkler, Esq. of Putney , On the Bth inst, at Dean, in the county of Uneasier, Lawrence Brock Hollingshead, of Stanevell, Iliddleack Esq. to Eliza, second daughter of the late Rev. William Hainikson, one of bis Majesty's Justices of the Peace fut the county of Lancaster. DIED. Yesterday, at Barnes, Surrey, Georgina, wife of Ali , Thomas Ager, of Leadenhall-street. On the night of the 2d of Dec. John Hardwick Min shall, Esq. Captain in the Royal Bucks Militia, second son of Wm. Minsbull, Esq. of Kentish-town, was wrecked off Brindisi, un his passage from Corfu to Ancona, and periek ed, with all on board the yesesl. On the 6th inst. Mr. Abraham Slade, seri., of Guther'e Edge, Irleudon, Middlesex, aged 64. On the 12th inst. of apoplexy, sincerely regretted , Mr. John Weldon, of Great Hermitage-street, Wapping' aged 60. On the 9th imt. Bromsgrove, in the 19th year of 110 age, William Briggs Venour, eldest earn of the Ret. jai" Venour, Rector of Bourton-upon-Dunsmoor. On the 12th inst. Mary Anna, the second daughter of Mr. Hope, of the Tile-kilns, Upper Clapton, aged 19. On the 10th inst. at her house, Charlotte-row, Wei worth, Mrs. Worley, aged 68. On the 10th inst. at her house in Bloomsbury-square , Mrs. Walker, aged 74. PvatisitED by MURDO YOUNG, at tb° FIOE, 111, iltrt Apu.), LoISDOIt.