The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-31 00:00:00

- and one of the latter Hollanders - . The same . : phenomenon was exhibited last year, and ha , been displayed' in the present Session whenever a question has occurred calculated to call forth a national feeling. Last year the budget was passed by a majority of 53 to 31, all the Bel Nlembers but fbur voted against it, and al the Dutch but two voting in its support. On another occasion last Session, we find the num. hers 59 to 50, only three Dutchmen being in the latter, and two Belgians in the former. The decennial Budget of Ways and Means was re jetted on the 19th inst. by a majority of 55 to 53, the former being Belgians, with the excep tion of two or th ree , an d the latter Hollanders. The fat ts which we have thus stated, and which, if we had room, we could support and explain by a more extensive reference to the proceedings of the last two years, are of great importance, taken in connexion with the avowed projects of a party in France, whose feelings and wishes, and political morality,—whose taste for round ing boundaries, and whose fresh recollections of the empire, have been lately so unblushingly dis dosed by Count Richemont, a General in the French army, and a Member of the Chakiber of Deputies.—Times. A small volume has just been put into our hands, entitled " Political Fragments, by Ro bert Forsyth, Esq, Advocate." Mr. Forsyth is a barrister of long standing and great practice in Scotland, and his evidence before the Parliamen tary Commissioners appointed to inquire into the proceedings of the Courts of Law in that country, appeared to us, at the time, to be the very best that was given. The present volume contains many views well deserving of attention, while, at the same time, on many points his opi nions appear to us erroneous, and, indeed, ex travagant. Bayle, on his ingenious work on Comet,i, laboured to show that the actions of men were in no ways influenced by their specu lative opinions. Mr. Forsyth goes to the other extreme ; for, perceiving in an infallible Church what ft; W men who, with unbiassed minds, in quire seriously into the subject perceive—a prin ciple involving a prostration of the intellect, and it subjection to a degrading mental despotism— he seems to conclude that there must necessarily be a harmony between the speculative principles and practices of Catholics. He is one of those whose apprehensions of danger from Popery are as vivid as ever, precisely because they were not swigested by interested motives. We are no Meat admirers of Popery, any more than Mr. For syth, but we do not perceive that the act of jus tice whieth has been done to the Catholics at all a dds to our danger of subjugation by the Pope and the Jesuits. Mr. Forsyth's volume is a collec tion of essays or fragments on the mercantile distress, smuggling, national debt, income tax, Popery, foreign policy, and Catholic rent. I . „ . his essav on our foreign policy, he observes— that " since the Peace, we have somehow been losing character on all sides ; nations attempting to establish liberal institutions naturally looking to thitain, the land of freedom, for sympathy and aid. But the Neapolitan Patriots, the Spanish Cortes, and the Portuguese Constitu tionalists looked to us in vain. The party of the Apostolicals in Europe, that is, the Catholic Ckirch, were allowed to trample down every man, mid every body of men, that favoured liberal institutions. The excuse was, one nation oufht not to interfere in the internal affairs of :Another. But where was that principle at the date of the Treaty of Pilnitz, when the com bined Monarchs of Europe conspired to divide France, as Poland had been divided, and when Britain subsequently became a party to those proceedings, for which the European nations sufficiently suffered ? Nay, where was that principle when we allowed the Duc d'An gouieme to march into Spain against the Certise, at the head of a French army ? This he would not have dared to do in the face of serious opposition to Britain." No man of sense could ever have supposed it practicable under a Constitution which gives the Govern ment to an Oligarchy, that there could be any Teal sympathy with the partizans of Democracy t ahe Continent. The nations attempting to establith liberal institutions, who, looked to Bri tain, were of course very ignorant both of the natoTe of our institutions as modified by practice, and of ::story. Mr. Forsyth must have a very imperfect recollection of the times when the foreign patriots endeavoueed to give liberal insti tutions to their countrymen, if he does not know that the persons who were most alarmed lately for our Protestant Constitution, were the very pecans who were most alarmed then for the safety of the Catholic Church in Spain, Portugal, and Italy; or, at least, of that part of the Church which is viewed as the only essential part by churchmen of all creeds—the revenues. Mr.l Feeeyth supposes that our Protestant Consti tution has been destroyed, in order to give confidence to the French King and the Apos 'once's, in their struggle to put down the Liberals. " Thus (he says) has the Bourbon become disposed to lean upon Britain, which stood by him with such pereeverance in his ad sersi:y. But there was one obstacle to a per fect union awl confidence between the two Ca binets. The Jesuits, or high Catholics, styled the party of the Apc4olicals, rule the French Court and the old Royalist:e. How could full confidence exist between that Jesnit Govern ment and a Protestant Government, alleged to act illiberally and oppressively towards the Irish Catholics ? What I am now to say is irresisti bly suggested by the juxta.poeition of events. Immediately after the British Protestant Con stitution was destroyed, the French King yen lured to dismiss his Ministers, a body avowedly favourable to liberal ir)stitutions. Have we, in order to gain an ascendancy in the French Councils, encouraged the Bourbon to lean upon she party of the Apostolical at home, and upon Dritein abroad, and to set at defiance the French popular party ? Have we, further to cement the union of France and Britain, given way to the Irish Catholics, in order thereby to purehase the confidence of the Roman Catholic Priest hood ?" How far our Government may now lie abetting the French Government in its at tempts against the liberties of the country we have no means of knowing. The French Papers allude to Notes which have passed lately on this subject between the two Governments ; and M. Dupin, in his speech for the Journal des Debats, spoke cf Secret Notes. But we think we can say that the concession of the Catholic Claims was no more granted to please the Apo stolicals than to please the worshippers of Bujiha. There is much good sense in what Mr. Forsyth says with regard to the means to be adopted to wards Ireland : " Britain has now (he says) to defend itself against a most imminent evil from Ireland. The Irish cottages, chiefly the Catholic cottages, pour out annually an immense population destitute of bread, of education, and consequently of morals.— These, from necessity, hasten to Great Britain in vest of food. They are constrained to accept of the meanest wages that will support life. The) become the tival of the British common people it all agricultural and manufacturing labour. Thus they reddce our own common people to utter mi sery, deprive them of the menus of educating their children, and fill the land with wretchedness and ignorance. • • • • • " Establish Poor Laws. This is an act of jus tice to Britain. We ought not to be required tr support the Irish poor. This is a point so clear as to require no illustration. The effect of it will be to induce the Irish landholders to depart from tht Cottage System, by which the country i s ov er peopl e d. • • • • • • • " The Irish landholders would, perhaps, oppose the measure, hut the nature of their opposition would be too grossly unjustifiable to stand in need of being exposed. To do any good, it is absolutely nu_ t..- sary that the Irish landholders shall be compelled L. support the poor reared in that country. • • • • • 0 " A correct administration of justice ought to br established, by establishing Courts in every District, similar to the Courts in Scotland of the Sheriffs and their Substitutes. Professional tnen ought to act as JudgPs, with suitable salaries. Unless justice be ac cessible and impartially administered, Ireland cannot prosper. This also is clear. ♦ • • • • • " Every proprietor ought to have it i n hi s p ower to obtain his tithes to be valued, and to be liable only for the valuation so fixed. The improvement of latiA will be thereby highly promoted, and the populaiity of the national clergy increased, or, at least, a great source of hostility against them will be removed. " The Elective Franchise in counties ought to be plAced on a new footing. • a • • • • " Of those who have attained to mature years, a shoe-maker, or other tradesman, resident in Edin burgh or Glasgow, who eats the Marquis of Staf ford's, or the Duke of Argyll's, or the Duke of Gor don's beef or mutton, and pays for it, he may vote at an election, because he is independent. But ware he merely a tenant of a bit of ground, yield ing an alleged annual profit of ten pounds on the estate of any of these Noblemen, it is clear that he must vote as directed by the factor for his Grace or his Lordship; because he cannot sup port and educate a family on such a pittance, and must depend on the great man or his rela tions for bread. He must vote as directed or leave the estate, and emigrate some twenty or thirty miles, which to him is equivalent to exile. To give that poor man a vote, therefore, is just compel ling him to become criminal, by vo:ing into power somebody of whom he knows nothing, or whom he knows, perhaps, to be destitute of principle of any sort, moral or religious, or even perhaps of common honesty. . . . . . Tenure as tenant is radi cally bad; because inferring dependence, or at least ];ability to incur debts to the proprietor, who has I thereby the means of destroying the independence of his tenant. " It is impossiide to protect the population of Britain against the influx of Irish paupers, unless the change now suggested be made upon the elective franchise. Irish landlords will still be tempted to augment their political influence by a pernicious cot tage eystern, which cottages wil! continue to throw out swarms of paupers tc invade us. The qualifi cation in Irish counties is still inadequate for our protection. It is only in a town or city that an ordi nary tradesman can be independent. " Parish Schools ought to be tstablished on the Scottish footing. • •••110 " Lastly, for a time, support a strong military police over the country. A people whose mis chievous temper resists improvement, must be go verned like wild school-boys, till they can be trained to better habits under wise institutions.— Morning Chronicle. This day ends the year. We leave to Moral ists and Divines the task of offering to their readers and their hearers such reflections as this important epocha in the division of time natu- rally suggests. In a political point of view, the people of this country may be well justified in parodying the words of the poet, and Boldly venture on a year unknown— It cannot use them worse than this has done. The winter of 1825, known as the Bubble era, was productive of prodigious misery and dis tress, but such as bears no comparison, either in extent or acuteness, with that which nearly the whole community is now experiencing. Never, we believe, was there a period within the me mory of any man living, when wretchedness and sorrow—when actual want and starvation, visited so many habitations in England as biting ca lamity has now reached. And what is most ex traordinary of all is, that this melancholy state of things is not attributable to natural causes. Providence has been bountiful to our soil—skill and enterprise were never so rife to turn tl:e riches of nature and of art to our advantage. But, by a strange perversity, a new species of " wisdom" has been allowed to break in upon our career of success and good fortune, and turn to our ruin and discomfiture the very ele- ments of our individual and national prosperity. We 370 in the state of a country in which irri gation has heretofore produced fertility, but from which the waters have been diverted or stopped up. Can such a state of things as the present last ? is the question in every one's mouth. It may bp asked, with equal reason, Why it has been pewmittpd to last so long ? We answer both questions by saying that, till the people make themselves heard, very Tittle 4lteration seems likely to take place. This year a whole Parliamentary Session was exhausted on one topic ; and it the next we sadly fear that the tone of postponement will be resumed, unless the public voice, i❑ accents of b4t peace able and respectful remonstrance, sounds itt the cars gf the Legislature and the Government the awful truths a opr situation, and the necessity of immediate redress. Wg are ourselves no alarmists. We have no wish to Impede or harass those who have the charge of public affairs; but if thgy sleep, as they appear to do, we must en deavour to awaken them, that they may not, like Sardanapalus, dream of 024 sure upon a " bed of roses" while calamity overshadows all LW in terests of the empire.—Morning Herald. A CHRiST4:AS HARVEST.— A most singu- hr occurrence was witileße4 t High Cattcn, near Stampford-bride, on the 15th inst. A. firnit• there on that day, cut and reaped a fine field of barley. The fact is that be has bad two crops limn the same seed—the first he cut in May Gr June, as grcen fodder for his cattle ; and the second thus carne o;,!t of season, but has been safely placed in his barn, without sustGining any injury.— Ycirli Courant. pn Tzi,ecd.4y night an inquest was held be fore J. H. GaLL, al.. the Aberdeen Arms, New Church-court, Strand, on the bo;iy of MARY HENRIETTA BARRETT, a young woman, 23 years of age ; exci also on a female child, of which she had been delivered the day before Lee death. It appeared that the deceased had stu diously concealc4 ;hp fact of her pregnancy . , which was not übservable from outwaidipperances, and her mother, who had noticed that she appeared to kid health, procured ligr a letter for a dispensary; but, as she Otto concealed her conditipn from the medical gentleman, she was treated in a very ditfer;;;t manner to what her case requic.:.d, and it was only a few hoiart; before her death that 11r. STA.;;Tori, the surgeon, who WAS called in by . . the mother, di.covered what was really the matter. A premature labour ensued, and elle died about one o'clock in the morning on Saturday last. The eh;ld died about eleven o'clock on the same day. Verdict—" Natural death." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Charles Sherwood, a working upholsterer, was brought up for re-examination, charged with obtain mg a quantity of fringe from Messrs. Hutton, Le pines, and Co., in the name of Messrs. Warlter% and Co, auctioneers, Farringdon•street, nearly threw years after he had been discharged from their service. The prisoner declined making any defence, and was committed for trial. MA RLBOROU G H-STRE ET. Yesterday William Maling, William Adams, Agnes Smith, and .Mtiy Maling, four prisoner's, who were in custody, charged with being concerned in the following- audacious robbery, were brought before Mr. De - ree, the sitting Magistrate, for final examination. At the commencement of the proceedings, which occupied the Magistrate until a late hour, Mr. DYER, as well as those concerned in the prosecu tion, being satisfied that the two female prisoners were not implicated in the guilt of the transaction, they were discharged, and being removed from the bar, they were admitted as witnesses against their two male companions. The first witness was Mrs. Elizabeth Musgrave, a maiden lady, residing at No. 27, Green-streer, Perk-lane, who deposed that on Thursday last, the eve of Christmas-day, she was spending the evening from home, having left her housekeeper, Agnes Smith, and two other servants, in charge of the house, and about ten o'clock the same night a mes sage was brought to her that her house had been robbed in her . absence ; on which she immediately returned home, and found that a great quantity of plate and other articles had been carried off. The articles now produced, consisting of several dozens of silver forks and spoons, silver-handled knives, cream-ewers, gold and silver spectacles, ear-rings, necklaces, gold and silver pencil-cases, &c., were the property so stolen, and belonged to her, the whole being worth about 150/. Part of these articles were taken from the drawing-:oo►n, and the rest from a cupboard in her bed-room. The prisoner Adams had been, for about 12 months, a footman in her service, but quitted in August last; but of the pri soner Maling she knew nothing. Agnes Smith was housekeeper in the service of Mrs. Musgrave, and knew the ;prisoner Adams as having lived once in the same service. On Thursday evening last, about nine o'clock, Adam!, who was in the habit of calling occasionally at the house since he had quitted the service, came down into the kitchen, arid proposed to treat the witness and the other servent with something to drink, and ask ing for a bottle lie went out, and soon after returned with some' gin : he rang the street-door bell, and witness let him in, arid wit:real supposed that lie had shut the door after he had entered : they set awhile in the kitchen drinking the gi❑ and:playing at a game of cards, w hen witness said she could not play any longer, as she had some needle-work to do, which she immediately set about, and while at this work she heard a bustling noise in front of the street door, and shortly after she heard the door slammed to. She instantly became alarmed, as she knew there was no one belonging to the place in the upper part of the house, and asking Adams to go with her, which he did, she went up to the parlour, where she found all safe, as she did the other parts of the house, until she came to her mistress's bed-room, where she clearly saw that a robbery had been com mitted, upon which she told Adams to call in the po lice, which he (lid. William Bond, one of the new police-men, was called into the house by Adam, and on hearing the circumstances connected with the robbery, he de tained all the parties in the house until his in. spector, for whom he sent, arrived, and he also sent for Mrs. Musgrave, having learned where she was spending the evening. The chisel produced the witness found, he said, under the bed in Mrs. Mus grave's room, and it appeared to be the instrument with which the cupboard was forced open. Benjamin Bates, a Police Inspector, was sent for by the last witness, and on his arrival at Mrs. Mus grave's house, and learning the circumstances of the robbery, as already stated, he ordered all the parties who were in the house at the time to be conveyed to the watch-house, and the next morning the pri soner Attains, without threat or" inducement, ac knowledged to witness that the robbery had been planned by himself and a man named Wm. Milling; that he ( Adams) admitted Maling into the house when he went for the gin, and that Mating had carried off all the property in a hand-basket, and if not finally disposed of, he had no doubt the whole of the property would be found at the house of a man named Appleyard, in Prince's-row, Lambeth; and he declared that the two females were quite innocent of all knowledge of the robbery. The witness here handed in a statement to the above effect, voluntarily written down in his presence, and signed by Adams. Witness, accompanied by other officers, went next, he said, in search of Maling, and after some difficulties, found him at his lodging, No 12, Rochester-row, Lambeth; but he denied all knowledge of the robbery. Soon after he was taken into custody, however, he asked permission to write a note, which he wished to have forwarded to Adams. Witness here produced the note, which went to caution Adams how he said any thing against him (Milling); that he had already tallied too much, and more than was true; and concluded with saying, that if he (Adams) wished to be trans poi ted, he (Maling) did not. The witness went on to state, that he next proceeded with Clements, another officer, to the house of Appleynrd, a car penter, in Prince's-row, arid inquired for Maling, but no such person was known there by that name; but the persons of the house said that a man named Warren, who answered the descriptiion given of Maling, called there sometimes, and had left a chest of tools in the house. WitiseSs on being shown this chest of tools, broke it open, and there, in a hand basket., found the whole of Mrs. Musgrave's pro party now produced, Clements, the other constable, confirmed the evi• dcrice of the last witness as to the finding of the plate, &c. William Church, a police constable, about nine o'clock on the night of the robbery saw the pri soner Milling "rasa twice through Green-street while the witness was on duty, and the last time he passed it was close to Mr. Musgrave's. house, and be went towards Park-lane. Mary Mating saw nothing of her brother the whole of Thursday, or on that night. Adams called on her that evening, and took her with him to Mrs. Musgrave's to pass the evening with the servants, where he said he himself was going; but he said not a word about having seen her brother. This L;;I;;g tlte whole of the evidence, the Magi. strates asked the prisoners if they wished to say any thing? Adams had nothing to add to what he had told Inspector Bates, which was the truth. Maling said that it was of no use for hint to say any thing, and he would therefore be silent. Both prisoners were then fully committed for trial. The Earl of Be lgrave, and a number of other householders at the west end of the town, were tined ss. each for rot having the footway in front of their houses cleared of the frozen snow at a proper hour in the morning. QPEEN-SQUARE. The person who styled himself the non, Henry Turner Harring,lon, who was committed by Mr. MAttatove horn this office for stealing four gold rings, Sze., from the apartments pf 4 Aliss Louisa Gough, in Sovereign-street, Edgeware,roaq, has been discovered to be the same person who some months ago was brought to this ogee, charged by a Miss Vilrnot, who occupied apartments in a street leading into the Edgevare-read, with stealing a valuable snuff-box out of her room. On that oc casion he gave his name Mr. Samuel Lyons, and was given in charge by the prosecutrix, who is a frequenter of the saloons, as she was leaving the English Opera-house. 4 long examination took place before Mr. GREGoilis, when the prisoner pleaded In hie defence that Miss Wilmot had a va luable flute of his in her possession, and on giving up the property the prosecutrix declined further pro ceedings, and he was discharged. The names of Lyons and Harrington are both assumed. UNION-HALL Yesterday two individuals, who gave their name, George Frederick Seymour and Thomas Junk, were brought isp in custody from the county gaol, vi here they had been incarcerated since the preceding morning, charged on the oath of Robert Hedger, Esq., Chairman of the Surrey Quarter Session, on suspicion of having committed felony. The peculiarity of the circumstances attending the case attracted a crowd of persons to the office, and besides Mr. SWABIA', who presided on the occasion, there were also present Mr. CHAMBERS, Mr. HONE, and Mr. PUCKLES. The prisoners, on their appre hension, which took place on Monday night, were conveyed to the watch-house at Clapham, and from thence on the following morning to the residence of Mr. Puckles, close to the spot ; and that gentleman on hearing an outline of the circumstances detailed against the accused, committed them for re-exami nation to the gaol, from whence they were brought up to this office yesterday morning and placed at the bar. They are both tall and rather fine-looking men, particularly the one who described his name to be Seymour. Both were wrapped in blue cloth roquelaures, which concealed their dress underneath . Mr. Harmer attended on the part of the accused, and previous to ttie examination of any witnesses complained of the hardship inflicted on his clients, who were both highly respectable men, in being placed in ench a situation, on such a charge, for which their was not the slightest grounds. He ad mitted that his clients had acted with a great deal of folly on Monday night, but their intention was no more to commit robbery than it was his ; they had merely gone to Stockwell on the night in question for the purpose of an amour, and securing the flight of a young lady, who had been smitten with one of them. Mr. Hedger was then sworn, and he deposed, that on his return home to Stockwell from Kingston, where he attended as one of the grand jury at the assizes, on Monday evening, about half -past six o'clock, he was informed by a watchman, who stood near his gate, that two suspicious -looking persons had been for some time lurking about the place, adding, that he believed their intention was either to waylay him, or to break into his premises. Upon this information, Mr. Hedger desired the watchman to point cut the suspected parties ; and the words hail been scarcely uttered, when two tall men came along together up a new road at the aide of Ir. Hedger's garden, and through which there is no thoroughfare. The men weie both wrapped up in cloaks, and appeared desirous of concealing them selves from observation, and walked with quick and hurried steps into the Clapham-road, on gaining which they separated. The moment Mr. Hedger found their intention was to elude notice, he run forward and seized the individual who represented his name to be Seymour, while the watchman se cured the ether person, named Junk, and they were forthwith conveyed to the watch•house at Clapham, where, on searching the latter individual, a curiously constructed portable ladder, together with a loaded pistol, were found concealed underneath his cloak. On the person of the other were found 37 sove reigns, besides several letters, many of them written in a female hand, directed to " Mr. Seymour," and couched in the language of a lady deeply enamoured with the person to whom they were addressed.— Upon both the accused were found watches.— In answer to the interrogatories put to them the next morning, when taken before Mr. Puckles, the Magistrate, they gave such a confused account of themselves, and appeared so ex• tremely anxious to conceal either their real names or , the motives that induced them to be lurking about Mr. Hedger's premises under such circumstances, that left that gentleman no other alternative than that which he adopted—namely, making oath that he believed, from the facts of a loaded pistol and a bidder being found in their possession, together with a large sum of money, they either had committed felony, or intended to make the attempt on the night in question. Mr. Hedger then stated a fact which he considered still strengthened the suspi cions entertained against the accused. A day or two before the circumstances just explained had taken place, he received an anonymous letter, stating that bit house was to be broken into and robbed at a cettain hour on Monday night, and describing the persons and dress of the two men who were to effect the burglary. Mr. Hedger remarked that he never placed much confidence in anonymous communica tions ; but, in order to guard against the worst, as he waq about to leave town for Kingston, he re quested his brother-in-law to remain at his house until his return, and to prepare himself with fire arms in the event of any attempt being made to enter the premises. At the ♦ery time mentioned in the letter alluded to, the accused made their appear ance close to his house, and the description given of the dress exactly corresponded with that in which they notv appeared. Mr. SWABEY here perused the letter alluded to, which stated that one of the two men who were en gaged in the affair would appear in the dress of a Mr. Hedger—Let the person who says his name s Junk throw aside his cloak, and then will be seen the dress he wears. The individual named immediately unhooked the clasp of his cloak, and on pulling it off appeared in a sailor's blue jacket and trousers. Mr. Harmer did not mean to palliate the conduct of either of the young men on the occasion ; but in the possession of one of them were found letters which would explain the whole business, and satis factotily demonstrate tbat the intention on the night in question was to facilitate the escape of a lady, who corresponded with Mr. Seymour, and who had written a letter to that gentleman, describing that she was then on a visit at Mr. Hedger's house, along with her mother, and imploring him to avail himself of the golden opportunity that then presented itself of an elopement together. Mr. Harmer said that it would be perceived by the lady's letter to Mr. Sey mour, that she had instructed him in the best mode of accomplishing her escape from the house where she was on a visit, beseeching him, above all things, to bring a ladder with him in order to scale the garden wall, and also to have a glass-coach in readi ness to whip her off and elude pursuit. The letter then went on to state, that Mr. Hedger had slipped down, owing to the ftoit, and injured his leg, from which accident he was suffering under lameness, and that would render it (very luckily for them) more difficult for that gentleman to join in the pursuit that was likely to commence after her sudden departure came to be Ithown, Mr. SwABEY having expressed a wish to hear what account the gentleman, left in the care of Mr. Hedger's house during his absence gave of the affair, the witness very shortly stated, that being apprized of the anonymous communication alluded to, he armed himself with a brace of loaded pistols, and waited very patiently until the hour arrived, at which it was represented the thieves were to make the attempt on the house. While on the watch, he observed two men pass in front of the house, muffled up in cloaks. They stopped for a short pe riod at the gate leading up to the front court, and then turned round the coiner, and went down the road 11 the side of the house, and remained there some time. Witness was concealed from their view, end after having eine them pass along the Farden wall, he afterwards observed them reconnoitr►ng about the place, and when they separated they kept up a kind of signal, by answering each other's whistle. From their conduct altogether, he believed them to have an evil design on the house; and had be seen either of them place the ladder against mr. Hedger's garden wall, arid attempt to get over it, he would most assuredly have fired at them. He did not, however, see them make the attempt, and while they were lurking about, Mr. Hedger pat er- lived from Kingston, and both the suspected per sons were secured in the manner already described. The two watchmen deposed to a similar effect, adding that their belief was that the accused persons intended to " crack a crib" (break into a house) on the night in question. Mr. SIYABET then inquired of Mr. Hedger whe ther there was any young lady on a visit at his house that was likely to have written such an epistle as that he had just read ? Mr. Hedger—There is no lady on a visit at my house, neither has there been for some length of time; there is no person at home except my wife and my daughter, a little girl, and the servants.— " These facts show," added Mr. Hedger, " that it was not after a lady they came lurking about my house." Mr. SWABET asked Mr. Hedger, whether, after having read the letter, which was produced by the person who called himself Seymour, he was still im pressed with an opinion that the intention of the parties was to enter his house ? Mr. Hedger, with emphasis, declared that he still believed that to hay. been their object, parti cularly as they had refused to give their real names and address. Mr. Seymour regretted such an erroneous opinion had been formed of his and his friend's intention on this occasion. The fact was, a lady, who described herself to be possessed of considerable property, had formed a❑ attachment for him, as her letters would prove. In their epistolary correspondence she stated her wish to elope with him on Monday, and having expressed such a wish on her part, he procured the ladder and other apparatus to aid and facilitate th•! escape from Mr. Hedger's house, where she de scribed she was then on a visit. lie went there accordingly at the time she mentioned, accompanied by his friend, but on their arrival perceiving they were observed by the watchman, they did not make the attempt, otherwise it was their intention to have placed the ladder against the wall, and to get over into the garden, where they expected the lady would be waiting in order to elope. He declared that his account of the affair was true in every re spect, and trusted that after this explanation he sad his friend would be exonerated from the impu tation of being there with intent to commit felony. He added, that he was not aware that his friend had a loaded pistol in► his possession until it was taken from him at the watch-house. The individual who described his name to be Junk said, that he had accompanied his friend to assist in the elopement, and that he had not only given orders for the ladder they were to make use of on the occa sion, but he had also procured a coach for the flight of the young lady after he had assisted in getting her over the wall, and conveying her safely into the arms of her intended husband. Mr. Junk then went on to state that he had perused the letters written by the young lady to his friend, all of which breathed the most pure and devoted attachment. Most of the epistles were dated from Mr. Hedger's residence, where the writer represented she was then on a visit. Out of pure compassion for both parties he interested himself on the occasion, and previous to his having accompanied his friend on Monday night, he made inquiries all over Kennington,Stock well, and Clapham, to ascertain something about the lady who professed herself so enamoured of his friend ; he, how ever, could hear nothing, and believing the letters to be the genuine effusions of a heart devoted to love and constancy for his friend, on those conside- rations he accompanied hint to the scene of action, where they had not been long before they were apprehended as robbers, and taken to the watch• house. Mr. SWABLY said, that it was a remarkable cit. cumstance that the dresses of the accused should have been so accurately described in the anonymous letter. Mr. Harmer then called a gentleman named Ro bins, who described himself to Lave been formerly a silversmith. This gentleman stated that he knew both the accused persons, who were highly respect able, and was convinced that they had gone to Stockwell for the purpose they had mentioned. On Monday morning he had given Mr. Seymour 401. for a cheque which that gentleman:had drawn on his banker at Shaftesbury, in Dorsetshire. He was ::ware that Mr. Seymour had been for some time past carrying en an epistolatory correspondence with some lady in the Clapham-road, and that it was their intention to elope when an opportunity pre sented itself. In fact, said the witness, he spoke to me about recommending a mantua-maker to make dresses for his intended wife. As for Mr. Junk, (said the witness,) I have known him since he was nine years of age, and he now lives with his mother, who is independent ; and he is a most respectable young man I can declare. The accused were ac• cordingly remanded. COUNTY OF LIMERICK ELECTION. Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt, Bart., of Curragh, who is spoken of as one of the candidates for the vacancy in the rerrosentation of the county, occa sioned by the decease of Mr. Lloyd, of Breech mount, the late Member, appeared in the same character at the general election in 1820, when the present Earl of Dunraven, at that period the Hon. Wyndham Henry Wyndham Quin, who had been returned to Parliament for the county in 1818, in conjunction with the Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon, brother of Lord Clare, declined offering himself again to the notice of the freeholders, and, indeed, had his Lordship succeeded in being re-elected, he would only have enjoyed the distinguished honour until 1824, when by the death of his father (the late Lord Dunraven) he succeeded to the Irish Peerage, which disqualified him from sitting in the House of Commons, as an Irish county Member. On the Earl's retirement, Colonel Fitzgibbon (the former Member), Captain (now Lieut.-Colonel Standish O'Grady,) Sir Arthur de Vere Hunt, and Mr. 'Walter O'Grady, announced their intention of proceeding to the poll. A protracted and expensive contest accordingly ensued, but from the commence ment Colonel Fitzgibbon's return was considered secure, and the struggle lay therefore between the other candidates. Sir Aubrey's friends made ex traordinary exertions to ensure his election, but he was, nevertheless, one'of the unsuccessful candidates, Captain O'Grady, at the final close of the poll, her ing a majority of 409 over the Baronet; the num bers being as follow : Hon. Colonel Fitzgibbon 4061 Captain O'Grady 3251 Sir A. D. Hunt 2842 Mr. W. O'Grady 1878 At the general election in 1826 Captain O'Grady retired, and Mr. Lloyd, of Beechmount, the late re presentative, was .returned in his room, Colonel Fitzgibbon, the present sitting Member, being re elected without opposition, Sir Aubrey not solic►ting the suffrages of the freeholders upon that occas►on. The worthy Baronet, however, who seems resolved on obtainistg a seat in the Honourable House, has started as a candidate for the representation of the county, in opposition to Mr. Serjeant Goold, of the Irish Bar, and Mr. O'Grady (son of the Lord Chief Baron), who, it appears, have also entered the electioneering lists. Sir Aubrey has the repu tation of possessing considerable intellectual acquire ments, and the name of the Hon. Baronet figures in the list of contributors to one of the Annuals for the ensuing year. Sir Aubrey is otherwise known in the literary circles, as the author of a dramatic poem, entitled " Julian" published within the last twelve months, iiirpwßEcic.—By a letter received yesterday we learn that a foreign galliott is wrecked, and on shore on the Lougaand, near Boston. She is laden with timber and pipe staves, and her stern is completely out, so that her name cannot be learned. The crew are supposed to hake gone of, and abandoned her, but their fate is as yet a matter of mystet y. It seems they took their clothes with them, for all the chests were open and empty. Where the vessel is from, or bound to, has not been asoertsined.— Boston Gazette. COURTS AND SESSIONS APPOIN FOR 1930. LORD MAY Monday, Jan. 25 Saturday, Feb. 27 Monday, April 26 Tuesday, May 25 Monday, June 28 Saturday, July 24, R'S COURT. ifunday, Supt Senrday, Or' Friday, Nov, W e dnesday, • Wednesday, I LDF.RMEN. Thursday, June Tuesday, July 6 Tuesday, July 2 ' . Wcaine;day, Sept Tuesday, Oct. 11 Tuesday, Nov. Tuesday, Nov.. COURT OF Tus,day, Jan. 19 Tuesday, Jan. 26 Tuesday, Fab. 16 Tuesday, March 9 Tuesday, March 30 Tuesday, April 20 Tuesday, May 4 Tuesday, June COURT OF COM Thursday, Jan. 21 Thursday, Feb. 11 Thursday, Feb. 25 Thursday, Marsh 18 Thursday, April 8 Thursday, April 29 Thursday, May 13 - COURTS OF CONSERVANCY. tittaxEr AND MIDDLESEX. Wednesday, Jane 9, and Virekisieeday, Jlll7 !ON COUNCIL. nurstlay, June 1 Thursday, lTrhik uu" Thursda y,daaayYy D jDOS ate ESSEX AND PENT. Friday, June I I, and Monday, July 26. BAILEY. yv Thursday, July IN I Thursday, Sept. I Thursday, Oct. 2 Friday, Dee. fl A LL I Tuesday, J* l l 6 Wednesday, Sept I Tuesday, °et' 2 " I Thursday, Dec. g WARK. Monday, Jrly 3 Mouday, Oct. 25 NSTE R. Thursday, July 1 Saturday, July 11 Thursday, Sept• 9 Saturday, Sept. Thursday, Oct. fl Saturday, Nue. 6 Thursday, Dee. t Saturday, Dec. lf WELL. Monday, i Monday, Sept. 11 Monday, Oct. 25 Monday, Dee. 6 SESSIONS.- OL; Thursday, Jan. 14 Thursday, Feb. 18 Thursday, April 1. Thursday, May 47 GUILD. Wednesday, Jan. 13 'Wednesday, F e b. 17 I Wednesday, April 14 Wednesday, May 26 SOUTH Friday, Jail. 8 Weduesday, April 7 WESTM Thursday, Jar►. 7 Saturday, Jan. 23 Thursday, Feb. 11 Saturday, Feb. 27 Thursday, April 8 Saturday, April 24, Thursday, May 20 Saturday, June 5 CLERKE Monday, Jan. 11 Monday, Feb. 15 Tuesday, April 13 Tueaday, May 25 THE MARKETS. COAL MARY Adair's . 27s 9,1. Dean's Primrose.-- 0 WallsEndßewickt &Co 0 0 Ditto Bell Robson tsc Co, 4.) 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 33 0 Ditto llotspur...--- -10 0 Ditto Perkins and Co.— SS 0 Ditto 3tl 0 Ditto Russell's 41 0 Ditto Walker --- 30 0 SI: ips at market, 644---Shii E C.—Dec. SO l'itt's South Moor -- ,' IN ill ingto n . ..-0.---- ft, Lambton's Primrose Walls End 4 ' Walls End I > ens Walls End Stewart' 4 Russell's lictton's W.I. $ Hartley Pembertoollangennech Walls End small ps sold. 1 2 4 Ucaoll4, 'Ol COUNTRY CORN MARKKIIi DURING TI WI Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. 13 ", Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to s. s. to a. t. 58 63 32 SS 21 32 Andover., _ 53 66 28 34 " 28- Birmingham—....... 64 79 sS 38 3cr Bridport 56 74 32 39 96 34 -- Cirencester 54 72 24 42 9 18 8 20 • laringdon....—.—. 54 86 36 40 96 38 ..... Guildford ,43 '74 94 35 20 50 Henley 54 83 SO.. 35 28 30 •••• Hereford 64 84 38 45 40 Highworth ...—.—. 62 80 32 42 28 34 r Maidenhead 65 84 SS 9tl 22 30 • • Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 -- Reading 44 83 22 42 16 32 --- Salisbury , 49 60 21 34 22 92 "- Southampton ..... 54 78 27 40 28 99 Stroud 66 80 34 38 22 32 Tewkesbury ..... 6.5 87 40 12 30 38 • Uxbridge 48 81 21 32 19 32 .... 45 74 90 36 16 28 Warminster 42 70 23 40 22 32 -- 43 80 23 96 20 28 , Worcester---..... 70 77 36 40 24 32 CHELTENHAM MARKIIIT.—Dec. 29 . d. th‘, Per Bushel. a. d. to s. d. Pet lb. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 0 Mutton ........—•••••••• 4 ' Oats ....... Beans 4 9 3 6 L a ud ) ..... ..... ..... 6 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork ........ .......... 5 Hay 3l. 10.. to 31: ISL per too. to 31. las. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—Dee. 29. White Wheat (lser quarter) £3 0 0 to -CS 2 Red ditto Barley 0 !G Oats, New 0 I 0 1 0 Beam 1 1G 0 2 1 Oil Cake. New l2 10 0 per thous HULL MARKET.—Dec. 29. This has been quite a holiday market, and the' been a very limited business passing iu any deseriptiV Grain, either to-day or during the past week, of 0 the supply was to a fair extent, and the beet oonditi?',' „ parcels were taken by the millers at last week's pro with very little inquiry for other sorts. We do not o° ' any alteration in the value of either Oats, Beans, orr ery and the demand for each limited. The best runs of I I !: 1 , ing Barley were held for higher pri ces , b u t n o dispon shewn by the maltsters to give any advance; nil dull sale, and h ar dly m a i n t a i ne d t h e curren cy 0 ., week. The prices of Rapeseed and Linseed coot'. without variation. sti Wheat, Old —e. 58s. 60s. Vew -- Foreign —s. sea. 635. ln bond... --s• 4 1 Oats, Poland —s. 20s. ...... Small or Feed —s. 12s. 1Bs. Foreign —s. Ws. 225. Barley, Norf. & Sul 28.5. 30e. Linea& Wold Sb' Foreign Beans 2Ss .130 s. 21e. •-•4. Pease, White SO4. 3". G Tares 2os. 1165. F0reign......... n..—.... 2e Z . Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —4. DUMFRIES MA. s.d. s.d. 0. 4 .,,,, Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 6to 7 0 Butter, 1e105............, 0 - Barley 3 4 3 6 Eggs, doses .... . .0 v ..... ...... 0 Oats l 4 2 8 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal Potatoes, cwt. 0 6 2 1 8 3 Q Ve n a a l ri . e . r .. n" .... . L0af,.„........ .. 4 4 1 1 ~ CArrnr.—The market to-day was again very Ill' s supplied, the total nu m b er b e i ng on ly 107. The he cattle were in good condition, but very few of thee' / 1 ' sold ; the young cattle were nearly all disposed of, bid result of the sales cannot be of any importance. —., .KETS.—Doc.2I. BIRTHS. On the 30th inst, the lady of 11. S. Sutton, Esq. daughter. On the 29th inst. in St. James's-place, the Wi fe Archdeacon King, of a son. On the 30th inst. i n P or tl an d- p l ace , t h e l a dy o f Smith, Etq. , ,of at WI. MARRIED. On the 29th inst. Mr. W. Barker, sif Elisabeth, daughter of the late Mr. J. Natter, of SbC' Cambridgeshire. On the 29th inst. at Luton, Bedfordshire, the Be' f v Sikes, of Luton, to Helen, eldest daughter of the lste Burr, Esq. On the 29th inst. at Ashborne, John, only son () 1., Shuttleworth, E sq ., o f Hedsock-park, Nottinghatool" to Helen Katharine, daughter of T. Dale, Esq. of borne, Derbyshire. On the 30th i ns t. S usanna h, secon d d aug h ter o f fly Swainson, Esq. of Cooper Hall, near Prestsn, to R s : Ward, son of W. W. Jackson, Esq. of Normanby Yorkshire. DIRD. On the 2Sth inst. in Curzon-street, the Dowager ehioness of Donegal!. On the 28th inst. at Champion Lodge, Camberwell , W. Champion de Crespigny, Bart. aged 67. On the 30th inst. Richard, eldest son of Mr. Bent' of New Burlington-street. On the 26th inst. is Cadogan-plate, Mary, the W B. 11. Bright, Esq. On the 29th inst. Mr. John Tucker, of Old Brent' aged 68. Oa the 29th inst. in Lt , atienliall-street, Elizabeth l ". the youngest daughter of Capt. T. Lynn, of the East India Company's Service. On the 29th inst., in Bolles-street, J. H. Little, I'` of the Hon. East India Company's Bombay Civil Seri son of the late George Little, Esq., of Peneray-co' . Herefordshire. On the 30th inst., at Surbiton-place, Surrey, Ir:t o ' .l the beloved daughter of 11r. Alderman Garratt, in t 17th year of her age. PiMilli!, AND PLTABLISMLD srIUTIRDO Yousa, ANS SUN, Ortioa, 112, IkkaaaiD, 1- 4 1: 1 2Mies < ,