The Sun. — London, England, 1829-05-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or 'M LONDON JOURNALS. The Sale of. Grime Bill was read a second time last night in the - :House of Lords. The majority was It). The niponents of the Bill, who spoke, were Lord Malmesbury and the Marquis of London derry. Loed Malmesbury " knew that , there was ! at thi s time a great run on the country gentlemen ; and among other things it had been said that they, by means of the Game Laws, were promoting the extension of crime. He believed that the charge was unfounded, and that the Game Laws were not the cause of the extension of crime." Lord Malmes bury knows very well that all those who can afford to purchase game will purchase it ; consequently, that the law prohibiting the sale of game must re main a dead letter. Whatever we may think of the poacher, what are we to think of the ideas of hi; duty entertained by the legislator who enacts laws which he knows must be constantly vio lated ? " Gentlemen (said his Lordship) who re sided all the year round on their estates in the country, required to have this privilege, in or der to enable them to pass their time agreeably." It the law could be enforced, Gentlemen ought to be extirpated as greater nuisances than their prede cessors the wolves. When law is not reconcileable with the good of the people, no matter who makes it, it is tyranny. Now, to enact that any portion of the productions of a country shall be placed beyond the reach of all the inhabitants of towns, possessing infinitely more property than the landholders (if, as Sir James Graves stated, the latter for nine-tenths of their rentals are merely trustees for creditors and annuitants), and all the inhabitants of the country, excepting a limited number of owners of estates, is at variance with every justifiable principle of legis lation. The law, however, is merely a monument of the impotence of the Legislation, in so far as regards the prohibition. But waiving for the present, the co is:deration whether the law tends to increase p -vhing, and poaching leads to other crimes, what of moral culture must that mind have re• ived which coolly sanctions the enactment of laws which it knows, at the time, cannot he put in force ? Is it nothing that, besides the poachers, a number of men are every where ha-' hituated to a violation of the law ? We fear his Lordship's description applies to but too many of his class:—" Ever since our First Parents clothed themselves in skirts, we were all fens nature. Other domestic animals always retained something of their wild nature. A plump and well-fed lap cl.og, though in want of nothing, might be seen running with a bone to hide it in a hole. So it was with us." His Lordship, we think, generalizes ra ther rashly. Stealing may have attraction for well fed dogs and some well-fed men, like his Lordship; but in general well-fed men are not disposed to steal food. Men seldom steal what they can obtain with ease. A rich man may occasionally be found pick ing pockets; but this is as rare as the sight of a white crow. One would suppose that his Lordship considered himself bound to legislate to enhance the pleasures of the poulterer and the poacher, by giving them, in addition to their profits, the zest of consciousness of violating the law.—Morn. Citron. Our readers would see from the Morning Herald oe yesterday, that our Reporter at Rochdale acted a very proper and a very spirited part, when he was sn unnecessarily reproved by Farrant, the Coroner. Our Reporter acted very right in examining and giving the evidence of the witnesses after they had been examined by Farrant ; and we hope ti - at our Lancashire Reporter, on every occasion where Far rant, or any other Coroner, refuses him admittance, will take the witnesses into a private room, after their examination, give them some good bread and cheese and ale at the expense of the Morning Herald ; and take down and give whatever they tray say to the public. Our Reporter can do this and neither Farrant, or any other Coroner, can pre vent him. If Farrant, or any other Coroner, or Coroner's Clerk, should interfere, or should presume to enter our Reporter's private room, our Reporter will be justified in ordering or thrusting them out. We will see if we cannot get the better of these toronecs and their clerks.—Morning Herald. We regret exceedingly to perceive that another ef the original supporters of the King's College has heen induced to withdraw his name from the list of Shareholders of that most excellent And truly laud able institution. Whilst we respect the feelings which dictate this resolution, we must again remon strate against the excess to which they are carried. The main assertion which the new seceder advances as the ground of his determination to withdraw his name and interest from the College is not correct in point of fact, nor would it, even if true, justify to any dispassionate and candid mind the conclusion he builds upon it. The admission of Roman Ca tholics to Parliament and the Great Offices of Go vernment does not dissolve the connection between the Protestant Church of England and the State. The connection is maintained so long as that Church i+ exclusively upheld by the State—so long as the dig nitaries of that Church are selected by the State—so long as the highest class of those dignitaries retain a seat and vole., in the Legislature in virtue of their ecclesiastical rank. The effect of the recent Act of Parliament (and what we, who resisted it to the last, have of all persons the least temptation to ex• tenua'e), is to loosen that connection for the pre sent and to endanger it for the future ; and the duty which the new circumstances plainly and strongly enforce upon all the true friends of Church and State, who sincerely believe that their union is ad vantageous to both, is not to relax in their exer tions, but rather to redouble them for the preserva tion of the remaining institutions which still serve to cement their connection, and to plant and cultivate suet) new institution as, like the King's College, seem calculated to strengthen andperpetuate it. Admitting even that the connection between the Church of Eng land and the State were dissolved, are they to be consi dered as steadfast. friends of either, who, professing themselves to be convinced of the value of that connsction, are prompt to abandon dee intermediate measures tending to its renewal ? Are thi doctrines end discipline of the Church of Englatel less wor thy of being maintained in the estimation of the people because there are persons who fancy that she is no longer indissolubly united with the Slate ? Are politics every thing, and religion nothing, in the opinion or any man who ever could have been a consistent and valuable patron of'a British seat of learning? The determination to erect a College in the Metropolis, to he regulated upon Church of England priucinles, and governed by the high au thorities of that Church, arose from the obvious ne cessity of counteracting the influence of another Collegiate Institution already established, which, pretending to spurn altogether the duty of ad ministering religious instruction, tended its fact to ea courage Sectarianism in preference to the faith of the National Church, and infidelity in preference to either. Has the admission of the Catholics to political power diminished this danger, or rendered measures to coun teract it less necessary than they were before ? Or have these seceders from King's College discovered some less objectionable or more efficacious means of counteraction than that of establishing an University :n which religious instruction is to be a principal ob ject, and to be imparted under the direction and superintendence of the Heads of the Church of Eng,- land ? We would remind them that the very name of such a rival to the Freethinking University has already operated by anticipation to render the latter less dangerous to the religious sentiments of the youth of the metropolis tb It was at first designed to be, by compelling tie Coenci; so far to depart from the original design as to give . s. eoet of half sanction to religious instruction, and to incite o,letn to persevere, by the confident assurance that this early triumph is but the earnest of greater triumphs yet to come. The seceders lose their confidence in the character and effects of King's College, because it is liable to be deprived of t h e patronage and controut of the . King's Minis stern, all of whom (excet . the Lord Chancellor) may now be Roman Catholics. This injury to the College (for we admit t hat it would be one), if it nrohablv so distant as to afford time for the accomplishment of much intermediate ' good, and the acquisition of sufficient reputation and strength to sustain the institution even under so lamentable an infliction. Hari it may be further re marked that the loss of the official lay visitors would not be likely to divert the establishment from its original objects, since it would then remain under the more exclusive authority of the Heads of the Church. We will not suppose that recent transac tions have so far shaken the confidence of any of the original promoters of King's College in the high dig nitaries of the Church of England, as to make them indifferent to the progress of an institution, merely be cause those dignitaries are to be entrusted principally with its management. No man, so far as we have learned, has yet avowed so violent a revulsion of feeling, and no man can avow it without at the same time, if he be consistent, declaring the opinion, that the Catholic Question having been carried, Oxford and Cambridge are no longer beneficial institutions, and that henceforth no attack whatever upon the Church of England itself ought to be resisted.— These desertions, and they are but few, we can only ascribe to a temporary ebullition of temper. A little cool reflection will be sufficient to restore the deserters to their former honourable and meri torious course. At all events, we do not apprehend that the example will he contagious, but confidently expect, on the contrary, that the powerful and nu merous friends and patrons of King's College, who still adhere to the opinion that such an institution is necessary, and must prove highly advantageous to the rising generation, will exert themselves in its support with redoubled energy and zeal.— Morning Post. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Downing-street, May 8, 1829. The King has been pleased to appoint Major-General Sir James Carmichael Smyth, Bart. to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Bahama Islands. Downing-street, May 11. The King has been pleased to appoint Edward A. W. Drummond hay, Esq. to be his Majesty's Agent and Consul-General in all the dominions of the Emperor of Morocco. Crown-office, May 12. MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PAR- LIAMENT. Borough of East Looe. Henry Thomas Hope, Esq. of Duchess-street, London, in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel James Drummond Buller Elphinstone, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. Commissions signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Glamorgan. John Homfray, Esq. to be Deputy Lieutenant. May 1. Whitlock Nichol', Esq. to he ditto. Miy 1. Swansea and Gentlemen Yeomanry Cavalry. Thomas Penrice, Esq., to be Major-Commandant, vice Hughes, deceased. April 20. Henry Lucas, Esq., to be Captain, vice Penrice, pro moted. April 20. Thomas Thomas, Esq., to be ditto, vice Evans, resigned. April 28. John Strick, Gent. to he Lieutenant, vice Steph. n Bowen Jones, resigned. April 20. John Henry Hammond Spencer, Gent. to be ditto, vice Thomas, promoted. April 29. Commission in the Clumber Troop of Sherwood Rangers, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the Comity of Not tingham. Geryas King Holmes, Gent. to be Second Lieutenant. May 1. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Antonio Joze Meirellea, Liverpool, merchant. Thomas 'Henry Coe and Frederick Farmer Moore, Old Change, Cheapside, printers. Archibald Allardyce, Chadwell-street, Clerkenwell, baker. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. Ann Peowrie, Manchester, milliner. Charles Lister Lee, Leeds, stuff-manufacturer. Thomas Smith, Watling-street, warehouseman. Hugh 3PCulloch and Samuel Stocks, sen., Watling. :reef . , warehousemen. BANKRUPTS. John Fowler, High Haider), Kent, victualler, to sur• render May 13, at one, 22, at twelve, and June 23. al ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Jordan, Lincoln's. Inn-fields. Hugh M'Culluch, Watling-street, warehouseman, May 22, 29, and June 13, at eleven, at the Court of Commie sinners. Richardson, Shield, and Francis, Poultry. Lewis Williams, East-road, Hoxton, victualler, May 22, at one, 29, at two, and 23, at one, at the Court of Commissioners. Vandercom and Cowyn, Bush-lane, Cmnon-street. Payment of Debts and of real Estates, and the Illu. sore Appointment Bill. Sir LEXANDER GRANT brought up the Clerk of the Pleas Bill (Ireland) and the West India Dock Company Bill. Lord DACRE moved the third reading of the Covent-garden Vestry Improvement Bill, which, together with several others, were read a third time. Lord SKELMERSDALE presented a petition signed by upwards of 8,000 inhabitants of Great And Little Bolton, praying their Lordships to prevent the payment of wages, otherwise than in money. RENEWAL OF THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S The Marquis of LANSDOWNE rose, agreeably to his motion, to present a petition from the respee- ' table inhabitants of Manchester, praying their Lord ships to take into consideration the expediency of opening the trade to the East. Indies, and the expediency of imposing such limita tions as that opening would require upon the pre sent charter of the East India Company when it came to be renewed. If their Lordships wished to discharge their duties as Legislators, they would not fail to familiarise themselves with the important considerations that arose out of the present petition. It propounded a series of most important questions, upon which their Lordships must form definitive opinions in the course of a few years. It often hap pened that their Lordships were under the necessity of forming opinions upon matters either upon prin ciples of government or of commerce. In the present case they might be called to do so with respect to distinct interests arid countries, which could not be brought under consideration but by industry on their part. He hoped their Lordships would not shrink from the great, if not insuperable, difficulties of the present question. He did not mean by what he had just said to call on the Noble Duke at the head of his Majesty's Government for any declaration by which to regulate the opinion of their Lordships on the present question ; he not only did not do so, but he hoped they did not form any thing like a rash opinion. The documentary evi dence alone could enable any one to form a judgment satisfactory to themselves. Their Lordships by this measure would have to determine the commercial pro sperity of England ; they might have to determine on that which might affect the Constitution; they would have to determine on the lot of 60 or 70 millions of people, whose interests had become connected with theirs. All that he now asked was, to hear from the Noble Duke opposite, not what was his opinion, but what was the course of Parliamentary inquiry he wag prepared to recommend ? He was sure his Majesty's Government must be as anxious as he was to enable their Lordships to come to a final decision. It had been usual in great questions of this sort to institute a Committee, for the purpose of bringing before their Lordships all the knowledge and details possible. But whether it was the intention of Government that such a Committee should be formed or not, he was sure it was their wish to suggest as convenient a form as possible, for bringing the matter before their Lord ships. He should not allow the session to close without moving for such documentary evidence as he might consider important. That evidence might be prepared during the recess, and their Lord. ships would be enabled to come to the consideration of this important subject next year, when all the materials were before them. That motion he should make at a convenient period. All that he asked in the mean time was, assurances, which he had not the least doubt would be given, that ample CHARTER. Nicholas Weeks, London-street, Fenchurch-street, mer chant, May 19, at ten, 26, at nine, and June 23, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Swain, Stevens, Maple, Pearse, Hurst, and Stevens, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. Benjamin Mathews, Hoopertsquare, Goodman's-fields, victualler, May 22, at eleven, June 5, arid 23, at ten, at the curt of Commissioners. Matanle, Pancras lane, London. James Wright, Manchester, bookseller, May 25, 27, and June 23, at two, at the York Hotel, Manchester. Taylor and Son, Manchester ; Ellis, and Co. Chancery lane, London. Thomas Talbot Harington, Cornhill, merchant, May 19, 28, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commis sioners. Bourdillon, Bread street, Cheapside. Richard Mitton, Storth inaLinthwaite, York, cloth merchant, June 10, 11, and 23, at nine, at the White Horse Inn, Huddersfield. Walker, Lincoln's-inn-fields; Peace, Hudderafield. Robert Gribble, Barnstaple, Devonshire, linen-draper, May 22, 23, and Juno 23, at one, at the White Lion Inn, Broad-street, Bristol. Jenkins and Abbott, New Inn, London ; Clarke and Son, Bristol. Richard Edwards, N e wport, Shropshire, grocer, May 22, 23, at ten, and June 23, at two, at the Commercial Rooms, Bristol. Poole, Greenfield, and Ganalen, Gray's- Inn-square ; Livetts, Bristol. ktichard Coster, Staining-lane, Cheapside, merchant, May i, , gfi, at twelve, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of Commissiokeye. Ruslibury, Carthusian-street, Char terhouse-square. Chivies Hewett. Sidmouth i pevon, tardener, June 12, 0, and 23, at eleven , at: the Had .Moon lnn, Exeter. Lys, 'foore-court, Chancery-lane ; Steven, William Sheppard, Purton, Wiltshire, linen draf t er, May 22, 23, and June as, at twelve, at the White Lion i Inn, Bristol. Clarke and son, Bristol ; Jenkins and Ab bott, New Inn, London. Mary Teague, Redruth, widow, May 20, lune V, and 23, at tea, at Pearce's Hotel, Truro. Adlington, Gre gory, and Fa4.1./e4er, Bedford-row, London r ; Edwards, Simmons, and Paul, Truro. John Taylor, Manchester, g eneral dealer, June 1,2, and 23, at eleven, at the York Manchester. Milne * and Parry, Temple, London ; Ainsworth, Crossley, and Ludlow, Manchester. Anne Peowre, Manchester, milliner, May 25, 26, and June 23, at ten, at the Star Inn, Manchester. Hurd and Johnson, Temple, London ; Jj/anchester. John Henry Jutting, Crescent, Claplogi-Paraamon, com miusion-anerchant, May 26, June 5, and 2el, at tw.cla , p, at the Court of Commissioners. Hutchinson and Stnetorb Crown-court, Threalneedle-street. John Alder Bradley, 114,1 me, Lancashire, surgeon, June fa, 6, and 23, at nine, at the White Bear Inn, Manchester. Clarke, Richards, and Metcalf, Lincoln's Inn, London ; Higginbottorn, Ashton -under-Line. John Finlaysan, eheltenham, Gloucestershire, music eel er, May 15, 29. at the Nam inn, Gloucester, and June 23, at the Royal Hotel, ,Cheltenhom, A t eleven. King, Sergaant'is-inn, London ; Croad, Cheltenham. John Walton, sen., Leeds, Yorkshire, cloth-dresser, May 18. at tea, June 20, 23, at elevets, at the ,Court- House Leeds, Wilson, Southampton-street, Illoornsburb London ; Coup!and and Shaw, Leeds, time and opportunity should be allowed for the consideration of a question of such importance. The Noble Marquis requested that the petition might be read at length, stating that it embraced the whole commercial feelings of Manchester, and he had reason to believe the feelings of all large towns. Lord ELLENBOROUGH could assure the IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT Noble Marquis that his Majesty's Government felt the extreme importance of this question. He could assure him also that the Government, from the day on which he had the honour to be a Member of it. He had never had the sub ject out of view, nor had it ever been absent from his mind. He had taken means of obtaining the fullest knowledge which would be laid before their Lordships at the proper period. It was his wish that their Lordships should have the fullest information, and he could assure the Noble Marquis that his Ma jesty's Government by no means wished their Lordships to pass any measure without having the bearings of it weighed in every point of view. But he was not prepared at the present mo ment to state what course his Majesty's Govern ment might think proper hereafter to advise the adoption of. Lord CALTHORPE presented a petition from from the members of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers of Birmingham, to the same effect. The feelings of the manufacturers and mercantile people throughout this great empire were alive on this subject, and the most intense solicitude existed that the Legislature should take the question under consideration, for the purpose of reforming the system. The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from the County of Suffolk, praying for protection► to the British Wool Growers against the importa tion of foreign wool. Lord DARNLEY postponed his motion till Monday. The LORD CHANCELLOR then rose to move the second reading of the Bill he had intro duced on a former night for facilitating the admini stration of justice in our Courts of Law. I►► doing so, the Noble Lot d entered into details at great length of the present vexatious system of the Court of Chancery, in which there were no less than 40 millions of money locked up, to abide the event of suits hereafter to be disposed of. (We observed Sir James Scarlett, Sir Charles Wetherell, Mr, Sergeant Bosanquet. Mr. Sergeant Cross, Mr. Sugden, Mr. Bickersteth, and many others of the long robe below the throne, for the purpose of hearing this oracle of the law, as well as numbers of Attorneys and Barristers below the Bar. (LEFT SITTING. HOUSE OF COMMONS. A considerablp number of persons had assembled this afternoon in the neighbourhood of the House, it being generally reported that Mr. O'Connell would attempt to take his seat ; but, evidently much to the disappointment of the curious, the Hon. Gentleman did not make his appearance. Several private Bills were read a third time and passed. Mr. Alderman WOOD moved the third reading of the Bi;.1 for Improving the Approaches to the New London Bridge,—p.ead a third time and passed. Mr. GRATTAN moved for • return of the number of Houses of Industry in Ireland, and the SUMS eypended therein for the maintenance of the poor since the veer ),sp. Petitions were presented from several places in Scotland, against the Scotch Gaol Rill, The peti tioners prayed that the Bill might not pass into a law. THIS EVENING. 1 7 10 2 US;; - ; OF LORDS. Mr. BANKES, Col. SIBTDORVE, Mr. BLACKBURN, Sir EpwARD LLOYD, and Mr. DAVENPORT, hroueht up seyeral private Bills. Mr. SuGpyzi brought up the Infant Property fill, a Bill for amending the laws relating to the Transfer of Estates, a Bill for facilitating the tition from Carlisle, and another from a place the name of which we did not hear. Sir EDWARD KNATCHBULL presented a Petition from the Hundred of Tenterden, in Kent, against that clause of the Bill, for regulating the subject . of Anatomy, which directed that the un elaimed bodies of paupers dying in workhouses should be given for dissection. LIVERPOOL PETITION. Mr. HUSKISSON said he rose for the purpose of presenting a petition of paramount importance, of which he had given notice yesterday, although he did not anticipate any debate upon it, as the motion of the Hon. Member for Bridgenorth on this mo mentous subject stood for Thursday night, yet he would not feel gratified in not shortly stating the grounds upon which the petiaioners ventured to address the House. It would be recollected in the year 1813 the East India Company's Charter was renewed, when a long inquiry took place; that in quiry was instituted in consequence of the number of petitioners that were at that time presented, praying ft:r a free participation in the trade to Bri tish India. The result of that enquiry it was not necessary for him now to state. Men of the greatest eminence and intelligence were examined OR the subject, amongst whom were Mr. C. Grant and Sir Thomas Monroe. It certainly was the opinion of these eminent characters, that the free intercourse with India would not increase the trade, the natives of that country leading such a simple mode of life, that there was no probe hility of extending commerce amongst them. He believed, however, that every person must allow that the opinions contained in this petition were those of persons best acquainted with the commerce of Great Britain. The trade was partly thrown open under many obstacles and many difficul ties to persons who know nothing of the country. commerce might be partly said to have been thrown epen on the Ist of April, 1814. Now the country had had the experience of about fifteen years. If he supposed that fifteen years, even in the life of an individual, would not leave him in a period of in fancy ; but when it related to the commerce of two great parts of the globe, he could not but consider it any thing short of a sufficient experience He would not go into the details which had already been stated to the House by other Hon. Members, but he thought it necessary to say, that in the year 1814, when the trade was first thro Am open, the whole export of this country to India, amounted to only one hundred and sixty thousand put in the last year the export amounted to 5,800,0001. Another complaint of the petitioners was, the mono poly of the trade to China by the East India Com pany. He thought it s;ngular indeed that all foreign countries should have the privilege of trading to the English ports there, and carrying carrying back their return cargoes of British pro duce to China direct, whilst the English merchants were debarred from doing so. He kuew that in the course of last year no less than eleven American ships had entered the port of Liverpool, and had taken out cargoes which they were at liberty to carry to any part of the world. It appeared the more strange that the Company should persist in keeping tip the prohibition in respect to British merchants, when others were exempt from such restrictions, and he was also led to think that the monopoly was a serious injury to trade in general. These were the principal grounds upon which the petitioners called for redress, and he apprehended that he had said enough to show the House that the subject was worthy of the fullest consideration. Indeed, independently of its great importance as a commercial question, he thought :that he might put it even upon higher ground. He considered that we held that country by conquest, and in proportion as we stimulated the exertions of that people, so were we bound to en deavour to raise them in the scale of moral worth. (LErr sirriwo.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. The only case brought before the sitting Magistrate yesterday, arising out of the cutting proceedings of the journeymen weavers, was the following : James Clifford was placed at the bar before Mr. BROUGHTON, a quantity of silk in his loom, the property of Messrs. Stephen Wilson and Sons, of Clseapside, having been destroyed on Saturday night, after the understood cessation of hostilities. The defendant was apprehended by Hanley and Waters on Sunday, upon information of what had taken place.— There were three other looms in the same workshop with property belonging to other manufacturers, but only that of Messrs. Wilson were destroyed, as now produced. The whole mass of silk was cut so as to render it completely valueless, and the reed itself was broken. From evidence given, it appeared that the defendant had received money in advance, and went to the warehouse on Saturday forenoon to ask for money. He was refused an advance of money upon the work, but the foreman lent him ss, out of his own pocket. From the defendant's statement, it appeared that after he had been to the warehouse he met with different persons, with whom he had long conversations upon the hard times, and low prices paid upon certain works. To some of these persons he had represented the deplor able condition of his family, that he had not a crust in the house to give his children, and that when he went home he should be obliged to sell his favourite bird. He reached home between nine and ten at night, and at his door some man accosted him, and said he had come about the bird. " What bird?" asked the defendant. " Why," said the man, you said you wanted to sell the bird." Defendant then went up stairs, and the man followed ; but the de fendant was afterwards surprised to find that two men had entered, and while his back was turned to get the bird, the work was cut. He made an alarm in the house im mediately afterwards, and informed the people in the house that the work was destroyed. A female in the house corroborated in part tbe defend ant's statement. Waters, the officer, who had been in the silk trade, ex plained to the magistrate the nature of the injury done to the work. Whoever did it must have taken some time to get at the reed, which was snapped in two, and the silk on the roller was cut across in two places, so as to spoil the whole. A person so near as the defendant described should have heard the reed break. Mr. BROUGHTON (to the defendant)—Did you not hear what was doing? Defendant—No. Mr. BROUGHTON—Nor hear the breaking of the reed? Defendant--No. Mr. BROUGHTON•-•It is the bounden duty of every man to take as much care of the property intrusted to him by his master as if it were his own, and if it was destroyed in the manner you say, you should have raised your neigh bours and followed with hue and cry. Your story is not to be believed. Here is a man with a family, with work in the house, but instead of doing it, is absent all day, telling long stories to people that he meets, and declaring that he has aot a crust in the house for his children, al though he has 51. in his pocket. Defendant—l had given 3s. to my wife. Mr. BROUGHTON—Your defence is a failure, and if you wish to get yourself out of a scrape, you must produce the men who came about the bird.—The defendant said he did not know the man. Mr. Bitootaterox—lf your story about the bird is true, know that rang you must. PaPacAWF9?Ess-This is a very serious matter. Here I Ond you the treasurer of a regularly organised system for au pportipg these men. It was, in fact, holding opt a pre:. Th ip, s! to men to destroy their master's work. "I am told," said he, " that 101. have been collected for a man EAST INDIA TRADE. Mr. W. wojTigpp,E presented a petition from whose work had been cut. Sp what a temptation is thus h e ld out to the men. Such a dangerous system must be • put a stop to." Manchester, prayi n g that the tr a de to India and Mr. Johnson said, he always understood 'the subscrip- He faiil agreed in tions to be to help the men out of their 'distress. He petitioners,but as this imp or tant w i g ht be mistaken, as th e mag i s t ra t e con f esse d h e hims e lf subject would cacao, under the consideration of the bad been. Wit h I . ..spec; to the people coming about his C th h e in prayer might e r of e h e t hrown House, on Thursday next, he would refrain on the house, that they would do, but no disturbances took pee present occasion fsl' , making any ohserwations there. The officer isf th e es t a bli s h men t cou ld p rove that resented similar Mr. LITTLETON p petition there were no disorders there. Mr. linoucierox—Th e ta ken mat of their from the Illanyfa,cturers of the Chamber of porn rk, and the public peace endangered. are merce in the Potteries, HP hoped ample oppor , w° Mr. Johnson repeated,that tunity would be given to supply ~.,carrnaept with opa p . ep to any thihg s y Fong :, • the necessary information on this important subject, A ft e r some ferthe r con v ersat i on , i 4 w hi c h M r . .lohoseß and that it woul d be coolly and deliberatel y argued. ' expressed his intention of relinquishing his treasurership to Mr. HART DAVIS presented a petition from the subscriptions in question, and not encouraging meet the Nerabants, Bankers, and others, of the City of iugs at his house for the purposes complained of, he was BristOl, praying that the House would not grant told that no further notice would be taken. any extension o f the East India Company's Charter. M r. Garton, the chi ef constable, said , he had received JAMBS GRAHAM presented a similar pp- atios that when a inttook lime a person Irpfeetn at re p sullied from the Crown Lad Audios, and, followed by about 50 others, followed and molested the persona making the seizure. Mr. Johnson warmly repelled the charge, and declared it to be false. After some further explanation he left the office. UN I ON- 11 ALL. CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING TO POISON ♦ FAMILY.— Edward Nunn, a lad 15 years of age, apprentice to Mr. Francis Cook, boot and shoemaker, residing in Bengal place, New Kent-road, was charged with attempting to poison his master and the family, by infusing a quantity of oxalic acid with the water intended for tea. The pri soner is an exceedingly diminutive and slight-snatle lad, and on being placed at the bar did not evince any dread or apprehension. Mr. Cook said, that on Sunday last he had a slight dis pute with the prisoner, in consequence of his not getting up at an early hour en Sunday morning. The boy after wards appeared morose and ill-tempered, but he went to church; and on his return home he refused to eat any dinner, alleging, as a reason, that he felt rather unwell.— During dinner time the prisoner absented himself from the room in which the family dined, and walked about the garden. About five o'clock in the afternoon he was called to tea; and on going down stairs Mrs. Cook, who was about to fill the tea-pot with water out of the kettle which was then boiling over into the fire, observed, that she sus pected something was the matter with the water, as that portion of it which boiled over left a white mark on the top and down the sides of the kettle, which was a copper one. Jane, the little girl, was called, and witness asked her whether she filled the kettle that afternoon? She re plied that shelled not; but that Edward, the apprentice, had filled it himself, and placed it afterwards on the fire. The ptisoner, who was within hearing of this conversa l i - tion, was then called, and questioned on the subject. He admitted that he had filled the kettle from the butt in the yard ; and when accused of putting something in the water, he denied it in the most positive manner. Mrs. Cook, on hearing the boy's declaration, immediately poured out a tea-cup full of the water in the kettle, and putting a portion of milk in it, said to the prisoner, "If you have put nothing into the water, yon will not hesitate to drink that off." The prisoner was observed to change colour when the draught was offered to him, apd said that he had already refused to take tea that evening, and that he should, therefore, decline then tasting the contents of the cup. Mr. Skito, a chemist, who had analysed the water in the kettle, discovered that it contained a large quantity of oxalic acid. The witness added, that he always kept a quantity of oxalic acid in his shop, for the purpose of cleaning boot-tops ; there was nearly half a pound of it at his house, and he always kept it in a jar, which was placed on one of the top shelves, with " poison" written on it, and out of the reach of persons, unless they got on a chair, or some such thing, to raise themselves. In answer to some questions put by the Magistrate, Mr. Cook stated that when he had the dispute with the prisoner, he did not strike him ; but merely expressed a determina tion that he should rise when he thought proper. The boy had never shewn any weakness of intellect ; he was always considered a smart lad, and the only fault with him was his propensity for telling lies. The prisoner could have had access to the shop, as the street-door opened from it into the back parlour, and was always open. Mr. Cook then produced a black-glued linen apron, which he was in the habit of wearing, and said that on Tuesday last on taking it off, he left it in the shop, when he was going out, and on his return he was surprised, on taking it up, to see a number of red spots all over it, as if some person had been trying experiments with oxalic acid. Mrs. Cook and the servant girl corroborated the evi dence of Mr. Cook ; the latter stated that the prisoner filled the kettle and put it on the fire without being asked, and which he wan not in the habit of doing. Mrs. Cook said that the water, when it boiled over, had the appear ance of soap-suds. A portion of the water from the butt out of which the kettle had been filled in the first in stance, and a portion from the kettle, strongly impregnated with oxalic acid, were produced by a constable, who found on the prisoner's person the following note to his mother : " Dear Mother—l wish to see you as sosa as you can, as lam in great trouble. lam suspected of an attempt to destroy Mr. Cook and his family on Sunday. lam now going to be taken as a prisoner to the watch-house, in the custody of Crow, where you will see me. " ED. NUNN." The constable stated that the jar containing the oxalic acid in Mr. Cook's shop appeared to have been recently handled, but had not been used by Mr. Cook. The prisoner had stated to him that he was aware of the pro parties of oxalic acid. On the way to the watch-house, the prisoner exclaimed, " I don't care if they transport me ;" and in passing part of the road, by the side of which was a ditch, he said that " he wished he was head long in it." A certificate from a medical man was produced, stating that the water contained oxalic acid.—The prisoner was then remanded. THE ARMY. Major-General Sir Sidney Beckwith, K.C.8., will suc ceed Lieutenant-General Sir T. Bradford, K.C.B. in the command of the Forces at Bombay, with the local rank of Lieut.• General. A Detachment of the 7th Royal Fusileers embarked on Sunday, on board a vessel in the river, for Hull. A Detachment of the 12th Lancers embarked on Sun day for Leith. The first division of the First Regiment of Dragoon Guards embarked on the 6th instant, at Liverpool, for Dublin. . The first division of the 14th Regiment of Dragoons has marched from Birmingham and Coventry, on route to Leeds. (From the Limerick Chronicle, May 8.) All the troops in garrison were reviewed at N ewcas tl e on Monday, by Major-Gen. Sir E. Blakeney, and Major- Gen. Sir G. Bingham, from the Cork district. After the review that excellent corps, the 60th Rifles, underwent their usual half yearly inspection in the square of the New Barracks. The 2d Dragoons, or Scots Greys, have commenced their march from Dublin for Cork, to replace the R,iyal Dragoons. Three troops of the let or Royal Dragoons marched horn Clonmel on Saturday, on route to Dublin, to embark for England. The heavy baggege of the King's Dragoons was sent from Cork to Liverpool on Sunday. A detachment of the 63d, under Captain Dutnas, is or dered from Plymouth to convey convicts from Ireland to Botany Bay. Lieut.-Col. Sir F. Stoven, 90th Regiment, is appointed Military Secretary to Lieut.-Gen. Sir John Byng, the Commander of the Forces in Ireland, vice Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Wiltshire. Lieutenant Bayley, 21st Fusileers, is appointed superin tending officer of the Recruiting Department at York, vice Lient. Murray. Captain R. King, R.E. is appointed Commanding Offi cer of Engineers at Dover, vice Lieut.-Colonel Smart; and Captain Barnes is appointed to the same office at Jamaica, vice Lieut. flotham. Captain Maclachlan, Royal Artillery, and - Lieutenant Lord Ramsay, 26th Regiment, or Old Cameroniaas, are appointed Aides-de-Camp on the staff of Gen. Earl Dal housie, the new Commander-in-Chief in India. Col. the Hon. J. Ramsay is appointed his Lordship's Military Se cretary. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SUNDAY, MAY 10.-High water 16 minutes past one o'clock.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrived the Mary, —, from Africa ; Nelson Wood, Ball, from Demerara ; Fin gal, Young, from Lisbon; Lightfoot, Hinde, from Ma ranhao ; Superior, —, from Mauritius ; Jones, from Charlestown. CLEARED OurwAnns.—The Sovereign, Onsfield, for quebec Apollo, Dawson, for Oporto; Mary Howland, ---, for New York ; Sarah, _ ~ for Messina ; American, Hetson, for Savannah ; Vigilant, -----, for Jamaica. Holyhead•—Passed inward the puke of Lancaster, from Calcutta; Sir F. Burton, from Bombay ; Bachelor, --, from New Orleans; Chieftain, —, from Calcutta; and Britannia, from New York. Passed outward the Mary Lord, for New York ; Mon tezuma, for Philadelphia; and Birmingham, all American, for New York. D fa D v l o N . :— foo 4 „e r n a , g f l?;C ti g n tti r i , p fa M re e w e e t l l . l 7 ,, g .p , r p a O ye M rs : plum -cakes, rings, refreshments, bottles, blub berings. God bless ye's, and gallopings away in a post cba* aofi four. WIRKsWORTPI.--,--ThEre bilS bern thiq parsons,iAndeWd of palish the unprecedented number of fifty-two funeral*, from the Ist of March last to the 19th April inst., a third part of which have been children; and the greatest part, if not all, have been from the town and two or three of the surrounding hamlets,..--Sheffield Mercury, LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD: ---- Of • The highe s t price of Bread in the Metropolis' iilOt h aair 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell homed. to 0 . " PRICE OF SEEDS.—May 11. • ' New Englissh Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) M l . 505. giale.""! Old Ditto Ditto New Foreign Ditl Old Ditto ..--- 506. 60s Basal , SUR. 40s. - New White Clover. Old Ditto Ditt0........, New Trefoil .......—.... Old Ditto ......--- 40s. 00s. - - 60s. 70s. laselsw. 1 4 a- 946. fine 90e. --s. OP* tib Grass T :fis. 41 - s: fine —•s• English Carravray 5eed..,—.....-..--;.-.... -s. 41s. al. fine'. Foreign Ditto , — B. .....g. ....8. One Coriander St. Foin (per Quarter)...-..............-s -4 .. -s l7s .. --4 4" ! , --46 ine , ;:: :. Rye Grass Pacey Ditto -----. . 40e. 50s. new -- 8 . ii . Linseed, for feeding -s. SBB. fine - 4 . '-' Ditto, for crushing Canary Seed, New Ditto Old White Mustard Seed--(per Bushel ) —.os -L":48 . 6s : Brown Ditto -s. Ss. W. Il Turnip Seeds, Rounds..,—.-................ -a. -s. 105., 60 %4 . Green and Red Ditto -s. 9s. 12i On 4 4_ ,: 55 1 :: .5. 4_ 4 fi e.d. t: --efififinnue:.,......7l'.-8."': Tares, Old-- Ditto New fine 'U''' .-4. -.-6. ~, 01,, Raise Seed, English, fine (per Last) SOI. &1L...-. Foreign ,"":-.---- PRICES OF HOPS.—May 11. ^ 61 " Kent Pockets....---„—,-...—.. 41 4s. 41. la d . to .., lA . Sussex Ditto .—.....,.............—.....-- 41. Qs. 44 gm. to ,-* ity. Esevx Ditto 'it as. 41, 10i. to 51• 'i, Farnham Pitt., Fine.., Seconds 01. Om. 71.05 . to SI -01. oy. 61. Os to 1 1 —"a; 31. Iss. 41. 4s. to w• 31 . 1 " 3 . 31. 18s. to 41. Ow 31. 15s. 44 ros. to .51. • Kent UN Sussex liitto Essex Ditto.. WHITECHAPEL HAY 31 ARKET,,May 9. „ 04 Hay .r...,.,,... 50s. Od. to 84s. Od. (lover ..- 60.. tkt. l O Straw 325. Od. to 38s. Od. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 461. Os. ....mow. Refined Linseed Oil v Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand 10.. .0 Rape Cake, per i'IIICE OF POTATOES,—May IL . Marsh Champions . 31. as. to 31. !OS. per tort. Kidneys Scotch fteds.--.. 4/. Iss. to 5/. Os. ditto. Oznobles and Shags ..........,.... 2/. ss. to 31. Os. ditto. PRICES OF LEATHER. d. to d. Per lb. d. to& 16 19 20 Tanned Horse Hides.. 16 21 22 Spanish Ditto 11i 17 Per dozen. 19 21 Calf Skims... Sti to 4llb. 19 14 141 151 Ditto 50 to 70Ib. 24 15} 17i Ditto to Solb. 22 18-1 20 Small Seals, Greenland 20' 21 RAW H Per lb. 8utt5....—.....50 to Ditto..-60 to (Alb... Dressing Hides Fine Coach Llidos Crop hides, 35 to 401 b. Ditto 45 to 501 h Dit tQ « 1.1.004.000 Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifers& Steers 2 8 3 0 Middlings 2 2 2 6 [IDES. Per Stone. 8. d. toy d; Ordinary Mat ket SHEEP SKI NS. Is. 9d. to 2s. &I. Sh i e s ar . 2dlin. to ia. 9,1 05 . . I. thi * 7d. Lambs Down, COAL MArt Boundary Moor 244.6 d. Heaton Holywell 3 Killingworth 29 3 Liddell's Main---..—,, 24 0 Pelaw Pontop Windsor 24 0 Tantield Townley 27 0 Wylam , 28 3 Walls End Brown's—.... 97 9 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 26 6 Ditto Cramlington..... 25 0 Ditto Hilda 27 0 Ditto Northumberland 27 6 Ditto Perkins and Co. 27 6 Slaps at market, 1014—Shi ET.—May 11. Od• Walls End Newntarch.. ms s ' o Ditto Ditto Russell's _S. Ditto Walker Russell's 31 32 Walls Fold Bettor) o 0 Walls End Stew Russell's Hetton's W w E. 91 6 0 cowlien ss. g Hartley Silkstone Field and Co. 0 Warde's Llanelly ey Tanneld Russrll'a small 15 o S Londonderry ips roll, 39%-thlsola. 011' Flour, per cwt. IRISH M ARKETS. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt• per barrel per barrel per barrel f —..--A---- - "" •°°I 20 stone. 16 stone. 14 stoke Ist. 24- s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. s. d. as. d. 5. C0rk..,..,..,. 31 0-3.5 0 13 0-19 0 9 0-16 6 20 6-24 o'l2 0 1) 0 Limerick 128 0-34 0 10 6-20 0110 4-13 0 1$ 0-11 0 0 °-... .,_11 0 Waterfordl27 0-35 0 10 0-16 01 6 0-14 0 18 0-22 0 10 1,-- 1 6 0 Clonmel ...130 0-34 0 10 6-16 0112 8--14 0 20 0-25 0 1 2 °.... tlO Carlow ..» 29 6-34 9 12 0-19 0113 0— 0 0 20 6-21 (.) o** . Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butto : ir i- -p. gel per lb. per lb. per cwt. lot. . 3d. —.... / 11. 11 ' 1 d. a d. d. a d. s. d. a s. d. s. et s. d. s. d. 1. 38 Cork 4—64 6 29 0-24 034 080 060 0 1 .1 nO4O 0 0 Limerick— 4 —si 41 6 30 0 —35 070 062 0 54 0 to v ~. 0 Waterford 4 5 5 6 20 0-26 6 8.4 076 0 66'0 5 3 t ) 56 0 Cloninel .... 3 —5 4 —0 27 0 —2B 073 065 060 05 ° 4 , ~... 0' Carlow. —. 4 —sjo —0 00— 0060 0 50 0±!71.- -_ l ..... :::>_f_r "'''• KILICIINNT.—Butter to —a. per cwt. ; Wheat 31 6 . t or per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 44a. per bag • Oats 99. to 126. Pe ' A la rel; B.aley 15s . to lie. ; Beef 4d. to 534 d. per lb. ; Dlutton.,,,"'7o to sd. ; Pots.' oes 2d. per stone; C Is. 2d. per cwt.; 0 . Pigs A. to 92a. per cwt. det that ka morn there ioa r lea a hr avytaheisebseb:einigli so n r n e i mc n o g ani s o ni f sde t ru l a l n e bslo w el HAMBURGH MARKETS, MAY 8. , i i y th th e elr .. .0 5* --ssr ' .' DORSEY- HA LLE, FOU a O'CLOCK. Whelit.-- .410 1 - • ' mand for the French market, yet the supplies rtc 411 1_,..._ samples, for which the holders are not disposed to'a • : the prices offered. The arrivals of the week are stated 41 ' amount to 1,284 lasts ; the exportation is. estimated l it • 837 Lasts.—Rye continues firm; for a few particulstil fine samples even advanced prices were olitained.-- 08riel heavy, and the prices merely nominal.—The greater paa l of our arrivals of 04s continue of inferior quatitY.• 14r ; eels of prime quality were in demand, --During then ten days of April seventy-one cargoes of corn Pr, through the Sound ; of these thirty were bound f" tish, ten for French, five for ' Dutch, and Swedish and Norwegian ports ; o f t h e reinain►ng if" nineteen fora rpgwaeratpsiacaruilpaorrfletty brwe vu the destinations were unknown. iollarf. Weight. Dantric Wheat Pomeranian Anhalt, white - red Danish ... .... Dantzic Rye "8 t 9 122.... .. 74 to, s 5 M a gdeburg h Barley Upland Oats ... Holstein Rapeseed The decline of the English and ": 1 7.1111 1 982-226621 : 30 n tttt:tt i :o h 1:11: f 1.2 6:1111 0 :45 86 04 52 s : se r tttt° l l:°: " iii ie '111116591661:14: a corresponding movement here, which was yet BY by the reported quarrel between Rothschild and the of England. The intelligence, however,, recOyed , morning from Amsterdam and Paris praying more 1 7, vourable an improvement of one per cent. has taken O W. since yesterday. End of May. Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan clig Hainburgh-Russian Loan Polish Bonds Austrian Bank Shares 1098 Austrian Metalliques 97g ~ Exchange upon London ...... at two months, 13 94 at sight Amsterd m, at two months, 35 40-M Paris _ ?BIM= and PUBLISHED by DIURDO YOUNG, st-il3. Ornex, 11k, sis Arm, LEMON. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst. in Bedford-place, Russell-Ware). Ella lady of George Burnand, Esq. of a son. At Torpoint, the lady of Lieut. Williamson, sou. 1 1 Y. At Catigwith, Mrs. Lory,Twife of Lieut. Lolls of a slaughter. On the Bth inst. at Chatham, the lady of Capt. Foli rr ' 59th Regiment, of a daughter. nth. At the Rectory, Great Cheverell, Wilts, on the I inst. the lady of Capt. Mavris, of a aughter. On the 10th insit. at Beckenham d , the lady of the Thomas Dale, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. Mrs. E. M. Disurnock, of .C.Ard i e fe' place, Kensington, of a daughter. MARRIED. f', On the 6th inst. at Reigate Church, by the Re. ° Snelson, George Cooper, Esq. to Mary, only daugh w ' Thomas Burt, Esq. On the 7th inst. at Paddington Church, by the i t, e cf t . Mr. Shutte, Mr. Alexander Elliot, of Osnalnirgb• Regent's Park, to Albina Henrietta, eldest daughter W. Lewes, Esq. of Chelsea. gi p, At Harbury, by the Rev. T. R. Bromfield , A' 0, Vicar of Napton, Warwickshire, George Adolphus 013', of Mark-lane, solicitor, third son of the Rev. Owen, D.D., Rector of St. Olave, Hart-street, 1.013`4L,r to Anna Maria Sarah, eldest daughter of Christ o P""„ Roberts Wren, late of Wroxhall Abbey, in the said coun'/1' Esq. deceased. DIED. `• On the 10th inst. at his house in Park-square, Young, F.R.S. in the 56th year of his age. te r On the 6th inst. at Wimbledon, Msry, youngest deug h of the late James Moore, .P.q. of Blackheath. On the 10th inst, at his late residence, Acre-lane, C 11; ham, Surrey, the Rev. Samuel Eylee Pierce, forlnirel Minister of Printers'-court Chapel, Shoe-lane, and De l - Chapel, Brixton, aged 83. On the 6th inst. Mrs. Dalrymple, wife of General' rymple, York-place, Portman-square. 1 1 ° U Os the let inst. at Durham, the Rev. George VV'tll aged 78. Gn the 19th inst. at Dulwich s Mr. George Flen3i9s' aged 25. on the Bth inst. at Bath, in his 80th year, Ford, Esq. On the 10th inst. after a few slays' illness, T. Cr Esq. of Seven Oaks, Kent, solicitor. At Thanet-place, Temple-bar, Strand, Jame' "t Esq. li - 4e Major 42d Royal Highbudera. ble At Cheltenham, Lieut. Col. Young, of the Hon ours Company's Service, Bengal Establishment. I