The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-12 00:00:00

SPIIIIT OF THE LONDON JOLTUNALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) The military operations which are every day un dertalten by the Turkish forces against the Russians , notwithstanding the obstacles of au inclement win ter, prove the unabated resolution of .the Sultan to carry on this contest to extremities. It might have been anticipated that the animal courage of the Turks, inflamed by the disappointments and losses which befel their invaders towards the close of the campaign, and further confirmed by the Mahometan addiction to fatalism, would become so intractable after the absolute retreat of the Russians, as to enhance to an unfortunate degree the danger that any negociations during the winter, for a peaceable adjustment of the quarrel, would be unpalatable to both belligerents. The Emperor Nicholas is said—we know not how truly—to have declared, that he will admit no mediator of his dispute with the Turks. declaration of that nature is seldom made where matters of purely tangible interest are at stake, and, ita fact, it is unsuitable to any circumstances but those which 'appear to the party to involve his re putation and honour. Russia, whose influence in the world, and whose European greatness rest be yond those of almost any power on the renown of her arms, has attempted so much against the Turks, and, compared with the enormity of her enterprise,has in this latter instance experienced such a signal fail : tire, that we cannot conceive the likelihood •of her lis tening to such terms as the Sultan, elated by her calamities, would be disposed to grant,'or as Eng land and Austria, whether in their character of mediators, if permitted to assume it, or in their more natural office as allies of Turkey, would deem it rea sonable to demand of her, or politic to enforce in favour of Russia, with a view to the general wel fare of Europe. The advantage of bringing about some amicable arrangement of a quarrel which may, if continued, embrace all Christendom, is too obvious to let us suppose that it will not be attempted by Governments which profess to beaieutral, but which have a substantial arid permanent- interest in the frustration of those extensive projects which are every where ascribed to the Russian Court. We take for granted that at least England and the Court of Vienna—and there seems no goad reason for not including France also—will prevent the overthrow f Turkey ; if by diplomacy, well: but if that should fail, by stronger modes of persuasion. Here, then, is a crisis for great skill and high spirit to display themselves. Two powerful though- unequal Em pires, fiercely bent on the prosecution of a war which neighbouring nations of no inferior resources have the most urgent motives for terminating. If England and her co-operating allies areas thoroughly resolved to maintain the :pacific interests of the world as the belligerent Powers are to indulge their mutual and resentful passions, the former will not permit their mediation, however anwished for by one of the principals, to fail, or to be trued with. If a mere peaceable tender ofgood offices should be disap pointed, there is another step—au armed neutrality, which would not be disappointed ; and to that Al ternative it is possible that the great neutral States of Europe may, ere long, be driven by the obstinacy of those whicq have broken the general peace. It is to be observed, that although Russia has been forced to leave many of her plans for the last cam• pain unaccomplished, yet the portion of them in which she has (by strange means, so doubt) suc ceeded, is one of the very.first importance to the prosecution of her future objects She has captured Varna, which, if she retains, will open a road for her to the gates of the Turkish capital. Varna is called by some military men the tete-du-pont of Constantinople, and the advantage with which the poisession of this maritime fortress will enable the Russians to re-commence their invasion in the next spring must be altogether tremendous. If Varna be made a depot of stores, provisions, &c., so as to serve the Russian army for a basis of operation about the Ist of May, 1829, as the Da nube did in the middle of June, 1828, there is no man can calculate on a march to Constantinople as a thing impracticable for a body of 200,000 Russians before the Ist of October. On this view of the subject we need only say that it will be easier for tl.e neutral Powers to iiegociate at Varna than within the gates of the Seraglio, and infinitely more feasible to keep the Emperor Nicholas from qii;tting his winter-quarters and re-crossing the Danube into Bulgaria, than to drive him back into Bulgaria when once he has got sight of the Bosphorus. As for the question, now a minor one, though unfortu nately mixed up with the grand one of the Russian war, viz. the formal surrender of Greece by Turkey, and the peaceable establishment of the new republic, it is understood that endeavours will be made by France and England jointly to carry the Greek treaty into effect with the consent of Turkey, al though, from what has yet transpired, the latter Government has little inclination to separate a single foot of Greece from the body of her Euro pean empire. We publish a letter on the present :aspect of the Russian and Turkish war. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) We alluded ort Saturday to the extraordinary ex citement produced in Ireland by the recall of the Marquis of Anglesca, and to the intention of the Irish to manifest their feelings towards him in the most marked manner. We have since received the Irish Papers of Thursday and Friday, which furnish the confirmation of our statement. " All the pa rishes in Dublin," says the Dublin Morning Re gister, "are in motion, and many, if not all, are expected to meet on Sunday. The primary design seems to be to express to the Throne, and to the British nation, the sense which is entertained here of the awful and perilous consequences which must infallibly attend the withdrawal, under misting cir cumstances, of the protection . afforded to life, h. herty, and property in Ireland, by the system of Go vernment established and pursued with such admi rable tact and impartiality by the Marquis of An glesea." We inserted in the chronicle of Saturday an admirable speech of Mr. Shell, commenting en a pamphlet which had just appeared in Dublin, said to be from the pen of Mr. Blake. In that pamphlet Mr. Blake, who has had excellent opportunities, as Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer, of be coming acquainted with the changes of property which have taken place of late years, •and, as Com missioner of Education, of being acquainted with the progress of education, states some very striking facts respecting these- two subjects. "He is (says Mr. Shell) the auctioneer of the Court of Ex chequer, and brings many a Protestant estate to the official hammer. - Thus he has seen the march of Popery into- Protestant possessions, and the' growth of education in the mind of Ireland.— Whar does he tell us ? He says, that within a few years one million of Protestant property has, in a few counties, passed into the hands .1 Roman Catholics. This transfer is independent of the mortgagee, and judgments, and custodians of Catholic incumbrance!, who have fastened upon and are devouring the Protestant fee-simple of Ireland." In education not received gratuitously, but paid for' by the parents, the Catholics have increased, since . 1811, from •145,01.;0 to 319,288; while the Pro testants, during the same. period, have only increased from 55,000 to 81,060. These are striking facts; and if those who are now in possession of political power be not besotted (which factions almost al- , ways are), they will take a lesson from them. Hera we see what always will be the case in a count r y like this, where property is not inalienable, and a career is open to industry, that estates are constantly changing heads, that men of substance descend to the bottom of the 60631 scale, and men rise from poverty to wealth. In England it is calculated from the auction duty, that land to the value of nearly the whole rental of the country is sold every year ; that is, that transfers equal to the whole land of the country are made in the course of about thirty years. lf, then, the Catholics out-numberthe Plotestants in the proportion indicated by the Edu c,tion Returns,-1. e. as 319,298 to 81,060—it is pretty eh...sr that the greatest part of the property must, as a matter of course, noun fall into the hands pf the Catholics. The proportion of men emery ing.from the bode of the people to wealth will be as • 319,288 of Catholics to - ,31,060 . to Protestants; that is, of all land in the market, four-fifths will come into the hands of Catholics. We believe:it is now tolerably well understood that power follows .pro perty, and that 110 Government against.which . pro perty is arrayed can stand. It has been showu,by able political writer:, that the great blunder commit ted by the Stuarts was the not •understanding that the Constitution of every country constantly changes with its constituent powers; and that property hav ing changed hands. in England, there was a corres ponding change in power. In an admirable "Essay on the Constitution of England," of which a Se cond Edition was published in 1766, this position is enforced in a very happy manner. " The spirit of discontent (says the writer), that is, the spirit of riches, power, and ambition, bad gone forth among the Commons; and as it diligently sought food for itself in James's conduct, it could not fail of finding it. His folly and his wisdom, his vices and his virtues, furnished equally matter for complaint. . . . . It is the nature of all animal force to take pleasure in exerting itself, as if it were instinctively independent of any consequences proposed by such exertion. A young bull shut up in • a field, with out enemy or rival to disturb him, as soon as his horns begin to sprout will level his weaponed-head against the first tree or post that happens to present itself. In like manner, King James's Commons, rejoicing in their newly-acquired powers, employed .them indiscriminately against every thing he ap proved of—civil and religious, foreign and domes tic." We wish the faction who are striving to pro voke the Catholics, would take warning from his-, tory ! The Catholics are anxious to conciliate ; they know the advantages they- derive from the Government under which they live, and their con nection, with us. At the close of the King's Bench sittings, in Middlesex, after last Trinity Term, there remained: for trial about 350 causes, whereof about 50 were special juries. Of these latter but one has been since sii4Posed of, the well-known case of Cooper v. Wakley ; it- had been previously postponed, und o pledge given by Lord Tenterden that he would try it before Christmas. Our sttrement exempli fies very strongly the manner in which the time of the first Court of Common Law is consumed in hearing suits which derive importance only from the costs accumulated during their progress, while causes of real magnitude, such as are usually tried by Special' Juries, are neglected.- This could sot, however, happen without the connivance Of the .Court ; as the Judge may, at his discretioo, select causes of any description for trial. Why, then, it will be demanded, does'Lord Tenterden postpone such as are of grave importance to give precedence to those trumpery matters which make up the mass 'of Common Jury causes ? Every • rational man must lament that fatal facility which, from the lack of tribunals affording a cheap decision for petty suits, is enjoyed by the less respectable portion of attor pies in this country for bringing actions with a view solely to the costs. Lord Tenterden cannot design to abet their &slimiest practice; bui if he deferred the trial of actions of this descriptioni would so many be brought ? Does not his pride revolt at the drudgery of determining questions level to, the fa culties of a village lawyer? Can be have so per verted an ambition as to aim rather at the popular effect of dispatching a long list of paltry causes, than at the solid reputation to be acquired by the judicious application of his talents and learning in the adjudication of .matters worthy, from their in trinsic. importance, the judgment of the Chief Justice of England ? Or is it, that the emoluments of his Lordship's son, and. associate,- Mr. Abbott, de pending rather on the quantity thin quality of the business done, this - consideration determines the Chief Justice's preference of causes which admit of the more speedy dispatch ? Alack, this left-handed wisdom infects, in this .money-getting age, the highest no less than the humble St-places ! (FROM THE MORNING ADVERTISER.) It affords us much pleasure to perceive that the " Butchers' Charitable Iwititution," the origin of which we noticed some time back, is proceeding apace, and that the subscriptions are corning in in a manner which affords us strong grounds for hoping that they will succeed in establishing it to an extent alike honourable to themselves, and useful to .the decayed and distressed of their .trade. Nearly 1,0001. have already been subscribed ; a►ul at the meeting. which takes place on Thursday, we doubt not that that amount will be doubled or trebled.— The great exertions in the cause of charity which have been made by other classes of tradesmen in the metropolis, and the complete success which has at tended them, renders it, in fact, imperatively incum bent on the Butchers to come forward liberally in behalf of their - own body; and we feel assured that the good intentions of the projectors have only to become generally known in order to receive the sup-. port which they deserve. They are generally wealthy ; and wealth cannot assuredly be better em • played than in providing for the relief of the aged and infirm—of unprovided widows and orphan chil dren. (FROM THE NEWS.) THE MARQUIS OF ANGLESEA'S LETTER. " England ! bound in with the triumphant sea, Whose rocky shore t eats back the envious surge Of wat'ry Neptune, is bound in with shame; Wi'h inky blots and rotten parchment bonds. That England, that , 4 as wont to conquer others, Bath made a shameful conquest of itself!" The age of miracles does not appear to have gone by with that of chivalry. We hare happily arrived at the - ne plus ultra of ruling by a divided Ministry. The Duke of Wellington must himself be ashamed of such a system of policy, since the publication of the coup de grace of the Marquis of Anglesea's Letter. The very form of Government is becoming dangerous, from the despicable, figure which it cuts, in the eyes of the people. The law in Ireland is in various places a perfect mockery. Blow but a trumpet and all were anarchy from Londonderry to Cork. It were stark-staring folly now for any. Ministry of Brunswickers to attempt to lead the Catholic Association; or to rule Ireland for another year with its present code of disqualifications. God help the anti-Catholic Viceroy that should supersede the Marquis ; he might as well get his commission made out. for purgatory at once. But something must be done immediately; events cannot wait on. the opening of the Session. Daniel O'Connell will now, virtually, be the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. We very much question whether Ministers will be able to find a successor to the Marquis ; un less in connection with some preliminary arrange ments contemplating partial Emancipation, it would not be prudent for any man to assume the office. It is in this point of view that the Letter of the Marquis of Anglesea is the most im , portant ; arid in reference to which it will be con demned as a most outrageous act towards the Go vernment, of which the writer was a most prominent Member. Hishould first have resigned, it will be said; and . that he' had no right to avail himself of the influence and elevation of the Viceroyalty, to scatter embarrassment and dismay, through all the ramifications of authority. This however he has done; and evidently under the consciousness that Justice must be rendered to the Irish people, before the exercise of his office can be made either benefi cial to. the Government or useful to the Empire. That Ministers had prepared no plan in respect to Ireland is now evident; the Letter to the Duke of Wellington to the Rev. Dr. Curtis, postpones the affair sine die; the Parliament was to meet; and the old split-difficulty course was to be pursued, as though it had been taken up on a life lease of the King tfrid his Ministers. The Marquis of Anglesea says that he did not know what the Duke of Wel fington's opinion 'on the state of the Catholic Question was ; and this is a most singular fact. Really, as far as Ministers are concern ed, the Duke had set the . example of passing the affair" into oblivion;" it was not only no Ca binet measure, but it was one in which ever; Mem. ber of the " Great Council" was to play Dummee. In appointing the Vice-regal power for Ireland, where the great question of Emancipation is almost the onl , y one that can he said to exist—directing and agitating all minds,-Lit was held superfluous in the Chief Minister of the - State -to give the slightest thought to the opinion or feelings of the person ex ercising that power. All that the Ministers have to do, is to.dispose of place; the understanding of each other beyond this, is either instinct or matter-of course discipline. We had talked freely" about the Great Soldier and the Milifary Service of his .Ads ministration; but he has really outstript all our cal culations; he has made all the Members of his Go vernment so manyfanteerini; but the Marquis has not exactly answered - the string ; and•taking the ad vantage of the fact, that the subject of Catholic . Emancipation was one that never troubled the . mind of Government, he has treated pretty freely of it us an individual. It is in this view of the case that-the Noble Marquis will stand free of blame. The more immediate-results of this dissertation on politics, ex officio, and the events to which it will 'ultimately tend, will furnish matter of grave inquiry. The guarded cautiousness which has recently marked the steps of Mr. Peel; and the secession of his brother in-law frotn'the back-bone Brunswiekers, gave note of a regular break-up of all the hopes of a Bruns wick Administration,. as far as that connexion went.* In the mean time the publications of Lord Kenyon and the Duke. of Newcastle, &c., with the establish ment of Brunswick Clubs in England, showed that there existed a party in the State prepared to go any length in an entire anti s Catholie principle of rule ; but this, like every thing, else, has been done in driblets; there is no general understanding on the subject ; some counties and towns contending that the flaw for Protestant exertion as a body is not yet arrived. We have been told that the mo ment it shall be attempted to force. the Royal conscience on some advanced and preliminary form of Emancipation,—the King will dissolve the Par . liament, and appeal to the people, We should like to see that moment arrive, because we think that ex cepting with the counties, where the agricultural population area little in the rearof the march of intel lect, 'a decided majority of voters would be found in favour of Equal Laws; and the influence of the rich Whig Aristocracy would take over a great portion of Borough's to the Catholic side. It would be a great national struggle however; and it does mow appear that we shall be driven upon it. There is a good deal of work cut out, as John Bull would say, by this very Letter of the Marquis of Anglesea ; it helps on a crisis that has been a long time slowly forming in our d .enestie politics. It was .like an ugly and unsightly indolent tumour on the human system, that resisted all the ordinary means of excitement; but which when once brought into activity, works by its own latent powers, towards a wholesome or a de. structive result. One consequence of this event in Ireland, will in all probability be some further partial changes in the Administration ; which will be patch ed up to meet the Session ; and then•a series of political explanations will be required, that must . elicit a light on the future. The Wellington Journal (the Standard) which considers the courier as ai " Trim ming To)*," combats the writings of the lamenting Editor of the said Courier on this subject ; and the more decided animadversion of the Times. We see plainly, from 'this Ultra print, that - every possible disgraCe is to be heaped on the Noble Marquis. The writing of such a letter, " without transmit ting a copy to his superiors," is called a " high misdemeanour!" Its " scope and tenor " are "to keep alive the spirit of the cursed Association." It was " unbecoming his rank, repugnant to the duties of his office, inconsistent with his engagements as a member of a neutral Government, and most danger ous to the 'peace of the .country whiCh he was com missioned to govern." Thus is the Administration constructed alternately in layers of fin ions Tories, trimming Tories, and trimming Whigs, bilging into a wreck. Whether. to attempt to supply the place of the Marquis; or to make a virtue of necessity, and abolish altogether an office, under the form of econoMy, - which could no longer be filled ; and which has for years been hawked about to poor noblemen of expensive habits,—now occupies the attention of the individual at the head of, the Go vernment. He can ill spare such a " sop to Cerbe rus," in the present straitened patronage cff Minis terial office ; and some time must therefore be taken to allow of consultation with the outposts of poli tical connexion. The event which we have de tailed,—but on which it would be idle now to offer any particular speculation, as every.- day teemi With its own commentaries in the shape of facts,—will lead us to the door of the Sessions with a great ac cession of pOlitical interest. Now is the time for the advocates of a liberal policy to sacrifice trifling shades of difference in opinion, and agree on some uniform principle of Parliamentary tactics ; a code of warfare in which they have hitherto been most la, incurably deficient, and to which alone may be as cribed the lengthened political existence of their adversaries. (FROM THE EXAMINER.) Blunders will happen in the best regulated prints; whether through the fault of the mystic characters of the writer, or the greater haste than - good speed of the printers, or the inadVertance of the reader, we Must not take upon us to decide. It is curious, and illustrative of the perversity of things, that the error always falls on a delicate passage--it never fails to hit a point in the eye. All eye was literally once hit with the most dangerous effect. In the Bible of Ecchillensis, the o heading a line, and the word oculo, in the passage of reproof .for seeing the mote in a brother's eye, &c. fell out of the form, and the text stood, placing the mote in cub of the .brother. A folio was instantly written on the blasphemous. and filthy corruption of the holy text, and the Editor had almost composed another folio in defence before. he discovered the ground for attack in this accidental flaw. A few years ago, we remember an unliicky but laughable misprint, which must have been almost as mortifying to the parties as the oto Ec chillensis. The Courier announced, with the regret. becoming a loyal subject on such an ocsasion, that his Majesty had had a fit of the goat. An a had wickedly usurped the place of the u, and converted malady into naughtiness. (FROM THE ATLAS.) The recall of the Marquis of Anglesea has divided public attention with" the flight Of Mr. Stephenson for the last few; days. - A measure more happily cal culated to awaken the contentious eleinents of the Irish character could not well be devised. .One party was just beginning to distrust the Duke of Wellington, and the other to confide in the Lord Lieutenant, when the Puke's . letter to Dr. Curtis threw. both parties into raptures. Being susceptible of two opposite interpretations, it was construed, not according to its • intrinsic "tnettning, or the Duke's past political principles, but agreeably to the prejn-` dices of each commentator. The Catholic Associa tion pronounced the Duke an emancipator, and the Brunswick Clubs declared lie was the best of Minis ters. In Ireland there is no moderate party—no sensible party—no cool, reasoning party ; therefore there was no body of men able to fathom the depths of the mysterious communication. All doubts .and dreams, however, were. dissipated in a few days by the abrupt recall of the Lord Lieutenant,' which seemed to justify the opinions entertained by the Brunswick Clubs of the Premier's intentions towards the Catholics. Except the recall of Lord Fitzwilliam, which the secret history of the period attributes to the influence of a family whose power it now rapidly decheing, pie do`not recollect a similar instance of Ministerial promptitude. Several Journals have at tempted to explain the cause of a measure for which there appears to exist no apparent justification on the surface of affairs; but we believe it will be found to have originated in the circumstances alluded to in our last, but which cannot be more fully explained until the meeting of Parliament. A Dublin Paper, supposed to be in the interest of Government, states that the cause of his Excellency's recall was, Since the Ministerial visitation on the Marquis of Anglesea, for presuming to differ with his Military Chi e f; on a point which all must admit the Viceroy to be from experience the best judge—it has been matter for addi tional wonder at the escape of Mr. Dawson, for his cele brated speech at Derry. The Peet interest, we hOtiever suppose, was found . greater than that of the Paget. • that be did not prosecute Mr. O'Gorman Mahon for the alleged assertions made use of by that gen tleman, for which he was deprived of the Commis sion of the Peace, This cannot be true. First, be cause, as the chief executive o ffi cer; the duties of the Lord Lieutenant are of a confirmatory rather than . of an originating character ; . and second, because it is the special province of the Lord Chancellor to suspend the unpaid Magistracy, and of the Attorney- General to institute Crown prosecutions. To recall the Lord Lieutenant, therefore, for not doing that which should have been done . by the laW authorities, would resemble the sense of justice entertained by the old man in the farce, who beat Tom for the transgressions of Dick. Rumour, of course, has named a number of successors to the vacant Vice- Royalty. The Dukes of Northumberland and Buck ingliant, and Lords Melville, Verulam, Sidmonth, and Powis, have been severally appointed and sir perseded by the voice of public report; but we can assure our readers, we believe upon good authority, that no appointment has been as yet determined on; and that the Cabinet have not entered upon any final determination with respect to the future Go vernment of Ireland. For some days past serious deliberations have taken place in high quarters upon the expediency .of dissolving the existing form of Ad ministration in Ireland, and assimilating it to the military establishment of Scotland; but we hate good reason to think. that the project, at least for the present, has' been abandoned. Sir Anthony Hart, the' Lord Primate " Beresford, and Sir John Byng, have been it is said, named as the Lord Jos ' tices during the iris!' Interregnum. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. On Saturday, a woman of very plain and unin viting appearance was placed at the bar before Mr. iIALIS, charged with having intermarried with W. :Eagles, her former husband, 1-lenry Goodman, being still living. The prisoner, when asked for tier name, gave that of Ilaniiak Andrews. Mr. ITALIA observed, that he supposed she h►►d a third I , ,,band, as the name she had given was not that oi . .either of the persons present. The prisoner replied that she had no desire to claim either of them. The second husband, William Eagles, having. been sworn, deposed that he Wll9 a publican, and, kept the Coachmaker's Arms, Rose-street, Long acre. On the 15th of September last, he was mar-. ried to the prisoner in the parish Church of St. Martin-in-the-fields, who on that occasion gave her name Hannah Andrews, widow. Mr. HALLS—Was it after' a long courtship you were marri. d to the prisoner ? The witness replied, that he had known her but for a very short time before she induced him to go to church with her. Mr. HALLS—WeII, and what was the inducement she held out to yon,—not personal beauty I should think ?- " You may say that, your Worship," said the witness, laughing .heartily, in which the prisoner herself joined; " it was not her beauty to be sure, and I should not have thought of such a thing but for the representations which she made to me of hex being possessed of so much property. She told me that her deceased husband had left her all his fortune, which consisted of several freehold houses in Wolverhampton, besides 400/. in the Bank of Sir Wm. Curtis and Co., and 1,4001. in a Bank at Cheltenham. Mr. H ALLS —B u t did you not endeavour to ascer tain the truth of her statement before the knot was tied ? " No, your worship," replied the witness, " I left it all to her own honour, 'as it were. The truth is, I was in want of a helpmate, and thought that an opportunity like this might not again occur : so I married her without delay, and found myself regularly hoaxed." • The prisoner here joined in the general laugh, and danced about the bar in an ecstacy of delight, to the no small amusement of the by-standers, including her two husbands, the first of whom kept winking and ogling at the prisoner, who 'nodded her head, and laughed and winked in return. The witness, es soon as order was restored, was desired to continue • his statement. He said that they bud been married only a few weeks when the prisoner decamped one taking with her every thin' , of value he possessed, even to his children's clotries'and linen. " Oh !" said Mr. HALLS, " then you too had been married before. Your first match I suppose was for love, as the last was for money." The witness scratched his head, and confessed that such was the case. Mr. HALLS observed, that the witness had acted Like a ninny; but the fact was, he had set a trap, and was caught in it himself. It was nothing i rp re than bite the biter. Mary Goodman then deposed, that the first hus band, Henry Goodman, Was her son, sad that they lived in the city of Worcester. She was present at her son's marriage with the prisoner, which took place on the 4th of June last in Birmingham, at the church of Old St. Martin. " What ! St. Martin again ?" said Mr. HALLS; " the prisoner had a strange predilection for the name. But how Is finis' hsis possible that she married Eagles only three monthS•after her marriage with your son ?" MrS. Goodman said it was quite true that she had done so. Mr. HALLS asked GOOdman what inducement he had had to cause him to many the prisoner. . " Why, Sir," he replied, " I have pretty much the same story to tell as Mr. Eagles. She told me all that she told him about her property at Wolver hampton and in the banks." Mr. HALLS—And you took just as little pains as the other, I suppose, to ascertain the truth of her . statement ?—" No, 'your Worship, I was a little .sharper than this - gentleman," replied Goodman, " for I went to the expense of taking- the lady from, Worcester to Cheltenhana to ascertain_ at the bank .there if her story were true. I saw one of the. clerka, who gave me such an answer as induced me to believe that it was all right,, since learned; however, thatihis clerland the prisoner were old acquaintanees; and understood' each other, so that lbetWeen them both I was fairly : diddled.--,(Loud laughter, in which the prisoner once more immo „derately joined, thumping. the bar at which she stood in an almost frantic manner.) At this period Ofthe examinatiort a tall respectable looking elderly man, with a peculiar gravity of min tenance, (Lewd in a green surtout coat with a huge fur collar, advanced to the. bench and said, " - -I-have also a charge to prefer against the prisoner. " What I" exclaimed 'the Magistrate, "another husband i"—" No, Sir," replied the stranger, " not quite No bad as that, thank God but I ' me an t o charge the prisoner with having,obtained money under false pretences. He. then went on to state that his name . was Wilson, and that. be lived in Kirby-street, Hatton-garden. The prisoner lodged in his-house, and in consequence of the representa , tione she had made to him, and her being on the point of marriage. with Mr. Eagles, he was induced to advance her .341. to purchase some wedding. dresses.- His wife also had lent her a watch, which she had failed to return. , • • Mr. fIALLs—No doubt you were at the wedding, and partook of the good things, " Oh, certainly," said Mr. Wilson, " the wedding was kept at my house; and as a matter Of course, both Mrs. Wilson and myself, and indeed all my family, were invited." " Then," said Mr. HALLS, " you must set off your amusement upon that occasion against your present claim; and I hope this lesson will teach you how you speculate in such matters." Mr. Wilson, with a deep sigh, observed, that, al though a Yorkshireman, he was fairly bitten.L (Laughter.) Eagies here observed, that the prisoner was a ter rible woman, and had ruined him and his family. She is, indeed," ejaculated Mrs. Goodman: " she has deceived my poor son there, and is capable of taking in 4.0 men."—(Renewed laughter.) Mr. HALLs said, he thought all parties had been rightly served. Persons ►who trafficked in wives in that manner deserved to. be deceived. The serious and Solemn obligation of marriage ought not to . be trifled with lightly. A branch of this disgraceful system, was the practice of publicly advertising for husbands and wives, and he wondered that any re spectable journal ►would lend its celtirmns to such mischievous trash. The prisoner facetiously attempted to deny that she was the wife of either of the parties who ap peared' against her. • Thelnagistrate, however, thought differently, and . fully , committed her •for trial. She left the , office laughing and winking at her first husband. • • A Captain Brereton was summoned by the driver of the oath 798 for a shilling back fare. •: - It appeared that.the Captain took the coach from Southampton-row, Bloomsbury; to his residence, No. I, Polygon, Somers.town; at nine o'clock on Thursday night: The coachman • demanded one shilling for the fare, and another shilling for back carriage, it being after seven o'clock-in winter, and Somers-town being off the stones. Mr. HALLS said, that the demand was legal, and the gentleman had no other choice than to pay the money. Capt. Brereton, however, resisted the demand, and asked if he might not appeal against the deeiSion. Mr. HALLS said the act was imperative, and there was no appeal. He wished the gentleman would take time to consider. Captain Brereton declared, that. he wanted no time to make up his mind upon the subject. " Then," said Mr. ILtLLs; " I have only to say, that I must commit you to prison for one month, unless you pay the shilling." " Commit me at once then," said the Captain, " for I am determined to resist." He was accordingly conveyed to the lock-np room, where he sent for. Mr. Harmer, and after a consultation with one of that gentleman's clerks, he declared his intention . to resist to the utmost, and was accordingly committed to prison. EXTRAORDINARY TRANCE. • We are happy to lay before our readers some account • Of the extraordinary case of trance, Which has occurred in this neighbourhood, in which, state the poor girl still remains, without there having been the least variation in the cha racter of her complaint from its commencement to this hour. We can depend upon its authen ticity, as we have been favoured with the follow ing extract from a paper read before the Cam- . bridge Philosophical Society : Sarah Carter, aged 17, the daughter of a farmer at Stapleford, has been afflicted with en largement of the viscera of the abdomen.for two years, the consequenee of typhus fever, which attacked her whilst nursing her father, who died of that complaint. The swelling of the body does not give the fluctuating sensation produced by water, but its hardness is that of enlargement of the internal organs. During the whole of her illness she has complained very little; owing per haps to her constitutional indolence of body and mind ; as even in the earlier period of the .disease she seldoni spoke, except when questioned ; and she is now without feeling or the power of utter ance, lying in a state of perfect insensibility, in which she has remained since the first week in October.. During the first fortnight of this in sensible state, her bead was constantly rolling from side to side upon her pillow, and this action continued night and day without a moment's in termission. In May last she eat the last solid food, which was a piece of cheese, and for the four following months she took nothing but fruit, which she merely sucked, and water, which she swallowed in very minute quantities. Since the first week in October, it appears that nothing . whatever, has passed her throat, and her mouth is so firmly locked by the spasmodic contraction of the muscles, that all attempts to open it have failed. It seems that every voluntary muscle of her frame is in the same state of spasmodic action, for when with much force her arms are raised from het chest, on which th6y , are crossed, they can only be elevated a few inches, and recoil instantly to their former position ; and so inflexible is her whole person - , that when removed from her bed, she is carried like a sta tue. Nothing has passed . her bowels for thirteen weeks, nor has there been any secretion of urine for the same time,-every power' of the abdominal viscera aeeming suspended. The heart, the cir culating system, and the organs of breathing, : seem unaffected ; the pulse indeed varies in' fre quency and strength, and she experiences occa sionally an increase of fever. The pulse does not get weaker, and the colour of the cheeks Changes so often that her mother thinks she is consemus.of what is passing in the room. She lies upon her back, 4 little inclined to the right side. The application of leeches to her temples some time since was followed by a copious dis charge of blood, and a few days after her nose bled freely. She had taken no medicines'what ever for some months,. but on the 10th of No vember two drops of Croton oil : were put upon her tongue by means of a feather, but with no, effect ; the following day four drops, from a dif- . ferent bottle, were applied in the same way, and in the course of a few hours it occasioned a heaving of the stomach, and an ounce of cheese in a semi-masticated state, and retaining its odour, was thrown up. For several days the salivary glands secreted copiously, but the mother would not allow a - repetition of the oil, the zip. : plibation of galvanism, or in fact auy medical means whatever. The great peculiarity of this case is, that during so long a state of inanition, the body has suffered no waste in appearance nor in weight, and that, though the nerves of - sen sation seem torpid, those subservient to muscu lar motion appear to have their vigour increased for how otherwise can be explained the power with which they resist those efforts to which in . a natural state they must have )ielded bridge Chronicle, Jan. 8. We regret to learn that the subscriptions mite(' for the suffering inhabitants Queenborough are exhausted, while their unhappy condition has experienced no alleviation. The committee appointed at the late public meeting have determined on calling the subscribers together, in order to place the frets of the ease before them, and to found upon it a new appeal to the sympathy of the public. The Annuaire .of the Board of Longitude, just published at Patin, contains some statistical tables te venting that capital, which are quoted in a journal of Wed nesday. Some of these tables exhibit results by no means flattering to the national pride of Frenchmen, as regards either their morals or their comforts. Out of 23,533 deaths at Paris in 1827, 9,208 (or at least two-fifths) took place in the hospitals; and out of 993,191 births for the whole of France, 72,171 were those of natural children. In the department of the Seine, in which Patis is situated. the ratio of natural children to l e gitimate was as two to five ! A melancholy occurrence has thrown Miss Huddart, of the Plymouth Theatre, iuto that deepest afflic tion, and deprived Mr. Brunton of her valuable services for some time. That deservedly-admired actress left Birming ham on Monday sennight, in company with her father and mother, with the intention of proceeding to Plymouth, where she w is to have performed on Monday evening last, The coacli had, however, not long passed through Worcester, when Mr. Iluddart suddenly expired ! He had been some time in a declining state; and a fellow-passenger statee, that when he was lifted into the coach (for he could not walk) he seemed in an alniest expiring state. The body was left at the Gecige Inn at Whitminster, under the care of the almost distracted widow and'da ughter PlynanothJournal. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SATURDAY, JANUARY 10.--Wind water 30 minutes ' past tw0... - -Arrived the John Dickinson, from Savannah ; Isaac Hicks, -, from Charleston; Rifleman, , from Fobermay; Lucy Gordon, from Isle of Man. Sailed—The Nelson, Kinn, for New Orleans ; Murphy, for Maranham ; Caledonia, , for Rani- hey; Indian, Freer, for New Orleans ; Good Intel% . M‘Donald, for St. Michael's; Jane, Brown, for St. Do mingo; Ann, Perry, for Jersey. - ' COUN TRY CORN MARKETS DI RING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 2eaus — . Per Quarter. Ca nn arthe n --- flexham Morpeth Pennth --- Sheffield Winchester Per Thisbe!. - • Coventry Newcattle (Stair) Northallerton Stafford --. Swansea Warwick —..... Per 8011. Barnardcastle —.— Darlington Durham Wolsingliam S. to 8. 38 9. to 8. .... 26 S. to S. 3(1 50 5 , 2. 40 44 46 .53 • 42 46 d. 03. (1. 48 6P 76 7 y. 50 56 76 80 00 00 46 58 0 0 12 o 90 100 11 3 I:1 0 o'o oit I 82 1- Y. to s. 163 -- 35 64 73 ri 33 66 78 37 39 77 36 80 9'2 3, 46 74 66 93 39 8.4. s.d. 6.6. s. d. 100 104 46 50 120 12$ 60 63 80 100 40 43 120 1 . 23 56 60 89 , 9 3 40 46 92 104 43 5 0 118 6 230 11'7 , 6 12 6 118 6 23 0 117 0 20 6 80 90 90 106 90 106 86• 9.0 18 25 19 2 124 3 - 1. 25 27 s.d. s.d. 134 50 46 50 23 26 •40 43 26 32 30 50 60 76 46 76 5670 6 0 '7 6 WAKEFIELD, Jan. 9. ' ' The supply of Wheat fresh up here to-day is short. There has been a fair demand for good dry samples of Npw. Foreign at last Friday's prices, but the middling sorts of English New, and all descriptions of Old,' have met hezivy sale, although prices are not lower. 'Oats are ♦ery dell, and Jbll descriptions but tine heavy qualities are a trifle lower., The best samples of Barley meet heavy sale at rather Les money, and there is no demand for any of the midd?ing and light sorts at any tolerable price ; Foreign is offering pleh tifully, but little progress can be made in sales. The quantity of Beaus offering much exceeds the demand, and the sale is as dull as possible. Wheat, Red, Not-Milt and Suffolk ns. to 775. fine 794. Lincolnshire 69s. to 735. one 18a. Yorkshire, &c. 72s. to 15s. tine 77, - 'White ....- ......... .. 70e. to '7ss. fine kii: - - - Foreign, Old Barley, Norfolk and Suitt)lk 'i3. to 38s. tine 41s. --- Lincolnshire ... 3rys. to 40s. fine 41s. ---- Yorkshire Wold ........... .......... 3.55. to 38s. fine *Os. ' Beans, Tick 37s. to 401. fine 41s. . - Small S. to 41s. fine 425. Oats, Poland and Potato 22s. to 31s. fins 32a. - Friesland and Small .-s. to 255. fine 29,5. -- Mealing lid. to 16d. per Stone. Shelling 33.5. to -s. -6. to 3 , 35. per Load. Malt 43s. 465, fine 455. per Load. Rapeseed , O/. Os. 321. Os. R3l. 103. per L as t. _ . WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-Jan. 7. The 'supply of Cattle this morning was very short its.' deed: occasioned by the bad success of the late' markets in the neighbourhood, and a considerable advance was Ob.. iained. Of Sheep the number was limited, and the befit run , ! 1 A itier eietPded that •••• lost ftir.- -Ilff, 63. to 73. per stone of 141 b. ; Mutton, Sid. to ed. per . lb. prime 6d. per lb. _ SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDING - 1:0N CORN P 4 ARKET.--Jau. 9. A small supply of Barley, which ilia,' partly account for the rise; top 6d. and average about 2s. above last mar ket ;66 quarters in market, and all sold. A full market of Oats ; sales dull; tpp price up ls.'; average down 10d. 293 quarters sold, and 42 unsold. Wheat has declined ls. 4d. on the average; top price the same as la.st day. Of Pease 21 quarters were sold ; average up 3d. E q Be,m3 85 quarters were Fold ; average down 8,1. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First '7Bs Od 39s Ed SOs Od 34s Od Second '7% Os) 3Ss Od 24s Cd 513 s 03 Third There were 359 yrs of Wheat in market, 95 whereo 37 Unsold.--2: Grey. ... Si. 12s. Id. 3.l2tha Rearm. 36 Od 331 Od :30s Od were sold Aveyag, DALKI2, There was a lati day's market, wh pricee than last wt ITH Colt 7ge supply rich sold ,ek. N MARKE of all kiwi heavily, al T.--Jan. 8. ids of Grain at this . Ind at rather lower Wheat. Barley. Oats. First Bls 0,1 40s Od 23a Od Second 76s Od 38s Od 26s Od Third 704 Od 35s Od 22a Od Peitse. Sews. 368 Ckt 38 Ott 34s Oct Od CORNNVA El. MARKETS. TRURO.—Wheat (average) 318.0 a. —Barley. I. We. ficuToN—.Wheat, Wa. tid.—Barley, 14s. 81 Atintim.—Wheat, E9,t. to 31s.—Barley, 14a. to 15s.—Oats, 12s. ed. to 1 Is. (av6.s.ge) Ds. o.l.—Barley, 14.—Oats, I le. 6(1. Ls uric itsToN—Whea t faverage) 30s, (kl.—Barley, I 48. —Oats, o..l.—Beet; 6d.—Mutton, sd. Listiesso—Wheat, Vs:o —s. al.—.Barley, 15s. W.—Oats, Ns. to Cs. (Id. ST. Cocuraa,Wheat, 30s. to 34s.—Barley, ISs. to 144—Beef, and Mutton, 5d to 51,1.—Veal and Lamb, Od to sd. PENzANca—Wheat, 275. to 29s.—Barley, to Ms.—Oats, Os. to I Is. Otl.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to (kL—Pork, 111‘1, to Od.— Butter, 12d. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt Quantity of Copper Ore Sold at. Redruth last Thursday 2,13'► 0 Average' Produce • 14 0 Quantity of fine Copper 176 5 Amount of Sale, 13,176/. 13s. 6d.—average Standard, 112!. 7i. Od. The Earl of Macclesfield had an interview with the Duke of Wellington on Saturday morning at the freastivy. The Duke of Wellington afterwards left town for his Majesty's Palace at Windsor, where his Grace had an interview with the King, and afterwards returned to town. The Duke, after his return (about seven o'clock), had a long conference with Air. Secretary Pvel. A Messenger was sent off with, despatches in the evening from the Home Office, by, Mr. Secretary Peel, for Ireland. On Wednesday night the remains of Lady Willoughby lay in state at the New Inn, Market Deepiug, (on their way to Grhnstborpe Castle,) attended by a nn ►nerous cavalcade. The funeral, we understand, will take place at 12 o'clock this day (Friday), at Swinstead, near Grimathorpe.—Stamford ilforcury. A case is mentioned in the Courant of 1752, of two women, Helen Torrence and Jean Waldie, who were condemned and'executed for taking away and murder ing •a boy between eight and nine years of. age, and,after wards selling his body to the Sur , eons 'for dissection. In order to execute this atrocious design, they contrived to decoy away the mother of the boy, by asking her to.drink a pint of ale with them in a neighbouring house; and while she was thus engaged, one of them stole away, and found the boy looking over the window. She took him in her arms and carried him to her own house, where, it is in ferred, that she hid murdered him, for she soon after went and informed the surgeon apprentices that she had now procured a subject, on which they came to ber house, where they found the boy stretched lifeless on the chest. The body was sold for' the sum of two shillings, which they both declared was too little, as they had been. at more expences about it than that sum ; on which they received tennence additional for a dram, and the woman who carried the body to the surgeons' rooms received au additional sixpence.—Edenburgh Evening Courant. BIRTH. On the 9th inst. at Leyton, Esser, the lady of T—Sollp juu. Esq. of a son. MARRIED. On the 10th inst. at St. Mary's, Islington, by the Rev. Christopher JcatTreson, Anne, tlaughter of the late Mr. Re ginald Parker, of Doctors'-Commous, to Captain W. H. Rowley, Hon. East India Company's Service. On the Bth inst. at St. John's, Hackney, by the vene rable Archdeacon Watson, Samuel Savill kent, Esq. of Clapton, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Thos. Windt's, Esq. of Gothic-hall, Stamford-hill. On the Bth inst. at St. Margaret's, hacking, by the Rev. 0. Lodge, Mr. Wm. Austin, of Greenwich, to Miss El;za Jane Cotton, of Friendly-place, Ilford, Essex. On the 9th inst. at Newbury, Lieut. John Septitnua Hoe, F.L. S., Surveyor-General of Western Australia, youngest son of the Rev. James Rue, Re4;tor of Newbury, Berks, to Matilda, younuest daughter of the late H enr y Leay Bennet, Esq. of Willasiton, Cheshire. On the 30th ult. at Paria, Edward Gambier, Esq. to Emily, daughter of the late Croshie Morgell, Esq. M.P. DIED On the 9th inst. at Hampton-Court Palace, Mrs. BaT-: Kara Wright. On the sth inst. Martha, wife of Mr. Thos. fi d wki no , of Ilarg4ret-st,,.et, ivare. On the 9th inst. in the King's-Todd, Chelsea, Mrs. Fin lay, formerly of Streatham On the Ath inst. aged 12, Thotron, eldest son of Mr. Edward Jourdan, of Nort!. Brixton. On the 27th alt. Mr. Robert Dickinson, of Ntrtv Park, street, Smithwark, iu his 79th year. At his house in Stratton-street, Roger 'Wilbraham, Esq. At his 1101.1,4. in Reading, Thomas Newhery, Esq. At Llangne , lniore-place, Cardiganshire, the venet Archdeacon Millingehainp, D. D. Prebendary of Brecon. On the tith init. at Bedinghiun, aged 78, R. Stone, Req. of Bedinghain-hall, Norfolk. On the Bth inst. Mrs. Nat.t, in her 87th year, widow of the late Thornas Nash, F..sq. of Catnberwell. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at the SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON. I