The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-09 00:00:00

Salaries, we all know, are often paid when rents are unattainable ; and those who live out of the public taxes do not always know the difficulty with which those taxes have been paid. We earnestly call, then, upon Ministers to use the experience they are acquiring, promp ly for the relief and saving of the country. Though we regret both the lingering state of their proceed ings, and the apparent personal ease with which they undergo what have been called " the fati gues" of office, we rejoice that they are likely to he able to judge of the state of the country by some truer criterion than the mere butterflies and parasites of office can supply them with ; and also that, when they do begin to act, their measures will have derived some efficacy and weight from the time which will have been be stowed in deliberation. But still, how they can justify to themselves the delay which is taking pl ac e we can scarcely imagine. In private life, if the sea were breaking in upon a man's estate in the autumn, he would not wait till the spring before he repaired the wall ; nor, if a fire were approaching his plantations, would he wait till it were too late to prevent their ignition. In like manner, but with ten times more force, does the argument apply to those who have the charge of the public estate, who are doubly culpable if they allow its vast interests to be absorbed and sacri ficed by a useless and unnecessary delay.— Morning Herald. We have received the highest gratification from a work which has just issued from the press— the Memoirs and Correspondence of that great and good man Thomas Jefferson, the celebrated President of the United States. The spectacle of a man of strong powers, devoting himself during the whole of a long life to the good of his fellow-creatures, is like the sight of an oasis in the African desert to the spectator of the dirty jobbing and selfish aims of those who call them selves the great in this country. If Captain Basil Hall's Tour in the United States generated in him a hatred of the social condition of a country in which there was not a class of spenders and a class of sufferers, Jefferson, on the other hand, seems, during his stay in Europe, to have been so shocked with the degraded condition of the lower orders, and the worthlessness of the higher, as to have returned from his mission more enamoured than ever of the equality of America. Indeed, we are disposed to think that the disgust which the spectacle of European society could hardly fail to occasion to a bene volent mind had great weight in determining him to that attachment to democracy which character ised his Presidentship, and which has since become universal in America. In a letter, dated Paris, October 15, 1785, to a gentleman in America, lie strongly recommends a home education in preference to one in Europe, from moral con siderations. " Let us view (he says) the dis advantages of sending a youth to Europe. To enumerate them all would require a volume. I will select a few—if he goes to England, he learns drinking, horse-racing, and boxing. These ore the peculiarities of English education. The following circumstances are common to educa tion in that tied the other countries in Europe. He acquires a fondness for European luxury and dissipation, and a contempt for the simplicity of his own country ; he is fascinated with the privileges of the European Aristocrats, and sees with ab horrence the lovely equality which the poor en joy with the rich in his own country ; he con tracts a partiality for aristocracy or monarchy." Writing from Paris to another friend in America, September 30, 1785, he thus describes the im pressions produced on him by European misery: Behold me at length on the vaunted scene of Europe ! It is not eecessary for your informa tion that I should enter into details concern ing it. Jut you are, perhaps, curious to know h6w this new scene has struck a savage of the mountains of America. Not advantageously, I see ere you. I find the general fate of hu manity here most deplorable. The truth of Vol taire's observation offers itself perpetually, that every man here must be either the hammer or the anvil. It is a true picture of that country to whidi they say we shall pass hereafter, anti where we are to see the God and his Angels in splen dour, and crowds of the damned trampled under their feet. While the great mass of the people are thus suffering under physical and moral op peeesion, I have endeavoured to examine more nearly time condition of time great, to appreciate the true value of the circumstances in their situ ation wimiefi dazzle the bulk of spectators, and especially to compare it with that degree of hap piness which is enjoyed in America by every class of people. Intrigues of love occupy the younger, and those of ambition the elder part of the great the mass of the people is two centuries behind 01‘rs : their literati, half a dozen years before The following is a more finished picture o f t h e „scial condition of Europe, drawn after he had visi the greatest part of France, and part of Italy, e ssd passed some months in Eng land. Writing to his friend, M. Wythe, from Paris, August 13, 17,86, he says, " Our Act for Freedom of Religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and Ministers of the several nations of Europe, resident at this Court, have *eked of me copies of it, to send to their Sove eeigue, amid it is inserted, at full length, in several books now in the press; among others, in the new Encyclopedia. I think it will produce con siderable good, even in those countries where ignorance, superstition, poverty, and oppression of body and mind in every form, are so firmly settled on the mass of the people that their re demption from them can never be hoped. If all the Sovereigns of Europe were to set them selves to work to emancipate time minds of their plitjects from their present ignorance amid preju dieee, and that as zealously as they now endea vour tliC contrary, a thousand years would not place them on that high ground on which our common peop. l .:' are now setting out. Ours could not have been so fairly placed under the controul of the commG' sense of the people, had they not been separated ;rom their parent stock, and kept from contamination either from them or the other people of the Old ,Yorld, by the intervention of so wide an ocean. To k;2.ovv the worth of this, one must see the want of if here. think by far the most important Bill in our own code, is that for the diffusion of knowledge amusg the people. No other sure foundation can be deljsed for the preservation of freedom and happiness.. If any body thinks that Kings, Nobles, and Priests 10 1 good conserva tors of the public happiness, send t i", : ;4l here. It is the best school in the universe to cure of that folly. He will see here with his own eves, that these descriptions of men are an abandoned confedera 7 against the happin ess o f th e mass o f Then' the people. es; . omnipotence of their effect cannot be better proved than in this country, particularly where, notwithstainlins the finest soil upon earth, the finest chinate under heaven, and a people of the most benevo lent, the most gay and amiable character of which the human form is susceptible ; when such a people, I say, surrounded by so many blessings from nature, are loaded with misery by Kings, Nobles, and Priests, and by them alone. —Preach, .my dear Sir, a crusade against igno rance ; establish and improve the law for edu cating the common people. Let our country. men know that the people alone can protect us against these evils, and that the tax which will be paid for this purpose is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to Kings, Priests, and Nobles, who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance. The people of England, I think, are less oppressed than here. But it needs but half an eye to see, when among them, that the foundation is laid in their dispostions for the establishment of a despotism. Nobility, wealth, and pomp are the objects of their admiration. They are by no means the free-minded people we suppose them in America. Their learned m en, too, are few in number; and are less learned, and infinitely less emancipated from prejudice, than those of this country." Much may be said on some of the points in the above passage. The poverty and degradation and ig norance in Europe were but too evident ; but he does not seem to have been sufficiently aware of the connection between a dense population and the poverty of the lower orders, and that the equality he so much admired in America was not solely the result of the withdrawing the emi grants from their European associations, but also the facility of obtaining land, which gave, in all but the Slave States, the property to the labourer. in a letter to General Washington, dated Paris, Nov. 1786, speaking to him of the notions expressed in Europe, respecting the order of the Cincinnati, which was considered as likely to destroy the fabric of equality, he ob serves, " I do not apps ehend this, while I had American ideas only. But I confess that what I have seen in Europe has brought me over to that opinion ; and that though the day may be at some distance, beyond the reach of our lives perhaps, yet it will certainly come, when a single fibre left of this institution will produce an here ditary aristocracy, which will change the form of our Government from the best to the worst' in the world. To know the mass of evil which flows from this fatal source, a person must be in France; he must see the finest soil, the finest climate, the most compact state, the most benevolent character of people, and every earthly advantage combined, in sufficient to prevent this scourge from rendering ex istence a curse to twenty-four out of twenty-five parts of the inhabitants of this country. With us the branches of this institution cover all the States. The Southern ones at this time are aristocratical in their dispositions; and that that spirit should grow and extend itself, is within the natural order of things. I do not flatter myself with the immortality of our Governments; but I shall think little of their lon gevity, unless this germ of destruction be taken out." This book will produce a strong, and, we think, a healthy impression on the general mind in this coun try. Corrupted as we are, it is impossible that so much warmth and genuine philanthropy should not strike deep into many . Morning Chronicle. A report has prevailed for some days past that the Governments of France and England have objected to Count Capo d'lstria continuing to be the President of Greece, and that one of the Princes of the German States would be appointed in his stead. We have every reason to believe that the report has a much better foundation than poli tical reports generally have. The political subser viency of Count Cap() d'lstria to the Russian Autocrat, now that the latter may no! unjustly be considered as Emperor of Turkey as well as of Russia, is a feature in the present state of Greece on which neither France or England can look with complacency; and as they possess, in the several conventions, treaties, and protocols, which have been agreed to by the Allied Powers, full power either to give their voice for or against his continu ing to be President, we think it would be extra ordinary indeed were they to throw so in tich weight into the scales of a power v% hick is already but too strong for either. The original understanding re specting the future destiny of Greece was, that its Government should approach as nearly as possible to a monarchical form, arid be hereditary in the per son of a Christian Prince, to be chosen, in the first instance, by the Three Powers, but in concert with the Porte. It was provided also, that the Prince in question should not be a member of any of the reign ing families of the Three Powers who were parties to the Treaty of 1827, and this is the Treaty to which Turkey has acceded by the late Convention of Adrianople. The Porte, however, whose vote is necessary to settle the matter, has riot yet been consulted ; arid we need scarcely add, that if France and England have just cause to deny the Presidency of Greece to Count Capo d'lstria, the Porte has much bet ter ground; and that between the two he is as likely to take up, as he professed his readiness to lay down, his private fortune on the altar of his country. At all events it is " a consummation de voutly to be wished," that the genius of modern Greece should not be crushed in its birth by Rus sian barbarism.—Morning Advertiser. We beg to point the attention of our readers to an article in another column under the head of " Army" intelligence, respecting the billeting of soldiers. It appears, according to Sir Henry Hardiuge's interpretation of the law, that " an innkeeper is bound to provide accommodation in his own house for the officers and men quartered upon him, and that he does not exempt himself from the penalties of the 61st clause of the Mutiny Act, in finding proper lodgings else where, or by the payment of any sum in commu tation for his liability to provide what the law (according to Sir H. Hardinge's interpretation of it,) directs ;" and this, with all due respect for the army, we have no hesitation in declaring to be not only a hard, but a most tyrannical order. Sir H. Hardinge says that it might give rise to " embarrassment" if the law were not to be carried into effect in this rigorous manner ; but we will just put it to him whether it does not give rise to ten times more embarrassment when the innkeeper is precluded from commuting the burthen which the law has imposed into a cora peneat'on in money, or finding lodgings elsewhere ? We think that tbe convenience of the civil, as well as the comfort of the military, power, ought occa sionally to be consulted ; and that it would do no harm to the good understanding between both, were the innkeeper permitted to commute the burthen imposed upon him by the law, either into lodgings elsewhere, or a compensation in money at a taxed rate. At all events the law, according to Sir H. 1-lEardiffir 6 e's interpretation of it, is extremely tyran7 plc . :ll,od stands much in need of amendmeot, ,, -ibid. We insert the last letter by which the Earl of Mouuteashel attempts tp keep up his hopeless controversy with the Bishop of Ferns—not be cause we think die Noble, Author has in any degree improved the situation in which his case was left by his learned and victorious antagonist, but because we are unwilling to relinquish the right of decorating our columns with the reply Right Reverend Prelate, if ha slipqld deem it necC.!.gary to make any. As it is most Bishop of Ferns will probable, however, the be satisfied to leave t!'.e d:scussion as it is, we are desirous of recalling vipai p al arguments to the recollection of our a;c4.0..4-, 4t the same time that we present to them the Plijeexio42 t i 7.;!alous and industrious, if not g very clear- DR. BURROWES'S EXPLANATION. sighted or candid opponent. The Bishop as serts the danger of popular interference with the regulations of the Church, and appeals to the events of a melancholy period in history in illus tration of this danger. And to this the only reply is, that other causes contributed to the over throw of the National Church in the time of Charles the First, as if any great calamity ever overtook any nation without the co-opera tion of various causes ; and as if the disputed application of a single example could discredit the accuracy of an opinion founded upon the uniform experience of society, and the general character of mankind. The Prelate asserts, with respect to one of the evils chiefly insisted on by the Lay Reformers of the Church—the appoint ment of Bishops from political motives—that it has not prevailed of late to any great extent. His ar►tagonist maintains that it has. Here we may claim 'for the former an advantage of which he is himself not at liberty to boast. Be presents in his own person to the world a Bishop not ap pointed from political motives ; while his oppo - - neat in his own person presents a proof, which he very naturally overlooks, that the abuse now complained of has not been carried so far (the question being admitted on both sides to be one of degree) as to deprive the Ministers of the Crown of the support of men who profess an ardent attachment to the cause of re ligion. It would be well also for Lord Mountcashel to reflect, that no Reformer can expect to escape suspicion, and still less to effect improvement, who declaims against a supposed abuse without suggesting some practi cable remedy, as a proof that he has bestowed due attention upon the subject, and means something more than merely to excite discontent. The evil of unions of parishes, and that of the non-residence of the Clergy, are admitted by the learned defender of the Church against popular or fanatical innova tion. He only says that these evils are less exten sive than his opponent represents them ; that so far from increasing they are gradually becoming less ; and that a Lay Sytiol in the city of Cork, or indeed any where else, cannot be competent, and may not safely be entrusted, to devise the means of their more rapid extinction. This appears to us to be excellent sense, and it is rather fortified than im peached by the elaborate enumeration of unions and of :cases of non-residence which the leader of the Cork Synod would wish to serve instead of a reply. The inequality of ecclesiastical incomes and the po verty of the provision for the lower orders of the clergy, is another of the grievances which the re formers are anxious to redress. That the condition of the inferior clergy should be improved is on all bands admitted to be a most desirable thing. But those who believe that for religion to produce its best effects on society at large, it is necessary that there should be ministers of religion upon a level, in regard to external circumstances, with the more elevated classes of society, would be unwilling to purchase this advantage, however important they may consider it, at the expense of impoverishing and degrading the highest dignities of the Church; and this opinion is we believe steadfastly held by all who have reflected on the subject, and whose minds have not been warped either by fanati cism or by the poor ambition of securing vulgar ap plause by administering to vulgar prejudices. The Bishop of Ferns defends the actual distribution of the present revenues of the Church by adverting to the motives which usually actuate parents in select ing a profession for their children, and be.towing a suitable education upon them, and by contending that those revenues, as now applied, secure a better supply of Ministers than would be obtained by the same aggregate amount, if more equally divided among the whole body of the Clergy. This ra tional arid forcible argument his candid and religious opponent attempts to controvert, by first mistaking it for an admission that the Clergy is a mercenary body, and then applying to it some of the most hackneyed topics of the conventicle. The general conduct of the Clergy is inferred by the Bishop from the fact, that in proportion to their whole number the instances of deviation from propriety are incre dibly few. The assailant of the Clergy betakes himself to the resource, natural enough to a dema gogue, but altogether unsuited to his character and station, of insisting with redoubled em phasis upon the few isolated instances of delinquency and dissoluteness that have unfortu nately occurred. The Bishop asserts that the Clergy in Ireland, in order to avoid disputes about tithe, have made great sacrifices of their rights, in giving effect to the Composition Act. The assail ant of the Clergy replies (and what a reply !), that some of the peasantry are nevertheless found to corn plan of the compositions, as if this proved any thing more than that the Clergy have not surrendered all. If we were not aware to what an extent controversy may lead men who embark in it without the requi site qualifications, to insinuate what they do not be lieve, and so manifest feefngs which in their cooler moments, they do not really entertain, we should be compelled, from the manner in which the Clergy have been treated throughout this discussion by the Earl of Mountcashel, to believe that, not withstanding his loud professions of zeal for religion and affection to the Established Church, he is in his On Saturday Doctor Burrowes, of Montague street, Russell-square, attended at Union.llall, before R. J. CHAMBERS and J. J. IfoNE, Emirs., relative to an investigation that occurred at the Office a few days ago, in which, it will be recollected, a gentle man, named Anderdon, gave two men in custody, who entered his house for the purpose of confining him as a lunatic, by virtue of a written order to that effect, signed by the medical gentleman above named. The Doctor addressed the Magistrates to the following effect :—" I have called here today to ask the courtesy of the Magistrates to allow me to make a few observations on the publication of the proceedings in the case of Mr. Anderdon, which took place at this Office a few days ago. The im pression on the minds of many persons after reading that report is, that I did not make any reply to Mr. Chambers, whose politeness lam ready to acknow ledge, when I told him that I should go to consult the gentlemen by whom I had been employed, and return as speedily as possible to this office with the result of an interview between us. I did go as I promised over to the house of one of the gentlemen in Lombard-street, and saw him ; but as it was deemed a matter of much consultation, we at once proceeded to the residence of his legal adviser. We were there obliged to wait some time, in consequence of the solicitor being engaged, before we could have the desired opportunity of an interview. As the case Was one of considerable importance, and re quired much deliberation how it was to be proceeded in, we remained until the matter had been fully de liberated. I then wrote a note to Mr. Chambers, and sent it off immediately; it was three o'clock when the note left the solicitor's office; and I was not at all aware that the police office shut up at that hour; neither was I conscious, until a day or two afterwards, that the communication had not been received during the hours of business. I hope, therefore, that I shall be exonerated from the charge of neglect in this instance. With respect to the re p .rt of the other circumstances connected with this peculiarly unpleasant affair, and which appeared in the newspapers, I cannot say at present whether there are errors in it or not; because, if I entered into the merits of the question at present, I, should be betraying a professional confidence reposed in me, which would be most improper on my part. Those who know me, said the Doctor, I hope will believe that I would not act in a case of such an important nature without the greatest deliberation. I have had two interviews with the Messrs. Anderdon that occupied several hours; and finding that a medical examination,from the peculiarity of the case,could not be entered into at the time with any degree of propriety, it was therefore deferred. I trust, however, that in the course of the judicial proceedings now pending, facts will be elicited relative to this distressing bu sness which will exonerate me from all Manse as to the manner in which I have acted throughout. The Reporters, I hope and expect, will do me the jus tice to make the present statement known, through the same medium that theirformer accounts obtained publicity ; and I also entreat the public to suspend their judgments of my conduct in the affair until the issue of the proceedings which I have before al luded to are known." heart the determined enemy of both. It would be much more discreet in this Noble Lord to propose to Parliament such remedies as his wisdom can de. vise for the disorders of the clergy and the imper fections in the Church Establishment, which he imagines he has discovered, than to exaggerate them in popular assemblies, or expose himself any further in a public controversy, in which it is ma nifest to all the world (himself alone excepted) that he is entirely overpowered.—Morning Post. ELOPEMENT.—On Thursday night last, the laughter of Colonel YouxusoN, of 13owsear, near Pen- Mr. CHAMBERS bore testimony to the accuracy of the Doctor's statement, relative to the note trans mitted from the Solicitor's office to Union-hall, on the day the investigation took place at this office. I received your note (added Mr. Chambers to Dr. Burrowes) a little after three o'clock, the purport of which, as well as I can recollect, was apologizing for tiot returning according to appointment, in con sequence of a lengthened consultation that took place between you and Mr. Anderdon's brother and his legal adviser. The note was put into my hand, said the Magistrate, by the clerk of a most respect able solicitor; but I had previously discharged the two men out of custody, no person wishing to pre fer any charge against them. Dr. Burrowes, having thanked the Magistrates for the attention with which they had heard the na ture of his application, then withdrew. EXTRAORDINARY SCHEME FOR BE- TRAYING A YOUNG FEMALE. The following extraordinary case, which came before the Magistrates of Union-Hall on Saturday, will show the horrible course pursued to betray young, beautiful, and unsuspecting females, to evil courses : • On Saturday, the 30th of last month, a female of most prepossessing appearance, about thirty years of age, fully attired in all the fancifulness of fashion, called to purchase some trifling articles at the shop of a Mr. Bird, a grocer, residing at Canter bury. The lady stated that she arrived by the coach from Ramsgate, where she had been staying for the benefit of her health, and asked the grocer if he could recommend any young female to attend her sister in London, who, having requested her to procure a girl from the country, as she could not endure the town servants, from the levity of their characters. Mr. Bird informed the applicant that at Natsom, a small village, about four miles from Can herbury, there lived a poor widow of the name of Chardon, the mother of six daughters, who had often asked him to recommend them to situations. She went to the widow. Having made known the occasion of her visit, the two eldest daughters were brought to her. The lady, who gave her name as Mrs. Burt, selected Mary Chardon, an uncommonly interesting girl about 19 years of age, because she appeared to be the most healthy. The terms of her engagement were fifteen guineas a year, and all Mrs. Burt's sister's cast off clothes, which would in crease her wages to about 201. per annum. The daughter was delighted, and the poor mother al most wept for joy. On Monday a letter arrived at the cot, saying that Mary must leave Natsom the nexl day by a certain van for London, where she would be met by a domestic, and taken to her fu ture abode. As the most implicit faith had been put rich, Cumberland, escaped through her bed-room window, and ran off to Gretna with her papa's coachman, and mar- in all that transpired, the unsuspecting girl left the roof of her parent and proceeded to London. The tied him ! The Colonel i• , , of course, in a rage ; but van came to the Spur Inn ; when she alighted, a coachee, having got the whip-hand of him, laughs in his boy in a handsome livery accosted her, and asked if sleeve, and expects, instead of mounting the box in fu she was come up to be a servant in town from tore, to become an inside passenger.—Leeds Intelligencer. Ramsgate, at the same time mentioning her name. FARINGDON.—As a proof that this part of She answered she was. He then desired her to ec the country is sharing its full proportion of the general company him. Some time afterwards a lady came pressure of the times, we have only to notice, that at a up whom the boy called his mistress. She was public sale of live farming stock, on Tuesday week, in this much older than the person that had called at her neighbourhood, that with the exception of three horses, mother's cottage. This female desired her to ful and about five cows, none were disposed of ! 'f here was low her, and after walking some distance they came actually not one bidder for a fine lot of sheep, which to a very large house, which they entered. She formed part of the stock ! The auctioneer, on closing the was told that this was her future home, and cau business of the day expressed his regret that he had lived tinned never to mention whatever she might see or to see the day when farming produce was not worth the hear. 1 , he house was beautifully furnished. In the care and attention of rearing.—Berkshire Chronicle. Some differences have arisen between the apartments the poor girl said she saw a number of nail-masters of Broms g rove and its vicinity a nd their fine gentlemen and ladies, and at night there was journeymen, and large numbers of the latter h ave "snuck" music and singing until morning. At first her oc work. It appears that about three weeks since, the nail cupation was to wait upon her mistress, who never masters of pudley made a reduction to the amount of 10 allowed her to go out of her sight. There were per rent. in the Wages of their men, and on Saturday it other servants in the house, but she was not per was communicated by the masters at Bromsgrove to those witted to speak to them. Handsome clothes were t h e y e mploy that their work must be don e u p on t h e same given her to wear, On Thurday last she was sent terms . TO this the Workmen very generally r e fu se d to as- i into an elegantly furnished apartment about ten sent, and as the masters appeared resolved to enforce it, o'clock in the evening, to put some plate upon the an almost universal "strike" has been the consequence.— table for supper. Two gentlemen were then in the It would seem, also, that it is not only again s t th e d e crease ro om, one of them was au elderly man with a pate of wages that the men are " out." but complaints are made dered head. The candles were immediately blown by them of the "truck system" pf paying their earnings, out, and the eldest person got hold of her and be which, although a direct contravention of th e law, it is gan to act improperly. She seized a knife, and said said is will practised by some masters in that district.— she would. itticlty she esc a p e d, an d ran into the back stab him if h e did no t d es i s t. With About mid-day on Tuesday, a large concourse of men en teredfollowed Bromsgrove, in a kind of prp:ession, one of them some d ; her, and a violent struggle scribed, "No truck—No Tommy shops;" bearing a pl..card in front of the body h parlour , on which wa s in- over was a , ensued , She fainted, and the wretch triumphed. a penny loaf, a piece of bacon, &c. The Rev. E. Biros, The nest morning she detailed the circumstances to Rector' of Upton Warren, being in Bromsgrove, addressed h er m istress, who only laughed at her, and told her the men i n 4 ;Tr y s ensible and energetic manner, exhort- , s i re was a pretty, fo o li s h, coun t r y girl, but that no ing them to respect the public peace , and to abstain from harm would happen to her. Then, and not till their, any kind of tumult. This address had the desired effect, and the men quietly separated. We understand that up to V. guess in what kind of a house she t s r i i r v a eA l d r b e ot g ou i I t ; e t fia o ‘v,ee Thursday night no arrangement had taken place between o'clock on Friday afternoon she d eo i( n i house, and the first turning the men and their employers. The men have daily as he came to, she said, was Waterloo-bridge ; so serablad ate' in large numbers, but their conduct has been s 't . 1 • f-,. e le turn lt Lid eld Mer. this house of infamy ' i that 4 p „a vt l y A l ..0 r ,,, drew tumult,—Lichfield •-•—______ tfi___ . • te Strand. The complainant thought she could find it if taken to the bridge. She paid a penny, and went over the bridge, where she was met - ky.a gen tleman, who seeing her crying very much, asked the cause—she told him. Grossmith, the Officer, com ing up at the time, kindly took charge of her, and carried her to his own house, and then brought her before the Magistrates in the morning. The Magistrates expressed their indignation, and desired no trouble to be spared that might discover the wretches who had acted the part described. COURT OF COMPENSATION, Nov. 7. THE KEY, CHANDOS-STREET. At Guildhall, Westminster, a Court of Compen sation was held for the purpose of considering what amount of remuneration Mrs. Margaret Price, the freeholder of a certain property, consisting of two houses in Chandos•street, the one the celebrated hotel and tavern, known by the name of the Key, at present in the occupation of a person named Dell, and the other in that of an oil and colour-man, was entitled to, in consequence of their removal, for the purpose of completing the improvements in pro gress and in contemplation in that part of the metropolis. Mrs. Price's claim was for 8,2001. Mr. BuouGuiss, on behalf of the claimant, stated that his client was an elderly lady, who resided in the country. The premises in question were very extensive, and the s►tuation could not be exceeded in the advantages which it presented for carrying on trade. One of the houses (No. 23) was at that moment making most lucrative returns in the oil and colour business ; and the other (No. 22) was a large modern building, erected in 1807, at an ex pense of 7,000 t. The hotel, on the building of which so much money had been expended, would, at a most moderate calculation, bring in 4001. a year, and this circumstance he begged the jury to bear in recollection when making an award. Mr. James Elms, the architect aad surveyor to the port of London, considered the property worth 7,790/. Mr. Burnard believed the claimant's premises to be of the value of 8,105/. 2s. 6d. By the ATTORNEY-GENERAL.—Then you COll - the hotel as a valuable property. Pray what may be its character ? The character of this house is very well known. It is first-rate in its way.—(A laugh.) In what way do you mean.?—As a house of ac commodation (laughter); but I do not know it from personal experience.—(lncreased laughter.) lie-examined by Mr. BrtououAM.—He considered that the house would bring in 500/. a year as a genteel family hotel.—(Laughter.) Mr. Stead, surveyor to the Duke of Bedford, de•. posed, that to his knowledge the Commissioners of Woods and Forests had purchased property from his Grace at twenty-seven years' purchase. This was the claimant's case. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for the Commissioners said, it had been argued that the Jury were bound to take into consideration Mrs. Price's being com pulsorily obliged to give up the possession of her premises, but how, he m ould ask, could this com pulsory dispossession affect a lady who, it was ad mitted, did not lire on or occupy these houses ? Where was the injury, if she obtained their full va lue ? The case, perhaps, would be different if she resided at the hotel—(A laugh)—if the habits of her life made the pastime going fervvard there acces sory to her comforts—if use made it indispensable that she should still enjoy the soft and pleasing so ciety of the fair ones who frequented it—(Laughter) —but did Mrs. Price require such comforts as these ? He could not believe it. She was an elderly . lady, living in the country, and held the free hold for the pecuniary benefit of herself and her family. What then need she care from whence the income was derived, provided it reached her hands ? Indeed, she ought to rejoice to recover it from any source, rather than from oae of so tainted a nature. The Learned Attorney-General, after a variety of observations, couched in a strong vein of sarcasm, concluded by calling the witnesses for the defence. Mr. Roper had valued property for the last 35 years. The fair value of that in question he censi , dered to be 3,4481. He made his estimate at '25 years' purchase. Cross-examined by Mr. BROUGHAM—IIe had va• lued for claimants as well as for the Crown. When he valued for the former his estimate always ex ceeded that made on the part of the Crown ; and when be valued for the Crown, the estimate was always lower than that made for the claimant. Mr. Alderman Farebrother, who sold the freehold by auction to Mrs. Price, said, that in his opinion its outside value was 3,3411. 1 ls. 6d. On cross-examination, he believed the property to be a good security for money laid out on it, and on being asked if he had visited the hotel lately, the worthy Alderman replied, that he had not, but said that he had been formerly in its apartments. Mr. BROUGHAM commented on the evidence in a very animated speech, and, after its recapitulation by the Bailiff, the Jury retired about half-past five o'clock, and after a brief consultation, returned a verdict, awarding to Mrs. Price, the claimant, the sum of 4,0001., as a full and fair satisfaction for her interest in the houses Nos. 22, and 23, Chandos st reet. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday two cases of petty depredation were brought before his Lordship : in each of the cases the prisoners appeared to have been driven by severe distress to commit them. The LORD MAYOR expressed his satisfaction that having performed his duty to his fellow-citizens, he should be relieved from witnessing such scenes of bitter distress as were constantly presented before the Chief Magistrate. The pain of witnessing them was aggravated by the inadequacy of the most ample means to extend relief, and by the difficulty of act ing under the complication of circumstances which often attended them. One amongst the many les sons to be taught by the performance of the magis terial duties in that chair, during one year, was the inadequacy of our penal legislation, and the necessity of a %Nide and equitable discretion being given to those who were entrusted with the administration of our penal laws in such cases. Were the directions of the law in all cases implicitly followed, were the Magistrates to have no alternative, misery, as was shown in the last cases, would be awfully extended and crime fearfully augmented. BOW-STREET. On Saturday William Joseph Barnes and Cathe rine. his wife were brought before Mr. HALLS, charged with having robbed their master, Thomas Hyde Villiers, Etch M.P., nephew of Lord Car rington, of plate, furniture, and other property, to a considerable amount. Mr. Villiers, having been sworn, stated that he resided at No. 70, Great Ryder-street, St. James's, and that the prisoners, who were husband and wife, had lived in his service between four and five years. He had placed confidence in both, and until the pre sent transaction had no reason to doubt the inte grity of either. The male prisoner had acted as his valet, and kept his accounts; and the female pri soner had lived with him in the capacity of house keeper. During the summer, he (Mr. Villiers) was in the country, and left the prisoners in charg e of his establirhment. He arrived in tow n on the 25 h of October, and found that a great many of his books had disappeared from his library, and also that not oily plate, linen, and wearing apparel were missing, but that several articles of furniture had al,io disappeared. He immediately suspected the prisoners, and mentioned his suspicions to them, but they denied being at all concerned in the robbery. On the same evening, however, they both abscond ed, and he heard no more of them until lie was told they were in custody. Salmon, one of the principal officers, deposed, that the prisoners were apprehended by him on the 4th inst. He found the female prisoner at the house of a Mrs. Burgess, at Chatham, and asked her • where the duplicates of her master's property we re ,' She replied, that she had thrown them do w n privy, is order to prevent detection. Haviik l ,„ - her secured, he proceeded to a place called Hood's farm, at zshortstead, about four miles fro Chatham, where he understood the male prisoerC would be found. The prisoner, however, bay s ll received intimation that he was looked for, once himself in an adjoining wood, where, after great 4 11* ficulty, he (Salmon) discovered him, and took b 1 into custody. On arriving in town with both P rt. soners, he proceeded to the prisoners' late lodgine j in Wine-o ffi ce-court, Fleet -street, and there foi l° , in a small hand-basket, 47 pawnbrokers' duplican fur various articles of plate, jewellery, &e. ; and 6 1, 6- , one for a time-piece, which had been pledged at IP shop of Messrs. Ashman and Son's, pawnbrokeil' Long-acre. Mr. Ashman, the senior partner, produced a T ur kish smoking pipe, some articles of plate, and a time' piece, which had been pledged by the male prisoner, Mr. Villiers identified these articles in partieni:l and also the greater part of the property pro by the former witness. He, however, said that tilt articles produced formed a very inconsiderable P er tion of the prerty he had lost. The male piisoner, who appeared to be dre s ., fully agitated during the examination, and leant ~ head upon the shoulder of his wife, crying bittern'' held up his hands and besought mercy of the prc i ‘ r cutor. His example was followed by his wife. Mr. Villiers appeared undetermined as to the eti swer he should give them, and was evidently nni g affected by the appeal to his compassion. Mr. HALLS, however, told Mr. Villiers that ! ill prosecution had now become a public proceed s°" that private feeling could not impede the t o ur„ of justice. The Magistrate then caused the pro o cutor and the other witnesses to be bound over „o appear against the male prisoner at the next v•A Bailey Sessions, and ordered the female prisoner t" be remanded. LAMBETH-STREET. On Saturday Susan Manic, a reckless IWO' " and most inveterate thief, who has been thel' y tress, by turns, of some of the most desperate e.a l _ l ; racters in the metropolis, and who lately cohs hi! : with Latham, who about a fortnight since was edict cuted for a burglary and robbery in the house of M t Newton, applied to the sitting Magistrates, NI• 0 WYATT and WALKER, to order the officers t°2l, IF store to her several duplicates of which she ", been deprived on being taken into custody C jointly with Latham. She entered the office attired in deep mouring' and made her application with a hardened effro ll ' tery, little in consonance with her external indin r Lion of grief; but scarcely had she made her APP egt ; ante, when she was recognised by Mr. Wvitil t , an old visiter, who asked if she was not the fet a l three or four of whose keepers had been hanged, and others of them capitally convicted. Lea, the o ffi cer—The sa me, Sir; she still fol lo l the same course, and since Latham was e xecut e l she has formed a similar connexion with atiollie., person, who is now lying in Newgate, awaiting lit trial for a capital offence. Mr. WYATT asked how it was that her tik e were detained ? Lea said that it was by the directions of the Mt gistrates. He added, that several of the ticke,, were for articles of jewellery, and they doub tle ; were the fruits of robberies : he had every We shortly being able to trace out the owners. gP Mr. WALKER, having examined the duplksier ordered that such of them as seemed to be unnece_,,, nary for the ends of public justice, and which thg' appeared to be a likelihood of being her OW I# ll _, perty, be restored to her, at the same time directiPow that the others should remain in the bands or 1: officer for a fortnight longer, for the purpose o f : 1 ;0 abling him to make snch inquiries as the °cis' required. Mr. WYATT agreed to the propriety of theirlirr tention, observing that it was by the chance of To covery of so trifling an article as an ear-ring t the burglary at Mr. Newton's bad been brot4 home to Latham. HATTON-GARDEN. 1 .1 0 1. Edward Duncombe, bookseller, Middle-roWt born, was charged with having insulted Ms. Oos br h ' i ; straw-bonnet manufacturer, and causing a riot a t house. The charge, it appears, arose out of a tole' plaint made by several of the inhabitants of M iddle row, that the defendant exhibited indecent publiO: tions in his showindow, and which had becom e great a nuisance p- that respectable females who W e ' , , in the habit of visiting the shops near the defenda et o house, were so disgusted that they refused to Psi, down the row, and the tradesmen were greatly 1, jured in their business. Mr. Gosbell, renlot strating with the defendant, was insulted by l'i rn ' et , Mr. LAING said that the magistrates w ere ceedingly anxious to abate the nuisance, and lsad4P: plied to the parish officers to prosecute the defendsll4 but they had refused to do so. The defendant denied that he sold indecent Pub;( lications ; but the complainant produced two b ooM, d the vilest character, and which, the complainant 55:,1; had been purchased at the defendant's shop, of ' mo .ther The Magistrate then ordered the defendant ( 0 ' 44 bail for his appearance at the sessions. UNION-HALL. The solicitor to the trustees of W a terloo-h rid o g o: attended to give information of a most scandelore outrage committed on a man named Carlowf d of the toll-collectors, by which his life is pleeocl;, imminent danger. That morning, about two place t e two gentlemanly-looking men came up tote h,,00t on the Surrey side of the bridge, on horsebao'or made an effort to get through without paying' br iP low, on seeing the attempt, caught hold of the o scl of the horse, a little in advance of the othe r ' 10' requested that the rider would pay the t oll ', o 1 1 i 5 stead of doing so he immediately put spe ll 0 9 , horse, by which the unfortunate toll-collector sa, knocked down and rode over by both horsthbee° the hoof of one of them striking him on the g io• his skull was fractured. Notwithstanding tbeip the lence pursued towards the collector, who le/ilaet s road to all appearance dead, his brutal 0"-5cer' rode off at full gallop, never stopping even tl ) ," the, tain whether they had caused his death. ', II / . 0 10 hurry of one of tl em to escape, his hat fleri " I , of in the inside is written " W. Norvill," w hich ag e lead to his apprehension to answer for t he vu BIRTHS. eD " On the 7th inst. in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, tb of T. Chandless, Eq. of a son. On the Bth inst. in Ilinover-square, the Hen. Best, of a son. 136 01° On the 7th inst. at Upper Tooting, Mrs. W. of a son. MA RRIED. 10 ' On the 7th inst. at Lambeth Church, Mr. VIT• t hts ( of Upper Dean, Bedfordshire, to Maria, youngest (1311° of Mr. Stephen Keen, of Lambeth. fl 4; On the 3d inst. at Kippax, Samuel Ctompiont-,111.,- M.P. of Wood-end, Yorkshire, to Isabella Sophia, "u'ale of the Hon. and Rev. Archibald Hamilton Cathcart, niece of Earl Cathcart. DIED. On the 6th inst. aged four months, Herbert, the I son of William Bode, Esq. On the 6th inst. Eliza, the wife of Mr. Thomss be' ranee, of Reading, Berkw. On the 'ith inst. after a protracted illness, """ ye' Curtis, wile of John Goling, Ewq. of Gloucester' $4:( New-road, and daughter of the late George Cher'ec Chairman of the Victualling Board, in the 6 01 her age. It EAST INDIA.—MARRIEDe &trent) At Ilansie, May 25, Lieut. James Skinner, P.,/1010 Ist Regiment of Local Horse, to Miss S o p hiti o ' Bar A low. rd t Coseimbazar, June 6, the Rev. H. Sandell ,Is , to Charlotte Eliza Money, youngest slaughter o Money, Esq. At Chindwarah, May 5, F. B. Norris, sa4iirr"4l belle, third daughter of the late G. W. Genii", bay Civil Service. 0/ 40i PAINTED AND PUBLISHRD MURDO TIM SUN OFfrei, 112, SiaAXV, L