The Sun. — London, England, 1829-03-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS• (FROM THE TIMES.) It is ascertained that Lord Lowther, Sir Alexan der Grant, and Sir Charles Wetherell, all holding office under his Majesty's Government, presumed to fly in the face of the Government, and to vote, on Friday, against Mr. Peel's resolution. Sir John Beckett, another placeman, was prevented by illness only, or the profusion of illness, from joining in this act of mutiny (rather too had for a Judge-Advo cate!) These personages, we have no doubt what ever, have been preyed upon by much distress of mind, tetween the ruin of the country, the over throw of the Church, and the risk of losing their employments. If his Grace the Duke of Welling ton thinks it worth while, we know what he will do before this day's business commences : he will dis miss the gentlemen without another word, and thereby relieve them from one at least of the con flicting apprehensions which embarrass them. The glorious majority of 188—the manly decisio❑ of the Whigs and Liberals to support the ten pound Freehold Bill, for fear of endangering the other—and the no less manly and vigorous determination of a Sovereign personage to main tain his honour, in spite of those who have dared to insult him with hourly importunities to betray it, afford the most lively and animating prospect that the success of the Relief Bill in the House of Commons will be every day, if possible, more signal than the last, and the evidence and mor tification of total defeat more crushing to the Titus Oates faction. But there is one person who, we trust, will yet listen to our warning. We know his movements—we have the clue to all his intrigues— the opinions he has taken—the subtle old conspira tor at whose instigation he has called for them— the fierce and fruitless end to which he applies them. But these are nothings. We know all: past, long past—as well as present. The whole affair, with its body of records, will doubtless, come before Parliament. The only thing that restrains us is compassion for the unhappy victim. But jus tice—virtue—outraged nature—must be vindi cated. Why does he press upon forbearance ? Why forfeit the mercy—the generous mercy—we have offered him ? The detailed provisions of the Bill for placing our Catholic countrymen on the same footing with the rest of his Majesty's loyal subjects, in whatever touches the enjoyment of their individual rights as freemen, are now before our readers. The speech of the Secretary for the Home Department, which developed and justified at the same time the scheme of policy adopted by the Government, was so full, perspicuous, and satisfactory, that little or nothing remains to be said by way of commentary on this most important measure, but briefly to characterise it as one which cordially embraces the entire lay community of the Catholics, while it wisely rejects the Catholic church and priesthood, disburdening the State of all connexion with them,—of all respon sibility about them,—of all plea whereon they can rest their complaints, demands, or interference. In short, it meddles not with them. We can state, with perfect truth, cur persuasion, that .no former plan, from whatever quarter, corn Lined SO much of simplicity and dignity, with such liberality, sagacity, and foresight, as are all to be. found blended in this statesmanlike and noble project. The Catholic peer, and gentleman, lawyer, and elector, are oil placed, in respect to pri vileges—political and profeseiceel—on precisely the same ground with their Protestant neighbours. What form of government, what condition of policy, what free Constitution, existing elsewhere, could offer them an equivalent for what is now in this united kingdom open to their full and voluntary acceptance ? What more is left for the spirit of patriotism to aspire to ? What more for manly am bition? Miracles, indeed, cannot Ise expected from ay.y effort of human iegislation—the nature of things cannot be altered by it—every poor man cannot be enriched by emancipation, nor all the temporal ills a life at once assuaged ; but as the rich Catholic will be henceforth on a level with the Protestant, so will the Catholic poor man with the Protestant poor; there will be no eaate, no invidious pre ference, no heart-bursting degradation, At an ea' ly period after the passing of this great law, the Legis lature may proceed,with mind unfettered,to revise the general relations which exiet in Ireland between rich and poor, for the salutary purpose of establish ing some means through which guiltless destitution and suffering may be systematically alleviated. A bad law, that creating the 40s. freehold, induced gentlemen to overstock their estates with a species of marketable vassals. The repeal of that law will be very likely to produce consequences of a serious character, through the mere administration of the :lateral remedy for the evils of which it was the cause. When landlords begin to reduce the mete dicant freeholders upon their properties, the ejected paupers will, if some precaution be not taken, have recourse to outrage; but this will not result from emancipation, let it be understood—it will be a tem porary misfortune, arising from the alteration of the franchise. We mention it in time, to prepare the country against any perversion of an intelligible And anticipated event to faetions and insidious purposes. The Whigs have had a meeting, and have deter mined to support Government in the Disfranchise ment Bill. The meeting was held at F. Bur gett's, and the determination was made kneeest to Mr. Peel through Lord Althorp and the Knight of Kerry. (FROM THE MORNING CHRONICLE.) The Intolerants complain of the contemptuous manner in which they were treated by the Majority on Friday night. But how is it possible to treat with respect speeches which cannot be met by argument, because they are throughout a tissue of senseless ravings about the Protestant Constitution of 1688, and the dangers from Popery ? Among the whole of the speakers of the Opposition, there was not one who combatted the premises of Peel, that the evils of Ireland had attained a height which imperiously demanded interference on the part old): Legislature, or attempted to show that without adm;l:ting the Catholics to an equality with the Protestants, !here was any hope of tranquillizing . Ireland. The able Editor of the Leeds Mercury justly observes, that the vllage population of England, so ignorant that it cannot be reasoned with, has been filled with the most ridicuit:us apprehensions by designing indivi duals. The Minority, no doubt, represent very faith fully this large 0 7,3a53 of Englishmen; and their speeches, addressed to audiences persuaded that the measure would subject them to fire and faggot, would have been suitable enough. But really such twaddle was too great an outrage on common sense to be offered with impunity to the liow.e of Com- Pons. We have received an early copy of an able and instruck:;ve pamphlet, published by Ridgway, on the subject wtlich now engrosses the public attention. Its title is " The Dangers of the Removal of Ca tholic Disabilities Considered, by Andrew Marvell, the younger." We cordially agree with the author in thinking Lord George Gordon a sensible politi cian, when compared with those who figure as No- Popery leaders at present. " 'fLut worthy au4 Protestant Lord," says the author, " like many other great men, was too much in advance of the age in which he lived ; and it is in the brightness of our more perfect day that his merit is seen to ad vantage. The opinions of Lord George Gordon, and his worthy disciples of the Protestant Associa tions, went to the root of the evil. If their wis dom had prevailed, Parliament would have repealed the crude and recent commencements of toleration to the Catholics, and restored the penal system to its original perfection. Lord George Gordon was well justified in accusing the Parliament of that day a overthrowing all the bulwarks of our Protestant Constitution —for at that time there was much to pull down—Lord George had seen the ancient edifice in its glory. The tower—the keep—the dungeon—the frowning battlements---indicated un diminished strength, and promised as much per manence as may belong to the works of man, When they werc Mailed by the trews of parlia. ment. When, therefore, he taw the pfocess of destruction begun, and the train laid to blow the whole into the air, no wonder that, provoked at the profanation he witnessed, and the greater which he saw in vision about to happen in after days, he should testify so vigorously against that malignant sacrifice of the Protestant cause. His successors in ' the glorious career have not the same excuse for the fury of their zeal and the intensity of their alarm. They seem to entertain no suspicion that the penal laws, and most of the disabilities to which the Ca tholics were subject have been repealed both in England and Ireland for these forty or fifty years ; and the only question now to be considered is— whether Parliament, and possibly a few offices of trust, from which they are still excluded, shall be opened to Catholic Noblemen and Gentlemen."— The absurdity of the position that the Revolution of 1688 justifies the. principle of Protestant ascendancy is shown in a very able and luminous manner; but our limits will only allow us to refer to the pamphlet itself. One very curious part of the pamphlet, the similarity of the language held now respecting dan ger from the Catholics to that held at the Union with Scotland, as to danger from the Presbyterians, has been, in part, alluded to in the House of Lords. It is so curious, however, that we cannot pre vail on ourselves not to lay it before our readers. " There is nothing new under the sun. The alarms which are now conjured up to frighten this Island from its propriety are the long-laid ghosts of departed intolerance. The arguments which are 110:1, vatnped up in speeches, and addresses and letters to a friend, are the exploded contrivances of former faction to distract the Government, and to unsettle the minds of the people. To some of those ancient and curious relics, the Earl of Winchilsea has an undoubted hereditary right, and Lord Re desdale is hardly justifiable (at least without leave and licence) in pillaging the family treasures of his Noble Friend. When the Union with Scotland was in progress, the Earl of Nottingham (he was son of the Chancellor) and many others, appear to have considered the Ecclesiastical Constitution of this country (how many mortal murders has it sur vived I) would be utterly destroyed and subverted ' by the sixteen Presbyterian Peers and the forty-five Members of the House of Commons about to be introduced into Parliament. They said* That as (see might very well suppose that those Scots Peers would be such as were addicted to the Kirk, it might prove of a dangerous consequence to the Church of England'—the only part of the Consti tution that was the object of their solicitude. The then Bishop of Bath and Wells, on the same occa salon, said, 'that as their _Bench was always rec . koned the dead weight of the Douse,t so these six teen Peers (being admitted to sit therein) would more cfeetnally make it so, especially in any future debates relating to the Church, towards which they could by no ways be supposed to be well affected ; and therefore he was humbly of opinion that some provision should be made for debarring them of their vote in any Church matter that should hereafter come in agitation.' Fhis brilliant idea, however, was not received with favour, and I hope will be left in the Bishop's undisturbed possession, or that of his personal representatives. These alarmists were an swered by Lord Somers and Lcrd Halifax, who do not seem to have thought that the Union was at all inconsistent with the Bill of Right, the Pro:estant cause, the Church of England, or anything done at the Revolution. Lord Nottingham considered the very name of Great Britain 'so great an innovation in this monarchy as- totally subverted all the laws of England!' " Indeed, when the Earl of Nottingham found the Union likely to be carried, with all its Presbyterian sins, he seems to have been very deeply moved—whether to tears the record is silent ; but he concluded with a form of prayer, which has since been adopted without due ac knnwledgement. After alluding to Sergeant Maynard's lively observation to King William, the Earl continued, ' so if this Union did pass, Which he had no reason to doubt, most certainly. he might, with as much reason and as justly affirm he had outlived all the laws and the very Constitution of England, concluding with a prayer to God to avert the direetfects which might probably ensue from such an incorporating Union.' It is pleasant, at the diatai•,ce of a hundred and twenty years, calmly_to contem plate the eventful period which has gone by—to think of the agitations of the troubled wave, while the winds whistled and the tempests roared, and now to hear it break gently on the shore, and to find how completely his Lord ship's prophecies have been falsified, and how happily his prayer has been answered." The author adds..-- " However extravagant it may appear in our days to suppose the Church of England was in danger from the En groachmentsi of Presbytery in the year 1707, yet if there be aay degrees in the substantiality of phantoms, the dan ger was much greater from Presbytery than from Popery now. We must nat compliment the living at the expellee of the dead, nor pronounce the Earl of Nottingham of the last century a tnore unreasonable alarmist than the Earl of Winchilsea of this. Within less than sixty years from 1707, the Church of England had !teen subjugated by the victorious Presbyterians, and the Food old cause of that Church Militant was still supposed to aim at nothing less than complete ascendancy. It is difficult at the present moment to conceive any man so thorough a visionary as to speculate on the restoration of the Church of Rome to plenitude of power in defiance of the resistance of the Church of England, and of Dissenters of every class and denomination whatsoever, who, in that resistance at least, would be united." !FF,031 THE NEWS.) BILL FOR THE RELIEF OF THE CATHOLICS.—The " Grand Secret" is at length disclosed, and the p;gilic are now in possession of the views of Mini sters ion the great question of Catholic Emancipa tion'. We to admit that, as far as concerns the Belief Bill, then p views are far more liberal than our most sanguine hope; ever led us to expect. In future the two Houses of Parliament, and every office of the State, with the exception of the Lieu tenancy of Ireland and the Chancellorship of Eng land, will be as open to the Catholics as to their Protestant fellow-subjects. All the Judges May be Catholics—the Privy Council may be Catholics— the Cabinet may be composed of Catholics—nay, even the Prem4 may be a Catholic. We say may be, for under a Proteztant King, and with the large majority of the nation essentially Protestant, it is not at all likely that such things will bc,-still, how ever, exclusion is virtually done away; and a British Mongrel' may in future range among his Catholic subjects, it; search of talent of which to avail himself, instead of being, p heretofore, confined to one class only of those over whom he is called to rule. We must, however, qualify our praise of this measure, by objecting to the clause preventing the !fish Roman Catholic Bishops from assuming the title of sees over which they preside.l We ere surprised, amid' the sound sense which pervades the Relief Bill, to see such importance attached to so trilling matter. Be;ides, it should be recollected, that though an Act of Parliament may prevent the ' Bishops assuming or ggning these titles, no Act can prevent people writing to theq, and addressing them by such.--Nay, we cannot see how they can be addressed otherwise than by the names of the Sees over which they bear spiritual rule. We admit that in the Roman church, there are many Bishops in nubibus—but then it must be taken into con sideration that their dioceses are also in nutibzes. This is not the case with the Catholic I3ishops in irelao. They all rule over dioceses, and how can they be 4.esicrnated but by the names of the dioceses to wnfcii they severally belong. When Prott itun ts write or spe4 - , of t h em they al ways acid the word " and if this word is =WO on a point of faith by ti Catholics, no Act of pa r liament will b e able to compel their wiling them by a title, which carries with it no reference either to their domicile, or to t he duties, which the prelate in question may be in the habit of performing. We Lope that the very impossibility of accomplishing his objeci will prevail * Parham. History, vol. vi. pp. 5 and 69. t The allusion to the expected ac.cession of dead weivlit from another quarter is not altogether intelli;!,ible ; th e whole passage must be construed nieteori s.ensu.' 1 This, we suppose, is meant for a little sop, to soften the Clergy, and reconcile them to the conciliation measure. Vain attempt ! They neither deserve it, nor will they receive it witli the least ErAtitude, on Mr. Peel to relinquish this clause of the Bill. Amidst this scene of conciliation we are sorry to be compelled to notice another measure of Ministers, which will we ranch fear go a great way towards stifling:the grateful feelings which the Relief Bill must, if unaccompanied, have occasioned in Ireland. We allude to the disfranchisement of the 40s. freehol ders, and to the raising of the qualification to 101. per annum. We should hail any junction of parties which would defeat this unpopular enactment. For what we ask are the many thousands who will fall under the operation of this act to be disfranchised ? Why, because they refused to be driven like slaves to the poll, at the will of their landlords, and dared to act like freemen. We cannot help here noticing the extreme inconsistency of Mr. Peel. A Bill was last Session brought into the House to dis franchise the borough of East Retford, the larger portion of the electors of which place had been found guilty of the most notorious bribery. In an instant the constitutional feelings of the Home Secretary were roused, and he exclaimed against disfranchising all for the faults of even the majority—so tender was he then of taking from the subject one of the greatest privileges of an - Englishman. But now, he coolly proposes to put thousands out of the pale of a Con stitution into which they had been previously ad mitted—and for the sole reason that they have refused to vote according to their landlords' wishes. It cannot be forgotten that the privilege was origi nally extended to the forty-shilling men, because the five pound freeholders (the original qua!ification) proved refractory—and now that the others have shewn themselves equally independent, forsooth— they and the five pound men also, are to be placed hors de lui! ! Never was a more unjust or unwise attempt made on the freedom of a whole nation. It is not deemed sufficient for Ireland to be cursed with a law—the Suppression Act—to which the Curfew of the Conqueror was comparative mild ness, but it must be accompanied by another bitter pill, the excluding of three parts of the electors from the right of voting ! We repeat our hope that some temporary junction of opposite parties in the House, will prevent this outrageous attack on public liberty from passing into a law. We hope it sincerely, if only for the sake of Ministers, whose fame we should be sorry were tarnished by the mixture of such an obnoxious measure with that noble effort of liberal feeling—the Catholic Relief Bill. CORONERS' INQUESTS. On Saturday night an inquest was held before Mr. STIRLING, the Coroner, at No. 15, Stone buildings, Lincoln's-inn, on the body of Henry Bo sanquet, Esq. The Jury consisted chiefly of gen tlemen of the bar. Edward Simpson, a clerk to the brother of the deceased, said, that on Thursday morning, about eleven o'clock, the deceased was at his chambers as usual, and he observed nothing hurried or peculiar in his manner ; at four o'clock the deceased was in his sitting-room, and at half-past four witness found the door locked; supposed the deceased had gone to sleep ; at nine o'clock at night he knocked loudly, and en receiving no answer he became alarmed, and sent for a smith, who forced open the chamber door and the sitting-room door; the deceased was found in the situation described by the surgeon ; never saw the pistols before ; they were quite new ; pro duced a note, as follows : " Dcar Clive—l write this at the moment the pistols are lying before me, and you will at last be convinced that the representations I made to you of the misery I have suffered are not exaggerated, when suei are the consequences.—Yours, &c. " HENRY F. BOSANQUET." George Clive, Esq., of Grafton-street, had known the deceased for some time, and intimately for eighteen months. He was subject to occasional fits of unaccountable depression of spirits, and he had stated more than once to witness, that on these oc casions he was so truly wretched, that he did not know what might be the consequence. On one occasion be observed, that he feared when - labour ing under the malady he might do something fatal, and that was what the deceased referred to in his note. Witness knew of no ostensible cause for the misery the deceased complained of; he was cheer ful when in society. The Jury viewed the body of the deceased, which presented a spectacle truly shocking. Verdict— " Temporary insanity." On Saturday afternon an inquest was held at the sign of the Hog in Armour, Great Saffron-hill, before THOMAS STIRLING, Esq., on the body of James Steward, a child only eight years of age, whose death was occasioned by drinking ardent During the investigation the Coroner repeatedly expressed his surprise at the extraordinary march of depravity exemplified in the evidence. Sarah Beadle knew the deceased child. His father was a deaf and dumb man, and got his living by fortune-telling. He lived at No. 101, Saffron hill, and she was employed by him to look after his children. On Wednesday night deceased went to bed in good health, but the next 'rnning said he had the belly-ache, and could not get up. He stayed in bed all that day, and had nothing but a little porter. On the second day at twelve o'clock, he died, having drank a quart of tea for breakfast, and eaten half a slice of bread and butter. A Juror—Did the poor child go to bed sober the night before he complained of being ill ? Witness —Sober ! certainly he did, Sir. Juror—You seem surprised ; did you never know him to be put to bed drunk ? Witness (with considerable hesitation).—Yes, I have, Sir. CO/tONEß.—Drunk ! Did you say drunk ? Juror.—Mr. Coroner, that child has been in the habit of going with his father to different public houses in the neighbourhood, at night particularly, and drinking spirits to that excess that he has been brought home in a state of intoxication scarcely credible, and in that state put to bed. Another juror had known the deceased to drink three glasses of raw ruin in succession, in his father's presence, who also encouraged him to swallow marbles, four and sometimes six, for wagers of beer and liquor. Witness re-examined by the Coroner.—Had fre quently seen deceased drunk. Drank a great deal of gin and peppermint at home with his father — sometimes twice or three times before breakfast. Deceased's father got a great deal of money by telling fortunes. The deceased's sister, a girl six years old, was afterwards questioned by the Coroner, and said that on the morning her brother died she fetched some gin and peppermint before breakfast, and that they all had some. After breakfast she fetched half a pint more, and then again went for a pint ; the whole of this, she said, was drank betwixt her father, Mrs, Beedle, Sally needle, her brother who was ill in bed, herself, and th© baby, 18 months old. They always had some whenever their tither did, if it vitas 20 times a day. A Juror said, that if the Coroner resided on the spot, he would not be surprised that the father had the means of exercising such depravity, and destroy ing the constitutions of his children, when he Fan' the respectability of the parties who cameto be doped by this dumb and deaf oracle, many of whom left their gal riages at a little distance to escape obser vation. After a long discussion, the Jury returned a yen* diet—" That the child died from a diseased heart ; and that they had every reason t o b e li eve suc h Oiteasp 100 been occasioned by excessive drinking." ROTHERHAM PETITO4 ICIp AVOUR OF THE CATHOLIC CLAIMS.-On We.inesday last, a highly respectable and numerous public meeting was held at Ro therham, on the reTaieition of the principal inhabitants, " to consider the propriety of supporting the Government their intended measwes for the paciEcation of Ireland," the Rev. J. Lowe, in the chair, at which a petition was passed unanimously, depiecating the continuance of those laws which create civil distinction - s on account' of religions opinions, and imploring Parliament to adopt such measures for the removal of the civil disabilities of the Roman Ca tholics as may be deemed consistent with the security of the rrotestant 6ucekssion,—,4eeds ?femme, LAW INTELLIGENCE. BOARD OF EXCISE, NlARcii 7. John Evans was charged with making soap with out entering the same at the Excise Office. The COURT condemned the articles seized, and fined the defendant 504 Mr. Mitchel Robaris, a tea-dealer, living in East cheap, appeared to answer a charge of having re ceived 161 b. of tea without a permit. The COURT said he had no right to receive tea, although it was merely borrowed, without a permit, and ordered it to be condemned. SURREY SESSIONS, MA ca 7. MR. PEEL'S CRIMINAL LAWS. John Jones, Henry Mills, and Charles Newland, three youths, were indicted for stealing a number of live pigeons in the London-road, on the 28th of February last. Zhe case was clearly proved against the two first prisoners, they having represented, when selling the pigeons, that they were their own property; but against. Newland there was no proof he had acted with Jones or Mills, he having sold one pigeon, which he stated he had caught, but which was proved to be incapable of flying. The prisoners being charged in one indictment, a protracted discussion took place on the bench as to its validity, arising from their being no proof of the prisoner Newland having acted with Jones and Mills, as inferred in the indictment. There appeared to be a difference of opinion amongst the magistrates pre• sent, and Mr. Lawson, the clerk of the peace, read the clauses of Mr. Peel's uew act. The CHAIRMAN, after a long conference with his brother magistrates, addressed the jury, and said, that after the best consideration they could give the case, it was determined to submit it to the jury. Mr. Peel's new act had provided, that if persons had stolen property in their possession, they might be indicted as receivers, or for the substantive offence of stealing. It certainly would have been better ill the present case to have drawn out two indictments, but he did think there was sufficient evidence to in culpate all the prisoners. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty generally. There were nearly 100 indictments during these sessions. LENT ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD.--MARCH 6. Janes Barker, a decent-looking countryman, aged 29, was capitally charged with having feloni ously assaulted Mary Ann Saunders. Mary Ann Saunders, a pale, delicate-looking girl of 17, examined. She was respectably attired, and wore a black bonnet, and a blue silk shawl with a flowered border. She said, I was brought up in the charity-school, at Oxford, and after that I went into the service of Mr. Looker, who is an attorney in Oxford. Mr. Looker is married, and has a fa mily. After that I came home to wait upon my mother who was ill. I remember the day on which the prisoner came to our house with Mrs. Tippins. He said he had no doubt I should do for the place they had been talking of. He said it was eight pounds a year wages, and I was to have the privi lege of selling the meat after it came front table, which would be worth, at least, five shillings a week more. After . my godmother had gone I agreed to go with the prisoner in half an hour. In about that time started for the purpose, as I thought, of going to Beckley; however, he told me we should not have to walk far, as his mistress was . in Oxford with a horse and gig. When we got to the Cape of Good Hope public-house, the prisoner asked me to go in to wait his mistress's coming with the gig. I went in, and he called for a pint of beer. We stayed there a quarter of an hour. I did not drink any thing. At the end of the quar ter of an hour he said we must go on, and his mistress would overtake us. We went on about a hundred yards, and then coming to another pub lic-house he recommended me to drink. After some little time I consented to drink some gin and water. I drank a large glass of gin and water, which the prisoner paid for. We stayed there half an hour, and when we left the lamps were just lighted. We proceeded a mile and a half along the turnpike road, and then turned up Barton-lane, and proceeded to the bottom of that lane, and up some fields. The prisoner said that the way across the fields was a mile and a half nearer than along the road. After passing across three large fields we came to a gate. The prisoner got over it and told me to follow him. Up to this time the prisoner had behaved with pro priety. We proceeded down by the hedge side and the prisoner made au attack upon me. It was quite dark by this time. I begged him to let me go. He would not let me, and I cried murder. The prisoner said if I would not be quiet he would stop my mouth. I was very much agitated, and I re sisted as much as I could, but he continued his as saults, and unfortunately succeeded. The Jury, after a short consultation, found the pri soner Guilty. As soon as the verdict was returned, Mr. Justice PARK proceed to pass sentence of Death upon the prisoner, earnestly advising him to make his peace with his Maker, as he could expect no mercy on this side of the grave. APPLEBY, FEB. 28. William Jennings, aged 17, was put to the bar, charged with committing a rape on the body of Agnes Curnthwaite, in the burgh of Kirby, in Ken dal, on Sunday, the 15th of February last. COURTESAY, for the prosecution, stated the facts of the case, and then called Agnes Cornthwaite.—[She appeared a respect able, rather good-looking young woman, and gave her evidence in a very becoming manner.]—l am 21 years of age. On the 15th of February last, I was in the service of Mr. William Atkinson, of Hay Close, near Kendal. I had leave to go out on that day, which was a Sunday, to see my father, who resides in Kendal. On my return home, about seven o'clock in the evening, my mother set inc part of the way- 7 -as far as the Lowther Aims. There are two reads leading from Kendal to my master's house, — the one - a piblic thoroughfare, and the other a pri vate footpath. My mother advised me to go by the footpath, as she thought it safer, and it was the nearer way. It is hilly land. When I had got about ten yards on try way, I heard some one be hind me, and on looking back, saw a tall slender young man, who came up to me. He put his left arm round my waist, and asked me where I was going. I said I was going home. He then offered to accompany me, but I (helloed, saying, I did not know him. We had proceeded 15 or 20 yards during this conversation. When we had got about half way up a hill which lay in my road, he Aced if I vas going to let him * * #. I inquired what he meant by beginning in that way ? and told him to hold off me, or I ‘vould scream out. Ile at tempted to trip me up then, but I struggled so that he did not get me down. I screamed out—he told one to hold my noise, and he would do me no harm. We struggled on 4 few yards, and then he tripped me ttp, and fell upon me. He had a dark coat on and light trowsers. Upon my screaming out, he rose up on his knees, and taking something out of his pocket, which I believed to be a knife, be held it over his head, and swore if I screamed again be would stab it to my heart. Another person then came upon my right hand side—he struck me, and said " -- you hold your noise, and let him-have it quietly !" When I was held fast in this manner, I told them, if they would let me go, I would give them everything f had. (Tlle Counsel for the prosecution here put several questions to witness, in order to elucidate more dearly the commission of the crime, the answers to which were not flt to meet the public eye.) When the first man got up I tried to rise also, but l ie held me down, until the second had treated me in the same manner. I then saw a third person ap pear on my left hand side—he called to the second, saying " damn thee, thou is long." He also pro- ceeded to gratify his lust as the other two had done. They remained as long as they choose; I could not help it. I tried to get up betwixt every assault, but was unable, as they held me down. They swore at me, and told me to hold my noise—what was the use of crying? After the third man had done I got up. I told them I would tell my master—they then left me and I went home. It was moonlight, but the moon was clouded. I had an opportunity of ob observing the first man when he came up, and also of hearing his voice. —Verdict, Guilty. His LORDSHIP then proceeded to pass sentence of death upon the prisoner.—William Jennings, you have been tried and convicted upon evidence which, in my opinion, can leave no doubt of your guilt. A case of greater atrocity has seldom come before a court of law. I can offer you no hope, and there fore I entreat you to lose no time in preparing for the change you are about to undergo. Don't flatter yourself with hope ; you must die. Ilia Lordship then passed sentence of death in the usual form. Ralph Fisher Was put to the bar, to be tried as an accomplice in the same crime; but it appearing that he had been admitted as an evidence before the Mayor of Kendal, Mr. Courtney informed the Jury that it would be their duty to return a verdict of acquittal. The prisoner was accordingly acquitted. He appeared to be little more than a boy about 16 years of age. On Monday morning, about ten o'clock, his Lordship took his departure for Carlisle. CARLISLE, 111 ARCH 6. Jane Baty was indicted for the wilful murder of her bastard ehild, by stuffing hay into its mouth on the 30th January lag. Mrs. Elizabeth Watson examined—l am the wife of Mr. Vatson, a farmer, residing at Westward Parks, about twelve miles from Carlisle. On the 30th of January last, the prisoner was in my service. She came to me at the preceding Martinmas. A sister of her's, called Margaret, was in my service at the same time. Before the 30th of January I had observed the prisoner's appearance, and several times told her that I thought she was pregnent. She de nied that she was so. Our dinner hour is between twelve and one. A little after dinner en the 30th of January, I had occasion to go into the oven house. I there saw the prisoner. She was stand ing almost- double. There was blood on the ground where she was standing. Her arms were folded up in her apron, and I saw blood upon them. I told her that I thought she had had a miscarriage. She denied that she had, and ascribed the appearance to other causes. She then went into the house. I fol lowed her, and saw more blood in the place where she stood. A dead child was afterwards brought into the house by Joseph Atkinson. The prisoner cried very much, and begged for mercy. Joseph Atkinson, on the afternoon of the 30th of January, found the dead body of a newly born child in Mr. Watson's oven-house. The body was placed behind a set pot which was fastened to the wall.l There was a fire under the set pot, which appeared to witness to have been only recently lighted. The child's mouth was stuffed full of hay. Mr. Thomas Nixon examined.-1 am a surgeon, residing at Wigton. I examined the dead body of a child, which was shewn to me at Mr. Watson's on the 31st of January. It was the body of a newly-born child, and was full grown. I examined the lungs ; I am sure that they had been inflated. I found the mouth full of hay, which appeared to have been pressed in with considerable force. The mouth was completely filled. With such a quantity of hay in the mouth no child could live long. I examined the umbilical cord, and found that it had been cut. The consequence of the cutting of that card would be a considerable hemorrhage. I after wards examined the prisoner, and found that she had recently been delivered of a child. Cross-examined.—The lungs might be inflated, and the child still not be born alive. The rupture of the umbilical cord might also have produced the death of the child. The Jury, after a few moments' deliberation, re turned a verdict of " Not guilty of murder, but guilty of concealing the birth of the child." The Learned BARON sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for 18 months in the county gaol, and to be there kept to hard labour. This case terminated the Assizes, which have been remarkably short and uninteresting. NEWCASTLE, MARCH 5. Jane Jameson, of the parish of St. Nicholas, single woman, was put to the bar, charged with the wilful murder of her mother, Margaret Jameson, on the 2d of January last. The mother of the prisoner was the widow of a keelman, and resided in the Keelmen's Hospital, in that town. On the 2d of January, the prisoner, whilst in a state of intsxication, called on her mo ther, when some angry words took place between them. Whilst in this situation, another of the in mates of the hospital passed the door of the room occupied by the deceased, and saw the prisoner standing before her mother, presenting a poker at her, which she held in both her hands. In less than a minute afterwards, the old Woman was heard to say, " Oh, dear me !" and the daughter imme diately called out, " My mother !—oh, my mother !" Assistance being procured, deceased was found sit ting on the floor, bleeding at the breast, and the prisoner standing behind her. She lingered till the 14th, during which time she often asserted that the prisoner had done it, but had, towards the close of her existence been induced to alter I►er story, and declared that she received the wound by falling on the poker whilst in a fainting fit. The medical men who examined the body found Oat the wound had been inflicted by the poker in a burning state, and that it had penetrated quite through the breast bone and entered the right ventricle of the heart. After twenty-four witnesses had been examined his Lordship recapitulated the evidence at great length, pointing out the material parts for the con sideration of the Jury, who, after a long consulta tion, found her Guilty. His LORDSUIP immediately passed sentence of death en her. She Was executed on Saturday morning, and her body given for dissection. The trial lasted eight hours, and the Guildhall was thronged to excess. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, 111Ancti 7.—Yesterday the following Degrees were conferred BACHELOR IN cum LAW. John Campbell, DI.A. Bailie' College. MASTERS OF ARTS. Rev. John Henry Arnold Walsh, Balliol College, Grand Compounder. Rev. Arthur 'Mister, Balliol College. Rev. Thomas Horn, St. Edmund Hall. Rev. John Hambleton, St. Edmund Hall. Rev. Christopher Piwoett, University College. Rev. Daniel Whittle, St. Miry Hall. Rev. Silvanus Brown, Pembroke College. BActlyt.on or ARTS. Edward Wanklyn, Brazen Nose College. ECCLESIASTICAL. PREFERMENTS• The Rev. Joseph Hindle, B.D. Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, has been presented, by the Master and Fellows of that Society, to the Vi carage of Higham, in Kent, vacant by the death of the Rev. R. Hargreaves, M.A. The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has instituted the Rev. John Wetherall, jun. M.A. to the Rec tory of Carlton, Northamptonshire, vacant by the resignation of the Hon. and Rev. Henry Watson ; on the presentation of Sir J. H. Palmer, Bart. The Rev. Charles Tripp, D.D. to the Rectory of lludleigh, Devon. The good people of Huddersfield were not a little surprised to find it publicly stated that a meeting of the clergy of Huddersfield and the neighbouring parishes had taken plsce on Tuesday l as t, to pet i t i on aga i nst t h e Catho li c seeing that no public intimation whatever had been previously given of this snug assembly. What ever may be thought by the clergy to be their interest, the great body of the inhabitants of I ludderstield and the sur rounding district are of opinion that this agitating question s'3ould bc settled without further deiav, —Leeds Mercury. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. L.4sT WERI, a l Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Rea l 9. Per Quarter. s. to s. a. to s. s. to s. I s. tO Carlisle 7l 32 -- 25 —• Carmarthen—...... 60 —I 32 16 36 64 78 1 27 33 18 25 5 0 62 72 33 40 18 26 29 Penrith 68 35 25 -- Sheffield 80 92 31 46 24 34 46 4 1 Winchester 49 90 30 34 25 27 42 a, Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. (J. s. d. s. d. s. d. 5. d. Coventry 10 4 10 8 4 8 5 2 3 0 4 8 5 0 "0 Newcastle (Staff) 12 0 19 6 5 9 6 0 4 6 4 9 7 0 A a Northallerton........ 80 10 0 40 43 23 26 0 . Stafford 120 123 56 60 40 4 3 78 6 00 Swansea 8 9 96 4 50 2 8 30 0 0 ;0 Warwick 100 104 48 52 30 43 50 Per 8011. Barnardrastle.,..— 18 0 SO 6 0 0 10 0 0 0 7 6 9 0 •- IA 0 Darlington —...... 18 0 12 0 9 0 10 6 5 9 7 6 9 0 10 Durham 17 0 20 0 90 10 0 50 80 90 l'a Wolsingham 170 206 86 90 80 76 00 I.l_, WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—March 6. There is a very short supply of Wheat fresh up to hi" day's market, but a considerable :quantity having of lat e gone to granary, a good show of samples have been exlfr bited : good dry samples of New have been in fair dewed , at prices fully equal to last Friday, and in some instate . , an advance of Is. per quarter has been realized, but Or d has not been general : there has been very little detail for Old Wheat to-day. O a t s are f u ll y as d ear. Fi ne f r et 'heavy Barley maintains last Friday's prices, but all lip' and middling samples are as dull as possible. Beans ar e heavy sale, put prices remain much the same. The dot° upon Foreign Oats, Barley, and Beans, now amount to 0 prohibition, and it is very probable that in two or the weeks the duty upon Wheat will be very considerable. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk 575. to 665. fine 701. Lincolnshire 6ls. to 655. fine NO. Yorkshire, .6cc 62s. to 665. fine 68s. White -- Foreign, Old Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Lincolnshire ....i. 565. to Ms. 265. to 318. 275. to 31s. II; 69 9 . tine 34g., tine St& - Yorkshire Wold Beans, Tick ---- Small 30s. to 325. 345. to 365. 31a. to 335. ii;;; tine 38s. One Yis. Oats, Poland and Potato ....... _- 19s. to 255. fine 3 1 3 , . Friezland and Small lOsi to 21s. fine 265. Mealing l2d. to 13%c1. per Stone. Shelling 3ls. to —s. —s. to 335. per Load. Malt 36s. 41s. tine 43.5. per Load. Rapeseed 3Ol. Os. 321. Os. 331. 10s. per Last' ' SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN AI A RKET.—March O. _ A middling supply of B a rl e y, t o p s s . an d average Oa' 3s. above our last ; it was a parcel of premium RAM which brought 425. A very large show of Oats, consist' ing of 678 quarters, of which 442 were sold; a prentio° lot, belonging to Mr. Bogue, of Linplum, drew the tol price ; average up 9d. Wheat is down 6s. on the tO}" and about 2d. on the average. Both Pease and Deans ar d down on the average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. lies 4 _; First 6Bs Od 42s Od 31s Od 34 4 6d 3 3 i ua Second 63s Od 37s Od 24s Id 28, Od 323 01' Third There were 212 qrs. of Wheat in market, 77 whereo were 0 0 24 Unsold.-1I G re Si. 2s Avcr 10.12ths :TH Colt MARI Xll kinds a :ept Pease, it week's p )f Grain which Irices. a'.—March b. at this day's marke l r a B very large; little Pease. 36s Od 31) Od 244 .)d Beata. 903 t , 243 al DA LKEI The supply of a was moderate, via alteration from lasi Wheat. Barley. Oate. First ...... 62a OA 35a Od 29a Od Second ... 65s Od 32a Od 2tis Od Third..... 60a Od 30s Od 20a Od EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.--March 4. . We bad a middling supply o f a ll sor t s o f G ra i n at AO day's market, except Oats, which was large. Wheat atia Beans down 2s. on the top. Seed Oats 338. 7d.; '- meal 2Gs. 61 Barley 2s. higher than last market -day. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 7os OA 46s Ott 2tts 6d 36s Od 36s 04 Second Third „, 56.1 6,1 34s Od 20s Od 34s 0.1 : 01 U 4 PRICES OF PROVISIONS, Ac. Beef, per 1b..., Os. 4d. to 08.7 d. Fresh Butter,lb.ls.o.l. to 1 9 . 94. Mutton 041 o'7 Salt 0 8 01 0 Veal 0 6 1 0 Ditto, per cwt. U 66 1 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 0 y 0 1 Lamb, per qr. 0 0 0 0 O at StrawCkp'..) 7 0 0 „, 0 Tallow, cwt.-32 6 35 0 Wheat Ditto..., I' 0 0 u Quartero Loaf 010 011 Barley Ditto 5 6 6t' Potatoes, 141 b. 0 3 0 4 Hay, per 0 6 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARK ET.—March 3. • atnieal at this day's warkei last week's prices. Per Stone of 141 b. hip. 9 First Oatmeal g ,g Second ditto 10 8ar1cymea1......... 0 Peasemcal e 1 ISs.-3cl. wos.—Piao 01 GLASGOW CORN M NVe had a large supply of which sold rather heavily at Per Sack of SSOlb. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 17 0 Second ditto 1 15 0 Barleymeal 1 14 0 PC-1S erneal 1 9 0 Pot Barley —No. I, per cwt. 154 All kinds of Grain dull Wheat, per 2401 b. a. d. s. d. British, old 340 to 36 0 ARKET.—Murch 4. f sale, and rather lower. A , Oats, per 1641 b. s. d. Irish ISOto 2O British .......... 100 511. Beans, English ..... 0 "":„ (I 1 Scottish s tm e per . Scottish: .10 : 1 .: h .:. 1 7 . / 7 ' I/ 18; 54- Flour, per 2801 h...: 88 0 t5O - new 33 0 35 0 Canrhda, free 0 39 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 25 0 27 0 Seottit Irish a. 22 0 23 0 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, MARCH 6.--Wind E. to water 32 minutes past eleven.—Arrived the 7 - Liam Scott, Gellen, from I s l e o f M a n ; William Sad-°,4- rab, , from Newry ; J ess i e , Hutchinson, i. Sligo ; William and Sarah, —, from Ballast; Evans, Salcombe. Sailed—The Caledonia, —, for Africa; , for Boston; Margaretha, for Breme r ' Mary, Gamble, fur Gibraltar ; Bounty Hall, ----, Madeira. MARcix 7.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived the Romulus, •••'"' from Charleatone ; Grog, Alexander, from Jersey ; Betel' , from Wigton ; Three Sisters, Paton, from ditt°; Isabella, —, from Annan. Sailed—The Welvaart, —, for Antwerp; 1616 Obear, for Boston; Superb, —, for Konigsberg' Jason, —, for Pillau; Minerva, , for AntwerP ; Regent, —, for Rio Janeiro. • 131RTH. On the 4th inst. at Walbury, Essex, the lady of Lieut..' Col. Johnson, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 7th inst. Joseph Chitty, jun., Esq., of the 3 1 ;1" dle Temple, to Sarah, third daught er o f th e late T. lia r "' wick, Esq., of Ford, near Sheffield, Yorkshire. • On the 6th inst. by the Rev. John Mapleton, R e ctor 0 Christ Church, and Mitcham, Surrey, the Rev. Georgi Dewdney, M.A., Rector of Fovant, Wilts, and domeou Chaplain to the Right Hon. the Esri of Fife, 1.0 Penelope sec )nd daughter of John Jabor, of Finsbury-square, Ei"P On the 3d inst. at Wilmington, Kent, Mr. Thong Herbert, of Liverpo o l, to Mary Ann, second daughter Mr. D. Clow, R.N. On the sth inst. at St. John's, Hackney, the Rev. W' Tait, of Ashby-de-la-Zouch, to Katharine, eldest daughti r of Benjamin Adam, Esq. of Homerton. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Tullymet House, Perthshire, MI S Dick, relict of the late Dr. Dick, of Tullymet. On the 6th inst. at his residence, Fetcham, Surrey, Of. Thomas Banning, formerly of Great Tower-streth aged 81, On the Ist inst. Beauford Crowgey, Esq. brother to JO late Major-General Ctowgey. On the 3d inst. at Rochester, Richard Thompson, E 94. senior Alderman of the corporation of that city, aged 80 ' , On the 7th inst. at h er h ouse i n C larges-stree t, after lingering illness, the Doager Countess Stanhoe. On the evening of t w he 6th inst. at Hanopver-strerti Hanover-square, Colonel Sir Robert Barclay, K.C. 13 . / the lion. East India ,oinpany's M a d ras es t a blishment , the 71st year of his age. I - On the Ist inst. at her house in Upper I3erkeley-s tree lira. Jane Drummond, in the '721 year of her age. - On the 7th inst. in Berkeley -street, Berkeley-sq ua l Ann, widow of the late J o h n H ar rison, &q. in the 681 year of her age. for O t t l i m t t e et 2 ll. s fi t t h of his health, j ra a n ro c e e s , h Miley, Esq. adgo' Aoe ; House, Bermondsey, in his 33d year. Pet t O k n s t a h t e P 9 o t r h t sNovemberu South s A t , m a e g r e i c d a , 4 w . 2 h , e C r e o h l Colonel wae W b / murdered by banditti, for the:sake of plunder. EAST INDIA. BIRTHS. At Benares, Sept. 8, the lady of Lieut. Talbot, the 61st N. 1., of a son. o f At Dacca, Sept. 13, the lady of Lazar Seth, Eq.) a son and heir. At Calcutta, Sept. 26, Mrs. A. Moffatt, of the Company's Mint, of a daughter. be) At Bangalore, Aug. 12, the lady of Ensign }fug 39th Regt. of a daughter. At Bombay, August 9, the lady of J. Johnson, of a son. MARRIED. At Bangalore, Aug. 26, Lieut. Aug. Clarke, to Ft'l ces, daughter of the late S. Drew, Esq. of B:shop's C. Shropshire. At Calcutta, Sept. 27, Mr. C. Paschaud to Miss M. Smith. PRINTED and PUBL/41rIED by MURDO YOUNG, at SUN ()mew, 111, STRAND, LONDON.