The Sun. — London, England, 1829-06-15 00:00:00

j ectionable• It so happened that, before finish ing the perusal of the paragraph, our attention was called from it to other matters, and in the press of business we forgot to resume our exa• mination, and thus inadvertently lent ourselves to the impertinence of a coxcomb, whom we shall endeavour to discover. Those who know us must be aware, that an allusion like that in the article in question is the very last sort of license we should think of indulging in.—Mid. The state of parties forms at present no un interesting subject of observation in the political world. There has not been for many years a period in which they have assumed so varied and undetermined a character. Of the medley which they form we proceed to take a slight review. There has not been a period within the memory of any one living when a Parliamentary Session has presented such a scene of indecision, post ponement, and inactivity, as the present. Of this the state of parties has been the real cause, though no man of any party has had the courage to avow it. To say that it has been an unim portant Session would not be true, The one and only measure of which it has been the pa rent, is of itself alone of importance enough to give i t a distinction. Of that measure we do not wish now to speak beyond the effect it has had upon the state of parties. Of its main po litical effects we are willing that they should be fairly left to work their own way. But its result upon party has been to derange the whole chain and system of political confidence and connection; and if the Government have proposed nothing of consequence during the whole Session but this one measure, it is because they have not dared to do so. The very few instances which have occurred to put this to the test have carried with them omi nous warnings. We would instance the votes relative to Buckingham Palace, and Mr. O'Con nell's seat. On both these occasions there were plenty of Members in the House to hear the debates, but few, comparatively, who joined in divisions. The Treasury mandate, it is true, was obeyed ; but the Treasury entreaty was dis regarded. In this precarious state of things, postponement has been the order of the day. The advanced pet iod of the Session" has been the stalking-horse ; but doubt, fear, and un certainty, have been reigning motives. The House of Commons now presents no less than five parties—that of the Government, the Whigs, the Tories, the friends of Mr. Canning, and a body of neutrals. With the four latter in abey ance, the first has been afraid, and, in fact, too weak, to cope. It has been necessary, therefore, to stave off every thing which could by possibi lity unite these parties into one opposition, and bring the weakness of the Administration to the test. The object of the Duke, of course, is to strengthen his forces by a union with as much of this desultory outlaying force as he can win Over. But here are difficulties great and formid able, it it said, at every point. The Whigs say %hey cannot act with Lord Lyndhurst ; and the Tories that they cannot again coalesce with Mr. Peel, - Mr. Huskisson, Lord Palmerston, and the little band of Canningites (more formidable for their official talent than their numbers), are indignant at the treatment which they and their deceased leader have sustained ; and, though not unwilling to return to the 'tweets of office, expect concessions which the Duke cannot, with any regard to his own con - sistency, grant ;—while the tribe of neutrals, Dmprising many of the most influential of the County Members, and other country Gentle men, hold themselves aloof, ready only to fall into the tanks when the regiment is officered, and its movenuats regulated to their liking. The usual baits nith which past Governments could hire so many of them to its will are, unfortu rratidy for the Duke, now wanting. The crowds of Cotnmissions in the Army and Navy, and the plates of a hundred kinds which heretofore pre sented themselves to gorge the appetite of every hungry ,applicant, now exist no longer ; and people Aigume an independence merely because dependence has no longer wherewithal to tempt them. Such, we believe, or gomething very like it, is the present state of parties, Such, or aomething very like them, are the reasons why the Parliament has sat upwards of four months without doing any thing. Before the time comes for its meeting again, something probably will have turned up in the chapter of accidents to alter the state of things ; but a reliance on chance is bad enough in private life—in public affairs it is neither wise, dignified, nor judicious.— onzing Herald. The prolongation of the Session of Parlia ment, on aunt of the protracted and rigorous inquiry which the Committee of the House of 1,441 s on the Loneklon ilridge Bill have insti wtecl igto the affairs of tike Corporation of the City of I,, L indon, has naturally had the effect of exciting a considerable degree of public atten tion to the nature of that measure, and to the positions, motives, and arguments of the several patties who support or oppose it. The object of the Bill is to provide the funds necessary for waking the approaches to the new bridge, ac cording to .a particular plan, amounting to a very large abrn. Into the details of this plan w 3 do pot propose to enter, Its principal features, as ov i e collected them from a cursory inspection of ,the model, are two wide streets ; one trona the top of Fish-street-hill, and the other from Cannon-street, nearly ire A line with the Mansion House. They both ter urinate in one at Thames-street, over which the xeeel to the bridge •is continued by means of an =eh considerably higher than that at Temple ,bar. The latter of these strieets it is intended ultimately to continue towards the North, until itt forms a junction with the City-road, leading to Islington. There is to be also a wide stroAt , imam Monument-yard to Tower-hill. On the Southwark side a wide street is to be fbrmed, 'extending from the foot of the bridze of Saint "Margaret's-hill, and another parallel with Tooley "street, and between that and St. Thomas's pital, to improve the communication between the laridge and the lower part of the River. ro en • allA the City to raise the funds necessary for tbese ,extensive undertakings, the Bill con. tinUes to the Corporation the duty of 10d. per chaldroit upon coeis imported into London, for twenty-one "ears Crow I-0 33 , when otherwise this duty would'expire, providing however that on the termination of this period the whole of the pro perty purchased, or created under the Apt, shall be vested in the Crown. Such is the 04 the expression of • our individual opinion of its merits would be alniost art impertinence, when we have to state; that of the numerous Members of the House of Commons, not oz.;e could he found to oppose it, although during it , . pro gress in that House speeches were made else where, and other efforts dilifently employed to foment an opposition to it. rile alleged grounds of objection to it are, that the tax of 10d, per chaldrou upon coals, which it• continues for a renewed term of twenty-one years, is an op pressive one ; that the plan of the approaches is extravagant and otherwise injudicious ; and that the Corporation of London is bound to make these approaches, and has the means of doing so, or might have had the means, but for the want of economy in its other disbursements and arrangements. This is the case which the opponents of the measure are attempting to establish before the Committee ; and having been permitted to offer evidence in support of it, they are of course let into a field of investiga tion which may be as extensive, and their in quiries into which may be as minute, as they think fit. A party whose chief hope lay in the probability of wearing out their opponents, would be very fortunate in having such a case ; and if we are rightly informed, a considerable portion of Saturday was consumed in the examination of a very respectable tradesman, who being an amateur engineer, had sent in his own plan for the ap proaches ; and in extracting from him the two very important pieces of information, that in his opinion the plan that has been adopted is not as good as his own, and that the intended approaches cannot possibly have been adopted for the sake of giving additional facilities of access to the residence of Alderman Wood, since the worthy Alderman has the good taste to live in the fashionable neighbourhood of Grosvenor-square. That the Duke of Wellington, and all his Majesty's Mi nisters who are Members of the House of Lords, enjoy, and appear likely to enjoy for some time to come, the daily recreation of listening from eleven o'clock in the morning to half-past three in the afternoon to details of this lively and edify ing nature, is a fact which may help our readers to appreciate the delights of Office. We should, however, be inclined to think that a more sum mary mode of disposing of the objections might have been found. Granted that the tax upon coals is an oppressive one. Are not all taxes oppressive ? What more equal or unobjection able tax can be imposed upon the inhabitants of London and its vicinity ? Can the approaches to the bridge be made without money ? Granted that the plan is not the very best possible. Is it likely that a Committee of the House of Lords, with all the assistance that disappointed en gineers, professional or amateur, whose plans have been rejected, can afford it, should hit upon a better? Granted that the Corporation has funds, or might, but for its extravagance in other matters, have had funds sufficient for the purpose, with out applying to Parliament, what is that to the question, since the Corporation is exonerated by the original Bridge Act from any outlay on account of this undertaking beyond a certain sum, which sum is already expended ? Granted that the expence of building the bridge has been greater than was contemplated, in consequence of deviations from the original plan—did not the Act sanction these alterations, upon the condi. tion that the Loris of the Treasury should concur in them, and did not the latter concur in every alteration that has been made ? There is one other topic to which we must advert before we conclude, and we would wish to do so with all possible delicacy. It is taken for granted by the opponents of the Bill that the cessation of the duty of Iod. per chaldron upon coals would have the effect of reducing the price to the consumer in London to that extent. We tlissent from this opi nion. In most articles a reduction of duty is fol lowed necessarily by a reduction of price, but it is so in consequence solely of the principle of compe tition operating regularly and powerfully upon all the producers and all the dealers. Has this prin ciple an unobstructed operation among the great coal owners, the first sellers of this article ? We think it neither has nor can be expected to have. The number of proprietors of this description is comparatively small, and the facility of a combina tion, tacit or express, among them to understock rather than overstock the market is proportionally great. We know that in fact an express combi nation for this purpose existed long in the coal district from which the metropolis is principally supplied. But this is a case in which a tacit combination will be perhaps quite as effectual as an avowed one, and is besides sure always to exist ; for nothing can be more evident than the peculiarities in this particular branch of produc tion, which ensure the existence of combination. Here all the producers have a common interest ; they have nothing to apprehend from interlopers ; they know one and all that the effect of unrestrained competition in an article which exists in inexhaus tible abundance would be to reduce the price to the point at which it would merely remunerate the capi talist for bringing it to the surface of the earth, and that a coal estate, whenever this point is reached, will cease to be much more valuable than any other. Knowing then that an express combina tion has existed, the effect of which has been to prevent any reduction of duty from being beneficial to the consumer, and perceiving, as every body must perceive, the great facility and the great temptation to a combination in some form or other among the proprietors of coal mines, to keep up the price, the public may very rationally doubt whether the reduction of 10d. per chaldron of duty would be any advantage to them, nor are the doubts which would in any circumstances be so natural upon this question likely to be removed when certain great pro prietors of coal mines are seen to be the only persons in either House of Parliament who mani fest any anxiety for the reduction.—Morniug - Post. An appeal on the settlement of a young te mple, the illegitimate daughter of a Scotch Baronet, whirl tiem the peculiarity of the circumstances attendant on its promotion attracted many of the higher classes to that to them terra incognita, eterkenwell,green, was ex pected to come before the Court on Thursday last ; but, much to the disappointment of the fashionable visiters, owing to an amicable arrangement being entered into be tween the litigant parishes, the anecdotes, scandalous and other wise, which it was expected would have transpired, remained tuirli;, , ,elpscd. The circumstances that gave rise to the proceedings are liiese:—About two months since a young female, 16 years of ap, waz., discovered wander ing about the streets of one of the eastern parishes gl the ri.'etropolis, in a miserable state of destitution. She WO squalid .0 her appearance, and reduced by famine nearly to a skeleton. `0,2 persons by whom she was discovered brought her to the police r oXce of the district, and having mentioned to the Magistrate the condition in which they had t'oull4 her, she, by his direction', was reaporred to the parochial workhouse, While there, the officers, naturally desirous of not being bardaned with her support, inquired of her who were her parents, anti where she had been born ? In reply, she said she was tire illegitimate daogh ter of Sir C-- B—, by the widow of a Captain in the army, and that her mother was dead. She had no ;person, she said, to complain of the illiberality of her fa ther, I.;v : t had of the misconduct of her mother. Her farherhad o,otra ,t;tize to time remitted her money for her support to tire ,44 1 9,11 ,t ,0 aver 1,000/., but instead of appropriating it to the purposes,:o; which it was intended, she expended it in a course of prohiga...l ,;.,n . l dissipation, which lid to her untimely death. She was born, the lAlieved, at Chelsea, and it was owing in the ignorance of her 4i.1,-er.--who was at present, she understood, in France—of nee Condition, that she was reduced *to so much distress. 94 thip information the parisla'offitera passed her to the last-mentioned as her proper:pate of settleinant. Against this proceeding the appeal was lodged, the hearing Of which was expeced to ha ~roxtsltd so much interest; POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. FELONY.—Saturday Joseph Pratt, a man em ployed by Messrs. Ward, Brittle, and Ward, hosiers, Wood -street, Cheapside, was charged before Mr. Alderman BROWN with having in his possession a large collection of articles in the hosiery line, sup posed to have been stolen from his employers. Mr. L. C. Matthews, Upper Whitecross-street, pawnbroker, stated that on Saturday morning a woman came to his shop, and offered half-a-dozen pairs of black stockings in pawn. Mr. Matthews having certain misgivings that the black stockings were not honestly come by, with a feeling which we would like to see more generally prevalent among those generous individuals whose " money lent" in vites the needy to visit them, was determined to as certain if his suspicions were well founded. Ac cordingly, inviti►►g the said woman into his private parlour, he put sundry questions to her touching her residence and her husband's occupation, in the coarse of which he learned that her name was Pratt, that she resided in Philip-lane, and that her husband was employed at Messrs. Ward, Brittle, and Wards. The shrewd pawnbroker was now quite satisfied that the black stockings were never paid for; and, having given information of the circumstance at the house in Wood-street, Pratt's lodgings in Philip-lane were visited by a gentleman in " the commission of the staff." A search being made a large collection of articles, such as may fairly belong to the firm, and sufficient to fill a large bag,' were found, and Pratt taken into custody. Mr. Brittle, one of the pattners, said that the prisoner had been some time in their service. He had seen the property found at his lodgings, and had little or no doubt but that they formerly formed part of their stock. However, he was anxious to inspect them more minutely than he had done, a thing he was prevented doing in consequence of the short time which had elapsed- since the prisoner was taken into custody; therefore he hoped the Magistrate would remand him.. Mr. Alderman BROWN said he had no hesitation in complying with this request ; and accordingly re manded him until Tuesday next. BOW-STREET. A young mail, named Percival Hardwicke, was charged, on Saturday, with obtaining groceries to the amount of upwards of 20/. under false pretences. James Gray, shopman to Chambers and Co., grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand, proved that the prisoner came to the shop of his employers on the 23d of April last, and presented a written order for 3016. of loaf-sugar, and 21b. of tea. The order purported to bear the signature of " S. Lovejoy," (of the firm of Walters and Lovejoy, of Fleet market), who was a customer of Chambers and Co. The prisoner came again on the 13th of May, with an order, signed as before, for 41b. of 7s. tea. The tea was delivered to him, and the prisoner repeated his visits so often, with similar orders, that at last suspicion was excited, and being questioned he ran away. He was then pursued and taken into cus tody. The whole amount of goods which he obtained upon forged orders was 221. 10s. Mr. Lovejoy attended, and proved that the orders were not in his hand-writing, neither was the signa ture which they bore.--1 he prisoner was fully com mitted for trial. Thomas Birmingham, the young man who stood his trial at the Old Bailey, on Friday last, for the wilful murder of Sarah Waite, at Kensington, came to this office on Saturday, and demanded'his clothes, which the elder Taunton had in charge. The clothes were immediately given up to him, upon which Bir mingham drew off his fustian jacket, and put on the livery coat of Lieut. Ives, in whose service we un• derstand he is t►► be continued. Moot AucnoNs.—On Friday a young gentle man, whose name, we understand, is Harris, applied to Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, the sitting Ma gistrates, under the following circumstances :—He stated that he was walking the preceding day past the well known auction-rooms in the Strand, exactly opposite to Southampton -street, v,hen he saw the auctioneer holding a very handsome-looking watch in his hands, as if he was selling it to the highest bidder. Hearing several very low sums offered for it he entered the place, and, after very little compe tition, bought the watch for a pound. On taking the watch to a watchmaker he was informed that it was valueless. Sir RICHARD—You knew surely that a watch of any worth could not he purchased at that price? Mr. Harris—Why, Sir, the auctioneer warranted it to go. _ _ Sir RICHARD (laughing)—Yes, to get out of his hands when you bought it. (Laughter.)— Mr. Har ris-1 was aware, Sir, that it was not gold ; but I imagined that it would make, if the works were good, a very good present for my servant. As for the money Ido not care for it three halfpence. I merely applied to you in order to warn other per sons of the swindler's concern. Sir RICHARD—The nuisance has been made very public,. but it would appear that that is of very little service. The applicant afterwards said that his brother was a magistrate and a clergyman, and he had pointed out to him an act which was passed to prevent such swindling practices, and it was as clear as a pikestaff, Mr. Harris was informed that such might be the case in Ireland ; but no act of that kind was in exist ence in England. The young Irishman, finding that he was unable to punish the auction ee r fexce p t by an ac tion (which made the remedy worse than the disease), took his eave of the office. 51 ARLBORO U GH.STREET. AN UNEXPECTED CLAIMANT.—On Saturday Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, was engaged in endeavouring to decide upon the following singular claim of a female as to whether a person whom she charged with desertion was. her husband or not : Andrews, one of the officers belonging to the establishment, entered the office, followed by a sailor whose manners and appearance evidently bespoke his just coming ashore, and who was immediately succeeded by four females, one of whom was placed in the front of the Magistrate ; and whom-Jack Wai looking at with the utmost astonishment. Upon the group being placed Andrews informed the worthy Magistrate that while he was standing at . the door he saw the sailor come reeling up, followed by the women, and from whom he was endeavouring to get away. On seeing him the female (pointing to the principal one) asked him to take the blackguard into custody, " for he is (continued she) my husband, although the vagabond denies it." The sailor heard this charge with the utmost indifference, and was about walking away when, seeing the females gathering around him, and thinking it might lead to some breach of the peace, he asked the sailor if he wpuld come before the Magistrate, when he replied in 06 affitraiioYe? Mr. LiYER, on hearing this, desired the female to state what claim she had upon the young mutt. " t)h, please your honour," replied the female, " thi? fellow is my lawful husband, and that I can prove, although he now denies me, for he has left me and my child to starve these nine years ; for just after the baby was born he went away, and I have never seen nor beard anything of him until a few days ago, Mien I saw him in Yuc4ericle r street with two had g i r l s ; and it is a shamefu l thing, your honour, that he should be spending his tnoney on them, and leave me and his child starving," Mr. DYER—What countrpsoman are you?— " An Irishwoman, your Honour," replied the de serted wife. Mr. DYER—You hear her statement. H ave y ou anything to say ?—Jack, who had stood listening to her clal4tt with the utmost composure, teplied, with great sang fr oici, hat the woman must be mistaken for he was never married in his life, and he had never seen her until a night or two ago. " You villain,'? `exclaimed the female, " for denying me. You know I am your lawful married wife, for here is my marriage tines (handing a doptiment to the worthy Female—l can bring three persons who will swear to his being my husband, if that will do. Mr. DYER — I can do nothing for you; it is clearly a case of identity, and one which I cannot de cide; but, Andrews, you had better look and see if he has any marks as the female states, although it is entirely optional on his part. To this proposal he instantly assented, and he ac cordingly showed Andrews his legs, when on the left appeared a tremendous scar, which he informed Andrews was occasioned by a cannon-shot at the bombardment of Algiers. .. Well, you are discharged," observed the wor thy Magistrate. Wank you, your Worship," hiccupped Jack, who went reeling out of office, followed by his would-be wife and her companions, who expressed their determination not to leave him until he made some provision for his wife and child. On Saturday a decent-looking elderly female, named Catharine Joyce, was brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, charged with steal ing a silver jug, the property of Mrs. Elizabeth Nut tall, a lady residing at Camden-town. The prisoner had nothing to say in her defence, and was fully committed for trial. William Payne, a young man, who bas been in custody for some days upon a charge of stealing a gold watch, &c., from the Hyde-park Hotel, near Tyburn, the property of a gentleman named Beau mont, who occupied apartments in the house, was brought up for re-examination. It appeared that the prisoner, who had lived as waiter in the house about three years ago, called to visit a female-servant at the hotel, and then took an opportunity of stealing unperceived into the apart ments of Mr. Beaumont, and carrying away several articles of property that lay on the table in the dressing-roorn. The female servant, however, met him coming out of the room, and suspecting that he had stolen something, charged him with it, when he admitted that he had taken a gold pin and snuff-box. which he showed her, but declared that these were all he had taken, and .which the girl made him in stantly replace where he found them, and then ordered him to quit the house. At this time, Mr. Beaumont being from home, it was not known that he had left his watch on the table, and consequently it was not missed until his return; and although the prisoner was taken into custody the next day, no trace has since been had of the watch. The prisoner, who, it appears, has lived as waiter at several hotels, as well as in the service of several private families, being now placed at the bar for re examination, the following dialogue took place be tween himself and the Magistrate, Sir George )arrant. Sir GEORGE—Payne, in whose service have you last lived ? Prisoner—l lived last in the service of MN. Stroud, at Lymington. Sir GEORGE—How long did you live with her ? Prisoner—About four months. Sir GEORGE—Does Mrs. Stroud reside at Lyming ton ? Prisoner—No, she li►•es at Winchester; but she was staying at Lymington while I was in her service. Sir GEORGE—Then you were not in her service at Winchester ? Prisoner—No, your Worship : I left her before the family returned to 'Winchester. , Sir GEoRGF.—Then you were not at Winchester, at all ? Prisoner—.\o, your Worship. Sir GEORGE—You were never at Winchester ? Prisoner—Never, your Worship. Sir GEORGE—Never in your life at Winchester ? Prisoner—Never, your Worship, that I know of. Sir GEORGE—Oh, if you had ever been there, you mug know. Prisoner—Certainly I must. Sir GEORGE—Where are your boxes, that you had when you lived with Mrs. Stroud ? Prisoner— At Lymington, Sir. Sir GEORGE—What do they contain? Prisoner— Nothing, Sir, but some of my clothes. Sir GEORGE—Now don't they contain several things that don't belong to you,—bottles of otto of roses, &c. ? No answer. . Sir GEORGE-NOW you said- you had never been at Winchester in your life. Have you not been in Winchester-gaol ? Prisoner (much astonished). — In Winchester gaol! never in my .life, Sir. Sir GEORGE—What was that piece of iron that was found in your possession ? Prisoner—Piece of iron, Sir ! I don't know what you mean. Sir GEORGE-Oh yes, you do come now, were you not sent to Winchester gaol for breaking open the -- box of Mrs. Stroud's coachman and stealing eighteen sovereigns from it ? The prisoner made •no answer; but stood petrified with astonishment at the accuracy of the Magistrate's information. Sir GEORGE—And was not the very piece of iron with which you broke open the box found on you, and did it not exactly fit the marks ? Prisoner—l did not steal the sovereigns. Sir GEORGE—But were you not in Winchester gaol, charged with the robbery ? Prisoner—Yes, I was ; but I did not commit it. Sir GEORGE—And were you not tried for it at Winch( ster ? Prisoner—l was, but I was acquitted. Sir GEORGE—And who was it that gave 51. to the counsel who defended you ? Prisoner—He did not get 51. Sir GEORGE—How much did'he get then ? Pri yoner—He only got 4/. Sir GEORqU—MPII) was not far from the murk. Here the dialogue ended, and Op prisoner was remanded. Magistrate), and which was sent me from Ireland a few days ago." • Mr. DYER—" What is your name ?"—When the would-be wife replied, " Mary Cashman." Mr. DYER—And your husband's nu:ne?—" Timo thy Leary was the name when we were married," was the reply. Mr. DYER—Your name, young man ?—" John Owen Moore," replied Jack, " and which you will find in the ship-books." Mr. DYER—Your husband's name and his are very different; you certainly must have made a mis take as to his person. " Oh, faith ! do you think I don't know my hus band, although he has left me nine years ?" replied the female. The sailor here inquired whether he might be allowed to ask a few questions, when the worthy magistrate replied, that any observation which was likely to elucidate the identity he should be happy to hear. Jack—What countryman was your husband ? Female—A Cork man. Jack—Well, I cannot be your husband, for I am a native of Guernsey ; and besides I never was in Ireland in my life. Mr. DYER—In what parish were you born ? " Peter's Port, your worship," said Moore; " and besides there are several gentlemen there who knows me and my family." Mr. DYER—WeII, it is a very singular case; but have you no other means of identifying your hus band than by his general appearance ?—Female— He has a mark upon one of his legs, but I am not able to say which, as it is so long since. Jack—lt won't do, for I see how it is. I have just come from China, and having some money she wants to get it out of me, but she is not going to board me with false colours. QUEEN -SQUARE. ATTEMPT TO MURDER AFEMAL E.—On Saturday James Hill, a hackney-coachman, was brought be fore Messrs. MARRIOTT an d G REGORIE, charge d with atteroptnig IQ murder a • young female tiamvd Margaret Brady, with whom . hp lived, under the following circumstances I—, The complainant presented a truly shocking Bp pearance ; her face was swollen in a most dreadful manner and covered with bruises, so that scarcely a feature was discernible, and she appeared so ill from the effects of the prisoner's treatment that she could scarcely articulate. She stated that she lived • with the prisoner in Tothill-street, Westminster, and had done so for four years, during which time she had borne him four children. On Thursday night last she was in bed and asleep when the prisoner came home ; he laid hold of her and dragged her out of bed, jumped upon her several times, and struck It will be recollected that a few months ago the Secretary for the Home Department sent an order to the Court of Aldermen, desiring that the gaol of Newgate should be so enlarged as to render it practicable to make the classification of prisoners, the want of which has been attended with such alarming consequences, an unalterable rule. This order was submitted to the Gaol Conimittee, and the question underwent several discussions. The prison, it appears, is so situate that the ground round it cannot be purchased except at an overwhelming expense, . and the finances of the corporation, as must be apparent from recent statements, are not at all calculated to sustain any additional demand. With the knowledge of this state of things, the Committee proceeded to make such alterations in the inte rior as would enable the Governor to separate the untried from the convicted, and the more inveterate criminals from those whose reformation was not matter of despair.— What has been desired, however, is far from being accomplished. . The present con dition of the prison, notwithstanding the late very numerous transportations to New South Wales, testifies the extreme difficulty of adapt ing the size of the great metropolitan gaol to the extent of crime, without the aid of Government in so altering the hulk system as to prevent it from being the encourager of the most enormous offences. Of those prisoners now under trial at the Old Bailey there are great numbers who have been previously convicted at the same bar, and some who have been tried several times ; and the minute observers of the working of the sys tem declare, that upon a fair average there is not one of those practitioners who has not been ma turing half a dozen pupils for the gallows. The public are already aware of the project submitted to, and received with apparent approbation by, Mr. Peel, of appointing a perpetual sessions for the trial of the minor offences. It considered that the rejecting of the Bill lately brought into Parliament for giving the power to Magistrates to try cases of the kind arose principally from the expectation that this project would be carried into effect. In tact, if it were, there would he no occasion for the two courts in the Old Bailey. The appointment of the additional court, although the public are ignorant of the fact, is the cause of the greatest confusion. Witnesses in a case tried in one court are sometimes, by mistake, more frequently by trick, to be found in the other, when a prisoner's fate is about to be de cided. Counsel—who are always ready to snatch at the fees whencesoever they come—are often engaged in the one Court, when they h ave in their pockets the money of a poor wretch before a jury in the other. It is but justice, however, to state, that there are some individual excep tions. It was found necessary some time ago for the Chancery Solicitors to enter into resolu tions, for the sake of their clients, to em ploy in the Court .of Chancery only such counsel as confined their practice to that Court, and to make a similar regulation with re spect to the Vice-Chancellor's Court ; so that those who chose to divide their business between the two Courts were obliged to conform, as the Chancery solicitors were determined to have the quid pro quo. We believe that the respectable attornies who practise at the Old Bailey make every exertion possible for their clients, but the fellows called agents, with whom the two Courts abound, care not a straw about the attendance of Counsel. Not many sessions ago, a very able practitioner at the Old Bailey received a fee from the unhappy friends of a prisoner, but was en gaged in one Court while the trial of the ac cused was going on in the other. The unas sisted prisoner was convicted, and his friends, who declared loudly that he had an excel lent defence, demanded that the fee should be restored. " No," said the Learned Coun sel, " I can't do that : I am very sorry for what has happened, but I can't give back my fee.— No, no, my friends, that would be a precedent which my brethren can never see established, and would never excuse." There happened, however, to be present at this interview, a person who was qualified to advise against the Learned Counsel, and the Court of Requests at Guild hall was immediately named as• the place of re tribution. This way of deciding upon the merits of the question was quite a startler, and the fee was forthwith returned, with some . charitable hint towards the family of the convict, which gave it the grace of a donation. A very wrong estimate has been formed .of the duties of the Ordinary of the prison. Mr. Cotton has been many years in that situation, but he knows what . London housebreakers and highwaymen are too well to attempt to catechise such outcasts of society. There is a general be lief abroad, that the ordinary is received with open arms by the inmates. Quite the reverse : by the mass of conylcts he is looked upon with horror, as the harbinger of death. So strongly did this feeling prevail, that though M r . C ot t on '$ conduct to all . of them is that of the greatest hu, manity, they some time ago besought the visiting magistrates to exclude hint from th e i r p resence , as they were miserable enough, without being in o s f tr t u li c e t i i r o l n at o te f r theen d, It is but ordinary is seldom always pro perly attended to until there exists no hop e a t this side of the grave._ vias y rtelmratintdheed Those who are informed and interested on the subject of arrangements relative to criminals, complain very much of the grievances above stated, and also strongly object to the expensive mode of sending convicts from the different pri sons to the various ships ordered for their recep tion. In many instances convicts are posted 'S DURING LAST WEED' Oats. .../ 31* I. tO 36 0 50 36 Per Quarter. Carlisle Carmarthen . Hexham. . Murpeth Penrith Sheffield. - Winchester Per Bushel. Coventry Newcastle (Stair) Northallerton Stafford Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardeastle ..... Darlington ..,—.n. Durham ---- Wolsingham --- Wheat. j Barley. s. to s. s. to s. - 75 ' 39 65 34 64 78 27 33 66 76 36 38 64, — 37 68 79 35 46 36 73 • 34 37 s. d. s. d. s. d. v. d. 98• 10 4 48 54 119 120 00 00 80 100 40 43 120 12 3 5 6 60 88 9 2 4 4 46 96 10 4: 4 8 52 18 6 21 6 0 0 11 0 180 22 0 9 0 106 170 20 6; 8 6 96 170 20 61 8 6 90 it. to s; 18 25 22 26 24 34 19 23 s.d. 5.d. 3 0 43 4 6 4 23 26 40 49 28 30 30 43 42 s. d. 54 4 16 50 a , O 76 00 A y 0 50 W 76 96 59 76 60 9 6 60 76 0 90 1/ 90 1.4°0 100 'zio WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.—June lY. t hie There is a good supply of Wheat fresh up her e X9l, morning, with a fair quantity of Beins, but' the s r " o g of other Grain are trifling. The c a nal s westward b° et t under repair, and not expected to be navigable befor e ° 0; Thursday, there has. been a thi n a tt en d anc e of bol e er , the best fresh samples of Wheat are Is. per quarter 10 t°' and there is no demand for other descriptions at sl o b lerable prices. Oati are rather dearer. The little Barley that is offering is taken off at the rates of last a b u t Hard New Beans are in demand and rather bights'? t h e y there is little doing is .middling old on e s. The we s or very dry for some time back, but sin c e tu a rkot sow' O l d i e tity of rain had fallen which will be of.great serifice to crops of grass and Spring Corn. • " an Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sueblk 60s. to 641. t, p)S. Lincolnshire B gs Yorkshire, Bic 634 ". to to 66 65 1 80111 1 • • ......... • • • . While • Ms. to 724. M e l * Foreign, Old s3s. to 625. Pe 0 6 . Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk ' 251. to VC r . o . Lincolnshire Vis. to 30a. ,10. Yorkshire Wold 20s. to 330. W"' Beano, Tick 33‘. tO 3EIA. di° 454. Small • 375. to 40f.. Pi* •Qom— Oats, Poland and Potato Friesland and Small 22.. to 260. pt. Healing Shelling 33s. to -4. —4. to 35a. per lr s t Malt • .355. 40s. Rne 425. pet' pit. Rapeseed WAKEFIELD CATTLE MXRKET.—June IN e lf We had a full supply of stock its-day, and a model' attendance of buyerl, which, with the full fairs of Is le . caused a reduction in prices. NutsVitbstanding, the I t o were considerable, but some o f b o th ki n d s were t: away unsold.—Beef 6s. to Ys. per atone; M u tton bu' 51d. per lb. ; Lamb 6d. per lb. her in a most violent manner, saying he would murder her. She called for assistance, when he seized her by the throat and endeavoured to choke her. She could scarcely speak, and with difficulty got away from him. She then threatened to get a warrant and have him brought before a Magistrate, when he swore, if she diti, when he got his liberty he would murder her. She was bruised all over; her body was in as bad a state as her face. Lewis, the officer, stated that he was sent with the warrant to apprehend the prisoner : he found him in bed, and the floor was literally covered with blood from the wounds the poor woman had re ceived, and it resembled a slaughter-house. He could distinctly distinguish the prints of footsteps in the blood. 'the prisoner, in his defence, said that the com plainant was continually getting drunk, and spent all his money. When he came home he called to her to come down stairs, and she refused. He did not strike her, or seize hold of her by the throat, before she called murder, and he did it to prevent her. He was not married to her, and wanted to get rid of her. Mr. MARRIOTT said this was one of the most ag gravated and brutal cases that ever came before him. lie had no doubt but that the prisoner's intention was to murder the woman. Mr. GREGORIE concurred, and the prisoner was committed for trial on the capital charge for an assault with intent to murder, and also on a charge of common assault. The parties were bound over to prosecute. HIS MAJESTY'S GAOL OF NEWGATE. from Yorkshire, and other distant counties, IP Portsmouth, instead of being sent at once to the coast. The expens e s in c u rre d by this V un about transmission are immense, and alight V 7 be applied to the imp rovemen t o f a system wh ic h has now the name of jobbing. LONDON MARKETS. COVENT-GARDEN MARKET. d There was a good supply at Saturday's Market, f et , a moderately brisk trade; • Strawberries, Cucumbers , __A tuces, New Potatoes, Green Pease, Gooseberries , 7, Currants, were cheaper than on this d a y se'nniglit ; I prices of other things no material alteration. - i d. sd. s.ti ii.J. 1 90 1 Potatoes (per cwt.) .... :3 6to 7 0 Spinage ( halt.sieve ) 0 - I / 0 New ditto (per lb.) .... 0 4 0 8 Apples b 0 4 0 Cal bages (12 heads)... 1 0 2 0 Goo s eb e r r i es ........ . f " 6 ° Cauliflowers 5 0 10 0 Currants SO ed Horse Itadish(bundie) 2 6 4 0 Green Pease - 12 4 1-6 0 0 Rhubarb 0 6 0 9 Sweet Oranges (100)... - 0 160 Broco'i 2 0 3 0 Seville . Ditto ....... ..... 5 i i u Celery Carrots ,12 bunches) .. 4 0 7 0 Asparagus 1 6 10 0 s Turnips 1 0 2 6 Span Chesnuts (peck) 4 - g , 1 0 - Coleworts or Greens 1 3 2 0 French 0 ditto i. ° n " 10 " Young Onions 1 0 2 3 ).anlsh Hazlenuts ...i 5 v 60 Radishes 0 9 ISi , Frenrh Walnuts ....... 4 0 9 0 Leeks 0 9 1 0 Filbers (121 b.) ...... ... 6 a 9 6 Cucumbers (each) 0 4 1 0 Grapes (per lb.) .. . ... :..1 g g 0 Cos Lettuces (score) 0 8 1 0 Strawberries (Pottle)... 0 „ 6 ig 0 Cabbage ditto, 0 3 0.9 Cherries (basket) ...... 4 : 1 0 Sea-trail (pnmmet) French 8ean5...... .... . ____,.....--' HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 33 Trusses.) ST. JAMES'S. AO /1 Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay ....... . . 8 10 New Meadow Hay Useful Meadow Hay 2 15 4 Fine Upland Meadow and !Rye-gras s H a y 3 10: 5 0 Clover Hay 3 10 Oat Straw XI 16 to £1 IS I Wheat straw_ 140 Supply moderately good, and trade a little alive ; pricer quoted. SMITHFIELD. SO Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay £2 0 1 0 glO New Meadow Hay 0 0 5 , 4 , Useful Meadow Hay Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass H a y g 4 41v Clover Hay (extra fine)...£s 4—. Generally 3 0 g 0 Oat Straw £l 12 to £1 16—Wheat Straw 1 16 Supply good, trade dull, and prices stationary SCOTCH MARKETS. ...,N.,...s s VAS SUCLIISS. Es il.O. Wheat. Barley Oats. Bean, 9t,/, " 3i.--.... 7 ..--...—..... —.....—..—,—. ..........--.. , _. 91 Aberdeen .... 56 72 27 34 20 25 .—.—• r, a Berwick-- 48 53 24 26 18 20 91 25 . 5 ° / Coldstream 50 54 25 28 18 21 24 26 •"" ... Ciipar .—.... 70 74 20 3.3 24 21 27 32 '''" / Dundee-- 64 34 25 29 " / Elgin —...—.... 64 fri 20 23 IS '2O —. 20 - - "„ a / Inverness—. 60 70 21, 28 20 25 19 20 4.1 • / Kelso 48 53 25 27 18 21 25 26 --„, / Kirkaldy--. 64 75. 33 22 23 27 26 36 7 " . 0 Perth 64 79 23 26 16 20 26 30 " .. ..td. ii:::r The size of the measure varies throughout the cso_ HADDINGTON CORN M A RKET.—June 1 2 . o ftir Barley is down 3d. on the average-28 quarter . oli ti and ouly I quarter at the top price, which is up le• brought Is. more on the top price than last day, b e average is a fraction lower-287 quarters sold--2I °P r ieto Business very dull in the Wheat mark e t, but the . P o o have advanced—top up Is., average .sd.—Pease are 2s. 2d.--Beans up Is. 2d. Wheat. Barley. . Oata. First 75. Od 41s Od 34s Od Second 7os Od 383 Od 293 Od. Third There were 289 qrs. of Wheat in market,' 41 Unsold.-21 Grey 31. lOs Pease. .110"0: atiA cd 32s Od Oti 30s Od J W sO' 7 whereof' we re Aver; 7.l2ths. 'H COKF hail] at of Whea l'.—June 11. i all market was °*" m Ad heavily. s o. Pease. fi e Pi 36: ea 13 ' 34s od Od 323 DA I.KEL The supply of with the exceptio MARKE this day's t, which 1 Wheat. Barley. ' Oats. First 73s 13.4 35s Od 33ss• Od Second 7os Od 33s Od &Zs Od Third 66s Od —s Od 2Ss Od 91dv . , On the 1 2th inst. at BIRTHS Chaleot House, Wilts, the i''""‘ Walter Long, of a son. On the I2th inst. the lady of Lient.- Col. Pllo4' G. • ° C. 8., thßengal Army, of a son. Ou e 12th inst. Mn .aEdgar Taylor,o f _ _ Great Ormond-street, of,a 00 . On the 13th inst., Mit Von der Heyde, Lower •- a _ _ _ street, of a daughter. ' On the 13th inst. at Totteridge-park, the ildy ° Browne, Esq. M.P., of a daughter. corb els On the Sib inst. at Ham, the lady of Gordon EN., of a son. MARRIED. cot. ia On the 13th inst. at St. Mary's, Marylebone' ,opt Potter Alacqueen, of the King' s D r a goo n Guar ds , 7, 1 to son of Dr. Alacqueen, of Ridgemont. h o use, Bedfl u ler At abella, second daughter of Robert Holden, Esq', ' street, Portman-square. g ob On the 13th inst. at Mitcham, Mr. T. W. Cut" met of Bridge-street, Westminster, to Ann, second da tj g s ai of J. Field, Esq., Wignaore-street, Cavendish-squ a re' Lower Tooting. of On' the 13th inst. S. S m ith, E sq , of Broa d - Bloomsbury, to Geo rg i ana Eli za , secon d daughte r Rothety, Esq. of Vernon-place, Bloomsbury. Jl(' On the 13th inst., C. R. Pemberton, F"F f ICer rietta, eldest daught er o f N. W. P eac h, Esq . 1:6 teringham Hall, Norfolk. wV of On the 12th inst., at Maryl e bone, Philip . see° n-d „pe T, G. Booth, Esq, of Crouch-end, to Fanny, Y ° : flto daughter of the late J. Coape, Esq. of George-O le " nover-square. On the 13th inst., Mr. Lewis Reilly, of Baths °wet, tilde, daughter of Mr. James Willis, of St. Jerneo's -1 ,of On the 11th inst. at Lewisham, Mr. J. Courtlo,o. Rotherhithe, to Eliza, daughter of the late Rev. J. send, of Bermondseyre, On the 11th inst.. at St. George's, Hanover-sq, 0 plo t e R. Wise, Esq. late Consul-General at Sweden, ' t 0 1 Hannah, only daughter of the late Colonel Sudbrooke Holme, Lincolnshire, and widofg Drununond, Esq. of N'''' DIED. On the 6th inst. after alung illness, Mr. WV , gate-market. On the 12th inst. Mr. Thomas Stone, of Doreet-i)/j4ch Clapham-road. Onthe 11th inst. Miss Greaves, of Guil dfordl aged On th 50. WlO , Fr ed : , e 11th inst. at Brighton, of the O- - -01/ rick Charles Milton, infant son of J. Ward, Us 4 l o . place, Surrey. I'eh k' On the 11 th inst. at Kingston, I'. IV-King:7 aged 78. fo vi es ' On the 13th jnst. at Stamford-hill,- Edgar third son Hall. n the 10th inst. at Watford, Mr. J. Rogers , O ti PAIN TF.la and PuaLtstfzu by MURDO YOUNO, Orricr, 11; limuktio, LitrlßO,