The Sun. — London, England, 1829-03-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOURNALS. We have to pOint out to - notice a vile trick in h morning paper of yesterday, which must disgust, _ . ire shOulithink;even the staunchest enemies of the Billanow in progress for the relief of the Catholics. 'that paper—in order, it appears, to intimidate the West India interest—has actually invented and put forth the monstrous falsehood, that the Duke of Wellington, immediately after emancipating the Catholics, means also to emancipate at once, and without compensation, the slaves of all the British settlements ! A happy device, by the way, for the cause which that journal advocates, thus to intimate that our Catholic fellow-subjects at home are in the .same *condition as West India negroe3 abroad, and that the emancipation of one must be followed by that of the other !: However, such is the vile invention to which this mouth-piece of the anti-emancipationists has re course, and by which we say he disgraces even his friends and supporters, there is hardly one of them that will not be ashamed of him. Proby►bly, - - even a Mr. Holcomb, who is trying to get together - • a mob in Hyde-park to ill-use the members of the -house of Lords who vote for the Bill, would rather -be without such a coadjutor, and blushes at the monstrous fabrication. Nothing can equal the gra vity with which the base invention is put forth : it is stated in detail, and argued upon. Government afro have thought it worth their while to bestow • upon it an official contradiction. This latter step would not have been necessary, if the contents of newspapers had only reached the well-instructed ; but the poor West Indians themselves may catch the report, that they are at once to be turned adrift from their matters, and then it is difficult to con ceive what mischief may follow. They might not conceive that it was a mere party invention, or rather the shameless invention of one man of a party. However, the contradiction will now go forth with the fabrication, and no evil, we should trust, need be apprehended.—Timee. We have spoken of a Mr. Halcomb, who is try ing to get together an anti-Popery mob in Hyde park. We shall not say on what day or hour, lest we should seem to aid his project; for a mob may very easily be got tog-ether for any purpose what ever, good. or bad. But we perceive that he is called. the "learned gentleman." He is probably, then, a lawyer; and, if so, had he - ..0t better try to get a brief than a mob ? We say we counsel him well when we recommend it to him to try to get a brief rather than a mob, and to make speeches at the bar rather than in the Park ; or, if he has tried to get into practice and failed, let him turn to some bumbler and more useful employment. He will not get his bread by haranguing mobs. Mr. Hunt and J ,tlr. Cobbett both follow mechanical trades, as well as the trade of speechifying, and they can therefore afford to bestow a little time and attention in en lightening the people of England.--Ibid. Mr. Peel gave notice, on Wednesday last, of his intention to introduce a Bill for the consolidation of the-several Acts-23 in number, as it appears—re lative to the qualification and jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace. It is iinpossible not to take a deep interest in any legislative measure which affects the constitution, powers, or obligations of the local ma gistracy, because it is a subject which concerns, in an eirecial manner, the affairs and well-being of the poor. The present Secretary for the Home De partment has on former occasions done service, by arranging and simplifying certain branches of the jurisprudence of this country, who3e chief operation is upon the humbler classes of the people; and, on the whole, we are inclined to anticipate some benefit from the provisions of the measure, the outline of which he has now developed. It does not strike us that so long as unpaid ccur.try gentlemen con tinue to he intrusted with the local administration of the laws, a safer test of fitness for the situa tion of country Magistrates can well be established than that of definite property. It ought to be re collected that the test must be general, or that great uncertainty, confusion, and abuse might follow.— Property, according to English principles and usage, is the qualification for a senator ; and although pro perty does not-always imply knowledge, the want of it may be consitiored as implying, in the average of tLases, a want of those means of liberal education svh-ich even the advocate for some intellectual test of competency will be ready to require as data from which to presume that a man has been instructed. Mr. Peel, on being blamed for instituting 3004 per annum as the qualification of a justice of the peace, answered fairly enough, that he ditl not make pro erty the qualification —that he found it so, and only raised the standard, which had hitherto been left at 1001. per annum, and which it is notorious had been repeatedly and loudly objected to, as not evi dence sufficiently conclusive of the respectability of any person claiming to be a j ustice of peace. It is true that lawyers ought to be the most capable magi grates, and we are not sure that the extension ofju dieial patronage would be a valid argument against the appointment of one barrister in every county, acting as assessor to the Bench of Justiaes, who in Ireland at least have been much improved by their association with a responsible judicial officer, selected from amongst gentlemen of a certain stand ing and recognized character at the bar. But it is possible that Mr. Peel, even approving such a chango, may have found that it would be looked upon by the country gentlemen as too important to he abruptlylingrafteeren the professed objects of which were to methediae and consolidate old laws, not to introduce new prineVes. The other provisions of the Bill go chiefly to aboilsh the dis tinction between Justices of the Peace generally and of the quorum, to give Magistrates a power (much wanted at present) of compelling the attendance of niaserial witnesses in cases which it comes within their jurisdiction to try. The Bill also obliges Ma gistrates who have issued a summons to hear the complaint; it provides for th# holding of petty scs!- sions—furnishes general forms of conviction—re. quires Magistrates to make returns to the clerk of the peace of all fines and penalties they may have ioposed during a certain antecedent period,---deter relines the cases in which appeals shall be allowed —and, finally, regulates the fees of clerks to the Justices, a matter of much grievance until LOW: — Mr. Peel is no zealous advocate, nor are we, for the appointment of clergymen to the magistracy; although there be districts where countrymen are (Tame, and where, if clergymen were not to act, there might occur a defective administration of justice.—A i d• The petition bj courtesy stated the petition of lders of London and Wests the Inhabitant IlousehC. minster, and said to be sign by 113,000 persons, was presented last night by the Gars of Eldon, in the House of Lords. His Lordship ht the mris dour to admit, that of the signatures some were those of improper individuals, and he offered it; compound for 100,000. Any thing for the sake of peace and tranquillity, for his Lordship is now quite alarmed at the great agitation which prevails. He, good man, has done nothing to cause that agitation, Their Lordships (he said) must admit, that at pre sent great agitation prevailed, which he had done no thing to promote. He had, indeed, expressed his sentiments in that House, and he hoped he should continue to state them forcibly but temperately so as not to be liable to misrepresentation." His Lord ship then never sought to promote agitation—never threw out invitations to the people to petition ! It was a calumny, then, against this peace-loving Lord, to report of him, that on the very first day of the Session he declared, that " he would say in his place in that House, and he hoped the people of the country would by some means become acquainted - with the declaration—if he had a voice that would sound to the remotest corner of the Empire, he would re-echo the principle which he most firmly believed, that if ever a Roman Catho lic was suffered to form part of the Legis laritre of this country, or to hold any of the great executive offices of its Government, from that moment the sun of Britain would set for ever." This certainly was very like the language of an agi- tater. And for one that dreads agitation so very much, he seemed to describe that agitation with tolerable complacency. " Such (he said) was the state of agitation in the country that though the petitions might be described as hole-and-corner pe titions there was not a single corner of the country from which petitions would not come to Parlia ment." His Lordship is not in the least mortified that the attempts to create agitation have failed, woefully failed. In this metropolis, where a hun dred thousand inhabitant householders have peti tioned against the calamity of the sun of Britain setting for ever, we can contrive to exist amidst all the agitation. Indeed, if his Lordship and his friends were not to tell us that the people were agi • tated, we should know nothing of the matter. Any thing was greedily laid hold of that looked like agitation—half a dozen ragged boys were magnified into an enormous multitude, from whom the Duke of Wellington was in danger of his life. Earl Grey endeavoured to calm the apprehensions of the Noble Lord for the tranquillity of the country. " Ile be lieved (he said) that attempts to create agitation had been made for some time past.—(Hear, hear.) —But he believed those attempts had failed. He admitted that a great number of petitions had been sent to their Lordships, but he believed that in general the sober and staid sense of the country was favourable to a full consideration of the question." Those then who have failed in producing agitation, will do well to deprecate agitation.—Morning Chronicle. We have to congratulate our fellow-citizens on the appointment last night, on the Motion of the Marquis of Londonderry, of a Committee to in- vestigate the State of the Coal Trade, with refer ence to the prices at the pit, the charges of carriage, the charges and delivery at the wharfs, and all the charges connected with the supply and consumption of the Metropolis. We believe there are few who will not subscribe to the opinion of the Duke of Wellington, that by as investigation into all parts of the subject much good might be dine, without any injury to the public revenue, or to the revenue.of the city of London. We have already hinted our opi nion as to the main cause of the extravagant price of coals in London. The city of London forms but a small fraction of the Metropolis, but yet it has a com plete contrOul over the supplies of the whole which arrive by water. The privilege of any Corporation should always be placed in harmony with the good of the people. But so far from this being the case with the City Corporation, their power of regulating mar kets operates most injuriously to the interests of the inhabitants of the metropolis. Were the Coal Trade open, and people left to take care of them selves, nothing can be more clear than that, by the immerse capitols in this country ready for any enterprise that promises even moderate profit, coals would be brought to every man's door for a very small addition to the price at the pit, with the car ria(se and duties. It is obvious that the enormous prices now paid are the consequence of obstructions to the freedom of trade. 'I he most of the City re gulations, with respect to markets, are worthy of the dark ages. Nothing is left to individuals, but a municipal officer must have his hand in every thing. And then the mode of operation is so ridiculous.— If a farmer and a citizen were willing to agree re specting a quantity of potatoes in the market, with out the trouble of measurement, they would not be allowed to do so ; the buyer, forsooth, must be pro tected whether he will or not ; and then large arid small potatoes must not be together, &c. With the fittest river in the world, London might have fish in any quantity at reasonable prices; but here again the City Corporation interpose, and insist on the supply being received through their one market, and the consequence is that fish is generally food only for the rich. The chief cause of the prosperity of the towns of the north of England it the liberty allowed to the operations of the inhabitants, from the absence or limited powers of Corporations. The example of those towns, and of the towns in the United States, proves that the fewer the restrictions imposed by authority, the greater the general prosperity. The powers of Corporations in the middle ages were ne cessary for the developement of civilization ; in our days they are oppressive. Hence the state of decay in which most corporate towns now are. London is so advantageously situated that it cannot be de stroyed by corporate privileges. But it is well that it should be borne in mind that these privileges are rather an obstacle to the general prosperity than conducive to it. When justice is administered, and persons and properties are protected by a good po lice, all the rest may be left to the people them selves. Wherever there is a demand there will be a supply, if things are not interfered with. The evil of the City of London is, that its local legislation hampers those whom it pretends to protect. The light thrown by the evidence before the Committee en the abuses of the Coal Trade will serve to ex plain the working of other parts of the municipal system, little less injurious to the public. We do not entertain a doubt that the investigation will be productive of the greatest benefit.—lbid. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Gazette de France, March 25.) CORFU, FEB. 22.—Recent letters from Janini announce that Redschid Pasha had received, from Constantinople, the news of his nomination to the post of Grand Vizier. He was to set out in the course of the next month to take the conunand in chief of the army in the field. His eldest son, Emir Bev, who is 19 years of age, has just been appointed Paella of two tails, with the investiture of the Pachalics of Delvino and Avlona. He is shortly to marry the sister of the Bey of Delvino, to put an end to the misunderstanding whi;th subsisted between the Seraskier and the most power ful Albanian chiefs. The citadel of Vonizza, which was closely besieged by the Greeks, has just received a supply of provisions fur two years, Which an intrepid man has con trived to introduce into it in spite of the vigilance of the Greek squadron. ROME, AL-tam 12.—0 n the 9th of this month, Count Lotk,ow, Ambassador extraordinary from the Emperor of Austria, delive:ed ; with the usual ceremonies, his new credentials to the Sacred college assembled in conclave. On the same day Cardinal Firrao, the first of the order of Priests, arrived from Naples, and on the 10th, Cardinal Isoard, Archbishop of Auch. Yesterday the Cardinal Duke de la Fare arrived ; he was preceded by two days by Cardinal de Latil, Arch bihop of Rheims. The cardinals de Croix and Cler mont Tonnerre were expected immediately. The former passed through Bologna on the 10th of March, It is pro bable that the election of the new Pope will take place about the 14th or 15th of this mouth, The news of the event will in that case be received in Paris in two Faye. PARIS, Maacx 24.—We receive from Trieste the con firmatima of the appearance of the Russian squadron on the coast of Candia. These vessels hinder all ships sus pected of having contraband of war on board from ap proaching the coast, and visit even neutral ships. VggNcn FuNDs.--PARIs, M4Roi 21.—Eive per Cents., 10ef. Jun. 35e. 30c. 40c. 35. ; Three per Cents., 78f. 75c. " ave. 70c • Bank Stock, 1845 f. ; Naples Stock, - • • 131. Royal Spanish Loan, Slit: Exchange on London, one n: " nth, m 25f. 35e. ; three.entlis (paper' 25f. 20c. Coors Authentic. (money ,Q It is fifty years ago since the Catholic ,ues• tion was first agitated in the English House of Commons. It was brought forward by the late Mr• Fox, on the 18th of March, 1779, and was passed, by a largo nf:fjority, on the 18th of March, 1829, being precisely half a century. At the Sussex Assizes, held at Horsham on Wednesday, AUGUSTUS FITZHARDINQE BrREELEY, Esq. was found guilty of having uttered certain words with in. tent to provoke HENRY JOHN HOUNSON, Esq. to fight a duel with him• On Saturday the body of a male infant was found in the Canal at Camden Town. It was wrapped in a piece of coarse cloth, and the impression on the mind of the medical man who exarairma it was, that it Ind been born alive, and came to its death by unfair means. A Coroner's Inquest was held yesterday, and a ve di:.t. re turned according to the surgeon's evidence. DowsETT, who was convicted of burglary in the house of the Rev. Mr. JONES, of Radnage, near Wry comb, is to be executed at Aylesbury on the 27th. Set:Noe:us, his companion in guilt, suffered the extreme • seateLce of the law, for the same offence, last March, THE SUPPOSED MURDER. The soldier suspected of having murdered Mr. Neale was apprehended by Stowell, the officer, on Wednesday night, and brought before Mr. RAWLINSON yesterday for exami nation at Marylebone police-office. His name is John Butler. He is an athletic hard-featured man, and a pri vate in the 2d battelion of the Grenadier Guards. The case commenced with the evidence of Ann Norris, cook to the deceased, at 16, Great Castle.street, Regent street, who stated that her master came borne at half-past 12 on Tuesday night. He went out about nine; he was very much intoxicated when he returned, but he was sober when he went out. A :nan came home with him, and she was positive it was the prisoner; he was then dressed as a soldier, with a grenadier's cap. She opened the door, and the soldier told her he had picked her master up in Hammer. smith, and had brought him home, or else he would have been dead. They walked into the parlour, and sat down, and the prisoner said her master had desired him to stay in the house all night, and take part of his bed. Her master was sufficiently sensible to know what the prisoner said ; he said nothing, but seemed quite agreeable to it. Her master called for the key of the wine-closet; she went to get it, anti was desired to say there was no wine or spirits in the house. Her master ordered her to go tip to Mr. Neale's sister, who was ;n bed, for the key (we noticed the circumstance that Mrs. Neale went to Paris on Mon day, in our first report of this occurrence), and when she came down, the cupboard door was broken open, whether by her master or the soldier she could not tell, and there were four bottles upon the table, and one bottle of wine was in a decanter. She had before brought in some wine glasses, and a part of a shoulder of mutton, for the soldier's refreshment. He said he could not eat it without vinegar, and she got him some. She then went and fetched Miss Jane Neale, a young lady, about twenty years of age, her master's cousin, and left the room for a short time. After the soldier had drank some wine, an attempt was made by Miss Neale and her to take Mr. Neale up stairs to bed, but the soldier undertook to do it, and he anti Mr. Neale fell upon the floor together. She then said to the soldier, ‘• You see it is impossible for my master to go up stairs, will you sleep down here?" He said in reply, he could not think cf leaving her master, and consented. She fetched down two pillows, two blankets, a sheet, and a counterpane. She put one pillow under her master's head, who was upon the floor, and left the sheet and counterpane by his side. She laid one of the blankets and a pill°. in a corner of the room for the soldier to sleep upon, gave him the other blanket and a sheet to cover himself with, and insisted upon his hying down before site left the room, because she was afraid of his falling against a glass hook-case ; but he said he must undress himself, and take his stockings off, for he had got a dreadful bad heel, and far that reason she went away, and as she was going, he asked her at what time she would rise in the morning, and she told hi'n she should come up at seven, or a little after. She then went ' to the front kitchen, where she generally sleeps, and where her fellow-servant was in bed, anti sat up all night. It was about half-past two, and about half-past three her fellow-ger %atilt being awake said she hearth a frightful noise. Miss Neale, who was sitting up with them, remarked, " Mr. Neale does snore very dreadfully," and nothing more at that time was thought of it. A short time afterwards, the witness went out of the kitchen, and when she was in the passage, she heard the sound of a foot in the parlour, as if some one roee up ; but she felt no alarm. She was certain it was not her master, because he was too much intoxicated. About half-past five, Miss Neale laid herself down upon the bed with the other servant, and the witness went to sleep. She awoke about a quarter before seven. Miss Neale and the other servant were awake, and when she had laid the fire, she went up stairs. As soon as she got into the pas sage of the ground floor, she saw the bar of the street door, which :Hiss Neale put up and secured, was taken down, arid the parlour door wile open, and when she looked into it she saw with astonishment the collier was gone, actl her master was lying on his back in the middle of the room, with the pillow under his head which she had given to the soldier, and a blanket and a counterpane over him, and a sheet rumpled up under his shoulders. The blanket and counterp me covered his mouth, and part of his m se, aml they were laid so smoothly that it was im pssible lie could have done it himself. She directly per ceived he was dead, his lips were very black, and his nose was bent on one side ; and as soon as she was able, for the fright deprived her of speech, she told Miss Neale and her fe;low-servant of it. William Yarrington, pot-boy at the Cock and Lion, Wigniore•street, stated th,t the prisoner came there at half-past seven o'clock on Wednesday morning ; he was eased in soldier's clothes, with a grenadier's cap; be was tipsy, be sat clown in the tapsroom and called for half a gill of vinegar. He brought a frock-coat under his arm, and a hat inside his cap, and two bottles of wine in his pocket. Two Irishmen came in with him; he treated one with a pot of half and half, and the other and the witness with some of the wine which he brought, and changed his soldier's clothes for the others, and went away at half p ist eight, leaving his cap and regimentals with the wit ne-s, and said he would come fur them at ten o'clock. Miss Jane Neale was examined—She appeared greatly distressed, and corroborated the maid servant's statement. She said she went into the parlour after Mr. Neale came home, and asked him if she should light him to bed. Mr. Neale said nothing, but shook his head with a smile, as if he meant no. The soldier appeared to want him to go to bed, and said he was to take part of it with. him. She asked Mr. Neale where he had been, and he replied, " Oh, Jane, I have hem to see my old true Irlritain," but she did not know what he meant by that expression. The soldier asked her to take a glass of wine, she refused it once or twice, but Mr. Neale said do, and she sipped a little, and took the remainder of the glass into the kitchen, and gave it to the servant. The soldier seeing the name of Dr. Dennis on the door, supposed that to be the name of Mr. Neale, and said Dr. Dennis knows my master very well, he is a doctor in the army. He told her lie must stay there all night, for he was past his time, and Mr. Neale must write a note in the morning to his master, to account for his absence. The soldier appeared sober when he came in, but intoxicated when he fell down with Mr. Neale. Mr. Neale remained upon the floor, for they could not raise him, and the soldier got up and sat down if' a chair, and she went up to Mr. Neale's sister, to know what should be done, and the bed clothes were sent down by the cook. Henry Stowell, the officer, was called in about ten o'clock on Wednesday morning to Mr. Neale's house in conse quence of what had happened ; he saw the body of the deceased, and it had marks of violence on the nose. He received from the cook a description of the prisoner, which enabled him to trace him, and he apprehended him on Wednesday night, at the barracks, in Birdcage-walk, where he was confined as a deserter, with Mr. Neale's coat, wristeoat, hat, and stock upon his person ; and lie found a memorandum-book belonging to him in his breeches pocket, and he was tipsy. Stowell asked him if he re collected taking a gentleman home the night before. He paused a short time, and then said, " No, I don't ; I went home with no gentleman. I was in Oxford-street, with three girls." Mr. RANCLINSON told the prisoner he bad heard the evidence against him, excepting what the surgeons may have to give, after they have opened the body, and that he thought he had better be taken, in the first instance;, before the Coroner; he should therefore remand hits until gatur dry, but if he wished to say any thing, he was at liberty to do it. The prisoner denied the charge altogether, for he never used any violence towards Mr. Neale. He stood unmoved, with a sullen look, during the ex amination, and offered no excuse for having the clothes of Mr. Neal in his possession, and be had torn the coat across the back by screwing himself into it. CAUTION TO COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPERS: Too frequently tEe above-named individuals have to com plain of the manner in which they are treated by fellows who enter their houses, and call for a cup of c o ff ee , but wholly bent on stealing the newspapers, and the different publications that they procure for the accommodation of their customers. LAW ARRANGEMENTS IN IRELAND.—The Chief Baron has been raised to a British Peerage, by the title of Baron ROCKBARTOIsr, of Rockhartm, in the county of Limerick, and his Lordship has vacated the bench. This arrangement was long contemplated. It is stated, we know not with what truth, that Lord PLUNKETT succeeds him as Chief laron of the Court of Exchequer. This station is not so high in point of rank as that at present held by Lord PLUNKETT ; but it is assigned, as a reason far the change, that his Lordship prefers the Exchequer, where much equity business is transacted ; and this ap pointment may be regarded as a step to the Chancellor ship, for which Lord Pl.o.lixErr is so eminently qualified. It is stated that Mr. DOHERTY i 5 to succeed Lord PLuN KETT, as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and that Mr. WALLACE is to be Solicitor-General. The promotion of these two gentlemen, so distinguished for their legal talents anti integrity, could not fail to afford public gratification. If it were the object of the Government to place in the station of Solicitor-General a Barrister of profound talents and great legal attainments, they could not possibly make a better selection than Mr. WALLACE.—DubIin Morning Blister. PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS IN THE FOREIGN POST. Great inconvenience is sustained at Liverpool, Manchester, and several other important manufac turing districts, from the imperfect accommodations given at present by the Post-office to their increas ing foreign correspondence. At the two former towns considerable interest is taken by the com mercial community in the establishment of a new foreign mail coach. A commercial gentlemen has forwarded to us the following account of the inconveniences sustained under the present system; and also the outline of the proposed new plan, with the time-bill, which is generally approved of, and has been submitted to the Post-Master-General, and to the Secretary of his Majesty's Post-office. The foreign mails are dispatched from the Gene ral Post Office in London each Wednesday and Saturday morning at one o'clock : they reach Har wich at about ten o'clock, and sail about noon. All the inland mails formerly arrived in London each morning from six to seven o'clock ; after the foreign mail had left, consequently, foreign letters lost 18 or 19 hours in London. Of late years, three mail coaches, viz. Liverpool, Leeds, (and Glasgow, since discontinued) were expressly established over 800 miles of road, to arrive each night between ten and eleven o'clock, for the purpose of carrying the foreign letters to London on Tuesday and Friday evenings ; thus a few places are partially favoured in the dispatch, which has neither been made general, agreeably to the just recorded principles by which the Post Office is bound to act, nor on the converse has any attempt been made to expedite the receipt of let ters arriving from the Continent, which are liable to similar delay. The importance of improved regulations may be easily exemplified by the arrival of any packet with letters at Harwich, on any day after six o'clock in the morning, which are not for Warded until the fol lowing evening from London for the interior, whilst they might by a direct mail coach to Huntingdon, proceed the previous day from Harwich at five p.m., as per time-bill herewith, to places of the north of England, all Scotland, and the north of Ireland, and above 50 miles nearer than is now the case.. Sup pose a packet to arrive on Saturday at Harwich, the letters by it now reach Liverpool, Danchester, Leeds, Wakefield, York, Hull, &c., the third evening, being Tuesday, and cannot be answered sooner than by the next Saturday's packet. Those for Edinburgh and Glasgow are delivered there the fourth evening, being Wednesday, and cannot be answered before next Wednesday's packet. By establishing a mail coach 106 miles, in lieu of existing posts, now nearly all the road, at conve nient hours, from Harwich, to join and be connected immediately with the mail coach, at and from Stam ford to Birmingham, Liverpool, Bristol, &c., and by sorting the foreign letters at Harwich as at Falmouth, all the packet letters which might arrive before three or four o'clock, (or if assorted on board during the voyage by a responsible officer,) any ar rival up to five p. m. on Saturday at Harwich, or if landed at Yarmouth by three p.m., would reach Liver pool, Manchester, &c., the second morning, being Monday ; Leeds, York, Hull, &c., first evening, being Sunday ; answered on Monday evening from Liverpool, Manchester, &c.; and on Tuesday morning, from Leeds, York, Hull, &c.; the answers would be returned by Wednesday's packet, and save one post, or three days. Those letters for Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. would be de livered there the second evening, being Monday, answered on Thursday mottling, would be returned by Saturday's packet, thereby also save a post, or four days. It is not less true than curious, that a packet letter directed to Harwich itself, is never delivered for two or three days after it arrives, having to travel first to and from London, and an imposition of the inland postage charged for this unseeming delay. If such a letter arrive, and be in Harwich on Wednesday or Saturday morning, that letter cannot be answered by the returning packet of that day, nor yet by the second packet, but it is actually sent back by the third packer, which sails eight days after the arrival of the letter, and the person to whom it is addressed cannot help his difficulty, but has the imposition of inland postage to pay. This surely never can have been contemplated by the heads of the General Post-office, whose meritorious and prompt attention is always alive to remedy evils, and accelerate all mails. Packet letters, and all their answers to and from Ipswich, travel 140 miles, instead of 10 miles; for Norwich, 184 miles instead of 42 miles; for Hunting don, 130 miles, instead of 79 miles, and so on, being taxed accordingly. Letters by packet arriving on Saturday, might be delivered next morning at each of those and other towns, viz.—Cambridge, Lin coln, Lynn, Yarmouth, Newark, Nottingham, Lei cester, Birmingham, &c., being within 130 miles of London, but at present they are delivered the third, being Tuesday morning, and cannot be answered six days out of seven, without losing a post, or three and four days—this loss at Huntingdon is commu nicated to nearly all the towns mentioned, except Liverpool and Manchester, which only lose a packet two days in each week, although they generally lose a day or two in the receipt of all their letters. Packet letters arriving at Harwich either on Sa turday or Sunday, are delivered at Sheffield, Leeds, and Liverpool, Glasgow and Edinburgh, on the evening of those great weekly markets, and when the markets are all over. Whilst the proposed plan will deliver the letters one or two days before those important markets. Suppose any packet arrives in Harwich harbour after six a.m. with most important news, which would affect pikes of any commodity ; what is there to prevent a passenger travelling ten miles to Ipswich, and there putting letters into that post , office before four p.m. to arrive in Sheffield, Hull, Leeds, &c. next night, Manchester, Liverpool, the following morning, or Edinburgh, Glasgow, &c. the second evening, whilst the foreign bag and news are laying in Lombard-street, to be delivered one or two days after date. -A horse post takes the letters at four p.m. from Ipswich to Bury ; the Norwich mail from Bury 9 37 p.m. for Newmarket; when a flying post, eleven miles an hour, runs off is catch the Edinburgh mail at Huntingdon, 2 49 a.m. if it can, and there is the dependence. Upon the latter this is such a drag, that so long as it exists, no effectual remedy can likely be accomplished in the contemplated acce leration of the northern mails—the ramifications of the cross posts in the Huntingdon, or Stamford and Grantham divisions, exceeding 1000 letters daily, are so heavy and important that they require a fore runner by a subservient mail to clear the way, and have all those letters previously assorted for the im mediate dispatch of the great northern mails when ever they should arrive—the Norfolk correspon dence is the heaviest, it departs in the Newmarket mail from Norwich, at five p.m., joins the Yarmouth coach and Ipswich cart at Bury, 9 45, reaches New market, 56 miles at 11 20 p. m., when an express cart from Newmarket, 29 miles to Huntingdon, ar rives in three hours to meet the Edinburgh—from Norwich to Newmarket, by the direct road, is 48 miles, thence to Huntingdon is 29 miles or 77 miles. London to Huntingdon 59 miles. Difference of distance lB miles or two hours. Therefore, as the Norwich mail departs at five p.m. and the London at eight o'clock, there are three hours difference, thereby leaving one hour for sorting or casualties on the road. This proves the fact, that by the Norwich mail leaving Bury out, and taking the direct road by Barton to Newmarket, would save seven or eight miles, whereas Bury would he sup plied by the foreign mail. Allowing six hours for the Edinburgh mail travelling to and from Huntingdon and London, it might arrive from London, at two, instead of. 2h. 49m. p.m., and depart to London at 12, instead of 11h. 4m. p.m., thereby nearly saving an hour each way. The Norwich mail might travel from Hunting don in eight hours each way, and allowing one hour, which is more than sufficient, for sorting and casual ties, it would, as it now does, arrive at nine a.m. in Norwich and depart at five p.m. As the Glasgow and Edinburgh mails meet at Stamford and not at Huntingdon, the former town is preferable for all exchange of letters. THE PROPOSED NEW FOREIGN MAIL. BIRMINGHAM. LEEDS CORN MARKET.—March 21. We had a good supply of Wheat and Barley, but only mode, rate of other Grain; the demand for Wheat was very limited, alw to effect sales Is. per quarter decline was submitted to.—Fine heavy Barley supported last week's prices, but all other qualltiel were as dull as possible, and scarcely any sales effected. Oats any Shelling dull sale at last Tuesday's quotations. Good dry Bean' were in fair demand, but no improvement in value. Wheat, Norfolk and Suflblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffialk 32s. to 345. Yorkshire and Lincolnshire --•—•-•-• Grinding Beans 63lb. .390. 5 , Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, Foreign 12d. to 13d. English 13d. to 14d. per F. Shelling 32s. to ats. per 1 0 . Rapeseed, English, 321. to 311. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—March 24. There were very few country dealers at this morning's market.' the town millers also bought very sparingly, and on the whole the, trade was dull ; the small advance obtained at the close of th e week could not be realized, and the prices of Wheat must be not as on this day se'nnight. Prime Oats brought the same ratee, but the secondary descriptions were offering on lower terms.; Holders of Flour obtained an advance of Is. per sack, and the , above.noted advance was realized on American. WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx - I rish, White 9 6 lO 0 -- Red 9 0 9 8 Foreign 8 0 10 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 4 310 I rish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 36 0 • Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 4 3 49 • BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter '36 0 40 0 --- Irish, &c. Foreign l4 0 40 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 46 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 52 0 54 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 3l 0 32 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4101 b. Rye, per Imperial quarter 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OP GRAIN for the WeeK ending March 23. Wheal Oats. 1 Barley, Flour. °atm e. I. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. I Foreign, Prls [lrish, &c. Scks.l Losidi. 7,623 3,666 295 502 [ 1,977 1,838 , Distance from London. M. F. it 5 70 0 75 2 111 1 51 0 59 2 86 1 96 0 105 0 99 2 99 6 92 0 109 6 sIE ANNEXED IS THE TIME BILL FO] HARWICH TO Distance. Distance Tixo from allowed Harwich. STAGES. H::rwich Shotley-Ferry Ipswich Stowmarket Bury Stop Newmarket Cambridge Huntingdon 'Stamford Stop Oakham - iMelton !Leicester Stop Hinckley Coventry Birmingham [ Or by a Nearer Road 'Huntingdon Stop ....... Thrapston Kettei ing Market Harborough Lutterworth Coventry ... Birmingham N. F. 1 2 9 2 11 6 14 6 14 1 1$ 0 15 5 26 7 12 2 8 6 15 4 14 0 13 2 17 6 189 1 71 6 16 3 9 2 11 0 12 5 14 1 17 6 160 7 17 9 TILE REV. PETER FENN.—This individual who was convicted of forgery a short time since at tlu Old Bailey, is now on board the Retribution bulk, at Sheerness. The sudden transition from the life of a gentleman to that of a labourer (Mr. FENN having to go out with the gangs at work), together with the diet and c onfinement of a convict ship, has operated upon the health of the Rev. Gentleman, although he keeps up an amazing degree, and is v er y anx i o us to be sent to Botany Bay, where, by the employment of his literary t a lents, he ca lculates upon improving his condition, his spirits to BIRMINGHAM TO HARWICH. Distance Time STAGES. Distance. from allowed. Mail departs. B rming. H. M. M. F. M. F. H. M. H. M. S Mail from Liverpool ...6 SO A. at. Birmingham l2 0 Nowt I Ditto Bristol 529 Coventry Hinckley Leicester l4 0 45 0 1 25 430 Stop Ol5 445 Melton Oakham 9 6 70 2 1 5 725 Stamford Stop 045 92 5 I Mi g ht be 9lO Huntingdon Cambridge l5 5 125 3 130 137 A. M. Newmarket Bury Stop Ol5 435 I . Ditto Yarmouth 5 0 Stowmarket Ipswich Shotley Ferry 9 2 187 7 110 823 Harwich 1 2 189 1 020 843 S Foreign Mail arrives I from London lO OA. Ir, -- 189 — 1 20 43 Packet sails at Noon. Or by a Nearer Road. -- Birmingham 3 30 r. m. Coventry Lutterworth l4 1 31 7 125 642 Market Harborough .... 12 5 44 4 117 7 59 Kettering Thrapston Huntingdon St p: O2B 12 7A. M. Harwich '79 6 160 7 836 843 _ . -- • --___ __ 160 7 17 13 - _._ REV. PETER FENN.—This individual, The Right Hon. WM. NOEL HILL is abou convicted of format, a alintt time since at the to retire from the Neolglitan Embassy, on a pension The Right Hon. WM. NOEL HILL is about to retire from the Neopolitan Embassy, on a pension BROWN AND DOBEI.L.—DOBELL arrived in town yesterday in tolerably good spirits, although rather the worse fur :sobbing. He was visited at the Black Bull last night, and received the condoling visits of his friends. He attributed his defeat to want of condition, and stated that be would again try his luck with 13uowN for 2001. a-side. BROWN is still at 13ridgenorth, but the stake money will be given up, and all debts paid, at the Castle Tavern, this evening, • M. F. 1 2 10 4 22 2 37 0 51 1 64 1 79 6 106 5 118 7 129 5 144 1 158 1 171 3 189 1 79 6 96 1 105 3 116 3 129 0 113 1 160 7 H. M. 0 20 1 10 1 10 1 28 0 20 1 25 1 18 1 SO '74 0 75 0 86 0 90 0 Mail departs. H. M. 5 0 r. 5 20 6 30 7 40 9 8 9 28 to 53 12 11 A. at. 1 41 4 23 5 0 6 15 7 20 S 55 9 10 10 35 11 55 1 40 P. 31. 1 41 A. M. 2 0 3 38 4 34 5 50 6 57 8 22 10 9 120 40 8 41 0 19 1 38 0 56 1 6 1 17 1 25 1 47 H. M. Mail from Norwich 9 33 P. It. c Ditto ll 20 If direct, might arrive 10 15 Mail to Edinburgh . 249A. M. cDitto Ditto Ditto might be 4 30 Mail to Liverpool 6 SO 1 Mail to Liverpool Ditto Bristol ....... 8 0 THE MARKETS. . • r '~ souTHALL MAR K ET.—March 29. At this day's market, which was well supplied, and not yell numerously attended by buyers, each kind f meat met wit very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of Sib: to Ar)!' the offals Beef 3s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. Sd. to ss. I Mutton -3 9 4 3 Pork 4 0 5. 0 Lamb ss. 6d. to 6s Sd. The foregoing quotations are Beet; Veal, and Pork, 2d: to 4 d: and Mutton 4d., p,r stone lower than on this day stennight.. good many Sheep and Beasts lift the market unsold. HAI LSHAM MAll.KET.—March 25. id M Beef---- 3s. 61. to 4s. Od• I 53. Od. to ss• uttoli--. 4 6 5 0 Pork - 0 0 0 v Supply of Beasts limited, of Sheep good; trade very dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKEFS DURING THE WCEK• ; Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Beans. , Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. a. to L. Blandford -- '74 36 28 -- Brigg 69 '74 26 32 16 22 34 Cambridge—........ —. 76 26 17 31 ,„ Chard 56 76 32 38 24 30 42 .Iz' Huntingdon 66 70 27 32 18 23 29 32. Long Sutteu— 51 71 15 21 32 35 Louth 60 '7l 28 34 20 26 34 39 , Newark '76 89 '34 38 18 33 38 42 Nottingham --...— 79 41 28 43 Peterborough 56 78 37 41) 18 25 37 4 2 Plymouth '72 78 34 37 22 32 -- Pontefract . i 2 SS 22 Sleaforil 70 76 20 33 22 24 50 4 2, Uppingham 70 8 , 1 2(1 38 18 24 30 41 , Wiebech 56 '7O 115 21 V 31' WINDSOR, MARCH 25. Hannah Lunnun, a remarkably good-looking girl, about 20 years 01(1, complained of one Bartlett, under the follow ing circumstances : Miss Lunnun said on the 2(1 January I went to Mr. Bartlett's house to ask for a conveyance to Marlow, its bit cart : he is a member of the Methodist Chapel in Bier lane; we breakfasted together before any one else was uP " in his house ; after which he suddenly threw me down. I called out and he desisted, but I was much too alarmed to awake the house. On his promising not to touch me again, we set off together to Marlow, and during our jour' ney he made me promise to take no notice of what bad occurred. Town Clerk—How long have you known this Bartlett? —About two years, Sir. When was the last time of your seeing him before the assault?—The night before. I had been an innate of his house for two days previous, during which time be (lit' not snake any improper advances. Bartlett here uplifted his bands anti eyes and exclaims' in a wo-begone voice, " Oh, her statement is all faire. It is malice, malice ! Oh, the false woman ! It's all through malice !" Bartlett then handed over a letter to the Bench ad' dressed to him from Miss Lunnun, of which the subjoined are extracts : ------- - My dear brother in the Lord,--I hope this will And you in the enjoyment of health. lam very well 110 W. I have been very poorly since I saw you. I have not been able to go to Marlow since. It is so far lam not able to walk there and back. Oh, my dear friend ! how I long to be at Windsor again, for I have no one to speak to her: of my own religion, and I cannot get any work to do. am not very happy, but I thank the Lord that he bat keP t me safe so tong. I can see his goodness in every Wet I know it was the Lord who stopped that letter corgi s '% here before, and for causing you to write to me. The P; vii was at work, but God is al wa y s a b o v e the Devil, and am sure I shall never be able to reward you for your kind ness to me. Oh, my dear friend! keep close to the Lord.' he stedfast, for, as our Lord says, "forasmuch as ye do unto one of these little one., ye do unto me." The letter concludes thus : " I should like to go to Windsor again if you thought I could get work. You could ask your wife what she wool ( ' charge me a week for lodging, and I would keep mysel f ' for I should like to live with you if I could, and I refusal s your sister in the Lord. H. Lumturi." To Mr. Bartlett, Bier-lane, Windsor. This letter was written to the defendant while complain,. ant was at her mother's, near Marlow, and about three weeks after the assault took place. The MAYOs said it was most extraordinary that a loving epistle like that just read should have been addressed to the man against whom the present .serious charge vfaa made, and that, too, by the complainant, some weeks pito the occurrence. Bartlett—" Oh, Sir, the business all riz through malice and envy." The Rev. Mr. Pollard, Minister of Bier-lane Chapel, as" suged the Magistrates that the present charge was, in hig opinion, totally groundless, and was brought forward ist consequence of a quarrel which some time since took place. It was a most shameful and malicious persecution. Complainant acknowledged that she had not mentioned the affair to her friends for some days, and not a word bad escaped her on the subject all the while she was at bee mother's ! In proof of the violence used, complainant produced a broken comb and a torn gown. The MAYOR said that singular as the case was, be, nevertheless, felt it to be his duty to call on Bartlett to fipa bail for his appearance at the Sessions, himself in 401., 04 two sureties in 20/. each. Mr. Pollard and Mr. Bainbridge immediately gave the required bail, and Bartlett was instantly discharged. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25.—Wind water 52 minutes past one.—Arrived the Etna Smithett, from Dublin ; Mona, Jones, from ditto; an d Clyde, from Glasgow Sailed—Tl:e Berry, Sandsbury, for Delbyhaven Plato, Davies, for Philadelphia; Henry, Jenkinson, for Bay Chaleur ; Marianne, Laverty, for Demerara ; Mary , , for Liebau ; Navarin, 'Wickland, for Elsineur Cesar, Wilkinson, for Trinidad. BIRTH. On the 24th, in Weymouth-street, the lady of R. Kindereley, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, by the Rev. Joseph Brackenbury, James Cockburn, Espy 9 ! Devonshire-square, to Madeline Susan, eldest daughter 01 John Dunlop, Esq., Tain, Ross-shire, and niece to Si t Thomas Wallace Dunlop, Bart. On the 26th inst., by spec;al licence, by the Hon. an d Rev. Frederick Hothatn, at St. George's, Hanover-squar e, the Earl Nelson, to Ililare, widow of George Ulric Barlow; Esq., eldest son of Sir George Barlow, Bart., G.C.1 3, and third daughter of Sir Robert Barlow, K.C.B. DIED. On the 25th inst., Elizabeth, relict of Wm. Cleaio l Headineton, E.g., of Crispin-street, Spitalfiehls. On the 26th inst., at North Bank, Regent's-park, Esther the wife of 111 r. Serjeant Goulburn. On the 15th inst., at Islington, Elizabeth De Hague widow of the late 111 r. James De Hague, aged 72. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by AIURDO YOUNG, a t tb' SUN OFFICI, 112, STRAND, LONDON.