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

tong ago hinted,—namely, an intimation to Sp ain mont," attributed to Sir J. Mackintosh , which that the universal interests of peace and c on;- contains the following passages :—" The mind coerce required her to desist from such vexatious of Dumont moved onward with that of the re disturbances of both, especially as we had given formers of jurisprudence throug hout Europe. an early and decisive rebuke to republics, He the , does not needlessly question te singularities when they meditated, and were preparing an at- ! of his venerable master ; but his attachment was tack upon the Havannah, which, if made, would ~ to the main stock of reforming principle. Those unavoidably, but for England, have succeeded. who knew him need not be reminded, that if We do not regret nor disapprove of such our ' its principles have any tendency to a cold and interference. The well-being of our own West low morality, they were in that respect altoge- Indian colonies required it ; but since the first I ther defeated by the nature of Dumont ; a man and most direct operation of that interference of the utmost simplicity and frankness, of a most was in favour of Spain, so common justice may unusually affectionate and generous disposition. demand that with the leave of England neither A man of so much letters and wit could not have Colombia nor Mexico should be exposed to mo- worked into his practical nature any indifference lestation from Cuba.—Times. . j to art and accomplishments, to real learning, or We must desist from publishing the letters of to the only eloquence which deserves the name. the farming interest, as it is called, or they will prove to us, that if a man had 100 acres of tempt for love of native country as a prejudice." land, rent and tithe free, and were paid 2001. Again : "He was wholly untainted by poli a-year for the expence of cultivating it, he would tical or philosophical bigotry, which has cor be 3001. annually out of pocket by the exercise rupted so many of those who inveigh against of his skill and labour ! There are some other every form of that vice. His friends at Ge circumstances to which we would allude, which neva, at Paris, or in London, were very far are of much more importance, and which will from sharing his peculiar opinions. Surrounded ultimately prove of much greater benefit to the by fifty-three nephews or nieces in the first farming people•than any exaggerated account of or second degree, the issue or progeny of three their present sufferings. Commerce and manu- sisters, he treated them with a patriarchial ten factures are obviously improving, and they are d er ness, very foreign from the scorns of some iinproving while the price of corn is low. These Epicureans for ' the charities of father, son, and facts are clear : let but commerce and manufac - brother.' " What is meant by a low morality comprehend. Th e th e o ry t ure s obtain their due extension, and the price we do not exact l y of of corn will not long be low ; neither will the morals adopted by the class of philosophers al people require to have it low ; our artisans will luded to may appear in the eyes of Sir James soon be able to pay a better price. But if it partial and erroneous, or his objections may lie be attempted to raise the price o f corn first by not so much to the theory as to the conduct of certain individuals professing a partiality for it artificial means, away go our manufactures ; with whom he has come in contact. If his ob and if they perish, where are the consumers jections are to the theory itself, the theory ought of corn to be found ? Corn becomes finally to be attacked—if to the conduct of individuals, and irrecoverably a drug of course. Our manu the question assumes another aspect. If M. Du factures ars improving in a very sin g ular wa y ,— mont's morality was warm and elevated, why that is,to say, almost by stealth. They have been silently withdrawing from g reat places, are we to ascribe this warmth and elevation to -the power of his nature to counteract the ten under the direction of pet tifo gg ers for the su p - where combinations , a nd -weekl y contributions; dency of his principles, while we attribute the port of contributions ex ist, and are establishin g /ow and cold morality of another individual to themselves in the most obsure retreats. Where the tendency of the principles themselves ? If is Ponder's - end ? Can an y bod y tell us where the principles tend to a cold and low morality, Ponder's-end is ? In that p lace is a vast silk we may allow the instance of an individual pos s cra pe manufactory, as we unexpectedly fi nd b y a sessed of a warm and elevated morality to be a police report, carried triumph of nature over principles. But if we on by Messrs. Grout and both, we believe, persons of t h e utmost are to infer this tendency from the conduct J3aylis,— of individuals, we enter on a very deli respectability,—the former very honourably dis cate investigation. We ought to be sure tinguished by some i nventions or im p rovements that nature, or rather temperament, has had no in his trade. You do right, gentlemen, in choosing this Ponder's - end as the scene of your part in the peculiarities in the character of honest industry. Have nothing to do wit h the individuals, before we venture to throw the blame c ombining, conspiring operatives of Norwich— on any theory they may have adopted. We withdraw all your concerns from thence. We regret to see a man like Sir James Mackintosh (for there is little doubt as to the authorship of 'milts, that are carrying on h a pp il y and thriv could say as much of some other silk establish the article) shooting with poisoned arrows ; for in these passages he evidently insinuates that ingly, though at reduced wages. We hope the those who have embraced the principles adopted proprietors will never admit to throw a shuttle, by M. Dumont are cold and selfish, indulgent or toss a beam, any of the cre atures from S p iral- t o themselves, and harsh and tyrannical towards fields, whose webs have been cut from the frames, others. lie may have fallen in with some indi and who do not know the perpetrators of the victual or individuals of the character he has here mischief. Let them work upon the roads, where ascribed to a class ; he may have reasons for dis there is now a want of hands. The manufac liking these individusls ; but it is hardly fair to turing greatness of Englan d is not to be p ut to strike at the class through these individuals. As the hazard by the humblest part of the agency to the indifference to art and accomplishment, to which it employs. We recur now to the consi real learning, or to the only eloquence which deration of the agricultural interest, and the deserves the name, he can hardly suppose that a claims which they are putting forth to attention. metaphysician can have the susceptibility for If the price of corn, and othe r rural p roduce, poetry and painting of a poet and an artist. be low, how are landlords to live ? Have the y Hobbes considered orator s as men destitute of gone down to the rents, we ask, which existed judgment ; and Locke considered Sir Richard before the great war began ? Th e cler gy , or Blackmore the greatest of poets. If a second tithe-owners, we see disposed to throw back a Homer were to come in contact with Mr. part of their revenues, for which, in truth, they Bentham, lie would probably consider him as work ; but their example is very imperfectly fol fit a subject for his Panopticon as any other bel lowed by the rent-owners, who do nothing, ab- lad-singer. No man makes it areproach to a pain solutely nothing, for what they get. Reduce ter or poet that he is not partial to metaphysics. the rents, and the country will at once be Why then expect that the philosopher should more thriving. But the landlords pretend, — combine with the patience, coolness, and preci and they throw their pretension into the shape sion which enable him to analyze the human of a question,—if the rents be reduced, how mind, the love of exaggeration and of excite is the interest of the national debt to be meat characteristic of the Poet ? But to return paid? Ye Powers ! do the rent-receivers to the charge of cold and low morality—we must pay the interest of the national debt ? In the confess, with all respect for Sir James Mackin provisions of the property-tax which was once tosh, we do not believe that there is any founda most vilely imposed, were not all possible pre tion for it. We suppose he includes Mr. Mill cautions taken by Mr. Pitt to spare the agricul in the class of Epicurean Philosophers. In the tural interest, in order to se cure its su pp ort ? masterly work recently published by that great The national debt would never have been at half man (for Sir James is too candid a man to allow its present amount but for that body; and did political diff erences to stand in the way of his they not say that they would she d the last dro p of doing justice to merit,) there is observable their blood, and spend their last guinea, in the throughout an earnest endeavour to raise the support of Mr. Pitt and his measures ? And character of our species, to inspire men with an now, abolish rents altogether, and the interest of ardent love of virtue. lii discoursing on the the national debt will be paid with ease ; reduce importance of praise and dispraise, Vol. ii. chap. rents, and it will be paid with proportionate faci -23, he observes, " It is a matter of common lity. It is notoriously the great body of the people and constant experience, that we have associa that pay the taxes : put them at ease by dimi tions of painful consequences, with the idea of Dishing rents, and their consumption will infallibly the unfavourable disposition of our fellow-crea increase the revenue : there is no sure source tures—associations which constituted some of of revenue but consumption. The property-tax, the most painful feelings of our nature. This it besides its vexatious and inquisitorial character, is which is commonly expressed by the terms was a mere trap for simple integrity.—lbid. loss of-reputation, loss of character, disgrace, in- It is not alien to the subject of the preceding fan„.. In some instances, the association remarks to speak of the present state of pub- rises to that remarkable case, which we lie morals. The increase of gin-drinking, and have had frequent occasions of , observin„, a • that of suicides, murders, and all kinds of vio- when the means become a more important lence, are cotemporaneous. Every day's journal object than the end, the cause than the effect, it informs the public of these sad e ff ects o f g in- not unfrequently happens that the idea of the drinking ; it is therefore with peculiar pleasure unfavourable sentiments of mankind becomes that we notice the first attempt on the part of the more intolerable than all the consequences which magistracy of the metropolitan county to con - could result from them ; a nd men make their ts troul the mischief. We hope their efforts will escape from life, in order to escape from the be assisted by Government, and by the Legisla- tormenting idea of certain consequences, which ture as soon as it meets. We refer our readers at most would only diminish he advantages of for the present to the article headed " Increase livin g . Nor is the idea of pos t thumous disgrace of Gin-shops." But in addition to the mea- less operative than that of posthumous fame, and sures therein described as very properly adopted, from the same species of operation. In men, is there no hour at which public-houses in gene- in whom the associations which constitute the ral, and more particularly these pestilential sties, pain of disgrace are strong, though not suffi ought to be shut up ? Why no not the police ciently strong to restrain them from deeds which enter them at that hour, and convey infor- incur the execration of mankind, the thought mation to the magistrates if they are kept of what they have done is agonizing. Along open. But if it be desirable to bring back with it constantly rises up, before them, the idea the people to the use of beer and porter, of th e condemnatory countenance, the condem it is no less so that this, the natural beverage natory sentiment, the retributive acts of every of Englishmen, which in truth when good is human being the idea of whom is presented to better than all the wine of the continent that the them. They are never at rest. The idea of the labouring man can purchase, should be kept pure horrid deed or deeds becomes associated with and unadulterated. There are now strange stories almost every point of their consciousness. At afloat of the poisons inserted into it, not by the every moment it rises up in their minds, and brewer, but by the publican. Till some remedy along with it the overwhelming train of ideas can be devised for stopping this evil, it should be with which it well understood that no publican once convicted cases this state of mind is called remorse, and of the practice can ever afterwards have a licenc e. is generally regarded as the mos t p erfect state of We wish he could be prohibited from ever after ff su ering to which a human being is exposed. taking a draught of wholesome beer or porter - . . . . . Of those notions, again so long as he lived ! But the brewers that which involves the act of praising and blam themselves must aid in the detection of the mis- ing, is in constant and strong operation. It creant. Before dismissing this subject, we may is from the great use made of those acts in the mention that a sketch worthy to rank with the education of children, and even in the rude ma celebrated engraving of Hogarth has just been naoement of them in the nursery, that praise and published by Cruikshank. The most eloquent blame acquires the influence in most cases, the language that oratory or poetry ever employed, is ascendancy in some which they are sure to eau not so forcible as this striking appeal to the dram- else over us. It is this sens ibilit y to p raise and drinker respecting the frightful consequences of blame, in other words, the associations we have his habits—/bid. with them, which gives its effect to what is called In the Ninth Number of the Foreign Quar- Popular Opinion, or the popular sanction ; and terly Review, just published, there is an inte-. when the acts of justice, beneficence, fortitude, resting article ? entitled 44 Notice of M, Du- and prudence of other Well are the objects of it, the Moral Sanction ; Popular Opinion being a phrase which expresses the praise or :blame which the people bestow, and the Sanction being the good or evil consequences which men are ac customed to associate with that praise or blame. " In the present state of education, the praise and blame of most men are very erroneously be stowed, with great precipitation, commonly i n excess upon small occasions, with little regard to its justice ; blame being very often inflicted where applause is due, and applause lavished where blame ought to be bestowed. When education is good, no point of morality will be reckoned of more importance than the distribution of praise and blame ; no act will be considered more immoral than the misapplication of them. They are the great instruments we possess for insuring moral acts on the part of our fellow-creatures ; and when we squander away, or prostitute those great causes of virtue, and thereby deprive them of a great part of their useful tendency, we do what in us lies to lessen the quantity of virtue and thence of felicity in the world.' We are sorry to say that there is but too little in this country of the enlightened benevolence which Mr. Mill has here described in such glowing language. We do not mean to charge our countrymen with any deficiency in kindness in the common rela tions of life ; but we have no hesitation in say ing that they are little, indeed, to the care of those whose duty it is to diffuse as extensively as possible the principles of an enlightened and comprehensive morality. We cannot conclude without observing, that if there be any truth in the rollowing passage in Mr. Mill, Sir James might look elsewhere than to the class to which he has alluded, for a low and cold morality. " It follows (says Mr. Mill) from what has been said, that. there can he no real patriotism, no pointing of the qffection, the motive, and dispo sition, steadily to the good of the whole, with out preference of any particular part, except either in men of elevated minds and affec tions, in whom the larger associations, ge nerated by a good education, controul the narrow associations, growing out of a particu lar position ; or in men whose position is such as to give them pleasurable associations chiefly with individuals of the general mass, whose good has this happy quality, that it is always identi fied with that of the community at large. The group called a party or class generate associa tions, which have produced great, we may say terrible effects in human life ; and which thence deserves a great degree of attention.. . . . Where the inhabitants of a country are divided into classes, a ruling class and a subject class, the members of the ruling class have hardly any sympathies except with one another ; in other words, have agreeable associations with the pleasures and removal of the pains of hardly any persons but those who belong to the same class. In this class are contained their parents, their brothers and sisters, their sons and daughters, their companions, whether male or female, and their friends ; the manners of this class are to them the only agreeable manners ; the morals of this class the only virtue. It hence appears, that the principal part of the associations which make the idea of country an affection, are, in their case, connected exclusively with the good of their own class. When their own acts, as causes, are associated with accessions to this good as effects, the motive created is that of bene fit to the class. Patriotism, in their case,meana literally, Ist., affection for their own class ; 2dly, the motive to benefit that class ; and 3dly, a readiness to obey that motive." We could easily enlarge on this subject, but we shall quit it for the present.—Morning Chronicle. trade in silks, a free trade in gloves and ribands, but they will not have a free trade in butcher's meat. No, in that article there must be, under their auspices, monopoly and its consequent ex tortion. When the Civic patriots insist upon a free trade in foreign manufacturers, what do they do !—They insist upon our own manufac turers, who are oppressed with a greater amount of taxation than any people in this world ever before laboured under, entering into competition with French manufacturers, who are comparatively untaxed. They might as well match a man upon crutches to run for a silver cup against one who had the natural and healthy use of all his limbs. Who can be sur prised that the cripple is left behind in the race, and that the very exertion which urges him be yond his strength leaves him in a worse state of debility than before ? This is the sort of free competition of which the Common Council have been the noisy advocates. But they will not allow Mr. Clark to calculate upon what price will allow him a reasonable profit, and sell to the public accordingly. They will not allow him to subvert the monopoly of the butchers, and establish the principle of a free trade in the city market. But mark the difference between this free trade which the Corporation opposes, and the free trade which it supports. We have shown that in the one the competition cannot be fair or equal, because the competitors are obliged to start in very unequal condition ; but in the other all are on equal terms. The taxes and other expenses which the monopolizing butchers have to pay press as heavily upon Mr. Clark as on any one of them. If he can afford to sell meat at five-pence halfpenny per pound and make a profit, so can each of them; but they are not content with reasonable profits; they must have eight pence and nine pence the pound for what would yield them a sufficient profit at the price that Mr. Clark sells it. If a por tion of the exorbitant prices, which they have been for some time past taking out of the pockets of the public, were to find its way into the empty coffers of the farmers and gra ziers, and enable them to bear up against the pressure of the taxes, there would be some sense in keeping up this artificial rate of prices. But the farmers and graziers are breaking down on every side—their stock is selling under Sheriffs' writs and distresses for rent, in many places, at not one-fourth of its value, in some places at not one•tenth, and the butchers are not satisfied un less they can sell their meat at the same prices which they got when the high rents were paid in full—when the fairs and the markets were alive with the busy competition of eager and opulent purchasers—when corn and cattle could not be reared fast enough for the demand—when the produce of the farm was solid wealth to its pos sessor—when the pastures yielded abounding riches, and the plough turned up gold. But, notwithstanding the support of the patriotic Cor poration of London, the butchers' monopoly must fall before the firm, united, and energetic resistance of the public. The sordid persecution of Mr. Clark by his rapacious brethren will do more to excite the public feeling against their insolent monopoly than any thing that has yet occurred. We hate tyranny and oppression of all kinds, whether practised by a Government upon the people, or by one portion of the peo ple themselves upon another. We had written thus far when we received a copy of a requisi- If it be true that the butchers of the new Fleet, alias Farringdon Market, gave notice to the City that they would quit their shops if Mr. Clark were allowed to . carry on his business in the market at the cheap prices at which he had ticketed his meat, it throws considerable light upon the manner in which the exorbitant dear ness of one of the prime articles of human sub sistence has hitherto been sustained. We have in this one fact a complete solution of the cause why the prices of butcher's meat remained ex travagantly high, while the prices of cattle and all sorts of farming produce have sunk ruinously low. It establishes beyond all dispute a combina tion of the butchers against the public, to put in their own pockets all that the farmers and graziers lose by the depression of the fairs and markets, and all that the land-owners are ob- liged to return, in abatement of rent, to their industrious but insolvent tenantry• It is not long since we felt it our duty to expose and hold up to reprobation the scandalous conduct of those great coal-owners who combined to swell their already overgrown fortunes by withhold ing the supply of another necessary of life to the inhabi tants of London, except upon terms which make a winter's fire a luxury to persons of moderate income. For such combinations there seems to be no remedy save in public opinion making it self heard through the Press. If the combination of butchers have made the Corporation of London yield to their threats, it is well that neither the confederated extortioners nor the chartered pa triots can trample on the public interests, or op press an individual, without being called to an swer for it at the bar of public opinion. Has Mr. Clark received a notice to quit his shop in the New Market in consequence of the remon strance or threat of the butchers to the civic tion, now in progress of signature, addressed to Alderman Waithman, calling on him to convene a meeting of the inhabitants of Farringdon Ward, to express their sense of the conduct of the Com mittee of City Lands. We are glad that such a case of oppression is met in this manly and determined manner. If the people do not put down such a combination as this, they will de serve to be the victims of petty tyranny for ever. A Correspondent very judiciously remarks that St. Monzas's Day is near. On that day we trust the inhabitants of the different Wards si ill mark their sense of the conduct of such COMMOR Councilmen as have lent themselves to this mon strous proceeding.—Morning Herald. powers, or has he not ? That he has received a notice to quit there can be no doubt, for we have seen the original notice, purporting to be signed by the Deputy Comptroller, a copy of which we gave yesterday. If this notice has been given in deference to the expressed deter mination of the combined body of butchers, it is one of the meanest acts of subserviency we have ever heard of. The Corporation had it in their power to crush this confederacy against the pub lic interests. They had only to take the threat ening butchers at their word—to accept their notices to quit—and their shops would soon be occupied by others who would sell at reasonable prices to the public. Instead of doing that, they turn the man of reasonable prices out, that the monopoly may be unbroken. They had certainly a strict legal right to dispose of their property to what tenants they pleased ; but it is rather unfortunate for the claim to liberal principles which the civic patriots set up that they exercise this strict legal right, not in favour of, but against their darling principle of free trade. Did not the Common Council pe tition against the restrictions on trade ?—did they not petition against the Corn Laws, as creating a monopoly, and raising the price of bread ? I-lave not the walls of te Civic Par liament repeatedly echoed the sentiments of the " liberality" of those very persons who compose the Committee of City Lands, and who now eject an honest citizen from the Corporate soil because he will not join in the monopoly which makes meat exorbitantly dear ? The Common Council will have a " free trade" in corn—a free POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Charlotte Wyatt, a miserable-looking creature, about 30 years of age, was charged with attempt ing to drown herself in the Thames. Peter Boddy, a street-keeper, deposed, that in passing over Blackfriars-bridge about five o'clock on Sunday afternoon, he observed the prisoner at the bottom of the stairs, getting into the water. He got down in time to save her, and her mother was now in attendance. The prisoner was drunk. The mother said the prisoner was married to a slaughterman, but was living apart (for it was im possible to live with her) on an allowance of 3s. 6d. per week, which the prisoner regularly squandered away within an hour after she had received it.— She was a confirmed drunkard. Mr. Alderman BROWN asked the prisoner if she wished to say any thing ? Prisoner replied, that she did not know how she came to think of such a thing. A friend gave her the liquor. " Have you reflected on the dreadful situation you would have been in if you had appeared before your Maker, your own murderer ?" asked the Al derman. _ _ _ The prisoner looked about her callously, and said she was very sorry. Alderman BROWN asked the mother if she would take her home ? The mother said her conduct was so bad that she could not. Indeed she wished her to be bound down not to annoy her. The Magistrate replied that she might give her into custody when she was offending. He did not know that he could do anything with her now. She was accordingly discharged. A woman upwards of 50 years of age, named Jane Athwell, was charged with making a similar attempt on the Surrey side of the bridge, about six o'clock the same evening. Easeley, a watchman, said he had traced her family. She had suffered a severe injury on the head, and was partly deranged. She was quite sober. Her son was now in attend ance. _ _ The Alderman asked the son if it was true that her head had been wounded as described. The son, who seemed much affected, said it was. Will you take care of her ?" said the Magis trate.—The son promised that he would to the best of his power. " Then be so kind as to do so. She is dis charged," rejoined the Alderman. Joseph de batten, a valet to Mr. Rothschild, of Stamford hill, attended to show cause why an order of affiliation should not be made upon him with re gard to a child born in the parish of St. Ann, Al dersgate-street. Anstice Keogh, the mother, was produced ; but before she was sworn, she was questioned by Mr. Harmer for the defendant, respecting her husband. She said she had not seen him since the year 1818. He was a private in the 9th Lancers, and she had heard some time ago that he was dead, but it now a ppeared that he was still living. Mr. Harmer said it would be necessary to prove wife before the latter could be allowed to swear this icmhipossldtiobitihiteyof access between the husband arid defe n d ant . Mr. Payne, the second clerk, said the. overseers offered as proof of this, evidence that the woman had resided constantly in London, and documents from the War-office to show that the husband had never left his regiment, which was stationed in Yorkshire about nine months before the birth of the child. The regiment was now at Nottingham. Mr. Alderman VENABLES remarked, that the doctrine respecting the impossibility of access bad of late been a good deal modified. It would be dif ficult to find any person to swear the woman had not an opportunity of meeting her husband. I The mother, weeping, protested she had net seen him. Mr. Alderman BROWN objected to the validity of the documentary evidence. If the overseers could produce legal proof of the husband's continual resi dence in Yorkshire, they might take it at once to the sessions on the adjournment-day. The sessions could make the order in the same manner that two justices would. The Mrgistrates concurred in declining to make the order. _ _ _ _ _ Mr. Dunsby, the foreman of the inquest of Far ringdon-within, applied for a summons against William Pullen, of Cranbrook, in Kent, for send ing the carcass of an ox and two sheep for sale in Newgate-market, the same not being fit for human food. Mr. Alderman BROWN asked what proof he had that Mr. Pullen sent it ?—Mr. Dunsby said he had Mr. Pu!len's letter and invoice, which was delivered with a part of the meat, and which he had obtained from the salesman's foreman. Mr. Harmer suggested the letter might hays been written by somebody else in his name. . . Mr. Alderman iktowN said that was obvious. Could Mr. Dunsby prove the hand-writing. Mr. Dunsby said the inquest had a difficult duty to perform. He waa unlearned in the law, and he hoped no impediment would be thrown in his way. He wished to state the course that had been taken before by the Aldermen. Mr. Alderman BROWN said, no impediment would be put in his way; the public were much obliged to him for his exertions; but if he were unlearned in the law, he might have the assistance of the City- Solicitor. The city would cheerfully pay the ex pense. He could not issue his summons: until he had evidence that Mr. Pullen consigned the meat. Suppose he were to come and state that he did not send the meat : then he would have been put to the trouble of coming out of Kent improperly. Mr. Harmer said, the name might be altogether fictitious. Mr. Dunsby called the foreman to Mr. Kimber, tke salesman, to prove the hand-writing; but he a wore that he had sever heard of or seen his writing before. This was the first consignment that had been received from him. Mr. Dunsby next asked the Alderman to hear the opinion, on oath, of the officers and others as to the unsoundness of the meat, as a ground for issuing his order to burn it. Richmond, the officer, was beginning to state that he had seized four quarters of what was called an ox, and two sheep, in a cart in Newgate-street, that morning, when The Alderman, after consulting with Mr. Harmer and the clerks, said, " I feel, and I am told by those around me, I have no authority to order the meat to be destroyed ; that is the province of the inquest; and they will do it, if they think proper, on their own responsibility." Mr. Harmer said, he had inspected the meat, and if he were on the inquest, he should condemn it without hesitation. The Alderman said, the city would protect him if an action should be brought against Mr. Dunsby in such a case as this. Mr. Dunsby said, he should do his duty fearlessly, and withdrew. About four o'clock in thelafternoon the huge move able oven, constructed at the city expense, to de stroy putrid meat, was drawn into the area of New gate-market, and the beef was burned; but the sheep were taken away to be boiled down for dog's meat. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Thomas the Superintendent of Police, waited on Sir R. BIRNIE, and stated, that he had a man in custody upon suspicion of murder, but as the Coroner's inquisition had not yet set upon the body of the person whose death the prisoner was supposed to have accelerated, he (Mr. Thomas) wished to know whether he would be justified in detaining the suspected party until the finding of the Coroner's Jnry. Sir. R. BIRNIE asked Mr. Thomas if he had any evidence to produce tending to criminate the pri soner, as in that case he would of course be quite warranted in detaining him. Mr. Thomas replied, that the deceased, whose name was George Melliors, had kept the White Lion public-house in Clare-market, and from circum stances that had transpired, it appeared that he had come to his death by unfair means. His forehead exhibited a dreadful gash, and several severe bruises were visible about his head and face. Sir R. BIRNIR asked if the accused was present ? Mr. Thomas directed two of his men to bring the prisoner forward, which was done accordingly, His name is Charles Willis, and he is the brother of Mrs. Melliors, the wife of the deceased. A police-constable, named Easthope, on Tuesday last, at six o'clock in the morning, was passing the house of the deceased, when he heard a violent altercation inside, and upon looking in, he saw the prisoner beating the deceased in a most brutal man ner. He then pushed him towards the stairs, and knocked him down. Witness went between the prisoner and the deceased, and separated them. He then left the house, and was returning in the same direction-in about six minutes after, when he heard a dreadful cry of murder proceeding from the house. He immediately rushed in, and found the prisoner beating the deceased in the same dreadful manner as before. Witness desired the prisoner to desist, observing that his conduct was most brutal. The wife of the deceased, who stood in the bar all the time without attempting to interfere, began to abuse witness, calling him an insolent fellow for interfering, and said that the prisoner was her brother. The Magistrates then asked the prisoner if it was true that he had had a quarrel . with the deceased ? The prisoner replied, that disagreements had fre quently arisen between him and the deceased, who had latterly taken to drinking to such an excess that he had quite neglected his business, in consequence of which he (the prisoner) came from the country for the purpose of assisting his sister. Sir R. BinraF.—Have you any thing to say re specting the death of the deceased ? The prisoner stated, that the deceased was in the act of pulling open a door in the back-yard that morning, when be fell backwards and inflicted the wound upon his forehead which was supposed to have occasioned his death. Sir R.BIRNIE said, thatunder all the circumstances, Mr. Thomas would be justified in detaining the pri soner until the Coroner's jury should sit upon the body of the deceased. [An inquest was held on the body of Melliors in the course of the evening, and a verdict returned of " Accidental Death."] The young man who was charged before Mr. HALLS on last Tuesday evening, with having by false representations defrauded a Mrs. Lupton of 61., and whose name we forbore to state in conse quence of the respectability of his friends, was brought forward for a re-examination, when Mr. Hobler, jun., attended for the prosecution. It will be recollected that the prisoner obtained the money from Mrs. Lupton, by stating that he expected to draw his pension from Somerset-house, when he would repay her. He had represented to her that the pension arose from his holding a com mission in his Majesty a navy. It did not appear to Mr. HALLS, however, that the false representation was sufficiently made out to constitute an offence according to the Act of Par liament; and the prisoner must therefore be dis charged, unless it were desired to press a charge of robbery against him with reference to the jewels which he had stolen from his sister. Mr Hobler, jun, said, that of course there was a considerable reluctance to press that charge, _t ie : from the unwillingness of the sister to appeirS. prosecutrix, and the curious nature of the itself. The prisoner, whose appearance at the - bar trayed the most indecent levity, was theo 'a? charged. UNION-HA LL to Some days ago, a man named Smithson all this office, and voluntarily delivered himself up . 61 : 4 ; deserter from the Portsmouth division of M 5 He described that he had been a sdrjeatit, and deserted in consequence of the tyranny and 01 ' 1 ; bearing conduct of the serjeant-major belonging,' the same division. Since his desertion he had be driven to the utmost distress, not having, by, own account, lain on a bed for three weeks, u " . : r compelled to sleep in out-houses, barns, or whe,t et ; he could obtain shelter from the weather. On P e ' . ing his statement, the Magistrate (Mr. Chaml directed him to be taken to the county gaol, o _ 4 l , the mean time the Secretary of the Admiralty IL made acquainted with the circumstances W l ,' which Smithson had deserted. Yesterday a to munication was received from the Admiralty ()P .a .,'" subject, in which it was stated that no such Peril, as Smithson had ever belonged to the division sw had asserted, and that therefore be must be fe. impostor. On receipt of this official letter, the 0 • 1 „" gistrate directed Smithson to be again brought - a fore him, and having told him that he had assen t a falsehood in describing hims e lf a delet e ; from the Portsmouth division of Marine's that he had rendered himself liable t; b e committed as a vagrant to the House Correction, Smithson solemnly declared that be , ad told the truth in the first instance. He then, inr— of his statement being correct, detailed various cat' cumstances _relating-to the marine service, whit' bore all the appearance of truth. In the first Pl ate he had joined the division at Portsmouth, in 1809; and from thence was draughted onboard the Alii•ereti frigate, in which he went on the American station, and was upwards of four years in Bermuda. H. returned to England in 1816, and was made Set e jeant of Marines on board the Glasgow frigate, hi, which ship he afterwards went up the Straits,. OP joined Admiral Codrington's fleet in the Wait er ' ranean, and was present at the battle of Na b ; He gave other proofs of having seen service, wP i a on hearing, Mr. CHAMBERS remarked could 0 13 ,t described by a landsman, and having taken on" the particulars himself, the Magistrate imme diate d transmitted them to the Admiralty, and in reins° ing Smithson, assured him that after what bad, curred, if it was found that be had been ptsct is ra a deception for the purpose of exciting conlw ise-: t i , don, he should assuredly be committed to Vo l ( hard labour, under the Vagrant Act. Salit hg° still asserted that his statement was perfectly truf• The driver of a hackney-coach, named LaSi le i t ; was brought up by a constable of Bermondsey , v f /i d described that he was found lying in a ditch by t side of the Willow-walk, on the preceding n u rse with the body of the coach resting upon hied. constable, in passing that way, heard stifled g,: ht proceeding from the ditch, and on procuring•s i Th s ' t the night being dismally dark, and no lamps in "d e . quarter, he observed Langley in the situatil ol d scribed, up to his neck in mud. The a'ai e " for . horses were also stuck in the mud, and it 1/29,11,„ coac h tunate circumstance for the driver that th e "Ai, windows were down, for when he rolled ft°ll.l, b seat on the vehicle and all tumbling into the d i ce , he fell undermost, and his head coming throug h t„. ,"" coach-window, gave him an opportunity of 01 for assistance. It took six stout watchmen tO P O him out of the ditch, and six more to extr i c ate coach and horses from the situation into which tb_atti had got. The constable added, that had be Pu".• heard the groans of the defendant, be must M t perished in a short time, for it was utterly imp' sible that he could have extricated himself, his ri o i body being firmly stuck in the mud up to the dra g and to mend the matter, said the constable, the do was intoxicated at the time. row The driver was thankful for the assietascsoge. dared him on the occasion, and was willing tO ditch pensate those who had pulled him o u t of the • to into which he had driven, coach and all, 4)/414 1 tO the darkness that prevailed, and not a singl e - 21111 : 0 , be met within a part of Bermondsey so ne ar to to _e He admitted that he had been treated with so liquor by a gentleman who had won a trial in t . o . s . Court of King's Bench, and on the streng th of hi:, success, had not only made himself drunk, but d , the witnesses who were subpoenaed, an d he (t . driver) was one of those who had the misfortune, uoi should call it, of being one of them, for he had!' only run the risk of losing his own life by tumbhill neck and heels into a quagmire, but had a lso se`. ously injured his coach and horses. linggist r t a o t ecso compensate that sat e th h o e se waswho bboaudnsifte,: c w o it tn i rd ' m h g e on M fee n dragged him out and prevented him ft° suffocation. The coachman arranged the matter with his ?d ry servers outside the office, and was then dischorg, t; In the course of the day, a letter, addresse d 0 , the Magistrates, enclosing 51. for R.B. Watts, / et received at this office, in which the humane 0, 40 says—" lam sorry to say, the trade of this r tb . (Coventry) is at a very low ebb indeed, an d To distress among the weavers almost unparallele d .d • the credit of the fair sex, who are never beluods hand in acts of charity, the ladies have inst itut or society for clothing the indigent, and are busilY; o o ployed in making up such articles as may , be i - cir ment season. Having contributed my conducive to the comforts of she poor at tlu s . fi thi. praiseworthy undertaking, I am not so hard hied but I can find another for that muc h-to - , o ' o ou poor fellow Watts, whose distressing cage 91 11 1 0' 'in the columns of the Times. Not knowin g tb a dress, you, gentlemen, will perhaps excu7 nu r trouble of handing the enclosed trifle to him, tltof some of your attendants, especially when you.", 0 it comes from a cit so celebrated for notorut t i Peeping Tom.' " mite Moss WORSHIP-STREET. 00 1 ' Michael Gander, a decent-looking young A ~ itb f was re-examined before Mr. BENITT, charge(' 5 I pt stealing a small box, containing a number of spoons and several gold mourning and other risible, from the house of Mrs. M'Auliff, Weymouth-terr:A The prisoner was taken into custody lot W O* in Bishopsgate-church, in the act of leading t° A to altar a smart servant girl, who had con sent*" become hi s s wife. „oils% He wa remanded, to give further time for .• the property. PAINTED AND PUBLISNILD sr 111.7RD0 YOU' TN.& SUN 0171401, 4 114gile -___- BIRTHS. On the 28tk ult. the lady of Francis Wilson, Ss4. of Tonge, Hawkhurst, Kent, of a daughter. / e se° ll On the 24th ult. at Ghent, the lady of F. -T. 2). Esq., of a son. to MARRIED. , f", 01. On the 24th ult. at Leicester, R. W. WON, --, 04 4 Mary Ann, only daughter of the late Georg Cec" ril , of Woburn. t On the 28th ult. at St. Mary Cray, Edmund l'eoge6' ford, Esq. of the Royal Artillery, to Jane, Ye daughter of the late John Drew, Esq. x A (l t ° On the 25th ult. at Elgin, N.H. Mr. It i "‘", s te P . of Liverpool, to Eliza, younger daughter of the ' 5- J. M'Andrew. , DIED. On the 27th ult. Edward Francis, infant Ora of 'fr New Burlington-street. e eto Bentley, ._.itr On the 29th ult. at his house in tipper 13r001k,9, 1 the Right Hon. Henry Viscount Harberton , aged ',op° On the 28th ult. at Hampstead, Elizabet h, the 4' Mr. S. Feary, of Islington. h 0011 " On the 27th ult. at his seat at Oakley, N°r t - A - . 8 Or shire, in his 72d year, Sir Richard 13rook e lit' 13rooke, Bart. i$ I,f. On the 27th ult. at the Vicarage, Brig Ry a ; 0, 33d year, Elizabeth Harri e t, the wife of the Rel.'' I t o Wagner. , Acil l A PJ On the 29th ult. Matthew, second 800 or frz r c ei ty Tyrrell, of Wilsou-street, Finabui yr, a ged fifcee' l - two days. , ---,if).