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his charge, has not occurred: We were very much struck at the time by the wonder expres sed so naturally by the Judges at the circumstance of no prosecutors appearing in the cases of shoot ing at a Baronet in a midland county—killing a lad nt Eaton—and several others, as if they had not the least suspicion how such things came te , pass, being utter strangers to the ways of the world. Every thing is done with decency in this country, and though parties understand each other tolerably well, yet certain conven tional rules must never be violated. This makes us wonder the more at the proceedings with respect to the fishermen of Queenborough, so often before the public. The statements published from time to time, and which have never been contradicted, go to establish that a cool determination has been taken to destroy these poor fishermen, root and branch, by the most unheard of violations of justice, in order that, by having only Govern ment labourers in the place, it may become thoroughly an Ordnance Borough. It has often beeu remarked, that the English Law puts it in the power of a rich man, if he chooses',' to ruin a man of moderate resources ; and that so com plete is this power of destruction, that without public opinion, every poor man would be at the mercy oi his richer neighbour. Here, however, the verdicts of Juries and public opinion have been laughed to scorn, and the poor devils are stretching out their hands to heaven in their ex tremity, seeing no earthly means by which they can hope to avert the destruction to which they have been coolly doomed. " Nearly one-half of their houses," said Mr. Pennal, at the Meeting on Monday last, " were now empty, and the aspect of the rest bore evidence ofthis calamitous state of things, if no inhabitants presented theta selves ist3 living memorials of the prevailing wretchedness. The truth must be told. It was Boroughmongering—unconstitutional and corrupt Boroughmongering, by which the town had been afflicted like a pestilence, ever since Greet sold Calcraft. What did it concern the Aristocracy who perished, since it did not deprive them of one pleasure ? Could it be expected that they should feel eympathy with the sufferings of another order . of beings ? When it was made known in this country, which had once prided itself on the pro tection given to the rights of the meanest, that a whole town had been deprived of its , property and food, and was perishing ; what concern was taken by them in the matter ? They treated all with dignified indifference, or 'sat in grim repose, expecting, no doubt, within themselves, when these people are half-starved they will yield ; or when they are half dead we shall be rid of thee:l4nd then we shall have theboroih;h.' " This seems like the introduction of a new prin ciple into the working of the Constitution of this country ; and when coupled with the utter dis eegard of decency now evinced by the higher ranks in causing the supply of game to the inha bitants of towns to be obteined by constant vio lence and bloodshed ; ending often in bloodshed, in violation to the right implied in the very idea of a body politic, that every man has a right to his share of all that the earth produces, the land owners being merely trustees for the regulation of the distribution, according to the necessities of the venders, and the abilities of purchasers ; when coupled, we say, with this bold disregard of decency, one can hardly help supposing that the higher ranks are either tired of the constraint of hypocrisy, or displeased with their being beat by the rest of the ccenmunity at their own wea pons. " We are toll," says Mr. Godwin, in the second volume of his History of the Com monwealth,' 't of the well adjusted balance of authorities in our Government, which so happily preserves to us our immunities as citizens. How far the English Constitu tion, with its Government by corruption, the gross inadequateness of the representation in the House ..f Commons, and the ruling power being in so high a degree in the Aris tocracy, not to mention the evils which attend upon the institution of an hereditary Chief Ma gistrate, is better than a Commonweelth, it is no part of the business of the present work to dis cuss. The people of this country now enjoy a considerable portion of personal liberty : but the same institutions that secure this to us, render our national character phlegmatic, selfish, and glaringly deficient in public spirit and public virtue." We fear it was not without reason that the higher ranks of this country, with the Church in their train, have always, till lately forced to appear a little otherwise, been so stoutly opposed to education. The schoolmas ter, since he has been abroad, has dreadfully in terfered with the working of the Constitution. ' The game of the high begins to be seen through by the low ; and when one trick is met by another—when the man whom you meant to cajole smiles knowingly in your face—when the • zeal manifested for our holy religion and social • order is pretty uniformly interpreted a zeal for a slice or two of the good,things going, some por tentous change cannot. be far off. When Eno lish Boroughmongers cease to regard appear ances so far as to doom a whole town to destruc tion against justice, things look ominous indeed. —Morning Chronicle. We alluded again yesterday to the dreadful murders which have been perpetrated in Edin burgh for the purpose of disposing of the bodies of the victims to surgeons and anatomists, and gave further particulars, from the Scotch Papers, of the tragic work which has been carrying en there, to such an extent, for such a length of , time, and with such hardened impunity. No fewer than thirty-five persons are now said to have fallen victims to the murderous hands of Burke and Hare ; and we only re-echo the wish I , of every one who has heard of the dreadful tra gedies in which they have been engaged, when we express a fervent hope, that the latter, although allowed to escape from the charge in which he was only a spectator of the crime will still be brought to justice for those in which he was principal. But what, ought to be done to those to • whom the bodies of the unhappy victims of the Murderers were disposed, or what shall be said • respecting them ? Had there been only one murdered subject presented to them, it might readily he granted that the total absence of sus- • picion had prevented them from detecting the mode in which the life had departed from it ; ' for who could have dreamed that a monster would have been found in the present age, so utterly callous and wicked, as to have converted the most dreadful of crimes into a sort of every- j day work ? But it was not the body of one I victim, but the bodies of thirty-,five—nay, per haps, of more (for who can tell the extent of murders which may have been committed?) that were presented ; and it argues either a gross connivance at the villainy which was perpetrated, or a gross ignorance of medical science, on the part of those who pur chased the bodies of the unfortunate persons, I not to have known, even at first sight, that they had been deprived of he by violence. The • marks of strangulation are too well known to be mistaken by the merest tyro in medical science ; and yet it appears, from the evidence hitherto laid before the public, that only in one instance was the slightest hesitation manifested in the re ception of the bodies ! A greater blot, in fact, has never fallen on the scientific and moral cha- Iracter of the Edinburgh surgeons, than the non ) discovery of the mode in which the victims of I avarice and unheard-of cruelty came by their deaths; and the r ublic, we feel assured, will not rest satisfied until justice bas, in the first place, been done upon Hare—until the names of the persons whom Burke and Hare mur dered have been ascertained—and until, also, the names of the anatomists into whose hands dee bodies were delivered have been made known. The sensation which has been excited is great here, and still greater • near the scene of the dreadfni murders ; but it is not greater than such revolting barbarity might have been expected to elicit, and we should re gret its subsiding before the fullest inquiry has taken place, and the whole matter been probed to the bottom. Who knows that there may not have been others implicated in the murders than those whose names are already before the public, and that at the moment we write, similar trage dies may not be in the course of performance in other parts of the Kingdom ? The authority . vested in the Lord Advocate is sufficient to lead to the most complete discovery of all the ramifi ' cations of the dreadful plot, and he will greatly fail in the performance of a great public duty if he fails in developing them.—Morning' Adver. ' In another part of our paper we insert a letter of Dr. Curtis's, explanatory of his show ing to his friends a letter written to him by the Duke of Wellington. We think that Dr. Curtis was not warranted in showing that letter, and we should think that the Duke, in future, will be very cautious how he writes to any Ca tholic—whether lay or clerical. It would appear, by Dr. Curtis's letter, that the Duke's sugges tion, as to the Catholics being for a time quiet, and leaving their cause to time, will not be at tended to by the Catholics. We, therefore, think that Catholic Emancipation will not, at least for the present, be entertained by England. The great mass of the people of England have a horror of Catholicism, fOr they are afraid that if the Catholic Barristers were admitted into Parliament and power, that the time would not be far off when the Catholic Clergy would be for thrusting themselves into tithes of some description ; or that they would be for shar ing the present tithes with the Church of England.. Now it is well known that ad Catholics are under the dominion of the Priest, and the probability is that, if the Bar risters succeeded in getting into place and power, the Priests would not be long after them ; and if, in the attempt to share the tithes, or to institute further tithes, the Catholic Barristers, when in power, did not second the Priests, why then the latter, in all probability, would threaten to ex communicate the Barrister, which would bring them to, if any thing would. The Church of England, before the Catholics are admitted to power, should take good security from the Ca tholic Church that it would not interfere with our Church as to the tithes ; for, if no such se ' curity were given by one Church to the other, we should, in the long run, have the two Churches at open war about the pounds, shillings, and pence—all which would be " part and parcel of Anti-Christ."—Morning Herald. The Letter of Dr. Ciirtis (the nick-named Catholic Primate of Ireland) in reply to that of his Grace the Duke of Wellington, is given in a preceding column. The arrogant pretensions of the Popish faction in Ireland we have frequently felt it our duty to advert to, in order to counter act and expose their plots, and lay bare the real nature of the case, as between them and the Protestant Constitution in Church and State. But in doing this on every proper occasion—in endeavouring to give a right direction to the public mind, and humbly invoking the assistance of the generous and the loyal to assist us in the good cause, little did we think that an Irish Popish Bishop would have had the presump tuous hardihood to read such a lecture to a Pro testant Prime Minister as this aspiring ereve of the Duke of Wellington has had the assurance to attempt. But the first thing to strike every man upon its perusal, after he has recovered from his astonishment, will naturally be, what were the contents of Dr. Curtis's letter which called forth the reply of the Duke of Wellington ? What did it ask, what did it deny of Popish violence, or in what did it deny their double, and there fore doubtful allegiance to the Protestant King and Government of Great Britain ? Was Dr. Curtis, presuming on the regard exhibited • towards him in Spain by the Duke of Welline.- • ton, at the same time seeking to throw that illustrious Hero and Statesman off his guard ; or was he taking advantage of private intimacy by obtaining a confidential communication, and then exposing it to the world ? Our Readers and the Public cannot fail to give the proper answer. That the publication of the Duke of Wellington's letter was a breach of confidence can be best demon strated from the letters already before the public. Dr. Curtis, in the first place, expresses a wish to avoid mixing himself up with other , than spiritual affairs ; in the next place, he ne gatives by his silence that he was authorized by any body of the Catholic Clergy or Laity to o address the Duke of Wellington ; and then, we tearlessly ask, did he or could he dare to address • him in any other capacity than that of a private acquaintance ? It is impossible, from the do- I cuments before us, to arrive at any other con elusion. Now, if this be so, is not the publica tion of his Grace's letter a direct and atrocious violation of private confidence ? Let the Protes tants of England and Ireland look to this in tune —let them not slumber on their post, but " watch on the towers of Jerusalem by day and by night.”—Still the jesuitical and double-dealing subterfuge by which the Duke's letter got into publication in the Popish prints of Dublin, re mains to be ,explained. Dr. Curtis lives in a town by no means small (its inhabitants being very numerous), having a Corporation, and sending a Member to Parliament. Yet every hotly, as the Doctor says, knows the letters which are directed to all his leilow-townsmen—(risum teneatis);—one was franked to him by his Grace the Duke of Wellington, which excited surprise, as well it might, and (mark the logical conclusion of the controversial Bishop) —therefore I was justified in reading its contents to a few emfidential friends, upon whose advice we agreed to betray the Prime Minister and each other. If this is to be borne, who will say, what next ? Never indeed have we read any thing more shallow or fallacious than the reasoning at tempted throughout by the subtle Priest. He professes himself to he adverse. to the Noble Duke's idea of a calm consideration of the mea sure ; which, strange to say, he pronounce.., to be totally inadmissible, pretending that " it would exasperate those who arc already too much excited ;" thus giving us to under stand that the best mode of arranging the business is to do it amidst the preva lence of violent party feelings, when all dispassionate consideration is impossible.— This is an idea every way worthy of a crafty Jesuit, but wholly unworthy of the atten tion of a wise and enlightened Minister, or of any man having the slightest knowledge of the existing order of things. To this instance of exquisite reasoning on the part of' the Irish Ca tholic Bishop we have to add a striking proof of his candour, in attributing atrocious language and horrible threats solely to the Brunswick and Orange Prints. It is surely impossible that the Priest can be ignorant of the infamous and sedi tious language so constantly indulged in for a iong time by his worthy friends, O'Connell, Law less, Sheil, and others ; or of the main and in controvertible fact, that the Brunswick and other loyal Clubs had their origin only in a loyal determination to counteract the mischievous objects (as uudisguisedly mid daringly expressed) ati.d defeat the rebellious designs, of the declared enemies of the Constitution in Church and State. In one respect, however, we entirely agree with Dr. Curtis. Most sincerely do we hope and trust, that the nation will long have the happiness and advantage of possessing a Prime Minister '' who after an uninterrupted series of the greatest victories, and a successful arrangement of the most important interests that . perhaps ever yet occurred, has been placed at the head of Government by the entire and well earned confidence of our most gracious Sove reign, and with the universal applause of the whole empire, and indeed of all other nations." —Morning Post. WINTER ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. KINGSTON, DEC. 31. Richard Lawrence and Henry Lawrence were indicted for burgiarionsly entering the dwelling-house of Mr. Thornton, Bennet-street, Stamford -street, and stealing therefrom sundry articles of plate, value upwards of 5/., and two hats, on the 11th of August last. Richard Lawrence protested his innocence, and declared he had liought the hat sworn to by the pro secutor in April last. The other prisoner made no defence. The jury, after a short consultation, found both prisoners Guilty. The JUDGE, in directing sentence of death to be recorded, remarked, that the crime of burglary had reached to such an extent in this country, that it mast be punished severely. It was only in consi deration of the absence of personal violence in this case that he should recommend his Majesty to spare the prisoners' lives ; but they would have no oppor tunity to commit a similar offence in this country at least. The prisoners are notorious offenders. The assizes concluded this day. AFFRAY BETWEEN POACHERS AND GAMEKEEPERS. The grounds of the Duke of Bedford, situated in the parish of Ledington, in Bedfordshire, having lately been frequented by a numerous and deter mined gang of poachers, who committed great havoc amongst his Grace's pheasants, notwithstanding the utmost vigilance of the gamekeepers, the latter received directions to traverse the grounds in large ~, a rties at night, for the purpose, if possible, of in -,ercepting the maurmiders, and taking -them into Custody. Accordingly one night in the last week a party of gamekeepers came up with the whole gang of poachers, consisting of 13 able-bodied inert, eight of whom were well provided with guns, and the re mainiog five with swingles or flails, a weapon of a very desperate description. The gamekeepers, al though inferior in point of numbers, compared with the poachers, desired them to stand and deliver up their arms. The latter, depending upon their numerical strength, swore they would not resign a single gun. A conflict was the consequence; shots were tired, and several des perate blows given on both sides. The swingles used by the poachers did dreadful execution, knock ing down a man at every blow. The gamekeepers, after a desperate but ineffectual resistance, were obliged to retreat, one cf them having his leg broken by a blow from the butt-end of a gun, and alb': them exhibiting cuts and gashes as evidence of the furious eveounter in which they had been engaged. The contest took place in an inclosure, and the ground, whisk was marked by the struggle, was dis covered next morning almost covered with blood. Favoured by the darkness of the night, and their adversaries not being in a situation to pursue them, the poachers retreated with case and safety, carry : ing with them snore than 20 brace of pheasants which they had previously killed in his Grace's preserves. Assistance having been obtained, it was found ne cessary to convey two of the wounded gamekeepers to the Ampthill where they now lie in a very precarious state. The affray was so sudden, and the night so dark, that the gamekeepers the next morning could not undertake to swear to the persons of those by whom they had been en countered, and the assailants would probably have escaped with impunity, but for the arrival of Gard ner, a Bow-street officer, who was sent down to investigate the affair. lie immediately pro ceeded to the scene of action, and took the di mensions of the several shoe-marks that were still visible on the spot. It happened that one of these impressions was that of a shoe of more than ordinary size, and the officer remarked, that two of the hob nails in the heel were wanting. Proceeding upon this apparently slight evidelnee, Gardner immediately examined the shoes of some men who had previously. been taken into custody upon suspicion. This ex amination finally led to the discovery that the shoe of a man trained John Axham, exactly corresponded with tire impression which Gardner had noticed. Axham, fearing for his personal safety, was induced to become approver. He informed against the whole of his associates, amongst whom was his own brother. They were all, 12 in number, taken into custody and committed to Bedford gaol to take their trial at the next Assizes. lleyatches were received at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Wednesday night, front Lord Cowley, our Ambassador at 'Vienna. On Friday morning, as one of the Brighton coaches (the Regent) was entering . Sinitham-bottom, onite return from London, the hounds of Lord Derby were pressing a fine stag towards the turnpilre-road, and he soon came up with the Regent, continuing his course abreast of the horses for a considerable distance, to the great delight of the passengers. At this period, whilst the ostlers at the changing stables of the Times Brighton coach were gazing at the passing scene, three horses which had just performed their journey, and had been dispossessed of their harness, bolted from their stable, all jaded as they were, and joined the " jovial cry," mingling with the sportsmen at full speed, and so intent were those high-nettled ani mals upon the joys of the chase, and the enchanting music of the hounds, that they leaped one after another into a gravel-pit (not a deep one), and, after floundering a little with the loose stuff at the bottom, made up their lost ground by redoubling their speed. The dogs were now close upon the stag, and lest they should run into him, some of the sportsmen, who had crossed, whipped them off. Our " old stagers," however, were not - SO easily di ♦erted from their pursuit, but followed their game until they came up to his haunches, when they accompanied him, nothing loath, for three miles on the Brighton-road, when the stag leaped a high hedge, and bounding over the hill, left his companions to snort until they were recaptur ed by the astonished horse-keepers. —B riyhton Gsardian. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. C; tiILDH A 1.1., SWINDLING,—An elderly man, named C/mr/cs /Rik, was re-examined on a charge of defrauding a poor widow of several pigs, of the value of 361.; and also defrauding Mr. Johnson, a farmer, at High gate, of three cows. The widow, Mrs. Collin, of Salamanca-place ; Lambeth, stated, that she took some of the pigs in a cart to Eyre-street, Leather-lane, where the pri soner rasided, oa the 4th of October, and left them in the street in charge of her lad, while she went into the prisoner's house to settle the bargain with him, intending to take care she received the cash before she parted with her property. She was amused, however, by White, while a confederate went out, told the lad the pigs had been settled for, and drove them away. White proposed to pay her with a bill, but she had refused it steadily till she heard the pigs were gone, when, finding she was not likely to get anything else, she consented to take the bill, which was for sixteen pounds, payable four days after date. This was dishonoured when due, and had never been paid. About three weeks after, White and a confederate called on her to buy the rest of her pigs, promising to pay her for the first lot as well as the present. She accompanied them to some house, driving the pigs before her, and leaving them outside the kitchen window in full view (determined not to be tricked again ;) but the parties again proposing to pay her with a bill, and pressing her a great deal about it, her attention was at length distracted front the window, the pigs were driven out of the street unobserved by her, and she was reduced to the same strait as before— either to take a 201. bill, or nothing. She agreed to take the bill, which, as before, was dishonoured, and had not been paid; her landlord distrained her goods, and she was entirely ruined. In the other case, the complainant believing the prisoner's representation, that he was an extensive cow-keeper in Great Garden-street, Whitechapel, took his bill in payment for three cows, Value 681., without making any previous inquiry into the pri soner's circumstances. When the bill became due, he could not be found. There were now other complaints of attempting to get fraudulent possession of some sheep ; of de frauding a farmer at Sutton of a horse, valua 141., which he had exposed for sale at Croydon Fair ; and of cheating a gentleman of the Corn Exchange of 301. worth of grain ; but none of these were formally entered into, having occurred out of the jurisdiction of the Alderman. The corn dealer said he had traced the prisoner from one part of the town to another, and had found he had every where obtained the reputation of being a swindler. Mr. Alderman VENABLEs remanded the prisoner till Tuesday, in the expectation .that other charges would be preferred against him. 130 W-STREET. THE CELEBRATED MRS. COORS.--It will be re ' collected that Mrs. Cooke, alias Stamp, alias Saun ders, alias Sutton, the wife of the person who was for yers " on the town" under the names of the Hon. James Stamp Sutton Cooke, and, like her, " lived on his wits" or, more correctly speaking, by duping the credulous part of the community, was convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions about four months ago for stealing a pianoforte, the property of a Mr. Rathmacher, and that she was sentenced to transportation for seven years for the ohnce. Yes terday a Gentleman came before Sir RICHARD BIR ME, and asked that Magistrate whether he was aware that in consequence of the influence of a cer tain Catholic Nobleman in behalf of Mrs. Cooke, with Mr. Peel, her sentence was not to be carried into effect, but she was to be banished to one of the West India Islands (her native place), where her father, who was a coffee-planter, died some years ago and left her considerable property ? Sir R. BIRNIE said, that he knew nothing what ever of the sentence of Mrs. Cooke having been commuted. The Gentleman said, that a Mr. Cubit, who had married assister of Mrs. Cooke's late husband, had called upon him, and informed him that Mrs, Cooke was about to no to the West ladies, and was about to apply" to the Chancellor to allow her to take her two children with her, which she had by the late Stamp Sutton Cooke. Sir R. BIRNIE inquired if Stamp Sutton Cooke was dead ?—The gentleman replied that he died in the gaily part of the last week in the Marshalsea Prison, and was buried only t (VO days ago. Sir R. BIRNIE told the Gentleman,that he might learn of Mr. Capper, at the Secretary of State's Office, if t}ere was any truth in the statement Mr. Cubit made, and the gentleman withdrew. MA RYLEBONE. A countryman named Burnham was charged with stealing an immense number of horses' tails and manes. It appeared that the farmers in the counties of Herts, Bucks, and Middlesex, have suf fered extensively by the above novel species of de predation ; and on Sunday night, the manes and tails of five horses belonging to Mr. Harwood, a farmer at Bevingdeau, Hemel Hempstead, were cut off whilst the animals were in the stables ; and a gentleman in the neighbourhood also lost the tails of all his horses about the same period. The prisoner was taken into custody on Monday morn ing, in Lisson-grove, by Webster, an officer, with nine tails in his possession, which he could not ac count for, five of which were identified by Mr. Harwood as his property. The prisoner was com mitted for trial. UNION-HALL Mr. Chris111)&1. Leach, a coal dealer, of Pros pect-place, Lambeth, was summonud for haring ten sacks deficient in length in his possession, for the delivery of coals. Mr. Harmer attended for the defendant. A labouring meter proved that he seized the sacks on the defendant's cart, on the wharf of Messrs. Cole, Childs, and Co., when they were about to be filled from the craft. Upon the case being investigated, it turned out that the defendant had purchased five rooms of coals at the wharf, and was about to remove the coals in his own sacks, not to a customer's house, but to his own premises ; and it was contended that the case did not come within the meaning and intention of the Statute. Mr. SWABEY thought that a coal dealer had a right to remove coals from a wharf to his own pre mises in any way he thought proper, and dismissed the information. On Tuesday night, a woman walking down Causeyeide, had a plaster suddenly clapped on her face by an unseen hand, which covered her mouth from ear to ear. Full of the horrors of resurrectionism, the woman was so stupified that she had not power nor presence of mind to pull it off, but ran into a neighbouring shop in a state of agitation not to be described. The shnpman kindly as sisted in ridding her of the cause of her alarm, which, on examination, she found to be a card she had despatched that forenoon to one of her former customers, demanding instant payment of two pounds of salt, Rohl to him in 1825, and threatening prosecution in default of partnent. This is somewhat a novel way of stopping the mouth den importunate creditor, but much niore mischievous than humorous.—Paisley Advertiser. Last week a poor weaver in Manchester, named David Lindsay, residing in a small court off Giles street, Ancoats-lane, fell heir to an estate of about 300,0001. by the decere". of an uncle, Colonel Lindsay of the Mount, near Cupar, Fife, in Scotland. When the letter arrived, announcing this windfall to David, and ench'sing 150/. to defray the expenses of his journey with his wife and three children to his country seat, he was sitting at his hreal_•f.:st of butterlesa bread and sugarless coffee. The demand of the postman, 4s. 9d., completely stunned David, for his whole stock in his coffers, alias his breeches pocket, was Qs. • The letter would have been returned to the post office but for the arrival of a neighbour, who volunteered, after feeling that the letter contained summit,' to assist David in raising the wind. David's first question, after reading the letter, was, " What the d-1 can I do wi' this Biller ?" He has however, we understand, submitted to his fate, and on Saturday week he set out on his journey to the north, and drubtlesa by this time David Lindsay, of Giles •court, Ancoats-lane, weaver, has altered his designa tion to David Lindsay, Esq., of Mount, near Cupar, Fife.— iltanchester Paper. THE WEST-PORT MURDERS. -•- , Tim . LATE TRIAL-=ANATOMICAL DISSECTION. The facts disclosed by this trial produce 7, conviction of so startling rind horrifying a na ture, that the mind cannot be brought to a state 0/equilibrium till the revolting details have beep; Maturely considered. Accordingly the certainty conveyed by the eVidnee adduced at the trial, that scenes of unparnlleicd atrocity have been passing anionga ourselves to an exfent yet nn known, and proceding from Motives incon4 ceivably base and completely inadequate, has kept undivided possession of the public mind, and thrown topics of general news entirely into the shade. The painfiil curiosity thus excited is certainly not to be deprecated ; but we do not know if we would encourage our readerstb lin ger on the revolting details of this case, were it not from a conviction, that after we have become to a certain degree familiar with the horrid tale, our minds will naturally glide from the indivi dual circumstances of the awful story, and as sume the consideration of the general and per manent interests of the community connected with the atrocities of Burke and his associates in crime. It must be evident to every one, that the shocking details now brought to light are but a consummation (and a dreadful one certainly) of an evil, which, of late years, has been progres sively increasing, viz., the extreme difficulty of procuring, in Scotland, subjects for anatomical dissection. It must also be admitted, that the best interests of society require that such sub jects should be procured, and that no substitute can be suggested. Our readers are perhaps not aware, that a course of anatomical dissection forms one of the essential and indispensible re quisites of the education of a military surgeon, as these are enforced by the wholesome laws of the army. The public must now be fully awake to the nature of the consequences likely to ensue f:om any measures which may add to the diffi culty of procuring what is indispensible to the acquisition of a science so valuable to the world at large, and to which this city is indebted for so much of its honour and wealth. We may there fore naturally anticipate that recent events are likely to stimulate the attention of the Legisla ture in the investigation of the subject, which, we must admit, is surrounded by great difficulties. It is too evident that in no case can an indi vidual have such ownership of a human body, as to entitle him to do any thing more than sub ject it to the rites of burial ; and though it were otherwise, the dead are generally surrounded by those who would view the approach of any in decent hand with religious horror. Though we may view the body of a stranger, when in the gripe of the King of Terrors, with comparative indifference, we tend and even cherish the re mains of a departed friend with a mysterious fondness. This feeling must be a part of our nature ; for it has shown itself in some form or other in all ages, among the savage as well as the civilised. The ancients deposited their dead in splendid sarcophagi, or dissipated the body with sacred flames, and collected the ashes in urns for preservation ; and it was part of their faith that the souls of those to whom circumstances denied the rites of burial, were subjected to extended penance ; or (as the Egyptians) they exhausted their ingenuity and science to give perpetuity to the human frame. We carry the bodies of departed friends with pomp and cir cumstance to the most sacred places, and erect monuments over them ; and it is one of the doc trines of our faith that our bodies are to rise again. Thus the law of all civilized nations, the feelings of our nature, and the doctrines we trust in, conspire against the application of the human body to the purposes of science. In Scitland, too, the people are particularly at tached to the decencies of burial; the medical schools aro large, and there is no city suffi ciently overgrown to present a field of depravity large enough to supply the wants of science with subjects. In these circumstances, and feeling as acutely as others a mysterious veneration for the mortal remains of our relatives, we cannot help con sidcring that the recent disgusting trial has arisen from a mistaken, a childish, and we b almost say, a criminal superstition about dead bodies ; and that almost the only remedy which can with safety be recommended at present, is the chastising in ourselves, and deprecating in others, those feelings which are instinctive, but which in a civilized country, must lead to such fatal results. Every sensible man knows that these feelings are founded upon error, and that it is folly to care, or pretend to care, about what becomes of the clay from which the immortal soul has taken its flight. A regard for the welfare of the living, has so far already induced most peo ple to allow the bodies of their relatives to be dissected privately for the discovery of the un known disease which has proved fatal; and good men have been found ready, on their death-bed, to request that after death their bodies might be dissected, that the lives of others might thus be saved,—leaving, in many cases, to posterity, a legacy more valuable than all their accumulated riches could have purchased. By the late trial we are taught a deep moral lesson, that a too sensitive regard for the dead, has led, and may again lead, to infamy and murder. The public will now learn to withhold their admiration from the zealot in the shape of a Custom-house of ficer or a coach-guard, and wait with patience, but anxiety, for the result of the deliberation of The Legislature upon so important a subject.— ' From a Correspondent of tlw Edinburgh Ob server. THE MARKETS. COUNTR7 CORN MARKETS DU;,-ING THE WEER Blancitora Cpard ..--- 1-In*tingdon - Long Louth Newark Nottingham Peterborough Piytnonth Pont Steafot,l U ppi s flzun Witbec h ' trrat. g. to P. 'rt 78 79 56 713 66 76 55 '76 70 78 =! ,4 3 '7B 70 4 8 - PI 56 78 72 82 143 84) /6 05 64 76 Parley. s. to s. 33 3.1 • 'l4 9.1 R 6 36 30 40 32 44 44 r 0 40 24 X) 34 45 22 32 LEEDS CCflt MARKET. Oats. N. tD 8. - 2:3 24 30 '4B 29 17 21. 17 25 t 24 17 30 Is 25 23 27 Xti nap Xt 17 27 IS 24 •I)ec. 30. Beang. s. 10 6. 48 :43 42 42 447 33 4 ; 39 4A 33 41 3'3 V 42 47 - 37 4.2', 4rh 50 52' 34 W 2 38 40 to had a large supply of Wheat, Barley, and Berns, but only madotato of other:Graii;:; it bring the last market iu the year, there seat very little business done; the feu , sales effected were in beat New Weeat, at js. to 2s. per cliarier decline, and for Old and middling samples of New. there Waa trarceiy any demand. Fine henry Barley sup ported last weekle rricea, but all other descriptions were neglected. In Oats t',l6 Shelling no alterglises,. Beaus met very dull sale and full quarter lower. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 6011) - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. 7015. to R:so. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 'Ss, to 18s. a 'Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding lie, to aid. 5. ricatiF .•- -4-., Oats, rotatot Fottfgn nd. to lil;,(l....English 15d. to 15d. ry Shelling lia,K,sced, English, 284 to tlilf.„." Foreign, --I. to --J. per last. LI VEIU'OOL CORN Ii.2I.CHANGIi —Dec. 30. This morning's market was very thinly attended by ei-' Cher town or country millers, and the trade opened very heavily : a few sales in Wheat were reported towards the close of the day, at a reduction of 3d. per bushel, but not to apy extent. The quantity of hue Oats offering was not large, still they were difficult to quit at the previous , reduction. Prices of Flout declined is. to 2s. per so 4c„. and those of Oatmeal Is. per load; the sales of both arti— cles were very limited. A ferr parcels of Barley were taken, we believe fur shipment, at last quoted prices. The value of Beans and Peaty are nnaltetri. \I iIgAT, English, White, per 701 b. ---, Pr Od.tolN. Ott. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx ...... ---- Irish, Whi te JO 9 11 0 -- R e d JO ID 10 V Foreign... JO 0 it 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 4511, 4 0 4 t —lrish 8 11 4 Foreign 4• IN 3 JO 4 0 BARLUN, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 44 0 46 0 Scotch and Irish, per 6011 n. Feeding h 8 6 9 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter .... ...... Irish, Etre. -- Foreign Musa, English, per Imperial quarter Foreign nova, English, per 28011). Irish °anti! St, EngEsh and Irish, per 2401 be. S7 0 .?9 C INDIAN CORK, per 4401 h. 99 0 40 6 RYE., per Imperial quarter l3 0 42 0 MALT, par Imperial quarter Imroar or GRAIN for the Wroic ending Dee, 29. Wheat. Oats. Barley. Flour. °strata Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. iForeign, Beg (Irish, &c. Se/4 loads, ~W 23 1 i ,2rsB 397 3,21 - 16 1 2,991 4,0 15 ___ _ MANCHEsTER SMITHFIELD.—Dtv.3I. At per lb. sinking the Oki. 3,041 Sheep 4d. to rid. 25 bd. to Id. d',3 Cattle 3 6 1492 Pigs --- 41 Si MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET.—Dec. 27. P01..%10ra, ss. 90., 6s. Od., and '71.0d. per load of 1$ sons arid' ; New ditto, Os., Os. :hi., acid es. per ditto; 'l'ni - nips. ss. Od., 6s. 00. and 6s. 3d. per load of 16 pecks; Onions, 144. Od., 11.., and 15s. 6d_ per 12 score. MANCHESTER YAK' No. d. d. "lhro,tl e'rwi,t, 20 101 to 11 L'o 13 134 40 151 I: Mule cop Twist/ 30 for VINI p 40 . 15 50 —17 i 60.,.20 22 70..24 '26 80 27 30 MARK , Dec. 30. 30.-- 101 to 111 40 111 12 50 z4i 1 5 00 ISI 1 ( 1 10 ........ 19 20 50....—. 22 2 . l ii 100 28 30 120 ..--. SA 38 10 -- 7 8 Weft from 14.--- 81 91e waste 12 9 ot 24 - 10 .10k 1 MulcCop Weft.. BIRTHS. On the 31st nlt. Mrs. Daniel Trinder, of Wantnge,• Berke, of a son • On the ht inst. at Kensington, the lady of E. Vtr Blunt, Esq. of a son. On the 31st ult. the lady of Captain George Baker, of a son, who survived only twelve hours. On the 31st ult. at Bernard-street, Rnssell-square, the lady of Edmund Dawson Legh, Esq. of a danghter. On the 81st tilt, the lady of Joseph Latour, Esq. of a CANOVA,THRSCULPFOR.—(From an article in the New Monthly, entitled Walks in Ramie.).—" Ca nova lose to salute my friend as we approached, and in a few momenta we were familiar acquaintances. Nothing, indeed, could be more preposseesing than his drat address. There v.-aa no effort, no condescension. His affability was nut put on, but a part of himself. When he left his high contemplations, and mingled with the ordinary clarof our mortality, he was in all things as the men with whom lie nixed. Neither did he lie down on society for mere relief. He contributed quite as much as be reeeived ; and in all there wax that unobtrusive cheerfulness of manner which more than words, bespoke the habitual content of a pure and generous spirit, and the ameliorating and subduing nature of the noble occupatione in which he bail been en gaged. The arts have this especial advantage over litera ture and politics,—that they are conversant only with the ideal, the perfect, the very loftiest portions of our being. A proud and bold tone of thinking, an abstraction from the degrading, the little, the virulent—from all the plebeian passions of existence—give a sort of sanctity to each a vo cation. It was visible in every thing he did or said. His voice, though not good, was pleasing ; and there was a stir of gentle inspiration, a sort of suppressed ; glow about it, whenever he touched on his favourite pursuits, which carried the hearer much more than any words could do, into the full enthusiasm of the 'subject. His habitual language was Italian ; he spoke French heavily and clumsily; the few phrases he diil use were thrown into a broad Italian mould, front whence they came out no longer intelligible or recognizable. Ita lians lavish their gestures even on trifles ; be was calm, smooth, and impressive. His whole being breathed grace and gentleness ; there was nothing bold, strong, impe thous ;he wanted power and weight. In every thing he Pnwrse and Pommel-3n by MURDO YOUNG, at 11. was the anti-type of Thorwalteen." Sun Omer., 111, Eintigtirg, .Lenceoi.k. MARRIED. At NV/gen-house, Bucks, Miss Susanna Will/ark; to James Thomas Cookney, Esq. of Bedford-row, solicitor. On the let inst. at Tottenham Church, by the Rev. T. Moseley, M.A., Thomas Moseley, Esg. of Bedford -street, Covent•garden, to Anna, the, younger daughter of Samuel Luck Kent, Esq. of the former place. On the Ist inst. at St. Marylebone Church, by the Rev. John Hume Spry, rector , Mr. Edward George Ch nr t en , l eet, s zChifiwick, to Mi ca A n d erson , o f Pen cond eon of Wm. Ch arton, E rg. of of Sutton f . o c r o d-s urz od tone die. DIED. On the 30th nit. Penrith, John Bnehanan, Esq, in the 74th year of his age. On the lit inst. in Great. Surrey -street, aged thirteen rnonthe, James John Goulding Saunders, yonngest child of Mr. Thoiras Saundere. On the 30th ult. Mr. Charles Harris, inn. aged 2P, member of the College of Surgeons, eon of Charles Harris, Eeq. of Portman-place, much respected and deeply re gretted by all who knew him. On the 30th ult., at her house at Kelvedon, &sex, Elizabeth, the widow of Robert Torin, Esq. On the 2nit ult., at Bleruierhaote , t, of apoplexy, Mr. Joseph Simpson, late of Lonninghead, Sebergham, Curn btrland, in the 52d year of his age. On Thursday, the let inst., John Blaekall, of limeley Court, in the county of Oxford, Esq., aged 36. M A RKETS.—Dec. 29. GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os. let to Os. Sd. Mutton 0 4 0 7 Veal 0 7 0 9 limns Lamb perqr. 0 0 0 0 Quartcrn Loaf... 0 II 0 0 Maur, per stone 2 0 2 1 8 1 8 Oatmeal, per st. 2s. Od. tote. fid. Pe 2 0 3 4 Pot Barley, ewt.ls 0 20 0 Pearl ditto 22 0 24 0 Grey Pease 9 0 10 0 White ditto 0 0 10 0 floe ditto. MOP INTELLIGENCE. Ni r oitorsrErt, Dire. 81.—The number of .Poriete of Hop weighed in Worcester Hop Market, from Dec. 25, 1827, to Dee. 25, 1828 : New Old Between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday evening, the hospital of the both Regiment, lying in Bolton, was robbed of some wearing apparel and jewellery, 149 sovereigns, and one guinea, and 351. in Bank of Eng land notes, together with a watch and a quantity of gown pieces and silks. The person suspected is a soldier of the name of John Rogers, who was employed as attendant on the sick in the hospital, and had been in tha situation for two years. The most diligent search is being m a d e lairn ; and it is suspected that he is accompanied by It woman with whom he cohabited.—Bolton Chronicle. MURDERS IN EDINBURGII.--The horrible atrocities of the Edinburgh murderers now before the radie, induce me to mention a circumstance that may he . . reeetlection of many of your readers, aid f ront w hi c h it may tee eeeti that the 'dreadful vrretchee, Hare and Burke, may have extended their eystem of blood even to the shores of Englend. About two years ago a respectable young man, an apprentice to an eminent surgeon of • the name of Greenhow, resident at North Shields, dieappenred in the most unaccountable manner; and the most strenuone exertions to discover the cause of his disappearance, or traces of his body, were totally unsucceeeful. Dr. Green 7psircekntipceerstoon.ruake up .his how sets called up, I believe, about one or two o'clock ha the morning, to attend a person ill, at a house not more and without any than about 70 yards from his own dwelling. After the to his tl The young . I v )r is c i t t a tl i t i e ,ti D ol oc l t a t u tr d re t tr k e e st i e t d if I recollect right, tvitlrout even his man left the surgery, property what ever upon him. The only thing front that moment that is known of the poor youth is, that he delivered the medi cine. He never returned to Dr. Greenhow's, and the next day, front an examination of all the circumstances of the youth's disappearance, the affrighted inhabitants came to hat, and in his slippers, the ap p a lling conclusion, that he must have been murdered for the ;take of his body ! Unremitting exertions were made to discover the wretches guilty of the frightful crime, end rewards were offered, bat, as far as I knew, to this time, without any light being th rown on t h e mystery.— Th e consternation of. the inhabitants of North Shields in consegnence of the above eirnmstaneee, ceased them im mediately to adopt a system of night police, the town having previously been without one.—From a Correspondent in the Morning Chronicle.