The Sun. — London, England, 1829-05-07 00:00:00

SALES BY AUCTION. OPPOSITE THE DUKE OF DEVONSHIRE'S GARDENS, IN PICCADILLY. A DELIGHTFUL RESIDENCE AND OINC . ,E,S, WITH IMMEDIATE POSSESSION. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, A t"the Auction Mart, opposite the Bank, on THURSDAY, May 21, at Twelve, by Direction of the Executors, AN ELEGANT LEASEHOLD RESI DENCE, erected within a few years in a most substantial manner, and the interior fated up with con siderable tact and due regard to family comfort. It is de sirably situate No. 9, IN BERKELEY-STREET, vis-a-vis the Duke of Devonshire's Garden. The princi pal roams are of the best proportions, and partake in an eminent degree of the advantage resulting from the grounds in front; the bed chambers are very airy and good, and the domestic arrangement as complete as possible. The Property is Lea-ehold of the Berkeley Estate, for an un expired term of Fifty years, subject to the original rent. 'May be viewed with cards, from One till Four, and particulats had on the premises; at the Auction Mart; and in Covent-garden. SUNBURY, MIDDLESEX. Velv Desirable Freehold Residence, calculated for a moderate sized Family, with Pleasure Grounds, Gar dens, and Paddock, altogether Five and a Half Acres. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, At tie Auction Mart, near the Bank, on THURSDAY, May 14, at Twelve o'clock, _ • ADELIGHTFUL FREEHOLD RE SIDENCE, containing all the requisite accom modation a moderate sized family can desire, pleasantly situated in the RURAL VILLAGE OF SUNBURY, a neighbourhood proverbial for its respectability. It is environed by its lawn and pleasure grounds, and contains suitable accommodation with every domestic convenience ; the detached offices include large brewhouse, bakehouse, coach house, four-stall st ible; extensive walled kitchen garden, hot-house, grapery, and paddock. The Estate comprises altogether Five and a Half Acres, and is Free hold, except a small part which is Copyhold, at a fine certain of ss. on death or alienation. Alay be viewed until the Sale, and particulars had ; alio at the Inns at Sunbury; Bush, Staines; and Toy, Hampton Court; of Messrs. Bicknell and Roberts, Lin coln's-Inn ;at the Mart; and at Mr. George Robins's Offices, Covent-garden. AT MARGATE. Three Freehold Houses, in an excellent situation for Let ting, advantageously contiguous to the Fort. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, _ _ _ At the Auction Mart, London, on THURSDAY, May 14, at Twelve, in Three Loth, AN Excellent FREEHOLD PROPERTY for Investment or Occupation. It consists of THREE FREEHOLD RESIDENCES, IN SION PLACE, ON THE FORT, a very improving part of Margate. The larger residence was erected for an Hotel and Coffee-house ; it has been sohsequently converted into a very excellent residence. There are two Houses upon a smaller scale, immediately. adjoining. They are all very well built, and may be esti ma•ed at £l6O A-YEAR ; and by furnishing them moderately a large annual income may be safely contemplated. May be viewed until the Sale, by applying to Mr. Crouch, on the Premises ; particulars had at the Royal and York Hotels, Margate ; the Fountain, Canterbury ; of Mr. Miller, solicitor, Nov Inn; and at Mr. Geo. Robins's Offices, Covent-garden. AT HIGHWOOD HILL, IN HER'f S, A FEW MILES BEYOND HENDON, THE ADMIRED FREE HOLD RESIDENCE, PARK, AND DOMAIN OF 'THE LATE SIR THOMAS STAMFORD RAF FLES,) MR. GEORGE ROBINS has the plea sure to announce that he is directed to SELL by AUCTION, on THURSDAY, the 14th of May, at Twelve o'clock, a distinguished FREEHOLD PROPERTY, which partakes of the style of A VILLA RESIDENCE OF A SUPERIOR CHA RACTER, ON HIGEIWOOD HILL, has for many years been proverbial, no less for its external appearance, than the very great conveniences which will be found to preside throughout the interior of this favoured retreat ; it is judiciously seated on a lofty and command ing spot, giving very great facility to views which can hardly be surpassed in any part of England. THE TERRACE WALK ' is of considerable extent, and adorned by a multitudinous collection of all that is rare and estimable in plants and flowering Shrubs. The Kitchen Gardens are extensive, and the fruit trees prolific, and of the best kind. THE PLEASURE GROUNDS AND SHRUBBERY WALKS EXTEND NEAR ONE MILE, and are well sheltered from the north and easterly winds, and it would almost appear, from the extraordinary tact that is manifest every where, that the genius of Repton must have been enlisted into the service; it was from this Interesting spot that LADY RUSSELL dated her memorable lettere. SIR STAMFORD RAFFLES, whose good taste has always been admitted, expended many thousand Pounds, in rendering complete this seductive and most desirable Property. THE ESTATE COMPREHENDS, IN PARK AND GROUNDS, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- TWO ACRES of excellent land, which completely environs the Mansion. There ;.,‘ also (and to be sold in separate lots) seven Cot tages, and 3 Residence, with Public House, &c. ; also a Farm-house anj suitable buildings. The Estate may L'e viewed 21 days prior to the sale, and particulars had at .Highwood Hill House; also the Three Cranes, Edgware ; Abercorn Arms, Stanmore ; Essex Arms, Watford ; Bell, iiendon ; Messrs. Amory and Colts, solicitors, Throgmorton-street ; the Auction Mart ; and in Covent-garden. LADY ROBERT MANNERS. Freehold Country Residence, at Sutton, in Surrey, a little removed from the high Brighton road ; a moat com fortable abode, in the midst of its greatly admired and extensive grounds and five rich paddocks, and in the centre of field sports of every description. R. GEORGE ROBINS has the satis- IVA- faction of announcing, that he will SELL by AUCTION, at the Mart, in London, on THURSDAY, June 11, at Twelve o'clock, by direction of the Executers, and peremptorily, an excellent FAMILY RESIDENCE, Freehold of Inheritance, and for nearly 20 years the FAVOURED RETREAT OF LADY ROBERT MANNERS, deceased. It is desirably situate in the cheerful VILLAGE OF SUTTON, _ _ a little removed from the high road to Brighton. It has been long known and admired as the Manor House. Its external appearance is uniform, and the interior posseves more of family comfort than any of the modern residences will pretend to. The bed rooms are numerous and very airy; the drawing rooms and dining parlours of excellent proportions, each possessing A separate and varied view of the grounds; and the secondary offices and domestic ar, rangement include every thing the most fastidious could suggee. THE PLEASURE GROUNDS, EXTENDED LAWNS, AND SHRUBBERY WALKS, have uniformly been the subject of the highest commen dation. They are clothed with an immense variety of American and other rare plants, including the evergreen oak, Portugal laurel, and cedar of Lebanon, fe altering to the ground, and rendering it green and beautiful during the unpropitious months of winter, besides a 6sh pond and fountain in the centre. The disposition of these grounds is in accordance with the best taste, even Repton could not have surpassed them. The kitchen gardens are unusual)) , extensive and productive, and there is a NOBLE RANGE OF CONSERVATORIES and hot houses, with a melon ground for S 7 lights, forced by steam. There is a court yard, which incl.oses coacla houses, stabling for six horses, laundry, brew-house, and indeed every office essential to family comfort, together arida. FIVE PADDOCKS OF CHOICE MEADOW LAND, forming altogether one of the most comfortable retreats within the same distance of this great Metropolis. It can be •iewed only with cards, and Particulars had 9.0 days prior to the Sale, at the Inns at Sutton, Croydon, and Epsom ; of Messrs. Frere and Foraters, Solicitors, Lincoln's Inn ; the ♦uction Mart ; and in Covent garden, A meeting of the Middlesex Magistrates was held on Tuesday at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, at which the sum 4f 10,7301. was voted for erecting a Pau per Lunatic Asylum. RED NOSES.—The &Bowing recipe "to cure a red nose " is given in a little work published within these few days, and entitled The Simplicity of Health : " Put a strip of linen, folded and soaked in vinegar, tin 4ae organ affected, when going to bed, and there suffer it to remain till morning." USE OF CAT'S WHisicEtts.--Every one has observed the whiskers of a cat, but few, perhaps, drea.a that they serve any valuable end. The following passage will prove the contrary Every one must have observed what are usually called the whiskers on a cat's upper lip. The use of these in a state of nature is very important. They are organs of touch. They are attached to a bed of close glands under the skin ; and each of these long and stiff hairs is connected with the nerves of the lip. The slightest contact of these 'whiskers with any surrounding object is thus felt most distinctly by ;,he animal, although the hairs are themselves insensible. 'they stand out on each side, in the lion, as well as in the common ao that, from point to point, they are equal to the width of the animal's body'. If we irrgiou, therefore, a lion steal ing through a covert of wood in an impigect light, we shall at once see the use uf these long hairs. s hay indi cate to him, through the nicest (aging, any obstacle which may present itself to the passage of his body ; they prevent the rustle of boughs and leaves, which would give warn ing tn his yrey, if he were to attempt to pass through too close a hush; and thus,, in conjunction with the soft cushions of his feet, and the fur upon which he treads, (the retractile claws never coming in contact with the ground;) they enable him to move towards his victim with a stillness greater even than that of the snake, who creeps along the grass, and is not perceived till he i® coiled round his prey."—Library of Useful Knowledge, SALES BY AUCTION. ON TILE COAST OF HAMPSHIRE, BETWEEN SOUTHAMPTON AND PORTSMOUTH. A Desirable Freehold Residence, with suitable Offices, Gardens, Carriage House, and capital Stabling, sur rounded by One Hundred and Sixty-five Acres, statute measure, of excellent Freehold Land, Four LAourers' Cottages, and Two Pews in the Parish Church. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, By Mr. GEORGE ROBINS, At the Auction Mart, London, on THURSDAY, June 11, at Twelve o'clock, A Very Valuable and Desirable FREE -Ex HOLD PROPERTY, particularly as an Investment, and advantageous and profitable to the Agri culturist; it comprehends a Residence, substantially and very conveniently built, calculated for a Family oft espec tability, with corresponding offices of every description ; the latter secluded from the abode by Shrubbery Walks, Fruit and Flower Gardens, &c. ; the situation is un usually inviting, and particularly dry and healthy, adjoin ing the turnpike road, contiguous to PORTSDOWN HILL, two miles from the capital M irket town of Farekam, seven from Portsmouth, fourteen from Southampton, sixteen from Pett rafield and Chichester. Connected with the Farm are Barns, Stabling, and Granary, Cart Houses, &c. ; spacious and convenient Homestead ; four Labourers' Cottages and Gardens, and ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY ACRES, statute mea sure, OF THE FIRST QUALITY OF ARABLE, MEADOW, AND DOWN LANDS, upon which is a Chalk Pit, with a Kiln thereon constantly its use. The Pit contains an inexhaustible supply of Chalk of the bt st quality for making lime, and for sale for manure, for which articles there is a constant demand ; its conveyance to the surrounding neighbourhood is cheaply and expe ditiously accomplished, the Pit being within a Mile from the Water side. This property is entirely within a Ring Fence, in the occupation of a respectable Tenant for the last fourteen years (whose Lease expires at Michael mas next). at an inadequate Rent the last renewal bring in 1822, (the very worst year for agricultural produce that can be remembered.) The Residence was recently tenanted by Admirals Paterson and Gif ard, and now by the Proprietors. The whole Estate is in perfect order and complete repair. The Prospect rooms offer uninterrupted and very interesting scenery, ex tending to Portsmouth Harbour, Spithead, the Isle of Wight, and Southampton Waters. The View from the Down Lands is still more interesting and beautiful, em bracing a distance of at least 20 miles in every direction of Sea and Land, which probably is not equalled in England. The Taxes are very low ; the Land Tax on the Dwel ling-house is Redeemed. Four stage-coaches to and from Southampton, Brighton, Portsmouth, and Plymouth, and the mail between Bristol and Portsmouth pass the premises daily ; and two Passage-boats, to and from Portsmouth, afford a cheap and expeditious communication, the distance being about four miles. Particulars of this most desirable Property may be had 21 days prior to the Sale at the best lons at Portsmouth, Southampton, Fareham, Petersfield, Chichester, and Brigh ton ; the Auction Mart ; and at Mr. George Robins's offices, London, where a sketch of the Estate may be seen. GEORGE ROBINS'S ROYAL FILTER FO2t CISTERNS, Portable Cisterns and Portable Filters of all Dimensions. BY HIS MAJESTY'S LETTERS PATENT. THE prevailing opinion ofthe impurity of the Water supplied to the Inhabitants of this City, is so well founded, and so amply borne out by the numerous Testimonials of the most Eminent of the Metropolitan Faculty, that any comment in this place would appear like questioning the national common sense. We will therefore confine our observations to the evidence given by Dr. JAMES JOHNSON and Dr. KERRISON, in their exa mination in the House of Commons. Dr. JAMES JOHNSON, the author of the " Treatise on Indigestion," pronounces the water to be disgusting to the sight, and the effluvia to affect the senses. And he thus concludes—" We sneer," says the doctor, " at the delicacy of the Hindoo, who slakes his thirst at the same tank where his neighbour is sacrificing to Cloacina ; but what shall we say to the delicate citizens of Westmin ster, who fill their tanks and stomachs with water from the Thames, at that very spot into which a hundred thou sand cloaca, containing EVERY SPECIES OF FILTH AND ALL UNUTTERABLE THINGS, are daily disgorging their hideous and abominable contents. It is absolutely asto nishing, that in these days of refinement, and in a Metro polis whose inhabitants pride themselves on delicacy and cleanliness, a practice should obtain, at which posterity will shudder, if they can credit it." Dr. KERRISON makes us acquainted with a fact, the perusal of which will excite the same disgust in the mind of the reader, as we ourselves feel in narrating it. On in. specting the Thames near the landing at Chelsea Hospital, he says he saw " the foul and black stream from the Rane lagh sewer, passing between the Company's steam-engine and the Dolphin, loaded with no small portion of UNDIVIDED FLOATING FILTH FROM PRIVIES; " from which he Con cludes, that " a considerable quantity of human excre ment, in a subdivided and undecomposed state, actually passes into our cisterns." This mode of Filtration not only clarifies, but purifies, the most turbid, fetid, stagnant water, rendering it of a crystalline brilliancy, and at the same time most effectually destroying both SMELL and TASTE. Its adaptation to Cisterns enhances its valuable qualities, by obviating the trouble of repeatedly charging it as heretofore, and ensures an effectual preventive against the possibility of employing any other Water than that which has passed the Filter, either for Culinary operations, or in fact for any domestic purposes. The rapidity of the process of Filtra tion, stands conspicuous amongst its advantages. The Pro prietor does not state the precise number of Gallons capable of bek produced ; but is enabled confidently to assert that so fast as the Water is supplied at the top of the Filter, so fast will it discharge itself from the battens in a highly purified state.—lts moderate Price, (from Three Guineas upwards, but rarely exceeding Six, in proportion to the dimensions of Cisterns) by rendering it attainable to all Housekeepers, confers a real blessing on Society, by at once removing the cause of a multitude of Diseases, which are justly attri butable to the noxious particles contained in the Water. To accommodate Private Families wbo desire to have Portable Filters, it is respectfully suggested that they are to be had of all dimensions at the Office iu the Strand, and are forwarded to all parts of England. rowrAsus FILTERS IN EARTHENWARE. 2 Gallon Size, purifying 12 Gallons per day ...... ..255. 3 Ditto .ditto 12 Ditto 3os. 6 Ditto...bandsoinely ornamented, 4.0 Ditto 425. 9 Ditto 65 Ditto. ,. sss. ...... 1 Ditto 90 Ditto. . ~.755. Thu Royal Filter, upon this plan, will chrystallize and purify as mph water in the course of the day as the largest consumption of a family can desire. There are also PortaWe Cisterns, capable of filtering from 200 to 500 gallons, every :?3 hours. These can be sent to any part of the country. The Prospectua may be had, and Filters, ia opera tion, may be inspected, at the Office of the Paten.tee, George Robins, N.. 60, Straad, opposite the Adelphi Theatre, where Orders are requested to be addressed. SPIRIT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS. Mr. Baring brought in a Bill last night, for an object on which it ought not to have been necessary to legislate at all. It is to prevent Members of Parliament who accept of offices, by which they must be in distant regions, and entirely absent from their duty, from retaining their seats. Men whose minds are rightly constructed should need no Bill to enforce this: they would resign of course a situa tion of which they cannot perform a single duty. It is said of Mr. Lushington, to whom the new Bill will apply, that he has been requested by his consti tuents to retain his seat! Who wonders at that ? He may serve them and their dependents in India, perhaps, even better than in Parliament ; but a per son in his station should have feelings above caitiffs like these : he should not identify himself with them and their sordid views. More absurd is it to call the Bill, should it become law, retrospective. No act which has not yet taken place can deprive Mr. Lushington of the power which he now enjoys of sitting in Parliament if he pleased: he will enjoy that power up to the moment when the Bill receives the Royal assent. The act, therefore, is prospective. —Times. We do now request most particular attention to the letter signed " An Observer," in this day'sjour nal, and to the proceedings in Spitalfields, to which it relates; and we are the more anxious upon this subject, as we shall appear to make one of those changes in opinion with which politicians are often unjustly reproached. We say " appear," for the fact is, that the change is not in us, but in the cir cumstances. However, the subject, as it relates to the poor, is not one upon which we shall be said to be bribed, we suppose. In fact, from the recollec tion of former times, we did really undertake the advocacy of the Spitalfields sufferers somewhat doubtfully ; but we were over-persuaded by the re peated applications of a highly respectable gentle man, in a station which we must ever venerate. — And now what is the result ? Did the public pay at tention to a police article from Worship-street, be ginning at the bottom of the last page (not column) but one in our journal of yesterday, headed " Ex tensive Destruction of Property in Bethnal green ?" If the public have paid attention to that article, they have found out that while the kind arid benevolent Christians of this metropolis were taxiiig themselves for the support of Spitalfield weavers—totally, as they professed, out of employ ment—these wretches were planning an atrocious attack upon the property of the first masters who should send them employment; and, which is worse, the very villains to whom, on the revival of trade, the employment was sent, were in league with the sham-rioters out of doors, and actually admitted them into their houses to cut the silk from the looms at which they pretended to work. Some journalists would be cautious of what they said here, for there may very likely be a fund in the hands of a vile lawyer, or under his administration, to prosecute all attempts upon the trade, but we are above these fears. We say, then, that John Lee, William Lee, and John Lee the younger, William Long, and his daughter Matilda, James Toy, Henry Middleton, and Samuel M'Overy, did, without any necessity—nay, voluntarily and readily—admit persons into their houses, for the purpose of destroying their employers' property then in their looms, against which persons they will not now give evidence ; and that in truth the whole is matter of connivance for the purpose of raising wages. Is this to be borne— that men are to be receiving relief with one hand, on the pretence of starving for want of employment, and with the other destroying the silk which is sent to them for the purpose of being woven ? Is this to be borne, we ask ? And now we cast our minds back to antecedent times. We look at the file of our Journal, and we find that last year (no longer ago !), after a subscription of the same kind as that which is now on foot, the weavers struck for prices. A body of men put a seal on each work ! and the journeymen shot a shoot or two every eighth day, by which they thought they evaded the law, which punished them if they neglected their work for eight successive days; but on that occasion, when the committee ceased to afford relief (on which the journeymen who did not work sub sisted) the weavers resumed their work ! We are therefore justified in saying, that were it not for the relief now afforded by the benevolent subscription, these acts of violence, knavery, and perjury, could never have taken place. Now mark this, Spital fields weavers: you think you are eluding the jus tice of your country ; you have, in part, deceived us; but a heavier judgment hangs over you if you do not alter your conduct. It shall go hard but we will root you out of that place, and disperse your trade into other less populous districts. It is, in fact, a great mischief, and a great detriment to this metropolis, that any manufactures should be car ried on its bosom. No manufactures, we assert, ought to be executed in London. It may be said, there are riots and destruction of machi nery in the country, and so there are ; but a disease in or near the heart is more dangerous than one in the extremities. For the present, we shall conclude with saying, what we hope will not be disregarded, that if the Benevolent Committee, or the Soup Committee, or by whatever other name any charitable institution may be known in Spital fields, expend one halfpenny in support of the weavers, till the fullest evidence is brought forward against those who cut out the work from the looms of the journeymen in Bethnal-green, the members of that institution, be they who they may, will be virtually in league with the offenders. And farther, if the journeymen who let in the sham rioters to destroy the property of their employers, be ever suffered to throw a shuttle again—if they be ever suffered to have any more than parochial support — the masters who employ them are greater scoundrels than those journeymen. We would just wish to put a question before we conclude. Had those journeymen who connived in the destruction of their employers' property, received any money in advance ? —lbid. DISTURBANCES IN SPITALFIELDS. TO THE EDITOR OF TUE TIMES. SlR,—Perceiving from your paper the proceedings now taking place in Spitalfields, will you allow me, as a well wisher of tha weavers, and of the working classes in general, to subtnit to them and your readers a few remarks? The weavers have now beep some time out of employ ment.ters can, 4 iirst. give low prices only. If the d e mand Business, however, begins to revive, The mar continues, or increases, competition must take place amongst the masters, who must bid against each other for workmen, and thus the prices paid the weavers would be gradually, but certainly, raised. The weavers, however, insist immediately en high prices; and not only so, but they proceed violently to attack the persons and destroy the property of those who offer to employ them at low prices. What will be the consequences? No master will give out wor k with the apprehension that it will be destroyed. High prices the masters cannot yet give, and they will be afraid to offer low ones. The workmen, instead of little work, will have none. 'I hey will have neither iow prices nor high prices. The manu facture will be driven from Spitalfields altogether, and r-4 d OP what then will become of the sufferipg ;:tpmande who Gave he us a Livelihood there? in i Pt h l C anchester,' ails fcu If, in conseinen,ce of these violent measures, the work is not done in Spitalheld , ' , ;t w 4 dpne , : mnyntaheatr i neigh- Louring iassprung towns, up : w oi be i r t e w , of ill years, b la e te dont We may place this matter in another point of view. Great app,rekensions are expressed of the influx of French goods. How is t i e j j to, he prevented ? Evidently by making our own gOods cheapiy---by care, skill, and im provement in our machinery and mode of roi.nufacture. But the viQl;mt me asures taken tend to prevent our making silks at at all ; or, if made, to make them dear, and there fore unequid to the competition. If wages are to be kept up by violence, and looms to he broken because they are of superior construction, can we expect to excel our neigh bours? It is hard to reason with suffering, and perhaps Dtarving, men, but when it is pointed out to them, must they not perceive that such steps are calculated directly to produce the very evils which they mistakenly attribute to free trade ? Those who by violent or other means raise the price here, compel the introduction of French silt goods. If the importation should hereafter increase, to whom will that increase be imputable ? The generous disposition of the public has been rnani fested by the subscriptions raised, and, in a striking de gree, by the large and splendid attendance at the recent concert. Who are the committee, or persons managing the appropriation of these funds? May they not be con sidered as trustees for the public, and ought not their in fluence to be exerted to guard the public peace, and to prevent a recurrence of the recent excesses ? The exten sive influence which your journal possesses over the public mind induces me to trespass on your pages in this instance, and I remain, Sir, your's respectfully, Garraway's, May 6. AN OBSERVER. We regret being obliged to state that the rioting in Manchester still continues. We refer our readers to a communication from that place, in another co lumn. The Magistrates, on Tuesday evening, issued a Proclamation, stating, in the preamble, " that the most daring riots have existed in the town of Manchester, during Monday, the 4th day of May instant, and the same hare been continued almost without interruption, and do still prevail to an alarm ing and dangerous extent, and the most atrocious acts of violence and destruction have been committed against the persons and property of individuals."— It would appear that on Tuesday the mob confined themselves to levying contributions, and only pro ceeded to acts of violence when they met with re sistance. When the rioting commenced on Mon day, the town was completely destitute of soldiers. On Tuesday it appears that Dragoon Guards and Foot Guards had arrived ; but the system of ex torting supplies met with little interruption; for as soon as the soldiers had passed, the mob com menced their exactions. The Ardwick Police and Special Constables, armed with cutlasses, by a determined and indiscriminate attack upon the first of the mob, succeeied in preventing their progress into Ardwick district, but this merely sent them into other streets. Our correspondent says, "it was melancholy to see with what avidity they grasped at the loaves which were given to them, and with what care they picked up, out of the mud upon the street, the smallest fragments which fell in the struggle to obtain a part of the bread. The miserably emaciated countenances of many of them shewed distinctly enough that their eagerness was not without cause." Of course the effect of these proceedings will be to aggravate the evil, because the country people will be afraid to bring provisions to market. But when poor creatures are starving, they are not in a condition to listen to reason. Means must be taken contemporaneously with the attempts to give effect to the laws to supply the more urgent necessities of the sufferers. It is greatly to be regretted that the temptation should have been afforded to the people, by the absence of all military force, to try their strength. It is always a danger our experiment to allow the mob to become ac quainted with their own force ; and a repression in the outset often prevents much mischief. A great manufacturing town like Manchester, inhabited by 200,000 people, and surrounded by adensely peopled neighbourhood, should never one moment be with out at least 500 soldiers. Yeomanry are a very im perfect substitute; first, because the people are al ways much more irritated against their masters and superiors than against soldiers; secondly, because the Yeomen are naturally intimidated, from knowing that they are marked, and that their properties, their wives and children, and relatives may be exposed to serious consequences on their account ; and lastly, because they do not possess the coolness which soldiers, from experience and training, may be ex pected to display in difficulties. There are many well-meaning people in this country who are us able to appreciate the changes which the last hun dred years, but more particularly the last forty, have wrought on the situation of this country. They talk of standing armies, as our forefathers did, who were spread over the face of the land, and who had comparatively little to apprehend from any distress occasioned by stagnation. A hundred years ago Manchester had not ten thousand inhabitants, Glasgow and Birmingham were little better than villages, and, excepting London, there was not a town in the island with more than thirty thousand inhabitants. Now the people are every where con gregated in immense masses. The periodical ab sence of employment, which is inseparable from manufacturing, plunges thirty or forty thousand persons in an instant into a state of dreadful suf fering. ls it to be supposed for one moment, that thirty or forty thousand persons brought in face of each other will tamely suffer destitution, while they see others enjoying plenty around them ? To guard against the paroxysms of despair, and prevent out rages which can only aggravate the distress of the sufferers, it is prescribed as well by a regard to the general safety, as by humanity to the sufferers, that every great manufacturing town should be con stantly garrisoned by soldiers. Instruct the people as much as you possibly can ; deal honestly by them; do not attempt to mock them by mystifica tions, the common vice of the higher classes of this country. It is the duty of the rich not to delude, but to instruct the poor. But instruction produces its effects at a distant period. Want and hunger are urgent, and must be met by imme diate measures. It is quite a mistake to suppose that distress is more frequent among manufacturers of late years, than at former periods. Let any man examine our domestic annals during the last century, commencing, for instance, with the reign of the first George, and he will find a constant succession of disturbances, among one class or other, of manufac turers. A change of fashion almost always carries with it distress to some class. When calicoes began to encroach on silks, the Spitalfields weavers used to tear the calicoes off women's backs, and to de stroy the works at Printfields. At one time all the clothiers, walkers, &c. in the West of England, were in arms against the use of stained linens. At another time the makers of coloured serges rose against the makers of white serges. But the whole manufacturing population bore then no proportion to the present numbers, and could easily be dealt with. If, however, even in the infancy of our manufactures, it wasnecessary to cbll in troops, what must it be now, when, in a single day, large cities may be in flames ? The following extract from " The Political Annals of 1718," exhibits in miniature the drama now act ing on a large scale:— About the middle of November, we were alarmed by advices from Exeter, and other places in Devonshire, im porting that several hundreds of weavers and. woolcombers, &c. were got together in a tumultuous manner. Other letters imported that the journeymen weavers had risen in great numbers, sometimes nine hundred in a body, and continued roving about from town to town, and insulting the master weavers and exporters of serges, particularly a t Tiverton, Collumpton, and Taunton, cutting in pieces their looms, breaking their jars of oil, &c. At Crediton, as the Portreeve of the place, who deals in serges, offered to read the Proclamation to disperse them, they knocked him down and beat him very severely, and did the like to the Mayor of Bradnedge, who is also a serge-manufac turer. They threatened to pull down the houses of several ex porters of serge' at Tiverton ; insomuch, that they we re obliged to send for some sailors from Topsham to defend them. Eighty soldiers being sent from Exeter, uj night to Tiverto n , an d se i ze d severa l o f t h em, who were b ererbrought to Exeter gaol. Their complaint was, that the great demand there was at present from Holland, &c for white serges, hindered their employment in the coloured serges, which is a different trade ; and the price of wool being risen, the master weavers of the coloured ' Srg which there was but a s ma ll d eman d a t that time) could not employ journeymen to have goods lie on their hinds, unles's they would work for lower wages. prdera were issued at the Secrkary of War'a Office for T te ginient of Foot, and the Regiments of Dragoon! of Bowles, Munden, and Tyrrell, to march into Devorl .. shire," &c. In short, throughout the whole of the last century there was hardly a year in which there were not r iotingl of manufacturers i n one d i str i ct or ot h er . Again and again have the Spitalfields weavers pro ceeded in bodies of thousands to the Houses of Lords and Commons, to intimidate the Members. As l on g ;is modes and fashions vary, and seasons vary so as to affect the ability of the purchasers=as long as foreign demands must vary from similar causes, so long must manufacturers be subject to periodical want of employm ent . Th e diff e r e nce be- tiro! TEn. Same pe- This riod last year. year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 2/38,650 199,120 London 26,726 21,£ 4 88 Glasgow 10,506 11,084 Total exported in 1829 Same period 1828 I EX MAUD. Previous. ly this ) ear. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. 701 11,536 1,090 16,451 237 30,015. 25,862. INSTItTCT OF SviDEnti.-4. small spider pimira Pfacipma, LyraEtr.T.) had spread its net he tween two neighbouring trees, at the height of about nine feet. The three principal points to which the supporting threads were attached formed here, as they usually do, an equilateral triangle. One thread was attached above to each' of the trees, and the web hung from the middle of it. To secure a third point of attachment, the spider had sus pended a small st o n e to o ne end of a thread ; and the b e ing heavier than the spid er it se lf, serve d i n p l ace lower fixed point, and held th e we b exten d e d. Th e so li tf t o t tn i h e ee' pebble was five feet from the earth. The whole was observed, and is described by Professor WEBER, of Leip sin.--Archice fiir Anatomie,lB27. tween the present and former times is, that the' ' number out of employment at any one time bears a smaller proportion now to the whole number em ployed. We are in a state, however, very different from any other country, owing to the prodigious congregations of people in one spot. Scotland alone contains as many large towns as all Germany.— Morning Chronicle. The distress of the people about Manchester has reached that point which renders men reckless of their lives, and as willing to run the risk of the gal lows in order to satisfy their vengeance, as to return peaceably and quietly to their work on the terms which they propose. " The populace," says a pri vate correspondent at Manchester, " appear to be driven by their privations, which have long been great, to the utmost point of desperation; and at the Meeting which took place on Monday, one of the speakers, in addressing the persons assembled, is reported to have said—' You have now many of you reached the point of starva tion—we have been passive long enough—let us now proceed to action; and if any one is afraid of hanging, let him turn A general shout of We are not afraid,' arose from the assembled multitude ;" and the proceedings which ensued, bore ample testi mony that there was no one afraid of the punishment to which the speaker alluded as the penalty of their conduct. At this moment the most breathless anxiety prevails throughout Manchester, as it must do here, to know what the result of such daring outrages will be; but such is the dreadful state of the town and neighbourhood, as well as the grounds for melan choly foreboding, that no one seems disposed ever to hint at it ! Of the causes which have produced such an alarming state of things, we have already offered what we deem a correct explanation. But the cry is for bread !- - and it is the want of bread —the reduction of wages below the point of ne cessary maintenance—which is the immediate cause of all the disturbances, and which nothing but a supply of bread will effectually quell. Is it too much, then, to ask the Legislature to revise the Corn Laws—to reduce the duty on the import of foreign grain, and thereby supply our manufacturing population, not only with cheaper food, but also with a new market for the disposal of the produce of their labour ? " To this complexion things must come at last ;" and the sooner, as Mr. Huskisson well observed on Tuesday last, that his Majesty's Ministers determine to follow, instead of attempting to impede, the progress of public opinion, in this matter, the better. Those who carried the Catholic Bill in spite of all the opposition that was offered to it, need not surely be afraid of trying a revision of the Corn Laws.—Morning Advertiser. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. TUESDAY, MAY s.—High water 30 minutes past twelve o'clock.—Wind South.—Arrived the Alfred, Symonds, from Seville ; Jane, , from Charlestown ; Cathe rine, Hogart, from St. Vincent ; Julia, --, from Ostend ; Union, Richards, from Antwerp; Lydia, Wil liams, from Charlestown ; and Pomona, Major, from Charlestown. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-Zeno, Lawson, for Buenos Ayres; Mary Ann, , for Buenos Ayres ; Meelzalc, Witteven, for Ghent ; Morgenstern, Appel, for Arch angel ; Orion, Campbell, foi Dantaic ; Peace, Bruce, for Quebec; Irton, Gaitskill, for Montreal; Mentor, Webb, for New York ; Minerva, Putnam, for New York; Wm. Baker, , for New ()duns ; London, Brown, for New York. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Adair's _ 28s. Od, Beaumont 26 6 22 0 Killingworth 29 9 LiddelPs 24 3 Pelaw Percy East Percy Main 27 8 Tanfield Lea Townley 27 6 Willington WallsEndßewicke&Co. 32 0 Ditto 28 6 Ditto Burraton 29 6 Ditto Carr and 26 3 Ditto Clarke and 6 Ditto Hilda 26 9 Ditto Heaton 32 0 Ditto Northumberland 29 0 Ships at market, 82%--Shl K E'l .—May 6. Walls En d Neennarcb.. 30s. 6d. Ditto Peareth 26 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 97 6 Ditto Russell's 31 6 Ditto Walker 31 6 Neshani Alain 29 0 Walls Did Hetton 33 3 Walls End Lambton—. 32 3 Walls End Ly0n5....... 31 0 Walls End Stewart's —33 3 Culla Drim 27 0 Fordel Main • 33 0 Hartley 31 0 Llangennech Coal 40 0 Silkstone Field and Co. 27 9 Tanfield Trader 28 6 Beaumont 12 0 Lambton small 17 0 Londonderry small 19 0 ips sold, 45—Unsold, 37k. COUNTRY CORN MARKE" TS DURING THE WEEK. Per Quarter. Abingdon Andover Birmingham Bridport Cirencester Faringdon Guildford Henley Hereford ---... Highworth Maidenhead ... Oakingham Reading Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Warminster Wheat. 1 Barley. s. to s. 57 84 I. to I. 29 38 se ss 32 39 30 34 36 40 30 35 31 40 38 45 32 42 28 33 30 26 28 37 34 40 37 40 34 38 40 42 SO 36 28 36 SO 42 30 37 36 44 CHELTENHAM MARKET.—May 5. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pei lb. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 0 Laud) Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay Si. 10s. to 31. 15s. per ton. Oats, 1. to Y. 21 39 24 36 26 34 Beane. IL 11, - 41 - 54 - 44 - 42 - 41 - 58 d. to d. n 8 6 71 6 8 0 0 6 71 LEWES MARKET.—May 5. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 16 0 to .C 4 0 0 iidditto — - 312 Barley Oats, New 1 3 Pease l'lo Oil Cake, Ner► l2 0 o --- 69 $ 0 o 1 5 0 o 2 0 0 0 per thousand. HULL MA RK ET.—May 5. The supply of Wheat from the fanners falls off, and the best runs have realized today Is. per quarter above the rates of last week, with a free demand for the secondary qualities. For fo. reign Wheats we have decidedly more inquiry, and considerable firmness is shown by the holders ; ls. to 2s. per quarter more was generally demanded, and where sales were effected, an advance of Is. was obtained. Old Wheats are also better sale. Several parcels of lock Wheats have changed hands during the week at our quotations. For good foreign Oats we have more inquiry, belt at no amendment in prices ; there are several buyers of lock, but the prices offered are lower than the holders will submit to. Nothing doing in Beans, Pease, or Barley. Rapeseed continues very dull, and very little business transacting. Linseed without alteration. Wheat, Old 06s. 70s. —s. Now —s. 60s. 70s. Foreign —s. 70s. 725. ......In bond... —s. —a. —s. Oata, Poland —s. 20s. 24a Oki —s. —s. 265. Small or Feed.... —a. 12s. 18s —s. —a 21s. 225. 24e. Foreign —B. Barley. Norf. Ac Suf --s 265. 28e. Line & Wold —a. 288. 30s. Foreign —L 30s. 325. Beans 345. 3`is 38s. Foreign --s. 368. 38s. Pease, White --s. 40s. 420. Grey --s. 325. , 345. Tares —s 344.365. Foreign 28s. 325. —a. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —/. 301. 311. EXETER MAI Beef (score) 9s. 6d. I.os. 6d. 'Mutton (lb ) ...... 0 5 —0 5i Ve A and t amb 0 3—o 6 1 1 , rk 0 5 —0 7 Turkeys (eat h) 6 o—B 0 Ducks (coup , e) 4 o—s 6 Fowls 3 6 —4 6 ICE I'S. —May COTTON WOOL, LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPI Wheat (IJushel) 9s. 9d. 108.6 d Barley 4 6 —5 0 Oats 3 3—3 8 Beans 6 0 —6 6 B .tter (lb) 1 o—l 2 Eggs (20) 0 o—l 0 Potatoes (peck) 1 2—l 4 'ORTS. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Cloc• I PERIAL PARLIAMENT THIS EVENING. HOUSE OF LORDS. CAZLETT'S DIVORCE BILL. Counsel were heard, witnesses examined, and the eri' deuce ordered to be printed on this Bill. Sir ALEXANDRA GRANT and others, brought np th e City Canal Bill, two Private Naturalization Bills. 8114 several Private Bills. Also, the Scottish Sesin Registir and Manchester Rail-way Bills, the House of Conti:a:lt being agreed to the amendments proposed by 'um' 1 Lordships. • CORN LAWS. Lord KING presented a petition from the WW I 61 Marylebone, praying for an alteration in the Corn Lam Several Bills were read a third time and passed; elle,— a second time, and ordered to be committed ; and the Lordships adjourned at a Quarter past Five o'clock: 'HOUSE OF COMMONS. Mr. R.'COI.BORNE reported to the House, that the illness of General Sir G. Boyle rendered it 'necessarl f °l. the Dover Election Committee to adjoern till to-morroly morning. A Medical Gentleman stated that be wo uld b° ted able to attend to-morrow morning, and leave was gra n for the Committee to sit to-morrow. The attack le ss described as of a bilious nature. Lord ALTHORPE presented a petition from Leicestst and Northampton, against the Smithfield Market Bill. Mr. Alderman WAIT LIMAN moved that the Committee .113 of St. Dunstan's Church Bill should have leave to o ` ,, e their report on or before the 18th inst. Mr. C. PA LLNIE R presented a petition from the SoeietZ for Suppressing Cruelty to Animals, praying that a Bs' may be introduced to abolish the practice of bull -baiting . Mr. KING presented a petition from several parishe s in the county of Cork against the Subletting Act. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from the boot, and shoemakers of Liverpool against the importation 0' foreign shoes. After a few words from General GASCOYNE, the Pe- tition was ordered to be printed. Mr. HUSKISSON presented a petition from a Mr. meat cn o n f n e t l h e L t y a x G e s o o N n i p n r h e a s h e n i t t e d e d h a o u s p e e s t Horwood, of Liverpool, complaining of the unequal u se* " ition from J. Silk Throwster, of Worcester, against reduction duty on thrown silk. Mr. W. HOR'fON presented petitions from two Emi gration Societies, praying for means to assist them to emigrate. Mr. ROBINS presented a petition from eleven Silk Throwsters of Manchester, against the Silk Duties B ill ' and praying for compensation for their losses. Mr. DU GDALE presented a petition from Birmingha m ' against the renewal of the East India Charter. Mr. BULLER presented a petition from persons c on " cerned with the Pilchard Fishery, praying for a continu ance of the original bounty. Lord L. GOWER brought in a Bill for amending the Statute relating to Offences against the Person. Bea d first time.—Also a Bill to amend the Acts for the e ns couragement of the Irish Fisheries. Sir H. PARNELL and Mr. H. PARNELL said a f elf oSfcotutt; words, and this Bill was read a first time. Sir M. S. STEWART presented a petition from cer tain Manufacturers from Hamilton, Lanarkshire, praying the House to consider their situation. He also prelee7 a petition from the Emigration Society of Glasgow, r il l' ing for assistance to enable them to emigrate. Mr. HUME presented a petition from the Borough O f Culross, against the Gaol Enlargement (Scotland) Bil k Also, a petition from the Carpenters and Joiners of Moe chester. He was sorry that none of his Majesty's Ministers were present, as the petitioners stated they were willing s° work, but could not get it to do. They prayed for thee' peal of the Corn Laws, as they considered it would no only benefit them, but the country at large. Ordered to be printed ; also a petition to the same effect from Nevi ton-upon-Ayr. On the petition being brought up, Mr. WELLS said, tbat he should oppose this petition , if it was contended that the present distresses of the people was attributable to the Corn Laws. He denied that such distresses were in any way owing to those Laws. Mr. D. W. HARVEY said he could not suffer the ob servatiens of the Hon. Member for Maidstone to P O5 without remarking that every one must know that the Corn Laws were calculated to affect the condition of the labouring classes. He trusted that some alteration would be speedily made to relieve the labouring classes from the distress which the Corn Laws was cal" culated to increase. Mr. WELLS said something in explanation which WO inaudible in the gallery. tbs Mr. WHITMORE concurred in the sentiment° Hon. Member for Colchester. He had always ° P, i ed P7 ed the Corn Laws, because he conscientiously b eie de r that they were the parents of much of the distress tto which the country was now suffering. Mr. P. THOMSON contended that the distress wa s mainly attributable to the defective laws by which the int portation of Foreign Grain had been for many years re* g ulated. Mr. M. FITZGERALD considered that it would be eX- . tremely inconvenient to go into any general discu,sion of II question of so much moment as the Corn Laws, particular l y as the system of averages was calculated to deceive the public. Such, he knew was the case at present, as re' spected Lancashire, where so much distress prevails. Mr. HUME said that the system of free trade had be gun at the wrong end ; for the House should in the first instance have commenced with the article of corn, the most important of all others. It was preposterous to keep up the price of corn, when so many poor persons were starving. Mr. Alderman WAITHMAN said he wholly differed from the Hon. Member for Aberdeen, but should reserve what he had to say until a future opportunity. Colonel SIBTHORPE called the attention of the House to an Advertisement in au Irish Newspaper, the Dublig Evening Post, stating that the " Cathedral Catho lic Church of Newry would be consecrated, on the 6th of May, by the Most Reverend the Archbishop o f Dublin, assisted by other most Reverend Bishops, and that the sermon would be preached by another most Reverend Bishop, &c." Ile said this was the fruit of this detestable Bill recently brought into this House, and he wished to know from the Right Hon. Secretary opposite if this was not in direct variance with the Bth Clause of that detestable Bill ? He thought Ministers were bound to see if that advertise ment had the sanction of the Catholic Clergy, and if sof steps should be taken for subjecting them to the provisions of the clause he had referred to the penalty for the assun3P tion of those tittles by them was 1 00/.—(Laughter.) Mr. Secretary Peel was in the House but made n a answer. (LEFT SITTING.) [MR. O'Cortmmt..—lt was rumoured, and generally believed, that Mr. O'Connell would attempt t o take his seat this evening, but up to the time of our going to pr he had not presented himself ; and it was reported that be had disclaimed the intention to Mr. Tyndall LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 6. BICKNELL V. ELLIS. This was an action for money had and received, to re cover a sum of 901., which, as it was alleged, the de fendant unjustly detained from the plaintiff. It was tried before Mr. Baron Garrow, at Chelmsford, and a verdict passed for the defendant. Mr. COMYN now moved the Court to set the verdict aside, and grant a new trial.—Rule granted. • EX-PARTE BUTLER. An application was made to the Court, for a writ of habeas corpus, to bring up the bedy.of Butler from Bed ford gaol, to be bailed. Butler had been committed on an indictment of felony in poisoning a pig, and the magistrate* * refused to bail him. It was ordered that the writ should issue along ,with a certiorari. 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