The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-04 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIIF. PU:ILTC JOURNAL:3 The Cork trials have ternintated in a manner which at first could not have been expected by the law officers, or it would have been by no means discreet in them to advise an extramdi nary commission. After the dismissal of the second jury for want of unanimity, tw9 more p-isoners were put upon their trial, and without much hesitation acquitted, by a jury to a man composed of Protestants. After this result of a case, supported by the same witnesses, and the sane scrt of correhoretions as those which had previously been brought . forward, and with various effect, the Solicitor-General declarer! that it ~ vatt not his intention to put the remain hto 14 heiso-e-s on their defence, but that he p ,14, ilAti his colleagues were satisfied to let them tint on bail until the next assizes. Mr. Do }testy and Mr. O'Connell each descanted, in earnest and impressive language, on the duty of the peasantry to respect the law—to ab stain front criminal designs and associations ; air! Mr. O'Cooneil particularly conjured his hearers to take warding from the lesson they bed just received, of the perils inseparable from all confederacies, into which men of rash and impetuous character are so ofien se &teed by perfidious hirelings, who instigate and tixasperate, only to make a profit •by betraying them. Of the existence of an extensive cousin rasy to murder, when we recollect the collate:al proofs of it, afforded by the known attempts to •tse h) lay and shoot Messrs. Creagh and Low, there need not, we fear, be any doubt enter tained, whatever may be felt as to the instilli cient3 of the evidence by which the prisoners wlitre asught to lie implicated in it. • '1 here theref(at unquestionably, ground for lamenta :jou) that no judicial light has yet been thrown fin the parties who formed this banditti. We do not at present wish to speak strongly upon the considerations which ought to determine the fate of those men who were convicted under the fioat prosecution. The Judges appear to have left for execution four individuals, found guilty en evidence quite identical with that on which other parties lieve been subsequently tried and acquitted I If the country be not satisfied (we vestion not the motives of the Judges, but we toilets:tie Government will not act precipitately) of tho guilt of a condemned citizen, the great end el' all punishment, viz. the vindication of public iustice, fails ; and a re-action favourable to the victim . , if it does not even extend to the crone itself, is cure very speedily to l'ollow.—l itna. it quoting a few days ago the report which eppeared in a German Paper, that the Sultan seas about to send an Extraordinary Ambassador to St. Petersburg!), to supplicate a diminution si the enormous indemnity imposed upon Tur key liy the treaty of Adrianople, we remarked, that if his Highness sent any Ambassador, it most he an exii - aordinary one, as the Sublime Potte never vet humbled itself so far as to appoint innbassks to infidel Courts. The ob servation would have been correct had it been H o:iv:id to the case of resident ambassadors, but seithout this limitation the expression was inac curate, as the Sublime Porte, in seasons of clan gor and alarm, has sometimes forgotten its an tient maxims, and abjured a portion of its Lana tiNi pride. Hence at the crisis of its fate, whet the French Directory en one side, and the Eng• lish Government on the other, were urging it to hostilities against their respective antagonists, it Rtnn special missions to Paris and to London to eaplain its inventions, and to justify its neutral conduct. The Ambassador appointed to the French Republic for this object remained in Fraece during tile time that the Directory was preparing its celebrated expedition to Egypt, a:A had many interviews V.'lll Prince Talley rand, then Minister for Foreign Affairs, to as ceitain the purpose and destination of that ar notaieet. At One time this crafty Minister pre ceoiled ignorance of its uhimate object ; cot an other, deelared that it was intended to assist tile *folks in overpowering their greatest enemies, the Kitig,lits of Malta ; at allQ: her, that it was to pot down Inc Beys, and to restore the fertile tea - titer y Of Egypt to Turkey ; and lastly, that whhoto, auy hostility to Turkey, the French Re pill:lie were to seize on that province as a station trout whence they could most conYeniently attack the English power in the East. Though not very quick• sighted politicians, or very apt scholars, the Ottoman Porte, with the aid of a British Mh.ister, diseovered the absurdity of these flimsy Cretexts, tied recalled its Ambassador, at the sa.ne thee declining - war against the swinish in fvl:2lL. ct France. On subsequent occasion (in .1805) the Sublime Porte sent an extraordinary Ambassador to Paris, to resew the peace with Napol eon , and received in return an Ambassa dor from the Emperor, who was the present de ploy, General Sebasliani: In these three recent cases, and in some others which may have escaped our notice, the Turkish mission was special. The Ambassador of the Porte received the honours of a solemn entry, because at Con stantinople a similar solemnity is observed in the receptioo of a new envoy of the first class, but he was not instructed to represent his Sovereign on any occasion except in the transaction of the particular business on which he was sent. He %y es never consequently considered afixed resi dent envoy of the highest class, representing his Sovereign on all occasions of ceremony, and empowered to discuss with foreign Governments on a footing of equality any subject that related to the interest of his own country. It is need less indeed to argue this question, as we have bel'ore us the decisive fact . that at the present moment there is net a Turkish Ambassador at any Corot of Christian Europe. The reason for maintaining this solitary dignity, or continu ing ti:is extraordinary self-exclusion, is obvious fet nn the nature of the Ottoman Government, aod the maxims of diplomatic intercourse amottg civillzed states. The inviolability of the per- Sen t• invested with the sacred character anti per fermiog the important functions of ambassadors, covoys, or diplomatic agents, is one of the first conditions of their existence. Yet it was the practice of the Sublime Porte till lately (and due power of its renewal has not yet been disclaimed) to retain diplomatic agents as hostages for the good conduct of the Government which they represented, and to send them as prisoners to the Seven Towers. Among civilized states a ceremonial has been agteed upon, which admits of perfect reciprocity, and removes the possibility of any insult or humiliation from the representa tive character. The Ottoman Government has never yet condescended to make any legalized abatement of its insolence towards its oppressed subjects in favour of its foreign Christian allies. " Every solemnity -at which the Foreign Minis ters asslst in Turkey," says Mr. Eton, with perhaps some exaggeratione" occasions - them a new species of humiliation, in which they are led from indignity to indignity, a spectacle to the stupid populace, who insult them with the coarsest language - as they pass, and measure, by this scale, Oe.greatUess of th e i r Sovereign. The Mi nister who .15 to obtain an. ,au. il:ence of the Sultan must present himself at the Porte 1w four o'clock in the morning, where, after three or four tedious hours occupied in unmeaning ceremonies, he is infinmed that he may be per mitted to see the resplendent face of the Emperor of the world (Gehen Padicba), who among his other pompons titles bears that of Alunum Punzati, ' Refuge of the World ;' after which he is seated in a solitary corner of the Divan, on the left, near the door, and tie Vizier sends to the Sdtan a short note tolli;sh, which is in substance—' that the Li n:lel (Ghiaztr ) of scch a Court, after having been s::!liciently fed and decently clothed, by the special Dace of his Sublime INlajesty, humb!y supplicates leave to come and lick the dust beneath his illu3- tiions throne.'" Such iudinities to Foreign Ministers, corn , hined wvh the ceremony of a lock-up in the Seven 'Powers, added to other barbarities which ..ve tine not room to enumerate, have hitherto neluded " our ancient ally" from the European community of nations, or from the benefits (whatever they may be) of the diplomatic system o f European intercourse. If the Ottomans, however, remain much longer west of the Bos phorus, they must conform in this', as in other respects, to the flishion of more civilized nations, and we shil not despair of seein , - , the movements of a Turkish Envoy as regularly ' registered in our Court Calendar as those of any other Am bassador. As solemn or public mries arc never now observed (accord:ng to Baron de Martens) except in the case of a Turkish Ambassador, we shall make no apology far quoting from the Annual Register of 1795, the account of the entry t o which we have above alluded . Excellency the Turkish Ambassador made his so-long-delayed pnblic entry. The Ambassador aed his stoic, effer breakfasting with Sir G. How ard, at Chelsea Hospital, came to town in grand In the coach in which he rode \V‘l3 that used b the King in ;enieg to S:. Paul's Cathedral ; the st4te horses were tex in number, very rieLly caparisoned; four of them were those sent as' a pre sent to the King from the Grend Seigien-; the other two having died on the:: passa:,e, were sup• plied by two from the King's stud. The Amb is s wore a green robe, and turban nearly of the same colour, studded with jewels. The concourse of people m 4 the occasion was so great, that when they arrived at S!..James's it was with difficulty the Horse and Foot Guards who wended the proces sion could clear the way. E,n it of the eaniages was drawn by six horses, decorated with riband., and attended by two or three servants in their Court liveries. The Ambaseader addressed himself to the King in the language of his country, which was translated by Mr. l'ers'ani, the Dragoman; and the same ceremony wits: rrpeated to the Queen ; after which the drawing-room commenced, and the busi ness of the Court proceeded as usud. The pre sents brought over by the Ambassador were defl ected at Sr. James's. They consist of—to the King, a pair of gold pistols, the stocks aed barrels solid gold; four Arabian horses, with gold bridles, and sad,lles trinened with gold : and a gold dagger, with belt orremented with pearls and diamonds.— To the Queen and Priecesse::, a chest of silks, en:- hreidered with gold ; a plume of feathers for the head-dress, supported with a band of solid gold, and the top of the feathers ornamented with dia cooed; : to the Prince of Wales, Duke of Portland, aril Lord Grenville, chests of eilks."—Birl. Three-fourths at least of the business disposed of at Petty Sessions, throughout the country, arise cut of the administration of the Game Laws; the remaining fourth arises out of the Poor and Bastardy Laws. However the punish ment of poachers is the business of Petty Ses sions par excellence. In an account of the pro ceedings at the Chelmsford Petty Sessions, on Friday last, which we have copied from the Essex Herald, there is, as usual, a fair propor tion of .poaching cases. In one of them two labourers are convicted in the full penalty of 25/. each, and, in default of payment, a distress war rant was issued. What a e wish to notice is, the monstrous absurdity of imposing the same penalty on a labouring man that would be im posed on a man of ample means. If any million naire from the Stock Exchange were to be caught snorting, without a proper title, he would, at most, be subjected to a penalty of 25/. And here we hare an English labaurcr amerced in a sum equal to Ilia whole yearly income ! There is not, perhaps, from one end of England to the other, a labourer possessed of 251., or able to raise 25/. if his life were at stake. Yet, and the mask of a pretended equality, one man es capes with the payment of a sum, the loss of which he hardly feels ; while the other, from ina hility to raise even a fractional part of it, is made to buffer a severe punishment. In these en lightened days we laugh at the simplicity of our farefathers, who endeavoured to secure life by fixing a strn, which should be paid by the per son who took it away. I3ut are the pecuniary penalties of the English law a whit more Ist; ional Fill all men become equary rich, it is impos sible before-hand to impose a pecuniary penahy that shall be in the least equal. the same . weight which would hardly be felt by the Brob dignagnan, would crush the Lilliputian to death. Even a sum imposed according to income, would be unsuitable, because one man possesses an estate in fee simple, which he can sell or mortgage, and after paying the fine of a year's rent, possesses an income not sensibly - diminished, while a fine of a year's income of a professional man possessed of no property , would involve him in complete ruin. All the sensibility of the English law is for flee class of rich men. The fines which figured so con spicuously in the Bill of Rights, did not after all amount to half a year's income of the indi viduals on whom they were imposed. Yet a labourer and his family have their feelings as well as their superiors. The yearly tear and wear of an unmarried labourer, supposing him perfectly sober, and in full employment, is equal to within two or three pounds of his yearly gains. The value of this sum for all the years he is able to labour, according to any table of probabilities, would not amount to 25/. To a labourer 251. is therefore more than a sum of five trillions of pounds sterling would be to the Duke of Buccleugh or the Marquis of Stafford. It will be said, perhaps, that pecuniary pe nalties in the case of the poor resolve themselves in reality into something else—that is, you im pose nominally one punishment on a man for which you know another must be substituted. What base hypocrisy ! Why not at once de termine the punishment ? 0 no, because then, some rich man. might be accidentally caught in the meshes of our net, and then an outcry would be made against the whole system. The object is to give full scope to the vindictive feelings of Game-preserving Justices of Peace ; and for this purpose pecuniary penalties arc just the thing.—Morning Chro 12 wk. We remember hearing the late Lord Liver pool observe, in his place in the House of Lords, that one of the causes of the backward state of Ireland was the transference to that country of the Institutions of England. His Lordship by no means intended to pass sentence of condemnation on the Institutions of his own country, of which he was but too indiscriminate an admirer; but he conceived that the Institu thins of one country may be suited to the social condition of its inhabitants, and not suited to that of the inhabitants of another country. Phi losophers arc pleased to describe man as regu larly progressing (to U SC an Americanism) from the savage state to higher and higher stages of civilization. However this may he, it is certain that if any two nations differing in race and lan guage are taken at any one stage in their progress, they will be fimund to exhibit numerous points of dissimilarity. The einly history of all nations is involved iii obscurity, and therefore it is not easy to assign the causes of this dissimilarity. Thus, for instance, the Nor wegian and the Scotch Highlanders, living in nearly the same latitude, in countries of the same mountainous character, intersected in nearly the same manner by ilitha, have in all pe riods of their known history been as different From each other in their habits and character as any two races of men can well be. From the earliest period the Norwegian has been a navi gator, and indulged his fondness for the sea to the neglect of agriculture. Time Hinhlander, again, like his brother, the native liishmain detests the sea. In an Essay on the Present State of the Highlands and Islands of Scot land, by John Anderson, Esq. in Blackwood's Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, No. 7, (November), the writer exclaims—" To what purpose has Providence supplied our coasts with vast shoals of the finest fish, if the indolence of man prevents his availing himself of the boon ? We see our waters robbed of their wealth by foreigners, and yet we stand listless speennors. Admirers, detractors, all agree in telling this to our Highlanders, and yet what have they effected by so doing ? I am aware that the Highlander: , , generally speaking, have an antipathy to the sea, es they have to manufactures." Men may live in the same country for centuries, without resem bling each other, as we see in the various nations inhabiting the same soil in Turkey, and in the striking contrast between the French Colonies of Lower Canada and their neighbours of New England. Man is the creature of society, and his character in every country is modified by the peculiarities in the social circumstances in which he is educated. The habits and character, then, of every people being in many respects peculiar to them, their Institutions are always, either in theory or in the working, modified by their pe culiarities. The transference, then, per saltunz, of Institutions, whether good or bad (because we are far from wishing to contend that the institutions of a people are good merely because they are not borrowed) from one nation to another, without anxious and careful inquiry into the peculiarities of the na tion to which it is wished to transfer any of them, with a view to the -rejection of what is unsuitable, and changes amid modifications cor responding with time circumstances of the new country, will in all cases be productive of great injury, and retard the improvement of those for whose benefit they are intended. When the Saxona invaded England, they seem to have pro ceeded in somewhat, the Szteei manner as the Norway rat liae, proceeded with the old British rat ; and time whole country, with the exception of a few remote districts, became completely Saxon. The next invasion, the Norman, was merely a tranference of a few adventurers into a country in a state of considerable advancement with respect to cultivation, as witness Domes day Book. Toe invasion was by a vassal of a country torn by feudal anarchy ; and Normandy, so far from being what England was to Ireland, soon became a dependent on the greater country of England, which became more than a match for France. Had Normatidy been a more powerful country than England, it is probable that, instead of the few invaders becoming Eng lish in a generation or two,:, constant succe,sion of adventurers, backed by the country of the invaders, would have either destroyed the Saxons, as the Saxons destroyed the Britons, or would have kept themselves apart, employing themselves incessantly in warfare with the na tives, after the manner of the English in Ire la ind. Well m'el t Mr. O'Connell exclaim, in one of his speeches, accursed be the day the Eng lish first set foot in Ireland, for the invasion of the English was, of all conceivable invasions, the very worst for Ireland that could have taken place. From the superiority in point of strength of the English, the Irish could never hope to master the invaders, who were constantly recruit ed by successions of adventurers. Again, the disparity in point of strength was not so great as to enable the English to obtain a mastery over the natives. In this way, down to the days of our most esteemed classics, the English merely occupied a small portion of the country, form ing as it were only a garrison in Ireland ; and the Irish preserved their old habits, and lived under their old laws. When the English suc ceeded by the defeat of Tyrone in obtaining pos session of the whole island, their institutions were forced on a people for whom they were cer tainly very little adapted ; and it is true, as was observed by Lord Liverpool, that the backward state of the country is mainly attributable to these institutions. One of time English Institu tions—Jury trial —supposes indifference on the part of the Jurors. But one of the peculiarities of Irish society is clanship, whiCh renders an in different Jury an impossibility. In the present day the influence of clanship is powerfully felt in Ireland, independently of time great and marked division between the English intruders and the Irish natives. In Ireland a Jury trial has al ways, therefore, been a mockery ; the circuna stances which render this mode of trial (rude, cer tainly, at best) compatible with the ends of justice, having no existence. We have a cud ' ous account from Sir John Davis, oldie manner in which this Institution operated, in the first Assizes held in the conquered country, after time destruction of Tyrone ( Valancey's Collectanea, No. I.)—Speakin g of the county of Monaghan, he says—" One rand Jury was so well chosen, as they found with good expedition all the bills of indictment true ; but on the other side, the Juries that were impannelled fbr trial of the prisoners did acquit them as fast, and found them not guilty ; which, whether it were done for favour or for fear, it is hard to judge ; for the whole county, consisting of three or four names M'Kena, M.Cabe, only, namely, and O'Connolly, the Chief was ever of one of those names, and of those names the Jury did consist, as it was impossible to try him but by his kinsmen ; and therefore it is probable that the malefactors were acquitted for favour ; but, on the other part, we were induced to think that fear might be the cause ; for as much as the poor people seemed very unwilling to be sworn of juries, alleging that if they condetnned any man, his friends in revenge would rob, or burn, or kill them for it : and that the like mischief had happened to divers jurors since the last Session holden there ; such is t he barbarous malice and impiety of these people." Ireland is as unfit for juries now as it was then. Saying no:hing of the tribes and clans exhibiting themselves in factions, the aim and object of Aid' are unintelligible to a Saxon, there is the grand division of the inha bitants into Gentry and Peasants, hostile to each other from a variety of considerations. In the infancy of Jury Trials in England, the Petty Jurors were usually the liberi homines, the Franklins, a numerous class of independent men in every county, of whom we have the re mains in the Statesmen of the North of England. A Jm-y must, therefore, either be landlords or peasants. A Jury of peasants would not render the purest justice to landlords, and what jus tice can peasants expect from a Jury of land lords ? In either case, we abandon men to their natural enemies. The anxiety to have Protestants on Juries trying the coin- Inon peoi:le is resolvable into the eircuin s!ance that the class of landlords are generally Protestant , , for religion has no more to do with the business than the man in the moon. There can be no cotrective in public opinion in Ire land, for there is no public opinion. There is the opinion of the landlords and the opinion of the peasants. fie who has the opinion of the one in his favour has the disapprobation of the other. Sheriffs, and all the machinery of Justice, in so far as election is concerned, are partizans. The first great improvement in Ire land would be, to witinhem both landlords and peasants from alt power of attacking each other through Juries, and to appoint upright men of good character and high attainments, to admini ster justice without the aid of Juries. The people themselves, though they can have Jury trials un der the Assistant Barristers, always prefer the Assi,,tant Barrister without a Jury. Another institution of England, a barbarous one even here, is quite a pest in Ireland—Justices of Peace. A Justice of Peace in Ireland is a Judge in his own cause, unchecked by any adverse pub lic person. Impartiality is the very first requi site in the administration of justice, and we would as soon expect a thief to do justice be tween honest men and his own class, as a land owner to do justice between himself and a class to whom he is always hostilely opposed. Go verument should, therefore, if it wished to re concile the people to the administration of Jus tices, take all power from the hands of one parts, and name in every district independent men to judge between the parties. This step is essential to the putting au end to feuds. We have not now leisure to pursue the subject fur ther, but we shall return to it.—/bid. the special Commission for the trial of the prisoners at Cork has terminated its labours, as will be seen from an account in another part of our Paper, and terminated them in a manner which, while it will, we hope, convince the guilty of the determination of the Government to punish crime, whether committed by one or many, will also prove to the people of Ireland, that justice will he tempered with mercy, when mercy ought to form a component part of it. The Crown might, widoubtedly, have proceeded to the trial of, those prise , ners who were discharged on bail ; but Pnxious only to maintain the public peace, and to prove to the country that such was its sole desire, it wisely ceased to prosecute at the very moment when prosecution would have defeated its object.— Morning Advertiser. DISTRESSING NARRATIVE. By the arrival of the New Zealander, Cap tain Clarke, the following distressing narrative has arrived, viz.:— " DAY OF ISLANDS, MARCH, 1829. ' On the 2(ith of February I sailed from a har bour in the Bay of renty, called Touronga, for Wakafang, a act tlemeut rOiont 40 miles ca=t of the shove-named port, for the purpose of procuring bogs, having been trading there some time previous, when I had the most friendly ititercom se with the natives. On this my last visit to Wahafang, riot having more then '2O hogs to cure, and anxious to save. time, I enehored under the island of Matora, for the purpose of cleaning and selting them, taking with me the chief of Walsafang to conduct the essel there, myself not knowing the anchorage. On Monday, the 2d of March, at day-light, I en ;peed the said chief and fair men to assist in land ing and cleaning the hogs, wishing to get to sea that evening. About one r'. at., the Mate not corn tug off as I expected, 1 went on shore in a small canoe, With two men, leaving the second mate and three men on board, the chief in question being then on beard, and eight or nine men alongside. On my reaching shore, 1 saw an old chief and a Bay of Islands fellow sit: inn on the sand. I did not like the ap pearance of this Bey of Islands rascal, having had some trouble with him before. We were about to leave the shore, when the mete discovered the hat chet to be taken away, and came to ask me if I had sent for it ? This gave me some alarm, and before we could launch the boat we heard musket firing on board the brig. The boat wes now in the water; ler on looking I found that the oars were taken away, and, to our great surprise, saw the old chief walking off with them. Some of the crew ran after him, and fortunately succeeded in gettieg them; but before we could get the boat tinder command, we were fired at from behind the rocko, and a party of natives running out to the water's edge, followed the boat along the sand, firing at us. We made for the 'nig as fast as possible, but found it impossible to board her, not having a musket in the boat. At this time the br'g was in the possession of the na tives, two of our men shot dead, and two large canoes, with from 90 to 100 men making for the vt'!s- Hav:ng only three oars in the bout, we pulled as fast as circumstances would permit for Touronga, knowing that Capt. Clarke was then in the New Zerz tinder. We reached Touronga next morning at five, found the schooner, and informed Capt. Clarke of cur misfortune. Capt. Cla:ke immediately cleared his vessel, and at noon put to sea, bar, from the light wind., did not teach the spot where we left the brig until two P.M. the next day. We found the brig lying at anchor close in shore under the autin, upon which we stood in for her, and at three p.m. came to with the schooner. We boarded the brig under arms, and found a most hot rible spectacle; the decks covered with clotted blood and hair, where the un fortunate sufferers' heads had been dashed to pieces T. Having dented the decks from lumber, with Capt. Clarke 'a assistance we laid out a kedge, and warped out abreast of the schoutter, got her spare sails on heard, bent them, and at midnight, with the land breezes, got under weigh, the schooner taking the brig in tow, and, with light moderate breezes, reached Touronga the next day. Hearing that At kies, the second mate, was yet alive, Capt. Clarke sent natives for hum, and in three days they returned With him, having ransomed him fur oae 'fowling piece, one blunderbuss, one pistol, and thee canisters of powder. Captain Clarke has been very kind to us, and had he not been so near at hand we must have perished." The large snails which are found in gardens xvo.ids discharge a Is hitish substance, with a slimy and gelatinous appearance, which has been known to ce ment two pieces of flint so strongly as to bear dashing on the pavement without the junction being disturbed, al though the flint broke into fragments by fresh fractures.— Mirror. A letter from Penrith says we have a report here this morning of the elopement of the daughter of -----, in this neighbourhood, with her father's coach man. The parties ar e said to have set off for Gretna in a gig. Nothing else is talked of here to-lay (Thuraday.)r — Carlisle Paris!. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. M A RLBORO U GH-STREET. Yesterday John Sims, a young man of respectable appearance, who filled the situation of lamp•mann to the United Service Club, was brought before Mr. CONANT, by Ballard, charged by Capel Hanbury, Esq., the Secretary of the Club, with having robbed the establishment of property to a considerable extent. Mr. Hanbury, on applying for the prisoner to be remanded, stated that the property stolen was of no consideration to the Club, the only object the Di rectors had in view was to make an example of the prism-ter. Mr. Hobler, jun., who attended on the part of the prisoner, maple several objections, which Mr. CONANT over-rued, and the priEcner was accord ingly remanded. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Jesse Ct.llum, E,q., the gentleman who has so humanely and effectively interested him self in favour of Miss Jane Wi wlio it ;my be remembered has been more than once at this office, in corscquence of a series of ill-treatment which she had experienced from her parents, I.+aiied on the Magistrates to rcceise the sum which they had ordered should he paid to procure her an outfit eparatory to her going into the establishment of Mrs. Dyer. Mr. Cullum said, that understanding that Mr. Wiikin4on had complied with the directions of th , , Magistrates, and had paid .5/. into the office, he then came forward, as Miss Wilkinson's friend, having learned from her that it was their wish it should be transferred to him to receive it. Mt% WALKER doubted not it would b Fr:Telly appli e d. Mr. Cullum could us.Fure his Worship that the severhy which Miss Wilkinson endured, owing to the ve ry internp rate conduct of the mother, was of a c har:et:A. irhicn COUid armee he credited. The money was then handed ever to Mr. Cullum, and the par:ics left the (Ake.. nonms Soppy, a will-dressed, but ruffianly-look ing fellow, an cld acquaintance of the police, was brought before the Alagistrates, charged with riot ing, assaulting a number of the local constables of Stepney, nod gambling. - Bennett, a green grocer, en that morning observed a young man sitting on the Mile-end-road side, playing, the thimble-gig, and the priAoner and a num b e r o f hi, asociates surrounding him. Sas peeting from their manceavres that they were all thieves, he called out to the crowd of persons who had assembled to take care of their pockets. Seiireelv had he done so, when the player exclaimed," Muzzle the --," and he was instantly attacked by ten or twelve of his companions, who knocked him down, and wwild, he had no doubt, have done him some serious itjury, were it not that Mr. Draper antl other gentlemen came to his assistance. Mr. Draper corroborat ed this witness's statement, adding that they had secured three or four others of the gang, but that being overpowered, they were rescued from their custody. The prisoner offered a lame and incredible defence, and was rn - tinmitted tarler the Vagrant Act for three months to the House of Correction. 6n being removed to the strong-room, be ex pressed morn nom-lance to Shield% the gaoler, at being lumbered (confined) ut so awkward a junc ture, and so near the approach of the Lord Mayor's Day, when as usual, he expected reaping a plentiful harvest. UNION-lIAL!.. Yesterday a respectable-looking man, named Eltrce, who seemed to be labouring under much agitation of mind, applied for the intcif_rence of the Magistrate, in compelling a female then in custody, and whom he strongly suspected of enticing his daughter, a young girl of Mem years of age, from her home, to tusclose the place of her present ecncealment. The complainant stated, that the woman in (`custody, who was a dress-maker, hail been engaged at his house to asist in making up dresses for the family. His daughter, a fluid of fifteen, had been engaged during the time in rendering her assistance, and had formed a very close ietimacy with the per -3011 now complained of, with whom she lied been in daily intercourse for some length of time. A few days ago, however, his daughter, in his absence, left home by steahh, and after her departure it was discovered that she had not only I aken away with her every particle of dress belonging to her, but had also carried off several articles of other members of his family. He institnted an immediate inquiry, in order to ascertain whither she lied gone, end dis covered that the female engaged at the house and his daughter had left the place together, the former having taken apartments at which they were both living together. Mr. Eltree added, that he strongly suspected his unfortunate daughter was by this time rained, for he was informed that she had been seen in the neighbourhood of Astley's Theatre with gentleman. Her abandonment of home and family, he was convinced, was at the instigation of the fe male r. ith whom she had been living. The female alluded to, who wore a fashionable pink silk bonnet, and dress to conespend, was asked by the Magistrate whether she was dispose.' to re veal where Mr. Eltree's daughter was concealed ? She admitted that the young lady left home with her, and that they afterwards lodged together at the male in Stangate street, but declared t i l o lk u e se s u c : t f :t t re spe ctable s! step, given Edirne no encouragemen t having ,o f h er t own o accord, quitted the house of her parents, alleging as a reason that she did not feel comfortable thee. Tinder such circumstances she had given her refuge at her lodgings, but could declare most solemnly that they had been visi•ed by no human bring, either male or female, and had both supported them selves since by dress-making. Mr. CHAMBERS desired her to disclose where the young lady wa ,, HOW to be found, for it was natural enough to suspect that she must be in possession of the secret, having already admitted that they ha:l been living together since the foolish girl had ab sconded from home. In reply to this question, the woman declared that she was ignorant of what had become of Miss Eltree since she left her lodgings. A female, residing in Stangate-street, who des cribed herself an officer's widow, stated that the female above alluded to, and a young lady, whom the believed to be Miss Eltree, had been living for the last few days at her house, and from the. com mencement of the time had led a most retired life, never either going out or seeing persons of any des cription. She added, that within the last day or two one of them, she believed Miss Eltree, had abruptly quitted the house, but whither she had gone she bad no means of discovering. Mr. CHAMBERS, addressing Mr. Eltree, lamented that he could render him no assistance in re7overing his daughter, who had abandoned her home. He (tie Magistrate) would not be justified ill detaiaing the woman who he suspected was chiefly instru mental in decoying away so young a creature from her home, and should therefore discharge her. The Magistrate privatrly advised Mr. Eltree to follow the woman unperceived, and by that means he might yet be enabled to find the house at which his daughter remained concealed. Mr. Eltree followed the Magistrate's directions, but the result was not known at the office yesterday. Two young fellows, named °sward and Farn ham, medical students, were charged with creating a disturbance in the burrey Theatre, and with hav ing committed a violent assault on a Mr. Wood, who, however, did not appear against his assailants. The Magistrate fined them 30s. each, and directed their clubs to be destroyed. Friday, on the lands of Skewer, near New pirt, comity of Tipperary, a party of Mr. \Vat. FREWEN'S tenantry rescued a distress of cattle se zed by him far rent, and stabbed. one of the bailiffs with a pitchfork. The) then threatened destruction to any one who would dare to l e vy a di s tress on the lands, though large arrears of rent are owing to Mr. FalwEN.—Limirich Chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 3. - DAWSON V. NESBIT. This was an action of assault. Mr. Serjese t . WILDE, assisted by Mr. JUSTICE, stated the plaits' tiff's ease, and then called a witness, who prover' the following facts The plaintiff, who had gone out to Sydney, sit ' agent to the Australian Agricultural Company, er . ! / coming home to England by a return convict-shiPt on board of which was also Mr. Nesbit, a superir e tendent-surgeon of convicts. One evening, at re * , the conversation between these two passenger. turned: upon the hot winds which prevail lh those latitudes. Mr. Nesbit said they always blelf • with great violence. Mr. Dawson observed tbta the hot winds themselves were not violent, but were generally followed by squalls. The defendant de': dared he was satisfied they blew with violence, be cause he knew of boats having been upset by theta.- The plaintiff nevertheless maintained his opirti° l4 and said he did not believe that sett) was the ore • although —. The defendant, without Buffalo% him to finish his sentence, struck him a blow (111 the no=e, which drew blood, asking him at the eat time how he presumed to contradict him ? plaintiff replied, that, if he had not struck bitrisP` was about to have added, " although I know if ° • would not say so if you did not think it." 'near' fendoit then expressed his regret for the blow he had given him, and invited the plaintiff to sharlB.: hand"; which invitation, however, he declined le accept, and left the ship on the first opportunity , l' ref urn home by one in which he would be relieve': from the company of Mr. Nesbit. • Mr. SeTicant STORKS addressed the Jury so dr 4l part of the Oefetulant. Verdict for the plaintiff—Dtweages, 100/. OLD BAILEY", Nor. 3. for stealing on the 241 h ef All . /Ilit last, Burdett I?ogers, a youth aged 16, was indicted Georg e , coins of t.l!t! value of 1/. 11s., the moniei of Morgan. The proseranor is a waiter at Clark's Club-1301154 St. lames'., -street, where the prisoner was also en? pl , ;yrd in some mental rapacity. (in the (by at the 030 11 1 -- , tinned in the inlictmen., Morgan missed elme stated from the pcket of a pair of trouse r ' which were hanging over a chair in his bcd-rool and having vorne su , picion against the prisoner, st for an officer and gave Win into custody. On t,r p.i'sviier being searched, the sum of 11. 11s. cv", foutid on his person.—Tix Jury found the prison" certain Henry Lrfevre, aged 25, was found goiltY of . - et; stealing a silver watch, value 31. and upwardgs the 24th of October, the property of Henry SalliY son Ilardwicke. William Thompson, a private soldier in the Regiment of Foot Guards, was indicted for steali"P on the 29th of Octobcr, silver watch and its sr pendages, vtilue 61., the property of Ingrat l3ll " camp bedstead-maker in Lambeth. The case b. ing civilly proved by several wit siege; the Jwy, without troubling the Common-Serje °ll to sum up, found the prisoner g,nilty.: The prisoner received an excellent character f °r . honesty and general good conduct from his par 4ef' . jeant, Robert Duff. BRITISH EXPORTS. STATEMENT OF THE QUA:NTT:IES CI,ES Of , LtiEll Lill MAN!TACTiII FttOM OCT. 23_10 OCT. INCLUI , OE 7HE UNDERMENTIONIIO M,O, IRE EXPORTED ?Rom LIT 6 P r.— fi s 4, !Sail Cloth OA - Cotton Hose ••". Worsted Hose ................. 10. !Cotton Handkerchiefs ...... Cotton Bracos ........... Hats Hardware 1 , 1711' 'Earthenware Whitealtitock I., B m u:h: wt ls . 1 4 : 04. (0 0 Coal l3lO 10 0 Iron Pieces. Yards. 1 Cotton 112,142 2,628,9741 Linen -,56 258,913 Blanketii.g - 5,310 Carpeting - I ,21;4 1 Baize 9.92 _I Kersepneres - i ___l Flan n i,l - Woollen Stuffs 1,201 Worsted Stu t C:slicoes Intl Voollens I ,ECI9 Cotton Thread 3, , 941b. Cotton Yarn ...t58,113,3 Ends lilt I IrH CAT' AS ACCOUNT OF CATTLE rgrowrr TO OCT. 31, DOTII Cows. 1 CA I Calve Sheep. 12 s 2 :il2 3239 'TI.E. FP INTO LIVERPOOL FROM '' -"Ct. I DAYS nrcLuDr.w. Horses. Wa r " I I :1730 4 6 COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. I 131reitTED. ll MX ro a ricn-_,. , - A--..--, ,----.—5.....---":„,1,. S a me pc- Prev,w7 1 This riod last 15 I year. year. Ye ar . . ltag , t, &c. Migs, &c. . !lags, &e. I3ssell Liverpool I 615,ihn :46,175 ; 1,116 4 9 ',, 8 71 London Glasz , nr 1 3. 7 ,712 :0,927 1 -- . "rota) expoi ted in ISZI 106,340. Same period 14 -mi 05,534. N ie The late Rev. JOHN GOING, of n vlitr Glebe, whose melancholy fate is recorded in another Pa:„ of our Paper, was in the 67:h year of his age. I l e Saturday an inque,t was held on the body, whirls was wired en Sunday. There are some hopes of the s" v ' assassin: being arrested. The magistracy and the 1 1 ° 1 'd are on the alert fur their apprehension. We under o o that through the exertions of the I.olice there have b et four men taken into custody.—Limerick Chronicle. A drunken sot named THOMAS JAMF' 5 cg gardener, of Spalding, undertook yesterday for a try 0 ,0 wiser, to swallow twenty-four pints- of ale in si, e s honrs ! lie commenced psis disgusting task at the r Du d Swan public-house, at six o'clock in the morning' ; 0 4 swallowed eight pints in two hours ! After this lib' I ,l# he staggr red out to refresh himself by a walk, and l y e) ietnrn set to again, and finished six pints more by r. e ,,or o'clock. By this time, however, the effects of the M o s ',mime too powerful even for his resistance, a nd h e ,e put to bed in a le astly state of intoxication. 14 . e : o lc ; soundly for some time, but upon waking resumed hi s _,,re; and by nine o'clock he had swallowed four pints ' O , - s ls making in all eighteen ; he hail then one hour left . 01 i od low six pints of the liquor. hat his powers failed Is . lii i ,y3or he was obliged to relinquish the abominable 'wk.! ton Garen:. • -- 7 the BIRTHS. On the 20 inst. in Park-crescent, Portland-1 714 [lon. Mrs. Shaw, of a risughter. ' 1 o ' f the On the Ist inst. at Messing, Essex, the 1 11 4 Rev. R. Eden, of a son. 1 0 On the 30 , h ult. et Hereford, the lady of the Ref' • • J. ll,trdy, of a daughter. flik co f: e n nt t_l z e ur 3 ,l l , s u t , t o ti f t. a 3 10 1 1 7 . . 'l'. Moseley , o f Bedford -it _mill On the 27th ult. at Paris, the lady of Gro. Stfv-,. Csq. of a son. ' MARRIED. so W• FA :,, On the 21 inst. st Richmond, ,m. Ancram• Miss E. M. A. Haddocks. On the Si inst. at St. Georges, Bloomsbury, 0, H. R. Mande, L. L. B. of Arkendale, county Plck Bloomsbury, Jane, youngest daughter of Thomas Meux, °f i l l- 1 7, bury-spina.. - On the 3,1 inst. at Marylelione, J. Macgrees °Pt 04 Liverpool, to Jane, ehle , t daughter of R. Small, Se f e .., York -terrace, Regent's-park. - o' On the Si! inst. at St. James's church, the Ttev•,.e4) Clarke, 8.A., third son of J. C. Clarke, Esq• °, 4 10 . 0 1 d noon-place, Middlesex, to Caroline, only &IP • .1. W. La Ilmoke, Esq. DIED. . i sfi ll oi On the 15th ult. at Rcnnoyre, Brecknockshire, e j „ long and painful illness, in the 69th year of his °lli ie Rev. Thomas Watkins, 111. A. P.R. S., most Oer, ..”. mented by his family and friends. ." i •,1 bief On the 2d inst. Clarissa Mararet, second dal i are,o ,.. Jor, Gen. Sir S. Bentham, K.S.G. .• • • . „' 1114 ' On the J.l inst. at Hackney, Walter Ending , s°.- Lee J. Stephens, Esq. On the 2d inst. in Caroline-street, Bedford-sq,l i . gr . Chambers, relict of the late F. Chambers, 54* ° - Alto, Watetfo:d. 1 101/ ""9 On the let inst. in Burton-street, Mrs. G . Li t hell s ..'' ser, relict of the late Wm. Falwasser, Esq. , 0 then' ' . • t i 4C market. • m itOa'iar Lately, at Ivy Cottage, in the parish of I‘l ll , - 4 yil x it of Wight, James Riggs, aged 100 years, leavioi,;ol.,F7 aged 99 years ; they have been married 78 year s ' ' , son, now living, is 76 years of age. ' ' "1 PitiNTED AND PUBLISDED BY MUI;DQ Yu THE inn; Orals, stem, I.rr:'. ...