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of Lincoln to say that the shameful system of pluralism is confined to it alone. The same is observable in all, as a mere glance at any one pa ge of the Clerical Guide will spew. Let us (lip promiscuously :—F—Dr. Fisher, Master of the Charter-house, Dignitary in three Ca thedrals, and incumbent of three parishes. G—Dr. Goodenough, Prebendary in three cathedrals, with a lot of valuable sundries. H Hett, a dignitary twice over, with a family of seven livings ! I—lremonger, a dignitary, Royal Chaplain, and the spiritual pastor of five families. K—Kempthorne, a dignitary, with a chapelry, rectory, and three vicarages. L—Luxmoore ! Reader, look for the Luxmoores, and count their monopoly if you can ! M—Magendie, one vicarage, one bishopric, two archdeaconries, and eight rectories! Ohe ! Jam satis ! And these are the men who would amuse us with the ex emplary discipline of the inferior clergy. Mr. Wray has been taunted with being a beggar for public bounty. This is a falsity plus pant Clerica, as Livy would say. Nothing of the sort can be gathered from the Correspondence ; and we feel it due to the Reverend Gentleman to state, that such bounty having been proffered through us, he has declined it with as much de licacy as spirit—a specimen of Clerical con tinence and independence by no means common in this Christian world of ours. In our first leading article of Saturday there was an awkward erratum, in giving an account of Doctor God dard's Preferments. The words no residence were printed no bad end.—lbid. The account of the Income and Expenditure of the Quarter exhibits a deficiency of 347,8311., as compared with the Quarter ended sth of July, 1828. In the Post Office there has been an increase ; in the Assessed Taxes there has also been an increase ; but in the branches which serve to mark the well being and comfort of the population, there is a falling off—Customs and Excise and Sugar duties! When an Eng lishman is prosperous, it is soon felt in the Cus toms and Excise. Too much importance, per haps, is attached to the state of the Quarter's Revenue. It is impossible that the Revenue should always exhibit an increase. As to the deficiency in the present Quarter, no one who has attended to the commercial distress, which has existed during the whole of it, and before, can be surprised as to its amount. We would fain hope that matters are at length assuming a more cheerful aspect. It cannot, however, be denied that too great a proportion of our Re venue is indirect taxation, and that the country would be greatly benefited were mere of it raised directly by a Property Tax. We would fain persuade ourselves that ere long some measure of a decisive character, in this respect, will be adopted.—lbid. We this day present the Revenue statement for the quarter and the year. For the year it would appear that the falling off has been only 90,000/. ; for the quarter the falling off has been 380,000/. ; but this latter is to be accounted for, we understand, by the postponed payments, on account of the collection taking effect at a later period ; and which, we further understand, occurs every five years, amounting to 140,0001. in the quarter. For the year, it will be seen by the statement that in the Customs there is a de crease of 1,000,000/., and in the Excise an in crease of 1,000,000/. ; and it will be also seen, in the statement for the year, that there is an in crease on Stamps and the Post-office. The two latter increases may be considered as fa vourable, so far as commerce is concerned. For the quarter the decrease is on the Customs and Excise ; but that is accounted for by the reasons we have already given. For the quarter we also perceive that the Stamps and the Post office have both increased—both are favourable signs as it respects commerce. Considering all things, the statement is gratifying, and is an answer to that which has been put forth for several days past respecting " the alarming stale of the Revenue." That for some time past there has been great distress among the cotton and silk weavers there cannot be the least doubt ; but that distress, we well know, has entirely arisen, so far as the manu facture of cotton goods is concerned, in conse quence of the masses of machinery which have been within the last twenty years erected, and which masses have poured forth goods faster than they can be consumed at home—though the English people are very extravagant as to dress, take them generally—or i faster than foreigners can take and pay far our goods abroad. The same reasoning, only in a lesser degree, may be applied to the silk goods' trade. Last year, we believe, there was double the quantity of silk imported, which brought down the price, and that ma terially ; and the presumption is, that double the quantity of silk goods were made. Now, it stands to reason that if the consumption did not double, the manufacturers would be overstocked, which alone would put a stop to further produc tion. The consequence was, weavers were thrown out of employment. The fashion of late years, has been for the poor to forsake agriculture and take to manufactures. But who can blame them? for to sit and weave under cover is-much easier than to stand and dig exposed to the weather. The consequence has been, over-production of manu factured goods—under-production in such things as poultry, fruit, &c. &c. Calicoes, which at one time were 50s. a piece, are now worth 10s. Over-production by means of machinery has brought this about ; while fowls in Lon don, which, twenty-five years ago, were worth 4s. a couple, have been selling lately as high as 12s. and 18s. a couple. }ruit and many other things have borne prices in proportion.— Let any one only reflect a little when they give a penny for a small apple or a pear ; also the high prices they pay for geese, turkeys, ducks, &c. ; and then we think they will agree with us, that, if people turn to manufacturing, they conse quently forsake the rearing of pigs, poultry, fruit, &c. Mr. Robinson, Mr. Huskisson, and others, by their talk, have set people mad as to manufacturing. Every one has been striving his utmost to produce goods ; the evil, however, has cured itself, at least for the present. We hope the present Ministry will, in their places in Par liament, avoid making long speeches about com merce, &c., for such speeches always do harm, by encouraging people to trade more than they ought to trade—to produce more goods than they ought to produce. The consequences in variably are, ruin to the over-traders and over manufacturirs. At the same time it must be admitted that the country is benefitted by over production, for things are rendered so much cheaper to the consumer. We have often wished ...........,.... .. .....--- ... that the mak ers o f machines _ n and weaving spinning and weaving cloth would turn their attention to agri cultural luxuries, that so we might have an over production of fowls, chickens, geese, turkeys, pears, apples, &c.—Morning Herald. We did not expect that our recent remarks on the impropriety of the powers intrusted to Civic Judges would receive - 5.0 early a corroboration. But a case came, only a day or two ago, before the Court of Aldermen, in which those sages themselves appear to have considered that the powers exercised by their chief Law Officer are somewhat greater than they should be. But then, to mend the matter, they appear to think that they ought to possess the power in question themselves—a consequence to which we must beg leave to demur. It seems that to the last Old Bailey Sessions a man was committed for robbing his employers, in whose confidence he had been to an almost unlimited extent. No less than 33 distinct cases of peculation were proved against him to the satisfaction of the committing Magistrate, but he was indicted only upon two, on both of which, upon being ar raigned before the Recorder, he pleaded guilty, and that Learned Judge then " marked" him, as it is called, for two years' imprisonment. When called up for judgment, however, he was, by the same Judge, fined one shilling and discharged. Of this sentence, or rather virtual acquittal, the prosecutors complain to the Court of Aldermen ; and they migh just as well, we should think, have complained to Gog and Magog ; for what right either. the Recorder or the Court of Aldermen can have to dispense the highest privilege of the Crown—its prerogative of mercy—we are totally at a loss to imagine. But," say the Aldermen, " the Sentence Paper at the Old Bailey ought to be handed up to us, we are the proper judges of the punish ments or the mercy which culprits ought to un dergo or experience." Verily, gentlemen, if that be the case, why should the Recorder report the capital convicts to the King in Council ; and if it be necessary that he should report these, what right have he or you to usurp the King's prerogative in minor cases, if that which we have mentioned can be so considered? Why is the King to have the odium of exe cuting a dozen of his subjects, while the Re corder of London (chosen by the most incompe tent of all incompetent people for such a pur pose) is to have the merit of pardoning twice as many ? In this case, for instance, the Judge thinks (and who could differ from him ?) two years imprisonment a fit punishment for the of fence in question. Of course, if any features of extenuation afterwards appeared, on application to the fountain of mercy, mercy would have been shown. But no—the King of England is to lie nobody within the sound of Bow bell, and the brightest jewel of his Crown is to be usurped by a parcel of tradesmen, or their no minee. We do not use the term tradesmen in vidiously ; but we feel fully justified in using it as we do on this occasion. These very persons have, within these few weeks, instructed their Counsel, before a Committee of the House of Lords, to throw their own calling in the teeth of a most respectable witness, who was told that, because he was a tradesman, he was not a fit person to form an opinion about a bridge across the Thames. And are these the people who are to call for the " Sen- . . tence Paper" at the Old Bailey, to assume the King's prerogative, or to elect the Judges in whose hands it shall be placed ? 'We trust that a few such instances as these will convince those in whose hand the power of correction lies that there is something which wants correcting in this particular. We have no wish to see the City of London, or any other corporate body, shorn of their just privileges ; but when pri vilege runs riot, and assumes a tone quite fo reign to what it ought to possess, we trust that there is both the power and the courage in the proper quarter to check and to coutroul it.— E id. The various items of the Quarter's Revenue were added, and the official statement itself made up, on Saturday last ; and, as every one who had paid the slightest attention to the state of the country,—to the extreme depression under which trade had laboured,—and the melancholy reduc tion in the wages and comforts of the working classes—had anticipated, there is a great falling off, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1828. In that year the Revenue of the quarter ending the sth of July amounted, in round numbers, to 12,364,0001. This yearit does not much exceed 12,000,0001., leaving a defici ency in the present quarter, as compared with the quarter for 1828, of about 350,0001. The great cause of the deficiency is to be found, as might have been anticipated, in the two departments of Revenue which have been justly considered as the best tests of the real state of the community—the Customs and the Excise—the former being deficient to the amount of about 350,0001., and the Excise in a sum of about 150,0001. In the taxes also there is a small deficiency ; and thus the proof is complete, that, instead of the Revenue in creasing, as it ought to do, and as invariably happens, in a thriving community, it is decreas ing, and that the national capital is daily under going diminution. The sums which we have mentioned as decrease of Revenue on the quar ter, as compared with the corresponding quarter of 1828, amount to upwards of half a million ; but in other departments, which frequently speak as much to the distress as to the comfort of any part of the community—the Stamps, the Post office, and some other departments—there is a trifling increase; so that deducting the increase on the latter from the decrease on the former, there will remain, as we have already observed, a total decrease on the quarter as compared with 1828, of about 350,0001. Far be it from us, in making these statements, to impute any blame to his Majesty's Ministers. The foundation of the evil was laid before they came into office ; and the evil itself, we fear, is of that serious and per manent nature which will only admit of being remedied by a series of judicious measures, for the application and success of which time is in dispensably necessary. But it is not a little amusing to witness the means employed by the Government organs to persuade the country when it is " ill " that it is really " well "—when it is "sick " that it is " in sound health "—when it is " utterly distressed " that it is " very thriv ing." One of these organs finding that a com parison of the Revenue for the quarter ended yesterday with the corresponding quarter of last year, tells so severely against a pros perous condition of the country, reverts to the year 1827, and finds an immense fund of consolation for its readers in the fact that the Revenue of the present quarter is only less than the corresponding quarter of 1827 by about 50,000/. ! This ruse de guerre will probably remind our readers of certain Gallic commanders about the middle of the last century, who, instead of adding to the national laurels by the achievement of splendid victories, first contented themselves with saving as many of the carcasses of their soldiers as they well eould, and at length, from utter inability to accomplish more, not only con sidered it a fine thing to effect a retreat, but actually congratulated their Sovereign on the brilliant retreats they had been able to effect Our cotemporary next refers to the expectations held out by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer ;—as if any one cared a straw about the expectations, or the fears, or the statements of that Gentleman ; and finally informs us in well-set phrase, and rounded period, that " the depression is temporary," (it has already lasted four years!)—that it arises more " from want of commercial confidence than from any real want of capital," (which means, we take it, that there is at the present time no profitable employment for capital, and that those who have money will not in consequence lend it !)—and, lastly, that when the present " temporary depres sion" is "removed, our resources will be found un impaired, and our commercial and manufacturing interests placed on a more sound and safe founda tion than they have hitherto stood !" What the last sentence means we have really no means of ascertaining; unless, like a late Archdeacon in the East, who, after trying himself to the utmost to define " confirmation," concluded at last by de claring that " confirmation" was "confirmation," our cotemporary intended gravely to inform the public, that when the country has again returned to a state of prosperity it will be again prosper ous—a truism on which it did not require even his authority to satisfy it. But to conclude. The Revenue is i❑ a declining state, and if it were not, the public would still refuse to be convinced that it was not. It knows but too well that the state of the country is not what it ought to be ; and it knows also that this state is not attributable either to the present Ministry, or the Ministry which went before it, but to an extravagant expenditure of the national wealth during upwards of thirty years— to ruinous wars, and to a total want of eco nomy in almost every department of the State during years of peace—to bad management of the public funds—to iniquitous interference with the natural course of trade, and many other causes which might easily be enumerated ; and it knows also that what our cotemporary deno minates " a temporary depression, is a " per manent depression," which cannot be removed either in a day or a year, and for which the best, and indeed the only feasible, remedies, ate a judicious use of the public income—a reduction of taxes, and the opening of new markets for the manufactures and produce of the country. The public, we say, knows these things, and it might have been wiser in consequence, on the part of our contemporary, to have directed the attention of Government to those matters, instead of hold ing forth grounds of consolation to the public which can neither impose upon it, nor in any way alleviate the pressure of the difficulties under which it labours.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE. CHARGE OF FORGERY.—On Saturday a young man of respectable appearance a n d conne c ti ons , name d .._ _ Robert Jones, was charged with having forged and uttered a cheque for: 1541. on the bank of Messrs. Williams and Co., Birchin-lane. Mr. Gates, So licitor to the Committee of Bankers, attended for the prosecution, and produced the cheque passed by the prisoner, dated Nov. 3, 1827, purporting to be drawn by Charles Woodward, a solicitor, Broad street, on Messrs. Williams and Co. for 154/. The prisoner has been on the Continent ever since he passed the cheque, till lately, when he returned from Hamburgh to Hull, near which he had just got into a comfortable situation, when an officer was sent down to apprehend him. A clerk in Messrs. Wil liams and Co.'s bank proved having paid the cheque to the prisoner on the day of its date. Mr. Wood ward proved that the prisoner was his clerk at the time of the date of the cheque. The body of the cheque was in the prisoner's hand-writing; the sig nature was in his (Mr. Woodward's) own. He had never authorised the prisoner to fill up that or any other cheque, but he (Mr. Woodward) was agent at the time for the Gas-light Company, and was in the habit of signing his name to a great many papers, of which the cheque produced might have been one. It was stated, that on the sth of November the prisoner changed the bank-notes he received in pay ment of the cheque for sovereigns. Mr. Gates sub mitted that the evidence was sufficient for the pri soner's committal. The prisoner said he had net had time to consult his solicitor, and he had a most important circumstance to state to him. Mr. Gates consented to have the prisoner remanded, which was accordingly done. In answer to a question put to Mr. Woodward, he mentioned that he knew the prisoner's address while he was on the Continent. it was mentioned in the Justice-room, that, the prisoner and Mr. Woodward are brothers-in-law. BOW-STREET. ST. MARTIN'S SELECT VESTRY SYSTE3L—This day was appointed for hearing and deciding upon an information, which the active reformer of parochial abuses, Mr. Fenn, the bookseller, of Charing-cross, had preferred, under the 16th Geo. 11. against the Overseers of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, in which he alleged that the defendants had refused to show him the parish accounts for the last year, although he had tendered the sum of sixpence, as the statute di rects, and they had thereby incurred a penalty. Mr. MINSHULL said, that he received the infor mation on Friday morning, but he had not issued a summons against the defendants. Mr. Fenn said, it was understood they were to be summoned for one o'clock this day. Mr. MINSIIULL admitted that that was the under standing on Friday, and if delaying the case further would be at all inconvenient, he would issue a sum mons for their appearance instanter. Mr. Fenn observed, that he had no objection to the postponement of the case till Tuesday next, as he had no wish to give unnecessary trouble to the Parish Officers; he merely contended, upon public grounds, that the rate-payers had a right to see how their money was expended. Mr. Mitistwm.—There can be no doubt but they have that right ; the Act of Parliament says, they may see the accounts on the payment of sixpence. Mr. Fenn—But that right is denied to me. I am shown a book of accounts which has been passed by the Magistrates in Petty Session. Mr. Stafford, the chief clerk, observed, that if the Magistrates in Petty Session had audited and passed the parish accounts, it was utterly impossible that two other Magistrates sitting there could entertain an information calling upon them to review the de cision of the former Justices; for if that could be done, after the present Magistrates had decided, other Justices might take upon themselves to re view their decisions; and so it might go on, ad infinitum. Mr. Fenn stated that the accounts had been passed in private, and the book contained only sums expended in the lump. For instance, there was a charge of 700/. and upwards, but what that sum was paid for did not appear. There was 80/. or 90/. charged for the use of landaus for the overseers during the year. Mr. Stafford said, that he had supposed that when the accounts were audited and passed by the Magistrates in Petty Session, that the inhabitants had an opportunity of attending and objecting to any of the charges. Mr. Fenn replied that the auditing and passing of the accounts was done in private, and the in habitants received no previous notice of it. Mr. MINSHULL declared that the subject should receive from him every attention, and he appointed two o'clock on Tuesday for all parties to attend. The question seems to have created a good deal of interest in other metropolitan parishes, as we ob served gentlemen from St. Paul's, Covent-garden, St. Giles's-in-the-fields, and St, George's,l3locims- bury, &c. in the office, who appeared very anxious as to the result of this preeeeding. UNFOUNDED CHARGE OF FELONY.—JONAS v. OLIVER.—This was a complaint of a Jew clothes man against Mrs. Oliver, the wife of a Mr. Oliver, of Tavistock-street, against whom a warrant had been issued, charging her with stealing a sovereign. In justice to Mrs. Oliver, we feel bound to say at the outset, that no person who heard the accusation credited the story of the Jew—but let him speak for himself. Jonas Jonas is one of the black-muz zled tribe of old clothes dealers who reside in the neighbourhood of Petticoat-lane. He said, on Fri day 1 vas go to Tavishtock-street, and de lady cry " closh !" Vell, I look up at de ladish vindo►v, and I knock at de door, and vash let in to de housh. De lady shay vat you give for de closh? I shay twenty, and den twenty-five, and den dirty shilling; and she say no, dat no do; de lady up de sthairs vill have two pounsh ten shilling, and vont take a fardin less. Vell, I did wish to py de pargain to shupport my vife and tree shildren, and I putsh one pound and four half crowns on de counter, and de lady vat shay she owns de closh, come down desh tairs. She shay, yell Jew, I vill not sell de closh for less den 35 shilling. I put my ten shilling into my pocket, and I taksh out another sovereign, sho dat makes two sovereigns vat I have den, and I putsh de sovereign into de ladish hand vat comes down desh tairs. Dish lady here (Mrs. Oliver) shay to me, you shall not have de closh at all you Jew teef —but I shay I vill give de lady vat she ask, dat vas 35 shilling; but no, she vants to make a pargain herself with another Jew, and to cheat de lady vat vas upsh tairs, and she take de sovereign out of de ladish hand and trowd it avay. Vell, her husband comsh in, and he call me Jew teef, and he trowd my bat out into desh treet, he den trowd my bag into desh treet, and den by he trowd me into desh treet (excessive laughter.) Mr. MINsnuLL—Do you mean to swear that you actually lost a sovereign ?—Jonas—l shvear it by , she trowd it avay, and I vas trowd out of de housh, if I vas worsh dan trifa. Mrs. Oliver, who is a lady-like woman, said that a female lodger in her house having some clothes to sell, on Friday morning called in two Jews. They did not agree to purchase, and shortly after they had gone away Jonas came to the house without being called, and he asked to see the clothes. He offered to give them 15s. for them, and finally he rose to 30s. He was told repeatedly that not less than 21. would be taken for them ; and although he forced 30s. into her hand, she put it upon the counter, and told him to take it and quit the house. He became exceedingly insolent, and on the female to whom the clothes belonged coming down stairs, he offered 355., but was told that he should not have the articles at any price. He was again urged to quit the house, but lie grew more violent; and her husband came in and turned him out of the house. Jonas—By —, he trowed me, and my bag, and my hat, into desh treet. Mrs. Oliver declared that she never touched the sovereign, nor saw it; and, in fact, she saw only one sovereign and ten shillings in the Jew's possession, which he took off the counter and put into his pocket. The servant girl of Mrs. Oliver confirmed her mistress's statement. The Jew took out of his pocket only- one sovereign and four half-crowns, which her mistress placed upon the counter, and re fused .to take it, although the Jew thrust it into her hands. Mr. Oliver descrilied the insolent conduct of Jonas, and said it was an abominable attempt on his part to extort money. When he left the house he swore he would be revenged. The Magistrates, Mr. MINSHULL and Sir R. BIRNIE, said, that they were decidedly of opinion that the Jew had not lost a sovereign, and that he had trumped up the charge of felony either from sinister or revengeful motives. The case was there fore dismissed. bIARYLEBONE. Thomas and John Walker, two young men, were charged with stealing 1501., belonging to Mr. Bunn, landlord of the Lord High Admiral public-house, Church -street, Lisson-grove. It appeared that the prisoners visited the above house on Sunday, and dined there. They frequented the house every day from that time until Thursday. On Thursday, John Walker asked Mrs. Bunn to change him four pounds' worth of silver for sovereigns, and it is sup posed that the prisoners then discovered where the landlord's cash-box was placed. On Thursday they suddenly left the house, and shortly after their de parture, it was discovered that the cash-box had been forced open, and cash and notes to the amount of 1501. stolen. The prisoners were apprehended the next day at Fairlop Fair. They denied being the persons who had committed the robbery. They were remanded till Tuesday. ➢IARLBOROU Gil-STREET. At a late hour on Thursday evening, two women, named Mary and Ann Delany, mother and Baugh- ter, and a young man, named Thomas Phillipps, were brought, in custody of Goddard the officer, before Mr. CONANT, the res;dent Magistrate, charged with being concerned in an extensive robbery, committed at the house of Lady Charles Bentinck, No. 1, North-row, Park-lane. Ladyßentinck)eft town some months ago, leav- ing her house in the hands of an agent, to be let for six months, during her Ladyship's absence, and leaving the female prisoner, Ann Delany, as her only servant, in charge of it, or rather to remain in it until let. The house was soon disposed of to a gen tleman named Macnamara, from Wales, who conti nued to occupy it until a few days ago, when Lady Bentinck was to return, and the prisoner, Ann De lany, was also suffered by Mr. Macnamara to remain in the house while he occupied it. On Wednesday last Lady Bentinck arrived in town, at her house, and soon discovered that during her absence her wardrobe had been forced open, and her gold watch, value 100 guineas, and other articles of jewellery, such as diamonds, topazes, &c. to a considerable amount in value, had been carried off; her Ladyship also missed from the house various paintings, chiefly portraits of herself, Lord Byron, and other friends, painted by her Ladyship's own hand, and several other articles of property, and upon this discovery, Goddard, the officer, was sent for. On questioning the girl Ann Delany, the officer had occasion to sus pect her, and on being taken into custody, and closely urged on the sultject, she admitted that she had taken the things, but that she was urged to it by Phillipps, who was the servant of Mr. Mac namara who had occupied the house, and she ad- Mitted farther that the articles she stole were at her mother's house, to whose care she had intrusted them. Goddard then went to the mother, the other female prisoner, Mary Delany, and there, after a great deal of denial and prevarication, the latter gave up to him a box containing all the jewels except the watch, and which she had concealed under a heap of coals in the cellar. The watch, however, she denied all I:nowlege of, as did also the daughter; the officer found also in the house the paintings that had been stolen, and brought them away; he also discovered in the house a large collection of valuable books, which it appeared had belonged to the late Dr. Hill, of London-street, Fitzroy-square, in whose service the girl Ann Delany, it seems, had lived up to the Doctor's death, and for some time after was continued in charge of the house, until it was disposed of. There was a great quantity of house-linen besides found in the old woman's house, of a quality that never could have belonged to her, with the marks evidently picked carefully from the whole. Having lodged the two female prisoners in safe custody, the officer preceeeded next in search of the young man PhiHipps, and succeeded in catching him within five minutes of the time that he was to set off to join his master, Mr. Macnamara, who had already gone off some days to his residence in Wales, leaving the prisoner to follow him. The young man, however, positively denies that he had any thing to do with the robbery, directly or indirectly, or that he in any way instigated the girl Ann Delany, as she had represented, to commit the offence. Lady Bentinck attended before the Magistrate, and identified the articles of jewellery, &c., produced as her property. A pair of gold shoe buckles, pro duced, her Ladyship identified as belonging to Lord Charles Bentinek, although the old woman Delany told the officer that they were given to her by a re lation many years ago. The prisoners were all remanded for re-examina tion on Tuesday next. LAMBETH-STREET. Eliza Briggs and Thomas Briggs, her father, were finally examined, charged, the former with having, so far back as the 12th April, 1819, robbed her mistress, Mrs. Eliza Taylor, of 651. and a jewel case containing trinkets of diamonds, pearls, &c.; and the latter with having instigated her to the com mission of the robbery and having received its pro duce. A short time since the male prisoner took a warrant out against a member of his family for as saulting him; and suspecting that the female pri soner would give evidence on behalf of her brother, which would invalidate his complaint, he went to Christian, a constable at Stepney, and informed him that his daughter had been concerned in the robbery at Mrs. Taylor's, and admitted that he had himself received its produce. The officer, although dis gusted with the profligacy of a father being the in former against his own child, and that too on a charge that affected her life, took her into custody; l and on applying to Mrs. Taylor found that the in ! formation was too correct, and that the robbery had actually taken place at the time and place mentioned to him. The father was subsequently apprehended. Mrs. Taylor stated, that on the 12th of April, 1819, the female prisoner pretended that thieves had broken into the house, and on the premises being searched, the property above stated was missed.— The constable proved the confession made by both prisoners, and they were committed. THAMES-OFFICE A young fellow named Page, plying as a sculler at the Tower, was charged by a gentleman under the following circumstances : The complainant wanted to go by the Pearl steamer, to Gravesend, and entered defendant' s b oa t to be put on board her. Defendant, when he had got him out into the stream, refused to put him on board the Pearl, but offered to take him to the Eclipse. This he refused, having some friendS in the Pearl, and peremptorily ordered him to row to that steamer. The defendant said he would see him first, and rowed him alon g side the Eclipse. He then offered him 4d., his fare :but he refused to take it, and demanded 6d.; this was resisted, and the defendant very deliberately rowed him ashore again. He then gave his card, and refused to pay any thing, when the defendant drove him into a corner, used the most desperate threats, and detained him for an hour and a half, surrounded by all the vagabonds of the Tower-stairs, who alternately amused themselves, jeering, abusing, and threaten ing him. The defendant repeatedly shook him by the collar, but did not strike him. Mr. BALLANTINE remarked, the complainant must have had very considerable command over his tem per : many men would have broken some of their heads. The complainant said he was actually in fear, such was their outrageous conduct. The defendant being called upon to give some account of himself, said, " Vy, I van't sarcey : I don't think as how that sixpence is too much for rowing a man to the steamer." The complainant said some of the watermen were employed by the opposition packets to the Pearl, and actually frightened the passengers into whatever steamers they pleased. Very little if any safety at tended the embarkation or disembarkation of pas sengers at the Tower-stairs. Mr. BALLANTINE said these Tower.stairs water men were not to be trusted any where; there were some few exceptions, but as a body their conduct was most disgraceful. He fined the defendant 203. and costs. A person in the office said the defendant, a few days before, was convicted before the Lord Mayor. So much for the efficacy of these fines. Simon Inganni, an Italian, was convicted in the penalty of 100/., for having smuggled tobacco and spirits in his possession. This is the second time within six months the defendant has been convicted in a like penalty for a similar offence. UNION-HALL. A Captain in the Navy, who is an elderly man, and has a large family, was charged with having assaulted a girl fourteen years of age, named Ann Willis, with intent to violate her person. The com plainant stated that she lived servant with the pri soner, and that on Thursday morning at six o'clock, while she was washing herself in the kitchen he acted towards her with great indecency.—(She de scribed the particulars, which are unfit to meet the public eye.)—She, however, admitted that she did not complain of his conduct to her mistress or any of the other servants in the house during the day. On the same evening he repeated the indecency towards her in the same part of the house; and she accounted for her not alarming the family, by describing that she was in such a state of agitation and fright at the time, that she had not the power of speech. On going home the same night, she complained of the Captain's conduct towards her to her mother. Her mother corroborated the latter part of her statement. The prisoner denied the charge, and said it was not likely he should attempt to commit the offence, when he had a family of children in the house. Mr. HONE said it was his duty to protect children snch as the complainant from the attacks of ruffians, and he should consider it his duty to hold him to bail for the offence. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. SATURDAY, Jurx 4.—High water six minutes past one o'clock.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived the Arnold, Dawson, from Virginia ; Sarah, from New Orleans; Octavia, —, from Savannah; Eliza Grant, from Charleston ; New England, Edes, with ditto ; Giorgio, Costa, from Palermo ; (heaves, --, from Sa vannah; Ambrook, Shardelow, from Villa Nova; Elm Grove, from Tralee. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-William, Tonge, for Bahia; Larch, ---, for Trinidad; Mallard, French, for Naples; Delaware, -, for New York ; Vrow Antge, Mys, for Amsterdam. Off Holyhead, inward-bound, the Wm. Appleton, from Jamaica. At Worship-street, on Saturday, a young woman, named MARY THOMPSON, was charged with breaking a watchman's arm. On the previous night the prisoner created a great disturbance in a public-house, and the watchman having been called in to turn her out, she gave him a most violent blow on his arm, which snapped the bone in two. The witness who proved the ease, when asked if the prisoner had any thing in her hand when she struck, replied—" No, your Honour—nothing but her fist." THE BLACKHEATH MURDER.---On Satur day morning, numbers of the inhabitants of Blackheath, Lewisham, Greenwich, and the places adjacent, assembled about the house of Mr. DAVIDSON, the Yorkshire Grey, Limekilus, to witness the funeral of MARIA LA➢MROURN. About four, all being in readiness, the procession set out towards Greenwich Church. It moved on at a very slow pace, and upwards of 1,000 persons were assembled. On reaching the burial-ground the corpse was met by the Rev. Mr. MarritEw, the vicar, who read the Funeral Service, after which the coffin was consigned to the grave, Mr. DAVIDSON, the late master of the deceased, although he did not follow as chief mourner, attended to see the body safely deposited. It was expected that MEatti Lam noua.N, the daughter-in-law, of the unfortunate woman, who lives in the service of Mr. PLACE, at Charing-cross, would have followed the remains of her hapless parent to her last home, but she was prevented through her con tinued indisposition, produced by the melancholy affair. A Ricu MENDICANT.—A gentleman see ing a miserable looking beggar sitting on a step, tying his ragged clothes together, and commisserating his situa tion, gave him some money, at the same time telling him he was sorry to see him so poor. " Poor!" cried the fellow, affecting a look of surprise, " God Almighty bless your soul, don't you see I am collecting my rents? COUNTRY CORN_ MARICETS. DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. ;s.to s. s. to a. Lto 5. Carlisle — 70 40 28 • Cannarthen--.....66 33 20 —B6 64 78 27 33 18 25 50 5 2 ' Nlorpeth ----. 64 72 36 38 23 30 38' Sg Penrith 63 i 34 28 68 79 35 46 24 34 46 0 Winchester 60 76 132 SS 19 23 42 4 6 Per Bushel. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. . Coventry 98 10 41 4 8 5 4 3 0 43 50 6; Newcastle (Staff) 11 0 11 3` 0 0 0 0 4 0 4 2 5 6 5 1 , Northallerton 80 10 0I 4 0 43 23 26 50 5; Stafford 120 12 31 5 6 60 40 46 7'6 8; Swansea 88 90 49 52 211 30 00 0; Warwick 96 104 48 52 30 43 50 6 , Per 8011. Barnarticastle.,..... 17 6 21 0 0 0 11 0 80' 10 0 9 0 11 1 , Darlington 18 0 22 0 90 10 6 59 '7 6 90 10 1 , Durham..,........... . 16 6 20 6 80 10 0 56, 90 11 6 19; Wolsingam 17 0 20 6 8 6 9 0 6 0 7 6 0 0 01 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.--July 3, There is a good supply of Wheat from the farmers, ao° a large arrival up the river here to-day,,a considerable pro' portion of which is foreign, and much of it being daal and rough must go to granary to improve , the .. condition• Fine fresh Wheat is in fair demand at last. week's prices but other descriptions have met very dull sale, although' not offered cheaper by the holders, and the tradi.:altogL7 ther may be considered rather more firm than on last Fre day. Oats are dull, and prices rather lower. , There hlO been very little demand to-day for. Beans, and they are Is , per quarter lower. Malt is heavy sale,• but not cheaper, A considerable quantity of rain has fallen here during Of week, which will improve the spring Corn very mate. rially, but Wheat will now require dry weather. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk 555. to 625. fine 665. Lincolnshire .58s. to 635.. fine 651. Yorkshire, &c 58s. to 625. One 645. - White - Foreign, Old sos. to 51s. fine 665. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk • ;255: to 294 'fine 325. -.--- Lincolnshire - '26s. to 30s. fine Rio. -- Yorkshire Wold 29s. to Xis, fine 345. Beans, Tick ' 325: to 365. fine 39s - Small 34s. to 375. fine 395, • Oats, Poland and Potato l9s. to 275. fine 310. Friezland and Small I9O. to 245. fine 295. Healing 12,6d. ;to I3Wd. per Stone. Shelling 3os. to -s. to '32i. per Load. ! Malt 3SS: 40s. "fine' 425. per Load. Rapeseed 23/. Os. 261. Os. 28/. 10s. per Last. SCO 'CH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. 'Oatmeal Aberdeen .—. 56 72 27 33 23 25 35 Sfj Berwick.....— 48 52 25 28 19 21 21 26 36 3° Coldstream 48 52 26 27 18 21 26 . 27 Cupar 70 74 30 33 24 27 27 32 Dundee 64 34 28 .29 Elgin -- 64 64 20 23 18 20 20 -- Inverness....... 60 70 24 28 20 25 19 20 40 Kelso 47 52 25 27 19 21 26 28 Kirkaldy...—. 59 76 28 33 30 34 34 Perth 60 6S 22 26 16 20 , 24 28 llri . The size of the measure varies throughout the country HADDINGTON CORN MA KKET.—JuIy 3. Oats and Barley have brought the same top price as litg s day; 32 quarters of Barley, and 200 quarters of Ost were sold. Wheat has gone down 9d. on the average, bu t the top price is the same as last market day. Pease ar e down, and Beans a trifle higher than last average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 73s Od 38s Od 30s Od 313 Od 35s Od Second 6Bs Od 37s Od 2Ss Od 32s Od 34s Od Third There were 260 qrs. of Wheat in market, 235 whereof w ere s old 6 Unsold.-19 Grey. 31.75. 1 Id. 10-12ths. Average. DALKE: The supply of was not large, an, ported. ___ TH COM ill kinds o last wee} M A It KEl'.—July 2. f Grain at this day's market k's prices were generally sur Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 74s Od 35s Od 30s Od Second 7os Od 33a Od 28s Od Third 66s Od 32s Od 26a Od CORNWALI.yARKETi. Pease. Beans. 36s Od 36s to", She Od 34s „ A u" 30s Od 30s u" TRU9o.—Wheat (average) 295. Od.—Barley, 15s.—Oats, lls. Od' HEL3ToN—Wheat, 295. 9d.—Barley, 15s. Od. AusTELL—Wheat, 30s. to 32s.—Barley, 131. to 145.-00 Is. Od. to 12s. BonAnN—Wheat (average) 31s. Od.—Barley, 13s. 6d.—Oats, LA UNC ESTON— Whea t (average) 325. Od.—Barley, 140. Ckl.-00 00 I Is. 6d.—Beef, 60.—Mutton, 6d. LisaEAßD—Wheat,—s. to 30s. Od.—Bazley,lss. Od.—Oats, to Bs. 6d. ST. CoLuma—Wheat, —s. to 305—8ar1ey,.,--a. to 153.—B eef' . and Mutton, 6d. to 6p.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d. PENZANCE—Wheat, 28s. to 315,-.Barley, —s. to 188.-03 0 Os. to 10s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, sd. to 6#d.—Pork, 4d. to 41d , Butter, Bd. per lb. MINING INTELLIGENCE. ..__Tons. CIA Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thursday 3,288 g Average Produce B% , Quantity of fine Copper 2r _ ,I' Amount of Sale. 20,2301. 18s. 6d.—.Average Stand ar d 1061.45. U4' We believe there are now about 250 houses uninhabited in Reading. The fact is, that unless rents JO reduced, as they must be, there will be still more vacancies. —Berhs Chronicle. A HANGING SUBJECT.—A police Office r ; on being asked the difference between hung criminals ase' hung venison, replied that one was tried before it AO hung, and the other hung before it was tried. EXPLOSION OF MEPHITIC GAS.—Pester' day morning, about half-past eleven o'clock, as Mr. KrTArto a respectable builder, residing at Cirencester-place, Pity, land-road, was superintending some repairs going forware at the Reservoir, or cesspool, connected with one of the drains at the Mary-la-bonne Infirmary, the foul air of mephitic gas exploded, and becoming immediately ignitel from a candl e h e ld b y one o f t h e atten d ants, enve l o pe two workmen, named Jourrsobr and CARROLL, in a boo of flame, by which they were scorched in a most shoot/ ing manner. Mr. KNAPP, who, luckily, was not so much exposed to the explosion as the workmen, escaped wit h comparatively little injury, although his hands and face were considerably burnt. The two sufferers were irate diately taken to the Infirmary, where every possible atter Lion was paid to their wretched situation. MURDER OF MRS. DONATTY.--It stated that the perpetrator of this offence, which at tlre time excited so much horror in this . country, and whiC was involved in so much mystery at the time; hair leng' been discovered. From a statement in the Hobart's Tal i Courier, Van Diemen's Land, of 14th of February last, 0 appears that a man named Joseph Moulds, of most despe rate character, after many dreadful outrages as a bulb: ranger, was apprehended with two others, and capita* convicted. Previous to execution, he confessed that b ° was the man who had murdered the unfortunate Mrs. DIY NATTY. Mr. DONATTY, the contractor for the City Toll it may be r e coll e ct e d, s uff e red great persecuti on on aceouri, of this tragical occurrence. Mrs. Domarrir had promise ° to leave him the whole of her property; but having left 0 will, it was divided among her relations. Mr. DoNATTI received but 2501., although he had reason to exper t 4,0001. Observer. BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. at Park -crescent, Portland-place, Mt* Dent, of a son.. 011 the 4th inst. in Connaught-place, the Lady Augult ° Vernon Wentworth, of a daughter. On the sth inst. at Lambeth, the wife of C. Stephetr son, M.D. of a son. On the 3d inst. the lady of E. W. Tuson, Esq. of Hoyt' land-street, of a son. On the 3d inst. the lady of R. White, Esq. of Hie fields, Essex, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. the lady of Wart. Melkleshatn, Es4' of a son. MARRIED. On the ht inst., at St. John-lee, Northumberland, I f f' Carr, Esq. of St. Petersburgh, youngest son of G. Carr' Esq., formerly of that city, to Phebe, youngest diugbtef of the late John Dawson Lambton, Esq. of Iliddick , near Durham. At St. Marylebone, James Archer, Esq. of Soham, Mary Ann Goodenough Pricket, niece of J. Stuart, Esq'' of Edward -street, Portman-square. On the sth inst. at St. Clement Danes, W. G. Grif' falls, Esq. of Great New-street, to Miss Mary Ann Swill' of the same place. On the Ist inst. at Ripon, Yorkshire, the Rev. Geo' Kelly, vicar of Aldborough, to Albinia, fourth d aug ht e r o , J. Dalton, Esq. of that county. On the Ist inst. at Barrowhy, the Rev. H. B. Thoroltio to Julia, youngest daughter of John T. Ellis, Esq. l a te °' t Wyddiall-hall, Herts. Lately at Holywood, the Rev. J. C. Martin, F.T.C.1 34 , to Agatha, only daughter of the Right R e v. th e Loco Bishop of Down and Connor. On the 4th inst. at Marylebone, Captain R. Irton, the Rifle Brigade, to Sarah, youngest daughter of the late J. Sabine, Esq. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Alpha-road, Regent's-park, 11.1i 0 Maria Taylor, the third daughter of the late Sir Johl l Taylor, Bart. On the 4th inst. in Cadogan-place, Mrs. E. Burrattp in her 81st year. On the Ist inst., aged 39, Miss Anne Benham, o f Nevi Millman-street, Foundling Hospital, and formerly of Ken' nington. _ On the 3d inst. at Blickling, Norfolk, J. H. Had/ Esq. aged 60. 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