The Sun. — London, England, 1829-05-06 00:00:00

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B u t, even with that abatement, few subjects have been at is shut up by Act of Parliament—when the demand any time brought forward in Parliament, the details for such voters ceases from their incapacity to con of which were listened to with more eager attest- tribute any more to the direct manufacture of county members, and to the round-about manipulation of i tion by those to whom they were addressed. Themembers, noble and gallant Marquis appears to have felt the peers or placemen—why, just as it happens in the I aituaiian of Lord-Lieutenant one of which the ap- cotton-spinning counties, when a better sort of parent character was more independent than its real engine chances to be rendered applicable— duties have rendered it since the Union. We know Otte of 100 shorse power, instead of a five nothing more irksome or galling to a man of high horse powes, the extra hands that worked the apisit, than the discovery that he is reputed to hold more numerous old ones are laid aside. So in Ire functions which he is in fact unable to exercise' land the 40s. machinery is cashiered, the 10/. engine 'and that he is but the vehicle of that pow e r of supersedes it, and the miserable, half-starved, ragged, which others imagine him to be the depositary. worn-down occupiers of bog and sty, are kicked off With the name of Chief Governor of Ireland, the premises, that the 10/. voter may have space the Lord-Lieutenant, sinre the Union, has been enough out of which to register his freehold. Bar little more than an executive officer under the daily barons! an English gentleman will exclaim; and guidance of the Secretary for the Home Depart- barbarous it is,. The system—the foundations of it snent here. Lord Anglesea, strong in his con- --are laid in ruthless barbarity. The Irish land• victims that there was but one course of policy lord and tenant are prescriptively tyrant and slave. for Ireland, gave way to feelings of natural uaeasi- Do not let us rail at the actors on such a scene : we when he perceived, or rather th oug h t t h at trots shall not amend them by it. They cannot by law he perceived, the King's Ministers to h e actuate d be deprived of the power to persecute, because by by views not bearing any close affinity to his law they cannot be deprived of their estates; nor Lordship's ; and the warmth of his expressions can they by any force of opinion he corrected, since was the strongest proof of the clearness and they arc too numerous for shame or humiliation. energy with which he discerned acid enforced the But they can be wrought upon to real if unintended true principles of an Irish Administration. With good, by that same motive which previously ren d ' , respect to the real causes of th e N o bl e Marquis's dered them, to a certain point, incapable of attempt i recall, th e y p er h a p s ma y b e trace d i n part to t h e rug it. They can be led by over-ruling interest to 'perplexity of the British Government, the ground's do that which is merciful to their people. If a law of which are set forth in the Duke of Wellington's be made which compels the man of property to con letter of the 19th of November ; and it is alike tribute towards the maintenance of the aged, the honourable to his Grace, and consolatory for Ire- sick, and infant orphans, who now fall heavily as land, that the fear of rousing the Royal apprehen- burdens upon the poor themselves, these men of ssions, and thereby rendering a great Personage more property will find that it hoots them nothing to inexorably adverse to the Duke's entreaties that his create paupers with selfish objects, but, on the trary, that comfort and abundance all around them con- Majesty would grant his concur re n ce t o emancipa . von, was the chief motive which operated on the can alone exempt their own purse from the re-action Prime Minister in his declared disapproval of some of beggary upon its authors.—Times. t.i . Lord An g lese a 'a measures. But though the After some discussion respecting the expediency Note Marquis's letter to Dr. Curtis could not have of introducing the East Retford question at so late been the cause of that Noble Lord's dismissal, it is a period of the Session, Mr. Tennyson entered on asserted to have been a circumstance by which the his motion. We were much pleased with the oh a, node of that dismissal was considerably affected. nervation of Mr. G. Wilbraham, "that in propos.- The Duke of Wellington, in fact, has not affirmed tion as some of the great manufacturing towns have that the letter to the Catholic Prelate produced the increased in wealth, education, and population, in Lord Lieutenant's recall. His Grace says only, that the same degree had a body of gentlemen, calling M idiotic that letter, Lord An g l esea ' s - Government themselves particularly the Representatives of the would not have been abruptly or unceremoniously Landed Interest, been anxious to shut the door in terminated, but that his Lordship would have had the face of those who claimed to be admitted • thus Isis successor appointed i n a manner t h e mos t agree . was s a nctioned the evil principle of uniting the aisle to himself,thsl at a time most convenient to the great Aristocracy with the lower class of the corn- Government. With respect to the Duke's in- munity, to the utter exclusion of the middling or tention of tarrying the question of emancipa- ders, and he might now say the more enlightened lion, and the time when that intention was part of the population.' The great evil in the Le t-srst conceived by him, we now think it might gislature of this country unquestionably is, that have been made out from the letter dated Sep- property is not adequately protected. How small temper 28 (notwithstanding the expression that his a proportion of the property, for instance, is Grace " doubted whether carrying the question possessed by the House of Peels, compared with would pacify Ireland"), that emancipation would be the whole property of the country ! One man attempted if the King could be brought over; and embarks capital in farming; another in some this circumstance shews the frank and ingenuous manufacture carried on in towns; they are all parts temper in which the Duke then wrote. But on of one whole, and all equally entitled to protection. the other side, nothing can be more triumphantly But the allowing Birmingham, and Manchester, and satisfactory than the manner in which the Marquis Leeds, and two or three other great towns to be explains all the circumstances which appear to have represented, would go but a small way towards re subsequently engendered dissatisfaction at his Con- medying the evil; because that evil is, that the duct. It is undoubted, also, that the Marquis of property of the country is placed at the mercy of Anglesea (no one can dispute the word of such a men, many of whom are little better than titled man) had the King's full permission—not to intro- mendicants, and benefit by misgovernment. What duce a stronger expression—to make what use he avails it that Birmingham, Leeds, and Manchester pleased of the correspondence in his vindication, are represented, if so many places, of which the in though the Duke of Wellington seemed not to have habitants have no property but their votes, are also been acquainted with the fact. The extreme deli- represented so as to render the votes of the former easy of this part of the subject, however, restrains nugatory ? What destroyed the Government of our desire of saying more upon it ; and we yield to France, before the Revolution, was the exclusion this restraint the more readily, as the business is, from authority of those who had the greatest part vess hope, now disposed of.—Times. of the property of the country in their hands. Mr. Tennyson's motion for leave to bring in a Bill to We vote a paragraph from an Irish Paper called transfer the franchise to Birmingham was negatived. the Mir them Whig, which is calculated to produce A subsequent motion of Mr. N. Culvert, for leave to vet?: strong impressions on the minds of all who read it-; and on those who read it without much know- bring in a Bill, with a view to transfer the franchise to the adjoining hundreds, gave rise to motions of ledge of the subject, or without reasoning dispass adjournment; and the result was, the postpone sionately upon the premises before them, impressions, ment of the discussion on this motion to a future well founded indeed, but somewhat exaggerated, against the proprietors of Irish estates. While the day.—Morning Chronicle. Disfranchisement Bill was under the consideration of The Marquis of Anglesea, agreeably to notice, Parliament, we foretold in distinct terms what is now entered on Monday on his explanation of the circutn stances which led to his recall from the Government communicated as a positive occurrence in the pars of Ireland. Much of the interest which the explana graphs of the Northern Whig„—namely, that when 40s. freeholders should cease to answer the end for tions would have possessed before the agitation of which they had been created, they would as a matt es the recent measure is now lost ; but still the docu of Course be dismissed from their tenements, and mesas read last night, and the explanations given, thrown utterly destitute upon the world. We urged iv 11 amply repay perusal. There can be no question this consequence of the Disfranchisement Bill, a s a n that the Noble Mar q uis conciliated, in a very extra mass of the all-powerful mcrive for instituting some precautionary ordinary degree, the affections of the measure, whereby the poor tenants ejected from their population , and that he was actuated by an ardent holdings might be saved from absolute destruction love of conciliation and a disposition to be impartial. g But impartiality was new in Ireland; and when in any or society from the effects of , their exasperation and despair. That " notices to quit" should be served country there are a favoured and a proscribed caste, he upon tenants who fail to make the landlord the who first does justice to the latter is accused of partia return which was stipulated by lease, or by unques- liry. The Duke of Wellington thought the course pur tionable understanding, as the condition on which sued by the Noble :Marquis had a tendency to defeat the were to continue on his ro erty is what the object he had in view—namely, to obtain the con y happens every day, and in pp , Lancashire and York- sent of the King to Emancipation. The allowing Mr. O'Gorman Mahon and Mr. Steele to remain In the ' shine, as well as in Downshire, or Cork, or Limerick. Commission, the visit to Lord Cloncurry, &c., had It is vain to reprobate individual landlords for a severity which belongs to their class. It is useless givengreat uneasinessto the King; and his Grace was riot only anxious to disarm the apprehensions of his to censure the class itself for faults which grow out Majesty, but to guard against exciting the jealousy of its position. The laws, nearly immemorial, which of England. Lord Anglesea expressed himself hurt had been made for Ireland, were such as could not at the unusual manner in which the event of his fail to destroy all sympathy between the gentleman and the peasant. The spirit of Irish legislation, and, recal took place, and at "the offensive manner of his dismissal." Something is no doubt due to irritated we are bound to say, of that legislation which was feelings. At the same time it must be allowed that forced for ages by English policy upon Ireland, went to constitute every gentleman's house a garrison, the answer of the Duke to the Motion with and every poor mars a secret foe, eager on most oc- his Lordship concluded is unanswerable— which It must casinos to besiege him in it. Power was given the be obvious that this House has no business to inter lord of the soil to scourge those in whom he beheld fere with the dismissal of his Majesty's Servants, i!t in where the pu his natural enemies, and whom neither law nor usage exce to injury and cases inconvenience, blic ma or in y be subjected cases where inculcated it upon him as a duty, or an honour, or a Parliament may feel it necessary to interfere for substantial interest, to conciliate or protect. Thus the discharge of those who have been supposed it happened that none of those kindly and domestic feelings which have grown up in - England, arid have guilty of abuses in their official situations. Then I think the power of Parliament may be beneficially not yet quite withered between the landlord and tenant in this country, ever took wholesome root employed; but I believe it is a fact, that except in s in Ireland, or impaired or sensibly modified that such cases the Parliament ought not to interfere, rapacious—we might say overreaching—spirit, in and that it never can do so without great injury to the puc service." A assae was dby the which the Irish landlord held up his unoccupied Marquis bli , from a letter of the g q Duke of uote Wellington acres to rne highest bidder; and the hungry and to him, which will no doubt be the subject of re reckless peasant offered, not the rent which he mark. To show that his Lordship could not have would be able to pay, but that by the excess of which over all competitors he might sue- anticipated the intentions of the Duke respecting ceed in bribing the short sighted cupidity of Emancipation, he observed, " The Noble Duke has the " gentleman" to let him into immediate also quoted a letter, in which he supposes that he told me what his sentiments on the Catholic ques possession. The system of the small tenant was to wring as much produce as saight be feasible out of tion were; all I can say on that subject is, that I have read that letter with attention, and have not the ground by wretched culture, and at no expense, running away when the exhaustion was completed. been able to discover any declaration by which I The landlord, who in his sphere might be said to might learn what his sentiments were—certainly, riot that they were favourable to the Catholic live as much from hand to mouth as the pauper tenant, looked at him merely as a sort of promissory Question.—(Hear, hear.) —The Noble Duke's ex ession i th w as, ' there are note for the rent ; and about his welfare, physical p t r hink that this at letter measure will pacify Ireland ; those but who I or social, never condescended to throw away one moment's reflection. The Elective Franchise Bill have always doubted it.'" We are inclined to in fer from this—not that he did not see the necessity of 1793 came to add another influence, and that an evil one, to the pre-existing vices of this agricultu- of Emancipation, but that other measures were also ral relationship. A new price was demanded fcr necessary to effect the pacification of Ireland.— ground which had never paid any ; and the mi- Morning Chronicle. serable peasants were induced, by the temptation of In the House of Commons, on Monday, a strong a patch of bog or mountain—to which was annexed feeling was expressed by a number of Members, the title, with the incumbrance, of a " freehold" against the conduct pursued with regard to some of —to feel themselves favoured by a settlement the claimants under the Convention with France. upon it at a rent of more than its natural value, The case of Mr. Simcox, brought forward by Mr. tinder the extra bond of perjuring themselves, Littleton, cannot be got over. This gentleman had whenever required to do so for their landlord's I been led by the Commissioners to wait the issue of interest, at the county election. Now, in such a , the case of Boyd, similar to his own; and when state of things, it was out of the question to look for I Boyd's was determined, they turned round on him, any reciprocal or endearing attachment; for the and told him he had suffered the time for appeal to bargain was sealed by mis e ry on one side, and ambi- lgo by, the money was wanted for other pur tions selfishness on the other. The tenant was ; poses. The House seemed to think, that as merely a voting tool. He was avowedly nothing long as there were funds, they ought to be applied else. His vote was to be part of his rent, and the in liquidation of just claims, and that the magi part, too, in the landlord's estimation. So claimants ought not .to suffer injustice, because the weavers and spinners of Manchester are less re- ;the Commissioners misconducted themselves.— The Chancellor of the Exchequer took a different I view of the matter. He did not seem to regret • ha d the injustice, but that the Commissioners so far committed themselves as to give the claimants a ground for still obtaining redress, by cal- ling on those who have pocketed without right to refund to those who have a right. "He wouldcon fess that the CoMmissioners had acted with manifest imprudence, and not with a knowledge of official transactions. They ought not to have been in fluenced by kind feelings. They ought to have said, Gentlemen, it is for you to decide whether you will appeal or not.' " At all events, if they had I had more knowledge of official transactions, they Would have confined themselves to vague hints, which, however effectual to throw the claimants off their guard, could not have been laid bold of. It is very provoking when one is in the mood of receiv ing windfalls, to be obliged to refund to the rightful owners, from the clumsiness of some of the instru ments employed.—lbid. Those of our readers who live under the Go vernment of the Chelsea 'Water Company, will be glad to learn that a meeting is to be held to-morrow, in the Vestry-room of the new Church, to take into consideration the conduct of the Company, in in creasing the water rate, without giving any previous notice of such intention. We doubt not that the meeting will be numerously attended, arid that the matter will undergo a thorough discussion. Some representative of the Company willalso, we presume, feel it due to its offended subjects to attend the meeting, and explain the grounds on which the additional charge is made, as well as the right of the Company to make the charge without giving any previous notice ; and we trust that on the part of the Meeting he will receive the most attentive hearing. The whole matter ought to be discussed with temper, and the attention of the Meeting strictly confined to the question before it. We had almost hoped that the Directors of the Company would have had the good sense to have abandoned the charge on the last half-year, in which case the people of Chelea would, in all probability, have withdrawn their opposition to it for the future; but no intimation of such intention has been given, though it is not yet too late.—Morning Advertiaer. We see it stated that his Majesty has given up his intention of visiting the theatres, and other public places, during his stay in town. We hope this not true. There are a thousand good reasons why the King should appear among his subjects' and none but his own personal inconvenience, that we know of, opjsosed to it. As age advances upon us, a love of ease and quiet naturally engenders it self; and we regret that the King should be called upon to do any thing personally irksome to himself. There is, however, such a thing as a tax on station : nor can it be denied that, however enviable high station may appear to be, it demands, at the best, many sacrifices from its possessor, irreconcilable with that untranslateable English word, comfort. But the King has shown himself at all times too much alive to the duties of his office to set his own -pri vate feelings for a moment in contrast with them. Recent circumstances have sufficiently proved this. Though we would not have it imagined, on the one hand, that we consider the Kingly office as depend ing mainly for respect on the outward show and pageantry which attaches to it—neither, on the other, would we be held insensible to the influence which external attractions carry with them. It is to be lamented on this latter ground, that the people have seen so little of the King of late years. To say that trade has suffered greatly by the ab sence of the Court is to put the disadvantages of the King's retired life upon a very narrow, though, as far as it goes, a true ground. We wish, even on this account, that Courts were belemore frequently. It is said, by competent judges, that the late Levee ' and Drawing-room distributed at least 20,0001. among coach-makers, tailors, milliners, &c. In fact, the King cannot appear in public, without doing great good in that way. ' But we would wish to put the King's appearance among his subjects upon a much higher ground than one of mere pounds, shil lings, and pence—on one of personal attachment. and of political expediency. George the Fourth never appears among his subjects but to rise in their estimation. Abstractedly considered, the King's appearance at a theatre may seem a matter of very little moment; but when we know that it cements an attachment, and rivets a bilk in our political welfare, we cannot persuade ourselves that, if its importance were duly represented to the King, he would hesitate for a moment in sacrificing private ease to an effort which would not be without its personal reward. Above all, we are anxious that the vile endeavours which have been made to deter the King from appearing among his subjects should not, however erroneously, be able to boast of their success. This is a point to which we have very lately alluded, and on which, therefore, we need not reiterate the reasons we then urged. We are happy to know that the whole town rings with one cry of " Shame !" at the baseness—the ineffable baseness, which can descend to such means of venting its malignity and disappointment. Let the King only appear in public, and he will be convinced that, powerful as the Press is when rightly directed, when it attempts to gratify spleen—and that at the ex pense of truth—it is not only powerless, but aug ments the attachment which it strives to weaken. —Morning Herald. GERMAN PAPERS. FLoaExcß, APRIL 19.—The accounts which we re ceive here by way of Leghorn and Pisa from numerous and distinguished Greeks respecting their own country are very satisfactory. The President in his tour of inspection through the Peloponnesus is every where received as a pro tecting angel, and his presence alone does more to esta blish order and unanimity than the long continued exer tions of others. The Greeks residing among us are al ready familiarised with the idles that Greece cannot be supported as a republic, and expect that the Powers are now fully resolved to extend the state to Arta and Volo, and will in the end give them a King who will govern them according to a Constitution under their protection. An unauthorised report again speaks of Prince Gustavus of Sweden as the Prince designed by the Powers for this di nity. In this case his proposed marriage with the daughter of the King of the Netherlands would be resumed, and he would derive from his own property and that of 'his con sort an annual revenue of 1,500,000 florins, which with the assistance that would be given by France and Russia would enable him to maintain his dignity. ODESSA, APRIL 10.—The !atest accounts from Varns of the sth instant, speak of continued landings effected by Admiral Kumani in the bay of Bourgas, by which the Turks are kept in alarm : it appears that they have as sembled their whole force between Adrianople and Shumla. We soon expect to have news of the first operations of General Diebitsch, as his troops are every where in motion. BUCHAREST, APRIL 3.—For some weeks past the dis tress which we have suffered, in consequence of the severe winter and the long continuance of bad weather, has been heightened by a murrain among the cattle, which carries off all the oxen that were not previously required by the Government. This unfortunate circumstance will pro bably cause the prices of provisions, already exorbitant, to rise still more. Mr. WILLIAM ALEXANDER, who was drtwn into the cords of matrimony by Mrs. L EAR , w h ose tr i a l we lately gave, is a Bank Director, a member of the So ciety of Friends, a most opulent worthy man, and border ing on his Both year—he has a numerous family by his for mer wife: on Mrs. LEAR he settled 800/. a .year, which by the verdict cannot be disturbed.--I r i s h p aper. SOUTHWARK BRlDGE.—Yesterday a Meet ing of the Shareholders in the Southwark Bridge was held at the London Tavern, to receive the Annual Report, elect Directors, and transact other business. J. WALKER, Esq. in the Chair. From the Report it appeared there had been little variation in the receipts, the total amount of the tolls last year being 6,8431. 149. 9d. The dividend declared was 3 per cent. on the c a pi ta l o f 150,0001., which is entitled to a priority of dividend before there can be any thing,paid to the holders of the shares on the original capital of 500,000/. The Proprietors discussed some time the necessity of having new and better ap proaches to the Bridge, and promised to take the matter into their consideration, after which they adjourned. CHIME R.—Wheat, per 751 b. Ils. 6d. to I Is. 9d.; Batley, 38 qrts 6s. Od. to N. 3d. ; Oats, 491 b. 3s. 3d. to 3 3 . 3d. Nattrwicll.—Wheat, per 751 b. 12s. 6d. to 133. Od. ; Barley, 38 tilts. 6s. Otl. to 6s. 6d. ; Oats, 5Clb. 4s. Od. to 41. 6d. DUBLIN MARKET Ni /TE.—FRI From I :WAY, May 1. To M. P. 40 0 33 31i 13 0 11 PA 21 0 17 9% 15 0 1i 1 2.5 0 13 0 12 0 1,952 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 22 0 68 Bei e 695 Barley l6 stone 14 0 3,778 Oats 14 stone 8 0 13,391 Cwt. Flour 9 stone 7 0 612 Oatmeal 11 stone 10 0 Sold to Bakers only. 5,187 Cwt. Flour Average price of Wheat and Flour 535. 4d. per sack. Firsts, from 225. Od. to 255. Od. Sales of Do. 13,394 Receipts of Flour, 9, Sales from 17s. Od. to 21s. Od. T hirds, from 7s. Od. to 16s 0.1. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London Net, Price Current of yesterday.) SVGA lhasThe Sugar Market had a languid appearance last ; week, and there was a general anticipation of lower pric. 5, on account of the eagerness of the holders to effect sales on the Muscovades being landed, and the importers of Mauritius Mme_ diately advertising large cargoes for early public sales ; the con sequence was, that the buyers bought on a limited scale, and only for their immediate use; yet, notwithstanding these cir cUmstances so much against the market, the estimated sales of the week were nearly 3,000 hhtle: and trs,, and, taking into cal. eulation the large purchases of Mauritius, the quantity of Sug..r sold last week was very extensive. The low brown descriptions are very dull, and are difficult of sale. Nearly all the good and fine Muscovades have been cleared off the market, and the buyers still reported hi be without stock. There is a change in the stock of Sugar, it is now 2,085 hhds. and trs. less than last year; the deliveries are 2,847 hhds, and trs. last week, being 357 more than the corresponding week of 1828. The market opened heavily this morning, and as there was a very indifferent show of good Sugar, the buyers evinced little inclination to purchase. At the close of the market, the estimated sales this day, includ ing 124 hhds. Barbadoes at public sale, were 700 hhds. and trs. ; the prices are unvaried; the Barbadoes sold at full prices 565. 6d. a 138 s. 6d.-In the Refined Market last week there was great lan guor, but without producing any farther reduction in the prices; several parcels of Lumps were taken for crushing, there were also buyers at low prices, where Lumps were offering at any reduc tiOn ; and for mid. qualities there was a lso some demand. The small accumulation of the stock of fine Hamburgh Loaves had an unfavourable effect on the market; the sales for the home trade were limited : several parcels of Crushed were disposed of at low prices. Molasses were unvaried. In the Refined Market this afternoon there was no alteration. FOREIGN SUGARS.-The only sales of Foreign Sugars by private contract are 100 chests good strong white Pernams, 355. a 375. By public sale on Friday, 184 hhds. 323 bits. Porto Rico, 104 chests Brazil Sugars ; nearly the whole of the Brazil Sugars were taken in. The Porto Rico.was low and in bad condition, but with some colour ; chiefly taken in 3s. a 4s. under British Plantation Sugar, and 105. lower than the last public sale ; the prices were 13s. a 225. fki. By public sale th i s da y , 120 chests 103 brls. Pernambuco Sugr, the white 30s. a 335., yellow Ilk. a 225. ; the great proportion was washed. EAST INDIA SUGARS.-At public sales, last Tuesday, above 18,600 bags Mauritius Sugars were brought forward; there was a general reduction of 2s. in the prices. Nearly the whole sold-Yellow, fine, 615.; good, 555. a 58s. ; low, 515. a 546.; Brown, low to fine, 475. a 51s. WEST INDIA MOLASSES.-The only sales last week were small parcels fine Dominica at 245. and mid. Demerara at 21s. COFFEE.-The great proportion of the new arrivals of Ja maica Coffee brought forward last week were again fine ordinary to middling, for which there appears to be little demand, and the great proportion was again taken in ; fine ordinary small bean Havannah sold 375. 6d. a 395., good ordinary coloury Porto Rico 38s. ; 204 bags good ordinary St. Domingo were offered, but they were of an old import, and sold without re-weighing, they were taken in at 35k. By public sale this day 56 casks Jamaica, 270 bags Batavia, 214 bags damaged Brazil ; the latter affords little criterion of the market prices. All the good Coffee was taken in; fine ordinary Jamaica at V:s. middling at 545,; good ordi nary Batavia at 355. ; the damaged Brazil, bit class, sold 335. a Xis. 6d. RUM, BRANDY, and HOLLANDS.-Towards the close of last week the Rum Market again became heavy, and some proofs, and a little under, sold at the lowest prices; the only other sale of Rum was a parcel of Jamaica, 28 over, at 3s. fid. Brandies were steady; the public sale went off at full Market prices. In Geneva few sales are lately reported. I ND I GO.-The Indigo Market has become very heavy ; the sales are confined to small parcels, for which a premium of 2cl. a 4d. per lb. on the late East India sale was obtained. This day by public sale 786 serons Caraccas, Flora, middling 6s. 9d. a 7s. 3d. ; Sobre, good, ss. 9d. a 6s. 9d., inferior, ss. 3d. a ss. Pd. ; Cortes, 3s. 6d. a ss. The great proportion sold at previous Market prices, of which a considerable part was for export. The sale went off better than expected. The second sale, on account of the late hour, was post poned till to-morrow; it consists of 305 serons Guatemala. TEA.-Boheas have again advanced %Ad. per lb. ; a° other alte ration in the Market. IRISH PROVISIONS.-ln Beef and Pork there is no altera- tion.—Butters remain very nominal. COTTON.—The Cotton Market is steady; the purchases for the week ending last night are too trivial for insertion. HEMP, FLAX, and TALLOW.—The Tallow Market has been firm, and considerable sales had been reported, the prices are a shade higher. In Hemp and Flax there is a small decline. SALTPETRE.—SaItpetre is firm, and rather higher. Last week, at public sale, 53 casks sold at 255. lid, a 265. OlLS.—There is little alteration in Oils, except in Linseed, which is ss. higher, on account of the scarcity of seed. FRUlT.—There was rather more inquiry for Fruit last week ; the forced sale of 10,000 boxes Valentia Raisins at 405., being ex cessively low, attracted the attention of buyers. HOPS —ln consequence of the continuance of cold weather, a demand for Hops on speculation has appeared, and sales of the fine have been made 6s. a fis. higher. TOBACCO.—The sales last week are about 500 hhds. ; the great proportion Stripts 3d. a 4d. RICE.—In Rice few sales have been effected; the market eon. tinues heavy. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING 'rum WEEK Wheat. Beans. Per Quarter. Boston Gainsborough Grantham Grimsby Horncastic Lincoln Spilsby York.— S. to S. 69 72 65 72 63 72 66 76 64 72 59 ;9 70 80 Barley. Oats. s. to a. a. to a. 36 15 30 20 38 40 22 28 25 29 18 23 20 26 18 'l4 30 32 20 25 26 29 18 22 31 34 19 28 32 38 20 28 A. to s • 3i 40 34 37 35 38 36 38 33 34 33 40 38 50 NORWICH. May 2. We had a good supply of Wheat from oir farmer's to-day, which occasioned a reduction of Is. per quarter towards the close of the market, when the whole was cleared off. There is very little doing in any other kind of Grain; our prices remain unal tered. Flour is steady in price and demand. Wheat (per qr.) ... 60s. iOs. 735. I Beans (per qr.) 35. 38s. Barley Oats 2os. 28s. —a. Flour, fine (per sack) 535. 555. CANTERBURY, May 2. We had a fair supply this day at market, but the quality of Wheat being indifferent, caused but a slow demand, at the prices of this day week. Other Grain also without variation. The young Wheat on the land, though backward, is generally look. ing well excepting on cold and very wet soils. Wheat, whits l3s. to 755. -- red .5Ss. to 705....... Old —s. to —s. Barley, Malting " 36s to 38s. Oats •''2os. to 30s. Beans 26s to 345. Pease i32s. to 35s PRICF. OF BREAD Quartern Loaf, 41b. 9Ntl. I Half-quartern, 21b. BRITISH EXPORTS. STATEMENT OP THE QUANTITIES OP IHE UNDERMENTIONED ARTI CLES OF BRITISH MANUFACTURE EXPORTED FROM LIVERPOOL, FROM APRIL 24 TO MAY 1 INCLUSIVE. Pieces. Yards. Cotton 178,007 2,571,108 Linen l7O 467,930 131anketir.g 1,400 60,405 Carpeting '7,934 Calicoes Kerseymeres - flannel Ells. Sail Cloth 4,869 Dos. Cotton Hose 4,938 Worsted Hose Cotton Handkerchiefs Bl7 Cotton Braces 4OO Hate Hardware £14,266 Earthenware £6,427 S •It White Bushels 177,245 • Salt Rock 27,000 Tons. Cwt. Chal. 1,216 0 0 • Iron Ends. Woollen Stuffs 687 383 Worsted Stu ffs 5,439 1.74 Baize 1,276 Inf. Wooilens 4,372 1,297 Cotton Threadl4,Bo2ll). —, Cotten Yarn —.40,186 £— CATTLE. AN ACCOUNT OF CATTLE IMPORTED INTO LIVERPOOL FROM APRIL Sq TO MAY 2, BOTH DAYS INCLUDED. Cows. 1 Calves. I Sheep. I Pigs. I Horses. I Mules. v 9,5 20 t , lB 4403 8 0 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL MownAA - , llLeor 4.—High water 48 minutes past eleven o'clock.—Wind West.— Arrived the Anfield, Newland, from Jamaica; Magnet, Taylor, from Sierra Leone; Everson, , from St. Vincent ; Hendrika, Har ding, from Rotterdam ; Nimrod, Agnew, from Charles ton ; Snipe, Eaton, from Rotterdam ; Vigilant, from Poole. TIIE DUKE OF ORLEANS.—(From a Paris letter in the Court Journal.)--" Speaking of the wealth of the Duke of ORLEANS, it may not he amiss to notice the peculiar economy observed in Isis household. His table and th•tt of his domestics are supplied by contract; and he is his own salesman for the greater part of the produce of his land ; so that he knew, at once Isis income and his outgoings. Every horse in his stable has a fixed allow ance of food, and means are taken to prevent their being cheated of it; and a careful account is kept of the dis bursements of his family; yet, with all this economy, the Duke of ORLEANS is not mean or parsimonious. He is charitable, and even generous, but his wealth increases d a ily. Even the new improvements in the Palais Royal, although a splendid addition to the agrenieus of that celebrated spot, will prove advantageous to him in a pecu niary point of view :—for one shop in the old wooden gallery there are now two in the new passage ; and you ma y form an opinion of the income arising from them, when I tell you that the smallest shop, with two very small rooms (one above and one beneath), lets for 3,000 francs per annum, and the larger sized at 8,000 francs. It is gratifying to know that, with all his wealth, the Duke has not forgotten the hour of adversity. Not long ago a friend of mine, an artist, having waited upon him by order, was shown all his paint ings and prints. The Duke at length stopping before a print which represents a young man giving lessons of geo graphy in a school (at Geneva), said, ' M. F—, do you recognise that tutor myself. I have more pride in that print than all my ; it reminds me of one of the most laudable acts of, alp life; of the true pride of in dependence, which induc'eset me to prefer honest support, arising from my own labosii, to the comparative splendour which might have been piPcirred from the compassion of Prints. ' /1 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, MAY 5. THE ICING V. JAMES AND WIFE. This was an indictment against George James and Ann his wife, for keeping a common brothel, at No. 21, Frith street, Soho. The Jury, after hearing the observations of Lord Ten terden on the evidence, pronounced a verdict of Guilty against both the defendants. ADMIRALTY COURT, MAY 5. Messrs. Nichol,on, Waddilove, and Farquhar, who were yesterday sworn and admitted as Proctors in the Court of Arches, were this day introduced and admitted ad eundem in this Court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named George Skelton, was brought before the LORD MALroa, charged with having committed extensive forgeries. Mr. Gates, the solicitor for the Committee of Bankers, attended for the prosecution. Mr. Roope, a tinman, deposed, that the prisoner brought a bill of exchange to him, but first presented to him an introductory letter from a Mr. Pillin, in the following words addressed to Messrs. Dennis, Brotherx, and Co , 34, Lombard-street : " Gentlemen,--A friend of mine, Mr. Skelton, wishes to have a few bills discounted. I take the liberty of recommending him, knowing him to be a most respect able country gentleman. " Your obedient servant, EDWARD PILLIN." Witness knew that there was such a man as Mr. Pillin, and after he had read the recommendation, he received from the prisoner a bill for 2001. purporting to he ac cepted by Messrs. Croppin, Thomas, and Smith, merch ants, Liverpool. The introductory letter stated, in a postscript, that the writer's name might be endorsed on the bills that might be offered for discuunt, if it were re quired. Witness desired the prisoner to call in an hour, aml ascertained in the mean time that the bill was a forgery. There were several names on the back of the bill, amongst which were those of " Grundy and Woods," " Birkett, Becks, and C 0.," " Sperges, Paley, and Ma son," " W.Jackson." The bill was drawn at three months. The prisoner was immediately given in custody to an officer. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. Mr. Gates holds other bills which have been presented under similar circumstances, and with a concern in which the prisoner has been identified. A model of a pier proposed to be connected with the first arch of the new London-bridge, was exhibited in the Great-hall of the Mansion-house, to the Lord Mayor, by Mr. Yorsten. The plan has bean introduced as calculated t put an end to the serious nuisance, and indeed the posi tive danger, which must be encountered in getting to or leaving the steam-vessels at present. The access to the pier is proposed to be by a footway running along the coping-stone outside of the parapet, on the east side of the bridge, and extending all the way from north to south, so that equal facility of approach will be afforded to both sides of the river. The descent to the pier is a staircase running down the south abutment of the first arch on the Middlesex side. The pier is intended to be 400 feet in length, and of the width of the abutment, so that vessels might lie on each side to receive and land their passengers without obstruction or danger. The Loan MAYOR said that the plan appeared to be worthy of attention, as calculated to give very great con venience. lie thought, however, that the Committee might consider that such an erection would detract from the beauty of the bridge. GUILDHALL. BAD BEEF AND LAW.—We stated in our last that a quantity of carrion beef had been brought to Newgate market for sale, in a cart on which was the name " Janes Hitchcock ;" and that Sir Peter Laurie, on the applica tion of the Ward Inquest, ordered the " beef' to be pub licly burned in the open market, and issued his warrant for the apprehension of the supposed owner of the cart, James- Hitchcock. Yesterday, James Hitchcock was brought before the same Magistrate on the authority of the warrant; and he readily acknowledged that he was the owner of the cart, and described himself as a publican and small farmer at Northholt, near Harrow. " And now," said Sir PETER LAERIE, " you Will per haps tell me where you got that unwholesome meat ?" " Why, Sir," replied James Hitchcock, " I had it from"- - Here he was suddenly stopped by Mr. Harmer, who attended for his defence, and said—" Hitchcock !—as you have employed me in your case, you should leave it in my hands ; and I advise you not to answer the question ; you are not bound in law, to answer." Hitchcock stared. He seemed to have had no pre vious notion of bow far a solicitor might be useful ; and having stared at the Alderman and the solicitor alternately for a few seconds, as doubting which was the greater authority, he gradually gathered faith in his solicitor, and remained mute. " Hitchcock," said Sir PETER LAURIE, "whenever Mr. Harmer has to defend an honest man, he invariably recommends him to tell the whole truth ; but when he has a bad man to defend, he as invariably advises him to say nothing. Now it appears to me that he has mistaken your character ; he takes it for granted that you are a bad man, when in fact you may be a very honest one ; and, if you are, you will answer my question freely. Where did you get that unwholesome meat ?" Hitchcock stared again at his solicitor, with a look which seemed to ask—" What must I do ?" " I repeat," said his solicitor, " that he is not hound to answer any questions; and my advice to him is not to answer any. Indeed lamat a loss to understand upon what charge he is brought here ;—I have heard no charge against him yet." " He is brought here," said Sir PETER LAURIE, " to answer for having sent a quantity of carrion beef for sale to Newgate-market ; and he would hare answered had not you clapped a plaster upon his mouth." " Such questions are illegal," said the solicit( r; " for no man is bound to answer questions which may tend to criminate himself; and any evidence elicited from answers so extorted would not be admissible in law." t‘ I do not care for that," rejoined Sir PETER ; " my Court is a Court of Inquiry, and I endeavour to elicit the truth, for the purpose of punishing vice, in the way which may appear to me best calculated for that end. Your client may be perfectly innocent for aught I know ; and his answer might have made his innocence manifest, had you allowed him to finish it." The solicitor still contended that a man was not bc•und to answer until a case had been made out against him, and that there was no case made out in this instance. The constable who seized the carrion nosy said Hitch cock had confessed to him that he had it from a gentleman living in the neighbourhood of Harrow; that it was part of two cows which had been killed to prevent them d'ing of disease, and that it had been sent to market to lie sold for cats, dogs, and wild beasts. Hitchcock, gathering courage every minute behind the shield of the law, protested that he had isade no such confession. But in answer to further questions put to him by the Alderman, he admitted that he did say it was sent to be sold for wild beasts, and that it was sent by his boy and his cart. Another constable described the appearance of the neat as " shocking past every thing." The bones, he said, were " covered with nothing but a thin skin filled with red water." The solicitor, upon this, said it was not possible that any person could buy such stuff, mistaking it for beef ; and it was fair to infer that it could not have been sent to market for such a purpose. The constable, however, replied that it was very pcs- Bible, for those butchers who dealt in it had a knack of stuffing the fat I/1 pork between the ribs, and skewering it on in slices, so as to make it look like " very decent meat." _ . _ " But there was no pork fat stuffed between the ribs of this of your 's—was there, Hitchcock?" said Sir PETER, LAURIE ; and Hitchcock, taken off his guard, popped his head suddenly from behind the shield of the law, and re plied—" Oh dear ! nothing of the sort, your Worship !" His solicitor shook his head at him for an incorrigible simpleton ; and after some further conference, in which the solicitor objected that the issuing a warrant against him on such a charge was illegal, the Magistrate ordered that his cart should be restored to him, and that he should be indicted at the expence of the City. Two fellows, who gave their names Charles Wilson and James Whitmore, were committed to take their trial fur disgusting and unnatural conduct, which we cannot disgrace our columns by describing. The miscreants were taken between the buttresses of Christchurch, by some of the parish officers, as they were leaving the Ves- try on Monday evening. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Thomas Cooke, who stands charged with an attempt to commit a hurgl;try at the house of Dr. Knox, Adam-street, Adelphi, was brought up in order to be finally examined. The evidence of Cuss, the constable of St. Martin's, was read over, and being again questioned by the 111sgiArate, be repeated that the prisoner was one of the six or seven M el ' whom he met running from Dr. Knos house, on th Knox e morning of Tuesday week. The prisoner in his defence declared that he knew nn'" thing whatever of the matter. He was then fully cod; mitted to prison for trial, and Mr. MINsHULL oboe"' that the conduct of Brett was so very questionable, thatt should feel it his duty to send the evidence to the Wit° Committee. It is strongly suspected that the plan to plunder Da Knox's house was suggested by a young man who 11$ lived in his service a short time ago as footman. A 01 111 .: tity of valuable plate was in the house at the time 0"---0 it was attempted to he entered, but the circumstance not known to the servants who were left in care of the premises. A well-known "swell thief," named Charles fat s Osborn, was charged with robbing a young lady of 11" reticule on the evening of Friday last in Oxford-strar. ",. Miss Eliza Marshall deposed that at four o'clock on day in question she was walking along Oxford-street 0; company with her mother, when the prisoner snatched be the stopped and was about to run away with it, who' he W g . stopped by a gentleman, who happened to be passing at i t o time. The reticule was found upon the pavement, 4 , e ., yards off. It contained a purse, with some silver in roll of tiband, and a pocket-handkerchief.---The Pri 6°ll " was fully committed for trial. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday afternoon Timothy Hurley was brenkibt be ; fore the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. WHITE and 14j* cy( RIOT, for further examination, charged on suspiciel* being concerned in the late mysterious transactie ts. Westminster Abbey. the Dr. Costen and Dr. Edwards, prebendaries ef Abbey, and the Rev. Mr. Vincent, the Chapter-eler as4isted in the investigation. A long examination ensued ; but not a tittle of eviden ci• was given beyond what has already appeared. Before the conclusion of the investigation, the prisoo: alluded to his discharge from the Abbey, which was • suspicion of stealing le id, and declared his innocence. Mr. 'WHITE had heard of the charge, but did not low to have mentioned it ; however, as he had brought it for' ward himself, he should have an opportunity of ing the circumstances another time. The prisoner wished nothing more, for he voll nOcent. Mr. WHITE trusted he was innocent; but he mot, b g e remanded for a few days longer, to make further inquir le 'd The prisoner complained that his wife and family ha nothing in the world to support themselves with, sad his Mr. WHITE ordered the overseer to provide fo r family for a few days. The prisoner was then removed. The prisoner appeared quite careless during the inv est i l.- gation, and behaved with that happy indifference vvi lls ' usually considered the characteristic of innocence. SURREY SESSIONS, MAY 5. Thomas Foster, an old man, was indicted for marrying with Mary Anne GAnder, his former ' : Ti ter- being alive. Mr. Boyd, the palish-clerk of St. Clement Danes, l! . 1 ; (lured the register-book of marriages for 1794, from vrl'l% it appealed, that on the 20th of July in that year T horus- Foster married to Elizabeth Stubbs, spinster. Mary Ann Gander, a very pretty and interesting 3 7° 1 woman, was then called, and said—l am now 21 Yeg r l,:t age. I know-the prisoner at the bar. At the time i "" 1 , I first knew the prisoner, I was living with my m other i t Bltekfriars-road. The prisoner was introduced to r,'.% f airily as a man of property, and he represented hirnselt:a a widower, and that he had estates in Lincolnshire, 11P, funded property to the amount of 8,0001. He u'lle clerical hat, and exhibited great sanctity of manners• was first introduced to me by my mother, who told , e . he was a gentleman of large property. With the pertK, sion of my another, he paid his addresses to me, a11 u ...,11 were married on the 26th of July, 1824, at Camber e°- old church. His manners were extremely kind and ge tlean oily on all occasions. Three days before ou r Plg t r il riage he said he wished to go into business for a times ° li t ; he could wind up his affairs and retire upon his prop er in Lincolnshire. The prisoner took a public - b ou t:, Walworth, and we lived there for some time. A pe.--; I called Mrs. Stubbs, was brought home by the prison ci" soon after we took the house, and she lived wi th u, /1 e 1 1 :t acted as housekeeper. The prisoner was arreste d for d, an I taken to the King's Bench prison, and my fil en then n ade inquiry about his supposed prope rt y , . and fonn. that he had none. They then removed me from him, tu° all the intercourse between ns ceased from that moment. Cross-examined by Mr. JEMMETT-1 was between 16 and 17 years of age when we were married. I thoug l4 the prisoner was a retired clergyman. 'While we "'ellip l d ing together at Walworth, a women used to call eye week to receive money ; and after the prisoner was raked to the King's Bench, I asked her who she was; she 01 she was another wife of his. Mr. THESIGER-That makes three, I believe? „ The CHAIRMAN summed up, and the Jury found t"" prisoner Guilty. The prisoner stood again indicted for int ers arrYi 4 with Martha Cox iu the lifetime of his 14wful wife' Elizabeth. Martha Cox—l was married to my former hl Cox, thirty-four years ago. I lived with him f or se ea t years. He left me and went to Madeira twenty-two . Y e4 ,,i ago. I first knew the prisoner in 1820; he represe°,'i, himself to be a widower, and was always boasting of PI property. I was married to him in the same Yea r ' ur , supported him for two years and a half entirely, and dO3, ing the whole time I only received 11. 4s. from , A When my property was wholly exhausted, be left ht We had not been long married when the prisoner broogq, home his first wife and child, and compelled m e to s , n 9baudf port them. The Jury, without hesitation, found the prisoner GoiltY; CHAIR MAN-Prisoner, your's is as bad a case of , erliaps as was ever brought befre a Court of Justice' ? I he sentence of the Court is that you be transported Pt fourteen years. ASSASSINATION AND SUICIDE. (From the Mcssager des Charnbees, dated May 3.) rA Pants, ALAI 2.—A dreadful assassination has be committed this morning in the face of day, and in S t i . middle of the Place Louis XVI., on the person of Calemard Lafayette, Deputy of the Upper Loire. A- Plagniol lay in wait it seems for the Hon. DepulY' b yll going up to him discharged a pistol at him, and thestte passed through his breast. The assassin imtnedihl afterwards blew out his own brains and expired on:tte spot. M. C. de Lafayette had strength to rise a nd get 'll-4: a carriage, after mentioning his residence, Rue Goclut, Mauroy, No. 21. M. Dupuytron, who was sent for, li t it ft M. Baud , loque, extracted a large ball from th e If ir t shoulder, where it stopped after fracturing all the botie s u "., its passage. The wound is most dangerous, and the eit rri ; lion of M. C. de Lafayette critical in the extrerne.-- -- _,%: assassin, who wore the cross of the Legion of Honour , r r , a lend-owner in the department of the Indre and ILI plop' aged 52 years : he was personally known to the r.i ° t ,a Member, and it is generally supposed that he corrovfith-i, the act to gratify private revenge, but the g round u f animosity is unknown. M. C. de Lafayette wa s a ' l°4 i f inoffensive man: his opinions as a Deputy were known the by the place which he occupied, on the right c)( his Claamber. It seems that Plagniol has premeditated , crime and the suicide which followed it wi th atr°ci°:, resolution. Ira the morning he put six letters in thehe and he was seen prowling about in the Garden 01 14 _ Tuileries and in the Place Louis XVI. watching, iold°o edly, for an opportunity to strike his victim. lf The bill with which the assassin destroyed i""::ie entered by the orbit of the right eye, carried off the I ° w -- corm:al hone, and issued oat at the upper part of the ciput, and passed through the hat. The Gazette de France dated Monday, give s %, erl nearly the same account . , but says that words t hepass ed twee* the Honourable Deputy and the assassi n before be latter fired ; that the report of the pistol brough til t guard to the spot; and that it seems it was not theo murderer saw that he was observed, and was going r pursued, that he destroyed himself. The Gazette adds the following:— de "MAY 3.-From three till ten in the morning Lafayette was still in a most precarious state. The dr ing had not been removed." PAINTED and *PUBLISHED by MURDOYO-00, Orrice, 112, STRAND, LONDON. BIRTHS. At Marino, near Swansea, the lady of I. H. Esq., a daughter. On n the 21 instant, at Wimbledon, the lady of C°wet Hull, of a still-burn child. M ARRIED. On the 20thult., at Matlock, Derbyshire, by t he he ti], Professor Cumming, the Bev. S. Cl a y ton, to Elio" daughter of the late .1. N. Cumming, Matlock Bath. DIED. 1 " On the 28th ult., Mr. Daniel Ware , son of Mr. Ware, of Tarhert, in the county of Kerry, aged 19. On the 4th instant, John Johnson, Esq late ° • War-office, aged 63.