The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-04 00:00:00

APTRIT OP . THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The accounts from St. Petersburgh, stating the illness of the Emperor Nicholas, notwith standing the bulletins which insinuate rather than affirm its amended symptoms, will probably oc casion some serious uneasiness. We have not received any intelligence of a nature to deter mine our own belief upon the question, whether his Imperial Majesty's indisposition be a proper subject for alarm to his friends, or to those of Russia ; but undoubtedly there is no country in Europe where a chance, however remote, of any change in the person of the Sovereign, opens to the political world so wide a field, whether of curious or interested speculation, touching the possible consequences of such an event, as Rus sia has done during the last 70 or 80 years. It is surely no small praise of liberty, and expe rience justifies us in pronouncing, that a free Constitutional Government is the best, or indeed the only certain safeguard, against the tendency of Court intrigues to produce convulsions and violent revolutions, which hold nothing sacred, and least of all the Sovereign. Russia, as the title assumed by the Emperor imports, is the most arbitrary Monarchy in Christendom ; and to Russia, beyond all other states, we may look for illustrations of the working of that awful system, to which Princes ex hibit so insane and fatal an attachment—the system of power unrestrained by law, and un protected by it. if dominion boasts of being lawless, it sets an example which resistance feels justified ii following. Had the will of the Mo narch been less absolute in Russia, the life of Peter 111, might have been spared with safety to her who destroyed it. Had the form of Govern ment which consecrates despotism, not of neces sity left the case of a maniac tyrant unprovided for, Paul I. might have been legally deposed, his person treated with careful , tenderness, and his son might have ascended a throne unstained by murder. It is this dreadful principle, reject ing every limit and qualification of arb itrar y power, which leaves the subject no alternative between ruin and rebellion,—the Monarch none between inflicting death and undergoing it. The accession of Alexander was prepared by his father's treacherous and cruel murder ; that of Nicholas was accomplished through the usurpa tion of a brother's birth-right, and followed by the military massacre of thousands of Russian subjects. Is it, then, a wild apprehension which teaches us to shudder at the threatening and yet impenetrable adjuncts of a new succession to the crown of Russia ? The heir-apparent of Nicholas, or rather his son, is an infant of tender age. What is Michael ? Will he be satisfied to act the conscientious Regent, or to leave the Regency of the Empress-Mother un disturbed ? Where is Constantine ? Was his a real abdication, or a forced expulsion ? Has his late retirement from Poland been, as pro fessed, a relief to him, or, as suspected, a dis grace ? And has he no party still breathing dis content among the Muscovites ? The above questions may all admit of tranquillizing answers, we are ready to acknowledge ; but in a country where the monarchical principal flourishes to such perfection, that one man's will is the only substitute for rights, laws, and institutions, as elsewhere recognized, it becomes of transcend ent importance to ascertain who may be the per son whose will is about to play a part so formid able, and towards what points of the political horizon its force seems likely to be projected. Monarchs are but the helpless tools and play things of their proper creed. It would be im possible for the rest of mankind to exact a more unsparing vengeance than that so often inflicted by despotism on its own minions and disciple,. —Times. - - Our readers will recollect the observations which we made the other day upon the conduct of the Committee of City Lands, in serving a notice to quit upon Mr. Clark, who had done essential service to the public by ticketing his meat at reasonable prices, and thus breaking in upon the butchers' monopoly, by which that necessary of life had been kept exorbitantly dear. Our readers will also recollect that Mr. Legg, the Chairman of the Committee, ad dressed to us two letters on different days, in one of which lie denied that the notice had been served on Mr. Clark for the cause generally stated and believed—namely, that he " ticketed his meat cheap ;" but though he took the trouble to state what the cause was not, he did not condescend to go a little farther, and inform the public what the cause was. In the second letter he stated that Mr. Samuel Clark was not a tenant of the Corporation in the New Market, upon which we put to him the query—lf Mr. Clark were not a tenant of the dorporation, by what right did they serve on him a notice to quit ? We were not then aware that there were two Mr. Clarks, and that the notice had been served on Mr. Robert and not Mr. Samuel Clark. Here was a miserable equivoque of Mr. Legg, more worthy of a City Pleader than a City Patriot — and thus did he attempt to screen the Com mittee from the consequences of their rash and ill-advised proceeding—not by a refutation of facts, but a confusion of names ; but this was a matter not to be got rid of by a jesuitical equivocation about personal identity. The ques tion was this—" Had not a notice to quit been served on a butcher named Clark, in the new Fleet Market, for ticketing and selling his meat at 5-id. instead of 9d the pound ?"—or, " was not Clark expelled the market because his prices interfered with those which the combina tion of butchers had resolved to exact from the public ?" That a notice to quit was served is not denied ; and, whatever the cause was, it will be seen—from the report of the proceedings of the Common Council, which we insert to-day— that the obnoxious order has been rescinded. It appears, upon the statement of Mr. Lea, himself, that the Select Committee had issued the order which the General Committee has since declared them incompetent to make ; but this incompetency was not declared until we ealkul the parties who so misused their power to account for their conduct at the bar of public opinion. It is worthy of observation, that Mr. Legg now attributes the making the order to a determimk tion on the part of the Committee to prevent the subletting of shops in the new market. He says that Mr. Samuel and Mr. Robert Clark applied for the shop in question. Robert was admitted, and the application of Samuel rejected. It was soon, however, made known to the Com mittee that Samuel was in the shop, and carried on the business either as the partner or servant of his brother. There were also complaints made that he set the officer of the market at defiance, and acted in such a manner as would consider ably deteriorate the value and respectability of the market. The Select Committee felt that, unless they took some immediate measures upon the fact of Mr. Samuel Clark having obtained sur reptitious possession, the necessary regulations ainst subletting and trafficking in shops would be violated. They had, therefore, issued the no tice to Mr. Robert Clark, the only person they could recognize as tenant in possession. Mr. Legg then goes on to say—" It has been alleged that one ground for the order was, that Mr. Clark had ticketed his goods—the Select Committee had made the order only on the ground of sur reptitious possession, for he never would ques tion the right of a trader to proclaim the price of his wares as he thought proper." Now what is stated in this explanation might be a very legiti mate cause for the Select Committee resorting to the harsh measure of giving notice to quit — for, according to this showing, a deception was practised upon the Corporation ; but if so, why does this very Mr. Legg also say that " the Select Committee had acknowledged their error in making the order, and retracted it?" Where is the consistency here ? He justifies the Com mittee ; he shows that they acted not only legally but morally right in depriving an individual of a tenement surreptitiously obtained ; and then ex presses the contrition of the Committee for the error of which they had been guilty. Can chartered wisdom, can civic logic go beyond this ? We are informed by a correspondent, whose letter we publish to-day, that the great body of the Committee are to be exonerated from the folly of this proceeding ; and that it was only a junta of seven, whose names he gives, that directed the Deputy Comptroller to issue the notice to quit. We are glad to find the number so few of men capable of acting in the manner the " Select Committee" have done, although the number equals that of the " Wise Men o. Greece," who, like them, were seven, but never did so wise a thing as this in all their lives.— Who but civic patriots could put in a plea of justification and a plea of guilty at the same time ? Who else could declare, "we have a good defence upon the merits, and we acknow ledge we were in error, and throw ourselves upon the mercy of the Court." Such is the case made out by Mr. Legg ; but then a Mr. Roberts comes forward, and he accounts for the treatment which Mr. Clark received in another way. His story is, " that there was a general understanding amongst the butchers of the market—an under standing which was sufficient to bind all ho nourable men—that one and all they should abstain from ticketin g . Mr. Clark was the first to break through this regulation, and he (Mr. Roberts) had ventured to remonstrate with him on his conduct, and tell him that the Committee should be informed of the subject." Here we have the " head and front of Mr. Clark's offending" to be the ticket ing his meat, not the surreptitious possession of the premises. We leave the civic patrons of " free-trade" to reconcile, if they can, these two contradictory causes. We cannot, however, omit noticing some observations which fell from Mr. Alderman Waithman, who refused to call a wardmote on the subject in compliance of the requisition presented to him, on the ground, as he stated in the Common Council, that such a meeting would " erect itself into a tribunal to try the matter." And why not ? Is civic go vernment so like Oriental despotism that its acts are to be exempt from the examination of public opinion ? But the worthy Alderman seems to have forgotten that, in his letter to Mr. Hunt, he had given four reasons for not calling the wardmote, not one of which was the one that he mentioned in the Common Council. He, however, had the satisfaction of taking a fling at the Press, like many others whose public exist ence has been chiefly created by that Press, which, when it suits their purpose, they can sub missively court, and, when it suits their purpose they can affect to undervalue. We believe Mr. Alderman Waithman owes more to the Press than the Press is ever likely to owe to him. He talks of its " licentiousness ;" and, probably, nothing could be more licentious in the eyes of an established corporator than to reprove the folly and expose the tyranny of corporate power, especially when that exposure was attend ed by a reluctant admission of error on the part of the chartered authorities who rashly provoked the contest which they as hastily abandoned.— Morning Herald. A good deal has been said on one side and the other respecting the conduct of Mr. Const, the Chairman of the Westminster Sessions, in altering the punishment of a young culprit from transportation for seven years to transportation for life, on account of an expression offensive to the Bench. We agree with those who consider such increase of punishment contrary to sound principle, and of dangerous precedent. We leave the youth of the culprit, who was only 14 years of age, out of the question. Our objec tion is the same whatever his age might be, and whatever his offence. All the circumstances of the offender's crime had been taken into consi deration by the Chairman and his Magisterial brethren previously to passing the mitigated sen tence. If that sentence were just, and propor tioned to the offence, the Chairman had no right to alter it—once being pronounced and recorded, for, on the supposition that the first sentence was a just one—and we are bound to presume that the Chairman passed a just sentence—the latter must have been cruel and oppressive. Was transportation for seven years sufficient so satisfy the ends of justice ? Then to change that to transportation for life was the exercise of an energy beyond the law. But the culprit, by his coarse and offensive expression to the Chairman, showed that the sentence, passed but the moment before, had produced no salutary impression on his mind. True ;—we will go farther, a'td admit that it showed a disposition callous to shame, or rather vain of its depravity, and eager for ignominious distinetion. What then ? was a severer sentence, which had all the appearance of being dictated by personal resentment, likely to work a correction of feeling, a reformation of mind ? Justice was already satisfied, the inte rests of society were already consulted for, by the quantum of punishment awarded. It is true the Chairman might in the first instance, with the consent of the majority of the Magis trates, have pronounced serate.nce of transporta tion for life, The Court had deliberately ex ercised the discretion which the law allows, and having come to the conclusion that seven years' e-y,-,patriation was as much as the law wou ld have inflicted under all the circumstances, if it had left no discretion to the Magistrates, solemnly declared that the crime which had been described in the indictment, and on which the Jury had convicted the prisoner, deserved that measure of punizlimeiit. Why has the law left a discretion as to the a mount of punishment in certain crimes to those who exercise the judicial func tions? Because the generic names of crime are but kw, while the circumstances under which they may be committed are infinite—and accord ing to the circumstances, which the law can never foresee, a greater or less shade of guilt will attach to the offence. As soon, however, as the Court, after weighing all the crime, -have measured out the punishment, their discretion is A t an enct They hare • defined,, as the organ of what the law had of necessity left uncertain —nothing remains but to fulfil justice by the execution of the sentence, or to remit it by the prerogative mercy of the Crown. But an attempt has been made to defend Mr. Const on the ground that punishment by the law of Eng land is inflicted, not for atonement, but example, and therefore there need not be any proportion between the crime and the punishment, the law having only taken into consideration, not how it can reform the ?tender, but how it can pre vent the ?fence. This doctrine has been put forth by an Evening Paper that either is, or affects to be, the organ of the Government; but, however familiar it may be with the secret intentions of the Ministry, it is certainly but little acquainted with the principles of English law. The doctrine, indeed, is not a novel one ; but it is not the less absurd on that account. The same doctrine was once propounded by Judge . Buller, on the trial of a horse-stealer, we believe, at the Maidstone Assizes. " What a shame that a man should lose his life for a horse," exclaimed the prisoner, on the Court having given him judgment to die according to law. " You are to be hanged," retorted the Judge, " not because you have stolen a horse, but that horses may not be stolen." Whether the metaphysical distinction thus taken be tween atonement and a preventive example was clear and satisfactory to the mind of the doomed culprit, and gave him a better percep tion of the justice and humanity of the Eng lish law than he had before, the books do not tell us. He died, according to Judge Buller's philosophy of punishment, that horses might no/ be stolen ;—so have hundreds since his time, and horses still continue to be stolen as nu merously as ever—perhaps through the defect of metaphysical apprehension in horse-stealers, who still think they are hanged because they have stolen horses, and nothing else. Our evening contemporary, taking up the nice distinction of Judge Buller, has undertaken to set offenders right on this interesting subject ; and, when he is able to make such people understand the nice difference between being hanged by way of atonement and hanged by way of example, we hope the punishment will operate more as a pre vention than it has hitherto done. It is unfortu nate, however, for the doctrine of the Learned Judge and his commentator, that the law of England has admitted the principle of propor tionate punishment, though it has made strange deviations from it in practice. If prevention were all that is looked to in punishment, death being considered the most effective example, would be allotted to all crimes—to the smallest as well as those of enormous magnitude. This would be the excellence of the system of prevention, as our cotemporary looks at it ; but to this excellence the English law, with all its predilection for sanguinary punishments, has not yet altogether attained. If it had, then might Mr. Const, instead of punishing a contempt of Court with transportation for life, send the im penitent jester, if he were so minded, from the dock to the gibbet, which would most certainly operate as an example to prevent the repetition of such stale jokes for the future ; though, in that case, people might be apt to think that the Legislators, rather than the culprits, deserved to be hanged. But, though forgery and sheep stealing are punishable with death by the Eng lish law, as well as highway robbery and murder, yet manslaughter and petty larceny, and embez zlement, and various other offences, are not sub jected to capital punishment ; though, if preven tion were the only object of punishment, there would be no reason why the penalty awarded to them should not be equally terrible, that it might be equally effective. The English law would then he perfectly Draconic, and the Judges and Magistrates would be saved a great deal of trouble, in a multiplicity of cases, in apportion ing the punishment to the offence. We believe there is no person who would more readily repu diate such a doctrine as this than Mr. Const himself, who, though he allowed his cool judg ment to be carried away by his feelings in the instance in question, is, we understand, a gen tleman of kindly disposition, and, notwith standing an occasional crabbedness of man ner, very solicitous to administer the laws with strict justice, and to measure out punishment I with a sound and judicious discretion. It may be that some of his less reflecting brother Ma gistrates over-ruled his better judgment in this case ; but, however that may be, we should think, unless we have much mistaken his charac ter, that he now heartily regrets having acted as he did, whether on his own impulse or the sug gestion of others, and would rather that he had not inflicted a punishment which had more the appearance of being the ebullition of an angry feeling on the part of the Court than the consi derate decision of justice. We would recom mend him, the next time such a thing occurs, to imitate the enlightened magnanimity of Mr. Baron Garrow, who, not long since, upon the Norfolk Circuit, called back to the bar a hard ened offender, who had addressed him, after a lenient sentence, in a slang tirade,' more offen sive than that applied to Mr. Const—rebuked him quietly for using so stupid and stale a joke --advised him, if he would be witty, to endea vour to be original—and then calmly dismissed him, more abashed and humbled in his own con ceit by his contemptuous pity than if he had emptied on his head the seven phials of penal law.—Morning Herald. COINAGE OF FRANCE. The current coinage of France is in copper, tilver, or gold ; there are Bank .notes (Billets de Banque) the same as in England ; but there is a loss attending them when tendered at the Banque de France. Private bankers may, when they have obtained a proper license, circulate a sort of promissory note, payable three days after sight. Notes of this kind arc issued as low as 20 francs. COINAGE. Coma..—Centimes, sole, and decimes, or two-sole, fifteen, and thirty-cols piece, of platina and copper. SILVER.—Five sods, ten sole or half-franc, twenty sole or franc, and five-franc piece ; there are other pieces, such as the three-franc piece, and the six-franc piece ; but they are nearly called in, and are taken at a loss of two cols, and four sole each. GOLD. —The 20-franc piece, or Napoleon, the 21- franc piece, or Louis-d'Or, the 40-franc piece, or double Napoleon, and the 4i •franc piece, or double Louis d'Or. There are 13 cities in France where there is a Royal Mint, and each of which is authorised to coin specie. The following are the names of them, and the different marks they respectively stamp on the coinage : Paris, A.—Perpignan, Q.—Bayonne, L.—Bourdeaux, K._Nantes, T.—Lille, W.—Strasbourg, 88.--Lyons, 130.--Marseilles, MM.—La Rochelle, IL—Limoges, J.-- Rouen, B.—Toulouse, M The days that coinage is being struck, any foreigner, by making an application to the Master of the Mint at ei ther of the above places, and, on presenting his passport, will be admitted. At Paris coin is struck twice a week, Tuesdays and Fridays, for the inspection of visitors. Strange to say, that of the heavy fall of snow experienced last week in the, south of Engl an d, in the north there were not the slightest symptoms. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. PARAGRAPH HUNTING, OR THE PRESS IN TROUBLE.—Yesterday John Dean, a young man of respectable appearance, was charged, before Mr. Alderman 131 tows, with stealing certain extracts from a newspaper called Bell's Messenger, the pro perty of Mr. Deacon, landlord of a coffee-house, No. 1, Skinner-street, Snow-hill. Mr. Deacon stated, that he files the newspapers taken into the coffee-house, but for some time past several sets of these, some years old, have been de faced, and shorn of their original value, by having paragraphs, and, in some places, whole leaves, cut out. One of his people observed the young gentle man at the bar cut a piece out of a file of Bell's Messenger of the year 1823, over which he had been poring for some time, on Wednesday evening. He informed Mr. Deacon of the circumstance, who directed him to keep an eye on the pilferer of para graphs, and in a little time Mr. Dean was seen to cut out a whole leaf. Mr. Deacon sent for an officer, and as soon as Mr. Dean came down stairs he was taken into custody, and on being searched a heap of extracts from the file were found upon him, resembling the formidable array presented on a sub editor's table. The extracts were produced; and the horrific array of " dreadful accidents," " melancholy occur rences," " inquests," " determined suicides," " drownings," and " seductions," would be enough to appal the stoutest reader. Alderman BROWN wished to know what use they could be of to the prisoner ? " He is employed by the newspapers," replied Mr. Deacon, " to collect information ; and I under stand several periodicals are filled up by extracts taken from old works." The Alderman seemed a little surprised at this, to him, novel profession, and asked Mr. Deacon what value he set upon the work ?—Mr. Deacon replied that he considered the file of papers worth at least ten shillings, and in consequence of being cut up in the manner it was by the prisoner, it was ren dered wholly valueless. In that case," said the Alderman, " I shall commit him if you require it."—" Certainly," re joined Mr. Deacon • " the prisoner has been fre quenting my house Deacon; some time, and not only have various files of papers been defaced, but also several vauable books have been stolen; wherefore I wish to have the prisoner's lodgings searched." " Do you know where he lodges ?" inquired the Alderman.—" I do not," replied the complainant. " Then," said the Alderman, "I cannot ask that question of the prisoner, as it may tend to involve him in a charge.of felony." Mr. Dean was asked if he wished to say any thing.—He replied, " I confess, with shame, that I cut out the extracts."—He was committed. A gentleman who was in the Justice•room during the examination, stated to the Alderman that the pri soner NI as the "gentleman of the press" who excited recently the ire of The Sun, and other Evening Pa pers, by foisting on them a most interesting account of a seduction by a " hoary" profligate Just libe rated from " durance vile," but whose " infamous attempt" was luckily frustrated by the young lady's brother, who took her out of a coach in Regent street. The paragraph was copied into the News, and a few days after our Sunday contemporary laughed heartily at finding he had copied what had appeared in the News upwards of 20 years ago, the only difference in the new version being the substitution of Regent-street for Hatto,n-garden. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young woman, with the appearance of great poverty, was brought before Sir R. BIRNIE by Selley, a police constable, who charged her with having attempted to drown herself on the previous night. The constable stated :that he was on duty in Arundel -street, in the Strand, on Wednesday night, about ten o'clock, when he observed the prisoner hurrying towards the river, apparently in a state of distraction. Witness, suspecting her intention, fol lowed her, and just as she was about to mount the wall which :overlooks the river, he seized her, and prevented her from throwing herself over. Witness then conveyed her to the police station in Covent garden, when he procured her a pint of porter and some bread and cheese, of which she partook most ravenously. Sir R. BIRNIE, after commiserating the situation of the unfortunate young woman, asked her to what parish she belonged ? The young woman replied that she had lived as servant for two years with a family in Church-street, St. Giles's. Sir R. BIRNIE, after observing that a two years' service gave her a claim for relief, asked her if she had ever applied to the parish officers of St. Giles's ? The young woman replied that she had made appli cation to the parish-officers for relief, but they re fused to allow her any. She would not bring her self to walk the streets for a subsistence, and being wholly friendless and destitute, not having eaten any thing for two days, she was driven to make an at tempt upon her & life, in order to get rid of her miseries. Sir R. BIRNIE told the prisoner that he would order her relief, for which purpose he wrote to the parish officers of St. Giles's, requesting that they would take the young woman's case into their im mediate consideration ; and an officer was directed to accompany her, and report to the Magistrate the result of the application. A young woman named Margaret Magrath was charged by her master, Mr. Sprague, a whole sale stationer in Upper Thames-street, with rob- bing him of various articles of wearing apparel, the greater part of which she had pledged at the shop of Mr. Chaffers, a pawnbroker, who resides at No. 43, Watling street, within a few doors of the prose cutor's residence. The articles pawned by the prisoner were pro duced, and identified by Mr. Sprague, who begged to be allowed to put a few questions to the shopman of the pawnbroker, with a view to prove that a proper degree of caution had not been exercised in taking in the articles from the prisoner, who must have been known as the servant of a neighbour. The shopman denied, however, that he knew the prisoner. She was fully committed to Newgate for trial. MARYLEBONF-OFFICE. The young man who was apprehended at a pawn broker's in Oxford -street, on Tuesday, with some velvet in his possession, supposed to be stolen, was fully and finally examined yesterday, before Mr. GRIFFITH. In the first instance he gave his name John Horne, but his real name is William Homewood, and he held the situation of junior clerk with Messrs. Lyles and Bolton, silk-mercers, &c. on Ludgate-hill. John Little, a policeman of division D, No. 74, stated that on Tuesday, about eleven o'clock, his duty required him to call at the shop of Mr. Dobree, a pawnbroker in Oxford-street, and while he was there the prisoner came into one of the side boxes, and offered the piece of velvet produced before the Magistrate to pledge. The shopman asked him for his name and address; he gave it John Horne, No. 27, Well-street; the shopman said that could not be correct, for he knew the people at 27, Well street, and the priso ner was con f use d, an d t h e wit ness told him it was his duty to ascertain whether lie came by the velvet honestly, and he should go with hi m to Well-street and inquire into his story. When they got to the doo r , t h e pr i soner sa id to t h e wit ness, It's of no use to knock, for I don't live here, but I will tell you the truth. I went home with a young woman last n i g h t, an d I s l ept w i t h h er , an d t hi s morning I had n o thi ng l ess th an a sovere i gn i n my pocket, which I thought was too much to give her, and she gave me this piece of velvet." The witness then told him he must take him before his Inspector. The prisoner requested permission to walk alone, and he would willingly go. This was allowed, and he directly attempted to run away ; but b e was retaken. At ; length the witness brought him to this office, and searched him by order of the Ma gistratepocket, it appear e d t h at b e was i n t h e em ploym e nt two bills of exchange found in his ; and by of Messrs. Eyles and - Bolton. The witness Went to their house, and made them acquainted with his situation ; and on Wednesday he searched his box at that place, and found some shawls, scarfs, hand kerchiefs, and other articles belonging to his em ployers, and eight duplicates relating to similar pro perty,Pledged with various pawnbrokers, ands bunch containing several keys, two of which were skeleton keys. The witness also produced another duplicate for a piece of velvet, pawned for 10s., in Skinner -street; a silver watch, three new silk shawls, 21. 13s. lld. in money, and other articles of less value, which he found upon his person in searching him. Mr. GRIFFITH asked the prisoner whether he wished to put any questions to the witness. He declined it, but observed, his father would prove that he had the skeleton keys when at school. Mr. Edward Eyles, of the firm of Eyles and Bol ton, identified the articles produced as their property. He said the prisoner had been in their employ about six months, as junior clerk. The prisoner is of very genteel appearance, appa rently about 19 years of age, and his connections are highly respectable. One of his uncles was present during the examination, and, under the advice of his friends, he declined saying any thing, and he was committed to Newgate for trial. LAMBETH-STREET. A young lad named Charles Forgister was yester day brought before Mr. WALKER, at this office, and charged by a porter named Benjamin Drake, with having robbed him. Drake stated that yesterday week he went into the Red Lion public-house, Whitechapel, where he saw the prisoner and another man sitting in the tap room. He sat down by the side of them, and called for a pint of porter, of which they partook. On going home he discovered that his pocket had been cut out, and 19s. 3d. taken away. On the Monday following he again went there, and had 255. in his pocket, and again saw the prisoner, but on reaching home he found his pocket cut and his money gone. He remembered to have missed the prisoner at one time, and said he supposed that he must have got under the table and cut out his pocket while his companion entertained him in conversation. He went again the, next night and saw the prisoner there, and had him apprehended. Mr. WALKER said, there was no evidence to com mit the prisoner, and accordingly he was discharged. Mr. Walker advised the complainant to be more careful in future. A tall strapping woman, named Eliza Snibbs, was charged by her husband with having beaten him, and pawned all his clothes : he had once before got her sent to the House of Correction, but caused her to be discharged on her promise of amendment. She had since, however, behaved worse than ever. Mr. WALKER ordered her to find bail to keep the peace towards her husband for two mouths, in de fault of which she was locked up. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday Catherine Gill, a decently-dressed, simple-looking young woman, said to be 21 years of age, but younger in appearance, was placed at the bar before Mr. BENETT, foe final examination on a charge of robbing her master, Mr. Ware, an elderly gentleman of independent property, in whose service she had lived about six months ; and an old woman, named Ann Dickenson, was charged with receiving the stolen property. The Magistrate said that all he had heard in the course of his inquiry into the case, convinced him that the young woman was not in a sound state of mind, and therefore be should not commit her.. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday two men, Robert Chandler and John Bacon, were finally examined before Mr. Serjeant SELLON and Mr. LAING, on a charge of disinter ring a body from the burial-ground of St. John's, Clerkenwell, and were committed for trial at the present Middlesex Sessions. A fellow named Perkins, who hawk's fruit about the streets, was charged with an assault under the following aggravated circumstances :—That morn ing the defendant rapped at the door of a house in Wilmington-square, and the lady, Mrs. Cuthbert, herself opened it. He offered his fruit, consisting only of apples, for sale, when the lady told him they were not wanted, and attempted to shut the door again. The defendant, however, resisted, forced his way into the passage, and manifested a determination not to leave the house until a pur chase was made of his apples. The lady had to call for assistance, and an elderly gentleman came forward, but the moment he made his appearance the defendant struck him a violent blow on the head, a repetition of which was only prevented by the in terposition of the police. The defendant was fined in the penalty of 405., and, in default of payment, was committed to the House of Correction for one month. On Wednesday night Mr. Wilks, overseer of the parishes of St. Andrew and St. George the Martyr, carne before the sitting Magistrate, Mr.RooEtts, to complain of the conduct of a number of paupers who that evening assembled round the house of one of the overseers in Holborn, and were exceedingly clamorous for relief. He stated that the parish authorities latterly changed the usual mode of relieving the poor. In stead of giving them relief daily, as was the prac tice, they agreed to pay them one week's allowance of Is. 6d., 25., or 2s. 6d., as the case might re quire, and the paupers willingly acceded to the ar rangement. Such of them, however, as wanted economy, spent the money immediately, and after the lapse of a day or two again applied to the overseers. Mr. ROGERS observed, that the overseers did not seem tolnow what human nature was. He con sidered the sums above specified to be too small for the weekly maintenance of a human being, particu larly if he had a family of two, four, or six children. He advised the overseers to recur to the old method of relieving paupers, and ordered that all those now brought before him should receive further relief that night. UNION.HALL. Yesterday a gentleman named Seal attended to complain against a Mr—Maffen, for having given him a 101. note, which was afterwards found to have been a stolen one. The complainant said that he had received the note in question from the defendant in part payment for a horse, and that on presenting it at the Bank, it was there immediately identified as one of the num ber which had been stolen, in transitu, between Boulogne and London. The halves of the notes, it appeared, were transmitted in the first instance from Boulogne, and arrived safely at their destination; but the parcel containing the remaining halvel,which followed in a few days afterwards, was stolen from the coach in which they were deposited, and having soon got into circulation at Doncaster and other sporting places, several persons were duped by this means. The note which had got into the bands of the complainant the Bank rejected on the ground that they had already given an indemnity to the party to whom the ;totes belonged, and from whom they were stolen. It was also stated to the Magis trate, that the note in question had passed through the hands of several of the banking-houses in Lom bard-street after the robbery, but that the circum stance of it having been a stolen one was not disco vered until it was presented at the Bank of England. Mr. Maffen having been asked how the note came into his hands, he said that he had taken it from a Mr. Bond ; but having neglected to put his name on the back of it, that person had refused to acknow ledge the transaction. The MAGISTRATE said that Mr. Maffen had a right to pay the complainant the 10/., as he admitted having given the stolen note to him, and with regard to his (defendant's) recovery of the amount, he had his remedy by action against the person from whom he alleged having taken it. This suggestion of the Magistrate's seemed to sa tisfy both parties, and they withdrew. !THE LATE CATASTROPHE . AT MO' The shocking deaths of Mr. and Mrs. Hentig, Hull, the former of whom, after shooting his and setting fire to his house, destroyed himself, W p roduced fears of the most distressing na ture ei t° e fate of the two children (boys) at school et . Hamburg. It appears, by the statement of the cook to tb ° unfortunate couple, that six days previous to 1', 15 death Mr. Hentig had caused two cakes to be me° for his sons, and that, contrary to his usual habit., he had assisted in making them ; other circums tance ,. connected with this affair induce the belief that te unfortunate man put arsenic into the dough . , 6 was particularly anxious that the cakes sho nla g safely to the boys, and went with them on boar. vessel about to sail for Hamburg. In all probabiliti the cakes have arrived, and it is more than possible that the children will share their present with fa other boys of the school ; so that the most P., result is dreaded. As soon as the discovery i; made, means were taken to advise the schoolros ete of the circumstance ; but, as the vessel had sail ed" days previously, there is but little chance of the feeto ° senger arriving in time. It appears that Mr. Hen had been unfortunate in his speculations. He :` married the unhappy companion of his fate e g e ' ° ' his father's express commands. His father, holy ever, subsequently advanced him 7,0001., which h ; lost in business. The senior Mr. Hentig bad reful him any further assistance, and had not for a 1 °, 4 time been on kind terms with him. Very recenui: however, a reconeiliation took place ; but it is fours' that the son's affairs are in a very embarrassed state, and it is supposed that he dreaded exposure so n3e' ci as to produce that fatal change in his mind which le to the distressing event of his own and his wife: death. The inhabitants of Hull express the moa t intense anxiety as to the result of the inquiry te' specting the cakes. st: THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Dec. 2. .„ 0 . In our market of to-day, which was rather largely bY plied throughout, and not very numerouly at ten ded Me' either London or country buyers, each kind of meat with a depressingly dull sale, at the following prices .f.t. stone of Sib. to sink the offils:— 041 ' Beef 2s. 4d. to 3.1.8 d 2s. ad. to Mutton I 2 8 4 2 Pork 3 4 ;t4d., The foregoing quotations are Mutton 4 d , Veal from 2d. _704 and Pork 2d. to (id. per stone lower than on this day se'nnoli in prices of Beef no alteration. A great proportion of the left the market unsold. RUMFORD MARKET.—Des. 2. , 4, s. d. to s. d. Veer 2 6 3 6 1 Veal Mutton 2lO 4 0 Pork s s . esco r Suckling Calves from l 4s. to 28s. ; Quarter old Pigtl2s to 15s. Supply good, and trade very dull. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THR v1N156. 1 Wheat. Barley. Oats. Being to a• Per Quarter. s. to a. a. a. a. to 4 . 44; Blandford 61 32 25 ru 36 .„ Grigg 4B 54 26 32 18 24 Cambridge 59 27 17 . 0 . 4° Chard Huntingdon......... 56 61 20 33 17 23 ryl Long 5utt0n....... . 47 50 16 2 2 2 9 r ig Louth 46 56 29 30 17 22 - 46 62 24 32 16 29 2 4 ‘ o 3° Newark 54 61 30 37 18 43 Nottingham 55 63 30 40. 2! 3 1 Peterborough 56 70 37 40 18 xj, „ Plymouth 52 76 26 34 20 64 34 — 4 gSleaford 46 56 30 93 18 2-11 Uppingham 50 62 30 34 20 42 56 16 LEEDS CORN MARKET—Dec• I' ' day s There has been a short supply of *Grain. to thia ,uar s ter market. Fine New Wheat has been 2s. P er st - f - rei h higher, and other descriptions of New Is. to 2°'' old Wheat in good demand at last week's price, 101 , 0 some instances Is. per quarter higher, but there has o , no amendment in the stale samples. But little alters'" in other articles. 701 Wheat, Norfolk and Sufiblk, 801 b. --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. - Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire • --- Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe 14d e • A. —Mealing, Foreign 10d. to 11,►yd....English la to -- ' t os.- Shelling 9 88. to 30s; PL. wt. Rapeseed, English, 271. to 291 Foreign, —l. to ,--- I. , A t LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--ii`s,, suet At this day's market New Wheat met a re_ 1 ";„, 1 " pro"' an advance of 3d. to 4d. per bushel ; but tho ,_''" ' 00 ment was with di ffi culty obtained for OH parcel' I .moorwould have brought id. to Id. per 4 51 b. above l ast - .m o or rates, and we increase our quotations accordingly. —v is ls. per sack, and Oatmeal 6d. per pack dearer. , quotations for other Grain are not varied. At ' WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. ............. .• 88a ' 3 10 at. to 10a. 0 Red ........ . ................ 9 3 10 6 = S I r c i o 3 t h c . h , RW N ed V h e it l e ch, and * Manz ............... . 9 ,1 0 99 l og : . o s ° .. ---.-- Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 3 a ., g ---- Irish -- Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 59 0 4 ..—. Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. --- Feeding 4 0 0 BitaNs, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 45 0 ------ Irish, &c. ' 36 0 41 0 Foreign 43 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 4O 0 41 o'. 0 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 28016. 46 0 50 ,„, !: Irish a u OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 25 0 '' 8 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. S 6 RYE, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Nov. 0 0 ...- 00 1 ' Wheal Oats. I Barley Flour. _a_ jj , Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 1 I Foreign, Brls Irish, &c. SCIO I I lii 1,539 2,386 317 763 THE HAGUE, DEC. I.—The Second C 111 : 1 ; bet of the States General has been engaged in i ts la - slis sittings in long Debates on the petition of M. FoliTc fr oiti French writer, who fled from France to Flanders/ her being afterwards sent by the Government of the t o o 1 lands out of the country, addressed a petition to the °•013. General bitterly complaining of the treatment be r ect ,,,sso To-day the Chamber decided by a majority of 6g e cose, conformably to the opinion of the Committee of fe: l witi that the petition should be laid on the table. Tile' voted for the order of the day. EIRT MS. °I At Westport-house, the Marchionness of Clanr iel rdef a daughter. of On the 3d inst. in Chatham-place, M r s. Sh irle y , ' a eon. wife On the 2d inst. in . Lower Belgrave-street, the W the Rev. P. Sandilands, of a son. , „oh On the l et inst. at Brighton, the Hon. Mrs. Al t° of a daughter. I T' On the 2d inst. in Brunswick-square, the la dy,° Davidson, M.D. of Worcester College, Oxford, $ and heir. k t" On the Ist inst. at Deighton Grove, near -°l. lady of J. H. Fletcher, E,q. Surveyor-General ° Post-Office, of a daughter. MARRIED. of On the let inst. at Canterbury, J. Burton , i , 4 11i1 1 Renville, eldest son of R. Burton, E,q. of Sacket t $ (4 O, House, to Mary Helena, eldest daughter of Caps.sin " Robinson, R.N. St. Sepulchre's. On the let inst. at 13oxwell, Gl ouces t ers hire ? Is :P ci rt George Piguenit, Esq. barrister-at-law, . to Mall P i s o eldest daughter of the late Hon. George Tyson, 9 Island of Sr. Christopher. of On the 2d inst. at Hackney, the Rev. W. Evi l :: : to Trinity College, Oxford, and Rector of Pusey, 13er,„-oores Mary Elizabeth, only daughter of the late John Esq. of Andover, Hants. col' On the 30th ult. at Dumfries, Mr, John Iter 9 , c a r ie• lector of the butter market dues, to Mies Henrietta void, It is long since the bridegroom has been a great - g i r ieo li father, and altogether 81 winters have rolled ov er hi' ball however, he is a tough old fcliow yet, and at i h .: she which concluded the ceremony, he did wonder" r oe' dancing line, and footed it with so much vigour and g e hi) fulness as to put many of those to the blush who w er juniors by half a century. The bride is a ged 86. DIED. y ear On the Ist inst. in Bruton-street, in the 70th y her age, the lady of the Right Hon. Sir John Nic itu cer On the 3d inst. at his residence in Surrey-squ are :, twin Wui. Ward Farrer, in the 70th year of his B g -. 103 11$ On the 2d inst. at Strand-on-the-Green, his Soltau. DJ On the let inst. in Norton-street, Marylebon e, Bingley, widow of T. Bingley, Esq. formerly orilr" park, Berke, aged 68. I V ° i On the lit inst. Mr. R. Newton, of ViardJur— Soho. A seizure was lately made of a quantity of • cherry brandy, contained in the show glasses of a confec. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED iv DIURDO Y °° ' .-- tioner at Brighton. isiit SUN OrFICT, 11a, AND. L4:4".141