The Sun. — London, England, 1829-12-14 00:00:00

the thunder of the laws, rir flit timelier of elo splenCe IlUf left On ss - st: aliva sl am thunder proof.The alembic, in In!y lentil, has iiirnished the wor ld a far greater benefit and blessing, then if the opus tuaxinturn had been really found by che mistry, and like Midas,: we enuld turn every thing into gold. '' Undoubtedly the! c may be a dangerous abuse in th e excess of spirits s itnd at one time I ant toady to believe the abuse was f ere it. When spirits are eltrap the business of drunkenness is achieves with little time or labour, but that evil I consider to be wholly done away. Observation for the last forty years, "tt Yeq particularly for the last thirty, has furnisbsetsl nns with ten instances of drunlcr_lll,losifroin other eatiees for one from this. Astient spirits is a great medicine . often tto remove distempers-- much more frequently to prevent thenn or ti chase, their eway in their beginnitwa It is not seettitivt In any great degrees But if not foss si ft grestly alleviates the ant of its It invittoretes kid stomach for the digestioncofror meagre diet hot sasilyalliable to tire IsusiOn 'constitution. Wine the pcor cannot touch, ricer, as applied to many occasions (as among seamen and fishermen, for instance) ssAll by no means do the business Let nee ltdd—what wits inspired with champagne ttri t'ntret will turn into ridicule -it is a medicine the mind. Under the pressure of the cares 1:7.a so; rows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in sortie physical aid to their moral consolafinS , Wine, beer, opium, brandy, or to - be:To." It may be said, and, w. believe, with truth, that Burke has exaggerated the Asa:gages of ardent spirits, fted softened the unfavourable features of the pie suet.. The world, perhaps, would hare been as well as it is now if the alembic had never been discovered. However, be this as it may, we do not see how it falls within the province of the Legislator or the Magistrate to prescribe for the moral government of individuals. Our vices . , only come within the province of the Magistrate when others stiffer inconvenience from them. Wherever a faculty is given, that faculty may be abused. A man who can read may read noxi ens books. The privilege of publishing without restraint may be used to the dissemination of erroneous doctrines, and false views. Whoever possesses the means may indulge to excess in the pleasures of the table. The rich man may drown his senses in wine, and the poor man in e;iti. The wise will be moderate in their enjoy ments, and the imprudent immoderate. We know of no means by which excess can be guarded against, except the dispositions of individuals, which it is the business of instruction and not laws to improve. Of this, however, we are certain, that no men are entitled to erect themselves into judges of what indulgences ought to be allowed to others. We protest, therefore, against all reformations effected by Magisterial interference. Who shall draw the line of distinction between what is beneficial and what is hurtful ? And why should difficul ties be thrown in the way of those who wish ardent spirits, because some may avail them selves of the facilities to drink to intoxication ? The rubicond complexions of half the people in• easy circumstances you meet in the streets, are a proof of their drinking as well as eating more than is strictly necessary for their health ; but they would resent all attempt to regulate their indulgences according to any standard fixed by others. The poor people are entitled to the same liberty as the rich. When they violate the saws, punish them ; but do. not punish them by sumptuary laws. We have a strong suspicion that the brewers arc at the bottom of the outcry against shops for the sale of spirituous liquors, which has lately been made. As to the observa tions of the Police Committee, we hold them to be little better than twaddle. We do not be lieve that drunkenness has materially increased ; mid at all events we very much question whether the interference with gin shops would materially diminish it, while we are sure the power of in terference would be abused. The surest way of counteracting the inclination for gin is to place within the reach of the people some beverage which is more palateable to them. We protest, at all events, against any extension of this sys . em of petty Magisterial interference, under the pre text of improving the public morals.—Morning Chronicle. We have just received a pamphlet, publiAed by Mr. Cadcll, under the title of " Thoughts explanatory of the Pressure experienced by the British Agriculturist and Manufacturer ;" which places the case of the agriculturists a new light. The conclusions of the writer are some what startling—no other, indeed, than that foreign trade is injurious to the country. This mode of treating the subject is entirely ncw, and the praise of ingenuity cannot be denied to him. He commences with showing that food is raised at less expense in this country than in any other. " He was led. to this conclusion (he says) by information incidentally gleaned from Polanders, which induced him to think that the gloss produce obtained from equal extents of hind of average quality, in a term qf . .five or six years, was greater in England than in Poland— that the portion of such produce retained by the Polander for the use of his soil was a greater proportion of it than is reserved by the English landholder—that the human and animal labour employed in the production and transport to market of a given quantity of corn was defrayed by a less proportion of it in England twin in Poland." He enters into a variety of calcula tions to show that, measured in labourers' wages, the cost of wheat at Dantzic is one-eleventh more than in England, or as 34.8 to 32. Speak ing of the light soils, the cultivation of which in England had been said to be a great loss, he observes, " Through inattention to facts, undue weight has been given to this outcry, emanating from a correct principle erroneously applied.— The greater portion of the light, miscalled poor soils, was taken into cultivation, in consequence of the introduction of a new system of hus bandry, more peculiarly applicable to them than' to the heavy clay lands, previously considered to be the only productive soils. Land, before in capable of growing wheat, was rendered produc tive of it by the mode of feeding off the pre ceding crops, and, fertilized by a new system of husbandry and rotation of crops, and worked with much less labour than the heavy soils, it yielded a surplus produce little inferior to them." Accordingly, he shows, by a comparison of the prices of wheat and labour, that wheat is consi derably cheaper now than during the last cen tury. " It is in vain," says the writer, " to look to the opening of Ole corn trade for a h.:ligation of the pressure which is experienced—:cur sup ply may be drawn from a market nominally cheaper, but in reality dearer. The Polander will not part with his corn without being. indemnified for the taxes raised upon it in his own country ; and the amount of indirect taxation heretofore levied upon the prOdUce of our own land must be replaced b 3 direct imposts, in some form or o ther, for the 'maintenance of the revenue and the payment of the puhlic creditor. Our sup ply of food will, hi this case, be'obtained'at highet elementary cost of production, and with a greater super-added taxation." The theory of the author shortly stated ood being; raised and brou n olU to market at less cost in Eng thau elsewhere (taxation not taken into the account), to import food in return for manufac tures i 3 to obtain less for those manufactures than could be ol.tained at both; abd to throw the 7;hat-e: t f tal.tittioti, *ould have been litirtre hy 110:i tiOttsli agriculturist, exclusively on the uiltuttracturer. "It has been clearly esta wished (he observes) that the labourer in Eng land can earn, by a day's werk, a greater com mend of food 1it,,.,: the t'olander ; and he toast riectsntisiy Cotimmiftod by his labtinr & itiOre ero tiomiell supply t f those Matutftkettt'dis and com modities whiol Att . ?. Or would be exported from tlti tt - Aintry to Poland, such as cotton goods, cloth, metallic utensils, the products - of our colonies, &c. . . . The distress felt by him at this crisis, in various districts ) proteeds from ats'insufficient demand for his labour, and not from the proportion of wages absorbed in pro curing his quota of necessaries—this proportion being demonstrably less than must be expended in the acquisition of the same articles by the Po land r. " Proof has also been given of the greater efficiency of the English land and culti vation beyonth-those of Poland, and that the ex cess" 'bt the sirogtistss4 rate of the supplies from the former arises not from a cause extraneous to the comforts and conveniences of themianufac wring workmen, but from one inseparably con nected with them—in fact, from the employment of labour conducive even in a greater degree than his own to the national wealth, and more particularly of the public funds, the burden of which, by the discontinuance of that labour, must press with aggravated force upon the ma nufacturing class of the community. Whatever portion of manufacturing labour is kept in action, or whatever portion of the products of that labour is purchased by the proceeds of this fund, the exchange, so long as the main tenance of the fund is a condition imposed upon the manufacturing workman in com mon with his fellow subjects, is one a 5 ad vantageous as can be effected by him—the remuneration for his labour being secure, and, in so far as it is afterwards expended in purchases from the British agriculturist, exchanged fOr supplies at the lowest elementary costs. Thus no part of the demand for his labour derived from this exchange can be beneficially superseded. It follows, therefore, that the quantum of la- Lour to be put ;n action remaining undiminished, and a reduction in the condition of its supply, and, consequently, in its price, impracticable under the existing levies raised upon it, the fund from which it is to be defrayed must be upheld at its present amount ; in other words, our di vidends and rents, and consequently our taxes and our produce, from whence they flow. Such will not continue to be the case in the event of the introduction of foreign produce to any consi siderable extent. By the substitution of Polish produce for that of English growth, the price and total amount of the latter must be diminished, and, of course, the amount of the country's gross surplus and rents ; indeed, without that result, the substitution would be nugatory. But it has been proved that the rate of the vendible supply of the English produce, exclusive of the influence of taxation involved in the conditions of its supply, is lower than the .foteign; conse quently that the price of the foreign can only be less by reason of the levies (contributions to our Dividend Fund), which are foregone upon it. Admitting these conclusions to be correct, with a constant tendency in the producers of commo dities to increase in number faster than the sphere of demand for their labour can be ex tended, there is only one expedient by which the manufacturer can regain and retain an undimi nished power of procuring the necessaries and convcniencies of life—the introduction of more economical modes of manufacture, of more economical moving powers, or other improve ments to the like effect. In the course of the last century, by the application of steam power, of improved cotton, woollen, and flax-spinning machinery, and the various mechanical and phy sical inventions and processes, almost concur rently introduced into our manufacturing esta blishments of the foregoing articles, and of our iron, pottery, and other commodities—lig eco nomy of our productive powers kept pace with our progressive accumulation of wealth and capital, and a corresponding outlet and demand for the products of our very enlarged industry was pre served with few interruptions. The occasional checks to the prosperity of our manufacturing sys tem are caused bytwo inherent and counteracting principles—the constant tendency of manufac tured articles to °weep the demand for them, and the equally constant conjoined action of taxa tion and money accumulation in producing mo difications of its exchangeable value in different countries. Whenever the economy with which commodities are produced by a country possess ing superior skill and dexterity in manufactures ;$ counteracted by the difference between the exchangeable value of money in that country and in the marts supplied from it, the barrier op posed to the extension of its manufactures, so as to admit of the full employment of the increas ing number of its manufacturing labourers, can be removed only by addition to the money accu mulations of the foreign customers, made through their own exertions, or by the reduction of our own money accumulations, or by a reduction in the elementary costs of our manufactures, so as to enable a greater portion of the inhabitants of foreign States to become demanders, without lessening the number in the home market." Again, he says, " The community becomes hpledged to furnish, from the proceeds of its labour and capital, nearly 30,000,0001. per an num to Government, exclusive of the current expellees of 20 millions more—together 50 mil lions per annum. Every portion of labour, skill, and material exerted and fashioned for exchange must be charged with a proportional contribu tion towards the redemption of this common pledge, before any surplus can accrue effective for the maintenance of the individual by whom the labour is exerted and material fashioned. Here is, therefore, a constituent in the condi tion of supply of every commodity, unsusceptible of abatement or modification by the efforts of skill or industry, so long as the national an nuities and costs of Government are upheld at their present nominal amount and the range of demand is circumscribed within its present limits. The remuneration to the producer must be ade quate to defray the proportion-of this constituent charge attaching to the sun p ;t's (immediate elementary costs, and to tha . .00lYed in the price of the materials and: ools required in the production of his commodity If ne parts with it without such an indemnification, he becomes an insolvent trader ; and if the labourer parts with his labour without such a compensating , remuneration he becomes a pauper. Additional advances to Covet nneent fay stirim!atiog industry by extended demand., entail angineiltation of the national zinnulties anti enlianci;inctit of the tined cthiditions Of supply. This enhancement opposes an insuperable obstacle to an extended interchange of products with foreign States, and narrows even the existing range of demigod lin our commodities. 'l' htis +Are n't ade:- - quatt 'eotinteisietion, and at a barrier to the un limited extension of a system producing in the first instance high excitation and great apparent prosperity. A counteractive principle; the re sult of the cOniplitated action of taxation and concomitantly increased revenue, will l,a neces sarily disguised under intricate modifications; and aceordingiy; in the preceding remarks, its latent operation has been shown to paralyse our efforts by effects variously manifested, though emanating from a common cause. Another col lateral consequence of the funding system is to he noticed. The enhancement in the conditions of supply, and of course of price, was detrimen tally manifested in the first instance in those pro ducts of which labour formed the main con stituent, and with the least scope of counteract ing the effects of the additional change-upon it by the introduction of improved processes and. machinery. Agriculture, navigation, and the arts in which labour is employed in its simplest form, notwithstanding the introduction of great improvements, were first affected ; their products and remunerating charges were advanced beyond the corresponding rates of countries exonerated. from the levies comprehended in our prices • It was found in those arts, that our productive powers must be superseded by those of our less burthened rivals, or be protected by fiscal impo sitions charged upon their products. The range of our profitable industry, unless where main tained by improved skill and facilities, or by ex tending protection, became progressively circum scribed with the advance of taxation, till our labour and skill at length could no longer be brought into successful competition, excepting in conjunction with machinery of peculiar effi cacy, and ingenious processes not practised by our rivals. This sphere of successful compe tition will be successively narrowed as the pecu liarities by which it is maintained become com mon to both parties, and the participation cannot be avoided. From the earliest interference of foreign competition those producers not affected by it have contended for the right of drawing from our neighbours, free from countervailing imposts, the commodities offered by them ; and the claim continues to be preferred to the present time. Un less, however, the principles enforced in the preced ing observations are invalidated, the alleged policy and advantage of such an intercourse will not be realised by it, more especially in those commo dities with elementary costs of production (ex cluding the effects of taxation) exceeding those of the same products in this country. " The total assessment upon a country cannot be sup plied less onerously to the several branches of industry than when derived from the co-operation of the most efficient producers." So much for this new theory of the advocate of the Agricul turists. It seems hard to swallow the possibility of the country always producing, at a less ele mentary cost, food than any other country. If our population were tripled would this be the case ? Surely there may come a period when the elementary cost of raising food will be higher here than in some oilier countries, and when, consequently, industry will be more beneficially emphoed rising manufactures to exchange for food - than in esising food. To sliest—how much cheaper food is now than in the time of Henry VIII., the author has recourse to the Northumberland Household Book. " A No bleman eminently distinguished by magnificence and taste maintains an establishment of 160 persons, constant residents in the house, with many occasional followers, and in the permanent retinue has several individuals, gentlemen by birth and office, viz. the Comptroller, Chamber lain, Treasurer, &c., stations filled by Sir John Norton and others, his agents (see page 27), eleven priests, including a doctor and a bachelor of Divinity ; irr short, the whole Knights' table ; and he is no less munificent in his charities, comprehended also in his expenditure." The average expence was 1,2001. per annum ; the average price of wheat was 6s. 2d. the bushel. Oats are cheaper now, relatively to wheat, than at the date of the Household Book. "At the rate of 6s. 2ti. the quarter, the sum of the ex penditure, 1,2001., is represented by 3,891 quarters of wheat, or with the equivalent of this quantity of wheat, the expenditure was defrayed at the period of the Household Book. At the present time, 3,891 quarters of Wheat, at 52i. per quarter, would command the sum of 10,1161., • a sum totally inadequate to the maintenance of the retinue and splendour of this magnificent Earl ; or, in other words, as wealth quite inferior in potency to the proceeds from a similar quan tity of Wheat in 1512."—Ibid. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE On Saturday a considerable bustle was excited at the Mansion-house by a great variety of complain ants, who came forward to claim several articles of furniture, of which they stated that they had been fraudulently deprived by a man of the name of Simmons, who formerly kept a broker's shop at Newington. The complainants consisted of chair makers, bedstead-makers, looking-glaSs-makel s, watch-makers, and a whole hOst of tradespeople of almost every denomination. llerdsfield and White, two active officers, were despatched to the warehouse of Mr. Joel, a respect able auctioneer, where the articles had been depo sited for sale. Mr. Joel gave every assistance to the officers, when he understood the nature of the transaction, and, through his communication and their exertions, several of the poor hard-working people have recoVered their property. Simmons has not been found, but a youth, about 16 years of age, who has been keeping company with his daughter, lays claim to a considerable part of the furniture still on Mr. Joel's premises, on the ground that he had purchased them of Simmons. Further inqui ries are now in progress on the subject, and it is ex pected that many other tradesmen will come for ward, when the circumstance ha. , been made public, to identify the property of which they have been de prived. BOW-STREET. On Saturday night Mr. Loir, of Museum-street, Bloomsbury, came before Mr. HALts, and gave in formation of a robbery which had taken place in his house on the preceding day. The gentleman had let the entire of his house in Museum -street, reserving to himself the back pre mises, and had removed all his furniture and pro perty from the house, with the exception of some valuable articles, which he had left in a room on the second floor. These consisted of a gold watch, seals, and chain, a silver tea-pot, and other articles of plate, some ingots of gold, and amongst other things a large Mosaic, representing St. Peter's at Rome, the value of which he could not with any degree of accuracy state, as it was an exceedingly rare and beautiful specimen of Mosaic. The rob bery must have been effected some time in the course of the day, but how the thief or thieves ob tained access to the premises did not appear. Mr. HALLS recommended that bills, containing a ileeription of the strilEn propeity, should be imme ditit,cly pririt'c.d . and sent totinil to the different pawn lirhkers ; atio; ad a fijattcr of precaution, he advised diat Mr. Loir liimBelf, or driie person deputed by him, should see that the bills were so distributed.— IN all such cases it would be necessary to do so, as he (the Magistrate) understood that pawnbrokers' boys *ere in the habit of tearing up bills describing propelly, so feet they were seldom, if ever, seen by the pawnbrokers themselves. DradcacV AND HUMANITY OF PARISH OFFlctms. —The following shocking occurrence took place at this office, which called forth from the presiding Magistrate, TDOMAS HALLS, Esq., very strong ani-. Madveroions upon the conduct of parish officers : A Very clean and decent woman, about 39 years of age, arrived at the office door in a hackney coach, about one o'clock, in the care of Burke, the beadle of St. Clement Danes, for the purpose of being re tnoved to her legal settlement, Paddington. The poor creature was so very ill, that it was with much difficulty she could crawl from the coach to the Public Office, and Mr. Halls observing her situa tion—though he had not the remotest idea of the real cause of her illness—very humanely suspended other business to dispatch her removal. After tak ing the usual oath, she appeared to be much worse, and as she was leaving the back office, she groaned deeply and became ghastly pale. On descending the steps she fell into premature labour, and brought forth a still-born child. The beadle lifted her into the coach in the dreadful situation in which she was, and took -her instantly to Paddington, leaving the child—foe it was perfect in all its parts, and appeared tt have retained life for some time— on the paverneiti; - Goodson, the keeper of Bow street Office, removed the child, and informed Mr. Halls of the circumstance. • Mr. 1-.lAus expressed himself quite indignant that the woman should have been removed in her situa tion, and complained, as he had repeatedly done be fore, that the Overseers of St. Clement Danes, in !teed of attending themselves before the Magistrates in person, or by some proper representative, sent a beadle only. He directed an officer to go to St. Clement's 'Workhouse, and request the attendance of Mr. Crooke, the acting Overseer. Mr. Crooke in a very short time appeared, and Mr. HALLS said that it was disgraceful that the Overseers should hare removed a woman under such circumstances : her death might be the conse quence of her being hurried out of the parish all the way to Paddington, and if that should be the result, he would take care that the Overseers should be prosecuted. The scene which had been exhibited in the street in front of the office was re volting to every feeling of delicaey and humanity. Mr. Crooke said that the woman complained only of a pain in her limbs when she was at the workhouse that morning. Mr. HALLS—She was not in a fit condition to be removed, that is very certain. Perhaps you were afraid of the child being born in your parish ? Mr. Crooke—When she complained of being un well a coach was ordered for her. Mr. HILLS—She could not walk, and ought not to have been removed; and I repeat, the Overseers shall most unquestionably be held responsible if the poor woman's life should be sacrificed by their mis conduct. Mr. Crooke bowed and quitted the office. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. James Butler, Mary Butler, Charles Box, Mary Pickett, William James, and Jane Simpson, were charged with housebreaking. The prisoner, Mary Butler, is a remarkably handsome and fashionable looking female, and celebrated in the theatrical sa loons as a dashing courtezan. Butt, r passes as her husband, but it is believed that he is only her " fancy man ;" and he cohabited with her at No. 80, Drum mond-street, Euston-square, which the new police have discovered to be a general depot for stolen pro pel ty. On Sunday morning last, during the absence of the family of Mr. Baylis, a grocer, in High-street, Portland-town, the prisoner James Butler, who on the three previous Sundays had _been seen lurking about the neighbourhood, -approached Mr. Baylis's house, and, with the aid of skeleton keys, delibe rately walked in through the street-door, which he shut after him. Mr. James, a neighbour, observed the whole of his prcc'cdings, and saw two men, re sembling James and Box, standing near the spot at the time Butler entered. An alarm was given; the police surrounded the house, and on Butler making his appearance at the back door, he was secured.— Mr. Baylis'a bed-room was broken open, and the contents of the drawers were strewed about the floor ; the plate and Miss Baylis's trinkets were picked up on the stairs. A policeman, on searching Butler's house, found a cart-load of stolen property, consisting of every variety of wearing apparel, silver plate, and gold and silver watches. In the back kitchen a large chest was found, filled with phos phorus boxes, ales, screw-drivers, skeleton-keys, and every other description of house•breaking imple ments, and also a box containing 70 so% ereigns, which Mary Butler attempted to seize. James Butler said that " Charley Box" and James, who keeps a green-grocer's shop, were " in it" as well as himself, and they were also apprehended ; but he said that they had time to remove any " swag" (stolen property) which they might have had in their possession, and if the officers had been an hour later they should not have found any at his house. Mr. Tianewel, of Junction-terrace, Edgware road, whose house was broken open on the 22d inst., when property of about 601. value was stolen, identified a chinchilla tippet, some bracelets, and an eye-glass, found at Butler's, as his property. Many other felonies are expected to be brought home to the prisoners, who were remanded for a final exa mination. The case seemed to excite great inte rest, and the office was crowded to excess during the investigation. QUEEN-SQUARE. A barber, who resides near Rochester-row, was charged with causing two children to become chargeable to the parish. The barber, it appeared, had a notice posted in his window, " Children taken into nurse by the day." On Monday a female called at his shop and said she wished her two children—one 18 months, and the other four years of age—to be boarded and lodged for the day. -They were accepted, but the woman never called for them afterwards, and the barber was compelled to call upon the parish to support them. The barber pleaded, that owing to the distress of the times, he was unable to afford the children the least relief, for gentlemen now-a-days were in the habit of being shaved only once a week, instead of every day, and the cold weather was not favourable to the growth of beards. The Magistrate said the parish must support the children, and advised the barber to remove the bill from his window. LAMBETH-STREET. Thomas Dean, the young man who our readers will recollect was last week brought to this office on a charge of highway robbery, was brought up on Saturday for re-examination. The prosecutor had, it was supposed, been kept out of the way by the friends of the prisoner, and we cannot too highly praise the exertions of those active and indefatigable officers, Pendergast and Miller, in endeavouring to throw light upon the affair. After a great deal of trouble, the prosecutor, John Gay, came forward, He stated that on Sunday, the 6th of November, be had been drinking from seven o'clock in the morning until ten, with some friends, and was on his return home through Shadwell, when he met the prisoner and another man, who forced their conversation upon him, and they ultimately went into a public-house and had a pint of ale together. In the course of conversation the prisoner and his com panion said they were going on an excursion up the river, and asked him (prosecutor) if he would re commend them a Waterman. He said he could, and they insisted upon accompanying him to fetch the waterman. They accordingly all started toge tiler, and when they arrived in Three Cup-court the prisoner knocked him down and snatched his watch i chain, which broke, and the prisoner and the other man both ran off, but dropped the chain and seal, Which he picked rip. Ile could positively swear that the prisoner was the man who knocked him down. The prosecutor admirtel that be was into:Ccated at the time.—The prisoner was remanded. ElizahA 31. 4 1Vantirti, the tvornatt charged with committing the extensive robbety in New Rutland street, Mile-end-road, was brought up on Saturday for re-examination, after which she was remanded. A carter, named Nicholls, was fined 40s. on Sit . - turday for riding in his cart in the Mile-end-road. WORSIIIP-STREET. ROBBERY ANI ASSAULT AT WHITE CONDUIT HOUSE.—Saturday 111 r. John Mont-house, the pro prietor of the While Conduit-house, at Pentonville, was charged by Mr. Charles Sloman, with having violently ass.tulted and beaten him. Mr. Sloman, a few evenings ago, went to the White Conduit-house, accompanied by a lady lately arrived from America, his wife, and brother-in-law, for the purpose of showing the American lady a spe cimen of English manners and customs, and afford ing her an evening's recreation, which he knew the entertainments at this place of amusement were ca pable of affording, and had only been there a few minutes when, to his surprise, he found several of the company drunk. Mr. BROUGHTON—I am sorry to say that is a true specimen of English manners among a certain class of people. Mr. Sloman—Dancing had commenced, and the lady was going down a country dauce, when a per son suddenly thrust his hand bun her bosom. I immediately remonstrated upon the indelicacy of such gross conduct, when I was assailed by eight or ten persons and knocked down. 1 called out for assistance, when Mr. Monkhouse came. into tJ3e room, and upon inquiring the cause of the disturb ance several persons surrounded him, and said then were good customers to him, and that one had spent 10.. in his house that evening, another 1/., a third 305., and so on, and told him that I and the lady I had introduced into the room were a complete nui sance, and demanded our immediate expulsion ; upon which, w i thout further ceremony, Mr. Monkhouse forced me out of the room, and struck me several times. He then threw me down stairs, and ran down after me; at the bottom of the stairs he kicked me violently, and broke the crown of my hat in. In the course of the scuffle, the American lady had a gold chain stolen from her neck, which was attached to a gold watch. I will not swear to the person who insulted the lady or that stole her watch-chain; but I see a person in Court who I think did both. Mr. BROUGHTON—Point him out, and let him stand forward. A respectable-looking man stepped forward, and gave his name Theodore Hicksman, a Custom house agent, but denied having any participation in the affray. An elegantly-attired female, possessing consider able beauty, was next sworn—She gave her name Emma Nash, and was the wife of a respectable sur geon. She had been in England about six weeks, end corroborated Mr. Sloman's statement. She could swear that Mr. Hicksman knocked Mr. St°. man down, and Mr. Monkhouse afterwards seized Mr. Sloman by the throat. Mr. Monkhouse, in his defence, said that Mr. Stonien commenced the affray, and that the state ment of the gold chain having been stolen was en tirely a fabrication, as he had cautioned the lady on going into the room to remove it from her neck, it being too valuab4 to be safe among so many strangers. She took his advice, and he saw her take the chain from her neck and give it to Mr. Slorsan, who put it in his pockets This the lady positively denied upon her oath. It wee also denied by Mr. Sloman, who called his wife and brother-in-law to corroborate his. evidence. Mr. Monkhouse then stated that Mrs. Nash was dressed so very indelicate that she . disgusted every respectable female in the room. Her neck was en tirely bare, and her language was of the lowest and most blackguard description. She swore like a trooper.—(A laueh.) Mr. BROUGHT 3e ! I don't believe a word you say unless you are supported by evidence. Mr. Howell, a professional singer, was then called, who swore that Mr. Sloman struck the first blow, and that the lady's gross conduct and indelicate manner of dressing attracted the attention of the whole company, and occasioned general disgust. Mr. D. W. Rae, the conductor of the ceremo nies, had been in company of every description and in many countries, but he never beheld a female ap pear in a public room in such an indelicate and indecent manner as the lady in- question, nor one that occasioned such general disgust throughout the company. (Here the witness, at the request of the Magistrate, detailed a more minute description of the dress, hut which was too indelicate for insertion.) As for her language, he never heard such a round hand; it could scarcely be equalled in St. Gilee's or Billingsgate. Mr. BHOUGHTON—I was never placed in such a situation in my life one party or other must be perjured. Mrs. Nash did not think it possible that three such respectable-looking men could be found in England to vilify a respectable female by deliberate and corrupt perjury. She had for some years inva riably worn flannel, which covered the whole of her neck, and it would prove of serious consequence if she omitted wearing it one evening. She had got the flannel on now, and wished the Magistrate to satisfy himself of the impossibility of any part of her neck being seen. (She here showed the Magistrate sufficient to satisfy him of the truth of the assertion.) The flannel was the same now as it was on the night in question. Her dress was also consistent with the greatest propriety. Mr. Woman and three other witnesses corro borated Mrs. Nash as to the propriety and delicacy oilier dress, and referred to Mrs. Sloman'' dress, it bring of the same make. Mr. BROUGHTON, after consulting with his bro ther Magistrate (Mr. Wilson), said—We have taken nearly three hours to investigate this most extraor dinary case. That one side is perjured there can be no doubt. I shall, therefore, leave you to your re medy upon that head in another Court. It is our .duty to come to a conclusion upon the assault. which, we think, hasiseen clearly proved to be of the grossest nature. As to the defence set up about the indelicacy of the lady's dress, and her coarse lan guage, we do not think that a lady of her appearance and manners, and the wife of a respectable surgeon, could be guilty of an offence which the commonest street-walker would refuse tc do if she was paid for ir. Her uppearance indicates nothing but respect ability, though she did not go the way to maintain it by mixing in such company. I don't mean to say that your house is not respectable, but I think it is not a fit place for respectable females to visit. Mr. iNlonkhouse said, that the ball was got up by the clerks of Messrs. Reid and Co.'s brewhouse, which was a proof of its respectability. Mr. BROUGHTON—I need not dwell on that sub ject. I thick you ought at least to have had some females to speak to the indelicacy of the lady's dress. It is not customary for gentlemen to be shocked at such sights. I therefore convict you in the sum of 51., including - costs. Mr. Monkhouse paid the fine and the parties withdrew. :UNION-HALL, A man named Wolger was committed on a charge of stealing two horses, the property of Mr. Taunton, the barrister. Ths prisoner, who made a confession of his guilt, was fully committed. We are given to understand, that it is deter mined forthwith to abolish the Check Offices in the dif ferent Dock-yards, the mustering duty of which is trans ferred to the Master-Attendant's Office, and the money transactions to the Navy Pay Office. A portion of the detail of the Check Office will fall under the more imme diate cognizance of the beveral Commibsioners of the Dock-yards. The gentlemen who fill the situations of clerks of the check will be transferred to other appoint ments. The piece-work is to be done away with, awl the men are to work six days instead of ere, for the same wage s....—Plyntouth Journal. STATE OF THE WOOLLEN TOO' It gives us the greatest pleasure to state, trot e• ! the discussions which hare taken place eilib ePi r ' aa priety of commencing a subscription for the Tr Ot t ' the unemployed poor in Leeds, Christopher iPir m Esq. the Mayor of the borough, took oce 2o.- state openly and repeatedly, that from all the int pf m reo a rm t s i o o r : t i sh ex h v e l ,oa p ra o i ro s ei s i e s m s s i on e stqltu likely, elf on the set bj et F extensively engaged in the 1 0 ,hefrolimadbeimnga_dtehele business, to posi cgs , da rest information, he was decidedly of opinieT o ds the woollen-cloth trade in Leeds nas in as g hod state for giving employment to the poor as it almost ever been at this season of the year. Th is " . oe impnrant observation he did not merely apPIY c hi ' town of Leeds, but extended it to the cloth' villages in the neighbourhood, and in confirrnat i c ti ot this gratifying view of the subject, he mentiond IA • the woollen mills in the vicinity which did the ' l ' of country manufacturers, were very fully erliPul°,loo 4 0 11 " and working longer hours then usual. The P M s ! the same time admitted,that great distress 1, amongst the stuff-weavers in the Bank and Mabfrod divisions of the town, the Spitalfields of Leto* r o il said that it was highly expedient that a subectirth, should. be en,t-ered into for their relief, which lof. himself has been pleased to head with the 601 .. .ip 201. Yesterday a meeting of a number of gentle oo 'n convened at a very short notice, was held at the C House, in furtherance of this humane object, d i / a liberal subscription, amounting from 2001. to.:ww; was entered into as a ground-work. m This _0 1 : 4 1 : lima example, we have no doubt, will be felWl by the respectable inhabitants in general, acco!:4l to their means. We are glad to witness the- , blishment of this subscriptton foe the distressed, hare taken .very mentnv ins our power to originate; promote it; but we are infinitely were 0" t° f that there is a large proportion of the inhabitant andthe state who of do crud., oot 0 0 Leeds, nine-tenths of them a t least, w ho, heg t liv thus leaving the contributions of the ben evolent st c aT i al enbeyedth eir Leedsown indurl: p u blic charity; COUNTRY CORN MARKETS• • DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. 'J....0' 4 re!' Quarter. s. to s. Is.to a. 5. to I. (12 31 23 Cxratarthcn' S 9 3.3 14 -- 52 72 33 41 22 29 Morpeth ---,..-- 46 62 30 32 18 24 Penrith 641 36 'O f Sheffield 73 29 Winchester 40 61 i 24 34 19 23 '1 6 fj; Per Bushel. s. s. d. s. tl. F. d. s. d. s. d. B . " ‘ i d Coventry 70 90 48 416 40 6(/ Newcastle (Staff) 9 0 9 6 5 6 6 0 3 6 4 0 a'6 6. Northallerton !7 0 93 3 8 4(3 33 4 0 ?g g n ; Staflbrd --..1 9 0 94 59 62 3 4 60 p 0 6 Swansea 7 9 83 4 6 48 2 3 2 6 Warwick !9010 0 , 4 6 50 3 3 40 - e n Barn l ac% r lc i a 3 0160 0 0 90 4 8 8! n ; ()- Durham .....----. 'l2O 170180 98 50 B ' j 1/ 11 A 0 d Richmon-117 0 '220! 0 0 10 6 70 86 v Stockton ----- !II 6 11 61 8 0 901 4 8 7 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. -- l ice * ll ' the There is a large supply of Wheat here to -cis li,, to fluent samples of New go off slowly, at a declipaairetoa arty 2s. per quarter, and all other deseriptiong i t 3nae Merv' dull sale, and are full 2s. per quarter luteer'... ecarcely ear little fresh Old Wheat in the market, en ~,d 7. re e atrentelf ports late prices. The ordinary sorts of uni a " c h the sin o'n Ai dull. Oats are slow sale, but prices " fli , o ff at .- same. The best samples of Barley are talo n „ t iaoe rates of last week, hut the damp and stained deocildriol meet heavy sale. There is a fair den-.and for g oo 0 0 Beans, both Old and New, bat ordinary Old an d t New are very difficult to quit. a e 0 5 * Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suilblk 51s. lbs. to 58s. - 0 as ....---- New Mc. Ws. to Mts. tine ---- White Old sss. 575. to 625. tif1e,14 44 __------ New 104 XS• to 595. &M* -- Foreign, Red l 7s. Lis. to 595. doe 46a White ......... ...... 545. is. to ISt. tine,o, Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 2Ge. to Xli• Ø" Of Lincolnshire 944. to 31s. il ti tle Op* Yorkshire Wild 263. to 214. ,s. F ore i gn 4 —9, to ..- 0 . fine Beane, Old lle to 33 1 - r n e 0 e 5:04 ---. New ..4-. .... —31 s. to Six me ige. Oats, Potato Sis, to MI& .0. 0, Poland Friezland and Small -:---- Meal ing lld. to l 'e j a per liS d Shelling tils. to 3(s• • Per I P L ' Malt 37%. 41s: flee 4.1 1 % Last. ~, per Rapeseed 10 8 5 . .. g.. ; 23 , 9° 2;0 ralli: SCOTCH AlARKET! : _______---r --- ..d. Wheat. Barley I Oat/ 1 Beans. ------. Aberdeen ....., 50 GS 2:3 28 13 22 i -- 13 8erwiek......... :10 59 IS 2(1 1 5 17 22 24 • .o. Coldstream -.34 38 20 21 1(1 IS 22 2: 1 -.: •''' Cnpar ....—. 50 CO 20 29 22 95 27 3 2 -...., , Dundee— 48 Ili 27 22 21 22 26 5 •••" ''' Elgin --- !O 82 20 25 20 23 19 21 / 1 nvernese— 53 64 94 27 19 21 19 20 ': e' kelo --. 34 39 IS 20 10 17 24 24 - Kirkahly..— 00 76 33 .14 26 32 541 34 Perth -- 59 ';(1 IA 21 14 IS 26 32 5,43.1. itr'.7" The size of the mesa re caries throt:ghout the co._____:./ Cr The size 11A1)DENGTON CORN MARKET'.—Dee. it. dig; A small Barley market, and a consequent rise in P S 3 quarters sold, 3 unsold ; top 35., average lg. It hor full supply of Oats ; 359 quarters sold, 54 nro",,ta' down Bd., and the average up 6d.. Wheat is tlP,'lleo on the average, top price down 14s. Pease so" stand very nearly at the last week's averages. 00 01 . i Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease.4os First 6os OI d ft:ls Oct 4.4 29s Od es , r j Second 515 Od 305 Od 21s Cxl T s gisu:4l, Third Tkere wen, :102 qrs. of Wheat in market, 276 w hereof W' ussold.—ll Grey. . 21.:3.5. d.t. 6.32th5. A verap DA I,;(Er The styply of ket was moderate ; than those of last TII COR2+ all kinds ; sales !lel week. to. d o tay'o4be ,er T,lkl A liKET.—Der. of Grain a this d. avy, and prices ratt Wheat. Barley. Oats. Cease. I itt First Third :sos Od £6l Ctl 113 Csl ski CORNWALL MARKETS. ....ogfir V ' . TR II 710.—NVhcat (average) 2.3.5.3d.—11ar1ey 133.0 4 ' ... pito I-Itturros—Wheat, 225. Od.—Barley, 12.5. BJ. 15 0 ' Sr. A t , sl r,t.t.—Wheat, 21s. to 215.-13arIey. 10s. t° 0' Bs. to 9:g. Od. ~, ..,Os t 'bitft Boom:lN—Wheat (average) 235. Od.— Barley, 12s. gr,; o,tg , La tlm.; KaTON—W heat (average) 235. Od.—Barley, IL'' Ss. t),l.—Beef, stl.—Mutton, :xl. )s'" ....,-..• to PEN ZANC li—Wheat, 235. to •24a.—Barley, ...-0. , .id. to o 4. Ps. to Ins. (hl.—Beer and Mutton. 4d. to Slid.—cork, 9I OP Butter, PM. er lb. tllt ~ LISKEAUD— p Wheat,224. 0(1. t 3 .-41.--Darley,l24. CK. I . oc oll to I s. Od. 31 4, ' : Sr. CoLumn—Wheat, .00s. to 2fis.---rarley, Ils. 40 and Mutton, 4d. to 50 ' .—Vcal and Lamb, Od to 6d. „A 7.1.1 MINING IN MIA.' G'ENCI3. 5678 , 8 Quantity of Copper Ore cold at Itedruth last Thmb ). u. 'I I!! I Average Produce lp Id; Quantity of fine Copper 109 1 . °.' *Amount of Sale. 13;1121. fig. o.l.—Average Standard - et, THE DUEL AT KELSO.—We , tto l'attosLE continues better, and that the s itnatioP ball has been ascertained, and is luckily not in a vtl.lo, tion, haying lodged in the flis4hy psrt of the thigh' to the outside.— Caledonia o 21.1ercu BIRTHS. • On the sth inst. at Castlel , ar, Ireland, the lAu .t f of A. Davis, 15th Re gt. of a daughter. On the 10th inat. at Basingstoke, Mrs. Birniev °f MARRIED. On the 12th inst. at St. blarylehnne, the riev*„o, Wharton, Minister of St. John's Chapel, to Alio. , of South Bank, Regent's-paik. stliffn On the 12th inst. at St. Marylebone, Mr. Geo' (D of Baker-street, Poriman.square, to Sarah , 0011 of the late William Elvin, Esq. of St. fieorg el4 ; ver square. DIED. . t o, a , ill eti ol On the 9th inst. at his se,t, Weston-Gr e !4 - iii: Willism Chatnli . eidayne, Esq., M.P. for ill° ' .' a Southampton. Elis tin thu 1 La) inst. at Kings/and-crescent , -,,,' , .; youngest daughter of the late Andrew Robsn,. r'',.;; lf igr.. On the llth inst., at his hi-oilier** residence I " ....! street, Bedford-raw, Benjamin Teeker, E.-S(0, l iP ll- Seer2tlry to the late Admsral Itari St. Vineee'l . .?4,4 i l's years the faithful and valued servant of his AP,. , Duke of Cornwall, under whom he held the l i t , Surveyor- Gametal of the Stannaries of Devon i. ;call. Ile was cal lied of suddenly by paralysis,' 14,07, only arrived in London a few days previously fr° l ?: - Tamtuerten Castle, near Plymouth PP4NTED AND Puitusuln BY munDo irot r l / 2 TDE SUN °MCP, 112, STKA