The Sun. — London, England, 1829-11-30 00:00:00

SPTUIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Bishop of Ferns has made a vigorous, not to say a violent, stand for the Church of Ire land as now existing, with all its acknowledged power and riches, and all its asserted abuse cf both. Among the various topics of defence re sorted to by his Lordship were these,—viz. the necessity and advantage of the practice of throw ing two or more parishes into one, and the faci lity of keeping clergymen in good order by legal modes of restraint or punishment. We have given in another column a letter extracted from the Dublin Evening Post, and addressed to Dr. Elrington by Mr. Ebenezer Jacob, who treats pretty freely on the two points above mentioned. It appears to us, from the facts di rectly and specificially brought forward by this gentleman, that the Bishop of Ferns would do right to bethink himself, before he submits his controversial performances to the public, how pro bable it is that any slips or extravagancies with which they may be chargeable, will not be suf fered to pass without reproof, but will experience an unmerciful exposure ; and with them, not merely the Right Reverend Author himself; but—what his Lordship must no doubt con sider of infinitely more importance,—the very cause for which he indiscreetly undergoes this hard measure of chastisement and humiliation. Dr. Elrington having doubted the existence of misconduct among the Irish clergy, and stated the ease and economy with which, if it existed, it might be punished in the Ecclesiastical Courts, Mr. Jacob reminds the Right Rev. Bishop of a correspondence which had actually taken place between them " not very long ago," when, on a complaint made by Mr. Jacob of grossly im proper conduct in one of the clergy of the Bishop's own diocese, his Lordship regretted that he had no power of " punishing that clergy man," and added, (a modest proposal, by the way), that if he (Mr. Jacob) chose to proceed against the culprit in the Ecclesiastical Court, the Right Rer. Bishop would recommend him to - an eminent civilian for the purpose ! Why, in the nature of a commentary on Dr. Elring ton's letters to Lord Mountcashel, " this bates cockfighting," as they say. But Mr. Jacob, knowing the expences of the Court of Ferns, declined the civility of the Bishop, and his emi nent civilian also. Mr. Jacob goes on with his unpitying appeals to the recollection of Dr. El rington, in two other instances, and next ad vances to another head of charge. The Bishop had expressed himself somewhat plaintively on the hardship of tithes being left in the hands of lay rectors, to the impoverishment of the unfortu nate vicars, who did the whole work of parish ncumbents, yet received but one-third of the tithe. But Mr. Jacob recalls to him, that the Bishop himself possessed the rectorial tithe of parishes within his own diocese, in respect of any performance of duty in which parishes his Lordship was no better than a layman, his un fortunate " vicars doing all the work." An ex ample well worthy of animadversion is referred to by Mr. Jacob. It involved a case of extreme cruelty, and is represented by Mr. Jacob to have occurred through the enforcement of the Bishop's own personal claims to the recovery of rectorial tithe, by his Lordship's own process-server, against a poor old doting widow woman, whose husband had been killed by the kick of a horse, against whom a decree was of necessity passed, " the costs of which" (as, indeed, is quite cre dible) " far exceeded the original debt." It does seem rather out of drawing, if judged by any analogy to English law, or to the recognized principles of justice, that Dr. Elrington should attempt to proceed before a diocesan tribunal, where he stood in the " fourfold capacity of bishop, rector, judge, and suitor, in his own cause !" Mr. Jacob expostulates on this very shrewdly, saying that no one can allege such courts to be in no need of reform, or expect that reform to be accomplished without the interfe rence of the laity. The remainder of Mr. Ja cob's letter discusses the merits of the consoli dation, or fusion of parishes, on which Dr. El rington had assumed a tone of confidence and triumph. The manoeuvres, in this respect, are neatly detected ; but we have not time nor space to follow them. The separation of an Arch deaconry and its emoluments (so we read Mr. Jacob's narrative) to bestow them on Lord Courtown's son, and the subsequent union of two ancient and unprofitable, though not unpo pulous, parishes of St. Therius and St. Seisker, to the incumbent of Wexford, with which parish eight others also are united, the whole pro ducing from 1,000/. to 1,5001. per annum (we forget whether this is the living represented by Dr. Elrington to have produced, after the Union, only 64/. per annum), are among the more remarkable cases pointed out. 'We recom mend, however, the whole of this epistle to public attention, and to that of the Bishop of Ferns, especially the sentences in which is d escr ibed the imposition of a new tithe on tobacco, and those illustrative of the effect of such proceedings on agricultural and other improvements. It is good that these ques tions have been opened, because satisfaction regarding the church of Ireland must, in one way or other, be given to the opinions and feelings of all the reflecting portion of society. We have to add, that Lord Mountcashel has published another letter to Dr. Elrington, wherein his Lorship debates, with considerable knowledge of the subject, many of the questions referred to in the former parts, of this curious and eventually, we doubt not, very useful corres pondence. The ruin of the Church under Charles I. is shewn to have arisen from other causes than those assigned to it by the Bishop, namely, to its own Popish spirit and subser viency to the tyrannical projects of the Crown. The right. to British subjects of all classes is, justly asserted, to inquire into and resist the abuses of our ecclesiastical policy. The history of certain unions of parishes, as related by Dr. Elrington, is severely corrected, and the wisdom and justice of restoring the contribution of First-fruits to its original character, viz., a payment of one year's full value of the bishopric or living, are insisted on with great earnestness and truth.— Tintes. The vesata questio of Roman Catholic epis copal appointments is at length settled. Two reacripts have been addressed to the Irish Catho lic Bishops, regulating the future mode of pro ceeding. On a vacancy, a priest is elected by the parochial clergy to administer the offices of the see, as Vicar Capitular, sede vacante. A meeting of the Dean and Chapter, where such an institution exists, in conjunction with the parish priests, is held for the election of a suc cessor. Over this meeting a Bishop or Arch bishop presides. Where no Dean and Chapter exists, the meeting is composed of the parish priests only. Three names are then selected of persons certified as natural-born subjects of his Majesty, of good moral character, and of ap proved loyalty. Copies of their names are sent to Rome, and to a synod of Bishops in Ire land, and the latter communicate their observa tions to the Cardinal Secretary of State, or to the head of the Propaganda. From this list so laid before the Pope, the new Bishop must be chosen. A mode of nomination more entirely domestic can scarcely be imagined. The new Bishop is thus necessarily a British subject, whose character has been fully investigated by two competent and responsible bodies of men. The Pope, so far from claiming a right of nomi nation, does not in the new system possess a veto. The Irish Roman Catholic Bishops become, in fact, more independent of Papal influence than most others of their class. It is a very great concession from the Vatican to the spirit of the times, and it ingrafts on the Roman Catholic faith a principle of Presbyterian church govern ment, essentially democratic in its character, and highly democratic it will be found in its conse quences.—lbid. The silence and apparent oblivion into which the unexplained case of the untimely death of INlrs. Phillips, of Finchley, was sinking some time ago, we thought it a public duty to dis turb, and try, if possible, to have the veil lifted which covered her mysterious fate. Our obser vations, which went no further than to show the necessity of a public inquiry, and to call upon the Secretary of the Home department to inter fere and prevent a failure of justice, induced Mr. Phillips to address us two letters, which we" published, and which contained rather gene ral observations than a particular statement of facts. Our readers will recollect that this gen tleman also requested us to publish a statement which he had given the public some weeks before, through the medium of a Sunday Paper. This we declined to do, but at the same time pro mised to give insertion to any original article he chose to send, containing a detail of the facts connected with this extraordinary case. On Friday night Mr. Phillips forwarded to our office a long communication, duplicates of which he sent to several other Papers. It come too late to allow •us to find room for it in our columns that night; nor could we, under any circum stances, give insertion to the whole of it, inas much as it contained serious allegations against the conduct and character of other per sons, who, if they have cast any imputa tions on Mr. Phillips, certainly never did so through the instrumentality of our paper. We have inserted his statement of facts, and his reason ings upon those facts, from which the public have au opportunity of drawing their own in ference ; but we cannot allow him to throw re flections on the motives of others, as we have not permitted any to be cast upon his own. Our object is that all " mystery" should be • cleared away from this unhappy subject, and that the public mind should be completely satisfied as to the manner in which the distressing event was brought about. There is a tone of angry feeling pervading the letter of Mr. Phillips towards Mr. Snow and others, which we did not think added any force to his statements. A good case does not need personalities, and a bad one cannot be aided by them. It was natural enough for Mr. Snow and his friends to en deavour to show that the fatality was not pro duced by professional carelessness in that gen tleman's establishment; neither would the re moval of such an implication necessarily involve Mr. Phillips in the dreadful suspicion to which, n his letter, he adverts ; for there was still the possibility that Mrs. Phillips might have de stroyed herself, or that she might have fallen a victim to the revenge of some other person. However this may be, the discussion of the subject must tend to throw some light eventually upon the matter. But the sort of investigation which we should like to see take place is that which would place upon judicial record all the facts material to the elucidation of the import ant question, whether this untimely death origi nated in accident or design. The statement of Mr. Phillips is now before the public, and we think it makes that inquiry appear more than ever necessary.—Morning Herald. We insert this day a second communication from the Parisian Correspondent who laboured so hard to prove that France was hastening to wards a revolution. In this letter he inquires into the means by which such a catastrophe can be averted, and arrives at the conclusion that without the aid of neighbouring Powers it is in evitable. It would appear from a passage in the Gazette de France, the organ of the French Government, commented on by the Courrier Francais of Friday, that the Royalists, as they are called, have speculated on the aid of fo reigners. "It appears to us," says the Gazette de France, <, that this obstinate struggle of the revolutionary interests against the monarchical principle, and the principles of social order, is sufficient to awaken the solicitude of the Eu ropean Powers. It is, in fact, their cause which is agitated here ; and they must be destitute of all foresight, all care for their own preservation, if they look with an eye of indiffereHce on the attempts of a faction which for thirty years has shaken all thrones." The Courrier Francais observes on this passage, " If there is anything more humiliating than another to a greatpeople, it is this invocation to what is not itself—this support sought elsewhere than in the general eonfidence and in national force ; and it is at the moment when, it is said, they wish to rely on the power of the flag, on military devotedness, that these designs are disclosed with so much awkwardness, that they represent themselves in a suppliant attitude before certain Cabinets to demand assistance from them." The Courrier F7ancctis, after ri- cliculing the idea of expecting aid from Foreign Powers, adds significantly—" I know not, in the present state of Europe, who would have most cause for fear, if ever such a design, or rather such a folly, were to seize the Cabinets." No ; if the present Government of France rest their hopes on an efficient aid from Foreign Powers, they will unquestionably be disappointed. There is a material difference between the inva sion of Spain to restore Ferdinand to arbitrary power, or an invasion of Naples by an Austrian army, and a confederation against so powerful a country as France. The memory of the conse quences of the first interference with the affairs of France in behalf of the Bourbons, is yet too fresh to allow the Sovereigns to yield to any in clinations, however hearty, to crush democracy in that country. The present Sovereign of France and the emigrant Nobility, who are arrayed with him against the nation, ought also to have some recollection of the events between the Revolu- tion and the Restoration. They were the objects of universal execration. The people of France attributed to their machinations the violation of their territory by strangers ; the Prussians and Austrians insulted them, and branded them as cowards, during the march and retreat of the Duke of Brunswick ; the natives of the Rhenish Provinces of Germany detested them as the authors of the misery which the war entailed on them ; and ) when the advance of the French army compelled them to betake themselves to the interior of Germany, every power guarded against their entrance as against a pestilence, and even the King of England drew a cordon round his Continental dominions to exclude them, These events must have left traces behind in the memory of the adherents of Emigrant Royalty. The Spaniards were not ripe for a revolution, and it failed. The Liberals in that country were too few in number, and they were, besides, not equal to the emergency. In stead of creating an interest in c 'the people, by measures of a decisive character, they made rhodomontade speeches, and allowed them selves to be persuaded, by the orators of the House of Commons of this country, that revolu tions can be effected without giving pain to any body, and that the Spanish Cortes would immor talize themselves, by exhibiting liberty in a more amiable light than she had ever been exhibited in before. The French Jacobins were men of business ; they knew their situation ; they knew that the Court, the Nobles, and the Clergy, were, and would be to the last, sworn enemies to the Revolution. They had recourse to measures of violence; but the measures were necessary. Without them, the Counter-Revolution would have succeeded, and France would have been what Spain now is—the contempt of Europe. The spirit which now displays itself in France, from one end of that country to the other, affords a guarantee that the people will not be insulted with impunity. Wore the Sovereigns to inter fere in behalf of a family whose presence is itself felt as a memorial of their humiliation, the re action might once more involve Europe in con fusion, and subject the reigning families to more terrible humiliations than any they have yet en dured.— Morning Chronicle. We alluded the other day to a clever pamphlet which has just been published by Effingham Wilson, on the East India and China trade, in %Nhich the conduct of the East India Company is strenuously defended, and a powerful attempt made to expose the folly of those who imagine that the abrogation of the East India Com pany's charter would be a great benefit to the community. The most curious part of the pamphlet is that in which an attempt is made to prove—first, that the trade in tea which is car ried on by the Americans with the Continent, is by no means a profitable one, owing to the general absence of a taste for tea—and, secondly that the Company actually dispose of their teas at a cheaper rate than the Americans import it. The consumption of tea appears to be not only small indeed on the Continent, but to be annually decreasing ; and what will appear still more astonishing, the prices of some kinds of tea to be actually lower than they are, duty included, at Canton ! Such facts can only be accounted for, either by the Americans carrying on a losing trade with the Continent, the teas which they import, being adulterated, or of an inferior quality to those sold by the Company ; and the writer of the pamphlet even intimates that the first and the last suppo sitions afford a true explanation of the apparent difficulty. It would appear, according to his statement, not only that there is not a taste either in America or on the Continent for tea to the same extent as in this country ; but that the teas which are consumed there are inferior in quality to those imported by the Company, or, rather, are the teas rejected by its taster in the course of his selection for the Company. If these facts be as stated, they assuredly go far to excul pate the Company from any abuse of its monopoly, as well as from the charge of enormous gains made at the expense of the public, which has been brought against it ; but while we readily give all the credit due to these facts to the Company, we must at the same time enter our protest against the conclu sion, that the trade either with India or China would not have increased more in private hands than in those of the Company. Such a doc trine is refuted by the comparative success of every Company and- individual speculation that has ever been entered into ; and when we add, that notwithstanding the profits derived by the Company from its different monopolies, it owes a debt of no small magnitude, which must be taken into account in considering the success with which it has managed its affairs, we think it will readily be conceded that great deductions ought to be made from the flattering statements of the _pamphlet-writer. We observe also in the tables which are given in the pamphlet now under consideration, that although the trade carried on in tea by the Ameri cans with the different States of Europe, does not appear to have been profitable, and is now on the decline, their own consumption during the last few years has rapidly increased. It ap pears also from the table, which exhibits a com parative statement of the trade carried on by the Company and the United States with China, that although that of the latter exhibited a con siderable falling off from former years in 1827, it had during almost every previous year, shown a stong tendency to increase. There are also many other observations which occur to us, tending to show either a twisting of facts to suit particular purposes, or an evasion of important points of discussion, which our limits will not permit us tomake at present.—Morn.Advertiser. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE RAIL WAY.—A number of our readers are no doubt aware that the railway intersects Cross-lane, Pendleton, con siderably below the level of the high road, and that an arch was consequently required to early the road over the line of railway. The arch, which is of brick, has recently been finished, and the workmen had just removed the frame-work, on Thursday morning, when one end of the arch gave way, and in a moment the whole was a mass of ruins. At the time the first end of the arch fell, there were six men beneath, five of whom fortunately escaped at the opposite extremity, but the other, we re gret to say, was buried in the ruins. All the persons connected with the place now directed their exertions to extricate him, and after a lapse of about twenty minutes his lifeless remains were taken out. The deceased, whose name is JASIRS KILLER, of Eccles, was conveyed to the Railway Tavern, to await the result of the Coroner's In quest, which, we believe, will be held over him this day. —.Manchester and Salford Advertiser. YARMOUTH, Nov. 26.—During a tremend ous gale from the N.E. by E. on the night of Tuesday last, of the six vessels then in our roads five of them were blown on shore; a light vessel from Shields was running for the Bar, and got on the North, where she remained for some time without any possibility of rendering her as sistance, at last she went to pieces, and eight poor fellows were launched into eternity, and only one saved. Three vessels laden with coals cams on shore, all hands saved ; a vessel laden with linseed came on shore, all hands savec ; a fishing-boat also came on shore, out of which three men were drowned.—Norfolk Chronicle. WANTON CRUELTY.—In a field contiguous to the road between Sheffield and Barnsley, and near to Chapeltown, one of a flock of bheep was found, a few nights ago, with its face skinned, its eyes extracted, and its ears cut off! ! Thus maimed, the poor animal was running wildly about the field, bleating most piteously.— Surely the monster of cruelty who could do such a deed of inhumanity will not escape ultimate punishment.— Doncaster Gazette;; POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MAINAION.HOUSE. J. Ma!pas, a man of respectable appearance, aid this wife, were brought b e f o r e th e L O R D M AY O R sunder the following extraordinary circumstances ----- Jenkins, a Welsh farmer, just arrived in ';town, stated that on Tuesday last he was going to put a letter in the Post-office, and met three respect able men, of whom he inquired the way. They said 'they were going to the Post-office, and he went with them. After he had put in his letter, one of the party proposed going to a public-house, and he ac companied them. He had a pocket-book about him, containing several 5/. country bank notes payable at Lubbock's. He neither spoke of his notes, nor showed his pocket-book; but on returning to his lodgings was astonished to find that the notes had been taken out of his pocket-book and tea-paper put in their place. The next morning he gave notice at Lubbock's, and the day following a lady came with one of the 51. notes to be paid, and, on being ques tioned about it, said she got it from her husband, who was waiting outside. The male prisoner was found outside, as she said, and they were both taken into custody. The Welshman, on seeing the male prisoner, immediately identified him as one of the party with whom he had been drinking. The officer who took the prisoner into custody found on him a purse, containing some new halfpence, which might be mistaken for double sovereigns a t a distance, some gilt farthings, and a parcel of flash notes, which the officers described as forming part of the regular stock in trade of a nags-man, the slang name for the plunderers who are on the watch to make prey of unsuspecting country people. The male prisoner denied any knowledge of the Welshman's notes, said he had been assistant-naturalist in a voyage of dis covery with Captain Franklin, with whom he sailed in the Blossom; and that several gentlemen of the Foreign-office would speak in his favour. He was remanded, to give time for 'the prosecutor to pro duce evidence of the number of the notes., The female was discharged. BOW.STREET. On Saturday night, a man, who had the appear mice of being employed to look after horses, was brought before Mr. HALLS, by police constable Stewart, of letter F. division, charged with having a hare in his possession. The defendant had just arrived in town, and the hare, which he was about to make a present to a friend, had been given to him in the country by a gentleman's gamekeeper. He refused, however, to give up the name of the party from whom he had re ceived it. Mr. HALLS observed that the law certainly im posed a fine upon parties in whose possession hares were found; but as it was notorious that hareswere publicly carried every day through the streets of London, he was unwilling that the individual who was now charged should be in a worse condition than hundreds of persons who committed the same offence with impunity, and that, too, in the most open manner. The defendant, however, had given a very lame account of his possession of the hare, and had therefore subjected himself to the penalty provided by the Act of Parliament, which, although seldom acted upon in the metropolis, was in force. The defendant was then fined in the mitigated penalty of 10s. for having a bare in his possession ; and the Magistrate added, that the penalty was 51. if he had offered it for sale. The defendant paid the fine, and was discharged. The hare was ordered to be sent to the workhouse of the parish in which it had been found, for the use of the poor. An elderly man named James Franklin, a young fellow named Wm. Brice, and two prostitutes named Thompson and Gilbert, were held to bail for a violent assault in a brothel at 20, Little Shire-lane, upon a respectable than named Winter, who resides in Chancery-lane. The evidence was supported by Police Serjeant Perry, and Police Constable Hark well. Mr. HALLS also bound the witnesses over to in dict the the prisoner Franklin for keeping a dis orderly house. BIARLBOROUGH-STREET. On Saturday a man named Wm. Talbot, the driver of the hackney-coach No. 542, who has been in custody some days, charged with being concerned in the following daring robbery, was brought before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, for final exami nation. It appeared that about the hour of five o'clock on the morning of last Friday week, during the preva lence of the very dense fog that darkened the me tropolis, a waggon arrived at the Green Man and Still coach and waggon-office, inOxford-street, from Cheltenham, and stopped there to deliver a variety of parcels directed to that office, for persons in that neighbourhood, and amongst them several for Mr. Campbell, the East India Director, residing in Argyll-place, m hose family were about to return to town from Cheltenham. Of these parcels, when they were removed from the waggon to be taken into the office and placed for a moment on the foot pavement, two trunks instantly disappeared with out any person having been observed to remove them, no doubt, to the density of the fog, and search hay ing been made for them in vain, they were given up as lost. At this time one of the new police con stables, named Condy,was on duty in Regent-street, and observed a hackney-coach driving along at a rapid rate towards the Quadrant, with another man besides the driver on the box, and a man also inside the coach, and suspectingthat all was not right, he determined to watch the vehicle, if possible, to its destination. The coach, having got partly down Regent-street, was suddenly turned by the driver into Hanover -street, through Hanover-square, up again into Oxford -street, the direction from which it first came, and then again down Regent-street a second time into Ar gyll-place by the door of Mr. Campbell's house, and through Marlborough-street, passing the door of this office. Condy, who still, notwithstanding the density of the fog, kept the coach in view, now seeing that all these turnings were evidently made to escape pursuit, called to the driver to stop, but, instead of doing so, the latter lashed on his horses as fast as they could go; the second man from the box and the man inside jumping at the same time from the coach, and escaping in the mist. Condy now redoubled his speed, and at last the driver, seeing that he could not escape the vigilance of his pursuer, pulled up, and, on examining the coach, the constable found two large trunks in it, of the loss of which from the waggon-office he then knew nothing; but as the driver could give no satisfactory account of them, Condy took hint and the trunks to the watch-house, where it was seen that the trunks were addressed to Mr. Campbell; and thus the loss of them from the waggon-office was disco vered. Two female servants of Mr. Campbell's house hold, who 'had packed the trunks at Cheltenham, and had since arrived in town, attended and identi fied the trunks and their contents, which were of considerable value, as belonging to Mr. Campbell's family ; and a person from the waggon-office proved the arrival of the trunks there, and their having been missed in the manner described. The prisoner was then committed for trial ; and the Magistrate lauded in very just and warm terms the good conduct and prompt vigilance of Condy, the constable, in the affair, and said that such ac tivity in the new police could not fail to make them of the highest value to society, and secure to them selves a valuable character and speedy promotion. DIARYLEBONE-OFFICE. Mr. Chamberlain, a tradesmaninthe vicinity of this office, applied to Mr. HosKINs, the Magistrate, for his advice under the foll ow i ng c i rcumstances : the newspapers a report Bloomfield on a charge of swindling, he had discovered that the prisoner was the person who had given him a bill of exchange of He the stated , e examination that ita t i r o e n reading f , for 10/. lls. for goods furnished. The bill was drawn by John Toms, of No. 40, Chapel-street, Grosvenor-square , 'and made payable there to Bloomfield's acceptance. The complainant had in quired several tunes lit the address, but was in-, Formed Mr. Toms was in France, and not expected for a month, and that Bloomfield's address was net known to them. Mr. HOSKINS directed a summons to be issued against Mr. Tome, and informed the complainant the pr►soner stood remanded for Tuesday next, so as to allow other persons to come forward. Mr. Chamberlain could bring twenty other trades men who had been defrauded in a similar manner. George and Rockingham, two captains of Pad dington canal barges, Atterbury, the driver of the towing horses, Tibbs, Masters, and Golding, three boatmen, were charged with a brutal outrage on two of the new police men, on Saturday the 21st instant. John Collins, serjeant, No. I, division S., stated that going his rounds with William Warlters, a private, near the Paddington canal, on last Saturday morning about nine o'clock, he observed the pri soner Atterbury cruelly beating one of the towing horses; witness warned him to desist, but was answered by the foulest abuse, and the prisoner con tinued beating the animal over the head and ears with the butt end of his whip. Witness, with his companion, waited till the barge had passed through the tunnel, and then enquired of the captain (George), to whom the horse belonged; the reply was in the grossest language, and all the prisoners, excepting Golding cried out " they are policemen ;" George and some of the other prisoners jumped ashore, and commenced a brutal attack upon witness and his brother officer. George struck him a tre mendous blow on the face, and the point of a boat hook was thrust through Warlters's upper lip, and finally they were thrown into the canal, when the other Captain (Rockingham) struck at them with a boat-hook, all the prisoners in horrid terms cheer ing each other, with exclamations of" Murder them —drown them." Witness and Warlters now cried out for mercy, but the prisoners passed onwards with their barges, leaving witness and Warlters to get out of the canal as they could. On recovering themselves, they went to the lock-house, and learned the names of the prisoners. William Warlters confirmed the above statement. Two gentlemen who reside adjacent to where the transaction took place corroborated the evidence of the policemen, and described the outrage as one of the most desperate and brutal they had ever seen. They were fearful of assisting, from the wel - known violence of the boatmen. The Magistrates, after consulting together, said the offence was of a most aggravated description. Upon George and Rockingham, the two captains, they should inflict the highest penalty, as sending them to prison would not make them better men. They, more especially, ought to have controlled tileir men instead of aiding them. The sentence was, that they should pay a fine of 51. each, and enter into bail for one year. Atterbury to pay 405., and 20s. for cruelty to . the horse; and Masters and Tibbs to pay 20s. each, and all to be imprisoned till such fines were paid. Golding was discharged. WORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday James Wilson was finally examined before Mr. BROUGHTON on a charge of stealing a quantity of crape, the property of Messrs. Grout, Baylis and Co., of Gutter-lane, Cheapside, who have an extensive crape manufactory at Ponder's end, about nine miles from London.—Committed. Information was given at this office by Mr. Ru berv, of Belvedere-place, Bethnal-green, pawn broker, that his house had been broken into that morning and robbed, and it was evident from his statement that the robbers must have been well ac quainted with the premises. They had entered, it appeared, through a window at the back of the house. The inner part of the shutters was closely studded with nails, but the robbers had dexterously avoided the nails, and cut out a panel by boring round the edges with a centre-bit. They then cut a square of glass to admit an arm, and having re moved an alarm bell from the inside, opened the window and entered. They car r i e d ff 100 silver and metal watches, 200 gold rings, .100 tea, table, and caddy spoons, a silver cream jug, &c. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday morning Mr. CARTER, Coroner for Surrey, and a highly respectable Jury, assembled at the York Hotel, Waterloo-road, to inquire into the cause of the death of a young man, about 19 years of age, of fashionable appearance, who was found in the river Thames, on Thursday morning last, under the following circumstances : William Wood Parker, of No. 3, Gibson-street, Waterloo-road, waterman, on Thursday morning last, about eight o'clock, was at the Surrey side of Waterloo-bridge, whin a woman came and informed him that a man was drowned, but she was afraid to go near him. Witness proceeded to the spot, and found the deceased lying on his face near the shore. He was quite dead. He searched his pockets, and found the card now produced, on which was printed "James Simpson, cutler, 55, Strand," several ma nuscript extracts from ancient history, and school exercises. Two silk handkerchiefs were tied round his face. CORONER—Did you find any money or watch on the deceased's person ? Witness—l found the articles which I now produce. CORONER—Did you find any money—you are on your oath ? Witness—l did not. CORONER—Was any body present when ye)" searched him ? Witness—Nobody. CORONER—Your conduct has been most impro per. You had no right to search the deceased, unless in the presence of some person. You ought to have sent for an officer, or hare carried him to the watch or work-house. Witness—l am not fond of carrying dead bodies. CORONER—Oh ! I dare say you are more deli cate than the rest of watermen. You were delicate enough to search a dead body, but not to carry one. By a Juror—There was no blood on the de ceased's face. On one of the papers was written " Major Ayala." He had on a blue coat, with gilt basket buttons, a silk striped figured waistcoat, olive green trousers, mixed coloured stockings, marked " J. A," a black silk stock, and white kid gloves. He had no hat when found. A Juryman observed that he had read an adver- tisement i❑ the papers of that morning, offering a handsome reward for the discovery of a young man answering in every respect the description of the deceased. The CORONER said that there was no evidence to prove how he came in the water. The only verdict the Jury could return in the present state of the case would be " Found drowned, but by what means he came in the water there was no evidence to show to the Jury." That verdict was accordingly returned, when Mr. Carter addressed the Jury upon the necessity of employing a surgeon to examine the body in all similar cases in•future, in order to ascertain whe ther there were marks of violence on the body suf ficient to cause death, or in fact whether the person was dead or not. The parish might hesitate on ac count of the expense, but that, in cases of neces sity ought to be viewed as a secondary considera tion. He was once called upon to hold an inquest upon the body of an individual supposed to be dead, and after going through all the preparatog ceremonies before the view of the body, in going to the house they found the man alive, he having re ceived medical treatment. Roberts, the beadle, was despatched to the office of Mr. Soarle, of White's-alley, Cornhill, whose name was mentioned in the advertisement, and he shortly afterwards" returned with Mr. Soarle, his guardian, and his schoolmaster, with several other friends, when they identified and claimed the de ceased's body, &c. Mr. Soarle stated, that lie was connected with a family of high repute in Spain, who had sent him toithis country for the benefit of his educ a ti on . H e twreaastpedlaclevditi properatt aschool ca a r t e Brixton, xtor, where he was attention, i arid was making rapid progress. lie was a steady young man, and did not apply for remittances as often as others under his care, and he could not account for his mysterious disappearance. The _last bQ . ffi of him prior to his di sso l u ti on , was on the ' lw November, when he wrote to witness for 81. to?' his music master, which he .ascertained_had ~1 1 .1 114 paid to him. He had pr ev io us ly written!' to friends to know-if they had any objection to 'l;i 6 turning to his own country. He was the kist would suspect to commit_ suicide. While the Jury were sitting, a young man or 7 - , %eau,' 1 cent appearance c a ll e d on M rs . R o berts, t h e bt 1 wife, and pretending to cry, exclaimed " Ohl 74, ou poor brother, my p oor d ear b rot he r !" Mrs. nobtt endeavoured to appea s e hi m , an d as k e d hi m " caused his grief. He replied that he had called the body of his brother, and be would bring a COc off the stand to take it away. Halls, the poll officer, fortunately entered the place at the time, o ,, on interrogating the " body sna t c h er ," h e cou ld P°' give the least description of his brother's pera ll : and during the temp o r ar y a b sence o f H a lls, t b fellow ran off, and made his escape. This is a cool' mon practice when bodies not owned are food , : and on gaining possession they are carried to O le , anatomical establishment. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST 'NEM Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Del ° Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. t• : Carlisle 01 —. 21 .... Carmarthen 58 23 96 52 79 33 41 9 tl 99 50 a' Morpeth 45 65 30 31 18 94 92 •"" Penrith 06 56 w Sheffield — 73 gg Winchester 40 03 28 36 19 29 U • 4 1 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s. d . 5.6, s. d. 00 Coventry 7 0 9 0 4 8 5 4 9 0 4 0 5 6 :a Newcastle (Staff.) 90 94 59 63 30 40 56 Northallerton --.1 70 93 36 46 33 40 59 8 0 ' SStafford9 0 94 59 62 96 6 0 7 2 9 • Swansea 8 0 86 44 48 24 2 00 Warwick 9 0 10 0 4 0 5 0 3 3 4 0 7 9 „v• Per 8011. Barnardmstle ........ 12 0 15 6 0 0 9 0 4 6 6 n n 0 g i 0 Durham 123 176 80 96 50 8 v in- 0 Richmond 17 0 22 0 9 0 10 6 7 0 6 - 6 n o 19 0 Stockton 12 6 14 6 8 0 9 0 4 8 715 9 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Nov. g 7. i There is a moderate supply of Wheat here this morning both from the farmers and np the river ; all description"of New have met ready sale, at an advance of Is. to 2s. per quarter, and the s u ppl y qu i te c l eare d o ff ; the fine° ; Old is in demand at fully as good prices, but there is . 110 improvement in middling descriptions. Oats maint aia ,i, the rates of last week.: Barley is very dull hale, the be";: samples scarcely support last Friday's prices, and all 01;d' dling sorts are nearly anialeable at any tol‘rable prit ) se are without alteration in value, bus the demand .' to no great extent. t i Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk 535. 575. to 60s. fine 6 0 t''). New .523. 535. to 565. fine Tr • , ' 1 ...--- White Old tea. 595. to 64a. tine 01 . 0 `,.., ---- New 555. 58s. to 6'.U. fine 1 0 " - Foreign, Red 475. Ms. to 595. fine 64 11 . White ......... .... .b4s. 5911. to 645. fine re. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 26s. to 325. fine 34 6 . - Lincolnshire ... 24.5. to 31s. fine 335. - Yorkshire Wold 268. to 29.. fine 30s- Beans, Old - New 31s. to 345. flne3ss- Oats,' Potato 22s. to 255. fine 28 6 . - Poland 20s. 23.. to 9.58. fine 2 6 5. - Friesland and Small lBs. 203. to 235. fine 246. - Mealing lld. to 13d. per stone. Shelling 26s. to 91s. Od. per. Load. Malt 37s. 41s. fine 435. per Load. ' , Rapeseed BIRMINGHAM MARKETS.—Nor. 26. 4, CORN MARKE T .—We hare had a good supply d _ descriptions of Grain at to-day's market. The best loin' ples . df Wheat and Barley find a teady sale, and infers /1 ' qualities are difficult to quit. Good Beans and oats ass in demand, little or no alteration in prices since this dal se'nnight. d. a. d. to - 4 8 Wheat, per 02Ib. , ........... —.......... 7 0 Barley, per Imperial quarter 32 0 415 Malt SO 0 a Pease l3 0 44 e Beans, per bag of 10 score gross Oats, per 321 b. 0 Ylne Flour, per sack of 118olb Seconds 44 II Li !,, Surrsurtir.o.—Tilie day's market exhibited a ilium' supply of prime Beasts or Sheep, and higher prier* Will obtained. But few Irish Pip in market ; prism *bold the same as on Thursday last. Beef (per lb.) 4ld. to sd. Veal (per Ib.) aid. to a& mutt. ... .......... ... 5 _sk_ ILaTeb . Porkers SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oat • Aberdeen 52 68 23 28 16 22 ss Berwick—...... 32 39 18 20 15 17 22 24 Coldstream 32 39 20 21 16 18 22 25 Cupar .......... 50 72 26 29 22 25 27 S 2 Dundee......... 4t 74 27 22 21 22 26 Si - ••••• Elgin ............ 50 82 20 25 20 23 19 21 1 nverness..... 53 -61 24 27 19 21 19 20 Kelso 35 38 18 20 16 1 7 24 26 60 76 33 38 26 22 30 34 Perth 52 76 19 21 14 18 26 32 •-• in.. The size of the measure varies throughout the country. lIADDINGTON CORN MARKET'.—Nov 2 7 . The 'Wheat market was scantily supplied, and prices of New have advanced—average up 9d. A middling sup ply of Barley —average down Is. 6d. Oats are up on the average Is. 4d. ; 294 quarters were sold. Pease sold at about last average. Beaus are down 2e. 6d. OR the average. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Pease, Beene. First is Od 31s Oki 275 Od EVe Od 336 Od Second 545 Od 27s Od 2i6 Od 28e &I 29s Od Third There were 257 qrs. of Wheat n market, 224 where° were solu• 23 Uusold.-10 Grey. U. 13s. 81. 9.l2ths. A verag [TH CORN f Wheat a ;ales dull ; r MARKS' Lt tbie da: prices r DALKEI The supply of middling, and s: those of last week. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 62s Osl 318 64 26s 6d Second s6s Od 29s Od 24s Od Third 44s Od 26s Od 20s Od . -ay. ty'a marie rather bil ..,. was hat ;her tlialA rease. Beano. Oet 304 32i Oki :32a (xi 261 Od t!es Od CORNWALL. MARKETS. Tauao.—Wheat (average) 235. 6(l.—Barley, 13s. oL—Oats, 16/ * HEL3TON—Wheat, 235. Od.—Barley, 12s. 3d. ST. AUSTELL—Wheat, 20s. to VA.—Barley, 10s. to 133.--Oat g o Ss. to 9s. Od. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 235. Od.—Barlay, 13s. Oct —Oats, 9, * LAUNCESTJN—.-W h eat (average) 21s. Od.—Barley, I Is. '41.- 03 "' Ss. Otl.—Beef, M.—Mutton, sd. tit PENZANCE—Wheat, 235. to 24s.—Barley, —s. to n• Ss. to 10s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, 4d. to 50.—Pork, 3id. mi. -- Butter, 10d. per lb. Lisaasao—Wheat, 225. Cat to —6.--Barley,l23. to lls. Od. ST. Cocunn—Wheat, 20a. to 26s.—Barley, Ds. to mis. and Mutton, 4d. to s}d.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d. MELANCHOLY CASE OF SUICIDE.—..Sa ttir : day evening a n inquest wa s h e ld a t St. B er th o loule":" Hospital, on the body of Mr. W. Witsox, aged 52. "" 1a committed suicide. The deceased, while passing Fere' . val's Inn, on Thursday afternoon, was observed to fall 0$ • his back. He was instantly taken up, and conveyed $ St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was discovered 11 had taken oxalic acid ; he died soon after. A number 0' letters and other documents were found on kis person, 00 0 of which was to the following effect : " I write this while labouring under the most severe mental distress, brought on by persecution and the nine' rous difficulties with which I am surrounded; I am au like a flower, and my unfortunate situation must be ate' butod to the ill-treatment of . . . , whose conduc t towards me is without parallel. I loved my wife, 1 declare as a dying man, most dearly; and I pray to GOD to Pro tect her and my innocent child. lam worn out, my W I is broken.—Farewell, moat affectionately farewell. " N. WILSON." This letter was addressed to " Mr. GENT, surgeso,P Winslow, Bucks."—From the other documents it appear': that be had been separated from his wife some time, au' that she had sued him in the Ecclesiastical Court for reag' tution of conjugal rights. It also appeared that his father , who was possessed of very large property, bad lately died , and left him only " a shilling ;" but to the other brittleb' of his family he had left considerable personal and landed property.—The Jury having received evidence that he W insane, returned a verdictito that effect. BIRTHS. On the 26th inst. Mrs. J. Fresh6eld, New Basik-huild" ings, of a son. On the 27th inst. at Fritwell, Oxfordshire, the lady the Rev. W. Knatolibuil, of a eon. On the 27th inst. at Wanstead, the lady of H. T. 1) 01 " vers, Esq., of a daughter. On the 27th inst., the lady of M. J. Quin, Esq., of daughter. MARRIED. On the 2Sth inst. at St. Bride's, Mr. William Hardello of Fleet-street, to Miss J. Tyas, of Holborn-hill. DIED. On the 20th inst. at the Moat, near Salisbury, fat 29, Caroline Letitia, wife of R. lletley, Esq. and dog" • ter of John Campbell, Esq. of Blunham-house, Beda. On the 24th inst. at Norman-house, Stansted PJ° ll° Fitchet, the Rev. Thomas D a lt on , i n th e *7oth „( year " his age. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY )&URDO YOUNG, 4.5 " TUX Sux Orma, US; LONNA •