The Sun. — London, England, 1829-04-18 00:00:00

EAST INDIA COMPANY. We refer our readers to a striking representation (which follows) of the conduct of the East India Comp any with regard to o ur se ttl emen t s i n the Straits of Malacca, viz.—Penang, Malacca, and Sin gapore. The C ompany, i t is obvious, were in trusted with these keys to the Indian Archipelago, under an enga gement, not only to maintain them in security, b u t to avoid any measures by which their value as commercial dependencies of the British empir e s h ould be impaired. If the prodigality of ale Company, or the rapacity of th e ir servants, be t ach in oth er parts of the East as to compel them Pinch and ruin the administrative or judicial ot ablishm ents of the above colonies, and render t _aeto an unsafe dwelling for British subjects carry thg on an active commerce, it is clear that the Com taaY have f or f e i ted their title to a trust which has . }l ea so gro ss l y abused, and that the settlements etnselves ought to be restored to the nation. It Is i mpossible to overvalue the importance of these colonies, now on t h e eve of opening an uncontrolled trade for the British merchant, not merely with the Archipelago but w i t h C h i na itself; and lest t h ere s ho uld be a n y s i n i ster policy brewing in Leadenhall treet for getting up a colourable disparagement of Chthe benefi ts and safeguards of these colonies to the ina trade, when proposed to be carried on by in merfhants of Great Britain, we think that to Majesty s Government had better be prepared to frustrate all such machinations. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) (IFrom the attention which has been bestowed In your journal on the affairs of India, and the in terests of British trade, I trust yon will not allow to pan. unnoticed an important revolution now silently going on in the settlements of Penang, Malacca, and Singapore, which form the medium M only connecting link remaining in British hands, o f the vast and daily increasing trade between the east ern Archipelago and the coast of China and British India, Europe, and America. You are aware that these settlements were a s de fre e ports i n 1826 ; t h ey are t h e fi rst posses s of the East India Company put upon that foot "agiand it was reasonably calculated that such con venient stat i ons i n t h e S tra i ts o f M a l acca wou ld for m an important staple of eastern trade, and in a great degree compensate the British merchant for exclusion f rom Chi na ; w hil e t h ey afforde d , at the same time, a security against the influence and eacroachtnent of the Dutch, who, since the surrender Of Sumatra to them, have complete command of thte southern passage, or Straits of Sunda, and by the t rea ti es o f 1814 and 1824., have secured all t an most va l ua bl e i s l an d s o f commerc i a l stat i ons 14 th e easter n seas, w i t h t h e so li tary except i on o f t he three united settlements above named, in the Str aits of Malacca. " The intrinsic value of these has also been proved the 'i mmense increase of their commerce and r n ptuation s i nce they were put on the present foot g• In the youngest of them (Singapore), the Population in 1819 was (according to the late Sir Stamford Rallies, its founder) only about 150 per- Sons, whe n t h e British flag was hoisted and it was afterw ar d s a free port. In th e c ourse of three months terwards, the population increased to 3,000; in the first year to above 5,000 ; in two years after okrds t o 10,000 ; in 1824 to 13,000, and in 1825 ti 15 ,000. The value of exports and imports during same period rose as follows, omitting fractions : Dollars. 41 1822, value of exports and imports 8,000,000 1823 13,000,000 1824, • 15,000,600 The 1825 20,000,000 ism 40,000 i n t h e t h ree sett l ements h as increased ' ra in 40,000 to 100,000 souls, from the best infor- " It must b e unnecessary t o say more t o p rove t he" great value of these settlements ; and that every Q o tive of good policy demanded that their impor tTeg should be most jealously guarded an d main ' . 4ln ed by a well organized local government, corn 13"erl of men of high character, talent, and intelli igierlees to giv e th em respec t a bili ty an d i nsp i re con & h e r nee on th e part o f t h e pu bli c, w i t h a j ud i c i a l esta "llshnient competent to afford complete security to rM l erty and adj ust sat i s f actor il y t h e numerous con cting claims that will arise in a commercial corn , u lunity : a id e d b y an e ffi c i ent mag i stracy and system °f police to preserve order among so h e t erogeneou s k population, suddenly collected from various Countries, partly savage, partly civilized. " But it appears by a letter in the last number of hthe Asiatic Journal, that the East India Directors ave discovered—and no great discovery—that all t his could not be done without considerable ex ence, and, as th ey are not suspected of being very In vourable to freedom of trade, they have come to this c onclusion—that they should not incur such an expens e for such a purpose. They have therefore resolved to reduce their establishment of public offi ' ers in these three settlements, from about 20 to 12 to number ; •and in future to employ only a class of tsdividuals whose services and talents may be pur thased at a lower rate than those they have hitherto ~ t 4P loyed. In short, that in proportion to the grow -1111; importance of the work to be done, the machi nery employed is to be of an inferior description. " The East India Directors have also, it seems, d iscovered, that the s u p e ri n t en di ng o f t h e a ff a i rs o f t hese free trade settlements in the Straits involves so me trouble ; and of this they propose to relieve themselves by devolving it upon the Governor-Ge 11er'd of India. Now, really, when it is con 41dered that the individual who fills that high Bt4tioß has already to preside over an empire t"tai 'dog from 100,000,000 to 150,000,000 of people, that h e i s a t the same time frequently 2111mandersiii-chief of an army of above 100,000 'eor—that, besides the voluminous correspondence "(1 negotiations with the various residences and ttiati:e, courts throughout India, he is subject to be on to !vettue ant Judicial the very details of commercial judicial business which, according to !he system of Indian government, are liable to be this, upon the council table—in addition to all ti a _ l , B ) which is already a greater charge than almost ,;!Y human talent can support, to throw upon him toefe,..t_tdditional burthen of superintending the affairs renog, Malacca, and Singapore, and the various ,&iplicated i nterests of their Malay, Portuguese, t ‘; t ll . i - n ese, European and American residents and I , tfer s , is a proceedin g no t a little preposterous. _ 1 It i s i n fact much the same as saying, that these 1 _ ttlements shall in future be left by the East India 4 : l 4any to sup er i n t en d t h emse l ves . F o r of the 14 11 .0 'supe rv i s i on w hi c h a G overnor -G enera l o f ste n g al can afford to give them, the fallowing in ace, which happened in Bencoolen just before it given up, will serve as an example. A Mr. tir ehol son, a settler there, felt himself compelled to th °eee d to Bengal to complain of some measures of hie Li eutenant-Governor, who had deprived him of 44 1 4 4 Piee pl antat i on. Af ter a voyage o f one mont h, i n " a delay of one or two more, he got the proceed -11,,g8 ex amined by the Governor-General (Lord Am -41;17). who d ou b t l ess gave the best decision he was t g on the case. Th e c hi e f po i nts i n -di s p ute were e e r re ee r — the right to a certain road, the right to a 4 . 1 taln adjacent outfield, and the right of confiscat jugd:ha factory altogether. His Lordship's written fir s e tie Ht, which I have seen, determined the two t. pie • but the last, which was the main ques , , _ th e 'Passed over entirely. Of what use would liload and the outfield have been, without the d catio n ? It realized Swift's bitter satire on the B yers in his time, who, he said, were a case to th„l about the property of a cow, would bestow all o i,l learning in determining the colour of her hair, the length of her horns, but say nothing what about t h e person to w h om t h e cow belonged. 1 ," Such will be the sort of justice M c alacca, and Singa .6r; when ma d e to depend on the Governor b4eneral of Bengal. Nor is he to be blamed for not ' l l able, with hands already too full, to exercise ormore effectual control. Seeing the impossibility will sufficient attention to their affairs, he i d naturally distrust his own judgment, and as much as possible avoid interfering; with tnem. Hence the answer to all appeals from that quarter will in general be to the following effect, a formula of expression too well kno‘%n in the East :—‘ I see no sufficient grounds for disturbing the decision of the local authority !' " This authority will consequently be virtually left without any effective control whatever, unless it be that which the former lawlessness of the place has rendered proverbial in India—viz., a Penang lawyer, otherwise club law. When any dispute arises as to British ships touching there, they must either follow their appeal to Bengal, to the ruin of the owners, and to the objects of the voyage, or, if they come on direct to England, as the papers in the case, instead of going along with them, will have gone off to Bengal, _hence nothing can be settled until they are procured from that place after great loss of time. " For these and other similar reasons, Penang, or, as it is called, Prince of Wales's Island, was in 1805, erected into a separate Government, imme diately dependent, like other settlements, on the Company at home. The reason which the Direc tors assigned for this was as follows: " By this measure, we expect that the benefits of fixed government and laws will be established ; and industry, commerce, and general resort will be thereby encouraged.' " This was done at a time when Penang was the only one of the three settlements now under consi deration. Since that period Singapore has been created by the genius of free trade, and Malacca ceded by the Dutch. hence, both our territory and the population have been more than doubled, and the trade has increased beyond all proportion. But now, on the plea of economy, it is proposed to di minish the means employed for securing person and property,—to abolish what was established to give the benefit of fixed laws and government r —to do away the encouragements to commerce, industry, and general resort.' Is this keeping pace with the improvement of trade ?—or is it fulfilling the pledge given to the British merchant in the erection of these free ports ? " If economy be the real motive, let it be consi dered that by giving up Bencoolen, and consolidat ing its establishment with these settlements, a saving was effected of about 80,0001. per annum. The cost of Penang singly was before nearly as much, being 70,0004, making together 1.50,000/. per an num ; whereas the joint expence of the three settle- means is now little more than 772,0001., making an actual saving of nearly 80,000/. by the settlement of 1 1 824. From the rapid augmentation of the ex ports and imports above exhibited, it is probable that a very moderate duty on the trade will soon be suf ficient to cover the whole remaining exper►ce. But even if this were not the case, is a saving of a few . . , thousand pounds to be put into competition with objects of such public importance as the support of British character, and the maintenance of our trade in the Eastern seas ? For if these settlements be neglected, and reduced to insignificance by mis management, our old commercial rivals in that quarter of the globe, the Dutch, will then have uncontrolled sway throughout the whole Indian Archipelago. " If every possession of Great Britain were to stand or fall merely according to the surplus revenue, or surplus charge, which may appear on its accounts, without reference to its importance as a part of the empire, we should then very soon lose some of our most valuable possessions. What would become of Gibraltar, Malta, St. Helena, or even the Cape of Good Hope, which last are maintained at a vast charge as an additional security to India ? And the rulers of that territory, therefore, ought to look at something beyond the debtor and creditor side of their account, before they sacrifice those important stations, established in the East to protect and en courage British commerce. " With regard to the other motive attributed to the Directors,—that of relieving themselves of the trouble and responsibility of superintending them, by devolving these on the Governor-General of India,—it would naturally be imagined, that twenty four gentlemen deeply versed in Indian affairs from long practice, are more competent to watch over these dependencies than one, however exalted in rank, who is frequently new to the office, and an entire stranger to every thing connected with them (excepting that general and very limited degree of knowledge, regarding India, possessed by British noblemen and gentlemen); and it is a mistake to suppose that he can see with his own eyes from Bengal to Penang, any more than they can from Leadenhall-street. But if by persevering in this measure they mean to say that they feel themselves to be less competent ; then how do they expect to . - be longer intrusted with the much more arduous task of governing the vast continent of India, with its many millions of inhabitants ? When the charter comes soon to be discussed, the Duke of Wellington will have a very short argument for them furnished by themselves. How can you govern India,' his Grace may justly say,' when you confess your inabi lity to govern the small settlements of Penang, Ma lacca, and Singapore ? I shall now relieve you, gentlemen, altogether of these duties which you have seemed so anxious to relinquish, and to devolve upon others who were unprepared for them.' _ . " The Ministers and the country have, indeed, great right to complain of the Directors in this matter. For it resolves itself into this,—that after ___ the East India Company had solemnly pledged it self to the Government and to the British nation to maintain these free ports for the sake of our com merce in the East, the Directors are now, by a sort of side-wind, contriving to get rid of their engage ment. For they know very well, that when the se curities for person and property formerly established are, as above shown, taken away, and the whole subjected to the arbitrary discretion of the Governor- General of India, (of whom the public only know that he is the absolute ruler of some hundred millions of people, who banishes his countrymen according to his will and pleasure, without any trial or inquiry !) merchants will become very wary how they trust themselves and their goods into such hands. The ports may then be shunned like the Scylla and Charybdis of the Indian seas, and probably decline as rapidly as they have risen. The current of trade will be diverted into another channel, to the benefit of the Dutch ; and our new marts of free trade in the East, lately so full of promise, will become but a shadow and an empty name."—Times. On Friday morning, as Mrs. HAwoRTH, wife of Mr. JOHN llAwoam, landlord of the Seven Stars, Bolton, was standing on the edge of the mash-tub (Mr. H. being brewing), and as hor husband was handing her a tub, she lost her balance, and fell backwards into the mash tub, which contained boiling liquor and malt. Owing to a cask being in the way, her husband could not render im mediate assistance, in consequence of which she was dread fully scalded, and is now in a most dangerous state. The following ancient form of marriage is copied from the Parish Register at Whalley, Lancashire : The'agreement of marriage between THOMAS BRAD DYLL, of Portfield, Esquire, and Mrs. JANE RUSHTON, of Dunnyshop, both of this parish, was duly published three markett dayes, at Clitherowe ; that is to say, upon the second of February, being Saturday, upon Saturdays the ninth and sixteenth dayes of the same moneth, in the year of our Lord 1655. The marriage of the same parties was solemnized at Dunnyshop, the fifteenth of March, in the said year 1655, by LAWRENCE RAWSTHORNE, Esquire, one of the Justices of Peace of this county, in the presence of ---- RUSHTON, of Autley, WILLIAM SHUTTLEWORTH, RouT. WARREING." An unusual number of Members of both House have left town previous to the Easter Recess— some without any intention of returning-.—Morning Papers. In the neighbourhood of Sherborne, on }riday last, a heavy hail-storm fell, accompanied by thunder and lightning. At Yetminster, a tree in the churchyard was riven by the electric fluid ; a woman who was passing at the moment escaped unhurt, although an umbrella wlsich she held was broken to pieces by the force of the shock which it encountered. The night of Tuesday was ex tremely boisterous, and we had yesterday several heavy storms.—Sherborne Journal. THE ARMY. (From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.) There is a report in the military circles that the follow ing reductions will take place in the course of the year : The three regiments of Horse Guards—the lst Dra goon Guards, and the four regiments of Light Cavalry in India, to be redured to six troops, each of 60 men. The whole of tl.e It and Cavalry to retain but one Lieutenant-Colonel and one nijor. Each regiment of Infantry to be reduced to eight com panies of 80 men, of which the two companies forming the depot will remain at home under the senior Capta'n. The seven regiments of Dragoon Guards will be formed into four regiments of Cuirassiers, and a portion of the remainder allowed up to form the vacaut regiment, the sth Dragoons. It is expected the 3d battalion of the Grenadier Guards, and the 2(1 battalion of Ist Foot, will be reduced. Recruiting will be stopped for the whole army, and that of the East India Company, and the vacancies filled tip by such as choose to enter from any of-the disbanded regiments. The whole will form a reduction of thirty-three troops of cavalry, and 222 companies of infantry—in amount, 2,000 cavalry and 8,000 infantry. Captain Stanway, Royal Engineers, arrived at Dun cannon Fort on the 9th instant, to take the command of that district in the room of Lieutenant-Colonel Romilly, promoted. The Doctor of the 33d, who killed Lieut. Everitt, of the same regiment, in a duel, was tried at Jamaica Ist Feb. and acquitted. The CornmandingOfficers of Regiments are acting on the recent General Order, by sending away such women as have been married without permission. No women will lie allowed to embark with their hus bands in the different military detachments ordered from Cork on foreign service. The Armagh and Ballymena recruiting stations are given up. Two divisions of the 6th Dragoons arrived in Worcester on Monday and Tuesday, on their way from Manchester to Dorchester. The 4th Dragoons are expected to pass through on their way from Dorchester to Manchester, next week.— Worcester Journal. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. CHANGES. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford and Miss Russell, for Ensleigh, near Tavistock ; the Duke and Duchess of St. Albans and Lady Beauclerk, for Brighton ; Lord and Lady Willoughby, for D'Eresby Hall, near Grimsthorpe, in Lincolnshire; Lord Robert Spencer, for Woolbeding, in Surrey; Marquis and Mar chisness of Bute, for Cardiff Castle, in Wales; Captain and Mrs. Dent, for Brighton ; Lady Stuart and Miss Stuart, for Brigh ton ; Mr. and the Hon. Mrs. William Gosling, for tioeliampton ; Lord Beresford, for Deepdene, in Kent; Mr. and Mrs. William Camac, for Hastings; Mr. and Lady Barbara Ponsonby, for Sussex ; Mr. and Mrs. Angerstein, for the Woodlands ; Major and Mrs. Armstrong, for Brighton ; the Marchioness of Down shire and Lady Mary Hill, for Roehampton Viscount Sydney and the Mises Townshend, for Footscr a y, in Kent; Lieutenant- Colonel and Mrs. Lindsey, for Tunbridge Wells; Mr. and Mrs. Wilbraham, for Brighton ; the Earl and Countess Cowper, for their seat, Pansenger, Hefts ; Lord Nugent for his seat, Lilleys, Bucks ; Lord Melbourne, for Earl Cowper's scat, Pansenger, Herts ; George Byng, Esq. M.P. for his seat, Wrotham Park ; Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, Bart. for his seat in Wales ; Lady Harriet William Wynn and family, for Hastings; Sir Robert Harland, Bart. at his house, Richmond-terrace, from his seat, Orwell Park, Ipswich ; Major Hamilton, in Park-lane, from the Continent; the Earl of Thanet;from Benton's Hotel, St. James's street, for his seat in Kent; B. L. Lester Esq. M.P. from ditto, for Herts ; John Doherty, Esq. M.P. from ditto, for Dublin; Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins, at ditto, from York; Mr. and Mrs. Jamieson, at ditto, from York; the Hon. T. Fiennes, at the Royal Hotel, St. James's street, from Lincolnshire ; J. Page, Esq. at ditto, from Lincolnshire; Capt. Hall, from the British Hotel, Jermyn-street, for Melton Mowbray ; Wm. Griffiths, Esq. from ditto, for Essex. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. CAMBRIDGE.—Copy of a letter addressed by the Proctors to the Vice-Chancellor, stating the grounds on which they felt themselves obliged to resign their offices : " SIR—We beg leave respectfitlly to state that yester day the Proctors in the execution of their duty were re sisted and most grossly insulted by a large body of the Undergraduates of this University. " Certain individuals, actively concerned in that dis turbance, were in consequence convened before the Heads of Houses. And we cannot but think that the punish. ment adjudged affords no adequate security against the re currence of a similar outrage. " We therefore feel that the Proctors have not sufficiently the confidence or support of the Heads of Houses to enable them to maintain that discipline which they have engaged to uphold. " Under these circumstances we beg leave respectfully to resign the several offices which have been entrusted to (Signed) ALEXANDER M. WALE, Sen. Proc. HENRY MELVILL, Jun. Proc. R. TWOPENNY, Proprocur. FREDERIC SMITII, Proprocur. " To the Rev. the Vice-Chancellor." " Pembroke Lodge, April 13, 1829. " Whereas on Thursday last, the 9th inst. a great number of Undergraduates assembled together in a tumultuous manner, and, as it has been represented to us, with a pre meditated design of insulting certain of tke University Officers " We, the Vice-Chancellor and Heads of Colleges, hereby give notice, that if any persons in stall pupillari shall hereafter meet together in such manner and with such design, and, being ro met, shall offer any insult to any University Officer, or, being warned to disperse, shall not immediately comply, they shall, on being duly convicted, be expelled from the University. " G. AINSLIE, Vice-Chan. M. DAvy. J. LINCOLN. W. CHA FY. FRA S. BARNES. W. FRENCH. R. T. CORY. H. GODFREY. CH R. WORDSWORTH. W. FREER." OXFORD, APRIL 17.—0 n Saturday last, being the last day of Lent Term, the Honorary Degree of Master of Arts was conferred on Thomas Pycroft, Esq. Commoner of Trinity College, the successful candidate for the Writer ship in India, lately given as a Prize (to be contended for by the junior Members of this University) by the Right Hon. Chas. Watkiii Williams Wynn. On the same day the following Degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAW. Rev. F. Warre, Rector of Chedtion Fitz-Payne, Somerset and Prebendary of Wells, Oriel Col. Grand Compounder, BACHELOR IN CIVIL LAW. Reverend John Cecil Hall, Student of Christ Church. MASTERS OF ARTS. Reverend George Henry Stoddart, Queen's. Reverend Nathaniel Wodehouse, Merton. In a Congregation, holden the same day, the following gentlemen were respectively nominated Public Examiners : IN DISCIPLINIS MATHEMATICIS ET PHYSICIS. Rev. A. P. Saunder, M. A. Student of Christ Church. IN LITERIS lIUSIANIORIBUS. Rev. Renn Dickson Hampden, M P. late Fellow of Oriel Rev. John Carr, M.A. Fellow of Balliol. The Duke of Newcastle's Scholarship at Eton College is this year given to Mr. Thomas William Allis, son of the Rev. Thos. Allies, of Clifton, and Rector of Wormington, Gloucestershire. ECCLESIASTICAL PREFERMENTS. The Rev. Samuel Smith, M.A. of Christ Church, has been instituted by the Lord Bishop of Ely to the Rectory of Dry Drayton, Cambridgeshire, on the presentation of the Very Rev. Samuel Smith, D.D. Dean of Christ Church, the patron, and late incumbent of the living. The Rev. Charles Gower Boyles, M.A. of Exeter Col lege, to the Rectory of Buriton, near Peterafield, Hants, vacant by the decease of the Rev. B. Poulter. The Rev. John Spence, M.A. to the United Rectory and Vicarage of Culworth, in the count) of Northampton, vacant by the death of the Rev. Henry Salmon. The Rev. Dr. Hurlock, 25 years Curate of Dedham, to the Rectory of Longhorn, in Essex, on the voluntary re signation of the Rev. Dr. Dowdeswell in his favour. The Rev. George Davys, M.A. Principal Master to her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria, to the Rectory of Allhsllows, London, vacant by the death of the venerable Archdeacon Nitres ; patron, the Lord Chancellor. The Rev. Robert Eyres Lindor, M.A. has been insti tuted to the Rectory of Birlington, Worcestershire, void by the resignation of the Rev. Alexander Luders, the last incumbent. The Mayor and Corporation of Hereford have elected the Rev. If. L. Bamford, A.M. to the Chaplainship of Price's Hospital, vacant by the death of the Rev. J. Pugh, LL.B. Sir JAMES SCARLETT is to be the new Attorney-General, but Sir NICIIOLAS TINDAL is not to be again passed over. A negociation of two strings has been opened with the Chief Baroa and Sir W. BEST, to make room for the Solicitor-General in the Exchequer or Common Pleas. Sir JAMES SCARLETT has been very coy ; but, through the influence of Earl GREY and Lord- MILTON, he has been prevailed upon to accept an apology for his abrupt dismissal last year. Ministers would con descend to any thing rather than repeat at Cambridge the experiment which they last tried at Oxford. No opposi tion, we suspect, will be offered to Mr. BANICES, after Sir NICHOLAS TINDAL shall have made a vacancy.—Morning Paper. SUSPICION OP POISON. (From the Leeds Intelligencer.) On Tuesday evening, a Coroner's Inquest was held at the Swan with Two Necks Inn, Hunslet, before RouErerßann,Esq., Coroner for this borough, to inquire how John Birch came to his death. Hannah Birch being sworn, said the deceased was her husband, that for three or four months he had had a notion that he had live toads in his stomach, and that they croaked there. That having been told that Line Dyke water would kill them, on Tuesday last he went to a place near Selby, where he drank a good deal of it, and brought a bottle home with him. He drank a small quantity of it on Friday morning. In the course of the day he was recommended and applied to an individual lately come to this town, (but whose name, under present circumstances, we forbear to mention,) who gave him a powder, which was said to be an emetic, and a pot of electuary. He took the emetic on Friday evening, and it operated so powerfully that he vomited no less than ten times during that eve ning. On the following morning he took a part of the electuary, and soon after began to purge and vomit, which continued the whole of that day, all Saturday night, until half-past two o'clock on Sun day, when he died, completely exhausted. Thomas Chorley, Esq. sworn—l am a surgeon at Leeds, and have known the deceased, John Birch, upwards of 20 years. He came to the Leeds Infir mary on the 14th of February last, and was ad mitted into the house at the latter end of the same month, when there ,was a vacancy. He remained there about five weeks, and was under my care during the whole of that time. He was discharged at his own request on the 3d of April. He com plained of a sensation in his body, which he de scribed as containing living toads. I treated this as a delusion. He would have submitted to any opera tion, and his continual solicitude was, that an open ing should be made in the abdomen to take them away, but I considered him to be labouring under a deranged state of the brain and nervous system. The deceased was, as I before said, discharged from the Infirmary at his own request and I heard no more of him till Sunday evening, when his son cane to inform me of his death. On Monday I examined the body. I found all the abdominal vis cera to be in a healthy state. His death appears to have been caused by some acrid substance taken into the stomach, producing inflammation, and con sequently the symptoms which he laboured under from the Saturday morning to the time of his death. The Coroner said, it would be necessary, under the circumstances, to continue the inquiry on some future day, and the inquest was adjourned to Mon day next, at five o'clock. ACCIDENT AT HECKNIONDWIKE. On Sunday evening last, during the performance of Divine Worship in the Wesleyan Methodist cha pel, at Heckmondwike, a rush was caused by a part of the congregation taking alarm at the falling of a stove-pipe, the result of which was the death of six individuals, chiefly young people. The follow ing are the particulars :—Mr. William Dawson, a local preacher, of Barnbow, near this town, was preaching a sermon in the evening. At about a quarter past seven, when the preacher was apply ing the practical part of his discourse, it is supposed that the pressure of the crowd had shaken or dis placed the stove, which was in the body of the chapel, and a little in front of the gallery. From the stove was an upright pipe, connected by an elbow with a horizontal one running under the gal lery for three or four yards, and out of the front wall of the building. This pipe was feebly supported by nail crooks, and, from the cause above-mentioned, it fell upon the people beneath, but without injury to any one. At this moment that part of the congregation in the vicinity of the spc.t, began to retire. This caused an alarm in the minds of many not acquainted with the trifling nature of the accident. The consequence was, that an alarm immediately became general. The panic in the minds of the people in the gallery was very great, from the circumstance that a large quan tity of dust and soot ascended towards them. Then came a general rush front all parts of the chapel,which was continued and increased by the crashing noise made by trampling upon the broken fragments of the stove-pipe which had fallen on the ground. The shrieks of females, the cracking of the wood-work, and the jumping of people over the pews, produced an appalling effect upon the congregation, who seemed engaged in one general struggle to make an escape. The preachers in the pulpit used every effort to quell the alarm, but their exertions were fruitless. An individual perceiving the crowd has tening towards one of the doors, closed it. This caused the accumulation of a dense mass of human beings in a porch of but small dimensions, where they remained a short time wedged together, till either from excessive pressure, or from the excitement of fear, the cries of those within induced some persons who had made their escape from the open door, to force the one which had hitherto been kept closed. This being with some difficulty effected, a scene presented it self which beggars all description. Those nearest the door were young persons, who were immedi ately thrown down and trampled upon by those in the rear, others fell upon them in making their way out, and when the pressure had subsided, the passage to the door was literally choked with males and fe males lying on the floor, so closely wedged that it required considerable effort to extricate them from each other. Those who had been fortunate enough to have their faces exposed to the air, suffered com paratively little injury, but others were suffocated before they could be removed. Part of the assem bly remained in the chapel. A report was at length brought in that four persons had been killed. This naturally excited a fear in the breasts of those who remained, that those individuals might form a part of their own family, and the confusion was resumed by their retiring to ascertain whether that was the fact. Still several people seem e d di s p ose d qu ietly to remain in their pews, but their fears were again roused by a person who had gone outside, thrusting his umbrella through two of the windows at the back of the chapel. After singing and praying, the service was concluded without making any collection. The following is a list of the dead :—John Leem ing, aged 14, taken out dead, apprentice to a shoe maker 'at Staincliffe, near Swithenbank ; Emma Whiteley, taken out dead, Heckmondwike, aged 13; Betty Oxley, taken out dead, ditto, aged 33, unmarried; Ann Heald, taken out dead, ditto, aged 13; Martha Street, taken out dead, ditto, aged 14; Henry Rothery, died on Monday evening, ditto, aged 7. On Tuesday an inquest was held on the bodies, at the house of Mr. Schofield, the Woodman Inn, after which the finding of the Jury was as follows : _" That the said Emma Whiteley, on the 12th day of April, in the year aforesaid, was attending divine service at the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, ut Heckmondwike, in the parish and county aforesaid, when accidentally a stove-pipe fell suddenly down amongst the congregation, which then and there ex cited such great alarm and fear, that great numbers of the congregation so assembled rushed instanta neously to gain the west door of the said chapel, and that the said ---- among the rest, in making such attempt, was then and there accidentally thrown down near the threshhold of the said west door, and was then and there, by the pressure of the crowd, in stantly suffocated and died."—Leeds Intelligencer. In a trial at York assizes Mr. Justice BAY LEY took occasion to remark, that " it might be useful for landlords to know, that by a recent Act of Parlia ment it was enacted, that if any alehouse keeper was con victed of being drunk, he should not be capable of being licensed for a public-house for three years." Galway Assizes have proved maiden. JouN LYONS, for the murder of his wife and infant son, was ac quitted. Most extraordinary, the Jury first found a ver dict of Guilty, and then one of the panel recommended him to mercy, after which they withdrew, and altered their verdict to Not Guilty.—Saunders's News Letter. SMITHFIELD MARKET. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The public attention ought to be directed to a Bill now before Parliament, by which the Corpora tion of London proposes to enlarge the present mar ket at Smithfield, by the addition of three roods of land (one rood of which must necessarily be con sumed in approaches, &c.), for which accommoda tion the Corporation requires the following increase of tolls, namely, for every beast, which now pays one peony, the sum of sevenpence ) and for every score of sheep, which now pays twopence ; tenpence. Mr. Dean's evidence before a former Committee of the House of Commons states the present profits to the city, after deducting the expellee of collecting, to be 2,106/. 13s. 3d.; and the present tolls, after the expense of collecting, to be 071/. 159. Id. IVlul - the present product by the proposed increase, and admire the liberality of the Corporation of Lon don !!! Will the landowners and graziers through out England, and the consumers of anirt►al food bought at Smithfield, patiently submit to this ? Will any man of common sense say that an addition of half an acre can materially tend to remove the loss now sustained by butchers and graziers owing to the present crowded state of the market, and the consequent cruelty practised on the animals ? As a further boon, the Corporation proposes to stop up the present thoroughfare through the market for hackney-Coaches and carts during market hours- Will this diminish the present obstruction daily ex-• perienced in the leading streets of London, or will it tend to the better protection of the lives and limbs of his Majesty's subjects, so long endangered merely for the pecuniary benefit of the Corporation of London ? The Bill has already been read twice in the Com mons, and will pass through the Committee on the 28th instant, unless the people and their Represen tatives bestir themselves. IKEY SOLOMON.., A rumour has very generally prevailed ; for the last three weeks, in the east end of the town ; the theatre of the principal part of his exploits, that Ikey mon; had terminated his career in South America ; whither he had escaped from New York to avoid the consequences of some extensive frauds and for , geries, which he, in concert with two others, who had been tried and convicted, had perpetrated on the banking-houses of that city. The rumour, from what has subsequently transpired, proves to have been utterly unfounded, and appears to have been put in circulation by some of his friends here for the twofold purpose of burying every inquiry into his fate, and concealing his meditated intention of going to Van Dieman's Land. To this rash step he is said to have been impelled by the only good feeling that had a place in his bosom, viz. a strong affection for his wife and family, the former of whom being after his flight tried, and found guilty of re ceiving stolen property, was transported, together with her children, at her own solicitation, to that colony. Ikey embarked at Rio de Janeiro under an assumed name, on beard the Coronet trader, for Van Dieman's Land, but scarce had he entered Hobart town when he was recognized under his fictitious appellation, and his studied disguise, by some of his old customers, who congratulated him on his safe arrival among them, and complimented him on the dexterity he had evinced in his several hair-breadth escapes both in England and North and South Ame rica. The recognition proved most unfortunate for the fugitive, for it having reached the ears of the authorities that no less a personage than the cele brated Ikey had reached the colony, they had him taken into custody to await a communication from this country as to the propriety of his being trans mitted home to undergo his trial for the numerous offences with which he stood charged when he out witted the turnkeys of Newgate. That this was the fact was last week communicated to his father, but he discredited it Eltogether, and, shaking his head, significantly said to his informant, " I don't believe it. Ikey is too good a judge, and knows better." M. TERNAUX, the celebrated French manu facturer, has obtained a patent for certain machinery for the purpose of depriving flax of its skin, without there being any necessity for resorting to the custom of previously soaking it. The following is an extract of a letter received yesterday from Dublin :—" A letter has been received from CHARLES BROWNLOW, wherein he requests to have ' the happiness of joining in the national tribute to DANIEL O'CONNELL, who has done so much to promote the bles sings of cordial feeling, religious peace, and national strength.' He concludes a beautiful letter by stating that his agent will pay 1001. into the bank of J. D. LATOUCHE and Co.. MICHAEL DILLON BELLEW, of Mount Bellew, has likewise subscribed 100/, ; Sir THOMAS ESMONDE, 50/. ; Mr. FITZGERALD, of Fane Valley, 50/. ; and several other Noblemen and Gentlemen have signified their inten tion of immediately subscribing." A fatal occurrence took place a few days ago in the family of a poor man named BULLOCK, living at Castlemerton, in this county, :resulting from the repre hensible but too common practice of leaving loaded fire arms within the reach of inexperienced and incautious hands. Two of BULLOCK'S children (boys), the one nine and the other four years of age, had obtained some birds' eggs ; and not agreeing in the division of them, the elder said jocularly to the other, who had the whole in his pos session, that unless he gave up his fair share of them he would shoot him, at the same time pointing to a gun which his father had used in frightening birds from the corn, and which was standing in the corner of the room. Taking the threat in the light it was doubtless intended, the unfortunate child, who was at the time sitting up in bed, still refused to surrender any part of the spoil ; upon which his brother immediately levelled the gun at him (the muzzle we are told being within a few inches of his fore head), struck down the trigger, and, melancholy to relate, nearly the whole charge entered the head of the helpless victim, tearing away the greater part of the scalp, and ex ' posing his brains. The poor child, notwithstanding the severity of tile injury, survived more than an hour. An inquest was held on the body, before Mr. C. BEST, Coroner, and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned, with a deodand of ss. upon the gun.— Worcester Journal. A YORKSHIREMAN BIT.—On Friday last, as a Yorkshireman was journeying on horseback from his native county to Northleach, in Gloucestershire, he, at Bromsgrove, met with two gentlemen, one of whom luckily discovered that he also was a Yorkshireman. The three came to this city on Saturday : after partaking of some " comforts" together, the newly-discovered native of Yorkshire told his countryman that he was going to marry a very beautiful girl, who lived at the Hop-Pole, to which inn the whole party adjourned, for the double purpose of viewing a beauty and emptying a bottle; though the former was not discovered, the latter made its appearance. One of the Yorkshireman's friends having, in the course of the computation, gone out, returned in apparent alarm, exclaiming that there were so many rogues in Worcester, that he would secure his " paper." He accordingly doubled up certain pieces of paper, which he secured in his watch-fob ; his companion did the same, and the Yorkshireman was recommended to follow the example; he did so, and, taking from his pocket 251. or 301. in bank-notes, his friend doubled them up for him, and ap peared to deposit them in the watch-fob of the owner. But the proverbial sagacity of his native province did not entirely forsake the traveller—and he left the room to make some inquiry about his new friends. CHARLES, the waiter, knew nothing about them ; this was startling, but still more startling was the discovery that the roll which had been deposited in his fob was composed of any thing but bank-notes. He immediately drew forth and cocked a brace of pistols, which were his travelling companions, (as protectors from highwaymen!) . and rushed to the room where he had left the swindlers. Alas! they had left too! He then ran to the inn where the horses were left, but there he only found his own—the others having convey( their masters (who had ordered them to be ready at a mo ment's notice), " over the hills and fir away." This was almost too much for human endurance. But the York shireman bethought himself that Mr. ORCHARD might throw some light upon the subject. To him he accordingly applied, and had the satisfaction of finding that the two worthies were Brummagems—old acquaintances of the police—and a Journey to Birmingham was recommended as the only remedy for the Yorkshire wight's complaint. Thither he accordingly went, and had the gratification of finding both the gentlemen under the care of the police, having " got into trouble" upon another charge of a simi lardescription.— Worcester Journal. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Thursday afternoon, at six o'clock, RtcuAßO CARTER, Esq., the coroner for Surrey, and a highly respectable jury, assembled at the Rosemary Branch Inn, Peckham, for the purpose of inquiring into the circumstances attending the death of Mrs. Mary Fryer, the widow of a naval officer, 81 years of age, who, it was strongly suspected in the neighbourhood, had fallen a victim to a long course of ill-treatment' which she was said to have received from the person who had the care of her. The interest excited in the neighbourhood by the inquiry was extraordinary. The inn was filled in every part, and a considerable crowd collected out side, and remained during the whole of the proceed ings. For the last two days, the village had been in a state of great excitement; and so strong was tho woman suspected, that it was deemed necessary to muster the whole of the local police, who surrounded her house night and day, to protect her from popular fury. Notwithstanding the presence of the officers, however, the crowd threw stones and other missiles at the house, and a great quantity of filth was thrown into the yard and garden. The Jury having been sworn and viewed the body, Mr. Brown, a surgeon, residing at Peckham, de posed, that on Wednesday morning he and Mr. Bristow, another surgeon, were called upon by the parish authorities to examine the body of the de ceased, lying at the house of a Mrs. Harris, in Rose mary Branch-lane; their entrance, however, was re sisted by Mrs. Harris. She closed the doors against them, and said in a very determined tone, that she would inflict injury upon any one who attempted to enter the house. They went again in the afternoon, accompanied by the parish beadle, and succeeded in gaining an entrance. They then examined the body of the deceased. They found a contused wound on the right side of the frontal bone, and bruised ap dcpoueowatnoreouaftg:ch,aientsht the h t s h ii nei bone,a lr l e e p n f t guit side ryhit o i mt f ahtepehnpebte.aalcri back Tadndha. to ort Te have Nf i a e ,ta r vh e see r hb - a reee s aeadn a t discolouration on the upper part of the back and shoulders, with a removal of the skin in several plates. The left fore arm was much bruised, end a deep wound on the wrist. The integuments were cut through; this seemed to have been occasioned by a cord or narrow strap. On removing the upper part of the skull, the dura dura mater was found healthy; underheath which, and over the left hemis phere of the brain, was found a quantity of bruised blood, about two ounces. The CORONER—What, in your opinion , wa s the cause of death ? Mr. Brown — The extravasation of blood on the left hemisphere of the brain, which only could have been caused by externa: violence. The extravasation must have been caused by the blow, the mark of which appeared on the frontal bone. A Juror—Are there not appearances in the body which show neglect ? Mr. Brown—There were appearances of that kind certainly. The age of the deeeased, I understand, was 81, and I am of opinion that she might have lived to the age of • 100 with proper care, so perfectly healthy did she appear. Mr. Bristow corroborated this statement. Richard Sherlock, a carpenter, lodged in Mrs. Harris's house about six months. She had the care of the deceased, and received payment of a guinea a week from her friends for her support. He had heard the deceased groan in the night time, and had heard Mrs. Harris cal! her a " old fdpat i " and a" old —," and had heard the deceattd ' out, " for God's sake don't, pray don't beat me:' The deceased was a widow. Witness never heard Of her making a will, but understood she had pro perty. The deceased had a habit of moaning in the night, and Mrs. Harris beat her on that account, and was in the habit of strapping her down to the bed, and tying her with a strap or rope by the wrist.— Witness was a. , ked by a neighbour, why be did not speak to Mrs. Harris on the subject of her treatment of the poor old lady, and he told Mitt he might as well speak to a post.—(A laugh.)—He bud heard Mrs. Harris's husband remonstrate with her, but he durst not say much. He was very mild, but she tiats quite the reverse. The witness, after much press;Pfr by some of the jury, admitted that he heard of a will being in the house, but he never saw it. Margaret Brash, aged 13, lived servant with Mrs. Harris two months. She was in the habit of drink ing very much. She was constantly beating Mrs. Fryer, and witness had seen her break several canes about her back. In the cold weather, when the de ceased came down from her room, where she was generally confined, to warm herself, Mrs. Harris would take a stick or cane and beat her up stairs again. She had seen her beat the deceased with a walking-stick, and once with an iron rod. The de ceased used to cry to witness, and say, she wished God would be pleased to take her. She was dread fully afraid of Mrs. Harris, who could make her say or do any thing. She sometimes sent her to bed without her tea, and said if she gave her as much food as she wanted, the old would eat a donkey and hampers. Charles Spencer was a shoemaker, and lived next door to Mrs. Harris. He had many times seen Mrs. Harris inflict severe chastisement on the de ceased. Mary Lingston, a young girl, who gave her evi dence with a good deal of flippancy, said she had known the deceased for two years as the lodger of Mrs. Harris, and saw her very frequently. Mrs. Harris always behaved with the greatest kindness to the deceased, and gave her victuals with her own hands. On Tuesday morning Mrs. Harris told her Mrs. Fryer was dead, and witness assisted in laying her out. Mrs. Owen said she had seen Mrs. Harris knock the deceased down like an ox, many times. Mr. Brown said, that the witness Lingston resist ed him and Mr. Bristow when they attempted to re move the body from the dark back room to the front one, in order to examine it. At the desire of several of the Jurors, Harris and his wife were called in separately, and Harris, who seemed a harmless old man, said he knew not how the deceased came by her death, unless it was the visitation of God. He said that she was strapped down by the body and wrists, to prevent her from falling about the house, and this was done by way of caution. (Here there was a general expression of indignation in the room.) Anne Harris, an amazingly tall, masculine, red faced woman, was then questioned, and declared she never beat the deceased to hurt her in all her life. She denied that there was any mark or blow on Mrs. Fryer's forehead when she died, and said the mark must have been made by the doctors in cutting and hacking her about. The woman then commenced a volley of abuse against the surgeons, and the Coroner, and the Jury, for not having paid more attention to " her witness," Mary Lingston ; and the beadles were at length obliged to put her out of the room by main force. Mrs. Spencer, the wife of the witness of that name, had frequently seen Mrs. Harris treat the deceased with great cruelty. On one occasion, when the deceased was locked in her room, she called out piteously for water. Mrs. Harris went up and gave her a beating for calling out at all. Witness added, that during the whole time she had known the de ceased, she never saw her without black eyes or some other marks of violence about her face. The room was now cleared, and the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of " Man slaughter" against the woman Harris, who was forthwith taken to Horsemonger-lane gaol. Should the Parliamentary Session close as early as is at present expected, the London season will he cut short to a degree that has not happened for many years. In consequence of the enormous number of - French clocks which have been introduced into this coot- try, and sold as of English manufacture, with the Eames of English makers upon them, an order has been sent to all the ports, in pursuance of a late regulation of Parlia ment, to prevent, except upon affidavit declaring tlwariicle.: to be for private use, the introduction of and• clock of French manufacture which has not the naine of the maker - - in two compicuoun places.