The Sun. — London, England, 1829-07-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We know not whether it be worth the while to notice again the still creeping but nearly ex tinguished rumours of negotiations for an ac cession to Ministry. We would have those, however, who are trying the experiment, to change their mode of approach if they mean to succeed. They wish the Duke of Wellington to accept their services—and they insult him by the most insolent proposition—that he should reward the services of another with the basest ingeitioule. They may hate Mr. Peel, because he has given a fatal blow to their intolerance ; but the Duke of Wellington has every reason to love and esteem him as a brother statesman, for they have together trodden the same path in politics. And if there be any thing reprehen sible in Mr. Peel's conduct with respect to the Catholic question, the same obloquy (his Grace does not shrink from identification with his colleague in this respect) will apply to that of the Duke. But, with respect to the relation in which these two statesmen stand to each other, has not Mr. Peel made a sacrifice of every thing that man could hold dear, except duty,—we do not say to the Duke of Wellington personally, but to that question upon the success of which the Duke's existence as a statesman depended ? What unheard-of and stupid insolence, then, to expect that the Duke, in return, should sacrifice Mr. Peel as a prelimi nary to the admission of some of their common enemies, their common defamers, into office ! How monstrous, how even beastly a proposition ! Mr. Peel has sacrificed the dearest and first am bition of his heart—the representation of the University of Oxford—to his union with the Duke on the Catholic question : he has sacrificed the friends of his youth : he has incurred the re proaches of his most valued relatives! And, in return for these sacrifices and sufferings, it is re quired of his accomplice in guilt (if guilt be in curred) that Mr. Peel should now be by him given up to the hatred of those whom they have joined in provoking ! It is impossible to say how long two men of independent minds, like the Duke of Wellington and Mr. Peel, may continue to take the same view of the method of governing the country, but in the fair fight of the Catholic question, they see nothing but cause for mutual attachment and permanent union. There is another point, also, which deserves some con sideration, but upon which we shall now touch but briefly. It has constantly been acknowledged by all parties, that the divisions in the Cabinet on the subject of Catholic emancipation have been the bane of every Ministry, from that of Mr. Pitt into that of the Duke of Wellington. It is not, therefore, we should suppose, the best method of imparting union, and all the advan tages which spring out of union, to an Admi nistration just at present, to club together in its composition the friends and enemies of the measure, even after it has passed. We should very likely have the question to fight over again, —in the Cabinet first, next in the country, and lastly in the field.—Times. Dr. Southey cannot be prevented from writ ing on economical subjects ; but how his lucu brations can find admission into a respectable Review, astonishes us not a little. He has an article on the Condition of the English Peasan try, in the last Quarterly, which, from beginning to end, is one of the most lamentable pieces of imbecility which ever engaged our attention.— The grand panacea of Dr. Southey is one which was solemnly propounded in the House of Com mons some years ago, by a political economist of nearly the same calibre, Alderman Waithman— namely, a piece of ground—a potatogarden for every labourer. If cottages and pieces of ground attached to them could make a =peasantry com fortable, the Irish would be thelsappiest in the world. There are countries eves i where the land belongs to the peasantry, who consequently have DO rents to pay, no burthens to discharge, and yet they are struggling with the same difficulties which press on the Irish. The rood of ground of one generation becomes half a rood the next, when an additional family is quartered on it.— You may cut up all England into cottages and potatoe gardens; this, however, would only be staving off the evil day to another generation.— New potatoe-gardens would soon be wanted for additional families. "If some change be not effected (says Dr. Southey), and that very speedily, in the internal management of those parishes into which the allow ance system has found its way, no man can for a moment doubt that at no very distant period the whole rental of the land will he absorbed by the rates. In many parishes of this description the rates already amount to two-thirds of the rent. In some instances they even exceed the whole rental of the land. The rates are steadill increasing; it is there fore perfectly clear that if no means can be devised to check the progressive advance, the surplus of the landlord will ultimately disappear. Such is the cer tain and inevitable punishment of those who have dis severed the peasantry from the land, and deprived them of their ancient crofts and allotments. As long as the labouring classes are thus excluded from the soil, no improvement in the Administra tion—no alteration even in the principle of the Poor Laws—no human power or inge nuity can avert the consequence. That the population of parishes alleged already to have a superabundant body of labourers will continue to in crease, admits of no doubt; and if the number of hands absorbed by tillage do not increase in an equal ratio, the proportion of idle bands will become greater, and the pressure upon the rates heavier, until at length the whole surplus produce of each parish will be but barely sufficient to employ the un employed paupers. An Agrarian law will thus be come virtually established, and the labouring classes will take possession of the land from which they are now excluded." ,And pray, good Dr. Southey, what is bestow ing cottages and land on the labourers of a parish, hut an allowance system ? Will not the labourers continue to increase as rapidly on cot tages with crofts attached to them, as on the parish allowances ? And if additional cottages and gardens be continually required for the in creasing population, what is this, pray, but an Agrarian law? Dr. Southey has perplexed him self, as usual, with details which prove nothing. If he had inquired into the particulars of Lord Brownlow's cottage system, he would have found that it did not diminish the poor, because a fresh pauper population began immediately to form, which, if we are not misinformed, is now as numerous as that to which cottages were as- signed ; and if cottages were given to the second crop of paupers, a third crop would won be ready for other cottages. The case lies in a nut , shell. The labourers in agriculture are not in a deteriorated condition because they do not oc cupy land, but because in almost every pariah they exceed the demand for labour. The labourers of a parish may double ; but if the demand for la bour-do not keep pace, wages must fall. That which increases most rapidly the capital. of the country will increase most rapidly the demand for labour. But the cutting up the country into patches will not increase most rapidly the capital of the country ; on the contrary, the cultivator will, by such a mode, raise little more than he consumes. The industry of the country ought to be considered as a whole, distributed, for the sake of convenience, into town and country. The mechanic and manufacturer in the town supply the agriculturist with that which he could either not produce at all, or produce with in finitely greater expenditure of labour, and the farmer supplies the mechanic and the manufac turer with the food, to produce which would require from him more labour than he gives in exchange to the farmer. The increase of labourers in town and country act and re-act on each other ; and every improved process in agriculture, and every improved pro cess in manufacturing, hasten accumulation, and, consequently, provide the means of additional em ployment to labourers. But if the labourers are increased with more rapidity than the demand, deterioration in their condition is inevitable. All attempts to blink this, and mystifying the question with cottages, cows, &c. is arrant quackery. The Rev. Mr. Townsend, in an ar ticle in the Universal Magazine for 1807, gi ves a most instructive account of the altera _ _ Lions in the condition of the labourers of Pew sey, in Wiltshire, during the forty years of his residence in that parish, from the increase in their numbers, and the disproportion between the supply of labour and the demand. The deterioration was in many parishes prevented by harsh measures on the part of those possessed of property, who, feeling like Dr. Southey, that pauperism would soon take their laud from them if they did not make a struggle, drove down cot tages, and prevented an► increase of population. If landholders were to be fools enough to be guided by Dr. Southey, and supply cottages and gardens for all who can be called into existence, we predict that they would soon be without estates, and struggling with the paupers for a part of a cottage.—Morning Chronicle. Mr. Peel is quite right in setting the New Police System to work in the city of Westmins ter ; which at present, as far as police is con cerned, is the completest satire upon the very term which can be so much as imagined. In deed police, as far as it has been displayed from the earliest recollection to this time, in this the very heart and centre of the metropolis as well as the actual seat of Government, has been at all times rather a method of attraction than of prevention. Not only are crimes of every sort committed with impunity, but a sort of general hot-bed and nursery is kept up, under the very nose of the Magistrates, for the supply of crime to the rest of the metropolis, as well as for the provinces. Yet in the compass of this small city, three out of the eight present police-offices are situated, besides a horde of amateur Magis trates, who bring up the rear of this inefficacious system. There is a manifest degree, therefore, of spirit and propriety in attacking the enemy first in his strongest holds ; and we augur much good when it is clear that matters, being come to the very worst, must mend. But the work which the new Commissioners have undertaken, to be done well, will be one of no small labour ; for they will have not only to establish a new system, but to abolish one equally bad and old. The nightly watch in Westminster is, for the most part, as bad as it well can be ; but that is not all ; indeed, that, we should say, will turn out to be the least part of their labours—just as easy, we should presume, as to garrison a town with effective regiments in lieu of so many companies of invalids. But there is the flash house to root out, the receiving house to demolish, the trading constable to crush, and too many of the present police to teach that mere money-getting is not all that they are paid by the public for being em ployed about. There is nothing probably to do but what men of good sense, of knowledge of the world, with good temper and firmness, may not be able to accomplish. But they will probably be met by the old leaven in all they set about ; and this they must resolutely determine to resist. Every thing must be new to be in any way effec tually useful. Any attempt to amalgamate with such a system of abuse as our present mockery of police presents, will only inoculate their own plan with the seeds of a chronic disease, which will soon render their own system as incurable as the old one has been found to be. On the contrary, if, instead of coalescing with the enemy on the smallest point, or adopting a shadow of past abuses, they proceed calmly but resolutely to the adoption of a new and opposite method, we think there is now a chance of our having, what we never had even the semblance of, a thoroughly good police.—Morning Herald. WHIMSICAL ANECDOTE OF A FORMER DUKE OF NEWCASTLE. At the close of an election for Lewes in 1771, the Duke of Newcastle was so pleased with a man who gave a casting vote on his side of the question, that he almost fell upon his neck, exclaiming, " My dear friend, you are the best creature living ; what can Ido for you ? I long to serve you." May it please your Grace," replied the voter,. " the exciseman of this place is very old ; when he dies, I shall be glad of his place." " You shall have it ; I wish for your sake he were dead and buried already ; as soon as he is, set out to me, be it night or day, insist upon seeing me; I'll give orders for you to be admitted at any time." The voter, swallowed every thing with extacy, and in the following winter the exciseman took his leave of this wicked world ; the Duke's friend started for London, and reached Lincoln's Inn at two o'clock in the morning. About this time the King of Spain was taken ill, and not expected to survive. The Duke, wishing that he might not, had despatched messengers to Madrid, who were commanded to return with unusual haste as soon as the death of his Catholic Majesty should be announced. Ignorant of the hour at which they might arrive, he had given orders to his attendants to send any person to his chamber who should demand ad mittance. When the voter asked if his Grace were at home, he was answered in the affirma tive, and immediately shewn up, when he rushed into the room, and in the transport of his joy, cried out, "My Lord, he is dead l" " That is well, I am glad of it with all my soul, when did he die i"—" The morning before last, and please your Grace What, so lately ?—Why, you must have - flown ; how shall I reward you ?" " All I wish for is to succeed him.",--" You, you what pretensions have you to the Crown of Span ? Let inc look at you." The astonished Duke threw h:ick the curtain, and saw ' with rage and disappointment the face of his electioneefing friend. The poor devil waa at first dismissed with all the violence of anger, and refused ;—but, at length, the victim of time Minister's anger became the object of his mirth ; and, when he felt the ridicule that marked the incident, he raised the candidate for monarchy into a post, which, from the colour of the present times, and the conduct of the petticoat em broiderer, may seem as least as honourable—he made him an exciseman. LONDON SESSIONS, JULY 22. INDICTMENT AGAINST DAVID LATOUCHE, ESQ. Davkl Latouche, Esq., a member of a most re spectable and wealthy family in Ireland, was brought up by habeas corpus from the Fleet prison, to be tried upon an indictment charging him with having assaulted Mrs..Tane Phillip, the wife of a person who is also a prisoner in the Fleet, with intent to commit a rape. Mrs. Jane Phillips deposed as follows:—She was told by Mrs. Sharp, who was in the service of Mr. Latouche, to call at his rooms in the Fleet prison, and receive an order for a straw hat. She did so, but upon her knocking at the door she heard a voice say that Mr. Latouche was engaged with his attor ney, and that Mrs. Phillips must call again. She said she would come when sent for. Next day, while she was at dinner with her husband, Mrs. Sharp called and accompanied her to the door of Mr. Latouche's room, but left her as soon as the door opened. Mr. Latouche, the moment witness was inside, locked the door, and shut down the window. " I," said the witness, " remonstrated with him, and said it was a very hot day for closing the window, and he said it was not. I told him I was the person who was recommended to make a straw hat for him, and asked for the description. He gave it me; bat as I was ledving the room he seized me round the waist, dragged me to the bed, held my hands, threw me down upon it, and detained me about three minutes. I screamed aloud for assistance, told him I was in the family way, and begged he would not hurt me. He said he would not have the least compassion upon me, but would do just as he pleased. He loosened one of his hands from under me, I suppose with intent to disorder my dress, but I forced myself away, and threw him against a table filled with glasses and bottles. I then flew to the door, upon which he seized a glass decanter, and said he would injure me more with that than with what he intended to do, He put his hack against the door, and squeezed my hand by jamming it. There are two doors, and he jammed me between them. My hand was black for some days. He told me he would not let me go till he had done what he pleased with me; and I said that I would rather die than submit to his wishes. I then flew to the window, opened it, and screamed as loud as I could, but no one was walking on the ground at the time. He.then said he would let use go if I would promise not to expose him ; and he let me out. I never saw him before; and he and my bus-; band were never acquainted. I went to Guildhall, and was advised by the Magistrate to indict. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS—I swear I screamed as loud as I could. Mr. Pittuurs—How far is the windoW of the room from the Warden's house ? Mrs. Phillips— I cannot tell. Mr. PHILLIPS—You can't tell ? You can form some judgment, surely ? Mrs. Phillips—The War den is not always in his house. Besides,the Warden's windows are not always open. Mr. PHILLIPS pressed the question as to the dis tance, and Mrs. Phillips at length said that the dis tance from the warden's house might be half or the whole length of that court (six or twelve yards).— The hour at which this violence was offered to her was half-past two o'clock, and still there was not a creature in the great court. Mr. Pmuirs called Mr. Samuel W. Dart, soli citor, of Red Lion•square, who deposed that he was in the habit of visiting Mr. Latouche professionally, who was in a very shattered state of health for many months, and whom the surgeon of the prison at tended. On the 4th of June he was with Mr. La touche, when Mrs. Phillips knocked to take mea sure for a straw hat. Mr. Latouche was lying on the bed at the time from decided debility. Mr. Dart swore that he never saw a decanter in the room in his life. Mrs. Phillips—lt might have been a bottle he took up in his hand for what I know. The RECORDER summed up, and the Jury imme diately found the defendant Not Guilty. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Richard Wacc, a journeyman butcher, in the em ployment of Mr. Woodham, a salesman in Newga!e market, and William Farr, the driver of a waggon belonging to Mr. Kingsley, of Kimpton, carrier, were yesterday charged before Sir PETER LAURIE, with causing to be exposed for sale in Newgate market the carcase of a cow, which was unfit for the food of man. Sir PETER LAURIE should move in the Court of Aldermen, that an inspector be appointed over the meat markets. He hoped that the fine on the per son who sent this meat to London would not be less than 1001. Wace was then held to bail to appear at the next Sessions, and Farr was admitted a witness, and bound over with the rest to prosecute. On Friday, the driver of the hackney-coach, No. 730, was fined by Alderman FAREBROTIIER. IO s. to the King, and costs, at the instance of the Hon. Secretary of the Society against Cruelty, &c. for severely whipping a horse on a sore place, it being the custom of some hackney-coachmen to make a sore place on their horses on purpose to whip on, which they call " establishing a raw." HATTON-GARDEN. . _ Yesterday Thomas Edwards and William Wil- change of colour in Viall's countenance, accused hams were charged with stealing from Mr. William him of the crime ; he at first denied the charge, charge, Sharpe, a bookseller, No. 16, Queen's row, Penton - but after some hesit a tion confessed himselfthe ville, six books, his property. perpetrator of the'horrid deed. The prisoners pleaded distress. They were fully , It would appear that Green was so sound committed. asleep at the time he received the cut, that he Garrott Brinsley Sheridan, a respectable-looking individual, employed in a solicitor's office in the was insensible of pain, and that his assassin had City, was yesterday brought before the sitting Ma- an opportunity to return to his bed before he was gistrates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, aware of his situation. by the parish officers of St. Pancras, upon an order Viall was placed in the custody of a con of removal to Ireland, and upon a warrant, in wh ich stable, to whom he repeated his conf ess i on , he was charged with deserting his wife, and suffer - stating, that having committed the act, h e l e ft ing her to become chargeable to the parish for her the razor in Green's bed, but took it with hi m maintenance. when he went for the surgeon, i and thre w it n s house, wh ere , It was stated that this was the third or fourth warrant upon which the defendant had been brought into a plantation near Mr. Mart up to this office, within the last IS months, charged it was found. with deserting his wife and a child Is mouths old, _. Colonel Mathew, of Pentlow-hall, a very active refusing to maintain them, and thereby suffering magistrate in the division, with the assistance of them to become chargeable upon the poor-rates of S. Stevens, Esq., of Clare, promptly investigated i t n h i e tte r d na t t o te t r a , ke in h id ia the trial a p t ri t s i o te ne n r ex w t a ß s fully ury as s i c z o e n s ) . - the parish. Orders of maintenance had been made upon him on those occasions, and threats of impri sonment held out in case he should refuse to comply, We forgot to mention, th a t w h en Vi a ll went but neither orders nor threats were available to the for the surgeon, he told him th a t G reen h a d cut purpose, for he still persisted in his refusal to con - his own throat. He has since told Mr. Nunn, form to the obligation of making good his weekly payments, and relieving the parish from the burden Y ldl of Great e )am, who rendered considerable of supporting his family, and at last, effectually to assistance to Mr. Bridge, that he had no malice get rid of the dilemma in which he was placed, of against Green, but he (Viall) had made up his either going to prison or complying with the order, mind to destroy himself; and fearing that Green he determined upon the expedient of applying to the would hear him and prevent his doing so, he parish to pass himself and his family, as paupers, to resolved to murder him first. Ireland, of which country he said he was a native.— On the morning of the dreadful event Viall This was agreed to by the parish authorities, who ate a hearty breakfast, and actually drove him equally wished to rid themselves of the burden andself a greater part of the way to gaol. He was annoyance; and accordingly they made out an order . not the least affected during his of removal, which they submitted to the Magistrates examination. • extraordinary It is an ~ to sign, and took down the particulars of the de- fact that a paper was fendant's examination, which as a matter of course found in Viall s box, upon which was, in his they required him to testify upon oath in the Ma- own hand-writing, an account of the " Execu gistrate s presence.. tion of William Vial at five o'clock this morn- When the oath was tendered to him he refused • "• d the other mg, an on side was a sketch repre to tatlce it, upon the ground that be entertained some m aimg himself hanging, with the populace scruples as to the fact of his youngest child having him. been born in " lawful wedloc k ;" a nd it was not till around . Mr. Mallets, the chief clerk , omitted, in reading the The above singular and unaccountable con examination over, the word " lawful," that he con- duct of Viall might lead some persons to doubt sented to be sworn. his sanity, but we ar e assure d t h at t h e op i n i on Mr. ROGERS asked the defendant in what part of of those in the neighbourhood of Clare is de. Ireland he was born, to which the defendant replied, ' cidedly contrary. that though he w as of Irish parents, and always con- , The unfortunate victim has been attended by sidered himself to be an Irishman, yet he was not . • lus mother, whose anguish may be more readily born in that country ;he was born on board a vessel • Ithan described. 57 Jec The dreadful nature in the channel between the Isle of Man and Dublin, i ''".° ll • of the wound, it being as deep as the fatal in which latter place the vessel reached in a few hours afterwards. This circumstance set the order of re- strument would inflict, at first excited in the moval aside, and the defendant was then complained I mind of the surgeon the most fearful result, by. against upon the charge of desertion. It appeared that the last order of maintenance had been made upon him about a month ago, and since then he made only one week's payment to the parish of 6s. The wife, an interesting-looking female, is the daughter of Lady Perrott, and has two brothers, bearing commissions in the army and navy. In 1816, she first became acquainted with the defen dant, who then followed the profession of the stage, at Chelmsford, where she resided with her mother, and where he was then performing with a company of theatricals, and three weeks afterwards they were married in London. • He remained in this profession for four years subsequent to their marriage, and then finally retired from the stage to take his chance in a solicitor's office. The defendant said, that his means were not suf ficient to enable him to support the complainant and her child, particularly as he had taken his own two children away from her, and was at a very heavy expense in keeping them at a boarding-school. He denied the fact of his being the father of this child, and, together with many other proofs of her infi delity, during a considerable time past, he had her own acknowledgments in writing for the truth of what he denied. He knew, and she herself con fessed it to him repeatedly, that, during several short intervals that she had been absent from him at Can terbury, Margate, and ether places in the country, she had been carrying on an adulterous intercourse. The Magistrates asked the complainant if the child in question was born in lawful wedlock ? to which she replied in the affirmative, adding, that while she was at Margate the defendant was in the habit of going down to her from London every Sa turday evening, and remaining with her until the following Monday. Mr. ROGERS told the defendant that unless he paid up the arrears due to the parish, and consented to pay the amount of the order of maintenance, 6s. weekly for his wife and child, he would commit him immediately to prison. The defendant complied, and the parties left the office. UNION-HALL. Yesterday Richard Young, who described himself the steward of the Columbine steam-packet, was brought before Messrs. HONE and ELYARD, on an infermation charging him with having conveyed a quantity of brandy on shore, the duty on which had not been paid. The MAGISTRATE convicted the defendant, and awarded him to pay a penalty of 100/., and in de fault, to be imprisoned until the fine be paid. The defendant having said that he could not raise such a sum, was sent to gaol. EXTRAORDINARY AND HORRIBLE EVENT AT CLARE, IN SUFFOLK. (From the Essex Herald.) We have been furnished with the following authentic particulars of the late diabolical at tempt to murder a young man at Clare : Mr. Bridge, a respectable draper, having en tertained suspicions that he had been robbed by his journeyman, discharged him. Mr. Bridge had two apprentices, named Viall and Green, the former about 16 years of age, the son of the late Mr. Viall, a carpenter at Bocking, and the latter about 19, the son of the late Mr. John Green, of Totham, both in this county. On Tuesday night last Viall and Green went to bed together, perfect good friends, nor had the slightest disagreement existed between them. They slept in the same room, but in separate beds. About midnight Mr. Bridge's maid servant was alarmed by repeated heavy groans, and heard Green call her by name. She imme diately went to her window, which faced his at a right angle, when he begged for a light, say ing that his throat was cut. She alarmed Mr. Bridge, who instantly proceeded to the bed room, the door of which he found fastened.— After he had gained an entrance, to his inexpres sible horror and surprise, he found Green sitting at the foot of his bed, his hands upon his knees, panting for breath and moaning heavily. His night clothes and the bed sere crimsoned with the blood which continued to gush from a fright ful wound in the back of his neck. Viall, his fellow apprentice, was in bed, and in a feigned sleep. Mr. Bridge and his maid-servant sup ported Green, and used their utmost endeavours to staunch the bleeding. Viall was roused and despatched for Mr. Martin, a surgeon, who on his arrival sewed and dressed the wound. It commenced at the right ear (part of which was cut off), extending round the back of the neck to the left check, just escaping the carotid artery, which was laid quite bare. Viall cheerfully as sisted the surgeon in sewing and dressing the wound, and in every thing where he could render service. The inquiry—" who inflicted the wound ?" was now made. Viall asserted that Green must have done it himself, or that it was the act of Mr. —, the journeyman lately dis charged. The poor victim frequently exclaimed against the assertion that the wound had been made by himself. Mr. Bridge observing a _ _ the latest accounts from Clare state that there are some hopes of his ultimate recovery. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. Since writing the above, we have been fa voured with the perusal of a private letter from Mr. Green's famil), which states that some time ago Mr. Bridge had a young man as journeyman (his name we at present suppress), who was de tected by Green robbing his employer of silk handkerchiefs, stockings, and other articles. Mr. Bridge was not willing to prosecute, and there fore discharged him. The razor with which the wound was inflicted, it is said, belonged to the journeyman. Green was awoke, the letter men tions, by he knew not what, and jumped out of bed, when he found he was bleeding profusely.— He was not aware that Viall was his assassin, but supposed that some one was secreted in the room. Viall, after he had made a confession, declared that he had no motive for injuring Green ; that he liked him - very well, and had never quarrelled with him in his life. The inte rest, the writer adds, taken by the inhabitants of Clare generally in the fate of Green is very great as he was universally respected for his steadiness and honesty. THE WEATHER. The favourable appearance of the weather has had the effect of exciting the hopes of all those whose speculations depend in any way upon an abundant harvest ; while those who were calcu lating upon the failure of the crops are propor tionably depressed. We believe that the rain has hitherto done little damage to the wheats, and that it has been highly serviceable to some of the spring crops, and the turnips in particular, does not admit of a doubt. We have conversed with a gentleman who has just returned from an extensive tour through the corn counties, and he reports that the crops have as yet sustained little or no injury ; but that, on the contrary, they are looking exceedingly well. The wheat, in parti cular, he represents as having a most luxuriant appearance. On the contrary, we have heard that in Lincolnshire there are hundreds of acres laid as flat as a pavement, and that it has every appearance of having been attacked by the mil dew. For our part, we doubt the truth of this latter statement. It is true that in Lincolnshire, from the lowness of the lands and the consequent luxuriance of the herbage, it is hot improbable that the wheat may be laid, but we apprehend that they are not sufficiently advanced to be liable to the mildew. All accounts agree in stating that there is scarcely any wheat. stacks in the country, and if no wheat stacks, we should imagine little or no old wheat. This fact is certainly not a positive proof of the poverty of the English farmers, but it is certainly a strong presumption that they are poor—for those who know any thing of their habits and feelings know that, independent of any ideas of gain, they take a pride in having such proofs of their prosperity ornamenting their rick-yards. Besides, the wheat was, for the most part, harvested in so damp a state last year, that standing through the summer in stack could not fail greatly to improve its quality. Damp wheat, by being put into heaps in a granary, always de teriorates, and to kiln-dry it also injures it, though in another way. But the fair way of looking at this question is to inquire whether there are fewer wheat-stacks now in existence than there were upon an average of years at cor responding periods ; and we have no doubt that the result will show that such is the case. So far as personal experience goes, the writer of this article can safely affirm that, whenever he travel led through a corn district in the month of July, he generally met with corn-stacks in the yards of every large farmer ; whereas all accounts now seem to concur in stating that a stock is scarcely to be seen. In short, there can be no doubt whether the farmers be poor or not, that, not withstanding the great importations, there is very little wheat in the country, and such being the case, it is easy to foresee that a bad harvest would be fraught with the most fearful consequences.— Morning Herald. DUMFRIES MARKETS.—JuIy lb. s. d. s. d. _ . s. d. a. a Wheat, Imp. Bush 8 9to 9 0 Butter, 160 z............. 0 0 to 0 9 Barley 4 0 4 4 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 0 Oats 2B 30 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 4 2 6 Veal 0 3 0 7 Potatoes, cwt. CATTLE.—The number of Cattle on'the Sands to-day was 1124. We seldom recollect * to have seen our Market in so languid a state, and it was generally understood that there was a depression in price of a crown per head. A great proportion left the market unsold. . PHILTRES. Among the many interesting conversations which I have had with Lady Hester, she related several anecdotes of the people of the East, most of which were extremely illustrative of their manners and superstitions. I select the follow ing, as it relates to the two greatest men of which the East can boast—Sultan Mahmoud and Mehmet Ali. The growing power of the Pacha of Egypt had long been the cause of uneasiness to the Sublime Porte. In vain were capidgi`• bashis, armed with the bowstring and the dagger, despatched to the capital of the Pyramids ; iii vain the treacherous agents of the Porte endea voured by poison or stratagem to rid it of a dangerous rival. Mehmet Ali was too well warned, by his spies at Constantinople, of the; toils which were spread around him to suffer himself to fall into the slave. At length the Sultan Mahmoud resolved upon adopting a scheme which should be so cleverly devised, and involved in such impenetrable secrecy, that it was impossible to fail of success. Be had in the imperial harem a beautiful Georgian slave, whose innocence and beauty fitted her, in the Sultan's eyes, for the atrocious act of perfidy for which she was to be the unsuspecting 'agent. The belief in talismans is still prevalent through out the East; and, perhaps, even the enlightened Mahmoud himself is not superior to the rest of his nation in matters of traditionary superstition. He sent one day for the fair Georgian, and, af fecting a great love for her person, and desire to advance her interests, told her that it was his imperial will to send her to Egypt as a present to Mehmet Ali, whose power and riches were as unbounded as the regions over which he held the sway of a sovereign prince, second to no one in the universe, but to himself the great Padisha. He observed to her how much happiness would fall to her lot if she could contrive to captivate the affec tions of the master for whom he designed her ; that' she would become, as it were, the Queen of Egypt, and would reign over boundless empires . ; but, in order to insure to her so desirable a con summation of his imperial wishes for her welfare and happiness, he would present her with a talis man, which he then placed upon her finger. " Watch," said he, " a favourable moment, when the Pacha is lying on your bosom to drop this ring into a glass of water, which, when he has drunk, will give you the full possession of his affections, and render him your captive for ever." The unsuspecting Georgian eagerly ac cepted the lot which was offered her, and, dazzled by its promised splendour, determined upon fol lowing the instructions of the Sultan to the very letter. In the due course of time she arrived at Cairo, with a splendid suite, and many slaves, bearing rich presents. Mehmet Ali's spies had, however, contrived to put him on his guard. Such a splendid demonstration of esteem,fiom his imperial master alarmed him for his safety. He would not suffer the.fair Georgian to see the BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. the lady of G. A. Moultrie, Esq. ° f Aston-hall, Shropshire, of a son. On the 21st inst. Mrs. Thomas Abbot, of North-bankt Regent's-park, of a son. On the 22d inst. at Upper Wimp°le-street, the 1 idy of the Rev. R. F. Fuller, of a son. On the 20th inst. at Fellbridge, the lady of G. T{aik s ' Esq. of a son. _ _ . light of his countenance ; but, after some deten tion in Cairo, made' a presentof her to his inti mate friend, Billet 'Aga, the governor of Alexan dria, of whom, by-the-bye, the Pacha had long been jealous. The poor Georgian, having lost a Pacha, thought she must do her best to .cap tivate her Aga, and administered to him the fatal, draught, in the inanner Sultan Mahmoud had designed for Mehmet Ali. The Agi fell dead upon the floor. The Georgian shrieked and clapped her hands, in rushed the eunuchs of the, harem, and bore out the dead body of-their mas ter. When the Georgian was accused ofpoi soning the Aga she calmly denied the fact. ‘‘ What did you do to him ?" was the question. " I gave him a glass of water, into which I•had dropped a talisinan. See, there 18 theglass, - and there is the ring." The ring, it was true, re mained ; but the stone, which it 'had encircled, was melted in the water.—Frankland's Travels. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI , Adair's Beaumont 25 6 Bede's 25 3 Burdon 26 3 Dean's Primrose—........ 24 9 Felling Main 24 6 Henburn Main 28 0 Holy 26 7 Killingworth 28 0 Liddell's 24 6 Ord's Redhugh .--... 24 0 F'eiaw .27 0 Pontop Windsor 25 0 24 0 Tantield Tantield Lea . 28 6 27 0 Willington —.---.. 27 9 Wylam _ 29 3 Walls End Bell and Co. 27 9 Walls End Bewicke&Co. 30 6 Walls End Brown's 27 9 Ditto Brown's unser.... 26 0 Ditto Burraton 29 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 26 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 26 0 Sit ips at market, 118 M-Shit Walls ksid Neintarch.,.. 29a. 6d. Ditto Hilda '• 27 0 , Ditto 27 3 Ditto 0 Ditto Northuniberiand• 27 6 Ditto 25 6 Ditto Perkins and C 0.... 27 0 Ditto Riddell's, •-• • 29 ' 6 Ditto litoMll's 30 9 Ditto Walker 20 0 Lambton's Primnise —29 0 Neskam 28 6 , Walls End etton—;,.«. 31 9 Walls End Lanibton—:. 31 6 Walls End 29 6 Walls End Stewart's 31 - 9 . Russell's Hetton's W.E. 31 3 tinders and 'ranfleld ' .36 6 Cowpen 28 0 Hartley ' ' 28 6 'Wall* End Elgin 31 6 Tantielel'rader 30 0 Londonderry small 19 . 6 ltussell s i small".:* lB 6 ips sold, 79j4-Unsold, 39%. WORMY COR N MARKETS DURING TEE WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. —. • ' Per Quarter. s. to a. a. to a. a. .to a. a. . a. Abingdon....---. 58 82 32 38 21 32 42 60 76 29 36 22 27 . 46 Birmingliam..—... 72 82 32 36 24. 36 •—• 46 ISridport 56 '74 32 39 26 34 54 Cirencester 60 '72 23 26 40 54 86 36 4(1 26 38 46 Guildford ........... 48 74 30 35 24 33 48 Henley . 54 83 30 3.5 20 30 40 Hereford ............ 64 84 38 45 36 40 60 Highwort"i 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 65 84 28 38 22 30 51 Oakingham —........ 56 '76 30 36 18 32 44 Reading 66 84 32 37 24 34 4.1 Salisbury 58 78 34 39 24 35 52 Southampton —,. 54 78 37 40 28 32 46 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 Ea 40 42 30 38 58 Uxbridge 48 81 33 36 24 31 —. 42 Wastage 50 '7B 30 37 22 30 42 Warminster 44 83 32 37 25 36 54 56 80 32 36 22 27 54 W0rce5ter.........,. '72 80 36 40 24 32 44 LEWES MARKET.—JuIy 21. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 14 0 to £3 16 0 Red ditto 3 11 0 3 14 0 Barley Oats, New 1 2 0 1 6 0 Pease Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand. CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley Oats A RKET—JuIy 21. I'ei lb. d. to d. 6 8 6 7/ 6 7 7 8 6 71 Beef . Mutton Veal ' Beans 4 9 5 6 Muth Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 3l. 10s. to 3/. 15s. per ton. HULL MARKET.-July 21. The weather, since our last, has been' very changeable' and unsettled ; yesterday we had some very heavy rain ; to-day is again fine, and having a very slender attendance of buyers, we experienced a slow sale for both English. and foreign Wheat, and the prices of last week were with difficulty supported. On the little business done, the holders generally, however, are more disposed t o t i a it the event of the weather, and advanced antics, to "stibMitting to present prices : the demand to-day for iedondary quali ties of foreign and Ruissian is limited, at last week's prices. Of Oats or Barley we have very little offering, yet tbeY are scarcely inquired after, and from the fete sates effected, our prices may be considered nominal. None but the best hard Beans meet buyers, and those' hardly 'suppo r t l a te prices. Rapeseed and Linseed as our last. No inuirY whatever for any grain under lock. The duty of 10s. tad. was paid last week in this poet upon 29,068 quarters, 12,785 of which was from ship. Wheat, Old -s. -s. Now -4. 565. - Foreign -a. 60s. 650.......1nb0nd....-a. Oats, Poland -s. 20s. 245. 01d......... -a. -a. 265. - Small or Feed -s. 12s. 12a' 245. -• Foreign- -s. 225. 248.......:..« -4 -4. Barley, Norf. & Suf -s 265. 28s. Linc. & Wold 30s. - Foreign -s. 30s. 220. Beans 345. 365. 395. Foreign -a. 365. 38s. Pease, White -s. 365. 40s. Grey ...... -4.305. 3 40 . Taros -.6 345. 365. Foreign SYS. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last -1. 261. 281. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MainsToNx.--Notwithstanding the dismal app e a ra nce so generally presented by the grounds, some people assert their opinion that there will be a tolerable quantity of Hops. But we can see nothing like improvement. To be sure on so large an extent of land as is occupied bY, the plantations there must be some good pieces here spa there, but good judges consider the duty of 32,000/. more than will be realized.—Maidstone Gazette. MAIDSTONE.-Our accounts from all quarters concur in stating that, though here and there may be seen au in' dication of partial impt:ovement, from the bine putting out shoots, yet, generally, the State of the plantations con' tinues to get worse. We have heard one planter state he would give his crop to any one who would take the trouble of stacking the poles.—Maidstone Journal. MARRIED. On the 21st inst. at Wimbledon, A. A. Park; Es4' second son of the Hon. Mr. Justice Park, to Marl Frances, daughter of the late George Brown, Esq. of Rtil sell-square. _ 'On the 21st inst. at Leamington Spa, Capt.. E. Gott . ' of Penge, Surrey, to Sarah Ann, eldest daughter of 0 4 late W. Marsh, M.D. of Coventry. At St. Pancras, by her father, Harriett, y o nngesi daughter of the Rev. H. 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