The Sun. — London, England, 1829-01-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE LONDON JOIIINALS. (FROM THE TIMES.) • Our paper of to-day presents a more striking mag nitude of appearance than any thing that ever pro reeded opt of mechanical press, re was " taken off" Atari a revolving cylinder. It is a double paper, e:resisting of eight paws, and forty-eight. columns, instead of four pages and twenty-four columns. We 'present it to the readers in as manageable a I:m*l'A Rs pgsfilAe; being a folio, the leaves of vi , lhea may be ternsea over after being cat like trose of any other book of that size, at& the whole r it,zessei a kind of book-firmness consisten , ey which cannot be im parted to two leaves. We think it necessary to state, however, that the 'Timex will only appear its it's pre sent form occasionally during the sitting oi" Parlia ment, when the pressure of matter as well as of advertisements may render such an increase of its volume necessary. We have adopted the expedient in consequence of the present state of the law with respect to newspaper stamps; for though, when - publishing a supplement, we always offered it gratuitously to the public, GOrernmehr was not so indulgent to us. The stamp of the second sheet did not come gratuitously into our possession!, eo that upon every supplemental sheet we -sustained the loss of the stamp. Yet is it lei': ?air to acknow ledge that the law, in its Prefr'ent state, is a great re taxation of that whiell sprevailed about two years ago, when the dun;- on stamps of supplemental sheets was reduce_4l 50 per cent. We still, how ever, avail ourselres of the power wltieh remains to us, of plac;',ig under one stenw a larger sheet of raper tiro, ever before tees manufactured. (FROM THE 3 - IWINING CHRONICLE.) 'We lay hercire teer Readers an ample Repoet of the Proceeding• at the Meeting of the County of Devon, on Friday last. At this Meeting, as at the Kent Meeting, the High Aristneracy were nearly all opposed to the Brunswitters. The gentry seem to have l'een more evally divided; and the parsons ate. rabble were, AS usual, on the side of the Brune -wicker& The latter had been tolerably drilled, and on certain eigne being made, the speakers on the heillertd side were drowned by discordant noises. On she whole, there was a majority in faronr of the lirunswickers, who were to their opponents as five to four. The Brunswiekers in point of reesoning cet a very sorry figure. Sir Thomas Lethbridge, from Sornersetshire, came to their relief with a little p;ood-humoured absurdity, Reel An argument to peace that th e Catholic-Association was a body which was unconstitutional, and ought to be put sloven, directed ad hontinein to Lord Ebringtoe, who had subscribed to it. This Corypheits of the Brims teickers, however, had the merit of recommending n intelttible enerse with reaneet to the Cat !t , .'tes (in which respect he differed from his twaddling brethren). " I agree," he said, " with there on the other side When they say that things cannot re main as they are. Thanks to concession, and to false Conciliation, our Roman Catholic fellow= suitects of Ireland have assumed a position so dan erous to the existence of the State, that I defy it to continue longer without imminent danger to the Constitution, (Laughter.) The Constitutional Association must be put down. (Great applause.) The power of the Popish Priests must be get rid of, they must not be suffered to coerce the people of Ireland to vote against their dearest friends, their Landlords, and against the interests of their conntrv." This is intelligible language. If the Catholics had - not been relieved from the most oppressive of the penal laws, sad suffered to acquire propel ty, and the feelings of independence which property gives, the question with regard to them would not be so ur gent in the present day. The position of the Catho lics is one of imminent danger to the State; but, unfortunately, the remedy for that danger, of putting down the Catholic A.ls.elation, has been already attempted without success. We suspect the other remedy, of getting rid of the power of the Popish Prieeta, will be attended with equal want of success. Sir Thomas must either contrive to place the Catholics in the state into which they were before concession allowed them to become what they are, or be must make a still farther conces sion. Between prostrate slaves and citizens with equal rights, there is en medium. We confess, when we consider the prejudices in which the lower nrders of Englishreen are educated with respect to Catholicism, and die obstacles in the way of their obtaining in remote districts more enlightened no tions on the subject, we are rather surprised that the majority on this oseesioe should have been so small. Eden in the enlightened town of Leeds, fifteen years ago, the opponents of concession, as has been ahewn by the Leede Mercury, were fifteen to one of the other party. By dint of discussion, the adrocatea of concession have obtained a ma jerity there, as they litre in Manchester and all the other populous and enlightened places. The Meet ing of the County of Devon, by drawing the atten tion of the people forcibly to the question, must do good. When they have discussed it two or three times, even the most stupid hinds must see that the arguments of the Brunswickers at the meeting of Friday were utterly irrelevant. They will ask them selves, are we to be heavily burthened year after year to keep down the people of Ireland, to say nothing of the imminent danger to the empire at large from its unsettled state ? The Bruns vrickera propose nothing—they deal merely in accusations against the good faith of Catholics, and vague allegations of danger to the PrOtestant Church and Protestant Con stitution. They do not tell us how Ireland can be tranquillized without placing Catholics on a footing of equality with Protestants in point of civil rights, nor can they show how the Constitu tion or Church would be exposed to more danger after than before Emancipation. Had this question been agitated in Devonshire fifteen years ago, the majority against concession would have been in finitely greater than it is now. God forbid that the opinion .of Devonshire should be taken for the oei- Mon of England generally ; but it is consolatory to think that prejudices are fast giving way in that re mote part of the country. The conduct of the High Sheriff seems to have been equally discredit able with the conduct of the Brunswickers. Though he had promised to dissolve the Meeting if they did net allow a fair hearing to the speaker, Sir Thos. Acland, the County Member, was e ctually rert.sed a hearing; and, instead of either insisting os this gentleman being heard, or redeeming his pledge, he had recourse to evasion. (FROM THE MORNING POST.) The Devon County Meeting took place on Friday List, and most cordially do we congratulate the public upon the triumphant and glorious result. Au ample report of the proceeding. is given in our pre ceding columns; by which it will be sten that at the meat numerous and respectable meeting ever held in that great county, notwithstanding the unprece dented efforts made by the Catholic party to defeat the object of the friends of the Constitution in Church and State, the proposed petition against the Catho lic Claims to political power and consequent supreme ascendancy, was carried by a proud majority of at least fifteen to one! The erer-to-be commended example of the County of Kent being thus laud ably followed by Devonshire, as well as Che shire, and numberless other places in every part of the United Kingdom, we may fairly pro nounce the Constitution to he now in a suite of perfect safety; and upon this happy event we cannot deny ourselves the pleasure of ag:►in most heartily con gratulating the Nation upon so truly gratifying and happy a result. Well and truly did the high Sheriff of Devon observe, " that if he might judge tom t.e weight, respectability, and talent of the assembly, it was fair to presume that the true sense of the County would be ascertained en the occasion." That sense has been unequi vocally ascertained to be in favour of the Consti tinions in Church and state; nor can we help ob serving, that the opposition displayed on the oc casion was unworthy even of the blind zeal of Lordy.brington, whose sentiments exhibited so markek a weakness and total disregard of facts as to place his Lordship 8611 lower than ever in our • estaMlttion. His view of the immediate question was of the most erroneous description ; his ideas were borrowed from factious publications of the most common place sand desperate character; and his wretched adoption of the ignorant and misehlev ous in-intuitions of the worst ie,ral bAsest enem'es of the State in regard ri the effect of the conduct of his 3lsjesy's Ministers upon the Councils of Fo reic.ft Nations (which is known to be powerfully cn. ?tennis.l e • . at the present moment beyond all pre , cedent), proves him to be either toteliy ig - ndrant of the subject upon which he ptesumes to spew, or that he factiour.ly asserts what the lii6e,t superficial observer must know is directly At reverse of nniversady acknowledged AyrA obvious facts. Finely and truly did Thomas l.ethbridge observe on this ee'easion--" I rather think it will he found Oral those who lived before us were as wise as ourselves; they knew what they wree about ; they had enemies'to deal with) e.nd so have we; and at their head I pet the Oatholic Associa- tion of Ireland, of which the Noble Lord (Ebring ton) is a mvrabtr.—(Elear, hear, hear.)--I had heard Ai much before, and if he had not admitted '.71 the manly , way he has done, I should have thought it my duty to elicit it. The Catho lic Association is opposed, in tan, to the principles of the Constitution ; it includes in its body, sorry am I to say it, my Lord Ebrington; and it assembles what ? why men' whom, judging by their speeches, I am compelled to denounce, before this Assembly, as traitors to the Constitution!" (Cheers.) Towards the conclusion of the proceedings, the impatience of the Meeting f'r the Question, in consequence of the / , .t4e.ness of the hour, became so great that seete Gentlemen who akressed the assemblage Were almost wholly inaudible; nor is this to be wondered at when it is considered (as has been well observed) that the Meeting took place in the very scene in which Popery was permitted to commit its last atrocities in England; but the free holders of Devon are formed in a great measure of the sons of those whose klood still cries from the ground against the murderous House of Stuart,and against the infernal conspiracy, to pervert the law of God, and to extinguish the liberties of man, of which the last crowned member of that murderous House was but the unconscious laioister; or if not of the descendants of the actual victims; of the sons of those" who saw," to use the words of Hume, " the whole country strewed with heads and limbs, when every village beheld the dead carcase of a wretched inhabitant." ;FROM THE MORNING HERALD.) Notwithstanding the studious silence of the Press of Scotland relative to the conduct of the surgeons who employed Burke and his associates, nothing can or ought to satisfy the public mind but a judi cial investigation of the nature of the traffic which they had with the dealers in human flesh. Indeed the surgeons themselves ought to demand such an investigation. It could be the only mode of meet ing and repelling the suspielols that now alarm the popular mind. It is impossible, as matters stand, • for the multitude to conceive how this traffic in mur dered bodies could be carried en so long without exciting some suspicion in the minds of " men of science." Burke has admitted that nearly thirty fell victims to the villany of himself and his asso ciates. Whether we have yet ascertained any thing like the full extent of the butchery thus " scientifi cally" and for "scientific purposes" performed is a matter of great doubt. No attempt has been made to account for the circumstance of surgical instru ments having been found in Burke's den. It does not satisfy people that he should say he knows n.- , thing about them, and can't tell how they came there. This throws a doubt on the sincerity of what is called his " confessions." It makes it be surmised that there is some " mental reservation" in the case—even although the wholesale assassin ap pears to be so comfortably and coolly preparing him self for " absolution." If " men of science" are so ignorant in Scotland as not to know the body of a murdiTed man from that of one who died a natu ral death, they stand convicted of having derived very little advantage from their anatomical studies ; they, at all events, show that the frequent dissection of the human body may be connected with the grossest surgical ignorance. (FROM THE NEWS.) The Marquis of Anglesea is expected to leave Dublin to-morrow, where every preparation has been made to mark his departure by the most striking symbols of regret. tie is to he attended on his embarkation by greater crowds than hailed the ap proach of Majesty, on the royal visit to Ireland a few years ago. We hope he will not disappoint this intended expression of public feeling by nay private or hurried leave-taking. As the Premier—for to talk of the Mi iistry is ridiculous—does not seem prepared with a successor to the Noble Marquis, the government of Ireland is for the present to be confided to Lords Justices—the heads of the Church, the Law, and the Army—the Primate, Doctor Beresford, Archbishop of Armagh--the • Lord Chancellor, Sir Anthony hart—and the Com mander of the Forces, Sir John J3yng. This ar rangement however cannot last long, as Sir Anthony Hatt has been found guilts/ of a similar crime to that of the late Lord Lieutenant--he has admi nistered his office too impartially. He is therefore to be recalled. We were perfectly right, when we last week gave it as our opinion that the flood -gates of abuse would, by the Treasury prints, be opened on the Marquis of Anglesea for his mode of govern- ing Ireland. No accusation, short of treason, is too bad for him, and even that stain on his character is more than hinted at by some of the backbone Brunswickers. The Morning Post of Thursda l last, in contradicting some of the insinuations in the Times, as to the real causes of the Noble Marquis's recall, says—" These advocates of the Marenis know, that he is recalled for gross and repeated violations of his official duty." This must be admitted to be pretty strong language towards the King's Lieute ;ant; but the Marquis's star is sup posed to be in the wane, and therefore every brute is authorised and encouraged to lift his foot at him. Thc Standard on Friday follows in the same track; for after hinting that. the Marquis has been com manded to leave Dublin "immediately," it adds " that he must hold himself in readine.s to give an explanation of hie conduct on the sitting of Parlia ment." We sincerely hope he will ;• and that he will give to the world not only a clear explanation of his own conduct, but of the conduct of those who have caused his removal. In that case we may ex pect some interesting disclosures, in which perhaps a nymph of the Woods and Forests may cut a pro minent figure. Under the head of " Ireland," we give two instances of the mariner in which justice. is dealt out in that unhappy country to the members of the two religions. God knows if such have taken place under the Marquis of .Anglesea's administra tion, why the Brunswickers should be dissatisfied with his Government. We have ever been of opi nion that in their demands fur emancipation, the MA Catholics are not solely influenced by a sense of injustice on the score of their religion—but that they consider their civil tights as subjects materially involved. They cannot but perceive that there is one set of Laws for the Catholic and another for the Protestant; and we firmly believe could these be assimilated, and fairly and impartially adminis tered, it would go very far to deprive the question of Catholic Ernsncipati.le of a large eortion of its venom. The Irish Catholics may be censured for heat arid want of temper, but goaded an they are daily, by a feeling of undeserved degradation both in their civil and religious rights, they must be more or less than men to submit tamely to the infliction. • ;FROM THE SUNDAY HERALD.) I Among the numerous and highly interesting arti cles which will be found in our paper of this day, the report of the meeting of the Surrey Magistrates is that which claims the first attention, as ►t is de : cidcd!y the most important. The speeches tvhich were made on that occasion on the Game Laws, do the greatest credit to the liberality and good sense of the Magistrates, and we trust that the deliberate opinions which they have given upon the subject, will speedily lead to an alteration of the law; for of all the causes which will fill our gaols with cr i minals, the Game Laws are, next to the c2or Law system, decidedly the greatest, and throw into insignificance ell often. • To have a virtuous population, the people must not only be liberally paid, in order that they may live in comfort, but such temptations to commit crime as the Game Laws afford ) • must be done sway with—puismits which are not ferbidden by a naturt...l settse or ;:ii;Mite ,11f1In ie'rMitted to them ) as fa'r as the Wetfia ef 'society will allow ; and in th'e 'Age o the Barre Laws this might not only lYe 'R...etie without any injury to the enjoyments Of good sport by the country gentlemen, but actually in furtherance of it. Lord Radnor, in fact, has proved this to be the case.. He has given unlimited permission to all the farmers on his Lordship's estates to kill game; and th Consequence is that the game is well Veservcd—better indeed than formerly, When his tenants were restrained---and that not a single poacher ever dares to intrude upon them. After this proof of the beneficial influence of such a 'system, it will be disgraceful to the Legislature. not to introduce some modification of.laws which had their origin in barbarous times, and are themselves still more barbarous. (FROM TIIE EXAMIYER.) OF THIEVES IN GENERAL.--In compliment to the Police, we talk of the escape of Ste phenson, but more strictly we should describe it simply as a departure, such as the Morn ing Post might insert in its list of " Fashionable Changes." The affair, indeed, wears no charact er of efCape. Mr. Rowland Stephenson set off for a voyage across the Atlantic by a direct route, and travelled some miles in his own carriage. Officers followed, but having omitted to take with them some salt to sprinkle on the banker's tail, he sailed off, not only without molestation or trouble, but in a leisurely style, which does immortal honour to the slow and dignified measures of our police. Let it be observed, that the culprit's partners took the alarm on the 26th December, and 011. the night of that day he left town in his own carriage for Bristol ; on the 27th .the hue lied cry was raised, and the alarm was spread by the evening's post through the whole country; nevertheless he is nn captured at Clovelly on the 30th, again on the 2d of January, and finally he quits an English harbour on the sth, that is, ten days after his easy " fashion able departure" from his house in town. Ten times honoured is our Police by this dry fact. Ili this bit of an island, with such rapid means of communica tion, a criminal of whose track there are excellent clues, may have ten clear days for effecting an es cape, if• escape we must call that which has really been no escape at all, for from the statements before us we can perceive no prospect of capture, bad he amused himself with cruizing about the Bristol and Irish Channel, and visiting their ports for ten days more. The shame of the affair belongs mainly to the system. The Police acts, if we may so express it, by jets. An offender flies from London, and the Police dies after him, that is to say, two men follow his track in a post-chaise, a machinery which argues extraordinary activity. An efficient police should not thus more from a centre, but ramify through the whole country. It should not only follow, but also meet, and every where await the fugitive. Wherever there is a constable, there should be in his person an agent or servant of the police, ready to act upon tiny general order issuing from the head-quarters of the department. We make no doubt there was a con stable at Clovelly, but he probably only rooked on . at the proceedings of the mysterious visitors, want ing specific instructions. A great increase of force is obviously obtained by unity of operation. The strength of our Police is frittered away by divisions and subdivisions, and at its present total cost we might have a well-organised establishment, less numerous, in fact, than the existing one, and incom parably more efficient. Let the number, uselessness, anti aggregate charge of the parish watchmen and constables be considered, and the improvement of superseding them by a body of regulars, acting un der one head, will scarcely require ergument for its recommendation. The application of the Irish Po lice called the_Peelers, has been too often tyrannous, but the greatness of its power, arising from its or ganization, admits of no question. We have regular troops to be counted by scores of thousands, though we have no enemy to encounter; and we have, as it were, a volunteer and militia Police to cope with the WE rims of dexterous thieves who wage incessant war against society. Protection is the first - object of the social confederacy—protection against possible foreign foes we have in ample force, and et ample charge, but the protection against the domestic enemy, against the thousands and tens of thousands in fingers against us, is yet to be . provided. His Majesty in his speech to Parliament *ill, according to custom, express his satisfaction at the continued peace with all Powers, but we earnestly wish he were advised to declare hostilities against his own loving rogues. To be sure, if too . comprehensively expressed, this might be construed as levying war, a-la-Stuart, against the two Houses of Parliament; but that incivility might be guarded against in the expression, which may limit the hostility to handi craft thievery, and draw the necessary distinction between the vocal and the instrumental performers in the great concert of knavery. There is obviously a vast difference in morals, between robbing a whole nation of thousands, by saying Aye, and picking the pocket of one of its members of a handkerchief, value half-a-crown, with a crooked finger. The handicraft makes the thing disgraceful. There is alsoanot her consideration, which prudence admonishes us to hint rather than to expLiin. To kill is cri minal, except in his Majesty's service, when it is heroism. To also in his Majesty's service, when it is ministerial. We see bodies regularly organised to kill, and also bodies as regularly appointed to ---; we may not express it, its name is never heard; in conjtmc tion with such actors; our pen's forbid to write that too-familiar word: When we see how especially honourable an office it is to make free with other people's money, in a certain place and manner, and how base the same prOeeeding is accounted under different circumstances, operating on a minor acme to the same end, the mind seeks iu vain for an ex planation of the apparent solecism in morals. We have sometimes been tempted to believe that to the shame of robbery a contact is necessary, as in gal vanism. Let the thief touch the booty, and we have the tertia»z quid produced, a disgraceful crime; but if this touch be avoided, the affair may be an orderly matter of public business, nay, it may be graced with the name of duty. Thus, if three hun dred out of five hundred men betray a nation's trust, for the benefit of each other or their kith and kin, a common advantage is procured, and that without the spoiler's touching the spoil. Two hundred and ninety-nine thrust their fingers into the great purse, and give a booty to the three hundredth man, or his son, or nephew, or kinsman. The takers in this case derive no immediate profit from what they take, and therefore it is not called robbery. The galvanistic contact of felonious fingers with booty is wanting, and the common quality of the action is not elicited. There may be something religious as well as chemical in these peculiarities is morals. The Scripture says," Help one another," and it may be read that Hououratble Persons should, in accordance with this injunction, " Help one another" out of a people's purse. But whither are we wandering ? We b. , ese with Stephenson, the Hoinsurable Mem . - ber for Leominster; from him we passed to the in efficiency of the Police, from that to thieves in ge neral, and from them to the best company in the land. We shall make a rondo of t!.is article, and conclude with our first subject. Mr. Welsh's letter reminds erne of the scene in Foote's Lame Lover, in which Sir Luke confesses to his friend Sergiant Circuit, a detail of a crim. con, With his wife, ending each particular with the interrogatory; "W as i t my fault ?" After the communication of the climax, he says," Was it my-fault? What could I do? Put yourself in my place; I must have been more or less than man to resist." Upon which the reasonable husband answers : " Your fault, Sir Luke ! No, no, you did but your duty—hut as to my wife! The public, like the Serjeant, will agree that Mr, Welch did but his duty id eloping with the naughty banker; but we do rather marvel at the simplicity of his belief, supposing that he really did credit Stephen. son's hypocritical pretence of poverty, accompanied with that pathetic exhibition of a sixpence l Did it not occur tf., Mr, Wel . Th tint gtephenson could hOt irtvjt hhn a‹,ist his flight, if avowing the fitisse'ssion of money, which mist have been the money of other people, Sri ?:out paying him the com piimeut of supposing him as unscrupulous a person as himself, it was necessary to Mr. Welch's credit that Stephenson should describe himself as destitute, lie could not with a very god grate Say ; " S have booty; help tee to eseape with it." We have not the slightest doubt. that the Houourable Gentleman had an excellently well-stocked purse. He must long hare been feathering his nest, and his debts were matters of prudence. Every shilling he owed, was a shilling saved to his American fortunes. All the sums he borrowed were so many additions to his income. The attempt at suicide is a very- pretty tale, and his readiness to reeite it to Mr. Welch in dicates its character. Mr. Stephenson had profited by his dramatic pursuits, and infinitely preferred the coup de theatre to the coup de pistolet. A man who had a desperate mind to shoot himself, need not set about it at the door of a pawnbroker's shop, nor need he be deterred by one miss of fire, which with clean arms and new flints seldom indeed occurs, un less one has the prudence to shake the priming out of the pan. The attempted suicide was got up to encourage a belief of destitution. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL ROBBERY AT Mg. Ptvmuer's.--On Saturday Forrester, the young man charged with breaking the shop window of Mr. Plumley, jeweller, Ludgate hill, and carrying off a quantity of diamond pins, was brought up for re-ex4mination before Alderman BIRCH. Mr. Short stated, that hearing the cry of " Stop thief," and seeing the prisoner running, he joined in the pursuit. The prisoner turned up Crescent-place, Bridge-street, and got as far as the end of it, when finding no egress he was returning, and was secured about the middle of the passage by the witness and Mr. Grimen. Langton, a watchman of Saint Bride's, stated that a little before eight o'clock on Thursday night he saw the prisoner standing against Mr. Plumley's window. At this time there was no one within several Yards of the shop at either side * when the watchman heard the crashing of the glass, and saw the prisoner immediately run off is the direction of Bridge-street. Alderman Bluctt—Did you see him break the window? Wet chntan—l did not. The shopsian of Mr. Plumley said that he was inside the counter settling his account-book when he heard the window glass broken, and saw a hand thrust in. He did apt see the cushion taken away, as he supposed at first the watches in the window were the thief's object. The prisoner is slid to be most respectably con nected. He was fully committed for trial. COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.—Two women,named Mullins and Gylaghan, were charged by Mr. Hughes, cheesemonger, Fetter-lane, with offering in payment of some butter a counterfeit sovereign. Mullins, accompanied by the other prisoner, came into Mr. Hughes's shop, and tendered the sovereign, which Mr. Hughes instantly saw was a bad one. They were detained, and an Aker sent for; and, during the few moments that they were sitting in the prosecutor's parlour, was Mullins's propen sity for crime, that, notwithstanding being only just arrested for the com:nission of a serious offence, she•contrived to secrete a handkerchief belonging to Mr. Hughes, which was on the chair on which she was sitting. As soon as she was conveyed to the Compter she sold the handkerchief to one of the women, by which means it was discovered. Both prisoners were examined, but no more bad money was found upon them; and, although they were well known, the solicitor for the Mint declined pro secuting. The Act of Parliament under which the offence of attempting to pass base coin is punished requires evidence of a guilty knowledge in the party tender ing the counterfeits as essential to a conviction. This guilty knowledge is inferred from the offenders haring in their possession at the time more bad money than the piece they offer; and so well aware are the persons employed in this traffic of how much their safety depends upon this circum stance, that in no one case out of a great number which have been within the last few weeks at this office has any of the prisoners been ifound with more than one counterfeit—the one they offer in payment—in their possession. The public should be especially on their guard against five shilling pieces, as the majority of the cases hare been of persons attempting to pass pieces of that amount. The base crown-pieces, when rubbed, emit a strong smell resembling that of soot. TILE MARCH ARITHMETIC.—Mrs. Barclay, a stay-maker, whose years would hold oat the ex pectation of finding more honesty in the old lady, was charged with attempting the following fraud upon her employer, Mr. Gold, CheJpside : Mrs. Barclay was in that gentleman's employ, and on Saturday morning, received from Mr. Gold's foreman a cheque for 25., which on presenting in the counting-house, she was to be paid. A very brief period elapsed from the time she received it until it was presented by a little boy, her son, to Richard Thomas, the clerk, who officiates in the counting house, but so altered, that instead of entitling her to 25., it purported to be an order for 6s. 10d.; but though we hear a good deal of " the schoolmaster being abroad," yet he seemed to hare paid but little attention to Mrs. Barclay's accountant is the present transaction, for in introducing the 10d. the " 0" was placed _before the " I.' This new arithmetical ar rangement excited the suspicion of the clerk, and in consequence of this, lie referred to the foreman, when the fraud was discovered. On referring to some former bills paid to the prisoner, one was dis covered belonging to a former week, which she had altered from 2s. 3d. to 115..3d.; this was pretty well executed, and the l ls. 3d: paiel by Mr. Gold himself. The prisoner was remanded until Monday, to giro Mr. Gold time to attend. BOW-STREET. On Saturday a young farmer, residing near Bed ford,appeared.before the Magistrates respecting two colts, stolen from his father's stables on Thursday week. He stated that he had traced them to the possession of respectable persons in London, to whom they had been sold; and the Magistrate pro mised that means should be taken to have them re stored. The applicant also stated that they always kept a capital watch-dog in the stable; but on this occasion the dog was of no use, as the thieves stopped his barking by some ingredient which they carried with them, and which was so loathsome to a dog, that he fled the moment lie got scent of it. Many robberies had been committed by means of this material: the dogs would not go near where it bad been. MARYLEBONE. On Friday night, a female, who said her name was Wright, brought two genteel boys to the Office. She said they were the sons of Mr. Smith, of Euston place, New-road, (he was tried on Saturday at the Old• Bailey,) and their father having beaten them very violently that morning, they ran away from his house and came to her, at Paddington, for protec tion. She said that she had formerly been cook to Mr. Smith; that when sober, he was a kind father, but he oceaSionully drank brandy to excess, and then his disposition seemed changed. The children (one eleven and the other thirteen years of a ge) described the treatment which they received on the morning in question. One of them said that his father had broken his arm at a former time; and the other, that his father had threatened to stab him with a knife. On a former occasion they were sent to St. Pancras workhouse as an asylum. The Ma gistrates lamented that there exiked grotto& for the complaints that liad been trade, and directed the dieers of St. Pancras to take core of the boys until the trial of the father had taken place. The cook said that when her late master drank so much brandy, she has opened more than two ilo2en bottles of soda teinter in a day for his use. Saturday, a young womau named Elizabeth Sup. den, was charged with robbing her master, Mr. Ed wards, haberdasher, of 42, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital. The prisoner had been in Mr. Eilwards'a service only a month, and was taken without a cha racter. A valuable lace veil endcthiN artitles ink discpptartni, Aiispibion tell upon her; her box was searched, and •in it were found not only the goods missing, but others belonging te_her master,. amounting in value to more titan 201. She was com mitted for trial. UNION-HALL On Saturday last, three decent-looking, clean dressed, country labourers, being a deputation of be tween twenty and thirty other individuals of the same class, from Otford, in Kent, made an applica tion to Mr. Hone, the sitting magistrate at this office, for his advice and assistance under the following circumstances :—They stated that they, and the other individuals' whose names were attached to the paper presented to the magistrate, having of late been unable to obtain employment in their respec tive avocations, had been under the necessity of making application for relief to the parish authoritiei of Orford, who had employed them in breaking stones for the public rouds, with an allowance of 9d. toa single man, Is. to a man with a wife, a n d Is. 4d. per diem to a man with a wife aid two children. This pittance, small as it was, was, never theless, subject to serious deductions, because every day of wet weather went for nothing, and every day of Intermittent showers was only eakulated as half a day, and paid for accordingly —casualties over which the poor men had no controul, but which, at this inclement season of the year, were of so fre quent occurrence as to leave them generally, at the expiry of the week, upon the very brink of starva tion, and their cold hearth-stones but melancholy illustrations of " The cottage fires of England, how cheerfully they horn." It may be presumed, however, that Mrs. Hermits never saw either the men or their fire-sides; re-sides ; but a country magistrate, who may have seen both for any thing we know to the contrary, and to whom they applied for advice, recommended them to make an application to the overseers for a small pecuniary loan from the parish funds, which, if complied with, as the worthy administrator of justice somewhat facetiously observed, would only subject them to imprisonment if not repaid during the summer months. A Mr. Espinasse also had advised them (for advice is cheaper than quattern loaves at Ot ford) to mike an application to the Magistrates at Union-hall for relief—an advice which Mr. Hone iraid he regretted exceedingly they had adopted, as the case was altogether beyond his jurisdiction. Mr. Staples, the chief clerk, gave each of the ap plicants Is. from the poor-box, upon which the poor fellows retired, if not altogether satisfied with the result of their inquiries, tight glad at least to have it in their power. to procure themselres a comfort able breakfast after their morning's walk of twenty one miles. INFANTICIDE AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. On Saturday last, Aldermanbury was the scene of as distressin an occurrence as has for some time past wounded the better feeling 4 of humanity. Be- twcen twelve and one o'clock on that day a rumour, which created a horrifying sensation, of an infanticide being. perpetrated, and suicide attempted, in the house of Mr. Imeson, a respectable tradesman in Fore -street, was circulated in the neighbourhood.— '1 he rumour at first obtained but little credence ; it however, turned out to be too trite. The following are the particulars :—About six years since Mrs. 'meson, the wife of a tobacco-manufacturer it► Fore street, and now the wretched mother of the unfor- tunate deceased, prior to her marriage, though not positively insane, had been afflicted with a mental malady. This was hut of temporary duration, and she married Mr. 'meson, by whom t he had four children, the eldest of whom, the deceased, was her favourite. During this period, though frequently complaining of an affection and heaviness in the head, yet no symptoms of alienation of- intellect displayed themselves until after her last confinement (about 12 months since), when the puerperal fever was extremely severe, and tin increase of the lurking I middy became so evident in her manner arid ex pressions, as to mnke it necessary to place her un der the care, first of a keeper at home, and after wards in the riejluir. of Mr. Sutherland at Islington. There she remained until within the last six weeks, when, being declared perfectly wane, and in full pos seseion of her faculties, she returned to the enjoyment of her home and family. Her children were then ell absent with her friends, but about three weeks pant, becoming low in spirits and lethargic in her ha bite, Mr. Imeson thought it would act as a stimu lant towards her recovery to bring* home his eldest child, a beautiful little infant of five years of - age, on whom site affectionately clouted. While with her, she could scarce bear her out of her sight, and if but a short time removed from her presence, ex pressed a yearning solicitude. Nothing even tip to her committal of the deplorable act, the hapless survivor of which she now lives, was evinced from which it could be concladed that her deplorable malady had returned. On the morning of Saturday, Mr. 'meson got up and dressed himself, leaving her in bed after him ; through some unfortueate remiss mess he neglected, according to his usual practice, putting away his shaving apparatus, and scarce had he left the room when she secured his razors, which she secreted in the bed-clothes. At 12 o'clock Mrs. Imeeon, having dressed herself, went down stairs, and seeing the servent maid, desired her to send her little daughter to her bed-room, where she would clean and dress her, and afterwards take her out to walk. The child was sent up as desired, and a short interval having passed, the maid having some occasion to go to the apartment, discovered, to her horror, the infant lying on the bed in the ex tremity of dissolution, with her head nearly ampu tated, and in a deluge of gore, and tire mother stretched near her with a deep incision in her throat, from whence the blood was flowing profusely. Al_ I most powerless four the shock, the frightened girl gave an Alarm, and surgical assistance was imme diately sent for. Surgeon Langstaff, of New Basing hall -street, was instantly in attendance, but ere his ar rival the child had breathed its last, but its ill-fated mother still survived, and from the attention paid to her a confident hope is entertained of her recovery. Front the formation of her neck, which is short, thick, and what le termed apoplectic, the wound, though deep, and severing many of the minor arte ries, did not reach those on the injury of which mortality is almost certain. The effusion of blood quite restored the poor woman's senses, and as con sciousness returned, she gave, whilst labouring un der the moat pitiable distress, at intervals the follow ing account of the melancholy catastrophe :—She said that on her husband leaving the bed-chamber she saw the razors lying on the dressing-table. Scarce had site peen them, when an anxiety or an inspiration RS she herself calls it, seized her to send for her darling, and release her front the troubles of life. I With this intention, and her delusion still coatine ing, site sent for her; the poor little victim came up, and having washed and combed her, and kissed her affectionately, site pieced her en the bed, and drew the razor across her throat. Hardly had she done so, and perceiving the blood flowing", when the de lusion passed sm./Iy, and she became sensible of having deprived her child of life. Remorse imme diately followed, and not able to endure even die re flection of a moment, she attempted by self-destruc tion to annihilate the bitterness of her feeling. These are the facts of this melancholy occurrence. They have been derived from an authentic source, and to correct the 1111Uit'Vellti reports that will neceaserily get into circulation, peins have been taken to asete min their veracity. The Coroner's implest sits th's day. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, JANUARY 16.--Wind writer 51 minutes past eight.—Arrived the 1g" dry., Christian, from .11r.ritta ; Georgia, Smith, Nalf, York ; GAmoimlite, Forosiin, from llttrnhtirgh ; Loniagf, Williams, from Poole; Jame.; Wilson, --, Isle 0 ' 3lan ; Itorhilale, from Cardiff. Sailed—The ;Maria, Arende, PIT. Antwerp ; Duchess uE Clarence, 14,'Donn,ell., for93ehna; TagilS; Tall; tigsPo l ,) Wm. ilori a ld, APLenil, New Orleans; • Joseph Uintee; Richardson, for Lima. SATUILDAY, JAN. 17.—Arrived this day Dol•lin Packet Neweombr, from New York; Shenandoxih, ZOO', Age . , st-mlam ; Margaretha, fly:lieu, Antwerp; Cheri& Aiken; Rotterdam ; Harmonic, Aildicks, Bremen ; llw.kiiaon, Glasgow. Sailed—The I%fary Bradt, Wate.on, for Rio Janeiro ; Rifleman, Breastiale, for Bottibay I`itel4k4l for St. Domingo; Mary, Scott, Aiadeirn ; Roen, File of Bourbon ; Lavinia, Nibbs, for Tortola ; Pac4bnr Neale, Bnenoe Agree ; George Wright, .A.lartinhaui ; Fame, Kerman, Don3l Is. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS lILTRITIO LAST IT KKK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. Catliale Carmarthen —..— fiexham, ‘Vinchester Per Bushel. Coventry Neercatate (Stair) Northallerton Stafford Swansea Wartetek —.l Per 8011. Barnordvaatle Darlington Durham Wolsingliant ! R. to E. 1. to i. 82 S 8 (3 :15 -- 6$ 78 27 Xi St In 139 48 77 / .4.= SO 80 P 2 !SI 46 CS 92 S) :;k1 F. d. F. ti. b. (1. V. ti. 10 t) 106 4(i b 0 120 129 6 0 62 80 10 0 4 0 4:3 180 19:3 b 6 60 29 95 40 46 90 100 40 bO, s. to s. s. to $. M .se gls 4A ! 46 460* s. d. cd• *8 0 I 0 76 5,0 S 6 70 80 ao io so , IS 25 IA 111 k ° 7 51 3t 2$ cl. sot 34 50 46 h 23 F 0 40 43 6 8 2 30 43 6 71S 5 ti b 6 80 A 0 70 IP 4 24 €1 6 00 11 0 Ys6 0o iO6 IS 6 X4O PII 1Q ES 17 PO 6 Si 6 A 0 7t K, ,10 1,11 00 0, IVAKEFIEI.I), Jan. IS. • ' - Ti.ere is a very l.rgr supply of Wheat free"' op to day's market, and.a fair quantity of eamplee offering from ve,sels that are on their passage, and will be here is a dig two ; the Floor trade being in a doll state, the millers bay rery eparimgly to-day, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per gor ier upon the rates obtained la,t week. Oats are very doll, and rather lower. The quantity of. Batley at market is very large ; the hest samples have met dull valeta a redac tion of Is. per quarter, and there is no demand for the middling and light aorta, although very low prices wash! be taken. Beans ara very plentiful, and very few wanted' so that Fires are hardy enpported. Malt is as doll as possible. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufrolk ..... Ms. to 7Sa. fine 78a. Lincolnshire .................. 06s. to 73e. finelas. York,hirr, Ste 7os, to The. elne7fs. White Foreign, OM tip.tip.Ms. to 7t3s. fine Barley, Norfolk and Suablk ....... - 33 s. to abs. fine Ws., Lincolnshire llll. to 375. fine Ws - York all ire Wold .. AS. to 375. fine 395. Beans, lick 3Ss. to 4tlt. fine 414.. ---- small ............. Y.S. to 31 1 8. fine 41a. Oats, Pol3nd and rotato ?A. to 316. fine 33. Fricaland anti Small tbs. to t2s. fine 2415 _.,. -- Meeting 11.0 d. to 15gd. per Stone. Shelling Ms. to —A. —a. to mac, per Lon& . Malt 403. lb:. /Inc 48s. par Load. it ape-J*4A lO/. Os. 321. Os. TY. 10s. por Last. 131RNIINGHAM MARKETS, JAN. 15. CORM A !MET. —At to-day's market tl.:e ripply of Wheat was rather small, bet good of all other deoeriptiorti - of Grain, and sales were made. at last week's term . s....- Wheat, 9-4 4d. to lOs. 4d. per 62Ibs. ; Earley, 375. Od. to 425. ; Malt, 545. to 645. ; Pease, 40e. to 4Ss. per irs perial qnsrter ; Beane, 14s. sd. to 19s. per bag, ten ettota gross ; Olitß, Si. 3d. to 4s. per 391 b. ; fine Flour, 625.• to 635. ; seconds, ptis. to 595. per sank of 2801 b. 131anixctrAst Ssttrwerar.n.—A short supply of &fists and Sheep, with a hrish sale, generally at last -market day's prices. Store Pigs experienced a limey sale ; ones sold rather briskly._Boef, 50. to ; m ut w o , Arl. to 611. per lh. ; Baron Pigs, 98. to les. Od. ; Pot kers, 120. to 14s. per snore. SCOTCH MARKETS. PIADDINGTON CORN AS A ItKEI'.--.7fts. 16. Both Oats and Barley bare advanced a trifle to-day on last average ; 105 quarters of. Barley were sold, and foss' unsold, top prise up 2t. ; 147 /parbers of Oats were mid, 35 nusold or unrctsrned, top down 2s. Ni T lioat has de clined about ad. on the average ; top the seine as last day. Petioe ate down, and Beans op. . • Il'h ea t. Burley. Oats. Posse. Beene. Firtt...... 704 (ti 41, Od Sac 01 ' 234 Od Ate Od , Second... 703 od 99s Od 244 Id Sts Oct Ms 6d Third .... 4& 04 37s 64 this Od bis 6d —s Od There were 914 qrs. of I.Af beat in market, 1290 whereof were sold. 2 Uneold.-23 Grey. AVVI N 11.19tlia. DALKEITII COW, There was a largo upply day's market, which sold prices than last weolc. N MARKE of all kin, heavily, al lir.--Jan. 13. Ids of Grain at tliii ind at rather lower \Vheat. Barley. Oats. Frew. Beta.. First 784 Ad ltha Od 274 Od :164 Od 26s 0,1 Second . 7 is Od Ms Od 24s Od 224 Od Vds 01 Third 703 Od 21s Od 21s Od Ns old Ms Od AWITERDAIf, JAN. 10.—The Wi/vaari From &kite to London, strnek upon the Maasflats, and lota her rudder, and is supposed to hare gone to tea in that state'. The I.:Ord Chancellor of Ireland .has decided that Clergymen may bold pluralities of liyinge, provided they are.3o English miles asunder. The judgment was had in the ease of the Plimate of all Ireland, who refused to grant a faculty to the Rev. Mr. Cotton, who wee pee wented No the living of Thur.los, holeliug at the-came time the Arclirleaconry of Cashel,—the decision 6, therefor., in favour of the Archbishop:of G:shel. The wooden fences which so long disgraced the new and beautiful entrance into Westminster Ball have at last been replaced by iron railings; theworimest itra now engaged in pitting a finishing 4114 to their labours. It is understood to be definitively arranged, that an Installation of Knights of the Garter is to t a k e p l ace at Windsor Castle early in the ensuing sprin g , and St. George's Day is named as likely to be that on which this imposing eeremony will take place. Immediately after this the Knights of the Bath are to have an Installation, which will take place at Westminster Abbey. It is therefore evi dently intended that the Coln t should he very gey this year, and we trust that his Majesty's health will be sash as is allow his laudable intentions to be carried into effect. We understand that when Burke lived at Peebles, a herd-boy, in the neighbourhood of Inver!titles, unaccountably disappeared, and he has not since been beard of. Imtnediately previous to that event, the eriee of a boy being murdered were heard at night issuing from a wood. It is thought that his murder must be the ant which Burke admits having committed when in the c)untry._Edinburgh Weehly Chronicle. • BIRTH. On the loth inst., in Baker-street, Portenakatrnarn, the ,dy of Chevalier de Kantsow, of a son. - MARRIED. On the 16th inet., at ISezley, by the Rey. P.B.rGyaltt,- Jaro t a, the eldest t.nrviving son of H. Stone, .14, 01 , , , mil_pinee, to Mary Charlotte, the widow of the lats-00. Johnson, of the Bombay Artillery. On the 13th init., at Kilnwiek Percy Church, by the Rev. Siephen Creyke, James, only eon of James Walker, Eeq. • of Beverley, to Mary, youngest daughter of Robert Denison, Eqq., of Kilnwick Perry. - On the I 'ith inst., at All Saint's, Falllrn, by the Rev. - Charles Wesley, Theodore Francois Ventouillse, E q., to Ann, eldest daughter of the. hate Christopher. Love, Eeq.• of Old Bond-strett. • DIED. On the 17th inst., at Walthamatow, in her 20th year, Geoigiana, third daughter of Thomas Dawson, Esq. On the 1 Gth inst., in 13ernere.street, Thomas liardwick, Esq., in the 77th year of his age. On the 14 ,- b inst., at Clifton-wood-hop *, M on , M r& I3rereton, wife of Litot.-Colosel Br rre ton, Inspecting Field • Officer, Bristol distrist. • On the IGth inst., at her father's house, Well -street, Hackney, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the Rev. George o.lliaon, Aged 26. On the 13th inst. at Hampstead, aged 71, Mrs. Mary Watts. On the 13th inst. aged IS, 'Janice, only eon 4 . 1 Mr. Gri.rn, King's-road, )3edford-,row., On the 14th inst. at her motker'a residence, Brunswick. square, Brighton, in her 21:4 year, Arabella, the youngest daughter of the late Captain Charles Pelly, R.N. On the 16th inst., ,at Carehalton-park, Surrey, JOhn Estridge, E.q., aged 19, Dotty of Magdalen College,Oxford. On the 18th inst., of a decline, at his father's house in Cddogan-place, Chelsea, George. Henry Hopkinson, Req., sged 23 terra. On the 3d inst., at Stockton, Salop, in the 2441 i yaks . of her age, Emily Maria, wife•of George Prescott, Ee l ., ehltst son of George Prescott, of "rbeobaltrapirk. PRINTED and Punt isnEn by'MURDO YOUNG, at t 4 l; . s us - orrice, .112 i &NAM/ Leitrim