The Sun. — London, England, 1829-10-01 00:00:00

return at gradually shortening intervals, of dis tress arising from want of employment, amongst large bodies of our laborious countrymen, whose subsistence depends on manufactures. Captain M'Konochie goes on with his view of cause and effects, stating some things with which we find it easy to concur, and others which, if we understood them equally well, might no less, perhaps, challenge our acquiescence. " And the causes of all this neglect of the arts of consumption are obvious; but the fact itself, •with some others connected with it, has scarcely, we think, been so distinctly contemplated as might be wished ; and the inferences to be drawn from the whole are very important. Up to a recent period of our history, we have been more tasked to pro duction than to find consumers, and our conduct ha been analogous ; but now our situation is cornpletel altered : and if we would prosper as we have done, our measures must change in the same degree.— Hitherto our productive powers have been belcnd the demands even of our own market. We have desired, notwithstanding, to protect this from intru sion, as a sphere for our trade to which we had a peculiar claim,—we have so protected it by duties, — theoretically this may have been false pelicy, as by raising costs, and creating a variety of direct impe diments to communication, it sent us into &reign markets under a disadvantage,—but practically, we were not dependent on foreign markets, unless for supplies of raw produce for our home consumption, or to he wrought up in our manufactures,—our capi tal, skill, and activity, with our bounties and draw backs, enabled us to procure these without loss, — the rather, that the returns themselves acquired a factitious value immediately on importation, through the operation of the same restrictive policy which protected other branches of domestic speculation,— we were nowhere met by any strong competition,— profits, consequently, were every where high,—and these, although they were thus chiefly, or rather en tirely, taken in the home market, and from one por tion of our own community to be given to another, were favourable to the accumulation of capital in the hands of the more industrious portion, which reacted in turn on their productive powers, and accelerated their growth. It seems by no means certain, then, that up to a given point in our pro gress to opulence our protecting duties were disad vantageous to us. When the system was first or ganised, there was a virtual choice before our prede cessors whether they would accumulate capital by a great trade and low profits abroad, or by a compa ratively limited trade at home; and in the unsettled times in which their choice was made, with their inability at that period to maintain a great trade, and the moderate competition which they then also en countered, it may be presumed that they chose not unwisely, economy against speculation, filling one pocket out of another, but the hoarding and repro ducing pocket out of the spending one, the Savings Bank fund out of that destined for current expenses. But it is essentially necessary for us, their succes sors, to observe, that as there is a point in all eco nomy when mere saving ceases to be prudence, so there is a crisis in the palitical progress of a mer cantile community like ours, when the home market cattmot thus entirely supply the place of the foreign one ;---when,as the Savings Bank refuses to make a return for more than a limited sum, so the home con sumption becomes inadequate to employ capital swelled beyond a limited amount ; and in both cases inveatmenis must be sought elsewhere. And this is just the point at which we have now arrived; and the fact cannot be too firmly grasped, as supplying the principle upon which all measures of relief must b e founded. It is scope that we want, extended scope of action. In the infancy of our growth, the bars by which we surrounded ourselves protected us; but now we have filled our cage, and they con fine us : and we exhaust our strength in vain and impotent struggles with their fastenings. " And our great misfortune at present is, not that we hate reached this point (for, if the emergency be rightly n,,nt, this may be to our great advantage,-even like the youcg trader, who, driven from his Savings Bank, cotnmences a prosperous business, and soon learns to despise his previous petty gains) but that we have come to it suddenly. Had we approached the crisis by degrees, our minds would have been prepared for the change of system which it im poses : and one obstacle would have disappeared after another, till we should scarcely have felt the transition. But first the immense consumption cause(! by the war, and afterwards the fever of spe culation with which we were seized four years ago, kept up the value of the home market, and main tained our prepossession in favour of old maxims and institutions : and they still cling even to those most anxious to shake them off,—as witness that system which has been of late years called free trade, but which, by merely removing certain prohibitions, and c;lLvering certain duties, on import, has rather faci litated the entrance of foreigners into our market, than materially assisted our merchants in penetrating into theirs. It has thus begun at the wrong end; find the result, indeed, has proved, that •in this or some other way (but we think in this) its views are inadequate to the occasion. Besides admitting competition, provision most be made to meet it, and also to find a vent for the excessive production which, by stimulating the powers of the country, it titeessariiy occasions. The costs of that production mot be therefore reduced as much as possible, mid ' consunention fostered by facilitating communication in ever; 1 u way. And thus, we are persuaded, can health still restored to our commerc ial system. The author is probably not mistaken in his notion that direct taxes ought, as a system, to be substituted for taxes oil consumption ; but bow he can reconcile the expedient (which seems a favourite one) of " bounties on borne produc iII - tion," with his leading proposition, that there is already an excess of such production, with his formal acknowledgment that there is '‘ a univer sal tendency to glut," or indeed with any one recognized principle of legislation as applied to matters of economy, we do not profess to answer. We have pursued our remarks and extracts too far to have much moo; for noticing the Captain's proposal, that there should be a periodical work directed exclusively to the treatment of commer cial Subjects. We do not know that agricul tural rtiggazines have done much for the practical farmer, or that merchants, whose ignorance was welt as need periodical instruction,. might not find " the little knowledge" conveyed to them through such a medium n very " dangerous thing.," while merchants, already masters of their profession; would treat monthly theoft%27; with ri dt.7ule. As a whole, however, the little essay shows considerable activity and cleverness in the writer, And contains hints well deserving of at tention.— Times. If the internal condition of Ireland is not ye such as to warrant the use of the term satisfac tory as applicable to it, yet are there many indi cations which justify an attentive observer who would pronounce upon them as decided symp tost4 of improvement; we would designate the growing confidence in the impartial administra tion of justice now generally admitted to prevail as one of the most important of these consolatory appearances. The recent determination of the Irish Government not to resort to the extreme severity of the Insurrection Act without a pre vious trial of the efficacy of the natural and con stitutional means which exist independent of that oppressive Statute, has, according to those well qualified to decide, been productive of the best effects; and the silent but gradual advancec to wards an effective reform of inveterate abuses, and an introduction of a better system in every' department in which it is found necessary, must do much more. With such favourable auxilia• r ies, it is no unreasonable demand upon those whose personal interests are most deeply con cerned, to entreat them to lend themselves to an active and efficient co-operation in these wise and beneficial purposes. Of those thus called upon, there are two classes who can do much—the Resident Gentry (which may be taken to include the local Magistracy), and the Parochial Clergy of every denomination. The first must endea vour themselves to forget, and must inculcate upon their retainers the necessity of forgetting, those stupid and unnatural party distmctiens which have been almost consecrated by immtrrio rial practice ; and the last must carefully avoid the indulgence and suppress the growth of those sec tarian prejudices which have in all ages been,pro ductive of wanton and useless outrages upon huma nity. We have been led into these reflections by the perusal of a long, sensible, and dispassionate letter, just received from a person who himself holds no inconsiderable stake in the sister coun try, and who, from ocular observation, and with access to every source of information, expresses himself confidently on the improved and improv ing condition of society in its general aspect ; while he does not dissemble his conviction of the utter inefi9cacy of local and rigorous mea sures, unless qualified by a pervading principle of fearless impartiality, and seconded by the dis interested exertions of those whose native or ac quired influence supplies them withan abundant power of promoting or obstructing the progress of national prosperity.—Morning Chronicle. The system of close boroughs is not to be ad mired. It strikes at the very principle of free representation. It is condemned by the theory of our Constitution ; but it has long had the sanction of that which turns fact into law— , established usage. Mr. Canning said it " worked well in practice ;" and MjCanning is the political idol, the infallible authority of those " liberal " Papers that are now endeavouring to excite the popular indignation ag a i ns t the Duke of Newcastle, for not allowing himself to be quietly dispossessed of the influence which his property gives him in one of those bo roughs which the " capacious mind " of the late Premier considered so useful a part of the State-machinery, that he declared lie never would submit to have them touched by the finger of reform as long as he haul the honour of retain ing a scat in the House of Commons. If we rightly recollect, he appealed more than once from dry principles to historical facts; and in stanced the men of distinguished talents who had been introduced into the sphere of public action, which their genius adorned, by means 'of those boroughs, where patronage supplied the place of established popularity or commanding wealth. The representation of a county is generally the appendage of high birth or splendid fortune— thqt of a large town, where the right of election is extensive, often becomes the reward of those dishonest arts and insincere professions, by which the demagogue can establish an " in fluence " as useless or pernicious as any that emanates from Aristocratic ascendancy. West- minster, in the full exercise of the elective franchise, carried Sir Francis Burdett into Par liament because he was popular; but does he attend to the interests of his constituents ? His popularity was despotic enough to enable him to nominate a colleague, but it scorned the drud gery of giving any laborious application to the business of the House. Hence Westminster is far from being so efficiently represented as some of those places where seats are dispensed by an other power than the « sovereignty of the peo ple." Newark sends Mr. Sadler to Parliament under, as it is stated, the influence of the Duke of Newcastle—and whatever may be thought of Mr. Sadler's opinions, no one can truly deny him the credit of great talents, of ex tensive information, great research, arid close assiduity to the duties of a Senator. But he opposed the Ministers on the Catholic Question, and now sweeps away the cob-web sophistry of the theorists of " free trade"—hinc dice lach unto ! Had the Duke of Newcastle, instead of a man of intelligence and genius, sent the " tenth transmitter of a foolish face" into the House, we should have heard nothing of the " grievous oppression" of his giving his refrac tory tenants notice to quit. Let us suppose a Whig Lord—the patron or part-patron of a borough—having admitted his tenants to the possession of his houses upon certain condi tions, one of which being that they should at elections so give their votes as to - preserve and not to destroy his influence in the borough ; and let us suppose that they should act in direct violation of this essential condition for a bribe from another party, would the " liberal" news papers raise an outcry of indignation, because the Whig Lord chose to prevent a recurrence of such a breach of faith by taking his property back again ? We cannot say whether this was the case at Newark, but if it should turn out to be so, we think the Duke of Newcastle not to be condemned either in point of Whig logic or Whig morality.—Morning Herald. Of all the taxes which it would be for the in terest of the Government as well as of the pub lic, to reduce, those which affect Newspapers, whether in the shape of stamps, or of duty on advertisements, occupy decidedly the most pro minent place. There is no commodity, foreign or domestic, which is so highly taxed as a news paper. Out of every copy, for example, th e Government receives fourpcnce as stamp duty— then the paper itself, on which ne'i are printed, is taxed—and, finally, from every advertisement, no matter how short, which appear& in its columns, the Government receives three shillings and sixpence ! Altogether, in fact, before a newspaper can be delivered to the public, the taxes which have to be paid upon it, amount to little less than 75 per cent ! leaving only 25 per cent. to account for interest on capital, the wages of labour, bad debts, and pro fits 7—an extreme of taxation, the mere mention of which ought to be sufficient to convince any ,:;np of common under tiotsnding of its impolicy, not tp say injustice; for co newspapers however necessary they may have become to that portion of the public which can afford to purchase then), are rather articles of luxury, with which it is possible to dispense, than of primary need, it is evident that onerous taxation, in the shape of stamp and advertise mept duty, must have the effect, on the one hand of greatly limiting the number of.their readers, and on the other, of checking the free exchange of commodities, by prevent fig op publication of so many advertisements of sales and noqce,q of various kinds as would otherwise emanate from the public. A donble evil is thus inflicted on t h e pu blic —the luxury of reading 4 newspaper, which is highly prized by many who pall OpJy occasionally indulge it, is withheld from an 4- tensive circle, and the free circulation of opinion t4r4w checked ; and on the impededheot during her hand, r t i li g e trade 'of tnik: country greatly those times of pressure, it is most neces sary that every facility should be afi-orde,d tp it; the Government while, to sum tip the mischief, itself, which inflicts these evils by an inju dicious system of taxation, receives less in the shape of cevenue 'than it would do were those taxes only the one-half of their present amount. Fewer -stamps are brought from it than it would dispose of were the stamp two pence instead of fourpence—fewer advertise ments appear in newspapers, and a less amount of advertisement and stamp duty is in conse quence collected—less paper is consumed, and the contributions of the paper-manufacturer to the revenue undergo a consequent diminution. Nor is this all. The number of persons em ployed in the manufacture of newspapers is ne cessarily fewer ; and thus a tax, which appears, in the first instance, to have merely in view the readers of newspapers, and the exchangers of commodities, falls ultimately on those who are least able to bear it, and aggravates the pressure of distress by greatly abridging the quantity of labour which would otherwise be required. We have been thus minute in endeavouring to show the operation of the stamp and advertisement duties on newspapers, because we are convinced, in the first place, that there is no tax in the whole code which has a more pernicious effect on the general intelligence and industry of the country ; and, in the second, that there is none which the Government might reduce with greater certainty of an increased amount of re venue. This result has, we think, been placed beyond a doubt in an excellent article on the subject in . the Elgin Courier, and which we shall now extract in confirmation of the opinions which we have stated. " We not only maintain it to be in time highest 1 degree probable," says it, " were the duty on ad vertisements reduced to one shilling, that every Journal in the kingdom would have four advertise ments for one which at present appears in its co lumns, but that those who, under the existing duty, only insert their advertisements once, would, at the reduced rate of duty, repeat them three or four times. Nor is this all : those who in consequence of the present exorbitant rate. of duty insert their advertisements in one Journal, would, at the re duced rate we are recommending, be induced to publish them in two or three, if not more, of those Journals, which might be considered best adapted fur giving them an efficient publicity. There are, at present, too, many individuals engaged in trade and commerce, who have intimations to make to the propose ; but the public—more especially the reading and commercial part of it,—would be benefitted to a much greater extent. The field of employment would he greatly enlarged—more paper would be consumed—more type and print ing required—the exchange of property effected much more expeditiously and economically, and the wants of the public satisfied in various ways, which it would require too much space to parti cularize. Let us hope, therefore, that the public will cordially join us in impressing on the Go vernment the necessity and policy of reducing the stamp and advertisement duties ; for let it be recollected that every fourpence which we pay for stamps, and every three and sixpence for ad vertisements to the Government, must again be repaid to us by the public ; and that though these taxes be injurious to newspapers, it is the public ultimately which must pay them, and not those who are more immediately responsible for them to the Revenue.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL A man, between 50 and 60 years of age, named George Carman, who formerly kept a public-house, was brought before Mr. Alderman BIRCH yester day, charged with knowingly uttering a forged bill of exchange, purporting to be accepted by James Ellis, Esq., the great hop-grower in Kent. Mr. Isaac D. Child, a wine•merchant, in Bishops gate-street, stated that a few days since the prisoner applied to him to discount a bill drawn by himself on Mr. Ellis, of Barming, for the sum of 471. It appeared to bear the acceptance of that gentleman, and was made payable at the George Inn, in the Borcugh. He advanced 50s. upon the bill imme diately, without any inquiry, but upon applying subsequently at the place where it was made pay able, he discovered the acceptance was a forgery. The signature to the bill as drawer was that of the prisoner. - Mr. Schofield, of the George Inn, said he was well acquainted with the handwriting of Mr. Ellis, and could swear the signature across the bill had not been written by him. He produced a letter as a specimen of Mr. Ellis's handwriting, the style of which was strikingly dissimilar to that upon the bill. Mr. Alderman BIRCH asked if Mr. Ellis had had, a good education ?—Mr. Schofield replied in the affirmative. The ALDERMAN said he only put the question because he observed the word " accepted " was spelt on the bill " exceped." Mr. Schofield said he believed there were several of these fictitious bills out. He was aware of two in particular, drawn by the prisoner on Mr. Criten. den, a farmer at Burwash, and which purported to bear his acceptance, and here the word " accepted" was mispelled " exped." It was remarked that these orthographical errors had probably been purposely committed with the view of securing a technical objection to the indict ment, that the bills did not in fact carry the aver ment of having been " accepted" by Mr. Ellis or Mr. Critenden. public, to which they are desirous of giving all the circulation in ►heir power, but who, in consequence of the material difference in the price, prefer rather to issue those intimations in the shape of circulars or handbills. Perhaps as great a number of these, consisting of two or three hundred copies of each, are printed at the Elgin Courier office weekly, as there are advertisements in our Paper. But were the advertisement duty reduced to one shilling►, we would be able to make our advertising charges so low as comparatively to do away with the practice of printing handbills. At all events, those who meant to content themselves with advertising in one form, would in almost every instance prefer the in sertion of their notices in a public Journal, to their appearance in the circular or handbill form—for this very good reason, that in consequence of the great number of hands through which a newspaper passes, and the wide range of country it embraces, the cir culation of such notices, when inserted in it, must be fully ten or twelve times as great as in the other form, even on the supposition that the number of copies of a newspaper and those of a handbill, were precisely the same. In this way alone, therefore, Mr. Child begged that the prisoner might be re manded for a few days, to enable him to strengthen his case, some of the parties interested living at a considerable distance from town. The prisoner offering no observations on the case, Mr. Alderman BIRCII consented to remand him for a week. the revenue would receive a very considerable sum of which it does not at present receive one farthing. " But fortunately we are not left to mere hypo thetical assumptions in support of the case we have undertaken to make out; the stern logic of unde niable facts is also enlisted on our side. Look, we say, to America, and the columns of its newspapers. There are there no duties imposed on advertise ments; and, consequently, in the public Journals of one of its towns containing a population of one hundred thouand souls, there appear at least from fifteen to twenty advertisements for every one which appears in any of our Journals published in a town containing an equal number of inhabitants. Now, though we are not prepared to maintain that with a duty of one shilling on each of our advertisements, their numbers would, for some years to come, be equal to those which appear in America where no duties are exacted, yet we are satisfied that they would immediately increase in a ratio which would suffice to yield the revenue double, if not triple the amount it at present receives from them. " But even admitting, for the sake of argument, that the revenue would be neither injured nor bene fitted by the reduction we are recommending o n advertisement duties, the beneficial influence which such a measure would exert on our trade and com merce, ought to be a sufficient inducement to the Legislature to sanction it. Any measure which could contribute in any degree to improve our commerce at any time, ought to be adopted with promptitude, but particularly at a time like the present, when almost every branch of it is in an unprecedently de. pressed and languishing state. Now, it is in the very nature of things, and is in accordance with all past experience, that the more frequently and more universally any article exposed to sale is kept before the eye of the public, that article has a proportionally greater chance of being disposed of, and at the sam e time has, in consequence of the number of competi tors for the purchase of it, a much greater chance of procuring a high price. Let this idea be carried into our commerce in general, and throughout its endless ramifications, and our readers must be satisfied of the improvement which would result were the prac dee of advertising more generally adopted. It would he as effectual, and probably not so expensive, as the present common practice of employing agents, travellers, &c. " In times like the present, when our manufac turers and artisans of every description are so re dundant, and the means of production incomparably greater than they were some thirty or forty years since, our commerce must not be allowed to creep on at its natural rate—or, in other words, we must not barely proportion the supply to the natural de mand. Every thing else is now-a-days in an artifi cial state, and so must our commerce in one sense be. We must resort to every honourable means of forcing or creating a demand for the articles we have produced or manufactured; and advertising, were the reduction for which we are arguing con ceded, appears to us the least troublesome, the least expensive, and the most effective which we could have recourse to fur the purpose. " But here again we are happily not left to mere theory in regard to the beneficial influence which advertising exerts on trade and commerce ; e can adduce facts—those stubborn things in proof of our ppinions on the subject. The most superficial reader of 4 newspaper must have been struck with the fact, that those engaged in business who have o n ce begun always continue to advertise in the pub, lie journals. There are, indeed, a great many of our racist respectable houses so much in the habit of ad vertising, that we can acarcely glance over• the co lumns of a single number of the more extensively circulated papers without meeting with. their adver tisements. And what does this prove ? Simply that experience, the best of all possible teachers, has taught them the advantage of the practice of ad vert iaing." In these observations we cordially concur, as well as in the propriety of the call on the com mercial part of the community to join in peti ticning the Legislature for a reduction of the stamp a cid advcruspnient duties, with which our cotemporary closes his excellent article on the subject. Such a reduction may appear to be rather our affair than that of the public, and un doubtedly the press in all its departments would be greatly benefitted by the change which we EOW-STREET. The new police regulations having taken effect on the evening of Tuesday, several of the patrol appeared at this office yesterday morning in full cos tume, and their clean and orderly exterior certainly presented a strong contrast to the dirty sottish look of the generality of parish constables, and the broken down appearance of the nightly watchmen. A man named Ryan, and a woman named Dwyer, both of them natives of Ireland, were charged with having been found fighting together, and creating a disturbance on the previous night in Stewart'sßents. It appeared that one of the new patrol was pass ing the house, when he heard a dreadful noise within, and cries of murder. He immediately went in, and finding the defendants fighting, he took them both into custody to the watch-house. When he was brought to the watch-house, Ryan charged the wo man with having struck him on the head with a brass candlestick, but when lie came before the Ma gistrate, he said that one of the officers had struck him with his staff. Mr. Thomas, the supervisor of police, denied that any of the men had struck Ryan, and said that he (Ryan) had made it up with the woman, and shifted the charge from her to one of the men. Sir R. BIRNIE did not think that the patrol was quite justified in going into Ryan's house, and taking him from thence merely fer quarrelling. He wished to see the new police do their duty with judgment and moderation. He should take Ryan's own hail for his future appearance, if called upon. Mr. Burn, a bookseller in King-street, Covent garden, was charged by his wife with a series of ill treatment. Mrs. Burn was attended to the office.' by her father, Mr. Hone, the ingenious author of the " Every Day Book." A profe3sional gentleman, Mr. Steer, the barrister, also attended on her behalf. Mrs. Burn stated that she had been married for several years to the defendant, and had three chil dren by him. His general conduct, however, was so violent, that he had frequently threatened to break her skull, adding that he was tired of her, and wished to get rid of her. She went in fear of her life. Two witnesses deposed to the violent conduct of the defendant, and fully corroborated Mrs. Burn's statement. It appeared that Mr. Hone, being aware of the usage which his daughter had experienced, took her to Sir R. Birnie, and laid the case privately before him. The Magistrate sent for Mr. Burn, and ex postulated with him, and he promised amendment. Upon returning home, however, he said he cared no thing for all the Magistrates had said to him, and renewed his ill-treatment; upon which Mr. Hone was obliged to adopt the alternative of taking out a peace warrant against Mr. Burn, as the only means by which be could protect his daughter froM violence. Mr. Burn, in answer, did not deny the charge of violence, but endeavoured to retort upon his wife, by sta , ing that he was unable to bear her extrava gance,—that she was i►► the habit of pledging his Elate, &c., and receiving the money due by his lodgers. Mrs. Burn said she was forced to do so, as the defendant never gave her any money for herself or children. married persons were not approved of as servants in the house, and since their discharge it was that the several burglaries had, taken place at the house. Soon after they had quitted, Mr. Edge said, he missed a case of pistols from one of his rooms, and upon examining. the pistol which the prisoner, Stephen Sandford, snapped at the watchman on Friday night last, when making his escape from the premises of Messrs. Stultz, he (Mr. Edge) recog nized it as one of the case that was missing from his house. He had not the least doubt; he said, as to the identity of this pistol, because it was one of a case made a present to him many years ago by a friend of his, a Captain in the Royal Navy. Mr. Edge said that he was now almost convinced that the diffe.rent burglaries committed at his house were planned and executed by means of the prisoners; ' and on the last occasion when his house was broken into, when he was awoke, and distinctly heard the thieves still in the house, he has not the slightest doubt now but had he gone down stairs, as he first thought of doing, 1:e would have been shot most probably with one of his own pistols. Schofield, the officer, who apprehended the female prisoner, said that on searching her lodging, in Gage court, Clement's-lane, Strand, he found a marriage certificate, by which it appeared that the two pri soners were man and wife long before they ever en tered the service of Mr. Edge at all, although they went there separately as single persons, and strangers to each other. The officer also said, that the male prisoner, after flinging away the pistol produced, which he attempted to discharge at the watchman on Friday night, he was seen also, doming the chase after him, to throw away another pistol, answering precisely the same description, and which a woman, whom he called " Poll," picked up, and no doubt this was the other of Mr. Edge's case. Mr. Edge said, that he had also in his service at the same time that the prisoners lived with him, another female servant, whose name was Mary, but she was generally called " Poll" by the other servant; and she, too, quitted his service about the same time with the prisoners. The prisoner said that she had not seen this other female servant since she quitted Mr. Edge's service, and knew nothing at all about her; and she denied all knowledge of any of the burglaries alluded to. She was remanded until Saturday, when her hus band is to undergo another examination, and she is also tl. ?.n to be brought up. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Patrie(7 Haggerty, a tall athletic Irish man, one of the new policemen, of the division C, No. 110, was brought before Mr. WALKER, the sit ting magistrate, charged with being drunk and dis orderly in the Mile-end.road. The prisoner was followed from Whitechapel watch house by 200 or 300 persons, shouting and bawling. George 'Webb, a watchman of Whitechapel, stated, that he was on duty between five and six o'clock in the morning in Whitechapel-road, when his attention was attracted to the defendant, tylio was standing in the middle of the road in a beastly state of intoxica tion. Witness approached the defendant, and found he was dressed in the garb of a new policeman. The prisoner no sooner observed witness than he pulled off his coats, tucked up the sleeves of his shirt, and offered to fight everybody, and said he could thrash all the watchmen in London. His conduct was so vio lent that he was compelled to take him to the watch house, where he behaved in a very riotous manner. The prisoner being called upon for his defence, said, " Oh, your wurtchip, divil a bit now can I contradict a word the watchman says against me, bad luck to him. Faith now, if I pulled down houses and lands, I don't know, as the drop of the crater got the better of me." Mr. WALKER said the defendant was very unfit for his situation, and he should represent his conduct to the Board. The prisoner exclaimed, " Oh ! I have lost a beau tiful place, bad luck to the liquor; faith it has mur thered me. Oh, how shall I live for the future !" The prisoner was discharged, after a suitable ad monition from the Magistrate. HATTON-GARDEN. Yesterday James Williams was brought up before the Sitting Magistrates, Mr. ROGERS and Mr. LAING, from Eagle-streeet watch-house, to answer the complaint of Charles Field, constable, No. 124, of the new police, for an assault. The complainant stated that between eight and nine o'clock the previous night, he was on duty in lianway-street, Oxford-street, when his attention • was drawn to an immense crowd, in the midst of which the defendant was bellowing most lustily, to the insupportable annoyance of the neighbourhood, and by the desire of several of the inhabitants, he promptly interfered to disperse the crowd and silence the defendant. Field being recognised in his new official capacity, he was scoffed at by the mob, who reiterated, " him, he's one of Peel's— police," and the defendant becoming bold by the encouragement and support thus given to him, per sisted in continuing the disturbance, and assaulted the complainant with great violence, struck him re peatedly on the face, and grasping the collar of his coat, tore it down to the buttons. In the struggle ,he received a cut on the band from some sharp in strument, but whether it was a knife or not the de. fendant used he was unable certainly to state. The inspector, Mr. Coleman, would not allow the com plainant to use even his staff on the occasion. While conducting the defendant to St. Giles's watch house, he was followed by an increasing mob, who still clamoured," -- new police," and threatened to serve him out whenever an oppor tunity of doing so presented itself. The Magistrates inquired why the charge had not been brought before them at an earlier hour, 11 o'clock being always appointed for the hearing of night charges ?—Field said, he had to go on dut. again at eight o'clock that morning, and being also obliged to bring the defendant from St. Giles's to Eagle-street watch-house, he was unable to attend sooner with his charge. The Magistrates observed, they would admit of no excuse in future. They must have those charges before them at the usual time. The defendant being called upon to answer the complaint, only said that be was drunk, and knew not what he was doing at the time. He was fined in the penalty of 205., and in de fault of payment was committed for one month to the House of Correction.. Under the new regulations in the Police, the Hol born division attached to this office extended from Gray's-inn-lane, north and south, to Oxford-street, Regent-street, Portland-place, and the New-road. A second division to be attached is in contemplation. QUEEN.SQUARE. Mrs. Alsop, of No. 18, High-row, Knightsbridge, _ _ Mr. B urn was h e ld to b a il . applied to Mr. MARRIOTT under the following cir- Sarah Sandford ( t h e w if e of Stephen Sandford, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. eumstance : It appeared that on Sunday last her husband, with intent to • commit a robb rg ery, the Y house of in custody upon a charge of bu lariousl enter' F, Messrs. i d ay o i S o c l t t i I t last), pans the m.as tailors, yesterdaya teacher at some of the principal schools around the Mr. William Alsop, of Wingrovc-place, Spa -fields, metropolis, had been summoned to the office for not maintaining his wife and child. Ile had agreed to Cliffordbro brought . bt beforeon Mr. CON ir' an, the Magistrate, charged on g suspicion allow her 12s. per week, and there was about 3/. 17s. due. Mr. Alsop promised most faithfully to pay the of being concerned with her husbad in the said arrears on Monday last; and Mr. Wilson, the over burglary, and also in a series of burglaries and ex- plausible mann er , Ed g e, a gentl e m an res idi ng i n Essex-street, Strand, agreed to take his word for the payment. from whence many h un d re d poun d s worth of tiro- Mrs. Alsop now stated to the Magistrate th a t h er perry had been car r i e d o ff. - ' It appeared by t h e statement of Mr. Edge, a and child, and she was quite destitute even o f th e gentleman far adv ance d in necessaries of life, and in the greatest distress. years,who attended, that The female prisoner and Stephen Sandford had been Mr. MARRIOTT said it was highly disgraceful for in his service, the one as footman, and the other us a man to come to the office and make such plausible cook, for some time, but they were hired at separate speeches as Mr. Alsop did on Frid a y ; M rs . Al sop periods, and it wits not kn own th a t th e y were at a ll should have justice done her; as Mr. Wilson had acquainted, much less that they were man and wife, chosen to take his word for the payment, he should for a long time after they came to live at the house. relieve her immediately, and he might then have a In consequence, h owever, o f certa i n familiarities warran t and apprehend M r . Al sop. that were observed between them, end which were ! Mr. MARRIOTT then directed i Ncholson the beadle deemed improper in the house, they were questioned, to go with Mrs. Alsop to Mr. Wilson's, and see that and then admitted that they had recently been she receiv ed immediate relief. married privately si nc e they became fellow-servants, ' Mrs. Alsop thanked the ' worthy Magistrate, and and on this admission they were both discharged, as 4 left the office with the beadle, THE MARKETS. COAL NI AII Beaumont liebUurnLtin 33 6 _ 3l 0 31 3 Liddell's Maio . 28 0 Orel's ftedhugh 27 0 PCIATT .50 0 Pontop Windsor 28 0 Shlpeote VS 6 Tantield • 3O 6 Tanfleld 28 0 Townley.. 29 0 Walls &id Be wick e& Co. 35 0 Ditto Bell Itobson & Co. 33 3 Ditto Brown's unser.— . 3t 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 31 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 33 0 Ditto Cranilington— 29 6 Ships at market, 72--Ships :ET.—Sept. :30. Walls End Newraarch... '0 Ditto Hilda 33 Ditto 34, , 6 Ditto Perkins and C 0... , R 0 Ditto F., 6 0 Ditto Russell's 95 Ditto Walker 0 Larobton's Primrose 0 Walls End 6 Walls End Lambt0n......., 3 . Wall's End Lumley.... 0 Walls End Stewart's g Ht Hetton's.W.E. 30 0 Cowpeu. Hartley Silkstone U e Stone W. E. Old Etherley.... f 9 sold, 45% 2634' wftEl COUNTRY COR .N MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beal* Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to s. s. to s. t. Abingdon 53 82 132 28 ,21 32 61 14 41 25 26 -- Birmingham.-- 72 82 32 30 24 36 0 Bridport 56 74 32 39 26 34 Cirencester —. 54 76 39 23 26 Faringdon— 54 86 36 40 26 38 Guildford ---.—. 44 74 Ni 40 24 33 • 0 Henley 54 83 30 35 29 90 Hereford 64 84 38 43 36 40 --- 0 Highworth 62 8) 32 42 28 34 bl Maidenhead 65 84 22 39 22 SO Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 -yl - Reading 60 82 32 37 24 34 Salisbury 58 78 36 42 24 34 -- Southampton ........ 54 78 37 40 28 32 -- Stroud . 66 80 34 38 22 32 Tewkesbury 65 87 40 42 30 38 $ Uxbridge Wantage 5O 80 30 -36 22 32 $ Warminster —. 49 80 V 4 43 29 36 Windsor . 52 82 36 44 22 40 •-• ,$ Worcester—.......... 70 77 36 40 24 32 CHELTENHAM MA RKET.—Sept.29. & Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. d. tog Wheat Barley CHELTENHAM _ Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley Oats 3 0 4 3 Beans... ........... 4 9 5 6 Beef.... Mutton Veal Lamb Pease... ........... 5 0 80 1 Pork Hay 3l. 10s. to 3/. 1 per ton. d. tot H 6 1 1 LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 2Q. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 IS 0 to 43 10 0 Red ditto Barley Oats, New 1 9 0 1 4 0 Beans llB 0 00 1 Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousar jj HULL MARKET.—Sept. 29. The sunly of New Wheat from the farmers is li: e6 only limited, and from the variable state of the ro.A, the condition continues generally very middling, some so soft that the millers will not 'purchase. j o t parcels that are in good condition are taken off 0 1 4 i p g week's prices ; for Old Wheats we h ave on ly a 0 4 14 demand, and had sales been pressed, lower pricef have been submitted to on the middling and secondat e e lairs, but for the best runs last week's prices have obtained. Oats continue in limited demand, a t latent. Barley for grinding continu es i n li m it e d d eman d, no. ° r ing offering. The best parc e l s o f B eans an d P e ase ] je. port the currency of last week ; other qualities slot!: o f No alteration in Rapeseed or Linseed. The doll t 20s. Bd. was paid on about 30,000 quarters of 'W . on Friday last in this port. . Wheat, Old —s. 6135. 61s New —a.45 6 • —. Foreign —s. 635. 665...--In bond... Oats, Poland Small or Feed —s. 12s. 18e. Foreign —s. 206. 245. , ... ......., .... — 4 '9* Barley, Norf. & Suf —s 26s. 28s. Line. & Wold We , —. Foreign Beans __ 345. 3i , s 39s Foreign .. —s. Pease, White —s. 30s. 34s Grey Taros --s 345. 3tss. Foreign..—.... Rapeseed, in bond, .none. Free, per last —l. DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Sept. 23. di s.d. s.d. Lif." 09 Wheat, Imp. Bush,.. 7 0 to 7 6 Butter, 16oz 0 00 0 Barley 4 0 4 4 Eggs, dozen o o' of Oats 2 9 3 3 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 4 '2 (5 Veal 0 5 gi Potatoes, cwt. _ CArrmr.—This day may fo rm a memora bl e er n - a 1 0$ our Cattle trade, since in point of number there ) 05 4 0 been such a show for many ye a r s ( near ly 5000), . 1 : 0 dealing there has not been a d a y so m i sera bl y d e stro 0 to the stock-farming interest ; not above one-half o f t ia quantity exchanged owners, and by f a r th e b e tt er hr point of quality, remained unsold. The sharp frosts which have occurred au ll ; the last week have given an autumnal tinge , 0 ) 0 of foliage throughout the country ; and many descripti°, trees are fast losing their leaves altogether. NEW METHOD OP PASSING VAGRAN.- jc . A few days ago, a number of Irish of both s e xes _ their appearance in Oldham, and called upon Mr. CO h i l 'WICK, the deputy constable of that town, for so me to to help them on their way home. Susp e ctin g that i alleged poverty was not quite in unison with the fi 4 o took the liberty of proceeding to search them, and ol eo , person of the very first found a awn of 11. 17s. ire t boo upon hired a coach out of the money, and forwarded' to Manchester at their own expense. Th e TURCO LANCASTERIAN St. Peter's of Mussulmen is the great mosque , ° : ,„`1,0 1 mascus, constructed by ABDOLMELEK, th e fifth Caur io g the house of 031311.1. This superb edifice is 600 fee from east to west, and 150 feet broad from north to e 0 60 Its erection is said to have cost the enormous sun' °f , o ,14 tnillions of duests (2,250,0001.), and it s daily exr - t , to have amounted to thr ee h un d re d 040 1 . i / 1 - 0 J The various services of the day were Perf ur by sixteen Imams; and during the oili bt : ho tr the Ramadan it was resplendent with twelve sand lamps ! This was the mosque in which, °die. are informed by TEFICERETUBMICEM, EBU DURBAt 11 1 0 ciple of the Prophet, and the chief reader of the Pil adopted the system ascrib e d to LANCASTES ; one P ip taught one or more of his comrades ; and in this war t DUaDA instructed 1,600 youth at a time in the f; reading the sacred books of Islatnism. —Literary BIRTHS. • On the 26th ult. in Lower Brook•street, the H. White, Esq. M.P. of a son. Ile On the 30th ult. in Millman-atreet, Bedford-ro of/ E. J. Harper, of a son. ?loft!' On the 28th ult. at the Vicarage, Bishopston e t Wilts, the lady of the Rev. H. Middleton, of a deur MARRIED. b' At Florence, on the 10th u lt. a t th e B r itish AO% or dor's, Lieut.-Colonel Byam, l a t e M ajor in the 151 o slf King's, Regiment of Hussars, to Elizabeth Aug'osnott• surviving daughter of the l a t e Si r G ranv ill e Temp l4 ,4 of On the 30th ult., at Bi s h o p sga t e , by th e Lord ni11",14 London, Charl es S m i t h, Doi. of Aldertnan's W r ne s ' O tt' Eliza, eldest daughter of John Richards, Esq. of sire-square. 1,01 once On the 29th u lt. a t St. J a mes's, Westminster, the Walker, of Argyll-street, to Emily, third daughter ° late Alexander Wm. Grant, Esq. DIED. j ) 1 ' On the 29th ult. Frances Curtis, wife of Air* Stinky, of Glouce,.ter-terrace. Andre ° On the 29th ult. in Berners-street, M. C. aged 32. • On the 29th ult. at Highgate, Mrs. Margaret 1 v 011 0 relict of the late Mr. Thomas Yeamans, of W ill " Yorkshire. EAST INDIA.--DEATHS. v„iotr‘r At Calcutta, April 13, L. R. Burk e , F.9q • h" -- . r of the Surveyor-General's Office, aged 53. ,i if" . At Calcutta, April 13, Mr. S. Hopkins, &con. - ' of the Free School, age d 24. d' At Sucheena, Feb. 8, Capt. J. B. Goodiff, cgui ing the 15th Reit. Native Infantry. rso . t' 14 In Camp, on the route to Mhow, Feb. 28 9 --• , Y. Waugh, of the 10th Regt. of Light Cavalry gr , v At llonthav, March 30, E. Heffernan, wife o f Heffernan, Ordnance Department. r 1 'C° Near Moradabad, Feb. 20, R. Grote, EN" o f tie. Service, aged 20. in c`'` lr At Moulmein, March 2, Major T. IL:ton, ta te , I mend of his Majesty's 45th Regt. of Foot. I 01 r :1 At the R e sidency of Mysoor, April 9, Ilugh.11.0:004 of the Madras Civil S e rvi c e, Fir s t Judge of the P • Civ ii Court, Chiorthern Divison. At N ttoor, March i 12, R. Prince, Esq. S l " eon, Establishment. rtg 49 `.- of At Trichinopoly, March 18, Mrs. A. Gaylur ofe o' At Mroulipattm, March 15, Ellen Alt )r .d 6 re s O lr s h Lieu , . Naylor Burrard, Quart e r-Master I.t 31' r 4 1 13 peon Regt, and only daughter of Major L. C°"e '', Regt. N.I. aged 21. D. Coo Peri At Madras, March 30, Sarah, wife of .11 8 Pr µi, 47th Regiment N. I. At Madras, March 13, Mr. Assist.-AP o thecal J. . • do Paterson. Jeri n gnr, On March 24, on board the Mary ,A , :oz , le of A' • el passage from England, Mrs. O'Neill, the. l' '''' O'Neill. oat , St At Parsewauktun, April 23, Mrs. C 43 aged 36. PRINT= AND PUZLIZHED BY 1111./RDO 11°1°' 1 TUZ OFFICS, 112, STRAND, LortpOS•