The Sun. — London, England, 1837-04-10 00:00:00

DGEWARE-ROAD MURDER. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) OLD CO UR T. The trial of Greenacre, for the murder commonly called " the Edgeware-road Murder," having been specially fixed for this morning, the Court was crowd e d a t a n e arly hour, not withstanding no one was admitted without having an order from, or passed by the Sheriffs. At a quarter before ten the prisoners Greenacre and Gale were put to the bar and arraigned—the former for the wilful murder of H anna h Brown, and the latter with having a guilty knowledge of the matter after the act, and with continuing to aid, assist, and comfort the murderer. Greenacree is a thin spare man, dark visaged, and with a rather prominent nose ; he was dressed in a blue coat, and was prepared with plenty of pens, ink, and paper to take notes of the trial. He surveyed the crowd in Court with a grave, quiet, unab as h e d look, and pleaded " Not Guilty," in a strong clear voice. Gale was neatly dressed, but appeared to feel her awful situation very keenly. She never looked up except to cast a furtive glance at any particular part of the Court. She plead e d " Not Guilty" almost inaudibly. She was accom modated with a chair during the trial. At ten o'clock Chief Justice TINDAL, Justices COLERIDGE a nd COLTMAN, and the RECORDER, took their seats on the B ench. Many of the Aldermen were present ; and on the Bench we noticed Lord Nugent, Mr. Stirling, the venerable Coroner for Middlesex, and many Magistrates. Mr. ADOLPHUS (with whom were Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin) stated the case to the Jury. After impressing upon them the importance of the case, not only to the prisoners but to the publie, he proceeded to lay a statement of the facts, which he would prove, before them. In December last, at No. 45, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital, there lived a woman named Hannah Brown ; she was not in affluent circumstances, she supported herself by washing and mangling, and appeared to live comfortably. There were some peculiar marks about her person, particularly a laceration of one of the ears, which would prove to be a material circumstance in the enquiry, as tending to identify the head which had been found in the canal as being that of the deceased Hannah Brown. While residing there she became in some way acquainted with Green acre ; how that came about he did not know, but the intimacy became so close that it led to an offer of marriage: arrange ments were made, all the forms were gone through, even to that stage whi c h was common l y called outasked in Church, and the wedding was to have taken place on or about Christmas. By the 24th of Dec. she had turned nearly all her goods into money. On the morning of that day she told her friend, or landlady, that she was going to the house of her intended husband at Camberwell—that she would be out all day, but would return in the evening, and sleep with some friend or neighbour. The woman asked her if she would take the key of her room with her, and the answer was a remarkable one : she said, " Yes ; for there are some little things there yet which are not my own, and when I get them away you can have t h e key to-morrow." Hannah Brown, however, never returned. She was not again heard of alive. There was no immediate enquiry made, because she had left under rather Peculiar circumstances—the marriage having been fixed for the following day, or the one after. On the 28th December there was found in the Edgeware-road a human body ; but the body alone—there was no bead or legs. The body was in closed in a sack—about which he would not then say more than it would prove to be a material point in the case. Of course the whole world was put in possession of the fact through the usual means of information. In the early part of January one of the gate-keepers of the Regent's Canal found difficulty in closing his gate—search was made for the cause of the obstruction, and a human head presented itself. It Was taken to the Paddington workhouse, and found to cor respond exactly with the body which had been found in the E dgeware-road. On the 2d of February, and not till then, in an osier bed in Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, the legs were found, and, on being compared with the body, were found to Jiave belonged to it. It would be proved by the evidence of the medical men that the appearances of the body denoted it to save been in good health. The contents of the stomach Showed a small portion of gin, but not in anything like the quantity necessary for putting it into the state of in toxication which the prisoner represented the deceased to have been in. They would also prove that one of t he eyes had been beater, out, and that on the back part of the bead there was a corresponding bruise which must have produced stupor; another and a strong fact was that the head and the body were both found to be quite empty of blood, most probibly by the cutting off of the head. It was a well-known fact that the blood ceases to circulate soon after death, so that the blood must have been extracted before life was extinct, probably while she was in the state of stupor produced by the blow he had described. On the night of the 24th of De cember Greenacre went to the house of a person named Davis, who was to have given away the bride, and told her that the wedding had been postponed, but gave no reason for it. Another fact which bore upon the case was, that the key of the rooms in Union-street was sent home by a boy, who had not been traced, in two or three days after. On the 27th Dec. Greenacre went to the shop of a Mr. Day, and made complaints of Hannah Brown for attempting to run him up a bill at some. tally shop, and stated that the marriage had been broken off in consequence. Day informed him that Mrs. Brown was his sister, upon which the prisoner appeared much agitated, and put an immediate and abrupt end to the conversation. Not withstanding large rewards being offered by both the Govern ment and the parish authorities, things remained dark and dull until the 25th of March. Till that time nothing had been found out. Well might the prisoner fancy him self in safety—but murder will speak out most marvel ously. Mr. Day wondered why, if Mrs. Brown's mar riage was put off, she did not make her appearance. He had heard, as all the world had, of the finding the body and the head. By one of those impulses for which there is to accounting be could get no peace in his mind till he Went and saw the head. He did so, and recognised it at once. It would be proved that the prisoner Gale Lad lived with Greenacre till within a very short time of the 24th of December. She left a few days before, and Greenacre was then alone. He then resided in Car penter's-buildings, Camberwell ; subsequently he removed to B t. Alban's-place, Lambeth. Upon the recognition of the head by Mr. Day, the friends of the deceased procured a war rant for the apprehension of Greenacre. An officer went to Is old lodgings. Some time elapsed before it was found out Where he had removed to. A clue was obtained, and the °facer went to the house—was admitted by the landlord, and °°, going up stairs found Greenacre undressed by the side of t he bed. The officer asked him if he knew one Hannah rown. H e said no—he knew no such person. What ! ; l aid the officer—were you not going to get married to „ er _,? Greenacre then finding that subterfuge was vain, " Yes, we were to have been married at St. Giles's Camberwell. The officer then cautioned him, and no farther t °uv ersation passed. He found Gale in the bed, and under Z e e found a watch, which would be proved to have belonged tie lhe deceased. A boa, a pair of ear-rings, and other ar e! of wearing apparel belonging to the deceased, were e n " in Gale's possession. Gale had left the house a few c o Ys previous to the 24th. On the 25th, she was seen about the ah use, which was shut up for a few days. It would be proved that tv e was seen there, and that she borrowed several pails of afar fr om a neighbour. On the Ist of January she altoge ther r eturned to the h o use, but in the mean time she had been ;en about the house every day. About that time Greenacre a PleYed a man whom he met on the road and a boy to take i pe boxe s f or hi m towards t h e d oc k s . When they arr i ve d Co o It the Elephant and Castle he stopped them, and said that he d ° ; Le would then get it into the docks himself. He said or w" a s Peedii) going to America. Upon his using these 4, I V. Gale made use of this most remarkable expression : r ea r , You have done it." The Learned Gentleman then b e e ore an d commented upon the defence made by Greenacre tr a d. the Magistrate. He said it would be most flatly con v_aticted by the evidence of the surgeons, who would state the throat must have been cut almost before life was 'rim b It would also be proved that the sack in which rho was found belonged to a man named Ward, a worker raitho Cra h g"Y, in Tottenham Court-road, with whom Green oew been working two or three days previous to the 24th. ,ahoge Sack, in which the body was found, had shavings of bu t adhering to it. They had not been able to find WO3l, w h ; they would produce a man who knew the sack cow nr , 4 %nad looked for it two days before the 2 4th, but of c r 'rid it. As it was then found to be in the possession bad b:lnaere, the qu es ti on arose whether or not the murder G ale, en fora long time premeditated. The question as to 'h e buty knowledge rested upon her connection with 8; own —her leaving the house for the purpose of Mrs. r aur % d ": going there—her return upon the day after the th e r—ber borrowing quantities of water—her pawning ear.. .othe s of the deceased, and her wearing the boa and the of t i l ; ins, and other articles, could leave no doubt in the minds .e aco VutY, that she w 6!) knew all that had taken place. He Cat. `epl only two cases that were at all analogous to the pre. i_calherine he first took place about century ago : it was that of Hays, who murdered her husband, and disposed of the u°4 3 l at various It was thatlouls places. The other took plitee bride oyears ago lady in L . Gardelle, a Frenchman, who ed his land eicester-square. He cut up the body in a similar rnanner, He was found ou t, and, strange to say, Greenacre a l l i ad taken The same li ne of defence as he did upon that occa "°- He called on them to dismiss from their minds anything t h e they had r ea d or heard, and to judge impartially upon evidence th at h a d b een laid before them according to the ..directions they g would receive from the learned Judes. He ?n en call e d — S amuel Pegler, police man examined by Mr. CLattesots.— o'l ' the 9 8th D ee ' I was in t h e Edgesvare-road with a person 't . d Bond. I went to a place pointed out by Bond, and f ound_ a sack c on t a i n i ng the trunk p a a human body. The arras e „, se e ti e d w i th a part of the cord now produced. The R e lt had' A mark, as if it had been recently tied. I found ase pi e " , of rag lyi ng near, and upon the bag. There " i , s s a flag_ sto. n partly c over i ng i t. The stone was in a slant 15s g position, •l e ot;ni r ), - , agai nst t h e wall. On examininn. the 27F, f ound some :11a,;,°gany shavi ngs or scrapings. On the of of M arc h , in c onset t , onsi "rice of hearing of the apprehension - s N _ . person, I accompanied ospector Feltham to a house, n _ St. Alban's-street, Lambe!b, and in the back room, d floor, I found a child's will cotton frock, patched ita nankeen, which was also the case wit:: the rag; I found 'iiittear lie sack. The shade of the nankeen paiCLings is alike °. TheAlban,s.rags found near the sack, and the frock found at St. jam st_re . e . t, were then handed up to the jury-box.] „co White, examined by'M r . BODKIN.—On the 28th of a 7 I w as in the Edgeware-road, and saw a bag lying near str,ne placed slantwise against the wall. The sack was tied found several tithe s with cord. Zechial Higgins—On the 29th December Pegler the officer Noted out 4 stone to me on the Ed d Iliad geware-road. . la been there on the 24th instant, placing a stone which the workmen employed in repairing the road had dug up. There was no sack there on the 24th. Mathias Rolfe, lock-keeper at Johnston's lock, Regent's Canal—About half-past eight on the morning of the 6th Ja nuary, I was called by a bargeman, who said there was some thing which prevented the gates closing. I procured a hitcher and raised something which I thought was a dead dog, but which turned out to be the head of a human being. The water was about five feet in depth. On examining . the head, which was taken up by the hair, I found that the right eye had been knocked out by a stick or some other weapon. The flesh was soft and puffed. The left jaw-bone bad been broken, and the bone protuded through the skin. The left ear had a seam, as if the earring had been torn out in the youth of the person, and that it had grown up again. The bole in the other ear was perfect. The head seemed to hare been some days in the water. I did not examine it any further. I then fetched a cloth, and put the head in it and took it home. Cross-examined by Mr. PRICE—I was the first person who took the head out. The blow over the right eye was not done in the lock. I have every reason to believe it was not. If it was, the wound would have been fresher. [The hitcher, which is a wooden pole about 20 feet long, with an iron crook at the end, was then produced, and the witness explained to the Jury how be had raised the head with it.] Cross-examination resumed—The wound in the jaw was not a fresh one. That might have been done by the gates, or it might not, I cannot say; but I am positive the wound on the eye could not have been done in the lock. I did not examine the head further. I only looked at it two or three minutes. The head was raised by the hitcher to the surface of the water and sunk again, before I succeeded in getting it up. I left the head afterwards at the bone-house. By a Juror—l am perfectly satisfied I could not have broken the jaw -bone, or injured the head in any way by the hitcher. lam confident I did not. I saw the same head a few hours afterwards at the bone-house. There were a great number of persons present, and it was taken in charge by a police-officer. James Page—l am a labourer, and on the 2d February I was working at an ozier bed in Coldharbour-lane, near Cam berwell. ffound a sack among some bushes, and found in it the legs and thighs of a human body. A man who was with me pulled the sack open. They were taken to the station house, and the police took charge of them. The legs re mained there till after an inquest was held on them. William Wood, policeman of the P division, assisted in carrying the legs to the station-house, and thence to the work house at Paddington. Evan Davis—l am a cabinet maker of 45, Bartholomew close. I knew the deceased Hannah Brown for about five years. I heard shortly before Christmas last that she was going to be married. About nine days before Christmas I was called down from my workshop, and found Mrs. Brown and her beau. The prisoner at the bar is the man. Mrs. Brown introduced him to me. They remained about three quarters of an hour, and the prisoner and myself adjourned to a public house where we had some drink. He had a deal to say about America, and said he had a large farm of about 1,000 acres at Hudson's Bay—that he had returned from it four months previously, ' and was returning about three weeks after Christmas. On the 22d December I saw him again, and we had some drink at the Queen's Head. He then also spoke about America, and we returned to my house. Mrs. Brown was there, and they sat together on the sofa. He said '° We may as well tell our intention before you, as we are not children. We intend to get married on Sunday morning at St. Giles's Church, and Mr. Davis, it is intended that you are to give her away, and your eldest daughter to be bridesmaid. He also added, " As you have been kind enough to offer a dinner we shall accept of it." We then talked about the place of meeting, and it was arranged that we should meet at a public house (the Angel) near the church. I never saw Hannah Brown alive after that night. It was about a quarter past ten when I parted from them. On Good Friday I saw a head at the Paddington workhouse. The forehead was flat, and the eye brow was straight, exactly like that of Hannah Brown. In my opinion it was her head. The teeth were like hers, and the eye was the same colour. Cross-examined by Mr. PRICE—I accompanied the prisoner and Mrs. Brown about one hundred yards the last time they were at my house. I dont recollect Mrs. Brown asking us to have something to drink on the night after they left. I ne ver knew a more sober woman. There was not a more plea sant, agreeable, or sober woman in London. Catharine Glass—l live in Windmill-street, Tottenham court-road. I knew the deceased Hannah Brown. She was with me on Christmas Eve, about twelve o'clock in the day. knew she was about to be married on the following day. She was to sleep with me that night, and she promised to be with me at nine o'clock at night. She remained about half an hour that day. She had no marks of black eye or bruise on her face at that time. I never saw her alive again. She was a perfectly sober woman. Cross-examined by Mr. PAYNE—I keep a mangle. I used to see the deceased very frequently. The deceased also kept a mangle at 45, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital. That is very near my house. I have seen her evenings as well as morn ings, and she was always p e rf ec tly so b er . Hannah Davis—l am the wife of Evan Davis. I knew the deceased for some four or five years. I saw her last on the 22d December. She came twice to my house with the pri soner Greenacre, and I understood they were to be married. —( The witness here at some length corroborated the state ment of her husband on these points.) On Christmas eve the prisoner Greenacre came to me and asked if Mrs. Brown had been there. I said no; and he replied she said she would not come. He then said that the match would not take place, as he found she had no property. This conversation took place at the door. I had asked him to walk in, but he would not. lie observed that it would not do for them to plunge into poverty. He seemed very much agitated. Mrs. Brown had a high forehead and longish features. She had short white even teeth. There was a slit in one of the ears. Her hair was brown, intermixed with grey. She was fair complexioned. Her hair was very long at the back. She was a tall, genteel, fine, respectable looking female. Cross-examined by Mr. PRICE—I have seen Mrs. Brown very frequently within the last five years. She was never long without coming to see us. She was upwards of a year and a half in Union -street. She lived with Mr. Perring, the hatter, as cook and housekeeper, for about two years. She had previously lived at Oliver's, the anchorsmith, at Wapping. She spoke in September last about taking a little shop to sell fruit and pastry, but I don't recollect at what place. It was somewhere in the neighbourhood. I never knew that she was acquainted with Mrs. Glass. I became acquainted with Mrs. Brown from my husband having lived with her in the same family. When the prisoner was with her at my house they appeared to be on the best terms, like persons going to be married. Mrs. Brown invited me to spend the day in Car penter's place after the marriage took place. She gave me that invitation as well in Greenacre's presence as in his ab sence. She said " You must notbe very nice, for we are going to America." Cross-examined by Mr. ADOLPHUS—Hannah Brown told me she became acquainted with Greenacre through the intro duction of Ward. During the time I knew her 1 should say there could not be a more sober, industrious, and agreeable woman. Elizabeth Corney examined by Mr. CLARKSON—I am the wife of John Corney, a shoemaker, of 46, Union-street, Middlesex Hospital. I knew Hannah Brown. She occupied the front kitchen of a house of mine at No. 45. She got her living by washing and mangling. I saw her last on December 24. I understood she was then going to be married. She had household furniture and little things of her own, quite suffi cient for her use. She sold those things before the 24th of December. She said Mr. Greenacre wished her to sell them for pocket-money. She disposed of her mangle. She left my house on the 24th of December, between the hours of twelve and three o'clock. A hackney-coach had been waiting for her, which I saw her enter. She took her boxes with her. I saw Greenacre a few weeks before. I believe the prisoner to be the man who went with her in the hackney-coach. Greenacre and the coachman helped her out with her boxes. I cannot exactly say the time they went away. He asked me whether she should have the key, or send it when her week was up. I never saw Hannah Brown again. At the time she left me on the Saturday morning between 12 o'clock and three, her person was not at all injured. I re ceived the key on the following Tuesday. At one o'clock the Court and Jury retired from the Court for the purpose of partaking of refreshment. The pri soners also left the Court. At half past one the Court and Jury and prisoners returned, when the examination was resumed. I received the key from one of the lodgers. The lodger told me a boy brought it. Mrs. Brown had paid the rent up to the Tuesday before ; but the rent for the last week has never been paid. The colour of the hair, and the teeth in the head, I saw at Paddington workhouse, correspond with the teeth and hair of Hannah Brown ; the eye was also like hers. Cross-examined by Mr. Paice.—l was in the habit of see ing Mrs. Brown every other day. She was generally occu pied the whole of the day in washing and mangling. The lodger from whom I received the key was Mrs. Oxford. The reason Mrs. Brown stated for not giving up the key to me was that there were some things in the room which did not belong to her. She told me she would return on the Monday, for the purpose of paying the rent and returning the key. I and my husband went into the roo m , w h en we rece i ve d t h e k ey . i The only thing n the room was an empty bird cage, of no value. 1 believe the cage belonged to Mrs. Brown. Re-examined by Mr. CLARKSON-Any body who had the key, and without my knowledge, have taken things out of her room. During the time I knew her she was of very sober habits. William Gay sworn and examined by Mr. BODKIN—I live in Goodge-street, and am a broker. I am shopman to my mistress. The deceased was my sister. Just before her death we were not on friendly terms. I saw her the Thursday before her death. She was alone. I saw Greenacre on the Tuesday night following, about seven o'clock. He came to our shop. My mistress was in the shop when he came. I heard him tell her the wedding was put off, and that Mrs. Brown had no property. He said that she had run him in debt at a tally-shop; that they had had a few words, and were not going to be married; and that he was going to take a shop instead of going to America. I heard him say, " Mrs. Brown will not go to tell the people we are not going to be married, that had provided: the dinner." And he also said that he had gone at eleven o'clock on Saturday night to tell them, be cause she would not go. I never saw Greenacre before to my knowledge. My sister was acquainted with my mistress from her childhood. My mistress's name is Blanchard. My mistress pointed to me, and said this is Mrs. Brown's brother " Won't you walk in ?" He said " No, I am in a hurry," and the countenance of the man changed. He walked off, saying something which I did not understand. He did not stop two minutes after my mistress pointed me out as her brother. My sister had a mark on her ear. I have seen a head at Paddington workhouse. The ear, eve, and hair resembled that of my sister's. I told the overseer of the poor-house he need not go any further ; I said then as I say now that I believe it was the head of my sister. She had a child of her sister's, which she always called her daughter. Cross-examined by Mr. PAYNE--I can't tell how long Greenacre had been in the shop before I came up. The con versation that took place after I came up lasted about five or eight minutes. What I have said about the child is of my own knowledge, and not merely what I have heard. The sister to whom the child belonged was next to me ; she is not dead. Hannah Brown never had a child of her own. I have lived with Mr. Blanchard about two years. My sister-was a tall woman. I can't tell whether she had a round face or a long face. It was not a long face, certainly. I had been at variance with her nearly two years. She very often came to my mistress's house, but I never spoke to her. She was about forty-seven years of age, I believe. It was near the end of the conversation that my mistress said, this is Han nah Brewn's brother. (We shall give the Couclusion in a Second Edition.) During an assault case at our Assizes, Counsel was explaining to the Jury that medical men were obliged occa sionally to use technical expressions in giving their evidence, when he was interrupted by Baron Gurney, who said, " Ex cept eminent men, who always use the plainest language."— Exeter Gazette. A Ball will be given in May next at the Opera house, in a style of grandeur quite unexampled in modern times, for the benefit of the Silk Weavers in Spitalfields. The idea was suggested by the Queen, and gladly espoused by the King. The Lord Chamberlain and Lord Hood, who have been placed at the bead of the Committee of Management, have sent circulars round to certain Noblemen, requesting per mission to place their names on the list. The circular is in the following terms :—" Their Majesties having been gra ciously pleased to si g nify their intention of honouring with their presence a Ball for the relief of rho distressed Spitalfields weavers, we have it in command to request permission to add your Lordship's name to the list of the Committee." Duvernay . 's benefit, which takes place at the King's Theatre on Thursday next, will doubtless be most fully and fashionably attended, it being the evening of her Majesty's first drawing-room. It is expected that the Queen will honour the occasion by her august presence. The Right Hon: Edward Ellice has taken posses sion of his new mansion in Arlington-street, formerly belong.. ing to Sir Francis Goodricke. The interior is fitted up in the most perfect Gothic style. In Forres the cold has been more intense than at Christmas, the thermometer standing at 24 degrees at mid day in the shade; the ground is covered with snow, the labour of the agriculturist is at a stand, and the lambs are dyin g by hundreds. So unpropitious a spring has never visited this place.—Aberdeen Herald. There had not, since Thursday, been any failures in Liverpool: but in Manchester a very heavy one had taken place—the stoppage of the house of Aaron Lees w.d Co., who had three mills, and employed 2,000 hands.__ Times. Our readers are aware that the General Assembly directed that the Rer. Robert Young, presentee to Auch terarder, Perthshire, whom the major part of the communi cants of said parish had voted should be rejected ; and that the patron, the Earl of Kinnoul, and the presentee, had in stituted an action before the Court of Session, with the view of trying the legality of the Veto Act. The case, accord ingly, has been heard at great length, before Lord Fullerton, as Ordinary. The pursuers have, to a certain extent, altered their summons, and ir.troduced new conclusions, craving to have it found that the presentee was illegally rejected, and that the Presbytery are still bound to receive him on trial, and if found qualified, to admit him. The Lord Ordinary has ordered written pleadings to be given in.—Edinburgh Courant. Colonel Boutourlin dined on Friday with Count Pozzo di Borgo, and will leave the London Hotel this morn ing with despatches for the Court of St. Petersburg, by the John Bull Hamburg packet. The Colonel is a diplomatist of long standing in the Russian Cabinet, and has recently pur chased a beautiful estate at Pisa, in Italy. General Sebastiani is not expected to arrive at Manchester House until after the reconstruction of the French Cabinet. His Excellency, during the last week, has had audiences, almost daily, of the King of the French, at the Tuileries. The annual Bath dramatic fete, which took place at the theatre on Monday night, fully supported the high cha racter for splendour, and all that can mane an occasion of this kind attractive, which it has for so many years sustained. The Earl of Arran has taken a mansion in Wilton crescent. On Wednesday last a fire was discovered upon the farm buildings of Messrs. F. and J. Ansell, of Brantharn, which consumed a barn containing between 80 and 90 coombs of thrashed corn, all the outhouses, and a quantity of straw. Every building except the dwelling-house was burnt to the ground. Messrs. Ansell p re insured.—Bury Herald. EDINBURGH, APRIL 3.—We have to record an other consequence of our six months of winter. To-day the bakers generally have raised the price of the four-pound loaf to Bi-d. ready money, and 9d. credit. Flour is 35., and bran ltd. per stone. On Saturday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, a female named Bowler, the wife of a fish dealer, was returning ashore, when in stepping from one barge to another she fell overboard, and was instantly carried away by the tide, and perished. This is the second instance of the loss of hu man life under precisely similar circumstances that has oc curred within the last few days. . On Saturday a new ship •f 800 tons, builder's mea surement, intended for the East India trade, was launched from the yard of Messrs. Wigram and Green, Blackwall. Previous to the vessel entering the element in which she is destined to float, a lady dashed a bottle of wine on her stern, and christened her the Seringupatarn. A vast number of persons congre gated to witness the interesting ceremony. AUSTRIAN INNS.—We were led, by a very hand some chambermaid, up a flight of stone stairs to a door which she unlocked with a key apparently as old as the schloss. All over the country, the rooms at the inns are locked. This seems rather strange, as thefts are by no means frequent. The room into which we were shown by our fair Austrian was a large dreary-looking parallelogram, with an arched roof and two small windows. . The furniture consisted of a huge stove, a spitting-box, three chairs, a small narrow sofa, a middle sized table on one side of the room, and a smaller one on the other.—Austria and the Austrians. Sarah Paul, wife of Thomas Paul, of No. 1, Shep herdess-walk, City-road, was safely delivered of three girls. on Wednesday, the sth inst., who with the mother are likely to do well. The husband, a scale-beam-maker, is out of employ. The linen•manufacture is threatened with a crisis. All the German flax goes to England to be spun, and returns in this state very dear. The English spinning-machines, of which there are already some in Switzerland, give an even close thread, much superior to that spun by the hand. Our spinners will soon be completely out of work, though the price of linen must decrease considerably.— Univet sal Gazette of Switzerland. The depression of trade in Paisley continues on the increase, and consequently the number of unemployed people. Friday night a petition, signed by 55 dyers, was presented to the Magistrates, craving relief for themselves and families, se veral of them having been six weeks out of work. We believe a number of weavers have been equally long idle.—Glasguw Chronicle. On Saturday a highly respectable tradesmen, resi ding at Hackney, called at Lambeth-street office, and stated that his daughter, aged 25, had most mysteriously disap peared from her home. She had left home to make a few purchases, and as she was of a religious turn of mind, and had not formed any acquaintance, he could not account for her disappearance. The father, who was overwhelmed with grief, described her as being of fair complexion, with auburn hair, with a mole under her chin, and her line►► marked C. B. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Belle Sau vage Inn, on the body of William Snowden Moody, aged 24. The deceased was shopman to Mr. Youen, tea-dealer, Lud gate-hill, and he suddenly left the shop on the previous day, but not returning, he was sought after by the warehouseman, who found him hanging by a cord to the banisters. The de ceased bad quarrelled with the apprentice, and that was the only cause that could be assigned for the commission of the rash act, but the Jury thought something of more consequence preyed on his mind. Verdict, " Temporary Derangement." ST. PET ERSB URGH, MARCH 16.—There has been an insurrection, or rather a kind of military revolt, at St. Petersburg : a battalion of the Imperial Guard mutinied. It was not owing to any political origin, but to the severity of the colonel. The Emperor Nicholas, with readiness and courage, hastened in person to the barrack, and his presence brought back the regiment to a sense of duty. A deputation of the soldiers ex plained to him their cause of complaint. The Emperor caused the barrack to be surrounded, and the soldiers to be decimated, they not having had cause of complaint. Some soldiers were, in fact, executed, and the regiment sent off immediately to the Caucasus. Poland is far from tranquil. Paskovitch, Lord Londondery's friend, seems to wish to excite the very slaves to resistance. He has published an order that as he passes through Warsaw every one in the street must stand still in instantly on perceiving him, and take off his hat. This mo dern Gessler may thus find a Tell. Lately a British naval officer at the theatre directed his opera-glass towards the box of the Princess Paskewitsch longer than the Prince thought polite : he caused the English officer to be arrested and sent to the guard-house. The following morning he was told that he was at liberty ; but he refused to stir, writing to the British consul that he would remain a prisoner until he received re paration. After a world of attempts to bend the obstinacy of the officer, he was at last induced to proceed to the palace, where Prince Paskewitsch did at length express his regret for the occurrence. The mail-boat for the conveyance of letters and passengers from Lymington to Yarmouth was unfortunately upset on Wednesday morning, when nine persons were drowned. The wind blew a gale from the N.E., and, when within a mile of Yarmouth, a heavy sea struck her abaft, and she shipped a quantity of water. The passengers, who were chiefly women, became frightened, and rose from their seats, when the boat capsized. The accident was observed from Yar mouth, and the pilot boats put off with praiseworthy alacrity, against a heavy head sea, and succeeded in picking up most of the bodies. Three of the women were brought on shore alive, but, through long immersion in the water and cold, died be fore morning. The man who had the mail bags in charge was saved, with the bags buckled round him. Every assistance was rendeued by the inhabitants, additional medical aid was procured from Newport, though we are sorry to add their exer , tions were mostly unsuccessful. ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN Li Wheat. B ezignsh I 4,8394ra. 7,1 Irish Foreign I,(•50 :INDON DURING L. arley. Date. 19t$ qrs. 9,747 qrs. 4,812 251 LSI' WEEK ur. 8,701 sicks SMITHFIELD MARKET This day's supply was very good, and the sale was dull at little alteration from the prices last quoted: PRICES PER STONE OF IF3L I. TO SINK TILE OFFALS. s. d. to s. el. s. d. to s.kl Interior Beasts 2 6 2 8 Inferior Sheep 2lO 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 0 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 6 310 Prime large Oxen 3 II 4 0 Coarso.woolled ditto.-- 4 2 4 4 Prime Scots. &c.... Large coarse Calves 4 2 4 6 Laige Hogs 3 6 4 2 rime small ditto 4 8 5 4 , Small Porkers 4 8 5 0 s.ickling Calves each ...17 0 35 0 1 Quarter old Pig (each) 12 11 20 0 Lamb Os Pd. to 7s. Od. SIJPIL_ ..,Y, A_ s_h s ,e P ep E . R I _ I CLERK'S STATEMENT. Calves. Pigs 650 18ri 396 ! Beasts, 2,415 , About 50 of the Beasts . came up the St. Alban's road; about 120 up the other northern roads; about 1350 (inel•rding Irish) from the western a;d midland districts ' • about 195;; from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, a nd Cam bridgeshire ; about 124 from Kent and Sussex ; and most of the remainder f ens the marshes, 81C, in the neighbourhood of London. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1837. THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of Wheat, Barley, and Flour last week were tolerably large ; of Oats, Beans, and Pease, moderate. There was no variation in the trade during the week. This morning there has been a small fresh supply of Wheat, good of Bar ley, and moderate of all other Corn. The millers were not eager purchasers to day, but having little fine wheat for sale, such obtained rather higher prices, and other qualities being in better condition than of late, commanded more attention at last week's currency. The Barley trade still con tinues dull, and sales were made only to a moderate extent at last quotations. Beans firmly maintain their pre vious rates. Pease of both kinds are Is. per quarter dearer. There has been a fair demand for Oats to-day, at full as good terms as this day se'nnight. Flour remains in the same dull state as lately reported, at no alteration in value. The weather continues cold and frosty. PRICES ON BOA RD OF SHIP. Wheat, Red (old) 545. 625. Beans, Small (new) 388.425. —White (01d)... ...... COL 68s. Red ;1836) 448. 50s. Tick (new) 32s 348. -- Fine 525. 55s --- Superfir.e SC. tias Harrow (new) 35;.36 x . White (1836) 465. 5 - 2 s. Fine s4s. 58s. Brank 345.383. -- Superfine 60s. 625. 1 Oats, Feed —s. —s. —Foreign free Rye 348. 3As. — Poland 13rley 0 5 27s. -- Grin(lino' 275. 265. Malting 325. 355. Malt 465. 54s Fine New 565. 58s. Pease, Grey, New 325. 345. Maple New P4s. 36i. White :35s 37s Boilers '38x.40 New 235.275. - Potatoe 288.304. New 268.228. - Scotch - Irish 18s. Flour Town (per sack) 525.55.,. - Slew/Ws 4. , s 50s. - /sT.rth Cuuntry 404 42, 10 IL. DENHALL MARKETS, ry the Carcass. NEWGATE AND LEA At per stone, 1 s. d.tos d Beef, inferior 2 6 0 9 Mutton, inferior ---- middling 2 10 :3 0 - prime large . 3 2 3 4 - prime - prime small 1 6 3 8 Pork, large Veal 3 4 4 8 -small Lamb ss. 4(1 to 6s. Bd. s d tos d. 30 3 2 34 2 6 38 4 0 36 4 2 46 4 8 NEWCASI LE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARK ET.—April 8. Our Market was well supplied with Wheat to-day, for which there was a limited demand ; and the whole was cleared off slowly at a decline of full Is. per quarter on the prices of this day se'nuight. There is no alteration in the value of Barley, but inferior descriptions are very difficult to dispose of at our quotations. Oats were ready sale at last week's rates. Rye is in very moderate request, and prices a shade lower. Malt continues in a very inanimate state, and other Grain remains without any alteration in value. The arrivals of Flour have lately been more than equal to the demand, and is a slow sale at our quotations. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 4ls 535. sls. 61..1 Norfolk and Suffolk.— ....... 545. 603. sBs. 6ls. Berwick and Scotch 45; —a....... —s 575. Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 331 395....... —s. —s. Foreign —s Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Sof 30s. 3tis —s. —a. ---- ' Grinding and Feeding 26s 285...... —s. —s. Malt, Norfblk and SWF°lk s2s 60s. —s. —s. Beans, Sinai! Pease, White 396 425..... —s. —s. --- Gray ::334 3tis . —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoc 9.44. 265. 2ss. 275. —-- Feed 20.4 21s Foreign Flour (per sack) —s. —s 4ls. Cs. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET 7 April 7 Wheat, Red, NorColk and Suffolk 46s. 4.55.t0 —s. Lin. and Cain. Yorkshire 4ls. 4iis. to —s. White Foreign, tied —s. —.B. CO —s. White —s. —s. to —s. Barley, Norfolk and Suffalk :3ls. to 355. Lincolnshire ---- Yorkshire Wold Foreign Beans, Old . 4ls to 495. ---- New Ids. to 40s. Oats, Potato 2Bs. to 308. Poland —s. 235. to 30s. Friezland and Sinai! —s 2.1 s to this .....•. • ..... •245. fine 586. fine 57g. fine 565. fine 625. fine —s. nne —s. tine 395. fine 365. fine 365. fine —s fine —s. fine —I, fine 345. fine 345. fine 28s. _ .., .... . Meahng . Sholling 111a4 —s. 18s. tine 40s. per Load. Rapeseed ..., CORNWALL MARKETS. (Calculated at '24 gallons to the bushel.) Wheat. is. d. to Barley. Oats. s. d. I s. d. tc.4 s. d. I s. d, to a, Truro 0 i ielstune St. Austell... Hotlmin Li skearti 0 Launceston 0 Carrie ford l6 0 l'el mance l9 0 20 0 - 0 12 0 - 2Q 0 - 0 9 2 - 20 6 - 0 9 ti - 19 6 - 0 9 6 - 17 0 - 0 9 6 - 19 6 - 0 9 0 - 19 0 - 0 10 0 7 21 0 - 0 11 0 - 10 0 9 6 8 6 8 6 7 6 0 0 8 0 9 6 THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. A mail has arrived from Halifax, by the Sheldrake—sailed 11th March. By the above conveyance, Halifax Papers have been received to the 10th March. " THE LEGISLATURE.—We present our readers with a sheet crowded with debates of what is passing in the Assembly. The debates on the twelve resolutions will be brought to a close next week, if possible. On Tuesday his Majesty's Council sent down a message, declining to do business with the House, till the resolution which referred to the disposition evinced by some members of the Board—' To protect their own interests and emoluments at the public expense—was rescinded. To meet this difficulty, and to preserve the revenue, Mr. Howe moved yesterday to rescind the whole string, stating his inten tion to follow up the resolution with another for the appoint ment of a Committee to draw up an address to the Crown on the state of the colony. After a long and spirited debate, in which the opponents of the resolutions sought to compel the majority to rescind one only, or none at all, Mr. H.'s motion was carried by 28 to 14. He then gave notice that on an early day he would move for the appointment of a Committee. ST. JOHN'S, N. 8., FEB. 21.—1 t is expected the Legisla ture will be prorogued about the Ist March. It is also ru moured that his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor will immediately afterwards evacuate Government House and pro ceed to England." Prince Edward's Island papers have been received to the 15th February. We extract the following:— " Since the House of Assembly was in Committee of Pri vileges, on the 3d inst., its proceedings have been charac terised by nothing of a stirring nature. His Excellency the Governor has called the attention of the House to the desti tute condition of a number of unfortunate families in the Western parts of Prince's county, to have some relief given to them." The St. John's Observer of the 28th February, states that the Committee of Supply in the House of Assembly had closed their grants for the present session, and the whole of the business before the House will probably be finished by the Ist of March, when they would be prepared for prorogation ; but it appeared doubtful at head-quarters whether his Excel lency would prorogue the legislature, or wait until he received answers to his despatches from the Colonial Office, thus giv ing neither assent nor dissent to the Civil List Bill, till the arrival of fresh instructions on the subject. We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yesterday's date, bringing the Dutch prices from Amsterdam to the Sth inst., Two-and-a-half per Cents., 52i; Five per Cents., look. It appears that the 'same cold weather is experienced there as ice are visited with in England, with snow a_yid hail. GARDENING OPERATIONS FOR THE WEEK. (From the Gardener's Gazette.) CUCUMBERS AND MELONS—If not done before, prepare hot beds, as directed in former numbers, sow seeds, transplant, &c., the same as mentioned for the earlier season. Give air daily to those frames in operation, and water occasionally. When the Melons begin t o f ru it, be sparing of dater. Take de cayed leaves, both from Cucumber and Melon plants, and, for an hour or two, when the sun is very hot, shade them with a thin mat, an old net, or any light litter. Continue to impreg:- nate as before directed, it call do no harm, even if the insects have already done the work, it should be done on the day the flower opens. Our directions must now be conditional that the work has not been done before, or that it applies to succession crops. GARLICK, SHALLOTS, AND CHIVES—May Still be planted ; kidney beans, plant; clear and earth those already up. PEA s—The same observations apply.—Hotspurs, dwarfs, and all the smaller kinds will do well ; stick those which are forward enough. ASPARAGUS—Fork and dress the beds, clean them from all kind of weeds, and rake smooth. AMERICAN CRESS, and SALAD Of all kinds, sow. - CABBAGES, SAVOYS, &C., &c.—Transplant if not done be fore, earth forward cabbage, sow seeds of all the sorts. Thin out those sown in February or March, and prick them into other beds, water them till well rooted. CA ULIFLOWER. —Earth up those forwarded under glasses. Buocou—Sow all the kinds—thin out those which are up and forward enough, and prick into beds. ONIONS and LEEKS—StiII sow. CELERY —Prick out those forward enough, sow more in a bed of rich mould. AURICULAS—Remove to the blooming place as soon as they show colour, part the pips occasionally as they get forward, to prevent their injuring each other ; to form a more even truss, and to give room to the inner pips. CARNATIONS—PIant in beds all the spare plants, after you have potted the flowers for the stage. DAHLIAS—Remove those which have grown enough to a cold frame, but especially guard against frost ; follow Bob Short's rules in a former number. GREENHOUSE PLANTS—See they do not get - dry, nor have too much water—give all the air you can in good weather, and shade those in flower if possible. STOVE—Give air at the top in the heat of the day while the sun lap on, or you will find the glass rise many degrees. Sow Annuals of all sorts—the hardy in the borders, or in beds for planting out, and the tender in pots, for the frames, or in small hotbeds, made on purpose. FRUIT TREES—Rub off superfluous buds, finish pruning and nailing. THE FUNDS. On Saturday Consols were - cum,owing to ?ersons finding it more safe to purchase in the Gorertiment Securities than enter into speculations with, tbvir capitals ; in consequence of which th ere was a demalati for Motwy Stuck, and there was a purchase, for the Accountant-Genkral of the Court of Chan cery, of 60,0001., in Consii'is, at 90i. Consols closed at 90} 'g for Money, and the Account; and for the May Account, 'mi. They opened this morning at 0 1 ; Money, the siirm t . Exchequer Bills, 38 40 ; India Bonds, 37 39 ; Bank Stock, 203 0 04 ; India Stock, 258 259. In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active closed at 23i- to il, 1- and open e d at t h e same pr ice ; Passive, 64- --; Deferred, 94 ii; Portuguese, 47A- 48; Thry :e per Cents., 301 31 ; 23 24,-} ; M ex i can, Colombian, 54- 53k, We have a very great olf iarth o f C ont i nenta l i n f orma ti on i n °4i-; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., the City this morning, o , ,ving to the non-arrival of the ex presses from Paris, caused by the strong north-easterly winds. W e are also, from the sane to cause; deprived of the arrival of the packets from New Yc irk. HALF-PAST ONE. Owing to the absence -=of the French mails there is a stag nation in business in the ilritislk and Foreign Markets. Con sols may be quote d d ur i n the; whole of the morning at 9 0 1 Money ; Account, 901. Exchequer Bills, 38 40 prem. ; India Bonds, 37 39 37' prom. ; Bank Stock, 204 ; India Stock, 258, Spanish Active, 23k t o 2; ;I; Passive, 61; Deferred, 9} ; Portuguese, 48; ce per Cents., 311} 31 ; Dutch Two -and-a Half - per Cents. , 53k. All quiet in the City. N 7 ire do not beer of any failures. THREE 0' CL 0 CE. Consols for the Account, )01. --- At Hatton-garden p olice-office on Friday, Mary Clarke was filially examined , charged with havinr , robbed Ann Kent, a girl eight years of age, of a bundle oninen. The prisoner met the, preteciari x in the street, and, under a pro mise that she would. m a ] L e her a present, she seat her on a message, telling her she •cNould take care athe property, witlr which she abseonded. Several mbleeries have lately been committed by a gang of ' females lu the neighbourhood of this office, under similar eh :cumstrkviees. The prixwer was fully committed fop trial. Of the eighteen F etiticns before the Insolvent Court at Lincol n last week, ten were, from retail beer-sellers and 9 *.zetef. IRELAND. ENGLISH DISSENTERS.—The Barony of Ennishowen is the first from which petitions in behalf of the English Dissenters has emanated. At the Greatßeform Meeting inDonegal,where these requisitions for justice to England, as well as Ireland, were adopted, it appears that not less than 35,020 persons were in attendance, comprising some extensive landholders, and a proportion of Presbyterians, and many, says the Dublin Evening Post, " like the respected Chairman, Captain Hart, who had been high Tories and Brunswickers, until the monster grievance of the Irish Church had compelled them to join the ranks of the Liberals." ORANGE-DIRT.— We think it well that our readers should occasionally sec the sort of sewer slang which the Tory hire lings, for want of better weapons, do not hesitate to use when hard pressed. The Mail exposes the weakness of the political position of its party, as well as indicates its own predilection for dirt-throwing, after the following form. Speaking of Mr. O'Connell's recommendation to create a fund to preserve purity of election, the Mail asks, " but where are all these fifties to come from ?" and then proceeds to answer itself in a ♦ein of delicate propriety." Most of the Milers (says our polished Contemporary) find it a nice matter enough to squeeze out a qualification, not to talk of their diet and lodging in some cheap and nasty boarding-house in the purlieus of Saint Giles. We sus pect that if this tax be enforced, even the frank money will fall short, and that many Members of the House of Commons will be put upon short commons indeed. It is very easy for Mr. O'Connell to post the coal (as the phrase is)—for he has nothing to do but vote against his speech again, and send round his hat amongst those benefitted by his flexibility and cover his advances—but which of his retainers dare resort to such an expedient ? The Empire itself is the boundary of Daniel's walk. Heaven help the beggar found trespassing on his manor !" What admirable cogency of argument shines throughout the above paragraph 1 The 'railers with O'Connell also will of course for the future hide their diminished heads, if they do not first die of grief and mortification. TUE ORANGE LODGES. —On the afternoon of Monday se'nnight, in Nn-Limavady, while the police were putting a stop to a petty quarrel which took place in the fair, a man—strongly suspected of having been sent there to provoke a disturbance by the relations of an Orange man who had been convicted at the Assizes-Lprocceded to abuse and obstruct them in the most violent manner. The police seized the fellow and were taking him away, when they were furiously assaulted by the mob ; and, being but six in number, were forced to let the prisoner go, and retreat to their barracks. A heavy brick-bat was thrown at Captain Crofton, who commanded the party, which severely cut his check ; and a person, who is a distingui s hed f unc ti onar y o f one of the Lodges, endeavoured to wrench the Captain's sword from him, but, though he failed in that, he bent the weapon nearly double. The most guilty of those concerned in this outrage have been fully identified, and will be made to answer for it in due course of law.—Londonderry Journal. COUNTY OF CAVAN.—Our valued Correspondent from Cavan says, he is informed that the military movements in that quarter are in consequence of some information given to the Government by one of the boys, now an inmate of Kil kenny gaol.—Evening Mail. We quote the preceding paragraph to show to what vulgar and wretched shifts the Orange scribblers are reduced for topics. On Wednesday morning as Miss Williams, the go verness in the Countess of Lindsey's family, was walking out with the two Misses Pegus, the granddaughters of that lady, by the side of the canal, when about half a mile from Uffing ton-house, the younger lady, Miss Elizabeth, a fine girl, thir teen years old, in stooping to assist a favourite dog out of the water, overbalanced herself ant fell into the stream, which was at the time very deep. Miss Pegus and Miss Williams made many unsuccessful attempts to rescue her, but she floated down out of their reach. When her sister found her inability to afford help, she ran to the house- and procured assistance, by which time twenty minutes had elapsed. Medical aid was called in, and, after three hours' unavailing efforts to restore animation, all hopes of rescuing the unfortunate child from death were given up. A Coroner's Inquest will be held on the body on Saturday.—Lincolnshire Chronicle. We regret to announce the death of Dr. Mower, of St. James's-place, physician to the Hospital Ship at Dept ford. Dr. Mower was a very intelligent and gentlemanly man, highly respected by those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance.-11Iedical Gazette. The French authorities have released one of the five Channel Islands fishing-boats lately taken by them, and three others will also be given up. We believe the fifth will be detained. —Jersey Patriot. C RCH-R A TES.--We understand that the Guildry Incorporation ore about hold a meeting for the pur pose of adopting Petitions in favour of the Ministerial Chnrch-rate Bill. A requisition, numeroasly signed, calling a meeting, bas been presented to the Dean. ' The hammer men and some of the other Incorporations in the City are about to take similar steps. —Bath Courier. Vie Duchess of Sutherland steam-ship left Downes' Wharf for Inverness on Saturday morning, with a considera bl a number of passengers, many of whom were going to vote At the county of Ross and Cromarty election, which takes place on Friday next. On Wednesday night last, at rather a late hour, a somewhat Singular circumstance occurred near the town of Bury. Two men, of the middling class of life, were return ing to their homes, when they were accosted by two of the gypsey tribe, who stopped them, and demanded their money. These Suffolk farmers did not sufficiently understand this Bohemian mode of administering justice, and therefore, con trary to the advice continually given, they thought fit to take the law into their own hands, and resist such inopportune de mands. Thoy contested the point with the Egyptians, and, after a fierce fight, in which the latter had the worst of it, succeeded in capturing their assailants, and lodging them in safe custody. They were subsequently taken before a magis trate, and are now in gaol. We hare not heard the names of these resolute men ; but,. whoever they are, they deserve the thanks of the community ; and it were well if others had the courage under similar circumstances to follow their example. KENT.—Kent has now the misfortune to have three Tories to one Liberal Representative. If the men of Kent have . four Liberals pitted against four Tories at the next election, they will then have an opportunity afforded them of wiping away the foul stain that now attaches itself to them.— Kent Herald. The strongest and apparently the most impassable barrier which was experienced in the late Louth Steeple Race was a newly-plashed hedge placed upon a lofty bank, with a broad ditch on each side. In the line selected by Mr. Eiisea on Maid Marian it was most gallantly but most indiscreetly charged at a place which measured eight feet from the ground, and it was cleared without touch a twig. The distance from the mare's leaving the gre , :ind to her alighting was by a careful admeasurement thQ incredible one of 33 feet. The Bucks- Gazetfe-.States that at the meeting re cently held of the: D;:: - ,senting Ministers of the town and neigh bourhood of 130( ) Tord, it was unanimously agreed to support the GoverrAmPist in their endeavours to effect the abolition of the Chusith.-rates, and to afford relief to the Dissenters. MALT TAX.—The members of the Agricultural Sorlety, and others interested in the repeal of the Malt Tax, ' are once more animated with a hope that their wishes will be speedily accomplished by the general adoption by the Govern ment of Captain Rudkin's invention for preventing evasion of the spirit duties in distilleries. After having allowed the case to slumber for four years, the Lords of the Treasury are once more acting upon the suggestion of the Duke of Wellington's Government, and giving the apparatus another trial in the bands of Dr. Birkbesk, who has selected a small brewery at Hoxton for anew seris of experiments, at the public expense, the re sult of which will be reported in the course of the present SMiQll,—,Baks Gazet(e, LITERATURE. HISTORY OF SCOTLAND, VOL. VI. 'Tait, Edinburgh, 1837. The volume hernre us of Mr. Fraser Tytler's hi tory comprehends the period from the assassination Cardinal Beaton in 1546, to the marriage of Mar Queen of Scots, with Lord Darnley in the'vear 156 k This period, though a brief, was a stirring one, and ; , discussed with all the author's usual scrupulous regal to factF.• LORD BYRON'S DRAMAS, Vor.. I. • Murray, London, 1837. A beautiful duodecimo edition of Byron's dramas, which. it is proposed to comprise in two volumes. Tin, present one contains " 'Manfred," " The Doge o. Venice," " Heaven- and Earth," and one or two more plays. ST. A GIVES' FOUNTAIN. • Dalton, London, 1837. This is an agreeable collect,ion of verses, which may serve well enough to wile away an idle hour or so. The first poem, " St. Agnes' Fountain," is the best, because the most carefully written. LITERARY AND POLITICAL ESSAYS, Hedderwick, Glasgow, 1837. We are glad to see this republication of Dr. Chan ning's Essays. It is a favourable literary sign of the times. No writer of our day has entered more deeply, or with a more thorough love of his subject, into the character of Milton's Works ; or expressed his views in more chaste and lucid language. How just in thought and eloquent in style is this remark—" We apprehend that the grandeur of Milton's mind has thrown some shade over his milder beauties ; and this it has done, not only by being more striking and im posing, but by The tendency of vast mental energy to give a certain calmness to the expression of tenderness and deep feeling. A great mind is the master of its own enthusiasm, and does not often break out into those tumults, which pass with man`• for the signs of profound emotion." In estimating the character of Napoleon, Dr. Chiming shows equal perspicacity, leaning to the charitable side, yet not hesitating to denounce that reckless - ambition, which properly dis ciplined, might have made the Emperor the friend and, guardian, instead of the scourge, of European freedom.. The cursory sketch of Washington in this essay is the fiaest thing ever written about that great man. PRINCIPLES OF HOMEOPATHY. Hurst, London, 1837. This work, which is the production of a medicaid gentleman named Curie, and is drawn up with great care and attention to details, gives us the clearest idea of the novel system which it advocates, of any trcatilse that we have yet met with. Hitherto all that we have read on the subject' of Homeopathy has been vaginae, wordy, and full of mystification ; but the present work has the merit of being concise and simple to a degree- Even if the reader may dissent from Dr. Curie's specu lations, he can at least understand them ; and see aim" in every page that they are supported with much skill and ingenuity. As we do not happen to have a suffi cient acquaintance with the subject, we shall pronounce no decided opinion on the soundness, or otherwise, .of our author's reasonings ; but this we may observe, that his account of the diet and regimen recommended by those who adopt his system, deserves consideratior, by reason of its good sense and simplicity. " The physician," he tells us, " prohibits his patients from using spirituous liquors, spices, acids, strong tea and coffee, and aromatic substances. He also exclude from their regimen, every aliment which his experience% informs him is of difficult digestion. He moreover re-. commends them not to reside in marshy districts, nor: in dark and damp streets where there is no free circu lation of air. The aliments to be preferred are such as the patient digests with the greatest facility ; and irk. this, experience alone can guide him. Exercise is likewise a very important'elementin the Homwopaettic regimen." There is as much good sense in these few brief, plain directions, as is contained in the best writ ings of our most orthodox medical lecturers. CHURCH-RATES. The high Church Tories of Beccles have met with a. - signal defeat. They published an address calling on the frie int of the venerable Church to meet at the Vestry on Gooet Friday last, to declare and petition against the Ministerial n Leasure. Such, however, were their appriensions of failure...or defeat that hefore the time came they were fain to send •-rotmithe town crier with a notice that the Meeting would r4ot be held; and it was not held accordingly. Hereupon the Dissenters and liberal Churchmen, who had previously satisfied themselves with petitioning, got up a re quisition to the Mayor, W. Henchman Crowfoot, Esq., for a Meeting of the Town, to consider the Government plan of abolition. The requisition was most respectably and numer ously signed, and the Meeting was held on the sth inst.. in tiro Town-hall. The Mayor presided, and resolutions in favour 43if the proposed Act were supported, not only by the DisF.enterst, but by a Clergyman of the Establishment, the Rev. Charlis Clark, who is also a Magistrate of the division, and John Garden, Esq., late High Sheriff of the county, and a county' Magistrate. The resolutions were carried, and the petitiorz was adopted with only five dissentients, one of whom opposed; the measure on the ground that it was necessary to compel thee Churchmen to support their Church. We subjoin a brief report of the proceedings BECCIES, SUFFOLK. The Mayor., on taking the Chair, remarked that tLe measure; in question was hailed try Dissenters, as proposing to rid them, of a grievance of which they had ong complained ; on the other hand, some friends of the Establishment deprecated as severing the' last link of the connection between Chumh and State. JOHN GARDEN, Esq., moved the first resolution—" Tina the meeting, convinced of the injustice of compulsory Church rates, regard the measure now before Parliament as deserving the approbation of every friend to religious freedom, since it proposes to repeal a law injurious to the interests of the Esta blished Church, and oppressive to Dissenters." He had muck pleasure in proposing such a resolution. The town of Beccles had been remarkable - for cordiality between Christians of all denominations ; but Church-rates gad been, in this, as well as in many other parishes, the apple of discord. As a frier .d to social peace, he advocated the Ministerial measure for the abolition of Church. rates. After giving a brief but clear ex position of the measure in all its parts, Mr. Garden rt:ferred to the alleged discrepancy between the calculations c , f Mr. Finlayson and Mr. Morgan. It was not for him to say which was the more correct estimate. Nor , was this of impotrtance, since both agreed that a considerable sum would ace me an nually from a better management of the Church lands-- wiciieh sum, economically expended, would, he had no doubt, be all sufficient. lle thought it was pretty well understood that there was no foreign power to compel a parish to make a raw, and consequently no adequate security for keeping up the edifices of the Church. This measure, then, while it was favotr•able to Dissenters, ought to be most gladly welcomed by members of the Established Church. J. C. WEissrmt, Esq., seconded the Resolution on itt, be ing put from the Chair. The meeting was found to be almost unanimous in its fa vour, only five hands being held up against it. The Rev. CHARLES CLARKE moved the next reratation, namAy :—" That the present Liberal Administration is en- . titled to the gratitude and confidence of the country for the introduction of this wise and healing measure." The Rev. Gentleman ably showed how, by a digerent mode of letting Church-lands, such property woulit be so improved as to produce the result upon which W.nisters reckoned. There could be no doubt that Church-rates were very unfavourable to Christian peace. The state of feeling produced by the law as it now stood in very many 'parishes, was such as every tr ue friend to Christiar,ity•must deplore. Church-rates were r,ot part and parcel of Christianity. . Disunion among Chr',stians was opposed to the spirit of our Divine blaster ; and riburch rates t i moducca such disunion. He thought the Admi'aistration, in t'ae words of the resolution, entitled to the gratitude and sr.pport of the country for introducing this wise and healing measure. The Rev. JOHN FLOWER seconded the resolution. He was opposed to the existing law respecting CI - surch-rates as unjust in principle and objectionable in its oper.ation. He held it to be unjust for one denomination of C ) '..ristians to tax another for its support. .The Church-rate, •was a Popish impost, and agreed very well with the notion, 'of infallibility held by the Romish Church ; but the Chu rc h of England, in protesting against such. a dogma, and clr:iming the right of private judg ment in matters of religion, had debarred itself from the power of consistently taxing thr,se who dissent from its communion. for the support of its . .,corship. The old law was worn ortt, and Ministers ( 4 z:served. the thanks of the country for intro ducing a measure to supersede it. The resolution was then put from the Chair, when Mr. TF4lo.l'lll' Bum( rose and said, that as a ChurvAiman lie could not approve of this measure, since he consi c i ere d it a privilege to contribute to his Church, and thought al' i Church men ought to be compelled to support their owii wo ;s hip. No amendment being moved, the resolution a /as put and carried, there being four or five dissentients. It was then moved by Mr. JAMES CRISP,. and agreed, " That a petition to both Houses of Parliament' ibe presented from this town, embodying the preceding resetbiat ins." A vote of thanks to the Chairman for his impartiality wnl moved, supported by Willi; e ,.m LW, gtously, ES T e 7 na carried simin_