The Sun. — London, England, 1835-10-24 00:00:00

- r SPI RIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Vs 7 e are s , arry to see that the agriculturists still cling tip the noti(m that they can be relieved by tampering with the c urrency. We refer to the account of the Rroceedin .gs of the Worcestershire Agricultural Asso ciation o n Saturday last, which will be found in ano ther col Lunn. An Address to his Majesty, prepared by Mr , 'Spooner, in which the distress of the agricul turists was attributed to the measure of 1819, and praying that measures for their relief might be adopted, -was submitted to the meeting. Several gentlemen der ,recated the introduction of the currency question m'co the Address, and Mr. Phipps Onslow moved, as n amendment, that that part of the address which re ferred to the currency be omitted. On a division, how ever, the original Address was carried by a majority of 40r5t0 1. So the agriculturists would have us, in 1835, replace the currency in the state in which it -vms before 1819—more than sixteen years ago The idea 13f any one branch of industry being de pressed from a cause which dates so far back, is pre pirstero-as. It is admitted that the country never was triore prosperous than it is at this moment. That the agriculturists are not prosperous, must be owing to circumstances peculiar to themselves, and not to the state of the currency. Landlords who are insolvent, might be benefitted no doubt by any measure which might enable them to defraud their creditors ; and te nants who are under covenants to pay a higher rent than prices allow them to do, might equally benefit by an alteration in the currency. But in no other sense than allowing debtors to cheat creditors could agricul turists be benefitted. If agriculture is in a less heal !thy state than the other interests of the country, this is not because the Legislature has done too little for it, but because it has done too much. They have been buoyed up with the idea of artificial prices, and they have receired all the protection which monopoly can give. The trade of the country has been subjected to the most impolitic restrictions for their sake. What unore would they have than the monopoly of the home -market ? " It would be well (says one of the speakers, Captain Winnington, M.P.), to remember that the time might come, when the farmers would say to others in their turn, what right have you to the luxuries and superfluities you possess, when we were obliged to abandon our comforts ? Until he saw every other class making the same sacrifices, he would not consent to see them required of the farmers." The other classes have no advantages by law over the agriculturists ; on the contrary, the law has attempted to benefit the agri culturists at th !ir expense. The various classes of pro ducers are, of course, dependent on their respective markets; and it would be well for the agriculturists were they to abandon all idea of prospering by other means than are open to their fellow-citizens.—Morn ivo- Chronicle. We often read the Gazette de France, and we con fess it is because that paper affords us more amusement than any other published in Paris. Its writers are certainly a very distinct, if not distinguished, set of men. One would imagine they were always writing for people who have no eyes or ears of their own, or who, if they have, may be living at the Poles. They :seem to be perpetually mistaking their contemporaries for the generation of 200 years ago. Sometimes they take it for granted that no man alive could have any recollection of events which have occurred between the present day and 25 years back ; at others they betray themselves into something like a recollection of the present, by their lamentations that the roi quand mbne is no longer on the throne, and the priests do not enjoy the faculty of being the chief directors and dispensers of his Majesty's will. Of late the Gazette de France has taken a good deal of trouble to make the French people acquainted with the fact that there is now a vast deal of religion among them. This was mews indeed to the people of France, for it was cer tainly more than any one had been aware of till that moment. Everybody knew that the hypocrisy and scoundrelisre of an innumerable tribe of Tarteses, under the priestly garb, had driven religion right out of the country, and that the attempt made under the Restoration to bring back the race had given religion another b 7 ow ; but surely the few old women and chil dren who usually compose the congregations in the churches in France, up to the present moment afforded no evidence of any great prevalence of religion. Since the Revolution of 1835, indeed, there has been some thing like a religious re-action, but it was not in favour of the Romish Church, to which the gene ral fee!ing, in the country seems to be invincibly hostile. The re-action was evinced in the nume rous converts made to the newly established " French Catholic Church." This church differed from the Romish one in some very material points : Ist, it did not acknowledge the supremacy of the Pope, and had 113 connexion whatever with Rome ; 2d, it dispensed with the formality of confession ; 3d, the church service was considerably simplified, and always to be performed in French. All who were re ligiously inclined, and vet cultivated no religion on ac count of their aversicn for the Church of Rome, thought of becoming members of the " French Church." Its followers, in fact, became in a short time sufficiently numerous to awaken the jealousy of the whole tribe of Carlist priests, bishops, and arch bishops, whom the last revolution had not swept the country of, because it was thought they would never again venture to raise their heads. They have, in fact, raised their heads again in France within the last t Tree years, tban's to th euragement afforded them by the present Government, which has even gone so far as to court their favour and seek their countenance. The jealousy evinced against the new church ap pears to have been taken hold of by the Government as affording an opportunity to try a reconciliation with the ecclesiastical dignitaries who had chosen to keep aloof from the new dynasty, so that the Government hesi tated not to set its face against the new sect. All kinds of difficulties were thrown in the latter's way, and means were even employed to compel congrega tions to separate immediately after they had assembled for prayers. This gave a distaste for the sect to the sectarians, and we believe that many of them have dropped off; but we never heard that the old Esta blished Church has gained a single member in conse quence thereof. The articles about England are above all things amusing in the Gazette de France. Its writers can never mention this country's name without coupling it with some anathema. 'How England has managed till now to withstand all the downfalls and destructions to which the Gazette de France has so repeatedly devoted her is really matter of great amazement. But if the ocean has not washed us clean away yet, so as to make us disappear entirely from things that are, it is not from any desire of the Gazette de France that we should in the least be spared. And all this, why ? Because England has been guilty of two enormities which the hard-hearted people of the Gazette de France can never forgive :-Ist, she has abjured Catholicism, and repudiated the authority of the Pope ; and 2dly, she has given to the world the example of constitutional government, and has turned all' the continental peo ple's heads by talking so much about liberty. What the Gazette de France considers and calls the misfor tunes of the world are derived from that most hated origin. In one of its precious articles about England, on Tuesday last, the Gazette exclaims—" Well may the Journal des Debats be frightened at the idea that the Doctrinaires should have such men as the English for their allies ; really their model, England, is in a very bad way." The writer then assures us, that if " France was again herself "—that is, if she was again under the happy regime of a Louis XIV., she would be mistress of the world, England included of course. How foolish France must be not to choose to be "herself " again ! Will she not listen to the ex cellent advice coming from so truly patriotic . a quarter ? —Times. The papers in the interest of the Whig-O'Connell Ministry are furious in their denunciations of Mr. Fowler, the High Sheriff of Meath, for having re fused to convene a political meeting of that county, in obedience to a requisition which has been addressed to him. This refusal is described as an act of " unpa rallelled effrontery on the part of the High Sheriff'," first, because the requisitionists were very numerous and highly respectable ; and, secondly, because the address to Lord Mulgrave, which was to have been proposed, and would certainly have been carried, was to be of a very meritorious descziption. We must be indulred with a word or two under each of these heads. It is boasted t} tat the requi s iti on p resen t e d t o J Mr. Fowler contained the names of six Peers, two heirs apparent of Pee rs, four Members of Parlia ment, four Baronets., three Deputy Lieutenants, twenty Magistrates, &c. &c., with other names equally respectable, to the number of a hundred and ten. To make v.p this array seems to have cost some pains, since we; find that there was a preliminary meeting, for the pr .pose of arranging it, held at Cavan so long ago as the latter end of last month ; and, after all, we can scarcel y bring ourselves to think that it was so very authoritat' the that it ought to have peremptorily overruled the dis. cretion of the High Sheriff. We cannot positively state who the very respectable and important person ages were who signed the requisition to the High Sheriff of Meath, but we have before us a list of the individuals who, subsequently to the refusal of that officer to convene the county, issued a notice for a public meeting - upon their own authority ; and if, as we suppose, the names to the two documents are the same, we are not ashamed to confess our conviction that the High Sheriff did what was quite right in pre ferring his own judgment to theirs. That there are some respectable r.ames in the list we do not deny. It would be hard., indeed, if in the county of Meath there could not be found a single respectable Whig or Roman Catholic willing to put his name down in favour of ai Administration composed of Whigs and governed by O'C onne ll. S t ill we d o no t see in the fol'iowing list of the elite of the con veners of the approaching county meeting any thing which ought to make the High Sheriff re gret that he refused to do what they have done. The signatures are as follow :—Headfort, Conyng ham, Essex, Fingall, Milltown, Gormanstone, Sher borne, Cloncurry, Killeen, J. Cantwell, D.D. ; Hon. E. Preston, Hon. T. Barnewell, P. Pellew, Bart. ; W. M. Somerville, Bart. ; T. Chapman, Bart. ; H. Meredyth, Bart. ; J. Nugent, Bart. ; F. M'Donnell, Knt. ; M. L. Chapman, M.P.; W. S. Crawford, M.P. ; H. Grattan, M.P. ; M. O'Connell, M.P. With most of these names our readers are familiar, and we are persuaded that they will not think the High Sheriff of Meath has any reason to be ashamed that his opinion as to what will or will not tend to the peace and welfare of the county is different to that of the subscribers. But if the High Sheriff has no reason to be ashamed of his refusal to co-operate in a .gratuitous political movement with the persons above mentioned, still less cause has he to blush that he would not convene a meeting for the purpose of con cocting an address, the predetermined purport of which was "to congratulate the Earl of Mulgrave on his appointment to the Government of this country, as well as on the improved condition of Ireland since the commencement of his Excellency's Administration." A High Sheriff would scarcely, perhaps, be jus tifiable in refusing to convene his county on an adequate requisition being presented to him, on the ground merely that he disapproved of the object for which the meeting was desired, although if any circumstances would justify such an exertion of self-will, it would surely be when it was proposed to give the sanction of a county meeting to a proposition so revolting as that it can be a subject of congratula tion to a British Peer, even the most insignificant of the Peerage, even Lord Mulgravc, that lie has been appointed to the station and office of menial slave to Mr. O'Connell—that he has been placed in a position in which he must implicitly obey the commands of an irresponsible despot, and promote the purposes of an unprincipled mercenary, who daily preaches sedition, and sends round among his miserable dupes the annual begging box for his pay ; and when it was further pro posed to assert that the effect of an appointment de grading and pernicious, alike to the Lord Lieutenant, to the country that sent him forth, and to that which received him, had been to improve the condition of Ireland. But the defence of the Sheriff of Meath rests upon grounds totally different from these. Few persons, we suppose, will deny that a High Sheriff may, without blame, refuse to convene a meeting for the agitation of political questions when he knows, or has good grounds for believing, that at such meeting, whoever may presume to adopt onelpar ticular side of the questions to be there agitated will do so at the imminent peril of their lives. Mr. Fowler. secs nothing to convince him that it would be safe for the Representatives of die Protestant and Conservative party in the county of Meath to appear at a public meeting, and there to say what they think of the pre sent Irish Government, and of the improvement which it has produced in the condition of the country ; and he does not think it his duty to afford an occasion for the commission of outrages which would probably not stop short of murder, notwithstanding all the improve 'pent of which the Whig and O'Connell party make an empty boast. The High Sheriff, acting under this just estimate of his official duty, has undoubtedly acquired a claim to the grateful thanks of all par ties. As to the improved condition of Ireland, it is just what we have invariably heard spoken of whenever it has for a moment been the policy of the Roman Ca tl4)lic Priesthood and their instruments to be, or seetn to be, upon good terms with the British Government ; or, in other words, when they have been in the expecta tion of a quiet arid willing surrender to their demands of some privilege, or endowment, or defence of the highest importance to the efficiency and safety of the Protestant Church. At such moments there is always a lull in the tumultuous sea of Irish outrage and agita tion—a lull, as all experience has shown, sure to be succeeded by a fiercer storm as soon as the immediate object is attained, and the party commences its next and more advanced movement in the career of ambitious and indefinite aggression. These moments of com parative tranquillity are no otherwise beneficial to the country than as they demonstrate to what influence its habitual temper and condition are to be ascribed.— Morning Post. The second step in the reformation of the House of Peers, and the bringing it into harmony, after having got rid of the Bishops, with a Reformed House of Commons, is, that those entitled to sit in it, and to legislate for the people of these realms, should be made responsible for their proceedings, and derive their authority directly from the people, instead of from the favour of a Minister, or the caprice of an idiotic monarch or corrupt Court—in other words, that they should be elected, at stated pe riods, in the same manner as the House of Com mons, and he subject to all the responsibility and risk of change to which the latter are liable. With out the admission of this principle no good can be done. The outward form might be changed--the face of the constitutional monster might be changed—its evil designs and still more evil doings might be veiled under a semblance of a law, and a disguise of reform ; but the monster would still have the mark of the beast upon it—the substance would still be the same—and the spirit equally obstructive of every mea• sure tending to promote freedom of conscience, liberty of speech and action, or to strike off the galling fet ters of those who are now suffering over all Europe for constitutional right and national independence. The House, consisting as it does of more than two-thirds of Tory Peers, would still be Tory all over—Tory in principle, Tory in design, and Tory in practice, always leaning to the side of arbitrary power, and never conceding anything in behalf of the people, until the people, with their hundred heads and hundred hands, came forward en masse to threaten the idol with that destruction which they could so easily inflict. Then, indeed, they would yield, even as they did in the case of the Reform Bill ; but their concession would only tend to bring, not them only, but all legis lation, into that contempt with the people which would terminate in the subversion of all law and order, and the usurpation by the mass of that power which can only be wielded beneficially by the few. Further, we may add, that any reform of the House of Peers short of that radical reform which we propose, and which the oligarchs during the last three or four Sessions of Parliament have done so much to hasten, could have no other effect than that of perpetuating agi tation—keeping up a disagreeable and unwhole some ferment in the public mind—paralysing the trade and commerce of the country—breaking asun der the sympathies which ought to exist be tween the different classes of society—and weakening its influence with foreign powers to an extent most pre judicial to its character and its interests. We have dwelt at so much length upon this step, firstly, because THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1835. without its adoption we arT,ionfident that no good can ' be done ; and, secondly, hebause it contains within it self the germs of all other reforms which could be de sired in the constitution of the House of Peers, by Reformers of every grade and every description of political sentiment ; and if it be thought by some that we have proposed more than the Crown would accede to, on the one hand, or the public be able to carry, on the other, we reply that we detract not in the slightest degree from the prerogative of the one, nor propose the doing of that which has not been already done. We limit not the power of the Crown to make Peers—let it enjoy the gewgaw while there are those who ambition it—let it exercise the privilege to any extent that it may desire without fear, check, or controul : but let the people have, as they ought to have, the right of choosing those who are to make laws for them. This is all that we ask —all that we desire—and it is that also which, if not speedily granted, will be wrung .by the people at no distant period, and under less agreeable cir cumstances than at present, from those who, for their own selfish, corrupt, and unpatriotic objects, with hold it from them. With regard to the practica bility of our plan (for of the details, however im portant, we say nothing at present), we shall simply observe, that whatever the people will in justice and in right, they can command in spite of all ob struction and in spite of all opposition. They are not now what they once were—a dull, inert, incapa ble, unreasoning, and scattered and disconcerted mass, without order, without union, without combination,or capacity of uniform action—but a greatly improved and improving people, accustomed to political discus sion ; not unskilled in political principles, cool in con sideration, calm in debate, firm as fearless in their resolves, and exhibiting an ardour in all their pro ceedings, and a perfection of organization in their ac tions, of which the world has never seen even the semblance of an image I And are a people of this stamp and character to be put down by a handful of Peers, superior only in wordly rank—inferior in almost every other attribute that constitutes the man? Have Englishmen degenerated since the days of Henry the Fourth and Charles the First ? Proh Pudor ! Morning Advertiser. VICE-CHANCERY COURT. HUTCHINGS V. SMITH. Mr. KNIGHT appeared to show cause against dissolving a common injunction restraining certain actions at law brought against a woman in humble life, on documents pro cured from her by a solicitor. Besides what related to these documents, the case involved a point on which there was considerable difference of opinion. The point was this, whether where there is a chose in action of a wife not in reversion, an assignment by a husband to a particular assignee for valuable consideration was or was not to be considered such a reduction into possession as to defeat the wife's title by survivorship ? The Learned Counsel believed the husband could assign nothing but what he could reduce into possession. If he was right in his view that such an assignment did not bind the wife surviving, the documents (which his client in this case was made to execute without advice in an attorney's office) assigning her right, could not stand for a mo ment. But, even treating the point vof law as very doubt ful, lie then maintained the actions could not be allowed to proceed. The plaintiff, Ann Hutchings, was the widow of Joseph Hutchings, a baker. Mrs. Hutchings was entitled to an unascertained share of residue as one of a class of legatees under the will of the testator, in a cause of Conden v. Lord, Joseph Hutchings, being indebted to the de fendants, Langtons, who were extensive brewers,:in a sum of 414/. in November, 1830, assigned her share to them for securing the payment of the debt. The defendant Jo seph Smith, a solicitor at Maidenhead, prepared the secu rity. Hutchings died insolvent and intestate in November following, before the amount of his wife's share had been either ascertained or received : no person had ever admi nistered to him. Upon his death Mrs. Hutchings was treated in the suit as entitled by survivorship. In July, 1834, the Master made his report, and on the 9th of August, on further directions, one-fifth of the residue was ordered to be transferred to her. As soon as the cause was heard it occurred to Smith to make his security avail able. Mrs. Hutchings happened to be at a friend's in Maidenhead. Smith's brother, George Smith, who is also his town agent, happened to be in Maidenhead on his way to Bristol. Mrs. Hutchings was sent for, and was pre vailed on to execute two formal instruments, with the necessary words of art, one to secure the debt to the brewers, and another to secure to Joseph Smith a debt con tracted by her husband, and for which she was in no way liable. Upon these instruments she was afterwards arrested and held to bail, but there havin g been some flaw in the affidavit of debt, she was discharged on filing common bail. This bill had since been filed to stay the actions, and to have these instruments cancelled. Mr. KINDERSLEY appeared for the defendants. The VICE CHANCELLOR said, that with respect to Smith's action the injunction must be continued. With regard to the assignment, he could not but think the Lang tons would have had a right to the whole, subject to the equity for a settlement. His notion at present therefore was, that the injunction should be continued on terms of this sort, that Mrs. Hutchings should bring into Court a moiety of her share, say 3501. Mr. KNIGHT would recommend his client to adopt that proposition ; but if he should find that. it was inconvenient to his client to get a friend to advance the money, he would reserve his right to reply. The matter, therefore, stands over. HAMILTON V. RICHARDSON. Mr. KNIGHT moved that the defendant, a solicitor at Leeds, should pay into Court a sum of 2,0001., admitted by his answer to be in his hands, being the produce of some Columbian bonds of which he was trustee for the family of the plaintiff. The case the defendant made was, that some third person made a claim on them, a case which it was utterly incompetent for an agent to make against his principal. His HONOUR said the order must be made. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, FRIDAY. was refused on the ground of Mr. Child's having omitted to sign his petition in due time. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young man, attired in the garb of a butcher, was yes terday placed at the bar, charged with having embezzled divers sums of money, the property of his employer, Mrs. Sarah Forster, a cattle dealer, of St. James's-walk, Clerkenwell.—The prisoner was fully committed for trial. THE COLOSSEUM. Mr. John Braham and Mr. Frederick Henry Yates pre sented a petition for a musical license for the Colosseum. The petition stated, that the petitioners had obtained of the Lords Commissioners of Wood and Forests a lease for ninety-nine years of the premises which had been erected originally by Mr. Horner ; that they had built a concert room at the expence of twelve thousand pounds, for the purpose of performing concerts and giving balls, under the patronage of the Nobi)ity, during the winter months ; th a t subsequently they had expended further and considerable sums to insure that patronage ; that they were performing now under the licence of the Lord Chamberlain, but that it was necessary to have a music licence. Mr. CHARLES PHILLIPS, in support of the petition, hoped that the magnificent outlay which the spirited pro prietors had made to fit the Colosseum for the patronage which they had obtained would repay them. They had paid thirty thousand pounds for the buildings, in addition to twelve thousand pounds expended on it since. When they first opened the Colosseum they gave a ball in aid of public charities, the proceeds of which were two thousand pounds, and if the Magistrates granted the licence, it was their in tention to give an annual ball for the same charitable purpose. The question was then put by the CHAIRMAN, and car ried unanimously. Application was made by Mr. John Gibson, a mast and block maker, for a license for the Royal Standard Theatre, in Shoreditch. It was opposed by certain inhabitants of the parish, who described such places as " terrific nui sances," and alleged that the number of petty theatres was increasing. Mr. C. Phillips supported the application. Mr. BALLANTINE, the Magistrate, said that the building had not been properly certified as to its solidity. Mr. Barber Beaumont thought that Mr. Gibson had bet ter not desert his blocks.—( A. laugh.) Some other Magistrates were of opinion that the appli cation was not supported, and therefore rejected it. Mr. Clarkson applied, on the part of Captain Forbes, for a license for the Kensington Theatre. This application was one in commen with five others postponed for want of regular notices having been served. The application led to some discussion among the Ma gistrates, whether it ought to be entertained. It was con tended by several Gentlemen on the Bench that they had not been afforded an opportunity to inquire into the facts ; and, therefore, without prejudice to the applicant, or any reference to the application made last session, the applica tion was refused, and this decision governed the other five. The following licenses were granted without oppositi on : —To Mr. William Bosher M'Pherson , jun., of the Rose mary Branch, Islington, near the Cattle arket ;to Mr. James Skinner, of the Ironmongers' Tavern, Lizard -street, St. Luke's ; to Mr. George Pound, of the Red Cow Ta vern and Tea-gardens, Dalston : to Mr. John Frederick James, of the Camden Arms, Camden-town. The following were refused :—Mr. Henry Brading, of the Wenlock Arms, City-road ; Mr. John Lancaster, a house in Carlisle-street, Portman-market ; Mr. George Gordon, Hoxton Coffee-house, Shoreditch ; and Mr. Child, of the Eyre Arms Tavern, St. John's Wood. This license MARLB ORO UGH-STREET. Victor de la Fond, a Frenchman of very diminutive ap pearance, carrying on the business of a chairmaker, No. 19, King-street, Soho, was charged by Mrs. Collison, a pretty lookinr, young female, with an assault. " Your Worship," said Mrs. Collison, " I have been mar ried only three weeks, and I can't go down stairs to get a drop of water or to answer the door for the defendant, be cause he lies in wait for me on the stairs and in the passage, and then he assaults me." Mr. CHAMBERS—HOW does he assault you ? Com plainant—He scrubs me with his beard, and will kiss me. Mr. CHAMBERS—Does your husband know of this pro ceeding ? Complainant—Yes, and he has several times gone down to the defendant's room to thrash him, but the defendant hides himself. Mr. CHAMBERS—When did he assault you last ? Com plainant—On Wednesday. Some one rang my bell, and when I got down stairs I found the defendant in the pas sage waiting for me. He would kiss me, and he tore my frock in the scuffle. I told his wife of his behaviour. Mr. CHAMBERS—And what did she say ? Complainant —She laughed, and said an Englishwoman need not be ashamed of being kissed by a Frenchman, and offered to pay for my frock. Mr. CHAMBERS (to the defendant) Do you hear the charge ? Defendant (shrugging his shoulders)—Pardon nez moi, Monsieur. Je n'entends pas. Mr. CHAMBERS—She says you take improper freedoms with her. Defendant—Hah, dat vary not true. Complainant—There are three other married women in the same house, whom he insults just in the same way. Every Sunday morning he comes to our room doors and pretends that he wishes to know if we want any shavings, while his object is to see if our husbands are gone out, that he may attempt to annoy us in safety. Mr. CHAMBERI—What do you say to that, Monsieur ? Defendant—Je n'entends pas. Mr. CHAMBERS after giving him a suitable reprimand, ordered the warrant to stand open, on the payment of the expenses, with the intimation that lif he was brought here again he should be held to bail. BOW-STREET. On Thursday morning a young and fashionably-dressed woman, who wore a very large and valuable black veil, was brought before Mr. MiNsHum, charged with having stolen a silk gown and a bonnet. The circumstances under which the alleged theft had taken place were of a very extraordi nary and painful description to the parties concerned on one side, and the investigation excited the deepest interest. The charge against the prisoner• was made by the wife of a highly respectable gentleman residing in Bedford -street, Covent-garden. The gentleman alluded to and his wife had a daughter about sixteen years of age, beautiful and very highly accom plished, and between whom and her parents the most per fect love and harmony existed. Some time ago an aunt of the prisoner's was in the service of the parents as a sort of housekeeper, both of them being in a bad state of health, and the daughter being rather too young and too much engaged in improving herself in her education to super intend the domestic affairs. On one occasion only the prisoner was introduced into the house by her aunt as a milliner, to make a bonnet for the young lady, in which the latter assisted, and they worked in the same room for one day. A sort of intimacy arose out of this single visit between the prisoner and the young lady, and the former had since been in the habit of clandestinely visiting the latter at the house of her parents, and it had been ascertained that she had sometimes come there in man's apparel. On Tuesday morning last a girl living in Bed fordbury, who had been employed as an occasional servant lately by the parents, saw the prisoner dressed in a body coat, plaid trowsers, and a French cap, such as are worn by men, at her mother's house in Eedfordbury, where the pri soner came to tell her that she was wanted at the residence in Bedford-street immediately. On the same morning, the mother of the young lady being unwell, the latter went to her bed-room and said, 4‘ Don't get up, mamma, and I will get the breakfast and prepare the rooms, as the girl has not yet come." Shortly after this i;, was that the prisoner went to the girl and said she was wanted immediately in Bedford street. The girl did not go immediately, and the prisoner returned three times to urge her to be quick. In the inte rim a piano forte, upon which the young lady was accus tomed to play, was seen to be lowered out of the drawing room window, and placed in a cart, which was driven away with it. There were two men with the cart. The girl, upon her arrival at the house, saw the prisoner and the young lady leaving the house, fle former in male attire, and the latter wearing her mother's gown and bonnet. The mother, upon missing her daughter, and finding, from the girl, under what circumstances she had disap peared, gave information to the police, and Soper, an ac tive officer, was ordered to endeavour to trace her. The officer having ascertained that her aunt was in service at Brompton, went there, and saw her come out at the door on Wednesday evening, but not being certain that she was the right person, he followed her, and saw her go into No. 20, Tottenham-place, Hampstead-road. Early on the fol lowing morning Soper went to the house with Miss Clarke, a lady acquainted with the family of the young absentee, and there saw the prisoner come out, wearing the bonnet and silk dress belonging to the mother. Miss Clarke, un fortunately went suddenly 111;00 the prisoner, and accosted her by name, having seen her at the house of the parents once or twice, so that she was at once put upon her guard, and declined to answer any questions. She had a basket with her, which was found to contain a pair of men's trousers and a French travelling cap. There were also in the basket a silk gown, and the lace veil-which the prisoner wore at the bar. She was brought at once to this office ; and the mother of the young lady attending, identified the bonnet and gown as her property, and the same which her daughter had worn when she went away. The unfortunate lady appeared in a state of the most poignant mental dis tress, and said that her sufferings, at the extraordinary dis appearance of her child, were greatly heightened by the circumstance of her husband being confined to his bed by illness of an excruciating kind, and that the additional cala mity had almost driven him to madness. The prisoner, in answer to the charge, said that the young lady gave her the bonnet and gown which were found up on her on the morning that she left her parents' house. The young lady threw them to her out of the second floor window. Mr. MiNsnuLL—Pray what is your name ? Prisoner— My name is Maria Stapylton. Mr. MINSHULL—HOW came you to induce the young lady to go away with you from her parents ? Prisoner— I did not. She frequently proposed to me to assist her in leaving her father's house before she actually left. She was constantly mentioning the subject for the last four months. I have endeavoured many times to dissuade her, but she would persist in her determination. I appeal to Miss Car ter, who stands there (pointing to that Lady), whether the young lady has not repeatedly threatened to leave her father's house ? Miss Carter said that such was certainly the fact, and she should have acquainted the father and the mother of it long ago, but that she thought it a mere idle tale. The prisoner said the alleged ground upon which she formed a determination to leave the house was that her father ill-treated her, and had even beaten her. The mother (in a most indignant manner) said this statement was utterly false. She was treated with the ut most kindness by her father, and, besides, she was of an amiable disposition, was accomplished, and not at all likely to conduct herself in such a manner as to require correc tion in any way. The prisoner—The young lady had been in the habit of going out in man's attire long before I knew her. The first time I visited her in male attire she begged and in treated me to come again, as she had long wished to go out but was afraid to go alone. I therefore consented, and supplied her with male attire once or twice. Mr. MiNsnuLL—How came you possessed of men's clothes ? Prisoner—My husband has gone abroad and left them with me. He is an artist of the name of Newberry, and having married me against the wish of his friends he went to America. Mr. MiNsHuLL—Why not at once give information to the distressed parents of the young lady where she is to be found ? Prisoner—l don't know. I have not seen her since she left her mother's house on Tuesday. Mr. MINSHULL then sent Soper to the house in Tot tenham -place to search, and in the meantime ordered the prisoner into a private room, where sh e was di sro b e d o f t h e bonnet and gown, and compelled to put on her own silk dress and cap which seemed to annoy her very considerably. She was again placed at the bar and remanded until Monday next. Soper afterwards came back, and brought a brother of the prisoner, who said he knew nothing at all of the young lady alluded to. He was an artist, and his father was a musician, who had recently gene into the country in the hope of procuring an engagement at some theatre. He was allowed to go. Yesterday morning the brother was watched in Tothill fields PrisOn by Goddard, the officer of this establishment, who had received instructions from Mr. Minshull to attend to the case. The young man there saw his sister, and she gave him a note addressed to the young lady in question, and the contents were to the effect that the prisoner was in custody, and would be up at Bow-street on another day, and that she (the young lady) must send her some money, and swear that she (Miss --) wore the old bonnet when she left her mother's house. During the whole of yesterday Goddard and Shackell, with Soper, were in pursuit of the misled girl, but could not find her. Late in the day, however, some information was obtained which is likely to lead to her restoration to her distracted parents. There are some rumours of rather an extraordinary na ture in the neighbourhood respecting the case, and the term " abduction" has been freely used. In a day or two pro bably the whole matter will undergo another public investi gation. At present it is involved in much mystery. THE LIFE, EXILE, AND CONVERSATIONS OF NAPOLEON.—The great success which has attended the publication, in shilling numbers, of his " Modern Novelists," has induced Mr. Colburn to give to the public, after the same fashion, the celebrated Memoirs of Napoleon by the Count de Las Cases, of the copyright of which he is the sole proprietor ; and, accordingly, the first number is to appear to-morrow, price only one shilling, and containing 112 pages of letter-press, the fine portrait of Napoleon after David, and a view of the house at Corsica in which the Emperor was born. At the iron masters' quarterly meeetings, last week, it was ctetermined that the present prices of iron should be continued. The trade, we are happy to say, is unusually brisk, and the recent advances, amounting together to 20s. per ton, freely given.—Wolverhampton Chronicle. THE METROPOLITAN POLICE.—The clerks and others in office at Scotland-yard have, within the last few weeks, been employed in reading and answering letters ad dressed to the Commissioners by young men desirous of be coming members of the force ; it is by no means an uncom mon occurrence, at the approach of the winter season, for 200 or 300 letters a day to be poured in, but at the pre sent period a greater number than was ever before known has been dropped into the box, and upwards of 8,000 ap plications, principally from strong, healthy labourers, well recommended, remain under notice ; it is understood that, on account of so extraordinary and unprecedented an influx of letters of the description alluded to, a notice will in a few days be given at head-quarters that no more will, for a week or two, be received. INDIAN ARCHERY.—Some days after the misfor tune of these two horsemen, Simon Rodriguez and Roger de Yelves set out on horseback to gather some fruit that grew in a wood skirting the village. Not satisfied with plucking it from the lower branches, seated in their saddles, they climbed the tree to gather it from the topmost boughs, fancying it of better flavour. While thus employed, Roger de Yelves gave the alarm of Indians at hand, and throwing himself from the tree, ran to recover his horse ; but an ar row with a barb of flint entered between his shoulders, and came out at his breast—he fell forward and lay stretched upon the earth. Rodriguez was too much terrified to de scend. They shot at him like a wild beast, and he fell dead, pierced by three arrows. Scarcely had he touched the ground when they scalped him, and bore off the trophy in triumph. The arrival of his comrades saved the scalp of poor Roger de Yelves. He related the event in few words, and making confession, immediately expired. The horses of the slain Spaniards had fled towards the camp. Upon the thigh of one of them was perceived a drop of blood. He was taken to a farrier, who, seeing the wound was no greater than that made by the puncture of a lancet, said there was nothing to cure. On the following morninc , the horse died. The Spaniards, suspecting that he had been struck by an arrow, opened the body at the wound, and tracing it, found a shaft which had passed through the thigh and entrails, and lodged in the hollow of the breast. They were perfectly amazed at the result of the examination, for an arquebuss could scarcely have sent a ball so fan—Con quest of Florida. ARSON NEAR YORK.— The inhabitants of the village of Murton, four miles from York, were last week alarmed by the cry of " fire." Immediately nearly every person residing in the place arose, when it was discovered that two stacks belonging to Mr. John Cockshaw, farmer, were on fire. By the united exertions of the people assem bled the fire was got under, but not before a stack of oats was completely destroyed, and a great portion of a wheat stack burnt. Fortunately there was very little wind or the damage would have been considerable, as there were eight other stacks standing nearly contiguous to those which were burnt. That the fire was the work of an incendiary there can be no doubt, as it was next to impossible that the stacks could, from the situation in which they were, have accidentally taken fire. Inquiries were, in consequence, instituted, when suspicion fell upon a young woman of the name of Harriet Young, who resides with Robert Cade and his son, next door to Mr. Cockshaw. She was ap prehended on Monday last, by Mr. Pardoe, the active, police-officer of York, and underwent an examination at the Hall of Pleas, in Peter Prison, York, before the Rev. Robert Sutton and William Prest, Esq., two of the Ma gistrates for that Liberty ; but the examination was strictly private. Such evidence, however, was adduced as to cause her committal for further examination on Thursday. It is worthy of remark that the accused was seen in the street nearly half an hour before the alarm of fire was given, and that she was the first to give the alarm. MOST lIORRIBLE CATASTROPHE.—It is seldom that we are called upon to record a more horrible or shock ing occurrence than that described in the annexed extract from a letter dated Boieville, Miss., August 13, 1835 : " A most singular and tragical incident took place in this village, that has cast a gloom over the spirits of all the citi zens, and clothed one of our most respectable families in mourning. Preparations had been for some time mak ing to erect a large four-story mill and manufactory, in the east part of the village, and Tuesday last was appointed for the raising, As it was a matter in which the public had taken great interest, the whole population of the surround ing country assembled, arrangements were made for a large dinner party, and a bough-house was erected for the females. With a view of surprising the women, some young men had the night previously secreted in a thick grove of bushes, about two hundred yards from the bough-house, a nine-pound field-piece, heavily loaded, intending to discharge it when the party were seated at table. Unfortunately it was pointed directly at the opening of the bough-house. Some wretch in the mean time had taken a cat, confined its legs, and placed it in the gun. When the party were seated at the table, the cannon was fired. Mrs. Blakeson, the wife of the chief magistrate of the village, who was at the head of the table, had that instant risen for some purpose, when the cat struck her just below the shoulders, and passed through her body ; she uttered a single scream, and fell lifeless into the arms of a lady who was next to her—she was a highly ac complished and interesting lady, and the mother of seven children, the eldest being but six years old. The cat passed over the whole length of the table, upsetting several decan ters and pitchers, and its head was driven through an inch board at the east end of the bough-house, where it lodged ; and what is most extraordinary, although stunned and appa rently dead, it has recovered, and is now alive and well. The authorities have offered a reward of 500 dollars for the conviction of the miscreant who was the author of this diabolical piece of mischief.— Western Herald—(or Richard Adams Locke). EXTRAORDINARY CASE.---OR the 26th of last month, Charlotte Irwin, a young woman 22 years of age, was admitted a patient of the London Hospital, she being at the time labouring under great bodily debility. On questioning her as to the origin of her complaint, she stated that about twelve months before, she had a severe fall, and from 60 to 70 needles, which she had carelessly stuck in her gown, entered her side, the greater number of them to such a depth that they could not be got out, and the consequence was, that they had worked their way through different parts of her system, and as many as 26 of them had been taken from various parts of her person, some from her arms, some from her legs, thighs, &c., by different surgeons. Her pain, as the needles had dispersed themselves to the different parts of her body, had gra dually increased, and she ultimately became so debilitated that she had nearly lost the use of her limbs, and was reduced to her then condition. At first her statement was generally discredited, and it was the general opinion of the surgeons of the Hospital who saw her, that though she had exhibited various marks upon different parts of her body, whence she said the needles had been extracted, if such had been the case she must have introduced the needles externally near to such places. Her father and mother, who are poor but honest and hard-working persons, residing in Thames-street, as well as several of her friends, confirmed her statement, and have given the names of the different surgeons who had, previous to her admission into the Hospital, and at different times, extracted a number of the needles from her person. On yesterday week the unfor tunate sufferer complained of a violent pain in her abdo men, and upon the assistant to Mr. Luke examining the place, he observed something close to the surface of the skin, which with some difficulty he extracted, and found it to be a perfect needle, in such a state of discolouration as to leave very little doubt that it had been in the body for some time. The poor creature states that she can dis tinctly feel that a needle is placed in both the knee and ancle joints of the right leg, from both of which she ex periences the most excruciating pain, and she has fre quently expressed a wish that this leg should be ampu tated ; as she says she has very little doubt but that a great portion of the needles still remaining in her frame will be found lodged in it. The surgeons of the institution consider the case as a most singular one, and are conse quently paying great attention to it ; but it is not more singular than one mentioned by Sir Astley Cooper (we hnlieve), who in nne ne his leefurn stated that he had tracted as many as a dozen nails from different parts of the body of a man who used to swallow them for wagers. BRISTOL AGRICULTURAL SOCIET (From the Sherborne Mercury.) The ploughing match of the Bristol Agricultural So ciety took place on Broadfield Down, on the 7thinstant, an d , the novelty of the occurrence excited a very extensive ana most beneficial interest in the neighbourhood. The plough" ing being over, the company, to the number of fifty, ad journed to the Darlington Arms, Red-hill, to dinner, whither they were accompanied from the field by J. H. SnlYt hi Pigott, Esq., the Vice-President of the Society, who was to preside at the dinner table. After the customary loyal toasts, The CHAIRMAN proposed " The 'health :of Mr. W ebb Hall." Mr. HALL, in returning thanks, proceeded to cornmet 2t on the present situation or the farmer, which he was de• sirous to do practically, and with a due regard to the seve ral classes connected in the pursuit. He alluded to the splendid meeting of the Liverpool Agricultural Society re' cently held, where seven hundred individuals were said to have dined together, and where Lord Stanley, its talented President, had expressed the opinion that the sooner the delusion of expecting high prices was done away with the better. In that opinion he (Mr. Hall) fully con curred, although the present lowness of price was In sonabe measure to be attributed to good harvests, and for laic he, in common he hoped with a majority of thoo p a sent, was deeply grateful ; yet many of the causes whicil ha produced the present unexampled depression were pacer sarily of a permanent character. We had now a mo no p eir of the home market, and with the exception of poor-rates for Ireland, and the adjustment of local burdens, he believed the Government of the country could render no a ssistan ce to the farmer ; it therefore was imperative to bring down the expenses of cultivation to some proportion with existing prices. He had never until lately been an advocate for eat tensive reduction of rent. But now, with no rosource but from limited expenses, it was absolutely indispen.sabl e that such should be the case, and he would appeal to e irery fa i " mer present, whetherit were possible that a payment of t w° bushels of wheat for a week's wages to a labourer her bandry could be kept up. He called upon the proprietors not to delay those reductions which even-handed justicel r quired until it was too late. Mr. Hall concluded with we appropriate motto of " Live and let live." Mr. COCKBURN said that in every part of the observaiticas delivered by Mr. Hall he fully concurred. The ploughmen were then called in, and severally al dressed by the Chairman, who concluded by proposing ale° healths. - - .~- Mba !' SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ADVICE S, ARRIVALS, AND DEPARTURN- THE SCOTCH WHARFS, OCTOBER 23. the HOARE'S WHARF.—No advices or arrivals. Departure : t Peterhead Shipping Company's smack Peterhead P acl;" Wm. Taylor master, for Peterhead, with a general carr A DOWNE'S WHARF.—Advice : the Peterhead and hollu:4 Shipping Company's vessel Eagle, J. Crichton master, iirr i ., l o , at Peterhead 19th inst. No arrivals. Departures : the 018, trose Shipping Company's smack Vigilant, J. SOO" master, for Montrose; and the Bridport Shipping Corailb vessel London, J. Swain master, for Bridport, both 11/ general cargoes. ke ABERDEEN STEAM WHARF.—Advice : the steam ship of Wellington, John Walker commander, arrived at Aber ( ' the 20th inst. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE v TOM-HOUSE, OCT. 23. Rebel, Spriggs, from Denia ; Active, Dart, Oporto; ton, Union, Good, Oporto ; Alexander, Burn, Queb•c; Good, Jersey; Sovereign, Twiney, Guernsey; CatberiLlg: Penlog, Bordeaux; Thames, Wilson, Mauritius ; St. Ja lli d e e l Lebor, New York ; Azores Packet, Pelus, Teneriffe ; de la Guards, De Gay, Santander; Liberty, Hiscock , stai4inople ; Eleanor, Hernaman, Para ; Wm. Hamlet' therland, Havanna. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, Ocr• 23 : Teeser, Airth, for Lisbon ; Sylph, Sampson, Oporto; Delta, Wallace, Grenada; Maria, Jones, Corfu. and Za ot Rapid, Patrack, Nantes; Dart, Block, Ostend, Bruges, Ghent. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO, Oe'r.l4: San Juan Baptiste, Sauz, for Madeira; Planet, Ba ii re o p: Jamaica ; Earl of Liverpool, Lomax, Ostend; City Of P. or burg, Wittingham, Hamburg; Britannia, Strannack, dom ; London Merchant, Seabrook, Rotterdam; AbYr pal liams, St. Michael's; Eendrat, Stut, Amsterdam; Clancarty, Williams, Rotterdam. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, Ocr. Jonge Juan, Vanderwick, for Workum; Clarence, M a Sierra Leone. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. 9 0 The William Knelson, from London to Gibraltar , the co inst., off Cape St. Vincent; and Lady Brougham, from Pa t ,b, to London, the loth—by the Solace, arrived at Plyre° u t i t The Balclutha, from Newfoundland to Pernambuco, the 2°1,. ult.. in lat. 36. long. 37.—by the Sylvanus, off Falmoutrb The Caroline Auguste, from Liverpool to New York, the i ti fo r inst., in lat. 42. long. 26. The Virginian, from Liverpoo l New York, the sth inst., in lit. 47. long. 18. 10. On Friday afternoon, as the Champion Londe; coach was on its way to Gloucester, on descending the near Huntley, the horses took fright at the smack of a P i c driver's whip, and started off at full gallop. The CO B , c man did all in his power to hold them in, but they s oon ' e came unmanageable, and in turning a sharp corner was coach was upset. The whole of the passengers, as ho ug h the the coachman and guard, sustained rather serious, 1111°13° not dangerous injuries. lc, On Thursday night, about half-past seven e'cic,,o while the passengers were landing at the Brownielaw p, the Waverley steam-boat, a young man, a passenger:4l-w stead of going by the regular gangway, abaft the P m ' 0 (1 box, which was well supplied with lights, attempted to Ja w by the fore part of the paddle-box, in doing which,ek, second steward caught him by the arm,to pull biro 134 g y f cautioning him, at the same time, " not t o go tha t (9t lest he should fall into the water ;" to which he replieu r‘O' the same time disengaging himself from the stelvauese " there is nn fear of me." He had scarcely uttered if,p, words, when he fell into the water, and instantly ''tif peared. Boats, life-hooks, and creepers, were all pr 0011765, put in use, but unfortunately without immediate W ee e k The body was not found till nine o'clock.--Gr eeflo Advertiser. (ADVERTISEMENT.) —T. COX SAVORY, Gold fi t t e d large &c., 47, Cornhill, London, informs the Public that he 15_„ort up a SHOW ROOM, expressly for the display of a la r g e ment of superior SILVER-EDGED PLATED GOOVS• o ic• offers them at those low but fixed prices, which have been Iftlif cessful in drawing public attention to the WATCH, JEWE LL f bis SILVER SPOON and FORK, and SILVER branches Trade. BIRT.HS. e° On the Bth inst., at Filton Rectory, the lady of the R ev- Jai Bedford Poulden, of a son. rid' On the 22d inst., in Harley-street, Cavendish-square, ..„ Henry Bullock, of a daughter. ___------, MARRIED. 0 01° On the 22d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , ilfse', Pollard, Esq., to Mary Anne, daughter of the late Thomas 00 donald, Esq., of the East India Company's Civil Service , o ir grand-daughter of Thomas Macdonald, Esq., late First Co stoner of American Claims. • W l ' On the 22d inst., at Charlewood, the Rev. Thomas Burial, to youngest son of Thomas Burningham Esq., of Froyle, of Mary Juliana, only daughter of the Rev.e Stanier Porten, of wood, Surrey. er On the 22d inst., at Fisherton Delamere, Wilts, Jam es to port, only son of Mr. A. D. Welch, of Snaresbrook, Essenair Susanna, second daughter of John Davis, Esq., of Fisherton **" mere House. ficl °4 On the 21st inst., at the Collegiate Church, Manchester,. Joe, Bellasis, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-lawt to Elisti. only daughter of William Garnett, Esq., of Lark Hill, Salf°l"o9tor On the 22d inst., at New Radnor, the Rev. Nathaniel %OW° tine Strickland, Vicar of Rightoti, son of the late Sir nfere, Strickland, Bart., of Boynton, Yorkshire, to Charlotte D e a G rofs , youngest daughter of S. H. Teush Hecker, Esq., of T h e New Radnor. On the 21st inst., at Meldreth, Cambridgeshire, Thom lisolicicalie: Body, Esq., solicitor, of Tokenhouse- yard, Lothbury , t°_ t h, second daughter of George Starkins Wallis, Esq., of bieldreotor On the 22d inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , I / ace° Randall, Esq., of Maidstone, to Mary, widow of Thom as Esq., of the same place. On the 22d inst., at St. Pancras Church, George 11Iarsh , ter son, of Hart-street, Bloomsbury, to Sarah Ann, eldest daur George Dobree, Esq., of Russell-place, Fitzroy-square. al sciai. On the 19th inst., at Perth, Deputy Commissary - G en Booth, to Eliza, only daughter of Sir John Bisset , K • C ' of Reichip, Perthshire. er 0., o DIED. eat er ' On the 20th inst., at Hampton Court, aged 8 2 , Mrs' - relict of the late Admiral Bowater. tree t. e. On the 21st inst., M rs . Eb r i ng t o n, in Upper Berkeley -5 Geo...si On the 22d i ns t., i n th e A venue -road, Regent's Park, ',jells.'" Ripley, Esq., in his 45th y e a r , f ou rth son of the late J ohn ot ef Ripley, Esq., of Clapha m C ommon . I lsrrl On the 14th inst., at Filton Rectory, Gloucestershire, bter wife of the Re v . J ames B e df or d Poulden. and youngest &lig the late Her man S c h ro d er , Esq., of Clapham Rise, SurreYivolas On the 20th inst., at Chelsea, Anne, relict of the late Atkins, Esq., of Langley House, Bucks. f a TW iail On the 22d inst., in Piccadilly, Jane Caroline, w ife - Hamaierten, Esq., in his 36th year. On the 24th ult., at Tooting, Surrey, aged 72, of Rear-Admiral E. S. Dickson. geadi llg ' On the 18th inst., Mrs. C. Seymour,of Oxford-street, Or Berks, in her 80th year. ~ c har , On the 22d inst., at the house of his son-in-law , in .r r st h yet t ,l street, William Holt, Esq., surgeon, of Tottenham , in b i l, SOO - On the 22d inst., in her 56th year, Fanny, wife a ---' of Bradley, of Laurence Pountney-lane. Vi ' On the 21st inst., aged 77 years, Mrs. Harriet C. /. -IL5°ll Queen Elizabeth-row, Greenwich. v .,,, of f rc#' On the 21st inst., Susanna, wife of Samuel Crisp, ."--'" tenden, Suffolk. On the 21st inst., in Baker-street, Major-General Shoar!boera On the 20th inst., at Twyford Lodge, Sussex, M e i Robert Sewell, 89th Regiment. • . No. Christians/ if° London :,Printed and Pubned yAI DO " LlN c eu 131'1 112, Strand, at The Sun li; Office, b No. 112, Strandyin the of Middlesex. I I - ~ , A J I alit