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I 10. sworn, and they hoped that God would forgive him as they forgave him. We must now make some remarks with respect to the Prisoner William Steventon, who, " by an inquisition taken the 3d day of April, IS2B, on the view of the body of J ohn Horton, lying dead at tile parish of Hales • stands charged with the wilful murder of the said ::aa Horton.--Conneitted the 3d day of April, 182 S, by ‘"' ° rge liinchliffe, Gent., coroner." This prisoner preserved the utmost firmness during the "▪ "° lO of his trial. Our readers will recollect that he was ch arged with having deliberately run a knife into the bell y of a man named J. Horton, who was one of the Sergeants of the Court of Requests at Oldbury. He declared in the 14 '*in previous to his execution, that be use d to carr y the knife about him with which the offence was perpetrated, !en he never premeditated the murder ; and that he should not have committed it, although he threa t e n e d t o do s o. 1, It not been for the desperation of the deceased. He • Oowledged that his sentence was just, but seemed per 41y Unmoved by the exhortations of Mr. Griffiths to p r ayer. --He declared that he was unconseioni he was colla r/lifting a crime, because he had believed at the moment fat h e was justified, and he hoped God would forgive because he had offended entirely from the want of e ducation and knowledge, for he had never read the Bible, 't heard any thing about the Scripture. iETING AT LEEDS ON THE WOOL QUESTION. On Saturday a meeting of the persons interested 111 the Wool Trade was held at the Court-house, Leeds, to receive the Report of a Committee ap- Pointed some time ago to oppose tlibt imposition of additional duties upon the import"tion of any f oreign wool, and to address thanks to those Noble Lords to whose support this district of the county of York, and the country generally, are 80 much in debted fur their services. On the motion of Mr. J. Gott, the Mayor, Tuos. 13 LAYDS ° Esq., took the Chair. The CHAIRMAN said, at the former meeting at Which he had the pleasure to preside, and which Was held in April, it was unanimously resolved to Petition Parliament against any increase of the duty °,,tl foreign wool. This petition was presented to parliament at the beginning of May. At that time the Duke of Wellington appeared to be of opinion, that as a great number of petitions had been pre 'tented from various parts of the country, praying for Protection for the English wool-grower, it was only reasonable to appoint a Committee to enquire into the subject. This Committee was appointed, and he was sure that the result of their enquiries must Convince every candid person that an increase of the duty on foreign wool would be most injurious to the manufacturing interests, without affording any ad- vantage to the landed. With regard to the Report Which had been elicited, it referred principally to the following points : The past and present state of the g rowers of short er clothing wools, of long or °wishing wools, and of British kerino wools. The probability of any change in that state ; the stock of British wool now in the hands of the grower, the stapler, and the manufacturer ; and a comparison between the stock in hand now, and at former periods. The depression in the price of wool, and the various causes from which it is alleged to proceed. The past and present state of agriculture in light and upland soils, as dependent upon the folding system, and the use of particular breeds of sheep. The change which is alleged to have taken place in the weight ofk the carcass of the sheep, in the quality of the fieeee, and in its usefulness for the purposes of manufacture. The various uses of long and short wools. The application of short wools to the purpose of combing. The export and import of woollen cloths. The effect of duties in this and in foreign countries on wool and woollen manufactures. _ _ _ The proportion between the home and the foreign market for woollen manufactures. The change which has taken place in the demand for the finer articles of manufacture. The past and present value of cloths manufactured solely from British wools; from any mixture of British wools with the fine wools of Germany and Spain; with the low wools of the Mediterranean, Germany, Denmark, Russia, and Iceland ; with wools from Australia. The value of cloths made wholly from foreign wools. The effect of the manufacture of articles made of cotton, and of wool mixed with cotton, upon the wool market and upon the woollen trade. The importation of woollen rags, and the uses to which they have been applied. The probable increase of the supply of wool from Aus tralia. The information which the Report conveyed on these subjects was most important, and app e ar e d to prove fully the impolicy of any additional duty. Mr. Jolts GOTT would in the first place, as Chairman of the Leeds Committee appointed in April, react the report of the proceedings of that Committee. Mr. GOTT then read the following report : The first object of the Committee was to prevent, if possible, the further agitation in Parliament of this ques tion, so detrimental to the interests of the woollen trade, and indeed of the country. With this view many and numerously signed petitions from the merchants, manu facturers, woolstaplers, and others, were transmitted and presented to bath Houses of Parliament, against any further duty on the import of wool. A few observations were also drawn up, embracing the principal arguments which occurred to the Committee, showing not only the disastrous consequence of such a tax to the manufacturer, but also its inefficiency as regarded the purpose of the agriculturist to raise the price of British wool. These observations were printed and distributed. It was, however, thought desirable by the House of Lords to afford to the agricultural interest a fair opportunity of investigating the subject, for which purpose a Committee Was appointed. It then became necessary to solicit the countenance and support of the Earl of Harewood and Lord Wharncliffe, to correspond more fully with leading Merchants and manufacturers, wool-staplers, and others in terested both in this and other counties, and with the !London Committee,—to collect evidence bearing on the 54astion, and to select from their townsmen and the neigh bouring districts, iacluding the trustees of the Cloth-hall, intelligent delegates, whose information might throw light upon the subject, and whose evidence, along with others, might satisfy the landed interest that any additional tax would he injurious to themselves quite as much as to the 14444fitcturers. It was also requisite to raise a fund in support of this object, and it is most gratifying to the Committee to ac knowledge the very general and liberal aid given to them, and the willingness, and in many cases disinterestedness, with which men of great experience and practical business entered upon the office of delegates, and at much personal inc onven i e nce afforded their testimony. First, however, and above all, it is the duty of the Committee to acknow ledge i n the most public inanti.er (and they ar e p ersua d e d I!iie meeting will unanimously Jain them iu so doing) the peat aa4 etindesc,ending assistance rendered to them by the Earl of liarewood and Lord Wharncliffe, and they cannot too strongly express the feelings with which they have ob served throughout the progress of this important investiga tion, the ability and unceasing attention which these noble men have be en pleased to devote to the case, and for which, as well as ether most important benefits, this country is Under lasting obligations to them. Janice Bischoff, who has rendered most d l 3Bential htirvinea and valuable information, warm tisanks are due. The Committee also embrace this (opportunity of ac knowledging their obligations to Mr. Sheppard and the Loudo n Committee. In conclusion, the Committee trust that the body of the evidence now before the public will set the imposing of any additional duty in a strong light, and will tend to sho w that the interests of the agriculturist and manufacturer are Out at variance in the matter, but th e same ; and that the investigation will have promoted an additional degree of unanimity among tke manufacturers themselves, and have removed any wrong impression which might have caused a °thl t,rary feeling between them and the agriculturists. After Mr. GOTT had read the report, Mr. BRUCE rose, arid moved that the report should he received and adopted by the meeting. Mr. HAYCOCK seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. Mr. J. GOTT then resumed—He should beg to say a few words as to the resolution with which he intended to conclude ; it consisted of a vote of thanks to the Earl of Harewood and Lord Wham cliffe. The conduct of those Noble Lords in con ducting the correspondenc e , in receiving and advising with the deputies, and in supporting them before the Committee of the Lords, and in advocating their cause in every possible manner, had entitled them to the gratitude of the whole country, and in a more particular manner of this district.—(Ap- Plause.)•—The benefits they had conferred on the country were as great as they were permanent, and would be felt in this town aml district in all future generations.--(Loud opplause.)—Mr. Gott con cluded by moving the following resolution : That the sincere thatiks of this meeting be given to the Earl of Harewood and to Lord Wharncliffe. severally, for the powerful and efficient aid and protection which their Lordships have on all occasions rendered to the commer cial and manufacturing interests of this country,—for the unremitting zeal, exertions, and talents, displayed by their Lordships in the recent investigation on the expediency of imposing additional duties on the importation of wool,— and fur their Lordships' prompt and effectual support and advice, so kindly and condescendingly given at all times to the respective delegates from the manufacturing districts on that important subject. Mr. NIJSSEY felt it incumbent on himself to bear his personal testimony to the unwearied assiduity of the Noble Lords Harewood and Wharncliffe. Al though Lord Wharncliffe was out of health at the time, that circumstance had not prevented him from attending the Committee daily with the Earl of Harewood, nor from giving to the whole matter a most careful investi g ation . With respect to the evidence, it appeared to him that that given by the agriculturists themselves was conclusive as to the whole question. In conclusion, Mr. Nussey ex pressed a hope that the agriculturists would read the evidence collected, as he was sure it would con; vinee them of the impolicy of imposing any addi tional duty.—(Loud applause.)—He begged to se cond the resolution. The resolution was then car ried unanimously. Mr. T. BISCHOFF, jun., after bearing testimony at some length to the merits of Lords Wharncliffe and Harewood, observed, when the Duke of Rich mond moved for the Committee, he stated that if it was shown that a tax upon the importation of wool would injure the manufacturer, he should vote against it. What he wished was, that the agricultural in terest should fully kuow the case and their real situa tion. He was not, - it appears, in the House when Lord Wharncliffe put the question to the Duke of Wellington ; but upon presenting a petition upon the subject of wool, he with considerable warmth expressed his disappointment at the result, accom panied with some reflections, couched in strong language, upon the Committees, and particularly upon the Leeds Committee. These reflections were, however, refuted by Lord Wharncliffe, as well as by Lord Ellenborough, who could have no bias in favor of the manufacturing interest, but who said " he felt he was only doing justice to the manufac turers who had been examined before the Committee, than whom he had never seen a more respectable class than they seemed to be."—( Loud applause.) We may hope that during the recess the Noble Duke may have the opportunity of more calmly considering the various bearings of the evidence sub mitted to the Committee, and, with the candour and liberality which he professed when he promoted its formation, will admit that a tax upon foreign wool ' will not only injure the manufacturers in the first ' instance, but also the agriculturists, by diminishing the consumption of their other produce.—(Hear.) Mr. Bischoff, in conclusion, moved, " that the Mayor, as the Chairman of the Meeting, be requested to transmit copies of the preceding Resolution to the Earl of Harewood and Lord Wharncliffe." Mr. Tuos. SHAUN seconded the resolution. Mr. JONATHAN WILKS said, I am of opinion that one great and leading fact is fully proved,—namely, that any additional duty on foreign wool imported would not benefit the British wool-grower, whilst, on the other hand, it would prove highly detrimental to our foreign trade in woollens, and that the injury to this town and district in particular would be in calculable.—(Hear, hear.)—A great effort seems to have been made by the landed interest to show that British South Down wool had not deteriorated, but the evidence to the contrary is, I think fully esta blished. The fact itself may be of importance when investigating the state of the British wool trade; but if South Down wool had not deteriorated, the im policy of a duty on foreign wool would not be the less apparent.--(Hear, hear.)—lt is clear that wools are now grown in Germany, not far from our own shores, which are much better adapted for the manufacture of cloths than English wool,--that these foreign wools make a much better and cheaper cloth at the money. Our rivals in the foreign wool len trade are in possession of these wools without . a duty, and if the British manufacturer is forced to pay a heavy duty on these wools, he must inevitably lose his foreign demand for woollens.—(Hear, hear.) —Upon the whole, I for one feel sincere satisfaction that such a convincing body of evidence has been produced on tl►is occasion ; and, acknowledging my own and the country's obligations to the gentlemen who produced it, I now beg leave to move— That the thanks of this meeting be given to James Bischoff, Esq. of London, to Thomas Shepherd, Esq. the Chairman, and the other members of the London Com mittee, and to the several delegates, for the promptitude and energy with which they have uniformly acted on this subject, for the able and satisfactory manner in which they have discharged their respective duties, and for the time and labour bestowed by them therein ; and that a copy of this resolution be transmitted to those gentlemen by the Chairman of the Leeds Committee. hfr. NEVINS, jun. seconded the resolution. Mr. NUSSEY begged to propose that the name of Benjamin Gott, Esq. who had been one of the most zealous, assiduous and active supporters of the ma nufacturing interests, should be added to the resolu tion.—(Loud cheers.) Mr. COOKE seconded the amendment, which was carried by acclamation. Mr. JOHN GOTT said, that he begged most sin cerely to thank the meeting for the honour they had done his father. Mr. GEO. GOODMAN moved that the report of the resolutions should be advertised in all the Leeds papers. After thee, thanks of the meeting had been voted to Mr. John Gott, for his services us Chairman of the Leeds Committee, and to the Mayor, for his conduct in the chair on this occasion, the meeting separated. THE NEW BISHOP OF LONDON.—A Meet ing of the Parishioners of St. Botolph, Bishopsgate, (of which Dr. BLO3IFIRLD was Rector) was held yesterday at the School-house, at which it was resolved that a sub scription be entered into for the purpose of procuring a piece of plate to be presented to Dr. BLOLFIELD, on his retiring from the Rectory of the parish. Upwards of 150/. were collected. To show the enormous disparity of the busi ness which at present devolves upon the Courts in West minster Hall, it is only necessary to state that, in the six years from 1820 to 1826, the number of causes dispcsed of in the Court of King's Bench were In the Common Pleas • 3,920 In the Exchequer STATE OF THE COUNTRY.—Accounts are pouring in from all quarters of the mtonishin peace which every where prevails in the country. There g i not a single exception, east, west, .north, and south. 'l•he Chief Justice expressed his onlysur pr t i s se v at da the . tranquillity of u W ess est i a n ue K at i l i a k ; m t i l i l y er e will be Evening ening 1E --A RV fivosst.criminal busi ness harvest has corn- TI g h l a tb d o f t , a , r r ho ti o e , l favour ableandf,ewifdaytahecontinue, mr ctrheishavue'i it s n v e il e l de n a e t x iiii t ei week becom e general tl a ; t ou a g r ht i at the county, The crops in general, we understand, corned, and but little injured by the late ra e in ' s• eavY ß a r n l d well ap pears to be an excellent and abundant crop. N. Barley being . injured by heard some complaints of the oat crop smut, but hope the complaint is not general. It is, how ever thought that the oat crop in Cornwall will scarcely turn out tD be an average one.— Cornwall Gazette. BERVlE.—Herring fishing began here last week, under very favourable appearances.— Caledonian Mercury. I On Sunday morning, LUCY PECK, a young woman in the service of Airs. WORTLEY, Bridlesnaith-gate, met her mistress on the stair-case, and saying, '' You have been any mistress long emough, I will now be yours," commenced a violent assault upon her, and might have seriously injured Mrs. W. had she not been speedily rescued. The girl was nearly naked, having escaped from the person who was attendißg her, she having been for some time in a disordered state of mind, supposed to originate from a slight in love. She was removed to St. Peter's workhouse, and afterward ti) the lunatic asyhma....-/Voitiny/opo Mercury. IRISH ASSIZES. WATERFORD, JULY 31. The Court was opened this day at ten o'clock. The prisoners John Marks, John Ryan, and Nicholas Con don, were then placed at the bar. As soon as the indictment was read, charging the pri soners with having on the 3d of last June, feloniously as saulted Margaret Burke, and robbed her, the prosecutrix, a low-sized, mild, healthy looking girl, about twenty years c,f age, came on the table. She deposed, that she remem bered last June; that she lived in Carrick; that she was servant to Alice Power there ; that she came into Water ford on the above day ; that she knew one M'Grath's pub lic-house; that she went to it on that evening, accompanied by Eleanor Ryan ; others besides themselves were in the house at the time; did not then know their names; she knew those who attacked her on that night, particularly Marks—(the witness turned round here and identified him). She left M‘Grath's in about an hour ; returned to it again ; met prisoners there that time; she returned the second time to the house, because they attacked her; the three prisoners all left the house together; Eleanor Ryan was taken away by Ryan and Condon, and she (witness) was struck by Marks on the head ; she was knocked down by the blow; he raised up her clothes ; she resisted him, when he struck her again ; it was against her will he acted; the other two came up shortly after, and while Marks was effecting his purpose, they stripped her of her cap, cloak, shawl, shoes, and stockings, and 103. in money. She was stretched on the ground when Ryan and Condon returned ; the clothes were taken against her will ; those two said to Marks, " Make haste and he off." They made no attempt upon witness—they were afraid to stop. Marks was half an hour with her thus; it occurred in an entry in the neigh bourhood of the Cross; she was dragged into it forcibly by Marks; this was between eleven and twelve o'clock ; they (prisoners) all went away together; she then went down the entry, and met with a stair-way; went up and rapped at a door, but was not let in ; she staid thus in the lobby till morning; went a few doors off, to a woman named Prendergast ; she did not know her ; waited there till she saw some one coming out; saw Mrs. Prendergast; told her how she was robbed and ill-used ; Prendergast brought her in, and kindled a fire to warm her; saw the state she was in. Mrs. Prendergast deposed as to the state she found the prosecutrix in the morning at her door, and that she (pro secutrix) told her how she was ill-used, The case closed here, and his Lordship addressed the Jury, in a recapitulation of the evidence, upon which he commented as he went along. After some observations, the Jury retired for about twenty minutes, and returned a verdict of Guilty against Marks for the act,' and of aiding and abetting against Condon and Rvan. The prisoners were then ordered to be removed, and were to be brought up next day (yesterday) for judgment. THE DUNE OF DEVONSHIRE V. RICHARD SMITH, ESQ. Mr. LA NC LI opened the pleadings. The declarations were voluminous, and contained several counts. Sepa rated from their legal parlance, they reduced themselves within the compass of damage done to the noble plaintiff, by weirs constructed on the river Blackwater, by the de fendant, contrary to the terms of the lease under which he held his lands and tenements. There were two actions, one of trespass, and one on the case, but both merging in each other, and merely instituted to try the same facts ander a different form. The defendant pleaded the general issue. After a long but uninteresting trial, in which abundance of evidence wag produced on both sides, The LEARNED JUDGE observed, that there were several points of law requiring the decision of a superior tribunal, and suggested the propriety of obtaining a special verdict, or allowing him to direct the Jury, and a bill of exceptions to be taken. The latter course was adopted ; and after the Jury had retired, Mr. BlacLburne tendered his bill of exceptions, and they shortly after returned with a verdict for the noble plaintiff-6d. damages, and 6d. costs. AUGUST 1. This day the Court sat at a little after nine o'clock. As it was knows that a case of murder of an aggravated kind was to come on the first thing to-day, an unusual number rushed into Court upon its being opened. The prisoner, Thomas Prendergast, a feeble, emaciated old man, 70 years of age, was then put to the bar, and the Clerk of the Crown read the indictment, charging him with striking Margaret Lyons on the 4th of last April with a hatchet on the head, wilfully and with malice prepense, of which she died. Pat Lyons, examined by Counsellor O'DwYER—Is a cobbler, and lives in Doyle's-entry, Nicholas-street. Was accompanied out with a daughter of his on the 4th April. Mary Lyons was his daughter. Knows Ansty Harne. In consequence of what she told him, he returned home about half-past eight o'clock. Found his daughter lying there in a gore of blood, and cut in the skull. Went for the Priest and Dr. Kenny. She was not able to speak then. She did not speak of dying. Lived four months after. He left money behind him to the amount of 101. 7s. Gd. in his box. Box and room locked. Both locks were broken and money gone. Knew prisoner. Saw him that day. Held no hopes or threats to him. William Smith, a prisoner in the City gaol, examined— Knows Prendergast, and knew him in prison. A volun tary conversation occurred between them in the kitchen. Priioner asked him could be (witness) write, and would be write to his son for him. He told him to write to his son that he had money to employ a Counsellor at the Assizes, buried in a field at the Manor, near the waterfall, Si. 108., in one lot in small silver, and half-crtlwns in an other, buried, as he said, lest his wife would get at it. Witness said to prisoner, " You must be guilty ?" " Yes," said prisoner to him, " it is the rascally cobbler's money." He said he pushed the girl and left her there. He told witness the bushes were for an excuse, that people would net suspect him ; he also told witness that that he opened the box with a hatchet, and that he struck the girl one I blow with his fist. The case here closed, after which his Lordship briefly recapitulated the evidence, and dismissed the Jury, who re turned in about ten minutes with a verdict of Guilty. The JUDGE then proceeded to pronounce the sentence of the law—that the prisoner should be hanged on Monday, and after his body should be cut down, that it should be dissected and anatomised. The helpless and wretched old man was obliged to be carried out of the dock. The three unfortunate men, Marks, Ryan, and Condon, also received sentence of death. Despatches were received at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, yesterday, from Mr. VAUGHAN, our Minister to the iTt6ted States, also from Sir CH A RLYS BAGOT, our Ambassador to the Netherlands. Mr. `AIL MOT HORTON left town yesterday for Brighton. The Right Hon. Gentleman was expected to leave Brighton yesterday for Dieppe, and from thence proceed to Switzerland, to join Mrs. NORTON and family. Part of the furniture of the Duke of WEL LINGTON'S residence in Piccadilly was begun to be removed yesterday to the house in Downing.street belonging to his Grace as First Lord of the Treasury, which his Grace, it is expected, will occupy during the time that Apsley-house is undergoing repair. His Royal Highness the Duke of SUSSEX, it is expected, will honour the Marquis of CLEVELAND, and Mr. RUSSELL, the Member for Durham, with a visit, in the month of September. Preparations, in fact, are already making, both at Raby Castle and Rrancepeth Castle, to receive the illusttieus visitor. The late Speech of the Lords Commissioners is said to have been the entire composition of Mr. PEEL. The Hants Picture Gallery opened last Friday. The pictures are more varied and numerous than hereto fore.--Hunts Advertiser. On Tuesday evening Earl FITZWILLI ar rived at Wentworth House.—Sheffield Courant. The Earl of CLARE has arrived at his seat gland.—Dublin Morning Re gtuenrt Shannon, from En . ELOPEMENT.—at Tuesday last Miss ELI ZABETH MENIIINICE eloped from her father's house at Tre gudick, near Launceston, with Mr. J. PARSONS, of Lifton; the fugitives were followed by the lady's brother, who rest ed at the saute inn with them in this town, the host know ing the business of buth parties, sent the brother to Stoke Church . , and the happy pair to Stonehouse Chapel, where they were indissolubly united,—trickin g the unwary brother by the contrivance of Boni onport Telegraph. On Monday the incorpor a ti on o f b a k ers in Glasgow reduced the price of the quartern loaf one penny. It now sells at eightpence.—Caledo n i nn Mercury. The " Heir at Law" was performed at the Theatre Royal, Cheltenham, on Saturday evening, in a style of excellence that has seldom occurred out of London.— MATHEws was the representative of Lord Duberly ; Col. BERKELEY personated Doctor Pangloss ; and Major I/Aw- KINS hit off Dick Dowlas to the very life. The house was completely full, and this evening terminated the successful engagements of MATtikw; and YATES, for whose benefit these amateur actors lont their aid And .assistance. THE LICENSING OF HOTELS. The Magistrates at Bow-street Office seem consi derably perplexed about the construction which they ought to put on the new Act relating to the Li censing of Hotels. A long conversation on the subject took place yesterday, between Sir Richard Birnie, Mr. Minshull, and Mr. Mallard, a county Magistrate, all of whom agreed that the new law was a decided hardship on the Licensed Victuallers of the metropolis, and indeed amounted to an inva sion of their vested rights. They concurred in opi nion, however, that the clause in the Act, " if they (the Magistrates) shall think fit," gave them a dis cretionary power either to grant or refuse their cer tificate, and therefore that it would be as much their duty, under the new Act, to ascertain whether the hotels for which licenses were sought were indis pensable to the public convenience, as it was with respect to public-houses under the Licensed Vic tuallers' statute. _ _ Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, in the course of this con versation, remarked, that as they were all unanimous as to the meaning of the clause referred to, it might he advisable to inspect the Strand Hotel, or New Somerset Coffee-house, in order that they might be the better.prepared to decide on the question whe ther it ought or ought not to be licensed when the question should be brought before them on the en suing (this) day. The other Magistrates agreed in the propriety of this remark, and accordingly undertook to make the proper inquiries. In about three-quarters of an hour afterwards they returned from their mission, and Mr. MlNstitai. then stated, that, in his judgment, the neighbourhood in which this hotel or coffee house is situate was already amply provided with htn of public entertainment. On either side, within a few yards of the hotel in question, stood two apparently most respectable public-houses, and at intervals of only a few perches, right and left, were others, so that there seemed no pretence for saying that further public accommodation was ne cessary. Sir R. BIRNIE.—For my own individual part, I think not only the Strand, but every other neigh bourhood in the metropolis, is overstocked with public-houses. Mr. MlNsituu..—l think, as they have gone so far, it would have been just as well if they had done away with licences altogether, and have opened the trade to any one who might think fit to embark in it. As it is, we are reduced to a most unpleasant di lemma, for in admitting the rights under the new Act, we cannot shut our eyes on the wrong which its provisions inflict upon the Licensed Victuallers. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE.—I am, and always have been, averse to interfere with vested rights ; and, I confess, it is most hard upon those Licensed Victu allers who have kept their houses for a series of years, to have the value of their little property de stroyed by a sweeping enactment of this sort. We have only to administer the law as we find it, and congratulate ourselves that we had no hand in the making of it. Those on whom it presses are the proper parties to represent their own grievances where alone redress is to be obtained, and if they neglected to do so they, and not we, who put the obnoxious law in force, are to be blamed. Here the conversation ended. The consideration of the Strand Hotel, which was fixed for to-morrow (this day) was postponed until Wednesday, when Mr. Halls is to be in town. MARCH OF MURDER. Within the last forty years, some very strange murders have been committed in the county of Suf folk. The last person hanged for murder in this county was a man named Thrower, and his convic tion and execution took place ip 1811, twenty-one years after the murder was perpetrated ! Thrower murdered an old man and his grand-daughter, at a place called Chatfield Bridge; he beat their brains out with a hammer, which he had borrowed of a man named Head. He and Head were after wards transported, and in the year 1811, when the Marrs' murder was the general topic of conversation, some suspicion fell on Thrower; but no one knew what had become of him for above twenty years.— An attorney at Chatfield, named Williams, was in conversation with another attorney at Cambridge, on the subject of the Marrs' murder, and said to him, " We suspect that a man named Thrower murdered the old man and his grand-daughter at Chatfield, in 1790; but we don't know what is become of him." The Cambridge attorney replied, that he had a le gacy to pay to a woman named Thrower, whose hus band has been absent from her twenty years, and he had learned that the man had returned to England, and was residing near Swaffham, and the wife could not receive the legacy till she had obtained the hus band's signature. The Chatfield attorney immedi ately went in pursuit of Thrower, and apprehended him for the murder, near Swaffham ; when Head came forward, and confessed that Thrower had bor rowed a hammer " to do a job," and that Thrower afterwards boasted he had murdered the old man and his grand-daughter with the hammer, and had thrown it in a pond near the old man's honse. The pond was searched, and the hammer was found. Upon Head's evidence, corroborated as it was by the find ing of the hammer and other circumstances, Thrower was convicted, hanged, and gibbeted. A man named Smith was hanged with Thrower, for murdering two of his children. Smith and his wife were both found guilty of the crime. They had actually tied up three of their children in a room, and starved two of them to death. The survivor, upon whose evidence they were convicted, was at the time of the trial reduced to a mere skeleton, having had but two potatoes to eat for the fortnight previous to the apprehension of her parents. Mrs. Smith pleaded her pregnancy after her conviction, and nine months afterwards she was executed. A farmer, named Nicholls, was executed about thirty-five years ago at this place, who was convicted of the murder of his daughter, a girl about fifteen years of age. He lived at Fakenhum, and sent the girl to a village to make a purchase ; on her way home, he i►.duced his son to strike her with a stake on the neck, and she fell dead ; they threw her body intr.: a deep-ditch. Roger Banstead, an opulent farmer, was hanged and gibbeted for the murder of a farmer named Briggs. The parties lived at Lakenheath. Banstead had impounded on of Briggs' cows; and Briggs, instead of releasing the cow by paying the fees to Banstead, v.sed to go every morning to feed the cow. Banstf:ad was enraged, and he induced a boy in his service named Harper, to take his gun, and as Briggs was feeding the cow, to shoot him. The boy levelled the gun at the heart of Wggs, and the in jury was fatal, though brigs was able to walk to his home before he expired. The boy, Harper, was pardoned by the King, and qualified to give evidence against Banstead, who was convicted upon the clearest evidence. Two men, named Tebble and Mays, were hanged and gibbeted about forty years ago, for murdering a Mrs. Phillips, a widow, who kept a small farm at Haswell, in this county. Tebble, Mays, and a fel low named Wiseman, went to rob the house. One of the gang knocked at the door and told Mrs. Phillips that her cattle had got into the clover. She went out to remove the cattle, and was murdered by Wiseman, while the other two robbed the house ; prisoner returned to the house and told his com panions " that he had settled the old woman," and they were so terrified that they left the house with out taking the plunder they had collected with them. Wiseman left the country and went to America, and the other two were taken up in a public-house in consequence of one having threatened the other— !" that he would tell of his murdering old Mrs. Phillips." They were hanged. Wiseman returned ' to England afterwards, but was not prosecuted ; he died within the last two years. Betty Burrows was hanged for the murder of Mary Booty. The two women lived' with a man named Steward, at Bury. Mary Booty was his favourite, and in a fit of rage and jealousy, Burrows threw Booty out of a window and killed her. BURY, MONDAY NOON.—The witnesses against Corder have just arrived at this place, from Polstead. Not one of the visitors in twenty will be able to get admittance into the Court to witness the trial, the place being wretchedly small and inconvenient. It is a fact that a celebrated operator in London (Jack Ketch) has been sent for, to prepare for the f in i s hing" of the law, in case a conviction takes place. FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS, The Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, at Pen ton's Hotel, from Essex; Viscount Plarberton, in Upper Grosvenor-street, from Richmond ; Sir Richard Sutton, at the Clarendon Hotel, Bond-street, from his seat, Nor wood Park, Notts ; Captain and Mrs. Hughes, in Caven dish-square, from the Continent ; George Byng, Esq. M.P., Mrs. Byng and family, at their house in St. James's-square, from their seat, Wrotham Park, on their way to Paris; Mrs. Dennett and family, at Symmons's Hotel (late Jordan's), St. James's-street, from their seat in Hants ; Mrs. Chalmers and the Misses Chalmers, at the Berners Hotel, Berners-street, from Paris; Rev. R. Scott, at ditto, from Shrewsbury. CMANGES. The Marquis of Ailesbury and the Ladies Brudenell Bruce, from Paris, for the Rhine ; Viscount and Vis countess Granville, from Devonshire House, to join the Duke of Devonshire, at Brighton ; Lord Seymour, second son of the Marquis of Hertford, for Paris; Augustus Atkyns, Esq. from Woolley Lodge, Maidenhead, to Iver, near Uxbridge ; Major and Mrs. Hawkins, for Southamp ton ; Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ogle, fur Newport, in the Isle of Wight ; Lady Cox Hippesley, for Stone Easton, near Bath; the Earl and Countess of Wilton, for Chester; the Earl and Countess of Leitrim, Lord and Ladies Clements, this morning. on board a steam-boat from the Tower, fur Calais ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, from Gros venor-sq., for the Earl of Harewood's seat, Harewood House, near Wetherhy, Yorkshire; the Lord Primate of Ireland and the Ladies Ann and Catherine Beresford, from Charles street, St. James's-square, for the Palace, Armagh ; Mar quis of Waterford and Lord William Beresford, for Ire land; the Duke of Grafton and the Ladies Fitzroy, from their house in Clarges-street, for Leamington, Warwick. shire; Prince and Princess Pignatelli Ruffo and family, from the Burlington Hotel, Old Burlington and Cork streets, for Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Wybault, from ditto, on a tour; Lady and the Misses Ilunloke, from ditto, for the Continent ; the Earl of Thanet, from Fenton's Hotel, St. James's-street, for his seat in Kent ; the Earl Powis, from Berkeley-square, for his seat, Bishop's Castle, Salop ; Sir William Smythe, Bart, for his seat, Hill Hall, Essex ; the Earl and Countess of Falmouth and family, from St. James's-square, for their seat, Woolbampton, near New bury, Berkshire, on their way to Tregothan, near Truro, Cornwall; Captain and Lady Elizabeth Fielding, from their house in Sackville street, for Chippenhain, Wilt shire; Sir Alexander Hope, Bart. for his seat in Scotland; Mr. and Mrs. Francis Legge, for Paris; Mrs. and Miss Ferrers, from Southampton, for Motlaix, in France ; Mr. Henry Hoare, for Stourhead, in Wiltshire ; Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Melville, for Scarborough ; Mr. Samuel Peplos, for Hereford ; Lord Feversham, for Duncombe Park, in York shire ; Captain Albany Macdonell, from the lonian Islands; Edward H. Green, Esq. from Mr. Standish's seat, Lancashire, for the Regatta at Cowes. ARRIVALS AT WORTHING. The Earl of Darnley, the Hon. Mrs. St. John, Duchess of Roxburgh, Marquis Beaumont, Mr. and Mrs. Clifton, Lord and Lady Cawdor, Mr. and Mrs. Kathorn, Mrs. Wilkins and family, Mrs. Brown and family, Miss Par sons, T. M. Goodlake, Esq., Mrs. Goodlake, Mr. King, Miss Sawers, Mrs. Wickins and funily, Mr. Scott, Mr. and Mrs. V. Harvey, Mr. De Calvallo, Rev. Dr. Pacey, Mrs. and Miss Pacey, W. M. Alanle, Esq., Mrs. Shrub, Mr. O'Conner, Mr. Carter, Mr. and Mrs. Cray, Mr. and Mrs. Prescott, Captain and Mrs. Winter, Mr. Williams, Mr. John King, Mr. and Mrs. Barthro. ARRIVALS AT COWES. Lord Templeton and family, Lord Chesterfield, General Mainwaring and family, General Farmer, Colonel E. B. Frederick, Sir R. Frederick, C. H. Tottenham, Esq., W. Christie, Esq., C. Jobnstone, Esq., J. Dennis, Esq., W. Sheppard, Esq. and family, - Moreau, Esq., - Baldwin, Esq., - Campbell, Esq., lion. Mrs. Burrell, Mrs. Beslen, Mrs. Williams, and Mr. Bundle. ARRIVALS AT WALKER'S HOTEL, GLASGOW. Lady Mary Murray and family, the light Rev. Bishop Sandford, Captain Hodges, Kent ; T. L. Hedges, Esq. ditto; Christopher Turner, Esq. Oxford; Joaquin Gon zalez, Esq., T. Alexander, Esq. and Mrs. Alexander, London ; John Deans, Esq. and Mrs. Deans, Island of Java; C. P. Chapman, Esq. London; William Darn. ton, Esq. ditto; James Macgregor, Esq. Liverpool. ARRIVALS AT THE ROYAL HOTEL, INVERNESS. Colonel Craigie, Mrs. Gilchrist, Mrs. Colonel Stewart, Captain G. Gordon, - Maule, Esq. on a tour; - Silver, Esq. of Neitherley, and family, on a tour ; Colonel Mackenzie and lady ; D. M'Culloch, Esq. of Torhouskie; - Welsh, Esq. on a tour; - Goulding, Esq. London, and lady, on a tour; - Russel, Esq. and lady, on a tour; Miss Wilson, - Kerr, Esq. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TATTERSALL'S, AuG. 4. Notwithstanding the powerful attraction of the York August Meeting there was a respectable muster this day. Some changes have taken place amongst the outsiders, fa vourable accounts having been received respecting Delphine, who is considered almost safe to win the Produce Stakes at York en Thursday. The odds are thus : DONCASTER ST. LEGER. 3 to I agst Mr. Armitage's Velocipede (offered) 5 to 1 agst Colonel King's Bessy Bedlam (taken) 9 to 2 agst Mr. Petre's The Colonel 20 to I ag,st Sir T. Mostyn's Ultimatum 22 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Delphine (25 taken) 25 to 1 agst Lord Milton's Ballad Singer 25 to 1 agst Mr. Metcalfe's Economist 28 to 1 agst Mr. Houldsworth's Terror 30 to 1 agst Mr. Petre's Emmeline (taken) 30 to i ag,st Mr. Petre's Stapleton (taken) No others mentioned. ST. JOHN'S WAPPING AND ST. GEORGE'S EAST REGATTA. Yesterday a handsome Prize Wherry, and other Prizes, given by the Ladies and Gentlemen of St. John's Wapping and St. George's in the East, was rowed for by the under mentioned free watermen belonging to the above-named parishes. The day, with the exception of One heavy shower, which came down during the third heat, was pro pitious, and in consequence the river and its banks were crowded with spectators. The shipping was likewise thronged, and many elegantly-dressed ladies honoured the scene with their presence. The following were the men, where belonging to, and the colours by which they were distinguished James Metcalf Union Stairs Dark Blue Hobert Marshall ...... Hermitage Stairs Green - John Adams Wapping New Stairs ...... Light Blue James Griffin Wapping Old Stairs Yellow Thomas Henderson... Wapping Dock Stairs Red James Bolas King Edward's Stairs Pink. The contest extended the whole way from the Hermitage to King Edward's Stairs, twice round, and consisted of four heats, the first men of the two first heats lying by for the grand heats, and the first out of the next four rowing with the first men of the first and second heats fur the boat. Blue, Green, and Dark Blue, started for the first heat, which was won by Green ; Yellow, Red, and Pink, were the rowers for the second heat ; and, after a good contest, it was won by Yellow. About four o'clock Light Blue, Dark Blue, Red, and Pink, as losers of the two first heats, contended for the third heat, when Dark blue came in first by seine distance a-head of the rest. For the last and grand heat, Dark Blue, Green, and Yellow, took their stations, and, after a most admirable heat, far superior to either of the preceding, they came in as follows, viz.—Yellow first, Green second, and Dark Blue third. The first man wag entitled to the wherry, value 23/. ; the secOnd . , to 5 1 . ; be third to 41. ; the fourth, 3/. ; the fifth, 2/. ; and the last,%, 1/. 10s. After the match was over, the men W ree.to:cia, in procession the distance they rowed. amidst the a mations of the assembled thousands. Secretary PEEL, a r The Duchess of CLARENCE, attended by her .OR of the EXCHEQUER, and Mr ' suite, arrived at her residence in Bush? Park yesterday, from Plymouth. A Cabinet Counxthcri: four o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign Office, Downing-street, which was attended by the Loan CHANCE L LOR, the Duke S' W e:r OLord f I s iTE E LUNT:BORN, T E: D :I of e Aß l E i ß u n is E te E r N: s N a T lSM e t libe Sir GEORGE I~IURIVE t d ty E AF L y L : E t N ha ß e O c R iAl O A U N G near six o'clock• The Austrian and French Ambassadors bad interviews with the Earl of ABERDEEN yesterday at the Foreign Office, Downing-street. The Neapolitan Minister transacted business yesterday at the Office of the Secretary of Etatp Foreign Affairs. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The intelligence which reaches us hourly from Ireland deserves to be well considered. We have already stated, as an important correction of an error entertained with regard to Irish po litics, that the ascendancy imputed to the priests over the peasantry has been ascribed to these reverend persons in utter ignorance of its origin, character,spcctewould if offered in favour and extent. It is not as priests that the Cath o li c c ler g y a t this mom en t exer t an y the c Power u o n v se e their gigiven n t o parishioners; the people for b i yf the e w were clergy men eso b equally av orur of almost a one lilse muchof poli tical cond uct as of vs t , h h e yth oe side of the adverse opposite. Ift'liearr e a y r of 40s. freehold ers at a general election, in support cf a certain ca n did ate, b e entirely owing to thenpr i est l yifother priestly ersen d i in fluence at e , bi o ne u fl g u h e t i e t not exertedn e,on to f o ll ow , i n strict reason ing, s c o a n me - iis, that there would appe ar on hi s b e h a lf also an array of priest-ridden Voters ? N ow , app l y this argument to the Clare election, w h ere we theare told sole that e a te of A i the s le oofileel it rgtlsit was observe, the e rs to return to p re t hat i .Itn passing,is not our wish to justify the Phasrelirvame,entin trusion of a spiritual (or professedly spiritual) power into temporal disputes, and still l ess the enforcement of that interposition by sanctions which ought to be confined to re ligious purposes ; but our present business is with its efficacy, not its justification. It is allowed on all hands that the priests of Clare were successful in their appeals to the humbler free holders of that county, on behalf of Mr. O'Con nell. But how was it with those priests whose feelings or principles led them to support the cause of Mr. O'Connell's adversary ? So far from priestly influence being here all powerful, it is announced quite publicly that one of these unfortunate clergymen was deserted by his pa rishioners before they came to the hustings ; that a second was forced to leave his parish from the odium which his opposition to the populta candidate raised against him ; and we have heard, that in another county, a priest who strove to resist the prejudices of his flock was threatened by some of them, that at Christmas next " they would pay him his dues in Latl half pence !" There is no doubt in the mind of any man who understands the state of Ireland, that the priesthood are strong only when they Co operate with the people—that their power is subsidiary, not original or self-dependent ; and that where they attempt to resist the spirit of the laity, they are treated with as little ceremony as if they were so many zealous Protestants-- perhaps with less. While this circumstance, therefore, is of a nature to calm our apprehen- sions as English Protestants, looking at the sub ject in its religious bearing, we do not deny that it is also calculated to augment the fears of a sober-minded statesman, whose duty and saga city both direct him to search in the political principles of the question for grounds on which to legislate. No one can be ignorant that the Catholic priest, who faithfully performs his reli gious offices, will, in the ordinary course of affair>, obtain, and justly, a considerable influence with the well-disposed part of his congregation.— The Irish Catholic clergy—we speak it to their honour— have in general so conducted them-- selves, and so employed their authority, profes sional and social, as to make it a subject of deep regret to the enlightened portion of the magis tracy, as well as to the Government, when the multitude at periods of excitement cast off that beneficent and wholesome sway. We are dis pesed to think that among a people so fierce and untutored as the actual Irish, the natural power of the Catholic clergy would prove in almost every condition of things a desirable supplement to the law of the country. Barbarians who re volt from law are touched by the persuasions of friendly counsel; and, perhaps, when the history of Irish affairs shall have been more thoroughly developed than it now is, that the very church government of the Catholics, of which we ac Protestants condemn the groundwork, dread the object, and deprecate the extension, will be dis-. covered to have rather assuaged than embitt - erect the political evils of a system of laws ill a d apte d to the nation upon which they were designed to operate. Our conclusion, then, from the extra ordinary helplessness (for such we regard it) anti dependence of the Catholic priesthood on the will of their laity at this moment, is, that the whole Catholic community of Ireland has under gone an unparalleled revolution. Our inference, supported also by other facts, is, that there never before existed a crisis, at which the mind of the whole Catholic body had been so roused, so heated, so possessed, so engrossed by passions altogether political,—that never before had there arisen an occasion where the Catholic multitude so far forgot their habitual predilections as to cast aside both priest and landlord, and to bow down before an idol of new mould and new mate rials—an image the w orkmanship of vulgar but daring hands, which is worshipped. m the spirit of demotraczi. That is the true and paramount danger of the present mo but that ment. The peasantry of the country have been addressed and canvassed, and made parties in their own persons to state affairs; speeches have been delivered for them, and at them ; the v i r .. the of combination, the force f 0_ numbers, th e insignificance of wealth, the impotence of au classes of the thority, the COAtem Ititeanntdlievasant of their j o u f d r g e ed iati a o i l l i d to co t n h t e le multi tude themselves —topics like these have been frreienleht,igbsyoifiothsetandartl Catholic m familiarr c e a n t d h e o r l e i d cs, s . o ando tia t e a t sect, that, we r ep eat , s pirit to be now feared • growing sp d . In Ireland is one fo t r hereal institutionspreN‘ryalilliii: were i o f absolute e mo clacy, Which, in the present situation of the world, and if this quarrel be not promptly settled, will be found • •and to have attained a %vont• perverseness thousand - a times more difficult to make head against than the bugbear of Pope or Bishop. Let, op. Let, then, die Ministers, as guardians of the-most obvious interest of so ciety—the predominance of institutions and of authority, in all th e i r b ranc h es , over sense l ess clamour and brute violence—look to this gravely, and in time. We tell them once more, that if they would re-establish over the lowest order of the people of Ireland the influence of priest and landlord, which, already suspended, may be irre vocably lost, they have not an hour to waste in idleness or hesitation. Even should, by some miracle, that prescriptive power be restored with out an act of the supreme legislature, they had better see that it does not join the enemy, as the first condition of its revival. We refer t© our Irish correspondence for some interesting but painful statements as to the intemperance of po lice men in several counties. It is, to say the , least of it, unwise, we think, to bestow upon . such persons as a numerous body of police men `must necessarily be, a degree of discretionary 31- nd ti- the wet d 1 gllt t 01 ' into; I, of the 3110 MP lad iini, Bkei ado e be rate' I I'4 p ry 131 13 itb! coy ,Dish' e b°' i rtiO .011ec oder, • orde a pi ws: