The Sun. — London, England, 1828-08-02 00:00:00

P 1 LT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, It is a fact no less striking than gratifying, that while so much political ferment prevails in Ireland, the country enjoys a snore general fret , `foie from unlawful outrage, disturtYalice, Mid offence, than at almost any former &ltd. '11)1' state of things by no means 'answers the iNtshca of the Orange faction. Their tri'uniph would be to have some pretext representing the cfauntry as deluged avith disorders and crimes,..... to see robbery, murder, and conilagratisan in every province,—to- describe th'e .aa the hand maids of a Popish plot„—to reariWt the Insurrec tion Act,—suspend the Millets Corpus Act,— call upon Government to countenance by an immense army every freak of precautionary pet secution, and then torment the people into a convulsion, which should only be appeased on handing over to the Orange interest another lease of Protestant Ascendancy," to be re nesved every 50 years to come. The violent partisans of the old system are, we repeat, much mortified and disappointed, that any thing like municipal and social quiet s h o uld accompany this period of extreme excitement in politics.— We regret that Ministers should have givra any shadow of encouragement to the notion that an increased force may be requisite in Ireland, by the march of tro o p s f rom th e sout h an d east o f England to the neighbourhood of the asaastern coast, as if to wait the expected signal for crossing the Channel, and carrying on war against the Catholics. It appears to us, that even this strategic movement for the forma tion of what may be called an army of reserve, has arisen from either a distortion of facts or a mistake of their real tendency and bearing. Because declamatory tirades are ut tered- by the orators of the Catholic Asso ciation, against the penal laws and the Govern ment which upholds them, it is wished to be in ferred, that men who talk so very angrily, are equally anxious to fight as they are to speak, or to convert every listener into a fighter.— This is cruel ignorance of the resources and ob jects of the Catholic body. If a civil war were once set going, as a consequence of the speeches of O'Connell and the rest of them, the first act of the British Government, in its present condi tion of power, unmolested, by any foreign State, would be to proclaim martial law in Ireland s and to offer a reward of some thousands of pounds for the capture of the demagogue leaders. Is this a species of martyrdom, let us ask, which such men of words as Shiel and O'Connell, or such priests as Messrs. Sheehan, Maguire, &c. arc prepared for? And if these gentlemen were ever so well disposed to provoke a war, where war was necessary, would any but sheet madmen have recourse to such an extreme, where it was not only unnecessary to the success of their cause, but fatal to every hope of succeeding F.' We consider the as s iduity of' the Catholics in their attendance as members of4he Association, the openness and boldness of their speech, 'the energy and efficacy of' their appeal to such arms as they have drawn from the arsenals of the Constitution, the best guarantees that can be of fered to England for the bona Jide honesty of their declarations, that to enjoy it in all its ful ness forms the sum of their desires Had the Ca tholics no means of eventually redressing themselves by law, we might then with s'oine appearance of reason suspect that their aim was the oerthrow of the Constitution. But what is the fact ? They have found out and proved to the British Government, that they already possess a share of power, sufficient to ensure them, finally, what is wanting, If they could not vote, and sway the voters of the country, they would, we doubt not, look to sonic other instruments than those provided by Act of Par liament. But when the sense of this overwhelm ing and disgraceful grievance—this exclusion front every object of high ambition worthy the members of a free community, has bound them together like one man, for the single purpose of removing it,—when, under this unparalleled sympathy, we find all the old relations of life tenounced, all jealousies forgotten, all danjers braved, and emancipation the one and only good thing prosecuted,—that in this panoply of union and lawful function, the Catholics, as a body, have unseated from their political inheritance, from their immemorial representation of their re spective counties, the most powerful families, sonic feared, sonic beloved, in the island, for no reason but because they' opposed emancipation, or did not go far enough in general opposition to its opponents ; when, again, we need but extend the cases of Waterford, .Clare, and Louth, and Monaghan, to the rest of' Ireland, to ascertain that the whole county representation of the kingdom, and many of the boroughs, are in time hands of Catholics, so as to secure a opposition to Mini s t ers , f rom thorough-going Ireland only, of between 70 and 80 votes—little more is required to convince any sober-minded man, that the Catholic game is a constitutional, not a military warfare; and that to win it, they have only to choose representatives who will not coquette with anti-Catholic Ministers—who, feeling the solid importance of emancipation. will insist on it as a sine qua non. It is affirmed bv some people, and with the tone of a sneer, that the Catholics of Ireland arc a pennyless rabble, with little or none of the landed property of the country in their hands. This was never a correct statement since the year 1780, and it is snore false than ever. Even while time penal laws forbade the Catholics to purchase land in fee-simple, they occupied an enormous propor tion of Ireland at low rents, and for leases which might be termed in perpetuity-990 years for example. Since the relaxation of those odious laws, the purchases of estates (of Protestant titles !) by Catholics, have been astonishing for number and amount. A gentleman of great knowledge on this subject has assured us, that the Catholic purchases durmf: the last twenty years hav e exceeded 16,000,000/. in capital, and in rent have produced above 800,000/. per an num. Let not the anti-Catholics, therefore, flatter themselves or frighten others with these wild assertions about the poverty of the Catholic body. Their wealth is enormous—their know ledge and spirit are growing rapidiya—and hence does their exclusion limn the state seem, as it is in reality, every hour more preposterous and unnatural, and act more formidably in the production of resentment and complaint.— It is not to be denied that at this moment time Catholic aristocracy, as well as the upper c l asses o f the priesthood, have b een , lik e the Protestant aristocracy itself, overgrown and trampled on by the democratic power, w hi c h springs up gradually from the excitement o f large bodies of men ; and which—let us inti mate to the Ultras of' this country—will every day become more sweeping and irresistible i n Ireland, until the inflammatory topic shall be re moved by the grant of this vital measure. SO long as emancipation is vainly called for, so long shall we have the reign of speech-makers and tribunes of the people in that country, the abase inept of property, and the sovereignty of O'Con nell. Nur is this all. 'How do *c know that, without a sinec act characteristic of physical violtWee, or rendering it practicable as e remedy for the. Mischief, A Oh itttiy not be recommend and (in their present state of organization) leta as easily adopted by the Catholics, whieh would at once send the estebliAitt 'clergy and the landed proprietor!: A begging ? Suppose the Catholic peasants and lower farmers were to say, eat and all, " We will pay no tithes in money ; let the parson take them - in kind ;" who could punish them, or help the clergy Suppose a step r further—" We will, oye and all,. pay no rents; who could eject the poptlatioti of itn entire king dotn ? • Sue I eesollitione could be as easily exe tbted, as O'Connell was returned for Clare. Let Governmen/ sec what is before it. The Judges continue-to remark to the Juries the un exampled lightness of their calendars.—Thees: It i s somewhat singular that, in two 'countries, the laws and institutions, the manners and cus toms, of which are so widely different as those of France and England, a similar complaint ehould, at the same time, be made of' an in crease of juvenile delinquency. In England, there is no doubt h‘..lt it is an evil which exists to a coneitlerable extent. The Police Commit ter..., in their late Report; however, have only touched upon the sUrface of it, either as regards the source, the existence, or the remedy, of what one would have supposed would have formed a leading object with a body having a preventive system in view. For ourselves, we must con fess that, though we do not deny the exist ence 01' the evil, we are inclined to think that, looking at it comparatively, ite extent is much overrated ; and, considering the rapid increase in our population, it is not greater, if so great, as might be expected, where so little is done to coun teract its rise or its increase. No settled country has probably ever increased in number as this has done during the last twenty or thirty years ; 1 and when we hear of the population augmenting at the rate of nineteen or twenty per cent. in every ten or a dozen years, there can be no great wonder that idle boys throng our street, or that, for want of proper occupation, many of them fitll into bad courses. It is extraordinary, too, how .has been done to remedy the evil, though so much is daily said and written as to its exist ence ; and thati while benevolent people are em ployed in all corners of the kingdom in teaching the young idea how to shoot," so little has hitherto been done to train up the children of poor or profligate parents in the way in which they should go—that is, by giving them useful employment. In a maritime country like this, the sea service in some one or other of its various shapes, seems the most obvious destination for destitute boys; yet, with the exception of one excellent charity, with very limited means (the Marine Society), scarcely any efibrt is made, or means provided, for train ing up to the King's, the merchant's service, or the fisheries, those who instead of being, as they are now considered, a nuisance, form in fact, the real wealth of a nation. In Paris we perceive that the Duchess of Angouleme has taken up the matter with a truly humane and patriotic feeling, and proposes to establish spacious receptacles, where destitute and poor children might be re ceived, in the unavoidable absence of those who have the charge of them. Something of the kind might, probably, be instituted to advantage iii this metropolis. At any rate, nothing can be worse than our present system, by which we first allow children to sin up to a certain point with impunity, and then send them to • prisons, where they become confirmed and accomplished thieves. This is a strange way, it must be ad mitted, for the State to eal with its surplus po pulation ; yet this is our method—this is what our Legislature suffiirs, and our charity-mongers look on and connive at, and then turn up their eyes in yonder at the increase of depravity, which they themselves have, in no small. degree, been the authors of: We shall be glad if the example now set us in France leads to some ex ertions of a similar kind in this country. The difficulty, we are aware, is, how to deal with the parental tic ; but, on the one hand, something, we should think, might be done to render parents more legally responsible for the conduct of their children than they now are ; and, on the other, to take from those whom crime or misfortune disqualifies for it a charge which, in such cases, becomes wholly neglected, if not, in many cases, disregarded.—Morning Herald. The Journal des Debats congratulate e, the country on the spirit manifested by the Members of the Chamber of Deputies. " Our mandatories (says that journal) have managed the public for tune like good heads of families. A Minister would not have found favour in wrapping him self up in a disdainful silence, nor in laying him self out in frivolous speeches, nor in giving in complete satisfaction ; hence the explanations of the Government have been sincere and perti nent ; Ministers conceived they were addressing themselves to a majority truly national, and through that majority to the country." Speak ing of the diminutions, it is observed, " 'We see results more valuable from their moral import ance than the mere reduction of the figure. The allowance to Ministers is diminished 30,000 francs. It must be owned that our Ministers have complied with good grace, as if they con ceived they would be bedemnified for the differ ence by the suffrages of good citizens. It is very little, no doubt, compared with the whole. But . it is much that the salaries of the high func tionaries descend in proportion. This gives the Ministers a title to reduce the salaries of their agents. When the heads have commenced e.eco nomy, the subordinates lose the right of com plaining. . . . Expencos of spew have been retrenched : a grand amelioration, which proves cue thing of' very recent conviction in France— that show does not raise a functionary in esteem; that every where it is better to be than to seem. It would have been unfitshionable, a few years ago, to say this in 4 time so near the splen dours of the Imperial Court. Now the thing is palpable, and the simple announcement of en !pais de representation causes a const i tut i ona l l majority to tolerate rise spontaneously.expenses of y should or i a Budget gives only 50,000 f rancs to pri mary instruction ? These are l essons to us; but they are lessons from whic h w:caTlnot profit. M. Hyde de Neuville , in his analysis of th e navies of France and England, showed th at we have three or four times more o ffi cers , in pro portion to our seamen, than the French. Those who have read the Correspondence of Lord Col lingwood can be at no loss to account, for the cause of this difference. Parliamentary interest, as he observes—that is, the pay of those who wield political power—forces the Executive to receive a number of useless and worthless indi viduals i n our , navy , t h a t t h ey may b e p e nsioned at the public expellee. We have an Aristocracy whose distinctive merit - is wealth, who are insa tiable as the grave, and whose example corrupts and demoralises the land, A gentleman, as he is called, with a brood of five or six sons, who mire above all avocations which add to the re sources of the nation, most do one of trio things —either reduce his own scale of living, to enable his sons to exist like gentkrien, which i n a taunt'' like this, where wealth is the measure of respectability, and show constitutes nearly the sum of morality, would be swallowing a bitter pill ; or he must sell his independence for a share of the public money for them. Whatever language may be held in this country, how ever Williog iiiav to consent to the appointment of Finance Committees, the force of circumstances will always prevent any reduc tion. The moment it was endeavoured to give effect to the recommendation of the Finance Committee, in the case of the Lieutenant- General of the Ordnance, it become obvious that it would be as easy to make a hungry lion quit its prey as the Aristocracy of this country their sinecures. The higher functionaries of France commenced the work of reduction with themselves. This is never the end at which re duction is• first attempted in England. A f ew labourers in dock-yards, for whom no one is in terested, are sent adrift ; a 'few of the supenni nutnerary clerks, backed by no Parliame n t ar y friend s , are turne d o ff ; but all the better de scription of offices are kept sacred. The Dead List keeps on augmenting. Yellow Admirals increase, and Generals of use only to draw their pay. The Members of the House of Commons, however much they may differ on speculative points, vote all money matters almost by accla mation, the dissentients being reduced to a few individuals. This will be the case as long as the relations between Parliament and people continue what they are. Lord Plunkett observed, in his place in Parliament, that in an age like ours re ligion could not exist without a rich establish ment. His Lordship .made the wealth the prim ' cipal, and religion the accessary. He saw that an aristocracy of wealth like ours causes wealth to be the standard by which all things are measu red ; and that with such a standard, the Mini sters of Religion, without a tolerable share of the property of the country, would not be in good repute among the higher orders. The conse quence, however, of this state of things, so much prized by his Lordship, is every thing but bene ficial, either to religion or morality. The whole history of the Christian Religion—all the ac counts of those who hold a distinguished place I. in its annals—is the consecration of poverty and asceticism in this life, for the sake of the advan tage to be reaped in another. Here, then, in this pretended consecration of wealth as the parent of religion, we see an importance at- • tached to that which religion of a ll timings most sedulously condemns. Fraud and falsehood thus come to be mixed up with the most sacred things ; and a conventional hypocrisy, which, as far as we can perceive, serves to deceive very few, pervades notwithstanding all discourses ad dressed to the public. It is acknowledged on all hands, by men who have seen other countries, that in this fiction and cant prevail in a degree nowhere else to be discovered. There can he very little difficulty in discovering the cause, whatever difficulty there may be in discovering a remedy. However, we have an example in France of the moral improvement produced by the simple fact, of rendering the majority of the Representatives. accountable to their constituents. Till the English Representatives, instead of buying their constituents, come to be account able to them, we shall have no such phenomenon as honesty in public life in this country.— Morning Chronicle. If any proof were wanting of the unrivalled success which has attended the measures intro duced by Mr. fiuskisson, for the improvement of the Silk Trade, it would be found in the nume rous extracts which we have given, from time to time, from different country Papers, all attesting, more or less strongly, the important fact, that the silk manufacture ni this country is in a highly progressive state of improvement. The subject is not one on which we can enlarge at present; • but we truA the " Blank-sheet Gentlemen" who are now at the head of the Board of Trade, and about commencing their studies, will not over look either the extract which was given in the SUN on Thursday, from the Glasgow Flee Press on the subject, or the conclusion to ‘hich it leads. The manufacture cannot but be in a thriving state, :which requires, daily, addi tional means of supply, and is capable of furnishing additional employment.— Morning Advertiser. It would be seen from a report, in our paper of yesterday, of the proceedings which took place at Bow -street, relative to the application for a license for one of those houses known as " Shades," or Wine-rooms, that their proprietors are determined to leave - no stone unturned in order to procure to themselves without any other trouble or expence than that of securing a licence, all the advantages and benefits for which the Licensed Victuallers have paid so dearly. We have reason to believe, however, that the different Magistrates of the metropolis are now fully aware of the intent of the Legislature in passing the Hotel-keepers' Act, and that every application which has not for its basis the substantial charac ter of an hotel will be rejected by them. Sir Richard Birnie, who has rendered such eminent service to the Licensed Victuallerv, by driving out of his office the perjured gang of common in formers, will not, at all events, give encourage mment ,to the establishment of public-houses, under the pretence of their being hotels, unless the fact of their being such is fairly established, and brings them fully. within the meaning of the Act. Sir Richard knows too well the immense property vested in public-houses, and the ruin which would be brought upon their present owners, as well as the generally disreputable cha racter of many of these houses which are desig nated hotels, wine -rooms, and shades, to think for a moment of proceeding indiscriminately to the granting of licenses, without ascer taining, in the first place, that they were fully entitled by law to such license, and, in the second, that their owners xvere sufficiently respectable to be entrusted with it. With him, in fact,: we suspect no job ; and as his decision, on Tuesday next, respecting the house denominated the " Strand Hotel," is looked forward to with great anxiety, and will undoubtedly be quoted as a precedent, we trust that he will not only be particularly cautious in examiming every circum stance bearing either for, or against, the license, but that he will be explicit, particularly in lay ing down the grounds on which he may either refus e or grant the license. The case is of the more importance, because it has been postponed as dubious, and the decision will form the around-. work of others.— Ibid. Much to the credit of the country (in which the Press may claim some share), gaming of all descrip tions has fallen off among the' higher circles, to a degree hardly credible, considering how strong the mania was a short time since.—Morning Herald. FUMIqt . R ASSIZt iNtELLIGtNCt. GUILDFORD, VlLitslY, AuGusr 1. Tun KING V. Liu:ELAND. Phis wgs an indictment ggainst Edward Bach land, a tallow-melter and chandler, at Camberwell, for obstructing and assaulting certain officers of Ex cise in the execution of their duty. The jury returned a verdict finding the defendant "Guilty." He will be brought up for judgment in the Court of King's Bench. Wm. Johnson, John Wells, Sarah Mth,phcr.son, Jane Jones, and Mary Donakue, were indicted for assaulting; and robbing a foreigner named Jean Gar dias, in a bad housa, in Peter-street, in the Borough mint, of 161. in silver, and a metal watch, his pro " eAy. The male prisoners appeared to be about 17 or 18 years old. The females were much younger. The prosecutor was examined through the medium of Mr. Baron Garrow's clerk. His statement was, that 1w had come 0 , -er to this country to ascertain what kind of articles he could bring over to trade in with the greatest advantage. He had been here three weeks, and could speak a little English. He could call for a pot of porter or a glass of porter. — On Friday week he was passing along the Borough, and was accosted by Jane Jones an d Mary Donahue whom he consented to accompany home. They took him to a house in the neighbourhood, where he saw Sarah Macpherson. lie retired with 'Mary Donahue, and afterwards returned and sat down with the girls, and sent out for sonic porter. The two male prisoners came in soon after, and also sot down. They insisted on sending for some gin and ruin, but witness did not pay for them. He, how ever, partook of part, and became rather fresh from what he had taken. While in that-state, he was induced to retire with Macpherson, but had no sooner got into the bed-room before the two men and the women rushed in upon him, forced him upon the bed, and there with great violence, and notwithstanding he made every resistance in his power, they robbed him of his money, which he carried secured in a belt underneath his shirt, and next to his body. The belt contained 309 shillings, four half-crowns, and two sixpences. They also took from him his watch, travelling-cap, and silk handkerchief. They then all ran off, leaving him in the house by himself. On being called on for their defence, the men said they were accidentally led to the spot by hearing. the screams of the girls. They found the prosecu tor ill-using them, and had interfered for their pro tection. The girl Macpherson said, that the man had at tempted a most gross assault upon her ; that she resisted, and thus provoked his violence. She de nied that the prosecutor had more than half-a-crown in his possession. Mr. Baron GARROW summed up, and the Jury without hesitation returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. The Learned Judge proceeded to place the black cap upon his head, preparatory to passing the awful sentence of death. The prisoners, on teeing the cap, screamed and sobbed dreadfully and it was some minutes before even a partial cessation of their cries enabled the Learned Judge to commence his address. Scarcely, however, had he uttered ten words, before Sarah Macpherson fell down in strong hysterics. Another pause ensued, during which the screams of the prisoners were reuewed with increased violence. The Learned Judge ordered the females to be re moved, and judgment of death to be recorded against them, telling them that it was his intention to spare their lives. The strong emphasis placed by the Learned Baron on the pronoun their, seemed to arouse the male prisoners to a better feeling of the hopelessness of their situation. Their screams be come most awful. After a long pause, during ‘vhich their screams remain unabated, the Learned Judge 'aid, he had intended addressing a few observations to them, but as they did not appear in a state to listen to him, he should at once pronounce the sen tance of the law, which was, that they be taken to the place from whence they came, and thence to the place of execution, and there severally hanged by the neck till they were dead. The prisoners having become more composed, the Learned Judge proceeded to caution them against holding out to themselves any expectation of mercy, for assuredly when he left that town they would be left for execution. He hoped therefore they would prepare themselves for the death that awaited them. CAMBRIDGE, Ji; Li - SI CROSS v. JOIiNsON AND arnms4. This cause seemed to excite great interest in this town and neighbourhood. Mr. Sergeant STORKES stated the case. The plaintiff was a small boat-builder, residing with a short distance of this town. From 1818, till Sep tember, 1825, Mr. Cross had quietly enjoyed the place where the injui:y he to-day complained of was committed, having taken it of a Mr. Sparrow, who for some years previously had held it ; and he had laid out large sums of money in the improvement of it. He had planted fruit trees, and built a house, and made it in every respect commodious for the occupation of his family and the exercise of his trade. In September, 1823, the defendants headed a party, violent and outrageous, who pulled down his buildings, cut up his trees, filled up his fish pond, and committed other trespasses, the least esti mate of which was 60/. With respet to the pleas of common on the record, he should content him self, if it ever came to that, with saying that the ladies of the manor had a right to approve the close, paramount to the claim.; of the commoners, and that she had granted that right to the plaintiff. The right to water cattle was equally unsustainable; the place having formerly been very rough land, full of holes, and one of the very worst possible places they could have fixed upon for the spot on which to , set up such a right. It had formerly been a public tow ing-path. The pleas as to land goods, he was quite sure, could not be supported,—the claim was a mere invention ; and e7o:m if legal, the plaintiff had al ready made another road down to the river, more commodious, in all respects, than the old one, if it ever existed. To Mr. Johnson, the result of the day's proceedings could be of little importance; to his client they were of the greatest consequence, all his business depending on his continuance in the spot he had se longlived in uninterruptedly, arid whom a verdict for the defendants might utterly ruin. Evidence was adduced to prove the facts stated by Mr. Sergeant SYougEs; after which Mr. KELLY was heard for the defendants, and the Jury, after retiring for a few minutes, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 51. damages for the assault ; 23/. on the new assignment, and on the plea of a right of common; and for the defendants on the 4th and last issues—namely, the right of way to land goods and. water stock. EXETER, JULY 30. The commission having been opened here yester- . day, the Judges proceeded to business this morning: Mr. Justice LITTLEIMLE presides in the Crown , Court. His Lordship's address to the Grand Jury was almost a verbal repetition of his previous Charges upon the circuit. The statements are, how ever, of soaerreeable a nature, that they can scarcely be too often repeated. His Lordship said, that he was happy to perceive that the number of cases in the calendar was less not only than what it had been at the last assizes, but less than at the slimmer assizes in 1827. He had been happy to observe a similar diminution of crime throughout all the pre ceding parts of the circuit, and he had learnt that other c►rcuits exhibited similar marks of improve ment. His Lordship then called the attention of the Grand Jury to the changes which had taken place in some parts of the criminal law. Before these alterations, a woman who had concealed the birth of a child could not have been found guilty of such concealment, except upon an indictment charging her with having murdered the child, and unless the child, if it had lived, would be in law a bastard. The concealment was now made a dis tinct substantive offence, for which a separate in dictment may be preferred, and the concealment was made an indictable offence, whether the child were legitimate or not. After a few other observa tions, his Lordship dismissed the Grand Jury, who returned three or four bills against prisoners, who were tried in the course of the day, for trilling offences. 92Altilltni--.-84`:/10 ,, V. VRIDYA UX• Mr. BIRD having oriental the pleadings, Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the plaintiff's case. His client was a foreign gentleman of great respecta bility, who had for many years resided in this coun try for purposes of commerce, and had for a long time filled the office of Danish Consul at Plymouth. The plaintiff and the defendant were both -timber merchants, residing at Plymouth ; and it had unfor tunately happened that in the course of their deal- ings a difference of opinion arose, which generated the feeling that led to the commission of the griev ance which was the subject of the present complaint. The defendant being, for some cause or other, irri tated against the plaintiff, applied to him on several occasions very unceremonious language. At last, upo❑ the 14th May, when both parties were close to the house of a Mrs. Moore, and in the hearing of that lady, the defendant spoke the following words, which were addressed to Mrs. Moore :—" Ore plaintiff) had brought me here, for you to hear me call him-an old thief and a cheating old scoundrel, and now I call him so : he is an old thief and a cheating eld scoundrel." Mrs. Agnes Moore deposed that the precise words quoted by Mr. Sergeant Wilde had been ad dressed to her by the defendant, of and concerning the plaintiff, and in his presence. Mr. Justice PARK told the Jury that abusive lan guage could not maintain an action unless it imputed to the person to whom it was addressed that he had committed an offence for which he was liable to be punished by the law. This was clearly not the case in the present instance, and he would there fore recommend the Jury to find a verdict for the defendant, which they did. The Danish Consul appeared much dissatisfied at the result of the proceedings. LINCOLN, JULY 30. John Ward was charged upon the coroner's in quisition with the manslaughter of Richard Clarke. It appeared that the deceased had kept a public house at Moulton, at which there was a feast on the day in question. The prisoner came there, and in sisted on wrestling with some of the company. The deceased took hold of him, and endeavoured to keep him quiet ; a wrestling match ensued between them, and the deceased till with the prisoner upon him, whose knee coming in contact with his side hurt him severely. A surgeon was consequently sent for; but the man died ; ;pid upon his body beieg opened, it was found that the spleen was ruptured. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. The Learned Judge sentenced }inn to be impri soned for a fortnight longer, and to be kept in soli tary confinement. This was the last case in the calendar. STAFFORD, JULY 30. Ann Jones was indicted, charged with having at tempted to poison her master, Wm. Jackson, by ad ministet ing to him a solution of corrosive sublimate. Mr. TALFOURD, for the prosecution, said the prisoner was charged with putting corrosive subli mate into the tea-kettle from which her master was to receive his breakfast. At the time the offence was committed, by the law then in existence, it was only a misdemeanour. By a - recent Act of Puha meat (Lord Lansdowne's), attempts at murder of this description were declared capital offences. The pro secutor (Mr. Jackson) was a surgeon, residing at West Bromwich, in this county. In 18'25 the prisoner had been apprenticed to him as a servant by one of the parishes of Birmingham. For some misconduct in December last she had, at the instance of her master, been committed to gaol for a mom!). Ile (Mr. Talfourd) did not mention this to aggravate the charge against her by showing► any series of mis conduct, but as probably affording some motive for the horrible offence she was charged with. On the 14th of January she returned to the service of her master, and almost immediately after the occurrence which formed the subject of their present inquiry took place. The facts of the ease were clearly proved in evi dence, after which Mr. Barry, lecturer on chemistry at Guy's Hos pital, said he could detect the presence of a very small quantity of corrosive sublimate dissolved in water. In cold water it would remain suspended ; hot water would assist the solution, hut there would be no change in the constitution of it. The witness then proceeded to exhibit the effect of the following different -tests on the liquid now produced as part of the contents of the tea-pot. By adding a solution of potash to any acid, if mercury be present it will be come a deep yellow. Hydriate of potash, mixed with a solution o f corrosiv e sublimate, instantly produces a deep scarlet ; that merely indicates the presence of poisonous mercury, and might lie nitrate as well as oxvmuriate of mercury. By adding nitrate of silver to the solution, a white sediment was produced. The first experiment shows the mercurial base, the second the oxide. Those three experiments con vinced the witness that the liquid contained corro sive sublimate. A saturated solution of corrosive sublimate, on being disturbed, would retain a milky appearance all Hight, and putting the spatula into such solution would produce the effect described by Mr. Jackson. Mr. %VIIATELE%, With WIIOHI wa3 Mr. WHIT comBE, then addressed the Jury for the prisoner, when Baron VAUGHAN having• summed up, the Jury found the prisoner " Guilty,'' and the Learned. Judge sentenced her to be imprisoned two years in the House of Correction. The Assizes for the county of Stafford closed this afternoon. SHREWSBURY, JULY 3 1. Mr. Justice GASELEE opened the commission for the county of Salop lute last night, Mr. Baron, ArAuGHAN having been detained with the trial of the above case at Stafford. There are 38 causes set down for trial, and the calendar contains the names of •23 prisoners; six of them on charges of murder, one for manslaughter, and one for horse-stealing. YORK, JULY SI. HURST woon• This was an action brought to recover the value of a horse, which it was alleged had been lost to the plaintiff by the negligence and earelessnei3 of the de fendant. Verdict for the plaintiff—Dainuges 22/. 3s. The office of the French Ambassador, has been, for the last fortnight, thronged with passport bun ters, whose spare cash, as the proverb has it, " burns in their pocket." On Thursday the extensive freehold Well Estate, in Lincolnshire, was brought to the hammer, by Mr. Ro nrlss, of Warwick- house, at Garraway's. The following are concise particulars of this valuable property :—The estate, with the mansion-house, comprehends the manors or lordships of Well and Alford, Alford Hanby, AlfOrd Ryder, Mowthorpe, Claxby, and one-third part of the manor of Ulcely-cum-Fordington ; the perpetual advow son and next presentation to the livings of Well and Claxby, with sundry farina and cottages; an inn, lately rebuilt, in the town of Alford, the courtS-Icet, rights, royalties, &e. The property extends over 1,025 acres of land; the whole of which is in a ring -fence, and the prin cipal part tithe-free. The mansion-house, called Well hall, is seated on a fine piece of pasture-land of about 300 acres, much Varied and beautiful timber; and the farms are is the occupations of different tenants at will, the present rental of which exceeds 5,000/. per annum. The whol e property has been recently valued by an e minent surveyor at upwards of 200,000/., exclusive of the timber-trees, plantations, &c., which have also been valued at betw een 41,000/. and 50,000/. The aucti o n eer having read the voluminous particulars of this e xtensive estate, whi c h gov , z a very elaborate detail of all its principal features, the bid dings commenced at 100,0001., the subsequent hiddings, however, amounting only to 20,000/. b e y on d t h e fi rst offer, a stun which was considered tar beneath the actual value of the estate, the property was bought in, the auc tioneer intimating to the company that it would not he sold to any one for les;s than 200,0001. THE ARMY. (CIRCULAP:) Horse-Guards, .July 30; I SU; . SIR,-1 am directed by the General Commanding-in- Chief, to inform you, that his Lordship will approve of your using your discretion in permitting a proportion of the corps under your command, to assist in getting- in the approaching harvest, but his Lordship desire that the men may be employed only in the immediate .vicinity of the quarters of the corps, and that everyman may be pre pared to return to his regimental duty on the shortest notice. am at the same time to acquaint you, that the soldiers who may be permitted to assist in harvest-work, must on account take with them any article Of armor accoutre-• ments, and that whilst absent from thoir corps with truth , permission, they arc to be employed only' in the plventi of husbandry. • I have the honour to be, Sir, Your obedient humble servant, To the --------- Officer Commanding. Adjutant-General. , Detachments belonging to the 4th, 11th, and 13th Regi ments of Light Dragoons, marched yesterday from London for the Cavalry depot at Maidstone. A Detachment of the 68d Regiment of Foot, embarked on Thursday at Deptford, as guards on board the, Roslyn Castle convict ship tin New South Wales. A Detachment of the same Corps embarked yesterday on the same duty on board the rittvria, I:leption4 fan. New South Wales Another Detachment of the same Reghteent is &erect to embark this day on the like duty, on board the iitoyar George, at Deptford, for New South Wales. The Depot of the 42d Infantry has been ordered from Stirling to Edinburgh. . _ The - 4th Foot ha; been ordered to march from Edin burgh to Glasgow, to replace the gnif Highlanders, orderedi. to Ireland. SHIPPING INTELLIGENM LIVERPOOL. THURSDAY, JULY 31.—High %vier 14 min. two.—Wind N.W.—Arrived the Jane, Holmes, films New Orleans; Julian, Creighton, from Africa; Om- fierce, Bates, from Sligo ; Deruorwick, Hannay, froml4.- berinory. CLEARED OUTWARDS.-The Henry, Rodd, for Ali-- cant ; Endymion, Garbett, for Quebec; Mary Ann,. Faulkner, for Malaga; Maria, Weckstedt, for Elsineur ; John, Quenfull, for Jersey ; Alexander, Turnbull,. for Newfoundland ; Nymph, Power, for Naples ; Cumming, fur Genoa. SHIP NEWS. REGULATIONS FOR SHIPS ENTERING AND. LEAVING RIGA. The following notice has been issued by the Russian Go vernment, and was received at the Baltic Coffee-house yes terday, and is important to the shipping interest:— " 1. As soon as the ship comes in sight,of the Boldersay she will be boarded by pilots, who will take her to Rigs / or if she is to be previously discharged, to some other an chorage. If it should happen that the ships arriving were; sin toe great a number for the pilots, the latter wiri pilb everal at once into Riga, in such a manner that the Oat ' on board the furemost ship will point out the road to tbone following him. " 2. At the time when the officer of the guardship,andl an officer of the Custom-house, are on board the vessel ar rived, one of the junior searchers will join them, in order to put the Government seal on the parcel containing the hills of lading, which will be carried, together with the .` other papers or letters in possession of the Captain, to the senior searcher. " ▪ The latter shall, without delay, despatch by post:. from Boldcraa to Riga all the ship's papers, as well as the letters brought by her. " The ship inspectors, after having received the letters and ship's papers, are ordered to put the Imperial' seal on the hatchways and other places of the ship; so that nothing can be taken away, and to make immediately theie report to the Custom-house. " • This being done, the ship will remain at Boitlermy to be unladen ; and if it is not deemed necessary, she will proceed immediately to Riga. In both cases a Custom-• house officer will be put on board, with this difference, that in the last case the Captain . will receive a document, speci fying his name, the name of his ship, the place from wind' he sailed, the number of seals, and the places on which the seals have been put ; and, filially, the name of the Clastons-. house officer in charge of her; whilst, on the other hand,. if the ship cannot go to Riga without being previously self to msk 't i l t. a eo d urn e :_ n thi:ino. th itnissg e eha C irpte a sßg p u t op a liar i d n oteic i ro s eatedia o s b tihro l l i ag g lb, ed eewij t iit o itseh g cn o hm hi ae ni dei his declaration there. r cargb'to Riga, may e, As to those ships begin to unload after the declaration required by the Cue— d users, the Custots' house at Riga, after having received the captain's (lectors tion, will give to the senior searcher the proper authority to unload the vessel, by delivering to him for that ; purpose the duly authenticated copy, or a proper' translation of the declaration. The discharging The goods on board the lighters to be sent to Riga, must be done as the Custom-house regulations direct ; with this difference, that • the duties which were formerly imposed on the member of the Customs, now pass to the searchers, under the ;Alperin baulance of their senior officers. " 7. The Governor-General having designated' Pode rague as the place where the ships are to discharge their ballast, any ship on which the Government seal has hero put, as specified above, is allowed to repair to that place; and when the Captain makes his declaration at the Gls' torn-house in Riga, the officers of that establishment are tv appoint one of the searchers at Poderagne to atithorize the discharge of such ballast. "8. Under peculiar circumstance-a, and especially in case of the goods being covered with ice, and when petish able fruits are landed before the declaration is made, a nd for all of which cases special regulations exist, and will con tinue in force. The executive power formerly vested in the custom-house officers at Bolderaa now passes to the hands of the searchers under thc.senior officers. The term fixed for making the declaration to the custom-house At Riga is seven days, respecting goods imported by sea. The four last regulations relate to the mode in which the goods are to be put into lighters, &c. The document is signed by the Chief Secretary ad interim, Kolaschen." BIRTHS. This morning, the lady of W. N. Roche, Esq. barristet at-law, of a daughter. On the Ist inst. the lady of Mr. John Brooks, of Davies street, Berkeley-square, of a daughter. On the 2Sth ult. at Dolben Hall, Denbighshire, the lady of Capt. Caldecot, of a daughter. On the 27th ult. Mrs. Edwin Adolphus Ashford, of a eon. MARRIED. On the 28th ult. at Kew, J. Seed, Esq. of Lancaster, to Elizabeth tiarah Ann Middleton, daughter of the late Lieut.-Col. Middleton. On the SI st ult. at Gaonll, by the Rev. Fearon Jenkin son, Henry Ripley, Esq., Abercrombie-square, Liverpool. to Mary? eldest daughter of John Webb, Esq. of Cowley', Staffordshire. On the' 30th - ult. at Claywortb, Notts, the Rev. William Greenwood, M.A. Fellow and Tutor of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and Rector . of Thrapoon, Northamp tonshire, to Catherine, second daughter of J. Otter, Esq. of Clay worth. At Graham" Town, Cape of Good Hope, en the sth of May last, Daniel Jacob Cleete, Esq., to Emma, second daughter of Henry Nourse, Esq. On the 31st ult. at Trinity Church, Marylebone, John Hewett Wheatley, Esq. of Ramsgate, to Amy Charlotte, eldest daughter of John Oliver, Esq. of Harley-street, and Houle Hall, Cheshire. DIED. G ' On the 30 t h ult., at his I,;titer's house, Allen-terrace")'' Kensington , Mr. John Paterson. At the Vicarage House, Great Malvern, Mr. Edward T. C ar d, aged li'. • 'At Priors, near O ngar , S ara h, w id ow o f th e l a t e C. A. i . Crielcitt, Esq. M.P., aged 81 years. On the 22d u l t„ at N ort h S ea t o n, N ort h um b er l an d, much and deservedly lamented and respected, Elizabeth; ' wife of William Watson, Esq. ..' Suddenly, at Edinburgh, on the 22d ult., Dr. sopuel,,9 Neill, R.N., of Coleraine, in the North of Ireland. j1:0 1 / 1 gentleman was recommended to Captain Parry by the Ad - tniralty, as a person whose intimate knowledge of Natural,;'" History would render a valuable acquisition In a voyage of discovery. He accompanied Captain Parry, as Seui°F Medical Officer, in the hazardous expedition in the yearod 1821. and 3, and received the encomiums dot to his tile l' as a nTdical man, and to the perseverance which he evince., in collecting and arranging the different specimens of l l 'lt y tura! History. Captain Parry also honoured Dr. Neill bY giving to A harbour (a chart of which is given in tb, e Journal) the name ()fits discoverer; it is called ~ Nei ll. Harbour." . . ._.,---r!rr......—r• —' --;., 4 c....i• PatstTED and PuausiiEn by MURDO YOUNG, at tha,, SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND, L4)170014 / 1 /