The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP TIC LONDON JOURNALS. No topic is more strongly insisted on by those who are disposed to condemn generally our Parlia metr,nry proceedings, than the inutility of many in retirics, commenced, it is said, without adequate motive, prosecuted without due diligence, and con• eluded without leading to practical results. The huge blue books which succucd each other (luring the session, and deserve the greeting given by the late Duke of Cumberland to the volumes of Mr. Gib bon, are referred to triumphantly by such reasoners. .4 El i ! another - big square book, Mr. Gibbon," lye's the observation of this Royal critic. Ira "great ?o0k" has been justly termed "a great evil," it un aoubtedly becomes a greater if paid for out of the public purse: and it must be admitted, that it 16 ludicrous to see the finance accounts in the windows of a pawnbroker; the navy estimate; tit a cheese monger's ; sheets of reports on vagrancy and prostitution wrapping pious tracts; and the evi dence on the state of Ireland forming the en 'elope of Cork butter or of Lundy Foot's snuff. More dis cret i on m i g h t undoubtedly y be evinced in moving for many of the sessional papers, and more judgment and economy in printing them : but it ought never to be forgotten, that from entire pub licity is derived our most practical check upon ex _ iscing abuses; and small is the error of giving too much information, in comparison of the guilt of with holding any. It is also of the first importance to prepare the public mind for changes rendered neces . .ary by the progress of time, but to which the in dividuals immediately interested, and possibly the mass of mankind, may not be wholly consentient. Sensible reports become in this way the pioneers which precede the march of legislation. The relaxation of our maritime code, and the adop tion of liberal commercial principles, owe their origin to the reports on foreign trade pre sented by Lord Wallace. The resumption of cash payments, in 1819, would scarcely have been effected, had it not been for the bullion report of Mr. Horner. In the_ same way Sir James Macin tosh's report on erminal law laid the foundation for the bills introduced by Mr. Peel and by Lord Lans downe. It would indeed be unphilosophical to con sider those measures valueless whose good conse quencei are not immediately apparent. In morals and polities, as in vegetation, there are seeds which must lie in the ground for a season before t hey ger minate, and long before they bring forth fruit. A a till more valuable branch of Parliamentary inquiry is that which produces its salutary effects without a ny legislative interference whatever, and solely by on the public mind, by directing the atten tion of active and benevolent persons to useful pur suits, and thus augmenting by natural means the sum of human knowledge and happiness. These latter observations hare been suggested with reference to the subject of education, and to the wonderful exten sion of the means of instructiGn, since the report of Mr. Brougham's memorable Committee. Among the many important benefits which that gentleman has been the instrument of conferring on his fellow creatures, his glorious efforts in the cause of educa tion, though not the most brilliant, are perhaps the most solid claims he possesses upon the esteem of the present, and the gratitude of the future genera tion. The eloquent defender of public liberty--the accomplished debater—the able advocate—the en lightened reformer of our laws—each of these titles the people of England gladly and universally confer, and feel a pride in acknowledging, But it is as the individual who has given the great impulse to the education of the people, trt impulse aided by the friends of liberty, and to which the enemies of know ledge are now compelled to lend their reluctant aid,—it is as the founder of the New King's College as well as of the London University,— it is in this useful and beneficent capacity, invested with these great powers, and per forming these honourable duties, that we now ten der him our warmest and most unaffected acknow- fedgments. We have been led into these remarks, in consequence of a statement made in the House of Commons during the late Sessions, to which we have had occasion to refer. By returns collected by Mr. I.:•roug*ham in 1818, embracing 4 , 84 parishes in different parts of England, the number of unen 'lowed day schools appeared to be between 1,4C0 :Ind 1,500, containing somewhat less than .50,000 scholars. In 1828, it was stated, on the part of Mr. Brougham, by Mr. Spring Rice, that by the evidence of similar returns, the number both of !chools and of scholars had more than doubled. For the zeal with which the Established Clergy lent their end to procuring this information, they are en titled to the greatest credit. In 1828, the schools exceeded 3,000, and the scholars 100,000. To the friends of freedom, knowledge, and virtue, it is im possible to suggest a more gratifying subject for medi tation. The schoolmaster is indeed abroad.—Times. There is in one of the anti-Catholic journals of yesterday a specimen of modesty almost without ex ample. We are therein assured that Ireland lots been tranquillized, and that the public benefactors on this occasion have been Lord Anglesea's procla mation and the Brunswick Clubs ! Ireland pacified the Brunswick Clubs! With regard to the Lord Lieutenant's proclamation, we shall merely refer to dates for the truth of our assertion, that it Plowed, instead of pre ce di ng , an d t h ere f ore , i ns t ea d o f pro ducing, the sudden abandonment of the popular _amee.tings i n t h e sout h of Ireland. For the Cumber " Clubs, it is enough to refer again to the daily accounts, durin g the List three months, from that country, for, proof that the peasant meetings were resorted to as di p s e p r la re y e s t o t f ie im ce m n ense i r d iu l meri l eal forces, combined combined with meanour, that the Catholic s e might ai er b s e t Y rT i u t tn y p o hantl e ; contrasted with the Brunswick con duct was savage, and their numbers ridiculously ous weak. The undisguised object of these tranquilli zing ruffians was to challenge the Cath olics to f ig ht, and to provoke them by insultsbeyoonpde the measure of human pat ience, wi th the h that civil war, not national repose, /ni ght b e the consequence. The Catholics had sa gac i ty enough to penetrate the meaning of the Brtms wickers, and virtue enough to resist the temptation intended by their outrages, They forbore to raise a single hand against the Orangemen, whom, so far as physical power was concerned, they might have mas sacred in a week, had they chosen to load their con sciences with sanguinary recollections. And now a wretched slanderer comes forward with that false hood—than which one more base was never uttered —that it is the ferocious Orangemen who have tran quillized Ireland, not the humane feelings or political wisdom of those who direct the people In spite of the Orange bellowing, and of the Duke of Wel lington's obstinate silence, emancipation is rapidly moving on. English Protestants are too acute not to see this dilemma—that if the want of emancipa tion be the real causes of the discontents of Irelarsti, the grant of emancipation will be the cure for them ; and that if emancipation be not the object, but something else which the Catholic body have en tered into some strange conspiracy to conceal, they may b e as easily quelled by force of arms after being emancipated, as they now are; since, whatever po litical effects may flow from that great measure, we have loot yet heard any one affirm that it will give a sudden spring to t h e popul at i on , or increase their physical power.—lbid. I The advantages gained by the Turks overa Power which has so long been a bugbear with political alarmists, will now perhaps dispose tnen to think as much too favourably of the former as they before undervalued them. The truth is, hardly tiny thing is known of the Turks in the West of Europe; our travellers dare not spread themselves over the coun try, and their knowledge of Turkey is therefore limited to a few great towns and the routes. We know merely that the Turks are a finer race, both in point of strength arid beauty, than the natives of our part of the world. Hacquet, the naturalist, one of tire Emperor Joseph's professors, who examined in detail several of the finest provinces of Turkey about the commencement of the French Revolution, attributes the cause of the superiority of the Turks to the Western Europeans in an animal point of view to the comparative thinntes of the population, which preserves them from the poverty and misery prevalent elsewheYe. '" They live (he says) with out constraint, and men and women are better formed than with us, and more beautiful. It is quite a pleasure to look on the noble figures of the Janissaries. In the westcre parts of Eu rope, town and country rearm with people ; the misery becomes more insupportable every day, since all have been allowed to marry, without ascertaining ,how they alse to be supported, What will come in the long run of such people and their families ? We have a sample in the poor of the Fauxbourg St. A ntoine, at Paris, where needy sans-culottes, from de spair, were ready for all manner of excesses. These are the consequences of allowing the balance to be disturbed. How fortunate arc those fertile pro vinces of the Turkish empire, where there are still but few inhabitants. Whatever contributes to the support of life is there in abundance. There are fo rests and sufficiency of wild animals, the latter of which serve in part both to clothe and feed the not too-crowded inhabitants. Moreover, there are the noblest pastures, where the grass reaches to man's height, and consequently the largest herds find food there in abundance. The fields may be for years fal lowed, and consequently manure is not needed. The Turks, aware of their advantage, look upon their epidemics as an advantage, as, by re storing the balance in nature, it enables them to live without care." He then con trasts Turkey with the Austrian dominions, in many parts of which, he says, the lands have been divided and subdivided, and scourged from the necessity of constant cropping, so that scarcities are of constant recurrence. Jackson, in his book on Morocco, also alludes to time partiality of the Turks for the plague, which they call the bieNsed, as enabling those who survive to li: e without care. These notions are no doubt very different front ours, and indeed are in some degree produced by the climate. In a northern and humid climate men are doomed to incessant toil, and we Owe the improvements which distinguish us from . the Turks to the desire of escap ing from the wretchedness and state of privation to which the greatest number are inevitably doomed in this part of the world. The Turks Icing relieved from the pressure of want, have no motive for exer tion ; and if not conquered by their more civilised neighbours, they will probably continue to live that life of ease and indolence, which is at the same time most favourable to the developement of bodily power.—Morning Chronicle. Though, generally speaking, County Magistrates in England are improved from what they were for merly, both as to respectability and intelligence, yet we sometimes hear of acts of petty tyranny and as ignorant abuse of power by some individuals among them, which remind one of those Justices of the Peace of the last century, who have obtained a ridi culous renown in the humorous pages of Fielding and Smollett. The ease of Lewis v. Mowell, tried the other day at the Carmarthen Great Sessions. furnishes an instance of the overstepping of autho rity by a Magistrate to punish a constructive con tempt, which, if adopted as a precedent by Jus tices of the Peace, would place the respectable yeomanry of this country in about as complete a state of vassalage to their Worships, as the Mahommedan tributaries are to the Turkish Bashaws, or the Russian boors to their Feudal Lords. The case to which we allude was an action for false imprisontnent; and it appeared on the trial that the plaintiff was a respectable farmer, who, having been summoned by the defendant to appear before him, to answer the complaint of a labourer on the highways, who had a demand for wages against him as parish overseer, deferred appealing before his Worship until the following morning, when he proceeded towards the Justice's house,but on his • way found that a warrant had been issued again,:t him. On arriving at the house, the Justice asked him why he had not obeyed his summons the day before ? Plaintiff said "he could not." The worthy Magistrate then said " is that the answer you give a Justice ? I will put you in the House of Correc tion." Defendant said " do as you please, I do not heed you." Whereupon the Justice made out a commit ment, and sent the plaintiff off in custody, a dis tance of twenty miles, to the House of Correction, where he was kept for three days at hard labour; that is, at picking up stones, beating hemp, and primping water—in fact, the treatment of a • rogue and vagabond. The commitment directed that he should be kept at hard labour for one week, but the Worthy Magistrate, having discovered that he had exceeded his powers, ordered him to be discharged after the third day. There was some proposition afterwards about a compromise for 20/., which, how ever, was not carried into effect ; and strider the di rection of the Judge, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 50/. damages, which we hope will have a salutary effect on the temper of other arbi trary Gentlemen of the Quorum.—Moraing Herald. The Irish papers are filled with accounts of public meetings held for the formation of Brunswick Clubs. Time proceedings are full of interest, and we only regret that we have not space enough to do them a tithe of the justice they merit. But we hail these symptoms of regeneration—this resurrection of the dry bones--this spirit of resistance to conciliation— as a gratifying and propitious omen. Ireland is now reduced to this dilemma, that if the friends of the Protestant church and the Constitution of 1688 do not unite and defeat the intentions of the Cabinet, the established religion in that portion of the em pire must sink into a petty institute of sectarianism. If Catholic emancipation he granted, adieu to the Protestant institutions of Ireland ! Protestantism, as Lord Eldon said on another occasion, must be come the humble handmaid of Popery, and a new source of discontent be created, in time pretensions of its priests, its saints, and its patriots, to the forfeited estates of their ancestors. Let it not be believed, that, if Emancipation were conceded to morrow, tranquillity would be restored to Ireland ; the man who thinks so honestly can be little better than a good-natured fool. The Catholics, for the last forty years, hare been gradually advancing their pretensions. • When the elective franchise was con ferred upon them, previous to the last rebellion, and when they were released from the severities of the old penal laws, they solemnly declared, collectively and individually, that with this extent of concession they would be satisfied. They protested, in the most formal manner, that all they sought and desir e d was the elective privilege, elibi tthheomse and ve th ri e t i i r es rig I Which tso f eligibi lity to serv e on j ur i es, and exemption from pressed personally upon property by the penal code. They took heaven, and earth, and the saints to wit ness that with this boon they would be satisfied and t ra nquillised—that they would be thankful and obe diept, peaceful and honest. It was granted. The them P r otestant held out the hand o f fellowship, forgot past murders , p ast cru elties, and a long anti crimson sc ore of past crimes; he gave all ge. th h esi c a r s t k h e a d upon the secu rit y t of their solem n pledge. pledge has been redeemed, or, rath er , h ow i t has been spurned and broken--how the oath was no sooner recorded than it Was trampled upon —it is un necessary act of conciliation necessary to tell. masfol lowed•ve Jacobin conspiracv which by an extensive b 11' ended in a sanguinary Catholic re e ion —a rebellion in which the priests, %rho had called heaven to w i t _ ness their sincerity and their loyalty, acted a promi nent part. The trust was no sooner reposed ht them than it was abused,and their prolofses of fidelity were flung; to time winds; their chapels were converted into • nd his laws sanctuaries of sedition ; and the King a were denounced from the very altars where, but a few months before, the hypocrites had avowed senti ments of gratitude and loyalty. Many of the men who thus obtained a change in the law, upon the ground of their future obedience and the waiver of additional concessions, are still in existence, and are the leaders of the frenzied mob that now demand unlimited and unconditional emancipation. What then ought we to infer from this ? That the Catho lics are not to be trusted—that their insidious ob ject is power and Catholic ascendancy. Let them but within the barrier, and they will soon take the citadel : remove time only barricade that is between them and supreme power, and the Protestant church of 1`) - 4.1; Ireland is As sure to fall as that the sun shines; and if it do fall, it will never be raised again but by a con ; vulsion '‘dich Will shake the empire to its batei.iiiitt bring the contendi ng p ar ti es to th e issue ()farms. Thai the Protestants of Ireland are now sensible of this may be seen in ilm fOrMidable opposition they are ;it present making to the threatened conciliation of the Peel part of the Cabinet. Their speeches breathe resolution and unanimity. Their language is that of men who are conscious they ate to be sacrificed, and the resistance which they are preparing to offer shows that they will die in the trenches.. And shall we, the Protestants of England, look tamely on and See the reformed religion of our forefathers thus bartered to serve the purposes of feeble and paltry expediency ? Shall we see our fellow Protestants reduced to the rank of sectarians, to reserve power in the hands of men whose duplicity and weak ness prove they are unworthy of trust ? God for bid we should stand so recreant and 4..0 de based in the eyes of Europe ! That Ireland is in a storm is the fault of the Minister ; that the mob triumph is the crime of the servants of the Crown; and that a band of traitors should be able to melt down the consistency of our statesmen, and make honour and early professions only words of perfidy and reproach, is their folly and their sin, not ours. We are bound by every tie to aid our Irish brethren, and unite with them in stemming the tor. rent, which, if it be not speedily stemmed, must inevitably overwhelm them. The clubs now formed and forming in England do, indeed, inspire us with the hope that our conjunct exertions will prevail. But much more must be done than is yet promised if our success is to he rendered certain. We must still evince greater zeal, more unbending courage, more firmness, more unanimity-, if the issue of the struggle is to be rendered less doubtful. We have the power, if we choose to put it forth—and poor and chicken-heart ed we will be if we do not exert it. On this point we cannot do better than take a lesson from the conduct of our Irish brethren ; and we hope that, before many weeks pass, we will show that we have taken the benefit of their example. Bruns wick Clubs are becoming as numerous as there are towns, villages, and parishes in Great Britain : and if the leaders of these clubs will but speak out and bring their forces into the field, their success is sure. The Noble Duke must surrender—Mr. Peel must fall—Dawson is already prostrate—and all the other members of that illustrious family will perhaps avail themselves, from a sense of honour, of some other source of emolument than the proceeds of taxes wrung from an impoverished peoplu.—Morning Journal alias New Times. Nothing can demonstrate more irrefregably the pitiable state to which this country has been reduced, through submission to the ambitious and unprin cipled views of Russia, than the despicable subter fuges, and impotent arguments, to which those of our cotemporaries who wear the Government livery are reduced, in order to justify its acquiescence in the blockade of the Dardanelles. England, say they, has always maintained the right of blockade, and it would have struck at the root of her maritime power and commercial greatness, to have interposed the slightest obstacle to the exercise of a right on which she has always insisted to a greater extent, and with much more pertinacity, than any other power. Such a mode, however, of putting the question at issue is a mere begging of it.— The question in dispute is not whether Russia, acting for herself, and unfettered by treaties or promises of any description, has,' or has not, a right to blockade the Dardanelles or any other port ; for on this point, we believe, there is not much difference of opinion; but whether Russia, after having solemnly pledged herself to her Allies to waive her rights as a belligerent in the Medi terranean, can again resume them at pleasure with out their consent, or a total breach of that good faith which forms the only solid foundation of peace. Our Ministerial cotemporaries, and some of the French Journalists, make no difficulty in averring that it was perfectly competent for the Emperor of Russia, both to lay down and to re sume his rights as a belligerent in the Medi terranean ; and they justify their assertions on the ground that when the Emperor of Russia waived the exercise of these rights, he had every reason to expect that he would attain all the suc cess which he desired without having recourse to them, and that being disappointed in this respect, he was compelled to depart from what they deno minate the generous fledge which he had given. This is saying neither more nor less than that it is perfectly competent for Russia, or any other country, to act according to her interest—whether to blockade or not to blockade—to invade or to yield—that pro mises are only binding when they can be conveni ently kept—arid that the Emperor of Russia, who commenced his disastrous campaign with unbounded professions of moderation, may, if he choose, termi nate the war by adding European Turkey to his do minions without affording any just cause for reproach. We congratulate our cotemporaries on these their dis • coveries in political morality; but we trust at the same time that the period of its predominancy in the Cabi nets of Europe will be as brief as it is disgraceful, and that when it has been once overturned, it will never again be avowed with such shameless impudence. If the pledge of the Emperor of Russia meant any thing, it certainly gave every one to understand that no hostile operation would be undertaken by him for his own exclusive purposes in the Mediter ranean; this pledge he has broken without the con sent of his Allies, nay, even without consulting them, and according to the notions which we have been accustomed to entertain on such matters, has thereby rendered himself as unworthy of future confidence as his policy was, to all impartial ob• servers, notoriously destitute of principle. Try it how our ministerial cotemporaries will, " to this complexion it must come at last."—Morn. Advert. STATISTICS. The population of each of the 22 Swiss Cantons, at the beginning of the year was as follows :- Protestants. Catholics. Jews. Total. Zurich 223,240 910. ... 224,150 Berne 309,740 47,920 50 357,710 Lucerne 530 105,070 ... 105,600 Uri Schweitz 36,040 ... 36,040 Uaterwalden Glarus 26,090 3,670 ... 28,960 Zug 14,710 ~.. 14,710 Fribourg Soleure Basle Schaffhausen 27,840 240 . .:. 28,050 Appenzel 42,830 14,680 ... 57,510 St. Gall The Grisons 60,620 37,400 ... 98,020 Argau Thingau Tessin Pays de Vand 175,850 3,030 ... 178,880 Valais ..... Neufchatel 51,450 2,190 ... 56,640 . Geneva 1,218,110 817,110 1,810 2,037,030 The following is the last authorized statement of the population of the kingdom of the Netherlands:-- Provinces. Number of Population. Towns and Villages. North Brabant 185 ... 510,383 South Brabant 336 ... 469,257 Limburg 322 ... 301,177 Guelderland ll O..• 269,926 Lieg e 326 .. 315,000 East Flanders "91 ... 658,000 West Flanders 248 ... 542,009 Hainault 424 ... 515,180 North an d S outh Holland 400 ... 791,150 Zealand ll7 ... 121,821 Aanmtwuerrp ............. ." ................. :: • .14 34.3 1 3683 180,711 55 Utrecht 92 ... 1 1 1,240 Friesland 43 ... 189,656 Overyssel 57 ... 153,458 Groningen ... 60 ... 146,990 Drontheim Dukedom of Luxemburg 310 274,812 5,719,028 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Au elderly person, whose name it aiipeara is ite S 4; *at thaTed with having collected a crowd areimd the dolt. of the Adelphi 'theatre. The constable who had him in Charge and a Person froth the It I Ipl heatte stated; that abint half an hoUr before the defendant had behaved lii z most ritit.rag4Mis Manner, and caused a mob of people to assemble about` the Theatre. He had called to see Mr. Mathews, the come dian, but as that gentleman did not think fit to he at home, the defendant flew into a violent rage, swore at Mr. Mathews and Mr. Yates, and became at last so violent that they were forced to bring him to Bow-street. Mr. Mathews, however, had no intention of inconvenienc ing the defendant by causing him to be locked up, but was desirous that he might not be troubled with him again. The defendant, with a low how, and a theatrical flou rish of his hand, gave every indication of entering on his defence by means of a long speech, when the Magis trate stopped hiin short, and requested him to confine what he purposed to say within as moderate a compass as possible; I will," said Mr. Lee Sug, " That which I purpose saying shall he neat, terse, and pithy,--ecee sign um. You must know, then," he said, " that I had the honour of being the tutor of the renowned Charles Mathews. Yes, it was I who in the words of the poet, first taught his young ideas how to shoot.' I put him in possession of his talents, and ensured him the means of attaining to that en viable station in the theatrical world which he now enjoys. It was I who— " My good Sir," interrupted the Magistrate, " I have no time for long speeches at present. All I wish you to ex plain is, why you went to insult Mr. Mathews." " Me insult him !" exclaimed Mr. Lee Sug. " No such thing, your worship." " What brought you to the theatre, then?" asked Mr. lIA r. Ls. " Why I went," rejoined the defendant, " to ask Mr. Charles Mathews, my old friend and pupil, to help me to some situation—any thing at all to keep life and soul to gether. lam growing old now, but I have been in re spectable circumstances, I assure your Worship." " Well," said Mr. HALLS, " will you promise not to create a disturbance at Mr. Mathews's any more, if I let you go now?"—" Most certainly ; 1 give my unequivo cal assurance, and all that, not to be obstreperous any more, although I have a crow to pluck with my old friend and pupil." " Then you are disrharged, Mr. Lee Sug," said the Magistrate, and I wish :eon a good morning." " Good day to your Worship," rejoined Mr. Lee Sug, with a profound obedience ; then, elevating his chin, and throwing a good deal of comicality into his countenance, he repeated his "good day "in a falsetto key, quite worthy of his inimitable pupil, and retreated backwards, bowing as he went, to the no small amusement of these who were present. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Yesterday Reuben Mule, a gardener belonging to the Horticultural Society, and John F. Wood, who had for some time filled a situa tion in the same establishment, were brought to this office in custody of Ballard, the officer, before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, the former charged with stealing, and the latter with receiving, knowing them to be stolen, quantities of various seeds of plants, &c., of a rare and valuable kind, belonging to the Society, and not to be met with elsewhere in this country. Mr. Sebine, the honorary secretary of the Society, and Mr. Monroe, the principal clerk to the Institution, at tended, as did also Mr. Harmer for the prosecution ; but as the evidence was not in an arranged state at present, the prisoners were remanded on the oath of Mr. Monroe that he had good reason to suspect them of the offence with which they were charged, and no further particulars of the case transpired. A decent•looking young man, named William Watts, was charged with stealing four pair of shoes from the shop-window of a shoemaker in Jermyn. street, St. James's, named Vaughan. The shopman stated, that while he was absent fur a short time from the shop, he heard a crash at the window, and on running to see the cause, he found the window broke, and missed the four pair of shoes produced. He the❑ went into the street, and observed the prisoner, standing up close under a doorway, a short distance from the shop, and on geing up to him he saw him drop one pair of the shoes, and the other■ were taken from under his coat. The prisoner told in his defence the worn-out story of his having picked up the shoes in the street as he was pas sing :dung Jer►nyn-street. The MAGISTRATE, however, told hint that he must make that defence before a Jury, and committed hint for A man having the appearance of a respectable trades man, named Henryßrowne, was charged with the follow ing robbery : Mr. Donaldson, a furniture-broker, in Rathbone-place, stated, that on the 15th of September last, he missivi from shop the mahogany dumb-waiter now produced, and he saw nothing more of it until a few days ago he met with it at the shop of Mr. Marshall, who is in the same trade at Brompton, and he immediately claimed it as stolen property of his. Mr. Marshall said, that be had known the prisoner for some time as living with his brother, a respectable man in the neighbourhood, and in the middle of last month, the prisoner brought this dumb-waiter to his (Mr. Marshall's) shop for sale, saying that it belonged to his brother, who was selling off his old furniture, as he was retiring from business, and he, Mr. Marshall, purchased it for 125., but never had the least suspicion that it was stolen until 11r. Donaldson came and claimed it. He had seen nothing of the prisoner since until Friday last, when he came again with the night commode now produced, to the shop also for sale, saying that this, too, belonged to his brother, but he, Mr. Marshall, sent for a constable and had him taken into custody. The prisoner in his defence said, that both the dumb waiter and the night-commode, which is a very handsome mahogany one, belonged, as he had told Mr. Marshall, to his brother, who sent him with them to sell, as he was going to live in the country, and his brother was now pre sent in the office to prove that fact. The prisoner's brother, a man as respectable in appear ance as it seems he is in reality, here stepped forward, and declared that every word the prisoner had uttered respect ing him was false : he never sent the prisoner to sell any article of furniture in his life, nor did he ever see this dumb waiter er commode before that day. The MAGISTRATE said that it was highly creditable to the prisoner's brother not to lend himself in support of a falsehood even to serve so near a relation to him as the pri soner was. The prisoner was then committed to take his trial for the offence of stealing the dumb-waiter ; but is to be re-exa mined en Friday, when an owner is expected to be found for the commode. The name of the gentleman who lost the 401. note as re ported in yesterday's Times, is Capt. Stert, and not Mr. Charles Barton, as stated by mistake. The mistake arose from the circumstance of Captain Stert having directed the goods which he selected at Mr. Newman's to be sent to Mr. Charles Barton's, in Baker-street. MARYLEBONE.—A discarded footman was charged by Lady Jane Richardson, of Upper George-street, Bryan stone-square, with putting the safety of her person in danger. Her Ladyship stated, that on former occasions, while in her service, he threatened to stab her with a knife, and blow out her brains with a pistol, and she was obliged to discharge him ; and she thought when that was done she was out of his reach, but En Monday evening he came to the house, attempted to force hi, way to the drawing-room, where she was taking her tea with a friend ; and after her servants Lad expelled him by force, he would have broken the street door to atoms, if the watchman had not inter fered, and taken him into custody, Her Ladyship said she wished to put the most charitable construction upon his conduct, and she really believed he laboured under great mental derangement; but, notwithstanding, her personal !safety was infinitely dear to her, and she hoped tke Magis trate would take measures to place it beyond danger. It appeared that the defendant so resolutely resisted the inthOrity of the watchman, that he lamed three of them, and injured the assistant-watchhouse-keeper, and one of the watchmen was obliged to be taken to the infirmary. The footman said he was net mad, but drunk, and had acted foolishly: he hoped her Ladyship would forgive him, and he would go at once into the country, and never come hack. Her Ladyship expressed herself quite willing to pardon him ; but Mr. GRI FFITII told them that there were other charges to be answered. He must pay ss. for being drunk, and give the watchmen satisfaction. lie was detained. HATTON-GARDEN. --John Jones Freeman, a tailor, residing in Sourer -street, Coldbath-square, was yesterday brought up from St. Andrew's watch-house, under a war rant, charged by the parochial authorities of St. Andrew's, Holborn, with deserting his wife, and refusing her a main tenance. The ca'e was before the Magistrates on Monday, when the complainant, a respectable-looking female, who appeared to have been once in good circumstances, though now reduced to seek for parish relief, stated that she married the defendant about three , months ago, she being then a widow. He make her life very unconifiirtable, often threatened to desert her, and on Thursday last, taking with IMPORTED. Same pc: This nod last year. year. Bags, 677,020 57,295 56,147 Bags, &c. Liverpool 52:"),227 London 205 Glasgow Total expo Same petit 1 1 ,661 c , (l in l', 19-17 E X PORTED. Previous_ Is this s ear.. ti Bags, &e. Bar, &c. 52 17,371 1 8 0 0 414 , 8 t. ---- 1,63! til,sr7t). 61,6*3. BRITISH EXPORTS. Statement of the Quantities of the under-mentioned Arti cles of British Manufacture Exported from Liverpool, from the 4th to the 11th inst. inclusive. Cotton 12,450 Pieces. 1 83,147 Yards. Linen Blanketing lOO 1,500 ... Kerseymeres - Carpeting 7,963 ... Calicoes Flannel 16,798 ... Woollen Stuffs 1,149 ... Worsted Stuffs Baize Inferior Woollens 555 ... Cotton Thread 2,0201b5. Cotton Yarn Sail Cloth Cotton Hose Cotton Handkerchiefs Cotton Braces ... Worsted Caps 800 ... 1,280 ... 4,588 ... 135 Ends. 321 ... 102 339 ... 721 Ells. 6,577 Dozen, 203 1,300 ... Hats ••• Hardware £B46 Earthenware £73l Salt, White Salt, Rock 6,980 ... Coals Iron 312 ... 10 ... EXPORTS or COTTON, CALICOES, AND TWIST. FOR THE WEEK ENDING OCT. 7. Cottons. I Twist. I Calicoes. 743,210 yards. I 7,895,8911b5. 8,967,897 yards. nil the ta.st remnant' of what. property she had rihen sh 2 married him, i)7. - iiisting.of two watches, a few trinke, rind about 21., left her, and ItIA *iiliout any resource whatever, except what she had in the parish. Mr. ROGER'S asked the defendant what L ..) , 7a's ? De fendant-I'm a man, Sir. _ . . Ilbrlti t ?..—Don't be so insolent and impertinent. Such et - indite:strongly argues yon nut to be a man. I did noi intend your set, but your trade or calling, by the ques tion, iunl toit - .tell understand my meaning. Defendant—. I'm a tailor, tiseii. Mr. LAING-And what do you pro;ioe to do for your wife ? Defendant—Whatever the law directs to be done. Mr. Lairs-The law directs that you shall maintain your wife, and not leave her chargeable to the parish. De fendant—She has a comfortable home to go to if she chooses. _ The complainant's face was suffused with tears, and upon Mr. ROGERS asking her what were her circum stances previous to her marriage with the defendant, before she could reply she fainted, and was obliged to be removed from tie of f ice, and the defendant was ordered to be locked up. The complainant was unable to attend till the following day (yesterday), when they both again appeared before the Magistrates, and she stated that, provided he restored to her what property be bed taken away, she was willing to make no further demand upon him, nor would she make any application to the parish for future relief. She had tried, she said, since the day before, to make up all diffe rences between them, and to come to a good understand ing, but he would not, and still remained irreconcileable. The defendant here delivered to her a small box, which he said contained every thing he had taken from her ; hut on her examining it she missed her money, the 21. above alluded to, and what she still held of more value, a portrait of the defendant; and on missing this she exclaimed, " Ah! John, you have kept your picture, where is that ?" Mr. Roueas—What, a picture of the fellow's face ? I'm sure I should rather endeavour to banish all thoughts of him for ever from my mind, and remove every thing that was likely to remind me of him. She now closed the box and - appeared somewhat satis fied, but complained to the Magistrates, that the defend ant's brother, who was now present in the office, abused her a little before in Hatton-garden, and threatened to as sault her, by lifting his clinched 'hand to her face. This was corroborated by a female witness, the friend and confidant of the complainant. The defendant, William Free Man, a baker, living in Gloucester -street, noxton, denied the charge ; hut said complaisant had circulated very improper stories about him, even to his own brother, which certainly tended to provoke him very much. The Magistrates ordered him . to find bail to keep the peace towards the complainant; and after warning the husband never to suffer his wife to become chargeable to the parish, dismissed him. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKFFS DURING THE WEEK. • I Wheat. Barbay. I Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to e. a. to s. a. to s. Boston — 74 30 20 4.5 Gainsborough 83 44 7 44 Grantham O6 90 441 48 19 38 45 • t 33 Grimsby 53 78 20 33 19 211 38 4() liorncastle 6O 84 30 42 20 30 43 51 Lincoln 70 90 40 45 26 28 49 50 Spilsby 7l 78 36 42 22 '24 40 42 Stamford 5O 90 38 47 24 27 4 t York— 72 90 32 43 24 34) 40 50 NORWICH, Oct. 11 The late high prices for Wheat have caused our farmers to thrash freely, and to-day we had a large show ; the best samples of New Wheat have given way in price 2s. to Ss. per quarter, and Old and interior New are full 4s. per quarter lower. We had a good supply of Barley, at an advance of Is. per quarter. Oats are ready sale at last week's prices. Beans and Grey Pease are 2s. per quarter dearer. Flour is dull at last week's prices. Wheat (per qr.) ... 06s. Sts. 945. I Beans (per qr.) Barley Oats 24s. 30s. 325. Flour, tine (per sack) 655. €8.5 CANTERBURY, Oct. 11. We had a good supply of Wheat, but as our millers re frained from purchasing, in consequence of the high prices demanded, what little business was transacted, was done on the terms of this day week. Our hop market was ex tremely brisk, and 61. 6s. was made for fine pockets, and 51. for bags. Matting Barley being very short in supply, sold very freely, as well as Beans and Oats—but we had scarcely any Pease sufficient to make a quotation in price. Wheat, whit,/ Ks. to 9ns. ----- red 6B-s. to 80s. Barley, Malting 4os. to 456. Oats Beans Bos. to 3k Pease.. 4os. to 445. CHERISH.—Wheat, per 751 b. 12s. Od. to 12s. 4h1., Barley, 39 (pis 6s. Pd. to 7s. (kl. ; Oats, 491 b. 4s. Od. to 4s. 9d. NANTWICIL—WhEIIt, per 751 b. Rs. 2d. to 9s. f 4.; Barley, 39 qtts. ss. Od. to ss. 3d. ; Oats, 501 b. 2s. Bd. to 3s. Od. COTTON WOOL, I,IST OF IMFO!tT, AND EX? lATS• CATTLE. An Account of Cattle imported into Liverpool from the 6th to the 11th in•t., both days included. Cows• Calves Sheep Pigs liorses Mules 1,224 156 1,315 2,238 2 60 A friend in Germany has.suggcsted to us the following reading of a passage in Shakspeare, upon the correctness of which we do not con sider ourselves competent to give a positive opi nion ; it is, however, at least plausible :- 1 " Apropos of Shakspeare, I thought I had made a discovery a short tine since. The line a little more than kin, and less than kind , ' always appeared obscure. It struck me tha t the German word' kind' (child) supplied th e s ense perfectly —q. s. d., something beyond the ordinary near ness of relationship, and yet short of paternity. Beside,and mightt e h ‘ a v v o e r d still beenki l] so in England during ,' is pro no u nce d ( Shakspeare's time) so as to rhyme to lint' or •‘ flint,' makes the evidently intended anti thesis to kin,' both in sound and sense. I mentioned this to a philological professor, and we referred to a German translation (Voss's, I think) of the poet. Without making the slightest comment, the sense had been so ob vious to the eke of the German, that he had ren dered it, Etwas mehr als vetter, milder al3 &tn.' Something more than cousin, less than son.'—Spectator. MA YO/ trVeMait: THE 11 4 wln„ 'l4l be re +fit DREADFUL ACCIOnT IN i't Tlar fol '' 6 ' The following interesting details of the late aw he 1 . ii i d") occarence in the county of Mayo, are from t'", ' l li ii ';'ll clergyman: who officiated at the time when the lve-ThoP° steeple was thrown down by lightning IV° l 4; Th Congregation : , 0 l'kCK " CLAREMORRIS, OCT. 6.—As incorrect aec ri f i t I ,"ii Tl iot of the awful event which yesterday occutro,li e i'v , sty 1 Clare may be circulated, I hasten to give the l' i r„ o 4: 4l ty 1 a true .tatement of what happened ; and this , i ; eo p -u, Th r enabled to tin the more accurately, having been t '4 l; the t. present. or 14 1 1 " The congregation was assembled for divinhour; ikre,tt"rerr, ship, in the ne.wly , e`recied church, at the usual of "tit, an ,l I, as the 0.1'612011g minister, in the absenee to P ats ,, Mr. Sirr, the rector Of the parish, was readisg ro f tttit4, 0 Litany, when the heavens were sut . ... i denlY rlat e ,o , . N'rts a by a heavy storm, which gathered over ' the„,: t iotit,pi ' ht C The portion of our most solemn form of supp.:'''bees 1. , 4 2 . ,_ " Christ, hare mercy upon us," had but jos4 1 ,, Nj,, a ': uttered, when a deafening crash shook every fl c iri , Ail ' t r: ' in the place to its foundation; and, at the sam e ~,,: t itit e ; t e „ l : stant, the lofty stone steeple, rent by lightning , W " - ;, -'' thrown upon the roof, and, together with it, °' l ,.:t ,""------ whelmed the congregation in ruins. In a t uctly : e , ii " . after all was still, and those who were, as if UT"; 411 culously, preserved unhurt, saw the danger thel j- n r ,'' t escaped, and the perilous state of the remaindet,,,t t "; )11 of t i their fellow-worshippers. Not a moment was ``,l, e " , ; b ikippl ) in seeking for those buried undar the ruin's; bat '„: I t c - ,tTl-i heart-rending‘ scene I cannot venture to dweD ve ° ;, - , '''"tral, while husbands laboured to extricate their O i( :. - 1, ',ZIAQt and parents called in despair for their children; moil IC e k _utrc less would I harrow up the feelings of your resS4 j / ,' 1, 1 by detailing their mangled appearance, when r"" tltt t --- • 4. 4 7 from their awful confinement. "I write with too vivid a recollection of O e * ° ; 1 4a 44 t te o ' d scenes of horror to enter into further particulars 4. o; Zho u ' " Let me not, however, forget the mercies of ` - ',, 9 t ' ',Nil s r t which I witnessed in the midst of these judgilie; i ti " 4, the After seeing the wounded persons conveyed to 0 " 1 , 411tiiin homes, I waited on each individual, for the perr; t' - 4r. NI of offering the consolations ofreitgion,and in no sit, k ln g instance did I hear a murmur against the heavY", e p:,,'d 'l' pensation of Providence ; on the contrary, pool P 4i t s h ed as it may appear to some, it was viewed by ad cr4 Ni.:::' thankfulness, as the correction of a kind parent f.,'"g 11H the pious, humble expressions of adoration ee l ' 0 , every one present. The Redeemer's name was c e .b' '''' a ~,, every lip—the prayer of faith ascended from e_ Ll . :,d 1-41 Salt heart. Feelings of piety so universal, and in ri'y *-1 4 4 .nt d cases under very peculiar circumsta nce s,which ther e ti, Without not time et present to relate, have excited ger tera ti r , p,. 41 1:11 tention and interest; and these, it must be rernerity t,', ed, were seen in the most afflicting circumstances, t o 1 , - ;7 ; ','-" parents, writhing in agony, were bidding &rove' gi tt °;" helpless dependent families, and committing thet a t j. 41 4 , -e ' the care of the Father to the fatherless, prePttrei Tk t ' f ( i themsolves to enter into eternity. Here the P°:"l t e :tik u ' l4- pthliefiecdo.mfoLrte,toTfureelimgitomntivio'nas one case. ancl am A o a ng e 9 "„ 1 - ( 7 1 41 " blessings of the Gospel have been seen • t iii et e h '; ~q1 1 1•C ' member of society, the mother of a res e ta v b i rri i ? : is;1 ; f :i Al : milt', expired shortly after she was brought Pc to, -c I C O t c . • .) house; but to to the very last gasp, when unabl e t, t nt j,Y, articulate, she declared to me by signs, that herb 1:C 6 tt, -.. iiirl ' i(.. ' t, ' id al .i. was fixed on Christ, and that she had found rest„" 4 4 - ,'„ ; " her soul. Eleven other persons are still in a u i. cili a te gerous state, yet in most cases we have hoP eAi bir t ith e their recovery. The good feeling shorn ",," f 4 nt. e u , - the respectable inhabitants of the town is ah °. 4. equal all praise. The members of the medical ,P . 4ti ele, f fession particularly distinguished theinsei l ie I , 8 41 by the assiduity with which they attended t a t ;;,_ h ciPi wounded. I regret that my feelings at this nlo° l ' C't will not allow me to enumerate those most con ous in the service of humanity, or to furnish I b # tii ea " with a fuller account of this calamity, which .4 ) .I.,.''' confined many industrious persons to a sick bed , 0 . kt e. c l i :i n tet thereby reduced their families to great distress. di . ,i spi c 4 / 1, 1 4 GI(1 conclusion, I pray that the events of yesterday n i A o r k:11; 4 % ,produce as beneficial effects on the minds of tt y ) '----..i who hear of, as of. those who suffer under the 0 ' hi dispensation. " FRANCIS LYNCH BLOSBiI I.I ITE tc, the v krt Thi rty z , ,,, c g Q ' a P "adk b k ttler .4 Prec to rld e ,t lit () ei, n k Ch ap ~tif m t h of tff i, tie Y 3 az %I Co = - - SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. 5 1 MONDAY, Ocr. 13. —Win d W. S. VT. —High watel d minutes past one.—Arrived the Eliza., Haddino Maranliam; Puckler, Grayson, from Berhke IN's ;r , from Malaga ; Rose, Evans, from Salca.,,o Swallow, --, `from Charleston; Star, Ellis, P . Charleston. CLEARED OUTWARDS.—The William Salthottv.; kg , um, for Havannah ; Rose, Alexander, for Jersey; of venture, Stephens, for Lisbon ; Pacific, Todd, for Cayes. fe( FALMOUTH, OCT. 11.—Sailed the Plover packe"piP Cadiz and the Nlediterranean. Passengers_fur Cocas, Samos; for Corfu, Mrs. Howarth. Miss PAToN yesterday concluded an „' eno6 n be f inent with the Lessees of C ov e nt - gar d en Th eatre , 0-Iqearthown terms. Owing to previous ar rangemen t s with isl KEA N and others, Miss P ATON do e s n o t commence:o the first week in December; sh e will' sing previct T the Music Meetings at Reading and at Brighton.. Pnti,Lirs is likewise engaged at Covent-garden Thea tr re - AYLESBURY, 0CT.13.---YOU may be aS that Lord Nuus:NT is now making his last ap p e aratlee Representative in ParliAment for the borough of AYle bi c j itti/ The Members of the Buckinghamshire Brunswid‘ . „ r e' already enrolled exceed b5O in number, and are o ' 4 / ceiving an accession of strength. The Marqui s of CI t y dos will take the Chair at th e fi rs t Gr a nd Dinner of r, Club, at Aylesbury, on Tuesday next. — Morning -1:.."4 BIRTHS. On 9th inst., Mrs. Windus, of Stamford-hill, of a f On the 1 1th inst., at Southgate, Mrs. ° daughter. .1 03 On the sth inst., at Tunbridge Wells, the LadY Laurence Peel, of a son, who survived only a few de 0 5 son. O On the 11th inst., Mrs. Mansfield, of Wimpole-street' a On the 11th inst., in Cadogan-place, Chelsea, th e of James Rae, Esq., R. N., of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Portsmouth, the lady of M‘Nair, 52d Light Infantry, of a son. • of On the 9th inst., at Donegall-square, Belfast, the Iv' Thomas Ferguson, Esq., of a daughter. of In Dublin, the lady of William O'Callaghan, FOP daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at Diss, in Norfolk, Mr. 4 to Turnley, of White hart-court, Gracechurch-00 14 04 . Harriett, only daughter of Samuel Brook, Esq., of , Arthur Burgh Crofton, Esq., of Roebuck Castle' Dublin, to Catherine, eldest daughter of W. HubaO' f i e ddf At Plymouth, John Tymun, M.D., to Miri • daughter of Captain Daniel Woodriffe, R.N. to At Malahisie, Ireland, George Jones French, )m is ts Frances Anna Bolton, fourth daughter of John Bolt° ll ' W.. d ' , of 111ayne, 9 co t hunist., a tnyofLt St . ou th,Esq. Wee' On theMartin , s, Worcester, don, solicitor, Tewksbury, to Miss Page, of Rose- 10 14 0 1 Mr. Mills, of St. Edmond's-hall, Oxford, to eldest daughter of Mr. James Bennett, of Hereford. DIED. Ott At Sandgate, Kent, on the 30th ult., of a fev..9 e an illne ss o f on ly a f ew d a y s , i n th e 20th year of be r M Laura Lo u is a , only daughter of Arnold Wainewrightl late of Calcot-lodge, in the county of Berks. if At Coburg, Upper Canada, on the 13th of Aug Elizabeth, wife of William Falkner, Eaq. t. 4 On the 10th inst., at Brighton, much re spect deeply lamented, W. Burnet, M.D. let On the 12th inst., in Gray's-inn- Imre, W. H. Tei _m the Esq. 0 13 On the 9th inst, Jonathan, eldest son of Mr. Jon 3 ,,ett Thompson, of Sundridge, Kent, and Portsmouth - s r Lincoln's-inn-fields, aged 7 years. i f tt At St. Michael, in France, aged 75, Phillip Alex_fal'ill who was 12 years coachman to the unfortunate Louis If'oo4 12 years in the same employment under Bonaparte' four years coachman to Louis XVIII. 10 e' On the 13th in s t., in Fi ns b u ry-square, Hannah be field, wife of Thomas Hancock, M.D., and eldest dell; of the late Mr. Thomas H. Strangman, of W a terford' l ,4 On the 13th in s t., at Henley-upon-Thames, Char Anne, second daughter of the late Colonel Childee* Cantley, near Doncaster, aged'lB. P °e ' On the Stli inst., after a short illness, aged $ 6, Oi l ' wife of Sir H. Maturin Farrington, Bart., of Sprig'. Ileavitree. i,t tpc PRINTED and PuncistiEn by AIURDO YOUNG' SUN OFFICE, 112; STRAND, LONDON. la tl l ,, w Sol 4tlati