The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC .JOURNALS It is not a fortnight since we pressed upon Ministers the sacred obligations of interest, hu manity, and honour, by which they were bound to inflict upom Ibrahim Pacha the most exem plary chastisement, in default of obtaining ample and satisfactory atonement for his recent cruelty to the Greek people. When the seizure, the forcible deportation, and sale of Greek wom en and children for slaves, by that ruffian, were alluded to on the former occasion in Parliament, the Ministerial answer was, that orders hail been issued to prevent such outrages against the people of Greece—that is, to prevent an evil, hie'', in spite of our preventive measures, had actually been carried to its consummation. To Sir Robert Wilson's inquiry on the same subject, last Thursday evening, nearly the same reply was given—to wit, that orders had been long ago sent out, and were still in full force, to resist any efibrt of Ibrahim Pacha towards executing the atrocious threat, that he would carry away into bondage as many as he could lay hands •n, of the Greek inhabitants Of the Moroa, and fill up the vacuum by Arabs. Now there is no doubt whatever that the Greek na tion, which had accepted the terms held forth to Greece and Turkey severally, by the Allied P ower s, were under the protection of those Powers, and of England as one of them, at the moment when so many thousands of the Chris tian women and children of that country (Mr. Peel says hundreds, but his business was to pal- Mate the fact, when he could not deny the prin ciple, and we believe his fact to be wrong) re ceived this brutal treatment. If the Greeks were wards of England,—and if not, she would keve had no right to protect them from ill usage by the Pacha,—it was no less her duty to repair their pereonal wrongs, than to prevent theta. In the case of British subjects, the Kiog ':Govern ment would of course adopt it easu t oprevent by force, if force were requisite, at .:njtry from being offered to their properties or persons. But if the wrong could not be averted, it could at least be redressed. Punishment is the re medy for the failure of prevention, and the same principle which justified or called for au order to Ibrahim Paella, by England to ab stain from doing violence to the Greeks, conferred Lipon her the right, and imposed the obligation of exacting atonement, or inflicting chastisement for his contempt of the injunction. When, however, Mr. Peel was required by Sir Robert Wilson to inform the House what measures had been taken by the King's Government or its Allies, to relieve from bondage the miserable Greek slaves thus torn from the wing of this country, an,s wlien the same point was pressed le / Air J ames Alecintosh in another form, the answer, if it deserves the name, was this—" That he was not aware of its Lseing altogether possible to go that length,"—vie., to obtain the restora tion to their country of our stolen c fettered, and degraded friends and fellow-Christian`, " that if they had been met at sea, they might have been rescued from the Turks ; but, unfortu nately, these slaves had been landed in Egypt, and sold in the public market—they Were probably divided, and had become private property." Yes—" unfortunate" is it indeed :for the wretched Greeks, if, through such evasions, they are to be unmercifully aban doned ; and trebly unfortunate for English clia sacter and honour, if language like this—th e lost shameful ever h ear d i n Parliament--b e to. lerated by the Representatives of the people 4 Private property," forsooth ! Away with such gotical pretences. How can the sale of stolen goods be rendered valid between man and man, or the of kidnapped Christians be pleaded be . f< re a race of Christian men, in bar of their title to redemption ? What notions of " property" are they that float through the brain of a Secre tary of State for England,—a systematic re firmer of our laws,—when he talks of " pri vate property" thus founded in piracy, treachery, and abomination ? In the case of English sub jects, would it he endured in Mr. Peel to tell the country, that if our fellow-citizens had been met at sea, they might have been stopped ; but now they had been divided, sold, and become the bondsmen of masters who themselves were slaves ? if the. Paella divided the Greek Allies of England from each other, let him issue a mandate tore-assemble them : if he sold them, let him redeem them—let him, the wrong -doer, air the injury. He can do it by a nod. Let not The innocent victim be insulted as well as sacrificed, and told, that had his suffering been ncomplete, relief might possibly have been afforded hire ; but being consummate and im measurable, he Ws no avenger. 'We fed this matter deeply, because it is not alone a question of redress or lasting Ynk.ery for the Greeks, but cf lasting shame or glory h;i: the British nation. If Eagland threatened Ibrahim, :ibe is bound to punish him : iE the tendered pra,?ction to Greece, ate is bound to repair the injuries - , - ;hich she failed to avert. Every captive Greek hag as much a right to freedom, under the de clara.aon of England to Ibrahim, as Greece herself has to independence under the Duke of protocol and Mr. Canning's t.r.,3aty. —Times. 'Th e p e titi on vesented on Tuesday evening by Vlr. James Grattan, soliciting from Parlia ment the introduction of poor laws into Ireland, crave rise to an earnest conflict of opinion among the members connected by birth .cr office with that country. The mode in which the .F.nglish poor laws are administered, and the system of almost indiscriminate provision for all classes of paupers—not merely for the aged, the infant, and the sick, but for the sound and £trong, t h e idle or industrious, —into which the old imlicy .of the reign of Elizabeth has degenerated, have rased against the poor laws, as a whole, a rooted ilrejudice throughout the wealthier orders in both „countries, which can only be just when directed against their obvious abuses. The. inarifold ram ifi ca ti ons an d ex tensions given by, modern Parlionent and magistrates to the poor laws, have created, it is certain, a considerable portion of those habits among the labouring class ._wh 7 ,e4 lead to pauperism ; and have therefore sup plied, in an equal ratio, nowishment to the dis easePon which they c were dmigned to operate. hut this superindueement of hull , 4.4 complexity non the system goes no further fo ind:cate an excess of legislation for the E lT E s i i than the absence of all care for age,.,/nfancy, or sickness—of nil funds for their relietand of torg.:mized means for their management, prow:.'s an utter ; arid we must add a barbarous, defect of law, justice, and humanity, in countries zuous to England. When Irish gentlemen g x, up to' tell Parliament that the whole rental 41 England will not do more than cuffieeto give sustenance to her paupers, the exaggeratton be comes ridiculous in speaking of an island which exports annually to Great Britain 2,000,000 .quarters of corn. When such language, moreover, 4.'s made use of, gentlemen must rater to the effect of poor laws as now administered throughout England and Wales,—not in that form, or with a . view to those purposes which were originally meditated in their enactment, and which alone could be aimed at by the introduction of a poor law system into Ireland. Look, however, at the real condition of the Irish poor. If they have no resource in poor rates levied upon their own landholders they take ample vengeance on those of England, and, overspreading Great Britain like locusts, they drag down the British labourer, by an unnatural competition, to a level of wages and miseries unknown to preceding genera tions of Englishmen,—multiply the objects of poor-rate bounty here,—and encourage, by the tidings of their 4uccessful settlement on the banks of the Thames, the Severn, and the Mersey, fresh invasions of Vandals, in every port on the west of St. George's Channel. The fact is, that the Irish poor are in large multitudes sup ported by rates, but by rates originally destined for the poor in England, and levied .on the estates of English landlords. It is folly to hope that if a fund for the poor exists in one part of the kingdom, with an easy method for establish ing a right by settlement in favour of those of every other part of the kingdom to partake of it, —it is gross folly, we say, to imagine that there will riot be an influx of paupers from the provin ces beyond the pale of the poor- rate, to those where its indulgences may be shared. The ques tion, then, for the gentlemen of England is, whether they will continue, with their eyes open, to invite by the bounty of the British poor laws a perpetual influx of half-starved strangers to multiply the native poor of England, and to de ter farmers from bidding more than a moiety of rent for land falling out of lease, that they may be able to hear the burden ofa double poor-rate. It was truly said, that the poor-laws in both countries must be assimilated, or the mass of Irish emi grants will soon be, or will never cease to be, the staple export of that fertile and prolific soil. That Irisla landlords should oppose a measure so iniquitous as one which would compel them to contribute something towards the maintenance of their own paupers, which now falls exclusively un the landholder of Great Britain, is not a matter at which we are much surprised. The growth of Irish paupers is admitted to be in great part the work of their native gentry. It has long been notorious, and was distinctly stated by Colonel Trench on Tuesday, that a crop of 40s. freeholders is regarded as the best produce of a gentleman's estate. If they must, then, have this aristocratic luxury, let them pay the price of it. In the teeth of Mr. Peel's pru dence, and of the often self dwelt-upon expe rience of Sir John Newport, we much incline to the prayer of Mr. Grattan's petition ; and for the sake of both sections of the United Kingdom, we would make an experiment of a poor-law system in Ireland, accompanied by an attempt in this country also, to limit gradually the sphere of their operation, and to correct above all things the vices of the law of settlement.— I Mr. Huskisson, the other night, presented a •ition from Liverpool, praying the abolition of theTt Stamp Tax. He s a id th a t some !'ce to be laid on, if th a t were t a k en other tax oug,":, off. In our opinion, that could be easily done ; by laying a further tax on }ells of exchange arid promissory notes. We know to a certainty that, with the great mass of the people, nothing would make the present Government more popular than taking off this vexatious tax, or, at all events, on receipts under 1001. We recommend Mr. Huskisson to do so, and make it a Government measure. Mr. Calcraft's argument on the sub ject is not worth a farthing ; for, when a man pays money to another, he does not like to ask him for a receipt on a stamp. There is some thing repugnant to one man in putting another to an expense. Besides, shopkeepers and others do not keep receipt stamps in their houses. If a purchaser insists upon a stamped receipt, the dealer must send to a stationer's shop for one, and that shop might be half a mile or a mile from him. Here time is lost ; and, in general, purchasers are in such haste to be gone, that ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the pur chasers asking for a stamp would say, " Well, never mind ; a receipt in your usual way will do." —Morning Herald. The Finance Committee adjourned on I'Ved nesday last until Tuesday, the 15th instant. They have examined into the principal branches of the Navy, Army, and Ordnance, of what may he called the effective force, with the view of being able to report soon to the House after the recess. They have n©t yet taken up the subject of dead weight, half-pay and pensions, which form so very heavy a part of the public charge, and which will require to be dealt with so as to prevent the ruin which must overtake our finances, it' from year to year that charge is to increase as it has done yearly since the peace. The prin ciple of the Bill which allows of young and healthy men to retire on pensions, although perfectly fit for duty, and often only be coming acquainted with the duty, is most doubtful policy, and will be considered. It is reported that the Committee have directed their views more to the great leading points of the public :service than to the details, and, on general principles, will offer their suggestions to Government that measures may be taken with out delay to make the alterations required. But we trust that the Committee will return to the details of the departments of the Government ; as for example, the War Office, Navy Board, &c. We have heard that the state of Canada has engaged the attention of the Committee, as of great ;mportance. But we, would venture to sug gest that all Ow colonies, including the Cape, Ceylon, &c. require atteption. It is impossible to look to four or five millions ezvended in the collaefion of the Revenue, and three-quattars of in Preventing smuggling, without di recting the ahea4on of the Committee to those branches.—l Nd. We dare say that some of our readers, whose memories are more than ordinarily tenacious,. may, notwthstanding the numerous incidents that have since intervened to attract attention, still retain some dim remembrance of the fate of a theatre, which was called the " N ew Brunswick," and which, although its. name might seem to locate it in America, did actually stand, - fir nearly a week, in the metropolis of England. This re membrance has been kept awake from time to t i me 6 , i; :pewhat in the same way as the state' of education in Ir4 ; mtl, the public charities in England, the Nabob of 4rrct's debts, and some other equally important matters, 1:y 4 series of reporia which have issued from the, press at irregular intervals, and which, if' they shgll ever be of any u,3e or advantage to the conimunity, must be consigned to a Com mittee to report upon, as has been already done with one of them. The evil inflicted by the a of the Theatre in question, has been imputed t o th e l a te Th o m a s M a urice, Rg.; the evil inflicted by the iu9uil v into its cause must be assigned to the present Maurice Thomas, Esq. We were for some time doubtful whether the guilt charged in the one case, or the guilt admitted in the other, was greatest ; but we have long ceased to hesitate between them. The former was confined in its operation to a definite portion of time and a small number of victims ; the latter has visited tens of thousands, and its visitations, so far as we can judge up to Tues day, were to terminate only with the payment of the National Debt. Again, those who fell sa crifices to the " flies," a word which will be classed in future with " Catholics" and " Corn," have, happily for themselves, passed into a world where, as a great Poet says — Waggons crush not—roofs, and beams, and bricks Fall riot, or out or in—apoplexies, From soup of turtle, knock not men i' th' head ; Ropes, razors, salt of sorrel, or the bridge Of Waterloo so handy corms not in, Nor any 'Mister Coroner is known ! " After lifo's fitful fever they sleep sound ;" but to the unhappy survivors Mr. 'Thomas " bath murdered sleep." We were wicked enough to wish that in the course of the investigation some lucky brick "Might reach his head - and free the world from trouble." But our wishes were in vain. At length, how ever, when when we were about to give up our selves to despair, a light has broken in up on us from a quarter whence we have often received light on other occasions of gloom. The Duke of Wellington has taken Mr. Thomas in hand, and unless he prove tougher stuff than we think him to be, his Grace will manage him. Money constitutes the sinewsofbusiness,and theDuke,who is well aware of its importance, is about to take measures for depriving the " New Brunswick In quest" of the supplies. He int en d s , to use an expression well known to his countrymen, to "bough" the commission. Major Elrington, of the Tower, waited on the Magistrates of Lam beth Police-office the other day, by way of a pre liminary step, to ascertain, if possible, whence the funds for defraying the expense of the In quest were to be furnished, and was informed . ..... Old they must be furnished by the Treasury ! This was enough. We may rely on hearing of a very speedy, if not a violent, death to the in quisitio de causis tumblendifiyorum, sh yorum, et ceterorum, as soon as Major Elrington has made his report. Sir D. Williams added to this another piece of information, which we look on as the unkhadest cut that Mr. Thomas has yet received, namely, that from all the accounts he had re ceived, and from all the knowledge of which he was master, the inquest had been illegal from the beginning, and Mr. Thomas, holding an unrecognised office, had no right to initiate it or to preside at it. So that not only, if this be a correct view of the case, will his future opera tions be left undefrayed ; but there is no purse from which to pay the past. For of a surety the present Prime Minister of England is not the man to throw away the public money on illegal as well as uncalled-for measures, while those which law sanctions and necessity compels can with difficulty be provided for.—New Times. LENT ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER, APRIL 3. ,lames Arnold and Thomas IVatts were indicted for having assaulted John Pinnock on the King's highway, and taking from him two sixpences and some halfpence. The prisoners, on being called oa for their defence, said that they had certainly stopped the prosecutor, but they only asked him for the money, taing him they were in great distress, and he gave it them. They had used neither threats nor violence. They then called a witness, who gave them both good characters for honesty. Mr. Baron VAUGHAN having summed up the evi dence, the Jury found the prisoners " Not Guilty." Mr. Baron VAUGHAN told them they had both bad a very narrow escape; had they been convicted, he should have suffered the law to take its course, and he hoped this would be a warning to them. HOME CIRCUIT—KINGSTON, AraiL 4. The trial of Thomas Irons, for the murder of Susan Froggat, on the !nth of February, at Herne-hill, in this county, excited an unusual sensation, and long before the Judge arrived the court was crowded. The prisoner, on being placed in the dock, exhi bited great agitation, and continued during the whole of the trial with his handkerchief to his faCe. He was accommodated with a chair. The indictment charged the prisoner with having wilfully murdered Susan Frosgat on the 29th of February. Mr. TIMMER, who conducted the prosecution, stated the charge, and called the following witnesses : Harriet Fisk—l am cook in the service of Mr. Langton; the prisoner was footman in my mas ter's service. 1 also knew the deceased, Susan Froggat. On the morning of the 29th of February, my master left home, as also did the prisoner, who returned about five o'clock in the afternoon. He left horse about half-past ten or eleven in the fore noon. I saw him return from the direction of Cam berwell, awl he rang the house-bell, and was let in by Susan Froggat. The prisoner and deceased went into the kitchen, the former appeared to have been drinking a little. The deceased was sitting, and the prisoner was standing up, in the kitchen. They were conversing together rather angrily. I heard her say he should not make such a noise about the house, — that he ought to know better. To which he re plied, " I shall not mind what you say, for you shall not be mistress over me." He added, that all she wanted was to get him out of his place; and if she wanted that, he should take her up to her master when he came home. The deceased said he might do that if he pleased, for she was ready to go. The prisoner said, if . she got him out of his place, he would blow her brains out. The deceased did not reply to that. The prisoner then left the kitchen, saying, before he went out, that if she had any thing to say, to speak then. The deceased replied, " I have nothing else to say." The prisoner then said, " Good bye," and left the kitchen. He returned in a few minutes to the kitchen, but said nothing. After having washed his hands, he left the kitchen, and I heard bun enter the pantry. In a few minutes after, he returned the second time; he (lid not speak, but walked across the kitchen, and sat down in a chair. He sat there a quarter of an hour before Jones came in, and during that time did not speak. When Jones came, he called me into the dairy ; and in about two minutes after I had left, I heard the report of fire arms; upon which I went into the back kitchen, and looked through a window into the front kitchen, end saw the deceased lying on the floor. I then ran to the stable to call the coachman, and from thence went into the shrubbery. After a little time I went into the back kitchen. There were a great number of people there at the time, and I saw the prisoner amongst them. I asked the prisoner how he came to do such a thing, and he made no answer. Pre vious to this day, the deceased and prisoner lived on such terms as servants usually do. Nathaniel Jones—l am under-gardener to Mr. Langton. Remember the night of the 29th of Fe bruary, taking some milk into the dairy near six o'clock. I called the cook to assist me ; she came, and p.ejterwards, in about two minutes, heard the report of fire-arms. I immeqiately went into the front kitchen, which is about five yards from the dairy. On going i n t o the kitchen, I saw the pri soner and the deceased; she was lying on the floor, and the blood was running down the side of her head; she was alive, but she could not speak. On the right side of her neck there was a deep wound, from which the blood was flowing : arid the bone el her right cheek was shattered to pieces. Ttfilre were marks in the wall made by shot, about two feet from where she was lying. The prisoner said, " put the fire out," and I then perceived that the deceased's gown and collar were burning. I then went across the kitchen, and took her up, when she gave two or three heavy sighs, and expired. The prisoner said that he had done the deed, adding, " and lam your prisoner." I told him I did not want any thing to do with him, end I attended to the deceased. I then asked the prisoner if he had done it ? and he replied that he had, saying that he had put two charges of shot in the pistol and one charge of powder. The prisoner then pointed out the pistol on the dresser, and showing his hand said, " and this is the hand that has done the deed." During the time 1 was in the kitchen the prisoner said, " have been waiting full a quarter of an hour for an opportunity to shoot her." The prisoner appeared to have had something to drink, but not a great deal. Joseph Church, a constable, was sent for to Mr. Langton's a little after six on the night in question. Saw the deceased lying in the front kitchen. The prisoner said, " I have shot the woman, and I shall die for it." Claridge, another constable and I took the prisoner into custody. Claridge examined—As soon as he entered the kitchen the prisoner held 'out his hand and said, " Claridge, come and take me, for I have murdered that poor young woman, and I won't make any re sistance, for here's the hand that fired the pistol off." Witness then took him into custody. J. B. Langton, Esq., examined—The pistol pro duced is mine. I kept it in my sleeping-room, ge nerally unloaded. I have powder and shot in my house, but always kept it under lock and key. By Mr. BRODERICK—The prisoner always con ducted himself extremely well while with me. This being the evidence for the prosecution, The JUDGE asked the prisoner whether he wished to say any thing : he replied in the negative. Mary Ann Jenkins—Washed for the prisoner. I heard the deceased say, on the steps of the kitchen, " If he does not hold his tongue, I shall soon get some one to make him." The prisoner was there, and he seemed to be much agitated. I said " Hush, what's the matter ?" and the prisoner said " That's what I want to know." He stamped his feet on the floor, and hammered his fists together, he also beat his fists on the dresser. After this the prisoner said that the deceased had used offensive expressions to him, and accused her of striking him. The de ceased said that he had gone out and got drunk, and come borne and kicked up a row. When the prisoner said that the deceased had used the offen. sive expressions to him, she did not deny it. I was ordered out of the kitchen by the young woman. From what I saw, the prisoner did not appear like a man in his senses. The Jury found the prisoner " Guilty," and he was sentenced to be halved on Monday. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, APRIL 3. lIORSINIIITON V. ➢EAUMONT AND WIFE. Mr. PATTERSON opened the pleadings. The de claration stated that the defendant's wife spoke cer tain defamatory words reflecting on the character of the plaintiff, (who was a laad agent and surveyor,) and imputing to him the commission of frauds in money transactions. Several witnesses were called, who were chiefly persons iu the defendants' service, who established the plaintiff's case, speaking to the various slander ous words uttered by Mrs. Beaumont. Mr. J. WILLIAMS (with whom was Mr. F. PoL LOCK and Mr. ALDERSON), addressed the Jury for the defendants iu a very animated and able speech, which we regret not having time to report at length. Mr. Justice BAYLEY summed up; and the Jury, after consulting for a short time, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1,7001. IRELAND. CLONMEL ASSIZES, NlAacu 31. Patrick Lacy and John Walsh were indicted for having, on the Ist October, 1827, murdered Dan. Mara, Patrick Lacy shooting him in the left side of the body, and John Walsh for aiding and assisting in the murder. [The murder appeared, from the statement of the Solicitor-General, to have been conceived with much skill and forethought. It proceeded from a malig nant impulse of revenge ; Mara (the unfortunate victim) being the brother of an individual who had some time before given evidence against a man who was executed for the murder of Mr. Chadwick.] The jut) , found the prisoners Guilty. They were ordered for execution on Thursday.. One of the prisoners was an extensive dairyman. He gave 30 guineas to his attorney, and 10 guineas to each of his Counsel. BREMEN . , MARCH 16.—For the last fortnight our city has been in the greatest agitation, in consequence of the arrest of a woman accused of poisoning. She is the wife of a saddler, named MILTENBERC, and the daughter of a tailor named FIMIL —After the death of her first husband (the sad dler), she married a merchant's traveller, named GOTTFIELD. Her free way of life, and the many losses sustained by death, caused her to be sometimes talked of. Since her arrest sire is said to have already confessed unheard-of crimes. Men who seemed happy and full of health, chiefly tempted her to commit murder. As nothing official has been pub lished respecting this extraordinary case, it is impossible accurately to detail the series of crimes of which she has been guilty; hut there is no doubt that she equals and per haps exceeds the infamous Marchioness de Dams VILLIERS, as persons daily come forward whose debilitated health is said to be her work. There is no trace whatever of mania, and as little of remorse. Au immoral way of life and covetousness are assigned as the chief reason of her crimes : superstition seems also to have affected her mind. Thus it is said that she considered the wearing of the clothes of the murdered as a talisman against the dis covery of her enormities, and ascribed to them the power of making her invisible, and even of enabling her to fly. She is about 50 years of age, and has still traces of beauty which she endeavours to improve by paint; she has hand some but rather wild eyes, and mild agreeable manners. Her sitting-room was well and tastefully furnished ; over her mahogany sofa hung the heads of our Saviour and St. John, and the ten Commandments ; her chief reading was books of devotion. A wheelwright whose house she last kept was the first who discovered her enormities; he has been poisoned by her, and is in a languishing state ; a piece of bacon strewed with arsenic is the corpus delicti. EXTRAORDINARY CIIA ROE OF BASTARDY. —Within the last fortnight an order of affiliation has been obtained, by the parish officers of St. George, Hanover square, against the Duke of DORSET, to compel his Grace to give security to the parish for the maintenance of a child which a female had sworn he was the father of. The facts of the case are these :—The mother of the child, who appeared to have been a good-looking female, but reduced to extreme poverty, was a few years ago residing at the west end of the town, when she accidentally met with a gentle man who called himself "Ali.. Samn." The gentleman expressed much regard for her, and offered to allow ker a conditional maintenance, and she accepted his terms. She became pregnant after their intercourse had been carried on for some time, and she communicated the fact to " Mr. SwiTu," who left a um of money, and, without men tioning his intention to discontinue his visits, never afterwards called upon her. When she bad given birth to the child in question, she was reduced almost to a' state of starvation, and with the child in her arms she was com pelled to go about the streets to solicit alms as a means o( existence. A short time ago she was walking near Port land-place, and she caught a view of he; quondam friend " Mr. Swill." She followed him, unobserved, and saw him go into the mansion of his Grace the Duke of PORT LAND. She knocked at the door soon afterwards, and asked what the name of the gentleman who had entered the house was, as she had previously suspected that SMITH was 'not his real name. The servant replied, '" that gen tleman the Duke of DORSET." Upon this she informed the parish officers that she had discovered the father of the child, and his Grace was summoned to show cause why he should not maintain it. Upon the vcoman's examina tiop, she mentioned places, slates, aml cireunistapces, un der which "11jr. Sdlyru." (whom she swore was the Duke), had met her ; and although an attempt was made to in duce her to fix upon a date when it might have been proved his Grace was not in London, it did nut succeed, and her evidence was not impeached, except by the strong counter-declarations of hie Grace. The order, however, having been made upon the Noble Duke, his Grace paid 1201. to the parish officers as a campromi?e, and so the affair terminated. POLICE INTELLICIENCE. LAMBETH -STREET.—John Brain, a watchman belonging to the parish of St. Mary, Whitechapel, and Anne his wife, were on Thursday last brought up on a warrant, by Dalton, and placed at the bar, before M. Wym, Esq. to answer a charge of assault preferred against them by Janet ill'Pherson, a woman of the town. On being sworn, Janet, who spoke in a broad Scotch accent, commenced her accusation by saying, that the watchman bad deluded her away from her own lodgings in Limehouse, and sold her to a❑ old man, whom he and his wife prevailed upon her to marry. Mr. WTATT.—I don't see how he could well do that without your consent. Janet—They got hold of me while I was in a fit of intoxication : it was then I did it, and they put me to bed to Mr. Cox, in one of their own rooms. Mr. WYATT. —Who is Mr. Cox? Janet.—Why my husband, Sir. He is gone away to sea. It was most shameful to marry me to him : he is old enough to be my grandfather. Mr. Ws - Arr.—Were you drunk all the time of the court ship ? Janet, with due Scottish reservation, replied that she would not take it upon herself to deny but she was. Mr. WYATT.—What was you before this marriage took place? Janet.—An unfortunate lady. Mr. WYATT.—Or, in other words, a prostitute. Janet did not deny the application of the term, but said that she never took gentlemen to her private lodgings. Mr. WYATT.—That certainly is a nice distinction. You have since lodged at the house of this very faithful preserver of the public morals ? Janet.—l did, Sir. Mr. WY - Am—Well, he was not so particular. He hail no objection to your bringing your paramours to his house, and he knew of it, I suppose? Janet—To be sure he did. Sir. He knew I got my living in the streets ; and when the old gentleman, Mr. Cox, used to come to see me, he, the watchman, used to bring in the gin and water. I paid him 7s. a week, and because I could not pay him more, Le beat me. Mr. WvArr.—Lfe is a most accomplished scoundrel. The virtues of the watchmen are coming to light every day. Patti idge, what parish does this fellow belong to? Partridge—To ours, Sir. _ _ Mr. WvArr—Where is his beat? Partridge—He's stationed on your's, Sir. He is your watchman.—(Loud laughter.) Mr. WyArr.,—We must get rid of him. Mr. WYATT then discharged the complaint, telling Janet dna if not satisfied with the punishment of the offender, she might indict him at the sessions. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. THURSDAY, Arnie. S.—High water 58 minutes past 12.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrived the London, Johnson, from New Orleans, with cotton ; Thomas Dattersby, Blakely, from Demerara, with sugar, rum, and coffee; Cora, Frater, from Charente, with brandy and wine; Ann, Lewis, from Limerick, with wheat ; Lord Nelson, Nickson, from Dum fries, with barley and wool ; Agnes, Collins, from Mary port, with camwood ; Lady Amherst, Williams, Hull, with linseed ; Herculean, Gunson, from Whitehaven, with sundries ; Norfolk, —, from London with ditto; Friends, Lewis, from ditto, with ditto ; Birmingham, Head, steamer, from Dublin, with ditto; Chieftain, Owens, steamer, from Belfast, with ditto ; Henry Bell, Spiers, steamer, from Glasgow, with ditto ; Allen, Croverth, from Fowey, with pipe clay ; Lady Fitzgerald, Easter, from ditto, with ditto ; Rosa, Squires, from Charlestown, with ditto; Happy Return, Andrews, from Penzance, with tin; Princess Royal, Morgan, from Cardiff, with iron; Comet, Phillips, steamer, from Dublin, with the mail.-1 ship, 3 brigs, and 1 snow, off at -I past six o'clock. CLEARED OUTWARDS.—The Regent, Blair, for Halifax; Chem üb, Selkirk, for Montreal ; Navannah packet, Seller, for Africa ; Providence, Fox, for Newfound/and ; Aurora; ; Herring, for Isle of Man ; Tiviotdale, Dodds, for Quebec ; Spurgen, for Elsineur ; Rapid, Huntly, for Calcutta; James Holmes, Kneale, for Douglas. Telegraph Office, April S. Ilor.YmEAn.—Wind S. light breeze. 5 brigs off out ward bound. Nothing more to report. POINT LYNAS,--.1 ship homeward bound ; S pilot boats off. Nothing more to report. GREAT Onat's HEAD.—I ship, 2 brigs homeward bound. VOEL NALT.-2 pilot boats off Floating Light; 1 ship off homeward bound. BIDSTONE,-2 barks off, with Messrs. T. and J. Brockle bank's private signal; 1 brig with Alessrs. S. Brown and son's private signal. None of the above vessels showed their numbers, or their names would have been reported. 7 brigs 2 barks off. At 2 10, 2 brigs homeward bound W. of the Floating Light. One ship at anchor off the Floating Light ; has not shown her number or her private signal. She is a large British vessel, with a head and painted ports. At 4 SO, wind at Holyhead N.N.E. moderate. No thing off. One bark off Great Orin's Head, homeward bound. Wind S. light breeze. vessel., that sailed this day Were E. of the Floating Light at p.m. BRUNSWICK THEATRE.—The adjourned Inquest on the bodies of blows Muss and Jafix WALL, who died in the London Hospital, was resumed on Thurs day, before Mr. UN WIN, the Coroner, when the Jury, after a patient investigation, returned the following verdict : " Accidental Death by the fall of the Brunswick Theatre, which was occasioned in consequence of hanging heavy weights thereto; and the Jury are of opinion, that the Proprietors are highly reprehensible in allowing such weights to be so attached. And we find in each of the two cases a deodand of Forty Shillings." Considerable alarm was excited in this town last week, by the report that several resurrection men had visited it, and carried off some bodies which had been re cently interred. The truth, we believe, is, that individuals of this class had been carrying on their depredations in the west, and having been surprised on one occasion, were obliged to decamp without their tools. Thus deprived of their means of subsistence, they were endeavouring to col lect pecuniary assistance from the medical practitioners in the towns through which they passed. One of the men, on seeing the grave-digger employed in the church-yard, asked him if he would sell a skull; and the former ex pressing his surprise at such a question, the fellow turned away, reinvrking that " he seemed up to nothisg !" Suspi cions having been excited respecting two graves, they were opened, but from neither had the bodies been exhumed.— Sherborne Journal. A TIGER KILLED BY APONY.-A circutn stance lately happened at A rnlietNt Island, which shows that nil desperandum is a good rule in the most desperate circumstances. A tiger breaking into a shed, in which a colt and a pony were sheltered, killed the former. The pony then attacked the tiger, awl pummelled him so heartily with his heels about the head and ribs, that he knocked out some of the monster's teeth, tad all his courage, for he had just strength enough to crawl to a null a h h ar d by, where he was found by the natives shortly afterwards, as he appeared so much bruised that hecould hardly move. They accordingly fell upon him and killed him with bludgeons. Previous to this, five horses had been killed near the spot. —London Weekly Review. WINE MADE. FROM SAW -DUST.-A cor respondent writes us as follows :•—An ingenious engineer at Cheniea, Bucke, whose head is ever at work for useful discovery, and to whom many are indebted for his able performances in his own profession, whilst superintend' nb his sawyers cutting up some Quebec fir timber, was forcibly struck with the sweet odour from the fresh saw-dust ; aid resolved to try whether he could not snake a wholesome extract from it, as well as he had from many other ingre dients, and as it is extracted from the birch tree, to form a basis for a good home-nsade wine. After some small dif ficulty, adopting nearly the usual process of making other wines, with the aid of moist sugar, he funned an extract, which, though raw in the first place, was not very unpa latable. lie put it by in a stone jar, gently corked down, and by some accident the whole affair slipped the memory of him and his household for two years, when, on recently looking to his other wines and stock of beer, he discovered the lung-forgotten Lottle, and on tasting it, he was most agreeably set-pried at finding it excellent ; and putting to defiance the beet judges of most wines to guess what it Was made from. Even hie " guile wife" thought it was raisin wine of her own making, while others thought it tasted like Madeira; and a medical gentleman considered it Its- perior to mead urine. It was bottled off, a nd in each bottle was put one glass of brandy. The writer of th is h a s tas ted it, and had hp no,t be e n t o ld, cou ld never have discovered the ingredients from which it was made. It has a alight and rather pleasing taste of the turpentiue, and by some who drank it it operated as gentle diuretic ; which induces a belief that whilst it was pleasant to drink it would be benefic:al in gravelly complaints. This ingenious engineer is making a more correct and scientific experiment of the eime ingredients, and should it answer his expectatic a ns he will make it public. The ingredient, car fruit as it may be called, is easy to be 'premed, and cheap, and with sugar and the brandy will riot reach the retail price of ale." —County lierafrt. LONDON MARKETS. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—ApriI S. 725. Od. to 100 s. Od. I Clover 90s. X to 34. s Od. to 40s. Od. PIUCES OF HOPS (per Cwt.)—April 4. e s . Kent Po c k ets 4l. 4s. 44 18s. to Su sex Ditto ssex Ditto Es Ditto 44 4s. 41. 15s. to 51. 0. Farn Farnham , Fine 04 Os. 84 Os. to 91 . 04 Os. 'U s Os. to 51. 41. 2s. 44 15s. to 54 3/. Itis. 44 2s. to 44 41. Os. 41. 10s. to 4/. ~ Kent SussexDlit — ; Essex Ditto, PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 34/. Oa. Refined --Oa Linseed Oil ••••••••••,,........ lO Linseed Oil Cake at th e Mill per thousandi Rape Cake, per ton , PRICE OF 4. Kidneys 34 Os: to 3/, 10s. per ton. Scotch Reds 3l. Os. to 31. ss. ditto. Marbh 3/. Os. to 31. 10s. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws 2/. Os. to 31. Os. ditto. PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5.........50 to 561 b... 20 21 Ditto..—,—.6o to 661 b... 22 23 Dressing 14 17 Fine Coach ',lidos 17 191 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 16 to 501 b. 1 181 Ditto LEATHER. Per th. d. Tanned Horse Hides.., 14 SpAnish Ditto 20 Per dozen. Calf Skins... 36 to 40113. 10 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 23 Ditto 70 to 110112. 40} Small Seals, (Sruenland 18 --- RAW 1 - .IIbP.S. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s• i d.lo''' Best Heifers& Steers 303 2 I Ordinary 1 10 Alitidlings—...—__......,, 2 4 2 6 Ilfatkot Ca1f....„.... 8 0 elf:: SHEEP K 1 NS. 6d. to 3s. Od. 4 Silearlings..... Os. pd. to Polled Se. 9d. to se. Od. PItICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, See. per 1121b,-April 44 Town Tallow ....--.....—. 465. Od. Yellow Soap ~,,,i*l ' l,ti Yellow Itusia_ 42s. Od. M0tt1ed..,,,.,,...,,____, LI F. ' White 15s. Od. White B6c' „,,, 0 Soap Ditto .395, Od. Graves ••••••••........, •••••••••••M AI.W . I Melted Stuff' :3lss. Od. Good Dreg 5............„„„ s '' Ditto 1t0ugh—........,.—......216. Od. , • 2 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of SBA...April 4. al Price by Tallow (as stated by the fallow Me1ter5)......—.....25:, PRICE OF CANDLES. „ The price of St ore C an dl es, in the retail shops, is as followe• .e; , Candles, per doz. Is. Od. to Os. tkl. I Moalds, per dozes 10 * COUNTRY CORN m-------ARKKTs DURING 1111,1 W_____,,E/ 0. e -- 1 Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Bea ms Per Quarter. ----........—!, Ashburn ~......,,._• 52 57 31 34 21 29 47 07 Basingstoke ......... 50 66 27 32 90 30 36 - 4 1 t Bath 4S 62 27 34 21 30 40 4,1 Bridgewater .- — 56 -- 29 18 4 a 3 Bristol 5O 54 28 32 16 29 48 4# Chesterfield .......... 48 54 28 32 19 28 4X 4 # Derby «..,..........., 50 58 32 34 23 26 45 Devizes ................ 44 56 30 33 19 30 40 0 0 Doncaster ......... 45 58 26 32 17 20 44 0 Dorchester--... 40 60 25 28 2U 25 42 4 , Exeter......---.—.. 56 64 2.4 30 20 2 44 ,4 Gloucester 413 (0 24 30 20 8 38 ; Hungerford —...—. 48 63 26 32 18 31 38 i Leice5ter............... 46 57 34 25 —4, 4$ Newbury ..... —..... 48 7() 29 31 18 :32 Si . Romsey ---.... 5.5 58 28 30 23 25 48 4 0 Shaftesbury --. —_s9 28 --25 4 0 Shepton Mallet —52 58 28 30 20 42 ) Sherburne.. ~.,.,..,.50 56 24 28 22 26 42 '"0 , Taunton ----. 48 58 24 28 18 :43 36 2i Yeovil . — „i Per Bushel. s. d. s . d, s. d . s. d. s. d, s.d. s.d. s• , ihrewsbury ... 79 86 44 49 5 U 65, 0 0 I --- ------- WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—ApriI 2. We had a lar ge supp l y o f S h eep this day, with ou l i 2 : moderate demand. Mutton may be quoted Ad. per I ''' lower than our last; in Beef no alteration. ~..' LEWES MARKET.—ApriI 1. Beet -----. 4,5. Od. to 4s. dd. Vea1,..,,,..._.. 48.8 d. to ss. ) ' I Mutton ~...... 4 4 410 P0rk,..,,...._._ 4 2 4 " Lamb 6$ 4d. to 68. &L du li Supply, for the time of year, moderately good, trade rather ...,, RUIIIFORD MARKET.—ApriI 2. d , s. d. toe. d. a. d . to !' Beef on 4 0 410 Veal Mutt 4 0 4 8 Pork • 4 8 ' 14s. to 405. ; Quarter old 7ldPiL rid.gslos to Itis. 0 0 ' 1 Stickling fromCalve i s 'anb 6 Supply good, and trade somewhat brisk. SCOTCH MARKETS. EDINBURGH CORN AIARKEI'.—ApriI 2. i, We had a s h or t su p p l y o f a ll sorts of Grain to-del' which sold readily. Top price of New Wheat 3s. higher ; Barley, ss. ; top prices of Oats, Pease, and Beans, Ihl same as last market day ; but the general prices may quoted Is. higher. Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Pease. Bear, lo ' First 6ss Od 42s Od 30 a ed 27s od97a(A. Second Third PRICES OP raovistoNs, &c. '.O Beef, per 1b... Os. 4d. to 04.7 d. Fresh Butt er .lb.l s. od . to ls. . ,„ 5 Mutton.. .0 5 0 7 Salt Ditt0......... '0 9 o i , Veal. 0 8 1 0 Ditt o , per en t. 84 0 38 Pork---.. 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per dos. 0 7 0 Lamb, per gr. 7 0 10 0 OatStrawocp:.) 9 0 Z l 4 0 Tallow, cwt.... 35 0 36 3 Wheat Ditto— Bti :, 0 Quartern Loaf 0 5 0 9 B arley Ditto .... 8 0 . . Potatoes. 1419. 0 0 0 . 4 May, per 5t........ 010 . 0 Al, EDINBURGH MEAL S IARKE'I'.--.April 1. We had a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's mar ket, which met with a ready sale at last week's prices. Barleymeal 2e. per sack higher. Per Sack of 280111 Imp. Per Stone of 14th. Imp. First Oatmeal ..t1 17 0 First Oatmeal ... *a '2 Second ditto I It 0 Second ditto 14 Barleyrneal 1 10 0 Barleymeal (5 1..0 Peasemeal .... ........... 10 0 Peasemeal Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12.8.-2 d, 145.-3 d, 168.—Peat122t, GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—ApriI 2. mend, No alteration some eratio advance. nih Ni n r ce. heat and Oats. Barl e y i n goo d dr 15 0t01173 B ly t h is c h a , t, o l3 d er 2401 b. 30 a. d o . t. 3 8. 3 8 0 . 1 Iris O h ats, par 2641 b a. d. 1.4.' - new 240 28 6 Canada, free 2 0 31 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English 27 6 29 6 Scottish 26 6 27 6 Irish 2O 0 '24 6 Oats, pot' !lath, a . d . 9. d: Irish l5 °toll!, British ....... 10 0 tO v Beans, per 2601 b. English ..... 0 0 Scottish Pease, Scottish 18 0 19 v Oatmeal, per 1 /Mb. 14 0 15 0 Flour, per 260111 46 0 4 ' " MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—TuRsoav APRIL B.—..At the C ou rt Cos li nnissiouers, tasinghall-street. Gilbert, W., Leadenhall-street, optician Harding, R., Newington, grocer li Holland, J., Tipton, victualler ll Dale and Co., St. Thomas Apestle l I Nottage. G., Kingsland, auctioneer Gandon, A., Somerset-street, bookseller Marriott, W Broad-street, stockbroker lI Odell, W., Catherine-street, housekeeper Palmer, H., Whitechapel, coachmaker 1 1 Jackainan, S., Ip sw i c h, scrivener COUNTRY DlARY.—Tvasoit, Arai. 8. 0 Armstrong, A., Penrith—Mr. Jameson, Penrith IL Baxter, C., Ipswich—Queen's H ea d , I pswich I Bedford, W., Bristol—Whit e Li on, Bristol IL Foster, J., Knaresbrough—Court.house Leeds li Frost, W., Abergavenny--White Lion, Bristol IL Hetherington, It, Macclesfield—White's, Manch es t er Jackson and Co., S a lf ord—White ' s I IL Manchester Moreland, R., ISorwick—King's Arms, Lancaster Walker, J,, Halifaxll —Sossions-house, Wakefield INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO DISCHARGEV' Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, Likeoln's-inn-fields' April 11, at Nine. Sigley, Edward, Manchester, mason COUNTRY.--At the Court-house, at Leicester, April OP at Ten o'clock. Knott, Thomas, Leicester, turner Cockshaw, Isaac, Leicester, engraver Dexter, Francis, Sheepshead, lace-maker Jayes, Henry, Leicester, plumber narrold, George, Leicester, miller Budworth, Joseph, Barwell, cork-cutter Callow, Martin, Melton Mowbray, upholsterer Jelley, Richard, Leicester, victualler At Haverlhrdwest, April 12, at ten. Rowe, John, Tenby, cabinet-maker The body of JOHN DYCeN tho y ounge r of the murderers, has been received, from York, at our Infir mary, for diwiection. During the wholt. of this day it will be exhibited to the public, and on Saturday, the course of anatomical demonstrations will commence.—Leeds J , i telligeneer. LIREL.—WiLLIAM GLYNN, one of the Proprietors, and JonN HOARE, Printer of the Evening Mail Newspaper, were found guilty at the Mayo Assizes of a lib e l on Lord BINGHAM, arising out of an Electiuu squabble. o ❑ the 3d inst., Mrs. George Stephen, of North-end, llampstead, of a son. O❑ the 4th inst., in York-terrace, Regent's-park, the lady of Win. P. R. Shedden, Esq., of a son. DIED. On the Ist inst., at her house in Bryanston-street, Mrs- Anna Lig-Ivo:nth, daughter of the late John Edgworth, of Waterford, Esq. and first cousin to the late Abbe de Firmont. On the Ist inst., at Ryde, Isle of Wight, Jemiina, the infant daughter of Henry Goode, Esq., aged six weeks and five days. On the 28th February, a t L auv i g, i n N orway, Mucklow Lack, in the 25th year o f hi s age, secon d son Henry' , John Lack, Esq., of his Majesty's Customs, London. On the Ist inst., at her daughter's house, SB, Queen square, Bloomsbury, 46. Williams, aged 79. On the 29th ult., Thomas Swaine, Esq., M.D., of Itochford, in the county of Essex, in his 64th year, nui veraally regretted. On the 28th u!t., at Lyme Regis, Jane, wife of Major Bayly, late of the 51st Regiment. PRINTED and PUBLISHED by 119. YOUNG, at the SUN OFFICE; No. 112, &land. f I r, ! TE on WE: to recei Eigb Teti To 1 at Dept of Apri the let August Sara quarts I The . Offi ce . Eau" and be and the his bell The The C o POOL, jug the SUPS eleganc is consi being o obtain decided public. SILK T• W _ _ • CRC 061 4 tletru m of tl.t, of tlvi lite t,ire ;'ash 'lule ul l'rzr AN with t clime( Article ab t oa,l AF Ti.tn , l,ll Vtry and 11 ti on aLi p. a Seven BAI 1311-i Stuu e y nttl EX cheatel FAI and 1 3 1-1 k klll ford.% N 6 The f W e , Nut Si r , Eat liir: Light, The Ditti I I All abd adher e "hide 1 -11 CA: Uar4t.3 Liv Se t] tight, Cat (1 Cai btfur e nei before tor e F Nta e F Nei Four. Hri hlil Liv Tw o . No Fiv e . befor* Ed before Ara before Bir mart Wi and L iNa 'zlesfie Gk. before Cal tti ate ou 4tly v3 lr4v '`ngei IN !Tient