The Sun. — London, England, 1828-12-19 00:00:00

- it, not the man whom he thinks the fittest, but the man who is thrust on him by the possessors of boroughs. if the heads be inefficient, the in feriors ,will not be effective. In the Report of the Police Committee there is some good sense mixed up with not a little twaddle about ardent spirits, and so forth. The views, however, of the Committee do not seem to extend much be yond palliatives. We once reco.nmended the constitution of a Police establishment, in which there should be a promotion according to merit, from the lowest stations, and in which the heads should be made more responsible for the state of their districts. A system of promotion by merit would prevent that evil which now exists—namely, the nomination of Magistrates from the Learned Profession. Were the ap pointment to lead to.any thing higher, able men might be drawn from theeßar to the Police; but as it does not lead to any thing higher, no man who has any ambition will take it, and thus the Police becomes a refuge for the -lazy and the in efficient men, who either are too indolent for business, oc without the talents for succeeding. Hence, with a few exceptions, the Police Ma gistrates are positively below the average of Count!) , Magistrates in point of sagacity and understanding, notwithstanding the experience which this great metropolis affords. There are some excellent hints in Police matters to be found in Mr. Tytler's " Considerations on the Present Political State of India." He observes—" Re wards in money and land, and in promotion, are attended with much benefit among the natives, who are extremely greedy; and where such re wards are not given by Government, they will seek for them from the dacoits (thieves). Be sides rewards to persons of the description above mentioned, every Magistrate should have a series of much higher rewards, founded on promotion in his office, and which he should from time to time distribute according to the merits of his officers. There ought to be a gradual rise in every office, for the mem bers of that office alone ; and strangers should never be allowed admission unless to the lowest ranks, and 'when the lowest ranks are promoted in their turn. In the Thannahs (the Police establishment of a Police officer), this system of gradual promotion ought also to be made gene ral. Active Burkundauzes (an armed Police runner) should be promoted to the situation of fenmadars (the head of the runners), Jernina dars to the ylace of &Togas (the head Police officer at a channah or Police Establishment)." This is what we have always said. Do not place interest and July in opposition to cash other. The Officer of our Police Establish ments at present has an interest in crime; and that he may yield to every temptation, he is left poor, arid cut off from all advancement, the hope of which might stimulate him to exertion, and confirm him i c t his principles. Give scope to merit, and you will have it. Do not let the country be disgraced with the spectacle of thiev ing being tLe most secure business in London in the present day ; there having been fewer um, successful speculators in this line, than perhaps any'other. Look at the report of the trial at .Maidst one the other day, and see how secure the family men are. This could not be with an efficient Police.—Morning Chronicle. While despotism flatters itself with the extent of its power, because that power is never openly questioned, obedience to its mandates can hardly ever be enforced. When the Empress Catherine proceeded through her dominions, to view with her own eyes what progress had been made in erecting the towns and villages she had planned, her whole journey was one combined deception practised on her. The same frame-work of edifices was regularly conveyed to one spot, taken down,' and re-conveyed to another; and thus her flatterers gladdened her Imperial Ma jesty's eyes at the various stages of her to4r, In like manner, the Emperor Alexander, who ima , gined that nothing escaped his penetration, was constantly duped. According to Dr, Lyall, his visits were always, somehow or other, anticipated, and preparations made accordingly ; so that hos. pitals, prisons, and all other institutions appeared to his Imperial Majesty in quite a different con dition from that in which they appeared to every one else. The same writer tells us that false fronts of buildings were erected in Moscow to persuade him that his orders for the re-edifica tion of that city after the conflagration, had been complied with. An excellent' authority on Spanish affairs states, that nothing can exceed the deference to Majesty manifested by the dif ferent functionaries on receipt of a Government Order ; but that the next step after the Mes senger has turned his back is to apply the order to a certain vile use. In those parts of the British possessions where despotism is established, we behold the usual phenomena of despotism. The Colonial Minister transmits a despatch to the Proconsul; the Proconsul throws it aside trusting to the impossibility of his ever being called to account, and to the power of his con nexions in protecting him, should the Minister of the time take it into his head to inquire whe ther his orders had been comply e d w i t h . In an extract from the South African Advertiser, in another column, we have a beautiful exeroplifi sation of this working of the Colonial sys. tern. Mr. Fairbairn, the Editor of that paper, having been informed by Mr. Huskisson, in a Latter dated Downing-street, October I, 1328, that " before he resumed the publication of a newspaper, he should comply with whatever order might be in force at the Cape for the re gulatiun of that branch of the Press," on Ins arrival at the Cape, naturally inquired what order he was to comply with, when the Government Secretary, a Mr. John 13e11, with the utmost coolness and naivete, informed him, that indeed the views entertained by his Majesty's Govern ment respecting the Colonial Press had been set forth in a despatch by Mr. Huskisson's prede cessor," but that Mr. Huskisson was under a de lusion, when he supposed that effect had been given to these views ; as, " for certain reasons, that despatch had not been acted on, and conse quently the law of the Colony affecting the Press remained unaltered, since the publication of that newspa p e r he had now resumed;" th a t i s , th a t th e Jaw was the Governor's will. What ! our Lord Charleses, or Lord Jo h ns , to yield o b e di ence to the orders of any man, whom th e A r i stocracy at home select for drudgerytne i‘ir. . G a re u rg lc r e er l na r g no, they are not so simp that the despatch of Lord GoJerich must have been at the Cape many months, as Lord Gode rich left the Colonial Office in August, /527. He adds, that " the despatch directing the Lieutenant-Governor to suppress the Advertiser did not lie over so lons. His Hotiol4 acted upon it within eight-and-forty hours, or these abouts." His Honour knew what he was about. If Mr. Huskisson thought that arbitrary power and a free Press could exist peaceably together, like the lion and the lamb in Scripture, his Honour the Lieutenant-Governor knew better. 'There is not a Governor tluougbo.ut tin whole range of the possessionslorded over by the sprouts of our aristocracy, whose instinct does not tell him that the Press is a mortal enemy which he must destroy per fizs ant ntjas. 'The only pos sessions which have thriven under us are those which were left to themselves. Anarchy even is better than despotism. The public voice is the only means of guarding against abuse. Even in this metropolis, the moment the Legislature . gives a Select Vestry discretionary power, they laugh at their fellow-citizens, whose money they squander. Our colonial system is throughout and entirely mischievous, preventing the deve lopement of what is good, and securing im punity to evil. We may be assured that the Scions of Aristocracy and Military Bashaws, whom we place over our Colonies, will always resist to the uttermost the establishment of a Free Press, and laugh at the injunction's they receive from the Colonial Office at home.—lbid. It is no wonder that, among the other "vast improvements" of the present "age of intel lect," the alt of robbery should be carried to the perfection it is, when the officers of police, who are paid out of the public taxes to protect men's property from thieves, actually realize a profit by dealing in stolen goods. We have given, from time to time, extracts from the evidence taken before the Select Committee, to inquire into the state of the Police of the Me tropolis, which abundantly prove that Bow-street officers and others of that description are the re gular "go-betweens" in compounding felonies relative to stolen bank-notes, and other plunder, for a corrupt consideration. It ap pears, from an extract which we published yesterday, that those "emissaries of justice" are sometimes assisted in their laudable traffic with thieves by attornies " learned in the law ;" and, with such coadjutors in obtaining a safe market for their plunder, the public ought not to be surprised that the robbing of coaches and other schemes of depredation are carried on to the dangerous extent they are. In a tran saction of the above nature, alluded to by an at torney examined before the Select Committee, which was the recovery of a parcel of bank -notes stolen from a coach at the Gloucester Coffee house, the witness stated that the reward given to one of the two officers employed to nego ciate with the thieves on that occasion was, as well as he could recollect, 50/. ; and that the officer was a long time before lie would accept it. Was it because it was venal and illegal to do so? Not at all. The reason was that he did not think it sufficient. Now it a Police-officer can, with perfect impunity, make 501. or more by one job of this sort, why should he trouble himself to inter ropt thieves in those avocations which turn out so profitable to himself and his brethren ? The Chinese, a people whom our literati are accustomed to pity for their extreme simplicity, have a police system ; and their police-officers are so far advanced " the march of intellect" as to be capable of doing things sometimes as venal and corrupt as any of our own officers--- but, when detected, they undergo the painful and ignominious punishment, of the bamboo and the wooden collar ; and the measure 4 their punish m ent is always more severe, and justly so, than that of the thieves themselves. We also have our laws against the scandalous and dangerous traffic in compounding felonies re latiVe to property ; but the evil is, that those laws are not ,carried into effect. The law says that si every person who shall corruptly take any money or reward, directly tav indirectly, under pretence or on account of helping any pe,rson to any chattel, money, valuable security, or other property whatsoever, which shall by any felony or nusdeu4Anour have been stolen, &c., shall (unless he cause tire offender to be appre hended end brought to • trial for the same) be guilty of felony, And, being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to 1 0e transported beyond the seas fir if fo, or fin ality te rm not less than seven years, or to be im prisoned for any term not exceeding four years; and, if a male, to be onpe, twice, or thrice pub licly pr privately whipped, if the. Court shall so think fit, in fyldition to such imprisonment : — This is what the bw says ; but the constant practice says otherwise. Kepee thieves are en couraged to pursue their employment, by ob taining security as well as great gains in the dis. rg)sal cf stolen goods s while police-officers, and a certain class of attorneys, share their honour able profits...-,Morning Herald. WINTER 4,6 SIZES. MAIDSTONE, DEC. le. THE CASE OF MR. AUSTIN. No less than 13 true bills were yesterday returned by the Grand Jury against this gentleman, for em bezzling and secreting divers sums of money the pro perty of his Majesty, which sums had passed into his hands by virtue of the office he then held of Deputy Treasurer of Greenwich Hospital. The charge is thus stated in the Kent calendar ;-- " Austin aged 55, brought by habeas corpus from his Majesty's gaol of Newgate; committed the 3d of September, 1828, by Sir R. Birnie, Knight, charged on the oaths of W. Paine and others, for that he the said Thomas Austin being a clerk and ser vant to our sovereign Lord the King,—to wit, De puty Treasurer of o;..eenwieli Hospital,—did feloni ously steal and embezzle the sum of 12,843/. 12s. 6d., the ne.onies of our said Lord the King. " Detalne4 further charged on the oaths of Wm. Paine and others trith feloniously stealing and em bezzling the sum of 6W. bss. 7d., the monies of our said L.crd.the King, at Greenwich?' It was expected the prisoner would have been tried on one or more of the indictments this morn to the witnes ses f or the prosecution not ing, before Mr. Justice Hnlroyd ; b ut ow i ng, as i s ruracuredt being all in attendance, the trial w as p o stpone d , an d now stands fixed for eight o' c l oc k to-morrow morn ing (Friday.) Messrs. Bolland and Broderit:k have been retain ed for the p rosec ution, and have Pngaged in seve ral long consultations with the hospital solicitor, Mr. Bicknell, relative, as is said, to some leg a l difficulties which the - cases are expected to present. • Messrs, Adolphus, Law, and Clarkson, a re to conduct the defence, and are expected to raise a va _ riety of objections to the form of the indi ctments, which are framed under Mr. P,e,el's late act, for murk: gifectually punishing frauds and embezzlements by servants. Among other objections, it is said, it will be urged that u r . Austin was not a servant of ;the King,—that he held hit a i ppointnteut under the treaurer of the hospital, to whom he gave security, who was respunsible for his acts, and by whom 1 4.0,P he could be deprived pf his office; and, consequently, if the servant of any one, be was.the servant of the treasure?, And not of the King. The rase excites very great ititei.:4 throughout the country, and Op Court is likely to be very crowded. kiJAGLARY.—CharIes Currey, Wm. Bennett, John Jones, and Thos. Green, were charged with break ing into th e house of Mr. William Am er , th e sign a the 'Two Brewers at Lewisham, and stealing therein two guns, several Mottles of spirits, and other articles. Verdict--. Guilty. Sentence of death recorded. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. A Court of Common Council was held at the Council Chamber, Guildhall, yesterday, for the des , patch of general business. SUSPENSION BRIDGE IN HOLBORN. After the minutes:of the last Court had been gone through, a petition was presented from a Mr. R. B. Taylor, containing a plan for making a level road between Holborn-hill and Skinner -street, by the erec tion of a chain or suspension -bridge. The petition was referred to the Improvement Committee. STEAM-BOAT PIER. Mr. STEVENS called the attention of the Court to the projected plan of erecting a pier in the Thames, for the purpose of more conveniently landing passel). gers from steam-boats. He said that the city ought to look with vigilance after any public company whose projects might in any degree interfere with its rights or privileges. Mr. OLDHAM said, that if any bill for carrying the proposed plan into effect' should be introduced into Parliament in the course of the next session, he had no doubt that the usual course would be adopted, of appointing a committee to watch its progress ; and there was no doubt that that committee would take care that the rights or privileges of the city were not interfered with. APPROACHES TO THE NEW BRIDGE. A petition was presented from a Mr. Peter Jeffery, complaining that the Bridge Committee had not paid that attention to his plan for making ap proaches to the new London-bridge, to which they were entitled ; and also that a part of his plans had been unfairly adopted by other parties. He said that he was the first who projected the arch over Thames•street as one approach ; that that plan was shown to the Messrs. Rennie, by one of whom (Mr. John Rennie) the arch was objected to; but that subsequently he adopted the arch into his own plan. The petition, was referred to the Bridge Com mittee. A Report from the Committee of General Pur poses was presented and agreed to. PORTRAIT OF MR. CHAMBERLAIN CLARKE. A discussion arose on the subject of the applica tion of an artist for leave to copy the portrait of Mr. Clarke, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, with a' view to its being engraved, The prayer of the petition was unanimously agreed to. CITY FINANCES. Mr. FAVELL, in presenting a report from the , Finance Committee, recommending various grants from the city funds, and amongst others that of 31,0001. fot , building the new Fleet-market, beyond the original estimate, took occasion to dwell upon many advantages which had resulted to the city from the appointment of that Committee. To show the extent to which disbursements were made from the city funds, he would only mention, that in the 11 pn.rs, since which the Committee had been ap pointed, not less than 400,000/. were paid out for extras, including the sum of 200,0001. advanced for the building of the new Fleetonarket. And no doubt the payments in this way would have been much greater but for the vigilance of the Commit tee. Great, arid he would say in many cases unne cessary, expenses were incurred by the city prisons, because the city of London was called upon to pay 15s. to 55., as compared with the expenses of the county, on account of those prisons. He was glad to find that the attention of Ministers was at last di rected to this important point, and he thought it a good opportunity for the city authorities to point out the inequality of the pressure. The expenses of witnesses were most enormous. Iu the case of a recent trial, which ended in the execution of the accused,—he meant that of poor Hunton,--the ex penses of witnesses had cost the city 100/. The worthy Member, after again pointing out the advan tages which might be derived from a vigilant exer tion by the Committee, and again calling the atten• tion of the young members of the Court to subject, concluded by moving that the report be re ceived and printed. Mr. Jupp seconded the motion, and bore testi, mony to the zeal and activity of the Finance Cora mittee. Mr. STEVENS moved an amendment, " That the expenses of the Corporation being greater than its receipts, it should be referred to the Finance Com mittee to consider and report what reductions were necessary to bring those expenses within the re ceipts." Alderman WAITIMAN freely admitted that much good would result from a continuance of the labours of the Committee. After a few words from Mr. CLARKE, Mr. STEVENS withdrew his amendment, and al lowed it to stand as a motion for the next court. The original motion was then put, and carried. SPANISH AND ITALIAN REFUGEES. The LORD MAYOR said that he had been re quested by the Committee for the Relief of the kiprpnish and Italian Refugees, to apply to the court for the use of the Guildhall, in ord er th a t a concert may be given in it for the benefit of those destitute strangers, The committee had not yet named a day for that purpose, but he had no doubt that when ever it might be fixed, the Court would with great pleasure grant the request, especially when he in formed it that the former concert for the same pur pose had produced the cl ear sum o f 1,0404 (Hear, hear), and when it was known that no room in Lon don was so well adapted for a concert. LONDON. BRIDE}!. 4. long discussion arose on the subject of the re port of the fridge Committee (presented on the Ist of October), and recommending. the plan of an approach to the bridge by an arch over Thames-street. It was moved that it be adopted. To this, after some discussion, an amendm en t Was put, that the Court do then adjourn. This having been negatived, another amendment was moved, that the farther dis cussion o¢ the motion be deferred to the next Court day. This was negatived, and the original mo tion carried by a large majority, Mr. R. TAYLOR gave the following notices for the next Court :—" That it be referred to a Committee to report on the best means of making the sum of 4001. p#r g.imum (being the produce of the Philpot and other estates), voted on the 18th of January last, for the purpose of education, available for the benefit of the greatest number of the sons of bong de freemen-householders of the city of London.''-- " That the Court do, on an early day, take into con sideration the propriety of unitingthewardof Vintry, with such ward contiguous to it as Contained the smallest number of inhabitants."—,Adjourned. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL. WEDNESDAY, DECEILDE I 7.—Wind water four minutes past eight.—Arrived the Pa cific, Head, from Whitehaveu ; Columbine, Henry, from Zante; Linnet, Jenkins, from Newport ; Plughe, from Plymouth ; John Wells, Curtis, from Savannah ; Melampus, from Leith. CLEARED OUTWARDS.---The Jubilee, Chaddock, fig New York ; Georgia, Vernon, for Savannah ; Canada, Graham, for New York; Lindsay, Rowe, for Rio de Janeiro. The forthcoming pantomime at the Adelphi Theatre is founded on the well-known _nursery distich— F,' Taffy was a Welchman, Tato was-a Thief." The tri c k s are said to be numerous a'iid ingenious —the scenery new and splendid. ST. PAUL COVENT-GA RDEN.--Yesterday, a.Meeting of the inl.4bitanis of the above parish was held in the Vestry-room. The Chair was ;k en b y M r . P. I White, of Bridges street. A Resolution tvas proposed apt o,l •Fical, that the accounts should be again . b 041144 . 0 t 9 'Mr. 11,1inshull and Mr. !falls, and if they refused to pass them, that i, measures should be t a k en t o compe l th em to d o o was, what sum was a fair ;•e -in m Corder for hi s services as Vestry Clerk. s;i nr Theat n tonest Ai question u " c4t, Mr. Walker thought 150/. sufpeient, considering that he had not all tha duties to perform; and he moved that 75/., a half-year's salary, be forthwith paid. The motion was carried. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. not get it changed, and he took it to the Bank, as BOW-STREET. i he was that day goi ng i nto t h e Ci ty on other business. Yesterday Si r R. B IRNIE was occup i ed from an "Pray, Mrs. D ar l ey ," sa id t h e MAGISTRATE, " is i early ho ur i n t h e d ay, unt i l nearly four o ' clock, in it usual in sma ll reta il s h ops, such as I understand endeav our i ng to unravel the mysterious c i retun- you kept, t o g i ve c h ange for a note of so large an =mint as 301. t o a man w h o i s a total str, anger, on cer's cashbox, stances connected w i t h t h e ro bb ery o f L or d Spen his purchasi ng so tr ifli ng an art i cle as a cravat ?" and the s u b s tit ut i on o f another in its' she place, as re p orte d i n T he Sun of Wednesday last, Airs. Darl e y cou ld not say that it was: ; but by Mr. Jam es B roug h am, one of the Members for . l re- , s happened to h ave t h e change out considerin g the matter. her, and she gave gong, and severa l ot h er gentlemen, attended theexa-1 it with urination, as did also L or d S pencer ' s agent an d his Mr. DYER as k e d if e i t h er Mrs. Darley or Hunt clerk. It appears that th e b ox w hi c h h a d b een su b- made any en t r y at t h e t i me i n any of the shop books o f t h e sa l e o f t hi s cravat, or the receipt of stituted for th a t w hi c h conta i ned the money, was found to con t a i n not a b un dl e of rags, as was at this 301. note ? M rs . D ar l ey sa i d there was no entry first stated, b u t t wo I ta li an h eaters made of iron made, fo r i n f act , s h e sa id t h ey kept no books. , but not o f l ate. " What," sa id W. DYER, " k ee p no b oo k s ! t h at and used by w as h erwomen i n gett i ng up small arti- is a strange way of conduct . ng business. " Mrs. des of linen. The b ox a l so conta i ne d an old towel , Darley sa id t h at they had at one time kept b oo k s , and some oth er unimportant articles intend e d to make up th e we i g h t of die money-b ox . Th ere i s adhered hunt was one of th e another slight error i n th e report, w hi ch states that Mr. D YER now asked Mr. Kebblewhite if h e st ill the clerk h av i ng d e p os i te d t h e b o i i n the coach, re- t o hi s i mpression, that turned to the inn, d ur i ng which men who h a d h ust l e d and robbed him ? Mr. Keb interval i t was blewhite had th a t impression unalt era bl y fixed tm his thought that th e exc h ange h a d b een effected. It d appears, h owever , accor di ng to t h e clerk's state- min _ , but a t t h e same t i me he should not like to ment, that he n ever once qu i tte d possess i on of the swear to it. Hunt said t h at h e cou ld prove that on the day in box from the ti me t h e agent an d hi mself left the Spread Eagle a t W an d swort h unt i l the i r arrival in question he was never out of the house, for Mr. Dar town.leyparticularly requested of him on that day to at tend It is th o u g h t t h at t h e exc h ange must have look closely to the busi ness , an d not to go out to been made at W an d swort h , b ut nothing whatever has as yet tr ans pi re d to l ea d to any certain results, after any sight s . Suspicion has f a ll en upon a party, b ut at present it Mr. K e bbl ew hi te st ill f u ll y believed Hunt to be of the m en w h o h a d ro bb e d him; he had a full is too vag u e an d uncerta i n to make public. The view of his face, and it was b roa d day-light "at the matter has been pl ace d i n t h e h ands of John James ..,__ Smith, a principal officer of this establishment. Mr. Banting, the cabinet-mak er; of Regent-st ree t, who appeared at thi s o ffi ce on ednesday to sup port one of his workmen in a charge of assault against a" society man," named Hunter, who, with others of the same society, have lately manifested a spirit of combination, came yesterday before Mr. HALLS, to request the aid of some officers, in order to protect himself and men from the consequences of the strong measures which he and his partner were obliged to have recourse to. Four men belonging to the society had paraded all the morning in a menac ing manner opposite to his house, in Regent-street, arid he greatly feared that it was their intention to commit some violence. Mr. HALLS said, that as they had as yet refrained from the commission of any act of disorder or out rage, he had no power to take them into custody. Mr. Banting then retired. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate at this office, was occupied for a considerable time in the investi gation of the following_case : A respectable oldgentlernan, name d K e bbl ew hi te, residing at Lee, i n Essex, stated that on Saturday, the 25th of October, he was passing along Fleet street, in the city, about three o'clock in the after noon, when he was suddenly hustled by four or five men, and in an instant he missed his pocket-book, containing a 30/. note of the Bank of England, and some private papers. It was in vain, he said, to look after the thieves at the time, as the crowd was so great, end those who robbed him separated in a moment, and scent in different directions. Imme diately on the discovery of his loss, he went off to the Bank of England, and there stopped payment of the 30/. note, the number of which he fortunately had ,a recollection of. From that time he heard nothing on the subject, until a few days ago he re ceived a communication from the Bank of England, stating that the note had been paid in, and on his proceeding to the Bank they there informed him • that the note had been changed for a person of respectable appearance, who gave his name Hunt, and residing at a certain number in Oxford street, but that it was forgot at the moment ut the Bank that the note.had been stopped, or else it would not have been changed. Upon learning this, Mr. Kebblewhite went, he said, directly to the house in Oxford-street, which he found to be a shut up linen-draper's shop, lately kept by a man named Dailey, who is at present a prisoner for debt in the Fleet Prison. He (Mr. Kebblewhite), however, made inquiries at the house, and found that a person named Hunt was living there, who had been the shopman of Dailey before he failed in business, and that Mrs. Darley was also still in the house. He accordingly had an interview with Hunt, who ad. mitted at once that he had changed the 30/. note at the Bank of England, and said that he received it before the closing of Darley's shop, in payment of some article which he sold, but that he knew noth ing of the person who paid it to him, further than that lie was a respectable-looking man, and said that his name was Clarke, which he wrote on the Note, and that he lived near the Bell public-house at Isleworth, and that he (Clarke) had received the' note from a Mr. Mansey,residing also at Isleworth, whose name appeared, too, upon the note. The moment Mr. Kebblewhite saw Hunt when he first called at the house in Oxford-street, he felt strongly that he recognized in him one of the men who had hustled and robbed him in Fleet-street ; but he said nothing on that point, until he should first have made search after Clarke. He accordingly went down to Isleworth, and there made every possible inquiry as to any person of that name residing there, or in the neighbourhood, but there was none such to be heard of. He did, however, find a man named Mangey, a respectable person, living there, but he denied that he had ever possessed this SOL note, or any other 30/. note, lie believed, in his life, and said that the endorsement in his name on the note was not at all in his handwriting. Under these circum stances, he (Mr. Kebblewhite) requested of the magistrate to instruct him how he should act, for he had the strongest impression that Hunt was one of the men who had hustled him, and that his whole story of his having received the note from a man named Clarke was a fabrication. ime. Mr. DYER said that in that case he (Mr. Dyer) could proceed no further in the business, or render Mr. Kehblewhite any assistance; and here the mat ter dropped. Information was yesterday given at this office, of a very daring burglary and extensive robbery, com mitted at the country residence of Colonel Joseph Whatley, of Hill-street, Berkeley-square, and one of the Grooms of the Bedchamber to his Majesty. The country residence of Colonel Whatley is at Watford, in Essex, where the Colonel has been stopping for some time past ; but a few days ago he proceeded on a visit for a short time to a friend in Worcestershire, where he is at present, leaving in the house at Watford, besides the female domestics, four men -servants. Yesterday morning, on the servants coming down stairs to the lower part of the house, they found that the place had been broken into the night before, and the whole of the valuable family plate carried away. It appeared that the burglars first forced their way in at a back window on the basement story of the house, having first sawed across a very thick oak upright post that divided the window in its centre, and into which the other parts of the frame were inserted, and having thus loosened the whole window, they had but little difficulty in removing it. Thus having obtained an easy access to the interior of the lower parts of the house, they proceeded directly, without disturbing, in the slightest degree, any other place through which they passed, to the pantry, which they also forced open by wrenching off the fork with a crow-bar, and here they foamd the plate chest, which, no doubt, was the sole e'eeet et thee visit, they not having removed a single reticle of I property besides. The plate-chest, which was of I great weight from its contents and solid make, they contrived without noise to carry to the back of the outside premises, where they conveniently found hand-barrow belonging to the place, into which they put the plate-chest, and so wheeled it along to a!: ad joining open field, where they hroke it open and carried off almost the whole of very valuable contents. So great was the strength of the chest, and the violence used to break it open, that some of the blows given, no doubt with a sledge hammer, so firmly indented some of the iron fastenings of the chest into some of the large silver dishes and covers inside, that the thieree when they got the chest open foiled it impossible to remove these dishes and covers from their fast hold, and were compelled to leave them behind with the chest. The quantity of plate, however, carried away, must amount in value to many huniked pounds; it consisted of every kind of neeful and ornemental family plate, including several dishes a:& covers; besides therm left beliir:d, but of a smaller size, no less than 22 dozen of folks of various sizes, silver tea and coffee pots. :6 dozen of gravy, ta'ule, desert, tea, salt, and egg spoons; silver candlesticks and branches, fish slices, egg stands and cups, &c. all haying on the crest of a buck's head elone, or a buck's head with a helmet. The burglary appears to have been effected by regular " cracksmen" (housebreakers) from the workmanlike way in which it was accomplished. No due whatever has been had to the perpetrators. DIA RYLF,BO NE. A tragical case, at present involved in mystery, came before Mr. GRIFFITH yesterday. Boyantin Burrup, a respectable tailor and habit maker, of Greenwich, who does not appear to be more than 23 years of age, was placed at the bar, and Thomas Winnet, a watchman, acting on that occasion as serjeant of the night, stated, that a 3 h e stood at the end o f Lower Spring -street, about a quarter past ten on Wednesday night, he :saw the prisoner coming along Crawford-street, in company with a young woman of genteel appearance, and they were talking loudly and eagerly together, but he could not distinguish their word!. They made a stop when they came opposite him, and appeared to be angry, and before he could cross ovee, he saw the prisoner point a pistol at the young woman, and fire it. Mr. GRIFFITH asked the watchman whether the prisoner appeared to be in liquor. " He had been drinking," replied the watchman, " but not so much as not to hnow what he wae - doing." Thomas Adams, constaHe of the night, received charge of the prisoner at Marylebone watch-house. He visited him several times in the lock-up•room, and the prisoner, who appeared to be deranged, in consequence of the liquor ;le had rakes, asked him upon each occasion how his Mary was. Mr. Goodger, the apothecary of the Infirmary, stated, that the young woman was brought in about half-past ten on Wednesday night; he knew her be fore, for he has attended her in sickness at her mo ther's house, in Salisbury-mews, baker -street, and her name is Mortlock. He examined her face, where the injury had been received, a suitable dressing was applied, and yesterday morning Mr. Phillips, the sur geon of the establishment, extracted a piece of lead, Mr. GRIFFITH asked what kind of a girl she was, and what was her occupation ? Mr. Goodger re presented her to be u smart handsome girl, with very fight hair, about 18 years of age, and living under the, protection of her mother, who keeps a green. grocer's shop. In answer to other questions, Mr. Goodger said she was then in a favourable state. The prisoner stood at the bar with his arms fold ed, his face was flushed, and betrayed intense feel ing, but his behaviour was composed, and he listened with great attention to the evidence, and when he was asked to give his address, he drew a card-caeo from his pocket, and handed it to the gaoler,., He said he had no wish to say any thing, or put any questiene to the witnesses, and he was commit ted for Te,ex4mination. BSA NO; FEJS9, Mr. Mull asked if Hunt was still at the house in Oxford-street ?--Mr. Kebblewhite replied that he was. The Magistrate then despatched an officer for Hunt, who ►n a little time came to the office, and gave precisely the same account to the magistrate that he had given to Mr. Kebblewhite, of how be became possessed of the note. When he received the note in Darley's shop from the man who gave the name of Clarke, he sent it up stairs, he said, to Mrs. Darley, who gave the change for it, and it was for Mrs. Darley that he, in some weeks after, took. it to the Bank of England and got it changed. He was asked no question whatever, he said, at the Bank, although the clerk seemed to have looked over a list of stopped or lost notes; but the change was given to him at once; and he wrote his own name and address upon it. The MAotsTRATE asked if Mrs. Darley had any recollection of her having given change for the note ? Hunt said he did not know; but he supposed she must have. She was then at home, and might be sent for. Mrs. Darley was accordingly sent for; and on being questioned by the Magistrate, had a perfect recollection of changing a 301. n o t e at t h e t i me i n question, which Hunt had just t h en ta k en f rom a man the w f or th f i c ha nge , she vas s t an di ng at that moment at the shop-doo r on t h e po i nt o f going out, when Hunt asked her f or t h e c h ange. inst had i ad purchased 4 M IMI 44 d WV wg i t i ng Mr. DM—Why Hunt told me just now that he sent the note up stairs to you to get change. Hunt—That was certainly a mistake of mine, your Worship; what Mr s . D ar l ey says i s true. Nu- parley OP" Went on tp say that she kept in het . posses 3 i on f or a b out ' three weeks be fore Hunt to the P a nk o f E n gla n d t o get it b She did not want, s h e sa id , to get it the en she e i ngseendt. g i iiing o sooner, because her husband was, soot} and the shop shut r s , q p i Lt t in n t o o b t t l ! T is f e,s le:t y4 fp s r e4 d p e i h e t d ,. lir, 1) ) ,- E p. asked if she could not have procured change for the i'PtP . any where in the neighbourhppd' .4ending it all O Uf n iP t i ha sl : e re t q p i:e t c l :mon q . • withput 't h e way from Oxford-street. to the Bank of England ? Hunt said he had tried several places in the neighbourhood, but he could LOSS OF THE FACTOR cnLu3o WITH HER CAPTAIN AND CREW. (From the : C um b er l an d Packet of Dec. 18.) `'' The Factor, Connell, sad Express (traPr sailed from this port (Whitehaven). for B e lfast L i London on th e 9 t h i nstant; t h e Express put 17e the next day, but the Factor, unfortutatelPae mained at se a i n th e h ope of making her is;s7l and the con sequence h as b een the total w. that fine vessel, and the melancholy loss . of, amiable Captain and the whole of the crew,.. &sting of fourteen persons. The news of thi4 fortunate catastrophe w as b roug h t to W h i tehav Sunday ev en i ng l ast b y C a p tain Conning, 014,' Skeldon, a Ki r k cu db r i g h t trader, whO gave. 0 0 1,1 formation a s l e f t no d ou b t bat hat the Factot . D been wrecked, an d yester d ay a letter was reit by the agent i n t hi s town w hi c h - fully coafirist,d loss. The vessel, it is supposed, had struck, f the Ross at the entrance to Kirkcudbright; ht f lo none of her-unfortunate crew has been spared, o communicate the particulars, the precise - spot.lS the misfortune took place must necessarily te i n unknown. The body of the Captain was 5 upon th e roc k s nearly opposite the Ross, wiS shoes, coat, or waistcoat; and from its appes it is inf erre d t h at h e h ad swam from the vesse l:a reached the shore alive, but had afterwards per through.the inclemency of the weather. The was found on the beach at no great distance,, several firkins of butter , and other articles, knobl have been on b oar d, were cast on shore. No of the wr ec k h as yet ma d e i ts appearance, nor A of the oth er b o di es f oun d . Captain Connell interred on. Sunday, and bis remains folloWed 1 large con course o f peop l e; he has left a wift!4 nine children to lament the loss of a most Will& husband an d p arent . I t i s con j ectured there•l7 some passengers on bo ar d. • .v. • THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEs' _..---, - Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. BOP' ...............—... —..—........,.... .—........ Per quarter. I. to a. a. to a. a. to a. a 44 Blandford —.......— 85 -- 38 30 —. 0 Brigg .-- 72 78 39 36 25 28. 36 . 0 Carabridge.......—,. 81 34 18 Chard ...---.... 56 7O 32 39 24 SO 42 Huntingdon--- . 86 78 41. 28 39 28 29 93 40r Long Sutton 55 76 17 94 38 0 Louth --- 65 75 26 34 17 t 5 38 0.• Lynn. 62 84 30 40 14 94 38- 0 Newark ---.. 78 88 32 44 17 30 42 Nottingham —......— 77 46 0. Peterborough —. 56 78 37 40 18 25. 97 ~, Plymouth 70 86 37 40 27 31 -- 0 Pontefract.= —BO :39 —2B 0, Sleatbrd .... 76 80 30 33 22 24 50 Uppingliarn -- 76 90 34 45 17 27 38 Wlsbech —.... 68 80 22 32 18 24 98 ..../ LEEDS COltN 51 ARKE1.—Dee in • 1,11 . - LEEDS CORN _ . A RKET.—Dec. 16. The supply of Wheat and Barley was rather large ! L only moderate of other Grain; the London market lxr di dearer for Wh eat on F r id ay, caused the holders o f-f . English and Foreign to demand considerably higher pri but the Flour trade being dull, the millers purchased 0 1: for their i mme di ate wants, at 2s. to 3s. per quarts: ti vance. Fine Barley scarcely supported last week's prit and all other sorts were neglected. In Oats and libelli; l 4 material there was no a lt era ti on . B eans were dull 0!. and rather cheaper. 4 Wheat, Norfolk and_ Suliblk, 601 b. ....... 7:34 to 10 Yvik and lint In. 0,04 , •no SO L i f .... •••••••••--' a.ad Lira ta titineic g Beata .•• ..... ......... rm. 40.. to 45 1 . 044, POtatOw ......... 345. to:ais• 5 c Foreign 1 36.,t01.`.4‘4_„.Eng11 i 1i 134: to 16.1. pht4, Shellin g 37 - 44. to 364-ecr Rapt,,d, English, 9.tv. to 30/ oForeign, to .4. '.." _A VERPOOL CORN IiXCI/ANGE.—Th.v. 16. - „ . 6 ,i 1.1%.4. r, Eng-- -- lish, ' Ilea White , 'per '7011). •-- -,--- •Il 3 1 1 -°.,-•• ---. s cotch, Welch, end ;:Two, X , ........ .....• 11 3 4 : ---- Irish, AVhite 9 W 1 1 - .. 0 10 t , .' 1 1 4 .4 i ...............GAT3, E: r e g:L ign r aill i , g :W ... e .. l: . h . ............ Seoul, per 4:714, •• •4 0 A•• ..- 1ri.41 ....... ...,........ ..... ~ ....... ......... 3 10 ' ' Bliati - t, English, Malting, per imp. (putter 44 0 -4 1 l "„ -, Scotch and Irish, per Nibs. - -. Feeding S 3 5 English. per I•nperial quarter..., ..... - Irish, &c. , Foreign English, per Imperial quarter ..... ...... ------ Ft.:reign FLOUR, English, per , 2901 b. t ei 0 tie ~1 1 ---- litili Oar.i.si., English and I ris h, per Y-1011:ss - 37 0 '''' '''° r 4. Psulax COAX.. per 4-101 b. - 39 tf.! .. ..2,1i. per Imperial qton i ere 0 0 • v - MALT. par Irepc a l quarter I IdIKOIT OF GRAIN for the Weea fili e 1 72 coding Du. I:i.. ~"' Wheat.' Oats .1 Barter.' • Flour. ' lOateros.', • Qrs. i Qrs. 1 Qrs, iFereign, this !Irish, &c. '.:.:i;.1 •i...t 4,.=46 ! !i,7T., I Li'o9 I ...... ' 60 1 il, ..*,-, DIANCIILSTEIt Sht!T!. D.—Dcv.l7. At per ib. flaking " 3,047 4d. to #4.,' r* - 44 c.ttie - 3 C • ----- 9 EAI ARK ET,••b;-601i; 71. pad of 12 and M. !lad of Iti pee ; MANCHESTER POTA Potatoes, ss. 941, 6s. Od., and ; Near ditto ' (;s., Os. Od., se. 9d. . , 61.0 d. and 6s. Bd. per k 155., and 15.4. 6d. pet 12 icore. YAIL: No. Tikostie r fwist, 20..181 to 11 30 —l3 13i 40 1 hicleeopTwist7 151 ; 121 tur o•tup j 40»1# 15 50 ...lit ?0 60 —2O 12 70-23 £G t. 7 30 OLASGOW It ETA II Bcrf. ..... .por lb sd. :oat. W. mufti' • 4 0 7 Veal ..... 9 7 o u INTii I 144 k 2 • 2 ,4 i 28 92 $f 9 4 _44 io j Eq. Hauir 0 5 0 7 Lamb perqr. 0 0 U 0 QuartentLoaf... 011 0 9 flour, porkone 0 c b Rye ... 1 6 1 Mule Cop Welt.; I Weft from waste ) Al A II KETS,—DC Z.i. Oatmeal, per st. txl. tali Peaaeuieul g 3 Pat Barley, clet 15t g Pearl Grey Pease O.; 0 I &Ile ditto ....„ , 0 th HOP INTELLIGENCE. WohchsTsa„ pre. 17.—0 n Sutural; isht, E l . Wolf w Pockets were eighed. Pri , les coatinne steady, ra cy little doing. I WP.THS. Oi tho 9th instant, pr Sou th i tree t, Finsbury- , 3 -3, the lady of C a pt a i n D. Miller, of the East ladi a „ of u son. On the 13th instant, at the Parsonage, Bognor, , f sfs - of the Rev. Edward of a son. At Renfrew, the lady of Walter Pollock, lof C I nada-park, of a son and heir. At Bath, Mrs. Harvey Marriott, b wi n ;f„d.i, m ,„ , o f daughter. M.AP.RIED. ' On the 18th instant, John Wilson, of Gray's-inn, barrister-at -law, to Miss Julia Start* of Xillmrn. On the 18th instant, at St. Ann's, Sao, by the 11,1 ' Dr. Macleod, 'l', W. Towson, Esq., of Upminszci; . to Miss Ma: is Stannard, of Ryder's-court, Leicester-.quay' Or, the 10th instant, at Youghal, county of Cork, Alfred Davis, Esq., of Lower Tooting, Surrey, Captain in the 15th Regiment, to Henrietta, youngest daughter of Georg e Roche, Esq., of Youghal. On the 17th instant, at St. ALtthetv's, Friday-streets by the Veit. G. A, Hatch, M. A., Mr. S. Millard, sur geon, of Bristol, to Sarah Susanna Brooks, niece of Mr. Richard Ray, Wood -street, Cheap - side. On the 17th instant, at Leighton Buzzard, Bedford* shire, Edward Lawford, Esq., to Mizs Caroline Augusta Deverell. At Clifton, the Rev. John Luxmore, vicar of Berrieort' Montgomeryshire, to Isabel, second daughter of WiWan , Scott, Eq., of Clifton. At Hereford, Richard Johnson, Esq. to Sarah, eldest daughter of the Rev. Charles Taylor, D.D., Chancellor of the diocese. Ai Hereford, Philip Whiteombe, Esq., of Brasennoss College, Oxford, to Ann Margaret Leaford, eldest daughter' of the Rev. William Evans, rector of Kingsland, Here fordshire. Yesterday the pl ans an d mo d e l s f or t h e ap . DIED. proaches t o th e new L ondon-bridge were inspected at On the 16th i ns t an t , at h i s house, Kennington Ovab Guildhall by Lord Visconnt Lowther, Sir George Cock- CI a- t aged 55, Mr. Lawrence Swainson, of Nag's-h e ad-Court , ....racecnurcn-street. burn, Bart. .1. W. Qroker," and Geor ge Dawson, Emirs., o n the llth instant, Jacob Jordan, Esq., aged 59, M. P., whom the Lord ,Valor afterwards entertained at formerly a Lieutenant-Colonel in the army. dinner at the Mansion-h ouse , wh ere th ere w as a small se- lect party to mee t t h em. On th e 14 t h i nstant, at Le Coin, in the island of Jersey, aged 26, Samuel, third so n o f Th omas F og, E sq., late a Lewisham, i n th e county o f K ent. BRUSSELS, DEC. 16.—V ar i ous repo r ts h ave b een I • ~. received front Java o f ac ti ons w i t h t h e insurgents, in On the 17th i nstant , at Cambridge, in h er 28th y ea r, which our troops were u n if orm l y successful, These Georgiana Elizabeth, wife of the Rev. Edw.trd Ser u cold accounts were up to July 2(), and others have now Pearce. r arrived to August 16,. Th e y ment i on reports o f t h e On the 16th instant, in Aldermanbu y, Mary , the wile end of July and beginning of August. peut.-Governor-Cieneral of various actions at the of • Willi h a e m l Du ti s i ta . n. The enemy I W. .i"•tTillevs ~iiiiiisitaa,ukt;iiars- road. ' ., it seems continually endeavoured to harms the Mary Anne, third daughter of Mr. At Alortril:terrace, Taunton, Mrs. Dundas, relict of the ;mops, and did their utmost to besiege our buntings or prevent the cons t ruct i on o f t h em. Th e troops r late Rear-Ad. miral Dundas, an d s i ster to the Right Hop. is of the Netherlands, a n d even t h e I n di an auxiliaries, Lady Morrie. --__________"—" had shewn much courage, and always put the enemy PRINTED and PUBLISHED by MURDO YOUNG, at 020 to flight, %N ith but 1 sail loss on their part. iSUN OFFICE, 112, STUAND, LONDON. . • i~ Ind tr 4 the 4trii Oct 1' 0 11 h e nul