The Sun. — London, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

MORNING EDITION SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE DAILY CAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Morning Post has been praiseworthily labouring to fill the world with abhorrence of Vac desire to purchase cheaply. In the new code of commercial ethics the 'en ing is to be proscribed. People are to go into markets, not for the purpose of discovering what is cheapest, but what is dearest. If two men have the same commodity of equal goodness, the one who asks the highest price de serves a preference. But we will allow our fashionable Contemporary to speak for himself:— " The principle of buying wherever you can in the world cheapest, and of taking nothing into account but cheapness, we contend to be the meanest, barrenest. and worst descrip tion of national policy that can be conceived. It is very well for the interest of the least estimable class in the community, namely, the greedy class, who make a god of capital' er mo ney ; but every man who wishes well to the nation as a whole, and who feels for the people, ought to regard with abhorrence this &sire of cheapness, which is but another name and form of • grinding the faces of the poor.' 'The principles against which our Contemporary now thunders, have so far corrupted society, that sellers are afraid of purcl(asers who erc indiff. rent t) price. They even suspect that he who does not care how much he pre mises to pay will not care to perform his promise. Men who go into a market with ready money are uni'oenly found desirous of purchasing cheaply. They are tainted with the abhorred desire of cheapness. But to descend from the sehhrniiies of our Contemporary to humbler inattcrs—i. seems the advantage of soling dearly is to be cor.:ined to one class, the landlords, ph, , , uu the otha alc to be allowed to purchase :he produce of manufas ter jot! Industry in the cheapcst market in the two , : Wiizt certain trading capitalists appear to want," he 7,rtys, " is that they may take all the advantage which wealth gives in every part of the world, and at the same time have the na tional advantages which are peculiar to England. This cupi dity is not to be borne. If they possess the advantages of Bri tish localities, British materials, British energy, and along with these the capitol, sahLth is of equal power everywhere, they must be content to hear with the one disadvantage which be longs to EnJantl, namely, a redundancy of population which must be supl.orteti. and habits of living on the part of that po pulation which are more expensive than in other parts of the earth. The desire to drive British cultivators out of em ployment because the corn they produce is somewhat. coverer than ti. a blob foreign cultivators produce, is a base awl sor did desire, which it would be suicidal madness of the Legi,da tore to gratify." Undoubtedly the manulicture - s cannot have the land lords' coitimodri!a at a cheap rat' because the agriculit.r 1 produce ref the Bi.di h Islands is inadequate to the supply of the popol st•on ; and, as we must imp urt not me sly corn, but butte-, cheese, hams, egg;, and on all these commodities bevy duties are impo,el, Ills price t the British consumer must always exceed th,t of the peop'c who export, by the frights end charges, and duties.. But the manufaeturcr must se lat tj the ageisultu-ise He is an emote'', and therefox protecting duties would him nethi g. The P ice he receives in the foreign msrket determines the psi e ; t hem^. L a manutheterer could sell at lea own price at home, he would rct incur the trouble and risk of expuitation. It will not do for 11:m to al'ege that he has costly habits of livieg, and I therefore he cannot afferd to sell un d er a certa i n price.' He mu it sell for what he can get, and if his 'titbits of iiv ing ((re bay and his receipts, he must go into the Gazette. The public how, ver, understand the Tie -tan. It is a question (lithely of power The landlords have a prepon oerating influence in the Leg slature, and they use that influence to indulge in costly habits of living at t'e expense of other The brigand, when he has a travelle • in his pewee. does re t stop to convince him that it is proper he ,fioul Ihe pideged. The landlords d t net themselves bel'eve in the jushee of their cause ; but it is convenient for teem to Leve the mosey ~f other people. It is er.ti, ely a stand-end.de ives aff:i " Buying in the cheapest market," observes a Contemporary (the E. : tanniaer), " and selling in the dearest, is an econnini cal truth acquiring solidity ant form, because almost all the most distinguished of ou, landowners and legislators have long laboured to prove its truth and efficacy in Mat branch V trade in which they are engaged. " The manufacturers say, naturally, if you maintain it as a practical truth for yourselves, that selling in the dearest mar ket and buying in the cheapest is the best for you, why compel us to buy in the dearest market and sell in the cheapet? Allow us to try your own maxim. We have always more cloth to sell than you want to buy. You have never corn enotvah to sell to supply our wants. Yeti therefore buy from us at competition in ice , , and you compel us to buy of you at the price of monopoly." But thecg,) injustice may prevail for some time longer, yet it sin only p rev pii f rom f ee supineness of the people. o Symptoms of impatienc e on the part of the masses begin to . be maiiiiested. Th e peop l e w i l l only suffer up to a ( , r. ta n point. When once the determination to get rid of t‘ e evil becomes general, the landlords must give way. There cal be no efficOtnt resistance to an united people The Morning Post of this day, alluding to the question of the Hanoverian Stide Duties, says:—" On the vast trade of England :he amount of the Stide duties is a trifle so ins'gnificant as to be no more flit than a fly on the chari it who el of her triumphant commerce. Its t eussion from first to last was a maligeant, and as it has turned out, a detested and profitless attempt. to insult aid to injure his Majesty of Hanover. It has been demon strated to be in all its main features utterly untenable, and the peneieg adjustment Lf its minor details will have precisely the opposite effect from that anticieated by its movers—it u ill give greater permanence and a clearer title in the Crown of Hanover to the ancient right which it has vainly attempted to defeat. Englaed has no longer any material interest involved in this ques- Sion ; and if Harnburgh, or any minor community, may still fret under the discharge of an obligation to which it is liable, not as an exception, but in common with the rest of Europe, it must make its complaints to and its terms directly with the Government of Hanover itself, and not by disingenuous representations to the people, or in direct insinuations against the Royal Family of England." The Morning Herald observes, in a leading article sug gested by Mr. Ewart's motion on the subject of a public prosecutor:—" Congenial with the legislation of Mr. Fox Maude for improving' the administration of justice, is Mr. Ewart's motion for a Select Committee, with a view to recommending the appointment of a public prosecutor. Do the public know how much of innovation upon the estab lished principles of the administrative system of British justice such an appointment would involve? It would ne. cessarily lead to the abolition of grand juries and prelimi nary investigations before Magistrates. We have already a public prosecutor io the Queen's Attorney-General. But he cannot, except in certain cases of misdemeanour, put subjects of the Crown upon trial without the interven tion of a grand jury. The public prosecutor which Mr. Ewart and his party wish to have appointed, is one, we presume, who is to determine whether accused parties shall be put on their trial or not, without the intervention of a grand jury, or even a coroner's inquest, which now, by means of its finding,' or inquisition,' can put the law in motion against any person charged with homicidal crime, such 'finding' or ' inquisition' operating like a bill of indictment." The Times thus refers to the late visitation at York, and the inquiry into the Ex- Dean's conduct :—" Had not this visitation been held, the traffic in spiritual preferments and other notorious and habitual malpractices of the ex- Dean of York would have been continued, to the mani fest scandal of the Church and injury of religion. glad any less sentence than that of deprivation been pronounced the purity of the Church itself must have been compro mised, by suffering an individual convicted of habitual simony (the worst kind of fraud), and who had even affected to glory in his shame, to disgrace her high places, to occupy her pulpits, to officiate at her altars, and once mote to dispense the patronage of the noblest of her cathedrals. Nor is simony the only ground upon which the removal of such a man from such a situation would have been necessary. It is easy to imagine acts of contu. macs?, which, although they might legally justify, would not morally require, so severe a penalty as deprivation. But a temper and deportment so violent, so flippant, so in. decent, as th at l ately exhibited by the misguided misguidedperson who is the subject of our remarks, amounts in itself to a moral disqualificati on f or any high !spiritual function." (From the Globe.) The Times extends equal solicitude to the interests of the Church and its churchyards ; and is not more iudignant at the desecrating practices of the e x -D ean of York, than at the want of consecrating efficacy Cemetery. in the enclosures of the Abn ey Christian burial is indeed the best th at the vin afford to one of its proteges after an o th er, in matters ecclesiastical. It has followed so many sil ent l y to the tomb, that no wonder it is anxious to be su re o f cense. crated ground for their successive accommodation. It is lmt yesterday that the Times was exulting in the mi silty revival which the pretensions of the Puseyites 1104 achieved in the frame of the Church. Where is its Orford protege now ? It is dead and gone ; or at least Aril le snort ; and the Times is exalting the " direct and summary corrective jurisdiction" of Whig-made Baishops. The sort of non-juring contumacy which :springs forth every now and then in the Church, and of which Dr. Hook has again appeared as a sturdy provincial ringleader, is no longer to be encouraged in its sallies by Tory journalism. We are glad thnt common sense is so far restored to the organs of Opposltion. That gun is spiked which was to do such execution o n Whi ggery / They have more than one s acheverel ; but unluckily no Swift ; and more than one with Church champi on " to the death " —consistently keeping their living. The Times th ere f ore i s driven back to its Meditations ' amongst the Tombs ; and bas discovered a new source of eccle siastical dangers in the cemetery companies \Vh it is endangered by thes ' companies , so . far as s imply we understand, are the fees which arc secured to clerical functionaries by the present dis graceful and fatal system of interments in and around churches. And those fees are the only things secured by that horrible system ; for to talk of security to the dead in our populous ch urc h -yards, is ant insult to common-sense, and a gross speculation on public credulity. Every metropolitan sexton could ex pose the nature of that security ; to say nothin g o f t h e wholesale remo va l s w hi c h the omnipotence of those public authorities, invoked by the Times to perpetuate the present destination of cemeteries, can at any tim e decree, for the purpose of public improvements. W e have no care, or concern, for any particular cc. metery speculation ; but we are sure that no imper fection in the security which they may offer the dead can be so great an evil (though, of course, it is one which ought to be remedied) as the present accumu lation of centres of infection and mortality to the living. That these sourcee of disgust and disease arc kept open throughout the metropolis, in spite of de monstration, ad nauseant, of their inadequatenes . s . for eeWiroOfe;tshesed,,!ii,Urp.,ose,and their inevitably pernicious • of a vast population, the Times l p l eases, as a proof of religious 1 , 1 . 1 in the d oc t r i ne of a resurrection. PNrSti'ne-, Our: • it, esider it the grossest remnant of so. perstition extant, mixed up with even grosser motives (in the shape of fees) for maintaining the practice. (From the Courier.) We would not be alarmists, but it is impossible to shut our eyes to the crisis which seems impending in Irish affairs. The Tipperary tumults may be, and not improbably are, the precursor only of risings and in surrection elsewhere on a more extensive scale and in a more disciplined state of preparation. It is only neces sary to mark the hard duty imposed upon the military, to be satisfied that circumstances in Tipperary alone are really of a more formidable and unfavourable character than what upon a first and cursory glance would appear. " The orders of the military are to scour the disturbed districts day and night in bodies of twenty-five and thirty, and to be in constant readiness for active duty at five mi nutes' warning. In the meantime, the work of blood shed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were committed in the broad day light yesterday on the lands of Curraghmore, in the pa rish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy victims to Ribanism were Tierney and Gleeson. Major-General Sir Parker Carrole, the commanding officer of the dis trict, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to bo prepared for the fate which momentarily im pends over him, in consequence of ejecting a woman from some land, the same being in direct contravention of the Riband code. Assuredly the county would not be filled and overrun with soldiery, unless upon the dis covery of some conspiracy and combined plan of insurgent operations, with ramifications more widely extending, than could be traced in a few examples, which, horrible as they are, may be the fruits of private revenge consummated in the most appalling form of Irish murder. Unless the most rigorously repressive measures are ap plied, and that, without delay, the Tipperary flames may swiftly catch in a country so deeply..nnpregnsted with the infi tremable spirit of O'Couneliite disloyalty and disaffection. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. HERALD —The greater casineas of money which im. mediately precedes and a ccom panies the payment of Oivi deeds has the natural effect, in the absence of countera,t ing circumstances, of improving the value cf funded as of other securities. There are, however, many reasons why no great advance can be , anticipated for some time t) come in the prices of stocks, of which the gravest may perhaps consist iu thu very heavy detruands which, sooner cr later, are likely to be made upon the money market to supply the v tstly increased want; of the two Exchequers of France and England. It will vainly he endeavoured to carry on the national business, and c irry over large yearly deficiencies of income as com pared with expenditure, much longer without recourse to actual loans. Nothing can he more haz irdoas to public credit in ca , e of any untoward aspect of public or of com mercial affairs, t` an the existence of an unwieldy floating debt in the shape of Treasury or Royal bonds in the one country, and Exchequer Bilk in the other. Wi:h re spect to the British Treasury in particular, it is now only that the disastrous and discre litable consequences ar e beginning to be discovetable of that enormous blunder of the Penny Pest quackery. Tho most easy and Last burdensome tax of all others upon the community has been at:andoned, and the amount vainly sought to be replaced by supplementary lc:4 , st'. bearing upon all cIiSSC3. The rich and easy have been relieved, and, as ia the new Pooh-law, at the expense of further oppression of the poor. Such has been altogether the course of re form legislation in the free trade and politico-economic whether f.,,cally, commercially, or pohieslly. The Fenny-post to be sure is to " improve the morals " of the people, for which salutary end one million of annual reva nue, puyalle solely by those best able to afford the tax, has been sacrificed. TIM E S.—The publication this morning of the perio dical return by the Bank of France, presenting the exact situation of that establishment for the last three moetha, has been much noticed by the men of business in the City, who feel how much may be done towards the reform of ~ur own most defective and ill-managed bank, in placing c instantly before them the example of the operati ;n of a system so superior in all respects. This superiority is alike shown in the ferns of the return, and in the charac t,r of the business transacted by the Bank of France. Of :shit the securities of the Bank of England may con. Gist is left on the face of their periodical return wholly a matter of conjecture, and the English public would never have possessed any information in the matter, bad it not been wrested from them by Parliament, during the va•ious imperfect inquisitions which have taken place into their affairs. From these the fact is disclosed that the greater part of their securities are such as no prudent Bank ougf t to possess, that their means are monopolized by the " dead weight " mot tgages on land, in the taking of which they have contrived to spoil the market of the p-iyate capitalist, and to curtail their own power of gisiag proper assistance, at the proper time, and in the proper manner, to the great commercial interests of the country. But the defect of the periodical returns of the Bank of England is far greater in the comparison with those of the Bank of France, when it is considered that they wholly conceal the extent of their connexion with the mercantile interest. It would be something to know what portion of their assets consists of bills of exchange, but even this is withheld, as if the study of the Bank was not merely to furnish the least information possible, but to furnish no in formation at all. In tlle instance of the Bank of France all is clear, ex plicit, and most satisfactory. The bulk of their means consists of bullion and bills of exchange, the farmer ac tually exceeding the amount of their ncr e circulation ; and their pubic securities are, without doubt, as clay and sure of reidization a; a good bili of exchange at maturity. Not the trace of a " deadweight," or of a mortgage. To make these observations more fatelli , ible, and to avc the trouble of reference, the return of the Bank of France is here re printed : Francs. Amount of bullion on hand Commercial bills discounted Cash advanced on the security of bullion Cash advanced on public securities Capital of Branch Banks 12,000,000 00 Branch banks, debtor Amount of reserve according to the law of 1834 10,000,00 A 00 Amount vested in public securities Hotel and furniture of the Bank Sundries 457,746 73 478,958,557 04 CONTRA. Bank-notes i n c i rcu l a ti on no t comprising branch banks Notes payable to order .. Treasury account current 90,950,412 96 Sundry accounts current Receipts payable at sight Capital of the Bank Reserve according to the law o f 1834 Fixed reserve Unclaimed dividends Draughts of branch banks outstanding ..... Sundry accounts •• • 3,753,228 34 478,958,557 04 AVERAGE OF THE POSITION OF THE BANK DERING THE LAST QUARTER. Average amount of bullion on hand 230,182,500 00 Average amount of bills discounted ..... 128,310,500 00 Average amount of advances made on the se curity of bullion 18,262500 00 Average amount of the advances upon public securities Average amount of the accounts current of the branch banks 7,026,000,00 8,788,800 00 CONTRA. Average amount of bank-notes in circulation 227,137,500 00 Average amount of notes payable to order... 1,355,500 00 Average amount of the Treasury account current Average of sundry accounts current 55,044,500 00 Receipts at sight ... 5,326,000 00 The trading interest of this country are indeed deeply indebted to the French Gcvernment for the model thus prevented of a straightforward account, and a judicious admiaistration of a public bank ; and if the repetition of it does not shame our incompetent Ministry—incom petent generally, but utterly so on this subject—into a reform of the Bank of England at the first occasion which gives them also the power cf doing so, then the case is utterly and permanently hopeless. Independently of oleic management, other cir cumstances connected with the Bank of England have, as it would appear from v ar i ous l etters re. ceived on t h e subject, struck foreign merchants with astonishment. They have seen f or years past the selecti on for a share in the management so badly of the Ybotiorrd o p f art d ia ir l e ly etion mad af e t , er t a h n a_t as well as corruptly o ot n h e er mheamsl3:.irther failed or . passed through the Gazette as a c b d a rt n i k s, ru w p h t o . haldn htheeenlaDsternattance of the kind—that of Mr. it3hueyy-hGaovernor and Governor of way observed his that a great the Bank in succession— less was sustained in a direct vva failure, dn Kith th o n t u l g re h r losses. perhaps, through friends of his) introduction the fact must have been known to the lea of the moneyed interest that he was insllvgent membersdurin the whole period in which he occupied a seat in the Bank direction. He was, besides, a Director in va- . rieus other Companies, which duties, if properly per formed, would bare left him no time for t e onerous duties of the Board in Threadneedle-street. Th e Dr , sent Governor of the Bank, Sir John Pelly, is Governor of the Hudson's Bay Company and Deputy-Master of the Trinity.hsuse, besides other scarcely less important claims on his time. Thus the whole is rendered utterly bad and vicious, and can never acquire that essential quality for a chartered bank, a perfect claim to public confidence. Such is the apathy of Parliament on this rubject, that the merchants seem to be left to the silent operation of the comparison w:th the management of the Bank of France, from which, however, as these returns will now take place periodically, they arc not unwilling to hope tha some ultimate good may arise. " Two young Englishmen," says the Gazette des Tribunaux, "after breakfasting the day before yester day at the rcatsurant of the Maronniers, at Bercy, were crossing the bridge, from the Quai de la Rapee to the Qusi de la Care, when one of them took off his pa'etot and hat, gave them to his companion, and plunged bead foremost into the river. Some bargemen bearing the splash, but not having seen the previous preparations, im mediately went off in boats, and, as the diver rose to get surface, seized him and carried him ashore, in spite of his remonstrances, and the joyous laughter of his friend who remained on the bridge. The bargemen conducted their dripping prize before the Commissary of Police, in order to prove their claim to the reward given by the city to those who save drowning persons. How this question may be decided we know not, but the Magistrate bud great difficulty in dissuading the young Engli4iman from lodg ing a complaint agains t the bargemen for causing him to lose a wager he had made with his fellow countryman, that he would jump from the bridg e and swim down to the Pont d'Austerlitz I" THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 13. Iq4 1. CHINA NEWS. ) BOMBAY, MARCH 1.-My last, letters informed you cf the resignation of Admiral Elliot,' and the continuation of negotiations down to the 18th of December. It was men tioned then that operations were expected to be com menced before the end of the year. The hope proved too sanguine. Those who looked for decision where Captain Elliot had t determine foredoomed themselves to disappointment. About the 25 t h D ecember, as the enemy would not be induced to violate the blockade, the ingenious device appeared to have occurred to our Pleni potentiary, that he had better do something in this way himself, and 53 a couple of American ships, which went up at the commencement cf the blockade, and loaded themselves whilst it was impending, were permitted to pass out with cargoes, in defiance of all the usages of war. By the 6th January Chinese impudence and pro crastination had outrun even Captain Elliot's patience, and on the 7th Sir Gordon Bremer was permitted to take matters in hand. Some insignificant fort 4, strongly manned however, about a mile and a half lower down the river than the principal castles themselves, were attacked and battered, while a powerful force, taking them on the land ' ward side, from a point whence they were completely can nonaded, committed fearful havoc, having slain from 500 to • 700 of the enemy. About the same time the junks lying in the river were burnt, blown up, or taken, by the Nc r mesis steamer, whose performances in shallow water, and terrific rocket practice, made her seem to the Chinese the very incarnation of the evil one. On the following day ' (8:h January) her Majesty's ship Blenheim, ansi the steamere Queen and Nemesis, took up a position off the great Bogue fort, and the two latter vessels commenced throwing shelf. The enemy, panic- stree't at the very appearance of our vessels, particularly at tie infernal Nc meals, who seemed as if she could go any elacre, and do any thing with impunity, set off scampering the moment we h• - gan to fire, and in all 1 kelibood, with half an hour's steady bombardment, our men might have marched round by the rear cif the forts, where they were perfectly unprotected, and marched into those strongholds without meeting a single Chinese opponent. Before this was attemoted however, a change of measures was in view ; the local governor entreated a cessation of hostilities, as well he ,night, till Keshen should be consulted as to what was next to he done; a chop was sent off by some old women in a renbc-neat, and the sigeal of recal seas immediately hoisted on board the Cominorfore ! We had done all the mischief, and perpetrated all the slaughter that was neces sary, and stopped shirt when the price of a:1 our labours was within our gasp. Tne Cnirose authoritm; cared nothing far the loss of 500 of their countrymen. A glo sieg despatch to the Emperor will get oser eli th.t, Whereas the only thing that could not be get over, which was really calculates. to inspire awe, could not be corm° t!cd. The capture of the impregnable Bogue fart, fir which all our labour bad been thus expended in vain, war re elected at the moment when it was fully eithin the power cf attainment. From the Bth to the 20(h, negotiations continued to be carried on betwixt the British and Chinese Plenipoteatiaties, when Captain Elliot issued the seesaw circular, which we hope ts ill long remain a document unique in the annals of British diplomacy, announcing that the ttrolinainary arraegements were con cluded. The substance of the Treaty is. that we shad cede Chusatt, and all the °the, places we have occupied on the Chinese coast; that in lieu thereof we shall re save the small island of Hong-kung. in the Canton river, and be peid an indemnity of 6,00 u 000 of dollars (about 1 mill on sterling) between this and the year 1840; that we shall trade with China en a footing of equality, and forget and forgive all thst is past. The value cf British props,: ty seized by the Chinese sinee May, 1839, is abut double the whole amount of the indemnity demanded ; and i n ns has been currently reporte't,only a very small part of the opium seized was actually burned, the remainder being kept in case of what might happen, they, the Chinese, have made a first_ rate bargain—they may, possibly, have cleared in bright Sveee some million sterling by the transaction 1 Whilst John Bull will find himself greatly out of pocket, and his fleet and army stripped of some thousand men, and bal l' el in every thing they have attempted to achieve, though matters may be placed ou a footing considerably worse than they ever were before. All this is on the suppos:tion that perfect good faith is observed on thepartof the Chinese ! But what do we next find ?—after accepting terms so fa vourable for China, so disgraceful for England, Captain Elliot takes good care that the fulfilment of these shall be left entirely to the chivalrous honour of the Chinese them selves. Long before the Union Jack can be hoisted over Hong-konge it is ordered to be sti ipped from the flag-steff of Chumpec and Ty-kok-tow as quick as lightning ! When as yet not one single atom of the Treaty could have been c on pleted, a frigate is sent off to order the instant evacuation of Chusan ! The expedition, in fact, is now understood to be collecting in all haste to quit the shores of China, without asking a single guarantee for the fulfilment of the Treaty, or remaining in a position to chastise perfidy, sti mulate reluctance, or compel the honest fulfilment of what nas been promised. Would we have dreamed of treating the most high, candid, and chivalrous nation in the world, within reach of our arms, with the confidence which we have manifested towards the most mean, cruel, and per fidious, at the distance of more than half the earth's cir cumference removed from us ? The intelligence here given, the details of which will be found amongst the ex tracts from the Indian newspapers, has been received with one universal shout of loud, unmeasured, and unalleviable indignation. STATE OF TIPPERARY. Accounts have reached town to--day which represent the northern at is of the county of Tirpec.-ery io be in a sta'e bordering on actual inearection. The town of Nenagh has the appearance of a piece preparing for a siege, the streets being crowded with troops despatched thither from the garrison of Limerick, comprising a troop of the l'ith Lancers, and two companies of the 20th Foot, and two or three pieces of ordnance were expected to arrive there in the course of Friday even ing. The orders of the military are to scour the dis turbed districts day and night in bodies of twenty-five and thirty, and to be in constant readiness for active duty at five minutes' warning. In the mean ' time the work of bloodshed and outrage progresses with fearful rapidity. Two more murders were corn mitred in the broad daylight yesterday on the lands of Curraghmore, in the parish of Kilbarron. The names of these unhappy victims to Ribbonis tn were Ti erney and Gleeson. Major-General Sir Parker Carroll, the commanding officer of the district, has been served with a Rockite notice, warning him to b e prepare d f or the fete which momentarily impends over him, in conse quence of ejecting a woman from some I sad, tlia sPme being in direct contravention of the Ribbon Code. The list of outrages, in the shape of similar notices, together with assaults on the person, iSec., would occupy too much of your space. I shall, therefore, merely abridge seine of the particulars elicit7d at the inquest on the body of the wretched Hayes. This barbarous deed was Com mitted within about six miles of Neuagh, o n t h e b or d ers of the mi g hty Sh a nnon ) anti in one o f t h e w il dest dis tricts of I re l an d. Contiguous to th e h ouse of the un aorffinqyt a m i awr occupied i c h i y fishermen, l fe-oa, y -idrnn p o enelonelya?cd are situ a t e d b etween dwelli ngs , w hi c h are h, uturesq ue v i ew o f that magnificent river. There is no direct p assage to tale place, end th e Coroner ant his party were obliged, after leaving the high road, to traverse for upwards of a mile an almost inaccessible tract of country ere they reached the fatal spot. Toe first witness examined WAS Bridget Haye s ( w id ow o f d ecea s e d). H er h usband was a carpenter. H e was emp l o y e d on the .'ith inst. in re pairing a b oa t f or t h e R ev . Dean Holmes.Htl left off work between the hours of seven and eight o'clock on that evening. When he came home he ate his suppe r , tank a smoke, and said his prayers. After that he wont to the door, and saw a man pass by. Witness asked him who the man was, and he replied that he did net know. He then went to the fire and kindled his pipe, and remained standing on the floor t 11 the strange man (whose name witness did not know) came in. The man was armed with a two• handed wattle. He elm,- rNer to the fire and iit his pipe. lie did not sit down ;he stool et the fire. Deceased de.ireil the strange Iran to sit down ;he said he would not. Daring this tame the stick remained on the ground. The deceased then said, " Perhaps you're a man that wants to cross the Shannon ?" to which he replied, that he did not. Deceased then asked him to remain for the nialit, and desired witless to put down his supper. Toe man said he had already eaten it. a•ceasee got op, end walked towards the dresser. \Vitness observed a change come over his counteaance, as if he were afraid, Witness kept her eye on deceased. Did not look round until she heard a blow and saw him fa!l. Witness then ran t.etween the man end deeeat el, lest he might strike him again. The man caught her by the heed, tore her cap and handkerchief, and drageed her out into the yard : he then said, "Ga in now, or I'd give you the aarne treatment I gave him ; give up the lind now." He afterwards went off in an opposite direction t that in which he came. Teis happened about nine o'clock in the evening. When witness weet into the house she found deceased lying on his back. He was kicking and struggling dro.adfuliy at the time. He spoke in a faltering tone. Witntss, assisted by a man named Martin Darmody, put the deceased on a bed. All he said was, that he wished to be taken to his brother. He died about one o'clock on the following slay. The Jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown."---Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. i 3 Piin; COUNCIL, APRIL 12. WOOD AND OTHERS V. 000 BLAKE AND HITCHINS. ( Before L , rd Lyndhurst, the Vice-Chancellor, the Mas ter of the Rolls, Baron Parke, and Sir J. Littledale.) The SOLICITOR-GENERAL resumed his address yester day, shortly after ten o'clock. The Learned Counsel proe ceedeel at some length to refer to the evidence that had been given with regard to the will of the testator and the promises held out by him at various times to different par ties. It vas clear, from all the facts of the case, that be intended to make a further disposition of his property by codicil. He had made promises, and created ex pectations in the minds of certain parties, and the nor.-appearance of any codicil naturally gave rise to the suspicion of some fraud. Mr. Chad borne was distinctly admitted to have said that there was no doubt the testator intended to have left legacies, and they would pay them. The evidence of Philpots was to the same effect; and, in fact, there were so many cir cumstances scattered throughout the case, which justified the belief that it was the intention of the testator to make a codicil, that their Lordships could not entertain a rea sonable doubt on that point. The evieenee of the de struction of papers was extremely vague and uncertain, and their Lordships had no judicial knowledge of the ex tent to which it had been carried. It was clear that many persons had been left legacies of large amount, which the testators did not feel themselves inclined to pay, and nothing could be so well devised to get rid of the claim altogether as the destruction of these papers. He was justified therefore, in saying that the case came before them under circumstances of great suspicion. He had shown their Lordships the readiness with which the testatot's most important documents could be got at. lie had shown the testator complaining of the loss of pre vious testamentary documents, and he had shown that the parties who were about him at that time were principally those implicated in the present transaction. Tire dtffi cutties of proof on his side were very great; but their Lordships would take into account the circumstances 0r the case in weighing these proofs, and make due allowance for its defects. The Learned Counsel then re ferred at some lergth to the evidence which had been given with regard to the handwriting of the testator, and the doubt which had been pttempted to be thrown upon the authenticity of the codicil. With respect to the witnesses who spoke to the codicil by comparison of handwritin g, every Judge treated such evidence very lightly, and be should not therefore trouble their Lordships by any comments on his class of evidence. He should re-it his case upon the evidence of those wit nesses who were well acquainted with the testator's hand writing. are of those witnesses, produced by the oppo site patty, bad given evidence directly against them, He trusted, upon further consideration, therefore, that their Lordships would think this codicil to be the handwriting cf the testator. As to the legacies. Was there soy improbability in those to the corporation of Gloucester? Notwithstanding the objections advanced by his Learned Friend as to the differences between them, it was nevertheless proved, that up to the time of his death the testator kept up his intimacy and connexion with them. It appeared from his own entr:es in a book in which he entered such things, that he was possed over as Ma:, or at his own request, and the ether allegations of the disgusts he had taken to the corporation were equally unfounded. It was, moreover, not uncommon for penurious persons, who refuse f to con tribute charities in tacit 1 vee to leave large sums for such purposes after their death. Several witnesses bore test moray to the expression of his intentions at different times to build almshouses, and in other ways to do sorre thing for the benefit of "old Gloucester." These ex pres-ioes did not apply to any trivial benefits, but sue, as would be conferred by the bequest in the coded. With respect to M Phillpotts, that gentleman bad been an old friend of the testator's. Thar Lord ships would observe the interest the testator took in h'en and in the success of his elections, by the numerous e Aries respecting him in his books, and when their Lord ships considered that by this legacy to Mr. Phillpotts the testator left no relatives unpruvided for, or expectations unfufilled, they would not think there was airy improbability in the bequest to him in the codicil. In addioon to these entrie', and the probabilities of the case, several eirnesses spoke to the testator's expression of his intention to benefit Mr. Phillpotts. There was also similar probability and evidence with respect to the legacy to Mr. Counsel, and with respect to the error in the wny in which that gentleman's name was spelt in the codicil, it was extremely improbable that any per son would have forged such a document with out acquainting himself with the names cf the per sons be was about to forge. So long as it was not improbable that men of wealth should remember in their wills the friends of their youth, and the companions of their age, there was nothing improbable in these bequests to Mr. Phillpot s and Mr. Counsel. Unless Mr. Helps were the forger for his own benefit, how diffieult it was to surmise any person who could have any benefit in giving that gentlemm by the codicil a sum of 30,0001. ? The situation of that gentleman in life put such a supposi tion out of question ; and no one but Mr. Wood himself could have been interested in benefiting him by his property. To Mrs. Goodlake there was a bequest of 20,000/., which was an important circumstance against the genuineness of paper A, for while it was not very probable that he would have left so large a sum to that lady, if by the former do cument he had left so large a sum to her son ; so, if he was not aware of the existence of that document, it was very probable he would have left that sum to her. He (the Solicitor-General) therefore contended that no circumstances could be adduced from the body of the codicil to impeach it if it was established to be the hand writing of the testator. He submitted to their Lordships that the handwriting was established, and that th e co di c il was genuine. What then was the ground of the decision rejecting this codicil? He should submit there was no rule of law to prevent its being established upon proof of handwritieg. So far from this Court being more strict than others with respect to hand writing, it was more lax,—it admitted comparison of hands. And what would be the effect if the Court refused this rule ? Would it not be to refuse any will, out of the custody of the testator, written under any circumstances, and communicated to those most interested ? Might not a testator, to avoid the importunities of those about him, send a will in the manner of this codicil to some party whom be intended to benefit, or might not a person in danger at sea make a will and have it attested by respectable witnesses, and inclosed in a bottle and cist into the sea, and were the wills in either of these cases to be rejre ed because there was no other evidence than that of handwriting? They had shown conclusively that there was another testamentary paper, and when this codicil was introduced, referring to another paper, with which, by the acts of the appellants he was prevented from connecting it, he contended that his clients were entitled to the benefit of the doubt which must exist whe ther or not it was so connected. The Learned Gentle man then quoted the decisions in several cases in sup port of this part cf his case and asserted that there was no case in which the handwriing had been established to the satisfaction of the Judge, and yet the paper re jected for want of other evidence. The Learned: Gentleman was proceeding, when Lord Lyndhurst inquired if he had nearly concluded, upon which the Solicitor General informed their Lordships that be feared he should not be able to conclude iris argu ment that evening, and their Lordships accordingly ad journed until to-morrow. HA.WKHURST GANG. The neighbourhood of Chichester, about a cen tury ago, was much the resort of smugglers, but more especially of the cdebrated Hawkhurst gang, which was broken up in 1749, by the execution of the following desperadoes :—Benjamin Tapncr of West Stoke, William Carter of Hants, Richard Mills of Trotton, Richard Mills the younger of Stedham, John Cobby of Sidlosham, John Hammond of Bursted, and William Jackson died two hours after the sentence was announced. These with others were implicated in several murders, which they deemed it expedient to perpetrate for their protection in their outlawry, but the one for which they suffered was the murder of Chater, a shoemaker of Fordinghridge, and Gallq an exciseman, who were seized upon by the smug glers on their way to Major Battine, at East Marden, for the purpose of giving information against Diner, a ssmuggh-, who, with others, had b:en engaged in breaking open the custom house at Poole. Chater was murdered by being hung in a well at Lady Holt Park, and Galley died three days previously from wounds received from the smug glers. The whole of the prisoners were hanged at a spot atintit e. mile from this city, and the body of B,q)- junin Tepner was hung in chains on Rook's•hilt. Tile bodies of Mills and Jackson were thrown into a hole near the place of executiot , and near to it is erected a stone, having the following inscription ' " Near this place was buried the body of William Jackson, a proscribed smuggler, who, upon a Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer, held at Chichesier on the 16th of January, 1748.9, was, with William Curter, attainted far the murder of William Galley, a Custom-house ot!er, and who likewise was, together with Benjamin Lipner, John Cobby, John Hammond, Richard Mills the elder, and Richard Mills the younger, his son (attainted for the murder of Daniel Chafer), but dying a fere hOtirs after sentence of death was pro nounced upon him, he thereby escaped the punishment which the heinousness of his complicated crimes de served, and which was the next day most justly inflicted upon his aenortlplieso " As a Memorial to posterity, and a warning to this and succeeding generations— " This stone is erected, " A.D. 1749." It is evident from the details given that the whole of the north=western parts of Bussek and the eastern parts of Hants, were a century ago much frequent e t by smugglers. Here they had tneir rendezvous, and at different times in woods and various Owes—pits, and other secret recesses, for the depositin g their contraband goods, have been discoi , ered, A short time ago an other of these places was brought to Ilght on the Old Broyle Common, by some 1 ibourers, who, while en gaged in digging a gravel-pit, sudde n ly b ro k e i nto a subterraneous cavern. In Gls place there appcirs be a regularly formed arch, br,nching out In severel rections, but owing to its being filled w:th rubbish, it is difteult to recognise its forrti, Nit this will not be lono, a matter of conjecture, for workmen a re now emp l oye d in clearing it out. In one direction a man on his bands and knees has penetrated as far as 100 yards ur.der ground, and in other places there is five feet st4nding room. From the remains of old.fashioned wine and Geneva bottles foetid therein, there can be no doubt o its having been used by smugglers as a place of resor and a depositary for their goodsi—Su ssex Express. 'RIGHTFUL ACCIDENT TO A PASSENGER ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.-011 Sunday evening, about tventy-five minutes before eight o'clock, a most frightful accident occurred Ott the line of the Eastern Counties Railway, by which a pasietoger ) mime I Joseph Lovell, living at No, 2, Stvallow'segarden., Chamber.street, Goodman's-fields, teas nd much injuTei that it is sepposed he caneet possibly survive. The ft o f nel train, on its way to London, arrived at the nation in Devonshire street, Mile-ond, at the time above-mentione. 4 , when Lovell, who had been riding in (Me of the third-class carriages, alighted, and was in the act of steppin g aefose a platform with a stick in his hand, upon whieea he *as leaning, when, owing to the greasy state of the platform from the rain which fell in the afternoon, he sildderly slipped, and, his stick breaking in half; he fell baekwsris on to the rails of the line. At this instant a policeman called out " all right." and the train started, and a vio, lent shriek was immediately afterwards heard. it tvai then found that the engine and carriages had passed over the unfortunate man. He was picked up apparently life less, and a litter being p rocured no time was l ost i n con veying him t o t h e L ondon Hospital, Mile-end-road. On examination it w as ascertained that his left leg was lite rally crushed and the feet of his other leg also severely jammed. It was deemed expedient to amputate the left limb, and that operation was Immediately carried into effect. Mr. David Bell, of Glasgow, has addressed the (.:ectors of the Kilmarnock district of burghs, announcing his intention to oppose the present Member, Mr. Colqu houn, whenever an election takes place. Ira his address to the electore, Mr. Bell thus declares his principles I am friendly to an extension of the suffrage, to the ballot, and to shortening the duration of Parliaments to three years. lam also in favour of free trade in groin, of the principles of free trade generally, and of a moderate duty only being imposed on all articles of import, as essenti.l to the prosperity of commerce, and to the general wee being of the community." Patronized by their 'Majesties the King and Queen of Hanover, and their Royal Highnesses the Princesses Augusta and Sophia, h er Serene Highness the Princess Esterhaay, Princesses Mary and Rosa, her Grace the Dowager Duchess of Bedford, and their Graces the Archbishop of Canterbury and tire Dukes of Norfolk, Devonshire, and Manchester. In addition to the above distinguished patronage to the newly-invented Spectacle Lenses and Invisible Operative Voice Conductor, the Messrs. S. and B. Solornons, opticians and aurists, 39, Albemarle street, Pic_ cadilly, and 76 , King Williain-street, Bank of England, feel great Pleasure to state that their valuable inventions have also gained the sanction and unqualified approbation of above four hundred of the Principal members of the medical profession ; individuals of high distinction, a s also of numerous their use. ht, with Immediately these improved Spectacle Lenses are placed before extreme imperfect vision, it is at once brought back to who have been greatly benefited by itst natural and original state, every Object becomes clear and dis. the least perceptible, j : net, and the most minute particle is seen, either by day or candle which thousands of deaf • been greatly benefited, is not ease and distinctness. Their Voice Conductor, by persons have not more uncomf or t a ble, than n having a piece of wool i • n its place, and the faintest w hi s p er at a public a,sembi y is heard with exact distinctness.-39, Albemarle-street, opposite the York Hotel, and 76. King William-street, Bank.—No con. nexion with persons of the same name. GERMANY. FRANKFORT. APRIL s.—it cannot sufficiently be limente that Austria should deem it necessary to follow with FAI o h anxiety every step taken by the Governments of the Swiss Cantons. Its utmost effarts cannot successfully combat the necessary advances which the social institutions of the confederation, in common with the rest of Europe, mutt make, end it would consequently show more tact if it did not brtray the feeling that every advance, eaficoia;ly every approach to Protestantism, formed an at.'cession of strength to the French and democratic party. In the present in stance I am induced to - attribute the principal share of the diplomatic activity which has been shown to the personal feeling of the Ambassador. His second note, which was not delivered in writing, but, as is reported, was lead to the President, has at length appeared in print, and, while it displays no small degree of irritation, c,ntains little more than a gratuitous assumption that the decree for disc solving the convents lays the foundation for a dissolution of the confederacy itself. The Austrian Court is desirous of placing the part of champion of the Romish confession. There is surely no want of a field for the display of these chivalrous eentii ments. Poland is being forcibly converted to the 'Greek creed, not with the will of its inhabitant's, but by the most glaring and atrocious acts of oppression, which it is a sin not to proclaim more loudly than I nas hitherto been antagonist th an the poet d s o w n i e s . s a ß n u t s o s n i s a more wor and. 'sr would be mere e:tditabie for an ',ter to receive inst ruct i ons to defend the cause Austrian oF the resit; bppressed against a powerful tyrant, than to find himself leagued with the envoy of that tyrant in defending rights which no longer exist against the a's tonomic acts of a free and enlightened people; The Prussian P:ovineisl Diets are aclisely pursuing their task. The Diet of Prussia has published a reply to an urgent petition for constitutional forms ; in which it states that the Royal propositions, presented so soon after the promises given by the King to improve the representas tion of the station, affcral a sufficient guarantee that it is the wish of the Sovereign to confer thu boon of free re presentation upon his cour.tf.y. In this pr...;vineo it has been resolved, that it is desirable in the case of a reduc tion of the taxation, that it should take the form of a re duction in the salt duty. BERLIN, NlAticit 31.—We have to-day read with ins. tense interest the details of the debates in the meeting of the States of the Grand Dukedom of Posen upon the proposition to form a General Assembly out of the sepa rate bodies of the States. The result, it is true, has been a negative one, but still a great part of the ground was more of a constitutional than an anti-constitutional nature. One principal motive was unquestionably the line of sepa ration which Poland strives to preserve from the German elements of the State. In that lies a powerful lesson in favour of a Constitution for Prussia. What do the Poles fear ? The being too thoroughly amalgamated by means of one common legal system with the whole mass to be able to sever themselves from it. And thus " the law is that strong tie they fear to meet." Now, the adversaries of the Constitution have constantly put forward the opi nion that it was impossible for Prussia in its scattered state from the Moselle to the Niemen, and considering the differ ent nature of the separate countries combined in it, ever to support a Constitution, and that it could only be go verned by a unity of will. I have always maintained pre citely the contrary opinion. Absolute will may certainly be maintained in quiet times with apparently more surety and decision, as the governing ptinciple of a collection of countries and people of such different kinds. But in stor mier times it will very quickly oppear that the unpliahle ness of the several pat to increases, when an attempt is made to bind them by the rough bond of one single :will ; on the contrary, it would give way to the great and all.em_ bracing representative system, which would guarantee all separate interests. The greatest example of the truth of this may be found in the still much more heterogeneous states of North America. If instead of their constitu tion a Russian Ernperor were to be given them, it would be very easy to break up and sunder the disjecta membra. Russia is a kingdom thus subsisting out of disjectamembra ; but then these members are dead among themselves. Should they come to life, they would need to have ore soul, or a hundred different bodies. Be that as it may, the the sispaatrkhas beenstruck—th e li g h t b eg i ns to s hi ne. Let morning once d awn upon us, and the slower the sun has mist, the more bright and lasting will be the day. TARIFF AND C LAWS.— While we ardently deshea red uction ° o ß f N s - orr e of the Im for the benefit of the consumer, of the revenue— kr such revision may b e e a svc • of Corn-law Repeal, Circular, in cautioning fr nn their grand object. port Duties and wh e d r, andof others for the benefit we must Many tariff comes more or less under the de rice, and are thereforc.. lair subjects corn is not. We sec, too, very plain! joinsuitable adjunct to that helieve the demand repealer, with . The Sun and the articlesagainst being diverted eomprised in he n o o f mination of thatluxu taxation, which N a v yn e d ent moderate s " at tempt w ill h e made by Ministerialists every and to swerve n r o e t at them, to cajole the Corn-1m Repealers, therefore, to be on their guard, breadth from then. noble course. —Leicestershire Me a ro u hair's , . , t BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET.—Since the salei of the Mauritius cargo a flatness of that extraordinary ki nd which only happens o ccasionally, has ens ue d . Nothin g has been done, and the buyers scarcely take the troubl e to attend the offices. East India sugars of all descriptions are declining ; West India, from the great disparity i n price, are hardly saleable. The transactions in London and Liverpool are on the most limited scale. Refining oualitins fully maintain their value, whilst groceries are Is. 61. to 2s. lower. Both the imports and stocks on hand are vary much heavier this rear than last, while the Ga zette averPge price is 4s. 61-d. above the same period in 1840. The natural consequence is evident. —Bristol G'azcite. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Befuro Mr. Baron GURNEY.) PERIURY AT TIIE LATE ELECTION FOR BRIDGEMASrER. Thomas Bradstoch, aged 22, a very respectably dressed young man, was placed at the Bar, charged with having committed wi fill and corrupt perjury at the late Election for Bridgemaster, in the City of London, ma the 20th Ja nuary last. Mr. Adolphtr, Mr. Ryland, Mr. Brooke, and Mr. Gurney appeared for the prosecution, which was inst:- toed by the City authorities, and Mr. Ballantine for the dere:lee; It appeared that during the month of January last an electi in took place in the City of London for the office of Bridgemaster, on which occasion Mr. Gibbs and Mr. Ledger were candidates. The defendant on tbe morn ing of the 20th of January went up to poll for Mr. Gibbs, and on that occasion swore that he was a liveryman of the City of London of the Drapers' Company, and had Leen so far more than twelve months, and that he resided at No. 4, Newport-terrace, Sidney strre ktilu.end It appeared that when he first went up to poll, his name wag etntered Blacklock, but a person pre sent recognised him, and then be polled as Thomas Brad stoel:. The officers of the DrapFro' Company proved that the defendant will not a Liver;.!nin of that Company, anti that ne themes Bradetock had been s 2 for the list forty yehn, thd el,rhs In the Gharnberlain:b Office proved that the defendant Way hat a freeman of the City of London; and a person having the care of the hou ,, e No, 4, Newport-terrace, Sidney•street, Mile-end, proved that the defendrint did not reside there, and had not re. sided there in January last. Mr. BALLANTINE took several objcnicri3 to the suf ficiency of that pi ouf, which were, however, otartded, Mr. - Baron GOENEY summed up, and the Jury found the defendant Guilty. Mr. BALLANTINE then moved in arrest of judgment, on the ground that the indictment stated the oath to have been taken before William Jacks, the poll clerk, and that he, not beinc , the presiding officer, had no competent juri.l. diction to administer such oath, and that, therefore, judg, ment must be arrested. M , . Baron GURNEY overruled the objecti9n, and the prisoner was removed is custody. He was subsequently brought up and sentenced to be imprisoned for twelve calendar months, and kept to hard labour, and to be fined one Ehillin Charles Knight, 22, and John Taylor, 18, were in dicted for steal ng a geldilg, value 6/., the property of William Pryor. Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the prisoners. It appeared that the prosecutor lives at Battersea, and on the sth of March he turned out the horse in question upon Battersea-marsh, and it was missed the nrxt morning. On the day after the horse was stolen the prisoner Knight took the stolen horse with another to a horse slaughterer's, and sold them for 505., and at the same time said that he was directed by his master to see them both killed, and he said he would call again in a short time for that purpose; but he did not do so. The prisoner Taylor was in charge of the horses while Knight was bargaining for their sale. The Jury acquitted Taylor, and found the prisoner Knight Guilty. The prisoner Knight was then indicted for stealing the second horse referred to in the former indictment, and which, it appeared, had been stolen from the same neighbourhood, ut the time the other horse was stolen. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. There was a third indictment against the same pri, goner, for stealing another horse, but it was not pro ceeded with, The prisoner was sentenced to be transported for 15 )ears. In the course of the day an application was made to the Common Sergeant, who succeeded Mr. Baron GLE:t.'y upon the Bench, by Mr. Payne, for the dis t of the recognizances of a gentleman named vit;io had been charged with a capital offence upon a female named Hall. application was grounded upon an- affidavit, which stared that the Grand Jury had ignored the bill, but that the defendant, if the case had gone to trial. would have been able to establish the groundlessness of the charge made against him. The affidavit also de tailed various facts reflecting upon the character of the prosecutriz. _ _ The COMMON SERGEANT ordered the recognizances to be discharged. _ Einnia Hailing, who was convicted on Thursday of feloniously attempting to suffocate her child, and upon whom judgment was rc)pited, was brought up to receive the sentence of the Court, and Mr. Baron GURNEY said that the law compelled him to pass a sentence of fifteen years' transportation upon her, but he said he should make a recommendation in the proper quarter, that the period should be reduced t.') ten years. NEW COURT. William Jones, aliai James Jackson, was indicted for feloniously stealing two sovereigns, the property of Mr. James Adams, publirari, of High Holboni. IF. appeared that the prisoner went into the bar of the prosecutor with a companion, and called for some bet and commenced a conversation with the son of the pros , .- eutor concerning tile leaking of the tap, and succeeded in diverting his attention to it ; and while he was in the act of insrectinz it he heard a jingling of money behind him, and on turning round inquired of the prisoner what he was about, and the prisoner immediately raq away; the you'g man followed, iso , u hint into custody, and brought him back to th! house, whore be wae, searched, and one sove- reign was found on his person. upon which was a sticky sub stance, and on the person of the prisoner was found a stick, on the end of which was the same so.l of substance as that on the sovereign. There was also a vary i..eniou; con trivance found on the prisoner, which cons i ste d' of a kind of hovel, lined with cloth, made to fit into the above stick, The Jury at once found the prisoner Guilty, and The Learned RECORDER sentenced him to seven years' transportation. _ _ _ Ki/lick, aged 34, and Jolla Hurst, aged 18, were indicted for stealing .24ibs. weight of soap, the property of Benjamin Hawes, Esq., M.P. It appeared that as kmes Brook, a police officer, in company with another officer, both in plain clothes, were walking down St tmlord-street they saw the pri soners together. On arriving in Sutton-street, in the York-road, Hart handed a bundle, which ho held under h.s arm, to Killick, upon which Brook, the officer, stopped him, and Hart ran away, and the other con stahle pursued him and took him into castody. Tao parcel was then opened, and found to contain six bars of sea?, and four half-bars were found in the pockets of Kiil:ck. The prisoners were in the service of Mr. Hawes, as carmen. Hart succeeded his faller, who had been in the same service for a period of thirty years, and the prisoner had himself held the situation seven or eight years. Killiek had been in the employ three weeks only. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty, and they were sentenced to six months' imprisonment. Edward Ricketts, aged 23, and Ann Clifird, aged 21, were indicted, the form,ir for stealing twenty-one paiis of boots and other articles, value 41. and upwards, property of his master, Charles Thomas Marshall, as ,1 ,:_c latter with receiving a part of the same, know ing them to be stol The prosecutor is a boot and shoe-maker in Oxford street, and the prisoner Rickett> was in his employ as far back as September last. He had missed boots and shoes, and a few weeks ago, from information that he rec eived, he proceedei to a pawnbroker's shop in Mary• lebone, where he saw several pairs of boots and shoes, which he identified as his property. A short time afterwards the female prisoner was brought to his shop, in consequence of several pairs of boots and shoes and a great quantity of pawnbrokers' duplicates having been fouhd in her possession by the officer who brought her. From a conversation he had with the prisoner Ricketts he gave them both into custody. The prosecutor being corroborated by the evidence of the officer, and the property having been traced to the possession of the male prisoner, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the prisoner Ricketts and acquitted the female. The prosecutor and Jury recommended the con victed prisoner to mercy, in consequence of the respect ability of his parents, and he Was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. CROYDON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before J. REID, Esq., J. W. SUTHERLAND, Esq., and D. R. WARRINGTON, Esq.) Mr. George Penfold, the Vestry Clerk of the parish of Croydon, accompanied by Mr. Farley, one of the overseers, attended before the Bench to show cause why a distress warrant for the sum of 800/. should not issue against the parish officer , : in consequence of their non-compliance with an order for the payment of a sum of money made upon them by the Board of Guardians, arid the above amount being the balance of that sum, which they had neglected to pay over. Mr. Andrews, the Clerk to the Board of Guardians, stated that an order had been made upon the overseers by the Board for the sum of 1,097/., and the parish officers p: omised to pay it within a certain time, which was allowed them, but they had broken their engage ment, and had paid but a very small portion of the amount, and there was a balance of 8001. now due. The Board had been put to very great inconvenience in consequence of the neglect of the parish officers, and they had no money to pay the bills with. He must, therefore, although he was very unwilling to adopt so harsh a proceeding, press the Bench to grant a distress warrant. The CHAIRMAN asked Mr. Penfold what he bad to say upon the subject of the application ? Mr. Penfold replied that the parish officers had done all thee could to get is the money, and they had paid it over as fast as they obtained it. He denied that there was so large a balance due, as was represented by Mr. Andrews, and said that it would be at his peril if he took a distress warrant for that amount. Mr. Andrews said tbM all ihiS' inconvenience was oc casioned by the negligence of the overseers in not mak ing a rate in proper time. Instead of making a rate in proper time to provide for the demands which they knew trould be made upon them, they neglected to do so tid the end of January ; and it was not put into the collector's hands until the beginning of February, and consequently he had not time to collect the money. The union business was greatly retarded by such pro. ceedings, and at present the Board had no money to go on with ; and it was, therefore felt absolutely neces sary to resort to the present proceedings, and he must press the Bench to grant a distress warrant. Mr. Penfold said, that before any distress warrant was granted it would be better to ascertain what money had been paid, beeause the parish officers denied that there was any such amount as 8001. due from them. They had paid various sums into the banker's during the past week, and there was not more than 3001. re maining due from them. Mr. Andrews said he was not aware that any further sums had been paid into the bank, but as that was the case he should not press for a warant if the parish officers would undertake to pay over the remainder of the money in a few days. The Vestry Clerk having consented to this arrange ment, the application for a distress warrant was aban. doned. " THE HOLIDAYS."—Sunday, notwithstand ing the unfavourable appearance of the weather in the early morning, and t tens o t f h e t h g o r u e s a a t n d ir s . o o tr f op h o a l r i d s . w po o u r k re i n d s f m o r e t c h h i a t . s Pa thousands tofthe nics to enjoy the usual recreations of the season. The se veral landing-places and piers on the banks of the Thames, more particularly those at Hungerforel Market, Scan Wharf, and London Bridge, were crowded to excessb 50,. : anxious to incur the fearful risk of " moving acc y id p e e n r ts b.. flood, " f. orn overloaded steam-boats plying from less to say that Greenwich, with its t ( iese places to , :ravesend, and the intermediate long-shore park, consecrated by im. rendezvous. It is nee, ' magnificent hospital r.nd memorial usage to Easter aria' Whitsun revel,, was the great point of attraction. Thither th..:t extraordinary p er , aonagc, , t all the world and his wife," s e emed most de votedly bent, and with an ardour and only - ealled by the pilgrims of yore on their journey o the far _f ia ,„ shrine of Thomas a_ Becket, at Canterbury. may naturally be anticipated, proved a rTichheshearf%eTesiti.igtogg the OwT.ers of the various steam-packet oompanieg, whose boat :, numerolts as they are, and crowded to a frightful extent, afforded but a very slight " suepla , of accommodation in proportion to the " The two railwale. the Greenwich and Blackwell, par tially made up for their insufficiency ; and by four o'clock, much to the gratification and profit too of the water-side public-house keepers and the re- . tailers of " tea made with shrimps," and of "h t water at ld per head," Greenwich was literally choke full of cockneys. The scene on and from the splendid pier was animated in the eltterne. What with the coining in and eacting off of steamers, the busy interfering and bustling importance of the company's svevants and officials in their spicic and span new unifilms, the bests of loungers on the promenade, and the civility and attention - of the directors, in personally superintending and providing for the cony( - thence of the "voyagers," coupled with the variety of cos tume and manners of the latter, the spectator might have imagined himself transport 'd to acme land where pit asure was the sole possession of the inhabitants. There were booths of most of the old f ivourites, inducting Johnson and Lee, Alger, Clark, W om b we ll, and other's who , a lth o u gh not stars of the first magnitude, are indis p ensable to the glory of the suburban fair. RESPITE OF THE SENTENCE OF• DEA TH.-- Seturday last the Governor of York Castle received a respite from her Majesty's Secretary of State of the sen tence of dea'h which was passed by Mr. Baron at Coo lest Yorkshire Assize, on Jahn Mitchell, the youth who was tried for the murder of Mr. Blackburn, rear Bar Wey. Mitchell will, consequeritly, be transported for life. MORN; Nfa EDITWN- _ .r•III ..iiiloW THE MARKETS.-YESTE RD 3 .1 CORN EXCHANGE. 611 Last week's arrivals of butl. Grain and Flour were toler good, but there was a small fresh supply of every article. best Wheat obtained rathrr higher prices, and other quali 14 ,; sold at former terms. Barley and Beans met a very sla trade, and hardly maintained previous quotations. Very lit te inquiry for Peas. Oats were held more firmly, but the tra, " was dull. Flour met a moderate demand at previous rite. h 'fares cheaper. PRICES OH BOARD OF SPIP 4 3,,45 , * Wheat,Red (old) —1 --s. Beans, Sinali (new) Ss 48L ----- White (old) ...... —s. —B. -------- (old) ' ••• 395. Red 184 , ")) .......545. sfitz. Tick (new) ...... 3l 4 4‘. ---- Fine 5Ss. (i 1); --- (old) 42.. 46, ---- Superfine (i2s. fits. fla , •rnw (new) ...... 41.4_ ~ ----White (1840 s6s. (03. ----.-- (old) .... .. -- Yine f2s Ris Brank -- Superfine 653. 7:3s Oats, Feed ....s.-- , . ---Foreign free 54; :Os. ---- New .o,o l ' lyc 181 40. Poland Barky 20s. ."37 --New 445. 4 * . 0 , 27 •• Grinding •6s 2h;:— Potatoe ..., --S. Malting 3•25. 35; .--------- P , T , E.S, Nfalt ms, Co, ...... Scotch .1 7, ' 2 " -- Fine New 61? s. i:3,. Irish 184....1 1 ' 214 Pease, Grey, New :Ns. 38S. Flour Town per sack).... 5-ti. ~, Maple New 40.. 42s Seconds 445.! , .`" White 34 , 30s. --- N 4rth Country.... 48• Boilers '37s :,E3e. 15ran....... VV ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LONDON DT) RING I AST WK. ,--- Wheat. I Barley. i.t.• Floe' 4,196 rs. I 1;79J qrs. 2,t.' 7 3 yrs j 6,9940 40 3,11: , ..- 1 13,20 1 ; --- 1.0 ris. English Irish '.reign SMITHFIELD. The supply was moderate, the demand goo d, and the b est Scots and Sheep fully realized last Friday's quotations. 1 1 middling and other sorts met with a good mark. `t. Of Lo pe the supply was plentiful, and a re d uc ti on o f f u ll 4 1. per was the consequence. Beasts, 2,359 ; Sheep, 18, VO pt 640; Calves, 46. Beef, 3s. 64. to 4s. Bd. ; Mutton, 45 ' 4 ,i to ss. 4d. ; Veal, ss. to 6s. Od. ; Pork, 4s. 4d. to I.'s• Lamb, ss. Bd. to 6s. Bd. TEA MARKET. ,t The market was in a very dull s t a t e , an d pr i ces cou ld ?IL to , bs quoted, for the want of transactions. Company's Cost offered at Is. 4d. cash. PROVISION MARKET. Irish Butter of flue quality in fair request, and price; lint but low sorts were totally n eg l ec t e d. B acon fi rm , and the d' mand good. Lard quiet. lout prices firm. TALLOW MARKET. Prices of Russian were firm, and a good demand existed for parse's of P. Y. Candle, on the spot, at 475. 6d. per cwt. id* For delivery, s eve ra l p urc h ases were ma d e at 48 s. 3d. p er c POTATO E MARKET. We had a large supply of all descriptions of Potatoes , an. in consequence the d eman d h as b ecome very d u ll , an d P rice; were in some cases lower—York Red 80s. to 926., Scotch Rel 66 6 . to 725. , Jer se y an d G uernsey , 68 s. to 725., K en t 11 0 " Esser, Ps. to 675. per ton. HOP MARKET. Prices firm col' all kinds of Hops, and there u - as a fair bbl• ness transacted in old kinds. The duty is not yet estimated• PRiCE OF iiitEAD. The li , ghest fill e of Ye3l 1, the .►Ltropilie is 9d for the il b Leaf G,e.d Bresti may be had at 734,1. PRICES OF SEEDS Per Cwt. I Per Quarter Sew E tglish Hen C10ver...56s 90s St. Fein Old s•it , “ Dic.o —s —s s:llye Gass ... —;-2 5 47 : New Foreign Diao —s 56s SOsTacey Grass —5 --, 10 `mss 5 01.1 Di.to Di.to —s —s —s,lAnseed, for fe (11 g ~.—s • ,- .,, 1 fa •ew White Clover 3is ens 6'sDitto, for sowing ......—s two Old Ditto Ditto —s 43s 46s DitZo, for crushiDg ....-5 411 s 4 ,1% ..,..w 'l're.oil ..... Old bitto —s 19s 36s,Canary . . gOsiv. Jr folium, —s •P'S ..! Os Per /3“shel. E .glish Cartaway —s 50s 5f s,White Mu5t,rd....123 Od to 15.9, 1 , Foreign liitto Coriander ... .......... ~..—.3 HS ids Tares 6s Cd tc /0. PRICE JF OIL. Rape Oil, brown, per ton Ditto, refined Linseed Oil Lins_ed Oil Cake at tha ita ! e ake. per to , ' ....... PRICE OF TALLOM Town Tallow Yellow Russi s White ••• " o Cl i Soap Ditto 0 0 0 £45 0 47 0 1 1 0 0 (per 1000) l3 7 0 V, SOAP, &c. per 11211'. 0 Melting Stuff ...41 1 1 0 Ditto Rough 1 . 0 Graves Good DrQgs U 5 v 'AT, ) . , er stone of 6lbs gd Tallow L.`4elters) ::S. TARKET. last market.,:ay, 156. PRICE OF RAW F. Price of Tallow (as stated by the . ] COAL M Ships arrived since I s. d. Adair's Hobson & Co. Hartley 15 6 Huddle's West Hartley l7 0 Clsoster Carr's Hartley Hebburn Main 1 F. Molyweil Ma n l7 6 Smith's Pontop l5 6 'ouch Hartley l5 6 Wylain Walls E d iiewic , e;and Co. 20 0 . 4 . W a .l l E ls . E ll n ra d dd il y ed ll 1gy............... W 22 g Walls End Hetton ........... g• 2 Walls End Lambtot: e 6 Walls End Stewart's .... . g o 0 Walls End WhitweH at 6 Walls End Caracioe ......... . 2 42 Walls Ebel Hartlepool .....• an 9 Walls End:Howden ............ 6 Walls. End Evenwood ••••••• !‘ ails End End Seymour Tees... s Wal s End Tees :2l o 16 Cowpeno Fordel Splint .................. •• ; 7 0 Hertley l6 Howard's Netherton Main 6 Walls End Devonslaire 0 Walls End ig Walls End Brown'A . Walls End Clennell WMIS End ~losfo, t h Walls End Heaton Walls End Hotspur . Walls End Killingworth Walis End Newmarch 17 01 15 9 2C t , 19 6 16 6 18 0 COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Wheat, Barley. Oats. Beans. S. to Per Quarter. s. to s, s. to a. s. to s. a. to s. 46 Carlisle 6B 31 27 46 Hexham 52 68 32 33 21 23 .7 - 4 44 Morpeth 5O 64 22 28 21 25 _,- Benrith 64 31 2i 4). - 43 Sheffield — 67 31 40 9 4 Winchest:r 60 66 24 21 i 0 40 42 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. a 26 d. 6. d. 8 . 6 s 0 Carmarthen 4 0 7 4 0 0 3 h 0 0 2 1 5 6 0 0 1 1 " v 0 cowbridge.., 79 80 00 40 00 30 5 0 53. , 5' 00 Swansea !7B 84 38 40 28 30 56 6 " - Per 8011. t , if 10 0 Barnardeastl 14 0 16 980 93 64 76 9 10 90 l OO Durham l3 6166 fi 0 90 63 73 00 10 6 . 1 0 0 Richmond 5 0 1 0 7 0 8 6 5 6 801 3 JO 0 Stockton l l5 0 1:" 8 090 90 50 6680 10 0 9 WAKEFIELD CORN DIARKbI f wee& Waeat, Ked, Norfolk and Suffblk ...... —6. 62a. t t" 31)56 0 -- Lin. and Cant. ----, Yorkshire B. wt., 5.e 704 MUIR° o' W fine O. FOreigri, 6oi. 9 0 10 e l 00 Ai 6 96 13• 8 0 10 0 i fthVa .„. &seen& 62a. to doe 6 5 . 615. to , i . flee ~,."" ..s., tel.., o .e i .. 5,:". hire °. ..... e Mg' _ _ireign, tied --s. --4 " to 605. ' •n 394 white --o• ---.. 325 • 64:' Barley, Norfolk and tioftiolk ,„„i. to • ,„„, gr. ----.. Lincolnshire "" .." ''''' OS. to 3 " fi u ;e i'• --- Yorkshire %Vold .... 6to -- 4 . - 33. ............. .....0••• 's fin e - Foreign Boans, New ..... ..... 40 8 , to 435. fi ne f ; De 48r -- Old 30 30s. Oats, Potato nno s• • - -- Poland -s. -E. to Z. fine -- "riezland and Sinai!. - • ---- it...l.lling Loa e. Shelling Malt -..5. 495. fine 445. per , .„, • Rapeseed NEWCASTLE CORN EXCHANGE. White. Red. Wheat, Northumberland C0..C0..-........ 60s- 6 / 4 . 1 - Norfolk and Suffolk 66s 699....... 70s. W. - Brrwick.and Scotch file. 655....... - 4 ..-?‘ - Foreign 62s. 685....... 64a. 0:• i Ryo, Norfolk end Suffolk - Foreign Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 3 2 5 9 5 a; -5 331 ....... -- - 1. 3. : g - Grinding and Feeding 255.305. Malt, Norfolk and Surlblk Ns 635 • • -e. -44 „ ; Brans, Small 3os. 445....... -s. -' - - Tick ....«.,425. 46' -I. - s. - Pease, White 42s. 445. .... --s. •--'• ---- Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ..... .... 261.285 --e. 4 ; Feed - Foreign Flour (par sack) 47s. 50s. ••• SCOTCH MARKETS natAl s. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. •-• ,- ........" --- -- —.--- nn 0 su , kbcrdeen 50 to 60 25 to 20 IS to 22 —to „'"' c .SS -, Berwick ‘4o. 48. ,'4O 25 17 22 25. , - a ....' -- - Zoldstream .4 , 30 24 26 17 18 —.. : 30 •-' Cupar (Fife) . 48 ' 65 126 31 Id 22 22 '2 6 7, ... Dunbar '4B 68 26 49 23 27 40 42 w` Elgin '' 53 55 25 26 20 : 23 ,48 50 :r •••• Inverness ,1 48 69 Z 3 23 21 24 32 33 P'" - .." Kelso .... . 36 50 18 24 15 22 31 33 rA """ • Kirkaldy - ..., , Perth 6O ^4 30 40 25 35 -41 44 •"- ~ Li — . Tha size of the tneasure varies throughout the c0w1, .0 . .. . • HA DDINGTON CORN MARKET. reot Wheat. Barley. Oats. Bens au _, eirst .. . ... Second 64 s lid 31 s 6d 23a 02 384 Od O Third 603 Od 30; Od 23s Od 36s Od _A Average 14 4a. 3d. I.l2ths. DA LKEITH CORN MARKET. 00 lic• a Wheat ftaney. , Oats. Pease. , eirst 7ls I u 34s 61 : 28s Od 1426 d i, Od• Second 6'is Od 32s Cad 1 :3s Od 40s Od ~,t- 6d 54s 01 27s Od 18t ed 36s Od I er" . " GLASOOW CORN Mi RKET. • d ' 5;1 o a u, per 2641 b. Ato i li Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 32 6t035 6 Irieh 9 6 new 26 0 02 0 British lO Canada, free 0 0 Beans, per 2601 b. 22 0 ~/ 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish 23 0 20 0 English 27 6 29 6 Pease, Scottish ...... , 6 n a Scottish Irish - _ _.ford . _ A PARISH OF FEMALES.—At the wen Petty Sessions, i eld specially for the appointment of °: 1 ; ) , !ecrz, the list for the parish of Perivale being han de— , l nt it ‘ti as found that the name of Mr. Alder, the Pr e f t ne overseer, was the only one nominated. Mr. Bailli c ri c e of the Magistrates) sail the Bench had not much cu ° , - a a in that case, and hquired the reason why only on e 1 , - r ec been nominatel Mr. Alder replied there were onlY men in the parish, the rest being all females. n e ,-„ w h a ti s r eb of the three, and the other two were already Cl fatly warden and Const a bl e , w hil e h e himself vvas Guardian. The Bench cong r atule n! 1,13 able him upon e able situation, and signed his re-appointment. _ _ FLAT GOLD WATCHES, Gold 1 11) Ten Guineas each. Highly-finished HORIZONTA T ;;'diaIst WATCHES, with engraved or engine-turned GI" Or jewelled in four holes, and either engine-turned Sr e , e , e graved cases are offered, pri c e T e n Gui neas each. T hese c l gant little Watches will b e f oun d t o p er form very c er h re tli t t hey and a printed warr an ty i s g i ven w ith fi xe d t e rms, on "' hi will always receive any attention required. T. COX SAVORY, 10 0 Watchmaker, J e w e ll er , &c. 47, Cornhill (Seven Doors Gracechurch:street), LoudOn STEEL FI RE-IRO NS, with Bronzed 11 , 68 ns t! 15s. per Set, Bronzed Fenders, Ss. A variety ! A , i t he terns and prices, from the above to 30 5., at whic h Pric- es. fenders are particularly handsome, with splendid sera centr , r i c ,; . l the. r ° v intermixed with steel, the ends are steel, a nd S t, porters for th e fire-irons bronzed. Polished steel fire.i • l e of from 4s. pe: Catalogues g :atis, containing the prices of every arto Furnishing Trunme,:igery , set. . RIPPON and BU TON, Wells-street, Oxford-street. Esu s blished 1820. BIRHS' On•the 9th inst., at Bury St.. T .Edmunds, tl.ie lady of Jo hn Greene, Eeq., of a daughter. y of J* On the loth inst.. at Park-terrace, Hi g hbury, he Lad Dale, Esq., of a daughter. 11 ' On the 7th inst., at Limerick, the lady of Captairt • Jacloon, 97th Regiment, of a daughter. On the Bth inst., the lady of Alfred Keyser, Egg., Burw°°cl - Oxford-square, of a son. MA ar ii. On the 10th i ns t.. at St RRIE . John's, Hackney. Mr.. Chlecat Price Wi n d sor . o f K e nsington, to Ellen Cather ine, daughter thir of William Gillharit Esq., of Hackney. On the 10th inst., at Ancester Church, Colonel Charles Alix, late of the Greadier Guards, to Mary Cattheri ne El il r beth, eldest daughter of Charles Mix, Esq., of Willoughoi Hall, Lincolnshire. --------------. DIED- On the 9th inst., at. Sloane-street, Car oline, relict of Charles Lemon Greaves, Esq El e O a n nt t )r h , e w 9 i t f l e t o in f i E.s n . .Lo ß le in r ( S i r :E o s u ci r . - ti‘rie.ept Por tm s a r e On the 10th inst., at Hillingdon, Ch'arlotte, wif e of Algo:t Grevill e, F —sq J.ondon: Printed a nd Published by 112, Stro na, 111-UNoRDO YOUNG, °T o. 112, Strand, at The Sun Offic e A p ril 13, le4 l . , . N In the county of Alitldlesex.—Tuoday, ti ." 1)() T h ENG ee DIREC tOthfl d A PPlic to ek . Perso sitt ,Abp -It to be fi tile 17th i 4; i t 1)1 RE If tfloi?li44AM ANT arlia r ,„ t kNi alin g, as tll an 500 '" y e sir, t Nst warra] 1 1„T , and tten,ester, 01 r ile due du A t ' d to the tit;Otieulars, VaY be of Manel eti-streel FRO Ils