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THIS EVENING Will be repeated, the New Comedy, , OCT. 28 ' entitled Sir Philip Brilliant, Mr. Charles Mat hews itio•l ff oh;nßßolobuerrt:: Mr. OLD MAIDS. Harley ; Thomas Blount, Mr. G. Van v d c v s e str Nestio Walter Lacy ; Lady Blanche, f4ladame Anne, Mrs. Nisbett ; Mistress Blount, Mrs W;Laedhyarlotte, Mrs. Humby ; Jane, Miss Lee. *W . To conclude with, compressed into Three of WHAT WILL THE WORLD s Acts, the Comedy AY ?—Hon Chas. Nor wold, Mr. J. Vining ; Mr. Pie Hilary A r . al. Mr. Warner, Mr. Bartley ; Captain Scrope' IT. C. Mathews ; W. Farren ; Lady Norwold, Airs. Glove Marian lrradiddle,tAlr. Mrs, W. Lacy ; Miss De \'ere, bliss Coo . • Mayley, Cooper , Tattle, Mrs. urger ; Mrs. Tarradiddle, Mrs. Humby. Doors to le opened at half-past Six—the performanc es comm ence at Seven. Dress B o xes , 7 s. ; Second Price, 3s.b_to a l . ; First and Second Cir c'es, ss. ; Second Price, 23 . 6 d. ; Pit. Second Price. 2.. ; Gallery, Is. 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After which, NEW SCENES IN THE CIRCLE, in the Largest Arena in the World, in which Madame Ducrow, Sig -1.1.2r Hillie r , th e G reat A mer i can Rider, the British Horsem an, Si nor Felix Carlo, and the First Artistes in Europe will appear. T HE HORSE with THE BATTLE OF BLENHEIM ; OR, the l t k . F:IO ' RSE OF THE DISINHERITED • em b r acing all G. ary Exploits of th e Great Duke of Marlborough, Grand lie • 'news, Battles, and Glorious Victories. ~_ _ ON. ROYAL VICTORIA THEATRE , 'INVER THE DIRECTION OF MR. OSB U.. Attraction, Unprecedented and splendid Novelt Variety, an d most and first week of another New Domestic .- DIST Drama o f in tense interest. Will T HIS EVENING, OCT. 28, be performed an interesting Domestic Drama, called SIMON LEE; OR, THE 'MURDER. OF THE FIVE F,JELDS COPSE. Simon Lee, Mr. E. F. Saville ; Walter 19atherleigh, Mr. Dale; Japhet Jones, Mr. Gardner ; Dicky Dring, Dir. Paul ; Graee, Miss Vincent, the acknowledged Heroine of Domestic Drama. After which, a N ew Domestic D rama , ent i t l ed K ATTY O'SHIEL, the FOLLOWER of the FAMILY. O'Dwyer. Mr. Dale ; Augustus, Mr. Seaman ; Guyton Gray, Mr. James; and Katty O'Shiel, Miss Vincent. To conducts with THE FLOATING BEACON ; or, the NORWEGIAN WREC KERS. Jack Junk, Mr. E. F. Sa ville; l'tlarriette, Mrs. Lee ; Christine ' Mrs. Howard. Boxes, 23.—Pit t 1/L.—allery, 6d. Half-price to the B oxes only, at Half-past Eight. NEWSPAPER STAMP RETURNS. Extract from a Return of the Number of Stamps issued to the several Newspapers in Eng land, Scotland, and Wales, from the Ist day of April to the 30th day of June, 1841, inclusive; ,ordered by the House of Commons : Average Daily Circulation. SU N 311,000 Globe 260,000 Standard 250,000 Courier 4E1,000 A Return of the Amount of Advertisement Duty paid by each Newspaper from the sth of January to the sth of July, 1841: — SUN Standard Globe ... Courier . 589 10 0 58-,.: 9 0 247 7 0 THE RAILWAY SUN. NOTICE.—A New Edition of the RAILWAY SUN is in preparation, and will be PUB LISHED in the course of THIS WEEK. THE CHINA SUN, AND THE PARLIAMENTARY SUN, ARE STILL ON SALE, PRICE SIXPENCE EACH. Sun Office, Oct 27, 1841. THE WEATHER.—NooN, OCTOBER 28. ROYAL GALLERY OF SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Thermometer.. 47 I Highest 5O I Lowest Barometer 29.75.—Wind N.E.—Freezing T; * . bint 32 Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGIE TO-MORROW 11 riling 53 minutes after 0.1 Evening...llminutes after 1. - . 'A.. , " ...2 ~._• • ! . .7. , , - 4 0 , au ._,,... 1 4 f4 e v u ''', 4 41 0 , iro:ks...:: ., '''' . Akillep uir, e ...I. .11, 11 %. * d. - 11 , 0: 4 &t: 1 . r: ~....]1 ": 7.7 t :,' „ 1 .:,a3,10"..7-'1 7 7:1, - 1, m 0 ' --7 .- -r" ' ....7t,' :10... Ott LONDON: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1841. We took up a pamphlet, recently published by RIDGWAY, entitled, " The Sliding Scale, or a Fixed Duty," by the Rev. CHRISTOPHER NE VILE, expecting and hoping to see the Chris tian spirit predominate in a work written by a minister of the Church. We remembered how much has been said about the clergy having lent their aid to support an enactment which swells their income, at the expense of the health, mora lity, and lives of the people. We know, from the meetings at Norwich and other places, how un popular they have made themselves by their practical disregard of the principles which they inculcate on others, and we expected, at least, to find in the Reverend Gentleman's pamphlet some attempt to explain or justify the conduct of the clergy. We have been much disappointed. The pamphlet is confined exclusively to a narrow pounds, shillings, and pence view of the Corn law, and never by any chance diverges into the high moral and universal considerations which are connected with the abolition of that suicidal restriction on the trade, civilization, and well-being of mankind. The objects of the Rev. Mr. NEVILE'S pam phlet are to show, first, that, for nearly =2OO years, the landowners, in whose hands the legisla tive power has been placed, have acted on the principle of impeding the importation of corn, and of levying, as at present, a tax on the people's provisions to fill their own pockets. Two hundred years' prescription hallows this system to the mind of the Rev. Gentleman, and converts wrong into right. He deprecates a change to free trade in corn, not because it would be a departure from justice, not because it would inflict a serious injury on the toiling millions, but because " it would seriously affect an enormous amount of capital" "invested in the soil under the system of protecting duties." Because the landowners have plundered us for 200 years and more, they are to be allowed, according to the Reverend Gentleman, to plunder us for ever. Such is the morality taught by the Reverend CHRISTOPHER JNEVILE. Secondly, the Reverend Gentleman critici s es I the contradictory arguments of some Anti-Corn law writers and speakers, and goes at consider able length into prices, rent, cultivated and un cultivated land, &c. &c., with a view of showing ' that those who propose the repeal are as ignorant what will be its effects as those who made the law thirteen years ago were of its present conse quences. The Reverend Gentleman proves, at least, that he knows no more than ,)thers, for he supposes that " a reduction of rent of 20 per cent. would actually stop the cir culation of no less a sum than 9,400,0001." He implies, therefore, that the extortion of the landlords creates a sum of wealth equal to their increased rent. But they only extort, they do I not create wealth; and the sum which the aboli tion of the Corn-law would keep from the land lords would be circulated by the body of the consumers. It is an idle dream to suppose that the abolition of the Corn-laws would lessen the national resources; and if it increased them, as we believe it would, there would be more, not less, circulation than at present 7 The Rev. Gentleman, in the third place, de fends the sliding scale as better than a fixed duty. We will allow him, undisturbed, to con tinue that contest with the advocates of a fixed duty. We must, however, mention that he pro poses a modification of the sliding scale, and another system of taking the averages. " When wheat was at 705.," he says, " foreign wheat was to be admitted duty free; when it was 695. the duty to be ls., and so on increasing a shilling as our prices decreased to 515., and there to stop. The duty would then be 205., at which duty wheat would be imported under any depression of price at home." The averages, the Reverend Gentleman pro! poses, should be made up by returns " taken from the grower, and the buyer from the grower, only. The same sample of wheat could never be returned twice over, and these two parties would be a mutual check on each other." With such details, with the bearing of poor-rates and the value of tithes, the Rev. Gentleman appears to be intimately acquainted ; but his pamphlet does not contain one word of the influence of that law he discusses on the welfare of the mil lions. He seems ignorant that both sliding scale and fixed duty are as murderous as war or pesti lence. He looks at the subject only as it may affect the wealth of a few thousand land and appear i t et e y l . e tithe owners, an d the rest of the community is as much for go t ten as if these few thousands con stituted The pamphletthew ho i e s ev o n fa e c rh its statistics, f or t h ey s t s o va b l e ua e b r l r e o , n n eo o u t s f_or not for its political economy, for that is shallow and preposterous—not for its recommendations, r for they are consistent neither with the stern principles of justice, nor the expediency of com promise ; but for the insight it indirectly affords us, at this critical and agitating time, into the mind- of the ruling c l asses. It is there s plainly and legibly printed, from beginning to end, in every page, in every paragraph, in every sentence, that all they think of, all they care for, in matters of legislation, all they have thought or cared for during the last 200 y ears, has been how to enrich the aristocracy, and how to maintain the wealth of the priesthood. If, perchance,' the national welfare coincided with that, as for a large portion of the 200 years whe n England was a grain exporting country it might, no great harm accrued from embodying their s e lfi s hness into laws; but when they do not co incide, as they have not coincided of late, the aristocracy and the prieshood g ive effect to their own selfishness, and secure their own ascen dancy at the expense of the rest of the community. The thing is natural enough, and easily ex plicable. Every man and every class prefer. himself or itself to others. The priesthood and the aristocracy deem themselves, not the sculp tured outside ornaments, but the foundations and solid- framework of society. But for them the whole community of mankind, the diVisiOn of the_ sexes, their union by marriage, the birth of faMilies; the increase of population, the divi sion of labour, the invention of arts, the progress of science, the extension of trade and all political contrivances, would not exist; and there would only be an aggrega tion of individuals, and no society without their care, skill, and guardianship. Having such a high opinion of their functions, in which they are too often countenanced by other men, their selfish aggrandisement by legislation appears to them synonymous with the welfare of the whole; and they practically conclude, if rents increase, and tithes become more valuable, that society prospers, and civilization advances. That they -embody their own selfishness into laws is therefore quite natural, and the pamphlet of the Rev. Mr. NE;7 LE is valuable because it proves that they also embo-,fiv it into their rea soning, and while they write tout society at large, they think only of themselves and their class. We have copied from the Globe some account of the person who is implicated in the issue of fit3se Exchequer Bills; and we regret to perceive in the tone of our Contemporary's remarks an inclination to extenuate Mr. SMITH'S crime, be cause he was laot well enough paid. That gen tleman had a handsome income of 600/. a year, and the Globe tenderly describes him as having " had recourse to forgery as an expedient," be cause his hopes of obtaining 7001. had not been realized. The Globe takes arms with our oppo nents, and by implication condemns that eco nomy in employing the public money, which seems to us both honest and essential to the national safety. Far from extenuating the crime of a person with 6001. a year, we think that there are at present no worse criminals than those who, hav ing an income more than sufficient for all the wants of life, commit offences against the right of property which would not be excused in a starving hand-loom weaver. No extenuation is admitted for those who plead hunger and ex treme poverty; and neither can it be admitted for him who is exempted from both. The onlY excuse we can imagine is, the example of the law-makers, who, being intrusted, like Mr. SMITH, to issue bills on the people, or make laws for the public service, issue them for their private emolument, and are honoured, not punished, in proportion as they . accumulate wealth. Our Contemporary has also found a new mea sure for integrity, which extends and dimi nishes with the funds with which a man is intrusted. A porter, with 30s. a-week, who makes away with the property intrusted to his use, may plead, like Mr. SMITH'S advo_ cate, that his " payment was not proportionate to the extent of the integrity required." Such a plea will be of no avail at the Old Bailey, either for the porter or Mr. SMITH, whatever may be its effects on the readers of newspapers. Till this brilliant discovery, integrity appeared to us a part of the soul, indivisible and inex pandible—as much required when a man is in trusted with a shilling as with a million sterling. Henceforth integrity will expand with the amount of money, and the humble classes will experience the additional mortification of being just as much below the rich in virtue as they are in wealth. ,The Paris Journals of Tuesday have been duly received. They bring some interesting news from the Spanish frontier, confirming the sup pression of the insurrection, and the arrival in France of most of CHRISTINA MuNoz's parti zans. In addition to the correspondence be tween the ex-Regent and the Spanish Minister, published in our columns of yesterday, the Itlo niteur Parisien has a concluding letter from the Minister to the ex-Regent's Secretary, from which we make the following extract All that is said in your Lordship's communication on the events of Barcelona and Valencia, on the origin of the actual government of Spain, on the legality of its measures, on the accomplishment of the Treaty of Bergara, and other similar things which I have no need to repeat, seems to me to constitute anew manifesto on the part of her Majesty.• If it is such, I do not know whether it ought to be made by the medium of a private secretary ; but what I do know is that if, after the Spa nish people and army have just demonstrated their loyalty and devotedness, this manifesto needed any answer, it is not to me that the honour of making one would belong. The Government, the Cortes, the Spa nish nation in fact, will settle what is best suited to their interest and dignity. One of the French Journals states that on Monday M. OLOZAG A went to St. Cloud to de mand from the KING the removal of Madame MuNoz from Paris. The Sentinelle de 1 'Armee explains the rumour that an army is about to be stationed on the Pyrenean fron tier, by stating that General Harispe's division, on the western part of the line, is to be increased to 16,000 men, and that of the General de Castelane's, on the eastern part, to 14,000, making a total force of 30,000 men. Extract of a letter from Bayonne:—" The Sub-Prefect of this place set out on the 22d inst. for Sare, where the refugees are arrived. Lieutenant-General Lahitte, Inspector-Gcneral of Artillery, arrived on the 19th at Bayonne, to review the troops of the gai rison and the artillery. The 25th of the line is expected here from Perigueux. A squadron of chasseurs has arrived here from Pau, and another squadron has gono to St. Jean Pied de Port. N. Bart, Prefect of the Hautes Pyrenees, has arrived at Pau. The Phare, of Bayonne, of the 22d inst., gives the fol lowing supplement :—" Several Generals, many officers and soldiers, or peasantry, who had taken part in the movement of which O'Donnell gave the signal, have come into France for refuge, entering by Sare. At the departure of the person who brought us this news 300 refugees of all classes had already arrived, and were every moment being succeeded by more. The names of the emigrant Generals are Urbistondo, Claveria, and Lardizabal, and of the Brigadiers Larrocha, Gabarre, and Hidalgo de Cisneros. On being informed of what had taken place at Vittoria, O'Donnell gave orders for his troops to evacuate the Citadel of Pampeluna; and, consequently, Lieut.-Col. Izquierdo, O'Donnell's Aide de-Camp, and Ribed, the banker, followed by 200 men, set out for France, and entered by the Aldudes. 'The of ficers and soldiers have all been sent by the authorities to Mauleon. O'Donnell was himself expected at the Al dudes last night. General Firmin Iriarte, Commandant of the National Guard of Bilbao, and two merchants of that town, landed this morning at the Socoa." The Memorial of Pau says :—" While Espartero's secretary, Gurrea, was conducting Brigadier Norzagary to prison at Madrid, the latter formed the idea of shoot ing the Secretary and making his escape, but Gurrea observing that the prisoner kept his hands in his pockets, and hearing the noise of the lock of a pistol, immediately presented his own at the throat of the Brigadier, and kept him in awe until he was searched. This was soon done, and a pair of loaded pistols taken from him." We have received the Barcelona Journals to the 20th inst. The Constitucional states that on the arrival of Don Francisco de Paulo at Bedons, on the 11th, where he stopped only for an instant, he was received by a cavalcade of young men, who escorted him to Urdos, where the Alcalde and the notables of Canfranc, the fron tier town of Spain, were waiting for him. Immediately on passing the frontier to enter Spain, Don Francisco found an escort of 30 soldiers of the line and 20 National Guards, whom, in acknowledgement of his reception, he invited to a repast in the open air. The Constitucional says that an officer of rank had been arrested for attempt ing to seduce some of the soldiery of .Barcelona, and calls upon the Junta to be vigilant, adding that conspi rators are at work in Catalonia to bring about a coun ter-revolution. In the number of this journal of the 20th inst., we find an article against the French Go vernment, the furious temper of which may be judged of by the following extract : " The French Government," says the Constitutional, " constantly moves on towards despotism. Italy sprinkled with tears, Poland covered with tombs, and Spain, which is reeking with blood, behold with grief liberty expiring in the hands of France, of that nation the most generous, the most liberal of the universe. But liberty is more powerful than those who attempt to stifle it."—The Constitutional mentions a re port that General Pavia was on board the French brig of war the Surprise, and was going to seek refuge in France. According to this journal a magnificent tablet, with the names of the Halberdiers who defended the Palace at Madrid in the night of the 7th inst., is to be put up in the hall of the political Governqr of the pro vince at Barcelona. .; BELGIAN P UNDS—BatataiLe, OcT, 40. • Actual Debt, 254 per Cent. .. .. • 52)4 Rothschild's Lean, 5 per Cent. 101 Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per 'Cent...." Sper ..... 71 • - (1240) lol* Loan of City, 1V32, 4 per Cent. ........ Societyaf Commerce, 4*per Cent ..... 93 Rank of Belgium„ 5 per Cent... ......... ...." 72% NationalSeciety. Exchange on London (short) —.Brussels Papers, Oct. 26. AUSTRIAN FUNDS —Visuma OCT. 19 five per Cents. Eletalhques • 1°6 54 Four per Cents. . ............ 98 % Three p er Cent 5........••••••••• roe ••••••••••••••• ........... Bank Shares -•••••• • ••••• ...... 110 ..••• it 33 —. 4ll g — cm 7 m7ig - iiisT,ZZ;:"67 THE SUN, LONDON, TRURSDAIer,,OCTOBER 28, 1841. SUMMARY OF NEWS AND Vutatr Optittott. " lVho run.g may read." PO)EIGN. The Paris Journals of Tuesday are a good deal occti- , pied with the correspondence between the Spanish Am bassador and Christina Munoz. Those on the _side of the Opposition declare truth to be -on the side,of the Minister. The Debats and the Presse are reduced ts. silence. The Natioual says :—" We have not courage to dwell upon points so little honourable in the conduct of this woman, vtho dares not, who cannot, deny the truth ©f-the words ascribed to her by NI. Olozaga, and who avenges herself by violent abuse of the Spanish Government. We must have pity on the vanquished—we must excuse the irritation of defeat : these bursts of passion are the accents of despair." The Stale thinks the correspondence so little favour able to the Queen, that it would, it says, have sup pressed it, considering that she has already paid the per.alty of her errors, if it had not felt itself bound by a sense of duty to publish it. The Constitutionnd observes, with great brevity, th r at' the letter of 11. Olozoga dispenses with the necessity, on the part of the editor, of pointing out the contradic tions which are contained in the Queen's statement. _ The ','aurrier Francais also observes :—" The decla ration which the Queen pretends to have made to M. Olozan is diametrically different from the language ': , en b by M. Olozaga in hi s di s p a t c h t o G enera l Al ca l a ; rut it ‘drid—he who so pro u dly call e d upon difficult to believe th a t th e re p resen t a ti ve o f th e to ~..;iiavow the rebels who were using Cabinet of Chris her name—could have lists to to so bitter a protest sgainst his Governmeni. The Courrier Francais asserts that 1,.:c Spanish Minis ter proceeded on Monday to St. Cloud, to demand the expulsion of Christina Munoz from Paris. The Sentinille of Bayonne says:—" The, following is a specimen of the zeal of the people for the cause of Maria Christina. Sixty young men of the province of Guipuzcoa have entered France for the purpose of escap, ing from the Fuerists, who wished to compel them • to take up arms in favour of the insurrection ;. and we are assured that inhabitants of other parts of. the Basque country have arrived at Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, under similar circumstances." According to the late census, there are in the 12th arrondissement of Paris 6,078 poor families, comprising 830 persons above 75 years of age blind or paralytic. There are in these families 3,329 men,-..5,292 Women, 2,667 boys, and 2,872 girls. "In the evening receptions at St. Cloud," says the France, "Louis Philippe assures the visitors at the Palace that the affair of M'Leod and of Canada will be settled pacifically." The officialMessager states :—According to a-telegra phic dispatch received yesterday, O'Donnell, Piper°, Jaureguy, Urbistondo, and Iriarte, have entered France. The number of refugees is nearly 1,200 soldiers and peasantry, and 405 officers. The Regent Fs said to be expected at Irun. Four battalions have already entered the town. It is added, that they are about to move in echelon from thence to Urdax, and effect the establish ment of custom-houses. PITMLIC OPINION. The Morning Post is full of righteous indignation at the tone adopted by the Opposition Journals, observing : This is the time they take fur shouting in the ears of the populace, that the landlords desire to starve them—that the landlords are deliberate plunderers, murderers, and worse than murderers ! This is the time that, for the furtherance of a mere party purpose, they aggravate every bad symptom of the times, and endeavour to en graft public ferocity upon private distress ! Such con nect, deserves stronger reprobation than words can ex press. It is in the highest degree criminal, and though it may not be so in such a sense as to be touched by the law, every man 7vho detests moral crime as well as legal crime ought to give Lis aid towards abating the nuisance, of so vile an opposition t(3 common justice and the com mon safety."—lf a vile opposicl,,n to common justice and the common safety be manifested a n7where, it is among the Tories who, though perfectly aware cf the existing state et' the country, refuse to trouble their heads about a remedy, but coolly rest content with letting things take their own course. As for the Opposition Journals, they but adhere strictly to their duty in speaking of things as they are ; and declining to shut their eyes to the des titution of the working-classes, in order to further the party interests of the Monopolists: •The rage of the Post at their free-spoken truths is the best proof that they are acting rightly. Speaking of the state of affairs in Canada, the Herald says :—" Until Canada—now within a shorter distance of England than Edinburgh was from London a century ago—be thus made an integral portion, or constituted into outlaying eounties of the United Kingdom, it is in vain to anticipate any great advancement of its prospe rity. The commercial greatness of Canada and the con version of its physical conformation into the means of increasing the defence of the British empire, can only be established by the completion and construction of such enormous public works as are quite beyond the grasp of a mere dependency. The improvement of the naviga dm) of tte St. Lawrence, and the navigable communica tions of the great inland seas, must be regarded as great national works, essential to the ; prosperity and safety of , the'umpire." ' The Times has an article on the subject of the prover bial delays in Chancery, in the course of which it ob.' serves :—" It is curious to look back at the antiquity and continuity of the evil. It was the fashion of the Liberals, in the latter period of Lord Eldon's Chancel lorship, to lay the fault upon his habits of hesitation: and for two or three years, while the agitation of the suhjort could be made to answer a political purpose, and to annoy the Ministry through the sides of the Chancellor, the patriots took up the grievance ; not, indeed, with any view to relieve the pressure of the evil, but for the pur pose of inculpating their political opponents—just as the manufacturers of distress in the north of England have lately been getting up their statistics of poverty and pri vation, without contributing a fraction to assist the suf ferers : so much more ready are their sympathies than their sixpenc6s. But the grievance a the Court of Chancery was vastly more ancient than the days of Lord Eldon."---No one doubts that the delays in Chancery were a subject of complaint long before the days of Lord Eldon ; but he did nothing to reform the evil, notwith standing that at one period of his career, he possessed as much, and perhaps more power to do so, than any Chan cellor whether before or shine. To all proposals for in quiry he invariabty - turned a deaf ear ; and it was not merely to " answer a political purpose," as the Times hints, but-to promote a great public good, that he was so often urged by the Opposition to take the matter into his serious consideration. The Chronicle says:—" The Times of yesterday com pliments Sir Robert Peel, for the interest he feels on the subject of popular education. The time is happily chosen. Such praise is like vitriol in a green wound. But the education required for bettering the moral and intellectual condition of the poor is not likely to be ob tained in schools where a corrupt vote is payment from the parent, and to sign a petition procures a boy's expul sion. By the Leeds report it appears that in that town alone there are upwards of 15,000 children who do not go to school at all, besides allowing 10,000 for such as are too young, or are unavoidably prevented. The fact is a frightful one. It could not happen, were the poor properly cared for by the Legislature. It is a horrible disgrace on a country, possessing millions per annum for 'educational purposes."—Were the Tories to endeavour to correct this state of things, and propose some scheme of national eductetion, we should have little faith in ha efficacy, for it would be sure to be conceived in a nar row, sectarian spirit, and - be productive of far more harm than good. It is not by a Tory Ministry, such as we now see at the helm, that a really useful and enlarged system of national education will ever be carried into practice. The York Courant observes, with reference to the re: cent spread of incendiarism•:—" This is what we ask for, and what we think the signs of the times require, and that which it is the immediate and solemn duty of the Government to attend to—that they should make an inquiry into those things—that they should not shut their eyes to the alarming indications of discontent to which we have alluded, but that with all diligence and since rity they should set themselves upon the work of seeking out the cause, and devising a remedy." The Worcester Chronicle contains the following re marks:—" Despite the remonstrances of starving mul titudes, the Tories prorogued Parliament without show ing the slightest indication of compassion for the pre valent- distress, -or of an intention to devise, at an early period, measures for its relief. It would seem that this Tory neglect of the prayers of a long-enduring people has stung them into madness. The counsels of rage have superseded the calm dictates of reason and reflection. Swing went out with the Tories ;he returns to welcome their advent to power withhonfires raised of homesteads and corn-ricks. While it gives us unfeigned sorrow to notice these atrocities, we cannot conceal our belief that they are owing in no-small degree to the cold neglect with which the popular cry of distress has been met by the Tories." MONEY—TRADE—CODSATEILCE. At the" adjourned meeting of ,the masons lately em ployed at the new Houses of Parliament, held last night at the Craven Head,•Drury-lane, the sums sent in by different Societies for their support, consisted of 501. from a Society' of Carpenters ; 10/. from the Pimlico Carpenters'; 50/." from the Carpenters of Grosvenor square ; 751. from a Masons' Society of London ; 30/. from a Soeiety of Tailors ; lO/. from a Painters' Society; 20/. from the Hope Friendly Society; 101. from Captain Ackerley ; making a total, up to the present moment, of 256/.; with a number of weekly subscrißtions ft= soy"- ral Societies and Bodies. Sir Watkin Williams Wynne, and his late *distin guished visitors recently subscribed 480/. to al!eviate the distresses of the unemployed miners in Ruabon and Wrexham. At Tort Natal, Cape of Good Hope, about 4,000 Bri tish subjects occupy a large tract of country, on which three towns have been founded, and a regular Go vernment organized. The Cape colony would greatly improve, if means were provided by Government for the gradual influx of 2,000 or 3,000 emigrants an nually, by which capital would follow, and the revenue of the colony increase. STATISTICS. From the results of the Census just concluded, it ap pears that the population of Great Britain and Ireland, in the present year, amounts to upwards_of 27,000,000 of souls, which is an increase of about 2,000,000 since 1831. If the population of the Colonies be. added to this, her preseut Majesty is the Sovereign of one hundred millions of subjects. From a return to the House of Commons it appears that the total number of persons confined in lunatic asylums ] within the jurisdiction of the Metropolitan cbmmissipiatr,;.ciating last year, amounts to 2,498: — or these, 1,289 were pauper patients, confined in four houses, three of ' which are of great magnitude; the other, 1,209 were private patients, distributed among licensed asylums. • LAW AND POLICE. At Hatton-g k arden yesterday a young man of the name of Wilcox, said to be a student at Trinity College,„Cam-, brirge . "7,. viCS"Coramittid to take his trial for st ea ling books froththe Ilrrtish Museum. John jtobinson, a valet in the service of Mr. Smart, rarkiplace, Chelsea; was fully committed to Newgate, . . by the si i ttang Magistrate at Queen-square, for making two de4tetate efforts to Stab a fellow -servant with a table-knife: — ' SIPOILIIMM • An osprey was shot a few days ago in the neighbour hood of Clun by a gamekeeper of the Earl of Powis. A superior specimen of the preregine falcon, a rare and valuable bird to the fowler, was also netted on. Monday last at Acton. COIIRT—PASHIONABLE. • _ _ Lord Monteagle had a interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday morning in Downing stree t. .lord Stanley, we are happy to hear, is nearly re covered, and has resumed his official duties. The Duke of Norfolk has,arrived in town from Farn ham Hall, Suffolk. The Duchess of Hamilton arrived on Saturday at Bath, on h, visit to Mr. Beckford. :Lord Palmerston and hii Lady atrived in Sligo at eight o'clock on Wednesday night. MISCELLANEOUS: The aurora borealis, as seen from Wick on Saturday last, was extremely brilliant. A mountain flood carried away several houses in the neighbourhood of. Doonbeg, Cuunty Clare, on Sunday last, with the loss of two lives. DARLEVINIOOREI.—There was a heavy fall of snow on Parley Moors, near Matlock, on Thursday morning last, with ice of a considerable thickness ; it had a singular appearance among the sheaves of corn set up in the fields of that neighbourhootl. A letter from Milan mentions the death-of the Duke of Cannizaro, well known in the 'London fashionable circles. He died almost suddenly, in consequence of taking three pills,—Frorn the fatal effects of these pills, one would almost be tempted to suppose that they had been prescribed by the Tawworth quack-doctor. A 7 cannon, cast in the foundry of M. Poucet, at Liege, measuring eight feet in length, and weighing 2,486 Eng lish pounds, was lately proved with 61 discharges, at the last of which it burst. No cast-iron cannon at Liege ever sustained more than 59 discharges. The grain of the metal Was very fine and close. We understand there is no truth in the rumour that an eminent M.P. (late of the. Surrey theatre), whose name, from motives of delicacy, we refrain from men tioning, has been engaged by Macready to play Othello at Drury-lane, during the Christmas holidays. A Morning Contemporary, speaking of the late Ban bury Conservative dinner, says, that it is' a proof that the' Conservatives of that borough have at length roused themselves from their "lethargic stupor."—lf a good dinner will not rouse a Tory from his " lethargic stupor," we know not what will, especially when we learn that, in the present instance, " the viands were excellent and the wines splendid." In these few words we have the whole secret of the Banbury Tories' activity. The pros pect of a good dinner stimulated them to unwonted action. Alexander M'Leod, whose trial at Utica excites so much public interest, is a native of Forfarshire, Scotland. In a street leading from the Whitechapel-road are to be found eight shopkeepers who rejoice in the following tames : Slaughter, Death; Angel, Demon, Black, White, Green, and Gray. Mr. Catlin, in his entertaining work on the American Indians, observes "The son of a chief, a youth only eighteen years old, distinguished himself in a singular manner the day before our steamer reached the village, by taking to himself four wives in one day I"—This is as bad as taking four doses of physic in one day, when one would have been more than sufficient. Had the rash youth been living in England, his friends would instantly have issued a commission De Lunatic° Inquirendo against him ! One of the Brighton railway trains, on Monday, con veyed 160 passengers, a proof of the confidence of the public in the safety of the line. Mr. Forester, fte experimental chemist of William street, Islingten, who has been committed to take his trial for shooting at a policeman, according to the evidence of Dr. Munro labouredlor some time past under strange delusions. i He fancied that head was turned round, his face behind, and the hind part of his head was in front. - The gross sum received from visitors to the armoury in the Tower during the year ending February 1, 1841, was 2,2971.. and the receipts of the. Jewel House, from the Ist of February to the 31st December, 1840, amounted to 1,5471. The Dublin Orangemen - must indeed be reduced to a low ebb in the Corporation, when they boast that, though not able to return one of their own party, they have suc ceeded in some instances in securing the return of the least objectionable Radicals. The strike of the journeymen paper-stainers of Paris has now continued since the Ist instant, and prosecutions for a coalition have been instituted against them by several of the masters of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine and the Quartier de Popincourt. " The number who havii thus thrown themselves out of employ," says the Droit, , " is said to be 845, and they demand an additional pay of 50 centimes a-day, stating that, since they are obliged to take for assistants young men 16 or 18 years of age, instead of children as they did former ly, They would not be better paid at this rate than when the re ceived only 4f. a-day. ' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 27.—The busi tress done in the Clotton Market to-day is to a moderate extent, the sales amounting to 2,500 bales, all of which are taken- by the trade. The market closes in favour of the buyer. LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, OCT. 27.—The fol l Owing are the transactions at the close of the Stock Ex 7 change :—Eastern Counties Debentures, 74 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 23k; Great Western, 20/. Shares, fi; London and Birminghani New Shares, 23i; Midland Counties, 304. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, :OCT. 27. Our market to-day presents no new feature, very little busi ness has been transacted. The sales are London and South Western, 514 ; Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 21 ; Northern and Central Bank, 41. Bs. 9d.; Manchester Assurance, 9k. By the arrival of H.M. schooner Spider papers from Rio de Janeiro to the Ist of April have been received. On the 27th of August the Minister of Finance presented his estimates to the Chambers. According to the various tables presented. by his Excellency, the total deficit amounts to 8,817,693,191 Teals (1,100,000 sterling). Of this sum 3,425,713,517 reels is for expences not contem plated, incurred and. to be incurred in 1840-1841 and 1841 1 -1842, and for which sum a supplementary credit is asked, and 5,391,976,674 reels is the estimated excess of expenditure over the revenue in 1840, 1841, and 1842. His Excellency, after submitting his estimate, left to the judgment of the Chambers to determine the manner in which the deficit is to bo provided, and we sincerely trust that the decision will be such as will support the honour and reputation of the country. Exchange upon England on the 31st August, was 301 4 ; •and the 6 per Cent. Local Stock, 704. By the same arrival papers from Buenos Ayres to the 14th August have been received, but they do not con tain any news of importance. Exchange upon England, 24d. . The total number of vessels in port on the 6th was 107. TRIAL OF BLAKESLEY FOR THE MURDER OF MR. BURDON. CRIMINAL COURT—(THIS . DAY.) This being the day appointed for the trial of Robert Blakesley, charged with the wilful murder of Mr, James Burden, the Court was crowded to excess at a very early hour. Mr. Sergeant ARABIN took his seat upon the Bench at nine o'clock, when Robert 131akesley was placed at the bar to plead to the indictment, charging him with stabbing Sarah Blakesley, with intent to murder her. The prisoner, who was dressed in mourning, pleaded not guilty. His demeanour was firm and decorous, without the blightest appearance of levity. He was then removed: • (Before Lord ANGER and Mr. Baron GURNEY.) - Ori the arrival of the Judges, the prisoner was again placed at the bar, fdr the purpose of taking his trial on the indictment for the murder of James Burdon, to which he pleaded Not Guilty yesterday. Mr. PAYNE, in stating the. case for the prosecution be sought the Jury to clAsiniss from their minds all they_ . might. have heard-cm the subject,and to come to the de cision as to the guilt or innocence of the prisoner with out prejudice. The Learned Counsel hazing_ stated the faCtss6f the case, Ailed the followin g witn6ses.. Edward Beeston---I am a policeman in the Cky police. The prisoner came to me on the morning of the 21st of September. I first saw him about three o'cloek. I was on my beat. He said his wife Was detained frem him by Mr. Burdon, at the King's Head, Etatcheip. He said he would get a summons fora Burdon from the Lord Mayor. I offered- to go with him - to be his witness, when he went to claim .his wife; we went to the King's Head at seven o'clock, and saw Mr. Burden in the bar. When Blakesley claimed his wife, Mr. Burdon said, " I know 'nothing of go out of my house." I said to Mr. Burdon that I was come as his witness, as he intended to go before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Burden said, " I know nothing whatever of him." I said, am I to take that as an answer ? He .said " Yes," and ,Blakesley and I left. Blakes ley said he had been unfortunate in business, and on that account his, wife had been kept there. Cross-examined by Mr. saw him first at three, and the last time at seven. I had seen him be tween five and six ; he bore the appearance of having been up all night. George Allen, hair-dresser, Lime-street—The pri soner came to my shop on the morning in, question, and saidthat his wife and his property had been kept from him by . Mr. Burden, of the King's Head, Eastcheap. He said he had been unfortunate in business at Seven oaks, and that was the reason Mr. and Mrs. Burdon were against. him. He said he had demanded his wife of Mr.. Burden . that yearning, and had been refused ; that it was enough to- drive any man mad ; and if he had had a pistol he would have shot him. He showed me - a letter he had from, his wife, beginning " Dear Bob," and appointing to meet at the same place. Cross-examined by Mr. BODKIN—He came to be Shaved. He did appear in an uncomfortable state of mind. He spoke rationally. William Blacker—l am a City policeman. I saw the prisoner at half-past nine in the morning of the 21st of September. He said he had been to demand his wife, and that they were going to turn him out the house. We were passing a butcher's shop at the time, and he pointed to a knife and said—lf I had had that in my hilnd I should have made use of it. I said, Nonsense.; and he said—By God I think I !should. He said he had not been in bed all night. I saw him again , at six in the evening. He came up, and asked me if I was going to stand half a pint Of porter. I gave him some, and he said he was going to see his old woman by and bye. I was with him for two hours. He said that he would meet me in the morning. Nothing more passed relating to his wife. By the Connr—He seemed in good spirits. John Charles Davis—l am a cutler living in Aldgate. A person, I believe to be the prisoner, came into my father's shop at about one o'clock on the 21st September. Mr. C. PHILLIPS objected to this evidence being gone into, as the witness could not swear to the prisoner. Lord ABINGER supposed all he could say was that a person had purchased a knife. Mr. PAYNE would not press the point. The witness then withdrew. Thomas Quinlan—l am -a private watchman in East cheap. On the night of the 21st of September I met the prisoner at about five minutes before ten; his hands were in his pockets, he said Good night. At ten I saw him again, and he asked me if I should be back in five minutes. I said, I hope so; and in about two minutes after .I was called to the King's Head by a potboy. I saw a man lying at the front of the bar. He was not dead then. I saw two ladies in the bar. JaineS Jarvis—l am a porter in Fenchurch-street. I was in the parlour of the King's Head on the night of the 21st of September. I heard a -scream, went into the bar, and saw Mr. Burdon staggering. I un derstood him to call for a doctor. I remained' with him until one came. I saw deceased fall. Eliza Burdon—l am the widow of the deceased James Burdon. He was 38 years of age. lie kept the' King's Head, Eastcheap. I saw the prisoner there on the night of Tuesday, 21st September. I was sitting-in the bar with my sister. I know the prisoner, that inur derer.—(Here the witness became much affected, and the prisoner sobbed audibly.) My husband was sitting asleep. A table was near him. I heard a 'step coming, and saw Blakesley. He sprang to my sister, and saying, "My wife or my life," stabbed her in the right side. My sister was his wife. He then turned round and stabbed my husband 'when he was asleep in hia chai r . H e h a d, a „knife in his hand. He then attempted to stab me, but my sister prevented him. He then went out of the bar with the knife in his hand streaming with blood. My sister and my husband run,s,va-1.;...-...v-es.- AS ,rie Dar .1„r, .nd my husband reeled against a dresser, and I heard him auy, What is the matter. The prisoner turned round with the knife in his hand and looked at them; he came back half way across the passage, threw the knife down,_ and went out of the house. fnever saw the prisoner after. My husband fell down, and we sent for Mr. Smith, the surgeon. .Aly husband died shortly after. He had a silk pocket handkerchief over his face when he was asleep. Cross-examined by . Mr. BODKIN—We were sitting inside the counter. A person coming in would have-to walk the length of the counter to get to us. He had passed round the counter when I first saw him. I was sitting on one side of the table and my husband on the other. I hack:spoken to my husband about five minutes before he was awake. Not half a minute elapsed after he came in before he stabbed my sister. My attention was directed to the prisoner. I can swear my husband did not rise up before he was stabbed. The knife was thrown away by the prisoner outside the counter, but my sister went and picked it up and threw it in the in side. I never mentioned this before, for I was never asked. I think he held it in the left hand. I did not see him attempt to inflict any wound upon himself. Daniel O'Connell—l live in Fenchurch-street. I was in the parlour of the King's Head on the evening in ques tion. Shortly after 10' o clock I heard a shriek in the bar. I went into the bar and saw two females standing, one lying over the bar, and Mrs. Burden was coming out after her husband. Mr. Burdon was standing just out side the bar, he fell against me, and that broke his fall. The police came directly. Jarvis was there by nay side. . James Croft—l was pot-boy at the King's Head. I heard a scream On the night in question, and ran to the bar from the tap-room. I saw prisoner going to the door with a knife in his hand, he came back and tossed the knife outside the bar. I fetched the doctor. Mr. Burdon was standing outside the bar. Cornelius Smith, surgeon, in Gracechurch-street, saw deceased lying on his back on the night in question in the bar; he died in about a minute after I arrived. I found a; i wound in his abdomen one inch and a half in length, ;and half an inch in breadth ; it was a gaping wound. The intestines were protruding, the instrument had penetrated five inches into the cavity of the abdo men ; a knife might have inflicted it. James Bradley—l am Sergeant in the City Police. I was called in to the King's Head,Easteheap, on the night in question. I found the knife produced in the bar ; this was at ten minutes past ten. There was blood on it. I went in search of the prisoner, but did not find him. Mr. Smith recalled—such a knife as that produced would inflict the wound. Mr. Davis recalled—This is the knife I sold on the morning in question. I sharpened the knife at the back as well as at the front at the request of the prisoner, who purchased it. No one was in the shop when pri soner purchased the knife, but two men passed through while he was there. Thomas Dunn—l am a policeman of the Hertfordshire constabulary ; I apprehended the prisoner at Hitchin. Pilgate, a policeman, and mySelf saw him loitering about the market-place. I said, "It's a fine night ;" he said, "I am almost mad." I asked if we could ren der him any assistance ;he said, I suppose you have heard of the dreadful circumstance in London. I said, " Murdering the landlord and your wife ?" He said, " Yes." I took him to the station ;he went to sleep, and frequently awoke, exclaiming " That . scream that scream !" He said, " I did not intend to murder Mr. Bur don. If he had not _got. between my wife and myself, he would not have been hurt. I intended to kill my wife first, and then myself." I frequently cautioned him. Mr. PAYNE said this was the case for the prosecution. Mr. C. PHILLIPS, for the defence, said that as the cir cumstances of the case would be likely to become the matter of investigation, he had no discretion as to the facts he should lay before the Jury. The facts were too clear, for him to attempt to deny what had been set forth in evidence. It appeared that his wife had been detained from him by Burdon, why did not appear. He did not attempt to argue that this detention of his wife was justification for the crime ; but let them look at the effects of that detention. The prisoner was attached to his wife. This detention was sufficient to drive the prisoner mad according to his own statement, and he would put it to the jury, whether his con duct' throughout was not that of a madman. His telling the police that he could have shot Burden ; his whole Conduct showed that he was goaded to mad ness; and like all madmen, the first object which he attacked was the woman he most dearly loved. Did not his whole conduct prove that he was not in his proper mind ? He should show that the prisoner's mind was naturally one which being excited would be driven to madness ; and then he would ask if some interposition ought not to take place to prevent this dreadful occur rence being consummated by one still more dreadful ? Ile should show that he wandered from his home for days without being able to give the slightest reason for his conduct. It would be shown that he had set up a breW ing.business without any knowledge Of the business, -and without connection. The Learned Counsel then went on to give some particulars, which he stated he should prove in - evidence. All these were marks of an intellect so feeble, that cruelty would be likely to drive it to madness. On another occasion, he had attempted to enter into an agreement to set up as a , THE FUNDS. The English Stock Market closed very - firm last night. Consols were last quoted at 881 4 for Money, and 884 for the Account ; and opened this morning at the same quotations. No quotation for Exchequer Bills at present. In the Foreign, Spanish Active Stock, 204 4 ; Portu guese Five per Cents. 294 /; Ditto Threes, 17/ 184 ; Brazil Bonds, 56 58. Very little doing at present. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE. RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share. London and Brighton Loudon and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 111..... to North Midland ~ 100 - to JOINT STOCK BANKS. London and Westminster . 20 - HALF PAST ONE. The business doing in the Stock Exchange up to the present time has been but limited. The English Stock Market is not so firm as at the opening, Consols having receded to 88i for Money, and 88/ for the Account Three per Cents. Reduced :are now 87* ; ditto, Three and-a-Half, 96i ; Bank Stock, 164 ; India Stock, 2431 244 ; Exchequer Bills 9s. 12s. prem. Spanish Active Stock has improved a little; the quota tion is now 20-a s ; Deferred, 101. Portuguese Fives, 2914 ; Brazilian Nonds, 57 ; Danish, 78A ; Mexican, 246 • Dutch Five per Cents., 99A ; ditto T wo - an d- a . Half, 511. The principal business doing in the Share Market has been in Brighton Shares. The line throughout is Closed for. .to-day in consequence of some defect. The following are the prices during the morning-36H 351/ 34ii 35A; London and Croydon, 1 li; North Midland, 65. The Dutch Mail has just arrived. The Two-and-a- Half per Cents. came 51 1-16 A-, and the Fives 99 9-16. TWO O'CLOCK. Coniols, Money, 881;'Account, 88k I; Mexican,24l i; Spanish, 201 4. QUARTER TO THREE. The termination of the insurrection in Spain has now been now secured most fully by the retirement of O'Donnell and the other insurgents across the frontier into France. In the opinion of many '"well informed Spaniards the Duke of Vittoria will now push detachments of troops to the French frontier, and thereby effect with ease the Cus toms cordon, which, had the late insurrection not oc curred, he could scarcely have hoped to do without ex citing a good deal of discontent. GREAT NORTH OF ENGLAND RAILWAY. Traffic returns for tho week ending Oct. 25, 1841: Passengers £956 13 4 Merchandizo £1,339 6 5 . . Oct.Dtulington, 27. D 7 O'BRIEN, Secretary. 'INQUEST 'AT HOWDE2C—On Saturday after noon and by adjournment on Monday the 25th inst., an inquest was held at the Angel Inn, by Mr. Porter, Coro ner for = the division -of llowdenshire, on the body of Harriet Hanks, single woman, who came to her death by taking a quantity of powdered Cantharides, o r French flies, with intent to produce abortion. The Jury, after hearing evidence of the circumstances, returned a ver dict of Felo de se.—York Courant. RITENING SUN Low baker at Foots Cray, for the purposesof supp!Ying solicitor, the t b h r o ea n d g . ree N na V e h n e t n w th as e matter spas ea Ho represented himself to his wife as a man of proqelid. casion he had fancied he had a large insteerectainainnecdtollote:ril and said his guardian was living at F ' n f o und to When they went to Enfield, of course Orley it a delusion ; and when Bur,"o state - s° o the prisoner, he went into a convulsion of rage, ro . and was ultimately found at Gravesend. WalAitrePin bable that' the refusal to restore his wie, s a h e o u u g - ..i ho s, s l idting denial of all knowledge of policemanit houid n the v right en in r n l‘ a r a n r s . B with u n r d ore then ..,h not be misunderstood—he did not instances of insanity , but as indicative of su.' t , oi s mi tr pt h ioi su a tso r m t?o i I n l d aivi t ee o . h d he e oi s p( p i eeidrl him ,ration? p ? s 0 a state of mind as might be driven to n n 9 fi l e r . by the extreme - cruelty that had been practised 0 He would not trespass further on their time, betut all sit down, satisfied that their verdict would be. events just, and if possible merciful. He then caheeaeoed James Blakesley, the prisoner's-father, ivh° c ow much affected ; the prisoner alSo vulsed. The witness—l am p p risoner's Blackwell Hall factor. Prisener, had a very bje 4i when between four and five years old. He wa s ,, u droe to paralysed limbs ever afterwards. Ile wow', for down,_ and lose the use of his nei n the hours. He has' not been subject to attacks cosi• limbs since he has grown up. We have alw a Y s a ia o° s dered and treated him as weak and foolish. Yoe c '„ r ed a $ ..appeared quiTteara reason with him. His reasoning faculties sat o ' be times gone. It remained so until he went to se" t or by tween seven and eight years of age. I was see by the the master t o see how he would stand fo r heersi have wall while the other children were playng. vows seen him so. H e l e ft sc hool when thirteen ois of age. He was brought up to my busiaess.book. occupation was to make entries in the P il Y o on/ He has. left my house frequently without giying fl notice or making any preparation for a Jekerf,eido.o die has:been away for a fortnight. There 'had been 1)° , 1 ference with any of the family. o,' r e d, an d would appear quite incoherent and eisharraesehe after a day or two he appeared sorry forwb d bee °. done, but I could not get from him Where be frequent), * or what he had b een d o ing. I ha ve 'll%o°sto seen him .in the ware h o use in a state of e hio agitation, and have had great difficulty to gets not t° himself. W e were a l ways par ticularly Cl ll, ti °,topee irritate him. I n 1835 or 1836 lie attempted u ~o rs ie brew-house. H e h a d no k now l e dge of the trade' ou t tbi s means of carrying it on. I knew 111‘ n othin u th , 511 / b; from my own kn ow l e d ge . I s p o ke to hire on, i a y. j ject. He said he had a ppli e d f o r a loan of 3 . t. had obtained tsom e , an d I gave hint so lion t° 18 `;,3 was about 401. I h a d h a d a communicadol as about his taking a pl ace a t Foots CreY'ot' him about it, or about his. manufacturing' breadc he bringing it to London in a cart. ecee cl A il ‘' Hsoerr)Ltehwatnhoethsinagw of f he t r h e e w b e a r k e in n g o b b n o s r n e e s s : , ; , o ° r o l i f tw v ( b t. t !' t anyenh c , u m ni a a d ry e aillecaonmsm. communication to3/1 Be,rnaeolie:istkile:tlii my son.. He came stab) and Mreoltes son had taken some ing from hint for . d to tcel e ; the- Cambridge coaeh, and asked whY els sled his arrangement. My•-sale een s him. _I said Robert, Robert, what new Wog is proo- r said nothing and contended he never had seen xr' oe ver io , My son left my house in April l e4i, and hils ec eiY° t turned is since. My house was ever open to r 00 4 supposed into' r . Bsuormd Somersetshire eaoncetrsahi a oan ldirive, living communication t° cog sll l 3 l ' 1 ;I wa,t_t ter b e e 0 r e4e , 5 0 , had never been heard of for three weeko! re tool "00* for a situation as a farming man. On 1115 er tellect seem txon e ina d il s yn o erd w e e sht a ry k ai t l h lt a n t n l dared not eon vers- wo s °j ot sub C je ro c s te s d -e By the COURT—He kept rA t irtc‘ t N h aE e rY :l l Y -3° tora ll tber . superintendence. His conversation ryas , f" hat- eat tional. He spoke as if h bn e gu u s n ian d te e sE r s s n t ; o n o lle d eld h .lul i Y s e3ddsl , :: : sll4 . :l d tti: O beniti°tecue; b esl: : : was an occasional aberration of mind. " tber e ne at him into Somersetshire, and' after stayil - t be days instead of twelve he went to I3irming,glndoiledi t j t .him to extend the business. He totallY hi object for which he had been sent. I $ 611 ". [ boo - view of making a man of bus' • of - are h By hopes yma o fatt f rher h rei i ai m gtcet 00. thenonkn COURT —He w h nh a vaeindenowehtsrhaiseoidti nothing i n t, no c c e lfh . io,,a_stooloo b 6 10 f: un is til said, I am married. place . Mr. R. B. Williams—l am a wine mer h - 0 1 : 1 13 e t r ' 'il f rol i P folk-lane. I have been acquainted witivi r lfoot 6 h, some m yeara. In 1839 I found the pristine a" Ol e "al O Ye said he had gone to open a baker's 511°1761mA s ' he had taken was a cottage standing by Tin th e isl‘' garden in front, three quarters of a Ml le ; r i ° re f°r 9 lage. I asked him what was I:is We i- me • t ° , ing such a house for _a, - baker'se se el o Do/ said, because it was very pretty .l a have no knowledge of baking,' and "eei spe agreed with a person to build an oven for vd boa i ll s he had 501. from a gentleman in the Citli o a i r e a ri ci° 6 li te op b y le „ . 121. of it.. He said he should take bree" cart, for which he should hire horses t b : t sh' l l; He said he had no means of getting & lir ' bake r'- i;st r ; body would supply him when, lie had do ubt He said he had no connection, but did ef" r ge: 0 1 0 : should sell bread by driving from door to 0 1 0 ' site " s her the bread was baked in the country. le °ll e lu oin b ig th rts pression on him to induce him to desist ttr ° ,, ° , f oce :4 l° I should think he remained in Foots ur;•', o 3 valy7; days after. He then went to Dorking, 110, Hastings, and returned to Marking, "' he , re b lie said he was looking out for a bake r' ,, t big e f tib t) „p i had agreed with a man at Dorking to tai - p s sect ' ; ' 6 and had paid a deposit. He was then poss, - d toL l e sq, 81. I remonstrated with him, and he ag re 'i n 101.. - t0 ea t his schemes if his father would set him uP 0 0 11 " the country, and his father would. O t $ 141 ' ,e 0° 41 " s ci o e . gi_s l , A , T c hen I• told prisoner he disr.` . , This lastat ridiculous language--said a of hour. 7 1 ,, 115 , _.A . 1 . i ssion, and his face became liviu,d 0 ut". the street, and th g r e s ne a d 'n g l e $1;1 : 1 : post before his father's door: 'His cone . "'" o c to" ) sane and moral, but he was not of strong t e lly to d, By the COURT—I considered hint 51:tett up t . ,1 . 6 1839. I have not spoken to him since ti ` a a 111 0 1 This closed the defence. • n s pe•-„ t e •ee- Mr. PAYNE would willingly have be e- ri of replying in this-case. His 1- 2 1 .-e An" b ra' commented on the conduet of Mr. Durte c ' Payne) thought that obs e rvation migh t ea - . 8 as it was evident that Mrs. BlakesleY. ll'er 0 teeei;tyc'9tio 1 ~„ce don's as an asylum, and was not dete regard to the plea of insanity, Lord P en cederittitpot of Oxford, had laid down the law tha i t io sl f o ls s ,,jet ° a person to an acquittal on the grounu ° he e oe' lo w/ I to necessary that he should at the time ef, t o b a i d 10: the offence be in such a state of winatovo,l' ar eil '- distinguish between right and wrong. the Jury to say whether such could be' the case in the present instance. i d tO t - tli e „lii i , Lord ABINGER, in summing up, S3 r t y , e oi t- ,;e" passion could not be considered insa n t.;," cowa made allowances for offences of this nat tl : i ip'e aparoxysm of rage; but if .4 sufficien t ' O l a til e d to for the warmth of passion to subside fe, t een o te o pti with deliberation and took away gl . „ ° 100 Made •no allowance, and the cr't r 0 18 murder. In the present case be . „i,i s cli P r ig $° for supposing that the altercation .which in the morning, could afford anf :} ll5 to 0 te d crime committed in the evening' 5 ° a „ - e stio ° 1 :,,' - rf, t , ° manslaughter. With regard to the „ . 1 - cr iine e be s r ther when the prisoner committed tn e ., f o r %., e irP o P f sane or not, that was a question entirelat o f ti o rr, decide, and he should be sorry to take it us e a ° s The fact of his having left his father's b ° her , ca o s , je l' wife, without the means of maintaining A tva,,, prif re egregious folly, but not; of rnadne.,s. been stated to be a man acting r ightlY 'was u r- to pies. Now, the prisoner knew that b e see ssa r t i l 0/ f er . was under no delusion, and that w as e ll o f e lf f li eei ' lO 5 him out insane. Rash marriages wer etea Itoeri cnrrence, but those who con tra nia ° • 'Pi ll raV not therefore to ;be considered e s o f lie p d t impossible to consider the evidence for t eeree ie ley, the father, without gfeeiinct it n o , be ipi o f situation in which he was placed. r ati on fo od or e he always treated the prisoner as a as s bot 0 1 , a case tried at York, a father who, w r i s an' t children had suddenly seized two. Pi s - did °lett e ni t : e both ; the physicians proved that be lo pw oof 05 j children were dead—that he did no t r oUll a 4 00 e, r e 1 1° , e about, and he was acquitted on th e y the jpg In another case recently tried ,ppeesosrieg; a person had committed a rnurtl e Pd o so. the P., e, e , a direct command from Heaven tO„,_,ja .pot t any delusion.in the present 'case? . 1 1041 the r g oi !D a know that he was doing wrong.' t i p e vvl orAi duct when taken, and the conv e r s3- o f - - •pg i e , ) pv , man, show that he was sensible t gO l $llOO . o rP The evidence appeared deficient 1 ° . w aief pot t f ril facts of these case, in which the P r. ; were e , tfroo , to be acting under delusion. If tb e . 7 o, 105 6.11 0. to A i that when he committed . the act he 0 55 0 fe r '' his P n a sufficient time had elapsed for epca of t 1 would be their duty to convict hit bs d iet Of The Jury then retired, and al et vcr_,„es set „ minutes, returned into Court witl.a fi.r," o per, ;o o The prisoner heard the verdict with g t ii e Fri; oelly On being called.up for judgmen t f th 6 " SC! help me God lam innocent ° r11141:l e °le ° lsa' murder James Burdon." . oat s ffi' Lord ABINGER then, in tho go h a Proceeded to as the awful .sernems, ha t ' s said there could be no doubt of the e l l ` ro vec'„,peq w e i i had first intended to commit anotn 0 in o u is p re vol' o , wife ; he had then, without g iving !' tuna ° - o f 1) 1/ 1d 1 for preparation, hurried the untbl 140;0,3:50g ill 4 , into eternity. He bad exhibited s i );_ d he o tioj e Ar .,ee t since the commission of the crime , ' l o ot , b is t o le to make the most use of tile hadeit°o elpt osteJ would be left to him to make hi t s b g b b o t Notwithstanding the attempt _ o doubt 00 11 e ve I prove him insane, there could be ;Ler wiled t he had committed the act Of Pn l t r h u o jrB Sse premeditation. His Lordship __,,,per.,„, e ted , f o sentence.of the law in the usual a i' u ily c okio The prisoner, who seemed dreg (" ben , _ se t be, ot e liged to be assisted away from gl e the prisel'oeu A During the course of the triai to tl e° o ffee te i;e 3 51' exhausted that it was necessda:Lafoily d 01 , 4, him with a chair. He wa s e :deu ce, '! i t i fle ss -1 . ) :, Mrs. 13urdon wasgiving her v , ..„ the ito p fo f vulsively when his father enterea ar „i Mr• c te ti was defended by Mr. C. l'hillin q a; le‘' l r op l NE W COu wont i r v , t he Pis Edmund Bigland and Henry ~„% stealing. four fishing •neta of th e . va sa fe ,o ll . l 'ol of George Henry Garthwaite.' eit The prosecutor stated that thermy they o t o r boat on the 4th of October, and,„ ce d W they were gone. The nets produce of the witness. 3 • a h d fe L e( Pll le a 11 K 141 do; si; bu 4 c, 11 ( zal • -% ,14 .I' ll Ar, 4 jes t , a 4 L , Sid 4 • St. 1 51111 • n ' •- ~ all 083 ' l ‘ , 1 - i II , rt bwh, "a L The Lir tr and th e the PriQ ' 4101 t h ud t, • H oz 11, 0 vi d Ord 1. 411 't, ° )" .‘ NWY WAI • W4I N ~ .~.. Rii )al o . • A. I Si Por i th, Wh i lAN W, y , ..., a clht, Oct. 14 1 44 3 Of,