The Sun. — London, England, 1828-02-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The moving the Army Estimates is the House of Commons has always furnished - an opportunity for discussingesubjects of high interest to the country, and of more various and extensive denomination than the immediate question before the House. Lord Palmerston proposed on Friday evening a vote of 2,000,000/. on account, for the pay and sub sistence of ninety-one thousand. men. This large force is independent of 25,5.59 men employed in _lndia, and paid by the India Company. The main divisions of the service to which this army of 90,000 men is applicable are two—the home ser vice, and that of the colonies; to which musta be added a third, viz. • the transit duty, whiCh requires that about 5,000 men should be always in motion, either going to or returning from the .distant pos sessions of our scattered empire, for the purpose of relieving or being relieved. A good deal was said by Lord Palmerston about a difference in the mode of presenting and charging the cost of certain colonial corps, to the amount of 3,000 men, who, it appe ars , were formerly made to figure as an item in the colo nial disbursements, although the charge was regu larly met by draughts upon the Army Pay-Office. The charge is henceforth to be inserted directly among the ordinaries of the army, and it is said (but as are used to such assurances) that the national treasury .shall be hereafter credited with the amount of it against the colonial exchequer. A large demand was made upon the approbation of the house, because this matter of obvious regulation " had been suggested " by Lord Bathurst. Then, if Suggested by that inefficient Minister, why was it not adopted by him ? That part of the question was left for Mr. Huskisson ; and it is, after all, a mere simplification of account, and consequent opportunity of sending some useless clerks about their business, a.' public benefit which, in principle and on the widest practicable scale, it is the bounden duty of every head of a department, not to suggest, but to bestow upon the country. Sir Henry Hardinge affirms that the Duke of Wellington, while Master-General ,of the Ordnance, succeeded in securing for the nation a aecluctirm in the expenditure of that once-wasteful establishment of nearly 390,000/. per annum. Now the whole Ordnance estimate, civil and military, does not exceed 1,565,000/. ; and the portion of that estimate which the Duke of Welling ton did not reduce, but left in a stronger condition than when he found it, viz. the effective branch Of the service—amounts to 1,200,000/. The remaining portion, viz. the non-effective=amounts to 365,0004; and it was from this branch that we now learn, on authority, that the Duke of Wellington cut off little short of 300,0001. After such an evidence of the Duke of Wellington's firmness and downright spirit of unflinching economy, it would be uncandid to with hold from him the praise of having set an example, not less encouraging to those who are now charged by Parliament with the duty of enforcing a just and frugal administration of the finances, than disgraceful to such of his . own former colleagues as have gone on from year to year enlarging the number of their subal terns, on pretence of an increasing exigency in the public service. If the Duke will resolutely sweep the gulfs of the Treasury, the Excise, the Customs, and she Colonies, he need not doubt of dragging into ; day a mass of hidden and unsuspected plunder, at which foreign nations will stand amazed, and all Eng lishmen, but the old courtiers and their minions, be at once rejoiced and confounded. It is not as . a Mi nister that we have felt it our duty to impugn and deprecate the Duke of Wellington, but as a com pound of the Minister and the armed soldier. But in respect of the two great objects for which it ap pears that so numerous an army is required, it is equally mortifying and to us unquestionable, that they both result from the most grievous and match less impolicy. At home,—that is, between England and Ireland,---there may be distributed 'about 45,000 men. What occasion can be imagined for this eriOrmeetts force in a free country, where Abe civil power may reckon .on., au auxiliary in every man who wears a decent coif, or has a house tta ahelter him ?. What but the moat insane departure from every law of sound government or legislation, can produce a necessity for upwards of 20,000 troops in Ireland, together with an armed and disci plined police in every village of` the island ? Does Lord Eldon think " Be just and fear nor," a maxim of no virtue but when an oppressed woman is to be condemned ? Then for the other 20,000 or 25,000 troops which are usually stationed in this country, we are told that the color ies require such frequent reliefs to their wasted garrisons as would render it impossible to diminish the average force at home.— Then let us ask why the colonies are estimated at so ;mmense a value, and retained at a sacrifice so frightful ? There are 40,000 men banished from their country to these charnel-houses, and kept there to perish at the national expense, at such a rate, that in the lapse of five years, a regiment sent to a \Vest India station often loses nine-tenths of the individual men and officers of which it at first consisted. Here, then, is a loss of life, which can never be enough deplored, but a loss of money likewise, which we are borne out. by the concurrence of' every man of sense in England, when we ssaert, that it ought no longer to be tole rated. If a colony cannot pay for its own protection, abandon it : there is no other prudent course. What. advantages are now derived to the nation from - any colony which is not a maritime station, to defend the freedom of our commerce ? We answer plainly, none,—not sixpenny worth,—if there be one particle of truth in the commercial doctrine which Mr. Hits kisson has enforced, so far as the Aristocracy would permit him, if we want tea, sugar, or spice, we can pay for it with our manufactures, on easier terms than by sending our troops to rot upon the soil which produces some of the articles in question, or suffering ourselves to be !flied by a band of monopolists for the enjoyment of others. There is, indeed, one interest, but it is not ail honest or a public interest, which would suffer by a reform of our carupt colonial : ,system—the interest of the Lord Charleses, as it was well remarked by Colonel Davies. The pride of the aristocracy forbids them to work, 'and the poverty of their younger branches compels them ao rob,—tlionah they will not labour,—to rob the istd-ustrious Englishman, whom they despise and rail at, by quartering themselves upon him in the mani fold shapes of extortion afforded through the mainte nance of otherwise unproductive colonies. We do not believe that such a system can last for a much longer season : it has been so boldly attacked in Parliament, so languidly if' at all defended, and is now so thoroughly understood dimughout the nation, that -it would not surprise us to see 4 colonial reform, a upon the p r i nc ipl e of colonies payity their own costa, carried by assault before the Wellington Admi ,nistration shall have expired.--Times. The Shell that was fired the other night into the s ere ; Influence Party has exploded with marvel lous u p s et. The consternation in a certain quarter is extreme. The " Invisible," as we have elsewhere hinted, h a s disappeared. B es id e s the reason tnr his absence there Oven, it is aaid that there are some accounts which it would be awkward to produce be fore a Finance Committee. We trust, however, that the committee tvill not be put off th e s n o ut by so shallow an expedient. The "substantial form" begins to think the allusion to him not quite so flat tering as it appeared at fir st ; he is re p orted to have despatched couriers both to Paris and Vie nna , i n degree of pleasant • order to ascertain the precise pleasa nt ry and adulation belonging to Mr. Dancombe s descrip . t la to a know, side , live reference; in other words , he wishes t according to a vulgar saying, vinwi of his face he is to laugh. Mr. .i ernes has been talked of for the Gov, rnment of Jamaica. After standing fire so v rll " Thursday in the House of Commons, it is Fapposed a , that he will easily bear the brunt of any e, who" ther tropical or moral. His demeanour or, that evening has shown that his intrepidity is t least equal to his moral sense. His colleague- \vished him to be silent, but with a self-devotion V, t thy of A better cause, be rttheti to the breach, as, la pie, though of course not in a sinister sense, the language of the poet,— " Fools rush in, where angels fear to tread." The result is known : the soldier generally leaves his life on the spot where his desperate courage has carried him. Mr. Herries, on his forlorn hope, gal lantly lost his reputation. It is said that. Lord C'lanricarde still intends to force some further kxpla nation. Lord Goderieh will perhaps speak oufmore plainly when subjected to the " peine forte et dure." —lbid. Sir Henry Hardinge stated on Friday night, that from the year 1820, the first year of the Duke of Wellington's being at the head of the Ordnance, to the year 1827, when he resigned. that office, there had been a saving of 230,0001. yearly, as compared with the previous expenditure ; and if all the bran ches of the Ordnance were included, the saving would amount to 320,0001. yearly. The greater portion of this saving had been effected, not by the reductions in the Military force, but mostly in the Civil Establishment." Mr. Calcraft considered that this was " some earnest, that as he, while at the head of the Department, had acted on the strictest principle of retrenchment, he would enforce economy in all the Departments of the State now, as he did then in that particular one." The same Honourable Gentleman the same evening said, "he confessed that he had expectations of great public benefit from the Administration of the Duke of Wellington. He did sincerely think that he was a man much more likely to make reforms in the expenditure than any man he knew, with one exception, a Noble Lord whom he had the honour to call his friend. The objection to the Noble Duke's Administration, that it was a military Government he little regarded.— It seemed to hire little better than nonsense to sup pose the Noble Duke would allow his military cha racter to participate in the discharge of his politieal duties. The country had lately had the benefit da civil, a very civil Prime Minister; and he was glad that they now • had one who carried with him more authority than the one they had re cently lost, for whom, personally, he had the greatest respect and regard." • We agree with - Mr. Calsraft that a great deal too much has been said about the danger to the C'Oristitrition from the same individual being at the head of the Army and 'the Treasury. This language can only be held' by those who either mean to deceive, or have never reflected on the nature of the Government (we speak of the actual Government, and not of the theoretical) tin der which we live. If Mr. Canning, in a letter to the Duke, approved of the constitutional objection, when started by his Grace himself, we must bear in mind, that of all possible objections to a man for office, the most offensive must be want of ability to till it ; and if Mr. Canning gladly laid hold of an ar gument urged by his Grace himself, which freed him from the necessity of stating a more unpalatable reason, we can hardly blame him much for want of sincerity. If the Duke of Wellington be fit in other respects for the Premiership (and we are far from saying that he is), we make very light of his connection with the army, in any other sense than as in itself affording a presumption, which ought to be rebutted by evidence, of want of acquaintance with the business of Government. The army and all the establishments of this country, are all parts and parcels of the Aristocracy, and there is no great danger of any power conspiring against itself. If, indeed, the English Constitution were in practice what it is in theory,—if the House of Commons were composed, not of branches of the Aristocracy, who either buy or intimidate the small number of individuals who pessess the elective franchise, but of persons who really represent the people, there might be some danger from a soldier of fortune at the head of a mercenary army overturning. the Constitution, and assuming a Dictatorship. There is no great danger of his Grace turning his army against the King and the Parliament; and if there should ever be occasion for employing the army against the people, we should suppose he would have no occasion to extort an authorization front Parliament '• at' the point of the bayonet. Mr. Cal craft has great hopes of his Grace's services irr'the way- of retrenchment, and it is but just to adniit, that what he has done in the Ordnance seems to sanction the view taken by him. The strongest Ministry is the most likely to succeed in the difficult task of re trenchment, provided a good will exists; for the stronger the Government the less necessity there is of recurring to corrupt influence. We should be disposed to overlook any deficiencies in his Grace, if he set vigorously about the reduction of our ex penditure. One circumstance we have heard, dis poses us to credit his wish to retrench—namely, the preference to set about reduction himself im mediately, instead of waiting for the Inquiries and Reports of Finance COmMittees. We can easily conceive why an Administration should prefer giving effect to the recommendations of a Fi nance Committee to the unpleasant task of ori ginating retrenchment themselves; but it is not the less true that the work can be both more quickly and effectually done by Government than through the intervention of a Committee, and that Parliamentary Committees are an usurpation on the functions of Government, and their very appoint ment is a proof of the functions of Executive and Legislative being confounded. . In one of Charles Davenant's works there ananitme sensible observations on the practice above alluded to, when it was less general than it is now, " It does not seem impossi ble," he says, " but that a Government may at least be so well managed that the Legislature shall not he necessitated to take upon itself in a manner all the Executive power,•and be compelled to interpose in the whole ailminiatration of affairs. No doubt there can be nothing more dangerous than to mingle these two authorities, which in a well-formed model are in their nature so distinct, and cannot be confounded together without an entire change of the Constitu tion : as, for example, that of England is called a limited Monarchy, but if the Executive power as sumes an authority to make laws, it then degene rates into tyranny. On the other hand, if the bu siness of the State is always so mismanaged, that there lies a necessity upon the Legislature, to do what properly belongs to the Exe cutive power, the Government must in time become Aristocratical, though here it would be most likely to end in a Democracy.— In the natural body the head does not walk, the hands digest, or the stomach think ; but each member has its proper and separate performances. 'Tie the same in a State well regulated, whereof all the parts that compose it, have their distinct and peculiar functions. Sovereigns, in their legislative capacity, with the other parts composing the Legislature, ordain ; what has been, or is from time to time thus ordained, they, their Ministers' and officers, .put in execution; and when to all this the people give due obedience, the Commonwealth is perfect. But in a State, whose affairs are out of order, all this proceeds quite otherwise; the Legislature cannot consult maturely for the public in making laws, by reason their time is wholly taken up with inquiries, and in per forming that which should have been done by others, and the MiniSterial authority, tempered by it superior power, remains astonished and imactive ; and having given offence by doing, or by being thought to do amiss, thinks to attone by doing no thing. In the meanwhile, good Princes, who de sire to please•their people, are uncertain how much of the Executive Power they shall leave to the Legis lathr e, how far they shall act themselves,and how much may be committed to their Ministers; and what does this uncertainty produce but an Administration both impotent and careless ?" We have had but too much experience of the truth of most of these observations. Everything is brought into Parlia ment, and the consequence is that nothing is do ne . Into that Assembly come the affairs of alt our co lonies, our foreign and domestic policy,public and pri vate laws ; and the consequence is impunity to all abuses,and a state of the law a disgrace to civilization. We do not see,that the Government are tinder the ne cessity of delaying their reductions till the Committee has Commenced. their inquiries. 'We should be sorry to baulk the desires of his Grace, if they lead him to retrenchnwnt, Let him by all means set to work I and anticipate the Committee. What we most dread is, that the recommendations of the Committee will come forth at a time when there may not be the same wish for retrenchment there is BOW. His Grace cannot signalize himself by long speeches ; he cannot be a Minister of words; let him then be one of deeds. One circumstance is in his favour; none of those who have been under him speak well of him ; now, it is a suspicious circumstance, when, a head is too popular with those under him. It is, , indeed, objected to him, that he is too fond of good things for himself and his own particular favourites ; but if he be rigid generally, the being a little too in dulgent to himself, may be overlooked. It is your kind good-natured men, who can never say no, who are the ruin of States.—Morning Chronicle. Though we do not profess to be more in posses sion of state secrets than the rest of the world, we may appeal to our readers whether we have not, on many late occasions, thrown suite as much light upon some apparently obscure transactions as those who would have us believe that they derive ail their knowledge " from authority." Such having been the case heretofore, we, with the more confidence, venture again to supply a chasm in matters of great interest at the present moment, which authoritative channels either cannot or must not supply. We have said heretofore, and we repeat our belief, that the whole secret ; history of the late Ministerial changes and intrigues will not see the light at pre sent, and will only become known, when they have lost all material interest,among the ana of half a cen tury hence. Conjecture, however, is actively alive, and its appetite is not A little sharpened by the tan talizing kind of half-knowledge which some of the principal actors have thought proper to ittipait. It now seems pretty generally admitted that the squabble between Messrs. liluskisson and Herries, relative to the proposed nomination of Lord Althorp to the Chair of the Finance Committee, neither was nor could be the real cause of breaking lip the Ministry. The. whole country must, indeed, have seen, without the disclosures which have now taken place, that Lord Goderich's Administration carried on its very front the seeds of its own disso lution_ Without a competent head the other Mem bers of the body can never act in unison or with effect; and a deficiencyWhlch is - thus fetid 'to the powers of the natural body is so when ap plied to such a one 'as that which We - are alluding to. The Whigs, we believe, seeing the weakneSs of the leader, and judging that, Weakness to be their strength, had formed, towards' the 'close of the au tumn, and as the .Ses'sjori of Parliariient approached, a fixed design of increasing their numbers and their strength in the Cabinet—in furtheranee of which, we have little iltnibt but it will turn out that by dint of alternate teasing, menace, and persuasion: a reluctant assent had been obtained 'from a high quarter to introduce two influential members- of 'that body into the Cabinet; and it was to bring about this arrangement that Lord Goderich's first tender' of his resignation was made. On Lord Harrowby's re fusal, however, to assume the Premiership, that tender was recalled, and Lord Goderich resumed his station, under an implied assent that his new Whig adherents would be admitted into the Govern ment, not then, but at Easter ;—a sort of poStpone ment of " the evil day," which no one who bears all the circumstances in mind can much wonder at. Then comes the intrigue, - which has not been explained, which overthrew and circumvented this purpose. It is now confidently said that the person who could explain this, that he may not be called to the bar of the House of Commons to do so, is non est inventus. Those of our readers who mix in the first political circles will readily know who and what we mean. The rest will, in all probability, know it vets/ soon. Suffice it for the present to say that the Whig in trigue was thus broken up. Like greater men than ourselves, we cannot say all that we know or hate heard upon the subject ;' but we have probably said sufficient to show that mare is meant by certain Par liamentary explainers than has as yet met the ear, as well as to, account for the soreness of those who have suffered so grievous a disappointment "between_ the cup and thelip.m-ltforiiing One' of the : principal difficulties attending the quarrel with Turkey arises out of the position which that power has hitherto taken up, and which it' may still preserve. If the Porte should fit out another fleet for the purpose of reducing those rebels, whom it has declared it will never pardon on the terms pro posed by the Allies, there might be an opportunity for carrying to the Turks, by a second defeat, the conviction of the hopelessness of their obstinacy, which the first had failed to impress. In the same manner, if they should venture on the madness of invading the territories of Russia, the army of the Czar, which is lying, like a licin couched, ready to spring upon its prey the moment that it stirs, might then read to them a lesson of wisdom as striking as that of Nayarit]. But if the Grand Seignior con tent himself with his present position—if he resolve to await the attack without provoking it, otherwise than by refusing the conditions which the Treaty of July sought to impose upon him, what are the Allies to do ? Lie will evidently have placed them in a very awkward predicament, or, rather, they will have so placed themselves. There can be no doubt that Russia might pass the boundary line, and might perhaps, by one battle, perhaps without one, march to Constantinople—but will she do so ? Or, rather, will the rest of. Europe allow her ? In adverting to this subject a considerable time age, we noticed that mere physical force was not e nou g h in such cases ; that -moral force was also requisite, and that any at tempt to re-enact the drama of Poland, in Turkey, would fail, even were the cases as similar as they are contrasted. Were Turkey to enter on the of fensive,' the course of Russia would be clear, and she would in all probability move forward in it with as much promptness as vigour; but while Turkey does not attack, it is difficult to see upon what principle Russia can advance. The Treaty of July 6, provided for the peaceful settlement of Greece, by placing Consuls in her ports, and by the recognition of her independence. But, in addition to the causes of trouble within herself, the degraded character of her natives, which has not been mended by six years of worse than civil war, helium plus pant civile, renders such a plain, easy, and mercan tile settlement, as the treaty contemplated, a matter of great difficulty, if not of impossibility. The planners of the treaty, whatever it-bears on the face of it, never anticipated such an obstinacy as Turkey has manifested. The three Powers thought that the terror of the alliance, aided by a few threats, would compel unwilling submission. Whether the terrible rencontre, as we may call it, of Navarin, were " toward," or " untoward," would require a knowledge of till , character of the Turkish Go vernment, and a faculty of piercing into ' the future, to which, we suspect, neither the last Cabinet, nor the present, have any just -.But, estimate it as we may, one thing must now be obvious, that other battles must be fought, and other victories won, before the question of the Morea and the isles can be put to rest, ac cording to the Treaty. In such a case it beComes a 'matter of discussion how far it may or may not be expedient to press its conditions. The three Powers have pledged themselves to gain for Greece a certain modified independence, and they have, for that purpose, agreed to adopt certain measures. Those measures have failed to produce the effect an ticipated. Are they at great risk to the interests of all Europe to adopt other measures to produce it ? Or are they to consent to lower their terms, and to accept of something less in form, though differing but little in reality, from what they demanded and Greece was content to receive ? By the Treaty, Greece was to be independent; but was to pay a tax' for her independence. The Turks will not consent to such an independence in name, but theym a may consent theironsent to grant to the Greeks the power of electing own Prince, or Hospodar, or call it by any other name, that ruler being subject to the Porte, in the same way that the Pacha of Egypt is; and as, in a laser sense, the Rulers of the Barbary States are. Unless its views have been misrepresented, the Turkish Government might be induced to consent to some arrangement of this kind ; ,and it is worthy of the deepest consideration, .whether such an ar rangement, though, in some points, not altogether so desirable as that proposed by the Allies, would not be preferable to a war, with all its chances and imeertainties, to say nothing of what is neither con tingent nor uncertain—its expence. If it be said that we are bound to our Allies, it ought to be re collected that the same consent which bound may absolve. The hints we throw out are not valuable to Great Britain only; repose, is not more essential to her than to Russia and France. If we go to war, the Finance Committee may close its sittings as soon a 4 it pleases. Reports on retrenchments are soon drowned amid the din of reports of battles. War will not halt its march until the Member for Montrose has calculated the " tottle of the whole" of its cost.—New Times. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday Mr. Henry Howell, a surveyor, in Church-street,, Edgware-road, having re presented before Mr. HOSKINS that his life was in danger, and that he feared some grievous bodily harm, a warrant was granted to apprehend•the object of his fears, and Miss Hannah Charrington, Who possesses neither youth nor beauty, was placed at the bar.. " Now," said Mr. Hosicixs, " what has she done?"— Mr. Howell—She has called me names—infamous names ; broken my windows—annoyed me in the stree—beset my house by night and day—brought persons of ill fame with her—and threatened to stab me. Mr. Host('N—You heap such a number of charges together, there is no understanding you. (To the lady) Why have you done all this ?—Miss Charrington—l have had a deal of business to do with Mr. Howell, Sir. Mr. Howell—State it. Miss Charrington—Haven't I had a child by you ? Haven't it died? Haven't it been buried—and haven't I a right to come to you for the expenses? And, more than all, haven't I been obliged to take debility pills? Mr. flosicins said he did not know there had been so much familiarity between the parties; and if she bad busi ness to transact with Mr. Howell, she had a right to go to his house. . Mr. Howell—Bur, Sir, my life is in danger ! She threatens to stab me! Mr. HosKlNs—That I believe is all nonsense ; however, if you fear any mischief will befall yon,•the Sessions are open, and you may indict her. Mr. Howell—l. allowed her a sovereign a week 'so long as the child lived, I have conducted myself in a most liberal and gentlemanly manner, and I wish you to prevent those annoyances. Mr. • HOSKINS—I can only hold her to bail, and that dohs not appear necessary. You have lived with her, and her feelings are exasperated ; and if you are in fear, I tell you again, you may go to the Sessions. - A young surgeon, who possesses the appearance and manners of a gentleman, was charged with felony. It appeared in evidence, that on Thnrsday night, Mr. Shearman, of Dorset-street, Gloucester-place, in conse• quenee of receiving a fictitious note, left his house, as he supposed, to visit a patient, and after he was gone, the prisoner, by means of another forgery, got possession of a surgical case and tooth instruments, belonging to bin; which are worth 6/. The prisoner brought forward two females to prove he was _elsewhere at the time mentioned, but their statement was at variance with his own, made to Gibbs the officer when he apprehended him, and he was committed for trial, with libeity'to give bail. • On Monday last 'another 'batch of the inhabitants resid ing in the neighourhaml of Welbeck-street and Cavendish square, was summoned to • answer fornot sWeepiiig away the snow from their houses, when the. Magistrate,-after bearing nearly the whole, fined them; with costs, which they paid ; but on calling over the name of a Mr. Hill, he raised an objection to the summons, which stated, that on Friday, the loth inst. during the fall Of snow,, he did not sweep, or cause it to be swept, away ;. he replied, that as no snow fell on that day, none could he slept away. The Magistrates consulted together on hearing the objection, and then asked Mk H. if any Snow was before Ills door on that day, but Mr: H. (being .an attorney) wotild not travel out of the record, and stuck to the point. They then ask ed the informer if any snow fell on that day, Who' said he could not recollect. The Magistrates then again consulted together, held the objection to he good, and . dismissed the summons. At this time, several more summonses were to be heard, but were.discharged b on account of, the, above objectiOn. Upwards of .100, 41ad. already . beep .summoned and fined, and since that. 'day, several others lave also, . , fined. • HATTON-GARDEN.—Bridget Rock was on Satur day brought up for re-examination, charged with the murder of her child. Mr. Peregrine Fernandez, surgeon, opened the body of the child on Sunday last; it was a full size child. He took out the heart and•liver and put them in . water, and they floated. The child was in his opinion horn alive, but for bow long it existed it was impossible to state. Frederick Arguil corroborated Mr.. Fernandez's evidence. John Gleeson, landlord of the house No. 11, Bell-court, Gray's Inn-lane, deposed to finding' the child ; inquired what had become of Bridget . Rock, the alleged mother, and was informed that she bad gone to look for a lodging in King's Head-court.--He brought her back and gave her in charge to the watchman. After a•good deal more evidence, the same in purport as had been given before the Coroner, had been gone into, The prisoner stated that she wished to speak to the Ma.. gistrate, and, on being supported to the bench by Wad dington and Lee, she made the following confession : That she had been greatly distressed for the last six or seven months, and had not had a place to put her head in ; sometimes lying in one room, sometimes in, another, and often, for nights together, lying upon the stairs of the house, No. 11, Bell-court. She was aware that she was pregnant, but always denied it, for fear of being entirely turned, out in the streets. She liad never before had a child, and the present unfortunate occurrence she attributedto her ignorance. She felt very ill after, and when she was seen walking up and down the front of the door, she was ruminating whether she should ask Mrs. Gleeson's advice what io do with herself, but was afraid to do it, lest she should dis cover her situation.,She was not then aware that she had been delivered of the child. She was going to ask the ad vice of a friend what she should do, when she was stepped, and brought to the office. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said, that, under these circum stances, he should remand her until Monday, at the same time binding. the whole of the witnesses over to prosecute. The bill will he laid before the Grand Jury nn Monday evening. The miserable woman appeared very ill during the ex. amination, and was obliged to be supported in her chair. ALARMING Ft RE.---Yesterday morning, about four o'clock, the watchman in Denmark-street, St. Giles's, perceived that the house, No. 21, occupied by Mr. FROST, goldsmith, was on fire. He instantly sprung his rattle, and alarmed the inmates by knocking at the door, but before the whole of the inmates were aroused; the stair case was on fire, and descent in that way was impossible. Several females now appeared at the windows in a dread ful state of agony. Fortunately a numberof persons as ernbled, by whose as.sistance, a lady named WINKTIELD, and her trio daughters, were safely taken from the first floor win dow. Mr. 1 01141 t FIELD and two or three other other male lodgers effected their escape by getting on the roof of the, adjoining house. The flames spread so fast, that not withstanding several engines speedily arrived, the premi ses 'were reduced to ashes but the firemen sneceeded in preservin&theadjoiting houses. Hoiutim MAT4DER.—In our last, we stated a f e w, particulars, such as had come to our knowledge, about the murder of his wife by one Aallor, who resided in Drygate-street in this city. The judicial investigation, which has since taken place, has, we-regret to add, dis closed a murder the most barbarous and cruel that it has fallen to our lot to record. The poor woman's skull was literally crushed by blows in several parts, each of which was, in the opinion of the nsedical men, sufficient to have produced death. But the murdering hand did not stop h ere ; and that such a monster should appear in his true colours, delicacy must, for moment, yield to truth. With a sharp instrument, supposed to have been a large knife, the monster stabbed his miserable victini in the Vagina, the instrument penetrating above six inches into the Pelvis. The blood runs cold, and the pen trembles at the recital of such enormities. It was supposed that AnNor was in liquor when he committed the horrid deed ; hut we learn that the niedical gentle men who have examined the body of his victim; are o f opinion, judging from the nature of the wounds inflicted, and from the methodical and deliberate manner he had in. flictld them,"that he must have been perfectly sober. His was about 35. years of age, and rather handsome.••l Her knees were much scorched by live coals which he had applied unto them. A report prevails that she had taken to drinking. H ow f ar this is true, we know not, but no other result could follow the union of a being with any feeling to such a wretch as Aartor had proved himself to be. This man is so remarkable in his appearance, that he cannot long elude the grasp of justice,..- Glasgow Our. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 23. ,MORRIS AND DprlS. Mr. WHATELEY requested that the Lord Chan cellor would give his Judgment on the motion which had been made before him for the new trial of the issue in this cause. The parties were particularly deilrous w know his Lordship's determination, as 'thgre were niany witnesses of an advanced 'age whose testimony was material, and who might not be able to attend if the trial were put off. The LOAD CHANCELLOR would see the Learned Judge who tried the cause, and confer with' him on the subject before Friday next, and would imme diately afterwards pronounce his decision. ROSS AND AGLIONEY. The COWit'i was occupied the whole of the day in hearing this appeal, The question as 'to the . right of a party claiming under a grant from Henry VIII. of a dissolved religious house and lands, to receive such apportionment of tithes (if any) as the prioress of the Black Nuns of Armathwaite was en titled to. Judgment was postponed. JACKSON. V. BOURNE. Upon this case being called on, Mr. KNIGHT requested that it might stand over till Thursday next. The case bad originally been heard before his Lordship at the Rolls, and it was the wish, therefore, of the Learned Gentleman that one Counsel on a side should only be heard. Mr. Sugden was his leader, and as he would be able to argue the case much better than he could, it was his wish it should stand over. Mr. AGAR, who on was on the other side had tua objec tion, and His LORDVHIP gave leave accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FHB. GROOM V. DOWLAZID. This was an action by , an attorney's clerk, to re cover a compensation in damages , for an injury he had received, in consequence of having thrust his les. into the hole in the public' footway, which was used, by the defendant fOr the convenience of admitting coals into his cellar, and *hick it was alleged; 'he had neglected to - keep in a proper State of repair. The Jury, after a short 'deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff--.-Daniage's PALACE COURT, Az. 22. COE V. REUBEN MARTIN. Mr. FLANNAGAN stated the case. The plain tiff was a poor shoemaker, resident at Hamp stead. The defendant was the celebrated Reuben Martin, upon whose fame and achievements it would be equally idle to expatiate, as upon those of the " Great Captain of the age" and present Prime Mi nister of England. It seems that being put some what out of sorts by an effort in his calling,—or pro bably labouring under the effects of intemperate in dulgence, after " a well-fought field,"—the defend ant, with the advice of his friends, determined on try ing those sovereign remedies air and exercise. Re course was had to medical authority, and the air of Hampstead was prescribed by the doctor as best calculated to restore the energies of Reuben. There are few places in the country now, where a pugilist does not stand a chance of meeting with a bird' of the same feather. A friend of this kind (a Mi. Pilch) introduced the . defendant to Mr: c'e`e; and it was agreed that Reuben shoitht have' the rtin - Of his house for 1/. lie. 6d. per*week. When- the bill for the first week was presented, the defendant said he would remain the whole month, and would then discharge the total sum. The plaintiff was, of course, quite pleased with this arrangement, and on the strength of it, he paid H. for ac count of the defendant to a Mr. Buck, and 7s.,for some trifling repairs made in his shoes. At the ter mination of the month the bill was sent in. The defendant put it in his pocket, and said he would call in a week with the money. A fortnight elapied, and the pugilistic hero was not forthcoming; still the poor shoemaker felt no miSgivings as to Reu ben's honour and solvency. In a ,short time after,. however, the plaintiff called upon him for this moneyi but the reply. which he received. /soon, Openett hie ekes_ " Coe," (said this ornament of the , ring)i ';I came to Hampstead flat-catehing,:and I caught . you." Seeing. that it was vain any longer to ap peal to the honour and honesty of a prize fighter, the plaintiff was obliged to have recourse to the present action as his only remedy. Evidence was then produced which fully sustained the plaintiff's case.—The Jury found for the plain= tiff—Damages 71. 14s. LYON V. WHITNEY. This was an action brought by the endorsee againsi ,the acceptor of a bill of exchange for 1W 10s. The Jury, after some consideration,, returned a ver diet for the defendant. OLD BAILEY, FEB. 23. Thomas Robinson, a tall good-looking young man of eight and twenty, and very respectably dressed, was indicted for stealing 501. in Bank-notes, .the pro perty of Edward Darby, from his person. The Jury without a moment's- hesitation, found the prisoner " Guilty," and The RECORDER immediately sentenced him to be transported for life. Richard March, aged 50, was indicted for un lawfully, maliciously, and by premeditation, charging George Daniel Wilson with a transportable offence, to wit, of his having stolen from the person of him, the said Richard March, a, 10/. Bank note, with a view to extort money from the said G. D. Wilson. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of " Guilty," and the prisoner was 'sentenced to be transported for life. • SUPPOSED MURDER AT. HAMPSTEAD. (From a Sunday P4er.) Within the last week, a considerable degree of sensation has been excited in this town - from the circumstance of the body of a remarkably line young woman, apparently about 18 years of age, being dis covered in a pond by the read side, a little this side of the town, with several severe contusions about the head, face, and neck. The unfortunate young' creature, when found, appeared to have been in the water several days. It being the general opinioe that the Wretched girl had been ill used, and after wards thrown into the water, every possible means were: iSed by the itroper 'officers of the town to ascertain' Who she was, pievious - t6 the sitting of the Coroner's inquest, but their efforts as , yet have not been attended with success. She was respectably attired when found, bin no property of any descrip tion was on 'her person.. • On Saturday 7 afternoon, at three o'clock, an in quest was held on the body, by Thomas Stirling, Esq., the coroner, at the Duke of. Hamilton; near the workhouse, when the. following evidence; was taken relative to the mysterious occurrence - Thomas Shirley, a labouring man, on Friday week discovered the deceased in the pond ; he procured assistance, and had her taken out ; she appeared to have been in the water some days ; she was taken to the workhouse in a shell. John Church, about a week ago, saw a man take a green-coloured shawl out of the pond where the deceased was found. Charles Francis Lord, surgeon, examined the body of the deceased when brought to the work house; there wet e two contusions on the left cheek,• and some severe bruises over the orbits of botkey.Fs; on the right side of the throat there were evide n t marks of violence; there were no bones fractUred; witness opened the body and found no water in, the' lungs, nor in' the . air passages; from this Circitm stance, -he is 'of opinion that the deceased must have been dead, or nearly so, before she was' thrown into the water; witness, cannot state the,actUal cause of death, but is of opinion that it was not produced by drowning. There being no further evidence, the Jury returned a verdict—" That the deceased was found dead ju pond, with marks of violence on her person, but how she came to her death there was no' evidence to show to the Said jurors."—Thus has this mysteri ous affair ended. - SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. • , LIVERPOOL. FRIDAY, FEE. 22.—'High water 54' min. past three o'clock.—Wind S.E.—Arrived the Marcotte, Williamson, from Charente, with brandy; City of LondondetTy (steamer) Kerry, from Londonderry, with sundries; Chieftain (steamer), Owens, from Belfast, with sundries. CLEARED OuTwanus.—The Mariner, Rea; far. 13 arm badoes ; Anne, Watterson, for Derbyhaven ; Wellington, Robinson,M‘Dougall, for St. John's N. ; William Mai*, Hub buckfo r, Trinidad. Mobile; inidad. Naiad, R an d a ll, f ur Oporto Ariel ; Telegraph Office, Friday, Feb. 22. HOLYHEAD, FEB. 21...-4'assed, homeward.bonnd, No. 321, Sarah and Caroline, A.S., wind S.E.—Sailed' the brigs Active, Owens, for Rio de Janeiro; :. W e i co ßi ts IRa_ lyn, for Leghorn ; A r d en t, Th omas ,' f o r Land on ; Lovering, for Cork ; Wilhelm, . Vaugner, for Genoa; Nancy, Johnson, for London ; R osa , Squires, ,fcir-Ply month ; achooners - CalypriN - Newaian; Sarah, Riehmonds, for London; Susan, Maryford, for Exeter; Henry, - Thomas, for Swansea ; sloops Hussey, Malafont . ; Mentor, ► George, for Bristol'? - Dowlias, Nickolas,:. for CardifftAnn, Richards, for Brisioli;Dove, Lake, for Barnstaple-crab darvis, Bate, for•Pidatow ; Arrow, Frederich,„for , No arrivals the InitAt hours, up to 4. p.m. POINT-LYNAS, Fglr. 20:_ -= =Nos. 2 and 6 pilot boats_ at • anchor off Bull Bay, - Wind S..S.W. light breeze.-21, one pilot boat off, could not make her number; thick hazy weather, with rain, wind E., fresh hreeze, - SATURDAY, FEB. 23.—High Water 51-min. past fbur. - —Wind 'North.--Arrivefi the Georgia, *..Smith, frian Sa vannah, with cotton; John Wells, Carter, ditto, with ditto ; Sarah and Caroline, Prince, from Charleston, with ditto; Europe, torren' from Antwerp, with geneva,znad dere, &c. ; Arrow, Booth, froth Glasgow, with sundries; Henry Bell (steamer), Spiers, from ditto, witlrditto.; Lord Blayney.(steamer), Stewart, from'Dublin, with ditto;„Lee (steamer), Chaoman,- froth Cork,4lfh ditto ; Hall, from Glasgow, with ditto; -Thetis (tramer), from Dublin, with the mail. CLEA RID OUTWARDS.—The Henry Arndt, Stein; far Rio de Janeiro ; George the Fourth, Morian, for tatiotoo ; Hope, Crichton, for Lisbon _Leta, .Leekie, ; Lucia, C richton , for litarcelottn;!aipper, -- r#11; for: Africa ; Vittoria, Wilson, for Jamaica ; Betawy, ;Shane, tar.; Indian Linis, HOwie, for 'Newuadlarid ; . Omega, itursheto, for Fhilidelphia; Providence,'When, for New foundland ; Sylph, Underhill, Otto; : _ „ _ . Telegriph.o et,,Saturda3ri.Feb. 23.: Nothing to report frorti - Holybeid; yesterdiy." e Wind East ; thick foggy weather. - POINT LYNAS, FEB. 22.- 7 -TAt.ll: a. m: - onekrig ontward hound. At 12 n. thick fog; notliing taAw seen. GREAT ORA'S HEAD. --At 10 MIL, an American ship homeward bound ; one brig, dittn. Wind Riot, thickfog- LIVERPOOL, FEB. 23:---At 30 mi n . p as t 12, t h is* s hi ps off this port—two at anchor in the Nock Chaineli'andnne near the floating light. They are large ships, with figure heads, and appear like Americans, but have no private sig nals flying. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS: LONDON DlARY.—Tucsnav, FEB. 26.---At the Court of Counnissioners,Basiaghall-street. . , Dorn - ford, T.; Philpet-lane, merchant ll Ellman, W., Lambeth, miller 4 . .. 10 Emmott, R., Stroud, Kent, horse-dea1er..,,,,,,. 0 Garthwaite, J., Gibson-street 1 Gay, J., Quadrant, engraver....... ..... ...... '' IC Harding, S., Oxford.street, jeweller ' ' 11 Harrop, J.,. Saddleworth,:cloahler"..4.4.4l.l4 ' ' 11 Hopkins, W., 0xf0rd,.../ ll C0,11,147,11Y. DLA.B.Y......ll4oluswia ii Fea. 27. • Baekbotiee and C 0.,. Wakeiffeld .'.....w.2 ersfleld .: Banister, 'l'., Keynshaur-cßti o iatn - dr, Brook, .14,Vhoppard's-hl-W Idales..9.ll6lhddirse, Hudders field .. .',. .••••........i0..i......., .. . .......... • 11 Burton, -r:,:p'ev; to ti—London Coffee-ho Use, York ll Clarke, J., Worcester—France and Co.' Worcester lO Crossland and Co ., Sheffield — Tontine, Sheffield Flavel, W., Leamington—Crown, Leamington.... II Harrison, J., Liverpool—Clarendon, Li ver p oo l ll Roberts,M., Penryn—Golden Lion, Penryn lO Salter and Co. ' Manchester—Star, M a n c h es t er ll Twamley, J. , Thurmaston—Saracen's Head, Leicest er ll l Washbourn, J., Gloucester—Eagle, Gloucester -INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO RE DISCHARGED, Petitions to be heard at Portugal street, Lincoln's inn Fields, Feb. 25, at 'sine o'clock. • Boyden, S., Westminster, cattle salesman Copland, R., Lambeth-road, wine-merchant Draper, T., Brixton, coachmaker Glasse, J., Vauxhall.bridge-road,:butcher Haigh, S., Highgate, school - mistress .Hutchinson, J., Hac kney, leather-factor Lukins, J., Woolwich, labourer Martin, V., Charles-street, Grosvenor-square,' milliner Miles.. Chas., Walthatristow,,brazier , Randall, F., Hackney-road. srictualier • R.„- Regaritts.paalt. builder' • 'Turner, J., Paddington, shoemaker Wainnum.--W., Billingsgate, fish.salesman Peirson, J., Clerkenwell, goldsmith ; • COUNTRY..—At the Court-house, at listininotith, February 29, at Ten o'cloek. ' • • • • Evans; James, Chepstow, baker and mealrnan • Leech, J., Newport, vic tualler Morris, M., Newport, shoemaker Nicholls, J., Nevr ti rt op , ; - Nli altopkaelier • Williams, John.. blackimith • 'tame 'y;at York, at Ten. • Sedman, John; Whitby, 'cabinet-maker " Robinson, John, Whitby, butcher .• ; Driffield, Win., Scravingham, tailor Wilson, 8., Palegrave, labourer Pinder, John, Sneaton, cordwainer .• SUICIDE. An inquest was on S4turdtty, last held, by. It. J. &unix, Xsq., Coroner for theSetough, on the body of Suva; Cote, wife of sesuperan nuated serjeant, who resided in Richmond -street. ft ap peared that the deceased had been much afflicted With an asthmatic complaint, which had long confined her_to the house; in consequence of which her temper had under gone a complete - chtrije z ::apd symptoms of mental diatkac. tion had, on manY.pattiular.occasions, as well as in her general conduct, become apparent. On the 12th, taking advantage of the inonintatiyAbSence of her danghter she cut her throat with a razor, and was immediately Ller warde discovered leaning over a bucket, into which the blood Was pouring prnoolfoussLyh.eerr ssAigigftenhstrotaconlidlitfetistphiteautionghietnhteirefe;a: act, took an affectionate leave of her family,- end im renicaeteshlye afterw ards exhivite piratioli. Verd ict-" Insanity."—P/yrnonth BIRTHS. On the 11th,inat., .at Baslington House, N o rth um b er land, the lady of the Hon: Henry Thomas Liddell, M.P., of a daughter. • On the 23d inst., Mrs. Clayton, of John-street, Bedford. row, of a son. On the 7th inst., at Torquay, Devon, the lady of It. I. Paget, M.D., of a son;, On the 17th inst.,; at Walton House, Cumberland, the lady of W. Ponsonby Johnson . : , Esq., of a I I IV i MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. Allannndis, Deihy, the Rey, Charles Hecketh, of Romall Hall, in the county 4 1 I. 4,4 4 ;- caster, to Anna Maria Alice, only daughter of Richai4 Saunders,' Esq. DIED. On - the . 2oth instant, at Wareham, Mr. G. P. Brown of Frlday-street. t taely, at On the 21st inst., in the 73d y ear o f hi s age , Mr. Alli son, at his house, K ens i ng t on -t errace . On the 23d in s t., at his house is Ely-place, Oli ver Hatch, Esq., after a short illness, occasioned by inflam mation of his bowel s , . Lately, at Chelmsford, Essex, much lamented ,by his family and f r i e nd s , Mr. William Goymer, 4.1 years ar e_ apeetabl e inh a bit an t of that town. --• - 04, the22d inst., at Stamford-hill, Middleeex, aged 65, I Mrs. Marg aret Yea, relict of Lacy Yea, E sq ., l ate o f OakhaMpton-house, Semersetshire. . On the 23d iast., in the-77th year o f h er age, su dd enly,. Mary, relict of the. late Humphry H. D eacon , E sq ., o f Milk-stmt. On the' 23d inst., at Rotherhithe, in her 68th year, Mrs. M ary Sophia Gaitskell, w i fe of Wm. Gaitstell, Es., surgeon. gar i Ifno Ta I tl • House, North Wales, th e l a dy o f On th e 21st inst., at Windsor, Miss Mary Dunlop, agedaC . 0 ra tn:ltn9ihneGlobslutasginiirgnsoits:Wtt.ll,:4aallut.gNh:.LOnonfe,thEde lat e William il e li ld am eit pu o u n i°P o i f J. V. Harvey, his Majesty's Consul at that ~lace.' On the 22d inst., at Bartlett Home, Windsor, Sarah, the wife of John Sturges, FN. , lied 81 years. • On the 23d inst., in Upper Statuford-street, aged 44, Anne, the wife of Captain JamestiThornaa, and eldest ; daught et of W. c ozen? , Esq., of Rosepool la . th e rowdy. of Pembroke.. , On the 20th inst., at Margate, S usanna Anne, Only child of James George Arthur, Esq., in the 10th year of her age.' • . At Maidenhead, G. S. Knight, of the Imperial Order of S t. , Atj a di mer , and Lieutenant o f t h e Ist Regiment' of Life Guards. ‘' • • • On the-14th iota., at Ryde, isle of Wight, Stafylinne, N it. o f Lieutenint-Generai Pere,•and daughtteof t 4 Isite Edward Younge,• Esq., of , Darriford House; 'll*.' • ' PRINTND and PUBLISHED by M.' YOUNQ, .ftt the OFFICE, NO, lIV stteltill . ,) D, I cml ED Chc and pr "dap. Rob • trial lag 131az A Yalu! At ti sin C To had i Adel: S. G cf lialu; Ac ros At th thp Lot, shoat tains *tore patio' callari stablii feqq it ypara F'repi Ctil stS4 and co requit dower it is diary rowed Tim `