The Sun. — London, England, 1828-03-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS It is well understood that Russia some time ago announced to our Government her intention of re senting by arms the infractions of treaty notoriously committed by Turkey. To this communication an answer, after some delay, has been returned; but to what effect is of course not known. It is presumed, however, that the Russian army will cross the Pruth early in April, and that the declaration or manifesto of the Court of St. Petersburgh will he issued when the last orders are sent to the Com mander-in-Chief. It was yesterday confidently be lieved that some cheering intelligence had reached London through official channels, respecting the state of affairs in the East. It was alleged, that in the explanation of the complaints of Russia against Turkey, the whole stress of the statement rested on the conduct of the Porte in stirring up Persia to a breach of the preliminaries of peace, and that this question being now settled, the British Go, vernment would have good ground to heighten the tone of its deprecatory remonstrances at St. Peters burgh, against any step on the part of his Imperial Majesty which might endanger the peace of Europe. It is, however, a great in,istake to suppose that the Russian Cabinet made the case of Persia and h o . Government the exclusive subject of complaint against the Porte. A prominent argument it must have been undoubtedly ; but the breach of the Treaty of Akermun, the boast of Turkey that she never meant to execute it, the closing of the Bosphorus, the seizure of Russian cargoes, and the imprison ment, of Russian subjects, afforded other matter in abundance. We are sorry, therefore, to be com pelled to damp the hopes which were yesterday so generally entertained, by stating oar conviction that the settlement of the Persian quarrel by no means concludes the question of peace and war between 'Turkey and Russia; in other words, we fear that fee probability of a rupture between the Porte and the Czar is not at all diminished. Accounts from Parit, however, affirm positively, that no military movement has yet taken place in Russia. That Algiers has been the destination of the French armament now preparing, is not countenanced by Lord Granville, re , we are informed, and is not bel . eved among the higher circles of politics. The British troops, it ap pears, are actually coming home fro ID Lisbon, the squadron and marinesbeing thought s dlicient to keep down the two absolutes—the old ar.o young., In the mean time, Austria is, or pr etends t o be, as much astonished as Env,iand at the monstrous acts of Don Miguel and his advisers. Austria (that iv, Prince Metternich) declaring herself astonished, would go for nothing with any man of discernment : but if she be really averse to the proceedings of Don Miguel, the reason is, that she now looks upon the question su s cue involving the too great preponderance of the house of Bourbon, which in fact it does. However, if the design of the Lisbon and other Apostolicals be to play off anvfurther humbugs against England, -,ve apprehend that they will find themselves "at the wrong side of the door." Sir Frederick Lamb proves to be a minister of strong sense and unceasing - rigilance. He certainly has no undue taste for des potism, nor biae it; favour of legitimate protestations,. and has already gained the confidence of the friends a liberty in Spain as well as Portugal.—Titres. We believe that all the names of the members of the two commissions moved for by Mr. Brougham ere not yet determined on. In the selection, we trust the great defect of the Chancery commission will be avoided. The majority of the members of that commission were either Judges, or practitioners grown grey in all the prejudices of form and fiction. If the new commissions are so constituted, good night to all hopes from Mr. Brougham's exertions— we shall have to look elsewhere and to other times tfm: improvement. The complexity of the laws (in ;particular of those relating to conveyancing), and the prejudices of the Judges and old practitioners, are to manifest, that there can be little hope of advan tage, unless there is infused into the commission some of that spirit of liberality and desire of im provement which the printed evidence of the Chan cery commission fully shows is nut often to be found amongst the barristers of the past age. —lbid. Sir Ronald Fergusson, a roost gallant and distin guished officer, no way connected with the Minis ri.y, but who, on the contrary, has almost always voted in opposition, to have the regiment vacant 11,y the death of Sir A. Cameron., As it is pretty well known that in a very high quarter the greatest anxiety :•vas expressed to have a very different sort of soldier appointed, this arrangement speaks well for the tirmnesz and integrity of the new Comman ger-m-Chief.—lbid. The conduct of the Gentlemen of England, in the ease 0 ; Mr. Wilmot Horton, deserves a name which we s h a ll take care not to use. " The condition of the Poor,' said Mr. John Smith last night, "in malt' parts tlf the kingdom is such, that he was suite certain no ,:nan of common humanity could 1 1. .n0w them, and the same time refuse to afford them assistance and relief. There were parts in the eountry in which the Poor:: Rtes were so heavy gis to be nearly intolerable, and tlio labourer could scarcely find any employment." Vet, after a labo rious Parliamentary Inquiry, and a voluminous Re. pert, in which the positions of Mr. John Smith are btrt too well proved, the Gentlemen of England be, tray such indifferencE_P to the fate of the Poor, that w h e n n. plan, founded on the Report, is proposed by the 1142ntleman who presided over • the Inquiry and is announced for discussion, ail attendance can not be procured, .and the e Home Secretary a va ils himself of the opportunity to extend Lis protection to Mr. Wilmot Bolton n 4 t 1 his Poor, so tar as to insure for him an opportunitg of stating fully what his views are to the House, Were it it cook-and-a.buli story of immense granaries of foreign corn in the Isle of Man, hundreds would be at their post in a moment, girder that a single grain might not be devoured by the Poor which was not loaded by . the tax of their monopoly; but the condition of the labouring poor —a discussion of a question involving the possibility of bettering that condition—is a very different w.atter: "If you have nothing more attractive for its than the condition r.'f the poor, Mr. Wilmot ,Horton, why you must just have all the discussion to ; , ourself," e have already ,enough to do with t h e poor, in keeping our hares and pheasants from them, ana l signing commitment's: We will not even, for the sake Ofappearances—for the sake of obtaining credit for a liti2e sympathy with our unfortunate countrymen—take die trouble of attending in ouir we think Mr. 'Wilmot places, to say whether the plan deserving of attention or not. Why should we be 'everlastingly bored with the poor The sins of the fathers are visited the children of third and fourth generation, says Holy Writ, and the day may come when the apathy of the higher ,anks of this country, in all cases where their own Immediate interests, real or supposed, is not con erned, %yin be remembered. To a person not absolutely blase, as the French say, in whom every nobler feeling has been extinguished by continued habit; of indulgence, and constant reference to :;e lf— to any one who possesses the least portion of mina—what subject can possess more attractions than an inquiry , of which the object is the possibi lity of mitigating the distress of the great body of a nation—those beings to whose exertions we arg in debted for all that we possess ? It may, or it may not, be possible, to devise means for imp rov i ng their condition, and securing them from liability to still greater privations than they now suffer! ,but,at a n events, the subject ought to command attention.--. When we hear it stated every day, by those who have turned their attention to th e sub j ect, that causes are in operation, which must, if a check be not discovered, drag down the labouring population of England to the level of Irish wretchedness, and spread misery and crime still more widely through the land, shall it go forth to the world, that the gentlemen of England were of themselves so indif ferent to this subject that they could only he dragged to a discussion respecting it by a Treasury mandate? it was but the other day that Sir Francis Burdett told us that the subject was the most important that ;nuld occupy the attention of Parliament= more , portant even than the Catholic Question—and yet the Gentlemen of England, the glory of their coun try—the men who, according to him, are unequalled in Europe, or even America—turn from this subject with an indifference approaching to disgust! The much calumniated Long Parliament, with all its Sectarian intolerance, displayed a very different feeling with regard to matters for improving the condition of the people. The Legislature did not then conceive it self assembled merely for raising rents and preserv- , ing partridges. Mr. Horton stated what is incon trovertible, that no plan with regard to the poor, which had not reference to Ireland, could be of any real service to England, and that it would hold out the grossest delusion if it professed to be beneficial. But though it is known that Ireland is now working the ruin of the labouring classes, and that all attempts to benefit these classes, or preserve them from still farther degradation, must embrace Ireland as well as England, Parliament will not ap proach Ireland. Mr. Wilmot Horton announced an intention to move for a variety of returns, with a view to ascertain the extent to which the Poor Laws have been abused. We must observe, however, that though great benefit must be derived from ob taining an account of the parish money advanced for the purposes of maintaining the poor, according to the legitimate object of the Poor Laws, and a sepa rate account of the money raised from the parishes for the purpose of paying labourers by way of an in crease of their wages, as money paid to fathers of families for the support 'of their children, it does not follow that this increase of wages out of the poor rates would be received by the labourer were there no poor rates. The payment of in creased wages out of the rates is a proof of a redundant population; because, where the popu lation is below the demand for labour, the la bourers have the fixing the wages and not .those who employ them ; and the competition for employ ment caused by the redundance, were it not for the poor rates, would compel the labourer to live more wretchedly than' he now does. The poor rates, in fact, keep his notions with regard to subsistence, higher than they would otherwise be. Were it not for them, his ideas as to comfort would fall with his wages till he became reconciled to the most wretched fare nit which life could be supported. However the redundance may have arisen, it is the merest delusion to suppose, that so long as it exists, the ceasing to increase wages out of the rates would have the effect of procuring for the labourer as much from his employer alone as he now obtains from his employer and the rates together. Those, too, who suppose that the privations which the withdrawing the rates from the labourers must subject them to, would have the effect of thinning their numbers, and ultimately producing thereby an increase of wages, have, we suspect, bestowed very little attention on the effect of low diet and wretchedness in keeping down a population. The condition of the labourer can alone be improved by making it the interest of the rich that the population should not be redundant. And till Ireland have poor-rates, we shall always be cursed with shoals of wretched beings from that country.-11forning Chronicle. His Majesty held a Levee yesterday afternoon, at St. James's Palace, which, owing to the favourable state of the weather, and the rareness of the occur rence, but principally, we believe, owing to the anxiety of the Nobility and Gentry to pay their re spects to our Sovereign, was very numerously at tended. At half-past one the Horse Guards drew up before the eastern avenue of the palace, wirh the band playing inertial airs; and a lung string of carriages commenced setting down company. The Foot Guards were drawn up in the Palace-yard, St. James's-street ; and the members of the Royal Family, Foreign Ambassadors, his Majesty's Mi nisters, and such of the Nobility as have the privi lege of the entree, commenced arriving at the western avenue —amongst whom we observed his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester; Prince Polignac, the French Ambassador; Prince Esterhazy, the Austrian Ambassador, accompanied by Baron New man and Prince Schwartzenbeig ; Prince Lieven, the Russian Ambassador, and suite ; Baron Bulow, the Prussian Ambassador; Count Palmas, the Por tuguese Ambassador; the Spanish, Neapolitan, Sar dinian, and Dutch Ambassadors; the American, Brazilian, Mexican, and Colombian Ministers; the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, and the Bishop of London ; the r Dukes of Wel lington, Norfolk, Northumberland, Leeds, St. Albans, Montrose, and Athol; Mr. Secretary Peel, Earl Dudley, and Mr. Secretary Hus kisson, the Lord Chancellor; Earl Bathurst; Lords Melville, Ellenborough, Aberdeen, and Palmerston ; -Nlr. Goulburn, the Chancellor of the Exchequer; Mr. Herries ; the Earl of Eldon ; Marquises Wel lesley, Winchester, Hertford, Camden, and Lans downe; Lords Hill, Beresford, and Bexley; Viscount Sislmouth; Lords Bloomfield, Colchester, and Farnborough ; the Vice-Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, the Attorney-General, the Solicitor- General;'. the Advocate-General, Lord Lowther, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. Stratfm d Canning, Mr. Wynn, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Lord Heyteshury, Mr. Lamb, Sir Wrn. Clinton, Lord Gwydyr, and a great number of .Military and Naval Officers, No blemen, and Gentlemen. The Duke of Wellington having had an accident in stepping out of his car. riage the other evening, in going to the House of Lords, when his foot slipped, and precipitated him, with some degree of violence against a pillar, his Grace was obliged to wear a small black patch on a prominent part of his face—not withstanding which the Duke looked in good spirits. The Marquis of Wellesley has likewise much improved in his looks since his marriage and absence in - Ireland.— His Lordship, as well as Prince Esterhazy, amused themselves in chatting with Towns end, the police officer. The Prince:wore a Hussar uniform, and his equipage and attendants attracted much notice. Prince Polignac is a handsome man ; but Prince Lia:ien'a countenance appeared grave and thoughtful. The Earl of Eldon looked uncommonly cheerful, far more than he did whilst presiding in the Court of Chancery. His Lordship was dressed in black, The Marquis of Hertford was the first Noble man that. left the Court, and his frame, once so athle tic, seemed to have lost much of its vigour; his Lordship was lame. in fact, more instances of lame ness were observable amongst the courtiers attend ing the Levee of yesterday, than have been witnessed 4:)4 former occasions. Mr. Secretary Huskisson seemed improved is Ilpelth . ; Lord Goderich's countenance indicated not the slightest regret for the loss of place as Premier; and the Marquis of I.,apsdowne stepped into his coach without relaxing a single muscle of his face. The Mat'quisses of Winchester and Cams den, and Lord Melville, were a:7,companied by their sons, as was the Duke of Montrose, out age and in firmity seemed to be creeping on the latter Noble man. St. James's-street and Pall-mall were crowded all (:.y with carriages and company ;and the windows of the Club-licaties were fully occupied.—Morning Herald. The course pursued and threatened by the Whig and Parliamentary Reformers, with respect to the measure now before Parliament for disfranchising the Borough of East Retford, presents an amusing and edifying example of political consistency, and of the deep and sincere regard felt by the parties we have named to the purity of election. We need net allude to the shade which has been carefully thrown over the past delinquencies of this Borough, and the successful artifices by which, up to the present t i me ,' its corruption has been concealed from the eye of Parliament ; or to the remarkable fact, that the party which Row affects to be the most zealous enemies of corruption have been in times past the most busy end active traffickers in bribery, in this very place which they - are now so eager to blot out of the list of Boroughs. These facts would have been per haps sufficient to warrant a pretty strong suspicion that the desire of reform was not the only or the strongest motive by which the Reformers were ac tuated. But the value of these facts, to a just esti , mate of the transaction, is greatly reduced by sin tiler fact, stated and not contradicted in the House of Commons, which sheds a blaze of light upon th. subject ; and it-,elf decisive evidence that the proceedings :agairst East Retford have been prosecuted so ardently, because it was a job intended to open two popular Seats in the House of Commons to the Whigs, and to in crease to this extent the power of that party in Parliament. The transfer of the forfeited rights of East Retford to Birmingham was to have been fol lowed, had the Whig project taken effect, by the election of one of the leading prosecutors of the offences of the former place, as one of the new Represeritives of the latter. That Gentleman and some other Whig or Radical would, no doubt, have had the best chance of success in the popular borough it was intended to create at Birmingham, as two similar persons will have at Manchester, in the event of the franchise of Penryn being transferred to the spinners and weavers of that overgrown place. With respect to one-half of their project, the Whigs are fortunately defeated; any if any further proof were required of the motives by which they have all along been actuated, it is abundantly supplied by the manner in which they haVe intimated their in tention to act upon this defeat. Parliament having determined that the franchise of East Retford shall not he transferred to Birmingham, but extended to the freeholders of the Hundred in which East Ret ford is situated, the first and spontaneous impulse of the 1% hips, we find by their own declaration to be, to throw out the Bill altogether, and thus to re store in unmitigated virulence that horrible corrup tion which during two Sessions it has been their chief employment to denounce. Perhaps a sense of shame may deter them front this course; but it ought never to be forgotten that this is the course which they meditated and have avowed. They pretend that the intended change will not make the state of the representation better, but worse ; as if any thing can be worse than the system which has ex isted at East Retford, according to their own elabo rate and repeated descriptions, or as if this system, with all its vices, were preferable to that which pre vails in English counties, and which the election by the freeholders of the Hundred will very closely re semble. It is almost a waste of words to notice the Whig objection to this mode of disposing of the forfeited right, founded upon the supposed influence in the Hundred of the Duke of Newcastle. All the contingent advantages, that of influence included, which appertain to landed property, the Duke of Newcastle has the same right to possess as any other maa. To legislate with an express view to intercept those advantages front falling into the hands of a particular individual, would be a mea sure partaking of the character of confiscation, so far as that individual is concerned, while it would sanction the revolutionary principle, that the representation of a large proportion of the counties of England is vicious, that the right ought to be withdrawn from them, and conferred upon the largest and most sumptuous multitude that can be found assembled in any one place of calico-weavers or blacksmiths. The injury which cannot fail to accrue to Birmingham or Manchester by making either of those places the scene of an intense politi cal conflict, at least once in every six years, appears to be totally overlooked. It is a consideration how ever entitled to great attention, and we yet entertain the strongest hope that it will eventually prevail. The East Retford Disfranchisement Bill is placed in comparative security by the judicious change in troduced into it. That for the Disfranchisement of Penryn will probably fall to the ground unless it should also be saved in the same way.—Morning Post. The views entertained by his Majesty's Govern ment on the Corn Laws are to be opened, not dis cussed, in both Houses of Parliament to-night, and Resolutions are to be laid, for the consideration of the Legislature and the country, till after the holi days, when it will become the duty of the former to give them effect, and that of the latter to express its sense of the manner in which its interests are likely to be affected by the proposed change. The principles on which the new system is to be founded have, for obvious reasons been hitherto kept secret. We shall not seek to anticipate. We have sufficient reliance in the wisdom and patriotism of his Majesty's Government to be convinced that, so far as they can, they will propose a satisfactory settlement of this most vexatious as well as momentous question. But, like all other Ministries, they must bend to circumstances. The House of Commons is in spirit so decidedly commercial, that it is doubtful whether a Bill con sidered equitable by the agricultural part of the com munity will have any chance of obtaining its assent. The final settlement of the question will therefore, we fear, be attended with greater difficulty than is generally imagined. With respect to the opinions expressed by a Correspondent, we differ from him on two points which he has discussed.—We are op- posed to all prohibitions as unsound in principle and injurious in practice. We do not think that the agricultural, nor any interest in the State, had a right to ask them. They are entitled to a protection equal in amount to the difference between the neces sary charge of producing corn in the home and in the foreign market, and to no nzore. We are opposed to all varying duties, because the difference alluded to is a fixed quantity. When it shall be shown that the farmer pays more taxes when wheat is 80s. than he does when it is 605., we shall readily concur with those who would fix a smaller duty in the former case than in the latter..—New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CITANCERY—M.tacm 27. 1N RE FRANKS, A LUNATIC. Mr. StIoDEN stated the petition of Mr. Cooke, who was the committee of the lunatic, and which was to the effect that, in 1825, it had been declared by the Commissioners appointed by the Lord Chance:- lor, that Mr. Franks had been a lunatic since 1815. Between the latter period and that at which the lunacy was established, Mr. Franks had made con tracts for the sale of parts of his property, and flew contracts the purchasers now sought to enforce a completion of. Three suits had been commenced against the committee by the purchasers, and he was now in contempt, and in danger of being attached, for want of an answer. He was wholly unable to put in his answer, owing to some disputes between the heir-at-law and the children of the lunatic, and he therefore came now for the protection of the Court, and, by his petition, prayed for an' order that the attachments might be stayed, and that a reference made to the Master to inquire into the facts anti report to the Court, whether the contracts ought or ought not to be completed. Mr. WAKVFIELD was heard on the same side. Mr, PEPYS and Mr. KNIGHT opposed the peftion on the part of the heir-at-law. Mr. WRAY, for the younger children, insii - ted on the expediency of a reference in this stage or the cause. After some further discussion, the prayer Df the petition was granted; the attachments were ordered to he suspended, and the purchasers were directed to be at liberty to attend before the Master. The prospect of raising coal, within a shirt dis tance of Wells, seems nearly realized. A shaft has been sunk in a field, belonging to Mr. ROBINS, near Wookey, and necessary buildings made for erecting a steam-engine : and from the information received from the engineer, there appears very little doubt but that a tine vein of coal will be found.—Balle aronicle. Five bean ricks, the property of Farmer\`'tLD, of Coate, near Devizes, were entirely consurnel by fire in the night time of Saturday, evidently occasioned by the act of an incendiary, as three of the ricks were discovered on fire at one time. Not the slightest snspieon attaches to any oue, Mr. Wan not being aware Otat he had an enemy in the world.—Rath Chronicle. The best dentifrice which can be used is the charcoal obtained by burning the thick cuttngs of the vine; but it should be carefully prepared ly being first carbonised itt a close crucihle, then powdered in a mortar Previously heated, and afterwards kept in Close-stopped bottles. The challoal dentifrice sold by the Iruggists bas i . ci;rcely any detergent ci.-aality-, DESTRUCTION of the NEW BRUNSWICK THEATRE, WELLCLOSE-SQUARE. RESUMED ADJOURNED CORONER'S INQUEST, SIA RCM 27. (Continued from our Paper of yesterday, which appeared in part of our impression.) Upon the return of the Coroner and the Jury, Mr. Hill addressed the Court, and complained that the examination of Messrs. Nash and Smirke, which was fixed for this day, was postponed in conse quence of some difficulties being thrown in the way. Mr. M‘Cann (a juror) said, that he and twenty other jurymen had now attended for 12 days, at serious inconvenience, and it was much to be la mented that any person, and particularly persons in authority, should have thrown any difficulties in the way of the proceedings. The CORONER said, he certainly had been inter rupted, insomuch as he understood that the Magis trates intended to hold an adjourned Sessions in the Court this dad•. In consequence of this intimation he (the Coroner) had remanded the attendance of Messrs. Nash and Smirke, as he understood the Court would be used by the Magistrates. Mr. Stable, the Clerk of the Peace, said the Magistrates never intended to obstruct the Inquest. They had already sat and disposed of their business up stairs. Mr. Stable was then examined, touching the orders g iven by the Magistrates in October last. When Messrs Carruthers and Maurice obtained a licence for opening the theatre, Mr. Copt, the dis trict surveyor, was ordered to give in a certificate of the stability of the building before it was opened; and he had delivered a letter to the Magistrates, at the last Sessions, accounting for his not having de livered in the certificate according to order. After hearing Mr. Stable's testimony, Mr. M'Cann asked the Coroner whether in point of law the Magistrates had done right or wrong in granting the licence at the time they did The CORONER said he would rather not give any opinion on that subject. The Magistrates had a discretion, and no doubt they had acted according to the best of their judgment. In reply to a question put by Mr. Pullen, Mr. Stable replied that Messrs. Carruthers and Maurice, and Mr. Whit Well, were in Court when the license was granted, and in answer to the Magistrates, they all stated that the theatre would be completed by Boxing Day (the 26th of December.) In answer to a Juror, Mr. Stable said that Mr. Whitwell told Mr. Ballantyne, the Magistrate, that if sufficient funds were supplied, the theatre might be completed fit for opening against the time mentioned. The witness Shaw (the clerk of the works) was next called and examined, in explanation of certain parts of the testimony he had given on a previous day. In answer to some inquiries made by the Co , rover, he said, I think the total weight hung to the roof was about 24 tons, at the time the roof fell in. At this time there were about 1.5 men in the car penters' shop, whose weight I do not take into ac count. Neither do I take into account the fire place of the carpenters' shop, because a very small part of its weight mas attached to the roof. lam now in the employment of Mr. Harrison, at the buildings in Carlton-place. I am foreman of the joiners. Messrs. Nash and Smirke surrey the works. I was at Carthagena during the war, and erected a battery, for which I received the thanks of the Duke of Wellington, conveyed me by Cap tain Adams, of the Invincible. 1 sent the Duke the model after the battle of Vittoria. By Mr. Hill.-1 have had several conversations with Mr. Finlay about hanging weights to the roof. I told him I had Mr. Maurice's and Mr. Carruthers' directions for hanging the weights. I never said to Mr. Finlay that I had Mr. Whitwell's directions or consent to hang those weights. The conversations about hanging weights to the roof were not in the presence of Mr. Whitwell. On my oath, I never had any sanction from Mr. Whitwell to hang weights to the roof, but quite the contrary. The proceedings of the day having closed, a long tnnl- I,latu heturepn the Court. the Jurymen, and the representatives of the parties, as to the time at which it would best meet the con venience of all parties to attend again. Mr. Hill (who appeared as counsel for Mr. Whitwell, the architect) stated, that his professional avocations rendered it impossible for him to attend again until Monday se'nnight. The CORONER said, the principal reason which made him anxious to resume the investigation en an early day was, that Well -street, in which the thea tre was situated, was blocked up, and must continue so, until the walls of the theatre, which were still standing, and some of the walls of the opposite house, which were in a most dangerous state, should be pulled down. He had deferred making any order for the pulling down of those walls, as the verdict of the Jury involved a question of deo dand, to which the materials of the theatre would be liable. It was finally proposed by one of the jurors, and acquiesced in by all parties, that the inquest should adjourn to Wednesday se'nnight. AFFRAY NEAR PORTGLENONE. (From the Dublin Morning .Register.) A melancholy affray occurred, near Portglenone, on Patrick's day. It appears that previously to that festival, the Right Rev. Dr. Crolly, anxious to discountenance the progress of Ribbonism through. out the diocese over which he presides, had been ac tive and indefatigable in his exertions, both person ally and by pastoral letters, for a considerable Lime to retard the progress of that illegal association, and to remonstrate with and admonish those 'whom he suspected to be members, and had travelled through his diocese several days; yet, notwithstanding all his zealous exertions, as well as those of his clergy, a considerable body of Ribbonmen assembled on Patrick's day, at Rasharkin, from the neighbouring districts, as well as Loughgill and the county of Derry, who proceeded in procession to a place called M'Neillstown, between Rasharkin and Portglenone, where they were attacked by a large party of Orange men well armed. A melancholy conflict ensued. The Orangemen were covered by ditches, houses, and haggards, from behind which they ministered their deadly engines of destruction. The Ribbon-. men, during the onset, suffered severely. A young man of the name of Mooney was shot through the head and immediately expired; another of the name of M'Dorinell (supposed to have been. killed) was shot through the knee, and wounds innumerable were inflicted. Regula r discharges of musk e try took place on the part of the Orangemen—one division loading while the other was committing havoc. The assailants, however, after making a stubborn resist ance, were routed by their more numerous opponents, w ho, in retaliation, made shocking examples. A great number are mortally wounded, and many have sustained the loss of their limbs. The whole sur rounding country is in a dreadful state of exaspera tion, and even worse consequences are expected soon to follow. Different letters arriving in the city to-day corroborate the above statement, and admit the affray to have been sanguinary and melancholy in its consequences. It is very remarkable that the father of the young man who was killed, fell also a victim to Orange in humanity, even at his own door, some years since. A WHIPPING JUDGE.-It is a little Ship lay that Mr. Sergeant D'OYLEY, to every sentence passed by him of imprisonment and hard labour, made the addi tion of whipping. In each case it is -to be inflicted once, and privately.—Maidstone Gazette. When IBRAHIM PACIIA took Missolonghi, he compelled his Greek prisoners to cut off the ears of their countrymen who had fallen in the battle, and pickle them, for the purpose of their being sent to Constantinople as trophies of his victory. As they did not appear suffic:entiv numerous, he caused to be added the ears of several Turks who had fallen. The prisoners, however, introduced into each barrel of ears the following paper :—" It will be seen by the length of these ears that they are no Greek. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE.._.A strange scene took place in the Justice Room between the LORD MAYOR and two per sons who offered themselves as responsible bail. It will he recollected that a short time ago, Eliza Mason, alias Lady Melville, was ordered to find bail, having been charged with threatening to shoot two gentlemen, one of whom formerly visited and was exceedingly liberal to her. Her Ladyship, upon retiring from the Justice Room, got quite upon the high ropes, and hoped that she should be detained in prison for ever. After having spent a week there, however, she began to wish for the air of the theatre, and to look about her for some considerate person to help her to get out ; and being , soon accommodated with a pair of " stags," she despatched a message to the Lord Mayor, informing him of her intention to send in adequate sureties. Mr. Hobler sent her word that 24 hours' notice must be given ; and that form having been acceded to, inquiries were made as to the respectability of the parties who offered themselves. Mr. Marshall and Mr. Deacon, the two persons who had sworn that they considered themselves in danger from the violence of the aforesaid fury, appeared to di'pute the respectability of the bail. The first surety appeared with a large bunch of Jew seals to his watch, and immediately claimed an acquaint ance with Mr. Hobler. That gentleman having declined the honour of recollecting where they were introduced to each other, the security said that he was a broker and ap praiser, and Mr. Hobler passed his shop every day. Mr. Hobler—lf you mean by that to insinuate that I am to testify as to your respectability, I am afraid you ere rather out in your calculation. I have looked into your shop, but I think that the appraiser who would say that the old sticks you have for show would fetch as., would deserve to be committed to Newgate. The Loan Mayon—Perhaps the gentleman may have considerable property above stairs. We are not all obliged to keep our goods exposed to the public, eye, Mr. nobler. Mr. Hobler—No doubt, my Lord. I dare say the gen tleman will swear that be is worth 1001., after the payment of all his just debts. Surety—Swear ! aye, to be sure I will. Pooh, 1001. ! The LORD NlAyon—Pray, if it is a fair question, may I ask why you come forward to bail this lady? Surety—Why, my Lord, she is so very penitent,—she is se sorry, that I thought it a pity not to let her have her liberty. Mr. Marshall here put in a list of tithe-money defaulters, and amongst them appeared the name of the surety, from whom the amount could not begot “by no means." The LORD MAI-oz.—Eh how is this? Why, the tithe-collector has you clown in his black-book for 11. 2s. 6d. Oh, I dare say you had no change ! Foster (the Marshalman) told the Lord Mayor that he had called at the surety's house with a summons for the tithe. The Loan M4Yoll.—Then you need not call again; for the gentleman is just going to bail a lady, and he is ready to give the amount of the tithe this instant. The surety was evidently much antoyed at being so corn. pletely entrapped ; but he felt that it was impossible to re tract, and his chagrin was increased upon being called upon to pay the amount of the summons. Having paid down 11. 4s. 6d., he expected that his bail would be immediately taken. Mr. Marshall asked the surety bow he became ac quainted with Lady Melville? " Oh," said he, " I saw her at the house of a lady, a friend of mine." He, how ever, refused to enter into any particulars as to his ac quaintance. The Logo MATon.—Pray may I ask, are you to get any money for being bail? Surety—Money ! No ; surely not. I never (lid take any from her, and I never shall. 0 tie ; no. Mr. Marshall declared that he heard front the lips of the wretched woman herself that she never knew either of the men who were to offer bail for her ; that she was sure they would sell all her furniture to remunerate themselves ; and that she hoped, for the sake of her little property, the Lord Mayor would not accept of their bail. Mr Teague confirmed this statement. The Loan MAlroa informed the two gentlemen that that there was no occasion for their further delay in the justice-room, and the sureties departed after having been complimented by his Lordship upon the prompt manner in which one (and no doubt both) discharged accidental demands. • GUILDHALL.—One Patrick AP Gouran, wit° had been in custody some day s on a char ge of having stolen tw , wa l4ep e ropertyof his em pl oyer , a master builder brought up for final ex a minatio n odeal in boards, the it; yesterday. " Plaze your Honour," replied Patrick Al‘Gouran, " I met them boards coming out of me master's yard—and I just took 'ern up into one arms, of cotn4e; but it isn't mtealin 'em I was after at all—in regard of the eracter I got for particular honest these many long years, and a wife and two chiller in me own place at home; and never was in no court for law or justice, or any thing that way before ; and never will again, plate God." " Very well," — said his Wox sine : " then, for this time, you are discharged, Patrick ; and whenever you meet any boards again—just pass on without meddling with them, Patrick." " Oh, indeed I will, many thanks to your Honour for lettin me nut of this," replied Patrick; and having made a very hearty bow, he hitched up his trousers and departed. UNION-HALL—Yesterday two men, named Toms opposite the and Pocock, were brought before the sitting Magistrate, J. T. Hove, Esq., charged with having attempted to extort money trom a respectable young man named Gardiner, by accusing him of an attempt to commit an unnatural crim e . sa T r eth:n ti e s a c t o m idro p o wu l a gn i h n o a e n e Tuesdayof tabrek, benches a la y s i t n , on his way t o Kee s ng g an hour o r t wo to Serpen tinep River, where he had not been long when Toms took a seat beside him. After some little time had elapsed, they entered into conversation on the subject of the sur rounding scenery, and at the expiration of about three quarters of an hour the complainant rose from the seat for the purpose of pursuing his way to Kensington, when his new acquaintance expressed a desire to accompany him part of the way, saying he was also going in that direction. When they had proceeded a short distance, Toms, before separating, said he should be glad to meet the complainant on the following evening in Lincoln's Inn-fields for the purpose of taking a walk together, to which the latter agreed, conceiving, from his address and appearance, that he was respectable. At seven o'clock, the appointed hour, the parties met, when Toms proposed a walk over Water loo-bridge, over which they proceeded, until they came to rather a lonely thoroughfare leading out of the Waterloo road. They proceeded forward, and there being no lamps, the defendant became rather alarmed, and tucked in the chain and seals of his watch. While in the act of doing so, Toms seized his trousers, and tearing them with great force, at the same moment called out " Help, help."— Upon which Pocock immediately made his appearance, to whom Toms gave the complainant into custody on a charge of attempting to commit an unnatural crime, Pocock re presenting himself as a constable. A little time after wards, Pocock having gone on a little in advance, Toms spoke to the complainant, pointing out the punishment that awaited a person convicted of such an offence, and advising him strongly to snake up the matter by paying some money, without going to the watch- house. The complainant, however, refused to listen to this proposi tion, and was ultitaately taken off to the Surrey watchhouse, where the above disgusting charge was made by the prisoners. In else interim Keyse, the watch-house keeper, discovered that 'Toms had been previously tried and convicted at the Old Bailey, for an attempt to extort money from a gentle man by accusing him of a similar offence : and of the other prisoner he also had a very bad character. Keyse subse quently discovered where Toms resided, and on proceeding there, found a letter in his box addressed to the gentleman whom he had previously charged, dated from Newgate, im ploring forgiveness, and attributing his h a vi ng made the charge to poverty.—The prisoners were then fully committed. A young gentleman near Manchester, having a fine water spaniel, in order to exhibit his powers to some s p e ctators, threw a stone into a pond ; the dog went in after it, and brought up a green bag, containing a fine vio lin and bow. An Irishman cried out, "Throw another stone, who knows but the dog may bring up the fiddler himself! and then we can have a jig on the spot. ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCH.--A traveller, lately returned to London, after making the tour of Eng land and part of Scotland (as the result of his inquiries)• observes, that Air. shire, in Scotland, was once famous for r Poets ; Fife-shire, for .3.lusicians ; Bed-fordshi; Lazy People; Bark-shire, for a curious breed o s f h f e, g for i Buck-inghamshire, for a race of Fops ; excellent players at Chess ; Cumberland, iofesoirifortgaged tersbire, for Estates ; Corn-wall, for Millers ; _;;__ mout A s Varnish ; Monmouth-shire, for Men with I,, a g i c tle ; Rut_ Or-fordahire, for a fine breed of Horned setshire, for s„,nmer land-shire, for Impassable Roads ; fn. Cudgel Players ; Fine Weather; Staff-ordshire , oes; Card-iganshire, War-wickshire, for Military Ilreecon-shire, for Account for excellent Whist Players ; .RB;clicals • Angle-sea, for Account ants ; Rad•n_ors e h rr ir y e . , oir i t t li erae,sts for Fu nny u_niiiznyislie;rielo.refsor; Fishermen ; M Den-bighshire, for Wild ch d t9 F nide, Righ-prated Tailors.--=C 4 PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINCII. MOUSE OF C O2, IMONTS. cfmrri OP.DERS or THE DAY FOR THIS OAF. 1. Alehouses Certificates (Scotland) Bill—Second reading. 9. Corporation and Test Acta Repeal Bill.. Further consi deration of Report. a, 3. Juries (Ireland) Bill—Further consideration of Report. 4. Supply—Committee. 5. Ways and Means—Co mm i ttee. 6. Application of Aids Bill—Committee. 7. Penrvn Disfranchisement Bill—Further consideration of Report. S. Registry Office (Ireland), Compensation to Registrar— Committee thereupon. 9. Corn Laws Acts—Committee thereupon. NOTICES OF MOTION FOR THIS DAY. 1. Mr. Charles Grant—Consideration of the present state of the Laws affecting the Corn Trade. 2. Mr. Home Drummond—Bill to regulate the Salmon Fisheries is Scotland. 3. Sir William Guise—To add the Members for Bristol to the Committees on the Bristol and Gloucestershire Railway Bill, and onthe Bath and Avon Railway Bill. 4. Mr. Lamb—Bill for consolidating and amending the Laws in Ireland, relative to malicious injuries to property. NOTICES GIVEN YESTERDAY. Tuesday, April 1. Mr. Wilmot Horton— to present Petition on the subject of Emigration. Thursday, April 17. Mr. Wilmot Iforton—Bill to enable Parishes is Eog. land, under given regulations, and for a limited pe riod, to mortgage their Poor Rates for the purples of assisting voluntary- Emigration. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL 3IAR4;ET.—Mareb l 9 At this day's market, which was moderately well sup plied, and rather numerously attended both by London. and country buyers, each kind of meat went off tardily, at the following pricey per stone of 81b. to sink the offals : Beef 10d. to 4s. IW. Veal 58. Od .to 6s. 4d. Mutton 1 0 5 0 P o rk 4 6 6 , The foregoing quotations are best Beef and best Veal, with . Mutton, t?d. per stone lower than those of this day sennight, at which Pork and inferior Beef were stationary. The stock was nearly all sold. HAIL.SIIAM MARKET.—March 26. Beef--- 43. Od. to 4L 4d. Veal. 4a. Bd. to 3s. 0.. t. Mutton— 4 4 48 1 f Pork —......... 4 0 0 0 Lamb • . 53 lkl. to 6s. 6d. Trade with Mutt o n t o l era bly brisk, with other .binds of meat exceolingly dull. STEYNINIi MARKET.—March 24. Beef 4s. 6d. to 4s. 10,1. I Vaal 44.6 d. to 55.04. 'Mutton 4'2 5 0 Pork 4 4 4$ Lamb 6s. 4d. to 7..5. 4d A moderate supply, and a sluggish trade. ARUNDEL MARKET. —March 25. Beef . 4s. Od. to 4s. Fd. I 4s. ed. to ss. Od. Mutton .- 4 2 5 0 4 2 4 S Lamb Cs. Qt. to is. Od. A fair time of year supply, and a dull trade. CHICHESTER MARKET.. March 261 Beef 4s. 10d. to 4s. tad. as. Od. to Os. 61. Mutton 4 0 410 410 .5 Lamb Od. to Cs. 6d. ti Couple,: (Ewes with their Lamb) from 3s. 4d. to 4s. Bd. each. Store Beasts, and Cows with their young Calf, commanded good prices. Supply good, and trade with fat stock rather dull. It U ALFORD MA ItKET.—March !AS. a. d. to Y. d. e. d. to a. tt. Beef 3 8 4 8I Veal Mutton. 3lO 5 0 Pork 4lO 5 S Suckling Calves front 14s. to 40s. ; Quarter old Pigs 10s to 10s. each. Supply limited, and trade rather brisk. - ----- COUNTRY CORN MARKWAS DU U G THE WEEK. -- ) I‘, heat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. !A.to 8. A. to 8. S. to 8. S. to B._ Blandford 58 26 9.4 -- 50 5& 24 28 18 22 34 3 8 , 55 29 16 Sle Chard 56 60 32 38 24 30 42 48 Huntingdon-- 50 56 30 33 22 25 44 14 Long Sutton---- 47 56 15 27 36 40 Louth 40 52 24 28 15 22 34 40 LYnn 56 69 29 32 16 93 32 33 Newark 51 58 28 35 19 39 41 45 Nottingham 58 62 35 42 30 40 41 5,9 Peterborough 40 50 28 32 24 30 -- *— Plymouth 52 59 26 28 20 22 Pontefract — 52 27 3"53 Sleaford 49 54 24 28 15 17 36 40 Uppingham 52 60 24 28 18 3 5 96 79 Wisbech — 1 40 56 f 16 23 36 38 We had gene rally demanded Is. per qu arter more money, but little bu siness done at the , advance. Barley was in good supply, and met very slow sale at last week's prices. In Oats, holders2S Shelling, and Beans, there was very little doing, and prizes were much the same. For Rapeseed there was aultrcely any demand. LEEDSafair supply Suffolk p C nu.p O .e.tr 1,ty.0 of 331 Wh eat, l A . RKE T a .a—d?b the l a rc h ir til _....14ae7ar hea t,-- - l i e i s y .. . Yorkshire NlN:. Grinding o o ° . k ° lak nad :: a. and L .n.. ..d S i . . . . . .1.111.ki Lincolnshire. . : 66 :° . 11 . bb . .: .........:, .....................: ..: ..: ..: ..: .... .... .... ..: ..: 32 7 :4 3 ; 31s, to to 00 0 00 3 3 2 4 8 5 4 V: a : ..... i 40s to 516. ~ 2tis. to 295. r.. R O a a r t , s e , ,, Y ed ota , E to n e ghsh. —Mealing, Foreign I Id. to I2d. ... English 12d. to 13d. per st. Shelling 2Ss. to 29 6 . per load. ______2l_L/. toll. Foreign, —l. to —l, per last. ---- - MANCHES — TER SAIITHFIELD.—March 4U. At per lb. sinking the off 4 l. '2,911 Sheep-- 6d. to Bd. I 2 Calves . sd. to 60. 31 8 Cattle ti t 7 lln Figs 5 6 MANCHESTER POTATOEMARKET.—Marcts 22. Potatoes, 3s. IM., 3s. 6d., and 4s. &t. per load of 12 score and 121bs. ; New ditto, Oc. Od., Os. Od., and Os. per ditto; Turnips. 5.. Od., Os. Pd. and 5.. 3d. per load of l 6 peck.; Onions, 12s. Od., 13s. ful and 14s. per 12 score. MANCHESTER YAR: No. d. d. Throitle Twist, 20 « 101 to 11 30 —l2 121 40 15 16 MulecopTwisti 30 ...II for warp 12 15 50 17 19 , 60 —.19 90 70 —22 21 80 ai MARK T.—March 21. ' 30 —.lO to 10,1 40 11 19 50 14 )5 go 15 16 70 80 22 100 —.— SU 120....,.., 34 ' 35 10 7 8 14 8 81 18 9 .24 10 103 3luleCop Wert.. Weft f rom waste GLASGOW RETAIL Beef per lb. Os. sd. tops. 9d. Mutton 0 5 0 7 Veal p 5 0 9 Hams 0 0 9 Lamb _perqr. 0 0 0 0 Quartern Loaf.— 0 9 0 0 Flour, per stone 2 0 9 8 Rye cG IP°ll,PA:oaaattßmsrßarley, ewt.l2 0 *.t0 1 3 7 21.32 0 4 t a'E i el t :ar S ditto ,,,, a 2021 s. 6d o o 24 0 l Grey Peaie ...... 12 0 it 0 White ditto 0 14 Blue ditt0......., 13 0 14 I, HOP INTELLIGENCE. WoncisrEn, MARCH 26.--In our market on Saturday 73 pockets were weighed; no alteration in prices. BIRTHS. On the 27th instant, the wife of the Rev. Gerrard Thos. Andrews, of a boy. • On the 25th instant, in Dorset-street, Portman-square, Mrs. Hugh F. Sandeman, of a son. On the 26th instant, at Hamilton. place, Regent's -park, the wife of Thomas Stevens, Esq. of a son. Oa the 27th instant, at West square, the lady of J. Thomson, of a son. MARRIED. On the 4 7th instant, at St. George's, Bloomsbury, by the Rev. Cornelius Pitt, Rector of Hazleton, Glocester shire, Charles Bowyer, Esq. of the King Office, to Elizab e th, second daughter of's RTekmomemambrealnacrekre's. Esq. of Upper Bedford-place. '.4 Uthheuritelevrtinna's On the 26th instant, Mr. Wm. Belcher, wine-rnerchant, to Miss Newman, both of Earring On the 27th instant, at St. Ste - t p:h ° j e u n n n . street, by the. Rev. Josiah Pratt, College, Cambridge, to Cloves, M.A., Fellow of Q • "e the Rev. Josiah Pratt, Vicar Caroline, eldest daughter 01 of St. Stephen's. at Hartford, near Huntingdon, by lteCtor of Wolley, Richard at D he u r e i k ne e the O Pte t v h . eJoh 26thn l i ro s p t o li a f n i n t t i e Eastcott, Esq. late istock..Plat>c'e, Tavistock-square. Dvball, late of Tavtant, a t Little Hadham, Herts, by the On the 22( 1. i n ,!_...,, Mr. Thomas Sloan, of Alitre-court, Rev. Robert Will!'"' ' Fleet-street, to miss Frances Scott, of Hadham-hall. DlE_____ ..------------------ ---- M . . On the 2 6 t h instant, Mis s Th res h er, of the Strand. th instant, a t B r i g h ton, Elizabeth, the wife of W":" _ _ th e 25 __ tin young Knight, Esq. of Marlborough -street, L o ndon, and Barnes-comm on , S urrey. ' ton -place. lie 27th instant, at his house, 228, Hi gh Holborn. leph Fussell, coach:.maker. he 26th instant, aged 11, Benjamin, the only son of i o n s s s tan ett, t, o a f t A w lor a t i i t t grnstow, aged 29, Agnes. h ni e am 26 in th F 0. B. Brown, Esq. and third daughter of the late boss, Esq. of the same place, d eep l y hew her: regretted by Ls house,. in Bath-stre e t, City .road ' Mr. John Ri an the 75th year of his age. le 27th instant, Mary, the wife of Roht. Edmonds, New-cross, in "her 70th year. a e 25th instant, aged 30, Edward, son of Henry ild, Esq. of Chiddingstone, Kent. he 25th instant, Elizabeth, fourth, daughter of Mrs. of Ponder's-end, in her 16th year. On tl Skipper PAINT) and PUBLISHED by iVI. YOUNG, at tbe SUN OFFICS ; No 112, Staand, / " F ' oil A the Ap reoeil quiter Pa be ha dreta t 011(.4 by 1828 whicl Pen( tire for tl Lots, SATI I surer such to re °l 4 Ace deg hi set-