The Sun. — London, England, 1841-08-10 00:00:00

EV El ING SUN. FiPItIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. BROM THE DAILY PAYERS OP YESTERDAY. GLOBE.— The Post of this morning has arraigned the Government upon a new charge, and accuses its members of meditating self-destruction, actuated proba bly by despair at the approaching loss of their offices. The Whigs arc gravely impeached by our Contempo rary on the :ground of their being engaged in an at tempt to excite a revolt against the Queen's Govern ment ; and since we as yet know of no other Govern ment but that of which Lord Melbourne is at the head, we can only presume that the Post accuses the Liberal Administration of an attempt at suicide. The patronising, but authoritative, way in which the Tory organ interferes to prevent the desperate act is ex ceedingly entertaining ; but we beg to assure the Post that matters are by no means so gloomy in the eyes of those who are still in power, as to induce them to take a flying leap from their official elevation, or give with their own hands the finishing blow to " the Queen's Goverment." Perhaps we may be told that it is the Go- Ireniment in perspective against which the Whigs are directing their hostility ; but though it is quite true that the coming event has already begun to cast its shadows before, it is not with the shadows that the Liberals mean to contend, and the substance is too remote, or at all events much too impalpable, to be at present grappled with. To talk of attacking Sir Robert Peel's - Government would just now be as absurd as to propose an onslaught on a cloud of dust which a gust of wind may have car ried forward in advance of an enemy supposed to be coming after it. In the first place, the foe may never venture to come to close quarters; and in the next place, the dust may be occasioned not by their march against us, but by a scuffle among themselves ; and it is quite certain that internal differences in the Tory ranks are the cause of the present obscurity in which all the Tory movements are enveloped. The curtain must be kept down, or the public would perceive that the Conservative drama never can be gone through with - svhile there is nothing taking place but perpetual etifferences between the performers and the managers. It is clear that Sir Robert Peel cannot make a move in any one direction without spoiling the position he at ;)resent occupies. He has got into one of those " situa tions," as the actors call them, which are highly effective, but which are no less difficult to be got out of than to be got into. Like the imposing tableau in the Critic, where the uncles could not move because of the nieces, -while the nieces were at a dead stand-still because of the lovers, and the lovers were unable to advance or re- Lire because of the uncles' daggers, Sir Robert Peel can neither go to the right nor to the left because of his party on the one hand, and the nation on the other ; the one threatening to desert him, the other to give him his deserts, according as he may approach or recede from a Liberal policy. STANDARD.—The carefully organised system of " enormous lying," by which the Whig-Radical sup porters of the Government are endeavouring to agitate the country, has been visited with so many, and such overwhelming exposures, that it seems , hardly worth while to contradict any statement, however false and flagitious, that may hereafter be propagated by such authorities for the purpose of pre judicing the Conservative party in the estima tion of the country. . The grave announce ment of the Morning Chronicle that the Tory aris tocracy were about to form " a volunteer auxiliary army," which was to " be ready to start into existence the moment Sir Robert Peel should come into power," professing to . be founded on the fact that Lord Francis Egerton had " taken the initiative in raising a body of cavalry," has received a still further contradiction from the pen of Lord Francis Egerton himself, and turns nit i.) be destitute of even the slender thread of truth en which it was supposed to rest. His Lordship has fa voured us with a letter, which proves that the statement in question is from beginning to end a malicious and gratuitous falsehood. His Lordship has taken no such step as that which has been imputed to him ; and if he had, he would have done no more than every nobleman and gentleman, of whatever political opinions, has done be fore' him, under similar circumstances. The lie, how ever, remains still uncorrected by the journals with which it originated, and, associated with their exaggerated ac counts of the "alarming state of the manufacturing dis tricts." is still on its tour through that portion of the pro vincial press which devotes itself to the promulgation of their slanders. What the nature and extent of their next fabrication may be it is difficult to conjecture. The failure of the harvest, or, "at least, a very late crop," has been already anticipated by them with no little 3xultation. but with no more tangible pretext than their apprehensions on the subject of the " volunteer auxiliary army ;" whilst every petty failure that has taken place in Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, or Birmingham, has been magnified by them into an alarming additional proof of the approaching ruin of the town in which it has occurred. The industry with which they multiply these consoling consequences of Whig misrule is only equalled by the pertinacity with which they persist in referring them to every cause but the right one. MR. M'LEOD. " IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE. SUPPOSED InISCUE OF M`LEOD BY THE CANADIANS. DREADFUL EXCITEMENT AT LOCKPORT. New York, July 18, 1841, Five o'Clock, a.m. . . _ Mr. John Connally, of Barclay-street, has kindly .1 - I:rnished us with the following most important letter re ceived• by him two hours ago, per the Albany boat, from Captain ,Eustace, of Lockport. The express that brought - the letter had arrived at Albany but a few minutes be fore the boat started—the rumour, however, of the rescue, was beginning to spread in all directions, and the excite ment was intense. >Tone of the passengers by the Albany .3tearn-boat could give any particulars further than these contained in the letter; but 'they all agree that some uiarming demonstration mast have been made by the Ca , nadiaa people:7-- " Lockport, Saturday, Fonr, a.m. " Dear J— • , - —We are sure of a war at last. Half l ! , , u r since, eec gaol, whiA. lies a little way out of w 9,; surrounded by three or four hundred Cana the purpo3e, of course, of rescuing ill'Leorl— id doubtless they have effected their purpose before his. I say doubtless, because. as yet we know nothing or certain—only the arrival of the mob, the surround ag oF gates, and the• forcing cif the guard ; and it will Jo impossible to ascertain all partictilars before day-break. Meanwhile we are in the midst of such a din of confusion and alarm as I never heard. All the public bells are ringing —the people have turned• out en masse, every pistol, dirk, swortl, club; musket, &c., in the village,. is being put in requisition, and hoarse voices in all directions are shout ing--' To arms, to arms.' • The express rider who will carry this from here is preparing to set out to alarm the towns along the river, to the end I .believe of mustering a force of retaliation, to dash right over and take instant vengeance on the Canadians. The fellows, it is thought, c•-i.me by way of Lake Ontario—Hark, they are firing at the gaol. I fear we may have bloody work of it.—Your's, in haste. &c., "' WM. EUSTACE. P.S. By the way, it is thought poor Theller, from New York. is kidnapped, as he is not to be found at his uoarding-house. Rumour is also rife about the abstrac tion of Mackenzie. God only knows what will be the .2nd of it. 6, w . E TO NON-ELECTORS. HOW TO GAIN A VOTE, AND USE IT MTH- OUT INTIMIDATION. Every Reformer who is excluded from the list of voters, and does not possess the necessary qualifications to get his name on the register, may as effectually contri bute to the return of a Reform Candidate as if he had a vote fin- himself, and that rote was protected from inti midation by the ballot, if he will examine the list of voters, which may be seen at the house of any overseer at all reasonable hours, any day before the 15th of August, and make a note of the name and address of a ny Tory that appears on the register and is not in every way qualified. He should immediately forward the information, with ground of objection, to some active Reformer or Registration Committee, who will object to hi nt ; and if he is unable to prove himself qualified, will .b e excluded from, the register, the onus of proof lying entirely with the person objected to. Thus the Tory vote struck off will bo one gained to the cause of Reform, and given as secretly, if not more so, than a vote given by the informant under dui protec tion of the ballot. Surely the thousands in the metropolis exclud e d from the franchise, and those who have been compelled t o sacrifice their consciences, and submit to the most shame ful as well as shameless intimidation, will avenge them selves upon their intimidators, and th u s re g ain the vote their private interest compelled them to give agai ns t their own honest conviction. THE EGERTON YEOMANRY.--....T. OT Fra ncis Egerton has written to the Editor of the Standard to s correct the alleged misrepresentations respecting hi raising a yeomanry troop. His Lordship states, that on his acceptance of commissions to the corps for, himself and his eldest son, some 40 or 50 of his neighbours and tenants, unsolicited by him, expressed their desire to form themselves into a troop, in the hope that his son might obtain the command of it. His Lordship there fore submits that he has neither raised a troop of yeo manry nor taken any positive step toward the raising of one, though he admits the force of his present corps to be very small in comparison with the force in other dis tricts, and he should have little scruple in proposing its numerical increase to the Government, had not the Home office already made its estimates ofthe service for the year. ASSOCIATION OF MASTER PRINTERS. — On Wednesday last a numerous and highly respectable hody of Master Printers dined together at the Crown and ,sceptre, Blackwall, Mr. Spottiswoode in the chair. It is many years since the printers have met together as a body, although a curious document handed about the ~ables proved the association of printers was formed ninety-one years ago, and that their place of meeting at -hat period was in Paternoster-row. Amongst the com pany were Messrs. Clowes, Nicholls, Clay, Gilbert, Cox, Taylor, M‘Dowall, Harrison, Brettel, Shaw, Saville, and Rivington. DEATAI Or MR. SAMUEL WRIGHT, 'OF NEw ORLEINB.—He fell in a duel with Mr. S. W. Oakey, of the firm of Oakey, Payne, and Hawkins, on the 2d ult. They fought with rifles, at the distance of forty yards, and, at the second tire, Mr. Wright fell, and expired in a few minutes. Mr. Wright was a native of Ihe county of Down, Ireland, and had been a merchant In this country for upwards of twenty-five years, a large portion of which time he lived, we believe, in Savannah. —Vicksburgh Sentinel. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE RIVER.--Two Lrvzs LOST.—Between nine and ten o'clock on Thursday ,:ight, two young gentlemen, named Robins and John son, were rowing from Pntney, when they came in col -I,sion with a barge immediately after passing through Vauxhall bridge, by which the boat was swamped, and both lost their liTes ' - neither of the bodies has yet been • COMMERCIAL DISTRESS. (From the City article of the Chronicle.) Sir Robert Peel says that the Joint-Stoec Banks during the last two years have fostered improvident i speculations ; the cause, he maintains, of that alarming 4 stagnation of trade which all acknowledge to be general. This way of answering will not serve the proximate Premier longwhen he assumes the reins of office ; neither is it consistent with the results exhibited by an examination of the circulation during the period referred 4 to. The amount of notes payable on demand now in circulation, issued by banks of all denominations, is about 3,700,0001. less than the gross amount two years back, and the action of all denominations of banking establishments, with few exceptions, has been ex- i tremely stringent since the autumn of 1838, or, more ' correctly dating, since the spring of 1839. The extent to which over-trading can have been car ried on under such a contracted state of the currency, must necessarily have been of a local character, while the depressed condition of trade has spread over the ' entire country, and affected all classes throughout the 1 empire having capital embarked in commercial enter prise. Allowing every reasonable weight, therefore, to the particular and well-known instances of over-trading of which some of the Joint-Stock Banks have been guilty in the manufacturing districts during the last two years, it is manifest that such general and wide spread results cannot have been produced by such partial and circumscribed causes. The notorious fact that some Joint-Stock Banks in Lancashire and York shire departed from the legitimate purposes of banking, and became involved with the dead weight of masses of unsaleable securities, in consequence of unjustifia ble advances, is not a sufficient reason to account for the general stagnation and decay of our export trade, nor would a more prudent and cautious line of policy, on the part of these and other banks, restore its energies, or give employment to the destitute masses in our manufac turing towns. Over-banking, doubtless, may hare par tially taken place, notwithstanding the decrease in the circulation, for supply and demand are merely relative terms, and it is true that, although the circulation be now nearly 3,700,0001. less than it was two years back, over issues have been made in some well-known cases, because the legitimate demands of trade have not even required so much paper money as has been issued, and is now afloat. Some joint-stock banks in the manufacturing districts did issue more paper than they ought to have done. They dealt largely, also, in re-discounts and accommoda tion drafts upon their London agents ; but the cause of this, the root and origin of these instances of over banking, is traced beyond all cavil to the depressed con• dition of our manufacturing interests, consequent upon the sudden fall of prices occasioned by the stringent ac tion of the Bank of England on the currency, after the extraction of her bullion to pay for foreign corn follow ing the bad harvest of 1838. Sir Robert Peel seems to expect that the depression in trade is temporary, and that it will gradually disappear ; that we are only suffer ing from the shadow•of a passing " summer cloud," and that the evil will cure itself. Messrs. sl - letTies and Goul burn struck that very note during the late debate on the Budget, and the proximate Premier was content to play second fiddle to them on the same kind of strain. But all this is mere mockery and delusion. The depressed condi tion of our manufacturing interests has been produced by fixed and long existing causes, by the failure of the de mand from the Continent of Europe, occasioned by the supply brought now to market by native industry in the Continental States. That supply is increasing, and will increase steadily, until our goods are completely shut out from the markets of Europe, unless our legislators and statesmen turn the stream by active and determined measures. Sir Robert Peel said some twelve months back, that the rivalry of British manufactures now dis played by the people of Germany was the mere natural result of increased knowledge and civilisation ; that it was absurd to expect that the people of Germany would remain stationary while we made such rapid and gigantic strides Mall the branches of productive industry. There is some truth in this remark, but, like all statements of that politician, it gives only a portion of the truth, .and leaves the most important portion entirely unnoticed. No mention is made of the consideration how far we ourselves have fostered this rivalry on the part of Continental nations, by our restrictive commercial tariff, and the . refusal to receive their staple articles of produce on payment of moderate duties. The soil and climati of the countries bordering on the Baltic are specially fitted for the growth of corn and timber. Providence has as clearly pointed out that the inhabitants of these coun tries should turn their attention to agriculture, as their chief article of export, as it has told the natives of Great Britain to seek for theirs by calling to account the mineral wealth which lies hid beneath the surface, and in thus developing the superior skill and industry of the British nation. When we find, then, the Ger man, and other. neighbouring States, employing themselves in endeavouring to compete with us iu manufactures, and the people of England occupied, on the other hand, in devising legislative and other artificial means to compensate their agriculturists by protective duties against the natural defects of soil and climate, it is manifest that nature and art are placed in direct collision, and that the whole system is opposed to the declared intentions of the great Architect 01 the Uni verse. This separation of interests is at variance with all sound views of commercial intercourse, and cannot be maintained with permanent public advantage to any of the parties concerned. Class interests and individual views may be so worked up in the existing system as to make these parties view any step of change to a better one with fear and aversion. No great public improve ment was ever proposed that did not encounter ob stacles from similar sources ; but opposition of that character ought only to secure for the measure the more active and untlinchinr , support of the patriot and enlightened statesman. every impartial person who considc:rs the operation of our navigation laws and co lonial system, and the restrictive and prohibitory cha racter of our fiscal commercial code, must admit that they refuse to deal with other countries on mutual principles of justice. The natural result is that ether countries have retaliated, and . that we have thus compelled - them to become our rivals. The demand for our manufactures has thus declined. Our manu facturers have been compelled to submit to heavy losses. and to keep their hand; working far beyond the 'legi timate demand, merely to keep their machinery em ployed. ' This is the real cause of the distress which afflicts the country, and not over-banking. The remedy is equally plain with the disease. Monopoly has bred the contagion, and free trade must drive it away. The only objection of any weight yet attempted against the revision of our complex import tariff is, that the Conti nental nations would not reciprocate ; that they would still take nothing from us but bullion in payment for their corn and timber. The answer is, that this state ment is entirely at variance with the evidence given be fore the Committee on Import Duties ; and besides this, it is contrary to the self-interests of the parties con cerned, for the superior skill and local advantages pos sessed by the British manufacturers will always enable them to compete successfully, under a free tariff, with those of any nation whatever. On the principle, there fore, of buying at the best and cheapest market, and sell ing at the dearest. the people of the continent would find their profit in taking the manufactures of England in exchange for their corn and timber. They would, therefore, cease to struggle against us in a vain effort at manufacturing rivalry, and again employ their time and capital in developing the natural advantages of their soil. The result does not depend, indeed, on argument, how ever strong, because the kingddm of Prussia, the head of the Germanic Commercial League, has officially inti mated its readiness to revise their tariff on imports, if we will meet them on fair terms. The United States and the Brazils have signified as much, and unless we do so before the approaching expiry of the subsisting commer cial treaties, they will be compelled in self-defence to impose heavy protective duties on British goods, whereby our foreign trade would become a complete wreck. NAVIGATION of the EUPHRATES. Intelligence has been received at the India Board of the arrival of the Hon. East India Company's armed iron steamboats Nimrod and Nitocris at Beles on the Euphrates. This gratifying event took place on the 31st of May, and thus WAS completed an enterprise of much danger and difficulty, which had generally been looked upon as impracticable, and which, in all probability, nothing but British skill, intrepidity, and perseverance would have been able to accomplish. The actual distance of the voyage up the river was one thousand one hundred and thirty miles ; the ascent occupied two hundred and seventy-three hours, or about nineteen days and a half. The average rate of steaming vea*.hree miles and seven furlongs an hour. The Tigris and the Euphrates have now been opened to vessels o f cons id era bl e b ur th en , an d th e ascent an d descent o f these no b le streams may be made available for the Purposes of commerce as well as of civilization ; for, although the success of this splendid experiment re flects honour on the British name alone, the advantages which may be derived from it will be shared with us by many nations, and, it is to be hoped, by the inhabitants of the once-famous regions watered by the great rivers of Mesopotami a . The expeditio n was commanded by Lieutenant Camp bell, assisted by Lieutenants Jones and Grounds. The behaviour of the crews was most exemplary, and not a single casualty occurred during the whole voyage. ANTIQUITY 011 BERMOND SEY.—The parish of Bermondsey would form a subj e ctt of higher interest to the historical antiquary than a very early of our su burban villages. It was from abb :y , early period the the history of seat of a large and flourishing monasteries, which, as of most of our great m es, remain to be written. Its church had been just erected at the Norman unwonted lie manor survey, and the survey ors indul g e in a t erm of r admiration — ubi nova et pulchra ceccl es i a . belonged to the Ki n g , as it had to Earl but H arold, ce one lordo f the of its thirteen hides had been g ranted aw ay sin Conquest, and ther e o n the Earl of Morton, the the adjacent manor of L ambeth, had erected his nuin sion. This circumstance is mentioned in the survey ni the latter manor—" Isdem comes habet in Bermondsey de terra regis unam hidam übi sedet domus ejus." Thus the Domesday Record unfolds the existence at Bermond sey at that early period—at once of a fair church and an Earl's house.—Gentleman's Magazine. ALARMING STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENTe—NAR now EscAPE.—On the return of the Richmond steam boat from Putney, on Saturday afternoon, the vessel struck against Putney-bridge with a very great force, to the great alarm of all on board. In a very few minutes it was discovered that the machinery was so much injured that it was found impossible to proceed any further, and in order to prevent the vessel driving against Battersea bridge, the order was given 40 let go the anchor, and the passengers were obliged to be conveyed to London by other steam-vessels. The Dog-days end on Wednesday. For years past the weather has not been so cold nor sunshine so rare as they have been during the continuance of those days this summer, which are in general remarkable for the heat of the weather. JOHN HOCKINGS, the BIRMING- HAM BLACKSMITH. John, " take him all in all," as our great Bard has it, is an extraordinary individual. For five nights, during the present week, he has been lecturing at the Queen's Theatre, in this town, to numerous and re spectable audiences. On each night he spoke for about one hour and three quarters, and his physical and mental powers are such, that he could apparently continue his lecture to double the time, to the great satisfaction of his hearers. Hockings is a stout, well made man, and he has a good-looking, smiling coun tenance. He appears. to be about fifty-six years of age, dark complexion, and stands about five feet eight inches in stature. His dress bespeaks the order to which he belongs. It consists of a coarse dark coloured cloth frock coat, with pockets outside, some thing like that of a shooting coat, dark pantaloons, striped or spotted waistcoat, and black neckerchief. When addressing the audience he is not very p..rticular whether his coat is on or oft Should the atmosphere be rather warm, John throws off the coat, and haviig relieved himself from that incumbrance, proceeds with the subject with fresh vigour. As an orator, he may with great propriety be called one of the Thauma turgi of teetotalism. His style is natural, powerful, and eloquent ; and when describing the baneful effects of alcoholic drinks upon the unfortunate in dividuals given up . to them, he is remarkably happy. He is quite what is understood by the term an un educated man—that is, he never received ordinary instruction in any school during his boyhood, and did not know how to read till one of his own children taught him, after he had become a teetotaller. He is eloquent to a high degree, and carries both the feelings and judg ment of the audience with him. When describing the misery and woe of the drunkard and his family, his man ner and the tones of his voice are such that he not un frequently draws tears from his audience. On the other hand, when giving a rich and picturesque de scription of the follies and absurdities of the drunk ard, his mimic powers are so great and so natural, that he is sure to elicit peals of laughter. Without any regular connexion in his speeches, he goes on, with perfect ease to himself and pleasure to the audience, from " grave to gay, from lively to severe ; " and, how ever mal- apropos a word may occasionally b, he is never short of one in the course of his address. His style of reasoning is perfectly original. He knows nothing about forming a syllogism, or the rules of logic, but he brings his own experience and common sense to bear upon the matter, and he is generally victorious. He gave a proof of this in one of his recent lectures. Describing a discussion he had had with a per son who opposed teetotalism, he said, • his oppo nent objected to the word " teetotaller," and said it was like the system itself—ridiculous, as it could not be found in any dictionary ; and, with regard to alcoholic drinks, he contended they were perfectly justifiable, as the barley from which they were made was alcohol, and, therefore, on the principles of logic, teetotalism was absurd. In reply, Hockings said he knew nothing about logic, but the gentleman would perhaps be so kind as to tell him what was the name of the upper article of dress he then wore. " Oh," said his opponent, " that is a Mackintosh." " Now," said Hockings triumphantly, " what a ridiculous and absurd thing that must be ! What dictionary did you find that word in ?" " Oh," said the gentleman, " that is a word merely to express the name of the coat." " Just so," said Hockings, " and the word teetotalism' is similar. It. implies that those who ab stain from intoxicating drinks are sober, respectable men. Now, with regard to barley being alcohol," continued Hockings, "I said to one of my . hearers, I say, Jack, this here pocket handkerchief is paper, a'nt it ?" No,' said Jack, it is cotton.' Oh, but it must be paper,' replied Hockings, on the principles laid down by that gentleman respecting barley,—for, if barley be alcohol, this handkerchief must be paper."' Hockings' common sense here prevailed over his oppo nent, who retired from the contest crest-fallen. Al though the manner, reasoning, and eloquence of Hockings are of native mint, and all three of a very superior caste, there is, nevertheless, a coarseness about them that would not be tolerated in any other public man. His expressions, - however, come from so unsophisticated a source, that they add to, rather than diminish the effect of his discourse. Thus, "Down with the dust"—" Any brass in your rags ?"- -" Getting the sack"—" Cutting his lucky," and a mul titude of other similar phraseology, are made in the hands of John Hockings so many ornaments to his speech. It is quite the language he has all his life been used to, and it flows as naturally froth him as d spring does from its source. Hockings, in the early part of his manhood, according to his own ac count, was much given to intemperance. His appear ance was such, he says, that " the boys would cut away from him, as from a robber," but since he has " joined teetotal," he has been enabled to keep him self and family respectable, and buy " a little free hold" into the bargain. He is most ardent and inces sant in his calling, by day and by night, in winter and summer, and England, Ireland, and Scotland, are by turns the scenes of kis operations. In Ireland, he was one of the precursors of Father Mathew, and he reveres that great man with filial affection for his efforts in the cause of teetotalism. Although a resident of Birming ham he is a native of London, and has a strong southern accent. From his long residence, however, in the above town, he,has obtained the sobriquet of the " Birmingham Blacksmith," a name of which he appears to be proud, and which will, no doubt, long distinguish him in the annals of teetotalism.—Liverpool Journal. EXTRAORDINARY AFFAIR.—Great excite ment prevailed at Wootton Bassett on Saturday week, in consequence of the following circumstance :—A man of the parish of Cliffe Pypard had been taken into custody the Saturday previous by the police officer, for threaten ing to beat a woman. The officer, whether acting under the advice of a magistrate or not is unknown, took him into the parish of Wootton Bassett. and turned him over to the policemen stationed in that town, who, without any ceremony, put him into the Blindhouse, Wbere he was confined until the following Thursday. He was then taken to the County Magistrates, but from some cause or other, nothing was decided, and he Was again placed in confinement, where he remained until Saturday, the policeman refusing to allow him to breathe fresh air, or to obey the calls of nature, otherwise than in his dun geon ! Thus was a free-born Englishman imprisoned for a week, without any inquiry having been instituted into the charge on which he was apprehended. The Mayor hearing of the matter, and understanding that the inhabitants were disgusted at the manner of confine ment (the Blindhouse being a miserable hole, only 6 feet by 4 feet), desired the policeman to take the man to the parish where the alleged offence was committed, and in which a County Magistrate resided. The case was then disposed of, and the man dismissed, it appearing that he was of unsound mind ! Surely this matter requires in vestigation.-- Wiltshire Independent. THE CONSTABLE AND THE RECRUITING SERGEANT.—On Sunday evening, says a correspondent, as the constable of a village, not five miles from Brain tree, was sauntering by the way side of his parish, priding himself on his knowledge of law, and wondeiing how so small a man could carry about in his head the statutes at large, he fell in with a light company, and a recruiting sergeant began to throw his military blan dish ments around. The constable, deeply read in the sections of the Mutiny Act, imagined that . i Sunday en listment was null and void, and, purposing to raise a laugh at the hero's expence, he received into his palm the magic shilling. But, alas, like many others, he played with the law till he cut his fingers, for on Mon day morning he was to all intents; and purposes, bound to stand up and be shot at for the small charge of six pence a day; and as the smell of the gunpowder, to say nothing of the bullets, was likely to have a disagreeable effect upon his nerves, he was necessitated to free him self from the responsibility by the payment of smart money. — Chelmsford Chronicle. THE Two JOHN WICKLITFES ; REMAR/L -ABLE FACT.—It is an extraordinary fact, but not the less true, that there were living at the same period two John Wickliffes—both born about the same time, both edu cated as ecclesiastics at Oxford, and becoming there the heads of houses, the one of Canterbury, the other of Baliol—both Prebendaries, the one of Worcester, the other of Chichester—and both dying within a year of each other. This is the more remarkable, as the name of Wickliffe is - a local one, and the only locality in England bearing the name is the village about six miles from the town of Richmond, in Yorkshire,' .where the Reformer is said to have been born in or about the year 1824. This fact may not only clear him from se veral apparent inconsistencies of conduct, but from the graver charge preferred by Anthony Wood, Dr. Fell, Bishop of Oxford, and other writers, that the zeal which he displayed in withstanding the errors of Papacy, was occasioned by nothing else than the loss of the Wardenship of Canterbury Hall, Ox ford, of which they say he was first deprived by Arch- Bishop Langham, and finally by Pope Urban the Fifth, and that " what he afterwards did was merely out of re venge, and not all of conscience, and that being a man of good parts, he exercised them to an evil end." Light is, however, thrown upon these matters by the dis covery of the fact, that the Warden of Canterbury Hall and the Reformer were two distinct individuals, which is clearly and satisfactorily established in an article from which this is abridged, in the Gentleman's Magazine for August. THE LAND BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE.--It were well that the landlords knew their proper social position, and that is, that they are in law merely the tenants of the communi. This is no fiction. In law the land belongs to the Queen—the whole land of the country (see Blackstone) ; and as the Queen is nothing more than the chief servant of the nation, it follows that the whole land of the country is in reality the property of the whole people, the landlords merely holding it in trust for the public good ; and when they as a body violate their tenure, it is surely full time that the na tion should demand an account of their stewardship. And especially is this necessary when we find the landlords combining, as at present, to uphold a monopoly in legislation as well as in land, and using their power and influence as means of coercing and oppressing the industrious classes of the community. It matters not whether the property now held by the land lord class was obtained justly or unjustly—whether William, the Norman brigand, obtained a genuine right to the soil by virtue of " conquering" the people who then lived upon it, or whether . Henry VIII., the " De fender of the Faith," who robbed the Church of its pos sessions, was justified in parcelling them among his minims, pimps, panderers, and hirelings ;—the question now is, should the community-renounce their natural and indefeasible right to live upon their own soil, and to possess and enjoy the fruits of their own skill, industry, ,and labour ?—Leeds Times. The wheat:harvest in this neighbourhood oncom mencedf o l‘ r Monday, da y a few , daysd had a d great quantity- lvea t he r wouldcontinued have favourable been cut, but the wet coming on so heavily has put a stop . to further progrea—Hants Advertiser. SUN,. LONDON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1841. THE CORN-LAWS AND THE NATIONAL DEBT. (From a Dialogue on Board the Steam-boat Orwell.) G. Ido not exactly understand who we mean. If it means, as I suppose, the landowner and the land occu pier, in other words, the landlord and the tenant, then these do not form a tenth-part of the tax-payers of the country ; and the portion contributed by them, as I have stated, is recovered again of the other nine-tenths by a surcharge in the form of a Corn-law. But to compre hend more clearly how the balance of account stands be tween the landed interest and the national debt, we must go back to the year 1793, the year in which the war commenced ; we had then but a small amount of debt, and corn was exported, the price being 445. per quarter. Now it is a rather curious historical fact, that about that time, or soon after, population, from being below thO home supply of corn, rose to a par with it, and has ever since gone a-head ; the laws then in operation, con ferring a bounty on all corn sent out of the country, be came obsolete, and subsequent ones have been enacted, imposing a duty on all that 'comes in (agriculturists must be privileged): this transition, from being an exporting country to an importing one, was greatly in favour of the land, and tended to enhance its value, and had the peace continued, and a natural order of things followed, all would have been well ; but instead of this we had the war, and with it the high war prices; these prices were occasioned, Ist, by the continental ports being shut ; 2dly, by the 'foreign corn being required for the use of the foreign armies ; and idly, by heavy . import charges, necessary in ' time of war to cover freight, insurance, and risks ; under these and other circumstances, the cost of obtain ing corn amounted almost to a prohibition, and the Eng lish farmet entered the home market without a compe titor, demanded the full price which this order of things created, and pocketed enormous and unearned profits at the nation's expense : no wonder, then, that the value of land increased during the war to double and treble its former amount ; that rents rose in proportion ; and that a jovial and luxuriant tenantry was the result. Who rides his hunter, who his horse adorns, Who drinks his wine, and his disbursement scorns ; Who freely lives, and loves to show he can, This is the farmer turned the gentleman. So sang a Suffolk poet, a shrewd observer of human na ture, and fond of sketching the prominent characters around him. It is a great and, popular delusion, and which still hangs over the minds of many, to regard this as a period of national prosperity ; it was one of misery and calamity, and if proof be yet wanted, it may be found in our 800 millions of debt ! One-fourth of this sum, or 200 millions, passed into the pockets of the agriculturists in the shape of war prices. The war worked well for them, but it worked against the country. Their profit was the nation's loss. To meet this order of things, the Finance Minister of the day was necessi tated to have recourse to borrowing of loans; to obtain these loans, it became indispensable to increase, by:fic titious means, the circulating medium of the country ; this was done by the Bank df England issuing its promissory notes, which notes soon surpassed in amount the value of the current coin of the realm ; and as gold and silver could no longer be given in exchange for them, the notes were made legal tender, representing, in all the ordinary transactions of trade, the value of the coin itself. One curious exception, however, being allowed, viz., in favour of the landlords, that their rents might be demanded in cash 1 Depreciation of currency is synonymous with advance of prices, the latter rising in value in proportion as the other falls. Now the agriculturists, who furnished the food for the people, as well as the principal supplies for both the army and the navy, were just the class who were benefited in a pre-eminent degree by the deprecia tion of the currency, and the last who ought to complain. Whatever the depreciation might be, it was just so much profit to them. Suppose, in consequence of the increased issues of paper, that the value of money fell 25 per cent., which is generally admitted; then the Finance Minister must be supposed to have asked for a loan of 25 millions, when 20 millions would otherwise have done for him ; the extra five millions being required to pay the advanced price of corn which the depreciation occasioned. Thus the farmer was indemnified for the increase of the debt at the time ; the account on the score of depreciation was settled with him to an almost fractional nicety. But though the account was thus balanted between the landed interest and the national debt, it was not so balanced be tween the farmer and the manufacturer, and the con sumer. At the close of the war the latter might very justly have said to the agriculturists, " the calamities of war, and the difficulties under which the nation has been labouring, have had an incidental tendency to throw great and most unnecessary profits, at our cost, into your hands. It is therefore only an act of justice for the Go vernment to call upon you to refund some of those profits to the nation : remember, the Continental ports being shut benefited your home trade in corn, but it destroyed our foreign trade in manufactures ; we think it therefore but reasonable that a heavy tax should now be placed upon land to restore the balance between us." This lan guage would have been fully justified by the then posi tion of affairs, and the imposition of such a tax perfectly consistent. Nothing of the kind, however, was demanded, nor is any restitution desired ; but when the benefited party complains, the losing party may surely ask for an investigation of the accounts between them.—F. It is quite evident that we do not see eye to eye. The very points which I considered our strongest ones, you regard as our weakest. I still think that the Corn-law is not the disadvantage to the country that many suppose ; be cause, allowing that it secures to the farmer better prices, these are afterwards laid out again with the manufac turer—he becomes a better customer to the latter in proportion. G. My dear Sir, excuse me, this is a part and parcel of the wretched reasoning with which the Corn-law advocates have ever attempted to bewilder the country. If I give you a sum of money for your goods beyond what they are intrinsically worth, to enable you to be a better cus tomer to me in return, what do I get by it ? If you merely lay out with me what I have given you in the first instance, why might I not as well have retained the money in my pocket ? But you do not do this. In lay inglhe money out you expect value for it. If I give you 10s. more for a quarter of corn than it is worth or I can elsewhere buy it for, in coming to me with the 10s. again you require a consideration on giving it up—say for a 10s. hat, which cost me Bs.—this latter sum,. therefore, I lose by the transaction. Th e annual quantity of corn required for the use of th e na t i on , is computed at sixty millions of quarters. Now taking the am oun t a t on ly forty millions. - it must•be evident that every shilling per quarter which is added to the price by virtue of the Corn-law, is a direct tax of two millions a year on ' the nation. We have only, therefore, to ascertain what has been the average price between the home-grown and foreign corn in the English market since the war, to allow two millions for the advance of each shilling, and multiply by 25 the number of years since 1815, and we have the sum required. The average difference of price may be fairly computed at about 10s. per quarter; this gives 20 millions annually, or 450 millions which the nation has been taxed with by virtue of the Corn-law, for the benefit of the landed interest, since the termination of the war. A more perfidious and iniquitous system of legislation, perhaps, never disgraced the annals of any civilized country. Unfortunately the mischief does not end here—the effect of the Corn-law is to destroy ma nufactures and commerce, and thus to deprive the nation of the very means by . which all taxes are paid. When will the people be wise or their rulers be just ? War lays a burden on the sinking state, And peace does nothing to relieve the weight. Succeeding wars successive loads impose, And sighing millions prophecy the close. CUSTOMS OF THE COUNTRY.—The proprie ties of life are matters of conventional usage. Our host, was a Don ; and when we presented our letter, he re ceived us with great dignity, in a single garment, loose, white, and very laconic, not quite reaching his knees. The dress of his wife was no less easy ; somewhat in the style of the old-fashioned short gown and petticoat, only the short gown and whatever else is usually worn under it were wanting, and their place supplied by a string of beads, with a large cross at the end. A dozen men and half-grown boys, naked except the small covering formed by rolling the . trousers up and down in the man ner I have mentioned, were lounging about the house ; and women and girls, in such extremes of undress, that a string of beads seemed quite a covering for modesty. Mr. C. and I were in a rather awkward predicament for the night. The general reception-room contained three beds, made of strips of cow-hide interlaced. The Don occupied one ; he had not much undressing to do, but what little he had he did by pulling off his shirt. An other bed was at the foot of my hammock. I was dozing, when I opened my eyes and saw a girl about seventeen sitting sideway upon it smoking a cigar. She had a piece of striped cotton cloth tied around her waist, and falling below her knees ; the rest of her dress was the same which nature bestows alike upon the belle of fashion able life and the poorest girl ; in other words, it was the same as that of the Don's wife, with the exception of the string of beads. At first, I thought it was something I had conjured np in a dream ; and as I waked up per haps I raised my head, for she gave a few quick puffs of her cigar, drew a cotton sheet over her head and shoul ders, and laid down to sleep. I endeavoured to do the same. I called to mind the proverb, that " travelling makes strange bedfellows." I had slept pell-mell with Greeks, Turks, and Arabs. I was beginning a journey in a new country ; it was my duty to conform to the cus toms of the people, to be prepared for the worst, and to submit with resignation :to whatever might befal me. As guests, it was pleasant to feel that the family made no strangers of . us. The wife of the Don retired with the same ceremonies. Several times during the night we were waked by the clicking of flint and steel, and saw one of our neighbours lighting a cigar. At day light the wife of the Don was enjoying her morning slumber. While I was dressing she bade me good morn ing, removed the cotton covering from her shoulders, and arose dressed for the day.—Stephen's Travels in America. Last week, at the Chippenham ploughing.. match dinner, Mr. Little said he was glad to see that bigotry and prejudice were fast giving way, and that three-horse ploughs were becoming more rare every year. The Society had been established five years, and he had never yet seen a three-horse plough wm a prize as it was necessary that farming operations should be carried on in the least expensive and most effective man ner, it was clear that the third horse was a waste of la bour. Mr. Little also said he had attended the meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society at Liverpool, and could assure the company that if the worst ploughing at Chippenham had not been better than the best ploughing there, the judges would not have felt themselves justified in awarding the prize. —Southampton Paper. Earl Granville, the British Ambassador at Paris, as we previously stated, was to have returned to this country at the close of the present month, but in consequence of debility, arising from his late illness, his Excellency remains at his villa near Paris, and the Duke of Devonshire, who expected to receive his Noble rela tive at Chiswick, h as , left town for France.—Observer. comequence, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aug. 9. PEYTON V. HUGHES. This is an argument .on the construction of the will of Mr. Lambert, who died in 1814. The case comes on for further directions on the death of the person who had been declared entitled to a life interest in the fund, which . now amounts to 60,0001. The will was made by the testator at the age of ninety-eight. It is in his own handwriting, and very legible, but obscurely worded ; and it appears to disinherit his daughter and her issue, giving the reversion to his grand metes. A number of counsel have been already heard in favour of different parties. Sir W. Follett and Mr. Sharp were this morning heard for the heir-at-law. _ _ _ Mr. Peyton contended that the will was void from un certainty. Mr. Wakefield and others were heard for other parties. Mr. Sinney replied on the part of the nieces - of the estator. Judgment was postponed. His Lordship then heard some lunatic petitions, and rose at half-past five. ROLLS' COURT, Aug.?. His Lordship the Master of the Rolls was engaged during the day in hearing notions. In answer to a question from Mr. Pemberton, as to the business of his Lordship would proceed with to-morrow, the last day of sitting, His LORDSHIP said: that if the parties desired it, he would not refuse to sit a day longer. But he was sorry that parties thought it worth their while to postpone matters on the chance of having them heard on the last day of sitting. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 9. (Before Mr. Commissioner BowEN.) RE JAMES HUNTER. The applicant for his discharge under the Benevolent Act of 1 and 2 Victoria, is a surgeon-dentist, described as late of Gower-street, Bedford-square, whose exa mination was cut short, it being fully demonstrated, to the Court that the insolvent was not in a situation to answer the questions put to him when the moral obliga tion of an oath was considered binding, he beinc , evi dently in an inebriated state, and' laughing when he ought to have been serious. For this act of indiscretion the Court said he should be remanded for a week. Remanded accordingly. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, August 9. The Commission for the county of Surrey was opened this day by Lord Chief Justice Tindal, with the usual formalities. • The calendar of prisoners is not, numerically, heavy, but some of the charges are of a very serious Character. On the Civil side the business will be very heavy. Nearly a hundred causes are already entered, several of which are Special Jury cases; and one, transferred from Maid stone, by consent of the parties, to set up a modus, is likely to excite some interest, and will probably occupy the Court two or three days. It is expected that the business will not be concluded for nearly a fortnight. Both Courts proceed to business this day at ten o'clock. Lord Chief Justice Tindal will preside at Nisi Prius, and Mr. Sergeant Taddy will sit in the Crown Court. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, August 9. •CIVIL COURT.--(BefOre Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) At an early hour this morning the court was crowded, in the expectation that the trial respecting the validity of the late James Wood's will would at length be heard. At nine o'clock Mr. Justice Coleridge took his seat upon the bench, and the case of Wood, Baronet, and others, v. Thompson, was called on. Mr. Kelly, Mr. Austen, Mr. Butt, and Mr. W. Cripps, appeared for the plaintiff. Sir Frederick Pollock, Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Charles Phillips, Mr. Whitmore, and Mr. J. W. Smith, for the defendant. The list of special jurors was then called over, but seven only answered to their names. Mr. Justice Cole ridge then imposed a fine of 501. upon each of the absent jurors, who had been regularly summoned, and for whose non-appearance no valid excuse was offered. Mr. KELLY, for the plaintiffs, then prayed a tales. : Sir F. Poixocx. opposed the application. He sub mitted that this was not the case of an ordinary action, but of a feigned issue directed by the Master of the Rolls for his information. The order of the Master of the Rolls directed that the issue should be tried "by a Special Jury, to be nominated from special Jurors of the said county residing not less than twelve miles from the city of Gloucester." These were, therefore, not or dinary Special Jurors, but Jurors of a particular de scription. There was no provision in the order for try ing the case by any other Jurors. The Court, there fore, could not take upon itself to determine whether any other Jurors should be put into the box to try the cause, and a tales, therefore, could not be granted. Mr. Kelly, Mr. Austen, Mr. Butt, and Mr. Cripps were heard in support of the application. They con tended that the case before the Court was a common law action in the Court of Queen's Bench. The record, the Jury panel, and the venire were all in the ordinary form, and the order of the Master of the Rolls' Court could not affect the statute, empowering parties to a Special Jury cause to pray a tales in the absence of Special Jurors. Indeed, without the statute, there could be no Special Jurors at all. All the powers given by the statute, therefore, applied, as, for instance, the power to fine Special urors for nonattendance, which had just been exercised by the Court. As soon as the order for a trial was made. the trial must comprise all the incidents of a common trial. No authority had been cited to the con trary. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE stated that he recollected something of the trial of an issue from the Court of Chan cery before Mr. Justice Erskine, at Exeter, respecting the right to certain tithes, and applied to Butt to state what course had been adopted on that occasion. Mr. BUTT replied that the case was twice tried, that the order was in the common form to be tried by a Special Jury, and that neither party would pray a tales when there was a deficiency of Special Jurors. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said that his impression was that Mr. Justice Erskine had been of opinion that, un deithe terms of the order in that case, he had no power to call common jurors into the box. • His LORDSHIP then inquired by what authority a com mon jury 'panel was annexed to the record in the case, as well as the special jury panel ? Mr. Bellamy, the Clerk of Assize, stated that this was the invariable course adopted in issues directed by the Courts, as well as in ordinary actions. Mr. KELLY stated that he had known several eases of issues directed to be tried by special juries, in which a tales had been prayed, and cited in particular a cause of " Humphrey v. Vivian," tried in Cornwall three times, under an order of the Master of the Rolls, upon all of which occasions there had been talesmen en the Jury. Mr. AUSTEN, on the same side, submitted that there was nothing on the face of the proceedings which could give the Court cognizance of the order of the Master of the Rolls Mr. Justice COLERIDGE said, as to that objection, he should take immediate means to make himself cognizant of the order. Sir F. POLLOCK was heard in reply. He observed that the cases in which talesmen had been sworn on the Jury, in the trial of issues directed to be tried by Special Juries, were cases in which the consent of both parties had been obtained, and where also there were no special terms in the order. Now, here the defendant refused his consent. If the argument on the other side were cor rect, the plaintiffs could pray a tales as a right, if there was only one Special Juror in the box instead of seven ; and how could a trial by one Special Juror and eleven talesmen be satisfactory to the mind of the Master of the Rolls? Besides, the order required not only that the Jurors shall be special, but that they shall be Special Jurors resid ing more than twelve miles from Gloucester. If common Jurors are called as talesmen, they may reside within the town of Gloucester, yet there would be no power to chal lenge them; the order saying nothing as to where the Com mon Jurors should live. The special order of the Master of the Rolls ought to be observed. The order generally is, that the issues be tried, with liberty for each party to move for a Special Jury, and in that case, perhaps, it would follow the ordinary rules of Special Juries, but it would be most undesirable to try the cause now, unless tried in a manner satisfactory to the Master of the Rolls, because, if he were on that account to direct a new trial, the present verdict, though wholly inoperative upon the mind of the Court directing the issue, would embarrass a future Jury in their inquiry. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, after conferring with Mr. Justice Coltman, delivered his opinion at some length. His Lordship said, that considering the extreme im portance of the trial, the largeness of the property in dispute, the strong feeling which prevailed on the subject, and the expense which the parties had been put to in preparing for the trial, he came with some regret to the conclusion he had arrived at. The first thing to look at was the probable result of justice or injustice to the par ties hereafter by proceeding to trial at present. The argu ment on behalf of the plaintiffs mainly turned on the point whether his Lordship was bound to take notice of the order of the Master of the Rolls, and it seemed to him (Mr. Justice Coleridge) that he ought to look at it. Suppose, indeed, that without looking at the order, his Lordship had ac ceded to the position of the plaintiffs, that all the inci dents of every Special Jury cause attached to the pre sent issue, and that on the prayer of either party a tales had beer ordered as a matter of right ; suppose the first common juror called resided in the city of Gloucester ; he could not, on that account, be challenged at common law, but the defendant's counsel would then produce the order limiting the jurors to persons residing twelve miles from Gloucester. So that not a single step could be taken without the production of the order. Then the order is precise and specific. It was impossible for his Lordship to look into the mind of the Master of the Rolls, and to say that he could have intended to allow that any common Jurors should try the cause. If he had pro posed to allow common Jurors, it was probable he would have stated from what part of the county they also should be selected, but the order was entirely silent on that point. Being of opinion, therefore, that this trial, if it took place, would probably go for nothing in the mind of the Master of the Rolls, and that another trial would be directed, his Lordship thought it would be more just to both parties that the trial should not proceed at present. It sometimes happened that the facts of a case are so little known at the time of a first trial, that a second trial becomes necessary and just ; but unless the case came within that exception (and his Lordship saw no reason to apprehend that to be the case in this issue), in ordinary cases a second trial is not so satisfactory as the first, and it was therefore most undesirable to have a useless rehearsal of the evidence in the cause, which could only prejudice the minds of a future jury. Look ing, therefore, to the ends of justice, his Lordship thought that there should be no tales allowed, and the trial must be postponed. Mr. KELLY then prayed his Lordship to postpone the trial till to-morrow, in the hope of procuring the attend ance of a full Special Jury. This his LORDSHIP declined. Mr. KELLY then offered to try the cause by the seven Special Jurors in the box, if the other side would consent. Sir F. Pot LOCH said "he thought the wisdom of our ancestors had properly provided the number of twelve Jurymen for the trial of disputed questions, and he would certainly not take upon himself to upset that provision, especially to try a cause which he took leave to say had been most needlessly hurried on at a most inappropriate time. The allusion,of the Learned Counsel was of course to the expected decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on this case on Monday next. • The Learned Counsel then folded up their briefs, and thus ended the representation of " Much ado about nothing." Mr. J ustice COLERIDGE then proceeded to try prisoners. Townsend, the letter-carrier, whose trial concluded late on Saturday night, was acquitted. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. On Monday these Sessions commenced, before Mr. Sergeant Adams and a full bench of Magistrates. The calendar is a very light one, there being but 35 prisoners for trial, 20 of whom are charged with felony, and the remainder with assaults, misdemeanours, &c. The Grand Jury having been sworn, The CHAIRMAN, after briefly explaining to them the nature of their duties, said that the Court had been fre quently put to very great inconvenience by gentlemen being summoned to serve on the Grand Jury who were past the age at which the law exempted them from serving ; and, in order to prevent the thing in future, he suggested that all persons who, from that or any other causes, were exempt from serving on Grand Juries, should at once have their names struck off the list of per sons liable to serve en Juries, and the present was about the proper time for so doing, for on the three first Sun days of next month a list of the persons so liable to serve would be placed on the doors of the different churches and chapels in the county. If those legally exempt would apply to the magistrates at the Petty Sessions in the fol lowing week, and prove their right to exemption, their names would be struck out of such lists previous to being forwarded to the summoning officers. Such a proceeding would save not only them, but also the Court, a great deal of trouble, and an unnecessary waste of the pub lic time. ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—Mr. Clarkson stated that he was instructed to make an application to the Court in the case of John Gollop, who was indicted last June sessions for a most brutal assault upon several policemen, but who being unwell was unable to take his trial. His companions were tried last sessions and convicted. The indictment had been preferred by the direction of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, ~ the Go vernment having come to the determination, in future, of instituting prosecutions in all cases where the police were brutally assaulted. He now held in his hand a certificate of the surgeon of the New Prison, stating that the prisoner was still in such a state of health as to be unable to take his trial ; but that functionary further stated that in his opinion the prisoner did all in his power to retard his recovery. One of the policemen who had been assaulted had been in a very bad state ever since, and an abscess had formed in his side, which might prove fatal. He therefore hoped the Court would order the trial to take place with as little delay as pos sible. Mr. Vizard, the solicitor to the Home Depart ment, was in attendance, together with the witnesses for the prosecution. The CHAIRMAN, after consulting with the Governor of the New Prison, ordered the trial of the prisoner to be postponed until the adjournment day. ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—David Venables was indicted for unlawfully escaping from the Westminster New Bridewell, on the 4th of September last. The prisoner pleaded guilty. After his escape, nothing more was heard of the pri soner until about two months afterwards, when the Go vernor received information that he was confined in St. Alban's gaol for felony. The Governor lodged a. detainer against him, and at the expiration of the term he was brought up to London. He was then sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction, at the expi ration of which time he will be taken back to Westmin ster Bridewell, there to undergo the remainder of the 'sentence passed upon him at the Westminster Sessions. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The Rev. George Proctor, D.D., summoned Willia m Cowley, the driver of a Blackwall omnibus, before Mr. Hardwick for endangering his life and injuring his horse on the afternoon of Thursday last. From the statement of the Rev. Gentleman it ap peared that while riding on horseback in Panton-street, accompanied by a young lady, the defendant followed behind with his omnibus, and then, although there was plenty of room, drove past so close that the young lady's horse was pressed against a lamp-post, which most pro bably . prevented her from being thrown off The defen dant, instead of stopping or drawing on one side, pushed on and grazed complainant's horse on the flank. The defendant on finding that proceedings were taken against him, had written a letter begging pardon, &c. The Rev. Gentleman observed he wished the Benck to be as lenient as possible, as his object in bringing the case forward was to ensure the public safety against the drivers of public carriages. The defendant expressed his contrition for what had happened, and attributed the accident to the circum stance of his having a jibbing horse, which would not obey .the rein. He had not been in any way uncivil to ' the complainant. Mn HIRDWICIIE said he could not listen to the re commendation of the complainant to dismiss the case. He had daily opportunities of witnessing the reckless manner in which omnibus men drive. It was no excuse for the defendant that he was driving an unmanageable horse ; on the contrary, that aggravated the offence. Such was the reckless conduct of omnibus drivers that it was coming round to this, that they were to do as they pleased, and not consult either the safety or convenience of the public. This course he should certainly endeavour to check. The fine of 20s. was then inflicted. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday two wretched-looking beings, named Ri ehaid Williams and Ellen Sheen, the former 65, and the latter 51 years of ago, were charged before Mr. BROUGH TON under the following extraordinary circumstances : Sergeant Peakle, H 6, stated that on Friday last about fourteen families were forcibly ejected from the domi ciles they had occupied in Hope-street, Spitalfields, and they had been since compelled to remain, day and night, under one of the arches of the Eastern Counties Railway. The occurrence had occasioned considerable excitement in the neighbourhood, and the ad joining streets had been greatly obstructed by the crowds of persons who had assembled round their place of encampment. He proceeded to the place on Sunday afternoon, for the purpose of preserving order, when he found two boxes placed on the pavement to receive cha ritable donations, and as the prisoners, who appeared to. have charge of them, refused to take them away, he con sidered it his duty to take them into custody for the ob struction. The Sergeant produced the boxes, which, he said, were the same as were used by the Chartists in col lecting contributions for the defence of their imprisoned fellows. Two slips of paper were affixed to the front of the boxes with the following inscription : " Two hundred men, women, and children, at a mo ment's notice, turned into the open air from Hope-street, Spitalfields, being distrained on, and they are now to be seen there, in want of shelter, and of the necessaries of life." Mr. ISROUGHTON inquired by whose direction and un der what particular process the ejectment took place ? Sergeant Teakle said that he happened to be passing through the street on Friday morning when the families were turned out. The goods and scanty furniture be longing to the parties, and portions of which were broken to pieces, were lying about the street, and a number of miserable people of both sexes were wailing over them. The majority of them were poor weavers out of employ ment, and the distress and wretchedness that the scene presented were truly heart-rending. A policeman, now present, would be able to give the Magistrate further in formation, as he accompanied the broker when he made the ejectment. Police constable Spencer, 11 92, was called, and in answer to the Magistrate's questions, he stated that on Friday morning inspector Lewis sent him to Hope street with the broker to prevent a breach of the peace, and he remained in the street whilst the poor families out of 14 houses were ejected. They were all in a most destitute condition ; but the most distressing case was that of a poor woman, who had a family of eight chil dren, one of whom was ill with the small pox. Another woman had seven children, and one of them had been severely scalded on the same morning. He had been in formed that both the sick children had since died. The broker promised the woman to procure the admission of herself and family into the workhouse, but he did not know whether the promise had been fulfilled. Mr. BROUGHTON said he was greatly surprised that the police had lent its countenance to such unlawful and tyrannical proceedings, but he presumed that the object for which their services were required, had been misre presented to the Inspector. Tilt, the Usher, was directed by the Magistrate to pro ceed immediately, and bring to the Court as many of the unfortunate outcasts as he could find. The case was resumed at four o'clock, when Mr. Ash ley, the solicitor, attended to watch the proceedings on the part of the broker and his principal, and Mr. Hunt ap peared on behalf of the aggrieved parties. Tilt informed the Magistrate that several of the poor people were waiting outside to be examined. Amongst the number was the woman whose child was said to have died, but her child was not dead, as reported, although seriously indisposed. The first witness called was Susan Potts, the wife of a poor weaver, with seven children, who stated that a broker who distrained upon her goods at her last place of -abode, recommended her to remove with her family into one of the houses in Hope-street, which was aban doned, and she accordingly did so. She had lived for some weeks in the house, and no application had been made to her for rent, neither had she received any notice to quit. On Friday morning she went to the work house to apply for some relief; and on her return she found two men in the room, who told her to " get out of the house with her goods and children, or they would turn them out." She implored them to allow her a little time, in consideration of her sick child ; but they refused to do so, and she collected her few things and left the place. She remained in the street with her children until night, when they were admitted into an other house. A poor man, named Philips, was next examined, and he stated that he had lived three months in one of the houses, and had agreed to pay eighteen-pence a week for his room, part of which he had paid. On Friday morning he went out to seek work, and on returning back he found that his door had been broken open by things he possessed the broker's party, and the few EVENING StIN. were scattered about the Court. No notice had bt riven to him to leave the place. He lied passed tn nights in the open air.. - - Several other witnesses, some of whos a had beet ix posed for three days and nights to the late inclehnt weather, gave similar evidence. Mr. Hunt questioned the witnesses as to whethcihe broker or his men removed any of the go ods with heir own hands ; but they stated-that they wei e peremprily, ordered to remove them themselves. Mr. Hunt said that if the answer had been i the affirmative, he should, on his own responsibility have given the person who removed a single article tody on a charge of felony. Mr. BROUGHTON said, he very much regretted at all . he could do, as the case now stood, was to rclischal the . prisoners. He had occasionally read of the occrence of such proceedings in Ireland, but he never emived that such a heartless and lawless transaction cou.eyer take place in this country; and, although he' coil not now deal with the case as he desired, he would, up ap plication being made, grant warrants against.the Xties, for a breach of the peace. Mr. Hunt said, that he would take out the wtants without loss of time, as he was determined to prtcute the parties to the utmost extent. The prisoners were then discharged. THE MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest nrite of Rread it. the Metropolis; is 100. fore 41b Leaf. Good Bread may be had at 9d. PRICES OF SEEDS. Per Cwt. I Sew EugFsh flea C10ver...56s 84s St. Fein ..... ..... .......3 ." Old I.itto Ditto —s a—a Rye Grass —..... - 4 New Foreign Ditto —s 56s 90s t Pacey Grass ...............--s — 4 Old Ditto Ditto s —e -.Linseed, for feeding ...- 0t 51$ New White Clover 40s Vs 63s!Dit.o, for sowing —lll , ( 10 ! Old Ditto Ditto —s 42s 46t0Ditto, far crushing ....—t6s 4 5 ' 4 j. •ew Tre:bil —s 208 418 Hem Old Ditto :, —ties —a 198 368 Canary .—)oslin Tr• folium a 48s 7061 Per 1 ,shel. English Carraway ......—s 50s 51siWhite Mustard....l2s Od 15s ( Foreign Ditto , 445 50s Brown Ditt0..........148 Od 173 1 Coriander —s —s —siTares ....„........... Os Cd t Val PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow £2 51 6 Melting Stuff l6 Yellow Russia White lt 0 0 Graves Soap Ditto 0 0 0 Good Dregs I 5 PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 5 lbs. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Melters) ~.........Is. ll PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil. brown, per t0n................ ................... It Ditto, refined Linseed Oil 3O 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill (per 1000) ..... R.% e Cake, per toti ....... 7 0 COAL MARKET. Ships arrived since last market day, 117. 4 Holywell Main lB 6 Walls End Russell's Hatton t, Original Windsor's Pontop 16 6 Walls End Stewart's ....... Pontop 'Windsor ......... 6 Townley._ .. ..... , l5 0 Walls End Brown's I kancry n TAntleld Moor 20 0 Bulman Main 0 wytarn Walls End Killmgworth ... ifl 0 Hartley. o W. E. Braddyll'sHetton ... 21 ! 'Howard's Netherteni t7171717.Z. 9 Walls End Haswell ... 21 6 Per Quarter MARKETS. AIN. ,' Barley, Mecklenburgb. 151 I V., , Magdeburgb.— 195 2 ,..'" 1 ----- Holstein _ Its Ir., 1 -- Summer 124 I 5 ,„1 Oats, Elder ............„,, go 14. -- Mecklenburg g ,„ 141 Ir. --Holstein .. 141 L 2 ' I 1 -- East Frielland ~. 102' ra i Pease, Mecklenburg .... 27d ' 1.,1 Beans ..... 255' ot'',„ 4 Buck Wheat ........ ........ 168 ' ,„ 4 , " Rapeseed, Hanover ... 594 i''''',,,, Malt Tares .................... 150 , ~'" :'ON. Marrnham ........... 7 1 40 6 , Madras 5 Swats. . rsh 54 4 4; 4 ii Domingo ....., 61, % FEE. D o mingo 44 o s i La 0 uayra. .......... 44 1, Porto Rico 43 ye Havannah ..... ,11 8% Discount.) , 02 Bahia, White Ci Brown ",, Pernambuco, White ...* oi ; Brown ...2 ril. 2% to 2% HAMBUR GI( Wheat, Mance 444 to 489' Magdeburg 450 to 493 Anhalt, white 450 to 510 ----- red 438 to 405 .----- Brunswick 444 to 489 - Mecklenburg 414 to 4981 - Polish 438 to 525 -- Holstein Rye, Mecklenburg --- Dantzic -- Elbing and Ko nigsburg 205 to 211 1 - Upland - liigx _ __ COT] Carolina and Tennessee 7 lAto 9% Georgia, tat sort 7% 7% 2d 7 7% 3d and 4th 6 _9% co I Mocha 13 to li3 Batavia 534 5% Sumatra Rio 4 536 Bahia 4 556 SUGAR.—(Wit Havannah, White 3 to 4 Brown 2 2% Rio, White 2% 4 Brown 2 2% Manilla. Brow VORACITY OF THE SNAKE.—Last week % 5 young man, named Sendle, killed a snake whileirlf dormant at Burlinch, near Tauuton ; and, on operclog': • found a large weasel in a perfect state, which could -0 W have been swallowed a little time previously.—salisb ill Herald. EARTHQUAKE.—The shock of an earthquoe was felt on Friday at Abernethy, about two minutes pa s t two o'clock in the afternoon, and by so many people I t the same time that there is no ground for deception• was a sudden and almost instantaneous vibration. WLe ther it has been felt in other parts we have not heard= Edinburgh Chronicle. NEW WORK EDITED BY Boz.—Now REAPIrm —We are requested to state that the new work en tided " The Pic Nic Papers, by Various Hands," edited.S Charles Dickens, Esq. (Boz), in 3 vole. post Byo. illustrations, by George Cruikshank, Phiz, &e., is P a , lished this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlbor oug h street, and may now be had of every Bookseller, and for all the Libraries throughout the kingdom. Agen ts fo r Scotland, Messrs. Bell and Bradfute, Edinburgh ; Ireland, Mr. John Cumming, Dublin. 11 WhO INDISTINCT VISION.—It behoves a-- value the importance of that wonderful piece bf " p i s it, nism particularly," the Eyewhen t , to ad hose opt emean verys are wi thi means to sntrenreac gt h enh n" the re sulee , a — E t. • from their application are both delightful and imar-- in tely fel an d 1, Solomons and Co., Opticians, &c., (36, Old Bond - s treet, Old Jewry, Cheapside), have effected an improvement i n S p ectsc. for which they have secured a " patent," and the strict exalt 1 11 tier' of scientific observers. as well as the an.powerfur test of perso• nal experience, have established their superior excellence. On their application to impaired vision their effects are both delightful and instantaneous, conveying at once a refreshing coolness to the Eye,. and rendering the most minute objects perfectly" distiDett either by , day or candlelight; in short, their supetior power,' and freedom from the injurious properties of glasses, ordinarily sol d , )save secured for them the powerful recommendation of OW 1 3 . Brodie, Bart., F.R.S. ; Sir Anthony Carlisle, F.R. S. ; .Sir. $' Anderson, M. D. ; Dr. J. Johnson, Suffblk.place ; Branas Cooper, Esq., F.R.S., Spring-gardens ; Martin Ware, Esq.; Aston Key, Esq., F.R.S., &c. &c. E. Solomon, and Co's,.irel Conductors, when placed in the Ears, cannot be seen, and in l e, Deaf persons to distinguish the faintest inflections of 'a dlsle speaker. Being in no way connected with any other houses in Len' don, and having occasion to guard the public against mista" Ce which a similarity of names (aided by various schemes that are sorted to by empirics) have in several instances occasioned 10',„ disappointment to the incautious, they call particular attendant.' the following address-36, Old Bond-street, and I, Old Jevr , Y , ° THE EYEs.Optical- improvements to wig'''. --- persons at an advanced age to read with ease and discriminat e ° 9, jects with perfect distinctness.—Messrs. S. and B. Solomon s, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, opposite the York. Hotel, and King William-street, City ; their long extensive practice has en bled them to invent Spectacle Lenses upon a new constructiolls greatest transparent refractive power, which have gained irnivc, a p pro b a tion. Immediately they are placed before imperfect every object becomes clear and distinct, so that the most aged 01; feet sight becomes bright and brilliant, and is brought to its I_,° ° o l ful, natural, and original state. The valuable advantages dr,..41, from this invention is, that these lenses are constructed on a P rot pie that persons can see with them of a much less magnifying P ° „; than those now in common use; nor will they require the freclu; changes that other spectacles generally do ; they are also adaPte d imperfect vision to the greatest nicety; they are found to Preb_ A er and strengthen the most weak and defective sight. Their lot. operative Voice Conductor for deaf persons is not the least pe•.„, ble, nor more uncomfortable than having a piece of neoicri.ts they give immediate relief to eld standing extreme cases of 3.. " 0 / ness. .Those valuable inventions have also gained the p itronege ° the Royal Family and the unqualified approbation of above 40 5 100 the principal members of the medical profession.—No con n no with persons of the same name. 39, Albemarle-street, oppo si te York Hotel, and 76, King William-street, City. THE NEW PORTABLE ALAR- g , size of a small Snuff Box, can be placed on the dressing It.a and set to ring at any hour that may be required. Pric e Guineas. T. COX SAVORY, Watchmaker, &c., 47, Cornbill, London (Seven DWI'S fr° Gracechurch-street), TO FAMILIES FURNISHING.—IMMEo., - i SAVING.—RIPPON and BURTON'S new CA . 1)1; LOGUE, to be had gratis (post free), contains the prices , 'g p engravings, of every IRONMONGERY article necessal f the furnishing of a house of any size, 25 per cent. under i. other old established house. They subjoin a few prices se e l t ample :—Nickle silver (so like silver as only to be told 0 10 4 by the stamp, and as durable) table spoons and forks, dozen; dessert ditto, lOs ; tea spoons, 58 ; cruet frau_ candlesticks from 103; warranted ivory table knives, to WI. • 16s. per dozen ; dessert ditto, 135.; carvers, per pair, u".: bronzed fenders, from 9s; fire irons, from 4s; any arti cle changed that is not approved of. No. 12 Wells-street, Oxford-street. Established 18_22..: BIRTHS. On the sth inst., at Edinburgh, the wife of Alexander Le g , Montgomery, Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, °' daughter. On the 7th inst., at Norwood, the wife of T. W. Verses' Esq., of a daughter. Ors' On the 7th inst., at St. Germain's - place. Blackheath, Suth dOnerland, of a son. layof th W e J. .8t linvshty.,tea,tEVse.rrotrapslaocne., Bloomsbury-square, the 11 On the 9th inst., Mrs. g Hogard, Bath-terrace, C aro berWe New-road, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., at Hamilton-terrace, St. John's-wood' the : lady of T. R. Clarke, Esq., of a daughter. i . 4, 6 On the 9th inst. , in W e lbeck-street, C avendish - sq uare, lady of Paul Wilmot, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a daugl_2ll , MARRIED. On the 4th inst., at Trinity Chapel, Willissn Mi tc hell. son of John Boyd, Esq., of Broadmeadows, s hi re , to Anne, daughter of the late James Hamilto n ' M.D., St. Andrew-square, Edinburgh, and of .Kildnolin' Ayrshire. Edinburgh, On the 7th inst., at St. Marylebone Church, Samuel Pari l Esq., 3d Regiment Buffs, to Gratiana Pulcharia, scoop daughter of Captain Henry H ume S pence , R.N., of DeOn shire-street, Portland-place, and of Mailing House, Sussel- On the 9th inst., at th e Di str i ct Ch urc h o f St. Mary , 21 1,,, anston-square, Maryl e b one , L . F re d er i c h G. Von Gers te l:. 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On the 7th inst., at Norwood, Matilda Julia, wife af Vernon, Esq. plot, On the 7th inst., at Sunning-hill , Berko, Katherin e - relict of the late Jai 1 Platt, aged ----YOUNG' London: Printed and Published by MURDO , of No. 112, Strand, at The Sous 011ie*, N.. 111 ,'"'-- the moldy of Ididdleses, Tuesday, August 10, 841. fia Bf to' eit