The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-02 00:00:00

or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Pestle are not content with the new Corn ' though they -are not clamorous against it. This we believe to be an accurate representation of public feeling on the subject. We, though the measure does not coincide with our ideas of justice or policy, have said nothing to inflame dissatisfaction. The truth is, that the honest and legitim a t e en d s o f l eg i s lation have .been totally unobserved in the concoction of the re solutions. The objects sought have been to trim between interests, .to conciliate parties, to disarm opposition by the argument= ad ho- minem, and to attract supporters of all colours and complexions t whereas the only just mo• tive for imposing a tax upon any article, is reve nue : and we are convinced, that if Ministers had only studied this,--if, without regard to factions of any description, they had only considered how the Treasury should derive the greatest be nefit from the impost upon imported grain, they would have acted most humanely towards the people, even the agriculturists, (the foreigner in that case p a yi ng the tax), ---they would have been able to ease other burdens, and would have rendered the whole British State —perhaps, also, foreign States--the most essential service. The measure at present is an ugly misshapen monster in legislation : it cannot be relied on to supply a scanty market, or to help a waning treasury. It is observable that all the reasonings on which these, and indeed other resolutions, have been founded, are guided by calculations of how little bread the people can eat,—upon how little they can live : whereas it is notorious that the consumption of an article is always regulated by the abundance of it. The people will eat less bread by one quarter, when corn is 808., than when it is at 60s. The same money, or nearly so, will be spent for bread in both instances ; , but how dif ferent will be the condition of the consumers, and that of their families, when the price is at the lowest sum ? Nay, it is a iotorious fact, that the London bakers--(observe, we do not say that they sell the greatest quantity of bread), but that they receive more money fbr bread sold when the price is low, than when it is high ; so that the return to the farmer must be greater also in the former case, besides the relief afforded to the poor-rates. A humane Legislature, there fore, would make abundance in the markets and sinhps the first object, from whencesoever that ;Abundance sprung. Now, the farmer may, as indeed he must, acquiesce in this statement ; and lte may say that he has no faith to find, provided the consumer be supplied in each case with corn of native growth only. " But the hardship falls upon him when his crop is so scanty, that in or der to pay rent and taxes, he ought to have 80s., and the price is reduced to 60s. by imported grain." And in that case, we beg leave to ask, suppose a prohibition existed against im portation, and the price were kept up for his advantage, as he supposes, who pays him the difference ? or rather, how is the differ cam obtained between the 60s. and the 80s. for corn of native growth ? It is, after much suffering on the part of the poor, wrung out of the rates, which the fiirmer himself tells you fall exclusively upon the land. The poor suffer a great deal before the odd 20s. a quarter can be screwed out of the meagre hands ; in which hands it will have just been placed by the over seer, out of a rate settled after much brutal squab- Wing at a late vestry. Another circumstance, also,. is not undeserving of attention. There are a set of men who pretend to fix what they call a remunerating price for their corn. Now to put an end to all such impertinence, we beg leave to say that the people of England cannot afford to remunerate gentlemen for their farming; and still less can we take them for judges of what is a remunerating price. In the exporting countries of Russia and Poland, the labours of the field are performed by boors—serfs—villains. —Ged forbid that such should be the case in England ! but they ought to be perfermed, or directed, by farmers—farmers by education and profession. There ought to be no such men as bailiffs living in ease out of farms ; these ought to be the tenants of small farms. And if such were the case throughout England, it would be found that corn might be produced at one fourth less than its present expense, and that all other articles of agricultural produce, particularly milk, hgs, and butter, would be much more abundant. owever, let the Bill pass, if so it please Parlia ment ; it is an embarrassed and impracticable one ; but probably we shall not care much aboUt it, if GovernMent does but adhere honestly to its professions of extinguishing the small note circulation.— Times. . The presentation of a petition by Mr. James Grattan, last night, for the introduction of Poor Laws into Ireland, gave rise to a discussion on a subject to which the public attention cannot be too much directed. The petition was from the Silk Weavers in Dublin, and Mr. Grattan stated, that several Meetings had been held in Dublin, and in the South of Ireland upon the subject. There are, we believe, few who have studied with attention the domestic history of England, who will not readily admit that these laws constitute the best security which has yet been discovered, for preserving society from the all devouring poverty which must necessarily result from the allowing free scope to the principle of popula tion. 'he celebrated Sir Matthew flak, in his " Primitive Originations of Mankind," has the merit, as far as we know, of having been the first modern writer, who saw the- tendency throughout all the animal world to excessive multiplication, and the necessity of " a preven tion of that excess and redundance which w ou ld happen by their numerous increase to the detri ment and" surcharge of the inferior world." Having shewn how the inferior animals are kept down, he iHfers, "there may seem to be collected reasonably, an analogical inference of the like means of the correctives of the generations of mankind ;'' and though a pious and humane man he did not hesitate to find these correctives ill wars and violence, as well as in plagues, famines, and in undations. " Wars," he says, "seem to be. in a manner a natural consequence of the over-plenti tnde and redundancy of the number of men in the world ; and so by a kind of congruity and consequence morally necessary when the world grows too full of inhabitants, that there is not room one by another ; or that the common sup plies which the world should afford to mankind begin to be too few, too strait, or too narrow f or the numbers of men ; that natural propension of self-love, and natural principle of sell-preserva tion, will necessarily break out intQ wars and in tfrnecions to make room for those that find themselves • straitened or inconvenienced. So that as when the channel of a river is over charged with water more than it can deliver, it necessarily breaks over the banks to make itself room ; or when the very brutes or animals find themselves oppressed and straitened in their provisions and, supplies, by the redundance of their numbers, one necessarily preys upon an other, or destroys another to preserve itself; so wars among mankind are a kind of necessary consequence of a redundance of mankind, and will by a kind of natural necessity make itself room, and give itself ease by the destruction of Others if it can get power and opportunity to do it." He goes very philosophically through the ' catalogue of disasters which Providence brings •to the aid of human violence. It does not seem to have occurred to the Learned Judge, that the " propension of self-love and natural prin ciple of self-preservation" might receive .a differ ent direction, more in accordance with humanity iind civilization ; that persons of property might, through the working of laws for the relief of the necessitous, be forced in self-defence to have re- Ourse to measures to keep down the numbers of the labouring people to the level of the means for their subsistence, of a much more effectual nature than the brutal remedies which he details. 'rom the more perfect knowledge of the laws of vegetation that we now possess, and the facilities Of intercourse between province and province, and nation and nation, famines, in the old ac ceptation of the word, can never take place, and the drainage of the soil, the improvements in towns, and habits of cleanliness, have also, it is probable, secured us from the recurrence of plagues. Nations, too, have begun to discover hat the supposed interests for which they for- Merly made war upon each other, were almost always illusory ; and as the laying down the naked principle of the necessity of slaughtering each other for slaughtering's sake is too revolting cor a civilized age, the means must be found in ivilization itself' for guarding against evils which would destroy civilization. The Poor Laws of nglanl, while they breathe the spirit of hu- Inanity, and contribute to peace and tranquillity, Compel at the same time the rich and influential part of society, from a regard to their own preserv ation in the station in which they are placed, to place a powerful but indirect check on the exer cise of the principle of population, by the limita tion of the number of cottages, and by a variety Of other means of the same tendency. Without the obligation of guardianship of the poor, with the guarantee which the necessity of self-preser ,ation affords against redundancy, the discoveries if modern times, moral and physical—the moral discovery, for instance, that nations are inte tested in the well-being of each other, and have no conceivable motive for war ; and the physical discoveries by which countries have been ren dered more salubrious, famines have been ren dered impossible, and the average of life has peen greatly prolonged, would be a curse instead f a blessing to mankind. We have in Ireland an exemplification of the evils of a state of so ' iety in which the correctives to which we have lluded have not been called into action. The wirers of the soil, freed from all responsibility, are suffered the wretched beings on their estates o multiply in such numbers that the means f dealing with the redundancy can hardly e discovered. And the misery of these oor creatures is driving them in shoals to his country, and interfering with the beneficial peration of our own domestic arrangements.- - hat then are we to do with regard to Ireland or the people of England have a right to insist, nd will insist, on security against the destruction _ _ IA ith which their most valuable institutions are threatened from irruptions from Ireland. We are now come to the point when a stand must lie made. In the seventeenth number of The Festminster Review, just published, there is an rticle on Emigration, in which this subject is mulled in a masterly manner by a writer, in vhom we can withoUt difficulty recognise one of the first philosophers of the age. " Destitu ion, famine, and disease (he observed), are f' oure4 into the towns of Great Britain, to tax he compassion of the middle classes, and to well the previous burthens on their income, y throwing a large number of their own be on the poor rates ; of the middle classes, be it remarked, who, having no power to controul t its cause, are not assisted by experience to pre- Fent its recurrence. Yet the burthen of relief alls almost entirely on them. For in the present state of society it cannot be borne that human I)eings should perish on the high road, or in the treets. It is not now a question whether the acknowledged humanity of the middle classes is 41ways well directed. It admits of great doubt whether any objection founded on the allegation that charity encourages improvidence, is valid against the expediency of preventing the extre mities of destitution. Society has fears other lmn the actual fear of starvation to controul and irect the actions of its members ; and such it is incumbent on it to try before it gives free course to physical necessity. Motives applied to the moral part of men's nature may raise them from a state of brutal debasement ; the present fear of starvation has usually the directly opposite ten dency." The writer, speaking of the Emigra tion Report, nakes some observations that imply a belief that that document would produce an impiession on the ruling classes of this country, on which some recent Parliamentary proceedings furnish an instructive commentary. " It needed (he says) time authority of a Parlia mentary Committee, to bring this melancholy prospect under the notice of the ruling classes, so little cognisant, and unhappily so little careful of the great interests of the labouring people. "[he stirring ,appeal of their Report can hardly be read without emotio;t even by the most thoughtless, the most apathetic. A flood of evils hardly less wide-spreading and destructive than the consequences of barbarian conquest, is sweep ing over • our country—the degradation of our people by commixture with a foreign race, lower in intelligence, lower in habits of order and self restraint, lower in ideas of comfort and moral independence, lower, in short, in all the qualities which . eonstitute civilized man. For who is there,-not blinded by natural prejudice, who does not perceive, while he deplores the fact, that ow ing to a tong series of moral and political causes, the most injurious possible to the development of human nature, the Irish are what we have de scribed. them to be, compared with the inhabi tants of thisisland." The writer does not hesi tate to propose, as a guarantee, that emigration from Ireland shall not fail of benefitting Great Britain, the " coercive repression of the " The m os t o bvious Irish immigration; o f the measures which suggest themselves for putting the proposed measure into exe cution is to require a certificate, signed by the proper authorities, from every Irishm an land ing in England, stating his profession, and the purpose of his visit, so far only that it is not to gain his living by manual labour. All those who were not furnished with such The should be prohibited from landing. The same end (he observes) might be attained by an indi rect method, as effectually and more simply, by imposing a tax of so much per ,head on every passenger landing from Ireland, to be levied on the master or owner of the vessel bringing the passenger over." Sir John Newport, Mr. Mati nee Fitzgerald, and other Irish Members, de precated the introduction of the English Poor Laws into Ireland. The people of England, however, are entitled to protection" from Ireland. We should be glad to learn from the Irish land holders, in what way they propose to deal with the evil which afflicts their country, without de teriorating the condition of the people of Eng land. Mr. Secretary Peel observed, " that it was impossible not to see that the case of two countries in the relation of England and Ireland towards each ether, one country admitting the claims of the poor from the other, casual if they happened to be so, or with a permanent settle ment, if the claimant had obtained it ' • and espe cially wh en th e y o b s erve how their relations had been altered of late years by the improvements made in steam navigation ; it was impossible not to see that this was a very peculiar situation." Mr. Peel, however, objected to the poor laws, though he admitted " there were circumstances in the relations of the two countries, and with re spect to the burdens which the poor of Ireland brought on the property of England which de serve consideration. But Mr. Croker (lid not hesitate to observe, " that it was his conviction, that the state of England and Scotland was such, owing to the emigration from Ireland, that it would soon become necessary for these countries to take some decided step to afford Ireland a permanent relief. How that was to be effected, unless it was to be by some modification of the Poor Laws, he could not tell." Mr. Monck contended (as Lord Liverpool did), that if the Poor Laws had been introduced into Ireland, they would riot have seen that country in its pre sent deplorable condition. The great evil of that country was the excessive competition of la bour, and the consequent low wages. But how was this evil introduced ? It resulted from the minute partition of land, the great encouragement of population ; and he asked those who objected to the Poor Laws, whether they were not the only partition now between the preservation of English Comfort and the introduction of Irish misery ?" We believe there is not one English Gentleman who is not convinced, from personal experience, that were it not for the Poor Laws the country would not be habitable. No Eng lish Gentleman will declare himself against the Poor Laws in Parliament. They have been of late years abused, but, good God, what are the abuses here, compared with the destitution and misery of Ireland ? But these very abuses are closely connected with the absence of Poor Laws in Ireland, and the excessive population thereby occasioned ; because the place which would be filled by English labourers in our great towns is filled by Irishmen, content to work at a lower rate than Englishmen will submit to, so long as they have parishes between them and Irish'rni sery. Towns are necessary to drain the rustic population, which has always a tendency to ex ceed the numbers required for rural employ ment. When, therefore, Mr. William Lamb said, " that he was not unwilling to agree that, as a principle, it might be wise to apply Poor Laws to Ireland ; but he thought that before they were so applied, it would at least be right to see the abuses into which they had fallen, rectified in England ;" he was giving expression to what was little better than an absurdity. The exclusion of the Irish poor is necessary to the removal of the abuses in England, which arise solely out of red und an cy.—Morning Chronicle. It is quite clear, from what passed in the House of Commons on Monday night, that the account we previously gave of what had taken place in the Lobby on the night of the second reading of the Marylebonc Select Vestry Disso lution Bill was correct, and that it was the inten tion of the Select, if they could have accom plished it, to have put an extinguisher upon the Bill on that occasion. Fortunately, however, for the parish, all the canvassings, the boastings, the hole-and-cOrner underhand dealings of this immaculate body, were not only unavailing, but not a soul could he found to say one word against the principle of the measure, which has been thus assented to nemine contradicente.— Whether the Marylebone Vestry is doomed to the fate of those on whom the poet pronounces the pries demcntat remains to be seen ; but it is impossible not to be struck with the hardihood of assertion which some of their advocates have recourse to when they affirm that this body has the approbation of the ma jority of the parishioners. This is rather " too bad." But, if it be really a question what the sentiments of the parishioners are upon the subject—or if', in fact, the Select have a single advocate beyond themselves and their own im mediate dependents and hangers-on—how conies it that they do not show themselves ? How comes it that the Select are left in the lurch to petition by and for themselves, and not a single voice is heard from among their crowd of admirers, to help them over the stile upon the occasion ? It is not that we care two farthings about this particular body that we take so warm an interest in this subject, but from the strong and growing objections which we feel to this Select Vestry System altogether ; which, in the parishes of the metropolis especially, nurtured under the job-protecting and irre sponsible mantle of local Acts of Parlia ment, goes on, year after year, increasing the evils of' non-representative taxation, and paving the way in these parochial districts to the abrogation of every salutary principle which distinguishes the British Government from one of mere despotism. Let the result, then, of the present struggle in this parish be what it may, the thanks of the public will be eminently due to those who have had the courage and the per severance to bring the abuses of this abominable system before the Legislature ; and Parliament will be more regardless both of its own privileges and of the rights and liberties of the people than we can suppose it to be, if; now that it has the opportunity, it does not take some steps to with draw from these anomalous bodies that power which alone should belong to persons freely chosen by and accountable to those whom they have the power to tax.—Morning Herald.* AIEETINGS OF CREDITORS. INSOL VENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGED , COUNTRY.--At the Court-house, at Aylesbury, April 7, at Teu o'clock. flatten, William, Ashwood, farmer Knight, Thomas, Bicester, stone-mason Scrfe, George, Chalfont St. Peter, tailor At Northampton, April 9, at eleven. Knight, Thomas, Wellingborough, lace-manufacturer Saunderson, George, Wellingborough, victualler Wilcox, John, Gavton, shoemaker Knight, Thomas, karls Barton, shoemaker Gregory, Samuel, Ravensthorpe, victualler Ashton, Thomas, Kettering, victualler Blewitt, Robert, Ruston, farmer Letts, William, Draton, victualler Payne, William, Northampton, baker LORD ANGLESBA'S TENANTRY IN THE COUNTY DowN.—We lately mentioned that the Noble Marquis's Tenantry intended to present him with a con gratulatory Address upon his arrival in Ireland—the Ad dress having been transmitted, his Excellency returned a most gracious answer, in which he says--" I always speak of my tenantry in Ireland as men honourable in their dealings and punctual in their engagements."—His Excel lency concludes his answer by stating, that he looks for ward with much pleasure to visiting them.—Dublin Even ing Post. LAW INTELLIGENCE. CONSISTORY COURT, W ESTMINSTER, ArRIL 1. KINNAIRD V. KINNAIRD. This was a suit of divorce, promoted by Hugh Kinnaird, one of the pages of his Majesty, against Ann Kinnaird, his wife, for adultery by her com mitted. The case had been fully argued during the last Term, and this day the Learned Judge proceeded to give his judgment; and after going through the libel and the evidence in support thereof, The COURT observed, that the libel was fully and satisfactory proved, and that Mr. Kinnaird was en titled to the remedy he sought, and pronounced for the divorce accordingly. VESTRY MEETING AT LAMBETH. Yesterday a very numerous Vestry Meeting of the inhabitant householders of this parish assembled to take into consideration the 31edical Report of Sir Patrick Macgregor, Bart., and Benjamin Tra vers, Esq., into the present state of the Asylum at Nor►wood ; and also the report to be submitted thereupon by the Guardians, &c. of the Poor, re commending the erection of buildings and dormi tories, as necessary for the snore perfect eradication of the ophthalmia raging (as alleged) among the pauper children located at Norwood. The Rev. Dr. D' OYLEY, the Rector, was in the Chair. The Medical Report was then read. It stated, that on visiting the Hospital ward of this Institu tion, it was found that it contained only seven pa tients suffering from ophthalmia, and two only of. the number severe cases; that the convalescent wards were in admirable order, and most of the cases in a favourable state for removal to the healthy wards, if there were room for them ; that the healthy wards were also in good order, but far too crowded to remain long free from contagious disease. No. 3 contained 40 boys, in 17 beds, placed closely toge ther; and No. 4 contained, in 14 beds, 36 boys and 7 adults; that the regulations and medical treatment suggested by Messrs. Guthrie and Travers, sur geons, in September, 1827, had been strictly at tended to, and great advantages in regard to the cure and prevention of ophthalmia derived there from. The surgeons then proceeded to recommend the adoption of certain minor regulations. The report of the churchwardens, overseers, and guardians of the poor, was next read. It recom mended a general repair of the drains, and improve ment of the water, kitchen, laundry, &c.; and in order to remove this most infectious disease, that the parishioners would adopt some plans of increase l and enlargement of the buildings. Dr. M' INTYRE of Clapham, then moved, that an additional wing be erected to the asylum. He pro posed that the expcnce should be limited to 1,3501. Captain TUCK, Mr. MOSES SIIEPPARD, Messrs. DIMES, WILLIAMs, CANNON,- HARWOOD, and other gentlemen, opposed the measure, in speeches of some length. Mr. CANNON moved, as an amendment, that it was not expedient to increase the wards and dormi tories at Norwood, as recommended in the report, which was eventually carried after a most stormy discussion. It was determined to grant a stun of 3001. for the erection of a new kitchen and laundry at the Asy lum•; and the ground, ditches, &c., are to be pro perly drained, and the water purified, where it is necessary. The Rector, as the meeting was about to adjourn, asked if it was intended to separate without adopt ing the suggestion of the medical report A general affirmative answer was given, and the meeting then separated. CASE OF CLERICAL DELINQUENCY. (Further Particulars, from the Times.) In consequence of certain rumours, we have made inquiry into the conduct of this person, and in the whole annals of guilt, we scarcely find one equal in atrocity. It appears that about 30 years since this man was ordained in holy orders under the name of Fall, but why or wherefore he subsequently changed his name to that he now bears, remains at present a mystery. Under the assumed name of Fenn, he was employed as a teacher in Kirkman's academy, at Islington, and about ten years since purchased, on his ow►► account, an academy in Bloomsbury, in which he succeeded beyond his most sanguine ex pectations. Unfortunately for him, and we may say with truth for the greatest body of his creditors, :Mr. Fenn was not satisfied with the profits derived from his school : he started also as a bill-broker, or rather dis counter of bills, taking to himself (as others of that notorious class do) an exorbitant rate of interest.— He thus made many bad debts, and was himself ul timately induced to resort to other usurers, who, like himself, though more wary, were not wanting in the rate to be charged to a brother miscreant. Spurred on by this Connexion, he was led to comm►t the crime of forgery, a►►d not only committed various forgeries himself, but he also made one of his tutors draw and accept bills in fictitious names. He also had the unmanly hardihood to involve his pupils in his guilt; for he has, in like manner, made them draw, accept, and endorse fictitious bills, and has cir culated that kind of rKbbish (among tradesmen only) to an enormous amount, and in order to give a greater facility to his criminal traffic, an account was opened at Messrs. Ransom's bank. This circumstance gave a degree of credit to his movements, and, by an insinuat►ng address, pretended friendship, and plausibility of manners, ingratiated himself with vari ous tradesmen ; he would, in some instances, pre tend that he possessed a bill for a large amount, such as 2,0001. on this nobleman or the other, and that he W6S himself to receive 2001. or 3001. from the pretended nobleman for the accommodation, and consequently could afford to give the unsuspecting tradesman 50/. for the loan of 5001. The tradesman, confiding in the sanctified clergyman, has, in many instances, been thus duped to the tune of 2,000/. or 3,000/. Again, the clergyman would produce one of his concocted bills, and say, " If you discount me this 2001. at 5 per cent., I will take 501. worth of goods, and you shall draw a bill on me for the amount of the goods ;" so that this fellow has, in many instances, obtained 250/. for one of his forged bills of 2001. It appears that the circumstances which led to his immediate detection was his absenting himself from his home, together with several of his cheques (which ha had post-dated) becoming due, which were re turned as a matter of course by his bankers for want of funds. Under these circumstances, a meeting was convened, and an intercepted letter coming to hand disclosed the whole system, and that the Rev. gentleman had emigrated to Paris, under the name of George Lewis. It may be imagined that he had associates in his guilt, and consequently those associates leave no stone unturned to prevent inquiry. We say, if certain parties (whom we can name) are not equally culpable, how is it that an immediate inquiry has not been instituted ? Public justice de mands inquiry. It is a curious fact, that with all the Rev. Gen tleman's frauds, it does not appear that he has lodged any of his concocted paper with his imme diate associates, viz., the bill-brokers. The following are a few of the persons who hold the Rev. Gentleman's forgeries : Messrs. Davies, of Giltspur-street, auctioneers; Mr. E. Jones, Whitefriars-wharf, coal-merchant; Messrs. Tosswells, Garlick-hill; Messrs. Cookson, Strand ; Mr. King, Bolton-street, Piccadilly ; Messrs. Hansler and M'Kenzie, Round-court, Strand, wine-merchants; Messrs. Davidson, Ox ford-street ; Mr. Pratt, Parliament-street; Mr. Mar shall, Great Ormond-street ; Mr. Wigley, Essex street, solicitor. In some parts of the north of Europe the grass grows under the snow, and it is the custom, in soma places, to throw ashes upon the sr ow, for the double pur pose of hastening its melting and forwarding vegetation. POLICE INTELLIGENCgy GUlLDHALL.—Yesterday Henry Child, the person charged by Air. Horne (deputy signer of writs in the Court of King's Bench) with having stolen a prireipii from the file in the King's Rench Office, was again placed at the bar, and discharged after a suitable admonition from Sir P. Laurie. LAW-WRITING v. CIIAIRMAKING.-In this case, one Mr. Jeremiah Mahoney was charged with having assaulted a Mr. Samuel Burrowes, of No. 52, Barley-mow-passage, Cloth-fair, West Smithfield—in a very unhandsome and ungrateful manner; that is to say, in the manner which Ulysses adopted towards Polyphemus, viz.:—. " He ate his mutton, " Drank his wine, " And then he pok'd his eye out." "May it please your Worship," said Mr. Burrowes, "this gentleman,"—meaning thereby Mr. Jeremiah Ma honey—" is an intimate acquaintance of my wife's ; but I never saw him before, but once—and that's three years ago—when I was a bachelor. Yesterday,: he came to see my wife, and I asked him to stay dinner; and he did; and after dinner we sat down to take - a pipe and a glass of grog comfortable—for I thought I'd make much of him, as he was a friend of my wife's; so I treated him with the best of every thing, and very genteel. While we were smoking, we had a little argument of course, but some how it took a wrong turn ;L-he got into a passion, and I got into a passion, and then he gets up and gives me a poke in the eye !---But I've no animosity against the gen tleman ; and if—" " You are very forgiving towards your wife's friend," said the Alderman," "Pray, is your wife here ?" Mr. Burrowes replied that she was ; and thereupon the lady came forward and denied that there was any particular friendship between her and Mr. Jerry Mahoney. " And I do assure your Worship," added she, " that his conduct was very bad ; for while they were gelidly smoking their pipes he jumped up and flew at my husband like anything; and I don's know what the consequence might have been if I hadn't fetched the watchman to take him away." Mr. Jeremiah Mahoney replied, with a very un-Mahoney like modesty, that he thought Mr. Burrowes had stated the case pretty correctly, and for his own part he was very sorry for what had happened. And upon this acknow ledgment he was discharged ; with an admonition from Mr. and Mrs. Burrowes never to show his face in their house again. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---Yesterday Signor Cu - rioni, of the Italian Opera, appeared, we believe, for the fifth time before a fell bench of Magistrates, at this office, to meet the claim put forward against him by the parish authorities of st. Giles-in-the-fields, which charges, that be has burdened the parish with the support, for four vea vs past of an illegitimate female child, his offspring. We have so often given the particulars of this case that it is unnecessary to go into any details again, further _than to state that the Magistrates from the beginning have placed no credit on the evidence of the woman, Mary Ann Ken. nel or Connel, who swears that Signor Curioni is the father of her child, except as far as some material part of her testimony was corroborated by that of others. It will be re collected that Signor Curioni denies in the most positive manner having ever had the slightest acquaintance with or knowledge of this woman ; but in opposition to this, and in confirmation of Kennel's oath, it will be remembered, that on a former day a woman named Frampton, who does net bear so bad a reputation, or did not in giving her evi dence exhibit the same levity that characterised the former, swore deldedly to the identity of signor Curioni, as a person that she had repeatedly let in and out of a house in Somers. town, as a visitor to Kennel, at the very period that must have given origin to this child. Mr. Alley attended for the parish, and the Hon. Mr. Law appeared on the part of the defendant. Mr. Alley having gone through the often-repeated evi dence in support of the parish claim— Mr. Law addressed the Magistrates at considerable t t h o a t e c a l p a se i n, pointin gwithout n o y u t a t t t l: e m p m t a i t iy o • Mr. Law called as a w it ness a e ue n ab g rs s t t a l i t, i t n ai at o twe p p et r o he s i s i s t u f clam.o noi female, named Jane Blake, to oppose the evidence of Frampton, the main prop of the case against the defendant on the former (lay. This witness swore that she lived in the same house with Frampton and the woman Kennel, at Somers-town, at the period referred to in their evidence, that she was the person who almost invariably opened the door to any one calling upon Kennel, that she did not believe Frampton ever so opened the door, that the witness recollected a man some thing like a foreigner, visiting Kennel on several occasions at that time, that witness almost always let him in and out, and she positively declared that Signor Curioni was not that man, or in any degree like him. This witness further said, that Kennel told her, while with child, that the father of it was a man named Broadbothom, with whom she aso:- ciated at the time. A Mrs. I3rown,"residing at No. 10, Lucas-place, New road, stated that Kennel and her sister had lodged at wit ness's house while the former was with child, and that she understood from them at the time, that some man, whose name she forgot, like Robothem or Robinson, was the father. Witness recollected the day, four years ago, that Kennel went to have Signor Curioni pointed out to her, and when she returned, or when the witness saw her next, Kennel told her he was not the right man, but she heard her say in some time after that she had found a good father in Signor Curioni for her child. Several other witnesses were examined, but this is all that was material. Mr. CONANT (with whom were Sir G. FARRANT and the Rev. Mr. THURSET, magistrates) then said, that al though he had not mentioned it before, he would now state, that from the commencement of this case, two magisttates out of three were of opinion that the order should be made against the detindant,not that they gave much credit to the mother of the child herself, but there were so many according circumstances which bore out her evidence, that they did not doubt its truth. But Mr. ROE, who is at present out of town, was of a different opinion, and gave no credit to the case against the defendant, until the witness Frampton was examined, when he agreed with the other magistrates that the order should be made, but still consented to let the case stand over until this day. lie (Mr. Conant) and the other magistrates present, were now of opinion that the evidence produced by Mr. Law was not sufficient to shake the former case, and they were therefore decided in making the order on Signor (:',urioni for an allowance of 3s. 3d. per week for the support of the child, together with all the expenses of its support up to this time from its birth,,,,as well as the expenses of the mother's accouchement. Mr. Parker, the churchwarden, said as he wished nothing on the part of the parish but what was just and fair, he would only ask the defendant to pay the expellees of lying.. in and the support of the child since the commencement of these recent proceedings, dropping what the parish had paid for the support of the child for nearly four years. The order was then signed against the defendant ; but Mr. Law, on his behalf, gave notice of an appeal to the Sessions against it, and Signor Curioni entered into sureties to try the appeal. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday a lusty tall man, between 40 and 50 years of age, wko gave his name iv,,,, Richard Batt, residing in Edmond-street, Somers-town, was brought up before Mr. Serjeant Sellon in the custody of Davis and Jordan, two constables of Spafields, charged with an attempt to seduce Mary Jennet, a child about seven years old. Mr. Sergeant SELLON said, that though he had himself no moral doubt of the defendant's criminal intention, yet as the circumstances were not strong enough to warrant. him even in holding him to bail, he niust discharge,him. Batt then left the office and ran, followed by the shouts of a multitude of persons who were collected to hear the case. Last night a Mr. George Allen, a solicitor, was brought up to this office under a warrant, charged with having as saulted his wife on the morning of yesterday. Mrs. Allen, attended by her solicitor, Mr. Harmer, came forward and stated to the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Sergeant SELLON, that the defendant, from whom she had been sepa rated for some time past, came to her on a visit that morn ing, and immediately proceeded to strike her, and that in so violent a manner as to put her, as she herself expressed it, in great bodily fear, and endanger her life. She only now wished him, she said, to be bound over to keep the peace towards her, and would not choose to prosecute the ►natter further, even though she never expected him to live with her again. The Magistrate having called upon Mr. Allen to defend the charge, he replied " Sir, I did str►ke her, and would again, acting under the influence of my wounded feelings. She is a most unfortunate woman. We have been m arried six years, but 12 months ago a deed of separation was made between us. However, I occasionally v isited her, and coming up to town last Saturday from Lancaster assizes, 1 understood from my friends that she held a criminal cor respondence with a worthless fellow who pretended to he a barrister, but who is only a clerk in a solicitor's office is Gray's inn." Mr. Harmer—The lady is willing to go with her hus band, and be malted again, and forsake this man, if Mr. A. will accept the terms. Mr. Allen—l should have no objection, but this very day she was again in company with that fellow. This, Sir, (to the magistrate) is net a subject for your consideration; it belongs to another court, and I am now ready to pub in my bail. Mr. Serjtant SELLON-Then let your bail tome forward and be hound for your appearance next sessions. Mr. Allen—Sir, if you will indulge me till the sessions subsequent to those at hand, I shall feel greatly obliged, as I have to attend the Manchester sessions immediately.' To this the magistrate assented, bail was put in, and the parties left the office. . UNION-HALL.--On Monday, Daniel Gill, a medical student belonging to Guy's Hospital, was brought before the presiding Magistrates, M. SWAI', J. T. Hoer, S. Davis, and D. KING, Esqrs., c h arge d w i t h h av i ng vio lated the person of a young girl, nam e d S ara h H o lli s , i n the . . service of'plr.Hicks, in Paragon-pl ace , Kent-road. The office having been cleared of all females except the complainant, who is rather an interesting looking young girl, she proceeded to state, that sht lived as servant in the house of Mr. flicks, with whom the prisoner lodged. She was in the habit of attending on the prisoner, and on the morning of the 18th of March, he having rung for some water, she proceeded up stairs with it to the first floor, which he occupied, and when heading it to him he took her forcibly round the waist and carried her into his room, and flung her down on the bed. The complainant here became so affected that she was unable to proceed until accommo dated with a chair. , Having recovered in some measure, she proceeded to describe the outrage committed on her person, and stated, that she made every resistance in her power, and screamed aloud, but owing to the absence of the family, who were from home, her cries for assistance were not heard, and as she alleged, the prisoner accom plished her ruin. It appeared that she bad not communi cated what had befallen her for some days after it had oc curred, and the reason she ascribed for her silence en the subject was, on account of a serious illness with which her mistress was afflicted, and she was fearful of describing the manner in which she had been treated by the prisoner. thinking that it would add to her illness. The moment, however, her mistress became better she related every cir cumstance connected with the outrage to her. Mrs. Hicks was examined, and she stated, that subse quent to the day on which the offence was alleged to have been committed, she particularly remarked that the com plainant appeared to be very unhappy. She (Mrs. Hicks) frequently interrogated, her as to the cause, and at length the girl told her of the outrage committed on her person by the prisoner during the absence of the family. This witness described the complainant to have conducted her self with great propriety during the time she lived in her service. It was stated that all the complainant's friends re sided at a considerable distance from town, and that was the reason the circumstances attending her violation were not communicated earlier. . The complainant, after undergoing a close cross exaininv tion, during which she did not vary from her first ac c o unt of the transaction, Mr. Alley said that he waa instructed to state that evidence would be forthcoming whiCh would completely impeach her veracity, and prove that she was a woman of immoral character. The Magistrates consulted together for a short periods and then remarked that the evidence given by the com plainant, whose testimony they had no reason to doubt, was of that nature that they considered it their duty to commit : the prisoner on the capital charge. KIDDERMINSTER. We learn from Kidderminster, that every thing remained quiet up to the departure of the mail on Monday. About 600 or 700 weavers left the town in the course of last week, but the rage for travel ling or emigration 'appears new to have nearly. sub sided. in the address circulated by the Weavers' Com mittee, they profess a determination to be peaceable, but this profession ill accords,with one of the songs published under their sanction. As to the general question, the result of the in formation we have obtained is, that for tbe.last eighteen months the weavers in tlaprincipal branch of this trade have 'bad full and regular work, at much higher rate of wages than the average of other manufacturing districts. We have no doubt that the manufacturers of Kid.' derminster are perfectly correct in stating, that is theirs, as well as other branches of trade, the. in creased competition has cut down their profits below what is a fair remuneration for the capital employedi , but we may venture to ask some of them whether , they have not themselves been 'instrumental in pro' ducing the mischief they complain of. j / ~~ iY :unit •Jt u(r) : t • / 1 '( THE MARKETS P LA NTATION:SUGARS.--Up to:the present time,very little business bas been . done in the Market; prices are fintif maintained ; the show of good Sugars continue The two public sales of Mauritius Sugar appear to ham attracted the attentioa of the buyers, and are selling at the . present time the good coloury and strong qualities at full prices ; low middling are rather cheaper. FOREIGN SUGARS IS leSt-week: RRFINRD SUGARS.—The active demand for low good., noticed on Friday, appeals to have rather abated, .but is prices there is very little alteration; in other descriptions very little doing. COFFER.—Two public sales were brought 'forward 64 morning, consisting of Berbice, Demerara, and Jamaica the demand did not appear to be very brisk. Fine ordi nary Jamaica brought 535. 6d. a b4s. 6d. ; real middling ditto, 735. a 745. 6d. ; and middling Berbice, 65% a 665. Last week's prices for the Berbice were not rnaiutiined. Faurr.—There is•no alteration' in this article to be noticed. A y large sale of SALTFETRE was made yesterday S t 24... 6d. per cwt. The transaction was had under sal" peculiar circumstances, so that this ought not to he cork dered as a fair market price. The article, however, is nato-' less in demand, the aspect of Eastern politics being mor e pacific. Tau.ow.—The speculator• for a rise in this article and pear to have " burnt their fingers," operating as they on the prospect of a short stock. It is now found tha t there will h e am pl e t o supply all demand until the arrival 01 the spring ships. As we mentioned three weeks since, the advance in price has continued to check the deliveries. 5A 14 cannot he made at 395. 6d. for Russia Tallow: Bristle s, Hemp and Flax, are rather heavy. There has been no re-action in Nalco, and business on a limited scale; nor is it expected to increase much t int , ' the Company's sale is finished. In TEAS there is not much activity displayed, and the only alteration is in Bolteas, which continue to sell at a profit . In COTTON a fair proportion of business has been dove since the Company's sale on Friday. The accounts frog; Liverpool continue satisfactory, as far as regards the deman d there. In some cases an advance has been given for Surat ° on the prices at the sale. COTTON WOOL. • LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. I nironTED. I ix.rortrEn. I 1 ,A.....--, ~ , 1 i , Same pe- Previon,' This rind last ly this year. year. vent , — --. ..,....----• Bags, &e. Brags, &e. Bags, &c. Bags, IL(' Liverpool 124,2P3 142,‘14 216 t,7nA London 14,815 9,8-10 580 9,1T7 Glasgow 8,710 13,4 15 --- Total exported in 1828 13,675, ___.. BIRTHS. On the Ist inst., Mre. Stringer, of Rnssell-square, of a 'on. On the 31st ult., the wife of Mr. Sorel, jun., of Berke' ley- , quare, of a son. On - the 31st ult., in Fenchurch-street, Mrs. Thome lienshaw, of a daughter. MARRIEn. On the 22d of January, at St. John's Church, Antigua , by the Rev. 11. Holberton, Captain Rowland Edward Willia►ns, late of the 10th Royal Hussars, of Weston-green , Surrey, and of Antigua, to Clara Susannah, second dangliter of his Excellency Major -General Sir P. Ross. On the 29th ult., at Lambeth Church, Mr. Patterson , o f Manor-house, Shacklewell, to Miss C. Carpenter , youngest daughter of the late Mr. Carpenter, of Battersea• On the 29th ult., at Alelkshain, by the Rev. Henry Moule, Colonel C. S. Fagan, C. 8., of the Bengal Arno to Elizabeth Jane, third daughter of George Moule, Esq., of Melksham. DIED. On the 30thlult., in the flower of her youth, much and des e rv e dly regretted, Anne, only daughter of Robert Pear son, Esq., of Unthank Hall, and Benwell Lodge, North" umberland. On the 29th ult., Christopher William Hollier, Esq., o f Sidinouth-place, Gray's-inn-road, aged 76. On the 31st ult., aged 16, Mary Ann, the eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Surflen, of Mile-end. Oa the 30th ult., in her 13th year, Margaret, the daughter of A. Zinger, Esq., of Wandsworth-road. PRINTED and PU BLISHED b y 111. Y OU NG , SUN OFFICE, No. 1 12, Stinnd. latta uczltta ;,a Tirifth -f i l i J ao i,