The Sun. — London, England, 1828-10-31 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE LONDON JOURNALS. Our City article of this day deals iu matter of partly a higher moral interest, and partly a more cu rious commercial or financial interest, than it often falls within the range of our correspondent's duty and induetry to furnish. The statement relative t o those audacious and systematic forgeries which have pressed so hard upon a respectable house, and have drawn fern ts partners so striking an illustration of their sentiments on the law of forgery in this civi lized and enlightened country, deserves serious at tention from every thinking mate It proves the existence of a strange error in the adaptation of pu nishments to offences, when the punishment affixed o them is such as substantially to encourage the crime against which they were directed. A law which the bulk of society feel an insuperable re pugnance to enforce, is tantamount to no law whatever, but rather a bounty on transgression.— We believe it is of late years that the impolicy of punishing forery by the gallows has bean much felt among the uil.er classes of Englishmen; and it seems to have been only since the acces sion of his present Majesty that a conviction for that crime has failed to be followed up by execu tion. In the tune of George we do not recol lect an instance when the legal advisers of the Royal conecience ever recommended to the Sovereign an . interpoe:r.:on of the prerogative on the side of mercy, in favour of the criminal who forged a name to may negociable instrument. The difficulty of adequate precautions against forgery has in general been alleged as one ground on which might be jus tified the frightful punishment of death against these who were guilty of it : the immense extent and ealue of our commercial system, and the necessity of a rigorous protection to its interests, is a se cond. But this we take to be another of the innumerable cases where the greater obligation has been postponed to the less, or where, in fact, sound discretion has been trampled on for the sake of rank absurdity and cruelty, in the management of our " commercial sytem." It sel dom appears to have struck the legislature how in- finitely mote desirable for England would be a solid than a swollen and unhealthy commerce. " Credit," the pageant credi, must be maintained at all risks, end by the most frightful sacrifices. To uphold "credit," the country must be elloked with paper. To buoy up the credit of those who have no pro perty, but unprincipled impudence and hardness of heart, sveare to be loaded with a " banking system," of which the effects have been to make every man's life a pure lottery, and every man's business a gaming speculation ; hut what signifies that ? It is to uphold " credit," the glory of England and the envy of the world. So, to consecrate and cement this blessed system, we are told that facility must be more favoured than humanity, and that poor wretches who are betrayed by starvation into guilt, must be hanged without remorse, to save others the time and trou ble requisite for making proper inquiries about th e character of the bills which are tendered to them, and exercising a degree of prudence which all mer chants ought habitually to exhibit. Never were the fruits of the " paper system," and of one of its base progeny the hanging system, Letter shown off than in the long success of the Fetichurcli-street mer ehent in swindling the Quaker capitalists out of =heir money, and in the subsequent refusal of the conscientious Quakers to prosecute him, because they would rather lose their property than takeaway human life. The second branch of our city article contains an. exceedingly curious discussion upon the state and prospects of the Bank of England, which evinces in the writer much sagacity, ingenuity, and reeearch.—Times, The Number of the Quarterly Review just pub lished, contains a lohg article on the State of. Ire kind, evidently from the pen of Dr.. Southey. We are always well pleased to fall in with articles from Dr. Southey, because they generally contain evi denim of research and industry ; and though we earl- net .11.%ays arrive at all the eettelasions at which he arrives, and still less aperove of the traneeant manner in which he pastes seii!enee or: individuals, we often find opinions to wnieh we cannot refuse our assent. 'Jur rearlers may recollect, that we esve uniformly rt ,,,i ete i ne e t h at if Ernunevoutitin weir granted, the gest , struggle woul.:sill rentein ; that the great evilu, *,he ' , or al cendition r f Ireland is it. Aristocracy, and diet t`a Government is inoperative w protect th- People. !II this seunt,y a teeny of circumstances resoled the ieople to make a decisive step in irn ncoverneet H 'weal the Ariateertre., whose power, treregh reeschie, out: as far as it gees, is still unable to p event much good; but Ireland has never had Edwa ds erd liesiry, in protect the penple, end humble their oppressors ; and in that unfortunate country law has always been an additional arm in the hands of the powerful to wound the feeble. Dr. Southey seems to entertain nearly the same opi n i on w ith regard to the Aristocracy which we entertain. " Most truly (he says) has that very able writer (Jr. l'oelen) observed, and most clearly has he shown, that ' ;he great source of Irish misery has been, not the power of England, but its want of Power.' There are c as es i n which, as th e grea t oet tell us, to be weak is to be miserable ;' this is one of those in which to be weak is to be mischievous; and not to have done good has been to permit, and give opportunity for evil. The evil has re coiled upon England; and Spencer's apprehensive foresight has already been so far fulfilled, that in every reason of embarrassment, Ireland has proved to the Sister Country worse than a broken reed." After succinctly attending to the events iu Irish His tory, down to the ft evolution, he proceeds : " Then ensued a hundred year. of elisgoeetnment, and of what in I re l and is year; tranquillity ; and thin, at a time when England was engaged in a disastrous contest with her American Colonies, and France, and Spain, and Holland, had declared against her; then, a hen her d.ffieulties were at the greatest, Irish claims were brought forward by Mat Aristo cracy to which Me whole misettie of Ireland is imput " The whole misrule of Ireland is imputable to the Aristocracy," but then that Aristocracy is English, or Auglo-Irish, as the term now is ; and the establish ment of an English Aristocracy without controul Ireland, has re-aeted on England, by strengthening the hands of our own Aristocracy. Hence En g . land, which has been unable to govern Ireland, b ut has merely furnished it with a vile Oligarchy for its oppression, is punished in return by the prepon derance thereby given to her own Aristocrac y , and the state of anarchy into which we have in conse queece been plunged. Dr. Southey concludes his article with a recommendation of a measure which we have often advocated, as an indispensable preli minary to the solid improvement of the country.-- " Extend the Poor Laws (he says) to Ireland; ex perience may teach us how to guard against their abuse--they are benevolent, they are necessary, they are just. Lay that impost in such a proportion! upon the absentees as may in some degree com pensate for their non-residence. Do they deserve to be spared? During the last great dearth that afflicted Ireland in 1822, the absentees front a cer tait! Western County were solicited to assist the sub scription raised by the resident Gentry, Landholders, and Clergy. They drew annually from that county 83,0'ice, and the whole sum received from them in answer to the applicatio n was eighty-three pounds —not a farthing in the pound! Introduce the Poor Laws, crud the landholders, whether resident or ab .yeritcc, 14,411 hear* co-operate in bettering the con dition of the poor, and in removing any surplus po pilation." The voice of humanity is here, as in deed it always is, the voice of wisdom and true policy. The land of a country, it should never be ! forgotten, belongs to the nation, and if indiVidtials is the Only most il are allowed to occupy it as a properte it cause such individual occupation issupposed beneficial to the nation, and the possessio n is subject to the responsibility of such a distrihu lion of the produce as is most conducive to the! general good. To allow landholders to create a nd spot t with the necessities of art excessive population, and mercilessly to avail themselves of their compe ! tition for land, to the extent of exacting what does' not leave a decent, support for the cultivator, is a! mockery of law And justice, de.erving of universal reprobation. The phenomena observable in Ireland will .be tqually seta in couatrics wlicie there is an uncontiouleJ Aristocracy. A very curious col lection of letters written at the time to his relations, by a French Officer, who served in Calabria in 1807, 8,9, and 10, in the moveable columns which the French were obliged to employ continually against the banditti with which that part of Italy is infested, was published in 1820. One would almost imagine, when describing the misgovernment of that country, he was describing Ireland : . . . " Before the , entrance of the French," says this intelli gent Officer, " Calabria was subject to the immediate in fluence of rich and powerful Barons, who exercised over their vassals a despot.',: authority usurped over the rights of the Sovereigns. Whatever feudalism presents that is odious, anti contrary to the sacred rights of humanity, weighed more particularly in those provinces which ob tained little of the attention of the Government, and prevented their inhabitants from making any progress in arts and civi lisation. The Barons kept up an armed militia, known under the name of sbiri, who were the executors of the will, and very often of the sanguinary caprices of their masters. If it happened that a vassal displeased or resisted his Lord, he fell immediately under the poignard of the sbiri ; and these criminal attempts were never repressed ; justice was never rendered ; all crimes were atoned for by money ; every thing was venal, or could be acquired by vile compliances. " The class of the people, more especially the victims of these arbitrary acts, endeavour to escape from the vexa tious arbitrary acts of authority and acts of vengeance, by taking refuge in the woods and the mountains. Hence proceeded originally bawls of Brigands, wha have had much influence in depraving the people, by inspiring them with a for savage independence, and increasing their natural aversion for labour. " Calabria could only therefore gain by a change of system. ;fence, in spite of the violent ineane employed to subject it to a new form of government, and all the ex cesses—all the devastations which took place in conse quence, the invasion of the French prepared the way for great benefit to that country, by destroying the despotism of the Barons, weakening a great number of atrocious pre judices, giving useful notions of all kinds, and facilitating communications ; and, in short, the greatest service the French could render it, was the endeavouring to extirpate brigandage," &c. &c. - Here we have the Rapparees,Whiteboys,Rockites, &c. &c. and the long list of lawless depredators, the offspring of Aristocratical oppression. In Black wood's Magazine for November, just arrived, we have one chapter of the voluminous history of Irish oppression, in an article entitled " Ireland as it is in IB2S, chapter 3," which might serve for a chapter in the history of Calabria. " An English Agent was sent over to Lord Courtney's estate, who re fused to be bound by the promises of abatement of rent made to the poor tenants by the former agent, but without mercy resented to the last extremities of the law to enforce the uttermost farthing that was due, both of the current rent, and the arrears which the tenants supposed would never have been demanded of them. We have been assured that the scenes of misery occasioned by this conduct were beyond all description shocking. Every day miserable creatures were left with their families of little children, without a stick or a rag, or a potatoe in their wretched dwelling, and forth they were obliged to go as wandering beggars along the road, praying with all the vehemence which despair lends to the most emphatic of languages (in this part of the country the common people all speak the native Irish) that the heaviest of curses may fall on their oppressor. The people decreed a terrible vengeance. It was resolved among them, that the Agent should be put to death ; and nothing but the extremest caution on his part prevented them from accom plishing their purpose. There were many men sworn solemnly to kill him whenever he came within their reach, no matter what might be the occasion, or where the place ; but his extreme vigilance eluded them, and he continued to live, and to be execrated. Baffled in the main objec.: of their pursuit, and choking with unquenched revenge, they came to the dreadful determination" that the punishment of the father should be accomplished by the murder of his son. He was a very young lad, of gentle, unoffeed iag manners; but this had no effect upon these men, whose terrible excitement thirsted for blood. If they thought of it at HD it was but to recollect Chat he wa- probably on that account dearer to his father, and Chat consequently the vengeance de rived from his murder would be the greater. They met the lad in the broad day-light; and thon4h he a ~, !‘y himself from his horse, and on his knees implored their mercy, he found none from these relentless savages. A shower of balls struck him in every part cf the body, and he %%as left upon the road dead, and all disfigured, with numberless wounds. This was the comnience• ment—the firing of the train, which rapidly spread along extensivedis'riets r , fLimer.k.'f,Tipperary, Cork, and Kerry. The houseless people we have de scribed, forming themselves into powerful bands skulked in hiding places among the hills by day, and stealing out by night to some appointed rendezvous, they swept the open country in bodies, carrying off such booty as was portable, and burning or destroy ing what they could nut take away ; often, too, in flicting savage vengeance on their successors in the tenancy of the farms, of which they deemed them selves unjustly deprived." It is high time that an end was put to the tyranny of the landlords in Ire land. But dogs do not eat dogs; and an English Aristocracy will act touch an Irish Aristocracy.— Morning Chronicle. Our readers will recollect that we found it necessary, two days ago, to notice the attacks which were made upon us by certain Morning and Evening cotemporaries respecting Mr. Sheil's speech. With a folly, of which no parallel instance, we believe, can be produced, one of these Papers has continued the dispute, and lest it should fail in producing a due impression, another, which is never heard of beyand the boundaries of Wapping, has come to its aid in full cry. We shall not notice, further than we have already done, the charges of the former, which, so far as we are concerned, are perfectly innoxious ; nor shall we dwell upon those of the latter further than to state, that the attempt which it makes to fix upon us the accusation of having termed the Courier and the Standard " dirty prints," is nothing short of an egregious falsehood. We never employed such terms, with reference to either of these jot:mare, directly or indirectly ; and it must have required no ordinary perversion of intellect to dream, for a moment, that we should have been guilty of doing so. The Courier is too well known for the talent and gentlemanly feeling which have invariably characterized its columns, to permit of such epithets being applied to it; and though we have occasionally .differed from the Standard, and had some controversy with it, we are not aware that it has ever been necessary to designate it by terms which apply almost exclusively to the " sooty Ga zette" to which we have alluded. Eighty years standing ought to have taught the print in question " depend upon an open, straight-forward, and man ly line of conduct. Accounts which afterwards turn out to be false, and consequently are nothing less than instil:, to the understanding," will never " While they impeach entitle t c l h e a i rtrai:ltftone Carne time, public hees:Epdidemist:otrr.osfolrh respectability,they,nd y foolishly hope to obtain." But at the rtoespliacvt-ewthloicuhe' they foolishly this pitiful controversy—for pitiful it is in every respect, and nothing which may be said of our report shall induce us to notice again the attacks of the contemptible , alluded—the er.d,risa7owtihineganidn m- Correspondentogtu:B - print to which we have tion, as is justly retnarked by a another part of our Paper, and, as wa s , very c pro perly observed two days ago by porar • (the Britian 'Traveller), which have from taking part in the despicable attacks a o ll h o h v h e i l i l s inL' alistained . beeti made upon us, is not whether Mr. Sheildid or did not speak the speech attributed to him—thous we have the best testimotythaheirs that hedLd did -but t h A c t; h he et he that speech is, or is not, Mr. l s in tended, or did not intend, to speak it—whether he allow s it to be his speech, and subscribes to all the matters which it contains, or disavows it and declares it to be a forgery ? and in answer to such questions, • we state, in the most distinct manner, that it is Mr. Sheil's speech, that he recognises every part of it, even to the very language employed, and that if the occasion for speaking it were again to offer itself, as it is now past, he woulLl speak it and no other ! We trust this is a sufficient answer to every attack which has been made both on us and on Mr. Sh e n ; and in conclusion, we would just hint to those who have been so busy in fixing charges of fraud upon 1:5, that we know of attempted frauds which, if ex posed in the same spirit that they have vainly at tempted to expose us, might not do them mu c h ser vice in the commonwe a lth.--iktormng Advertiser. It will be seen, from another part of our Paper, that a Meeting was held yesterday of a considerable number of Licensed 'Victuallers, to take into censi deretion the provisions of the Act of the 23th of Geo. 11., under which many of them have lately been refused Licences to have music in their houses. We have read over the Act in question with con siderable care; but have not only not found any clause in it which applies particularly to Licensed Victuallers, but from its termination have strong reason to believe that the Act itself has been dead for nearly seventy years ! The last clause of it provides in the most express terms for its expiration at the end of four years; and no mention is made in the Act pase,,d during the last Session, either of its existence or of its repeal. It may, however, have been renewed under a different title, and until those whom it concerns have better information upon the point, it would of course be unsafe to act upon it. We cannot, however, omit this opportunity of pointing out to our readers the avidity with which the gang of informers seize on every opportunity of harass ing those on whom they can fasten their talons. No sooner are they routed at Hatton-garden or elsewhere, in their attacks on the Licensed Vic tuallers, than they commence them anew on the coach proprietors--and when shewn up by the latter, return again upon the former, and attempt to con vict them of making merry with music, against the Act in that case made and provided, instead of keep ing late hours. Such miscreants ought to be crush ed ; and we are truly glad to perceive that they are at length likely to meet their deserts. The sums of money which they have extorted, under various pre tences, from the Licensed Victuallers and others whom the law has most injudiciously left a prey to them, are immense.--/tid. EXTENSIVE FORGERY. Another extensive forgery, or rather series of forgeries, has been discovered in the city, under circumstances of a very peculiar and remarkable nature, such as may probably (fired general at tention to the state of the law as regards the punishment for this crime, the inefficiency of . which is now proved by almost daily recurring instances. The particulars of the present case are as follows :—The person who has committed the forgeries was in some credit as a merchant, and resided in one of the lanes leading into Fenchurch-street. He contrived, through the medium of a friend, to obtain an introduction to an eminent monied house, • with which he established by degrees a regular connexion for discounting such bills as were presumed to be created in the course of his business, and which were uniformly drawn on persons of the high est credit and respectability, chiefly residing in the north of England. As these bills were regularly taken up when they arrived at maturity, the arrangement went on unsus pected for a very long time, and new bills, as the old ones disappeared, were regularly pre sented for discount, the bowie which gave the accommodation, however, having constantly a large amount of them, between 5;-11 , 0/. and 6,0001., on hand. It chanced that a banker with whom the partners, who are all members of the Society of Friends, are intimate, was shown one of the forged bills, which was drawn' on an eminent manufacturer in the north, whose busi ness in London this banker had been accustomed to transact. To his surprise he found that the hill prod:iced was made payable at another hank ing-house. He conceived no suspicion on that account that the bill was a forged one ; but wrote to the manufacturer to learn wily he had broken off the connection with his house, whose an swer of course exposed the true character of the transaction. The holders of the bill now dis covered that the whole of the bills received, from the same quarter were forged ones ; but in the hope of being spared the pain of a criminal prosecution, they resolved to keep the discovery to themselves, expecting that the bills would be provided for, as had heretofore been the case, when due. All the bills which had been passed by them into other hands they sent for, and paid the amount. The person who had committed the forgeries had not, mean time, the least suspicion of the discovery, but sent a fresh batch of bills, through his former agent, for discount, in order to raise funds for taking up those becoming due. The house which dis counted them could not of course go on, and they communicated to his agent that the bills were all forgeries. The individual who brought the bills, and who knew nothing of their being forged, offered to assist in any steps that might be thought advisable for bringing the o.Tender to • justice, and the forger was sent for to his office, where the partners of the house which had been defrauded met him, and charged him with the crimes lie had committed, which he could not deny, but threw himself on their mercy. The most extraordinary part of the story it to follow. The sole study of the individuals who had him thus in custody, though what will be characterised every where as false and mis taken notions of humanity, was, not how to bring him to justice, but how to save from him the consequences of his offence. His friends were sent for, that means might be devised for taking up the hills which were' in the hands of other persons, from whom the same lenity could not be expected as from themselves, and having effected all that was possible in this way, they unlocked the door of the room in which the culprit was confined, and bade him go forth and seek his safety where he could, for that no considerations should induce them to incur the reproach, for any such cause, of taking away the life of a fellow-creature. Had any punishment short of death been awarded by the law for this crime, they would not have held back from a duty to society, but their reluctance to the other alternative was not to be overcome. The criminal therefore has escaped, and as this scene occurred nearly a fortnight ago, is pro bably by this time far on his way to America. The house which has practised this extraordinary forbearance, is a loser by his forgeries of more than 5,0001. ; the only other bill out, and which could be brought forward as proof of forgery, is about 900/. and is in the hands of a banker near the Ro a g E h ' c ane. The y extent to which forgeries have recently been carried in the city is past all belief'; for owing to the abhorrence felt to the punishment inflicted for th e crane, the parties in a great ma jority of cases are suffered to escape. In the course of our inquiries after the particulars of i J the forgery detailed above, we met with several I well-authenticated instances. One banker, only in the present week, suffered a bill to be taken up at his counter, though he had a full proof at the time that it was a forgery, and that the cri minal himself was at that moment presenting the money for it. Others, by the Importunities of the families of the criminals, aided by their own feelings, have been induced in other cases to hold back from prosecution. The bankers are almost in despair at the dangerous situation in which these repeated forgeries place them ; but the predominant feeling in the city is, neverthe less, averse from a criminal prosecution.— Tames. TUNNEL UNDER THE MERSEY. It is proposed to construct a Tunnel under the Mersey, from the town of Liverpool to the op posite 'bank of the river, at a point - where the stream is more than a mile wide. At first sight the undertaking appears impracticable, on ac count of its magnitude, but a little consideration will show that the scheme is far from being visionary. When it is proposed to form a Tunnel above a mile in length beneath such a river as the Mersey, Londoners, with the example of the Thames Tunnel before them, are disposed to express their incredulity as to the possibility of accomplishing it. In so doing they are in fluenced by a consideration of the obstacles that presented themselves in the course of am enter prize undertaken under eery different circum stances. With respect to the Mersey, the case is quite different. There is every reason to believe that the bed of the river, and the substratum to a considerable extent below it, is composed of the red rock, almost universally found to have a place beneath the surface in this town and its vicinity. Borings will shortly be made for the purpose of ascertaining how far this is the case in the line of the intended tunnel. If it shall ap pear that the substratum is of the kind already de scribed, there can exist no doubt that the en terprise is perfectly fessible, and as little that it will be attempted. The process of subterraneous excavations through the red stone in question is well understood, and has been recently tried here on a very extensive scale in the Tunnel con structed for the Manchester and Liverpool Rail way. It is confidently anticipated that the tolls of a Tunnel, such as we have described, would be fully sufficient to ensure a fair return on a capital of 200,0001. or 250,0001. The traffic of the two banks of the river at the point in question is very considerable, and may rea sonably be expected to increase, if additional facilities be afforded for carrying it on.—The communication is now kept on by means of steam-boats, engaged in carrying passengers and commodities from one side of the river to the other, from morning till night, almost without interruption. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-MOUSE. Some days ago we gave an account of the manner in which some parishes are in the habit of getting up weddings between their paupers and the paupers of other parishes, for the purpose of throwing the burden off themselves; and we stated the particulars of the ease of a pauper who used, the moment his ;vife died, to marry another for the parish fortune of 21. 10s. This pauper, it will be recollected, the moment after his marriage, threw his bride upon his own pa:;sh, and the parish officers refused to give them a maintenance, as he had done what was a co►rstant practice amongst his better•,--married for money alone, and ran out the marriage portion in a day or two; after which he refused to do any work. The beadle of Bishop:gate parish yestrrday in formed the LORD MAYOR that the pauper had, not ►►iths'anding their caution, played them a trick. Mr. Hobler observed, that the very gross impos ture practised by the parish, in foisting its poor upos. Bishopegate parish, was well culculated to excite a similar spirit in the poor. The beadle said, that the pauper took his wife into the parish of St. Luke, and obliged her to feign illness for the purpose of enshhng him to obtain what is called the suspension of an order, a process by which a parish becomes responsible for the sup port of an alien pauper, and afterwards can claim from the pauper's parish a recompense. lie would have received, had he succeeded in this manoeuvre, ss. or 6s. a-week, until he should think proper to declare his wife in health; hut the beadle suspected him, and sent a medical man to inquire into the state of her health. Mr. Hobler—A;ia how was the poor woman ? The Beadle said, that the surgeon, upon going into the room, found the woman in bed, groaning, and apparently in the agonies of death. Upon feeling her pulse, however, he found that it was as good a pulse us any in the parish.—(Loud laughter.)— This fact was reported, and the parish of St. Luke, of course, would not contribute. The pauper, upon finding that his plan would not answer, huddled his wife into the parish chair, and sent her home to Bishopsgate; but the parish of ficers were astonished to perceive that she had scarcely a stitch upon her, although she had got clothes upon her wedding. " Where did you leave the clothes ?" said the parish officer. " Why," said she, " my husband thought that as I was going back to you, I had no occasion for the clothes, and he sold them all." (Loud laughter.) Mr. Nobler asked what the officers intended to do with the pauper ? The beadle said they were of course obliged to take the poor woman into the house ; bat as for the man, as he was determined not to work at all in the house, they would not pro ceed against him. He was too clever for the autho rities. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a gentleman presented himself before Sir R. BIRNIE, the sitting Magistrate, to give infor mation of a daring burglary that had been committed early on the morning of Tuesday last, at the house of the late Lord Ranelagh, which is situate on the banks of the Thames, tress Fulham. The Ffena man stated that the thieves had entered the house by means of one of the parlour-windows, the shutter to which had previously been cut through by a centre bit. They then proceeded to the drawing-rooms, from the walls of which they very dexterously cut oat upwards of 5001. worth of plate looking-glais, of a most costly and valuable description, which had been manufactured abroad, to the order of the late Lord .Ranelagh. This glass the thieves had removed from the premises, taking with them no other booty, although property to a considerable amount was in the house at the time. In the morning when the robbery was discovered, pursuit was made after the thieves, and the gardener, having traced sonic foot steps through the garden from the house to the water-side, it was immediately conjectured that the thieves had had a boat in waiting,by means of which they had conveyed away the property. On search ing, .however, in the boat-houso, at the end of the garden, the whole of the looking glass which had previously been missed, was discovered carefully packed up for removal. The geatlemart added, that from the skilful manner in which the glass had been extracted from the walls, there remained no doubt but that the thieves were persons connected with the glass-trade. Sir R. BIRNIE requested the gentleman to go to the clerk's office, fur the purpose of having his in formation properly taken down. The Magistrate added, that he would give directions to the Bow street officers stationed at Putney, to take immediate steps for the apprehension of the burglars. Amongst the charitable donations received by Sir R. EIRNIE was the sum of 51., which the Magi strate was requested to forward to Mr. Earle, the intlivithlal who, it rill bc , remembeered, was the principal actor in a gross case of fraud (connected with the getting up of some anti-Catholic petitions) which was disposed of some weeks ago at this office. Mr. Earle, it appears, is a prisoner for debt in Whitecross-strut prison. The letter was sent (the Magistrate said he believed) by Lord Kenyon. It was signed, " A Friend to the Protestant Cause." Mr. Woods, the clerk, suggested that perhaps the money was intended for poor Sparrow, the indi vidual who had been robbed of his 301. Sir R. BIRNIE again referred to the letter, and repeated the name of Earle, for whose use the money was directed to be applied, in consideration of the expense he had been at in printing the Protestant petitions. QUEEN-SQUARE. Jane Prior, the unfortunate girl whose case was mentioned yesterday, was brought from St. Mar garet's workhouse by the beadle, in order to be Passed to her parish. It appeared on examination that she had gained a settlement in Mary-la-bonne parish, having lived for sixteen months in the family of Mr. Blandford, in Seuth-street, Manchester square. She was accordingly passed to that parish. UNION-HALL. A man named Howard was brought up from St. Saviour's watch-house on the following charge:— Mr. Wright, landlord of the George the Fourth, on the Southwark-bridge-road, stated, that on the preceding night, after having closed his house, he proceeded up stairs to his chamber, and was asto nished, on walking up to his bed-side, to find it oc cupied by a stranger, who was fast asleep. On looking round the room, he also observed the gar ments of the intruder, and by them ascertained that he must be a working man of some description or another, for amongst them Was an apron, such as fishmongers wear, and the perfume he inhaled from that portion of the stranger's wardrobe convinced him he belonged to that trade. The complainant added, that he had some difficulty in arousing the sleeper, who, on being awakened, instead of show ing any contrition for getting between the sheets without the concurrence of the owner, and in a clandestine manlier, became excessively abusive, swearing that he had as much right there as any body else, and declaring that he would not " turn out" such a bitter cold night, unless he was cow pelled by force. Under these circumstances, the landlord was under the necessity of calling his ser vants to his assistance, and with their aid the de fendant was bundled out of bed down stairs into the tap-room, and his clothes sent after him, where he had his choice a either remaining in his shirt or dressing himself: he, however, chose the latter al ternative, and was then given in charge, and taken to the watch-house. Mr. CHATIBERS....•Do you believe lie concealed himself in your bed-room for the purpose of com mitting a felony ? Complainant—l cannot say for what purpose he took possession of my bed, but I should be rather inclined to believe, from what I have heard this morning, that he went there in a mistake. Mr. CIIAMBERS-^I am also decidedly of opinion, that he had no felonious intention; for if he had, he would not hare undressed himself and got into your bed. The Magistrate then inquired whether the de fendant had got tipsy in the house on the preceding night ? The reply was, that he had only a single pint of porter in the tap-room, and that during the tempo rary absence of the girl who attended the room, the defendant diseppeared, and it was conjectured that he had left the house . altogether. A candle and candlestick were also missed from the room, and and they were at first suTeeted to have been taken away by the defendant, but they were subsequently found in the room where he had gone to bed. Hall, the chief ceestable, said he could explain the mysterious circumstances attending the craw. The defendant, he said, was an honest, industrious rnan, whom he had known for many years. On the night in question, he bad partaken too freely of liquor with some of his ncquaintance., tied on his retion home happened to call in at the C;eoree IV., where he fell asleep wi:h h's had on the table. Un awaking out of the shindies, very little refreshed from the dote, and conceiting f:tn•eie to he at home, he eery deliberately took the candle off the table, walked up stairs, and having envied the first bed room he came to, undressed himself and get into bed. Hall added, that he was convinced the man did not know what he was about at the time. The defendant, who looked very sheepish after the night's advenrure, declared it to have a l arisca from " a drop too much." He was sorry for what had occurred, and begged the landlOrd's pardon for getting into his bed. Mr. Wright said that he was satisfied with the apology. Mr. CHAMBERS—Then if you are satisfied I am sure lam the same ; let the man be discharged. • The fishmonger made a low obeisanc..•, saying, that it was the first time he had ever been in custody, and hoped it would be the last. THE ARMY. A Detachment belonging to the 40th Regiment of Foot has received orders to march from Chatham on the Slet instant, for Deptford, for the purpose of embarking on the Ist of November, as guards, on board the Georgiana con vict ship, for Van Diemen's Land. INDIAN COURT-MARTIAL. Heal Quarters, Simla, April 11, 1828. At a European General Court Martial, assembled at Dinapore, on the 6th of March, 1828. of which Lieut.- Colonel G. Warden, of the 46th Regiment Native Infantry, was President, Ensign George Tebbs, of the 12th Regiment Native Infantry, was arraigned on the following charge :-- CHAROE--" For manslaughter, in having, when ou Board a budgerow, in the river Ganges, near Buxar, on the afternoon of the 16th of December, 1827, unlawfully levelled a double-barrel fowling-piece, one of the barrels of which was loaded with powder and shot, at Sewchurn, a native boatman, belonging to the budgerow, and having then and there killed the said sewchurn by the discharge of the contents of the loaded barrel, thereby inflicting upon him mortal wounds, of which he died on the evening of the same day." Up on which charge the Court came to the following decision : Finding and Sentence—" The Court, having maturely weighed and considered the evidence adduced on the pro secution, together with what the p:isoner has urged in his defence, are of opinion, that Ensign George Tebbe, f--f the 19th Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry, is guilty of the charge preferred against him, and they do, therefore, sentence him the said Ensign George Tebbs, to suffer im prisonment for the period of one calendar month."—Con firmed. (Signed) COMBERMERE, General Commander-in-Chief. Remark"' by the Right Ron. the Commander-in-Chia: The proceedings of this Court-martial were accompanied hy an earnest recommendation of the prisoner to the favour able consideration of the Commander-in-Chief. Consi dering the highly creditable testimonials to character ad <Weed, by Ensign Tabbs, and the feeling of deep remorse evinced by this officer, from the period of the fatal occur ! rence which led to the present trial, the Commander-in- Chief would gladly comply with the solicitation iu his farour, were it possible to do so with a due regard to the administration of justice; but it appears to his Lordship that the Court, in pronouncing ,judgment, have them selves accorded to the prisoner the fall benefit of thos;± considerations which might induce a m itigation of punish ment. It is clearly shown, that the f o wling-piece was levelled at the deceased in sport, in a moment of thoughtlees in_ discretion, and that the discharge of the loaded barrel was an accidental event never c ontemplated by Ensign Tebbs; I yet the homicide which ensued thereupon, though involen , tary, cannot be deemed either justifiable or excusable. The Commander-in-Chief does not deem it expedient that the penalty which the Ltw apportions to this offence should ho altogether remitted, and an imprisonment of one month's duration is, in his Lord s hip' s o pi n i o n, the least punishment which can with propriety be inflicted in the present case. The sentence of one mouth's imprisonment passed on Ensign Tebbs is to be carried into effect at Chuner. i~ THE MARKETS. COUN'CRY CORN MARKE7IS DURING licut. Barley. Oats. Poi Quarter• is. to to s. s. to BlarAfi;rti 79 41 • 2 Rrigg----- 72 76 36 40 24 t 71 Ohard 56 7K 3L ai 24 Huntingdon 06 76 30 42 u' Long Sutton—. r 4. 72 20 ',math ..---- 70 80 38 43 V Lyn!). 5l 76 32 42 21 Newark tZ 74 32 54) 17 I] Nottinginun 72 42 Preterborotigh 40 7U 26 3(1 18 t Plymouth --- 58 80 30 36 2(5 t Pon t efrart---. 75 S.kiafor•l 76 80 30 MI 241 Uppingham -- 70 86 uti 43 IH Wisbech —, 51 74 , 18 t LEEDS CORN NIA RKET.—Oct. 2 We had but a short supply of Wheat, and attendance of buyers, Old Wheat was "Is. to bs. to 6*. per quart,r higher. Barley of the was sold on much the same terms as last other descriptions were nearly unsaleable. Ose lag were rather dearer. In Beans there was Rapeseed rather higher. Wheat, Norfolk and Sufthlk, -- York. and Lincoln. 60th. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk --- Yorkshire and Lineolnshire ....«» ». Grinding Beans 63lb Oats, Potatoe ........... ........ —Mealing, Foreign 151. to 1110 ......English 15d. ..... ...... ..... ..... 365. t Rapeseed, English, 251 to 31. Y. LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANOFA—, The supplits to this day's market were hug, and New Wheat, and there was more disposif which was freely met by speculators, and tIP well cleared of all the Irish New Wheats, al of ls. 6t!. to Is. rid. per 701 b. since this Oats commanded an advance of ld. to 2d held .ss. to 6e. per sack above the (pot itiong diy. Oatmeal wan also Is. per load higher. Wilvaii, English, White, per -;tgb, Red ..---... Scotch, Welch, and Manx ... ...... --- Irish, White Red 1 0 II ° --- Foreign 0 8 $ i OaTs, English, Weill), and Scotch, per 451 b 4 0 $ 0 Irish .... ....... .....•.. .................... .......-- 3 8 6 A Foreign BARLEY, Fogl:ski, Malting, per Imp. quarter 4O 0 6". Scotch and Irish, per 6011a3. .... .... 5 $ 6 ; Feeding . ..... 5 8 30 . A REAMS, English, per Imp e rial q uar t e r .... ..... ---- Irish, &c. .....•...... ......... .. ........ - 0 $6 A Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperi a l quar t er . ....... .. ; 50 0 0 . 7 4 - Foreign Flotia, English, per ?MUM... 62 U ti c. Irishf)o 0 0 OATMISAL, English and Irish, per 24141b5.......... 3tl 0 VI INDIAN CORN, per 41t/lh. Rae, per haperiaa ptarter .....................40 Cl 7 .,/ v MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT Sr GRAIN for the WeeK ending Oct rbee Wheat.) Oat,. Barley. Fl our. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. For e i gn , Brls Irish, &e. Sake 1311; 3 ",. °1°' 16,46 t? 9,192 1 ,660 1 s'„:l4t LEWES MARKET.—Oct. 2f3. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 12 0 Red ditto Barley Oats, New 1 3 0 Pease Oil Cake, New l2 U °per MA NCH EbTER SMITH F LELD.-OA, At per lb. b inking the offal. 5,2:8 Sheep --41 d. to (id. I 26 Calves--.... Si l Cat 110 Pigs ------ 9.2 Lambs at tkl. to Cid. • MANCIIESFER POTATOE MARKET. T'. , tatoes, 6s. ed., Bs. Ed., and 76.6 d. per load ; New ditto, Os., Os. Od., And Os. Od. per Pd., 66.6 d. and i s . ed. p er l oa d o f 16 perks ; 135., and 13s. 6d. per 12 score. MARK: GE the PAN O;; 41 CC fnrn] i Yordgi tit ehisi I HE A f e w P ,Nte L: t i nted btis d ay , ot my HE hli .(y r ANI OROI CANiclti u minted Of 1 11 ' a 6 d. • Th Prnt e d 01. %,1 Cone This. we inter t'l lh t lq* 01 imme .:---1;3028.71%%4473,7 ti1P.117,. ATC:,1•11:, ----., 1 .04- ! r , a , rl ts .._____ 2,... ...„2:: :4°';44 , l it, ' t 41 1 ,1 I . lll l fe r ' gi l 1 , ; : 5 4 j e ft.i ve T 213 i ~ a P il l :IPPIY ( 31) 1 4 6 4' $8 -ii it 30 1 0 ~ 3t 4 0 49 T '9 N 154 '''' ' ' Ye Gil ~ 25 '',,) Y, 4 7 .7 4 tPti (~14fiir, an, 4 , B.riPEC sfl :fro i t l l it tl E i t i rt3 E liw l 1, 4 , s- 4"" ylitl, t iir tonth he best L q u , oli . 7e.en oc t. weak, ' 4- 04 1 .' 1 q tll ' S ' ante ati st io lltt, 5 140 filter 1 . ,! , ii i lt,ftw4 . 745. tO 1 ' 141 .1 (17 " r t ° 74 . 15. , e c ol. ti 08 tf,. E „' v istlar 9 5, m qauliyi, 1 k, tet to o 3 ; 0 , f t, try tr .5d.54t6:7 ftitirroo, Vett,s , to 3 34 . Pro O . .."4 3, . !. to ....._ .... :±2 . .... , " a ' Ath Tei t 4 be .oct. 26- d O i - r ,t 4 deli. we both 10 41 41 . nit .. on w fro . k r Potimiig m 0 be Mfr'et 'l o44 i l :1 ) : tend' at an 4' lo , Net: in ft day se 'Ø ., ° oo t 4 1... el ~ 3,1 0 1 P oee ...NE rev. 3 of * lot T , Ole Ptr 0, 1 ' l3, lalf, . Iv• , lg. Pd. op r , g ! 1.1 3 ji : . 11 3 0„' Al !1 u ti Y. The oct. 12 oto £4 0 12 Ll 11$ 0 I}o 0 ) ur n "rer 3 0 1 1 !i tam O 0 2 , John K, u 0 pet thoW p ran6B • e ' t° 6 6 tirSiclAl to Cid. cor r load of 12 07 i - 1 1 ' 1.3,er ditto ; mks ; (hnioo 4 . t) r aft Well CET.—Oct.2 9 . 1"; by 66ev 50 je At 40 I, f n 50....•. 1!p (4.• p 61) [▪ 80 'CINA 100 r 110......x7 i tmt_ 10 ---- ftre e A " , Perloni P Coe,d t " C (4 E; t he w}. si r s it On Id. 1 Fine 11 °_C r * to ff ' 1 E 0 higher, eh* 'rpm 65e. ID 10 ' te d n m!m • -int oy, 2 trees on the 1 / 1 : 41 Lwitoll the Rilnen, feU it BALI • Way planted is _ t j c Rtzs the first, n _ ir e 4 a) , Ilia - it W&s ( A "boo workmen bpi of ilacwiitioo, r,tHE tier Living du4 roe "t L, i the intvatiae em, & p erona Wet- , t or itle ct i and hid a rerf P„4, of MANCHESTER YAR • No. d. Throstle 10 1 1 to 11 ' 13 15i 1; Dl ale Cop Muleceprwlst} Welt— . fur tr. p '-'" •••• . 14 15 17* IA) .VJ 22 .23 26 INV•ii tram .27 wacte 110 P INTELLIGENL, WORCESTICH, OCT. 29.—0 n Satorday lerably brisk; 1863 Pockets wire sold. scarce, more in dcmand, and ratio- • Wing 80s. to 90i. ; inferior samples from Last night one of the largest t in St. Joities's nearly t ; with a tremendous crash, Thit trie early part of the reign of King Cita a, had liiterly become so touch decayed LO iie felei to the ground, and several employed during she day in the work had lett otf work au hour previous, atte yonsizi,r,Lie depth near the root, with ' suiring their work :l.'s day. Several ing to arid Iro a: toe the tree fell, row escape. • On Saturday morning, us JoB Witirtoii 9 $ collier, was working in the coal pits at Greeti:ey, 5°7 0 . 0 , companion, who had left him but a few minutes b e ifee a on his return found him upon the ground, with bet o c li three and four tons weight of stone lying up on Li r a s it took nearly half an hour to remora. He yew , with his head doubled between hie legs, and quits : 5 The stones had f a ll en f rom t h e roo f of the pit. A Coro-111 inquest sat on Sunday, and a verdict of "Aug Death" returned. BIRTS. On the 95th inst. at Pengwe H rn, in the comity of vio Lady Harriot Lloyd, of a daughter. In Dublin, the lady of Arthur Bushe, Esq., Afe rr' row, of a 'Laughter, who survived but an hotird-;7 Cl#P el ' t ( MARRIED. On the 28th inst., at the Spanish Ambassador's and at St. Pancris Church, Pasquel de Gayangoc son of the late Brigadier-General de Gayangos, CsP_ 4 , 44 General of the province of Merida de Yucatan, in Amwl - o i to Frances, second daughter of Henry Revell, DK' Burton-crescent, and Round Oak, Surrey. At Gallanaeli, In the island of C o ll, J o hn CaMee Esq., of Csrnaig, to Sihella, youngest daughter e t Cio"" Al• Lean, Esq., of Aldow. On th e 29th i ns t., a t P u t ney , by th e R ev . Chtr , e ° lo l 3 o Longley, Willi am Ly n n Sm a rt, E sq ., e ld es t son of Smart, Esq., of Trewitt-house, Northumberland, to mond, youngest daughter of the late John Longler• - - of Rochester. DIED. On the 21.. t inst., at Bath, in the 79th year of h ; , - " .0 0 46 , Francis Houssemayne Hu Boulay,•Es' q., of Walt Erosex. tar On the .28th inst.,"at his son's house, in SouthanlP s be street, Bloomsbury-square, Luke Uaneard, Exps i ° 79th year his age. tt g On the 22d inst., at Combs Down, near Eatb, Vath year of her age, Jane, the wife of Mr. R. PerkoorA v and youngest daughter of the late Mr. Carp en t er , of P r ingtoo, in the county of Sosnerset. , On the 29th inst., at Homerton, Jane, the vtio°,," Joseph Calmar, EN., late of St. Mary-hill, wine-ingr'Ser On the Sikh inst., in Winchester-row, in hie 78th: 1 - e r the Rev. Claudius Martyn, many years rector of Lq hal!, Buck.. CALCUTTA BIRTHS. I mo At Calcutta, Marcia 2, the lady of J. A. Walk "`"" of a son. Barrack vir'* March 12 the lact At :pore, t, iy of Cept. - 20th Regt. of a ROD. At Bensre., March 12, the lady of M. J, Timor!, V 4. Civil Service, of a son. At the Preeidency, Madras, Feb. 26, the lady af Sim, of the Engineers, of a eon. At Belgaum, Feb. 16, the lady of Lient-Col. C. Eh- - stone, of a daughter. g j At Arcot, Feb. 26, the lady of Capt. H. Williants, Light Cevalty, of a eon. • At Calcutta, March 20, the Lady of Major BV. M ked O sie, of a son. At Cawupote, Feb. 26, the lady of the Rev. J. 1164414 of a sou. At Futtehghur, Match 6, the lady of R. Stewart, Evl i of a son. At Calcutta, March 23, the lady of the Rev. W. 14 ' 6? ~on, of a daughter. At Muttra, March 12, the wife of Lieut. F. Why of a son. At Titalyab, April 6, the lady of Lient. J. Wood, Hvgt. N. 1., of a daughter. At Calcutta, May 11, the lady of Captain' nos. 11 4 of a sou. At Batt,ghlepote, May 2, the lady of R. P. N isbet ' rif4 , Civil Service, of a daughter. At Calcutta, May 9, the lady of J. D'Rovrario, Eigl• a daughter. _AO PRINTED and Pußuslian by MURDU YOLINti, D' 4 01114:18, Ll 2, Stitaxv, ;on - ono. ;on - ono.. siva lox Firq : I