The Sun. — London, England, 1842-04-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF FRIDAY. GLOBE.—It appears, by the proceedings of Parlia ment, that on the 11th of March Sir Robert Peel brought forward his budget, of which the income tax - was the principal ingredient ; and on the Friday fol lowing—just one week after—the House resolved; it selfinto a Committee of Ways and Means • when imme diately the doors of the House were closed to petitions ei,gainst that odious impost, which the people are super ciliously informed by its author is to be continued atleast five years; and that they may think themselves m ore than fortunate if it be repealed at the expiration of th at period. On the 22d of March, only 11 days after t he announcement of the scheme, two petitions were about to be presented to the House against the measure ; when, upon the Speaker being appealed to as to w:iether their reception were consistent with the i forms of the House, he stated that " t appeared by the proceedings of the Committee of Ways and Aleans, published in the Votes and Proceedings of the House, that a tax upon income had been proposed as part of the Ways and Means for raising the supply granted to her Majesty for the service of the year ; and that according to the established rules of the House, no petition against a tax under con sideration for the service of the year, could be received by the House." The petitions were therefore rejected. This will explain the meaning of Mr. W. Craig's re mark last evening, that the petition from Edinburgh Against the tax, signed by three thousand persons, he was preVented from presenting to the House. If anything were necessary to exhibit the glaring absurdity, and to illustrate the gross injustice, of the rule which thus excludes the petitions of the people from the House of their representatives, it would be found in the ridicule with which a petition emanating from any number of persons against a tax which they ' imagined the Minister intended to propose, would be treated by the House of Commons. Such a petition Would be sneered at as the embodification of chime rical apprehensions, and would be thrown under the table with contempt. The monstrous proposition is before the House ; and the people are told that they are now too late with their petitions—" it is contrary to the forms of the House to receive petitions against a tax under consideration !" • STANDARD. Mr. Thomas 8. Duncombe last' night distinguished himself by moving to re scind a rule of Parliament of nearly a century and a half standing, and - adopted within about eight years of the glorious revolution of 1688— surely not the least healthy period of our parlia tnentary constitution. The rule in question is one which forbids the acceptance of petitions against taxes proposed for the current year; . and the reasons for such a rule must occur to All. Every one hates to pay taxes, and very few there are who must not (almost unconsciously) find reasons in the nature of whatever tax the wisdom of man can devise, why he should not pay a tax is that shape. Thus petitioning would become com rneasurate with the population, and Parliament would be placed in the painful alternative of neg lecting either the public service or the petitions of the people. It is not a question of mere convenience--it is a question of principle. On the question of taxation the citizen is a party directly interested. Upon the ground, then, " nemo actor et judex," he is not a competent judge ; not a judge , at all, without hearing the arguments on all sides, and his int:usion into the deliberations of those whom he has appointed his representatives 'and arbitrators can have no effect but to prevent or embarrass the formation of a right judgment. On the low ground of convenience, however, petitioning against an instant tax must be mis chievous. Parliament would have so many peti tions against such a tax, that it would be impos sible to consider them all, and carry on the public business at the same time ' • but undoubtedly it is more respectful, and less likely to cause mis understanding between the people and their repre sentatives, to decline receiving petitions, than to re ceive them and throw them on one side. Whoever is not satisfied by these considerations, will scarcely fail to he convinced by the learned and extremely able 'argument of Sir Ge'orge Clerk. Mr. Macaulay de fended Mr. Duncombe!s motion. He did not pretend to answer Sir George Clerk ; but liberally dispensed liae-oltl common-places upon the right of peti t tibnofte., trotting with proportional contempt the old usages of Parliament. Sir Robert Peel happily r6MarkM That the. lak speaker had not contended for the, riglit of petition against ,taxes. wllen the admi :_alistration of which he . was a member materially nugrnenteel the existing taxes in 1840. Sir George Grey replied for his friend, that no petitions had been : offered 1840. This is a fact deserving of notice, as illustrative of the differencd bet Ween a Conserve- Jive and a Whig-Radical Opposition. The Censer kative,Opposition ever supported the public service. h cannot be charged upon them ' that they crippled the public establishments s o as t o lead to the late dis c.' q . ters ; as little can they be charged with having prompted the measures that have been the immediate cause of these calamities. Their policy has always been that of wise men who love their country—to keep the nation in a condition " strong to resist, but slow to give offence," the natural policy of England, as it is the national charateristic of Englishmen.. Mr. Wakley and Mr. C. Buller alsO spoke ; and Mr.-Dun coinhe's motion was rejected by a majority of 167 to 136 ; • COURIER.—At length the Corn-law question may be said to have received its final solution ; on the motion that " This Bill do pass," the third read ing and enactment of the Corn Importation Bill was carried by a large majority in the House of Com mons. The T ." demon of the Thames" was not laid, however, without sundry parting flourishes and exorcisms of the conjuror who performed the trick of raising that magnificent trope from the river mud in which embedded, and to which again consigned. The mighty M.P. for all Stockport devotedly ena moured of a curious conceit for which he was credited in his one special Corn-law speech of the session, reproduced it last evening in the shape of •a substantive motion for throwing the Corn-law over board, "That inasmuch as this House has repeatedly declared by its votes and the reports of its Commis sioners, that it is beyond the powers of Parliament to legulate the wages of labour in this country, it is in expedient and unjust to pass a law to regulate, with a vew to raise unnaturally, the prices of food." This motion involved a repetition of several of that enlightened Meinher's usual absurdities. For example, here is a corn law which, by the universal admission of its oppo rents, may be accepted as a manifest improvement upon existing legislation, inasmuch as its inevitable tendency must he to reduce the prices of bread stuffs; I vet this blundering block printer comes forward grayly to propose that " it is inexpedient and unjust to 'ass a law to regulate, with a view to raise unnatu nig, the prices of food." It is not necessary to orf2r any remarks on so stupid a contradiction in sense and terms. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY. GLOBE.—The Tories are, on some occasions, very loud in their praises of the Constitution, and of the glorious privileges which it confers upon the people who are living under it ; but there are at the present moment two of its greatest blessings and most highly vaunted blessings which the Conservative Premier is doing all he can to withhold from us. The right of petition, and the power of self-taxation, are allowed on all hands to belong " inalienably " to British subjects, and yet this right and this power it is now sought by the practice of Parliament to alienate. The almost general abhorrence in which the pro posed income tax is held has naturally led to the getting up of p e titi ons i n a ll parts o f t h e kipg doinagainst the i n fli c ti on o f t h e expected gr i evance ; and if ever there was a question on which the voice of the people could most properly and most constitu tionally be heard, it is this, with regard to which . Sir R. Peel has co n t r i ve d to prevent public opinion from being brought in th e usual manner under the at tention of Parliament. If the people can only petition against taxes before they are proposed, the only course that is open to them—particularly when th e y are ruled by a Minister who gi ves no i nt i mat i on of what his plans will be until he brin gs th em f orward —is to form a series of conjectures as to what oh noxious imposts may probably be suggested ; and • even then the ingenuity of the Premier in devising some oppressive measure may be greater than the skill of the nation in foreseeing it. Innumerable speculations might have been formed as to the course Sir . Robert Peel wou ld h av e pursued, and peti tions . founded o n a ll o f t h em m i g ht have been sent in ; yet n o t one would probably h ave " hi t the right nail on the h ea d," by re monstrating against the impositi on o f an income tax based on such unjust and unequal principl es as th a t proposed .by the Premier found- t o h ave b een based upon. In looking for the authority upon which the Speaker has decided that petitions . against the income tax can not be received, the discovery has been made, that it is not a standin g . ..order, but mer . ely a practice of the House, that guides it in the determination it has hitherto arrived at to reject the prayers of the people. Now, even had there been a standing order expr ess l y l ay i ng down the position that petitions under such circum _ stances as now exist are not to be received, it w ou ld still be competent to the good sense of the House, if an order w hi c h not imperative on its justice, to alter = could only have been useful in cases which ca nnot now ; for as the presentation of a petition is not allowed to give rise to a debate, there cannot be that waste of time which the refusal to receive petitions • - was solely designed to obviate. The rule, however, which it is now desired by the Premier and a portion of his followe rs t o en f orce , i s f oun d e d on a practice of the House, and the existence of the custom is urged as the sole reason for its continuance. It 'is perhaps as well, or better, 't o a dh ere t o th e - usua l cours e,- when is - thereroom to doubt the propriety of a departure from it ; but when r eason and justice are clearly in a contrary direction to th a t which usage has pursued, the latter should be abandoned as speedily as possible. STANDARD.—Mr.Thomas Duncombe last night attempted, in defiance of his defeat on the night pre ceding, to present another petition against the income tax. The attempt was resisted, and a debate arose upon the question, which debate is adjourned to Mon day. There can be no mistake as to the purpose of Mr. Duncombe and those who support him ; that pur pose is, by fixing attention upon the practice or rule of Parliament, to create an impression that, but for this rule or practice, petitions would be universal, an impres sion that would be altogether fallacious. If the feel ing against an income tax is so strong and general as Mr. Duncombe represents, why has not the country expressed this feeling ? Petitions to Parliament, in deed, furnish one organ of public feeling, but only one; and there are fifty others ; for example, " the great ward meeting of Farringdon Without" set an example which might be followed, and which doubt-' less would have been followed generally, but for the circumstance which caused that great ward meeting to be so very thinly attended—the circumstance, namely, that the people are not indisposed to the financial plan of the Minister. Again, we see that the parish of Christ Church, Surrey, has followed in the track of the " great ward," with an attendance as meagre and with as little effect ; and this parish of Christ Church meeting happens to be the only, expres sion of opinion in the matter which the Morn ing Chronicle, with all its zeal and vigilance, is able this day to record. The expected ex plosion in the recess has, in fact, miserably failed, and Mr. Duncombe's movement is neither more nor less than an expedient to conceal the real cause of failure. We have shown that the rule of the House of Commons is founded upon sound considerations of both principle and convenience; but as regards mere party interests we have cause to re gret its existence ; for confident we are that were the nation polled by parliamentary petitions, or in any Other .way, upon the choice of an income tax, or an equivalent in any other taxes that have been named,' the immense majority would decide in favour of Sir R. Peel's measure. Mr. Duncombe has, however, no doubt, to some extent succeeded in effecting his pur pose—to explain away the failure of the threatened explosion. ELECTION COMMITTEES. WIGAN. The Committee met at eleven o'clock on Saturday. The vote of Joseph Walsh, which was objected to on the part of the petitioner, and adjourned from Friday, was pro ceeded with. The vote was retained. The Committee thin adjourned till eleven o'clock this day. GREAT BIARLOW. Mr. TALBOT replied on Friday at great length upon the evidence against the vote of Jason Povey, which was objected to on Wednesday by the petitioners Counsel on the ground of bribery, and has occupied the Committee ever since. The room was then cleared. In about a quarter of an hour the parties and Counsel were re-admitted, when The CHAIRMAN stated that the vote was a bad vote and must be struck off. Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM then addressed the Com mittee on the part of the petitioner, and expressed a hope that, as the vote of Charles Gibbons was retained upon the sitting Members poll solely on account of the credit given to the testimony of Richard Gibbons, in opposi tion to the evidence of the voter himself, and as this Richard Gibbons had been convicted before the Committee of giving false evidence in another case (for which he was now paying the penalty by incarceration in Newgate), the Commit tee would re-consider their decision. The Learned Sergeant cited several eases to show that the Committee had the power so to do. The CHAIAMAN then said, that Mr. Austen should be heard in reply on Monday, at eleven o'clock. The Committee then adjourned. SUDBURY. The Committee met on Saturday morning at eleven o'clock. The Counsel for the petitioners proceeded to examine wit nesses in support of their case. Joseph Cook examined by Mr. HILDYARD, deposed to having seen a large body of electors go pn the morning of the polling to the Black Boy Inn, which was an inn used by the Committee of the sitting Members, where they went up stairs, aril remained there about five minutes. William Dighy, a constable of Sudbury, examined by Mr. Sergeant WRANOHAM, deposed that he saw a large body of voters go to the Black Boy Inn, whence, after remaining a short time, they proceeded to the polling-booth. From the latter place they proceeded to the Swan Inn, which was at the side of the Market Hall, and opposite to the Black . Boy. He saw several persons c.the out of the Black Boy to poll in the course of the day, some of them being accompanied by the four Messrs. Goody, - who were agents of the sitting Members. All these persons polled for Mr. Villiers and Mr. Dyce Sombre. James White, examined by Mr. HILDYARD, deposed that he was employed by Mr. Thomas Goody to keep order at the Black Boy, and that he received Bs. - tor his trouble.- He was, also engaged on Monday to go to the Swan. There was - a. room at the Swan, at the top of the stairs, in which he saw_ Mr. S. Goody, the solicitor. The rails of the stairs gave way in consequence of the preAure of a number of persons who went up stairs. Benjamin Harris, examined by Mr.. I-Ittuvaau ' depos•4 that on the morning of th e p o lli ng h e saw a num b er of per sons proceed from the Black Boy Inn to the polling-booth, and vote for Mr. Dyce Sombre and Mr. Villiers. 'there were some scores of persons who did so. The Goody a were very busy with them. This witness was cross-examined by Mr. LEAkY, but With • out anything of importance being elicited. • Sarah Baram, examined by Mr. H/LDTARD--,Sho was at present a servant, living in London. At the time of the elec tion she was servant .at the Black Boy Inn; Sudbury.: The " Yellows" frequented the Black Boy. On the Monday even log preceding the day of polling two strangers arrived at the inn. On the . 'Tuesday morning, • she saw one of them in the bed-room up stairs; he was there shout two hours and a half. A great many of the voters went into the room to him. 1 hey only went in one at a time, and renuined about a minute. '1 he others were crushing up stairs. When they left the room they went towards the hustings. Witness saw the door of the room open, and something given away by the strange gentleman. She knew Mr. Dsce Sombre, because he was a black man. .Saw him on Tuesday going up the stairs which led to the bed-room. The stranger was there at the time he went up. She said to the voters when they were crushing up stairs, " For goodness sake don't crush so, or you will break the place down." The Learned Counsel was then proceeding to ask the wit ness what was said to her in reply, when Mr. AUSTEN objected to the question. The room was cleared, and on our return the Committee an nounced that they Lad resolved that, previous to deciding whe ther the question could be put, Counsel must show whether the parties whose conversation with the witness he sought to elicit were or were not voters for the borough. The witness having alleged that Joseph Wheeler, jun., had attdressed him on the landing of the stairs, evidence was gone into for the purpose of identifying him with a person similarly described on the poll-book. The room was again cleared, and on our retires the Commit tee announced that they had decided that the question should be put, inasmuch as they would have to report to the House upon facts of bribery, although not committed with the know ledge or consent of the sitting Members, or their agents. Sarah Baram was again called, and on the Learned Counsel asking her what Joseph Wheeler said to her when she spoke of the crushing, the witness said his reply was, " We are going to take our money." The witness then gave rime further evidence, in the course of which she stated that she was pre sent in the room three or four times when the stranger was oc cupied with one of the persons who had come up stairs, but slit. could not state the name of either of the parties whom she saw there. The Committee adjourned at half-past four. IMPORTANT INVENTION for IRON CRAFT and STEAM VESSELS. We understand that Mr. Payne, optician, South Castle -street, after a series of experiments which, altogether, have• occupied eighteen months, has succeeded in producing a binnacle so loaded with magnetism as to counteract the local attraction of the compass in iron vessels. It 'is pretty generally known that hitherto the ma riner's compass has been useless in iron-built vessels, unless they have undergone a.process, invented by Professor Airey, to " compensate" their magnetism. This compensation, for which the vessel under process is to he continually turned and moored, unmoored and turned again, is very tedious, and, consequently, expensive. It consists in placing large magnets at such a dis tance from the binnacle or other compass that their attraction is equal to the deviation occa sioned by the magnetic influence of the vessel. Mr. Payne's plan allows the whole arrangement to be executed in the workshop, and the inven tion comprises an entirely new method for the circulation of the magnetic fluid. The exact process is to be kept a secret until a patent be se cured; but, from the explanation the inventor volunteers, it appears that he collects and fixes a vast quantity of magnetism in his binnacle, and causes its influence to ascend in a conical di rection towards the centre of the compass needle. The magnetism of the iron vessel is attracted to this magnetic arrangement, which cuts off a di rect communication between the needle and the vessel, and leaves the needle as free to act cor rectly on board the vessel as on shore. The mag netic binnacle swings on substantial gimbals within an outer binnacle, covered with the usual brass top, lamp, &c. The saving of expense by the new plan will be considerable, and it will not be liable to an objection, which is advanced against Professor Airey's plan, that the com pensation is not lasting. It has been found that a variation in compasses, compensated on the Professor's plan, arises by the iron of the vessel losing some of its magnetic strength by gradual oxidation, paint, &c.; while the large compen sating magnets remain in preservation, and, after having been exactly powerful enough, become too powerful. .The compensating power of the "magnetic binnacle," on the contrary, cannot be too powerful ; but may be not sufficiently so, a defect which is soon seen, and can, of course, be easily remedied. The first binnacle constructed on this plan is now on board the Mersey, iron steamer, plying between Birkenhead and George's Pier, and occasionally employed as a tug-boatat the entrance of the riven—Liverpool Albion. BRISTO L SUGAR-MARKET, APRIL B.—There are no sugars in the port to make a market from, and the offices are necessarily empty and deserted ; we have, therefore, nothing to report upon. In other markets which are supplied, and where business is still conducted, prices are in favour of the buver.—BristoLlifercury. MAIL AND COACH DiYTIES.—Mr. * Greene, M.P., Mr-Marton, M.P., and a deputation, ebnsisting of Mr. Danis, Mr. B. W. Horne, Mr. Trigg, Mr. Wickham (Chairman of the Board of Stamps), and Nlr. Pressley, had an interview on Saturday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer, at the official residence of the Right Hon. CJutleman in Downing. street, on the subject of the mail and coach duties. Years. THU stiN, LONDON, MONDAY IZVENING APRIL 11, 1842. BIRTHS. DEATHS, AND MARRIAGES. (ABSTRACT.) --THIRD ANNUAL REPORT 01 THE REGIS' TRAR-GENIRAL 01 BIRTHS, DEATHS, AND MAR RIAGES, IN ENGLAND : PRISENTED TO BOTH HOUSES Or PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND Or HER MAJESTY. General Register-office, June, 1841. My Lord, —I have the honour to submit to your Lordship a general abstract of the number of births, deaths, and marriages registered during the year ending June 30, 1840, in order that the same may be laid before Parliament. The following statement will show the num bers registered in the year ending June 30, 1840, compared with those of the preceding years :- 1839-40. 1838-39. 1837-38. Births Deaths Marriages 124,329 121,083 111,481 There is thus an increase in the number of births registered in the year ending June 13, 1840, over those in 1838-9, of 21,049; over those 1837-8, of 101,877. s In the number of deaths registered in the year ending June 30, 1840, over those in 1838-9, of 19,094 ; over those in 1837-8, of 14,146. In the number of marriages registered in the year ending June 30, 1840, over those in 1838-9, of 3,246; over those in 1637-8, of 12,848. The increase in the 'number of registered births results from a continuance of that suc cessful operation of the new law to which I have already adverted in my first and second Reports, and which began to appear after the former half of the first year of registration ; and I can truly state, as before, that I attribute this success mainly to the diffusion of a true knowledge of the beneficial tendencies of the measure and to the dilligence and intelligence of the local offi cers by whom it is carried into execution. In each of the last three years the proportion of male and female births has been very nearly the same. 1839 Metropolis lB South Eastern Counties South Midland Counties 4B Eastern Counties . South Western Counties 39 Western Counties 47 North Midland Counties 4l North Western Counties .... Yorkshire Northern Counties Monmouthshire and Wales The increase of deaths compared with those of the two imeceding years is less than it appeared to be. It must be remembered that the first year's registration could not comprise the deaths of the whole year, which, including those regis-. tered subseqeently, amounted to 331,660. The real increase, therefore, over the registered deaths which occurred in the year 1837-8 is 11,441. It must also be borne in mind that the population of England and Wales was shown by the censuses of 1821 and 1831 to have increased from 1821 to 1831 at the rate of 16 per cent. ; and if it be assumed (as is probable) that this rate of in crease has continued to the present time, the popu lation in the years 1838-9 and 1839-40 will proba bably have increased to the amount 'of from 220,000 to • W 0,900 yearly. If the lowest of these numbers be taken, and the mortality be estimated at the lowest rate consistent with pro bability—namely, 1 h 50, there will in each of these years, at the same rate of mortality, have been at least 4,400 more deaths than in the year preceding. This number, therefore (being the probable increase, at the same rate of mortality), must be deducted; and the remaining num bers, • which indicate increased mortality, will, for the year 1839-40, as compared with 1837-8, be about 7,000; compared with 1838- 9, about 14,700. Yet this increase is great; and inasmuch as there is rapson to believe that there is not merely an apparent increase, arising, like that of births, from the improved ef ficiency of a registration, which, at the commence ment, was very defective (for the very efficient registration of deaths, even in the first year, left no such room for improvement), but that ere has really beeu an increased mortality to that amount, a circumstance so serious demands atten tion and inquiry, with a view to ascertain the nature of the increase, and especially whether it has been sudden or progressive, general or local, and whether affecting equally or unequally all ages and both sexes. The proportion of male to female deaths in each of the three years has been nearly the same, as appears from-the following numbers:— Males. Females. Year ending June, 30, 1538 ... 170,965 ... 164,991 „ , 1839 ... 169,112 161,595 ~ „ 1840 ... 177,929 . .... 172,172 ... 59 England and Wales _ . . 4P59 On examination of the ages at which deaths have-occurred in the foregoing years, it appears that the increase has been principally in the deaths of chil4en, as is shown by the following table : Age. All ages, Under 5 60 and including Years. sto GO. upwards. those specified. 131,034 128,921 75,127 335,956 130,695 126,594 72860 331,01 , 7 141,747 131,730 • 73,973 350,101 10,713 2,809 ` ' B46 14,145 11,052 5,136 3,113 , 9,094 England and Wales, by showing the proportion per cent. in the Metropolis, in each English county, and in North and. South Wales, of per sons married in the year ending June 80, 1840, who, instead of writing their names in the mar riage register, have signed with marks. . . . It appears from a table given, that in 13 Eng lish counties, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, and in Wales, more than 40 percent. of the men married did not write their names; and that in 19 English counties, in the West Riding of York shire, and in Wales, the same fact existed with spect to more than half the women ; and it ap pears from an abstract of marriages, that in the whole of England and Wales, out of 124,329 couples, there were 41,812 men and 62,523 wo men, who, it is to be presumed, either could not write or wrote very imperfectly. If the table for ffie year ending June 30, 1840, had shown results differing widely from those 61 the preceding year, it might reasonably have been suspected that such returns were not likely to become valuable and safe criterions of the comparative state of education ; that they are dawn from too small a portion of the whole population, and are too much influenced by acci dent. Such, however, is not the case. A com parison of such table with the similar table in my second Report (it is stated), will show a re markably close correspondence in the results, not only for the whole kingdom, but in the me tropolis, and every considerable group of coun ties. This will be evident from the following comparison of the mean proportion for the re spective years— _ _ _ Mean Proportion. 1840. 4P92 ft appears, that tried by the returns of these two years, every county occupies nearly the same relative position, and many of them pre cisely the same. This coincidence sufficiently proves that the test is one which must not be disregarded, but may be found a valuable and safe criterion of the comparative state of educa tion. But I muat add, that it is only from a comparison much more extensive than that of the returns of two years that the superiority or in feriority of particular portions of the kingdom can with fairness be inferred; and that I do not yet attempt to found any opinion of that kind upon such evidence only as is comprised in the foregoing statements. Places of public religious worship not belong ing to the Church of England have been re gistered for the solemnization of marriages to the number of 188 during the year 1840. The number registered in the preceding year was 246 Again, as in the two preceding years, I have directed abstracts of The causes of death to be compiled, under the direction of Mr. Farr, and to be appended to the Report; and to them, and to Mr. Farr's accompanying letter, I particularly invite attention. [The Appendices to the report are stated to be in progress of printing. These documents con sequently do not accompany this Report.] At the commencement of the year 1840 I be gan to obtain from the registrars of the metro politan districts, comprising a population whi c h amounted in 1831, to 1,594,890, weekly returns of the registered causes of death, and directed abstract 9 of the same to be compiled and pub lished weekly, and have continued to' publish them, uninterruptedly, to the present time. The result of such returns for the first 20'weeks of the year 1840 was exhibited in the appendix to my second Report. lam now enabled to give, in the appendix to this Report,, the further result of the returns for 52 weeks, ending May 22, 1840. • I have the honour to be, my Lord, " Your Lordship's obedient servant, June, • 1841. MASSACRE IN MANILLA. (From the Spanish a9rresponsal.) We received, by Suez, letters from Manilla, of the Bth of December, 1841. Two things occupied people's minds -there, althOugh tranquillity. was re established. Ist, the effervescency of the population ; and, secondly, the violence adopted by the superior authorities in the repression of popular 'neve ment. There are some particulars taken from the " documents we received, which are interesting enough. An advice given to the public by General Oraa, and dated the 9th of November, says, the rebel Apolinario de la Cruz, chief of the revolt, was shOt. At the village de.Tabayas, two days after, the other cabecillas underwent the same- fate, Dionisio de los Reyes, Gregorio Miguel de Jesus, and Francisco Espinosa de la, Cruz. An order given at the Palace of Manilla, and signed Oraa, promises an amnesty to. all those who took part in this revolt, having been fanatised by Apolinario de la Cruz, and one called Purgatorio. Twenty days have been allowed them to come before the authorities, and all their fire-arms are to be given up in the space of fif‘een days. The desperate collision which had taken place be tween the troops of the Governor of Tabayas; who was killed on the spot, and the band of Apolinario de la Cruz, had been occasioned by the curate of the town burning the image of St. Joseph, which belonged to the fraternity—an image which they thought miraculous ; and some friars of St. Joseph had been badly treated : these had been flogged, and flogging is the greatest affront possible among the natives. Apolinario had chosen to hide himself from the pursuit of the curate and the governor of the pro vince in an hermitage, two hours' walk from the ca pital. There were two streams at the foot of the hermit age. Apolinario and his companions had elevated a rampart of earth, half a yard high, the side of which looks upon the capital of Tabayas. Behind that they had dug a ditch, not very deep, in which they waited for the troop. They resisted for half an hour after the firing began. The women of the fraternity, grouped together at a certain distance, were con templating the engagement between the troop and Apolinario's band as calmly as if it was a tour nament. As soon as the fire of the troop had dispersed the groups, the men and women of the fraternity ran away confusedly, taking refuge near the altar and in the chapel of St. Joseph. A great many of them were seen at that moment embracing a wooden cross or their brevet of the fraternity. Fanatised by their chief, they thought they held in their hands a talisman against death : that was the tenor o their brevet. The num ber of dead is said. to amour_;; to 4C03 without count ' ing the wounded. It is said that a great many of them who surrendered were shot. But what we scarcely believe is, that the executions continued for five days after the engagement, by the order of Ge neral Oraa. The curate of Tabayas, it is said, wrote immediately to the Archbishop of Manilla, begging of him to mediate with the Captain-General , in order to obtain the cessation of this butchery. It is not known what were the projects of Apoli nario. It is certain that if he had wished, after the death of the Governor, Ortega, to march upon Tabayas he could have taken possession of it. Instead of taking possession of the province, these unfortunate fanatics remained in the cha pel, expecting the prodigies which Apolinario had promised them in the name of St. Joseph. The apostle did not show himself to his children • four young virgins served him—they were his aides-de camps. They communicated his orders to the faith ful. No one was admitted into the fraternity, ex cept on condition of not asking to see the apostle (Apolinario.) Amongst the victims there are several who do not even know the face of their chief. In the hermitage they sung a canticle, which an old woman shouted out, and went in procession to kiss his hand. This is the way these unfortunate people, whose plans we do not kno*, passed their time. It is a curious thing, that on account of this event, there were three lawyers put into prison, Florentino, Pontajo, and Marefosqui. General Oraa wanted to have them judged by a council of war, and the tribunal would not, which makes it be supposed that no conspiracy is yet proved. There is a mystery in this affair which the next letter from Manilla will, perhaps, unfold. At all events, it is important that , the Government should find means to restore con fidence between the natives of Philipino and the Spanish authorities. FIRST PLAY-BILL ISSUED :FROM DRURY-LANE THEATRE. — ApriI 8, 160, is the date of the first play-bill that issued from Drury-lane Theatre :—(Copy)—" By his Ma jesty his Company of Comedians, at the New Theatre, in Drury-lane, This day, being Thursday, April 8, 1663, will be acted a Comedy, called The Hvmovrovs Lievtenant The King, Mr: Winteredll ; Demetrius, Mr. Hart ; Selerivs, Mr. Burt ; Leontvs, Major Mahon ; Lievtenant, Mr. Glyn ; Celia, Mrs. Marshall. The play will begin at 3 o'clock exactly. Boxes, 4s. ; Pit, 2s. 6d. ; Middle Gallery, Is. 6d.; Upper Gal lery, Is." On Thursday forenoon last, a young man of the name of Clark, about 16 years of age, living with his father, John Clark, at Northowram, was shot through the body with, it is conjectured, a pistol. He died almost instantaneously, and before any medical aid could be procured. A person near beard cries of murder proceeding from the house, and imme diately after the report of a pistol ; and, as no . weapon of that 1 descripti2n can be found in the house, it , supposed the rather of the unfortunate young man is the perpetra.tor of the deed ; no one but he and his wife (the young man's mother), being in the house at the time. He was apprehended on the charge on Thursday aftsrnoon...Leeds Intelligencer. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. ( From the London New Price .Current of April 8.) SUGAR—To-day both Grocers and Refiners were anxious to purchase West India Sugar, and most of the parcels offer ing found a ready sale at prices 6d per cwt. above those of this day week; the scanty show, however, tended to restrict business. The purchases for the week are 1,400 hhds and trcs ; the quantity remaining unsold is barely 1,500 hhds, The price of the Government contract of 100 tons has been kept a secret. Riwi NEI:L.—To day the demand was extensive for home con sumption, and higher rates were paid ; Standard Lumps fetehed 81s to 81s 6d, brown lumps, 78s to 80s 6d per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar sent readily at 28s 9d for the best. AlAuarTrus.—The demand has been good for both brown and yellow descriptions, and former rates have been fully sus tained for all sorts. This afternoon there was no public sale, and none is de clared ; privately however the demand was good, and the prices paid were 6d above those of the last auctions. Easi. INDIA.—This afternoon white Bengal Sugar was in good request privately, and stiffer rates were paid; brown sorts sold more freely, there was no public sale ; but of Porto Rico 250 hhds; and of Manilla, 1,700 bags were offered ; the former taken in at full rates, mid and goodmid yellow at 18s to 19s Bd, and good bright 20s. the latter bought in at 15s to 16s for common brown, being the full value. FOREIGN.—White Brazil is held firmly, but the demand has been limited ? For white Havannah there are still few buyers, and the operations have been upon a small scale only, at 24s to 26s 6d for low to middling ! and at 27s to 28s 6d for good to fine. BUM, BRANDY, AND 11OLLANne.—The demand has been extensive for East India Rum, and prices have advanced Id per gallon for parcels subject to the high rate of duty. Proof at the high duty at Is 5d to is 6d, with certificate Is 8d to Is 9d per gallon. For Leewards prices have -advanced 2d. Proof to 2 per cent 0. P. at 2s 5d to 2s 6d, 4 to 10 0. P. 2s 7d to 2s Bd, 13 to 20 0. P. 239 d to 3s. Mauritius at Is bid to Is 6d proof. St, Kitt's, 26 per cent 0. P., at 3s 2d pier gall. Jamaica mid quality at 4s 6d to 5s per gallon. 'We quote Cognac brands of the vintage of 1836, hhds 5s 7d, puns 5s 5d ; do. 1837, hhds 5s 3d, puns, 5s Id ; do. 1836, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s II d ; do. 1839, hhds 4s 6d, puns 4s 4d ; do. 1840, hhds 3s Ild, puns 3s 9d per gallon. Geneva at Is Ild to 2s for common ; fine is worth 2s 6d to 2s 8d per gallon. British Corn Spirits at 9s 8d cash. COFFlCE.—lmporters of British Plantation Coffee are firm, and supply the market sparingly ; the trade have been more disposed to operate in clean sorts this week, and privatelfsome small parcels have been disposed of at full rates. This afternoon the public sales consisted of 423 bales Mocha, 28 casks 91 bags West India, 500 bags Java, and 370 bags Ceylon. The Mocha was nearly all withdrawn; Ceylon sold at very full rates—good ord coloury at 77s to 78s, good ord pale 76s to 76s 6d ; Singapore Java went Is lower, good ord pale at 44s to 47s ; West India went as follows : Berbice mid at 100.; Demerara mid 105 s, ord and good ord 50s to 70s per cwt. TEA.—T o-day the market for Tea was in a dull state, and the small parcels disposed of brought barely former rates ; we quote Congou common ls 9d to Is 91d cash, Twankay, Is 90, and Company's Congou is 10*d to Is lOid per lb. SPICES —!his afternoon the public sales consisted of 404 bags Black Pepper, 233 chests Cassia Lignea, 277 bags of Afri can Ginger. Pepper sold at full rates—Common Sumatra 20 to 2d per lb ; Cassia Lignea went Is to 2s higher—good mid fetched 92s 6d to 93. 6d, mid 925, low mid 86s to 90s, erd coarse 755, good erd 775, broken ends 78s to 80s 6d, mouldy 808, low and broken 66. to 67s Ginger fetched 53s 6d to 585 6d. Rim—The market for Bengal Rice has presented a firmer appearance this week. This afternoon 5,779 bags 448 pkts Bengal, and 2,000 bags of Java were offered at public sale, the former principally sold at very full rates ; middling white at 105, low middling 9s to 9s 6d. very ordinary broken 8s 6d, cargo 7s to 8s 6d. The latter all sold at stiff rates, good middling white at 11s per cwt. TALLOW.—The market for Russian Tallow has presented a firmer appearance this week; the late decline in prices has brought forward several orders, On the spot 46s to 46s 3d for P Y Candle, and there are not further sellers under 46s 3d per cwt. For delivery in the last three months of year at 48s to 48. 3d per cwt. South American good quality at 43s 9d to 445, mid and good mid 41s 9d to 42s 6d, dark 37s to 40s 6d, Grease 36s to 375, and Horse Grease 27. 9d per cwt ; Town Tallow at 45. 6d nett, cash. This afternoon there was little business done in the market, and 46s 3d is the nearest price for P Y Candle on the spot; at public sale 439 casks St. Petersburgh stranded Tallow sold at 44s to 45s 3d, and 203 casks New York melted at 46s to 46s 3d per cwt. OILS.—For common Fish Oils there are few buyers; Cod Oil we quote 28/ 5s to 28115 s ; pile Seal 38110 s to 39/, yellow and straw colour 29110 s to 361 10s, brown 271 to 291, Southern 301 to 331 per tun. Sperm Oil, good and fine quality at 85110. to t 37/ per tun. For Linseed Oil on the spot sales have been made at 31s to 31s 3d, and for delivery at 31s 6d. to 31s 9d per cwt. Rape Oil, pale, at 48s to 48. 3d, and brown 47s to 47s 6d per cwt. Cocoa Nut Oil 40s to 40s 6d the best. Palm. first sort, at 311 lOs to 32/ per tun. Gallipoli at 571 10s to 59/; Spanish 54/ to 541 lOs ; Barbary 52/ to 531, and Levant 501 per tun. This afteinoon Southern Oil went at 31/ to 321 for fair to fine, being cheaper. 90 tuns fine Sperm of British fishery 801 to 8015 s per tun. COUNTRY CORN MARKET& wheat. s. to s. 57 72 s'l OR 56' a .54 68 53 70 fis - 72 53 61 46 '73 4i2 '76- 52 75 56 CS 65 76 - 711 IA 61 s.d. B.d. 7 0 S 6 NEWCAS Barley. a. to a. 25 33 32 40 32 37 25 :5 24 29 34 44 21. 37 37' 24 32 32 . 35. 23 23 34 31 33 30 36 s. d. s. 36 46 TLE CO] s. d. s. d.l, s. d, s; d. 9t3 4 0 ( 5 0 70. E .N EXCHANGE.. itid.. . . White.,., 5-(s. 53s ...... 535. 625. . I 2 . 640. 1 . Oa !.Ga ....... 54 , t 05.. 584. 62c........ 62- 644 . 30, 3.14 —s. — , "-5. I "244 32s —l. ..—s. I 4. lk and Suffolk... 20, 304 --s. —s. 1 f Feeding 41k 42.525 —l.-%, r f : , .. 3 25. 34...... —s. —5. ... -- Tick ' Pease, White 1.43 41s —4. - --s. Gray - s. —R. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe ... -------- --- Feed • Ps. 205 —s. ---. —Foreign 20.:. 223 —s. s Flour (per ,ack) 42s. 41e —4. —4. DEVIZES CORN MARKET. s. d. e. d 8 0 V Wheat, North imberl . - Norfolk aad S - Berwick and Si Foreign.... ...... ityc, Norfolk and Suftc Foreign ..... Barley, Malting, Norfol -- Grinding and gait, Norfolk and Surf Means, mall tOtolk COtCh lk Per Sack. a. d. e. d. Fire.t‘h heat 33 0 to 85 0 Second Third darley 26 0 38 0, Per Qum ter. a. d. P. d Oats 2O 0 tc. 32 0 Beans (per sack) l6 0 24 !Flour (par los?) firaad (pergallon) 1 3 0 CHELTENHAM MARKETS. d. te 4. 6 7 6 7 II 7 6 8 7 9 Pe! lb. Per Bushel. rt. d. to s. d.,_ h‘' - at narley 3 0 3 9 Matton Oats 3 0 3 9 Veal Hearts roast Hay 41.5e. to 41. 10s. On. per ton. CANTERBURY MARKET. Wheat, white 05s. to :Os. ....... —s. is 76s tics. to tI•ls. —a. to • 4 . Barley, Malting —30 s. to 34e Ornding.. —s. to ...a. Oats —... _ . Its. to !As. —s. to —s. Beans. 32s . to 40s. Old —s. to 6. Pease 401. to —s. Grey :4%. to CHELMSFORD MARKET. Wheat, White '4 to 69 Oats Red Parley 29 31 White 'o 31 Chevalier ......... :'2 33 1 Beans, Tick . '8 35 :4 Grinding HULL CORN MARKET. Wheat, White (per Quarter) Red 'fa. 5.'8 60s. Foreign ....... . Barley, Malting GriFdiug •..8. SOL 3 , 13. Oats, British Foreign (in bond) lBs. 2044. 22. 32s 3's. 40; • 345, 36s 31s. 365. 88s. 4es. 5'4. 565. 02s —l. 465. 525. —/. 371. 594 8ean5........... Pease. Grey Blue and White Linseed... Flour per sack Rapeoeed (per 10 quarters) INCOME TAN. A paper published in Birmingham recommends that every man shall be required to make a return of his income within the range of twenty-five per cent., snore or less, of what he believes it really to be ; for example —a man returning his income "4001. within the range of twenty-five per cent., more or less "—it cannot be known by the public whether his income be 3001. or 5001., or any intermediate suns ; or £ £ £ 500 returned may be any sum between 375 and 625 9C J ditto ditto 675 to 1,125 eitto 1,200 ditto 900 to 1,500 2,C JO ditto ditto 1,500 to 2,500 and so on : thus great facility in making the return, and a liberal margin diminishing the obnoxious exposure consequent on a rigid and exact return, would be provided. The per centage is to be charged on the amount stated in the return, except in cases where the Commissioners have good reason to suppose that the real income actually exceeds, by one-third, the amount so stated. It may be objected that every one would assess his income twenty-tive per cent. too low. This is an erro neous conclusion, the probability being that many per sons would avail themselves of the latitude given, to determine on an average, to prevent the necessity of altering their returns annually,* in consequence of fluctuatiOns in business, &c. ; but grant the fact, the worst that could ensue would be that the Minister would, for the first year, receive a smaller amount of revenue than he had calculated on ; the defalcation would be made up the next year by a proportionate increase of per centage, mahout unfairness to any individual, every one having had the opportunity of determining the average on which to make his return within a liberal range. [This might be very well if an income tax wer necessary for the service of the State, but it is only necessary to keep alive monopoly, and, therefore, ought not to be supported or recommended in any shape. If it were in lieu of indirect taxes, we might say something in its favour ; but it is an addition to them, intended to perpetuate the indirect taxes on sugar and corn.-- En. Sun.] a Whether the returns be made annually, or on an average of three years, the principle above laid down would be equally applicable. FRACTURE OPA MAN'S LEG BY AN ELTIPHANT.— On Thursday afterneon, about four o'clock, John Glascott, a groom Commer cial-road East, service of Mr.ast,accompanie Turner, of dbyhismasEite Dean-street, a a n n - d s t r threee e t, Cm children, o e r entered a caravan and booth in apiece of waste ground oppo site Philpot-street, Commercial-road, in which an elephant has been exhibited for some weeks past, for the purpose of wit nessing the feats of the animal and other performances. The elephant, which is described as ten years old, and one of the most harmless and docile that has ever been in this country, was marching about the booth with three men on his back, and perfectly quiet. The moment the animal had espied Glas eat, who at the time had his child, a boy of about four years old, in his arms, it became exceedingly restless and out of tem per. This latter fact was evinced by his bellowing out loudly two or three times, and then stretching out his trunk, wound it round the left leg of Glascott, lifted him off the ground, and dashed hire with much force to the further corner of the booth. On being taken up, it was found that Glascott had received a severe fracture of the left leg. He was instantly removed to - the London Hospital. A POSER.—As a teacher of the " was employed, the other day, in his " delightful task" of lcarning a sharp urchin to cypher on a slate, the precocious pupil put the following question to his instructor :—"Whare dis a' the figures gang till when they're rubbed oot ? ". Oats. 1837-38.. 1838-39 1839-40 " -ft 1 Excessof deaths ' in1839-40over 1837-1838 —. Over 1838-39 . . Thus more than half of the excess over the deaths of 1838-9, and more than three-fourths of the excess over those of 1837-8, consisted of the deaths of children under five years of age. That this increased mortality has not been. general, but has been confined to certain h calities, while, at the same time, there has been a di creased mortality in other parts of the kingdom, appears from a given table. The counties which there has been the mortality, compared with that of greatest s increase arid e in of 1833, are Lancashire, IN; otting al3erelB, banish ire, West Riding of Yorkshire, Leices tershire, Cheshire, Gloucestershire, Northum berland, Durham, Derbyshire, and North Wales, the combined increase of which alone amouts to 15,231, out of the total increase of 19,097. The prevalence of such increased mortality in those counties, which comprise the largest pro portion of manufacturing population, naturally suggests that the cause may probably be found in circumstances to which the manufacturing classes have been peculiarly exposed. But a further examination shows that not only has the increase varied very much within those coun ties, but that there has even been a decreased mortality in some of those districts which are peculiarly the seats of manufacture.. Such has ' been the case in Manchester and Salford, Ashton, Oldham, Stockport, and Leeds. Therefore, though manufacturing distress cannot be excluded from among the possible causes of increased mor tolity, care must be taken not to assign such mor tality to this one cause in an undue degree. It appears from the evidence of the entries in the register-books, and the reports of superin tendent registrars, that this increased mortality is attributable chiefly to the prevalence of epi demics, especially of typhus and scarlet fever, and that the districts of Chorley, Leigh, Wigan, Burnley, and Blackburn, in Lancashire; Mac clesfield, Dewsbury, Pontefract, Nottingham, Bingham, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Bangor, and Beau mania, are those in which these diseases have been fatal to the greatest extent. The peat increase in the number of marriages, an increase mounting to 12,348 ; over those regis tered in the year 1837-8, compared with the much smaller increase, amounting only to 3,246, over those of the year 1838-9, confirms the state ment made in my second report, that the number in 1837-8 must not be considered as an average number, but that there was a deficiency in that year attributable to the change in the law; many marriages, as I w as informed, having, under a misapprehension of the object and effect of the Act fin. Marriages, been solemnized immediately before that Act came into operation. Of the in crease, amounting to 3,246, over the registered marriages of the year 1838-9, more than half may be regarded as the natural result of increased population. It is calculated that the population of England and Wales, at the middle of the latter of the above-mentioned years of registra tion ---namely, Jan. 1,183 w, exceeded by not less than 22 5,000 the Population on Jan. 1, 1838 ; and as the ordinary propo r tion pf marriages to popu lation is nea r ly 8 annually to every 1,090 persons, more than 1,700 marriages may be ascribed to the increase of the population; and the excess, independent of such increase, will thus be re duced to little more than 1,500. In the abstract of marriages, I have included the numbers of4each sex married under twenty one years of age, which were 6,101 men and 17,909 women, being in proportion to the whole number married 4.90 per cent. and 14.40 per cent. respectively. This proportion is in a slight de gree higher than in the preceding year, when the numbers were 5,628 men and 16,414 women, and the proportions 4.64 and 13.55. The results exhibited by this table correspond very closely with those stated in my Report of the preceding year. I then mentioned, as the counties in which early marriages appeared to prevail, Hertf o rd, Bedford, Cambridge, Hunt ingdon, .Northampton,_ Leicester, and Essex. The same, with the addition of Wiltshire, are the eight counties in which, in the succeding year, are the largest proportion of men married under the age of twenty-one. The results are also similar in these two years respecting those portions 'of the kingdom in which early mar ritqcas have been most rare. T have in my second Report oudeavoured to throw light upon the state of education, with re- I spect to writing, among the adult population of Per Quarter kndover tlanbnry 13nsi. gstoke I ;oventry Oaveatry .Derby ...... Rowden Hungerfofl NlAlton Mai. en ttead :5 °qtr. gharn Wantage War wick Winchester York , 1-' , n Bushel Birmingham Btans. r. to a. 20 31 as 28 23 :3.3: 24 26 22 31 20 fa 28. .3$ 2'l 26 a. to a. 33 44 36 40 42 46 43 44 30 44 :,6 40 85 , no 22 .;.- 34 25 ..31. 19 24 26 30 40 - 45 38 41 - 37 40 86- 40 N 22 30 46 1 Cabe S. d. 00, _ 4 42~.~..4~ - A 3 40 , SI S 42 40 <3 • - ""'l(' ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, April 8. . 1 CROWN SlDE.—(Before Mr. Serjeant A.TcrizaLesr.) William Hall sad Robert Sexton stood indicted for bur glariously entering the dwelling-house of Maria . Starr, and stealing a watch and other articles, her property ; the indict ment further charged that the prisoners Wore and at the time of the committing of that felony beat and used violence to the prosecutrix. Mr. Palmer appeared for the prosecution, Ur. O'Malley and Mr. Turnley for the prisoners. The prisoners are young men of stern and forbidding countenances, and the prosecutrix is a very old lady, residing in a lonely house in the village of Mundesley. It appeared that about the hour of two o'clock in the morning of the , 21st of December last she and her " little maid," a child of some 10 or 11 years of age, who were in bed, were alarmed by a noise below, which sounded to their affrighted ears like the breaking open the shutters of one of the windows below. The maid first heard the unwonted sound, and woke her mistress. They sat up in their beds for some minutes, dur ing which they heard various frightful noises underneath their room, and at length all was silent. 'I hey then crept very cautiously out of bed, and listened at the door, when they heard the sound of knives and forks, the uncorking of a bottle, and ever and anon the daring invaders of the house were heard laughing and talking. The prosecutrix barred and bolted the door, and cautiously placed a chair against it. She and the young child then silently struck a light, dressed them selves, and in a state of the most fearful suspense awaited the issue of this extraordinary proceeding. Long, so at least it seemed to them, did they thus remain, every moment expect ing that the robbers would make their appearance ; nor with out too much reason. They heard the intruders push their chairs from under them, and throw down their knives and forks, and almost immediately the sound of the footsteps of men ascending the stairs reached their affrighted ears. The child hid herself in one corner of the room, and the prosecutrix, as the robbers, having found the door fastened, demanded instant admission, ran to the win dow and shrieked out for help as loud as her feeble and trembling voice enabled her. The burglars upon this, with many oaths, burst open the door, and rushed in. They had their faces blackened, apparently with soot, and the shorter of the two men ran up to the prosecutrix, seized her, and aimed a fierce blow at her head with a bar of wood, which it afterwards appeared had formed the insecure " fastening" of the window by which the ruffians entered. They then took an old family watch from its place at the bed's head, and with horrid menaces demanded money, which was given them. The men insisted that the prosecutrix had more than the sum she had surrendered, and upon her saying that the had not, the man with the wooden bar gave her a terrific blow with it, and knocked her upon the floor senseless. During all this time the child had remained unnoticed in the place to which she had fled for safety, and saw what was going on. The taller man, who carried the light which they brought with them, held it during a part of this scene in such amanner as to enable her to see that he was the prisoner Sexton, notwithstanding the blackening of his features. She hadknown him for the greater portion of her short life, but prudently kept her knowledge to herself until the robbers had quitted the house. When they had done so, she crept from her place of concealment, and admi nistered what'aid she could to her mistress, who after some time recovered her senses, and then the little creature told her that Sexton was one of the men. This happened on the morn ing of the shortest day, and they had still some hours to pass before their neighbours were astir or the morning dawned. At the sound of the first friendly step they called for assistance, and the person, who was going to his work, made his entry by the door which the robbers had left open in their escape. It was then discovered that the burglars had eaten and drank whatever they found in the widow's cupboard including a bottle of rum, which they uncorked, and the greater portion o f a bottle of brandy. Assistance was immediately obtained, and Sexton's house searched. He had just risen from his bed as the police and their followers entered, and Hall, the other prisoner, was in the bed. They were of course both taken into custody, and their faces, albeit not so much begrimed with soot as they were a few hours before, were still very black and dirty, and the bedclothes on which their faces had rested were very much marked with soot. Hall is a shorter man than Sexton, and his dress corresponded exactly with that of the second robber, the man by whom the violence was inflicted upon the prosecutrix. Mr. Sergeant ATCHIRLET summed up the evidence with his accustomed clearness and . fidelity, explaining the law and commenting upon the facts as he proceeded. The Jury found Hall Guilty of the entire charge contained in the indictment, , viz., burglary attended with violence, and Sexton Guilty of simple burglary, he having endeavoured to persuade his more brutal companion against using so much violence, and refused to give him a pistol when he called for one during the bed-room scene. The Learned JironE, after commenting most impressively on the enormity of the offence of which the prisoners were con victed, and the necessity of throwing around the dwellings of the poor and humble the protection of the laws, sentenced Sexton to be transported for 15 years. With respect to the prisoner Hall, his Lordship said he should consider whether it was necessary that the law should take its course, by leaving him to expiate his crime on the gallows. On the frllowing morning the Learned JUDGE desired Hall to be placed at the bar, which having been done, and silence proclaimed, his Lordship sentenced him to be executed, ex horting him, in an address replete with feeling, not to indulge any vain hope of mercy, but ko spend the short remainder of his days in penitence and prayer to his offended Maker. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. NEW COURT. _• • - Peter Mollor Dane) was indicted for stealing a coat of the value of .305., the property of G. Rennington Tetley, Esq. The prigtmer claimed his privilege, and demanded to be tried by half foreigners, and also "the benefit of an .interpreter, although it was stated, '.and apparent r that he was acquainted with the English lan guage. The evidence - -was very conclusive, and the:Jury found him Guilty. Sentence seven..yeare transportation. Wm. Andrews, aged 20, a printer, was indicted :for stealing one hundred of Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, anatwenty-five reams of paper, of the value of 251. 12s. 6d, the property of Messrs. Bradbury and 'Evans, his em ployers, and Charles Carter, a pamphlet vender, was charged with receiving the property, knowing it to be Mr. F. M. Evans Stated that he is a printer, in partner ship with Mr. Bradbury, in Whitefriars, and the pri soner Andrews (who pleaded guilty) had been his ap prentice two years. Witness is the only printer of Chambers's Ed:nburgh Journal in London. They are sold to the trade at 13id. a dozen. The prisoner worked in the machine-room where they were printed. Thomas Selby and Robert Macaulay proved that on the night in question they saw Andrews in Fig-tree court, Temple, with a quantity of printed sheets under his arm, wrapped in a wrapper. Mrs. —, a newsvender in Holy well-street, stated that early in March the prisoner asked her if she could dispose of any of Chambers's Journal, as he could ren-. der them at 10d. a dozen. • He said he had dealings with a bookseller, and was obliged to take 100 dozen of the publication weekly. She said she would inquire, and he afterwards brought her 100 copies, half folded in folio instead of quarto. They were quite wet, as if just from the press. She gave information, and delivered up the copies produced to the officer. Witnesses were called to prove the deficiency in the stock of No. 528 of the publication—it was very consi derable. The warehousemen to Messrs. Orr, of Amen corner, the publishers of the journal, and the folders, were also called to prove that they never delivered copies only " once folded." They were published in quarto. The Jury pronounced them both guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT told Andrews that it was ne cessary, in an establishment containing 200 persons, for them to know that flagrant acts of dishonesty could not go unpunished. The Court was bound to pass the fol lowing. sentence:—That he be transported for seven years, and Carter for fourteen years. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. Samuel Lewis was placed at the bar, charged with cut ting and maiming Jane Hemmings, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. Jane Hemmings, the prosecutrix, being sworn, stated that she lived at No. 15, Providence-place, Lisson-grove. Mr. LONG—What are you ? Witness--Why, some times Ido one thing, and sometimes another—some times I work, and sometimes I don't work, and sometimes do nothing at all. Mr. Lotto—l suppose you live with the prisoner ? Witness—Yes, worse luck. On Friday I had been out, and on returning home found Lewis lying on the bed drunk. I said, "Lewis, you seem all right ;" and he got up and struck me. Mr. LO-4G—What do you mean by all right ? Wit ness—l meant that he was drunk. He then got up and struck me on the side of the head, and knocked me down on the ground quite stunned with the violence of the blow, which brought the blood to my mouth. It appeared, in continuation, that while she was on the ground, he went to the cupboard and got a knife ; in the mean time she got up, and endeavoured to get out of the room, but the prisoner pursuing struck her again on the head, so that it was, as she expressed it, like a " pummy ;" while she lay once more almost senseless he made an ef fort with the knife to cut her throat, but she (Hem mings) putting up her hand to defend herself, he merely inflicted a deep gash upon her left wrist. Frightened out of her life at the profusion of blood which flowed from the wound, she cried murder several times, and then by dint of struggling got away from the prisoner, nm bled head long down stairs, rasied herself again, and ran out into the open air. In Harcourt-street she met a policeman, who took her first to a surgeon, and then to the station-house. The cut was very deep, and the doctor had told her she was a lucky woman not to have lost her hand. The surgeon of the infirmary having deposed as to the serious nature of the wound, and the prisoner, having ascribed the case to drunkenness, was committed for trial. ANION HALL. William Goodred,:: jerk in Doctors' Commons, was charged with creating a disturbance in the Surrey Theatre, and assaulting one of the constables. Selby stated that he was a constable, and that while on duty at the above theatre, on the preceding night, he was called into the boxes by a gentl eman , w h o com pl.ained of theimproper conduct of the defendant to wards him. When he (Selby) went up the defendant was abasing the gentleman, calling him by th e most oppro• b r ious epithets, and his conduct was so violent that it was found necessary to eject hi m f rom t h e b oxes. I n ca rrying this into effect, howe ver , th e d e f en d an t re sisted very much, kicked witness on the shin, and when he got him into the lobby, the defendant tried to throw him over the bannisters, whi c h, h a d h e succee d e d i n t h e a ttempt, might have proved fatal. At length the de fendant was taken to the station-house. Air. Mackerel stated that he was sitting in the front of one of the box es , an d t h e de f endant, w h o was b e hi n d him, conducted hims e lf i n a very i mproper mann er, with out the slightest grounds. He desired witness in a ve:y dictatorial manner to take off his hat sit down, although there was no im , ,ediment in the way. Witness, finding the defendant inclined to be very noisy, did not notice him at first , u p on which h e used these expressions—" You are asha med to take off your hat, as you wear a wig. Coma out, and I'll fight you for a sovereign." And when the constable afterwards came up the defendant exclaimed, "You are . tlareel of tilieves, come her:: to rob people." The Less confirmed the constable's account as to the ,assall,f, and the violence of conduct he exhibited in getting him Out cf the theatre. The witness added that ttl;.. fondant, to show his wit, exclaimed that he would " fry him " in the morning, in allusion 0 witness's being Mackerel. The defendant denied that he was so outrageos, °, represented, and said that Mr. Mackerel woul d neiwe ct sit down nor take off his hat, which pre-rented tl*of behind from seeing ; and that nettled at such a " I " n g common politeness, he (defendant) used rather st,?_,l, language, he admitted, when the constable wa,s ra'k and he was dragged out by four or five men and t 3 ' l b u e to the station-house. He complained that he wa s aggrieved party himself. Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that the defendant ,nugbtha have complained to the box-keeper, if he considered:Jed his view of 'the' performance was intentionally ouP de instead of acting in the manner he had done. fondant, instead of being fined, pot a small sum in 11:0 poor-box, the constable saying thut be did not vils press the charge. CLERKENWELI , William Prescott, was charged with assaulting Jackson, a silvcrsraith, in Nelson-place, Clerkenweioni The complainant stated that between eight and 1,j5 o'clock that same morning, he was coming fl o ss country-house, Hurnsey Cottage, to his place of bus with his family in a chaise, when the detertda n :i was riding in a cab, put his head and waist o ut: " 0 4, window of his vehicle, and, after flourishing his made a deliberate aim at him, and struck him vieleade on the forehead. For a short time he was dePri ce f bis• reason, and the reins of his horse dropping out 0 hand, the animal took fright and broke the harness; „ 00 it was a miracle that no further injury took place. 'Li, his recovering himself, he gave chase to the ace iced who pr;ssed forward as fast as he could until he arritinci at King's-cross, Where he had the horse turned r° b is again towards Clerkenwell, and while driving a t io st utmost speed he was stopped by a policeman, W witness appealed for assistance. S top Mr. GREENwOOO--LDid the defendant refuse to Complainant—Yes ;he tried all he could to get6‘,". the Mr. GREENWOOD—What have you to say, t 0" a nd charge ? Defendant—l was flourishing my sac"' it accidentally struck this person. an d Mr, GREENWOOD—WeII you seem a g entleina u fbei , I should think the blow occurred as you have d! s f l dek Complainant—lt was not an accident. He too k • berate aim at me. Coir Mr. GREENWOOD—Have you any w itness : of plainant—Yes. Here is my wife. She will t ell whether it was an accident or not. Mr. GREENWOOD—WeII, I shall not examine 1161 4 the gentleman does not deny that he struck yoo' som e Pendant—Suppose I were to give a sovereign t° charity ? 55vjt: Mr. GREENWOOD — n YOn have committed a n 11 ' 5 , according to your own admission, and I fine rii Defendant—l hav'n't only 15s. or 16s. about mr• give you a cheque, if that will do. v 0c 9 5 Mr. GREENWOOD—YOU will soon be able to .„rotc it. If we were to take cheques we should b e intl ' with them. Mr. GREENWOOD (to Waddington the gaoler) lock the gentleman up, let him sit in your Nona till gets the money. • Waddington then led him away, but return i - -- afterwards into the justice-room, and addressncrthl'' Greenwood, said, "Your Worship, I w c ili a.n: i t ot s t :, l :s d i o;;, The man you told me not to lock up He says he will go where he likes, and there beol ishing his stick about, and treating me like dii t' Mr. GuEENwooD—Then you must do your s ty, treat him as you would any other prisoner. ord"' Waddington, who seemed delighed with the J lO immediately returned to the gentleman and handl' into a cell. 0 11 The 20s. were, in about a quarter of an kola - 6 coming, and the prisoner was liberated. iL f 1 1/ FLANDERS AND DUTCH BRUSSELS, APRIL 7.—The - average price o f " 0 5 el last week, was 22,00 f., and that of rye 1,20 8 E ~ - s rlf, the 15 ships which sailed from Antwerp, on tpkow this month, was the Belgian schooner Jupiter,' d off' Herloghe, bound for New York, with a cargo ° 1 BRUSSELS, APRIL B.—On Tuesday a very ), AI•P mutiny broke out in the military prison at t s 0 1 0 originated in the refusal to supply the pris ol t e tobacco for smoking. They attacked the keen, were obliged to yield to numbers. Th e do 0 4 ; masher coming to the spot, and seeing tilei• asperation of the men, caused tobacco to be giv, e ll o o . this restored tranquility for a time, but on the le, er t P'; morning they made further demands, which * t o fused ; . on this they again mutinied, and tried ea the 'prison doors, in which they . did . not succ h e tr oos Magistrates have. surrounded the prison • wit ri They Then got on the roof and pelted the aolw - o *P: h ; sto, , es, so that it was necesiaryl6 have recouraeo 0 1r - o on which .the roof, waS . immediately:cleared , .t e e persons'were wounded, one mortally. Sleantl hl ijie tr. were sent to Alostfrom Brussels_.and Qhent, )1e f o r way. Detachments of lanCers n barrack a : t , and several brigades-of gebdarnles of Brabant '' t he Alost. it seems that. - order- -is -restored sinc e darmes received orders: at Asche-tu return._ ' OO O : 11 * THE HAGUE,: APRIL • B.L-Yesterday... - Afte l•n o es , solemnity of the betrdthing her Royal- 1fig, 1 . 3 ., Princess .Sophia of Netherlands; and Highness the - Hereditary Grand Duke of Si4e • • V', Was performedin the Palace. PERlRA.......aceQuats, from 'MoscoW- WhiCo ice received by way; of nerlin; affirmed that a , 4 of 50,000 is on its .mnrcb against Herat: . I °';cle j o that the Shah was not to.• - be. dissuaded: &Oat - 14.'1 , the plan he had formed - by. the remonstrOc,t * A 4 ll os l r British Ambatsador and not , even.- - by. the tt;oLor England would consider this step as a cleelare'Lvifiy against itself: . Ai well as-the insurrection in Ate - 0 this smoVement is ascribed' - to the preponderaitolt, ence of a northern poWer, whether' justly or Too 'Y r r 4 question, se that we even heard of El ° • hac c o• lions of silver rubles which the Shah is said t f) . t hio ceiVed as a subsidy to enable him to. under4ske pedition. All this needs confirmation. • DUTCH FUNDS,—AussiaDaii, AIP fii ts Ma w /. Actual Debt. '2% per Cent .... 10%" • Jitto, ditto 5 per cent. Amert Syndic, 4% per cent US al. • Ditto, ditto, .3% per cent ....... ..... tL Comtnercial Company, 4 per cent..... • 1001 Ditto (1535 and 1537) 5 per cent. ....." 1 r 9WI Loan 18.9'7, 5 percent. 99 )4 12 Exchange on London, One month l2 (15 Two months . Hamburgh, One month 35 35 '° Two months Dutch Papers, April 9. BELGIAN kUNDs—naussite, AP.- - pie Actual Debt; 2% per Cent . .......:.......»••" pie . Rothschild's Loan 5 per Cant .. . ...... • 99 • Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per per • lot —Thirty.seven ........ .0 . (I 8 4 0).. ...... .. ..... Leen of City, 1932, 4 per Cent ........ 60„.L Society et Commis rce, 4 %per Cent.... ..... Bank of Belgium, 6 per Cent.— ....... Ns tional Society' Exchange on London (short) .. . -Brussels Papers, April a. al 81 ; • 0 AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Viersea, —/ ••• liveper Csists. Metalliques .... cr. I , NA r per Cents. ..... ....... ...... ........ t is Three p.r Cents. ... ............ ............. . ...... Dank Shares " .... 5 , ijolP ; HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, Ar"." 13 0 Austrian spr Cents. ............... 005 1114 , Bank Shares — ,...._ I Os Anglo-Russian Loan - 1 10 Russian 5 per Cent,, let series, Certificate..." .10s- Inscription, let series Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co., 3d and 4th 0 . Series f 7 to Ditto in Certificates 2O 14 ' New 4 per Cent. (1840) Dutch Actual Debt, '..54 per Kent.......... Ditto 5 per Cent................ 154 Polish Bonds 169 14 ' New Tickets 7B„,‘ Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent. .............. Spanish, New 5 pi,r Cents. EXCHANGES ON LONDOT s . HAMBURG, APRIL 5.-13 li3i.—Two months. 0, . STOCKHOLM. MARCH 29.—Seventy-five day6. ll BREMEN. APRIL 1 —Two months, S 90. VIENNA. MARCH 29.—Three months, it 4195• j , Old PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BatLIN. sl y Dia& 1 u St. Schuld. Sch., 4% per cent. ..............r04% 01 , Prussian English Loan, 1830,4 percent z,s, u Exchange on London, three montbs.... 6 AC V —Prussian State Gazette. April 9 , a . ,r GATESHEAD.—A meeting of the T i ro r e ";o' / O' was held on Friday, the Mayor in the chairs . ... 0 )31., e fy against the income tax were agreed to unariiin u iv w e r'fr o . , meeting was held in the evening of the same r'' g oO r fe , hall, to petition the House of Commons' , 111,2, repro 1 : A r , the Queen, in favour of " a full, fair, and J r c — o grolltocV, of the people ;" in other words, for Universal '' t i o e, ; was a crowded attendance. The first resuin Jo el Mr. Alderman tlrockett, and seconded by O r ' o f r 1 14 , was as follows :—" That by 'the constitutia n , - en tst'ij the House of Commons should be the rerre . . ct ice , ic or/ great body of the people ; but that, in Pr b ' e , o % e d est f ,r creature of a class, the majority of its insulb er .,% o ly r e .l;eck . ,l l , the aristocratic interest, already more than I,— ;j e sel l tor, 0 . ,` in the House of Lords." Another resuinti ° T &ag e '. V P ", liamentary Reform, on the basis of Universals u riat ion:4 only efficient remedy for the grievances of the rejo sin' o sa a l b i Chartists moved a n i men d men t, annexing the 25,fi111,'9) of the Charter ; an d t h e reso l u tion was Ja co de , s tur t 4 l This day (F r id a y) th e T own -C oun cil of .I:4ewoje v 0 be. c special meeti ng , t o pe ti t i on aga inst the ' i Itio. e 0 ; 0 . High Sheriff of N or th um b er land (Sir M. has convened a county meeting on -the same srueqtait on Wedu es d ay nex t, in Morpeth. The self' po Matthew bears 271 signatures. A r efl o le ig , WONDERFUL GENEROSITY. -- T he dill . CO ' Mathew gave, gratutitously, twenty th Donat o poor emigrants about embarking in Mr.- Cork. BIRTHS. A fOr d On the 28th of February, at Bombay,-thela4 ° 1" Rowley, 2d Bombay Light Cavalry, of a daughtcll o l4 iti p On the 6th inst., at Ogwell House, Devon , '' 4 0" Richard Placket, of a daughter. IrA 0 ' 11 I , On the 7th inst., at the Terrace, ;PutneY, of a son. °Vile * ir AO, . 0 On the 7th inst., at B arberton Ford, near of the Rev. R. F. B. Rickards, of a daughter. go, v e r o / On the 7th inst. , at G rove-lane, Camberwell, SkirOrew th, of a son, till-born ea . Gfo r e n e 7th inst., s at Great St. Hales %, Mrs. of a son. e tl'i MARRIED. Wild gottfit On the 6th inst. , at Ch eltenham ' , Captaind aseV. the Bombay Artillery , to Charlotte Mary, oc ti d 7, 0 0 ; 0 1 the late Colonel Kingst on, of the East In V Civil Service. Robe rt • On the 7th inst. , at Eltharn, the Rev. ~/am, 01 Milne Vicar of South Mims, Middl esex, to 114,11t3 eldest , 1/1 daughter of Benjamin Currey , Esq., oi. "-- L '0 SY/ DIED. On the 7th instant, at Torquay, Devon , —° ll ij o it- eldest daughter of Col. Aspinwall, Consul of al° at London, ag B ins 26. Willi ii s° Pr 1 0 On the 6th t., Ann, the wife of Mr. t ool Highgate. ; if aogu l./ ' A. At the Manse of Hoy, Orkney, 1 " - T. B. Macaulay, Esq., M.P. ... e a IV At Knockaderry, Waterford, Anastasia 8ri i 4,70 C a , At tsla.Fgow, Captain N. M. Burt, late Oh Mr. John K elly,: of Veit Stnithilekt 0 0 o , o pit Printed an d Publishe-d by Mirg p l ig,, A. o Nu. 112, Stran, at The Sun °fleet 14 ,11 lif" the County of Middlesex, MendaYi '"P : P.1 : 1 : 11.:Th : : r e t E e tElli o NeA l l T° CK w'll ' 4 th April fu That a G F )e held at the ,the. 13th Apr ~%z o'clo c k p r 4ECT Gk s That F tor etiablinc, Z 4 this oc4 ` r easury i n Thittthe L be ready T O HE pi VA pu s HE E vezt>Nof the Interest is WILL WILL HUSS! Nlajrir. Sir RI JOHN Which w p. TA BENI] J. 11111 II- CA 1 % ST JOHN J. NV. LII JOHN J. L. L GEOR e. mil ..-43t, Indi a tette" Propri, et of Atte TO . -- THE PI r...s .A AVI2 , a AN to yoi * e 7"IDAT Atta" the April ritihr e t t'tlt! t ~l i. t t t t 1 1 ( 11 I\ b 517:11:111. Hull, tltc d as a e ll 7 en e , tf e t,e,„", Saxon E urs lb,' I L design d pktr tale „ u under 1114 1 4 4 .7, e and:deturing Tent er~UUr9 carp et in Att• JA ( td„,_ 54 y, k r , - triers ;Irsi wherethe ' t man Ict. pain , t eip , teadie Cor nor G ,) 4 14 1 4 tilt Two, Th ose others, fro Persons k 'their feet \ „.. % . v0 Guini