The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Since the press began to circulate political facts and opinions with the activity which has marked its progress during the last 30 years, and since also the great growth of manufactures throughout the northern counties, has, by drawing together large masses of people, provided at once an ample recipient for all intelligence of national interest, and a ready conductor of it from man to man, the direct operation of the public mind of England upon the mea sures of the King's Government has exhibited a rapid in crease. Popular meetings, let the scrubs about the public offices say what they will, are never disregarded by the heads of departments. Gentlemen who are but mode rately qualified as Ministers, must still be aware that on a popular subject, the sentiments of one assembly of the tower orders may be looked upon as a fair sample of those which are prevalent over the country ; for such is the dif fusion of clear-sighted sagacity among our countrymen— such its general equality throughout the manufacturing classes, and so simple and uniform the influence of exten sive causes upon the comforts .and spirit of the great body of the nation, that it would be vain for any British Go vernment to think of enforcing in one quarter of England, opposite doctrines to those which have been already avowed and approved of by the people in another; or of getting up, as a Ministerial set-off and justification, counter addresses from certain sectaries of the working community, in the teeth of those which speak the undis guised feelings of any one large and voluntary portion of its members. We have been led into these reflections from having transmitted to us a report which we pub lish, of the proceedings of a meeting of journeymen manufacturers held at Oldham on Monday last—the cause of which meeting was the general distress now suffered by these deserving and unhappy men—and its object a free expression of their sentiments, upon the amount of their own miseries—the origin of them— and their most effective cure. A long series of resolu tions were passed at this meeting, after many speeches alike honourable to the ability of the speakers, anti perhaps we might add, formidable for the energy with which they were uttered. It is not necessary to affirm that all the matter of the resolutions was wise, and just, and statesmanlike, and applicable to the wants of the time : it is enough to say that some of them—particularly those descriptive of the fallen condition of the working classes—contain bold, striking, and lamentable truths, and that all of the resolu tions derive importance from the numbers and necessities of the wretched men who sympathize in every part of England with those by whom they were framed and voted. It is possible, nay probable, that the landed gentlemen may hector the King's Government intothe further prosecution of that unfortunate policy, in relation to :he corn laws, which the people conceive to be one of the principal causes of their perishing with hunger. It is more than probable, that the same aristocracy may deter the Ministers from un dertaking any plan of retrenchment, however loudly de manded. But let the Aristocracy look well to the conse quences of such a contempt for the poor, The " opera tives" have begun to make alarming distinctions—they see how deeply the line of demarcation has been drawn by English legislators in favour of their own order. They, " the operatives," begin to dispose both men and princi ples in awkward attitudes and groups. It will be very dif ferent when the industrious English journeymen, backed and directed by some of the middle classes, acquire from despair the passion for frequent assembling, and from ex perience the habit of comprehensive and unflinching dis cussion—it will, we gay, be a different thing from the as sociations of those rash, vain, and desultory blockheade, who have been labouring for years to ruin the cause of which, in Ireland, they assumed the direction. if the body of industrious Englishmen once get it into their heads that they ought to separate their interests and feelings from their rulers, it will, we repeat, be a more serious thing than the loquacious violence of Irish orators has yet been considered by this Government.—Times. We this day insert at length the letter of Dr. Doyle to which we yesterday alluded. The chief object of the writer is to chew, that the statements transmitted to this country- from Ireland on the subject of education are • utterly unworthy of credit. But the postscript is the Fart which will be read with, perhaps, the most interest. There Dr. Doyle informs us, that in 37 out of 4-5 returns of parishes (of which his diocese consists) from which he has obtained returns, the number of conversions from Pro testantism to Catholicism during the last twelve months has been two hundred and forty-eight, a number some what exceeding the average of ordinary years, whicie he attributes to tue prevailing religious excitement. This is a powerful set-off against Cavan. The question as to proselytizing is very different from that which regards the claims of the Catholic„ to the privileges of citizens. To proselytize by the arts of persuasion, unsupported by the application of funds granted by the State ostensibly for purposes of education, but really' for gaining over Catho lics to the Established Church, cannot he condemned by any man who deems truth deserving of his inquiries. And yet we believe there is no instance in history of an attempt to proselytize with ardour not having been re sented when directed against the more powerful party, or complained of as persecution when directed against the weaker party. It is curious that Claude, who held the celebrated conferences with Bossuet, on the controverted points, in his complaints of the French Protestants, particularly enumerates the sending Missionaries and Con troversialists to preach and argue against them, through out the country. lie calls it a means of persecution. There remains to be mentioned (he says) another pre paratory machine, which the persecutors have not failed to put in practice for their designs, and which we have reckoned as the sixth in order. Different means have been employed. The first and most common have been the Sermoue of Missionaries, and other preaching Contro versialists, with whom, for some years, the kingdom has been covered, under the title of Royal Missions. The men ordinarily chosen for this business in France are of an enthusiastic disposition. They receive an education which, far from moderating, inflames them ; so that we may very easily conceive what sort of actors they are; when they not merely feel themselves supported, but even cheered on, and_ when they have express orders to excite the feelings of their auditors. And in truth they acquitted themselves so well, that had it depended on them, and had the prudence of the Magis:rates not prevented them, tumults would frequently have taken place in our great towns, and even in Paris itself."—At a time when so much stress is laid on the divided allegiance, we are tempted to quote from the same work the manner in which the French Protestants expressed themselves re specting the Pope :—" We cannot persuade ourselves that the Pope is at all to blame for this matter, or i.hat the storm has come to us from hint. We know that he is u mild Prince, and that his inclinations are more prudent `ti(' moderate than those of twiny of his predeces „,s. B es id,es we know that the French Clergy do not always consult Min in their undertakings, and indeed, what has been doise against Rome, and the little defe rence entertained for his authority, have frequently been urged as a motive to induce us to comply with the will of the King. Thus we hope that the Pope even, consi dering us as men and Christians, will pity us, and blame the conduct observed towards us, were it only for the in terest of his religion. Perhaps one day, in our turn, we will also blame that which shall be observed towards him." Here the leader of the French Protestants seems to regret that the influence of the Pope was so small, and does not scruple to promise to take part with the Pope against the French Clergy and the King. A sum of money not greater than what is thrown away in Ireland on Charter `Schools, and other worse than useless purposes, would make the Catholic Clergy more subserviete to the purpo ses of the English Government than might perhaps he desirable. A very small sum goes a great way with the Clergy of all religions. Every one knows the wonders wrotigist by the Regium Donum in Ireland. It is not so generally known that the hint was taken from the success ful application of a Regium Do num i n England. When "Sir Robert Walpole was hard pressed by the-Dissenters in 1723, for the removPl of their disabilities, he closeted a few of the Dissenting Ministers of the greatest influence, declared his readiness to serve them any way, even in Parliament for the repeal of the cruel statutes against them ; but the present time, he said, was a very improper time, and the agitating the matter would greatly injure, if not ruin their cause. He placed 5001. in the hands of nine Dissenting• Ministers, " for the use and comfort of the widows of Dissenting Ministers," with a promise of the same amount annually, under an injunction of secrecy ; the sum was afterwards increased to 850/. half-yearly from the Treasury. The effect of this annual douceup in tran quillizing the Dissenting Clergy, and adding to their stock of patience, was almost miraculous. But in cases of this kind, much depends on management. Men are fond of money, but fond also of power cud influence; hut surely there are ways of enabling the Catholic Clergy to gratify their desire for the former, without the alternative of for feiting the latter.—Morning Chronicle. We are glad to find that the Shipping question is to be brought under the consideration of the House. We think there is much prejudice on this question. As we men tioned the other day, the shipping of this country increased in a great ratio in the years 1924. and 1825 : but in the year 1826, it had fallen off, in comparison with the year 1825—though in the latter year more ships, and a greater tonnage, had been registered than in any one year since the year 1813. This Parliamentary Statement at once rebuts all the speeches which have been made lately at Meetings on this subject. That statement showed, that the tonnage registered in the three years 1824, 1825, and 1826, very nearly equalled the tonnage of the six years preceding—namely, 1818, 1919, 1820, 1821, 1822, and 1923. Let any one look at that Statement again, which we republished on Monday, and they will see how totally groundless are all the complaints that have been lately made respecting the operation of the alteration of the Navigation Laws. When next the question is agitated in either Lords or Commons, we would recommend the Members of both Houses to look at the Parliamentary Statement we have alluded to. But in the question of the Silk and the Glove Trade, when the old laws of prohibi tion were done away with, there was the same sort of carping as there has been lately on the Shipping question. —Morning Herald. Since the defeat of the measure for the recovery of small debts, in a former Parliament, there has been no Member of either House sufficiently zealous in the public service to resume the subject.' Yet the experience of every day proves more and more the necessity which exists for some such Act, as that which was attempted, in vain, to be car ried into a law, by the name of the County Courts' Bill. At every Assizes there are actions for small sums of money the expences of which are several times the amount of the debt litigated; and which sums, when recovered, do not pay the successful party half the amount of his extra costs. This is surely an evil which ought not to exist. If it be a characteristic of justice to restore to every man his right, how can that he called justice which makes a man who is wronged pay more for redress than the whole value of his right ? Let great causes still be contested with all the expensive machinery of the superior Courts—though we are of opinion that great improvement might be made even in reference to them—but, at all events, the same ma chinery which is employed to litigate a cause on which thousands of pounds may be depending, should not be required to be put in motion for the purpose of deciding whether a baker's or butcher's bill, of six or seven pounds, ought to be paid to a person who demands the payment of so trifling a sum. In the latter case, the person who gains the action loses in costs about double the sum which he obtains a verdict for; so that he is only enabled, by the present process of law, to harass and annoy his debtor, without doing any good to himself; or, rather, he can only obtain satisfaction from his debtor in a Court of Law, by inflicting punishment on himself. This is a state of things which ought not to continue.—lbid. Considerable mischief arises from the exaggerated im portance which, for some years, has been attached to the Catholic question. Men talk as if on that point turned the whole state of Ireland; and as if the decision of the question, in one particular way, would operate as a charm to change the condition and the minds of men. This seems to us as the more wonderful ; because the investigations cf the Parliamertary Committees have clearly shown the fallacy of such notions. It is most true, that Ireland is far from being what she ought to be; and they, who will raise her population to a level with that of England and Scotland, will confer the most important blessing on the mightiest empire in the world. But this mighty end is not to be accomplished by speculation, < id rhetoric, 'nd declamation. So great a benefit is not to be attained by means so cheap. The good must be purchased by the exertions of many, continued through a long series of years; and those exertions must be devoted to elevat ing the circumstances of the Irish peasantry, by alter ing totally their modes of thinking and habits of life. Wise legislation can of itself do little towards effecting improvement ; it can only give full play to the operation of circumstances favour able to improvement, and to the labours cf individuals in so good a cause. They who must be the active agents in raising Ireland to an equality with England, must be her Gentry, her Nobility, her Protestant Clergy, and her Legal Functionaries.— Ireland has the advantage of possessing a Gentry, a No bility, and a Magistracy, fully adequate to the task of moulding her population, in the course of time, into a form very different from the present. All that is wanted is, that they should he induced and encouraged to engage in, and prosecute steadily, so noble an undertaking. On the other hand, her priesthood is her bane. Catholic Priests, everywhere, and especially the lower orders of them, are the avowed enemies of reason and of improve ment. In Ireland their influence depends entirely on the ignorance and degradation of the people. Rouse that people to comparative comfort, and to the benefits of knowledge, and the importance of the Priests declines pro portionably. Even if the State were to pay salaries to the Ecclesiastics, though their avarice might thereby be gratified, their interest in retaining the peasantry in igno \ rance and darkness would not be lessened. The influence of the Catholic Priests and the prosperity of the people • . will ever vary in an inverse ratio. As the one rises, the other , I must fall.—Neu , 'Times. MAR SE TUE $. A marriage had lately been agreed upon between the son and daughter of two respectable tradesmen in the City of Aix ; the banns had been proclaimed, the contract drawn up, and the fatal yes was alone wanting. On the day N - v hen the sacramental monosyllable was to have been pronounced, it was found that the bridegroom had with drawn from the happy state which awaited him ; upon which the father immediately proposed to substitute in his place another son living in this City. The young lady's family not having any objection to the arrangement, the young man was sent for, and anew contract drawn up, in which the only alteration consisted in the substitution of one christian name for another. The new bridegroom arrived, but, upon being introduced to his intended, ex pressed a decided preference for her sister, and the parents, anxious to unite the families one way or another, agreed to have a new contract drawn up, and this extemporaneous marriage (nuiriage impromptu) is expected to take place very shortly. From this transaction, however, a law-suit is likely to arise. The Notary, it appears, demands to be paid for the drawing up of the three contracts, whereas, the two families maintain that as there is to be but one marriage, there ought to be but one contract paid for. SINGULAR FACT.—A poor man, a native of Ire land, having gathered together a few pounds, and not liking to have it about him, gave it to a gentleman to take care of, that he might draw when occasion required it, but the gentleman had not had it many days in his possession before he died. The poor man on hearing of his death went to bed immediately, And died in twenty-four hours After. MEETING AT THE LAST INDIA HOUSE. (Concluded from our Paper of yegterday.) BURNING OF IIINDOO WIDOWS. Mr. POl - 141)ER rose to move— " That this Court, taking into consideration the continuance of human sacrifices in India, is of opinion that, in the case of all rites or ceremonies involving the destruction of life, it is the duty of a paternal Government to interpose for their prevention : and therefore recommends to the Donourable Court of Directors to transmit such instructions to India as that Court may deem most expedient for accomplishing this object, consistent with all practi cable attention to the feelings of the natives." He hoped he should be acquitted of presumption in offering him self to the Court on a subject of euc , e difficulty and delicacy as the present, when he assured them it was not from any fault of his own, that it had not fallen into much abler hands. He would much rather have acted in a very subordinate capacity on this oc casion than he was compelled to do ; but it had, however, so happened, that one valued friend of his, who was much interested in this question, had been removed by death, and another had been employed on a distant service. From the Parliamentary papers, from 1815 to 1823, inclusive, it appeared, that during those nine years, no less than 5,425 widows were sacrificed on the funeral piles of their husbands, in the Presidency of Bengal ; and, taking the number immolated at the presidencies of Fort St. George and Bombay, the number would amount to nearly 6,000 ; and the number of children, of various ages, who became orphans in conse quence of this practice, in the presidency of Bengal alone, was 5,128, in nine years. Now, in discussing this subject, the first point he would attempt to prove, was, that enough had not been done by the Government at home and abroad on this important question ; and, secondly, that more might now be done with per fect safety to the Government of India. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to read copies of extracts from the Parliamentary Papers, in which the ceremonies attending Suttees were minutely described. These details, lie knew, roust greatly affect the minds of those who heard him ; hut, as Mr. Fox had said, " true hu manity consists not in a squeamish ear, but in listening to the history of human suffering, and endeavouring to relieve it." Mr. Poynder then proceeded to state, that in 1805, when the Members of the Council were Lord Wellesley, Lord Lake, Sir George Barnwell, and Mr. Udney, a Proclamation was published by the Governor in Council, stating, that it was the wish of Government to grant toleration to every extent to the religion of the natives, provided it was not opposed to the laws of nature and morality ; and the Proclamation alluding to the practice of Suttee, said that it was deserving of inquiry, whether it might not be altogether abolished, and efforts to that end were recommended, provided the attempt were not found opposed by the strong religious feelings of the people. This re commendation was acted upon for a considerable time ; but in 1812, when all the members of the former Government had been withdrawn, an order was issued by Lord pinto, allowing com plete toleration, hut omitting the salutary provision that it should net be contrary to the law of nature and to morality. The Learn ed Proprietor then proceeded to read the regulations under which licence for the burning of widows was to he granted, and also a variety of documents, to show that sufficient means were not adopted to inform the police of the intended Suttees time enough to prevent them, where the burning was against the consent of the female. He next occupied the attention of the Court for a con siderable length of time in reading a vast number of extracts from the official reports made to the Government of India, and also from private communications which he had received, detailing a long list of cases in which unfortunate females were forced on the burning pile, and thrown back upon it again and again, after their repeated attempts to get away, (though it was one of the re gulations that no force should he used on those occasions, and such force, when ending in the death of the female, was declered pu nishable with great severity) ; but the extraordinary rapidity with which the Learned Proprietor read those cases, rendered it not only impossible to follow him, but even to bear him distinctly. Indeed, considering the extreme quickness with which he hurried over those statements, and the indistinct tone in which they were de livered, we were more than once impressed with the belief that they were intended less for the ears of the assembly he then ad dressed, than for the eye' of a larger portion of the public, on some future occasion, before whom, however, they could not ap pearas part of his speech unless he pronounced them in some way or other. The only two cases which we could collect were the following :—A young widow, about 15 years of age, was brought to the pile where the body of her deceased husband lay. At the instigation of her relations, many of whom attended, she ascended the pile, but when she felt the flame, she rushed from it, and im plored them to spare her life. Her relations were deaf to her en treaties, and she was thrown back on the burning pile, and logs of wood were thrown upon her to keep her down. Again, how ever, she burst through the flames, and succeeded in throwing herself into a stream near the spot. Her uncle now approached her, and endeavoured to persuade her once more to ascend the burning pile ; but this she refused, and besought him in the most piteous accents to allow her tc escape, and that she would beg the rest of her life for her subsistence, and not be a burden to her friends. A cloth was now spread on the ground, and she was de sired to place herself upon it, in order to her being conveyed home. At first she doubted the intentions of her friends ; but her uncle, to induce her to come, swore by the Ganges that nothing should he done against her will, and that it was intended to take her back to her home. She placed herself on the cloth ; but no sooner was she seated on it, than the cloth was suddenly wrapped up, and tied round her, and in that state she was once more east on the bluing heap, which had now began to burn furio- ply. Again, however, she attempted to escape, and was bursting from the burning mass when her uncle approached, struck her on the head with a sword, and put an end to her suf ferings. Her body was then consumed.--(The date or place of this transaction we could not collect)—This could not be called any thing but an atrocious murder, and five of the parties con cerned were tried for it, but none of them were convicted of the capital offence. One of them was sentenced to five years of hard labour, another to three, and the others to a slighter degree of punishment. The next was taken from a letter which appeared in the Bombay Courier, and was mentioned in the 4th vol., page 165, of the papers before the Court. It was that of a wo man who had been induced by the peisuasion of her friends, and excited by the usual stimulants of opium and other drugs, to place herself on the pile for the purpose of being burned with (we believe) the body of her deceased husband. After lying there for a short time, and the fire approaching her but slowly, she burst from it, and with the assistance of a gentleman who was present she got into the river (the Ganges). She said she had no objection to sa crifice herself, but the fire burnt too slowly, and that if they would alter it so as not to protract her stolerinf,re, she would again place herself on the pile. When she approached, however, she got alarm ed l y the appearance of the blaze, which now burst forth furiously, and she refusal to ascend. Her friends irritated at the refusal, took her forcibly by the head and heels and cast her into the flames. She again escaped, and without any assist ance made her way to the river, into which she threw herself. Thither her friends followed her, and endeavoured to drown her by holding her down under the water. Some persons inte r f ere d, an d she was at length released from their fury. It was i m p oss ibl e (the writer of the Bombay Cour i er observed) to fully describe the horrible spectacle she presented on being taken from the water. Her skin hung in black and shrivelled pieces from almost every part of her body ; the flesh was burnt from her legs, arms, breasts, and other parts of her body, which altogether exhibited an appear ance the most appalling. In this state her friends did not further molest her. She was immediately conveyed to the hospital, hut all human aid was now too late ; and after lingering for about 20 hours in the most excruciating agony, death put a period to her sufferings. After several other cases, Mr. Poynder went on to contend that enough was not done by the Government at home to check those horrible outrages on human nature. In the second branch of his address, he proceeeded to !hew that the horrid prac tice could he altogether abolished, without in any degree endanger ing the Company's interests in India. In support ofthis view of the case he cited the opinions of a number of our public functionaries in India, who had succeeded in preventing these suttees in very many cases, some by refusing the licence, others by giving posi tive orders against it, and others again by using direct force. In one case the prudent conduct of a local governor was effectual iu saving the life of one young widow, who was about to immolate herself. lie ordered that previously to o btaining the licence, the woman should first burn off one of her fingers. She made the attempt, but the pain was so great, that she was afraid to en counter a more generala c p c p e l e i d ca e t d io i n n osafvfiinrge a to po l o ie r r ü b ,o o rn dy a , n a a nd om sh a e refused to make any greater sacrifice to her husba n d' s manes . I n ano ther case th e h uma ne, and a t the same time coura geous , e ffo r t s of two English ladies, en similar fate. Th e Learned Gentleman was proceeding with other eas es, when, Mr. R. JAcxsoN rose for the purpose of moving an adjourn. ment. It was impossible at that late hour (nearly six o'clock) the debate could he concluded that day with any hope of doing justice to its importance. He, therefore, moved that the discus sion be adjourned to some future day. t s e debate on this subject should he resu me d e n that After some sh or t conversa tion, this motion was agreed to, and t adjourned to next W ednesda y , with the under stan ding rtu a t a t - h day, and that the other matters which stand for discussion should follow in their order. Adjourned to Wednesday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.—Lieutenant Wells, of the East India Com pany's service, was charged by Julia Farmer, the Icper of a brothel, at No. 5, Eagle-court, Catherine-street, with assault ing her with a brass candlestick. The defendant was also char ged by Elizabeth Purdoe, a girl of the town, with attempting - to commit an infamous offence. It appeared that Lieutenant Wells was returning to his lodging in the Adelphi, between 12 and 1 o'clock on Monday night, when he was accosted by Elizabeth Purdue, one of the complainants, who induced him to accompany her to the house in question. The Lieutenant consented ; but perceiving the infamous house to which he was led, he repeated of his engagement, and was desirous to re treat. He descended the stairs with that intention, at the bottom of which he was met by the mistress of the house, and two or three women, who hustled him into a room and threatened to call in the assistance of their bullies, unless he gave them some money. He gave the women some silver, which had only the effect of rais ing their demands and renewing their threats. The defendant, apprehensive of personal violence, seized a brass a candlestick, and swore that he would knock down the first man who should attempt to molest him. The mistress of the house immediately fell down as if she had been struck, and the other women cried murder most lustily. The watchmen hearing their screams forced open the door, and the Lieutenant was given into custody for the alleged assault. The keeper of the brothel repeated her charge, declaring that the Lieutenant knocked her down with a blow of the candlestick, in proof of which she showed a black eye, which had all the ap pearance, however, of not being a recent injury. The infamous girl Purdoe then repeated her diabolical charge, in the course of which both she and her witness prevaricated as much, that Sir R. BtaxtE ordered both the complainants and another o man, named Charlotte Fisher, to be placed at the bar on a charge of conspiracy, and they were all they ordered to find hail, and locked up in default of it. Sir R. BIRNIE then directed that the house in Eagle-court should be immediately indicted. *, 5 Senor De Rotalde, whose affair with Don Fermin de No guers we reported in this journal of yesterday, requests us to state that he is not a Royalist Colonel, but a proscribed Constitu tionalist, and that he was amongst those who were delivered to the French at the surrender of Cadiz, in 1823. Senor De Ro talde requests us to add, that when challenged by Don Fermin Noguer: on a former occasion, he expressed hie willingness to meet him; and when waited upon by Senor Ilarregui on the 18th instant, who insisted on his signing a paper, declaring in substance that his "Life of General Mina" was a gross libel on that indi vidual, he armed himself with a razor, and made Senor llarregui sign his own name, and then quit the house. We have only to observe, that we should have added this explanation to our report of yesterday, had the facts which it contains transpired at this office. MAR YLEBONE.—Yesterday Louisa Margaretta Byrne, a handsome little woman, elegantly dressed, charged John Gray, a Sheriff's officer, with a breach of the peace, in obtruding him self into her bedchamber between ten and eleven on Saturday night, &c. " I claim your Worship's protection," said Mrs. Byrne, to Mr. Hosictss, as a preface to her case, " against the violence of this man, who, under a pretence of having a writ against my husband annoys me in every possible way. He came between ten and eleven on Saturday night, and after going all over my house, he insisted upon coming into my chamber, where I was at the time undressing to go to bed. He was told by the servant who opened the street-door that Mr. Byrne was not at home, he was in the country; notwithstanding which, he rushed in, and used such abusive language, that it never can be effaced from my memory." Mr. Houriss (to Gray)—Perhaps you had the duty of an officer to perform ; hut then it ought to have been done with pro priety of conduct and mildness, which, according to Mrs. Byrne's statement, does not appear to have been the case. Gray—l have bad several writs before against Mr. Byrne, and the last time I arrested him, Mrs. Byrne pledged her honour and soul that he was not in the house, but I found him upon making a search concealed in the maid's bed. I received information that he was to be at home on Saturday night. I waited in Percy street, and when I got into the house I said I must look for him. I went to the door of the room where Mrs. Byrne was, and re quested admission, but she treated me with contempt. "Go along, fellow," said she, " and mind what you are after, or I will have you punished." _ _ Mrs. Byrne—He declared he would come late and early. I was then half prepared to go to bed, and his ferocious look, heightened by pesiion, I never shall forget. A Solicitor, who attended for the Sheriff's-officer, asked the lady if her name was not M‘Niffin? Mrs. Byrne—No, Sir ;my name is Louisa Margaretta Byrne. Solicitor—You are niece, I believe, to Mr. Byrne. Mrs. Byrne--I publicly swear in the face of the Court that what you ray- is false—.(to Mr. Moskins)—Am I bound to auswer thew questions? 1 have no professional assiAtant here, and I throw myself under your protection. Mr. tfo3KlNs—Have you any witness, madam? Mrs. Byrne —Yen, Sir, my brother. This witness stated that the officer was very abusive, and when asked to show hie authority, he slid he would be d—d first, and also that Mrs. Byrne might kiss that part which 1, said the wit ness, think ought to have been kicked. Mr. HosKIN3—I will admit of no observation, here. If you have any other matter of fact to disclose, go on, without allusion to your own thoughts or opinions. Wi'ness—l have nothing more to say. Mr. HOSKINS (to Mrs. Byrne.)—You do not show ground for alarm, you do nbt appear to be in personal danger, and 'Wherefore I shall dismiss the charge. At the same time, (addressing Gray,) if you did say that which has been imputed to you, you acted very improperly. Gray—l made use of no such language. Mr. HOSKINS—You must do nothing for the purpose of annoy ing Mrs. Byrne. . Solicitor—He will be suspended as a Sheriff's officer, if he acts improperly. M A RLB °ROUGH- STREET. —Yesterday John Davidson, one of the labourers employed in pulling down Carlton-house, was committed for trial from this office on a charge of stealing a quantity of lead, weighing 60114, from the premises where be was at work. The lead was found in the prisoner's possession, coming out of the Palace, and was identified as belonging to the Cemmissioners of Woods and Forests. A CARD. AGRICULTURAL CASE. SUIPPING CASE. From the highly-taxed and artiti- From the highly-taxed and artifi cial state of this i country, the culti- ci a l s t a t e o f thi s coun t r y, the Ship vator of the soil s absolutely unable owner is absolutely unable to pro. to produce Corn, except at a cost duce and nav i ga t e hi s ship, except ve ry considerably exceeding that at at an expense very considerably ex which it can be grown in the cheaper cieding that of the cheaper coun. countries of Europe. tnless, there- tries of the North of Europe, while fore, a remunerating price be secur. he is, for national objects, in which ed to him by pr otection from the lie has n o exc l us i ve interest, re competition of the cheap Corn of the stricted to the employment of ex- Continent, his land must be thrown pensive native-built ships, and still out of cultivation, and his labourers more expensive native seamen. Un deprived of employment, to his ruin, less, ther e f ore , remuneration fur and to the destruction of the most his capitol be secured to him by pro. important source of national wealth. tection from the competition of the cheap freight of the continen.ll Ship-owner, his ships must be aban doned, and the seamen employed in their navigation dischared, to his ruin, and to the destruction of tional defence. the most important bra nch of na- PROs RELATITE EXPESJE OF BRlThill AND SENT PI .OFS. FOREIGN NAVIOATION AT VAR PRE. salon. Average Cost of a Ship of 300 Tons,lAverage Cost of a Ship of 300 Tone, BRAINS'. FORIZIOK (N ORTH OF EUROP E). equipped for Se. l6l. per Ton. equipp ed for Sea SI. p e r Ton. Wages of Seamen, per Mouth... 60s. Wage% of Seamen, p er Month—, rTs. Price of Bread, per cwt. Exhibiting, with other details, au a verage advantage in fav our of the Foreign Ship-owner of about l',o per rent. ItEciettomr.—The export-trade from this country to the Baltic em ploys an amount of tonnage a bsolutely inconsiderable, while the import trade from thence, bring in bulky articles, gives employment to an enor. mous quantity of shipping. Reciprocity, therefore, in the carrying-trade, between countries relatively so situated, produces precisely that result to the British Ship-owner which would follow to th e B r i tish Agr iculturist from a treaty stipulating f or t of t ! e admission of Poli s h C orn Into E n gl a nd, duty free, on condition British Corn being admitted into Poland en the same terms!!! :MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DI A RY.—FRIDAY, MARCH 23.--At the Court of Commis 4"ieta, Basinghall-street.) Mark-1ane......,,,,,, 1 0 Dowding, C ., Sh a d we ll I 13 Aston, W. , '..3t ho rand ............... 111 Hart, W., Holborn-hill Stortford.., 11 Inman, K., Newington Brown, 9 Beadle, G•. Westminster......... ll Li ne , W., Camden Town l9 Dawson,, 8., Jermyn-st. „. l2 Litchfield, T., Islington ... Drake, J., Southgate ............... 12 M'Lean, H., Cambridge ... a a rn d zi le r:l, 0 1 . : B„, p. COUNTRY DIARY.-9.ITURDAY, MARCH 2 t Ashcroft, H. and Co., Manchester—Hayward's Hotel, Manchester 1 Buck, P., Knares'orough—Powell and Co., Knaresbrough 1 Chadwick and Co., Oldham—White's, Manchester 1 pavan, O. Birmingham —Royal Hotel, Birmingham ll Fleming, 3., Pendleton—Hayward's Hotel, Manchester 2 Goodrich, R., Cheltenham—Georgz, Stroud 5 Lewis : ' L I LlniribbY—Xtr, Orgyile Bristol', ~,, ''',„,„ ~,,, ,„„,„.„ 1 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—March 90. The imports of all Grain since Tuesday last have been mode rate, and the deliveries of the farmers exceedingly small. The supply has, however, been fully equal to the demand, and prices of most articles have continued to decline.—Though Wheat has been offering on nearly as low terms as previously to the late ad vance, yet the millers and dealers have evinced little disposition to increase their stocks, and the sales of the week have been mostly in retail. The transactions in Oats have been chiefly to the Yorkshire dealers, and. limited to a few cargoes of fine meet ing quality, at a reduction of Id. per 451bs. India Corn has gone off in small parcels, at previous rates. The trade generally for Malt, Barley, and Beans, has been extremely dull. White Pease continue scarce, and command full prices. Linseed, for feeding, has advanced 4s. to ss. per quarter.—The rise in the last week's Gazette average of Wheat being much less than had been anticipated, has checked the disposition to purchase bonded Wheat. A few small parcels of Flour, under lock, have been taken for export : but in Barley no business has transpired. —At to-day's market the millers again bought sparingly of Wheat; the finest qualities were offering at•a decline of about Id., and all other descriptions fully 3d. per bushel cheaper than on this day se'nnight. Oats were dull of sale at the reduction above noted. In Barley no variation, nor can we state auy alteration in the price of other Grain. A small proportion of the Indian Corn advertised by public auction to-day was sold at 318. per quarter; the remainder withdrawn. COTTON WOOL. I TST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPORTED. Same id:, This tiod last year. year. Liverpool Bags, Fcc. Bags, tkc • 114,037 87,119 London 5,892 11,560 Olabgow 5,486 4081 Total exported in 184 , MARRIED. EXPORTED. Previews ly thia year. Btg 4 4.5 /te. Bag. &r. drc ,f 44 1,045 4,370 80 On the 29,d February, in the chapel of the Governor's Palace, Malta, by the Rev. J. Cleugh, the Government Chaplain, Lieut. G. St. Vincent Whitmore, R. E., eldest son cf G. Whitmore, Esq., of Lower Slaughter, Gloucestershire, and of Puckenchureb, Somerset, tf-, Miss Isabella Maxwell Stoddart, Eldest daughter of Sir John Stoddart, President of the High Court of Appeal, and Judge of the Vice Admiralty Court, Araita. DIED. On the I6th inst., at Ham Green, near Bristol, Sarah, wire of Richard Bright, EQ,I. On the Roth inst., at East Moulsey Park, aged 61, the Dow ager Lady Crewe, relict of the late Sir Henry Harpur Crewe, Bart., of Calke Abbey, Derbyshire. On the 17th inst., at Fairfield Lodge, Croydon, sineerely and deservedly lamented, Elizabeth, relict of the late Samuel Robin son, Esq., aged S. On the 17th inst., at Clifton, after a short but severe illness, in the 16th year of her age, Jane Hamilton, eldest daughter of Thomas Forsyth, Esq. Buckfield, Liverpool.. . M. YOUNG, at the Stnt-Orricz, Printed a w l P u bli s h e d b y No. 11V, Strand. SALE OF THE REV. H. DRURN"S LIBRARY. There has not, for a considerable time, been submitted to the public a library so valuable in its classical contents as that belonging to the Rev. 11. Drury, which Mr. Evans, of Pall- Mall, has just disposed of. Its collection was the labour of almost half a century, and was supposed to have cost at least 30,0001. It was peculiarly rich in Italian MSS. of the 10th, 11th, 126, and 13th centuri:“;, of a classical and religious nature—the former, valuable in a literary view, as affording data whereon to ground new and more correct readings of the great lights of Greek and Roman literature ; the latter, curious as monuments of the ex'serce attention paid, even in its mi nutest details, to all matters connected with religion. Among the purchasers who bought largely were Prince Chnititi, the Earl of Carlisle, Lord Cawdor, Lord Milton, Sir F. Baker, the Dean of Carlisle, Colonel Durant, &c. The prices in general obtained were fair. The following will serve as specimens of the nature of the contents of the library, and the prices which the books carried :—Missale Ecclesia! Rothomagi, MS., on vellum, described by Dibdin, in the Bibliographical Tour, as having belonged to the Macarthy Collection, and containing those curious exorcisms of the Church of Rome "F.xorciso to (&c.) per dominant patrem omnipotentein ;" eight guineas. Medici Antiqui onines, by Aldus, at Venice, 1547, 3/. 10s. A MS. of the Office of the Blessed Virgin of the 15th Century, two guineas ; Oratores Grteci, Ruske's edition, 17 guineas, by Lord Milton ; Marrnora Oxoniensa, 5/. 10s. D ean o f Carlisle ; a MS. copy of Lucretius of the 12th Century, 291. 6s. ; the Orations of Lysias, one of the 25 copies printed on royal, 10 guineas ; au Armenian MS, of very old date, being a Treatise on Magic, 11. lOs. ; a MS. of Livy's Macedonian War of the 15th century, 111 ss. ; a very ancient MS. of Lucan, recently discovered in Rome, 8 guineas : this was one of the Codices Palirnpsisti. Muttani's (the tutor to whom Lord Chesterfield intrusted the education of his son, to whom the Letters were written) own copy of his Dialects of the Greek language, with corrections and addition; in his hand writing, as if preparatory to a new edition, 1/. 15e. ; a MS. of Justiniani Institutiones, of the 12th century, 171.: at the com mencement of each of the four hooks are highly illuminated miniatures. A copy of the first edition ever printed (1489) of the Iliad, Odyssey, Hymns, and Battle of the Frogs and Mire of Homer, brought 42 guineas; there was great competition to obtain possession of this hook, which is one of considerable literary importance. A MS. on vellum of the works complete, of Horace, Persius, and Juvenal, written on vellum, in the large uncial Romeo character ; the date affixed to the Horace is 1391, and the following inscript is added, Stephanvs seripoit istud volumes. This copy of these Augustan poets is probably the most ancient in existence, and the price it brought (fifty-four guineas) was correspondingly high. The Correspondence of St. Jerome, a MS. of the 15th century, six guineas ; a copy of the Iliad and Odyssey, from the White Knights' collection, of the date 1636, 13/. ss. St. Jerome's Epistles, 1468, one of the ftnept manuscripts in the country, and of extreme rarity, 15/. The works of John Evelyn complete, purchased by Lord Carlisle for 12 guineas an unedited Greek and Latin Lexicon, by Gua rini, from the collection of the Nani, .;.:t Venice, 10/. ; a very cu rious MS., of which there exists not a copy, written in 1455, for Antony, Grand Bastard of Burgundy, entitled " Trayte de la No blease qui prouve que la noblesse consiste dans la religion," 17 gui neas. This was purchased with a view to its publication, and will he immediately submitted to the care of a literary gentleman of emi nence to edite. A. MS. of Aristotle's Ethics, which formerly belong ed to the Jesuits' library in Paris, was bought by Mr. Longman for 12/. 6s. ; Dibdin's Bibliographical Tour, a presentation copy, 481. and the 12 original drawings in sepia and colours for the platen of that work, about 40 guineas ; the New Testament, Greek, with annotations in the writing and the autograph of Erasmus, " the glory of the priesthood and the shame," 4/. 10s. ; a very curious MS. of the 14th century, entitled " Angleterre cy finioient lee veula cronikes d'Angleterre appellez le Brute, judques au temps du Roi Edward le secunde." This valuable MS., which, if made public, will tend to throw considerable light on the domestic an nals of this country during a period of our history in which de-- tails are Bauch wanted, was bought for 261. It was an object of great curiosity ; appended to it is an . enumeration in En g li s h verse of the various countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe, which are curious as showing the knowledge which our ancestors possessed of geography at that period. It is also said to be in contemplation to publish this volume. THE MARKET COAL AIARKET,—MareI s. d. s. a. Adairs Beaumont 3:2 0 W. E. Carr and Co. 32 6 Charlotte-- 32 9 W. E. Hilda 34 0, 160 0, Heaton..._ 36 61W. E. Hotspur—, 35 0 fiebburn Main —35 0 1 W. E. Newmarch 30 0 Heworth Primroie 38 0 W. E. Northumb. 35 6 Holywell 33 6 W. E. Peareth-- 34 6 Killingworth 25 0 W. E. Riddell's— 26 0 Ord's itedhugh 30 0 W. E. Russclrs........ 36 6 .'claw 3 , 2 0 \V. E. Walker 35 0 ?ontop Winds, - )r 31 6 Tanfield Trader—. 31 9 Shipcote 31 0 Lambton 19 0' Tantleld Moor 32 9 Blyth ----- 29 6 Townley 33 0 31 6 36 0 Cinders 31 0 32 9 Elscear 27 0 W.E Bewiuke&Co.37 Ships at Market, 15l1(--...4hips sold, 6N COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE Wheat. Per Quarter. s. to s. 54 Canterbury SI 83 54 61 Grimsby 56 58 ilorncastle— 53 57 Lincoln 51 58 Maidstone-- 53 Cis Spilsby 54 56 Stamford,—.--. 50 60 Barley. i oat; s. to s. 53 40 39 43 44 46 36 42 40 43 37 42 40 42 40 43 S. to I. 2S 37 36 41 34 38 SO 38 36 39 27 38 33 28 26 40 ..a 1-I Lo a n rti sVl s e White- 51 02 6 [lnverketth. Splint 34 U Vv"'. E. Old Etherley 32 0 Eden Main al a Russell's 324 Russell's Lyon's Se 3 3 Nesham Main --.29 B Walla End Helton 38 0 W. E. Lambtott 37 9 W. E. Lyons-- 35 0 W. E. Stewart's 97 9 Russell's Iletton's Wall's End Y 7 3 91}4. s. to e. 16 110 .... .... 51 o A. to •. 53 36 50 57 as 60 ce so 55 53 60 40 64 50 60 56 63 Peeve.