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SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The periodical account of the state of the Public Revenue for the year and the quarter ending on the sth inst., as compared with the produce of the national income for the corres ponding year and quarter, ending April 5, 1833, will be found in another part of our paper. We need scarcely say that it is of a gratifying character, evincing, as it does, unequi vocal symptoms of a gradual improvement in the national resources, and of the ability of the people to purchase and consume in greater quantities those articles of convenience, comfort, or luxury, on which taxes are imposed. On the whole of the year ending April 5, 1833, as compared with the succeeding twelve months ending the sth instant, there has been no marked increase, nor indeed could any increase be expected when we take into consideration the amount of taxes which had been extin guished in the latter period, but which had been productive in the former. A considerable allowance ought likewise to be made for the amount of corn duties which came into the Customs of the year ending April, 1833, and which do not swell to a corresponding degree the revenue of the succeeding annual period. Thus we find the customs of the quarters ending October, 1832, and January,lB33, exceeding the Customs ofthe corresponding quarters of 1833 and 1834 by the large sum of 716,6991. But the great cause of the defalcation in the revenue, or rather of those deductions which prevented its increase, is to be found in the remission of taxes. In the Excise, which may be reckoned a test of the resources and means of consump tion among the great body of the people,, very considerable reductions had been effected in 1831 and 1832, the full effect of which could on/g be felt in the succeeding period. Thus, as mentioned by Lord Althorp in his financial statement on the 14th of February last, taxes had been repealed in 1831 and 1832 which had produced to the revenue 1,790,000/. ; and in 1833 a farther repeal took place of imposts amounting to 1,545,000/. ; making a total in the course of three years of remitted taxation to the extent of 3,335,0001. This great reduc tion, it will be remembered, occurred immediately after the year 1830, when the Duke of Wel lington's administration had repealed the beer duties, producing more than 3,000,0001. more. The consequence of these multiplied reduc tions was, that in the year ending April, 1832, there had been an excess of expenditure over income to the extent of nearly a million and a quarter. It was only by a searching economy into every branch of the public expenditure, by unsparing retrenchment in every case where it was practicable without impairing the efficiency of the public service, and by the elastic force of the national resources, which enables the people to consume more of taxed articles, as the hands of the Treasury pressed less heavily upon them, that we have been prepared to surmount this state of things, and that, according to the cal culations of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, or rather according to the official returns of the Government, the surplus of revenue over ex penditure amounted on the sth of January last to 1,513,083/.1 In the quarter ending the sth of April, 1834, as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year, the improve ment is more striking than in the year itself. The three great branches of our revenue,Customs, Excise, and Stamps, have all felt its influ ence, the Customs showing an increase of 186,0171., the Excise of 102,986/., and the Stamps of 87,412/. The falling off in the assessed taxes and the Post-office is exceedingly trifling, leaving us with augmented resources for the quarter of nearly 400,0001. On this great amount the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not have calculated when he made his financial statement on the 14th of February, though he reckoned on a surplus of revenue over expenditure within the ensuing year, of 2,600,000/. ; the existing surplus in January being more than 1,500,000/., the reductions in the estimates being about 500,0001., and the estimated increase on the tea duties, which can- j not appear to any extent in the present quarter, being 600,0001. Such a state of things in spires us with a hope that, without any public inconvenience, his Lordship may be enabled to repeal the window as well as the house du ties. In stating this most gratifying anticipa tion, or rather in making this favourable con jecture of the ability of the Government to re duce both these obnoxious duties without trench ing on the just claims of the national creditor, or the necessary support of our national esta blishments, we may mention that the surplus in the Excise, which is 103,000/., would have been muoh greater but for the reduction of the duties on soap, tiles, and other articles, which has taken place since the quarter ending April ,5, 1833. The Excise of the present quarter, iad it included the produce of those duties, would have exceeded the corresponding quarter of last year by the large sum of 800,0001. The ability of the people to consume other excise articles has thus been increased by an allevia tion of their fiscal burdens, and its limit, we have no doubt, is far from being yet reached.-- Times. The late variance between the Chamber of Deputies and the French Executive suggests many reflections. We, among others, have been turning the matter over in our mind, for as it is indicative of a momentous change in European politics, it is especially deserving of attention. Without deciding between the French Ministry and the Chamber, we think the decision of the latter pregnant with good. An article from the Allgemeine Zeitung, under the head of Berlin, March 24, touching on this subject, makes its Appearance, oddly enough, at the very nick of time :—" In all the negotiations (says this Ber lin correspondent) in which the French Govern ment is engaged, there is an essential point to be considered ; it is the want of consistency in that Government, and the struggles of par ties which exercise the greatest influence over affairs, but most particularly over the foreign relations of France. In our opinion, the Doc trinaires are the sole and last with whom it will be possible to come to an understanding." The writer proceeds to describe the parties struggling for ascendancy, and then proceeds to predict " either a revolution, which will bury the throne of July under the wreck," or " a chancre of system effected in the Cabinet, against the will of the King, to the profit of the Imperialists (1. e. the King's military supporters)." This is, no doubt, the view taken of it in the Northern Courts. The Journal des Daats, on the other hand, reproaches the Chamber with its vote, and refers to England, when the treaties concluded by the G-dkrament with Foreign States are always i . ecinfirmeditry Parliament, whence Foreign , fi • Powers may a ways confide in the Government. r- .., rsygones de hvganes. Many years will not k t: ''' elapse before a' great change in this respect `--4itkea - place in England, as well as France. The —4..3v., r - , , •-- 4.4,4---:.--1--,:,..?...,•:V''•;./ r( f French Revolution undermined the old Cabinet diplomacy in Europe, by introducing the people on the scene. Whoever examines the history of the last century, will find that the destinies of hundreds of millions of..men were continually affected by Court intrigues, and that the Go vernments were not actuated by national in terests, but by considerations of a nature per sonal to the Sovereign. In describing that period, Heeren, in his Manual of the Political History of Europe, emphatically observes, ." Personal interests and passions, frequently of the most detestable kind, decided respecting the foreign, no less than the domestic relations of the States." The wars were wars of aggran dizement. These individuals, at the head- of eighty millions of people,. might, and, in the case of Poland, did conspire together to parti tion large empires. Before the nations were aware, the blow was already struck. Some of the wisest men, reflecting on the calamities to which nations were constantly liable from these Cabinet conspiracies, abandoned all idea of the possibility of preserving peace under the old diplomatic system, and looked forward to re presentative Government as affording the only security against war. The nations can have no motive for war. It is the wish for aggrandize ment, arising out of the notion of a certain ex tent of territory with all the human beings on it being property, that leads to conquest. Na tions never gain but always lose by conquests, for their resources are employed in keeping down those whom they have conquered. By industry and commerce can nations alone thrive, and it is so ordered that we have all a strong motive for peace in this, that the prosperity of our neighbours re-acts on ourselves. There is hardly, for instance, a nation in Europe, how ever insignificant, of which the distress would not be felt in this. The government of the United States in North America cannot move a step without the concurrence of the nation. The treaties entered into between American plenipotentiaries in Europe and the European governments are not final till they receive the approbation of Congress, and this contingency must be taken into account by all powers nego tiating with America - . There can be no Cabi net diplomacy in America. The nation and the government must go hand in hand. It may be very inconvenient to the v i c i ous an d frau- dulent governments of Europe to have to do with a government which can have no se- crets, which dares not enter into any secret ar ticles. But it is quite clear that such a state of things is favourable to peace and stability. No country need fear any sudden movement fromA me - rica, and the apprehension . of sudden movements is the cause of the exhaustion of the nations in absurd military establishments. No one knows whence he may be crushed, and he is kept in constant alarm. We often think of the Fable in Phcedrus of the Cat, the Eagle, and the Sow. The Cat, who occupies the middle of a tree, tells the Eagle that 'the Sow, whose establishment is at the root, is undermining it to obtain the young of the Eagle, whose nest is at the top, and she tells the Sow that the moment she stirs out, the Eagle will pounce on her pigs. The conse quence is, the Eagle dares not stir from her nest, nor the Sow from her burrow, and the Cat succeeds in destroying both. We believe that the governments of Europe do not enter tain all the wicked designs attributed to them, but it is natural to suspect the worst, when we cannot see our way. Now the determination of the French Chambers not to ratify the act of the Executive, is in accordance with the principle of a representative government, and tells, in plain language, not to be misunderstood, to all foreign governments, that Cabinet arrangements signify nothing—the fiat of the nation pro ounced through its representatives is a sine qua This strikes a blow at diplomacy. T he wo greatest nations of Europe, France and England, can have no diplomatic secrets any more than America. The absolute govern ments, no doubt, hate this above all things ; but it is the day-star of European regeneration. From light all good comes. It is only in dark ness that men dread spectres. The nations of France and England are now made to participate in all public affairs. This renders it necessary, above all things, to endeavour to enlighten the people with respect to their true interests. There is, we regret to say, but too much igno rance both in England and France ; but we will not do our countrymen the injustice to place them on an equality with the French. We con sider our countrymen infinitely superior to the French in all the arts of civilization, and in general much more enlightened. Through the greater part of France, at this day, the cultiva tors of the soil are in total ignorance of the essential principles of agriculture, such as the rotation of crops, and with the examples of Switzerland and Lombardy before them, though they have the finest mountains in Europe, they know not how to avail themselves of their rivers, which, instead of being the source of abundance, are to them destructive torrents. In commercial matters they are also far, very far behind ; and if it be true that Lord Dur ham and Mr. Edward Ellice have been sound- non. ing them, we are sure that they will be disap pointed. There are enlightened individuals in France, but in commercial matters the notions of the nation generally are of the narrowest description. But if order can only be pre served, the mists of ignorance will gradually disperse. At present there is no small danger from the excitability of the mass, and the wild enthusiasts, who, in Paris more particularly, are disposed to give effect to the wildest no tions. We quite agree with our liberal con temporary (the Scotsman), that " the real dis pute in France lies not betwixt power and liberty, but betwixt experience and enthusiasm—be twixt those who remember the lessons of the last half century, and those who have forgot them in politics, are only beginning to assume the form of a science which offers as yet few fixed and recognised principles to guide the judgment even of those who have studied it. The relations which the form of the Govern ment ought to bear to the state of property, the intelligence of the people, their habits and na tural character, the laws under which they have lived, their religious opinions--are all as yet points unsettled; and, of course, the boundaries which divide attainable from prospective im provement, practice from speculation, good from evil, are still, to a great extent, unascertained. The present is merely the age of political expe riment ; and when a wrong step may be irre trievable, and the source of ruin and misery to millions, surely there is strong reason for French Statesmen acting with caution, even if the momentous errors of the last revolution did not stand like the hand-writing on the wall, to warn them against precipitation." The whole of the article of our contemporary would well repay attention, but we have not space for it at present. We refer our readers to an interesting communication which we have received from Paris, under the signature of " An Old Friend with a New Face." According to our cor respondent, the reflecting part of the French, however much dissatisfied with the Govern ment in some things, conceive, notwithstand ing, that matters should not be precipitated.-- Morning Chronicle. Several of our contemporaries have animad verted in terms of severity upon the conduct of Ministers in the case of the men convicted at Dorchester of the crime of administering an un lawful oath. We have already expressed our opinion that those persons were properly con victed, and that, taking into view the existing situation of society in this country, Government was bound to carry the legal sentence passed upon them into complete execution. In one sense, however, it is undeniable that Ministers are to blame for the extent of punishment in flicted upon these individuals, for Ministers are unquestionably the authors of that un fortunate state of society which prohibited the exercise of lenity in their case, by making such lenity plainly incompatible with public safety and welfare. In this instance we behold, and not for the first time, his Ma jesty's Ministers in the most shameful and de graded position in which it is possible for the rulers of a country to be placed, that of having to punish their own delinquencies in the per sons of other and less guilty men, but which, shameful and degraded as it is, may be described as the natural position of Statesmen who, either for the purpose of accomplishing any measure, or for that of retaining political power in their own hands, have ever sought or accepted the aid of lawless agitation, tumults, and confede racies. In another respect also we cordially concur in the sentiments of several of the most respectable ind intelligent of our contempora ries, that the conduct of Ministers in the case of the Dorchester convicts has been in the highest degree unwarrantable and dis graceful. It surely might have been expected that Ministers, after having, by their course of domestic policy, created a state of affairs which, in their own judgment, precluded the exercise of the Royal prerogative of mercy in the case of these men, would have had suffi cient magnanimity and sense of honour to stand boldly forward as the advisers of a severity which their own policy had rendered indispen sable, instead of shrinking, in a manner as mean and cowardly as it is unconstitutional, behind the shelter of the Throne, and, in order to save themselves, pointing distinctly to their Royal Master as the proper object of. whatever feelings of indignation or resentment the seve- rity niay excite. The honest, manly, and con stitutional course Ministers have, however, upon this as upon other occasions, shown themselves incapable of pursuing. It will be recollected that on Saturday se'nniglit a deputation from those very numerous and formidable bodies, the Trades' Unions of the metropolis, waited upon the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment, to place in his hands a petition to the throne, praying for a remission of the punish ment to which the Dorsetshire unionists had been condemned. What was Lord Melbourne's answer, as promulgated by this deputation, with an accuracy, to this moment unim peached ? That he and his colleagues did not think it consistent with their duty to advise the remission or mitigation of the punish ment ? No, this would have been too manly and straightforw . ard. The answer of the noble secretary to the deputation was, that the petition should be laid before the King, and that no steps should be taken towards the execution of the sentence until his Majesty's pleasure was known. These words were understood, not by the Trades'Unionists only, but by all mankind, to convey an intimation that the sentence would be mitigated at least. The ministerial journals, upon the strength of it, b egan immediately to express opinions and put forth reasonings oppo site to what they had expressed and put forth a day or two before. The Dorsetshire convicts were, in fact, now considered to be quite safe. Well, what followed ? About the middle of last week, the interview with Lord Melbourne having occurred on the preceding Saturday, it was announced that there was no remission, no mitigation—that in fact, the vessel contain ing the convicts was already on her voyage to Botany Bay. A comparison of dates will leave little reason to doubt that, at the very moment when Lord Melbourne was calmly speaking to the deputation of taking the King's pleasure upon the subject, and delaying proceedings until his Majesty's pleasure was known, the order for the sailing of the vessel, if not actually issued, had been fully resolved upon. But this is not all. After the vessel had actu ally sailed, the Secretary of State for the Home Department, as if in equal mockery of the King and of his petitioning subjects, sent, or ordered to be sent, a letter to the deputation which had waited upon him, stating that their petition had been laid before the King, and that his Majesty had not been pleased to issue any commands upon the subject. Now why, we would ask, might not Lord Melbourne in this final com munication have said something about the ad vice of ministers, after having at his interview with the deputation so unaccountably omitted all allusion to what constitutionally must be true, and having even insinuated what is equally false in theory and in fact ? Why did he not frankly and manfully say, "We thought it our duty to advise that the sentence passed upon , these men should be carried into execution, _ instead of repeating his former unconstitutional and positively false intimation that the decision of the question had rested with the King ? Why should we have so much about the King, and nothing at all about his advisers ? Was it retiring modesty merely which thus shrunk from the public gaze ? The present Ministers of the Crown were not so very retiring in the hal cyon days of penny cups and civic festivities. They were willing enough then to take, at least, their full share, with their Royal Master, in the noisy popularity of that moment of national delusion and excitement.—Morning Post. The carpenters and bricklayers belonging to the Trades' Unions have, in consequence of Messrs. Combe and Delafield's refusal to employ any person connected with Trades' Unions, resolved to drink no more of their beer.--Morning Paper. HUMAN SACRIFICES.—An old idol, which has been embedded in the river at Rangoon ever since the occupation of that town by British troops, in 1824, has appeared, it is said, in visions to the golden-footed Majesty of Ava, complaining that the priest who had charge of his altar, to save his own life had deserted his godship, and absconded from his temple. To pu nish which crime the idol has requested that the cul prit be apprehended, and forthwith immolated at his shrine, to appease his wrath. No sooner was this said than it was done ; the next morning the priest was ar rested, sent down to Rangoon, there sacrificed, and the deity re-seated at his shrine. The Raja of Joy pore likewise has sacrificed two rams to appease the old rusty guns lying in the fort of Joypore, which it is said thirsted for blood, and has ordered them to be broken up, that in future no similar demand may be made by them.—Harkaru.—E, I, Magazine. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 5. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR.) ROBERTSON V. ETTLES. This was an appeal from the Court of Session, Scot land, and arose out of an action raised for the re covery of a sum of money, amounting altogether to 1801. 19s. 5d., being the amount of a bill of exchange for 1451. and 351. interest. The grounds of defence were, that by the 12th George 111., c. 72., the amount of the bill could not be recovered, inasmuch as payment had not been demanded until after the expiration of six years, and there was nothing to prove that.the sum had not been paid in the interval. Another ground was, that the bill in question was written on a 4s. 6d. instead of a .ss. stamp, as required by the Stamp Act ; consequently it was irrecoverable in any court. On the other side, it was contended that the bill had been acknowledged by a subsequent act of the party claimed against. The action was brought before the Sheriff, and from thence to the Lord Ordinary and the Court of Session, who found the appellant liable to payment and costs. The Lord Advocate and Mr. Milne were for the appellant, and Dr- Lushington and Mr. Anderson for the respondent. After the Lord Advocate had finished his opening, The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed, for the pur pose of saving time, and the expense of another day's attendance, that one counsel should be heard for the respondent, and replied to by the junior counsel for the appellant ; otherwise the appellant would be put to an extra expense of 40/. or 501., by another day's attendance. The whole sum in dispute was 140/., and the costs of the appellant would not be less than 2001., which she could never recover. The suggestion of his lordship having been acceded to, and Dr. Lushington having proceeded a short ivay in his argument for the respondent, the Lord Chancellor, with some earnestness, stopped him, by saying—" There must be something done to prevent appeals in cases of this kind ; it amounts to a scandal and disgrace in the administration of justice. Papers of this sort (his lordship taking up the printed paper) are prepared in a case of this small amount, of which a judge below would dispose of 40 in the course of a morning. Counsel may certify that there is reasonable cause of appeal in an action for the sum of 55., but if they certify that, no reasonable person would take advantage of that good ground, however reasonable it'imight be, for the appellant could never recover his costs. It may be beneficial to some people, but not to the appellant." Dr. LUSHINGTON then proceeded, his lordship commenting on the argument as it went on, and observing that " had this case been tried at Guild hall, it would have been over in an hour." Dr. LUSHINGTON said that as his lordship had expressed his opinion so strongly in the case, he should feel it his duty not to proceed further. The LORD CHANCELLOR immediately rose, and, in an emphatic manner, said " I need not trouble your lordships by entering into detail in this case ; I shall move, your lordships, that this judgment be reversed, simply on the ground of the Stamp Act." Judgment reversed. LESLIE V. SHEPPARD. This was a similar appeal, and involved the ques tion whether the holder of a bill of exchange gave time to the drawer by forbearing to sue the acceptor. It was a case of no interest except to the parties, and his lordship postponed judgment. His lordship intimated on his rising, at half-past four o'clock, that he should sit on Monday on Scotch appeals, and that I.ord Denman would sit on Tues day for the purpose of hearing two appeals from the English Court of Exchequer. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday James Smith, a staring fellow, who pretended to great simplicity, and was dressed in a smock-frock, was brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having sneaked into a house, and stolen a cloak and several books, the property of Mr. De veux, a clerk in a merchant's office, No. 29, Fen church-street. Mr. Deveux said that Friday night being foreign post night, the counting-house was open late. Be tween ten and eleven o'clock he saw the prisoner descendirig the stairs from the second floor with complainant's cloak and books, the cloak having been very conveniently and adroitly thrown over the person of the prisoner, who thought to pass as the owner, by assuming an independent air. Wit ness, however, collared the fellow and gave him a lodging in the station-house, where he altered his character. The LORD MAYOR—How can you account for this, prisoner ? Smith—l've no notion how in the world it came about. I don't know where I was, or how I got there. The LORD MAYOR—YOU did not suppose that the cloak was your own, did you ? Prisoner—l don't know, but I suppose I must. I might have dreamt it, please your lordship ; but, God bless you, I have the worst memory in the world. The LORD MAYOR—We'II try and refresh it for you. Did the officer find anything else upon him ? Policeman—Yes, my lord, I found two pair of white silk stockings, just from the wash, upon him. Probably, some Nor washerwoman has been robbed of them. Prisoner—Not a bit of it. Those stockings are my own. I brought them from Bolton with me, and I hope your lordship will order the policeman to give me them and the one shilling and tenpence halfpenny I had in my pocket. The LORD MAYOR—Oh, I find you are begin ning to get back your - memory Perhaps, now, you can tell us something about the cloak and boots. The prisoner relapsed into his former forgetful ness, shook his head, and declared that it was quite unknown to him how he got into Fenchurch-street at all. It was all a dream. He only recollected, that after walking from Bolton he lay down and fell asleep.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, people walk in their sleep, but I never heard that they were in the habit of robbing in their sleep.—(Laughter.) Prisoner—l'm sure I can't say nothing about it. Policeman—My lord, he is known as a very bad man. He is a notorious morning and evening sneak, and pretends, when he is met on the stairs, that he has been to inquire for a Mr. Jones, or a Mr. Dixon, as lives on the top floor. He has been in Bridewell for three months. The prisoner stared at this intelligence, and, shaking his head, said, " Know nothing at all about it." The LORD MAYOR—What ! not recollect whe ther you were ever in Bridewell ? The gaoler said that Smith had been imprisoned in Bridewell, he believed, for fourteen days. The LORD MAYOR I thought it was for a longer period. Prisoner—No, my Lord ; I had only fourteen days, and that was quite enough. A woman in the crowd—And that it was. Poor gentleman, he was, you see, my lord, a cleaning of a dusthole, and they pulled him 'cause he found a spoon. He never know'd whether it was silver or copper, and there vas nobody to identify it. The LORD MAYOR—Who are you ? his wife, woman ? Woman—No, please you, my lord ; but- I looks arter him for to brush him up a bit. The LORD MAYOR—I shall separate you for some time ; for I shall send him for trial to Newgate. Prisoner—l hope you'll make this here policeman give me my money. Policeman—l was obliged to take him to the Compter in a cab ; for he swore he would not walk an inch to prison, any more than he would walk out to be hanged, and I paid for the ride. The LORD MAYOR then desired the policeman to give the prisoner the difference between the charge for the cab and the contents of the purse of the prisoner ; when he was committed to Newgate for trial. BO W • STREET. Mary Morgan was charged with stealing a qun tity of eggs and butter from the shop of Mr. Evan , , a cheesemonger, in St. Martin's-lane. The robbery was effected in the following novel manner :—The prisoner watched an opportunity, when there was only a little girl, the daughter of the prosecutor, in the shop, and, going into the shop with a jug in her hand, asked the child to procure her a little water. The child, taken off her guard, left the shop for the purpose of doing so, and during her temporary absence the p r i soner helped herself to the eggs and butter, and then bolted, not thinking the water or the jug worth waiting for. Unfortunately she had been taken thirsty only the week before, and Went to the same shop for a little of the Tem perance Society's liquor, and then helped herself to sundry eggs and a good slice of bacon, with which she got clear off ; but on this occasion she was not so fortunate, being pursued and taken with the pro perty in her possession. —Committed. basil ASSAULT.—Cornelius Donovan, Timothy Donovan, and half-a-dozen more of the same name and family, were charged with assaulting about the same number of the respectable family of the O'Neills. It appeared that the row took place in consequence of a disputed claim between them to the right of possession of a house in St. Giles's. The magistrate could not decide the point as to the right of possession ; the parties must fight it out. Tim Donovan (interrupting his Worship)—There, do you hear that ? Come out of this, all of ye, and settle it at once. The worthy magistrate told Tim he had mistaken his meaning, which was, that their dispute as to the right of property must be settled in a Court of law. " I wish your worship would let us settle it in our Court," said Tim, " and the Donovans would put an end to the dispute in a twinkling." The case was dismissed, and Tim, as he left the office, observed, " By Jasus we have got to begin it all over again." A young man, named George Hunt, who de scribed himself as being engaged in the ballet de partment of the Theatre Royal, Covent-garden, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a violin, the property of Mr. Wilkins, engaged as a violinist in the orchestra of the same establishment. The prisoner was remanded. MARYLEBONE. Thomas Allingham, a promising youth, about six teen years of age, was charged with nearly boring a pig to death in the following extraordinary way : Policeman 117 T, about seven o'clock that morn . ing, was on duty in the Bayswater-road, when he saw the prisoner mounted on a large pig, which he was riding round a field, beating and spurring the poor animal in the most unmerciful manner, until it at last sunk down under its load, and appeared nearly dead. The policeman desired him to desist from his barbarous exercise, when he jumped from the pig's back and commenced a furious attack upon the constable, threatening to stab him with a knife. With great difficulty he was brought to the station house. Ordered to find bail. Mary Ann Davis, a miserable-looking being, clothed in rags, and carrying an infant in her arms, was brought before Mr. SHUTT. A policeman, between ten and eleven o'clock on Friday night, saw the poor creature and her child fast asleep on the steps of a door in Oxford -street, and conveyed them to the station-house. Mr. SHUTT—Was she intoxicated ? Witness— I don't think she was ; she was shivering with cold, and the_infant was crying. Mr. S - HUTT (to the prisoner)—Where did you last sleep in a bed ? Prisoner—ln St. Giles's ; but that was many nights ago, your Honour. Mr. SHUTT—Have you been to any other Po- lice-office to apply for relief? Prisoner—l have been to Marlborough -street three times, and was told to go away and do as well as I could. Mr. SHUTT immediately directed an officer to pro ceed to the overseers of St. Giles's, with a request that they would lose no time in ascertaining the truth of the woman's story, as she must not be suf fered to perish in the streets for want of relief. QUEEN.SQUARE. A young man, who gave his name Charles Wil mot, without a shirt on his back, and with scarcely rags to cover him, who stated himself to be the son of a person styling herself the Princess Olive of Cumberland, came to this office for the purpose of asking advice, as he was in a state of the greatest distress on account of his mother, the Princess, re fusing to acknowledge him. He had been out to Sierra Leone some years ago, where he held a si tuation, which he was obliged to leave some months since on account of extremely ill health. He had called upon his mother at her house in Euston grove ; but she positively refused to own him ; and being in a state of the greatest distress, he wished to know what he was to do. Mr. GKEGORIE said he had nothing to do with it. The applicant then retired, much disappointed. HATTON.GARDEN. James Alderidge, a young man about nineteen years of age, was placed at the bar, on the follow ing charge : Collier, a policeman, on Sunday evening last, while on duty near the Angel at Islington, saw the prisoner standing opposite the booking-office in a very melancholy mood. His suspicion being excited, he watched the prisoner, and in the course of half an hour afterwards, perceiving him enter the office, and in a hurried manner pay some money, he ac costed him, and ascertained that he had paid 4/. to be conveyed to Liverpool by one of the night .coaches. In answer to further inquiries, witness finding the accused had no luggage with him, and that he was not at all prepared to travel such a distance, considered it his duty to detain him, and conveyed him to the station-house, where he disco vered 111 sovereigns and some valuable jewellery concealed in the prisoner's pockets. He was un able to account for the possession of the property ; therefore he was locked up, and witness had sub sequently ascertained he had decamped from the service of Miss Mary Holt, pawnbroker, of Wool wich, after plundering her to a great amount. A solicitor, who attended on the prisoner's behalf, asked if Miss Holt did not induce the prisoner to admit he had robbed her of the property stated, by telling him she would not prosecute him ? He was answered in the affirmative. Mr. LAING—Then there is an end of the case. Under such circumstances no jury can receive the evidence. (To the prisoner.)—You may consider yourself very lucky, for had you been convicted of the robbery there is little doubt the extreme sen tence of the law would have been awarded to you. The prisoner was then discharged, and the pro perty was handed over to Miss Holes nephew. TOWN-HALL. Ann Wright, an ill-looking woman, aged sixty, was charged with having obtained money from several persons under the following circumstances : Isaac Lee, of Noel-street, Bermondsey New road; stated that in consequence of some words he had had with his wife, and the inattention she showed to him and his family, he called upon the prisoner, whose fame as a fortune-teller spread far and near, in order to ascertain whether his wife had played him false. He was the more induced to put faith in the reputed powers of the prisoner as his wife, before her marriage, had had " her nativity cast as correctly as gospel." The prisoner pulled out the cards and globes, .and with great mystery informed him that his wife was faithless, that during his absetce she devoted part of her time to a hand some young man, and that she had sent her Lothario a " wallantine." Witness said that that was im possible, because as how his wife could not write ; but the prisoner replied that she had it ready written for her. He returned to his wife almost maddened by the various falsehoods told him by the fortune teller, and commenced so tremendous a quarrel that the police rushed into the house and informed them selves of the cause of the strife. They then took measures for the apprehension of the prisoner. Mary Wood, on Friday afternoon, went to the prisoner's house in New -street, Dock-head, in order to find whether she was right in her suspicions as to file infidelity of her husband, who had slept away from her a few nights. The prisoner said she knew all about it ; her husband was a bad 'un, he had got drunk at Greenwich Fair with his duleinea, and he spent the greater proportion of his earniti upon her. Witness asked what she had to pal 14 such important information ? " Sixpence, my dear replied the fortune-teller ; " I has plenty of carriag folks, and my maxim is, and ever has bin, let tb rich pay for the poor." The prisoner was committed for a month to th House of Correction. Martha Picard, aged 40, William WORSHIP-STREET. 11 George Drew, 16, William Richa;d,son, 25 ) a r n Mary Elliott, 29, were brought before BROUGHTON for final examination, charged with t following daring and systematic depredation s nel The prisoners were apprehended in conseque.. tl of a lad named Weare, who was in c ustody _ other lads at this office, charged on suspicion oi stealing a pair of trousers from a tailor's sil°P Shoreditch, having communicated to the police ths Mrs. Picard had inveigled him from his parents, . 11 0 , sent him with the other prisoners to break the w b i i i dows of shops, and plunder them of every P O' s d e . article they could lay their hands upon. ll' e d e d predations he had been concerned in excee . 2,0001. worth of property, the whole of Which heasd, her son, been transferred to Mrs. Picard. The magistrafee on learning what had transpired between the a a r n r d nest : iengp e r a ti, r hs e oe , nae c er l es o u s ws e ee ly dre. interrogated the latter, `rho adhered so strongly and consistently to the sa t he story, and gave such intelligent answers, that . 0 for trial upon twelve di f s u t l i l n y ct co c m ha ni rg it e t magistrates desired the police to lose no time Naviga te s ed of to fe r o ; y • , - - 0 of which are for caital ences. It is thou g ht that durin off g the last six m onths t i nt prisoners h ave committed dep t redations to the ao of .5,000/. It seems that Weare was tried w ith wsv i other boys at the last Old Bailey Sessions , ° n charge of stealing a wa t c h a t T o tt en h am , and to acquitted ; but the o th er b oys were se ntenc e. 0 , be transported for life. Weare was severely awl! a nished by the Recorder, and it has, we trust, had beneficial operation upon his mind. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Saturday evening an inquest was held b efore Carttar, at the White Lion, opposite the n igh°P d es s. opo3 P nfis ti c jyo a hen e aea e mrt , ehsb; L ei tdtw a hes Lambeth, oe b e t eehhctaa came df , hebome been ery. no t nhjhf foully ursel bdlpyoehdadyt Lloyd, al Wednesdayoolutfyn dwd : ei a trneh r aoc. night hritt : an i o a rs e , sae a 1 , uht t. which, on the first discovery of the body, led to e ar ed few minutes to eleven o'clock, while undressing! the bed-room, heard a woman scream violently, as it h e a rd water ; he listened, an d a f ter a f ew m oments f 'i va te another piercing shri e k, an d t h en h ear d P . who watchman talking from the wharf to a fisherman' a rils was in a peter-boat at a distance of about forty t he from the shore, and who described that he hear, screams come from a particula r di rec tion near the ' onc e, beth-causeway. Th e wa t c h man , i n conse r i n 'lo hastened towards the spot, where he was joined 1)1 the Lucas's watchman, who h a d h ear d th e screams f re !rheY Middlesex shore, and consequently rowed ac ross. sra y, discovered the body at a few y ar d s f r om the C ause t wo woman was s o saw discovered, th e body depositedlying near the shore, in a depth o f not more that th a feet of water. Wit ness (M r . Ll o yd) hearing sist. and hastened in white to render assist ante, within, he could almost say, fi ve m i n utes from the time . t felt he heard the first scream ; and, strange to saY , to t. as cold as lead, for which h e was unable to ac ho ur, Every means were employed for upwards of athea t including bleeding, to restore animation, but w e l body , effect. Witness, owing to the cold state of t h bad was unable to say that it was that of the w oman ' heard scream. Similar evidence was given by other witnesses. _e George Cox, husband of the d ecea sed, wim See in a state of strong mental distress for the loss h ide r, sustained, described himself as a carver and gi living in Heydon-court, Regent-street, and tared that the last time he saw the deceased was at abowLs quarter to twelve o'clock, on Wednesday last, when they parted on good terms in Berwick -street, r ; said she would proceed home and prepare his dinnC,. he ascertained she had not been home, and was una!)i.u. to hear anything of her until the next day, when address was di scovered by . mea ns of a card found fl;., her pocket. He was entirely unable to say how 4 deceased came to be drowned , o r what had brouga her to the Surrey side of the water. no. case, into which they regretted that they co,u_Toud penetrate, and the latter returned a verdict of ' to Drowned, but how caused, there was no evidence show." be fore The Coroner and Jury said it was a very mysterioo. An inquest was held on Saturday morning CO' Mr. Payne, at Messrs. Whitbread's brewery , In ea u, well-street, Finsb ur y, on the body of Mr. M one of the partners in that establishment. It aPP,,,ed s o f artinare that the deceased, who was upwards of eighty fie age, suddenly disappeared on Friday afternoon' ct iog was seen in the brewhouse at two o'clock, ins rend s ' the machinery and works on the premises. His : ar ch becoming alarmed, proceeded in the evening t e ,,, b with the premises, and on examining the yeast t r .sm 8 1 3 ; sticks, the body of the deceased was fowl' ''he peared to have been dead some time. Th e 7, a d for" was very infirm, and walked with a stick ; he his stir merly been attacked with apoplectic fits, and it ° w hile posed that he was suddenly. overtaken WTI fit f ough walking round the trough, and fell in. T he " It eon is about five or six feet deep, but on this occasied a ha lf tamed yeast to the depth of only about two a n it a ble feet ; the deceased would, therefore, have bee _ a iii to call for assistance, if he had not been afflict' the manner before mentioned. ceased was caused by apoplexy. the 6r° Deceased was father of Mr. Martineau, of The Jury returned a verdict, that the death of de. of Martineau and Mallon, BIRTHS On the 2d inst., Mrs. Culley, Coup berland, of a daughter. nningtoncommon, On the 4th inst., at South-place, I, e" --- - Frederick Devon, of a daughter. • Castle, Nortl2lo. youngest daughter ar da d ug ß h a t n e d r al o l f , of th e Cl ia ap te to p n . n MARBLE D ' d, ", On the sth inst., at St. Michael's, Cornhill, Itichar t Jane, youngest daughter of Matthew Harrison, of HIP grove, and Cornhill. O rti : On the 31st ult., at East Bridgford, Notts, 1 5 e , ila• l ° Esq., of 011erton, in the same county, to Mary B 6 h t '' O' er place. Hpaallml,er:oEsrthq.a,inptonsieufuory, oan el o l i On the sth inst., at Christchurch, Surrey, Elba na lg P hte t jun., Esq., of Herne hill, Surrey, to Mary, se cond "-- Joseph Dermer, Esq. 1 os i os cir: On the sth inst., at St. John's, Windsor, Mr. Sa t tlar 21) of Castle-street, Holborn, to Susanna, eldest datlifb`" F . Jenner, Esq., of Windsor. ~s he , C On the 2d inst., at St. Matthew's, Brixton, t" - , th e Ile' ' F. Anderson, to Sarah, only surviving daughter 0 )1 r , F. Mileham, of Stoke Newington. / scil l3re sO' On the sth inst., at Trinity-s quare , Cloudesle. , "_ i s te John Renshaw, to Charlotte, third daughter of the ~ pp) , Jones, of York-place, Islington. „ W o3 „,' s rl#' On the 2d inst., at St. Bride's, Fleet-street, .. IA .1 , of St. Lawrence, Ipswich, to Eliza, daughter of Sr* of Tiverton, Devon. bt d e you DIED, On the 2d inst., at the Grove, Lady Jane 1 104 daughter of the late John Earl of Hopetoun. rleP street' On the sth inst., in Harley-place, Upper 03 n, 0 ( Wilam Parkinso Esq., in hs 3d year. h lO thet On li the 2d inst., Lieutenant- i Ge B neral Calcratt, - a f l s4' the late Right Hon. J. Calcraft, M.P. watt, pot On the 6th inst., at Hanover.square, Thon3 o3 g o ose , of Willenhall, Warwickshire, and of Willenha ll— be e t Barnet, Herts, aged 51. jo t o On the sth inst., Sir R. G. Keati, G.C.8., . Adsl ~,w 11, White, and Governor of Greenwich'HospitaL „is .. „.u" d e e ira, On the 13th ult., at Lisbon, the Chevalier F r a 3.-e o f P' l : - 001 1 ' of London, and Penha da Franca, in the ist 3a d Gre a f G low' eldest son of the late Dominick Oliveira, Esrl' , . , - ,•r3, °. berland-street, and nephew of the Marechal 0 10 -1 wid °l ( ester-place. . 1 3e11, l ire. On the 6th inst., in Harley-place, Clifton, DI P : Fif' s ge of the late Chas. Bell, Esq., of Hilton and Colltithi.e,t of Geor On the 4th inst., at Walworth, Mary Ann , relle a ged 59 0 p0- Holah, Esq., formerly of Stamford-hill, Middleseg, tree, Sena On the 24th ult., Parr Popkin, Esq., of Dean' s oil? square. of Stalliford- On the 4th inst., John Martineau, Esq. , oS' aged 76. w. isit On the 4th inst., at Dorking, Harriet, wif e of J. , l os 3 ' Esq., Mill-wall. ter O o n f t t h h e e 4 la th te i D nt, i a c t i Tu Fow nb le r r id , g E e s W q. ells, f 01 ! komoe, 0.00, On the 3d inst., Ann, wife of Mr. Enoch Ria ... oeol mingliam, in her 36th year, second daughter of Di' Lopard, late of London. Margaret, thira . „ ,ondon •. Printed and Published by MURDO V ° -Pl°' it the Sun -Office, No. IN, Strand.