The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-08 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are glad to perceive that' Mr. Wallace, the member for Greenock, has renewed his no tice of motion for a committee of inquiry into the state of the Post-office, with a view to a reform of its abuses, and which notice stands at present for the 29th inst. There are few, if any, of the public establishments of the coun try in which the whole community are so closely interested as • in this. On the one hand, its conveniences are applicable to every one; on the other, its abuses and defects are matters of uni versal application. The Westminster Review, in a very spirited article upon the subject, can not fail to have opened the eyes of its readers to sonic of the sources of complaint, which are, at length, becoming bah • loud and deep. We agree with the writer of the article in question, in most of the ob setv.ations which the subject has drawn from him, especially in that wherein lie points out the titter inefficklicy of the nominal heads of the establishment, the successive Postmasters-Gene rs:.;, who have, for the most part, been little better than sinecurists, and, as such, condescendingly acting the part of deputies to their own ser vants. " The power of the Postmaster-General," says this writer, "is enormous. . He regulates the conveyance of all the correspondence of the country, domestic, colonial, and foreign ; he appoints and displaces such officers and ser vants, and takes such security from them as he deems necessary. He settles the accounts of salaries and contingent allowances, subject only to a nominal revision by the Lords of the Trea- Sury. In certain cases he settles the rates of 1?Ostolge, according to his goodwill and pleasure. it is his duty to see that the accounts of the Accruing revenue are duly kept and the money paid into the Exchequer. He has, in fact, an almost despotic control over his department. It is plain, therefore, that great experience and knowledge of business, unwearied attention and activity, unusual precision, and scrupulous dis interestedness, are among the first requisites to be looked for in an efficient Postmaster-General. But how is it possible that they can be pos sessed by men of high rank and fortune, whose habits of education have especially unfitted them for the drudgery of business ? Yet; from men of this class have Postmasters-General been almost invariably selected. - Of course they have not even attempted to grapple with the performance of their duties, and the legisla ture has kindly relieved them from all responsi bility not directly personal, or for the manage ment of their department ; the Postmaster- General being by the 9th Anne, c. 10, exempt from all responsibility for the reve nue, or for the officers appointed by him, save only for his voluntary defaults or inisfeasances.' and lie is not required to give any security." So that according to this fortu nate provision, the less a man interferes with the business which lie is paid by the public for transacting, the less likely is he to incur any share of that very small responsibility which his own " defaults and misfeasances" can alone bring upon him. If there be any de partment (next to the Admiralty in time of war) which requires the residence and con stant attendance of its head, the Post-office is that department ; but, strange to say, not only has not any one of the successive Postmasters- General ever spent a night, or any thing like even an official day, within its walls ; but, even the next officer in authority (or rather, we might say, the only one in authority) is allowed to reside some miles from the place of business. In thus glancing at causes, we are obliged to pass by effects, but which are glaring enough in the acknowledged abuses which have been allowed to grow up in this important establish ment, and in the very slow and unwilling hand which ever moves, either to increase facilites or to remove defects. The country in general, therefore, cannot but look with earnestness and wish well to the result of Mr. Wallace's motion. We doubt whether any lengthened inquiry be fore a committee can now be necessary, Lord Wallace's Revenue Commission having already devoted five volumes of its reports to this one subject. The facts, therefore, are ready pre pared—all that is . now wanting is that they should be acted upon. That this has not al ready been done reflects but little credit upon the successive administrations which have been in possession of them. The truth is, there ap pears to have been a power behind the door in this department,which has kept it carefullybarred and bolted against reform. It remains to be seen whether it can do so any longer. There are already symptoms that it cannot.—Morning Herald. We extract from the Warwick Advertiser, of Saturday, a short report of the legal proceedings at the Warwick Assizes against four electors of that borough for bribery at the last election. The result, in the conviction of the two prin cipal wholesale agents who basely corrupted the constituency of that town, will have a most sa lutary effect in other places. The briber—the fountain head of bribery—is seldom detected, and rarely convicted. The technicalities of a penal action—the character of witnesses who have accepted bribes, and whose evidence is therefore depreciated—the extreme " cross swearing" of partisan witnesses resolved to ' " swear off" the briber—added to the craft of Counsel, usually secure legal impunity for the criminals. But fortunately, in the present in stance of the corruptionists of Warwick, the net of the law hasbeen strong enough. There appear to have been four individuals sued at the Warwick assizes—the town clerk Mr. James Tibbitts, Mr. Oram, Mr. Trepass and Mr. Ayres. The town clerk it will be recollected was not arraigned before the committee of the House of Commons as a prin cipal briber. Only three cases of the application of money for the votes of electors were alleged against him. The prosecutors appear not to have called any evidence, but on the charge of bribery Mr. Hill (the counsel for the prosecution} declared his submission to a verdict of acquittal. The two great culprits, however, Mr. Oram and Mr. Trepass, the former the Vicar's church warden and an assistant burgess or member of the Corporation Council, were convicted, and are thereby disfranchised as electors, and ren dered incapable of holding any civil office. Both these individuals were members of Sir Charles Greville's l oca l e l ect i on committee— were prime agents throughout the contest—had their assigned departm en t s o f management during the election—the whole conduct of the contest being under the chief legal direction of Mr. Tibbitts—Mr. James Tibbitts giving to these individuals drafts for money on the ad mitted funds of Lord Warwick—and the de fendants occupying what is termed " a respect able station in life." We rejoicein their con viction as essential to the ends of justice. .Ihe verdicts completely substantiate before a British jury the fidelity of the Commons' Report. If the three minor cases o f bribery alleged against the Town Clerk were unsupported by legal proof, or even open to doubt, we should have regretted to have seen them pressed when the con sequences are so severe to a professional man. The evidence before the House of Commons only slightly implicated the town clerk in the personal practice of bribery, and we are willing to give him the full value of the verdict at Warwick of honourable acquittal. But still Mr. Tibbitts remained an undoubted manager of this notorious election. He was the recipient of Lord Warwick's money—the distributor of it to all the parties most deeply implicated in the bribery, treating, and other mal-practices— the agent assisting at the " manufactory of votes," denounced by the Revising Barrister— the defender of the colourable votes at the re gistration ; and, admitting him to be cleared of the charge of actual bribery, could he be igno rant of the existence and encouragement of bribery and corruption ? We repeat that these verdicts are most important. Punishment has fallen on the real offenders ; they are cut off from the constituency ; and their punishment will be a wholesome example to the whole country. The penalties and costs may not be very oppressive, or they may be " honourably" paid by the noble lord for whose "interest" the convicted bribers avowedly acted ; but, degraded from corporate office, and deprived of their town and country franchise, Mr. Oram and Mr. Tre pass are sufficiently punished and stigmatised, and their conviction stamps the credit of the report of the Reformed House of Commons.— Morning Chronicle. ' The accounts which we receive from Ireland become daily more and more alarming. The King's County is again in a state of open . in surrection, and, notwithstanding the executions which have recently taken place, crimes of the most atrocious character are daily perpetrated in the open day. In another part of our Paper we have given an account of the mur derous proceedings of the Trades' Unions in Cork. The same system is at work all over the country ; and in Dublin, in consequence of these combinations, all work and all business is at a stand still. The Irish Government have at length opened their eyes to the fearful state of the country, and the most earnest representations on the subject are said to have been addressed to the Government here, by Lord Wellesley, within the last few days. The return of Mr. Littleton to Ireland seems daily more and more impro bable ; and it is known that Lord Wellesley makes no secret of the fact that his difficulties have in a great measure arisen from the course adopted by that hon. gentleman. So open a rupture, indeed, is said to have taken place be tween the Lord Lieutenant and his son-in-law that the continuance in office of Lord Welles ley is become utterly incampatible with that of Mr. Littleton. In the event of the resignation of the latter gentleman, we shall be anxious to see to what member of the House of Commons the Irish Chief Secretaryship will be offered. Of this we are certain, that the difficulties which have stood in the way of filling the vacant Lordship of the Treasury will, in this case, be redoubled ; and that there is no one supporter of Earl Grey's government in the House of Commons who, however willing he may be to afford them assistance, will be able to do so if the vacating a seat be indispensable for this pur pose I We see to-day (what was never before seen in this country) a government obliged to press the acceptance of a Lordship of the Treasury, now vacant for four months, not upon a member of parliament, but upon a candidate for that honour ;—not upon an individual of tried ability and influence, but upon an unknown political aspirant ;—not as the reward of ascer tained capability for business, but as a bait to catch the votes of a reformed Scotch constitu ency ! On whom the Irish Secretaryship, so soon likely to be vacant, will be conferred we know not ; but this we do know, that it will be hard to find an individual upon whom to bestow it more incapable than Mr. Littleton ; and that it will be impossible to select one who, when his turn for being relieved from the cares of office shall arrrive, can quit it with a character for less of capacity for business, or for more of capabi lity for mischief !—Morning Post. HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 7. (Before the LORD CHANCELLOR, &C.) DOUGLAS V. WILLIAMSON. This was an appeal from a judgment of the Court of Session in Scotland, in which Mr. H. A. Doug las, the surviving assi g nee of Messrs. Stein and Co., the great distillers atCanonmills and Kilvagie, was appellant, and Mr. James Williamson, merchant in Edinburgh, and Mr. J. Wardlaw, his cautioner, were respondents. The circumstances out of which the case arose were shortly these :—ln January, 1812, Mr. Stein, who carried on a large distillery in the neighbour hood of Edinburgh, proposed to consign 50 pun cheons of whisky to Mr. Williamson as security for advances which he required of Mr. Williamson to the amount of 3,414/. The whisky thus to be con signed was placed in Mr. Bertram's cellars. Two days afterwards Williamson granted his acceptances to Mr. Stein for 3,414/., which were discounted by Stein, and the proceeds paid to him. Shortly after this, the house of Scott, Smith, Stein, and Co., of London, with whom the distillery company were in connection, failed ; and it being probable that, in consequence of the failure of the London house, some derangement would take place in the affairs of Messrs. Stein and Co., Mr. Williamson applied to Mr. Bertram for delivery of the 50 puncheons of whisky, for the purpose of selling them for his relief. This Mr. Bertram refused to do, thinking that he would not be safe in delivering them without a legal order ; but after some proceedings before the sheriff of Edinburgh, the trustees, Mr. Gibson, writer to the signet, and Mr. Walter Brown, who had in the mean time been appointed, having recognised the right of Williamson to the whisky, it was agreed between the parties that it should he given up to Williamson, on his granting his obligation to ac count for the proceeds to the trustees aforesaid when so required, and declaring that he should not be put in a better situation as to his right by the delivery of the whisky than if the trustees had with held their consent. Messrs. Brunton and Wardlaw became securities for Mr. Williamson that he should fulfil his obligation, and the whisky was then de livered to Mr. Williamson and sold. In 1819 (seven years after the whisky had been delivered to Williamson, and sold by him) an action was brought against him by the trustees, in which he was called on to account for the proceeds of the whisky, and after a variety of proceedings, in which it was alleged that the whisky originally deposited with Bertram in January, 1812, had been removed, and other whisky substituted for it, within a few days of the bankruptcy of the distillery company, and for the purpose of giving an undue preference to Mr. Williamson over the other creditors, the Lord Ordinary assoilzies the parties from the conclusions of the action for the whole proceeds of the whisky, but In respect they admit their liability for the balance of said whisky in so far as not exhausted by the retirement of Williamson's acceptances, appoints the case to be enrolled, in order that such balance, if any, may be ascertained. The appellant having reclaimed to the inner house, the Court unanimously refused the reclaiming note, and adhered to the in terlocutor of the Lord Ordinary, upon which the I trustees appealed, and now contended that the .50 I puncheons were delivered not in security of a debt then incurred, but in satisfaction of a prior debt, and for the purpose of creating - a preference over the other creditors of Messrs. Stein in favour of Mr. Williamson, after knowledge of Mr. Stein's bankruptcy. Mr. Knight, Mr. Montagu, and Mr. Sandford appeared for the appellants, and the Lord Advo cate and Mr. Murray for the respondents.—Judg meat postponed. The LORD CHANCELLOR then proceeded to give judgment in several cases, which had been heard during the week. ' WEIR V. GLENNIE. In this case, which was a question as to the vali dity of an interdict granted by the sheriff, the judg ment of the court below was partly reversed, that of the Lord Ordinary, with some modification, being affirmed. MILLER V. THE EARL OF GLASGOW The LORD CHANCELLOR said that very seldom a question of greater importance than this came before their lordships' house. It was particularly interesting at the present period, when the state of the church in that part of the kingdom excited more than ordinary attention. He had already so I fully given his opinion on the question, that he I deemed it unnecessary to go into the details of the case, further than as to the point on which he had formerly expressed a doubt, and for the considera tion of which he had requested some time from their lordships. The only point in his mind re quiring consideration respecting the Dunning case, the decision on which was, in some measure, in consistent with that of the Methven ; but, in the Dunning case the arguments were principally as to the jurisdiction of presbytery, and it was on that point that the decision turned ; never theless, there were some observations made by the judges, on that occasion, which appeared to him to be inconsistent with the principles on which the Methven case was decided. In the case of Steventon, which was similar to that of Methven, and the argument in which was the same, the Court adjudged on the same principles which they had adopted in that of Methven, and in which he (the Lord Chancellor) was inclined to concur. His opinion, therefore, was, that however much a parish might increase in its population, if the church were in repair, or even if it were only in such a state of disrepair that the rebuilding of it was not absolutely necessary, the heritors could not be called on to build a new church, or enlarge the existing one, and it was only in the case of the erec tion of a new church that additional accommodation could be demanded. It had been objected in this view of the case by the counsel for the appellants, and he (the Lord Chancellor) was bound to say with great force, that if this view were adopted this im portant right would rest, not on the demand or ne cessity of accommodation, but on something of an accidental nature, which had nothing to do with the matter itself, or with the extent of the accommoda tion required, and that a church capable of con taining 800 persons, as in the present case, might be required to accommodate 3,000 persons ; or that in the case of Liverpool, which was only one parish, and had increased within a short period from 10,000 to upwards of 100,000 inhabitants, no accommoda tion should be given until it was necessary to re build the church. He felt the force of these argu ments, and of the strong remarks which had been made in support of them ; still he felt that there were equally forcible arguments on the opposite side. The difficulty was as to where they should draw a line. Great transitions and great changes, such as from a state of war to peace, and from peace to war, almost uniformly produced a great increase of population in particular districts. Many towns in England had doubled their population within the last 20 years, so that the extent of church accommodation became quite insufficient for the de mand. Were they then, on such occacions, to re quire that new churches should be added to the old ? That very addition implied the taking down a part of the old, and would in almost every case raise the question of whether it would be better to enlarge the church or at once to build a new one. If the population went on increasing at its present ratio, when it doubled itself in every 20 or 30 or 40 years, instead of as formerly in 300 or 400 years—if this doctrine were allowed, there might be a continual call on the heritors for new churches. It appeared to him that this was an arbitrary doctrine, on which no reasonable qualification could be made, and that was of itself a strong argument against its adoption. The learned counsel would therefore see that the difficulties did not all lie on one side. The re sult was, that if the present state of the law on the subject was defective, the Legislature was the proper quarter to apply to ; in the mean time their lord ships, in their judicial capacity, had only to admi nister the law as they found it ; and it appeared to him that the judgment of the Court below was sound, and well decided in the present instance. Affirmed without costs. SCOT V. STUART Of this case we gave a sketch on a former day. The question was, whether a tutory dative ceased by the death of one of the tutors. The judgment of the Court below was reversed. LESLIE V. SIIEPPARD. Affirmed without any remark. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA NSION- HOUSE. Alarchant, one of the night inspectors of the city, informed the Lord Mayor of the death of a young man who was about to break into a house for the purpose of plundering it.. The Inspector on Sunday morning received in formation that a young fellow, who had but one arm, had fallen from a parapet wall in Nag's Head court, Gracechurch-street, at ten minutes after one o'clock. The inspector immediately went to the place where the accident happened, before the door of Messrs. Frodsham, the watchmakers, whose house is partly in Gracehurch-street. The unfor tunate man who fell was still breathing. He was without his shoes, and it was suspected that in the attempt to break into Messrs. Frodsham's premises, he had tumbled from the top of the house. The in spector having sent him to the hospital, gave direc tions to the policemen to watch the neighbourhood of the premises while he went into Mr. Frodsham's house. He found that no entrance had been ef fected into that house, but upon examining the pre mises next door, he ascertained that they had been entered, and that a pair of shoes, whicTi were no doubt the prisoner's, were in the upper story. Upon a further search he found a great-coat near the spot from which - the man must have fallen, and in the pocket was a silver table-spoon, with a lion rampant, but no intitals upon it, a silk handkerchief, and two tools frequently used in housebreaking ; the one an exceedingly sharp three-squared instrument, the other an instrument something like a crowbar, with which desks or trunks might be easily burst open. At six o'clock on Sunday evening the man died. The LORD MAYOR approved of the conduct of the officer upon the occasion, and desired that in formation might be given to the coroner of the city of London. BO CV-STREET. Yesterday a sturdy young — private soldier, named Andrew Kerr, was charged with having improperly drawn his bayonet, and attempted to use it upon two of his Majesty's subjects. A young man named Philips stated that he was on his way home on Sunday evening about ten o'clock, when he saw the defendant rolling along the street very drunk, and seemingly hardly able to pre vent himself from falling. He called out, " soldier, you have got it !" upon which the latter turned round, and, muttering a threat, drew his bayonet in a menacing manner, and was about to make a rush at witness, when another witness inter fered, and the defendant immediately set off after him with his drawn bayonet in his hand. Mr. Philip Simmons, a fruiterer in Bry-dges-streei, Covent-garden, said that on seeing the soldier draw his bayonet on the young man, he became alarmed, and, going up to the former, said, " Soldier ! for Heaven's sake put up your bayonet. You are act ing unlawfully in drawing your side-arms upon any one. If he has insulted you call the police." The defendant, however, who appeared quite unreason able, turned upon witness and swore he would run him through. Witness ran away, calling for assist ance, and the defendant was stopped and - secured by a policeman with the aid of other persons. The witness said he had not the smalllest doubt but that the defendant would have killed him if he could Have got at him, for he never saw a man more des perate. The defendant was ordered to find good sureties to keep the peace, and was then locked up. HATTON.GARDEN. Yesterday Henry Quick was brought up for re examination, charged with having maliciously stabbed Mr. Weston, foreman to Day and Martin, blacking manufacturers, of Holborn, with intent to murder him. Mr. Jones, a medical gentleman, attended, and 'stated that Mr. Weston was not in immediate danger, but the wound was in such a state of irri tability that it would be highly dangerous for him to attend at the Office to give evidence. The prisoner was again remanded. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday, a fiery-looking Dutch tailor, named Konigh, whose face was nearly enveloped in a most formidable pair of whiskers, appeared before Mr. BURRELL, to prefer a charge of robber . ) , against Miss charlotte Whyming, of No. 4, Henry-street, Waterloo-road, a lady with a fine ruddy gin-faced looking countenance. The Dutch tailor could hardly give himself time to tell his story, his ire was so great ; he blustered away in broken English, a very long round-about sort of a tale, which he did not appear exactly to understand himself. From what we could gather from his story, it appeared that he had met the lady at the bar on the previous evening, and had accom panied her to her lodgings, when she accommodated him with a bed for the night ; in the morning he ordered some breakfast of coffee, eggs, &c., which was so dreadfully bad, that the breakfast prepared nearly turned his stomach ; that was not all, for when he looked for his coat, which was made by himself, after the most fashionable cut, he found that she had gone and pledged it for 55., the dupli cate of which she tendered him. Mr. Field, the inspector, said that he was sent for, understanding that a person had been robbed in the house. He found the prosecutor, half un dressed, walking and stamping about the room, swearing that the girl had stolen his coat, and he took her into custody. The Dutch tailor said that it was one of the best fits he had ever made in his life, and he would not have lost it for pounds. Charlotte was now called upon for her defence, and gave a very different version of the story. The complainant certainly accompanied her home, and in the morning he ordered breakfast ; he talked a good deal about his friends and connections, and spoke of the hundreds and thousands of pounds that he was possessed of and heir to. She reminded him that she would want a little money to procure the breakfast, when she found that with all his great talk he had not a farthing in his pocket, and he de sired her to take his coat and pledge it, and with great difficulty she procured the loan of ss. upon it, at a pawnbroker's where she was well known. After a lengthy investigation, the prisoner was discharged, her statement having some appearance of truth. The Dutch tailor was now in a very awkward dilemma ; for the police constable had lent him an old rusty green coat, with what was once a black, but now a brown velvet, collar, which had formerly belonged to his grandfather, of a cut peculiar to the fashion of the day, which had descended as an heir loom in the family. This ancient relic the police man demanded ; but he cursed and swore outside the office, and, although he declared he was ashamed to be seen with such a garment on his back, he still appeared very unwilling to part with it, for want of a better. After a lengthened discussion on this point, the Dutch tailor and the policeman went away—the latter keeping close to the tailor, and having a watchful eye upon his grandfather's coat. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YoRa, APRIL 4. ETRIDGE V. FLANDER AND ANOTHER. The action was brought to recover 26/., the amount of tickets to an election dinner to the late Mr. Bayntun, in December, 1832. The plaintiff was Mr. Sheriff Etridge, of the Royal Hotel, in this city, and the defendants were sued as being members of the Dinner Committee. It was proved that they acted in that capacity, and that money had been paid to them for tickets.— Verdict for the plaintiff-26/. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a young man named IVil mot, who al leged that he was the son of the female who styled herself the Princess Olive of Cumberland, attended to make application whether his mother could not be compelled to contribute in some manner to his support in his present destitute condition. He handed the magistrate (Mr. Murray) a sheet of paper, which he said contained the principal occur rences of his life, as far as his recollection served him. In this statement he asserts that he is the offspring of the above-mentioned female, and that there were living witnesses to attest to the fact, although she had discarded and disowned him, and left him a wanderer to seek his own subsistence. Finding that he could obtain no permanent employ ment in this country, and that his unnatural parents forsook him, he went abroad, first to Gibraltar and afterwards to the Gambia, where his health suf fered to that degree that he was compelled to return to this country with a broken constitution. He had since applied to the female upon whose charitable feelings he had so strong a claim, but he was turned from her door disowned, and told to go elsewhere and seek charity. The applicant then informed the magistrate that he had sought after work since his return from America, but was qnsuCcessful, owing to which he had undergone great privations, having for days together been compelled to go without either food or lodging. The applicant also men tioned the name of a party upon whose sympathy in his present condition he also considered that he had a claim, and who was in circumstances to .assist him if he had the inclination. Mr. MURRAY - s;dinail;viiig some knowledge of the individual alluded to he should see or write to him upon the subject. Some temporary relief was then given to the ap plicant, who was desired to call at the office again in a few days. MOTIVES MYSTIFIED.—" Pray, Sir," said Sir Richard Birnie, " if you were not guilty, why did you escape from the officer the other night ?"—" Vy, your vorship, I can explain that ere," said the gentle man at the bar, " and you'll think better on me wen you knows my motives. You see, your vorship, that vas a Toosday night, and as I vas brought up a Hindepend ant Vesleyan, and vas always particlur about chapel, I vanted to go to a prayer meeting, and as I knowed the hofficer vouldn't go along o'me cos he varnt no vays religious like given, vy 1 vent alone sooner nor miss, and them vas my motives, your vorship." At Stockport Police-court, on Monday, a fellow named James Dorton, was charged with having a ttempted an indecent assault on Emma Robinson, and afterwards throwing her into the canal near Bredbury. It appeared that on Monday evening, about 6 o'clock, the girl, who is 15 years of age, was on h er way to Stayley-bridge to her sister's, from her father's house in Churchgate ; and when she turned off the turnpike road at Woodley, to go on the t ow i ng - pat h of the ca nal, she met the prisoner before she got to the first bridge. He then turned back and said that as there would be a storm she had better come forward, but she declined, and pretended that she was waiting for her father. He next went forward and concealed himself about the hedge, 'which so frightened her that she turned back. He followed and caught her ; when she told him to take all she had, if he wanted to rob her, but she prayed for permission to go. He asked her how much she had, and she answered, " I have only some clothes belonging to my mother." He replied, that he would both rob and murder her ; but on throw ing her down his expressions explained his intentions, and on her screaming " Murder I" he took and pitched her into the canal. The air gathering and spreading her garments out, she was prevented from drowning, and she scrambled out as well she could. Mr. May, publican, of Stockport, who was on his way from Hyde, discovered the girl on the bank, insensible and very wet ; having first met a man.with a leathern apron taking a circuit through the fields. The girl was taken to the Lowe's Arms, where she described the prisoner's dress, and he was apprehended. The prisoner is a shoemaker, living at Hyde, and is a married man. He was committed to Chester for trial on the capital charge.—Stockport Advertiser. PULLEN V. MUSHAM. This was an action of damages for libel. The plaintiff is a hatter in this city, and the defendant is also in good circumstances, and he too is an inhabi tant of York. The parties had quarrelled some time ago about some observations relative to poor relations, and not long after the dispute, the walls of the city were seen chalked in various places with many offensive remarks about the plaintiff, namely— " Beware of Tom Pullen, hatter ; he is a scoundrel. Beware of Tom Pullen ; he is a rascal. Beware of Tom Pullen ; he lost 2001. at the Don caster races, and will be bankrupt." These were the libels complained of. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 10/. These two cases seemed to have created a good deal of local interest. APRIL 5. (Before Mr. Justice TAUNTON.) RAMSDEN V. BARKER AND OTHERS. This action was brought to recover damages for an illegal entry and sale under an execution. The plaintiff is a farmer ; the defendant, Barker, is 'an attorney ; and both parties reside near Halifax. Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 1501. WESTERN CIRCUIT.-TAUNTON, APRIL 5 The calendar contains 190 names, of which one is charged with murder, one with arson, one with rape, eight with malicious cutting, two with man slaughter, and the remainder with minor offences. There are forty-two causes entered for trial, of which five are to be tried by special juries. Paul Wiltshire, aged twenty-two, and George Tutton, aged twenty-one, were indicted for break ing into the dwelling-house of Anna Bayly, and stealing 100/. in notes, a purse containing twenty sovereigns, with some plate and jewellery, and Mary Barrage was indicted at the same time for being an accessary before the fact. After hearing evidence, the jury found the male prisoners guilty of stealing in a dwelling-house above the value of 51., and acquitted the female prisoner. To be transported for life. Nothing of. public interest has yet taken place in the civil court. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOUCESTER. (Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) Edward Winkworth was charged with robbing Thomas Burchill of three sovereigns, two guineas, 15s. in silver, and his watch. Thomas Burchill, a rather singular-looking old man, said—l am a bargemaster. At about ten o'clock on the Ist of July I was proceeding from Bristol to my own home. It came on to rain, and I went into the Queen's Head public-house at Bitton, where I did not drink any thing. I fell asleep, and at a little before midnight I left the house, the prisoner, whom I had known before, and three other persons, leaving also. They kept near to me for about half a mile, and then one of the party said " Hum !" and the prisoner and the other three immediately pushed me down. I struggled, and they rolled me into the ditch. One of them tied a handkerchief over my eyes, which blindfolded me ; and they then, with a knife, cut the side of my trousers open, and cut my pocket off which con tained my money. They unbuttoned the front of my trousers, and cut off my watch-pocket. They then ran away. I made a complaint to a person named Milsom within two hours ; and informed a constable, named Haskins, at six the next morning, and named the persons to him. .. Jo n thsaid—laman t P he er l r a y n m d a lo n r , d l a o ta f t l h l e - en c4 e u ra e b e l n e , - s lo H oki ea n d g . man e prosecutor was about two hours in my house on the Ist of July. He left about midnight. Cross-examined by Mr. WATSON—The prosecu tor appeared to be not sober. Mr. Justice PATTESON—Why did you consider that he was not sober ? The witness—My lord, he was at my house for two hours asleep, with his head on his hands, and did not call for any thing to drink.—(A laugh.) Mr. CARRINGTON—If a man was able to come into your house, and then slept for two yours with out thinking any thing more, I ask you, as an expe rienced landlord, whether he would be more or less drunk at the end of the time ? The witness—lf a man did not drink anything he would not become more drunk.—(Continued laughter.) Verdict—Guilty. Death recorded. MILITARY FLOGGING. The following is a picture of the revolting cere mony of flogging, for which, I apprehend, few per sons will be prepared. From the very first day I entered the service as drum boy, and for eight days after, I can venture to assert that, at the lowest calculation, it was my disgusting duty to flog men at least three times a week. From this painful task there was no possibility of shrinking, without the certainty of a rattan over my shoulders by the drum major, or of my being sent to the black-hole. When - the infliction is ordered to commence, each drum boy in rotation is obliged to strip for the purpose of ad ministering 25 lashes (slowly counted by the drum major) with freedom and vigour. In this practice of stripping, there always appeared to me something so unnatural, inhuman, and butcher like, that I have often felt most acutely my own degradation in being compelled to conform to it. After a poor fellow had received about a hundred lashes, the blood would flow down his back in streams, and fly down in all directions with every additional blow of the instrument of torture ; so that, by the time he had received 300, I have found my clothes all over blood from the knees to the crown ?f my head, and have looked as though I had just emerged from a slaughterhouse. Horrified at my dis gusting appearance, immediately after a parade I have run into the barrack-room to escape from the observation. of the soldiers, and to rid my clothes and person of my comrade's blood. Here I have picked and washed off my clothes pieces of skin and flesh that have been cut free the poor sufferer's back. What the flogging in is or Brid ewe ll may b e I d o not k now , b u t this s military flogging. I am ignorant what kind of cats were used when this pernicious system was first introduced into the army, but they now, I be lieve, are very different in different regiments, and, indeed, there is sometimes a variety in the same carps. Those which I have seen and used were of a thick and strong kind of whipcord ; and to each lash, nine in number, and generally about two feet long, were tied three large knots, so that the poor wretch who was doomed to receive 1,000 lashes, had 27,000 knots cutting on his back ; and men have declared to me that the sensation experienced at each lash was though the talons of a hawk were tearing the flesh off their bones. Have the advo cates for the continuance of this barbarous system ever handled one of these savage instruments ? Have they poised the cat in their hand when clotted with a soldier's blood after punishment has been inflicted ? If not, let me inform them it is almost then enough to stun an ox, and requires the greatest exertion and dexterity in the drummer to wield it. I have heard poor fellows declare that in this state, it falls like a mass of lead upon their backs.—Lieut. Shipp. A couple were married at Godalming church, Surrey, on Sunday se'nnight, the entire expenses of whose wedding (including wedding garments, firing, minister's fees, and the dinner for the guests) were paid for in farthings 1 The bridegroom had been for several years; from his boyhood upwards, engaged in this work, having set out with a declaration, that he " would try if he could not save a sufficient number of farthings to get him a wife 1" LONDON MARKETS. the highest price of I.b. Loaf. There are el that price. ICEOF BREAD Bread in the Metropoli s is sgd. lot then who sell Iron/ ;d. to _.---- ARRIVALS OF GRAIN IN LoNnom ntratt!..........,.._,0:A5T;""1 From Whence. 2 ' . E .!7' i:' ' ' 6: P ot: , • ..... - - ---- ---Crs.t., rs. Qrs. Qry. Qrs, Qrs. - 4 QSr 15 Aldboroi;gt, 278 .588 i - --I -- Alemouth - 436 -- I Bideford Bosu) Bridlington - - - 65 -- Chichester - 20 2 - ---- Clay -- .... - -..- 1 -- : Dartmouth - - 15 -- tn C 300 960 - olchester 164 10 17 llarwich 6 89 1210 - 8 .. Leigh 833 70 36 153 - • Maldon 7 OO 111 260 125 `.''' --- excter Grangemouth — - - "" t 9 f Elasttngs !lull 2lO - - 510 --- -- Ipswich i 191 184 1380 -- 14 38 i Kent 978 340 - 94 346 -- , Louth - - 200 -- .... 7 Locke:loft - 118 315 - - --- . Lyme - '7O 135 - . -' .--- .:, Lyiln BO 400 861 - '-- -- Newcastle - 80 - - -.- Newhaven Plymouth I 75 - -- , Poole Rye - - 242 - 1 10 _- I , Southwold ..... - 298 - - -- --- . Spalding - - 1120 'rock ton - _ - -- Wells ll2 967 136 - - ....- 1 We Louth - 340 133 - - Wisbeach lOB5 - - 350 -- , ‘Yoodbridge l4O 526 _ 40 ,- ~ Yarmouth 35 724 1851 - -- ...- , , Aberdeen - - - 170 -- --- I Banff - - -19 n 20 , ,serwick - 1598 - ~,,,c) ', Dundee - - - 10 -- 5.5 It verness 5Bl - - 9(3J 63 Leith -6 6 - 57151 - 910 7670 IRISII. 1 -- . Cork - - - 375 -- - Kilrush __ - - 20f6 , - .., Limerick 3,56 E 0..) - 9567 - ...„ -- ~ Londonderry - - - 18 -- -- ? Newry ... ....... - - - 297 --- -- Sligo - - 58 . .6 --- --- .., Westport Waterford . BO7 - - 7086 - -- - t oughall 4O - - 1620 ..s. - • FORCIuN. ...- : 0,1, Dant= - - - - .- New York - - - - -* -.-- - ;"1 0 ----- ' Total - 1 1 127 6 I ~s. 1" AOGREGATE QUANTITIi OF OTHER. KIND S O F 0 gro g, 0 , 'lye, o—Tarei3O--Li nsee d , 1159-Rapeseed, 6"-- Mustard, 20-Seeds, 278. TITY o ;aid, ‘2, • PRICE SEEDS.—ApriI tipc CO N'ew English tted Cl over S eed (per Cwt.) 428. 563 fine --"S')ld 666. Ditto Ditto„, fine 5 , -,• D.' s ' 505. f i n e -- ( , 36. e t33' fine , s sns. finc N s 20s. " ' fin fine. EttV• • ~„0 fine B I4s• IS , . l • s- 14" "',• fine —s. 1• 30s. 38s• ' v 4 o4 ' Aoi• n , . 0 , s. no t , — 2Bl 48s. e , fine 'ro c' . 465. 56 5• ti ne ,O• —s. _-s. fine • 133. fine , ,, _ s. s . tint. s five IS' ,—* f ine %. 1 . 4. '!! . fin e 4s s . , n 251. New Foreign Ditti Old Ditto -- New White Cloy Old Ditto Ditto, Vew Trefoil d Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway F"reign Ditto Coriander St. Foin Rye Grass Pacey Ditto .(per Quarter). Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing_ Canary Seed, New,,,,, p itto bld— ' White illustard Seed —(per Bushel). 1/......... 11,•- Turnip Seeds, iiounds, green and Red Ditto. Tires, Old _.. D tto New R eSeed, English, the (per E C' a h t ; t ic i l e .... nt — ,..... ..—___ „_..... —... ........ ( 6 i :. 1 1 0 4 o g' i s . on (1 ; tt t o o o ~,,i ii s 7 ;: i. . 1 ), I I ( '1.::. , 0 , Him., _ Apr il 7 6/. 0 ' New I{.4:a l•uclsets (per Cwt.) ... 5 5 s 5 , 12 4 . e s ' 8 : ,' Choice — O4. 7/. l'"' 5' 1- : New S ' ,, ex PocketB . sr. 1.8. r r,/ 0g 4,, . nit!o ~.............„„ w.''' s t . j 5, 01- (15 ' o .l 1: 34. --"*.",........ ..... z... t 1, o iS . - C ll ( i, t__________w (14 tot '' 134. Fa'r ham (fine) I litto (seconds) vitICE t.,) r —Apri l 11. 10, to 51. Os. ,clittto; ,31. 10s. to:1/:. O s . to -2/. C s . dd toto 111 0 :: Nictrtoto. it .0 Shaves.,,, Middling Marsh Champions - Scotch Chats inseeel Oil Cake PR iCE OF OIL.. 1'42 Hxpe Oil, brown 401 6s. Refined ""' Refi n "" tc) Linseed Oil ca th is Min, cliousana :e, per Wil II ti A M Y •1 I{l.l —April 5. Hav • Ws. (Id. to 04. Ott 3os lovcr 70. to 95 Od. to 3_ I,F A T 11 l'er lb. di tc i i English Horse Hides.. Spanish Ditto Caiftikint S 0 oooe 16,210 "CB OF RAW FAT, per ston e ol ,„ O tt ' Metter4 PRICES OF Per lb. tSiitts, 15 :14 'Mtn, Foreign—....— 14 10 Dressing 114 15 Ditto lewwWe•••••IMMOM i 2l 16 Ditto, light Hides, light 14 15 Ditto 4i to 50111 12 IS rto --- 14 17 rice of Tallow Cas stated by the PRICE OF' 'TALLOW, SOAP, &c. !'own Tallow 465. NI. Yellow Soap- , ...."7.„....,; 13 . 4 . Yellow Russia., 465. Od. Soap Ditto-- 0,1. Graves Melted 3:25. Od. Good Dregs -"^"."-.' Ditto Itottgh----9.15. (Xl. Tall , ;w ________ tol to rlie price of Store Candles. in 7andles, per doL. 6i. `' to 7s. Od. Moulds, per u O t F lie C re l ta N i l l i st'oE}Si;, ----___ 0, ET.—A pr il 4. P, 0 eer 1 . 0 0 ri j Walls End 1-10tsPlir'l; 11 0 Walls End Killingwoj . Walls End Nevanarcn,,,: 11 11, I itto 7-orthnnhrlan, 0 !, Walls End l'erl:ins,,,, . 2 0 ?, Walls End Fletton ,-..."'" t p ? W. • E. Russell's lletton, ~i) ; —"all: End ,lelgilit'^,' 11 A Walls End Adelaide.,' i y l; Walls E4l Ciordoll-'''''. 15 ; Walls End Feirse,,,," 0 0 Hartley —... —,..-----• es A Neville's Llaneliy,,,"" 14 ' 7 , North F1art1ey.,,,,,,,," 0 : Walls End E1gin.,.....,,,, " . Walls End klenderson,o, , C,)AL MAW Per TO% s. d. Bensham Main 15 0 Dean's Primrose 15 3 Gist l'orcy 15 0 Felling 15 6 Hebliurn Main 16 6 Holywell 16 6 Ord'A 11 6 14 9 Pontop Windsor 15 0 l'a --. 15 9 west Hartley 14 9 willington - l7 3 Wylani Walls End Bewicke & Co, Walls End Gosforth Walls End Ileato Walls End Hilda 17 9 18 3 18 6 18 9 17 6 1 - arrivol since lot BIRTHS. nf Devonshire.stre" On the 6th inst., Mrs. MurgatroY" , C. VOl" `hP lady of C a son. On the 6th inst , in Hans-P ee ' c_' Esq., of a son, still-born. , 0 f,sq., On the 4th inst., the lady et. Isaac B. r.r" ' bridge-street, Edgeware-road, of a daughter. , ivil e' m A ItRIED. 031 , / 1 ;11' On the 3d inst., at St. John's, Margate, Mr. Geo. deso iall merchant, of Broad,tairs, to Miss Elizabeth Stride , e l •p 11 t ' ' ter of Mr. John Stride, of Margate. ‘,,. osel i , g u ll' On the 7th inst ,at St. Mary's, Isl i n g ton, i•—• i O~ g Bacon, Esq., of Sideliff, ling, of Primrose hall, Ramsey, Essex, to Su lti." the - ter of the late Rayner Cox, Esq of Harwich. ,„, 0 011, p his On the lit inst., at Sidmouth, the Rev. John m of o f oS eg hter of Corpus Christi College, -Cambridge eldest to Mary, , Devon. ' ec°"a the !ate M. B. Lousada, Esq. . 1 , Willi°° roll. Pk' On the 7th inst., at St. John's, N'sraterloo. „a COP , A ., Langton, jun., Esq., of Upper Thames-street, slieatiey, '- rise, to Elizabeth, second daughter of Williain 1 t. _ i t 'll' ~c of the Commercial.road, Lambeth. 1 'verve° , ~e 1, On the sth inst., Mr. T. B. Vaughan, of s , ' er of 11 tima Buena, the seventh and youngest daugt t „rreY• , A ose v Thomas Bond, Esq., of Nun-green, Peckham, ''''',‘ 0•' On the sth inst., at St Swithin's, London.stoe''o„ , ~ ,11, Burton, of the Strand, to Miss Mary Ann W 00 1. .. t . o f /-' l ` of On the 2d inst., the Rev. J. D. Broughton, Ite`°l;, 0' ley, to Frances, third daughter of Lewis Corlaa Long Ditton, Surrey. On the sth inst., at Baldock, Herts, iur*S;l dra o p i e , r t , h i e n s h t i l s , s in l s s t t ., y a e t ar ß . Mariott, late of Canonbu e ry e - I g i DIED. ~, Wil ° in r• e n r, On the 3d inst., at his seat in I;evonshire, i,S. - e.A un- (1 1. 51 ' a S ea % :1 Admiral Sir Edward Thornborough, G.C.P. , vic 1.1 , On the 6th inst., in Upper Bedford-place, 0 ' A su n or n ri , e, relict of the late Abraham Goldsrohl, ..- the United Kingdom. v.s l 4 l . ll : 'e t i • i llo q r ae" Surrey. Ist inst., at Cofflect, Lucy Peo citiVc', use ',l 1° ti ; :A i l 0 .•., of or r'solereeits;,iinigeatori jS,eavg-10, soi._:i ,i , sabourneoi:oi, eldest ilrdthLe S sea t t I , is i d k rti c lui l Palmer,,eigcnyleisttp:roiuon: athe iii,eoeyu E .ici s tc3 q es: . t ~, e e. . r e ß i ci ' a l h ' c l a n : ,i Richard b i t I ‘ a , n Y oi l . ° A r ti ,0 r _i ~ i 1 i e P On the 6th inst., Ann, eldest daughter of 3 ' 1.. ri''' E F s . q ß ., a s z o e l t i t c . itor, ..,,, a _squ are' port. - n d ~cOJ: of Queen -square, fdra o- dt" On the sth lost, Jessie, youngest On the 3d inst., at Ashburton, Devonshire, „i 5 ,11 r Ll o°l Lincoln's Inn fields. ' cl'''' " p i ' Esq., of Merton-hall, Forth Britain. cl Wigan, coloo On the 6th lust., at Peckham, Lieutenant- o r , in S - gr. Stewart. On the 7th inst , at the residence of her nic e _ , _ jo te bourn-place, Eaton-square, Isabella, relict of the , A . 0 ° 74 Charles Magnollv, aged 84 taW i , On the 14th November last, at Neernuch, Ca_1 0 ) 0 o ce Bowden Smith, 37th Native Infantry, from W e " in an engagement with the Bhees• ni°° (l n a ls u bg:tr Ye; o: " :lc: London : Printed and Published bylllll.lOM(Cltirial at the Son Office , N o. 112, Strand.