The Sun. — London, England, 1831-01-07 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The returns of the last quartet's revenue, and that of the last twelvemonth, as compared with the pre cetiihg year and corresponding quarter of 1829, are chicfly valuable as proofs end illu.trations of thA principle in financial science which is, of all others, the most encouraging to a patriotic Sta , c!synan, and the most beneficial to every citizett,—namely, that according to which the proportionate amount of the national income is incrensed by the nominal reduc tion of the tax on each separate article, in the quarter ending the of January, 18:„40, the Beer Tax and that on leather were in lid! operation. In the quarter ending the day before yesterday, the country has enjoyed the entire exemption from both these imposts; at the same time, w , her, th e proposition to abolish them was laid by Mr. Goulburn before Parliament, that gentle man calculated their annual produce at be tween three and four millions of pounds sterling. Taking that yearly produce at 3,200,0001., the consequent loss of revenue upon the single quarter ought to be not less than 800,000/., no regard being had to any thing beyond the direct operation of the measure. Instead of which, it appears from the official documents that the decrease of Excise in this quitter as compared with that ending the Sth of January, 1830, is no more than :37,000/. It further appears that tic deficiency in the Excise, upon which branch of revenue the repeal of the above-mentioned duties might have been expected to operate with peculiar force, so far from reaching 800,0001., has not exceeded 38,0004 Moreover, if we look at the successive half-yearly periods of 1829 and 1830, we shall find a decided progress in the recovery of the Excise duties in the last six months as compared with the six months pre- ceding. The ikficiency of the quarter ending the sth of April, 1830, was about £310,000 0 0 sth of July, 1530 337,000 0 0 Deficiency of fit st six months of I 830.£667,000 0 0 Quarter ending 10th of October,lB3o— .. sth of January, 1831 £130,000 0 0 37,000 0 0 Deficiency of last six months f,i57,000 0 0 In the Customs, notwithstanding a deficit in the ?est quarter of about 80,0001.. there has been an in crease on the year of 320,000/. In taxes, compre hending the assessed taxes, there is an improve ment, which seems to have been a tolerably steely one, of between 40,000/. and 50,0001. a quarter. We trust, nevertheless, that the house-tax, which, as assessed by the officers, is the most arb:trary of all imposts; and the window -tax, which, no matter how fairly levied, is of all others the most oppressive, will no longer Le per mitted to disgrace our financial system. Of the other assessed taxes,—viz. those on servants, horses, carriages, armorial bearings, &c.—they come clearly under the head of such luxurious indulgences as the affluent only can enjoy, and are therefore most equitable sources of revenue. With regard to the Itwoene and Charges on the Consolidated Fund, no Civil List has been brought to account for the quarter just expired, by which a sum of 212,000/., assigned to the corresponding quarter of 1829, does not come againt the present; from which, and a re duction in some other articles of charge, an appa rent increase is exhibited in the surplus of this quar ter over the former; and the same circumstance is quoted in our city article, as an explanation of the (temporary) augmentation of the Sinking Fund ap plied by the Commissioners to the extinction of debt. The causes of these inequalities, however, still be adjusted shortly after the re-assembling of Padiameet. On the whole, the revenue looks in some degree convalescent. Those who wish to consider the subject more in detail, we refer to a statement, headed " Revenue," in a subsequent rolumn.—Times. Every day brings us a number of accounts of meetings for Parliamentary Reform. There is _scarcely a town throughout the island which has „sot cheerfully responded to the call of Ministers for the support of public opinion in their arduous un dertaking. At all these meetings, we may say without a single exception, the ballot has been con sidered a sine qua non in any Reform from which benefit is to be delisted. We assume that property is not sufficiently protected by the present distribu tion of., the franchise, and that the object of a Re form is to communicate the franchise to those whose interests are identical with the interests of the com munity. At present a small number of individuals have the power of rettuning a majority of those who have the whole property of the country at their disposal. If the franchise were communicated to all who possessed property to a certain amount— say to all persons possessed of an income of 100/. a year, no matter how derived, which would take in all the liberal professions, respectable trades men, and the more skilful mechanics—i. c. all the property and intelligence of the country— correption would receive a deadly blow. It may be said, how is income to be ascertained ? Nothing more easy. Let Commissioners be appointed for every district, to whom the electors may show, in a satisfactory mallets, that they possess the re quisite income. The Commissioners, in such a case, coil hardly be supposed to have any motive for deciding partially; and nothing is more easy than to substan tiate the possession of such an income. It may be said, why exclude any part of the population ? But there is a jealousy on the part of the rich, that from the ignorance of the great body of the working classes, they might be the tools of demagogues. Bodily labour, at all events, leaves little leisure for reading er discussion, and when the toil of the day is ever, the workman is too exhausted to be able to bestow his attention on any matter which requires mental exertion. The possession of property is of itself a presumption in favour of mental alleviation. Besides, such an extension of the franchise would ensure all the objects which could be attained by the most extended suffrage, exercised with intelligence, for the electors could have no interest separate from that of the country. But, then, this class of electors hieing of all others the most dependent, from their position in scciety, are the most in need of protec tion. The labouring man is independent because he cannot be thrown down lower, but the shopkeeper os tradesman is generally afraid of giving offence, or creating enemies. He is able, but afraid to de cide, and to impose on him unnecessarily the anxiety incident to voting under apprehension is utterly unjustifiable. What tenant would not dread to vote contrary to the solicitation of his landlord ? The tenant may be a man of property, and as intelligent as his landlord ; and there is, there fore, no reason why he should be influenced by the latter. Even in a Westminster election, notwith standing the diffusion of the suffrage, shopkeepers and tradesmen often vote under great apprehension. 'Why should this be ? The middle classes are alive to this consideration, and strenuous for the ballot. We may observe, by the bye, that at a Reform Din ner, on Thursday week, at Belfast, a Mr. Alexander, who gave evidence, in presence of several gentle men well acquainted with America, as to the be nefit of the ballot in that country, explained the mis take committed by Sir Robert Wilson respecting Virginia : " It has (he said) been stated in Parliament, by Sir R. Wilson, that the ballot is unpopular in Aineri , :a. If this were true, it would soon cease to exist. The people have the power ; and they would exercise it, in doing away with any practice that was odious to them. He further states, that ' at a convention, met lately in Virginia, it was proposed to adopt the ballot, hut it was completely rejected.' The ballot proposed for adoption was, that the Members of the Legislature should themselves vote by ballot, on questions discussed in the House. This pro posed innovation was scouted; hut has nothing to do with the vote by billet,' which sent them to their places, and which, having been in long use, could not then be adopted. --Morning Chronicle. The proclamation of the Emperor of Russia de clares, in no measured language, that there can be no terms held with those who drove his brother from the Viceroyalty of Poland, and that they must submit unconditionally. Let every friend the freedom and the just rights of rnalikind pray to Heaven that they do net accept the proclamation— that they may fall by thousands, rather than belie the hopes entertained from their recent conduct, and that the tree of liberty, though fructified 1:y the blood of the people, may sprin.;.; in every guar ter, city, town, awl prz;Vin'ee of Poland ! Such pro elamatiore I'riose of the Emperor are a disgrace to traiianity—they tell thousands of human beings that they must put their lives in jeopardy, and the property and welfare of themselves alit, raii;ilies at hazard, merely for the sake of •._; - r . .A,tifying the caprice arid despotic will di malt, and beerinse that man is styled an Emperor ! Can any other reason Iho alleged fur them ? Can any other account be given of their origin ? Is the ,:unction of a portion of Poland with Russi necessary to the happicess and comfort o the inhabitants of the two countries ? Is there no a mortal hatred in existence between the two nations, and is not the Polish portion more de serving of liberty than the other ; Whit!), as yet, only possesses the barbarian characteristic of aptitude for warlike enterprises aßut why should we expend time on a question so straight-forward in every re spect as the Revolution in Poland ? Have not the people—and not what is generally termed the people only, but the intelligence of Poland--- , expelled the satellites of the despot ? and was not their inde pendence wrested from them by one of the foulest conspiracies that ever marked the history of ancient or modern time ? " How," as well observed in the Westminster Re view, " the three barbarian Powers of the East of Europe united to attack Poland and France-11.ow the fourth in the West, the English absuluti'As, joined them in the part of the plan which lay within their reach—how the unit, d robbers ; aft _ 3 sallad of murder and Tc Dennis, of con flagrations and general fasts, succeeded in dividing Po land, but did not succeed in dividing France ; how glo riously they were beaten, and, with the excepti n of one of the guilty parties (on whom, for some inset utable rea son. Providence had merry) were visit, d with just and thank-worthy humiliation in their capitals—how the na tion, and the leader, whom the said Providence in its goodness, had raised to be the instruments of its just punishments, forgot Poland, and by the direct conse quences of that tmhappy act were within a little year sub jectrd. to the Holy Confederated Plunderers themselves— how the world rolled on for fifteen years, and fools thought the crime was clinched and rivetted ; and what sufferings and miseries fell upon mankind, and, above all, upon the gulled end guilty nation who had sinned in the face of the most light and knowledge of the whole ; how men were starved here and ruined there, and society seemed doomed to exist in a hopeless agony, which was nut life, but never clos,d in death—how this went on ac cumulating, till all at once light sprang from the bayonets of Paris, and justice, which robbers call revolution, was once more afoot and con lucring from Toulouse to the Tartar—how all the world divided itself into two parts, the honest man and the dishonest, and no question was asked of any man, but which side he chose to take—all these are things," as is justly observed, "our schoolboys know and babies sing of, and it would he lost time to en ter on the detail with any grown man or woman who has lived within the sound of tongues or reach of rumour !" But although this is well known it is not the less necessary to remember, or rather to bring to recol lection, that the partition of Poland between Russia, Prussia, and Austria, was one of the basest tran sactions—nay, the most base and cold-blooded, not even excepting the massacre of St. Bartholomew— which ever disgraced the " elect" of the earth. The Poles are neither Russians, Prussians, or Aus trians—and what right have the despots of these people to interfere with them ? If any one should say to us that they possessed the right of such supe rior power, why then we should answer that supe rior power might destroy the right—England and France may, if they choose, attack them in their capitals, or even, if they have the power, cause their own subjects to rebel against them! But it is need less to pursue an argument of this kind ; for no argument of such a nature can be held. The times also are altered—the crowned heads no longer rule the destiny of nations as they were wont to do — the people have begun to think for themselves, and anxious in every country as they must be for peace and prosperity, there are few, we believe, who would not give their vote for the resuscitation of Poland, and as few who would not incur the risk of addi tional loss of comfort, rather than that Poland should not become an independent state. Will Europe then—we mean intelligent and free Europe—desert Poland ?—.ilforning Advertiser. SPECIAL COMMISSION. ABINGDON, JAN. 5. Shortly after eleven o'clock the Judges, escorted by the High Sheriff, reached this place, and the commission was opened. Besides the Judges there were present, of the other commissioners, the Earl of Abingdon, Viscount Barrington and Mr. C. Dundas. The calendar contains the names of forty-seven prisoners, who are for the most part charged with riot, accompanied by various acts of robbery, as sault, and machine-breaking. The number of in dictments specified in the calendar is thirty, and of course under some of these several prisoners are in cluded. Generally speaking, the offences imputed to the accused are not so serious as those which came before the commission at Reading; nor is there such an acconadation of indictments, against indivi dual prisoners. Of the thirty indictments, twenty-two are for riot : a few of these also charged with as saults and robberies, or attempts to rob. In but two instances are threshing-machines stated to have been broken, although several prisoners are indicted for attempting or threatening the destruction of that species of property. One person has been committed for having, in concert with other rioters, threatened to set fire to the village of Eastbury ; and another is accused of threatening to destroy machines and set fire to the premises of a farmer. There is only a single committal for arson, and that took place subsequently to the departure of the Judges from London, the warrant bearing date the 27th of De cember. The party who stands charged with this offence is Charles Costar, described in the calendar as a labourer, 27 years of age ; and committed on suspicion of having set fire to the barn and out houses of Joseph Clantield, at Cumnor, on Sunday, the sth of December. It is proper to observe, that there exists no pretence for connecting this fire with the recent disturbances ; it appears:to have arisen out of circumstances of a private nature. It may be added thit the charge of arson is the most recent in point of date, of all the:offences in the calendar ; the others ranging between the 22d arid 29th of No vember. The prisoners are nearly all young men, there being only seven whose ages amount to or ex ceed 40. All with the exception of two are de scribed as labourers ; six, one-eighth of the entire number, can read and write; rather less than one fourth (eleven) are able to read; the remaining thirty are wholly uneducated. The proclamation against vice and immorality having► been read by Mr. Bellamy the associate, Mr. Justice PARK proceeded to charge the Grand Jury. The Grand Jury then retired, and after a short time returned with two true bills. The Court then adjourned till to-morrow at nine o'clock. SALISBURY, DEC. 5. James Lane, 23, Charles Davis, 31, John Rose, 25, Henry Rose, Gifford North, John Ro7nain, George Smith, 36, Thomas Goddard, 20, Thomas Hiscocks, 26, James Burden, 33, W, Rivers, 33, James Luis, alias Love, Isaac Paved, James Mai lings, Charles Cooke, Thomas Gilbert, and Joseph 111archment, were indicted for riotously assembling together, and beginning to demolish the house of Ro bert Pile. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in stating the case, said there never was one which more plainly showed the manner in which one crime led on to another. It would require their most serious attention ; for, if the prisoners should be convicted, their lives would be forfeited, and they would have to suffer death as felons. After hearing evidence, the Jury acquitted all the prisoners. They are to be placed on their trial, however, for robbing Mrs. Pyle of a 10/. note. Isaac Millar,nomasPiggct, and john Romain were convicted or having destroyed certain ma ch;ttery iiscd in the manufactory of cloth, the pro perty of Thomas Gaby, at Figheklen. Georac Darman (25) was convicted of robbing W. Defdman of a sovereign, his property. Hillman was convicted Of breaking tilt thresh - • ing-matthiwe of Mr. Sullivan, and sentenced to tran:7- portatiOn for seven years. The Court rose at seven o'clock At the sitting of the Court this morning, Silas Webb, aged 17, convicted of breaking machinery, and who had been recommended to mercy by the Jury in consequence of his good character and youth, was put to the bar to receive judgment. Mr. Justice ALDERSON said, the sentence of the Court was ; that he be imprisoned in the house of coritrltion and kept to hard labour for the term of three months. Mathias Alexander,Joseph Alexander, and Joseph Liddiard, were next put to the bar, having been convicted of a like offence. The sentence of the Court on each of the pri soners was, that they should be transported to such place beyond seas as his Majesty should direct, for the term of seven years. Charles Bennet, Charles Waters, and . Barnabas Hutchinson, also convicted of destroying du eshing machines, were next put to the bar, and briefly ad dressed by the learned Judge on the nature of their offence, and were then sentenced each to seven years' transportation. SENDING A THREATENING LETTER. Isaac Looker was put to the bar, charged with having sent to John Rowland a certain letter, threatening to burn the farms of the said Rowland, and to murder him if he gave evidence against any of the prisoners in the gaol. The prisoner, who is stated in the calendar to lie 54 years of age, is a respectable-looking ran, and we understand, a person in very good circumstances. l'he Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner was then called up for judgment. Mr. Justice ALDEnsoN—Prisoner, the Jury have found you guilty, on evideuce which must satisfy every reasonable man, that— Prisoner—My Lord, I am innocent. I never touched the paper.. I never wrote a line of it. My Lord, I atn innocent. Mr. Justice ALDERSON— You have been found guilty of a crime, which is certainly not mitigated by your denial, after such evidence—a crime which strikes at the very root of society, by tending to ob struct the due administration of justice. The prisoner here again interrupted his Lordship, and said—My Lord, I declare I am innocent, I never wrote the paper, I never put my hand to it. The desk in which the piece of blank paper was found was open to five or six persons in the house, as well as to myself. My Lord, the law may find me guilty, but it cannot make me so. I now de clare solemnly, that I am innocent of this crime.— (The prisoner delivered these remarks with strong emphasis, and spoke under the influence of intense fe,ling.)—At the last part of his remark he laid his hand on the bar with considerable force. The Learned JUDuE then proceeded—l cannot attend to these asseverations, for we all know that a man who can be guilty of such an offence as that of which you have been convicted, will not hesitate to deny it as you now do. The sentence of the Court is, that you Isaac Looker be transported to such place beyond the seas as his Majesty shall direct, for the term of your natural life. The prisoner was then removed from the bar evi dently greatly affected by this sentence. The Jury now obtained permission to leave Court for a time to get some refreshment, and the Judge also retired. During their absence, a young man, apparently about 17 or IS years old, the son of the prisoner, seas brought to the table by the solicitor who conducted the defence. He there acknow ledged that it was he wrote the letters, and not his father. A piece of paper was then given to him, and he wrote from memory a copy of the letter sent to Rowland. When compared with the original, there could be no doubt that the handwriting was the same. The copy was not a verbatim transcript of the original, but there was very little difference, and in all the words badly spelt in the original, the same spelling was adhered to in the copy. He then was shown the original and told to copy it, which he did verbatim. The handwriting in both were exactly similar. On the return of the Learned Judge to Court, these facts were made known to him, and the copies of the letter were laid before him by Mr. Everett, the counsel for Looker. The Court was also in formed, that the son had acknowledged that he wrote the letters, and did so in order to save his cousins, who had been accused of breaking machines. His LORDSHIP expressed his surprise that these facts had not been brought forward at the trial, !at at least before he passed sentence. He could not account for it, and without meaning to impute that it was so, he must say that it looked like a trick.— However, he would have all the facts laid before him, and would give them due consideration, for though the application came late, yet it never was too late to do what was right. His LotaisutP, after a short time, and while the Jury were deliberating on the next case, again called the attention of Mr. Everett to the subject, and said, that he should require an affidavit, setting forth why it was that the sou had not been called on at the trial ; and also that the father was altogether igno rant at that time that his son wrote or sent the let ter, for it made no difference in his case, if he knew and consented to its being sent. He should require the most satisfactory evidence on this head, because he observed, though he did not see the force of it at the time, that the prisoner laid great stress on the declaration that he had never signed or touched the paper. His not having touched it, lie repeated, would make no difference in his case, if he was con senting to its being written and sent by another. James Lush, aged 40, James Toomer, 35, George Towner, 36, and James Lane, 23, were next put to the bar, charged with robbing Wm. Perry of a sovereign. The Jury acquitted Lane, but found the others Guilty. James Lush and James Monier (two of the last set) were again put to the bar, charged with robbing Mr. Pinniger. In this case it was proved that the prisoners formed part of a mob, which, after break ing al machine on the farm of Mr. Pinniger, went up to that gentleman and demanded money. Mr. Pinniger, who had heard of their coming, armed himself with a brace of pistolQ, and also armed his servants. He resisted, and said he would shoot the first man that came on. One of the mob said" You can kill only one," and they came on, and pressed him and his men back. They (the mob) were armed with sticks and iron bars, and one had a large piece of wood, used as a lever in a saw-pit. One of them struck the prosecutor on the arm, and a scuffle ensued, in which several of his men got broken heads. This was about one o'clock in the morning. The prosecutor was at last obliged to give them two sovereigns. _ . _ Mr. Justice ALDERsoN summed up, and the Jury found both prisoners guilty. Maurice Pope was next put to the bar, charged with robbing Mary Odden of one sovereign. The prisoner was one of a riotous mob which came to the house of prosecutrix, and by threats obtained the money. Prisoner was found Gu►lty. Judgment of death was recorded. We are informed that the prisoner was one of to pugilists who obtained some celebrity in the London prize-ring. After another trial for a similar offence, in which the prisoner, Robert Odd',, could not be sufficiently ident►fied, and was acquitted, the Court adjourned at seven o'clock till to-morrow at nine. The rub at Mr. ST. JOHN LONG'S practice in the Covent-garden Pantomime is excellent, and calls forth roars of laughter. Ridicule, after all, will do more to exterminate quackery than even the terrors of the law. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Astell, the Deputy Chairman of the East India Company, appeared at the Justice-room, for the purpose of bringing a charge against li. E. Kearney, a person formerly in the commissariat department in v''ho j it wi!l be retoliccted i assaulted him in April last ) near the steps of the London Tavern, with an umbrella. The defendant had been sen tenced, at the London sessions, to be imprisoned six months for the assault, and not to be discharged until he shculd find two sureties in 501. each, and be bound over himself in 1001. to keep the peace. At the end of the six months Mr. Kearney was discharged without being required to enter into the neees.ary security. This violation of the orders of the Court arose from the non-attendance of the Alderman at the sessions. It was considered too hard to detain peoitle in prison because a Court could not be made, and in the hurry and confusion every prisoner was discharged upon his own recog nizance. Mr. Thornton; a clerk in the Secretary's office at the East India-house, stated, that on Monday the defendant, who was constantly in the habit of calling at the East India-house, came to him, and, after s •me observations on the subject of certain claims which he said he had upon the Bengal Go vernment, talked of petitioning the Court, but after wards seemed to give up that idea, in the belief that nothing would be done for him there. The de fendant then made use of the following remarkable words to witness :—" I shall be ruined, Mr. Thorn ton ; indeed lam a ruined •an. I can now only appeal to Parliament, and that appeal may do me no good; but then my destruction shall not take place with impunity. I may fall, but this I know, that either Mr. Astell or I shall fall, and then all they can do to end the tragedy would be to hang me." The defendant (in a violent tone)—What ! now by virtue of your oath did I make use of the word hang ? Witness—Yes, and more than that : you pat up your hand to your neck to show what you meant. _ _ _ Defendant—Before God I never did. I only said that my destruction should not pass unnoticed. Not a word about hanging. Mr. Thornton declared most solemnly that the de fendant had used every word he just uttered. Defendant then, notwithstanding the request of the Lord Mayor to permit Mr. Astell's charge to be finished, insisted upon being heard at once. He then addressed the Lord Mayor upon the subject oh his claims upon the East India Company, and declared, that although Mr. Astell disregarded those claims, the Government of this country, and Lord Sandon, the Secretary to the Board of Control, admitted and confirmed then). He (defendant) had waited upon Earl Grey on the subject, and in consequence of that application, the Governmcnt had sent to the East India Company to mention that he was to have 200/., his free passage to India, and employment there. He was pursuing this theme for some time, when The Lotto MAYOR requested that he would speak to the charge of the threatening language. Defendant—l have nothing at all to do with Mr. Astell now ; besides, he has nothing to do with my business. It is now in the hands of Government, and is, so far as he is concerned, settled. I bear him no malice whatever. The LORD MAYOR—Why did you use those threats ? Defendant—l said nothing of the kind. This man, who has given evidence, is one of the wretched dependents in the East India-house, and will swear any thing for his superiors. I never said a word of threat. Who would say that I am an assassin ? It was a fine thing, indeed, for a Colonel to be afraid of a private man. Why, I met him the day I came out of prison, and he told me he was glad to see me out, and he asked me how I got out. I did not tell him that the Recorder and Alderman had consented to take my own recognizances. I have not the least feeling against Mr. Astell. I certainly detest his public character, but I believe his private character is excellent, and 1 respect it as much as any man's.—(The defendant proceeded to considerable length in this strain. He said it was most ridiculous to suspect him of any intention to do violence to Mr. Astell. If he were to take away Mr. Astell's life, he must be supposed to intend to take away the lives of the other t went).- three directors.) Mr. Astell would not take the trouble to repel the slanders uttered by the defendant. The defendant had violently assaulted him in Apiil, had been sen tenced to six months' imprisonment with directions to find securities, arid had appeared at large without having found those securities. The LORD MAYOR asked Mr. Astell whether he considered his life in danger from the defendant ? Mr. Astell certainly did, and called on his Lordship to protect him by the laws of the country. Defendant—l declare that I never had any idea of injuring you. The fact is, my Lord, they want to keep me in prison for ever, to bar my claims. After having made me many offers, which I refused, they want to lock me up for ever. Mr. Astell here stated, that with respect to Earl Grey and the Commissioners for the Affairs of India, neither the Noble Earl nor the Commissioners had any thing at all to do with the case; it lay with him alone as Chairman of the Company. Defendant repeated that no danger was to be ap prehended from him by Mr. Astell. He hoped, at all events, that the sureties would not be heavy. Mr. Astell by no means required more than should be considered necessary for his safety, and The LORD MAYOR ordered the defendant to give 24 hours' notice of bail of two persons to the amount of 501. each, and his own security for 100/. The defendant was then taken away vowing that all he meant by the language he had used was, that Mr. Astell'e conduct should be so represented to the public as to prevent his being again elected to the situation of chairman. BOW-STREET. Yesterday John Burke, alias Deaf Burke, the pugilist, was brought before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE. charged with having assaulted Captain Bernhard William Drrchsler, an officer in the Hanoverian ser vice. The upper lip of the complainant was adorned by a huge pair of black mustachios, and a pair of brass spurs, of no mean dimensions, were attached to his heels. The Captain stated, as well as his broken English could make him intelligible, that he lived at the New Tavistock Hotel, Covent-garden, and was re turning home on Tuesday morning last, between five and six o'clock, when he Ivan accosted by a young lady, who proposed that he should see her home. He accordingly offered her his arm, and then slipped half-a-crown into her hand, as an earnest of his future liberality. In passing up James-street, Covent-garden, his fair friend suddenly withdrew her arm from his, and bolted into " the Finish," the door of which stood most invitingly open. The sudden movement of his frail companion astounded him so, that for a minute or two he seemed lost, and stood looking at the door through which she had disappeared in mute astonish ment. At length he darted after her, and sud denly found himself in a large lighted room, in the midst of a grotesque assemblage of men and women, who were laughing, larking, and carousing, while peeping from a corner of the room he disco vered the roguish black eyes of his fair but incon stant friend, who had entrenched herself behind a screen in Mr. Rowbottom's saloon, and seemed to enjoy his disappointment, while the company who were present appeared equally to relish the joke. Goaded by the hoarse horse-laugh which, on all sides, assailed him, he made a rush forward, determined to regain possession of his volatile companion, or re cover the half-crown of which she dad deprived him. His course was, however, suddenly arrested. He was seized and thrown upon the floor, and at the same moment seven or eight persons, men and wo men, fell over him, while the room rang with loud laughter. was one of the m The men b went y on whom he had to say that b the e e defendant seized, and he verily believed that it was he ►vho knocked him down. Deaf Burke, having been made acquainted with the complainant's statement, declared that he never laid hand upon the gentleman who came into Row bottom's room, exclaiming in broken English, that ioriie female had robbed him of half-a-crown. Sir It. BIRNiE dismissed the warrant, observing :hat the parties were all drunk together. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday an elderly man, named Rowan, living in Belton-street, Long-acre, entered the office in u state of the greatest agitation, and requested to speak with the Magistrates. Mr. WHITE desired him to state his complaint. The applicant said that his (laughter Mary, a girl of 17 years of age, had been inveigled away from his house by a young man on last Monday, and, from some circumstances which had come to his knowledge, he had the strongest suspicion that he had murdered her. Mr. WHITE asked him if he knew where the young man was to he found ?—The applicant said that a few days ago he had enlisted in a dragoon regiment, and he was to be found at the rendezvous in York-street. Mr. WHITE immediately despatched Ivimy, the officer, with the father to bring the accused before him, and in a short time the recruiting ser . jeartt and several recruits came to the office. The young recruit declared, on being questioned by Mr. WHITE, that he had not seen Mr. Rowan's daughter since last Monday morning, and that was at her father's own house. The complainant could prove by witnesses that they were both seen on Monday going towards Covent-garden market. He now knew tkat for some time past they had been keeping company together, and since he had taken his daughter away, he had asked him where she was, and he replied— " Your eyes must be wider than they are before you see her again." Mr. WHITE asked the complainant if he suspected they were married ?—The complainant was positive they were not. He should not have objected to it, but he could not bear to see hie daughter a prosti tute. He felt convinced that she was murdered. The recruit again declared that he knew nothing of his daughter. The complainant here pointed out to the Ma gietrates another recruit, a friend of the accused's, who had seduced the daughter of a neighbour of his away at the same time, and prevailed upon her to rob her father. The recruiting scrjeant said, that since Monday no women had been with the recruits at the ren dezvous. Mr. WHITE trusted the charge was not true. There was no evidence before him that would justify him in detaining the recruit, and he must be dis charged. . _ The unhappy father left the office apparently quite heart-broken. LA MB ETILSTREET. Yesterday TVillion Coe, a stout•built muscular fellow, was brought before the 31agistrates of this office, charged on suspicion of being one of the men who attempted to rob the hen-house of Mr. Bux ton, a farmer, at Shentield, near Brentwood, and nearly murdering Mr. Buxton and two of his ser vants, who had attempted to secure them. The prisoner denied all knowledge of, or partici pation in, the offence alleged to his charge, and vas transmitted, under the care of the constables, and a new policeman, to Brentwood, in order to his undergoing an examination there before the local Magistracy, as Mr. Buxton and his servants are still so excessively ill from the effects of the injuries they received, that it is deemed dangerous to re move them to town, in order to their identifying the prisoner. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Sevcn o' Clock. THE LONDON GAZETTE OF THIS EVENING. Commission signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County Palatine of Lancaster. Henry Petee, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Dee. 10. Commission in the 2d or Eastern Regiment of Norfolk Militia, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of Norfolk. E. G. Cubitt, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Allenby, re signed, Dec. 22. Commission in the Ross-shire, &c. Militia Regiment, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Ross. G. Cobham, Gent. to be Ensign, vice M'Cauly, pro moted. Commission in tho Ist Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the county of Oxford. Lieut. Lord Norreys to be Captain, vice Strickland, resigned, Dec. 16. Commissions in the North Somerset Regiment of Yeo manry Cavalry, signed by the Lotel Lieutenant of the County of Somerset. F. Plower, Gent. to he Lieutenant, Dec. 20. H. Jillard, Gent. to be Cornet, Dec. 23. Commission in the South Salopian Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry, signed by the Lord Lieutenant of the County of S t lop. T. C. Eyton, Gent. to be Cornet, vice I'. Bayley, re signed, Dec. 20, 1830. Commissions signed by the Lc rd Lieutenant of the Coanty of Southampton. South Troop of Valley of the Avon Yeam•nry Cavalry. J. 11. Harris, commonly called Viscount Fitzharris, to be Captain. Dec. 7. G. Duff, Gentleman, to be Lieutenant. Dec. 17. A. Rose, Gentlemen, to be Cornet. Dec. 17. North Troop of Valley of the Aron Yeomanry Cavalry. J. Mills, Esq., to be Captain. Dec. 7. G. Pocoeke, Gentleman, to be Lieutenant. Dee. 17. C. Le Roy, Gent., to be Cornet, Dec. 17. Cadland Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. A. R. Drummond, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 9. G. W. Willes, Gent., to be Lieutenant, Dec. 13. T. W. Southouse, Gent., to be Cornet, Dec. 13. Earl of Normantou to be ditto, Dec. 17. Lymington Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. P. Taylor, Esq. to be Captain, Dec. 9. W. W. Rooke, Gent. to be Lieutenant, D..c. J. Temple, Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 9. T. Weld, Gent. to be Cornet, Dec. 9. North Hants Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry. E. Mileimay, Esq. to be Captain, Dec. 13. W. H. T. Hanky, Esq. to be ditto, Dec. 13. Sir W. Heatheote, Bart , to be ditto, Dec. 29. B. Baring, Esq. to be ditto, Dec. 29. B. viocas, Esq. to be ditto, Dec. 29. H. Sneyd, Gent. lo be Lieutenant, Dec. 13. J. Micklethwayt, Gent, to be ditto, Dee. W. L. Sclater, Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 29. T. Baring, Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 29. T. Drumbleedon, Gent. to be Cornet, Dec. 13. G. Heathcote, Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 29. W. Taylor, Gent, to he ditto, Dee. 29. H. Hunter, jun. Gent. to be ditto, Dec. 29. Andover Troop of Yeomanry Cavalry. T. A. Smith. Esq. to be Captain, Dec. 27. R. Ettvall, jun. Gent. to he Lieutenant, Dec. 27. W. Iremonger, Gent. to be Cornet, Dec. 27. DECLARATIONS OF INSOLVENCY. Thomas Charles De Latour, London, diamond-merchant, John Shave, Ipswich, Suffolk, inn-keeper. BANKRUPTS. Charles George Beet, Stamford-street, Blackfriars, hill-broker, to surrender Jan. 1 1 , at t welve, 21, and Feb. 18, at two, at the Court of Commissioners. Bowden, Touhnin's-buildings, Suffolk-street, Southwark. John William Nyren and Adam Wilson, Battersea, Sur rey, colour-manufact ur e rs, Jan. 11, at twelve, 21st, at ten' and vets. 18, at twelve, at the Court of Conimissioners. Fyson and Beck, Lothbury. William and Joseph Ilemsted, Bury, Suffolk, linen drapers, Jan. 18, at eleven, Feb. 1, at twelve, and 18, at ten, at the Court of Commissioners. Bowden and Wal ters, Aldermanbury. William Young, Rochester, Kent, coachmaster, Jan. 14, at three, 18, and Feb. 18, at two, at the Court of Com, missionem Simmons, New North-street, Red Li: and Ed : in n square ; Simmons, Roches'er. TifE James Hook, Nicholas-lane, general-merchant, Jan. lit thes2 at one, 18, at twelve, and Feb. 18, at one, at she Court the First, 0 of Commissioners. Chilcote, Walbrook. Thi s ' ie .:, John Waring, Charlis-street, Commercial-roal East, those w h o o ship-owner, Jan. 21, at ten, 25, at eleven, and Feb. 18, and ill Mon ,:t tin, at the Court of Commissiones. Pearce, Phillips, R o i *rt " and Bolger, Swithin's-Line. Lond on. Henry Timothy Perkins, Angel-court, Throg moron- Iv ''lto . hav i s'reet, scrivener, Jan. 11, 12, and Feb. IS, at eleven, at present issue the Court of Commissioners. Notes, Southampton- ducti oo ' by t street, Bloomsbury. Abel Bloom, Basinghall -street, toy-dealer, Jan. 25, at let JANU eleven, Feb. 8, at twelve, and 18, at ten, at the Court of ----........,____ Commissioners. Crosby, Ilueklersbury. In 4 fm d a , William Alottrarn, St. John -street ) West Smithfield, victualler, Jan. 18, 25, and Feb. 18, at nine, at the Court A `.0,0f Commissioners. Selby, Serjea n t' s -i nn , Fl ee t- s treet s Charles Pritchard, Bath, upholsterer, Jan. 18, 19, and and of . 1111\ Feb. 18, at eleven, at the White Hart Inn, Bath. Crut- P erry u2 e ' ti ''''' well, Bath. th e y ears 1 By c z In Which Ch", Calif cific, Were tercet Henry Q - -----s—L___ I I " for Tho rnp , on valley. _ CoNre xl Scott --SP Cabinet: 1 donne, La, Lord Aocki Lord N line tcrs---Sketc --The Leg; an Anabiti i Portmantea in S pain __ can Life an Professor NI of the Con berinent an traeted fron The Last I ''',,, 4 It i the Series i day, aecom Henry C street. BRAZIL PAPERS. Rio De. JANEIRO, Nov. 4.—The Diario Fluminense from 9th to 13th Nov. contains no news. The following extracts are from the Literary Intelligencer, and Uni retsal Gleaner, a new English weekly paper published at Rio, the first nninber of which is dated Nov. 4. " Rio de Janeiro, Nev. 4.—We have not received any particular news from Pernambuco or Bahia. The exiltcd liberals demonstrated their feelings on the receipt of the news from France, and as if a French army was travers ing the ocean in support of their commercial projects, they now presrntorl themselves more audacious. " The same spirit displayed itself lately in St. Paul's, and from the very same cause. The students of the Uni versity, probably instigated by concealed agents, with the enthssiastic fire natural at an age when the passions are prompt and impetuous, on the instant they heard the news from France did net merely content themselves with illu minating their houses, but paraded the streets giving clean, and some of them criminal, which manifested their ssntiments without disguise, and endeavoured to compel the military bands to play patriotic hymns. These prlr?' reedings obliged the chief Magistrate to take legal Cogni zance of the affair, and the result might have been a me lancholy one had not the President and other authorities adopted prudential measures. It was finally decided bye the House of Deputies in the session of the 18th ult. not to charter a National Bank. -On the f Towing day the premium on copper, alias discount on Bank -notes, rue from 2S to 33 per cent. ; on silver, from 118 to 121 ; on 4,000 pieces, from 157 to 179 ; on pieces of 6,400, from 18,400 to 18,600 ; and, what Is still more surprising, the Funds rose from 73 to it per cent. His Imperial Majesty has, by a decree of the 24th u lt., been pleased to prorogue the Legislative Assembly till the 30th inst. We sincerely hope that this second prorogation may be of benefit to the country. It appears that the wording of the decree of the 30th Slit., ordaining the dismissal of his Excellency the Mar quis of Bit bacena from the Ministry, has been susceptible of sinister interpretations injurious to the character of the Marquis. He has thought fit to publish an exposition in answer to the imputations which have been made against him, occa sioned by the decree of the 30th of September of the present year, which dismissed him from the Ministry. Rio or. Jaxmito, Nov. 11.—The Government is about to send a Commission to examine the accounts of the 13r..z;lian Le2,tion in London. . It appears to he con sidered by all parties that this is nothing more than throwing good money after bad, as the expencrs will he enormous—each Commissioner is to receive nearly 1,0001. a year, and of course his passage paid out and home ! ! ! Another change has taken place in the Ministry, his Excellency M. Holianda Cavalcante, one of the Deputies+ having been appointed Minister of Finance, in the place of M. Jose Arbino Lisbore. The other Members of the Ad ministrati n are the same. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL MARKET.—Jan. 5. In our market of to-day, which was moderately suppVeti throughout, and not very numerously attended by buyers, espe cially from London, the trade with each kind of meat was very dull, at the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the offais :-•••• Beef is. Os!. to 4s. 2d. Veal,* 4s. to sg, 6it I Mutton 2 10 4 6 Pork -8 10 4 10 '1 he foregoing quotations are Beef and the best Veal 4d.. Perk from 2.t. to 4d. per stone higher than on this day sennight; prices otherwise stationary. Beasts, 252 • Sheep, 1,050; Calves. 27; Pigs, 68. Some, but not many, of thei Sheep and Beasts 101 l the market unsold. LEWES MARKET.—Jan. 4. Beet 2s. Stl. to 4.5.0.1. Veal Si. Oct to Os. MI , Mutton --- I 2 8 4 4 Pork 3 4 310 Supply moderate, and trade dulL LOW' LA WORKS ( several nni each Disco' Juat GitE LI Pt,ii . 0 op, kc. Kerns for fix ed cording tc explained "n em , record e d antl e d . , . thiea, an RUMFORD MARKET.—Jan. 5. o. d. to a. d. a. d. I. 0 ,; Reef 2lO 3 8 1 Veal 'l 4 5 S Mutton 3 0 4 0 Pork 3 4 4 ° Suckling Calves from 14s. to 345. ; Quarter old Pigsl2cto Ms. cacti' . . Supply moderate, and trade very dull. CouNTRY COttN MARKETS DUItING THE WEEK• Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. l'er Quarter. Is.to s. s. a. a. to a. s. to s• Illandford i 61 35 2i Grigg . 64 70 33 38 18 21 3.5 4 '; Cambridge —1 70 37 22 — 35 Chard IGO 70 30 38 18 20 34 Ot,", Huntingdon . 58 74 33 40 20 2(1 28 Long Sutton . (i 2 72 32 35 18 24 34 70 75 32 36 18 23 32 0 , 7 Lynn 66 74 34 42 29 28 38 40 Newark Nottingham 68 75 35 45 28 29 44 41 ;„ Peterborough,,,...' fit 71 • 37 40 19 211 34 ;"!, Plymouth—..—. 56 79 31 40 19 28 37 Pontetract — 1;5 31) 25 41 Slea font --. . 65 70 315 39 22 28 41 4 ,••; El'ppinghain 64 74 34 41 24 34 34 444 Wisbech This n " Aft. lent m a , val ua b le Philologii on ly one troductio CIIESTILR.—WiIeat, per 751 b. Gs. ed. to Gs. t 1 (1. ; Oats, .1111 b. 3 NANTIVICIL—Wheat, per 751 qrts. Gs. Pd. to (Is. 5d.; Oats, 51 10s. 6d. to 10s. 9d.; Barley, 39 gr tS og, 2d. to 3s. 6d. lb. 10s. 9d. to Ils. Od. ; Barley, ° S 61b. 4s. ed. to 4s. 3d. guide in ti sical Jour LEEDS CORN Al Alt KET.—Jan. 4. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 h. York. and Lincoln. 601 h. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire l6s. to 423. i,-, Grinding Beans Oats, Pot atoe Healing, Foreign i Id. to 12d.... English 13d. to 14!.id. per Shelling 276. to 356. per load. Rapeseed, English, 251. to 27/ Foreign, —/. to —l, pert GRE] edit -d ' l '' , and This ] 41 On e 1 " R cll a _ Thi Li vErtrom, CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 4. NVIIRAT, English, White, per 701 b. -Red -- Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 9 3 9 9 -- Red 910 10 2 Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b fl 16 4 0 Irish Foreign By aLeY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 44 0 eb Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. , 3 S 0 4 Feeding 4 4 4 8 flEsNs, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 46 0 0 --- Irish, &c. lB 0 4.2 ' Foreign ['Juan., English, per Imperial quarter ' 56 0 5 6 Foreign Fi.oun, English, per '2SOlh. Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b5. 33 0 35 8 INDIAN CORN, per 440115. Rya, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter I )IPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 3. j Wheat. Oats. Barley, Flour. Oatm eal. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 1 IForeign, Brlo.llrish, lee. Sas. toa ds. . 17,174 6,371 7,043 18,690 1 753 3,206 printed; . ' n prefer rep r i nts , t ? Place iiornen kr:ly b 8,14 and all 1 AM:up COL abridge• boards. Autho r Th Itl dgmer n ot u ., 1! the clay The uses of cross•examinaiion were rather un" mercifully exposed lately by Judge PARKE, upon the trial of some rioters, whe❑ a Learned Gentleman, concerned for one of the prisoners, asked some questions affecting another man who had no Counsel employed. "He is not your client," said the Judge. "He is mine—do not hang mY client, whatever yoa may do to your own." This vas passing sentence upon the unfortunate pleader at all events. 4( Lu Pro" , r It igeru n s even y 2 . Ii b ri the " Ha the 444 4 , a t ' ) be bi BIRTHS. diryoef,ofof a daughter. On the Gth inst. at Chelsea, the wife of the Rsv. Scu.ll.lin.gßtoina,ndlSiougs:exE,scio.,f ofa Burton-crescent, the lady of W. On the 4th inst. at Taunton, the lady of J. Mastertis Esq., R.N., of a son. daughter.G\ S aCiOosrtnnge Middleton l ett l h , h ee E : s 6 q tPal mer,ht. Lodge,,h in o isi tt' a l:Yet d oi hen a rte t ko t g slrah h t e r . On the 3d inst. at Denfor.l House, the lady of G. II• Cherry, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the stk ino. at St. Maiylebone Church, W. Jones, E.4q., of Brunswick -square, to Georgina Labe llsr only daughter of the Rey. Dr. Stephens, of Devonshire place, and of Southfielel Park, Tenbridge, Kent. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Richmond-terrace, Clifton, Lieut.- General Bright, late of the Royal Marines, and manY years commandant of the Plymouth divi4on, aged 91. On the 4th i n Ki ng l an d -crescent, Sophia, wife of j Du Bois, E.g. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED Br MURDO YOUNG, Ar THE SUN OrrICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.