The Sun. — London, England, 1834-03-28 00:00:00

DUTCH PAPERS. THE HAGUE, MARCH 23.—His Royal Highness t le Prince of Orange set out this evening for the army. N - ARCH 25.—His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange, who set out for Tilburg on Tuesday even ing, passed through Breda that night. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Frederick and their daughter have returned from Berlin. Count Von Reede, to whom his Majesty has intrusted a special mission to his Highness the Duke of Nassau, has set out for his destination. It is affirmed that an ex traordinary ambassador from the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin will be also sent to the Duke. FRANKFORT, MARCH 6.—(Private Correspond ence of the Handelablad.)—" If the discussion of the question of Luxemburg should have no farther results, it has had an effect highly favourable to Germany by manifestly showing, that the dignity of Germany will remain undiminished. If further diplomatic negotiations should take place s on the point of fact, or notes be drawn up by parties, wholly without a call to do so, the Germanic Diet will know how to maintain the respect due to our com mon country. Yesterday and to-day the diet had sittings, and the several committees meet daily. The military committee in particular is much engaged." MARCH 19.—0 n the reiterated remonstrances of Austria, BaNaria, Wirtemberg, Baden, the Ger, man Diet, &c., the Swiss Vorort has invited the cantons to place the fugitives still remaining in Switzerland under the strict surveillance of the police. Baden appeared even to have information of a new project to violate its frontiers, and conse quently those of Southern Germany. DUTCH FUNDS—AMSTERDAM, MARCH 25. Actual Debt, 25¢ per Cent. Amort Syndic, 44, per cent. BB% to 894 'Ditto, ditto. 354 per cent. Voluntnv Loan, 1831, 6 per cent lOO4 to 100 N Loaf: of 14 Million, 1830, 5 per cent lOO to Ino% r_Yittn, 18:31-1t32, 5 per Cent. Exchange on London l2 07 5-10 to 12 05 ' Two Months l2 02 5-10 to 12 —Dutch Papers, March 26. ST. PETERSBURGH, MARCH 10.—One of our correspondents sends us from Warsaw some very curious details of the number of Generals, superior and other officers of the ci-devant Polish army, and Hof military employes who were actually in service in November, 1830, also of the number of those who fell, or disappeared during the rebellion, and the present residence of those who remain. At the commencement of the rebellion the Polish army had in actual service 30 Generals, 224 superior officers, 1,898 officers, and 388 divers officers, attached to the army as medical officers, commissaries, &c. ; total, 2,5 , 10. During the rebellion there were killed, or di' ,j of their wounds or disease, in all 263. After tie restoration of legal order, there remained in the kingdom, or have since returned, 1,811, including 17 Generals and 153 superior officers. Forty (of whom seven are Generals) entered the Russian ser vice, and partly reside in the empire. Of those who passed the frontier with detachments of the rebels, and did not profit by the amnesty, there went from Austria to France 50, from France to Switzerland 46. There remain four Generals, 17 superior offi cers, 290 officers, and 19 employes (in all 330), whose residence is unknown. Thus, of the total of 2,540 officers and employes of the ci-devant Polish army, 1,811 are in the kingdom, 40 in the empire and in service, 263 are killed or dead, 96 (according to certain information) are in France or Switzerland, and it is not known what has become of the 330 others. Among the latter are included those who disappeared during the rebellion, as well as those who were killed or died in the ranks of the rebel army since the attack of Warsaw, respecting whom no official information can be obtained. In communicating to our readers this statement, founded on documents of acknowledged authority, we cannot but observe what a light it throws on the composition of what is called the Polish Emigration, which has excited so much interest and so many troubles in the West of Europe. It is well known that there are in England, France, and Switzerland above 4,000 Polish emigrants, who have abandoned their country since order has been restored. Of this number, as has been above demonstrated, there are no more than ninety-five known by their suc cessive emi g rations from Austria into France and Switzerland, who have really served as officers, or hold employment in the Polish army. If we add half of those whose fate is unknown, and who are probably in foreign countries, the total number of emigrants who have really been in the actual service of their country will be only 250, and cannot, in any case, exceed 300 ; the remainder is composed of men without name, rank, means of subsistence, or education, who have arrogated to themselves the titles of officers, of students of Warsaw and Li thuania, who have not completed their education, and consisting of servants, and the refuse of the people, devoted to idleness and vice, who had no means to prolong their miserable existence besides exciting troubles and intestine dissensions in the countries which have afforded them an asylum.— Journal de St. Petersburgh, March 11. HAMBURG PAPERS. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 15.—Count Raezynski, the Prussian Ambassador at this court, will shortly leave us for a considerable time, his health requiring a milder climate. His Excellency will go next week by the steam boat to Kiel, and pro - ceed by way of Hamburg , to Berlin. The loss of his society will be greatly felt in the higher circles here. At the beginning of this week, after a series of stormy weather, we had a hurricane from the north west, which did great damage both by sea and land. The floating-light in the Cattegat, which was already at Lessoe, but had not got all the chains fixed, was driven from its moorings into the harbour of Elsi nore, but will soon return to its station. As the mildness of the winter gives reason to ex pect that the navigation of the Baltic will soon be very active, orders have been given immediately to lay down the buoys, &c., for the summer, which in future are not to be taken up at a certain time, but to be left in the channel as long as ships can be ex pected. BERLIN, MARCH 17.—We hear from authen tic accounts, that the French government allows all the refugees 48 francs per month. For a time it withheld this sum from the Germans, but subse quently most of thehi obtained it again. Now, in consequence of the events in Savoy, the lists of all the refugees are subjected to a very strict revisal in the Board of General Police in the French department of the Interior. On the 26th of last month direc tions were given to the Prefect of Police at Paris, to summon all the refugees in that city, and to ques tion them very strictly respecting their mode of life, employment, means of subsistence, &c. ; the result will probably be that many of them will be ordered from Paris into the departments, and, perhaps, sent beyond the frontiers. WARSAW, MARCH 14.—The salt works between Nieszgeoa and Stafzewo, near Storsk, in the valley of the Vistula, were nearly completed in 1830, but the war prevented their being finished. Since the res toration of peace various obstacles have occurred, but such measures have now been taken that there is every reason to expect that the works will furnish 100,000 cwt. of salt of the best quality. WISBADEN, MARCH 15.—The Duke has issued an edict, dated yesterday, convoking the assembly of the states of Wisbaden on the last day of March, so that the session may be opened on the Ist of April. It is again reported, with much probability, that his Serene Highness has taken into considera tion the accession of Nassau to the great German Commercial Union, and that the question will be laid before the States. The separate treaty with France is said not to be in the way. HAMBURG,. MARCH 21.—According to the Ha noverian Papers, the celebrated German Jurist, Feuerbach, who died lately at Frankfort, during a journey undertaken for the benefit of his health, is now generally believed to have been poisoned. H e was a kind patron of the unfortunate Caspar Hauser, and the most zealous in his endeavours to discover the murderers of that mysterious youth. BORSEN HALLE, MARCH 21.—The wheat mar ket has been exceedingly dull this week, and any attempts to force sales would inevitably occasion a further decline. In rye nothing doing. The arrivals of barley were, for the greater part, disposed of to brewers. Oats are tolerably firm. From the Bth to the 14th inst. five cargoes of corn passed through the Sound—one for Jersey, two for Norway, and of two the destination was not known. Rix-dollars. Wheat, Anhalt, white 9O to 92 -- ---- red 7B to 82 -- Marks 7B to 84 --- Mecklenburg --- Holstein --- Lower Elbe 6O to 68 Rye, Upland 6O to 62 -- Mecklenburgh 5B to 60 -- Holstein Barley, Anhalt 55 to 58 -- Mecklenburgh 37 to 40 ---.-- Lower Elbe 3O to 38 Oats, Mecklenburg 3l to 35 -- Lower Elbe 23 to 27 Pease, Upland, yellow 5O to 75 Beans 4O to 48 Tares 4B to 55 Rapeseed l6O to 170 Ditto Cakes Linseed ditto 9O to 102 FUNDS.—Prices have varied very little. They are at present firm, but with little animation in the market. Discount n; per Cent. End of March. Anglo-Danish Loan, three per cent 71% Anglo-Russian lOO% Russian Inscription, 5 per cent., 1824 9354 Ditto,ditto, 1831 llB% Ditto, ditto, 1832 Certificates 94K, Polish Bonds 1235 (2 Prussian Bonds, 1832 Austrian Bank Shares 1251 Ditto Metalliques 1)8% Ditto 4 per Cent..... Spanish 3 per Cents. Spanish Cortes (A. F. Haldimand and sons) 3O Ditto 4 per Cent 4SU Dutch 25 per Cents. Ditto 5 per Cents 92% —Hamburg Reporter. EXCHANGES ON LONDON. I LiNIBURG, MARCH 21.-13 8% ,• two months, 13 7%. STOCKHOLM. MARCH 10.—TW,r months, 12 34. CHRISTIANIA. MARCH 12.—Three months, N. ST. PETEKSBURCH ' MARCH 7.—Three months, 10 13.32. BERLIN. MARCH 15.—Three months, 6 284. BREMEN, MARCH 18.—Two months, 607 608. —Hamburg Papers, March 21. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of public business. This being the day appointed for presenting the freedom of the city to Captain Ross, a number of ladies were accommodated with seats near the spot in which the Lord Mayor sat. THE LORD CHANCELLOR'S NEW ADMINISTRATION OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL. Mr. Deputy WOOD said that it would be unne cessary to detail at length the reasons for proposing a motion of which he had given notice, for better regulating the business at the Old Bailey, as the Lord Chancellor had introduced a bill into Parlia ment, which would effect many salutary reforms in the administration of criminal justice in the me tropolis, and would supersede the measure he had contemplated. (Hear, hear.) The court had heard much of the impediments and delays which the judges had experienced in conducting the trials at the Old Bailey, in consequence of the anomalous practice which prevailed of preferring the indictments at the Sessions-house, Clerkenwell, while the judges and juries were waiting to try them at the Old Bailey. —( Hear.) , Another inconvenience resulting from the existing system was, that while the judges of the land were in attendance at the Old Bailey, in posses sion of the depositions on which the prisoners were committed, and upon which they could appropriately I charge the grand juries, as was the case throughout the kingdom, the presiding magistrate at Clerken- well, where the grand jury actually sat, knew no thing of the cases which would be submitted to their consideration, and was therefore unable to deliver any charge at all.—(Hear.) The plan proposed by the Lord ChancellOr would be attended with the most beneficial effects—it would save the time and charges of prosecutors and witnesses, now wasted in heedless attendances—it would diminish the period of confinement which the prisoners now suffered who were afterwards acquitted, and it would accomplish a great saving to the inhabitants of the district to which the new system would be extended.—(Hear, hear.) The Middlesex magistrates, in a struggle for power and patronage, had assumed to themselves, and perhaps properly so, the right to try prisoners for graver charges than those which had been for merly tried by them ; and they had intended to give a salary of 1,2001. a year to the chairman—an office which, throughout the country, was filled gratui tously.—(Hear, hear.) It was desirable that the measure should receive every support which the corporation could give it, and he had therefore to move that it be referred to a committee to take pro per measures to give effect to the proposed plan.— (Cheers.) Sir PETER LAURIE seconded the motion, in doing 'hich he felt, he said, the highest degree of satisfac: tion. The Alagistrates of Middlesex were, he said, exempted from Sessions' Grand Juries ; but as, by this new arrangement, the bills which were presented would not ultimately be disposed of by Magistrates, as was now the case, the Old Bailey Grand Jury would, though nominally a Sessions' Grand Jury, in fact be on exactly the same footing as at an Assize. Magistrates, therefore, ought to be summoned amongst others ; and the Grand Jury, thus having some members who were accustomed to criminal business and evidence, much of the suppression of evidence now practised would be prevented.—(Hear, hear.) The advantage of having Magistrates on Grand Juries was exemplified by the following fact : —ln London and Middlesex every seventh bill was thrown out ; in the country every tenth bill only was ignored.—(Hear.) The suppression of evidence was often unintentional, and it required some person ac customed to evidence to extract from an unwilling or ignorant witness that evidence which was got out of him at the police-office. A great advantage would also result from having an Old Bailey Grand Jury, in the superior accuracy exhibited in draw ing the indictments. In all other counties, the Clerk of,the - Indictments had access to the deposi tions, because they were returned to the Clerk of the Arraigns, and in the country that officer drew up the indictments. At present Mr. Stafford had no means of getting at the depositions, and, although he was a most excellent officer, mistakes inevitably arose which were chargeable to the system. By the new arrangement, which could not be too much com mended, Mr. Clark would superintend the indict ments, being at the same time in possession of the depositions to guide him.—(Hear, hear.) It would be found that a great saving would arise from the certainty with which it would be ascertained when a trial was to come on—the bills would be returned into Court immediately, and the Clerk of the Court would then make out the trial list for that day, and the witnesses for those trials only would be paid for their attendance. In Scotland there was no grand jury, that system having been abolished nearly three hundred years ago ; and such was the care adopted in the previous investigation before a public prose cutor, that the convictions were to the committals, when compared to England, as two to one. The only real use of a grand jury—the prevention of a lonc , imprisonment of an innocent man—being exer cised by the Lord Advocate, who ordered the mime ' diate liberation of those who were committed on too slight grounds to render conviction probable. As a Middlesex magistrate, he (Sir P. Laurie) stated that he hoped the minority of that body, of which he ge nerally had been one, would not be confounded with the majority, but as to what the Lord Chancellor had said upon the necessity of the superintendence of men learned in the law, the Clerkenwell blunders, which had excited so much animadversion, had all been made by the lawyers acting in opposition to the other magistrates—(Laughter, and cries of " Hear.") Mr. C. PEARSON observed, that he considered the proposed measure by the Lord Chancellor as one of the most important of all the reforms in the institutions of the country which had been effected by the present administration.—(Hear, hear.) Concurring fully in all the arguments already ad duced in support of the measure, he felt it unne cessary to make any observations in defence of its principle, or in elucidation of its details ; but he rose to express an earnest hope that, in the further discussion of the question, gentlemen would abstain from those personal allusions to the magistrates of I the county of Middlesex with which some of his friends had considered it necessary to season their remarks.—(Hear, hear.) The measure was so im portant to the interests of the public, but, at the same time, so calculated to excite the opposition of powerful individuals, that the Lord Chancellor would find he had difficulties enough to encounter, without the supporters of the measure provoking the hostility of so influential a body as the Middle sex magistrates by any unnecessary allusion to the manner in which they had conducted their business. -- . -(Hear.) The measure itself involved considera tions of such paramount importance, that he trusted its success would not be endangered by placing it on personal, instead of public grounds.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. RICHARD TAYLOR said that no proposition had given him so much satisfaction since that of Lord John Russell's Reform Bill, as that of Lord Brougham's, which he had read in the Parliamen tary proceedings of the preceding night. He men tioned the intolerable nuisance to which persons bound over were subjected in prosecuting an indict ment at Clerkenwell, as compared with the much greater facilities at the Old Bailey. Sir Peter Laurie had informed them that the blunders com mitted there were the work of lawyers, but he would observe that there was a wide difference between lawyers and Lord Brougham's expression, " men learned in:the law."—(A laugh, and cries of " .Hear.") If salaries of 1,2001. a year were to be given, it should be only to lawyers of a very different class from those who were applying for such remunera tion. He thought it deplorable that his Majesty's subjects should be put in the power of such a non descript and irresponsible tribunal. He had wit nessed a trial at Clerkenwell, and heard a charge from the Chairman, which was the most flagrant legal atrocity he had ever witnessed. After what he had seen, he would not send a dog to such a tribunal.—(A laugh, and a cry of " Order, order.") The motion of Mr. Deputy WOOD was then agreed to. REMOVAL OF SMITHFIELD MARKET. A discussion of great length took place upon a petition signed by 200 persons, praying for the re moval of Smithfield market. The petition was vio lently opposed, and, instead of being referred to a committee, was ordered to lie on the table. PRESENTATION OF THE FREEDOM OF THE CITY TO CAPTAIN ROSS. Captain Ross was announced to the court at a quarter to five o'clock, and was received with the warmest acclamations. He was in full dress uniform, and sat next to the Lord Mayor while some of the forms were in transitu. Sir JAMES SHAW, the highly-respected Chamber lain of the City, then presented the freedom of the city to the gallant captain, whom he addressed in the following words :—" Captain Ross, the City of Lon don have ever been forward in bestowing the honour of their freedom on eminent men who have distin guished themselves in the service of the public. In your person science has been largely and specially indebted for the zeal, public spirit, and disinterested ness shown by you, in fitting out and taking charge of an expedition with the patriotic view to the solution of the problem whether a north-west paisage existed to the Pacific. For the courage and perseverance which have marked the whole of your proceedings in this hazardous enterprize, and for the a d m i ra bl e skill and address manifested by you, with the blessing of Heaven, in preserving life, and health, and harmony, amongst your brave companions, amidst the privations and hardships of four years' navigation in the Arctic regions —for these services the Corporation of London have re corded their grateful sense, by presenting you with the freedom of their ancient city in a box of British oak. And, sir, I take leave heartily to offer you my best wishes that health, honours, and length of days may be your reward for the toils and perils you have endured, and the benefits you have conferred on your country. • _ _ _ Captain Ross, on receiving the present, declared that he felt most deeply sensible of the distinguished honour which the Corporation of London had con ferred upon him in presenting him with the freedom of that great city. Amongst the many gratifying notices which he had met with since his return from his expedition none was more gratifying than that with which he was at that moment honoured.— (Cheers.) He should, he assured those around him, hand down the flattering testimonial of their appro bation to his posterity ; and he hoped that his future conduct would be such as would prove that he was not unworthy of their esteem. These few words were received with great appro bation, and the Court immediately broke up. Cap tain Ross accompanied the Lord Mayor in his lord ship's carriage to the Mansion-house, where a splendid dinner was prepared for the occasion to a select party of friends. HORRIBLE STRUGGLE BETWEEN TWO CRIMINALS CONDEMNED TO DEATH. (From a Jamaica Paper.) _ . HAITI PORT-AU-PRINCE. - Some months since a mulatto, named Eriag, was condemned to death for the assassination of a merchant of Haiti. This murder, accompanied by the most horrid circumstances, was preceded by a robbery to a large amount. A few days after, a young Portu guese was sentenced to the same fate for having stabbed his mistress in a fit of jealousy. The two criminals were confined in the same prison, but each had a separate cell. Eriag, whose strength and fe rocity were the subject of much dread, occupied an obscure dungeon,in which the air penetrated through a small grating which overlooked the staircase of the prison ; no ray of light reached this cell—here the darkness of night prevailed over the light of day. Dardeza, whose crime was less horrible, and who had inspired the gaoler with more compassion, was placed in a larger room with some light, and which had a grated window overlooking the country. The two condemned men were manacled with chains on their feet and hands. It was announced to each that their execution would take place in three days, and a sufficient provision of bread and water was given to them, which was to last until the fatal moment arrived. For some time each of the two prisoners had meditated their escape. Dardeza, who had been permitted to receive the visits of his friends, had obtained some instruments to facilitate his project, but the unfor tunate young man, without vigour and address, was soon discouraged by his fruitless essays, and had fallen into entire apathy a nd despondency. He waited with most painful dread the appearance of the gaoler. Eriag, more vigorous —more daring, did not despair ; he resolved to try all means to escape his sentence. From the position o f hi s ce ll a nd the way he had passed to be conduct e d t o it, h e rec koned that one of the walls was the b oun d ary o f t h e pr ison, and he imagined, if he could e ff ect an open i ng , he might get into the open country. He commenced his work, and, to prevent the no i se b e i ng h ear d an d to soften the stones, he thr ew wa t er on t h e cemen t, and with the chains which were on his hand scratched against the walls. When he had removed some fragments he again threw water, and recommenced scratching ; he deprived himself of sleep, and, with indefatigable activity, never for an instant quitted his work. From time to time the gaoler would come to the grating, and, with a lantern, would see that his prisoner was safe. But all the while he was working Eriag kept an attentive ear, and at the least noise he stopped, and when the gaoler came he would find Eriag lying near the hole, pretending to sleep. Already was the wall very deeply pierced ; but how thick was the wall? Eriag was ignorant what he had still to d o ; h e did not even know what time remained to the hour of his execution. He was placed in a cell so obscure he could not tell the difference between night and day, and was thus deprived of all means of knowing how fast the three fatal days were passing. However, he made a last trial, and with his clenched teeth he attacked the wall—he is saved !—the stone I gives way, the wall is pierced !—but, alas, the wretch was deceived in his idea of the situation of the place. It is not the pure air and fresh country which meets his eager breath and look through the opening he has so painfully effected. He perceives only another cell feebly lighted by the pale glimmering of a lamp, he heard heavy sighs, he calls in a low voice. It is the cell of Dardeza. In a short time these two un fortunates approach each other. Eriag communi cates his design to Dardeza, and learning that his window overlooked the country, he imagined their flight was a thing effected ; but how many days had passed since Eriag had learned the fatal news ? How many hours were there still remaining him to live ? He asked Dardeza, who had been able to count both hours and days, and found that the night which had commenced was their last, and that the morrow's sun would light them to the gallows. Far from dispiriting Eriag, this dreadful news only redoubled his courage. Dardeza seconded his efforts, and the two uniting their energies to widen the hole made by Eriag, it was soon large enough to admit him into the cell of Dardeza. The latter had received from a friend a file to break away the bars from his window, to assist his escape, but, as we have said, the weak, unfortunate young man had not tried to accomplish a plan which at first ap peared so impossible. Now, however, the presence of Eriag animated him, he seized the file, the two set to work, and they had soon separated several bars of the grating. The opening was large enough to admit them, and, if they could effect a leap of sixty feet, their escape was assured. It remained only to file the chains which attached their feet and hands. But this would be still a work of time ; the night was advancing, the day about to appear—the day, the fatal day, that for them would only com mence, though for many it would end in happiness. The precious resource, the file, could not serve both at the same time. If one only used it scarcely would there have been time to break his chains, and with the weight of them flight was impossible. A terrible dispute arose between the two ; the file was in the hands of Dardeza ; he would use it ; Eriag threw himself on him to wrest it away. In this narrow cell, between two chained men devoted to death, a mortal struggle ensued. Eriag, being the strongest, threw his enemy. Dardeza saw himself vanquished —but, that neither might be saved, he dragged him self to the window, and would have thrown out the instrument that but a few minutes before had ap peared a god in their eyes. Eriag prevented him. " You shall never have it," cried the frantic Dardeza, and, making a violent effort to disengage himself from the hands of his adversary, he put the file in his mouth and swallowed it. At this sight Eriag sank exhausted. It is done—he must die. Dardeza, overpowered by the efforts he had made, lay extended on the ground like one really dead, the file he had swallowed was entangled in his throat— he was suffocating ; suddenly a horrid idea came over Eriag. He threw himself on Dardeza, seized him violently by the throat to strangle him ; dashed his head against the walls, plunged his hand in his throat, tore open his chest, and, even, in the still beating breast of the unfortunate, he sought by the pale light of the lamp the precious instrument of safety—he drew it forth in blood—soon he is at work, his chains fall ; then, with the linen of Dar deza he made a kind of line, which he attached to a bar of the window ; he let himself out, but, arrived to the extremity of the line, he cast his eye below him, an abyss of more than thirty feet was still left ; however, he did not hesitate ; his fall was broken by a platform, on which he rolled ; then he fell on a pavement ; but all is not yet over, he found himself surrounded by a high wall, which it was still neces sary to climb. At the moment he was searching for the place where ascent was easiest, a watch-dog attacked him. Eriag met him, and, fearful that his barkings should be heard, he thrust his hand into his mouth, and strangled him ; but in the midst of his convulsive pangs, the dog bit of his thumb. There was no time to lose, day was beginning to dawn. Eriag chose his spot, and soon the harassed and mangled murderer stood at liberty. At break of day the gaoler sought the criminals, to lead them to the gallows—he found only a horribly muti lated corpse. The alarm was given ; proclamations issued for the apprehension of the criminal ; but the traces of blood near the dog, and the thumb, were still there ; it was ascertained the right hand of the murderer was mutilated, and these details were published. Eriag had run for a space of an hour, when, overcome by fatigue and hunger, he stopped near a small hut and demanded refresh ment, thinking that the rumour of his escape could not have preceded him there. An old negress who inhabited the hut gave him food. He was on the point of quitting her, when Caro, the brown son of the old woman, arrived from the town, and imme diately told the news he had heard there. Eriag thrust his hand still deeper in his bosom, but the rapid glance of Caro caught the movement. The brave young man rushed toward Eriag, tore off his cloak, and perceived the bloody wound. Eriag sprang rapidly to seize a hatchet, which was in a corner, and threw himself on Caro, who was only armed with a , heavy stick. Caro adroitly parried the blow aimed at him. The axe of Eriag glided down his adversary's club, and cleft the skull of the old negress, who had run to protect her son. At this sight Caro threw himself upon Eriag, and at a blow felled him to the ground, leaving him without sense, and hors de combat. He then vainly en deavoured to recall his mother to life. At the same moment three mounted police officers, who had been searching for the culprit in all directions, arrived upon this new theatre of his crimes. Immediately Eriag was seized, bound, tied to the tail of a horse, and dragged at full gallop back to prison. Hardly arrived, Eriag asked for a bottle of rum and a priest. To the latter he recounted, with horrible sang froid, all the details of his escape, and then swallowed the former at a draught. Scarcely had the priest left him when he fell senseless, and on the officers entering to drag him to the gibbet he had ceased to breathe. A CAUTION TO LADIES WHO WRITE IN CYPHER. In the autumn of last year—September 12 was the first day—some advertisements in cypher ap peared in the Morning Chronicle ; they were con tinued at intervals till the 27th of February in the present year, at least the one of that date is the last we have seen. A friend of ours, who is skilful in decyphering assumed characters, and who thought at first that some political mystery might be con cealed in this strange guise, took the trouble to ex amine the cypher minutely, and soon discovered its key. The advertisements turn out to refer to an amatory, and not a political intrigue. We will not be mischievous enough to publish all the letters from a married lady to a person who is not her hus band ; but, as a salutary warning to the writer, we publish one which is of too general a nature to be tray her : " Monday, Nov. 11, 1833. " Dearest, kindest, best of men,—l am in raptures with your kind presents, and were it not for the support your kind letters give me, and feeling that you do love me, I must certainly sink under the weight of your kindness; and what oppresses me still more is, that I shall never be able to deserve, by all that I can do, the least of your favours. I have no hope but that my future conduct, a determined duty, will be accepted, and all my imper fections forgiven." MELANCHOLY SHIPWRECK, AND LOSS OF TWO LIVES. The brig Adventure, of Ipswich, Lord, master, bound from Newcastle to Ipswich, sprung a leak, when the crew laboured hard at the pumps, and af ter using their utmost exertions, and being worn out by fatigue, and finding the water gaining upon th em , they, for the preservation of their lives, hoisted out their boat, which unfortunately go t s t ove b y gett i ng her over the ship's side, by reason of the tremen dously heavy sea and gale of wind, which had conti nued from the vessel first sprin g i ng th e l ea k . Th ey, therefore, trusted their lives, being seven in number, in a frail boat, that required to be baled constantly, under the guidance of Providence, and left their then sinking vessel at six o' c l oc k on S un d ay n i ght last. In the mean time, two of the crew died from fatigue, one a lad about 16, and th e ot h er 21, w h en, to their infinite joy, they p erce i ve d a vesse l b ear i ng down to them, which proved to be the schooner Glasgow Merchant, John L. Duncan, master, from Glasgow to Rotterdam, with goods. Captain Dun can, on his coming up with them, which was about 'uro o'clock in the afternoon of Monday, found the remaining five in a most exhausted state, but owing to the praiseworthy exertions of Captain Duncan and his crew, by rubbing them with brandy, they restored them. And we further regret to add, that the Glasgow Merchant was driven on shore by a tremendous squa ll o f w i n d on Ca i ster Ness the same night, where they were a second time exposed to the horrors of a shipwreck. The Glasgow Merchant, we fear, will become a wreck ; and most of her cargo has been landed in a damaged state. CRUIKSHANK AT HOME. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Understanding that a wor k , ent i t l ed " Cruikshank at Ho me ," is advertised in your paper, I shall esteem it as a favour if you will allow me, through the same medium, to inform the public that the illustrations of that work are not by me. Your obedient Servant, GEORGE CRIJIKSHANK. Myddelton.terrace, Pentonville, March 27. COAL TRADE IN LONDON. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I am glad the attention of the public has been directed to the frauds in the coal trade. The present infamous system is so deeply rooted that the formation of a joint stock company appears• to be the only plan to introduce fair dealing. Such an establishment might save the inhabitants of London eight hundred thousand pounds yearly, and realize a very handsome profit besides, supposing it charged ss. per ton for coals beyond the wholesale price, in stead of 10s. per ton, now charged. This upon two millions of tons, the quantity consumed in London, would amount to 500,000/. The other 300,000/. would be saved to the public by integrity in the transaction of the company, for it would be im possible for such a concern to sell the best Sunder land coals, and deliver the inferior sorts as an indivi dual may do, without being exposed by their agents. Last year it is not denied that 1,500,000 tons of inferior coals were sold for best Sunderland coals ; and it is well known that the price of best coals from the ships is generally four shillings a ton higher than what is paid for the common description. I am, Sir, Your obeslient servant, A CONSTANT READER. March 27, 1834. TRADES' UNIONS. We stop the press to announce that the misguided men who were convicted at our late assizes of ad ministering unlawful oaths in their secret meetings as trades' unionists, were removed this morning from the county gaol, to be placed on board the York hulk in Gosport harbour, preparatory to being ba nished from their native country, in pursuance of the sentence passed upon them of seven years' transpor tation beyond the seas. James Loveless, who, it appeared by the evidence against him, took a pro minent part in the secret transactions of the so ciety, and John Loveless, his brother, were itinerant preachers ; and in the possession of the former the following lines were found : God is our guide from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom; We come our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom : We raise the watchword—" Liberty!" We will, we will, we will be free! God is our guide; no swords we draw ; We kindle not war's battle fires: By reason, union, justice, law, We claim the birthright of our sires : We raise the watchword—" Liberty !" We will, we will, we will be free! —Dorset County Chronicle. WARWICK ELECTION COMMITTEE rCOURSE OF EXCH . Amsterdam C.F. 12 4i Ditto, at sight in 21 Rotterdam 2 U 12 44 Antwerp 12 4 Hamburg M.B. 13 12 kltona l3 12 Paris, 3 days' sight .5 45 Ditto 2 U. 25 75 Bordeaux 25 80 Berlin 7 Frank fort on Maine, Ex. 51.152 Petersburgh, ruble, 3 Us. 104 Vienna, effective 11. 2M. 959 Trieste do ~... . ..10 0 Madrid 3 6 1,4 Cadiz 17U liilboa Barcelona 36 3eville 36 Gibraltar 47 ANGE THIS DAY. 48g Leghorn .................... „ Genoa. ................... ....2D gi Milan ................. Venice ..................... Naples . .......................'. ;37. Paler trio .......... ..Per ". Lisbon ........................ Oporto ..................... . Rio J an eiro ..... ........... Bahia ........... ...... Buenos Ayres ........ •,:r" Dublin, 21 days' og .. " ••• g Cork ....................... .. 0 0 Portugal Gold,.cool-..., 1 7 g Foreign Gold, m bars . 0 New Doubloons . ....... L: , fi s New Dollars ............ 0' 7 Silverbars, standard..• Li lwatON, Pgg d. PRICES OF IRISH STOCK Bank Stock 2:SN Consols, 3 oer cent Gov. Stock, SW, per cent 97% Ditto, New ... .......... 97% per Cent Gov. Deb. 3% percent --- Royal Canal Stock Grand Canal Stock Oitv Deb. 4 per cent. Ballast Office Deb. 4 D. C , - 5 s, DUBLIN, MARCH 0 _ •St. Patrick Insur.(p3rShare R o yal Irish Ditto ..... ........ •"" N at i o nal Ditto.... ..... iPatriotic ..... n . 21 [Hibernian Bank Provincial Ditto ..... goyal Irish Mine. ....... 'lmperial Mine ........ Mi n ing Co. of Ireland ...... 11,1 H IG 1159 W minutesaTEaaftLeOrN4D.OlNE,enmg23KlDGß TO-MORROW; 5. "lorning This day was pu bli s h e d, ------ - --- '" --- ' -------- irW ORE. MISS EDGEWORTH'S NE H in 3 vols. p ost E L E st Svo., By MARIA EDGEWOR TH. Richard Bentley, 8, New Burling ton -street. l ' Iburn ) (S to en Cu • Bookie l'`' To be obtained uccessor also of H all ry respectable B oot( throughout th e U n i ted Kingdom. ____.......ei s. 454 "-iirr 1 1 U ' VVVta,4 LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 1834. The bill of the LORD CHANCELLOR i ,_, u. altering m e t t h r e op a o c l l i i s n , in d i administration yomf meets with ge nera approbation. It was shortly discussed in tht a a g n i d s t r l a e a t e ' s 'e the t be la' Common Council yesterday, and was not lest praised by the late Tory Lord Mayor, than 13 ) the most radical member of the Council. II p i l in er measures which neither malice, enmity, or jew interests of those under lousy, can gainsay. Though it win curtail tho fact, e o th n e e of xi itdhdolseeseuxseful and necessary body, we trust, h ave too m uch goo sense, and too great a regard for tY their juris to make bael any needless opposition , or i any attempts that may be made in anoth.e quarter to destroy its efficiency. They ought/';','' curred in trying grave offences m , truth, to be grateful for a measure whic h relieve them from the responsibility often iry time to decide others, which, though o f an l; ferior character, are of n o less importance t, to arrear ieet humanity. The delay owing ' ' diction business, and the expense to suitors, are :I re ottel generally such, that poor per sons are : subject of loud complaint. Ind eed, they ~ - frog forced to submit to the grossest injustice °:, want of time and,meansio prosecute. An _, stance in point has lately come under our notiee. ni t: tte: and there are many of a simila r descrip , A gross and unprovoked assault w as corn by one mechanic on another some weeks a g rer l the consequence of which was, that the stif fe a was not only thrown out of employment f° ;,,, month, but what with charges for warrants, le' for the clerk of indictments , loss of time, and COnsequent loss of means 0 subsistence, and the protracted delay of justiet indictment. for six weeks, he has been forced to give up tht prosecution, and suffer the criminal to e scape Speedy justice is to the poor of the first intFridi, tance, and much as we deprecate giving, a out tional power to Magistrates, we believe nine .1. and other fe eb '. of ten of the lower classes would prefer the' sum mary pensive, and uncertain mode of prosecutingana, latter to carry on the suit. We fact, may hold out against a poor deP e f t he the Inticleant, in and escape justice solely from the inability there'' d t. ecis A io n n y s rtuoffithaen psrvehseunthpasrotracted, i; fore, that the bill will not only limit the jar's' dictions of the county magistrates, b ut ° 0 Zr them to hold monthly sessions, leaving 11- rears, as at the Old Bailey. it .ris, i c as o t i oo l coat is We refer our readers to an extracted ul the tle i T ua im eo e m s m of en t t h .is The attempt votntothe subj °' e ds Warwick Election report. The e xpose l' e „, pre judice a ll l' 1: and atin ) hsa o set r eu t rartie,l personalt p imputationsu b Committee.li c against s t W M c such . rTi Ba ted n fcE s em : p p t h r oe o r paerevyril, evidence that hn e a x e r e o t ii s nl e e d only the el yWcpae point a ei n g , t r a e o e nf vd cons t t o l i c o i ddce,rc putable oe w f of legitimate person, reading records f. of Parliament, sets forth a amore ttliful or bold demonstration of facts r by the Warwick C disclosed by witnesses. We are not, howevee: surprised ciateth at these abortive endeavours to clel l . , s ' t ae h tuii a git t ehh oteraivil audacious yiol of election tile e or erpr uopr r tt e .i ° p i ": , t i n , the Now , we will ni ven ie tu v i aou t be in dis' ' theof imtsinpurtoeosfosf evidence No sa ne Committee, it c t o ee n , tr e a n di n ccituioenst.o3n „tilde_ th at c z e l : ffl-3: the return of Sir C. GREVILLE was obtained by 5 0(r most profligatebribery, treating, false ra ting' fis illegal influence, or that the pecuniary Illeieof were derived from the coffers of the Woo WARWICK, and appropriated by his ag e m s and political partisans. M r. HALcorlo .00 broadly stated that the report on this elect! ~ f esti corruption is unsubstantiated by a tittle o for a, deuce ! The advocate of Stafford, g ert the and Liverpool is singularly deficient info% power of detecting election corruption, bot.iiketl liament and the country will not be 11°°dvv r l o a s and grievances of the independent by his senatorial attempts to deny th e s t c ors of lion i n o d n w of e t a h r e e c o, Commons' I."l confident on s , that co m them elee dot e ' the borough of Warwick. Justice wi ll b l e Lor clg and the Government will not frustrate the ...fit, ittelei.ouse o: deci_ Li the German Papers of the 22d I"' cl er received this morning, we find an article 11,41-eisl the . head of Prussia, which affects a seini-°l' .& 1 air, and is evidently the production roam%ssiect .genius---we may say insolence. Its °"lets is clearly to sow dissension between the COS I " o f f England and France, and in furtheranceop this very desirable object it labours to slic'w REPORT. (From the Times.) Among the very weak, and not very creditable, devices to which a certain party have had recourse, in order to impugn the authiority of this report, the most glaring is, perhaps, that to which the following letters refer. No rational man will fail to see that it cannot matter two straws who drew up the re port, because, if the report be not borne out by the evidence, it is worth nothing, and because, if the evidence justify it, the hand which drew it can neither diminish nor augment its weight. Mr. Halcomb, however, it appears, besides being of another opinion, has taken it into his head that Mr. Parkes drew the report, and although he was told by more than one member of the committee that such was not the fact, yet he still cherished his favourite crotchet, and by being mistaken for a clerk, we suppose of Mr. Parkes, was allowed to inspect the account of Mr. Parkes at Messrs Vacher and Son's, the law sta tioners. Thus it was that the inquiring, not to say inquisitive, senator was led to take the mares-nest, which he displayed with so little effect in the House of Commons on Wednesday night ; and when the public see that the copies of the report made by Messrs. Vacher for Mr. Parkes were taken from an office copy regularly furnished by the committee clerk, upon payment of the usual fee, we think they will be of opinion that Mr. Halcomb is at least as remarkable for want of talent to make discoveries out of the House, as he is for want of success in making motions in the house. We invite the attention of our readers to the correspondence which follows II To Messrs. Vacher and Son, stationers, Parliament-street. " Gentlemen,----I beg leave to refer you to the Times of this morning, and the report of a speech of Mr. Halcomb, the mem ber for Dover, on the Warwick Borough Bill. Mr. Halcomb is there stated to have represented that the draught of the re port on the revived committee on the Warwick election was copied for the committee by my law-stationer, and that the ac count of the law-stationer exhibited the f et of copies of the report charged to me. " On referring to my Y papers and accounts l in the case, I find, that on the evening of the 22d of July last, the date of the re. port, after its complete agreement by the committee, all parties had the usual leave to obtain copies of the committee clerk. I accordingly, on that evening, obtained a house copy of Mr. John Benson Rose, paying the fee of 21. 10s. Accompanied by my co.agents, Mr. Heath and Mr. Haynes, of Warwick, I brought the office copy to you, and ordered four copies to be made in time for the country post. " I shall be obliged by your immediate answer whether these are not the copies alluded to, and the only copies of the report made by you ; also, whether any other person has had any au thority from you for the extraordinary misrepresentations on the subject reported in the Times.-1 am, gentlemen, your obedient servant, " JOSEPH PARKES. " 21, Great George-street, March 27." " 29, Parliament.street, Dfarch 27. " Sir,—ln reply to the subject of your letter, I have to ex. press our surprise at the report in the Times of this morning, and to regret we should inadvertently have been made the me. dium of this misrepresentation of you in the proceedings alluded to. " We are unacquainted with the person of Mr. Halcomb, but about three or four days since a short gentleman, of dark complexion, called at our house, and without mentioning his name inquired of me if we had made any copies of the Warwick Report for you or the committee. I naturally thought, from the manner of his inquiry, and from other observations, that he came from you to make some reference to your account, and accordingly turned to it, and showed him an entry on the 22d of July last of four copies of the report. He then asked me to refer to preceding items, which comprised charges for thirty four copies of warrants for witnesses, and three copies of an ab stract of evidence. He said these items were of no conse. quence, and left the shop. " The four copies of the report above.mentioned were made for you late in the afternoon of the 22d of July, from a House of Commons office-copy of the report. I perfectly recollect their being ordered by Mr. Heath, as they were required in great haste, in ord er t o b e i n t i me f or t h e pos t o f t h at evening, and are the only copies of the report made for you. " We are extremely sorry that, from the circumstance of our mistaking the gentleman for some person from you, we allowed him to refer to our books. He had no authority from except indeedc t e o p tmwa frome had k h ea ny n e oknowledge above directions representationo t h toemake p r o whatever e r fouron n of the the o transcripts o subject, cte and ef the office-copy report. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, " THOMAS B. VACHER, for Vacher and Sons." " Joseph Parkes, Esq. RAPID SAILING.—The steam-ship Duke of Wellington, Captain Walker, made her last trip from Aberdeen to Loni'on in forty-one hours. _ The General Steam Navigation Company's mail packet the Harlequin, from Hamburg, arrived off the Custom-house at two o'clock P. M. 27th March. Also the Bekaa, From► Calais., about an hour previous. Lord Ossory arrived pateeng,r by the latter vessel.