The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. There was yesterday presented to Lord Grey an address from a certain class of Dissenters at Bristol which no doubt would afford considerable satisfac tion to his lordship. This petition is, in fact, much more an expression of gratitude for past benefits than of hope or expectation for the future. It does unquestionably hope, and trust, and expect, but its compliments and thanksgivings are by far more energetically worded than the grievances or wants of the authors of it. The substance of the docu ment is, that the present Ministers have done a great deal for the cause of civil and religious liberty, that they are surrounded with difficulties, and have to achieve numerous and important objects With very scanty powers—that "lime and conftdence" agght to be given them to enable them to carry the bill through which the universities are to be opened to Dissenters—that they (the petitioners) disavow all communion of feeling with those of the dissent ing body who aim at the overthrow of the Church establishment, or at the separation of church and state,—and, in fact, that they wish long life to the existing Government, and are satisfied to leave in its hands, and to be dealt with at its pleasure, all those questions touching abuses and grievances which affect the rights or social condition of Dis seaters. An address like this, which is really ra ther an act of homage than anything else, must be, as we have hinted, most agreeable to the minister who receives it. It is, in truth, a carte blanche, to be completed and acted upon in the way most convenient to the Government itself. There re mains now the consideration from whom the docu ment proceeds. They announce themselves to be a Unitarian congregation of Bristol. Now the Unitarians may, we think, be described, as on the whole the most highly-cultivated and intelligent, perhaps also the most affluent, of the dissenting body, and so far they are persons indisputably of some importance. But there are other circum stances to be taken into the account. The Uni tarians (we do not say affect to be, for that is langurg e less respectful than we are disposed to use, hut) conceive themselves to be in some sort philo sophical Dissenters. There is among them less fanaticism than among other bodies of non conformists less we believe of enthusiasm— less proneness to bustle—less eagerness of action —less of those sectarian passions and impulses which lecd men to party turbulence, or are just causes of social uneasiness —less, in short, of every thing , -,1.:1211 constitutes an element of political dan- ger in the are nct. vast ni they general agitation. Added to the ti,oces, and probably because of them, Jnitarians are few, and they t the contrary. Among the futers throughout England e handful. They bear no proportion Presbyterians. Baptists, or Indepen o form thc great bulk of the non-con and of whom they stand in much than toy do of the Church of Eng,- nf..ffenee, therefore, from any decla or contentment on the part of sanguine as to its carry- 1)(!:-; or CLe m nun] dents, greater ration of ulu not in with it tie sympathy of their more numerous brethren. In reality, we are unwilling to impute to the m , ior portion of the Dissenters that aggres sive and alarming desire which has been proclaimed by some of them for a subversion of the Church of England. But, on the other hand, we as little impute to them the passive and submissive spirit of waiters on Ministerial bounty, which it seems the purpose of the Bristol address to de monstrate. Sure we are that the bulk of the dissenting interest throughout Great Britain ac knowledge no such subservient temper on the sub ject of their general grievances. We are persuaded, that so far from placing unbounded " confidence" in the Minister, and granting him, as the Bristol Unitarians appeared disposed to do, whatever time he may require for carrying the measures of relief, the mass of the dissenting body will he disposed to repudiate somewhat angrily the oily address of the Bristol Unitarians. The great body of the Dissen ters look upon the Unitarians-as little better than Infidels, and will, we suspect, look with great sus picion on any recommendation coming from such a quarter. Nor will Lord Grey attach much im portance to the Unitarian manifesto of adhesion, when he considers that it proceeds more from the fears which this comparatively insignificant body entertains of the uncompromising spirit of the Cal vinist Dissenter, than from any wish to rescue a Whig Government from its embarrassments. Much as the Unitarians hate old Mother Church, they hate, because they dread, the Presbytery and its adjuncts ten times more.—Times. Mr. O'Connell again announced, last 'night, his determination to give the Coercion Bill every oppo sition, though he would do nothing in its nature merely vexatious. On whatever day the bill should be brought in, the honourable and learned gentle man said he would move that the house be called over, and he would repeat that motion every day the measure was brought under discussion. As it is customary for a number of members to be absent On Circuit about the time when the Coercion Bill will be before the house, the threatened call will be the cause of much perplexity. It would seem, from what fell from Mr. O'Connell in reference to a state meat in the newspapers, that the Irish members had been informed of the intention of Ministers that the determination to renew the Coercion Bill had been lately formed. The hon. and learned gentleman said " he was desirous of knowing when the present Government came to the decision of renewing the Coercion Bill? There had lately been a change in the Administration, and it was a matter of justice to the public to state when the Cabinet, as it was now constituted,'came to the determination." Lord Althorp having declined to- reply to the question, Mr. -O'Connell then observed, in reference to the newspaper statement above alluded to, that so far from Irish members having been informed of the intention of ministers to renew the Coercion Bill, " Cabinet ministers, on the contrary, said the very reverse." This would serve to countenance the rumour that Mr. Stanley and Sir Robert Peel have announced their intention to oppose the renewal of the Coercion Bill. If this be the case, the deter mination must have been formed since the secession of Mr. Stanley ; and as, according to Lord Althorp, " all the circumstances had been duly taken into consideration" before determining, we must suppose that the circumstances leading to the determination are of recent occurrence. Irish politics are always very much entangled ; and at this moment, when the most powerful interests are in collision, they are peculiarly complicated. ThuS, while the Aristocracy and Hierarchy (if they may be separated) are about to stir heaven and earth against the attempt to throw light on the condition of the Irish Church, we per ceive, from Mr. Mahoney's " Observations on the Tithe Bill," to which we yesterday alluded (and we must take the opportunity of correcting an ob vious error in a leader of yesterday, respecting his statement of the amount of the value of tithes, the words a year baying been by mistake introduced after 6-7ths of 17 millions) that the Irish land lords are about to array themselves against the Tithe Bill. The Protestant Hierarchists on the one hand, and the owners of the soil on the other, may not be unwilling, for their separate ends, to try their hands at a little agitation. The condition of the unfortunate peasantry disposes them at all times but too readily to become the dupes of those who wish to make tools of them ; and it is possible that Ministers deem it prudent, under such circumstances, to have nothing to ha zard, and that they will throw themselves boldly on parliament, and from the mode in which they have exercised the powers given them by the Coercion Bill, they may claim credit for a disposi tion to make no improper use of them. The lords are quite furious on the subject of the commission. They sufficiently revealed themselves during the night of the debate ; and the language of the jour nals in their interest sufficiently inicates that they have not renounced their intentions. They will not easily relinquish their sinecure church. In vain Earl Grey endeavours to extort an admission that such form land. there may be a disproportion between the number of members of a church and the pay of its clergy. Our Tories say we must have well paid shepherds, whether we have flocks or not. "It is a mea sure" (the anticipated new appropriation) says the. Morning Post, " affecting not more the temporal than the eternal welfare of our community— not only the present, but all future ge nerations. Is' a Christian state bound by any obligation to provide religious instruction for its people Is that obligation, if it exists, removed by • the ignorance or the obsti nacy of those for whose improvement and benefit it exists ? Ought that instruction, if it is to be pro vided, to be such as is consistent with truth and reason, or such as is adapted to temporary expe diency and parecular circumstances ?" The Standard calls out lustily for another trial for the Protestant Reformation. Three hundred years have we been at the work of making Protestants of the Irish ; but three hundred years are as no thing. There is a fable of an old man who ob tained a respite from Death on account of some very urgent affairs which he wished to settle, but who, on the re-appearance of Death at the appoint ed hour, had still more urgent affairs to settle. The Irish Church would claim a trial of another 300 years, and, after all, would complain of not having had a fair trial. Our evening contemporary tries to frighten the people of England into his scheme for a new reformation : " It may alarm English pride to be told that Ireland could subsist without the English connection. It may flatter Popish arrogance and reason to confess that Eng land, single-handed, could not re-conquer Ireland, aided by such allies as Ireland would be sure to find at the first announcement of her independence. But though England could not re-conquer, or without that aid even retain Ireland, while England possesses that Protestant popula tion which has preserved, and may continue to preserve, the integrity of the empire, she has nothing in that respect to fear." Then comes the panacea—the Third Reforma. tion. " That the possession of Ireland is likely to be irksome, perplexing, productive of frequent disgust and occasional alarm, while Ireland shall remain in great part Popish, is what we are not disposed to deny. England is now pay ing the debt of starving the Reformation in the sister kingdom. The manly view of the question, however, is this :—shall we endure this irksome possession, or shall we erect it into an enemy for our own destruction ? The statesmanlike view would go still further—it would inquire whether this irksome possession may not be made a new source of wealth and strength ; whether, by the same process, the State may not be relieved or its perplexities, as regards Ireland, and rein forced by a prodigious accession of moral and political power? Whether Ireland, in one word, may not be made Protestant ? Whether the land of Bible-burners may not be converted into a christian country ? What has been done once may be done a rain. England, with as numerous a Popish population, with infinitely inferior ad vantages for the purpose, and with motive beyond all cal culation less, was Protestantised in less than forty years. Let us just compare the circumstances of the two coun tries—England at the accession of Edward the Sixth, and Ireland at the present day—it is a large concession to Irish Popery to say, that the unmerciful division of Papists and Protestants is about the same as respects the two countries at the eras alluded to. But at the accession of Edward VI.. England had no elder sister—no other England, if we may so speak, as Ireland now has, to support her steps or to guide her into the path of truth. Bibles could not then be had, even for the purpose of burning. The pro perty was, in great part, in the hands of Papists—the new doctrines had notstood the test of time, and to the popula tion the effect of adopting these doctrines had been painfully injurious, as the suppression of luxury and a drying- up of the channels of indiscriminate almsgiving ever will be found for a time. Need we say that no such ' injury would attend the Protestantising of Ireland ; that, on the other hand, such a change would, by importing a whole nobility and gentry, introduce all the profitable ex penditure of luxury, and expel a priesthood who are them selves the great absorbents of whatever alms the country affords ; and so far from giving anything, even wrangle with the beggar for his morsel, if they cannot succeed in cheating him of it ?" We wish with all our hearts that the Irish could be made Protestants ; but, unfortunately, the Irish are too cunning to swallow the bait held out to them. They see that the object is not to supply them with a church, but to supply a rich Protest ant church with a title to existence. So far from there being a necessary connection between a richly endowed church and the conversion of the Irish to Protestantism, it may be laid down that the great cause of the failure of the reformation in Ireland is the wealth of the church. Before the revolution in France, about seven-eighths of the property of Alsace, and some parts of Burgundy and Franche Comte, belonged to the church, and it was precisely then that the clergy had least influence. In the canton of La Vendee, and the other cantons on the Loire, where the clergy were poor,. and lived in the manner of the peasantry, the attachment to them was beyond all bounds. The Scotch Covenanters, in the time of the Stuarts, did not display more at tachment to their ministers than the French peasants did to their priests during the revolution. They con cealed them at the utmost risk, and kindly sup plied their wants, and at their bidding they were ready to embark in any enterprise, however dan gerous. If it be wished to convert the Irish to Protestantism, we say the clergy of the Established Church are not the men for the work. " Let them take castles who're not worth a groat," says the old soldier in Pope, after being well rewarded. No rich church ever did, or will, make spiritual con quests. The reformation in England was effected under very different circumstances from those under which the third reformation in Ireland is about to be undertaken. In England the Catholic church was full of abuses—the clergy were rich and lazy, and trusted to power rather than persuasion. Sir Thomas More admits, in one of his apologies for the Catholics, that the priests were too apt to try their hand at burning as a heretic every man who com plained of their conduct. But the Irish priests have long been dependant on the good opinion of the people, and the people always reward with their attachment those who show that they arc in earnest in desiring it. We will not, however, insult the hierarchy and the noble lords, by supposing for one moment that religion is in their thoughts. Oh, no ! what they are anxious about is Church property, and Church property alone. Were the souls of the Papists alone in question, the Lords would be as quiet as lambs. Were they in earnest about the religion of the people, they would prefer a poor clergy to a well-endowed clergy. In fact, when the clergy in England are in earnest about religion, they recur to the voluntary principle. Whenever they make the Minister dependant on the flocks, and take care that their incomes shall not elevate them too much above their flocks, success is certain. We have re ceived some curious documents on this subject, re •flecting the highest credit on a prelate of the. Church of England,. which we will - lay before our readers on a future day.—Morning Chronicle. We have learnt from a source on which we can place implicit reliance, that both Mr. Stanley and Sir Robert Peel have expressed their determination to oppose at every stage, and in the most decided manner, the renewal of the Irish Coercion Bill. We expected nothing less than that these two worthies would coalesce and endeavour to drive his Majesty's present advisers from his councils ; and we say so much the better. The sooner the cloven foot is exhibited the better. It is high time that the tares should be separated from the wheat—that the characters of meri should be known for what they really are—and that the mist which clung to them in office should be dissipated by their resigna tion of it. Stanley is determined that the pulic shall not be long in ignorance, either of his opinions or of his feelings—and he deserves credit for it. As to Peel's prudence in joining with him no one can possibly question it. Arcades ambo !—Morning Advertiser. Lord Plunket has repeatedly argued, with great force and with great eloquence, that the property of the church is held upon a tenure as sacred as that upon which the estates of noblemen are held. And Lord Brougham, in reply to Lord Eldon's ne gation of the right of Parliament to newly appro priate the property of the church, observes that the Parliament must surely have the same privilege of interference with the property of the church which it frequently exercises with the property of private individuals. We concede to Lord Brougham that the Parliament has such a. power as he claims for 'sit ; and we assert with Lord Pluracet that the Pa rliament has no more. We grant that it is possible to imagine a case of necessity which should vindi cate an interference with the tithes of Dr. —, or with the rents of Lord Fitzwilliam ; but we insist that an interference with the one, must be vindicated by as clear and as urgent a necessity as that which justice would re quire for the vindication of an interference_with the other. We propose to examine in succession the circumstances incident to the tenure of ec clesiastical property upon which the right to deal with it is founded by the " new appropriation." But, before we proceed to this examination, it is worth while to state briefly the history of the present possessions of the Irish Protestant Church, and to show by what steps they. were settled at their present amount, and . intrusted to their present holders. The Church of Ireland was rich before the Danish invasion. Its wealth consisted in land, not tithes—in the contributions and bequests of indi viduals, riot the grants and appropriations of the nation. Its bishoprics and abbecies, its colleges and monasteries, were numerous in comparison to those of other countries, and, in proportion to the then circumstances of the people, amply endowed. In the ninth century this splendid booty attracted the cupidity of , the Danish invaders. For three hundred years the endowments of the Church were j plundered by successive spoilers. The natives of Ireland, who had at first looked with horror upon the work of sacrilege and desecration, in process of time were led to share in the crime and the reward. Chieftains sought renown by the burning of a church, or • fortune by the sacking of a college. Princes usurped the lands which had been held by ecclesiastical foundations ; and, in some instances, attempted to legalize the robbery by assuming the titles of the prelacy together with its temporalities., Such a state of things threatened the very existence of the clerical order. Its opulence, its power, its usefulness, were all involved in the same ruin. The Irish prelates applied for advice and assist ance to the Holy See, whose interference with the concerns of their church up to this period had been scornfully resisted. The Pope, of course, eagerly grasped the opportunity for the establishment of his authority over a previously recusant church. After half a century of negotiation his supremacrw as admitted, and his protection secured. King Henry was invited by the Pope and admitted by the bishops to become a party to their contract. The result of that contract was the memorable Synod of Cashel, which ,passed a decree—" That all the faithful do pay to their parish church the tithe of animals, fruit, and other increase." The ratification of this decree was the first act of the new Sovereign ; and the title of the Irish Church to tithes, eo nomine, dates from the date of the decree. Now, since subsequently to the period of the holding of the Synod of Cashel every foot of the soil of Ireland has been confiscated to the Crown, and re-granted by the Crown under a new tenure, the title of the Church to its posses sions is at all events, if it is based on the decree of that Synod, older than the title of any landlord in Ireland ; but since it must be remembered that the tithe thus granted was but a substitution for the property of which the Church had been openly plundered in the three preceding centuries, and to which it was still asserting an indefeasible right, its real title is the title it might have established in that property, a title as certain as any which can be established ny law, or sanctioned by antiquity. We shall to-morrow inquire how far the title thus ex isting has been affected by its transfer from Popery to Protestantism at the Reformation.—Morning Post. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 17. Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF Jus- TICE and a Common Jury.) JENNETT V. ADAMS. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a me dical practitioner, residing in Gerard-street, Soho, against the defendant, a gentleman of fortune, resid ing at Hampstead, to recover the sum of 219 / , being th amount of his bill for medicine and attendance on the defendant's wife. So far back as 1824, the plaintiff attended the de fendant's wife, Mrs. Adams, who died in 1832. After her death, he applied for the payment of his account, amounting to 2191. which was refused by the defend ant upon the ground that his wife, Mrs. Adams, en joyed a separate property which was agreed to be ap plicable to her own use, of which plaintiff was aware, being so informed by the defendant. The plaintiff also attended the defendant, for which attendance he was paid. The property enjoyed by Mrs. Adams de volved to her children after her death, one of whom offered to pay his proportion, being a fifth share, which was refused, and the present action was com menced against the defendant. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 1341. 18s., being the amount of his bill from 1824 up to 1829. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JUNE 17. (Before Lord LYNDHURST and Special Juries.) UNSTA MPED NEWSPAPERS.-TILE KING V. HETHERINGTON. This was an information on the same grounds as in the " King v. Cleave." The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated the case. George Wheatley proved the WrCl:ase -- of a printed paper called the People's Conservative, and another called the Poor Man's Guardian, at the shop of the defendant, 13, Kingsgate-street. In his cross-examination by the defendant this witness, who described himself as an inspector of stamps, admitted that he received a hundred a year for going about purchasing copies of unstamped papers for the purpose of prosecution. Richard Rockling, also an inspector, proved a simi lar purchase of the unstamped papers the Conservative and the Guardian. "Ma. • Two other witnesses swore to having purchased he same papers. Mr. Sidburne, collector of taxes, was called to Drove that the defendant, now living in the Strand, lad lived at the. house in Kingsgate-street, and he paid axes for it. Mr. Hetherington addressed the jury at great Length, contending that the papers of which he was tlie publisher were not newspapers, and commented forcibly upon the mischievous and tyrannical nature of the acts of Parliament under which he was prosecuted. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL replied, and the jury re turned a verdict for the crown on the counts relating to the Conservative, and for the defendant on the Poor Man's Guardian. Mr. SIIEPPARD stated that the crown would be satis fied with one penalty on each offence and paper. Four papers were put in. The penalties are 100/. for omission to file an affidavit of proprietorship, and 201. for publishing without a stamp. MUSTACHIOS.—The exiled Poles have wrought wonders among the fashionables. These file hearty young fellows, with their mustachios curling round their lips, have so alarmed the bucks that they have hurried with their soft chins to the barbers, and instead of getting the fuz cut off, have returned with horns under their noses, much like those of a tumble bug. We pity the poor girls of these days: Their hearts will be taken by fright, if not by a softer pas sion.—New York Journal of Commerce. VIRTUES OF A DUCKING.—Persons out .of their senses with love, by throwing themselves into a river, and being dragged out nearly lifeless, have re covered their senses, and lost their bewildering passion. Submersion is discovered to be a cure for some mental disorders, by altering the state of the body, as Van Helmont notices, " was happily practised in England." With the circumstance to which this sage of chymistry alludes, I am unacquainted ; but this extraordinary practice was certainly know n to t h e Italians ; for, in one of the tales of Poggio we find a mad doctor of Milan, who was celebrated for curing lunatics and demoniacs in a certain time. His prac tice consisted in placing them in a great high-walled court-yard, in the midst of which there was a deep well full of water, cold as ice. When a demoniac was brought to this physician, he had the patient bound to a pillar in the well, till the water ascended to .the knees, or higher, and even to the neck, as he deemed their malady required. In their bodily pain they ap pear to have forgot their melancholy ; thus, by the terrors of tha repetition of cold water, a man appears to have been frightened into his senses ! [Hence, perhaps, swamping the Lords has been recommended.] —D',lsraeli's Curiosities of Literature.: - POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mrs. Martin, the wife of a chimney-sweeper, was charged with having violently assaulted Mrs. Ellen Roper, the wife of a vendor of cheap political pub lications. The complainant stated that she had called a few evenings ago to pay a visit to the defendant, and was invited to stay and take a dish of ttea. The night having, turned out rather unfavourable, she was prevailed upon to accept of a make shift bed upon two chairs in the sitting-room ; but finding the edges of her bedstead rather uncomfortable, she moved her quarters to the floor of the room, which, as it did not present any of those inequalities so likely to interfere with sleep, she thought she might occupy without any annoyance. In this hope she was, however, mistaken ; but her repose was dis turbed in a way the least of all expected. At about two o'clock in the morning, down came the de fendant, and, without the least reason in the world, clawed and kicked her till she looked more like the wife of a gentleman of the cleaver than that of a gentleman of the press. The noise of course, brought together all the lodgers, and the police, and the watch ; and the com plainant suffered worse than a beating in the scandal of being seen in a very short, tattered, and parti coloured night-dress by a parcel of " great ugly fellows." Defendant—You said " without reason," Mrs. Roper ! Hookey ! Who did I start when I went in ? Oh you was asleep, I suppose ? Complainant—lf there was any body in the room but myself and the poor innocent cat, I hope I may die. Defendant—Aye ; it was a cat as black and as big as a sweep, or I never knowed what sich cats is. Please you, my lord, I keeps a clean home, for all I'm in the sut line ; and I keeps my husband clean as often as he wishes ; but that's no reason I should clean him up for other people. You know my meaning, Mrs. Roper. A policeman said that the defendant, who was a Welch woman, had all the national fire and fury in her composition ; and that, if the strong arm of the law had not been laid upon her, she would not only left Mrs. Roper with no more clothing than that lady had on the day she was born, but would have still more cruelly stripped her. Complainant—My lord, she was took out of the streets by a poor man that had a milk-walk. Every body knows that, and then she left him for Mr. Martin. I defy her to show her marriage lines (pulling a particularly greasy piece of paper out of her bosom) ; here's mine ! Defendant—Well, and who have you got ? Why, a poor lousy wendor of things as never paid a far den to the King ; and I'm sure I never seed as much shirt upon his back as would make half a sheet of brown paper. The LORD MAYOR observed that the defendant appeared to him to have been hurried into total for getfulness of herself, and of the principles of hospi tality; by a fit of jealousy. Defendant—Why, my Lord, you don't want me for to say what I seed ? Complainant—lt was as dark as pitch. She couldn't see anything. Defendant—Oh! could'nt I ? It wasn't so dark, howsomever, but I could catch a sight of what you calls your cat ; besides, did'nt I miss him from my own side ? And where did I find his kickseys ? Why, on the flure where she was a-laying. Do you call that nothing ? The chimney-sweeper assured the Lord Mayor that there was not the slightest ground for the ac cusation of infidelity, but the moment his wife got a drop of heavy or a drop of jacky, she would be come jealous even of a Hottentot. The fact was, he had bursted his kickseys some way below the waistband, and as his wife was too sleepy for tailor ing work, he took her to bed, and left the job to be done by the visiter, after they had supped on a cowcomer. In the middle of the night he woke very poorly, so that he was obligated for to go and take a walk in the garden, and afore he could con veniently come out, he heard the precious blow up, and was surprised to find that he had been the in nocent cause of it. Defendant—lt's all a lie, my Lord. He skimmed out of the room a all-fours when he heard me. If I cotched him wouldn't I give it him ? The Lord Mayor, upon further inquiry, found that, although the Welshwoman had some cause of suspicion, her imagination supplied her with all the little particulars in which the case was really defi cient. One of the strong arguments which would strike a beholder of the scene was, that the ages and personal appearance of the sweep and the lady must have made the thought of a more than ordi nary acquaintance impossible, and his Lordship succeeded in reconciling the parties : notwithstand ing which the defendant declared, " If ever I find a woman mistaking my husband for her own again, there a'nt a nail I have in the world as I wont use to have my rewenge." THE PLUNDER OF THE BUNGAY BANK.—On Monday William Jackson, who was some days ago charged with having robbed the Bungay bank of cash and bank notes to a large amount, was brought up for a second examination. _ Two gentlenien attended upon the part of the bankers, and Mr. WOOLER appeared for the priso ner. The greatest curiosity was excited. Mr. Gres stoke Bucke, cashier to the Bungay hank (Messrs. Harveys), stated all the facts as they appeared in the newspapers, under the head Man sion -house, soon after the robbery, which took place on the evening of the 13th of November, was com mitted. It will be recollected that two men had been seen lurking about the banking-house for some time before the robbery was committed, and that they disappeared immediately afterwards. This witness stated that the property taken was as fol lows :-1,900/. in Harvey's notes, payable at Messrs. Hankeys ; 1351. in Bank of England notes ; 2011. 19s. 6d. in Gurney's notes (a branch of the Bungay bank) ; 241/. Is. 6d. in sundry checks on other bankers ; 260/. in notes on sundry country bankers ; 6851. Bs. 6d. in gold, and 1601. 14s. 6d. in silver, besides bills and promissory notes for 230/. 10s. 2d. The whole amount of which the bank was plundered was 3,8141. 14s. 2d. Some of the bills had been paid on guarantee, but not one of the originals had been yet found. Several witnesses having identified the prisoner, and deposed to various facts connected with the robbery, The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner, and stated that immediately after the next examination, the case should be sent for committal to Bungay. MA RYLEBONE. MURDEROUS ASSAULT ON THE POLICE.—On Monday two determined looking ruffians, named Burrows and Williams, were charged with taking part in the following daring outrage, and brutally ass aulting two constables of the police : Thomas Hancock, a police constable, was the first witness sworn. On stepping into the witness box his appearance bespoke the most savage . treat ment, his eyes and mouth being a mass of congealed blood, and his shirt collar and breast of his coat being completely saturated with the blood that had flowed from his wounds. He stated that early every Sunday morning a formidable gang of f e ll ows, chiefly compose d of brick makers and serv an t s out o f place, generally amounting in number t o fif ty or sixty, were in t he constant habit of assembling op posite the Archery beershop, near th e J unct i on Water Works , Paddington ; these ruffians invaria bly amused themselves by . pelting th e passers b y with stones and other missiles, and it was at length found necessary to send out policemen in disguise, in order if possible to apprehend the ringleaders. Witness on Sunday morning, about h a lf-p as t e i g ht o'clock, was on duty in plain clothes, when the usual outrage was commenced ; and, seeing that Burrows was one of the m os t ac ti ve o ff en d ers , he seized hold of him, upon which a general shout was set up, and several of the mob armed themselves with large bludgeons, which they obtained from the garden of the beershop, and beat witness violently about the head and body. Blundell, another con stable, came up to his assistance and was served in a similar manner, and it was not until a strong re inforcement of the police came up, that the pri sonersat the bar were secured. Police constable Blundell, whose appearance was nearly as frightful as Hancock's, corroborated his brother constable's statement. Mr. Jonas Barker, of No. 9, Spring-place, Pad dington, stated that he was standing at his front parlour window about nine o'clock on Sunday morn ing, and observed about two hundred persons con gregated together, yelling and pelting stones. Han cock and Blundell, the policemen, were attacked in the mostAirutal manner by the mob, and witness, fearing they would be murdered, called on several of his neighbours, and went to thei r a id. He saw Burrows strike Hancock with a huge bludgeon on his head, and kick him severely when down. Wu_ hams also assaulted Blundell. Burrows said in his defence the policeman struck him first with his truncheon. Williams also denied the charge. Mr. RAwL;;IsoN fined Burrows .51., and in de fault of payment committed him to the House of Correction for two months ; and Williams was fined 55., and ordered to find good bail for his future be haviour. WORSHIP-STREET. A respectable middle-aged woman, named Ann Bright, the wife of a tailor, in Daniel's-court, Bi shopsgate-street, was brought before Mr. BitotIGH TON, charged with having attempted to drown her self and her infant child. Police-constable Swaine, 191 N, about eight o'clock on Saturday evening, saw the prisoner wan dering up and down the banks of the Regent's canal, with the infant, now in her arms, tied round her waist. He watched her, and saw her in an at titude of plunging into the water, but from some sudden impulse she started backwards, and.having untied the child placed it on the bank, and there left it. Suspecting that she intended making away with herself, he ran after her, and succeeded in pre venting her accomplishing her object, by bringing both her and her infant to the station-house. The prisoner, who held in her arms a fine child, about eighteen months old, admitted that all the officer had stated was true. She said it was her intention at first to have sacrificed . the child with herself, but that at the moment she was in the act of so doing, her feelings for her infant pressed so strongly upon her mind, that she resorted to the al ternative of leaving it to its fhte, and placing it on the bank, determined afterwards to destroy herself alone. Mr. BROUGHTON-But what could induce you to attempt such an act ? Prisoner, in tears—My husband's misconduct drove me to it. I have now three other chiidren at home starving, in conse quence, nce, always drunk. ofhisdissipa dissipated habits.av Heing ee completei r saeivedany rent mon or for food, I was reduced t money from him for someweekspast, either a state o i itherforlte f phrensy, and ran with my infant from him with the intention of destroying both of us, for where was the use, I thought, of leaving the dear little crea ture to be starved, and motherless? Mr. BROUGHTON, on hearing her statement, sent for the husband, who, on arriving, received a severe lecture from his worship, and he promised to behave better in future. The poor unfortunate wife, how ever, seemed to place little faith in his promise, though she agreed to return home with him, and give him another trial—promising, at the same time, not to attempt self-destruction again. She was then discharged. HATTON-GARDEN. • On Monday, Mary Shower, a ferocious-looking woman, was charged by C. Burlace, a carpenter, residing at 142, Church-street, Bloomsbury, with having committed a violent assault. The prisoner, in her defence, said that the pro secutor took hold of her by the throat, and nearly choked her. She was fined 405., or in default of payment, to he committed to the House of Correction for two months. _ Yesterday Julia Raymond, a fine tall young wo man, Ann Williams, and Edward Page, a drummer, were charged by Mr. William Hitchin, jun., son of Mr. Hitchin, jeweller, of Bridgewater-gardens, Bar bican, City, with being concerned in robbing him of twelve sovereigns and a quantity of ivory and tor toise-shell tootpicks, mounted with gold and pearl. The prosecutor, who is a young man about 20 years of age, on Saturday last, it appears, was de puted by his father to carry home some orders to the west end of the town, when he met with a few acquaintances in the neighbourhood of Bond -street, who bet "him a wager that he could not drink a pot of ale, which it appears he accepted. On his way home, passing through St. Giles's, he met the pri soner Raymond and another young woman, with whom he had been previously acquainted, and they inveigled him to a notorious receptacle in Jones's -court, Bainbridge-street, St. Giles's, where they proposed to have something to drink, and one of the women volunteered to fetch it, and being brought in a portion of it was given to the prosecutor, which he drank, and he was immediately afterwards seized with a stupor, which was speedily succeeded by a profound sleep, when the party took advantage of the opportunity and robbed him of twelve sovereigns and the other property, which was of considerable value, and on recovering from his insensibility he found himself alone in the passage of a strange house. On discovering his loss he pro ceeded to the station-house, and gave information of the robbery, and sergeant Mundy succeeded in apprehending the prisoners Raymond and Williams. He received information that the prisoner Page was acquainted with them, and, on proceeding to the barracks where he was quartered, he searced him, and found One of the toothpick-cases and a toothpick in his possession ; and, on being locked up in the guardroom, he tore up a duplicate for another. Sergeant Mundy said it appeared evident that some deleterious drug had been administered to Mr. Hitchin, as when he arrived at the s t a tion- . house he was scarcely able to give information of the robbery. The c e pri r so l t: n ers o l p v p e o re rt enn y e theoffi further. jury J. C'ronin, against whom a Coroner's found a verdict for the manslaughte r of Patrick Welch, rutitandefd siftingfora we t e h k e , to gi‘e matter ' in Gray's Inn-lane, was finally examined on the above charge, when the evidence already taken, and which exactly corresponds with that received by Mr. Stirling on the inquest, was reiterated. Mr. LAING inquired whether the prisoner wished to say any thing in his defence ? Prisoner (in a firm tone of voice)—l have to say that it would he a happy day for me if I was to be hanged for the crime with which I am charged to-day. I am not guilty of it. lam innocent of the crime alleged against me (clenching his fist and striking it impres sively). I declare to my God and to you (pointing at Mr. Laing) that I know nothing of the violence that was offered to Welch. I had certainly been drinking and we quarrelled together, but I again declare before my God and this court that I am not guilty of what I am charged with. Mr. LAING—If you have any thing further to say you had better reserve it for your trial. You are now fully committed to Newgate. The prisoner was then taken from the bar. Don Miguel is coming to Paris. He has no place—he will not be long without one. Vidocq and Gi%urt are disputing for the honour of his service. —French Paper. We hear that Don Carlos is likely to take a house or lodgings at Portsmouth, which, we pre sume, implies some necessary discussion and negotia tion before his future destination be ascertained. With respect to the mission of Mr. Backhouse, we ap prehend that it had no other object than to pay due attention to a Prince of the Royal Family of Spain, but certainly not to interfere with nis free agency, however explanation might be rendered necessary on the part of a Government in strict alliance with the Queen of Spain. We understand the Princesses. Ladies in the suite are exceedingly desirous of visiting London. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. Peant. Per Quarter. Bo•t, on s. to s. Is. to s. s. to s. s. tO 40 50 26 32 16 PS 28 57 34 —= 13— 40 46 :6 30 17 21 3e 31 40 46 24 28 16 18 .32 34 44 49 24 28 17 21 28 :tit 10 49 28 33 18 23 86 39 41 'tB 24 28 IS 18 32 38 13 50 26 29 16 21 38 41.1 46 ;6 ..1 30 15 22 24 F 3 14.11:borOitgli Graiii ham Uriim.bj !i~>rr~castle. Lincoln , Sp:6l,y ;... Stamford. NORWICH. June 14 1 Wheat (per qr.) ..40s .',2s. fins. iiv a n s tper gr.) .....—_llls :Mi. 13a-1c y --..,—... 2 is. 265. 3fis. 1 'ease, tirey--- 36s 47'. Oat , ------- Vils f..'2•. 245. Dinar, fine (per sack) 41s. 438. CANTERPURI, June 14. Wheat, 575. to 635. —s. to —s. 48s. to 6 's —s. to Barley, Malting —,. 265. to 325. Gruting.. 2-.23. to 275. Oats '2 , 16. to 25s Old -20 s. to 2,95. Beans 3ls to 355. —s. to —B. ;Ws. to 365...«,. Grey 30s. to 345. MANCHESTER, June :4. Wheat, per 70Th. 86. Od. to Ss. at Red 7s. 9J. to Ss. 3d. Barley, per Golb 5 0 5 6 Oats 3 2 3 Beans, per Imperial quarto - Feast., White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 5 3 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 3B 0 42 0 Flour, per Sack a 2801 b 4O 0 46 0 liKl'fl —TE.—FRt From 472 Wheat barrel 20 stone 21 0 16 stone 12 6 _ It; stone 13 0 1,614 Oats 12 stone 12 0 19,045 Cwt. Flour----. 9 stone 7 0 470 Oatmeal, 8 stone 14 0 -.old to Rakers only. 16,269 Cwt. Flout .13 0 I 18 0 j 15 5 Average price of Wheat and Flour 38s. 4d. per sack. , Firsts, -- from 17s. d. to 13a.a• Receipts of Flour, 11,974 Secwnd • f rom 1 tkl to los. 0 1 .0.0"1 0111 fik. • Sales of Do. 19,045 to IN. Ott. t from 46. vu. IRISH MA oUBLIN MARKET NO DAY, June 13. To Average. ~.,0 0 25 JO 14 0 0 „° 15 0 'a' It? 0 14 ' 18 0 18 0 I 14 9 63 Bei e L Batley. Quartern Loaf, PRICE OF Br .Al) II Ouarti CORK MARKE. 7 .—,Jtme 14. ' Wheat (per t'Ost.) Bar:ey ,per I6st.) Oats (per 14st.) ... Flour , per cwt.) 6 0 16 6 Oatmeal (per cwt.) lO 0 ' II 0 Beef, Bd. to 6d. ; Mutton, sd. to 6d. ; Veal, 6d. to Bd. ; Pork, 2d. to ..../d. ; Freshßulter, 10d. to I.UI. per lb. - PRICE OF RUTTER. To the Merchants. To the Country. Fires Quality 73s. 63a. Second 69 59 Third Fourth Fifth 3 Sixth CLONMELL MA KETS.— June 13. Cwt s. d. s. New Butter ......70 0 to 7(1 t , Oatmeal 1 i 3 13 ti lienderect Lard... 33 0 31 i Per 0 :(t) 0 1; Per B s. d. s. d Cdes (raw) `i2 oto 6 Bacon Pig 'b !26 9 float's l6 0 U tg I. lour, Thirds "4 0 Fourths 19 3arrel. 11Barley 11 6 "Coals stone. liTallow (rough) 6 (1 0 0 Potatoes osj 0 6 Mutton 0 6 0 7 I; Veal 0 0 0 Flour, Second —Household— Rapeseed 20 0 61 Bert 10 0 11 01 l'er Wheat I 0 Oats Per 1 - - Fresh Butter I I i 2. Beef 0 0 6i - II - (1 - 0 3 4 B.ts to 863. per cwt. ; Wheat per barrel ; Flour 133 to 298. per bag, Oats 12; to :34 per bari rel; atrley Ils. to 128.; Beef 3d. 31-1. ler lb. ; Mutton. to set. ; Potatoes -41. per stone ;,C0..1a Is. id pet ctrl ; Laces"' R; a '243. to •235. Od. p2l cwt. SCOTCH MARKETS HA DDINOTON CORN M ItKET.—June 13. Wheat. Harley. i Oats. Pease. titans. tir,t 57. Od 3ls Od I 2(i. ("el I -12. id ' 406 Oil Nit lAI '29 , Od Od 29, Od 3 7 s o . s i Ott 26s Ott 22s Od ais Od 13( 3 s '-'" Iltere were2al qrs. of Wheat Itt ttlarket,22ll,oteriof were bOht• . . A veragc 5 Unsold --0 prey. I3s. 1.1. 6.12 t! s M A 1Z I< ET. —June ;2 ( /al's. i case. , ti , ais. Vi. 8,1 404 OJ 140 01 1 2.4 s 01 :•.8. od I :38- od 21s 01 ;;• OJ I 3J• 0 i --- Il CORN DA LKI 1. Wheat. flarltly. Virs.t -;eentid 5.2 s O 28. Oa ! 43s Od 24s Od du-Alihfoanini yresidingce, went a Ames,ehse, in beginningthe e, ntn on a visit to Marseilles, leaving at home a serv ant g irl named Josephine, remarkable for her lively disp osition, a at the fdiriasy and who, having little to do during the absence of the family, passed her time with her friends. On the 20th, however, she did not make her appearance abroad, and in the evening her friends, becoming alarmed, got into the house. On reaching the door of Josephine's cham ber it was found to be fastened, and it became neces sary to force it open. The bed was empty, but on parts of the bed-clothes and on the walls there were discovered spots of blood. After searching in vain for the poor girl, one of the persons present picked up a finger, which had been rudely cut off, and near it a pair of scissors and a cutlass. On a further search, Josephine was discovered in an obscure loft, wrapped up in a sheet, and totally insensible. She was con veyed to the hospital, and found to have sustained no other injury than the loss of one of her little fingers. Next day she was sufficiently recovered to declare that the act was entirely her own ; that disappoint ment in love had made her tired of her life, and, ac cording to a vulgar error of the country, she believed that the most easy and certain death was to cut off one of her little fingers, and therefore she did not use the cutlass, as she at one time intended. I speak,,_thoTysse.iittE ORIGIN OF WARS.—The history of every war is very like .a scene I once saw at Nithsdale. Two boys from different schools met one fine day upon the ice. They eyed each other with rather jealous and indignant looks, and with defiance on each brow. " What are ye glowrin' at, Billy ?" " What's that to you ? I'll look where I have a mind, an' hinder me if you daur." A hearty blow was the return to this, and there such a battle began. It being Saturday, all the boys of both schools were on the ice; and the fight in stantly became general and desperate. I asked one of the party what they were pelting the others for? What they had done to them ? " 0, naething at a', m an; we just . want to gie them a good thrashin." After fighting till they were quite exhausted, one of the principal he.-. roes stepped forth between, covered with blood, and his clothes torn to tatters, and addressed the belligeren.t, parties thus " Weel • I'll tell you what we'll do wi There ye ; if ye'll let us alane, we'll let you alanc." was no more of it ; the war was at an end, and the I thought at . t . he boys . scattered away to their play• time, and have often thought since, that that trivial affray was the best epitome of war in general that I onlyh tc, safetyt to jeercietsectlolebssattqleu,an•anedls then,they have .have ever seen. Kings and Ministers of State are just a set of grown- up children, exactly like the childt:en raised, steadhis ai ane.of innocent butfighting servile u t bi nmdal Shepherd'sot e o r k i a l o nL difference, su iel Sermons. hst.atheir - a waste of . b . lood and treasure, are glad to make the boy's conditions, " If ye'll let us alane, we'll let you BIRTHS. This morning, at 112, Strand, Mrs. Young , of a daughter. On the 14th inst., at Convaniore, county of Cork, the Viscountess Ennismore, of a daughter. On the Ist inst., at Florence, the lady of Edward Sher- lock Gooch, Esq., of a daughter. , - MARRIED. ..On the 30th April, at Savannah, Ed m ond Molyne ux, Esq., his Majesty's Consul f or the Sof Georgia, State to Eliza H ar riete, daughter of the late Colonel Johnston, of ilavannah. W. H. Symons, manding his Majesty's steam packet Spitfire, Woolwi c h, to Mary Ann, eldest daughter On the 14th inst., at St. Alphage, Greenwich, Lieut. of Lieut.. William Taylor, R.N., Greenwich Hospital. On the 17th inst., at St. Brides's, London, th e R ec . John Parkin, M.A., of Queen's College, Cambridge, and Hilsotminasgs,sthoarpE7Eilisaq.E, loizfasbielvtleir,-esltdree3sett,dac,uairgh..- bridge. toefrof Oare,th enleaalte On the 17th inst., Mr. John Dart havieq, only of Sidmoutl of place, Mecklenburg-square. to Ma, ' h t r y d au ghter ug e Mr. James Lacey, Forest, Walthamstow, Essex., On the 16th inst., at Cro- don John Bd 541. ' Wandsworth -road, to Amer ) , oy ,_ _ la, youngest daughter-of Joni% Dixon, Esq., of Chancery-lane and Norwood. DIED. 11 Esq., of On the 15th inst., at Dover,. Samuel Pow i e , n ', as hire. Matiby, aged 64, of Northwold, Upper Harley-street, and Brandlesome , 11 , all'Reaar-Admiral On the 13th inst., at SoutharoPL"' a nd 31ontagu square, London. Eci of I,,itson, - -='' On the 9th inst., Charles John Rc s " Worton House, Isleworth. A f Chtribter Strutt el de s t e On the 16th inst., Eliza Susanna , _ , of Mr. Strtitt, Old Malior-street, C 1 . a. • jio'seeseh.Bunbury, $9Q•r On the 14th inst., at Hastings, p aged 63. ' ',,st at Ern , ' berton Bucks, Mr. Heal On the Ibth 1 ~ , k of England. Dover, of the Ban,s, North Britain, George B. Richmon' At St. Andrew. , , Customs, youngest son of lientY f his 31ajesty s Esq•, 0 , niehmond, bsq.. 16th inst., at Croydon, Surrey, Mr. Joseph On the Phillipson, in his 45th year. . ~...• --- - 7 - -- YOUN G ' London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOU at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand. Norfolk,