The Sun. — London, England, 1827-03-30 00:00:00

SPMIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The public see without regret the daily pro gress made towards a final demolition of Carlton house. There are, indeed, no sacred or endear ing recollections associated with that fast crumb ling edifice. It has been a stage for gaiety-- outward gaiety—and bustle—a field of . jollity— perhaps of licence—but the foundation of at least one broken heart was laid there. mense sums of money were there expended, which came from the earnings of the people. There, enormous debts were contracted, which the nation repeatedly discharged. But if Carl ton-house be represented in history as the fa voured and revered abode of the purely virtuous or pre-eminently wise—if distant generations shall be taught that within its gilded and bedi zened wall science was fostered and the Muses flourished—that Englishmen, the most illustri ous for genius and morality, were the exclusive, or most familiar, ornaments of that " brilliant" circle, which blazed for its hour upon the eastern wing of Pall-mall—the future antiquarian who shall succeed in extracting from genuine memoirs or au thentic records of this age, the required evidence in support of such representations, may well aspire on his own behalf to the praise of more than mortal in dustry. But if the public he ready to forgive the 'removal of this unhonoured pile, it is not so with some of its innocent and cheerful appendages. We hear that many new buildings are about to be erect ed on the site of Carlton Palace, and in the neigh hood—that St. James's Park, the scene of humble and unoffending, but occasional, and therefore doubly-pre cious recreation, to the pent-up citizens of London and Westminster, is to be further encroached upon than at present, for the sake of multiplying the outposts of the Court, in the shape of well-plastered cribs and sties, to accommodate the customers of the new Buckingham Palace; and that between coachways and terraces, lofty walls and aristocratic avenues, to secure the communications between Royalty and loyalty, this one great comfort to the people of the Thetnopolis—the Park of St. James's—bids fair to be shrewdly cut up. It seems surprising, that a chosen resort of Charles 11. and his respectable com panions should meet with so little favour; but one barbarous butchery we cannot refrain from noticing, viz, the destruction of that rich screen of various and noble timber-trees which covered the gardens of Carlton-house, and shut out front the brick-burnt eyes of pedestrians who wandered through the Park, the dismal view of the rear of Pall-mall, from Carlton-house to theresideneeof him who, in one respect at least, has proved himself no unworthy occupant of the first Duke of Marl borough's mansion. What is called the Regent's Park has been built and " beautified" by some offieial artists into a round of cockney teillos, with a true cockney green and duck-pond in the midst of them. Is, then, a similar fate reserved for the ancient pleasure-grounds of St. James's, by these vulgarism; of the West? Why is not the manly taste of Mr. Wyattville called into operation, if any gene rous wish be entertained of reconcilin g the indulgences of the great with the convenience or necessities of the humble ? Oh for a few men of well-strung nerves and earnest tem peraments among the national representativeg, to wring the withers of these heartless sycophants about the Court, and force upon them the expediency of a little forbearance towards the people.— Times. We like the easy degage manner in which the Earl of Limerick treats the subject of the sufferings of the Irish poor from hunger. " He had beard," he said, " of people perishing, but he did not givz credit to every thing which ap peared in - newspapers." It was one of those matters, which might or might not be true ; but it was not for a man of his elevated rank to dis tonipose himself with such things. Besides, as his. Lordship happily observed, " did not people perish of hun g er in other countries as well as in Ireland ?" To be sure they do ; and can a better or more satisfactory reason be assigned for allowing meu to die like dogs in Ireland ? The business of a great Lord, a ,Peer of Parliament, is to get as much out of the poor as possible, and to spend the money so extracted from _them in as pleasant. a way as possible, avoiding what ever tends to throw a damp on pleasure. Men will die when they. have nothing to eat--that is quite natural ; but when a man has enough to eat; he has nothing to fear from want, though • occasionally something from a bad digesti on ; and it is quite _natural, therefore, ; that a man who has enough to eat, and a good digestion, should not wish to spoil it by going out of his way to hunt for subjects which suggest unplea sant reflections. So well is this matter under stood in some countries of the East, that the rich people keep servants stationed at their gates to beat off, during famines, the poor starving wretches, whose cries would break in on their happiness. " God tempers the wind to the shorn i sti th," , and he tempers also the heart of an Irish Peer to withstand Irish distress. It would be unfortunate, indeed, if an Irish Peer were to be sensible to the distress which surrounds him. — Jupiter, in. the fable, makes the hide .of the. ass thick, to enable him to bear the blows-of man. NQ doubt Lord Limerick could have ascertaipeg, if be,had chosen, whethr, t,hose pers.:is Dr., Doyle describes as dying on their - bellies on the. ground,. in order to mitigate the sufferings froM hunger,' died from downright starvation, or froM the diseases, caused by ,insufficiency of food. But what - inducements had he to do so ? Or, rather, howanany inducements had he not to do so? A great English moralist, Dr. Adam smith, observes, that the dissipated-and the gay, " turn away their eyes from the poor man, or if the extre mity of his distress forces them to look at him, it is only to spurn so disagreeable an object from among them. The fortunate and the proud won der at the insolence of human wretchedness, that it shovld dare to present itself before them, and w ith the loathsome aspect of its misery, presume to disturb the serenity of their happiness." We do not wonder, then, that Lord Limerick, having in such perfection the happy faculty of abstract in from the, consideration of the distress which surrounds him, shollld deprecate all at tempts to re medy the evil, by legislative measures. tut the Earl of Darnley would seem to have acquirm, fi'oin' his English education, certain habits, which by no means allow him to sit so e asy Under the consideration of what may be the sufferings of the people in a country of which he is also a great landowner. " HQ agreed that the Poor Laws, as they existed . in England, could not be introduced into Ireland; but he could not agree that, in a civilized country, the poor shouldbe left to die without • At any notice • • pre sent, the po or of Irel an d we re suffering very great distress, an d many of them had, he believed, perished of huntr.". We verily believe that th e views of Lord arnley are generally shared by that class of Proprietor s who are absentees from having also estates in England, and who would willingly atone for their invoil unan f i tolt. of a b_ senteeism by consenting to any feasible measure for th e re lief of the poor. Lord lted ea d a l e was afraid " th a t were a system of Poor La ws intro duced, it would destroy all industry among the people. The best mode of relieving the Poor of Ireland, would be to introduce a better system of fanning, to abolish small farms, and have a body of farmers like those of England." But, ri Lord Reeleadala awar e, that the reason why a large farmer cultiiates tc g reater fire advantage than small farmers, like those . Is, h t . h at he economises labour ? His Lordship has t i tle . from one of the dales of the northern extremity of England. In his neighbourhood, a farm of 500 acres is cultivated with not more than one fifth of the hands employed in the cultivation of 500 acres, in the greatest part of Ireland.— Now, we would fain ask his Lordship, how he is to reconcile the two objects, of cul tivating the lands with a greatly reduced num ber of hands ; and keep the persons actually in existence from starving ? Something more, then, than the mere increasing the size of the farms is ne cessary in Ireland. The increase of the size of farms is a consequence, rather than a cause, of the pros perity of a country. In England the farms were, at no remote period, small, as they now are in Ireland, and the throwing several farms into one is a process which has been going on even in our own days in many districts. The process commenced in Nor folk, Suffolk, and Essex, the counties which were first improved, and where the farmers were conse quently first in the possession of capital. But are the poor of Ireland to be left to devour each other, and the landlords to be freed from all responsibility respecting them, till the farms have all'been made large, as in England, and till the people, thrown out of their possessions, and who cannot be employed under an improved agriculture, are all killed off, or disposed of in manufacturing towns, which are yet to be formed, before a system of Poor Laws shall be devised ? England had Poor Laws when its farms were small, and it has Poor Laws now that its farms are large; and we are persuaded that the Poor Laws have contributed to the improvement of the country, by forcing the higher orders to attend to the conditions of the people, and to promote their improvement in order themselves to preserve their incomes. We could show, from numerous in stances in the domestic history of this country, that the Poor Laws actually compelled the landlords and their stewards to exert themselves in promoting the improvement of their tenantry, by familiarising them with improved processes, and exciting a spirit of emulation among them. He who neglected hisestates found the prod uce swalloNied up byPoors'ltates.As the love of indolence is natural to mankind, the Trish landholder, if not compelled by necessity, will never concern himself with the the drudgery of improving his tenants, but aban don them as at all times past, to drivers, extorting a large income from wretches whose numbers force them to com pete with each other, and to accept of land on terms which leave them what would be deemed a subsistence in no other country than Ireland. Lord Redesdale tell, us, that administering relief by voluntary contributions, "was the general practice in Scotland, but in some places com pulsory rates had been introduced, and they had been fol lowed, he understood, by unfavourable consequences."— So far from having been followed by unfavourable conse quences, that part of Scotland in which rates were first introduced, namely, the vale of the Tweed, is the moat prosperous, and the labourers are there better off, and cer tainly far better housed, than in any other part of Scot land. Compulsory assessments have, in fact, regularly followed this progress of improvement, and were every where introduced, not from choice, but because they were indispensible. The districts of Scotland, where the com pulsory rates prevail, do not complain of them, but they complain bitterly of the inconvenience they suffer from Ireland, and the districts which are without compulsory rates. "Of late years (says the intelligent Mr. Wilson, in his History of Hawick, -inted in 1825), the number of travelling beggars that infested this town was incredible. Like the Arabs or Tartars, these miserable beings travel led in hordes; and some days not fewer than forty or fifty were seen levying contributions, in regular order, upon all strangers—the poor belonging to the town being otherwise provided for ; and, what is ra • ther singular, the whole of these trading-mendicants, a very few excepted, are from Ireland, Dumfriesshire, Kirk cudbrightshire, and Galloway. The proximity of Hawick to Dumfriesshire, from which beggars are disembogued annually in thousands, is a serious .matter; so much so, that the receptacles for these strollers in this place have been at times so fully crammed, as to alarm the neighbour hood, and the town officers have occasionally had to drive them from their lodgings at night by scores. Whether the evil in these south-western countries of Scotland is gene rated by the poverty of the conntry—the long-established habits of the people—the defective administration of the Magistrates—the proximity of wretched Ireland; or to these causes' nnited—that multitudes of begging emigrants issue from these counties yearly, to the annoyance of other place., is certain. A Gentleman of Hawtcronce asked one of these poor creatures, if all the people o her parish did not travel at times? ' No, Sir,' was the reply, the Minister never leaves the place.' Such are the conse quences of trusting to voluntary charity !—Poverty is in eeparable from human existence, and the well-being/4LN°- eiety demands that it should display itself in mandicanoyd Even the prosperous State of New York has, we see, nearly as great a number of poor as those parts of England which have not suffered from the mal-administration.of tbe- Poor Laws. According to a statement in a late paper, the; poor supported by rates in the State of New York, amount to between 22,000 and 23,000. —Morning Chronicle. It appears, by an account just printed by order of the House of Commons, that the amount of Poor Rates in England and Wales, for one year, ending the 26th March, 1826, was 6,966,1561. Bs. It is added, that from ninety places, but in which the assessments are incon siderable in amount, no returns have been lEfr ceived ; so that the total sum, therefore, May fairly be taken in gross figures at about 7,000,000/. Of this fractional amount, as above stated, the sum , derived from land is stated to be 4,795,4811. 16s. ; from dwelling-houses, 1,814,2281. 3s. ; from mills, factories, &c., 259,564/. 135.; and from manorial profits, .96,881/. 16s. It is a mistake, however, to sup pose, that this seven millions is actually raised and given to the poor ; though it is probable that if the amount .of public and private charity, in cluding the revenues of hospitals, &c., were as • - certained, the real amount so applied 'would be found to be upwards of ten millions, or some l thing like an average of one pound per head upon the whole population, young and old. This ac count, however, if analyzed, would be found to include the County Rates, which, probably, are not less than 1,000,000/. It includes in many cases both the Church and Highway Rates; in all cases it includes law expences, and a multi tude of others—such as, in London and else where, the whole system of vestry-jobbing, &c. ; and it includes above all, as Mr. Hume very justly observed the other night, in the House, a large and incalculable sum in the shape of wages, which ought never to have been paid from such a source. This account, how ever, as it stands, exhibits the land as pay ing nearly five-sevenths of the whole.— An amount which strikes us as astonishingly and disproportionably great ; an impression which is confirmed by referring to some of the items. We will take the county of Sussex as an instance. This is a small county, and abounds, we believe, with poor land. It is from this county that instances have been mentioned in Parliament of the Poor Rates, in some agricultural parishes, exceeding the rental of the whole property ; and as instances where forced emigration has been on that account recom mended. Let it be remembered too, that this county *hounds along its whole coast with watering places, and ,others of fashionable resort, making the value of houses, B ce , proportionably great. Yet how stands the amount of this impost in the county of Sussex ? Why,that the total of the Poor Rates for the above year was 262,131/. 75., of which the land produced 214,3041. 15.; houses 42,7521. 25.; mills, Brc. 4,609/. 12s. ; and manorial profits, 4651. 12s. Many while others might be referred to, furnish a other instances would, if s i m il a r result, including Somerset, Sir Thomas s county that a eon— ry Lethbri pointed .!. - a and more equal principle prevails in some, as in the county of jg ou e t 's wh o i w ch n Warwick, for instance, where the land is in general extremely good, but where the rate derived from land is 94,8421. 6s. and that from h ouses (including of course,. t i ne immense town of Birmingha m ) i s 49,3921. 14s. Even in the small county of Mid dlesex, the land is rated at more than one-sixth of th• whOle, and:at as much as that in the whole county of . 'Hereford_ We wonder that this' view of the subject has ' never been taken and insisted upon by the landed interests, wile, were they to do away witti diVitorninable syttero established and persisted in among themselves, of pervert ing the Poor Rates to the payment of labour, and were to insist upon the charges being more equally borne by all description of productive property, would soon experience a great diminution of their own part of the burden, and would no longer bear the odium of thus taxing the staff of life. It is a mistake, however, to suppose that the Poor Rate is the only burden falling exclusively upon land. The tithe must in its nature be considered so too, and would be so considered, we have no doubt, were not the principal land-owners also lay impropriators, and in some way or another interested, on the one hand, in the very burden they would otherwise recoil at.—Morning Herald. Mr. Hume seems inclined to take the Fo reign Department under his peculiar care ; but we fear that he will find it dangerous to buzz too much about Mr. Canning's ears. The econo mical Member assures us, that he could find men who would do for one or two .thousand a year what now costs us eight or ten thousand pounds. What then ? This is only a portion of that sys tem of nonsense which would do away with a King, because a President, or Consul, or a Di rector, or a Protector, or a Liberator, would be satisfied with a less allowance than is required to support the splendour of a Court ; and which would abolish the hierarchy of our Church, be cause a Curate might be hired at 1001. a-year t o perform the bodily labours imposed on a Bishop or Archbishop. The man may imagine, when he is uttering such stuff, that he is disseminating striking novelties. Miserable mistake. He is merely repeating the nauseous common-place absurdities, which `have been in the mouth of every pot-house reformer for the last half cen tury. The Americans, he says, find able-bodied strong-winded, serviceable Ambassadors, for two thousand a-year. Why, they find Judges at SOO/. or 400/. a-year ; and, according to this mode of talking (we do not call it reasoning) the condemnation of Joseph Hume must go forth against our twelve Judges with no less bitter ness than against our Envoys and Plenipo tentiaries. If there is any branch of the public service, in which the remuneration is more scanty than in another, we should say that it is in our di plomacy. The allowances made to our Ministers at Foreign Courts are not more than adequate to meet their proper and necessary expences; and how those expenses are to be reduced we have yet to learn. Who ever heard of a fortune being made by diplomatic gains ? What prudent man, not pos sessed of an independent fortune, would, as a source of profit, select diplomacy as his profession ? It is, perhaps, to be lamented, that the circumstances connected with her diplomatic service are not such as to induce many to devote themselves to that ca reer, in the hope of future eminence and advance ment : for the chance of excellence is always greatly augmented, as the number of those who strive to attain it becomes greater. Hundreds devote many of their best years to the..study of the law, induced by the prospect of the wealth, which, at a distant period, it may bring them. There is no similar mo tive to excite numbers to acquire that varied and extensive knowledge, which those, who have the conduct of the foreign relations of a country, should either possess themselves, or at least have at their torn mond. The complaints which are made of the increase of our diplomatic expences, betray a total want of candour. Every body knows that the circle of our diplomatic con nections has, of late years; been widely enlarged—even Joseph Hume might have been aware, that, to maintain Embassies in Brazil, Buenos Ayres, Colombia, and Mexico, must occasion a considerable outlay, which cannot fail to be further increased by the necessity of hSving official agents even in those countries to which we have not yet dispatched accredited Ministers. But facts like these are to be kept in the back ground, in order that some pretext may be furnished for tho vituperationa of men who see nothing but good in themselves, and nothing but bad in ether people.—New Times. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, MARcx 5197 IN THE MATTER OF THE ASHST-DE-LA-ZOIICH SCHOOL. This was a petition, the object of which wase char in sub stance, stance, to remove four of the pre s ent trust ee s of the and have others appointed. The circumstances upon which the petition was grounded, as stated by Mr. Horne, were these ;— ln 1822, the situation of English (or second) ma ster having become vacant in this school, two candi dates, named Ainop and Claytokoffered themselves to the trustees, who referred them to the Rev. Dr. Sleath, for his opinion of their qualificatietts. Dr. Sleath pronounced in favour of Arnop, notwithatanding which, the majority of the trustees elected Claytone yn 1825, however, it was discovered that he bad been convicted at the Nottingham Assises, in 1816, of grand larceny, he having stolen a quantity of stockings and other property from a shop keeper named Swan, to whom he had been apprenticed, for which he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment in the House of Correction. Before that period had ex pired, however, a conspiracy was entered into by seve ral of the prisoners to murder the gaoler, to which Clayton was a party, and bound himself, with the others, by a solemn oath, not to divulge their plan, or betray any of its anthors.• He did, nevertheless, convey intima tion of the conspiracy to the gaoler, who, in return for so important a service, petitioned the Secretary of State for Clayton's pardon, which was accordingly granted, and lie was discharged from prison in 1817. When he presented himself as a candidate for the vacancy in the Ashby school, is 1822, he produced testimonials in his favour from thite reverend clergymen, in the respective schools of two of whom he was stated to have given great satisfaction as English teacher for a period of two years in east). The third described him as having had his brother-in-law under his charge as pupil, and recommended him in strong terms. Upon the discovery of his former character taking place, it was proposed by Mr. M'Dowall, one of the trustees, and agreed to by the petitioner (Mr. Pilkiugton) and others, that he should be paid a quarter's salary and discharged ; but the four defendants subsequently opposed his dismis sal, and he consequently retained his situation down to the present moment. Besides the stain upon his character, Dr. Curtis, the head master, represented' Clayton as a very ignorant man, and unfit for his situation, he having occasionally altered words from good Telling to bad spel ling, and from good grammar to bad grammar, in the children's exercise books, some of which were produc-i. Mr. Horne commented strongly upon these facts, and con tended. that the defendants had abused-their trust, in re taining a man of each character as this was hi a situation where his example *mild naturally be looked up to by -those children of whose mind and principles he was to assist ire the-formation. -With respect-tq lie testimonials with which lie had been famished, from what he knew of the respectability of the parties whose names were attached to them, he was satisfied that these names were forgeries. Mr. WAILEFIELD followed on the same side. Messrs STIADWELL and SUGDISY contended that the present petition proceeded from hostility towards the de fendants, rather than from any anxiety to promote the in terests of the charity, otherwise the petitioner would not have lain by from October 18'22, when the discovery of this man's conviction had taken place, down to IS2h, when he thought proper to present a petition. The ques tion was not whether his Lordship would or teoeld not dismiss Clayton, to which, although the petition did not pray for that, the defendant could have no possible (Nee tion, if hi. Lordship deemed him an unfit person to retain his situation, but whether or not these trustees were to he removed for having retained him in it under the foregoing circumstances. The learned counsel argued that no ease was made out to support the prayer of this petition. The Loeb CIIANCELLOIty after stating the necessity, in point of form, to have the infant visiter (the Marquis o f Hastings) present, by his guardian, before he co u ld fi nally decide upon the petition, observed, that this case placed him in a painful situation. He was called Upon to displace these trustees, for appointing this individual as a master in the school, at the same time that it would be most unjust to take any s t ep aga inst the anu t" himself, who was not here to defend himself. Ile had no hesitation in saying that his original appointment would have been most improper, if his former character were known at the time. Cod forbid, h owever, t h a t any man was to be hunted down through life because he had been once guilty of transgressions against the laws of society, if he afterwards reformed and atoned for his former fault. b y a subsequent well-spent life. But then there were some situation, which an individual so circumstanced was not calculated to fill. Now it was quite impossible that the circumstance of this person having, at one time in his life taken an oath to murder the gaoler of the prison in which he was confined, should be henceforth unknown to the boys placed under his care, or that such knowledge could pars tlirotigh their minds without leaving injurious centequenees behind. Was he, then a fit person to hold this situation ? This, however, was a question for the trustees, and not him (the Lord Chancellor), to answer ; he was before them, and not before this Court. His Lordship added, that be would be glad to know how this person obtained an introduction to the first of these clergymen by whom he had been employed, and his release from imprisonment; because, if there was any misrepresentation in that instance, all the subsequent introduction which naturally followed from the first were tainted by it. He would read over the affidavits, and although he did not think they were suffi cient to justify the removal of theie trustees, the perusal might suggest something which would benefit the charity. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 29. William Benbow, the bookseller, who was before the Court, and underwent a long examination, on the lath inst. was brought up for re-hearing. On the former occasion the insolvent was opposed by Mr. 'Potr.ocK, on behalf of Mr. Warburton and several other creditors, when it appeared to the Court that the in solvent's property, consisting principally of printed books, had been disposed of to- his mother-in-law, and not ac counted for in a manner which was deemed satisfactory to the opposing creditors. He was therefore remanded, and ordered to produce a catalogue of the stock on the premises at the time the distresses for rent were put iu, and also an account of the value. [So far as Mr. Warburton's opposition went, (the insol vent having made a proper apology for publishing Mr. Mit ford's book upon the metropolitan madhouses, for which Mr. Warburton brought his action, and obtained a verdict of 5001. damages.) the opposition was withdrawn.] A paper was this day put in, more in the shape of an in ventory than a speeific catalogue, as required. A long dis cussion therefore arose upon its merits. Among the items were the following :—" Brown's _Dictionary, and 138 other books," at an aggregate 811111......" Simpson's Conic Sections, and 39 others," were put down in the same way. After a long discussion, in which the Commissioner, Mr. HARRIS, repeatedly expressed his opinion that the insolvent had not complied with the order of the Court, the insol vent was remanded to prison till he shall furnish a satisfac tory account. Mr. Augustus Low, of the Colombian service. who had been before the Court on several previous occasions, was brought up and discharged forthwith. The insolvent appeared in a state of great debility, he having for a long time suffered considerable pain, on ac count of the impossibility of extracting several balls which were lodged in his body when he was in Colombia. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDII.ALL. —Joh* Crawley, a porter in the employ of Mr. Gregory, a potato-merchant, in Pabernoster-row, Spitalfields, was charged with stealing a sack of potatoes. Mr. Gregory took the prisoner into his service, know ing he had robbed his former master, but he nevertheless relied upon his fidelity, after settling good wages upon him and giving him a caution. His earnings were 30s. to 40s. a week. Witness was under contract with the City Asso ciation for supplying the poor with cheap coals and pota toes, to supply them with 90 tons of the latter article.— The prisoner was one of the three men employed in delivering them at the city kitchen, in Blackfriars, and had disposed of one of the sacks of potatoes at a Mrs. Richardson's, in a court in the vicinity of the build ing. Hearing of the circumstance, he, went to Mrs. Itichardson's and found some of the property, which be was enabled to swear to, because it was a very peculiar and superior sort of potatoe, called Wellingtons. They were grown in a particular soil, he had purchased the whole crop, and had sold none except to the City Charity. Mr. Banks Farrand, one of the Society of Friends, at tended as a manager of the charity, and said he believed the men had stolen one sack •out of every nine they were intrusted to deliver. • - Mr. Alderman CROWDER remarked, that it was not high wages that would keep a man honest, in whom the moral principle was undermined ; but it struck him as a reflection upon the charity, that the depredations should have gone on to such an enormous extent undetected. Mr. Farrand said, the superintendent of the institution VMS set to watch the delivery. Mr. Gregory explained how the superintendent had been deceived. _ . . Mr. Beresford, the Chief Clerk, had the curiosity to in quire where these very choice potatoes were reared. Mr. Gregory replied, Upon Mud Island, in the marshes, at Dagenham." Mrs. Richardson not being in attendance according to her promise, and the other witnesses being unable to iden tify the prisoner, although they proved the transaction, the Alderman remanded him for further examination. WORSHIP-STREET.—Yesterday the time of the sitting magistrates (Mr. Twyford and Mr. Benett) was oc cupied almost exclusively in the hearing of occurrences connected with the general strike of the Sp italfields weavers. _ . A youth named Elliott was first brought before the ma gistrates, charged with the offence of bullock-hunting. J. M'Williams, a Bow-street patrol, stated that on Wed nesday afternoon some fellows drove a bullock amongst a large body of wearers, who were assembled in the neigh- , bourhood of Bethnal-green. It was evidently done for the purpose of exciting a disturbance, but the workmen in ge neral not only remained quiet and orderly, but did all in their power to prevent any riotous proceedings. The prisoner, however, joined the bullock-hunters, and was one of the most active amongst them. The. prisoner's father, a decent-looking elderly person, assured the magistrates, that his son was a hard 4vorking industrious young. man, and was the chief support of the family. He regretted exceedingly that he should have been found so offending ; but he hoped the magistrates would deal leniently with him in consideration of his family. • The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 20e., or to be committed fur one month to the House of Correction, Mr. Twyford stating, that only the consideration of the prisoner's father and family had prevented his inflicting a much heavier punishment. Richard Butfoy, aged 19, but in appearance not more than 14 or 15, was brought to the office, charged with the commission , of an outrage on Tuesday. A constable, named rowel!, stated that a great number of persons, chiefly boys like the prisoner, went to the house of his next-door neighbour, Mr. Curtis, who is a weaver. The door was opened by Mrs. Curtis, and nearly 20 of them rushed in and pushed her down, and insisted on hav ing her husband away from his loom. One of the family came coned , the back way to the witness, who immediately went to their assistance, and asked the men what it was they wanted. They replied, that they were " authorised to pull all the weavers Ottt from their looms, to go up to the Meetins.." He remonstrated with them, and at length succeeded in getting them away ; but the prisoner, shaking a rattle in his face, threatened that he world " cut his head before night." Jcseph Curtis stated to the same effect. Mr. T ee veoe D _—You, as a weaver, can tell me whether there has been any resolution passed to prevent the journey teen horn working? Curtis knew of no such resolution. Mr. TWYFORD-What master do you work for ? He worked for Messrs. Stephen Wilson and Sons, of Wood-street, Cheapside, and for Meesrs. Joseph and Ste phen Walters, of Wilson-street, Moorfields. In answer to further questions, instated, that he and his fellow-workmen had a meeting the day before, and sent a deputation to their employers. The answer they received from one of their employers was, that if certain other houses which he named returned to the full price, he would do the same. _ _ . Mr. TIVTFORD - What do you suppose was the object of the persons who came to your house ? Curtis—To compel me to go to the meeting. : Mr. BENVIT now took his seat on the bench, and Afr. TWYFORD caused the evidence to he repeated to bin]. Mr. 13vicerr—I am Sorry to see a boy like 'the prisoner in such a situation, but these doings must be repressed, and whether men or boys are concerned, they must be punished. Two persons, housekeepers, who offered themselves as bail for the prisoner, said he was a weaver, and an honest industrious person, but he, like others, bad been compelled to turnout, and his work sealed up. After some further inquiries, the two persons were ad mitted as bail in the sum of ,401. each, for the prisoner's good behaviour, asd he was discharged. MAJOR LAINO.—We stated some time ago, that this intrepid traveller's friends had received letters from him dated at Timbuctoo, which announced his intention, for reasons not explained, to return home by way of Tri poli, instead of descending the Niger. We expressed our regret at this revolve, but at the same time our hopes that the Major would change his mind, and proceed by the route which be set out to take. In this expectation, we believe, we have not been disappointed. By way of Tri poli, t h e Major's friend's have lately received advicee Prom Timbuctoo, to dates mush later than those which wit for merly alluded to, but no advises from our traveller him self, which state nothing respecting him, from vrbiels it is obvious that he must have left Timbuctoo, and pro4teeded on th e u lt e rior object of his mission. Success attend him ! It cannot be lung till we receive accounts, important, and we hope, favourable of him and from him.—Giktsgorn Courier- SPORTING INTELtMtN'6E. TATTERSALL'S.-MARCH 29. The business yesterday was equally heavy as on Monday, but much more general. Tatter had many friends present, and was backed freely at 7 and 7i to 1, the latter being the closing price: Glenartney, in consequence, went back half a point, and at sto 1 had no backers. The Oaks and Riddlesworth did not present any thing worthy of p ar _ titular mention. Reviewer has again become first fa vourite for the St. Leger, but nearly all the others are as before ; We should except Emma, who is two or three points better.—The closing prices were us follow : DERBY. 5 to 1 agst Glenartney 22 to 1 agst Gustavus 7} to 1 agst Tatler (taken) 40 to 1 agst IA Aylesbury's (t) 14 to 1 agst:Defence 28 to 1 agst Mr. Yates's lot (tn) 16 to 1 agst Espagnolle 5000 to 25 agst Pantalcon (do.) 17 to 1 agst Trumpeter 5000 to 25 agst Sparkler (do.) 18 to 1 agst Catherine 2000 to 10 agst Constantine (do.) 20 to 1 agst Gaberlunzie , No others mentioned. 20 to 1 agst Spondee RIDDLESWORTII. 2to 1 agst Glenartney 16 to 1 agst Mamehike 5 to 1 agst Cressida 15 to 1 agst Duchess 17 to 1 agst Morel 18 to 1 agst Translation 18 to 1 agst Souvenir ST. LAGER. 22 to 1 agst Sancho 22 to 1 agst Moonshine 23 to 1 agst Matilda 24 to 1 agst Emma 3C to 1 agst Nonplus 40 to 1 agst Pedlar (taken) 6 to 1 agst Maria 9 to 1 agst Pantina 15 to 1 agst Calypso (taken) 15 to 1 agst Totteridge 17 to 1 agst Reviewer 19 to 1 agst Jupiter 20 to 1 agst Pep ay 20 to 1 agst Olivera 20 to 1 agst Granby 20 to 1 agst >fivelis MOSTYN HUNT..--WZDNESDAY, MARCH 27. Tusmore-Stakes of 10 sovs. each. Mr. Yates's br. c. Sharpshooter, 2 yrs Sir T. Mostyn's Susan, 4 yrs 2 Mr. T. Sadler's Tears, 3 yrs S Mr. Thornhill's Christabel, 2 yrs 4 Mr. Gaunttell's Gamelia, 3 yrs Six others started but were not placed.—A fine race. Sweepstakes of 10 sow. each, for horses not thorough-bred. Mr. Russell's ch. g. late Kangaroo, by Soothsayer ••• 1 Sir T. Mostyn's b. g. by Y. Beningbrough Mr. Beecher's b. ni. Chance 3 Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each for all ages. Old Craven weights. One mile heats, Mr. Sadler's ch. g. Popinjay by Usquebaugh... 0 . 1 1 Mr. Udny named hr. c. by Smolensk() 1 4 2 Mr. Russell's Tripoli Mr. Whitmore named the Constable 4 2 dr Mr. Morton named Turban Mr. Turner's Defiance Sir T. Mostyn's bl • g. E dward 2 dr Mr. Hervey's br. c. by K. of Diamond's 0 dr Farmer's Cup value logs. with 40gs. in specie, given by Sir T. .Mostyn. Mr. Pornter's bl. g. Optimus, 3 yrs Mr. Jacksme. n s br. c. by Polegar Mr. Root's hr. f. by Grimaldi, 4 yrs Mr. Sparrow's b. m. . bolted Mr. Price's b. g. Weidman, 5 yrs. beat Mr. Hicks's ch. g. Trooper, aged, 12st. each. Two mile heats. 200 h. ft. Sweepstakes of 25 sous. each, for 2 yr. olds. Mr. Stnckbury's Navigator, by Arbitrator Mr. East's b. c. Haphazard Mr. Butler's h. f. by Y. Hambletonian 3 1-100 (HERTS) 1827.---SATURDAV, Aram 21. A Gold Cup, by a subscription of 20 soya. each, Craven weights ; two years old, list. ; three, fist. 41b. ; four,filst. 131 b. ; fire, 9st. bib. ; six and aged, 9st. 91b. The winner to be sold for 500 SOVF. if demanded, &c. Once round. Lord Vernlam's ffelas Mr. Sowerby's Lionel Lincoln Mr. Pickford names Dwina Mr. Lantour's by Quizzer Mr. ileathcote's Syntax Mr. 'Wigram names Nigel Mr. Chauncey names Crockery. The County Stakes, a sweepstakes of 10 80V5. each, for horses bred in the County of Herta ; to start at the County-bred Post; two years old, 6st. 1016. ; three Set. 101 b. ; four, 9st. 61b.; five, 9st. 101 b. ; six and aged, lOst. Lord Verulaes Upas Lord Salisbury's Polly Mr. Kinder's Dwina Mr. Sowerby's by Young Middlethorpe Mr. Latour's liirengariaT The Club Stakoa (Handicap) of 10 sous, each. Once round. Age st. lb.. Mr. Sowerby's Rufus Mr. Wigram names Nigel 4 8 7 Mr. Heatheote's Syntax Lord Verolam's Upas Mr. Campbell did not name. Free Handicap of 20 soya. each, for all horses nominat ed in the different stakes, to be handicapped by two Gentlemen, Members of the Club. Once round,the Conroe. Three to accept, or no race. YORK SPRIX4 THIRJ) DAT. —Sweepstakes of 30 sovs each, h. ft. for 3 yrs. old fillies, Bst. 51b. Last inilciand thi4 quarters. Lord Scarbotough'il br. by Catton—Henrietta Mr. Houldswerthea br. Leda, sister to Fanny Davies Duke of Leeds's b. by Whisker, dam by Sancho Mr. T. B. Hedgeon'str. Justitia,—Magistrate's darn Mr. Petre's b. Matilda, by Comas • Lord Fitzwilliarn's b. Dinah, by Dinmont—Valentina Produce Sweepstakes of 100 sovs. each, h. ft. colts, Bst. 51b.; fillies, Bst. 21b. (31b. allrwed, &c.) Twomiles. The second horse to have his stake returned. Lord Fitswilliam's b..e..Beggar Boy, by Tramp Lord Milton's b. c.. 10 ci4, by Catton br. c. 11feoro, by Cervantes Mr. Crompton's ch. f. by Tramp—Rosamond Mr. Watts's ch. c. by Magistrate—Altisidore hr. f. by Magistrate—Manuella Mr. liouldsworth's hr. c. Bhurtpore, by Magistrate b. c. Telma, by Filho da Puta Mr. T. 0. Povrlett's gr. e. Saucy Dick, by Ardrossan Lord Scarborough's b. f,.by . Catton—Henrietta b. c. by Comus—Byraro's darn Mr. Lambton's ch. f. by Abjer—The Duchess .------. b. c. by Blacklock—Thomasina Mr. Gaseoigne's b. f. by Tramp..—Trulla Mr. Whaley's ch. c. Cornus Secundus, by Chiseller FOURTH DAY.—Sweepstakes of SO sovs. each, 10 ft. for three years old colts, Bst. bib. ; 'fillies, Bst. 21b. Last mile and quarter. Mr.. Johnson's ch. e. Jupiter, by Tramp Lord Scarborough's hr. e. by Comue—Byram a dam b. f. sister to Coronation, by Catton Mr., Houldsworth's b. c..T a lme, bylho da Puta b c. Coalition, by Magistrate Duke of Leeds's b. c. Moth ? by Blacklock gr. c. Moonshine, by Grey Middleham Lord Kelburne's ch. f. (sister to Ringlet,) by Whisker Mr. Petre's b. t. Matilda, by Comus cb. c. Granby, by Cannon Ball Mr. J. Scott's b. c. Nonplus, by Catton Mr. Foljanibe'ti hl. f. by Tiresias, dam by Walton Lord Milton's b. c. Kit Cat, by Catton Sir J. Byng's ch. c. Pedlar, by Tramp Sir W. Milner's b. c. Liston, by Counts Mr. Gascoigne's ch. c. by Comus, dam by Waxy. Mr. Crompton's b. c. Burladoc, biCeerantes Mr. Haworth's b. c. by Blacklisck-4Cottage Mr. Marris'e b. f. by Tiresias—siater to Sir Sampson Mr. T. Lumley's b..c. by Catton : Merlin's darn by C. by Tramp, "dam by Remembrancer Mr: T. 0. Poo/lot-Vs b.' c. Popsy, by Blacklock ' g e. c. Saucy Dick, by Ardrossan br. f. Miss Emma; sister to Ati.s Fanny Mr. Gully's ch. c. by Cervantes, dam by Stamford ' b. e. by Cervantes—Negotiator's dam Lord Sligo's b. c. Pelican, by Oieeeu. TncasnAv.—The Homby Stakes of 100 gs. each, h. ft. for the produce of males covered in 1824 ; volts, Bst.; fillies, 7st. 111 b. (T.Y.C.) Mr. Wyvill's b. c. The Colonel, by Whisker Lord Kelburne's ch. f. by Viticonnt, darn by Woful - ---__-___ TROTTING MATCH. Mr. Du!hal yesterday accomplished the task of 40 miles in four Huntingdon • r ( e h a a d r , ness), over a a t t t e he n-m tr a o e t. p i e l e e twas of done f ground, on t tenhe lientin minutes under the given time. The match, which, eves for 200 sovereign', excited the greatest intere s t possible, and some long faces were drawn at the reeult.--Bitting woe 5t04 ou time. •:,,...: rt JAtr t ; ;,. ?.-„. ' ~ , ; i ..opttage, county On Thurgday morning last, fa duel too i, place On the first fi re, o h f is aadt e ;:rsa ord ry , ~, ' and A r y ovi rm er on e t n . in the county of Wexford, b e tw ee n Mr. SO:6th, of Brickey :the right side. Th e shot Would hive been fatal , if it had 'Oct itracti against hie iiiistioat .pocket , in which there Was Some , sikrer and a bunch : "of keys. The surgeon, on stripping Mr. Power' discorred ,the keys embedded i n the i flash, and the bell si tuated between the shirt `and theskin! ,iidb D al l l r. st P ru o u w k e r ij o r f . Mt. Power was of cbuise - severelY • hurt, but no serious consequence was likely to ensue when the accounts left. Tut Ilt ArCITAMP MURDER. With the details of what is usually called the Beauchamp murder the public is by this time suf ficiently disgusted. Lest, however, there should still exist some relic of sympathetic sentimentality in the general mind, we will touch upon a volume lately published in Kentucky containing the confes sion of Beauchamp. It carries with it marks.of au- • thenticity, and we have no doubt of its being genuine. As a specimen of the excessive blood-thirstiness of this wretched pair we give the following passage, 1 which describes their courtship " She refused the offer of my hand, but with such a burst of feeling as would have rendered her persist ing in that refusal tenfold more painful. But she told me there was an insuperable objection within her own bosom to marriage, but that, her heart did ' not find that objection to me.. In this she long per sisted, hut would never tell me what that fatal barrier to my happiness was. At lengthl resolied to take no denial, but to know the secret objection. She then told me, with a firmness . which spoke that it was the, voice of fate, that the hand which should receive her's would have to revenge the injury had done her. She said her heart could never cease to' ache till Col. Sharp should die through her instrumentality; that he had blighted all her happi ness; and while he lived, she would feel unworthy of my love. But, she said', she would kiss the hand and adore the person who would revenge her; but that no , one else, save myself should do it. " No conditions, nor any earthly Proposition she could have made me, could have filled me with so , much delight. Whenever I had contemplated a marriage with her, I had always.esteemed the death of Colonel Sharp a necessary consequence. I never for a moment could feel, that I could suffer a villian to live who had been the seducer of one I pressed to my bosom as a wife. And to hear her thus require what I had so much calculated on. and desired, was peculiar pleasing to me indeed. • These feelings I expressed to her, and told her it had been my firm purpose to take C o lo n el Sharp's life, if I mar ried her.', A marriage which began with such ominous de- terminations - could not fitly end btit by suicide or on the scaffold. They practised firing with pistols Until Mrs. B. became an expert shot. Her subse quent wish tras to kill Colonel Sharp with her own hands. lie gives an account of a rencountre with Sharp in 1821, when he insulted and struck him with the hope of provoking him to fight a duel, but in vain. Then come the particulars of the murder, which are horribly offensive. He had with him a mask made by his wife, and a knife, the point of which she had poisoned. The whole book is full of detestable sophistry and revolting details.--New York Enquirer. THE MARKETS. SOUTHALL M A RKET.—Mareh V. At this day's market, which, like that of this day sennight, was both scantily supplied, and thinly attended by buyers, each kind of meat experienced a very dull sale, at the following prices iwr stone of 818 s. to sink the °Mb : Beef Ss. Bd. to 4s. 10d. 40. 441. to se. N. Mutton 3 4 4 10 Pork It 0 5 2 'the foregoing quotations are beef, mutton, and pork, the same, veal from hi. to 44 per stone beneath those of this day se'nnight. Some, but not a great many, of the sheep and beastF. were drive,: away unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—March 28. Beef 44. Od. to Ss. 10d. j Veal._ ..., Oil. to ss. 4d. Mutton-- 4 6 5 0 I Pork 4 4 0 0 Supply, on the whole, good, and trade very dull; there were a good many mulch cows, with their calf by their side, offered for sale, but very few of them changed owners. RUMFORD MARKET.—March 28. S. d. to s. d. a. d. to s. d. Beef 3 6 4 6 I Veal Mutton 3 6 4 8 Pork 4 0 5 2 Suckling Calves from Us. to 38s. ; Quarter old Pigs 9s to 144. each. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. , Wheat. , Barley. Oats Beans. Per Quarter. Blandford Chard S. to s. 37 40 35 42 S. to S. & to g, 28 36 - 27 24 SR 25 30 28 38 26 36 32 40 30 33 37 45 32 36 28 32 30 36 30 42 24 31 23 31 45 5 2 - 44 44 4 8 49 5 0 50 5 8 &O 5g 58 62 42 4R 56 64 Huntingdon.— Louth 38 41 3:4 37 39 40 36 40 39 45 30 39 43 48 36 38 36 38 32 33 38 42 - - 36 40 Newark --. Norwich Nottingham --- Peterborough Plymouth Sherborne Uppingham Wisbech York 5i M. 54 66 4s 50 48 59 LEEDS CORN MARKET, March 27. There was a good supply of Wheat and Barley, but only mid dling of other Grain ; fine Wheat barely supported last week's prices, and all other descriptions were full sale at Is, per quarter lower. Barley was in good demand, and Is. per quarter dearer. In Oats and Shelling there was no material alteration. Beaus full as dear. Nothing doing in Rapeseed. Wheat, Norfolk and Suflblk, (101 b. sBs. to 615. , 1 - York. and Lincoln. 601 h. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk, 438. to 465. ~,. --- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire ' 435. to 465. a. ----- Grinding Beans 63lb. s2s. to Ms. '-- Oats, l'otatoe -Healing, Foreign hid. to I7d....English 17gd. to led. per st. Shelling 4ls. to 435. per load. Rapeseed, English, 211. to 211. MANCHESTER CORN MARKET.—March 24. Nothing has transpired since ourlast Teportworthy of notice, and the trade has been in a most inanimate state, and, in some instances, lower prices have been submitted to. There was a full attendance at market to-day, arid the 'thew of samples plentiful ; although we make no alteration in our currency, most articles are a shade lower. Customary Bushel. Wheat ('701b.) s. d. too. d. English, New.,...,, 9 7 . 10 0 Red ....:.9 0 9 3 Irish, 9 0 8 11 Pease (Imp. Qr.) s. d. to s. d• Blue, (boilers).....—. '7 6 7 9 0 ° Beans. 8 7 Canada -- S 8 8 II Foreign 8 4 8 10 Barley, (6018-) • For grinding • 5 8 13 0 Oats .(451b.) Engiinh tt Scoitell— 0 0 0 0 Welsh.; - 0 0 0 Foreign 4 6 4 8 Irish, Kiln-dried • 4 '7 •"4 9 ---Undried--- 4 6 4 7 Per load of 6 !owl. bushel. Malt, Old New 0 40 0 0 -- Inferior 0 44 0 English 0 b 9 0 Irish and Foreign...4S 0 5 2 Per bag of 2801 b. ' Flonr,. Fine Notts —35 0 4 7 ° Yorks., ti ll e_44 (1 40 0 Irish,fine-44 0 47 0 Seeonds...--.10 0 42 0 Barrel Flout' Sweet-- 0 -- 0 E0ur..28 0 31 0 Per load of 2401 b. Oatmeal, Eng. 0 42 0 Irish 0 44 .0 ..—...,--.old(feed) 3i -0 Tar, (Imp Qr.)— 0 0 0 0 Bran (broad) per 2011). I 3 1 0 MANCHESTER 28 . • At per lb. sinkinl, the 8 id. to Std. I •to 51 . 318 pgs , 4. 2,316 Sheep 3)8 Cattle per load of 12 bCMC and M ANCHESTER I'OTATOE MARK ET.—March 24. and les. per load of. 12 scot*. 121 P b o s. ta ; to c e a s r , r 1s ; Od. Turnips, 10s. Cd., us. Od. and II s. Od. coread of 16 pocks ; Onions. 0(1 , - 3.5. and 60s. per load of 12 , l'E d. R. 'I A d x . IN Throst i le lA T: C B: l , N27. 12 to 12i 30 —: l 3-1 14 40_1D 20 M 40 —l4l ir4 50.171 19 fill —2l 224 10.-24 27 80 —29 32 f u o l r e w c o a p r p T is t ~. 30 —l2l 131 i MARKET.—March 27. 30 --- 12 to 1:4 40 --- 13 14 , 50 ---- 10 17 Mule Cop .e 60_ ni Is 9, Weft— 70.---1. 1 01 '22 80 --2 S 27 100 30 33 1120 -- 31 31 111— 10 tVcillion 10} 9 10k waste „ I 19.,,.-- 10 11 12 BIRTHS. On the 29th inst., in 13ryanston-square, the lady of James Hamilton Story, Eeq. of a daughter. On the 28th inst., at the Rectory of Hornsey, the lady of the Rev. J. Block, of a son. On the 2d ult., at Demerara, the lady of Lieut.-Colonel Goodman, of a son. : . . • of John teinrneta, Esq., MARRIED. of upper Homerton. On th e 29 t h i us t., at Hackney, William Clark B o yd, Esq., of Ski nner - s t ree t, to Mary Ste inmetz, eldes t dau g hter o f Goodinistone , Kent, Mr. George Re ( r ) . n A t i h a e n 2 6 9 ro th L i l n o s y t d .„ a t St. Pan cras New Chur ch , by the Whiteley, of London-street, e , ‘ Miss Francis Jane, only daughter of the late Wrri. I la' ll2 Y , Esq. of Winelnnore-hill. On the 27th inst., at Weston-super-Mare, Somerset shire, by the Rea. J. 41 - Bowen, Samuel Edward Bernard , EN., to Caroline Eloisa, fourth twin daughter of the late Robert Bowen, Owl. DIED. Bart., of Boynton, in the county of York, an o n the 26th instant, at Tenhy, in Peinbrokeehire, in the ea r in of th h e el f,a . i ng ne e, co l n l t e a n y r . ietta, the wif e o f Si r ~►iltian l 6,lB:tn:l;ehilitearndof the lat: Nathaniel Choln,ley, of HoWehem and Wlutl?y, At the boner of the Rev. Robert Shaw, Kilkenny, w it! : the humble reliance on the merits of his Redeemer, Joh❑ Hairtrey, student of Dublin College, and eldest eon e the Rev. C. S. Hawtrey, of Hackney. On the 25th of January, in the Island of Javnt&C ! ` l 4l, 19, George Re;cl, Esq., late of Brightlingsea Lodge, in , tr County of Essex. On the 28th inst., in Regent-street, after a lc painful illness, Laura Abbot, wife of the Re,. Dr. ton, Bedford - ' Si te PRINTED and PUNLiBHID by M. YOUNG, 1 SUN..OFYI:CE, No. 112, Strand.