The Sun. — London, England, 1827-10-18 00:00:00

sioned by the lateness of the hour to which the amusements extended, and particularly at which the fire-works terminated ; and the dan ger to the public morals from the e xhibition of -dancing, &c. With respect to neighbours, it may in general be - laid down, that they have a right to protection from the encroachment of others on their hours of rest. In civilized so ciety we must,compromise matters the best way we can, and so conduct our business and plea sure as to render them compatible with the bu siness and pleasure of others. Hence the pro priety of enforcing quietness in the streets at night, 'and of either shutting up public houses generally at certain hours, or placing those which are kept open under such a surveillance as shall prevent their becoming a nuisance to the neighbourhood. With respect, however, to nui sances in general, there is one remark applicable, namely, that there is a wide distinction between establishing a new nuisance in an old neighbour hood, and a new neighbourhood forming itself round an old nuisance. Now, in the case of Vauxhall, it is, we believe, pretty well known, that the Gardens formed the neighbourhood, and that most, if not all of the present occupiers, have settled there with the knowledge of the ex istence of the amusements. The proprietors, however, have acted with great good sense ; for they have gained over their neighbours, and thereby deprived the oppositioa of this ground. No doubt, as was observed by Baron de Tes sier, the law is open to parties who may con ceive themselves aggrieved by the manner in which the proprietors act under their license. So much for the opposition by interested parties. But the iVlagistrates are also guardians of the public morals. a Mr. Briscoe thought it was the duty of the Magistracy to protect the morals of the people." We admit' the Legislature has invested them with ample discretionary powers, to protect all of us from going astray. We do not know that any Magistrate ever yet protected one single man from going to the Devil who was determined to go ; for when a man is determined to ruin himself, when he is tired of good mo rals, it would be very odd indeed if he could not find means to ruin himself any hour of the day or night, especially in this great metropolis and its neighbourhood. . Woe to the people, if they were solely dependent for their virtue and good morals on the protecting care of Magistrates ! But if Magistrates make very bad substitutes for guardian angeß, and can employ their protecting powers to very little purpose for the benefit of the people, they can, on the other hand, employ them to admirable ad vantage for their own benefit. The morals of (the people are a fine pastime for them. The licensing power is' confided to them as _guardians of the public morals ! And, to im prave• the public morals, they provide flash houses for the public, and deliver them over to monopolising brewers, who poison them with - drugged and dear beer. But then the brewer is their relation, or their very good friend, and he employs them to make hods for him, and he treats them to rich dinners, at which, over the sparkling Champaigne, and delicious wines of Burgundy and Bordeaux, it would be ungrateful to bestow a moment on the wretched swipes to which they condemn the labouring man. What a fine groupe have we in these rubicund pro tectors of the morals of the people, sharing in this kindly manner the rich revenue drawn by the skill of the brewer and the distiller from the industry of the pickpocket and the burglar, in the hospitable asylums of Kent-street ! With all deference to. Mr. Briscoe's good intentions, we apprehend that those who cannot protect them selves run small chance of being much benefitted by the 'protection of magistrates. If people have the disFosition to transgress, they will contrive to go astray without the help of Vauxhall, or theatres, or dancing, or bear-baitings, or boxing exhibitions. The avenues through which tempta tions to sin find their way to frail mortals are in numerable. Magistrates ought not to repress every amusement and relaxation of the people because individuals may exceed the bounds of moderation. This principle would go to strip man altogether of free agency, for what is not liable to abuse ? The care of the Magistrate ought to be confined to the protection of indivi duals from the encroachments of each other. As in trade it is found that it is best that indivi duals should be left to pursue their own advan tage the best way they can, and that those pater nal Governments which, under the pretext of preserving their subjects from dangerous pursuits and speculations, succeed only in preventing evil by preventing all good; so in the conduct of life it is best to leave individuals, in all that re lates merely to themselves, to take the course which seems best in their own eyes. If educa tion and public instruction, the advice of rela tions, the dread of public opinion, &c. &c. do not shed their benign influence over individuals, the restraints of a protecting Magistrate assuredly will not. When we advocate this liberty, we do not mean to say that Magistrates ought to suffer the feelings of the community to be shocked by any violation of decency. But there is a wide difference between this and that inquisitorial spirit which we are reprobating.—Morning chronicle. • If we did not know that there are secrets in all trades, we should feel more surprise than we really do, that the maltsters themselves, at their late meeting, did not advocate more strenuously a simpl er. mode of taking the. duty upon malt than any which has ever yet been practised. It is true, that,atpresent they have new and specific grievances to complain of, which they are right in making their more, immediate object ; but still, it is when the cord is strained too tight that the opportunity offers of loosening it, an d perhaps of untying it altogether, unless, as may be the case, it may suit the trade itself not to be quite so free as we would make it. We have as yet seen no valid objection offered to the pro position we made some time since, of the duty being fixed upon the quantity of the raw mate rial, the barley, or, at any rate, upon the malt when completely mitnufactured, without any of those intermediate vexatious visitings from the Excise officer which it now undergoes, and who, with sundry bulky and unintelligible Acts of Parliament in his hands, takes his very trade out of those of the manufacturers. We can see no reason why barley should not be treated as silk, cotton, or any other raw material, which is not decidedly in favour of the former. Above all, thv very little change which the article under rev, both in form and appearance, is a satis factory proof to our minds, that instead of the intricate details which the exciseman now goes through with it, nothing would be easier or simpler than to regulate the duty by the quan tity of th e • raw material receiv e d, checked, if it nufactured article necessary, by th e quan tity o f the ma produced though we should prefer the first only,. without second step. Th at this would any refrence to this dlie cesdiug l tu . 4 probablyantore just pro a more fruitful one to the i Revenue, than the system of teazing nspecti n and control which the whole process now and - goes, is manifest, from what passed at t e late meeting, where it was stated, that in dif ferent paits of the kingdom different modes of manufacturing malt exist, varying the increase of bulk produced in every one, and in some to a very material extent. It is this increase in bulk which alone can make it necessary for the Excise to pursue the article through every stage of its ma. nufacturing ; but if, after all, the result is only to produce a different scale of taxation in dif ferent places, that alone, we should think, is rea son enough why such a method should exist no longer. We say then, let the Excise ascertain, upon an average of seasons and of counties, what is the usual increase upon the bushel of barley when converted into malt ; and let that be the duty in future upon every bushel of barley or other corn received by a maltster ; let him be compelled to enter this, as he now is, in a book, under very heavy penalties for omission. Let the Excise officer still have the power of enter ' ing the premises, and checking the quantity of malt manufactured, by the amount of barley re ceived ; but let the wettings, the sprinklings, the couchings, the dryings, &c., be no longer under his controul, but the manufacturer left to treat the commodity just as he pleases. This, as far as it can be done, it is desirable should be the case in all trades ; and we feel firmly persuaded, for the reasons we have given, that in this trade it might be resorted to with every prospect of advantage. By getting rid of a harassing and vexatious system, persons of respectability and capital would more readily enibark in it; and the Revenue itself would be increased ; for it is an undoubted fact, that with all the teazing circum spection which the law has introducted into the subject, the complexity it has caused produces, as it always will, more means of fraud and of evasion than it has prevented, or ever will pre vent,—[ Since writing the above we have re ceived the account of the meeting which took place yesterday between the Deputation of Malt sters and Lord Goderich, which we give in another part of our paper of this day.]—Moln ing Herald. - - • It is always difficult for parties whose interests have come into collision to preserve the temper best calculated to produCe that modification of their respective pretensions, which is generally found to be the best mole of settling their dif ferences.. In private, as in national quarrels, guerre a outrance.always ends in leaving both the Belligerents a worse situation than they were at the.outset of the contest. We are led to make this reflection by the acrimony which has infused itself into the contest between the Country Bankers and the Bank of England, and, in particular, by the illiberal reflections thrown upon that body by the opponents of the Branch Banks. It ought to be borne in mind, in the first place, that the suggestion of those esta blishments did not originate with the Bank of England. The Directors, in adopting that sug gestion, have rather followed than • attempted to lead public opinions strongly pronounced at the moment of the crisis of 1825 and 1826, in favour of that measure ; and it is therefore fair to conclude, have been influenced on the occasion, by motives rather of public utility than of indi vidual or corporate advantage, though they had a perfect right to consult the latter only—to leave out every other consideration, save the interest of their proprietary. On the other hand, it must be acknowledged that the call for those Branch Banks has in a great measure subsided with the panic in which it originated ; that it iS a great hardship on good bankers, to lose their occupation—the business which they haVe con ducted prudently, honourably, and with great benefit to the districts in which they are esta blished, because sonic of their number have acted upon opposite principles. If, of 1,200 Country Banks, 70 failed, did not London Banks fail in about the same numerical proportion, and to a far greater amount ? Did not commer cial houses succumb under the pressure of the times, whose engagements were equal to those of all the Country Banks which failed put toge ther ? Upon what principle, then, can it be considered necessary to exercise measures of con troul or counteraction over Couiiiry Bankers ex clusively ? Admitting, therefore, the right of the Bank of England to ramify its establishment at pleasure, we think the expediency of its exer cising that right may, in the present state of things, be fairly questioned. The Branch Banks ought not to be forced upon places where the Private Banks have shown themselves fully com petent to the delicate task of nourishing, without over-feeding, the local circulation, and the com mercial interests of which have deprecated their operations being cramped or controuled. At all events, in point of equity, the competition, as we observed yesterday, ought to be on equal terms. Either the paper of the Country Banks ought to be exempted from the Stamp Duty, or the Branch Banks' paper subjected to it. As we set out with recommending conciliation, we shall conclude these short observations with the recommendation of a measure of conciliatory tendency ; namely, that the notes of Country Banks be made payable in notes of the Bank of England. The reserves of the Country Banks being thus held in that paper, instead of gold, would be a source of profit to the Bank of Eng land—a boon for its relinquishment, or its li mited exercise, of its undoubted prerogative — and a public saving of specie to a large amount ; it would require the same means on the part of the Country Banks, and the payment of the notes of these in paper of the Bank of England would be deemed as full security by the public, as if it were stipulated to be made in specie.— New Times. A discussion, maintained on both sides with more zeal and perseverance than discretion or ability, has for some time been going on between the Itfoniteur and certain English Journals, as to the manner ar►d degree in which the right or the duty of the French Government to continue its military occupation of Spain is affected by the Apostolical Rebellion in that country ; by the neutrality exhibited during the progress of that contest on the part of the French troops ; and by the presence of a British army in the neigh bouring kingdom of Portugal, The controversy to which these events and circumstances have given rise, has experienced the common lot of such disputations—that of general disregard ; and has tended only to produce their common result, that of perplexing and obscuring the sub ject they profess to illustrate. The invasion of Spain was originally an act of flagrant oppression and injustice, as well as of miserable impolicy. Events have occurred to render its impolicy clearer than it was at first. No events have occurred, or could indeed occur, to render its character more conspicuous or disgusting, as an Outrage upon public law and national independ ence. The plea upon which it was defended, that of the dread of democratical revolution, of which Spain had furnished an example, and the necessity of repressing the moral conta gion , of that example as a measure of self defence, was .both inadequate and misaii plied ;—it was emphatically the tyrant's plea. But the neutrality of the French forces in a sut sequent insurrection of a part of the people of Spain ; an insurrection instigated and conduct4d by slavish assertors of regal despotism and fana tical zealots on behalf of the authority and pri vileges of the Romish Church, so far from benig inconsistent with the principles which were sup posed to justify their original occupation of that country, was imperiously imposed upon theM by those very principles. From the triumph Of such champions, and the moral contagion it would be calculated to engender and diffuse, the Government of France should not now affect to entertain any apprehensions for, its own safety, without incurring'the just ridicule of all m ankind as a power perpetually driven to and fro by new and contradictory reasons of alarm. Having entered Spain for the purpose of waging war against the visionaries of the Cortes, and their principles and adherents, France could not re main .there to battle in turn against the bigots of the cloister and their adherents and principles, and urge in 'both cases the justification of . self defence, without proclaiming in effect, that the safety of France, in the estimation of its Go vernment, required the subjugation or extinction of the whole Spanish people ; since there are in Spain neither people nor principles but what are comprehended under one or the other of the above descriptions. Then why, it is said, since the original pretext for the invasion is abolished, or proved ra ther never to have had existence; why net now with draw the French troops from the Peninsula, and leave the domestic parties of Spain to settle their differences as they may.? TIEs question is in cessantly repeated ; but it is one, nevertheless, which the Jurists of France can be at no loss to answer. _Whatever may have been the merits or demerits of the original invasion, it cannot be denied that•the occupation is now continued in circumstances which remove or weaken the prin cipal objections, 'and supply new motives and apologies for the direct interference of France in the affairs of Spain. That interference is now not.merely tolerated, but approved and solicited by the Government de facto, and the political principles on behalf of which it was at first exercised, are abundantly proved to be con genial with those of the majority or the Spanish nation. If the occupation is shown therefore to be no longer necessary for France, it is shown by the,same means to be no longer unjust towards Spain. It has ceased to be an occupation hostile eit'her to the Government or people of the latter country. 4lt is thus that the objections are shown to be lightened ; nor is it more difficult to show that new and stronger and more legitithate motives exist at this moment for the continuance of the French forces in the Peninsula, than any of those which were alleged as the apologies for the original invasion. Eng-. land has now a military force in" the Peninsula,, sent there it is true upon principles.very different from those of France ; sent upon the express demand of the Portuguese Government ; sent in obedience to the letter of well known and unequivocal treaties ; sent to support the exist ing institutions , of. the country, menaced by, and actually suffering under foreign aggression. But circumstances here ,again have too sensibly altered the character of the foreign occupation. And the alterations in this instance are as un favourable to its continuance, as they are propi tious in the other. The existence of the cases ftederis depended upon the danger which threat ened the Government of Portugal from the hos tile aggression of Spain. Does that danger coh tinuc ? Has Portugal now any thing to fear from Ferdinand or his .Camarilla ? Have not, in fact, all the objects of aggression been attained by means exclusively Portuguese, and under the passive inspection of British troops ? Can the existing Government of Portugal fear any danger against which it is likely to invoke the protection of its ally, Great Britain ? Is.there not abundant proof that the Portuguese na tion are generally hostile to the constitution of which Spain sought needlessly, as it now ap pears, the overthrow, and of which England use lessly attempted the defence ? The answer to these inquiries must be such as to show that France has an important question to settle with England before she can be reasonably required to relinquish the possession of Spain. The question is no less than this :—Who is to relin quish first—the Power which holds with the concurrence and approbation of Government and people, or that which can no longer be supposed to have any view in common with either ? France and England acted in two very opposite characters, when they respectively sent a military force to occupy each a different portion of the Peninsula ; the former forced her way into Spain as a hostile intruder, the latter was invited to Portugal as a friend and ally. Events have accomplished an entire exchange of character be tween them ; so that while we may justly extol the superior good faith and probity of the British Government, we cannot but acknowledge the superior penetration and foresight of the French. Nor will France easily forego any of the advan tages which the 'exercise of these qualities may have procured.her. Treating upon the basis of the status in status quo, she will be justified , we lament to say, i n c l aim i ng f or herself the character of an Spain, and affixing to her rival the less favourabl e character of an intruder in Portugal. —Morning POst. • • The present state of Constantinople has been ably predicted in the following well-known school-boy liees CONTURBABANTUR CONSTANTINOPOLITANI INNUMERABILIBUS SOLICITUDINIBUS. On Wednesday mornin last, a report was generally circulated that William Jones, a y outh about 18 , g and eon of Widow Jones, a carrier between this town and Stafford, had been robbed and murdered the preceding. evening on his road to Great Barr. The statement hap pily proved incorrect, the means employed to terminate his existence having been made use of by the lad himself. The deceased was on his return to Stafford, which place be had left on the preceding morning. A Coroner's Jury assembled on view of the body on Friday, when it ap peared that the horse drew the cart up to the Gough's Arms, at Barr, one of the usual houses of call, at about half-past six in the evening, and on the ostler proceeding to ascertain to whom it belonged, he found the deceased suspended from the cart quite dead. His feet were hang ing about two feet from the ground, between the front of the cart and the horse ; his arms were through two nooses, which appeared in the cord, a little above the elbows, but not so confined by the rope as to prevent him from raising his hands 'to his head, so long as he remained upon or within the cart, but the moment he slipped off he must necessarily have been deprived of all power to recover him self. All the articles of which he had the charge were found to be perfectly safe, including a sum of money amounting to 221. 69., which he bad locked up in the cart. He was seen by one of the witnesses driving on the turn pike-road within the distance of half a mile of Great Barr. Two or three others deposed to his having been unwell and low in spirits some time previously, and to his complain ing of a violent pain in his head ever since; nothing par ticular was, however, observed in his conduct on the day of his death. The Jury returned their verdict " That the deceased had hung himself in a temporary fit of insanity." ...Birmingham Gazette, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HATTON-GARDEN.—Jonathan Collins was su mooed before Mr. Rocaßs by the parish of St. Andr,w, Holborn, to show cause why he should not abate a nuis ance—to wit, a slaughtering-house in French horn-yard, nearly opposite the George and Blue Boar in Holborn. The defendant pleaded not guilty. • , Mr. Pew, the clerk to the Committee, stated , that the information,in the present case was laid against Mr. Col lins, in consequence of a complaint made by several inha bitants to the Pavement Committee. Mr. Harmer, for the defendant, admitted the service.of the summons, and said the question to be decided between them was; whether or not French-horn-Yard was a public place. Mr. Collins said the ot4ectiost to the slaughtering-honie, on the part of some of the inhabitants, was that his boys brought the sheep and lambs on their backs from the yard to his house, and they disapproved of having the blood streaming from the heads of the carcases. Mr. Pew was anxious to read the resolutions of the Committee, but Mr. Harmer admitted the minutes, and requested Mr. Pew to call his witnesses. John Hazlehurst said he had been a collector of rates for 18 years, and Mr. Collins paid part of the rates of French horn-yard, and Mr. Verge, the landlord of the premises, paid another part. He always considered the yard a public place. Mr. Verge, a builder, residing in Upper King-street, Bkiomsbury, the landlord of the premises, said lie did not consider the yard a public place there were gates at both ends, and it was not a thoroughfare. No person goes through without leave. The parish neither paved, lighted nor watched it. Cross-examined by Mr. Pew—The gates were put up in March, 1826, at the desire of the parish of St. Cle ment's Danes, it being then the resort of thieves. • Mr. J. Baker, an inhabitant; living close to 'the yard, could not say whether latterly the yard was a ptiLlic place. He was an old inhabitant, and did not know whether it Was paved or lighted by the parish. .I.le believed the watchman went regularly into the yard in taking his rounds. There was a house in it of . no great character. William Hunt has a cart in the yard, and for the last twelVe months did not hear or see the watchmen in it. The gate in Holborn is never shut.. Waren, the street-keeper, said the yard was open all night. Hunt—The gate was not closed at night he admitted, but no person was allowed to go through, as the gate at the other end was always closed. By Mr. Roams-If any person had occasion to see Mr. Verge, he might drive into the yard for that purpose. Mr. ROGERS decided that this, in his opinion, constituted a public place, and made the defendant subject to the penalty of 101. Mr. Harmer submitted that the inference was not borne out by the evidence. His stable-yard, which was private property, might as w9ll be considered a public place. His office in Hatton-garden was open to the public, and yet he at least considered it private property. Mr. ROGERS said Mr. Harmer always closed his office at night. Mr. t Harmer en e a have y er d y m admitted it, hd tFrench-Corn-yard d i fwhaes neitherse d, paved, lighted, nor watched by the parish, and yet the parish sought to make it a public way. Mr. ROGERS, Was still of opinion that the yard was a public place. . Mr. Harmer said he could not help saying that he con sidered the decision to be against evidence, and he should advise his client to appeal against it to the Quarter Sessions. Mr. Pew said Mr. Collins or Mr. Verge ought to shut the gate. for there was an improper house in the yard. Mr. Verge said, if there was such a house there, neither Mr. Pew nor the parish were.deing their duty by not in dicting it for a nuisance. Mr. Pew said he made no insinuation against Mr. Verge ; he only wanted to show that the yard was:open at all times. Mr. . Harmer said, if Mr. Pew made no insinuation against Mr. Verge, he certainly made a direct charge. Mr. ROGBRS told Mr. Baker that the watchman ought to be obliged to go into the yard to call the hour in the usual way. Mr. Harmer then gave notice of appeal, and the parties left the office. The parish of Clerkenwell having, at the last Sessions, indicted nine improper houses in Charlotte-street, Sadler's Wells, as nuisances, Bench warrants were issued against the persons living in those houses, and the greater number of theth have been apprehended, - at the instance of Mr. Scott, and brought to this office to put in bail to answer the several charges at the next Quarter Sessions. Bail was procured in almost'every instance, and the. women were dis charged. Richard Hawse, an out-pensioner of Greenwich, - pre ferred a complaint against Mr. Wilkes, the vestry clerk of St. Sepulchre's parish, for detaining a shilling out of his weekly allowance 'under the following circumstances Hawse is allowed four' shillings and eight-pence a week by the parish, and the overseers receive the pension quarterly in lieu of it. Tito parish supply their paupers with shoes, and stop the price of them by weekly instalments. HaWse got a pair of shoes about three or four weeks ago, and he had already paid four shillings for them by weekly stop pages. Mr. Wilkes stepped a fifth shilling this week, to which the old pensioner demurred, on the ground that the shoes were not worth more than four shillings. Mr. Wilkes said the shoes were made in the house, and were of the best materials and workmanship, and cost the parish no less than six shillings a pair. The old pensioner here took the shoes off his feet, which were bare, and they were examined by Lee, the officer; at the desire of Mr. Sergeant Sellon. Lee said the shoes appeared to have been worn some time, but the stitching of the soles to the welt had somewhat given way. Mr. Sergeant SELLON was of opinion that four shillings was a price sufficient for the shoes. ' The old pensioner said, if he had allowed the additional shilling, he was afraid that they would stop a shilling every week from him, until they would - charge him ten or twelve shillings for them.—(A laugh.) Mr. Wilkei slid the parish only charged six shillings for such shoes. MARYLEBONE.—Mr. John Jelf was brought up for final examination, on a charge of having unlawfully de tained a bill of exchange for 1001.—Mr. Hutchins, in ad dition to his former evidence, stated, that the bill would become due on the 29th December, and there were suffi cient assets at Hammersley's belonging to Mr. M'Gibbon to pay the bill. Mr. Isaacs cross-examined Mr. Hutchins, to show that the prisoner had paid him six sovereigns on account, when he called upon him last Saturday; but Mr. Hutchins so lemnly denied having received a single shilling more than the 101. mentioned on the former examination; nor was the bill an accommodation-bill, having given Mr. M'Gib bon, who resides at 42, Somerset-street, Portman-square, a consideration for it. Mr. Isaacs said that Mr. M'Gibbon had no account at present at Hannnersley's, nor had be bad any for some time. In consequence of an intimation having, been given to the Magistrates'that the prisoner had broken the rules of the King's Bench, Mr. RAwmisoN declined accepting bail for the prisoner's appearance at the Sessions, observ ing, that the Magistrates would not be justified in liberat ing him en bail, when it was openly avowed he had vio lated the rules ; and the prisoner was, therefore, commit ted to the New Prison, to take his trial for the offence under the statute. • QUEEN-SQUARE. --IMPORTANT INVESTIGATION RESPECTING A CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday consi derable interest was excited at this Office, in consequence of an application having been made to the Magistrates by T. Stirling, Esq., the Coroner for Middlesex, respecting ari Inquest which he kad held last week at the Star and Garter, Sloane-square, on the body of a woman named Margaret Semgoy, the wife cf a private soldier in the Coldstream Gnards. After a long investigation at the Inquest, at which the two principal witnesses, Samuel Elliot, a watchman in the New Road, Chelsea, and William Allen, a serjeant of the watch, gave evidence, there was nothing to prove that there had been any ill-usage on the part of the husband, but that she had been in a state of intoxication at the time, and the Jury returned a verdict accordingly. Seen after the Inquest Mr. Stirling received some intimation from a person in the New Road, Chelsea, which threw a different light on the matter, and having made inquiries, laid the whole statement before the Magistrates, who immediately issued a warrant against the husband of the deceased. Soon after 12 o'clock, yesterday, Mr. Stirling attend ed, and John Senagoy, a private in the Coldstream Guards, husband of the unfortunate woman, was placed at the bar, before W. A. A. White, Esq. The watchmen, Allen and Elliott, were also both in attendance. Mr. Stirling hand ed to the Magistrate the whole of the depositions, which he carefully perused. John Nash, of No. 1, Draycote-place, Chelsea, a private watchman, deposed, that on Monday week last, in the morning, about half-past twelve, he heard the watchman Elliot, the soldier, and the deceased, in the road disputing something about No. 9, Symond's-street. Witness got on the top of the paling, and looked over and saw all three,— The soldier said " these goings on will not do, and we must part ;" the deceased replied, " we will not separate until death." Elliott then said, " if I was to catch a man along With my wife, I knew Jam I would ewe him," when the soldier '4 with his fist, - and knocked the deceased down ; could not say whether he struck her above or heloW the ear,' as there was a bough of a tree in the way. Witness never heard her speak afterwards; previous to the blow being struck, she was conversing sensibly, and did not ap pear intoxicated. The soldier then took hold of her, and dragged her four or five yards, where there was a door, and a step to it, and threw her down against` t ; she never spoke, but groaned and moaned dreadfully; the soldier then said to Elliott, " God her, let her lay there all night," when they went way. In about ten minutes the deceased got up, and walked about 50 yards, and near the Cadogan Arms, she fell - on the footpath ; witness had changed his 'position, and could see her ; he heard her reaching violently. A milkman happening to pass at the time, Elliott said to him, " I have' got a woman --- drunk here, and I do not know what to do with her." The milkman replied by saying, " Let her lay." Allen, the sergeant of the watch, then passed and Elliott said— " I don't know what to do with this woman," when they both laid hold of her, and dragged her across the road ? where they left her. About five o'clock the next morning witness saw the deceased still lying there, and he went and stated the case to Thomas Curley, another watchman, who, he believed, got assistance, and conveyed her home. Mr. Wnrrx—You say she appeared sober previous to her receiving the blow ? - -She appeared so, and very cool and calm. Several other witnesses having been examined nearly to the same effect, - - - - John Washam, a watchman, deposed to being called on to assist the deceased, who he found in the manner described. She was a - heavy woman, and they carried her on their sticks. • Elliott desired him to go and ask Allen what they were to do with her, and he said to take her home, and insist upon her being taken in. When they got to her lodgings, No. 2, Chapelcourt, he cried out, " Soldier, soldier," and the landlady answered by saving lie was not in the house ; but, at this moment the soldier put his head out of the window, and he desired him to come and assist to get his.wife in. They got her into the passage, when she was placed on the soldier's back, who carried her up stairs. Air. WHITE asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing? Prisoner—What the first witness has stated is false. Mr. WHITE (to Nash)—Why were you not examined on the Inquest ? Nash—l did not know of the inquest until after it was over. _ _ Allen and Elliott both declared he knew it before. Mr. WHITE—The less you say, Elliott, the better. You are not a fit man to be a watchman. ' Here a long dispute arose between Allen and Elliott, one laying the blame upon the other. Mr. WHITE-After all we have heard, you have taken upon yourself to swear this unfortunate woman was in a state of intoxication. Had you both done your duty, iu all probability the woman's life might have been saved. I shall take care to write immediately fo the Board at Chelsea, that I consider both you, Elliott, and Allen, very unfit persons to be watchmen. Mr. WHITE then said, that he should require the evi dence of the landlady of the house, and also of the sur geon,; and Wooklberry, the officer, was ordered tO, - ,apply to the parish officers, that the body might be disinterred, and the head examined by the surgeon. . - . The prisoner was then remanded until the following day. A LADY'S EXCUSE FOR MARRYING. In Dr. Howard's Collection of Letters of Great Personages, there is a letter from Mary, the sister of Anne Boleyn, to Secretary Cromwell, excusing her marriage with Sir Wm. Stafford, which, it appears, had offended both the King and the Queen. It is supposed to have been written between 1533 and 1536. The Duke of Norfolk was the writer's ma ternal uncle, and " my Lord her brother" Lord Rockford. " To the ryght worshypefull, and my syngular good frynde, Mastar Sekretory to the Kyngs Hynes thys he, S.S. " Master Sekretory, after my pour reCommand asayoes which yssmally to be regardyd off me that am a pour banyshed kreatur, thys shall be to desyre you to be goode to my pour housbande, and to me. I am seur yt ys nat oneknone to you the by dis pleasure that bothe he and I have bothe of the Kyngs hynes and the Queue gras by the reason of our maryagge wytheout thayr knollyge, wheryn we bothe doe . yelde our selfs faulty and doe knollyge that we dyd net welle to be so hasty nor so bold wytheout thyyr knollyge. But wone thyng good Mastar Sekretory consedor, that he was "paringe ; and love overcame rossone, and, for my part, I saw so myche onesty yn hym that I lovyd byrne as well as he dyd me, and was yn' bondagge, and glade I was to be at lybarty, so that for my part I saw that all the world dyd sete so lytyll by me, and he so myche, that I thoute I could take no betar way but to take hyme and to forsake al other ways, and lyve a poor oneste lyffe wythe hym ; and so doe pout no douts but we should, if we myht wons be so hapy to recover the kyngs grasshyous favour and the quens. For well I myght a had a greater mane of byrth and a hyhar,,but I ynsuer you, I could never a had wone that should a loved me so well, nor a more onest man, and bysydes that, he ys both come offe an aunssyent stok, and agyn as mete (yeff yt was hys grassys pleasaur) to doe the kyng servys as any young jentyllmane yne hys court ; therefore, good Master Sekretory, thys shall be my sute to you, that for the loue that well I know you doe her to all my bloude, tho for my part I have nat desarvyd yt, but smelly bye the ressone of my vylle condas shons, as to pout my housband to the kyngs gras, that he may doe hys duty as all outhar gentyllmene doe : and good Master Sekretory, sue for us to the kyngs hynes, and beshych hys hynes, whyche ever was wount to take pety, to have pety one ous, and yt woull pies hys gras of hys goodines to speke to the qwens gras for ous : for as far as I cane parsayve, har gras ys so hyly displeased with ous both that wythoute the kyng be so good lord to ous as to wythedrawe hys regour and sue for ous we are never lyke to recover her grasys favoor, whych ys to bevy to ber. And seinge ther ys no remedy, fel. God's sake help ous : for we have byne now a quarter off a ver maryd I thanke God and to late now to call that agayn ; wherfor yt ye the more almones to helpe. Bout yeffe I war at my lebarty and myghte chows, I ynseure you Master Sckretory, for my lytyll tyme I have tryyd so myche onesty to be yne hym that I had rather beg my bred wyth hYme thane to be the gretyst-queue krystynd; and I bylyve veryly he ys yne the same cas wythe me, for I bylyve veryly he ys yne the serne cas wythe me, for I believe verily a would nat forsake me to be a kyng, therfor good Mastar Sekretory, beynge we are so well together, and does yntende to lyve so onesty though yt be but pour, abou part of your goodness to ous as well as you doe to all the woride bysydb ; for I promys you ye have the name to helpe all them that bathe nede, and arnonkst all your suesuetars I dar be bolde to say that yea have no mater more to be pytyd thane ours; and therefore for God's sake be good to ous for yne you ys all our troust, and I hesbych you good Master Sekretory pray my lord my father and my lady to be good to ous and to lete me have thayr blessyngS and my . housband thayr good will, and I will never desyr mor off them. Allso I pray you desyr my Lorde of Norfolk and my lorde my brouthar to be good to ous. I dar net wryte to theme they are so cruel agaynst ous, but yeff with any payne that I could take withe my lyffe I myght avyne ther good wyls I promys you ther ys no chylde lyving would venter mor than I, and so I pray you to report by me, and you shall fynd my wryting true and yn all poynts whyche I may pies theme yne, I shall be redy to obey theme neryst my housband, home I ame moste bound to, to whom I most hardy hesbych. you to be good unto, wyche for my sake ys a poor banyshed mane for an honest and a godely cawes; and beyng that I have red yne old buy's that soine, for awe joust causays have by kyngs and quens byn pardonnyd by the suete of good folks, I troust yt shall be our chans thourOw your good help, to come to the same, as knoyth the God, who sende you helthe and harts ese. Scrybld with her yll hande, - who ye your pour bumble suytor, always to command , _ " MARY STAFFORD." There are now in Leigh about 908 weavers, w h o , a year or two since, were all employed in weaving cotton. They then earned 9s. a week ; now they are earning 17s. 'Al.—Manchester paper. GLASGOW MARKETS, OCT. 13. A fair extent of business was done in out Sur market this week, sellers having submitted to a . , u , e dine of about Is. 'per cwt. The sales amounteu ` l9 .516 hhds., and consisted of 170 hhds. Trinidad, at 60s. for very brown, 625. 6d. for soft colourv' brc ) '!' d l ; and 635. 6d. a 655. 6d. for good brown to low ra .. 1 , 4 dling; 53 hhds. Demerara at 635. a 655. for ga t brown and low middling; 114 hhds. Grenada!, 565. 6d. for very soft brown, and 635. a 675. for 0, brown tn.good middling; and 149 hhds. Jam at.6os. 3d. for very soft, 625. 6d. for low bro' 645. a 665... for low to middling grocery, and 6 8 ' 71s. for good grocery. There was a good dem for Molasses, the sales consisting of 300 puns. V n e ,.' meram at 295. a 295. 3(1., 200 puns. Grenada at and 70 puns. Trinidad at 28s. per cwt.- -A push' sale . of Jamaica Coffee was attempted, but the ties being chiefly ordinary, only two small lots Ive`:,, Sold, and the remainder withdrawn, there being' demand for such at present.-350 bags Black PI per were also exposed at auction, and about al', sold at 3id. a 4d. per lb., the remainder being w it 'f drawn at the latter rate.-There were no sales Dyewoods.-In Rum., the business was not very o e - j t , tensive, but the prices obtained were chiefly 3s. a 3s. 3d. for Jamaica 16 0. P.-Our Cotton niar e , continues in a very, depressed state, but prices s ' e without alteration ; the sales amount to 1345 bale i -There is still a limited demand for .Tobacco, ap no alteration in prices.-The sales of Ashes v:,, 350 lids. new Pot and Pearl, at 295. 6d. a 30s. P . cwt.-Y. C. Tallow brings 40s. pm' cwt., bat sales were not extensive. There have been a ga r s many arrivals of Grain from Ireland this we e chiefly wheat, and the sales of this article were co s siderable at previous prices. There was a mode I).ra„ " i demand for Oats, and pric es de c lined 6d. per Barley was in steady dema n d, an d p r ic es contis a " without alteration. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR. Adair's - ' 35, Od. Beaumont. 34 6 Burdon Charlotte Forrest Heaton ~,,M.._39 6 Hebburii Main 38 0 34 9 Killingworth 38 0 Old Walker . :Z 0 Ord's Itedliugh 33.0 Pelaw 34 0 Percy East.- . 32 9 Pontop Wind50r..,...,,,, 32 9 34 6 Tanfield i<loor 34 9 35 0 33 9 Willington 39, 0 N.Vylain Walls End Bell and Co. 38 • 8 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 38 0 Ditto Ilewicke and C 0.... 41), 9 Ditto Brown's .:i6 9 Ditto Burraton 37 o Ditto Carr and C 0.—......... 37 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. 36 6 Ditto. Hilda .. . 36 3 'Ditto Hotspur--...... 36 6 Ditty Northumberland 36 6 Ditto Peareth -- 37 0 Ditto Perkins and Co. 40 '9 Ditto Riad( 11'5—........... 19 6 Ships at market,. 167 k--=-3h IKET.--Oct. 17. Ot Walls End Newmai 3 9 .'0 Ditto Russell's 41 , Ditto Walker 40 Ditto Nutt ~ Tanflel 1 : 14 6 Ellisdn small ,—...-.. IS 0 Bell and Brown small 17 Eden small Lambton small 1 6 1 ' 6 Londonderry small 20 0 Russell's Hetton's small 17 0 Blyth Trader 30 0 Cowden 3 3 0 Eldon Main 32 Hartley 33 0 Scotch, per ton „ 4 " p Stone Coal Christie ;P' 0 Stone Coal Cox 0 0 Walls End Elgin 3 4 2 0 Henderson zo 6 lnverkeithing Splint WI 6 Eden's Eden Main 3 l ‘; Edcn Main ;;, Fawcett 35 0 Neshani 5 Russell's High 33 6 Walls End Hetton—..,, 42 6 Walls End Lauabton* 1„ 2 4 Ditto ; 5 2. Ditto 7; 6 Ditto Stewart's Rttesell's Fletton'sW. E. 13 ips sold, 125,Unsola, o%' ING THE WEEK, COUNTRY CO Oats, IBow", ..-....< E. to ii - - - 6$ - 46- r S`3 mArtKETs Dvu Wheat. Barley. s. to e. 35 42 34 39 40 48 32 39 .9 36 36 38 3 6 ,45 . 32 4.3 46 ' 50 3 s '42 30 34 30 40 33 ' 37 34. 38 37 40 10 40 42 30 34 3'3 45 27 33 31 35 Per Quarter. Abingdon , Andover „ Birmingham Briilport Cirencester --....- Faringdon Guildford Henley Hereford - Maidenhead Newbury -- Oakinghani Reading Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury Uxbridge Wannciister Worcester. s. to s. j 54 (56 56 64 (50 66 52 56 49 60 48 St 41, 64, 50 bfi 64 66 60- - 68 12 65 56 60 58 68 C 6 6•. 52 56 56 00. 51 6O 66 74 55 70 50 62 60 • 65 62 64 ! a. to s. 35 42 30 3(5 44 46 26 28 26 32 21 31 26 37 26 31 CHELTENHAM 2S 38 IS 38 2S 36 25 36 28 32 SO. 32 32 ' 42 33 38 25 3 30 40 26 35 28 34 32 40 Per Bushel s. d. to s. d. Wheat 6O 80 Barley Oat. Beans 79 80 Pease 5 0 8 0 Hay 4l AIKE' llcef Mutton , Veal ...- Lamb , Pork los. to Si V.—Oct. 16. 'et lb. r. per ton. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. d. 0 6 1 air t ; 6 a . S ,Il ii COUNTRY ARY.—Sarturoav, Our. 20, Fletcher, J., Liverpool—Clarendon-buildings, Liverpool ••• Hagartv, J. Liverpool—Clarendon-Wildings, Liverpool ...••• Jones, -1%, Graveyard—Royal hotel, Birmingham ....... • Lyne and Welt, Liverpool—Clarendon-building, Liver pool Sherwin and Co. Shelton—Mr. Avisun, Liverpool Sonunerville„ R., Liverpool—Clarendon-builtiings, Liver pool Turner, J., Manchester—Clarendon-l.ulldings, Liverpoc BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., the lady of Mr. J. G. Middletoar" Newman-street, of » daughter. • • , On the 17th inst., the lady of George Trower , Esq. Montague-place, Russell-square, of a eon. On the 16th inst.,' in Charterhouse-square, the laui the Rev. A. Irvine, of a son. On the 12th inst., the lady of John Brocklehuret, j ll/ ' Esq., of Hurdsfield House, Cheshire, of a son. st On the 2d inst., at the Palace of the British Envoi e Florence, Lady Burghereh, lady of the Right Hon. Burghersb, his Majesty's Envoy at Florence, of a son. the On the Ist inst., the lady of Captain Heyman, of Scots Greys, of a son. • c e ,l On the 14th inst., in Wilt o n-crescent, Gr os v e nor-P lB ` Lady Frances Higginson, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 16th inst., at Weasenhatu All Saints, the P a t Walter Blunt, Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, g eldest son of James Blunt, Esq., of Nether Wallop, 02 0 1 to Marian, eldest daughter of 'William Pearce, Weasenhana- hall, Norfolk, and Mime-cottage, RichnO Surrey. On the 12th inst., at Stone, by the Rev. John Tholo gs Hinds, M.A., M r . Ch ar le s R o binson, of Walton..e.ott.g o to Mariann e , eld est da ug ht er o f John R an g ele y , Esq ., Br Onussels. the 6th inst., Josiah Smith, Esq., of B e th na l-gree n ' road, to Mrs. Elizabeth SavignY• On the 16th inst., at Wes Maddison, of Stratford, tol‘i t aor H y an, E ssex, A l nn, only Mdar. John Wallace, Esq. , sung f Bow, Middlesex. 0 ., o h f Biduriek Pa rk, to Anne, eldest daughter of ;illi i daugh ter On the Sth inst., at Marylebone church, Thomas Esq late, and sister to the present, Sir John Trollope, Bar" Casewiek, near Stamford. On the 16th inst., at Lingfield, Surrey, by the Rev. , C ; Sheffield, the Rev. Fitzherbert Fuller, youngest son of 'Ron: Mrs. Fuller, of AshdoWn House, to Maria Ursu la ' fourth daughter o f t h e l a te Rev. Sir Robert Sheffield, 13s r i On the 12th i ns t., at Grantham, Mr. - Edward A C , 3t ,: e butcher, to Miss Sarah Catlin, both of that place. ---;# bridegroom proved himself singularly fickle ; the p a ' were regularly asked in church, and the day and hOur fixed for their appearance at the hymeneal altar, but s her, e before the arrival of the expected happy period, the 100, received a note from the groorn,,stating he found it in c ' e g venient to perform his engagement, and' the marriage meats were left for the enjoyment of the female frF - 0 alone. We understand this is the third fair one that been similarly treated by this inconstant swain, and hipof supposed that the dread of a blanket provided by solve d his female neighbours, and an apprehension he entertin/hp of the kindness of a select party of his own fraternity ' l ip had promised him a tune of marrow bones and c leaver the market place the following day, added to the "10 forcible remonstrances on the part of the bride, that b e o tl this instance screwed his courage to the sticking place , . d • took her " for better or worse." As might be expects lit large assemblage of all ages and both sexes were brclo together to witness this much dreaded ceremony ; we the pleasure to add the happy pair were housed wi"P" personal injury. DIED. t Y On the 14th inst., Mary Ann Emblem , the wife 0,/ Rev. John Emblem, of Stratford, Essex, in the 43d ye' her age. On the 7th ipst:, in Curzon-street, the Right o f Esther Lady Muneaster, widow and relict of the late ther Lord Muncastei. 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