The Sun. — London, England, 1831-12-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have received a great variety of letters on the Reform Bill, and on the conduct of its sup porters and opponents in Parliament, to which we have not room to advert in detail. One of our correspondents expresses his hostility to the clause which confers a county vote on tenants at will renting a farm of 501. He justly observes, that men deriving their light from this qualifica tion are the least independent body of electors that can be imagined,—that they are conscious themselves of their dependent condition,—and that they generally deprecate the fatal present in tended for them by Lord Chandos as a source of oppression and a badge of slavery. A second correspondent—after alluding to the remarks in which we objected to the concession of repre sentatives to the literary and scientificinstitu tions of the metropolis, remarks which he pro nounces conclusive—makes himself a proposition which we should think equally objectionable. He divides society into classes, and while he would maintain the 10/. house qualification gene rally, he proposes to add a Member for every county to be elected by the poorer or working classes renting houses below 101. There could not be a piece of more incongruous and bungling legislation. We have too many kinds and denominations of electors already, in free holders, copyholders, leaseholders, 101. house holders, burgesses, citizens, and so on, without adding to them cottage-holders or paupers, with the exclusive power of returning a tribune of the populace. In every other case we have a mini mum of property to decide the electorial quali fication, and therefore a mixture of all classes of society with property above that amount may approach the polling booth. In this case the maximum would be below 10/., and nobody who had the misfortune to own a house of that value would be admitted to vote in a class exclusively poor. The last correspondent whose letter we shall notice expresses great impatience at the slow progress of the Reform Bill, and at the play of compliments kept up so adroitly between the Ministry and their opponents in the House of Commons. We may afterwards recur to this subject. In the mean time, we may assure the public that the Bill—the future charter of our rights—which is to be introduced on Monday, instead of rendering the constituency of Eng land more complex, as has been proposed by some, or less popular as has been maintained by others, will improve it both in simplicity and popularity. With this assurance the nation will rest satisfied, and treat with the contempt it de serves the lying trash of an Evening Paper, which clothes its insane hostility to Reform in absurd reports of a disunion in the Cabinet by which it has been introduced and is supported.—Times. The example of Colonel Jones and of Mr. Goadby, who proposed, through our Paper, to become useful after their death by bequeathing, during their life-time, their bodies for dissection, promises to become contagious among generous spirits, who can rise above the prejudices of their age, while they more than share its humanity. We have received another letter on the same subject, under the signature of " F. T." express ing admiration of " the manly and generous conduct" of our two former correspondents, and proposing that list should be formed at one of the chief hospitals for inscribing the names of such persons " as, actuated by a sense of their duty to God and man," should be disposed to take measures for insuring the delivery of their bodies for anatomical purposes after their death. Our correspondent " F. T." promises to enter his name on this " great book" of science as soon as it shall be formed. Nothing appears to us more laudable than this sacrifice of present personal repugnancec, for the future benefit of those in whose happiness we cannot participate, and to whose approbation we must necessarily be insensible. After all, however, we are aware that this must be only a scanty resource for the supply of subjects to our anatomical schools, and we hail the proposal not as the means of rendering a legislative measure unnecessary, but as a partial victory over those prejudices which made legislation itself dangerous or in efficient. When the subject has hitherto at dif ferent times been brought before the public, it has with mischievous industry been represented as a question—not between the anatomical ex hibition of the dead and the benefit of ti e living—but between the dissection of the poor and the exemption of the rich—between the honoured interment of the latter and the dis graceful mangling of the remains of the former. This clamour, after being echoed from one end of the country to the other two years ago, pene trated within the walls of Parliament, and af fected the majority of the House of Peers. It was then a common exclamation, if anatomy is so necessary to medical science, and if medical science is so useful to mankind, why do not the tipper classes of society—why do not the wealthy and the enlightened consent to give their bodies for dissection as well as the poor,—and why are all the sacrifices for medical knowledge to be confined to those who have enjoyed least of its benefits ? The example of our three correspon dents in better circumstances, has answered this appeal, and tends to destroy this prejudice. But admitting the merit of such examples of al lowing that they ought to influence the pretended sages who think themselves peculiarly entitled to be ,called the guardians of the poor, because they pan da: to their lowest passions, and foster their most i.rirs!ztsonable suspicions, we are not of opinion that they supply the strongest argument with the poorer Classes for abandoning their present an tipathies to dissection and for giving their volun tary assent to a change in the existing law. That strongest argument is, that they at present afford nearly all the subjects for our anatomical ttleatres—that they are the chief sufferers by the i m perfection of our surgical knowledge—and f,hat they would be the chief ga i ners b y an ex . tension of medical skill. When a clamour is raised aga i n st a proposition for giving up the unclaimed bodies of those who die in hospitals or in poor-houses to be dissected, it is of course pretended that at present the poor are exempted from this imaginary calL +m t,. Now, what i s the fact ? A re not the poor as exclusively th e subjects of anatomical examination now, as they could be under any change of law ? Where do the body -snatchers go when they receive an order for the exercise of their repulsive contra band ? Do they not bargain with some grave digger, or the porter of some charitable esta blishment, for their coonivance in seizing bodies which belonged to the poorer classes ? The rich are not often disturbed in their tombs by the unhallowed intrusion of the resurrection-man. They are allowed to slumber in their inaccessible vaults, while their poorer neighbours are raised and dissected for the benefit of posterity. If some Bishop or Williams—unable to supply the trade with the fruits of plundered churchyards— think of making subjects, whom do they entice into their den of murder ? Not the affluent, the respected, or the known, but poor unfriended wretches, for whom nobody is supposed to sails, and whose loss nobody will deplore,—the vety parties, in short, who would, most probably, be borne to their grave at the public expense froin the wards of an hospital, or tl.e cells of a poor house. It is not likely, notwithstand'n , Sir A. Cooper's remark, that persons possessed of pro perty more valuable than their bodies would,:le killed to obtain their bodies. Neither an Alder man, a Bishop, nor a Member of Parliament could be supposed to labour under any appre hension of being "Burhed;" and therefore this source of supply—to whatever extent it pro ceeded—remained exclusively with the poor.— Nor could the poor avoid being almost the only sufferers by the deficiency of surgical skill which an insufficient supply of subjects for dissection would necessarily occasion. The wealthy can always purchase the best portion of knowledge and experience which is in the market. They are not likely to submit their limbs or organs to a bungling operator, or to take advice from an unskilful physician ; and if scientific medical practitioners cannot be educated s at home, they can pay them for the accomplishments and knowledge which they must acquire in foreign countries ; but the poor must be contented with ignorance and in experience, if their prejudices debar the less wealthy portion of the profession from the means of acquiring anatomical science. We therefore think that it would be chiefly for the benefit of the lower classes themselves that those who die in hospitals, in workhouses, in prisons, or in penitentiaries, and whose bodies are not claimed for interment by any relative, should be distri buted among the anatomical schools, under such sanctions, and with such formalities, as religion and decency require. The supply of subjects from this source would be sufficient,—and from none other. We recommend to attention a letter of Sir J. Sewell on this subject, in which other classes of supply are enumerated, though we think several provisions of his measure are un necessary, and one or two would be injurious to his object. The suggestion which he makes of giving up the bodies of suicides for dissection would be a good one, if any thing like an ade quate supply could be furnished by such a course ; but as this would not be the case, great injury would result from a plan which would aggravate the already existing prejudice arising from the intimate connexion in the public mind between dissection and ignominious punishment.-- Times. One of our contemporaries (the Standard) thinks that the continuance of the present tithe system of Ireland, without change or modifica tion, is an object of so much importance to the nation, that it would not be too dearly pur chased by a civil war. The process by which our contemporary arrives at the conclusion of the expediency of a civil war is curious. It seems to be this—they who combine to resist the pay ment of money for one thing, will resist the pay ment of money for all other things ; and there fore, as the refusal to pay tithes will be followed by the refusal to pay taxes, and the refusal to pay taxes would lead to anarchy and disorder, to avoid this possible evil, we should rush at once on the certain evil of a civil war. But we will allow our contemporary to speak for himself— " There is no general combination—there is a combi nation here and a combination there, but no general com bination. If there were a general combination, it would be put down in six weeks by ten thousand men, or lees, with the aid of the law and the Protestant yeomanry in Ireland, were the law honestly administered, and the yeo manry placed under the command of men in whom they could repose confidence—the necessity of a civil war in 1 1 Ireland would not be in the slightest degree obviated by the destruction of the .hurch. " When people have been taught that by combining they can defeat the legitimate sovereignty of the country as represented by the law, will they not avail themselves of this ascendancy given by combination for all purposes ? It is idle to deny that the continuance of a legislative union with Great Britain is immeasurably more unpopular in Ireland, and with a far greater number, than tithes ever were, or ever can be. Now, if the populace be taught, that by combination to refuse a payment of tithes, they can get rid of tithes, can there be a doubt that they will carry the lesson a step further, and force a repeal of the Union, by combining to resist the payment of taxes? It comes then to this—if a war with Ireland we must have, let it he taken on the strong ground, while we still possess it. To yield any more, in order to resist with more effect hereafter, would be to imitate the blunder imputed (falsely, we believe) to the Magistrates of Lyons, who were said to have tried to purchase peace of the insurgents by a pre sent if cartridges. " Stupid as the Ministers are, they see this. Why then is this project of robbing the Trish Church pressed so has tily forwkrd ? To conciliate the association ; to prevail upon it to send over its contingent of twenty-seven, with King O'Connell at their head. The Ministers sell the Irish Church a year sooner, for seven and twenty votes— that is the whole. Will the venerable and respected Bishop of Bath, and Wells support such a Ministry upon any Bill?" It may be true that " the continuance of a legislative union with Great Britain is immea surably more unpopular in Ireland, and with a far greater number, than tithes ever were ;" and yet though the people of this country might prefer war to a dissolution of the Union, it does not follow that they would prefer war to the improvement of the Irish tithe system. The Union is not so popular as we could wish it to be in Ireland, and the reason is, that the Irish have hitherto derived little advantage from it. They have been misgoverned for centuries, and at this present day the evils of which they complain remain still unremedied. Of these evils the tithe system is one. To remedy the evils suffered by the Irish is to diminish the motives for a repeal of the Union ; and there fore the substituting a rational mode of paying the clergy for the present most irrational mode, will not increase the desire for a repeal, but pro tanto, diminish it. It does not follow, there fore, that because we do not fight for the con tinuance of church abuses, we must fight for something else ; while it is highly probable that by removing church abuses, and adopting other measures of a healing nature, we shall deprive the Irish of all disposition to do what would lead to the necessity for recurring to force. In the first place, the Irish have right on theirside, in combin ing to resist the payment of tithes. Admitting even that the Irish Protestant Church was the church of the people of Ireland, and that it answered the purpose for which the establishment of a church is justifiable, it does not follow that that church should be supported by a tax, tl:e iniquitous and oppressive nature of which is admitted by all writers,—a tax which, amongst its other evil effects, places :the clergyman in a state of hosti lity to his flock, and deprives him of the power to reside r that service for which he is appointed. But the Irish Protestant Church is not the church of the people, it is the church of a small fraction of the people. If Scotland had been a conquest of England, we should no doubt have seen a Protestant Episcopal Church established in it for the 50,000 Scotch Episcopalians, while the two millions of P res byt er i ans a nd 100,000 Catholics would have been in the situ ation in which the Irish Catholics and Presby terians now are. But Scotland not having been a conquest, the people obtained the establish ment of the church to which they were attached. On the other hand, the Irish have been treated as a conquered people. The char of the conquerors has been imposed them—or rather a sinecure clergy has be imposed on a people, nine-tenths of whom are hostile to them. An Irishman, therefore, must be poor in spirit, and worthy ofbeing treated as a slave if he remain satisfied, so long as that badge of his nation's degradation remains in existence. They who wish the continuance of the Union should abandon all that supplies the Irishman with no tions for disliking the Union—all that reminds the Irishman that in his own country he is not the same man that an Englishman or a Scotch man is in his respective country. We are not aware that force leads to affection. Were it so, the Irish should be prodigiously attached to the English, having hitherto experienced little kind ness, but abundance of coercion. There are in stances, no doubt, in which a good drubbing in creases the attachment of a wife to her husband, and the story goes that the Russian wives, on their marriage day, used to present their hus bands with a whip, and that they afterwards deemed themselves unkindly used if the hus bands did not occasionally belabour them lustily with it. But, in ninety-nine cases out of a hun dred, nevertheless, blows serve to extinguish, ra than to increase affection. At all events, if we must attempt the beating system with the Irish, let us first try what kindness will do. It would be odd if the Irish were so differently constituted from other people, that all kindness would be thrown away on them. But if we must have an Esta blished Protestant Church in Ireland, we ought to consider in what manner the establishment can be rendered most efficient. Now, there are few points better understood, than that if a clergy are overpaid, they will be inefficient in the proportion in which they are overpaid. A Bishop, with 20,0001. a year, has just 19,0001. too much ; for there is no one point on which greater stress is laid by Christ than that riches are a bar to the entrance into the kingdom of Heaven ; and they who show the way to the king dom of Heaven, ought not themselves to be in a condition to exclude them from it. A rich clergy are necessarily a lazy clergy ; a rich clergy are, besides, in a state of disobedience to the injunc tions of Christ, and ill suited for their duty, even if disposed to discharge it. A decent in come for one Archbishop and four Bishops, and for a working clergy, would render the Protes-, tant Church much more efficient than it now is. By employing force against the Irish, to pre serve the tithe system from alteration, would be to rush on a great evil, not for the effecting of any benefit, but for the effecting of another evil. The land alone possessed by the Protes tant Establishment of Ireland is far more than equal to the payment of all the clergy of all the denominations in Ireland. If, therefore, the tithes were to be valued and permanently settled, as in Scotland, as a tax, it ought to be applied to the extinction of the national debt. The object of Government ought not to be, to give 100,000 acres to one scion of a noble family in the capacity of a Bishop, and 800,000 acres to another, but to take no more from the people than is required for the efficient services of men necessary for the defence of the country, and the preservation of order. As means of pre serving order, religious teachers are appointed by the State ; but the cramming these teachers would render them inefficient servants. The day is gone for enlisting the people in a crusade in behalf of sinecures, lay or ecclesi astical. The people of England, so far from being disposed to abet Government in any cru sade against the Irish, are anxiously looking for such improvements in their own church as will render it more compatible with the temporal and spiritual welfare of the flocks.—Morn. Chron. It seems that Dr. Doyle and Mr. O'Connell are quarrelling with each other, the layman and his associated agitators, insisting that the present Ministers of the Crown are not fit to be trusted by any body whatever, and the Right Rev. Pre late affecting to maintain very stoutly the opinion that the enemies of the Church Establishment in Ireland may very safely trust them. That the fight is a sham fight, and intended merely for the purpose of raising a cloud of dust through which the people of Great Britain shall be unable to penetrate what is really going on, we have no doubt whatever, and shall therefore make no at tempt to apportion to the combatants different degrees of praise or of blame. Each is a con summate performer in his way, and although the position in which they now choose to stand to wards each other in the public eye is different from that in which we have been accustomed to behold them, they are actuated no doubt as here tofore by a common zeal, for a common pur pose, and will each exert to the utmost his peculiar and pre-eminent talents for the promotion of the cause of both. Those who, between the acts or after the falling of the curtain, can get a peep into the green-room will see that the Irish Jesuit and the Irish Demagogue are enemies only upon the stage. So long as the Doyles and the O'Connells of Ireland formed only one party, the, , conciliatory Government of Great Britain had to please and pamper only one; now that they are, or pretend to be, divided, it must please and pamper both. To the O'Connell division of the Popish plotters it must surrender all the Pro testant Corporations, and such a Bill of Reform as will secure the return of a hundred Roman Catholic Members of the House of Commons from Ireland. For the Doyle division the least that can be done is to abandon and root up the Protestant Church in that country. The principles of the late Reform Bill went far, although not far enough, to satisfy the insatiate spirit of the lay demagogues towards accomplishing the former of those objects. The latter object, that which is re quired for the especial gratification of the Doyles, who praise Ministers, and carry their adulation even to the extravagant length of affecting to trust them, cannot of course be postponed or neglected. The threats of the agitators and the blandishments of the Jesuits impart recipro cally a new importance to each other, secure, when played off against such a Ministry as the present, the separate purposes of either, and pro mote, in an incalculable degree, the final and common objects of both—objects which cannot be mistaken, and which all who are not stricken with judicial blindness must perceive to be no other than a separate Legislature and a Roman Catholic Hierarchy. Of the separate Legislature which the lay demagogues of Ireland so anxiously desire they have no very distant prospect, since the Reform Bill for that country, which was in troduced in the last session of Parliament by his Majesty's Ministers, would have secured the re turn of such a body of Irish Members as could not have failed to give every English and Scotch Member of decent character and habits a strong personal interest in promoting the separation. The sublimest degree of public virtue which has ever existed in, any assembly of men - would struggle in vain against the temptation to vote for a measure, however in other respects per nicious, which promised to relieve the body of the presence of Mr. O'Connell and the half! hundred such Members as would by that Bill have been sent from Ireland under his wing. With respect to a Roman Catholic Hierarchy, the prospect of its establishment, dependent of course upon the condition that the present Mi• nisters remain some time longer in office, seems still nearer. Already the Ministerial Journals, the accredited organs of Administration, begin to abuse every man who believes that the Pro testant Establishment in Ireland ought to be or can be maintained, and to insinuate that the King of England, by keeping their patrons in office, intimates his readiness to violate the sacred and solemn oath by which he is sworn to maintain it. The leading Mi nisterial Journal has begun to prepare the Pro testants of the Empire for what they are to expect, and to denounce those as no Statesmen, but as men out of their senses, as persons wild and extravagant in the extreme, who think the Constitution of the country or the oath of the King considerations of any value when placed in competition with tl►e demands of the Irish Jesuits and Agitators, and the violence of the ignorant multitudes whom they inflame and go vern. "No man in his senses," says the Times, " now talks of maintaining the Church of Ire land by tithe raised upon the Catholic population, No man is wild enough to suppose it possible that Irish Bishops should long enjoy such reve nues or exist in such numbers as at present. No Statesman imagines that the clergy who minister to the spiritual wants of about four-fifths of the people (the Roman Catholic Clergy that is) .should continue separated and estranged from the political institutions of the land." Surely after this Dr. Doyle cannot allege that his ad vances to Government are coolly received, or complain that his sham-fight with O'Connell promises to procure a scanty harvest of gratitude from those on whose behalf he wields his mimic ' sword.—Morning Post. We find it is in contemplation to erect new barracks in St. James's Park, large enough to contain two battalions of Guards and a train of Artillery. We had hoped that the rage for building—it was certainly more of a rage than a taste—had gone by with the last reign, and that we should hear no more of public edifices for many years to come. The rage for building, we doubt not, has gone by, so far as the pro pensities of the Monarch are concerned ; but still it seems there is a hankering after the science of architecture somewhere, and these new barracks are the result. Accustomed as the people of this country have been to the vot ing away of thousands and tens of thousands of the public money, for the gratification of the most extravagant and monstrous fancies, under the name of taste, it is not improbable that the notice of a small transaction such as this will appear to many of them to be little short of trifling. But whatever magnanimity there may be in expenditure, or rather in extra vagance and waste, one would think we must have had enough of it already, and that it is now high time, to try whether a little economy and prudence may not suit our circumstances quite as well. As for barracks, what do we want of them ? There are too many of them, as Sir Francis Burdett well knows, or used to know, all over the kingdom ; and it is not now, when the public are calling for reduc tion in every establishment, and in none with more eagerness or more propriety than in that of the army—it is not now that a single shilling should be demanded which can be spared, or that any thing should be done which looks like a postponement of reduction at this important crisis. In the conversation which took place in the House of Commons last night respecting Buckingham Palace, it will be seen that even the expense of additional furniture, for the comfort and convenience of the Royal Family, became a subject of remark. Will Mr. Hume give his consent to an estimate for building barracks with more readiness ? We certainly think not. And there are other Members in the House, as well as a great portion of the people out of it, who will look as sharply after the means of saving money, and, by so doing, compel the Govrn ment to look as sharply after it, as former Go vernments used to look after pretexts and occa sions for picking the pockets of the community. —Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A woman named Mary Hudwn was brought be fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with having com mitted a very impudent fraud upon the officers of one of the parishes in the city. The churchwarden said there was a pauper of the parish named Thurston, who had been for some time supported by the parish. The man was taken ill. In June last the prisoner applied to the witness in behalf of the pauper, stating that he and his wife lay both ill of a fever in the Fever Hospital, and requested some assistance. Witness, having no suspicion of the correctness of the statement, imme diately sent relief by the prisoner, who called again and again, and never went back empty-handed. At last the prisoner said the man had died, and that the wife was almost at the point of death, at the same time that their two children were starving. Wit ness then gave treble the usual sum required, and took the children under the care of the parish. A few days ago, however, in walked Thurston himself, as if from the grave, and asked fur relief. " No," said witness, " you have been dead for some time, and cannot want any thing." The churchwarden naturally looked upon the %%hole matter as a trick, but the pauper swore he never was dead, and he would prosecute any body who said any thing of the kind. When the impostor was described, he said that he would find her if she was upon earth. For .some time she eluded all pursuit, but at last she was discovered with some inveterate people of the same description, drinking " warm ale and eggs," and taken into custody. Prisoner—My . Lord, I know nothing at all of the business. I never received a halfpenny in my life fur Thurston. _ The LORD MAYOR—What ! I suppose you don't know who Thurston is? Prisoner—Oh dear yes, I never denied that ; I know he is on the pa rish, but I am mistaken for another she. I never handled his money ; it's all a mistake. Here's my husband here what knows all about it. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I ask your husband, as an honest man, whether you have done this or not? Husband (with a long sigh)—Oh dear, I know nothing either way, please your Lordship. The LORD MAYOR—Then I suppose she is guilty. Husband—Where there's a doubt, my Lord, you'd better put her down for innocent. The churchwarden's servant—l'll swear she's the impostor. The LORD MAYOR---Then I am afraid she's guilty ; so we'll send her for six weeks to Bridewell. —Committed accordingly. MATT ON-GARDEN. Yesterday Mr. List, the inspector of E division of Police, had a private interview with the Magis trate, to communicate a most extraordinary circum stance, relative to which we have obtained the fol lowing particulars— It appears that yesterday afternoon, some brick layers were employed repairing the roof of a house in the neighbourhood of Burton.creseent, when one of them was astonished at finding a human hand. They immediately informed the inmates of t!te house of the discovery, but they could not account for its being there. The man who found the hand took it home. The affair excited a peculiar sensation in the neighbourhood, and information soon reached the station-house, when Inspector List immediately proceeded to make inquiry as to the cause of its being there, but he could not ascertain. The people of the house were quite ignorant of it, and appeared exceedingly alarmed on being told of the circum stauce. A report was soon spread that somebody had been murdered, and crowds of persons assembled round the house in the course of the day. Mr. List here produced the hand, which appeared to be that cf a female. It was brown and sun-burnt, and the flesh completely dried up, and seemed to have been cut off at the wrist. The Magistrate asked whether the place had been examined, and received for answer that nothing else belonging to the human form was discovered. The persons who now kept the premises had been there for some time, and seemed to be respectable individuals. The Magistrate thought it a most extraordinary affair, and directed Mr. List to keep possession of the hand, and make every possible inquiry as to its being there, which he promised to do, and left the office. QUEEN- S Q U. 4 R E. Yesterday Charles Lawrence, of Lower Belgrave place, Pimlico, was charged before Mess's. WHITE and HEATIICOTE with frequent acts of cruelty to his wife, and threatening to take away her life. Mrs. Lawrence detailed her husband's cruelty at some length, from which it appeared that on one occasion he had nipped her by the neck until it was black arid blue, and at another tittle he had seized her nose with his teeth, and bitten it, he was fre quently wishing her dead at his feet, and continually threatening to stab her with a knife. His conduct in fact, was so outrageous, that she went in danger of her life. The defendant, in reply to the charge, bad strong suspicions of a certain person, who had been paying attentions to his wife which he did not think proper. Some time E go he had given his wife leave to go to one of the watering-places with her child, for the benefit of the child's health. He accompanied her on board the steam-boat at London-bridge, and pro cured her a good seat on the deck, and while he was waiting to see the vessel off, he went on shore to buy his wife a few oranges, but no sooner 'had he returned on board, but he saw a gentleman sitting next his wife, on the very same seat which he had occupied. Here the defendant became very much agitated, and in the most vehement manner said that it struck him so to the heart that it was most fortunate for him that he had no weapon about him, as he should have committed murder, even if he had to mount the scaffold the next m;nute. The Magistrates could get no answer to the general ill-treatment of his wife, but a simple de nial ; and the only grounds of jealousy which the defendant appeared to have against his wife was, the accidental circumstance of a gentleman having taken a seat next his wife during the few minutes he was ashore to purchase oranges. The Magis trates could see nothing improper in Mrs. Law rence's conduct to warrant such ill-treatment, but— " Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmation strong As proofs of holy writ;" and so it appeared to be with the defendant, who declared that he never could live with his wife again. The defendant appeared to be so violent, on ac count of his imagined injury, that the Magistrates ordered him to find bail to keep the peace towards his wife, which he refused to do, and was conse quently locked up. THAMES P OLICE- OFFICE. 0 Yesterday an elderly masculine-looking woman, named Ann Newman, commonly called Nanny New. man, a laundress, was charged with committing a gross breach of the peace, and threatening the life of Mrs. Ann Kerr, and collecting a mob in fron4of her house, by giving out a report in the neighbour hood that she was a " Burker," and had" Burked" several persons. The complainant, a respectable female, had for many years kept a lodging-house, at No. 2, Roger's-court, near the Hermitage-bridge, Wapping; and a short time since she had occasion to prosecute a young man, named Richard Banks, the mate of a ship, who formerly lodged with her, for stealing a silver watch. Since that occurrence the defendant, who lived next door, from sonic cause had taken every opportunity of annoying her; and whenever she went out, abused her in the most vile terms, and called out " There goes a Burker." She was not content with this, but had actually promul gated a report throughout the neighbourhood, that she had " Burked" several persons and sold their bodies, and kept a common Bucking-house. Some persons had been foolish enough to believe the story, arid though on good terms with witness formerly, had since shunned her. Ann Baker, an interesting young woman, the daughter of Mrs. Kerr, who carries on the business of a dress-maker, stated that the base story invented by the prisoner had done her very great injury, and every time a person came to the door, she called out, " They have Burked poor Banks." A crowd of low characters had frequently assembled in front of the house, and many persons had threatened her and her mother with personal violence, believing that Banks had been improperly disposed of, though an account of his examination had appeared in the newspapers. Their lives had also been threatened by the prisoner, who had taken offence at their pro secuting Banks for a robbery. Another witness, a female, said that the old washerwoman (the prisoner) had persuaded her not to go near Mrs. Kerr's house or she would be " Burked." The prisoner, on being called upon for her de fence, struck the bar with great violence - and ex claimed, " I did say Mrs. Kerr and her daughter were Burkers, and I'll stick to them yet ; nothing is so sweet as revenge." She accompanied these words with the most threatening gesticulations to wards the complainant. Mr. BRODERIP ordered the prisoner to find sure ties, herself in 201., and two sureties of 101. each, to keep the peace towards the complainant for the next twelve months. After she had been locked up se veral hours, the prisoner found bail, and was dis charged. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The demand for Aluscovades has been general, and rather extensive ; the sales are estimated at 3,200 !Ms. and trs. ; the prices are a shade higher. The St. Lucia Sugars at public sale this day went off steadily at market prices, 425. 6d. a 48s. 6d. In the Refined trade there is little alteration this week. This afternoon there is scarcely any alteration to notice ; the fine descriptions entitled to the double-refined being the only sorts for which there is any briskness in the demand, and for these offers continue to be made for delivery a month hence, the refiners having already sold nearly all they can deliver previous to that time, and 325. Gd. is now generally de manded. At the close of the day more purchases are re ported, but all at very low prices. Lumps reported at 58s. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—The sales of Mauritius, Bengal, Sian, China, awl Java, all in small parcels, went off with some briskness at full market prices ; low mid. white Bengal 225. 6d. a 235. 6.1., strong fine white China 28s. a 28s. Gd., low to good white Siam 20s. a 255., the Java sold rather higher, good brown to strong mid. grey 20s. a 245. ; Mauritius for export only, brown to greyish yellow 16s. a 20s. The Mauritius public sale to-day went off at steady market prices 41s. Gd. a 525. 6d. FOREIGN SUGAR.—Since the public sale of last week, the particulars of which we gave, there have been no transactions in Foreign to any extent. The inquiries for Havannah are continued, but the demand for Brazil has rather decreased. TEA SALE.—The sale commenced on Monday. Boheas sold Is. I lid. a 2s. lid. being lid. to lid. above Sept. sale. The Congous sold first at Id. per lb. higher, but today they have gone rather lower, the lowest prices are 2s. lid. and 2s. 2d., good 2s. 2-id. a 21.3 d., fine 2s. 4y. a 2s. 7d. ; fine Congous are Id. per lb. under last sale, ate common ones a little higher. Some attempts have been wade to make the Boheas at a discount, and for this pur- Walls End 30 0 Walls End Hilda 'if; 6 Ditto Northumberland 28 6 Ship; at market, 68%.--Ship, NorwoodllettonTrader Lawrence Main small sold, 43N-Unsold, 44 t 4 s everal I 4 the 4 5 - before totr Agent a I.4 tiVe roof tt,t(; p c COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE V‘_,fj 1 Wheat. Barley. . Oats. 1 ......, s .13Pj, -'ANT C Per Quarter. -- Ashburn i 62 72 34 40 126 34 40 Sp'll: . 7' Ar „ ..,,, Basingstoke —1 56 75 30 40 1 2 , 2 28 0 r i i , ,,kk !s --- s• ,-, 0 Bath 46 50 3 0 42 26 32 4S 1 16'' t eli 0 ' ,„ 4 , , ,, — ,i 1 fe 'Bridgewater —,. '5B 72 26 30 22 26 „,,' #lsl4,i,ct'',,egh,etalle—Uany' Bristol 52 62 36 42 18 - 24 "' ' Chesterfield ..--... 64 70 26 32 46 1' T t te t Zrnutticati, Derby .—...—...........1 64 68 42 45 27 29 45 O f , 1 tt, t1. 1,,, a 'nuke wh be kt Devizes ..—.......—.. 1 66 70 40 21 29 i) n i ll ,c 4 v !o * 4 i r ti .„l tl Y ° o t ur G 1 t Doncaster ............... 57 68 26 42 %; 29 ';* ie,, i e ki t U niversal Dorchester—......... 52 64 36 42 22 28 Exeter 6O 70 31 40 —.--,.. • f01,! , t: the a pa u s e t i leac3 four G10uce5ter.............. 49 68 26 45 20 28 u° tOk • .„q r ~,t 4 e fleCt6 it Hungerford —..... 60 74 33 40 24 34 .-- 0 tt, k r div,„• fie , Leice5ter,................ 75 44 29 ": tiie'4 l :tria th i ree l i Newbury.................. 40 70 28 40 . 20 34 40 00. teria 1,1 , d ' Ramsey •—•—.... 56 64 32 40 24 29 •"' ‘ ll k iso ', roir iant .,` 1 Shaftesbury —....— 56 37 27 '''',, sk,lnJ th, i l' - ?! . Shepton Mallet .... 52 63 28 43 22 28 ;IY, ' ~t 4y, ,,,i ne rl LI Sherborne . 60 66 36 42 20 28 E i'kl,,, to ~,,:, 1 ' a Taunt0n.,,.,........ 58 72 35 20 itik 4 '''nsiii 1" . a Yeovil 56 64 34 4 20 26 y 4 0. 14 1 , -, 11 t. eratioi Per Bushel. S. d. s. d.ll. d. 5.6 s. d. s. d. 1. 4 ',., 1 ii:?:,: , tt on e w n l.; at Shrewsbury .......... 8 0 891 5 6 6 0 5 0 60, 0 " t ,4to4,..i.diate 411 qo MCP?? an . for h ome cv O m e , ettects 'Tile quantity of Wine imported 0 So's , 44 Y in sumption into this country, for the year IS3 I , ion" pr'r,t,y 'st, mfi,the cause to 6,629,486 gallons, yielding to the revenue a grol ,4 44 4;, 4 a0',;,. votor duce, in the shape of duty, amounting to 1,575,438 1 . 6.' 'ttAt' by here II —Liverpool Courier. 4 4, 4 ,tr ' t,:,,''i'lil: r fail l 'r4llPperieu( it ,, , t • Pormlac BIRTHS. i ,t tit he best, at On the Bth inst. at Tunbridge Wells, the lady of Co -01l i\l 'rP i qc. la. , Ned y in Hodgson, of a son. ~ j, „.1 k„,,, think 0 At Ahmednuggar, on the 12th of August, the lady 0 ' ovQl,,irtst it in o r Muspratt, Esq. Ci v il S erv i ce, o f a d aug ht er . 014 ate W ish that ki 'll,pat MARRIED. On the Bth Inst. W. Willes, Esq. of Astrop.house, cte t etek would front Northampton, to Sophia, daughter of W. R. Cartwrig" , ok to elk. Id) of Aynho, in the same county. 'AN t o es,an lines On the lith inst. at Cheltenham, C. Keldon, Esq., of t,.. 1- kitl i t ikr a ‘ e ,,,, , ; this Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards, to Annie, youngest 0 " r't 'Alt r' s t and, h ob it 1 14,„ ° 1 , or ri4i of R. Holden, Esq. On the Sth inst. at Lewisham, J. Jones, Esq. of Da,.. ) , ' e otitt il. re I u , e ,,Written Maria Ann, third daughter of G. Rich, Esq. of his 3 "" 14' tv Th l not oll'n toe e ll to l ' Customs. nn, t e-N. 'tea „ Put I.), On the Bth inst. at Worcester, the Rev. T. B. New , e 4 8 q , nanks son of 'l'. Newell, Esq., M D. of Cheltenham, to Catlicri° ' i , kro ri Your m o , eldest daughter of S. Crane, Esq. of Lewis, 0040 , 1.4 re strenuo On the 7th inst. by the Rev. S. Herschell, Lewis, sec, d '0tt0,.,. of H. Jonas, Esq., of Wellclose-square, to Simah, 8' L s 1), ,'s-terrace daughter of the late M. Levy, Esq. 1 1 . (:,, i i V egetal) DIED. On the 7th inst. in Great Portland-street, Mrs. Ogilvie, t , ~,4 4, 1 .e y i e r, g _ e ' Ne of the late General J. Ogilvie, aged 73. i,Gf, 51r . ; r anch, On the 6th inst. at the Rectory-house, the Rev. C. Smelt?" 4e1,. ‘ ranch, t Rector of Gedling, Nottinghamshire, and one of the 31a6' , r t kr , 'pee : 14_ _-, aged . On the 6th inst. at the Rectory-house, the Rev. C. Smel l '4l Rector of Oedling, Nottinghamshire, and one of the , tAtj for the county, aged 47. ~„ OA At her residence, in Ulster-place, the Dowager La"' t,' grieve, a ged 79. A , -- - • oth inst. M Pulhr - • , second • Field's, ( ja y!•g e ; Mr '• l ' n 'squay, ennett' On the 6th inst. at dam, Mr. J. C. Osborn, Mr. L. Osborn, of Margate. On the 9th of June last, at St. Thomas's Mount, near • in the 57th year of his age, Lieutenant-Colonel J. Tayntorh Madras army, after 41 years' service. On the sth inst. at * Portsmouth, Charlotte Eliza Jane , slaughter of Capt. J. Campbell, R.N. ' O s On the sth inst. at Bow, Chas. Palmer, Esq., of Sibford , in his 73d year. (tliff e -i ;cour 'PPing, C 1417 ;nAlies Va; ceehi ' , 5 414 i ueve!, I GI 6f One; " ofd tja. PRINTED AND PUBLISUFD BY AIURDO YOUNO. SUN 0 FICE, 112, STRAND, LONDON.: . , , : : : • : ' : 4 11. 11,11,N\ i n , withoutr , D T il l it y A sa L : L t:ri s rli,i .'' /It OVERSEER pose one or two lots have been sold, but it by no constitutes a discount on sale prices. , ~.STF.II, OR V COFFEE.-There is little British Plantation offe ' F INTY-FIVE MII i. t o h l e d lS a l t ar s k 4 et . ,. t ; h e fine prices itcreisa triage e B ar e a r i b n ice •2s. 8 1 6 )i . g . he a r, 9 .1 0 a s ma ; ie a a t rtfo : ri l: ii l cs N otf 'l L ' H 6i l ns iC i l i parcel of St. Domingo mixed, but a fair parcel was k,, Passed in the fir• 575. 6d. and 575., and since sold, we believe, abot3f il aiesty King Will I 1, , latter price. The purchases of Coffee by private coal for regulaa consist of nearly 2,500 bags, about one half casks 55.. a 575. ; Sumatra and Samarang 50s. a 535. ; 131 or the Counties o 575. and 58s. There were no public sales this clayi) ° rdshir,, Bucking up to a late hour no purchases by private contract re. Proper Machine reported. l' t at every Watcl Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDs.-The Rum M Place or places is little varied ; the purchases made continue to be et Pd by any two ( prices ; proofs about Is. 34d., 2 and 3 over le. p eace for the s. Brandy is still held with great firmness at the late adf i , of London and \ 1 and the deliveries for home consumption are more er - t , ' 1) tY-five miles f sive, averaging about 1,000 puncheons per month. a e same shall be neva still scarce; small parcels pale sold at 2s. 10d• to tim e by the Ov 2s. 11d. 'parish, P • .. ~., Leone HEM?, FLAX, AND TALLOW.--The arrivals frog a , Station, or sucl Petersburgh are large and increasing, yet the market I t 4, situate', out of proves ; the quotation to-night is 425. 6J. a 433. 01 It ° Township, Pd spot, and for delivery in February and March it is 42/' ~Y be used at a 434. Hemp and Flax still at nominal quotations. , T o wnship, Paris] leenmo.-There is little alteration in this market, 14 ? which there ri dull. It is stated that the next sale will not exceed 't; v 'rseers of any si chests. • ' hliall not prov FaUIT.-The price of new Zante and Cephalonia n) or such other rants was in he beginning of this week reduced tu l ' tli ll ' eti t 4c O riai s n h: O ff r epi before at at which a considerable quantity has been taken.dl old Currants there has been more demand, but the . ,or a new M ac Overseer shall n qualities have become scarce. New Red Smyrna ti ler notice of th continue to be taken o ff steadily at 435. Of new Va l ' ll °en to them, o Raisins the sales this week have been very considers 1',.. Police Oficer, 565., and the importers, in consequence of the she of the importations, now hold for 585., it having ascertained that the crop of this description of Fruit Ounds. year is unusually small. - f a ed, by Order Corrord.-The Cotton Market is steady. The saleo week consist of 730 Surat, ord. 3d., good 5d., 10 M good 4d., 360 Bowed, ord. 5d., good 6d. DRUGS (Cholera Articles).-These articles are oi ANTED, dull ; Camphor nominally about 131 ; Cajeput 00' 1.'',1:11:t TlistkehßriinmLntllstn.SherHsesAeTE, mi ßlDa'r 6s. ; Opium 18s. SALTEETRE.-There is little alteration in Saltpetre' Orts.-There is some briskness in Seed Oils, u 0 Gallipoli Oil there is little alteration in prices. ,50d Treatment a iil : tikelid o d; f nlb genteel oudt eir,aatree C nt o : l TOBACCO.-A cargo of Kentucky Tobacco has , said at 201. manifest weight ; and some more leafy VI is also reported for the Mediterranean. Of , , , Ootaming for SPICES.-About 5,000 bags Brazil Pepper, for exportation, were offered yesterday'; the whole w; 1 00y1 rem, in at 3irl., since which 1,200 bags have been dis 'le. at 3d. b --- -----......______„, 'lt post-paid TEA TRADE.-The English Committee at Canton j ,k l , AL SUCCI notice that all intercourse between the Chinese ru' u jb TEETH English would cease on the Ist of August; this 0 '- it ' I tODIBLE consequence of severe restrictions upon the trade, ire' 4 or other Lig by the local authorities, and supposed to be enforced "i v r ° - , SIEUE out the consent of the Emperor. Yesterday, accout itib, [eon Dentis the 28th of June gave the Emperor's decree for all E E T, i l3 O L: i e 0 x 1:1 , strictions upon English commerce. The Compall ' y e Patronage N vents announced that they must wait for instruct.oel the Governor-General of India, and until the answer '' l i " )1 - i ls respectfu received the intercourse should continue upon the / kiln imposed by the Emperor. This secures the loading (: z 0 1 to t general, t TEETH, the ships with Tea for this season, and had the eta 114'bANEUM, lowering the prices of Tea at the India House sale. ti 1 Hof L ondon , Performed ii PRICE OF SUGAR. i htat The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, an T il ~ or preset per rm cwt., tlie exclusive ßetur nsm o fatdheeidnutthi duties of eel to en m di s n p g aid D o e r c. p 6 a , ya is bi r e ; v o tte : l o u r asnan BART]ne on the importatio r n ß tl l ie c r u eo s f O in t to li G o re p at s ilri p ta ec in.. 9. , J to.. i. m -- Ne ' ti ' '-'ORRODI Kent Pockets.. .. 41 101. 51. 181. to 0 ' F A to Sprsex Ditto Flux Ditto ......... 4 4 1 4 12,. thi. 5 511 /.. 0 6 5 . .. to to b l y . T r lll . a nswer ever, Farnham Ditto. Fine...,...,,,,,..,.,, 9!. 9s, 121. Os. to kV t P ael4 ......---- Seconds 01. Os. 71. 06 to -' C , '4l r ' Kent Bags , 31. 10s. 51. 16s. to lh )pli.t r esult of the Sussex Ditto ..- 41. us. 4/. 10s. to 7; 0„ t ~. o ne of the Essex Ditto , 41. os. 5/. ss. to 1. Peri o d Duty laid at 174,8641. ___in i , , on Mo in,d ~), `-lernens-str PRICE OF OIL. LRisopeseedOil, Oilbrown -...a2.1. ti 11...-. Refined ....... 04 ., ,1 1 t N 1 )4, 33 - ' and Satur ~. ~, • Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ............ '' s l..\';"•;--._...______ Rape Cake, per ton ... -- - li 4 0 L E PRICES OF LEATHER. d,t , iti Per lb. d. to d. Per lb.. Ic, , 1 b e „ duns ')o to 561 b.... 15 19 Tanned Horse Hides.. . 4 ti t] S leave to z Ditt0.........-60 to 661 b..... 16 21 Spanish Ditto ..........,..... I . $ t k ,.. ,. a00ve appal' til -. Ap paratus Dressing Hides--....... 13i 15 Fine Coach Hides ....... 16 18 C p a it lf to Sk".. P . e : d 7 36: t t e o o n Bol 4t . - a b b .. , ,I , . . 1 ! C u r i o tt p . H___ides, 35 40 to o 4Mb. 401b. 14 13 1 4 4 i Dlttb";;;;;.... 50 to 7011). I', ;.t e a ti n ° a D V: answers kindly e y P (Signed: ditto ./ , p erland, Nev. WHITECHAPEL HAY SIARKET.-Dec. 8. f'%e r Hay .-........ 50s. Od. to 755. Od. I C10ver....... 555. Od. to 11 5 ' Straw....--..-...... 245. Od. to 34a. Od. ....AZlcation (post. PRICE OF POTATOES.-Dec. 9. IN 4 in a neat sn Ware ~. 21. 5 ,,. to 3/ . O s . per ton' • %1N .,......__ *e t o _a_l_Lpar Kidneys Scotch Reds - Puke of ,I P .ai ll l l o C w E cas Or ut ß od A b W y t E he A , T r Gi a , ll p o thi ej PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, .9tc. per 11211). ~,,,, % .._ , '''' " A ]own Tallow .....-......... 50s. Od. Yellow Soap_ Yellow Ru55ia............. 445. Od 1M0tt1ed.._ ...........A. t it 0 0e 31 nitee . r05 0 t) 5 ..............„81 . ditto CURE Jo v r, s, c White-- 455. (Id. White-..........--• -*** Soap Ditto 42s. 6d. Graves .........--......,.•• Melted Stuff... 36s, Od. Good Graves ................... "%t, til have loos Ditto Rough ..`246. Od. Ati,, ti t '"nent Ph •si ~ Ail ''', [ Wore ). PRICE OF CANDLES. re need folly" s re • The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as , 1 4t1 stipple, pot Candles, per doz. 76. Od. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen...e.e' k ti te, with RAW HIDES. ~. 01114t4re, the I),' Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. I. 0,,' q. the From t. 1 2-- / cL, l4ll l l . 4 : t ible discos Ltest Heifers& Steer 32 8 3 0 Ordinary 1 ~ Ni, whole th. Middlings ..................... -2 2 2 6 Market Calf-........ 6 SHEEP SKINS. 5 . ~,,-, t hough not ' t --. P RA AK Polled .....---... 3s. 6d. to ss. 6d. I Downs ......-. 26. fal. s° L i bth, s ~ , Lamhs-..........--- Os. tat. to Os. Od. , ii, . Rittiou % i n rnan cos COAL MARKET.-Dec. 9 , 9 b l ii ll iES Y ' Bensham Main , - 275. Od. Walls End Newznarch•• , 4R , ,PA Dean's Primr05e.......... 27 0 Walls End Russell's...-. 0 ri , PORTA East Percy. ---. 25 9 Walls End Walker.....-• a s i , 11(\., t l i o i r in a g rd wo s r l t a h in = 2 29 9 6 0 1 Bell's Lambton's Prim r p o r r m -............ , '3 2 ~ Petaw Pontop Windsor 26 0 Walls End Lyons ---••• 5 ( i Shipcote South H01ywe11........ .25 0 W. E. Russell's Hetton '4. 2 :"tp ri _ bo i co _ 27 0 Walls End Lamnt0n......1 i t -- . 4 Presit West Hartley ... 27 0 Walls End Stewart's ..,'", Ikit_nti, Ott ;-' vg .. Wylam. 27 9 Walls End Stohart's.... 'l O ;I, tta,., eterr i Walls End Bell & C 0..... 20 0 Walls End Adelaide... , yk t i 2aE of the ut Dittoßell,Ruhson,&Co. 0 Walls bind Tee 5.......--• " , 3 1, 4 at o „„ in a E ne g n i y n .---- e ....".. °5 0 3 P i" 'd s e Ditto Bewicke and Co. 30 0 New Flockton, Milne, ~A ,L,sa k i t _ rt , g . Walls End Callerton -.. 26 0 and Co _ ..• ;*"‘ 1 1 - ,71. p, tr : e c; at as Ag g e t i v i Walla E E n n il d C o a o r . r ib a r t t i d h C .w. o. `.. 29 )7 6 6 T w r ,a i m r d s e a T s a i, i m watt. vnli 14.qtnn 'VI n v,..--„1ir....--r...apr _. t es_ _ rend T. 0 :14111:stioQ‘aril,":::.I.SaRTFEeEERaA°Anl: v