The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-23 00:00:00

confess their fault in resisting the nation's demand for a purification of her representative system, many offences would be forgiven for the sake o 1; e curing a well-organized and well-disciplined cabinet; but England is not prepared to go back to the vomit of old abuses, nor to adopt as guides those who wish to roll her again in the mire of political corruption.— Times. The emancipation of the Dissenters from poli tical disabilities of every kind and degree is nigh at hand, and, if they will only have a little patience, they must soon .obtain an equality of civil rights. The bigots and fanatics of the High Church . party may, for a short time, prevail in the Upper House of Parliament, but the triumphant majority of 174, on the second reading of the bill of Mr. G. W. Wood for the admission of Dissenters to the English universities—leaves no doubt of the opi nion of the country, and that opinion must soon make itself felt in the House of Lords. The mea sure received the unanimous support of ministers, and we must not too nicely criticise the remarks 'of Lord Althorp on the modification it ought to receive in committee, as the liberal s'entiments of his lOrdship are well known, and the Cabinet of tord Grey is pledged to maintain the connection between church and state. The argument of the ‘debdte iirat by no means remarkable. Policy . deference to prejudices and sinister interests— 'aprieatced to pervade all the speeches, except that ;01 . Nlr. O'Connell, who placed the question on its plain and simple merits. The objections of the Tories were stale and utterly groundless. We are at a loss to imagine how the admission of Dis , senters to the English colleges should affect the religious education of memb rs of the 'establish ment, unless it be admitted that the doctrines of the hierarchy are founded in error. The Uni versities of Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, and St. Andrews, admit indiscriminately students of all religious persuasions —afford them equal access to degrees and professorships—divinity excepted ; and, :yet ; notwitltanding, the Presbyterian Church con ttfnues ',:nenational establishment of Scotland. And , :pon what possible principle can the • English uni versities he deemed the exclusive institutions of the t'nglish hierarchy and clergy ? Were they Pro "testant in their foundation, or instituted exclusively for the promotion of religion ? Certainly not. The sinaksity of the Oxford colleges and halls may 'haVe been originally endowed by Ecclesiastics, but 'every foundation has received munificent contribu-1 tions from opulent and distinguished laymen. Re ligion, though a primary object of education, was :ever taught exclusively. Science and art may, in deed, have lost ground, and suffered from the mo .nopoly of the clergy, but the range of - the Univer sities is much wider than the fanatics and clerical nu nopolis'..s are willing to admit. The foundations of Cambridge were chiefly formed by laymen ; and, if the authority and antiquity of creeds are the - iassports tO the enjoyment of the intellectual advan tages of Oxford and Cambridge, we should claim for the Catholics the exclusiVe right of admission— a privilege out of which, according to the argument cif the minority against Mr. Wood, the Catholics have been basely swindled. But the bigots do not eon - tent themselves with proscribing Dissenters from Oxfordand Cambridge ; they impudently seek to _ _ prevent the establishment of Universities . for the ex- eluded classes in London and other parts of England, heir poition beiog, " W. will not educate you, nol• shall you educate yourselves." We ' cannot and language strong enough to express our con tempt and detestation of such disgusting illiberality and persecution. We will not insult the under standing of the public by condescending to reply to the sophistical defence of such glaring injustice, such iolence to " the spirit of the age." We no longer acknowledge any distinction between " civil" and ecclesiastical toleration." We demand a full and rwon diticnial restoration of the rights of the dis senters in their relation between God and man, and are not disposed to discount a single claim, or to urrender any Protestant principle. We are quite aware that the House of Lords will reject any mea ,,ine of relief, however modified. The strength of the dose is its only chance of curing the patient. The constitution of the Lords has not yet been treated with specifics sufficiently astringent. We hope that next session ministers will be pre liared with unqualified and substantial :mea sures for the redress of the practical grievances of the dissenters, and we are glad to see that Mr. William Brougham's measure of parochial re _ gistration has been adopted by the Government. We are willing to make great allowances for the difficulties and perplexities of the late Cabinet. Mf. Stanley seems to have been an unwilling convert to the opinions of his late colleagues, and begins almost to repent of his declarations on the Cam bridge petition. But from the purified Ministry the dissenters have a right to expect a bold and manly policy on their behalf, neither can afford'to lose the support of the other. We fully admit tho past obligations of the Dissenters to Lord Grey, as acknowledged in the Bristol memorial last week. But altered times and a new distribution' of power involve new claims. The Dissenters justly require further relief, and, notwithstanding the sedative recommendation Of the memorialists of Lewin's Mead, the Dissenters must knock loudly and in ressantly at the door of the Cabinet and of the House of Lords, or they will never gain admisSion into the English Universities. The House of Corn mons is, however, open to them, and we doubt not that they will speedily pass through that portal into the colleges of Oxford and Cambridge. All parties will be gainers. It is by the collision of minds that intellect is fully developed. The Universities of the Continent have been long republics of i letters in the true sense ; and when the Dissenters and our starched clergy have come into closer con tact, the latter will form a truer estimate of the in tellect and power of the former. At present the Oxford doctors of divinity speak of nonconformists —of Pierce, Lardner, Priestley, and Robert Hall— as Jamaica planters usually speak of their negroes. This theological distinction between " whites and blacks" in the Christian profession will soon be obli terated ; it was of Tory creation, for political pur poses. The Country now begin to understand who are the Church robbers. The real spoliators are the Tories, who have plundered the Dissenters of their civil rights, and refuse restitution of the stolen goods ; and the crime of sacrilege is the non-resi dence, the pluralism, the Church sinecurism, which defrauds equally the laity and working clergy. If the parsons much longer continue their cry of " Church in danger," the liberal members of the establishment will envy the English Dissenters and the Scotch Presbyterians the privilege of choosing their own ministers. Indeed we shall soon see the establishment more violently assailed from within than withotit. The Tory clergy are fast working out their own salvation.—Morning Chronicle. Ministers are now reaping the fruit of that dilato riness and want of method which, unfortunately for the country, marks all their proceedings. Parlia ment has now been sitting four months, and has arrived at the very verge of the dog-days, yet the main business of the session remains still to be en tered upon—we mean the Budget, the promised measures of agricultural relief, and the settlement of the tithe question, both in England and Ireland; nor should we be at all surprised if every one of these vital questions were allowed to " stand over" till another session ; the House of Commons du ring this inefficient period having sat probably more hours, and the House of Lords fewer, than was ever known. This latter circumstance accounts for a great deal of the practical inertness of the session, and is implied in that want of method and prear rangement to which we have adverted. Seeing that the Prime Minister, and by far the greater number of his colleagues, are members of the Upper House, it seems quite obvious that it would have been both wise and politic that the labour of initiating mea sures should have been equally divided between the two houses, so that each might have been at work bimultaneously, and easing each other's labours.- et, with the exception of the Metropolitan Cri . - minal Courts Bill, not a measure of any magnitude or importance has proceeded from that house, where the sterling mass of parliamentary talent is, after all, I to be found, and which must, consequently, now be compelled to slur over its duties, or postpone them, greatly to the disadvantage of the country. This state of things would have been avoided had Par lianient met, as it ought to have done, before Christmas, had ministers then been prepared with the measures which they meant to bring forward, and had such of their number as are members of the upper house taken charge of a fair portion of them. But, perhaps, we shall be told in reply to this sug gestion that the House of Lords is not to be trusted, and that it is absurd to expect that.mini sters would intrust their measures of reform to them. We believe the country in general has of late become 'very much disabused on this subject, and that though there may be rather more of the old leaven of anti-reform in that house than is quite in accordance with " the spirit of the age," it is yet to be proved that this branch of the legislature is, as a body, opposed to any wholesome improvements in any of our institutions, civil or spiritual, of which the necessity and the consequences are made fairly apparent. That there is a strong conservative feel ing in that house cannot be denied ; nor is it at all to be regretted. It is of the very nature of our constitution that each of its three estates should be a check upon the others. 'to produce this cheek, and render it effectual, the object, above all, desira ble is that the House of Commons should present a true image of the feelings and opinions of the people. This it was to have been hoped that re form would have brought about. We doubt whe ther it has yet done so, though it is to be hoped that in time it may. In the meanwhile, the people are not indifferent to the just influence of the other two estates of the realm. Indeed, we are not sure that they are not, at this moment, looking to them in quite as full a confidence as to their own peculiar branch of the legislature.—Morning Herald. If any conclusion can be drawn from the present tone of the Irish papers, it would indicate that the agitation for the repeal of the Union is to be re sumed with great activity. The imbecile manage ment of the Secretary for Ireland certainly affords Daniel O'Connell and Co. plenty of room for the exercise of their powers of mischief. We are, hpwever, pleased to observe that the Corporations are taking up the question of the Established Church in real earnest ; and the announcement of a great Protestant meeting in Dublin, in the first week of July, will be hailed with satisfaction by all true friends of the Protestant Establishment in Ireland. The Guild of Merchants has already assembled for the purpose of preparing a petition to the Throne and both' Houses of Parliament, to preserve the United Church of Great Britain and Ireland, as established at the Union. We promise a querulous Contemporary many repetitions in other places of what it is pleased to call the " poor affair." —Morning Post. Heartily do- we congratulate our readers upon the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill having passed the committee of the House of Commons, without al terations which would lessen the efficiency of any of its great and leading principles. From the moment that we first noticed this bill to our last article upon it, we approved of it as a whole. We suggested some modifications, which have, we are glad to say, been carried into effect ; and although we do not think that all the alterations the bill has received are amendments, we are inclined to the opinion that it is now, though not perfect as a piece of legisla tion, founded on just and sound principles, and car rying those principles into practice, better suited to the present state of the country. We have no doubt that in those journals which - have distinguished themselves by the narrow and bigoted views they have taken of this question, we shall read'again to day, as we have frequently read during the progress of this bill, it will not be passed by the reformed House of Commons. It is curious to see the Times and Morning Post both opposing this great measure. " Extremes," says an old proverb, "sometimes meet." So it is in this instance. The Times fancies it has great power—knows that when it has advo cated just views and principles, meetings have sprung up apparently at its command, and measures, we may almost say, have been carried by its advo cacy. It well knows that it lives upon such excite ment, and appears, in the fancied plenitude of its power, to have thought that just or unjust weight in using its power was the same, and that the-exist ence of a ministry as almost of the state itself, was under its control. But what a lesson must have been forced upon it lately. All the abusive language, all the violent temper of the noble lord who is generally supposed to influence the councils of that paper, have not assisted either to check the formation of a new ministry, or the rejection of this bill. We say, had the Times in this instance been guided by principle, and not by private and petty feelings, how much good would have arisen, 'and how much more satisfactory would the result have been to the principles on which every journalist ought to rest ! But we cannot say we are so much surprised at the conduct of the Morning Post. No measure of this government, however good— no Whig minister, however honest—can expect to receive its support. No wonder then that it abuses this healing measure ; no wonder that it disapproves of a bill which it must know will raise the honest labourer in the scale of society— which will prove education to be a blessing, and thus give to the present Ministry and Government a support, a sympathy, which will tend more to its durability than perhaps any measure that could be devised. We should not have devoted so much space to the notice of the contemporary press, had not articles appeared in those we have alluded to which, we think, ought not to be passed over in silence. In the Times of Friday, after some allu sions to the bastardy clause—" We wonder what humane Christian it was that proposed to add this cruel injury to_ the misery that must result to all honest parents for having strumpets for their daugh ters. However, the clause is gone, and now the public will, in almost every case, have to support the illegitimate offspring of the lower orders, be cause such women as the bill is directed against will hardly ever be able to support themselves, much less themselves and their children." We are almost inclined to ask, is such a scandalous paragraph,—a paragraph containing misrepresen tations as regards the bill, misrepresentations as regards the lower orders, they are pleased to speak of, and a degree of vulgar feel ing which is almost intolerable, worth answer ing ? We say, however, that it is, and will begin by replying to the first inquiry, that the Christians who proposed to make the mother sup port her offspring are the Bishops of London and Chester, Mr. Sturges Bourne, Mr. Senior, and the other members of the Poor Law Commission, and all the members of the House of Commons except 30. But this is an unimportant part of the article, for they say, "the public will have to support the bastards of the lower orders." In the first place, whO suppoits the mother and the bastard now ? What proportion of the cost of supporting them in the country districts is received from the reputed father ? And how often do the fathers of the bastards in question belong to what the Times would call the higher orders, and are sworn, by the inducements of the present iniquitous system, to working and labouring men ? And how often is a labourer, by having a child so sworn, induced to make an improvident marriage, and thus increase the burdens of the parish? But, says the Times, " the public will have to support the bastards." Who supports them now ? Who supports the host of illegitimate children in towns, the mothers of whom cannot swear to a father ? It is 1 the rate-payers who support them, a large portion of whom consist of industrious persons, supporting families with difficulty, but still maintaining them in independence, and these are the public upon whom the Times wishes to perpetuate an injury un- I exampled in the annals of any country. Who can 1 so well support—who, by the laws of God and man, is so justly called upon to support a child as its mother? We could, had we space, cite instances from the commissioners' report where pregnant women, to avoid being removed to their settlements, previous to their confinement, have, by concealing themselves, been subject to great privations and distress, and this because they knew that, if sent to a distant settlement, they must be confined in a workhouse. We wish, and we have before ex pressed it, that the father could be punished ; but as the punishment of a father must depend on the oath of a woman who has already broken down.the strongest of virtue's barriers, and as swearing the child to a father involves the continuance of all the iniquities which are now so prevalent, we are glad that there is no provision which requires that an oath of (generally speaking) an immoral woman should be the sole ground for punishing frequently an honest man, who is not allowed to,,indeed who cannot, disprove the fact. Now for the Tory oppo sition. We quote from the Morning Post of Saturday. We will not notice it after we have sub mitted the paragragh to our readers ; and only say, that any journal which could admit such immo rality —any journal which could hope to obtain sup port to the cause it advocates by such means, must be influenced by principles which ought to insure its exclusion from the table of every family in the kingdom. The paragraph we are going to extract is certainly unfit for the young ladies who sip their noonday coffee over this fashionable paper. The following is the specimen of the language of the correspondent of the Morning Post we have alluded to :—" I beg to ask whether I am not entitled to compensation for considerable expenses which I have beefs put to in maintaining seven bastard children, three girls and four boys, by different mothers Y" Could any one have believed that such a letter would have been admitted into a journal of the year. 1834? We have now shown the extremities to which the opponents of this measure are obliged to resort, and we think that every unprejudiced reader will regret that pique in the one case, and the malevolence of party feeling in the other, could induce any one to perpetrate so gross an injustice upon the virtuous peasantry and industrious artisans of this country, as to advocate the continuance of a system which entails the support of the offspring of vice, not on its parent, but upon the respectable rate-payers of the country. We began this article by congratu lating our readers upon the bill having passed the Committee of the House of Commons ; but another subject for congratulation arises from the perusal of the very able, eloquent, and we may almost say, kind speech of the Lord Chancellor, in the House of Lords on Friday. The effect upon the House proves that there the Poor Law Bill will not meet with much opposition. The benefits likely to arise from the amendment of the poor laws have not been more forcibly exposed by any writer than by the Lord Chancellor in the speech we have alluded to, and we shall conclude by giving it to our readers more accurately than we were able to do on Satur day : - • " Though many other counteracting influences to the good effects of education suggested themselves he would not now press them upo n th e ir lordships. Still there was one which it was impossible to overlook—which operated without intermission, and became worse and worse in every effect which it produced—which extended its evil influence farther and wider than any other course, and in some parts of the country lowered the population to the .level of the very brute, converting them, by its contaminating effects, into common mendicants and sturdy beggars. The mon strous off-set to the advantages of education, the gigantic counteracting agent which stilled the„clesire cf independ ence, and removed all prudential restraints, was to be found it the poor laws, or the abuses which in later times had ' grown into them. .NN: hat mastered it that he and others who laboured with him exerted themselves to diffue infor mation through the land=of what avail was it that central schools had been established—what signified it that books had been circulated, and knowledge rendered so cheap as that there was none so poor who could not at the end of twelve months make up, as it were, a library of those cheap and valuable publications? But what signified all this? It was but as a drop in the ocean; it was but the least imaginable particle of antidote in a full tumbler glass of prussic acid, compared with the power which it possessed to remove the obnoxious and overwhelming influence of the poor laws. But still he hoped he could say that this cause of evil had now arrived at its worst, and that an effective re medy was now about to be applied. With these opposing influences, with the vices of a population nearly doubled, with the baleful and wide spread evils emanatinc , from bad laws, and worst and most extensive of all, with the abuse of the poor laws, education, whilst they existed, may as ef fectually endeavour to compass the good it was calculated to produce, as a little cock-boat to ride Up against the Thames ' when the current rolled strongest. fhe effects of educa tion could only be seen when men were thrown upon their own resources—when the abuses of the poor laws, which raged like an epidemic, were done away with-when it no longer made a rule of conduct by which men may be idle or industrious at their pleasure, and the result be all the same. Neither man.i.or fiend could devise a law so preg nant with evil, so calculated to remove all restraint upon the passions, and destroy every motive to honest and honourable industry. , It was ordained that man should earn his bread by the sweat of his brow ; but here was a law which contravened this ordination—which said, whe ther your brow be parched with toil, or wet with indus try, or otherwise—whether you labour or are idle, no mat ter—though the veriest snail, or merest sluggard, you shall eat up the provision of your industrious fellow -citizen, and his labour shall pay the penalty of your idleness. This law said in effect, do not take the trouble to be prudent ; never mind how improvident may be the union into which you enter ; do not care how you desecrate the matrimonial rite, by plunging wives into distress, and bringing children into the world for a heritage of misery and want ; never consider these, for we prudent and painstaking men will tax ourselves, and yield up the produce of our industry, to support you in your lazy, self-gratifying courses, and pro long your idle existence out of the results of our earnings. This was, in effect, the language which the poor laws, as abused, spoke to those disinclined to labour. What could be expected from education under such a system, which opened the door to vice, and rendered the feelings of those who availed themselves of its abuses callous to any touch of virtue or better feeling ? Would the persons who were thus practised to live upon the industry of others--to pick their pockets indirectly—would they be less likely to do so directly?" As soon as the bill, with the amendment, is printed, we shall return to the subject.—llforn. Advertiser. -PRIVY COUNCIL, JUDICIAL COlll MITTEE, JUNE 20. THE THETIS TREASURE-SALVAGE. This was an appeal from a judgment of the late Sir Christopher Robinson, in the Admiralty Court, in respect to a question of salvage of a large amount of treasure shipped on board his Majesty's frigate Thetis, which was lost at Cape Frio in 1830, the greater part of which treasure was recovered by Captain Dickin son, of his Majesty's sloop Lightning, and the Hon. Captain De Roos, of his Majesty's ship Algerine, both under the orders of Rear-Admiral Sir Thomas Baker, K. C. 8., Commander in Chief of the South Ameri can station. The facts of the case have already been frequently before the public. After twelve hours' hearing, The VICE-CHANCELLOR delivered the judgment of their lordships. Without going through the facts of the case, it was sufficient to say, their lordships were unanimously of opinion that a sufficient reward had not been awarded to Admiral Baker and Captain Dickinson, his officers and crew, the only persons who had appealed against the decree ; and that, considering the length of the service, and the labour and exertions of the sailors, it was not too much to allot to Admiral Baker and Captain Dickinson, his officers and crew, 12,0001., in addition to the sum allotted in the decree as it stood. Their lordships were, therefore, of opi nion that the decree, in point of form, must be re versed ; but they directed that the expenses of all the proceedings should be deducted from the property, as the Court below had directed ; that the further sum of 12,0001. be added to the salvage already allotted to Admiral Baker and Captain Dickinson, his officers and crew, to be divided according to the order in Council of 1827, the effect of which was to give Ad miral Baker one-eighth of the sum, Captain Dickin son two-eighths, and the remaining five-eighths to be divided in the manner directed in the said order. Their lordships were of opinion that not only did the length and arduousness of the service justify this increase of the sum which had been 'allotted, but that the giving of the increased sum was very much in the spirit of previous decisions, which had allotted one-third and one-half in such cases. The amount recovered to the underwriters for the owners was 157,000 The Ad miralty expenses were 13,800/. ; the expenses of agency 12,000/. ; and 17,000/. the amount of salvage already, allotted. These sums, together, made 42,800/. ; adding thereto the sum now given, the whole would be 54,0001. and'a fraction, which sum would be some what more than one-third of the gross treasure reco vered. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MA N SION-HOUSE. A young man, named George Myers, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged with having robbed Mr. Naphthali Hart of a diamond pin. Remanded. Wednesday. William Williams , a well-dressed, gen teel-looking lad, wa s b r ought b e f ore the LORD MAYOR, charged under the following circumstances : Mr. Hyam Ansel], of Savage-gardens, as he was passing along Aldgatc, near Jewry-street, felt a tug at his pocket, and, upon turning about, he saw the prisoner close behind him. While he was putting his hand to his pocket to ascertain whether he had lost any thing, he saw the prisoner try the pocket of another person, and at that time missing his own handkerchief, he went up to the prisoner to seize him. The prisoner, however, drew coolly back, and gave him a regular pugilistic blow on the side of the head, which almost knocked him senseless. He was then surrounded by ten or a dozen fellows, whom the police called the " swell mob," and he saw his handkerchief pass from one to the other amongst those vagabonds. It was a red handkerchief. Witness was obliged to sit up all night, and be attended by a doctor, on ac count of the blow, which, for force, he never supposed could have been inflicted by a human fist. The prisoner—My Lord, I never touched the man until he had the impudence to charge •me with the robbery, and struck me. What could Ido but return the blow, and you can't call a blow a robbery ? . _ The LORD 'MAYOR—Pray, what are you, prisoner? Prisoner—l am in the service of a man of business, a general hawker ; and he would be here to answer for my respectability, but that he was unfortunately obliged to leave town this very morning to visit various parts of the country. A policeman said that the prisoner was one of the most desperate of the London thieves now at large, and was ready at all times with his fists ; his blows always told, for he hit like a sledge-hammer, and his companions were all in the fighting line, but walked arm-in-arm like gentlemen when they, were " setting" a passenger in the street. Witness saw the prisoner pass a red handkerchief to others of the swell mob, and afterwards strike the complainant on the head in a dreadful manner ; after which he accused the com plainant of robbing him of his hat. Prisoner—l lost my hat in the confusion caused by his exceedingly improper conduct. How did I know but some of his companions had it ? The idea of my taking his handkerchief is quite ridiculous. It is true I returned the blow, but you , can't make anything of that but a common assault. The LORD MAYOR —We know you, and you may account for the business in this way to a jury. Prisoner—Oh 1 then you mean to send me to under go a trial in a criminal court ? The LORD MAYOR—Not a doubt of it—at the Old Bailey; and officer, take care of him until you have lodged him safely in Newgate. Prisoner—That's as much as to say that I am pulled for a felony ? The LORD MAYOR—Exactly. Prisoner—Oh ! very well.—Committed for trial. GUILDHALL. A poor woman came in crying, with her marriage certificate in her hand, and said she had been chris tened " Molly," but every one called her Mary, and she was married in that name. Her husband, how ever, now insisted that it was no marriage at all, be cause she was not entered as " Molly," and she wished to know if she was right. She was delighted with the answer that her mar riage was good, and went away with a smiling face. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A fashionably dressed young man, who gave his name Honeywood Newman, was on Wednesday placed at the bar, charged with obtaining by fraudulent repre sentations the sum of 1301. and upwards from Mr. Lloyd, a banker, of Birmingham. The prisoner, who represented himself as the son of Sir -- Honeywood, late M. P. for Kent, deposited a check at Mr. Lloyd's for several hundred francs, made payable at a foreign house. On the instrument being deposited he did not desire cash, but afterwards by his plausible manner and representations succeeded in obtaining the money above mentioned. It had been ascertained that he was no relative of the member of Parliament for Kent, and that the obtaining was a dishonest one. Mr. DYER Was of opinion that the case was incom plete, and the prosecutor then assured the magistrate that there were other cases against him at Birmingham. Immediately afterwards a female who was present charged the prisoner with bigamy, he having inter married with her daughter while his former wife was living. On the latter case the prisoner was remanded. On Saturday, some time before the prisoner was placed at the bar, several persons were observed in the neighbourhood of the office in close consultation, and apparently having some sort or object in view. All the witnesses on the bigamy case, except two, were, for at least an hour, sitting at an ()lien window of a public house exactly in view, and within a few yardg of the office. When the prisoner was put to the bar no person appeared to charge him on either case (although Mr. Lloyd was known to be in the street within a short distance of the office) • consequently Mr. Dyer directed the prisoner to be discharged, and the prisoner accordingly left the bar and came into the body of the office. Some observations were made respecting the money, 701., found on the then prisoner, and taken charge of by the policeman ; and upon an application being made to Mr. Dyer the money was directed to be given up to the prisoner. A person in spectacles immediately stepped forward and claimed a sum of 601. on the prisoner's order. The policeman handed this amount over to him by desire of 'the pri soner. It having been intimated that the parties re specting the bigamy case were not in attendance, a most singular desire, after the 601. was paid, appeared to actuate several persons who had got admission into the office to get the discharged person out of the pre cincts of the office in the most private manner. Accordingly, in place of going out at the usual door, he was conducted through the private room and let out, surrounded by his friends, who appeared to be the same parties who had been seen consulting to gether in the street. The prisoner had hardly got into the passage when a loud hubbub was heard, and fe male voices were heard to exclaim, " The villain will escape —stop him." The noise reached the ears of all in the office, but no inquiry was made into it until Mr. Fitzpatrick, the chief clerk, went out ; and upon learning that all the witnesses in the bigamy case were outside, and were forcibly kept out of the office, he gave prompt instructions, and ultimately Clements, one of the officers, pursued the person and collared him, with the intention of bringing him again into the office. In this design he was opposed by a person named Levy, who said he was a sheriff's officer, and that the prisoner was in his custody on a writ for a sum which, singularly enough, was stated to be for, the same, or about the same, as Mr. Lloyd previously charged the person with having defrauded him of. The accused was ultimately brought into the office, and placed at the bar, on a charge of bigamy, by the name of Charles I - loneywood Newman, or Charles Newman Honeywood. - The evidence respecting the charge was then gone into. The certificate of the prisoner's marriage with Mary Ann, his first wife, was exhibited. He was mar ried at St. Mary's church, Bryanston-square, on the 24th May, 1828. The other certificate, of the second marriage, was shown, from which it appeared he was again married at St. Mary's, Lambeth, on the 17th December, 1831, to Francis Elizabeth Carrington, widow. The first wife, a genteel young female, dressed in deep mourning, was in the office during the proof of these marriages. The person of the prisoner was sufficiently identified by individuals who were pre sent at the different ceremonies. The prisoner was married on the first occasion in the name of Newman, and in the second by the name of Honeywood. When the Prosecutor was asked why he did not come forward before, he replied that he was prevented from entering the office by some friends, he supposed, of the prisoner. Some of the witnesses declared that they had been forcibly held back when they attempted ,to get into the passage; and, if it. had not been for their outcries when they perceived the manner in w hich the prisoner was being conveyed out of the office. they were convinced he would have got away. The prisoner was fully committed. It was stated that the prisoner was at present pass ing by the name of Neville, and cohabiting with another female. The representation respecting his being the natural son of Sir William Honeywood is totally dis believed. Mr. Gibbons mentioned in the course of his evidence that his deceased daughter, when she was married to the prisoner, was married in the name of Carrington, and as a widow. Her real name, however, was Gib bons, and she had never before been married. Mr. DYER said this made no difference in the matter before him, provided the identification of the parties was sufficiently clear. After the prisoner was removed the police concerned , in the _custody of the prisoner came forward, and re probated in plain language the " dirty work" which had apparently been transacted. THAMES POLICE. THE STEAMERS AND THE WATERMEN.—Wednesday James Philpot, the master of the Queen Adelaide, a small steam-vessel, which formerly ran between Rich mond and London, but has lately carried passengers between Hungerford market and Greenwich, appeared to answer a summons laid under the thirty-third by law of the Watermen's Company, which charged him with acting as master of the steam-boat, he not having been approved of, or licensed to do so, by the Water men's Company, by which he had incurred a penalty not exceeding 5/. and costs. The cage excited a good deal of interest among the watermen, who crowded the office, and who have been great sufferers by the steam-vessel conveying passen gers to and from Greenwich, which has deprived them of numerous fares, and reduced many of them to a state of great distress. Cadwell, a waterrnan, plying at Hungerford-stairs, on Sunday, the Bth inst., saw the defendant acting as master of the Queen Adelaide steamer. He was on the paddle-box waving his hand and giving directions. He heard the defendant plying the people in Hunger ford-market to go by his steamer to Greenwich. Mr. White, a member of the Watermen's Com pany, saw the defendant acting as master of the steamer on the evening of the day in question on the river off Waterloo-bridge. Mr. Andrew Dawson, a barge builder, gave similar evidence. Mr. Banyon, clerk of the Watermen's Company - , proved that the defendant had not been approved of or licensed to act as master of the Queen Adelaide, nor was the vessel licensed to ply between London and Greenwich at all. Mr. Hobler, jun., for the defendant, contended that the case had failed, inasmuch as it had not been proved that defendant was a freeman, and the Act of Parliament and the by-laws only extended to freemen. Mr. Cutler, the beadle of the Watermen's Com pany, was called to prove the defendant was a free waterman. Mr. Banyon said that Philpot had been registered ever since the 17th of May, 1810. Mr. BALLANTINE said the question was whether the defendant was licensed to manage the steamer, and it was proved he was p not. The Watermen's Company had not approved of him, and he thought they could not exercise a better discretion than in selecting proper men for the management of such vessel s . H e then convicted the defendant in the full penalty of 51. and costs. The decision will have the effect of preventing any steamers plying between Greenwich and London, as the Watermen's Company are determined not to li cense any steam-vessels or men for that purpose. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. TRADE OF LEEDS.—Greater activity has been dis played in our cloth halls for the last two or three mar ket days than for some time previously. The attend ance of buyers last Tuesday was much better, and there was a decided improvement in the amount of business done, particularly in the white market. The prices obtained, however, are very low, compared with the advance in wool during the last twelvemonths, which the buyers of goods continue to resist, and the sellers appear convinced that it cannot be established, but that a general reduction must be submitted to when the new clip comes fairly into the market. In this state of things attention is anxiously directed to the progress of the sales now pending at the German wool fairs, which are understood to be attended by buyers and sellers with ideas and intentions as to prices somewhat widely asunder. Some advance was' obtained in the fairs of 1833 upon the- prices of the year preceding, but the great advance took place afterwards, and went on gradually increasing from the month of July until the Close of the year, at which period the prices demanded for the sorts most in request were full 50 per cent. higher than those of the clip. It may be doubted whe ther such prices were actually realized or not to - any extent. An almost entire suspension took place in the demand for goods about that time. On the other hand, a large portion of foreign wools being held in this country, on consignment for foreign account, when the holder finds he cannot obtain a high price,. he has to wait the tardy arrival of fresh instructions before he is at liberty to offer a lower, and confidence became so far shaken three months ago, that offers of reduction even were found inoperative ; but there can be no doubt that in the early stages of the advance, the consumers had purchased freely under the pre vailing impression that prices were not yet at the top, and that they had better supply themselves in time. Hence a stock of goods has been produced which now gluts the market. But the foreign grower sees only the bright side of the question. After selling his wool at the regular season, he became a mere spectator of the subsequent improvement, of which he saw others derive the advantage. He hears likewise of some fortunate few who sold their clips prospectively months ago at an advance of thirty to forty per cent. upon last year's prices, and thus he now comes to the fairs with expectations naturally very much excited, and with a determination to share in the supposed general good luck. The buyers, however, have seen the other side of the picture, and feel no disposition to return home and repeat the same lesson which they have been practising for the last six months. English wools have fluctuated still more than foreign in the same period: Combing wools from ls. rose to 2s. per lb. ; two months ago they fell 6d. to 7d. per lb., but have since advanced again about 3d. The spinners, however, are cautiously waiting the result of the new clip, and the general impression is, that as autumn advances prices will be lower.—Leeds Intelligencer. BRADFORD MARKET.--There was an unusually large attendance of merchants at this market, on Thursday, and the demand for all descriptions of manufactured goods was greater than for several weeks. Prices were consequently firmer, and on some descriptions a slight advance was obtained, particularly on merinoes and lastings of the finer qualities,• of which the supply was not equal to the demand. The yarn market was likewise brisker, and a trifling improvement in prices was realized.. Fine hog wools were in demand at rather better terms, but in other descriptions there was no material alteration. —lbid. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET.—This market was much brisker on Tuesday than has been the case for some weeks past. The principal demand was for cloths of the lower and medium qualities, and. many were sold in a finished as well as in a balk state. Wools were firm.—lbid. HALIFAX MARKET, on Saturday last, was far less active than that of the preceding week. The high price of wool still presents an almost insuperable bar rier to the improvement of lradc.—Thid. BARNSLEY LINEN TRADE --There is scarcely any perceptible improvement in the linen trade at this place. Business is much the s ame as last w eek. The Mercury was grossly impose d u p on wh e n it was induced to state last Saturday that the trade in Barns ley has not been so brisk these four or five years. I they business acts at y all h e must must rise d o it their at a have it from several manufac turers and foremen, whose information may be relied on, that trade is now slack er than, it has been these four ye ars. Yar n having risen i l n o s loss, manufacturerr a i price, the t his i msufu rers say in proportion, but the buyers won't give the ad vance, as they expect yarn to lower ; therefore if th e does a the cause of the Ibid. present stagnation._ ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—On Monday last the attendance at the flannel market was not so numerous as of late, yet business was brisk. Middle and coarse qualities sold well at'the prices of last week, but finer sorts were rather PONTEFRACT WOOL MARKET, JUNE 14.—Very little in, and prices rather lower than last week.—lbid. YORK WOOL MARKET, JUNE 19.—There has been a good supply of wool at to-day's market, with a fair attendance of buyers, but upon the whole there was rather dull sale, at our last week's quotations. Very superfine hog wool evidently has the call of the market, but ewes and half-breds are very dull of sale. The prices of the day may be quoted—for very superfine hog, 265. to 275. ; half hog and ewe, 255. to 265. 6d. ; all ewe, 225. to 245. ; locks and cots, 16s. per stone of 161 b. Several parcels remain unsold ;no moor wools at market.—lbid. ENGLISH IRON.-It is now authenticated that the iron ore lately discovered near Minehead will prove a substitute for what is now imported from Russia ; and that it will make steel equal to that now made from Swedish iron.—lbid. DUTY ON OLIVE OIL.—A deputation of merchants interested in the olive oil trade waited on Mr. P. Thomson on Friday, the 13th inst., respecting the contemplated reduction of duty on this article, when they were informed that it was the intention of govern ment to reduce the present duty of Si. Bs. per tun to 141. 4s. or probably to 31. 3s. per tun..—/bid. COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 21. Lincoln's Inn, 10 o'clock. FIRST SEAL.-ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. BRENTWOOD SCHOOL, APPEAL. The following notice relating to the arrangement. of business in the Court of Chancery was issued on Sa turday " Notice is hereby given, that after the two causes ,now appointed arc heard, the Lord Chancellor will not sit before Michaelmas Term, except on seal-days, and for petitions, wher eo f not i ce w ill b e g i ven b e f ore the last seal. " But any case, set down since the beginning of Easter Term, will he heard if b ot h part i es are rea d y , and consent hereto, of which notice must be given to the secretary on or before the Ist July next. " The Chancellor will sit five days every week in the House of Lords, for hearing English and Irish appeals, until the prorogation of parliament." COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 21. THE KING V. FRANCIS. Sir J. SCARLETT stated that this was a criminal in formation filed by the prosecutor against the defend ant for a libel. The prosecutor, Mr. Wethered, was sa a ciliaor g aniur e ge i . t wts l o e :f m wo Lah a nl i ai l icawbhe o l,lf f hohre r , respectability and property, living at Great Marlow, and the defendant was a schoolmaster, residing in the same place. Politics had run high in protection, compelledprosecutor neighbour. a gentleman a n and d Tt t i es h r the toe thoughtdefendan twerea p p ec appeal rle tuw h om a a had different opinions, but still that did not give a person a case which it was right should be noticed, Mr. Wethered had a son—a gentleman in the army, a fa vourite son—one whom he thought would be an orna ment to society. But this defendant had taken ad vantage of that son's health to wound the feelings of the father, and he had done it in a way much more pointedly than the uspal course of a newspaper would' allow him to adopt, because he had been in the habit of writing the news of a particular neighbourhood for a newspaper. The libel had appeared in the Wind sor Express. The learned counsel then read the first paragraph, which had appeared in a letter to the editor. The writing of the defendant in the manuscript having been proved, Mr. HILL addressed the jury for the defendant. Lord DENMAN summed up, and the jury found the defendant Guilty. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Ilartt-y. (rats Per Quart?r. s. to S. I s. to s. Catlisle bt 25 Hexham, 48 611 - 28 :34 Morpeth 43 51 23 26 Penrith 52 25 Sheffield 48 28 Winchester • S. to s 20 24 20 23 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.il. e.d. Carmarthen.-- 5 0 5 6 2 4 2 6 cowbridge—....... t 6 7 0 2 9 3 6 gewcastle (Staff.) 8 0 8 9 4 6 5 0 Nortliaßerton 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 Stone---. 8 0 8 6 4 . 0 4 8 Swansea 64 69 28 29 Warwick 80 90 30 46 Per 8011. Barnardeastle 120 140 80 86 90 t2O 70 80 110 166 86 90 100 12.0 86 90 18 22 s.d. s.d. 14 19 24 26 30 34 33 40 30 34 19 22 20 33 Richmond ;tock t on 50 60 49 5!, 50 64 40 4 L:cans s. g 40 112 sa - 39 42 44 8.11. F. (1., 00 0 0 56 Gtr 50 s:i 56 60 60 67 00 6R 56 .60 Bfi le O. 73 99 r; AO SG - WA kEFIF.I.I) CORN MARKET.—June2O. Wheat, Red, Nodelk and Suffolk: —s. 445. to 4.45. tine 51s. I.in. and Cain. —s. 425. to 475. fine 50s - Yorl:sliire —a. 425. to 48s. fine t9s- Whit - —s. 475. to 52s fine Nis- Foreign, Red —s. 38s. to 475. fine .51s. White —s. 40s. to 50a nne Nis l3arley, "Zorfftik and Sic!iiik --- Lincolnshire 2ss. to Bs. fine 30s- Yorkshire Wold _ ..... -----Foreign Beans, Old 17s to 395. tine 441 r. ----- New '15.. to nqs. tine 426 Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 245. Poland —s. 17.. to 19s fine 21s. Friesland and Small —s. 16. to 18s. fine 203. Mealing Shelling l -33. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 15s. :19s. fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. I Halley I Oats , Beans Oatmeal —.... _ 14 18 24 16 18 32 St 13 14 —.- 18 2. 20 25 16 20 15 17 12 14 16 20 120 22 les throw Abordisen .. 38 46 33 r 6 Coldstream 25 42 Cupar 48 58 50 CO Elgin ---. 40 50 t nvercess--158 42 Kelm 57 33 48 61 Perth : 50 56 The size of the in 23 2 ,1 IS 21i IS I 9 26 31 24 26 25 26 16 19 23 29 23 26 risen va. 22 23 20 22 22 26 nr) 31 23 30 23 26 118 93 45 48 143 . 41 22 25 bout the •nuntrr- EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—June 18. We had a large supply, of all kinds of Grain today,and the sales were rather heavy. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First s'a ed 52s Od 25s 441 39s Pd Second Third 46s Od 26s Cd ' 19s 4d 35s Ikl PRICKS OF PROVISIONS. &C. Reef, per lb. Os. 4d. to Os. 6d. Freshßutter, lb 08.8 d. to Is ed• I,T,itto,,—. 0 4 0 6 Salt Ditto— 0 8 0 9 Veal _ 0 5 0 8 Ditto; per CA t. 713 0 0 " 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 0 6 ° Lamb, per qr. 3 6 5 0 OatStraw(kp!.) 50, 7 0 "Callow, Quar te r n r f .. 31 , 6 0 36 0 r ei Wheat Marley Ditto.. 5 ( 1 6 7 i t . : Potatoes. 1741 b. 0 6 0 0 Hay, per st.-- 0 7 0 9 Beans. 3fis Od 3L'Od ___-- EDI NRlllttlti MEAT. MARKE r. —June 17. There was a middling supply of Oatmeal at this day's niarbct, and the sales were heavy, at lower prices. Per Sack of 28111 b. Imp. t'er Stone 01 14th. Imp. First Oatmeal second ditto 1 15 - 0 Second ditto 11:trleytneal I 7 0 Barleymeal Peas em e al 1 8 0 l'easemeal 0 1 6 Pot Barley—No. I. pet cwt. 125.-51, 145.-3 d, 16.i.—Peall 18A. 0 LASGOW CORN Di AIIKET.—June 18. The arrivals of Grain are good, and we note no alteration in prices. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. I Oats, per 2641 b. s. d. ll'. ( 1 . British, old 25 0 t 027 0 Irish lB oto2 o 0 new Canada, free 27 0 29 0 Pesos, I,er 2601 b. Irish - 0 0 D „ Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish , ngils, — 0 0 Pease, Scottish .. 19 , 4 2 7,4 0 A S tisli 2l 0 22 0 Oatmeal, per 14 0 lb. 10 " '— Iri s h MINING IN FELL:MEM:B. Tons. Ce. !! tan tity of Copper Ore sold at fi edrutl) last Thurday 2,400 0 A rune Produce. s ouantity of fine 193 14 . An ont of SI% 14,g94f. 18s. o(l.—AverageStandanl. 1V,•011. 13 1.0 " 4 1 7:—T'Ork t( , ) o li d 2 : • t; o 3CtL g. CORNWALL. MARKETS. _ ats 8 f auno—Wh cat _Overage) :21s M. —Barley, 125 , --( 3 ' 1 , s. 9d. —Barley, s. to Is.—Oafs ST AUSTELL-Wheat, -s. to 20s. 8:. to 9s. ikl. t .A I I NI ( . Efrrox—Wheat (average) 19s. CA.—Barley, 9s.o,l,—Oats, 58 3d.—Reef, W. —Mutton, 6d. Liss.Ea so—wheat, —s. to 19s. al—Barley, 9s. 6(1.-.-Oats, O. to 7s. Mt. B„,,,,,N—Wheat (average) 213. 6(l.—Rarley, Us.—Oats, Ss 61 ' I i ~, sT or,r—Wheat, 20s. rul.—Barley, 128, Od. ,;Isk l 3 ' tt E toe N rB 7 . : T e d ! : . . . .- r, Be l , r V c el h bf e: l a t n , d 2 11 , 71 u t t t o , ) ::24 5; T. ST. CoLUME-Whe.aL, 203. to 22 ;.—Marley, 98• to 10s.--ncOG and Mutton, .5A d. to 6d.—Veal, 011.—Lamb, Od. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT 'f HE COURT; BASINGHALL STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, JUNE 24 F. W. Isaac, musical-instrument-maker, Charlotte-street. 11 Fitzroy-square ................................................. M. "' BIRTHS. On the 20th inst., in Connaught-square, the lady of William - Henry Newton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., Lady Maria Some rville , dau ghter. MARRIED. On the 21st inst., at St. Mary's, 13ryanston-squaro, Lieut.-Colonel De Lacy Evans, M.P. for Westminster to Josette, relict of Philip Hu, the late of the Hon. E d ghes, Es l q. ast India Company's Service, aughter of Colone Robert Arbuthnott. On the 21st inst., at St. D u nstan's-in-the-East, Spencer Lambert, Esq., of Acre -lane, Brixton, to Sarah, widow of the late John Ty ler, Esq., of Newington-place, I{en nington. On the 19th inst., at Llangattock Church, the Rev. 1 1 ' W. P. Davies , of Court Ggollen, to Charlotte Ann, only child of the late Edward :Morgan, Esq., of Llangattock- Julia, wife of the Rev. Edward place, both in the county of Brecon. 13/ED, • On the 19th inst., at Holcote Rector Bedfordshire, Smith, and si. Fleming, Esq., of Stoneham Park, Hants. • nnings On the 18th inst., at. Reading, Eliza C ari ; tt p j p e r B d , youngest daughter of the late Mrs. Neale, c' - ' l3 •' e e - ford -place, Russell-square, aged 37. Daniel Bayley, On the 21st inst., in his 68th year Sir of his y who, for upwards o twenty years, tilled the o ffice t the Majesty's Consul-General • Russia, and of AgFtit in D el Bayley Russia ;-„ ir ant Company at St. Petersburgh. was the eldest son of Thomas Butterworth BaileY, * , of Hope Hall, near Mahchester. On the 16th inst., at nu-gate, i . n her 25th year, Anne , eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas L , ink of Cornwall-pla ce, llolloway. . On the 14th inst., at West Wickham, Kent, Mrs. Sit,,,, y [ Small, in her 190th year. 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