The Sun. — London, England, 1827-06-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Whitsuntide recess having lasted but two days, both Houses of Parliament will meet again this evening. Ministers, anxious, no doubt, for an opportunity of applying their undisturbed at tention to those great interests, foreign and do mestic, which still remain but imperfectly pro vided for, will push forward the residue of the public business as expeditiously as may be found compatible with the manoeuvres of the Opposi-. tion to retard it. That the whole policy of the Tory Opposition consists of a series of low and spiteful juggles, is evident to men of all parties in the nation, thits'particular faction excepted, whose position, as much as the character of some of its members, has plunged them into the wretched system of chicanery of which we com plain. On no one occasion have„ the self-con demned Court sycophants,, who resigned because they looked for a monopoly of power by the em barrassment and defeat of Mr. Canning —never, we say, have these men, or any of them, dared to come forward on public grounds, and object to Mr. Canning for any one political principle which he professes, or for any one measure which he has, at any time, as a Cabinet Minister, intro duced, adopted, or promoted. They take no stand on principles—they sink from such a fruit less attempt, because there is no great national principle of a nature to determine the merits of an English statesman, on which the views of Mr. Canning, as yet understood, do not concur with those of the people of England ; and on which, where the Tories differ from Mr. Can ning, every liberal and enlightened member of the community is not at hand to support the Right Hon. Gentleman against them. On pub lic grounds, therefore, they cannot rest ; and the factious, or, to speak with more correctness, the personal animadversions with which they have assailed their late colleague, are proofs that they .can lay nothing to his charge which ought to obtain for Mr. Canning's enemies the sympathy of the English nation. The sum of the abuse of which the new Minister is still the . object, amounts to this,—that his defensive tactics have succeeded, while the aggression which was meant to ruin him has totally and ri diculously failed. In the fencing match to which the right Hon. Gentleman was challenged, it seems to have been the wish of his antagonists that he should have parry only—not ripost; in Mich case lie must have been hit at last, while they would have run no risk of accident. Rut Mr. Canning was not simple enough for this.— He parried the thrust, and returned it instanter. The adversaries have themselves to blame. Next, after the defeat of these personal attacks on Mr. Canning, came two in succession, but of a poli tical nature, against his Whig allies ; with what better fortune let us very shortly inquire. The 4 , Whigs are unworthy public confidence," it ap pears, because they have sacrificed their two grand measures of constitutional policy—Catholic Emancipation, and a Reform of Parliament. But the Whigs deny both charges in the broadest terms. The Opposition reply—" Then prove your consistency, by bringing on the Catholic question at once." Now this is mere folly.— Such a proof of consistency would be bought too dear—by, Ist, the certain loss of the measure at the present moment ; 2dly, the consequent dis solution of the only Ministry under which it can (according to all human prospects) be carried during the present generation. Is it not a piece of more than ordinary impudence, for the ac knowledged enemy of an important measure to ground a charge of isluplicity against its declared advocates and supporters,on their refusal to. take his advice as to the time and .ode of submit ting that meagure to Parliament ? Is it for the sake of carrying the question, that the old anti- Catholic Ministers, through such channels as Messrs. Lethbridge anti Dawson, insist upon its speedy revival in the House of Commons where it has been so recently rejected? And if the recom mendation of these men be, as is manifest, for pur poses hostile both to the Catholic body And to the Ministry, ought the latter to be blamed or applauded for treating that recommendation with contempt ? Respecting the question of reform, it is sufficient to state, that the Whigs, as a party, have never professed to entertain it. Lord John Russell, and those who agree with him, reserve to themselves the power of at all times bringing forward ti it own opinions on tha t muchdisputed subject, although, indeed, the Noble Lord himself declared unequivocally when he was last defeated, that he had no intention waterer of moving the discussion of At again. Be. we have, undoubtedly, never heard that Lord Lansdown was a reformer, (as Mr. Pitt was , an was not), or Lord Carlisle, or the Duke of Devonshire. These distinguished per sons constitute the Whig portion of the Govern ment : then what is the value of such a topic of abuse, but to make manifest, if they were doubt ful, the immeasurable soreness and mortification of the ex-placemen who employ it ? The folly that marks another class of the tricks and moun tebankeries in which this faction now finds its onss resource, may be worth alluding to, though briefi . 7. Attempting to cry d own the W hi g s and M L . Canning, their grarid attempt on all occasions As to cry up Mr. Pest Mr. Peel being the oniy' individual on the right side of mediocrity among their entire gang, this effort may be forgiven ; but it must not be passed without exposure. Mr. Peel, in a secondary department of the late Cutntict, was, so far as concerned the domestic state of England, useful exectifive . officer: In his ofika of Home Secretary for England, he slid not spare his own activity. He availed himself of the skill And talents of professional men who un derstood the law of England and its abuse.s, to introduce amendments into some impor tant branches of our jurisprudence. He lived in quiet times, Avd had no provocation to vio lence. He enjoyed all the goods that fortune,could afford him, and bad no temptation to be corrupt. This is the sum total of Mrs.Peells great merits as a Minister. In Parliament he was a speaker of that tribe which fluctuates between the third rate and the second. He never produced one burst of elo quence since he was born. We never heard a sen tence or expression from Mr. Peel which found a place in the memory after the debate was over. His mind is of thin staple, carefully, yet not finely culti vated; the soil is light and dry,—not rich nor deep; no brilliant bowers,—no costly fruits of delicious flavour, —no exuberant vintage,—nothing beautiful by which society is adorned—nothing generous or noble by which true greatness is commemorated — has ever sprung from, or ever been connected with this specimen of common-place nature. An ad mission, which escaped the characteristic prudence of 11r. Peel, has let the world into one secret of some importance towards exactly estimating the principles and character of the Irish Government. it is now confessed by Mr. Peel, that the political pleasures affecting Ireland during the last five years kvire not been those of the Lord Lieutenant of that country; that the judicial and legal measures, state prosecuPons , patronage, &c., have not been those o f t he law.s-Acers of the Crown in Ireland ; th at all was m r . and his clerk Mr. Goulburn. What a cheat, then,' upontbe nation is this gilded pageant of an Irish Viceroy, with his 30,0001. per annum. If not to gdvern Ireland, what use is there or can there be for a Lord- Lieutenant ? Is he merely to sit there as a mark for obloquy to light upon, and for sedition to rail at ? We now know from Mr. Peel's own lips, that he it is who has been so long tormenting Ireland and disgracing England, by the mixed impolicy of a partisan and a bigot. To get rid of such a ped dling interloper between true statesmanlike prin ciples of action, and the nation for whose benefit they will henceforth, we trust, he left free to act without such illegitimate obstructions, is a real ad vance towards public hapisiness, and a subject of honest rejoicing for the empire. Let, then, the lam pooners of Mr. Pitt's memory make a pretext of his once respected name, for the purpose—at once fac tious and foolish—of exaggerating the dimensions of this dwarfish idol, when they toast the health of Mr. Robert Peel, in connexion with sentiments which Mr. Pitt abjured—in an association which that proud man would have spurned—and to the intentional, but futile disparagement of those who did, unques tionably, share to the last Mr. Pitt's opinions, his policy, and affections. Mr. Peel, the Tory Cham pion of the day, may execute accurately what more comprehensive minds prescribe to him. He may have been, and has been—but spoilt by flattery, he will not be again—a temperate and useful subaltern officer. To talk of such a person as a statesman ! or a chief ! is merely an idle abuse of words; for no man whom it would be worth while to deceive could listen to such misrepresentations.--Times. We are unwilling to persuade ourselves that many of the Peers, who figure in the Duke of Wellington's majority, were at all aware of the effect which their vote would have on the fate of the new Corn Bill, or that they will not endea vour to undo the effect of their vote in the next stage of the Bill. The new Corn Bill, though the effects it will produce have been greatly ex aggerated, is still an approach towards a better system. Something is done when men acknow ledge their sins, though small progress should be made in the way of amendment. The language held by a number of Members of a certain As sembly, displays such an insolent contempt for the understandings of the people of England, that we should be sorry to see the impression produced by it strengthened by the loss of the Bill. It is dangerous to be both Judges and and party ; .for, as a great poet observed, " when self the wavering balance holds, it is rarely right adjusted." The people see this self display it self where a party thinks he has had address enough to conceal it. It has been again and again said, during the discussions on this Bill, that our Constitution is founded on land; but though this may endear the Constitution to Land holders, we question whether the showing the people in so unequivocal a manner that the interests of the nation are as nothing compared with the sup posed personal interests of the Landholders, be cal culated to increase the love of the people for these props of the Constitution. It is not, we should think, the interest of the great Landholders that the feeling of estrangement between them and the people should become rooted. We arc not lovers of anarchy or violence and would prefer, indeed, al most any state of things to them. But it is because we are lovers of peace that we hate measures which produce a bitter feeling of hostility in the body of the people towards the higher orders. It is always dangerous to presume too much on our strength, and on the weakness of others. We therefore think that the triumph obtained through the giving effect to the Duke of Wellington's Amendment, would be purchased at too high a price, if it roots in the minds of the people the ideas to which we have alluded.— Morning Chronicle. We are afraid it will be necessary for us to adopt the unceremonious practice of the .toile, and have our " Lies of the Day," for the sake of annihilating, with as little trouble as possible, the impudent fabrications of a click of writers who appear to have devoted themselves to the exclusive task of finding mares' nests. Their inventions, indeed, multiply so fast, that it will soon be impossible, with a due regard to matters of more importance, to give more than a line or two in refutation of each. However, for the present, we shall content ourselves with our usual practice, and proceed, as briefly as pos sible, to despatch a brace of discoveries. In the first place, we are told that a mon strous project is on foot, by that arch-conspira tor, Mr. Canning, " to pack the House of Lords," in the manner following, to wit, "giving a double voice to those Peers who support Mr. Can ning, by making Peers of their eldest sons." While the new Premier was about it, we think he might as well have shewn his science in political melody, by arranging his concerted piece for three voices, in stead of two, and so make Peers of the second sons. A Peer with a double voice would be very good ; but a Peer with three voices would be much better. Irony apart, however, the whole statement may be answered by one word, borrowed from " The Vicar of Wakefield"—Fudge ; The same emphatic mo nosyllabie will suffice for another article of extraor dinary intelligence, that "the whole of the Grenville party, with the exception of Mr. C. Wynn and his brother, have declared against the New Ministry." These are desperate shifts, and must not be too often repeated.—New Times. The recent invitation from a High Personage to the Duke of Wellington to resume the com mand of the Army—the long-continued vacancy in the Bishoprick of Rochester, and other Church preferment—the excuse for not receiving the Address of the City of London—as well as se veral other similar traits, are all striking indica tions of the unsettled state of the new Ministry, and especially of the uncertain tenure on which Mr. Canning holds his office. Hitherto he has, perhaps, owed more in point of Parliamen tary support to the indiscretion of some of his opponents than to himself ; but in his financial expose he has given the coup de grace, we should imagine, to his performances in that way ; and considering the kind - of theatrical effect the Pre mier is so fond of indulging in, the occasion we allude to might. with great propriety and appa rent truth, hare been announced as " his first and only appearance in that character." Nothing so crude, so jejune, so unsatisfactory, or so unstatesmanlike, ever fell from the lips of any man holding the high office of Chancellor of the Exchequer in this country. Even Mr. Van sittart, in his worst moments (and his Ministe rial life in that capacity is a memorable period of failure), never fell so short, both in the useful and ,the ornamental ) as Mr. Canning did in this misera ble display of financial imbecility. Why a man who was standing well with the country and Nytth Europe, as the Foreign Minister, should venture on a change for which he owns himself disqualified—or why Mr. Robinson, who filled the office of Finance Minister so well, should be compelled to resign it into new and evidently incompetent hands, are proofs of bad generalship and wilful indis cretion, which it is hardly possible too strongly to condemn. But next year, forsooth, we are to have a Finance Committee, and a thousand other panaceas. Mr. Canning, surely, has not to learn from one poet, that _ . Procastinationis the thief of thus ; —or from another, that To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps hi this petty pace, from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time ; and that to postpone any remedy for our financial difficulties which is within his reach, is to in. crease his own embarrassments as well 4s those of the country. That Mr. Canning is anxious to get rid of the Session of Parliament is pretty evident ; and it follows that he will, therefore,' postpone the period of its re-assembling as long as lie possibly can. What then will, probably, be the case next year ? Why Parliament will not meet, perhaps, till February : the ap pointment of the promised Committee will, per haps, be postponed till after the recess, or after the circuits, when Gentlemen are come to town and can more conveniently attend. The subjects brought before it, when assembled, will be so multifarious and important, as to make it impossible for the Committee to make any report during the Session—or at any rate too late for any legislative measure to pass till the next year--,which will carry us over to a very distant " to-morrow," indeed—at soonest, the Session of 1829. But if Mr. Canning is really in earnest, in wishing to see any reform take place in - our finances—and if a Committee be first necessary, why is it not ap pointed at once, with permission to sit during any adjournment, or even prorogation of the House ? Surely there would be no great harm if the idle people about the Treasury were to be kept for once a little upon the qui rive during the summer montlo. Suppose they were, for one season, at least, obliged to emerge from their suburban villas before one or two o'clock in the day, and were occupied in pre paring and laying before this Cominittee the docu ments, which would enable them to make a full report by the next meeting of Parliament; and that that meeting were to take place before Christmas. We do not imagine that this, or any part of it, will be done; but if it is not, the country will be apt to form its own opinion why.—Morning Herald. The line taken by a Noble Duke, and some of his late colleagues, on the subject of the Corn Bill, seems hardly reconcilable with what the world calls plain dealing. The measure itself is decidedly, in all its features, one of that very Administration of which his Grace so lately formed a part ; and it must be presumed, had received his Grace's sanction as a Cabinet Mi nister, and would have continued to receive it had he continued in office. If public men are allowed to have what may be called a Ministe rial and a Parliamentary conscience, then this change of opinion and of conduct may be justi fiable ; but if truth be immutable, and cannot veer about at our pleasure, then we do not see how that can be wrong to-day which was right yesterday. We speak it without meaning offence to any one, when we say, that this apparent ter giversation (with which the Whigs in particular are just now furnishing us with so many striking instances) goes far to destroy the confidence of mankind in general in public men ; and in proportion as that character stands justly high and is revered, the more must we regret to see any course taken by its possessor to lower himself on any one occasion to the varying thermometrical range of the Whig standard. In the present state of affairs, when men who have run the gauntlet of all principle and opi nions, force themselves upon the world as prodigies of political tact and consistency, it is the more ne cessary for those who have characters to lose, both for their own sakes and that of the public, to keep a strict guard over their own principles; besides which, we would remind all public men of all par ties, that the world are but too ready to consider the science of politics as mere trick and deception, with out the mighty convenient change of opinion which they are now every day witnessing.—lbid. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.---Juss 6. John Thompson., James Cooke, and 'Joseph Win ton, were indicted for conspiring to enter the dwell ing-house of Robert Gibson, Esq., with intent to commit a felony, having at the time house-breaking implements and pistols on their persons, and the prisoners, Thompson and Winton, being disguised as females. the prisoners appeared in Court in their ordinary attire, it being considered unnecessary to compel them to wear the female habiliments in which they had appeared before the Magistrates. Several witnesses were examined, who proved apprehending the three prisoners a short distance from Mr. Gibson's house. When Thompson was taken, he dropped a large horse pistol into the area of No. 2, Torrington-square ; and Cooke, on being pursued, dropped two turnscrews and other house breaking implements. Thompson addressed the Court in a long and rather ingenious speech, in which he ridiculed the idea of conspiring to rob Mr. Gibson's house, for had that been their intention, they would not have left the house without effecting their object. He merely went to the house for a frolic to frighten the servant, whom he had met in the square about ten days previously. ' Winton, on being called on for his defence, merely confirmed Thompson's statement. The CHAIRMAN having summed up, the Jury found all the prisoners—Guilty. The CHAIRMAN, in passing sentence, said he re gretted to perceive Thompson (who appeared to possess talents which he might employ to better purposes) the leader of such a desperate gang, and he also appeared the conductor of their deence. The prisoners had been guilty of a most heinous of fence, and the Court sentenced them to two years' imprisonment and hard labour. Cooke requested the Court to send him to the New Prison, Cletkenwell, instead of the House of Correction, as he was in a bad state of health. The CHAIRMAN—I cannot comply with your re quest. The New Prison is for persons who have not been convicted ; besides, there is no tread-mill there. Thompson applied for the restoration of his Leg horn bonnet and other articles which were in cus tody of the officer, and on going out of the Court he said he did not care a snap of his finger for his sentence. A case of suicide occurred at Ashby-de-la- Zouch on Wednesday last, which has excited aeneral surprise and the deepest horror. The unhappy victim of desperation, Mr. Thomas Noon, a respectable clock and watch-maker, at Ashby-de-la-Zouch, was discovered between five and six o'clock in the afternoon, lying in a field a short distance from the town (a secluded spot near the Holywell) ; with his throat severed, and stabbed in several places. The wounds, which were inflicted by a penknife, not having reached the windpipe, nor divided any of the great arte ries, life was not extinct, though the act is sup posed to have been committed about ten o'clock in the morning. Immediately after he was found, he was conveyed home attended by a great concourse of people, and on the application of restoratives, he revived so that the medical gentlemen in attendance, Mr. 11. Ingle and Mr. 'l'. Kirkland, entertained the most sanguine hopes of his recovery ; but, to the consternation of all, he expired between three and four o'clock on the morning of Thursday. From an opinion that neither the wounds nor the effusion of blood were sufficient to cause his death, a suspicion is entertained that the deceased (so determined was his resolve to (lie) had taken poison. It appears he had been for a long time in a desponding wa y, and various causes were assigned for the perturbed state of his mind. A widow and two young girls are left t o d e pl ore hi s d rea dful fate. An inquest was held on the body yesterday.— , Leicester Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—There was a young Jewess —or, as Launcelot Gobbo would have said, a ju venile Jewess—brought before the Alderman on sus picion of having stolen, or of having aided and abet ted somebody else in stealing, 12 yards of black sarcenet, and four pairs of kid gloves. She called herself 'f Miss Rebecca Rogers."—Miss she might well call herself; for she has the reputation of being very much amiss in all she does. Rebecca is the name given to her by her parents long before she was a Miss, or did amiss—and Rogers is a name she has assumed, in compliment to the amalgama ting liberality of the present age, in which, such is the march of intellect, the children of Israel them selves are labouring -to lose their identity. Fair, she is—and pretty she has been; but though it is not yet 18 years since she first saw the light of this world, excessive liberality in love, late hours, and liquor, have given her the frown of a ruined gambler and the husky voice of a sexagenarian gin-bibber.. She had been taken into custody by a constable, who found her " tumbling about" late in the even ing near Bow church, with the silk and the gloves in a parcel under her arm. He knew she was "no better than she should be ;" and therefore he took the liberty of asking her whether she had come honestly by them. She replied that she had—for they had been given to her by a young man ; but as she would neither tell the name of the young man nor the place of his abode, the constable con cluded there was " something wrong in the matter," and brought her before the Magistrate. The Magistrate (Alderman C. SMITH) put a num ber of questions to her, all of whom she answered very flippantly, sometimes with a frown and some times with a leer—just as they happened to please her, or not.—" Where did I get the things ? Why, a young man gave 'em me—l don't know his name, nor where he lives—how should I ? He's a young man—that's all I know about him ;—a short, stiff young man ; and I meet him almost every night in Cheapside. I don't know who he is, nor what he is; and, what's more, I don't care. Why did he give 'em to me !—because he took a fancy to me, I suppose ; I never gave him anything, I know. But if you want him very bad I dare say I can point him out to you if you'll let me go walk Cheapside again to-night." Upon this showing the constable was directed to walk her out through Cheapside on Monday night. He did so, and she very speedily pointed out the young man from whom she said she received the silk, &c. ; and yesterday morning they were both placed at the bar together. The young man—a mere youth, very readily acknowledged that he had made her a present of them.—" I have no acquaintance with her," he said—" only from meeting her in Cheapside; and I made her a present of them." Mr. Edward Maddeford, of the firm of Russell and Co., of the Bell Inn Coach and Van-office ' in Friday -street, Cheapside, said the youth was in his employ. His friends, very respectable people, residing in Exeter, had sent him up about four months ago, in consequence of his having formed an acquaintance with a young woman of loose morals in Exeter, and they would be much shocked at find ing he had already formed a similar connection here. He had questioned him strictly with respect to the goods, and he assured him that he bought them at a public sale in Exeter; but whether that was a fact or not, he had no means of knowing until he bad written to his friends. The Alderman requested that lie would write to his friends immediately; and directed that he and the girl should remain apart in custody until their answer was received. BOW-STREET.—A Mr. Lancaster, sen. ap plied to Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, yesterday, tor a war rant against a certain foreigner, a pretended agent for the sale of commissions, under Lord Cochrane, for fraudulently obtaining 1001. from the applicant's son, under the pretence of procuring him a cornetcy in a regiment of Lancers, composing part of the forces under Lord Cochrane's command. It appeared from the applicant's statement, that the transaction took place some months ago, when the individual alluded to, contrived to take in several young men under similar pretences. Sir RICHARD BIRNIE declined interfering, as the applicant was not the party paying the money; and advised him to consult his attorney on the subject. William Smith, a countryman, dressed in a black coat, white trousers, and a superfluity of white neck cloth, was fully committed for trial, for robbing one Eladsbury, an elderly farmer-like looking man, of his pocket-book, which contained two 101. Bank of England notes • six .51. ditto ; 51. note of the Leicester Bank, and fourteen sovereigns. The prosecutor had been receiving the money in the City, and was returning home, when he was ac costed in Ilolborn by the prisoner, who claimed ac quaintance with him, and induced him to enter se veral public-houses with him , where they drank to gether. After remaining with the prosecutor a con siderable time, much against his will, the prisoner parted from him, but, before he did so, took a very affectionate leave of him, embracing him, and pro fessing the utmost regret at parting. Soon after, the prosecutor, upon referring to his pocket, to see if his book was safe, found that it was gone, and a parcel made tip of brown paper substituted for it. The prisoner stoutly protested his innocence, but Sir RICHARD BIRNIE told him he had no doubt he was one of a gang of fellows who made it their busi ness to lie in wait for foolish country people, and inveigle them into public houses, where they con trived to rob them of their money. HATTON-GARDEN.—Yesterday, six respec table young men, named Palmer, Ferguson, Miles, Hamilton, Martin, and Farmer, were brought before Mr. LAING, charged by Thomas Griffin, a watchman, with being riotous on his beat, in Charles-street, Somers-town, the previous night. Magistrate.—What was the nature of the riot Watchman (evidently embarrassed for an answer.) —They were talking very loud, your Worship, and would not move on when told, your Worship. Magistrate.—Talking very loud ! Do you take people into custody for talking ? Watchman (much confused).—Yes, your Worship. We are ordered, your Worship, not to suffer any person to talk loud on our beats, your Worship. Magistrate.—This watchman is stupid. Proba bly one of the accused may give a more faithful account. Mr. James Palmer.—Your Worship, we were returning from a visit in that neighbourhood, and on the point of parting with one of our companions at the end of Charles-street, when the watchman came up, brandishing his staff, and insisted on our moving on without talking. Our remonstrating with him on his rudeness, lie considered an aggra vation of the offence, and ordered us to accompany him to the watch-house, whither we went Without offering the slightest resistance. Magistrate (to the night constable)—What was the charge given to you, and how did the accused con. duct themselves while in custody ? Night Con stable—Being noisy in the street, your Worship; and they were so boisterous in the watchhouse, that I was forced to lock them up for my own safety, your Worship. Magistrate—What kind of noise did they make? Night Constable—Why, talking together very loud, your Worship. Magistrate—You had better be careful how you eceive such charges in future, or you may repent it. The young men are discharged. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE.—John Lydell, a decent-looking man, applied to Mr. Riwtaxsos on Monday night, respecting a debt of honour. " Your Worship," said he, " there was a bet made for 10 sovereigns, that I could walk 60 miles in 72 hours, without eating or drinking; it was a tight job, your Wo rs hip, but I have done it, and now they won't give me the money." " Well, and what do you suppose I can do for you," replied Mr. RAWLINSON : " do you think I s h a ll give it you, or do you think I sit here to settle wagers?" Lydell—l don't think one nor the other, your Worship ; but hope you'll make 'em pay me: it's a very hard case. Mr. liawuNsoN—And you are a very foolish man; you should have had the bird in hand before you began walking ; you should have had the money down. Lydell—Understand me, your Worship ; the bet was laid for me, and they were to pay me five sore reigns for my trouble. Mr. RAWLINSON—They ! Who are they ? Lydell—Mr. Currie's coachman, of Wimpole street, and a groom in the Mews. Mr. itAmaNsoN—And pray where did you walk ? Lydell—To the Packhorse, nine miles below St. Albans, and back. Mr. RAWLINSON—And who went with you ? Lydell—Nobody, your Worship. Mr. RAWLINSON—Who knows, then, that you performed your undertaking ? You munched on the road ? Lydell—No, your Worship, I never took nothing. Mr. RAWLINSON—A little when you stopped ? Lydell—l'll take my oath before your Worship that I never took nothing. Mr. RAWLINSON—For how long ? Lydell—For three days and three nights, your Worship, except ing a little bakker and a pipe, and that was a part of the bargain. I set out at twenty minutes to twelve on Thursday morning, and never tasted food nor drink till arter I got back at twelve or one o'clock yesterday. Mr. RAWLINSON—You look pretty well after it. I suppose you laid in a good meal at starting*? Lydell—l had three pints of beer with my break fast, your Worship—nothing else. Mr. RAWLINSON—Nobody, you say, went with you ? No, your Worship; they held a bit of argu ment rather about it when I went off. Mr. RAWLINSON—And trusted to your honour ? Lydell—Yes, your Worship ; and now they make game of me, and won't pay me. Mr. RAWLINSON remarked, that all was very shabby work, and desired Hooker, the officer, to see the coachman and groom on the subject. OLD BAILEY, JUNE 5. FORGERY.—Henry Hildyard, a respectable-look ing tradesman, was indicted for uttering a forged bill of exchange for 661. 12s. _ _ Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the case. Mr. George Frederick Allcock, a gold-refiner, Little Britain, said, that, a few days ago, the priso ner came to his shop, and wished to purchase six ounces of gold. He tendered a bill of exchange for 661. 12s. in payment; he was accompanied by a man named Barton, a person of rather shabby appearance. Witness had known the prisoner some time before; he was a watchmaker, and, therefore, witness did no t feel surprised when he asked for six ounces of gold. The bill purported to have been drawn by Messrs. Weston and Co., of Bond-street, upon, and accepted by Messrs. Herries, Farquhar, and Co., and pay able to the order of Barton. Witness observed that the bill was not endorsed by Barton, and, coupling this with the unusual circumstance of one town house drawing upon another, he determined to make further inquiries before he received the bill ; Barton's shabby appearance also induced witness to inquire in what manner he had become possessed of a bill for so large an amount, when the prisoner replied, that Barton was to receive a legacy from Weston and Co., which was not yet in course of payment, and they had therefore given him a bill on their bankers. Witness replied, that he thought Barton could not want fine gold in his business, but prisoner said he would take the gold, and arrange with Barton about it. Witness requested time to make inquiries about the genuineness of the bill, and the prisoner and Barton promised to call in two hours afterwards. In the mean time witness caused inquiries to be made, and then determined to have nothing more to do with the bill. Thomas Eyre Weston, son of Mr. Weston of Bond-street, said the bill in question was not drawn by his father, or any one in his h ouse. John Edward Brand, clerk to Messrs. Herries and Co., proved that the acceptance of the bill was not in the handwriting of any one of that firm. Geo. Riley, a constable, apprehended the prisoner at his house, in Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, with out the least difficulty. Mr. Baron Hummel( said, there was no evidence that the prisoner knew the bill was forged when he tendered it to the prosecutor, and, therefore, the prisoner was entitled to an acquittal. The Jury returned a Verdict of—Not Guilty. Henry James Sunshine, aged 23 years, was in dicted for violating the person of Dinah Rudelhoff, a girl ten years of age. Mr. C. PHILLIPS stated the case for the prose cution. Dinah Rydelhoff stated, that she was ten years of age last September; she resided with her mother in Marmont-street, Whitechapel; the prisoner, on the Ist of April, asked her mother to let her go with him to take tea with a Mrs. Freeman, and she gave her consent; they walked part of the way, and the prisoner called a hackney-coach, and they got into it; soon afterwards the prisoner commenced taking liberties with her, and told her if she did not let him do what he pleased with her, he would kill her. [Here the prisoner detailed those facts which went to prove the commission of the capital offence.]-- He afterwards took her to Mrs. Freeman's, where they had tea, and he returned home with her to her mother's, about nine o'clock at night ; she did not tell her mother till several weeks afterwards, and her mother had taxed her preyiously with having done something wrong, in consequence of having discovered that she was unwell. The mother was called, and corroborated the evi dence of the child, and two surgeons deposed that the girl had been injured. Mr. Baron HULLOCK summed up the case, and the Jury found the prisoner Not Guilty ; but they were of opinion he had been guilty of an atrocious assault. Upon the application of Mr. WOOLER, the pri soner was detained by order of the Court, to take his trial for the misdemeanour. EXTRAORDINARY INDICTMENT.—Mary Callow, a pretty-looking woman stood indicted for stealing 10 bank-notes for 101. each ; 10 ditto. 51. ditto : 10 ditto 21. ditto; 10 ditto 1/. ditto ; 10 sovereigns ; 10 half-sovereigns; 10 crowns; 10 half-crowns; 10 shillings ; 10 sixpences ; 10 lbs. of beef; 10 lbs. of mutton ; 10 lbs. of ham ; 10 lbs. of bacon ; 10 lbs. of butter, and 20 lbs. of bread, the property of George Hume, Esq., to whom she was a servant. Mr. ADOLPHUS stated the case. Mr. Hume, the prosecutor, a solicitor, 8, Great James-street, Bedford-row, said, the prisoner was formerly his cook, and a girl of the name of Kelly his house-maid. In October last year, he left London for several weeks, when the house was left to the care of the two female servants (the prisoner and Kelly) in which, however, his brother-in-law (Mr. Smith) also resided. On the return of witness, the prisoner informed him that Kelly, during his absence, had been entertaining a male companion, who had partaken of the good things the house contained. She added, that, unless Kelly was turned away, she would not continue in his ser vice. Kelly was discharged forthwith. Within two days after this, witness heard that the prisoner bad been guilty of the same immorality during his absence, and he discharged her also. After this she summoned him to the County Court for arrear of wages, when he accused her of stealing his bread and meat. In his cross-examination, the witness said, that he never said that be would be revenged of the prisoner, because she summoned him to the County Court. Elizabeth Kelly confirmed this account. The Jury, without hesitation, acquitted the pri soner. Mr. Sergeant ARABIA said, that in the course of his long practice he had never seen so extraordinary a bill of indictment, and he felt glad that Mr. Hume had not been the framer of it, because, if that had been so, the Court would have felt it their duty to have made some public observations upon it. The offence imputed to the prisoner, was an aggra it Vate! charge of felony, but had dwindled down to piece of bread and meat, and the evidence to sup that was that of a young woman, who, if a crime • been committed, was a participator in it. Mr. Hume explained, that there was not a PI tence to charge the prisoner with stealing wool: notes, and he told the Grand Jury so. So far °IT, their existing such a suspicion, Mrs. Hume had gIV her a character for honesty, but stated at the sat time that she had reason to belie ve h er 'habits to if in some respects irregular. THAMES TUNNEL. The old hole is perfectly stopped, and the and clay bags, &c. have not been at all displ • The resent irruption has been from a smaller over the sixth frame, where the ground was P s ' viously known to be extremely bad. This, l' ei j the eddy described on Monday, had been so s often , fteo as to yield, and admit the entrance of the wa ter ". The new hole is perpendicular, and has only to Y filled as the former one. The raft has answered t) " purpose for which it was employed most perfecju„."/ The object was stated on Monday to be the r t, vention of any sudden rush of water in any one se lf This it has effected, since, notwithstanding the eel hole being of a size to admit water to fill the tuol i i as completely as the first, it rose very slowly 913 gradually. A meeting of Directors was held yesterday 01 °Z, ing, at the Company's Office, to receive from i eo Brunel a report of the progress of the steps j ot to stop the leak. That gentleman's report was .P eo favourable nature. He stated that the raft had brought to the surface of the water, and that pre rations are again taken to sink it, loaded in su c k t . manner as to prevent its being driv en away from I place of destination by the action of the current- I PARLIAMENTARY PAPER• J 00 An ACCOUNT of the AMOUNT of Dums TeCeiV.s' GOODS imported into the United Kingdom front- 7 EAST litmus and CMINA, together • with the WO nue, in each Year from 1814 to 1826, inclusive. 1814 1815 1816 1817 , 4,298,758 1824 4 4' 9 6 98::;:4 I 1818 1819 1820 Inspector-( Inspector-General's Office Cusi London, May 15, 1821 VILLI Mg IRV I NG, General of Imports and EXr itora House, COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AIM EXPORTS, 111 PORTED. 1 4. . Bags, &c. 453 , 493 1,330 I gt) 26.092. Same ps.. This I riod last year. year. Bags, &c. Bags, &c. Liverpool 358,685 219,459 London 98,743 38,449 Glasgow , 29,155 12,553 Total exported in 1827 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DlARY.—Fenlay, Jvpre 9. Bailey, J. ' Horneastle—George, Horncastle ja Boor, J., Warminster—Lamb, Hindon .......................... Bull, L., Eastnor—Feathers, Ledbury ... ; jl Cooper, R., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury .. Dickins and Co., Plymouth—Ro*al hotel, Plymouth jl Drew, T., Stourport—Star and Garter, Worcester ...........•••• I Duff and Co. Liverpool—George, Liverpool ........... .......•••• 0 Enisley, T., Great X-lorton—Sun. Bradford .. .......... „„••" . Garton, J., Castle Douington—Moira Arms inn, C as tl e m" P nington jl Glasbrooke, T., Wolverhampton—Hop-Market, Worceste l li Hunsford, R., Weymouth--King's Arms, Dorchester ....•••" 0 Jones, R., Ledbury—Feathers, Ledbury ....................... I; Jones, 0., Liverpool—Mr. Bird, Liverpool ........... .. Leakar, G., Bristol—Commercial rooms, Bristol ... . Pearce and co., Penzance—Union, Penzance Phillips, R., Brecon—Castle, Brec on .... . Robinson, J. Liverpool—Angel, Liverpool Preston, J., Barton—George, Barton ...... ................. Roberts, J., Newport:—Red Lion, Newport. ..... .. Sherwin and Co. Shelton, Staffordshire—Star and ' Liveipool ....... ............................. ................. 10. Smith, J., Cheltenham—George, Cheltenham - Tate, E. New Shoreham—Old Ship, Brighton ...........'•" - - - INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHAROSII Petitions to be heard at Portugal-street, I.lllCain'ii lOU 1 1 ° -- JeKe 11, AT WINE. Myth, J., Newcastle Newman , D., Cheltenham , Bridger, J., Tunbridge-wells Price, G. , Greenwich Brown, J., Stepney Reeve, G., Ashford Davie, T., Rosemary-lane Swayne, R., Cambridge ; Goodhew, P., Borden, Kent Siegenburgh, J., Tower -h Henderson, G., Limchouso Swan, J., New-road Levy, L., Lambeth "Turley, P., Vauxhall Matthews, J., Barbican " During our stay . at Constantinople," If Mr. Came, " an amusing incident befel IV[r•r o : t i a gentleman attached to the palace. He ' er r lost a leg while in the navy, and being , v do desirous of visiting the great Bazaar, he 11 / 1 1 through it on horseback, a privilege used 05 , none but Turks, and, in these disturbed ti°3„(.. rather dangerous. A Boatandgi Bashu, allr fi g ficer of sonic rank, being enraged on obser7l, this, came up, and struck with his sabre ett ' 1 " o 6 R.'s wooden leg. The Turk's astonishmen t 0 seeing no blood flow, or wound inflicted , 'fa, very great. He lifted his sabre, and cut is good will through part of the leg, but findi n g $ all useless, he drew back, without uttered here crdr: word, and gazed intently on the Frank." 1 - co . mentW has AßsAbewen publish ed WARSAW, MA bshe 7 d .— hre Y li The :_ following si l 1 las I. &c.—As the spirit of riot and dis ° ar t which lately raised its pernicious influence 111 P U . of the empire, and drew upon the guilty the r_ in nishment they deserved, has been observed 016 .' 0 0 our kingdom of Poland, and as the investigateoy that have taken place show the existence of secret sociations of a political nature, we have for thel ) 00 , pose of obtaining entire conviction in a legal °l oo t ner, and that the transgression of a few Inild to interrupt the enjoyment of the rightsguara lltee 3 , our Polish subjects, ordained as follows' The Tribunal of the Diet is convoked *co t our to Article 152 of the Constitution. 2 ' t of' Council of Administration and the Preside n t ide the Senate have to pi oceed according to 50 of the Organic Law, concerning the Se ° s be And 3. The above order for convoking,ol. Tribunal of the Diet is to be inserted in the; r h, lection of the Laws.---given at St. Peter sb ,,„ D '' April 19, 1827, the second year of our re:!.:2 • BIRTHS. Yesterday, at Norwood, the lady of E. W. Blunt' of a son. On the 4th inst., at Norwood, the wife of Lee Esq., of a son. til i MARRIED. boo t ' 0 On, the sth inst., at St. Margaret's, Westo - r oe i o the Rev. W. Bolton, Henry Cooper, Esq., Cur otii! ' t.ia- - the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Establish cow Mary Anne Caroline, only daughter of the 1 0 . - o f Charles Peirson. .0 4 "„ty Yesterday, at Marylebone, Samuel Miller , fir, 0 Great James -street, , Bedford-row, to Mies 13 L, , daughter of the late Rev. G. A. Barry, of Re r su l- ' e retw - Same day, Giles Hilton, Esq. of Lords, nea to Mary, second daughter of Richard YanheYt hq of John-street, Bedford-row. I , f ;dge 9 59 1.4 Same day, at Croydon, Henry Da 'f , • Queen-sq m.— uare, to Harriet Anne, eldest daughter . t nett, of Haling Park, Esq. F/ o"Uge On the Qd inst. Mr. Noel Delcroix, of N ew to Miss F. Bradley. DIED.Aps fit t On the 4th inst., in Gloucester-place, A of of Banstead-place, Surrey. stonfie Suddenly, whilst on the Continent selectieg hi„, china, M. Francisco D'Aremberg, of Ludgatt;, re igu 1 "' superior taste as a co l lector and connoisseur of British Porcelain was generally acknowleged•tter of On the 4th instant, Margaret, third deur ' Hall, Esq. d oil litO °‘ On the 4th instant, aged three years sin , pep, Emily, youngest daughter of John Bambara, Wandsworth.s. At Parrartu and Pun uett sn by . YOUNG: Sox-Omar, N 0.1 1 2, Xirow•