The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-16 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOORMALS. , There is ascribed to us, we perceive, in /1 1 paper of last night, an arrangement of places which we never made. All that we said, with the degree of certainty which is permissible pend ing such transactions, was, that the Duke of Portland was President of the Council, in the place of Lord Harrowby. We hinted that Mr. Huskisson " might " go to the Colonial-office ; but we never heard nor dreamed of his receiving , the Seals of the Foreign-office, which we are de scribed as having said. The journal which has committed these errors will, probably, through practice; gets out of its present random way of stating what ought to be facts; but, till . it does that,. towards which these, our remarks may he serviceable, it. must be read, with caution. As to its arguments,. vakant, quantum valent. Our' mode of proceeding has always been to consider, anxiously and conscientiously, which upon all political questions is the juster cause ; and hav ing made our choice, we are not afraid that the less just should make good its plea to public support. With respect to Mr. Canning, it would be as absurd to deny that the national grief follows him to the grave in an unprece dented degree, as to deny that it is day-light when this journal issues forth into the world. \V( could not check this feeling if we were to try,—at least we could not eradicate or extinguish,— but, on the contrary, we deeply participate in it. We at all times admired his many and eminent talents; we •have supported and shall support that liberal system of policy of which he was the author and the advocate, as soon as he emanci pated himself from the trammels of faction, and the predominance of aristocratic influence ; and we pay our tribute of gratitude to the Sovereign who selected such a man .for his. IVlinister, and seems now to have devolved the . full develop,. ment of his -plans upon statesmen of similar principles.— Times. The Report of the Select Committee of Inquiry into the causes to which has been owing the increase of criminal commitments and con victions in England and Wales, will be found in another part of this paper. By the above Report are established some facts in relation to the poor of this country, which are not less melancholy than important. A period not exceeding twenty years—from 1801. to 1821—produced an in crease of population .frora 8,872,986 to 11,977,663, or better than 33 per cent.; and assuming that from 1806 to 1826, the rate of increase has been the same as. in the former twenty years, namely 33 per cent., see what har. been the comparative proportion of commit- tnents In 1806 4,346 1826 16,147 almost 300 per cent.! , To what must we as cribe this dreadful aggravation of. the criminal state of England ? The Committee borrow from the evidence which they have diligently collected, a variety of causes for ,this apparent degeneracy of the nation. We have paymenns from the poor-rates to the able-bodied labourer —an increase in the amount of poaching-41v_ Malicious Trespass Act, which gives the power of summary, that is, arbitrary conviction am; commitment to Magistrates, corrupting the par ties by the .contagion of a prison, and thus snaking punishments engender crimes instead of ehecking them. We have, finally, a. want of employment for the labourer, and its necessar\ consequence, a rate of wages, in many parts o , the country, insufficient for his support. With' the single exception of the summary jurisdiction! vested in the M a gistrate by the Malicious Trespass Act, all the. above causes of committals for crime may be resolved, into the single one Of poverty, which has, we are afraid, to a large ex tent, overgrown the agricultural labourers of England. Bearing a near ;affinity to want, i' loss of manly pride and honour, which result , from the misapplication of . the. poor-rates Those who would formeily as soon have though of any other mode of disgrace as this legalized b e ggary, now.not merely accept the poor alio*- a nce as a supplement to scanty wages, or a sub• stitute for them, but snatch at it and seize it a. a prey. litnce, unquestionably, one most va luable moral safeguard has been withdrawn from the British labourer; and from the period as signed to the introduction of this grievance, re are disposed to agree in the opinion that it arose from the unreflecting selfishness of the farmers, who, early in the war, when prices rose, got the increase of pay which they ought to have them selves afforded, saddled upon the parish funds, and an evil established which it may cost an age of wisdom or a serious convulsion to eradicate. , We refer our readers to a very valuable Re port of a Select Committee of the House. of C o mmon c, on the subject of Criminal Commit tais and Convictions. The Committee com menced their labours only a short time previous to the close of the Session, and have not been able to extend their inquiries beyond the agricul tural districts. There is still a wide range of in quiry remaining for them, and we trust that the subject will be taken up in the same spirit on the re-assembling of Parliament. The rate at which crime has been for several years increasing in the agricultural districts is truly alarming.— For instance, the Rev. Dr. Hunt, a Visiting Magistrate of the gaol of Bedford, who has acted as a Magistrate for Bedfordshire for about sixteen or seventeen years, stated in his evidence before the - Committee, " as far as I have been able to form - a list, the whole number of commit ments in 1801, including prisoners sent to trial and prisoners summarily convicted, amounted to between forty and fifty ; and in the last year they amounted to upwards of 400. From 1814 there has been a rapid and almost uniformly continued increase to the present time, extendin g in the first instance from a total of 47 to a total o f 417." The same Mag istrate observes, " that from the year 1801 to 1827, the population of the county has increased to the amount of 40 ner cent. or rather more than one-third ; while, during the same period, crime has increased ten fold, or 900 per cent." It would give us sincere pleasure to he able to state that Bedford is ano malous in its condition ; the agricultural districts seem all to have advanced in crime at the same frightful rate. A population of criminals seems a contradiction in terms. We may safely lay it down that crime cannot always increase as it has done between 1801 and 1827 ; for, if the re - spective rates of increase of population and crime were to continue for a few years longer, the whole people would be criminals. Even in the worst governed parts of Italy—the dominions of the Pope and the King of Naples—there are some honest men to be found, otherwise it is difficult to conceive on what principle particular towns could be selected for distinction on account of their bein g exclusively inhabited by robbers. on progressi in crime But the is calculated,to a ppal the stoutest hearts, even with the assur ance that the rate of increase cannot long con tinue to be what it is at present. We find in the evidence a strong confirmation of what we' have again. and again endeavoured to impress on' our countrymen, that the English gentry are the great corrupters of - the people of England. « I think (says Dr. Hunt) that there has been a great increase of commitments for' small offences, owing to the facility with which' petty_ criminals can be convicted before single Magistrates, out of Session.--- , Do you mean in consequence of late Acts of Parliament ?'- 1 1 The number of such commitments has been certainly increased by the Wilful and Malicious' Trespass Act, and by other Acts that give sum mary jurisdiction to magistrates. think a great n:any offences are thus brought to conviction' that would not be thought of,, if - they had to go to a more distant or expensive , tribunal ; the power of summary jurisdiction has been very much extended in latter years. A. person once sent to ,prison, gets into a course of criminal ha bits, by associating with dissolute persons whom hVneets there. .. . . Many young men are thus sent to prison for small offences that would not otherwise have been sent, and by these means they continue in a course of crime.' "—, The English gentleman, his capacity of Le-- gislator, procures for him se lf, i n hi s ca p a city of !magistrate, all manner of summary and discre tionary powers, and, armed with them, he sallies forth . the absolute Lord of all the peasantry in his neighbourhood, who are totally without the means of protecting themselves. In countries where something like principle runs through the laws, which are not, as in England, chiefly corn posed of unconnected, arbitrary, and contradic tory enactments, in which no line of demarcation is drawn between crimes and police offences, and against a liability to the penalties of which, often very severe, no degree of sagacity is sufficient to guard—in countries in which the execution of the laws is not committed to men destitute of professional knowledge, and whose only qualifi cation is the possession of property, the lower orders can count with something like certainty on the consequences of their actions. The chief security of an Ehglish peasant is not in the laws, but in the temper of the Squire to whose discre tion he is subject ; for the laws supply to tyranny And malevolence the means of persecution, to an extent which they could hardly wish to exceed. The consequence of this grasping and meddling disposition of the higher orders is precisely what might, have been expected—the people feeling themselves without security, and subject to every caprice of their superiors, have become reckless. Our only hope now is, that the excess of the evil will work its own .cure ; that the demoralize.: tion,of the peasantry having under the fostering care of discretionary power, attained a height un exampled in any other civilized nation, the gen try will at length take alarm, and consent to abandon the exercise of functions for which they ire obviously unfit, before we are all involved in t,nie common ruin. All the witnesses agree, that one great cause of the criminal character of the agricultural population is the preservation of game. Poverty holds out irresistible temptaL dons to the peasant to poach, which neither he himself nor the farmer consider a crime ; though, the same man who will shrink from crime poaches without scruple, the poaching leads in evitably to crime ; so that he who commences as a poacher ends by being a criminal. The Com mittee of the Society for the Improvement o. Prison Discipline; to whose Report we alluded Ehe other day, remark with respect to the Game Laws, that they are " a source of crime, to which a large proportion► of the increase of offences in the agricultural districts is mainly to he attributed. Of this fact there is abundant and but too certain evidence An experienced Magistrate of Bedfordshire, in a communication to the Society—in which he attributes the increase of crime to the demoraliz ing effect of the Game Laws—observes, that preserves for game are very numerous, and hus- handry wages extremely low. Setting snares day is succeeded by armed poaching at night, and followed up . by robbing hen-roosts, pigeon stealing, sheep-stealing, and horse-stealing. In stances are perpetually occurring of this descripl don, in the commencement and regular progress of crime.' In Hertfordshire, an active Magis trate and correspondent of the Society writes, that the increase of crime is considered to be mainly attributable to the strict manner in which game is preserved by the Lords of Manors, and which produces a tenfold quantity to that for merly in existence, and that consequently thei:e is a proportionate increase in the number of poachers. . . . The Chaplain of the County Gaol of Norfolk, who devotes himself most laudably to the religious and moral welfare of the criminals, observes on this subject, that ".poaching leads more easily and rapidly to the perpetration of the higher crimes than any other incentive ; and the time and nature of the em ployment, and the desperate combinations that are entered into, create a greater ferocity of spirit than has hitherto been found in any other class of offenders ! It is estimated that about one-fourth part of those who crowd our county prisons consists of offenders against the Gamel Laws. In the last seven years the number' amounts to upwards of 12,000, being, on an average, one thousand seven hundred in each year. But the extent of evil of which the Game Laws are the source, must not be esti mated by the actual number of commitments for this offence. If the history of the felon were, traced, it would appear that in innumerable cases poaching had been the first step in,his criminal career." The disposition which seve ral of the Members of the Committee of the House of Commons, and particularly the Chair man, Sir James Graham, seem to have carried with them into the inquiry, is deserving of every praise for its uncompromising fearlessness anu sincerity. It is always a great point to know the real nature of the disease, and there has been but too general a disposition in the people of this country for many years to play off cant against each other, which, after all, deceived no one. When prudent people, as they are called, see that at this game of hypocrisy they are far in ferior to the inmates of prisons, it is to be hoped the vile race will decline among us." Mr. Orridge, of Bury, says on this subject very naively, " Hypocrisy goes to a great extent in prisons. I am sorry to say there are many whom I have never known properly till I had no power over them.—' Do you find that the worst are generally the best behaved F—Yes, a com plete scoundrel conceals himself; I had thoughts that, after thirty years, I had a knowledge of; criminal character ; but I believe I shall die a' novice at last." What a powerful confirmation have we here of the truth of Mr. Cunningham's observations !—Morning Cheonzcle. However gratifying it may be to Englishmen' to see the spirit of freedom which characterises their own institutions spreading abroad and in 'fusing itself into those of other countries, no thing can be more preposterous than the idea of hawking about Constitutions, and in a manner forcing them upon foxeign countries. This, as in the case of Portugal, wad,_ one of those wild poetical notions of the late Mr. Canning, which, though it was received with cheers and acclama tions by those who mistake sound for sense, is now involving this country in a dilemma from 1 which she will find it difficult to-extricate herself, I but at a considerable expense both of fame and' money. The grand obstacle to freedom both in Portugal and in Spain is the ascendancY of the Roman Catholic religion. To talk of freedom under the domination of Priesthood, is as pre posterous as to look for the light of the sun during the darkness of midnight. We do not consider it, as some have d‘ine, any inconsistency in Mr. Canning to have looked for freedom in a Catholic country, at the same time that he ad vocated Catholic Emancipation at home. If Catholic Emancipation and Catholic ascendancy meant the sanie filing, that inconsistency* would be undeniable ; but we can easily imagine that in advocating the. one, Mr. Canning, and those who think with him, in ayimagine it as one method ofput ting an end altogetherto Catholicyin a Protestant country. But leaving this view of the subject, it cannot be denied by any calm and reasonable looker on, that the spirit of political proselytism, in other countries is what the most sanguine ad- 1 mirer of the institutions of his own country has, no right to ,indulge; and which if indulged in,' must generally_ recoil in the discomfiture of thosel who attempt it. To say nothing of the expence,l which is no small consideration in the present, financial state of this country, it is degrading in the extreme to Great Britain to have-her troops employed as a, sort of gens-d'armerie in a fo reign country, where they must be the objects of , hatred by one party, and of disappointment to the other. 'What earthly object will have been gained by Mr. Canning's Portuguese expedition, or by the doubtful and recalled eloquence which he bestowed upon it, time will soon develope ; and that developement, we strongly suspect, will, consist either in our being obliged to retire from a country where we had no business, or our being involved in a war for objects totally foreign to! any British interests. Much as we deprecate, national disgrace, the first alternative would be, we apprehend, by far the most desirable ; andj wektrust, therefore, that one of the first objectsl of the new Ministry will be to disclaim, with all! the delicacy they can, the hasty, inconsiderate' step of their leader towards Portugal, and to leave that country to settle its own internal affairs, in the wav it may think best. That such settle-, ment will not be of the kind to satisfy the lovers of freedom in this country, we can easily ima- 1 gine ; but it will not be unsatisfactory, upon the whole, to those who, though , they love freedom, and would forward its advancement by all legiti= mate means, nevertheless deprecate the Quixotism 'and injustice of interfering in the internal con= cerns of other countries.—Morning Herald. i. We give, in another part of our Paper, a copy of an interesting Report made by the Commit. tee appointed by the, House of Commons to in quire into the cause of the increase in the num ber of criminal commitments and convictions. This Report, however, is by no means complete. The appointment of the Committee having taken place late in the season, it was impossible at once to embrace the vast expanse of the field! which it had to explore. The Committee, there fore, began by ascertaining the fact, that commit-I ments and convictions had increased ; and corn-1 paring that increase with that of the population,i the result afforded a melancholy proof, that crime had augmented in a still more rapid ratio than population. The increase In the latter, ( between 1801 and 1821, was 3,104,777, or little more than one-third of the whole, whilst the number of commitments within the same period had nearly quadrupled itself, being not less than 16,147 to 4,346. The . Committeel then divided the subject into three branches : th e increase of crime in the Agricultural districts— in the manufacturing ones—and in the Metro polis ; but, for the present, confined their enqui ries to the former, on which they do not even pre tend to form a definite judgment. They suggest the change from war to peace, as a partial cause for the general increase of crime from 1806 tc, 1816 ; but its unchecked progress since that' period, not withstanding the attention called to the subject, and the efforts made•to furnish a re medy, appears to them to arise, in the agricultu ral" districts at least, from the low rate of wages —the want of sufficient employment—and the abuse of the Poor Laws to purposes for which increase of were never intended. The great of preserves for game is also pointed out, and most, justly so, as materially tending to the augmentation of crime in' particu lar districts, and an experimental legalization of the sale of game is recommended, as likely to put an end to poaching. The best remedy, how-' ever; for such a state of things, is admitted to be l one beyond the immediate controul of the Legis lature—" a great increase in the demand, for la H bour ;" but it is also contended that some amend- 1 ment of the Poor Laws, which might prevent the prevailing abuses from being carried farther, is imperiously called for. We trust that this call will not pass unheeded ; and, from the in formation already collected by the Committee. within so short a period from the commence ment of their labours, we have no doubt that much advantage will result from their appoint ment, if their inquiries continue to be carried on in the same spirit and with the same activity. —New Times. . I Of all those I ever heard of, who have mani fested the " ruling passion strong in death," George Bread man proved one of the staunchest. He was a poor yokel, foistered upon me in the last sta ge o f consumpt i on, an d who remained bed-ridden until our arrival in the colony. He fell away so fast that I never ex p ec t e d to l an d hi m alive, and certainly it required the most anxious attention to retain the glimmering spark. I fortunately, however, possessed a very facetious fellow among the batch, to whom this poor dying creature became strongly attached, never being a (lay happy whereon his friend neglected to visit him, and often begging me to send this ma n t o hi m f or company, which I gladly did, seeing it invariably put him in good spirits. Wondering what could be the cause of this extraordinary liking, I inquired, and found that Bread man had been a great pig-stealer in his day, which being considered a very vulgar calling among the professional classes (particularly among the townies), he could get no one to listen to his adventures except this joker, who would laugh with and quiz him on the particular subjects of his achievements ; praise the wonderful expertness with which he had done the farmers out of their grunters, and propose; a partnership concern on reaching the colony, if the pigs there were found to he worth stealing ! I really believe the poor creature was kept in existence a full month solely by the exhilarating conversation of his companion. On anchoring at Sydney no time was lost in conveying Bread man ashore, he being so weak that he could not even lit up without fainting : yet, in this pitiable state, supporting' himself round the hospital-man's• neck while the latter was drawing on his trowsers for him, the expiring wretch mustered strength enough to stretch out his pale trembling, hand toward the other's waistcoat-pocket, and pick it of a pocket-comb and pen-knife ! Next morning he .was a corpse, thus dying as he had lived. Yet, during his whole illness, this man would regularly request some of the sober minded rogues to read the Scriptures to him, and pray by his bed-side ! Indeed, ill practices become ultimately' so habitual with many, as to be no longer deemed such : and hence, no wonder we so often see religion and knavery in timately blended...Cunning/was Two Years in Ara° South Waks. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.---SwiNDLERS.--In consequence of the publicity given to the application of Mr. Lang, a gun-dealer, in the Haymarket, relating to the Hon. Mr. Clive, Mr. Jackson, a livery-stable keeper, in Grange-road, Bermondsey, waited upon Mr. Lang, and claimed the horse and gig which had • been left by the swindler in the custody of Mr. Lang's porter. Mr. Jack son said, that on Saturday morning a person, having the appearance of a gentleman, called at his stables and ordered a horse and gig to be got ready as speedily as possible, he [ having some business of the utmost importance to attend !to. He said that his name was Dixon, that lie was a wine-merchant in the city,— and that his offices were in Mark-lane ; in fact, said Mr. Jackson, he assumed so much importance that I felt satisfied in "my own'mind that I his representations were correct, and I hurried the ostler to !get the horse and chaise ready, and the gentleman drove off.. I was so satisfied with his appearance that I did not ask him for any reference, nor to pay for the hire ; but the horse and chaise not having been returned at the stipulated time, I became alarmed. I inquired' in the city, but could, not find Mr. Dixon, and the only information I got of my property was in consequence of Mr. Lan ;'s application having been reported in the newspapers. The horse and harness which Mr. Lang has in his possession are mine, but the chaise has been eXchanged - for one of a very inferior description. Mr. Lang said he had discovered that his gun had been pledged with Mr. Archbutt, of Westminster. H e h a d no , objection to give up the horse and gig provided his gun was restored. Mr. DYER said it was a matter with which he could not interfere. If the property had been stolen he could have compelled the parties who had them in their possession to 'give them up. Mr. Lang had a claim on the horse and gig until his gun was restored. In conclusion the Worthy I Magistrate said, he lamented that persons were to be found who parted with their property upon the mere representa tion of a man who liVed by plunder. Mr. Lang said he would redeem his gun, and if he found Mr. Jackson's Statement was correct, he would return him the horse and gig. Mr. Batchelor, proprietor of an eating-house in Vine=' street, Piccadilly, was summoned for having sold beer without a license. Two witnesses, named Goodman and. Podger, said that they went into the defendant's house to dine, and called for two pints of porter which were brought. to them 13)e the waiter. Mr. Batchelor denied selling any beer himself. As se veral Of his customers wished to have beer at their dinner, Sherwood, a publican, had, at his (Mr. Batchelor's) re quest, sent a gallon into the room, and it was served out as required. Hi, however, was not answerable for the money, or for any damage which might be done to the pots or can. Mr. Sherwood corroborated his statement, and said, he' had paid the boy's wages who carried the beer into the room. Mr. DYER said that he was bound, under the Act of Parliament, to convict the defendant; all he could do was to mitigate the penalty to 10/. The defendant was therefore fined 10/. ; but he gave notice of appeal. QUEEN-SQUARE.—THE RIVA Ls.— Wnt. Richaid son, a private in the Coldstream Guards, was charged with having sent a challenge to a youth named Edward Dogherty, a paper-stainer; in Jews-row, Chelsea. It ap peared that Dogherty had fallen in love with a damsel in Blue Anchor-court, to whom he paid his 'addresses, and had made her sundry presents of ribbons and pincushions, and-had likewise become answerable to a tallyman for the amount of a sovereign's worth of goods to decorate ; her person. Riothardson, however, had succeeded in winning her affections, and when he met Dogherty he knocked him down, and kicked him. Dogherty complained to the corn= manding officer, but got no redress, and Richardson then sent him the following challenge : " Sur—The 13 of Argust i take This plesur of writip then fu lines to send you a chalgnes To mete you liany ware you Pleas to send word to mete at your time and place, but not wen i am on duty, and fitch your big brother with' you 'and yourself, for I dont like to take an insult form you nor no such rubbish form Jews-row, you cummed to hour barakes to think for to cum over me, but it would not doe, I understand you was at Misses Morris house agin on Sunday wen you thought I was on Gard, but it would not doe, so now take a warning form me, • " WILLIAM RICHARDSON, a Soldier." " And if you are not satisfyd i wil chalgens your brother." " To Chelsea, Jews-row, Edwd. Dogherty." Richardson conducted himself very improperly before the Magistrate ; admitted having knocked Dogherty down, and said he would do it again. He was ordered to find good bail. ITIVItAcr-117t=:-='Sc ISA,. -- , rest;erany " tile Meg is trates of the Office were occupied for a considerable time in the investigation of a charge of riot and disturbance, al leged to have been committed by the Hon. Mrs. Frederick Fitzroy and her three sisters, all residing together in'East place, Cornwall-road, in the parish of Lambeth. A Mrs. Siringfield, the widow of a Captain in the Navy, stated; that she liven within a few doors of the de fendants, who were constantly in the habit of grossly in sulting and annoying her, as well as her daughter, when ever they went outside the door. The expressions they commonly used were, " There goes thy old bawd," and Miss _Springfield had been frequently threatened with a sousing in a filthy, ditch which stands at a short distance from East-place. " In fact," . said the complainant,' " the Honourable Mrs. Fitzroy and her sisters are such nuisances, that all the respectable people are leaving the place, owing Ito it. Mr. DAVIES, a Magistrate, seeing the parties were all youthful and gaily decked out, asked if there was a spice, of jealousy mixed up. in the business ? Complainant.—Oh dear, Sir, not at all, nothing of the kind. She then threw out some broad insinuations as to the character of the company that frequented the house occupied by the defendants, which was besieged day and night by male visitors. The Hon. Mrs. Fitzroy.—l can assure you, Sir, we have no persons call at our house, except our two brothers and a few relatives. Mrs. Springfield here burst into laughter, declaring that the lady who had made the last assertion, told an untruth, for she had only one brother, and he was a baker by trade. Mrs. Fitzroy said she had two brothers, both of whom were tradesmen. Mrs. Springfield having alleged that Mrs. Fitzroy was not a married woman, Mr. SWABEY put the question to her, when she said that she was a married woman, and that her husband, the Hon. Fred. Fitzroy, uncle to Lord Southampton, was On the Continent. The Magistrates having consulted together, were of opinion that the charge of riot was not substantiated, and discharged the defendants. SMUGGLING.— Thos. Stagg, one of the crew belong ing to a vessel called the Deception, which was seized last week for conveying smuggled tobacco to this country, was again brought before the Magistrate. On board the vessel were found 5,9841b5. of tobacco. Stagg, in his defence, said that he was engaged on board the Deception by the Captain, who described the vessel as, a pleasure yacht, and said that she was bound to Margate, Ramsgate, and other watering-places along the coast.— They sailed from the river, and when the Captain got out to sea, he shaped his course for the Dutch coast, and on their arrival at Flushing, the tobacco in question was brought on board. The prisoner, on seeing the boats con taining the tobacco, insisted' upon receiving something' for the risk, and the Captain promised him 41. over and above his pay. He had, however, not received one farthing.— The prisoner then proceeded to give the names of the parties implicated in the transaction. The Solicitor of the Customs said, that Stagg had given every information in his power; there was no doubt he was the dupe of others, who always left such poor crea tures as the prisoner to their fate in the event of a seizure being made. The prisoner, however, had given such in formation as would lead eventually to the apprehension of persons deeply implicated in smuggling. 'When they were taken he Would be liberated. It is said that a landed proprietor in Suffolk has recovered 25,000 acres from the sea.—Boston Gazette, CHELMSFORD, AUG. 13.—The Chelmsford Beef-Steak Club held their Anniversary, at the Black Boy Inn, on Friday last. Most of the County Gentlemen were !present. Sir Joux TvaELL, Bart., High Sheriff, gave .a fine Turtle, and a fat Buck from his own park, on the oc casion, which were admirably dressed by the landlord. On the evening of Monday, between eight arid nine o'clock, an armed party, with their faces blackened; entered the dwelling of Mr. John Coughlen, miller, dn the lands of Growri, in Upper Ormond, and having fired at him deliberately, the ball grazing his head, proceeded to plunder his house, robbing him of 2301. in notes, and beat and wounded some other'of his inmates. These not9ridna, assassins, taking the adVantage of the police from Castle-1 Otway being called to the fair of Borrisoleigh, from place they had only come home, when, on receiving infdr, mation of the attack and robbery, they went in a few mo ments to the scene of this outrage, and were joined by the Ballymack and Toom stations, and though an active pur suit was kept up all night, and a number Of houses search ed, no trace could be found to lead to a discovery for the Ipretieut..Zimerick Chronicle. MURDER. I Extract of a letter from Valencia (Spain), I dated July 25, 1827 ;—The following case idlers an example of a horrible crime, and a most extraordinary act.ofself-sacrifice, both inspired by love. It exhibits the spectacle of a wife murder ing her husband, in order to live in full liberty with her lover, and of that lover voluntarily courting an ignominious death to save from punishment his !guilty mistress. The following are the principal facts. Domingo S., a gardener, lived with his, wife Francesca, their daughter (eight years old), land his mother, in the place called Huerta de Valencia, (garden of. Valencia). Domingo left home every Monday to go and work at some distance, and did not return till the Saturday. In the interval Felipo N., a young man who car ried on a criminal intercourse with Domingo's wife, came and passed the night in his house, for, strange to say, Domingo's mother favoured. 'the adulterous connection of her daughter-in law. These rendezvous were, however, 'inter rupted by the sickness of Domingo, who being attacked with a tertian fever, was obliged to remain at home. His wife, irritated at this interruption to her intercourse . with Felipo, was continually reproaching her husband with his indolence, and asserting that his illness was a mere pretence for not working. In these reproaches she was seconded by Domingo's mother, until he yielded to their representations, and on the 11th of June, 1826, he left home to resume his ordinary occupations. Felipo was immediately informed of the circumstance, and a meeting appointed for that night, but this' project was frustrated by the return of Domingo, who was rendered incapable of working by a fresh access of fever. He was, received on his return in the most cruel manner by his wife and mother, who not only over whelmed him with abuse, but were barbarous enough to refuse making his bed. His little daughter, who brought - some s t raw f or h er i father to lie upon, was threatened by her grand mother with death ! The child was so alarmed that she left the house, and hid herself in a little yard behind it. Domingo, overcome, with sick.: ness and fatigue, fell asleep. 'c Would to God that he were dead !" said his wife to her mother in-law, "that I might marry Felipo." "It is in out power to get rid of him," said the unnatural mother, and both together taking up a large stone, which they had .great difficulty in lifting, they carried it to the place where 'he was sleep- . ing, and dashing it down upon him, fractured his skull ! Domingo's daughter, who was con eealed in the yard, saw this horrible action, but though they called her, she did not answer. At the appointed hour Felip o a rrived, w hen Do,- , mingo s mother told him what had happened.— Though horrified at their, cruelty, he was still so blinded by. passion as to consent to conceal their clime. He took the body on his shoulders ? and conveyed it a distance of two leagues, where he buried it. Domingo's wife and mother affected great sorrow at his disappearance, and even al). plied to the Magistrates to take some steps to discover what had become of him. Domingo'p widow, now freed from all restraint, lived openly with Felipo. He and she, accompanied by her mother and daughter, went to pass the Christ- Inas holidays at Valencia, after which their mar triage was to take place. On Christmas eve, before going with Felipo and her mother to the midnight mass, she put her' daughter to bed, having refused the earnest '.. - 44,...,..t.-4Att.L. child to be allowed to go with her' and threatened to beat her should she get up, The people of the house had, according to the custom of the country, .a better supper than usual on this night, and recollecting the little girl, ' they asked her to get up and eat something. She refused, and on their persisting, said, "My mother and grandmother have forbidden me to get up ; if I did so, they might probably kill mei as they did my father." This expression of the child's was reported to' the Magistrates, and Domingo's' widow, her mother, and Felipo; were in consequence, arrested. ' The two former denied all knowledge of the murder; but Felipo, to save the life of his mistress, took the' crime upon himself, and solemnly declaring that he alone had murdered Domingo, in order that he might marry his widow ; that the other prisoners were altogether innocent of the crime. The child was examined, and described the scene of the murder, as has been already stated. On the 27th of April last, the Superior Criminal Tribu- 1 nal of Valencia found Felipo guilty of the mur der upon his own confession, and sentenced him to be hanged. The two women, in consequence of the very heavy suspicions attached to them, and their not having immediately given notice to the proper authorities of the disappearance of Domingo, were condemned to eight years' con finement. On the' 31st of April, Felipo sub mitted to his punishment with the utmost ‘ possi ble firmness and sahgfivid. A moment before his death, he again affirmed to his confessor the innocence of his mistress, and requested to be informed if her life was saved ; and on being answered in the affirmative, he said, " I die con tented," and resigned himself into the hands of the executioner. On Friday last a melancholy affair occurred in the village of Willaston, attended by the loss of life, under circumstances of the most afflicting nature. A party, consisting of three females and two children, left the house of Mr. Maddock, a respectable farmer, in Pool town, near Eastham, in the forenoon of the above day. The object of the day's excursion was a visit to Neston, above five miles distant. Seated in a taxed cart, the youthful party, all elate with health and buoyancy of spirits, passed along the road, which was perfectly familiar to the young lady who undertook the office of driver, and who, with her com panions, was anticipating the innocent enjoyments of their summer day's jaunt. The road passes through the village of Willaston, and, as is the case in many towns in the county of Chester, it runs close to a pool of water ; in tt i about s this instance the water lay on each side of the road, or rather the feet eroadahorvaenittsharoourfgahce.theTwhaetyerh,adandwa s proceeded elevated h o the horse when useinc i l ts stated i n i ed towards t hat ' in the waterspiteo f to t hee ff drink.or t Oneoft h l e v dr he i e v l e o r f , the vehicle was, however, unfortunately projected beyond the side of the road, and instantly the cart turned over, and was precipitated into the water, covering two of the young ladies under it, who, e nable to recover their feet, had to struggle partly with the water and probably more with the mud in which they were held down by the weight of the cart. An instant cry was uttered by one of the females, • Ellen Dale, the driver, who, when she found the car' going over, jumped beyond its range into the water, which • was not more than leg deep; two men came to the assist ance of the unfortunate females, who were takes out of the water with some symptoms of life ; but we exceedingly regret to state, that one of them died soon after the distres sing circumstance occurred, and the other in the course ofl the afternoon. The preservation of the two children was singularly providential; they escaped out behind unhurt when the cart was overturned. Mr. Banks, surgeon, of Neston, was immediately in attendance, but his efforts, as the sad sequel preyed, were ineffectual ; and two respee-I table families were plunged into the most poignant grief, by the' sudden bereavement which they had respectively and simultaneously sustained. Miss Jane Thompson was s about 18 years of age, the daughter of Mr. Thompson, a respectable cattle-dealer of this town; and Miss E. Mad dock, about 21 years old, the other unfortunate sufferer, I !Was the daughter of Mr. Maddock, from whose house the 'party had proceeded itt the raconabag...Liverpot Courier. BIRTHS, On the 14th inst., at Eghatn-hill, the lady of Arch+ Dyer, Esq., of a daughter, still-born. On the 10th inst., atßorris, Carlow, Ireland, Lady Ho. riett Kavanagh, of a son. On the 13th inst., in Grosvenor-place, the lady 019 Captain Clifford, R.N., of a daughter. On the 15th ult., at Florence, .the lady of G. F. Bridget Esq., Commander in the Royal Navy, of a daughter. On the sth inst., at the Moat, near . Salisbury, the lady of Richard Hetley, Esq., of a daughter. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI Adair's Beaumont 3l 9 Heaton 36 3 33 0 Killingworth 35 9 Old Walker 34 6 Ord's Redhugh —, 29 6 Percy East - 29 6 PontoP Windsor 30 9 Shipeob. 3l 6 , Tantield Moor . 32 6 'Townley _ 31 9 35 6 Wylam 32 9 Walls End Bell and Co. 35 8 Ditto Bewieke and Co.— 37 9 Ditto Brown's „ 34 0 Ditto Burraten 35 3 Ditto Carr and 34 0 Ditto Clarke and Co.,— 3.'3 0 ,Ditto Hotspur gt 6 Ditto Northumberland 34 6 1 Ships at market, 117%—Shij :ET.—Aag. 15. Walls End Newmarch., 365. Od. Ditto Peareth. 34 Ditto Ditto Russell's 38 . 0 Ditto Walker Tanfiel 1 Trader.. . 32 0 Larnbton small 17 6 Londonderry small 18 0 30 0 Culm Cox P Hartley 31 0 Stone Coal Christie...-. 39 0 Llangenneth Coal.-- 42 0 Stone Coal Small and Co. 38 0 Eden's 30 9 Nesham Main Walls End Hetton.--,.. 3s 0 Ditto Lambton 3B Ditto Lvons— w ., 35 Ditto Stewart's ---,....3S 0 Huliseri's Hetton'sW. E. SS 0 sold, 673{ —_Unsold, 56% LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Aug. 14. There was a respectable attendance of country dealers at, this day's market, and, the morn i ng b e i ng extremely we t, a fair business was transacted in Wheat, and prices fully recovered the 'depression of the week ; we therefore, for that article, repeat our quotations of last Tuesday. Oats were again excessively dull, and are further reduced la; per bushel ; a few - parcels of new Irish, the quality of which was fine, wer e di s p ose d ' o f a t 4 s . 21 and 45.31•' per 451 b. Fine Beans are still very scarce, and command , an advance of ls. to i2s. per imperial quarter. There was an improved demand for Indian Corn, at former rates. Barley, as well as Oatmeal, was very heavy, of sale, and might have been purchased on lower terms. In. Flog no alteration. OLD, s. d. 0. d. s. d. s . d. 00 a 0 88a 9 0 . 003 0000a0u 00a0 08.2a8 8 Canada (free) , 0 0 a 0 0 8 1 a 8 Foreign (free) „--, 0 0 4 0 0 !'7 6 a 8 0 ----- Foreign (in bond),,,, 0 0 a 0 0 4 0 a 5 3 Barley, English, per 601bs. 00 a 0 44 a 4 IO ------ Irish _ 0 C a 0• 0 -'4 3 a 4 1 Sotch 0 0 a 9 0 4 3 a 4 , 0 a 0 0 3 10 a 4 9 Beans, English, per Irrip. qr. 0 0 a 0 050 0 a 53 0 Oats, English, per 4,51 b. .O 0 4 0 0 3 8 a 3 10 Irish .00a003 la 3 Scotch 0 0a 0 03 8a 3 10 Malt, Fine, per hap. qr. 0 0 a 9 062 0a 67 -- Middling 0 0 a 0 046 0 a 59 0 Flour, Amer., duty paid, per •00 a 0 0 0a36 0 sour 0 Oa 0 029 0a33 —.Canadian 0• 0 a 0 0a . Indian Corn, white, per qr. of 4801 b. 0 0 a 0 019 0 a2l 0 red „ 0 Oa 0 032 fia3s 0 Pease, English white, per Imp. qr. 00a 0 0 0a46 0 Rye 0 0 a 0 034. 0 a 38 0 Oatmeal, English, per 2461b5. 0 0 a 0 33 0a 35 0 _---- Irish Scotch IMPORT OF GROIN for the Weer; ending Aug. 13. Wheat. Oats. Barley.i Malt. 'Beans. 'Pease. Rye. I OatmL Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. • Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Loads. 4,162 13,435 42 3,551 184 54 909 Flour, ,828 sacks, 980 barrels. EXPORTS.—Indian Corn, 130 quarters—Flour, 315 barrels. Wheat, English, per 70Ib, Ditto (white)—..... —Scotch NEW. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY..--FRIDAY, AUGUST 17.--(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghall-street.) Boyle, R., Upper Thames- Joseph, A., Compton-street. street • 11 Brunswick-square Broomfield, M., Camber- Smith and Kitchingham, we11-road Chisholm, J., Harwich II Talbot and Co., Thread- Davis, J., Brook-street ll needle-street I Dugdale, J., Portsmouth... 11 Tarbutt, C., St. Mildred's- Errington, G., Lower Ed_ court monton ' 10 At the Assizes for Worcester, certain p a rties were indicted for stealing two ducks ; but as it came ou t in, evidence that they killed the two ducks before tbef stole them, Mr. Justice Littledale directed the Jury to hut' them not guilty, on the ground that in legal construction, the words " two ducks" must be taken to mean " two live ducks," whereas it was proved that these ducks were dead; and the parties were found not guilty according''• Query--Is not ,a duck a duck? And if not, what is "it? THE LANSDOWNE PROPERTY.--The Mar" quis of Lansdowne has set an example to the landed pro , prietors, on his estates in the Queen's County, which if worthy of imitation. The small farms are, rapidly melting away—the farm-houses are constructing upon, an excelled plan, such as promise comfort, and give temptation to cleanliness—a sad desideratum in the rural life of Ireland; and magnificent allowances are granted by this Noblens 3 " out of the landlord's rent, towards insuring a sufficient in' citement to the tenant's interest, and an inducement to seek after the enjoyment of comfort. This, at all times, would be generous and laudable conduct ; but, hi the ac' Wel state of Ireland, it is effective patriotism—. Carlouf Morning Post. BOULOGNE-SUR-ME/4 AUGUST 10.—The Count and Countess de Montholon are still here. The Count, from his own merit, but more particularly front his generous attachment to Napoleon, is a great favourite with all. When they arrived first here, it was remarked that they put up at an English Hotel, although there ars several superior French ones. They have a very interest'; ing girl now with them, born in St. Helena, and na me(' after the late Emperor Napoleon. She is very proud ( having been born withi n th e t err it or i a l possess i ons of Bri tain, and appears to have partiality or predilection for that nation. , A snort time ago, tno gentlemen, visitants at Bridlington Quay, proceeded to the cliffs at Flamborough Head, to view the romantic and enchanting scenery w hich is there presented, as well as to enjoy a day's sport in Shoot' jog sea-birds. Whilst intent on the game, the tide rose it' pidly, and gained a projection of rock on each side of theta, before they were aware of it. In this unplea4ant situarior , they undressed, and swam toward an isolated point, air parently out of the reach of the tide; here, however, it fortunately happened that the situation of the sportsmen was observed by a party on pleasure (chiefly. ladies) at sea , who made for them, and changed their perilous situatiooo by introducing them into the company of the ladies, svh° alternately blushed and smiled at the receipt of such un• usual guests.--Hull Advertiser. MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at Edmonton, by the Rev. Dawsol. Warren, Mr. Vincent, of Mare-stre e t. H ac k ney, son Thomas Vincent, Esq., late Governor of Hudson's Bart now of Hartpool, Durham, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Pike, of Edmonton. On the 15th inst., at Shoreham, by the Rev. John Price, James Ashdown, Esq., late of Elm-house, Lewisham, to Edde, daughter of the late Mr. Christopher Fervent, of the Manor Farm, St. Mary Cray. On the 12th inst., at Allhallows, Barking, by th e Rev'. EL' White, Mr. Wm. Laxton, of Holborn-bars, to Ellen, the only daughter of the late Captain John Gloag, of the 19th Lancers. On the 14th inst., at Wanstead, by the Rev. William Birch, A.M., Richard Birch Wolfe, Esq., of Wood Hallo Essex, to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late J. Paris, Esq. At Beckenham, by the Rev. Frederick Leicester, A.M. Charles Wyndham Rawdon, Esq., to Emma, Mary, ekles daughter of James West, Esq., of Beckenham-place, and Bryanston-square. On the 14th inst., at Great Gaddesden, by the Rev. T. F. Moore Halsey, the Rev. George Tyrwhitt Drake, to Jane, second daughter of the late Joseph Halsey, Esq. On the 7th inst., at Newliston House, Linlithgowshire, David Maitland Maltgill, Esq., of Raukeillorn and Lindorest Fife, to Eleandr Julian, second daughter of the late Thomas Hog, Esq. of Newliston. On the 7th inst., at _Tifton Hall, .Tames Maitland Hogs Esq. Advocate, to lidelk third daughter of Sir A. C. Maitland Gibson, of Paw Hall, Bart. , - ;DIED On the 13th insf., is gapex-street, Strand, Mrs. W. B. Gurney, aged 46. On the 13th inst., at Poole-house, near Hereford, Ed.. wyn Richard Houghtop, tjle,,infaut son of Samuel Platt, Esq. of Russell-square. _ On the 13th inst., at Congleton, Cheshire, Nathaniel ' Maxey Pattison, Esq., in the 67th year of his age. • On the 14th inst., Mr. Charles Howell, of Botolph-lane. At her son's house, Trevor-square, Brompton, Mrs. Paull, late of Piccadilly, aged 82. On the 10th inst., suddenly, from a fall, David Hardie, Esq., at his residence, Southampton-row, Russell - square. On the 9th inst., at Cheltenham, in his'3sth year, after a short but severe attack of bilious feVer, George Francis Wood, Esq. Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, and late of his lajesty's ship ,Britannia. PAINTED and PtrAmaim:. by M. YOUNG ; at the sini..Orrlcg, Nu. 112, Strand. VICT r E. Maje THURSDAY, to receive. T suppl y to th MEAT, eq 1 0,000 Nav ensuing Se a in Tierces, Iris Majesty Plymouth, after be reqi day of Febr day of May, out interest, The Cenc or by apply Victualling' Customs al and to the; espeetirely. No Tend, 300 Tierces flit ted, awl at length,' z appointed, ; by two resp the Party to amount of 1 Same. The Pers IUI behalf, TO THE tAD,E: T" Colonel intimate to distinction, on_ the oec a in that Bad Should to the imp() Your Affairs fidelity, the Conceive, .c% may be hon Member of I h.: 17, Gro EURC INS of ANNUII and LITHE] 10 , Chathal EDIV A 13 William John Bent, J• G. Clement Ift J ohn Bent, James Rolla l 'homas H. (;. Harr' VV • Paxton '' ev • Ph. L 41 4. NA G Aumw li orFß 6 73 , Loma anti Mart PHYsIciA So This Con 'ince(' prom Yearly, or A Annuities 0 0 An nu ity bolo,, Proper t e Patei r4l'' Asstpei DESIR Al The Estate month• o named, r of choice - : county. Lung, Thr oessary eor T Distillery Runs, cap be extends supplied, a lent Malt tensive Pe tillery b e i t lug and ri built on tl of excellen gressively • The Es . tain about and 177 Wards of gross rent li ngs besid thinning c the Mani, the garder that 8501. be let at 2 Plans ty, con cludol . the Propri or to Robe FOR wo 1 1 " E F. of App etit in the Pat PATENT ag well a , Where op e versally many per unneeeseal Sold in ler, Chem 61 , Sackv burgh S Itegent-st l Xingd 43 f who L uteri "'at h• AQux,„ll •