The Sun. — London, England, 1827-04-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The process in the formation of the Ministry is either carried on with extreme secrecy or is not very active. We have heard of no new ap pointments, which can be vouched for, since yes terday's publication ; but resignation walksthrough all the ranks of Goverisment. To us, an union between Mr. Canning and the more temperate Whigs seems so apposite and natural, that we are surprised it has not already been cemented. They have much more cordially, during the late Administration, approved of all those measures of which Mr. Canning was supposed to be pe culiarly the author, than many of his own osten sible colleagues, and were in that sense, even while out of office, more I\ linisterial than the Ministers. What, then, should prevent their accession to office, under one with whose policy they were before identified ? We confess we know not, and should like to hear a cause assign ed. Have the Whigs the same objection as the Tories to accept of Mr. Canning as a chief ? The mild and unobtrusive patriotism of Lord Lana down, the chief, if not the only person who is said to have been addressed on the subject, repels such a supposition. Besides, the Whigs would not, now at least, commit that error, which is so justly reproached to the seceding Tories of the late Administration, of interdicting to the king the power of placing his confidence in those in whom he chooses to place it. Is Mr. Canning afraid that in admitting allies he may find mas ters. But let him weigh well, whether the Whigs will not be more formidable to his power out of Administration, than received into it by his call. There is one more question which we shall take the liberty of putting. Does Mr. Canning still cherish the hope that he shall be able to form a Ministry from among his mere personal adherents ? If so, lel him consider the consequences of a failure, not only to himself, but to his confiding Master. Let him consider how, in the mere attempt to compass such an end, he is putting the power of that Master to the most fearful proof—how he is stretching the cord of Royal prerogative till it may break. Egi) et Rex mews may have sufficed to govern the coun try once ; but it would be a dangerous experiment at the present time to stake them against the whole mass of Parliamentary influence inherent elsewhere. We must also observe, in favour of despatch in thip formation of the Ministry, that Mr. Canning aci• tually threw a charm over himself by turning out his'late powerful colleagues—people were astonished at the success of his audacious enterprise; but that charm is daily and hourly weakening, by the proof of his tardiness or vacillation in supplying the places °if the factious seceders. He ought to have foresea the result, and been ready with his substitutes. But the side of Majesty remains denuded of its constitir tional covering week after week, and none can say when the opening will be closed.—Times. We have no additional intelligence which can be relied on to communicate respecting Minis terial negotiations or arrangements. From all quarters we hear only of congratulations on the retreat of the useless portion of the Ministry. The self-love of the party must be profoundly hurt, by the experience which they have obtained of the difference of the estimate which they formed of their own importance, and that which the public have formed of it. All truths are valuable, ibut there are some truths which ae very unpalateable; and of this number are thoSe which reveal to a man the secret, that he is nei ther esteemed nor dreaded. We understand the Ex-Gentry lay the flattering unction to their sc ruls, that they are not held in utter contempt by the people, but that Mr. Canning, who is ,a great trickster, has been beforehand with them with the Press, and purchased its co-operation, so that their numerous supporters have no organ through which their sympathy can find a vent. This, we understand, has been gravely main tained, and it is a very amusing parody au Swift's Memoirs of P. P. Blessings on their numskulls ! They cannot otherwise account for the unanimity of all the Newspapers in rejoicing at the elevation of Mr. Canning and at their downfall. Well, after all, it is a wise dispens tion that the most contemptible creature seldom forfeits his good opinion of himself. His Lordship of Westmorland, no doubt, imagined in good earnest t hat he was what one of our Contemporaries desii natel him, a pillar of state, and that too, one oft ip. e main pi lllars. Newspapers have little power when they run cou:qter to public feeling. It is, perhaps, cruel, to undeceive these worthies who conceisid !!• but we must frankly owin, themselves so formidaui l that to write them into pop:ilarity with t he public , e xc e eds the power of the Press. Newspapers have a sort of instinct which teaches them to void kicking against the pricks. If they were even to be without principle they dare not be without prudence: arm, to revolt the feeling of the public by sounding the praises of the Earl of Eldon, in the midst of the general joy at his downfall, or complimenting Earls Bathurst or Westmorland on the value of their services, or bearing testimony to the political wisdom and profound legislative arguments of the Duke of Wellington, or extolling the disinterestedness of Lord Melville, would have truly revolted all but these individuals themselves, and the most desperate of their parasites.—/Iforning Chronicle. The state of Portugal is infinitely more pre carious than is generally imagined. The late efforts of the Constitutional troops, and the pre sence of a British force have, no doubt, for the moment, paralysed the plans of the .Apostolichl p a rty, but not defeated them. The latter haVe now resolved to change their mode of attack, and relying on the secret friends they have scat tercd all over the kingdom, even among the members of the Government itself; expecting also to wear out the patience of the auxiliary forces, and trusting to external combinations, as well as the imposing attitude of a large Spanish force on the frontiers, they have adopted the scheme of curifiding the issue of their cause to time, money, and intrigue. They have seen that, notwithstanding so many overt acts of trea son and rebellion, no one partisan has been punished —no one loyalist rewarded. How does all this happen ? exclaim the wily Apostolicals. Evidently, they answer, because the Constitu tional party is weak everywhere e x cept i n t h e field, and the very persons who wield the arm of power are afraid to pu nish, lest, in a few mon th s , their own turn may come, and the tables be turned upon them. Hitherto, by the Portu guese Executive, as well as the Chamber of Peers, the guilty have been screened and the patriotic neglected ; this is, because the corning over of Don Pedro, the bestower of the Consti tution, to Portugal is dubious ; and those who reflect on the subject see that his rival, the In fante Don Miguel, is retained at Vienna for some secret purpose, contrary to the express commands of his elder brother ; and this they suppose is no other than an intention of bring ing him on the arena the moment he is of age. Hence a new plan has been formed for the over throw of the Constitution in Portugal, to which Spain is an immediate party, and the basis of this plan, to which we alluded the other day, we will now briefly unfold. The Infant e Don Mi guel, the chief instrument employed, on the 26th of next October, completes his 25th year, when by law he is of age; and, consequently, beyond the controul of his brother or guardians. Article 92 of the Constitutional Charter expressly de dares, that " during the King's minority (and, consequently, that of the Queen), the kingdom shall be governed by a Regency, which shall be long to the nearest relative to the King, in the order of succession, and who shall have attained 25 years." By this very article the Mig,ttelites. declare their patron has a right to seize on the Regency the moment he is of age, to the exclu sion of his sister, and it is for the enforcement of this plea they are now secretly preparing. If he has no direct right to the Crum], the Regency at least, they argue, next October will belong to him by law, even according to the Constitution itself, and this, they readily conclude, will answer all their ends. This is the great topic, connected with Por tugal, which is now going the diplomatic rounds; and it is very confidently asserted, that it forms part of Baron Neuman's instructions to Rio de Ja neiro. According to a letter we have seen, it also begins to be the subject of discussion in Portugal, and the arguments, pro and con, are very generally canvassed. The Constitutionalists declare, that, according to Article 90, " the husband shall hare no part in the Government, and he can only be called King when he has had by the Queen a son or a daughter." Hence they argue that Don Mi guel must dissolve his marriage, otherwise he can not take upon himself the Regency, and then not legally, because his sister, the Infanta Isabel Maria, uniting in herself the requisites described by law, has already had the Regency conferred upon her, and by the oath she took (vide Article 76 of the Charter), she swore " to d e li v er u p the Govern ment to the King only when he shall be of age."-- On these premises they feel satisfied_ that Don Miguel cannot strip his sister of her present func tions, Ist, because they were duly and legally confer red upon her; and, 2dly, because the Regency is held to be " permanent," according to Article 93 of the Charter. Having sworn not to deliver up the Go vernment to any other than the King (embracing also Maria IL), when he shall be of age, the Re gent would commit an act of perjury by now be traying her trust. However the matter may be de cided, the topic is certainly a curious one, and, as we have once before asserted, in our opinion calls for the interference of the Emperor Don Pedro.— At all events, we can very confidently assert that the above-mentioned doubts in the Constitutional Charter form the basis of the next great political intrigue preparing for Portugal, and, in order to carry it into effect, very extensive combinations are in a state of progress.—lbid. That the opposition Mr. Canning's new Go vernment will have to encounter will be formi dable, cannot be doubted. Upwards of 100 votes are already supposed to be lost in the House of Commons; and what the result may be in the House of Lords no one has as yet, we believe, ventured to calculate. The new Mi nister, however, will be in no want of those in ducements, which, while human nature remains as it is, will ever hold the strongest influence over friends and foes. A more than ordinary share of patronage awaits the disposal of Mr. Canning, which he will find that very high, and apparently very high-minded personages, in all departments, are by no means indifferent to. In one respect, Mr. Canning must at this moment find some of his own principles recoil upon him self. We allude, in particular, to his known and avowed antipathy to Parliamentary reform. Instead of standing, as he would doubtless wish to do, upon the high grounds of his own popu larity, and the favour of his Sovereign, he finds that he has to truckle in no small degree to those who possess the borough patronage ; and finds, to use a common phrase, that their " solid pudding - is not to be set against " empty praise." —The success of the new Ministry will depend not more upon the nature of the measures them selves which they may propose to adopt, than upon the ,degree of-- support or opposition -they may meet with in Parliament. Should the for mer be of a nature so self-evidently wise and prudent as to silence all opposition, or should the latter show itself in a factious dispo sition to fetter his Majesty's choice—in either case, the country will be with the Adminis tration, and, backed by public opinion, no Mi nister in this country can ultimately fail of success. On the subject of Catholic Emancipation, on which the Government and the country have long been each divided in opinion, it would seem that the new Administration is to avow the same line of neu trality professed by its predecessors. It cannot, however, be denied that the cause itself will have gained strength and countenance by its most power ful advocate being at the head of affairs, as well as by the secession from office of some of the most powerful of its opponents. On this topic, overrated as it is in importance both by its friends and foes, we do not believe that Mr. Canning has the opinion of the country with him. The injudicious conduct of its advocates in the Catholic Association has done more to alarm and alienate the feelings of people of all ranks, from an object which was otherwise gain ing ground, than all the efforts of its opponents alone would have been able to accomplish. Mr. Canning's will be no bed of roses. The great in cubus of the debt will both haunt his slumbers and occupy his waking thoughts ; and when we con sider that the details of finance will be, in a great measure, new to him, we do not see how he is more likely to grapple with this monster than his prede cessors. By his Portuguese expedition, unwise and uncalled for as we still think it, he will, in this re spect, have increased his own difficulties.—Morn ing Herald. it would be an injustice to the discretion of his Majesty, and it would be an injustice to Mr. Canning himself, if his appointment to be Prime Minister were to be considered as the triumph of one set of extreme principles over their oppo sites. The great merit of Mr. Canning's admi nistration of Foreign Affairs has been, that he has had the courage and the address to keep pace with the more enlightened, and (without using a party phrase) the more liberal, spirit of the age, and, at the same time, to avoid com promising this country with those Governments who are bound up with the existence of 'Svery species of antiquated superstition and tyranny. It is perfectly impossible for a Minister of Great Britain, at the present day, to stand aloof from the progress of new opinions, and shut his eyes to the fact, that there is a spirit abroad which renders established errors not quite so secure, or so triumphant, as in former times. Mr. Can ning has had to grapple w i t h the difficulties aris ing-out of this conflict with old and new powers; and he has surmounted them with the most mas terly genius.not properly assume, May we that to his talent and his discretion—his happy ability not only to perceive what is right in itself, but to seize the proper moment for carry ing that right into practice—we owe the recog nition of the South American Governments, without committing us with any of the Euro pean States who were interested in their depend ence. May we not ascribe to him the trium phant, because just, attitude which this country has assumed in the affairs of Portugal, by which the progress of Spanish bigotry has been re strained, without involving any rupture with Spain herself, or those of her allies, who may feel an interest in the existing order of things ? And how has Mr. Canning been able to reconcile these conflicting principles? Because he "stands upon the ancient way, and then looks around to see which is the right and true way." His very long friendship with Mr. Pitt—his own masterly efforts against the progress of re. publican anarchy—his intimate acquaintance with the character of the British Constitu tion—and his knowledge how practical and gradual have been all its improvements--parti cularly shield him from the suspicion of a love of innovation. But Mr. Canning cannot blind himself to the necessity for improvement which is forced upon every Government by the cha racter of the age ; and by directing those im provements instead of resisting them, he has done more to put down the wild spirit of reform, which prevailed a few years since, than any co ercion, however powerful, could have accom plished. He has thrown the oil upon the tur bulent waves, and the country feels that it owes to him, more, perhaps, than to any other man, its long exemption from popular violence. Mr. Canning has, it appears to us, effected all these great national objects, without the slightest departure from real principles, which are the best ornament of a servant of the British Mo narchy. On what occasion, we would ask, has he sacrificed the prerogatives of the Crown, or the inviolability of the laws, to a desire for po pular approbation ? But, then, it is objected to him, that he has won the praises of those to whom he is politically opposed, and that he co quettes at . once with power, and the applause of men who are hostile to those in power. This is, necessarily, an age of conciliation ; and if Mr. Canning has united in himself the suffrages of the two great parties in the State, and, at the same time, secured the applause of his Sovereign, it proves only that he has the wisdom to perceive the inevitable advances which a British Minister must make, to keep pace with the progress of intellectual cultivation. Mr. Peel's course has been precisely of the same cha racter ; and, in the arduous task which he has pursued, and which we earnestly hope he will still pursue, of simplifying the Statute Laws, he has not thought it right to abstain from the ac complishment of a great national good, because it was begun by a Romilly, and left incomplete by a Mackintosh. The policy of the Adminis tration is before the country. It has been to un fetter Great Britain from continental trammels, without embroiling her with the feelings of the old Governments of Europe—to lead the way in political improvements, without encouraging a spirit of violent and hasty reform. The experi ments upon new commercial principles have been made in a temper which is any thing but rash ; and if they have provoked much exaggerated complaint, a general admission has been granted of the correctness of the theory upon which they are built. For ourselves, we have no dread that the Administration of Mr. Canning will be one of innovation. We are satisfied that he has won his way to his present high distinction by the absence of all intrigue ; and that the voice of the Sovereign, assigning him the most elevated post in his service, echoes the almost universal opinion of his country. Mr. Canning has a high re putation to maintain, and the eyes of the world are upon him, as " the foremost man of all this age." He will fortify himself in his post by a stead fast adherence to the school of politics in which he was bred ; because he must feel that the principles of that school are not opposed to the loftiest aspira tions for the liberties of the human race, and the pe culiar welfare of cur favoured country. It is the character of Mr. Canning's policy that it is British, and not cosmopolitan—that it is practical, and not speculative. The cause of intellect with him is never stationary ; but he advances; not by flights, but by steps. His' genius is that of a Statesman, and not of a Metaphysician—his object may be dis tant, but his foot is never off the earth in the at tempt to reach it.—New Times. Sir John - COpley has all but Cornifi l enced tbe - e'ker cise of his functions as Chancellor. Several causes, which have been heard before him as Master of the Rolls, now stand for judgment; and he has caused intimation to be given, that (where the parties do not object to such a course) he will pronounce judg ment, as Lord _Chancellor, in the causes which, having been hear d before him at the Rolls, have not yet been decided. He has a most difficult career before him. The free choice of his Sovereign has placed him in a situation to which even the, most commanding talents are unequal, sinless aided by vast professional learning, and accompanied by ex traordinary and unremitting diligence. It is a situa tion, too, of tremendous responsibility ; 'for the pro perty, of which the decrees of a Lord Chancellor of Great Britain dispose in the course of a year, is of incredible amount; and if he errs, his errors, however they may be felt, cannot be set right.— He has no practical check or controul except that of his own reason; and the jurisprudence which he has to administer is infinitely more subtle and more varied, and less capable of being reduced into formal rules, than the system with which a com mon Law Judge has to deal. And to whom is it that Sir John Copley comes forward as a successor ? To the most learned, the most sagacious, the most laborious, cautious, and upright Judge, that ever adorned the Bench. It is a noble, but a hazardous distinction, to be the successor of Lord Eldon, and to sit in judgment upon the decrees of Sir John Leach. Sir John Copley cannot take a better mode of dis charging the duties of his new office, in a manner worthy of his past reputation, than by keeping con stantly before his eyes the Judge whose superior he is, and him to whose dignity he succeeds.—lbid. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. COUNTRY DI A RY.--.SATURDAT, APRIL 21. Alderton, J., Norwich—Swan, Norwich Browne, T., Wymondham—Norfolk hotel, Norwich Clemesha, S., Liverpool—George, Liverpool ...... ............ Cm-wen, J. Liverpool—George, Liverpool 2 Dore, V., Bath—Mr. Smith, Bath ll Higgs and Co., Bristol—Bush, Bristol Knight and Co., Horton—Mr. Ward, Leeds Mellor, S., Alstonefield—Green Man, Ashbourne l2 Oliver, 1., Llanwyddelan—Bear's Head, Newtown ......... Partridge and Co., Kingswood—Commercial rooms, Bristol 11 Pearse, J., Bristol—Bush, Bristol l2 Pollard, J., Burnley—Bull, Burnley ll Pope, J., Exeter—Globe, Exeter ll Riehards, R., Gellygroes—Bush, Merthyr Tidyil lO Russell, A., March—Crown, St. Ives.. Shillito, M. jun., Purston—:Session-house, Wakefield ll Sheath, T., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham lO Spencer, S., Leeds—Court-house, Leeds ld Tickner, W., Tenterden—Lion, Tenterden ll Todd, J., Sheffield—Tontine, Sheffield l9 Varley, J., M a nchester—Star, Manchester 9 Wain, R. and W., Lougnor in Alstonefield—Green Man, Ast bourn ........................ ..... Webb, T., Ledbury—Hen, Birmingham 2 Whitaker and Co., Leeds—Sessions-house, L se d s ll Wheeler, J., Cardiff—Angel, Cardiff ll Williams, T., Cheltenham—York hotel, Cheltenham ...... INSOLVENTS APPLYINI Petitions to be heard at Portug APRIL 21, Asals, J., Stratford Bannister, C., Market-place, Derbyshire Butt, T., Wootton Carter, It, Conway street Cunningham, T., Somers town Flower, T., Spa-fields Ingham, W., Leeds Kinning, T., Oxford-street Ara Adams, J., Nottingham Bentley, J., Blackburn Canning, , Henley Cobb, J., Dorking Cornfield, J., Croydon Corvesor, J., Coley Dawson, T., Cheltenham Edwards, S., Clerkenwell Field, W., Hackney Goode, W., Kidderminster Goode, G., Cheltenham Harris, T., Laleham H aw es, J., Providence.row Hornsby, the Rev. G., War mington Humphreys, W., Soho rG TO BE DISCHARGED, ;al-street, Lincoln's-lan-Fields, AT NINE. Must, W., tethnal-green Noble, W, attergea Palmer, J., City-road Smith, W., Woolwich Thomas, H., Hanover-street Warne, R., Fitzroy-square Waterhouse ' J., London Wall Wig J., Carey-street t. 23. Maley, T., Birmingham Laidlaw, A., Hull Leggatt, E., Lisson Grove Maxwell, T., Pentonville Neal, T., Islington Nightingale, T., Walworth Norris, 11., Bolton Owen, E., Bermondsey Redding, J., k'owey .Sanderson, J. Clerkenwell White, J., Milbank Wilson, C., Limehouse Witt, F., Wootton Woodhain, J. Bow H Woods, W., o'beach COUNTRY. —At the Guildhall Ten o' Thomas, W., Can 1, at Carmarthen, April 13, at 'clock. narthen, ♦ictualler It is stated in the Mentor, that the execu tioner of a little town in Germany had just hanged his wife. The poor man had grown tired of having nothing to do. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. • MANSION-HOUSE.—On Tuesday while the Lord Mayor was receiving the annual young visiters in the saloon of -the Mansion-house, a foreigner of very respectable appearance rang at the bell, and in a state of great agitation requested to see the Lord Mayor upon, he said, the most urgent business. Upon being informed that his Lordship would trans act no Justice-room business on Easter Tuesday, the applicant's agitation increased, and he declared that the circumstance which he had to relate was of so peculiar a nature, that a moment's delay would be an inexcusable postponement of justice. One of the household said, that he would, if the gentleman had no objection, be the medium of com munication between him and the Lord Mayor. " The fact is," said the applicant, " I last night committed an act of assassination on Vauxhall-bridge. As I was passing over the bridge, I met a person who insulted me, and I struck him twice with a knife, and then threw him over the bridge into the water. I have been miserable ever since that moment, and wish to meet with punishment for the offence." An attempt was made to soothe the feelings of the unhappy applicant, who was asked what his em ployment and who hie friends were. He replied, that he had been employed by a churchman, in his profession of a German scholar, but he had received his dismissal in consequence of some doubt of his qualifications as a translator. • As for his friends, it was unnecessary to say any thing about them.-- They would all know him and acknowledge him when he lay lifeless, as he certainly would soon, for the satisfaction of justice and of his own conscience. The state of agony to which the feelings of the poor German seemed to be excited, by, it is be lieved, the picture of his own imagination, was truly deplorable. upon being asked the nature of the insult he had received, which led to the act with which he charged himself, he hesitated, and seemed rather to be planning an answer to the question than to be drawing upon his memory for what had actually occurred. The LORD MAYOR gave some directions with re spect to the unfortunate self-accuser, and yesterday had a conversation with him in a private room iu the Mansion-house, after which his Lordship desired that particular care should be taken of him in the Compter, - and that Mr. Box, the surgeon, should be consulted on the state of his mind. A Mr. West, of Kensington, was yesterday brought before the LORD MAYOR under the follow ing circumstances. Mr. Bridges, of Broad-street Mews, stated, that the prisoner called at his house on Sunday morning between twelve and one o'clock, and asked to see the servant girl. The witness, to whom the pri soner was wholly unknown, called down the ser vant to the visiter, and retired. He was not, how ever, long in another part of the house when he heard the woman's voice calling for help. Upon running to her assistance he found her and the prisoner on the ground together. The prisoner had his arms round her neck, and evidently intended to violate her person. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the girl was present to give her evidence ? Mr. Bridges answered in the negative. All that he required was, that the prisoner should be pre vented from going to his house. The only charge he had to make was, that Mr. West rang his hell, and called out his name several times aloud in the neighbourhood. The LORD MAYOR said, that the case must un dergo a little more investigation for the sake of the girl and the public; and desired that the girl should be sent for. The young woman, upon entering the justice room, and being questioned by the Lord Mayor, gave the following account of the transaction. She had formerly lived with Mr. West as his wife, and she had by him a child, that was now liv ing. About four months ago she separated from him, and desired that their intercourse should for ever cease. She then went into service, but Mr. West followed her, and she lost her place in conse quence of his frequent and unwelcome visits. She eftererardi Warlsired - lai - Mr., Bridges, and she en deavoured to prevent Mr. West from finding out her place of.refuge. The attempt, proved, however, ineffectual, and she was now doomed to lose a second place, on account of those inhuman importu nities. The LORD MAYOR—Did he upon this occasion attempt to commit any act of violence upon your person. The girl described what had taken place, in terms similar to those used by Mr. Bridges. Mr. West began by speaking of their child, who was now 17 months old, and then proceeded to violence. Mr. Bridges—l found them on the floor together, struggling. When I appeared, they separated. The man declared that he had the means of shooting himself, and he certainly should do so. The LORD MAYoa—Uponyour oath, Mr. Bridges, is she merely living with you as your servant. Mr. Bridges—Upon my oath she is living with me as my servant, and nothing else. She shall leave my house to-day. The prisoner, upon being asked what he bad to say in answer to the charge, said, that the story was a long extraordinary one. The LORD MAYOR refused to listen to any thing not immediately relating to the charge of assault, which was a very serious one. The prisoner declared, that he had intended no violence to the young woman, who had lived with him four years, and whom he had considered worthy of being made his wife; that he had commenced ar rangements for the purpose of making her his own by marriage, but some embarrassments interfered, and it was agreed that she should go into temporary service; that he had visited her with her own con sent at the house in which she had been previously servant ; and that he had written to her father about their marriage, and was ready to take her home. The prisoner added, that he had called upon her on this occasion in order to inform her of these facts. The connexion was, indeed, a very unhappy one for him. The LORD MAYOR-It was a much more unhap py connexion for the poor girl. It appeared that she has been living in a disgraceful state with you, and now that she repents and is determined to get an honest place, you follow and route her out of it ; and not content with inflicting such injuries, you commit a most brutal assault upon her. The prisoner—lt is my intention to take her down to her father, and to marry her. The LORD MAYOR asked the young woman whe ther it was her wish not to have any thing more to do with the prisoner. She replied that it certainly was. She had gone with him to his house in Kensington, in order to induce him to stay away from her master's house ; but the moment he got her inside he locked the door and fastened up the shutters, and if she had not been released by the neighbours, she would have thrown herself out of the window to escape from him. The LORD MAYOR then bound over the prisoner to answer the charge, in his own recognizance to the amount of 1001., and in two other recognizances to the amount of 50/. each. A big fellow, named Ashford, was charged with having knocked down two persons in the street, without having received the slightest provocation from either. One of them is a mere boy, and the ruffian was near destroying the poor fellow. He said in his defence that somebody had struck him, and he thought it hard to be knocked down without giving a benefit of the same kind. He was committed for the two assaults. GUILDHALL.—WiIIiam Edwards, a porter at the Blossoms Inn, Lawrence-lane, appeared upon a summons yesterday, charged with demanding and receiving 3s. more for the carriage of a box than he was lawfully entitled to. Mt. Daniel Deacon, one of the proprietors of the White Horse Inn, Cripplegate, stated the complaint. He said the overcharge was in fact 3s. twopence having been illegally claimed for booking ;)oth by the innkeeper in the country and in town, but be would -TI 4! confine himself to showing that the defendant had made out a ticket charging 10s. 2d. for the carriage of the box, while the charge made by the coach pro prietors was but 7s. 6d., and the defendant bad only accounted to his employers for 7s. 10d., 4d., as he had before stated, having been laid on for two book ings. The box came to the Blossoms-inn from Dover, where it had arrived from France, and it was brought to the White Horse Inn, to be transmitted to Mr. Newton, of Norwich. The porter who brought it, presented a ticket demanding 3/. 75., which was paid to him, and the box was duly forwarded. Mr. Newton, however, wrote to him complaining of the overcharge, and upon inquiry at the Blossoms Inn, it turned out that the porter had accounted for only 3/. 4s. 4d., had himself made out the ticket for the larger sum, and had pocketted the additional 2s. Bd. The admitted charges of the inn were made up thus : To the customs at Dover, 2/. 165., booking at Dover, 2d., carriage to London, 7s. 6d., booking in London, 2d., porterage to the White Horse Inn, 6d. These items made a total of 31. 4s. 4d. The book-keeper at the Blossoms Inn would prove that this was the amount for which the ticket ought to have been made out, and , his own clerk would prove the payment of the 31. 7s. to the defendant. Edward Lofershue, from the Blossoms Inn, cor roborated Mr. Deacon's statement as to the amount due, and stated that he believed the ticket produced had been made out by the defendant himself, and there was an overcharge of 2s. Bd. Charles Twiss, clerk to Mr. Deacon, produced the defendant's ticket for 31. Is., and deposed to paying the money to Heygate, the defendant's fellow servant. James Heygate swore he received the ticket from Edwards, and paid over to him all the money he received. A Solicitor for the defendant urged that as in the ticket delivered there were but two items, " car riage 2/. 6s. 6d., porterage 6d." it was impossible to distinguish whether the overcharge was upon the money paid at Dover, or the carriage to London ; unless it was upon the carriage or the porterage, the Magistrate had no jurisdiction under the por terage act. This difficulty was overcome by a suggestion from Mr. Payne, the second clerk, that the defendant might be committed for obtaining money under false pretences. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY committed the prisoner accordingly for trial at the Old Bailey Sessions, when he will be liable to transportation for seven years. - Donaldson, a porter, in the employment of Mr. Lambert, Ludgate-hill, was charged with hav ing had secreted on his person nine pounds of common soap, the property of his employer, with the intention of stealing it. Mr. L.'s assistant stated, that Donaldson had been in the service for two years, and that during the greater part of that time, soap at various times had been missed. On Tuesday suspicion fell on the prisoner, and, upon witness's charging him with it, in the cel lar, between eight and nine o'clock in the morning, he at first denied it, but at length acknowledged that he had taken the parcel now produced, containing the 91bs., which he delivered up to witness. Mr. Alderman ANSLEY fully committed him for trial. BOW-STREET.—A man named George Wil liams, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged on suspicion of having committed a burglary. John Reynolds, a constable, stated that he met the prisoner at half-past five in the morning in the neighbourhood of Hammersmith, carrying a bundle containing vegetables. The witness stopped him, and on searching him at the watch-house, he found on his person a dark-lantern, a bunch of skeleton keys, a jemmy, and other articles of house-breaking. He also found in his pocket a silver purse, and l/. 12s. 6d. in money, together with a plain silver watch, to which was attached a small seal in the shape of a bird's cage, on the stone of which was engraven a large D, with a dog hanging within it. The prisoner had also in his possession about a pound of tea tied in a silk handkerchief. He could give no satisfactory account of himself, and the Magistrate ordered him to be remanded for a week in the ex pectation that evidence would be forthcoming to identify some of the property found upon him. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. Yesterday, WM. Condel and Elizabeth Harman, who have lived together as man and wife, and George Plummer, who have been in custody for about a fortnight, and have undergone several private examinations, were placed at the bar before Mr. CONANT, the Magis trate, charged with being concerned in a number of very extensive robberies that have of late been ef fected by means of burglary at the houses of several pawnbrokers in town. The most extensive depre dations of this nature have been committed at the houses of Mr. Balfour, in Chandos-street, St. Mar tin's-lane ; Mr. Dobree, in Charlotte-street, Fitzroy square; and Mr. Wood, in St. John-street, Clerken well. The chief witness against the prisoners was a young girl named Mary Vaudeville, an accomplice in all the robberies, and who lived with the prisoner Plummer. She gave a detailed account of the burglaries at the above three houses, which were effected by the male prisoners getting on the roofs of the houses, and forcing their way through the skylight windows. At each of these houses, they had the accidental facility of . access to the roof by passing through an adjoining empty house, and when the property was got away, the female pri soner and the witness assisted in conveying it to the lodgings of Conde!, from whence it was, from time to time, disposed of by selling or pledging at other pawnbrokers, for the general use of all the prisoners and the witness. A vast quantity of pro perty was yesterday produced, consisting of male and female wearing apparel, silks, laces, &c., which had been pledged by the prisoners at other pawn. brokers, and were yesterday identified by the real owners, who had originally pledged t h em with Messrs. Balfour,Wood, and Dobree. Clemente and Avis, the officers, who apprehende d t h e prisoners, produced no less than 2,000 yards o f la ce , value se veral hundred pounds, which , w i t h other property, Mr w i er . e lv fo o u o n d d Condel, i a d t en th ti e fie lo d d a g s ing h s av o in f gbeen a tken from his and w hi c h premises on the night of the robb ery. There was also produced several c om p lete se ts of house-break ing implements, fou nd at the lodgings of both the male-prisoners. The prisoners declined saying any thing at pre sent, and were remanded until next Friday week, when they will be again brought up, but all the witnesses who gave evidence were bound over to prosecute. MARYLEBONE-OFFICE, Yesterday Mr. Jacob the lessee of some toll-gates in Camden-town, was charged with having obstructed a private in the Ist Life Guards, and demanded toll for his horse while on his Majesty's service. John Staplehurst stated, that he was sent as a mounted orderly to the Post-office, by his corn. mending officer, on the 14th instant, and was de tained upon his road at the Jew's-harp-gate, Re gent's-park, by the defendant and his man, because he refused to pay the toll. After a delay of 10 or 12 minutes the defendant inquired particularly into the nature of his duty, took his name, gave his own card in return * , and suffered him to pass. Mr. Hewlings said it was impossible for him to know whether a soldier was on duty or not, unless be made inquiry; and if Staplehurst had explained the nature of his duty more willingly, he would not have been detained so long. Mr. RAWLINSON replied, that no one possessing common sense could see a private soldier,mounted in full accoutrement, and not know lie was on duty— " And what right have you, or I," added the Magis trate, " to ask what is the nature of his duty ? You will in the next place stop an Ambassador's bag, and inspect his foreign despatches. This is not a solitary case. The farrier belonging to the barracks meets with the same impediment almost every day, and your obstru c ti on . may prove detriment al to the public service. Considering it, therefore, as a very aggravated offence, and in order to deter you and others For the time to come, I shall inflict the full penalty of 51., against which decision you may ar peal, if you choose to do so." TOWN-HALL---James Davis, an ill-favoured young fellow, was brought from the Borough Comp' ter, charged with robbing Captain Robert Little, of the Alert schooner, of Whitehaven, of his silver watch, chain, and gold seal and key. The prosecutor stated, that on passing down Tooley-street on Tuesday night at ten o'clock, be saw the prisoner in conversation with a girl at the corner of Dean-street, Canterbury-square; on mai ming up to them the girl asked him to go with her, which he refused. Whilst he was speaking the prisoner made a snatch at his watch-chain, and dreg the watch from his fob with such violence that the pendant broke, and the watch fell to the ground, the chain, seal, and key remaining in the hands of the pri soner, who ran off down Mill-lane, he pursuing him► calling" watch," and " stop him." He never lost sight of the prisoner till he was taken in Peacock-alley by the watchman. He was at no time during the pur suit further from him than twelve yards. William Davis, the watchman, said, he stopped the prisoner running up Peacock-alley,. closely pur sued by the prosecutor and a waterman named Wood. He was taken to St. Olave's watch-house and searched, but nothing found upon him, the chain, seal, and key, he afterwards picked up on the steps of a Mr. 'Wilson's door, shout six yards from w here the prisoner was taken. Charles Wood said he was coming from Mill-lane stairs, when he heard the cry of " Stop him," and saw the prisoner running towards him, whom be seized hold of, but he broke away. Witness pur:; sued him into Peacock-alley, repeating " Stop him, when the watchman intercepted him. The prosecutor was several times desired to look at the prisoner, and positively swore he was the man, and that the watch had passed from his per son when the pendant broke. The prisoner denied all knowledge of the robber! , and was fully committed to take his trial on the capital charge. He was known to the officers as ee old offender. MR. GREEN'S ACCOUNT OF HIS AERIAL VOYAGE AND DESCENT. At ten minutes after six o'clock, the balloon ascended from the Golden Eagle Tea-gardens, Mile end-road, amid the cheering of 'the populace, which could be heard by the adventurers until they arrived at a considerable height from the earth, when the sound died away like a distant echo. On quitting the earth there was slight rain, and the machine glided slowly through the air, taking the direction due north, until it was precluded from public vied in consequence of the density of the atmosphere. In order to gratify public curiosity, Mr. Green opened the valve, and through the emission of g o, the balloon descended with extreme velocity, when it became stationary immediately over Bethnal green, about 2,000 feet from the ground, and re mained in view for some minutes, when it again ascended, in a north-west direction, and finally bent its course westerly, and on their arrival over the neighbourhood of Clerkenwell, where Mr. Green resides, he again caused a descent, when the hal' loon came within 1,700 feet of the earth. Th e aeronauts perceived the inhabitants running in every direction, under the impression that that neighbour hood had been decided upon for the final descent. The machine was suffered to remain in view for A short period, when they gradually ascended to the extreme altitude of 7,000 feet, when the barometer was at 29 8-10ths. During their progress through, the clouds they endured the most severe cold on heavy falls of snow, which dissolved in the car, and filled it with water, while the balloon was consider', ably more than its original weight in consequence 01 the wet; indeed, Mr. Green states that he enter. tained considerable fears, at one period of their ' n i t t l i ; c w u o r u s i l o d n h , a fvoer provedth ir safety, and were it has no no t that a t d o h u e b r t ec b e l invented the means of the escape of water at the bottom of the car: Had it not been for the continuance of the swill , it was the determination of Mr. Green to have made a night descent, but at 2.5 minutes after seven o'elOc ic he contemplated the choice of some convenient spe c to descend on, and having ex p en d e d t h e w hole of the ballast, he opened the valve, and let out glo , when they gradually came down, and found there' selves hovering over the village of Fulham. Th e grappling-irons were thrown out, and they came in contact with a tree, in the field of a market-gardener , and several brickmakers, who were employed adite l , cent to the spot, ran to assist, and the parties alights from the car' in perfect safety and good spirits. The churchwardens of the parish, who were at' tending a meeting, hearing that Mr. Green had dr scended, proceeded to the spot, and rendered him the kindest atte n ti on , unt il t h e b a ll oon was pa cked up and deposited in a postchaise, when the aeronaut were invited to take/refreshment, after which thef proceeded to the Golden Eagle, Where they arrived at between one and two o'clock yesterday morning' The gentlemen who accompanied Mr. Green expres s themselves highly delighted with the excursion, not' withstanding the unfavourable state of the weather, and have pledged themselves to take another trip t' S an early period. Yesterday Mr. Green was afflicted with cold an d head-ache, with pains in the limbs,andkept tohis bed. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR. Adairs 34s Od. Beaumont 33 * 0 Eighton Moor 32 0 Hebburn Main 36 6 34 6 Killingworth - 36 6 Liddell's Main 30 9 Percy East _ 3O 6 Pontop Windsor. _ 3l 9 Shipcote.. _ 31 6 Townley 33 9 .owpen Willington Wylam 34 0 Hartley 30 6 WallsEndßewicke&Co. 38 0 Eden Main 35 6 „ Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 36 6 Russell's Lyon's Main 35 Ditto Burraton H elton . ..-» 6 Walls End H e tton-- 36 0 Ditto Carr and Co.- 35 0 Ditto Lambton 38 0 Ditto Hilda Ditto Northumberland 36 6 Ditto Stewart's -- 38 0 Ditto Peareth 3.5 9 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 37 3 Ships at Market, 119—ii,hips sold, 5'L--Unsold, 67. ET.—April IS. Walls End Newmarch 37$• Q Ditto Riddell's 3'7 "q Ditto Russell's 37 Ditto Walker 37 Tanfield Trader 3 2 Foreign small IS ° Londonderry small 20 y i Lambton small 18 Blyth Main 27 Culm Cox„., 29 b Co , 30 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. —April 17. There were several parcels of Wheat fresh up for tbl' day's market, and on the whole a good display of sample ° of all Grain except Beans and Pease. The sales of Whe o have nearly kept pace with the imports. Barley command" fell prices. Malt is rather more difficult of sale. Th e sales of Beans have been small. Several parcels of White Pease have arrived since Tuesday, and found a ready sale' IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Weeic ending April PI 1, Wheal Oats. Barley. Malt. I Beans. Pease. I R ye. Oatn 3 da. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 14 ' 8 ,„, 5,652 12,713 514 1,227 906 I. 57 4 uu . Flour, 3,000 barrels, 3,007 sacks. EXPOIITS.—Wheat, 450 qrs. ; Pease, 12 qrs. ; Flour, 100 0 bane* BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at Carlton Hall, Northamptonshire, the Hon. Lady Palmer, of a son. On the 17th i ns t., th e l a d y o f Mr. Robert Carter, of Cooper's-row, Trinity-square, of a still-born child. On the 12th inst., at Hambrook, near Bristol, the IA of Lieutenant-Colonel Brereton, of a Son , who only sue vived a short time. MARRIED. On the 18th inst., a t St. Mary' s, Lambeth, by the Rey . J. H. Mapleton, LL.B., Joh n A. Fulton, Es q. , rence Pountney-lane and B rixton, to Ellen, sixth dau g hter of the late James Green , ES, of the Fal con Glass Works Holland-street, and o f Brixton, Surrey. of Lam' °" On the 17th inst ., at Warblington, Han ts , by t he R e d' Dr D avies, b Gray's I nn , to Misg i i l AT, 1 E n a. Francess,vorKnight,t, JoIn Hants. i niece Evans, of fE John Smith Lane, Es q•, _____—..." DIED. On the 17th inst., after a long and painful illness, 111.1; ,aa o gr f iveol. l3 fr. l h 'e ji ler-street, Golden-squar e ' Hale, of Parson's green-lane, Fulham. noster-row, son of the Rev. J. Hughes, Battersea, Su rre i r d; On the 17th inst., in Soho-square, Wil liam Yaill° I:l le 6: o rPt Bt hi h6 oirf t i e ih n n lYi s m si y t: ' • e : Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. Matthavi E t i fi s o e qoo l2 e nr r 9 t it t tn h ib li wet y u h • ag S. e. Hu g hes, printer, Pater' Paiwran and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at tV Surr-Orrica, No. 112, Strand•