The Sun. — London, England, 1827-08-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PIJI3Lie JOURNALS. _ . . In the columns of, this day's. journal will be read the account of Mr. Canning 's funeral. That which moved the feelings of all beholders, can not fail of interesting, in the perusal, if it be but faithfully described. And now, having seen this gentleman quietly entombed, ,we must leave it•to his.relatives and personal friends to mourn over his grave : we turn to other topics, con nected with his public character. It may be that the nation has taken a wrong view of the policy by which the latter part of this Statesman's high career has been distinguished. A nation may err, certainly. All that we now contend for or rather what we would merely point out to ob servation, as admitting of no contention or dis pute—is, that Mr. - Canning was attended to his last home with the unfeigned sorrow and regret of the British people,—that he was mourned for in an extraordinary degree,—and that his death was considered as a public calamity. .A Sove reign, therefore, who might desire to gratify the wishes, and cultivate the affections, of his people; would naturally continue that system of policy, the adoption of which had procured to his nister so general an approbation. His Majesty has done this: lie has continued the c_olleagues of Mr. Canning in office ; and, in doing so, he has the assurance of the public grief for the Mi nister's death, that himself, the Minister's Mas ter, has at least pursued a cOurse which will be gratifying to his people.— We now revert to a point which we passed over hastily above. It may still be possible that a systenfof policy introduced by a great Minister, and equally agreeable to. Prince and people, may be erroneous. But what, we ask, is to prove its erroneousness ? Time. Undoubtedly, projects recommended by the profoundest wisdom, and conducted with the most consummate . prudence, have been known to fail of a happy result. But surely those so recommended are still preferable to any otheis, in the originating of which genius and talent have had'no concern.. We do not look in human affairs for certainty. of success, but only for the best chance of success ; and Mr. Caner firing" was at least as likely to see what promised aritimate advantage to the country as persons of less sagacity, penetration, and study. The truth . is, that Mr. Canning, like his early patron and prototype, Mr. Pitt, has,' towards the- close of his political' career, turned to a more beral system of domestic and foreign policy i :arid this Was the more likely in the case of domestic policy, as. the dread of the French revolution has ceased to operate. With respect to the fbreign, policy also, the fruit- of . the course adopted is not wholly in expectation—it has been in part taKted : and this - is the reason—for hopealone is but spare diet—why the nation is so anxious for the continuance of that system, of which it has begun to reap the advantage.—Tinies.. We do not know that any offer has yet been made by Lord Goderich to the Duke of Wel lington, placing again at his disposal the com mand in chief of the army, which it seems to be a subject of general regret that his Grace should ever have relinquished ; but there . existsaii un derstanding in well-informed quarters, that if such a tender has not actually reached the noble Duke, it will not be : .mncli longer . delayed. ,Brief as has been the period of his Grace's retirement from that professional office to which his claims e ntitle him, and for whipli his qualifications more eminently tit him than.any other soldier in the British service, thearmy, in all its branches, al ready feels the want of some firm and steady hand—the want of some military habit or instinct to direct it. The moral(' of the service has sen sibly declined during the short adMinistration of the. present Secretary-at-War ; Sit Herbert Tai-; fors inferior rank, notwithstanding . his better knowledge of the business, does not enable him to contend successfully with a Cabinet Minister, who is nothing in reality but a political person age, and ought not to hold a situation which sti mulates his attempts to be any thing else. - Nor is there more reason for wishing to clothe a mi litary man with political attributes, or to expose him to Cabinet seductions, than there appears to be for metamorphosing Lord Palmerston into a Generalissimo of the Army. If the Duke of 'Wellington returns to the Horse Guards, we trust that his regard for his own ease and credit, as slrell as his knowledge of, and interest in, svhateve7 can best promote the military service of the empire, will prevail upon his Grace to refuse inflexibly every Ort of approximation to politics, whether through the m edium of an efficient civil Mice, or of a seat in the Cabinet' without one. It is rumoured, indeed, that - there are those about him, who importune the Duke of Wellington eiiher to make a Cabinet office the sine qua non Of his accepting the 'command in chief, or at least to show the Government that lie looks to such • an object with an eye of solicitude and desire.— But such counsellors are not disinterested in the advice they give their patron : their end in so Ong him is to increa se his patronage and to serve their own cupidity, not his reputation, Th e Duke will do better to trust his own judgment than theirs.—..aid: • . The remains of Mr. Canning, were yesterday co mmitted to the earth. Though the funeral was povate, and the day was peculiarly unfavOu rable, the crowd of Reople anxious to 'demon. strate their respect for tne memory of the depar ted Statesman, by their presence on this sad' oeck• lion, was immense. We cannot allow this oc canon to path by without reeating our conviction that.the life of Mr. Canning was shortened by the vile slander incessantly directed'aiaiost to which, from his enfeebled state, le was but too sensitive. That which, when we are in full h e alth and strength, provokes at' most a smile of d er ision, often preys on the mind when the body is struggling wi th disease, or before it has reco ver fromiining Itje e ueg i that fFect of it. The opponents of Mr. Ca sa his temper, always warm, °. from tlie influence of in pd susceptible, 114.44 . y excitable ; and .41:is:position, become tbey formed their sys tem of tacta,e accordingly. My listened only to the desire of ven,g•eapee,— If the hisswa which they aimed were felthy the a dversary, they car ed not what impression was p r oduced 'by their cm/duet on the -public.— Womaded self-love and defeatc4 avarice had made :them reckless. But - thOUgh there was something peculiarly fiendish in ,the manner in !which' these blOod-hoods pursued. the late la -Inented Premier to the-,idea we wish we. leoold say 'thattheir offending_ extended no far- , til er . Slander is the sphere in which' the' new opposition li4m) move, and have their being.--= We Mush to say that there is a party in this country which relies. exclusively on_ the use .of poisoned wee one , and . which, provided only that injury limy be done to an opponent,. in quite indifferent as to the means In. complaining of the daily and weekly slanders of this reckless - party,' through the papers -under their peculiar patronage (as , The St an d ar d, W a t c h man , 6.c.,) .0n t h e ging s private circle, we put - out of con. sideration 'the personal character of the Sovereign. There never Was, we believe, a S o v ere i gn who better .entitled himself to the gratitude of his people, than George the Fourth, if moderation and fairness, in the exercise of has high authority, and enlightened liberality,"and a tolerant re -gard for the feelings and opinions of his subjects, are to be considered in the light of a title. We more than once expres sed our sentiments distinctly on this sub ject, at a tine when our motives could not be liable to misconstruction. But we claim nothing more for George the Fourth than we would claim for any Sovereign of this country, ,nay, for the meanest subject of the realm, that the sanctuary of private life should not be violated. The So vereign does not renounce the feelings of hu manity when he is elevated - to the Throne ; he requires . , the solace and sympathy of friends— ihe-stipport of those charities without which life !would be insupportable. • Why, then, should any man mil* to his Sovereign what he claims for himself? - Why . should he seek to draw aside the veil-which the Sovereign has interposed be tween himself and the public ? Why should lie seek to wound him, either directly or indirectly, through attacks on those by whom he is sur rounded,_ merely becaUse they are his friends? If those who either slander the King themselves, or patronise his slanderers, have enjoyed the ad vantage of having been thcmselveS admitted into his private circle, surely that forms no justifica tion of their departure from a rule with regard . to the Sovereign which is held sacked in the case of private individuals. Political opposition does not surely justify the violation-of the social du ties. It is not a little strange that this departure from - decency, in the case of the Sovereign, Should be first shown by those who used to lay claim to a more than ordinary loyalty. During ,the. worst. of times; and when faction ran highest in this country, the King's private friends were never named, even in those Journals. most dis- iinguisbed. for their violence. Faction is now Out of date ; it died, as we have often observed, on the introduction of the system of Adminis tration which followed the death of the late Lord Londonderry. There has long been a distinc tion between the liberal men of either of the parties which used to divide the country. • - Yet, without any of the agitating circumstances of for mer times to serve even as a palliative; we find this dirty work pursued day after day, by men claiming all the religion and loyalty rof the. coun try—the Ultra Tories.. In some of the Country Paper's, the clergy are accused of having express ed indecent joy at the death of Mr. Canning, and of countegancing this system of .detraction. We trust the charge is not applicable to many members of the Body. The people of England, with all their faults,. ,will not easily sympathise with such religion and -such loyalty.—Morning Chronicle.' . - • ' .Some of the Whig journals assume great me rit to the Marquis of LansdOwne for having, as they call it, given way to Lord Goderich upon theresent occasion ; as. well as for consenting to hold - office under that Nobleman. We are fully convinced that no such jealousy exists' in the mind of the Noble Marquis ; and it is there fore -tO the argiiment as used by the advocates, not as entertained by the principals, that we ad dress -ourselves. We are quite unconscious what giving way there can have been upon the occasion. Lord Goderich has taken_ . the post assigned him by his Sovereign ; and that which would have been assigned him, we will venture to say, in preference to the Marquis of Lang- downe at least, by nine-tenths of the community. There could be no choice, no giving way, when the persdn on whose fiat the matter rested, made none. Lord Goderich is-at least the Marquis of. Lansdowne's equal as_ a public,man in every respect—much longer in office, much better ac quainted, with the policy of the Government And the principles upon which it has hitherto been conducted, and much.pore likely to conciliate Foreign Powers, and all parties at home, than the Noble Marquis, who,, as an official man, -is only known to the country as-a short-lived, and not Ivry popular, Chancellor of, the Exchequer, one-and-twenty years ago. But besides a per sonal reason, to which' we will not at this mo runt - advert, which may render the Marquis of Lansdowne not exactly the person which the King might wish to , eonfer most closely with upon this occasion, the. Marquis seems tons to be placed in that very office already, where, in dependently of, the inconvenience arising from . nacessant changes,. he is most likely to be of use to the country. As Secretary of State for the Home Department, the Government of Ireland devolves tqlon . the Marquis, with which, as one of its great landowners, he must, we should ima gine,: be better acquainted than any person who has of late held the Seals of that Department: Of Ireland we have no hesitation in expressing it as. our fixed opinion, that she is capable of be ing rendered of more 'real value to this country than all her colonies, and foreign possessions and connections, thrown together ; and that to be rendered of that value, she only requires to have her means and resources brought into action a wise and enlightened system of policy, pur sued with a steady, undeviating course. Let the Marquis of Lansdowne' set about and bring into action this system, and he will prove himself a benefactor of no common kind both to England and Iteland. His local knowledge and ikerests, as we have said, go far to qualify him for the task, if he takes care that they do not bias him too far, to the incomes mode of abstract ing enormous abSentee from that coun try, without much reference to the methods through vhich they are raised. One of the many valuable boons which might be conferred upon Ireland, IF4 Lad be a power of 'cutting off the en tails under which so much of the landed pro- perty is at present held. 'This; by enabling many of the larger landowners to dispose of property which they do not visit, or see well managed, would distribute an interest in the soil among a multitude of smaller holders, who, besides the mere abstract benefit of residence and personal inspection, Would bring extensive capital, both for the purpose of tillage and manufactures, into action, g.nd by giving employment and civiliza tion to that mass of the inhabitants who are now mere wanderers and Outcasts, would do more to promote national prosperity than any other means we know of. This is only one among number less benefits which might be conferred upon Ire land, by those who have the peculiar charge of that part of the Administration, giving their steady, undivided, and impartial attention to the subject. Above all things, by a Government having this object in view, party feeling must on, all hands be "put to silence, and the• Catholic Question rendered a matter of secondary im portance ; for a questiOn of secondary importance it would assuredly become, .if. Matters 'of higher moment-L-such, .for instance, as those we. have alluded to—were tc:(engaqe the sincere and un divido attention of the Governnient. The Ca tholic Question is, and ever has been, n 'mere bugbear—or rather the shell, which those who ! covet the kernel throw among the. angry 4is- putantg on either side. We. do not say that concession On this head, under proper safeguards and; restraints, may not, and will not in tinme take fl place ; but it cannot 'be till excitement has sub Sided, and that is most likely tp take place when the country finds itself sailing down that stream of national prosperity whieli, its internal resources are fully adequate to create and to main tain ; and which can only be'created and win tained by the Government making them the ob jects of its incessant and impartial care.--Morn ing Herald. The King, contrary to expectation,' will not come to town this clay; but will hold his Coun cil at ,Windsor. - Parliament will be further pro rogued, and the new Ministerial Arrangements are .expected to receive the Royal ..Sanction. Upon the remains of the late Minister, whose lamented death has caused these new arrange ments; the tomb Was yesterday finally closed. To the account of the melancholy ceremonial which on this occasion took place, we have only to add our ardent and sincere prayer—Peace to the manes of George Canning !—Morning Post. The lasi funeral honours have been paid to our departed Minister, and the tomb has closed on the victim of patriotic devotion. He now lies by the side of the great and mighty, Whose place he supplied in the service of the State with scarcely inferior powers, and with superior for tune ; for, however manly the struggles of the il lustrious Master (whose friendship patronised his youth, and whose principles formed his mind) with the difficulties and dangers of the period in which he lived, it was the fate of Mr. Pitt to perish, ere his country had' been restored to pro sperity and peace. His closing hour was one of deepened anguish,, :and, his last aspiration al most breathed despair— : Pow different has been the destiny of his disciple. I. He had shared in all the conflicts of .his great predecessor—he had fought side by side with him, against foreign an archy and domestic treason, he had perhaps par taken of his despair—but he survived to perpetuate his policy, to - ensure; and to en joy its triumph. He survived, to see the perils which had broken down the hopek of a mighty mind, vanish away before the firm and unbending assertion of his principles. He beheld Conti nental despotism overthrown, and- the establish ment of universal peace—he watched the birth of nations, and promote& their growth; . and, what was still dearer to His heart, .be .turned the influence which the success and wisdom of his plans conferred upon his country, not into an engine of aggression or a source of unlawful. aggrandisement, but into : an instrument of, general. happiness. He .extingnished throughout the world that jealous dread of. British greatness, which bad enable& the individual . enemies of England to rouSe, the nations against her. His country was the adiniration and the terror—he made it the love—of mankind. With the power of a giant, if he " used it as a giant," it was only in acts of universal beneficence. Go wherever you will, to - the East - or to the West, through the 61dl or the new world, and you will find' the name of". England not only an honour,. but a blessing; Such has beeri the result of the policy. of Mr.. Canning. He lived:long enough to root his system deeply in the 'confidence of his King, :the gratitude of his country; anti the . adniiration of•tlie world.--Nettr DA RING ItonnEttY.---Last Wednesday night, about 12. o'clock, KR Mr. Itianle, of the •Exclse office, Broad-street, was returning to his resi dence in North-street, Hackney, he. was, near the Bakers' Arms, surrounded by a gang of five or six young men, all apparently under 20 years of a g e, who, after knocking him down and other wise ill-treating him, took from his person a quantity of silver, a diamond pin, and an um brella. This party is a tail of the Bethnal-green gang. ACCIDENT TO THE COTIK GAS WORKS.- Tuesday morning, at 'a few minutes after seven o'clock, the iron hoops of the large water tanks at the Gas Works suddenly gave way, froM the weight of the vessel, with its contents; nearly 180,000 gallons of water covered before it a con siderable- portion of the boundary Wall, but with out injury to any other part of the works, it bay ing fortunately burst at the . side next the river. Most providentially, the;men who had been em ployed about it were for a few moments called. off to another part of the concern, and no per son was near it to be injUred—'a circumstance which .has has not, perhaps, before occurred since theyformation of the isiorks.Sortthern Reporter. COACH ACCIDENT.—On Friday afternoon, the coach which left Preston at three o'clock was overturned in its passage to Manchester, when one of the passengers was dreadfully injtired, and the driver had his thigh-bone broken. 'The ac cident took place near the toll-gate in Brindle, where there is a sudden turn in the road, occa sioned, according to our information, by the ra pidity with which the coach was proceeding.-- 7 The passenger most injured is a servant girl, who sat upon the roof on the side on which the coach fell. The coach was dragged a few yards after it fell, and the poor young woman's leg being at that time under the iron railing, was lacerated in a dreadful manner. A messenger having arrived in Preston with the unfortunate intelligence, Mr. Clbug . b, one of the proprietors; lost not a mo ment m proceeding with Mr. Lodge, the sur geon, to render every possible assistance to those who might require surgical aid. The driver's thigh was set when our informant left the spot, and Mr. Lodge Was in consultation about am putating the limb of the poor woman. The driver's name is Ball. He is a partner in the coach, and keeps the Cheshire Tavern, in Bridge street, Manchester. About an hour after the ac cident the young woman's leg was taken off, but notwithstanding the best skill and attention were bestowed on her case, she died shortly after the operation. 'The unfortunate young woman was servant to Mr. Clayton, bOot and shoe Maker, of Sugar-lane, in.,this town. Mrs. Clayton her self was on the ,coach, and had her collar-bone broken. • The proprietor,sent her to Manchester on the next coach; with a woman to attend on her, but she now lies at home dangerously ill, and, we fear,' not likely to recover , A servant girl of Mr.*Holden, who keeps the Pig's Head, in the pork shambles, in this town, was alSo - on the coach, and got much shaken ; shy was.scon veyed home in the next coach, and is Considered but just out of danger. A child that was with its mother inside,,-was also much hurt. An in- quest was held on the body of the girl on Satur day, and a verdict of cc Manslaughter" returned against Mr. Ball, the driver. It is stated that he was driving at the time at a most furious rate. Thi unfortunate man is however beyond mortal account, for he expired on Sunday morning, and his remains were deposited in the New Burial Ground, in Rusliolme-lane, yesterday. Besides his thigh, his leg and arm were broken, and one of his eyes knocked out, -2 1 / a nchesier Mercury. POLICE. INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE.—THE LATE BURqtARIIS ix TIIE Ciry.--Yesterday Mary Anne and Elizabeth Dove, who were a few days ago charged with having beencon cerned in the robberies which were committed within the last month; in a house in Cornhill, and another in St. Mary Axe, were brought before the Lord Mayor for a se cond examination. Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for_ the prisoners, when the first case against his clients (the burglary and robbery in the house of Mr. Hobten, of Cornhill) was entered into, stated to the Lord Mayor that he had evidence to prove that the elder of the prisoners was the wife of the man in whose house the stolen chith was found--a circumstance which, he submitted, would be essential to the case. The LORD MAYOR—Very well, Sir, I am ready to re ceive any evidence which you may think proper to tend on the part of the prisoners. Solicitor for the prisoners—The witnesses to prove that she is a married woman are here, my Lord. Will you please to call them? ' The Loan MAYOR—Certainly not. If you please you may call and examine them. It is not my business. Solicitor—l do not know for what offence you may think proper to commit' them, and, therefore, I cannot decide what atirt of evidence it is proper for me to call. Pray, my Lord, for what are you going to commit them? The Loan Ma.voit—l do not conceive that it is at all necessary that you should be informed. Solicitor—Your Lordship may think proper to commit either for a misdemeanour, or, under a recent Act, for a felony. It is of consequence to my clients that I should be informed whether they areto be committed as principals in the robbery, or as receivers. The Loan MAYOR--I certainly shall not say which. Solicitor-I cannot know what evidence is necessary until I knoW what my clients are charged with. - The Loan lavou asked the elder prisoner whether she hail any thing to say. She replied in the negative. Solicitor—l submit to your Lordship whether there is any evidence as to felony. t The Loan MAYOR—.I shall not answer, that. Solicitor—Then I shall call no witnesses. It is suf ficient for my purpose if I tender the evidence, which I hereby do. The LORD MAYOR.--.NO ; that course won't do. I shall have it'put down that the prisoner declined calling witnesses. • She has said nothing in her defence. Solicitor-She has said that she' is a married woman. The LORD MAYOR—No ; she' has declined saying ass thing. Solicitor—Then (to Margaret Dove) say that you plead that you are the wife of Henry Dove. This wail accord= ingly done. The LORD MAYOR (to the Chief Clerk)—Put it down in the depositions that she says she is a married woman, and that she declines calling witnesses. Mr. HOBLER, jun., for the prosecution in the two cases of burglary and robbery, said that the fact -of the elder prisoner being married was not at all material, as it was not demonstrable that she was sub potestate yin in either case. He submitted that the evidence was sufficient to justify the committal for felony. • • The depositions having been read over, The Loau 111AYOR said that the cloth having been found on the preniises, where it lay with.the knowledge of the prisoners, so recently after the commission of- the bur glary, he should not hesitate to commit both prisoners for felony. His Lordship stated that he thought it necessary to mention that he presumed the guilt.of Elizabeth Dove, from the circumstance of her declaring that the bundle she bad in her hand . contained foul linen, and her objecting to "shew its contents to the officer. The second case of burglary and robbery (that in the warehouse of Mr. Smith, of St. Mary Axe) was then gone into. A man named William Chick, who was ap prehended a few days ago, was then ptit to the bar, along with Mary Aim Dove, charged with having been con cerned in the offence. - Daniel and John ForreSter, and Herdsfield, went to the miserable hovel of Chick, in Roston, a few days afro, in consquence of information on the subject of the stolen co chineal ; Chick, upon being told that the officers wanted something, admitted that there was something in the }Rinse, but denied that he knew any thing about it, and declared that some men had thrown it into the room and di,'iappeared. • , The depositions against Mary Anne Dove and Chick were then read over, and they were both, committed for the felony, in the second . case. Elizabeth was merely com mitted in the first. The. Logi). MAYOR Said, that it was in the - opthn of edtttier f4elocvy or the i n nistionearnour, although he distinctly committee for the 'former in both. MARLBOROUG H-STREET. —Yesterday J. Hayes, an Irishman, and a person dressed as a gentleman, who gave his name William Williams, but which is not considered to be his real name, were brought from St. Giles's wata house, charged with having committed an assault of a hor rible description. • Hayes is a - man in htunble circumstances, and keeps a fruit stall in Piccadilly. The other prisoner is evidently of higher circumstances, and, by his own account has been a chemist and druggist at Hull, in Yorkshire. He had on his person a gold watch and appendages, a gold neck chain, a diamondring,.and a pair of silver spectacles, with green glasses ; but no papers of any description, so as to lead to the discovery of his real name orplace of abOde, were found upon him. Mrs. Leavers, of No. 3, Lumber-court, Seven Dials, stated that the prisoner Hayes lodged in her house, that circumstances had previously ,occurred which excited her suspicion that the, prisoner Hayes ivas an improper charac ter, and amongst others, was the fact of his being visited by several gentlemen, disguised and muffled up in great coats. On' the preceding night Hayes returned home with the other prisoner, and after going to his (Hayes) own apartment, they entered an adjoining empty room, and locked the door. She then gave information to Line, the watchman, and he took them into custody under circum. stances not fit to be related. The watchman gave his evidence in corroboration of the last witness, and added, that Williams was taken on the top of the house, endeavouring to escape. The MAGISTRATX called. upon the prisoners to state what they had to say to the charge. Hayes purchasing fruit On the preceding night he said fr knew u t i l t ia a t t h h e iss . the " gentlean" only from a ml n ii: met the " gentleman" near the English Opera House, he asked him to take some beer with him. He (Williams) first accosted him with "Well, my Grecian, is that you ?" He admitted having been treated by the gentleman on se veral previous occasions. Williams said that he was, as previously stated, a che mist from the country, and was not known in London. He resided sometimes at the Spread Eagle Tavern, and some times at the Tavistock Hotel. • Upon the Magi4trate asking whether he was known to the proprietors of either of those taverns, he replied that he was not. Along inquiry subsequently took place by the Magis trate, with the 'view of dificoverin , " who Williams really was, but nothing further than has been stated could be eli cited from him. Both prisoners were remanded for further examination. After Williams was locked up, a person came to the office, requesting to speak to the person who was com mitted for an assault. Now as there are generally from a dozen to twenty persons daily committed to this office for assaults, of course the officer applied to request the name of the party he wished to see. This, however, the appli cant said he could not tell ; notwithstanding the Magistrate permitted this person to see Williams in the presence of Pepper, the gaoler. Williams afterwards wrote a letter, addressed to a Mrs. —, at Lincoln. It is expected, on the re-examination, that some additional facts respecting Williams may be brought to light, although, in the present state of the evidence, it is not considered sufficient to bring home the charge for a capital offence against the two de linquents. UNION-HALL—A neatly-attind young woman, with a baby in her arms, whoSe name entered in the constable's barge book was Eli;abeth Clark, Was yesterday brought before M. SwAnzr, Esq., the presiding Magistrate, ac cused of stealing a silk shawl at the Coburgh Theatre the preceding evening. • The prisoner was stopped by the constable as she was passing out of the place of amusement, immediately before the half-price commenced ; and as she was descending the stairs from the.gallery, a silk shawl dropped from her Pit son. She was followed by a woman who accused her of having stolen it. A witness who bad known the prisoner some years, said that the prisoner having dropped her own shawl picked it up, and as the one belonging to the complainant was lying down, she must have seized them both without a felonious intention. _ _ . A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, re presented her as being respectably connected, and could prove that she was above such an act as that which was 'ascribed to her. Mr., SWA ism asked the woman who preferred the charge if she wished to proceed with it, and being answered in the negative, -dismissed the prisoner with a caution as to her future conduct, observing that there was certainly a: doubt about the case, nevertheless her conduct was not free from suspicion. We ought to hAye remarked tlu t the motAblq Who Plc vented the prisoner kin quitting the theatre, degeribed her as' being 'very anxious, to depart. • • The prisoner accounted for this on the ground that she wanted to go and procure refreshinent before the persons who were entitled to •enter •at half-price could occupy the seats, as the theatre was likely to be very much crowded, on account of the attractive pieces always produced by the manager. LAW INTJLLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Aua. 16. LONGMAN AND GO..V. SMITH. This was an application to dissolve an injunction obtained, to iestrain'the defendant. from pirating any part .of_ the additions which the plaintiffs had made to a new edition of the Abridgment of 'Murray': English qrammar. The case had been several times before.the Court, and was now..finally disposed of. . . Mr. Smith, the defendant appearedin person to move that the injunction be distolved. He said that the plaintiffs had first of all sworn that he had pirated 60 pages • then that he had pirated nearly the whole book; and lastly, that he had pirated 30 pages. EX-PARTE SMITH, IN THE MATTER OF MILES. This was a petition presented by the assignees of the bankiupt, and it prayed of the Court an order to expunge the proof of a debt admitted by the Com missioners. The objection taken to the proof was, that notice had not been given to the assignees that the accommodation bill which formed the subject of the debt had been dishonoured. Mr. RosE supported the petition. Mr. KNIGHT; on the other side, read several affi davits, which deposed that distinct notice of the fact had been given to the bankrupt. The Learned Counsel also animadverted upon the vexatious nature of the proceedings in this case. The parties, instead of settling the matter before. the Commissioners, who had been invested, by the new Bankrupt Act, with full power to expunge the plod of a debt, had Chosen the very, expensive mode of applying to that Court. Mr. ROSE said he was convinced ; from his own knowledge, that the expense of an appeal to the Commissioners was much greater than that of a pe tition to that Court. The VICE-CHANCELLOR. was of opinion, that'the evidence in favour of notice baying been given pre- , ponderated, and be must, therefore, dismiss the petition. MURDERS. Last month, John W. Grant, living in the upper part of Caswell: County, North Carolina, very deliberately shot L two men—a teacher, named Karbrough, and a Mr. Wilkinson. The circumstances attending these murders Were re lated to us by agentlernan, who had them partly from Grant, himself; and arc, in substance, as follow :--- 7 Grant had been for some time badly disposed towards the deCeased persons, and at our last -Superior Courtohey appeared as wit nesses against him, in ; a suit in which he was engaged, which 'farther exasperated him, and it seemsdetermined' him upon their deitrUction. On Fridiy, lie went to a place . where he' had previously concealed his gun, near a path along which -he knew • KarbrOugh. would pass, and. there awaited his coming. 04 IKarbrough's ap proach, Grant stepped forward and• informed him of his . deSign. Karbrough begged Grant not. to Shoot him ; but in.vain.• 1-le• received the contents of .the gun in hiS left arm arid side, ran a short distance, fell, and expired. 'Grant then went home. A little after night, .he :Went to the house of Wilkinson; 'when in the. :door; he called:Wilkinson, and.told him he had .come for the purpOSe of killing him ; and while Wil kinson was attempting to get out of-bed; dischar ged his gun;- the contents of which were lodged in Wilkinson's breast, and killed him instantly. Qn Satniday, Grant was ttiken. and is 'Safely . 'confined in the, gaol of this county. He 'was iound near his mill-pond, with a handker chief tied round both legs, and one round his head. He has not, from the first denied his having committed the murders; but profesSes himself sorry that he' cannot do the same deedS over again, and that he was taken before he had finished his work, as he intended 'killing .two or three others; and says, that he went to the house of one person twice on Friday night, for the pur pose; but . he- was from home. He also says, that he intended drowning himself rather than he taken, but that he had taken a quantity of laudanuin, and Was asleep when the company came upon - him; Indeed it seems evident that such was his intention, as the water, almost im mediately under him, was ten or twelve feet deep. —American Paper. A letter from Vienna, dated the 2d of Au gust, states the arrival of the Marquis of Hert ford in that capital on the - 31st of July. • • On Saturday afternoon, a distresiing circum stance took place . in . King -street, Tradeston.. A baker, in a state of intoxication, called his work men from the bakehouse into hiS own house to dinner ; but dinner not being in readineSs for them, he got into a quarrel with his, wife, and immediately proceeded from words . to . blows. One of his journeymen • interfered to save her from his violence, when the baker, excited to the highest degree of -rage,: seized the poker, and threw it at the journeymen with so much ,vio lenee, that the end of it entered his skull, where it' stuck fast, till it was pulled 'Out by one of his comrades. It was at first considered that lie could not live many hours ; but he is still alive, and there is some probability of his recovery, though he is still in a very critical situation. The baker, seeing whit he had done, grew almost distracted, and ran out of the house, expressing ail intention of drowning himself : but after wan deiing about the streets for about an hour, he was taken. into. custody by the police, and. has been committed to gaol. The young man still lies in the house where lie received the injury.— Waggon/ Cln'cn GLASGOW, AUG. 11.—Tuesday night, about nine o'cloCk, an explosion of gas took place in a spirit and tea cellar,, Kirk -street, Calton. Dur ing the. day some persons had been drinking in the front room, and had stolen the brass cock of the gas pipe. The ahopman unaware of the theft, went as usual in the evening into the room with a candle to light the gas. The room being full of gas, the foul air immediately caught the flame ; au explosion immediately ensued, the lower half Of the room door was torn in pieces, and nine panes of glass in the window Were scat tered in all directions.. A lamplighter, named John Cameron, lately belonging to the police establishment, hearing the explosion in a house about 400 yards distant, suspecting what had happened, went out and ran to the cellar, and -found the room all in a blaze. Not the least daunted, he . put his naked thumb on the gas pipe, and by this means the gas was kept back till the stop cock was turned, and no farther damage was done. The young man that, went to light the gas was driven back to the counter by the force of the explosion, and his head and arms were scorched, but not dangerously. The • lamp lighter, ' who displayed such, courage, bad his thumb severely burned. A large :crowd soon collected ; and Mr. Leckie, so universally re spected by the inhabitants, was immediately at the premises, kept complete order, and satisfied himself that the safety of the neighbourhood was completely secured before he retired. DIED. On the 14th inst. at her brother's house, Layton, Estlelo Martha, eldest daughter of Christopher Richardson, Esq• of . Limehouse. _ _ On the 9th inst. at Hampton-court Palace, Miss, Ear' bara. St. John. On the 15th inst. in Doctors' Commons, of a brain fever, Martha, the wife of T. Gent, Esq. THE MARKETS.' , SOUTHALL MARKET.—Aug. 15, 1 • This day's market was rather largely supplied, find' numerously attended - by buyers; each kind of meat met with a very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of 81h. to sink the ofrals Beef 3s. Rd. to 4s. Rd. f Veal 4s:Vd. to 58. Mutton ...vv... 3 6 4 6 1 Pork 4 0 5 2 Lamb 48. 1 -kl. to ss. Od The foregoing quotations are precisely the same as 'those of this day se'unight. A good many Beasts, Sheep, and Lambs, lett the market unsold. HAILSHAM MARKET.—Aug. 15. 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. I ss. Ud. to ss. 4d. Alutton—m. 4 2 5 0 Pork 0 0 • 0 0 Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss. 0(1. • Supply great, and trade, on account or the approaching har vest home festivit►es, very brisk. STEYNING MARKET.—Aug. 13. Beef 4s. 01 to 4s• Bd. I Veal 4s• Bct to . ss. 4d. Mutton 4'o 4 10 Pork..---- 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4s. 4d. to se. Od. Supply good, and trade rather brisk. ARUNDEL MARKET.—Aug, 14. 4s. M. to 48.8 d. 48. 841. to ss. 41. Mutton 4 4 410 I 0 0 0 0 Lamb 4.e. 4d. to ss. Od. Supply numerous, and trade, particularly with good She e p and Beasts, somewhat brisk. CHICHESTER MARKET.-Aug..ls. 4s. 4d. to hs. Sd. VeaL, 4s. 4d. to ss. 2d.. I Mutton -4 0 4 8 Porko 0 0 . _ Lamb. 4s: Qd. te ss. Od. Store Lambs produced from 12s. to i 20s. and Store Tegs 21s. to 325. each. Supply good, and trade, on tho whole, moderately brisk. LIIKET=Aug. 15. s. d. to s. d. Veal Pork 4 0 5 It 4s. Od. to ss. W. ; Quarter old Pigs 10s. to 151. each. Ind trade rather dull. RIMIFORD MA s. d. to a. d. Beef 36 4ts Mutton , 3 4 4 4 Lamb Suckling Calves from 14a. to 36s ; Supply numerous, a: COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE . WEEK: • Wheat. Barley. , Oats.' I Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to• a. s. to s. Blandford R 4—• 46 Brigg 54 60 33 97 • 25 • 90 44 48 Cambridge•-•-• 57 25 41 - Chard 56 76 39 44 24 32 45 4s —24 31 45 43 Louth 54 57 36 IS 27 30 34 56 sr, 62 34 36 22 29 50 .52 Newark 61 65 38 46 30 37 53 64 52 59' 36 40 23 26 89 40 Nottingham Peterborough 58 60 30 34 Plymouth 36 66 97 38 25 29 Sherborne--..* 57 36 Uppingham 58 65 37„ 49 - 35 40 60 -65 Wisbech. - York 54 64 40 .21 _ 35 56 58 , -LEE] There was a 1. of othet Grain IS CORN MARKET.-Aug. 14. irge supply of Wheat, and' a fair quantity ; tine fresh Wheat fully . supported last week's prices, and In . some instances rather more money has been obtaitted,..but in middling and inferior qualities there was no alteration. Barley was very slow salt ! , al though offered on lower terms. Oats were very (lull, and rather cheaper. la Shelling there was very little doing, and prices were much the same. Good English and Fo reign Beans were scarce, and supported prices. In Rape seed there was no alteration.. .. Wheat, Norfolk and Stiftlk, Olb. Sis to els. , I -- York. and Lineolu. 60Ib. `Nis. to 5t4 s. g , Barley, ; Norfolk and Suffolk ---- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire •-•-•—•.-- Grinding • - 30S. to 325. 4 , Beans - - (3311). Oats, Potatoe —Stealing, Foreign 14d. to 15d....Roglish l6d. to 161 d. per st• Shelling Rapeseed, English, 201. to 241. MANCHESTER SMI'THFIELD.—AOg. - At per lb. sinking the on]. 4,087 Sheep...4.w. 44L to 64 I• • 8 6d.' to 7,1. 341 Cattle • 3j 6 - 1.138 Pigs 4 5 • 2,645 lAmbe 4id. to 7kl, MANCHESTER POTATOE MARKET'.—Aug. Potatoes, 51. Od., 6.si, and . 61.3 d. per load of 1 score arid 121bs. ; New ditto, Os. Od., Os. Od., and Ss. per ditto; Turnip , . 58. 3d., Ss. 6d. and 6s. Cd. per load of 16 peeks ; sma►l, Ott, per lb. Ib ANCHESTER YARN MARK-ET No. d. d. Throatle Twiat,,2o ± 11 to 12 30.,E 121 , 131 40 17 .18 • • Mule copTiviiti 3 0 ~„111 124 for warp 40 14 15 50...17 ISI 20 22 70 .-24 20 • 80,.20 31 -• VP eV MEETINGS O. Weft from waste 14. 30 -.-. 11 t ; 1• 40 12 1:5 50 --- 16 . 60 1?* SO 24 9.ti 100 30 3 2 .120 -- 34 3 1 .; 'lo 8 9 _l4 9 9 4. 18 91 10 `24...w- 10 11 CREDITORS. COUNTRY DIARY.—MoNnav, AUG. 30. Banks, W., Wrockwartiine. Salop—thill's Head inn, War- ittou, T., Penstord, ollice ofTVIr. Grevile, BristOl }Waking, M. t Fahnouth—Public rooms, Swanse a Kirkland, N., Ripley in Pentridge—Commercial inn, Clies tertield Lucas, 'l'., Brampton, Derbyshire—Office of Mr. Gillett, Chesterfield.— ................. . ... ..... ... ; ..... 11 Tate, 3., Manchester—Royal hotel, - Manchester • 10 'Thompson, R.,.Winchester—White Hart, Winchester • 10 . , ;Williams, R., Newtown—Oak inn, Poole ...... INSOLVENTS APPLYING TO BE DISCHARGE/N . COUNTRY.—At the Court-honse, at Brecon, August 22, at Ten o'clock. Webb, .b., Brecon, saddler At the Gaol, at Ruthin, Aug.,2l, at Ten. Williams, 'J., Ruthin, labourer On Wednesday.morning, between the liour : of two and three, the house of Mr. - Thirden,. No. 11; Burton-crescent, was broken into: by a gang of burglars, and robbed of property to the . amount of 201. _ • - On Friday, Mr. •Geeen passed over Sheffield, for the third time,• accompanied by Mr.' Strapps and Mr. Phillips ; both of Manchester - . Wa learn that this intrepid gentleman ascended from Manchester at five minutes to six o'clock P.g. Between six and seven he was distinetly seen from all parts of this town,' appearing not more than . a quarter of a mile above the • Tectators. The sun shone on the maChine fora short time, and produced a most splendid appearance. The bal loon landed safely in a meadow at Thorpe Woodi four miles west from Worksop, at a quarter pass seven ; and the aeronauts received every attention frori Mr. Thomas Roberts, - Wood - -Mill-Piece, parish of Ansfon. Mr.. Green and his aerial companions arrived at' the- King's Head, Shef field, in a chaise and four, at 12 o'clock on Fri day night, where he remained till Saturday morn ing, when he set out for Manchester in a chaise and four.—Sheffield, BIRTHS. Qii.the 15th inst. iu aarence-terrace, Regent's-park, the lady of Dr. Burton, of a still-born daughter. On the 16th inst. in St. Mary-le-Strand-place, Kent.. road, Mri. Thomas Browne, of a daughter. On the 10th inst. 'at Woodlands, near Doncaster, the lady of Captain Elmsall, of a daughter. On the 15th inst. at Walthamstow, Essex, the Hon.. Mrs. Baptist Nod, of a son. - , AIARRIED. - On the 14th inst. at the -Collegiate Church, Manchester, by the Rev. C. D. Wray, Mr. lotin Palin, of the city of Chester, to Anne, eldest daughter, of the late Mr. Josepli StelfOx, Manchester. . . . On the 16th inst. at St. Nicholas Aeons, Lombard: , street, John Clarance, EN. to Miss Mary Ann Fairlie, of Stepney, Middlesex._ . . - On the lath inst. at Tunbridge Church, by the Revi Sir C. Hardinge, Bart. Captain Harding, Royal Hers? Artillery, to Caroline Johnston, youngest daughter of the late Kenneth Callauder; Esq. of Craigforth. On the .15th inst. at. Cheltenham, by the Rev. J. H. Breynton, Henry Solyar, Esq.•to Eliza Christian Ingram. On the 15th inst. by the Rev. Thos. Layton, Vicar, George Robert Rowe, Esq. of Chigwell, to Eliza, second daughter of the late James Basire, Esq. of Chigxv'ell-row. On the 16th inst. at Christ Church, Marylebone, by . the Rev. Henry Higginson, M.A., James Ruddell Todd, Esq• of John-street, Adelphi, to Eliza Henrietta, daughter of Duncan Campbell, Esq. of Gloucester-place, and of Rossin, Argyllshire. On the 15th inst. by the Catholic Bishop of Down and Connor, and afterwards at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Thomas Melrose, Esq. of John-street, Golden-square, to Miss Macnaughton, daughter of -- Macnaughton, Esq. of Duke-street, St. James's. On the 15thinst. at Islington, Mr. Richard Lee, of Had denham, Bucks, to Maria, youngest. daughter of the late Mr. Joseph Wood, of I3unhill-row. PRINTID and PUBLISHED by M. YOUNG, at the su l i.CorricE ) No t 11; Strand. No. 64, 1 lIAVJ I 8 COFFEES The put Establishm e Co mpany iv a perfect kr Perience, un Purchase the advanta Market. The bus Trade, mac ther to se ll an ar of ensuring The folio inspection:. C ° ll gons 6d. to Ss.; Ss• ; Hyson ; finest q 0( ti and • ' thi pri ces Good Coq( Good Stron Pine Souch( good Greer F ine T ward Pine Hyson ,„Good Coffee Turke boa a n d Fine Chocol Good Old FPerior Di Fine e ntste ° " 1 ( 1 Sherr Fine Pale I) Eneellas and leneriffe, or ~Tadeira Clarets and Sauterne an 13 rou te Mad Cape Madeii Rock and M Sparkling ar The Origins ARTIFIC MR. N. can hi s inuti übl Alouth, win on Gold, Tooth to a t he wearer ; 11 ' s supe r i or fo und consoi and no char; satisfaction Mr. w . country vac continues to S urgery co ,ractinir &c. t hud of supi and kientifi. a R OYAL THE I fro! B " . erl (Sun, B ATH'ai C°lll unpton, BIRMIN S toney Stra BRISTO CARLIS uarating. EXETE ch e , ter. ROLyH ALM°. and Bangor LIVERY MANCH MILFOI ford -west. NORWI The folio time specifi( Weymoui Norwich ; Nottingh Windsor Biriningl Eight. Liverpoo Canterbu Southall.' Right Exeter, I Brighton Cambrid Past Two. Canterbt Carlisle ; before Five Derby, t before Five Edinbur; I t Quarter 1 Alanehes fore Five. Notting' ive. Bristol Milford Past Four. Taunton Four. Windsor Liverpoc Norwich Five. Derby, 1 before Six. Edinbur before Six, Alancheh even. Nottingl Birming Quarter be Holybeai _ _ Rlariche9 before Seve Canterbt N.B. P taring Ton Caravan ev otis- Th atecantabh any Passen linlclss the E tilts? of th, 'eager's Lu --....,..._ I )R. 4 be Years, 1 by a effected on starve, in any par it cares. evi been at' In g by this exc intmnif ?rab benefit del given it k Sold by Ut• Paul's 4,.Sackvi ' 4 arket 16 0, c i V ets s 'ld. % I . pro, 044' by this