The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We do not believe that on the whole a more useful communication has for many years been made public than the memorial which has been addressed to Mr. R. Owen by Ebenezer Elliot and other Members of the " Sheffieldßegene- ration Society," and which we publish in column. If it be good that the ignorant should acquire useful knowledge, and that the errors of which not only they are ao often victims, but of which, by acting on them, they make their neighbours also victims, should be eradicated from their minds, how infinitely desirable is it, and how truly, when the thing happens, a subject of national congratulation, that those who are more exposed to be made the recipients of such errors, and the agents for realizing their pernicious and destructive effects, should be the very foremost and the happiest in dissipating the chimeras generated for their own deception, and for that of their industrious but imperfectly educated brethren. The amiable dispositions of Mr. Robert Owen we have never been so uncharitable, nor indeed so inobservant of his course of action, as to deny. We believe the zeal of that wholesale projector, for what he considers the welfare, or rather the redemption of society, to be as honest and disinterested as as it is injudicious and misguided. We believe his views to be as abundant in benevolence as they are signally destitute of common sense ; and if by some. miracle Mr. Owen should become capable of adapting discreet and sober views to ends which were specific, practical, and substan tially useful, he has shown beyond all question, under a series of what to any other man would have been repulses, disappointments, miscar riages, and mortifications, unvaried by one glim mer of remote or contingent success, a pertina city—not to say an obduracy of volition—by which every thing short of direct miracles might be accomplished. Mr. Owen has been executing a crusade against the understandings of the work ing classes at Sheffield, amongst other great esta blishments of our manufacturing industry. But he has encountered amongst those whom he under took to edify, men who could reason, and, happily for themselves, could generalize with far more skill and power than the kind-hearted visionary him self, who has been so far perplexed and blinded by problems of the most simple solution, as actually to tender the loan of his " co-operative system" to the monopolists of human food, by attempting to persuade the sagacious artisans of Sheffield that " they would gain nothing by a free trade in corn !" for that their wages would fall in exact ratio with the fall in corn. One fact appears, indeed, never to have entered the contemplation of Mr. Owen, who upon this subject is just as sound a philosopher as (but no sounder than) the greediest and most chuckle-headed 'squire in the west of England. He seems to think, that after a repeal of the prohibition, corn, if it found its way into Great Britain, must come there by some sort of gra tuitous process. He forgets how each sack must be paid for. Mr. Owen may learn from his sinewy-minded preceptor, Mr. Ebenezer Elliot, that for every sack of corn imported an equiva lent of British manufactures must be exported ; that therefore, if a larger amount of foreign bread could be purchased than of British for the same money, or for the same money's worth, — that is, for the same amount of labour,—the difference would be for the manufacturer's profit. There can be no disputing that if 5,000,0001. of English money would purchase as much foreign corn as it requires 6,000,0001. to procure of English corn, the people of Eng land, taken as a whole, would have 1,000,0001. sterling to spare, after having supplied themselves and families with as much bread of Polish or Prussian growth, as now that we are forced to have it of British growth, does not leave a single shilling in our pockets. Of that 1,000,0001. so saved, the British manufacturer could afford, still reserving a full remuneration, the master for his capital, the workman for his labour, to give up a portion by reducing to a certain degree the price of his goods, and precisely in that same degree would he undersell the foreign manufac turer beyond what he does at present, and ex tend the exportations of British produce to the foreign market. One ludicrous feature in Mr. Owen's plan has been powerfully exposed by the memorial. Only think of a man pretending to be sane, and telling the people that they will be richer by working for but eight hours a day, when in the existing state of the world, of laws, and commerce, it is as much as an in dustrious man can effect to feed himself and family by labouring for 12 or 14 hours ! What master-manufacturer could meet foreigners in the market, when, instead of the higher wages, hour for hour, which the corn law wrings from him, he would have, according to Mr. Oven's proposition, to pay the same wages and have less work done, or, in other words, a less quantity of goods manufactured ? This, in deed, would be lighting the candle at both ends with a vengeance t and since M r . O wen h as not sense to perceive it, the journeymen whom he would " instruct" have corrected, though per haps enlighten him they may not. Ebenezer Elliot and his brethren recommend what seems to us by no means an unreasonable set-off against the corn tax,—a tax on th a t l an dl or d' s rent, which it was the purpose, and has been the consequence, of the corn tax to raise beyond its natural level. This would, so far as the landlords are concerned, be no more than jus tice, but it might tend t o perpetuate t h e corn lawitself, and therefore we must not at present dream of it. The withering invective and bitter complaint with which alternately the author of the memorial treats the inflictions of the dreadful corn law are well contrasted with the gentleness of his apostrophes (on the face of them quite serious) to poor Mr. Owen, on the sad score of this gentleman's well-meant follies. " W e believe," quoth Ebenezer , " you are entirely wrong, and, we trust, not at all dangerous ; you will have no followers among the thinkers of any class, and they will lead the rest. But why should the co-operation of so good a man as you be worse than undesirable e &c. The Me tnorial is, in many passages, earnest and eloquent, and bears decided marks of the strong-minded author of the Corn Law Rhymes.—Times. The principles of the juste-milieu, as we anti cipated, are shattered in Spain like Alnaschar s basket of glass in the Persian tale. The Queen Regent enjoys the advantages of the advice which she received from Louis Philip, and which she was silly enough to act upon. By so d o i ng she disgusted the Constitutionalists without con ciliating- their opponents. She declared for the principles of Ferdinand and of absolutism, while she pretended to be desirous of ameliorating the political condition of Spain ; ay, just as much as Louis Philip himself was desirous of ameliorating the political condition of France when he pro mised the credulous Lafayette a monarchy with republican institutions, and immediately set t o work to annihilate the liberty of the press by th e scourge of penal law—to destroy all political discussion by police plots and trials for con structive treason—to keep France in the bon dage of a wretched oligarchy by resisting all reform of the representation—and to overawe the mind of Paris by a chain of fortresses drawn round the city, which was yet reeking with the " blood and glory" of the revolution that placed him on the throne ! The Queen Regent, following the advice of the " King of the Barricades," had no party in Spain ; for a few courtiers, placemen, and expectant place-hunters, could not be called a party. Her foolish mani festoes gave great moral strength to the Carlists, and drove the liberals into that conspiracy against her power which has broken forth in the sudden thunder of the Catalonian declaration. In this j instance political dishonesty has worked its own calamities. The principal minister of the Queen Regent, Zea Bermudez, is also an example of the adroitness with which political cunning can sometimes trip up its own heels. The perse cutor of Riego became a traitor to Don Carlos, and he has met the reward of treachery. He is cast off by one party and despised by the other. Even the Treasury Journals of this country, that worship fortunate profligacy where , ever it is to be found, will now discover that this most " able and enlightened" statesman wanted both capacity and wisdom. But, though the principles of the juste milieu system have been broken to pieces in Spain, an attempt will be made to re-unite them ; and even now that attempt is indicated in the patched-up Cabinet which supplies the place of that over which Zea Bermudez presided. In the soil of Spain the principles of the French Doctrinaires cannot take root, but every possible effort will still be made by the Queen Regent and her advisers to carry on the Government in accordance with the tortuous and dishonest system ofthe Tuileries. We have no confidence in either the wisdom or virtue of the newly-appointed President of the Council. The French Paper Le Temps says that " the appointmant of Martinez de la Rosa as Presi dent of the Council is a sure guarantee that Spain is about to obtain institutions in unison with the spirit of the age." We believe no such thing—Martinez de Ia Rosa is placed where he is to prevent Spain obtaining such in stitutions. We would as soon expect Lord Palmerston to regenerate the foreign policy of this country, or Lord Durham to bring the Russian Autocrat to reason, as Martinez de Ia Rosa to regenerate Spain. He is a mere pre tender, both in regard of political talent and liberal principles. He will endeavour to carry on under another name the principles of Zea Bermudez, but will miserably fail. Our readers know that we predicted the disappointments which the Queen Regent would have to en counter from the moment that she issued those absurd manifestoes that placed her Government as an isolated body between the fires of two conflicting and powerful parties, which comprise all the active and formidable population of Spain. It is not difficult to foresee that those " who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." The Spanish Government has sown that seed and now gathers in that harvest.—Morning Herald. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JAN. 23. BELCHER AND ANOTHER V. PRITTIE AND ANOTHER. This was an action brought by the -plaintiffs, as assignees of Mr. Maberly, a bankrupt, against the defendants, as trustees to the marriage settlement of Colonel Maberly, the son of the bankrupt, to recover possession of a certain freehold situate in the Regent's Park, alleged to have been conveyed by the bankrupt to his son, Colonel Maberly, in an ticipation of bankruptcy, thereby giving him an un due preference. It appeared that some years ago Colonel Maberly lent his father, the bankrupt, a sum of 12,0001. on his bond. At the time of Colo nel Maberly's marriage, he requested his father to liquidate this bond, instead of doing which he gave his son a lien upon some other securities, which were in the hands of other persons as security for other claims, which Mr. Maberly subsequently re deemed. Colonel Maberly, finding this to be the case pressed his father for the amount of his bond. The bankrupt not being able to liquidate it, conveyed the property in question to trustees, in settlement for his (Colonel Mabeily's) wife, for the recovery of which an action was brought by his assignees, the plaintiffs, upon the ground that, at the time such a conveyance was executed, it was made in anticipation of bankruptcy. Mr. Sergeant Wilde, on a former day, obtained a rule Nisi to set aside the verdict, and grant a new trial. _ .. Mr. Sergeant COLERIDGE and Mr. Sergeant TAL FOURD, on Monday and Tuesday, ►vere heard against the rule. Mr. Sergeant WILDE, yesterday, was heard in support of it. Mr. Sergeant SPANYIE was heard to-day, on the same side as Mr. Sergeant Wilde. The COURT, after a short consultation, gave judg ment, in which all the Learned Judges concurred. They were of opinion, that as the question was one of fact, of which it was for the Jury to judge, the verdict ought not to be disturbed.—Rule discharged. Friday night a most terrific hurricane, with thunder and lightning, rain and hail, visited this city and vicinity. The storm was most awful, and the effects of the aerial conflict truly sublime. A correspondent observes that at times " one side of the sky was beautifully illumed by the moon, the other enveloped in a black and tangible darkness.' I stood on Wye Bridge during the lightning, and its effect was singularly grand and beautiful whilst momentarily enlightening the dark void several miles up the river. When I turned and looked bayond the lower side of the bridge, the ripplings of the stream, and the water as far as the eye could reach, beautifully shone in the rays of the moon. I had, at the same moment, on my one hand perfect darkness, and on the other a radiant and soft illumination."— Hereford Journal. MELANCHOLY EFFECTS OF BEER•SHOPS. --Early on Sunday morning, as a party of men were sal lying forth from a beer-shop near the Eist-gate, Chiches ter, one of the men, named Aaron Scutt, who was much intoxicated, struck a blow at a man named Hunt, who was passing at the time. Hunt, after receiving repeated blows, became exasperated and knocked Scutt down, who, from the fall, and being in liquor, expired without uttering a word. We have not yet heard the result of the Coroner's inquest. —Brighton Gazette. FATAL EFFECTS OF DRINKING TO EXCESS. —A short time ago, four young fellows, having contrived to gain admission into one of the store rooms attached to Sunbury distillery, broached a large cask of spirits by means of a gimlet, or other such instrument, and, having inserted a goose-quill into the aperture thus made, straight way proceeded to help themselves. How long they were employed in imbibing the spirits to which they had bur glariously gained access cannot now be known ; it is suffi cient to state that when some of the workmen employed about the distillery entered the store room, they were found on the floor in a state of the most stupid intoxic,tion. The &Unguents, whose beastly appetite for ardent spirits had thus led to their detection, were immediately removed and deposited among some straw in an out-house, where they were left in order to sleep off the effects of their excess ; but on revisiting them, after a time, the workmen were di-- mayed to find the whole four apparently in the agonies of death. Medical aid was immediately procured, and the stomach-pump, we understand, applied ; but it was too late. Two bad already died, and the other two are not expected to recover. On gauging the cask which these unhappy creatures bad broached, it was discovered that considerably more than an imperial gallon of the spirit had been extracted ; in other words, that they had drunk up wards of a bottle and a quarter of whisky each.—Caledo. nian Mercury. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BO W- STREET. SAVAGE ASSAULT UPON A POLICEMAN.--A ruf fianly looking fellow, named John Brookes, was charged with attempting to strangle Wm. Matthews, policeman No. 29 F division. The beat of Matthews lies in Newcastle-court, Pickett -street, a place notorious as the resort of thieves and prostitutes of the worst description, every house in the court being a low brothel. At two o'clock in the morning the complainant was called to one of the houses in the Court by cries of " Robbery" and " Murder," a circumstance by no means uncommon in that place; and, forcing his way into the house from whence the cries proceeded found a young mart on the stairs almost in a state of suffocation, the prisoner having hold of him by the throat. The prisoner, who was known as the bully of the house, no sooner saw Matthews than he pounced upon him, and seized him by the throat, and swore he would squeeze the - wind out of him. The officer had sufficient strength to spring his rattle, and some other constables came and res cued him from the ruffianly violence of the prisoner. The latter had nothing to say, and was fined 5/. He said he had no money, and was sentenced to two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. _ TIM GAME LAsys.—:Jantes — iVilks, a licensed dealer in game, residing in Glasshouse-street, yester day appeared on a summons charging him with an infringement of the Act of the Ist and 2d Wil liam IV. cap. 32. Mr. Long saw the number of red grouse specified in the summons hanging in the defendant's premises on the 15th of January, that being upwards of three weeks later than the time allowed by the Act for dealers in game to have any in their pos session. Defendant expressed his regret at his having un intentionally violated the clause. He considered that forty days were allowed after the killing; but he had been deceived, as the Act specified that term for private individuals. The birds were killed within the limited term in this instance, for he re ceived them from Scotland on the 13th, and he knew that they had arrived some days previously. The solicitor ventured an opinion that they must be getting high. Defendant said that grouse did not get high as other birds did. They would become dry from keeping, and, when a change in the weather occurred, they would possess their original freshness to a great ex tent. He had kept grouse for two months. Mr. DYER, on looking over the Act, observed that the 4th clause regulated the penalty to any sum not exceeding 1/. for each bird. The solicitor did not wish to press for the ex treme punishment. It was done to show the dealers in game that there were gentlemen who were de termined to preserve it as much as possible. They had no interest but that, as the penalties went to the poor of the parish. Mr. CoNANT and Mr. DYER consulted together, and convicted the defendant in the penalty of half a-crown ahead for each of the 22 birds.—Defendant paid the fine and costs, 21. 19s. QUEEN-SQUARE. GROSS INSULT TO THE DUCHESS OF KENT AND THE PRINCESS VlCTORlA.—Yesterday Maria Chap man, of No. 21, Pearl-row, Blackfriars-road, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with creat ing a disturbance at the Victoria theatre, obstruct ing the way, and using disrespectful language to the Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria, at the Victoria theatre, in the New Cut, Lambeth. The prisoner is the wife of a man who was last week fined at Union-Hall for selling spurious playbills, without a printer's name affixed, announcing the performance at the Victoria theatre. Nathaniel Greaves was one of the constables at the Victoria theatre. On the previous evening the prisoner obstructed the way, which she had con stantly been in the habit of doing, by importuning visiters to purchase bills. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria came to the theatre about half past eight o'clock incog., and drove to the stage door of the theatre; the prisoner followed the car riage and thrust in a hill, and when their Royal Highnesses, who were attended by Sir John Con roy, alighted from the carriage, they were followed into the hall of the box entrance by the prisoner, who exclaimed in a most insulting manner, " What, is this the Queen of England that is to be ?" The Duchess and the Princess complained of the insult to which they had been subjected, and the prisoner (who had been repeatedly warned of her conduct previous to this transaction) was immediately taken into custody. Police constable Noble, of the L division, No. 39, proved the obstruction, and the taking the pri soner into custody. Greaves said that it was not the wish of Messrs. Abbott and Egerton, the lessees of the Victoria theatre, to behave harshly to the prisoner. Her husband had been fined at Union-hull for selling bills without the printer's name. Mr. GREGORIE—I can scarcely understand this. Do you mean to withdraw your charge of insolence to their Royal Highnes,es ? Greaves—Certainly not ; it was noticed by the Duchess of Kent, who observed, " What does she mean by that ?" Mathias Sodbury, of the Cornwall-road, heard the words spoken by the prisoner. In his opinion they were uttered in an insulting tone. The Royal party complained of it. The witness added that it was more the manner in which the words were spoken than the words themselves. Mr. GREGORIE supposed that the proprietors would not have noticed her if she had not rendered herself obnoxious ? Greaves—They would not, Sir. The prisoner, on being called upon for her de fence, said that her husband was out of wo►k. She had no occupation but that of selling playbills. She was willing to admit that she had made use of the words, but merely as an observation to a bystander, and in the most respectful manner; and she wished that she might never leave that bar alive if such were not the fact. Maria Taylor, the mother of the prisoner, de posed to the same effect. Mr. GREGORIE was certain the proprietors of the Victoria theatre would not have brought forward the charge without good reason for it. An offence like this could not be passed over unnoticed, and he ordered the prisoner to find bail to answer the charge at the Surrey Sessions, and give 24 hours' notice of bail. The prisoner was then removed. A number of parishioners of St. Margaret's, re siding in what are called the optional streets, being the streets not included in a Paving and Lighting Act of George 111., were summoned to show cause why they refused to psy the rates. Some of the defendants were in arrears for years, and thay com plained of the inequality of the rate. After a very lengthy argument the defendants were all ordered to pay in a certain time. H-4T T ON- GARDEN. IMPORTANT TO PARISHES.—Susan Barker, a young woman, was brought before Mr. ROGERS, in the custody of Cover, the beadle, charged by the overseers of the Lower Liberty of Saffron hill with having illegally returned to that parish, after having been legally passed by an order of removal to her settlement in the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields. Mr. Sharpe, the Vestry Clerk of the Lower Liberty of Saffron hill, attended. The prisoner cohabited with a man in Saffron court, Saffron-hill, by whom she had one child, and was pregnant with another. On the 21st of De cember she applied to the overseers for relief, when her examination► was taken, and it was ascertained that her legal settlement was St. Giles•in-the-Fields, to which she was passed in the usual way by an order of removal. The following day it was disco. vered that she had returned again to the parish of the Lower Liberty of Saffron-hill, and was living with the same man, although she was aware that the overseers had circulated a caution against per sons harbouring pregnant women until their delivery and bringing a burden upon the parish. She had been previously brought before the Magistrates and cautioned not to return from her legal parish, but, notwithstanding this, she persisted in doing so and putting the parish officers at defiance. Cover was at length directed to apprehend her, and on Wed nesday afternoon last he proceeded to her residence in Saffron-hill•court, where he found her with the man with whom she was cohabiting, who behaved in a violent manner, and swore that she should remain, in that parish as long as he thought proper to pay rent for her. He attempted to take her into custody when he was violently resisted by them, and he was ultimately necessitated to call in the aid of a policeman, when the prisoner seized a quart pot and fought with it desperately, by which the officers were severely wounded, and it was with great diffi culty that they were brought to the office. Cover had once taken her to the pa'rish of St. Giles, but they refused to take her in, and only granted her temporary relief. Mr. Sharpe contended that it was a very hard thing upon their parish. The woman's settlement had been clearly proved. She had only two months to go, and if delivered in the parish that would ne cessarily be the child's settlement, which would be a burden upon them. Mr. ROGERS asked the prisoner when her cc couchement was likely to take place? Prisoner—ln a month or two, I cannot say which. Mr. ROGERS told her that she had rendered her self liable to severe putnshrnent, and asked what could induce her to return to another parish when she had been regulassed by an order of re moval ? Prisonerhat was I to do ? They would not take me in at St. Giles's, arid as my bu siness lies in the neighbourhood of Saffron-hill I thought I might as well live there. Mr. Sharpe said that it was strongly suspected she was much nearer her time, as she seemed to be very far advanced in pregnancy. He suggested the prisoner's committal to prison under the Act of Par liament, as, if the child was born in the prison, the child would then become chargeable t o the parish of its mother. Mr. Hill, the overseer, then proved the prisoner's settlement, and Mr. ROGERS, after admonishing her, committed her to the House of Correction for three weeks. James Wren, a ruffianly-looking fellow, without coat, shoes, or hat, was charged by police constable Beet, 82 E, with having created a riot and disturb ance, and indecently assaulted several ladies. The constable, on Wednesday night last, about nine o'clock, was on duty near Theobald's-road, Red Lion-square, when he saw the prisoner and another man, nearly in a state of nudity, following several ladies, to whom they would speak, and then lay hold of their persons in a most indecent man ner. He seized the prisoner, and called for assist ance to apprehend his companion, but he took to his heels and made his escape. Mr. Sergeant SELLON inquired whether the pri soner was known to the officers ? Beet replied that the prisoner and the ruffian who was with him at the time belonged to a notorious gang of cadgers who lived in a place called the Rookery, in St. Giles's, and were a most hardened and profligate set, consisting of men, women, and children of various ages. After carousing themselves, and laughing at the credulity of humane and charitable persons who relieved them on the previous night, they would dress themselves in the meanest style, some being almost naked, while others assumed the garb of sailors or distressed mechanics, while many took the character of " wounded tars" with crutches, which they would throw aside in the evening, and "join the dance." Others were blind who could see, and the old solicitation of " Remember poor Jack, yer Honour ; may you never know the vont of an eye or a limb," was a bit of a trade with them which they called " gammon." They were not nice as to their means of getting a living, so they coupled plunder with their vagrancy, and while following a lady or gentle man asking alms it was no uncommon thing for them to keep an eye upon their pockets and steal whatever they could lay hold of, and many of the fraternity had been considerately sent out of the country at the expense of Government. The pri soner's companion was the celebrated " Jack the Screwerman, ' who had often been in custody, and when he was with the prisoner he wore trousers with the leg off, no jacket or shirt, no hat or shoes, and his forbidding aspect was sufficient to frighten ladies. Mr. Sergeant SELLON asked the prisoner what he had to say ? Prisoner—That I didn't salt any ladies ; I only axed for charity. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—\Vhere do you come from ? Prisoner—From the Rookery. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—J shall order you to find bail ; you are an incorrigible ruffian. He was committed to prison in default of bail. UNION-HALL. Elizabeth Potter, the woman charged with strip ping young children of their clothes, and leaving them in a state of nudity almost exposed to the weather, was brought up for final examination, and fully committed. LAMBETH-STREET. TITHES AND POOR RATES. Yesterday Dr. Barnaby, the Rector of St. Dunstan's, Stepney, appeared before the Sitting Magistrates, Messrs. NORTON and HARDWICK, on a summons issued at the instance of the parish officers of St. Mary's, Stratford-le-Bow, to show cause why he refused to pay the sum of 6/. odd for poor rate on the tithe collected in that parish. The Rev. Gentleman observed that his reason for objecting to the payment of the sum claimed was his being rated at nearly three times the sum which he should have been. Mr. Drewery, the Vestry Clerk, replied that the officers had reduced the rate of the Reverend De fendant the last year from 401. to 321., and this they thought was as low as they could possibly make it. Dr. Barnaby had always paid rates on a higher sum than he received, and he was in a situation to prove that, though in the present instance he was rated on 321. for the last year, all he had received was 121. The decision in the case was postponed to a fu ture day to give Dr. Barnaby an opportunity of producing his agent to prove this fact. During the hearing of the case a respectable cler gyman, who happened to be on the Bench, observed that nothing could be more vague or incorrect with respect to the value derived from tithes than public report. It had been asserted, and generally be lieved, that he derived an income of 2,0001. per annum from the tithes of his rectory, but he would be very glad to filaPsome person who would pay him one-fourth of that sum for them. It was also generally believed that they, the clergy, were very rich, but his own opinion was, that they were very poor. TURKISH MANNERS.—The Turks of all classes have more innate good-breeding than any of the European nations. Though suddenly raised from the dregs of the people to offices of the highest distinction, one can never detect any deficiency of dignity in their demea nour ; and their affability and condescension to their in feriors, put the latter at their ease after the first moment they are in company. MURDER OF A GAMEKEEPER.—The Hereford Journal of Wednesday states that on Saturday morning, about half•past one o'clock, a gamekeeper, named Davis, employed by E. B. Clive, Esq., M.P., whilst pursuing some poachers through Bullock's Wood, in the parish of Allenemore, was shot in the throat by one of the men, and died almost instantly in the arms of his companions. When the deceased and three other game keepers came up to the poachers one of them presented his gun, and threatened to shoot the first man who approached. Davies pursued another man who was r e treating, and, as he was about to jump through a hedge in pursuit, re ceived the contents of a gun in his neck. The gun was fired so close to the deceased that the shot lodged in a mass in his shoulder blade. A Coroner's inquest was held on the body on Monday, and a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned. A man named Evans, who was seen in the wood a short time before the murder, has been appre hended on suspicion. ASSASSINATION OF GASPAR HAUSER. (From the Ghent Messenger.) The reader remembers, no doubt, to have seen in the journals of the time some details of this singular man, who was found one day at Nuremberg, without any one being able to dis cover who had brought him there, from whence he came, who he was, and whose mysterious destiny is still enveloped in an impenetrable veil. This Gaspar Hauser appeared to be about 30 years of age, had never learned to speak, and to all appearance had remained that number of years in a narrow and dark dungeon, where he was obliged to keep himself constantly seated, with only bread and water for his food. His height was four feet nine inches; a short and very delicate beard covered his chin and upper lip. His complexion was very pale, his limbs were slender, and his feet bore no mark that in dicated they had been confined in a shoe. The sole expression of his countenance was a gross stupidity. He scarcely knew how to use his fingers or his hands, and when he walked one would have said it was a child who for the first time attempted to make some steps. For his food he would allow nothing but bread and water, to which he was accustomed, and his re pugnance to every other was such, that even the smell of meats affected him disagreeably, and if he swallowed a few drops of wine or coffee, he was instantly seized with violent vomiting. More lately, he stated that he knew nothing of himself nor of his family ; that it was at Nu remberg he learned, for the first time, that be sides himself and the man with whom he had always been, there were any other living crea tures. As far back as he could remember he had always inhabited a small low chamber, which he sometimes called a cage, continually seated on the ground, his feet naked, and having only a shirt and trousers for his whole clothing. He had never seen the sky, ands remained the greater part of his time deprived of the light of day. When he awoke he found near him some bread and a pitcher of water. Sometimes this water had a bad taste, and when that happened he felt his eyes grow heavy in spite of him, and he was forced to yield to sleep ; after wards, when he alloke from his sleep, he perceived that another shirt had been put upon him, and that his nails had been cut. He had never seen the face of the he e rs h o a l w d t li h ve o d brought tiinsh foe could nodot. tell. It ow lo It lng was understood, from an imperfect recital which he made, that his keeper came one day into his chamber, and keeping behind him, so as not to be seen, had guided his hand as if to make it write something ; that shortly after he placed him on his feet and attempted to teach him to walk ; that, finally, this man took him on his shoulders and walked away with him. Hauser was not able to tell much respecting the journey that followed, except that he fainted several times during its continuance. In the first period of his arrival at Nurem berg, the whole right side of his body was sub ject to strong convulsive contractions, particu larly when the sight of some new object struck him. When he slept noise did not appear to have any effect upon him, and even violent treatment could not awake him. He could not bear the rays - of the sun, which inflamed his eyes. Prints and pictures appeared to him to. be cut in wood. The multiplicity of impressions which his mind received quickly excited his nervous system to an extraordinary degree, so that in a little time the muscles of his face were agitated with nervous contraction ; his hands trembled so violently that they could hold nothing : his hearing was become so sensitive that not only the sound of a drum threw him into convul sions, but he felt violent pain when any one spoke near him in an elevated voice. Shortly he lost his appetite, and his health required that he should be removed to a quiet house where nobody would see him. It was then that he lay upon a bed for the first dme, and that he began to dream, which had never happened to him before. One of the things which he found most dif ficult was to accustom himself to our sort of food. It cost him months before he could suc ceed. Hot meats caused him a parching thirst, which he could not quench by drinking 10 or 12 measures of water a day ; but when he be came a little accustomed to our sort of victuals the convulsions ceased, the excitement of the brain diminished, his eyes lost their feverish brightness ; in fine, his health gradually revived. A fact worthy of notice is that the change of living (hygiene) caused him to grow two inches in a few weeks. The sort of life which Gaspar Hauser had led for so many years, separated from the rest of the world, had furnished him with so little op portunity of exercising his mind, that it was that of an infant, and it was a long time before he could comprehend the difference between ani mated beings and the objects which have not life. He imagined that the movement produced, no matter what the object might be, was spon taneous ; so that if the wind should carry away a sheet of paper he thought that it had by a voluntary impulse flown away. lle supposed that a tree 'manifested the life within by the movement of its branches and of its leaves, and that the rustling of the latter when agitated by the wind was the language in which it commu nicated its thoughts. His sight was very remarkable ; he saw as well in darkness as in the broad day (this was proved by an infinity of experiments). In the darkest night he could distinguish blue from green. His sense of hearing was also exces sively developed ; but his sense of s me lli ng , above oil, was a source of torment. All the of bread, of odours, with the exception of that f ct e ho n e uniedl smell, distinguish alone itsiengu etl,is of u ai: fruit -trees e their r foliage. mtmeisn, were to him more or less disagreeable. At a great di stance h e from all others by it, and which was p ercept ibl e to ag n e. one butWhenhe passed near a cemetery, t h e o d our ex h a l e d f rom him self, gave him an access of fever. The smell of a rose caused him to faint. But that which appeared, perhaps, the most extraordinary i n th e organisation of Gaspar Hauser, w a s hi s f ac ility i n f ee ling magnetic and metallic effe c t s . O ne d a y they gave him a lead stone ; he took it, held it some moments , then threw it aw a y, o bserving, that it made him feel disagreeable sensations. Professor Daumer, having learned this circumstance, made some experiments upon him with the magnetic needle, and when it was directed at his side lie com plained of a violent pain in his stomach, and said that he felt besides„ a sensation like that which a current of air would cause escaping from his body, and precipitating itself towards the needle. Metals acted also violently upon Gaspar Hauser, and caused him to feel, by their contact, a sort of attraction, and a cold that penetrated, according to the size of the object, inure or less into his arms. If he took a cat by the tail he experienced a bruising, and felt like as he would a blow upon the hand. This incredible facultt disappeared afterwards gradually. The following was latterly his mode of living : —He ate every kind of meat, except pork, but' he required that they should be slightly seasoned, and the seasoning which he preferred was still that of fennel and cummin. He continued to drink water, for which he often substituted in the morning a cup of chocolate : he had a gteat aversion to all fermented liquors, wine, beer, &c., as well as to tea and coffee. He was, in other respects, like all the rest of the world, except that he still could see in darkness, although less per. fectly, and he had nothing more extraordinary than the remembrance of his strange destiny. The unfortunate Gaspar Hauser is no more. He died on the 17th of this month (December) of a wound made by the blow of a dagger, which he received on the same day from an un known assassin. He lived at Anspach, where the President of the Court of Appeal had given him a little employment in the Registrar-office. Lord Stanhope, during his stay at Anspach, had also provided for his support. It is presumed that the assassin is the same person who had already made an attempt upon his life. He dis appeared without leaving the least trace of him. On his return, at mid-day to his office, Hauser was accosted in the street by a person who.pro p o t hh r n t park,is rrirevelations,en nds, H s taeuasadenr of d im appointedparimparting maintained n ag silence, tmh inissleeidetcili a 'idgm n e d niit tom w n ent after dinner to the place of as signation. The stranger was waiting for him. He took him aside—there he gave him a blow with a dagger, which has put an end to the ex istence of a man whose life and death have been equally unfortunate. The history of Hauser is one of the most singular events of our time, and perhaps more mysterious than that of the man with the iron mask. It might be conceived that the policy of a despot might have an interest in the conceal' ment of an important personage ; but what hue rest could it have in bringing up in complete isolation an infant—in making it a prisoner during the whole of its infancy, in the hands of a gaoler, and afterwards abandoning it to public charity, and finally to cause its assassination ? How can there exist in our age a monster capable of such a refinement of cruelty ? What is scarcely less strange is, that the Br varian police, which is always on the watch for political objects, and which suffers nothing to escape that would offend the Holy Alliance, has not been yet able to discover the least trace o f f the wretch es w h o h ave severa l ti mes attemp ted the life of this poor young man, and who have at last accomplished their abominable purpose. The Chief Burgomaster of Nuremberg ha g caused to be inserted in the journals of Bayarie the following notice, on the subject of this caws' trophe : " Gaspar Hauser, my dear pupil, is no more. He died yesterday, at ten o'clock at night, at Anspach, from wound which he received from an assassin. .The prob' lems which Providence had attached to his mehincholi existence are now solved for this victim of the horribl° barbarity of his relatives. God, in his justice, will car pensate him with an eternal spring of the joys of infanct which were denied to him, for the vigour of youth of wbi l he was deprived, for the life which has been destroyed ooli five years after it had begun to be acquainted with hunaell society. Peace to his ashes. , 4 BINDER, Chief Burgomaster. "Nuremberg, Dec. 18." The following are some new details, not give' in our recital : It was three o'clock in the afternoon thaS Hauser left home, to go the place of assignation appointed by the unknown person. In half an hour after he ran, quite out of breath, to the house of his tutor, appointed to take care him, and was able to utter at intervals, the word 4. " Parc—bourse—Uz—monument," but almd immediately fainted; it was not until then thng his master perceived the unfortunate young m• was wounded. He then sent a soldier of the police to the Castle Park, who found near the monument of the poet Uz a small lady's work bag, made of violet-coloured silk, containing paper, on which was written the following words but so crosed that it was found necessary g' place this paper before the glass of a window t' read them:— " Hauser will be able to tell very distinctly how I bad acted and whence I came. To save Hauser the trouble tell you myself whence I came ; I come from the Ba o rian frontier upon the river of I will tell you ee l more, the name, M. I. 0." . .A Hauser was struck with terror, and was able ' give to the police only few particulars of the ct scription of the assassin. Died on Monday last, in Liverpool, age°, 32, Mungo Park, nephew of Mungo Park, the celebrate" African traveller, and son of the late Mr. Park, of the I' S of Mull, whom Sir Walter Scott, in the notes of his not e si l of " Guy Mannering," acknowledges was the origiii from whence he drew the character of Dandie Dinmone• 818 THS. On the 23d inst., in Mecklenburg-square, the lady of JO Bethell, Esq., of a son. On the 22d inst., at Hampstead, Mrs. Thomas WhitehO l Reid, of a daughter. . d On the 23d inst., at Camelford-house, Mrs. Charles MillS, a daughter. On the 23d inst., at Highbury.grove, the lady of J. E. Hadd Esq., of a daughter. On the 21st inst., at Old Windsor, the Hon. Mrs. Every, a son. On the 23d inst., at St MARRIED. 3Iarp Paddington, John Thom' Williams, Es q ., secon d son o f th e l a t e Willi am Willi am s, of Plas-y- Ward, Denbighshire, to Elizabeth Sophia, el& daughter of Sir Richard Ottley, late Chief Justice of Ceylon; On the Bd inst., at St. George's, Hanover.square, VS Jadis, Esq., to Angelica Frances, youngest daughter of the 11 ' Dr. Harris. On the 22d inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell, Mr. Thos. 0 1' of Silver-street, Falcon-square, to Maria, fourth daughter Edward Price, Esq., of Basinghall-street. On the 21st inst., at Milton, Kent, Mr. James Livermore , ' Tower-street, to Emily, second surviving daughter of the Albert Jones, Esq., of Champion.hill, Surrey. On the 10th ult., at York, Upper Canada, William Gantt° Esq., merchant, to Elizabeth Bowles Brenchley, daughter Charles Brenchley, Esq., Denmark-hill, Camberwell. On the 20th inst., at St. Benett's, Gracechurch_street o Mr. 1 J. Frodsham, to Miss Emma Bailey, daughter of Alfred Bai" E s q., of Baker-street, Portman-square. DIED. On the 10th inst., at Monikie manse, George Scott Por 4 youngest son of Robert Purdie, Esq., Heriot-row, Edinburgh' On the MI inst., in Stamford.street, John Hodgkinson, 564 in his 54th year. On the ISth inst., at Reading, Mr. Jeremiah Hergest, late - Finsbury.place, aged 69. On the 20th inst., at the house of her grandfather, S ri Admiral Tollemache, Amelia Selina Locke, aged three ye. 3j eldest daughter of the late Captain William Locke, and Sel l! ' his wife. On the 3d inst., at Bath, Mr. M. Mean, of Loughton, O F !, On the 22d inst., John Woollams, Esq., of Connaught race, Edgeware-road, aged 57. On the 22d inst., in Mark-lane, Thomas, the son of .1 Reay, jun., Esq., aged 6. On the 16th inst., at the Lower-park, Dedham, EsseX, 3 5 1 , 4 52, Henrietta Margaretta, the wife of Alderman Manning.::: On the 19th inst., at her seat Mount Mascal, Kent, .Robinson, relict of the late Rev. Sir John Robinson, Bart. On the 17th inst., at Finchley, in his 35th year, WilloUg lil Wigston, Esq., third son of the late John Wigston, Esq. , , Trent Park, Middlesex. _ On the 20th inst., at Southwood, Highgate, Miss Langf ° _,7 At Tutnell, near Broom sgrove , W orces t ers hi r e, Mrs. NW . Smith, widow of the late Mr. John Smith, of that place. PRINTED AND VUBLI;JIIED By MURDO YOUNG,ATI° SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. her lath dep, 80A Panic ferabi 4 ,1 11i1 White the u White r t n u g n y t Street, V