The Sun. — London, England, 1831-06-08 00:00:00

tPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The manifest frustration of all the Russian plans `:Or first making what military men call " a point," upon Warsaw, and secondly, for turning it, by cross ing, the Vistula on the north and south of the city --e the extraordinary and unlooked-for defeats of :he Russian troops by a third of their number of polish .. patriots, indifferently armed, and in a succession of -engagements, as well between large bodies of the hostile armies as between corps detached and at a distance from the eyes of the resphctivecommandels. with the consequent stagnation of an aggressive svar, from which, so far as Russia was concetned, neces sity required the most rapid and striaing results,— all these circumstances had prepared men's minds to build strong hopes on the ultimate issue of the con test, and to familiarize themselves with the notion, that Poland must achieve her liberty. Then began a series of what seemed to be offensive move:a - lents on the part of the Polish Chief, which, Viewed in a purely military light, might, , for tale's boldness, ap _ proaehing to rashness—be dillicult to explain orjustifv. The gross army of the Poles could never have exal needed 70,000 or SO,OOO men. The invaders were half as much more. It might appear, therefore, that the most reasonable system fer the Russians would be to occupy as much of the country as they could without imprudence, for the sake of securing supplies and of keeping down the insurgent spirit, while the less numerous army of the patriots ought to have held itself concentrated, and ready to watch for some vulnerable spot on which to deal a mortal blow. On the contrary if we look at the operations of Skrzy necki, we shall rind him subdividing his troops in all directions, and detaching, to north and sautft, corps of which the absence must be sensibly felt by a force so inferior to its enemy. But we must not judge the Polish General by military maxims alone. He has stood in a position, of which the political features and characteristics were, and are, incom parably the most important. Dwernicki was de tached to the south. Why ? Not to turn the left of Diebitsch, nor, as his chief object, to beat the corps of Rudiger, but to excite a general insurrec tion in Volhynia, and thus to raise an auxiliary army to that which Skrzyneeki kept in reserve, and in front of the Russian Field-Marshal. Sierawski was detached, but as a necessary corps of observation, which he converted foolishly into a column of at tack, and was defeated. Skrzynecki felt the pur poses of Dwetnicki's expedition to be of such im mense value to the cause, that instantly after the overthrow of that brave soldier, he appointed a suc cessor with a force of 10,000 men, to prosecute the same political enterprise, and to keep up the spirits of Volhynia. On military principles, the move ment up the Narew could not be fairly defended, at least if it entered into the plans of the General issimo to proceed to such a distance as Lomza, which he afterwards did, thus leaving the main army of Diebitsch a day's march or more in advance of him, should the latter meditate a direct attack on Warsaw in the absence of its protectors. The march of the Generalissimo up the Narew, and his attempt upon the Russian Guards, leaving Warsaw se far behind him, bears, as a military movement, some re semblance, though on a small scale, to the advance of Sir John Moore against Soult. Soult refused baffle, as did the Russian Guards ; but the latter, not strong enough to turn alone upon Skrzynecki, or come in contact with him as he retreated upon Ostrolenka, made a flank march to form their junction with Diebitsch, then hastening from the Bug, which he had crossed at Granna; and if, instead of going out of his way to attack the Polish General at Ostrolenska, Diebitsch had pushed direct for Warsaw, ordering the Guards to follow and support him, Ski zynecki could not have ventured with his 25,000 or 30,000 men to attack the Russian body in this combined move- Trrent—and the capital might probably have fallen. What tlaen? we may be asked ; and we echo, What then? The occupation of a capital where the Go vernment has no hold on the affections or sympathies of the people will very often terminate a war, and, undoubtedly, according to the views of the Russian Court, the seizure of Warsaw would have been of vast account. In the eyes of the enthusiastic Polish station, it would have been but the capture of so many houses near the Vistula. Diebitsch, then, failed sf the only two objects he could, as a skilful soldier, have contemplated. He did nothing against Warsaw, and very little in his late engagement of the 26th ult. against the army of Skrzynecki. The object of the junction between Diebitsch and the Guards was to cut off the main Polish army from Warsaw. Has he affected this ? He did not even intercept the rear-guard of the Poles. Lu bienski, who commanded it, crossed the Narew in spite of him, and joined Skrzynecki, who waited the attack of the Russians. Did the Field-Nlarshal even succeed in accomplishing any rout or signal overthrow of the patriots ? Certainly not. lie left them in possession of the field of battle, from which he himself retired. He took from them neither prisoners, guns, nor baggage ; and, what is most extraordinary for a victorious army, lie let them pro secute their march to Praga unmolested. This is not extremely unlike the relative condition of the Duke of Wellington and Massena, after the assault on Busaco by the Frenchman. His attack, indeed, was repulsed with more facility and less loss; but the result to the Polish General was as advanta geous as to the British. Both reached their lines in safety. If, however, Diebitsch failed in every thing but shedding Polish blood, and losing torrents of Russian, hew was it with his !Taste and skilful enemy ? We have said that Skrzynecici's move ment up the Narew could not be defended on mili tary principles, considering to what risks be ex posed an inferior force. But the Polish commander needs no such justification. His enterprise was, in its spirit, political, not military : of the same na ture as that of Dwernicki, but far more important. It was to incur the possible sacrifice of 10,000 Poles, but to put in action the means for raising a whole people of brethren and allies, and to recruit his loss of 10,000 Poles by an army of more, per haps, than 30,000 Lithuanians. To put in mo tion, we say, the means of effecting this grand pur pose, was what Skrzynecki had in view : what were those means ? He tells us himself in his frank and unsophisticated despatches : he moved his army, as if to attack the Guards at Lomza, and forcing them to turn to their left to unite with Diebitsch, the Polish General then threw forward General Chra• powaki with 12,000 men, and General Gielgud with another division, into Lithuania, where nothing was wanted but a regular lorce, to serve as a rallying point for the oppressed and exasperated nation, with officers to give them discipline. This we find was actually done. Skrzynecki fully succeeded in his plan, which was that of a statesman.— Diebitsch totally failed in his, which was that of an every-day soldier. He strove to cut off the Polish army, for which end he attempted nothing more than an attack upon the single post of Ostro lenka, and that he was' unable to carry I As for the falsehoods of the Prussian State Gazette, — mean and treacherous, because they are coloured by a , mixture of truth, truth garbled and disfigured \se pay no attention to them, o neither ought the ' . public. When w e come loss in this engagement, antiwar, of the Russian operations of Diebitsch more disembarrassed, we see the when we de cided, and fruitful of solid benefits to creditt e cause th of Russia than they have been, we may ° re presentations of the Prussian Gazette. Will he l venture to attack Praga ? Will his Lieutenants be ie better able than before to reduce Lithuania an Volhynia to tranquillity.—Times. We have received a copy of the original narra tive published at Warsaw on the 29th ult., a trans lation of which, as it appeared in the Prussian State Gazette of the 2d instant, was given in our Paper of yesterday. The intelligence which reaches this country arid France through Prussia is often distorted, and it is natural that the Poles should, on an occasion like the present, be anxious to guard their cause against the misrepresentations . of its enemies. Hence care has b een taken to forward c rrect aceounts of the late important events, On comparing 'the article in question with the origin lb we find several variations and omissions, which are sufficient to justify the suspicion of the Poles, and to render it probable that the partiality of which thf•y accuse the Prussian editors is not an unfounded charge. Where the Poles describe the people of Lithuania as their "brethren," the Berlin Gazette writer states them the " insurgents." After the observation that "the Russian troops displayed a degree of courage and resolution far superior to what they had shown in the preceding part of the campaign," the following sentence is omitted —" The prisoners who have fallen into our hands, state that cannon were pointed on the rear of the Russian columns, and grape-shot fired on "those that retreated." After the statement that the Russian loos roust be " at leist double ours," which, by the bye, is in the original " more than doable," the following words are omitted—" This is easily explained by the fact, that the greater part of the Russian soldiers were in a state of intoxica-. tion, and precipitated each other from the dike." The conclusion of the account, in which it is an nounced that 12,000 Polish troops have formed a junction with the Lithuanians, is entirely omitted by the Prussian Gazelle: it is as follows : " Numt-rous reserves arc proceeding to the army, and will fill up our ranks, until the new recruiting decreed by the Diet shall augment our force. The enemy, notwith standing the superiority which numbers give him, will find in the execution of his plan for passing the Vistula the same resistance which has already so often disappointed him ; besides, the prosecution of this plan is not free from (fang, r, 11,)w that 12,000 of our brave troops have joined their brethren in Lithuania, and that the insurrections in the southern provinces are daily acquiring more consist ency. The talents of our Generals, the good spirit and courage o our army, the ardour and enthusiasm of the wh& nation, afford us assurance of the success of the most sacred of causes."— Times. It appears that there is what may be called the failure, at least for the present, of the Belgic ar rangement. The crown beisg on particular condi tions presented to Prince Leopold, has been by him refused! " King Charles of this not having need, " Thanks you as much as if he did," was the answer that the witty Rochester gave in the person of his master to an imaginary petition of the Commons tendering a mutilated constitution and di minished rights to the King. The Belgians do not tender a mutilated constitution to the Prince, but offer him more of a country than it belongs to them to give; in consequence of which, his Royal High ness has declined their crown. The protocols of the great Powers do not assign Limburg and its territory to Belgium, but these the Belgians assume to them selves without leave, and invite Prince Leopold to govern the augmented state. The-result is, as we have said above, that he has declined the offer. The Belgians have now, therefore, to seek another King. Whom they may find we know not; but we must say, that he is a bold man who shall accept the crown on conditions which France and England prohibit. In fact, the Belgians have not advanced a step : they have merely chosen Prince Leopold instead of the Duke de Nemours. The other and main questions are in stain quo.—Times. We have more than once suggested that the dis solution of the late Stamp Board, and the grounds, whatever they were, which led to it, ought to he made matter of Parliamentary Inquiry. Upon the fare of it, it was certainly a proceeding which calls loudly for explanation. Our attention is called to the subject by the fact of the heavy charge of fraud which was made by the Commissioners of Revenue Inquiry against the County Fire Office, turning out to he without a shadow of foundation, and the Lnw Officers of the Crown having last week abandoned all further proceedings, and consented to have their bill dismissed. And this, after carrying on a prose cution against that Office for five years, and putting it to between twelve and fifteen hundred pounds' expellee, which, as the Crown pays no costs, they can never recover. This is really a most oppressive proceeding, and the public at large have an interest in the means of such oppression being put an end to. An opulent establishment may bear up against it, but to an individual such a prosecution would have been utter ruin. Notwithstand ing the pertinacity with which the accusation was made, there was a circumstance which induced us, from the first, to believe that it wouhi turn out to be without foundation, and to be fabricated with some sinister purpose; which was, that Lord Grey, the Honorary President of the County Fire Office, continued to remain so, which we were quite sure he would not have done, had there even been the most distant grounds for the charge of defrauding the revenue brought against it by the Commissions of Revenue Inquiry. A Peer of his high and honourable character, we felt assured, would have withdrawn his name instantly, had he not been abundantly sa tisfied that the accusation was utterly unsupported. We again repeat, that the whole of this affair might he taken up by Parliament, and it behoves those Commissioners to promote this in justice to the late Chairman of the Board of Stamps ; for there never was a public servant of the Government more wronged than he has been. But for the total change of system that may hereafter be looked for, suspi cions would have been always attached to a Com mission of Revenue Inquiry.—Morning Chronicle. We have inserted a letter, subscribed," A Mem ber of Braokes's," complaining of the opinion ex pressed by us with regard to the offence of Major Dundas. It does not appear to us that the circum stances stated by our correspondent at ail extenuate the offence of the Major. In remote parts of the kingdom, girls are not watched with the strictness necessary in a luxurious metropolis like this, the parents and relatives taking it for granted that no gentleman would be so base as to attempt to seduce them. The responsibility is wisely thrown upon the male, who knows, that if he abuses the confi dence of society, a dreadful penalty awaits him. What our correspondent says about women beiag the only proper guardians of their own honour, seems to us very much misapplied, in the case of so young a woman—a child if we may so say—exposed to the attempts of a man practised in the arts of seductions. It is well to impress upon young wo men the importance of preserving their honour; but why are we to demand the utmost perfection of wisdom and virtue at all times from an inexperienced girl, and to make the want of it in any case an ex tenuation of the offence of the seducer ? Is a young woman, because she may happen to be of a feeble and irresolute character, to be, therefore, the lawful prey of a determined seducer ? if we lay down this doctrine, we may be sure that frequent at tempts will sometimes be successful, for though many may resist, some will yield. We protest against the doctrine, that the weakness of the female is to be a justification of the offence of the male. Upon the same principle, the imperfect vision of a shop keeper might be a justification of the thief, the weakness of the traveller the justification of the highway robber. If we are to take it for granted that men must always be brutes, and that it is manly and honourable to give a restraint to every appetite, then we may find, in this invincible necessity, a jus tification of Major Dundas taking a most unmerciful advantage of this child. But it appears to us that the very facility alluded to by our correspondent forms the strongest ground of accusation against Major Dundas. A man of any generosity of feeling would have said to himself, here is a girl less able than her equals in age usually are to take care of herself. It would be easy for me to take advantage of her simplicity or her weakness, just as it would be easy for Spring or Cribb, or any Champion of the Prize Ring, to knock down a beardless youth, but this very weakness is the most powerful of all appeals to my honour. The devil is represented as going about like a roaring lion report of the charge of the Lord s Ch aPp f ear may devour, and it would almost he thought it the legitimate busi ness make havoc among the youn g their way. " I must say (h an odd circumstance, that seeing seeking whom he from the Chief B aron, . that of officers to eob w se o r m ve en that fall in these sl it tat it was Idisposed to insult her daughters—that wheeT. were were out with their mother, and she again met th e officers, when she was going into the house, she, instead of confining them to the house, directs them to walk out till dinner-time." The mother might think the officers impudent puppies; but we dare to say it never entered into her head to suppose for one moment that any of them would coolly entertain the design of ruining her children. The Lord Chief Baron says in his charge— " You have it from his brother-officer, Mr. Phillips, that before the 21st of July, Dundas knew her to be the daughter of Dean Adams. He must have made the ob servation the first day he saw her walking with her father, and when, Ipresume, he was struck with her beauty : it must have led him to inquire into her connexions. I can not but bring myself to believe that he knew whose daughter she was. That is a strong circumstance for an aggravation of damages. If in watering places, persons pick up on the roads girls of free and liberal conduct, of whom they know nothing, so much blame cannot be at tached to them, as young men, from following up the con nexion. But the matter is different when he knew her to be the (laughter of a Dignitary of the Church—when he must have known the injury he must have inflicted upon that gentleman and his family. I think these things should be' taken into consideration in the measure of damages." The Chief Baron here indicates pretty plainly that the offence would have been greatly extenuated had the party been lower in society than the daughter of a Dignitary of the Church. Of course Major Dundas is not such a novice in the ways of the world as to be unaware that the station of the party would at all events give much more notoriety to the offence. Now it strikes us that this disre ' gard of the rank of the father is indicative of a con sciousness that he had little to dread from the noto riety. It conveys the severest satire on the laxity of principle of the class of society, before the tribunal of which he would have to appear. In the case of an humbler female, he might mitigate the resent ment of the parents by money. In a case of this kind he could have no such hope. He must, there fore, have been by no means apprehensive as to the effects on his reception in society. No man unne cessarily commits what he supposes will make him an outcast from the society in which he moves.— We fear we must place the cool indifference of Major Dundas to the account of the lax morality of the caste to which he belongs.-- He did not, of course, calculate on the influ ence of the more rigid morality of the middling classes on the higher. We are told by the Paper that claims more particularly to be the organ of " the fashionable world" (the Morning Post), that Major Dundas " has, since the period of this unfor tunate transaction, received the Majority of his re giment—a sufficient proof of the estimation in which his character was held by his Colonel, the Marquis of Anglesea, and the official persons at the Horse Guards, who were made acquainted at the time it happened with the circumstances attending it." The Marquis of Anulesea probably thinks with Sir Walter Scott in 31arntion, that he who first scales a lady's bower, will be the first in scaling a fort. As this is probably the opinion of the army in ge neral, who have never been suspected of asceticism, we do not well see how this offence could stand in the way of his promotion. If seduction, in its most aggravated shape, would not lower an officer in the esteem of his fellows, expulsion from the army is out of the question. Perhaps the Morning Post is hardly warranted in attributing the promotion to the estimation in which Major Dundas is held by the Marquis of Anglesea, or at the Horse Guards; but this is not our affair.—Morning chronicle. If Prince Leopold has refused the Crown of Bel gium, we cannot say we regret it. His near alliance with the Royal Family of England, and the almost parental situation in which he stands with regard to the heir-presumptive to the Throne, makes it not improbable that his Belgic politics, which afford no present prospect of a tranquil arrangement, would entangle England in Continental broils—and that, too, on the wrong side of a great principle, as the affairs of Hanover did in former times. We never expected to see the day when a Whig Ministry in England would lend themselves to the views of the " Holy Alliance," from whose fatal connection Mr. Canning had the energy and virtue to sever the des tinies of England when he advised the Crown to recognize the independence of the South American republics without asking the permission of the Courts of Vienna or Berlin, or even deigning to enter into a partnership of protocols with the diplo matic agents of the Northern Autocrat. Alas the chains of that fatal connection have again been thrown round our foreign policy , a nd hence its i cha racter is the reverse of what Engl ish policy, n the glorious days of this ceuntry, has been. It speaks in the feeble tones of timid subserviency to the " Great Powers," and in a voice of thunder' to the weak. It addresses itself in bland and courteous terms to the tyrant who devastates Poland—who meditates the dest r u ction of liberal' institutions in France, and the ruin of the cause of freedom all over the world—while it menaces Belgium with extinction if that country, which has just shaken off the incubus of a mean and sordid system of Government, should dare oppose the resistance of free opinion to the dictation of loftier despotism. Do we want proofs ? Not one manly remonstrance has been made wit h the bar-1 barous Czar to prevent or mitigate the horrible de solation and carnage which his iniquito us ambition caust aon the plains of Poland. But, though we do not dare to ask the Imperial " thunderer" why he wages an exterminating war on the people of Poland, after violating all the terms of the treaty which guaranteed their independence, and to which England was a party, we demand of the Belgians, in the most threatening language, an unconditional acquiescence in whatever measures we, in coteunc• don with the " Holy Alliance," choose to enforce for the abridgment of their territory, the disposal of their finances, or the controul of their liberties. The letter, or rather the despotic rescript of Lord Pon sonby, is in the worst tone of the worst taste of the Holy Alliance in the days when they arrogated a snit of divine power to settle for ever the destinies of Europe, but only deposited the materials of abundant revolutions by their insolent injustice —verifying the emphatic denunciation of Holy Writ, that " they who sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind." It is because we wish well to the present Government that we are sorry to see them keeping such company. If they allow their flatterers to betray them still further into errors, we shall have the conscious satisfaction of having given them wholesome advice, in the exercise of that independence of opinion in which consists the vital usefulness of the Press. We re probated the conduct of the late Administration in enlisting itself, as far as it then dared to go, on the side of the " enlightened King of the Netherlands" against the Belgians. The members of the present Ministry, then in opposition, took the same view of the subject in Parliament as we did in the Press. If we support men because they profess certain principles, we cannot admire conduct which be speaks a dereliction of those principles. We have no right to :intermeddle in the internal affairs of Belgium. W hen Mr. Canning was most anxious that Portugal should adopt that Constitution which Don Pedro had sent from the I3raxils for her ac ceptance, he nevertheless said, " It is net the duty nor the practice of Great Britain to offer suggestions for the regulation of the internal affairs of foreign States. It would not be for us to force that Con stitution on the people of Portugal, if they were unwilling to receive it." Thus Mr. Canning would not use dictation or compulsion to induce a foreign State to adopt liberal institutions ; but our present Government threatens Belgium for not regulating her own affairs as a confederacy of Continental despots please ! We hope they will retrace their steps before it be too late.—Morning Herald. As the moment of execution, without benefit of clergy, draws nigher and nigher, the Anti-Reformers are beginning to exhibit the convulsions attendant on such an nwful moment, and in a shape not likely to secure the sympathy of the public with their dying groans. They are sending round circulars in all quarters, with the view of prejudicing the publ ic mind against the Reform Bill; and that too under the guise of being Reformers. The trick will not answer. The people are for " The Bill, the whole Bill, and nothing but the Bill;" and we, who have some notion of the intrigues which are going on, trust that we have sense enough not to unsettle the public mind upon a subject respecting which it is unanimous, but which, if distracted, might seriously affect the success of the best measure that ever came under the consideration of Parliament. There may be matters in the Bill which it would be wise to alter; but if we and our cotemporaries advocated any alteration, the Tory party would immediately lay hold of it as a handle to upset the whole Bill ; and we therefore say, let the Bill itself be first passed. and then, with an independent Parliament, we shall think of, and discuss, the necessary alterations. This is our policy; and therefore, gentlemen of the Anti• Reform interest, you need send us no more pamphlets or circulars against the Bill. Our mind is made up. We do not object to amendments in the details; but as to any alteration in the principles, we will have none of them !—Morning Advertiser. Prince Leopold, as we ventured in the first in stance to predict, has prudently refused the prof fered Crown of Belgium. The ostensible ground of this refusal is the becoming deference of his Royal Highness to the decision of the Five Great Powers, as expressed in the conference bell on Monday, against the unjust pretensions of the Belgian Go• ernment to the district of Limburg, in manifest in justice to the King of Holland. All this is highly plausible, and looks well in a political view, shewieg as it does a just sense of the iniquity and folly of the wretched faction to whose gross misrule alone can be attributed die present ruinous state of Belgium. But the real fset is, that prudential, more than po litical considerations, have wisely governed the de cision of his Royal Highness. He well knows how to distinguish between an ample comfortable settle ment in England and the precarious situation in which he would find himself as the head of a revolted State and a people incapable of duly appreciating the benefits of good and safe govern ment; and has therefore prudently determined to enjoy what he quietly and safely possesses rather than risk the consequences (fearful necessarily in their nature) of assuming a weak insignificant So vereignty under the most precarious and degrading tenure. The obstinate folly of the Belgic Govern ment will cause the English and French Ministers to be immediately recalled from Brussels ; and if this necessary proceeding does not serve to convince the mi , rulers of Belgium of their errors, they will soon experience the natural consequences of their temerity. Despatches announcing the determina tion to this effect were yesterday sent off to Lord Ponsonby at Brussels. The Belgic Deputation has not yet reached London.—Morning Post. Not the least dangerous part of the sweeping Re form Bill is the needless complication of machinery —its wanton hacking and hewing of our whole re presentative system. In fact, the perilous principles of the measure are one thing—their clumsy applica tion to the clauses of the Bill another. We are sati,fied that any six men of common acquirements, who, for the sake of an experiment, should admit the justice and policy of the objects which the Bill pretends to effect, could work out severally, in the course of two hours, six new Constitutions which should tally bona fide with the Bill's prin ciples, as declared by Lord John Russell, yet carry each of those principles into effect, by simpler means, with less disturbance of existing privileges, with far less spirit therefore of general subversion, yet probably each with as fair a promise of working well for the country.—Morning Post. AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AT WEST LAVINUTON. About fifty able-bodied labourers, in the employ of four fanners of the parish of West Lavington, refused to work on Monday last, in consequence of their employers, on the previous Saturday, reducing their wages from 9s. to ha. per week. The men came in a body to Devizes on Monday morning, for the purpose of appealing to the magistrates; but, unfortunately, every magistrate of the division (with the exception of one) was from home. On Tuesday the men were again at Devizes, at an early hour in the morning; at noon the magistrates (Mr. Scott and Mr. Ludlow,) who had been sitting in petty sessions, sent for one of them, and, accordingly, a stout brawny man (who conducted himself with the greatest propriety) soon made his appearance. He stated that his master, arid other farmers in West Lavington, had for some time past paid their la bourers 9s. a week; but that on Saturday last with out any previous notice, they refused to give more than Bs. for that week's work, which they said was to be the future rate of wages—that the labourers, in consequence, felt dissatisfied, and refused to work. For himself, he said that he had a wife and seven children, and that a reduction of Is. out of 9s. was a hardship not easily to be borne. He spoke of the general kindness of his master (Mr. Sainsbury), and also of the overseer ; but he would leave it to any labourer with whom, or to any master for whom, he had ever worked, whether he did not labour hard, and fare harder. " From the beginning to the end of the year (said the poor fellow), I never take into the field more than a bit of dry bread for my dinner, and at this moment there is not the smallest quantity of victuals in my house." Notwithstand ing he and his fellow labourers Nv eic greatly dissatis fied, he said they wished to act peaceably. They would be content with 9s. a week, and he trusted that, through t he Magistrates, the farmers would be induced to continue that rate of wages. Nothing could excel the conduct of this man ; and the Ma gistrates themselves appeared to enter into his feel ings, and to think that 9s. a week was not a farthing too much for the labour of an able-bodied man ; they, however, justly observed that they had no power whatever to interfere; they recommended the men to return to their work, and take task-work in stead of day-work. This, however, the man with seven children said would not be better, for all descriptions of work were lowered. A gentleman present observed, that the farmers complained of, were obliged to lower the wages of their labourers in consequence of their landlord advancing their rents. The Magistrates could scarcely credit the assertion that any landlord would, in times like the present, advance his rents ; and were perfectly astounded when k was positively stated that Lord Churchill, at his recent audit, ad vanced the rents of his tenants at West Lavington ten per cent. It was further stated the produce of the farms of these tenants, during the last year, did not, by some considerable sum, pay the rental; and that they expected a reduction instead of an advance. The man with seven children observed—the fact was, that Lord Churchill took off ten per cent., at a former audit, in order that his tenants might raise the wages of their labourers from 7s. to 104. per per week ; but as the tenants had not done this, his Lordship again laid on the ten per cent. We have been informed, however, by a very respectable farmer, that the advance the tenants did make in wages of their labours far more than counter balancedtle l the reduction his Lordship made in his rentals ; arid that it is impossible the farmers can, for ally length of time, pay even 83. a week without some considerable abatement in rent. We are happy to state that the labourers yesterday morning quietly returned to their work.—Devizes Gazette. SIR THOMAS MUNRO.—Mr. GLEIG'S Life o f this distinguished character, of which a new and cheaper edition in two volumes has just appeared, still continues its career of popularity. To the value and merits of this publication almost every critical journal in the kingdom has borne ample testimony. The Literary Gazette calls it " an ornament to our literature." —The Edinburgh Review says " this memoir has attractions of all kinds ;" and the Quarterly Review observes " the letters and pi pers here given to the world abound with the opinions of t hi s high authority on every matter of importance relating t o our Eastern Empire, and they stand recorded for the instruction of all who choose to benefit by them, at a tune when the Ea.t India Cotnpany attracts an ❑nusual share of the public attention." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. W ORSHIP- ST REE T. A fellow named William Coo/c, a perfect Mau:- worm, was placed at the bar, before Mr. BROUGHTON, charged with conduct of the most disgusting kind, towards several female children. The particulars of this religions rascal's filthy conduct are too abominable to be detailed. When first questioned on the subject, the wretch denied the charge, but on being told by Mr. Chap man (father of the children) that, if he confessed the truth, he should be forgiven, he fell upon his knees, and admitted that what the children said was true. Luckily for the prisoner, he was taken into cus tody by some police constables, as the neighbour. hood assembled in considerable numbers, and were for making an example of him upon the spot. The prisoner, in a canting tone, assured the Ma gistrate that he was a " particularly religious man," and would not do such things. Mr. BROUGHToN—Do you preach ? Prisoner--I attend the prayer tneeting , . Grave', one of the Worship-street officers, in formed the Magistrates that the prisoner was well known about Stoke Newington, and the darkness of his complexion had caused him to be called Mahogany." lie was in the habit of insulting, not children merely, but grown-up women, and par ticularly respectable females. Fifty such cases, at least, might have been brought against him. The prisoner repeated that the charges were not true. _ Mr. BROUGHTON—I have called in five of these children, and examined them separately, and no one who has heard them can entertain a doubt ai to your guilt. I never knew a twlre atrocious attempt to debauch the minds of children. _ _ The prisoner was then sentenced to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. On Saturday, James Jordan, a butcher, residing at Stoke Newington, was brought before Messrs. BROUGHTON and TWYFORD, upon a warrant for assaulting and beating John Lane, a boy about fourteen years of age. The plaintiff, an arch-looking little fellow, stated that on Thursday he was amusing himself near the defendant's shop with a few juvenile companions, and began singing a song, in which his playmates joined chorus, when the defendant came out and de sired them to be off; not having completed the song, they did not obey the defendant's peremptory order immediately, when the defendant rushed out with a drover's stick in his hand, and belaboured witness till his arms and back were black and blue. (The stick washere produced,it wasaboat twoinches thick, and the boy showed the Magistrates sevt cal severe bruises he had received from the defendant.) The boy's statement was corroborated by four respectable witnesses. Mr. BROUGHTON—It appeals a most unprovoked assault. Pray what song were you singing, to raise the butcher's anger so high ? Plaintiff—lt was " Alice Gray," Sir. Mr. BROUGHTON—AIice Gray ! What can there be offensive in such a beautiful ballad ? The butcher appears to have a sorry taste for music.— ( A laugh.) Butcher—They are always tormenting me with that song, your Worship; but I don't mind that so much as the parody they have made upon it. Mr. TwYFoRD—I shrewdly suspect that the butcher is over head and ears in love, and these mis chievous little fellows sing this song to tease him. Now, tell me the truth, boy, has not the butcher got a sweetheart who don't return his love ? Boy— Yes, Sir. —(Laughter.) Mr. TWYFORD—And is her name Alice Gray ? Boy—No, Sir, " Sally Gray."—(Laughter.) Mr. TWYFORD—I thought so. Then why do You torment the defendant with these love ditties ? Butcher—But you should hear the parody what they have made, Sir. Boy—Ah, but I don't sing that, it is another hay. Butcher—But you help him. Let their Wor ships hear if it is fit to be sung to a young man what's going to be married. Boy—Oh, yes, if you wish it. For her I'd kill the finest ox, And bone far her the fat ; For her I'd prig a prime sheep's head, And shove it in my hat. To make her fat as any hog, I'd feed her night and day; But she scorns the heart that's breaking, Does naughty Sally Gray. (Shouts of laughter followed this ridiculous parody.) Mr. BROUGHTON said such jokes were, no doubt, annoying, but they were no excuse for such a violent assault. He should only fine the defendant 10s. and costs, with leave to speak to the plaintiff. The defendant finally paid ss. and costs to the plaintiff, and made the best of his way home to " Sally Gray." UNION-HALL. A woman named Miles was charged with having intermarried with John Cooney, her former husband being still alive. The complainant stated, that he had been mar ried to the prisoner for the last two years, and that for the whole of that period, not even omitting ghat was called the honeymoon, his life had been one of indescribable misery, owing to the horrible temper of the woman to whom he had been allied in marriage. The Magistrate (Mr. HEDGER) -=You must have had a very slight acquaintance indeed with the lady before marriage to be so ignorant of her real temper and disposition as you now describe. You allege that she has another husband living, therefore let me have the evidence of the charge of bigamy. The complainant here produced a certificate of the prisoner's marriage to her first husband, and stated that he should be enabled to prove that he was now living. Prisoner —Cooney knew well that I had a husband living when he married me. The base man has now turned round on me, and wants to get rid of me, owing to his taking up with another woman. Before I married him I told him how I was situated with regard to my other husband, but Cooney, by his slippery tongue, won me over and married me, and now wants to transport me. Cooney—lf I don't transport her I know she will murder me; she thinks nothing of taking up a knife and letting it fly bang at my head. I am actually afraid to sleep upon my pillow, under the dread of her depriving me of some of my members. "Oh ! she's a blood-thirsty woman," added Cooney. Magistrate—ls it true that you were aware of her having a husband living when you married her ? Cooney—l'll stand or fall by what I say. It is true what the woman asserts. I did know that she had another husband living, but she told me that she had a regular divorcement at this very office; and I, believing her statement, married her accordingly. You must have known that there were no divorce ments, as you call them, entered into, or arranged, at this o ffi ce :—I can't read writing, your Worship , hut she put a l ong s h eet o f p a p er i n to my hand, filled with w r i t i ng , say i ng a t t h e same time that it was a regul ar di vorcemen t, otherwise I should n ot have run my nec k i n t o a halter by marrying her. yourself; and w know o oyou, also,wer e t n haott you ru o nn in g any ' risk seduced my affections from my lawful husband, got me away from him, and now, that you are tired of me, and have taken up with another woman, to get rid of me, you want to harg or transport me, you don't care which. Here the prisoner began to weep. Magistrate--It would be a difficult matter to say which was the worst of the two, the prosecutor or to another the prisoner; he for marry in g a woman whom he li v knew,living; by ara her she ewn for consenting admission, had marry him husba ndunder r a e r c ri o a u g l e d . bring ne forward the such circumstances. the C° w el i i t 'e n Y ess w e a s s that he thought he could, but would rather she was t t o hen th at once committed to g aol and punished for the a t fi e r d s t i f mil offence. The Magistrate having been informed that the prisoner's first husband was not in London, and that he had been since married, discharged the prisoner altogether; and she and Cooney walked home very comfortably afterwards, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. :From the London New Price Current of yesterday.) BRITISH PLANTATION SUGARS.—The arrivals from the West Indies are becoming more numerous, and there were landed last week nearly 4,000 casks. The deliveries from the Wcat India Docks exceeded 2,200 Ithde. for borne use, and the stock is rather above 8,700 hhds., and nearly 2,000 trcs. There is more activity in the market at the late advance ; middling Tobago is quoted at 48s. to 505., good Jamaica and Nlontserrats 50s. to 535., and good brown, ditto, 475. per cwt, EAST INDIA AND FOREIGN SUGARS.-The 6ne quali ties of Mauritius Sugars maintain full prices, and the de mand is brisk. The stock in the West India Docks is now about 41,600 bags. Foreign Sugars are not so much in request. REFINED SUGARS.-The demand is improving. Brown Lumps have realized 635. ; fine, for crushing, 355. to :365. 6d. on board, and ordinary, 30s. to 325. per cwt. free un board. COFFEE.-There was little alteration in the price of Coffee after Tuesday, List week ; some St. Domingo sold at 405., and colour). Brazil 40s. and 40s. 6d., coloury Cheribon 375., ordinary to good ordinary Batavia 345. to In British Plantation Coff-e there was little varia tion ; the Jamaica suit ible for the home consumption con tinued to realise very high prices. This day 396 bales Mocha Coil* e were all taken in ; 70 casks British Planta tion, B rhice, and a few J tmlica, sold at previous prices. Hun, BitAxnv, p.m.) HohLANns.—The RAM Market continues to assume a more firm appearance, and there are considerable buyers at the late extreme low rate, but no sellers ; some parcels free on hoard continue to be taken for export, 5 and 6 over, Is. Sd. a 1 , . SA-d. ; Jamaica, 25 over, 2s. Id., and a parcel Of inferior quality 2s. 2d. Brandy is neglected. The late high pr:ce of the Excise sale keeps up the price of Geneva, some sales 2s. 6:I. to 2s. 7d. ; there is no German at market. Flax, AND Tahtow.—The Tallow Market is very dull, and the prices again a shade lower, but we think there is more disposition to buy. I❑ Hemp or Flax there is no material alteration. RICE.—In Rice there id little vari ition, very good white Bengal sold so low as I Js. 6d. This day 578 bags Bengal rice, good quality, all taken in at high rate., 11 , . 6d. a lus. TEA.—The India House Sale began on Wednesday. Boheas have sold at Is. Bd. a Is. 1 ; Congoul arc selling at 2s. Oid. to 2s. 511., and some ordinary and damaged ones at Is. sp. a Is. 10 d. Boheas are lid. ro 2d. per lb. lower than at March sale; Congous about d. per lb. on the average under the prices than. Congous continue selling ; this day they are going off with more spirit, and are nearly at last sale's prices—common 2s. Oil. a 2s. lid., good 2s. 3Ad. a 2s. fine 2s. 6d. a Ss. °2l. SILK —1 here is a little noire doing, but business will not be brisk till after the Company's sale, which takes place on the 20th instant. The holders of Italian Silk are mostly limited at high quotations by the advices lately received from the Continent. A full supply of Bf utias has just been warehoused, but the prices are not likely to recede. Ismco.—ln Indigo there is little variation ; the market is still heavy. The declaration for next sale 2,900 chests. The few s des of Indigo reported are at the rate of 3d. to 6d. discount o❑ last East India Sale. SA LTPETK E. —ln Saltpetre thew is no alteration. COTTON.---The Cotton Market is more firm. The sales this week are 300 Surat, lid. a lid. ; 100 Egyptian, 71d. 'Cosa cco.—About 300 hhds. have been sold for export, chiefly of the old descriptions, at 24d., extreme prices lid. ald 34-d. a part for Belgium, and several buyers are still on the market. SPICES.—This day 181 bags Pimento, middling qua lity, sod 4ld. a 4id., rather lower; 352 bags Pepper 2p. and 24d. ; 198 bags East India Ginger 19s. and 20s. WooL.—The Wool Nlarket continues flat; the manu facturers buy sparingly, as usual, so near the time of new Wool being imported. Ons.—The great depression which has taken place in Oils have improved the demand. Gallipoli has sold for 371. for ordinary quality, and the best 411 and 421. ; about 600 tuns sold at these prices. Southern Oil bad fal:en 51. per tun. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. Per Quarter. a. to S. IS.to S. S. to S. S. to S. Boeton fs 31 25 39 Gainmborough (Y 37-- 42 Grantham 60 72 36 40 25 29 38 44 Grimsby 56 67 30 36 18 25 32 38 Horncastle 6O 66 30 40 21 27 36 40 Lincoln 68 72 44 46 22 28 40 42 Sl~ilaby 56 66 30 40 22 28 3R 40 Stamford 54 72 40 45 23 24 37 64 74 32 40 22 30 34 44 ANCIIESTER, June 4. The show of samples no , being large, fine Wheat was held at better prices. Grinding Barley is as last noted. Oats were 1 , , ,',". to Id. per bushel above last week's rates. Boiling Pease - ire scarcely inquired atter, but Beans are ready sale at tid. per quar ter higher. Other articles unaltered. Whe.it, per 701 b. 10s. Od. to 10s. Od. Red 9s. 9d. t , Barley, per 60lb 5 0 5 4 Oats 4 3 Beans, per Imperial quarter Pease, White, per Imperial bushel 5 0 Malt, per 6 Imperial bushels 4B 0 Flour, per Saak of 2801 b. 52 0 10. Cd. 4 4 46 0 5 6 52 0 56 0 SCOTCH MARKETS. HA DDINGTON CORN A rtx ET.—June 3. Wheat sold readily, with an advance in price of about Is. per quarter. Barley sold slowly, but there was no material alteration price. Oats sold readily, at an advance of Is. per quarter on the top price. Pease were Is. per quarter higher. Beans brought the same prices as last week Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First o9s Od 45s Od 37s 0.1 443 Od Second 6os Od 3Gs Od 324 Ckl 403 Od Third .., s2s Od Ills Od 30s Od 36s Od There were ZO qrs. of Wheat in market, 239 whereo. 31 Unsold.--O Grey. T. Os. W. 4-12ths. Beans. 405 6d 39s Od 38s Od were sold. A v en DA LKEITH COR There was a small supply of which met with a dull sale, at of this day se'nnight. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 69s Od 31s Od 35s Od Second Third..." 56s Od 28s Od 26s Od MA It KE Vheat in th rather low T.—June le market , er prices if this day, :han thoc Pease. 47s Od 44s Od 403 Od Beans. 47s Od 44s Od 40s Od • IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE.—Fainav, Jun From To 253 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone 26 0 37 0 0 Bei e 0 Barley.*. 10 stone 0 0 0 0 671 Oats 12,115 Cwt. Flour--. 9 stonel 0 0 24 0 S3O Oatmeal Sold to Llakers only. 10,072 Cwt. Flour Average price E Receipts of Flour, 6, Sales of Do. 12, .1 16 0 I t` 0 I of Wheat and Hour 50s. Od. per s (), Firsts, from 225. Od. ,C•,';',lSecen(ls3, from 163. 0:1. '"'' from 7s. Od. nucE OF IOtEAD• 114c1. I Half Quartern M. P. 33 10 O 0 O 0 14 9 O 0 14 4 19 B}C 5 ack. to 245. Od. to 2 1e. Od. to 123. Od . Bailey. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel per barrel ,------...A.- 16 stone. 14 stone. lst. I 21 s.d. a s. d. I 5.41. a s. d. 11 0 13 6112 0 14 4 1 1:3 0 14 0,112 0 136 13 0 14 0113 0 14 0 110 14 0 . 13 6 139 120 13 014 0 15 01 Pork, per cwt. Butler. T 4 s. d. d. 64 0 56 0 76 0 70 0 68 0 57 0 —O-0 —O-0 s. d. a s. d. s. d.ls. d. 25 0 31 0820 SO 0 320 3501)4 OSS 0 320 35 0780 76 0 300 32 0840 77 0 00 0 0180 070 0 S. d. 70 0 82 0 72 0 60 0 ht. 8. d. as. d. s. d.as. d. 160 200 50 160 180 20 0 0 0 150 18 0 20 010 0 16 0 20 0 20 0 13 0 IS 120 6 21 0 0 0 00 Quarter Loaf per barrel 20 stone. s. d. a s.d. Cork tl2 0 230 Limerick i 25 S 3.0 Waterford'26 0 30 0 Clonmel —;26 8 28 4 Carlow --130 0 32 0 I Beet, Mutton,l per lb. per lb. d. a d. d. a d. Cork ---..14 6 3r 6 Limerick-13 4 3i - 4 Waterford 14 6 3 5 Clor 4 5 5 6 nnel Carlow-- 4 51 0 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 83s. to 86s. per cwt. ; Wheat :Ns. to 325. per barrel ; Flour 20s. to 38s. per bag; Oats I Is. to 13s. per bar rel ; Barley 11s. to 13s. ; Beef 44. to 64. per lb. ; Mutton 5.1. to 6d. ; Potatoes 44. per stone; Coals Is. ',M. per cwt.; Bacon, Pigs 3 . 25. to 335. per cwt. of O a n so th n e . 7th inst. Mrs. H. Mayor, of Upper-street, Islington, BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. -at Menden Hall, Bexley, Mrs. W. J. Camp bell, of a still-born son. On the Ist inst. at Hounslow, the lady of Lieut. R. Cooke, of the llth or Queen's Royal Lancers, of a son. On the Ith inst. the lady of T. Burnard, Esq., park-terrace, Brixton, of a son. On the 7th inst. in Long-acre, Mrs. J. R. Pearce, of a daughter. AIARRIED. On the 7th inst. at South Hackney , Mr. F. Adams, of St. } lie University of C am b r id ge. second daughter o f D r. C. Wh i tf i eld, t John's-square, Clerkenwell, to Phebe, eldest dau g ht er o f J . Scovell, Esq , of Clerkenwe ll-close. At Hereford, the Rev. Edward liuhner, A.M. Rect or o f Fut ile) r y (i) , ) fne t o stsi a 7e o b tf e h lii. n sStu. Musics aa st. James's, W es t m i nster, the Rev. Wm.iil-Inta S. Cole, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford, to Mary, third daughter of the Rev. J. Maule, Perpetual Curate of St. Mary's, Dover. DIED. On the gist ult. at Seville, universally lamented, Nathan We. therell, Esq. formerly' of Darlington, in the county of Durham, hut many years resident in Spain, aged 84 years. On the 4th inst. in Alfred-place, Captain 1. G. Richardson, late of the lion. Company's Indian Navy, aged 71. On the 3d inst. at the Mount, Liverpool, Bryan Smith, Esq., in his 78th year. On the 3d inst. G. B. Greenwood, Esq., Blandford-strcet, Man. chester-square. • On the 4th inst. at Reading, S. Moberly, Esq. aged b 7. On the sth inst. in Burton.street, Burton-crescent, Robert Butler, Esq. aged 56. On the 6th inst. T. Hall, Esq late of the Ordnance-office, in the Tower. On the 6th inst. in Wimpole-street, Cavendish-square, Edward Kent, Esq. aged 74. PRINTED AND PuEI,I3IIED liN U YOUNO, AT 11IE SUN OFFICE, 112, ~7 RAND, LONDON, i ( ‘,/