The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We this day, agreeably to promise, give the corres.- pondenee between the key. Thomas Lyons, curate at Drung, and the Beresfords, respecting the treatment of Mr. Lyons by that hopeful son of the Church, the Rev. Marcus G. Beresford, who has cut so conspi- cuous a figure of late in the annals of the Church Mili tant. The Dublin Evening Post announces a con tinuation of the correspondence ; but enough has been published to give to English readers a tolerable idea of the working of Church and State in Ireland. In the speech delivered by the Rev. Marcus Beresford at tavan, he says— " I believe that when our claims are fairly set before the Protes tant people of England, that it will be found there is a glorious stream of Protestant sympathy flowing in their hearts for their persecuted brethren in this country. I am convinced they never will permit us to be trampled and trodden under foot merely because we are Protestants like themselves. When interests and community of sentiment unite us, should we not stand forward, and say to the men of England,, our cause is your cause, our interests are your interests, and our God is your God.—( Cheers, and " Whoo, whoo'). Then, if you have the hearts of men, and the hands of men, and not of w•men, come over and help us.—( Cheers, and " Whoo, whoo.") Stand forth as your fathers have done before you, and defend the Protestant Church, the Protestant religion, and the Protestant people of Ireland." area indebted for this cause to the abandonment of Lords Winchilsea and Roden.—Morning Chronicle. Among the sinecure offices the immediate abolition of which is to be recommended by the Parliamentary Committee appointed to report upon such offices, we observe that of " Physician to the State." Before this report appeared we were not aware that the State or body politic was in so healthful and sound a con dition that the office of its physician must necessarily be a sinecure. We' thought, on the contrary, that the distempers of the State were so grievous and com plicated as to be sufficient to give ample employment to some scores of physicians. We know, indeed, and the country knows to its cost, that all sorts of quacks have of late years undertaken to cure the State of its distempers by various nostrums which have only ag aravated the disease they were prescribed to cure, as infallibly as other quack medicines cure all incurable 'distempers of the body-natural. If, then, the regular and official physician of the State, whoever he is, has nothing to do, it is not because he has nothing to do, but because he prefers his ease to his duty, like some of those stall-fed theologians of the establishment who, while they repose upon velvet cushions and under purple canopies, permit false shepherds to get among the flock, and to seduce them from the green pastures of the church into barren moors and thorny valleys of dis sent. What was the State physician doing when that grand nostrum of quackery, Peel's Currency Bill, was prescribed as an infallible remedy for the acute sufferings of the body politic some fifteen years ago ? Alack and well-a-day ! he must have been as fast asleep as Argus himself, when the caduceus of that nimble god (Mercury) sealed up his eye-lids for the worst of purposes. Peel's prescription, according to the account of its wonderful virtues, given by the poli tical doctor whose name it, bears, and attested by the Jew and political economist quacks called into consul tation—Ricardo, Huskisson, and - Co., with many of the Whig nostrum-mongers—it was to surpass all other specifics applied to the distempers of the State, as much as • the trick of the bottle conjuror excelled those of all other conjurors. Indeed the most eloquent of the currency-quacks announced that it would realise that condition of political beatitude, in which " a guinea would be found in the pocket of every peasant in England, and a fowl in his pot." How true this announcement was we may infer from the Malthusian Poor Law Bill, which is to create parochial bastiles throughout all England; to " preserve the estates of the Lords" from the poverty of the people ! Our nostrum-mongers are indeed many, all although the office of State physician be a sinecure. The quack nostrum for Ireland, designated by Wellington, Peel, and Co., the " panacea" and the " healing measure," was about as efficacious in tranquillising that country as the Currency Bill was in bring ing prosperity to England. By the stoppage of the repeal agitator's Irish Tithe Bill in the House of Lords, another quack nostrum was prevented from applying its drastic force to exasperate, under pretence of soothing, the intestinal commotions of that distem pered portion of the State. From the Whig political economists the .Huskissonian Tories borrowed the more deadly and destructive nostrum which they call " free trade," which fills our workhouses and gaols with starving artisans, while it feeds and clothes the foreigner, who laughs at our folly, and rejoices that such addle-headed " philosophers" as our Poulett Thomson, et id genus omne, flourish in the high places of a nation, which formerly gave birth to the most vigorous -minded statesmen that ever raised a small country into a great and powerful empire. The grand nostrum of the last Session of Parliament—almost its only one, is the C e ntral Bashaw Bill, prescribed by the Doctors Althorp, Brougham, and Co., assisted by the theological charity of the Bishop of London, not to be found in Christ's sermon on the mount, and the petticoat-philosophy of Miss Martineau, only to be found where Christianity is lost—where its mercies are crushed beneath the cruel pedantries of a false science. In the extravagant praise of this nostrum which has recently been poured forth, we detect the author of this quack remedy, who would, forsooth, remove the discontent and irritation of poverty by clapping a per petual blister on the poor of England.—Morning Herald. The best way of maintaining the respect of the ma gistracy is to make it evident that removal is the cer tain consequence of any gross misconduct showing an unfitness for the administration of justice. The credit of the body of the magistracy is best upheld by proving that unworthy members are not allowed to belong to it. The weakest and the falsest policy is to protect scan dalous abuses of authority ; 'for the natural inference is, that what is permitted to one is or will be the prac tice of many. On the other hand, when the name of a magistrate is struck out of the commission of the peace for flagrant misconduct, it is properly supposed that those who remain in it are untainted with the fault for which he has been dismissed. The greatest iustice to the soun d an d t h e ma i n p a rt of th e Magistracy, is an undue indulgence to men want ing the essential qualifications for their office. For errors of judgment a liberal allowance must and will be made, but there should be no toleration of passion and violence, and the instant the magistrate appears in the character of the man of outrage he should be put away from the bench. Much to its credit, Govern ment removed a Devonshire Magistrate - from the com mission of the peace for a brutal assault, which his brother Justices had thought sufficiently punished with a fine of 51. We observe a case in Ireland which can not rest where it does without sore scandal to the ad ministration of justice. Mr. Cross, a Cork Magistrate, being tithe-agent of the Rev. W. Beresford Rector of Iniscarra, with a composition of 1,050/. a-year, went into a field for the purpose of making a survey, with a number of viewers and drivers, who trampled down the young corn. The farmer's son having complained of the mischief, Mr. Cross said that as a Magistrate he could do what he pleased, and the young man havingpersisted in his remonstrances, Mr. Cross, according to the ac count before us, " ran at him, pushed him off the ditch on which he was standing, and said he was his prisoner, and called on his men to handcuff him. About ten men of his immediately came up, and four or five of theni seized young 0 Brien, and held him for Mr. Cross, who endeavoured with all his strength to force the handcuffs on him, but did not succeed, O'Brien being a powerful young man, and not at all disposed to be made a prisoner of in such a cause. Mr. Cross summoned the young man for obstruction of duty, but the complaint was dismissed. Mr. CroSs was, in turn, indicted for an assault, found guilty, sentenced to a month's imprisonment, and to pay a fine of 101. to the King. He was then sent prisoner to the county gaol." The question is, whether a man lying in gaol for such an outrage committed in his magisterial character, to which he expressly referred in warrant of what he was doing, ought to be continued one hour in the commis sion of the peace? Is this the sort of example for teach ing a respect for the laws in a country where to incul cate that lesson is of such vital importance ? Not a word is to be said in this case against the punishment awarded by the Court ; the presiding barrister has done his duty, but it remains for the Government to do theirs. The individual guilty of such conduct has shown himself unfit to be trusted with the authority which has been committed to his charge, and tho ug h the puni s h men t o f hi s o ff ence i s sufficiet, there is no magic in it which can give him the qualifications of temper and propriety of bearing in which he has diq-. covered himself to be so lamentably wanting. A gao l is not th e fi tt i ng sc h oo l of magistrates, nor ca- th of self-co n t ro l, t h e fi rst requ i s i te i n those wahloheahveabtiot control others, be acquired in a mo'nth's imprisonment. But it is enou g h th at confidence a nd' respect- for a ma gistrate convicted and gaol - bo.und for a ruffianly out rage mu§t be gone : and in. Ireland it is, above all things, important to guara the administration of jus tice from suspicion contempt, an d t o t eac h t h e peopledne if -with reverence, which canno t b e it e suffered to reta i n authority after tiondl individuals to la a r having given the mc,st notorious and disgraceful evi dence of their unfitness for it.— Times. When a man is called on to render assistance to an other, common prudence dictates that he should know something • of the person for whom his assistance is asked. The people of England, after reading the cor respondence between the Beresfords and the Rev. Tho mas Lyons (an Englishman) will not, we suspect, feel much flattered by being told by the Vicar General of Kilmore, and Vicar of Drung and Lara, " we are Pro testants like themselves." God forbid that there should be many Protestants in this country like the Rev. Mar cus G. Beresford I We trust that few men are to be found in any country capable of turning off a poor cu rate at a day's notice, without even an allegation of misconduct, and of trumping up a charge for potatoe ground, as a set-off against his month's salary. Yet this is not an isolated case. The Beresford family (Archbishop of Armagh and Bishop of Kilmore) give their countenance to Marcus, and of course, whatever blame attaches to his conduct must be shared by these two Prelates. These are the men who influenced the de cision of the House of Lords regarding the Irish Church. These are the men who have put themselves forward at meetings as the peculiar champions of the Irish Church. Their character is the character of the Irish Church. Will any man lay his hand to his heart and say that such a Church does not merit its fate ? Will any man say that in the sacred writings there is any countenance for such conduct as that of which we have the details in this correspondence ? Will any man who has read the Gospels say that the Church of Ireland has any, title to be called a Church of Christ ? The Rev. Mr. Boyton's appeal to the gentry of Ireland we can understand. He told them that meii entered the Church, not because they cared for the souls of the people, but because they wished to live genteelly ; and that without the Church it would be impossible for the resident grentry to provide for their younger children. To provide genteelly for a branch of the Beresfords an 1,8001. vi carage may not be deemed too much, and the less that is given to the Curate who does the work, the more there will be for the aristocratical sinecurist. Unfor tunately, what benefits the aristocracy does not benefit the people. The Church of Ireland is a Church for the Clergy only. It is an admirable Church for the higher ranks, if the people would only Consent to pay a Clergy from whom they derive no benefit. Much pay and little work is what all worldly-minded men court, and we have no doubt that the Protestant Church of Ireland, as it lost in the regard of the people, gained proportionably in the regard of the gentry. But in striving for any given excellence there is a danger of doing too much. It has been observed of the breeders of fine sheep, that they pushed their experiments so far that the animals ceased to breed at all. The foundation of a church in popular regard may be too much narrowed. If the people be altogether excluded from participating in the benefit of one establishment, it may be in risk of overthrow. Hence we find in Ireland a most ardent attachment to the Church on the part of the Beresfords and others circumstanced like them ; but either hatred or indifference to it on the part of the people. The call to the Protestants of England will receive for answer—why have you not Protestants of your own to defend you ? You have neglected the people ; you thought only of good livings and little Labour ; you connected livings to livings till for scores of miles a church was not td be seen ; and having taken such pains to show how useless you were, you ought not now to complain if a Reformed Parliament evinces a disposition to dispense with clergymen who can so easily dispense with flocks. The Catholic Church has never, since the Reformation at least, been in any country in so inefficient a state as that which is called the Protestant Church of Ireland. Care is always taken that the people shall have access to priests ; and the gentry are never allowed to treat the working clergy as few gentlemen would treat their menials. Before the French revolution the working cler gyman of a parish was always secured in a portion congrue,a certain income of which he could not be de prived. But the Protestant Church of England and .Ireland abounds far more with abuses than any Ca tholic Church. The Catholics have abolished plurali ties. In Ireland, as we have said, parish has been added to parish, till unions may be considered the rule; and in England, the most scandalous inequalities have been continued to our times, to afford a pretext for pluralities. In every other Church but that of Ireland some regard has been paid to the language of the na tives. The Danish Government suffers no clergyman to minister to the Laplanders who cannot preach to them in their language. The Scotch Church will not suffer a clergyman to be placed in a Highland parish who cannot speak the Irish or Gaelic language. But the Protestant Church of Ireland cares for nothing but the genteel incomes. Its days are therefore num bered. We defy human ingenuity to preserve much longer a Church, the very existence of which is a libel on the Gospel, of which it abuses the name. The present Administration, by remedying some of its more glaring abuses, are rendering it less obnoxious to the people. But the — time for reform has gone by. We have had first, second, and third reformations ; but all in vain. If ever Protestantism gains a footing in Ireland, it must be through other means than the Church. When the Rev. Marcus Beresford raved about extirpating the bloody Papists, the language na turally enough startled the people of England, ac customed as they are to Irish abuses. But the exhi bition of the gentlemen in this correspondence, will furnish a key to his speeches. The Dublin Evening Post, a comparatively mild and temperate journal, is unable to restrain its indignation at the conduct of the Beresfords. Speaking of the calls upon the people of England to stand forth with arms in their hands in defence of an establishment administered as it is in the diocese of Kilmore, the Editor says— ,. Sympathy from England 1 For what ? " Is it for the oppression of an Englishman ? " Is it for the contumely with which an Eng lish gentleman was treated by Mark B eres f or d , and his Bishop Father ? " Sympathy 1 Is it f or t h at state of things which puts a clergyman of the Church of England in a condition more help less than that of a scullion in the bishop's kitchen ? " Is it to enable the Beresfords throughout this broad island to kick their curates about like dogs —to pay them 6/. a month wages for doing their business, and to charge them 71. 10s. an acre for the scrap of land in which to plant their potatoes—is it for this that Mark Beresford is to claim the sympathy of the English people ? ." Is the introduction of a common ruffian , with whom most certainly, a gentleman's upper servant would not co r p s , , to a public assembly, such as it was, with a vulgar flourish and a stupid rhyme—is putting such a fellow fo rth as a h ero to t h e people of England a mode by which their sympathi es can b e • excited in favour of an establishment which can witness such exhibitions, and the chiefs of which can applaud them —is this the mode of awakening the Protestant mind of England?" The people of England are too sincerely religious to wish to continue a state of things deeply injurious to religion. The Peers whO threw out the Irish Tithe Bill in the hope that the cOnsequence would be exten sive disorder and bloodshed in Ireland, must now feel mortified that the result has not corresponded with their wishes, so that they have the reputation for in tending mischief without having been able to' Succeed in it. We are willing to believe that the evidence of their blunder has made them ashamed, and that we AP PEARANCES.—Many false things have more appearance of truth than things that be most true.--Latimer THE OLDHAM RIOTERS.—The convicts sentenced no transportation were removed from Lancaster, last week, to Chatham. The Lancaster Gazette says that the contractor dared not venture to convey them through Manceshter, lest a rescue might ite attempted, but took them by a citcuitous route, avoiding the manufacturing districts. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1834 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Mr. Street, the-Solicitor, applied to the Lord Mayor for an order to compel Mr. Stephen Underwood, a respectable citizen, to pay to the parish of Yelden, in Norfolk, the sum of 2s. 6d. a week for the support of his father, who is in the workhouse at that place, and unable from infirmities to work. Mr. Hobler, jun., for the defendant, who was•not present, stated that Mr. Underwood, jun., had already been at con siderable expence for his father, who had thought proper to marry a second wife and get another family, although not capable of maintaining them. The son, who was thus called upon by the parish, had not only with credit to him self brought up a family of thirteen children of his own, but actually had defrayed the expenses of the maintenance of his half brothers and sisters, and he had been so severe a loser by bad debts that he could not afford to pay the amount demanded. In fact the parish ought not to make any application of the kind, as the son was constantly con tributing to the support of his father by sending him pre sents. Indeed the amount it cost the son might be said to he within 6d. a week of that required by the parish. The LORD MAYOR said the question whether a son was to afford from his earnings half-a-crown a week to keep alive an aged and feeble father was one of rather a revolt ing description. He hoped that the objection would not be prsisted in ; but perhaps it was mooted in order to ascer tain the efficacy of the law. Mr. Street said that there was no ground for stating that Mr. Underwood, jun., performed the duty of contributing to the support of his father. The pecuniary condition of Cie son was beyond all doubt such as would enable him to give that pittance, placinc , out of consideration the common dictates of nature and humanity, which generally set aside any appeal to the parochial funds. The 43d of Elizabeth, than which a more salutary statute never was made, operated to correct the disinclination in some children to recognize the obligation to assist a father, and it-was to be lamented that it became necessary to refer to such an authority on this. occasion. The LORD MAYon to. (Mr. Hoblet, jun.)—Your client will allow the half-crown to get bread for his father. Come I know he will. Mr. Hobler, jun.—l am instructed, my Lord, to resist the demand. I submit that the clause of the 43d of Eliza beth is rendered of no avail, as far as regards the obliga tion of child to support parent by the new Poor Law Act. The clause to which Mr. nobler had alluded is the 56th, and is as follows : " And be it further enacted, that, from and after the pass a contravention of one 'of the by-laws Of the Company, which enacts that any person who hawks or, sells any article in the market without having paid the legal toll to the Com pany, it shall be lawful to apprehend the parties so offend ing, dispose of the goods, and take the offender or offenders before a magistrate, there to be punished by imprisonment. Mr. HALLS inquired under what section of the Act of Parliament it was that. the Company were authorised to make such a by-law ? On the clause in question being shown to the Magistrate, he said that the company had not, in his opinion, any autho rity to make such a by-law. The Act gave them the power to make by-laws to govern all persons connected with the market, and none other. The present defendants were not in any way connected with the market, and therefore the by-law could not affect them. The Magistrate directed the defendants to be discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A case of importance to the public occurred yesterday at this office, affecting the nuisance occasioned by the om nibuses at the Regent's-circus. A nian who was appointed timekeeper to a certain body of omnibus proprietors summoned an " interloper" on the road,. named Newman, for obstruction. It appeared that the new omnibus proprietor had not paid over certain dues exacted by the " select," and it was deter mined to run him off the road." Mr. CHAMBERS said it was a complaint , which, under such circumstances, he should immediately dismiss. He had heard enough to induce .him to give orders that omni buses should not stop there at all, save to sit clown or take up if they were hailed. Only the actual time required for doing so should be allowed. They should not ply there for hire, to the annoyance of both the public and the trades men. He then directed the superintendent of the division to place sufficient force on the spot, and to bring any party before him who stopped one second longer than the time required for taking up when they were hailed or setting down. Several of the proprietors were in the office, who did not appear to relish the decision. Patrick Flanagan, a cabdriver, was charged with being drunk, and wilfully driving his vehicle against another, by which both were upset, and a gentleman, named Olivere, residing in Pall-mall, thrown out and bruised. Mr. CHAMBERS expressed his indignation at such con duct, and convicted the fellow in the highest penalty, bi., or two months' hard labour in default. A little bild-headed " wee mannie," named Cole, piping hot from the " land o' cakes," was charged with having been found domiciled in a dung-cart the overnight. Mr. CHAMBERS—What are you ?—Defendant—l'm an auctioneer, mon. I'm just the noo frae Edinbree. How came ye to be found sleeping in a cart ?-1 hadn'a ony siller ye ken to get a bed wi: and being sair fatigued, I just thocht I wad tak an hoor or twa's sleep in the keart. What did you leave Scotland, for ?—To git news o' my son, wha's in the East Ingies, and may be to find an auld friend. ing of this Act, all relief given to or on account of the wife, or to or on account of any child or children under the age of sixteen, not being blind, or deaf, or dumb, shall be considered as given to the husba.,nd of such wife or the father of such child or children, as the case may be ; and any relief given to or on account of any child or children under the age of sixteen of any widow shall be considered as given to such widow. Pro vided always, that nothing herein contained shall discharge the father and grandfather, mother and grandmother, from their liability to relieve and maintain such poor child in pursuance of the provisions of a certain Act of Parliament passed in the forty-third year of the reign of the late Queen Elizabeth, en titled An Act for the Relief of the Poor.' " Mr. Street said that the clause in Elizabeth's Act was not touched by the new Poor Law Bill. It was, he sub mitted, quite impossible that so just a piece of legislation as that which made a son who had the means to prevent his parent from being a burthen upon the parish should be aimed at by the new Bill. Common sense directed that, if under circumstances of distress and difficulty, the parent was obliged to support the child, the child should upon cer tain occasions be compelled to return the compliment. The New Poor Law said not a word about the latter. obligation. Mr. Hobler, junior, said it appeared to him that the omission of that obligation which formed so conspicuous a part of the Act of Elizabeth showed that the new Bill meant that it should no longer exist. By the new Act the parent was obliged to support the distressed child, but the child was not obliged to support the distressed parent. The LORD MAYOR—I hope it will be unnecessary to go any further with the matter. Mr. Underwood ought to pay the half-crown a week to keep his father alive ; the parish will pay the rest. I trust it will be done. Mr. Street said that the parish already paid to the aged and crippled and half-naked father and mother the sum of five shillings a week, and what the old man received from his son was net worth mention. The parish officer, having been called upon by Mr. Street, stated that the parish gave five shillings a week to old Mr. Underwood, who always declared that his son's contributions were indeed very scanty—a pair of shoes now and then, or so. Mr. Street hoped that the expenses would not in this case be accumulated upon the parish, and declared that he considered himself bound to press for the trifle demanded by the parish. Mr. Hobler—Then I submit an objection. One Magis trate is not empowered to act, so that your application falls to the ground. • The LORD MAYOR admitted that he could not act under the circumstances, but expressed a sincere hope that the question would never come before him again. If, however, it did he should know how to deal with it. A pensioner upon the Ironmongers' Company, who is allowed 81. a year, complained to the Lord Mayor that he had been refused assistance by his parish, although he paid over to them that sum in consideration of parochial relief. The LORD MAYOR sent for the overseers, and when they expressed astonishment -at the pauper's declaration that he paid them his pension, The complainant said it was true that he had missed the last quarter's payment. The LORD MAYOR—What became of it ? Complainant —Why, my Lord, I went into Rowland Hill's chapel to pray, and somebody whipped it out of my pocket, I suppose. The LORD MAYOR—You must have been very careless. How could any body have taken the money from you ? Complainant—Why, I kept it in my waistcoat pocket, and took my waistcoat off. The LORD MAYOR—TO pray more fervently, I suppose? Complainant—l always find a man's more at liberty to do it when his waistcoat's off. We often do it there. The parish officers said that the pauper was a fellow so fond of drink that the moment he got any money he turned it into gin, and then it was a matter of indifference to him whether he went to sleep either in a chapel or a pigstye. Work could be got for him, but the glass was sure to inter fere with the first five minutes. The LORD MAYOR said that he did not know what to do with such a fellow ; but recommended the officers to take him into the workhouse, and to deal out to him a diet ac cording to the strictest regulations of the Temperance So ciety. Do you know anybody in London ?—Oh, ay ; I ken a mon o' the name o' Allan, a vary respectable boddy. What is he ?—He's a manufacturer. Of what ?—Spunks, ye ken ; what ye ca' hereaboot matches. QUEEN-SQUA.RE. A young . man, named Edward Ward, was charged with obtaining several copies of " Pigott's General Directory " from various tradesmen under false pretences : It appeared that some time back the prisoner had been in the employ of the publishers of " Pigotes Directory." Latterly he had been in the habit of calling at the houses of different tradesmen, who he was aware took a copy, and stating that he had been sent by the publishers for the copy back, as there was some material error in it which they wished to correct. The copy in almost every instance was given up to him to be altered, when he immediately took the book to a pawnbroker's and pledged it for a few shil lings. One of the tradesmen he had duped in this manner by chance met him in the Strand, and gave him into the custody of a police constable, who took him to the station house. There were a number of other similar charges against him, and he was remanded for further examination, to give time for the various prosecutors and witnesses to attend. A manufacturer of matches, is he ? What do you mean to do here without money ?—Gang back till Edinbree as soon's I can. BO W-STREET. Yesterday a young man named Willis, the driver of the cabriolet No. 952, appeared upon summons to answer the complaint of Digby, the common informer, for having, on the 16th instant, unlawfully refused to convey him, the said Digby, from St. Clement's Church, Strand, to the public office, Bow-street. Digby, who had a witness with him, said that on the day mentioned he and a friend called the defendant from the stand at St. Clement's Church, and, having got into the cab, ordered him to drive to Bow-street Office. He got upon the seat and took the reins and whip, and was about to drive off when he turned round and looked into his cabriolet with a sort of stare, and said, " I'll be - if I drive an inch." Witness asked why, and the answer was, " F./eCause you are a common informer, and I know you want to play me a trick." He then became insolent, and got a crowd about witness and his friend, and they were abused and insulted. They then got out of the cab and walked on. The MAGISTRATE—Then you did not hire the cab for the sake of speed exactly ?—Digby admitted that he did not. The defendant, in answer to the charge, said it was a mere trick of Digby's to obtain a penalty. He would put it to his Worship whether Mister Digby could want a ride from St. Clement's Church to Bow-street, about half a quarter of a mile ? The fact was that the complainant got into his cabriolet, and, discovering who he was, he refused to drive him. Some words took place, and Digby refused to leave the cab, until defendant threatened to charge him for lime if he didn't get out. He then left the vehicle, swearing he would summon hini (defendant). :' The Magistrate said 'the defe;;Aant had not made out any thing like a justification for hi s co in the penalty of 205., and 10s. 6d. costs. latter, on the complaint of th e mast er,dviuc The master of the defendant paid. the,pena, ;duct, fined one month to the House of Correction f o,ar rnbeih:d misbehaviour' o h ur im in his calling." 'Lv, and the 4 for What, go " bock again," before you get something into your pockets ? No, no ; lam afraid you come here to beg.—Na, na ; I never beggit a bawbec in a' my life. I'm aboon sic wark ;—no, but if ony kind boddy wad lend me a trifle o'siller, I wadna be the waur on't. Well, shall I give you a shilling out of the poor-box?— (briskly) Eh, mon, I'd tak it unto' kind o'ye. The shilling was handed to the auctioneer, and he was " gone" in a moment. The beadle of the new Hungerford Market yesterday morning brought four lads before Mr HALLS, charged with HATTON-GARDEN. Sarah Barnes, a well-dressed young woman, was charged with having attempted to drown herself. It appeared from the evidence that on Saturday, about twelve o'clock, the prisoner was observed by two men to climb over the iron railings which separate the New River from the public thoroughfare leading from the Sir Hugh Myddelton Tavern, Sadlers' Wells, to the City-road, and suspecting that she intended self-destruction they watched her, and in a few moments they saw her take off her bonnet and shawl, and when about to plunge into the water they seized her. Mr. ROGERS asked her why she coutemplated such an act ? She answered that she could not account for it. It was like a dream to her. Mr. ROGERS—Have you any parents ? She replied that she had a father, whom she sincerely loved. He lived in Featherstone-buildings, City-road, but was not aware of what she had been guilty of. Mr. ROGERS admonished her, and, after promising never to repeat the offence in future, ordered an officer to take her to her father, observing to her, " Go, and sin no more.. " Edward Haneocks was charged with selling unstamped newspapers. Joseph Dean, of No. 4, Union-terrace, Bagnigge-wells road, an inspector of hawkers' licenses, stated that in con sequence of orders from the Commissioners of Stamps to apprehend all persons he might see selling or exposing for sale unstamped newspapers, he took into custody the pri soner, whom he saw that morning in Clerkenwell selling a publication which contained news and advertisements. The papers in question were here handed to the Magis trate ; they were called the Legal Hue and Cry. Mr. ROGERS at once decided that the publications were newspapers, and called on the prisoner for his defence. Prisoner (very much excited).—l am the victim of a base conspiracy. -Mr. ROGERS.—What do you mean ? Prisoner.—A few days ago I saw an advertisement in a newspaper, which set forth that young men of respectable connections were wanted to sell legal publications. I was in want of em ployment, and, having, beside myself, a mother, a wife, and a child to support, I went to the newspaper - office for a re ference to the advertiser. I was told to go to the Hue and Cry office in Fetter-lane, where I received the papers now in your Worship's hands from a gentleman, who assured me that they were legally entered at the Stamp-office. Mr. ROGERS (to Dean).—Are the Stamp Commissioners aware that you have this man in custody ? Dean.—They are, Sir. Prisoner—Do they say that no duty is paid on the ad. vertisements ? Dean—They do. _ _ Prisoner (sorrowfully)—Had I known that the papers were illegal they should not have made a tool of me. Mr. ROGERS (to Dean) —The prisoner seems to have been imposed upon. What am Itodo ? Dean—lt is very evident to the Commissioners that he is a cat's-paw of the other parties, therefore they wish you to deal leniently with him. Prisoner—lf lam discharged I promise never to sell any more of them. Dean—There is a Frenchman and several other indivi duals possessed of property, who are encouraging the sale of the papers, and who have this week advertised a public meeting of all members of the unstamped publications, putting the Commissioners of Stamps at defiance. Mr. ROGERS—I don't think the prisoner will commit himself again in a similar way. Dean—The Solicitor of Stamps not more than an hour ago told me that 100,000 unstamped newspapers have been sold within the last month, and your Worship will see the necessity of convicting the prisoner, and giving a short imprisonment as an example to others. Prisoner--I think you ought to punish those who have made a dupe of me. Mr. ROGERS—You have certainly committed an offence, and must suffer for it. You will go the House of Correc tion for seven days. The poor fellow was then locked up. MARYLEB ONE. ROBBERY AT THE HOUSE OF SIR C. FoßßEs.—Thontas Hughes, a servant out of place, was placed at the bar, charged on suspicion of stealing a gold chronometer, by Harmer ; a gold repeater. by Gartley, Aberdeen ; and a French musical repeater, to which was attached a chain, r ing, and two seals ; together with a morocco case, con taining a very valuable gold snuff box, bearing the arms of the Prince of Wales, from the house of Sir Charles Forbes„ 9, Fitzroy-square. It appeared from the evidence that on Sir Charles re tiring to rest about twelve o'clock the previous night he missed the above property from a chest of drawers. Not suspecting his servants, who had all been with him some years, he made inquiries as to who had been admitted into the house, and ascertained that the prisoner had-been there all day on a visit to his butler ; he immediately obtained his address, which he gave to a policeman, who went and took him into custody, but could not discover any traces of tbe loft property. He had since been informed that the chronometer had that morning been pledged at Knights bridge. William Clifton, a constable of the B division of police, said that he was employed about ten o'clock that morning in taking notices of the robbery round to the different pawnbrokers, when on entering the shop of Mr. Kember at Knightsbridge he was shown a chronomoter which, by the description of Sir Charles's, he had no doubt was the same, on which they had just before advanced 8/. to a man who gave his address at Poplar. Mr. Peterkin, watchmaker, 55, Cleveland-street, said he had been to see the chronometer, which he was certain was Sir Charles's, he having had it to repair. William Pope, butler to Sir Charles, in whose service he had been eight years, said he never lost sight of the pri soner, who was in the pantry all the time he was in the neither did witness think he was the thief. On the - discovered witness found that one of the attic Isilt not fastened, so that any one might hollst, robbery windows was sshut, have effected an entrance from the parapet of the adjoining houses, which Were both unoccupied. Mr. RAVLINSON said there was no evidence against the prisoner. He was therefore discharged. UNION-HALL. Yesterday, Daniel Dri,icol, an Irishman, was charged with committing a brutal assault on Patrick Mullawny, a countryman of his own, during a dispute about the rebellion in Ireland. The complainant, whose .eyes were swollen and black from the effects of the beating he received, stated, that he went to the " house of call," which he was in the habit of using, to have some refreshment after the toils of the day were over. Several of his countrymen were there at the time, and an argument was going forward about the ser vices of the yeomanry during 1798, in Ireland. One of company began to extol the exploits of a corps called " Beresford's Yeomanry," and said that they were the best disciplined set of men in the service, and in this argument the speaker was supported by the defendant, who also added his testimony to the general good conduct of the men com posing the regiment. The complainant patiently heard what was said pro and con, and then said, if he might be allowed an opinion on the subject, Beresford's Corps, or " Beresford's Bloodhounds," as they were usually termed, was composed of all the blackguards in Dublin, and that the Colonel, John Claudius Beresford was notorious for his propensity for flogging. The defendant, upon hearing this, denied that such was the case, and said he was formerly in Beresford's Corps himself, and, rising from the bench on which he - was sitting, swore bad luck to him but he would have revenge, and, making a furious rush at the complain ant, hit him with tremendous force between the eyes, and knocked him " off his perch" as if he was shot. The com plainant added that he was incapable of resenting the as sault at the time, both his eyes being puffed so that he could not distinguish an object half a yard from him, and he was compelled to apply " Solomon's seal" to abate the in flammation. The defendant said that he only stuck up for the honour of his corps, and when he heard them called a set of black guards, he considered that he was in duty bound to resent such an . imputation on the character of his fellow-soldiers. He admitted that he struck the complainant, who returned the blow, and there were two or three rounds between them before he cried out " enough." Several witnesses were examined on both sides, from whose evidence it was apparent that the two contending parties were equally blameable, Mullawny having in the first instance excited the feelings of his assailant by calling him one of " Beresford's bloodhounds." The MAGISTRATES, perceiving that the parties had a strong feeling of animosity towards each other on the sub ject, held them both to bail to keep the peace. Margaret Thompson, a tall, decent-looking female, was charged with an attempt to destroy herself. It appeared that the defendant purchased a quantity of sugar of lead at a chemist's shop in the Borough, and she then went to the Crown, near St. George's Church, and called for a half-pint of porter. Mr. Gilmore, the land lord, perceiving that she was labouring under excitement, kept his eye upon her, and when she imagined that she was not observed she emptied the contents of a paper into the beer, and was in the act of taking it, when she was re strained by the landlord. In reply to the Magistrate she said that she had a seri ous quarrel with her husband, and, while under excitement arising from it, she had purchased the poison with the in tention of destroying herself. Now, however, on reflection, she was sorry that she should have harboured such an idea, and if permitted to go she should never attempt so rash an act again. As it appeared that she was respectably connected, a po liceman was sent to deliver her up to her friends. A WIFE KILLED BY HER HUSBAND. On Wednesday last an inquest was held in Leeds before Robert Barr, Esq., Coroner, on view of the body of Mary Jackson, who was supposed to have come to her death by the ill-treatment of her husband. The following witnesses were called : Joseph Kaye said—l am a cloth-weaver, and live in Mill street. I knew Mary Jackson ; I have known her four years ; her husband is a cloth-weaver. I work at Wood house, at Mr. James Brown's mill. I left my work last night about ten minutes to seven o'clock, and went direct home ; when I got there I had my supper, and then went to my wife's mother's to sleep, who lives at Richmond-hill. The deceased was there, along with her son. She said she had been to see the railway engine come in, and on account of its getting so late she came home. When she came home she found her husband had gone out and locked the door ; she then came back and went to my wife's mother's. She staid there till about ten minutes past eight o'clock, when her husband came to fetch her. He put his finger on the door sneck. The deceased said, " I am here," and he said, " Will you be so good as walk your bones down be low ?" She said, " I will." As they were going down the steps he pushed her, and she said," Oh, dear ! do not push me, I will go without." He pulled my wife's mother's door as they went out, but it did not sneck ; and she said, " Oh, dear Joe, don't push me down, I'll go without." I heard a rap when they got into the entry, but could not tell what it was. Mrs. Jackson then set up a loud shriek. I afterwards heard the door opened ; then heard several shrieks ; then I left my mother's, and ran to a window which is in Jackson's house to see what was the matter. Two of the squares werebroken ones. I there saw Mrs. Jackson in the act of falling on her back. Joseph Jackson was in the house, standing with his back towards the door ; he was about an arm's length from the deceased ; she lay about five minutes on the flags. There were some boys at the window crying shame, and throwing stones at Jackson, who got a poker and went. to the door; and said if he could get any of those persons who had thrown stones he would knock them on the head. He then went back into the house ; when he got there his son was on his knees before his mother, and he said, " Father, I think she is dying ;" he then said, " Oh, dear John, I never struck her." The boy then said, " No, father, you have never struck her." Jackson then said to me, "Go fetch Hannah Baker ;" I said, " She is not at home." He said, " Oh, Joe, do come down ;" which I did. While I was there a stone was thrown through the window, which hit me on the leg ; there was another thrown, which nearly bit Jackson ; he asked me if I knew any of the boys which had thrown them ? I said I did, and then went and got them to be quiet.. Then I came into the house and lifted Mrs. Jack son on the bed. I put my hand on her breast and mouth to feel if she breathed. Jackson said he thought she was in a sick fit, and that she would come round. I said to him, " I believe she is dead." The neighbours after this began to come into the house. Jackson said, " Will no one go and fetch a doctor ?" No one went. He then said, " Joe, 1 look to thee to fetch a doctor." I went. When Mr. Bearpark got to the house he felt her pulse, and said she was dead. He gave me a penknife and told me to cut the string of her stays. I then saw a wound on the right side of the temple ; then went to fetch a constable. John Jackson, son of the deceased, being sworn, said—l am ten years old. I was with my mother at the railroad last night. When we came back my mother and I went into Hannah Barker's, and stopped there until my father came, which was in about a quarter of an hour ; he was not very drunk. He asked my mother where she had been ; she said to the railroad, and then my father said to her, " Come home," and we went to the house together. When we got into the house my father sat down at the table end, and my mother fell with her head against the chest corner ; my father had not struck her ; he was two yards from her when she fell. The reason she fell, as I thought, was because she was dizzy ; she did not speak when she fell, but put her hand against the chest, and appeared to be chewing her tongue, and screamed out. My father and I then began to cry ; my father then took the poker to chase some boys. The boy prevaricated very much in his evidence, and told the Coroner that no one had instructed him what to say. Until being cross-examined by the Jury he admitted that a woman named Susannah Backhouse told him to say that his mother was dizzy, and in a sick fit. Mr. G. Edmondson Bearpark, surgeon, of this town, was then requested by the Coroner to examine the body, and in the meantime the inquest was adjourned until Friday evening at half-past five o'clock. On that evening the inquest was resumed at the ap pointed hour.- Mr. Bearpark described the appearances which he ob served on the body of the deceased when first called in to see her about nine o'clock on Tuesday night, and also on the post niortent examination. He found a mark about the size of a shilling on the right temple, and another above the right eye, also above the right ear, and another at the pos terior part of the head. There was some extravasation of blood on the left temporal muscle and on the brain. There was an acute inflammation of the lungs, and an effusion of blood in the chest. His supposition was that concussion of the brain was the cause of death, but if he had not opened the head and found the morbid appearances there, he should have concluded that the patient had died of inflammation of the lungs. The marks were such as might have been produced by the head of a poker, and the concussion of the brain might be produced either by a blow or a fall. The Jury retired about ten minutes, and returned a ver dict of " Manslaughter" against Josph Jackson, who was consequently committed to York Castle for trial.—Leeds Intelligences. The other evening a London pick-pocket, in Mil ton-street Theatre, picked a man's pocket of a purse of coun terfeit sovereigns, and was immediately apprehended. The man robbed of course will not appear, and the question will turn on a point of law as to the pick-pocket exhibiting the coin ill traffic, not knowing it to be counterfeit. ______.......--- The name of merino, which with us marks a partk cular kind of sheep, signifies in the language of tee - country, wandering, ambulatory ; and is hi g hly scriptive of their habits. They do not a lwa y s remain in the same farm, or the same province ; but they travel from one to another. * # # To wards the begin' ning of May, nearly five millions of sheep leave the plains of Estremadura, Andalusia, Old an d New Castile, and h Leon ; and are conducted by the shepherds to the mountains of the two Castiles, those of Biscay, N and even Arragon. On these more elevated spots, they find a fresher herbage, less dried up by the bura; ing sun ; which in summer destroys all verdure in th h plains. The high ground near Segovia is very tin te d frequented by the sheep. * * # The details their march are very curious. The rich proprietts; th'at is to say, those who possess the greatest nor a 0011:1 of sheep, have formed themselves into called the " Mesta ;" this association beinif n ece ni sarily ti monopoly, it is difficult to avarre, a lter a ue of its laws. It would have been inle h a ve for - a few proprietors with small flocks tc) et , undertaken these yearly peregrinations ;—this seci d e j r was formed to do away this inconvenience : and tot ii, the superintendence of Persons chosen for the purP e n d the flocks are led to the uncultivated lands s en mountains of Spain. The Mesta emp lo y bet A forty and fifty thousand shepherds , who le nd , wandering and almost savaae life, who ne ver 0, vate the groundandrarely b confined wholly to sheep, and in that departrnen M e sta marry ; their knowledge bre; are very skilful. * * * The flockS of the leeP are divided into smaller troops of ten thousand chics:f. each ; at the head of which is .a. mayoral, c 4, an d shepherd, to direct them, fifty inferior shephert's' t he the same number of dogs, who keep watch over a sheep. * * * Every shepherd Inal. h e e wn; n certain number of sheep and goats of ' as f - the but their wool belongs to the proprietor • the flock. The shepherd has only the ind k ',,, * flesh, and the young ones they produce. * S h e ep Abunnt supplies of salt are provided o eat ascotch of it as they like. The a nnual can s haw tion for a thousand animals, is two thousand five,,,iie dred pounds. The Mesta is composed of P r '''ity tors possessing, some four, and others pity thousand sheep. * * # The march of t de , large flocks is regulated by particulars - law s ' hav e • rived from immemorial custom. The she e p lauds a right of pasturage in all those waste 'ller fixed , price to the proprietors, beyond which fixed are reserved for that purpose, Par ° C aa theY vate d exact nothing. They cannot enter u pon °itl theta grounds ; but the owners are obliged to r eserve ve l passage, forty-five fathoms wide. The shell, y‘o two leagues a day in their own pastures ; 13 ,,,n t ,T r e in 7 i; six when they pass through arable lands. J-' l , e „" (ken grations extend to a hundred and twenty a nd a " --n and fifty leagues.—Spain Yesterday. and To-ilag. MPORTANCE OFI POST COMMUN Post communication is admitted to be the srp - e v ov' internal prosperity, by opening new lines , or le: ing existing routes of turnpike roads, wherebY the ling, and the general transport of the produce ° OO its soil, &c. approximates hitherto distant parts' resi der' general diffusion, new sources of wealth arise' .700 ing it superfluous to enlarge on, or draw coluP"b, l e ill' with any particular quarter of the kingdom.' - e oset l ' creased and increasing facilities being alike tul ge tife and so manifestly shown under the zealous an "f the superintendence of the now venerable servantLersl Eublic, Sir Francis Freeling, (Secretary to the s el' fi Po h st Office Department) that whatever makes his se' . s ,or misguided feelings have calumnia te " th e tions, there only needs reference to the evouP l i e „ ° o der" working of the machinery of this vast national - c hes , .taking, since the first introduction of mal l n e rr ttli j (in 1784) now half a century past, to attempts abortive that have been so powerftillY, the against this department of Government, lcu e ' e kept competition and improvements of the age 119:0-t pace with its opponents. These views of the being portance attached to postage communieatienroar every where attended to, has, after m ature s . ns i r ments of the internal ramifications, led to the ;in " p ror ration of submitting the following objects ft° ' - dati en ing the intercourse between the foreign Per tal l, a the at Falmouth—to pass in a more direct line i t 'i s i r iste i i present circuitous route through Exeter vess e ' to the port of Ilfracombe, and thence by st ea- ,il h n d across to Swansea, branching into the direct mail te l l from Bristol to Milford, and through part of Seoristil North Wales into the regular mail road fre el tie el' t h o Liverpool—whereby not only time and dis i t s- fat ioll s ' i e materially saved, but, above all other eousiuorth afford every facility for further improving tile core' Devon, bringing down from the south -ea by the two lines of mail coach travellina fro u 'ter' od and the lower line through Dorchester to '' e rt well as from the south-western parts, De ve l ° ch re i ll et Plymouth, to the point of Ilfracombe, for -- p e r ielli rs e line to Waterford, Youghall, Cork, and 14,i re t ; the South of Ireland, and to effect the 111 ', f te r° 1 11 between h the manufacturing district of Mauce Stands for the e pre-eminent port of Liverpool, which era tio n t o most foremost in the scale of weighty con the western ports of England. A prospectus s here h l be shown will exemplify these predictions-A%eithr the traveller from Falmouth, Plymouth, a,,retif will save 121 miles and 29 ours . to reach i "';;I lir l the packet to Waterford, by taking , the route e s ; and equally so extending to the illi es t b - , coach routes by S.alisbury to London, uP °n , fro° f t. e advantages as any other point of e mbarlo tt° ' r e P s-ti : western coast of England for Ireland, and t rt° „ voY S Z cularly avoiding 80 miles of the most dangere-nsooly nch e in the Bristol Channel. To and from Li verr ot frequented in the line from Brecon to Shre' r ,f th • f er' a shorter distance than any other route, s a " t o I ) Ti t entire line from Falmouth, through Swatshellie P re° pool, both time and distance, c ompared vit` route.—North Devon Advertiser. ............/ s,' r , i ger eir , BIRTHS. ?a irier a nd h e at On the 27th inst., the lady of Sir Peregrine o f a s° A n v 01' 1 ' 1- mer Acland, Bart., of Fairfield, Somersetshire9 " t be lA"' the On the 16th inst., at Frankfort-sur-le-Mai ne, r o• Che lsea' Colonel Sir Charles Dance, of a daughter, stilL-110 ac e, o f 0 11er On the 23d inst, at Gloucester-terrace, Par''''' „ olo ptr lady of Edward Hayles, Esq., of a daughter. ~e . , '-' t he At St. Ives, the lady of George Herbert, •"'" • l a dy e f the Customs at that Port, of a daughter. 13 01* , .fs°' On the 18th inst., at Appleton Rectory, I , e fle'" Rev. J. H. Hoskins, M.A., of a son. udy Of t' On the 23d inst., at Corston Vicarage, the l' — ` Morgan, of a daughter. to 10 i/° MARRIED. of Acton' 0 On the 27th inst., M r . Warren J. White, Esq . ' Brown, of Brunswick-house, Hammersmith• Langdale' On the 16th inst., at Ilfracombe, George of 6°°' D a vies , Miss Eliza Cooper, of that place. E. C. pa t 0 Recently, at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. , vi. spa tiel o, well-street, to Miss Julia M. Astier, of Pee„t a v iebone,9_,_ de P, O l. spOannisthheA2smbthasisnadsto.r,,sact Chapel, Church, -"l‘lajor Finatet' of the Portuguese army, to Mat'g P ar an e i t s ta h-,Plaaacuei Andrew Bracey Taylor. f the late On o o s On the 23d inst., at Melksham, Jacob, daelduettse°: of 3°Dlite f o i ; Esq., of Worthing, to Marian, youngest derick Campbell, 42d Highlanders. An drews , nit ? Ji° On the 22d inst., at Riccarton, Bi . ggs ianghter of t_ c,4 Temple, barrister-at-law, to Helen, sixth tr ee-, ispit Gibson Craig of Riccarton, Bart. St. On the 22d inst., at Greenhill -place, _ ..., the iste Li" bell King, Esq., to Eliza, eldest daughter Esq., merchant, Glasgow. viocent-,5e...,00 .1, hter a the , vir Georgians, 0 n the 2 6 t th e inst.,onl, daughter a t Boughton -----------.----D o f i c E h l I D ar o . I n e s; street, Manchester -square. hot 6 i ; On the 21st inst., in Lamb's Conduit -place, of _f rb o re ger, Esq., M.D., in his 75th year Gresham Professor i)..m 45 years, and Physician to the Fou'odling Hospital uPOP— ( years. ,BWabobagreees,teEsrshqi.re,o,o:t'' li te° On the 23d inst., at Brompton, John Macbean, Eglo Aberdeen, aged 82. f ie On the 22d inst., Brook -place, Tottenham, Mrs. Judith .- 0 aged 78. 00.01'itA hisO9nlstthyee3arl,stTuhlto.m, aastuPiocnktiainDg,eLgsaqd.a; Island of St. CO' States. ‘rfl A 0 On the 27th inst., Ann, the wife ofVillelr- Ropemaker-street, Finsbury, aged 35. e P IP. ' On the 25th inst., at Brighton, Mr. Henry I'Vhl f ~ Hampstead and the Stock Exchange, in his 45th year. A. DK: On the 23d inst., at the hottse of his son, Charlil 110e.tre, Esq. , Dursley, Gloucestershire, in his 71st year , 1 D or .CoGneosurgl :I:be tof Moore, D.D., formerly of Park -hill, in that ouny, al , 1 0th Berks. • her On the 26th inst., at the Parsonage, Whitsburt &co. year, Elizabeth, the eldest daughter of the Rev. R. • 0 00, London : Printed and Published Published by - MURDO a t The Sun, Office, No. 112, Strand. MERINO SHEEP. . i