The Sun. — London, England, 1834-01-07 00:00:00

[SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The most shameless fraud that ever was at tempted upon a large, and not altogether unin structed, class of the community, was that of which the whole English nation yet feel the distressing fruits,—viz., the attempt to pass off a prohibitory law against the importation of foreign corn as a benefit to the British farmer. It is the more revolting, this dishonesty, because it has become so systematic with the landlords, not one of whom, when he speaks in support of the law for raising the price of the quartern loaf upon the poor, even so much as glances at the interest which he himself, the landlord, has in perpetuating the evil ; all his pathos is bestowed upon the " suffering farmer," upon the " starving labourer," but not one word escapes about the real party for whose sake the corn law was introduced, by whose stubborn and desperate rapacity it was carried through Parliament, at the point of the bayonet, against the prayers and struggles of nine-tenths of the people. No, the real motives of the landlord advocate are steeped in mystery ; he talks of the farmer and the labourer, while he is thinking only of himself. We have long en deavoured, by repeated notices of this,great and growing question, to open the eyes of the farmers to the fact, which is plain and indisput able,—namely that, since the English farmer has been " protected" by a corn law, he has regu larly been going down in the world,—that his profits have been reduced or converted into losses in a degree which never before existed, — his capital, if originally respectable, eaten up,— if small, transmuted into a heap of debt and in solvency,—his poor-rates swollen to an enormous amount, as compared even with the days of paper price and depreciated currency,—and, in short, his whole position as a member of active life grievously sunk and deteriorated ; and this is what his landlord calls " protection to that estimable character, the British fir mer!" If what we hear every day be true, — viz., that one-half the lands in the kingdom, in cluding all the clay and poor soils, would not, if rent free, pay the cost of corn cultivation, is it endurable to be told by these quack landlords that the corn law assists or protects the farmer, thus trampled on that they may have a nominal excuse for demanding from him a tillage rent for land which, if turned to its natural, and therefore beneficial purposes, would never have felt a plough-share ? But if the condition of the farmer be bad, is that of the peasant labourer better ? Are wages now in pro portion to the price of bread as liberal as they were before any corn law was established ? The corn law is assumed by the landlords, in their effusions upon this subject, to have been the old, settled, habitual system of the country, just as the Bank Restriction Act of 1797 was so de scribed by the lovers of a paper monopoly. And so ignorant are many of the tribe of squires, that we verily believe them unconscious of the deception they are practising, when they represent that to be the natural state of England which com menced only with the corn law in the year 1815; the importation of corn from 1773 to that pe riod— that is to say, for two and forty years— having been substantially free, not subjected to a duty of more than 6d. per quarter. Dur:ng the time the British farmer flourished,—labour ers did not crowd the workhouses or load the poor rates,—manufactures were extended, — solid agricultural improvements multiplied ; and yet rents were not, as under the reign of paper, extravagantly and viciously raised to a level from which all the resources of landlord legislation were afterwards exhausted to prevent their falling. It is put well and strikingly in a little publication, the first number of which lies now before us, that " those ‘s ho alone have the privilege of legislating upon this all-important question of the corn law are actually required to be interested parties; for to have a seat even in the Commons, requires the individual taking it to make oath that he is a " landowner." We consider this an important observation, and one which lets us into the whole secret of the spirit and influence which predominated at the introduction of the corn prohibition of 1815. But this remark is one only among a series, all well worthy of public consideration, which are to be found in the paper alluded to, entitled the Corn Law Maga zine, composed and circulated by the Anti-Corn Law Society, at the moderate price of a single penny. The object of the work is explained by the title. It is to inculcate upon the public generally sound and just opinions on the work ing of the corn law system. The article which we extract from it is argumentatively and per spicuously written, and it is our unfeigned belief that against the diligent and persevering disse mination of the doctrines contained in it, and contemplated by it, the corn laws can never stand.— Times. Though there are features in the political statements of our Irish correspondence, such as those which seem to indicate the decline of Mr. O'Connell's ascendancy and of the outcry for the repeal of the Union, which some persons may consider of more importance at the present crisis, we confess that, to us, the letters which bear directly on the momentous question of poor laws for Ireland appear to involve considerations of far greater magnitude, even with a view to the cure of agitation itself. The intelligent and elo quent correspondent who hasdirected his inquiries to this subject continues his communications, from time to time, in a spirit of impartiality such as does not often characterise the discussion of Irish affairs. It is true that the Irish landlords may not relish his strictures, for no man is such an enthusiast in the cause of truth as to rejoice in those particular dispensations which happen to fall rather awkwatdly upon his own errors or infirmi ties. Still, however, the statements of our corre spondent are not the less important for being un palatable to those who domineer over the wretched peasantry of Ireland—a peasantry re reduced to the most abject state of mis er y , which in itself, and independently of all provocations from agi tation, is the source of desperation, violence, and crime. Looking forward to the adoption of poor laws in Ireland as the means of intro ducing a better state of things in that unfortu nate country, we are disposed to encourage every investigation calculated to recommend such a measure to the Legislature, as more de serving of deep and serious reflection than any temporary shiitings of the political compass, or rather of the political weathercock, which, after all, may point in a different direction the next day or the next moment. It is impossible to read the accounts which have been published in this paper of the state of the poor in Dub lin hnd in some of the adjacent counties with. out. concluding that there are facts enough in those': lamentable details to explain all the turbulent phenomena which some of our philosophers have puzzled themselves to inves tigate. According to.our correspondent no less than I',soo,destitiite beings are dependent upon one of the voluntary charities of Dublin for ex istence, and the funds of that charity were almost exhausted at the time he wrote. We say nothing of the sort of food supplied to those miserable creatures, but the difficulty of obtaining it, such as it was, and the consequent uncertainty of its continuance, proclaim a state of things incompatible with social order. Need we look very far after this for the cause of irritation in Ireland ? Hunger will break through stone walls, and yet we seem surprised that it should make any impression on the social edifice. There is a mass of .people willing to work, but unable to find employment ; threatened with famine, and suffering from hunger ; living, as it were, in the very jaws of death, and yet we think it wonderful that they should be impatient —that they should be desperate. Why, their desperation is the consequence of their suffer ings ; it is the provision which nature herself has made for their advancement to a better con dition. We will take an opportunity at a future time to extract more largely from those letters than we can at the present moment, in order to show the extreme wretchedness of Ire land, from the want of a system of poor laws. If we add no other proof than the frequent appeals to England for assis tance in time of need, it wad be enough to show that the alternative of voluntary charity has been a failure in Ireland. But there are other proofs, convincing, glaring, heart-rending proofs, which are to be found in the corres pondence we have already published, and which only require to be selected and arranged for the purposes of the general argument. How the people of property in Ireland—how the Go vernment here—how any person who has be stowed a thought on the subject, can think of looking about for expedients to govern Ireland in tranquillity, without making some provision against that extremity of want, which may struggle but cannot reason, argues a degree of infatuation which nothing but the blindness of the most selfish passions can account for. The love of glory, and the spirit of conquest have done much to disturb the world, but until a way can be found to persuade multitudes to perish in quiet, it will be impossible to govern Ireland without poor laws, by any other agency than that of the sword.—Morning Herald. The statement which appears in another part of our Paper, of the Revenue of the last year and quarter, compared with that of the year and quarter ending on the sth of January, 1833, is not calculated to excite any dismay as to the solidity of the national resources, but it is verflar also from denoting that progressive prosperity which usually marks a period of peace, order, and security. The Ministerial Journals are una nimously of opinion that, all things considered, the defalcation is less than might have been ex pected. We think so too. Some of them attribute the decrease of the Revenue to the reduction of taxation, forgetting the maxim, of which they were so fond when their patrons were not in power, that the dimi nution of taxation tends to the augmentation of the public income. Others will have it that the deficit is to be explained by the diminished receipt of duty on the importation of foreign corn, as if it might not naturally be expected that the cheaper a nation obtains its bread the more it will be enabled and disposed to consume of those articles of foreign luxury on the impor tation of which the amount of Customs' duty chiefly depends. While a third class of rea soners console themselves for the decline of the national income by the sagacious reflection that the cholera was last year a great ally of the Ex chequer, as it promoted the consumption of brandy, and that the present defalcation is only to be regarded as a natural consequence of the cessation of that terrible disease ; not taking into their account that the persons who swal lowed brandy in their terror of the cholera, would naturally, on the removal of that cause of alarm, be the better disposed to the enjoyment of the many other good things of this life, which, under our fiscal system, also render tribute to Cmsar. Yet we agree, as we have already said, with the Ministerial Journals, that the Revenue has suffered less than, in the cir cumstances of the country, might naturally have been expected, although we cannot quite agree with any of them upon the causes to which they severally assign its preservation. The manner in which the Revenue has hitherto sustained itself, during the political crisis through which the country is passing, shows the vigour and elasticity of the national resources ; and shows that a great and rapid augmentation of the produce of the existing taxes must certainly have taken place, and a great diminution of the rate of taxation been safe and easy, but for the revolutionary experiments, and the political agitation, which have so long disturbed and endangered all the great interests of the State, unnerved its energies, and obstructed its advancement. It is idle to talk of the taxes taken off within the last year —of the diminished importation, or reduced duty of foreign corn—of people drinking less brandy this year than the last—in order to explain the deficit of the national income. All these are circumstances which in a healthy con dition of the social body would have promoted the public welfare, and augmented the revenue of the State. What is certain is, that the na tional strength has been impaired by the fever of political excitement ; and, if it has been less impaired than might have been anticipated, the country has yet lost much in the loss of that increase of vigour and of wealth which, but for this cause, it could not have failed to acquire.— Mornin,g Post. , BURNS AS AN EXCISEMAN.—" Against tne regular smuggler his looks were stern and his hand was heavy, while to the poor country dealer he was mild and lenient. The Poet and a brother exciseman one day surf. denly entered a widow woman's shop in Dunscore, and made a seizure of smuggled tobacco.—' Jenny,' said the Poet, I expected this would be the upshot ; here, Lewars, take note of the number of rolls as I count them. Now, Jock, did ye ever hear an auld wife numbering her threads before check reels were invented ? Thou's ane, and thou's no ane, and thou's ane a' out—listen. As he banded out the rolls, he went on with his humourous enumeration, hut dropping every other roll into Janet's lap. Lewars took the desired note with much gravity, and saw as if he saw nut the merciful conduct of his companion."—From Cu rt ningham's Life of Burns, just published. On Friday night last a wheat-stack, the pro perty of Mr. Sharp, of Guilsborough, Northampton.. shire, was discovered to be on fire. Mr. Bates, by whom it was first observed, on hastening to the spot, met a man named Thomas Gee, who lives in the neighbourhood, and who appeared to be coming from Mr. Sir ap's premise,. Mr. Bates told him of the fire, but Gee said there was nothing of the kind. Mr. Bates, however, made Gee go with him to Mr. Sharp's, and as they were standing at Mr. Sharp's door, Gee begged Mr. Bates not to say that he had seen' bins, giving as a reason, that as he bad been accused of paltry offences before, it was possible suspicion might in this instance also fall upon him. Gee afterwards assisted in extinguishing the fire, and in doing so accidentally fell from the stack, and was carried home. When questioned about the fire, be admitted he was present in the stack yard, when another man, whose name he mentioned, set fire to the rick, but he denied having given any assistance to the incendiary. The other party accused by Gee was afterwards apprehended, and Gee has been cumm.tted for trial.—Northampton Mercury. FRENCH PAPERS, (From the Indicateur of Bordeaux of Dec. 30.) We have letters of Madrid of the 19th, and from Bay onne of the 27th inst. All the accounts are silent as to the movements of the insurgents, who, in number 3,000, and under the command of Lardizabal, have repaired to Tolosa for the purpose of avoidiag El Pastor, wbo had set out from Bilboa in pursuit of them. They make mention of a small body of insurgents having repaired to Irun, from which place they afterwards disappeared, but nothing positive is known on the subject. The only thing that is certain is the tranquillity of Catalonia ; and that neighbourhood is justly regarded as one of the strongest barriers of her Christian Majesty which will not submit to the partisans of Don Carlos; these will, therefore, be com pelled to rest satisfied with disturbing Guipuscoa and Biscay, and to concentrate themselves upon those districts in expectation of better success. BAYONNE, DEC. 29.—1 t is now known that the con spiracy of Barbastro had ramified itself throughout the country. Its object was to aid tFe faction of Alorella. Every day new arrests take place. Two chiefs of Royalist Volun•eers and a number of private men had been im prisoned, exclusively of those sent to Saragossa. The money from the convent of St. Jean de le Senna has been seized. The affair of Guernica is confirmed by letters which have arrived from Bilboa, but although the 1084 has been considerable, it turns out to be less than was at first believed. There is now no doubt that from 12 to 14 have been killed and about 40 wounded on the side of the Queen's troops, and that 12 or 13 of the insurgents have been killed or wounded. Butron and his companions in the expedition which the Carli•ts undertook to the mouth of the river of Bilboa have arrived at that place without experiencing any other loss than that of their equipments. General Va!d , z and Bestow, and Colonel Uriarte, occupy Marguina and Ma ni.queta. They are making preparations to attack Zahala, who is in Amoroto with the bulk of the faction. The Spanish Government disapproves of the conduct of the Ayuntamiento of Santander, for having hitherto given unequivocal proofs of a favourable disposition towards the Queen. It is confidently believed that they will be dis missed. It is also said that Colonel Uriarte will conse quently tender his resignation, and that his corps will be disembodied. This Ayuntamiento presented a sword to Colonel Uriarte for his good conduct at the action in the neighbourhood of Bilboa, where he commanded, and for having destroyed the faction which bad used every effort to produce an insurrection in the town. A small body of 90 volunteers has taken up arms for the Queen at Erazu, and is already upon its march in pursuit of the C,rlists. The Captain-General of Arragon announces that on the 21st of this month some peasants commanded by the Deputy-Alc ,id of Mamanera seized upon Baron D'Hernan, his eldest son, a commandant, and two captains. After a slight skirmish between some fusileers of the Queen under the command of Don Pedro Eced and 60 rebels of Hernan's faction, their leaders were captured, with two captains, ten soldiers, and two horses. At Doraca on the 22d, a captain and the son of Baron D'Hernan came in, doubtless in order to avail themselves of the amnesty. It is added that there are not more than 40 men belonging to the faction of Valencia now remaining between the frontiers of that province and Arragon. (From Galignani's Messenger of Saturday.) The Augsburg Gazette of the 31st ult. contains the following, of the 21st, from Hesse :—" The Hessian En voy to the Military Commission of the Diet at Frankfort, Lieutenant• Colonel Von Ochs, received a mission to make a journey to Landau and Luxemburg, to inspect those fortresses, and make a report relative to them. Having performed this mission, he has been joined to the Foreign Minister, Von Trott, as Deputy to the Congress, that he may him-elf report his observations." This paper has alto the following extract of a private letter from Rome, dated the 19th ult. :—" Nothing more is said relative to a Congress of the Italian Princes, but it is the general opinion that Austria has been named Protector by all of them. The Italians have certainly no complaint,to make of Austrian policy, the disinterested character of which in recent times must inspire confidence. Attention having been lately directed to Ancona, a desire for the removal of the troops is revived. It is said that Naples has ad dressed strong remonstrances to the Pope, and has urged him to seek their removal. The other Princes have done the same, but out of respect for France nothing has yet been done. The Pope, in com mon with the Italian Courts, but principally with Sardinia has addressed a letter on the subject to Louis Philip, We may shortly expect the reply of the French Government. A brief from the Pope to the Spanish bishops is not in favour of the Queen, but styles Don Carlos lawful successor to the throne. The Charge d'Af f,ires of Donna Maria do Gloria was about to resign his office, owing to the prohibition of prayers for his Govern ment, but has been prevailed upon by the French Ambas sador not to do so, but to remain to watch the subs, quent steps of the Papal Court. There have been slight earth quakes lately, but they have done no damage." The Berlin State Gazette of the 29th ult, contains an account of the serious damage which the recent storms have occasioned in the Prussian provinces. That which raged in Heriscdorff, near Warmbrunn, in the night of the IStb, was dreadful ; the lightning set fire to several houses ; five persons lost their lives, and were dug out of the ruins, burnt to a cinder. Many other persons were seriously injured. One man saved himself, with his wife and seven children in a state of nudity, by jumping out of a win• dow. Twenty-two head of cattle perished. Near Lignitz three cottages were also burnt down. The Rhine and the Moselle bad risen to an unusual height ; that part of Coblentz which lies contiguous to them was under water; the harbour was full of shipping, which did not dare to venture out. The harbour of Emmerich w-s so crowded that no more vessels could be received into ir. On the Saar several barges laden with coals had been lost. The bridge across the Rhine at Wesel was carritd away by the storm on the 18th ult., between two and three o'clock; several persons were upon it, but they were fortunately saved. The Hanau Gazette, after accounts from Hanover, announces that after a long discussion the Cnamber of Deputies had adopted the budget of expenses and of ways and means for the financial year. The first amount to 3,073,611, and the second to 3,001,000 rixdollars. The Chamber has also authorized the Government to contract a loan to cover the excess of the expenditure over the revenue. A letter of the 30th ult. from Dresden announces that the Second Chamber of Saxony has adopted by a large majority a poll-tax and a duty on licens..s. The Naremburg Correspondent states, that in conse quence of the arrest of several persons in the Rhenish pro vinces of Prussia, warm disputes have arisen between the administrative authorities and the tribunals. The Memorial Bordelais of the Ist inst. contains the following :—" A letter, of the 27th ult., from the Aldudes says, Certain agents of the junta of Navarre have entered some of the French villages on the extreme frontier, in order to engage the smugglers to procure for the Chiefs of the Carlist - Volunteers it - quantity of arms and accoutre ments. It belongs to the French Government to prevent a commerce that may become so prejudicial to b th countries. Emboldened by the neighbourhood of the Guerillero Sagastibelzi, who has been for some days at Santa Maria, five leagues from this place, the Carlists have seized the duties payable at the Custom-houses of Engui, Elissonde, Urdach, and Vera.' A letter of the same date from Bilboa, speaking of the affair at Guernica on the 21st, in which the Queen's troops were surprised by Carlists, concealed in ambush in the houses, says, —' The column, thus unexpectedly attacked, at first were shaken and thrown into disorder, but they soon rallied again, and some of the most determined gained a lodgment in three houses, and maintained their post till the 23d. A de• tachtnent was sent to their relief, composed of 400 men, but, on their arrival, the rebels made their retreat. There have returned here 95 men of the Chinchilla Regiment, and 30 of the Royal Guards. The Queen's troops lost 11 killed, 55 wouuded, and 25 prisoners. Amongst the wounded are 8 officers, two t f whom remain in the hands of the enemy.' " Tue Garde National of Marseilles announces that the stonecutters in that town having struck fur an increase of wages, their places have been supplied by soldiers taken from the troops in garrison, so that there will be no in terruption in the works. DELIBERATE SUICIDE.—We regret to hear that Mr. Darker, a gentleman connected with the bou.e of Orr, Robinson, and Co., of this town, has, in a rash moment, dastr..yed himself by drowning. He went to Bray, near Dublin, and, having deliberately taken off his coat and left his name written on a piece of plper, threw him self into the sea.—Liverpool Chronicle. DEATH BY MACHINERY.—On Thursday last, Edmund Rhodes, a buy about fifteen years of age, employed in a woollen factory, in Richard-street, Ruch dale, was caught by a strap, belonging to the machinery, and killed instantaneously. The remains of the unfortunate boy were mangled in amost frightful manner ; in a moment his bead was severed from his body, after which his legs, arms, &c., were torn away, and scattered about the mill. Every particle of the deceased's clothing was stripped from the body by the machinery.—Liverpool Chronicle. OLD BAILEY, JAN. 6. SENTENCES ON THE PRISONERS. The Sessions having terminated at four o'clock, the RECORDER and the usual authorities took their seats in this Court, and sentences were passed as follow : To BE TRANSPORTED FOR LlFE.—William Johnston, William Collier, John Johnston, alias Coveney, Christiana Johnson, John Stone, George Allum, Thomas Preston, John Slough, Charles Goodwin, Edward Watts, Charles Everett, Thomas Eaton, John Haydon, John Baron, George Davis, Michael Andrew, Adolphus O'Connor, James Corley, and George Hardwick. FOR FOURTEEN YEA RS. —Thomas Brent, William Gil , s, Philip Campbell, Lydia Myson, Mary Donovan, George Robinson, James Bond, and Richard Grey. Ann Gillhee, Eliza Chapman, and Sarah Atfield, who were each convicted upon two separate indictments of shoplift ing, were transported for seven years for the first offence, and sentenced to a further term of seven years after the expiration of the first. The prisoners made the Court ring with their outcries, and threw themselves into the most extravagant postures, so that the proceedings were suspended for a time. . _ _ . - FOR SEVEN YEA RS. —Charles Smith, Mary Ryan, Henry Faulkner, Georee Duff, Michael Conway, John Wood, George Frederick Hunninburn, ali is Frederick Guest, Thomas Fowler, John Dixon, William Davis, Joseph Hawkins, William Pluck, John Whit• bread, J. M'Wade, William White, Samuel Green, Jame* Crackum, John Bailey, Joseph Brown, alias Johnson, Henry Kerr, Altrgaret Stiggles, William Harbour, Thomas Hall, H. Cox, Mary Ann Jones, John Holding, Christian William Rowortb, John Rutland, Benjamin Powell, and William Wellfiee. TO RE IMPRISONED IN THE HOUSE OF CORRECTION • —For three years, Samuel Warren and Rachael Chapman (coiners); for eighteen months, Thomas Holmes and Robert Jones, alias Ludgate ; for one year, William Green, Mary Dowell, William Reeve, and Wtl• Liam Stevenson ; for eight months, Maria Willis and Moses Von Seeker; for six months, Martin Sulivan, James Ryan, Mary Ann Hatch, Ann Hobcroft, and Mary Ann B-nnett; for three months, Henry Skelton, John Davis, Francis Mayne, Jeremiah Kearsley, George Carter, Robert Hunt, Mary Tweed, James Flowers, Wm. Snosewell, and William Russell; for two month, John Robinson ; for six weeks, Eliza Hancock ; for one month, Ann Newton, William Topham, Ann Glasscock, and Henry King. To BE IMPRISONED IN NEWGATE—For nine months, Thomas Craske ; for 14 days, Mary Ann Greasey ; for seven days, Jeremiah Keogh and John Harris ; for four days, Thomas Brown. To be privately whipped and dis charged, William Wilson, aged 11, convicted of simple larceny. Sentence of death was passed upon two culprits, viz. : —Joseph Pearse, aged 24, and James Farrell, aged 17, convicted of assaulting James Griffith,, and stealing 16s. 3d. from his person. . Judgment on Thomas Medd was respited till next. session. - - --- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday John Moody, the driver of a glass coach, was charged by the sergeant of the guard at the Bank of England with having wilfully broken the rank of the soldiers as they marched to go upon duty. The sergeant represented the case as by no means an aggravated one, but in consequence of insults re ceived at various times from drivers in the streets of London, the commanding officer had directed that the Lord Mayor should be informed of any future interruption of the kind. The sergeant added, that in order to incommode the public as little as possible, he had ordered the guard to go in single file, and in two separate divi sions. He admitted that the defendant drove slowly, and that no abuse whatever had escaped him. The LORD MAYOR spoke in terms of high praise of the conduct of the sergeant and his men, and directed that the defendant should pay the expenses incurred. Mr. Alfred Taylor and Mr. Edward IV. Hardy, two young gentlemen who hold situations in the East India House, were summoned before the Lord Mayor. Mr. Edward Jenkins, who is in the Accountant- General's office in the East India House, while in his office, received a letter from Mr. Alfred Taylor, dated from the Ship Tavern, Leadenhall-street, ex pressing a wish to see him, in order to have a con versation, which had taken place on the preceding Wednesday, explained. The letter stated that he was at liberty to bring a gentleman with him, if he chose. He therefore asked Mr. Sharp, a gen tleman who is in the same office, to accompany him, and went with that gentleman to the Ship, when he was ushered into a back parlour, in which were the two defendants. Mr. Taylor asked him to admit having used certain expressions in the course of a conversation which had passed between them at the East India House, but he refused to make any admission of the kind, stating at the same time his surprise how he could have been so misunderstood or misinterpreted. At this moment Mr. Taylor struck him violently on the mouth with the back of his hand. As the assault was com pletely unexpected, he was off his guard, and Mr. Taylor contrived to pinion him and hold him with one hand, while with the other he (Mr. Taylor) seized a stick, which was no doubt brought in for the purpose, and began to exercise it most roughly. Witness then succeeded in wrestling the stick out of the hand of his assailant, and in the struggle they fell together, but the former managed to lay the stick across the shoulders of the latter, and said that in his report of the circumstance he must riot forget that the same stick had been laid across his own shoulders.—(A laugh.) The LoRD MAYOR—Then, I suppose the mean ing of it was that duelling was intended ? Mr. A. Taylor—No, my Lord, Mr. Jenkins has no dispo-. sition in the world to such breaches of the peace as duelling comprehends. Mr. Jenkins—When he began to use the bludgeon upon me, I called out to my friend (Mr. Sharp) to go for a policeman. My friend immediately tried to get out of the room, but Mr. Hardy put his back against the door to prevent that assistance from being rendered, and said he (witness) had had enough. The LORD MAYOR—And you had stated to him, in the first instance, that the impression as to the words you used arose from a misunderstanding of what you really did say ? Mr. Jenkins—Certainly I had. I never, for a moment, supposed that I should receive a blow. Mr. Taylor—DA I not call you a liar ? Mr. Jenkins—l dare say you did. You were not particularly delicate in your language. Mr. Taylor—Did I not call you a shuffling coward ? The LORD MAYOR—I see the feeling by which you are influenced, and, depend upon it, you will not get so easily over this business as you think. Mr. Taylor—The fact is, my Lord, this arose out of a disagreement which I was deputed to settle. The LORD MAYOR—And so you thought the best way to settle it was to knock„the man down ? Mr. Taylor—l found it necessary to call him a coward, and to threaten to kick him out. The LORD MAYOR—Then you must send for bail. Mr. Hardy—The bail is ready. The LORD MAYOR—And we'll include Mr. Hardy, who kept his back against the door. 'Mr. Hardy—Oh, with all my heart. The LORD MAYOR—The case is a gross one, and I think the Directors ought to see whether these young men do not get more money than their labour is worth. If they had not plenty of idle time upon their hands, they would not have engaged in so gross a transaction. The defendants were then bound over to answer the complaint at the sessions. BOW-STREET. It will be recollected that on Saturday last Mr. George Hubert, a person of respectable appearance and a solicitor by profession, was charged at this office with stealing a silver tea-spoon and two silver pepper-castors from the Coal Hole Tavern, Foun tain-court, Strand. The articles were found on the person of the prisoner, and the Magistrate having no other alternative than to commit him for trial, he was committed accordingly. Yesterday Mr. Rhodes, the proprietor of the Coal , Hole Tavern, who appeared as prosecutor in the case, attended before Mr. HALLS, accompanied by the prisoner's brother and another gentleman, for the purpose of proving to the Magistrate that the pri• soner was not in a sound sta'e of mind, and that, in fact, he had been declared insane some time prior to the commission of the offence, in proof of which his brother produced certificates to the Magistrate, signed by the surgeons by whom the unfortunate gentleman was attended. Mr. HALLS observed that, under the peculiar cir cumstances of the case, he would give directions that the prisoner should be admitted into the in firmary of the prison, where he would receive every proper attention until his liberation could be effected. The applicants thanked the Magistrate, and with drew to follow the course suggested. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Thomas Brady, an Irish labourer, was charged with violently as.aulting Thomas Curtis, a bar-man in the employ of Mr. Cleggett, landlord of the Castle, Chapel-street, Broadway, Westminster. The Magistrates ordered him to pay the full pe nal,y of .51. for the assault, or in default to be com mitted for two months to the House of Correction. HAT TON.GARDEN. Yesterday Wis. Rayner, Henry Robinson, Charles Calkett, John Hancock, and Sarah Grths, were brought up, charged with having been concerned in the rescuing of Sarah Brown, who was committed to Newgate for trial on a charge of felony. Rayner and Griffiths were remanded until Satur day next, and the others were ordered to find bail. UNI N. HALL. Yesterday John Wyatt, landlord of the Marquis of Granby, Loman's Pond, Southwark, was brought up from the station-house of the M division, in the Southwark-bridge-road, charged wiih an attempt to murder his wife by cutting her throat with a knife. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, looked exces sively bad, and seemed to be labouring under consi derable despondency of mind, particularly when he heard that his wife was in that condition at present as to render her attendance at the office quite im possible. Alban Young, the first witness called, on Sunday evening was at the Marquis of Granby, and about eight o'clock, as he was taking a pint of porter in the tap-room, he heard a cry of " Murder," in a female voice, proceed from the direction of the bar. He immediately ran to the assistance of the person whose cries he had heard, and on entering the bar parlour saw the prisoner with one of his arms round his wife's neck, and she still crying " Murder." Witness seized the prisoner, and he then saw blood gushing from a wooed in Mrs. Wyatt's throat. The prisoner resisted being taken into custody, but upon the arrival of the police he was taken to the station house. The witness added that he had previously heard the prisoner and his wife quarrelling with each other in the bar. Subsequently to the witness having run into the bar to the protection of Mrs. Wyatt, and when he seized her husband, she rushed out bleeding from the neck into the tap-room, and there fell, in a state of insensibility, into the arms of a person who happened to be there. In reply to Mr. MURRAY, the witness said that the prisoner was evidently under the influence of liquor. Inspector Brown, of the M division, while in the yard at the rear of the station-house, that morning, heard the prisoner address the locker (the man who has charge of the keys of the cells), and express himself to this effect—" I should like to know how Mrs. Wyatt is this morning, for I am afraid that in the heat of passion last night I did her some injury." The inspector added that the prisoner seemed un conscious of the nature of the injury he had inflicted on his wife until informed of it that morning. Mr. Eales, surgeon, in Union -street, was called in to see Mrs. Wyatt on the night in question, and upon his arrival he found her sitting in the bar, and several persons around her. At present her removal would be attended with danger, but when he saw her that morning, no alarming symptoms prevailed. An application was here made to the Magistrates by a professional man, who attended on behalf of Mrs. Wyatt, to request that 701. found on the person of the prisoner when he was taken into custody, but which was now in the possession of the police in spector, might be delivered up for the benefit of his wife. The applicant then said that the money be longed to Mrs. Wyatt, who had been left a consider able sum by a deceased relative, entirely independent of her husband. The 701. formed a portion of the legacy, and to possess himself of the same the pri soner forced open his wife's box, previously to the attack upon her, and when he was apprehended the money was found concealed in his shoes on his feet. The application was opposed by Mr. Warner, who said that the disputes between the prisoner and his wife were mainly attributable to the money which she claimed as her own. He contended that the money, instead of being given up at present, might be left in the hands of the inspector, in whose possession it then was, until the proceedings conse quent on the occurrence had been determined. Mr. Warner then proceeded to describe that he had been repeatedly engaged in endeavouring to conciliate the prisoner and his wife, who frequently quarrelled with each other, and added that he had often himself anticipated that something dreadful would happen to them. The magistrates made no order with respect to the application of the 701., but were of opinion that the inspector had better keep possession of it at pre sent. The prisoner was then remanded until the fate of his wife is known. NATURAL CURIOSITY.—Mr. T. Cooke, of St. John-street in this city, has in his possession a live dee hare, whose shoulders, ears, and the greater part of be bead and legs are entirely white. —Hereford Times. The Suabian Mercury gives the following, under date of Frankfort, December 21:—" The sittings of the Germanic Diet are closed for the year. The ap proaching Congress of German Ministers at Vienna will no doubt considerably enlarge the powers of the Diet ; but, at the same time, in order to accomplish this end, the members of the Germanic Confederation must, with a view to the general interest, make sacrifices of some of their sovereign prerogatives. These sacrifices, however, would never be mirk, were it not to secure the prerogatives tha remain." On Thursday last an inquest was held on board his Maj,sty's ship Victory, in Portsmouth Harbour, before George Lamburn Greetham, Esq., Coroner fur the Admiralty, upon view of the body of Thomas Fyshe Hornsby, mate of the above ship. It appeared in evidence that the deceased came on board in the evening of the Ist inst., bringing with him some music, which was played over to him by one of his mesemates at his request. About 12 o'clock the same night, he went with the schoolmaster and one of the assistant surgeons of the ship to the galley, to smoke segars, when they entered into conversation on different subjects, particularly hydroceanic acid, the de ceased having previously been in the habit of taking it, to raise his spirits, which were at times desponding. He told the officers it made him, for some time after taking it, feel very happy, and as if he were tipsy, and he liked the sensation it produced. The officers endeavoured to persuade him to discontinue the practice of taking it, but he said be should continue to do so. The deceased with the schoolmaster subsequently went into the gun-room, and after drinking some porter, opened his desk and took out a small phial containing the above acid, and poured a few drops into a wineglass. The schoolmaster, thinking the practice of taking the acid most injurious, threw what had been poured into the glass on the deck, while the deceased was putting the stopper into the bottle, but the deceased, perceiving this, poured a small quantity more into the glass. The schoolmaster, finding the deceased determined on taking the acid, prevailed on him to dilute it by half filling the glass with water, and in this state he drank it, in the presence of the schoolmaster and one of the master's assistants. The deceased immediately after wards appeared to be tipsy, and walked down to the cock pit, accompanied by the other officers, and was put to bed. The assistant-surgeon attended him, and endeavoured to pour water down his throat, for the purpo.e of diluting the acid, but the deceased was unable to swallow anything. He soon after became quite paralyzed, had all the syinp toms of apoplexy, and died in about an hour after he tae deceased the acid. The Jury were of opinions that deceased did not intend to destroy his lite by taking the ae id f , o b rm ut e o r n c luysttoom._ptsm produce pleasurable se nsations as had been his MARRIED. On the Ist inst., at St. George's Chapel, Stonehouse, Robert Campbell Stewart, Esq., to Lydia, eldest daughter of the late John Gawler, Esq , or Bridgeland, Devon. . . . _ _ On the 2d inst., at Brighton, Comyns Bonth. Esq., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, to Margaret, youngest daughter of the late Robert Mitchell, Esq., of the Island of Tobago. DIED. On the sth inst., at Sherborne, Dorset, aged 21, Elizabeth, third daughter of Thomas Fooks, Esq., of Sherborne. On the 3d inst., at Godalming, in his 77th year, Robert Mo. line, Esq., of that place, banker. On the 11th November, in the Island of Tobago, Richard Blucke, Esq., fourth son of the late Rev. Robert Blucke, vicar of On thedies7tristhn'Bucks. Trevor-square, Knightsbridge, Sarah, widow of the late William Snell Chauncy, Esq. On the sth inst., in Upper Harley-street, in his ia 7 c O k t h h ea y t e h a . r, Gil o be n r t t h N e e 3o vi t l h le u N it.7 j le o , h E n sq c ,. H lat e e ar o d, of Es, Lincoln'sqefL Lee, Blackheath. On the 3d inst., in Hertford-street, John Henry Cotterell, Esq., eldest son of Sir John Geers Cotterell, Bart. On the sth inst , at Shooter's-hill, Kent, in his 44th year, GMrre.aHenry w ine D he o s v t e er r :s f t o r r e l e n t erly of the firm of Dover and Norton, On the sth inst., at Great Saxham-hall, Suffolk, in his Ssth year, Thomas Mills, Esq. Tyear, Wm. Welch, o t r h of Civil Law, Ben.:How of All Souls' Col. On the 31st ult., at Walbottle-house, Northumberland, in c:hsgeg O er. : n ooef t f h .t. Hehf Oxford. O r wdlt.nfhenruedlr,t Temple, e a mot Worcestershire, h ear t n. o hd n i , ri e l a n , t e h D i his 89th year, William Potter, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Buckingham-house, Stonehouse, Devon. shire, in his 3Sth year, William Parker, Esq., of St. Mary Abbot's-terrace, Kensington. On the sth inst., Mrs. Beachcroft, of Blunham, Bedfordshire. On the 6th inst., at Colebrooke-row, Islington, in his 91st year, Mr. George Harris, formerly of Maidstone, Kent. On the al inst., Edward Smyth, Esq.,: i f ,,, H i o , ll hi o l w iip a s yt E e s r g rac ., o e f , youngestyear, Colonel daughter E d. On the 4th inst., in Camberwell, A h gn is e: 2d Islington, aged 68. Okehampton, Devonshire. Devon, Miss Mary Wreford, of R. Copeland, aged 19 years. On the sth inst., Frances, the wife of Pall-mall. Ed ward Ntvhaer3Odieth, formerly Nov.,at , t' l l e o el re b n e c r e: fo i r n On the 25th ult., at solicitor , aged 87. Lately, near Bath, J o hn Whitelocke, Es q. , f ormer ly a G ene . ral Officer in the British Army, Lieutenant Governor of Ports mouth Garrison, and Commander of the Forces in the expedi tion to Rio P.ata, in 1807. On the 27th inst., at a very advanced age, at his residence, N ew _garden, near Castle Connell, county Limerick, William Ryves, Esq. He was one of the oldest members of the Irish bar, and junior only to the late Lord Norbury. On the 25th ult., at Seaview, county Limerick, the seat of her brother, F. G. Morony, Esq., Anne, second daughter of the I late Thomas Morony, of Milltown House, Esq. PRINTED AND VUBLII , IIED BY MURDO YOUNG,ATitit SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, JAN. 6. (Before Mr. ROTCH, M.P., Chairman, and a full Bench of Magistrates.) Mary Dyson, aged 17, was indicted for fraudu lently obtaining 31b. of beef-steak from John Davis, a butcher, on the 14th December last. The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. She was again indicted for obtaining two loaves of bread and a quartern of flour from William Pegg in a similar manner, and found Guilty on this charge also. The COURT sentenced her to be transported for seven years. Margaret Cannon, aged 17, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining 12 apples, value Is., from Samuel Belton, a fruiterer in Marylebone. The Jury pronounced her Guilty, and the Court sentenced her to three months' imprisonment. The prisoner, who was enceinte, said, on hearing her sentence, " Then I shall never come out alive." LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is @Md. for the 41h. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to lYid. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.--Jan, 6. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. 545. fine 60s. 653. Old Ditto fine —a. New Foreign Ditto _ 565. 62 5 . fine 655. o , d Ditto New White Clover, Old Ditto New Trefoil 31d Ditto Rib Grass English Carraway F reign Ditto Coriander 565. 60s. fine 635. 6138 ..-s. --s fine --s 18s. 20s. fine 225. 245. - --s. fine —s. —s. —s. —s fine —s. —s. —s. —4. 84s. fine 884. - --s. 83s. fine Ms. —s. Hs. fine--s. 13s. St. Rain ..... Rye Grass .(per 41s. 468. fine 48s. 514. ._s o —s o new 40s. 448. Pacey Ditto --- Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing... Canary Seed, New,— !'itto Old —s. —s. new —4. —s. 665. fine —s. 645. 48s. 565. —s. fine —s. 60a fine 665. —s. --s. fine White Mustard Seed.—(per 8u5he1)......... —s. 12s. 13s. fine .....s. Brown Ditto .. —s. 17s. 18s. fine —s. Furnip Seeds, Rounds — s . -.4. 18s. fine 20s. Green and Red Ditto —s. —s. 18s. fine 21s. fares, 01d..... 4s. Od. fine 4s. 9d. Dtto New ••••••••• , 10.00.0.4 ......"•••••••••••••••••••WWWW. 4s. 6d. fine ss. Od. R t,etieed, English, fine (per Last) 25/. 271....... Foreign 24/. 26g. P tillPS.—Jan. O. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) —5/ Os. 61. Os. to 61. 10s. Ch, ice to 61. East Ki Choice "11. Os. 01. O. to 8!. Os. 10s. 0/. Os. to 91 Os. New Sitesex Pockets Superfine Ditto „,....... Fari,ham (fine)............ Ditto (seconds)---. . 51. us: 01. Os. to 51. 10s. . 61. Os. 01. Os. to 61. 6s. 111. lls. 01. Os to 121. 12s. .101 Os. 01. Os to 111. Os. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6s, Refined X 39 0 Linseed Oil 27 10 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand l2 12 Rape Cake, per ton 5 10 ritlCk. OF FOTA I.oEs.__Jan,6 Shaws--............ Middling --... Marsh Champions Scotch Red 5......... Chats ---- .3/. Os, to 31. !Os. per ton. .01. Os. to 21. ss. ditto. .41. Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. .3/. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. .0/. Os. to 2/. Cs. ditto. WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. 4. lay 753. Od. to 955. Od.l . Clover Od. to 953. Od. Idid• Od• to 283• Od. PRICES OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. 1 Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English*. 14 25 ' English Horse Hides.. 14 19 Ditto, F0reign.,....... 13 'll Spanish Ditto 17 26 Dressing Hide 5............. 11 15 Per dozen. Ditto . i2} 16 Calf Skins,. S 0 to 44th. 14 21 Ditto, light Ditto ......... 40 to 601 b. 17 23 Clop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto ......... 70 to 901 b. 20 23 Di tto--40 to 501 b. 13 161 Small Seals, Greenland 16 18 Ditto , _ .14 14 Large ditt0—............--. 12 16 PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows: — Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen....4th . _ RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone of 81b. Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5),......, 2s. I Id. PRICE OF TA LLOW fawn Tallow ................ 48s. Od. Yellow Russia-- 4Bs. Od. vVhite, —a. Od. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Melted Stuff.-- :375. Od. Ditto R0ugh......„..............215. Od. r, SO Al', &c. per 1121 b. IYellow 50ap...................... 625. Od. M0tt1ed..,,.,................ 70s. Od. White 72s Od Graves ...... Good Dregs 14s. Od. 58. Od. KET.—Jan. 6. Per Ton. 8. d. Walls End 16 6 Walls End Hilda, l5 9 Walls End Hotspur....... 15 6 Walls End Killingworth 16 6 Walls End Newmarcn......, 15 6 Mao Northumberland.. 15 9 Walls End Perkins....... 15 0 Walls End Riddell's 17 0 Walls End Lambton 19 0 Walls End Adelaide 16 6 Walls End G0rd0n....... 17 0 W. E. Mu5grave........... 15 6 W. E South Durham... 17 0 Hartley 15 6 Newhall 24 0 last market-day, 42. COAL MAT.: Per Ton. S. d. A dair's _ 16 0 Chester Main.................... 14 0 Dean's Primrose --....... 15 0 East Percy',............,..,... 15 0 Hebburn Main ....---.. 15 0 Holywell . 16 0 Piet0n.......,............--...... 14 0 _ Pontop Windsor 15 0 16 0 Townley l6 6 Wylam Walls End Bell & Brown 16 3 Walls End Brown's...—. 16 0 Wdlls End Carr and Co. 15 6 Walls End Gosforth 17 9 Ships arrived since MINING IN I 7 ELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold atßedruth last Thurday 3.374 0 Average Produce . 7 0 Quantity of fine Copper..., 268 3 Amount of Sale. 20,8431.45. 01 —Average Standard, 1144 34.0c1. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, JAN. 8. DIVIDENDS. H. J. Beaumont and Co., tailors, Cornhill at it B. Bond and Co., bankers, Change alley l2 J. Howard, victualler, St. Mary-at-Hill J, Johnson and Co., linen-drapers, Warwick ll J. Cochrane, bookseller, Waterloo-place II BIRTHS. On the ad inst., in Eaton-square, Mrs, Keith Douglas, of a daughter. On the 4th inst., in Upper Harley-street, the lady of Benj. Goad, Esq., of a son. On the Ist inst., at Trinity house, Aberdeenshire, the Hon. Lady Forbes, of Craigievar, of a daughter. On the 3d inst,, at Tunbridge Wells, the lady of Dr. Mayo, of a son. On the 6th inst., in Chamomile-street, the lady of J. G. Lacy, Esq., of a daughter. On the sth inst., the lady of Henley Smith, Esq., of a son. On the 2d inst., at Clapham, Mrs. William Moberly, of a son. On the sth inst., at Brompton-square, Mrs. John Ogilvie, of a daughter. On the 2d inst., at Penzance, Cornwall, Mrs. Thos. Jacomb, of a daughter. _ On the 3d inst., at Duncan.lodge, Salford, Mrs, ConneU, of a son. On the 3d inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Alex. More, of a son.