The Sun. — London, England, 1831-12-09 00:00:00

tg tile c, ving ably ia ume bo DAY.: vith Oil n excel,' !stion iire DAY. P SELBY' vho tg .nt aroge. onnet the ways ild have Learnea gs wilit 4 to assist mploydt evid t Dor ou, after rti of the xplainea a the irY to co ratiug r., 182 5 ' was ac' br ra, 13 " , %Oar , o il , ' Umber' from 0( up attornel t !ctiog the his barA" epeatelli ra's c . : friltenig% directio v assign d broug t . a breio It to 1 10 d all th e d als' and never y, dept" , ken pi*: ntirely t " the ' 3E him VI surp?' urt a 07 0 laxly Ye' though t be P re ' e had 141 : in▪ ly 10 0 1 1 door 0° in con° left.) --- Jievey held a Court yesterday atternoon in the St. James's, for the purpose of receiving the trout the House of Con - none. 'SPEAKER of the House of Commons, accompanied t rda of forty Members, and attended by his Chaplain '' CLEMENTSON, the Deputy Serjeant-at-Arms, state from the House of Commons, and arrived at lee at two o'clock. The deputation was ushered T hrone -room, the sides of which were lined by tt ; 'Corp s o f G en tl e men Pensioners, under the l'' ' of Sir GEORGE PococK, the Standard Bearer, l laNcocK, the Clerk of the Cheque. M AJEST Y who was dressed in an Admiral's uniform, the address on the throne. On his right were the r 1 ° , l : WINCHESTER, the Groom of the Stole ; the • D EVONSHIRE, the Lord Chamberlain; the Mar (4;'raNsautay, the Lord in Waiting ; Sir C H ARL E S Vlie Gr oom i n W a iting; and Viscount MELBOURNE, ta rY of State for the Home Department. O n iiere the E ar l of ALBEMARLE, the Master of the I C ° , td ROBERT GROSVENOR, the Comptroller of 4 ° o ld ; the Duke of RICHMOND, and the other *Ministers. :',*AxEl t and the Members approached the Sove -4,ing their obeisances ; the SPEAKER read the ; t 4l ich was handed to the KING, who delivered it Z'llt MELBOURNE, as Secretary of State for the "Partment. His MAJESTY returned a gracious , the address. The SPEAKER and the Members %drew. tht.r. was the Gold Stick in Waiting. The Yeomen , Q . l rd were under the command of Messrs. CHARLES [ULL HANCOCK, the Exons in Waiting. [4 JesTY gave audiences to the Marquis of WIN. Earl GREY, Viscount MELBOURNE, the Earl 44 ItLic ' Lord HILL, Sir C. PAGET , and Sir G. . + AJESTIES, attended by Lady BEDINGFIELD, ' t erday t o the New Palace, in St. James ' s , and t ' 7 t ime in inspecting that edifice. The Duke of `"e Princess SOPHIA, and the Princess SOPHIA visited the QUEEN yesterday. j ' Y kas, the agent for Barbadoes, had a n interview With Viscount GODERICH, at the Colonial-office. a~ t lY entertained the Cabinet Minist ers at dinner , -*IS Y evening, at his residence in Downing-street. 11E W BANKRUPTCY COURT. 1104 . Thomas Erskine, the new Chief Justice of 14 uptcy Court, i s th e third son of the late, and 4 °the present Lord Erskine, our Envoy at Munich. t 4 '' ' e n for some years a leading member of the Circuit, and from which he of course retiree. ~i4 li onal exertions of Mr. Erskine have chiefly been to th e Court of King's Bench, where he has a Ki ng ' s Counsel. He married, during the I : his distinguished father, a lady named Trail , by e Li ks a numerous family. 4i2geant Pell also went the Western Circuit until l ei t'erit from the active duties of his profession : t 4 , 1 talents ex hibit e d by the Learned Gentleman rC g t l i career as a Barrister, combined with his ready 44t Nuence, fairly entitle him to the distinction he received. Mr. Sergeant Pell has been dis -14,111 an active Magistrate for the county of Middle -I'l4. e has ceased to practise in the Court of Corn rt 3 By marriage he is allied to the family of 0 11 4, , Q hq, having married the Hon. Margaret Letitia qaughter of Henry Beauchamp, twelfth Lord St. I P"I '11° , 1) "t Cecil Fane was a Commissioner of the 13 th ,to the abolition of the " Septuagint." The rtl6"entleman is a member of the family of the Earl land. A sister of Mr. Fane is married to the 4 .I '. Charles Arbuthnot, Ex-Chancellor of the 1. tn caster. % tr e i rivaie i s an E qu ity Barrister of eminence, and a 41,1' Lincoln's Inn. The Learned Gentleman has ' l ed to fill his present office from the 3d list of Illpissioners L l : k , a " ci ' l i _rod is a son of the deceased Judge of that r %a„."longed to the 9th list of the learned persons 'nuted the late tribunal in Basinghall-street. LEEDS, DEC. 6. r 0 lit ) ,_, 7lll E EDITOR OF THE SUN. it -1. Perceive a letter on the cholera in your Paper I,4:ght, to which there is the signature of Captain E tter ' I presume, from the general tenour of a Capt a i n C. h as h a d grea t e xperience in the ioe hot air -bath, which be so strenuously recom qtkud I should infer, he thinks that Drs. Daun and 'O, i 've not tried it in Sunderland. Sir, he is mis t,- know it has been tried in Sunderland most ad -14",,,t41Y for the display of its virtues, if it have t ti,°olera apasmodica, without effect. Drs. D. and G. I t ~'l t' l it in India also most amply, without being able Iti tl it Y thing in its favour. It is one thing to recom -41 1 b °ther to cure. In witnessing those cases in itl 4 t, 4 ", which are under the immediate notice of his 4 n . • tu s Comm i ss i oners, I am sure I owe it to them to itlig4t nothing is left undone which has any apparent h; it --nothing lett untried which human ingenuity ►itbttst, consistently with reason. I have been there et t hha the disease, and the mode of treatment most ~;kdopted, and am quite sure, from the courteous- IN, attention I met with, that nothing, however b ve, h owever important, will be omitted for the cure, N i ter the amelioration, of the disease in question.— k t0r,, 4 1 , 1 ", I would beg to call Captain C.'s attention ''ti h -g arY in his letter, viz., that lie has gained his ist,t:iitlt:(7l;l],e, i t t re h atmen as r t r iip e f d th o is ff m 4 al O ad OL in o 0 " I am, Sir, your's truly, countries" oof i nb a - ~ 'hi ROBERT BAKER, "Tiber of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. clef` b " ces to er riffs, lir, 'err tb , after Iliant (a bll Whet ° 'ecry, A t, Willi an Gil" f d, own, tool orne, ' J"'" ratd U SI‘ on the WOMAN FOUND DEAD AT BRIGHTON. 1 11: 11.011 1 the Brighton Gazette of Thursday.) l 'jet i , 4 :least was held yesterday afternoon at the Crown, \ rai i - pi G .„ . ,al). • N. ,' wickham, deposed—l am a mariner, and live 4 a th '" Frederick-place, Brighton. As I was walk -4d 4 I, e beach yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, I ,4 t h" 4 " , an body about three parts below the full of '' p a f rom .. the water, and a little to the westward of ,' 4 i t '. The body was lying on the belly. I 0b .,,N4,k Stockings on the legs ; I went on the turn ,f, k ,,, t r ) give information ; I went to Hove watch , , 1 ,41 i i f ram thence to Copperas-gap, where the land ,' 'skt y ' e ll me to go to Mr. Fuller, of Portslade ; I saw 114 A at the same spot in the evening about seven vk it t's kte Quipanied by Wm. Taylor and two of Mr. "1 1 ~l'e n ••' we placed it on a hurdle, put it nearly to '4lO niark, and afterwards removed the body to the t 41, 41 : 5 ; I have since examined the body; it was (4 lil '' L ekale d had on a air of white tays, a shi, kt k it • it s hadneither tip,, ockings as before described ; ~t, o lb , e a llTitt ; the flesh was bare from the shoulders to , v 4od y ti '' the lower joints of the arms were quite gone ; 0, / i d not appear to be swollen ; it was tolerably it : 5 W some gulls feeding on it before I could discern p iss 84 ; there are marks on the right aide of the it 0 el i t h kr 11 the left thigh. At e 4 Boorman,--I live at 1% Frederick-gardens, N I 4 • / Itve ' knew a young woman named Anna Hobbs, IL lth i s I t ] "t t„ Crm brother, Edward Hobbs, 12, Union-street, 4 ", Who is missing. She was 18 or 19 years IR, e- Y stout, and I think rather more than five feet t,, t see ' he has been missing since last Saturday week. I 4 t q n t he body. From the slope I believe it to be I,,, 4 'ket, 4i t Hobbs, but I cannot swear to it, as there are ,ate a° uPOu the apparel by which I can identify her. ~4.1 . 1 4 0 u1at , however, in my own mind that it is her. ',4 k ka . 15h ba, brother of the female missing, said—l am a 41 id brazier, and live at No. 12, Union-street, !:'l l l' ef l 4 l , l Y mater left my house, I believe, between the , i, 4 4 is 112 e and 'ten in the yorning of Saturday week— tii. h e , ""equence of some trifling miminderstanding ,t, mistress. I h ave had bills printed and tried tee y e4n s to find her. Having heard last night that m ,, Lta4 l :' r a female had been found, I went to the place ti k , e tee ° clock l a st night, but could not then see it. k kt of ea the b o dy of a f ema le th.a afteplopn l I think it e tli oe n 'Y Sist er ;---she wore black worsted stockings, ,„t lic:On the deceased. The body appears about the hi vP eti l t Q ,„, t * I breakfasted with my sister the morning 1,4 11 1 '41 4 ,')'• She had on a dark coloured gown,. with N,,, t 't ad ° , 4 4Erm, a wh:testrew bon_net trimmed with red 1 4 1111 4 i i,FlShatO, and ilmei; 'She `left of her own accord. :to A t ( Maud deposed—l five in Union-street, next tt a - t l '' 4 A„ r * Hobbs, in the service of Mr. Horst. I have e - Wi t i -44 Hobbs about three months. We were inti ,44l„? each other. The witness then went to view , 4 tt ‘lng '44g the end on her return said she had no doubt of 4 sely , e bodi of Anna' lAN; . 1 he witness was then ", 4,:isuestioned respecting a young man, who, it was at h e b,ll4weetheart of deceased's ; she denied, however, t 'll t . - 7 a sweeth ear t. This point was cleared up by llitit ti ' who stat e d th a t the young man was in terms i r. ~,'tY with his men. l'water Thomas Seabrook deposol.—l am a sun. re, ar, an-. 0 0 eriodi, 01 1 1', Mr, Sa ing a t the will CO i n terY i , s c o mia, o , Eatert °l 4 t--D ' ' vt ID b) ,cc. i". =NM w e too Kine clotnes on tne may ; tnere were no mailts of external violence like a wound ; there were some marks occasioned no doubt by the birds having pecked it. From the appearance of the edge of the skin on the neck I should think it was done by a knife or some other sharp instru ment. The skin was divided at the lower part of the neck, but it did not appear to have been done skilfully ; it was jagged; the arms were taken off at the elbow joint appa rently in the same way ; the skin and the integuments were divided at the shoulder. Mr. Richardson, a surgeon practising at Brighton, who had also examined the body, corroborated the evidence of the last witness. Here the medical gentlemen, at the request of the Jury, went to open the body, with the view of ascertaining whe ther it was pregnant. They were absent about an hour. In the mean time. Mary Jeffery deposed—l am living with Mr. James Mills, at Hove ; saw a woman go past my master's house about eleven o'clock on Saturday, the 26th of November (the day Anna Hobbs was missing). She had a dark gown on, and a drab shawl. She was going towards Shoreham. A foot-soldier was walking by her side, but not arm in arm. It was a dark spotted gown. She wore a white straw bonnet trimmed with red ; she was a decent looking woman about my height ; about five feet two. I took more notice of her than perhaps I should have done, in consequence of seeing such a decent looking woman walking with a soldier. The soldier was dressed in a red uniform, and wore a common upright cap, with a tuft to it. On the return of the medical gentlemen, Mr. Seabrook stated that there was nothing to show the cause of death, and they could not discover any signs of pregnancy. There was no mark of violence on the body ; the ribs were not fractured. It was their opinion that the body had not been long in the water, and that it was impossible the head and arms could have been separated from the body but by violent means. The body ; was very fresh. We have (said witness) come to the conclusion that the limbs were amputated by a sharp instrument. I think it probable that the head and arms were separated from the body after death. Mr. Richardson and Mr. Sutton, who assisted Mr. Sea brook in opening the body, merely corroborated the. evi dence of the last witness. The examination of the witnesses lasted until seven o'clock, when the inquest was adjourned till three o'clock this day. There is little doubt that a verdict of Wilful Murder will be returned. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday afternoon, at four o'clock, an inquisi• tion was taken in the Board Room of Sr. Bartholo mew's Hospital,before Mr. PAYNE, the City Coroner, and a highly respectable Jury, on view of the body of a middle-aged man, transmitted from the country to that institution, for anatomical purposes, and who, from a dreadful wound on the throat, and other marks of violence, was supposed to have fallen a victim to the other diabolical system of " Burking" so prevalent of ►ate. Alderman Wilson, at whose instance the inquiry took place, was pre sent, and took a prominent part in the proceedings, and the room was crowded to excess by medical practitioners, and others persons interested in the investigation. Mr. Edward Stanley, the demonstrator of ana tomy at the institution, was the first witness ex amined, who deposed that the body of the deceased man had been sent up from a village, 100 miles in the country. It was packed in a deal box, was re ceived through the same channel which supplies the dissecting-rooms of the metropolis with sub jects, and arrived at the institution about noon the preceding day. He saw it soon afterwards, and was struck at beholding a wound in the throat, which extended from thence all the way down the body, as far as the knee. These suspicious ap pearances induced him to make a most careful and minute examination of the body, in order to ascertain whether the man had died a natural death or not. The result of his observations were, that the deceased had died from consumption, the lungs being much diseased, and he was of opinion that the wounds he had described had been inflicted after death, and in all probability by the instruments used by resurrectionists in extracting bodies from the earth. The deceased appeared to have been dead about a week, and had evidently been interred. Mr. Stanley added, that although he felt satisfied, in his own mind, that the deceased had not come to a violent death, yet, in the present feverish state of the public mind, produced by the fiendish system of " Burking," he did not think himself justified in placing the body in its mutilated state before his pupils, but judged it advisable that a public inves tigation should take place. Dr. George Burrows, who had also examined the body, give similar testimony as to the cause of death. William Smith, a porter in the institution, re ceived the body, on its arrival, from the waggon office. It was placed in the box in a recumbent po sition, and was quite naked. In his opinion the corpse had been buried in the ordinary way, and had been exhumed by the resurrectionists. Alderman WILSON—What leads you to suppose that the body had been interred ? Witness—Be cause it appears to me to have been drawn through the earth by body-snatchers. Alderman 'WILSON—Did you ever then see a body raised by the body-snatchers, as they are termed ?—(A laugh.) Witness—No; but I have heard them relate how they do it. Alderman WlLSON.—Describe how it is done ? Witness—They first dig down to the head of the coffin, disturbing the earth as little as possible. This enables them to raise the coffin on the feet end. They then force open the lid with a strong instru ment, and divesting the body of the shroud, place it in a sack and decamp. Alderman WILSON—WouId the instrument you mention inflict the wounds on the deceased in forcing open the coffin ? Witness—l think it very likely. A Juryman did not conceive it probable that the wound in such a case would have extended so far as the knee; besides, the shroud would, in his opinion, have formed a protection to the body. The witness said that it might have been buried without a shroud. A Juror hoped the recent atrocious cases of Burk ing persons for the dissecting knife would put me dical men on their guard, and that they would be more cautious than heretofore in examining bodies furnished them by the wretches carrying on the dis gusting trade of resurrectionists. The CORONER eulogised the conduct of Mr. Stan ley, who had, in the case before them, acted most properly in instituting an inquiry, and the public would now be satisfied that the deceased had died a natural death. If the circumstance of the case had got wind without an inquiry taking place, there was no doubt, from the excited state of the public mind upon the subject, that a very unfavourable opinion would have been formed of the medical gentlemen belonging to the establishment. The Jury returned a verdict of "Natural Death." The body is to be re-interred at the expense of Cripplegate Ward. EXPIRING LAws.—Amongst the Committees sessionally appointed by the House of Commons is one for inviring what laws are :14914 111 expire. Its re.ap pointmcnt this Session Las been attended with an im portant addition. They are to report observations; they have power to send for persons, papers, and records; and they have a special and • new instruction, " That they do report their opinion from time to, time M the House which of the said la* g are f : t tp be revivvi, continued, or made perpetual." They have also authority to sit, notwith standing any adjournment of the House. The Report of Nov. 8, 1830, from the Committee on temporary laws of a public and general nature, is directed to be referred to and considered by this Committee. The Members of the Comn;itt.ee a;•e;-111r. BERFAL, Mr. C. W. W7Nkr, LEADER, Mr. p. C LaERT, Mr. R. GRANT, Mr. LAUB, ihe•SOLICiTolt:-GENERAL, the LORD ADVOCATE, Sir S. MACKINTOsiI, Six E. B. BeGDEN, .Es.rf ()en; and Sir H. PARNELL. CHARGE OF " llocusslNG."7—At the Sur rey Sessions 'yesterday JA 311 U MicrtAr. EWSON and JOHN WRIGHT Were indicted for utilawfUlly conspiring to gether and administering to DANIEL BRYAN a quantity of laudanum in a pint of beer, for the purpose of rendering him insensible, and agreeing together to steal certain mothLa from ids person. Messrs. BACON and .lESIMETT were Counsel for the prisoners,Who were acquitted: ' • Mr. Corder, the Vestry-Clerk of the parish of St. Paul's Covent-garden, yesterday appeared before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. MINSIIULL, for the purpose of introducing to them the two Italians, Joseph Paragalli and Andrew Colla, who'gave evidence at the Old Bailey against Bishop and Williams. Mr. Corder said that the doubt thrown upon the testimony of those witnesses was a source of very great uneasiness to them, and they now were anxious to reiterate what they had stated before the Jury, as to the body brought to the King's College, and on which the inquest sat, being that of the Italian boy, Carlo Ferrari. Andrew Colla now stood forward, and declared that he positively saw the boy Carlo Ferrari, alive, on the Ist of November, in Oxford -street, and spoke to him, and that the clothes found in Bishop's gar den, and producd on the trial, belonged to that boy. The clothes were never shown to him until he was placed in the witness box before the Jury, and he then spoke to the identity of the trousers with out hesitation. Before he saw the trousers he tie scribed them accurately to Mr. Thomas ; and he also gave a description of the boy before he was allowed to see the body. Joseph Paragalli knew the boy Carlo Ferrari well, and it was therefore quite impossible that he could be mistaken as to the identity of the body when he saw it at the station house. The doubt which the statement of the mur derers had, in their confession, thrown upon the identity of the body, had rendered him and the wit ness Colla very unhappy. Mr. MirisnutA, was perfectly well convinced that the statement or confession of the murderers was not, so far as related to the murder of the boy whose body formed the subject of the trial, true. The Magistrate then asked whether the boy, Carlo Fer rari, had not usually a smile upon his countenance ? Andrew Colla replied that the boy had a laughing face. He always looked as if he were about to laugh. Mr. MINSIIULL observed that he had himself seen an Italian boy answering this description about Ox ford-street on the Ist of November. He recollected the circumstance perfectly, for he had frequently seen the same boy before about the streets at that part of the town, and had remarked him in come quenee of his smiling countenance, and was often dis posed to give him a few halfpence, only he did not like to encourage vagrants. . Mr. Corder was perfectly satisfied that the state ment of the murderers, so far as the body of the boy for whose murder they were executed was con cerned, was untrue. The confession, however, which had been published, had the effect of throwing dis credit upon the prosecution, and the parish officers of St. Paul's, Covent-garden were, therefore, deter mined in a few days to make public a statement of the whole transaction. Mr. MlNsitum, had no doubt himself of the fact, and thought it very proper that the doubt should be cleared up, and that the public should be convinced of the identity of the body. Mr. Corder said that no time should be lost in preparing the statement, and then withdrew with Paragalli and Colts. LAMBETH-STREET. Yesterday Edward Cook, and the female Ross, underwent another examination before the Hon. G. C. NORTON and JOAN HARDwicx, Esq., on the charge of Burking Mrs. Walsh, when the following additional evidence, and which is most important in the case, was given : Sarah Cotton, a dealer in Rag-fair, about three months since, purchased a shawl from the female prisoner for 6d. or Bd., she did not know which. It had formerly been blue, was a good deal faded by washing and wearing, and had a light border of about four inches in depth. She subsequently sold it, but she did not know to whom. Was positive the prisoner Ross was the person she had purchased it from, and that it was three months since. Mrs. Saville, also a dealer in Rag-fair, deposed to the prisoner having, in the first instance, offered the shawl to her, but she declined to purchase it. It was the same as described by the last witness. It was rather worn about the shoulders, and had a stain about as large as her hand. Elizabeth Bosey, the grand-daughter of Mrs. Walsh, said that she made her, Airs. Walsh, a pre sent of a shawl answering precisely the description given by the two last witnesses of the shawl that had been sold by the prisoner. She saw her grand mother wear it on the Friday she went to lodge at the prisoner's house. A woman named Colbert said, that between two and three months since the female prisoner offered her for sale an old black willow bonnet, but she did not buy it. Eliza Dunham stated, that about three months since, she purchased several stay-laces, some balls of cotton, and needles and pins, from the female prisoner, for old. They were rolled up in a piece of blue paper. A witness was called who deposed that Mrs. Walsh was in the habit of hawking such articles, and that she also wore a black willow bonnet. At the conclusion of the examination of these w; nesses, Mr. NORTON asked the prisoners if they had any thing to offer to the evidence that had been given; when the woman commenced abusing the witnesses in good set terms. The Magistrates told her that such a course was not calculated to serve her, and that, if she had any questions to put to any of the witnesses which might elicit any thing favourable to her they would most readily do so. The prisoner, after thanking their Worships, said that the bonnet spoken of by one of the witnesses had been given to her by Anne Buton, the grand daughter of the missing woman,7and that she cer tainly did sell it in the lane. Money, she said, had been given to her son to induce him to make the statement he did, and which statement was as false as God was true. Her son had sent her a part of the Money to the prison, and it was by this means she knew that he had received it. The prisoner again commenced in indulging in a volley of invec tive against the witnesses; and, on being remon strated with by the Magistrate, she exclaimed,— " Well, gentlemen, you may hang me or banish me from the country, for I'm banished from house and home, and can never show my fac "e among those who know me in this country again. Cook said he had nothing to add to what he had before stated. The prisoners were then remanded until the 22d natant. During the examination the office and all the ave nues leading to it were much crowded with persons anximis to get a peep at the prisoners. THAMES POLICE- OFFICE. Yesterday James Bryant, a costermonger, attired in the garb of a sailor, was brought before Messrs. BALLANTINE and BRODERIP, charged on suspizion with having murdered a young woman, named Sarah Barter, and subsequently disposed of her body, under the following circumstances. The in vestigation excited great interest, and the office was crowded to excess. It appeared from the evidence of several wit, nesses that the prisoner and a woman named Ann with whom he cohabited, and who was ' the name of Costermonger Nance, were L ab . knowneot I committed from this office by Mr. BALLANTINE, tliltillille LY three e months since, for robbing Captain Tom linson, the master of a collier, of 30 sovereigt;., The principal witness against them was the young woman, who has suddenly disap 7 pe omn ar ea(i T a ll :: e ali pa Pr' rt a ie rt s e were tried at the last October sessions, when the woman Lethuliere was couvicte.a and sentenced to transportation .or but her pa ramour, Bryant, acquitted. Aft er B r yant was dis;,harged, he threatened several of the witnesses, but his animosity was chiefly directed against Sarah Barter, to whom he made use of the most violent threats, and she was at length so ro;• ; ch intimidated by his language roeiateing gestures, that she was afraid 'to - leaiie her room after dark, and on mote than one occasion when she was compelled to I go out in the day-time, had called for the interference vemoer, tneyoung woman left her lodgings, at No. 7, Lower Chapman-street, St. George's in the East, about eleven o'clock in the morning, on a visit to her sister, a servant to Mrs. Nichols, of Porchester terrace, Bayswater. On her way thither she called upon her aunt, Mrs. M'Kenzie, of No. 12, Castle street, Finsbury-square; and on leaving her pro ceeded direct to her sister's, at Bayswater, and after drinking tea with her, left about five o'clock in the evening, and stated that she was going to attend a prayer-meeting in Cannon-street-road. From that time she was never seen or heard of, although a de scription of her person and dress was advertised three times in the newspapers, and printed bills were circulated throughout all parts of the metropolis. On Wednesday the aunt applied in great distress of mind to Mr. Fagan, an inspector of K division, at the station-house in Green-bank, Wapping, and said she strongly suspected her niece had been mur dered by Bryant, as she had been unable to gain the least tidings of her. Fagan lost no time in con sulting Mr. Ballantine, the sitting Magistrate, who ordered him to take Bryant into custody wherever he could be found, and yesterday morning he was apprehended by George Phillips, a policeman, No. 87, K, and brought to this office. Phillips in his evidence said, that the prisoner was a very dis solute fellow, and associated with the very worst of characters. The young woman who was missing had frequently sought his protection since the trial, and had informed him that she went ir. danger of her life from Bryant, who had made use of the most horrible and menacing language towards her, and had declared she should not live long.. Frances Storey stated, that she livA in the house, No. 7, Lower Chapman-street, and that the young woman who was missing lodged there up to the time of her disappearance. She was very respectably connected, and after leaving the service of a gentle man named Knight, in Stepney, procured a liveli hood as a laundress. She had heard the prisoner threaten to murder her for giving evidence against him and the woman Lethuliere, who was convicted. He was in the habit of loitering about the house, and accosting Sarah Barter, every time she went out, and making use of the most infamous threats. On the Saturday night after the trial she went out on an errand, and soon after she came back much agitated, and as pale as death, and exclaimed, " Oh, God James Bryant has met me again and threat ened my life, and says he will murder me." The landlady of the house where Sarah Barter lodged stated that on one occasion the prisoner came there and made a great disturbance. He said he wanted to serve out the -- and that he should not be easy until he had his will of her. The young woman, on hearing his voice, said, " For God's sake don't open the door," and the prisoner finding he could not get near her, went away muttering some threats. The prisoner had subsequently been seen waiting opposite the house. Two other females confirmed the evidence of the two last witnesses. They had heard that the prisoner associated with body-snatchers, and other bad character , , and had heard him threaten to do for the young woman. A policeman said, that Sarah Barter met him two or three days before her disappearance and said she was in bodily fear from the prisoner, and that he had said her days were numbered, or words to that effect. Elizabeth McKenzie, a respectable elderly woman, the aunt of the female who is missing, said that her niece was a most steady, sober, and virtuous girl; and when she left her to go to Bayswater, she pro mised to make haste back with something she was to bring from her sister's. The witness, who ap peared overwhelmed with grief, and cried bitterly, expressed her belief that the prisoner had made away with the poor girl. Mary Barter, servant to Mrs. Nichols, at Bays water, stated that when her sister left her on the 23d of November, she had 3s. 9d. in her pockets, and had a bundle containing some calico and other articles to carry home. She appeared very melan choly during the afternoon, about the threats which Bryant had made use of towards her. Mr. BRODERIP—Did your sister say she had seen Bryant that day P—The witness said she had no re collection of her having stated site had seen him on the day she came to Bayswater ; but her sister had met him but a very short time previous. Harriet and Selina Lethuliere, the mother and sister of the woman who was convicted, and who were also bound over to give evidence on the trial, said the prisoner had repeatedly threatened them previous to and after the Sessions. The girl said the prisoner was a very violent man, and once said he would tear her asunder, and shoot her. Inspector Fagan said he should be enabled to produce more evidence against the prisoner on a future day. Mr. BRODERIP said he felt it his duty to detain the prisoner, and he should not part with him until the mystery in which the affair was involved had been cleared up. The case was one of very strong suspicion, and required the fullest investigation. He was now ready to hear any thing the prisoner had to say. Bryant said he knew nothing of the young woman, or what had become of her. Bad as as he was, he would cut his right arm off before he would " Burke" any female. Mr. BRODERIP asked the prisoner if he could satisfy him as to the manner in which he spent his time on the 23d of November. The prisoner said he could not. Mr. BuopEftir then ordered tile prisoner to be remanded, and said, that after what had so recently happened, and the enormities of which two monsters had been guilty, he hoped that the land and water officers of that establishment, and the new police, would use every exertion to gain some tidings of the femal e who was missing, and whose relatives sus pected she had been murdered. The prisoner was then► removed from the bar. Sarah Barter, the woman suspected to have been Bucked, was about twenty-nine years of age, five feet two or three incites high, fair complexion, light hair, and blue eyes. 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In many instances, the purchaser has paid as much for these spurious ,teel-pointed pencils and tortoiseshell cases, as far the genuine silver and gold article. Shoplc,eepers in provincial towns would do well to observe the above remarks, 'to prevent their being imposed upon, the public being much inconvenienced in not being supplied with the vnuine No part of the Royal speech of Tuesday last is calculated to diffuse more reasonable satis- faction throughout the country, than that whiCh calls the early notice of Parliament to the con- dition of the Irish Church. The relation be tween Church and State in Ireland is such as to entail ruin _upon both if it continues. There exists a universal feeling against the payment of tithe by a nation of Catholics to a Protestant clergy. This feeling—aggravated and inflamed, no doubt, by the diligence of faction, which re- gards nothing but the chance of turning popular grievances to the benefit of their own selfish schemes—has ripened into measures of a very formidable and vexatious character, amounting to nothing less than a conspiracy, which extends through many counties, against the payment of tithes. Of this league, the immediate conse- quence is most afflicting; for it no longer ad mits of doubt that a large proportion —we fear the majority—of the Protestant incumbents throughout the south of Ireland are actually in a state of destitution ! What is the remedy ? Some individuals there are who exclaim, " Why not enforce, in all directions, " the payment of arrears of tithe to the Clergy ?' There is but one argument against such a mea sure—to wit, its perfect impossibility. It is, we repeat, impossible for 500 or 600 individuals to go to law with an entire people. " More is the pity," we shall be answered. It may be so, but such is the fact. We know well enough how much may be said upon the criminality of break ing the laws, and • in favour of the right of en forcing them. But who minds the charge of criminality, when the number of criminals is such as to keep each other in countenance, and to set the law at defiance ? or of what value is that right which there can be found no means of enforcing but by a war of the weak against the strong ? The laws ought, no doubt, to be obeyed. But wherefore has the maxim become general ? Because, generally, it is for the in terest of the whole community, or of the bulk of its members, to obey them. What, then, if laws should be imposed by the supreme authority which the bulk of the community feel that it is not for their interest to obey ? Why they will not obey them, unless constrained thereto by superior power. Then, in the case of Ireland, the question comes to this—would it be better to send an army of 100,000 men to that country, stationing a detachment in every parish to assist the constables in levying distresses for tithe, where the goods so taken would not find a single purchaser ; or repeal a law so odious to the people, and support the active clergy through some less dangerous, dreadful, and abortive means ? No man in his senses now talks of maintaining the Church of Ireland by tithe raised upon the Catholic population. No man is wild enough to suppose it possible that Irish Bishops should long enjoy such revenues, or exist in such numbers, as at present. No statesman imagines that the clergy who ministers to the spiritual wants of about 4-sths of the people, should continue separated and estranged from the political institutions of the land. — None but a few selfish and short-sighted land lords can hesitate as to the positive necessity of a legal provision for the helpless and innocent pauper. These several defects, or vices, in the law of Ireland, will suggest their own remedies to most thinking minds. The speech from the throne, it is but fair to surmise, had all, or most of them, in its contemplation.—Times. At the time when Parliament is about to ap point a Committee to inquire into the policy of renewing the East India Company's charter, and to suggest laws for regulating the trade to China, it deserves consideration whether in a short time we shall have any trade with that empire ex . cep upon conditions too degrading to be borne ; and whether we must not make a demonstration of force before we can expect to renew our commer cial intercourse with honour, or to enjoy it with a feeling of security. Certain we are, that all the evidence given in a former session to esta blish the respect in which the Company's go vernment is held at Canton, and the danger of opening the tea-trade lest the misconduct of in dividual traders should expose our intercourse to hazard, is now proved to be empty sounds. Never was any body of slaves or vassals depen dent on haughty Lords treated with more indig nity or insolence than the Company's agents have been within the present year by the barbarians of the Celestial empire. 'Their property has been sacked, their contracts disregarded, their servants persecuted, and the representation of their Sove reign openly insulted, with the public sanction, and by the authorized agents of the Canton Go vernment. All this has been admitted by the Select Committee of the factory, who, in conse quence left Canton, and announced that unless some favourable change took place, the trade would cease on the beginning of August. This announcement was dated the 20th of May last, and led us to believe either that the authorities of Canton must be brought to offer redress to the injured factory, or that the Select Com mittee would wait for instructions from home, before they allowed a single transaction to take place between their agents atid the Hong mer chants. If such a resolution, however, was formed, it must have been suddenly abandoned, for an order has been issued lay the sanie Select Committee, on the 10th of June, rescinding their prohibitive regulation of May the PAii, and of course permitting the trade whi,ch, was to have been suspended on the Ist August. The reason which they assign for the change of system is the most striking practical non sequitur that was ever introduced into politics. It is co.; .ehed in the following words : " Since the publication of the forw,ek intimation of the Select Committee, the evils of which they complained have assumed an altered and more decided character, being confirmed by an Imperial proclamation front Pekin, di rectipg he most harassing and 4strixtive regulations to be imposed upon foreigners, and indirectly countenancing the acts of aggKeviou which have been committed. The local oncerz of the Canton Government would therefore fic,d ittraediate justification under the sane ion of Imperial authority. The President and Sdoct Committee do not intend to suspend commlrslai intercourse on the let of August next," Ne - ,,!e; was a conclusion more at war with its premises. If the intercourse. was suspended be cause the Factory had been aggrieved, surely an aggravation of the injuries furnished a reason rather for confirming than rescinding the suspen sive order. The celestial ir t iriperor's. answer to the Canton autlioritiea, approving of the new re strictions placed oat the English " Barbarians" which we. find in the Canton Rcgater, of Jiie 18, is a masterpiece of grotesque dignity and gorgeous insoleini., " Let the Gownor of Canton," says i,e, " be strict in enforcing our customs,lt is altogether menu : . bent How, in such ci,rcum internal,and so eradicate the disturbance Celestial Empire s resp ec t a , n re o ig t i t z e b lo a w g il ° l7h i e .ni streigns of Leidenhall main tain their " respectability in governing ?" The only worthy reply to such kiroclarnation and st,tcla. an of war. We refer to the account of what took place at the India-house sale of tea yester day, for an illustration of the bad effects pro duced by the vacillating conduct of the Canton authorities.— On Tuesda notice of a nd ustry, and lated property Farmers of t Rates of Pro published by gave !s on •egtt the Low tde," )ears for that this writ raising the profits, by a return to a free-trade in corn. " Unless," says he, " the process of withdrawing capital from the inferior land, and of bringing down the rent of the superior, should be extremely gradual, great loss would, in the first instance, be incurred, and great tem- porary suffering experienced. To prevent this loss, and to avert this suffering, the return to a free trade in foreign agricultural produce should be made step by step, and should be preceded by the repeal of all taxes upon industry, parti cularly by the abolition of that most injurious of all taxes—the iniquitous tax of tithes. I have already giren notice of a motion for the repeal of all such taxes, and for substituting in their stead a regulated property tax ; and I trust I shall be able to follow up this motive by presenting, for the favourable con sideration of the farmers of the United Kingdom, a measure for a return to a perfectly free trade in all the products of foreign agricul ture, so cautious and so gradual as ultimately to increase the profits of capital and the wages of labour throughout all the branches of nationzl industry, without occasioning any immediate loss to the farmers, who have now invested their stock in tillage, or any throwing out of the la bour actually employed upon this soil. I enter tain, indeed, a full conviction, that a judicious return to a free trade in corn would so increase the general opulence and prosperity of the country as to tend to raise rather than to lower the rent of the landed proprietor." Colonel Torrens, in the course of his short address, ex tending only to sixteen pages, gives a variety of statements, in proof of his proposition, " that a free importation of the products of foreign agriculture, without restriction and without duty, would render the rate of profit in all the branches of industry, agriculture included, permanently high." We may at once admit that the Corn Laws have lowered the profits on the capital em ployed in agriculture, and consequently in all other branches of industry. The picture which. he draws of the mischievous results which these. laws have produced is not overcharged : " The gradual reduction (he observes) and ultimate extinction of profit, in all the branches of industry, form the smallest portion of the evil inflicted on the country by that iniquitous system which deprives the people of cheap supplies of foreign food. As the profits of the capitalist diminish, interest urges, necessity drives him to resort to expedients for producing the same quantity of goods at a less expence. But, if he be a farmer, he cannot, without still greater loss, reduce the quantity or quality of his seed, or dispense with his plough and his team ; and if the ca pitalist he a manufacturer, he cannot make bricks without straw ; be cannot fabricate the same quantity of wrought goods with a less quantity of material, and with inferior machinery. The cost of production can be diminished only by reducing wages. On the labourer, therefore, the calamity falls with grinding pressure. He is trodden to. the earth, without the possibility of recovering his lost po— sition. When things have arrived at that state at which the capitalist, in order to realize a living profit upon the capital he employs, is driven to the necessity of reducing wages, every effort of self.preservation on the part of the. working people serves but to aggravate their misery. This is a point of vital—of fearful interest. Let us considsr . it more in detail. " In the preceding cases, when the farmer, in culti vating an acre of land, advanced seed and food equivalent to five bushels of wheat, and implements and clothing worth twenty shillings, it is assumed that the food and clothing received by the working man were just sufficient for his comfortable support. Now, when the farmer cul tivates land which will not yield a produce sufficient to replace the expenditure, with a living profit, it is plain ' that he must either reduce wages or abandon tillage. If the working people submit to a reduction of wages, their condition is degraded ; if they struggle to escape this de. gradation, and resist the reduction of wages, the land cannot continue to be cultivated, and the demand for their labour ceases altogether. By our restrictions on the im portation of food, and by our tithes, and other taxes on production, the portion of the produce of industry left to the producers is so small, that it is insufficient to afford, at one and the same time, a living profit to the capitalist, and adequate wages to the labourer. Collision is the con sequence. The capitalist and labourer arc brought toge ther, like two shipwrecked mariners, upon a plank in capable of supporting both. Self-preservation urges them to a deadly contest against each other. Everywhere the struggle of despair is carried on. In the towns we have seen the manufacturer become a truck-master, forcing the labourers to receive arbitrary payments in kind, while the labourers have formed themselves into trades' unions, in order to escape from what mistaken suffering fancies to be the injurious influence of capital. In the rural districts, the farmers have minced their labourers to the state of parish paupers, and the labourers have become incendiaries, in order to terrify the farmer into the payment of adequate wages. Where is this to end ? Is it too much to say, that if a speedy remedy be not found for these deep.seatA evils, a servile war—the dissolution of society—is at hand? " Were a total stranger to the institutions of this country cast upon our shore--where he made to under stand the practical operation of our corn laws, tithes, and other taxes upon industry, and desired to estimate the character of the Legislature by the tendency of its en actments, to what conclusion would a strict induction from the facts conduct him ? Certainly it never could occur to him that those who had brought am to the verge of social dissolution should oppose themselves to change, upon the groutada that the system bad worked well.' This strangew to the state of society in England could not be persuaded to believe that the oligarchy, which had employed the legislative power for the purpose of raising the rent of land, by depressing the profits of capital almost to nothing, should have ventured to put forth, to those who employed their capital in the business of cultiva tion, the gross delusion that their interest would be sacrificed by extending to the industrious class a controul over the laws by which industry is regulated. Nor could it enter into the heart of mar stranger to conceive' that any portion of the working people should be so debased by ignorance as to view with indifference an extensive measure of Re form taking power from the faction which had deprived the people of cheap bread, and placing it in the hands of ten-pound householders, who, whether they live upon the profits of their capital, or on the wages of their labour, have a direct and common interest in causing the necessaries of life to be procured at the least possible expense." But how aro we to retrace our steps ? It i s admitted on all hands that a tenant about 'to bark capital on land would be beneFAted by the removal of all restrictions on the trade in food ; but the existing race of farmers are under en gagements of vattous kinds for longer or shorter periods ; and though the renewal of the taxes on production would greatly benefit them in com mon with others, yet, if the effect of free trade should be to lower prices considerably, we fear thew arc few farmers to whom even a gradual return to a natural state of things would not create alarm. Th a t th e f arm ers do not see their way und er th e s y stem o f u nrestricted trade, may be easily su pp ose d ; and byway of showin g h ow possesses many of th e m f e el, we lay before our readers the anNh odeservedly intelligent gentleman. agriculture,feonlgloaNgveindgmletterorn v much weight with Iris brethren, and has exten sive means of knowing how they are affected To the EDITOR of the MORNING CHRONICLE. Sin,—The letter addressed to the Farmers of England. by Colonel Torreus has excited much interest, as well WEL account of the importance of the subject upon which it -Times. - -t. •C day Digo e - ns E motion - - ...,, xe .. . fsu . .. ,,,g , t. _ . I.( y t , ._,_ , - . i. _, 11. 1: ,g_ , to k;he '..., Dfit 1 ',:,- : - fl TC 7 j!f;j: In Trac y him \a----Aninlght -, .0; it apps ;er is connected with a scheme