The Sun. — London, England, 1834-08-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The country will not rest satisfied with the conduct of the Lords on the Bills for the partial disfranchise ment and reformation of the corrupt boroughs. Four have been sent to the Upper House during the present session, all of which, excepting that for the annexa tion of Leamington to Warwick, have been uncere moniously postponed by the Lords, till next year. The Bribery Bill of Lord John Russell—originally an im• perfect measure—has been so mangled, so altered by interpolations, that the Commons scornfully rejected it. The most staunch supporters of Ministers de clared their disgust at the amended Bill. A resolu tion of the Peers—in the same spirit of opposi tion—in the case of Liverpool, limited the inquiry to the proceedings of the last election, although the Commons had very properly investigated the habit of election in that town, and the notorious corruption of the_ freemen in all p rece di ng contests . In the case of Warwick, all the evidence respecting Lord Warwick—on the scandalous riots which endan gered the security of life and property—and on the fraudulent increase of the franchise by fictitious rating, was summarily refused at th e i r L or d s hi p ' s b ar . During the whole p rogress _ o f t h e L or d s ' i nqu i ry , no leading member of the Government attended, and oil an average of each day's attendance not a dozen Lords were present. The strictest rules of the Com mon Law Courts were enforced on Counsel—no second reading was vouchsafed—no time given to the House for the patient consideration of the mass of evidence p ro d uce d i n support o f t h e Bill— no discussion on that evidence took place after the summary of Counsel. If it is supposed that the House of Commons, or the country, will be content with the decision of such a tribunal, the Peers are egregiously mistaken ; and we are glad to learn that it is determined to revive the subject in the Commons next year, and more especially that the pe cuniary contribution of Lord Warwick, and the acts of his steward Brown, and other agents in the ficti tious creation of electoral qualifications, will be fully investigated as a distinct question in this important case. On Tuesday, as an afterpiece to the destruction of the Bill last week, Lord Warwick declared that " he had done nothing unconstitutional," and "he ap pealed to the Noble and Learned Lord on the Wool sack, with reference to the extent to which a Member of their Lordships' House might justifiably go in such matters." The Lord Chancellor answered this appeal, and we confess most unsatisfactorily. Lord Brougham drew a refined distinction between " unconstitutional" acts, and acts "contrary to the law of the land." His Lordship asserted, that notwithstanding the well known annual declaration of the Commons against the inter ference of Peers in the election of Representatives of the People, a Peer might legally do any act in an elec tion which a Commoner could legally and constitution ally perform. The Lord Chancellor then referred to the personal opinion of the late Duke of Norfolk, who, it is well known. always claimed to vote at elec tions ; and he further contended that the " legal" in terference of a Peer was not an " improper or disho norable act." Now, the specific resolution of the House of Commons, recorded on its Journals of the sth of February last, is as follows : ,‘ Resolved, That no Peer of this Realm, except such Peers of Ireland as shall for the time being be actually elected, and shall not have declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, hath any right to give his vote in the elec tion of any Member to serve in Parliament. ' That - it is a high infringement of the liberties and privi leges of the Commons of the United Kingdom, for any Lord ' of Parliament, or other Peer or Prelate, not being a Peer of Ireland at the time elected, and not having declined to serve for any county, city, or borough of Great Britain, to concern himself in the election of Members to serve for the Com mons in Parliament, except only any Peer of Ireland at such elections in Great Britain respectively, where such Peer shall appear as a candidate, or by himself or any others, be proposed to be elected ; or for any Lord Lieutenant, or Governor of any county, to avail himself of any authority derived from his commission, to influence the election of any Member to serve for the Commons in Parliament. " That if it shall appear that any person bath been elected or returned a Member of this House, or endeavoured so to be, by bribery, or any other corrupt practices, this House will proceed with the utmost severity against all such persons as have been wilfully concerned in such bribery or other corrupt practices." - The violation of this resolution, periodically repeated for the last two centuries, is a gross breach of con stitutional law. It is true that the doctrine is not sanctioned by any statute, nor are many of the re ceived doctrines of the common law. Moreover, it is notorious that both Houses of Parliament, as the turators of their own rights and privileges, enact various ordinances which, by long custom and the spirit of the Constitution, are in effect laws—rigidly enforced, and universally obeyed. This is peculiarly the case with respect to the Peers, who have always jealously excluded the Commons from all inter ference with their rights and privileges. The Peers have no power whatever over the writs of the Commons ; and the Commons, in 1604, on the occasion of their difference with the Lords, made their memorable declaration to James I.—" That though they were but part of a body, as to make. new laws —yet, for any matter of privileges of our House, we are, and ever have been, a Court of ourselves, of sufficient power to discern and determine, without their Lordships, as their Lordships have used always to do for theirs, without us." (Commons' Journals.) For merly the Crown and the Sheriffs, it is well known, enjoyed the prerogative, exclusive of the Peers, of issuing or withholding writs from decayed and delin quent boroughs. We do not contend for this anti quated and surrender e d p ower , b u t it ill us t rates the original letter and spirit of the Constitution. And how is the fact regarding the resolution of the Commons a b ove c i te d ? It has been always acted upon by the latter branch of the British Legis lature. In the well-known case of Dr. Lloyd, the Bishop of Worcester, in 1702, a petition was presen ted to the Commons by freeholders of Worcestershire, complaining of the interference in a recent election of a Spiritual Peer of the di ocese o f W orcester. The Commonsinvestigated the charge at the bar of their House, and witnesses established the fact of an interfe rence much less unconstitutional than that imputed to Lord Warwick in the instance of the borough of War wick. The Commons unanimously resolved that the Pre late, as the Peer of the realm, had violated the orders of their House—that an address should be presented to the Queen, praying the Bishop's removal from his office of Almoner to her Majesty—and that the At torney-General be directed to prosecute " the Lord Bishop of Worcester's son for his said offences." The Lords took alarm at these proceedings of the Com mons, and endeavoured to screen their member from the resentment of the Commons. The Peers addressed the Queen, but her Majesty, through her Comptroller, reported to the Commons " this most gracious answer : " I am very sorry that there is occasion for this address against the Bishop of Worcester. I shall order and direct that he shall no longer continue to supply the place of Almoner ; but I will put another in his room to perform that duty." By a special order of the House all these proceed ings were printed and recorded in detail. In the more recent election case of the Borough of Helston, the Duke of Leeds was specially reported by a Commons' Committee, for contracting with the Corporation to return his two nominees for an annual sum of money. A motion was made that the Attorney-General be di rected to prosecute the Duke of Leeds, which was lost only by a majority of three votes, and rather from a dispute as to the facts than on any question of the doctrine of Parliament. We need say no more on the subject of the Lord Chancellor's distinction between illegal and unconstitutional act. The Commons, having suspended the Warwick writ, cannot allow the case to remain in its present desuetude, During the whole progress of the inquiry, in both Houses of Parliament, the opponents of this Bill have never called a single witness to disprove the facts of bribery, treating, riots, and false rating, nor tendered any dis proof that these gross violations of the freedom and purity of election were effected with the money, the property, and through the immediate agents of Lord * Warwick. The English Reform Act was passed to extinguish rotten and nomination boroughs, and if the first House of Commons allow Warwick to continue the pocket borough of its Earl and Lord-Lieutenant , there is an end of all respect for the assembly. Lord Warwick is entitled to all the legal and constitutional influence of his property, station, and private cha ractePeersr—but to no incre. It is not in the power of any to white wash his acts, nor to prevent the House of Commons, next session, from doing that justice- which the Lords have denied to an oppressed and insulted constituency.—Morning Chronicle. The amendments of the Commons to the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill were agreed to last night by the Lords. Some discussion took place on the sub ject of the clause allowing the Ministers of dissenting sects to enter the workhouses. We do not believe that much difficulty would have been experienced by Dis senters, in obtaining admission to workhouses to give spiritual assistance to the poor. We can easily con ceive that great difficulty might be experienced in pre vailing on clergymen of the Established Church to enter workhouses ; and we say this because we have often seen that large sums arc voted out of the poor rates to the clergyman of a parish, for affording spiri tual aid to that portion of his parishioners who dwell in the workhouse. It is very hard on the inhabitant householders to be obliged not merely to clothe and feed the poor, but also to pay a clergyman to afford them spiritual instruction, such clergyman being already established and paid for affording spiritual aid r to all his parishioners. What with gaols, correction houses, lunatic asylums, workhouses, &c., there is no end to the sums paid to the clergy—all which addi tional 'sources of income do not figure in any accounts of their revenue. We will answer for it no clergyman of the Establishment will ever stand in the way of a dissenting parson praying as much or as often as he pleases to the poor, if there be no pay attached to the ministration. The dispute seems to us quite uncalled for.—Morning Chronicle. Our readers will observe that the Coroners' Bill is lost. Mr. Warburton, on moving that the reasons of the Lords be taken into consideration that day three months, admitted that the House had placed itself in a difficulty by making the clause respecting publicity, which the Lords had struck out, enacting instead of declaratory. On the whole, however, it seemed to him much more expedient that the measure should be dropped for the present Session, and such would be the result if his amendment were carried. It was quite clear that the House ought not to give the go-by to the great principle involved in the question with the Lords. The amendment was supported by Lord Al thorp ; and indeed the general feeling in the House seemed to be, that there was much more danger in gavinga power to exclude the public than from admitting the public. It has been said that the Attorney-General is of opinion that the Court ought to be an open Court. There cannot be a higher opinion ; but still it is only an opinion. A Coroner may exclude the public ; and Mr. Ferrand, the Oldham Coroner, con tinues to this day to do so. Great inconvenience was experienced at the late inquest on the man shot, from Mr. Thomson's factory, from the stupid 41prmination of this Coroner to prevent the introduction of any per sons who were not witnesses. But Lord Tenterden decided in the case of Garnett against this very Co roner, that he could not be called to account for his decisions in either admitting or excluding the public. We all know that, with such ample discretion, the right of admission to Coroners' Courts is a mere farce. Many a Coroner would laugh at the opinion of the Attorney-General, so long as he knew himself pro tected from responsibility, and might even exclaim, in imitation of a distinguished individual, that he did not regard such a opinion more than that of a drunken piper. —Morning Chronicle. Parliament is to be prorogued to-morrow by his Majesty in person. All the necessary preparations have been made for the purpose, and the public, what ever disappointment they may have experienced from their representatives, feel but one impression as to the patriotism of their venerable Monarch, who, by coun tenancing and supporting the efforts of his people, has secured to them the advantage of a reformed Constitu tion. It is no impeachment of the utility of that re form to say that, on the first trial of the experiment, it has not worked as well as could be wished. Enough has been done—that is, as much as could be expected in the course of things has been done—if a founda tion has been laid to which, when time and experience shall have added a consistent superstructure, English men may look for the security of their rights and pri vileges. That this has been effected in the consum mation of that great measure, which not only forms the distinguishing feature of the present reign, but will stand out in future history amongst the most remark able and creditable events recorded of any nation, those who look fairly at the subject will be the first to confess. They will also recognise in the favour which his Majesty has shown to the party still in power, not a predilection to Whig politics, or Whig purposes, or party purposes of any kind, but an exten sion of the rule of fair play io those who happened to be Whigs, and whom circumstances had made Re formers—a desire that they should have an opportu nity of working their own measure and carrying their own principles into full operation. Though the state of the Ministry, whose weakness has been manifested upon more than one occasion, is not such as to afford any triumphant announcement at the close of the Par liamentary Session, and though the loss of its distin guished leader is a circumstance upon which neither the King nor the people can be expected to dwell with much complacency, still it is greatly to the honour of both that no hollow practices and no inconsistent desertion on their parts contributed to the recent change. Never did Sovereign meet his Parliament at any crisis with a more direct claim to the approbation of his subjects than his present Majesty has done, and still continues to do. Without making any invidious com parisons, we rejoice at the good old habit revived in the present reign of convoking and proroguing Parlia ment in person. Hoping, therefore, that his Majesty may long continue in a state of health to perform this popular office, without having recourse to deputy, we trust also that the task itself will become more agree able from the course which events may take hereafter. —Morning Herald. Wretched Whigs ! Soon will Whiggery and defeat be convertible terms. Beaten night after night in the House of Peers, compelled to truckle to Mr. O'Connell and his tail in the House of Commons, the objects of the faint praise of their nominal friends and of the mingled hatred and contempt of their avowed oppo nents, they turn to their own constituencies, the chil dren of the Reform Act, and entreat at least their aid whom they called into a painful and mischievous exist ence. But even this last resource fails them. East Glougstershire comes forth, after the many previous defeats they have sustained, to fill up their cup of bit terness and disgrace. In spite of the exertions of ma nufacturing Stroud (alas! its electors know their in terest but little, although the constituents of Mr. Ellice and Sir John Hobhouse could inform them what kind of friends they find in the Whigs,) in defiance of the youthful zeal of the newly-enfranchised Cheltenham (to the independence of whose voters Lord Seagrave can bear witness,) Mr. Tracy Leigh, a gentleman of irreproachable character and respectable station, is re jected by the manly electors of East Gloucester, and compelled to c h ew in private life the cud of those reflections with which an unsuccessful contest abounds, while Mr. Codrington, a Conservative of talent and reputation, is elected to advocate the hitherto neglected interests of the agriculturists of the district. In that county, where scarcely two years back, the excellent and amiable Lord Edward Somer set was ejected to make room for another scion of the Berkeley stock—where Mr. Codrington himself had been defeated by a large majority—is Toryism now tri umphant--Toryism, the very essence of whose creed is the best interests of all classes of his Majesty's snb jects. All the denunciations of the 'Whig press have had no other effect than this, that after the noble and manly vote of the House of Peers was anticipated most confidently in Gloucestershire, that vote whose effect was to have been annihilation of the upper branch of the Legislature, and the eternal discomfiture of Toryism, the electors of Gloucester resolved to do their duty, and have, accordingly, returned an un flinching Conservative to advocate their interests in the Commons' House of Parliament. The triumph in Gloucestershire, which would have been valuable at any time, acquires a double value from its coincidence with the recent vote of the House of Lords. The two occurrences unite to proclaim that the British na tion, in all its various ranks. have determined to obey the wise injunction, and to imitate the high example of their Sovereign ; and when they see the most im poi tant institutions of the country likely to become the prey of faction they will " speak out." —Morning Post. No criminal proceeding that ever took place in this country seems to have made a deeper impression on the minds of Englishmen than that which led to the conviction of the trades' union murderers. of Mr. Ash ton, accompanied as it has been by the minute, but still incomplete, confession of Garside, one of the condemned assassins. The crime referred to was of all forms of barbarity the basest—a cold-blooded, sti pulated, mercenary murder. The Venetian bravo of former days was a being to whose name and attributes a greater degree of horror is now attached than to any other class of human monster on record. Venice shares with other states the stigma of tyranny, treach ery, the inquisition, secret torture, t a le destruction of innocent life, for the tortuous and cruel ends of state policy, but her monopoly of time system of hired assas sins is that peculiar stain which will never be wiped out ; it is that infamy which blurs the honour of her sagacious government, which desecrates the renown of her arts, her industry, herenterprise, and her arms. Yet even for Venice there was in the despotism of her rulers, and the utter hopelessness of redress for private injury inflicted on the weak by the powerful, some shadow of vague and indistinct excuse for the assassin. He went armed it is true, but so every man was armed. He lived in a land, he professed a faith, and had for his instructors a priesthood which recognized in the most atrocious crimes fit subjects for religious absolution. He lived in ages wherein moral obligation was but imperfectly comprehended, and when the soul of a culprit was supposed to be cleansed of blood for less than a moiety of the sum which he earned by shedding it. The brutalized bravo of modern times, combining the savage with the coward, may, as we have heard, be found at this moment in some districts of the south of Ireland, where any revengeful villain may for a few shillings get his enemy shot from behind a hedge ; but until within these few days we had trusted that no where, save in ancient Venice, and in actual Munster, could the life of a human creature be bartered for a definite, and that an insignificant sum of money, made a subject of sober bargain and sale, and destroyed as deliberately for purposes of traffic as the butcher fells the ox. The trial at Chester, and its subjoined disclo sures, have'painfully undeceived us. England has become the scene of hireling murders, and Englishmen are the perpetrators. There never was an assassination plan ned or executed within a league of the Rialto, or under the orders of a blood committee in Cork, Tipperary, Limerick, or Clare, performed in a more business-like manner, or in a spirit more sordid, heartless, and re volting, than that for which the two convicted wretches —Garside and his brother miscreant, are to suffer. It appears-that the working cotton-spinners had " turn e d out," and that one of those blessed inventions of a ma nufacturing age—to wit, a trades' union—was at the bottom of their proceedings. It appears that Messrs. Ashton were master-manufacturers in the same place, and that having incurred the resentment of the trades' union, the criminals now under sentence of death were hired for the sum of 101. by the Committee, or by some members of the same trades' union, to murder one of the Messrs. Ashton, which condition of the compact they fulfilled by lying in wait for the unfortu nate man on a private road contiguous to his own pre mises, and delibtely shooting him on the spot. This is the main outline of the transaction, and what com ment can be made but that England is indelibly dis graced by it ? It is a disgrace altogether new in nature,as well as amount. It is as if a demon had sprung from the earth, and left this representative of himself behind him. No personal knowledge of the victim by his destroyers—no individual vengeance to gratify—no impulse of passion to force them onwards—nothing to provoke—nothing to palliate—murder, " contrived murder," for 3/. 6s. Bd. a-piece I Those who, like ourselves, have always manifested a strong dislike of these trades' unions as things of dangerous growth to the community—as convertible, through the sworn secrecy of their proceedings, to whatever lawless and criminal purposes may be entertained by their chiefs —and as, by the power which they concentrate in the hands of a few men, generally chosen for their fierce and overbearing turbulence rather than personal merit or good sense, fit instruments to impose upon, and deeply injure, the great body of the journeymen, who confide in them—those persons; we repeat, who, with ourselves, have always avowed such sentiments to wards the invention of trades' unions, cannot be ex pected to relax in their distil. e of them, because of these late disclosures. We allow that there must be something fundamentally wrong in the management, of the manufacturing system by the masters, or they would not be the objects of sanguinary vengeance to the working body. But is this an apology for murder ? Does any master manufacturer in this free kingdom possess a power of wrong-doing to : wards the men in his employment, the abuse of which can no otherwise be redressed than by his assas sination ? Revenge has been called, it is true, wild justice," but such justice can be tolerated only where there exists no other. The workmen had already left Mr. Ashton's work, and so long as they remained idle, deprived him of the means of turning his capital to use ; they had therefore already exercised their free agency in a manner over which he had no control, in a manner which was calculated severely to affect his interests ; and if they still complained that they had not full enjoyment of what they conceived to be their rights, we may be permitted to question the validity of rights which in a country of equal law seek to vindi cate themselves by prepared and counselled murder. There is, we have reason to believe, much harshness displayed by individual masters, as well as exaction and unreasonable encroachment by the imm. Indi vidual character will of necessity show itself in these relations of society as well as in all others, and law and personal free agency must be resorted to for the cure. When profits are low, there must be struggles between men and masters to see who can shift most of the common grievance off his own shoulders upon those of his neighbour, and all that can be done by the public authorities is to deal out justice according to law towards each.— Times. The most popular New Books of the Season are— MRS. AUSTIN'S CHARACTERISTICS OF GOETHE. THE FIELD BOOK, Comprising all the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England ; By the Author of " Wild Sports of the West." THOMAS CAMPBELL'S LIFE OF MRS. SIDDONS. Iv. MR. 'GOULD'S BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of the ARTISTS of all AGES and NATIONS. MRS. AUSTIN'S STORY WITHOUT AN END. MRS. AUSTIN'S TRANSLATION of COUSIN'S REPORT on PUBLIC EDUCATION in PRUSSIA. MRS. HOWITT'S POETICAL SKETCHES of NATURAL HISTORY. Alia 1 • GROUSE.—Grouse are, t hi s season, most abundant in Yorkshire, the northern counties of England, and in Scot land. The manors on which game is strictly preserved, far in the north, have been let at higher rents this year than oa any former occasion. The following gentlemen yesterday passed through this town on their way to the Moors :- , .44e William Cooke. —Wheatley, P. D. Cooke, Esq.—Owston, Hon. Lumley Saville, Joseph Higgington, Esq.—Hull, Rev. George Chandler, &c. The Tontine yesterday was the scene of great bustle, there being besides the above, many other crack sportsmen, who had already made themselves sure of full bags, as there were at least fifty hampers, waiting for birds, directed for all parts of the kingdom. The bilberries on the moors are unusually abundant. Last year the beautiful bru nettes who gather this delicious fruit were much gratified by a sportsman of considerable celebrity in this town, being disap pointed in his expectations of bagging birds, ordering all the bilberies into his hampers that could be procured within the reach of their shrill voices—." Bilberries" were heard for several miles around.—Sheijicld Iris. PROPOSED WEST INDIA BANK.—It is proposed to form a West India Bank, with a capital of 1,000,0001. ster ling the head-quarters of which shall be in England, and the branches thereof divided among the colonies ; such a measure would equalize or regulate the exchanges, would promote com mercial intercourse, between each island, andfacilitate the ope rations of the planter, by affording him that accommodation which the country bankers of England give to the farmers and merchants. By drawing bills on England at 2or - 21- per cent. the irresistable temptation to the transmission of the colonial currency to England, would be prevented ; and by giving an expansible circulating medium as the representative of value to the colonists, their wellbeing would be materially promoted.— From Montgomery Martin's History of the British Colonies, Vol. 11. West Indies. EAST INDIA HOUSE. (Concluded from The Sun of yesterday:) . . Mr. WEEDING regretted that it had been necessary for the Proprietors to bring the subject of compensation again before the Court, but the scale of the Court of Directors could not be agreed upon by the proprietors.—(Hear.) The plan was not in accordance with the character of the East India Company, to the intentions of Parliament, and to the moral obligations due to the maritime officers,—( Hear.) He hoped to show to the Court of Directors that they ought to act with more liberality to the maritime officers. The Hon. Proprietor then referred to the correspondence be tween the Directors and Mr. Charles Grant, to show that in giving up the commercial assets of the Company, which it was urged were sufficient to provide for the annuity to the Proprietors, and for compensation to the commercial officers, the claims of the maritime officers were recognised, and that this principle was fully acknowledged by the Pre sident of the Board of Control. The Hon. Proprietor en tered into particulars of the Company's assets to show that there were adequate funds to provide for all claims. Though the scale of compensation had been referred back by the Proprietors, still nothing more was recommended than that the fifth and sixth mates should be included. The intentions of the Court of Directors to augment the amount of com pensation out of the Poplar Fund, was making the measure one of charity. The CHAIRMAN said the fund alluded to had existed for a long time, and was totally different to that now proposed. Mr. WEEDING still thought the scale objectionable. He then read the resolutions, for which see advertisement. Sir C. FORBES rose to second the revolutions, and said he was sorry to say that the sums for compensation were not ample for those meritorious and he must say ill-used offi cers. The Hon. Baronet compared the scale of compensa tion to the home service with that of the maritime service, and said a large sum had been paid into the treasury of the Company by the maritime officers amounting to 1,600,0001., an exaction of not less than twenty-seven per cent. being paid by them in teas brought home on private account, whether the voyage was fortunate or otherwise.—(Hear.) He thought the trade to China should not have been given up by the Company. which trade had so benefitted The Company had, however, surrendered the trade, and let it remain in abeyance for forty years in lieu of 640,0001. to be drawn from India for the dividends—(Hear)—there fore liberal compensation should be made to the maritime service. Sir P. MALCOLM said that from the first beginning of the Company till now none had promoted the interests of the Company more than the maritime officers. Many of the Directors had been chosen from among them on account of their talent, and he could speak in favour of their zeal. He was at the siege of Port Graham, and there bad an opportunity of witnessing their praiseworthy con duct. By the opening of the China trade none would suffer more. Mr. FIELDEI4, at some length, addressed the Court in support of the claims of the service, and contended that they were entitled to full compensation out of the assets of the Company. Mr. SWEET could only consider the scale of compensa tion as having emanated from the Directors in consequence of a doubt as to their claim. Of this, however, there could be no doubt, and he thought they ought to be more libe rally provided for. Mr. TWINING regretted that he must differ from the Court of Directors, but knowing the merits of the maritime officers he could not agree to the scale of compensation proposed. The Hon. Proprietor spoke in high terms, from his own knowledge, of the conduct of the maritime officers, and of the advantage they had been to the trade of the country. The CHAIRMAN wished to say a few words respecting some remarks that had fallen from some of the Gentlemen present. The opinions of himself and colleagues were re corded in the rninute that had been read. He had a solemn duty to perform--to decide upon the claims of all parties.— It had been stated that the assets of the Company were between eighteen and twenty millions. Sir C. Forbes had indeed taken a different view of the question. The amount likely to be realised was about 14,600,0001. The Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Weeding) stated to-day that it would take 10,800,000/. to purchase an annuity for forty years ; but there was also 2,600,0001. required to redeem a sum of 12,000,000/. at the expiration of the forty years ; so that the balance would Be small when it was considered that superannuation allowances, &c., were to be paid amounting to nearly 500,000/. more. The donations and compensations now proposed would re quire 430,000/. ; but had the increased compensation been adopted not less than 1 ,160,0001. would have been re quired. Though the proprietors might wish to give, still the Directors bad to consider that they would have to raise the money from the people of India, already heavily em barrassed. He perfectly agreed in the useful services ren dered by the maritime officers. The Hon. Proprietor (Mr. Weeding) had attempted to place the Court of Directors in an invidious situation as compared with the wishes of Mr. Grant on the point of compensation. The Honour able Director here read a letter from Mr. Grant, in which the aggregate amount of the compensations were stated to be very large. The amended plan of the Court of Direc tors would augment the number of commanders entitled to remuneration from thirty-two to sixty-five, and other officers in proportion. The Court had done everything they could. They had strained points to give these meritorious officers full compensation. The Court must recollect the situation of India. Applications were daily made for relief. The late failures in Calcutta had added to these applications. His opinion on the subject remained unaltered, and if the proprietors adopted other measures it must be on their own responsibility.—( Hear.) Mr. MILLS (one of the Directors) did not think so fa vourably of the assets of the Company, and thought the claims ought to be paid out of the dividends if the assets were deficient. Mr. WEEDING replied, after which the Chairman put the question. The original motion was lost by a large majority, and Mr. Weeding's amendment carried. The CHAIRMAN said a ballot on the main question had been demanded, which was granted, and Wednesday next was fixed for that purpose. The meeting then adjourned. THE SUN, LONDON, rrn fc - a; , --]D:istr, AUGUST 14, IP`) - . POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Owen Allen and Patrick Donovan were charged with having been ringleaders in one of those desperate rows which take place so frequently on Sunday mornings in the several Irish districts of the metropolis. Carthy, the landlord of the Black Horse public-house, in Petticoat-lane, stated that the defendants and three or four other persons walked into his house at nine o'clock on Sunday evening last, and after having drank and paid for three pots of beer, which, together with what they had " lushed" before, disguised them all, requested to have a fourth pot of heavy upon "tick." Witness refused, as lie saw the party were far gone in liquor, and Allen retaliated for the unkindness by heaving the heavy upon the floor. Witness, suspecting that this was the regular forerunner of a row, called in a watchman, who went to work in earnest, but was checked in his impetuosity by Allen, who jumped upon a settle for the purpose of jumping more effectually upon the body of the new and unwelcome visitor, a feat which he accomplished in such a manner that the guardian of the night was supposed to have given up his charge for the regions of eternal day. All the rest of the I r i s h then got into the hubbub, and murder must have been com mitted if the metropolitan police had not joined in the en deavour to prevent mischief ; kicking, stamping, biting, throttling, breaking noses in two, murdering, and knocking li g htning out of the eyes were the ingredients of the night's entertainment. The LORD 11LtY0R—The landlord was the immediate cause of all this. He did as the publicans of London are not in the habit of doing. He poured down the throats of his customers all that was calculated to intoxicate, and was only checked by the absence of cash. If they had more m oney, more liquor would have been produced. The prisoner Donovan—Plase your Lordship, as God is m y judge, Allen was as drunk as a lord, and did nothing in the world but tumble down neck and crop. I said no thing but don't kill the poor boy, and that was the very reason they done it. . - The LORD MAYoa—Why he is not quite dead yet. D o novan—But, pleas e y our H onour, h e was as dead as a n it ; v;Tarn't you, Owen, jewel ? Allen—ln truth I was, Paddy. They knocked me senseless, and then they began to murther all the rest of us. The devil a fut I stirred until I found myself in the watch house, and thin the divil a fut I could stir, for they tied me u p 'together like a wisp of straw. A watchman of Portsoken Ward having heard murther was going on in Petticoat Lane, went down to put a stop to it ; but just as he walked into the house he was met by an Irish kick in the face, which flattened his nose, and be actually felt his eyes fly into the back of his head. He was blowed if ever he got such a whack since lie was born. Well, though he was a watchman, and had orders to look after the Ward, he did not know where he was till he got another kick, but as that was at the back of his head, he supposed it brought him to his senses ; so up he got, and he went to the door, called to the police, and he re turned to put an end to the riot, but he got another Irish pelt that made him feel as though he hadn't a bit of mouth upon him, and then all the Irish danced upon his body until it was almost on a level with the floor.—(Great laughter.) Donovan—l didn't dance upon him, for my hand, please your Honour, was in a sling all the time ; and as for poor Owen, upon my sowl, he was as drunk as a piper. A metropolitan policeman stated that the row was a re gular Irish one. When he entered friend was not distin guishable from enemy, and all was quart pots, and " thun der and 'ounds," and " knock his brains out," and "Paddy," and broken heads and pipes, He took hold of Allen, but he had half a dozen upon him at a time. At length, with the assistance of others of the force, he succeeded in strap ping the prisoner's band and feet, but not before Mr. Allen almost kicked him naked. Others described the scene as one of the most terrific kind. Allen, whom the change in his situation had transformed into the most gentle of creatures, said that all he knew about it was, that when the liquor got out of him he felt pains all over him, and no money in his pocket ; and that when he was drunk he dreamt that the devil was walloping him all over with c red hot mallet. The LORD MAYOR—I am in a certain degree responsi ble for the disturbance myself, for I ought to have pre vented the license from being granted ; but I shall take care in future how to act on the licensing day. The Landlord—Nobody can conduct the house but an Irishman ; and I'll ask any one in the Ward whether it was ever conducted better. Some of the police said that the house was, considering what a devil of a house it was, extremely well managed. The LORD MAYOR—WeII managed, and such horrible riots in it ? Landlord—Oh, my Lord, consider we're all Irish.—( Laughter.) Allen was ordered to find bail ; Donovan was discharged. B 0 TV- STREET. - - - THE OMNIBUS NUISANCE ONCE MORE.—Yesterday George Parton, conductor of an omnibus plying between the Elephant and Castle, Kent-road, and St. John's Wood, was charged with assaulting the Rev. Mr. Witherstone, a clergyman, residing at Rochester. The Rev. Gentleman got into the defendant's omnibus at Charing-cross, and was detained for such an unreasonable time that he determined to get out. He opened the door, upon which the defen dant slammed it in his face, and said be should not get out. He, however, descended the steps,and while doing so the defendant struck him. He took no notice of this assault, being anxious to get away from a set of blackguards by whom he was surrounded, and he was crossing the road when a constable and timekeeper, named Rogers, stopped him, and demanded the fare, or his name and address. He refused to give either, and was grossly insulted by the constable. Sir F. ROE fined the conductor M. and costs, and in default of payment committed him for three months. As to the constable Rogers, he (Sir F. Roe) should represent his conduct to the Magistrate who appointed him. QUEEN- S QUARE. CUTTING AND MAIMING.--John Wilkins, who described himself as a journeyman shoemaker, was brought up in cus tody and placed at the bar before Mr. White, charged with wilfully and maliciously cutting and maiming Eliza Billings, a young female, The prisoner and complainant had cohabited together for the last seven months at a lodging in Mermaid-yard, Jews-row, Chelsea. On the previous evening they both came to the office in company with a young man named Chandler, to apply for a warrant against a man who had assaulted the complainant ; but they appearing to be rather inebriated, the warrant was refused. On coming out of the office the prisoner went away, and the complainant and Chandler walked towards home together. When they got to the bottom of York-street they were overtaken by the pri soner, who came unawares behind the complainant, and stabbed her twice in the back with a sharp instrument, and then ran away. The unfortunate woman fell to the ground. and bled profusely. In about three hours afterwards the prisoner was apprehended by Police Sergeant Thatcher, of the B division, at his lodgings, concealed under a - bed. The blade of a knife was found also near the spot where the brutal outrage was committed. The prisoner was fully committed for trial on the capital charge. UNION-HALL. The driver of the cab, No, 1,754, was charged with fu riously driving. _ _ The defendant and another cabdriver were hired by four persons who dined in the City, and who bad no sooner got into the vehicles than the drivers drove through the streets at a most rapid rate. On getting into the Belvedere-road, Lambeth, they commenced to race against one another, and in the course of their progress two or three persons bad narrow escapes of being run over. Wh en th e conten di ng parties arrived at the end of the Belvedere-road they turned their horses' heads round to run the groundover again, and during the race the defendant's opponent, finding that he was gaining ground npon him, and likely to get the start of him, drove his cab across the road, and the consequence was that the one driven by the defendant was upset and shattered to pieces, and he himself was thrown off his seat into the road and severely cut about the head and face. The gentlemen inside the cab were also thrown out and very much hurt. The MAGISTRATE fined the defendant 4/. and costs, and the warrant against the other cabdriver was directed to be served upon him immediately. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LANCASTER, Am 11. The Commission opened here on Saturday. Yesterday their Lordships went to church. This morning Lord LYNDHURST entered the Crown Court ; the Grand Jury were sworn at twelve o'clock. His Lordship briefly ad dressed them relative to the calendar, which apparently is heavy, there being seventy-three prisoners for trial, and many charged with serious offences ; but, from what we could learn, it is not likely to be so bad as at present ap pears. On the Nisi Pries side there are upwards of 120 causes entered. One case, it is thought, will occupy a con siderable time, that of Tattham v. 'Wright. Sir J. SCAR LETT is specially retained on it. (Before Lord LYNDHURST.) Charles Aspinall was charged with killing and slaying Thomas Hastin on the 18th of June last. The parties fell out on their way home from a public house ; they were drunk. Prisoner struck deceased with out any provocation, and knocked him down, and while down he kieked him on the head so seven ely that he imme diately died. On the prisoner finding that 1:e had killed the deceased he exhibited the greatest remorse, and re mained with the body until removed. Guilty, but recom mended to mercy.—Judgment postponed. Patrick Durkin was charged with killing and slaying James Durkin, his uncle. On St. Patrick's Day last the prisoner and the unfortu nate deceased, his uncle, lodged together. On that day a quarrel arose between a woman and the prisoner. On the uncle's interfering a fight took place. After being sepa rated the prisoner possessed himself of a saw, with which he struck his uncle, and inflicted such a wound that he lingered for about ten days and then died. Verdict— Guilty. To be transported for seven years. DIABOLICAL CONSPIRACY. MANCHESTER, AUG. 10: Two men, named Peter Brown and Joseph Marsden, along with Marsden's wife, were examined yesterday, under unusual circumstances. The two male prisoners have for some time been employed by a Society in Manchester, established for the purpose of detecting cases of embezzlement (which in the silk trade has been carried to a great extent). Brown and Marsden, t seems, were to have, on each:conviction, the sum of HY This sum (the price of Mr. Ashton's murder) was, it would appear, too powerful to resist, for to obtain it nothing seems to have been left undone to ensnare the innocent, as the following facts will show :—The female prisoner, who is by prefession a hawker, was in the habit of calling upon a woman at Newton Heath, named Johnson, and who is employed by Messrs. Aughton and Ashworth,. silk manu facturers, of Manchester. Mrs. Marsden soon established a close intimacy with poor Johnson, which led to her (Marsden's) visiting every part of the house ; of course to to that part where the silk was deposited. In most of these friendly inspections she took some silk, which, it appears, had been previously marked. It appeared that this piece of cool villainy had been some time concocting, for the silk was given out to Johnson by her employers, and which was marked at the particular request of Marsden and Brown. When, last Saturday having, as was thought by the trio, enough for the purpose, she (Marsden) proposed a game at hazard, which, perhaps, for impudence and' villainy has but few, if any, equals, for on this day she called on Johnson, having a bundle with her (of marked silk stolen from Johnson's- house), saying that, as she was going to Oldham, she would feel obliged if she (Johnson) would leave the bundle at a certain place in Manchester, Johnson, of course, acceded. Marsden and. Brown aware* of the plans, had Johnson immediately on her arrival taken into custody. Johnson, became, as might be expected, :dreadfully excited, and f ee li ng h erse lf inno cent, began a story; which was told so artlessly that Bes wick, the officer, who had heard similar representations, in which Marsden and Brown had been concerned, re solved on taking he three persons into custody. They (Marsden and 'frown) were seen going down King -street on Sunday, and dogged to a public-house, at which place was found Marsden's wife. They were all secured. There were on the prisoners other stolen materialS, no doubt for the purpose of entrapping other innocent victims like John son. They were all ordered to find bail to appear at the Sessions. MR. ASHTON'S MURDER. The supposed individual who paid the money to the murderers of Mr. Ashton is in custody, and will be ex amined to-morrow at Stockport. Wm. Mosley, who ap peared against his brother and Garside at Chester, speaks - . --------- I r. positively that he (Isherwood.) is the man. New , as s he ;11 wood was, at the time of th e mu rder of Mr. Ashtenba'a 1831, a turn-out, and unemployed, it •is presumed h e . t f o r not 101. to spare, or that if he had, he would not Pa y tben such a purpose, seeing that the spinners' fund log in be , didflourishing. -- In this latter case, the inquiry w t he j the Spinners' Committee find it, Committee privy to its payment, or only the T °lire'. ' r .. , ~ Secretar • for such a diabolical ? purse If they live e the developomeuts which must necessarily arise out tae,e examination of Isherwood are frightful to contemP and if so, wer e ~a The excitement here is extreme. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTE RE D I NWARDS AT THE C USTO M-HOESE, 13 The Maria, from Montreal ; Willi am , from Mede nib l r oo Bien Venu, from O s t en d ; Union, from ditto ; Bro thers, the South Seas; Sir William Curtis, from Calais • I l n ire o l, from Palermo ; Keirt and Maria, from Holbcrg; 'Enirifro from Kiertemude ; Stranger, from Dunkirk ; Mait A la re n c ia ', 2c elt ; Licata and Messina; Ocean, from Archangel ; from ditto ; New Jane, from'Algiers ; Hope, from R° tterdB ol 4 Union, from Harlingen ; Jonge Sunen, from BaY° llll , e , ; fro° Maid, from Quebec; Ocean, from ditto ; Ninb sta. ' Madras and Calcutta ; Severn, from ditto. ENTERED - OUTWARDS:FOR LOADING, Aug. 13 'w ter• The James, for Archangel ; Maria, for Sebastine ; 100, for Dunkirk ; Prince of Waterloo, for Amsterdag ;„, for of Clancarty, for Rotterdam ; Tourist, for ditto; Na u tilus, Lisbon ; Malvina, for M a lt a ; E ag l e , f or M aur itius ; 1 ‘ 1 7" for Quebec. • 3. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, A U G 4.--..,,..b 3 0-1 The Brunswick, for Hamburg; Alert, for St. Mary, for Antwerp. 1 3 • CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAGT AUG• deo ; The Happy Jack, for Seville ; Twee J en, f9r node et. Twee Jongvrouwen, for Workum Med aabriiek, for ?„',. 1 , 00 . Mick ; Perdimmd, for Elsinore; Anna Catharina,e for Lif -- Woodbine, for Quebec; Twende Brodern, for the Bahl°. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. b Lll The Corsair, from Green oc k t o Q ue b ec , the 29 ,... L t tll 6 lat. 47., long. 39. ; the Horatio, from London to Ma a " - frovi 2d of May, lat. 17. S., long. 78. E. ; the Enterpris e ' 34.; Madeira to St. Vincent's, the 14th ult., lat. 23., the Ceres, from Antigua to Liverpool, the 16th ult., ja long. 60. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR s d Adair s East Percy l, 6 Holyweil IS 6 ord s Redliurll Tailfield 2O 6 West Ha' th•V Per Ten <EF.—Aug. 13 t Per Ton. •3 5 ‘Val's Fnd Hetton .......... . Walls End Lambt..n ...... ; . ••• ; Walls End Itus,clV:. Y•'R WaUs End Itussers e Walls End Stewart s ...........Ig Wa Is End Gordon ......... Walls End Bell, Hobson ti: Co. Waas End t lark and Co., d.:- m.,ged and re-shipped W..11s End Hotspur Walls EA Killingworth 18 Walls IsT,.wm Walls End No riu Wills End Itt!dell Bell's Primrose .. larch umberland l's rrK tiolll, ..... . Walls End S,uth 1)....rhat0 ~" Wals End Tees .......... ." jr , Cowp:n ............................... vl Parson's Abbey. . .............. Silkstone Jack, ............ 15 Lamb.on's Yrimro, Lone Jackson ...... .„ • , s lg Silkstone Simpson ... • 19 He ton Trader , ........ .... I 17 0 israddyll's s m a ll ............. Is 3 hips arrived since last market-clay, 40. Wheat. Barley. Oats. G THE s. to s. 3 to s. 30 34 22 30 20 31 23 30 40 16 22 32 436 20 31 , 23 26 24 36 40 26 34 23 32 26 35 35 33 20 30 2:4 32 20 32 32 42 28 34 34 44 22 30 30 32 30 32 22 416 14 - 26 30 32 2l 28 33 40 28 32 :37 38 •22 32 34 30 38 20 34 20 26 27 32 17 23 27 31 23 20 21 22 24 26 Beam. 3, to S• 33 ^"' 36 3 7 45 '-' ' 44 I - _ 42 - 32 36 34ii 4 - 45 44 35 COUNTRY 0 Per Quarter. Andover- Bridpott Cirencester Far i Guil.ltord Henley Fkrefr,rd Highworf h --- Maidenhead Monmouth— Reading Southampton Stroud , 'Tewkesbury —.— Uxbridge Wastage Warminster Worce:=ter: :011,N 48 74 r.B 80 •10 54 59 - 48 52 LEWES MARKET.—Aug. 12 a'' cl, " Per Quar er. S. d. t o S. d. P er Quarter. S. „. tO )5 , (1 Wheat, White ... .18 0 5.i 0 O a t s 2O il :3 1 d, Red 30 0 31 0 Oil Cake... 12 .• s. Teri..,. Barley CHELTENHAM M A RKETS. Per MAO. s. il. to s. (11 Pet lb. Wheat .... Barley Oats 26 33 1 1 Beans Pease ti Beef cl• VI _ __ ---. 61 I 0 Al.itton Vval Pork ............ .... ............ U La , ,,,L) ~., .. •••• t, 41 in 4 ~ (i. I , r ton 41 . 0 LL AI A RICE P.—Atte. 12 . ..s Wheat, 013 4 4 5.4 s 48, ..... New --s• --- ;..-s -- For. ign —s. s. —s ln bond... —s --- ..i• Oats, Poland --,. 2.35. 26s Old —s. — 4 ' ...4 , --- Sand, or Feed ... —...Qs. 23. —s. ---s .... Ft reirn —s. 111. 15, —s. ---:: 4 , i , Batley, Norf. & Suf.... —s tits. LO; Linc 8 , Wold —s• "'' ..- 1 ' Foreign i —s. ' l ' ,f. Be.ns E. 34, :,7, Foreign —s. --" :3 p Pease, White...... __Ts,. _36: —, 40. , F C o r r e i v ign _ -- . 5 . .. 0 .1, 1 00. ..- 5 ' 'I tres Ra eseed in Iyaid none ......... Free. per last 30, ~'" O LP r MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE -„ BASINGHALL-STREET, TQ-MORRO':' ,I, (From th . L: ndon Gazette.) .tp i l G. Sutton, builder, N,w-atreet, Borough-road ............... : i 1'; HPrior, stationer, Ludgate-hill .... . ......... . ................ . ....... I / W. i- f . Judd, (trap •r, I a'h ...................................... .. ..... _...__•••,' ... I J. 1 1::mmait, ship-owner, Arbour-square, Commercial oad t..''''' I W. liakvr, linen-araper, Southampton ................... ......... ......... CAUTION TO SPIRIT DEALERS.—To- 0 , PANG ACT.—A case came on in th e sma ll d e b t Sh e riff t ile Stirling, before Sir John Hay, Sheriff-Substitute for °l d iffi Viet of the county, on Monday last, which may be dee lll ,,, e ,Pli ° portant, and operate as a cau ti on to t h at port i on o f the r vge e who deal in spirituous liquors. Banks Somerville, sle ss' o l ; at-arms in Stirling, the def en d er , was summone d by 3l'fice ter Mackillop, grocer and s pi r it d ea l er h ere, f or the five gallons of whisky, which the defender purchas ed t br i t es l use. He admitted havin g rece i ve d t h e spirits, but as got in single gallons, he pleaded the benefit, and. to 4 vantage of the tippling act, an d was accordingly "eadi,f The court being crowded, the Sheriff took occasicva section of the act founded on, and then stated, that hard the case might be, he had no alternative but to a ' the defendant.--Stirling Journal. On Saturday an inquest was held at the , at. ;l Arms, Hornsey-road, on the body of Thomas Serge a ")it' forty-three, a mechanic. The deceased and a f o flow-r`l e were returning home from Newington Butts, -when jsP ke ceased told his companion to go and tell his wide, for the (0% of some fun, that he (deceased) was not to be se e , ll , ti el' iti v other went to the deceased's wife, and they- were l e t t , and joking upon the subject, when a neighbour knoek e , , door, and that Sergeant w as lying dead on the 0,.; c ,0 0 :1 This was discovered to he t oo t rue , t h e d ecease d WIG I attacked by apoplexy. Verdict—Di e d i b y t h e N i s it a tiog ° CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Tuosday / about half-past six o'clock, an inquisition was taken he' ° eo V . f Payne, the Coroner, and a highly-respectall.e Jury, a ss b od)4 in the Board Room of Guy's Hospital, on view of th e Edward Harvey, who came by his death us ,der the '` 9 t bee, ~,,' circumstances :—The deceased bad for maj iy years Pa s , be stage-coachman on the Greenwich-road, rand was at ', p e g / of his death in the service of Mr. Wheat ley, of G re- dril l .4, stage-coach proprietor. On Tuesday evening he w as o hrl''e the last journey from London, and on arri*in near the mof in the London-r o ad, a woman ran acre, t he way leaders' heads, and to prevent running ‘av er her lie 1*,; 0 5 0 ,0 when thie splinter-bar caug h t one o f the protecting p a d the obelisk, and the c oncuss i on w hi c h spas thereby oa u l ti to t o f sa great, that the deceas e d was t h rown off the boo"et0 road with considerable viol ence , and pitched on the er his head. He was tak en u p i n a dreadfully injured st the blood streaming from his mouth and ears, and 11 "„ver,,If bone so forcibly dislocated th a t i t l ay completely -veer breast. He was brought without loss of ti me to the eeg je where he received every r equ i s it e attent i on ; b ut , gi'`e r ielle. t e in; in great agony until S un d ay l ast , h e ex p i re d. dirl e o ceased bore a very good ch aracter f or steadi n ess al u :ad and has left a widow and l arge f am il y totally unpegv i —Verdict, " Accidental death." On the 9th in s t., at Belf ß ast l , R th r e ff l S ady of 'Robert "4°1;0°1 74th Regiment, o f a d aughter. On the litth inst., at Swanbourne, Bucks, Lady F l r e° '°( th a son. e of On the 10th i nst . , at Ashford-lodge, near Petersfield, - Felix Bean, Esq., of a, d aug ht er . On the 9th inst., at Bind on h ouse , S omersets hi re , 11$ fle T. G. Gardiner, Esq., of a son. 'O f On the 11th inst., at Brighton,M'l the lady of Dr. puty Inspector-General of Army Hospitals, of a son,. MARRIED. to et' 0 1 w On the 7th inst., Gilbe r t J o h n Karney, Esq., " N Margaret Ann, daughter of D an i e l Sparshott, Esq., that place. Or' er On the 12th inst., at Hammersmith, William /11•Nii- r r the East India Company's service, to Charlotte Caroline>, daughter of the late Rev. Dr. Bathie, of Hammers;...." DIED. at On the 12th inst.. Thomas Molini, Esq., in his sAth Y ea ' s :A ' how e of L. Miranda, Esq., of Grafton -street, Fitz.roy-sa l On the 9th inst., at East Barnet, Herts, Lieutenant":"; , David Ogilby, of te Hon. East India ompany's Se unt o above awful and lamentable event was occasioned by the ' beinggentlemanp rec ipit a t e df roma f m , r _ w h e d e dello se 'c l Gold produced instant death. On the 23th uit., at Tenby, in his 70th year, Lieuteno Elliot Poyle, late of the Bengal Establishment. his 31= On the 10th inst., at Littlethorpe, near Ripon, in "'" t ' James, second son of Major-General' Maister. re gal of On the 10th inst.. at Rye, aged 55, Hannah Lewis , ' A li late Robert Lewis, Esq., an Ordnance Barrack-mas te ".:„.yegt of On the 10th inst., Francis Norman, second and you— a • le" Major Edward Brackenbury, of Skendleby, Lincolnshire' VI , On the 12th inst., Anne Maria, wife of Robert g i gg' 4 Chatham-place, 'W 40 alworth-road e§ er On the 7th inst., at Richm on d-hill, Rathminet, -nn x'ibiy:3ol,2ol' widow of the late Captain P onson b y M o l esw ortb, n' . 4 jrs 29th Regiment of Foot, an d s i s t er o f Li eutenan t- Gen e ' Hall Sheaffe, Bart. 01 London : Printed and Published by ItIURD I9 , at The Sun O ffi ce , N o . 112, Strand ' / / 1 1 / ' i lli. / / th / whi t , the / ano lt / ' r oti ti / tha t / th 1, wi th ,i4s t ; r ott ( „ , t ia „ l 'e( 1011 „ ' 1 4 111 Et 3