The Sun. — London, England, 1834-02-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. An occurrence took place yesterday, which was of a nature to make itself felt and remem bered beyond the precincts of the Court which was the scene of it—we mean the retirement of Baron Bayley from the bench. This Learned Judge was, throughout a long judicial life, dis tinguished by many qualifications which emi nently fitted him for his important office : he was an acute and discriminating lawyer, diligent and impartial in his endeavours to arrive at truth, respectful towards the high functions of juries, and firm in his protection of individual weakness against wrong-doers of every denomination. The bar of England has seldom furnished the bench with a more laborious or conscientious Magis trate than Baron Bayley, or one who combined more successfully those attributes which entitle their holder to the attachment of a vigilant, shrewd, and jealous profession,.with those which are calculated to restrain, should it be necessary, the pretensions of the forensic body, from inter fering with the rights of the community, by an attempt to violate those usages and regulations which prescribe the mode, while they recognize the end, of all professional services. The public has lost in Baron Bayley an honest, firm, and liberal-minded Minister of Justice, except where the Press was concerned, and there the prejudice• of a bad school prevailed.— Times. There is in Blackwood's Magazine for Fe bruary, a strange article on the progress of crime, in which the.aim of the writer seems to be to prove that murder and robbery and arson are the legitimate off&pring of reading and writing. First it is the irreligious education of the people that causes the increase of crime ; and there is no doubt that our higher classes would be found stealing and picking pockets if such great care had not been taken to instil re ligion into them. The higher ranks of this country are, in fact, quite imbued with religion. " A large proportion (says the writer) of the lower orders of mankind have rushed in tumultuous crowds to everything that was exciting, intoxicating, and vicious, to the entire neglect of everything that was elevating, useful, and ennobling ; they have neglected philosophy to devour novels, laid aside history to dream over romances, aban doned sciencs to f ed themselves with journals, forgot the Bible to read Carlile. " That this has been the practical result of the heedles. , and irreligiom education of the people, must, we fear, be conceded even by the warmest advocates of the extension of knowledge to the lower orders. i•• " The effect would be exact'y the same upon the higher orders, if they were to be exposed without the influence and preparation of previous and long-continued education to the action of the same causes, and the sedulous care taken at the great seminaries of education, to impress them with religious truths. If the rich and affluent were taught to read, and instantly turned adrift into the world and the corruptions of great cities, sent to London, or Paris, or Naples, without any farther preparation, or the influence of any severer habits, the result would be the same, though the process of corruption would he some what different. They would not, in all probability, read republican or democratic journals, but they would devour trash not one whit less demoralizing." We have often been puzzled to account for the pure morality and self-denial of our higher ranks; but the writer in Blackwood has made it plain that they have been so impressed with religious truths, that religion is constantly pre sent to their minds. In London, in Paris, in Naples, they live like so many apostles. It is their religion which prevents the rich from being as criminal as the poor. The author of " Old Bailey Experience" is quoted to prove that the national schools, in which nothing but Bibles and Catechims are read, teach immorality. They read the Bible only while they are receiv ing their education ; while the scholars of Eton and Westminster, not only read the Bible at school, but acquire such a taste for the Scrip tures, that a well-bred English gentleman has always a Bible and Prater-hock either in his pocket or on the table before him. Were En gland alone concerned, the question might be more easily disposed of; but, unfortunately, Scotland comes across the writer in Black wood : " It appears from a return, 4th March, 1833, that, in 1832, there were— Committed for trial in Scotland not less than 2,431 Convicted 1,577 Acquitted l6l Liberated shortly after committal 539 " Now, the population of England and Wales by the census of 1833, was 13,894,000 The committals Population of Scotland Its committals " Thus the population of England and Wales is to its committals as 14,000 to 19k, or as I to '7OO neatly, while that of Scotland is to its committals as 2,350 is to 2i. or as 1 to 940 nearly. This of itself demonstrates bow rapidly Scotland, within the last thirty years, has gained on its more opulent neighbour in this unenviable distinction. But, in truth, this difference in favour of Scotland is apparent only, not real ; for it at ices chiEfly from the greater care bestowed by the committing magis trates in Scotland, who are all professional lawyers, than in England, where many of them serve gratuitously, and are private gentlemen. " It may safely be concluded, therefore, that the pro portion of crime to the population is as high in Scotland as England ; an astounding and almost incomprehensible fact, considering how large a proportion of Caledonia is in a simple agricultural or pastoral state, where crime is ex tremely rare, and clearly demonstrating that the depravity of its great towns, to make up the average, must be even greater than in the great Babylon of the scuthern empire. o' There is another deplorable fact which illustrates the same change. In London the number of public houses is one fifty-sixth of the whole houses. In Glasgow, it ap pears from Mr. C'eland's late invaluable publication, it is now one-twelfth. In England crime has more than tripled during the last twenty years; in Scotland it has, during ,the same period, at an average, increased at least five—in the great towns probably eightfold. Whatever the school master may have done for our manufacturing population, Le has at least proved but a feeble safeguard against the temptations of vice and the passion for whisky." So then Scotland has been advancing at a still more rapid rate in criminality than Eng land. But reading and writing are no novelties in Scotland. We will venture to say that, with a►~e exception of a few wild districts in the fligitlands of Scotland, the whole population for these hundred years past have been able to read. We remember more years ago than we • like to name, when in a rich lowland country, one poor Highlander who had settled in it, was spoken of in such a way as people speak of a sheep with two heads, because he could trot read. The Scotch are great Bible readers, and dap in general quote from it readily. The change from complete ignorance to the ability to read, is not therefore the cause of the progress of crime in Scotland. There are such assiduous Church-goers, too, that the poet Crabbe, a few ' years ago, was quite edified with an Edinburgh' sabbath. If the Whigs, as the writer in Black wood contends, are the cause of the in crease of crime in England, by teaching the people to read, without making re ligion a second nature with the poor, as it is with the rich, who is to blame for the increase of crime in Scotland ? Not the Whig, surely'. No doubt the Whigs have not at tempted to pass laws making it penal in Scot land to teach reading and writing to the chil dren of persons having less titan 2001. a year. The people acquired their taste for reading from John Knox, and it be no easy matter to cure them of this taste. The writer in Black wood seems to be very imperfectly acquainted with the theory of thieving. Did it never occur to him that poverty and opportunity have something to do with the matter ? A man who lives six miles from any object he can appro priate, and forty miles from any place in which a stolen object can be disposed of, is more likely to be honest than one who cannot stir from his door without seeing something to tempt him, and who can find a receiver at every corner, or at the worst a pawnbroker's shop, in his difficulties. A medical officer in the navy purchased some land in New South Wales, on which he resided a year or two. His house keeper was a Cumberland thief, and his overseer a highwayman ; but he had perfect confidence in their honesty because there was no gin shop, or pawnbroker's shop, within a hundred miles.— Morning Chronicle. It has been the misfortune and curse of Ire land that successive Administrations have en deavoured to strengthen themselves with one faction or another, and neglected the substantial interests of the great mass of the people—one time leaning to Orange ascendancy, and at ano ther encouraging the utmost arrogance of Popish agitation. The Anglo-Hibernian Government has alternately excited the ambitious hopes and exasperated the hostile feelings of conflicting parties, until all sensible, moderate, and impar tial persons have become disgusted with the narrow, partial, and inconsistent policy, almost invariably acted upon, and left the Government and the factions to struggle for the mastery of the divided and distracted country as they best can ; and that struggle is not likely to come to either a speedy or a happy termination. We confess that we augured better things from the appointment of AIN Littleton as Chief Secretary than from that of any of his more youthful pre decessors for many years past, who seemed to be selected for that office merely because they wanted experience, or were violent partymen, or for any other reason than that they were qualified to govern a country which the folly of its rulers has reduced to a condition which it would require the exercise of a clear and enlarged capacity for civil affairs—a passionless judgment—great po litical firmness, and moral rectitude to repair and retrieve. Though we did not give Mr. Littleton credit for those high qualities of statesmanlike wisdom which can create a beauti ful order of civil society out of a political chaos, yet we did think that no secretary for a long time past had been sent to the sister island whose character, habits, temper, and attain ments so well fitted him for contending with the peculiar difficulties which that country pre sents, and which, as we have observed, are the bitter fruits of that system of policy that go verned on the maxim of divide et impera, until its own power was shaken to the foundations by the repeated convulsions of society that it has produced. Mr. Littleton is a man in middle lire, of cool judgment, and considerab!e expe rience as a public man•—;.a Whig., it is true, but not one of loud and boisterous professions, and therefore less likely to betray the principles which obtained for him a certain share of popular favour ; apparently without that sort of ambition which is apt to make public . men swerve from the path of rec titude, and destitute of that silly self-con ceit which renders politicians of moderate abilities waspish, petulant, and impatient of reproof, we expected that he would look at Ireland with the eye of calm, reflecting good sense, if not of superior talent, and commence, at lea , t, an era of more just and impartial policy for that unhappy country. His intentions we believe to be good ; but we cannot say that the conduct of the Irish Government, since he ac cepted the office of Chief Secretary, has realised our expectations. It is true that he is yoked with the Marquis of Wellesley, who has been for some years past too feeble, both in body and mind, to be adequate to the cares and du• ties of civil government in such a country as Ireland. But the Chief Secretary is more the actual ruler of the country than the Lord Lieu tenant, the office of the latter being more for ornament than use. Why then does he not exercise the great powers which he has to put down the pretensions of both factions ; and to prove that the British Government, disregarding everything but the good of the country, is at last convinced of the truth that, to increase its strength and preserve its power, it must la bour for the improvement, and deserve the af fections, of the people ? Now what great object of national improvement has Mr. Littleton pro moted ? Has he recommended any measure to remove the greatest evil of Ireland—the misery, and consequent desperation, of its unemployed millions ? Has he devised any plan to check absenteeism—that curse of a fertile country that strikes it with destitution and famine, while na ture pours forth her abundance upon the fields ? A rate upon the land, and heavier upon that of absentees than others, to set the poor to work in bringing under cultivation those immense tracks of unreclaimed bog and mountain land that spread over about one-third of the surface of the island, would be a surer means of esta blishing tranquillity, by removing the chief ex citing cause of rural outrage and political agita tion, than a thousand successful prosecutions for political libel or sedition.—Morning Herald. LONDON CORPORATION INQUIRY. Yesterday the Commissioners, after concluding their inquiries as to the wards, proceeded to the subject of sworn brokers. Mr. Woodthorpe detailed the manner of ad mission and the nature of the bond required from brokers, and upon the Commissioner proceeding to inquire more minutely with respect to the regula tions and the statutes on which they were grounded Mr. Woodthorpe referred to some of them, and being questioned by Commissioner Drinkwater where they were to be found, answered" in the Statutes at Large." To which the Learned Com missioner rejoined that the search without some further reference woubJ, in a work of such magni tude, be very vague and uncertain. Mr. Wood thorpe remarked, with emphasis, " I am not going to make out a case for the city of London, or any body else. I have told you the mode of admis sion," &c. Mr. Newman (the City Solicitor), being exa mined, gave in evidence that the brokers constantly complain that other persons are acting as brokers, and yet the Court of Aldermen do not take means to prevent them. To such complaints, which were frequent, an invariable answer was made, that if the brokers would produce evidence, the City au• thorities would prosecute. But they usually object to bring evidence, on the ground that they will not turn informers. They have even sometime. , given in the names of particular individuals, and yet will not bring evidence. Mr. S. Sutkynns was a sworn broker, and ad mitted in the year 1814. He stated that foreigners and others negotiate bills on the Royal Exchange, and transact business to the disadvantage of the brokers. He had presented a petition to the Court of Aldermen with respect to the subjects on which he felt aggrieved. On that occasion several Alder me❑ asked him questions, some to the point, and others tried to make a jest of it. His petition, how' ever, was ordered to be referred to the proper officers, and they told him that the proper steps would be taken, but he never heard any more of it. When he applied to Mr. Newman on the subject be said it was in Mr. Woodthorpe's office, and it was not come down to his department. He then went on to com plain of the admission of the Jews, who, he asserted, paid large sums of money to the Aldermen for their admission. He mentioned, as an instance, Mr. Mac catter, who had paid 5001., and that his authority for this statement was the father of Mr. Maccatter and Mr. Wilkinson. Mr. Isaac L. Goldsmid also paid the sum of 1,0001. to Mr. Alderman Perring for his ad mission. Some further but unimportant evidence was given upon these points. COURT OF CHANCERY, JAN, 31. THE EARL OF RIPON V. HOBART. His LORDSHIP said that the application in this case was for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who were the trustees under an Act of 29 Geo. 111., for draining the district of Nocton, in Lincolnshire, from using or erecting any steam-engine for the purpose of throwing the water from the low lands in that district into the river Witham, so as to destroy or injure the banks of such river, and to obstruct the drainage of the neighbouring districts. There was before the Court a mass of affidavits, containing the opinions, and the facts on which those opinions were founded, from many skilful professional men, chiefly for the purpose of deter mining the present question, which was one of no ordinary 'nature. Many of those affidavits stated that the use of a steam-engine of forty-horse power would neither do any injury to the banks of the river Witham, nor obstruct the drainage of the neighbouring districts; and also as many affidavits swore directly to the contrary. It did not appear to him that he could grant an injunction in this case unless it %%ere clearly proved that irre parable mischief would ensue from the use of a steam-engine s and until such mischief should happen it was impossible to say that such mischief might be done; in fact all was uncertain, and uncertain it would most probably remain. He had carefully examined the evidence filed by both parties in this case, and he saw nothing in it to warrant him in coming to a conclusion that mis chief would unquestionably follow the use of a steam-engine. He did not intend to enter into all the particulars of the case; but upon the whole he was of the same opinion as his Honour the Vice- Chancellor, who had thought that some security ought to be given to the plaintiffs against the damage that might be done. In the meantime the injunction was to stand dissolved. THE KING OF SPAIN V. BIA6HADO. His LORDSHIP said that the application in this case was for leave to take a demurrer off the bill on the ground of irregularity. It was clear that an intention to demur had been thrown out during the course of the argument, at a prior stage of the pro ceedings in this suit, but yet he did not think that sufficient notice of such intention had been given. If such notice had been expressly stated the Court at least would have stayed for some time the drawing up of the order which had been made, and which might have been appealed against. Misrepresenta tions had also been made to the registrar, by an er roneous statement to that officer of what took place in Court, and on which statement he had acted when he drew up the order; but he was of opinion that, under the whole circumstances of the case, the demurrer ought to be disallowed. The application was therefore granted. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 31. CRIMINAL INFORMATION-THE KING V. SILL. Mr. RICHARDS rose to show cause against a rule granted in the course of last term for a criminal in formation against the defendant, who is a solicitor residing at Hereford, for endeavouring to provoke Captain Patteshall, R.N., to commit a t.reach of the peace. The publication in question took place at the tithe of the late contested election for the city of Hereford in 1832. The defendant (Mr. Si!!) was the agent to Mr. Blackmore, the unsuc cessful candidate, and a gentleman named Boden ham was the agent to the sitting Members, Messrs. Clive and Biddulph. The Learned Counsel urged in extenuation of the defendant's conduct the great provocation he had received, and contended that there was nothing in the case that called for the in terference of the Court by way of criminal informa tion.—Rule absolute. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, JAN. 31. RETIREMENT OF MR. BARON BAYLEY. Mr. JERVIS (the senior King's Council in court) rose, and addressing Mr. Baron Bayley, said it had been communicated to him that they were not to again have the pleasure of seeing his Lordship in that Court, and he therefore begged leave to express, on the part of the Bar, their great regret, and also their gratitude for the uniform kindness and courtesy which he had constantly manifested towards them. Although his Lordship had been engaged in the Court of King's Bench, and in that Court, for more than a quarter of a century in the discharge of the arduous duties of a judge, he was now retiring in the full enjoyment of a vigorous intellect and excel lent health, and in his retirement he would be ac companied by the best wishes of all who knew him. In the name of the Bar he took leave of his Lordship with the most sincere regret. Mr. Baron BAYLEY, who appeared greatly affected, returned in a low tone of voice his thankful obligations for the manner in which Mr. Jervis had expressed himself towards him, and for the kindness and respect which he had invariably experienced from all the gentlemen at the bar. He had been for a very long time in an office which imposed arduous duties, but he hoped not for a longer time than he was able to perform those duties. He could not now conceal from himself that his strength was no longer equal to the great labour that was sometimes required, and upon that account, and that only, it was that he retired. Nothing could be more gra tifying to him than to carry with him into retire ment the good wishes of those who had practised before him with so much honour and ability, and he begged to return his thanks to his learned brothers, and also to all the gentlemen at the bar. As soon as the object of Mr. Jervis's address was known, the gentlemen at the bar, and every person in court, excepting the learned barons, rose and con tinued standing in the most profound silence until Mr. Baron Bayley had concluded. The business of the Court was then resumed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, JAN. 31. (Before Mr. Justice HOLROYD.) RICHARD ARMSTEAD'S BANKRUPTCY.-CAUTION TO WITNESSES. A proceeding of some novelty occurred to-day, and which is of some importance to parties who may he summoned to give evidence before the Commissioners, who neglect to obey the SUMMONS. The bankrupt is the late proprietor of the Liverpool Amphitheatre, and the attendance of Mr. J. J. Bird being required to speak to certain transactions between him and the bankrupt, a summons and letters were sent to Liverpool requiring his atten dance, which, however, were not attended to, and a messenger was sent to Liverpool to enforce the orders of the Court. Mr. Bird was this day brought up in the custody of the messenger of the Court, the official assignee having previously by letter requested a statement of his dealings with the bankrupt. In reply to the summons Mr. Bird pleaded indisposition; but from certain circumstances the Commissioner forwarded a messenger to compel his attendance. At the close of the examination of Mr. Bird to•dsy the Commissioner compelled Mr. Bird to deposit ‘s ith the Registrar of the Court the amount of all the messenger's expenses to and from Liverpool, as well as to ineeL all the fees, before he was discharged out of the custody of the messenger. The Court made this order in consequence of the party sum moned not having complied with the summons, and directed the money to be impounded till the result of the evidence should be known. The necessary expenses of parties summoned when the orders of the Court are observed are usually paid. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS, JAN. 31. (Before Mr. CONST, Chairman.) ROBBERY AT THE MASQUERADE.—John Isaacs, the son of an attorney, was indicted for stealing a gold necklace, a pair of gold ear-rings very hand somely studded, and other articles of jewellery of great value, the property of Mrs. Davenish. Mrs. Davenish and some friends went to the late Masquerade at the Italian Opera, where the prisoner and a party of persons of the Jewish persuasion also were. At that time in the morning at which the prosecutrix was about to retire she took off the ar ticles mentioned in the indictment, and placed them in her bonnet, which was knocked down by some person in the room, and the articles of jewellery, which were very valuable, and which were in the bonnet, were scattered about the floor. She saw the prisoner, who had been annoying her before, pick up the articles or some of them, and forthwith gave him into custody. The property was afterwards produced by a person connected with the establish ment at the King's Theatre. Mr. C. PHILLIPS cross-examined this and several other witnesses at considerable length, and then called a host of persons for the defence, who gave the prisoner an excellent character.—Acquitted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. A man named John 11Marthy was brought be fore the LORD MAYOR, charged with robbery. Charles Nash. carman to Mr. Allan Mason, Brooks's Wharf, Upper Thames -street, had received orders to go with ten sacks of flour to Holloway from Brooks's Wharf. As he passed the new Post Office, on his way thither, the prisoner overtook him, and told him that he had got the wrong note of delivery, and that he (prisoner) had got a pot of beer for running after him and luting him know his mistake. Witness asked the prisoner who had sent him, to which the latter replied that a young man on crutches had given him the job. Witness thought that all was right, as a clerk on the pre mises was lame, and he said, " I must go back, I suppose, as that is the case." And back he drove to Thames-street. He left the cart with the flour near Vintners' Hall, and went down to the wharf, where he soon learned that he had been deceived. Suspecting that the flour was in bad bands he ran back us hard as he could, but both flour and cart were gone. He then informed Daniel and John Forrester, who really appear to act by instinct in the pursuit of depredators of all kinds, and they soon brought intelligence of the matter. Daniel Forrester stated that having been informed of the disappearance of the cart he and his brother went upon the scent, and at twenty minutes after six o'clock they saw a cart near Duke-street, and with it were two men, who looked as if all was not right with them. Upon being approached they ran away as hard as they could. One of them escaped, but witness came up with the other, who was out of breath. There were only six sacks of flour in the cart, so that the thieves must have dis posed of four on their way. John Forrester was convinced the prisoner was one of the men who were with the cart, and had taken to their heels. The prisoner was committed for trial. Anne Brennan, was brought up for final examina tion, charged with having concealed the birth of her child, and fully committed. Alexander Brannan, who was some days ago charged with having forged a check for 101. upon the banking-house of Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith, was brought up for a second examination. In consequence of the publication of the first case against the prisoner other persons appeared with charges of a similar description, and it was soon evident that he had dealt extensively and most in geniously in that kind of depredation. A new case was entered upon against him. Mr. De Lolme, of Rathbone-place, it appeared, was one of those imposed upon. The prisoner had gone into the shop and gossiped about articles; at last he said that he wanted a watch for a lady, and he pointed out one which he said he should like to exhibit. He at the same time produced what seemed to be a check upon Messrs. Greenwood and Cox for 101., and signed " John Weston," and said that he would return with the watch by four o'clock. He was not at all suspected, until he far exceeded the hour, and it was ascertained afterwards that the instrument was a forgery. It appears that the plan of leaving cheeks thus as a security for the return of fancy articles has been very . successful ; and the prisoner was remanded, in order that others might come forward against him. Edward Christmas Day, a man in the service of Mr. James Franks, coffee-merchant, of No. 11, L•swrence, Pountney-hill, was charged with having robbed his master.—Committed. BOW. STREET. CURIOUS CHARGE OF ROBBERY COMMITTED SIX YEARS AGO.—Yesterday a genteelly-dressed man, wearing spectacles, and speaking in a strong foreign accent, although calling himself by the English name of Heathcote, was charged with stealing a ruby and diamond r!ng, of the value of 301. Mr. Francis Joseph Burke was Neapolitan courier to a gentleman named Higgins, who had large estates in Naples as well as in England, and in the year 1828, when in this country, he became ac quainted with the prisoner, and was then in the ser vice of M. Louis, the French giant, who had exhi bited himself here. Witness at that time wore a ring set with rubies and brilliants, arid at the request of the prisoner, who said it was exactly the sort of thing that would take the fancy of M. Louis, he intrusted him with it to show to the latter. He had no sooner got possession of the ring than he absconded from the employment of M. Louis, and witness being obliged to depart for the Continent he lost the ring altogether. He had been several times to this country since, and on each visit endea voured to find out the prisoner, but could not suc ceed until Thursday, when he met him, and gave him in charge to a constable. The prisoner said the ring had been made-a pre sent to him by the prosecutor, and that after he received it lie had worn it twenty ti nes in Mr. Burke's presence. The prosecutor seemed greatly astonished at this statement, and solemnly declared that it was utterly false. The prisoner was fully committed for trial. HATTON-GARDEN. ___ Yesterday Frances Purchas and Alice Trigg were brought up for final examination before Mr.IiOGERS, charged with having practised the most aggravated impositions upon Lady Sugden ; Mrs. Dodson, Se cretary to the Cl'ieen's Lying-in Charity ; Mrs. Rackham, 41, Woburn•square ; Mrs. Daniels, of Russell-square, and several other charitable ladies. The case excited considerable interest, arid the office was crowded by ladies who attended to iden tify the prisoners. Mrs. Rackham stated that, on or about the 21st of December last, the prisoner Trigg called at her house and requested to see her, when she appeared to be pregnant, and represented herself to be so, arid that she was in great distress, with a large family, and unable to provide for them, her husband being out of employ. She said that she called at the sug gestiOn and on the recommendation of the Rev. Mr. Lonsdale, and witness gave her a filled-up ticket for relief on the Charitable Sacramental Fund. In a few days afterwards she again called, in company of the prisoner Purchas, who supported her, and she ap peared to be exceedingly ill and far advanced in pregnancy. Witness proceeded to the hall, and the prisoner then begged of her to gran t some i nstant relief, as Trigg was on the point of delivery, arid %%as momentarily expected to be confined. She sat down on an arnpeliair, and seemed to be in the most acute agony; and becoming alarmed for her safety, conceiving that a baby might be born on the spot, she was extremely agitated, and looked her up some baby linen and other relief, and gave them some bread, cheese, and porter before they quitted the house. They then requested her to afford them some relief from the Charitable Sacra mental Fund, and on inquiring what sum was usually given by ladies from the fund, the prisoner Purchas replied," 10s. Gd.," which witness imagined to be exorbitant, and she gave them 55., expressing a hope that they were not imposing upon her, when Purchas replied, " Oh, no !" and told her that if she applied to the Charity the money would be returned to her, which, of course, witness did not think of ever doing. Purchas then said that she had known Trigg for five or six years; that she was her land lady; and spoke in the highest terms of her cha racter as an industrious, sober woman, deserving of charity, and that she (witness) need not be suspi cious or afraid of their imposing on her; and that she had merely attended her as a friend, through pity, as she was in a dangerous condition. Witness was excited in their favour, and she pas'ed a high compliment on the apparent humanity of Purchas, when they quitted the place, Trigg having all the appearance of a woman in the pains of labour. Wit ness even.ually ascertained that the whole was a designing imposition, and that numerous frands had been committed by them upon other ladies round hcoeir T e ildlingol IbO most decided l yllrh OOd e he ar thatwitness t h e said h ta she prisonerst were the same persons who practised the fraud upon her. Mrs. Dodson also identified the prisoners as hav ing imposed upon her, by representing that they were recommended to her by Lady Sugden. Mr. ROGERS committed the prisoners to the House of Correction for three months each, and during that period to be kept to hard labour. THAMES POLICE. DISASTROUS SHIPWRECK.--Captain Kellar, the Master of the brig Wellington, of Cork, which was lost at sea, applied, with four of his crew, to claim the assistance of the Magistrates. The Captain said he was on his way from Sr. Andrew's to Cork with a cargo of deals, and in lat. 481. long. 28 , about 800 miles from the western coast, he encountered a very heavy gale. After the ship was buffeted about for some time a heavy sea struck her, swept the deck, carried all the boats away, split the covering hoard, and threw the vessel on her beam-ends. The crew attempted to get her before the wind, but she filled while in the act of securing some provisions, and carried them all away, with Mts. Turner, a female passenger, the cook, and two men. Soon afterwards on the topmast giving way she righted again, when the decks blew up, the stern was blown right out, and caiied away the remainder of the provisions, chests, beds, and nautical instruments, leaving the vessel a total wreck. They had no other resource but to take to the maintop, with nothing to shield them from the inclemency of the weather but what they stood upright in, and with no other prospect but starvation. Fortunately they found a piece of pork, weighing 4lbs. and a dead cat, on which thirteen of them subsisted for eleven days, without any other sustenance. On the second day a man named Thomas became delirous, and put an end to his existence. The others lingered on until they were picked up by the Hue Mac, of Ha lifax, bound to London, and they arrived in the Sr. Katharine's Dock on Thursday morning. One man had since died, arid another had been taken to the London Hospital, and he was not expeced to sur vive. The whole of his crew were in a very weak state, and the Magistrates must excuse their sitting down in their presence; but the fact was, they could hardly drag one limb after the other. Mr. BRODERIP and Mr. CoSIBE said they felt for the distressed condition of the Captain and his men, and would endeavour to assist them. They were very sorry that the Bench had not funds at their disposal to assist them, but they must not be lost. They would consult Mr. Ballantine on the subject, and see the parish officers of St. Katharine's ; and in the meantime the Captain and his men would receive every attention which their distressing case demanded. The Captain thanked the Magistrate, and retired with his men to the outer office. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS. (From the" London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR.—There is no new feature in the Sugar Market. Coloury descriptions continue in great demand, and go off freely at still advancing prices : the rise this week is about Is. per cwt. Low Sugars are heavy at a small reduction in the currency. The estimated sales this week are 3,000 hhds. and trs. By public sale this day 87 hhds. 1 tierce 21 barrels Trinidad, 42 hhds. 12 trs. St. Lucia, the whole good coloury useful Sugars; they went off with briskness at an advance on the previous currency of Is., the few ord. descriptions at former prices. The Refined Market is without change. Grocery goods go off freely at former prices; fine Crashed for export, at 30s. 9J. ; for inferior parcels the Refiners appear inclined to accept the offers they had previously refused. This afternoon there is a very limited quantity of goods offering in the Refined Market, and the fine descriptions of Crashed (entitled to the bounty on double refined) are held more firmly for 315., and some sales are reported to have been effected at that price. Of the descriptions refined from Foreign Sugar in bond, there are a'so fewer parcels on band. The grocery descrip tions have been taken off freely at very full prices. Mnuarrius SUGAR.-The public sale of yesterday, consisting of bright coloury grocery Sugar, sold without briskness but at high market prices, being much wanted, 525. 61 to 555., from 6d. to is. higher. EAST INDIA SUGAR.—The demand we have lately no ticed for East India Sugar continues, the prices are is. 6d. to 2s. higher; the Bengal Sugars at the Company's sale nn Wednesday, 7,068 bags, went off at this improvement; Stains are again Is. higher, fair yellow to mid, white 225. 6d. to 255. The grocers purchase the E ist India Sugars on account of the scarcity of West India coloury descriptions; there is also an export demand, and by the speculators, the latter calculating on a reduction of duty. FOREIGN SUGAR.—'There are a few purchases of Ft). reign Sugar reported ; good to fine coloury white Havan na!), slightly damaged, 275. to 295., mid. to fine yellow 235. 6d. to 264. ; the Rio Sugars sold Is. lower, soft low brown to mid. yellow to 225. 6d., low to good white 225. 61. to 255. per cwt. lower; good ord. Jamaica 81s. to 835., fine ord. o te . r, a , t 5 i o 6 n , ; r a o t h r d e r . aheanedxceapllrißooritoisfht3Perlbainotea,taiorne fully 2s. 0 a. ls S 47 u s m . a t t o ra 4B b s r . ow ; n fi 4 oe 7s o . n t i o . s t 4o large°o T tp f o F a C o E rsc E 7e f o s j f w l a g : b a oE i d :t East India d ß i t t a h v e ia r e s i o s l sold no al Samarang 525. 6d. In Foreign there are few t ransac• tions to report ; 60a. is asked for good St. Domi ngo ; fi ne 4 C B ey e. lo ; n 6. 6 n 6 e s. o a r ,n l ( . l S s u 6 m s. a 6 tl :l ; ; br ° o r w d. n ord. Brazil sold at 575. 6J. ; Have.nnah, good ord. brown 555. and 565. 'lbis day's public sale 130 casks British Plantation (Jamaica and Berbice) went off very heavily, a very small proportion sold ; good tnid. Jamaica was taken in at 995. 6,1., good ord. very rank '79s. 6J. ; mid. Ber. bice 88s. to 89s. The market for the British Plantation descriptions is exceedingly heavy, and not saleable at the reduction of 2s per cwt. which we have mentioned; the Berbice to-day partake of the fall in the other British Plantation Coffees. of R R o t o st, to ß r it , a p rf oi n,AND t:the i contractors LAN iiaviog lie b r o e are few uvht their sae o l e s . ces , ary supplies previously to the day of contract, and the advance of prices having, it appears, checked the general demand ; the late prices are, however, fully supported, and no Leewards are now offering on the market, and few par cels of Jamaica under 3s. In Brandy and Geneva there is no alteration ; ssine sales of the former reported at 3s. lOd. This afternoon some sales of Demerara Rum are reported at three and four over at 2s. 41. TALLOW.-Tallow continues steady in price, but there is still a heaviness about the market; the qiwation at a late hour this evening was 43g. 3d. TonAcco.—About 200 Wads. Kentucky Tobacco have been suld at 31d. a 3P. FRUIT. —There has been rather more business done in the common descriptions this week, as well as Currant', but the finer sorts are still very little inquired alter. Itinico.—The accounts from Calcutta yesterday were to the 30th September. The eAiniate of the Indigo erm p had advanced from '75,000 and 80,000 inaunds to 85,000 and 90,000 ; the holders here have since evinced a gi eater disposition to sell, but there a - no alteration since die conclusion of the East India house sale. SA I.l' PETRE. —There is no alt-ration in Saltpetre; th: only sales are Madras of inferior quality and high retrae- tion s9s. a 311. There have been large sales of Brit Refined ; the Market is in consequence lower-365. s' 365. 6d. SPICES.—In Pepper there is no alteration—the mark is still heavy, good heavy black Sid. to 4kd. oil I's heavy Sid. Pimento is id. lower; good quality mid 41d. to 4-p. Cassia Lignea 76 e . and 76a. 6 d former prices. COCOA.-About 500 bags Brazil Cocoa offered at publ l sale went off at 6d. RlCE.—There is no alteration in Rice. COTTON.—The Cotton market is very dull, but there it no reduction in the prices. The sales for the week 20 very limited—they consist of 360 Surat, sii. to '71 44 and 20 Madras, 611. Per Quarter. Ashburn Basingstoke Bath Bridgewater Bristol Chesterfield Derby Doncaster Hungerford Homey Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet Sherborne Taunton Yarmouth Yeovil ••••••••••••••••• Per BusheL -"*". Shrewsbury 50 56 48 55 44 56 43 56 48 56 44 54 49 52 48 60 32 31 25 20 26 32 2 - 2 26 28 32 28 36 33 35 26 34 19 24 38 16 22 34 'A 26 36 20 25 32 16 20 3 4 17 25 41 20 24 34 14 22 40 - 21 35 17 21 4 17 24 32 15 22 34 48 54 40 52 44 57 24 28 22 30 22 29 36 56 52 58 22 29 25 28 17 55 30 18 36 - :7 -: 44 52 50 54 4S 53 46 55 50 54 s. d. s. d. 69 761 9.4 30 24 27 24 28 24 32 24 26 s. d. s. d. 34 40 20 ia 3 6 19 24 36 18 23 9 2 23 25 30 20 22 5 6 s. d. s. d. s. e ,, 40 50, 0 0 BIRMINGHAM CO Wheat, W. lb. Barley, imperial quarter Do. Grinding, 49 lb. Oats, 391 b. Old Beans, 66% lb New ditto New White Boiling Pease, Ditto Grey ditto , RN MAR (ET, Jan. 30. „,, ... 59. Bd. to 7s. 14 " 0 34 0 g „," 3 3 3 3 0 3 ...15 6 17 "„ —.14 6 1.5 h. 22 0 22 —.lB 6 20 _2,, i, 3 imp. bust DEVIZES CORN MARK ET —Jan. 30. 5 . Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Quarter. s. d. 0 0 Best Wheat 26 0t027 0 Barley 24 oto 125 Second 23 6 25 0 Oats lB 0 0 0 Thirds 2l 6 22 6 Beans (per sack) 16 0 ii 701 Sacks of Wheat sold] 0A .., Flour (per bag).. 90 0 0 at the average of ' ' Bread (per gall). 1 2 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) I ON MONDAY, FEB. 3. 0. 0 T. Hammond, furrier, Loudon wall DIVIDENDS. At ; J. Liley, innkeeper, Radbourne, Hertfordshire ...........•••" I S. Harrison and W. Bristow, nurserymen, Old Brompton•• • i J. H. Renny, merchant, South Sea Chambers ................... j J. Pestell, miller, Stotfold, Bedfordsh.re .............. . ............ GALE MIDDLETON.-A STORY OF I II ; PRESENT DAY. —This new novel, by the author.o. "Brambletye House," is of a very peculiar construot i o, both as to conception and execution, forming a sort of d mixture of the m Inner of tw o or th ree o f th e p r oro: o d schools of story-telling, includi ng suc h as are mo ot oPi i to each other. Thus we have sketches of the e cceo lr o p in the caricature style of Theodore Hook; of the da t. 69 1 ,4 appalling, yet sentimental scenes of the author of 41 ham ;" and a portion of the social philosophy o f ? 0 8 0 especially as exemplified :in his " Caleb Williams. be ; effects of this amalgamation it is not easy to desc r y but the general result is a most anxious curiosity r on with the narrative and fathom the various writ e ' with which it abounds.—Globe. CAMBRIDGE ANECDOTE.—Some of contemporaries may remember a story once currev Cambridge, of a luckless undergraduate, who bein e amined for his degree, and failing in every subject or which he was cried, complained that he had not Il e , questioned upon the things which he knew. Upon Oil examining master, moved less to compassion by the lag DIED. On the 30th ult., G eorg i na Isabella, the wife of W. JoPe Esq., of Devonshire-place. f ps On the 31st ult., Cecilia, infant daughter of Thos. P. Esq., of Millman -street, Bedford-row. ' r o lo On the 30th ult., in his 47th year, at the house of hisbr e j in-law, Mr. Harford, River-street, Myddelton_square, Cordell, of the Strand. On the 26th ult., Elizabeth, the wife of John Pidcoc/4 of the Platts, Staffordshire, t/s Ott the 30th ult., at her nephew's, John Charles Cons r Esq., Oak House, Battersea, Surrey, Mary, relict of th e Captain Blucke, aged 84, late of Putney. On the 27th ult., the Itev. James Wyld, of Bluto s ' Andrew, Wilts, in his 69th year. hte f s On the 29th ult., Louisa Harriet, youngest daug - o pv Charles and Lady Georgiana Nevill, aged 2 years and 4 led , On the 31st ult., Richard Bremridge, Esq., of Colleg e ' Clapton. Mo. fo'l at th, On the 29th wG, _ ie house of her sister, Whitling, New Bond-street, Alice, wife of Tom Jackson, of Barnsley, Yorkshire, aged 35. • On the 21st ult., George Leigh, Esq., the claiman t , title and estates of the late Edward Lord Leigh, of Stu' in the county of Warwick. PRINTED AND PUBLIPIIED BY M U R DO YOUNG ,- I AT SuNOrTIcR, 112, STRAND. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, comr l 4 from the Returns made in the week ending the 27th al Jan., 1834, is 28s. 60. per Hundred Weight, exclusive of 1 , 11uties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the Importab , thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OP HOPS.-Jan. 31. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) -3. Os. 5/. 12s. to 6/. ti• Choice East 61. Os, 01. 0:. to 6i, 10i'• Choice 71. Os. 71, 10s. to 81 O s ' New S , ssex Pockets 5/. l's. 01. Os. to 5/. 10!. Superfine Ditto ...... 51. 15s. 01. Os. to 6/. 0' Farnham lll. I Is. 01. Os to 121. 12 4 Ditto (seconds) lOl Os. 01. Os to l 11. ( S . PRICE OF OIL. 6 Rape Oil, brown 65....,.... Refined Linseed Oil 27 I° 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton , 6 ° PRICE OF POTATOES.-Jan. 31. Os. to 3/. 10s. per ton. Middling Marsh Champions Os. to 41. 10s. ditto. Scotch Reds... . .3/. 10s. to 41. Os. ditto. Chats _ -0/. Os. to 21. Os. ditto. I - Wiz tTECH A PEL H A I A REF.:T.-Jan. 30. Hay 70s. Od. to SOs. Od. 1 ('lover 755. 0.1. to 9016 uw 275. Od. to 30s. Od. PRICES OF LEATHER. . Per lb. d • t o d . P er lb . d. ig Butts, English 14 24 English Horse Hides,. 14 Ditto, Foreign ........-.. 13 'A Sp•mish Ditto 1 7 Dressing 11 15 Per dozen. el 121 16 C a l; Skins ,. SO to 4(lb. 14 04 Ditto, light - - Ditto 40 to 601 b. 17 2 5 Crop Hides, light 12 131 Ditto 70 to 901 b. 2 0 Ditto 40 to 501 b. 12 16 Small Seals. Greenland 16 Ditto PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows:1 i ', Candles, per doe. 7s. lid, to Si. Od. 1 Moulds, per d0zen.......9 5 . v. " RICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. 11( 1 ' Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, &c. per 1121 b. Town Tallow 48s. Od. Yellow Yellow Russia 4Bs. Od. . 7o s' White •••••••ow.PAMOIWIMO • Od. White Soap Ditto _ -5. Od. Graves ••• t Meted Stu 375. Od. Good Dreg 5....,.,..... `'%l 1, Ditto Od. COAL MARKET.-Jan. 31. Per Ton. s. d. • Per Ton. s. Adair's l6 6 Walls End Hotspur...... 16 . Chester Main l3 6 Walls End Killingworth I+7 Dean's Primrose 15 6 Walls End Newin a rch..... Hebburn Main ................. 16 0 Ditto Northumberland., 17 1-I,lywell 14 0 Walls End Hetton I° Pontop Windsor 16 0 Walls End Lyons , a ;.ntield- . 16 9 Walls End Lambton 4 West Hartle), l6 6 Walls End Stewart'4........ Wylam 17 0 Dixon's Butterknowl..... 14 ,/ 1 WE. B,tl, Robson, &:Co. 17 0 Walls End Adel a id e ,".; I Walls End Bewicke & Co. 18 3 Walls End Gordo n ,w. l ' Walls End Brown's.... l6 6 Walls End Ili dley's 16 W.E. Clarke and Co , 15 • 3 I W. E South Durham" 17 Walls End Gosforth...-... 18 0 Walls End Tees 1 , 1 6 Walls End Hi1da,,,,,,,.,,,,.,, 16 9 Hartley Ships arrived since last market-day, 95. CDUNTRY COttN MARKEPS DURING THE I Wheat. Barley. I Oats. I Bea°. trable dulness of the man than to anger by his ungeck able complaint, tore off about au inch of paper, and, Pt ing it to wards him, desired him to write upon that su knew.— The Doctor. BIRTHS. On the 31st ult., the lady of Francis Whitworth Russell , of a daughter. On the 31st ult., the lady of William Preller, Esq., St. 1 71° Grove, North Brixton, of a daughter. On the 31st ult., Mrs. John Vickers, of Blandford.sq" a son. MARRIED. eed On the 29th ult., the Rev. Samuel Francis Morgan, g°- of All Saints, Birmingham, to Mary Juliana, eldest dal, of James Tilson, Esq., of Goring, Oxon, and niece to Henry Tilson, Esq., of Watling Park, in the same county On the 30th ult., at Sibsey, Lincolnshire, the Rev. o ° o Willingham Booth, 8.A., Vicar of Friskney, to Mary Ag only child of the late W. Pacey, Esq., and niece to the H. B. Pacey, D.D., of Boston. On the 30th ult., at Ketton, Rutlandshire, Mr. Henri 6 jun., of Water-lane, Tower-street, to Miss Elizabeth Max daughter of the late Robert Maxwell, Esq. On the 21st ult., at St. James's Church, Mr. Wallis, 0 . 13 1 Marlborough-street, to Miss Rebecca Hammans, of Mort' # street, Cavendish-square, youngest daughter of the lat e Hammans, of Gafford, Berkshire. 1-- .