The Sun. — London, England, 1827-05-17 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The ministerial arrangements were, we believe, all settled yesterday morning, according to our prediction ; btrt, this important event having taken place, it was determined not to move for the new writs in the evening, in order that Mr. Beaumont's motion, which was for to-night, might be disposed of, whilst all the Ministers were in the House. The Hon. Member, how ever, postponed his motion till Tuesday next, on the ground of the expected accession to the Ca binet. Mr. Brougham reprehended this delay ; and on the part of Government put it to Mr. Beaumont, whether he pursued a fair and manly course towards either those who had already en tered, or those who were entering into office, to suspend such a motion over the heads of both, when they were ready and anxious to meet it ? The Hon. Member, however, less prompt to attack than the objects of his attack to defend, adherekto the postponement of his motion. It is, however, now questioned whether it will ulti mately he made, the opposition beginning to doubt their own 'strength, and even a seconder being " to seek : 4 the new writs will therefore be moved for immediately. We seize this mo ment of the completion of the Ministry to say a few words upon its incipient course. We ob serve that the Dissenters are moving for a repeal of the Test and Corporation Acts; and it pro bably may not be long before some step be taken either in or out of the House towards Parlia mentary Reform ; whilst it is notorious that the ex-Tories—one might almost say in consequence of an understanding with the friends of the mea sures just mentioned, are pressing forward the instantaneous consideration of the Ca tholic question. The Ministry will, there fore, under these circumstances, find that its birth takes place, like that of the young phoenix, in a flame. Were it at once to make itself the advocate of these three theoretic schemes, —Reform in Parliament, repeal of the hia bilities of Dissenters, and Catholic Emancipation, (none of which we impugn singly, and the last of which we strongly recommend), —we ' are certain that an alarm would be created in the country, of which it is not easy to calcUlate the result. Were we in the place of Ministers, then, we should leave the new mooters of these questions to their own efforts, simply supporting or opposing them by indi vidual votes or speeches, and not bringing the accu mulated influence of Government to bear upon them in any way. The sense of Parliament, and the un fettered feeling of the public, may thus probably be known upon each of them ; and no Ministry, how ever Tory or ultra-Royalist, can prevent the too ardent friends of any measure from obtruding it upon the public attention at any time they prease. Upon another subject, however, we think the Whig part of the Administration deeply pledged. We mast hope its Members have not come into office without a clear understanding of the future course with respect to the public expenditure,—that it is to be greatly reduced,—and that all our establishments are to be put upon a footing better suited to the present condition of the country. If the Administration have talents, let them be shown in the most useful way—in the alleviation of the public burdens.— • Times. Another opportunity was afforded to Mr. Huskisson, by Mr. Whitmore's motion on Tues day night, to satisfy the,country that it may re pose with confidence on the soundness of those free maxims with regard to commerce, which have within these few years begun to supersede the old system of restraint and prohibition. The object of the motion being to institute a Com mittee of Inquiry into the state of the trade be tween Great Britain and India, and the course of argument leading to an illustration of the ad vantages to be derived from a removal of the em barrassments under which that trade now labours, Mr. Huskisson took occasion to bear testimony, as in former instances, to the truth and value of the principles asserted by the mover ; and ob jected to an immediate compliance with his mo tion, only, first, because the time must come when the inquiry called for would execute itself, namely, before the expiration of the Charter, now enjoyed, and, according to some people, abused by the East India Company ; and, 2dly, because many and most important interests re qttired that 4‘ great changes should not be hur ried on," lest the very objects in view might be defeated by eager and unwise precipitation. It was quite agreed upon by Mr. Whitmore and Mr. Huskisson, that from the excess in the Lao duction of West India sugar over the home de mand, the price of the article has not been raised by the artificial monopoly which the inferior duties as compared with those on the sugars of the East, might be presumed to have created on behalf of the former against the British market. A subject pushed forward somewhat industriously by the Mem ber for Norwich, and tacked on to that of Indian commerce, was made the vehicle for some sharp strictures, in the form of insinuations, against Sir Robert Farquhar, late Governor of the island of Mauritius. It was alleged b 7 Mr. Wm. Smith, that the quantity of sugar now manufactured in , that island was four or five times what it had been at the period of its capture by Great Britain; and that the increase could be accounted for no otherwise than by a toleration since given to the slave-trade. Sir Robert Farquhar indignantly, and with great though not unnatural warmth, repelled this gratui tous attack on his character, and referred to evi dence g iven before Parliament,—to the Secretary for the Colonies,--and to the despatches of Sir Lowry Cole, for proof that no instance of slave trading had occurred af_lviauritius since the year 1821 and that with respect to those of previous date, Sir Robert had done all that the law permit ted, to punish or redress them. Mr. Wilmot Hor ton took up the defence of the late Governor, who had been, in his opinion, attacked irregularly, and for a purpose not altogether fair. Mr. Brougham advised the Hon. Baronet " to meet the accusations " as often as they should be brought forward against " him." Mr. Whitmore's motion was withdrawn ; but the principles on which it had been made seem to have acquired additional strength and weight from the discussion.—lbid. Our readers will see from . our Parliamentary Report, that Mr. Beaumont's Motion on the subject of the New Ministry, which stood for this day, was postponed by him to Tuesday next, "in consequence of the belief that some impor tant changes had been, or were about to be, niadF in the Administration." Mr. Brougham put it to the candour of his Honourable Friend (Mr. Beaumont) " whether he treated either those who were already in the Government, or those who by possibility might intend shortly to acceed to it, with fairness in putting off his mo tion from time to time, and thus hanging over their heads a notice o f this sort." Mr. Beau mont, however, expressed his determination to wait the result of the changes which had been alluded to, before bringing forward his Motion. It appears to us- hardly possible for M. Beau mont and the Ministry to come to any tangible issue. His object is not to ascertain the power of the Crown, either in making choice of 'Minis ters, or dismissing them at pleasure ; for he can not bring the subject of Provisional Government as it is called, 'before the House, without en tering on the whole of the extensive question Above alluded to. Mr. Beaumont will not take the composition of the Ministry as it now exists, and submit a motion to the House, on the subject of the fitness or unfitness of those holding office for their respective situations. A motion whiCh has for object neither to ascertain the King's preroga tive in choosing and dismissing Ministers, nor to in terpose an opinion on a Ministry actually in exis tence, may well be said to be in nubibus, for it is impossible to discuss the qualities of Ministers not yet named. Mr. Beaumont's object, however, is not to be mistaken. As it is rumoured that changes in the composition of the Ministry are about to take place, if he like the changes he will submit a mo tion expressing his approbation of the composition of the Ministry, or he will withdraw his notice al together. If he do not like the changes, why then he will impeach the composition of the Ministry. — In the meantime, Ministers may remain provisional as long as they please, and Mr. Beaumont may hang his Motion over their heads as long as' he pleasses. .---11lorning Chronicle. It is a curious question of political morality, which of the two parties, the Canning or the Whig, have most deeply degraded themselves, and most entirely forfeited the respect and confidence of the country by their unnatural and unprincipled coalition ; nor can a final adjudica tion be made to each, of its proper portion of the common infamy, till we learn from the measures of the new Administration (for from such men'professions ofcourse can go for nothing), how much of principle has been surrendered on the one hand to the restless desire of supremacy, and how much bartered on the other for the emoluments of office. When we behold the men who have ever been the most strenu ous assertors of popular rights, the prompt apologists of popular excesses, the fierce de nouncers of whatever new restraints have be come necessary during occasional periods of popular delusion and effervescence—range them selves under the political banners of one who of all modern Statesman has shewn himself the least indulgent to the errors of the populace, the most vehement supporter of all measures of severity, the foremost upon every occasion to re quire that the hands of authority should be strengthened—when we see the advocates and the abettors of Democratic Revolution in every country unite themselves with him who has been distinguished as one of the most eloquent ,nod Haughty asserters of kingly prerogative, as one Of the most bold and energetic defenders of whatever is most Aristocratic in our own vene rable institutions—when we see elements natu rally so hostile thus forced into combination by the undisguised agency of sordid self-interest and insatiable ambition, we are compelled, in what ever proportions we may divide it between the two parties, to conclude that the aggregate of ignominy is enormous, that it must in the end prove fatal to both, or that it must shed everlast ing disgrace upon the nation by which its revolt ing exhibition is endured. Judging, however, as we are compelled to judge, only by what -is past, we cannot but allot the larger share of the delinquency to him who fills the Most elevated station. It is not on account of that station, neither is it because he might on many aecounts have been expected to be peculiarly careful of his Political reputation—a reputation which, although not without many flaws, was still worth preserving : nor yet is it because of the disappointment which his conduct has inflicted upon us in common with all the respectable portion of his former admirers, that we are disposed to lay the heaviest censure upon him. It is, because in looking back upon recent transactions we per ceive that the blandishments and caresses which are now sufficiently intelligible, which preceded and smoothed the way for the disgraceful junc tion, proceeded invariably from him who ought to have been the most incapable of such arts. We have space to notice but one instance of these blandishments and caresses—but it is a finished and complete specimen :—We mean the celebrated speech on the affairs of Portugal. This speech, in its tone, temper, and spirit—an accurate, that is to say, a servile imitation of one delivered by Mr. Brougham at the period of the French invasion of Spain—was, it is now ob vious, intended to propitiate the admirers, noble and ignoble, of that respectable politician. It produced upon them its designed effect ; but it produced also other effects, riot at the moment so desirable. It alarmed the consistent and honourable Statesmen who were the colleagues of the eloquent Speaker, and whose confidence he thought it convenient for some time longer to retain : and it produced unequi vocal symptoms of displeasure from the representa tives of those foreign Courts which it threatened and insulted. In this dilemma, it became necessary for the representative of the Majesty of Englai:d to print a speeeh, differing essentially from that which he had tittered, or, to express the same idea in more homely phrase, to eat his words. It was by this new, ingenious, and dignified device, that he -con trived at once to calm the suspicions of his actual colleagues, to allay the just displeasure of Foreign Monarchs, the Allies of England, and to allure his former antagonists by the semblance of having be come a convert to their disorganizing and revolu tionary creed. The watchful and eager Whigs were not likely to forget the maxim, that " out of the full ness of the heart the mouth speaketh"—nor, on the 'other hand, were his charitable Colleagues, or the Foreign Powers, whose respect and confidence they commanded, likely to refuse him the benefit of what seemed to be a prompt and spontaneous disavowal. He now, accordingly, enjoys the short-lived triumph •of short-sighted cunning.—Morning Post. .We were highly gratified with the late Mr. Robinson's reply to Lord Redesdale. It ap pears to us singular that there should be so much ignorance respecting agriculture, manufac tures, and commerce ; as if, so long as people eat, drink, clothe, lodge, will have entertain ments, and that we cannot do every thing for ourselves, there must not necessarily be agricul ture, trade, and commerce. Agriculture, we admit, is the root of all things, for all things spring from the land. Lord Redesdale and others deprecate the reception of corn, because, say they, if corn be imported land will go un cultivated. This, we have often asserted, is a false conclusion to come to, for if we produced no corn at all, we must produce some other thing from the land to pay for the corn received from other countries. And it matters not to the land lord, the farmer, or the labourers, whether the land they own, rent, or cultivate, produces corn or sheep's wool, or any other the produce of the soil, to pay for the corn received' from a foreign country. Lord Redesdale and others say,—we can pay for corn in gold or silver if we import it—there is no necessity to pay for it by means of the production . of British land ; but we deny this. We cannot pay for the whole of our con sumption of corn, supposing that we imported all, except with the production of the British ground, for we have not gold and silver to the required amount. We have not more altogether than twenty millions' worth of gold and silver, and our consumption of corn is equal, we be lieve, to one hundred millions a-year. If, there fore, we imported in any one year our consump tion of one hundred millions, and in payment we first of all gave the gold and silver we pos sessed, which is only to the amount of twenty - millions, still we should have to pay a sum of eighty millions to make good the difference ; and that could not be accomplished but by means of remitting eighty millions' worth of the pro ductions of Great Britain. This simple arith metical statement, therefore, we think, iiiocks down all the arguments of Lord Redesdale and others. We will endeavour further to simplify the matter. We will suppose Lord Redes dale to be owner and cultivator of 1,000 acres of land, arid that as he cannot grow corn so cheap as he can receive it from Hamburgh, of course Lord Redesdale would grow no corn. We will further suppose Lord Redesdale to be possessed of a capi tal, in gold and silver, of only 1001., and we will suppose that the consumption of corn in any one year of Lord Redesdale and his labourers to be I,oool.—well, Lord Redesdale imports his year's consumption to the amount of 1,0001., and lie re mits to Hamburgh, in part payment, his capital in gold and silver to the amount only of 100/. But Lord Redesdale would owe to the Hamburgh mer chant 9001. Now how is the Hamburgh merchant to be paid by Lord Redesdale ? Why, the latter must raise from his land, by means of his labourers, produce of one description or other to the amount of 9001., in order to meet the Hamburgh merchant's demands. True, Lord Redesdale might say, in answer to this, but I can send in payment cotton or silk manufactured goods. But then we would ask his Lordship, how he could procure those goods, except he were to give in exchange the produce arising from his land to the amount of nine hundred pounds ? Lord Redesdale is an excellent lawyer, but, like most lawyers, he is a bad arithmetician, or he could not have put forth such nonsense as much of that which we published, about a month since, Under the name of resolutions. It would be much better for lawyers and statesmen, if, when they were at school or college, they were instructed more than they usually are in the science of figures. —Morning Herald. Our readers will be surprised to learn, that the Hon. Member for Stafford, after having given a formal notice of his motion respecting the new Ministry, for this evening, and after all the public business which stood in the Order book of the House, appointed for discussion to night, had been postponed, that no other ques tion might pre-occupy or divide the attention of Members—has thought proper to defer the mat ter till next Tuesday .1 If this be not the very last degree of trifling, not only with the House itself, but with the Government and the 'coun try, we know not what can be so considered. — Mr. Brougham, very naturally, complained of the proceeding, and put it to the candour and sense of justice of the Hon. Member, whether he was dealing fairly with those whom his mo tion was to affect ; but Mr. Beaumont turned mysterious all at once ; talked of " very good reasons for the course he was pursuing ;" and that " he understood changes were about to take place, which would render his motion unneces sary altogether." 'Where the Hon. Member picked up his his secrets, we know not. Per.: haps, it was from the Times of yesterday, which very authoratively informed its readers, that Lords Lansdown and Carlisle, with Mr. Tier ney," were to " take their places in the Cabinet" that day ; and that " writs were to be moved yes terday evening, for Messrs. Tierney, Abercromby, and Sir J. Macdonald." No writs, however, were moved for ; nor were any fresh places oc cupied in the Cabinet. The truth, we suspect, is, that every day, and every hour, diminishes the confidence of the party who have arrayed themselves in pre-determined hostility to the Government, and they are sorely puzzled what to do. They have prematurely committed them selves too much ; and, while they perceive that to go on would only be committing themselves still further, they have not nerve enough to re main. where they are, and thus tacitly acknow ledge their indiscretion. Mr. Beaumont, we confess, does not seem likely to help them out of their dilemma. They feel the ground sliding from under them—their courage is oozing fast away, like the valour of " Acres"—but surely the House, from a proper regard to its own cha racter, and from a sense of justice towards his Majesty's Ministers, will not permit these fri volous impedimenis to public business, and these vague menaces of hostility, to continue much longer. We repeat, if there be in either House of Parlia ment a body of individuals, respectable, from their numbers, and their influence, who conscientiously believe that his Majesty's Government, as now con stituted, is not entitled to the confidence of Parlia ment, and of the country, it is their duty to place that question fairly at issue. If they shrink from this manly, honest, and constitutional course, let them, as they have an undoubted . right to do, each in his separate capacity, carp, and cavil, and declaim, against the measures of Ministers ; but, in that case, the value of their hostility must be in the ratio of the value which the country may put upon their opinions, and not derive fictitious im portance from the assumed concurrence of a nu merous and influential class. We are sincerely de sirous of seeing this matter put upon a right basis; and it can only be done by one general and compre hensive discussion, which may relieve it from the mass of contradiction, misrepresentation, and of studied perversion, which a system of desultory and acrimonious attack has heaped upon it.—New Times. It will be recollected, that'abOut January last, two youths, named George Houghton and James Bishop, who had been convicted at the Old Bailey Sessions of robbing Mr. Fuller, a surgeon, on the highway at Bethnal-green, were ordered for execution. A doubt was raised as to their identity, and extraordinary exertions were made on their behalf, which ultimately led to their lives being spared, and they were ordered to be transported for life. Very soon after their arrival at the convict ship at Gosport, Bishop found means to effect his escape, and bad not been - heard of until Tuesday last, when he presented himself at the gate of Newgate, and, to the astonishment of the turnkeys, requested admis sion, for the purpose of surrendering himself; stating, with tears in his eyes, that he was inno cent of the charge of which he had been con victed, but that he could no longer continue to live in the wretched state of concealment in which he had been for months past, and that he preferred at once delivering himself up to the bands of justice. POETS.- , —" Moore, who is a poet by inspira tion, could write in any circumstances." "'There is no man of the age labours harder than Moore. He is often a month working at the fag end of an epigram. 'Pon my honour, I would not be such a victim to literature for the reputation of Pope, the greatest man of them all. " Don't you think that every man has his own peculiarity in writing, and can only write under particular excitements, and in particular ways 1 " Cer tainly. Pope, who ridiculed such a caprice, practised it himself; for he never wrote well but at midnight. Gibbon dictated to his amanuensis, while he walked up and down the room in a ter rible passion ; Stephens wrote on horseback in a full gallop ; Montaigne and Chateaubriand in the fields ; Sheridan over a bottle of wine ; Mo- Here with his knees in the fire ; and Lord Bacon in a small room, which, he said, helped him to condense his thoughts. But Moore, whose pe culiarity is retirement, would never come here to write a song he could write bitter elsewhere, merely because it related to the place."—Con versations Matunn. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL.—A MISTAXE.—One Mr. Parsloe Allen was brought before Mr. Alderman SCHOLEV, yes terday, charged with haVing assaulted Mr. John Fradelloni, An Italian, residing in Clarence-terrace, Regent's-park. It appeared by.the statement of Mr. Fradelloni, given through an interpreter, that, on Tuesday afternoon last, as he was walking with a lady in Chiswell-street, the defend ant came up to him, and demanded, " Pray, Sir, what is your name ?"—" My name is Fradelloni," was the reply. " That is not true," said the defendant, " for your real name is " Fernandez;" and so saying, he thrust^ letter into his hand, directed to " Mr. Fernandez, Foreign Stock Exchange ;" which letter he required Mr. Fradelloni to read and answer satisfactorily on the instant. The letter was signed " Sam Sweetman," and contained a threat that, unless his claim was settled by one o'clock that day, lie would acquaint the Stock Exchange Committee that Mr. Fernandez, under the fictitious name of Carr, had disho nourably contracted a debt with him, the said Sans Sweet man. Mr. Fradelloni having read this epistle, returned it to the defendant, at the same time assuring him that he knew nothing whatever either of Mr. Fernandez, Mr. Sweetman, or the Foreign Stock Exchange. But the defendant was not to be satisfied with that assur ance. 'He placed himself before Mr Fradelloni so as to prevent his proceeding in his walk ; accused him of denying his name ; flourished a stick over his head, and demanded instant payment of Mr. Sam Sweetman's claim so furiously, that a crowd of curi ous persons was speedily collected, many of whom seemed to think it a very good joke, and encouraged the defendant in urging his claim. Mr. Fradelloni, finding himself in this unpleasant predicament, and seeing no protection at hand, had nothing left for it but to make his way to the nearest place where he was known. Followed by the hooting mob, and baited by the defendant, he at last reach ed the house of Messrs. Obbicini and Company, in Cole man-street, to whom lie was well known ; but the crowd resisted his entering the house, and in the scuffle he had a very valuable amethyst brooch broken to pieces, before he could get within the door. This was the substance of Mr. Fradelloni's complaint ; and in answer to the question of the Alderman, as to whether he had ever seen the defendant before, he replied that lie had not the slightest remembrance of having ever seen him before the day on which he so strangely accosted him, as above described. Miss Mary Anne Durant, of No. 55, Lisson-grove, the lady who was walking with Mr. Fradelloni at the time of the attack, said the account he had given of it was per featly - true. The defendant, when asked by the Alderman what he had to say in excuse for all this violence, replied, that he was son-in-law to Mr: Sweetman; the, writer of the letter in question ; that Mr. Fradelloni had been pointed out to him, by two gentlemen of the Stock Exchange, as the Mr. Fernandez to whom the letter was directed ; and that he felt sure they had informed him rightly, when, upon his accosting Mr. Fradelloni, the lady told him he could not speak a wool of English, whilst in the next moment, Mr. Fradelloni himself, in as good English as ever was uttered, told him, " Sir, you have mistaken your man." This was the reason why he had stuck to him so closely ; but being now quite satisfied that he was mistaken, he was extremely sorry for what had happened, and hoped that the gentleman would be satisfied with au apology. _ . Mr. Alderman ScHOLEY said he was glad to hear him acknowledge he was in error. , 6 Your offence," continued the Worthy Alderman, "is of some magnitude; as you will perceive, if you will imagine yourself in the complain...it's situation ; a foreigner, beset in the public streets by a man, and about a matter he knows nothing of; and to be hunt ed through the streets by a mob! However; if Mr. Fra delloni is content with your explanation and apology, I shall not object to it; but I wish him to understand that he is perfectly free to pursue his own feeling, as to pu nishing or forgiving you ; for I am anxious that he should not retire with a doubt upon his mind, that the laws of England will not afford the same protection to a foreigner to a native." These remarks were interpreted to Mr. Fradelloni ; but he good-humouredly replied, th4t he was quite satisfied with the defendant's contrition and apology ; and there upon the defendant was admonished and discharged. MARYLEBoNE.— William Blifikt, a hawker of string and twine, was charged with stealing from Mr. Spike. poulterer, of Jermyn-street, St. James's, on Monday morn ing last, a cart and horse, containing about three dozen of fowls, besides certain ducks and geese, the whole of which the prosecutor had purchased in the way of business at Leadenhall, and were waiting jut by, for the purpose of being driven home, as soon as he should come out of the market. : . • . • William Tomkins, ahopman to Mr. Bayley, poulterer, saw the prisoner mount the cart and drive away, but he having no suspicion of wrong, allowed him to pass. The cart was afterwards found in Blandford-street, emptied of all its contents, except a single rabbit ; and the prisoner who wasnot apprehended till this morning, was now brought up for examination, accompanied by two or three of the persons who had purchased the goods of him, and who at tended by virtue of summonses issued to them for that purpose. • _ The principal of these was Mr. Trapnell, of Charlotte street, Portland-street, shop-keeper. This person under went a long and rather sharp examination, from Mr. Raw linson. He bought three pair of fowls from the prisoner for 14s. He did not consider, notwithstanding the high price of poultry, that he bought them cheap. As an evi dence, however, that he thought he had made a bad bargain, it came out that he had sent to Mrs. Duffield, a.neighhour . ing baker's wife, to offer her a couple of the same fowls for 6s. or 75., which was accepted. A person in his house was obliged by him with another pair for 65., and the re maining couple the witness had lx)iled for himself. Mr. RAWLINSON observed, " as helot his own pair at the low price of Is., he could certainly afford to have some good sauce with them." The Magistrate made several other judicious observations in questioning him as to his first conversation with the prisoner, and the part he took in his apprehension, the answers to which partook so much of evasion, that he told him he must either be a very sim ple man, or a very crafty one ; but he was inclined to think he was the latter. _ _ _ Mrs. Wallis, landlady of the King's Arms, Little Wood stock-street, was equally fortunate in snaking a good bar gain. She bought a pair of fowls for 35., which the poulterer said were worth 10s., and a goose for 3s. 6d., worth as much. The prisoner asked ss. for each of the articles. Mr. RAWLINSON made some similar remarks to this witness. He knew ladies loved to drive bargains ; but he should have thought that 3 s. for a pair of b fowls worth 10s. might have raised some suspicion as to the way they were come by. Mrs. Wallis—Oh no, Sir ; 1 buy such bargains every day. Mr. RAWLINSON—WeII, I don't mean, Mrs. Wallis; to impeach your honesty—you're a lucky woman, that's all. You know the prisoner, then, to be the man who sold you them, 1 suppose can't swear positively to him, Sir ; but I've no doubt he's the same. Well, that's enough ; you may stand down. Prisoner, on being asked if he wished to say any thing, declined, and only requested to have 15s. returned him, which the officer had taken away. The Magistrate told him that the money, being the produce of the stolen pro perty, could not he delivered up to him. Prisoner—That's very hard. Mr. ItawtimoN—Yery hard ! Yes, and it's very hard fora man to he robbed. He added, I must fully commit you. You're sworn to have been seen driving away the horse and cart, with the poultry in it ; and afterwards to have sold part of it to Mrs. Wallis and another witness. He stands committed. 11V'i Farn, alias Farr, a waiter at Joy's Hotel, Covent-garden, who has been before examined on a charge of robbing his employer, and several gentlemen who fre quented the house, was again brought up, and fully com mitted to Newgate for trial. A quantity of the stolen pro perty, taken by Webster, the officer, at the prisoner's lodg ing, in Leg-alley, Long-acre, was produced in the office. It consisted of glasses stolen from the master, and coats, shirts, cravats, waistcoats, shoes, boots, and other things, from different gentlemen. Some of them were identified by their owners, particularly a coat and two waistcoats belonging to Mr. Waddington, of Trinity College, Cam bridge. Prisoner declined saying anything.; and Mr. Rawlinson told him he should commit him on the different distinct charges made against him, one of which, being above the value of 405., was a capital felony. Prisoner was quite a young man, and, it appears, bad had a good recommendation from his last place. QUEEN-SQUARE. —Yesterday J. Holloway, better known by the appellation of " the cabbage eater," was brought to this office before W. A. A. WHITE, Esq., by Wright, an Inspector of Nuisances, charged with imposing on the public by the following stratagem : Holloway is a well-known character over all London, and has for years carried on his profession as a starving mendicant with great success, although he has been com mitted above 30 times to the House of Correction from the different police-offices. It appeared from the statement of Wright, that the prisoner (whom he had repeatedly cautioned) was in the constant habit of attracting a crowd of passengers around him by pretending to be starved sitting on the pavement, he would procure a large raw cabbage, which, when any person passed, he would begin to tear to pieces in the most ravenous manner with his teeth, and pretend to eat it. The passengers, conceiving he was in a state of starvation to be driven to eat raw cabbage, generally gave him something, by which means he reaped a tolerable good harvest, making oftentimes more in a "day than the donors themselves.. Yesterday morning he found the prisoner in Wilton street, Knightsbridge-road, with a crowd of 30 persons around him, whose pity seemed to be excited at seeing him devour a raw cabbage ; he immediatly took him into custody. Mr. WHITE asked the prisoner what he bad to say to the charge, and where he lived? Holloway said that he lived in George-street, St. Giles's: he hoped his Worship would look over the offence this time. Mr. WHITE said, that out of compassion he would send him to the House of Correction for one month, when he could there eat his eabbage boiled, as they would boil it for him. Wright said, that when lie took the prisoner into custody he had his mouth crammed full of raw cabbage, which lie spit out. He did not eat a tenth part of the cabbage he pretended, for he always contrived, by some slight-of-hand trick, to get the greater part out of his mouth before he swallowed it. , The prisoner was committed accordingly. UNION-HALL.—Yesterday, a gentleman named Wat son was brought before the sitting Magistrate,M. Swa BEY, Esq. charged with having assaulted a Mr. R. W. Warner, in the Waterloo-road, under the following circumstances. The complainant, who exhibited some bruises on the forehead, stated that on Monday afternoon, as he was pass ing along the Waterloo-road, accompanied by a lady, the defendant, of whom he had some slight knowledge, came up, and without any provocation that lie (the complainant) was aware of, struck him a severe blow : a scuffle was the consequence, in the course of which the marks now so visible on his forehead were made by the knuckles of the defendant, who behaved most outrageously. Magistrate.—lt seems rather extraordinary to me, that Mr. Watson should have struck you without some provo cation. There appears to have been a lady in question : pray did the squabble arise about her ? The Complainant—Ay, Sir ; jealousy, I believe, has taken possession of the mind of Mr. Watson, on account of his having observed me in company with the lady with whom I was walking, when he assaulted me. Two gentlemen who happened to be passing at the time of the assault, came forward, and stated, that they observed the defendant strike Mr. Warner ; after which, they " pitched into". one another, and 'heavy blows passed on each side. The defendant stated in extenuation, that on the evening in question, as he was proceeding home, he observed the com plainant, who was well-known to him as a man of most in triguing disposition, and fond of looking after other men's wives, in company with a lady .for whose husband he (the defendant) professed the greatest friendship. Anxious to rescue his friend's wife from the consequences that were likely to result from such an intimacy, he approached her for the purpose of warning her of..her danger, and had no sooner spoken than the complainant struck him : a fight ensued, in which the complainant came off " second best," and on that account he made application for a warrant. The defendant added, " with emphasis," the person who took out the warrant against me has, to my knowledge, blasted the happiness of several married men, by debauch- ink; their wives. The Magistrate, having observed that he had heard quite enough of - the business, held the defendant to bail for the assanit. ESCAPE OF ROWLAND WILLIAMS FROM THE NEW PRISON, CLERKENWELL. At an early hour yesterday 141orning one of the watchmen of the New Prison discovered a rope hanging from that part of the outer wall of the New Prison, near the Infirmary, and on an alarm being given, and search made, it was ascertained that Rowland Williams, and another prisoner, known as " Jack the sailor," had effected their escape, and from the circumstance of the rope not being there half an hour before, it was evident the escape had been very recent. Immediate pursuit was made, and the "sailor" was discovered at a public-house in Wapping, in a state of beastly intoxica tion about nine o'clock, and quite unable to account for his present situation. He was immediately brought back by Willoughby, a turnkey, but no traces of Williams have at present been discovered. ANIMAL ECCENTRICITY.—In the house at the Broomielaw, Glasgow, a cat is just now en gaged in nursing and rearing two kittens, about six weeks old. Some ten or twelve days ago, a mouse, certainly of insinuating manner and ad dress, found a most intimate and friendly con nection with this family. The mouse eats and sleeps with the cats ; lives at bed and board with them. What is most extraordinary, the old cat often takes the mouse. in its mouth from one place of the house to another, but neither she nor the kittens ever hurt it, though they often jostle and set their paws on it, whilst feeding in the same platter.—Aberdeen Chronicle. READING, MAY 15.—Yesterday ' morning great astonishment was manifested in this bo rough, on its becoming publicly known that Mr. Harding, managing clerk in the office of some eminent solicitors, an active leader of " the ser vile or blue cause," and one of the principal con ductors of the defence of Mr. Spence during the late Parliamentary inquiry, after commit ting forgeries and frauds to the amount of 3,0001. had absconded to America. It appeared, that he informed his employers he had received a subptena to attend the petty Sessions at Macclesfield, to prove the signatures to a deed. About two years since he went to Mac clesfield for such a purpose, it therefore excited no suspicion. He borrowed of one of his em ployers a box-coat, and on Wednesday, the 2d inst., set off on his pretended 'journey ; by the post, on the Wednesday following, his wife re ceived a letter from him stating the cause had unexpectedly been put oft' for a few days, and he should not be able to return till the end of the week. No suspicion was even now excited ; but on Saturday evening his wife's brother arrived from London, having that morning received a letter from Liverpool, written by Mr. Harding, in which he states that he is off to America, and :desires him to take charge of his wife and child, as he shall never see them any more. The rea son of his absconding soon became apparent, for a gentleman named Cole, who is in the habit of dis counting bills and lending money on securities, and to whom Mr. Harding was a principal agent, and who had been very uneasy some days on ac count of Harding's absence, discovered that he held a forged bill for 2001. for which he had paid the a mount to Harding, and also some convey ance-deeds on which he had advanced 4001. more, which proved to have been stolen by Harding from his employers' office. Mr. Cole likewise holds some other securities to the value o f 1001., which it is feared will prove bad. A great many persons are sufferers from the frauds of this legal gentleman; amongst them Mrs. Mason, of the Upper Ship Inn, who advanced 300/. on mortgage deeds, and her son 150/. ; the deeds prove to be incomplete and stolen.— Harding was employed by several persons to collect debts ; it appears he contrived to keep the largest portion of the money he received. His employers are injured to the amount of 1001., and his debts in the town and neighbour hood are considerable. Harding is supposed to have been carrying on the forgery system for about a year and a half, contriving to redeem one forged bill, when due, by substituting ano ther to a larger amount. He conducted his bu siness after the plan of Fauntleroy. He has lived extravagantly, and it is supposed has dissi pated the chief part of the property obtained by his atrocious frauds, and that he will not carry to America more than 500/. His loss to " the blue Cause" is said to be irreparable. Events are certainly exposing to public view the instru ments employed to play off the numerous dis graceful tricks resorted to by " the servilea" at the last election. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. LONDON DIARY.—FRIDAT, MAY 18.—:(At the Court of Commissioners, Basinghail-street.) Andrews, W., Louth 1 Smith G., Waterloo-road... 1 , 2 0 Broad, T., Penzance ... Fowler, E., Rotherhithe Giles, J., Vauxhall 1 Swift, T., Fenchurch-street Hodges, I~L iverpool Jones, T., ity-road 1 Vaux, J., Islington 12 Milhench, W.,Bolton ...... 1 Warwick, J., Rotherhithe Nicholson, S., New-street... 10 Weatherhead, A., Coventry Phillips, G., Oxford-street... 10 street Prudence,J., Miles-1ane...... 11 Wreford, M., Bond-st. COUNTRY DIARY: SATURDAY, MAY 19. 11 Browne, T., Wymondham—Norfolk hotel, Norwich g Cecil, J., Birmingham—Royal hotel, Birmingham 1 9 Dumvile, P., Manchester—Star, Manchester Graves, G. Manchester—Hayward's, Manchester Gregson, E., Habergham heaves, Burnley—Hayward's hotel, Manchester llawke, W., Spilsby—George, Spilsby llinde and Co., Rochdale—Star, Manchester Lefone, S., Toxteth Park, near Liverpool—George inn, 1 Liverpool ll Moseley, T,, Leeds—Court-house, Leeds lO Robinson, J:, Tenbury—Crown, Ludlow Tipping, G., Openshaw—King's Arms, Manchester id Wilson, J., Leeds—Court-house. Leeds PRICES OF FOREIGN GRAIN. (From the Moniteur of Saturday.) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Table of the average price of the hectolitre of Wheat in various Foreign Markets, compiled from the most r ecent prices current received in the Department of the Interior. PLACES. DATES. PRICES. Riga March Stockholm 'January 16f. 19c. Dantzig March 13f. Sic. Stettin ...April 15 Ilf. 40c. Bremen (!openhagen March 12f. 85c. Hamburgh March 13f. 50c. Antwerp March 30 16f. 97c. Trieste March 31 13f. 82c. Palermo March 12 16f. 74c. Civita Vecchia March 14f. 80c. Leghorn March 14f. 58c. Milan March 31 19f. 80c. Santander March 17f. 37c. Norfolk February 16f. 46c. France April 15 17f. 6c. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Adair'. 321.3(1. Charlotte - 31 0 Felling 28 0 Ileaton 35 0 I lebbtlrn Main 33 0 CET.—May Walls. End Newmarch—. 345. 64 b ittoHotspur.3l 9 Ditto Peareth 3l 0 Ditto Riddell's _ 34 F Ditto. Russell's „ 35 r Ditto Walker . 34 u Tanfield Trader .31 6 Londonderry small IS 0 Lambton small ~0 Cowpen 28 u Fordel Main '95 6 flartleS , —. 29 6 Stobart's Bowes Main 28 Eden Matn _ Sai ,6 t Fawcett Main.. 3O Nesham Main 32 6 Walls End Hetton 36 2 Ditto Lambton , 35 9 Ditto Lyons 23 Ditto Stewart's 35 9 Russell's Hetton'sW. E. 35 Killingworth 33 6 29 9 Ord'ißedhugh —..— 29 3 Pelaw 31 3 Pontop Windsor 30 3 Tanfield Moor 32 0 32 0 Willington 33 6 Walls End Bell and Co. 31 3 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 9 Ditto Bewickeand Co.— 35 6 Ditto 32 6 Ditto Burraton 33 0 Ditto Carr and Co. 31 3 Ditto Cramlington— 30 0 Ditto Hilda 31 6 Ships at Market, 139 M-4: ups sold, 54%—Unsold, 85. COUNTRY CORN MARK] DURING THE WEEK• Wheat. Per Quarter. s. to s. Boston 55 Canterbury 57 64 Grantham 56 59 Barley. Oats. Beano. s. to s. s. to s. s. to 8 . 0 41 26 — 5,; 38 42 30 38 44 40 43 32 42 58 "- 36 30 34 30 44 58 36 38 60 1 3430 38 35 60 58 t m' 50 30 32 49 - - 56 0 59 30 94 54 - Grimsby— Horncastle. Lincoln Maidstone Spil6by 57 63 54 56 54 58 54 64 54 58 46 56 40 44 40 tl 44) 44 42 43 40 42 40 42 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.--play To-day's market was very thinly attended by ettber town or country buyers . Wheat with difficultybroug ht our former currency, and the market ended heavy. c i small improvement of about Fl. per 451bs. was obtai ne for a few fine Oats ; but, on the whole, they were very dull of sale, and no improvement on the general rung" Beans are about Is. per quarter dearer. Flour sold rebel; more freely, at last week's rates. In prices of o ther Grain no change. COTTON WOOL—GLASGOW. The sales during the week amounted to 1227 hala 47 Sea Islands 3 Do. Saw-ginned 561 Boweds qd. a o.i d . 24.5 Orleans 98 Demerara 149 Egyptians 24 Surats sld. a Pd. mported from Charleston Do. from Demerara 226 - 1354 A LUNAR GUIDE-POST.—We fell in with a Bushman and his wife. On questioning the ui about the probability of finding water in 01 route, the hunter pointing to a certain part ° the heavens, told us, that if we rode hard, l' re , should find water by the time the moou stoo° there. This indicated a distance of not less than fifty miles. Yet it was a consolation to lwr i that we should find water even within that disc tance. Rewarding our inf or m an t w ith a hit tobacco, we pushed on with redoubled speed''' . Thomson's Southern Africa. PLACES OF WORSHIP IN THE METROF°- rAs.—Episcopal Churches and Chapels, 011 Independent Chapels, 66 ; Wesleyan iVietho P ditto, 36 ; Baptist ditto, 32 ; C a l vin i s ti c Medic!' (list ditto, 30 ; Presbyterian (Scotch and VT; tarian) ditto, 16 ; Roman Catholic ditto, l' Quaker's Meetings, 6.—Total, 400. Calculat" ing the average attendance at 500, and that ° 11 : in three only can be present at Divine Serv' e f on account of age, sickness, &c. the number t persons provided with accommodation in tbEi way in London, will amount to no more thowsblas out of every thirteen of the inhabitants ! a Churches of the Establishment are calculate for only three out of every thirteen ! CONSUMPTION OF COALS IN THE • -- 1 TROPOLIS.—The quantity of coals consum e ", " o f the Metropolis is about a million and a h all a chaldrons annually. The consumption d u r : - ; the latter years of the last war, was aboll'• r 5 a million chaldrons a-year ;in which the ll ie t i„ of the coal pits, and the colliers in the O r anticipated a considerable reduction on the re. t ie a l d of peace. The quantity, however, reill 3 l, ll oo t pretty steady for three or four years ; when , 311 the year 1820, owing to the introduction of g oo lights, and the rapid increase of steam-vessels the Thames, the quantity began greatly t° crease ; and, in the course of about five or '‘,o years, that increase has been nearly 50;ou chaldrons. . , On the 15th inst., atBIRTHS Blackheath, the l a dy of S. 1 " rot? Esq. of a son. cl S a me day, at St. Leonard's, near Horsham, the la dl` G. B. Smyth, Esq. of a daughter. hter' On Su n day last, Mrs. Spencer • Percival, of a dai.:„/ DIED. urovn At Lynn, on Friday last, aged 80, Sir Charles K ing g 0 for many years Physician to his Majesty the inieci Prussia, and a Knight of the Prussian Order Of t'e Eag A le. C a t ei h , ss t o n f , lßLr o .ou n yjdago S lah u tEne n t ; ligi a ili y ain;.ie ee:r s aged 21, onlyap° o f John oi t l e e sB ar o (d r ay o 3 f l On the 14th instant, at Clapham, Mr. Edivo rt " Winchester House, aged 29. ndrevraff"l. On the 13th inst. at Box, near Bat h, C. A formerly Captain in the 24th regt. t tb PRINTED and PUELISHED by AL • Sun-Orrzox, No. >«,g, Strand. * , lae lE. e l 4 On the 17th inst., at St MARR . James D's Church, theof 11 Sif Harnage Haulage, Edmund Charles, eldest sop;011r Francis Workman Macnaghten, to Mary Anne, daughter of Edward Gwatkin, Esq. On the 16th inst. at Hackney, Win. Craven, of ft , l' solicitor, to Mary, daughter of the late M. Cravel'' of Lower Clapton. co te . ' On the 16th inst., at Chelsea, Mr. Tooby, of Gloo, to Miss Close, of Chelsea. • CO' On Monday, at Wortham, Suffolk, John Clievalise_Atef bold, jun., Esq. of Ipswich, to Lucy, youngest ( 1 ; 0 ;1, io of the late Rev. Henry Matteson, Esq. of Drinl‘ the same county.