The Sun. — London, England, 1834-04-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. By what we may call " letters from the mountains" we learn, that the canvass in Perth shire is proceeding as favourably for Mr. Gra ham as the friends of liberal principles or a re formed Government could anticipate or desire. The organization of Lord Ormelie s committees and agencies, which at the last election brought such bodies of Highland and Lowland voters to the poll, as to dismay the Tory faction, and to scare them from a second day's trial, still re mains, and will be employed as zealously for the present candidate as for his predecessor. Wherever Mr. Graham's friends and canvassers have appeared, they have been welcomed with the same favour or enthusiasm as those of the late noble member for the county. At the same time it is evident that Mr. Graham ap pears among the freeholders of Perthshire in his real character of friend of the existing Go vernment—that he fights under no disguise of ultra-liberalism—that he affects no reputation for independence of party connexions—and that he consequently cannot expect the suffrages of those who are hostile to the present Adminis tration.- Though his known principles, his talents, his fortune, "and his exertions in the cause of reform, might have entitled him to the support of the new constituency which reform has created in the county, he has not been afraid to hazard his success by adding the title of public servant to his other claims, and has not shrunk from wearing the badge of a candi date for a county over the costume of a Lord Commissioner of the Treasury. In this there is both boldness and honesty, nor can his cause be disparaged by his being called a placeman in a Government the principles of Which he has zealously supported without - the prospect of office or emolument. If the Tories, after they t hear of his recent appointment, intend to de claim against him as a placeman, they ought to recollect in what character their present idol Sir George Murray appeared when he solicited their suffrages in letters from the Colonial-office. On the other hand, his antagonist, Sir George, appears to us in his address less straight forward, manly, and explicit, than his high character would have led us to ex pect. Without remembering his recent opposi tion to reform, or his present party connexions, the unwary freeholder of Perthshire might al most take him for a Liberal. How he has arranged his new professions with his old friends, we are at a loss to conjecture, but the reform constituency of that enlightened county cannot be deceived by either the one or the other. Sir George is a man of a cultivated under standing and a liberal spirit, and therefore alive to the progress of the age ; but the faction who are endeavouring to make him their instrument on the present occasion, are as much opposed to the principles of popular government and of improvement in our national institutions as in the most despotic and corrupt days of the Dun das reign. With this fact we believe that the people of Perthshire are too well acquainted to trust the Janus-faced monstrosity of professed liberalism in the candidate, with rank Toryism in his chief supporters. In lending their zealous aid to reinstate Sir George Murray in the re presentation for Perthshire, after he has re nounced so many of their errors, or hurt so many of their prejudices, the Tories of that county can only have one or two objects in view. They have either the selfish folly to expect that their faction will again slip into power, and that their favoured candidate will thus resume his former seat in the Cabinet, with the power of dispensing patronage in their favour—or, being hostile to all political improvement, they wish to inter rupt the course or to embarrass the proceedings of the present Government by sending to the House of Commons an able party opponent. This view of the case cannot be gainsaid by those who know anything of the Tory party in that district of the island. Whether, therefore, Mr. Graham had accepted of office or not be fore he appeared as a candidate, the contest would have had the same character and the same issue. It would have still been a struggle between the friends and the enemies of the present Administration—between the authors and the adversaries of the Reform Bill—between the rump of the Melville oligarchy' and the , enlightened body of the middle classes whom that oligarchy had insulted and oppressed. There is no tiers parti among the agricultural voters of the great landed pro prietors at the foot of the Grampians. They care nothing for radical or speculative principles or opinions, and only regard the ensuing con test as a trial of strength between the partisans of the two sorts of government which they have personally and practically experienced. Before the Reform Bill the constituency of Perthshire, including the possessors of the paper-freeholds, which might be held by bankers in Lombard street, without possessing a foot of land north pf the Tweed, amounted to less than 250. By hot great act the number of electors has been raised to about 3,200. Thus nearly 3,000 voters are indebted for their franchises, or their privilege of choosing their representative, to a bill which was carried through parliament, by the present administration, to which Mr. Gra ham belongs, and opposed by Sir G. Murray dud his electoral monopolists. Can the new constituency whose claims were thus supported and thus opposed hesitate a moment in making their choice between two such candidates ? Gratitude and consistency forbid the disgraceful and degrading suspicion.— Times. A sort of counterpart to the case in the East. Riding of Yorkshire, of a demand for 'personal tithe, made by a clergyman on a number of labourers, who were, by another clergyman and magistrate, committed to prison, has just occur red at Feversham. . We have given the case in .7nother column, from the Kent Herald. Wil liam Waters, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Neaine, of Rushett, an industrious man, who h a s a wife and six small children dependant on his earnings for daily subsistence, and who is in the receipt of 15s. weekly of wages, 2s. of which lie leaves in the hands of his employer for the rent of his cottage, was summoned by the Rev. Wm. Henry Crawford, vicar of Linstead, for the recovery of the small tithes of his wages. " It appeared (says the account), on the oath of Mr. Frost, the vicar's agent, that the poor man owed the sum of four shillings, for two years' tithe—that he (Frost) had never de manded it of Waters, but that he had only once asked Waters's wife for it, and that she was unable to pay it." Waters, it appears, lived three years in Linstead, and paid the first year's tithe, and would have paid the other two years had Mr. Frost demanded it. The pro ceedings against Waters were, it appears, invalid, and withdrawn ; so that Waters was allowed to escape,. on payment of his two years' tithe, with out costs. Kent has always been famous for clergymen skilled in the ecclesiastical law ; and as the Marquis of Camden takes care that there shall be no lack of clerical magistrates, the recommendation of one of the church autho rities (Johnson of Cranbrook), author of ' The Clergyman's Vademecum, &c., will no doubt be attended to. " Justices of Peace (he says, in the genuine apostolical spirit), that love the church and clergy, have great opportunities given them of doing them right by stat. 7'and 8 W. 111., c. 6, being an act for the more easy recovery of small tithes (which is perpetuated by an act of his late Majesty). Though tithe only is mentioned in the title, yet in the body of the act, oblations, offerings, &c., are provided for. An admirable law if well exe cuted." The Rev. John Johnson is quite in dignant that it should be thought Dissenters are exempted. "If (says lie) the notion be ad mitted' that offerings are due upon account of receiving the Sacrament, then the Dissenter has a pretence for not paying them. For he must say, that if he be not obliged to receive the Sacrament of the legal incumbent, then he can not be obliged to pay any duty to him on that account. I think it might as fairly be argued, that since he is not obliged to attend any ministra tions of the legal incumbent, that therefore he is not bound to pay him any church dues. But it will be answered, the act of toleration obviates this argument by binding him to pay his tithes, notwithstanding this toleration ; not only tithes„ but all other dues ; for so says the statute, viz., Nothing herein contained shall exempt any persons from paying tithes or any other dues to the church or minister ;' therefore not for offer ings due upon churching women ; kir if those only who are actually churched must 'par, 'then the church is a loser by women being left to their discretion in this particular, as before they were not." In this case Waters escaped, be cause,-in order to claim the remedy afforded by proceeding under the admirable law, a demand must first be made, and it was not here proved that a demand had been made. But the above writer repels with great indignation the idea that it is necessary to make a demand before proceeding in an ecclesiastical court. "It is not necessary (he says) that the incumbent do demand his tithes, or satisfaction for them, be fore he commence his suit, except he proceed before the justice of peace. I have, indeed, heard that the last Dean of the Arches and Vicar-General would not permitprocess for tithes till a demand was first made ; but in this I sup pose his judgment was singular. However, it is certain such demand is not necessary for him that sues in the Exchequer." The Rev. Dr. Doyle, we remember, observed on one occasion, that the Church of England had inherited from the Church of Rome her admirable system of Ec clesiastical Law.- Behold the fruits. The truth is, the people are unaware of the extent of the legal annoyance which the parson can give them. We are unwilling to believe—not withstanding among a people so grossly igno rant as a great part of the English peasantry unquestionably are (thanks to the care of the Church), many things may take place of which no account transpires--that personal tithe is generally demanded from labourers. But, as Jeremy Bentham observes, what a state is his who is at the mercy of any one who chooses to put an oppressive sleeping law in force against him ! Any one who chooses to rummage may discover sleeping laws in abundance ; and if he can also find obliging magistrates (one parson will always oblige another—asinus asinunz fricat), he may trounce his victims. The Rev. Mr. Crawford admitted that though Waters had paid him one 'year's personal tithe, and though he had sued him for two years, he had never seen his face. This is being a good shepherd ; and this is the great advantage which religion derives from an establishment in which the pastors are quite independent of the flock.—Morning Chronicle. Advice is proverbially a cheap article ; it is, therefore, a most plentiful one ; so much so that even those who are too selfish to offer any other assistance, are seldom known to refuse—their advice. But the worst of it is that, as every one feels anxious to relieve the intellectual necessities of his neighbour, the disposition has a strong tendency to counteract its own purpose ; for when all sorts of persons volunteer to give advice, it follows, as a matter of course, that all sorts of advice will be given. The Trades' Unions appear to us to be standing at the pre sent moment in a predicament of this kind. They receive the most opposite counsel from opposite parties as to the course which they ought to pursue ; so that whatever way their own judgments or feelings may incline, they have authority at hand to support them. For our own parts, we have still confidence enough in the natural good sense of Englishmen to expect that they will be able to see their way through. all those contrarities, and to avoid the peril into which some of their pretended friends would have them rush in de fiance of all conequences. We observe that. even the most violent of the journals which are urging them to extremes, advise them to abstain from oaths, in order to avoid the penal conse quences. But the same journals do not advise them to abstain from those acts of tyranny, and from that interference with the free agency of their fellow-workmen, which makes terrorism the main-spring of their operations, and exhibits them to the world in the inconsistent character of oppressors, who complain of what they prac tise themselves. However, as we said before, whether they go right or wrong, it Will not be for the want of advice. But there is another party to whom, as we conceive, a little advice in the present . crisis is quite as requisite as to the members of unions—we mean the members of the government. It would, perhaps, tend to throw a light upon the real objects of the Unionists and their supporters among the press, if the latter would take upon themselves the task of advising the government in this emergency. Would they have them sanction the unions in the sort of conscription by which they con trive to recruit their ranks and keep up a spirit of feverish excitement, to the great injury of all branches of trade, and the ruin of their own in dividual prospects. The science of Govern ment must be in its infancy, indeed, if it be true, that the great mass of society, the many and not the few, ought to direct its evolutions, for the basis of the science as hitherto taught has been founded on the contrary assumption. But whether the trades' unions assent to this or not, Ministers, we presume, will adhere to the old doctrine, at least until they hear better reasons for surrendering it than the violent proceedings of the unionists can supply. But cheap as ad vice is, and prone as mankind are to come to each other's assistance when such a commodity appears to be wanted, we doubt whether the unionists, or any other body, would undertake to admonish Ministers in so difficult a case,' as how to put down a power which they them selves were the first to raise into importance. —Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Mr. Joseph Penrisc, of Old 'Change, City, ap peared before Sir F. ROE, to answer to a charge of assault preferred against him by a gentleman named Smith, who resides at Dowgate-hill. Each party was attended by a solicitor. The complainant on Monday night last went to Drury-lane Theatre, accompanied by two ladies and a gentleman. Having failed to procure accommo dation in the boxes, they went to the pit, and wit ness conducted one of the ladies to the back row, where seeing the defendant sitting with his back to the boxes, occupying as much space as would ac commodate two persons, he civilly requested him to make room for a lady ; but the defendant refused to move, and witness, after expressing his surprise that any gentleman could act in a manner so un courteous, took possession himself of the seat next the defendant, which he conceived that person un fairly occupying by sitting sideways upon it. No sooner was he seated than the defendant started up, and seizing him by the collar, shook him in a vio lent manner, and ejected him forcibly from the seat. Witness then demanded his card, but the defendant refused to give it ; and in a few minutes after, seeing a police-constable in the pit, he called upon him to take the defendant into custody, but he declined to do so, as he had not witnessed the assault. Mr. Crawcour, a retired dentist, who witnessed the transaction from the boxes, considered there was sufficient room on the seat for two persons, and that Mr. Smith was justified in taking posses sion of the place next to the defendant. In his opinion the defendant acted towards Mr. Smith with unnecessary violence. Another witness, one of the complainant's party, gave similar evidence. The defendant, in answer to the charge, called his sister, Miss Mary Penrise, who said that the complainant squeezed himself rudely in upon _the seat, and forced her brother from the place which he occupied, and the latter used no more violence than was necessary to regain his seat. The pit was very much crowded at the time. A gentleman, who also formed one of the de fendant's party, described the affray in similar terms. Sir F. ROE said it Was sworn and not disproved that the complainant, in asking for accommodation for a lady, did so in a civil and courteous manner, and it was also proved that there was ample room at the time for two persons on the seat. In all crowded assemblies it was the duty of individuals to accom modate each other, and more particularly where ladies were concerned. It was his opinion, and that of- his brother magistrates, that the defendant had been guilty, not only of occupying more space than was necessary, but that the violence which he used was uncalled for ; and he therefore directed him to pay a fine of 20s. to the King, and ss. costs. The fine and costs were immediately paid, and the parties left the office. THE OMNIBUS NUISANCE. Upwards of 20 omnibus proprietors were sum moned by an informer, named Garter, for stopping with their vehicles in the Strand, to ply for hire. In each case the stoppage was proved to have exceeded one minute—the time limited for taking up or set ting down a passenger, and as the drivers and proprietors, notwithstanding the many warnings they received, when the act came first in force, Still persist in the practice, the Magistrate, Sir F. ROE, inflicted the full penalty of 40s. and. costs in each case, observing, that the safety of the public re-. qdired that strong measures should be resorted to, and he was determined no longer to be trifled with. Several of the defendants, although in the imme diate neighbourhood of the office, declined to come forward, under the impression that a second sum mons would be issued ; but Sir F. ROE, after their names were called, proceeded at once to hear the informations ex parte, and on proof of each offence the defendants were fined, and distress-warrants or dered to be issued. The informer pocketed about 20/. by his day's work. WORSHIP-STREET. On Saturday evening a young man, named John Stubbinga, was brought beforo Mr. BaouGwroN, charged with having (with another man who escaped from the officers) dreadfully wounded a young woman named Ann Evans. Mr. BROUGH TON, on being informed that the wounds the girl had received were of a dangerous description, re manded the prisoner until yesterday, when he was again placed at the bar. Sergeant Wormald, of the H division, stated, yesterday, that the poor girl having partially reco vered from the wounds on her head, she had de clined appearing against the prisoner, imagining that if she did, her evidence might affect his life. Mr. BROUGHTON—Is her brother-in-law in at tendance ? because in endeavouring to save his life, he was dreadfully beaten himself. . The brother-in-law (Lewis Johnston), on hearing his name called, mounted the witness-box, and said that on Saturday afternoon, at four o'clock, he was told that the prisoner and another man. were then drinking in a public-house in Hunter -street, Mile end New-town, a few doors from his own house. In about an hour after his wife came and informed him that a young woman who was in their com pany, had fled into his house for protection, followed by the former. Witness immediately ran home to prevent any bad consequences, when, on making his appearance, he was instantly knocked down, jumped upon, and while on the ground, kicked until he be came insensible. Police constable 80 H, stated that on being sent for to the house, he found, on arriving there, the young woman Ann Evans, lying on the floor bleed ing, and insensible. The moment he made his ap pearance the prisoner's companion managed to escape. On making inquiry as to the cause of the outrage, the former, on coming to her senses, said that about an hour before a girl came running into the house imploring for protection from two fellows who were pursuing her, who, on making their entry, turned her " neck and. heels" out of the house, and were beating her dreadfully until her brother-in-law ar rived. Seeing them afterwards attack the latter, she herself interfered, when the prisoner, seizing hold of the poker, struck her on the head with it until she became insensible, and fell from the loss of blood. The poker, which was broken in two, was here handed to the magistrate, and a tremendous weapon it appeared to be. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did she know the parties-who ran into the house ? Witness—No, they are all strangers. While I was trying to secure them, they both pitched into me, and kicked me dread fully. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, burst into tears, and pleaded intoxication, in which state he said he ran into the wrong house. The Magistrate fined him in the penalty of 40s. or six weeks' imprisonment.—Committed. THAMES POLICE. A brace of luckless tars, with very melancholy visages, who were recently discharged from one of the Hon. Company's China ships, complained that a crimp in whose house they were lodging, had ob tained possession of the whole of their wages, nearly 601., at the India House, where they were paid off on Wednesday. On being questioned they admitted they were " half slewed," and gave the money to the crimp, who said he wished to preserve their cash from the " land sharks !" He had not been at home since. The magistrates were surprised that the sailors could become the dupes of such scoundrels as the crimps, whose tricks had been so often exposed. They direetedan officer to look after the crimp, and advised the sailors, when they came ashore again, to provide themselves with berths in a respectable public-house, where they would meet with good treatment, and not be imposed upon. A sailor complained the other day that he had been charged 201. by a crimp for nine days' board -and lodging. Among the items in the bill were fifty pots of porter at 6d. a pot, and sixty half pints of rum at I s. each. The magistrates have very fre quently regretted that the Legislature has not given them some control over the sailors' lodging-houses, where they are defrauded of their hard earnings in the most scandalous manner. The crimps are well aware that the magistrates have no power over them ; and, under pretence of giving the sailors a snug berth and good treatment while ashore, get possession of their wages, and after they have kept them in a state of intoxication for a few days, for they take care to ply them well with liquor, they present a fictitious bill, which includes the whole amount of wages they have in their hands. Some times the improvident sailors are induced to mort gage part of the monthly pay of their next voyage to procure a kit of necessary clothing from the Jew salesman, who allows a liberal discount to the con federate crimp, and charges an enormous price for the slops. Since the arrival of the China fleet the crimps and Jews have been reaping a rich harvest ; and, strange as it may seem, although the ships have only been paid off a very few days, one half of the sailors are without a farthing. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, APRIL _ll (Before a London Jury.) James Sheppard and James Smith were indicted for breaking and entering the dwelling-house of Thomas Wigman, and stealing therein a 'watch and various other articles, his property. Prosecutor resides in Park-place, Regent's Park. On the 25th ult . . he retired to bed at about one in the morning. In about three hours afterwards he was awakened by a rustling in his room, and called out " Who's there ?" when he saw a figure like a man, who passed round the bed, and went out at the door. Prosecutor jumped, out of bed, and went down stairs. On his way he called out " Thieves, murder, police," &c., to which he added " Give me my pistols, and I'll shoot them." Prosecutor then went to the door of the housekeeperN.room and knocked violently, caing,out ", Come forth, Mrs. Phipps"—(Much laughter, in which the prosecutor joined heartily)—but she double locked the door. —(Renewed laughter.) He returned up stairs and called from the window for the police. Could not say whether the front door wits opened or locked. Baron VAUGHAN—I think . you must have been more frightened than the woman. Prosecutor—Oh, no ; I was not frightened a bit. Elizabeth Phipps, the housekeeper, proved being disturbed by her master. She looked out of the window, and saw Smith jump over the palings. She saw the prisoners got over the wall. They were taken by a constable. She positively identified both. She had seen Smith before. --- The police proved the apprehension of the pri soners. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against both. James Hunt, aged 20, a plasterer, John Miller, 19, a turner, John Peappal, 27, a confectioner, and Isabella Shipley, 19, were capitally indicted for counterfeiting four pieces of the King's current coin, to wit, half-crowns. The Jury acquitted Peappal, and convicted the others. Thomas Jones, aged 22, was indicted for stealing a silver tea-pot, value 41., the property of Richard Brook and another, goldsmiths. Several witnesses gave the prisoner a very good character. Verdict, Guilty. The Jury recommended him to mercy. _ _ The RECORDER called him up for judgment, and sentenced him to three months' hard labour in the House of Correction. BURGLARY.— William Pearson, aged 22, was indicted for burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling-house of John Howard, and stealing therein some moneys, his property, and also a gold watch, the property of Ann King. Prisoner denied the offence. He had found the watch, and was waiting at the Crown to see if any body owned it. A sailor gave him a good character. He said— His mother is my sister, and of course I knowed the prisoner all his life. I never heard anything against his character till I came from China last Monday, when I heard of it. I carved my time duly and truly; and I went out to China last Janu ary twelve months." Verdiet—Guilty. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, APRIL li. Thomas Street and John Bluett were indicted for stealing an ass, of the value of 51., the property of John Fitzgerald. The prosecutor lives at Highbury ; and on the 13th of March his donky was safe in Hornsey-lane, at noon, but in the course of the day he was gone, and the halter was found in the ditch. He made great search for his beast in several directions, and at last he found him at the Veterinary College, at Camden -town, on the dissecting-table. Two students of the college deposed that on the day named the . prisoners brought the donky in question, which was purchased for 45., for the pur pose of dissection. The prosecutor came and owned it, when they caused Bluett to be apprehended. They are in the habit of lecturing on asses in lied of horses, as the anatomy of the ass is very similar to that of the horse, and much cheaper. The prisoners put in written papers, in which they declared their innocence. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The CHAIRMAN sentenced both the prisoners to be transported beyond the seas for the term of seven years. Officer—They have only been out of prison a few days for the same offence. The CHAIRMAN, in no measured language, cen sured the conduct of the students of the college for purchasing animals of such persons as the prisoners, at the low price of 4s. One of the students said that it was proved by " the demonstration" that the glands were dis ordered ; but, perhaps, it might be worth 6s. or 7s. Prosecutor—l should like to pay 5/. for it now. SURREY SESSIONS.-REIGATE, MARCH 11. Mr. Thomas Wallis, the proprietor of very ex tensive premises at the corner of Duke-street and Wellington-street, near the New London Bridge, appealed against the refusal of the magistrates of East Brixton and Southwark, to grant him a victualler's license. An appeal was made on a former occasion against a similar decision, and dis allowed. The case of the respondents was, that the pre mises were adapted only for the purposes of a gin shop, and not with the view of furnishing the ac commodation which a public house afforded. Mr. Samuel Jenkins, a cop-dealer, in Tooley street, Mr. Conner, vestry clerk of St. Olave's, Mr. W. Nash, steward of St. Thomas's Hospital, Mr. T. Southey, auctioneer, Mr. Wrattall, church warden of St. Olave's, and Mr. J. Clarke, surgeon, of Canterbury-square, gave evidence to the effect that the house was capable of being used only as a gin shop ; that it was near a coach-stand ; that there were already forty public-houses in St. Olave ; that the Greenwich rail-road would commence there ; and that the influx of company always at tending a gin-shop, in a crowded thoroughfare, would prove a serious nuisance. The appellant's case was as follows :—Mr. Wal lis's old public-house, the Crown and Sceptre, which he conducted without any complaint being made, was required for the London Bridge improvements. He accepted 1,4801., as compensation, the com mittee engaging to supply him with another house on the same site. Mr. Wallis expended 3,500/. on the premises, and now ought he to be ruined by the refusal of a license ? Was it likely he would con duct the house improperly, when the magistrates had the power of taking away his license ? On the last appeal, the Bench told him to take out a beer license, and he might then have some chance of obtaining a victualler's license. This he had done, and his house had been conducted with the utmost propriety. What was the opinion of the six wit nesses to the petition, of 540 gentlemen residing in St. Olave's and St. Saviour's parish, in favour of Mr. Wallis. Mr. Newman, clerk to the Bridge-house Estates' Ctnnmittee, and about a dozen respectable witnesses, gave their opinion that the house would be one of great and general accommodation. The Magistrates consulted a few moments, and the Chairman, Viscount Eastnor, said they were of opinion that the appeal should not be allowed. The following Magistrates were on the Bench :—Lord Eastnor, Lord Monson, Mr. Crawford, M.P., Mr. Allcock, Mr. Aubertin, Mr. Turner, and Mr. Trotter. BIRMINGHAM POLITICAL UNION. At a meeting of the Political Council held on Tuesday evening, April 8, Mr. Thomas Attwood, M.P., attended, and addressed the meeting in a long and eloquent speech, explaining his parliamen tary conduct. At the close of this address, Mr. B. HADLEY moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Attwood for his steady and persevering exertions. Mr. G. EDMONDS seconded the resolution ; and thought Mr. Attwood deserved the sincere thanks of the people of Birmingham for his patriotic con duct, notwithstanding his being beset by so many difficulties. Mr. Edmonds stated to the meeting that Mr. Attwood had voted against the Pension List ; against the Impresiment of Seamen ; in fa vour of the repeal of the Corn Laws, and of the reduction of the Malt Tax ; and also in favour of removing the Bishops from the Hduse of Lords. This announcement, especially the vote against the Bishops, drew forth loud • and continued cheering. The vote of thanks then passed unanimously ; and Mr. Attwood, during his reply, was loudly cheered. The committee appointed last week then pre sented the petition in favour of the unfortunate Dorchester labourers, which was also adopted una nimouslx. • Mr. Attwood concurred in the prayer of the petition'for a full pai'don, and would support the petition most cordially. , A deputation of memheri of the Union presented an address to the Council, urging them to petition, and stated that the petition agreed to at the public meeting, in behalf of the Dorchester labourers, had already received above 12,000 signatures of males. Another petition, signed by females, was also stated to be numerously signed. -There is a very general feeling in Birmingham that the sentence on these unfortunate men is a most arbitrary and cruel one. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—TAUNTON, APRIL 9. (Before Mr. JUStiCI BoSANQURT.) George Hand, aged 52, a robust-looking man, was charged with having feloniously set on fire two mows of hay, the property of Charles Keedwell. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET having summed up the evidence, The Jury found the prisoner Guilty. Mr. Justice BOSANQUET, in passing upon him the extreme penalty of the law, told him that he must not expect a mitigation of that punishment. He had been convicted on the clearest evidence of having maliciously set fire to the property of a per son who had employed him, and whose property he ought to protect, in order to gratify a grudge. His Lordship felt that he should be committing a breach of his duty-if he recommended a remission of the sentence which he was now about to pronounce. He, therefore, exhorted the prisoner not to entertain the least hopes that the punishment would be mi tigated. The prisoner persisted in denying his guilt, and did not seem at all affected by the sentence. DISCHARGE OF JACK KETCH FROM HIS CIVIC OFFICE. In the Gaol Committee at Guildhall, last week, it, was proposed that in accordance with the economical principle upon which it is expected City affairs will be in future conducted, Mr. Cope, the Governor of Newgate, should be directed to inquire into the sinecure offices of his establishment, with a view to the abolition of such offices. The Governor, upon looking over his catalogue, found that the two executioners had had no duties to perform during the last year, except upon three occasions, and that they had received for their labours no less than 1401. within that period between them. He there fore informed the Committee that he should be able to dispense•with the services of Joseph• Osman, the junior Jack Ketch, especially as capital punishments were now so seldom carried into effect, and were abolished in most cases of forgery. The Governor subsequently gave notice to Osman that he might look out for some other situation, as the senior exe cutioner could without difficulty perform the duties himself, intimating, however, that if any unexpected accession of business should take place, immediate notice should be given to the junior to lend a hand. Osman expostulated with the Governor upon the cruelty of depriving him and his wife and two chil dren of bread, begged to know whether he had not done his duty like a man, and represented the dis agreeable consequences which must arise from a strike on the morning of an execution—a case in which the Sheriff himself would be obliged to officiate as the hangman. Mr. Cope admitted the force of the appeal, but advised Jack• to write a petition forthwith to the Court of Aldermen. Osman took the advice, and sent the following petition to the Court of Aldermen, through the hands of Alderman Winchester : " To the Worshipful the Court of Aldermen of the City of London, the humble petition of Joseph Osman, " Showeth, that your petitioner has been informed by Mr. Cope, the new Governor of Newgate, that he, the said Joseph Osman, is forthwith to be discharged from his situation as executioner"to the city of Lohdon, on the plea of his services being no longer required, by which dismissal himself, with his wife and two chil dren, will be thrown into a state of complete destitu tion and wretched misery. Your ; petitioner, therefore, begs to state to the consideration of this most honourable and respectable Court, that upon his appointment to the situation (which he has now held four years), Mr. Wontner, the Governor of Newgate then, received a good character with your petitioner, and that his charac ter has been most excellent throughout, having al ways been sober, honest, clean, and faithfully attentive to the punctual discharge of the duties of his office ; that he was never arraigned at the bar of Justice in the whole course of his life ; that. he had the honour to be appointed to.the office he ells by the Worshipful Court itself, and that so far from his services being no longer required, it is impossible for one individual to do the thing at the time of the execution, and that the casual attendance of an assistant from time to time, particularly when a great deal of business is in hand, would be attended with as much expense to the City of London as the continuance of your petitioner in the aforesaid office. " Furthermore, your petitioner humbly implores you, as gentlemen, to take into your most humane consideration that, in the event of his discharge, he will lose all means of support, inasmuch as vulgar pre judice will prevent his being employed, on account of the unpleasing nature of his present duties ; that, if he does get employed, it must be in some very low capacity, where people would always be reminding him of his former work, and holding him up to ridi cule, although he never offended against propriety in performing his duties, which, as in duty bound, he will be always most anxious and willing to perform towards your Honourable Court, and he will ever pray.• " JOSEPH OSMAN." The petition is referred to the members of the Gaol Committee, who, it is believed, will continue Mr. Osman in his office, in consequence of the great addition about to be made by the new bill to the general business at the Old Bailey, and on ac count of the report of the various sheriffs, who have superintended the executions at that place, as to the many grea,t qualifications of the petitioner to " lend a hand.' The present sheriffs are particularly interested, for when Alderman Ansley was Sheriff, the executioners, who were at that time paid by piecework, refused to tie up a convict until their salaries were secured to them. Half-past eight o'clock actually arrived, and the Sheriff was obliged to agree to the terms, in order to be saved the un pleasant alternative of "scragging" the malefactor himself. MURDER.-BODY FOUN. About six o'clock on Sunday morning, th. dead body of a man was discovered floating under one of the arches of Wye-bridge, in this city. Intl tion was immediately given, and Howells and stone, the police-officers, proceeded to the spot, a. had the body taken out, when it was ascertained to be that of William Dee, a labourer of Sutton, in this county, who had been missing for about three weeks, and whom Mr. Howells was making active Saracen's The corpse was placed in th e s t a bl e of the Sara c en's Heid Inn, on which side of the river it was taken out, and on Monday morning an inquest was held upon it before Mr. Samuel Hughes and Mr. John Gvvillym, magistrates, in the absence of Mr. Cleave, the coro ner. It appeared that deceased, who was about fifty years of eke came to Hereford on Saturday all e ; weeks, for the purpose pf making purchases, allu f six o'clock in the evening he expressed his intention o making the best of his way home, being at that he im rather in liquor and quite cheerful. He never , lll ever, reached home, and the plac e w here the T h e was was discovered is in quite an opposite direction. 1 " corpse was in a frightful state of decomposition, sus much scr, that Mr. Jones, the surgeon, said it Ira impossible to decide whether it was that of a P is drowned, or whose death was occasioned by causes ; there was, however, no f rac t ur e of the Ixre of the head, nor any mar k s o f v i o l ence ; i n his ot il u t ° b e the body had been thr ee wee k s i n th e wa t e r. /b pockets were found a silver watch, worth only 2s. 6d. in s il ver , one or two h a lf pe n ce , a quanti t y te' o f different sorts of se e d, an d some tobacco. The %cu had stopped at eight minutes to ten o'clock, but vv e / not down. It w as s i ngu l ar t h at t h e h at o f t h e deceas was found floating u p on t h e river below the bridge ° i ll the Monday after he was m i sse d. M r . Howells , g consequence, had the river dragged, but no furt„,,, he p r traces of the body could th en b e di scov ered. -"- unfortunate deceased, who was rather tall, had on, the time of his disappearance, a nevy smock-frock, an witnesses swore that they observed a person answer"'t" w ith tic ° his description and another man i n compan y girls in Bowse-lane, on the Sat ur d ay night ab°ve mentioned ; one of the girls had sine o disa The inquest was adjourned until yesterday and the body removed to the Infirniary, for the of ascertaining, if possible, by post-mortem ex. tion, whether death had been occasioned by drowning or other means. Yesterday the inquest was resum ed, when several persons residing in or near Bowsey-lane stated that on the night of Saturday three weeks they heard noises from persons, men and women, fighting in the lane about eleven o'clock, and several har.d blows struck; one man was heard to say , hi j Z eyes, I have done him," after which all was quiet. witness deposed that he saw from his window a ra.al l e ground, and two girls standing near him; in a smock-frock lying with his face downwards on the • • • • arcisofl in a smock-frock lying with his face downy e left him, and the other stopped with and cried over him.;, d woman named Gough came up, and the girl took bid of the man, who seemed senseless, and. dragg ed t he body along the ground to a house near the place;d man had a smock-frock on, like that of deceased, g, no gaiters, which the deceased also had not: in noises and disturbance of fightingnino n are so co . the lane, and the supposition that the man was„ 11 :, s state of intoxication, doubtless induced the w" —s not to interfere at the time. Mr. John Griffiths , P i n : stated that he had examined the body, and it was ' i te opinion that the deceased was either dead of in a ta r. of insensibility previous to being put into the wateto The investigation occupied the respectable rnagistriallt and jury nearly the whole day, and after a most pat ee examination of a mass of evidence, with a perseve7 most creditable to all parties, the jury returned deadhi verdict, " That the said William Dee was ibund that in the river Wye, on the 6th of April instant, and s he was wilfully murdered by some person or persot.i one s the jurors at present unknown." The above fa cts given rise to a variety of painful surmises, as the or e os col of Mr. Carwardine, which must be fresh in theh e the cumstances of the death are supposed to resem ble s il lection of the public ; and it is remarkable t hat ._ body of Dee was found at no great distance from place where Carwardine was supposed to have bee" thrown in. —Hereford Journal. TITHE DEMAND AGAINST ~EB.S. L A BOUis , . t —An extraordinary and novel case, and one whie?„ e, is hoped will not again be brought before the 1 ,17_ 5 Just eL was heard on Thursday last by his Majesty's of the Peace at their Monthly Session held at !n .. ` . . Ship Inn, in the town of Feversham. •Thp Rev. IA I n _ Henry Crawford, Vicar of Linstead, suminoned sorne, of his poor parishioners ' for the recovery of small tithes P• Vicar summons they had refused to pay. The ...ev. appeared personally to prefer his charge, and had als . e_ his tithe proctor (to use an Irish phrase) in a ttend, said to be due to him, and which it was stated in the ance. The case of William Waters, which crest t ( h \ e Va o t a e t r h s) o l f ef; i 2 r. s. considerable interest, was first heard; he is a lush in g man in the employment of Mr. Neame, of Rush '", Mr. Neame was present at the time, and stag that Waters was an industrious man working at his estate at fifteen shillings per week wages , : lo t he had a wife and six small children deP eu he h on ire h d is of ea m rn r i . ng p s ar f l o i r ng dai o ly f Lsuinbsstisetaedn.ce,ltaanpdpsetah: er „I oil F a r ost,, week the fore vicar's i the ca r, s agent, rent ge n o t f , t thee' man owed the sum of four shillings for two 10- tithe, that he (Frost) had never demanded it: i f e for ters, but that he had only once asked Waters g ou t DAY it, and that she was unable to pay it. W it t l e Re' further application for the said four shillings' thereby Vicar obtained a summons, and the man wa s 1 , - ~ ma" compelled to lose his time and appear before t"; it hes, gistrates, not to complain against the claim fo r - MP but to expose the harshness of his treatment. u ser Neame c a ' s ' Neame addressed the magistrates on w a ters ss i v e. and described the proceedings as unjust and oPP, re ut re' Mr. Neame would not recall the expression, L' f ?kir , peated that it was oppressive, if not on the par t :, ha d Crawford, it was so on the part of his agen t, w c0r0 1 " doubtless acted under his direction. Waters in - Lin' the magistrates that he had lived three years in vi vo stead, that he had paid the first year's tithe f his tha t eottsgeo: asked for, and that he would have borrowed ° Fros t master for the remaining two years, had MI .. .0 h ° asked him for it. The reverend gentlemen i; Li t b e was happy,to hear of Waters's goo d character, irigiao assured the magistrates that he did not know lied' Waters. It need scarcely be stated that the 11 0 0 ings against Waters were, from illegality, with 00` when Mr. Neame handed over to him them earli° paying his tithe, which he did in the presence a; 0 0 the satisfaction of a numerous assembly of P anxiously waiting the result.—Kent lieral Ja hn BIRTHS. f , the lady - 0:1 the 11 th inst., in Old Palace-ya ,...... r, 13 1 Jervis, Esq., M.P., of a son. you th On the 10th inst., the lady of James Mallock, ampton-street, Bloomsbury-square, of a son. he °O. On the 10th inst., in Hanover-square, the lady of t H. Lascelles, of a daughter. MARRIED. IPP Ia v v. it to On the 10th inst.; at Plaxtol, Kent, the Re v *,; f's r ''' of grave Park, youngest son of the Hon. Mr. Just';,,, ss4' Elizabeth Jane, youngest daughter of Edmund Ya t ' o f Fairlawn, Kent, and of Ince, Cheshire. A rden' On the 9th inst., at Longdon, the Rev. Thomas upter Longcroft Hall, Staftbrd, to Isabella Mary, eld es .. t i l :re, the late Rev. E. Cooper, Rector of Hamstall Rio" - the same county. f the S e ' On the 10th inst., at Paris, at the Church 0. rt _to tion, Faubourg St. Honore, Baron Louis Robert Jisefrocciol, of the sth Hussars, son of Count de Noe, Pee r ° J.3 ,0 1,e ',,, Louisa Helena, eldest daughter of the late Joh n , pr0 31 ;, - i s oet of York-place, Portman-square, and the Island 0 ' ) I‘P ill On the 10th inst. at Leamington Priors, Archi b ,. 3. costcl e r of Esq., late a Member of Council and Collector 01 dati gn the Island of Mauritius, to Mary Magdalene, eld est Gcn ers i i ire• Thomas Delves Broughton, Esq., and niece t..°,0, Ghe • John Delves Broughton, Bart., of Doddingto t i stre et ' DIED. ~ropoi er ; On the 27th ult., at his residence in Uppet,r,:ffsb i Godfrey Meynell, Esq., of Beadley Hall, .°`"' flar 4 Jr" " Shawfield Lodge, Bromley, Kent. On the sth inst., at Bank Hall, near Burnley' o f Sit greaves, Esq., of Otmerod House, Lancashire.oe bottt e v 130. On the 19th inst., in Grosvenor-square, at sey lo - t oe ° I William Alexander, Lieut.-Colonel the 1 4 ° 11 ' the 1)$ itte e " thurst, third son of Earl Bathurst. He str se ee rv tA c ti ra l nordtinionodtb _ pferooll‘ Waterloo. Qn the 10th inst., in Devonshire- Jane, relict of the Rev. Lucius Coghlan, the late Very Rev. Sir George BisshopO, j3s' $O ll3 more. mbeth' blr° , On the 3d inst., in Chester-place, ra , I Whorlton, in her 73d year. g a ior-Ge ne e On the 11 th inst., in Knightsbridge, 1 .,.„ o f th Guelphl S A ig rt i°l• i s l m l e u r y n , d a S n m d i K t h n , C g h o tmcmoamn Comma a a n n t d o e f r tohre the HanovAV Order, aged 70. llg' the ti On the 10th inst., at Compton-plac e, Is-1 clerk rd t° of Wallis, Messrs m . a many years rteisaw " 1 GI low, aged 60. 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