The Sun. — London, England, 1827-09-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Journals of the Holy Alliance Opposi tion are working doggedly at the political tread mill, to which their offences against truth and decency, and their confessed unfitness for any honest employment, have confined them. Con sistency is the last point of honour with a des perado ; and these men are consistent in their way, for they lie on stoutly, when there are none to believe, and slander after having lost the power of wounding. The latest fabrication is dire, ted against a distinguished advocate and Member of Parliament, charging him with some base intrigue against a judicial personage of the highest rank and merit. This, we need scarcely say, is a calumny even more foul than that which accused die Members of the Cabinet generally of a factious spirit of mutual circumvention and hostility, because it would involve the reproach of hypocrisy and treachery, of which, if there be a man on earth incapable, it is the eminent gen tleman alluded to. But as we have already con tradicted, in terms the most absolute, the groundless imputations of Friday last against the Ministry as a whole, we now declare that yes terday's statement (made by a notorious weekly libeller) is, from beginning to end, a shameful calamny. In the mean time there are, if report speaks truth, preparations making for war upon his Majesty's Government of a different order from' newspaper squibs and gossippings. The Tory magnates are beating up for fresh recruits to fight their battles, and are about to discard a .majority of their ancient vassals as unserviceable. A certain enlightened Duke, for example, threatens to take into pay no less than ten or eleven of well-trained and selected Swiss, to wear the liveries, of his present ineffective bur gesses, and to bay and bark at Mr. Huskisson, without a minute's rest, from the Opposition sfxle of St. Stephen's Chapel. That his Grace should require an accession of talent for the suc cess undertaking that he engages in, is most melanfiholy ; that he should be conscious of the want, 5C61119 difficult of belief. We had supposed that such a reinforcement, to such an enlightened quarter, would be but " carrying coals to Newcastle."—Times. The Report to the Lord Lieutenant of Ire land, on the subject of the Richmond Peniten tiary, Dublin, ordered by the House of Cor n . a wns to be printed 14th of May, 1827, has just b een a;etributed. Our readers may recollect the paragrapi; C which appeared in the late Etoile newspaper, hespecting the singular means adopted in this Penitentiary, to manufacture Catholics into Protestants. The Commis sioners, with every disposition to give a fa vourable turn to the conduct of the Governor, are forced to admit that the system pursued in the Penitentiary could have no other effect than the producing pretended conversions from Ca tholicism to Protestantism. They observe, that from the opening of the Prison in 1820, to the present time (May, 1827), the Governor and all the Officers of the Prison (except the Nurse or Mistress of the Hospital, and the Apothecary) have been Protestants, and, as far as they have been able to discover, sincerely religious per eons ; that during the first four years, of the prisoners who entered the house, the Roman Catholics were to the Protestants in the propor tion of 37 to 10, and " out of the great number of Roman Catholics who came in within that veriod, notwithstanding all the effects of reading the Bible, instruction of the Protestants, their argu;Nents with the Roman Catholic prisoners, I and the ether causes assigned, there were during that time but thirty Roman Catholics con verted ; and theere were probably conversions, and perhaps equally numerous, the other way." From May, 1824, of the persons entering the Penitentiary, instead of the proportion of Ca tholics being as thirty-seven to ten, the Catho lics became to the Protestants as only in the proportion of eight to twenty-seven, a change in one week of nineteen out of thirty-five.— " And how," say the Commissioners, " has ibis change been effected ? Not by reading, for they had no books, and perhaps, if they had, could not read them ; not by argument, for they had not seen any person capable of using it ; and to believe that their own reflections could have enabled them in one week to discover errors in dee Roman Catholic religion, which they had never seen before, or merits in the Protestant religion . , of whose tenets they were probably quite ignorant, would be too much for an y credulity ; it follows that these nineteen conversions were all insincere, and from tempo ral reo tfves—so that out of twenty-seven de clared Protestants, nineteen, so far as they had any religion, were really Roman Catholics ; and if we suppose that one out of the nineteen has been since convinced by the arguments they have heard, it would result that at this day, out of every 27 persons who, since May 1824, have come in and declared themselves Protestants, eighteen are really not so, And nine only are sin cere ; and that of all who, for two years and a half past, have declared themselves Protestants, two-thirds are still insincere." —One thing is pretty dear, that though the Governor of this Penitentiary may be a most excellent Protestant, he is a very unsuitab le p erson to be a.the head of a prison. The change which suddenly' took place in May, 1824, in t he relative numbers of the Protestants and Catholics, is attributed by the Commissioners to a rule then made, that no prjsoner should be interrogated on the subject of religion until the expiration of a full week from the time of arrival. Had the question respect ng their religion been put on the first en erance of the prisoners, they would, of course, have declare d in pretty nearly the same propor tions after. May, 1824 ; that they did before ; but since the passing. of the Regulation, allowing them a week's interval befoiT declaring, they, no doubt, in the interval, were some way or other led to suppose that it would be a better speculation to become Protestants, than to re. man Catholics. Mr. Rowan, the present Go yarn& of the Richmond Penitentiary, entered or office early in 1823. The proportion of Cati':olics entering the Penitentiary to Protestants contim:ed from .1829 to May 1824, as 37 to W. The rule made by in May, 1824, at once alters the proportions, ao4 in place of a large Catholic majority gives a large Protestantl .majority. If he Lied possessed a grain of saga- i city, he would have instantly been struck with the phenomenon, and placed it to the account of fraud on the part of the entrants. The next step would have been to inquire what measure had been adopted about the time this wonderful l change took place, and to impute the cha n g e to the etact of such measures. If Mr. Rowan was not strttck by the chan g e, and never dreamt Af the idea of any connection between his regula tion of May, 1824, and the sudden increase of fraudulent declaration s of Protestantism, we can 9 eily conchide that his head is very oddly con structed. The Commissioners leave it to be inferred, that the conduct of Mr. Rowan is tie result of sheer stupidity. We may readily con cede, that the intellect of the man who was not struck with this wonderful change in the propor tions of Catholics and Protestants entering the Penitentiary, must have been of the most obtuse description. But it does not follow that he was not struck with the change, and aware of the cause of it. He mav, for instance, have been actuated by a zeal for 'Protestantism which could lead him to practice pious frauds with a view it gain converts. He may have been aware that eighteen out of the nineteen declaring them selves Protestants were really Catholics, but have calculated on the effect of the Bible reading, and exhortations by the Protestant in structors, in producing in time a real conversion, and connived therefore at the fraud committed in the first instance on the making the declaration, with a view to the facility which it would give to the future attempts at conversion. But whether we suppose Mr. Itowan to have been merely stupid, or to have been actuated by immoderate zeal, it is on either supposition clear that lie was one of the most unfit persons in the world to be at the head of a Penitentiary. We have a great respect for the zsal which leads men to attempt conversions. But a prison is the very last place in the world ill which we should wish to see this zeal exercised. A very slight encourage ment would, in general, convert prisoners to any conceivable religion, and no reliance whatever can be placed on the professions of people in their situation. How far improvement of any kind can be effected in the character and dispo sition of persons in prison, is a point on which there is a variety of opinion. The opinion which now begins to prevail, however, is, that a prison should be viewed as a place of punish ment, and not of reform. All are agreed, that the idea that men might be improved in prisons has, under the existing state of our prisons, been productive of great mischief, by rendering Ma gistrates less averse to sentencing men to impri sonment for trifling offences than they otherwise might have been.—Morning Chronicle. Whatever may be the " march of intellect" among us, there are some points deeply affecting the well-being of a nation, on which we might with advantage take lessons from a people whose habits and institutions our writers and politicians are accustomed to treat with supercilious con tempt. We are often told that while our Euro pean intellect is advancing in a " rapid growth of astonishing improvement," the Chinese IITI• derstanding remains stationary, and has done so for some thousands of years—yet if a proficiency in some of the " elegant vices" constitute a fair claim to civilization, we think this ancient and peculiar people can prove to the satisfaction of the most " finished circles" at the west end of the town, that they have purged away the stain of original barbarism. It appears that gambling is as favourite an accomplishment in Canton as in London, and that the region of Pall-mall and St. James's-street is not better supplied with " hells," and their attendant demons, than the fashionable places of resort in the cities of the " Celestial Empire." There is a considerable difference, however, in the mode of treatment which this refined art of robbery receives at the hands of the Government in both countries. Here we have laws, indeed, against gambling, but it is not thought expe dient to execute them, except occasionally against the minor establishments, when it is thought necessary to keep up a show of activity in the police, without offending any persons of high consideration—but as to " hells" on a grand and magnificent scale,___ they -are as inviolable un der the nose of the Executive Power, and in the broad face of day, as they could possibly be within the dusky realms of that jet-black sove reign of whose kingdom they are the type and expressive abridgment. The rulers of China, however, are not vet capable of understanding the advantage of conniving at a vice among the mat nitich, wherever it prevails, destroys all b private and public virtue—all domestic happi ness—extinguishes every generous quality—de bases the intellect—tears prosperity up by the roots, and drives its victims too often to crime, madness, or suicide l The proclamation which we published last week from the Governor of Canton against this odious vice, has some emphatic passages, which it would be well if our Christian Statesmen imprinted on their memory while they copied his energetic example. Among other things, he speaks of " the great gambling houses, in which both time and fortune are lost, which often lead the unhappy victims to robbery and murder." And he complains that " the police charged with the prevention of gambling receive money, and become so corrupt as to en courage this infraction of the laws." It appears from this that the police, at least, are quite as accomplished a body of men in China as in Eng land. Nor does the Governor feel any absurd squeamishness in telling this delinquent police of their corruption ; and he wisely adds, " If I do not catch and punish such severely, how can I manifest the laws to the people, and correct de pravity ?" How, indeed t If the watch-dogs connive at the wolves, how are the sheep to escape 2 In another part of his proclamation h e state " that rsamblers should assemble together and gamble is the great injury of any country. I have lately established laws against garabling,which if the soldiers and people will break, 1 will first examine whether their offence be heavy or light, and afterwards put them i n the collar, or punish them with the bamboo, or banish therd for life, or for such time as 'the established law pro nounces." And again, " vagabonds and lazy fellows are enticed, who wear away the time from their employments, lose all their inheritance, and ruin their families, till, in the extremity of dis tress and desperation, they become robbers and banditti, and stab and murder other people ; and, in fine, there is nothing that they Wilt not do." Well may the Governor of Canton say there is nothing which confirmed gamblers will not do ; and it only shows that wherever this detestable practice prevails, it works the same effects that are every day dreadfully realised in England. We wish our Secrctary of State for the Home De partment would imitatc the conduct of the Go• venior of Canton, with respect po gambling houses, and the police who favour them. We also wish that he had a few of the Chinese collars and bamboos at his disposal for the bene fit of great delinquents as well as for small, and tho:crcised th e same v i goro us impartiality in atthehier qplice.,..QP,--Morniizg Herald. CuNNIN-G THlEvEs•—fhere :s ,qcarc.ely anyprotecti. dexteriiy qt j oi an t atghaiei7et the s.T extraordinary the _ They loiter about a camp harass th e sentinels to at night, and delv.qe a degree that is almost An 4 7:q l b,le. They imitat e , th wild cry of the jackal , or the h o lla zf b ar k of the Pariah dog so naturally, as utterly to deCeilie the. most practise ear. Even if caught, it is no easy matter to detain the4n, 3s they grease their naked limbs, and thus render themselves as slippery as cell.---London Weekly Review. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. --FORGERY.- Geo. Hague, the young man who represented himself as going out to Greece, and who paid for a suit of clothes to Air. Baldwin, of Cheapside, with a forged cheque on Coutts's bank, signed "L. Stanhope," was on Saturday finally examined. The following additional evidence was produced : The Hon. Colonel Lincoln Stanhope, of Stable-yard, St. James's, stated that he kept an account at Coutts's bank, and did not know the prisoner even at sight. His brother Leicester is also a Colonel, and there is another Colonel Stanhope, whose initial is not " L:" The cheque is not in his hand writing, nor, to the best of belief, is it that of his brother, who does not, he believes, bank at Coutts's. James Powell, a ark at Greenwood's (the army agent) stated, that he knew several Colonel Stanhopes, for whom they acted as agents, besides Colonels Leicester and Lincoln Stanhope ; in fact, nine altogether, whose initials matched the cheque, the writing of which he is positive, is not that of either of these officers. Richard Minshaw, a clerk in Cratts's bank, said the only person named Stanhope that did business with them whose Christian name commenced with L., was Dowager Lady Louisa Stanhope, and the cheque was not in her hand-writing. This was the whole of the evidence against the prisoner, who when called on for his defence declined saying any thing; and he was committed for trial. BOW-STREET.—It was expected that General Sir Gregor M`Gregor would have been brought before the Magistrates of this office, on Saturday evening, in conse quence of a communication having been made to Mr. Halls in the course of the day, from Mr. Nodder, the Governor of Tothill-fields Prison. It appears that Sir Gregor M‘Gregor, having been unable to put in bail to answer the charge preferred against bins by Mr. Spong, is entitled to be removed to the New Prison, Clerkenwell, that he may have the benefit of the delivery of that gaol, which takes place in the course of the week. Ford, the gaoler, was directed by Mr. Halls to proceed to Tethill-fields, to in form the General, that if he thought proper he might be brought up in the evening and be committed to Clerkenwell, but if he preferred remaining at Tothill-fields till the be ginning of the week, ke might do so. On Ford arriving at Tothill-fields, he found that Sir Gregor Itl‘Gregor had sworn an affidavit before a Commissioner, for the purpose being removed by Habeas Corpus on Tuesday next. Ford communicated to Sir Gregor that he had the authority of the Magistrate to take him to the office, from whence he might be committed, by which the expense of a writ of Habeas Corpus would be saved. Sir Gregor M'Gregor said, that he was obliged to Mr. Halls, but he would avail himself of the indulgence of the Magistrate to remain where lie was till the beginning of the week, because ke could not act without first consulting Mr. Broderick, his Counsel. Ford communicated the message of Sir Gregor M'Gregor to Mr. Halls, and the Magistrate directed Ford to bring the General to this office on Monday morning next. John Easton, a cad to coaches in Holborn, was charged with stealing a trunk and its contents, the property of Ca roline Stokes. The driver of the hackney coach, No. 25, was also placed at the bar, and charged with being parti ceps criminis in the felony. It appeared that the prose cutrix was a servant at the Blue Bcar Inn, Holborn, and on Monday night week she left her place with two trunks. She called the hackney coach, No. 25, and directed the driver to put her two trunks, which were standing in the passage, into the coach. The coachman directed the pri soner (Easton) to put the trunks into the coach ; but he put only one of them in, and the prosecutrix did not dis cover that the other trunk was missing till after she had been driven some distance, when she ordered the coachman to drive back to the Blue Boar. On arriving there Eas ton was not to be found, but the trunk had been seen in his possession. Fagan, a patrole, apprehended Easton a few days afterwards, and on his person were found several pawnbrokers' duplicates. His lodgings we searched and his girl was apprehended, and she confessed that the prisoner had employed her to pawn the stolen pro perty. Several pawnbrokers produced different portions of the property, and the prosecutrix identified the same. The driver of the coach was discharged, and Easton was fully committed. MARLBOROUGH-STREET.--Three foreigners came before Sir GEORGE FARRAHT, anti complained of the con duct of a pawnbroker residing in the neighbourhood of the Office. One of them said, that being unfortunate in busi ness, he had been compelled to raise money, by pledging two harps for 251. The pawnbroker gave them no dupli cate, which in fact lie was not bound to do, as the sum ad vanced was above 10/. ; but the applicant had paid most exorbitant interest, in order that they should not be lost. A short time ago, when he called, tha l l=taterittit harps were safe, anal ...via. fta which then amounted to '71., was paid. He was not then prepared to pay this sum, and a few days ago, when he called with the money, the pawnbroker said that one of the harps had been sold. He was therefore desirous that the pawnbroker should be summoned, to give some explanation. The Magistrate said, that if the sum advanced had been under IN., lie could have granted a summons against the pawnbroker. The only remedy the applicant now had to compel the pawnbroker to account for the harps was, by commencing an action at law against him. LAMBETH-STREET.--SmucaLED Tos.o.cco AND Smars.—On Saturday, Mr. William Sydney Debney appeared to an information, laid at the instance of the Commissioners of the Excise, charging him with having in his possession a quantity of manufactured tobacco, the duty on which not having been paid, he had incurred pe nalties treble the amount of its value. William Esaftus, an officer of the Customs, stated, that in consequence of information, he accompanied by another officer, went on the lOth August to No. 11, Wellclose place, and in an apartment occupied by the defendant he found seven boxes, and seven paper parcels of cigars, weighing 31 pounds ; and 88 parcels of manufactured to bacco, weighing 34 pounds; there were also two bottles, containing about a quart of spirits. He saw a female in the house, who told him she was the mother of the de fendant ; that the house was her husband's, but that her son occupied a room, for which he paid weekly. She also said that the tobacco belonged to him. The defendant's solicitor contended, that the evidence wits not sufficient to identify his client with the possession ; the Magistrate, however, thought it was, and over-ruled the objection. Joseph Waldron corroborated Esaftus's testimony ; and Mr. Bodmin having proved the value of the tobacco, Scc. to he 24/. 19s. he was fined in the sum of 37/. Ss. 6d., bein g only a moiety of the penalty incurred, which amount ed to no less than 74/. 17s. QUEEN-SQUARE.---A COCKNEY SFORTSMAN.—On Saturday, a person named Crouch was charged by a con stable with illegally letting off fire-arms in a field near Elizabeth -street, Pimlico, whereby the lives of his Majes ty's subjects were endangered. It appeared that the defendant in imitation of his supe riors, had determined to have a day's spurt, and for that purpose had procured a fowling-piece of ancient manufac ture, something resembling a carbine ; and after having beat about some houses tat were building, he at last saw a fine covey of birds alight on a hedge which adjoined the road. Being a keen sportsman, he could nut avoid having a shot, without ever considering whether flume was any person on the other side of the hedge ; he accordingly let fly, when down fell three brace and a half of game ; the shot flew across the road, to the great alarm of several per sons p assing, as well as pigs, poultry, &c. who q u i c kl y get out o f the way in expectation of another shot. Souther wood, a constable , happenedtoorbemtahn busily employed inere,and got into the field, where he fo und the sportsman bagging the sportsman. The birds, and he to ok the lib erty of The sportsman declared they were neithe r p h easants nor partridges, they were only sparrows, and he did mot k now they were game. Southerwood said he ha d shot seven sparrows at one liable to shot, and it was a great ntereY that he h a d not shot any thing else. most lois- ch i T e v h o e u s, Magistrate and the d said,efen defendant t t 1 itande renderedpractice himself was a penalty of 5/. The sportsman uleade , ' ignorance of the law, and pro mised not to offend again. The Magistrate said lie was inclined not to enforce the penalty, but cautioned him with regard to the future. - - TOWN-HALL. --EMBEZZLE 3 IENI. — On Saturday a young man nam e d Burton, was charged by Joh n L us hby, an oyster sell er i n T em ple-place, Blackfriars- roa d, w ith embez'Aing the sum of 11. ss. The prisoner, w-ho was in the prosecutor's employ, wassent on Tuesday last to Billings gate, for a kit of salmon, and the money given him to pay for it; instead of doing which he absconded, and was seen no more, till taken last night in the Borough -road. The Magistrate, Alderman J. J. SMITH, expressed his belief this olfenca arcse, like many others, from the tempta tions held out at Bartholomew fr,,ir ; and inquired of the prisoner if it was not so; when he said lie spent the money there in company with a woman of the town. The prosecutor did not wish the prisoner to be sent fo tridi ; he sbw4d ae satisfied with his being committed for a mouth's hard labour. The Alderman said he had no power to pass such a sentence, committed him to the .s...essions. u te N nc i e o , l‘,T and . fully HALL...pAitur or BuRGL Ali Saturday morning, the premises of Mr. R. Barber, bat-manufac turer, situated in l'ilhitecross-street, Southwark, were discovered broken open, and a vast number of hats in an unfinished state stolen therefrom. The Union Hall officers were immediately made acquainted with the facts connected with the robbery, and commenced au immediate search for the lost property, as well as a diligent inquiry after the party likely to have committed the offence. In the course of a few hours the property was discovered secreted in the cellar of a house in Queen street, Mint, and five men and four women were presently apprehended on suspicion of being implicated in the nefa rious transaction. The prisoners, whose names are H. Cross, Richri. and Henry Lawrence, John Roney, TY. Aleais, Barrett, Jane Jones, Sarah Cann, and Mary Parsons-, underwent an examination before Mr. HONE, the sitting Magistrate ; after which they were all remanded, to give the officers an opportunity of completing the evidence against them. The only things attached to the females, bearing upon the question of criminality, at present discovered, are, that they cohabited with the men who are in custody, and were found in an apartment asleep above the cellar in which the hats were discovered to be hidden. The prisoners are all bad characters, and some of the men are said to have been before charged with serious offences. In the office they conducted themselves with great effrontery. In addition to the above case, there were two females charged on suspicion of being concerned in a burglarious attempt to enter the house of a tradesman in Bermondsey parish. On account of the absence of a principal witness, the evidence was not fully gone into, and the prisoners were consequently remanded for a future examination. ABUSES IN THE POLICE. The connexion between the thieves and the police is so unequivocal, that it has become ne cessary for persons who have been robbed, and who suspect that their goods are at the houses of certain receivers, to apply for search-warrants at hours when some of the officers of the esta blishment are absent from the offices. The mo ment the information is given, the trap, or po lice officer, if he happens to learn what is going forward, gives the word to the " fence," who acts accordingly, and the chance of regaining the property is gone, except a pecuniary compromise can be effected. In this compromise the officer is a large sharer. There are generally four part ners in the produce ; the thief has a fourth, the receiver a fourth, the officer a fourth, and the at torney, or Newgate agent, a fourth ; but of late attornies are very shy of dabbling in robberies : the exposure some time ago in this paper of their agency with respect to bankers' parcels, has in a great measure diminished their profits in this par ticular department of the profession. The Jew agents, some of whom have been tried at the Old Bailey themselves, and who are in the habit o f getting up alibi's and other modes of defence by means of perjury, now monopolize the steward ship of the plunderer. At an investigation into the circumstances of the escape of Ikey Solo mons from justice, it was ascertained beyond all doubt, that " the thing" was planned by a Jew agent • and almost the only meritorious determi nation,s, perhaps ever arrived at by the Police Magistrates as a body, that of excluding the pro jectors of this base enterprise from the police offices for ever, was instantly made. It would be well if they made a proper use of a far higher power, which they allow to lie in so shameful a state of inaction, as to exhibit the symptoms and effect of positive connivance. We are, however, glad to observe one proof of virtuous iudignatica upon the part of the Magistrates. The agent in the nefarious business alluded to, admits that he used to put upwards of 1,0001. a year into his pocket by his trade. His exclusion from the police offices and the prisons of the Metro polis, necessarily checks the tide of his pro sperity, and operates as a redeeming spirit in the conduct of those who havo expelled , Itiattc: ' - -rt.. main cuticles upon evlcieli the receiver depends are silk and broadie (broad cloth.) The broadie at once findspurchasers amongst the Jews, and the silk finds customers, not only amongst that class of dealers, but amongst some of the most affluent tradesmen. A very great house in the neighbourhood of Finsbury has been known so far to transgress the rules of fair competition, as to act the part of receiver upon many occasions. The proprietor, however, who had all the sinister ingenuity of an accomplished thief, managed things so well as to escape such a detection as would compel him to hold up his hand at the Old Bailey. The price it was, at which his tricks had enabled him to sell the article, and the acknowledgment of his confederates, who never failed at one time or other to tremble in the grasp of retributive justice, that fixed his par ticipation beyond all doubt. The name of this congenial soul has not of late appeared in the police vocabulary, and some ascribe the change to fear, and some to virtue. There is not, we will venture to say, a ware houseman in Wood-street who does not know that there arc houses which are daily selling bandanas at 25 per cent. cheaper than the price at which the fair dealer can afford to dispose 'of articles of the same description,—ay, even at 25 per cent. under first cost. The ladies at the west end of the town are not aware, that when they are making bargains with persons who hawk about silks, they are encouraging the sys tem of robbery upon which we have animadvert ed. There is scarcely a shawl purchased as a " bargain " in this way, that has not been in the has risked his neck to get hold of what after wardspossession of some desperate housebreaker , who adorns the shoulders of many a beautifid woman. In fact, many a lady of rank and fortune may say with truth, when she looks at her new purchase, ‘F This passed to me through the hands of a man who was or will be certainly hanged." The removal of Ikey Solo mons, who, from the moment Dudfield was " lagged," became the most extensive fence in the metropolis, caused the greatest possible ex citement amongst the Jews. Indeed, to the spirit of rivalry and jealousy amongst them on the subject of an adequate substitute, is to be attributed the very accurate information which led to the development of so many facts as have reached the public since his escape. H e is now beyond the reach for ever of the poor, spiritless, corrupt, contemptible police, whom he wa s al ways able to manage, having resolved to intro duce into America the system which he c arried on here for so many years with impunity. The energy of the worthy magistrates, and t h e cor responding zeal and vigilance of the police, are strikingly exemplified by the terrible fact that thieves have no less than five or six times vi sited, by means of false keys, or false servants, the premises which they afterwards robbed; that they have postpon e d th e i r l as t v i s it to a period when the " swag" was sufficiently bulky, n ot choosin g to lay their h an d s u p on p ro perty of inconsi derable amou n t, w h en th e y k n ew that a littl e patience would reward them for their for bearance ; and that they have often filled a cart or hackney -coach with goods, within a few yards of a watchbox, the inmate of which shammed sleep. Sle e p, r o a e c t t s eristic of credit ff. silent for a sh o a ti ; however, is so well known a cha racteristic of f e w t a h r t eec a h pl i i n ituy a n, n d , we rht,heant he s generally The Bow -street Magistrates have expressed thermelves alive to the horrible state of that neighbourhood. It was mentioned a few clays ago in the office by one of them, who saw what he admitted was a faithful representation of the nightly iniquity of the district in this paper, that it was indeed high time to correct an evil of such magnitude. The Magistrates of other police-offices expressed themselves to the same effect, and admitted that the occurrences de scribed were shameful in the last degree ; but what improvement has taken place ? The flash houses are still crowded with thieves and pros titutes, who combine theft with their other " dreadful trade." No inspector has been ap pointed to clear away the offscourings of the town from those infernal receptacles : the gamb ling-houses have their accustomed visitors, and abound with the same conspiracies to rob the ignorant and inexperienced ; and the brothels are still under the control of male and female mis creants. The informers abandon the neighbour hood, because they arc remunerated for the in dulgence of omitting the flash cribs from their list of exceptionable houses. Johnson will, to use the phrase of this profligate neighbourhood, greedily " pull up" any publican who may sell a glass of beer immediately after 11 o'clock, and who may keep a well-regulated house ; but the abandoned of society are allowed to revel at all hours, and the thieves who own the houses in which the riot is going forward, and who derive an enormous profit from the sale of the most per nicious ingredients, exult in their impunity. The continuance of this fatal disorder reflects deeply upon the character of the inhabitants of the whole vicinity of Bow-street. The ears of the surrounding families must be accustomed to the most odious expressions ; for it is impossible to pass through any of the streets without hearing language calculated to shock those who have the least remains of delicacy, and still no representa tion is male. The respectable people, as they call themselves, of the parish, never think of me morialising the Secretary of State, to compel the Magistrates to perform the duty which they have so shamefully neglected. This is the only course by which any improvement can be produced.— The undisturbed union between the thieves and the receivers, and police, has its rise in the care lessness of the Magistrates, who are, in a great measure, Fresponsible for the debauchery and plunder which are nightly committed in the me tropolis. We repeat, that until the gambling houses, the low brothels, and the flash houses are put down, there is no chance of the moral improvement of the people.—Times. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, SEPT. 8.--There continues a steady demand for British Plantation Sugar, and about 750 Mids. have been disposed of this week to the trade at full prices, besides which 300 bags good white Bengal have been taken at 765. per cwt. About 50 chests Bahia and Pernambuco Sugar, in dock and to arrive, have been sold at 395. for white, and 28s. per cwt. for brown, to be taken off the quay, without any warranty of quality. A parcel of 120 puncheons of St. Vincent Molasses has been sold at 31s. 6d.. and 30 Trinidad at 30s. per cwt. Our Coffee market remains inactive: the few sales made have been to the grocers at former prices. In Cocoa, Pimento, and Ginger, nothing done worthy of notice. Rum sells readily, particu larly those suitable for the home trade. Our Cotton market continued very dull in the early part of the week, but during the two last days there has been more demand, and the prices of all descriptions fully maintain our last quotations.—The sales, of which about 1,200 bags have been taken on speculation, amount to 9,600 bags, consisting of 4,300 Bowed, at .5.1 d. to Gad- ordinary to good. and 49 at 7d. very good, chiefly at 6d. to 6-td. for middling to fair; 1,400 Orleans at 6d. to 81d., chiefly at 6/d. to 6id. for middling fair to good fair; 1,120 Alabama and Mobile 24 Sad. to 614.; 260 Sea Island at 111 d. to 17d.; 70 Stained ditto at 64d. to 10d.; 330 Pernambuco at 8/d. to 91d.; 600 Maranham at Bd. to 81d.; 470 Bahia at 7-0. to Bad. ; 420 Egyptian at 7*d. to 81d., chiefly at 7ad. ; 240 Demerara at 7/d. to 9d.; 10 Bahama at 71d. ; 80 Tortola at 61d.; 300 Surat at 41d. to 4p.—The arrivals are 5,999 bags. There has been a better demand for Tobacco than we have witnessed for some time past ; the sales consist of about 60 hhds. old Virginia Stem med, of good quality, taken on speculation at 4id., 110 hhds. of Leafy Kentucky Stemmed, in good condition, taken by the trade at 4fd., and some small parcels of Virginia Leaf, for export, ordinary at 2td., and middling qualities at 24d. to 3d. per lb. Brimstone has been inquired for, but only a few small sales have been effected. Saltpetre is still scarce, and wanted. Valonia remains dull of sale ; 100 tons of Smyrna offered by auction were with drawn ; small parcels of Smyrna have brought 161. 15s. to 171. 10s., and of Morea 141. 15s. to 151. per ton. The only sales in Hides are 450 dry Buenos Ayres Cow and Ox at Bid. (being the only lot re maining in the importers' hands), and 140 New York salted at 40. per lb. An import of 2,860 barrels Turpentine have been received, the whole has been taken by the trade, consisting of 800 brls., soft at 125., and 2,060 brls. nearly all hard, at Bs. per cwt. from the quay. Tar is scarce and wanted. The sales of Rosin are about 3,000 brls. principal part taken by the Gas Works here; 6s. 9d. is now the price demanded by the manufacturers. There continues a fair demand for Ashes ; the sales are about 2,000 brls. Montreal Pot at 28s. for brand 1826, and 295. for new. Pearls are rather higher, 120 brls. old Montreal have brougl,t 28s. 6d. to 295. 6d. Of States' Pot Ashes 40 brls. Boston have been sold at 295., and 30 brls. New York at 28s. per cwt. The demand for Dyewoods has been more gene ral this week; the sales of Logwood are 8.5 tons Campeachy at 71. I7s. 6d. to 81., and 80 tons Ja maica at 6/, 7s. 6d. to 61. 10s. per ton; prime Cuba Fustic brings 131. per ton ; 10 tons fine Lima Nica ragua Wood have been sold at 211. 10s., and 10 tons large solid at 151. to 151. 55., with some ordi nary small at 71. 10s. per ton. There is an evident improvement in the demand for Camwood, the sales latterly have been very considerable, and nearly the whole has gone into consumption ; the price has not yet experienced any improvement, owing to the imports being heavier than usual ; the sales of this week are about 20 tons, at 121. lfss. for a mixed parcel, and 10/. 10s. for very inferior. Prime Wood will bring 131. 15s. to 141. per ton ; 14 tons Red Sanders Wood have been sold at 9/. per ton, duty paid. _ The only transactions in rough Blimstone is a parcel of 20 tons at 5/. 2s. 6d. The whole of the Saltpetre remaining here, being only about 70 bags, has been taken out of the 255. 6d. to 30s. per cwt.— Shumae continues to be inquired for; the sales of Sicily are 400 bags at 10s. 3d. to 10s. Gd., and of Verona 500 bags at 7s. to 7s. Gd. per cwt.; for Ma laga there is no demand.—About 20 chests East India Indigo have been disposed of at rather above the late sale prices; in Spanish nothing done.— Madders are in good request ; about 100 casks have been taken at 595. to 635. for Dutch crop, and 41s. to 425. for low French.—ln Madder Roots nothing done this week.—There continues a steady demand for Valonia; the sales are about 50 tons at 14s. 15s. to 151. for Morea, and 16/. 15s. for Smyrna.---The transa ctions in Safflower have beenextensive, •Ikeorivycan Bees' Wax have amou nting to 125 bales at 61. for good fair quality, a e and 31. 1 0 s. for ordinary, duty paid. — ln Ar g ols no thing done this week.—A small sale of Persian BEeieTrireiseshaasrebyeeerny e d f f u e ll cte o d f saalte._i(k Carrels 20 per cwt.; A Y Tu m ei t been sold at 10/. to 10/. 109. per cwt, 'Tie transactions in Olive Oil coritimie trifling; 4 tuns Gallipoli at 40/. and 5 tuns Spanish at 3.51., are the only sales reported.—Seed Oils are in fair demand.—There has been little or nothing doing in Fish Oils, but little remains in the importers' hands, and the buyers appear inclined to wit f ur th e r news from the Fishery before they again come into the market; prices remain steady.—Palm Oil meets a ready sale at 26/. 10s. per tun.—Oil of Tur pentine is lower. The business in Hides continues very trifling, being only 140 North American salted at lid., and 450 ordinary dry Buenos Ayres Ox and Cow at 81(1. per lb. In Horse Hides no sales. A good demand has appeared for Carolina Rice, and 400 casks have been sold at 16s. 9d. to 18s. per cwt. ; nothing done in East India. Hemp is in better request, and holders now demand 391. for Peters burgh clean. Tallow meets a steady sale w 389. Gd. for Yellow Candle. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS Par Quarter. Carlisle Hezham . Morpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen Coventry .---.. Newcastle (Staff:) Northallerton Stafford - Swansea Warwick . Per Noll. Barnardeastie..... Darlington Durham Wolsingham I*. The size of Wheat. s. to s. 57 64 58 72 59 63 58 66 s.d. s d. 80 86 76 80 10 0 10 2 60 96 94 00 68 7:1 74 80 DURWG LAST WEEX. Barley. Oats. 14 0 IS 6 'l3O 166 00 00 115 0 17 01U 6 00 186 176 00 00 the measure ♦ariea thr SCOTCH MARKETS. HADDINGTON CORN MARKET.—Sept.I. The market was well supplied to-day in Wheat, Barley, and Oats ; sales flat. A very small quantity of Pease and Beans. The prices of Old and New Grain will be seen by the quotations under. Wheat. First 7os Od Second 6Bll Oct Third Pease. 4.41 OO .-8 Od --4 Od Be,.at 48. 04 4ds Od —sod OLD. Barley. Oats. —s Od Nos ad —s Od 283 Od —s Oil 26s Od NEW. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beats. 35s ad 28, Od —s Od —s Od 30s Od 21a Od —s 01 —a Od 2as Od 20s Od —s Od —s Od of Wheat in market, 286 whereof were soil Wheat. First eies Od Second las Od Thins 44s Od There were 339 qrs. :15 ...at ins. (k! 5 27 OLD. 11 ...at 67s. 4 - xl. 32 12 Grey o.—Unsold 24. 31. 6s. 4d. :.12th pet quitter. DRW. 10 trsi 0 12 o. NI 0 10 52 0 , 5..........,40 41. 2 20 Unsold.-1 Orec. 21. 12s. 6d. 4.12the.,.- Average, 9 ...at 6os. o(4' 2 4 13 12 t6 0 Average , CORNWALL MA RKETS. num.—Wheat (average) 22a. 'M.—Barley, /38..--Oatt, 9844. HBLSTON—Wheat, ifs. &i.—Barley, Ik. (id. ST. AtArrELL—Wheat, 23.. to Vs.—Barley, 14a. to I•s.-o..is. 18s. to 15s. BODMIN—Wheat (average) 295. W.—Batley, 14s.—Oats, 1.1.- • Vd. LAIINCESTOW—.W heat (average) 225. 10s. Od.—Beef,yd—Mutton, ad. • -- - LllllSAaa—:Wheat - `ll4. 2:1. to 211.*—Barley, 13s. dd.- 41%0, letP to lls. dd. Sr. Comma—Wheat, 14. to 25a.—Batley, to and Mutton, 6d. to 60.—Veal and T.44otb„ CLI to od. Paxzenca—Wheat, 28,.• t.. T'irley, Ik. tutts,-o.ttz, 11.. to. 4. Od.—Beef aul 44:utton. 4d. Al. —Pork, to 5d Butter, 11d. per lb. - MINING INTELLIGENCE. T. , tu. (),eft. Quantity of Copper Ore .old at Itedruth_laat Tl.uratiq 14E41 ; 0 Avorage Produce 44i; Quantity of fine Copper 3h7 0 Amount of Sale, 20,12)1. 14s. (XL—Average litaiattart4 .1:34 ra, "XI HA RAM" OF THE MOGUL.-+-AS th.• dinette obliges the ladies of the harem- to Aiar i.`Ay very light dresses, there are some mannfaettwed of silk of so fire a texture, that the whole dress does not weigh more than an ounce ! They te mp o o s r e n t , li c e a s s e t i d n r g e s a s s e i s d , e w t h b iec former r they er a c s h o a i n g e o f i u n r I I l e e r use. Every day they assume .ardresa of a diffe rent colour. They are Inc:in - lea besides with en immense quantity of jewels : the collar of their robe is bordered with two bands of diamonds tm chased in the centre with two rows of pearls, crossing upon the stomach. Their ear-rin4s and bracelets are of surprising beauty. Their fingers, and also their toes, which are bare (tl, feet being covered with sandals only)", are oma-- neented equally with the most beautiful rings. AU the wives of the Mogul, and all the princesses his daughters, carry on the thumb of the right hand, in the form of a ring, a small looking-glass bordered with pearls. They cast their eye in cessantly upon this mirror ; it is with them the occupation of every moment. Their most be coming ornament is a golden girdle of the breadth of two fingers, enriched with jewels. Mantles of the same metal are suspended to it, sown with diamonds, whose points are terminated by knots of pearls. What is very surprising is, that each of these ladies has a change of six or eight sets of these pearls.—London Weekly Review. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst., in Charles-street, Berkeley-square, the lady of Edward Walpole, Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., in Sloane-street, the lady of Alex - ander Hall, Esq., of a daughter. On the 4th inst., at Canterbury, the lady of Lieut.-CO. Thackwell, of the King's Hussars, of a son. On the 28th ult., at Paris, the lady of Hugh Mills Bunbury, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 6th inst., at Liverpool, Mr. W. H. B arv i s , o f New Boswell -court, Lincoln's-inn, to Miss Anne Mason, of the former place. On the Bth inst., by the Rev. T. W. Wright, Thomas, eldest son of Thomas Marsden, Esq., Queen -street, Cheap side, to Frances, eldest daughter of James Barnes, Esq., Boughton, Kent. Ou the 30th ult. at Bolton Peny, York, Catherine Frances Nannette Milner, second daughter of Sir William Milner, Bart. of Nun Appleton, to the Rev. David Mark ham, grandson to the late Archbishop of York. On the 4th inst., by the Lord Bishop of Cloyne, at the church of Kinsale, the Rev. Percy Scott Smyth, of Snug borough, in the county of Waterford, to Catherine, eldest daughter of the late John Odell, Esq., of Carriglea, in the same county. On the Bth inst., at St. Mary's, Bryanstone-square, by Rector of Pat on an d W err i ngton, second son o f Li eu t.-G ener al Si r Dt F h i oe t n a ß r a o led y v. A Ma l j a oc c se l le e pa a lh n 4 , PE ß r a saci r tt t : . ' , to Harriet, second (laughter of General Maitland. On the sth inst., Henry, eldest son of Mr. Benjamin, of Newington, to Fanny, fourth daughter of Mr. Myers, of St. Peter's -alley. DIED. On the 6th inst., Anne, the beloved wife of the Rev. H. F. Border, of Hackney. On the Bth inst., deeply regretted, at the residence of Nassau William Senior, Esq., at Upper Kensington-gore, in the 84th year of his age, John Mair, of the Lodge, Iron Acton, in the county of Gloucester, and Grosvenor cottage, Clifton, Esq. On The 6th inst., aged 77, Mr. John Bishop, Chalk hill, Bushey, llerts. On the 7th inst., Emma Maria, youngest daughter of the late Mr. John Doman, of Pimlico, aged 15. On the Sth inst., aged 33, Ann, wife of Mr. Hen. Delafons, late of Sackville-atxect, Piccadilly. On the sth iniell, suddenly, of qopleiy, at his hofte., Langley, Bucks, Mr. Attkin:, aged 65. On the Ist inst., in Great Patrick-street, liiliast., Mrs. Anne Crawford, aged 105 years. On Tuesday (the day on which h,! had completed hi% 26th year), at his father's house, Wil:inn Halt, youngest son of David Holt, of Temple-street, Charlton-row, Man chester In Chichester, the Rev. Mr. Walker, in thc 3:41 yew' his age, Rector, of St. Pancras, and Rambold's Whl3-a- In Worcester, aged 50, the Rev. T. A. Willis. tr. 1.4". late Chaplain of Cawnpore, in the East Indies. Rev. H. V. Dowton, D.D., Rector of .a the. Island of Jamaica, son-in-law of the Rev. T. :Inborn, 9f Bath. PAINTXD and PususliSiThy M. Y , es, StiN-Orizca, No. 112, Stt B. to S. 39 42 34 4) 25 45 s. d. s. d. 56 60 44 50 70 72 70 7 2 7 0 • 7 8 40 46 46 78 s. to s. 22 34 28 38 22 27 25 3b 8. d. a. cl. 23 29 42 54 50 5d 40 46 00 00 30 99 40 50 86 96 L. to 8. 52 56 50 5,e 50 60 .50 64 s.d. 00 00 75 8 0 90 100 00 100 96 In 0 96 100 76 70 60 80 60 06 E 6 96 86 10 6 oughout the country 0 11 6 100 136 10 0 12 6 00 00 LIS7 1 - 4 GF of Three for the Y Anderson Ward Albert, J Alderson, Anderson Asser, Jo A yrey, Adams, hill W Attwood, Ward Burnside ; Britten, . Bleaden, Boulton, Bower, Brown, I Witrd Britten, Bingley,' Blakeley, Barnes, Bell, .1. ' Beck, R. 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