The Sun. — London, England, 1831-05-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Although the opinions of independent men' are made up as to the necessity of preserving entire the two great principles of the measure of Reform, — viz. the demolition of rotten boroughs, and the ex tension of the elective franchise, as well as of tht right of being represented to large communities rind classes of property, which are now excluded Iron , both, there is, we see, some discussion going on with respect to one or two points of qualification. 1. Proprietors of land let Out on building or other leases, whose tenants can vote, while they, i tk, landlords, are disqualified by the mere fa ct that tde,r tenants derive a qualification from the same pre mises. At this rate, Mr. Coke, of Norfolk, or Sr; Francis Bardett might have thousands of voters or, their property, withou, beingthemsele es recogniz e d IT as electors. This is a m anifest error in the wording of the Bill ; from ncting too pedantically upon the principle,—in itself most salutary,—that two qualifi cations shall not be founded on one and the same portion of an estate. A remedy may, we h um b ly conceive, be eas il y provided for so ob v i ous an inad vertency in the Bill. 2. Many persons are disposed to think, that when not only free ho!ders and copyholders of 10/. per annum. ' but leaseholders for a term of 21 y ears , p ay i ng 50/. per annum, are destined to exercise the right of voting in court. ies, the disqualification of tenants at will, no matter how extensive or valuable may be the premises which they occupy, is a defect in the measure which cught at once to be corrected. On the face .of things, undo u bt e dl y, i t appears h ars h , nay capricious, to refuse the franchise to a lease holder of 500 acres, at a rent of 6001. or 8001. per annum, while the occupant of 50 acres, at a tenth of the sum, can show himself manfully at the hustings. Yet are we decided in our belief that no tenant ouglat to be a voter, in respect of any pre mises from which he may be ejected at the arbitrary will of another individual. A 50/. leaseholder for twenty. one years is secure of his holding for what ever portion of his teim may remain unexpired. He may therefore vote for whom he pleases, and against his landlord's wishes, with impunity. He is an dependent man, and as such possesses the first at tribute of a useful elector. But is that the case with a tenant from year to year, or, what has just the same meaning, with a tenant-at-will, in any part of Eng land ?. Is any tenant at the will of his landlord an independent man? It matters little that we are told of the great responsibility of the man who pays a rent of 5001. per annum. It is of no moment that you assure us of the well-known fact that several great estates are parcelled out to yearly tenants; and that the occupants at the present day are descendants of those who tilled or pastured the same farms from the early part of the 18th century. We are aware of the fact; but what does it amount to ? Why, that the tenants in question, haVing no qualification to vote, did nothing to excite the resent ment of their landlords, and therefore have lived long and contentedly under them, on the single condition of paying their rent when called for. But give them votes, and what will happen ? Every man of them will be a slave, and the t enan t o f 500 acres a more servile slave than any other, as having the most beneficial interest in the land, aed therefore more reason to dread his landlord's displeasure. Suppose the voters of Newark and of Stamford had held their premises for long and definite terms, could the enlightened Duke and the generous Mar quis have visited their vengeance upon the muti nous tenants with any effect worth complaining of ? When the Duke of Newcastle talked about ` his own" property, he meant to describe as part and parcel of that property the consciences of the Newark voters, and treated the un fortunate people accordingly, in a way which is pretty notorious. Now it is because we object to see any Englishman invested with a right which he cannot exercise honestly without the risk of ruin, and which he therefore may be tempted to exercise in violation of his integrity, that he may save himself and family from ruin ;—it is for that reason we wholly dissect from the wish expressed by many worthy individuals, that the qualifications proposed by the Bill should be enlarged so as to embrace the tenants at will, on the pretence of an analogy, which really does not exist, between them and other classes of their fellow-subjects. In that respect at least, we are desirous that the measure may remain unchanged. It will be seen that Lord Milton keeps a-head of Mr. Cartwright in North amptonshire, though the laurels of the Reformers in that county are few and far between. The names of the non-residents who have not yet voted ought to be printed in a separate list, that such lukewarm patriots may receive from their countrymen that re c tliar species of respect . and consideration whic-h they have so jus ly earned. We lately alluded to the anticipated result of the Scotch elections in fa vour of Reform, and now find that in one or two instances, such as that of Admiral Fleming for Stirling, we were disappointed. The excite ment in Scotland is greater than in England, be cause the Reform Bill will create a more important change in the constituency of that part of the United Kingdom than in that of this; but for the same reason tie people have the less power in the choice of those who are now by courtesy to be called their - representatives. This was seen at the election for Lanark, where some 75 landed or paper freeholders disposed of the electoral privileges of a large county ; and a similar scene was expected to take place at Ayr, the election of which was Gxed for Wednesday last. Mr. Oswald, a grand nephew of the Com missioner Oswald, contests that county with the Tory Member, and the violence of the Anti-Reform party is so excessive as to threaten some violent out rage. It is even said in a letter, which we have seen, from that quarter, that the Tories would re joice in some disturbance or bloodshed, which was calculated to fix a stigma on the cause which they now feel themselves unable to arrest. The ad mirable good sense and intelligence of the people i which defeated a similar plot, and resisted a similar provocation at Stirling, will, however, it is to be hoped, prevail over their enemies in this instance also.— Times. A Morning Paper has laid down, in a tone of dogmatic authority, what it would have the public receive as the application of international law to the case of the Polish General ])wernicki and the Austrian authorities. Its arguments are founded upon the alleged facts of the case as given in the German Papers, where, if a man looks for truth upon Polish affairs, he will betray an egregious simplicity, touchiag the ingenious process by which those journals of despotism set about illuminating the world, whenever freedom and oppression, civiliza tion and barbarism, are struggling for the mastery. But let uc, for the present, take the facts in the German Papers as correct : let us suppose that General Dw'ernicki, with his gallant little band, was compelled to seek protection on the Austrian terri tories from an overwhelming force of Russians ; and we think it is not difficult to show that, from right Premis es , th e j ourna l i n quest i on h as d rawn a Wrong conc l us i on. The question is, had the Aus trian authorities, in that case, a right, not only to disarm the Poles, but to deliver . up their arms and all their materiel to the Russians? The Paper alluded to says they have that right, and proceeds to estub!ish its assertion s upon a ea principle and precedent. The principle is Austria can only ca t na u ' s d:—" ln the first place aekn t o e i r the Poles (till their independence is Czassr,eated) as the rebel lious subjects of the are Russian indebted to him for their arms, which declared enemies proper 7 y or, in the second place, as Russia, whose arms must have becom e Ir e" ; i t e o s t i t ,': Russian Generals had not Austria offered asylum. In either case the Russian authorititcsern an have been entitled to the Polish arms, and, therefore, the conduct of Austria in surrendering them cannot be regarded as any indication of hostility or any breach of the laws of neutrality." The first of these suppositions we meet by stating that it is that sort .of vicious argument which, by proving too much, proves nothing. It is not pretended that the Aus trians would not have violated the principle of nett trality if they had delivered up the Poles themselves to the Russians, anti yet the reasost here given as a. justification for the d e li ver i ng up t h e arms of the men who placed themselves under the proteCtion of the hospitality of the Austrians would equally justify the latter in handing over to their enemies —or, as the paper in question has it, " their old masters"— rhe men who bore those arms. If, because the Poles are rebels to the Czar, their arms belong to him, so do their persons--they are like all the subjects of his empire, the slaves of the Autocrat, who, if he has carted the system of grinding exaction and atrocious oppression to such lengths among Polish -laves that human nature could endure it no longer —is he not justified, like a West India planter, or a ferny boroughmouger, in saying to the world, " Have I not a right to do what I like with mine ' own ?" Austria says " Yes," and returns him the arms of the " Polish rebels," as being his property, lie has a right to say, on the same principle, " De liver me up my slaves also." But the fact is, the Poles, if rebels to any authority, are not rebels to the Czar—the Czar has nothing to do wi h Poland, and has not had since the treaty of Vienna, in 1815, which erected the Duchy of Warsaw into an inde pendent kingdom, of which the reigning Emperor of Russia was to be King; and which he was to govern by a charter, and liters totally distinct From rhose of Russia, which he has wantonly broken and destroyed, and thereby dissolved the allegiance of the Poles to him, as King of Poland ; for they never owed him any allegiance as Czar or Emperor of Russia —nor, because the individual who was King of Poland happened at the same time to be Em. peror of Russia, were the Russians, therefore, " the masters" of the Poles—they were then fellow-subjects, h av i ng , i n d ee d, less freedom by the pesmission of their Autocrat than was guaranteed to the Poles by the " Great Powers," who were contracting parties to the establishment of their independence. Now let us look at the second supposition, or that the Poles are to be regarded as the declared enemies of the Russians, in which ease their arms ought to be delivered up to them, because hey would have become their booty by right of war, if Austria had not offered them an asylum. We have a similar objection to the argument here put as we had to the former one. If the arms of the Poles would have become the booty of the Russians by the right of war, so would their persons have become their prisoners; arid therefore, if the arms ought to be delivered up to the pursuing Russians by the Austrian authorities, so ought the disarmed Poles themselves ? Is our contemporary prepared to assert that, by delivering up the Polish soldiers who sought an asylum on their territory, the Austrians would not commit any violation of the principle of neutrality ? If he is not prepared to go that length, his argument is not worth a straw.—So much for the principle. Let us now look at the precedents. Our contemporary says, " When, in the end of 1826, the Portuguese Royalists took refuge in the Spanish territory, the Constitutional Government claimed their arensorrillery, and horses, and, though great delays occurred in complying with the demand, its justice was never disputed." We believe the justice of it was so far disputed that the said arms, horses, &c. never were given up. But we will, for argument sake, allow they were. Is it a case in point ? There the Constitutional Government was the Government of Portugal, at least de facto—and if it chose to ask for the arms of the refugees, with out claiming their persons, we presume it did so on the ground that they were taken from the public arsenals of Portugal, or purchased with the public money. But what is the Government de facto of Poland ? Not a Russian Government—not the Government of the Czar, either in the capacity of Emperor or King. It is a Government of the Poles themselves. Where have the arms, &c. of Dwer nicki's corps been procured ? Not from the arsenals of Russia—not purchased with Russian money. Whatever of this military materiel has not been purchased by the individuals using it out of their own means belong to the kingdom of Poland, and if delivered up to any authorities, as their rightful owners, should have been deli vered up to the Government at Warsaw—the only one which the kingdom of Poland now acknow ledges. As to the disarming of the Spanish pa. triots on the French territory, it was an act of op. pression exercised by power against misfortune, and at all events, the French did not deliver up their arms to the Spanish Government—nor did the Prussians surrender the arms of the Russians who took shelter in their territory to the Polish Govern ment, but allowed them to recross the frontiers armed as they came. So there is neither argument nor precedent for the act of predatory wrong which Austria is said to have committed upon the brave men,' who experienced upon her soil the gross vio lation of those rights of hospitality which even savage communities respect. But the despatches of General Dwernicki, give a totally different com plexion to the circumstances which led to his cross ing the Austrian frontiers. According to those despatches, which we publish to-day, it will be seen that the Polish General, opposed with troops weakened by incessant fighting to the army of Ru diger, increased by numerous reinforcements, took up a position with his front and right wing strongly posted, and his rear close to the borders of Gallicia. There the Russian General, having vainly manoeu vred for two days to dislodge him from his position, had at last recourse to a violation of the Austrian territory to get in his rear. Then, and not till then, Dwernicki, who was opposed to force eight times greater than his own, and who found that the Russ' sians, to effect their design of attacking him on all sides, had not respected the neutrality of the Aus trian dominions, crossed the frontier, where the Russians continued to fire at him, though the Poles did not, as he states, return a shot, until the Aus trian Commander caused the Russians to desist. Thus it appears that the Russians were the original violators of the Austrian territory, not to seek an asylum, but to overpower an enemy, and the ques tion is, has Austria connived at the aggressive act of the Russian General ? The event will show.— Morning Herald. If it be true that the frightful disease known as the Indian cholera has advanced so far into the north of Europe as Leipsic, there must be more than sufficient ground for our urging again upon Govern ment, as we have heretofore done, the necessity of the most active precautionary measures being used to prevent, if possible, under the blessing of Pre vidence, its reaching our own shores. We would hope, and have, indeed, no reason to doubt, but that Government are silently and effectually doing all that they can do to avert the threatened calamity. But the danger we are exposed to is not a little augmented by the difference of opinion which pre vails among medical men as to the fact of this disease being contagious or not : some of them, we understand, contending that it spreads itself through the atmosphere as a malaria, and against which, of course, no quarantine regulations can provide. This may or may not be so. If on this, or any other similar topic, we were to wait till doctors cease to differ, half the human race might fall martyrs to this and other such visitations. The Government, therefore, we trust, will steer clear of adopting the ci otchets, or even the wisdom of medical professors, on this one point of non-contagion. The safer course is to be lieve the contrary ; leaving to the non-contagionists all the honours of victory, should they turn out to be right. Blessed as we are with a sea-girt territory, we are infinitely better provided with means to avert this evil than any Continental States can be which have to rely on a military force to form a sanatory cordon. On the other hand, our immense mercantile traffic, as well as our enlarged personal intercourse with all parts of the Continent, it must be admitted, in no small degree counterbalances this, and im poses a difficult but not the less indispensable duty, oatrie)art of G overnment, to l eave no precaution- ' means untried to avert so fearful a cal ,mity.— mornzng Herald. gained two on Lord Milton ore th e day's At twelve o'clock yester day 11. c Far , twright had adjournment took place at that time, OrnsaPc°coll'untAonf Mr. Cartwiight's insisting on the right of the free. men of the borough of Northampton to poll. A subsequent account up to one o'clock rated Lord Milton to be one a-head of Mr. Cerrwright on th, day's poll: In Pembroke county, Mr. Greville 55 below Sir John Owen. A slight re-action has, therefore, taken place in favour of Sir John Owen The polling in Northamptonshire goes on now so slowly, that it is evident few remain to be polled. It is now thought by many that it is impossible foi Mr. Cartwright to succeed against Lord Milton. It will be seen that Lord Milton has published an ad dress on the subject of the calumnies circulated against his Lordship and Lord Althorp. It is e plain and manly statement. The personal questiot, may now be considered 'as settled. The Standard is endeavouring to console the Anti-Reformers for their defeat in the elections, by attributing to them all the eloquence that has been delivered. If they can derive any consolation from an eloquence which seems to have carried with it very little power of persuasion, we have no objection to it. Reason must have been as much against them as rhetoric has been in their favour, if all this eloquence, aided by the influence of pow er f u l fainlies and pa rsons, produced so little eff ect on t h e people of Engl an d. We confess, however, we have no recollection of any very brilliant specimen of eloquence of the Anti- Reformers. The best and most sensible speaker among them was old Mr. Bankes; but even Mr. Baukes is hardly a Demosthenes. But our con temporary had in view, in this reference to the won derful eloquence of the Anti-Reformers, the display of Mr. North at Drogheda : " At the termination of the poll rsays our contem porary) Mr. North, happily the successful candidate, de livered a speech which will satisfy all who read it that the importance of his introduction into Parliament cannot be overrated. This speech has not been excelled by any that the present contest has drawn forth, rich as the contest has been in magnificent displays of eloquence on one side, but on one side only. We say on one side only, and we challenge the Morning Chronicle, Herald, Times, Globe, and Courier, to deny that all the good speeches have been on the side of the Anti-Revolutionists; and if they confess, as confess they must, expressly or by silence, that such is the fact, we will then invite them to explain why all the eloquence is on one side, and ' all the talent' on ti.e other." We have la'd this grand display of Mr. North before our readers, who, we have no doubt, will draw our conclusion, that this Mr. North abounds in self-conceit, and speaks of better men than him self with a presumption absolutely ludicrous. This Mr. North, who at most is a frothy spouter of com mon-place, and who never in his life delivered a speech that rose above mediocrity, tells the electors of Drogheda wh y he feels bound to o pp ose Mini sters :—" It is because I believe them (he says) to be the most rash, the most ignorant, and the most Inca pable Administration that was evercalled upon to guide the sceptre in the hands of a British Monarch. What measures have they attempted to carry in which they have not failed ? What plan or system of politics—financial, foreign, or domestic—have they not been obliged to abandon ? Without practical experience, without solid information, without Statesmanlike wisdom or discretion, they tottered on from blunder to blunder; till they found themselves obliged to rush upon the clamorous experiment which they are now making, and which, in spite of all their sanguine hopes, I confidently predict, is yet destined to fail." If this mouther had re flected a moment on shat he was uttering, he would not have charged Ministers with bringing forward Reform as a last shift, when it is notorious as the sun at noon-day that they made an extensive and efficient Reform a condition of their acceptance of office. They have not, indeed, so much practical ex perience as their opponents, for the best of all rea sons, because they are new to office ; but in the short time in which they have been in office, they have done what their opponents declared themselves unable to do—they tranquillized England by legal and constitutional means. They found England dis contented and a prey to outrage; and it is now con tented and tranquil. They have been but a short time in office, and of that short time, the most has been engrossed with that all-important question of Reform; but in that short time the foundation has already been laid for much good. We wish the Anti-Reformers much joy of the eloquence of Mr. North. The people of England are too cold in their temperament to be seduced by this sort of de claration. However, it is but fair to suppose that Mr. North will have more regard to the Assembly to which he has been returned than to utter in it such a trade as he thought good enough for his Drogheda audience.—Morning Chronicle. The Reform Bill of his Majesty's Ministers, if it should ever pass into a law, will give rise to some scenes of a nature never before exhibited in the country, and the progress of which will certainly dissipate the delusion that now enwraps the Mini- sterial Reformers, dense and impenetrable as it is. Let the gentry and freeholders of the counties of England figure to themselves two or three Privy Councillors, nominated by Earl Grey .arid Lord Brougham, probably the Right Hon. J. Calcraft, the new Member for Dorsetshire, who has so highly distinguished himself upon the Reform question and other matters, together with Mr. Wellesley, the new Member for Essex, another character equally distinguished, and perhaps Mr. D. W. Harvey, the celebrated Member for Colchester, the two latter having previously been created Privy Councillors for the occasion—let the gentry and freeholders of England, we say, figure to themselves these, or three other equally worthy and respectable men, visiting our counties in succession, in order to divide them into convenient districts for the purpose of representation, Let them imagine the great Whig ' landholders paying their Court to these three, or any other three equally Right Hon. Commissioner , , and whispering into their ears, " draw the line of demarcation thus, or thus, and we, steadfast friends as we are of the dynasty of Grey arid Brougham, shall always be sure of our two Members, while we shall have our fair chance at least with the other gentlemen of the county, less devoted to that dy nasty than we are, in the division of the county on the other side of our line." Of course persons so eminently trustworthy and respectable in every point of view, as the gentlemen we have mentioned, would altogether disregard any suggestion of this nature; but yet, when the scene comes really to be acted, as if the Bill should pass it must, perhaps the spectators will upon the whole M- I cline to the opinion that it would have been as well not to expose such Right Honourable per sons to such improper solicitation. It must no doubt be conceded that Earl Grey and Lord Brougham are the very last persons in the world to sanction any partiality on the part of their Com missioners; but yet, when the scene comes really to be acted, the spectator may begin to think that upon the whole it might have been as well not to expose those eminent persons to a temptation so strong as that of securing to their party, pertna newly and indefeasibly, no less than thirty-four county seats in the House of Commons. Again, with respect to the eighty-five boroughs, the con stituency of which, according to the Bill, will have to be patched up from some adjacent dis trict, a Commission of the Privy Council, to be appointed by Ministers, will also be called into play ; and who more fit, we 1)g to ask, for the task, than the three Right Honourable Gentlemen whom we have already supposed to have distin guished themselves by their stern and inflexible integrity in the division of the counties ? We should have implicit faith of course in the impar tiality arid rectitude of these or of any other persons whom honest and high-minded statesmen like Earl Grey and Lord Brougham might appoint. But still, when the scene comes really to be acted, and when one hundred and seventy votes in the House of Commons, not for one Parliament, but for a long arid indefinite succession of Parliaments, are to be gained er lost to the Ministerial, that is to the Whig party, by Vie manner in which it is acted suspicions may undoubtedly arise, among the more illiberal class of s?ectators, that it is not acted quite fairly. And surely it would be a grievous pity that Ministers so immaculate as Earl Grey and Lo'd Brougham, or that their equally imma culate Commissioners—to wit, the Right Hon. J. Calcraft, Mr. Wellesley, and Mr. D. W. Harvey— for something whispers us that these will certainly be the men—should he exposed even for a moment to injurious suspicions. This Privy Council part of the affair at least, we suppose, will be abandoned, unless perchance it involves one of the principles of the Bill, which can on no account admit of modifica tion. Sir C. Knightley, one of the Anti-Reform candidates for Northamptonshire, places the subject )f the Privy Council Commissioners in this, which, with all our friendship for Sir Charles, we must call very unfair point of view. " Now," says the worthy Baronet, " suppose a borough happened to lie half way between my estates and Earl Spencer's, is it not easy to suppose which way the Commis sioners would go to make up the number of voters ?" Really this is too bad. How could Sir Charle, th'nk of comparing his estates or his tenants—he at; Anti-Reform Candidate, opposing the Chancellor of the Exchequer at an election—with the estates and the tenants of the Chancellor• of the Exchequer's father ? How could he be so extravagant as to imagine that the Commissioners ought to hesitate fe e an instant in a cast: so clear? Why it is plain, ,o unreasonable are Tories in their expectations, that he will not be satisfied with the appointment a• Commissioners of men merely of unblemished ho• nour and incorruptible integrity, such, for example, as Messrs. Calcraft, Wellesley, arid Harvey, but that he expects Ministers to find for this office per fect Quixotes of political impartiality. Does not the Hon. Baronet perceive, that if Ministers and their select Commissioners are to act upon his ab surd notion of impartiality, they might just as well give up the whole of this part, supposed by many persons to be the favourite, the most indispensible, the really essential part of their measure of Reform ? —Morning Post. COMMISSIONS OF LUNACY. AT THE EYRE-TAVERN, ST. JOHN'S -WOOD, MAY 18. Mr. KNIGHT, Counsel, stated that Mr. George E. Liebpnhood, whose case the Jury had met to consider, was the only son, and one of two children, of the late Liebenhood, of Prospect-hill, in Berkshire, who died in 1802. He was born in 1801, received his education at Eton, and distin guished himself at Oriel College, Oxford, where the first indications of disease appeared. On the 13th of August, 1824, then residing at little Hampton with the family, a most violent paroxysm of insanity came on, which will be explained by the evidence of the witnesses, and he was placed under the care of Dr. Sutherland, Miele he had remained ever since. The property left by his father was very considerable. Eiis wife died in 1829, and the relatives of the pre sent unfortunate gentleman had issued this Commis sion for the protection of the property in question. Miss Eliza Badcock examined—Knew the family well ; was on a visit with them at Little Hampton in August, 1824. The son was taken ill on Mon day, after exhibiting certain symptoms of derange ment, and rushed from his bed out of the house quite naked. A. South—Mr. Liebenhood is living, under his care, at a cottage at St. John's-wood, and has been since January, 1825. Used to talk wildly, sometimes asking himself questions, and then replying to them in another voice. Constantly walking about; some times striking himself; incapable of conversing in the least. More calm and composed for the last ten months till within these few days. No particular delusion, except his calling himself Prince George of Prospect-hill. John . Hill, an attendant of Mr. South, confirmed his testimony; was constantly with him; incapable of answering any question ; calls himself the son of Princess Sophia; and issues orders for the execution of many of the nobility. Dr. Sutherland—Has attended Mr. Liebenhood since August, 1821, regularly twice u week. Has been in an unsound sure of mind since August, 1824. Should describe it lunacy, without any lucid intervals. Sir George Tuthill—Had seen the patient in 1829 and yesterday. Thinks him of unsound mind, rather than a lunatic. Mr. Liebenhond was then introduced into the room where the Jury sat : his appearance indicated total unconsciousness of what was passing around him, though apparently in health; and great mental and bodily weakness. He sat down, and repeated attempts were made by the Commissioners by asking him questions, to elicit an answer, but all to no purpose. He appeared completely lost, and was led away just in the same state, without uttering a word or offering the least resistance. Verdict—Unsoundness of mind since the 13th of August, 1821. SECOND COMMISSION, ON lIIS SISTER MISS LUCY CHRISTINA LIEBENHOOD. Mr. -KNIGHT opened the case, and stated briefly that she was the daughter of the late Mr. Lieben hood, of Prospect-hill: was born in 1799, and mani fested symptoms of insanity in August, 1822. The _ . cas2 was so clear that he should offer no observations, but leave it to the Jury, who would have an oppor tunity of seeing the lady. (Before ;Mr. Knight had began his address, from some mistake or another, Miss Liebenhood made her way into the room where the Jury were sitting, and seating herself in a chair, began to laugh out heartily, and was, after some persuasions, removed by her attendants.) Sir Henry Alford—Saw her in April, 1829, and yesterday. Thinks her of unsound mind on bath occasions. Mr. Warburton—Attended her since the Ist of June, 1831. She was then residing with her mother, was very violent in her manlier, incoherent in her talk. Dr. Sutherland—Had her under his care since September, 1824. Quite incapable of conversing. Exposes her dress at times in an indecent manner. Talks and laughs to herself. Very elated at times. Plays on the piano the most difficult pieces of music in a finished style. Was one of Cramer's best pupils. Quite incapable of taking care of herself. Miss Badcock spoke to the unsoundness of her mind, but she was so much better at one period, November, 1823, that great hopes were entertained of her returning reaFon. Was at times very rational, though never perfectly well ; b ut h er m i n d re l apse d again int o its former state. - Miss Liebenhood was then introduced, accom panied by her attendants; she hummed a tune all' the way up the room to her seat, and moved as if she were dancing. Talked with great rapidity, but incoherently. Placed her legs on s chair, appeared in very good spirits, but nothing rational could be elicited from her. Verdict of unsound mind since the ht of August, 1522. Sir George Hanson, a friend of the family, pre viously to the introduction of Miss Liebenhood, rose and requested of the Jury to avoid, in any ques tions they might wish to put to her, any allusion if possible to the death o f h er mother, or the state of her brother's mind, of which she knew nothing, nor was the brother aware of the state of mind of his sister. TIIE LATE MR. QUICK, THE CELEBRATED COMEDIAN.--.The Will and codicils of the late JOHN QUICK, Esq., formerly of the Theatres Royal Covent garden and Drury-lane, have been proved in the Prero gative Court of the Archbishop of Canterbury, by the oath of Mr. WILLIAM QUICK, the sou of the deceased, and one of the executors. The personal estate has been sworn under 6 ,0001, the whole of which sum (with the excep tion of a legacy of 20/. to the late servant of Mr. QUICK, and another bequest of a trifling amount to a friend) bequeathed to Mr. WILLIAM Quicx, and to the only daughter of the testator, Mrs. MARY ANNE DAVENPORT. The former is also appointed residuary legatee. The win is in a very dilapidated condition, occ:,sioned, us it ap pears by an affidavit of the deceased's servant, by his con stantly carrying it, until within a short period of his death, in a side pocket of his coat. The codicils are in Mr. Qtitex's own hand-writing. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. John Herbert M'Cabe, a young man of very rc apectable family, was brought up for re-examina tion, charged with having plundered the London Institution in Finsbury-circus, of a great number of valuable books. The books of the establishment had been disappearing for some time, and with such ra pidity that although the library is an excellent one, if the thief had not been detected for some time longer, it would have exhibited a beggarly account of empty shelves. Indeed, so expert had the pri soner become at the work, that he disposed of numbers of volumes for little or nothing. The prisoner was remanded, in order that as many other cases as can be discovered may be brought against him. On Welnesday the Justice-room and the avenues leading to it were crowded with stock brokers, stock-jobbers, stock -agents, and other per sons interested in the Potosi Peruvian Mining spe culation, in order that the LORD MAYOR might enter into an examination of Mr. William Healey, who appeared in the custody of a Union-hall officer, charged with having forged several shares or certi ficates in the above-named Company. Mr. Samuel Hill, of Somers-town, deposed that he gave ten shillings a share for thirty shares, which were consolidated into three shales, so that the price of the whole amounted to fifteen pounds. The pri soner sold them as genuine shares. Mr. Alley—Every one knows it was a bubble of 1825. Pray what was the original subscription P —I don't know, but I bought them as genuine. Mr. Alley—And so you didn't know that the whole matter was a hoax—a regular humbug ? (Laughter.)—l did not know it. Mr. Alley—What ! not the gold mountain ! I . _ suppose you thought you'd have had it all here by this titne. I'm afraid you won't have even the value of the mouse it produced out of it.—(Laugh ter.)—l consider that the genuine shares fell when it was known that the spurious ones were in the market. Mr. Alley—Well, I consider that the fictitious are just as good as the genuine—neither worth half a groat. Mr. E. Lusado, of Bedford-place, had signed his name to -some of the shares as a Director, and the signature on the shares was not genuine. Mr. Alley—The mine was rather a hungry one, Sir. It ate all the money that could be found fur it in this country without disgorging.—(A laugh.) Mr. Lusado—l assure you, Sir, the subject is by no means a pleasant one to me. I am ready to answer any questions you may think necessary; but the matter is by no means agreeable. Mr. Alley—l am sure of it. Ido not wish to get into any of the great secrets of the mine; but I Should wish to know what the shares ware ? Wit ness—They were originally 100/. shares, and 5/. was the deposit paid upon each single share. It was found, however, that the capital would be too large, and the shares were consolidated; but there is no Act—no Charter. Mr. Alley—l was pressed to take a share in the mountain myself, and was even assured that, if I laid out my money in making the gold come from it, I could have no further occasion for my pro fession.—( Laughter.) Mr. Noble:—lf you have any taste in that way, I have got some Poyais parchmerrts in my desk, and I can give you a bargain of them. I don't know what the premium is now, but I'm told they are an excellent investment.—(A laugh.) Mr. Peel, a printer, deposed that the prisoner, whom he had known for two years and a half, and who first said his name was Smith, called upon him last March, and desired him to engrave a plate capable of making the impressions exhibited. Prisoner said he came from Spica and Co., and told witness to strike off 100 impressions, and witness did so and delivered them and the plate to prisoner, who paid him 71. Mr. S. E. Sweetman was a stock-agent, and had been concerned in the Potosi as a broker when the Company first came out. After witness had de scribed the system of obtaining instalments upon the shares, he stated that from 70,0001. to 100,0001. had been paid into the banker's hands upon the part of the Potosi Mining Company. Mr. Alley—Stay ! Let me hear that again, for the sake of the poor shareholders. From 70,000/. to 100,0004 in the Bank for this wretched bubble? Mr. Sweetman—lt is no bubble. I do not by any means consider it as such. Mr. Alley—What, then, has become of all those thousands? Mr. Sweetman—That's the business of the Directors. Mr. Alley—l am delighted to know that fact. But pray how are the shareholders to get their money ? Probably, through the means of the Press, we may be able to have theirjust demands answered. Mr. Bodkin contended that the evidence proved a felonious forgery within the meaning of the last Statute, which made it an act of felony to forge any " accountable receipt or security for the payment of money." The fabrication of the plate had been tweed beyond a question to the prisoner, who had benefitted himself by the gross fraud he had com mitted. Mr. Alley said that the offence with which his client was charged was of an immoral and illegal character, and would, if satisfactorAy proved, sub ject him to the penalties of an indictment; but to call it a felonious forgery was what could not be for a moment admitted into the vocabulary of the law. He thought it 'very kind in the Directors to have consolidated the shares, .by which they generously determined that 100,0001. should answer. What ! 100,0001. to be advanced five years ago to work the mine, and not a halfpenny to be had for it yet ! " Oh, the Lord deliver me," said Mr. Alley, " from such Directors, and such mines, and such shares, genuine and counterfeit; they all deserve to be thrown into a bag, and well shaken together."—(Loud laughter.) Mr. Lusado—l return you many thanks, Sir, fur your kindness in shaking me in a bag.—(Laughter.) Mr. Alley—But I find too, upon looking at the certificates, that six years have elapsed, so that we have the Statute of Limitations in our favour. Mr. Phillips—Exactly so. I perceive that it was upon that must congenial of days, the Ist of April. —(Laughter.) Justice would be fully answered if Mr. Healey was held to bail to appear. Mr. Bodkin said that justice might not be as fully answered, as Mr. Healey might think proper, if allowed to give any bail, to give leg bail. The LORD MAYOR, after consulting with Mr. Hobler, said he slmuld hold the prisoner to bail for the 'fraud, himself in 4001. and two' sureties in 2001. each. G UILDIIALL. Samuel Pyhanz, the soldier who was charged with stealing a piece of printed cotton, was com• mitted, the additional witness attending, and com pleting the chain of evidence. MARY LEB ONE. On 'Wednesday evening an extraordinary exami nation was witnessed, in the person of Charles Egan, who was charged with stealing a valuable watch from the mantelpiece of Mrs. 0 xen, at No. 3, Dor. set-street, Bryanston-square, where he was intro duced as her niece's intended husband. Mrs. Owen now deposed, that the prisoner came to visit her niece Marion, on the 18th of April last, when she left. the lovers- in the parlour, with only her little boy, her watch being then lying on the mantel piece. Soon afterwards the prisoner and her niece walked out together to Lisson-grove, when returning to the parlour, she, missed her watch. She had never seen the prisoner since, and was certain that he must have taken her watch, as her niece returned home without him, he contriving to part company with her. Mallon, who had been eyeing the prisoner with strong emotion, here exclaimed—" I am the your, woman, Sir. That gentleman (pointing to the . pri. soner) paid his addresses to me und er the feigned name of Brown, and passing for a single man, but we find that the wretch (sobbing) is married, and has got children, Sir." Mr. William Hobbs, who visited at Mrs. Owen's, and got acquainted with the prisoner there, met the prisoner that morning by accident in Oxford-market, and knowing the charge against him, he . kept hitt talking in hopes of meeting a policeman, but tO length he was obliged to collar the prisoner, whoi . trying to escape, left the skirts of his coat behind. Mr. GRIFFITH—How came you to run away frol Mr. Hobbs, and l eave t h e s hir ts o f you coat, lik Joseph's c l oa k, i n hi s h an d ? P r i soner — I did i, without thought: b u t I' m as i nnocent as J oged h wal Mr. GRIFFITH—Not quite so innocent, I sup . pose, of stealing the lady's watch. • Egan was thea committed, and orders were giver to make further inquiry as to the robbery. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. William TVildish, late steward of the Literal . ) Union Club, who has been several days in custody charged with various Gauds upon the club, will yesterday again brought before Mr. ROE, the Sitting Magistrate, but, at the request of his solicitor, mai again remanded for another week, owing to the ab' sence of a witness, whose evidence was considered material for the defence. As the Magistrates were about to retire yesterday: a y oung woman of respectable appearance wie brought before them, charged with wilfully de molishing a pane of glass valued at two guineas. Mr. CONANT inquired what she had to say The defendant (leaning very composedly over tht bar) replied, " Why, I don't know how it is, but can't help telling you that somehow all the way 1 came along from Hyde Park Corner something told me I should break a window; I suppose it was to be, It was here intimated to the Magistrate that the defendant had as early as the age of sixteen formed a tender attachment; it had strengthened with het increasing years, but in consequence of its object abandoning her, she was deprived at intervals of het reason. Mr. CONANT inquired of her whether she had any friends residing near ? Defendant—lf I tell you, will you promise me that I shall go away directly. Mr. CONANT.—That will depend on circumstances' Defendant—l should like to know how much money I've got to pay, for there seems to be a good deal of bother about the window. _ _ Mr. CONANT—You hare to pay 30s. Defendant--Do you, Mr. Magistrate, mean to tell me that any law can make me pay thirty shit' lings for one pane of glass. Now, did the p e ople get the money that had their windows broken at the illumination I' Mr. CONANT—Perhaps they will get that from the county. Defendant—Well, then, they may get this in the same way. After considerable difficulty, she gave the nime of a cousin in the neighbourhood, who on being sent for stated that the young woman's name was Maris Barland, and was proceeding to state that her mother, who was in indigent circumstances, kept green-grocer'ashop opposite St. Luke's, when s he was interrupted by the defendant, who exclaimed, " Qh, cousin, for shame, all this exposure is for 3s. 6d.," then turning round to the spectators, s he asked them with the greatest sang froid to lend her the money, assuring them she would " send theta the money another time." The cousin stated that she had formerly been in a lunatic asylum, but wact discharged on getting better. Defendant now became more violent, and ex° claimed " What can this have to do with 34. The tradesman did not wish to press the case against the unfortunate " victim to love," and on her consenting to accompany the constable home, she was discharged. THE MARKETS. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISII CORN, For the Week ended May 13, 1831, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in the di ftrent Clues and Towns in England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat.-- 68s. lid.l Oats 275. sd. 395. 9d. Barley 41s. 5d.1 I Rye ......... 383. 9d Pease—..—. 403. Od. IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WEEKS PRECEDING. Wheat 703. 54.1 Oats 275. 24.1 398. 6d. Barley 41s. 94.1 Rye 40s. 10,1.1 Pease 408. 41. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat-10i. Bd.l Oats ..—.—,, 6s. 3d.1 04. 04.1 Rye 98. 9s, 6d. SOUTHALL MARKET—May This day's supply was rather limited, but as the attendance of both London and country buyers was not numerous, the trade was extremely dull, at the following prices per stone of 81h. to sink the dials Beef 3s. Bd. to 4s, (id. 4s. Od. to 51. 4d. Mutton I 3 8 5 0 Pork 310 410 Lamb ss. Od. to 6s. Od The foregoing quotations are Beef and Mutton 4d. to Sd., Lamb Sd., Veal 6(1., and Pork 2d. to 4d. per stone lower than ot this day se'nnight, ; Beasts, 174; Sheep and Lambs, 3,867; Calves, 54; Pigs, 37. A good many Beasts and some Sheep lett the market unsold. HAILSHAIII MARKET.—May 18. 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. 4s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Mutton—.... 4 0 5 0 I Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb A good supply, and a very dull trade. ARUNDEL MARKET.—May 17. 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. I 4s. Od. to 4s. to. Mutton 4 2 5 4 0 0 0 0 Lamb 5o• Od. to 6s. 2d. A moderate supply, and a dull trade. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. I Beans. - Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s. to s. Blandford 66 42 27 43 Grigg . 50 53 30 36 20 23 34 40 Cambridge 68 39 23 07 Chard 64 70 34 38 20 22 36 40 Huntingdon .... 58 70 32 42 23 30 37 43 Long Sutton.-- 62 70 22 28 36 39 Louth 63 74 36 33 23 27 38 40 Lynn—..—. .......... 60 69 23 39 24, 30 36 40 Newark 63 68 40 45 25 28 40 42 Nottingham. 76 81. 33 48 24 31 42 44 Peterborough 66 '7O 40 44 23 30 36 42 Plymouth 70 81 38 48 26 34 3,3 50 Pontefract 68 43 26 47 Sleaford Uppingham 63 70 36 46 24 30 38 43 Wisbech 62 70 22 24 27 36 38 LEEDS CORN MA RICET.—May 17. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 601 h. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, Potatoe —Mealing, Foreign 144. tol434d....English 14d. to 15d. perst. Shelling Rapeseed, English, 161. to 241 Foreign, to —/. ner last. } 60s. to 708. ~, 551. to 68 8 . ~,, , ..... 4os. to —s. ,0 ~.. 288. to 30s. 5' 375. to 445. v i 288. to 30s. • ;lisp lid, to 15d. perst. . 345. to 355. per load. gn, —4. to —4, per lastf LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE...May 17. Wiinsr, English, White, per 701 b. ...................* R e d --, Scotch, Welch, and M anx 9 0 9 6 8 10 9 0 Irish, White .B 0 8 -- Red 8 2 8 4 - Foreign lO 0 10 4 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 0 4 3 - Irish - Foreign CARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 4O 0 46 0 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. . . Feeding 3 9 4 3 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 46 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0 46 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2601 b. 49 0 50 0 ----- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401hs '3O 0 33 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. RYE, per Imperial quarter —.‘rial Quarter -- .ALT, per Imperial quarter Imeowr OF GRAIN for the Week ending May 16. Wheat. Oats. i Barley Flour. Oatmeal. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 'Foreign, Brls.llrish,&c. Bcks.l Loads. 13,730 1,79:1, , 1,089 f 1,518 1,311 BIRTHS. On the ISth inst. in Upper Harley-street, the lady of R. Jen kins, Esq., H.P. of a son. On the 18th inst. in Albion-street, Hyde Park, Mrs. Greene, of a son. MARRIED. On sia t te h r e , ionfsnteart,hn'oiltAs,nll:iylolitiamng,etshtidrdausgohn of T. Esq., Chamberlain tcr of U. Brodribb, Esq., of Warminster. On the 19th inst. at Camberwell, Charles, eldest son of J. Roberts, Esq., h C a a m m p b io e i r i l h e i l i l l ,. to Maria Fra nces, daughter a J. Gay, Esq. of On the 18th inst. J. 1). Greenwood, Esq. of Mitcham, t ° Sarah, third daughter of John Field, Esq. Grove Lodge, Lowet Tooting. On the 19th inst. at New St. Pancras, J. B o l ton, E sq. o f G ra y'," inn-square, to Elizabeth Mary, only daughter of J. Bourdillon , E sq ., of Great Winchester-street, Broad-street. _ DIED. On the 15th inst. Elizabeth, the wife of Mr. J. Scripps, of Southmolton-street. On the 17th inst. at M arlborough-house, Leopold John, eldest son of Sir It. Gardiner, in his 13th year. On the 18th inst. John Vaughan, sixth Viscount and third Earl of Lisburne, f ormerly a Colonel in the Anny. He i s suc ceeded in his titl e and estates by his eldest son, Ernest Augustus Lord Vaughan. On the 19th inst. Henry Frederick, the infant son of Mr. and Lady Mary Stephenson. • relict of the Rev. W. S. Wili er, On the Itith i nst. aged 21, Andrew, youngest son of L i eut, General Dunlop of Dunlop, A yrshire. On ihe Nth inst. in Belgrave-place, Catherine widow of th e , aged 83. late C. Wylde, Esq., Paixrun AND PIIDLIMIED BY MURDO YOUNG, AT 1 ° SUN OFFICE', 112, STRAND, LONPONr TEI 'A] B' Ci ;IP G T HE tio : the "Public i which. will be reception of ( that this" Rep( other, no expe Proof Ruildini xnodation for Paintings, 80, either safe pre Printed par Pantechnicon. BRITISH I ripHE D FIRE. OFFICE beiß the Business c at No. 2 and fi mists, during RED LION BEC] ey • sensib PATRONAG COMMERCI them, that dui derable alterat ROOMS, and his establishcm attention, as it INN should cc COMMERCI J. B. is an offering bis si favours he h FRIENDS b! interest. Thi further ackno , the managemel their approbat every effort to MODATION, exertions are TERMS of t continue to rec CIAL FRIEN VOTICi 1 .• BARN just cause, I ht able for any D Dated Mly ITO BE Eight ' JOY, a good Stables, and la Letters to bi George Inn, T may be had. THE i Guards, With improved and the most copied, nor car a skeleton or The key admit entirely preclu guarded mains Manufactory To prevent i Stamp Mark, Makers, Lond, CABINET 14 MR. TI- Nobili hest- selected S England, at tl Leadenhall-str4 ably to Act of and encour igei bine to produc4 Members in oh at death. IN the mi ments of an evil more t vortex of dece the laws of na exaction for hi as well as bodi as to require whose time ha cessfully devot debility, whet paler the me has enervated Which the pan Without forth( and be kindly creation. Th dulgenee, has May learn to stitntion. TI kora Lues Vei the quack, or a certain resto of a connubial to despair, 6, whiel t she can Messrs. GC every d„„ at parts of the trig minutely t vice and Medic eine will be a observation. GI ta .s*,Thuisi itins it) of Life, a f a' Th e yp Se x. May Porter, 72, g o , t v ; at 9, ( tt nngbam ; D t enharn ; Lod Cambridge l eeds; Gore Platt and Tc lialdo n and Dowding, Sari Y.