The Sun. — London, England, 1834-05-20 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Times of yesterday contained a report of last Saturday's meeting, calling itself the " Protestant Society for the Protection of Religious Liberty," when Lord Durham took the chair. This society, under the comprehen sive name of " Protestant," is, and has always, for between 20 and 30 years, been in fact a society of Dissenters. The crisis in which the Dissenters now stand,—the sanguine eager ness with which that body had been pursuing a series of objects of much real importance to their welfare as members of society, but with held from them by the existing law—the bitter ness of their disappointment at some recent oc currences, and the unwarrantable violence of the consequent declarations and measures adopted by many amongst them—had con spired to attach an interest to the meeting con voked for Saturday, of which there was no pre vious example. Some of the dissenting speak ers, to do them justice, were not slow to ac knowledge, in becoming terms, the progress of a kindly and liberal feeling towards them, which has been manifested by a large portion of members of the Established Church ; and we must add, that if the senti ments of our own brethren of the church of , England, on seeing the poor attempt at relief to the Dissenters, miscalled " Lord John Rus sell's Bill," could be fairly examined and can vassed, there would be found in them a disap pointment, if not quite so bitter or resentful, at least as disinterested and sincere, as that of the loudest murmurers among those very Dissenters. Mr. Wilks, the secretary, enumerated to the meeting a few instances of individual unkind ness, or want of courtesy, shown to Dissenters by members of the Established Church, which, however disagreeable in themselves, we must say had little to do with the proper object of the meeting, which we suppose must have been to promote an amelioration of the laws that pressed upon the comforts or worldly welfare of the non-conformists,—not to attempt the impracti cable and fiivolous purpose of mending the manners, or tempers, or tastes, of particular persons. Such a course might help to exasperate the angry feelings now too preva lent with certain classes of dissenters, and to put them upon the use of extravagant and offensive language, thereby blowing the coals between them and the sticklers for their perse cution ; but we can hardly imagine Mr. Wilks to have been governed by such a motive. There were many things referred to as griev ances by Mr. Wilks, which are familiar under that description to readers of this journal—such as the questions of registry, of the celebration of marriage, and of admission to graduate in the universities ; all of which demand from parliament the most prompt attention and redress. At the same time there are one or two matters of another kind, which seem to us to have been either unfairly stated by Mr. Wilks, or to have justified in ferences which that gentleman omitted to de duce from them. It is not true that the dis senters ought to feel themselves placed in a worse situation with regard to church-rates by Lord Althorp's measure, than they had been previously. Nor are they " insulted" when no insult has been meant. They are now (if the bill be persevered in) called upon to con tribute, in common with the whole nation, out of the general revenue of the country, their share of 250,0001. per annum, for the repair of churches. They had paid their proportion of near treble that sum, in the offensive form of church-rate. Mr. Wilks need not exaggerate an injustice to obtain the reparation of it. The church-rate measure of Lord Althorp is good so far as it goes, by diminishing the amount of the rate, and changing it from a direct to an indirect contribution. But there is, never theless, so much of adherence to a vicious principle in the bill, as must, we apprehend, be fatal to • it. The church has, at least prospectively, the means of defraying this strictly ecclesiastical charge out of her own revenues. The estates of deans and chapters ought hereafter to become available to the wants of the church itself, instead of being reserved to indulge the laziness of indi vidual pluralists or sinecurists, and the destina tion of part of such revenues to the ends for which church-rates had been hitherto levied, ought to have been held out to the country by Lord Althorp as a distinct principle of his mea sure. The surplus left, after such appropria tion, might be most beneficially applied, so far as it went, to one of two objects of essential value to the church—either to the increase of small livings, or to the formation of a fund for the support, in the decline of life, of super annuated clergymen, no longer capable of ser vice in the active ministry of religion. Mr. Wilks assumes much credit to the " voluntary principle," for the great increase, within the last seventy years, of dissenting congregations iii Wales. Why is that ? Because from the wretched, the despicable, and most impolitic scantiness of the funds reserved for the main ;:enance of the established clergy, and the impassibility of obtaining, in many cases, educated and competent ministers to undertake the duty, the quality of the religious in struction delivered was so bad as to offer no inducement to rational minds to continue mem bers of the establishment when anything more tempting offered. Be this as it may, the Dis senters have begun to play an offensive and dangerous game. One of the resolutions passed 1)v the above meeting , and more than one of the speeches uttered there, insisted on the " se par4tlgrl of church and state," that is, on an entire overthrow of the existing church esta blishment, to favour an experiment of the " vo luntary principle," by a confiscation, we take for "grai e ,ted, of the whole property of the church, since toe Dissenters disavow all notion of seiz ing palp of it. This, we can tell our Dis senting fellow,subjects, they will not succeed in. The Church of England is stronger than they flatter their own prejudices by suspecting. She has immense power—she is weak no where but in her abuses. The Ministers have been shortsighted to infatuation in not correcting these, mid thereby rallying not only the entire body of members of the establishment in defence fit* its constitutional rights, but the sound and more sober portion of the Dissenters likewise. There are bills now actually in progress for redress ing all but one of the solid grievances of the dissenters. The Registry Bills and Marriage Bill, brought in by Mr. Brougham, cover everything of which they can seriously com plain, but the exclusion from degrees in col leges, and the imperfect measure relating to the church rates. Two main abuses of the church of England are attacked by the Chancellor in his proposed bills for the abolition of pluralities, and the prevention of non-residence. The ex tinction of tithe in its present shape is a pledged measure. We have, from the beginning, been warm and cordial advocates for the relief of the dissenters ; but it is not quite three months since we told them, that if they provoke, not the cry, but the feeling that " the church is in danger," it will operate against them with ten times the violence that it ever raged with against Catholics. It is not yet for gotten by whom the church of England was once overturned before, and by what sort of religious intolerance, persecution, and barbarity, that subversion of the episcopalian church was f0115,.,,J. ls,.,,J. We recommend to general attention Lord Durham's discreet, manly, and upright speech, addressed to the meeting of last Satur day. His Lordship was placed in a delicate position, but he maintained it wisely as well as resolutely, and his words, we hope, will not be lost either upon the dissenters or upon the Go vernment of Lord Grey. The wildness and fury of the dissenters have, in truth, been hatched by the feebleness of Ministers, in withholding the redress of their real grievances, and leaving the turbulent among the dissenting body a pretext for asserting that they have no chance of justice except from the total ruin of the church of England. We trust that Lord Durham's counsels will not be overlooked.— Times. A great press of parliamentary and other matter has hitherto prevented us from taking any notice of the courtmartial on Captain Pi gott of the Navy. We would not; in the pre sent stage of the proceeding, drop a word that could have the effect of prejudging the question —a question of the greatest importance, not only to the two individuals concerned as prose cutor and defendant, but to the profession itself, and, through the profession, to the public. The honourable men who compose the court martial, will, no doubt, feel as sensibly as others the extreme delicacy . of deciding between a superior officer of their own rank—probably the personal friend of some of them, certainly the acquaintance of many if not of all—and an inferior officer with whom they have little ac quaintance, and less sympathy ; for assuredly the position in which he stands as the accuser of one of their order is calculated, prima facie, to create any thing but a prepos session in his favour. We repeat that the honourable men who compose the- courtmartial must be aware of this, and, being so, must feel anxious to prove their impartiality, even to t hesatisfaction of those who may be inclined to doubt it. Our object, however, in calling attention to the subject at present is to notice that peculiarity in the naval courtsmartial which precludes an officer under the rank of captain from having any officers of his own rank among the judges, or, rather, the jury, who are to pro nounce upon his case. Why should not the naval officer have the' same advantages as the military officer ? Why should the naval court consist exclusively of officers of high rank, while the military court admits officers of all ranks, and thus secures to one service what is denied the other—the benefit of that principle which says that Englishmen shall be tried by their peers ? And let no one underrate the importance of such a concession. We have every confidence, as we have already stated, in the justice of the particular court to which our observations have been directed, but it is only from a conviction that they are aware of the imperfection of the law as it stands, and of human nature as it is affected by selfishness and partiality, and deter mined to do justice in defiance of both. How much better would it be for those who judge as well as those who are judged, if the law, cast ing no suspicion or prejudice on either party, had smoothed the way to a fair trial, instead of obstructing it, as it must be acknowledged to do, by its own partiality and injustice. But again and again we repeat that our confidence in the present court is unshaken. At the same time it is incumbent on the legislature to look to the state of the law as it affects both ser vices ; and, if there be no good reason for keeping it in its present state of inequality, to have the same rule for both-with as little delay as possible.—Morning Herald. The conduct of Lord Brougham, in introdu cing the Church Bill without the promised communication, not only with the .heads of the Church, but with some of the Cabinet them selves, has given rise to reports of the resigna tion of some of the noble lord's colleagues who are not disposed to be treated thus unce remoniously. Whatever foundation the latter part of this report may have, the conduct of Lord Brougham in introducing those bills after the Bishops had left the House, and after a previously written promise from Lord Grey to them that they should be made acquainted with the provisions of the bills prior to the irintroduc tion—this conduct, we say, of Lord Brougham cannot be justified upon any plea whatever, either of policy or of propriety.—Morn. Post. GERMAN EMIGRATION.-A new party of 300 emigrants from Rhenish Bavaria, carrying with them about 150,000 f., lately passed through Forbach on their way to some seaport, where they intend to embark for America, as so many have done before them. OL DH A M.—Though a majority of the work men are again employed, there is a turn-out at Messrs. Seville and Wright's mill, and outrages have been committed by the unionists on their men and those of Mr. Thompson, at Bankside mill. The military are still in the to wn.—Leeds Mercury. The greatest expectations are excited that the ensuing commemoration will be extremely grand and attractive. Many lodgings are already engaged on very reasonable terms, and owing to the gre4t addi tion made within the last few years to the number of respectable houses in Oxford, there are still plenty of lodgings to let at moderate prices. Preparations are making on a large scale by the University to accom modate suitably the influx of visiters, which it is ex pected will be of the highest distinction, and our citizens, we are happy to see, are determined not to be behind hand in complimenting the great captain of the age on his first official visit to Oxford. We un derstand the stewards of the music-room, with a laud able anxiety to provide the utmost possible entertain ment, applied to that prince of fiddlers, Monsieur Pa ganini, who modestly demanded, for scraping his single string, the moderate sum of 1,000 guineas !—Oxford Journal. " We think it one of the curiosities of lite rature," says the United Service Journal, " that there should be extant so few narratives of life afloat. The subject is unquestionably one of the most engrossing interest. It is connected with nature in its grandest and most terrible aspects, with art in its subtlest in genuity, and with human enterprise and courage in their noblest achievements, and it involves the most surprising changes of scene, and the most rapid alter natives of enjoyment and dismay. The human beings who, to use the words of the Psalmist, go down to the sea in ships, and occupy their business in great waters,' present characters more peculiarly distin guished from the mass of their fellow-creatures than are to be found in any other class of men." Hence the avidity with which accounts of nautical adventure are perused by the public. To recent works of this class Captain Chamier has contributed his " Life of a Sailor," and Lieutenant Bowers has given us the details of his services during a period of 35 years in all parts of the globe in his " Naval Adventures" — both full of stirring adventure, and presenting striking pictures of the lives and perilous pursuits of seamen., COURTMARTIAL ON CAPTAIN HUGH PIGOTT, R.N.-(FIFTH DAY.) The officers composing the courtmartial on Captain Hugh Pigott reassembled yesterday, pursuant to ad journment, on board his Majesty's ship Hastings, at Sheerness. After the court had been opened, a letter from the Secretary of Legation at Constantinople, when with Sir Stratford Canning, was read, ordering the Alban to be in attendance upon the Ambassador, and a report as to the repairs at Malta in October, 1831, to show the state of the vessel at that time : by this it appeared that no paint had been allowed, consequently she could not be in a very complete state at the time of inspection. Mr. Pettigrew's examination was then resumed : it related, as on the former occasion, to the stowage of coals upon the deck of the Alban, and the state of the vessel generally. By the Couar—Are you aware for what purpose the Alban was sent up to the Bosphorus? Witness— I am not aware, except that of taking the British Am bassadors. By the Comr—Were there any government stores on board ? Witness--None that lam aware of. By the COURT—As the Alban was engaged to con vey the representative of Majesty, was she in a suffi cient state of cleanliness and order for the reception of such a distinguished person? Witness—No ; as we were obliged to carry coals on deck, which generally tended to keep her dirty. By the COURT—Was there any occasion for 180 bags of coals being on deck, she only being employed in carrying the Ambassador from his country seat to Constantinople ? Witness—No, I know of no particular occasion ; but in a short time we should have started them into boxes. By the COURT —Was the Alban commonly clean, sweet, and wholesome in the Ambassador's cabin, such as the representative of Majesty ought to occupy ? Witness—l think she was commonly clean, but from the hot air she might not be as sweet as necessary. By the COURT—You positively swear that there was no sort of dirt or unwholesomeness, except what arose from the hot air ? Witness—None but that oc casioned by the ashes and dirt flying out. By the COURT—Was there any circumstance to prevent dirt and ashes being swept away when the cabin was dirty ? Witness—Not that lam aware of. By the COURT—After what you have related as to cleanliness, I wish the Court to be informed what orders you conceive the prisoner to have given that were unnecessary or vexatious, or do you consider him to have given such ? Witness--I do not consider that they were unnecessary or vexatious. By the COURT—IS it your opinion that the climate the Alban was then in was particularly favourable to keep ships clean and wholesome ? Witness--Previous to the Barham's arrival the climate had been unfavour able, but at that time it was fine weather. By the CotTuT-.---Was there any cause, between the 27th and 29th of March, for her being dirty ? Wit ness--We had removed the coals, in doing which we had caused a little dirt. By the COURT-Might not that dirt have been re moved if any attention had been paid to cleanliness and order ? Witness--Yes ; the decks had been scrubbed and washed the morning Captain Pigott came on board. By the COURT—Was there any appearance on the paint for a person to doubt that it had been washed so recently ? Witness—Yes ; from its being quite fresh when the coals were taken on board, it had a dirty appearance. _ By Sir JAMES GORDON—Bearing in mind the peculiar service on which the Alban was employed, in carrying the representatives of the three greatest Powers in Europe, were the cabins, decks, and other parts washed every time the fires were put out ? Witness—Not immediately afterwards. Sir JAMES—What do you mean by not immediately ? Witness—The fires were put out in the evening, and the decks washed on the following morning. Sir JAMES—Did not the ambassadors send to the steamer, that they required her attendance as soon OA you could get your steam up ? Witness--I have a faint recollection of the circumstance Sir JAMES—WouId not the Alban have been more ready to go on service, and cleaner, if she had been washed when the fires were put out, than she would have been if ordered on service in the morning ? Witness—Certainly. Sir JAMES—Was there any thing to prevent it? Witness—Not that I am aware of. The witness was then asked the same question, as it applied to the cabin-floors and other parts of the vessel, and replied, that he did not remember that they were washed immediately. By the COURT—How long was the Alban at anchor off Sultan's Valley, before she was inspected by Capt. Pigot ? Witness—l think one day. By the COUR r—Do you consider 42 hours sufficient time to clean a steam-vessel after the fires had been put out ? Witness—Yes. ' By the COURT—Had the Alban been employed on any particular service just previous to the present, to prevent her being in complete order ? Witness—l believe that we had her down the Bosphorus once or twice, and had, as I stated, coals on deck. By the COURT—Was there no possibility of keeping the Alban in cleaner order ? Witness—Yes, by mov ing the coals from the deck. By the COURT—Are you aware of any application being made by the commander for the removal of those coals, in order that the vessel might be kept in a more suitable state? Witness—l am not. By the COURT—CouId the decks have been pro perly washed with 180 coal-bags on them ? Witness-- Certainly not. By the COURT— How long would the coals have lasted that were stowed in the places appropriated for them? Witness—Five or six days. By the COURT—How was it necessary to have coal bags on deck ? Witness—Because we had no other place to stow them. Sir JAMES GORDON—During the inspection of the Alban by the prisoner, did you hear him give a variety of vexatious and unnecessary orders ? Witness—No the only order he gave out of the way was the putting the coal-bags in the commander's cabin. Sir JAMES GORDON—How was that order given ? Witness—Rather angrily, I think. By Captain 'Pigott—Did not Lieut. Walker, a quartermaster, yourself, and a midshipman, assert that the Alban had been pumped out on the 28th March, when such was not the fact ? Witness—l do not know that the quartermaster did, the other parties all did, and I thought it had been done myself. Captain Pigott—Did not Mr. Fair, one of the mid shipmen, inform you that she had not been pumped out ? Witness—He did. Captain Pigott—How often was the Alban baled out ? Witness—lnvariably once a week. Captain Pigott requested the log to be produced, and it appeared from that that the baling out had taken place seven times from March 23 to July 17. Captain Pigott—Can you deny that it was stated to me that the water was sometimes ancle deep in the fore cock-pit ? Witness—l do not recollect that it was said to be so deep. In answer to further questions, Mr. Pettigrew said that the officers were never in full uniform when their excellencies were on board. Captain Pigott—Describe the dress of the com mander and the officers in general upon those occasions. Witness—Undress. Captain Pigott—Answer the question more particu larly. Witness—Lieutenant Walker generally had on his surtout coat and cap, and I believe we had generally the same. _ _. Captain Pigott—Was the commander generally shaved, and was the appearance of his person clean on those occasions? Witness--I cannot answer the nrst part of the question. He was clean in appearance. Captain Pigott—Was not the Alban in the time of her former command er ver y clean and orderly ? Wit ness--Yes. Captain Pigott--Was she then far more clean than when under the command of Lieutenant Walker ? Witness—Yes. Mr. Pettigrew was then re-examined by Lieutenant Walker at great length, particularly upon some part of his evidence relative to the baling of the vessel, upon which there appeared a slight discrepancy. A number of questions put by Lieutenant Walker were objected to by the Court, upon which some discussion took place. Some other evidence was adduced not material, and the Court adjourned. We hear that it is finally determined that all foreign papers shall be admitted into England on pay ment of three half-pence per paper, and that the same postage will be exacted for all English papers forward ed to the Continent. It is asserted, but we cannot believe it, that none but newsmen registered for the purpose will be allowed to receive papers from the Continent.—Morning Advertiser. _ OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, MAY 19. Ann Duff, aged 17, Thomas Steele, aged 25, and Richard keith, aged 23, were indicted for assaulting with attempt to rob William Thomas Wakeling. The male prisoners were both found Guilty, but the court directed the jury to acquit the female pri_ soner. Joseph Seal, aged 22, and Thomas Simpson, aged 18, were indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of John Lewis Webber a quantity of plate and other articles, value 201., his property. It appeared from the evidence of Mary Cotter, a servant to the prosecutor, who is a solicitor residing in Caroline-street, Bedford-square, that the prisoner Seal was acquainted with the servants of the house, and on the 15th of April he came to invite the nurse to go to Astley's Theatre. She carried the invitation up stairs to the nurse, leaving Seal in the hall. As she was coming down stairs she heard the street-door shut, and observed that he appeared agitated. She told him that the nurse could not go to the play. He went away, and shortly afterwards the property was missing. It was further proved by another witness, named Caroline Nicholson, who lived opposite the prosecutor, that she saw three persons come out of the house, two of whom she believed to be the prisoners. Several persons gave Seal a good character. Mary Stone, who had left Mr. Webber's service only three days before the robbery, had known the prisoner seven years, and he was always an upright man. Cross-examined—Had borrowed a shawl to go and get married to Seal, but was too late for the parson. (Laughter.) Had so good an opinion of him that she would marry him directly. (Laughter.) The jury pronounced a verdict of Guilty against Seal, but acquitted Simpson. ( Before the COMMON- SERGEANT and a Middlesex Jury. ) Joseph Stockman was indicted for stealing nine napkins, the property of Charles Trowbridge ; and Mary Scholey was charged with receiving the same, feloniously knowing them to have been stolen. It turned out that the indictment contained a super fluous word (aforesaid), which induced the Learned Judge to go and consult the Recorder. On his return to the Court he directed the jury to acquit both the prisoners, and observed to them that the word " afore said" was the most lucky for them of any one contained in the dictionary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man named Charles, the waiter at a re spectable tavern in Fleet-street, appeared before the Lord Mayor and Alderman Cowan, a girl who has since died having sworn that he was the father of an illegitimate child of which she was pregnant, on the 2d of April last. The circumstances of the affiliation were rather singular. John Crutchley, beadle of St. Dunstan's, had been present at the examination of the female, and she swore upon the occasion, without hesitation, that the defendant was the father, and that he was the only man with whom she had ever been acquainted in " that particular way." Elizabeth Fox stated that the young woman had been brought to bed in Marlborough House, Peckham, of a boy, and that she died two days afterwards of in flammation. Witness attended her as nurse, and observed that she was aware of the approach of death, and spoke of her child under the strong impression that recovery was impossible. Witness asked her if there was anything that lay heavy upon her mind, to which she replied in the negative, saying that she was happy that she had sworn the child to the defendant, who was the only person to whom she had ever per mitted familiarities. The child was alive, and likely to live. Mr. Wooler for the defendant, was instructed to say that the deceased was a person of such habits as made it a matter of great difficulty for her to decide who was the father of the child. The defendant most solemnly denied that he had ever sought or been granted any such favours as could have led to the con sequences he had been called upon to answer for. The duty was an extremely disagreeable one, but it was one which he could not abandon, as a professional man, to prove that the young woman was so loose a person that her evidence, even under the awful cir cumstances of the approach of death, could not be believed. The LORD MAYOR said that the testimony in oppo sition to such a declaration as the unfortunate girl had made upon her death-bed must be very strong to cause him to alter the opinion he had formed upon the subject. • ' • • Sohn Parkhouse, the porter to a wine merchant in Fleet -street, had been obliged by the young woman in the particular way alluded to very often. In fact, it appeared from the witness's statement, that he had only to ask and have—an odd circumstance enough, considering that he was a person of a very unseemly appearance, the very reverse of that of the defendant. He also swore that he had seen the deceased sitting on the steps of the hall-door of a house of the vilest description in Shire-lane. The defendant said he was ready to take his oath that he had never taken the slightest liberty with the deceased. She had been his fellow-servant, and was in the house about six weeks, and it was notorious that her virtue was soon overpowered whenever it was as sailed. His LORDSHIP said he certainly must sign the order which was to make the defendant responsible for the support of the child, and the expenses of the lying-in. There was not in his opinion any comparison between the testimony of the person who so readily swore that he had succeeded in his attempts upon the virtue of the deceased and the solemn asseverations of a mother going out of the world as to the father of her child. The defendant was then adjudged to pay the ex penses of the lying-in, and 3s. a week for the support of the child. He immediately procured bail and was liberated. A young man named John James, of genteel ap pearance, was brought up, charged with having stolen the sum of 71. 10s. from a Mr. Schomberg, of Bald win's-gardens. It was stated that the prisoner was a most respectable medical men. The prisoner, it appeared, lodged in Mr. Schom berg's house, and took the opportunity, when the com plainant and his wife were engaged in another part of the house, to steal into their bed-room, and possess himself of the cash which lay there. As soon as he was thus provided, he went off to one of the theatres, where he soon picked up a partner, with whom he re mained till he spent the last farthing. He then betook I himself to his father's house, from which, the moment he arrived, word was sent to the prosecutor, who at tended with an officer, and took him into custody. The prisoner admitted to the officer that he had " cribbed" the cash, that it went off in pleasures, and that he went to his father's house when he found that he was getting hungry. The officer said the prisoner's father had six other children, whom the example of the prisoner was likely to corrupt, if steps were not taken to keep him away from the house. The prisoner was remanded. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a respectable-looking man, described as an attorney, was brought up from the station-house, where he had been confined the preceding night on the following charge : Mr. Carman, a respectable tradesman residing in Peacock -street, Newington, stated that on Sunday his daughter, a little girl under 10 years of age, went to dine with some friends in Hampton-street. He ex pected that she would have been accompanied home in the early part of the evening, but 9 o'clock having arrived, and she not making her appearance, he became uneasy, and went out for the purpose of going after her. He had not, however, proceeded far when he met the defendant, who had hold of the child's arm, and was endeavouring to prevail on her to go in a contrary direction to that of her home. The complainant im mediately went up, and taking his daughter away from the stranger, gave him into custody, upon her having represented his conduct towards her. The little girl stated that soon after she had left the house where she dined the defendant walked up to her side and asked her where she lived, and she told him. He then asked her to take some wine, which she de clined, and he said that if she would accompany him to the Hampton Arms, he would buy her some bis cuits ; she did accompany him to that house, and he called for wine and biscuits ; two of the latter she ac cepted, but rejected any wine, although he pressed her very much to drink. When they left the house she commenced running towards home, when the de fendant ran after her an d l a id h o ld o f her by the arm, and wanted her to go in the direction of the Zoolo gical gardens, instead of the street where she lived. She refused to go the way he wanted, and he then said that if she did not he would serve her the way that he did many little girls, and throw her into the river Thames. He held her tightly by the arm, and soon afterwards her father came up ttnd released her, and she told him what had happened. The father here exhibited the arm of the child's frock, which was torn in her efforts to disengage herself from the defendant when he held her and prevented her from going home. Two young lads were examined, whose attention was attracted on the preceding night by seeing the defendant along with a child, who was proceeding, evidently against her inclination, towards an unfre quented spot near the Zoological Gardens. As they went along, the defendant was stooping down every now and then and encouraging her, and this conduct assured the boys that the defendant was not the little girl's father as they first imagined. Their curiosity was therefore excited, and they were determined to see the result, and fly to the assistance of the child, if their aid was required. In going along, the child at length refused to proceed an y f urt h er in the direction the defendant wanted her, and she turned round to wards Peacock-street, where she lived, and they (the witnesses) distinctly heard the defendant threaten to throw her into the Thames. The witnesses added, that soon afterwards the child's father came up and rescued her. The defendant said that he had been dining out, and ,drank too freely, adding that he was so intoxicated that he had not the slightest recollection of what had happened. The Magistrates(Mr. WEDGWOOD and Mr. TRAILL) inflicted a fine of 5/. on the defendant, and in default of payment to be committed for two months to gaol. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Matthew Bird was brought up in custody before Mr. BURRELL by George Colley, ch ged with selling an unstamped weekly newspaper, called the Weekly Police Gazette. . Colley saw the defendant selling the papers in the New Cut, Lambeth, and purchased one, for which he paid twopence. The papers were here handed to the bench. Mr. BURRELL asked the defendant what he had to say in answer to the charge ? The defendant had been out of work for a length of time, and for the last three weeks had been selling the Gazettes to get a living. Mr. BURRELL asked him what he was? The defendant said he was a baker by trade, but out of work. In answer to a question, Colley said that he had never seen the defendant selling unstamped papers before. Mr. BURRELL committed him for 14 days to King ston gaol. John Herbert, better known on the Surrey side of the water by the name of Billy Barlow, was charged by Colley, before Mr. GREGORIE, with selling an un stamped weekly paper, called The People's Hue and Cry. Colley saw the defendant selling papers in the New Cut, and he purchased one for a penny. The defendant, in reply, was determined to perse vere; he sold them to show that the liberty of the press should not be shackled, and as long as the peo ple would buy an unstamped publication, and he could sell one, he was determined to do it. The defendant is well known at the office, and has been several times convicted for a similar offence. Mr. GREGORIE, as he had been so often convicted, should commit him for the full period, three months. The defendant was then removed, declaring that he would sell again as soon as he got out of prison. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, MAY 19. The Waterloo, from Antwerp; the Earl of Liverpool, from Rotterdam ; La Constance, from Cherburg ; the Aldborough, from Guernsey ; the Union, from Ostend and Rochester; the Triton, from Belfast ; the Loyal William, from Guernsey ; the Tulloch Castle, from Jamaica ; the Eliza Ann, from Hamburg ; the Cedric, from Grande ; the Rebel, from Denia, Rio Xavia; the Minerva, and Trois Freres, from Gravelines ; the Sceptre, from Moga dore and S ffia; the Isabel, from Lisbon ; the Demerara Planter, from Demerara ; the Venus, from Hamburg ; the Twee Broders, from Worcum ; the Eliza, from Grenada; the Defiance, from Liverpool; the Elbe Packet, from Hamburg ; the Garonne, from Bremen ; the Lon don and Chester, from Liverpool ; the John Renwick, from Jamaica; the Hero of Maloan, from Bombay and the Cape of Good Hope ; the Sedulous, from Charente. ENTERED OUTWARDS, MAY 19. The Attwood, for Rotterdam ; the Columbine, for Leg horn • the Enterprise, for Pillau, Koingsberg, and Elbing ; the garah and Henrietta, for St. John's, New Brunswick ; the Walker, for Bermuda ; the Jane Lockhart, for Domi nica ; the Lion, for Montreal ; the Diana, for Batavia ; the Robert Taylor, for Quebec and Montreal ; the Ann, for Tobago; the Gilbert Munro, for Rio Janeiro ; the Prosperity, for Archangel ; the William Jolliffe, for Ham burg ; the Commerce, for Calais ; the Tom and Jessie . for Leghorn. ENTERED OUTWARDS IN CARGO, MAY 19. The Black River packet, for Jamaica ; the Montcalm, for Baltimore; the Mary, for Guernsey and Jersey; the Betsey, for Syra and Constantinople ; the Rawlins, for Jamaica. ENTERED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, MAY 19. The Castor, for Cadiz and Rio Janeiro; the Nortliiam, for Harlingen ; the William, forMedemblick ; the Hanover, for Jamaica. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Flenn, of London, for New South Wales, on the 23d s of March, lat. 7. S., long. 25. W., by the Antelope, arrived at Cowes. The Sisters, from Monte Video for Falmouth, on the 25th ult., lat. 22., long. 47., and Minerva, of and from Bristol, on the 4th instant, lat. 49., long. 9., by the Rio Janeiro Packet, arrived at Falmouth. The Sesostris, from London for Madras, on the 27th of March, lat. 17. S., long. 30. The City of Edinburgh, from London for Madras, and John Stump, from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro, on the 28th ult. The Secret, from Rio Janeiro for Trieste, on the 29th ult., lat. 14., long. 3. The Actif, from Marseilles for Bahia, on the 30th ult. The Dorothea Wilhelmina, from Pernambuco for Ham burg, on the 25th ult., lat. 2.3., long. 46., by the Cabotia, arrived at Liverpool. The Clyde, from Liverpool for New South Wales, on the Bth ult., lat. 1., long. 20. The Lightfoot, from Liverpool for Mobile, on the 27th of March, off Great Cayman. The Brankenmoor, from Jamaica for London, on the 2d ult., lat. 24., long. 84. The Symmetry, from Jamaica for London, on the 14th nit., lat. 33., long. 77. The Dalhousie Castle, on the 9th inst., lat. 47., long. 19., by the John Renwick, arrived in the Downs. MEETING AT OLDHAM.—Wednesday a special meeting of the commissioners of police for this township was held to consider the conduct of the po lice officers who forcibly entered the trades' union lodge on the 14th ult., and to which circumstance the late disturbances have been attributed. Mr. J. Hal liwell, churchwarden, was in the chair. Mr. Swire enlarged at great length upon the improper and un authorized proceedings of the officers. Mr. Wright urged the propriety of permitting the matter to lie over until after the trial of the unionists. After a great deal of wrangling, a motion was made that the setof 99 ringing to 75 . by The h s e ete f decision ynti n. was re- officers, Heywood and Page, be discharged from thei r situations. Upon the casting up of the votes the chairman announced that the motion had been car wwhi t o ll shoutswere ere tb o e f n 'app p r r o a li c a ti t s i i o n n g by in a l t a h rg e e s c t o e n ep co le u . r_se of persons who surrounded the plac e o f meeting. The r c i h e u d rc b h y bells m ells aj w or e i r t e y c ama teurseived Manchester Chronicle. MEETING OF JOURNEYMEN BUTCHERS. —On Tuesday evening a meeting of journeymen butchers was convened at the Job's Castle, Norton Folgate, for the purpose, as the placards stated, of "emancipating themselves from their present enslaved condition, by joining the Metropolitan Consolidated Trades' Union, and it was particularly requested that no gentleman would present himself to the meeting if not quite sober." At half-past seven o'clock upwards of twenty persons had assembled, and business com menced by the appointing of a chairman, who ad dressed the meeting at considerable length ; but as he had not paid due attention to the exhortation contained in the placard, his speech was not so intelligible as the audience desired, and much disapprobation ensued. At length Mr. Charles Clark rose and said the chair man had told them a great deal about "this, that, and t'other," but he had not told them how to better their condition, nor did he think he could. However, if he could, he (Clark) would be happy to hear him, and could answer for a great number of butchers becoming unionists ; but as to their throwing themselves out of work, and half-starving their wives and families, he, for one, could not see the possibility of any good re sulting from such a course. The chairman here at tempted to speak again, but was put down by Mr. T. Aldridge telling him he was an old fool. A desultory conversation then ensued, respecting the appointment of a committee, which ended in a motion to that effect being negatived by a large majority, and the meeting quietly dispersed. LONDON MAIME Es. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 836 d. for t l4 tib. Loaf. There are others who sell from to 1 yid. be OM tnat price. PRICE OF SEEDS. —May 19 slew English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 420. 58., tine 635. 653. • 1 1a Ditto Ditto. * ~ —3. —s. fine —s. --s. N . w Foreign Ditto..--..... l ,'• Gilts. fine —s. Ffis _............ •is. • . 0 d Ditto --..- s. 404. fine —s. 510. New 'White Clover sos. 603. fine Gas 613 i. Old I)itto Ditto. ~., - gew Trefoil . . ISs. 20s. fine 2:ls 241. O'd Ditto - - —s. —s. fine --s. -- 11 . Rib Grass „ _ .—.—......... 148 isS fine 20. VA. English Carraway Seed. Foreign Ditto —. = 3-8 .. : : 5 Its. ;• 795. 80735. : finenn e 8 28 1 4 4 .4 1 : Coriander .----------_-fine—d • St. Foin --.......(per 9 :____ tiart_er). =,: , , _4_4 2_ 6 8 :5 5 .... . ,5e7 30 485: 5 5... .. ....snnfifieennwwee. 3ft0n::;......ti0b36 . (i c 5...... . Rye Grass - Pacey Ditto Linseed, for feeding Ditto, for crushing.. Canary Seed, New ,.- —s. --s. 51s fine 58 '' Vitt° Old . • ..... _. s. ~ _. s . tine - -4. White Mustard Seed,...—(per Bushel) —s. l2s. 13s. flo e ' 46 Brown Ditto .. ... ......—........ —s. 17s. ISs. fine s. ~, furuip Seeds, Rounds...—. - .—s.—s. ISs tine NA Green and Red Ditto .......—...... Tares, Old R D i t: e o s N eed et: ••3. s 180.. tine 2 2' 4s. od. fine 4 , - English, tine (per Last) 3 1.381.... 5 t I ,°d 'oie fl ig n t e l2 s _±...j s'. uaL3d. 1 • PttlOES OP OOPS—May 19 New Knit Pockets (per cwt.) ..5, 15s. 6.. O. to 61 . le i t Cln ice _ 7, O. 81. 8s to 9 , East 71 10s. 81. Bs. to 9.. ()- Choice W. Os. 81. Bs. to 10 1 New S. , tsex Pockets Superfine Oitto Far ham 1 1 12° 11 ' o°o/11.1 t tx) t ' • 1‘2.?1? 63. Ditto (seconds) * 0 0' 0- PRICE OF POTATt/Es. —May 19 Os. to 3/. Ws. per ton. —Ol. Os. to 21. Os. ditto. ..41. 10s. to 51. Os. ditto. .3/. Os. to 41. Os. ditto. 01. Os. to 21. s. Middling — Marsh Champions Scotch lteits Chats PRICE OF OIL. g g4 Rape Oil, brown .............421. es. «r..... Refined „.......-- 0 10 Linseed Oil - 010 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand .........w 5 0 Rape Cake, per ton ...w0etr00ta........ WHI'I'ECHAPEL HAY !JAIME( 17 ;Od• flay 60s. Od. to till. Od. lover 65, 04. to 1 00 " Od. to 32.. Od PRICES OF LEATHER. d„tod• Per lb. d. to d. er b Butts, Eng1i5h.—........ 14 23 English H,rso ludes... goj Ditto, F0reign............. 14 0 Vanish Ditto ............... 2.. Oresbing H1ue5—.......... Ilf 15 Per dosen. al Ditto ...........-...........—. 121 16 Calf Skint„. SO •o 40lb. 14 0 P i l. us Ditto, light ...--........ auto ............ 411 to 6-1 , - , 17 0; Cop /Cues, light -- 12 13 Ditto 10 to 00 16 . IS i s 0 .t0—........-....40 to bUlla 12 17 %wall SeitlZ ( i rC eisialltll6 • 0 0 , • - 131 .8 t..rg. i litto.---- . .^. 12 ID RICE OF RAW FAT, p er stone of 81b. 25 sd• Price of Tallow (as stated by the Fallow Melters) OF TALLOW, SOAP, &C. per 1121 b. 0 4, Pow) allow 445. 6d. Yellow Er , • r a. 7thi• Yellow 445. (Id. Mottled 4 7'2. W od, Soap Dt to _ —s. th.t. ti tam es u d. Sleited Stott' 303. Od ~ oust. Dr egs.... ••••"• 0 tto Rough. 21.. 4)0 PRICE OF CANDLES. file price of Store Candles, in the retail shops, is as follows an.iles, perdu& 6, nd. to 7s. I Moulds, per ittrzen—,....Bs. COAL MAR Per Ton. s. d. Bishop's 1 t 9 nensnani micn ••••••• OW 10 VIN. 15 Chester 31,in 0w...* 15 3 ut evrcy 14 6 Felling 14 0 ,i) well 17 0 (keit nedn.egil .....---..... 15 0 Picton l4 6 E i.—May 19. P,r Ton. 8. ( 1 ; Walls En . l Newmarch .... 16 v Wads End i erkins...... 16 Walls End Hutton 18 9 Wails E: d / 9 3 W. E. Russell's Hutton.. 13 watt's.... 1., 3 Walls End Stobart 6 ns r..nu Aura de 16 10 • 9 Pontup Wind50r..~......". 16 6 W 1 3 Paid ourduti—,..... •i 33 rantield—..---*—„ , . 16 9 ‘N al,s Eid Tees .........—••• f , 0 ,y,t Hartley ....—............ 15 6 Walls End West Hetton 1 6 Walls End Bewicke& Co. 17 6Ci —,—. nvpen --..—• I !, 0 Walls E.,d Brown's...—. 16 6 Howard'sNethertonMain 1 5 5 , V lis En i, a r ~.: C. 13 ' ,iriley -- e _......... ' Walls End G05f0rth....... 17 1) New Flockton, Milne, 14 g .1, alls End • 1Ci11.111............ 17 3 and 1 :o. --.... ......,........--• i 4 6 .1, gob, 2 tut tiiida .... 16 6 .4ilkstorte 5imp50n......... 1 , 4 0 Was End Killingworth 11 t , Trimsar m Engine ...•' , 5 • 9 Ditto Nortliti ..tieriand . 16 6 Walls Enu Erin —........... Sh pa at rived since kt.,t tuaraet-da,, 24 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS . AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET• (From the London Gazelle.) , lORHOW, MAY I T. S. Peasson, linen-draperi,vLiaEi, eeds i ..... I a t 0, p Jcorn-factor, C..athant ............ .................... I ° • . M. 'iaylor, bookseller, Clement's-lane ........................... '1 C. Battyle, tavern-keeper, Doctors' Commons ............... at 11 MARIA EDGEWORTH'S NEW iSTOVEIci HELEN.—It is long since we have been so delighte by a story as we have been with the one before tr: The moral aim in the present work is to illustrate 071 consequences of concealment and falsehood, a nd i • this object it is unnecessary to add, that she is etor t nently successful. " Miss Edgeworth's Novels , ' has justly been remarked by the Quarterly R e rittr• " teach not merely by maxims on the one hand, or by splendid examples on the other, but by reasons 10 into the mouths of the actors themselves, what is th e right mode of conduct in cases of difficulty or tempo' tion. This delightful authoress is constantly endear vouring to point out by the discussion of cases jucl. l ; ciously selected, or ingeniously invented, the road 1 ?_ . which virtue conducts us to happiness. There is, 1 _ 1 ; fact, hardly any good quality to which she has nu contributed her powerful recommendation ; and sequently there are scarcely any works of the that young persons can read with so much ben o Tt e Helen may be pronounced not m erel y the novel of season, but will, we doubt not , he considered!he De It will be universa read, and as universally a dmire novel for many seasons to come. fiel O c od Rev.nn hhs Francis.ll77 o t tf h hTa i ih n nso s : inst., atThom a s at Atwood, HHackney,amm of fr satmhdietat ladydaughter. C lad On the 14th inst., at Lamyat, Somersetshire, the 10 1 / of the Rev. .1. G. Copleston , of a dau hter. " On the 18th inst., at Grove-place, • E. F. Ross, of a so. S 0 On the 14th inst., at Worcester, the lady of 17 "'- Taunton, Esq., of a son. yß.ofst: MARRIED. 5 SCK On the 17th inst., at Bridewell Chur ch, Jar° 1 J. field Townend, Esq., to Selina, widow of the la t 51:1 e 3 r* o f E. Turnley, and third daughter of John Fox, Bridge-street, Blackfriars, and Herne-hill, Surr e S' w a iter On the 17th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, James Bayntin, Esq., of St. Bartholomew' s Tl7o' Mary Ann, eldest daughter of Joshua Diane Esq of the Treasury. R 3 1 1 4 1;,1 On the 17th inst., at St. Marv's, Lancaster, ', t ' Esq., solicitor, Crutchedfriars, London, to Marta, daughter of T. Howitt, Esq., of the former place. ~8 0, eldestsLPt CharlesLieut.-Colonel ua nannte.dltal:Ruolgloillosl Guards,tea l ee t hr t l , Fea d , On the 17th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-stie, Colonel le Com itAotn E eofsr s it q c.hiol, ... ol , vear ofroiysl latei:Bn xeertLmoo(somocakudrooetamhaic;re-shoh,sh,eoptiurle,:ErHyaseglioand.une)nts,sgt,l e t aci o ate i t:: if of the Hon. Captain Alex. Jones, R.N , and grand tw C. 8., late ter of Charles, fifth Viscount Ranelagh. DIED. f the Grel------dierlluar c .. el On the 19th inst., at Kensington, Lieut. Wm. °`"" i° oi 54 4 On the 19th inst., Eliza, daughter of Elias Isaa cs ' of St. Mary Axe, aged 16. ol i v e On the 17th inst., at Hastings, aged 31, C ar l r ef Eleanor, wife of George Hanson, Esq., of Woburn -P a' Russell-square. Emma, eldest daualterd,,, Burt, O n ofthe l7th Vine-street, inst., Gorden-square, n o his de n722sdcivayreea,r,iniNail,r; John Burt, of Vine-street, Goden-sq'°' isiany years oNiz.,,il‘l!":l: low-street, St. Jamees. sat 2 ' Lincoln's Inn-fields. 6 1° at Lawford House, Essex, in his , On the 17th inst., active 3 0 year, Thomas Nunn, relictOn otfhethleBltahteiniLstu.i-ealit Hansard, E La s in g. b , E s ,iiearly 40 years an _,,, cotifi'Gr3elarts.THurannstile' ningtree. l i y , pp i l a r n H ts a , rl r e e y li - e s t tr o e f et t , h l: l l r a s . e l ;, ° o l l; 7 a o t . Gaerloch, Ross-shire , . s T• ra nci' ,a 0 . g mF i o s ao t rn rate of the county of Essex, and also a banker a t Dl , ' Mackenzie, Bart., and eldest daughter of J oh % of Si r after son, Hythe Caroline, wife of Sir r soait ti Wright, Esq. ; and, on the same day, the infant s° Francis Mackenzie, Bart. list o f the On the 16th inst., Mrs. Elizabeth Jon es ' re ef' 76 ' late Mr. William Jones, of Leadenhall-s treet, u" Kellv, Na t ' e, ri nmtoh t ta nf h heF e e,ba l iEirr B ints q t thb l h i .oo:.o i i i fn i a s ia t tge . On the 18th inst., in Pimlico, Major ;"; ' has recently retired from Don Pedro's se rvne-. t Orroncl' On the 19th inst., at Powis-place, G„,r4_es444as iisoo street, Anne Angelina, widow of the late lo p ' . Hetherington, Esq., of Walthamstow, Essex. of car pi ° On the 18th inst., Eliza , the infant daughter chell, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, in her -vot, Fife, and on M t r h s e . BlB.thSoipoesrt.,,oAf oßoerrfaronydr wife of Mr. 1a j,_aziesve )! r i t ,l l On the 18th inst., George , Heald, Esq., ineolle_'t Harley-street, one of his Majesty's Counsel, ands ' oos el wo , 11r• On the pith, inst., in Tyndal-place, Islington , • Chimberlain, n his 62(1 year. J''' othfeGcrahya'osorrnv ;Baforr. several years an eminent L ) On the 16th inst., Eliza, eldest daughter of Mr. A o l3 liir Pellatt, of the Falcon Glass-works, Holland-street, 1 17th year. London: Printed and Published by 311311D0 ' at the Sun Office, No. 112, Strand.