The Sun. — London, England, 1827-12-31 00:00:00

,y. Ni SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The reported punishment of the Greek fleet (by the way, it is great nonsense to call a few transports by so pompous a title) off Scio, by one of the Allied Admirals, is naturally enough exclaimed against by the extra Tory prints. Their first. complaint had be; n, that the affair of Navarin was a needless, cruel, and most inconsistent attack of a body of professed 'mediators, upon ,one of the belligerent parties. It was asked, why do not the mediating Powers deal out impartial justice ? " The Greeks have solemnly accepted the armistice, and therefore surrendered to the Allies the right of further hostility. N.ret they forfeit their pledge, and make active war upon the Turks wherever they can find them. Then why not repress their treachery ?" Well, if Admiral Rigny has destroyed a portion of the Greek fleet, he has acted upon the counsels of the 'reties.. Again, we were told, and truly told, that the Greeks pur sued a system of audacious out age and plunder against the commerce of their 'mediating protectors; and it was asked, why chast! i s e the Turks, who ab stained from all offc,nce to you, while you spare the Greeks, by whom, you are daily and indiscriminately robbed ? We';,, Admiral de Rigny has inflicted a severe punis'Aßteld on this pirate navy ; and the clamour of the opposition press increases, because nothing can be more ill-timed or unfortunate than to have rfne's whole argument as unmercifully demo lishe4 as were the Turks at Navarin, and the re fractory and faithless Greeks at Scio.--Times . . The dispute between the Assembly of Lower Ca nada and Lord Dalhousie has assumed a character very serious in the eyes of those who are interested for the preservation of the British Colonies. His Lordship, it appears, has persisted in twice rejecting Mr. Papineau, whom the Assembly had most una nimously chosen for their Speaker. His Lordship bad not long ago disolved the Canadian Parliament, and sent the members to a new election. The re sult is, that a Parliament has been returned, more adverse to Lord Dalhousie and his administration than the old one, and that a proof is thus afforded of an increased hostility to the Government in the minds of the people of Canada. The country has a Tight to ask why this should be? We, the people of England, pay profusely, not alone for the main- tenance of our dominion over Canada, but towards the commercial affluence and prosperity enjoyed by the Canadians themselves. The defence of the Colony is out of the pockets of the Englishmen,— the great public works projected and carried on . . there, are at the national expense—a most lucra tive preference in the timber trade is enjoyed by the Canadians, and secured by a heavy impost ow Great Britain, which consents to pay a higher price for the far inferior growths of Canada than for the unequalled timber of the north of Europe; and this for nobody's benefit but for that of the colonists themselves. There exists, therefore, we beg leave to say,. good cause for demanding why it is that Canada should exhibit such alarming symptoms of apparent alienation from the British Government. Certainly, where a colo nial possession so favoured by the laws of the mother country, and to the obvious detriment of the people at home, instead of being conciliated, is more and more excited against the power which thus cherishes and protects it, we must presume that there are in cidental, and perhaps personal grounds for the crea tion of a feeling in the colony so little correspond ing to that on which the legislation of the parent state has been framed, in which, likewise, it muse be the desire of his Majesty and of Podia. ment that the existing laws should invariably be administered, and the patronage at the disposal of the Crown, or its representative, be divided. We do not know how far the Canadians are justified in complaining that Lord Dalhousie's personal conduct has not been the best fitted to procure him popu larity,or to engage the good-will of the Canadians in a zealous support of his Majesty's service, and of the collective interests of the empire at large. This dispute respecting the choice of a Speaker seems rather the effect and the indication of a series of preceding differences between the head of the Exe cutive Government and the colony, than an original and substantive quarrel. But we are sure, that ex eept in the instances of Lord Dorchester and Sir George Prevost, the latter of whom was himself a Canadian, and no lesA successful in his civil admini stration than he was unfortunate in his attempts as a soldier—with perhaps these two exceptions, we have understood that Canada has never enjoyed, a government productive of much sat4chment in the native population to the Crown of England. That the vulgar and unsym pathizing Ministry of Lord Bathurst may have been calculated to afflict many others of our colonies be sides the miserable Cape of Good Hope,with a growing sentiment of anger and distrust towards this coun try, we do not believe to be improbable. There never was tolerated a worse Colonial Minister than that unrespected Lord. But we doubt very gravely, whether military men ought ever to be employed as civil governors over any portiOn of a free people. They have one and all an instinctive jealousy of pri vileges which set their own power at defiance : they are habituated to command, but not to persuade or reason : they dread freedom of speech, and hate a deliberative assembly. Their tone, therefore, is for the most part that of haughty and uncompromising power. By taking captious exceptions at every, form of language but that of submission, they teach the colonists to be as sore and ir ritable as themselves; and we see in some of our West India islands the same temper towards their Governors(being military men) as has been long dis played in Canada, to the extreme embarrassment of the King's service, and a general relaxation of the ties of deference on one side, and of kindness and protection on the other. We heartily wish that Lord Dalhousie were recalled, and that if Sir Francis Burton be really appointed Governor-General of Canada, he may speedily enter on his important trust ; for sure we are, that if he succeed in restoring the affectionate and loyal temper of Lower Canada, by an application td its inhabitants of the same sound principles of mild, considerate, and.equitable government as haVe procured for him so much popu larity in the Upper Province, and for the people of that province such tranquillity and contentment, Sir Francis Burton will'have conferred upon his country a signal and memorable good.—lbid. The destruction or the Greek fleet will establish the character of the Allies for impartiality between the contending .parties. We observe that the Courier Francais laments the measure. We also. lament that it should have been necessary to recur to the measure, but we cannot shut our eyes to its necessity. The Greeks could have no pretext for continuing their operations, after the distinct notifi cation which they received; and the hard measure which was dealt out, to the Turks ought to have prepared them for a similar chastisement, should they persist in neglecting the warning given to them. We fear this is not the only chastisement which the Greeks are doomed to receive from the Great Powers. The long continuance of the hostilities, conducted as they have been .With such savage cru elty on both sides, has led to - a dissolution of all social ties throughout the greatest part • of Greece. Piracy and plunder have become the order of the day. While we lament that events should have wrought this distressing change in the character of the people, we re not the less sensible that terrible examples must be made in order to .arrest the evil. Favoured by their situation, skilled as they are in navigating the seas of the Archipelago, it will be no easy matter to put down these buccaneers of our times. However, the attempt must be made, for it is one of the first duties of a Government to use the resources with which it is entrusted for the protec tion of its peaceful and industrious citizens, who are following their lawful pursuits.—Morning Chronicle. By the late treaty of Peace made between Russia and Persia, by which the Araxes is made the new boundary between the two empires, we see, by re ferring to the inEip. of Persia, that a considerable portion of that country is ceded to Russia, and that the latter Power has, in consequence, the complete command of the Caspian Sea, R uss i a appears to be proceeding in her conquests upon the same prin ciple Rome did ages since —and as we have of late years done in the East Indies :.--that is, stirring up s war with a neighbour—then gaining a battle or two—making peace—and procuring a large tract of country every time such war was made,-and peace effected. It is not improbable but that, in the course of a few years, our Statesmen will have to look about them so far as further advances are made by the Rugsians in this part of the world, towards our East InTta possessions.—Morning Herald. We have given in a preceding column the con tents of the Paris Papers received by an Extraordi nary Express on Saturday morning, and which we then published in a Second Edition. It is stated, on the authority of advises from various quarters, that the French Admiral de Rigny had destroyed the Greek fleet before Scio, in consequence of the Greek fleets having refused to . obey the injunction of the Allied Admirals in regard to the suspension of hostilities. Should this fact prove to be correctly stated, (of which, as it now presents itself, there ap pears little reason to doubt), it will offer another re markable and very important incident, arising out of the new schemes of policy adopted at the same time by England, France, and Russia—We say schemes of policy, because every thing attests that each of the Powers, parties to the Treaty of Inter vention, had distinct objects of its own—that .nothing was conceived in unison, but all in mutual jealousy and hatred. The only legiti mate pretence for the Treaty was the ex istence o( piracy in the Levant to an extent which rendered its prompt suppression an object of importance to the commerce of the three nations who became parties to it. To be sure no such league could have been necessary for the attainment of this object, for either England, Russia, or France singly, and at a very small expence, might easily have accomplished it. A few small vessels properly equipped, under active, and zealous, and vigilant commanders, the erection of a suitable tribunal at Malta or Toulon for the trial, and of a gibbet for the execution of pirates, were all that the case really required. 'We do not hesitate to say, that by the vigorous application of means so easyand simple as those we have mentioned, piracy might have been abolished in three months. But as if to show that the sup pression of piracy was merely a pretence, and that the parties to the Treaty were utterly indifferent to the interests of commerce—piracy, which served as a convenient apology for the Treaty, has been per mitted to flourish and to extend, itself with greater vigour and with less of restraint or apprehension, since the execution of the treaty than before. In stead of directing any part of their attention to the destruction or capture of pirate vessels, the first ex-' ploit performed by the Allied forces, in consequence of the Treaty, was to destroy the Turkish fleet when anchored at peace in a Turkish harbour, although the Turks had never been even accused of piracy— although they were the foes of the Pirate Nation, and the only foes of whom that nation was in dread. The second exploit we this day record : It is the destruction, not of an armament of Pirates, but of the national fleet of Greece, fitted out to fight on behalf of Grecian freedom—by the naval, force of one of the Allies. Surely, considering what benefits the Allies profess to confer upon the Greek Nation, and the dreadful fate from which they say they have rescued it, they might have- had influence enough to cause this fleet to be employed in the suppression of piracy, and have made it the instrument of rescuing the name and the cause of Greece from the foul reproach which now cleaves to both, and which can never be effec tually removed unless the public power of the Greeks at least assist its the extirpation of that crime which is the opprobriam of their race. Of this chance to redeem their national character, and the only one which remained to them, the Greeks are now de prived., by the exploit of Admiral de Rigny ; and as the only fruits yet yielded by a treaty which invoked the names of Religion and Humanity—which, as we said from the• first, impiously , prostituted those sa nurses,cred nurses, we are presented with two appalling spectacles of bloodshed and destruction, wrought by the, peace-giving Mediators upon the persons and properties of—first one, and then the other, of the parties Whom they pretended to reconcile, to eu lighten, and to preserve. It cannot be disguised that this exploit of Admiral de Rigny'renders the moral aspect of the whole affair, horrible as it was before, still more horrible ! But it is in vain to examine the moral features of a transaction which seta every notion of public morality at defiance from its commencement, and will continue to do so to its end. The exploit, as to its motives and its conse quences, Must be viewed exclusively in reference to the diplomatic relations so far as these are known, (and they sufficiently complicated and obscure), that now exist between -the several Powers directly or indirectly concerned in the affairs of the East. The motive to this exploit is, we think; sufficiently intelligible. It was no doubt intended to propi tiate the Ottoman Government at this critical mo ment, when the destruction of the Turkish and the aggrandisement of the Russian Empire hang sus pended on the •balance, or rather to afford the Grand Seignor an opportunity for the more calm re-consideration of a question upon which his interests as a • Monarch suggest one conclu sion, while his just indignation still more forcibly suggests another. It was to furnish him with the pretext ao least of believing that the peace-giving destroyers had so much sense •of justice as to be impartial in their work of destruction. It was to pour balm into the maddening wound which had been inflicted upon his pride. To what extent it is likely to influence the future policy of the Ottoman Court, is a questioa upon which, with our present very imperfect information, we refrain from offering an opinion. It is not improbable, however, that it may be seized as a favourable opportunity to escape from the imminent dangers which would attend a conflict with Russia, unrestrained by the other European Powers, or that it may even for sometime to come give the French Anibasiador a paramount influence •at Constantinople. If these should be its results, Russia, so far as respects the most important of her designs, will. have been cir cumvented, and hence arises another very difficult question, viz. whether Rtissia will quietly submit thus to be defrauded of the prize 50...10ng and anxiously sought, and which appeared already with in her grasp. All the results of the Tripartite Treaty are in short involved at this moment in the darkest obscurity, and the most inextricable confu sion. Nothing is known but that the Treaty, atro cious in its principle, has been followed only by atrocious acts; that it has caused human slaughter to he employed as an instrument of diplomacy; that professing to put down piracy, it has made piracy flourish and increase ; that the havoc and destruc tion at Navarin, .in subserviency to the ambition of Russia, has given occasion for the havoc and de. struction at Scio to circumvent Russian ambition — and that both these atrocious acts of havoc and de struction have been perpetrated in the abused names of liberality, and humanity, and peace.—illern. Post. The Gazelle de France of Friday, Which arrived on Saturday; communicates the highly important fact, that Admiral de Rigny, after vainly summoning Colonel Flivier •to cease from hostilities, had de stroyed the Greek - fleet in the road of Scio. This news was given in the Gazette,. on the authority of letters from . Trieste, of the 18th, where the report was current so early as the evening of the 14th, • ) No date,.howcver, iS . Ossigned to the attack, although no' ' doubt is expressed on the subject. It must be in! the recollection of our readers, that the three Ad-: mirals addressed, on the 24th of October, four days' after the destruction of the Turkish fleet at Navarin,! a note to the Permanent Committee of the Greek Legielative.l3ody, in which they declared that the armistice at sea having been de facto established by the recent battle, it was absolutely necessary for the Greek fleet to observe it. They also stated pointedly, that if the Greeks refused to do so, their fate should be the same as that of their opponents. The Government most willingly co-operated with the Allied Admirals, and agreed to ‘econd their views to the utmost; but the Government of Greece had not the power, as that of the Porte had n?t the will, to controul their maritime forces, and it was therefore imperative on the Allies to aid the feebleness. of the one in the same spirit as they had tact the obstinacy of the other. Whatever the secret or avowed foes of the Allies may say, • they cannot now refuse to them the praise of even-handed justice; nor can they, if they possess any remains of candour, deny that tile motives assigned in the Treaty of July,for the allied interposition, have been proved in the event to be the real ones. The motives then assigned were the damages accruing to . the com mercial relations of the three Powers by the unset tled state of the Levant. To the evil resulting from that unsettled state, there was but one cure, and that cure has been adhibited. The ordinary forms of blockade were put in force and found unavailing-;- an attempt to give them greater efficacy was tried, resisted, and the destruction of the Turkish fleet was the consequence. With_the Greek fleet no blockade was tried, for an obviotis reason; they were acting contrary to the orders of their own Government; and had no claim to such treatment as a neutral might fairly expect. But, even in the order of their Pro ceedings, the Allies have given the most ample proof of the good faith that' actuated their con duct. They began with the stronger side—they re duced the oppressor to reluctant quietude, before they even called on the Greeks to abstain from acts which involved not their own safety only,but tended to de lay, perhaps defeat, the success of the allied interven rion, and compromised, to a certain degree, the inte rests of the Allies themselves. There is no person of soundfeelings that does not contemplate with horror the cruelties of the Turks at Scio. There is nothing in the history of the last fifty years to equal the barba rities perpetrated there by a bloody and remorseless enemy, if we except some of the atrocities of the Greeks themselves, which yet fall far short in extent of what they rival in degree. In the desire of the Greeks to revenge themielves on the captors of Scio we can entirely sympathise ; but we do not forget, at the same time, that the task of vengeance, in such cases, is not to be entrusted to men, acting without, or independent of the Government which they profess to serve, any more than, in a re gulated State, it is to be entrusted to indivi 7 duals acting without the permission, or con trary to the enactments of law. To the Pseudo; Philhellenists of the day, the destruction of the Greek fleet may afford a topic of decla: mation ; but as there were no fleet of steam-boats to be destroyed, we think it unnecessary to reply. We leave the one to their arithmetic, and the other to their rhymes. There are, however, brighter ancl better spirits, who look on the cause of Greece with something of the feelings 'of a fond lover on his mis. tress—with eyes. like those of the lynx to her beau• ties, but dull as those of the mole to her defects.—! To such we would say, that the present sharp but wholesome infliction bids fair to forward the causo in which they take an honest interest, more thati any event, save only the victory that preceded it. The battle. of Navarin was well calculated to con, vince the Turks of their utter unfitness to cope with the forces which the. Allies could at any time leti low against them ; and there is every reason to be-, lieve' that it would have wrought the happiest effects in the counsels of the Divan, had it not ben for th 6 rash and ill-timed descent upon Scio. That descent excited, and very naturally too, in the Porte, suspi-i cion of the sincerity of the Allies, which something stronger than protestation's was-required to remove. " You profess," they might well say to the Allies; " to act as i'mpartial. mediators between us and our own subjects; to permit you to. do so at all is suffi ciently humiliating; but how do .you prove your impartiality ? 'You attack us where your power insures you instant victory—you compel us, by the annihilation of our fleets, to what you call a naval armistice,' and in the mean while the vessels of our inveterate enemies are allowed to plunder and destroy us with impunity." What were the Allies to an swer to such an appeal ? We have no mighty sym pathy with the Turks, but we would treat them as men of like feelings with ourselves, and really we think that there was reason in their anger, on account of Fabvier's attempt. The way is now at length clear to a settlement. The Turkish Government may still refuse to treat, and the Allies may be obliged to make, yet, further demonstrations of what jus tice, backed%y power, . can effect, but their refusal has been deprived of the argument by which it has been hitherto supported. They can no longer accuse the Allies of interposing for the sake of the Greeks alone. We are told that preparations are actively making in Turkey for war,' and by - the extracts . from , the German Papers, in another column , it 101 be . seen that magazines arc forming for the supply of the capital, but at the date of thisnews the intelligence of the action at Scio had not arrived. At Vienna, where .the feelings of the Porte are perhaps better known and better appreciated than in this country, that event was bailed as likely to effect a successful termination .of the negotiations. 'We are happy that it has fallen to the, share of Adiniral de Rigny to punish the Greeks. In the first place, it will gra tify the justifiable vanity of our neighbours, that their forces have; in this case, accomplished alone what required the united fleet of the Allies to accomplish at Navarin; and that they have, in this Case, been the leaders, while in the other, they only .followed.. In the second place, it takes away the possibility of charging us, as is often foolishly and malignantly done on the Continent, with, selfish motives—as influenced solely by a desire to advance our own interests by crushing all maritime rivals. We rejoice, therefore, that the destruction of a Power which has injured us more than it has done all Eu rope besides, has been effected by the arm of our Ally rather. than by our own. 'The French Opposi tion Papers see 'only, in this act of stern justice, .an occasion of launching out into unmeaning charges against the Ministry. This was to be expected. We have no doubt, that while we are pr ping these, lines, some of our neighbours are blotting innocent paper, to prove that the destruction of those pirates, of whose existence they so bitterly complained, is an; act of the . greatest possible atrocity,- and that Cie li-' terary buffoon, with whose notice we are sometimes favoured, is already turning over his tattered . coin , • mon-place book, in search of stale jokes, to comme morate the act of justice whiCh he has so often in yoked. All this is selon le regles. We address our .observations to those that - seekafter truth, whatever side it may affect, not to the goose who.caanot hear, nor to the adder that will not.—New Time:. Mr. Burford has been for some time hotly en gaged in the Battle of Navarin, which will shortly form the Panorama, in Leicester-square. It is a sure hit. By a former Naval Victory reprel sented iu this shape, the concern netted 30,0001. Everybody goes to see battle pieces. - - THE LATE MURDER IN OXFORD.--. Soon after the final examination of Williams on Wednesday, two respectable tradesmen presented themselves as sureties, for him, • and he was ac-! cordingly liberated. Throughout the whole of the examinations that' have taken place on this extraordinary business, Williams has conduct ed himself with propel firmness ; he has not shrunk from any investigation ; on the contrary, he expressed a wish that the examinations might be public.--Oxford Journal, Dec. 29. QUACKERY.--A doctrine called " polarity," is extremely fashionable just now in the Aus trian States. It,is founded on what its profes sors are 'pleased, to call " the universal force of nature a primitive and unique force, which, nevertheless, is composed of two forces, called polar ; the one attractive or contractive, the other repulsive . or expansive ; in constant opposition ; always haVing a tendency to destroy one another; but which produce and animate every thing. on these principles (borrowed from electricity), the professors of this doctrine pretend to explain all the phenomena of nature, and even of life itself.— Literary Gazette. , POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL—Patrick Welch, an Irish labourer, was re-examined on suspicion of having thrown his. wife out of their room window. _ _ At the last hearing, it will be remembered, the watch man who found the woman lying senseless on the pavement stated, that the prisoner was looking from a one-pair win dow, and admitted he had thrown her from thence. The prisoner, on the contrary, insisted that she bad plunged through voluntarily, being in a state of mad intoxication. The wife was now brought up from the hospital in a coach in a very weak state. Having been sworn, she said she reached home on " boxing" night at twelve o'clock. She and her sister had been getting " a drop to drink all day." She invited her sister to stop with them, as it was too late to attempt walking home to Stratford with her big child in her arms. Her husband said the sister should not stop, and, only these "couple of words" having passed, the sister walked down stairs for fear that on her account witness would be beaten by her husband. She went to the landing-place, and called " Ellen, Ellen," but her sister did not answer. Witness returned into the room, and her husband immediately shut the door to prevent her going out. She lifted up the window and called Ellen, but her sister did not answer. Thinking her husband would be cross for trying to bring back her sister, she threw herself out of the window. The Alderman said that there was clearly no charge against the husband, and he was accordingly discharged. The poor woman, who was so weak as to require support while sitting in the chair, had obtained leave from the cur geon to return to her borne, but the Magistrate insisted that she should be conveyed back to the hospital. BOW-STREET.—On Saturday a man in the dress of a servant, who gave his name William Godfrey, was placed at the bar charged with having stolen a gray mare, the property of Mr. William Rumbridge, a farmer, residing at Feltham. The prisoner was also charged upon suspicion of having stolen a valuable roan horse belonging to a gentle man named De Cotlogan, who resides at Ashford. Mr. Rumbridge stated that his mare was safe in one of his fields on Christmas eve, but the next morning she was gone. He traced her as far as Shepherd's-bush ; and upon inquiry in that neighbourhood he discovered that the animal had been purchased from the prisoner by a man named Staples. The mare was subsequently traced to a krfacker'e in Cow-cross, where the witness identified her two fore legs, the carcass having been cut up and boiled. Davis, a city officer, who took the prisoner into custody, stated, that a great number of horses had lately been stolen from the neighbourhood of Feltham. They were generally traced as far as Shepherd's-bush, but no farther; so that the strong presumption was, that Staples, who resided on the spot, purchased the stolen horses, killed them, and then conveyed them to the knacker in:Cow-cross, with whom he is suppOsed to be in partnership. The MAGISTRATE asked why Staples was not in COS. tody?—Mr. Ifumbridge stated that he was now present, he having come forward as a witness against the prisoner. Sir R. BIRNIR was clearly of opinion that he should be placed at the bar'along with the prisoner Godfrey. Mr. Mrustrutr.. immediately ordered Staples to be placed at the bar. The Magistrate then aaked him whe ther he wished to acknowledge having purchased the horse from Godfrey said he certainly did purchase the animal from him, for which be paid 355. The prisoners were about to be committed, but at the suggestion of Mr. Rumbridge, and Davis, the city officer, they were ordered to be remanded until Tuesday next, :when additional evidence is expected to be Isicarght forward. The:practice of disposing of stolen horses to - knackers has _lately been carried 'to An enormous extent. It was stated in the office, that a horse valued at SO guineas, was lately stolen from a gentleman who roides near town, and sold to a knacker for a mere trifle. Thy horse was traced to the receiver, who suspecting that pursuit would be made after it before he could have time to put it out of the way, had the cruelty to break one of its legs with a hammer, pretending that the ,animal had met with an accident, and that he bought it in that state. A foreign gentleman, named Latour, who resides at Cra • ven-hill, near Bayswater, came to the office to acquaint the Magistrate of a singularly daring attempt at robbery which occurred to him (the applicant) on the evening of Friday last, about the hour of six, while passing the barracks at Knightsbridge, on his way to his residence at Bayswater. He was driving with his wife in a phaeton, the hood of which was drawn up in consequence of the fog, when he felt on a sudden something unusual at his back, and heard a noise as if the wheel of the vehicle bad grated against a stone. Upon turning to ascertain the cause, he saw a hand protruded through a rent nearly a yard long in the back part of the phaeton, and at the same instant he discovered another hand that held a knife, such as is generally used by shoemakers. His wife was exceedingly alarmed and cried out, upon which the villain, whose object of course was plunder, managed to effect his escape. Mr. Latour then discovered that the back part of the phaeton had been cut through, as were also a great coat, a body coat, a waistcoat, and even to the shirt which be wore at the time. Fortu nately, the knife penetratedno further; but had Mrs. Latour been in a stooping position, the probability is that her head would m ag have tr Magistrate been thecuts w severed fbrioembie kafe her bo i dy. b ad Mr. m ad Latour wore the .cloth es which he had on him at the time, and showed the Mr. MINSHULL cou'gratulated Vt. 'Latour upon his for-i tunate escape, and thanked him for the trouble he had taken in coming to the office. Mr. Latour said that the road from Hyde-park-corner was very badly lighted. Had it been otherwise, the attempt at robbery could not possibly have taken place so early in the evening. Mr. Miristfu tr. had. himself occasion to observe that this road was very badly lighted. WQRSHIP-STREET.—Saturday. William and Chas. Melford, Jeremiah Sullivan, and Richard Moss, were brought up for final examination. before Mi. BROUGHTON. The whole of the former depositions, which are of ex traordinary length, were again read over, to afford Sullivan, who was only apprehended on Monday evening, an oppor tunity to examine the witnesaes. Henry Tibbs, late servant to Mrs. Norbury, Birchin-lane, swore to Sullivan as the third man who entered the house on the night of the robbery, and held a pistol to Ids head in the shop, while the two Melfords rifled the upstairs apartments. Mrs. Mary Homer, landlady of the Ship and Shovel, public-house, at the back of Guy's Hospital, Borough, stated, that the prisoner Sullivan had lodged at her house several months. He represented himself to be a pensioned seaman, now following the business of a hawker. Both the Melfords were in the habit of visiting him there, and, she understood that he became acquainted with William while fellow-patients in Guy's Hospital. She recollected that Sullivan was from home on Sunday the 11th of No-, vember, and on Sunday The 9th inst. ; that William Mel- , ford slept there with, Sullivafi on the last - Mentioned n i g ht, ' and remained in: dOors the whole' of the following day :: also that on Wednesday the 12th, both the prisoners gave change of two sovereigns all in half-crowns. Oa Monday last, in consequence of reading the Worship-street report of the present case in the Sow, she went to who was' in the kitchen, and intimated her fears that he, Was connected with the Melfords in the robberies. He . appeared confused,: and replied, " No, no, I don't get my bread in that way." Alfred Homer, son of the last witness, corroborated the foregoing statement. James Hanley, the officer, stated, that in consequence of private information, he went on Monday evening to the Ship and Shovel public-house, where he apprehended Sul livan in bed, with his clothes on. In a sailor's bag, on which was written the prisoner's name, he found two small bundles of cord, one white and the other , tarred,—the latter corresponding with that used by the robbers in tying the legs of Tibbs. Being questioned, he said that the cords belonged to his hammock when in the' preventive 'service, on board the Asia, from which he was discharged last April, and that he had known Wm. Melford about three months. Witness added, that after lodging the pri soner in a place of security, he went round to the pawn brokers of that neighbourhood, and found at the shop of Mr.' Martin, in Tooley-street, pledged for 1/. 55., in the name of Smith, on the 10th inst., a watch, which was identified by Mrs. Pring sic her husband's property. Henry Wm. Russell, shopman to Mr. Martin, on oath, stated that to the best of his belief Sullivan was the man who pledged the watch. Sullivan, who had hitherto been silent, strongly denied this,part of the charge. Mr. BROUGHTON, after a short address to the three first name,d, prisOnets on the enormity of the crimes with which they stood, charged, observed, that although the strongest suspkcions attached themselves to Moss, yet there was a possibility that he had been the dupe of the Melfords. Of that doubt he would give him the advantage, and discharge him, with an admonition to shun dissolute associates in future, And endeavour, by a long course of persevering industry and" good conduct, to wipe away the stain he had. brought on his character, and convince the world of Ills innocence. M os s was accordingly discharged, and the other three prisopers were fully committed to Newgate. QUEEN-SQUARE. — On Saturday this office was crowded with informers, licensed victuallers, coach-pro prietors, Witnesses, &c. One case against Ml...Thema Mop theiate proprietor . of some Kennington coaches, exeikclicansiderable interest in a point bf law. - . _ . The Hon. Charles Law attended for the defendant. Byers, the informer, had laid an information against the ceachNo. 6,933, for travelling in the Strand, when. it was only licensed to go from Gracechurch-street, in the city, to Kennington. Aaron Rawlins, the informer's witness, proved the case, and a clerk from the Stamp-office produced the register of the licence. Mr. Law addressed the Sitting Magistrates, G. W. MARRA= and D.' G. GREGORIE, Esqrs., and in a most ingenious speech contended that his client was not liable to the penalty. Byers said the Act was imperative : the name on the coach was sufficient evidence of, the proprietorship. Mr. MARRIOTT should take time to consider the objec tions raised. The case was then adjourned until next Wednesday week. UNION-HALL.- 2 -On Saturday Hannah Wilkinson, an interesting-looking girl, 18 years of age, who described herself the daughter of a farmer at Bantree, near Roches ter, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, J. T. HONE, Esq., charged with having been drunk and dis orderly in the New-cut, Lambeth, on the preceding night. The poor girl related a tale of misfortune that excited the sympathy of all who heard it. She had been itt custody about three months ago on a similar. charge, on which oc casion she represented that she had eloped from her fa ther's residence, about nine months ago, with a young man, who brought her up to town, and deserted her soon afterwards. Not having the means of providing for her self, and fearful of returning to her parents, she soon became a prey to vice and prostitution, and mixed with the abandoned of her sex who frequented the theatres en the Surrey side of the water. The Magistrate, per ceiving that the unfortunate girl evinced great contrition, and was anxious to obtain the forgiveness of her father, sent her to gaol, in order to keep her out of the streets, and in the' mean time directed Mr. Staples, the chief clerk, to write to her parent apprizing him of the situation his unhappy daughter was placed in, and expressive of her anxiety to reclaim, and that she should be immediately liberated on his coming up to receive her. The letter was ascertained to have been received, but no answer was re turned, and at the expiration of a fortnight the poor out cast was discharged, and once more thrown upon the town destitute. After her liberation she was not heard of at this office until Saturday, when it appeared by the state ment of a watchman, that she was discovered near the Coburg on the precedininight in a state of intoxication. Mr. HoNZ.—We have already written to your father, but he has not even answered the letter. We, however, shall try the experiment again, and perhaps he may at least reply. In the interim I shall send you to the gaol, where you were confined before for a fortnight, in the ex pectation that before the period elapses your father will relent; and save you from destruction; SHOCKING MURDER. (From the Hampshire Telegraih.) On Monday an inquest was held at the Golden Lion Inn, Fareham, before Mr. B. Longcroft, Coroner, on the body of -William Armsworth, la bourer, who was found murdered on Saturday night last, in a ditch, in Puxall-lane, by the side of the turnpike-road, at Fareham. The deceased left his lodgings, at Brockhuist, near Fareham, on Saturday evening last, about seven o'clock,, in company with Moses Shepherd, a labourer (who lived next door but one to deceased's lodgings), and a man of the name of Thompson. About nine o'clock the de ceased and Moses Shepherd were seen drinking to gether, by several persons, who knew them, at the . Lamb .public-house, at Fareham: Whilst there, Shepherd was invited by one of the witnesses, who was taking some beer (T. Goster), to take part of a hock of pork and penny loaf ; after being pressed, he consented, and cutoff a part of - the hock, at the joint, with a large knife, which he took from out of his jacket pocket. Soon afterwards the • deceased said to Shepherd, "Come, Shepherd, lam going, an't you almost ready to •go ?" Shepherd seemed in clined to stay, but got up and went out of the room with the deceased :. Shepherd had the meat and bread and knife in his hand at the time : it was soon after nine o'clock. They were seen, shortly after wards, walking together and talking in the direct road to Puxall-lane, and to the spot where the body of Armsworth was afterwards found; they did not appear to be tipsy or quarrelling. Between nine and ten o'clock, Henry Tatford, who lives in a cottage nearly opposite the same spot,, was 'induced, by hie dog barking very mueli,.ta look out of doors, when he heard a rustling noise in the hedge; he did not hear any one call out for assistance; he thought it Must be some one chopping the hedge for Christ mas boughs. John Tatford, a labourer, going home, a little before eleven o'clock, found Armsworth lying in the ditch, quite dead, his throat being cut, so that his head was nearly severed from his body ; a great quantity of blood was about the head and neck.-- Henry Harris; constable, being called to the spot, saw the deceased, as last described, and the handle of a case-knife lying under his head : fourteen shil 7 fillip and Seven-pence, his tobacco-box, and other articles, were found on his person. Harris went and took Shepherd into custody the next morning, at his father's house, at Brockhurst; told him, it was on a charge of murder ; he changed colour, and was much agitated. Harris found at Shepherd's father's, a great coat, which was wet , particu larly the ' lower part of the sleeves, which ap peared to have . been lately washed and wrung out. A handkerchief, spotted - with blood and a small clasp-knife, were taken from Shepherd's person.—lt appeared from the evidence - of John Churcher, that at between 10 and 11 o'clock Shep herd came into the Three Tuns public-house, st son, much frightened and agitated; he called for o, pint of beet ; he ,was then wet up to his knees; bad on a great coat, with.the Sleeves up to the elbows, which appeared to .be much more wet than the other parts of the coat, and to harelbeen wrung to squeeze the wet out. Churcher told the landlord (Seyshott). that he had better turn Shepherd out of the house, for he thought from his manner - that he bad been doing something that he' ought not. . Ann Burgess, of Brockhurst, knew Armsworth and Moses Shepherd; the former was - a lodger At her uncle's house; had 'walked out of an evening. with the deceased, but never with Shepherd. Sbep herd called at the house, on Saturday.afternoon last, between fire and six o'clock, for the deceased, when Shepherd p he went away on finding that he was not returned d h from work. The decease 4 returned home about seven o'clock, paid forhis lodging, haringtakerii his•basket and whento tools" t ), he was aout she (which were i the same as pro ducedhadby one, l witnesses m that hat ing the house, been inquiring for him again, when he replied " Who or what is it the wants ?" As he was making the remark, and she was tying on his hand kerchief, Shepherd came into the house, and said— ." Come, my lad, Thompson is waiting without." They then went away together. Mr. Longcroft, the Coroner, then ordered that the body of the deceased, - which - was lying in a barn near Blackbrook, where the Jury had viewed it, should be brought in the mangled state it was found, to the Golden Lion, at Farehain, where the . Jury was then sitting, in order that Shepherd, who was, then in eustody under a Magistrate's warrant, on suspicion of the m urder, should be shown the body,i in the presence of the, C or oner and Jury ; this was: done, and on Shepherd being taken into the room where the body was laid, he was fearfully agitated,' but said he knew nothfng of the murder; the Coroner told him, if that was the fact, he could have' no objection to follow his example, by laying his hand on the body and saying, " I am innocent of the murder;" this 'Shepherd positively refused to do, and: shrunk from: the body, on being requested by the foreman of the jury to touch it. Shepherd was then removed to another room in which was a bed, on which he immediately threw himself, and nearly fainted away. Upon his recov er i n g himself, he was again brought , before the Coroner's Jury, and ad dressed by the Coroner in a very feeling and im pressive manlier. Coroner to the Jury, who, w ithout hesitation , re -. The whole evidence was then re ad over by thei turned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against Moses Shepherd. The Coroner immediately Issued his, warrant to commit Shepherd to Winchester gaol to take his trial at the next Assizes for the murder, and bound over a parish officer and the witnesses to pro secute and give evidence. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE• LIVERPOOL, DEC. 29.-The demand for Britist Plantation Sugar has been limited this week, all thoughar barely 350 weca h n h n d o s t . c sold o nsi d er without prices NC) sales made in Havannah, Brazil, or East In d '' Sugar. The arrival of Molasses has been hea l t late-with a dull market; the prices have gi T ', way Is. a 2s. per cwt. : 1.50 puncheons of Denies'', sold from the quay at 28s. per cwt. The mart for Coffee has been extremely dull, and only' ab°! 70 tierces sold, the chief part of which was a pigi / of JaMaica, of good middling quality, at 7 3 5. l cwt. Nothing done in Cocoa, Ginger, or Pigle t ' In Rum, 160 puncheons of Demerara, 35 per e e l 0. P. sold at 3 s. 10 d. a 3s. 11d. per gallon, 1149' some other trifling sales without change in P ie , ` The inquiry for Ashes has been fair, and s tew prices obtained ; about 400 barrels of Montrea l 11, sold at 28s. for old, and at 295. 6d. a 5 0 s. f or neA 400 barrels of Pearl at 30s. 64. a 31s. for old, a at 31s. 3d. a 31s. 6d. per cwt. for new. mueh fully change, 8 . supporte; The sal made in Dyewoods have been 100 tons of Ca peachy Logwood at 71. 7s. for old, and 71. 15s. a' 1.75. Gd. per ton ; 10 tons of Jamaica at a 55 '; tons of Spanish Fustic at 61. 2s. 6d.; 50 tons Cuba at 101. a 111. 1750 salted Canada Hides . . 61) at W. a 4-id. per lb. 140 bags of Verona Slitiw i sold from the quay at 7s. 3d.; 60 bags of Sicily, 10s. Gd. a 1 ls. ; and 100 bags of Malaga at 125.: 4 ; per cwt. 180 bags of Saltpetre at 26 5. 6d. a z'slo 35 casks of ordinary Carolina Rice at 18 6 . 61 barrels of Turpentine at 10s. 9d. per cwt• barrels of American Tar at 12s. and 50 barre ls Stockholm at 16s. 6d. per barrel. There has been a steady demand for Cotton I:: day ; 3,000 bags have been sold, without any srt i , ations in prices, 'l,OOO of which have been takes speculators. ifi Our Cotton Market has been without mu d) c i j terest this week ; the business done amoun ts about 10,370 bags, at our last quotations, of 0 4,000 Bowed and Alabama have been taken o n s yi culation. The sales consist of 2,190 Bowed, ata to 61d., chiefly at 511 to 51d. for inferior to ' i g fair; 750 Orleans, at 5 / 11 to 80 chiefly at 6i e , 7d. for middling to good ; 4,660 Alabama and o ld bile, at 4id. to 51d., chiefly at sid. to sid.; Sea Island, at 12d. to 17d.; 770 Pernambuc e, ( l Bid. to 94-1; 510 Maranham, at 74d. to 8/d.;,; Bahia, at 7-8-d. to lid.; 240 Egyptian, at 7t° 8/d.. (a few at. 9d.) I $OO Demerara, at 71d. to 9 130 Carthagena, at 41d.; 120 Surat, at 4d. to 4 I (10 at 6d.) 20 Bengal, at 4d. The arrivals are 9,607 'liags. There has been since our last a fair demand AA Tobacco from the trade, and prices have not eoui gone any alteration.-We have no sales worth',) notice to report in Carolina or East India itice,,) The Corn Market has continued without any "' terial alteration ; the prices of most descriptiol ls : t grain have been supported, but the sales have b,l limited.-We continue to experience a fair dervi' for Ashes, and prices are fully supported; the 5,41 of the wyek are about 7.50 brls. consisting of , brls. Montreal Pot at 28s. for old, and 295. tsk l 30s. for new; 370 brls. Pearl, at 30 s. 6 d. to ''i for old and 31s. 3d. to 31s. 6d. per cwt. for n e and a small lot of New York, at 31s. per cwt. j Old Brimstone the sales have been 140 tons at i 12s. Gd. per ton, and of Saltpetre only 180 bag' 265. to 275.' per cwt.-Palm Oil is steady. /4 Imported into Liverpool, from the 22 d to the t December, inclusive.-By one vessel from 0 cutta, 'one Demerara, one Santa Martha, „ New York, two Charleston, two Virgin ia. ; Marauham, one Paraiba, one Macaio, one 0 5 and one Malaga. _Sugar, Demerara, 183 hhds. 1 tce.; Moles! 411 casks ; Rum 52 ptaachs. 27 hhds.; Coffee,. , bags; Cotton, West India, 437 bales; 01/1 States, '3,340 bales; Brazil, 5,830 bales ; Toba c 715 hhds.; . Tar, American, 1,810 brls.; Ton! tine, 50 brls.; Saltpetre, 2,636 bags; Fustic, ' tons; Nicaragua Wood, 10 tons; Olive Oil, casks ; Hides, Cow and Ox, 1,403. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK, Wheat. 1 Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Carlisle . 3torpeth Pen ri th Sheffield Winchester Per Bitshet Carmarthen Coventry Newc,astle (StafE) Northallerton Staffbrd Swaniea Warwick Per poll. Rarnardeaatle Darlington Durham --..—. Wolsing ham j*- The size of s. to. a. 56 61 48 8i 48 52 to s. 26 ,28 29 :33 28 32 s. to 8. 21 21 52 . 20 26 ,„° 19 25 4 " 21 -- 20 es 4-,(1 20 25 4% 48 6$ 40 60 s.d. s.d. 63 60. 62 76 90 83 59 70 00 88 66 69 60 72 30 37 26 32 s. d. 26 40 3 9 4 4 54 56 40 43 50 54 39 46 36 40 R. d. s.d. s.' 16 as 0 38 S 0 6 99 40 2 4 0 6 40 44 6 6 29 0 38 5 0 5 11 9 16 0 11 0 16 0 106 149 12 0 . 14 0 the measui 90 10 0 46 50 I 44 .10 0 13 50 7613 i 0 66 10 60 70 0 lighout the co 83 90 90 96 varies thr SCOTCH MARKETS. TIADDINGTON CORI 4 MARKET. —Doe. 28. Barley went off very readily t6..day, top price eile.. average about Is. 6d.: up.. A dull Oat , market—.-1,564" ters sold ; top price Is., and average Sd. s_l2the .. last day. The Wheat market was well s upp li e d ; ..tl e Old is. up, but the average is down; top pr ice q!.:' b W . h .. ea at t in m . , 84 ark . e 0t t,334, 1 ;rh . e .. r a c t 0 1:... c 435 r 4 e 9 • the same as last day, average up is. ld. Of 13€ 1 7 0 1 quarters were sold, average 2s. 6d. dow n . Only. 4 q . ters of Pease were sold, and sin the m ar ket. rea m. Wheat. Barley. Oats. p e ase. s.ya Odd First 67s Ocl . 3 3 s 64 256 34s Od 31s Od 3:Unsold.-0 Grey, Second p s od 313 Od 22s Cd 31s Od 286 od Third ° 30 ........... . 40 0 46 0 17 . . ... ..... • ~ 1 42 ............ 49 0 24 There ......a..t. i . v .... e .. r . e : 6. 3 6 6 5700. 4 . q m00 r5.0f ri50 4 5 0 18 ...... ..•••• '3 0 44 0 2 ........ .... 24 6s, 16 . . ... . ... ... 52 0 Aver ,4 _l9th DALKEITI-1 CORN 01 The supply o f Grtsin at this day's marke t was siderable, and, in general, sold at fully last week price', Beol Wheat. Barley. I Oats. Cie'3.2.4 First (36s Od 32a Od 25s Od 3' 28 Ad v “ 24s Second 50s Od 30s Od 223 Od ,jd als Third Us 0(1 26s Od i lßs Od ----,----------_____ CORNWALG„ MARKETS • •Eis ' ' Tatmo.—Wheat (average) 20.."• — Barley , HELATON—Wheat, 20s. Od...—Barley, 10s. W. to lgf .6 ST. AUSTELL—Wheat, 19.• 10 216 . —Barley, 101. _ • 9s. 10s.—Oats, Bonatuct—Wheat (average) 21s. 6d.—Barley, 9.3.--oat-42,t,0`; LAuxcEsroN—,Wheat (average)2lB.ol.—Barley, 1 06 •"•"' i 'vs. Od.—Beef, N 31 i.—utton, sd. • at., LISKP. AR P--Whcat. 20s. to 225. Oct —Barley, 10s• 9 to Ss. 9d. to 101;.- -0 1 ST. COLVMD — Wheat, 20 , . to 22s. --Barley ps. and Mutton, 44d. to sd.—Veal and Lamb, Od 'to Od. P E NZANCE- .Wheat, 19s. t o 21 s. —B a rlov, 1 ls. to 12s. W ...0 0 p Os. to 7 s. le—Beef End Mutton, 44. to 134.....P0rk, 4d• Butter, 11,1. per lb. ~,1 ''' MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tent V Quantity of Copper ()re sol 4 at Redrutb l as t Thurids,y Vib 113 i , z Average Produce ......... : .......... , ....... .... .. . .... .. ........ _ 1 Quantity of fine Copper Si. Amount of Sale, 16,3 6 ,91. 19s, od.--A,yerage Standard,: lut -,./ ~...:, BIRTHS. On the 2 2 d inst., at Chelsea, the dau g hter of Lien Colonel Skerrett, of a tlf daughter. On the 23d i n st., at Torkington Lodge, Cheshire's., wife of Captain William Fowden Hindle, of a daugh te l e On the 26th inst., at Thirleiton House, near CM' ham, the lady of J. R. Scott, Esq., of a daughter. 4 . oil On the 28th nist., i ll Devonshire-place, the lady' 0' tain Phillimore, of a son. On the 29th inst., at Tyringham, Bucks, the James B. Praed, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 27th in s t., at St. Paul's , Covent- Gar den, by e Rev. Loraine L o r a ine Smith, Rector of Passingharot v d fordshire, Jame s Heygate, Esq., surgeon, Hanslope, 13`1,v, to Eliza, d aug ht e r ' o f Mr. C. Few, of Covenge'r solicitor. cjo k-is 011 the 29th inst., Mr. Timothy Heald, of Toga iins, to Elizabeth Isabella, eldest daughter of 111 e. Kennington. ..-- ' On the 10th inst., at Cha DED illot, near I'A rl * -s ' in the mcd year of his age, Daniel C rok at t, Esq., formerly a of Council of the Presidency of Bombay. f l On the 26th ult. , drow ned at sea, on his passag e 0,. the East Indies, Mr. Francis Search, jun., of Clerke green, aged 23. xr LI 0. PRINTED and PUBLISIIF,D by M. YOUllm) SUN OFFICE, No. 112, Straiii. II 1