The Sun. — London, England, 1834-09-10 00:00:00

SPLitIT OF TEE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We are glad to find that the opinions we yesterday expressed with regard to the consequences which might be expected to follow the repeal of the Stamp Duty on Newspapers, are shared by our sensible contem porary, the Scotsman. We quite agree with Lord Brougham and the Scotsman, that the lower classes care nothing about the private history of a public man, the lapses of his ancestors, or the peccadillos of his wife and sisters ; that, on the other hand, among the upper and middle classes, there are always a num ber, who, from malice, envy, or a depraved disposition, delight in traducing cil.:.racter and disturbing the peace of families, and . inat " the slander and obscenity, the worst nitli of which the press is the .vehicle, is d erved up for the drawing-rooms of the wealthy. " While the Conservatives have nearly the mo nopoly of private libels and obscenity,—" a fact the more striking, from the contrast it offers to their professions, since virtue and religion are ever in their mouths,"—the lower classes, " find ing their lot comparatively hard, are strongly inclined to discover the evils they complain of in the frame work of the social system," and are generally disposed to lend a willing ear to wholesale abuse of the state of things under which they are condemned to toil, and scanty fare, while others are feasting, and driven about in splendid coaches. It is not easy to convince a man who has difficulty in maintaining a large fa mily by his toil, that he is benefitted by a state of things in which another man expends on horses, and dogs, and menials, five hundred times more than his earnings ; and yet nothing is more true than that, if the utmost protection were not given to property, and the utmost latitude to the mode of enjoying it (compatible with the rights of others), the poor would be worse off than they are at present. The poor do not err in want of kindness towards each other ; on the contrary, the experience of suffering and want disposes them greatly to commisseration ; and a tale of misery may fail to reach the heart of a rich man, who never expects - to be in want, but almost always succeeds with the poor. But the poor, espe cially the labouring poor, who are not corrupted by the largesses of the rich, are generally what the French call " Frondeurs." The Scotch are in this respect fully more intolerant than the English, because they depend more on their own resources. The cheapening news papers would certainly have the effect of extending somewhat the range of the opinions most palatable to the labouring classes. But we are quite satisfied that so far from the repeal giving increased currency to li centious productions, or to publications advocating atrocious crimes, the effect of it would be to render papers more austere in point of principle than they are. The papers of the United States are full of abuse, and the most respectable statesmen are assailed in the coarsest style ; but there is no obscenity, no irreligion in them, no incitements to crime. Were a newspaper supported like some of those by the higher classes here, especially dignified clergymen, to appear in a town of the United States, the publisher would at the least be tarred and feathered. The reason why unstamped newspapers in this country offend at present, in stimulating to crime, was stated by us yesterday ; and the Scotsman shares our views. " While the law remains on its present footing (says our contemporary), the publishers of unstamped papers, like other illicit traders, must generally be men of broken fortunes and desperate character. Their interest induces them to pander to the prejudices and depraved appetites of the class to whom they address themselves, and their own taste and propensities lead them to assail every thing sacred and honourable. They are, moreover, almost necessarily ignorant and vulgar-minded, and if disposed to seek the favour of a better class of persons, do not know to accomplish their purpose. We maintain, however, that their writings are baneful, not because they are unstamped, but because they are illegal, and proceed from men who would not resort to such an occupation if they had not previously thrown off the restraints of law and morality. Abolish the stamp—that is to say, legalize cheap newspapers—and you will have intelligence, character, and capital, with all the guarantees attaching to them, embarked in this department of literature. Look at the journal of our neighbours, the Messrs. Chambers . , a private speculation, of course con ducted chiefly with a view to profit, and circulating to a vast extent among the humblest classes. Is it less pure in morals, less the friend of religion and order, than the generality of well-taxed newspapers ? Quite the reverse, we apprehend." The time is not remote when newspapers were chiefly read by the opulent. Rich men hate what is serious, and newspapers were then light and amusing, but by no means instructive. As the circle of readers widened, the taste of the higher classes merged in the taste of a more sober and serious class; and newspapers in the present day are distin guished by great earnestness. If we still extend the range by embracing a still lower class of readers, we may expect that there will be no falling off in the way seriousness. Where there is an honest desire to know the truth, the result, in the long run, must be the im provement of both readers and writers. On this point it is happily observed by the Scotsman that—" Were the stamp-duty abolished, the first effect of it would be to create a shoal of journals, in which the bad would predominate, as three to one, over the good. We have unbounded confidence, however, in the supremacy of moral principle, and the ultimate ascendancy of truth. The first outpourings of radicalism would no doubt be hot and deleterious ; but sounder doctrines would gra dually prevail. It sould be remembered, that subser vience to the prejudices of readers, is indeed one, but not the only means of promoting the success of a jour nal. How much depends on the capital which com mands superior sources of information ; on the talent and science which combine, illuminate, and apply it ; and on the good faith which builds up consistency of character, and gains an influence even over the minds of the ignorant and prejudiced. There are errors in spired by the social position of certain classes, witness the doctrines of the agriculturists on the corn trade, and interwoven with mistaken views of interest : these are no doubt difficult to eradicate ; but still they will yield to experience and reason. As for those who assert that the human mind is instinctively disposed to em brace error rather than truth, the wrong rather than the right—we consider the whole frame of civilized society a confutation of their opinion. Is it not, with all its faults, a proof of the ascendancy of justice over force ? And do not the minds of nineteen men out of twenty acquiesce in this as the natural order of things ? . . . With how much more plausibility might it have been maintained, that the Reformation, which destroyed sla very in matters of faith, and left a man free to attach himself to any creed, or to none, would ruin religion and morals ? But does any Protestant say that this has been the case?"—Morning Chronicle. Any one who has read Lord Brougham's evidence, or rather his opinions, before the Libel Committee, re lative to the abolition of the stamp duties on news papers, might be disposed to give the Learned Lord credit for a very generous desire to accommodat e all classes of his Majesty's subjects with newspapers to their taste, if it were not that the prospectus of his Lordship's own penny speculation to enlighten the public mind upon political matters, according to his own peculiar notions, came out about the same time, and spoiled his claim to disinterestedness. The coin cidence affords pretty strong presumptive evidence that " the schoolmaster, to whom this country owes, in a great measure, the Malthusian Poor Law Bill—the discovery, that the most noble monuments of Chris tian charity that adorn this land are in opposition to the genuine principles of political science--and the no less startling novelty, that truth may be an aggravation in cases of libel, is much less anxious for the general diffusion of knowledge than he is that every person who reads should read out of his political " primer." Then, indeed, will there be a flood of light upon Eng- England, and the learned leader of the Society for the Diffusion of Political Knowledge will become the sun of the new intellectual system, of which we suppose Miss Martineau is to be the " chaste cold moon- The one the Magnus Apollo—the other the Diana, of the philosophic Olympus. If excellence in quackery be a proof of mental power, this is certainly the age of intellect. Nor would it be easy to find in England greater quacks than the select band of Mal thusians and political economists, who modestly come m wa rd to relieve England from the gross delusion and ignorance under which it labours at the present dal touching the ti vine principles of political science. ' The manner in which they talk of their own nostrums for curing the epidemic of ignorance, and the mental malady of error by which the general mind of England has been so long afflicted, has all that easy assurance, that cool effrontery of self-recommendation which dis tinguishes those eminently gifted and profoundly learned personages who placard the walls of the metro polis with invitations to the sick and suffering public to come and be healed of their infirmities by infallible specifics—the virtues of which leave us nothing to wonder at in the fabled miracles of Xsculapius. Thus it is that, until the " Society for the Diffusion of Poli tical Knowledge" arose under the auspices of the Lord Chancellor, the English intellect groped its way blindly through the dense darkness in which that very news paper press involved it, on which that very Lord Chancellor had formerly poured forth so much of the language of panegyric, when he courted its assist ance to promote his ambitious views, and raise him to his present elevation. When we see many of the trashy compilations that have been pompously sent forth to the world by the " Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge," which numbers in its ranks the same luminaries that so kindly volunteer to en lighten the political world, we may well ask by what authority those egotistical persons assume to be the in fallible instructors of the public mind ? If they are to be judged of by their works of paste-and-scissors composition, they must take a very low degree in the world of literature even as compilers, who prey upon the intellectual labours of others ; but whatever they want in talent and learning, is compensated for by their art of puffing, through the medium of 'evidence before Parliamentary Committees, and in other ways, which show how well they understand the advantages of calculating with a bold confidence upon the credu lity of mankind. As to the benefit the public would derive from the abolition of the stamp-duties on news papers, we would be content to have it practically as certained by Lord Brougham's own test. He has re ferred to the Newspaper Press of the United States of America, and we ask if his own example does not re fute his own argument ? The infinite superiority in talent, intelligence, and in every thing that gives re spectability to a Newspaper in the Press of England, compared with that of America, must satisfy every reasonable person that the degradation of the Press to the penny-trumpery standard is not the way to im prove the knowlege or the morals of the people.— Morning Herald. We insert elsewhere a report of the proceedings of a meeting that was held yesterday at the Mechanics' Institution, respecting the dispute which unhappily still exists between a portion of the master builders and their workmen. It will be read with interest ; for, however mistaken the views of the speakers may have been, and we hold them to be replete with the most suicidal errors, still they were marked by lan guage of a temperate character, which is no small praise to men who—whether rightly or wrongly no matter—believe themselves to have been unjustly and injuriously dealt with. But we decline arguing the subjects in dispute. Reasoning on the points they involve has been exhausted in the progress of the long-protracted strife, and we have observed that every such endeavour to convince has invariably failed. Nor have these attempts been productive of that negative evil only—they have in each case tended to re-open the wounds which they were meant to heal, and irritated where their object was to calm. Once more, then, we recommended both parties to resume their original position. Why should either be ashamed of doing that which both do in such a case ? What can either party lose by it ? They have the authority and the example of higher contending parties for the course we counsel. Almost all great wars have ended thus, after years of slaughter and devastation ; and such as have not had that result have for the most part terminated only in the destruction or the despoil ing of the weaker party. But while it is admitted that neither side can possibly lose anything if both adopt the proceeding we advise, the question is asked what gain is to be expectod from it ? We answer once more, much in all probability, and this certainly— namely, the benefit of the experience of warfare, with out any of the injurious or the humiliating conse quences of subjection or retreat, neither of which occur when both parties withdraw simultaneously from the field.—Times. OLD BAILEY.--SErT. 9. OLD COURT. Henry Frampton and Walter Gilchrist Wickers were in dicted, the former for stealing 300 books, the property of Messrs. Baldwin and Co., booksellers, and Gilchrist Wickers with receiving the same, well knowing them to have been stolen. In this case, which was not concluded yesterday when our reporter left, the Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Frampton, acquitting the other prisoner. Frampton was then called up for judgment, and ordered to be imprisoned for two years to bard labour in the House of Correction. After the dismissal of the Middlesex Jury, whose labours in the last important case had lasted seven hours, the Clerk of the Arraigns was proceeding to swear the London Jury, when Mr. Clarkson, who had that instant entered from the New Court, interposed. The Learned Counsel was retained for the prisoner in the first case, and he should challenge the Jury. The JUDGE inquired whether he was desirous of chal lenging any particular member of the Jury ? Mr. CLAEKSON challenged the whole of them. After what had occurred the preceding night he wished a fresh Jury to be sworn. The Jurors were all leaving the box full of indignation, when one of them requested to know whether they had a right to be treated in that manner, at the caprice of one Counsel ? The JUDGE replied that the law allowed the counsel for the prisoner to challenge the Jury, and to have a fresh one if he thought fit. The Jury had by this time gained the centre of the Court, and two or three spoke at once. The exclamations were, 1 " Is this the boasted bulwark of Englishmen ? Is this the ancient trial by Jury ? Are English Juries who are returning conscientious verdicts to be treated in this insult ing manner ?" accompanied by like observations. One, more audible than the rest, said, " It is a mockery of trial by jury." Mr. Clarkson said (as well as we could distinguish his voice amidst the confusion that prevailed)—" Yes, it is a mockery of trial by jury if you allude to what occurred last night." - - . . . . . The Gentlemen of the Jury felt their ire increased by this observation, and they gathered round Mr. Clarkson, and each manifested his displeasure in words, the only reply to them from the Learned Gentleman being, " One at a time, if you please, Gentlemen." The Judge reverted to the case, and it may be necessary for us to do the same. A man was indicted on Monday night for stealing some wainscoting. In the course of the evidence it appeared that he was a journeyman employed in a house, and while so occupied, that he had openly sold some broken-up wood to the neighbours. The proprietor of the house did ot relish the loss of his property, and the case came to this Court to be tried. The Judge in summing up had been very indulgent to the prisoner, and the jury, contrary to the opinion entertained by many in the Court, found a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Clarkson, who had been the prisoner's counsel, appears to have entertained an opinion that the circumstances, aided as they were by the summing up, did not warrant the conclusion of the jury. These are the cir cumstances, and the Learned Judge, speaking of the occur rence last night, said that he certainly in his summing up had been favourable to the prisoner, and he had marked for his sentence as slight a punishment as he could consistently with his duty. He then dismissed the jury, thanking them for the attention they had paid to the cases, and it was his opinion they had given a conscientious verdict. The individual for whom Mr. Clarkson had been retained pleaded guilty to several indictments for plundering his mas ter, Edmonds, Esq., a Magistrate. George Brewer and George Smith, two urchins (the former of whom had been previously in the House of Cor rection) were charged with stealing a necklace from the neck of a child. A man came to give Brewer a character, when the fol- ' lowing colloquy took place between him and the Common Sergeant :—_ COMMON SERGEANT—You . give the b oy a goo d charac ter. What do you know of h i m. Witness---I have known him a long time, and never heard anything wrong of him. COMMON SERGEANT—Did you never hear that he was once an inmate of the House of Correction ? Witness— Never. I must have known it if he had. COMMON SERGEANT—How should you have known it ? Witness—Why, I read the newspapers every day. COMMON SERGEANT—Nonsense. Do you think the conductors of newspapers insert every paltry case in their columns Is that your only means of deriving knowledge of the boy's movements ? Witness—Yes ; I think that the public papers are always right.—(Loud laughter.) The evidence being rather inconclusive the prisoners were acquitted. John Loveday was indicted for stealing two shifts, and oilier linen, the property of Lucy Ring. It appeared by the evidence of the prosecutrix that, owing to an attack of the cholera, the linen which she hung out in the morning to dry remained in the garden all night. The articles produced were part of that property. The prisoner's counsel said that the prisoner had laboured under a severe attack of cholera since he had been confined in Newgate. CODIMON-SERGEANT—Perhaps he caught the cholera from the linen he stole. Take it out of Court ! Take it out of Court ! The prisoner was convicted. The COMMON-SERGEANT told him he had suffered a severe punishment, whether it resulted from his indiscre tion or not. In order that he might not communicate in fection to his fellow prisoners, the Court would only sen tence him to six days' imprisonment (a nominal punish ment), and he therefore might be immediately discharged. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1834. GREENWICH PETTY SESSIONS. Yesterday the Greenwich Petty Sessions was held at the Greyhound, Greenwich. Colonel FOREMAN, Chairman, and Messrs. SMITH and YOUNG, sat on the Bench. THE NEW POOR LAW BILL. Catherine Fitzgerald was placed at the bar, charged by Mr. Morley, one of the overseers of Greenwich, with causing a disturbance before his door, under the following circum stances : Mr. Morley stated that since the alteration of the Act for the relief of the poor the Governors and Directors have taken to themselves to relieve the poor, and that the power was out of their (the overseers') hands. The poor, how ever, not being aware of the alterations, were continually annoying him and the other overseers. It was to convince the poor of the parish of the position in which they were placed that he had ordered the prisoner to appear at the bar: The woman, who has four children to support, was in the habit of receiving 7s. per week, and 2s. for lodging. The last week the Board reduced her pension to 4s. 6d. Subsequent to receiving a moiety of this she called upon him, when he told her it was no longer in his power to re lieve her. She became very violent in consequence, when he was obliged to give her in the custody of a policeman. Mr. SMITH—Then it is decided by the Board that the overseers cannot give relief ? Mr. Morley--qt has been decided so by the Governors and Directors. There was a meeting at the church on the Friday, and it was there proposed, after the Sunday week, that the overseers should no longer afford relief ; and that if they did they should be punished. Mr. Finch, clerk to the Magistrates, said that the over seers could do as they pleased till the rules and regulations were sent from the Commissioners. Mr. SMITH—Have you any rules sent down ? Mr. Mor ley—No. Mr. YOUNG said that with respect to refusing outdoor relief, be considered the alteration an outrage on humanity. He stated a case of a poor woman of the name of Esther Allen, near eight► years of age, and another of a man of the name of Cheek, a bricklayer, near ninety years of age, who were ordered to enter the workhouse. He thought that the Governors ought to have waited till the rules and regu lations were received from the Commissioners. Colonel FOREMAN and Mr. SMITH coincided in the view taken by Mr. YOUNG. Mr. YOUNG said that there was no prohibition in respect to outdoor ►elie where there was an union ; but they were a parish of itself, and in their case the law was imperative. They could not help themselves. Mr. Morley remarked that the overseers were in a far more terrible situation than before. _ _ Mr. Finch—Who raises the money ? Mr. Morley— The overseers have the responsibility, but the power is taken out of their hands. _ _ _ Mr. Lloyd, another overseer, observed that on the first application at the Board by the poor, after the resolution adopted by the Governors and Directors, there were ninety cases, each of which was a fit object of relief, and eight of which alone received outdoor relief. Mr. Morley then told the prisoner, and all those who were behind the bar (at which place a great many paupers were present), that they were to consider him no longer the person they were to apply to for relief. The prisoner was then discharged. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a chimney-sweeper, named William Cox, was brought up in custody of a police officer of the N division, and placed at the bar, before Mr. TWYFORD and Mr. GROVE, a county magistrate, charged with having infringed on the new Act of Parliament, by calling aloud in the public streets. The constable was yesterday morning on duty in Hoxton,. when he heard the prisoner bawling " Sweep, 0 ! Sweep, 0!" as loud as his lungs would permit him. Witness in formed him if he continued to so offend against the law he must take him into custody. The prisoner replied that he knew nothing whatever about the Act of Parliament ; he had his wife and kids to support, and support them he would ; and immediately commenced a repetition of the noise, and witness then took him into custody. Mr. TWYFORD—WeII, what have you to say? You know very well you are offending against the law by cal li ng out in the public streets. Prisoner--4ndeed, yer Vortship, I don't. I knows werry well I have heard a good deal of great tauk about this 'ere new Hact of Parliament ever since the sth of last November, but I wasn't aware that it had yet come into hoperation. Mr. TWYFORD—Then you are now informed that it has, and every person in your trade that so offends is liable to a penalty of forty shillings, or two months' imprisonment and hard labour. Prisoner—Oh, yer Vortship, don't commit me, for the sake of my poor wife and young kids ! Isn't it a very cruel thing on the part of the Legislature to prevent a poor hard-working fellow from getting a 'onest living ; for you knows, yer Vortship, that it always been the rule in our profession to call out " Weep, weep I" ever since Lunnon town 'as been Lunnon town. Mr. TWYFORD—WiII you promise not to offend again if you are this time let off? Prisoner—Oh, dear! I suppose I must (with a heavy sigh). Oh ! the Government wants to put a stopper on every poor individual. I wonder what the world will come to next. The prisoner was, after being severely admonished by the Magistrates, ordered to be discharged. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday John Akres and Mary his wife, and John Brown, were placed at the bar before Mr. WHITE, charged with stealing a large quantity of deal boards from time to time from the Blind School in St. George's-fields, Black friars-road, the prope r ty o f M r . B arron , a b u ild e r, in St. Martin's-lane. Police constable Clifton, of the B division, on the pre vious evening met the prisoners Brown and Mary Akres near the Broad Sanctuary, Tothill-street. Brown was carrying a quantity of new pieces of wood, and suspecting that it was stolen he questioned him as to where he had got it. He at first said that he had brought it from Par liament-street, but afterwards admitted that Mary Akres had given it to him to carry for her. Not being satisfied with the account he took him to the station-house. On making farther inquiries it was ascertained that the hus band of Mary Akres was a private watchman in the ployea of Mr. Barron, a master-builder, in St. Martin's-lane, and that he bad been employed to watch some new build ing at the Blind School for the last three months which his master had undertaken to build. On the previous evening Brown and the wife went to the Blind School with his sup per, when he gave them the wood to take borne. Mr. Brown, builder, of St. Martin's-lane, said that the prisoner had been in his employ about a twelvemonth. For the last three months witness had employed him as a confi dential watchman at the Blind School. He could swear to the wood produced as his property : many of the pieces his name marked on them. The prisoner must have sawed the wood into lengths, which had depreciated the value nearly one-half. He had gone that morning with the police constable to search the prisoner's lodgings, and he found nearly a cartload of sawed pieces of wood, which he could swear were his property. Mr. WHITE asked the prisoner Akers what he had to say to the charge ? The confidential watchman, in his defence had belonged to the Foot Guards, and was sworn in at Queen-square office in 1819, and his character would bear the strictest investigation for honesty, and was well known to the officers of the Guards, any of whom would come forward and give him a character. The prisoner, after ex patiating at some length upon the excellency of his charac ter, concluded by saying with great contempt, " As to the pieces of wood, I just took them as pieces of odds and ends to make the fire with, and I gave them to my wife, who gave them to Brown to carry for her." The other prisoners told a similar story, mid Mr. WHITE said that he should commit them for trial. Akres—l hope your Worship will adjourn this case, that I may produce witnesses who will speak to my character. Mr. WiirrE—l really do not think that any witnesses as to character will do you any good at present. You had better produce them at your trial. The prisoners were all fully committed for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute. The veteran pickpocket, Tit Shields, well known to every police officer in London, having been nearly fifty years upon the town, was brought before Mr. BURRELL by Dawson, one of the officers of this establishment, charged with picking the pocket of Mr. George Whitfield, a gentleman residing at Frome, in Somersetshire, of a handsome snuffbox. The prosecutor was in town on business, and had gone to the Horse Guards to see the soldiers mount guard. Daw son, the officer who chanced to be passing at the time , espied Tit Shields very busy at his old vocation. He watched him, and saw Tit extract a snuff-box out of the prosecutor's pocket with the greatest dexterity. Dawson immediately seized him, found the property upon him, and informed the gentleman that he had had his pocket picked. Tit begged to be let off, and told his usual story when taken into custody to excite pity, that the news of his being in custody would be the death of his poor old woman. Mr. Whitefield identified the snuff-box produced by Dawson as his property, which he said was made out of some of the timber belong*. to the ruins of Reading Abbey. Mr. BURRELL asked the prisoner what he had to say to the charge ? Tit Shields said that he was seventy-three years of age, and he was just going up to see his son-in law, who occasionally assisted him. He just stopped oppo site the Horse Guards, when he saw the snuff-box lying on the ground, and he picked it up, when the officer seized him, and took him into custody for stealing it, a thing he never did now. _ _ The MAGISTRATE fully committed him for trial. UNION-HALL. Yesterday John 111orr7s,7cOlVctin clerk in the employ of Messrs. Bowling and Walker, the wholesale chemists and druggists of Kent -street, was brought up, charred with embezzling divers sums of money, the property of em ployers.—Committed. THAMES POLICE. Yesterday a seaman, named Ferguson, applied to Mr. BALLANTINE for a warrant against the chief mate of the Lady Flora West Indiaman, for shooting at him with a gun and lodging eight shots in his body. The sailor stated that on or about May last the ship to which he belonged (the Ludlow) was at anchor off Jamaica, and he was sent by the second mate with a message to the second mate of the Lady Flora. After he had delivered his message he stepped into the Ludlow's boat for the pur pose of returning to the ship, when a seaman belonging to the Lady Flora also jumped in, for the purpose of going on board the Ludlow. They had pulled a few yards, when the chief mate of the Lady Flora called them back, and swore if they did •not return he would fire upon them. They took no notice of the threat, on which the chief mate went below and returned with his gun, and presented it at them. It twice missed fire, and the steward of the Lady Flora begged of his officer to desist, but he pulled the trigger a third time ; the gun went off, and the contents, after passing through the hat of another seaman belonging to the Ludlow, who was in the boat, lodged in his (the applicant's) body. He fell backwards, and was taken to the hospital, where he remained five weeks before he was enabled to return to his duty, no less than eight shots having entered various parts of his body. The seaman, in confirmation of his statement, produced his shirt, which was covered with blood'and pierced with shot. Mr. BALLANTINE immediately granted a warrant for the apprehension of the mate of the Lady Flora. MURDER of a WIFE and FOUR CHILDREN AND SUICIDE OF THE HUSBAND. Yesterday a sensation of horror was excited in conse quence of a report being widely disseminated that a man named Steinburge, a whip maker, of No. 17, Southamp ton-street, Pentonville, had murdered his wife and family, consisting of four children, and afterwards committed an act of self-destruction. It appears that Mr. Steinburge, the perpetrator of the deeds, was about forty years of age, and was by trade a whipmaker. Some years ago he received a patent for in venting a whip of peculiar construction. About 12 months ago he took the house No. 17, Southampton-street, Pen tonville, as tenant-at-will, of Mr. Cuthbert, of Liverpool street, Battle-bridge, and he entered with his wife and fa mily, and carried on his trade as usual. He was a Ger man, and a few months ago he received intelligence of the illness of a relative living in Gazendor, in Germany, to whom he instantly proceeded with his family, leaving his business under the direction of a young man who had worked with him for a considerable time. He took with him a girl named Harriet Pearson, who had been in his service previously. On Saturday afternoon last he re turned from the Continent with his family and the girl last alluded to, and again took up his residence in South ampton-street. He appeared cheerful, and exhibited his usual marks of affection towards his wife and children. On the following morning Harriet Pearson, the servant, over heard Mr. Steinburge talking rather loudly and angrily to the young man he had left to transact his business, and it appeared subsequently from the statements of Mrs. Stein burge, that during their absence the young man had been acting extravagantly, and that things had not been attended to with that vigilance that he expected, and he was dis charged on the same day. He was ordered to call on the Sunday evening for his clothes, &c., but this, it seems, he has neglected to do. On Monday night last, about eight o'clock, the family were sitting together in the kitchen, when the deceased Mr. Steinburge was very cheerful, con versed affectionately with his wife, with whom the servant never knew him to quarrel during the twelve months she lived w ith th em . Th e servan t, by his desire, fetched a pint of beer and a quartern of gin, and as soon as she handed the liquor to him he complained of being very tired, and said he would retire to bed. At a little after half-past eight o'clock Mrs. Steinburge ordered the girl to go home and see her mother, telling her to come back at six o'clock on the follow ing morning. Mr. Steinburge suggested that she should sleep in the house, but the girl, who is only 15 years of age, preferred going to sleep with her mother, and she was allowed to leave the house. Next morning at six o'clock, the servant arrived at her master's dwelling, and knocked at the door several times, but she received no answer, and she went home again, thinking the family did not wish to be disturbed. She returned again at 9 o'clock, and continued knocking at the door until between eleven and twelve o'clock, when a gen tleman, residiag at No. 16 in the same street, conceived it to be very strange that she could gain no answer ; and, having used every effort to make them hear, he concluded that Mr. Steinburge had left the house clandestinely, to avoid the payment of rent and taxes, both of which he was in arrear. The gentleman hastened to Mr. Cuthbert, who we have before observed is the landlord of the house, and acquainted him with the circumstance, on which they pro ceeded together to the building, and being still unable to make any one hear they broke open a door at the back of the premises, and on going into the kitchen they were struck w ith di smay an d h orr o r a t beholding Mr. Steinburge lying on his ba c k, with his head nearly severed from his body. The kitchen and the whole of the deceased were covered with bl oo d, an d a large and long butcher's knife was lying by hi s s id e . H e h a d no thi ng on his person but his shirt and drawers. They immediately called Joseph Rolls, 215 N, and took him into the kitchen to witness the dreadful sight, after which they proceeded up stairs to the bedroom in which the deceased man usually slept with his wife and infant, seven months old. Here an appalling spec tacle presented itself. Mrs. Steinburge, who was a fine looking woman, twenty-five years of age, was lying on the floor in her night dress, covered with blood, and her head was nearly cut from her body. She was lying on her face, as if she had struggled and fell out of bed after she had received the wound. Her innocent little infant was lying at her feet, with its head completely separated from its body. The bed and bedclothes were completely saturated with blood. The pillow was marked with blood as if the deceased man had grasped hold of it to reach over for the infant, which it is conjectured he placed on the floor to cut its head off. These awful sights were sufficiently horrible and distressing, but still the tra gedy was not yet closed. On proceeding to the second floor they found a small cot and a bed. In the latter Henry Steinburge b a fine boy, four years and a half old, was found with his throat cut from ear to ear, and quite dead. A lit tle further from the spot Ellen, his sister, two years of age, was found by the side of the cot with its head almost se vered from the body. This little creature, it appears, was murdered by her unnatural father in the same manner as the infant that slept with its mother. It further appears that Henry slept in the same bed with his brother John, who was five years and a half old. He, however, was not in that room ; and on Mr. Cuthbert and the other parties proceeding to an adjoining room, which had been used as a workshop, they were petrified at beholding him on the floor with his throat cut, his head being nearly severed from his body, which was otherwise most horribly mutilated, and, to all appearance, he must have struggled and made a resist ance against the attack of his murderous parent. It seems that when he was in bed with his brother Henry he saw his father killing his brother and sister, and he jumped out of bed (he bei ng f oun d i n hi s n i g h t c l ot h es ) , and rushed into the other room, thi n ki ng t o esca p e . One of the poor little fellow's fingers was cut off the left hand, and it was found about four feet from the body ; and the flesh was cut off the top of his right shoulder, as if a dreadful blow had been aimed at him with the knife as he was endeav our i ng to avo id hi s f at h er. Thi s p a rt of the affair was the climax of the heartrending catas trophe. The persons who w it nesse d t h e spectac l e were melted to tears, while thei r m i ng l e d i n di gnat i on was exc it e d against the assassin parent. The circumstance being so peculiarly awful it was momentarily spread like wildfire, and the excitement caused, especially in the immediate neigh bourhood, cannot be accu ra t e l y d escr ib e d. I n f orm ation of t h e transaction was forwarded to Mr. Miller, an intelligent i n spector of the N division, who instantly made every in quiry into it, and he went instantly to the house where the bodies were lying, and examined every person who it was thought could throw any li g h t upon t h e me l anc h o ly From the evidence which he (Mr. Miller) obtained it ap peared the deceased Mr. St e i n b urge was genera lly u pon the h a ppiest terms with his fa m il y , an d was ex t reme ly domesti cated in his habits, 611 4 seemed to possess a humane dispo sition. He had no friends and few acquaintances in Lon don. He has several brothers, who are large farmers in Germany. •On looking over the place nothing in any part seemed to be disturbed. No papers or letters were found belong ing to the deceased to give any explanation why he should have contemplated or committed such dreadful acts, and, judging from the general appearances of the places, the doors being fastened, &c., there is no doubt the deceased is the author of his own and family's deaths. A piece of car tridge paper, on which stood a pen and ink, were upon the kitchen table, and a chair was placed in a position as if the wretched deceased man had intended to write something, but he did not do so. The address of the young man who left Mr. Steinburge on Sunday is not known, and up to the time of our writinc , the foregoing particulars he had not been discovered, al though very active inquiries were being made after him by order of Mr. Miller, who is anxious that he should be pre sent at the coroner's inquest. No cause whatever could be traced for the accomplishment of the acts of murder and suicide committed by the deceased man, whose manner and demeanour it is said were unchanged up tq,the time that he ordered the servant to fetch the beer and gin on Monday night last. The interior of the house, from top to bottom, is one mass of human blood. Let the eye glance wherever it would, blood was to be seen, and the ghastly mutilated corpse of one or other of the family struck every beholder with a chilling thrill of horror. On viewing the bodies the most melancholy sympathy was felt, and in the streets many persons were observed to shed tears freely on hearing the particulars. _ Mrs. Steinburge, we are informed, was an English woman, and it is not at present known whether she has any relatives. Crowds continued to assemble round the house up to a late hour last night, and the officers were left to guard the place. The coroner, it is presumed, will summon a jury to in vestigate the matter this day. ANOTHER ACCOUNT. The following dreadful detail of the murder of a whole family, by the father, is, perhaps, unparalleled. The perpe trator of the horrible affair is a German, of the name of Steinburgb, who resided with his family, a wife and four children, the eldest but five years and a half old, at No. 17, Southampton-street, Pentonville. On Monday evening, a little girl, named Pearce, whose parents live in Edward street, Battle-bridge, was, at the request of Mrs. Stein burgh, paid the wages which were due to her for her service with them during their journey to and from Germany. Previous to the girl's leaving, the deceased gave her a raspberry tart, and did not appear to be labouring under a depression of spirits. On Mrs. Steinburgh's desiring the girl to come at six o'clock on the following morning, the latter states that she saw the husband, who was leaning against the dresser of the front kitchen, smile, though he made no remark. The girl had previously put the four children to bed, and was upon the point of leaving, when Steinburgh observed to his wife that he was both tired and sleepy, and made use of the following expression :—" Shall we _not go to bed, my dear." She replied that it was too early. He then pressed her to take a little brandy, which she declined, stating it made'her sleepy. The child then left the house. On yesterday morning she went to the house, as desired, at six o'clock, and knocked, but was unable to obtain admittance. She returned several times up to nine o'clock, but without effect ; she then returned home. The fact of the girl's having called several times at the house without obtaining an answer, became known to the neighbours ; suspicions were entertained, and the house was eventually entered by the police. The husband, we understand, was about 48, and the wife not more than 25 years old. The cause of this horrible act cannot be assigned by any person who appears to know any thing of the affairs of the deceased family. We learn that they lived to gether upon the most affectionate terms, and the little girl who attended them to Germany states that she never saw them quarrel. THE BUILDING TRADE. MEETING of MINOR MASTERS and OPERA- TIMES. Yesterday a Meeting of Small Masters and Operatives employed in the various branches of the building trade was held at the Mechanics' Institution, Southampton-buildings. T. DUNCOMBE, M. P., having been called to the Chair, explained shortly the object of the Meeting. There never was, he said, a time when the state of the masters and operatives demanded a more calm consideration than the present. On the happiness of the middle classes •f tradesmen and of the working men, the happiness of the country must depend. He had lately an interview with the master-builders and the operatives, and he lamented to say that it was ineffectual ; that they left the question as they found it, in consequence of the refusal of the masters to give up their declaration. He thought the masters wrong in requiring such a declaration. He must say that nothing could induce him to sign such a document. He trusted the result of this Meeting would be more successful. Mr. LOVETT came forward to move the first Resolution, which went to declare that the Meeting viewed with regret the employment of capital in a manner calculated to injure the working classes, and called upon Noblemen, Gentlemen, shopkeepers, &c., to support the artisans who refused to sign the anti-social declaration required by the master builders. He was, he said, once rich, but was now poor. He experienced the evil of the way in which capital was employed, for he had been deprived of the fruits of the sweat of his brow by the great hucksters in monopoly. He would sooner see the wife of his bosom and his child in the cradle want food than sign the declaration required by the master builders. They said is was not their object to re duce wages. He felt confident, however, they would do so the moment the operatives signed the declaration. He would state one fact. To all work done for the Board of Works a list of prices was attached. The wages of a plasterer from April to October was ss. 4d. a day ; those of a labourer 2s. 10d. A decent plasterer could not be had for less than ss. a day. Now he could mention an in dividual who took a large contract 17 per cent. under the wages on the list of the Board of Works. He must, therefore, lose one shilling a day by each plasterer. From whence, then, could his profit come ? He must soon be come insolvent, or else reduce the wages. Mr. GALLOWAY seconded the Resolution, which was unanimously agreed to. Mr. ROBERTS proposed the second Resolution, declaring it to be the opinion of the meeting that the carrying on of the various branches of the building trade by the same in dividual was an unjustifiable monopoly, and pledging the meeting to exert themselves to reduce the business to its legitimate sources. Mr. WINTER seconded the Resolution. There was a great mistake upon this subject which ought to be removed. There were employed in the building trade from 35,000 to 40,000 men. Many gentlemen lately dropped their works from an idea that the operatives turned out against the masters. This was a mistake. There was no turnout, as appeared from the fact that, out of the whole number just mentioned, there were only 3,000 out of employment. Gentlemen might have then work done as cheaply as it could be done by the great monopolists. Mr. HARRISON said the great monopolists were enabled to do business upon terms favourable to themselves by taking a great number of apprentices, and obtaining work at low wages, promising that the work should be constant. If one of these great monopolists undertook to do a work for less than would afford a profit, the difference was made up by the whole body at their club. The object of this was to keep out the knobsticks. Mr. WINTER denied that a good man could be had in the building line for less than ss. a day. The Resolution was agreed to. Mr. PIERS proposed the third Resolution, expressive of regret that Noblemen, gentlemen, shopkeepers, and other classes, had not their work done by separate masters in each branch of the building trade, 'in place of having all done by one great monopolist. One of these monopolists had been the ruin of all the little tradesmen in his neigh bourhood. It was highly to the credit of those who held out and refused to sign so cruel a declaration. He had, by accident, lost one hand already, and would sooner lose the other than sign it. The 40 great monopolists had destroyed hundreds of small masters, and their object was now to ruin the men. Mr. MunritY seconded the resolution. In place of em ploying the great monopolists, Government, in the public works, should employ different tradesmen, each in his own line. They were advised by a Morning Paper to give up their Unions, and then the masters would give up their de claration. The moment they gave up their Union,. they gave up their strength. It was by Unions men were taught that they had power to controul everything by combination. Mr. OWEN thought their proceedings would lead to no good. He would explain his views more fully at another t i me .—(Some persons cried out that they had quite enough of Mr. Owen's theories.) A person in the meeting mentioned that a monopolist obtained the contract for colouring the houses in the Re gent's Park, and that not being able to perform it, in con sequence of the declaration, the Woods and Forests gave the job to small masters, and work was thus obtained by all the turn-out painters. The Resolution was agreed to. It was then resolved that the Meeting should form them selves into a society for the protection of the operatives, and a Committee was appointed to forward the object of the Resolutions. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meet ing separated. The Rev. Peter Hall, M.A., late Curate of St. Edmund's, in this city, has been instituted to the Rectory of Milston cum Brigminston, Wilts, vacant by the death of the Rev. John James Toogood, 13:D.—Salisbury Herald. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. VESSELS ENTERED INWARDS AT THE CUSTO3I-MOUSE, Sxfl. Tho Times, Elliot from Newcastle; Tropic, Plates, Barbadoes ; Alk maar ,' Heath, Rotterdam ; Trunds, FenklU Jersey ; Jane Catharine, Davis, Jarnaiaca ; Philadeo ll4 Morgan, New York ; Hebe, Langley, Monte Video ; Livera.ll?_, n Meer, Corfu ; S uper b, Whit e , St. Petersburg ; Flying ou: Woolterton, Jersey ; Countess of Elgin, Page, 05004! George and Ma r y, H o l mes , M em el • Humber, Haylor, H a p: Maria, Orston, Quebec ; Stratten, Rea, Creek ; H erborn. Brewer, Alcia ; Joh n Pi r i e , J or d o n, St. Petersburg ; George . and Mary, Rogers, Li s b on; F re ndsbip, Hepplewhite , Nall !. Hardwick, Ferguss on , C rons tadt ; Amy, Young, St. John s Brunswick, Blake, Queb e c ; Sally, Doig, Riga; Jack, Barker: Africa ; St. Ann's, Brown, Grenada • Ellen, Davies , Z r it. : ' Allabury, Michaels, Virginia ; Mary, Mathews, Triniden' d • Content, Patterson, Java ; Forager, Corser, Jamaica Queen Stower, Guernsey. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING, SETT. 9. The Dart, Stranack, Antwerp; Elizabeth, Br°''k' Gibraltar ; Siseene, Kusser, Brussels • Ramona, Stranac : Rotterdam ; Brothers, Lyell, Elsineur and St. Petersburg ' Superb, Major, Antwerp ; Hannibal, Heburd, New York. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGOES, SEPT. 9. • a' The Lady Flora, Ford, for Madras; Emilie, 13011 toos",. 02 0 Dram; Harrison, Seager, Rostock; Tourist, Bridge, Ramona, Stranack, Rotterdam ; Express, Wells, Gibralta ule: Medusa, Bunemeyer, Antwerp • Ondervending, Emma, ',ratio', Ostend ; Salvatornm, Grazce, Stettin; Corfu ; Undaunted, Briller, Sydney. CLEARED OUTWARDS IN BALLAST, SErr• 9- s t . The Visera, Jelsma, for Worcum ; Spring, Petersburg. Reille, THE MARKETS. ARKTS RUM.—QuotationsL ONDON remain fir M m, and E the . deliveries for home consumption are increasing. • nf in- HOPS.—The market is not very brisk, the dealers rernaml 4 active till further intelligence from the plantations is recalL„ About 250 pockets of the new crop have come to marke t, but w were taken. The duty is now 156,000/. ...„ f o r RICE.—The prices have fallen from ls. to Is. 6d. per cw' Bengals. fist ; COTTON.—The business in private contraet here has been but at the Liverpool market considerable speculations had been e'" tered upon. T&LLow.—Prices are advancing, and purchases have bar dune at 445. per cwt. The delivery last week was 1,563 casks. HAVANNAH LEAF.-32 cases have arrived and hav,e bees ag d sampled, chiefly of the new crop, of good and fine silky quao t vp for which 4s. to 4s. 6d. is demanded. Very little businesshas,!'"de, ever, been done, the holders expecting soon to have a better j , , mand. Gbod light speckled may be had at from 2s. 6d. to 36;seat but the sale is dull, the segar makers having agoodsupply o 'r: A s ad TOBACCO.-During the last month the demand for stemma eu ba t leaf Virginia has been inconsiderable. The former, in the s d. t o stemmed qualities, have realized from 4%d. to 41(1., middling 5 ,a 514., good 51d. to 6d., and fine 6id. to 60. In leaf, co nunc;!,; to part soft, 4id. to 4!d , middling sd. to 5%d., good and fitla°"o is 6 1 / 2 d., and until the new crop makes its appearance the builae ted expected to be flat. Some arrivals from America are elP e i c c idi about the latter end of this month or the beginning of nax!! ut ive the produce of the new crop of leaf descriptions, some ar"—ati purchases have been made by one importer. There is still ae e mud scarcity of stalk, which are in good demand, at full Pried' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Barley 04ts. lieatis. • —........., --.----- .....- S. 6. to s s. to 6. 6' 1, , 18 23 !37 38 -- -- -- 20 ; 4 11 24 2 3 138 4C -- --..- 18 22 , 3.t 38 17 25' 2.4 3o; —. „ 19 27 ' 4ht 43 18 18 32 38 ..- ...- 29 l5 2,, 28 28 83 40 41 --- , -- Per Quarter, Boston Gainsborough — Grantham Grimsby ... Hurncastle Lincoln.. Spilsby Stamford York S. to 5. :IS 4(i 42 8. to S. 26 32 35 42 46 31 33 40 45 26 30 44 47 24 28 33 44 30 35 45 50 24 28 36 45 28 56 46 56 'A 30 IRISH MARKETS. DUBLIN MARKET NOTE for the WEEK DING SEPT• 5 Ave." 0 11 2U u 0 0 -10 ll From To 1,112 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone l5 6 23 6 324 Bore l6 stone ll 0I l2 6 10 Barley 1,513 Oats l4 stone 9 0 15 6 12,164 Flour, per cwt ... 8 stone 5 0 19 0 733 0atmea1.,...._........ R stone 8 0 15 0 Sold to Bakers only. 10,810 Cwt. Flour l3 0 19 0 I 15 Average price of Wheat and Flour 40, 01. per sack Firsts from 17b. i d. to OW A i Receipts of Flour, 14,r61 Sales of Do. 12,1641 Seconds Tnirds PRICE OF BREAD. Quartern Loaf 7.0. I Half Quarteru 40 .....-- ----'° • p ORK MA RKETS.—Set. . ~2 so loo.r Wheat (per 205t.)...145. 0 to 20s. 00.1 Oats (per 145t.) 6 If _ Barley (per 16st.) ... 8 2 10 6 Flour (per cwt.) Oatmeal (per cwt.) los. Od. to I Is. Od. Beet; sd. to tid. ; Mutton, 50. to 6J. ; Veal, 6d. t^ Sd Polk, 2d. to 2i d. ; Fresh Butter, ltd. tq 12d. per lb. • PRICE OF BUTTER. To the Merchants First Quality Second 66 Third Fourth 51 Fifth Sixth To the 6 o,ountig 49 41 . It KETS —Sept. 5. Cwt. CLONME LL MA Per 0. (I. s. d. s. d. s. d. • 6 T. New Butter .........(30 0 to 70 0 Hides (raw) 1 ., 0 to :„ 9 Oatmeal 14 0 14 6 Bacon Pi gs "ti 0 -•"" 0 Rendered Lard 3.1 0 31 b Heads 16 0 0 Perg. ..... Flour, Second 0 29 0 I Ba Flour,Thirds 2 - , 0 16 0 . - , • ••.,u, - , Household...— 0 26 01 Fourths 14 0 Per Barrel. 0 -20 0 Barley 0 3 I 4 , 0 Coals ...... .......... — U Per Stone. 0 0 Wheat.. Oats Uii 08 1 Potatoes U 3 1 Per Pound 0 6 1 1 I 21 M u tt on 0 41 0 5 0 4 0 51 Veal it 4.......„/ Rapeseed 20 0 Bere 0 Fresh Butter, Beet' KILKENNY Wheat (per barrel) i 9s od. to 2os. Od. MARKE CS. Beet (per lb. 00N . 1 2 d . t o 000 0 ' 05.0 5 j : Mutton Pork V ea l 0 5 1 0 Fresh Butter 0 I' , 06, Salt Ditto Potatoes (per at.) 0 3 Barley l2 12 6 Oats II) 0 12 0 Flour per bag) lB 0 29 0 Buttcr(per cwt.) 72 0 23 0 Bacon Pigs 22 0 25 0 Coals 1 0 1 1 ITCH MARKETS. HADDINGrON CORN MARKET.—Sept. 5. ~14 geol. Wheat. Barley. I Vats. 1 Pease. ! ', , oti First s6s Od 29s 6d 1 28., Da 35 , ..d ; ''" Oci Second 43, Od 2lis Od =0; Od -- sOd ' 'Od Third , 38i Od SI, Od 18, Od I—sOd I "' o w, nate wet's' 471 qrs. of %;. heat in markt t,3 :8 whereof were 0 103 Losold.— . .o Grey. ....21. 7s. Ild. Average 21. 7s.'lld. 6.120 s. DA LKEITII CORN MARKET.—Sept 4. ALKEITII CuRN MARKET.—Sept 4. Wli,at. Barley. Oats. !'case. First 6 Od 293 0A 23s 44 :17s 01 ' 0. Second 54 445 Od 25* 03 20$ 04 3 , 15 Od : 4; 0: 1 Third . 32s OA 21) OJ 163 81 :Zs Oa 11 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE CO° BASINGHALL-STREET, TO-MORROW • P. 140/3 (From the Londoa Gazette.) . I R. K. Vorley and Co., drysalters, Broad-street ..»..........».••••• The large war steam-vessel the Salamander, 111 1, °1 a ;s off Woolwich, is now thoroughly equipped for sea, a n , u , g isg very warlike appearance. On Saturday some men bel-jire' to the artillery were exercised at the guns. The vas e sents the appearance of a formidable floating battery. we re PATAGONIAN STOCKINGS.--Yesterday, W e of favoured with the sight of an enormous pair of hose , a P t tir° an order given to a manufacturer here, for one whose s ' - f be cannot be much less than that of the sons of Analt; Aes% length is 4 feet 6 inches; length of the foot, 1 foot 7 : 11- bcf; width at the calf, 2 feet ; and at the ancle, 1 foot 5 i 111- weight, lilb.—iVottingham Review. v sre BETSEY GREEN.—The fathers of New e l 5 improving upon the names of their offspring. Sear'ilts, week passes but an unfortunate child born without pe e " 0 3 1 baptised at the Alms-house, by some queer cognomen . ti last we have heard was that of a little female democrat' It° up in a green bag, and left at the door of a gentlemarb W ad e baby was therefore very appropriately christened by th e " Betsey Green."—New Yorh Advertiser. ti if tit e fil m CASPER HAUSER REDIVIVUS.--In o —r isc . ' person has been committed to gaol, for want of a bett er i t aP' with whose name and country no one is acquaintecL p la n pears that he was brought to the emigrant sheds at th at at the dead of night, by a carter, with no covering save 3 ile ket. He is a young man about 26, perfectly idiotic'," neither speaks nor observes passing events, but stand for haunches the whole day, swinging himself backwards %o f wards, and playing with his fingers. He appears to ha s iviq fered from punishment, for the moment any thing lik, e h - e onv is presented to him, he becomes much alarmed. sound he utters is like the suppressed bellowing .T. l , - y 11 `; His hands are soft, but the soles of his feet hard, as if th e y never been covered with shoes. In running he eXhibitS er, agility, particularly in running fences.—New 00 MARRIAGES. On the 9th inst., at All Souls' Church, St. Maryleriosc i t , Rev. John A. Wallace, M.A., Minister of the pa rish .1 4 0 , - Roxburghshire, to Isabella, youngest daughter of Jite l t ,gf Esq., Berner's-street, London. f Wgti Is rA On the 9th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddingte li 'dtb e ,ov Nathaniel Middleton, Esq., to Mary Ann, only chug, - o f ft ° Rev. Charles Barton, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, anu ham, Hants. gi p. D On the 4th inst., at Ramsgate, Kent, Mrs. Selina Welb.Ytte' to 't. On the Bth inst., Richard Bennett, Esq., of Char James's-square. On the 6th inst., at Canterbu, Major-General Ge °l l" ffe al tail say, Colonel-Commandant of the 4 ry th Battalion of the Roy o b lery, in his 724 year. , 0 f 05. A On the 6th inst., at Haverstock-hill, Hampsteaur Esq., aged 55. white jo ., On the 13th July, James Clayton White, Eeq,.°_,' , (4.100 fl v bul l " Burlington Estates, in the parish of Portland, SO' On the Bth inst., in the Poultry, Ann, relict of Dir. aged 68. On the 611, Bowley, in his 75th year. t 0 IL London : Printed and Published by INIUR D d. at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stran l` NO/, Irr i 1( and -tre s to the g t ' ts well Tg tit' u ch th. ,%\, 4 e , °*l itst iN , T h ; 3, 11 1)T "Tw in t itti oi t Jc 'A Z 4 o r / t t ,S' t(lit.l4 to P I r ,„_ , BIRTHS. C• W hite foot •On the 17th inst., a t Plymouth, the lady of C. p oi Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Tichborne, Hants, the Right H 00• Arundell, of a son. On the sth inst., at the house of her mother, in Delcgl . _ A s• place, the lady of Dashwood, of a daughter. tat , SIP" On the 25th of July, at St. Kitt's, the lady of Ca? field, Royal Engineers, of a son. On the sth inst., at Presteign, the lady of the R el. Brown, of a daughter. —ed ''the, ir , ,f IN - Rell :LI "A -arc. t?, A pnh SOchild e en /. , itt4' orditut; .Sot rd f ▪ u'dr ▪ bl e onl tol utni 41glia ' rile