The Sun. — London, England, 1830-04-14 00:00:00

tvhat is stated by the speakers is sheer nonsense. Whenever it is proposed to introduce an improve ment or alteration, the parties affected are sure to bandy about the Treaty of Union. The !treaty of Union I As if the people of Scotland in the present day cared for the Treaty of Union I It was natural enough that the Scotch, who had been struggling for their independence for four or five hundred years, against a people twenty times richer than themselves, and six times more populous, should feel a little uneasiness on entering into a closer con nection with them. But now that the two nations have been closely united for 121 i years, and are to all intents and purposes one people, so much so, that the connection between a town in England and another town in Scotland is as intimate as that be tween any two towns in either division of the island, it is time to forget as much as possible the former separation. The question ought to be, is a mea sure conducive to the welfare of the people ? and not is it 'contrary to any provisions in the Treaty of Union ? The people of England and of Scot land being one, it is impossible to conceive that the English part of the Legislature can have any wish to injure Scotland, or that the Scotch part of the Legii.latnre can have a wish to injure England. It is as reasonable to suppose that the English have a design against Wales, or the Counties Palatine of Chester and Durham, in the Duchy of Lancaster, as that they have a design against Scotland. If a measure is beneficial to the people of Scotland, why are we to be everlastingly told by monopolists of one 'lass or another that it is contrary to the Union? The absurdity of supposing that one age can deter mine the institutions of a country for ail time to come, is, we should think, too glaring for the pre sent day. Had a Treaty of Union been entered into in the age of Edward of England and Robert Bruce, how many of the Scotch institutions would have remained in the present day ? When the al. turation is acceptable to the people of Scotland ge nerally, although it may run counter to some stipula tion in the Union, there can be no reason why it should not be made. The great use of such a Treaty is to guard the minor nation from having measures forced on them contrary to their wish. If, for instance, the Parliament of Britain should be de sirous of extending the Church of England to Scot land, and the people of Scotland should be hostile to sea an extension, the Treaty of Union might be ap pealed to. But if the people of Scotland were to be come emus - loured of the Church of their neighbours, and be desirous of the establishment of Episcopacy (we put an extreme case) the Treaty of Union ought riot to stand between them and their desires. It would be hard indeed if a people should, by any coatract entered into for their own protection, be for ever precluded from the changes of which they should themselves be desirous. So much for the Treaty of Union, which, as it is seldom if ever re ferred to but by those who have sinister objects, or objects which cannot be defended on the principles of general utility, carries with it no charm for Whenever we hear the words greaty of Union, we are sure that some job is to be defended. But though the practitioners before the Court of Admi. salty may not be justifiable in laying any stress on the Treaty of Union, we fear the Lord Advocate is rot more justifiable in his Reforms, the vulnerable parts of which are pointed out by one of the Speakers : " Is the Court of Session," says Mr. Campbell, " the espence of making up a record was from 55/. to '7Ol. ; in . the Court of Admirany the same record could be prepared with equal ability for from 151. to 20/. ! In the Court of Session an account of 100/. contained fees to Counsel, 361. Is. ; and fees of Court, and other disbursements, 34/. 14s. Sd. ; being together 69/. 15s. 3d. of outlay, and 801. 15s. 6d. of protits.—(Vide Appendix to Report of W. S. this Court, in an account of 1001., the outlay did not exceed 10/. or 151. Thus a• much business could be got done in the Admiralty for 100/. as in the Court of i+ . ession for 300/. This - would perhaps explain why he (Mr. Campbell), who practised both before the Court of Session and Court of Admiralty, deoidrdly preferred the practice of the latter Court. In support of the aboli tion of this High Court, the Learned Lord argued—ln the first place, that it was necessary to add to the business of she bar of Scotland—that most influential body, whom, if Ministers were anxious to maintain their popularity, they ougbt by every means to coneiliate."f his, no doubt, was one reason. But it appesrad not very consistent with the profession of the G overnment to render justice cheap, w increase the expense of a maritime process from 20/. to 70/. on each side, merely to be popular' with the bar of the Court of Session." This is what is meant by law reform in the pre sent day i The bar of Scotland, that most influen tial body, forsooth, 'mist be conciliated ! Con ciliated at the expellee of suitors, who must not be allowed to enter a Court till they have forced their way by a golden passport through this influ ential body I AU the law reforms are the work of Bairisters; and, as far as we hate ever been able to the great of jest of them is to enrich the profes sion. The public is nothing in the eves of the Lord Advocate, the influential profession every thing. Cold for ever, if you wish to remose profes sional prejudices. They seldom hold out long against a prospect of increased fees I We are glad to see the Scotch Press bestirring itself against the attempt of the Lord Advocate to pander to the pre judices of the English Aristocracy, by an alteration of a part of the Scotch judicial system, against which there never was a complaint in the country. The Coledonian Mercuu of Saturday last, after noticing the disgraceful proceedings in the House of Commons in the Ellenborough Divorce Case, which occupied the House for several days, to the exclusion of the business of the station, observes forcibly : " Yet it is at the moment when a learned Civilian pro nounces stteh an opinion as to the state of the English Law of Divorce, that we are threatened with a change of that part of our exclusive national jurisprudence relating to this very point, and of which we have, when compared with our Southern neighbours, such just reason to be proud That law has hitherto saved us is a great degree front the infliction of aim. con. trials, and the disgraceful and disgusting disclosures which they involve. We pro t,sst in //mini, and shall continue to protest, most strenu ously, against a change so portentous as the removal of such eases from the Court of their special jurisdiction to the Court of Scion to form the subject of jury trials." It is true there is no stipulation in the Treaty of Unix' against throwing difficulties in the way of divorce; but if the people have lived for centuries satisfied w;th the law, and if the crime of adultery is hardly known among them, whereas the English are exceedingly lax in their morals, notwithstanding the abundance of cant in the country, why are the Scotch to be assimilated to the English ? It is quite time enough to alter the lawe of a country when the people themselves call for the alteration. We dis trust all grievances which lawyers alone have the discernment to find out. It is like the wolf finding fault with the sheepfold. We cannot quit this sub ject without remarking how quickly the monopolists of one country lay hold of an abuse in another which keeps them in countenance. Our readers may remember a case decided in the Common Pleas, which ought to have been brought before the Bos ton Court of Conscience, arid in which Judge Best held that as the debtor lived at Boston, and the creditor in London, it was quite proper to allow the creditor to sue in the Common Pleas for 31. 6s. In the Scotch Court of Admiralty, a party residing in the Orkney or Shetland islands may be compelled, in like manner, to come to Edinburgh. This the practitioners justify, because it favours creditors for sooth. It would not be a bad speculation for a London or Edinburgh attorney, possessed of some capital with little business, to have an understand• ing with a traveller, f or t h e sa k e o f comm encing suits against the debtors in the respective capitals. But - tee will allow the Edinburgh monopolists to speak for themselves : Ai The ,Learned Lord in his speech h a d state d hi s rea sons for toe abolition of this Court, which would be after wards noticed ; but the Learned Lord did not seem to be aware that the principle of his plan was reprobated by the superior Courts in England. His Lordship says tidy High Court ' was not a superior Court, nor had it the advan tage of a local Court in cheapness or convenience ; be yeause all men, even in the remotest parts of Scotland, joust some to Edinburgh, if concerned in proceedings in that Court respecting a matter from thirty shillings to five pounds.' This his Lordship might consider very conclu sive, but it was entirely erroneous in principle. In proof of which he referred to the case of Abbey v. Lill, Bing. (Common Pleas), 299, where, in an action for three pounds six shillings, a verdict was obtained in the Com mon Pleas, and a rule Nisi to set it aside and to deprive the plaintiff of his costs, on a suggestion founded on the Boston Court of Conscience Act, 47th George 111., c. 1, sec. 18, which gave jurisdiction to the extent of five pounds ; and Best, C. .1. (now Lord Wynford) said, 'lt the Boston Act had been confined to cases where the plaintiff and defendant both lived at Boston, I should have been disposed to give it the fullest effect ; but I am un willing to make Boston a place of refuge for debtors, when the debt had been incurred in London.' In the Law Chronicle, vol. i. p. 189, it was said, The dictum of the Chief Justice shows the error of the I.ord Advocate's Act, which deprived the Admiralty of its ancient jurisdic tion iu actions for recovery of sums under 251. In prac tice, much inconvenience has been experienced, chiefly in the case of debts tinder 251. incurred in London, Edin bureh, and Glasgow, which can only be recovered in the local jurisdiction. The consequence generally is, the debt is lost ; and the local jurisdictions are thus made so many ' places of refuge for debtors.' The Legislature was bound to consider the interest and benefit of the creditor as well as the debtor ; but the Learned Lord's bowels of compassion appeared to be all in favour of the debtor." It appears to us that the abolition of the Admi ralty Court is a good, but that the transference of the causes to a more extensive Court is an evil ; and when we consider that the causes taken from the Consistory Court, as well as the causes taken from the Admiralty Court, will be decided at a greatly increased expence to suitors, in nineteen twentieths of the cases, we have doubts whether, on the whole, the Scotch Law Reforms ought not to be characterized as a job, favouring one set of professional men at the expence of another, and also at the expcnce of the public.-3/orning, Chronicle. The Scotch, if we may judge from the Papers, seem to think very contemptuously of the projected Law Reforms:— " Retrenchment (says the Aberdee. , Chronicle) is so little familiar to the ideas of this Learned Gentleman (the Lord Advocate), and to that school in which he was bred, and of which he has always been a promising disciple, that the work sits awkwardly on him. To do him justice, it is not of his seeking—it has been put upon him. First be tells us that the Scotch were found not to be so averse to Jury trial as was ac first imagined—for it was supposed that they were wedded to old forms; and that Jury trial went on till it became acceptable to all classes of Scots men. The Lord Advocate here talks of the administra tion of justice as if it were a mere matter of taste with the Scots, as if their reason had nothing to do with the mat ter, and as if they were to be cajoled into Jury trial by de grees. The Scots try the whole matter by an entirely different standard. They are not wedded to any forms-- they are wedded to the cheapest and the most expeditious mode of doing justice ; whatever system conducts to this end will be acceptable to them. So far from being re conciled to Jury trial by any experience of its benefits, as the Learned Lord states, it has, on the contrary, been found, as it has been administered, the most expensive, uncertain, and unsatisfactory mode of administering justice ever introduced into Scotland ; and the dread of the Jury Court has driven numerous litigants to submit their cises to arbitration, rather than encounter its perils. This is tno well known to be disputed in Edinburgh, the head quarters of litigation, where these matters are well under stood." Lord Tenterden is reported to have said some time ago, that cheap and expeditious justice was a bad thing, as it encouraged litigation. The Jury trial is to he forced on the Scotch, who hold it in great aversion, in order to prevent litigation. The meaning of all this is obvious enough. Let us make justice as dear as possible, that we may exclude the mass of the people from our Courts, and drive them to help themselves the best way they can. Parties who are at issue for large sums, will riot be deterred by expence; and by excluding the people from the Courts, they will be occupied only with causes which can pay the profession liberally. It would be had tact in a lawyer in full practice, to favour the introduction of causes respecting small sums, when his whole time can be occupied with causes for large sums. Twenty or thirty pounds may, to a man in an bumble walk of life, be of more importance than fifty thousand pounds to another, but the happiness of the man in humble life is considered as nothing. The great, the only matter deserving of a moment's consideration with the Bar, is how shall the men who are at the top of the profession make princely fortunes in a few years.—All the Law Reforms of this country have for object what the Lord Advocate calls very naively conciliating the profession. The pro fession in Scotland have discovered what is well known to the profession in England—that Jury Trials are easy and profitable work. The opinion of the public must, therefore, go for nothing, and the opinion of the profession for every thing.—ls there any one thing which a Jury can do which a siugle Judge sitting in an open Court cannot do hater ? If the object be to ascertain by evidence the truth in those points respecting which the par ties are at issue, the Judge can weigh that evidence more correctly than any one of the twelve Jurors can be supposed to do. lint even if every one of the twelve men were able, who does not see that so numerous a body is a nuisance as a tribunal ? When the Scorch had in the Court of Session fifteen Judges, it was almost impossible to anticipate in any case what the decision: would be. The Court was a sort of Debating Club, the Judges regularly answering each other. There is the same uncer tainty with a Jury; and we have again and again heard Barristers say, that in nineteen cases out of twenty, it is impossible to anticipate the verdict.— However, the people of England are used to this sort of judicial gambling; but it is rather going too far to force the system on a people by whom it is detested. We are convinced that all the Law Re forms will turn out, as far as:the public is concerned, a mere illusion, or, as in the case of the Scotch, something worse—an attempt to exclude a greater number from access to Courts of Law.—Morn.Chron. The Parliamentary Return of Committals and Convictions, &c. for England and Wales, from 1823 to 1829 inclusive, which has just been distributed, exhibits a fearful progression in crimes against pro perty, while, on the other hand, crimes of violence have not increased. We are every day becoming more and more a pilfering and a swindling people ; but it is a great satisfaction to know that the more atrocious crimes, which fill society with alarm, do not more than keep pace with the increase of the population. Thus, for instance, the convictions for crimes of violence stand thus :- 1323. 1824. 1825. 1526. 1837. 1958. 189. Arson 6 6 7 3 3 3 8 Manslaughter. 53 50 02 es 83 72 58 Murder li 17 12 13 12 20 13 ---- shooting at, stab bing, wounding, and ad ministering poison, with intent to murder, exc 14 21 17 IA 35 20 65 But' the commitments for the above years have ' arisen from 12,263 to 18,675 by a sort of regular progression ; thus, 12,263, 13,698, 14,437, 16,164, 17,921, 16,564, 18,675. The propor tion of the acquittals to the convictions for different crimes furnishes matter for reflection. Thus the convictions for larceny (not other wise described) in 1829, is 9,444, the acquittals, 2,036 ; while for murder, the convictions for that year arc 13, and the acquittals 27—that is, the convictions in larceny are to the acquittals as 4 6-10ths to 1, while the acquittals are to the convic tions in number as two to one. In manslaughter, too, the acquittals exceed the convictions. In several of the Welsh Counties the commitments remain nearly stationary; but Westmorland is the only English County in which the commitments are fewer in 1829 than in 1823, being for the former year 23, and for the latter 11. The agricultural districts in England exhibit the greatest increase. On the other hand, crime increases in tl,e great towns in Scotland, and seems stationary in the merely agricultural districts. Thus, for instance, the following account is given in the Scotch Papers, of the AssiEes for the three counties of Roxburgh, I3erwick, and Selkirk, held at Jedburgh : " Lord Pitmilly opened tlse Circuit at Jedburgh, on Thursday, Ist inst. There were only three eases ;—One panel, for theft, was sentenced to seven ears' transporta tion afu o u n i o id tl t le ,, r b , e fo i r ns a a s n s e iult, to ten months' imprisonment; a man, name d Fraser, accused of wilful fire-raising, and ordered to be confined to the Castle of Jedb v rs h , subject to the future orders of the Justiciary Court. Sir Walter Sdatt (gays the Kelso hail), whom the Edinburgh Papers, We observe, have dispatched to London, was present as Sheriff of Selkirk,. shire.' "--Aforning Chronicle. Among the pamphlets which have just issued from the press, there is one, entitled " A new Salve for the State; or an Examination into the Causes of the present Distress of the Country, and what is the Remedy P" which is one of the strangest com pounds of occasionally sound principles and absurd dogmas that it has ever been our lot to peruse, and which we merely notice because among the ignorant, who know as little as the writer the distinction be tween cause and erect, the doctrines which it en deavours to promulgate may produce much mis chief. The pamphlet commences with some high sounding speculations on the growth and decay of empires, respecting which we find no new observa• tions, and then proceeds to discuss the various causes which have been assigned, and the various remedies which have been proposed, for the exist ing distress of the country. A want and deficiency of currency, in consequence of calling in the small notes, is not, he says, the true cause, for " men," says he, " soon know what they hive to depend upon, and the value of the currency is then regulated according to its intrinsic worth ; yet he seems to allow, even in the same breath, that it is " a main point that the cur rency should be kept up and never varied !" In this country, however, it has been varied to such an extent, as nearly to double all money obligations, of whatever nature; and if, therefore, it be a main point that the currency " should never vary," we are somewhat apt to think that it will follow as a not very unreasonable conclusion, that the alteration of the currency is also a main, if not the principal, cause of the present distress. With regard again to taxation, the notions of the author are equally sin gular. He does not indeed deny that the great amount of taxes now raised, add considerably to the distress of the country; but he is, neverthe less, disposed to think, that " if we could pay off the National Debt to-morrow, (ef which, by the bye, there is no great danger,) the momentary alle viation !" (only think of that) " received from it, would in ten years' time have totally disappeared !" Such opinions are rather too hard of digestion, con sidering that we have a debt of nearly eight hun dred millions, and that the paying of it off to morrow would relieve us of all state taxes for upwards of thirteen years to come ; but these are nothing compared with his contradictory notions respecting trade. In one part of his pamphlet he observes, that " a great cry is always raised about trade ! give encouragement to trade ! Trade requires no other encouragement than liberty and freedom; it is our forced encouragement to trade, arising out of our aim at monopoly, which has done much harm in causing the present distresses." Now we perfectly agree in these obseevations. The doctrine is, generally speaking, sound and wholesome, and we have no doubt that much of the existing distress may be traced to the application of another theory to the industry of the country, than that which re gulated it for many years ; but what are we to think of the consistency of the writer who in a page or two after delivering himself of this pithy apo thegm proposes, as the first grand remedy, " the prohibiting of farmers from keeping more than one horse to-convey their produce to market, and from using ploughs, harrows, and every species of ma chinery and instrument, except the hands of man, for digging and cultivating the earth ;" and finally concludes by declaring that, " if the Government is wise, and wishes to promote the happiness of the people, and to see the country, pheenix•like, rise from its ashes, it has only two things to do, to give work, and prohibit gin entirely!" Verily a Daniel bath arisen in the land, and his words are the words of wisdom I—Morning Advertiser. MU RDER. Yesterday afternoon an inquest was held at the Three Castles public-house, St. Andrew's-hill, Blackfriars, on the body of Sarah Goulding. Sarah Brown deposed, I live at No. 2, Ireland yard, St. Andrew's-hill. 1 knew the deceased, who lodged in my house with her husband and two children. I have frequently known the deceased's husband to quarrel with her, and put her out of the house at all hours of the night. I have heard him say many a time that he would be hanged at New gate for her, but I never saw him strike her. She was delivered of a four months' child last Monday week, and she died last Saturday !.t five minutes before twelve o'clock. The last time I heard them quarrel was about five weeks ago. Sarah Goldsmith deposed, I have frequently heard them quarrel. The last time I heard them was the day before her delivery, when the deceased rushed from her room and ran down stairs—she was pursued by her husband. I saw the deceased the same evening, when she complained of being very ill. Wm. Pye, shoemaker, of Ireland•yard, said, I saw the husband of the deceased pursue her through Ireland-yard. She had MO shoes on ; she ran into my shop quite agitated and out of breath ; she placed her hand on her side, and said, " Oh ! dear." She seemed to be in pain. I have known the de ceased five years. Her husband used frequently to beat her. John Pereira, surgeon to the General Dispensary, Aldersgate-street, said:—l attended the deceased on the 2d of April for miscarriage and pleurisy. I had, previously to my entering the room, heard that the deceased had been beaten and kicked on the side by the husband. On entering the room, I asked the deceased's husband if he was not ashamed of himself for having ill-treated her. He denied it. The deceased said, " Goulding, you know you have been the cause of my illness, and if I should die, you will have to answer for it ; you know you knocked me down like a bullock." From the manner of the husband, who affected to be indignant, I thought he might use her after I had left, and told him that she was in a dangerous condition, and his life depended upon her's, for if she died he would be hanged. Ile re plied, " I can't help it if I ant hanged ; I did not ill, treat her." The deceased complained of great pain in the side. I have examined the body, and found no external marks of violence. On a post mortent examination I found inflammation of the left side of the pima or membrane covering the lungs. She had also fever, and slight inflammation over the upper orifice of the stomach. In my opinion the deceased's death was caused by inflammation, com bined with fever and miscarriage. All the symptoms might be caused spontaneously or by violence ; the latter was most probable in this instance. Jeremiah Pereira confirmed this testimony. Verdict, Wilful murder against David Goulding. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A scene of a very unusual kind took place before the LORD MAYOR, on the occasion of the applica tion of a young man, who had been an officer in the Brazilian service, for assistance to obt►►in the re storation of his wife from her father, who kept her from him. The officer, a young man, had had the honour of meeting the young lady, the daughter of a gentle. man well known in the city of London, at a party, where he happened to attract her notice. As was natural and reasonable where two fancies concurred, he followed up the matter, and found that the im pression was not fugitive, but strong, and likely to be permanent ; but there were objections to him in a quarter in which approbation was often considered necessary. The father of the lady somehow or other rejected the alliance. The officer endea voured to reconcile the loss to himself; but as he was driving in his gig through the Strand one day, whom should he behold on the pavement but herself. " What," said she, "is it you ?" " In deed it is, my sweet girl," said he, " and I have been miserable about you up to this minute." "You have," cried she; " why then I'm determined that you shall be no longer miserable." Mr. Hobler—And so I suppose she took all the misery upon herself, and relieved you ?—(A laugh.) —The officer said, that he used no arguments to convince her of the judicious preference she seemed disposed to give of him to her father, when into the gig she jumped, and away they drove together, and semi availed themselves of the kind officeaof a priest. Mr. nobler asked why the applicant did not take care of her while he had her ?---The officer did all that man could do, but her father had now got hold of her, and would not allow the slightest intercourse between them. The LORD MAYOR—And what do you want me to do, Sir, in this matter, between you and your wife and her father ? The applicant wanted his wire's society. He was now the person who had the best right to her, and no man was justified in keeping her from Ilan. The LORD MAYOR—But it is evident that she prefers the protection of her father. Now you will not tell me she would do so if you treated her properly ? Oh, no, she would not have gone home to her father after having taken share of your gig if you had acted well to her. That's not the way of the women. The officer declared that his wife and he Lad never disagreed. He did not know why she should choose to stay under her father's roof, as he had always acted with tenderness. Mr. Hobler—You may depend upon it, young gentleman, you are mistaken. She must have good reason for the preference. You gLite mistake the sex. They are not given to the brick of running away from their husbands. The LORD MAYOR—It is not a business in which I can at all interfere. You must gather your friends together, and get them to assist you ; I can't. The officer was evidently chagrined at this re fusal, and quitted the Justice-room. Subsequently he entered the room, and addressing the LORD MAYOR, said he had now a complaint to make, which came immediately under his Lordship's cognizance as a Magistrate. " Against whom is the complaint ?" said his Lordship. The officer replied that it was against his wife's father, who now actually denied that they were man and wife, although the denial was a di rect imputation upon her honour, and he (the officer) was in possession of the necessary docu ments to prove that the marriage had taken place. He had gone to her father's house, and there, in stead of being treated as a relative, he was struck and abused like a dog by his father-in-law. The LORD MAYOR--:Why did you not send some friend to the house ? Officer—My father-in-law will see no friend of mine. Mr. Holler—Why don't you write to your wife ? Officer—My letters are all returned unanswered. The LOR - D MAYOR—I cannot believe that such treatment would be given to you, If you had not drawn it upon yourself. Mr. Hobler—lt is hard to imagine that a young girl should run away from a young man, whose so ciety she so decidedly preferred to that of her parents as to run away with him, without cause. The officer said no doubt that was true as a gene ral principle, but in his case there was an exception if she stayed away voluntarily, but he could not say that she acquiesced in the separation. He only knew that he was prevented from seeing her by the very person who ought to hold the connexion most sacred. The LORD Mavoit—Well, the Grand Jury are now sitting, and you can go and prefer a bill of in dictment if you please. The officer said he should certainly prefer the bill, and retired. GUILDHALL. A young man, a mechanic, named James Poulton, was brought before Mr. Alderman ATKINS yester day, charged with deserting his wife and two did. dren, whereby they became burdensome to the parish of Gip')legate. Mr. Simmons, on the part of the overseers, stated that this was an aggravated case, as it was the third time the prisoner had deserted his family. He had been absent this time about six months, during which the wife had received an allowance of 3s. per week. Alderman ATKINS strictly questioned the wife, (a very neatly dressed sedate young woman), whether she had not seen or heard of her husband during the six mouths, and she protested she had not. She had worked almost night and day to support and decently clothe herself and her children. The Alderman said the decent and comfortable appearance she and her children made before him was highly creditable to her. The sum he was called upon to re-pay to the parish was 31. 4s„ and in answer to the charge the prisoner said he was now ready to return to his wife, if she would change her conduct towards him, and endeavour to make him happy, and he would pay the overseers by weekly instalments of ss. Mr. Simmons apprehended his word could not be taken, and that as soon as he was liberated he would disappear again. He had behaved exceedingly ill, leaving his wife while one of her children was lying dead, and carrying away the sheets from the bed, He was a proper object to be made an example of. The prisoner exclaimed that if be was committed he would not contribute a farthing to the main tenance of his family as long as he lived. Mr. Alderman ATKINTS - assured him he would find the law as strong as he was, and expressed his disgust at his want of feeling. The allegations against him were of a nature so disgraceful, that he should hare blushed and hung down his head, if he could not deny them. He (Alderman Atkins) was a father, and his heart might as well have been torn from him as to tear him from his children. The wife here burst into tears. Mr. Simmons pressed for punishment, observing the prisoner had been married only seven years, and in that time had been absent seventeen months. The Alderman committed him to Bridewell for three months. QUEEN.SQUARE. Yesterday Thomas Halliard', of Fore-street, Lambeth, who has been for the last fifteen years accustomed to sell eels about the environs of the metropolis by the announcement of a bell, was brought before Mr. WHITE, by West, one of the police inspectors, who charged him with ringing his bell in the parish of St. Luke, Chelsea, in violation of the Local Act of Parliament passed for preserving the quietude of that district. This was one of the first cases of the kind brought before the Bench. The defendant did not deny the charge, but could not be satisfied of the authority of the constables to interrupt him, until he heard the opinion of the Magistrates. The Act is imperative, and the defendant was fined in the penalty of 40s. for ringing his bell. The defendant sent to his wife and friends, and after some time the money was made up, as it is termed, and paid into the office. FIRE-PROOF DRESSES. The Chevalier Aldini, the ingenious inventor of the fire-proof dress, has been somewhat dis appointed, we understand, in his expectations of encouragement in this country. He speaks with gratification of the reception he has met with from scientific and practical persons inter ested in his invention, and of the politeness and attention shown to him in all quarters : but it would seem that the danger to which life is subjected by fire, is not considered sufficiently great to require the use of a fire-proof dress. As a matter of pecuniary speculation, perhaps this may be the case ; but so many afflicting cases of loss of life by fire have occurred within the last few years in the metropolis, that we cannot but think the dress ought to be adopted, to enable firemen to penetrate into places in which fire rages, and in which persons are even su pposed to be exposed to the flames. A small band of men exercised to the use of this armour, attached to the police, and so stationed as always to be within call on an emergency, would be an arrangement not unworthy of the care of the magistrature.—Athenceum Weekly Review. ISLINGTON. Yesterday the inhabitants of this extensive parish met most numerously at the church. As soon as the period approached for the election of officers for the year, Mr. EVANS (one of the auditors) rose to oppose the re-appointment of trustees until certain accounts should be published as audited. By Act of Par liament the trustees were bound to print an abstract annually of the accounts of the parish after they were audited. Those accounts were laid before the auditors, but upon the present occasion the auditors objected to certain items, and returned the accounts with observations upon those particular items. They objected to the sum of 75/. paid as commission money to Mr. Barry, the architect, for his designs of organs for the new churches. They also objected to the expenditure of large sums for the organs themselves, unless a faculty were obtained for their erection. It was likewise objected by the auditors that the su et of 4,0001. which ought to have ap ' peered in the accounts of the past year, was alto gether omitted. Mr. Evans proposed a resolution to the effect of those observations. Mr. WILKINsoN opposed the resolution. The trustees had completed the churches in a manner not paralleled in other parishes,—namelv, within the original estimates of the expence. He then argued at length on the separate items in the accounts, and contended that the order for the organs was con tained in the vicar's letter for the establishment of the new churches. Organs were the choice of the majority, and there was no necessity for a faculty; but supposing that the oppositionists were able to make out a case, the only good their faculty would do, would be to saddle the parish with an expence of from 2001. to 6001. to obtain it. He concluded by saying, that if the trustees were cited before the Bishop's Court, that plan would have no effect, as they had a case strong enough to outweigh all objections. Mr. RICHTER said, the question was whether the trustees, who spent the parish money, were or were not to be allowed to audit their own accounts. Fraud appeared on the face of former accounts, and fraud appeared on the present. The churches, built no more than twelve months, already wanted re pairs; the windows admitted wind and weather, and the gutters were filled with water, Mr. GREEN said, that in Lambeth parish it had been decided that neither organ, clock, nor bells, formed part of the church, and that if the organ was erected, it must be clone by voluntary contribution. A show of hands was then taken, when there ap peared so decided a majority against the trustees, arid in favour of Mr. Evan's proposition, that the multitude gave several cheers. The CHAIRMAN however (orse of the church wardens) decided that the adherents of the trustees had the majority. A poll was then demanded, when Mr. Evans's resolution was negatived--the numbers being 198 to '75. Several of those who voted against the re solution had four votes each. MARKET INTELLIGENCE, LONDON MARKETS. (From the London New Prices Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—In the three days of business last week, the reported ■ales of Muscovades were 1,008 Ude. and trs. ; the good and flue still higher prices, on account of their scarcity; the low descriptions are very dull. The Market will not open before to-morrow on account of the holidays. The stock of Muscovades in this Market is 13,157 hhds. trs., being 94 less than last year. The stock of Mauritius is 71,687 bags, being 36,355 more than in 1829. The deliveries last week were 2,176 hhds and tilt., being 460 less than in the corresponding week of last year. The delivery of Mauritius 9,729 bags, being 6,747 more than in the same week of 1829. In the Refined Market there is little alteration to notice on account of the holiday time, and the few persons attending to business; the shipping descriptions have been in some request, and are still in short supply; the finer qualities are dull. There is little altera tion in Refined this afternoon ; fine crashed is rather lower. FOREIGN SUGAB.S. —There are no sales of Foreign Sugars to report. EAST INDIA SUGARS.—The public sales of 2,600 bags Mauritius on Thursday went off heavily 6d. to Is. per cwt. lower, much about the advance obtained on the Tues day preceding. CoFrzE.—The purchases of Coffee have been quite tri vial ; there is no alteration in prices. There were no sales of Coffee this day. Rues, BRANDY, AND lIOLLANDS...—By public sale last week, 235 puns., 85 hhds., 65 brls. Demerara Runs of an ordinary quality, averaging 11 over ; all was disposed of at or after the sale, at an average of 2s. a 2s. Id. ; there have since been 100 puns. Jamaica sold by private contract at 3s. for 35 over. In Brandy or Geneva there is no al teration. _ . . RUM DUTY.--The question of the additional Is. on Rum is taking rather an unfavourable turn for the West India interests; the movements of the Distillers and the Agriculturists are simultaneous and increasing in energy; they are joined by a great Parliamentary body, and it is reported they have made a serious impression on the Mi nisters. Several memorials in favour of the West India proprietors are in progress; and it is full time all their influence should be brought forward, otherwise the question will be decided against them. TonAcco.—Tobacco Duty Acts. Resolutions report ed : —lst, That an Act passed in the 12th year of the reign of his Majesty King Charles 11., for prohibiting the planting, setting, or sowing of Tobacco in England or Ireland ; and an Act passed in the 22d year of the reign of his late Majesty King George 111. to explain the said Act, and to permit the use and removal of Tobacco, the growth of Scotland, into England for a limited time, under certain restrictions, should be repealed. 2d, That there shall be levied, collected, and paid for and upon every pound weight avoirdupois of all unmanufactured Tobacco of the growth or produce of the United Kingdom of Great Bri tain and Ireland, an Excise duty of Is. Bd., to he paid by the grower or producer thereof. Resolutions to be taken into further consideration on Monday, 26th of April. l'Avir.—There are few sales to report. Rtcs.—ln Rice there is no alteration. Sricas.—Spices are still inquired after, but there are few sales worth reporting; some fair light Pepper sold at Sid. Basil Pnovlstoxs.—There is an improvement in the demand and in the prices of Provisions; Butters much ad vanced, and very brisk, particularly the fine qualities. Bacon By. a 48. higher. Tierce India Beef, 42 pieces Sibs. each, 61. ss. ; ditto Mess Beef, 38 ditto, Sibs. each, 4/. 4s. a 41. 17s. 6d. ; ditto India Pork, 53 ditto Me. each, Si. 12s. 6d. a 5/. 15s. ; Barrel Mess Pork, 50 ditto 4lbs. each, 21. 17s. 6d. a 31. ; ditto Bacon Pork, 21. 3s. a 2/. 12s. 6d. _ - - INntoo.—There :Si no alteration in Indigo; the quantity now declared is expected will be increased to about 5,000 chests. Wool.--A decided improvement in the value of this article (which has been so long depressed) is now taking place. The stocks o❑ hand, both of Spanish and German, before the last arrivals, were shorter than had been known for many years. The importation last year was very small, particularly of the lower and ordinary kinds of Wool ; and this year we have only as yet received 2,973 bales German, and about 1,267 bags Spanish, most of which latter are already sold at advanced prices, from 7id. a 1014., and only about 600 or 700 bags of old Spanish stock remains on hand. As yet the manufacturers keep off purchasing, except from day to day, as obliged, but it is well known that most of them hare very considerable orders on hand, and that they must come freely into the market for Wool before many days. The prices may be quoted the same as before, only remarking that those prices which were for the most part nominal are now the real obtainable prices. BALTIC PRODUCE.-The dates from St. Petersburgh are up to the 27th ult. The Exchange on London was from 10 '7-16 to 104, and Tallow at 92 rubles, buyers. The price here is at 345. 3.1. per cwt. The deliveries last week were very small, only amounting to 740 casks, and the stock is 23,000 casks. In Hemp and Flax there is no alteration. In the Cotton Market there continues to be considerable business doing, and a further advance may be quoted in the prices of from d. to id. per pound. The demand for manufactured Cottons is stated to be brisk in the letters re ceived this morning from most of the manufacturing towns. MINING INTILLIGENCE......SaIes at Redruth last week. Quantity of Copper Ore sold 3,207 tons; average pro duce 7i. Quantity of fine Copper 233 tons 1 cwt. Amount of sale, 16,5131. Ile. 9d. Average standard, 1091. 13s. GLASGOW MARKETS. (From the Glasgow Herald of Monday.) In our Raw &OAP. market there has been eery little business done this week; • the sales ire only 50 Maw Brown Granadas at 505., and 32 Hb. middling St. Yin cents at 545. 6d. The trade are waiting for a cargo of Demeraras which are landing. No sales made in West India Molasses. Refined Sugars are in steady demand; Brown Loaves 795. a 82s. 6d., middling 83s. a 865., ~ pod 675. a 905., fine 91s. a 955., and very fine 961. a 100 s. Crushed in good demand ; Browns 535. a 57a, middling 535. a 605., good middling 61s. a 645., good 655. a 675., fine 68s. a 705., and very fine 71s. a 751. ; Candy 10d. a 104 d. British Molasses 17s. The sales made in COFFEE are 50 bags ordinary Deme rara at 349. Nothing &One in GINGEII or Plmticro. In Rum there is nothing doing; nominal price of Ja maica 16 0 P. 28. Bd., and LteWirtiB 20d. for Proofs. Carrox.—There has been an animated demand this week. The sales amount to about 2,500 bags, at an ad vance ofd. on last week's prices. The transactions in DYEWOODS are only a few tons Honduras Logwood at 61. les. Asuas remain very flat ; Pots at 37e. a 385., and Pearls 428. 6d. a 435. Y. C. TALLOW is retailing at 36e. 63. a 37e. 6d. Fish 011.9 are scarce and rather dearer :—Whale 261, and Cod 251. per tun, old measure. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Per Quarter. I B.to 8. Boston — 66 Gainsborough 68 Grantham CO 70 Grinaby 54 6S Horncastle 45 5Y Lincoln frl e,s Spilsby 64 03 Stamford.-- 46 71 48 72 Barley. s. to s. s. to s. - 29 - 21 - SY - 21 24 36 18 24 22 34 18 24 25 32 15 20 11 36 21 25 28 34 18 24 30 39 20 23 26 38 17 26 NORWICH, April 10. BIRTHS. Oats. 1 Beans. B. tO 8. 34 -- -- 34 26 34 23 95 30 48 36 40 32 313 31 :AS 98 44 Our farmers being much engaged in the fielda, offered but little Wheat for sale to-day ; good sound dry samples are in request, and have in borne instances obtained Is. per quarter more than last week, and other descriptions have been readily taken off at former prices. The thrash ing of Barley has of late been principally for seed, so that good malting samples are scarce, and Is. per quarter dearer. Oats, Beans, and Pease, are unaltered in value. Flour remains the same. Wheat (per qr.) 5lO. 70$. 725. Beane (-nor qr.)......... 295. Ste. Barley Oats 235. 30$. axe. Flour, flue (per sack) 52w. CANTERBURY. April 10. We had only a moderate supply of Grain, which► met with a slow demand at the terms of this day week. Wheat, white 6oe. to 78s. ..._.--- red 5OB. to 708. Barley, Malting 2BB. to 328. Oats Beaas 22s. to 30s. Pease 328. to 388. Cults rE R.—W heat, per 751 b. 9s. Od. to 9s. 6d. , Bat ley*, 38 qrts Sd. to ss. Od. 2 . Oats, 401 b. 2s. 9d. to 3s. O k i. NANTWICH.—Wheat, per 751 b. 9s. Cd., to 9s. sd. ; Barley, 39 qrts. ta 9d. to .ss. Od.; Oats, 501 b. 3s. 6d. to ss. 3d. TE.—Fi From th 6 13 0 19 6 11 0 8 0 11 6 IDAY, April 9 To M. P. 40 0 37 10, —0 0 21 0 16 0 17 0 12 9 25 0 0 17 0 14 2 1801240120 2 Flour 51s. Bd. per sacK. from 225. Od. to 244. Od. I, from 154. Od. to 21s. Od. from Ss. Od. to 14, Oti. TREAD. --• Lair Quartern — 4 NI 4NI DUBLIN MARKET N' 563 Wheat, per barrel 20 stone! 17 Bete . 17 stone 577 Barley l6 stone! 2,440 Oats.... ...... 12 stone 6,012 Cwt. Flour---- 9 stone 488 0atmea1,.,,._,.,...,, 8 stone Sold to Bakers only. 4,499 Cwt. Flour, --.., ~. Average price of Wheat am Receipts of Flour, 11,21 Td econ , S Sales of Do. 6,012 T hirds. PRICY OF Quartem L0af.,..—..........,....934d. I On the 12th inst. at Fulham, the lady of the Lord Bishop of London, of a daughter. On the 11th inst. at Bredfield-house, near Woodbridge, the lady of F. White, Esq. of a eon. On the 3d inst. at the Grove, Presteigne, the lady of Capt. Litchfield, Royal Artillery, of a daughter. On the 4th inst. the lady of Rev. Wm. S. Robinson, at Dysharn Rectory, Gloucestershire, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. bqspecial licence, at the Earl of Tankervillc's, Grosvenor•square, the Lady Emma Bennet to Viscount Fita-Harris, the eldest son of the Earl of Malniesbury. On the 13th inst. at All Souls, St. Marylebone, Maui Stephen Romer, of Geneva, to Sat-All, daughter of Mr. Demo, of Oxford-street. On the 10th inst. at Tenterden, Kent, J. Brain, Esq., of Blaekheatla-hill, to Annabella, &mond daughter of 1. Knott, Esq. DIED. On the 7th inst. at Woolwich, Capt. Edward Barlow, - of the Royal Artillery, aged 41 years. On the 12th inet. in Upper Baker-street, A. P. Allan, Esq., late of Basse-terre, in the island of St. Kitts, in his 59th par. On the 11th inst. in Portman. place, the wife of Mr. T. H. Cook, surveyor of St. Mirylebone parish, in her 39tis year. On the 10th inst. at Enfeld, at the house of her son in-law, Mrs. Jane Tunnard, aged 75. On the 11th inst. at Reading, Berkshire, John Tappen den, Esq. aged 72. On the I - 3th inst. suddenly, M. Rebecca Clack, of Fleet-street. Lately, much lamented, at Ballya - Tin in the county of Cavan, the Rev. James Pollock, aged S 2. This gentle man was 54 years a curate in the diocese of Kihnore ; he lived in the administration of four Bishops, to one of whom he was Curate when his Lordship was Deau. His residence was little more than two miles distant from the palace, without, however, as it is said, his enjoying for a series of years its hospitality, save at a visitation dinner. He commenced his clerical duties in the times of mode ration, when the salary was 501. a-year, but afterwards for a season enjoyed the more ample provision of '751. When age and infirmities, of which he had not a few r interposed to prevent his performance of the extensive duties of his parish, he, of necessity, as well as to malts way for a more active functionary, consented about two years since to retire, and was thereupon again set down with his early and old friend, a stipend of 50/. per annum, and so died. Mr. Pollock married a lady most respectably connected, whose family name was Enery ; they lived toge ther fell fifty years, and the remains of this good and ex emplary woman, "who never ceased to be merciful after her power, doing with diligence gladly, and giving of the little she had," broken down with griefs and pain at the age of seventy-five, followed her husband to the grave within one little week after the termination of his earthly • course. In the early period of his sojourn in Kilmore, and not long after his marriage, Mr. Pollock's house, with all its furniture, was by accident consumed to ashes, and • this gentleman, then, with a view of helping his s c anty means, and to provide for a young family, prudently joined the occupation of husbandry, of which he was fond, to that of his ether calling, and was what is termed a g ood farmer, though upon rented and neither cheap or good land; and even after the munificent increase of salary a* mentioned, and his removal to the parish in which he died , he continued upon a small scale very neat and tasteful i n thje particular, thereby aiding his other means to tiling up a large family of children, all of whom he settled in the • world with great credit to himself and them. This cler gyman, through his whole life, upheld not only a charac ter free from blame, but worthy of praise---and if " be erred in aught" it was in unbending support under every circumstance which he considered his duty, of the secular rights and immunities of the church, and in advocating the ascendant power of the establish ment to which he belonged, against any iunbration' or change whatever, insomuch that that were he alive and well, there is no doubt that the Lord Bishop of Ferns would at this day have his most strenuous support to the full scope of his power. The writer of this obituary, once riding out in company with a friend (now, alas ! no more) saw this old clergyman habited in the usual costume of hie profession, with his black hair which he wore long, and then at his time of life mixed with silver grey, flowing to his shoulders, holding his own plough—the day was fine and cheering, and the tout-ensemble of this venerable and serene looking figure (he was a comely man), apparently • pleased and contented, struck the writer at the moment as the roost perfect model of one of the Antediluvian Patriarchs that could be imagined. " Look, M--y , " said the writer, " see old Mr. Pollock." " I do indeed see him," was the reply, " an d h appy i s i t f or hi m t hat there is another and a b e t ter worl d !' " What "a be the cause," 1 inquired, " o f his being so long a cura te T .s ' " I never heard any," rejoin e d my f r i en d. -- " bust it t w hispered that once at a visit a ti on , w h en the Cletgyrnea were called in the usual ord er o f t h e i r par i s h es, t hi s o ld man, upon seeing a youth of high eonuex i ons w h o h a d no t been long initiated into the sacred vocation, answer to his n ame, and approach as the rector of one of th e b es t li v i ng s in the diocese, gave a long and heavy sigh, so deep and loud' as to attract not only the attention of the whole au ditory, but especially of the late Doctor Duignan—theree however, the matter dropped." " And so," said 1, turning upon him, " will this reverend and respected. Clergy man"—" Alas, poor Yorick !—or," added he, " it would have been better said, Alas, poor Pollock!'" was Loy friend's reaponsa,..—Ennishillen Chronicle, Marsh 11. PKINTEX AND XY MURDO YOUNG, irs Titit SIM 0f24014 itratinst, Loniule A. 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