The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-11 00:00:00

Imbecility is more dangerous to political power than crime. The man who hesitates, con tradicts, or turns " his back upon himself," is first laughed at, then despised, then, with - 6 titY Bi ercp tailed" mit.' He cannot stand by his friends, because he . dares not face his enemies ; and, with the best and purest inten tions, he is eternally like an ugly woman i n the wrong. Why should a department of such prodigious magnitude, with the most extensive patronage in the state, be left in the hands of Lord Hill and Lord F. Somerset, under a Whig Administration ? The latter of th ese Noble Lords may be, and , indeed, has the repute of being, an excellent man of business; but really as: it: has been often said, thi s continued holding of the Horse Guards by Tories is to the country such a ridicule upon the Grey Ad ministration, such a proof of weakness and sig nal of distress, as must encourage every political antagonist of the Government to raise his hand and offer it a buffet, either for the sake of di rectly overthrowing it, or for that of sharing those rewards from which, with punctilious greatness of mind, it excludes all but its adver saries-. Once more these observations have been wrung from us. We see the ground slipping from under the feet of Ministers. Now, or never, therefore, when Parliament re-assembles, is the time to recover their footing.— Times. The extracts from the information received by his Majesty's Commissioners as to the admi nistration of the poor laws, have laid open the working of English society in the agricultural districts in such a manner as to rouse the most indifferent to the danger of our situation. In this respect, the publication of these extracts will be productive of much good. 'We have no fear for the ultimate result, because property will always exert itself when matters assume a serious aspect. We were somewhat astonished to find a charge of libel against the people of England urged against the Commissioners by a contem porary (the Standard). What ! must we cease to inquire into the state of the country, because we may discover unpleasant truths ? Must we cease to publish lists of commitments, because the increase of crime may be greater than we could wish it to be ? Must we refrain from noticing the working of the bastardy laws, be cause they make incontinence the surest road to marriage ? The following is the accusation of our contemporary :- 6 , We cannot close this subject without referring to an odious libel upon the character of the English nation, lately published by authority, under the title of ' Extracts from the Information received by his Majesty's Commis sioners as to the Administration of the Poor Laws.' The very publication of 'Extracts of Evidence,' in other words, of garbled evidence, is an offence agait st decency and truth. 'But this partial and mutilated representation of the state of our country is by much the lightest offence of the volume. The most criminal characteristic of the book is one to which we cannot, with delicacy, particularly allude. These Commissioners, however, do not scruple to allege against the females, even in the h gher ranks of the agricultural class, a growing depravation of morale. (See page 404.) Da the persons who make these hateful charges, as unfounded, we are persuaded, as they are hateful—do the persons, right reverend, right honourable, and honourable as they are, who have picked out these nasty morsels for publication—does the wretched Government which enters into competition with Messrs. Benbow,&c. &c., in the sale of such filthy trash, understand the effect produced neces sarily by their publication ? If not, we will tell them what that effect must be. " The well informed and reflecting will see, that if families or individuals have descended from the moral standard of their immediate predecessors, such descent is easily to he explained, without assuming, as the Commis sioners would have us, the existence of any demoralising principle in the habits or institutions of our country. It is, we fear, an unhappy truth everywhere, that as we descend in the scale of society from the middle class, the restraints upon female imprudence relax in proportion. It is no less true that the sanctions of religion are more eminently the gnardiatis of female innocence than of any other virile. Whatever, then, has tended to. impoverish the British farmer, has inflicted the greater evil of bring ing his family by so much nearer to the contamination of licentiousness—whatever has taught any class of females to think lightly of religion, to reject its ordinances, to slight its Ministers, and regard its temporal establishment with jealitisy, envy, or hatred, has deprived weak woman of her only faithful protector. And who are they who have ruined the British farmer ? Who are they who have alienated, as far as they could, the minds of the pea ple front their religion and their church ? Wbo are they who have paupeti.ed the people, and, having thus prepared them I,r depravity, have brought pollution to their hearths? The vet y men who now expose the nakedness of the land which they have corrupted. The men now exulting in the moral havoc that they have made. We say exulting, for the voice of triumphant theory breaks out in every page of the volume. "To produce this feeling, will he the effect of the extracts' upon every cu'tivated and refh-cting mind ; but what will he its effect upon the ignorant ? effect of every like palliation of vice—to promote depravity by asserting its frequency ; to take away from guilt that which, in a temporal view, is its most awful terror—the sense, that it is distinguished, and rare, it nit singular, and that those stained by it are monstrous excel:viols to the national character." On turning to the extracts we find the pas sages 6 -- Jis denounced to lie the following. he) are in Captain Pringle's report from Cumber land : " It seems not unusual for the daughters of the small farmers or statesmen, as they are here called (men farming their own property), to have bastard children, and to come to tie parish for an allowance. "It cannot be expected that the overseer will apply for the punishment of people in this station of life. " The following extract is from a letter written by the overseer of the parish of " We at this time, in our parish, are supporting two bastard children, whose mothers have landed property of their own, and would not marry the fathers of their ildren. " ' The daughters of some farmers, and even land owners, have fastard children. These farmers and land owners keep their daughters and children with them, and regularly keep back their poor-rate to meet the parish al lowance for their daughters' bastards. We have no doubt, the same grievance exists in many other parishes.' " I c.iuld adduce many townships where one or more eases of firmer.' daughters receiving such an allowance had occurred, but shall prefer giving an extract from the letter of a clergyman of a parish more than twenty miles from that to which the above refers : " A very &ff rent description of women have, of late years, Income the mothers of bastard children ; formerly it was confined to the daughters of cottagers and girls em ployed in farm husbandry ; hot of late very respect able farmers' daughters have ben in that situation, and applied to have their offspring taken care of by the parish. As one plan to remedy the evil, if the Magistrates would im pt,,e a larger sum on the mother, although it would not put ar. end to bastardy, the parish would n , ,t be so much burdened by this numerous description of mothers, as they would, in many instances, be kept at the expense of her parents, who, Iron) their mode of management, are often too Ir.quenthy to blame.' " In another parish, the clergyman said in one year he had Wind nine children ; the number of legitimate b e ing only seyen ; they wore almost all of them, however, the children of women at service out of the parish, re moved there to lie in. One from Suffolk, at a great expense. It was an observation frequently made, that the cus tom of hiring firm-servants- to live in the house, leads frequently to these connections ; and that the certainty of an allowance of money to the mother, either front the fa ther or the parish, encourages it ; whilst in the south, the contrary system leads to improvident early marriages." So much for the extracts. And now, are we to admit, as a principle that we should shut cur eyes to 0 ur real situation, that all tnanner oI crimes and irregularities should be passed sub silentio, in order that the ignorant may be de prived of the palliation derived from frequency ? Or must we discriminate ? Must we procaim murders, burglaries, robberies, swindlings, Sze., loudly to the world, but say nothing of bastardy. matters? The Scotch Presbyterians took a dif ferent course. They made, in all cases, the guilty do public penance. Male and female were obliged to mount the cutting-stool, and endure a cutting rebuke in presence of the whole congregation. But, in truth, secrecy is out of the question. In districts like Cumberland, all that Captain Pringle has told is known to every man, woman, and child of the different neighbour hoods. It happens rather unfortunately for our contemporary's speculation, as the cause— namely, the descent from the middle class to the lower—that Cumberland is one of the districts of England which is least affected by pauperism. In fact the primitive manners of the island ceetn to exist there in greater purity than anywhere else. As a proof of this, take the following ex tract:— " A mode of farming the poor is common in the townships to the North and East of Carlisl?, which since it is, I believe, peculiar to this part of the country, I shall here notice—namely, to contract with a person for a fixed sum who undertakes to satisfy all cl iirns of the pauper belonging to the township. * * The person taking the contract has the use of the poorhouse and ground attached, where tl ere is such an establishment ; if not he takes the paupers tvhom he cannot satisfy with a small payment into his own house. They are generally small farmers, min, who, in many cases, sit down to their meals with paupers. The custom will cease to appear extraordinary when it is stated to be usual for the farmer and his labourers to dine at the same table; and to gise further proof of the diff,rent state of this part of the king dom as compare! with the south, I found the perpetual curate of a parish lodging and boarding in the hou.e of one of these contractors. The prevalence of this system of farming will be sufficient to indicate that magisterial authority, in ordering relic', is very seldom exercised." In almost all mountainous districts throughout Europe, less disgrace is attached to bastards than in the plains. Lord Kaimes remarks that there were hardly any females tried for child murder in the hi g hlands of Scotland though the crime was common in the lowlands, because bastardy was not reckoned disgraceful. Accord ing to a recent statistical account of Norway which we possess, the natural children in the Guldbransdal, a remote mountain district, is as one to three of the whole births. In Switzer land and the hereditary States of Austria great latitude in this way is allowed to young people. In the Bavarian Alps, a female will often be the mother of a tolerably large family before she is married. Were it not that the clergyman, Captain Pringle's informant, states that a dif ferent description of women in Cumberland have lately been in the situation alluded to, we should be inclined to believe that the practices described by Captain Pringle have long been common in Cumberland. It is rather the remnant of old manners, than the introduction of new. A great many things are taken up on too slight evidence, and copied by one writer from another. We have received, for instance, " An Inquiry into the Expediency of the existing Re strictions on the Importation of Foreign Corn, with Observations on the Present and Social Prospects of Great Britain, by John Barton,"just published ; in which there are many valuable suggestions, and many very rash assumptions. Mr. Barton, among other rash assumptions, conceives that the Italian Republics, i❑ the middle ages, acquired all their wealth without having any se curity for property. The very idea is absurd. But let Mr. Barton look into the writers who describe the private life of the Italians of those days—as Sacchetti, Bandelli, Masaccio, and the host of tale-writers who abound in the minutest details, and he will see the habitual vigilance of the Tribunals, and the night and day police. Many of the tales turn on the shifts of debtors to keep out of the clutches of bailiffs, the seizure of property by hard-hearted creditors, Sec.; but there is no instance of setting the law at defiance, as we see every day done in Ireland, by the first gentlemen of the country. In short, Mr. Barton has taken the exceptions for the rule. Another crotchet of Mr. Barton is, that the wealth or poverty of Switzerland is stationary, arising from there being no increase of the numbers of the people. Little does he know of Switzerland. We possess a volume, published some years ago, by a Mr. Kasthofer, one of the Senators of Berne, giving an account of the condition of the peasantry of the extensive Highlands of Berne, called the Ober-land. The population had di vided and subdivided every patch of ground, till families had descended from keeping of cows to keeping of sheep, and at last the ultimatum of misery to the subsisting on one or two goats. In most of the districts of Switzerland the pressure of population is severely felt. The poor-rates are heavy, and the laws of settlement extremely strict. In fact, there are few parts of Europe where the people suffer more severely that► in the moun tainous tracts of Switzerland. Heavy taxes on marriage by way of preventive are common. We cannot conclude these .desultory observa tions without remarking that Mr. Barton shows, that when a district loses a particular source of employment, the superfluous hands do not emigrate, and that political economists, in their calculations of profit and loss, are but too \ apt to lose sight of the permanent loss arising from the above cause. " The county of Sussex (he observes) was formerly the seat of a flourishing iron-manufacture. The progress of smelting the ore with coke was not then known ; and coal cannot be employed for this purpose, on account of the sulphur which it contains ; the abundance of wood in Sussex, as well as of iron stone, consequently gave to this county an advantage over others in the preparation of iron. When the process of smelting with coke was discovered, the iron manufacture naturally passed to the coal districts; wood being a much more expensive fuel than coal. Owing to this, combined with other unknown causes, Sussex has been long overburdened with population, and with poor-rates more than any other county. Yet this excess exhibits not the slightest tendency to relieve itself by migration, even in those pa rishes most heavily oppressed. In the parish of Rogate, there are from 50 to 100 able labourers at all times without regular employ, and the rates amounted in it last year to twenty-four shillings on the pound. The neighbouring pa rishes of Hastings, Midhurst, Billingshurst, and many more, are neatly in the same state. In the parish of Hastings, which I lately visited, in company with one of the Poor Law Commis sioners, I inquired of the parishioners assembled in Vestry, whether half the existing population would not suffice for performing all the work to be done ? They answered, without hesitation, yes. Why do not these superfluous hands go to seek employment at Manchester or Glas gow ? Or rather, why did not their fathers or grandfathers go long ago ? Sussex is still as much over-peopled as when its iron manufacture ceased to exist, nearly a century ago. How long 'a time should we allow for the population to accommodate itself to that much greater re duction which would take place in the demand for labour, in throwing open the corn trade ?” We think we can take it on ourselves to say, that in all the districts of England, where there is any considerable redundancy of population, the cause is to be found in the shifting of manufactures- Thus, the manufactures of Bucks, l3erks, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Kent, Sussex, and the west of England, have mostly left their seats for the north of England ; but a miser able population remains, and the respective districts Are permanently afflicted with a redundancy of inhabitants. Sufficient attention has not hitherto been paid to this circumstance.--Morn. Chron. A corrected copy of the speech of Mr. T Attwood, for an inquiry into the state of the country, is before us; and an eloquent speech it is. Its eloquence, however, and its object, are the only points about it which we can conscien tiously praise; for in all other respects it is not only precisely the reverse of what we ex pected to have found it, hut the very reverse of what it ought to have been. It is declama tory in the highest degree—full of exaggeration and mistatement, and wholly unsupported in it , details by any official documents. Of its ex aggerations the following samples may suffice : „ . The .ituation of the people of England,'says it, ” may b. very shortly described, —one-half of them are obliged to toil more than human na , ure can bear, and the other half have no employment at all. Those who have employment, too, work for such low wage., that they are actually dying by incites in the hope of living. The others wander from door to door begging for leave to toil.' " Again, in the following page, we find the following more detailed statement:— " I have slid that agriculture is in a state of extreme distreas. I am prepared to show that the poverty of tarmera and agticutturista generally, consequent upon thei, paying paper rents and taxes in golden money, has com pelled them to destroy the fertility of the earth. lam prepared to prove, by indubitable evidence, that the whole of England, in the course of the last seventeen years, has been injured to the extent of one-fifth of its productive power, which, when we look to the mere agricultural wealth of England, is like cutting off the whole of the land north of the Humber, and casting it into the sea. If I book to the present state of manufactures, I find I havo no better prospect before me If I look to the manufac tures of iron, lead, or copper—if I look to the cloth and woollen trade,—if I look to the cotton trade—in short, if I to any branch of industry, I find that the wages paid to workmen are exceedingly low, and that the profits are almost, if not quite, annihilated—in some cases they are even worse." The state of the country is bad enough in all conscience ; but it is not quite so bad as Mr. Attwood has represented it to be. There may be many on " short commons ;" but we are not yet in the situation, to use Mr. Attwood's words, " when every man looks in his neighbour's eyes and wishes for his death." Such extravagant exaggerations invariably defeat th e ver y en d for which they are employed, and we cannot but regret that Mr. Attwood should have so far forgot the dictates of a sound policy as to have compromised the interests of a great public question by condescending to arts which better befit the rhetorician than the legislator. Al though, however, we must condemn what we deem to be the exaggerations of Mr. Attwood, we must, nevertheless, cor dially join with him, not only in de manding inquiry into the state of the coun try, but in ascribing that state, be what it may, to a mischievous interference with the currency more than to any other cause. Inquiry cannot possibly do harm, whether it be or be not productive of good. It may prove the fal lacy of the notions entertained by the " currency doctors ;" but that is a matter which we care not for— it is the truth upon the subject that is the thing desired, and provided an inquiry aid in its di-covery, we care not whose preconceived notions it may overturn. Without inquiry the country neither will, or ought to be, satisfied ; and we trust that when the motion is again re newed for it, Ministers will have the good sense to accede to it at once, and with a good grace. —Morning Advertiser. The great, the all-pervading, and inexcusable fault of the present Ministers is, that they have totally failed to accommodate themselves and their measures to the altered state of the repre sentation, of which they have been themselves, so much to their honour, the authors. We see the time of Parliament almost exclusively taken up in receiving countless crowds of petitions. And why so ? Because the Government, in stead of anticipating the fair expectations of the people, leave them every thing to ask for. In fact, after having reformed the Parliament, they appear to have imagined that the whole machinery of public affairs could go on as before. Now if Ministers, instead of meeting the new Parlia l i - ment, as they appear to have done, without any settled or matured plan of proceedings, had announced, either in the King's Speech, or on the first subsequent opportunity, a determination to investigate, calmly and specifically, the grievances under which the country labours; had they, for instance, expressed their de termination to investigate thoroughly the whole system of taxation of the country, with a view to equalise the burden ; had they determined to court investigation into the result of those theories of currency and free trade which have brought so much ruin on the country ; had they, while they resolved to coerce the disaffected spirit in Ireland, resolved to probe her wrongs to the bottom, and to re medy those two great sources of them—the ab sence of landowners and the absence of poor laws ; had they, we say, manfully announced their intention to look these and the other great interests of the country in the face, the country would, in the first instance at least, have given them credit for their intentions, and would have waited silently, though eagerly, the fruition, of their hopes. We do not say that it is yet too late to accomplish this; but in the meanwhile much time and opportunity and confidence have been lost. The present short recess of Parlia ment will enable Ministers to look hack upon the two useless and unavailing months of the session which have passed. We heartily wish that this period of reflections may show them where the error lies ; and that, knowing it, they may correct it.—Morning Herald. Throughout the country we observe the rapid decline of Whig influence, and the proportionate advancement of those conservative principles by which the destinies of England must again be ruled ere the country can be rescued from the deplorable state in which it has been involved by an imbecile faction, which has brawled itself' i n to power, and endeavours to retain it by eter nally pleading " good intentions" as an excuse for its regular series of blundering. But a few days have elapsed since Sunderland gave evidence of the re-action of the public mind in the return of Alderman Thompson. Gloucester has followed close glorious r esu l t , an d M r. Hope, a the of acknowledg e d i ntegr i ty, ta l ent , and wealth, has been chosen to represent its interests in the Commons' House. These triumphs are the m ore grat if y i ng as hav i ng b een accomplished in the ver y teeth o f Mi n i ster i a l L influence. We rejoice to find the people at length appreciating at its real value a sys- Lem o f Government the direct tendency of which is to prostrate the energies of the country, to ruin its commerce, and to de prive it for ever of that proud pre.emi lit has hithert o ma i nta i ne d among t h e l il e' a le ti c ons of the earth. Such men as Mr. Hope, who have a large stake in the country, will pursue a very different course to that adopted by those who, to retain power, would humble to the rabble, although the result should be ruin and revolution. They are not like those political adventurers whose restless poverty urges them to experimentalize with the property of others, reckless of the mischief they may cause the com munity at large so long as they themselves are not the sufferers. We doubt not, when opportu nity offers, the example of London, of Sunder land, and of Gloucester will be generally fol lowed by all those constituencies who, under the influence of a momentary delusion, have sent violent democrats or political bigots to represent the interests of commerce and agriculture.— Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. SACRlLEGE.—Yesterday the churchwarden and other officers of the parish of Allhallows, London wall, at the Justice-room, upon the subject of the plunder of the communion plate, and produced a letter, to which they seemed to attach some importance, and which was addressed to the Beadle, who has been exerting himself for the dis covery of the thieves : " April S. " Sir,—lf you have any interest in the recovery of cer tain property which you missed from your church, the writer can give you information whereby you may recover the same uninjured, provided you recompense the writer by paying to him one-fourth of the value of the same. Should you wish any further communication on the sub ject, addreis a line to V. T., Blue Anchor, Bromley, Middlesex, to be left (post paid) till called for.' The writer being fly to all the moves of the gentlemen of your profession, begs to warn you of the inutility of attempting to regain the aforesaid property, except by a written com munication. Should you endeavour to lay wait for the party calling for your answer, &c., I would inform you that I am wide awake, no green 'on, and you'll find it no go. You'll be watched, and if you show this letter to Sir Peter, or any other magisterial cove, you may save yourself the trouble of writing. I shall know all. An early answer required--Yours, &c." The churchwarden stated to his Lordship, that the parish authorities were determined not, under any circumstances whatever, to compromise so atro cious a case of robbery, a course which, if pursued generally, would have the effect of diminishing the number of robberies. The LORD MAYOR declared that compromises in cases of felony were productive of the worst con sequences; at the same time that the temptation to a serious loser to recover his property must be ad mitted to be very great. Mr. Wheeler showed ex traordinary power in resisting a temptation of the kind, as he had been offered the restoration of all the property which bad been stolen out of his ware house hi Bartlett's-buildings for less than 4001. The parish officers said, that however advan tageous the terms of compromise might be, they would never think of acquiescing in them. The LORD MAYOR observed, that the letter had all the symptoms of a hoax upon it. If thieves wanted to negotiate they would do it through attorneys, and not through the medium of the two-penny post ; and those who would consent to negotiate under such circumstances were, in his opi nion, as bad as the thieves themselves,although he knew some of t hem who held their heads very high. Perrin, the bell-ringer of Allhellaws Church, was then put to the bar for a second examination on sus picion of having been concerned in the crime of sacrilege. An old feeble woman, named Mary Chapel, had been sextoness of Allhallows Church nineteen years. She was disturbed almost our of her life at the robbery. She went into the church a little after 6 on Sunday morning, locked herself in, and after making the fires, laid the communion cloths and spread the plate. The prisoner came in after, and after standing a short time before the fire, went up to the bellfry and rung the 8 o'clock bell; he then came down, and after having been in the church no more than a quarter of an hour altogether, went away ; she had seen nobody with him. The gravedigger (a man of cadaverous appearance) was then called upon to give evidence, and he spoke as follows :—l've been gravedigger, please your Lorthhip, man and boy, upwards of twenty years, at Allhallows and Ethelburgh; and as I was'ilt able to wind up all these here church accounts myself, I engages Jack Hattles to assist me; so I comes down of Sunday morning last as ever was, Hot for to dig the graves, please your Lordship, but for to take the money as they gives for a digging of the graves,and it was then jist neither more nor less than twenty minutes afore 8. So Mrs. Chapels she pays me a shilling and two sixpences, which was all the porta ble money I had about ine.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—Did you see anybody about the premises besides Mrs. C)apel? Witness—l saw a man a cleaning of the sconces. It was proved to the satisfaction of the Lord Mayor, that the intelligent grave-digger had con founded Saturday and Sunday, and his evidence, as well as that of his brother of the churchyard, who delivered himself of some " crowner's quest law" upon the occasion, was dispensed with. " Please you, my Lord," said tae, " I went along wi' my em ployer for to get the money as he specked of, and so, my Lord, when he got it from the Missis he corned away." The LORD MAYOR—Did you see any more there besides your comrade ? Gravedigger—No, please your Lordship, barrin Mrs. Chapel.—(Laughter.) Thomas West, a coachman, at about twenty-five minutes to nine o'clock was near the church, and saw a tallish, stout man, with a blue coat and dark trousers, come out of the church. He, at the same time, saw a man standing at the bottom of the steps. The man walked away towards Broad-street ; neither the prisoner nor either of the gravediggers was one of them. Witness thought he should be able to recognise the tall man. The LORD MAYOR then told the prisoner that he was at liberty—that there was no imputation upon his character—but, at the same time, that his assist ance in detecting the thieves was most certainty expected. THE ROBBERY UPON Mr. VALPY'S PREMISES.-- Bewick, the old man, some days ago charged with having received some hundreds of printed sheets, the property of Mr. Valpy, the printer, was again brought up for final examination, and fully com mitted for trial. MARLBORO U GIL STREET. A BEGGING IMPOSTER.—A very well-dressed fo reigner, who gave his name Antonio Lippe, was brought before Mr. CONANT en the following charge :—Mr. Seymour, a gentleman residing in Grosvenor-street, said, that on Monday last the pri soner came up to him, and addre-sing him in Ita lian, represented himself to have been shipwrecked, and as all his property was lost, he was unable to reach his native country for want of means. He concluded his story, which had every appearance of truth, by soliciting some assistance, which witness complied with, by presenting him with half-a crown. The pri soner was wa lki ng away, a f ter pocketing the money, wh e n a gen tl eman came up and stopped him, informing witness at the same time that lie suspected he had been imposed upon, as tie had relieved the prisoner himself about six months ago, upon a similar statement, and he had every reason to suspect that the prisoner had for a length of time been carrying on a very successful system of imposition. Witness immediately informed the prisoner of his suspicions; and, upon stating that he would give him into the custody of a police officer, in order to have the truth of his story ascer tained, the prisoner returned the half-crown, and pretended that Mr. Seymour had misunderstood him ; asserting that he did not ask for money, but he only wished to thank him for some assistance he had rendered some time ago to a friend. Mr. CONANT put several questions to the prisoner, to elicit, if possible, where his residence was; but tile prisoner refused to answer them, and at first pretended that he was unacquainted with the Eng• lish language. Information having been given that a smartly-dressed young female, and a man, were in the neighbourhood of the office, who had been very particular in their inquiries respecting the prisoner, Mr. CONANT directed that they should be brought before him for the purpose of being questioned. When they made their appearance, Mr. Conant was informed by the female that she was the prisoner's wife, and that their place of abode was in Leather lane. It turned out, however, from information obtained by questioning the man, that the proper address of the prisoner was in Saffron-hill. Mr. CONANT, wishing to come at the real history of the prisoner, despatched a note to Mr. Capper, of the Alien-office, which was answered by that gen 'leman in person, %vb . () stated that some time ago the prisoner was sent to the Alien-office from Queen ..quare police-offic.e, where he had been accused of ittempting a species of imposition similar to the pre sent charge. The prisoner had then given his name Antonio Philipe. Mr. CONANT said it was clear the prisoner had been obtaining a living by improper practices, and he should, therefore, send him to the House of Cor• rection for one month. MATRIMONIAL MISERIES.—Simon Page, a little harmless-looking journeymen tailor, complained to Mr. Dyer that his wife, a sturdy amazon of twenty stone, had given him a sound beating on Sunday night. Mr. Page, who evidently stood in bodily fear of the prowess of his spouse, in doleful accents informed the Magistrates that for some years past his wife had been in the habit of attacking him, both with fiat and foot, and that latterly she had addicted herself so inveterately to drink, that all his earnings found their way to the gin-shop. The worst part of the business was, that when she reached a particular state of elevation, it was her constant custom to amuse herself by thumping him about the room with his own sleeve-board. On Sunday morning last, discovering that his brawaey helpmate had drank herself to the point of pugnacity, he ran out of the house, and went to enjoy his pot and Iris pipe in peace, at a neighbour's. He returned home at a late hour, hoping to find his spouse in bed ; but when he got into the room, he discovered, to hisgreat dismay, his better half seated with a she gossip at the table, on which was a full pot of half-and-half. Its wife handed the pot to him ; but, seeing the sta e she was in, he refused to drink ; upon which she rose up, and, opening the door, ordered him to walk out of the room; " or (said she) I'm blessed if I don't kick you out." On refusing to quit the room at such a time of night, she, without further parley, floored him with a straight left-hander; which ad vantage was improved by the other lady throwing her arms about his neck and hugging him, with all the force and effect of a Russian bear. He roared lustily for assistance, which having at length arrived, he was rescued from the clutches of the two vira goes. The complainant reminded Mr. Dyer that on more than one occasion before, he had been compelled to apply to him for protection against the violence of his wife. Mr. DYER recollected that such had been the case; and, though it was rather more usual to hear of wives complaining of their husbands than to find the husbands complaining of being beaten by their wives, yet he did not see why protection should not be as readily afforded in one case as in the other. " All I want, your Worship (said the complain ant), is to be separated from her. I'll take the three children, and undertake to do for them, if my wife will promise to do for herself." The Magistrate said, it was not in his power to comply with the complainant's wishes; but as the violent conduct of the wife must be restrained, he should order her to find bail. MAR Y LEB ONE. ROBBERY AND ATTEMPT AT SUlClDE.—Yesterday Il'illi ant Oliver was brought up under the following circumstances :—The prisoner lodged at 18, College street, West Camden -town, arid the other lodgers have lately lost several articles of wearing apparel and other property. The servant, on making the prisoner's bed, on Monday, found ;t purse. containing seventeen duplicates, some of them for articles which had been missed by the other lodgers, and he was, consequently, given into custody. Mr. Beverley, a student of the Veterinary Col lege, deposed to having lost a coat, trousers, and other articles from his room. Mr. Crea, of 18, Portlmid-street, Soho, surgeon, deposed to having lost his watch a few days ago, when he visited Mr. Beverley, and slept at his house. It appeared that the prisoner, when locked up in the station-house, made an attempt to destroy him self. The policeman on duty heard a gurglingnoise, and on opening the door of the cell, saw the prisoner lying down with hi: braces tied tightly round his neck, and his face black and dreadfully distorted. The prisoner wai committed. / QUEEN SQUARE. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY.—Yester day, John Griffin, driver of the Kiekneyeoach, No. 763, was examined on a charge of stealing a pal:Rel of jewellery, value 2001., the property of Messrs. Ward and Green, jewellers, of Coekspur-street. Mr. WHITE said the vase was one of strong sus picion, and comm;tted the prisoner. MURDER OF THE BOY PAVIOUR. EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY.—Since the appre hension of Marshal, Taylor, arid Evans, on suspicion of the murder of the above unfortunate boy, the most intense interest has been manifested in the neighbourhood in which his parents reside, and it being generaly reported that the officers were in pursuit of several persons holding high stations in life, who were said to have been concerned in the decoying of theboy away from his home, and also his murder, the most anxious inquiries have been daily Made to ascertain whether they had succeeded in apprehending any of the parties, but the privacy ob served as to the proceedings at Hatton-garden, has prevented his own father and mother, or his nearest relations, deilving that satisfaction. Several exa minations, we understand, have lately taken place, from which reporters have been excluded, and in junctions laid upon the witnesses not to reveal their examination before the Magistrate; but having heard it whispered about that a " clerical gentleman, of some distinction in the church," had been captured on a charge of having been concerned in decoying the boy, and aat he had actually undergone an exa m naiion, we made it our business to proceed to the neighbourhood of John-street, Tottenham-court-road, to pursue inquiries, and found that the above cur rent report originated from the following extraordi nary circumstances :—lt appears that a short time prior to the murder of the boy, a gen lemon's car riage was frequently seen to stop at the corner of Goodge-street and John-street, Tottenham-court road, and an elderly, reverend looking gentleman, with a clergyman's hat, and attired in black, would alight arid proceed slowly down John-street, until he arrived opposite Mr. Paviour's dour, where he would pace backwards and forwards, and enter into conversition with a low set of fellows, similar to Marshal, Faylor, and Evans; and it was viewed by Mr. Smith, broker, of John-street, Mr. Sims, of Goodge-street, and several other persons, as an ex traordinary proceeding, and his visits were so fre quent that it was quite common for the women about the neighbourhood to inquire, " Well, has the old parson been here to-night 1" Ott the evening that the boy was taken from his home the carriage was observed at the corner of Goodge-street, and the parson was seen wandering about John-street. in company with a low looking man with whom he was in deep conversation. The boy Paviour came out of his parents' house at about sev en o'clock, dressed in his usual style, with the exception of wearing his sister's slippers. He entered the shop of Mrs. Ripley, a c handler's-shop, and asked for a penny rush-light, and continued playing with her son, and he was never seen alive after he quitted the shop. It is conjectured that the old wretch was In conjunction with Marshal, T ay l or , an d ot h ers, ,and that he was then carried awa y . M rs . Si ms h ad . v i thesse d more of his manoeuvres than eny.other of he neighbours, and on hearing of the boy's being .nissing her suspicions were i nstant l y arouse d , and she mentioned circumstances which induced the Ma- all thst gistrates to summon her forward to state . s. , be she knew upon the subject, and on hearing th _ l 4 ' 4 boy was murdered, she stated a conversation 7.„, she overheard between the parson and antbe; which left no doubt but his Reverence hatiboy,e than " a righteous" knowledge of the P°°rhritote death. The following is the substance of ment before the Magistrate : L.. they She often saw the carriage of the man w ho m designated the "parson," in conseuertee,,,:jr dress, stop nearly opposite her door in. u7nd street, and a personage like a clergyma n 814 ° 6 .0 walk as far as Mr. Paviour's house, on the °Prof exite d, , side of the way. Her curiosity was WI 'ise on a subsequent evening she followed hin1;00 watched him, when he entered into eon f , er t oei with a man attired in a fustian dress (vie ti nu fioig). this to have been on the night that he was nl'ei o jett She saw a boy, answering the description Of . " 11 I lle pPaarysioonurs,acido7: That'sout of h ihmis_f_atthhaetr's house, vri le l foe y o h i m —he i 6 , o f boy," or words w the effect. The strap the the proceeding struck her with surprise, 811 do, loitered about and pretended to look at the wi" e i(l, but her ears were open to catch all that vo lv dte ,, , and she heard him say to the man in ,be fot ilin : bte " How is he to he got or procured will ' o rb man answered in terms to communicate tPaiovill an end might be accomplished; and she att i e r ,o4 heard of the boy being missing. We use ° ' f od effort to discover the name of the cis sl 'h n o le a th n i d ng w l h ik a e t the d es ired f no one could or would communicate the neighbourhood, _ormation. One or two who felt dispose& ifi gn cti I forgot the name, saying it was Brunt or 13 !"';b 1 iet to take frail women into a house near 0.! g oel belonging to a woman on whom there / 5 .. . Croley, who resides in the parlour:oo suspicion. • f il l tt a t n at d he he had wa b s ee f n re o g ft u e e n l i t se ly:; 4 o , reside,sam 3 e irs h ohuasse been n ee w n heixcahmtihneedpasreevnetrsaol ftitmheeshobtifjorl il l Magistrates, in consequence of her hay in g 'boll ° Smith, witness,.m un d erstand r. Poaftlor nj t peo h rri e ol, r nv e -oesf i t s tr jhe n oae o tth t , n h h-h i s n eat g sr eingi e t al o tsd: dieted herself so as to excite some suspici °ll ' P . before e i a c fm i on o : r re,. s ihte; was, but we regret to 5,31,1,tir tihu c e h rk a bi r io a l gyc Wigginst aewrbiasio,sausmitnbticshel missing. including n ee. g i x ahtmbhoiaeunrd'h, o c m l o e da r .s iPi te :- 1 t to so a e playmate of the deceased boy, spoke to t the n ,j o ete° er effect ; the latter was playin g with him a fe - k ,i‘ r sliv e r.re l loa a r.srgt t sha i el v elaa e prnirlim t vom o aantnoe s toth o eroe m exi atr e harnrecoi c ido o adffi n l, vinctoeoesnrps,ti Inspector I t el i tHl o ods n raet tt.tiwhoK, therefore tr t a. te l gte i it tar to im p l i ca te s r iri t ode b pn he t,:h r ef ' et - 0 0 r i td bfr: ll :llb s :i , e ' t 'l l4 p v vi s i on, have loo h fr a bh v ea e isn g reat g u b s c e eo d enneevrenr e x ertion pi, m wsrh u en.si r ol d eetpn e ccu r m e oeb r agri , ,odificfen a ae n kd d nt hoi i in n d. th e o m f o t r h e cheerful , reserved e Marshalp s W r e o r v t efebrstieleti frequently a and ta n h ee n el d r e i d ls i l r tialase o il :—. e : el- l ieg g I I. O P- Ice a: allyh t ; lit result it' bl loved de urination c to a co r o g fm e tmh b e r u o n u pi g er . a l it t oe a n g :v a ris i t n h s t awn t h h yi e cb m h o ; wdy t e ll e us i nup.i ti : ps e s o i l,: Arr an e c e o e n n e t . s have T h e b r e e been made emnaudmneeefrdoorau t s ' t h g o e r i e6 : e :e ' I - i$ examine. THE MARKETS. COAL MARK. Per Toi, _ _ 5. d. Adair's 17 0 Chester East Percy.... l7 0 Hebburn Main 18 0 Holywell 17 6 Drel's Redhligh . 15 6 Pontop Windsor 17 6 Shipcote l6 aidield l'ownley l6 6 West Hartley 19 0 Willington Wylam Walls-End Bewicke& Co. 21 6 Ditto Bell, Robson, & Co. 18 6 Walls Eod Brown's.. l7 3 Walls End Callerton 16 6 Ships arrived since EC—April 10. • a Per 1 c o . Was End to Or 11, Ditt o Clarke and C.S, , Walls End ; Walls End 110151110:1":'; a Walls End Nevintaiw A 1/ a Ditto Northumberia.r`" Ditto Peareth 0 $ Walls End Ridden s Wails i . nd Fn Walls End i Walls hand llituee:Tirer°searnrsos,—; ao, Walls End Stocictotf;,,' 0 Walls End Tees ••••••''''' I.langettneeh Stone Coal MilfordVell''' ast inarket-dah 26. y. ro. i Ships arrived since last markot -da-- 4N --- " 1111 " ---- 7 0 115 ,,,,: - .."*" " cou Nilo' ( ORN MAIIKE es DUI CII46 t.. . 2 . f. 4., %01? :at& • , Wheat. i Barley. 4 __......% 'to 1 - ---....... ---- t• . % Per Quarter. s. to 8. S. to s. s. to t o 38 Abingdon......--. 62 81 31 43 -22 .... e• And0ver......—.....-. 73 80 37 41 '_. Birmingham...—,. 56 58 30 40 L. , 0 -,' ' 0 Bridport ........—. 56 74 32 36 r , .. o t - ,,6 ":., Cirencester --.... 44 56 21 3 0 ~„„J" 3 4, - 2. .. 4 0 baringd0n............ 54 86 36 40 %:2,. ,.•fit Guildford Henley 54 83 30 35 20 "28 ''''. li Hereford 64 68 28 36 24 04 :::, 0 Highworth .......... 62 80 32 42 2 0 30' •S` 4 6 Maidenhead ........ 56 68 34 44 n 5 6 r M0nm0uth............ 66 70 06 38 2.2 26 o. 46 Reading . 40 66 22 sg 14 la r.g. ,ca ... 4 0 5a1i5bury................. 44 54 24 29 .- 32 .... la Southampton ....... 54 58 33 40 . 0 , 32 .... 4 6 Stroud - ig I'ewkesbilry ......... 65 74 30 42 30 Uxbridge .................. 48 74 26 34 2 0 25 ii pg Wantage—. . 58 80 27 43 1 7 4 6 Warminster ......... 43 58 24 36 21 22_, 4 ... Windsor _ Worcester__.... 50 57 30 32 2 4 - I0 ` - LEWES MA RKET.—April,?' .C 4 ~ ,4 0: White Wheat (per quarter) .-..........£2 16 l' • g.. 'A 0. n e • LEWES MA RKET.—APriI 4 9 ' o .e- White Wheat (per quarter).—.........£2 16 0 g 6 0. Red ditto. 26 0 0 1 I ? , 0 Barley 4 0 4 , Oats, New 0 16 0 1 .. „a. Pease 113 0 tbo" -- • Oil Cake. New - 12 0 0 per 5 61 ' HULL AI ARK ET—April g • Wheat, Old —s. 50a. 565. New .... *** Foreign —s. 50s. 54s ln b0nu' . ..4• . ..,5,.. Oats, Poland —s. 20s 225, Old ... ..... Sinai' or Feed.... —5. 12s. 20s ...................... Foreign Barley, Norf. Sr Sut —s `26s. 305. ' Line. O -14 Foreign • ...... Beans —s. 30s. Foreign ..... ' Pease, White —s. 365.385. Grey. ............ Oj Tares .. .. —s. 38s. 40s. Foretgn .... Rapeseed, in Ison;61 none. Free, per las Pt As '6i 0 - 4 , 0 '0 , Per Bushel, LTE s. N 4 H to A s ll . l d. IA RICET.--APril 9' Pet UN ..,. Wheat Barley Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal ......................... 4 6 0 0 5 8 6 0 8 m e i ej t . 0 .. 0 ................................ Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Lamb . .................... Hay Si. 10s to 31. igg.iii. vo " YOU, A r! PAINTED AN P UBLISH ED SY MURDO YOl l . O , YD Goritcg, 1 127 STRAND, LOI4PQ , ( d ~..._____. lIIt rem TR. ING S( t h e Can tease 5 0 7 0 i Lamb . : .......... tot ; Hai , Si. 10s to 31. 158. Od• I W--- --. 1. 6 sil - di. O g DUMFRIES MARKETS.--AP,- li, ot o l l s. •.' it I ... ' Wheat, Imp. Bush... 6 oto 6 6 Butter, Wog. ............ g 4 • el Barley ...... Oats ........ .......... ~.... (1 , Flour, 141 b. - ... 0 #l , Oatmeal ~... 0 Potatoes, cwt.......„, 1 6 2 0 Quartern Log"' ~te° long 1 3 r i We regret to observe that the weet i i. , , measure for establishing a daily estafette b rr sprofS and London appears not likely to he Pneed ij r it . s 0 S i V MRS. SHERIDAN'S NEW W rll L 9 biag; th 6 AND ENDS AND OONAGH LYNCH•" 74 ked U P 0 t more dramatic or more powerf y vicirl iin ti4,llo whole narrative of Oonagh c . 'The " a " Or P ',.. ilb stition, which is the on weakness in Oont o ogver k and truly feminine c racier—the ` l °" : ,: it .....t e il he death' which exists between the young c°° 9. ,,, - ,cette ,. ; Of:, rosity and fortitude of Sir Maurice—his dY: .. . n ° kept ,00 1 1 1 could only have been written by one who P `L ig l a ti ti s ". man's sad watch' in the lonely sick rohol , „; her, - be felt ful y by those who have watched h' beautifully described." — Times. 'd the' 1 BIRTH. ~j orf olic, . , On the Ist inst , at North Repps Becton , ' '' the Rev. P. L. Law, of a daughter. MARRIED. r _, 06 0 10 On the 10th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, AiZfivirfi,lp of the Middle Temple, t o Eliz a beth Sarah, ° tder Ve11 0 , 04 ter of the late William Sandey, Esq., C °Ta rbatht '`;',, liter ' At Christchurch, E. P. Wines, Esq., 13 `,. Lincoln.' hesigs youngest daughter of James Green, Esq. , °' ch- (tic, On the Otis inst., at the Subdeanery Chur ... ,!„5 0 11,. , ~ Urquhart, Esq., youngest son of the late ny_ v alY" - )11. 1 Esq., of Craigston, North Britain, to Mary r- , 37u""' ~d el lf of the Bishop of Chub •ster. W. K. itl? o ° On the 10th inst., at St. Martin's Church, ~,e l a te ~ 0 0 ) 4 to Mary Charlotte Manwaring, relict cif t.: o ,,partY ' O p William Manwaring, of the East India , 0 , , establishment. hire r 1.3 qt ,... > 3e On the Bth inst., at Yealmpton, Devonsouihter o Short, Esq., of Bickham, to Emily jane ' i tY• Richard Lane, of Coffleet, in the same cou s __ virsie DIED. Robe rS c ot * t Bath, . _ 0 On the 10th inst., in Rivers-strce ,_,, , 7 mo ntns• c o ~1 Shawe, son of Lieut. Jennings, 11.1 C, ag e " E li z .betb On the 24th ult., at Cheltenham, _ ivw shasv, E" l ' Dol' e ' youngest daughter of Thomas Brad On the lOs Is inst., in Bedford.squar e, daughter of MI. Justice Patteson, aged ___,.. on _ __of Oa the 22d ult., at Madeira, Andrew r;.','.. e 1 4 1 su I.r 1 1 ° H in e n o r n i t e h a s a . On the 6th inst., Mr. John Rayner, of ," the 1 4 ' Blackfriars. On ttie 2d inst. Mrs. Sarah Townsend,qwLdr:nattieldt •to Tharles Townsend, of the Salisbury Arm A.. . 41 if - ME i ncludi n g'ther Orig litW 1 Thi s y D tArti eula l 1( Thi, iortiet