The Sun. — London, England, 1830-04-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We observe, that in the precious association which Mr. O'Connell is attempting to found in Dublin, under the name of the Friends of Ireland," the Learned Gentleman cot plains of the unequal load of taxation which is borne by his oppressed and un happy country. Such a complaint required a con siderable command of voice and features to be made with gravity in any assembly of Great Britain or " the sister island," where the audience could count their fingers. The learned agitator himself, and his associates, during the discussion of the Catholic question, continually rung changes on the mighty host of " seven millions" who demanded the re- storation of their rights; and as the Protestants h a d nut entirely disappeared, though often uno e , r v e d in his estimates, he will probably allow thpt th ey add more than a million to the mass or Irishmen. We have thus more than 8,000,000 of people on the other side of St. George's Channel, who contri bute in taxes, for the general support of our na tional establishments, about 4,000,000/. ster- ling a year, or about ten shillings a-head. Ey such a rate of assessment the whole revenue of the empire should not exceed 10,000,000/. or 12,000,000/. Now, what is the fact ? The Chan . cellor of the Exchequer will not be satisfied with less than 50,000,0001., and could not with less main tain those establishments and fulfil those obligations ♦vhich Parliament annually sanctions. The inference is plain, that Great Britain pays in taxes more than ten times the amount of Ireland, though its popu lation does not rise to double Mr. O'Connell's eight millions." The contributions of Ireland, though probably enough for its resources, are thus perfectly insignificant, compared with those of the empire to which it has the happiness of being joined. Probably one or two of the English counties—Lancashire or Yorkshire, for example— sends more money to the Exchequer than all the supplies which it receives from the west of the Irish Channel.' Nay, more: as this association has for one of its objects to procure the repeal of the Union, we may just hint that the necessary effect of such a measure (were it otherwise advisable or possible) would be to increase the burdens of Ire land, instead of diminishing them. Mr. O'Connell's "oppressed" countrymen not only pay less to the state than the other parts of the British em pire, but suffer less. fiscal .exaction than any other people of Europe. Though he were to traverse every kingdom, from Lisbon to Constantinople, he would not find 8,000,000 of people lower taxed than his countrymen. In France, the rate of taxa tion, compared with the number of inhabitants, is thrice that of Ireland ; in the Netherlands the dis proportion is still greater : and even in the misgo verned dominions of Don Miguel, more is wrung from the .retched peasants, the church, and nobi lity, in proportion to their numbers, than is sup plied by the trade and property of our Irish fellow subjects. It is thus evident that a separation of the kingdoms, and the restoration of an independent legislature to Ireland, would have the effect of ren dering necessary a new and a higher rate of contri bution, unless England should openly consent to support establishments destined for Irish use. Every year we should be entitled to examine the Irish budget, and to compare its separate expenditure with its separate revenue. Every year we should be obliged to listen to complaints on this side the water, that the Irish debt was increasing, and the Irish Treasury empty. Every year the dispropor tion of burdens would excite more notice, though perhaps its effects would not be more felt. If, there fore, " the Friends of Ireland" think cheap govern merit a blessing, and increased taxation a calamity, let them beware of Mr. O'Connell and his anti union nostrum.— Times. The feuds which exist in almost every parish in the kingdom with respect to the management of parochial funds, the gross abuses committed by the Jobbing Vestries, who treat with contempt the complaints of the parishioners, indicate the exist ence of defects in the parochial organization of this country. All sorts of systems are in operation; but however much they differ in other respects, in one they agree—namely, the impossibility of subjecting the office bearers to a proper audit. In most of the country parishes the accounts are hardly ever ren dered in an intelligible manner; and we are assured by a gentleman extensively acquainted with rural 'natters, that from the manner in which the accounts are kept, the overseers are often themselves igno rant whether they have pail less or more than the SUMS received by them. In a petition presented to the House of Commons, on the Sth February last, by George Gunning, of Frendsbury, Kent, a Lieute nant on half-pay, of his Majesty's Ist Regiment of Dragoon Guards (Appendix to Votes, p. 7), he prays" that the House will be graciously pleased to amend. the poor laws, by pass►ng a law to oblige all parishes to keep their accounts in one fixed form, showing particularly the cause of the want of relief by the out-door poor; the accounts also to state dis• tinctly, under separate heads, the whole expenditure of the money raised for the use of the poor; all ac counts to be passed in open Vestry, every month ; and every three months an abstract to be furnished to the Quarter Sessions," &c. We remember hearing the late Lord Londonderry state, that in the parish in which he resided, the parish matters were managed by a female, who troubled herself very little with accounts of any kind. The Jobbing Vestries, mis called Select Vestries, are utterly indefensible. The Select Vestry system, under the Act of Mr. Sturges Bourne, is less defective; but still there is g►eat room for abuse under its provisions. The Local Acts have generally been framed by those interested in the per petuation of abuses, and, with few exceptions, the Vestries existing under them racy be called jobbing Vestries. In our account of the proceedings at Islington on Tuesday, our readers saw the working of one of the Local Acts. Under that Act, Trus tees are appointed to manage the parochial funds, and Auditors to examine their accounts. It would appear, that—First, The Trustees are bound to print the audited accounts. Second, If, at the election of officers, a ballot be demanded, it is to take place the day after the meeting of the Vestry ; and the votes are to be taken according to the provisions of Sturges Bourne's Act, in proportion to the value of each man's house in the parish books. Third, Questions relating to the election of officers are to be decided by a show of hands. The object of printing the audited accounts was, of course, to enable every person interested to see how the pa rochial funds were administered. To print the ac counts without the remarks of the Auditors, was to run counter to the object of the Act, for it was de priving the parishioners of the information for the furnishing of which the auditors were appointed. In this parish, however, because the Auditors dis allowed some items in the Accounts, the Trustees printed their accounts without the annexed remarks of approbation of part of the items, and disapproba tion of others, made by these Auditors on their males. The first moment the Auditors come into collision with the Trustees, they are set aside, and the provision for securing to the parishioners full reformation respecting their affairs is defeated. At the Annual Vestry, on Monday, the first motion made was by one of the Auditors, that the election of Trustees for the coming year be postponed till the printing of the accounts, with the Auditors' remarks. In consequence of disagreeme►lt as to the number on the show of hands, the mover proposed the two parties should move to different sides of the Church; when the Churchwarden determined that the votes should be. taken in the Vestry, in propor tion to the value of each man's house in the parish books. Tay this method the Trustees had a ma jority. It oas been observed, that, by the Act, if at the election of officers a ballot be demanded, it is to take place the day after the meeting of the Vestry. We have seen that a show of hands was not allowed by the Churchwarden in the case of the motion of the Auditor. This motion having been disposed of, the election of Trustees came on next, and when a ballot was demanded (the Act, as we have stated above, appointing a ballot the day after the meeting, if it I.)e demanded at the election of officers), the Churchwarden in the Chair determined that the Trustees were not officers of the parish, and ti at therefore a ballot could not be allowed on their election, and they were accordingly chosen by a show of hand'. When the Trustees were to be chosen, the Churchwarden decided that they were not officers of the parish, and therefore that the question was not to be decided by a show of hands (which is the rule for other business than the elee- Lion of officers by the Act), and when the question was for a postponement of the Election, he then de cided that the sense of the Vestry should be taken in that mode which is provided solely for the elec tion of officers, namely, pro rata. The reason for the decision may, in both cases, be guessed without much difficulty. Postponement would have left him and his co-trustees in a minority. We have entered thus minutely into the case of this parish to show how worthless are any of the securities that have been devised for the protection of the parishioners, where the temptation to mismanage ment is great. The officers of Islington have not, indeed, such/princely revenues to dispose of as the Vestry of Marylebone ; but still much may be made of 25,0001. a year. This jobbing, it is to be re membered, is going on more or less in almost every parish of the kingdom. In the Appendix to a work just published, by Lieut.-Colonel Briggs, of the Madras Army, on " the present Land Tax in India, considered as a measure of Finance," there is an extract from a law promulgated on the 14th March, 1814, for the village Municipalities of Wurtemberg, which might be of great advantage to those of our Legislators Who really sish to introduce some thing like purity into ourparochial administrations Every village and town forms a commune. . . . Every individual and every description of property within the limits of the township is amenable to its laws, unless especially exempted. -A-; A A A " The affairs of the township shall be entrusted to a Common Council, which shall consist of not less than seven, and not more than twenty-one members. " The members of the Council shall be elected by the Commune, according to a majority of votes.—[Every adult male enjoying civil rights is entitled to vote. The vote is given in writing, and put into a box, which is opened in public, and the successful candidates are an nounced.l The Council represents the interests of the village in its relations with tke Government; its duty is to protect the people from external encroachments, and from internal disorder. " Every village or town elects its Mayor, or Chief, who is ex-officio Chairman of the Council. • • • • e • " The Mayor receives a salary from the village, which is paid out of the common fund. " The duties of the Mayor ure to maintain public order and security; to superintend the police, bath for the secu rity of the community and for the benefit of the Govern ment; to execute the laws; to assist and expedite the pour and helpless ; to give information and assistance to strangers; to prevent all acts of injustice and oppression ; to superintend and act for the welfare of the village ; to direct the management of its affairs in concert with the Council, and to prevent abuses. [The same duties, the same office, and the same mode of election, are common throughout most parts of Germany.] • • • • " The Council shall elect a Public Record Keeper, whose office lasts for life ; he, like the Mayor, shall be paid out of the common fend. " The Council shall have the management of the funds of the Corporation, and elect a Treasurer from amongst its Members, who shall superintend and examine the ac counts. " The Council shall decide on the best mode of manag ing the public funds, and shall judge of the necessity of tsll charges in the most frugal manner; or the employment of the surplus funds; and ' in case of deficit on the mode of raising means to defray the expanses. • _ _ • • • • " The Mayor shall form the annual Budget of the Com mune, and submit it first to the Counsel, subsequelitly - to the Committee, and eventually to the Government. • • • • • • • " Every year the public accounts shall be closed, and read by the Registrar, in the absence of the Treasurer, to the assembled commune, and shall be left in possession of the Council for eight days. They shall then be submitted to the Village Committee, with the necessary vouchers, which is bound to return them to the Council within one month, with any remarks it may think necessary. • A 0 4 " The Community takes no immediate concern in the public affairs, nor cen it assemble without being sum moned by the Mayor; but it has a right to elect a perma nent Committee to controul the acts of the Council. " The Committee consists of the same number of mem bers as the Council ; it is elected for two years. w • ar • I * " The Council is obliged to obtain the consent of the Committee of Controul in the following cases : " 1. In the formation of theßudget and the Assessment. " 2. In the defraying of any Expences. " 3. On the occasion of forming all Contracts on account of the village which are not put up to public auction ; espe cially should the contest to be made with a Member of the Council. " 4. On remunerating the Members of the Connell for extra services. " 5. On remitting balances due to tke village. " 6. In all charges whatsoever of the public disburse ments on the public funds. " When the Council and Committee of Controul cannot agree on any matter, ro change shall take place. " The Committee, on examining the Budget, shall he competent to annex any remarks it may have to make on the general state of the community and its concerns." • ♦ • •0 How superior the organization of these commu nities to anything we have in this country. Here every thing is anarchy, or irresponsibility. By this scheme, the people are deprived of what they never can discharge with advantage—the power of delibe ration on the parochial affairs ; while they have full scope in electing those who have to execute and deliberate. Care again is taken, by the appoint ment of a Committee, that the Council or Parlia ment of the Communes shall not exceed its powers. --In our parishes time is neither Exectuive nor Council. One of the Churchwardens is always a creation of the Parson, and hostile to the parishioners, and the Overseers hurry through their task the test way they can. All the functions assigned to the Mayor of the Commune in Wurtemburg are in Eng land assigned to no one. If a Churchwarden or Overseer have a relation an attorney, the parish funds are liberally expended in prosecutions and liti gation in general. But in general individuals are left to protect themselves as they best can.—Morn ing Chronicle. When the greater part of the public press, " No , - - - - vitatis avida, ; " was crying up the New police as a wonder-working system, from which marvellous re sults, in the way of the preservation of public order and diminution of crime, were likely to ensue, we ventured to avow ourselves of a different opinion; and though we were not prepared to admit that even the end could justify the means, we gave our reasons for thinking that neither the means nor the end were such as the public were, or had a right to be, satisfied with. We never denied that the Old Police had not become ineffective, and, therefore, that it did not cal! for reform in all its branches ; but we thought that, in police as well as politics, reform and revolution were very different remedies, and that it did not follow that, because abuses were suffered to grow up and exist in a constitutional system, that, therefore, an unconstitutional one should be substituted in its stead. Upon this principle, the abuse of any good is only to be remedied by the adoption of an opposite evil. We believe we are not now singular, as we were then, in the opinions we entertained. We were asked to wait and see how the system worked. We did not wait, it is true, because we objected to the principle of the thing; but it has been left to work, and what has been and is the result ? Why, that the public ale daily filled with alarm and annoyance by that which was to have been their comfort and safeguard, and that the time both of the Magistrate and the Courts seems to be nearly as much occupied in looking after and judging of the conduct of police men, as it i s i n punishing those whose crimes and excesses they are appointed to prevent and controul. e do not feel at all inclined to attach blame to those who have had the direction of the system, who on the contrary, instead of screening offenders from Justice) or sanctioning their misconduct,',have actually, as y we are informed, discharged no less than between' bop and 600 of these men within the few months which have elapsed since their first appearance among us. Must there not, then, we would con.l fidently ask, be something radically wrong in a system which works so ill, and which gives such great and increasing dissatisfaction ? We will not venture to point out any means of improvement, though there obviously are means by which it might be rendered less objectionable; for we should hold ourselves to blame were we to lend our aid in ren dering that less unpopular which is radically wrong; but this we will say, that the substitution of a m►li tary for a civil force ; that a system which makes its agents dependent upon the Government alone, and not upon their fellow-citizens; and one under which (as the present Old Bailey Sessions are, we hear, likely to testify) crime has nearly doubled instead of being diminished, is not one to which a country having any regard for free institutions is ever likely to be reconciled, more especially if it happen, as this does, not only to dip more deeply into the pockets of the public than that which it has su pplanted, but also to interfere in an exceeding arb►trary and hitherto unknown manner with the common com forts and conveniences of a free people.—Moriting Herald. The rumour is again revived of it being the in tention of Government to abolish the office of Viceroy of Ireland—not in the current but most probably in the next Session of Parliament. Eco nomy is the order of the day ; and, as our illustrious rulers are of opinion that small savings in money can alone save the nation, it would not surprise us to see the same sort of pruning applied to Ireland which is pursued towards Scotland. The Duke of Wellington, who owes his fame and his estates to the profusion and liberality of his country, is him self a miserly Statesman where the interests of other persons are concerned ; and, in order to make an atonement for that extravagant expenditure wasted on himself, is desirous to practise the cheese-paring system upon those who are less fortunate and affluent than the hero of Waterloo. We should like, however, to see him commence this severe economy nearer home. If he were really desirous to benefit his country he would re duce the double salaries of those who are over paid, who fill situations for which they are evidently incapacitated, and receive military pay with one hand and the wages of the civilian with the other. In the practical part of this virtuous frugality and patriotism the Noble Duke should lead the way and set us an example. The salary of the Minister is ample. It was considered sufficiently so by Lord Liverpool and by Mr. Canning—the former a more honest, the latter a more able, Minis ter than Arthur Duke of Wellington. Mr. Perceval had more talents, and was incorruptible, although he had not one-fifth of the income of the present Premier. Pitt died insolvent—Fox never had a clear sixpence of his own in his life—Canning died poor—which facts prove that a rich Minister is not always the most successful or most independent Statesman, but, on the contrary, that a poor Minis ter may be a more able and faithful public servant than one rolling in wealth, increasing his daily gains, and laying the foundation of a for tune far more splendid than that of any nobleman or prince of the blood in England. Why, in the name of all that is just, should Sir George Murray derive more money from the public purse than ever Pitt or Perceval did during the zenith of their ministerial career ? Why should Sir Henry Her hinge be better paid than was the late Lord Lou. donderry, or Lord Rosslyn receive in hard cash for doing absolutely nothing, for being as useless as an emboweiled crab, a larger sum than the entire pro duce of the excise in the county to which he be longs ? The Ministers cry economy loud enough, God knows, but not one dolt will they disgorge themselves. They can cut and slash among the salaries of poor clerks, who have drudged the greater portion of their lives for a miserable pittance; but they can pocket their sinful and undeserved thou sands without a blush, without a feeling of grati tude, without caring a straw for the sufferings of the people. This conduct has an ugly and repul sive look. It is reprehensible in the extreme, and must fill every sensible or generous mind with dis girst.—Morning Journal. We had put into our hands yesterday one of those things denominated " A Supplement to the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons," which, on the present occasion, contains the Reso lutions of the Committee of the Honourable House, for effecting an alteration in the Stamp Duties. The thing extends altogether over ninety-three folio pages, and in point of weight—for we had the curiosity to have it weighed—amounts, within a trifle, to an imperial pound ! We had thought that the present age was one of improvement and of the march of intellect—of simplification, instead of complexity—of reduction, instead of increase of duties ; but the " thing," for it deserves no better name, which is now before us, would go far to prove that, instead of advancing, we are decidedly retro grading. Nothing, in fact, can be conceived more truly confused, inexplicable, and, in conse quence, more barbarous and troublesome, than the definitions of Stamp duties which have received the first fiat of the House of Com mons, but which, we trust, Will be thrown out on the first opportunity of examining them. There is, on the one hand, no comparative table of the old and new ditties, by which to judge of the in crease and decrease of the stamp duty ; and on the other, there appears to be a determination to grasp at every thing which can possibly be the subject of a tax, which shuts any thing but a knowledge of those sound principles of financial calculation which ought to regulate the imposition of taxes. The schedule cf law stamps alone extends, for example, over nearly fifty pages ; while in the matter of drugs, patent medi eines, &c. —or, to speak generally, of those articles which are generally vended by chemists, apo thecaries, and druggists—we have a list extending over thirteen folio pages, which would set even a Chancery lawyer's bill at defiance, and from which no other benefit can be derived than that of incon veniencing the public, and putting money in the pocket of the Solicitor of Stamps. It would be useless to enumerate all the items in this grand affair of a change in the stamp duties—our paper indeed is not sufficient for the purpose—or all the omissions, in point of sound policy, which we can trace in it ; but we cannot help expressing our re gret, on looking over the schedule of newspaper duties, that there is not only no decrease of them for the benefit of the public, but, on the contrary, an increase, for the apparent benefit of the Trea sury, but which will, assuredly, turn out to its dis advantage. The fourpenny duty on every news paper, and the three-and-six-penny duty on every advertisement, are still to be conti nued—the one being a direct tax upon the spread of knowledge, or rather a direct barrier in its way; and the other tending in a man ner which cannot be calculated to diminish the amount of commercial transactions. If the Chancellor uf the Exchequer were wise he would diminish the stamp duty on newspapers one-half, and the duty on advertisements in a still greater ratio. Both taxes would then be more productive than they are now, and the public be at the same time greatly benefitted; for there can be no greater mistake, in so far as the Treasury is concerned, than to imagine that its coffers will be filled by the conti nuance of excessive duties. The very opposite of this doctrine is not only demonstrable, but has been demonstrated, again and again, in a manner not to be contradicted. Why, then, injure at once both the public and the revenue, by continuing a system which is alike injurious to both ? The Chancellor p o n n t e h w e s ppaupbel public, and do not of the Exchequer is egregiously m i sta k en , if he imagines that these taxes s t e rtthm but u e fall upon and upon the re venue ; and before hi s schedule is, atfdtl i sanc tioned by the fiat of a law, we t rus t t h a t he will be convinced that such is the case.—ilforning Advertiser. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Arait 14. REDKNAP V. MOUNTAIN. This was an action by a waterman against Mr. Mountain, the proprietor of the City Arms Tavern, at the foot of H a mmersmith-bridge, to recover da mages for false imprisonment. Mr. TALFOURD, for the plaintiff, called witnesses to prove that at the instance of the defendant the plaintiff had been taken into custody, imprisoned in the cage at Hammersmith for one day, and after wards taken before Sir Richard Birnie at 'Bow street, on an unfounded charge of having been en gaged, with others, in creating a disturbance oppo si!e the defendant's house. _ _ . The defendant, under a plea of justification, called witnesses to prove that the plaintiff had been engaged with others in creating a disturbance in front of the defendant's house, and was obstructing the footpath at the time the constable, by desire of the defendant, interfered. The Jury, after a little hesitation, found;for the plaintiff—Damages, Is. _ _ PONVIS V. OItGILL. This was an action by the Hon. Miss Powis, against the proprietor of the Gloucester-coffee-house booking-office, Oxford -street, to recover the value of a quantity of wearing appel, sent in a box, and booked at the defendant's office to be forwarded into the country, and, as alleged, through the defendant's negligence not delivered at the proper coach-office. The Jury found for the plaintiff—Damages 101. SPRING ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. GLOUCESTER, Aram 12. Thomas Gibbons was indicted for feloniously ob taining, at the Post-office at Painswick, in this county, on the 24th of September last, a letter di rected to James Woolley, containing half a sove reign.—The Jury found him Guilty. Mr. Baron BOLLAND said it was necessary, for the protection of the public, that frauds upon the Post-office should be punished with severity, and sen tenced the prisoner to be transported for seven years. Thomas Harding, aged 24, was indicted under Lord Lansdowne's late Act, for aiding and abetting one Robert Street in stabbing Mr. Samuel Dunn, with intent to murder. The prisoner was acquitted. The Learned BARON (addressing Harding) said, " You have behaved most improperly in this affair, and you see the difficult and dangerous situation you brought yourself into. One talks of using a knife, and the other uses one! This is cruel and cowardly conduct, and has only crept into this country of late years. I hope it will soon be put an end to : an Englishman ought to despise it 1" Alexander Taylor, a boy eleven years old, whose bead was scarcely seen above the bar, was capitally indicted for entering the dwelling-house of Captain Itooke, at Saint Briavel's, in this county, and steal ing two snuff-boxes, and other articles. The Jury, under his Lordship's direction, found the prisoner guilty of the larceny. The learned BARON would consider what should be done with him. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Huggins, was brought be fore the LORD MAYOR, charged on suspicion with having stolen five silver pheasants, of the most beau tiful description, value about 251. The owner of the silver pheasants (a German) had had the birds, whose feathers were beautiful beyond description, from China, and he did not knew what profits they might not have produced to him. As soon as he learned they were stolen, he went to the Zoological gardens and other places to look for them, but he could not find them. The prisoner denied that he knew any thing about the birds, and was remanded for further exa mination. BOW-STREET. Yesterday morning Mr. Thomas, the superin tendent of police, appeared before Sir R. BIRNIR and Mr. HALLS, attended by a young woman,whom he introduced to the Magistrates as the wife of In spector Ouseley, why had been attached to his (Ma. Thomas's) division, and whose absence, under cir cumstances which he was about to repeat, was the cause of the present application. Mr. Thomas then proceeded to state, that Ouseley had absented him self from his duty for some days, without having assigned any cause for so doing. It was subse quently discovered, however, that he had eloped with the daughter of Mr. Kidder, the highly• respectable silversmith in the Strand, leaving his wife and two children entirely destitute of support, and taking with him the sum of 1,0201., which had beon placed to his credit in the Bank of England. His unfortunate wife and children are thus thrown upon► the parish, and the object of his (Mr. Thomas's) application was, that they might obtain an order to a(hnit them to the workhouse. Mr. HALLS said that the wife should certainly have an order for the admission of herself and chil dren to the workhouse, and the Proper step to take would be to advertise her husband, giving a full de scription of his person, and stating that he had de serted his wife and children. The poor woman, who seemed to be dreadfully affected, then retired with Mr. Thomas. Ouseley, it appears, is the son of Lieut.-Colonel R. Ouseley, who also holds the rank of Lieutenant- General in the Portuguese service, and who is nearly related to Sir Gore and Sir William Ouseley. About six years ago he married Ws present %rife, who is the daughter of a coal-heaver, and since that time he has been discarded by his father. About three years ago lie was appointed a street-keeper in the Strand, between Cecil-street and Charing-cross; and when the new police was formed he obtained the situation of inspector, from his former good conduct, and the known respectability of his con nexions. lie was said to be in high estimation with his superiors, and would probably have been promoted had he remained in the service. He is a very good-looking young man, and previous to his late appointment had prepared himself for an appear ance on the stage, to which line of life he had al ways, it is said, a strong predilection. It is sup posed that the unfortunate partner in his flight was not aware that he was a married man. She is a very pretty young woman, scarcely 18 years of age. It was not stated that she had possessed herself of any of her father's property ; but the rash step which she has taken bus plunged her family into the deepest distress. A reward, we believe, will be offered for Ouseley's apprehension. Mr. Zachariali, of the firm of Zachariah and Noora, importers of German goods, Hanway-street, Oxford-street, waited upon Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HAus, with the view to obtain a warrant against two parties whom he charged with felony. He had, he said, applied to Mr. Minshull a few days back on the same subject, and upon hearing his strize went that Magistrate at first consented to grant him a warrant, but afterwards changed his mind, and declined to interfere in the matter. He now begged to renew his application, and would state the grounds upon which it rested. He had received, from one of the parties whom he charged, his acceptance for 201., in part payment of goods delivered. The bill became due on Saturday fortnight, and he (Mr. Zachariah) sent his clerk to the acceptor for pay ment, who requested that it might be held over till the Monday, when lie promised to call and take it u p, The acceptor and drawer of the bill accord ingly came to Hanway-street on the day appointed, when the bill was shown to them by a clerk, under the impression that the amount was about to be paid. The moment, however, the drawer of the bill caught a glimpse of it in the hands of the clerk, he seized hold of it, and, assisted by the acceptor, succeeded in tearing away the' greater part of the document, leaving behind him the fragment which he (Mr. Zachariah) now produced. Under these circumstances, he had applied to Mr. Minshull for a warrant against the parties, but was refused it. Sir 11.131RNtE observed, that in his opinion Mr. Minsbun bad acted perfectly right in refusing to grant a warrant for felony under such circumstances. Mr. Zachariah—Then I shall most certainly apply to Mr. Peel on the subject. Sir R. BIRNIE—How can Mr. Peel assist you ? Mr. Zachariah—l shall lay my case before him, according to the advice I hare received. Mr. Ham. observed that there could be no ob jection to that course, but for his part he was clearly of opinion that there was no ground whatever for a charge of felony. Mr. Zachariah—And is there no redress, Sir, against the parties for forcibly possessing themselves of my property ? Mr. HALLS—I do not say you have no redress, but you certainly cannot obtain a warrant for felony. Sir R. BIRNIE—The Sessions are now holding, and you can if you please go down and indict the parties whom you charge with a conspiracy to de fraud you, in which form I think an indictment may be shaped. Mr. Zachariah should certainly adopt that course, not so much for the value of the bill as for the pur pose of punishing the parties whom he charged ; and he cared not what expense lie went to in effect ing that object, as the question was one which ' nearly affected the whole trading community. He then retired. Two young men, named William Watson and Benjamin Lazarus, were brought in custody from Hammersmith, charged upon suspicion of having been concerned in stealing from the till of Mr. Rogers, a baker of that place, the sum of 521. It appeared that Mr. Rogers had, a very short time before, handed 521. to his wife, with directions that she should pay it to the flour-factor, who was expected to call in the course of the evening. Mrs. Rogers accordingly took the money from her husband and placed it in the till of the shop. The two pri soners and another party (not yet in custody) were observed lurking about the door, under the pretence of selling pencils, and it is supposed that they ob served what had passed between Mrs. Rogers and her husband in the shop; for almost immediately after the money had been deposited in the till, the two prisoners entered the shop, and made a purchase of some biscuits, keeping Mrs. Rogers in conversa tion while the third man slipped round the counter unobserved, and with some instrument forced open the till and abstracted the 521. in question. The money was missed soon after the prisoners and their expert accomplice had left the shop, and notice hav ing been given of the robbery to the Hammersmith constables, an instant pursuit was made, which ended in the apprehension of the prisoners; but the prin cipal in the robbery managed to get clear off with his booty, he having given the coachman of Sir John Lilly (one of the Magistrates then holding a petty sessions near the spot) a shilling to give him a lift in his master's coach, which was proceeding towards London, by which means the fellow effectually eluded pursuit. Upon searching the prisoners, a cobler's awl was found upon the person of Watson, and there is reason for supposing that this was the instrument by which the till was forced open. The prisoners were taken before Sir John Lilly, one of the resi dent Magistrates, and underwent a long examina tion, and yesterday they were brought before Sir R. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, Sir John Lilly being also on the bench. _ _ . Sir R. BIRNIE closely questioned the prisoners, whom he examined separately, touching their pos session of the awl, but nothing material was elicited from their answers, and they were put back for re examination with directions that they should be - kept separate. The following characteristic epistle, received by Mr. Rogers a few days after the robbery, and writ ten no doubt by the party at large, was handed to the magistrates : " April 9, 1830. " have to inform you that your health has been drunk with three times three, upstanding and un covered, by the party that had the luck to get the few pounds out of your till. We likewise drank the health of the vigilant constables of Hammersmith and its vicinity, wishing there may be a Petty Session every week, and that the constables may be as drunk as they were on that day. The best way you can do to regain the aboVe sum; will be to make an extra dead man a day, which will soon put you all right. Your's was a very lucky hit, as I had not the price of a pint of porter in my pocket at the time. I shall visit Hammersmith again very soon ; and, if I have any luck, I will treat you with a bottle of the best wine the Bull and Anchor has in the house, and the wade-awake officers of the above place shall have a drain of gin. The blunt (money) is now nearly half gone, or you should have half a doze❑ wine sent you to drink my health. Your obedient servant, " ONE OF THE NEW POLICE IN DISGUISE." Mr. Rogers, it was stated, had very recently set up in business, and the loss of so large a sum has considerably deranged his affairs. MARYLEBONE. On Tuesday night Sophia Morgan, a young woman whose husband has been dead about four months, was charged before Mr. GRIFFITH with the wilful murder of an infant. C. R. Edwards, a serjeant of the New Police, Hampstead district, in consequence of private in formation, went that afternoon to the prisoner's room, No. 7, Suffolk -street, Battlebridge, and ac cused her of secreting the birth of and destroying a child. The prisoner said she was sorry for it, but it was now too late; she had done so, and she was delivered of it on Saturday fortnight. On search ing the premises, circumstances appeared which coincided with her confession, the body of a male child was found in the vault of the sewer, and it had a bruise on the left side of its head, which the ser jeant suspected had been occasioned by the blow of a hammer, which he found in the prisoner's room. Elizabeth Williams, an old woman, who took the nrisoner as a lodger, and slept in the same bed with her, was in the first instance placed by her side .at the bar as a confederate : but nothing coming for ward to implicate her, she was liberated, and her evidence was taken. The prisoner came to lodge with her four weeks before this affair happened; she suspected that she was in the family way, and told her so, and she de. nied it. On Saturday fortnight, the prisoner got up at six o'clock in the morning, to go, as she said, to work ; she returned again to her room in two hours, very ill, and she " looked like a corpse." The witness was alarmed, and sent for Dr. Wright, but he did not come, and the cause of her illness was not discovered until the body of the child was found. The prisoner :said she did not use any instrument to murder the child; it was accidentally killed by a fall in consequence of its birth being unexpected. The body was taken to St. Pancras workhouse, and examined by a surgeon, but its condition was such, that he could not form an opinion whether its death was occasioned by accident or not. The prisoner was remanded till this day. WORSHIP-STREET. Mary Murphy ,an Irish fruit-girl, vas finally ex amined before Mr.BENETT, ye;terday, charged with stealing la necklace and cap from the person of a little girl, named Davis, a species of robbery in which it appears she is an adept.—Committed. UNION-HALL. A youth, between 16 and 17 years of age, was brought up by Painter, the beadle of Bermondsey, to have an order of affiliation made upon him for the maintenance of an illegitimate child. There was an astonishing disparity between the ages of the parties, that of the reputed father being 16 years younger than the woman. She described that he was the father, and said they were residing in the same house together when the " misfortune' happened to her. The boy, on being asked whether he had any thing to say why he should not be adjudged the father, held down his head, and looked quite,sheepish. Mr. HONE—This woman is the seducer, and not the seduced, and she deserves punishment instead of the lad. Painter said that she was old enough to be the defendant's mother, but he had admitted the con nexion that had been between them. The Magistrates confirmed the order, but strongly recommended the parish-officers , to inetitutaotrd":ts", ceedings against her as a lewd woman, andiave her -- punished by imprisonment, for seducing such a youth. The parish officers promised to attend to the re commendation. ARRIVAL OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS IN SCOTLAND. Mary set sail for the country in which she was to assume a crown entwined with many thorns. Elizabeth had refused her a safe conduct ; and it is said that the English ships of war bad orders to intercept her. The widowed Queen of trance took a lingering and painful farewell of the fair country over which she had so lately reigned, with expressions of the deepest sorrow. A mist hid her galleys from the English fleet; and she arrived safely at Leith on the 19th of August, in the aforesaid year. Her subjects crowded to the beach to wel come her with acclamations ; but the prepara tions made for her reception had been too hasty to cover over the nakedness and poverty of the land. The Queen, scarcely nineteen years old, wept when she saw the wretched hackneys, still more miserably accoutred, which were provided to carry her and her ladies to Holyrood, and compared them in her thoughts to the fair palfreys with brilliant housings which had waited her commands in France. Upon her landing, her subjects, softened with the recollection of her early misfortunes, charmed with the excellence of her mien, the delicacy of her unrivalled beauty, the vigour of her bloom ing years, and the acuteness of her wit, were almost enraptured with joy. Some part of the reception afforded by their loyal zeal was well meant, but certainly ill chosen. Two or three hundred violinists, apparently amateur performers,. _ held a concert all night below her windows, and prevented her getting an hour's sleep after the fatigues of the sea. Mary, though suffering under the effects of this dire serenade, professed to receive the compliment of these "honest men of the town of Edinburgh" as it was intended, and even ventured to hint a wish that the con cert might be repeated.—Dr. Lard ner's Cabinet Encyclopedia, Vol. IV.; being Sir Walter - Scott's History of Scotland, Vol. 11. ' - THE MARKETS. COAL MARK Adair's - - 30 a. 01. Beaumont , 29 6 East Percy. _ 28 6 Heb3urn Main 33 6 30 3 Ord's Redhugh 26 9 Percy 31 Peiaw 3O 0 Pontop 27 0 27 6 I'antield 28 6 1•••••,0*.P.M../...... 28 6 Wvlsm 30 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 33 e Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 33 0 Ditto Bewieke and C 0..... 35 0 Walls End Brown's 82 3 Ditto Clarke and C 0..., 30 6 Walls End Carr and Co. 29 0 Ditto Gosforth Ditto 35 9 Ditto Hilda 32 Is ships at market, 65%-Sti ET.—April Walls End Newmareb...'33s. od. Ditto Hotspur 32 Ditto Northumberland 32 3 Ditto 30 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 32 6 , Ditto Russell's 36 Ditto Walker 34 6 Beamish S. Moor 26 3 Lambton's Primrose .. 34 6 Walls End Hetton 37 0 Walls End Lambton..... 36 6 Walls End Stewart's ... 36 0 Russell's Hatton's W.E. 37 0 Cowpeu 28 6 Cresswell.—,, 55 0 Fordel 30 0 Hartley SO 0 Stone Coal Drim* 40 0 Silkstone 3O 0 Wall's End Elgin .......—. 30 0 Walls End Selby ......... 30 0 Hebburn small 22 0 ips sold, 33%—Unsold, 30 . COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. S. to S. S. to s. t. s. 55 62 32 38 21 32 - 42 Andoler 55 65 22 34 20 23 -- 52 Birmingham 56 C 6 32 38 28 30 5S Bridport 56 '74 32 39 26 30 54 Cirencester 48 65 20 37 18 23 40 54 86 36 40 26 39 46 Guildford 43 74 24 35 20 30 42 Henley 54 83 30 35 20 30 40 Hereford 64 84 38 45 36 40 6 0 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 56 Maidenhead 65 84 29 38 22 90 5 1 Oakingham 56 76 SO 96 18 32 42 Reading 41 86 18 41 16 SI 44 56 68 27 37 20 28 50 Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 32 42 Stroud Tewkesbury 65 78 40 42 30 38 44 Uxbridge CS 71 21 32 19 32 4 8 Wantage. 46 '73 20 36 16 29 44 Warminster 40 74 21 42 24 50 -... 46 Windsor 48 84 26 31 15 28 40 Worcester—..........— 60 65 32 36 24 26 52 CHELTENHAM MA RKET.— April 13. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 0 0 Pease Hay 31. lbs. to 3/. 15s. per ton. LEWES MARKET.—. White Wheat (yer quarter) £3 kpril 19. d 0 to ZS 19 0 203 8 0 8 0 1 14 0 301 4 0 10 0 2 2 0 0 0 per thousand. Red ditto - 3 Barley Oats, New 1 Beans ll' Oil Cake. New EXETER M A: Reef (score) Ss. 6d. 9s. Od. glutton (lb.) ...... 0 5 —0 6 Veal and Lamb 0 4 —0 6 Park 0 4 —0 6 Geese (each) 3 6 —5 0 Ducks (couple) 4 0 —5 0 Fowls.. 3 0 —4 0 tKETS.—ApriI 9. Wheat (bushel), Bs.6d. Oa 01. Barley .3 9 —4 6 Oats 2 6 —3 6 Beans 5 o—s 6 Butter (Ib) I 1 —1 3 Eggs (20) 0 0 0 Potatoes (peck) OlO —1 0 ' HULL _MARKET. 7 -April 13. There is only a moderate snpply of Wheat to this day's market, for the best samples of which the millers give an advance of Is. per quarter, although the trade is by no means lively, and the business transactions limited. There are some further arrivals from abroad, the quality of which is fine, but the importers generally are asking higher prices than can at present he afforded ; there has, consequently; been very little passing : there was al , o a thin attendance of buyers here, and the market closed dull. For ware housed parcels very little demand, anti no alteration in value. There is an inquiry after Oats, but not many of fering, and the prices of last week fully maintained. Dry Beans are scarce, and would sell well ; soft ones unal tered in value. There is not much Barley offering, and good parcels sell at Is. per quarter more than last week, although the demand is not very extensive. Linseed with out alteration. Rapeseed dull sale at last week's prices: Wheat, Old —s. 60s. 70s. New —s. 565. 63i. Foreign —s. 635. 70s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —s. 2os. 245. ......01d......... —s. —s. 269. Small or Feed —s 12s. 18s. Foreign —s. 209. 239. Barley, Norf. Sr Sut. ... —a. 30a. 363. Line. & Wold 2g s. 343. - Foreign .„. Beans 345. 365. 404. Foreign --A. 30s. 3:311 —s. :lis 395. Grey Pease, White —a —B. —s. Tares —s 365. Foreign —s. 265. 305. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —l. 2SI. 311. RKETS.-April 7. DUMFRIES MA. s. d. 8.6. s. d. s. d Wheat, Imp. Bush... 9 0 to 7 6 Butter, I6oz 0 oto 0 0 Barley 3 4 3 6 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 4 Oats 2 5 3 2 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 2 2 4 Veal 0 3 0 4 Potatoes, cwt. COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. IMPORTED, ISame pe- This nod last year. year. Bags, &e. Bags, Eke. I Bags, &e. Liverpool 191,153 £21,242 100 London 4,150 10,98:2 .75 Glasgow 13,414 7,870 Total exported in 18;:0 8,761. Same period 1929 21,434. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst. the lady of Henry Hyndmau, E'l7' 22, Fludyer-street, Westminster, of a son. On the 12th inst. at Blithtield House, Staffordslrite, the Hon. Mrs. Newton Lane, of a son. On the 13th inst. in Highbury-grange, Mrs. hare Stride, of a son. On the 14th inst. at Kentish-town, the fife of Mr. E. Drew, stationer, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst. at Bow, John, son of Mr. Constable, of Wormingford-hall, Essex, to Charlotte Eliza, the daughter of the late Mr. Parmenter, of Be'champ Orton, in the same county. DIED. On the 13th inst. Frances, wife of Mr. F. Devry, of Clapham-rise. On the 13th inst. at Coventry, Mr. J. Bill, of Coleman street, London, in his 39th sear.. PLLINTEZ AND PUBLII,III3D BY ,iIIURL) 0 YOUNG, TDB SUN OF/NA 112, 5T11.4%1114 LONDON EX PORTED. Previcui ly this year. Bags, Ea. 2,043 4,492 \ .--••••...'...' ' 2 GONTI vi TH h THURSI ceive TI followin tualliag One Hut R U M., fort T o Four y Hu and Hu, And FR Ramp mitt b, the Sys ften lit Lack Mi tt be i and the hi i wha 2 ' o Tli !erred o Trust of the ( We Rag TO TB II II) eituatioi press inn oonfern anxious dation the moi 16, TO Ti A` ing dal offered been it to my 1 in (led Ballot, and to already succesi To t I beg t at the the fuss rector rny abi 136} TO T 1 great my w Et Oni Louth 11, Carp LoN 1414.1K-e -ht,1,4 1,14 '1 4 41 fora, Only fur t„, Cop plOl on t 20,