The Sun. — London, England, 1830-08-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JO' The situation of Spain has for some time past excited an interest at once powerful and general throughout Europe. We have no hesitation in affirming it to be unquestionable, that an entire over throw of the tyranny of " Ferdinand the perildiouti" is now on the point of taking place. Those who are not accurately informed with -regard to the Spaniards seem disposed to found their anticipa tion of this great and happy occurrence on the recent establishment of constitutional liberty on the other side of the Pyrenees. They are alto gether deceived. The destruction of that horrible system under which Spain has groaned ever since (with one short interval) the restoration of the Bourbons to the Sovereignty of France, was ac tually prepared, and would, in a very few months, perhaps a few weeks, have been accomplished, although Charles X. bad still kept possession of his throne. Spain in 1822-23 was torn to pieces by faction, overrun by is French army of 100,00() men, discouraged by the menaces of Ruesia, and we must add, though with shame and self-reproach, was be trayed by the paltry and unmanly policy of the Bri tish Government of that period. There is no form of hatred, persecution, or barbarous vengeance, to which the friends of liberty in Spain have not been subjected from that day to the present. Powers more odious and intolerable than those of the Inqui sition have been abused with worse _than inquisito rial cruelty by the civil functionaries of the Court : all the most respectable men who were permitted or compelled to remain in their country were trampled on; the most fortunate of the Spaniards— those considered the most formidable—were pro scribed and banished. But Mr. Canning never made a mistake so deplorable, as in believing that freedom could be more highly appreciated by the Portuguese than by the Spanish nation. Had the constitutional Spaniards found only Spaniards to contend with, they would have made a somewhat dif ferent stand from that which was displayed by the patriots of Portugal on the Douro. It was heart less, as well as inconsistent, to taunt the people of Spain with indifference to the rights of freemen, when their earnestness in the cause had been alleged by the Holy Alliance as a sufficient motive for commanding an enormous French army to at tack their territory, and reduce them to bondage. The nation, however, was not annihilated. From the hour at which the last French division marched homewards—we suspect before it—an• active and well-managed correspondence has been carried on through all the provinces of the Peninsula ; and the brave and distinguished exiles in foreign lands have willingly answered the invitations of their country men to Join them in striking one more blow for free dom. The consequence was painted without exag geration, as we are informed, in a letter from one of our Paris Correspondents on Wednesday last, where the writer asserts, on the authority of Perth nand himself, that the people were against him---the army devoted to the constitutional chiefs, even the bulk of the tyrant's own Guards disaffected towards him, and no chance of safety left for the estimafile race of Spanish Bourbons, but the march of another French army to their support. It cannot, there fore, be alleged with any justice to the constitutional Spaniards, that they took their cue from France, or that their enterprise for the redemption of their noble country was but an offehot from the victory of the French people. The fact is, that Spain was already ripe. The Polignac Government, however well inclined, durst not form another cordon sanitaire, or despatch another army to destroy the Spaniards. The constitutional leaders resident in Spain, assisted or directed by the more distinguished of the exiles, were waiting but the signal to begin. The Amin's sliders of the goodly Ferdinand in England and else where, were driven to desperation by the proofs which reached them of the magnitude of the enter prise, and of the sagacity and energy with which it bed been planned and prosecuted under tremendous embarrassments; and the most atrocious measures were pressed upon certain Governments by these minions of the Carmine, for the unlawful treatment of Many noble.minded men,, on whom Ferdinand, while he refused them admissiOrt to Spain, invoked severe punishments for their endeavours to reach it through some channel independent of his pleasure. It is only fair to acknowledge, nevertheless, that if the Spaniards had prepared thetnaelves to act, without waiting for any impulse from Paris, the glorious example which has been set them in that capital must infinitely facilitate and expedite the success of their own national project. There is now in France a Government from which liberty, at home or abroad, has nothing, we trust, of which to be apprehensive. Vainly will the tyrant apeal to the " Citizen-King," who occupies the alais Royal, for support. A single regiment or dered to the Pyrenees on suspicion merely of such a purpose, would hurl Louis Philip from his yet ues steady eminence. But there is a colour, we find, given to the cause of the Spanish Constitutionalists, which is not merely ratio, but full of danger. It has been' said, that instead of Spain being hence forth, as formerly, dragged along at the chariot wheels of whoever may be reigning King of France, she will be guided by her sympathies with the French " people." We believe no such thing. We are satisfied that the sympathy of Spaniards is with Spain, and with Spain only,—that the genuine and sole aim of the movers of Spanish liberty, is to make their country independent—thoroughly inde pendent—of France, of Austria, 'Russia, England, or any other power; and as there is nothing servile hi the plans of the Constitutionalists, (we speak from good authority), so is there nothing extrava gant or wild. They are one and unconvinced of the manifold errors exhibited in the constitution of the Cortes. Their first wish is to shun such errors, The Constitution of England, so far as may be practi cable for Spain, is, we understand, the model which they hope to imitate. They must have a King so checked and controulled, that he cannot, if he would, betray the interests of his subjects). Verdi:teed, they are income if they suffer again to deceive them. But whoever may be their Sovereign, his nails must be pared. The constitutional Spaniards are well aware of the blunder that was formerly committed, in the creation of a single legislative assembly. There arcs in Spain o large body of, noblemen possessed of great landed nod other property, 10-20ths of them warmly attached to the principles of a free constitutional monarchy; this distinguished and most useful dos of Men was 111.)" loudly thrown aside by the Constitution of 1812 and 1820, and therefore wantonly exasperated : they form the legitimate, tenure), mid powerful ma terials of a 1101140 of Lords for Spain, and we may be assured that when law and order socceed to the present more than Turkish anarchy of licentious despotism, an Upper Chamber will be constituted simultaneously with King and Cortes. This body, more analogous to the English Nobility than any other class of Noblemen in Europe, sent repeated deputations to Sir Henry Wellesley, requesting him to lay before Ferdinand their desire that he would be content to govern as Constitutional King of Spain, In which case they would support his authority with all their power. The memorable answer of the nu owlet was this—" 1 will ha nothing but absolute We pray to Heaven, then, that be may 1 :!. nothitig„' —abaolute King he will not be, in 1 human probability, for untidier month. As for the other tattug Spain, ain. Ire* o f t constitutional party in a wa ss, pr i nciple told that their intention is to ( :,? ( 11 1, 4 _ ii _ 4 ,_ a e s .ex Pr o nitiple the" freedom cif commerce,'' e tie rni r on to that principle, only such itn perpoi.-es of revenue ; tliat itrniorr t i t :it i e nd e t at ' i r v i r:e ' d i s u w i n t i:l:l f a r l b )e 'taken to repair the in justice onks, in w on lsre peirgtrseptearypoettirratt7l3l atititttioiliatiyittittitlrettt outrages 71 4 1 g o erso Yo the monasteries, t nod all ()mein* were re-annexed the laws of the Cortes tuir o orr " ;r e , me d 4„,,, under tided to proclaim an immediate r :i'irwise de. debts contracted by the Cortes, t ec ! s f; ° " Of the riseiore wiate,air security to the public manor t n " initial domains of which they we re l eit * T j i w ° l l :" v rertlinund thought proper to eotrinut the itnext- asciaimL national det, further the feeling, as we have been in formed, of the Spanish patriots, to refer to the ancient laws of Spain (us much trampled on by Ferdinand as any other publie securities), in all cases where provision can be discovered in' them :for the maintenance of the subject's right, whether civil or political. This, we are led to be lieve on high authority, is the spirit, equally circum spect and honest, in whieli the Spanish re-founders of their country's liberty have pledged themselves to each other and to their fellow-citizens to proceed. If they act, as we trust they will, on such princi ples, every good man in England, and from north to south of Europe, will befriend them. If,---which God forbid, and which we at least cannot anticipate, —those who direct the councils of Great Britain should attempt to damp or discountenance this virtuous effort on the part of the Spanish nation, to shake off a yoke which never could have been imposed had England done her duty, the immediate effect will be, to throw Spain into the arms of the liberal Government now established in a neighbouring country, and to forfeit all'title to Spanish confidence for ever. The family compact now broken by the hand of Providence, will thus have been revived in another and more terrible form—that of a national anima 'lniquity _or trig the compact between the people of two countries, each, in that ease, animated by excusable hostility to Great Britain. But we hope for better things. England and Spain are in that condition which renders them natural allies. The commercial inte. rests of both nations—we say nothing of what general policy would dictate--prescribe to them the most unrestricted intercourse. Abounding in raw materials of every kind for which there is no demand on earth so constant as that afforded.by the British capitalist, how could Spain, in. her turn - , dispose of them to such advantage as by procuring for herself art equivalent in our unrivalled manufactures ? The wants of 13,000,000 of people at our own doors would soon supply a vent for British industry more ample than that to which the expectations of our merchants bad for so many years been directed in the great South American continent, and would entitle us to treat with good-humoured indifference the restless tariffs of the United States, no matter how dexterously constructed. (*.* W e have had the communication by us for some slays on which the preceding article is founded, but think there is now no risk in publishing it.)— Times. The Lord Provost of Edinburgh, in compliance with a requisition to which a number of the most respectable names of that city wore attached, called a public meeting of the inhabitants on Friday, the 20th inst. The object of the meeting is thus de scribed in the requisition—" To consider the pro priety of their expressing their admiration of the energy and promptitude with which the French people have lately resisted the violation of their public rights, and the moderation with which they have hitherto used the sudden and unexampled triumph by which their patriotism has been re warded." Though at this season of the year, Edin burgh is even more deserted than London by in iluential people, yet it is understood that the meet ing was to be attended by the principal speakers of the city and neighbourhood: Men of all parties are equally eager to express their approbation of the French. The backwardness of the higher ranks in this part of the empire is a phenomenon which will not soon be forgotten. No man of any discernment can believe that the Aristocracy of this country would not have been delighted had the result at Paris been favourable to Charles. A Constitu tion without rotten boroughs, or any of the ma chinery by which Representatives are chosen for , and not by the people, was naturally an eye sore to our Oligarchy; for, with the example of France before them, the patience for which the English are proverbial might have at length failed them. But when the design miscarried, and the triumph of the people was so complete, such distinguished , proficients in cant and hypocrisy, as the higher ranks of this country notoriously are, might have been expected to join the popular cry against the unsuccessful. Their chagrin, it would appear, has got, for once, the better of their du ffing. They cannot disguise their mortification at the failure of a design which would have pros trated a gallant people, and deprived them of all the privileges which attracted towards France the eyes of Englishmen. The good wishes, nay, even the recommendation of our present Cabinet, are quite u elistinet consideration from approbation of the mode in which the attempt was made. The Duke of Wellington may have approved of the overthrow of the French Constitution, and yet not approved of such a hazardous attempt as that which has so signally failed. The Duke is a cool us well as a crafty man; and his habit is not to place his all on the turn of one die. And the sentiments expressed by the Duke, as they were reported to us, when the news of the issuing of the Ordonnences reached this country, certainly led to the inference that he had his misgivings as to the prudence of the attempt. His language could not easily be construed ' into any thing like reprobation of the attempt, though it certainly was expressive of a fear least the coup Vaal might he unsuccessful.— Bet the opinion as to the participation of Ministers in the attempt, so far from losing ground, seems, on the contrary, to gain fresh strength. Whether the documents discovered at PariS have anything to do with this we know not. A Sunday contempo rary (the Err:miner) goes almost the length of di rect accusation ; and es the language is remark able, we Shull here quote it :—" With regard to the question in dispute (between the Times and Mr. Brougham) we do not hesitate to declare our conviction that Ministers, anti persons connected with the Government of the country, have through out, had a guilty sympathy with the traitors of 'Prance, and that they have been so true in attach meta to the bad cause, so faithful in their nilec- , dons to the worst treachery, that even disaster, the touchstone of constancy, has not shaken their friendship, thought policy has prescribed conceal ' meta. We do not write this unadvisedly. The misprision qf crime has been significantly indicated, and enough will be known &Are any very distant day." As to some of the Members of the. Ca binet, they are certainly better adapted for Vienna than London. We have never heard Lord Aber deen spoken of favourably by any human being. Pert of the dislike to him may, perhaps, be caused by his arrogance and superciliousness ; but as he does not atone for these qualities by the possession of talent, the inference naturally is, that hut Metter aich principles are his great recommendation to the Duke of Wellington. The readiness of the public to mix up his Grace with the Polignac Ministry, may have partly been caused by the known hos tility of Lord Aberdeen to popular Governments in every part of the world.—Morning Chronicle. We elleded on Saturday to an article on the Mi nistry and the State of Parties in the Edinburgh Review. The article was written before the result of the elections could be known— qt result far more unfavourable to Ministers than even the Reviewer anticipated. lie prognosticated that great Arthur " would in all likelihood, experience somewhat of Prince Jules do Papaw's disappointment, who dreamt once upon a time that the King could make any man a Minister, whether nature had made him or no of the proper stuff, and that any Minister could e l e ct a new and subservient Parliament, anti found to his sorrow and surprise that the new were ten times worse than the old," has been more than ve rified. We all know the figure Ministers cut during the lost Session. ROM sheer incapacity a long Session was wasted, the Beer Bill having been the only measure which ended in anything. A Ministry, constituted as the present is, cannot hope to con duct the public business in Parliament with more advantage this Session than the last; and, there fore, we take it for granted that changes, and very material changes too, must take place, or the Ministry will be shipwrecked. The article in the Review is variously spoken of by our contemporaries,. The Globe tells us it is " cleverly written ;" the Standard says " the article revives The recollection of the best days of the Review by a displa; number, and an exhibition of sound prinaples and sound reasoning never equalled in the same puhli cation ;" while the Times lavishes on it almost every term of abuse in the English language. We.donht whether a coalition to turn out the present Ministry will succeed; but we do not doubt that the present Ministry will turn themselves out by their incapacity, because we apprehend it is an understood matter that Ministers should possess sufficient capacity to conduct the public business. The 'Ames says The whole article is a mere exposition of personal and party motives why the present Ministry should be dismissed." It would puzzle the Times to assign any motive why they should be retained, except the motive that a weak Ministry is always a great ad vantage to this nation. But a Ministry' may not merely be weak, but imbecile ; and we should like to know if downright imbecility did not characterize the whole of the conduct of Ministers last Session ? We subjoin the following passage, without comment for the present : " The article is evidently written to prepare the public mind for a coalition between the Ultra Tories, those consistent honest men, who will not quit their principles,' and the Whigs, the great men who have a high destiny to fulfil towards their country, and know that she looks to them for rescue from the worst of evils, the present Government.' What trash ! The Ultra-Tories are cer tainly consistent—so is the miserable Ex-Sovereign of France—consistent in immoveable prejudice—consistent in obstinately shutting their eyes against the light—consistent in unflinchingly adhering to false opinions and erroneous principles. As to the Whigs, we plainly, and in the face of the people of England, deny that the country looks to them as its saviours in any great emergency. The expe rience of nearly fifty years has proved to the people of England the real character of this party. At once haughty and pusillanimous, rash and Nhort•sighted ; noisy demo crats when out of place, insolent aristocrats when in,— ignorant of the noble qualities of their own countrymen, and timid depreciators of their glory, while they are ever vehement and ready to applaud the efforts and magnify the successes of foreigners : such are the men whom we are told England is to regard with veneration and affection. If we know any thing of the nature of our countrymen, we say that there cannot be any sympathy between them and these un-English self-elected champions of England's cause." So much for the Whigs! Hey-day ! Who would have expected this ? It is a good thing to be a friend, for then you can afterwards be a more for midable enemy. But the discovery that was wanted was the discovery of decent abilities in Ministers; and this discovery remains to be mado.-11forning Chronicle. of totem never surpasses in any torte , The reception which the proposition of M. De Tracy for abolishing the punishment of death met with in the Chamber of Deputies, proves, beyond all dispute, that the present race of French legis lators are not deficient in feelings of humanity. In supporting that proposition the venerable Lafayette said, " I shall ask for the abolition of the punish merit of death, until I have the infallibility of human judgment demonstrated to me. The punishment of death has always inspi re d me with feelings of horror since the execrable use made of it during the former Revolution." In our own House of Commons Sir Robert Peel perpetuates the punishment of death for forging a one-pound promissory notei not because that punishment is proportionate to the moral guilt of the offender, but because—hear it, humane legis lators of France !--because it is in his opinion the most effective punishment. When morality is left out of the penal code, the question of inflicting death for the most venial as well us the most heinous legal or political offences becomes a mere Tres- Lion of expalieney. Denton, Murat, and Robespierre, at whose crimes the Home Secretary, no doubt, would shudder, thought it expedient that all who resisted their political supremacy should suffer the same pu nishment which certain Directors of the Bank of England thought it expedient should be inflicted on those who counterfeited their one-pound notes ! In the one case morality and a regard for human life were dispensed with for the sake of ambition—in the other for the sake of mammon. Hecatombs of human victims have been offered up on the altars of both. The day is coming when sanguinary • tars and sanguinary politicians will be equally exe crated. It will be seen, from our French news to day, that the King of the French has been addressed on the subject of M. de Tracy's motion by the Ad vocate Lucas, at the head of a deputation from St. Brieux, who expressed a hope that the country would owe him the boon of the abolition of the pu nishment of death, to whom France owed the ex- tinction of civil war. The King replied that he desired the abolition from a conviction which he had entertained throughout life, rind added " I will do all in my power to realize your wish, which is also mine."---A press of matter prevents us pro ceeding further with this subject at present ; but we shall take an early opportunity to return to it.— Morning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UI)ILWIALL, On Friday Henry Maan, a porter at the Horn Tavern, Doctors' Commons, and Elizabeth Mann, his wire, who were on Tuesday last remanded on a charge of robbing Mr. Leeds Paine, the late occu pier of that house, were brought up for re-exami nation. Mr. Paine now said be bad made every inquiry, and could not discover any proof that the prisoners had stolen the watch, or any of the more valuable property which he had lost, and, as there was no evidence of their having t►►ken any thiug besides the articles found at their lodgings, be felt unwilling to prosecute, particularly as Man❑ bore a very good character during the time he was in his service. Alderman ANMEY told Mann that, as the wife had herself owned to having stolen the things, it was impossible to let her go entirely unpunished, and she would be committed to Bridewell for three months. Mann, who said nothing whatever in his defence, was then discharged, and his wife was committed. William Lockion, a fishmonger in Lambeth-hill, Thames -street, was summoned by Mr. Duman, a proctor residing in Wurdrobc-place, Doctors' Com mons, for defrauding him, by selling to his wife a piece of salmon, purporting to weigh 41bs. 10 oz,, but.which, in fret, only weighed 2.lbs, 13 oz., being a deficiency of about 30 per cent. Mr. Duman said that on Thursday week last the defendant, who sells fish about the streets, called at his door, end Mrs. Dunman bought of him a piece of salmon, which he said weighed Ilbs. 10 oz., and paid him for that quantity. When he was gone, however, she began to think that the piece looked very small for such a weight, and sent it to a shop in the neighbourhood, where it was put into the scale's, and found to weigh only 21b. 13 oz,, being more than a third less than the weight that had been paid for. On hearing of this he determined to obtain the defendant's address. lie, however, could see nothing more of him till Wednesday last, when, being told that he had again called ut the dont., he went to him himself, and began to question him about the piece of fish he had sold there the week before. Lockten positively asserted that he had given the full weight ; and on this being denied, he poured Out a volley of the most violent abuse, con eluding with " you think I would be guilty ofl such a thing ? you, Sir, I am a Ch r i st i an ' and be -to yon." This profession' of faith did not, however, alter Mr. Dunman's opinion of the transaction' ; anti having with some difficulty oh tainted the defendant's address, be took out a sum mons against him for fraud. The'Alderman said, this kind of imposition must, if possible, be put a stop to. In a case which oc curred a short time back in Farringdon.morket, the party would be indicted for fraud; and, as Mr. Dun man could, if he pleased, pursue the same' course, the defendant must enter into his own recogni zance to appear tit the Sessions, and Rawer any charge that might be preferred against him. Mr. Denman did not appear to intend to carry the matter further; but as the fees paid on entering into recognizances, and afterwards getting them dis charged, amount to nine shillin gs , the defend ant will scarcely have gained much by the transaction, even if no bill should ba preferred against him. HATTON.GARDEN. Daniel Cochrane was charged before Mr. LAING and Mr. Serjeant SELLON, on Friday, with a most unnatural and violent assault. A police constable stated that, at a late hour the night before, he heard the most piercing cries of distress issuing from a female voice, in a house in Bainbridge•street, St. Giles's. He effected an en trance, and found the prisoner beating a poor old woman, who was streaming with blood, and who stated herself to be the prisoner's mother. The constable attempted to take the prisoner into cus tody, and after a desperate res►stance, he got him into the street, where he struck the constable a tremendous blow on the jaw, the effects of which were so severe that the constable has been scarcely able to swallow any thing since. Another constable came to his assistance, and they at length disarmed and secured him. The only defence the prisoner offered was that he was so drunk he didn't ,know what he was doing. The Police Serjeant observed that the prisoner was out on bail for another desperate assault. The Magistrates said they were determined to deal with him in another way, and fined him 31., which the prisoner not being able to pay, he was committed for six weeks. MA/LLBOROUGILSTREET. Jane Race!, alias Cooke, a well-looking middle. aged female, was charged, before Mr. ROE, with having plundered her master, Mr. Samuel Beazley, the architect, residing at 99, Soho-square, of a quan tity of plate and other valuable property.—The prisoner was committed. MARYLEBONE. On Friday James Moore, a navigator, was broug • • . up for re-examination, charged with having brutally assaulted Charles Cooke, a police constable, No. 160, division D. Mr. HOSKINS should order him to find bail, and fo give twenty four hours' notice. WORSHIP-STRUT. John Harman, a miserable.looking young man, about 30 years of age, was on Friday charged with robbing his grandmother of a bed, four live ducks, and other property, under circumstances attended with great ingratitude. The prosecutrix, a decrepit old woman, resided in Ann -street, Mile-end New Town, and supported herself by keeping pigs; also ducks and other live fowls. The prisoner had, in his infancy, been reared by her, and apprenticed to a shoemaker, but in a very short time after ran away and went to sea,' when a long time elapsed before she could get any tidings of him, until she was informed that he was at the battle of Navarin. About two years ago he suddenly made his appearance before her, stating that he had been discharged, but brought no docu ment proving it was so. She, however, from com passion, received him into her house, made a bed for him, and with a little money put bim in the way of , selling articles in the streets, upon an understand ing that she was to share part of the profits; . but he invariably spent the money, and, in addition, rob. bed her. Having put up with his peculation. on her little property for a long period, she began to expostulate seriously with him, when he turned round upon her, and said that if he was not lent out of the country he should do something that would shortly bring him to the gallows. A few days ago he stole her bed and sold it. She forgave him that offence, but, being informed he had afterwards offered four of her ducks for sale, she thought it was high time to put a stop to his career, and save her self from ruin, and in consequetke gave him into the custody of an officer. The poor old woman here seemed much affected, and shed tears. A police-constable stated that when he took the prisoner into custody he told him (witness) that he wished to be transported. Mr. ThiounitToN (to the prisoner)—ls that:true ? Priaoner—To he sure it is. What is the use of my stopping here ? I can't live on air. A witness, who stated himself to be a poulterer, said the prisoner brought the four ducks produced, and said that they were part of 200 his grandmother had, and offered them for sale, but at so low a price he strongly suspected the prisoner was robbing the old lady ► and hi consequence communicated to her his suspicions. Prosecutrix—He stole, some time ago, one of my pigs, and having threatened to take others, my forbearance was worn out. Mr. Bnouutyrorr addressed the prisoner at some length, touching his ingratitude towards the prose cutrix, and committed him to Newgate for trial. TIIA.MES-POLICE OFFICE. On Friday this office was crowded to excess with persons of every description, who attended to hear the re-examination of two sailors, Colin .111‘Coy and WiMani White, of the Barham frigate, and Joseph Mu:grove, n shoemaker, who were charged with being concerned in a desperate attack on the new police, on the night of Thursday, the 12th instant, and violently assaulting and wounding George Phil lips, a constable of the K. division, No. 42. . At the last examination Phillips was in so much danger that he was not expected to recover, from the effects of the injuries he received. He was now brought from the hospital to give evidence. The poor fellow appeared to have been dreadfully pu nished, and was in a very weak state. A frightful cut was visible on the top of his head. A certifi cate from the surgeon of Clerkenwell Prison was put in, which stated that White was in the Gaol In firmary, and too ill to be removed at present. Mr. BALLANTYNE then ordered the examination of M'Coy and Musgrave to be proceeded in. It appeared from the evidence of several wit nesses that M'Coy was making a disturbance in a public-h ouse , i n R atc liff e -hi g h wa y, on the night tumid, rhere he created much confusion by upset ting the tables and chairs. He was removed by Phillips, but soon after made his appearance in the street, with nothing on but his smallclothes, and assaulted and abused several persons who were Massing. The police of the H and K division at tempted to remove him, but 11.PCoy, who is a strong athletic man, rendered desperate by the in toxicating liquors be had drunk, knocked down se veral officers in succession, tore their clothes, and committed other acts of violence. Phillips sub sequently came up to assist, but was instantly trip ped up by APCoy, who seized his truncheon, and while on the ground, beat him In a most dreadful m an ner on the naked head, until he was rendered senseless. His head and face were severely cut, and the unfortunate man, who was bleeding profusely from the wounds he received, was removed to a surgeon's. The officers afterwards secured M'Coy, and were taking him to the watch-house, when White, who heard of his shipmat e being in custody, rushed out of a public-house, armed with two sticks, and commenced an indiscriminate attack on the police, whom he severely maltreated. A mob of 200 persons, headed by Musgrove, excited White to th e attack, and culledout e ;lp w ri and v v x i raw e lobsters f" " Finish the Peelers : clamatiuns; and, finding a nc e, and a serious fight ensued between the mob and the new police, ur got very roughly bundled, cillipil of the conflict, they rushed f very excited feelings of :illioel.tviroehistlop:v*,:ageleeeerld'nrrytsastbliitslitlioo)eegitidfr i,fhototshllilfrsireise:Cadwitifinvottifitreiseisetieirit quenccs would , no doubt , the ar rival of Deverell, Ames, and Harris, headboroughs of St. Paul, Shadwell, who, after much difficulty, succeeded in lodging the watch-house. C apt . RICIIIMILL and Mr. BALLANTYNE, the Ma t . , r „ tes # said the outrage was most atrocio us one. ig They were determined to protect the police in the r ' dkehsige . of thei r d uty , w h ich they had not ex c:,ier d e d on this occasion. Th e prisoners were then amerced in the highest pena lty under Sir R. Peel's Act, 61., and, in de. fault of payment, were sentenced to two months' imprisonment. GENERAL ELECTION. ESSEX.—FOURTEENTH DAY. CHELMSFORD, SATURDAY. At five o'clock, when the poll for the day closed, the numbers were— Day's Poll. Gross Poll. Tyrell Western Wellesley ...... ... 40 Mr. 'WESTERN said, that in one respect he was glad of the continued duration of the poll, because it afforded him an opportunity of becoming better acquainted with many of the freeholders, and re ceiving their support, by which he obtained an addi tional proof of the confidence which the freeholders had in him. Colonel Ti'RELL must offer his congratulations on the approaching te rm i nat i on o f t h e contest. Mr. WELLESLEY said that every object of his per sonal ambition was gratified by the number who had given him their support..—(Cheers.)—He did not care, then, whether he was the Member for Essex, as long as he knew that he lived in the hearts of the people of Essex. He had promised them to stand to the last day of the poll, and he had kept his word. Seven years, however, would not elapse before he was their Member. Colonel TYRELL said that, with regard to the im propriety of a coalition, Mr. Wellesley had not always been of the same opinion that he had then expressed. The Gallant Colonel then read a report of one of Mr. Wellesley's speeches at Wiltshire, in which the Hon. Gentleman observed, that he could see nothing disgraceful in a coalition--(Cheer➢)-- nothing contrary to the law.—(Cheers). Mr. WELLESLEY said that he must be the greatest fool in the world if he put the same construction on his speech in Wiltshire that the Gallant Colonel had. No doubt he had said that there was no crime in coalition simply; neither was there. But he objected to a coalition between parties who, for thirty years had been disunited on principle. The Coroner had interrupted him, and he wished to say a word about the Coroner. He was placed, however, in a difficult situation, he was extremely sorry to say any thing that savoured of personal abuse—he could speak in no other terms of the Coroner, and there fore he should hold his tongue. He had done all he could—he had offered the Coroner the satisfaction of a gentleman. MT'. BARTLETT (the Coroner)—When, Mr. Wel lesley, did you offer me that ? Mr. WELLESLEY-If you have forgotten it, let that pass. I offer it you now. Mr. Bartlett bowed and eat down. Sir H. SMITE! said that he had rather have sat still than risen to answer such nonsense. They had heard a great deal about pistolling and fighting; but he would tell Mr. Wellesley there must be no such thing; and he would tell him why.—Suppose Mr. Wellesley quarrelled with him, and he were to shoot Mr. Wellesley; Mr. Wellesley would not like that. —Suppose, on the other hand, Mr. Wellesley shot him ; the consequence of that would be, that Mr. W. would be handed over to the Coroner, and Mr. W. would stand no chance there, for most assuredly the Coroner would hang him without Judge or Jury.—(A laugh.) The SHERIFF then adjourned the Court till Monday. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday morning, an inquest was held at the Fox public-house, on the body of Mrs.• Whinnett, before Mr. CARTTAR. Thomas Witham was the first witness—l live in Prince's-street. I am a barge-builder. I lodged in the same house with the deceased, and have done so nearly 10 years. Her son-in-law, and daugh ter, and her youngest son, lodged in the house. George Norris is the name of her son-in-law. Sa muel Whinnett is the name of the youngest son. He is nearly 20 years of age. The deceased was about 58 years of age. She kept a shop ; was a dealer in marine stores. This happened on Thursday. When I came from work ut four o'clock I had my tea. At half-past four I left the deceased washing in the kitchen. I went to my work, at Mr. Nush's, as usual; I continued there till seven o'clock. I came home direct from the yard in the evening, about seven o'clock. I knocked at the door and received no answer. I then went down to Mr. Higgins's, the Merry Boys, a public-house. I had a pint of beer and u pipe. I stopped there about 20 minutes or half an hour. On being more minutely questioned, he stated that he remained in the Three Merry Boys till about a quarter or half-past nine. When I came back to the house, I found Samuel sitting at the door. I said, " Sam, is your mother come home ?" He said " No ; they aro all gone to the fair—Camberwell fair." I complained that she did not leave the key. She never left the key. I said " S omet hi ng must be the matter with her; it was very strange his mother had not come home." I observed, " There must be something amiss, either abroad or at home." I then knocked at Mr. Hunt's, next door to Mrs. Whinnett's house. The little boy came to the door, and I obtained leave to go through their house, and get over the palings to open the door. I immedi ately opened the front door and let in Samuel; there was a fire in the back room; I found the deceased lying in her blood on the floor in the back room , an d then I ran into Mr. Hunt's ' • there was a g rea t quan tity of blood. The wind ow bar was afterwards found standing in the usual place very bloody. The de ceased and I were married at St. Anne's church, Soho; no one gave her away that I know of—the clerk might ; we were married by banns; she brought me up and gave me a trade, and therefore I looked upon her as my mother. George Norris was called in, and deposed as follows :-1 had, for a long time, a suspicion that the deceased was married to Witham ; he has told ine so since her death; I am a hoop-shaper; I am married to a daughter of the deceased ; I have lodged with my mother-in-law about six years. Thursday morning my wife and I resolved to go to the fair ; Witham was not with us at the time ; I went to my work as usual. About half-past ten o'clock Mr. Reeves came to me, and told me my mother was no more—that she was murdered; my wife and I came home imMediately ; I do not recol lect that there was any dispute about the money ; my mother made a will, leaving all she had to Jane and Samuel; I believe Witham intends to dispute the will. Jane Norris, the wife of the preceding witness, gave similar evidence. Just at this time it was understood that a man named Gough had been taken into custody on sus picion, and a considerable mob assembled outside the house in which the inquest was sitting, which did not disperse till six o'clock. Mr. O'Brien, and another surgeon, said there was no doubt that the wounds were sufficient to cause the death of the deceased. Mrs. Crutchfield was the next witness--.I saw no one leave the house at four o'clock in the afternoon. Elizabeth Singleton, living exactly opposite the deceased's house, gave similar testimony. Mary Anne Whinnett—l went to the house of the deceased about six o'clock on Thursdaye vetting; Witham and she lived very comfortably together: I have never heard that he kept company with any other woman; never that he was paying his ad dresses to any one else; I was not aware that Wi tham was otherwise than a tingle man lodging with my mother-in-law ; we were ell on good terms with Witham, who appeared always very kind to the de ceased. ---- May —I saw, at six o'clock on Thursday evening, a woman standing at Mrs. Whionett's door; she wore rather a light-coloured gown : Kern confident the door was open; the hour might be about twenty minutes to six, and I am sure it was very near that time. The ConorEn observed that he thought the pre• sent witness must have seen the last witness when she had been unsuccessfully endeavouring to get i n , Jane Norris recalled—Gough, who is now in cus tody, called at my mother's house on Tuesday, when she said to him in a jocular way, " I thought you were hanged long ago ;" they parted, however, very good friends; nothing hostile passed between them. Gough was then brought in. He is a middle-, man, apparently belonging to the very lowest with something very remarkable in his extorter. He admitted that he had seen and spoken, to the deceased on the Tuesday, but on the day of her death (the Thursday), he was at home, as the womiS who lived with him could depose, from inapt three o'clock till eight. Mary Anne Griffiths—l have been living With John Gough about two months; I can swear pesi tively that he was at home from half-past three eight at night on Thursday. Mr. Tavey said, there was a witness toprovOlSt Gough was seen within a hundred yards ot th 4l spot at five o'clock on the Thursday, and otherfuts might be discovered; he therefore earnestly Mod an adjournment. This was, after some conversation as to the Wit convenient day, agreed to. The inquest, then,stseds adjourned to Wednesday. It adjourned at Moil minutes to six. • Strong expectations are entertained that 'th murderer will speedily be discovered. Wea l A reward of 50/. has been offered by t he Association for the discovery of the criminAr The deceased appeared to have been health—at least not robust. She was a WOO small stature, slender make, and, we looked fully as old as has been stated. of the two dogs during the perpetratiotl . of offence has not been accounted for, and is, ailder , the circumstances, very remarkable. Prinee's4re" is less than half-a-mile from Vauxhidirt lying between it and High-street, Lambeth, leads to the P a l a c e , th e street runn i n g pall" near to the river. • Beans. r 48 23 90 30 3t 7** r . Si '" 40 10 01 •"' 30 32 46 10 04 33 , 30 34 •-• ts 34 lout the coul_l_t„,„„Fe EDINBURGH CORN AIARKET—Aug. I a ll. Our supply of all kinds of Grain to-day was rethor re . mired, notwithst an di ng w hi c h our pr i ces for sll t ar t. mauled at nearly last week's quotations ; the ,alO heavy, except for Wheat, which is the earns as ou r and average up bd. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. First 7Ol Od 36s °a 364 od 48 6 0, 1 Second 6Bs 01 36 1 Od 35 s 6d 45$ O d "bird PRICES OF PROVISIONS, eic- 0041. Os. 3jd. to Os. 6d. Fresh Butter,llol.Bl. tee 031 0 6 Salt Ditto 0 8 0 0 o 4 o s Ditto, per co t. 70 1 2 0. 0 O 0 0 0 Eggs, per dos. 0 0 0 0 O 6 II 0 OatStraw(kp'.) 8 2 0 n 0 30 0 Wheat Ditto... 0 0 0 OI) 010 Barley Ditto. 0 0 0 O 7 0 0 Hay, per 0 0 4 94 g o pi 451 -- 4:k Beef, per lb. Mutton Veal , Lamb, per qr. Tallow, cwt.... 27 Quartern Loaf Potatoes, 1711 b. `--- EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET.......kug• I7 ' a rkth 0 We had a larg e su ppl y o f O atmea l a t to-4 P :4 10 , which met a tolerable good demand at last weeks y Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. P er St one of 141 b. I ,fro I First Oatmeal .£2 8 0 nut 0atmea1 .......... Z.,, i 4 Second ditto 2 6 0 S econ d di t t o ........... • ,0 8, Barleymeal 1 16 0 8ar1eymea 1 . ....... ....... ;, B - $ Peasemeal 1 16 0 Pealemeal . ~.. . . 1 ....**70452 0 Pot barley—No. I, per c w t. 1.1.1.—th1, 16s. 4 d. GLASGOW CORN MARKET.—AIItfA ti • . 0 be, Little alterati on i n B r i t i s h Wh eats , b u t Forel.b o ut been sold at so me re d uct i on . O ats h ave decliieu ' is 2s. per boll, with a moderate sale. Not much d°l/1 Barley, Beans, or Pease, and prices raher lower.. i. ed. Wheat, per 2401 b s. d. s. d. Oats, per 2041 b. I. ; ID O• Iti British, old 3BO to 340 Irish . . ..... .. .......... 94 0 0/ 0 --- new Canada, free ... 040 Irish Barley, per 3•201b. 21) : 30 30 : o Se E a n o t g t rn l ti i e s s h A ll i ... .. ... : .... :: ... .. .. :;:i l 0 ° • ift" 4 ° , English O3 0 BO 0 Pease, Scottish... WI ... - ,1, 0 Scottish Irish '26 0 27 0 , Flour, pe'r pe woi rltOl . b ........ • '4O 04 iviwof.io: o G:n. n .wtotu t rh h .eo e t2v l dl l e,s t s h we l i n i :t. Esi a a t t. :D o l or i f w oo rr n av - l es hl o S o on n .r se w , Red ge r isior le : o4 ° "be W s : On int the e e 2 19 0 t t h h i lit n e a t. t. the lady f Capt. Fle tcher, r G endi er o Guards, of a daughter . wife of the Rer. W. Beweller, of a daughter. MARRIED. re the On the 19th inst. at St. Mary's Bryanoton 4 qt el ',,'i Is Earl of Roscommon, to Charlotte, 'second daughter'. thet he late John Talbot, Esq., niece to the late, and slater of present, Earl of Shrewsbury ; the ceremony ba,ta, preciously performed, actxording to the Romeo ''''.olo church, at her uncle's, R. Selby, Esq. The 11°1. Tumour was the bridesmaid. - •• r Ow On the 21st inst. Mr. W. H. Reyn 11 to uaradet,, e e co l7 n th d daughter Laneere of W. White, Esq., ofeDitton-leageo ''' forh'ed tsecinsotn.datooKnenosfinsgtironbhLaireluets. F C o h r stei bis, p. ,,,, r ,, 0 , 1, Caroline, second daughter of 0 Bettye, E'q'' G. Camden-hill. (4 „, go% On the 21st inst. by special licence, et St . --- a r 1 )4 Hanover -square, T. H. S. Bucknall Estcourt, Edq; i j : 4 f eldest son of T. G. Bucknell Estcoure, Reg" 1%. 71 2 114 0, Eetcourt, Gloucestershire, and of New Park, 1/ '1 4 0 ,0,1 to Lucy Sarah, daughter of F. Sotheron, E'HI ., 7 1 M081 . of the Blue, of Kirklington, NOttinglallillbh* an her of Parliament for that county. DIED. are, i n On the 20th inst. in Charles-street, BerkeleY'eq u 1,0 ,,,, of the 70th year of her age, Harriet Mary, C m The Fpre' Malmesbury, widow of the late, and mot her of sent, Earl of Mahrtesbury. r auth.crir On the 20th inst. Robert Gri ffi n, Esq. °' cent, B e df or d- square . ~,,,„„„ter On the 17th inst. at Wootton-unde r -Edge, qi,r o f OA d o shire, i n h er 84th year, Mary, the beloved o'l so re,' Rev. Rowland Hill, A.M., of that place, ' 1°11'44 sli Chapel, London. On the 20th inst. at Brompton , Riche Esq., in his 78d year. ite P. Je ltk4ll' On the 21st inst. Kate, daughter of —r. of Catherine-court, Trinity-square. ,„,,,el,,,serrec, On the 20th inst. T. L. Mittel., Esq. of ni" Regent's-park. ~......„,..„------ r „, , ....,n..,_-....-i r - 6 - ONu, - PAIN AND PUBLIStIAD By MVRDO „, Loee"' THE SUN °VMS, 112, STRAND COUNTRY CORN kIARICETA. DURING LAST Mari Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. a. to a. a. to s. s. to 5. 16 t° -- 71 43 38 fe" Carmarthen.,,,,.,., 65 40 -- 3 11 9 72 33 31 a Morpeth ....vv. 62 72 36 38 8 0 •"„,,, .. Penrith ... 47?: -. 74 92 wt .". 4 ° Winchester 64 77 97 34 91 25 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. lei 11 0 Coventry ....v. 70 9O 4 8 E. 4 3 40 . "'• 6 0 Newcastle (Stair.) 113 116 00 00 56 8 0 VI 00 0 60 Northafferton.... 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 3 4 0 Stafford 9 0 94 1 5 9 6 2 3 6 4 0 n '''A 00 Oats. Swansea 94 10 2' 4 6 4 9 30 4 - 0 ./0 Warwick 9 0 10 01 4 6 5 0 3 3 4.0 7 Per 8011. a Barnardeastle..... 18 6 21 0 1 9 0 10 0 7 0 9- 11 6 17 0 20 6 9 0 10 0 6 90 10 0" 12 0 Richmond 18 0 21 0 9 0 10 6 7 0 8 8 1 „ 1 1 00 Stockton 18 6 19 6 8 0 9 0 4 8 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. -Aug. it ~ A d o There is a very short supply of Wheat here to UPS' market; fine fresh qualities of English Wheat SS T e ' s scarce and are tam off at a decline of 2s. per car ps:, , there is no demand whatever for secondary asd st d pies ; good foreign is o ff ering very freely, duty tel,. to-morrow at 21. Bd. per quarter, and to be heretti' l ~- or four days at 645. per quarter 601 b. but even at tlirr duction the demand is by no means extensive. 1311 01 i m ' very dull and Id. per stone lower. Beans 411 itt, prices must be take s F rom F r id a y last 'll to Ttle lll l l trifling request, and to e ff ect sales to say titans "`"- the weather was dull and sh ower y, and on unsdAY a noon we had heavy rain f o r seve ral boors ; since then,' has been tolerably fine, a n d t e -d a y particularly so. 'I 'I'LI' vest will not be general in thi s n eighbourhood un til latter end of next we e k. Wheat, Red, Norfolk a n d Sufiblk 50s. bed. to 631 . dot Lin. and Cam. ..,......535. 50s. to 655, 600= Yorkshire 550 391. to 645. Anew' -- White ---"- Foreign, Red. s2s. 60s. to 634 Alleeli White 60s. 625. to ises. ODA Barley, Norfolk and Sutftilk ----. Lincolnshire 3os. to Ws. Mil --- Yorkshire Vold 3os. to 335. flns -- Foreign Beans, Tick Ws. to 38 1 . fine qw. , ----- New 37e. to 40s. 00e LT: Oats, Potato 27s. to 300. lleeff - Poland -0. 245. to2Bs. fins , Friesland and Sinai! -is 2.11. to 274 0 0 '" - ---. bleating MI to 14 4 ._ Per %To. Shelling .330. to 335. tn. Per 5.0: Malt 421. 45.. fine 475. pee fail ., Rapeseed ... ......... ........ ..... 301 os. 3f21. Os. 341. Oe. Or ''''. lels. 645. to 675. 00# 7111. RKETS. Wheat. Aberdeen Coldstream,. Cupar Dundee Elgin, , Inverness—. Kelso ...... Perth The site 54 70 46 48 46 53 60 66 62 70 56 62 53 tht 45 52 60 76 56 80 of the mi Oats. 22 25 24 25 20 25 30 33 32 53 20 2/ 24 09 23 :24 2 2 21 0 ies throng SCOTCH Pd Barlex, 27 32 24 25 M 25 35 37 34 20 25 12 33 24 25 33 38 2.2 26 cure v&