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of the council were likewise non-resident, and left the management of the corporation to the four remaining persons, who were brothers or cousins of each other, and managed the concern as a family matter. The chief bailie, or the head of this resident junta, was an innkeeper, at whose house, or for whose benefit, the whole revenue of the burgh was spent, and a large portion of its property sold. This man, though a magistrate, took to celebrate clandestine mar riages for a few shillings a-piece, and was pro secuted for the offence. The prosecution cost 841., which he set down to the account of the burgh. He engaged in a brickwork concern, in which he did not succeed, and he made the corporate funds pay his losses. He invited, as he called them, " his well-wishers" to his house to dine and drink with him, and he made he burgh funds pay the bills. He took trips to Banff, the district town, where his principal the Provost resided, to concert with him about their common election interests, and the burgh was always debited with the hire of the post-chaise, and the other expenses of the journey. Being a loyal Tory, he expended a quarter's return of the burgh revenue in celebrating the victory of Leipsic, and the entertainment was given for the good of his own inn. Nay, this bailie and Boniface of a Scotch burgh—this magistrate of the north—this Solomon of corporations—had the effrontery or the simplicity to tell a Com mittee of the House of Commons, sitting in Westminster, that he thought the public money could not be better expended than in a loyal public treat ! " Who authorized that expense for the battle of Leipsic" (he was asked), " the Provost or yourself?"—" I do not know that the Provost was consulted." "Do you not know that that amount was nearly one-fourth of the permanent income of the burgh ?"—" Per. haps it might." " Did it not occur to you it was a great deal of money to spend on that occasion ?"—" I thought the public income was for that purpose."—" Did you think the in come of the burgh was for paying balls and entertainments ?"—" On such occasions as that —not always." Nay, so liberal do we find this innkeeper-magistrate—this guardian of trust property—this pink of Conservative purity— with " the common gude" of the town, that when he had given " a dinner and drink" to the town gentlemen out of the funds of the burgh, he put down a sum for what was called "a treat to the wives," which de scription of public expenditure was duly recorded in the Town Council books presented to the Committee of Parliament ! But when we say " duly recorded," we are saying too much, for the honest bailie, at whose house and by whose order all these entertainments were given at the public charge, kept no reckoning of 6001. thus expended between the years 1808 and 1817, and only made up the bills from the best of his recollection, and by the help of his waiter, to answer an action brought against him by the inhabitants for malversation in the Court of Ses sion. And the very worst feature of this extra ordinary case is the fact last mentioned, that though these malversations are admitted, the burgesses, as the law stood, could obtain no redress, and, being defeated, were obliged to pay their own costs with those of the Conserva tive culprit, the highest tribunal declaring that in such transactions it had no jurisdiction ! With respect to the illegal imposition of taxes, there can be as little doubt of its frequent oc currence as about the gross violations of corpo rate property to which we have just alluded. It is remarked in the report of 1793, that 29 burghs (out of the 64) had levied imposts beyond the amount paid to Government, —averaging one-third of their land tax,—though no act of Parliament warranted such extra exaction. The immense patronage possessed by these corpo rations, and the manner in' which they have exercised it,—a part of the inquiry which has never yet come before a Parliamentary Committee,—will demand the most rigid ex amination by the present Commissioners. The magistrates and Town Council of Edinburgh alone dispose of a revenue of 40,0001. a year, and besides the presentations to about 20 or 25 church livings, have the appointments of the Principal and Professors of the University, and of the Masters and Ushers of the High School. According to the charter of the College, they possess " totam et integrata prmposituram Col legii.Trinitatis," and the exclusive privilege of electing Professors to its different chairs 0! divinity, arts, law, and medicine, "cum potes tate imponendi et removendi ipsos, sicuti expe diverit." Such a prcepositura and potestas ought not to have existed so long in the hands of the shopkeeper corporation, who are invested with them by the charter of King James, and must, as well as some of their other privileges, be modified or controlled, by the reform spirit which is embodied in the municipal commission. —Times. Having fully answered the elaborate article in the Journal of St. Petersburgh, wherein the Northern Autocrat arrogated to himself the right of treating the kingdom of Poland accord ing to his own sovereign will and pleasure, in despite of the treaty of Vienna, by which its nationality and constitutional existence were guaranteed, we will now dispose of the adden dum to that article, which recently appeared in the Hamburg Correspondent, and which was, no doubt, written under Russian inspiration. The Russian writer in the Hamburg paper attempts to justify the conduct of the Czar or. the three groundo—first, that the Powers could not, in 1815, have given Poland to Russia upon the condition of establishing a Constitution, since that country had then formed a Russian province for two years by right of conquest. Secondly, that Poles had no right to rebel against their Sovereign, because he would not comply with all their constitutional follies Thirdly, that the undisciplined elements of which the Polish population is composed will not allow it to receive the title of nation. 'We will take these arguments, if such they can be called, in an inverted order, beginning with the last. "The undisciplined elements," says the writer, of which the Polish population is composed, will not allow it to receive the title of nation." What is meant by " undisciplined elements" we scarcely know, nor, perhaps, the writer himself. If he mean incongruous and discordant parts, the Russian empire has far less claim, according to his argument, to receive the titl e o f a nat i on than Poland. If his notion of discipline be synonymous with slavery, and the phrase " un disciplined elements" be only a mystified ex pression for the unsubdued spirit of Polish pa triotism, his argument must amount o to this, that the Polish people are unfit to receive the title of a nation, because the national love of freedom still survives every effort of brutal and ferocious barbarism to extinguish it ! In o ther words, Po land does not deserve to be a nation, because the mind and soul of a nation still lives among that people, whose political existence has been blotted from the map of Europe. Surely the Czar ought to rely on the tyrant's logic of brute force alone. To appeal to reason is to make even his atrocities ridiculous. But the real question is not what are the elements of which the kingdom of Poland consists, but what was clone with those elements by the treaty of Vienna ? By that treaty, which the three despotic Powers signed in conjunction with England and France, the Duchy of Warsaw received the style and title of a nation, and was erected into a kingdom to be irrevocably united with Russia by the tie of its Constitution. By the same treaty the Polish provinces, which had become the spoil of the three par titioning Powers, were guaranteed popular re presentations and national institutions. To the kingdom of Poland a constitution was granted in compliance with the treaty, and accepted ; but every essential part of which was violated by Russia, under the viceregal government of the brutal and perfidious Constantine. As to the Polish provinces, the stipulations of the treaty were never fulfilled. Let not England boast of her adherence to the faith of treaties while history retains a recollection of the violated treaty of Vienna. But it is the Government, not the people of England, who have surrendered Poland to the merciless sword of that ambition which meditates the subjugation of Europe. Again, the writer says—" The Poles had no right to rebel against their Sovereign because he would not comply with all their constitutional follies." If the Emperor of Russia, in his capacity of King of Poland, had a right to subvert the constitutional charter of Poland, the Poles had no right to rebel; but inasmuch as Poland was only united to Russia by its constitution, the violation of that constitution by the Emperor's Government was a virtual dissolution of the tie which bound Poland to Russia. The sovereignty which he exercised was founded on a condition, which having broken, he released the Poles from the allegiance which depended on it. The manifesto of the Polish Diet explained to Europe that the Polish charter had been violated in every essential part. Nothing then remained for the Poles, to whose complaints other nations were deaf, but submission to absolute tyranny or an appeal to Heaven. We come now to the argument that "the Powers could not in 1815 have given Poland to Russia on the condi tion of establishing a constitution, since that coun try had then formed a Russian province for two years by right of conquest." It required con summate effrontery for one of the great Powers engaged in the " settlement of Europe" to advance such an argument as this ! Let it be recollected that.those Powers, calling themselves the " Deliverers of Europe" from the military domination of Bonaparte, disclaimed all notions of conquest, and pretended to be guided in all their political and national arrangements by a sincere desire to restore the balance of power, and so to consolidate the peace of Europe as to preserve it against the inordinate ambition of any one ruler. The greatest conqueror was England, for, by the victory of Waterloo, she removed the last obstacle to the conquest of France. She did, in fact, conquer it. Why did she not attempt to retain it ? Because she professed to conquer only to restore. So did Russia and her other allies. They declared that they warred against Napoleon, not against nations; and that they fought, not to make conquests for themselves, but to give peace and security to Europe . England conquered Portugal, and Spain too, and she restored those countries to their former rulers. She conquered Egypt, which she gave back to Turkey. What ground has Russia, then, for talking of the right of conquest as to the Duchy of Warsaw ? As the Duchy of Warsaw was not given back to the King of Saxony, had not England a right to call upon Russia to place it in media, that the whole of the Powers might erect it into an independent kingdom, as a means of strengthening and con solidating the " settlement of Europe ?" They did so by a common treaty which Russia has dared to tear to pieces, with utter contempt for the British. Government and the other parties to _ the compact.—Morning Herald. We find we were right in expressing it as our decided opinion, that no overtures connected with the settlement of the pending contest had been sent to. Lisbon from the Royalist camp. This matter is set at rest by the evidently autho- rised paragraph in the Globe of last evening, which paper very justly expresses its indignation at the levity with which delusive stories are manufactured, often by the cabin passengers of packets, it is to be feared ; but oftener still, there is every proof, by those who have an interest in questioning them. All the proposi• tions brought by the Echo, numbered, speci fied, and commented upon as they were, have then vanished into air, and with them, we presume, the armistice, or tacit suspension of hostilities, announced as the natural con sequence. Ere long, we make no doubt that the affair of the sth will also be viewed in its true light. Even before the next packet ar rives, we should not be astonished to hear those call it a reconnoissance, who before had pronounced it a general action, and pre dicted that its results would prove fatal to the Royalist cause and Bourmont's fame ; nay, we expect to see those recant who, without under standing its object, condemned it as an useless effusion of blood, and thereupon told us that Don Miguel's sun had set, never to rise again. It is, as every body knows, impossible to calcu late the chances and contingencies of war ; nor is it easy to form an opinion of the state of public feeling in Lisbon, so successful are the efforts of the party most interested to conceal the truth ; but we have had sufficient evidence placed within our reach to be convinced of the fact that the army and great body of the popula tion are for the King. With such a basis as this it was, therefore, almost ridiculous to imagine that Bourmont could offer terms, even before he was in readiness to make the attack, for, up to the 10th, we repeat that the Alemtejo troops had not taken up their positions. From the first we were of opinion that the ac• counts brought by the Echo related more to the apprehensions of the British residents than any important incident in the war. Not to create uneasiness, we were silent upon the subject, although we were perfectly well aware of the perplexities in which both Admiral Parker and Lord William Russell were placed by the con stant applications of the British residents to land marines for their protection, when it was at the same time unquestionable that from the moment our troops were put on shore our neutrality would cease, and a Spanish army instantly cross the Portuguese frontiers. England has, there fore, to choose that alternative which best suits her ; but in the choice it is to be hoped that Ministers will not allow our residents in Lisbon to influence them. Many of our merchants in the course of the present contest have acted in a most imprudent and unguarded manner, often impli- eating the interests and welfare of their peaceable and industrious countrymen. Lord William Russell consequently had good grounds for the late admonitions which he gave them. They have had ample time to prepare for the emer gency in which they stand, and they have besides British men of war in the river, on board of which they can at all times find adequate pro tection. The general interests of a country are not to be sacrificed to the political whims of a few turbulent or indiscreet individuals. An army engaged in active operations cannot disturb its plans or change its movements for the mere satisfaction of a timid or interested neutral. The immediate consequence of an attack on Lisbon must necessarily be the destruction of a large amount of private property, a proportion of which may be British ; but on that account the means of attack possessed by the assailant are not to be weakened, nor are his operations to be impeded by the unseasonable remonstrances of a neutral Power, even in the very theatre of the war, holding a menacing attitude. We, there fore, fervently hope and trust that when ever Lisbon, after due notice, is formally at tacked, no British subjects will be allowed to remain within the fortified fines. A t the moment of an assault it is useless to stick up placards declaring this cellar or that warehouse to con tain British property. Neutrals must run the same risks as the natives, as far as property is concerned ; but our countrymen have had opportunities of withdrawing from a place in which they may be exposed to great personal danger. Every one knows the infuriated state of the population round Lisbon, as well as of those who quitted the city, and their appetite for reta liation has unquestionably been sharpened by the impolitic and disgraceful conduct of the Pedroites since their entry. We therefore offer it as our decided opinion, that, as soon as the Commander of the Royalist army sends in a summons, the withdrawal or embarkation of Bri tish subjects ought to be made imperative. If this is not done, we declare without hesitation that Government alone will be answerable for any consequences which may ensue.—Morning Post. The Itinerary of the Corporation Coannis sioners, extracted from the country papers, shows the intense local interest taken in this important inquiry. The Conservative Journals will find it difficult to humbug the middle classes and the people into the belief that they are not intensely interested in the Reformation of the Corporate Institutions. In fact, this eventful investigation is the first great product of the Reform Bills, and intimately concerns the political welfare of the community. The existing corruption poisons the fountain of jus tice, and destroys in effect the most valuable rights of Englishmen. The local, civil, and criminal jurisdictions are in a miserably defective state ; the public property is secretly dispensed, and illegally and injudiciously administered ; the security of life and property is compromised ; the persons least qualified constitute the majo rity of Corporators, and the inhabitants chiefly enjoying the public confidence—from their intellect, integrity, property, and public spirit —are almost universally excluded from munici pal office. The offensive Corporations, are, moreover, usually the tools of the Tory Aristocracy of their neighbourhood ; and hence the elective franchise is too often cor rupted and coerced. The only plausible outcry which the" Conservatives" of these abominations could raise was the " hobgoblin" alarm of " property in danger," as the progress of liberal opinions used to be arrested by the old party watch-word of " Church in danger." But there are no nomination Parliaments now existing to echo these warwhoop party discord. Such a barrier will no longer serve the formerly impreg nable keeps of the Corporation. Our contem porary, the Globe, has an excellent common sense article on this particular objection to the Commission : "It seems a stretch of absurdity almost beyond the limits of the ordinary perverseness of political partisans, that the right, and, under the circumstances of the country, the propriety on the part of the Crown, of directing, at the request of the House of Commons, an inquiry to be made into the condition and management of institutions so important to the common welfare of the country as the Municipal Corporations of England, should be disputed. To these Corporations are delegated consi derable powers over a very considerable part of the pop u . lation. In the hands of the Corporations, in many instances, is placed not only the police of many towns, but nearly the whole ordinary administration of justice within considerable limits. Is it to be said that whether such powers are well placed or well exercised are not fit subjects of inquiry ? Such a pretence would need no answer. " But as this pretence is untenable, it is said that there exists is the Court of King's Bench the only proper and legal organ for the exercise of the King's right ro control the abuse of the powers of corporations. It is true enough that the Court of King's Bench is the only proper ordi nary tribunal by which these abuses can he corrected ; and that, as that Court alone has the power to act in such cases, it has the exclusive right to enforce the production of evi dence as to any abuses which may be properly brought under its notice. But there is another Court of some im portance, which is forgotten by those who object to the commission, viz., the nigh Court of Parliament, which has at all times, without suspicion of illegality, inquired, whenever it has thought fit, as well whether the legal powers of the subordinate authorities of the kingdom have been properly exercised, as whether there is anything i❑ the very constitution of these subordinate authorities which requires amendment. One of the Houses of Parliament, not being able itself to collect the information it has de sired concerning the state of municipal corporations, begged the King to take measures for collecting it ; and it is the compliance with this request which is considered a symptom of revolutionary violence. " Without looking a step forward—without guessing (for no one can possibly know) what Parliament will do in consequence of the information which may be furnished to it—is there any one who can possibly doubt that it is allowable, that it is highly proper, not to say necessary, that the legislative body, which alone can correct the defects of the institutions of the country, should have before it an accurate account of the state of the municipal corporations of the kingdom? This is all that is wanted ; to procure it is all that the Com missioners can do. The labour surely is ❑ot supereroga• tory. From the great diversity of the constitutions of Corporations—fro m the party violence with which, where they are of importance, their conduct is assailed and vin dicated—no man, whatever diligence he u,es in consulting the ordinary sources of information, can form anything but a very vague and general idea of their condition anti their effect on the country. " No doubt the information collected by the Commis ion might be made the means of facilitating an attack on pro perty—but so might the Property Tax Returns, the Returns of the number of persons receiving dividends at t he Bank of England, and many other descriptions of information which are placed without suspicion in the power of Parliament. We have certainly ob , erved some expressions which have dropped from defenders of the Commission, which would indicate the expectation of these persons that measures would fallow from the Com mission which would be justly alarming to the country. But the Commission must be judged of on its own merits, and not on the indiscretion of any of its friends or the suspicious of its enemies. Any step to reform may, and generally does, raise the hopes of revolutionists; but of this we have a sufficient assurance in the past conduct of Parliament, that while it removes abuses, it will maintain all rights which ought to be protected, and that it will rather err on the side of respect for private property, tha❑ wantonly invade anything which properly deserves that name." This solvent of the Tory fallacies is perfect, and needs no additional ingredient. The Jour nal of the Leicester Co-operatives will find it difficult to revive its futile and despicable sophistry. The certain effect, and remedial legislation consequent on the municipal inquiry, will restore the corporate rights of the boroughs, and more firmly establish the titles to municipal property ; and it is the anticipation of such assured consequences, which alarm the frantic corporaturs. A great law authority has stated, that—c , Corporations being composed of indi viduals, subject to human frailties, are liable, as well as private persons, to deviate from the end of their institution." That the municipal corpo rators of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ire land, have violated their trust, what sane man will deny ? if the violent suspicion of their abuses is well founded, how necessary the visita tion of the Municipal Commissions; and if they have not been unfaithful to their cestui qui trust, how rejoiced ought the corporations to feel at this timely opportunity of clearing their tainted reputation !—Morning Chronicle. CORONER'S INQUESTS. Yesterday an inquisition was taken by RICHARD CARTER, Esq., Coroner for Surrey, at the Hero of Waterloo, Waterloo-road, upon the body of Anne Sabina Ray, aged 22 years, wife of M. Adolphus Ray, a French cook in the establishment of Mr. Grange, confectioner, Duke -street, Piccadilly. Sarah Price stated that she lived servant to M. Ray, who occupied apartments in the house of Mr. Wright, No. 30, Bazing-place, Waterloo-road. Her master and mistress, during the short period she had lived with them, (three weeks) appeared to live upon happy terms ; and her mistress in particular seemed to be devotedly attached to her master, in variably going to meet him on his return home from business in the evening. On Sunday morning last, at half-past ten o'clock, they took breakfast toge ther, when the deceased appeared extremely cheer ful. At a little after twelve o'clock, witness asked her master where her mistress was ? When he re plied she had gone into her bed-chamber to dress. She knocked at the bed-room door, but could ob tain no answer, the door was fastened inside. Wit-1 ness returned down stairs into the kitchen, and . at about one o'clock she went up again to ask for the' table cloth in order to lay the table for dinner, when both herself and master knocked at the door, but no reply could be obtained. Her master calling to her mistress, said, "Anne, my dear, why don't you an swer?" He jokingly said it was nothing but a whim of hers, and that she was in the habit of locking herself in her chamber when they had had words. She had beard no quarrel between them that morning, nor, indeed, during the time she had been there. Wit ness having placed the dinner upon the table, her master again knocked at the door, requesting his wife would come to dinner, but with the same effect ; and he then dined by himself. When her mistress went to her chamber, she took with her three volumes of a novel called " Ethelinde," and when it grew dark, her master expected she would come out, as she could not see to read any longer. At about eight o'clock, finding her mistress did not come out, hermaster went ont,desiring her (witness) to tell her mistress he would return at half-past ten, and to say that her absence had caused him much uneasiness, and that it was very foolish of her to act in that silly manner ; but her mistress not leav ing her room, she could not tell her. About half-past one in the morning her master came home, and, learning the deceased had not been seen, caused the door to be forced open, when her mistress was found hanging to the bed-post by a silk handker chief, quite dead. Witness remarked, on the pre ceding Thursday, that the deceased appeared very low-spirited, but she knew nothing that was likely to cause it. Her mistress was a very great reader of romances, The witness stated, in answer to questions by the Jury, that her deceased mistre , =s was in the habit of receiving letters addressed " Miss Ray" by the two penny-post, and she recollected, on one occasion, when a letter came, her master was at home, and requested to know from whom it came; but she refused to tell him, and put it in her pocket, at which her master was much displeased, and they had a few words. Mr. Francis Wright, the landlord, said that the parties had lived in his house about seven weeks. They were very respectable, and appeared to live on terms of happiness. A letter, of which the following is a copy, was then read by the Coroner. It was addressed to Adolphus Ray, but was without a date : "Dear Adolphus,—l solemnly swear never to behave so ill as I did on last Saturday night ; but if you will not forgive me at once, and send me to walk the streets for a morsel of bread, death shall soon put an end to my exist ence. You know, my dear Adolphus, that I love you too much ; but did you ever know true love without jealousy? No, never ; but I will sacrifice every thing for your com fort, if you will forgive me this once. Do, my dear Adolphus, forgive me; if you have ever loved as I love you, I am confident you will forgive me this once; but if net, I am your wretched ,‘ ANNE." CORONER—This letter explains every thing. We had better at once proceed to the examination of the husband. The husband was then called into the room. He stated that his name was Adolphus Ray, and that he was married about two years ago to the deceased at Kensington Church—(whilst giving his evidence witness frequently shed tears). He stated in his examination that his unfortunate wife had for some time expressed herself jealous of him, and persisted in accusing him of being acquainted with other women. So strong was the impression upon her mind, that she was in the habit of watching him every night from his place of business. He was confident that she must have been in a state of de rangement, produced by jealousy, when she com mitted the act. The letter which had been read to the Jury, she had sent him by a boy about four months since, owing to a quarrel they had, and he had threatened to leave her on account of her jealousy. CORONER—Did you notice any change in her manner on Sunday morning ? Witness—She looked wild, I thought. Just before she went into her bed room she read aloud an account in a newspaper of a man drowning himself in a waterbutt through jealousy, after which I thought she seemed altered.— Verdict," Temporary Insanity, produced by jealousy." The Coroner and Jury then proceeded to inves tigate the circumstances attending the death of Mr. James Yates, aged 49 years, one of the equestrians at Astley's Theatre. The following evidence was adduced : Edward Crosbie, sergeant of police, 15 L Divi sion, examined.—He stated that while on duty in the New Cut, Lambeth, on Monday, about one o'clock, he was applied to by a young woman to go to the house of Mr. Nutman, corrichandler, West minster Bridge-road ; he went there, and on the first floor landing saw Mrs. Yates in a state of great excitement ; she said that she wished the door of her apartment to be broken open, as she feared Mr. Yates had destroyed himself; the door was broken open, and the deceased found lying on his left side, with a handkerchief round his neck, which was fastened to a top handle of a chest of drawers; the deceased was quite dead. The witness here produced a letter which he found on the drawers ; it was directed to Mrs. Yates, but it had neither signature nor date. It was as follows I saw a person that asked me after you and Yates, which I th oug h t was th e one that knew him when he first came to London, and was He said no, f o r Y a t es was t w a i k i c i tang g died b o u i t n h L is on fi d rs o t n. wife H , mar ried long before that, he would swear, and that he did not know whether she was dead or not, for he dare not go to Manchester for years ; and his name is not Yates.' He was obliged to change it ; and there was something he bad done that he said he would not throw a chance away for 10,0001., and he was astonished that he ever went near Manchester again ; and he said you were the third, if not the fourth, wife Yates has bad, but the third wife he would swear." It appeared that the deceased could not read, and therefore the letter, if it had any effect upon his mind, must have been read to him. Several' per sons connected with the theatre said that the de ceased had been to Manchester, and he was to have been separated from his wife on the day he com mitted suicide. There had been much said of the constant visits of a coachman, named Matson, to Mrs. Yates, and that the deceased was jealous of the proceedings of his wife. It was then agreed to call Mrs. Yates, who was supported into the room, apparently labouring under great mental affliction. She said she had not the slightest knowledge who sent:the letter in question. It was not in the same state in which she received it ; but there was neither date nor signature to it when it was left at the door for her. She never had any letter upon a similar subject before. Four years she bad been married to him; he had been unwell lately, and when he drank a little it had a great effect upon him. At times he was all life, and at other times was de jected. A young man hung himself in the same house about three weeks since, and, after my hus band had cut him down, he observed to witness, that she would some day find him dangling in the same manner for her amusement. On Mond ty he was, as usual, at the theatre, and was there about eleven o'clock, and returned about three o'clock ; it was then she read the letter to him ; the deceased expressed himself very much surprised, but observed that it alluded to no one who could do her (witness) any harm; he then confessed he was never married to the last woman (Elizabeth Orange), although he had lived with her for 17 years; she died about three years previous to her marriage with the de ceased; upon her going to the Theatre, she took the letter with her, and read it to several of the females in the ladies' dressing-room ; her motive for so acting was to obtain their advice; on Tuesday morning she stated to the deceased what she had done, when he said she might do her best or her worst, for he was not born in wedlock, and his name was not Yates; he was very restless all night; about nine o'clock on Tuesday morning she got up, leaving the deceased in bed asleep, and had her breakfast alone; the deceased got up about ten o'clock, and had his breakfast and went out; he appeared extremely dejected; she could not say where he went to.—(Mrs. Yates was here so much affected that she fainted away.) On his return, the deceased entered the house, and went into the back room, where he remained about 11 minutes; he then went into the front room, and sa by the win dow playing with the child; she remained in the other room ; about twelve o'clock, he inquired where Joseph (his son) was ? on the boy's return, she sent him into the room, but the deceased never spoke to him; she thought the child remained in the room, instead of which he went into the yard, to spin his top ; the other child, by this time, had got on the sofa and fallen asleep; the deceased then got up and locked and bolted the door ; on hearing this, she sent her little girl to say she wanted to lay the cloth, but the girl could get no answer; she went herself, and thumped and knocked at the door, but with no effect; she and the landlady tried to force the door, but they could not open it ; she then ran down stairs, anti in about ten minutes a police constable entered the house, who forced open the door; she entered the room ; she thought she saw him move his hand ; the police-constable, however, informed her he was dead ; she could form no opi nion as to the cause of his death. Juror—The witness said the deceased was ex tremely jealous of her; he should wish to know whether he had any cause? Mis. Yates—Never ; he had no cause. . _ _ _ .. Juror—Did Mr. Yates ever charge you with being acquainted with Mr. Matson ? Mrs. Yates—He has. Juror—Was Mr. Matson in the habit of visiting you frequently ? Mrs. Yates—Yes, daily, he used to call. _ _ _ . Juror—Did he ever charge you with having an improper acquaintance with him ? Mrs. Yates— He has. He has also been jealous of several other persons. On one occasion the deceased invited a gentleman from Liverpool to come and see him, and upon Mr. Yates getting in liquor, he became jealous of that gentleman and beat her very much ; Mr. Matson had frequently declined to call, on which Mr. Yates used to go and request him to call again at the house. In reply to several other questions, Mrs. Yates stated that Mr. Matson bad never sent her any letters ; she, the deceased, and family, on Sunday week went down to Greenwich to dine with them ; on Thursday last, the deceased in formed Mr. Matson that he did not wish him to call again, and Mr. Matson did not come to the house until Tuesday ; she and the deceased had agreed to part, and it was arranged they should do so on the day on which he destroyed himself. The brother of Mrs. Yates here stated that the deceased and his sister lived very unhappily to gether, and he advised them to part; on Thursday he saw the deceased, Mr. Matson, and a Mr. Keen, when Mr. Matson expressed his surprise that Mr. Yates should be jealous of him after so long an ac quaintance, which he (witness) believed was of 23 years' standing. Mr. Frances, the door-keeper of the theatre, stated that on Monday morning the deceased seemed very low spirited; for the last three weeks there had appeared to be a great alteration in the mind of the deceased. This being the whole of the evidence, the jury consulted for a few minutes, and then returned a verdict, "That the deceased destroyed himself in a fit of insanity, brought on by jealousy." The two investigations occupied about nine hours. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Sept. 27. M. IL L. Wood, cow-keeper, Tabernacle-walk 2 at 11 J. Dudderidge, woollen-draper, Whitechapel. G. Trent, dealer, North-street, Lisson-grove O. Southall and W. Milnes, coal-merchants, Pedlar's acre-wharf, Lambeth 1 9 DIVIDENDS ' ''' C. Haynes, carpenter, Mitcham, Surrey Zt J. and W. Slater, wax-chandlers, Strand W. G. Stubley, hat-manufacturer, Castle street, Southwark W. Marshall, pocket-bo( ,k-maker, Holborn-bars J. Grimble, sen., and J. Grimble, jun., coach-spring-makers, Elm-street, Gray's Inn-lane WRECK OF THE AMPHITRITE.—The only officer of this ill-fated vessel who survived the wreck was a Mr. Towsey, wbo contrived to reach the shore, but des titute of all his clothes, money, &c., and in a most de plorable condition. Lieut.-Colonel Maxwell, who was at Boulogne, hearing that Towsey had formerly been assistant. master in the Navy, and that he had borne an exemplary character, wrote in his favour to Sir James Graham, who in answer stated, that if the requisite testimonials be pro duced, and Towsey came within the naval regulations, he should be appointed to a ship as second master. Sir James also enclosed 51. for the use of Mr. Towsey. The St. Louis Republican states, that Mr. Brooks, in giving the mileage of the principal rivers which pour their treasure into New Orleans, does not mention the extent to which the Missouri is navigable by steam. This was deemed of some importance, as there was no accurate knowledge on the subject. The American Fur Company have sent their steam-boats 2,100 miles above the mouth of the Missouri, and in high water steam boats of light draught can ascend 2,600 miles. The Mississippi is navigable by steam between 600 and 700 miles above St. Louis. These rivers pass through an ex ceedingly fertile country, and when a just system of in ternal improvement can be carried into operation, not only New Orleans and the great valley of the 11lississippt will be benefited, but every portion of the United States is expected to feel the invigorating influence of such a course. CALAMITOUS DEATH BY BURNING.- About eleven o'clock on Wednesday last a most awful death befel William Powell,. a workman at the Brecon British Company's Lime Kilns at Llangattock. As he was taking his position to sift the lime in the kiln, he un fortunately came over a hollow part, and the bar gave way, and, as he bad placed his weight altogether upon it, he fell into the middle of the burning chasm. The wretched man was not more than two minutes in the fire before he was literally consumed. He has left a wife and several children to lament his untimely end. A Coroner's inquest was held, and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned.--Monmouthshire Merlin. THE ARMY. EAST INDIAN ARMY.—The officers of the Indian army are drawn from the East India Company's Mi 14 47 lege at Addiscombe. This establishment, when full, eon' sists of 150 cadet., who pay 651. the first year, an d 501.: of the second, the extra 151. being for the purpose of auPPIY - olc ing them with uniform and accoutrements. The cadets get their appoin tments as soon as quali fi ed, but by Act or ten Parliament they cannot proceed to India before they a rttreet, sixteen years of age. During the last eleven years seven-My. teen thousand men have been sent out by the East Inditork. Company, of whom eight hundred were for St. Helena' to Lord J. Russell and several of the principal offinerBu,of the departments connected with the army are in Dun, engaged, as it is understood, in measures connected W 1 "W reduction of military expenditures. Two squadrons and head-quarters of the 10th littelar°' und4r command of Lord T. Cecil, have returned fr°°l Dublin to Newbridge. t° Magistrates are, by the present Mutiny Act, dire cted send deserters direct to their regiments or depots, if in th e nei.:labourbood, instead of committing them to gaol of t he provost prison. The late General Sir J. Affieck, 16th Dragoon" W !;: t fifty-six years in the army, alai held high comma n d °l- Leland, America, and the East Indies. The troops at the M4uritius are wholly victualled bY tb „: English farmers in the Cape of Good Hope, who are an a l arrangements still further to extend their provision spec"- lationQ. t o The depot of the 75th Regiment march into Plyint, garrison from Bristol this day, and occupy barracks ill citadel. 97th The 9th depot from Fermoy are to relieve the _A depot at Youghal, who are for Devonport. It is mope . " the 70th will go to Tralee. At St. Vincent's, barracks were constructing for 6° left wing of the 69th, from Grenada, who were to be f r licved there by a division of the 67th, from Barbadoee• . 0 It is expected that a regiment from the Mauritius. shortly leave that colony for India, all there being p er fectly quiet, and Mr. Jeremie now considered in a favoo r# able light. The depot companies of the 22d Regiment are ordere! to Port-anouth from Plymouth; the 5l st, it is supposed, I" be removed to Plymouth. The detachments at Sligo and Carrick.on.Shae o ,.. have been withdrawn, and rejoined head-quarters of 99,h depot at Boy'e. The 99th depot has received a letter of readiness t° move to Dublin, for the purprse of embarking for Z°s land at the shortest notice. No destination has been on, but it is suppo.e.l that it will be in some of the them parts, as Liverpool will be the point at which it W I disembark. HOP INTELLIGENCE. (From the Maidstone Gazette.) BROUTA RD.—Hop-picking is proceeding rapidly in vicinity, and in many situations a material improveine" has taken place in the Hops within the last week, OW l r to occasional shovers of rain. In moat plantations tb. e _, 0 will be two samples, and we hope in picking and pic ky ", care will he taken to keep them separate, as the r o trouble will be amply compensated in the increased / 111 of the finer sample. HEREFOILD.—Hop-picking has commenced in thifOr if trict; the crop has sustained so much injury in qu' li ho and reduction in quantity by the late hurricane that ir average diminution in value is estimated at one-third, THE MARKETS. .ET.—Sept. f. 15. s• Per Ton. Walls End Heaton.... 1 5 Walls End Waits End Newman:b... 15 Walls End Perkins& Co. 16 Walls End[RidilelPs Walls End Hetton Walls End Urpeth Walls End Gordon..-••• Cowpen _ "~" Hartley •••••••••••......•••••••••••.• Killingworth Trader... '" I last market-day, 17.: COAL MAR Per Tor.. s. d. Charlotte . l4 6 East Percy.... l5 3 Hebburn Main ................. 15 3 H01ywe11............ - ~ 16 0 S:hipcote......--....--........... 13 6 . 16 0 West Hartley 17 0 Walls End Bell & Brown 15 9 W.E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 15 9 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 17 3 W,:lis End Carr and Co. 15 3 W.E. Clarke and 15 3 Ships arrived since COUNray CORN MARKETS DURING THE W Wheat. Barley. vets. Be-/ Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. a. to a. t. 62 81 31 43 22 30 38 / 50 61 24 28 - Birmingham...,-. 56 58 30 40 16 22 Bridport 56 74 32 36 26 30 •-• gb Cirencester...—. 46 56 21 24 16 20 54 86 36 40 26 34 •-• p. Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 35 "" Henley 54 83 30 35 20 30 Hereford 64 68 32 34 22 28 Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 - Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 30 36 ;(6 M0nm0uth,........-. 64 68 32 36 24 28 Reading 40 66 22 36 14 26 34 'O, 48 58 26 30 20 25 30 )4 1 , Southampton 54 58 33 40 28 32 Stroud 64 78 37 38 22 32 Il Tewkesbury 65 74 30 42 30 38 Uxbridge 48 74 26 34 20 26 :7, t 58 80 27 43 17 23 o: Warminster 48 58 26 28 20 23 36 IS Windsor*... 59 - - 21 22 Worcester 50 57 30 32 22 23 LEWES MARKET.—Sept. 24. n 0 White Wheat (per quarter)........X2 14 0 to £ 3 „; 0 Red ditto 2 8 0 0 I: 8 Barley—. - l2 0 17 0 Oats, New —........*—... 018 6 0 1 ,1 0' _ . Pease 1 13 0 1 "0 is Oil Cake. New l2 0 0 per thoUs _..../ CHELTENHAM 31 A RICET.—Sept. 24. d. go Per lb. 61 I Beef Mutton ............ . . Veal ......... ..... 6 0 Pork ••• ......... 0 Lamb _ Per Bushel. s, d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 5 0 6 6 Oats 4 0 4 3 Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Hay Si. 10s. 'to 31. 15s. Pd. per ton• l DUMFRIES MARKETS.—Sept. 19. i. & o il! 0 0 O t JP Wheat, Imp. Bush 6 0 to 7 6I Butter , 160 z.... ......... 0 „ Barley .....• 3 1 3 6 Eggs, 22 ........ .. ........ 0 r i Oats Flour, 141 b. .0 ..-d Oatmeal 1 6 1 9 Veal .......... .. ...... .. : ... p' Potatoes. cwt 1 6 20 Q. artern .... .... .. v CORN TRADE.—By an Order of the in, t o r, of Commons, made during the last session of Poll6,osl‘, the several Corn Inspectors have been requested g ° t oic a return to the Board of Trade of all the differ e .! 11 , ` toms or practices of selling corn and other grain '; eo , ; respective districts ; whether by the last, the qua y p e +. 4 ° , cootnb, the boll, the barrel, the sack, the po und ' l eis other denomination of weight or measure. Thl c 6 stance, it is presumed, is preparatory to a i ir e l i g ae enactment to establish throughout the United ' l ' e one general measure. ~o Pj P LEWES SHEEP FAlR. — This fair on S iturday last, and was most nurnerouslY, t r e tt ' l l especially by buyers from distant counties. 11 ;Proo between 24,000 and 25,000 penned, viz. : 0 11 t o 10,000, Ewes 14,700 ; the sales were brisk, - ict • prices obtained, we believe, were generally sa t°l the sellers. The following is about the quotation 100, from 225. to 40s. per held; Lambs, from 146.01,,e0 There was a pen of 250 Wethers belonging tnil.or them warr, that we greatly admired ; the price asked lef t of was 445. per head, but we did not hear when viesoo,o4 fair, whether they had met with a purchaser. 0400 the flockmasters in this neighbourhood, wboseheir celebrated for the purity of their breed, sol d , t .;g b f r ;lti! ewes, we hear, previously to the fair, at very P' 1 0 one, we understand was offered 100 guineas f c °r oj e% flock ewes, which he declined accepting.--•'" vertiser. Se dg r " BIBTH. , r icl‘ Ott the 24th inst., at Putney, the lady of E r ' Ommanney, Esq , of a son vu Lue -.;-nil inst., at rutney, tue iauy Ommanney, Esq , of a son. V ~../4,T4 ' ' MARRIED. . it Ing lig :0 1 On the 24th inst., at Brighton, Lieut. Patr ic ' oli w i son of the late Commissioner Inglis, to Mary AO' Aft' - ', v i io o ' ter of the late .J. G. Cocks, bin to e e ~o 1 On the 29th ult., at the British Legation at Av..- -I t tl' y e , Woodmass, of Montagu.square, London, Es c l',:t ° 1 1° , i tiP t Harriet Erskine, seventh daughter of the Rig - „a ' , Erskine, his Majesty's Envoy ExtraordinarY 3- eel; Plenipotentiary to his Majesty the King of 130 13.1s :00„, /j • s o' 04 ' On the 24th inst., at Oldswinford, Captain '1 711 °, 4 0 r' bee, of the Royal Engineers, to Eliza, daughter of J" Esq., of the Platts, Staffordshire. r the i o DIED. mitch el ' On the 22d inst, at Brighton, Mr. James "" OP A c Vote-office, House of Commons. f P lui oi On the 25th inst., Harriet Emma, daughter 0 Tit Purling, Esq. O ft. wife O , ce , On the 24th inst., in Long-acre, Lucy, the elli -f 13' 4 A Pearce. John ri- On the 24th inst., Harriet, wife of Mr. CIO „f I%f r ' 0 0 ' lloundsditch. f ,mbeth , h e V On the 2lst inst., in George-street, ..----- ,i n t , . -- e it Creed, aged 68, for many years chief-assistant, o n the late Mr. Alderman Boyden. Isabella, tijc i 4 6 On the 24th inst., at Leytonstone, . e mus", J."' f 1 ,101 are. daughter of the late John Tebbutt, Esq. , ° , 1.3- .00 , On the 24th inst., at the house of Ms raothF..,. _,,tt Twickenham, Captain Thomas Stephenson 3 1 : ,i o , Is' OR the 17th inst., at Park-walk, Chelse ' 0 4 aged 73. 0 .11 1 o' l °' PRINTED AND PUBLISDED HY MU It I) - Y SUN OFFICE, 104 OritANA tiiu tu rf Ati ce; »c~~ hla