The Sun. — London, England, 1833-05-18 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. During the progress of the inquest we shall not discuss the matter before the jury with any view of influencing their verdict, but in that spirit of justice which we hope and trust must actuate witnesses and jurymen, as well as our selves, we shall shortly state a point or two not altogether, as it seems to us, unworthy of notice In the' first place, it is e vident that a mistake exists as to the object of the Riot Act. Every unlawful or turbulent assembly may be dispersed, and the parties arrested, as :disturbers of the peace, being guilty of a misdemeanor at common law. The Riot Act converts what is by common law a misdemeanor into a felony, but only iii the case of the assembly not diss persing within an hour after proclamation to disperse. In the present case no man who at tended the meeting is chargeable with a felony for the mere fact of attending the meeting. His offence, independent of other acts, is merely a misdemeanor ; but if the Riot Act had been read, every person on the ground an hour after such reading would have subjected himself to the penalties of a capital felony. The other point to which we would advert is the some what irregular manner in which the inquiry is conducted. It appears to us that sufficient care is not taken to exhibit the conduct of the police before rather than after the murder. That they should, after the slaughter of one of their colleagues, conduct themselves with indiscriminate fury is matter of deep regret, but just and honest men will appre ciate the cause. But the main point is, did they before that melancholy event—i. e. before they saw that there were persons present armed with deadly weapons—display unnecessary and out rageous violence ?—did they assault an unresist ing crowd of persons, for the most part acci dentally thrown together ?—did they act with the fury of men themselves terrified by some imaginary danger, or with the calm fortitude of men proportioning their force to the occasion ? Let this last point be fairly investigated : was the force used before the murder a necessary and reasonable exercise of power for the lawful object of dispersing an unlawful meeting ? If not, lan guage is too weak to express at once our abhor rence of their violence, and our contempt for their cowardice. But let us wait calmly for the evidence on the other aide. One thing is, how ever, certain. The affair was badly managed. A handful of police on the ground before the meeting might have quietly seized the flees and Lees, who were frightened out oftheir wits ; and the small force used in the caption would have impress ed the whole world with the truth, which is, that the meeting, as regarded its real authors and abet tors, was utterly insignificant and contemptible. Instead of this, an immense police force, almost sufficient to storm a citadel, is employed, and military men are on the alert with all the para phernalia of rapid communication, as if to be ready to oppose some army advancing to raise she siege. What must be the result of this enormous display ? Why, Mee and Lee, and their followers, who would, in the first case, have slunk into their cellars amidst the scorn of their companions, are now erected into formidable persons, who require the whole power of the state to put them down. This was a sad blun der. A mob should never be made to feel that it is thought formidable ; however insignificant before, from that moment it becomes formidable. We observe that Mr. Stallwood is very indignant at the Times : we think him very ungrateful. We stated what he allows to be a fact, that he was suddenly dismissed from the magistracy. He has had an opportunity of stating that he was unjustly removed, and we agree with him that the vestry of St. Pancras are bound to show on what grounds they recommended his dismissal.— Times. Mr. Thomas Attwood, or, to give him that rare of which he is so proud, "the Brummagem (Hampden," is buckling on the whole armour of oily, and has summoned a meeting of his " friends," to see him exhibit on Newhall-hill, on Monday next. Mr. Attwood has a most immoderate love of fame : the glory of his mi nority on the currency question—the still greater glory of his position on Cobbett's motion—can not satisfy his ambitious mind ; he must put himself on a hill-top, to show the still greater height which nonsense inflated by vanity can reach. Unless we are much mistaken, his re ception will hardly be suitable to his aspiring hopes. Did he ever read of the reception given to a certain eminent person, who, like himself, on returning from a mission, explained his *success to his audience ? We will refresh his memory, which, w.e suppose, is too full of his own exploits to remember other matter : So having said, awhile he stood expecting Their universal shout and high applause To fill his ear:" but what was the result "Lo ! contrary he hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal universal hiss,—the sound Of putalic scorn." We do not say that the other result will fol low, and that Hampden of Brummagem will be changed into a serpent, for a serpent is said to be wise ; but he may be invested with the dig nity of " a scorpion or an asp," or of that other animal, " the amphisbxna dire," which has long puzzled naturalists to discover which is its head and which its tail.— Times. We agree with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer that, considering the number of im portant subjects before the House, it is impos sible to enter on the corn laws this session, with any hope of a practical result. We have this session on our hands the West India ques tion, the Bank and the East India questions, not to mention a multitude of others, and these are more than sufficient to occupy the House to the end of the session. Lord Althorp observed that he did not stand there as the advocate for the present system, of corn laws, which, even with reference to the landed interest, he did not consider so advantageous as some persons sup posed. The landlords think only of a free trade in corn as the cause of low prices. But, as was observed by Lord Althorp, it does not follow that when our ports are open for the corn of other countries, our corn must necessa rily fall. A free trade will bring more corn into the country than now enters it, but it will, at the same time, give employment to additional hands, to produce the manufactures exported to pay for the corn. A free trade, by adding to the demand for foreign corn, would raise its price. We are an importing country with re gard to food, and an exporting country with regard to manufactures. ;Mr. Hume was at some pains to prove that a free trade in food would not injure the agriculture of this country. " The consequence (he said) would be an in crease in our manufactures and in our com merce, and additional employment for our la bourers in proportion. He denied that the ad ditional importation would hurt the agricultu rists. The quantity at present imported was not uUlcient for the wants of the country. The people were not • three-fourths. fed, a proof of which was to be seen in the manufacturing dis tricts, where it was evident, from the appearance of the people, that they were not properly fed. The result of free trade would, therefore, be, that no corn of this country would remain un-. consumed, hut that a larger quantity would be . consumed. He denied that the effect of free trade in corn would be to bring down the price. of corn in England to the level of the present price on the Continent. On the contrary, they had various proofs which showed that the price on the Continent would be raised to the level of the prices of corn in England, and that, in fact, England would regulate the price of corn over the whole world." As long as we are an exporting country of manufactures, our land holders have no reason to fear importations of food. But the question cannot be entered on with advantage this session. Next session it will be the question. The corn laws cannot he considered as uniting the suffrages of the people in their favour. Mr. Baring observed, that there were at least 300 persons in the House anxious for an alteration.— Morning Chronicle. There has hitherto always been, what may be termed a neutral party in this country, ready to step forward and rescue it from any unlooked-for difficulties or dangers tc which it might be exposed. This party (if persons coming together on the spur of the moment can be so denominated) has gene rally consisted of noblemen and gentlemen of rank and influence in their several stations, unconnected with what is known as party in Parliament, and therefore the better entitled, in the absence of all personal objects, to be heard and attended to on the subject of the crisis which may have called for their interference. Such a crisis, we apprehend, has now arrived. Without stopping to ask where the fault lies, we fear it cannot be doubted b u t that a period of difficulty and distress has arisen, and is hourly increasing, in the country, which, if not speedily arrested, threatens to be followed by consequences which no mind embued with patriotism or right feeling of any kind, can con template without the most serious alarm. Unhap pily the state of things to which we are alluding is not confined to any one interest or department in the state. To use a common, but very intelligible ex pression, not only is there one " screw loose," but throughout the whole machine of Government some pervading defect or fault appears to prevail, threat ening, should it not be corrected, to become every day more embarrassing, and, in the end, most cala mitous in its censequences. There are persons ready enough to attribute this unenviable state of things to the change which has been brought about in the representation. This, however, is a weak invention of the enemy—the last, we trust, among the expiring groans of those whose hopes of power, and whose dreams of self-interest, lie buried in schedule A. It is not to reform in Parliament that the present state of things can be justly imputed. A bad farmer may as well impute the failure of his crops to a brilliant sun, and to refreshing rain. The fault, we apprehend, is imputable to those who, having, so much to their honour, brought that re form about, appear unconscious of the other reforms which it, of necessity, implied, and unprepared to administer the Government in the altered state of things which they themselves have produced. The man who exchanges the two dull dobbins which have hitherto drawn the family chariot for a pair of blood horses, ought to be aware that the reins must be managed by hands equal to their al tered courage and speed ; bearing in mind, too, that by a coachman of competent skill, the one are as easily, if not more easily, driven than the other, especially without that whipping and labour which belonged to the cart horse or rotten-borough breed. But wherever the fault may lie, there is a grievous error somewhere, which calls for prompt examination and speedy cor rection ; nor can we point to any method more likely to bring this about than that to which we have alluded in the outset of these remarks. Let the noblemen and gentlemen, the leading merchants and manufacturers of the United Kingdom, in short, the elite of all classes consider and act up to the ditties which the present state of things require from them. It may be said that they are met to gether at this moment in Parliament for that pur pose, and that a motion in either House on the state of the nation might embrace all the objects which an interference such as we allude to could have in view. The very forms of Parliament, and its connection with the evil, point out its incompati bility to the task, to say nothing of the weight which so justly attaches to the opinion of many of those who have no seats in Parliament, or who, having them, find no opportunity of breaking through the impatience which too often characterises large assemblies. In a few words, what we wish to see is, at such a crises as this, the influence and intelli gence of the country speaking to Ministers and to Parliament in a firm but constitutional tone which cannot be misunderstood, suggesting to the one and the other, arid, if necessary, to the Crown, the change of system which the real wants and situation of the country require.--ilforning Herald. In renewing his notice for the repeal of the house and window taxes, Sir Samuel Whalley has taken the very proper and necessary precaution of moving a " call of the House on the day fixed for his mo tion, which is understood to be the 21st inst. He has learned by experience, from the fate of his former notice, that neither the patriotic zeal or dili o•ence of the Memb ers o f t h e re f orme d H ouse o f 'Commons is so great as to insure their voluntary attendance in sufficient num b er to constitute a House upon a question of the first national import ance, if, in relation to that question, the policy of the Ministers should be known to be oppased to the interests of the people. We hope the Honourable Member will persevere in his motion for a call of the House, to prevent the possibility of the propo sition for a repeal of the most oppressive, unequal, and iniquitous of the assessed taxes being got rid of, either by a premeditated failure to form a House in the first instance, or by the " whipper-in" of the Treasury constituting himself pro tent pore, a " whipper-out," and, by successful efforts in that capacity, so reducing the Members as to make it safe for some Ministerial hack to apply the " counting-out process " as an 'ex pedient for stifling the demands of the country. Whether it was intended to get rid of the motion by such means or not, it is right to guard against the possibility of it. After what happened in reference to the malt tax arid Sir John's Key's motion, we would not trust even the candour of Lord Althorp for more than it is worth. It is in the recollection of the public that Sir John Key gave notice of his motion for the repeal of the house and window taxes for a comparatively early day in the session. He afterwards postponed it, out of complaisance to Lord Althorp, and in conse quence of the importunities of certain servile sup porters of M sisters, who urged the propriety of his waiting until the wondrous contents of the forth coming Budget should be laid before the public, when he would probably find that his motion would be superfluous. Ile certainly acted with weakness in postponing the motion, without having obtained a distinct assurance that the repeal of those taxes would form a part of the financial plan of Govern ment. If the motion had come on before the Budget, the Chancellor of the Exchequer would not have had the opportunity of resorting to the sinister strata gem regarding the malt duty and a property-tax, which he afterwards played off. Let Sir Samuel Whalley, therefere, derive instruction from the error of Sir John Key, and not allow himself to be wheedled out of his motion, if the attempt should be made. Let him listen only to the voice of his suffering. clepo otnstitrutes fie,gieiv y titsat i ld i the just demands of the appear in our columns of interviews had between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and deputations from various parishes of the metropolis, relative to the assessed taxes. Though we give admission to as many of those re ported interviews as we can afford space for, yet we confess that our own opinion is nor in favour of supplicatory deputations, touching public grievances, to a Minister of the Crown. If the people have real representatives in Parliament, their voice should be heard through them. If they have not real repre sentatives, what then, we ask, has the Reform Bill done for the country ? That Bill was described by its authors as a measure that would, by making representation a reality, give the will of the nation an effective control over the proceedings of Parliament, and, consequently, over the policy of the Ministers of the Crown, whoever they might be, or to whatever party they might be long. If this he not a fiction, why should we con tinually hear of those processions of the suffering and sorrowing " lieges" respectin g th e assessed taxes to the servants of the Crown, when they should take the matirly and constitutional course of instructing their representatives to tell the Ministers their mind. Why besiege the Treasury with their com plaints, why degrade themselves into suppliants, if Parliament be the express im:)ge of the constitution, and the" people's House" be indeed the protector of the people's interests? if there ,are numerous bodies of electors who have made a mistake with regard to the principles of the persons whom hey have sent into Parliament, the fault is their own in not exercising more judgment and penetration in the choice of their representatives. They are, however, not without hope, as they will have it in their power to rectify their mistake at another election. It is, we admit, long to wait, if Parliament should run out its seven years. We have seen enough of the reformed Parliament to be convinced that the will of the Minister who has gifts and patronage to bestow will be a stronger motive of action, with a large proportion of the Members of the House of Commons, than the public good, until the Septennial Act, which con stituted the disgraceful triumph of a former Whig Ministry over constitutional principles, be abolished, and the Triennial Parliaments of the Bill of Rights be restored. The conduct of the present House of Commons with regard to sinecures—to martial law —to military flogging—the factory system, &c., was bad enough; but, in reference to the malt and assessed taxes, it has left an impression which we shall nut attempt to describe.—Morning Herald. The inquest on the Indy of the policeman who was stabbed on Monday last in Coldbath-fields, was resumed yesterday afternoon; and in again pointing the attention of our readers to the evidence adduced before the Jury, we cannot help paying a just tri bute of respect and admiration to the firmness and determined spirit of inquiry evinced by the Jury and their most intelligent foreman. The outrage could not have fallen into hands more anxious, or more capable, of doing it justice. The Ministerial jour nals may attempt to hush up the matter, and com plain of " a captiousness of examination which they had never known on any preceding occasion;" but there may be persons who consider what is called "captiousness" by some to be a pure investigation of the truth, as well as the " ardour " manifested by the police, to be neither more or less than a reck less, and brutal, and unnecessary assault upon the people. However, it is useless to argue with those who either are determined not to see the light, or are well feed not to say that they have seen it. We can appreciate their motives as well as the vil lainy of their proceedings; but beyond a mere ex pression of indignant contempt, they deserve no notice at the hands of those who have the promo tion of truth and justice only in view. Previously to the commencement of the examination of the witnesses last night, there was a sort of spar de dear between the coroner and the foreman of the jury, in which the former did net cut the most re spectable figure. The foreman, in a spirit of ju.t anxiety to have the whole truth of the case laid before his fellow-jurymen, put it to the Coroner whether parties present at the meeting on Monday last, and who had received injuries from the police, would be safe in tendering their evidence; and in no Court that we are aware of would not the Judge have immediately answered that the evidence which might be given by such persons, would not com promise themselves; but not so Mr. Stirling—he would give no pledge or warrantry upon the subject—he would only guarantee their safe con duct to and from his Court. How far this reser vation may act upon the prohibition of evi dence, we will not undertake to observe; but we beg all those who were present upon the occasion, and who were injured, and who have im portant evidence to give, not to keep back through fear of the consequences. Let them come forward and speak the truth. There are AO consequeeces to be feared—no advantage can be taken of their evi dence—and if they want a shield of protection, is not the now well-established brutality of the police, and the equally well-expressed opinion of the public, sufficient for them We should like to see who would attempt to take advantage of them. Upon another point, we have a remark to make, but it shall be a brief one, and it is this—that the objection of the Coroner to hear evidence upon the manner in which the police conducted themselves is as contrary to law as it is to justice. The jury, which is empan nelled under him, is bound by oath to return a true verdict ; and in the present instance to give a verdict of murder, of manslaughter, or of justifiable homi cide, as the evidence may seem to them to justify. But how, Mr. Stirling, are they to find the means of giving this verdict, as they ought to give it, un less they are permitted to make themselves ac quainted—first, with the legality of the procla mation condemning the intended meeting in Cold bath-fields—secondly, with the conduct and objects of those who were there assembled—thirdly, with the fact of who was the first assailant, the people or the police—and lastly, with the animus of the per antis with whom the deceased policeman acted ? If the meeting was illegal, and resistance was made by persons having illegal objects in view, the verdict would not require a moment's consideration—if it was legal, and the death of the policeman arose out of a dispute, personal or verbal, the verdict would necessarily be manslaughter ; but if, on the other hand, it be proved that the people were peaceable— that there was no intention to break the public peace—and that the police force attacked the people without just cause or necessity, and with the greatest N iolence and brutality, what other ver dict can be given than that of justifiable homicide ? We state these matters not for the purpose of in fluencing the jury, which would be most unjust and improper on our part, but for that of showing that t he Coronet's lecture to the Jury has no foundation in law or justice. We might have spared ourselves the trouble, however —the Jury will take good care (if all these points. In conclusion, let us congratu late our cotemporaries of the Globe and Times, upon the success of their challenge. They called for ocular demonstration; and it has come forth—let them call for any other, and it shall likewise appear. We have not written in vain, nor have we written without evidence. The examination of last night will bear us out in the former assertion; and as to the evidence to be given on Monday—it will speak for itself. One question we have to ask, and we trust it will be answered —were the policemen drunk or not ? were they or were they not supplied with beer ad libitum previously to their atrocious attack upon the people ?-11foritirig Advertiser. We this day lay before our readers authentic co pies of the " proceedings and resolutions of the West India body consequent on Mr. Secretary Stanley's communication of the outline of the in tended measure respecting slavery." Among these documents will be found an able and detailed exa mination of the plan of his Majesty's G overn ment for the in the W est I n di es , i n which of the sch eme i n it s ne cessary operation upon the prop er ty an d r i g h ts o f the numerous important classes of the King's the gross extinction it sub jects who are interested, directly or indirectly, in the trade and cultivation of the West India colo nies is clearly and forcibly exposed. We have no: space for any lengthened comment on this produc tion, but we earnestly recommend it to the attention of the British public, which, however anxious to ac- celerate the moment when slavery shall Cease to exist in any part of the dominions of Great Britain, will, nevertheless, we are persuaded, shrink from all participation or encouragement of an act which bears the character of undisguised robbery, and the practical effect of which must be either to render the cultivation of the West Indies impossible, and thus to annihilate the value of every estate in those important possessions, or to transfer the slaves to the harsher and more rigorous bondage of a mer cenary police, under the pretence of emancipating them from the power of their present owners. We cannot conclude this brief notice of a document which has so many and such powerful claims to at tention without congratulating its authors on the calm and dispassionate tone which they have been enabled to maintain in circumstances that would have supplied an apology for warm or even angry remonstrance. The West India body can be calm and dignified in the con , ciousness of right. In no thing will they imitate their oppressors. They can afford to resign the privileges of petulance and ca lumny to the Secretary for the Colonies.--2llorning Post. INQUEST ON R. CULLY. Yesterday evening, at six o'clock, the jury again as sernb'ed at the Calthorpe Arms, to resume the inquest touching the death of the policeman who was stabbed at the meeting on Monday last. The jury had bee❑ in wait. log from five o'clock, the hour appointed, but the Coroner did not make his appearance till six o'clock. John Todd gave testimony as follows—The first inti mation I had of the meeting was the Government prorla tnation, and seeirg that, forbidding the meeting, I re ' mained to see the result. Observing a namber of persons with banners flying, and whose appearance was rather ludicrous. I was induced, being a stranger in this city, to remain, for the purpose of observing the real charater of a metropolitan meeting. Not wishing to mingle in the meeting, I remained in Gough-street. After being there perhaps ten minutes, a body of police, from a neighbouring street, came and formed across the street ; upon seeing this, I thought that I should only be exercising due prudence by keeping away from that meeting; I attempted to get back, and immediately the police began using their ba ons upon myself and some women ; I begged of them to let me pass, as I did not wish to get into the crowd ; it was in vain for me to say so, they used their batons in the most violen t manner; I received a blow on the hack of the neck, which stunned me ; I begged for mercy after the blow, and on receiving another stroke on the hack, I turned round and raised up my arm ; I received the blow upon my wrist ; a gentle man present urged me to go to the surgeon's shop imme diately to have my wound dressed ; he told me that my arm was fractured, and that I had better go down to B ‘r tholomew's Hospital. The medical gentleman who there examined me, said it was a fracture of the hones of the arm immediately above the wrist. The night before last I had a return of epilepsy, in consequence of the blow on the back of the head ; a fit also has been hanging over me the whole of this day, and I am at this moment apprehen sive of a fit. There did not appear to be the slightest dis position on the part of the people to commit a breach of the peace ;o❑ the contrary, they were perfectly quiet. I . . . did not hear any Riot Act or Proclamation read : so far from any breach of the peace, I should say a more silly or ridiculous meeting I never witnessed; it was univiirthy of the attention of the Magistrates. Had the police not interfered there would have been no breach of the peace. Charles Wheeler—l am inspector to the Society for the prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; I was returning home through Gray's Inn-lane on the day in question; as I was passing the end of Calthorpe•street I saw the police beating the people, and driving- all before them who came within their reach ; I proposed to my wife, who accotne panied me, that we should go home another way ; we accordingly went round towards the Bagnigge Wells-road ; in passing along that road we saw a young man with his eye bleeding ; I said you have suffered severely ; I had seen the man who struck him, and I said the policeman belongs to H division, I should know him, and we will have him taken up to-morrow ; while in conversation with this person we heard a number of women and children screaming ; they were coming from the adjoining fiel Is ; I was forced by the police from the pavement into the road ; I turned round to look for my wife; I saw a po liceman A, No. 32, with a truncheon in his hand, and his arm uplifted ; he took a deliberate aim at me, and struck me on the head ; I fell senseless from the violence of the blow, and I have no recollection of anything from that time till I found myself in the shop of a medical gentle man. (The witness exhibited a portion of the garments which he wore upon the occasion, from which it was ap parent that he must have lost a great deal of blood.) I was then removed in a coach; I did not say anything to the police ; before I could speak, I received a blow ; I have been under medical care ever since. Thomas M. Biddulph--I was in the yard of Bus bridge's stables on the day of the meeting; I am in the let regiment of Life Guards; I was ordered on the 13th inst. to place myself under the orders of Colonel de Roos ; I came to the White Horse-yard Livery-stables; ab ut one hour after I arrived, a large reinforcement came in of the police; they were formed up, and directly afterwards desired to proceed outwards from the door behind the yard ; I went out also, and immediately afterwards saw several persons seized ; I did ❑ot see any t.ody hurt by the police. The orders given to the police were, that they should not hurt any body if they could help it, or words to that effect ; I remained out, I think, about rive minutes ; I heard one of the persona brought in by the police say, that although they had him it would coat some of the policemen their lives ; I received my orders from Colonel Lygon verbally; I do not know from whom the orders originally came ; one of those seized by the po lice had a flag ; he was not committing any breach of the peace; 1 did not see any breach of the peace committed unless the meeting itself might be considered a breach of the peace ; I conceive the police had orders to take those persons into custody ; I did not hear any violent language, nor did I see any stones thrown. I did not hear any pro climatic:a or Riot Act read, it might have been done without my hearing it. Thomas Bulkeley, of the Ist Life Guards—l received orders from the Brigade Major to attend him at Bus bridge's stables on the day of the meeting. It wit , between two and three o'clock when I arrived there; 1 received orders on my arrival to go into Col-ridge's manufactory in Gough-street, and to report if I saw any procession or waggons arrive; after I had been there about a quarter of an hour, a waggon arrived with some persons in it, one of whom addressed the assembled people ; I immediately re turned to the stables, and reported that a waggon, ac. companied by souse persons, had arrived at the place of meeting; in a short time the procession passed Gray's Inn-lane, accompanied by a number of persons, some of whom carried banners; some time afterwards the police were ordered to tur❑ out; they received orders from Colonel Rowan not to use any unnecessary violence; I accompanied the division that went out of the gate leading into Gough-street ; the police advanced up Gough-street ; I did not see them use any violence—on the contrary, any person or every person who chose, had every facility for escape; I returned, and in a short time maw several prisoners brought in, only one of whom showed any marks of violence; I heard one of the prisoners a ly, " You may have taken a few of us, but depend upon it some of you will lose your lives," or words to that effect. I did not see any violence committed by the crowd ; but it might have been done without my knowledge, for I was behind the police ; I saw no violence on either side; I did not hear any proclamation read, or Riot Act. I did not see any stones thrown ; I did not see any bludgeons ; I did not 8-e any lances having blades to them. I should not the less consider it a lance for wanting the point; the people cheered the police as a sort of defiance, it was evident from their manner, that they meant those cheers derisively. _ _ Mary Ann Perkins, aged 14 years, having given satis factory answers respecting the nature of an oath, gave testimony neat ly as follows :—I was standing by the Union public-house on Monday last; I saw a man making his escape over the palings ; I saw a policeman stabbed, he had blue trousers; he was stabbed with something that a man took out of a walking stick; he shook the stick and the blade came out ; the man that was stabbed fell, and I s tw no more of him ; the man was a respect able looking person who stabbed the policeman. Thomas Arnold, whose head was bound up in conse quence of the wounds he had received, gave testimony as follows :—I was at the meeting on Monday last ; I saw a party of the police come down the street ; some of them, but without success, endeavoured to take a man who was standing on the palings addressing the people ; in one minute afterwards I was struck and knocked down ; the police were beating the people in every direction ; I re ceived a wound in the head ; the police commenced the attack without saying a word. In addition to the blow on m y head, I received a blow on the hack ; the police spat in their hands when they grasped the truncheons, which showed that they meant to do execution ; no breach of the peace took place before the attack of the police ; no stones were thrown, nor proclamation, nor Riot Act read. I should have heard and seen these things if they had taken place. The wound in my head is now very painful. William Henry Goore--On Monday, the day of the m eating, I was passing down Gray's Inn-lane into Hol born ; I met about sixty or eighty individuals, walking two and two, and many of them were carrying banners ; on approaching towards this part of the town, I conversed with several of them, and asked where they were going? they replied, to Coldbatb-fields, to hold a meeting. I said to several of them, Are you aware that a proclamation has been issued by the Secretary of State ? The answer they gave me was, that they were not aware of anything of the sort; and even if they were, they could not con sider it a legal proclamation, it not having been signed by Lord Melbourne ; I told them that, however imperfect they might consider it, the Government possessed sufficient power to teach them that it was perfectly legal. I told them that the Government had full power to issue such a proclamation ; they rejoined, " We are goine in a way to disturb the Government, not the peace of the country—our only object is that of entering into resolu tions, and upon those grounding a petition to Parliament, to seek the redresses which have been denied by the pre sent Ministers as to the assessed taxes." I inquired, "I , it your determination then to proceed to the place of meeting ?" They all answered, " Yes, we are not about to do a wrong, or an evil towards any one, consequently we expect that no one will do a wrong or an evil towards us." I then told them to he exceedingly guarded in their conduct at the place of meeting, beraue! I w.s convinced the police were lying in ambush. After I had given them that counsel I walked by the side of them till they cam. to the end of Calthorpe-street. Before I could reach the centre of the meeting, the crowd became so dense that 1 thought it prudent to keep at 30 or 40 yards' distance from where the speaker and those connected with the meeting were. The person who addressed them cautioned them in every possible way not to commit a breach of the peace, as their object was merely the redress of those grievances un der which they had so long laboured. The speaker con tinued to impress upon the meeting the necessity of adopting some measures to alleviate the distress under which they laboured. A universal shout was then raised of " The police ; they are coming." Some in the crowd said, " What can they have to do with us? we are peace ably assembled, and we ought to have no dread or fear of them." In an instant after that the police made their appearance at the bottom of Calthorpe-street, their line extending the whole breadth of the street, so that no oie could pass ; they advanced up nearly to the spot where I was standing ; I at that time was not mixed with the crowd, being 40 yards from them; without any cause or provocation I was knocked down with three bludgeons ; some of the police knocked me down ; I remonstrated with the man who first struck me, and his reply was, " -- you, I will knock you to the devil if you say a word." Forty or fifty after that walked over me before I could muster strength sufficient to get up ; it would be in vain for me to oppose myself to such a multitude ; I wish I could have met some of them single handed.—(The wit ness is a man of Herculean bulk.) A gentleman near me was attacked by two policemen, and his arm was broken ; I asked him his name—he declined lest it should be sup posed that he was connected with the business of the meet ing ; he was merely led there by curiosity, and his horse and gig and servant were in waiting; I led him to his gig; his arm certainly was broken ; I have studied and practised as a surgeon before I adopted the pro• tes,ion of the law ; being in some sort a public man in my own county, Worcestershire, I was desirous of sifting the matter as far as I could—it was therefore that I in quired of the gentleman his name. I saw another man cut down with a policeman's truncheon ; there was an other m m with a fracture in his skull the length of my finger ; seeing him as he was, I rendered him every assist ance in my power; I saw no breach of the peace on the part of the handful of boys composing this meeting ; I did not hear the Riot Act, or proclamation, or warning, on the part of the police ; I must have heard anything of the sort ; the whole of the avenues were blocked up ; no man could escape ; I did not see any stones thrown; the per sons at the meeting said, after the meeting was over, that if they bad anticipated such an attack as they had that day sustained, they would have come prepared for defence; the police themselves occasioned the affray ; had it nut been for their brutal and ferocious attack, there would have been no riot whatever; hid I had any weapon I should have returned the blows of the police; if I bad had any weapons whatever, I should have used them, for the attack was murderous ; I was not remonstrated with, I was assailed without notice; had I bad a sword I should have cut the fellow's head off, but I was overpowered by numbers. John Clarke—l know nothing of the death of Cully, I only know of the ill usage that I myself experienced on Nlonday last, in Coldhath-fields ; I was leaning over the rails, one of the police came and struck me, and imme diately Ord hack again to his division ; the meeting was all over at the time; I had not the least notion I was doing wrong; I was myself a parochial officer for six years; I am 59 years of age; I was 21 years in his Majesty's ser vice (witness showed his arm, on which there was a severe contusion); it was past four o'clock, and the meeting was suppressed at the time I was struck. Wm. Robertson—l heard the chairman recommending peace and order; the people were perfectly quiet and or derly ; at the end of the chairman's speech the police marched down Calthorpe-street; I observed three of them lift their staves above their heads, but the great body moved forward and knocked the people down without any discrimination whatever; I received a severe blow on the head, which knocked me down, and I was beaten for some minutes while I was on the ground with out the least mercy ; I sew several persons knocked dow❑ in a most savage and brutal manner ; I with some difficulty effected nay escape ; I saw a young man named Charles Wheeler knocked down, and carried insensible to a surgeon's ; I went to the same gentleman, who dressed my wound ; many of the owners of houses in the neighbourhood were standing at their own doors, and the police attacked them in the most furious manner, without the slightest provocation ; on the ground there was not the slightest resistance made Lo the police; neither there nor anywhere else was there any resistance. Witness corroborated thL testimony of all who went before him as to the attack having been made on the people with out notice, without Proclamation, or Riot Act, or remon strance, and without any bri-ach of the peace on the part of the people; if any of the policemen received it, it must have been Irons their own truncheons, for I observed that several fell, and were beaten by their own comrades ; by their countenances he should suppose the policemen were intoxicated ; he had seen beer served out to them before they mad, the attack, but no spirits ; a paliceman, who was going across the field with a flag in his hand, looked at me when the blood was issuing from my face, and said, " Ali, old fellow, we did not come here for nothing ;" I saw upwards of fifty bleeding. Joseph Millbank, of 25, - Rahere-street, Goswell-road, watch-jewtllrr, said—l had to go to Clerkenwell work house, and about a quarter to 4 o'clock I was going to wards the Union, and seeing the people running, I went across the field from curiosity; I stood for a few moments looking at the proceedings, and suddenly a policeman struck me with his truncheon ; another came behind, and injured me by forcing me on with his staff.—(Witness hared hit arm, and exposed the bruises he had received.) Front the treatment I had experienced, I thought the po. iicemen were drunk or mad. The jury then urged upon the Coroner the expediency of immediately adjourning, to which he very reluctantly consented. The Foreman then said, that to many of them it would be in the highest degree inconvenient to attend on Satur day. They were tradesmen, and had business to attend to on the last day of the week, which they could nut neglect without the greatest sacrifice : he, therefore, proposed that they should adjourn to Monday. The Coroner was apprehensive, that, if they adjourned over Saturday, the public might think they were relaxing in their application to the business in which they were engaged. The Foreman replied, that it surely could not be sup posed that there was any relaxation on their part; they had on the first day devoted upwards of six hours to the inquiry; on the second eight hours; they on that day bad been occupied nearly seven hours. That was, be thought, as much as the public had a right to expect from men who were not, like the Coroner, hardened to the service— who could not live upon air—who required rest and re freshment, like ordinary mortals, and who, as tradesmen, had business to conduct, and, as heads of families, had domestic alifairs to attend to. He really must say that the public had no right to expect four consecutive days, one of them occurring on a Saturday especially. The Coroner at length was induced to agree to Monday provided they would consent to assemble in the forenoon. Eleven o'clock on Monday was then agreed upon as the time of their next meeting. In the Jury-room, after the adjournment, it was stated that 96 witnesses still remain to be examined. The Jury expressed a most decided determination to investigate the whole circumstances connected with this painful affair, with the utmost strictness, and it was also stated that the Jury intend to examine Lord Melbourne, Colonel Rowan, Mr. Mayne, and any other Members of the Government who can be supposed to have the power of giving any in formation which way be considered material to the inquiry. FUNERAL OF CULLY. Yesterday afternoon the body of the murdered police man, Robert Cully, was interred in the burial-ground of St. Anne's, Soho. His remains were tollowed to the grave by upwards of 200 of the police. When the procession 4 arrived at the church, it was met by a or ctVc wards of 300 persons, who behaved in a most uobece manner by expressing their disapprobation of tbeto:ll of the police in the late affriy, and that in 3 discordant manner. 0 1i1 Culiy an was 27 years of age, and was a fine stout te,oe man. He had been married about two yell; 00 left no family, but his wife is far advanced in PrO li o f idg Mr. M a y, s u p er i n t en d en t o f the A division, Phan received between 401. and 501. from various tod t( for the r e li e f o f C u ll y ' s w id ow . It is expecte d t9s vernment will bestow on her a pension. MARKET INTELLIGENCU• co d LONDON MARKETS „ te do,t (From the London "New Price Current" Of Ye - _ l e. SUGAR.—In consequence of the plans of Gove r n specting Colonial property, the particulars of which *: e ei r io our last report, the prices of Muscovades have advanc,,, cwt. since Friday last; there are few sellers at th i e l . " 2 m , 000 h h dTsh. e a p s c e o r v c a w d e! i r , hi bthe ' v i ci 3. which we have stated, has been fully supported. c o r t y in the refined market generally is about is• r er . 10 01; Lumps 62.5, and for crashed 29 5 . 6d. has been ref er purchases are chiefly confined to the home trad e, the V' refuse to buy at the advanced price. This afternoon of the Raw Sugar m ar k e t appears t o have had thefrA making the refiners firmer in demanding ad v2l fed begfrA which have in some instances been obtained fronl and for goods suitable f or me lti ng; th e s hippers, h °Pie b e ssi r d offer former prices, con s e quen tly ver y little busin ess reported either in low goods or th e qualities en titled A 2 ei, l bounty on double refined, MAURITIUS SUGAR.—Mauritius Sugar 3 . 1 ; n col% in the week in the same proport i on as W es t India 1'' , 4" 2 ,01 , 1) ," 2s, per cwt. The p u bli c sa l es t hi s d ay, 5 , 965 bags or; i # have gone off heavily, and in some instances rather Je t 0 , advance in Mauritius s i nce thi s d ay wee k is 3 ' °' per cwt. „te o EAST INDIA SUGAR.—The purchases 6y tract this week are incon s id era bl e, t h e pr i c es are ' - ;0" higher. This day's sales 5,213 b ags E as t India, ch'`ect'l sold 19s a 255., about the advance we have 14ated, Is. g i a few Bengal Is. a 2s higher, "Os. 6d. a 335. le t FOREIGN SUGAR.—The forei gn s ugars at g fiet p i, held for prices 2s. hi g h er , b u t th e i mprovemen t has n- o t 1 , 1 2 realized; 449 boxes whit e H avanna h were offered 2t P Ue r and were taken in 2s. a b ove th e l ate nomina l Price' I .01 white to middling 275. 6d. a 31s. co ffee COFFEE—There has been little business in he' week. The British plantation descriptions have be L4 o' but the holders would not submit to any further c c : sdt''' prices; they bought in a large proportion of tht b ih ro er u e gl w it e f r o e rw fe a w rd pu at rc t h h a e se p s u r b ep li o c r s t a ed les o .. a l c n co F u o n re t i o g f n th er ;:fie r f4 i lic sales advertised for this day; they consisted of ;• l ini'; sale this day, 7,552 bags East India, 4,471 bags 11) , r -l • )1 1 4, 1 ' matra, low to good ordinary, sold 495. 6d. a S t s ' Is. Gd. higher; Ceylon, good ordinary, sold 565. 6 "'..:01 , ;,1 being Is. higher. The Brazil, chiefly good ordinary ti 2e , a 555. 6d. being nearly last week's prices. The 1 131 ,11ir 1,1 ordinary brown to fine fine ord. 545. a 70s. sold Generally, the Coffee Market is more firm, and P" t o to 2s. higher. ales 0 0 COCOA.—Fine red G -renada Cocoa at public , b at , in at 695. ordinary at 60s. This day's public sale 714 ' nary Brazil Cocoa at:2os., partly taken in. pr icel t i RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.--T"ll D„a Jamaica Rum have adv ance d 2d . per ga ll on ; Lee's-een about ld per gallon ; the sales o f th e f ormer have derable. In Brandy and Geneva there is no alterat' ° , - ; RICE.—The sales of Ri ce are extens i ve -Al u ' A ` u 'ti 10s. 6d. to fine white 12s. 6d. and 135.; Carolina , 325. 6d. a 335. • Pe t SPICES.—There have been considerable sales o f to 4 4 former prices, and of ord. to mid. Pimento at 4 1 d orIC C About 1,700 chests Cassi a Li gnea h ave so ld a t the Is. to Is, 6d. mid. 725. a 745. FRUlT.—There is scarcely an y a lt era ti on in thi s co C rIO notice this week ; the advanced prices demanded O r ,0 1 are maintained. SI INDIGO.—In consequenc e o f th e r i se o f Indigo , s o , from 7i to 10 per cent. th e d eman d h as been re news o creased briskness ; an a d vance o f 3d . an d 4 d . on thepol House sale is freely realized, and there is little a ,t, left on the Market f or sa l e. tr COTTON.--The Cotton Market is firm, but vii tl° 4 ,1 ness. The purchases are not on an extensive scale. 600 Surats, ord, 4, 7 ,d. good fair 41-cl. 80 Bowels, fair . fair 7id. 1 0 PRICE OF SUGAR. r c 001 dsfq The Average Price of Br own or M uscova d o Stiga ;ea 0 0 , 4 from the Returns made i n th e wee k en di ng the i u sive,ol' " May, 183:3, is 275. 61d. per Hundred W e i g ht, ex.e /t oo' Ditties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the .........„/ thereof into Great Britain. ~,, 1 , PRICES OF HOPS.—May 17. 1/ , 5k 1' Kent Pockets 55,00111..120501.... 121.06 7 11 0 000 ;: tt00 : 0410 1: : : 0 1 100 0 0 3, it ' Sussex Ditto lissex Ditto Fatalism Ditto, Fine Seconds 51 les. 71. Os t " 0. 0. 1 01. 0.. 01. 0 ,. to .., o i :, 01. Os 01. os• t" Kent susses Essex Ditto PRICE Ok 1 0 e Rape Oil, brown 63. Refined r Linseed Oil Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, p er thousand —..—••••••" y Rape Cake, per ton rti.ICE OF POTA ES. —May 17. er Kidneys (York) • Of. Os. to 41 Os• P.tt 0. /O Marsh Chain) Oxnobles ant 3/. N. 4/. Os. 0/. Os. td Shaws to 31. 10s.:;; t , to 41. 10 3 . u ,,1t0 , to 3/. 05... Nvtill ECtiAt'El., HAY ,(lAltii,El.-- , .Norr" 503. od. to 723. Oct. I ('lover ...—.. CO.. u•-• Straw 243 (kt. to 28.. Od. 0 1 1 LEATHER- Per 5 s English Cal f s is Horseh Ditto 11pb: o r o to 1 Ditto 40 to ; golD• 11 0 Ditto —.......... 70 to land Small Seals, eel Large ditto-- PRICES C) Per lb, d. to d. Butts, English 14f 22 Ditto, Foreign.....-- 14 19 Dressing Hides Ilf 15 Ditto - l3 15-ii Ditto, light ----.. Clop Hides, light 12 13.1 Ditto ;l) to 501 b. 12f 151 13; 17 6e. SHEEP SKINS. , to y 9 Best Polled ........Cs. Od. to Bs. Od. I D0wn5............. -. A '. 0 Half.breds...—...s 0 6 6 1 Lambs--.-.... 1 0 PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Sc. per tli (50 : „.i4 _ , iv - IP Town Tallow ............. w . 51s. 6d. Yellow 50ap...... , '"L,..0 7 , , , Li t Yellow Ru55ia.........--, 475. Od. 510tt1ed......---- 0 e 7O White....... ..455. 6d. White __,...,' Soap Ditto 44s. Od. Graves ..............- _„,.., , Melted Stuff- r)itto Rough— PRICE OF RAW FAT, _. __ 'rice 01 :as stal 'al low 't stone Os --- PR - ICE Oh CANDLES. .„ (01. - ys• The price of Store Candles, in the r e tail s h o p s , i, Candles, per doz. 7s. (Id. to Bs. Od. I Moulds, per do' —--- - - - 4 1 ' 4 f COAL MARKET.-May 17. I , 1 Per Ton. s. a. Per T°";, ." 1 4 5 8 it e d a a u ir m '5z t ......._ .... .....-.....-.. 1 12 5 G O ;W )it a t l o ls ENnodroltuidnid,evl,lo-0./.#30,1164 !I Benshain 3lam ..........--. 14 1) Walls End Hetton „...., 0 0 Charlotte Dean's Primrose -....... 14 0 Walls End Lamb,r et wo , 16 9 East Percy- l2 6 W. E. Russell's r i, ,11 5 , 9 Ord's RedhughStowaf de ,"l! 9 Pontop Windsor ....--... 15 9 Walls End Adela',, P I I'antield..... l6 6 Walls End Gordoi r ole , 19 I l'ownley l4 6 Walls End Old ~.." 0 i West Hartley .......--...-. 14 6 Walls End Stocnottv # 1, 5 9 Wylam - l5 9 W. E South Du r .. ...,, % 0 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 15 6 Wall s E n d Tee' 1 7 , 11 Walls End Boundary.... 12 6 Cowpen .....„,„..,'". !I' I Walls End 8r0wn'5,........... 13 9 Fordel Splint . ... , ,r, I Wall , End Callerton -... 12 0 Hartley -..-... , .'",,,,bert a- P. I Walls End Heaton...-. 15 0 Llangennech P e ":„...":. t 9 Walls End Hi1da.............. 13 6 Walls End Elgl,",. o avv - , r Walls End Hotspur-. 13 6 Walls End He11",,,0 0- Ditto Jesmond 13 6 Walls End Selby • Ditto Killingworth Ships arrived since ast market-dal. 4° ' ' 00' ___........--_. O COUNTRY CORN MARICEI'S DUR T ING - COUNTRY CORN MARKEI'S DURING 1 60 0 / 4‘. / Wheat. Barley. Oat s •••• 4 ,C; Per Quarter. 55 60 28 32 20 co ' O 6 4 , , Basingstoke 50 60 22 27 15 N 40 pi Bath Bridgewater 49 58 25 29 19 0 04 !, Bristol 48 56 28 32 16 g 4 Chesterfield 44 56 24. 30 19 94 40 , d Derby 54 62 24 32 1 8 r2. , ..1 35 5 Doncaster 48 6(/ 20 26 10 0 5 D0rehe5ter„.............. 49 57 21 26 17 0 0 46 62 24 34 1 4 ‘ , 2 51 9 ,1 Gloucester......„„,„ 40 56 0 3 33 14 : 2 1 7, Hungerford 46 57 20 28 14 2i, 4 6 ), 60 29 31% 11 Newbury. 36 58 23 30 5 Bonney 56 62 22 27 10 ;7 65 Shaftesbury 54 25 .„ 26 54 7 „„'' Shelton Mallet 48 54 24 32 20 34 TA Sherborne. . 50 56 24 29 2 4 0 5 l'aunton Yarmouth 4O 56 22 26 16 Yeovil 54 56 28 3 4 10 1 ,1 11 (' Per Bushel. '• d 0 . 5 v Shrewsbury 80 8 9 40 5 0 4 . • r33Y 6. DEVIZES CORN 3IARICE •_ r s. 6to Per Sack. s. d_ R. di Per Quart e • 22 Anl l ---- ----—ilt Y DEVIZES CORN ....ARKE r.--- r A -3- g , • to ,4 Per Sack. s. d. s. d. Per Qua rter ' 2.2 6 ni Best Wheat 27 6t029 6 Barley. ...... , .... ii g i i Second e h o e t at sold/ ,„, 0 25 6 26 6 Oats ... ......... i:i 13 „ 0 13 a 26 t t S l a w ck al. Thirds 2l 6 23 0 Beans (per sac 3 s o i "'" ' Bread (per gall) . ' o e f ra W g I.lour (per bag) , 1 0 4 1 , If JIBRIED . , Javi ej el On the 16th inst., at Walco t Church, Bath, A• A," fl oe, Berson W at h ers t on , of Bridgewater-squ are, to 4 ,1 daughter of R. M. l'ayne, Esq., of Bath. P . DIED. • De al On the 13th inst., at Wimb:edon, Mrs. El li 3 4 441 -; viilP„4' Stevenson. ~,,cta .-, tP. On the 14th inst., in Bloomsbury-square Au ~;0 0 0' je youngest daughter of the late Robert Scott, Su r . ~;e0 battalion of the Royal Artillery. c."l. ' On the ‘2•2d ult t, at Harefield-place. MiddleseX, gate, E:q., aged 39. PRINTS° AND PDBUSHED sy MU it U o u t - 5; 44 '11.11'4 SUN OFFICE, 112, SThAND, Lox Do* 1-1 y, eZqui s tO aim er. ugr aver the Ori, 3/, 3 P.ll .111:11" • d ay wag PAN QO NT . `,NTS E het r ti lto par fork Ns "Wash 'Ynig ....... ...... thrf Vt ' , an( IFC% sOia " b;:jsl r4 ho 14d e ra l \ Atli aVi tt n t t itt p t vt , bi 4 141 ) 1 44 Y " 1: 4 * *,lt l , 4t°ll, N 4 j) Li L 1 , 4 .1. te et t i • 1' A i 1 2th, Itt actedlt I) 1 1 1, It t wa ttyi td to 4 ti ti ' 4 t,"1 , 14t !„, i th e 4 o , t tkt,„ yo -% Of 'oll 4* Pted tti " Ititb/ — at tiirarerageoi - — I 25 9 1 . 13reac (per gain ~ ll BIRTHSthe 41' On the 14th inst., in Pulteney-street , Bath, '01)01 d 09 rietta Dundas Allen, of a son and heir. f n e d I s .S On the 17th inst ,at Vernon-house, Lady '- 1 of 1., ~, On the 17th inst., in Park-street, the wife isr,ilr, Williams, Esq., of a son. ~,-, c 1 ,3 On the 12th inst., at Rotterdam, Lady TUrgro-fr, On the 16th inst., at Richmond - terrace, the la dy ford, Esq., M.P., of a daughter. _,,14,1(,,';'i