The Sun. — London, England, 1830-04-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The important subject of the distresses alleged to be experienced by the shipping interests of Great Britain was brought under the notice of the House %a Commons on Friday last, by Mr. Sykes. The Hon. Gentleman's speech was in no degree calcu lated to indispose the mind of Parliament to what ever experiments of remedial policy might seem the mow promising of relief or advantage to the ship owners, because of his forbearing to dogmatise upon the specific measures which would best become the Legislature to adopt in their behalf. With regard to the tendency of some of the existing laws to ereate•ati undue r essure upon the ship-owner, we cotentr with Mr. Sykes in his view of their natural oonseeptestres. The East India monopoly, for examnte, deprives our merchantmen of a resource, evhith, if open, might have repaired in some respects the evil of depreciated markets elsewhere. The ex pence of light houees and pilotage might well be borne by the body of the nation, instead of felling directly upon the commercial marine. The duty on hemp alone would constitute an enormous item in the comparative cost of British ship-building as compared with foreign ; and the excess of tax on solid timber over that on deals (or sawed plank) is justly considered a houhty on the saw-mills of other countrieF—that is on foreign industry at the expense of British. int when Mr. Sykes comes to complain of the mis sshicre arising to the British ship-owner from the in treased price of provisions and wages, as also from the decline of freights from the year 1826 to 1829, inclusive, it is impossible to contend that such dis advantages are peculiar to the shipping interest of Great Britain, and that the marine of other countries is not equally effected by them. If British freights have fallen, so have those of the foreign merchantmen likewise; for nothing can be more preposterous than to fairer, in the teeth of all the evidence of Europe and America, that commerce every where has not suffered from a languor in the markets, and a diminution of profits, at least equivalent to what has occurred amongst otsrselves. When, again, Mr. Sykes deplores that merchants, depressed by the . above reduction of freights, should have their misfortunes aggrarated by a rise in wages and eeesstores, is there not some fallacy or mystery in the Hon. Gentleman's repre sentations ? Whitt are we to be told that the commerce of England is ruined, when, on the show ing of its own adv'ocate, seamen's wages have risen from 2/. 17s. to 31.? And what will cur landed interest-petitioners say for themselves, when one of the alleged grievances of the merchant is, that the assorted sea stock of beef, pork, and bread, have risen, in the four years beginning with 1826, above the four preceding years, from 9/. 3s. 10d. to 10/. 15s. ltd.? Which class of grumblers are we to believe—or mend we credit neither? Mr. Herries refuted, in an irresistible manner, the absurd allega tions ao . often made, of an actual falling off in the .mount of British tonnage since the introduction of the system of marine reciprocity. On the contrary, it is enough to state, from official documents, that the commercial navy of Great Britain has, within the last four years, exceeded the highest amount of it in !the. same period previous to the trial of Mr. Huckisson's " reciprocity treaties" by no less than 240,000 tons; while the foreign tonnage has also increased, but only in the proportion of 5,000 tons ten2oo,ooo In our Journal of Friday last we were induced, from the perusal of the debate on the Crown Re venues, to believe that in the purchase of the Mary lebone property from the Duke of Portland, the Crown had made a bad bargain for the public, anti a very advantageous one for_ the noble vender. We have since that day been put in possession of docu manta which considerably modify this, opinion, and we subjoin a summary of the facts which have pro duced this modification of our previous judgment. From these it will appear, that as far as regards the Duke of Portland, the price of the purchase was reasonable,—perhaps even somewhat below the ac tual value. In the same proportion, therefore, the bargain must be considered a favourable one for the Crown. But there is another point in the case, in dependent of the relation between the Crown Com missioners and the Duke of Portland : that point is the public benefit. And here we have no evidence ;to Show that one shilling accrues for the use of the public. Great and extensive church-patronage is transferred from the Portland family to the Crown! hut: we should like also to see, what we have rio means at present of knowing, that the income from, this patronage, which formerly resulted to the Duke of Portland, is now applied to the public service. That income was about 1,100/. a-year—no very large sum, certainly, it; a smatter of national revenue, belt still too large to be wasted. The following is she statement referred terit-- e - s k • " The present (not the laft,VOcke of Portland sold the extra-episcopal rectory of Blitefiebpne to the Crown in the year 1817. : " This property comptised, besides the patronage, four freehold private chapels, and also a leasehold chapel for 5.5 years' term. These chapels produced to the Duke a uet income of nearly 1,100/. a-year, after pay'ng the offi ciating ministers and all other charges. "" The patronage consisted of the perpetual right to ap point the ministers and officers of the mother church, alai of two parochial chapels—and also to license ministers to his own and all other chapels of the established church in the parish. " In selling all his rights as lay rector; his Grace stipulated that none of the existing incumbents should be disturbed. Dr. lieslop, the then incutnbc•nt of the parish church, was at the time about seventy-seven years or age, and this valuable presentation on his death fell in to tlieCrown. • • " The whole of this property and ecclesiastical patronage liits sold by the Duke of Purt!and to the Crown at the re tineed price of 40,000/. ' " TIC perish has since been divided into five diqinel rectories, and four additional churches have been built."— Time:. _ ' • We were much amused' with the lamentation of Sir Charles Forbes on Thursday night, that " of late years it had become too much the custom to press upon Scotland—its interests were by no means so well protected as formerly—the English and Irish Members in the Cabinet seemed to him quite to overpower the Scotchmen, and the consequences 're, he thought, deeply injurious to the northern part . of the island." , We confess we have no fear that either English or Irish Members of the Ca binet Will go out of • their way to press upon Scot kind, especially after the lesson so lately received, by them in the threatened Bank Rebellion. Our fears point to a different quarter—namely, to two classes of Scotchtnen, who may be said to be in a constant conspiracy to lay hold of eyery favourable opportu nty for promoting their interests, and gratifying their love of power at the expence of the nation. We allude to the Law Corporations of Edinburgh, and to the Aristocracy of the country. Several years ago we ourselves contributed something to the defending a plan for enabling the gentry of Scotland to tyrannise over the lower orders in the disgraceful manner of England, by giving to the . Justices of Peace the powers of their English brethren—pourers for which there cannot even be a pretext in Scotland, where there are excellently con stituted Local Courts. The Scotch gentry are miserable, because the lower orders of Seotchmen are more independent than the same classes of Eng lishmen, and think they have as good a right as their neighbours to ample discretionary power — that is, to powers to oppress. A pretty good be ginning was made two years ago by Mr. Home Drummond, who succeeded in imposing en his c ountrymen the English system of licensinff, at a ti me when the oppressions practised under it had exhausted the patience of the most patient of , all people, the people of England. We have just re ceived a valuable pamphlet on these subjects, in the shape o f a " Letter to Henry Brougham, E sq . , ,, by John Douglas, Esq., of Glasgow. Mr. Douglas has not, we suspect, addressed his letter to one who shares his views ; for though Mr. Brougham is, a Law Reformer, he is not, as far as we can learn, a very warm admirer of any plan of Reform which has for its object the bringing justice home to the door of every man. '1 he Law Corporations of Eng- land and Scotland have always aimed at monopoly. Mr. Douglas remarks that the projected improve ments for Scotland are hardly worth mentioning. " Scotland," he says, " neither wants, nor will be sa tisfied with any project for still further concentrating the administration of justice in the capital. The reform in the administration of the law which Scotland really requires, is not the farther concentration of great and still more costly Courts of Law in Edinburgh, but the restoration to their pristine constitutional vigour, and the further im provement of the Provincial Courts of Scotland, so as to bring cheap and speedy justice home to the doors of the people. This demand was loudly proclaimed by the public resolution of the Law faculty of the second city for pupil !ation in Britain, speaking the sense of Scotland in 1807, when Lord Grenville proposed to reform the Scottish Courts; and again, in 1814, when the Jury Court was introduced." Lord Althorp knows well what disingenuous me thods of opposition to his Local Courts were re sorted to by the lawyers in the House. In short, the I3ar will ever look with jealousy on all schemes of improvainent which are not identified with their own En en op oy. The practitioners in Edinburgh are as keen as their brethren in London. But let us hear Mr. Douglas " In Scotland we have retained, if we have not yet sufficiently improved, our Local Courtg. In England, on the contrary, with unimportant exceptions, the whole ad ministration of justice originates and centres in the Sul preme Courts at Westminster. The great practical incon venience of this departure from the ancient English plan of Local C.urtn in very imperfectly attempted to be reme died by the Nisi Prius Sittings at CircuitA, for the neces sity of witnesses, agents, arid counsel attending for many days on the Circuit is scarcely less expensive than a trial in London. The great number of remainets, or causes left over untried at the Assizes, with the loss of the cxpence of counsel and witnesses, and the chance of losing evidence before the next Circuit, besides other obvious imperfections of this most costly and clumsy substitute of the ancient Local Courts of England, is the subject of loud lamenta tion by the best English Law Writers, who regret the suppression of these very Courts, which we have had the letter judgment or fortune to retain, cherish, and im- prove." Mr. Douglas observes justly, that " the perma nent sittings of Local Courts, with very short inter vals, ensure greater quickness of dec;sion than can ever be hoped for in a distant Court, with short sessions and long vacations ;" that accumulation of business and perplexity and delay are the conse quence of the monopoly of all causes by a Supreme Court, to the exclusiofl of Local Courts; and that " the superior economy of judicial proceedings in the subordinate Courts" is of the utmost consequence, if we do not wish to deter every prudent person from attempting to redress his wrongs or enforce his rights by the aid of law. We wish Mr. Peel could be induced to read the following most important statement of Mr. Douglas : " Betwixt the very-highest and very lowest class there still remains - an immense mass of intermediate causes of unavoidable resort to law ; questions of possession, con tract, enforcement of rents, and other debts in agricultural districts; the infinite variety of important personal ques tions arising out of extended commerce and manufactures, which are every day disposed of by the Local Courts of Scotland, so much to the satisfaciion of the public, that the proportion is tri%ial beyond conception of appeals for the review of the Superior Courts. _ _ " This infrequency of appeal in the vast number of causes is so decisive of the importance and utiiity of our system of local judicataje, that it deserves a little illustra tion from details which have been collected from the most authentic sources. " In the course of four years the annual average of cauFes instituted in the Burgh Court of Glasgow varied from 1,300 to 1,700 annually. Decrees or Final Judg• molts, from 795 to 1,460. Extracted for Execution from 650 to 1,250. " The great proportion of causes range from 5/. to .00/. sterling ; the total amount of the sums concluded for about 45,000/. sterling ; and judgments were given for, from 301. to 40,0001. sterling. " The expense of a final judgment varied from 301. to 101 except in cases of obstinate and vexatious litigation. _ _ " Parile proofs occurred in a fourth of all the causes from 280 to 120. From 700 to 1,000 parties or wit nesses were annually examined. " The number of causes in the Sheriff Court of Lanark shire, on an average of the years 1821-2—and 3, was 2,660 annually; to that Court the details of the Burgh Court causes apply mutatis mutandis. " It appears from the Return of the Lord Advocate, Sir Rae, to the Home Office in 1823, that in the years 1821, 1822, and 1823, the number of causes de cided-itt the. Sheriffs' Coart of Scotland was 66,232, of which only 564, or 117th part of the whole, were carried for review to the Supreme Court. Of the value of the causes of action, it is of course impossible to form any thing but an approximation. Upon the above-stated data, furnished by the Burgh Court of Glasgow, the value of causes adjudicated ,luring these three years by the whole Sheliff Courts of Scotland, Would amount to 1,540,000/., or more than half a million a year." Mr. Douglas tells Mr. Peel to " beware of the insidious Counsel of the Edinburgh Monopoly Coln pall, the College of Justice against, not the esta blishment, but the improvement" of the Local Courts. They will, he says, assail him with the old interested monopoly cry—don' t seek too much at a time. " You are too enlightened not to see through such in. terested advice, too old a politician not to know, that i the favourable moment for reform be not seized for car rying it to a proper extent, the very adoption of a partial and imperfect palliative quiets the transient gust of public spirit, and postpones to an indefinite period the most neces sary and urgent improvements. You know the true reason why Scottish Jury Trial refused to !Lord Grenville in 1807, was granted in 1811 ; and that the same reason prevented Jury Trial from being at once communicated to the Court of Session. Had that been done, Jury Trial might have been attached to the Sheriff Courts when Scotland, in 1807 and 1814, publicly called for it. Nothing has since been discovered by the experiment of the Separate Jury Court, but that its expensive form, chiefly from being confined to the Edinburgh Court, has excited over . all Scotland a very general dislike to Jury Trial as at present conducted. " It should be in the option of parties to agree to dis pease with a Jury in the Sheriff Court, i• all cases where by the existing law the use of a Jury is not imperatively enjoined in that Court." We would recommend the perusal of Mr. Douglas's pamphlet to all who take any interest in Scotch Judicial Reforms.—/lforning Chronicle. The number of the Quarterly Review, just pub lished, contains an able article on the subjects of Banking and Currency, in which much and well merited commendation is bestowed upon the Scotch system of banking, and the benefit it confers. upon our fellow-subjects of the North are loudly and justly extolled. To the full extent of these eulogies we entirely concur with the Reviewer. The best of all possible proofs—experience, demonstrates that the Scotch banking system is an excellent system for Scotland, but we cannot concede without examination either of the two propositions which throughout the whole article the Reviewer takes for granted, viz. that nothing but legislative enact ment is required to the establishment of the same system in England, and that the •grant to Bank ing Companies of the privilege of issuing small notes is one of its essential and inseparable pang. The merit of a system of banking must be esti mated by the degree in which it combines the two important characteristics of stability in respect to the Banks themselves and accommodation to the public. And in both particulars the system esta blished in Scotland may justly claim a pre-emi nence. The stability of the Banks is guaranteed by the number of their partners—by the periodical publication of their transactions and of their actual state—and by the fact of each partner having really paid up his portion of the joint capital. The num ber of partners in addition to •its more obvious effect of augmenting the valid responsibility of an establishment in a pecuniary point of view, is the most effective guarantee to the public, that its pub lished accounts will always be fairly and accurately made up—the publication of those accounts protects alike the Bank and its customers from the conse quences of rash or inordinate speculations,and deters the former from extending even its regular and legi timate transactions beyond the point which its paid up capital will fairly warrant ; the fact that the capital is really paid up gives assurance to the public that there is at all times a fund available to meet any accidental loss which may be sustained; what perhaps is still more valuebie, that no individual partner in the Bank can belong to the class of adventurers who are prompt to dash for ward in pursuit of large and rapid prcfitsj at the risk either of their co-partners or of the ptiblic, and in the c omfortable consciousness that they have every thing to gain and nothing to lose. The ac commodation these Banks afford to the community consists in receiving the deposits of small as well as large sums, for which they allow interest from the day on which they are made, and in lending money in various modes at a rate of interest one per cent. higher than that which they allow to Ilteir depo sitors. They are thus the intermediate agents be• tween the whole of the borrowers and the whole of the lenders of the country, affording additional se curity to the latter, and additional fecilities to 'both, and deriving the remuneration of their services from the difference of one per cent. in the interest of a very large proportion of all the money lent and bor rowed throughout Scotland. They discharge in Scotland all or nearly all the functions which are executed in England by bankers, money agents, bill brokers, and savings banks. The issue of notes, the payment of interest on deposits, and the receipt of very small deposits, are the chief c ircumstances which, distinguish their business from that of the bankers of London ; the latter is the only important particular in which the current of their transactions, so far as it depends upon themselves, differs from that of a country banker in England.—There is one important circumstance, however, which more per haps than any other has enhanced the reputation of the Scotch system of banking, but which since it is evident that it might have arisen equally under any other system, ought, we think, rather to be ascribed to some peculiarity in the habits, character, or situa tion of the Scottish nation. We allude to the prac tice of what is called cash credit, arid yehich con sists merely in the opening of a credit account by the Batik, to the extent of which the individual it, whose favour this is done may draw—interest being charged on the actual advances, and the Bank Leine secured from eventual loss by the bonds of the joint bond of the party seeking this accommodation, and two of his friends. That this practice has conferred great and extensive benefits upon Scotland there can he no doubt. To point them out in detail would ex ceed our limits, and it is needless, since the fact is attested by the unanimous declarations of all who have ever had an opportunity of becoming personally conversant with the subject. It is one thing, however, to admit that this practice has been beneficial to Scot land, and another to conclude that with the Scotch system of banking it would necessarily, or probably, gain a footing in England. We be lieve it would not do so, and our reason is, that with a ,system of banking, certainly present ing no impediment to its introduction, is has never yet been introduced. It is, we conjecture, a plant indi genous to the soil of Scotland, and tvlich, however it may have sprung up and flourished among her pru dent reed thrifty population, will scarcely bear to be transferred to any other region. To the establish ment ofa better system of banking than this country has hitherto enjoyed, a legal impediment is, how ever, presented by tire Charter of the Bank of Eng land, which forbids the establishment of any othei Bunking Companies consisting of more than six partners; and although by an Act of the Legisla ture, passed with the liberal concurrence of this great Corporation four years ago, the monopoly of the Bank of England has been so far relaxed as to admit of the establishment of Banks e with an unli mited number of partners in any part of the country distant more than sixty-five miles from the metro polis, and no material tendency to. an improved system has yet been exhibited; it still cannot be said that a fair experiment has been made as to the form which English enterprise, intelligence, and capital would naturally assume'in this department of exer tion, so long as they are not allowed free action in an extensive district of the kingdom, which - in wealth and commercial importance greatly ex ceeds any other. It is from this district that the example and impulse of imptovement might Ve expected to proceed, and while it is fettered no prkt of the kingdom can justly be deemed free. The Charter of the Bank is, indeed, the only legal im pediment to the introduction into England of the Scotch Ban : Acing System, although. time Quarterly Retie - 10r 'Otreli;lloiii.eti4 ; felethi*Feeisilit arraigning the conduct and impugning the wisdom of the Legislature, enumerate several. It is no essential part of this system that theliability-to loss of the partners in a Bank should be limited to their several original subscriptions to its. capital. Of this there cannot be a better proof than that such limitation with respect to the Scotch Banks them selves, is not the rule, but the exception., extending only to the two or three Banking Companies, in- no corporated by a peculiar Charter. Nether Carr it he assumed that the privilege of issuing notes small is essential to this system. The Quarterly R e view, however, takes for granted that it is so, wit hout an y attempt to show how far the privilege in question actually contributes to the profit of the Scotch Banks, and in forgetfulness •of the significant fact, that the Bank of England, net unusually negligent of its Corporate interests, voluntarily relinquished the ex ercise of this privilege during a period of consider able duration.—Morning Post. We are glad to observe that the Bishop of Lon don, in presenting two petitions to the House of Lords, on Friday night, from certain persons in Lon don and Northamptonshire, praying for the abolition of the punishment of death in cases of forgery, stated his acquiescence in the prayer of the petitions,. and expressed a hope soon to see capital pun i shments effaced from the Statute-book altogether, except in cases of great -atrocity. This sentiment is worthy of one who is a chief among the Pastors of the Church, to whom his less exalted brethren look up for instruction and example, and whose high station imposes on him the greater responsibility of diffusing the true principles of Christianity among the people. We sincerely wish that the hope expressed by the Learned Prelate, of seeing capital punish ments effaced from the Stanite-book except in ex treme cases, may be soon realized ; hut, from the manner in which Mr. Peel has undertaken the," amend ment" of the criminal law, we doubt it.. Mießoel takes credit to. himself for having reformed tie criminal law, and seems not a little vain of wha4' he has done, and of the ignorant praise which has Orenverted his mechanical labour into a work of splendid and comprehensive legislation. What, then,: has Mr. Peel done ? . He has repealed a - considerable num ber of obsolete and superfluous Statutes, and con densed the provisions of the criminal law into a smaller . compass than that iu which they were con tained before. He has cut off sothe.antique distinc tion4s—sneh as benefit of Clcrefy—a privilege unjust i inits origin, and, when the reason of its institution ceased to be obvious, exceedingly absurd. He has, in ,a few instances, facilitated the conviction of guilt by dispensing with immaterial forms—such as . the necessity of prov i ng the mine: of more than one partner in a firm, as regards the lawful C possession of stolen property. He L A narrowed the power . of .taking objections to stave j u d g ment, &c., !then-. verdict, by enacting that, the "omission of certain formal proofs, such- as & proper venue, shall not avail the prisoner, although such objections, when taken before verdict, arc still as valid as ever. What has Ire- left undone ?. Th e . grea i wor k- o f legal reformation—the amendment of the spirit of our laws—the conversion of - a barbarous into -a civi lized code—of a cruel, capricio us , ari d uncer tain system of criminal law, into one of a rational, de terminate, and uniform charact e r, i n w hi c h punish ment, instead of being excessive and precarious, might be just and inevituble; not a lottery, in which some offenders may draw death for minor crimes, and others, more guilty and more lucky, find it their lot to be awarded a slighter punishment, or to escape with complete impunity— but a well proportioned and graduated plan of retri butive justice, according to which none 'et , ould meet a heavier sentence than their crimes delerved, and all would be sure to undergo the degree of infliction which their offences merited. This is not Mr. Pect's Code—this code has yet to be created ! When ti e Hun. Sec:etary toA c..cdit to himself' fill reforming his criminal law—when he almost in errris exclaimed, " Exegi nionumentum wre peren- ?'—he had actually left the criminal la‘‘., he hail allowed it to go out of his hands, more barbarous -old sanguinary than that of any system of criminal laws in Europe ! Proud of her pre-eminence in arts, arms, and Christian intelligence, is this a situation for Enland to stand in with respect 2to criminal legislation ? First of the in k now l e d ge , commerce, and mechanic arts, is she to be, contentedly, the last in the science of criminal jurisprudence ? Was it to achieve such a reform as Mr. ?eel's that the great and com prehensive mind of Romilly laboured to enlighten c, the House of Comm w Commons in vain ? No, he ould have cut away the vindictive and sanguinary enact ments that disgrace our civilisation, that obstruct justice, and cannot Le carried into effect without Ii rbarising the peop!e, or exciting more sympathy for the offender than reverence for the law. Ile would have rendered it unnecessary for the Bishop of London to express-, at this day, the hope that eapita; punishments might soon be expunged from the Statute-book, except in cases of great atrocity. Mr. Peel, we fear, is not the Sdon destined to abolish the laws of the English Draco, and raise a super structure of wisdom and sound justice on their ruins; yet they roust be abolished !—Morning Herald. BOARD OF EXCISE, Araii.3. It would appear by the following cases, that the pernicious system of adulteration is still increasing, I, and carried on to a greater extent than was imagined by those most acquainted with the subject. John Thorne, a licensed victualler, residing in Clerkenwell•close, appeared to answer an informa tion upon which he peas indicted in eight counts, for having in his possession a quantity of colouring rnat• ter, composed of molasses, green vitro!, and other ingredients unknown. The defendant declared his innocence of using any adulterating compound., and called two witnesses to prove the beer he sold was good, but they did not disprove any part of the evidence for the prosecution. The CHIEF CCESIMISSIONER, in passing judgment, said the case before the Court was one of a most gross description, and it was clearly proved that the defendant had used poisonous ingredients. He was adjudged to pay the mitigated sum of 751. Edward Waldron, landlord of the Red Lion, Silver-street, Golden-square, was charged with having in his possession two gallons of colouring, or adul terating matter. The case was clearly proved, and . Mr. Farraday de posed that it contained a small quantity of sulphate of iron, or green copperas. The defendant was fined 301., there being some mitigatory circumstances in the case. William Garrott, a licensed retailer of beer, spi rits, and wine, residing in King -street, St. Botolph, Aldgate, was indicted on eight counts, for having in his possession ingredients for mixing with beer. It was clearly proved that on the 4th of December last about two ounces of Guinea pepper, or Chili pods, was found on the head of a butt in the de lendant's spirit-room, and in the beer-cellar, on a butt in tap, were the marks of some mixture, which tasted sweet. The defendant afforded every facility for searching his premises. The defendant declared his entire innocence, and called witnesses to show he had only used the com mon finings sent by brewers; but their evidence did not at al! controvert the evidence for the prosecution. The Court, in giving judgment, said, in conse quence of it not having been proved that poisonous ingredients had been used, the sentence was, that the defendant pay a mitigated penalty of 501. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. William Gibbs Thomas 41foncrief, the celebrated dramatic writer, came. up on his petition;'and was opposed by Messrs Coosa and BARRY, on behalf of Mr. Drake, the assignee of an upholsterer, who had supplied theisolvent with furniture to the amount of 1851. Mr. Cooper opposed in person. • The insolvent was examined by Mr. COOKE. He stated that in July last he had been arrested at the suit of the assignee of the bankrupt, while on his „way,,home:from.atten4g a trial at the Palace Court. tut on going before a Judge at chambers he was liberated. He then went to the continent on " pro fessional business." On Christmas-day he returned to England, and went to his house in . Union-place, Lambeth, where, at twelve o'clock at night, he-was again arrested at the suit of the same party. He went to prison, and petitioned this Court, but had by mistake filed a false estate paper, and had been obliged to obtain leave to file a new one. He had an aged mother and a niece:to support, and had been obliged to dispose of all his furniture, but he had not minutely stated those sales in his schedule. Since August last he had only received 90/. for pieces which he had written. For Van Dieman's Land he had received from Mr. Elliston 251., and 401. from Messrs. Matthews and Yates for The Heart of London. He was not to receive any further sum for those pieces, nor was he to have what was termed the " author's night," that mode of remuneration being now exploded. He had no comedy at present completed. Mr. Comm—Perhaps you have some nearly so ? I ask you that, because if you have, your creditors have a right to them. Commistioner HARRIS—Mr. Cooke, you..do not expect that this person should put his embryo pieces in his schedule. - Mr. CooKE—No, Sir ; but I know that every thing which comes from Mr. Moncrieff is valuable. Some amendments having been made in the in solvent's schedule and balance-sheet, he was declared entitled to the benefit of the Act. The quantity of unemployed capital Mill in crea'es, and it is remarked by the oldest members of the monied interest, that they never recollect a period when it was so much in excess. This is the case not only in London, but in the country generally, and even in Scot land. Ireland is that part of the United kingdom where money pays the best interest. The banks of that country are in consequence comparatively in a flourishing state, and much spare capital, as confidence becomes e.stabliahed, must necessarily find its way thither.— Tunes. DREADFUL COACH ACCIDENT AND Loss or LlVE.:—ltia with extreme regret we have to announce a melancholy accident which happened in this city, on Tuesday night last, to the Standard, Liverpool and Lon don coach. At. half-past ten o'clock on the above night, the Standard having changed horses at Birmingham, on its road to London, started with one inside and six outside passengers. They had not proceeded far, before the pas.. senecrs became apprehensive that some accident would occur, in consequence of the irregular pace at which the coachman drove, sometimes trotting, and sometimes gal loping the horses. When descending the hill on the New Allesley Road, near the toll-gate which leads into this city, he drove with increased speed, but reached the gate in safety. Having passed through the gate, he again put the horses into a gallop, and in this manner drove down the remainder of the read leading into Spon street, before, however, he reached the end of the road, at which he was to turn in the direction of St. John's church, the horses became unmanageable, overran the turn, and were near dashing against the houses oppo ' site the road. The coachman, finding the situation he was in, suddenly whipped round the horses, with a view of regaining the turn, when, unfortunately, the coach lost its balance, and reeling for a few yards, came down with . a dreadful crash on its right side. Four of the passen gers were taken into the house of the Rev. Mr. GEINDON, a Dissenting Minister, and one of them being apparently lifeless, and bleeding from the right ear, was put to bed, where he lingered in the most excruciating tor ture, until four o'clock the following day, when he died. A man, named linstnEnso:c, a shoemaker, resid ing in Birmingham, end another named STEELE, a seafaring man, were taken to the Recruiting Serjeant public-house. HENDERSON had his right shoulder dislo cated, and STEELE received several severe contusions on the head and body. Capt. Incnetsr, of the West India regi ment, who was the inside passenger, had his collar bone broke, and is now lying at the King's Head Inn. The other passengers not being severely injured, have since re sumed their journey. The coachman and guard were slightly wounded. An inquest will be held.in a day or two on the body of the deceased.— Coventry Herald. DENBIGH:3IIIR% GREAT SESSIONS. At the present Assizes there are eighteen pri. , oners for trial, an unumtally large number for this county, and several of them for offences of serious rompiexion. Edward Roberts was indicted for an assault upon Nliwy Jones, of Haellan, on the 17th of March last. The prosecutrix, a very pretty, modest-looking about eighteen years of age, deposed as fol lows :—I live at liaellan, and am the eldest of five children. My mother is dead, and I keep my father's house. I went to Denbigh market, which is four miles from our house, on the 17th March. 1 left Denbigh about two o'clock. On my return home the prisoner overtook me near Gwaynynog Smithy, and asked me how far I was going ? 1 did not answer him,.but kept walking on. He continued close to me for about a mile, when I stopped to let him go forward. He did so, and when he was our of sight I went on. I turned up the lane towards Eriviatt, leading to my father's house. When I had got a little way I saw the prisoner following after ine. He took hold of the zollar of my cloak. I threw my cloak, pattens, and bonnet away, and ran from him. The neck-string of my cloak broke, when I burst from the prisoner. I ran back towards the high road. The prisoner overtook me. He pulled me towards the hedge bank, and threw me down. I called out as loud as I could. He @aid if I did not hold my tongue he would lunge me. He held me so closely by the neck that I was almost strangled, and could not call out any longer. I fainted. When I came to myself again I found— (Here she described particulars which are unfit to meet the public eye. Owing to her extreme bash fulness, however, she did not state the circumstances so satisfactory as to leave no doubt of the comple tion of the capital offence, even under the new law upon that subject.)—l get up, and the prisoner walked near me until we came in sight of Eriviatt, and then he ran away. I saw Simon Williams, the gardener at Eriviatt, and told him I had been abused by a man. He was the first person I saw after it happened. I also told my father that the prisoner had ill-used me, and my father and I went to Ithyn• Baled after the prisoner. I was so tired and ill that I could not go any farther. My father apprehended the prisoner. Mr. David Hughes, surgeon, of Denbigh, had examined the person of the prosecutrix the next day, and in his opinion, the capital offence had been committed. Simon Williams, the gardener at Eriviatt, and John Jones, the father of the prosecutrix, corrobo rated that part of the evidence of the presecutrix which rciated to them; and the former spoke to having seen her hair dishevelled,her dress disordered, and that she was crying bitterly. The Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty of an assault, with intent to com mit a rape. His LORDSHIP informed them that they could not return such a verdict; they must either find the prisoner guilty of the capital offence, or acquit him altogether. A verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL expressed himself ex. :remely dissatisfied with the verdict, and intimated IN intention of preferring nn indictment for the minor offence. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. On Saturday a gentleman waited upon Mr. HALLS, and having stated that he was a relative of Captain Moir, now a prisoner in Chelmsford gaol for the murder of a man n tined Malcolm, said be came for the purpose of making an application on the part of Captain Moir, of the utmost importance to that individual. The gentleman then reminded the Magistrate of the fatsi occurrence which had taken place at Shellhaven-farm, near Barking, Essex, and said he applied for the purpose of ascertaining whether the Magistrate had power to compel the brother of the deceased to pertnit the body to be examined by an other surgeon previous to its interment, which he under stood was to take place on the following day (Sunday) at Hammersmith. It was thefirm impression of Capt. Moir's friends that the deceased had died from neglect and un-. skilful treatment, rather than from the serious nature d the wound, and it was therefore most important to the accused, who was to take hie trial upon the charge of murder, that a second examination of the body should take place by competent medical men, in order thtt their evi dence might be obtained upon the trial. Under these cir cumstances he, the applitrant, sought the assistance of the Magistrate, with a view to compel the brother of the de ceased to allow a second examination of the body before burial. • Mr. HALLS said it appeared - to him that as the cause of death had already been investigated by the Coroner and a competent Jury, who returned a verdict according to the evidence produced upon that inquiry, no Magistrate could now interfere to compel the brother or any other relative who might have charge of the body to permit another examination, unless such permission were obtained volun tarily. The applicant said it was quite clear that the deceased had died from ill-treatment, and not from the mortal na ture of the wound. Instead of adopting the simple means which should have been had recourse to, another method of treatment was pursued towards the deceased, which produced lock-jaw, and consequently death. Mr. HALLS again observed that to interfere in the mar.- ncr suggested, after the finding of a Cototter's Jury, would be to overstep the limits of a Magistrate's duty. The gentleman-then withdrew, expressing his determi nation to make an immediate application to Mr. Peel for the purpose of preventing the interment of the body until another examination should have been held upon it, in order to ascertain prifisely the cause of death. QUEEN-SQUARE. OR Saturday, the person styling himself Mr. Frederick Sims was brought to the office from Tothill-fields prison, for the purpose of being bailed fur an indecent assault on a police.constabla in disguise in Hyde-park. The bail on Friday last was enhanced to two sureties in 200/. each, and the prisoner himself in 4001. This caused considerable emotion amongst his friends, who hur ried about in all directions, and as the close of the busi ness of the office they were informed by Handley (the officer) that nothing could be done that afternoon, as the Magistrates had *gone. The parties then gave directions to the hackney-coachman to drive to Fleet-street; it was then:conntermanded, and he was ordered to drive to Gol den-square ; finally, he was whispered to drive back to Tothill-fields prison, the doors of the office were eosed, and we could hear no more about him that day. On the following day, iturday, he appeared amongst the auditory in the office, apparently not in custody, sur rounded by several of his friends, and without any thing being laid to the Magistrates he was taken into the clerk's office, the doors of which were ordered to be fastened by Handley, and the prisoner entered into his own recog nizance of 400/. to answer the charge at the Sessions. Thomas Davies, a shopinan to Messrs. Cress and Sewell, linen-drapers, at Knightshridge, was brought up for final examination, charged with stealing two pieces of silk, the property of his employers. LAMBETH-STREET. The Bow-common gang of burglars, Hayward, TVren, and Dennis, were on Saturday brought before Alessre. HARDWICK and WALKER, to undergo a re examination, on a charge of being concerned in the various latirglarios lately committed in the neighbourhood of Bow and Strat ford. The prisoner Wren was committed for trial, Hayward remanded, and Dennis discharged. Lee had been for the last week actively engaged in en deavouring to trace Wilson, who, it is supposed, is gone down to 'Chatham, to endeavour to enlist in an East India regiment. Lee traced him to Gravesend and other places, but being a day behind him, he was unable to take him into custody. It is confidently expected, however, that he will soon be apprehended. We have this week been shown a specimen of refined sugar, made in France from the beet-root. It ap pears fully equal to what is sold here at 9d. or 10d. per lb., and may be procured in Guernsey at 6id. The duty, however, would wake it an unprofitable specu!ation to im port it into England.—Bristol Mirror. i HORSES IN FRANCE.—Great attention s still paid to the breed of horses in France, and well-bred animals fetch twenty to thirty per cent. inure than in London. Horses for ordinary use, however, arc cheaper than in this country. On the last market-day in Paris, small draft-horses for coaches, diligence), &c., overage(' from 141. to 181: each ; riding-horses, 251. to SO/. each ; and panic% being fashionable, 141. to 16/.—f iterary. Gazette. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORK, Avail, 2. William Slaaw, ::ged 2.5, was charged with the wilful murder of Rqcharl Crossley, on the 7th or Maid!, at the parish of Kirkbnrton, in the West Mr. MAUDE stated the case. The fleceased was -22 years of age, and the youngest of fourteen child- • ten of a poor coal miner. About four years ago she had given birth to a child, of which the pri soner was the father, and she was again pregnans by him. He had been pressed to marry the de eased, and said he would. About nine o'clock on the evening of the 9lh of March she left her father's. house, and never returned alive. The next morn• ing she was found dead, in a coal-pit covered with, wounds and bruises. Michael Crossley—l live in the parish of Kirk, hurton, and am the mother of the deceased. The prisoner and the deceased used to meet at my door. 4 On the 'Wednesday fortnight previous to my daugh ter's death I went to Butcher's to see the prisoner for the purpose of asking him whether he would marry her or not. He came out, and I said, " Art thou for marrying yon lass, or art thou net rHe said, " Yes; I have no objections." I asked him when he would be spurred; and he said, " May happen next Sunday." I asked him where, and he said he did not know. I told him that we would not turn her out of doors but keep her for a while. He said we promised very fair. I never saw him again till the night before the misfortune. happened, and then I saw him near my door about eight o'clock, standing close to the coal-closet, where Rachael had been getting: some cOalF4 The next night supper was ready at nine o'cleelt, but Rachael did not have any. While we were it stepper site ran out. I never afterwards saw her - alive. She Was ry near her confinement. Mary Hague-!-I have known the prisoner sassew rd years. He kept company with Rachael Cross , ley, and I have seen him with her once Or t w ic e . About a quarter past .nine, on the 19th of Mach;. saw them.. About half-past nine I went out again,. and walked- up the croft. .I was about ten yards W"' from them, and am quite sure it was - them. The next morning I assisted in, laying the body out. The deceased's gown *as very much torn, and the hones of her stays were all broken.. Her goWn and top skirt were turned up . , ivrappedrotind'her thigh. and turned quite high. She could not.havn Walked very well with her clothes in that state. When saw her walking up the croft With the prisoner clothes. were not turned up. She had no bonnet:: on ; only a cap, very little of which wiudeft.gni.itPX,r head next morning. Both strings were. torn off her apron, and a piece torn off the top. Her under garments were all torn. I sass -: her - tbOut- seven o'clock. We washed her body, as her -head and all the lower parts of her body were blody.- Her right— leg and thigh were broken. The head was damaged in all parts. Pieces were Corn otit of her arms and body. I don't think her clothes-could have. beep. so.. torn had she fallen into the pit. Several other witnesses were examined. The prisoner was found guilty, and left for execution.' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. DURING LAST WEEK. Per Quarter. Wheat. 56 62 52 SO 44 78 62 68 61 68 58 70 66 '7O 56 it 60 '7O 51 76 Barley. Oats. Beans. Basingstoke 34 36 24 36 24 40 24 37 :3A 36 28 34 34 37 `2O 42 27 36 30 39 34 36 SO :36 39 40 - 25 19 37 .25 33 24 28 19 2:5 20 30 20' - 22 26 20 28 28 30 23 30 16 22 24 34 22 24 19 25 12 32 24 ,19 84 19 26 42 40 35 40 ag 32 40 30 44 40 46 33 38 32 48 45 47 311 44 48 34 48 37 40 33 44 Bridgewater.., Bristol -._ Chesterfield Derby ) eviies Doncaster Dorchester G10uee5ter.............. Hungcrford ......... Leice5ter..........--. NTewbury tomsey Shaftesbury ..—.... Shepton Mallet ... 5herb0rne............ 20 26 20 29 t iQ •yq 40 40 yr 38 45 44 48 00 00 Taunton Yeovil .... Per Bushel. Shrewsbury d. A 0' 0 Wheat. I3eans. 1 - aimoill: 22 24 25 91 27 28 30 19 21 24 26 40 -- 24 27 30 34• 28 32 pout the country". Aberdeen 42 75 Berwiek..-- 38 42 Coldstream 40 44 C par 35 60 I)iindee--- 30 76 E1gin.....,..,,..,,. 56 Inverness-- 54 56 Kelso 40 48 Kirkaldy---.1 60 76 Perth 52 70 -„ The size of the mi 22 28 21 22 18 20 29 31 30 31 20 25 26 28 21 23 33 38 19 23 sure val 18 22 16 19 IA 17 22 23 21 , 28 20 22 16 28 18 21 26 32 16 20 ies throtig I 33 CORNWALL. MARKETS. Taußo.—Wheat (average) '2ss. Oil—Barley, 130.—s Oats, Pa. 6d. 11m..vroN—Wheat, 245. Od.—Barley, 12s. Od. ST. Augrzu.—Wheat, 225. to 21s.—Barley, 12s. to 1141.—Oate. 9s. to 10s. Od. YV Bonants—Wheat (average) 218 Od.—Barley, 11FL-oa% IOL Od. I,s u NCESTON-Wh ea t (average) 248. al—Barley, 12cOtt..;—Oats. Bs. 01.—Beef, :V.—Mutton, sd. PuNziocce—Wheat, 2.25. to 268.—Barley. to 13s.—Oats, Bs. to 10s. 61.—Beef and Mutton, 4d. ttrsd.—Pork„ 30. to Od.— Butter, 10d. per lb. LISKEARD—Wheat, 235. 60. to 265. 6d.—Barley,l4s.—Oats, to 11s. Od. Sr. CoLuma—Wheat, 235. to 24s.—Barley, 11s. to lag.—Beef. and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal and Lamb, Od to 6d. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at. Redruth last Thursday 2,532 • . Average Produce ft% 0 Quantity of fine Copper 2(9 2 Amount of Sale, 15,321/. 13s . Od.—Average Standard 105/. 14s. Od . BIRTHS. On the 2d inst. at Wandsworth, Mrs. H. J. Barchard of a son. On the 3d inst. at Brighton, the lady of Capt. Maher, Barrack •master of Grenada, of a son. On the Ist inst. in Brunswiek-square, the lady of Jas. Parker, Esq., af a daughter. On the tat inst. at Walthatnstow, Mrs: Gore, of a daughter. . _ _ On the 31st ult. in Southampton -street, Bloomsbury, the lady of S. Smith, Esq., of a daughter. On the 2d inst. at Herne-hill, the lady of E. Bicknell, Esq. of a sou. MARRIED. On the 3d inst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Clement, youngest son of W. Wigney, Esq.. of Brighton, to Her-. riett Sophia, daughter of S. N. Cowley, Esq.. of Russell.. square, and Heatbfield, Surrey. On the 3d inst. at St. George the IslVrtyr,. - Wm.' Henry. third son of George Mordaunt, Esq ; .of.the Lawn, South. Lambeth, to Charlotte Foxon, second daughter of C. 'lecke, Esq. of Devonshire-street, Queen-square. • On the 3d inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, Horace Twiss, E.g. M.P., and one of his Majesty's Under Seere• taries of State, to Mrs. Greenwood, widow of *elate Mr. Greenwood, an eminent Russian morebant- On the 22d of February, at Florence, by the Arch bishop of Florence, and afterwards by, the Rev. E. Ap thorpe, Francis, Marquis Bocella, to Jane Dorothy, only surviving daughter of the late Rev. H. Hamond, of Great M a ssingham, Norfolk. On the 3d inst. at Tottenham, Thomas Bridges, pm., E sq ., of Clapton, to Ellen, eldest daughter of B. A. M'Ghie, Esq. of Hanger's-lane. - On the Sdinst. at St. George's, Bloomsbury, Captor J. S. Criddle, late of the Hon. East Indii Company's -Butit hay Marine, to Louisa, youngest daughter ,of Mr.- J. Griffin, late of the Strand and Sloane-street. DIED. • On the 3d inst. at her sou's .house, in Sotneret-plare, in the 67th year of her age, beloved, honoured, And la mented by all who knew her, Mrs.. Clifton, widow of t :thog Rev. Francis Ciifton, late of Alverstoke, Hants; Rector of Eastwell, and Prebendary of Lincoln. On the 84 inst. of apoplexy, in the 80th year of her age'. Elizabeth, relict of the late Mr. WM. Godfrey, of Crick" lade, Wilts. On the Sd inst. George 'Moe, Esq. of the Ordnance Depirtment, in the 424 year of his age. On the let inst. George Gill, Emq, of Queen.square, solicitor. On the 25th nit. John Aug ustus Atkinson, E.q. On the • 3 0 th tilt, at Du rham, Mrs, Ann Chaytor, ( l a ughter' of the late Henry Chaytor, LL.D., formerly rector of Croft, and Prebendary of Durham. • On the Ist inst at Papplewiek, Nottinghamshire, in the 45th year of Ler age, Marpretta, the wife of R. Hopper, Esq. . . On the 13th ult. at Brussel., H. Fowler, Esq, -the young,st son of the Bev. It. Fowler, late Rector ofWar uoys, Huntingdonshir e . ARA PuttrismEn 217 DIURDO YOUNG, A - T THE SUN Or E, 112, STAMM, LdNitOkli 48 62 56 64 40 74 60 68 s. d. s. d. I/ 10 10 SCOT 'CH MA Barley ,RK Oata: ( L ( EASr. the ENGLAN give: notic e, Thal wi11,14 hell lastuir, Itorais' i g rt DIRECT Pattison, E TO.T.ErE LLDI X Earns an ce place at th untant, bet and Six o ' t forvitard, tl: friends, on for of poet It ba g b t re e p tet , Ln to db - eo i r t whicfi has Commit Mr. S 1 Tavern. .. TO °~~ .40. 1 ) 1 Vit t ,• •Li. , .. i ' iiide kr "Aia Ol% Lion, I alp far T wo D and, 1114.1), Elect t ion. 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