The Sun. — London, England, 1833-05-23 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The vote of the House of Commons in fa vour of the assessed taxes, on Tuesday evening, appears to us to have been an ill-considered and unfortunate vote ; so was the decision of the same assembly in support of the iniquitous system of corn laws, most revolting to the judg ment of honest men beyond the walls of Par liament, and, we must add, most alarming to their reasonable apprehensions. Another demon stration of the feelings both of Government and Parliament, from which we can derive but little comfort, is that which has hitherto shown itself with regard to the known waste and profligacy of the pension list. On all these subjects the House of Commons, the reformed House, has thought and acted in a given direction ; but the deplorable consideration is, that the people of England should have felt and spoken out in a sense directly opposite to that of their professed representatives. It is not, of course, the first time in our history when such contradiction of sentiment between the people and the Legisla ture has displayed itself. The last 100 years were full of such wretched examples; and why? Because, as was always then insisted on, there existed no natural relationship between those by whom the laws were made and those for whom ; because the Parliament was vicious in theory and practice, and it was taken for granted that no sympathy could be de pended on between the nation generally and a self-elected body, the main object of whose efforts and existence was to perpetuate its own monopoly of the national plunder. The mischief `cc as seen by every eye, and the cure universally s.talled for was a reform of Parliament. That reform was anticipated by all men of any fore sight as the sole means ofaverting a war between the nation and the legislative oligarchy. ' It was looked upon as the single safeguard against re volution ; and why ?—because it must of ne cessity, if a sound reform, establish complete harmony between the people, who would make the House of Commons out of materials of their own free choice, and the parties so chosen to represent them. The success of the Reform Bill in effecting such concord and confidence through out the country was admitted to be its great prospective merit, and that without which it would be no better than the cup of Tantalus. If a reform within the limits of the Constitution were to fail of accomplishing the practical end of good and economical government, the natural, the inevitable inference was, that men would cry out for some measure beyond the pale of the Constitutionnamely, for one involving its overthrow. Now, what is the fact ? Has the reformed Parliament so demeaned itself as to satisfy honest and reflecting men that the blessings of good government are secured through its instrumentality ? Have the votes of the House of Commons on many serious questions been conformable to the declared wishes of the people ? There never was dissa tisfaction more gravely expressed by the town and commercial population of the country than that which has been excited by the protecting duties on corn. How came the majority of the House of Commons to differ with the majority of their constituents on that important question? Was it that Hon. Members desired indirectly to propagate an eagerness for revolution ? Again, was there ever in this world a more striking una nimity from north to south of England than in praying for a repeal of the assessed taxes ? Then what could be the hope of that majority of the House of Commons which declared against their constituents, and in favour of the house and window tax, but to inculcate upon the minds of the middle classes that they must look to some mighty change far beyond the boundary of a " reformed" Parliament for relief ? The public murmurs at the indifference of Parliament, and of the upper ranks of Eng lishmen, to the feelings of their poorer brethren, have recently grown to a frightful magnitude, and betoken some tragical result. The institutions of the kingdom share the dis like so generally entertained towards the higher orders by the lower, from a belief that those in stitutions have been framed and administered in an unfair spirit. The bad odour in which the aristocracy are held arises from the arrogance and selfishness too frequently imputed to them, and of which, if we be bound to speak truly, they afford no niggard proofs. No real dift culty could have prevented Lord Althorp's acquiescence in the public wish for a repeal of the corn laws and of the assessed taxes. We fear there is an habitual, nay, almost a conven tional distaste in some quarters to appreciate the national desires, or to concede at all, save only in the nibbling peddling manner which has been exhibited in the Noble Lord's unhappy budget. The continuance of such a temper will not do. It can lead to nothing but a crisis which must end, so powerful are the demo cratic elements everywhere, in a downright overwhelming revolution. The verdict in Spa fields, and the undisguised dispositions of the jurors, may be taken as indices of that sort of instinct which actuates large bodies of men against the public functionaries and the (hitherto) ruling classes. How were such feelings en gendered among Englishmen ? They are the reverse of natural. Let Ministers look carefully into the origin of them, and they may draw from the source a salutary lesson from their own guidance, and for the course to be recommended to Parliament, as well in finance as in other branches of legislation. Mr. Harvey's motion for a return of civil list pensions, as well as those charged upon the consolidated fund, was carried without amendment. The object is one of incalculable value,—namely, a disclosure of the especial services, or other grounds, on which each individual pension had been granted. But we question whether the investigation will lead to much practical good, unless—lst, the name be inserted in the return of each Minister b) whom each particular pension was recommended to the Sovereign, or applied for; and, 2d, unless a Committee be appointed to conduct the in quiry, and to cross-examine a certain class of witnesses.— Times. We have received a well-written letter on the subject of the late meeting in Coldbath-flelds, and the mode of dispersing it. The writer is known to us, and we believe him to be an ho nourable man, incapable of stating what he does not believe to b e th e trut h . He blames the meeting, and admits that the authors of it ought not to have been permitted " t o tr ifl e w i th the public peace, and with the p u bli c authorities, with If impunity ; and adds, that " every sensible person condemned the object" of the meeting. But he endeavours to account for the strange and blundering verdict of the jury th us : " They have been led into the singular position of justifying murder for the purpose of con demning the a uth o rities." The complaint is, that in dispersing the meeting unnecessary vio lence was used ; and that it might have been dispersed, and the au th ors o f it p un i s hed, without the use of the violence which was employed. That the Whigs are incompetent to the task of relieving the public distress, and re-esta blishing the shattered interests of the country, we need not take trouble to prove, as they dis- . tinctly admit th e f ac t. Wh en t h ey were out o f office, indeed, they told a different tale ; then the sole cause of the calamities of England was their unfortunate exclusion. In due season, however, they attained to the object of their am bition, and then they found that nothing pre vented their enlightened policy from taking effect but what they called boroughmongering. Only remove this, said they, and all will be right pre sently. Well, this alleged mischief is extinct, with a few fraudulent Whig exceptions, and we have the marvellous happiness of being governed by a i reform e d P arl i ament, constructed through out n the most exquisite manner possible. Now comes, of cotirse, a flood -tid e of liberty, prospe rity, and universal content, to the astonishment of t h e w or ld. No such thing ; but, instead of this, Irish coercion, distress more frightful than Our correspondent exonerates the Government, but lie contends that the police did not do pro perly their part of the duty. The following remarks of our correspondent are deserving of attention :—" The object of the meeting had failed ; the working people of the metropolis had shown that they were not disposed to take part in lawless and violent proceedings ; and the authors of the meeting would have gone home disgusted with the little support they had received. The persons who took any in terest in the business of the meeting were but a few hundreds. The apprehension of out rage was so slight in the neighbourhood, that not a single door or shutter was closed. Was this a meeting that was to be dispersed by a charge of the police ? Do not omit also to notice that Calthorpe-street is an extensive public thoroughfare ; that, consequently, persons were passing and repassing who had not the slightest connexion with the meeting. I myself saw a lady and her daughter pushing their way through the crowd without apprehension of danger at the very time the police made their attack." Our correspondent expressly says, " I myself saw women beaten while standing in the door-ways, after the people had run away, and a great num ber of persons, whose testimony has not been given before the inquest, can speak to similar facts. Let it also be observed, that a great number of persons, including women and boys, who had received severe injuries, were in attendance at the late inquest, but were unable to obtain an opportunity of being examined." The conduct of those who called th e meeting, and were prepared to resist with deadly weapons the authorities of the coun try, is quite a distinct consideration from that of the conduct of the police in dispersing the meeting. While the police must be protected in the due discharge of their duty, they ought not to he protected in any intemperate proceed ings, which tend to alienate the people from the authorities. We have heard from so many quarters that the police misconducted them selves, that we think the subject deserving of a serious inquiry. If any officer of the police I has, on the occasion, shown himself wanting in that firm and temperate, though resolute con duct which ought to be possessed by all who are in command of bodies of men, he ought not to escape with impunity. Now, a perusal of the evidence at the inquest on the first day would lead us to suspect that one man at least was wanting in that temper whi c h oug ht t o b e possessed by' all who are employed in dispersing mobs. The conduct of the police, however, by no means justifies the verdict of the jury, which is utterly irreconcileable with both law and common sense. We are glad that the Govern ment has acted with a proper sense of what is due to the country on the occasion, by terming the author of the death of Cully a murderer. —Morning Chronicle. The decision of the House of Commons against Sir S. Whalley's motion, pledging Parlia ment to the repeal of the house and window taxes, was to be expected from their former vote. The House of Commons are consistent enough in sticking to wrong determinations. A ma jority of 149 upon such a question, after what has passed both in and out of Parliament, was, undoubtedly, so far as one branch of the Le gislature is concerned, a proof of strength ; it showed that the present Ministers stand well with the House of Commons, however they may stand with the people who have returned that House. But what, after all, considered with reference to any permanent effect—what, after all, can be the strength derived from represen tatives who have lost the confidence and opinion of their constituents ? Looking merely to the present moment, it may be, and it is a triumph, but a triumph obtained through the most irri tating means and under circumstances which can hardly fail in the present constitution of Parliament to render it of short duration. The time has passed when a House of Com mons, depending upon other interests, could hid defiance to the people without experi encing or apprehending any ill effects from its misconduct. There is, therefore, more ground for supposing that the present representatives will share in the disgrace of the Ministry, whose worst acts they are prepared to sanction, than that the Ministry will imbibe from them a sup ply of vigour sufficient to carry them through the difficulties which they have themselves created. It is a curious fact that the House of Commons should be the only place in which Ministers are popular, but it is a fact which sets the difference between the people and their representatives in a strong light, and which, taken as a commentary upon the recent division, deprives it of much of its importance. We know not whether the Mini sters flatter themselves into the opinion that the question of the assessed taxes has been set at rest, even for the present, by the vote of Tuesday night. If they do, a little time will be sufficient to convince them of their error. The inequality with which the house and window taxes press upon the rich and poor has made too strong an impression to be diverted by the paltry scheme of Lord Althorp, or the high-sounding descrip tion of Mr. Spring Rice. The inequality ought of itself to have induced Ministers to abandon those taxes, in order, as soon as possible, to re move an impression so unfavourable to the good understanding which ought to subsist between the different orders. But it is not in this case alone that Ministers have attempted to play a disingenuous game. They are prepared for all experiments but the experiment of economy. That, however, is the one upon which the country is most resolved ; and though Parlia ment has been persuaded to refuse it as a sub stitute for the assessed taxes, they must soon resort to it on its own account. We repeat that the decision of the Commons, to which we have been alluding, will be more injurious to the popularity of its Members than favourable to the Administration, whose existence they have preferred to their own consistency and repu tation.—illorning Herald. ever, discontent verging upon actual rebellion, and at the eleventh hour a candid confession from the candid authors of the mischief that they have no single measure to propos e for the relief of the people. The Whigs, in fact, now assure us, upon their personal and official responsibility, that the Tories governed the country so admirably as to leave to their successors no scope for any im portant improvement. But if the Whigs have utterly failed, according to their own confession, to accomplish any good object, the country is well aware that they have been fatally influential for purposes of evil. The recent experiment has been made at an enormous expense of all that constitutes the proper wealth and well-being of the nation, and years must be expected to elapse before the advantages which we have lost can be rest ore d. When the barricade revolution occurred in France which laid the foundation of our wretched reform, this country had just overcome the difficulties of her monetary and commercial changes, and, having a prosperous revenue at home as well as unboutided influence abroad, had before her the exhilarating prospect of great and progressive improvement. But the defeat of the Duke of Wellington's A dministration swept this goodly vision in a moment from our view, and two years of fanatical excitement and Whig misrule have since almost caused reflect ing men to despair of the fortunes of their country. Under the imbecile Administration of Earl Grey Great Britain appears to have sunk with preternatural rapidity from the condition of a first-rate to that of a fifth-rate power. Foreign Potentates settle all points of policy, to what ever extent they may involve our interests, with an instructive contempt of the opinions and a perfect scorn of the resentment of this country; they consider that unity and decision can never more characterize the councils of a once power ful, but now insignificant, island, which tole rates a Palmerston for Foreign Secretary, and has to submit its most refined policy to the en lightened judgment of a democratic rout of ten pounders. The consequence is that our external interests generally, including the security of our colonies and the stability of our commerce, without which we can no longer exist, are un dermined to a fearful extent by our jealous and vindictive rivals, and threatened with absolute and irretrievable ruin. What passes at home is, if possible, still more alarming, even to the most cool and dispassionate observer. No single im portant class throughout the empire is satisfied with the existing Government, or confident in the permanence of the present system. Every man who is happily conscious of his competence to , discharge his ordinary pecuniary obligations has a personal quarrel with the Ministry, for robbing him of his equitable share of the representation, and giving it to the rabble ; and the rabble, on the other hand, complain that no sooner had the Ministry gained its own ends by means of agitation, than it let loose a savage police upon the agitators, as though they were no better than mad dogs, besides disappointing them of the blessings which were to follow in the train of reform. In the meantime our trade, upon which a patient and industrious people depend for their daily bread, is miserably de pressed and paralyzed; and the little public con fidence that remains seems about to be sacrificed to such chimerical and unaccountable schemes as never before entered into the bare contemplation of sane statesmen. The panic already excited among all cl asses connecte d w i t h t h e E ast an d West India trades, is described to us as wholly unprecedented, and as likely to lead to an amount of distress of which our wise Ministers never formed the remotest conception. Such is the general aspect of our affairs in this third year of Earl Grey and reform. Our consolation is, that the public mind is at length roused to some thing like a just idea of the perils which sur round us, and the necessity of vigorous measures in order to ward them off. The eyes of the whole country turn at this moment, if we mis take not, to Sir It. Peel, as the only man corn, petent to overcome existing embarrassments, through the medium of the present anomalous House of Commons. We have the utmost confidence in the integrity and discretion of the Hon. Baronet, but we hope that no real or imagined public necessity will bring him into permanent connection with men who are plainly rejected by the nation at large, besides being amenable to public justice for high crimes and misdemeanors. At all events, however, and come what will, let the great Conservative party remain united as they tender the well-being of their country, and avoid those fatal divisions by which only we have been thrown into our pre sent dangerous and unnatural position. The country cannot be governed by a section, but it may be governed by a confederacy, of able men, who will consent, if needful, to forget the past, and to look with an unprejudiced eye upon the present and the future. A temperate Con servative Ministry would unite all parties.— Morning Post. IMMENSE SALE OF LITERARY WORKS.— A gratifying statement has appeared in some of the public Journals of the present immense sale of the new edition of Sir WALTER Scores admirable novels. To this we may add, that " The Standard Novels and Romances," brought out in monthly volumes, and similarly printed and illus trated, enj,y scarcely an inferior popularity, upwards of 100,000 of this cheap reprint of the must sterling modern works of fiction having already found purchasers. In this excellent undertaking, be it remembered, the entire novel is, with but few exceptions, complete in a single volume, for six shillings, less tha❑ one-fourth of the cost of the ori:,ital edition. PARISIAN STATISTICS.—A table of the births and deaths in the 12 Arrondissements of Paris during the year 1832, which has lately been published, presents the following results:—.ln the cour'e of the year there were 45,675 deaths and 26,364 births; namely, 28,565 deaths and 21,322 births in private houses, and 17,010 deaths and 4,902 births in the hospitals. Thus one-fifth of the population are born in the hospitals. Among the births in private houses there were 16,553 of legitimate children, and 4,769 of illegitimate. In the hospitals only 499 were legitimate, and 4,498 illegitimate. Thus of the total births above one-third were illegitimate children. The deaths exceed the births by 19,371 ; but, by subtrac ing about 19,000 occisioned by the cholera, there remain nearly 25,000 deaths, which number corresponds with that of former years. The 7th, 811), 9th, 10th, I I tb, and 12th Arrondissements lost in privat e h ouses, i n 1832, the twenty-second part of their population, whilst the Ist, 2 I, 3 , 1, 4th, sth, and 6th loot but one thirty-fourth. This disproportion becomes still greater if to the number of deaths in private houses we add those which took place in the hospitals, and which chiefly consisted of individuals belonging to the last six Arrondissements of Paris. The Arrondissements where the mortality was greatest are the most unhealthy quarters of Paris, where the streets are snean9r,er. narrow -- and the houses very lofty. Gedi . mines /Ties. SINGULAR DEATH FROM FRIGHT.- Yesterday an inquest was held at the Good Samaritan, Oxford -street, Stepney, on the body of Henry Odiie, a fine boy, aged 11. On Saturday the deceased was nursing his little sister, an infant of three months, when it ',creamed, and the mother charged him with having let it fall. This he denied ; but the mother repeated the charge, and took the child from him. Tr .e deceased then turned very pale, reeled round three times, and falling to the ground, died almost instantly- A medical gentleman gave it as his opinion, that death had been produced by a sudden rush of blood to the head through excitement. Tne Jary returned a verdict to that effect. ARCHES COURT, MAY 22. SWIFT V. SWIFT. The further hearing of the cause was postponed COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 22. Lord Lyndhurst, Barons Bayley. BoHand and Gurney took their seats on the bench at two o'clock, and proceeded with the justifying of bail. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARLBORO UGH-STREET. John Farrell, a journeyman clicker , of small make, with a cast of countenance very much re sembiing the portrait of the pig.faced lady, was charged by Ann Cook, a smart little woman, with having put her in bodily fear. The complainant stated that she had some time ago been " seduced" into matrimony by the de fendant, but after having led a very miserable life for some months, she discovered that he had another wife living, consequently she prosecuted him for bigamy, and he had only been discharged from Newgate within the last few days. Since that time he had been unremitting in his attempts to obtain interviews with her for the purpose of persuading her to renew their former intercourse. Havinz, how ever, made tip her mind:to have nothing more to say to him, she turned a deaf ear to his solicitations, and refused to see him till last Monday, when she was induced to go into a coffee-shop, in company with her brother and his wife, where the defendant was, in consequence of the following pathetic epistle : " Dear beller,—my mind as bin in a compleat state of anksittty ever since I cum out of Newgit,ns i cant have your cumperny as we used to have. I have been hobligated to pervade the street were you live all day, Becos wen I nocks nobody cums and lets me in. I can't live with my piece of mind till I hear from your sweat lips as you wont have nothin to do no more with me. my luv, i can't liv withhout your sweat cumperny. 1 mite as well be kick'd out of the walls of the creation. my luv, if you will cum back and enjoy wonce more with your hown John the sweats of connubible matrimony, and I will make you a cumfortable home. I will promise you on the Bible never to hide you no more, my luv. I only hided you to make you the fonder on me ; hut as you hopjeck to sitch, I shall never undertake that transacktion. If you don't cum and se me now, you shall repent it, for I carry somethin allays about me.—Your own true luv, " JOHN FARRELL." The complainant said that she went to the coffee shop, and again gave a refusal to the solicitations of the defendant, being well aware of what sort of " connubible" felicity she was likely to enjoy from him. The defendant put his hand into his pocket, and said he had got something in it which would make her repent if she again refused. Complainant, knowing his violent disposition, was greatly frigh tened, but her brother interposed and took her away. The defendant then threatened what he would do on some future occasion. The defendant denied having used threats. All I wanted, your 'Worship, said he, was for her to make a ci iss-cross, and part right away for good, or else to come home and live comfortable; but she wouldn't make a criss-cross, though 1 offered to write out on a stamp that we should never trouble one another no more. And, said the defendant, wiping his eyes, if she will make a criss-cross now before your Worship, I'll be satisfied, and I'll never speak to her again. The complainant told the Magistrate that the defendant had said to her he would serve her as the girl who was murdered at Brighton was served ; for he knew it could be done without any person finding it out. Mr. DYER said there had been so many dreadful crimes of late committed, that though the defendant might have used the threat merely as loose expres sions, he should not discharge the warrant until he found bail to keep the peace for six months. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. THE MURDER OF MISS ELMS, AT CHELSEA.— FURTHER EXAMINATION OF JOHN SHARP.—Yester. day being the day appointed for the re-examination of John Sharp, the self-accused murderer of the unfortunate Miss Elms, of No. 17, Wellesley-street, Chelsea, whose voluntary confession of the horrid deed appeared in the newspapers of last week, he was again brought up. The prisoner has been kept in solitary confinement since last Wednesday, in the House of Correction, at Clerkenwell. Mr. GREGORIE inquired whether there was any further evidence. Hughes, the constable of Chelsea, said that, on Thursday last, after he heard that the prisoner had made a confession, he again searched the house of the deceased, and in the room where the body of the murdered lady was discovered, he found a table knife amongst the cinders in the fire-place ; he had shown it to a medical man, and, from the appear ranee, he was of opinion that it had been bloody, and that had rusted the blade. Mr. GREGORIE asked him if he had ever searched the fire-place before ?—Hughes replied that he had not, the fire-place had never been disturbed. He also searched the kitchen, where the prisoner said that he and his companions remained for two hours, and be found a brick upon which some knife had recently been sharpened. Mr. GREGORIE observed that, under the circum stances, he did not feel himself justified in discharg ing t he prisoner, although he had written a letter to his colleague, Mr. White, stating that his confes sion was an invented falsehood. He understood also that he had denied the truth of his statement to several Magistrates at the prison. After some desultory conversation, Mr. GRE GORtE ordered the prisoner to be brought into the office, and he was placed at the bar. Police constable Clifton,of the B division, No. 50, to whom the prisoner delivered himself up, was called. Mr. GREGORIE said that he understood he had an interview with the prisoner in the House of Cor rection the day after he was remanded ? Witness-- I had by the prisoner's desire. Mr. GREGORIE—What did he say to you P—l asked him what he wished to see me about, when he replied that he was very sorry for the trouble he had given me and the Magistrates, but that he knew nothing about the murder of Miss Elms. Prisoner—That is perfectly correct; I know The voluminous—evidence taken in this extraor dinary case was partly read to-day. It is a suit promoted by Mr. R. W. Swift, to establish the va lidity of a marriage alleged to have been celebrated at Rome, on the 25th ,of March, 1830, with Miss Elizabeth Catherine Kelly, and for a restitution of conjugal rights. On behalf of the young lady, the marriage, if celebrated, was alleged to have been solemnized by fraud and circumvention, and there• fore null and void. On the last Court-day of Hilary Term the case on both sides was fully opened. The Court was occupied nearly the entire day in hearing the evidence in support of the validity of the marriage. The King's Advocate proceeded to read the evi denca of Mrs. Ann Kelly, the mother of the young lady. It alleged that the intimacy between Mr. Swift and Miss Kelly commenced at Florence, where they had danced together; that Mr. Swift applied to Mrs. Kelly for her consent to his marry ing her daughter, which was refused; that she went to Rome, where they were followed by the Countess de Morlandi and her son, Mr. Swift; that on the 2511 of March, 1830, her daughter was not absent from her more than ten or fifteen minutes on the night the alleged marriage was said to have been consummated ; that subsequently Miss Kelly had told her that on that night she had, at the urgent solici tation of Mr. Swift, signed a paper promising to marry him; that when told by Mr. Swift that the marriage had been performed, and could not be set aside, both parties having abjured the Protestant faith, Miss Kelly had denied having acceeded to the one or the other, and that she (the mother) was fully convinced no such facts had occurred. According to ancient practice, the Judge this morning, being the first day of term, breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor, and, in consequence did not arrive in Westminster Hall till near two o'clock. The day being so fine induced a great number of people to come out and view the procession, so that by the time it arrived the Hall was very much thronged, the greater part being ladies, nothing about the murder; it was all false I stated. Mr. GREGORIE—What was your motive for making such a statement ? Prisoner—lt was through jealousy, your Worship. Mr. GREGORIE—That is very extraordinary. Prisoner—Some time ago three of my children died, and it preyed on my mind, and one night I gave myself up for murdering them, when it was all false, and on another occasion I gave myself up for a robbery. Clifton, the police constable, said that he believed that to be the truth. Prisoner—Whenever I get rather tipsy, your Worship, I believe I am light-headed. Mr. GREGORIE—BUt admitting that you were rather in liquor, you were sober enough when you went away in the van in the afternoon, and also when you desired to see Mr. White a second time, and you then persisted in your statement ?—Yes, your Worship, but when I was brought out of the cell to go into the van, I intended to acknowledge that all I had said was false ; but I saw my wife standing amongst the people with another man, and that determined me to stick to my story. I never was in any house in Wellesley-street in my life. Mr. GREGORIE—When you saw the prisoner at the House of Correction, did he say anything else to you ? Clifton—Yes, your Worship, lie asked me if I had taken any other person into cus tody, and I told him I had not, when he replied that he was very glad of it, for he knew nothing of the murder. Mr. GREGORIE—You saw him at this office of er he had made his confession; did he say any thing about his companions 2---He would not mention their names, but he gave me the description of two men, and from that I thought I knew who he meant. Mr. GREGORIE—You did not apprehend these men ?--No, your Worship; but I mentioned the circumstance to Mr. White, and he told me not to apprehend them at present, but I have kept a strict watch upon the prisoner's lodging ever since. Prisoner—l described the men to him just as it came into my head; any person that I thought of at the moment. Mr. GREGORIE—SO, by your own admission, when you get tipsy you are apt to accuse your ac quaintances of being murderers. Prisoner—All I know about the murder are the accounts I read in the newspapers; it has brought me in , o a very awkward situation, arid I will take care never to read a newspaper again as long as I live. Mr. LENTHALL desired Clifton to state every thing that the prisoner said when he gave himself up to him for one of the murderers. Clifton recapitulated the statement he made last week, when witness replied that he did not believe him ; the prisoner said, " You may believe me, and if you do not take me, I will give myself up to another police constable. Witness asked him what sort of a place the kitchen was where he said he and his companions had concealed themselves for two hour•, and he described it. He said that as you entered on the left hand there was a cupboard, and it was rather large, and that there was also a pump in the kitchen. Mr. GREGORIE—YOU did not mention this cir cumstance at the first examination ? Clifton— I did not, your Worship; I did not think of it at the moment, and at that time I knew nothing about the house, never having been in it ; but in the evening after the examination I went to the house in Wellesley -street ; there were some persons in the kitchen. I was surprised when I entered, and said, " This man must cer tainly know something about the murder, for his description of the kitchen exactly corresponds with his statement." Mr. LENTIIALL—Was the kitchen, then, as the prisoner described it to be ? Clifton—lt was. There was the cupboard, sure enough, and the pump. Mr. GREGORIE—HOW was it that you did not mention this circumstance before ? Clifton—l did not think it of much importance at the time, and I had not examined the house when the prisoner was first examined. Mr. GREGORIE said that it was very important evidence, and he found himself bound to detain the prisoner. __ _ Prisoner—Your Worship, I don't recollect having said anything about a pump or a cupboard being in the kitchen. I might have said so, certainly; but I do not recollect it. I know nothing about the murder. If you will send to my lodgings you will find people who will prove where I was on Thurs day, the 2,1 of May, all the evening. Mr. GREGORIE—HOW was it you described your companions to Clifton P—l had my reasons for that. Mr. GREGORIE—A man is generally believed when he speaks against himself, and you were per - fectly sober when you left this office in the van. Clifton—When he described his companions to me in the cell of this office, I mentioned the name of a man, and asked him if he was one, when the priFoner replied, " Oh, no, be knows nothing at all about it. Hughes, the constable, Paid that as the prisoner was being brought into the office, his mother, who was in attendance, spoke to him, when he said to her, " Don't ask any questions, I will make it all right when I get before the Magistrates." Mr. LENTIIALL—If you are innocent, you have only to thank yourself for the trouble you are in. Prisoner—l know that, your 'Worship. Mr. GREGORIE asked him if he had any objection to state where he was on Thursday, the 2d of May ? The prisoner replied that since he had been in pri son he had been considering, and could state cor rectly where he had been. He went home between 5 and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, his wife was at home, and they bad their tea. He afterwards went down stairs into the room of a man named Simpson, a coal-heaver; the father and mother of his wife were there, they had some gin, and the old man and his wife quarrelled, and had a fight, the wife got a black eye, and he afterwards went to a butcher's shop in the Broadway, and got a pennyworth of beef to put upon her eye. The old man afterwards went away to his son-in-law's, John Birch, in New To thill-street, he was rather in liquor, and had some money about him, and he (the prisoner) went after him about 10 o'clock, brought him home, arid as sisted to undress him; he then went to bed. Mr. GREGORIE directed the prisoner to be put back for a short time, and ordered Clifton to go and bring some of the witnesses mentioned by the pri soner, but not to say a single word to them. In a short time Clifton came back, and the prisoner's witnesses were brought in singly. The first was Rosanna Haleward, a womaa who coha bits with the prisoner, but whom he calls his wife. In answer to questions by Mr. Gregorie she said that on Thursday, the 2d of May, her husband (the prisoner) went out in the morning, and came home about two or three o'clock in the afternoon, and that he never went out again until the Monday following. Mr. GREGORIE—What, was he sick that he did not go out Witness—No, Sir. Are you positive about the time that he came home ?—I am positive of it. I will take my oath it was not later. Mr. LENTIIALL—Are you sure he did not go out for a piece of beef that evening ? Witness—l am positive he did not. He went out the next morning to the butcher's, and brought home two pounds of beef-steaks. Prisoner—Did I not go after your father the same evening ? Mr. LENTIIALL—Stop, stop, this is one of your own witnesses. The witness said there certainly was a quarrel, and that she and the prisoner went to John Birch's, about 11 o'clock at night, to bring him home. John Birch was next examined—H e stated that Knight, the old mall alluded to, came to his house, either on the 2d or 3d of May, he could not recol lect which. He remembered the prisoner coming after him. His wife came in afterwards. Mr. GREGORIE—What o'clock was this ? ness—Between two and three o'clock in the after noon. Mr. LENTHALL---YO U are positive it was not dark ? Witness-- , I am positive. tis l? Mr. LENT ITALL—You heard nothing o.r o - . ha t e —Witness--There did not appear to me t° 0 been any quarrel. This dote l' ° Mr. GREG ORIE (to the prisoner)--Tims - it, prove you r s t atemen t ; it is q uite contradictory. is my duty to remand you for another week. 40 ;14 The prisoner was then removed, and, on L' ec or the dock, he exclaimed—" It is all through tufoto tradictions of those last two witnesses that remanded." 105 SURRENDER OF MEE, THE CH AT OF THE SPAFIELDS MEETING, _ Yesterday, at three o'clock, this person vi;of veyed in a coach to Bow-street, from the ° r dt the Secretary of State at Whitehnll, and h e pi i,beforey chairman th e police " la r i et Fe the .R everosEps, ai nfi c ce h el a d r is g h e ern d eme v.; e i i t en h tgi n h o.o a n vbiuritgo noi l e :i t ht ~ to 13th instant. The defendant had ' been set i gie ~, 0 ,0 to keep out of the way until yesterday, o rk surrendered himself on Lord 3lelbourne'l sr;eil He is a low-szed man, apparently about 3u ' r • s it( of age, a n d hi s appearance i s t h a t of a yr°. kg so nu t oes ie stilt r r:e by i:g,. o a r n d ( e j order t f h t the ving mechanic. hi ce F The information on which the warrant of they cretary cretary of State was grounded was read to t h ibio , with having acted as chairman at the me euil i tt the T i h n e fo d rm ef a et t i i sembled in the manner already reported. ehe 0 e ß d O h E ini th s e e n lf askedto be t I t i h e e defendanti,ersorldestetri;d it defendant admitted that he was the P tle °° Magistrate. addressed It th c e h p a e rg f s°llit° referred to. . ngt ° Sir F. ROC then told him that be mu st , P r sureties, himself i n 200/., an d two su lfide' keepers in the s of 100/. eac. of SO' The defendeuntm was then sent in custody izenF, the officer, to the House of Correction. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR Per Tor,. s. d. d CET.—May 22. • Per ToM i 3 Walls End Newt/tare.'" 17 Walls End Riddell'S •-'" j 4 Waqs End Walket 11 Lambton's PriMrOfe 16 1 Walls En d Hetton ••••• 1 1 6 Walls End Lambton Walls End Stewart'ss,'ll Walls End Gordon,''''' 11 W. E South DurhaOl'i) 4 Walls End 'fees •••••••'"":„ 13 . 6 Cowpen Hartley 1. Silkstone Holmes •-••••'-d Stone Coal JaMesa2,,, 9 3 6 Aubrey 1 6 Tantield 'harlott, last market -day. la' Beatimo: 13 0 15 0 Chester Main 12 0 East Purcy.... —..-- 12 6 Hebburn Main 14 0 Ord's Itedhugh 12 6 16 6 Townley 14 3 West Hartley 14 6 Walls End Bewicke tti Co. 16 0 Walls End Brown's l3 9 Walls End Campbell's 13 6 Wall- End Callerion El 0 Walls End Gostbrth.. . 15 6 Walls End Hilda 13 6 Ditto Killingworth ---. 13 91 Ditto Northumberland 14 0 Ships arrived since amps arrived since last market-day. 10 ' } COUNTRY t ORN MAith.El:, DURING - - 11 00 4 i Wheat. Barley. ()ate. 5 10 . , Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. 38 Abingdon 62 81 31 43 22 " Andover----. 50 61 24 28 Birmingham...—. 56 58 30 40 16 .0 9 6 liridport 36 74 32 36 26 " i 46 Cirencester —„m, -- 44 56 21 30 16 '" 4 3 , aringdon——..... 54 86 36 40 26 ~„; 40 Guildford 48 74 23 32 26 44 Henley 54 83 30 35 20 „," Hereford 64 68 :32 34 22 „,'"' .0 5 , , Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 Af ,"' 36 P Maidenhead 56 68 34 44 22 Monmouth---.... 64 68 32 36 24 28 34 yl Reading 40 66 22 36 14 '`", 36 4t Salisbury „ 44 54 23 27 18 "! Southampton —. 54 58 33 40 28 32 i 4 4 Stroud ..—.... 64 78 37 38 22 :32 - 46 Tewkesbury .-- 65 74 30 42 30 0 Uxbridge 48 74 26 34 20 26 34 4 6 Wantage 58 80 27 43 17 r„ 34 43 Warminster 44 57 24 31 17 Windsor ~M. 59 21 Worcester .—. 50 57 30 32 22 29 LEWES MARKET.—May 21• 4 . 18 0 White Wheat (per quarter)...........£2 16 oto le 0 Red di 2 6 0 4 Barley l2 0 0 17 0 Oats, New. , Wheat Pe Pease Per Bushel. CHELT EN H AM Oil Cake, ...... 6 0 801 Beef... „ !. 12, s. d to B.d M ARKET . — May 2L ° d6371°4;11 CHELTENHAM Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Wheat Barley 4 0 5 6 Mutton ~ Oats 4 0 4 3 Veal Beans Pease 5 0 7 0 Land) Hay 3l. 10s to Si. 15s. 6 .............. • .. I ............... 0 0 ................ 0 pert . . Wheat, Old ... 5. Del ~..., j," Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond ... 4 ' ... Oats, Poland —s. 14 s . 18s Old .-s. ,' ...- 4 . ,s. Small or Feed.... —s. 14s. IBs --s. ...-s• Foreign —s. 14 s. 15 s - s afb 0 ,P . Barley, Norf. & Suf. ... —s 21s. 265. Line. & Wold ... 8 * ~ s. ... Foreign --s. .....,,, ltr" :5-0 A 11. Beans s. 235. 30s. Foreign ...... ........ 6 - 4 : sos. 1 2,' 7. . Pease, White —s. 365. 38s. Grey Tares —s. 38s. 40s. Foreign 30 , ' oi , -1 ......... ; 01. Rapeseed, in ont.l none. tl• DUMFRIESM A RKETS.—May 15. ,j, s ' o 0 d. s.d. " 0 00 Wheat, Imp. Bush s. 64t0 6 9 Butter, 160 z... .......... 0 0 0 Barley. 4 0 ° Oats ......' • ........ Flour, 1411). Oatmeal ... " , ........ ,-, . 7 Potatoes. cwt. itb An elegant silver s nu ff-b ox , mou nted f i roi ddle appropriate device, rai se d b y su b scr i pt i on of th of' class of voters, was presented to Captain oh ec) ( Friday last, in front of th e G eorge I nn, B e dford ; iO Ol Mr. SamLtEr. SPURLING delivered an address eltre'lgrdie the high opinion whi c h th e electors entertaine d : t ure e'l ,A their late repres en t a ti ve. C apta i n POLHILL return r thanks from his car r i age f or th e fl atter i ng com pli c° ,ot he him by the ind e pe n d en t voters; an d assure d the n ' O O O would always be found a t hi s pos t . H e sa id, M the re' Ministers would be sent to the " rightabout" verY'rei,iog the electors would h a v e an opportun i ty of again es be the their franchi s e, h e d ou bt e d not b ut t h at h e shon'"opts'; object of their choice.—(lmmense cheering.) Gee r ‘ POLHILL afterwards dined with his friends at the Inn ;at which dinner Sir W. LONG presidel- rag, A CLERGYMAN SHO OTING HIS GA FtP.,i, TOFF —DUBLIN, MAY 20.—Last night the Rev. “ El l it „ocle : ) 0 RENO (a gentleman neatly 80 y ears o f age, ti nu c,. - i ad the Archdeacon of DUBLIN) on his return with $ " b : city' his residence at Rathgar, about two miles fro ° t to le° where he bad been dining, f oun d th a t th e two serv e d be in care of the house were out, the door locke d ; a i ° Iti r j could not gain admittance. He and his fr i t ' fotl e , , Sstiair, went in search of the servants, whom '0;9,0'1 coming home drunk. These were PATRICK " 0 1 ' i d V e k gardener, and CATHERINE DENMAN, bouseiTia• -• bo- h ed i gentleman, who is of a very irritable ternpe e, h - r e e ";,/, them severely, and was answered by abuse an d t'- ',:d fr- e the pair whilst admitting him. This conduct O c t - lea s e alarm of Mr. SMITH, who entreated the gar dener " ° 00: the house. He refused till paid his wages. Ale . i :oti ti i ° ,: then requested Mr. SMITH to go to the neighbouri% of Roundtown for the assistance of police. li nwe rt er t ' e g e l SMITH at last prevailed on the gardener to co ne f - n pes l , and all was peace for a time, till the housetrain a r r by on the scene, renewed her abuse, seized her mast er throat in his own room, and obliged him to cal; so ante. This again roused the brutality of the gardenejoll went to help the housemaid, knocked his master bauee' and presented a carbine (k e pt f or t h e d e f e nce of t he 1 0 at the two gentlemen, threatening to shoot eitber%olicel SMITH fearing the con sequence , h astene d fur the roof , $ but had only proceeded a short way when he h ear , and returning found th e gardener lying on the" ' e Wil de ing profusely, b e i ng s h ot i n t h e l ett jaw, w i t h th s s , 0d; carbine laying und er hi m . Th e R ev. Mr. TO O d tba mitted that he had sh o t W ALSH with a pistol, adsy, o f he was so rr y f or it . A n exam i nat i on was held ttY i s tal the head police-office, whi c h en d e d in the comer' Yha the Rev. G en tl eman f or f urt h er e a minatin n ' X h rh e of wounded man lies in M ERCER ' S H os pital, oThi t-e , bore carried soon atter h e rece i ve d t h e wou nd, withu n• recovery.— Times Correspondent. BIRTHS. On the 15th inst., at Kilrush, Ireland, the lady ras„ ti., Murray, 64th Regiment, of a daughter. , On the 19th inst., at Worthing, the lady of Capt• of a daughter. Al dCr t!; MARRIED. Botolph, On the 21st inst., at the parish church of St. , j oar,; ue , gate, the Rev. Robert Cotton Mather, M.A., 1 ".4, SS' Benares, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the late ' Sewell, of A Idersgat e-street. On the 21st inst., at St. Mary, Woolnoth, Henry ,„ Thompson,second son secondH e n r daughterK o! l e, of l* G :s , ( .. l. , ,g o e f ß A ea d d d n ie c i s i , tr k r , e- ;q t % °1 0 4.P . bard-street. Rev. On the list inst., at East Barnet, Herts, the .... fro Oakes, M.A., son of 0. R. (takes, Esig., of Nowton, Eliza Charlotte, daughter of the Rev. T. H. Elwin, of East Barnet. 0 1' DIED. e , On the 22d inst., at his h o use in Grosvenor-sclua r et, Earl of Newburgh, aged 43 . eno r-o , On the 20th inst., at he r hou se i n Upp er Grosvenor" 0 , the Dowager Lady Bich. n• A'r'id In Feb., on board his Maje s ty's brig Calypso,tll*T„ at Monckton, Commander in th e Royal Navy , third , • count and Viscountess Galway, ag 24. ..,..teff -c° On the 13th inst., Mr. C. B erown, of Cloudess,:i Islington P RINTYB AND PUBLISHED BY MURDO YOUNG, I T 111 S SUN OP ICE, 112, STRAND, LOZIPOT• t4 , s 'ACT I Lei r „ , 1 11 e 10 , : a l Preu "i ,nt e d 4 4 34 11 'une Ir • !!.• ei4 °'te ,0 U . • tr i'ed ',eb 0 'Nay i O 6 5 1 g 1,„ 1 t w lt h 44 Or . • P . ,' ti the k ''Y J. I . it,,,'kh la • v.h tti ! le ge) ' ACT -CH I ill? wit r 7 00 ( !Particu urg o f 1 Illa add (k t ,