The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. , The princ;plea on which England and her Allies 1.1 'have acted 'throughout their long diplomatic efforts for tie establishment of Greece as an independent and effective Power, qualified to take her part in up holding the general equilibrium of Europe, consti tute our best security for the perseverance of the Allied Governments in the prosecution of an object so invaluable. Nothing short of the immense im portance assigned by the Allied Powers to the re viral and perpetuity of the Greek nation, could have enabled the Courts of France and Great Britain to repress all yearnings of intermediate jealousy prc yoked from time to time by grave though possibly incidental occurrences, and to cc-operate with Russia to that single and uniform end. Their fide lity to the cause of Greece, and the uninterrupted harmony of their councils, amidst the temptations of an ominous war between the Porte and Russia, are amongst the most honourable evidences furnished by history, of discriminating temper and foresight in the conduct of great political concerns. We have therefore ample ground for assurance, that now, when a well-combined series of calindatione has been for a moment disappointed by caprice and inconsis tency, the good work will have been resumed with double vigour, and the event secured without de lay, and beyond the reach of misfortune. The British Government and the Representatives of the other Allied Powers have doubtless prepared the means of reparation. Their second offer of the Throne of Greece, to whomsoever it may have been made, will have been accompanied by terms equally favourable as those which Prince Leopold accepted and declined ; and the loss of time will be the only drawback on the success of these arduous negotia tions. More favourable terms, in one respect, might have been obtained for the long-suffering Greeks. The frontier proposed for them cannot be defended by arms,—still less by argument. In the protocol of March, 1829, we find that the north west boundary fixed for Greece was actually that— and no other than that—for which her warmest ad vocates are at this hour contending. The first fron tier recommended by Russia was placed so far north All the Macedonian mountains. The space so en closed was reduced by the protocol of March 22, 1829, to that contained within the mountain-line which stretches from the Gulf of Volo to that of Arta. So the limits of Greece remained, judging at least by the official documents, until the protocol of the 3d of February. The line front Arta to Volo extended no more than 55 leagues (about 140 miles) ; but one point protected another— the whole of Greece Proper was included in it. The population was Greek to a man. Turkey lost nothing but the means of annoying and disturbing them with impunity; the friends of Greece were satisfied, and her independence in eared. But on the 3d of February, 1830, those frontiers were thrown back, in detriment to Greece, from the Gulf of Arta to the mouth of the Aspro potamos—from Mount Macron to Artolina—from Mount Othryx to Mount CEta,—and from the en trance of the Gulf of Volo, to the mouth of the Sperchius in that of Zeitouni. We regret that the Allies did 'not reflect better on the consequences of this change before it was adopted ; their unfeigned and well-proved anxiety for the Greeks would other wise have counselled them to a more merciful dis pensation of territory. But though we regret that this change cf frontier has been decided upon, and would contend, re integ,M, for the boundary line settled by the protocol of March, 1829, we are not insensible to the difficulties, if not the impractica bility, of obtaining new terms at so advanced a stage of the transaction as that which we have now reached. With what face could we go to the Porte, after she has frankly consented to the existing ar rangement, and say to her, " It is true that you have behaved very handsomely in acquiescing in all that was required of you—that you have thrown no obstacles in the way of the com plete independence and total separation of provinces so long your own—that we have heard no murmur from your lips against an arrangement which not only cuts off all hope of re covering your rebellious subjects, but strips you of district. (such as the large and commodious island of Eubcea), where insurrection was never altogether successful, and where your supremacy is still main tained ; but never mind, you have not yet come to the and of your sacrificer, which you make with do good a grace that ire need scarcely apologize for adding to them ? The Greeks, in whose especial fa vour they are made, complain that they fall short of their just and reasonable expectations. Nay, they even threaten to resist us, if we attempt to put our resolutions in force. What are we to do ? can. not turn a deaf ear to their menaces, for what can be more natural than their wish for an extended frontier? So really, good Turks, you must help us out of the serape by ceiling to them another large slice of your best and richest provinces. It is cer tainly ♦ery annoying, perhaps hardly quite fair, that you should be at the expence of patching up mat ters between the Greeks and their benefactors, but there is no help for you. We think the best thing you can do is to give up Thessaly, without making wry faces ; for if we hear a whisper of hesitation, we shall take it from you without scruple." It is difficult to say what answer the Allies could expect to such a demand. Consent could only be obtained from the weaker party by inability to offer effectual resistance. A charge would be established against the stronger of consulting might more than right; and the confidence reposed in the faith of treaties would be for ever annihilated. Should, on the other hand, the Porte resist this new mandate of the Allies, past conventions would be void, and we should be placed in the awkward pre dicament of sending troops to expel from their homes, not only in Acarnania, but in Eubcea and At tics, the Turks who have acquiesced in our arrange ment!, in order to bestow a premium on the contu macy of the Greeks. Such are a few of the diffi culties which present themselves to the re-opening of the arrangement; but, putting the feelings of both Greeks and Turks out of the question, and looking upon it merely as a matter of expediency, it may probably appear better for all parties—the Allies, the combatants, and Europe at large—that the affair shotdd be considered as closed, and that no new discussions or dissensions should he per mitted to disturb the validity of an engagement for mally and solemnly concluded, and thus sow the seeds of fresh troubles, or foster those already ex isting in the Levant, instead of carrying into effect the professed object of all our efforts, namely, the pacification of that part of the world.—Tinies. The debate on the question of Reform on Friday night was a curiosity in its way. ft seemed to be taken for granted by the greater number of the speakers, liberal as well as illiberal, that in any re form, the character of the House of Commons should remain essentially the same as at present ; that is to say, that a comparatively s►mall number of individuals possessed relatively of considerable property, bearing, however, b►et a small proportion to the property of the nation, should command the majority of votes in that assembly, and have the power of taxing their fellow-citizens to any amount for their separate benefit. The plan of Lord John Russell leaves a majority of Members, with the mo tives to misgovern for the advantage of themselves and their connections, untouched. To admit re presentatives for four or six, or even a dozen large towns, would have little more effect on the House than pouring a few drops of water into the sea. When a merchant or manufacturer of any of these towns is sufficiently wealthy to be no longer tinder the necessity of attending personally to his business, and to be able to afford to mingle with the Aristo, em u, he finds no difficulty in obtaining a seat, by purchase. No prudent man, in a country like this, in which avarice reigns supreme, would ever think of quitting Birmingham, or Manchester, or Glas gow, or Lteds, or any of the places named by Lord John Russell, if these places returned Members, except his circumstances were such as would enable him to purchase a seat in the Borough-market. The scheme of Lord John is therefore trifling and illu sorv, as far as regards the identification of the Par liament witn the interests. of the nation, by supp'v• ing the majority of the Members with a motive for checking the expenditure of Government, instead )f stimulating the Government to profuse expen diture, as at present. We are not fastidious on the subject of Reform ; but we conceive it essential to any Reform at all deserving of the name, that those who return the national Representatives should be identified in interest with the nation. However, the debate will deceive no one. Whenever the time comes for the agitation of Reform in good earnest, men will be obliged to take their stand for or against, stud that trifling which so conspicuously marked a number of the speeches on Fr iday night will be felt to be out of place. Many worthy members who cannot afford at present to keep a conscience will find one at the proper season, when the time for trifling is past. In this country, what is meant by representation of the people may be typified by a band of wolves and a number of flocks of sheep. There must be a certain proportion between the wolves and the sheep, otherwise, like the dogs let loose among the goats in Juan Fernandez, they will destroy themselves. If we could suppose wolves endowed with reason, they would so far limit themselves as to prevent the diminution of the flocks. It is the interest of the Aris tocracy of this country that enough should be left to the people to stimulate their industry; and a re presentation into which the popular element enters is so far useful, that it serves as a guide, in that grand secret of the art of governing, how much may be taken without danger. The more wary of the Aristocracy become protectors of the people when they see the interests of their own body in danger from a rapacity which exceeds all bounds of pru dence. A Parliamentary Representation is, there fore, of incalculable use to an Aristocracy. But it cannot be too often repeated, that for a representa tion to be useful to an Aristocracy, the majority must always be returned by that Aristocracy. It is from having been deluded by the nonsense which has been written about the British Constitution, that foreign Goversiments have been precipitated into the jaws of Democracy. The British Consti tution consists essentially in its rotten boroughs.— There may be disputes among the proprietors of boroughs about the shares of the common spoil they ought to appropriate to themselves, but whenever the interests of borough-holders in general is en. dangered, either by a King or a people, they will be united. Hence the stability of our Government is based upon borough-mongering. This is well understood by a %,riter in the newly-published num ber of the Quarterly Review for May, in an article on the Political Condition and Prosperity of France. The Reviewer's text is a recent publication of NI. Cottu, recommending absolute power in France to save them from the consequences of the Charter. "M. Cottu," says the Reviewer, " points out with great neatness and force how completely Montesquieu was in error with respect to the British Constitution, when he supposed the House of Commons to be essentially a repre sentative of the Democratical Branch of the State, instead of being, as it is, and ought to be, a Representative of all the different orders, the great preponderance being of course given to that class which has the greatest wealth, and consequently the greatest influence out of doors. These principles, however, upon which the stability and prosperity of this country mainly depend, have, according to M. Cottu, been quite misunderstood in France" (he ' might have said in every country), " not only now but upon every occasion when England has been taken as their model He then describes the manner in which his countrymen, while endeavouring to copy the English House of Commons, formed a body re presenting almost exclusively the Democratical Branch of State, and leaving the others almost entirely without in fluence. To show how little this is conformable to the system in England, he gives a table, by which it is made to appear that of the 658 Members of the House of Com mons, 298 are returned by the influence of the Peers ; 171 by wealthy Commoners ; and IS by the Crown ; while only 171 are freely elected by the other interests of the State. This table, in which the details of this statement are given, is sot, indeed, correct ; but it is sufficiently near the mark to establish his position ten times over." A maxim quoted by the Reviewer from M. Cottu, expresses, in a few words, the foundation of good Government : " In every community where we find privileges which are established and recognised by the laws, the Government of the country must belong essentially to the privileged orders in question, provided these privileges are not to be overturned." Of course no one supposes that there can be such a thingas good Government without the existence of privileged orders. France is without the elements of good Government—that is, she is without a landed Aristocracy, without entails, without primo geniture, and without a rich Church, essential to the permanency of an Aristocracy. She has, indeed, her proportion of rich men, but then the ricli of yesterday are not the rich of to-day, consequently power cannot become the property of a certain number of families, without which all good Govern ment is impossible. This is feelingly deplored by M. Cottu. " It was believed," he says, " at one time, fur instance, that the evils cotnp!ained of in the Elective System arose front the great proprietors not haring sufficient influence on the returns ; and it was conceived that the desired har mony would be restored by giving a higher degree of in fluence to those persons who paid the most direct taxes.— The reliance, however, which still subsists among the lovers of good order, and most remarkably so in those who profess the King's confidence, is one of the most fatal errors that ever entered into a Statesman's head, and may ere long lead to measures fraught with every mischief. The fallacious hope alluded to rests upon a state of things, which may perhaps exist at this moment, but which our law of succession is rapidly destroying. Very possibly, the majority of the greatest direct contributors to the Re venue in etch department, are now composed of families closely allied to the Crown by their habits, their old re collections, and their rank and station ; and perhaps there is some reason to hope, that this majority would send to the Chamber of Deputies only persons well disposed, like themselves, to the cause of Royalty. But by our ruinous process of subdividing property, these very families must soon inevitably dwindle into the class of minor contri butors, and have the mortification of seeing their places occupied by new corners, whose riches hive been derived from commerce. When this unavoidable change shall have come about, the Crown can no longer reckon upon the at tachment of the persons in possession of the greatest pro perties, sod will have nothing to hope from that quarter. It 'nay be urged that the interest of a wealthy man of the description alluded to is merely that there should be public tranquillity and security of property, cod that he cares about nothing else. But this is not a correct yiew. He cannot but wish that things should be so arranged in the State that fortune, and fortune alone, should be at the top of the tree. Consequently, lie will be a secret enemy of pi ivileges established in favour of any other order, and be animated by a restless desire to destroy then). A revolution will have nothing terrible in it to his eyes, if he can only persuade himself that it may be ef fected without shocks, without resistance, and that it can be managed without stirring up the populace to take a share therein." The Reviewer significantly adds, by way of com ment, " On the other hand it is obviously impossible, as our author distinctly shows, that the present Aristocracy could be invested, as that of England is, with the nomination of a preponderating proportion of the Chamber of Depu ties. Whey are neither numerous enough, nor are they possessed of sufficient wealth and consequence in other respects to entitle them to this privilege ; or if it were plved in their hands, to enable them to exercise it bene ficially for the country at large." Alas for France ! There is a tendency in the so ciety of that country to a medium between exces sive wealth and excessive poverty ; but a country, to be in a sound state, must exhibit the extremes of wealth and poverty. The Reviewer deplores its wants, which are not likely to be WV) remedied. " Our readers," lie an?s, " will, no doubt, anticipate we allude principally to a Church k: f stablishment and to a hereditary Aristocracy—neither of which, un fortunately, France now possesses, or, we fear, is likely to acquire is our time. In order to render an Aristocracy useful as a safeguard to freedom —as a bulwark alike for the Crown against the people, and for the people against the Crown, it must contain in its essence something which shall com mand the solid and lasting respect of both. It must be sespected by the Crown from its independence, and its wide spread influence amongst the people ; and it must be looked bp to by the people, from its antiquity, its wealth, its permanency, as derived from the law of primogeniture, le practice of entails, and the (lest eat of hereditary ho nours There is a second grand desi deratum towards the construction of a firm and tho roughly free Constitution, which the French seem to be as little in the way of providing for themselves as they are in the case of an Aristocracy. We allude to a wealthy, powerful, highly-educated, and ♦irtuous Church Establish !neat, in joint alliance with the State and with the people." Borough-mongerhig and tithes are indispensible to good government ; nay, they are essential to virtue; the French are without an Aristocracy, and do net respect priests, consequently they are with out virtue, without those principles " which are universally diffused over this country, and kept alive by a numerous resident Clergy, intimately allied by the domestic affections, as well as other worldly in terests, to the community, and contribute perhaps more than anything else to the prevalence of that hearty good faith in one another, which, after all, forms the cement of English society, and enables this country in moments of trial to take the lead, and to keep it among all the nations of the world." Happy, moral, religious England T. The Reviewer does not hesitate to recommend steel lozenges for the disease of our Gallician neighbours. " We trust we have said enough," he observes, " to skow that there is only one course of measures by which good order can be preserved ; and however repugnant it may be to our English tastes, the necessity of the case re quires that we should not shrink from the trial, but be prepared to witness, as the less grievous of two evils, the temporary re-establishment of a tolerably absolute authority on the part of the Crown of France." This article is followed by another, in which we have a detailed description of the happiness we have under our admirable Constitution : " In every country," says the Reviewer, " the great majority of its inhabit a nt s is composed of the labouring class, the hewers of wood and the drawers of water, of the men whose daily bread is earned by the sweat of their brow, and whose condition, he it good or bad, happy or miserable, must always form the first and most important consideration in every estimate that may be drawn of that country's social position. Tried by that test, how stands the British empire at present? We may be admired and respected as a State by other Powers ; we may cover the ocean with our vessels of commerce, and our spacious har bours with those of war ; we may be acknowledged as at the head of civilization, in science, in literature, in the arts; the produce of our industry, and the aggregate of our wealth, may exceed all that imagination yet conceived as possib'e ; but if that wealth is so ill distributed, that the mass of our population receive but an inadequate share of what their labour has produced ; if they are con demned to toil, ill-requited, in hopeless indigence, or are barely preserved from famishing, by a surly and extorted charity, there is more matter in such a condition for re gret than pride—fur dismay than exultation With the extreme of riches in the higher classes—the fortunes of many private individuals surpissing the average revenues of Continental Sovereigns—it is certain that the great bulk of the people—the operative classes, manufac turing as well as agricultural, receive but a very small share of the produce of their industry, are constantly in a precarious, often in a most miserable condition, scarcely able to maintain themselves on their scanty wages when in empl.lment, and frequently driven, for want of this, to the lamentable resources of pauperism, mendicancy, or crime." Now, let us bear the description of the people under the wretched Government of France, which the Reviewer quotes from M. Cottu " In no former times have the laws been better executed, or the people more happy—the taxes more readily paid— provisions more abundant—commerce more free." But when we speak of Constitutions, the last consideration is the happiness of the people. The object of a good Constitution is to enable 2,000 families to wallow in wealth drawn by excessive taxation from twenty millions of people. In short, a bad Constitution is that in which the people are generally happy; and a good Constitution is that in which the great body of the people are as miserable, poor, and thievish, as is compatible with the comfort of the small numbers whose business it is to keep them poor and miserable and thievish. Virtue means respect for the higher orders, and a Pharu saical and affected regard for what they say is right ; and religion is a rich establishment, in which all the good livings are shared by the Aristocracy, arid the working Clergy have sd. a day more than an Irish labourer in the London market.—Morning Chron. England has intermeddled in the affairs of Greece in a manner that neither redounds to the advantage of the Greeks nor to her own honour. Her situ ation at present proves how little wisdom is to be found where the tuts of a cunning and tricky diplo macy are practised. What are the fruits of years of negotiation, in which she and her new friends have been engaged, relative to the revolutionized pro vinces of her ancient Ally Volumes of letters and protocols—the memorials of political weakness and diplomatic mystification. As to the settlement of Greece—the" great object which has caused the waste of so much paper, and the shedding of so much ink—it appears as far off as ever ! It is true the Ministerial Papers attribute all the blame of this " most lame and impotent conclusion" to Prince Leopold—they say he is destitute of the qualities that would befit him for the high station which the Allies called upon him to occupy ;—they have discovered that he wants firmness, intrepidity, de cision, and dignity of purpose. Alas for the pe netration of the Allies, who could have chosen so incompetent a person for the " new and glorious sovereignty" of Greece! Sagacious politicians must they have been who first selected a man for this great trust, and then found out that he was utterly unfit for it ! And when did they make this disco very of Prince Leopold's want of the talent and energy requisite to promote the happiness and maintain the independence of Greece Not until he had himself declined the honour intended for him—up to that event his abilities, his disposition, his character, were excellent—and the Greeks were called upon to express their gratitude for so judicious an appointment. But no sooner did he refuse to allow himself to be forced upon an unwilling people under circumstances that, instead of esta blishing their independence, must be subversive of their liberties, than the excellence of this Sovereign Elect became a mass of blemishes in the eyes of those who had fixed upon him as the chosen instru ment of the regeneration of Greece. So much for the judgment which, on their own showing, the Allies have exercised in this manner. But, indeed, had Prince Leopold proceeded to take possession of the throne of Greece, after finally as,:ertaining that the limitation of her territory was to be persevered in, to the great discontent of her people, and the en dangering of her independence, he would be more destitute of right feeling and of common sense than the sycophants of chagrined statesmen and disap pointed diplomatists represent him to he. We have never approved of our Government entangling itself with the internal affairs of other nations. — The conflict between Greece and Turkey ought to have been settled between themselves. We had no more right to intermeddle in the quarrel than Turkey would have had to interfere between us l i and our Indian dependencies, if the latter were in a state of resistance to our dominion ; but, having in terfered, we should have done so effectually—having violated the law of nations as regarded Turkey, we ought to have taken care so to befriend Greece, that her situation as an independent State might be so strong as to prevent the Ottoman Power from entertaining any hope of her future subjugation. But this is exactly what we did not do. We and our Allies claimed credit for giving " independence" to Greece, but so narrowed her territories as to cut ofd l the best means of renderin g her frontier defensible, and thus would have exposed her to other, arid perhaps more sanguinary and disastrous wars than that from which she has just emerged. With a British Prince upon the throne, whose territory was guaranteed, we should be under the necessity of taking a part in such wars, unless we saved our selves from the calamity at the expence of our plighted faith ! Is this a position for cool arid cal culating Statesmen to place this country in, burdened and borne down to the earth as she is at present by the weight of taxes levied upon her to pay the into- rest of an enormous accumulation of debt arising out of long and destructive wars, undertaken from a Spirit of wanton arid ambitious interference with the internal concerns of 'an independent nation ? As to the incapacity of Greece withiq the proposed limits to maintain herself long ta a separate State, every unprejudiced per son must be convinced of the fact who knows that the arrangement of the Allies would exclude a considerable portion of Etolia and the whole of Acarnania. On this subject we quite agree with General Church, a man whose military experience in the country for which he has fought gives peculiar weight to his opinion. What does to say in his pamphlet on this subject ? Thai the Allies, " instead of giving Greece a frontier are about to take one from her, and to place Turks in all those military positions from whence they render if but little avail the Thermopylae, Missolonghi, and Lepanto; for, if the Turks are masters of Pa tragik, Curpensisi, and Vrachori, I will leave it to the decision of any inilitary man who knows the country if they cannot with ease turn the position of the Thermopylae, and descend from Vrachori Vlochos to Lepanto and Salona, without troubling themselves about Missolonghi." And again, "If this supposed line of frontier is to be given to Greece, she will be left without a single port be yond the Gulf of Lepanto, as Missolonghi has no port, and the ports of Dioni, Dragomestre, Mitica, and various others, are on the other side of the As propotamos or Achelous, can any person pretend that the Aspropotamos can form a defensible fron tier—a river that can be walked through in nearly every part for at least eight months in the year ?" We repeat our opinion, that, with such a frontier, and deprived of Candia and the other islands, the independence, which the Allies boast of having given to Greece, is but the mockery of freedom—a shadowy independence which provokes aggression. A league, offensive and defensive, with a State so circumstanced—a State just emerged from slavery, only to be pounced upon again by its ancient mas ters—must have eventually involved us, not only in a war with Turkey, but embroiled us, perhaps, with other Continental States. From this we have been saved by the determination of Prince Leopold; and we rejoice that the petty, weak, and vacillating po licy of our Government has been baffled by his firmness and discretion.—lllorning Herald. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL Yesterday John Hurley, John Nash, and John Sheering, were brough.t before Sir P. LAURIE, on a charge of breaking into the Steward's-office, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and stealing therefrom 17/. 4s. in Bank of England notes and cash, and a small silver French coin. Charles Herdsfield, the marshal's man, stated that on Thursday week last Sheering, one of the pri soners, came to him and communicated that a plan had been laid to rob the Steward's-office in the Hospital. Sheering, at his desire, went to Mr. Wilby, the renter of the Hospital, who, in conse quence of the information, employed Herdsfield to assist him. Subsequently Herdsfield and his brother, one of the city police, had several interviews with Sheering, and learned from him that the robbery was fixed to be committed on Friday morning last, and at the hour appointed (ten o'clock) the two Herdsfields planted themselves in the counting house at the Hospital. They waited there a few minutes, expecting a signal to be given when the robbery was being committed, as they had concerted with Sheering, but the signal was not given. How ever, at length Sheering came to them, and ex claimed, " The thing is done—follow me." They accordingly followed him to Hurley's residence, in Mill-yard, Rosemary-lane. On entering the room, they found the prisoners there. Hurley was sitting at a table, with 5/. 19s. in gold and silver lying before him, which the officers seized, as well as the prisoners. _ . _ Mr. Wilby deposed, that a demi-franc, which was found among the silver at Hurley's, had been in his possession in the morning —indeed, for several years past; and was paid by him to Mr. Wiz, the steward. Sir P. LAURIE asked if he had a particular reason for giving the piece to Mr. Wiz that morning. Mr. Wilby replied, that he had. Knowing the robbery was to be committed, he gave Mr. Wix the demi-franc, because he could identify it. He alto paid Mr. Wix two .5/. notes, signed with his bro ther's name, numbered 38,011 and 38,012. Mr. Wix, the steward, on Friday morning put a canvass bag on the desk in his office, containing one of the .5/. notes, 3/. in silver, a shilling of George 11. and a sixpence of George 111., «hich had been marked, and also the demi-franc. In the drawer of the desk he placed the other 51. note, a sovereign, two half-sovereigns, and 2s. 6d. in silver. He locked the drawer, anti also secured the door of the office, and went out It ten o'clock. He re turned in about ten minutes, when he found the drawer and door broken open, and that the money had been taken away. Sir P. LAURIE determined upon admitting Sheer ing a witness for the Crown, when he detailed the following particulars of a deep-laid plan to commit a series of robberies at this Hospital. Sheering, upon being sworn, stated, that having been detected in exhuming a body from the grave yard of a chapel at Pentonville, in February last, he was taken before the Magistrates at Hatton garden, and was committed to the House of Cor rection for three months. While there he met with the two prisoners, who had been committed as re puted thieves. He was acquainted with Nash pre viouQly, as he used to " do a little in the same line." Nash said he knew where a good thing was to be done in the Hospital,—that the charity boxes were kept closed for a year together, and might be broken open when they got out of gaol. The witness was liberated on the 12th of May, and on the Saturday following he met Nash at Smithfield, when he asked if he had thought any thing further about what they had talked of, adding that a good chance might be had at the Steward's office, as Mr. Wix received 701. or 801. every Fri day, which he put in a:drawer, and so well acquainted with the office did Nash appear, that he described the particular drawer in which the money was kept. He said, that after Mr. Wix had received the money, his custom was, to go round to the several wards, and, with a bell, summon the sisters and nurses to conic and receive their wages; and that while he was so employed the robbery was to be effected ; and on the following Sunday a teries of robberies were planned, to be executed in succession, on the Steward's office, the Renter's office, the wine -cellar, &c. On Monday they met again, when Hurley joined the party, and another who, however, was not concerned in the robbery, being laid hold of anti committed to Bridewell in the interim. The place of meeting was appointed to be the Red Lion, Rose mary-lane, and at Hurley's suggestion, the time for committing the robbery was changed from night to the day time. Hurley, before he came, went to a Jew's in Rosemary-lane, where he borrowed the crow by which the desk was forced. The three went into a public-house, where an altercation took place relative to the respective situations they were to take. Nash wished to act as the scout towards Smithfield, while witness was to look out on the Hospital side, and Hurley was to effect the robbery. Witness wished to look out on the Smithfield side, as he had told Herdsfield he should do so, in order that he might give th e s i gna l agree d to. H ur l ey at la“ jumped up and said," it, ni do it myself," and proceeded out of the house. In four or five minutes he saw Hurley come from the office, when he said, "Come along, I've doneit." Nash and Hur ley went on, witness remaining behind under pre tence of seeing whether any notice had been taken of it, but in fact to inform the police of the robbery. Hurley asserted that Sheering had called him out of bed on Friday morning, and enticed him to join in the robbery; a l so t h at t h e crov •-b ar spo k en o f was brought b y Sheering, and was the instrument 1 1 used in br ea ki ng open co ffi ns . Sir P. LkuRIE observed, that Sheering'a conduct in going to Hurley's house was suspicious. How ever, the corr o b orat i on Sh eer i ng rece i ve d f rom o th er testimony was such as to justify him in sending the prisoners to trial, aad he ordered them to be brouglf up again to hear the depositions read on the follow. ing day. John Al' ravish was re-examined upon a charge of embezzling 'W., which he had received in Scot land in the capacity of traveller to Mr. Smith, of Newgate-street. The prisoner was discharged. BOW-STREET. Last night Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police, being in attendance at this office, observed to Mr. lIALLs that the number of dogs in the streets without owners was really feightful, when the season of the year was considered. Mr. Thomas said that his men had destroyed two dogs on Saturday in Spring-gardens. From the symptoms which these animals exhibited, there was no doubt but that they were in a rabid state. The great danger in allowing dogs to go at large through the streets was, that they might be bitten by others that were mad. Mr. HALLS regretted that there was no summary mode of proceeding in such cases without incurring the danger of actions at law. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Two journeymen chimney-sweepers, named Win. Talbot and James Dale, were yesterday brought be fore Sir G. FARRANT, the sitting magistrate, charged, on suspicion, with having committed a robbery at the house of Mr. Watson Taylor, M.P., No. 9, Grafton-street, Bond-street ; after the case had been heard, both prisoners were discharged on their pre mise to attend on any future day that they might be required. The house-steward at Mr. Taylor's said that it had not as yet been fully ascertained what amount of property the ihie , res had carried off, nor could it until Mr. Taylor's return to town, but that it was considerable there was no doubt. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday morning the greatest alarm prevailed in the neighbourhood of this office, in consequence of several dogs, in a rabid state, having bitten se veral of the inhabitants in York-street. Soon after the sitting Magistrates, Messrs. GRECIORIE and WHITE, had taken their seats, a person entered the office, who gave his name Nathaniel Gosling, and stated, that between ten and eleven o'clock that morning, he was attacked in York -street, by a light brown dog, of the mongrel breed, which bit him severely in the leg, and lie had gone to the West minster Hospital, when the surgeons recommended him to hare the part cut out and cauterized, which operation he had undergone, through fear of being attacked by hydrophobia. The dog afterwards bit several other persons in the same street, and he wished to know if something could not be done to compel the inhabitants either to confine their dogs or muzale them. Mr. GREconm inquired if he knew to whom the dog belonged ?—The applicant said he did not; but the street swarmed with dogs, and the brown dog he alluded to had bitten several of them. Mr. GREGORIE asked what had become of the animal ?—Mr. Jacobs, of the Broadway, here stepped forward arid said he had been bitten by the tilrie dog, but the teeth did not enter the flesh. He however killed him. About an hour after the above application, Mr Benjamin Bell, a brazier, of No. 81, York-street, Westminster, entered the office, and stated to the Magistrates that he had been bitten by a brown dog in York-street that morning, in two places on the leg. He had been to the Westminster Hospital, and undergone the painful operation of having the flesh cut out, and he was directed by the surgeons to communicate the circumstance at the office, that measures might be taken to prevent dogs being suf fered to go about the streets. When he left the Hospital, another person who had been bitten by the same dog was undergoing a similar operation. The Magistrates inquired how many persons had actually been bitten ?—Mr. Bell believed no less than six persons had undergone the operation of having the flesh cut out that morning at the Hospital. Mr. WIIITE said, that he had been consulting with his colleagues, and notices would be imme diately issued from the office for all persons to con fine their dogs. . . _ Just as the Magistrates were about leaving the bench, Covington, one of the beadles of the Grosve nor-square district, entered the office with a dog, and stated, that a dog in a rabid state had bitten two persons in Queen-street, Pimlico, and he was de sired by the trustees of the district to ask the Magistrates how they were to act. Mr. WiirrE asked if the animal he had in a string was the one that had bitten the persons.—The beadle said he was not. The mad dog had made his escape. '1 he dog he had with him he could find no owner for, and there were hundreds of dogs about the district that had no owners. The trustees wanted to know what should be done with dogs found under such circumstances. Mr. - WHITE said, he thought the best plan would be to confine such dogs, to see whether they were in an ill state of health, and if they were not owned, it might be then matter of consideration whether they ought to be destroyed.—Th e beadle said, that the trustees were determined to put the local Act in force, which levied a fine of 51. upon all persons who suffered their dogs to be at large. Mr. WHITE said, he thought the trustees would act perfectly right by so doing, and he would wil lingly grant summonses against any person in the district, on application being made at the office. LAMBETH-STREET. A case of great depravity on the part of a young girl, named Ann Welch, occurred at this office yes terday. The prisoner was brought from the Man sion -house, in custody of Leopard, one of the city officers, charged with stealing three pair of shoes. It appeared from the statement of the prisoner's mistress, a tailoress, that the prisoner had been ap prenticed to her from the parish of Whitechapel, but had behaved herself in a most shameful manner, robbing whenever she had an opportunity, and oc casionally, although only 12 years of age, absenting herself from home for several days together. She absented herself on Thursday last, and went to the shop of Mr. Price, a shoemaker, residing in the Mi nories, and snatched three pair of shoes from the door and ran away. She was taken before the Lord Mayor, but his Lordship hearing that she had been brought to this office several times before, charged with neglecting her work, he thought proper to order her to be brought here again. Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER said they really did not know what to do with a girl like this. if she were to be sent to prison, she would only come out worse than she went in ; but after some con sultation between the Magistrates, she was ordered to be sent to the House of Correction for one month. A circumstance which excited considerable mer riment among the officers and a few of the curious who attend about these places, occurred imme diatele on the opening the doors for business at this office yesterday. An exceeding pretty, buxom, young damsel, bedecked in bridal finery, rushed into the yard of the office, and commenced a careful scrutiny of the features of a number of the police men assembled there. Apparently not perceiving the object of her search, the perturbation of her mind attracted the notice of the officer', who, from seeing her pacing up and down the office in a hur ried manner, inquired as to the cause of her agita tion, and drew from her at length, that she was to have been married on that morning to a serjeant of the new police. The appointment was that they should meet at the church ; but having waited there till her fears overpowered her at the non-ap pearance of her swain, she left the bride's-maids and her friends, and ran to this office. Her anxieties were immediately set at rest, by one of the police informing her, that the serjeant had unexpectedly to attend at the Thames Police, with a disorderly whom he had in charge. The intended bride set off for that office as quick as lightning, expressing her fears that the hymeneal knot would be too late that day, as that ceremony could not be performed after twelve o'clock. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, Mar 29.-We have had a moderate demand for British Plantation Sugar, and the better qua' lities are rather lower, with about 700 hhds. sold ; , no of Mauritius, and only 170 bags of white Bengal sold I t 675. 6d. per cwt., being 6d. lower than previous aales.l ' One hund re d p unc h eons of rood Demerara Molasses gol at 20s. pe r cw t. Th e sa l es of Coffee consisted of only 11 ' f,' tees. principally of Jamaica, at former prices. A few NO of Barbadoes Ginger brought 545. per cwt. by auction% nothing done in Cocoa. The Rum market is firm, consequence of some recent regulations as to the paYal . , of duties ; abo u t 200 p unc h eons so ld at f u l l pr i ces. A"''' are dull, and only 70 lots. of Montreal Pot sold o t i 345. 6d., and 60 brl s . o f P ear l a t 39 5 . per cwt. ° I)yewoods 250 tons of Campeachy Logwood sold a l 71. 17s. 6(1. to 81.25. 6d., 50 tons of Honduras at 6/, 10s. , 70 tons of Jamaica at 61. ss. to 61. 10s. One hundr ed tons of Spanish Fustie at 4/. ss. to 4/. 10s. ; and 12 tool of Lima Nicaragua Wood at 221. ss. to 221. 10s. per too. No sales of Hides, excepting 1,600 Buenos Ayres Ho le at 9s. 6d. each, and 1,000 dry salted Brazil at 6d, per I 1) ' Olive Oil has been dull for some time, and the pries a re rather lower, with only some t r ifli ng parce l s o f G a llipoli and Trieste sold. Five hundred bags of Saltpetre sold st 375. to 395. 6d., and 50 bags inferior at 335. per c wt. 1 Thirty bags of Sicily Sn umac so ld a t 14 s. to 14s. 3 d., a° 400 bags of Verona, the price not made known. No sal e : of Rice. Two hundr e d b r l s . o f A mer i can T ar so ld 6. Hs. 3d. per brl. ; and 230 brls. of Turpentine at 111. per cwt. Some of the late arrivals of American. Cotton have bee s brought upon the market freely this week, and the price° are id. per lb. lower, yet fair business has been done; Brazil Cotton is heavy of sale. The business has consisted of about 6,900 bags of Upland Georgia at 6kd. to 7i 4 " 1 small lot barely merchantable at 6d. ; 3,750 New O rleans at 6id. to 71-d. ; 2,050 Alabama at bid. to'7d. ; 70 Sea Island at 13d. to 21d. ; 550 Pernambuco at 71d. to Sd. 850 Bahia at 71d. to lid. ; 750 Marnhain at 73-d. to lid, ; 40 Demerara at 71d. ; 150 Egyptian at sid. to 9id. ; 6° Barbadoes at 6fd. to 7d. ; and 340 Surat at 4i 1, to sd. making a total of about 15,500 bag.. Imported this week, in vessels from Calcutta 1, Maur"' tius 1, Demerara 1, West Indies 4, Campearhy 1, Peru 1, Palermo 1, Brazil 5, New Orleans 3, and United Stites 7' Cotton, 16,717 bags ; Sugar, 23 cases, 1,483 casks , 7,740 bags ; Molasses, 145 casks ; Rum, 216 ditto; Coffee, 572 tcs., 240 bags ; Pepper, 150 bags ; Ginger , 153 ditto ; Safflower, 25 bales ; Munjeet, 409 bags' Turmeric, 236 ditto ; Tincal, 53 boxes ;Rice, 1,126 bag e ; Saltpetre, 1,523 ditto ; Lo gwoo d, 185 tons; F ust i c , 17 : ditto ; Nicaragua Wood, 52 ditto; Peruvian Bark, S i puns. ; Gum 157 casks ; Olive Oil, 96 ditto ; Shut 826 bags; Hides, 947 bales, 53 bags; Turpentine, 27° barrels ; and Tobacco, 20 hhds. ANOTHIER ACCOUNT. Since the opening of the present month the goers' transactions in business have been upon so very limited . 11 scale as scarcely to make it necessary to report them. 141 , 1 still continues to lee the promi nen t f eature o f t h e moll. and I have this week little t o a dd b eyon d t h e a'teratioa prices which have taken place. The import of t ur pentin e continues unusually small, but it nevertheless apPssfil quite adequate to the wants o f t h e tra d e, their purchases for the month having scarcely exceeded 1, 500 brls. The sales this week ar e 220 b r l s . o f fi ne quality $' 111. 6d. per cwt. In Tar a small parcel of 200 br ie ' American (warehoused) at I Is. Sd. is the only busine'l done. Rosin is steady at ss. 6(1., and in fair demanl' The sales of Pot Ashes do not exceed 100 brls. at 345. 6 °' and about 70 brls. Pearl at 395., part Montreal and 1) 10 New York, just imported. A small parcel of fine 'ruses ° Brimstone Las brought 6/. 15s. per ton from the quay' No sales of Sicilian reported. In Quercitron Bark no sale; have lately been effected. There has appeared more is' quiry for Logwood. The sales are 30 tons Campeachy s / 71. 17s. 6d. to Si. 2s. 6d., and a parcel of 220 tons, th e exact price not stated, but supposed to be 71. 15 1 1 6d. ; also 50 tons Honduras, at 61. 101., an, 70 tons Jamaica a t 61. ss. to 61. 108. pe r ton. In Fustic little done ; 45 tons Spanish at 41 ss. t o 41. I ls. and 10 tone Cuba at 8/. 10s., are the only el le4 reported. Of Nicaragua Wood 12 tons Lima at 221. to 221. 10s., and of B irwood 20 tons Angola at 10/. 11' per ton. S a ltp e t re f u ll y supports i ts price ; about 5° bags have sold at 375. to 395. 6d., and a parcel very is o .. ferior at 335. per cwt. Shurnac is offering lower ;40 bags Verona have sold at 101. and small parcels of Sicily bring 14s. per cwt. In Malaga nothing doing. 180 bate e good Turkey Madder Roots have been sold at 595. In n French nothing done. Good red Sicily Argols are wanted, 19 casks have brought 395., and a few white Florence 49e. per cwt.-There is more inquiry for East India Safflower,i) and 33 b a l es o f good quality sold at 71. 59. Pe r h cwt.-Caracca Indigo is in request, but the inquiry iS t East India is limited.-Valonia continues very dub of 10' -Twenty brls. and S tierces American red Cover-seed' just imported, have brought 70s. to 841. per cwt.-r e , only sowing Flax-se e d l e f t h ere i s a parcel o f 50 bads. on' Dutch, for which 655. per hhd. is asked. The sales of Olive Oil continue trifling, at reduced Vl' tations. For Linseed Oil a small advance is obtaig' Rape Oil dull. The import of 60 tuns new pale S ea l Oil , which arrived here last week, has been nearly all sold O 25/. to 251. 10s. per tun from th e quay. The stoc k ef Cod Oil being light, is held steadily at 23/. los. p er tire' Some considerable business has been done in Palm Oil, s / 1141. 10s. to 251. per tun. Oil of Turpentine steady. In, Rice nothing whatever h as b een d one . Th e very small stock of Hides in the importers' hands necessarily limit' s the transactions in this article ; 950 dry salted Brazil 01 and Cow at 6d., and 1,600 dry Buenos Ayres Horse 3/ 9s. 6d. each, are the only sales reported. Some littl e business has been done in St. Petersburgh clean Hemp at 44/. ; a parcel of prime long Hungarian brought 39/. 101. to 391. 155., and short ditto 261. 10e. to 261. 151. per ton by auction ; other descriptions remain dull of sale' The business in Tallow continues trifling, but a solidi improvement in price has been realised, Yellow Caudle having brought 365. 3d. per cwt.-Archangel Mats ar e dull of sale at 121. per dozen. WOOL MARKET, WAKEFIELD. —We un' derstand that, during the present week, there has been an increased demand for several descriptions of wool at Wakefield. In the lower sorts of short wools, such as ar e used in the manufacture of blankets, considerable sale° have been made, arid at rather improved prices. Thu demand fur long wool has not improved, and we canno t note any particular amendment in the price of this article' The stock of wool in the hands of the staplers is, we Ar e informed, less than has been the case fur some time past..." . Halifax Chronicle. BIRTHS. On the 30th ult. in Bedford-street, Covent-garde: l o Mrs. E. S. Meyer, of a son. On the 28th ult. Mrs. Thomas Boys, of Pall-mAI , of a son. On the 20th ult. at Brixton, the lady of C. L. Nett' ton, Esq., of a daughter. On the 31st ult. at Friar-place, near Acton, the lad/ of C. B. Curtis, Esq., of a daughter. On the 28th oh. at Islip-house, Northamptonshire, the lady of the lite Rev. A. Belcher, of a son. On the 28th ult. at Cheltenham, the lady of Capt. J• Foy, late of the 50th Regiment, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 29th ult. at Tor Church, Devon, Major-Gen , Sir C. Phillips, of Lyndhurst, Hants, to Harriet, relici of the Rev. Richard Strode, of Newnham Park, Devon, daughter of the late Sir Frederick and sister of Sir Job° Leman Rogers, Bart., of Blachford, in the muse county. On the 4th ult. at Malta, Robt. Clement Sconce, Esq. , to Mrs. H. Parlby. On the 29th ult. at St. Pancras New Church, Mr. 1 1, Coxeter, to Miss Harriet I3ridger, eldest daughter of Mr. John Bridger, of the Bedford Arms Tavern,' Charlotte' street, Bedford-square. DIED On the 28th ult. at Coitessey-hall, the seat of her son', in-law, the Right Hon. L or d St a ff or d, i n t h e 83d year o f her age, Mrs. Sulyard, relict of the late E. Sulyard, of thughley-park, Suffolk. On the 27th ult at the Warden's, Merton College, Ox' ford, Mrs. Dewar, relict of Major-General Dewar, of 6. 1 ' stone, Fifeshire. On the 29th ult. in Portman-place, Edgware-road, Bones, Esq., in his 58th year. On the '29th ult. at East Acton, P. A. Ourry, Esq• , late of the Ordnance-office. On the 29th ult. at Clapham-rise, P. L. Bortier, Esq of Brussels. On the 28th ult. at Camberwell, Mr. H. Willoughby/ aged 18. On the 28th ult. at Cloudesley-terrace, Islington, 0' Fox, Esq., late of Demenira, aged 54. On the 28th ult. Laura, daughter of N. S. Chnuncl' Esq., of Bryanstone-square. On the 29th ult Martha, the wife of J. French, Esq'' of Wanstead, Essex, aged 61. On the 29th ult. at W.llthamstow, Mrs. Tuakey, is her 80th year. PRINTED AND PUBLISIIED BY URD 0 YOUNG, AT THE SUN OFFICE ; 112, STRAND ; LONDON. , ,- r 1 T' Ta it 'Native Tw o Ands To b e Nptfi Ju ne InontE San tender Tlai °flies Eat and bi and tl his ............. 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