The Sun. — London, England, 1833-08-26 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS Haring already c a ll e d p u bli c at t ent i on to th e 11, of which notice for next session has been liven by the Chancellor, "to provide for the better government of certain boroughs when in corporated," little more remains to be said, but that as nothing can exceed the value of the o bject proposed by this important measure, so it would be difficult to imagine any means more judiciously adapted to its fulfilment than the detailed provisions of the Bill itself, of which the printed copy is before us. The principles of it are those which we have already stated. The power of incorporation by charter remains, of course, with the Crown ; and this measure goes to prescribe the mode in which the corpo ration under such charter shall be constituted. Each corporation is to be denominated " the mayor, aldermen, common council, and burgesses, of the borough of," &c. The 101. electors are to be the burgesses, and on them, as a substratum, is the whole corporate edifice to be erected. The limits of the corporate borough are to be those assigned to it as a body represented in Parliament. Each borough is to be divided into wards ; each ward is to choose a certain portion of the common council of the bdrough : no mayor, alderman, or common coun cil-man of any such borough, shall be eligible for such respective offices, unless he be a resi dent burgess, and possessed of property to the amount of 1,0001. The common councilmen are to be elected triennially by the burgesses of their several wards, and occasionally vacancies are to be filled up by fresh elections ; the Al dermen of the borough are to be elected by the common council out of its own body, and arc to serve for life,—a provision which, in our opi nion, might be much improved by rendering them liable to a new election triennially, like the common council. The Mayor is to be an nually chosen out of the body of Aldermen by the common council. The parties elected mayors or aldermen must serve underaflne. The Mayor is to be a justice of the peace for the borough and the county ; the Aldermen are to be justices for the borough only. A n important provision of this Bill, and one which must tend to insure respectability in their pecuniary circumstances, as well as in their conduct, of the persons chosen common councilmen, aldermen, and mayors, is that which constitutes bank ruptcy, insolvency, and a fortiori, felony, a forfeiture of their offices in the corporation. The Itecorder is to be appointed by the Crown, Stith a veto, we presume, reserved to the Cor poration, and is, like the Mayor, to be a magis trate for the county as well as for the borough. Detailed and effective provisions arc made by enforcing, by summary process, the accountabi lity of the subordinate officers of the Corpora tion. The powers in local acts now existing are to be transferred from the present Commis sioners to the Common Council of the borough. All existing contracts, debts, &c., are to be en forced and recovered. The peace of the little t.'.ommunity is to be provided for by the institu tion of a Police Committee, consisting of Mayor, Aldermen, and 20 Common Councihnen, who are to appoint a police force for the borough ; and the police constables are to act for the county as well as for the borough. All regulations for the government of the police are to emanate from the Police Committee. The expenses of the police force are to be subject to the approbation of the Committee. The magistrates of the ha rough have the additional power of appointing annually a certain number of special constables, to act in case of need, subject to penalties for refusal. It would be impossible here to go through all the details of this well framed and workmanlike measure, than which one more pre cise, considerate, or effective to its declared purposes, we have seldom, if ever, seen. The recognized principles and scientific analogies which arc observed throughout its several clauses, in connexion with the whole and with each other, must impress every one with respect for the Constitutional spirit in which the Bill has been brought forward by Lord Brougham, and cannot fail to supply sound guides and examples from which to construct the reforms of those Corporations which already exist, but against which the whole country cries out, as having un dergone for years the grossest perversion of their original uses.— Times. The recent motion of Colonel Williams for the introduction of a Bill to repeal the "Act for the better regulating the future Marriages of the Royal Family," passed in the 12th year of the reign of George 11., opens an important subject of national discussion, and has excited consider able interest. The Solicitor-General noticed a vulgar error on the construction of this Act, in its supposed interdiction of the intermarriage of members of the Royal Family with natives of these realms, and the consequent coercion of their matrimonial alliance with foreign royalty. Th e law, however, simply renders all marriages of descendants of the body of George 11. (other than the issue of princesses married into foreign _ families) void, if solemnized without the previous consent of the King, signified under the Great Seal. But the Act iu question also provides that any descendants, above the age of twenty live, may, after twelve months' notice to the King's Privy Council, contract and solemnize marriage without the consent of the Crown, unless • both Houses of Parliament, before the ex piration of the year, expressly declare their dis approbation of such intended marriage. We need not now refer t o th e o bj ec t o f t hi s enactment , t h e political circumstances under which it passed, or the well-known controversial discussions on the an coitenatlipßriirlictiipsilte o A f Royal . Assent, formerly necessary ristroeratic and Royal marriages. The time, is subject mayhowever,beeom approaching when this portance; but great interest and im dweebaafeereoef with Lord Althorp that its legislative at in the cl ose o f t hi s Ses sion, would h ave been convenient an d a b sur d. W si e apprehend th at the mpl e repeal of the Act of George 11., as apparently contemplated by Colonel Williams, would still more display th e n iic l form o f ..inconveniences" of the Mon m ar o c a l a Government. We do not to question the, expediency of abolishin g the practical mo nopoly enjoyed by the Contin enta l Protestant dynasties of intermarryin g with t h e Royal F mily of Great Britain. There might be " Holy Alliances" which would cause no little " a,gita lion" among the Reformers of these realms, and a British Queen committing matrimony with a French Catholic Prince would vastly shock the political and religious notions of the Tory Con servatives, though the people might approve the libertine connection. If the subject is revived next Session, we hope that it will be dispassio nately discussed, without party feeling, or any unnecessary r e trospective , allusion to failings of members of the Royal Family, common to hu man nature in all clases of society. the meanwhile, it must be a great satisfaction to the country to observe the laudable and wise education of the heir presumptive of the throne, by her parent the Duchess of Kent. Her Royal Highness had been unjustly classed with certain other " Illustrious Females," who contend against the spirit of the times, with much the same chance of success as King Canute when lie opposed himself to the flow of the tides. The Duchess of Kent, however, is evidently aware that in the present age the only real titles or safe tenure of her daughter to the British Throne are the affec tions of the people, and a respect for their con stitutional rights. We have extracted in another column, the recent answer of her Royal High ness to an a dd ress o f t h e i n h a bit an t s of Torquay on the anniversary of the accession of the House of Brunswick. In reply to the loyal well-wishes of the people of Torquay for the Princess Vic toria, the Duchess of Kent, with true nobility and wisdom, answers—" On this particular day I feel myself called on to observe, that the Princess, communicating as she does with all classes of society, is deeply conscious of the sacred impor tance of the Trust which nay be eventually committed to her charge, and fully impressed with the conviction, that to be the Constitu tional Sovereign of a Free People is the most exalted object of human ambition." These patriotic sentiments ought to be known to the country, and will afford a grateful hope for the future. If the Princess Victoria is educated in these sound political principles, adorned with the private virtues of her sex, she may preserve the monarchical form of government which, in other countries, exhibits no very promising aspect. The Duchess of Kent, by such pa triotic instruction of her Royal daughter, dis plays a distinctive knowledge of the people, and a just observation of the political necessities of this country. We shall hereafter advert to the present law which regulates our Royal marriages, and to such alteration as time and circumstances have rendered expedient.—Morning Chronicle. The extraordinary and disgraceful circum stances attending the last election for the borough of Warwick, and the honourable and able report of the recent Select Committee appointed speci fically to investigate all the circumstances of the foul corruption and scandalous mal-influence of the agents of Lord Warwick and Sir Charles Greville, are fresh in the recollection of the country. It will be recollected that the first Committee unseated Sir Charles Greville for bribery, and prematurely closed its inquiry—the legality of the return being the simple question before an election committee. On the special report of that Committee, the Reformed House of Commons honestly directed a further and full inquiry into all the allegations of the petition of the independent electors. At the period of the first Committee, in May, the Earl of Warwick was in London voting in all the divisions of the Upper House with his political ally the Duke of Wellington. He was necessarily affected with notice of the criminatory allegations of the peti tion against him, and of the nomination of the second Committee appointed to consider them. He leaves England for the Continent pending this serious trial of his personal and political conduct ! We will not comment on the fact of his Lordship's extraordinary ab sence at a time when most Commoners, espe cially if innocent of charges preferred against them, would have faced their trial. Tll e report of the second Committee is made in due course, containing the most grave and penal political in dictment of the " Noble" Earl. The Ministry, after the presentation of the report, publicly state, that as responsibleadvisers of the Crown, they have written to Lord Warwick, requiring explanation from him as the Lord Lieutenant of his county and the recorder of the borough of Warwick. No answer of his Lordship has yet been made known to Parliament, and it is there fore presumed that no reply has been made by the Earl of Warwick to the communication of Ministers. In the meanwhile, and as the Com mittee evidence is not wholly printed, Mr. Peter advisedly postponed his motion for an address to the Crown to remove the Earl of Warwick from the Lord Lieutenancy. After this postponement, the Earl of Warwick reap pears, and takes his seat in the House of Lords; he does .not, however, condescend to give any public explanation of the conduct imputed to him by the Select Committee of the House of Commons. But in the Court Circular of the Levee of Friday last, we find that " his Majesty gave audience to the Earl of Warwick." On Saturday last some personal and injudicious friend of his Lordship, probably in consultation with the Noble Earl, transmitted the following fulsome and irrelevant explanation" to our contemporary The Globe " We hear that Lord Warwick has returned to England, and was present iu the House of Lords on Thursday even ing. The Noble Earl was no sooner informed of the decision of the Warwick Election Committee, and the charges made against him, than he set off for this coun try, leaving Lady Warwick, we believe, in Switzerland. This step became the Noble Earl, who has ever been considered a man of unimpeachable character for honour and integrity. We wish it niay turn out that the illegal and scandalous interference of the Noble Lord's agents in the election for Warwick, of which the Parliament and the public so justly complain, has been made without his authority, and that he may be able to prove this to the satisfaction of his friends. Lord Warwick was bred a Tory, and bas always manifested a regard for his Tory connections; but it is perfectly notorious, that whatever political influence he possessed was never employed to advance his personal or family interests. His bro ther, 6ir Charles Greville, the late M.P. for War wick, obtained every step of promotion in the army by purchase, except the last, and that was given him sinus the present Ministry came into office. He en tered the army very early in life, was aide-de-camp to the 'Marquis of Wellesley in India, and thence accom panied Sir David Baird, in his expedition through the Red Sea to Egypt. He was at Walcheren, and afterwards distinguished himself in the peninsular war. He had a brigade in the battle of Salamanca—a command at the siege of St. Sebastian...and was entrusted by the Duke of Wellington with the command of 4,000 men upon the ' heights of Montmartre, when the Allies were in the occupation of Paris. Yet never was Lord Warwick's in. lluence or his own employed to gain for him a regiment all the while the Tories were in power. Hence it may be inferred, that if Lord Warwick sought political power, it was not for selfish purposes ; and we hope it may turn out that the agents of the Noble Earl, and not himself, are the parties who deserve the reproach which has been heaped on the owner of Warwick Castle." We will make no remark on the absurd and ungenerous attempt, in this piece of sticking plaster and gold-beater's skin, to excuse the " patron of the borough," at the expense of his foolish local partisans, because it will impose on no man of common sense. For whose " inte rest" was it that the shameful scenes in the Warwick election were acted ? Who, by the os:et of Lord Warwick's money, and the illegi titnate use of his rateable property, was falsely returned as the representative of the coerced, bribed, and opp ressedeommitte burgesses specifically assigns ? The last Re port of the Selec t that Lord Warwick, uticonstitu t i ona lly, an d i n violation o f the standi ng orders o of Parliament, bodies of the t enantry,' supplied by hi s steward 3, Clerk, bb i t large t s fo r corr u p t li re tO the Town Os parp es of the election—that non resident labourers of L or d Warwick, f or d a y s perpetrated the most scandalous rio.ts_thath Lordship's agent, Brown, systemattcally created with the Noble Earl a property numerous fictitious and fraudulent votes—that this notable Steward was subsequently missing, and did not appear before the first or second Committee—that the cost of all the bribery, treating, and expense of the hired fighting men was provided from the funds of Lord Warwick ; and further, the evi dence substantiated that Lord Warwick's pri vate purse had always supplied funds for his nominee on former elections ! Will any sane man believe that the Principal (Lord 'Warwick) was ignorant of the acts of his agents and poli tical partizans ? Could such transactions of his steward, agents, and dependants have passed under his very nose and Castle walls unknown to and unsanctioned by the Lord Lieutenant and Recorder of the borough ? Dare his Lordship aver that he was ignorant of these acts for his interest, performed by his means, anal to obtain the return of Sir Charles Grevillc to Parliament ? If he have the te merity to do so, the country will scoff at his insult of its understanding. Lady War wick, and her son, Lord Monson, in their unlucky purchase of Gatton, well understand the nature of "borough property!" We do not know what was the object or result of the audi ence of the Earl of Warwick with the King on Friday, but it is the public opinion, expressed by all parties, that the most decent, discreet, and politic course of Lord Warwick will be the im mediate resignation of his municipal offices, from which a Reformed Parliament and an indignant people will otherwise assuredly remove him. Oa the appearance of the Committee evidence, in a few days, we assure his Lordship and his politi cal puppets that every fact of this scandalous cast of election corruption shall be known from .Thhif o'Groats to the Land's End. The British Consti tution declares that elections shall be pure and free, and the time is past when the scenes and debauchery of the last Warwick election can be transacted with impunity. Lord Warwick's quiet retirement will be some atonement for political offences originating in and perpetrated for his interest, and Mr. Peter would be thereby re lieved from the trouble of his notices of motion standing in the Commons' votes of Tuesday for " early next Session."— Morning Chronicle. It is amusing enough to hear an evening Treasury Paper, which has solemnly announced an " immediate settlement" of the Belgico- Dutch question a hundred times, now indulging in such agreeable reflections as the following, upon the prospect of an indefinite non-settle ment of that question :—" As there is a kind of perpetual truce between Belgium and Hol land, the Dutch King may gratify his disposition to delay to the last possible moment the final settlement between the two countries, without any very great loss to any other persons than his own subjects. All the great points being settled, no one cares about the petty details, and his Majesty may be allowed to take his time until those who have to defray the expense shall think it worth while to urge him to brin g ma tt ers to a close." N ow we take leave to say there can be no such thing as a perpetual truce. The ex pression is a solecism. A truce is but the sus pension of hostilities between belligerent powers. It is not, like a peace, the cessation of hostili ties. A peace may be perpetual, but a truce cannot. It must end either in a renewal of active war, or the ratification of a peace. A truce may- be for an indlfinite period, and such is the truce between Holland and Belgium. To say it is perpetual, is to say it never can end i!s a peace ; and yet the diplomatists of the Confe rence told the world that the truce was wend into with the view of finally arranging a firm and lasting peace. But th en t h e d e l ay on l y in jures the King of Holland's subjects, says our ingenious contemporary. Does it so ? There is optimism, at least, in this way of looking at the subject, if it have nothing else to recom mend it. It would be well if the Belgians could be brought to look at it in the sant' They, on the contrary, believe that the delay of the settlement of the question, in which they are so deeply interested, is producing to diem great and probably irremedial embarassment. Their trade languishes—their system of govern ment is merely provisional, and their indepen dence is a mockery. But then " the great points are settled." Are they ? Which of the great points ? Not the greatest, which is the recognition of the Government of Belgium by Holland. That is certainly not settled ; nor is the next great point—the acceptance by Hol land of the treaty dictated by the Conferenc e . Nor is the next great point—the claim of the Belgians to the free navigation of the Scheldt. Whatever relaxation of the strict claim of sove reignty, in that respect, Holland admits at present, she has expressly reserved the right for future consideration ; nor is the great point settled relative to the evacuation of Belgium by the Dutch troops. It was, indeed, for the osten sible purpose of settling this point that the iniquitous Anglo-Gallic Convention was en tered into, which let! to the "amicable slaugh ter" of Antwerp, and enabled Louis Philippe to prove pretty clearly to the world that the independence of Belgium was but the " inde pendence " of' a French province. But the Anglo-Gallic Convention did not fulfil its avowed object of clearing the Belgic territory of Dutch troops ; for the flag of Holland still floati over the Belgic forts Lillo and Liefkenshoek; and there, upon Belgic fortifications, Dutch cannon still command the Scheldt. So . much , for the actual f ree d om o f th at r i ver . Th e s i mp l e truth is that, after three years of protocol nego tiations, the great points involved in the Belgic°. Dutch question are still as unsettled as ever. The stupid and mischievous embargo of Lord Palmerston achieved nothing except wanton injury to the merchants of Great Britain and Holland—the injury being greater to the British commercial interests than the Dutch. Our Government, that unjustly laid it on, had the mortification of being obliged to take it off, without having advanced a step nearer the settlement of the main question than they were before. But we are told that King William, in the whole of this affair, acts as he does because he makes his own will the supreme law, and does not consult the wishes of his subjects. So far is this from being the truth that the most unequivocal demonstrations have been afforded by the Dutch people all along that they sympathise with the feelings which animate their King in the course of uncompromising re sistance to concession which he has pursued. We do not say whether the King and hie people are light or wrong—whether they act justly or unjustly—we only speak of the fact that they go together. They make common cause—they mutually support each other's determination not to concede what France and England have demanded of them. Never was there a struggle that partook more of the character of a national' One. Never was there an assertion more con trary to fact than that which would represent it the mere result of personal obstinacy on the part of the King of Holland. Nor should we have noticed -the nonsense just now put forth upon this subject if it did not acquire some factitious importance by being supposed to emanate from the Foreign-office, to mystify the public mind during the stoppage of the machinery of proto cols. Since writing the above we find by the Court Circular that a meeting of the Conference has taken place, but, judging the future by the past, we cannot say that we are prepared for any conclusive result, notwithstanding that the Mi nisters of the different Powers have resumed their functions. It will be time enough for us to alter our opinion when they shall have suc ceeded in completing their task.—Morning Herald. A Morning Contemporary doubts the circum stance of General Bourmont being at Santarem on the 12th, alleging that he could only have arrived at Coimbra on that day. Imperfect as are the accounts from the interior of Portugal, there are, nevertheless, some leading facts known, which enable us to judge pretty correctly ofthc strength as well as the progress of the troops ad vancing upon Lisbon. Authentic accounts from the Douro are in town, stating that on the morning of the 2d 5,000 picked men, under General Almer, took the Coimbra road in the most efficient state. The distance from Grijo, the point of departure, to Santarem is only 37 leagues, or, calculating at four miles per league, 148 miles. What ! and could not that distance be performed in a week ? With forced marches and an enthusiastic population to aid them, this . first division must have reached Santarem on the Bth or 9th. It was followed by more troops from the southern bank on the 3(1, 4th, sth, and >6th, when Bourmont most probably started ; but it does not follow that he lingered on the road to superintend the march. It is in deed most probable that he journeyed on to the Duke de Cadaval's position as fast as he could, and there from the 10th on wards the second portion of the marching troops would begin to arrive. As regards the force destined to attack Lisbon we have every reason to believe that our letter published on Saturday was substantially correct. To show the very imperfect idea which our Morning Contemporary has of the rapidity of marches in cases of emer gency, we beg leave to remind him that the advanced guard-and cavalry of the army under Sir Arthur Wellesley left Coimbra May 7, 1809, on their way to Oporto, and halted the whole of the Bth, in order to afford time for Marshal Beresford, with his Portuguese corps, to arrive upon the Upper Douro. The British Com mander, nevertheless, reached and took Oporto by the 12th. His dispatch, detailing the parti culars, bears that date, and vet the distance from Coimbra is estimated at twenty leagues, and the British confessedly do not bear the road so well as the Portuguese. We do not on the present occasion expect the same rapidity of movement, nor do we anticipate the same quick results ; but we will say, as we have s•tid before, adkuc sub judicc fis est, so that before Don Pedro's Go vernment, for in this stage of the affair it would be hypocrisy to call it Donna Maria's, takes root in Lisbon, there must be a little more fighting. The national spirit in Portugal is evidently rising, and if we had no other proof of the fact we could confidently appeal to the Lisbon letter insetted in another part of our paper.—Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. On Saturday a fisherman was charged with having fished with an unlawful net. One of the water bailiff's men proved that the net was small enough to catch the smallest f►sh, and, of course, calculated to do great mishief in the river. The prioner never would have thought of using such a net, if he had not been entreated to catch a few gudgeons for a young lady who was bad with the cholera morbus.—(A. laugh.) Mr. Hamm was afraid that such an excuse would not do, although it was one which might affect the sympathies of a great many. Fisherman—l assure you, Sir, that I intended to stop the moment I had caught the gudgeons. The line was remitted, and the net, instead of being condemned, was ordered to be detained till March, when it will be a lawful net, and be given up to the defendant. MARLE OR 0 UGH-STREET. A little bald-headed old man, of filthy and ragged appearance, described in the police sheet as " Dr. Arthur Balburnie, of Hampstead," was brought before Mr. DYER on Saturday, on a violent suspicion of having incurred the penalties of a " dis orderly," through a too ample indulgence in his afternoon potations. The policeman who took the Doctor into custody found him lying at a late hour on the step of a door in Regent -street, and having with some difficulty roused him from his slumber, desired him to get up, and move on. The Doctor stoutly resisted this mandate, and insisted upon his right to rest himself until he had recovered a little from the fatigue he had undergone during his professional peregrina tions. The police►nan, suspecting from the fumes of gin and tobacco which exhaled from the Doctor's per son, that it was not fatigue alone which incapaci tated him from proceeding, dropped a hint of his opinion,whereupon the Doctor became so uproarious that it was found necessary to convey him to the station-house. Sir," inquired Mr. DYER, "_what are you Me, Sir," said the defendant, with an important air," I'm a physician; I dispenses advice graciously to all classes of his Britannic Majesty's subjects." " Do you mean to say," said the Magistrate, " that you were educated for the medical profes sion ? Doctor—Oh, dear, no ; not exactly educated in the regular way. My system is entirely original, and all invented out of my own head. " What class of disease do you profess to cure ?" said the Magistrate. Oh, responded the doctor, I'm quite as good at one sort of disease as another. I cures everybody as comes to me for advice, and though I sholdn't say it, as a professional man, none of my patients were ever hrard to complain after they bad been under my hands for a short time. The fact is, that the papers say the cholera morbus is very much about London now, and as I cures it effectu ally with my infalliable pills, I came to town on purpose that people may come to me. Look here (holding up a greasy bundle), this is full of my prescriptions, all ready made up ; and I'll assure you them as takes 'em never need be afraid of dying of cholera morbus. I left my practice at Hampstead, where I've lived a long time, and cured vast num-' hers of patients, and if y ou se n d you 'll fi n d if my reputation is not well known. I should have thought," said Mr. DYER, "that no class of persons would have been gulls enough to resort to you." " Gulls, Sir!" said the doctor, warmly ; "my patients gulls ? No, Sir, I'm none of your quacks, like some as I could name, as rides in their car riage., and gets their thousands a-year. I'm a sci entific inan, and t o g i ve you a proof that I know s omething about medicine, I'll give your worship a prescription of my own making." " For what complaint ?" inquired the Magistrate. wh y , if your worship happens to get drunk any n ight, just get this p rescr i pt i on ma d e up , an d I know by ex per i ence it will cure you . ( H ere t h e doctor detailed the Ingredients of his specific, de scribing at the same time the effects, which, how ever, were of a nature too ludicrous for description.) Mr. DYER could not avoid 'smiling, and then inquired what the doctor did when a patient came to him for advice. " I write's 'em recipes," said the Doctor. Mr. DYER—And what fee do you ask ? Doctor— I don't ask a poor man far money, only for a little of something to eat and a drop of something to drink. I sees all my patients, for the sake of con venience, either at the George the Fourth public house, or at the Nag's Head, at Hampstead. If I may judge from your appearance, said Mr. DYER, you take your fee oftener in drink than in food, and I suppose you and your patients have oc casion frequently to experience the efficacy of the prescription you have just repeated ?—" Upon my reputation as a physician," said Dr. Balburnie, " I never allows my patients to get drunk. No. After I think we've had enough together, I make my patients stand up and do the balance' step. — (Here the Doctor illustrated his meaning by first holding up one leg as high as he could, and then the ether.) If they can do it, all well and good— if they can't, why nothing can ever prevail on me to let them order in another pint."—(Laughter.) The Doctor, finding the magistrate disposed to listen, here entered into the details of a project which he said he had laid before Govern ment for the erection of steam-engines at Hamp stead to furnish the metropolis with a supply of pure water, and also a second project regarding the transmission of pure air, which, he said, was for the purpose of restoring people who had been poisoned and suffocated by the bad air of the metropolis. In consideration of the important services which were to be rendered to mankind, the magistrate allowed the defendant to go at large. Dr. Arthur Balburnie bowed his thanks, and set off with great expedition to visit, as he said, his patients at Hampsteftl. James O'Donnell, a hoy apparently about 12 years of age, William Hill, his father-in-law, and Mary Hill, his mother, were brought before 11Ir . DYER, on a charge of felony. The boy was of very bad character, and his pa rents consequently refused to support him. He went to his mother, a few days back, to ask her for some food, and she told him she would give him none, adding, angrily, that he might go and thieve to procure bread. The boy took her at her word, and actually went to a cellar, and stole a number of articles belonging to his parents, which he took to his aunt, and requested her to pawn for him, telling her at the same time that his mother had given the property to him to raise money for him to live upon, as she had no money herself to give him. The aunt-, doubting the truth of the boy's statement, made some inquiries; and, on the truth appearing, the boy was given into the custody of Hobbs and Hine, two of the C division policemen. The boy imme diately informed the policemen that the articles he had taken from his mother had been stolen by his father-in-law, who was a waiter at the Orleans Ho tel, jermyti-street ; and if the policemen searched his mother's room, they would find other property, which had likewise been stolen. The policemen accordingly made the search, and they did find a quantity of property, which appeared to have been stolen from the hotel. In consequgice of the boy's communication, the father-in-law was taken into custody for having stolen the goods, and the mother for having received them. Mr. DYER directed all the prisoners to be re. mantled, for the purpose of obtaining further evi. dence in this singular business. MARYLEB ONE. A very respectable-looking middle-aged man, who gave his name Richard Jackson, was brought before Mr. HOSKINS on Saturday, charged with having desperately attempted to put an end to his ex istence. Mr. HOSKINS, in the most feeling language, pointed out to the prisoner the heinous nature of the crime which he had attempted, and after an ad monition as to his future conduct, discharged him. QUEEN-SQUARE. On Saturday a coal-heaver, named Thonzug, was charged with having assaulted the police constables at Astley's Theatre. It appeared that the defendant, when he got in toxicated, which was not seldom, invariably went to Asley's Theatre, and no place would suit him but admission to the dress-boxes. This was the cane on Friday, when he assaulted the policemen. The defendant said, " I am a friend to the dratntners, and I loves the dratumers." He liked the boxes best, for he could see better, and attend to the drammer; and, .besides, he could see the bosses better; and the police would not let him in, but threatened to tie a stone round his neck and throw him over Westminster-bridge. This was a kind of drammer he did not expect to Lind at Mr. Astley's, and he only resisted. The patron of the drama was fined ss. for being drunk, and ordered to find bail to keep the peace for three twaths. WORSHIP-STREET. William Rogers, a young fellow of 17, who is, however, married, was charged on Saturday with having violated Eliza Pendleton, a motherless girl, aged 13. The prisoner, who lived in the next house to her in George-yard, Golden-lane, called her into his room while his wife was out, and asked her to light his fire, but upon her proceeding to do so he laid hold of her, and committed the offence he was charged with.—Remanded. His wife, three or four years older than himself, inquired with much sim plicity " if it was likely to go hard with her hus band." LAMBETH-STREET. On Saturday a tall Jack tar, well rigged, and about three sheets in the wind, stalked into the office, and having doffed his straw castor, exhibited a weather-beaten face, which was still bleeding from a recent and violent blow. He intimated that he wanted to make a complaint to their honours, and was desired to say on. Jack gave his quid an extra turn, and commenced :—‘, I am a sailor, d'ye see, and am just come home. When I landed I went to look for my wife. She's a bad girl, ye'r honours, and not like me, for I am a t rue bl ue . Well, ere d'ye think I found her ? Shiver my. timbers (giving his trousers a hitch, and spitting on the floor) if I didn't catch her at another man's house, and he had been keeping her for me, as he said. When ruy wife saw me I axed bow she was, and she says to rne,flays tiLe, Lord, is that you ? \Veil, I thought I knowed your face.'—(Laugh ter.) Well, your honours, I turned in there 'cause the man said he'd do for me, and my wife too, quite cheap. Yesterday I was paid, but I'm get ting afore my story. (Here he made a dead stop and scratched his head. Mr. WALKER told him to try back.) He resumed, and said that his landlord took a clean smockfrock out of his bag and wore it without his permission, and for that he told him he had a— sight of impudence; upon which, said Jack, he opened :a broadside upon me and made a cut at my fore-top. A lobster was by, and I told him to take the man into custody, but he said he would not. Won't you, says 1, then I'll take you my hearty'— (Laughter.) But he wouldn't stand that, se he made me cut and run, and swore the other chap was in the right." Mr. WALKER—If the policeman said you were wrong, no doubt you were ; so go away, and come again when you are sober. Jack smacked his hat upon his bead, turned his quid, spat upon the floor, gave his trousers a hitch, and looking round the office as he swaggered out, muttered, " A fine ship to be sure, but a rum quarter-deck." UNION-lIALL A simple-looking countryman complained that a woman whom he had lately married, under the be lief that she was a maiden, had brou g h t home five children, born at Devizes, in Wiltshire, an d " when he remonstrated, she g ave him a blo w on t h e nose. " to the autho rTrhiees at e said he must apply Not quite one hundred miles from the town of Ross, there ie the following notice stuck up in a bar ber's window :—" Young gentlemen drilled and taught to walk upright on most reasonabl e terms." SCOTLAND. - THE ANNUITY TAX—In our last the case of a respectable widow lady danger of imprisonment for this tax. stances attending her case arc as foi had publicly stated she received a _ ing, and some persons having called a t her absence about the tax, she was that she was to be instantly carried circumstance having got wind, her r) a vast crowd assembled at her door. was escorted home by several gentlem ( was the strong feeling the circurnst that Mr. Paul addressed a letter to that her peculiar circumstances entitled emption, and that he would prevent be tressed. The lady's agent also wrotl desiring that her name might not be any report of the " intended seizure unity tax." We are informed that not habitants' committee witnessed t his neither is it true that that body advised to resist the tax. The citizens seem no such advice, as yesterday another took place. Mr. Brown, Leith-street, the Calton-gaol ; and it is rather a sint this gentleman is a rnetx►ller of Mr. congregation, lately united to the Suite writing the above, we have been the agent for the clergy has nevei - horning or caption against any female merit of this tax; and that the 11, hension of the widow lady in Ha"' incorrect. A jew has been charged to to the Christian clergy, and we , undersil to comply.—Scotsind4 of Wednesday. JURY COURT, EnINBURG (From the Caledonian. Merck., Tuesday cane on for. trial, before the sident, Lord Mackenzie, and a special kill,' of Dame Elizab et h R ams a y , ~w i do w o f . 0 T. Ramsay, Bart., of Ba!main, pursuer,, Nairne, Esq., of Claremont, W.S., defencl There were 17 i s sues f or p ursue r, al!, defender. The issues charged defender ow! in the course of various proieedings 6110 view to annul certain tnarriage settlem' late Sir T. Ramsay, defamed the chew Ramsay. The issue for the defendet.ili jury whether, in the course of 14e, P."- founded on by the pursuer, he had not 0!' charge of his duty as law-agent for Sir T. The Dean of Faculty o p ene d t h e ca se f?l i , : p suer in a speech which occupied above in the delivery, being the longest in our rciti t and equalling in duration the celehrateckfYi;- the Lord Chancellor on the state ofthelaW land. He then proceeded to bring tom but the only witness examined on Duke of Gordon, when the Col tweeu seven and eight. Wednesday the Court met agi witnesses examined, were the Rig Grant, General Mackenzie, Major depositions were read by the Right, and several other individuals mo' ranks. The ease for the pursuer e four. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL addrel the defender in a speech of four The general scope of his defence Nairne had acted in the whel_e• rat line of his duty as an agent point he could have acted in no other traying the interest of his client. The LORD PRESIDENT charged his opinion, and that of his learni except the matter contained in th, and 11th issues, defender had a( entitled him ; but with regard to. certainly had, in their opinion, over& The jury retired about a quartet after an interval of about half an hoi a verdict finding for the pursuer ou 10th, 1 lth and 10th issues ; and I en the remaining eleven. The vet pulled by a declaration from the j' Itarnsay's character came out of ti pure and unsullied."• The damages were laid at 10,000, COUNTRY CORN MA. DURING LAST WEEK, Wheat. Barley. • 8. to s. .s. to s. 61 49 53 I 29 1 49 153 1 94 ,N 1 Per Quarter. Morpeth Penrith Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen.....,, Cowbridge—.—..—.—.. Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick —.al Per 8011. Barnardeastle..... 'F.2 0 Durham ...,,_.,.•••••, Richmond 0 Stockton Ii 4 8. to s. H. to S. 61 49 53 I 25 29 ,49 53 24 26 61 84 I 56 I 26 '52 58 f 22 26 s. d. s. d. • 8..1. s. d. 6 0 66, 2 6 2 9 66 70 2 9 30 80 89 46 50 70 93 36 46 80 86, 4 0 48 68 70, 3 0 34 90 11 0; 3 0 46 176 80 86 146 70 80 17 0 86 90 130 9 6 100 ..-, ._._.— 0 tiff 0 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKL'T.-"' 5 i• 0 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suabllt...—s. 4455. ~, 5.'31- 00 1 Lin. and Cam. .... .... .—s. 40s. "DOI , 0 , Yorkshire —s. 375. to cos. f olit White --s. 4.55. !, gi, d pi . .501! ---- Foreign, Red —s. 4:35. "5911 t ir, White s. 520. to o p Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 26, to ;l i p "15, ---- Lincolnshire 4ss. t° .sisi. 7,11 50 1.0 --- Yorkshire Wold , xs. t0 ...4 . , a g, -- Foreign Beans, Old •t4s. ti?. OP by New 33P. t u pS We Oats, Potato .20s. to.* A Poland —5. 190. t 6- `911:10 Friezland and Small ,.." nvilo Mealing Shelling tris to 275.0,ri il Malt 353. :395. fi n,f 3/. cii. V" , ,i 1 Rapeseed ,yi SCOTCH MARKETS. ,>•!#. Wheat. Barley • Oat*. -...___ ..-____ --...---..--.----- , .....• Aberdeen ... 40 48 "2 _:25 . 1 ‘ ,,6 20 1:. r s 9; ) , Berwick,,... 36 40 IS I:. .., Coldstream ~ 35 44 18 19 13 14 20 .06 Cupar ........... 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 il Dundee 50 60 30 33 20 2 5 30 0 0 ' Elgin ,_ . 40 50 24 26 16 20 23 ~ 1. Inverness.... 36 44 25 27 18 19 Vi.! 0: Kelso --- 36 40 19 21 13 14 17 41, Kirkaldy........ 48 61 23 29 16 20 il. F.., Perth ...... 50 56 23 26 20 22 ._"-`,„. ttr I* -- - The site of th.: measure varies thr...tign° - g,i • 40 EDINBURGH CORN MARKITI.-*, t We had a large supply of all descriptions °' and sales were Mery heavy. kes Se. I Wheat. I Barley. I Oats. 1 „,,, 04 , „. EDINBURGH COR . ARKI . :T. - 0 1 1 We had a large supply of ai scriptions Of .00 and sales were 'I ery heavy. Wheat. Barley. Jats. rtgri First 62s Od 29s Od 21s 8d 3 0,1 r, Oct ',.1 • -i r . Second sBs Od 28s Od 20s Od •, • : Third sos Od 26 Od 17$ 4d ; ~. tt PRICES OF PROVISIONS, itc il ,,r, 1. , Beef, per lb. - Os. 41d.t005.6d. Freshßutter;" o , n , (•B • Hutt0n.......,-.- 0 4 , 1 0 6 Salt Ditto - .. 4 •7 , 10 `,/ ; f Vea1..,,.........,,,,,. 0 6 0 8 Ditto - , per 6 , 6 , 0 0 LaPomrk.C.Ter-qr.- 0 1 0 4 ( : ) 1 6 6 E o g a g ts s, tr p a e w r .l o , o l ... ) l' g Tallow, cwt.... 33 0 37 6 Wheat DI 0;0 • Quarter» Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley llit" '''' a . Potatoes, 17.11 b. 0 6 0 0 Hay, pet st..o""' -------..."....--41.'dir) r l a A n t ,l o i a lC mts E a: T i f t : .26o. "' r. r:, , ,,o l ... ls . i. - : 1 0 1 0 Irish .... .......:".. _...', f Brilrhiri.g ' ' ' , 7 c4,l - . 1 mest ....... , ........... g o: Peise, Scpt9:l4lolp.', 4 50 . Oatineal,Peb..o.. II .Flour, pett.-", fir 9 BIRTHS. , g , 44 A , . ~ On the .....ld inst., the lady of Money' I' V ' g O o C 07 On the '..)::(1 inst., in St. Tamer's-square, Braille, Esq., of a son. GLASGOW CORN The weather being flue, our 1 ittle alteration in the prices. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 230 to 0 99••••••• ----.... new Canada, free 2B 0 30 0 Irish Barley, per 3201 b. English — 0 0 Scottish 23 0 25 0 Irish . 0 00 MARRIED. r i, n b, C4 :7 11 On the Nth inst., at St. Pancras New .'";. - „ r f e A titri,,' .. ! '' Henry Cramer, of the 4th Regiment Madras '" I . Pr / A , Esther Angelica, second daughter of F. Cr- le ' ' fr . .," , Charlotte-street, Fitzroy-square. On the 9.7 th Feb., at Madras, by thej l g r e s .. i; l o , Captain Charles Listock Boileau, of his 7140 '' went, youngest son of J. P. Boileau, F 44, " ( wet.' ' ''t • : to Amelia, only child of the /tight Hem ' .... 10 : 1 .0r Frederick Adam, Governor of Madras. - f/ 01 • , DIED , „ .. .ater .., of ~; On the 17th lust., Mary, four th e''''' o' 7 ill the c ° s A le John Bright, of Skefti ngtol, Hall, ~ f,er aged 22. 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