The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-05 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The usual tables containitig an account of the state of the revenue for the year and the quarter ending to-day (the sth of April), will be found - in another part of our paper. On the • whole year, it will be seen that there has been an increase of 230,3891., or more than a quarter of a million, though on the quarter there has been a decrease of 92,4201. The chief source of increase on the year has been the customs, which have yielded nearly half a million more than in the previous twelvemonths. The chief falling off, both in the year and in the quarter, has taken place in the•stamp duties. The excise, usually reckoned the best test of the comforts of the people which the productiveness of taxation can afford, has remained nearly stationary. The consumption of the articles on which it falls has therefore, it is evident, not been essentially di minished. Thus, though we cannot boast of any ostensible prosperity, as indicated by the state of the revenue, we can see no ground for alarm or despondency. We have previously ad mitted the existence of considerable distress in the country, and we have no desire to see the practical anomaly of a flourishing revenue and a suffering people.— Times. - - - . . The Westminster electors yesterday exhibited their good sense and sound principle by again choosing Sir John Hobhouse for their represen tative. He is a straightforward manly fellow, and deserves support. But, much as we admire the conduct of the electors, we must do justice to the elected, and state, that be does not owe his re-election to any assistance from the Go vernment, but to his own - vigour and integrity, and to the correct appreciation of his character by his constituents. The Government have been beaten in London, Sunderland, Cumberland, — in fact, in almost every place where a contest has arisen since the Reform Bill ; during which period Sir John Hobhouse has twice fought their battle in Westminster, and twice triumphed. Ministers owe a great deal more to this gentle man than he owes to them. But our principal reason for noticing this subject is to warn the Ministers. The people of England are not un grateful, and are anxious to support them against the vile Tory faction. The Reformed House of Commons supports them from the same mo• tives. Yet, such is their want of tact and want of energy, that with more means of successful mainte nance of their position than any Ministry on re cord, they are almost always on the brink of ruin. We say this from no unfriendly feeling, for we should consider a Tory Government the greatest curse that could be inflicted on the country, as its only and speedy result would be a revolution. Not entirely unconnected with this subject is the case lately decided by the Hertford Committee. Mr. Duncombe, who has contrived to make himself popular and respected wherever he is known, by his agreeable and upright qualities, but whose fortune is unequal to any great expenditure, has fought at no little cost the battle of Ministers and Reformers, — first, at the election,—and, secondly, on the petition, against the almost overwhelming power and wealth of Lord Salisbury. What assistance has he received ? A few personal friends have advanced about 5001. ; but there is not a mem ber of the Cabinet who ought not to feel him self under personal obligation to take care that this intrepid champion of their principles against the most violent of their opponents shall not incur the slightest loss. The Ministers should stand by'their friends, by whom they are so nobly supported.— Times. _ _ The people of Scotland have now, for the first time, their own representatives in a British Parliament, and it is not surprising, therefore, that demands of a novel nature should be made • by some of their representatives. The present demands for judicial reform may serve to illus trate this. Hitherto all judicial reforms for Scotland have been effected through the instru mentality of professional men. It would seem, however, that the people of several parts of that country, but more especially the inhabitants of the great commercial and manufacturing towns of Glasgow, Paisley, Greenock, and the west of Scotland generally, are anxious for a larger measure of judicial reform, than would appear to be palatable to the bar of Edinburgh. The newspapers of Scotland are at this time keenly discussing the • subject, and loudly encouraging Mr. Wallace, of Kelly, to persevere in the measures which he has announced. We are not ourselves acquainted with the precise nature of Mr. Wallace's measures, but we see that the Scots Times observes, with reference to antici pated attacks from Scotch lawyers in the House, that " he is in part, at least, armed against such attacks by the best of all armour—the previous revision of his intended Bills by some of the best lawyers of the country. We know that he has freely and largely availed himself of professional experience and professional knowledge of the best description ; and we counsel him, there fore, to abide by the improvements which the Bills will undoubtedly contain, and neither to be laughed nor to be threatened into a departure, or even a modification, of these improvements. These will be found to be based on sound judg ment; and, if we are accurately informed, his plans %%ill contain nothing that is either rash or impracticable." Another journal, the Glasgow Evening -.Post, says, that " Mr. Wallace, in his numerous lucid explanations of his views as to the improvements that should be made on our present mode of administering justice. has long since satisfied the great majority of the public of the soundness of his opinions on law reform ; and we have little doubt that, when his Bills make their appearance, they will maintain all that he has previously expressed, and convince others of the advantages that would result from their being in force." Mr. Wallace was to have brought the subject forward last night; but on account of the absence of the Lord Advo'- cate from indisposition, he was obliged to postpone it. We shall, on hearing his views, and the views of his opponents (for we understand' that he will be opposed), state frankly our opinion ou the subject. We are quite aware that in many respects the judicial system of Scotland possesses great advantages over that of England ; but we are at the same time aware that the Scotch system is susceptible of very great improvement. We are also aware that there are but too many individuals in Scot land, as well as in England, who have an interest opposed to any material improvement in law proceedings, and who will strive to render that reform, which cannot be prevented, as little effectual as possible. We believe there are few Scutchmen satisfied with the constitution of the Court of Session. That Court, though now divided, is yet far too numerously constituted. The Courts of this country, which are most analagous to the Court of Session—the Chan cery, Vice-Chancery, and the Rolls—have each one Judge only. These are the best Courts in England. Where responsibility is divided it is weakened. But we are aware that a numerous Bar, fur obvious reasons, wish a numerous Bench,. on _which-invalidßd.-members may re pose. Mr. Wallace possesses the requisite of unwearied zeal, and whether he succeed in having his own measures carried or not,; his exertions can hardly fail to benefit the people of Scotland.—Morning Chronicle. The Quarterly Review for April, published yesterday, contains an article on the last and present Parliaments, in which we have a second edition of the charges advanced in Parliament during the discussion of the Reform Bill against th e Whigs, for gross partiality in destroying Tory nomination boroughs and retaining their own. It is not very edifying to travel over this ground once more, so that we shall leave the re viewer to his thrice-told tale. But the writer sets out with a declaration that the Reform Bill has disappointed its admirers, and that we may lay our account with a complete democratical revolution ere long. " The new Parliament (he says) is composed and is working exactly as all the leaders of the Conservative party, and as we —humble followers in that honourable train-- predicted ; and the avowed partisans of the Bill, who so loudly complain that they have been 'dis appointed, make the slight mistake of confounding their promises with their purposes. It has certainly flagrantly contradicted all their prognosticst—it has not produced a Parliament enjoying the respect, or ministering to the wants of the people; but we are satisfied that no thinking man amongst them ever thought that it would. The Whigs or Ministerialists, with purblind selfishness, believed that it would enable them to plunder the Tories of political power, and to continue themselves in office for a session or two—and they have not been disappointed; the longer sighted Radicals saw that by playing the temporary game of the Whigs, they were laying the foundation of their own not distant supre macy ; and that the first step towards a complete democratical revolution, was to have a House of Commons which should bring itself into contempt, and all old and constituted authorities into odium and peril, and have they been dis appointed ? We think it highly important to establish this distinction between the disap pointment of predictions and the disappointment of expectations, because we foresee that the general murmurs that are already heard as to the failure of the Bill will soon become a storm of indignation ; and in the awful crisis which that storm must produce, it may be essential to the very existence of civilized society in this land, to discriminate between the principle of the Bill, which will have been the real cause of our ruin, and those clumsy, inconsistent, and absurd de tails, on which the radical mob will be inclined to lay the whole blame, and in the amendment —that is the democratic extension—of which they will affect to be the only remedy. The Bill has disappointed nobody—it has worked, as the Ministers calculated, a Whig predominance; and is now working as the 1 ones feared, and as the Radicals hoped, an ultimate but certain revolution." The reviewer has here greatly exaggerated the disappointment caused by the proceedings of the Reform Par liament. All reflecting men make allowance for the difficulty of the position both of Ministers and the Parliament. It is true that Parliament has not hitherto been successful in devising a system for getting on with the business before it ; but in this respect it is not worse than its pre decessors. Tile late Ministry left every thing m confusion, and a number of important ques tions—as the Bank Charter, the India Charter —claimed at once the attention of the new Parliament. Ireland, with its centuries of mis government, claimed the instant attention of Ministers. The corporations were a mass of corruption, and a Committee of Parliament is occupied with them. The part of the conduct of Parliament which has given most dissatisfac non is the coercive measure for Ireland. But if the people see that Ministers are about to apply themselves in good earnest to the remedy ing of the grievances of Ireland, allowance will be made for the difficulties in which they were placed. It is easy to criticise the proceedings of Parliament. But with what justice can a partisan of the last Parliament reproach the pre sent ? All the difficulties of the present Par liament, are the result of the disorganized state in which the country was left by the last Par liament. Abuses, under the poor laws, had driven the agricultural poor to a sort of servile war. The organized resistance to the laws in Ireland had attained its maturity under the last Parliament, and measures of justice were withheld by till they were extorted by the people. This is. not a state of things of which either the last Parliament or the last Ministry have much cause to boast. That there are people disap pointed with the present Parliament, because they do not find it has put abundance of money at once into every man's pocket, may be true. But people of this description are not to be reasoned with, and are of no account in the country. We see no prominent signs of dissa tisfaction. Reasonable people, on the contrary, do not expect that - all evils and abuses can be removed at once. We see no signs of an ap proaching democratic revolution.—Morning Chronicle. We are delighted beyond measure with the pros pect of a speedy termination to flogging in the army . When the subject was first noticed in Parliament, the character of the army was much lower than at present. The keeping the subject continually be tore the public led to a more humane treatment of the soldiers, and this again led to an improvement in the character of the army. When flogging is utterly abolished, a better description of men, as far as honourable conduct is concerned, will be induced to enter the army. An excellent pamphlet on army reform, by a ci devant cavalry officer, has been pub lished, from which we shall borrow a little on some future day. The information that it contains, with regard to the sinecures and pluralities held by ge neral officers, is to unprofessional men of great value. At present we shall merely allude to what this officer says on the subject of flogging, " I could," he says " (and will, gray veracity is questioned;, fill pages with cruelties I have known practised. An Honour able Colonel's barbarities in a dragoon regiment would scarcely be credited. Soldiers have frequently been flogged for mere trifles under the sweeping clause of neglect qf duty. Men have mutilated thernselyes to get rid of the service. It would be imagined from the number of sore backs which were dressed in the hospitals of Dublin, that the commanding officers of the 7th Dragoon Guards, the Royal, and the 23d Light Dragoons, con sidered such barbarities as a test of discipline (vide the ordeTlY bool(s) The privates of the 4th Dragoons used to be flogged by the black trumpeters, which information will delight the negro emancipators. In the 29th Foot, black drummers per formed the same disgusting duties. To increase the torture in the cavalry, the farriers generally flogged, whose profession gave them more muscular strength of arm than any other class of men. lam confident 150 lashes from the farriers were equal to 400 from the drummers, and 500 was the general sen tence.—As I can name some few regiments where not one man in twenty was flogged, by comparison, it only proves that the martinet officers had too much power. " I am certain that if the men are treated like brutes they will behave as such. In some regiments, a soldier coming in a few minutes late for parade or roll-call, was to a certainty flogged; knowing that, he was so terrified that he deserted; then, when taken, he bad eight hundred lashes given him. What else does a deserter deserve ?' was the language ; with out considering that undue severity drove him to desperation **** In the 3d Guards, about the year 1811, a private was brought out to be flogged ; whilst stripping, he took out a razor and cut his throat. The regiment was horrified, and the Duke of Gloucester did not allow of *tooling afterwards? and that regiment had not the tithe of punishment to what other regiments inflicted. If I could refer to the orderly books of some regiments, I want no Other proofi to substantiate th . e cru elties inflicted, greater than negro e s ever suffered, their maxi mum being thirty-nine lashes, the masters having some feeling for their own property in their slaves. I have reason to believe a Lieutenant. Colonel was killed by his own men at- extern desunt. " No flogging takes place in the Life-Guards. An officer told me he remembered only three instances (at Paris) ; these men, however, never held up their heads afterwards—not from the severity, but the disgrace." _ Here is the cardinal point. Infuse a high feeling of honour into the soldiers, and you may dispense with brutal punishments. But to create an honour able feeling, the soldier must look upwards. But this is a wide field ; and we now wish to confine ourselves to flogging. It is clear that the man who has constantly the triangle in view can know little of honour. When we consider what has been ef fected since public opinion first tied the hands of the officers and compelled them to trust in general to other means than flogging for obedience, we do not despair of further improvements in the character of the British army.—Morning Chronicle. The opposition of his ;Majesty's Ministers to the motion of Mr. Hume, for the abolition of - the disgusting and degrading practice of flog ging in the army, is one of those political incon sistencies to which the public has, unfortunately, been too much accustomed, but which assuredly we did not expect to be under the necessity of laying to the charge of the Whigs. For years past it has been a standing motion with them, upon the introduction of the Mutiny Bill, and a standing subject of attack upon their Tory opponents. Sir Francis Burdett, and Hobhouse, and Hume, headed the liberal and humane pha lanx, who deemed it to be an act of unnecessary cruelty to subject human beings to a species of torture, which, if inflicted on brute animals, would have brought the offender within the verge of the law ; and they were ably seconded by nearly the whole of the Whigs, and, with the exception of Lord Palmerston, by all of his Majesty's Ministers who were then in Parliament ! The abolition of military flog ging was, in fact, quite as much a Whig question as Parliamentary Reform ; and it was confidently, and not unjustly, expected, that so soon as they came into office this would be one of the first measures, by the proposing and carrying of which they would establish their claims to the confidence of the public. But mark the result ! A motion is made, not for the total, but the partial abolition of flogging, and it is backed by no fewer than 140 ayes to 151 nces ! but instead of being agreed to, it is resisted, and the necessity of continuing a practice which had been formerly declared to be infamous, stoutly asserted ! Such conduct, on the part of the Government, is eminently calculated to destroy all confidence in it—to degrade it in the estima tion both of its friends and of its enemies— to cause professions of political faith to be looked upon merely as so many modes of playing the game of office, and the pretended political pa triotism of men out of office, as a by-word fur roguery and treachery. We write thus in anger as well as in sorrow—in anger, that men of high character, and in whom the public has re posed so much trust, should so far betray their pledges to their constituents as to do the very contrary of that which they had justly expected them to do—and in sorrow that the only Mi nistry from which the people had ever any just right to expect. a course of salutary measures should destroy its power of doing good by weak ening itself in the opinion, of the public. It has not only dealt to itself a blow from which it will not speedily recover; but if we did not know that it has neither wish or occasion to resign, we should say that it had, by its vote, prepared a certain way for the return of Tory popularity and Tory supremacy. The infliction of flogging is not to be defended on any prin ciple of reason, or on any ground of expediency. It is disgusting to even the most phlegmatic spectator—it is inexpressibly horrible in the eye of humanity—its direct tendency is not to reform, but to harden, to brutalize, anti ut terly to deaden to all moral sensation both those on whom it is inflicted, and those who are the instruments of its infliction. Only think for a moment of one who has grown up to the years of manhood being tied to the stake and baited on his bare back by hundreds of stripes, in the presence of a whole regiment, till the flesh flew from it in morsels—the ground was watered with his blood, and nature, unable any longer to en dure the strife, sank exhausted under the tor ture !—Think, we say, of the shame, the disgrace, and the torture endured by that miserable victim of a pretended military discipline, and imagine what his sensations must be—what he will be in future ! The man is morally dead ; all feeling of pride is extinguished in him—all sense of duty utterly lost—his bosom is only alive to revenge, and hundreds of instances are not wanting in which its fearful intents have been but too amply realized. It is said, however, that the Bri tish soldier cannot be governed without the lash ; but why, no one has yet condescended to inform us. In no country in Europe is it found necessary to have recourse to such a de grading punishment ; and in vi hat, but in superior courage and greater physical power, does the English soldier differ from the French or the German ? Is he not possessed of the same pride—of the same • sense of honour—of the same moral feelings—of the same sensibility to insult ? If he is reproached, does he not regret it—if he has failed in his duty, is he not ashamed of it—if he is snuck, does he not strike again—if lie is degraded, is he not sensible of the disgrace ? It is said, however, that "it is impossible to deny that there are some ad vantages in this punishment, over any other that can be applicable under the peculiar circum stances of an army on active service ;" but what they are we have never been able to discover. We know that the punishment has in all cases produced the moral death of the individual on whom it was inflicted, as well as suicides and assassinations without number; but that it ever had the happy effect of reclaiming the individual o n whom it was inflicted, or of deterring others from pursuing a similar course, has never been attempted to be proved. On these two grounds only, however, can the justification of an y punishment rest; and that of flogging having signally failed in both, have we not a right to say that it is at once impolitic and in expedient—most cruel and most barbarous Morning Advertiser. We stated on Tuesday that if Mr. W. Patten's motion for a commission to collect additional evidence on the factory system should be carried, the result would be the postponement of legis lative protection to infant slaves of that system to an indefinite period. That motion has been c arried—carried in a reformed Parliament—car ried by the aid of our Whig Ministers, who, upon this, as well as some other memorable occasions of late, have acquired the unenviable distinction of signalizing their possession of power by a melancholy triumph over their former principles. It is now nearly forty years since the attention of Parliament and the public was first called to the horrors of infant slavery in our factories—and who first called the attention of a Christian Legislature and a Christian land to a system fraught with so many evils to morals and the interests of humanity ? Were they ig norant or interested witnesses; or were they demagogues, who wanted a theme for popularity ? No ; they were men of intelligence and worth ; men whose path to reputation had lain through the quiet walks of medical science. Such men were Drs. Aiken and Percival. They demon strated the pernicious effects which the labour of the cotton factories produced on the health of children. The'sacrifice of the health alone of thou sands of the children of the labouring poor, by over work in an impure and over-heated atmo ' sphere, ought to have been a sufficient reason why the Legislature of England should have interfered, and reduced that destructive labour within some thing like reasonable limits. The year 1833 has arrived, and mercy still weeps over the defeated claims of humanity in the British House of Commons. It is true, the late Sir Robert Peel, who made the splendid fortune which the pre sent Baronet enjoys from the labour of cotton spinners,laudably exerted himself to ameliorate the system which devotes the children of the poor to worse than Egyptian bondage. The Commis sion which he procured on the subject proved the necessity of Legislative interference ; but his Bill, as Lord Ashley stated in his able and con vincing speech on Wednesday night, which the House of Commons had passed, was marred in the House of Lords. Mammon, unfortunately, at that time, found a stronger sympathy for the supports of its cruel power among the hereditary legislators of the land than did the cause of oppressed and supplicating humanity. Sir Robert Peel's Bill, which was intended to apply to all the factories, the Upper House limited to cotton factories, white they enlarged the number of hours of labour ; and thus a mea sure which was designed to be one of legislative relief, was converted into one of legislative op pression. The present Sir Robert Peel, whose foolish Currency Bill brought more mischief to this country than a century of wise and honest statesmen—if England were to be blessed with such—could repair, seems nearly as much op posed to his father's example on the factory question, as he was to his precepts on that of the currency : for when Mr. Wilson Patten's motion was called on, he rose, and, with marked stateliness of manner, walked out of the House. Mr. Spring Rice, the " liberal" Member for Cambridge, and the " liberal" Lord John Rus sell, distinguished themselves on this occasion, by insisting on the necessity of having more evi dence to prove—what? To prove that children under nine years of age ought not to be worked in the factories, and that those above that age ought not to be worked more than ten hours out of the twenty-four! Why, it requires no other evidence than what common sense and common humanity furnish to establish those two positions. We close the volumes of evidence of 1818, 1819, and 1832. We leave their contents — medical, and clerical, and operative—out of the question, and we say that, inasmuch as the mill-owners do not deny that children under nine years of age are worked in the factories, and worked for more than ten hours a day, the casefor legislative interference is made out. It well becomes an Anglo-lrish member of the Go vernment, who most strenuously resists the pro posed relief of poor laws to the starving myriads of his countrymen—it well becomes Mr. Spring Rice to lead the van of the advocates of the child oppressing system, and to call for further in quiry, before he can believe that it produces ' moral and physical mischief enough to demand the immediate interposition of Parliament. But let us ask him, as one who talks a good deal about the education of the Irish, what time has a child for moral instruction—what .mental or bodily energies can it bring to the task of the schoolmaster, when more than ten hours a day, at the tender age of seven, eight, or nine years, are consumed in any continued labour whatever? What a contrast does the manly, honest, straight forward conduct of Mr. Fielden present to that of some of our pseudo-patriots and Members of a " liberal" Administration. He, though a great manufacturer, who has been all his life conversant with the practical working of the system, has a heart to feel for the evils which it inflicts on the infant slaves, and testifies to the necessity of such a measure of protection as that offered by Lord Ashley's Bill. Let Mr. Rice also recollect that Ireland was put out of the pale of the Constitution without any previ ous collection of evidence to prove the necessity of such a violent proceeding, by select com mittee or special commission, so much less difficult is it for some statesmen to make up their minds to perform an act of arbitrary power, than one of saving mercy.—Morning Herald. The intentions of his Majesty's Government with respect to the renewal of the Bank charter partially transpired yesterday, and had the im mediate effect of reducing the value of Bank stock considerably, and that of the Government securities in a smaller deg ree . The regular periodical meeting of Bank Directors, which was held yesterday, still continued to sit with closed doors as usual, at the hour when this depreciation of the Bank and Government se curities occurred, from which circumstance it is generally inferred that the sellers must have de rived their information from a source foreign to the Bank. Be this, however, as it may, it is certain that the communication from the Chan cellor of the Exchequer read to the Directors at this meeting coincided in its leading features with the impression by which the Money Market was simultaneously agitated, and that the con tents of the communication were such as the previous course of the correspondence between their body and his Majesty's Ministers, upon the subject of the renewal of the charter, had not prepared them to expect. From the best sources of information to which we have access we have collected the following particulars, upon the ge neral accuracy of which we believe the public may rely :—The communication sent by the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the Batik Di rectors, for the purpose of being submitted to an early Court of Proprietors, is a voluminous, elaborate, and complicated document, in which an attempt is made to show that the terms pro posed by Government, as the conditions upon which some of the exclusive privileges of the Bank shall be continued for a definite period are d h o e ifut ß dhs a ili ca n ado k pt neer bdo a tap, d oths ee t d h Be bargaina p nk ub lsi shall . aa ilth T raet h l,i elu duringai s i t n , just and reasonable, in ref e r ence t o th e i n t eres t s f tt b c ee n t hdap annual period r i uo n t a l payment o f 200,0001. a - year , w hi c h c c a o n u d n t c o o t t t i t i t t e n e management it of now n re a c t e io iv n e a se nt, to incur the heavy expenses and sustain the extensive responsibility connected with this im portant department of public affairs, without any believe, that upon th e general questions re muneration wh atever . understood, o w cur rency and banking there are no such differences of opinion between the Bank Directors and his. Majesty's Government as are likely to present any cor.siderable obstruction to an amicable and satisfactory conclusion of the negotiation, and that the principal attention of Government is directed to the saving of the whole, or so much as is possible, of the annual payment of 200,0001. for the management of the National Debt. Upon the reasonableness of this proposal it is not for us to give an opinion. It will be for the Bank Proprietors to determine whether the privileges which it is in the power of Government to give or to take away are of so much value that they can afford to purchase their continuance by binding themselves to the performance, with out other remuneration, of a costly and burden some duty, for which they now, in addition to those and even greater privileges, receive 200,0001. a year. If the Bank can afford to comply with this proposal, it will show that their past bargains with the public have been inordinately profitable. We incline to think, however, that the Bank cannot consent to such a bargain with any regard to its own interests, or even to its eventual safety ; and this opinion is corroborated by what we have reason to be lieve as a simple matter of fact, namely, that the most influential Proprietors of Bank Stock have already determined not to accede to it.—Morn ing Post. LENT ASSIZES. OXFORD CIR CUM— GLoucEsTER, Arius 8. DAWES V. CANNING AND ANOTIIER. This was an action against the officer of the She riff of Gloucestershire, for arresting the plaintiff and detaining him under a writ of latitat, after notice that_the plaintiff in the action was dead. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD was for the plaintiff, and it was clear that there had been a mistake by the defendant; but Mr. C. PHILLIPS, in order to reduce the damages, proved that Dawes had had two exe cutions in his house, which he had told one of his friends, who had become his bail, were only for the purpose of favouring him, and preserving his pro. perty for him. After this he had left this country for America, but previously sent a letter to his mother, of which the following is a copy : Liverpool, Oct. 1. " Dear Mother and Brother,—l ham sorry twas not in my power to see and take my lave of you before I left Eng land. You know I was in difficulties, and new not how to remedy them. I called unto the Lord, and bee gave me power to accomplish my purposes, and relieve me from the bonds of the prisson, and again the Lord sayd, go in a strange land, and provid for thy wife and family.' I have now gun to a mereke to do what the Lord bath bordered me. Dear mother and brother, I now hope it will be in my power to return God thankes for his good nes,:. Do int greive after me, for the Lord knows best what to do for us. Dear mother and brother, the time whit son come, I hop, to n set in Heaven, when never part no more. God bliss you. I shall rite to you as soon as I land. So no more at present, from your dear son, " WILLIAM DAWES." This, said Mr. Phillips, is a system of the times, when it was proposed in Parliament to prevent us from eating and dr liking on Sundays. Here was the plaintiff thanking his Lord for having enabled him to cheat his creditors, and run off to America. He hoped the jury would give him a farthing, which he might wear about his neck, to show the Ameri cans what was the reward given by a British► jury to a man who had thus cheated his creditors, and attempted to oppress a poor man, like the sheriff's officer, in this case. Mr. Justice PARKE summed up the case, descri bing the plaintiff as " an infamous rogue and a cant ing hypocrite." Verdict for plaintiff—Damages, one farthing. Whereupon Mr. Justice PARKE said he should certainly certify to deprive the plaintiff of his costs. CHESTER. BIGAMY.— William Egerton Stafford was indicted for intermarrying with Ann Hardy, at Manchester, about six years ago, his former wife, Ann Ferneley, being then alive. A witness, the sister of the prisoner's first wife, said he was married to her sister, Ann Ferneley, at Glossop, in Derbyshire, on the 22d of March, 1819. On being questioned as to her sister's maiden name, she persisted that it was Ferneley ; but said she could not spell her name, neither could she tell to a letter or two, and she thought "it did not matter much.' Mr. James Broadhurst, solicitor, deposed that the family was more generally known by the name of Fenneley. The case then proceeded, and the fact of the pri soner's second marriage with Ann Hardy, in 1827, was proved. Stafford, in his defence, did not deny the first marriage, but he did the second. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The - ATTORNEY-GENERAL inform - ed the Court that the prisoner, during the last year, had married two other wives. Prisoner—My Lord, the gentleman here says I have married a third and fourth wife, I hope he will produce proof of it. ll , s LORDSHIP said there was sufficient proof of his having had two wives, by whom he had had children, and tie would not punish him for marrying the two last females, but give him the full punish ment allowed by the act, which was transportation fur seven years. TOMLINSON V. NANNEY, CLERK. This was an action brought by Mrs. Harriet Tomlinson, of the Royal Hotel, in this city, as exe cutrix of her husband, the late Mr. W. Tomlinson, to recover the amount of - various items (about 141. or 156. );which appeared to the debit of the defendant in the books of the Royal Hotel, as being left unpaid from time to time, for a series of years past. The defendant is the Rev. John Wynne Niamey, of sporting celebrity, and well known to the turf throughout Great Britain. The defence set up by the Rev. Gentleman in this action was, a plea of the Statute of Limitations for that portion of the amount claimed which was not within six years, and a tender of 71. 10s. Bd., which sum he had paid into court. The case was gone into in great detail : but all that the plaintiff was able to prove (exclusive of the amount which was barred by the statute) was 71. 10s. 5d., and as this amount was 3d. less than the sum paid into court, the plaintiff was nonsuited accordingly. Mr. Baron BAYLEY humourously observed that the Rev. Defendant.had run a very close race, win ning only by a nose I WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. GAMING HOUSES. Andrew Reid, Richard Colter, and Samuel Hall, were indicted—( with Ellarby and another person in custody) for keeping a common gaming-house in the parish of St. James, Westminster, Mr. ADOLPHUS for the prosecution, said the house complained of was No. 60, Regent's-quadrant ; and it had become such an intolerable nuisance, that at the request of all the respectable inhabitants in the neighbourhood, the parish officers instituted the prosecution. The house was open on all days, and at all hours, and he should be able to prove that the defendants used to frequent public places -of resort and openly persuade servants and Journeymen to venture to the extent of a shilling, and in all pro bability they would win the whole cash in the bank, which was exhibited to their view. James Hall Daly was under-secretary to the Junior United Service Club, in Regent -street. On the 10th of January last he was at the gaming -house, No. 60, in the Quadrant. He saw a roulette table in t h e first-floor room, and play was going on Hall and Reid, two of the defendants, were engaged in rolling the balls, and paying and receiving the stakes. In another part of the room a party were playing at rouge-et•noir, for stakes as low as Is. The persons at play were those of the lower order. William Goddard, a police-officer, proved that when he went with Plank, anl other Ace" found the defendants there, and several PO play. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty. „AM The COURT sentenced them to be imp the space of three months. MANCHESTER, APRIL Altl eC. ELECTION FOR FoR NORTH LANCASIIIRE.--";00110 tint; for a Member of Parliament for the_adee division of the county of Lancaster, in 6 '. °P lit lie of offi eteheofacCenelpotnaira'cleSebcyretMarry., E. G ailP S°tillantele(l l llll.l place in the Court-house, Lancaster, 0 0 !.6 0 or instant. The Sheriff has issued a prochtteatiAe flouncing the election, which is posted to 7f of Lancashire. It is not anticipated that an; 9 1 , lag Mr. 0 be ,tr sition will be offered to the re-election of ,Jr. j* i N i c E , A ) : r 11: n i A t e N r C:E o S f MANCHESTER.—On ley, although • there has been some talk d Raphael, of London, becoming a cantlidate!..,eit, SHOCKING SUICIDE OF A FOREIGN IVl;i ir 00 4 of the firm of Mesg.s. Lieffman and Seh fill . O f I mitted suicide at the latter place, by so ' s bo n—chOesnteFrriadnady Middlete7o,ol half a pound of laudanum. The- deceased. eingedbl young man, 32 years of age, and was r:e ls t l f o o m N arriage to Baron Rothschild, the loan-een MURDER has been assigned for the act. order 04 man named Thomas Paling, on MURDER.—Yesterday a shocking n iu 11, 1 Manchenter'of ba committed near Ancoats-lane, Ma lodger r ioe ' named Armstrong. It appears that the P lo d was jealous of Armstrong's eon d , uct he ael eci :, bars. Paling, and, going home yesternah,7,flir ed them in some familiarities, and inlinen:ifitt to the lock-up, in Bengal-street, and sak e ", stet ston, the officer, to take Armstrong in t ! ' li pier l o li therwise he threatened to go back an d u if f re set' returned to his home, and meeting m. Livingston treated Paling with iii- ofin (Plf and refused to interfere, upon which the , 0 04 Paling, when the deed was done, plunged u ng whiched a t l h a e rg p e o k o n r i fe m i a n n t o almosth i s sid ei,inf:roietilk....ettbjldiet:dielitedi:: officers, "Now you may take me, for I yr, ( 1( for the e xcialr , e o" —." He was conveyed t 0 , t h l e - hisl Bailey to await the Coroner's Inquest , w ,, l ' l l e g'S Monday intoxicateda take place y a c m e o o ar n iti iTtnhgheu last,tr s i m da e y b eh . tew l e t en i s committed fsoa four d r t that r.... 170„ r, D fir E e sT br ß o U k C e T:O u N t o io F t A ho P m APE d li i -MI:LB: :el; and fiv e° 0 0' buildin g pied toheu f r aopoi sl t mtds h i opi b n e nwpo y eg . r taa i ,, M rs v olwb e yf e u r sh s atid s : A ve r heeh l s ensd e . to d w: S tpo li v e yas e l Tpie l k t o atehhi . b fi :seo l tdb l ua Ti mn i ut i td h iw e ifi S e lorai l lrn t g e ti tg, ° p ri vy aC ..a g at t erhso i e nt n er d g p e ot a ie s i tP, x l re : et u yt : b n tpo n ly u : ros et odo l . r pp l uckep h ci b te i ii ! :, pe o r m in e te o n , d i e h r e ice .wh o o f ie M of r. t ß ho os m e, ac w h e io r e e ry 7 l % .l of r w ith ' ; o ff engine, fell a prey to the flames. be -, l ei!, isAinuspru.prCoeds.e d E i,n in ft i o n hre s , otelaferiyba Guardiannt h k e e A r , asms o u f oro M a on a ct n e c o.c h f esters een t l a disb,roe j le t v. : , which is not yet accurately ascertaine d ' ,Aociv ; was not properly got under until twel ve ' °' the forenoon. THE MARKETS• C Ol/ 01 mis o GENELAR AVERAGE PRICE OF Ba il thcid For the Week ended March 29, 1833, made oP„_..fro m wa s 10 . of the Inspectors in the diffbrent Cl ue s and I. and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. e Ogg' 533. 4d.1 Oats 163.11(.I 801B 0 1 Barley 275. 0,1.1 Rye re..., 313. 1031 .1 PeaS- 0C , ,„ Y' IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX W ES O r Wheat,. 52a. 6:1.1 Oats ...ow.« i 63. Pease' .. -- Barley 26a. 5d4 Rye 313. 7ti. l 95 4 ' DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORM• Sd.l Oats 225. 911 80a.„%,„„.., , Barley 10d.I Rye 225. 9(41 Pe a '' / SOUTHALL MA RK ET.—April soap In this day's market, which was moderately tolerably well attended, both by London and cotlu s `i i jae , " trade was rather dull, at the following price*P e ' s !'f "ink the oflals:— 45. 61 " t° ‘ Beef 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d I 3 8 Mutton 4 4 5 4 I Pork PI/ Lamb ......... 6s. Od. to 75 * , and v,71 The foregoing quotations are Beef, Mutt oo wniC 2d. to 4d. per stone lower than on this dlheep *flung,' otherwise about stationary. Beasts VP ;.„„ i oslon 2,364 ; Calves, 40 ; Pigs, 77. B u t a shod ply left the market unsold. HAI LSHAM MARK la."' • r 4g. B.teY 0 l Reef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. 4 4 8 5 6 I pork ....*••••""" Supply limited, and trade dull. . ARUNDEL MA It KET.--.'r -1 0 4s. tosl, ; 38.4 d. to 4s. 4d. 0 3 10 Mutton —4 4 5 4 I Lamb 6s. 4d. to 6s• oti• br isk. Supply tolerably good, and tiade r ather ,4 CHICHESTER MARKET.--APri-4,.13 ..0. +. — O4O 4 ; 3s. 2.1. to 4s. 2d. 3 8 I .4 1 Mutton 4 4 5 4 e r.• Lamb 6s. Od. to 6s. 13 "• In store stock but little doing Supply of f at good, and trade dull. l ri• RUMFORD MA RKET.--APrii 4 • Jil 4 vi s. d. to s. d. Beef 3 Mutton 4 . to 42 3,5. 45 ; Quarter 42 Suckling Calves,l2s pd Supply rather limited; trade with prime 13 e' omewhat brisk, but otherwise dull. .........„...„,.........." omeVih'at brisk, but otherwise dull. ' it or' ~0 s _,,1, couNTRy , oRN MARKETS DURING ' 12 0 .. "'" ts• I t d t W heat. Barley. - 0 .......,* —...... ,--- 0. ...., Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. ~„ to 01 3 1 0 Blandford .................. 52 25 --" 0 .... 3 4 ., Brigg 52 60 36 40 19 13 si f Carnbridge—........ 58 25 ":7 18 0 3! Chard .... 50 56 24 28 ~,, 91 gl SI Huntingdon ............. 58 63 22 32 Jo 59 0 Long 5utt0n.......... 56 64 0 03 1 0 , Louth _ 5O 55 27 32 19 go se. f Lynn 46 56 20 32 1 4 99 gg Newark .--........ 55 59 29 37 16 94 94 /, Nottingham 36 64) 28 31 . 1 ? 91 ~... P , Peterborough ...,.... 46 60 21 34 „„i 3 93 .... P . , Plymouth ....—.—.... 50 64 30 34 : 0 " 0 41 .7, P0ntefract...,............. 67 43 ~'"' 0 91 F Sleafon4 —.. 65 70 36 38 .`, 94 03 Uppingham ......—.. 50 59 21 33 I" go Wi5bech................ 46 50 20 33 11 ' 11 o _Olll g* Ap 0 A pt° . LEEDS CORN MARKET ,--- • 43 ,4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b... .......... ..... --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b.................... ,„ 50 , Barley, Norfnlk and Suftblk ............ .......... to 951,' - Yorkshire and Linc01n5hire................. ;y 2 , !o o of. - Grinding ....................................... •••• g34.! 0 / Beans 63113. ...................... 00. Oats, Potatoe ................................................. . 0 10)0,,,f -Alealing, For. 12d. to 13d Eng. 91 2,5 6 . rr-d Shelling Rapeseed, English, 234 to 25, Foreign, --** - - - --- " - 44 411 10 9'l LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE' Ss. Ott • i WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b r ; 6 .0 Red —. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 9 8 I -- Red Foreign .. . . ...... ... .. . OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per Irish Foreign 3 1 (4 I I BARLEY, English, Malting, per imp. quarter.. , 4 ~ . Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. . 32 , 0 0 0 g po —.----- Feeding ' 0 3 4 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter . .........•• „n Irish, &c. PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter ........... n 0 *), 0 oF— er ign ....... . .. . ,:. I FLOUR, a: .e F E Ir2niir:E: Imperial e gi s 7. g .nh i rli lls i ßa r h p. ( L ..... .„..‘,.. ...... gr a l u ri lu a n e :1 : — :: : :I I : i l..b r i s i h . . : : :. ie ... .. 1 r . . 1 : .: 2 41 1 :..1.61:11.61.....5.....1:" • 38 ; 0: t. 01. 4 : 17 ; A: l l ifi -- EtvvI7I OATMEAL,. h.322Be. INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. MALT, per Imperial quarter ... .. .. ~._...•••••... IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Flour. C . Scl o * 0 1 Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. !Foreign, Brls.ilrisho 7 7o7 i d gallonsi n Scotland Tit e lestislituah.naa than quantity yol6Co thelf, 5 yl,sa whiskyrgaibefore, o n consum- eds:ba eni :1, gitba: os r: b t: e ;: ogeof d '4 , less than for the year 1830. We kt'"! no by i re l %o4 great falling off be occasioned by smugglinr ctu rieg 4 ro, tion SocietieThe s, or ex p ort from the dim Scotland stress of the to Irela ..,_ mg" and f ear p . 001 . . 1 , gallons only, and to England 2,3 6 ° 0° ' we Chr afisv giant Smuggler is again abroad.---Gla'l"' _ ,AI MARRIED. Alfl."o only y n s t o h n e 0 4t r h of in th st e ., la a t t e S vit.inPiaanincrAtaNmeawn,tEsil;hur,c(l,! otto street, Bristol, to Mary , eldest daughter of law t i , ~ Esq., of Taunton. fl . . DIED. h nn e e jl s. o On the 3d inst., in East-place, Lambet , c, a g I I! Thomas Harvey, Esq., late of the Custom-hou! re lict • On the 31st ult., atter a short illness, Merriai, 4/ James blander, Esq., of Bakewell, Derbyshire. ,‘_„,„ Cot' On the 4th inst., suddenly, Jane, wife of Sr. J."" inier, Solicitor, Lwrence Pountney.lane. ...wet dr On the Ist inst., ina D u bli n , Antonia, el dest dal. Colonel Wildman, of the Carabineers. PRINTRD AND PUBLISHED BY MU AN yo U, -" • SUN 0111C 1 . a% STR, Lor4olll 4 i ` A g itil V ;, t r : 41 1 1 ) 0 e! e i N l t ' 'r ' l 11 '00-. 4 11 ,: 451 +p Mu, ac! A go ,D44 l ted al ett elth e S i _ , 14 144 d, $ gallons only, and to England 2,36u,vu5--- or.- giant Smuggler is again abroad.--G/asginv 1 -- f ift eljf BIRTHS. On the 4th inst. in in Dorset.square, t h e lady ',- Lack, Esq., of a daughter.. On the 2d inst., Mrs. D. W. Hurst, of datigh , 11 On Co On the 2cl inst., in Harpur-street, I.3loomsburY a daughter, still horn. ) ' --AI