The Sun. — London, England, 1833-07-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT JF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. It is not long ago since this journal apprised the country that the Duke of Wellington had formally and finally taken the command of the opposition Peers, and that the phalanx so di rected was prepared for all political extremities with the House of Commons and the nation.. That statement was literally true, and before the end of the present week, unless the enemy's counsels shall have undergone some change, the truth of it will be demonstrated by the rejection of a measure on which the whole people of the United Kingdom have staked their hopes, and Lord Grey's administration its existence. There is no use in addressing one's-self to the judg ment of politicians who are drunk with confi dence in their own power, incredulous of all virtue in public men, inveterately distrustful of the people of England, and reckless of every human object but the resumption of a despotism over the persons and properties of their fel low-subjects, which they have already too long abused, to the scandal of our much boasted British liberty, and to the lasting detri• ment of the state. The close brotherhood of such individuals as Bishop Phillpotts, the Duke of Cumberland, and Lord Lyndhurst, all acting as lieutenants under the hero of anti-reform, is enough to stamp the character of the present Opposition. That Opposition must be crushed, or it will destroy the country. The alternative is obviously not whether the persons composing the Ministry shall be changed, but whether Lord Grey, Lord Brougham, and practical reform— or Mr. Manners Sutton, with the myrmidons of a military Duke, and inevitable revolution, shall be the lot assigned to us. That question, as we have said, is now on the point of being settled. The Church Temporalities Bill is to be thrown out—thrown out, as is generally anticipated, on the second reading. But if that course be too straightforward for the revolutionists, the Bill will he cut to pieces in Committee ; and, thus muti lated and thus deformed, will be sent down once more to.. the House of Commons, for that assembly to register the edict of the oli garchs, and its own humiliation. Such a game, however, will not be played with success. The designs of the Tory revolutionists need only be understood to be counteracted effectu • ally. The first defeat of the Government in the Hense of Lords—no matter how apparently trivial the question—ought to be the signal for a peremptory resignation of office, a delay of even 24 hours would be construed into a readi ness to undergo fresh insults for the mere love of place. That is a consideration which affects the honour of the Ministry ; but there is another, suggested by the known tactics of the Tories, and it is of immense importance. The faction of the oligarchs does not wish to assume the government at present : its object is to expose the weakness of the Whigs, by inflicting on them a series of severe, though not immediately fatal mortifications ; .to take advantage of what is conceived to be their progressive decline in public respect and confidence ; and, when they are ripe and ready for the gathering, to shake them to the ground. The Tories are well apprised that they could not govern England at this moment, nor do they count on much positive advance in favour with their country men. They know that a profound and impassable gulf divides the political principles of the Eng lish nation from those by which the corrupt rule of Toryism has hitherto been upheld, aed that if they ever come in at , all, it must be after the services of Lord Grey's Government, and the misdeeds of former ones, shall havebeen obscured or forgotten. Now, the best method of frustrat ing such a scheme is to go out on the first proof which can be laid before his Majesty that the House of Lords, as at present constituted, is too pcwerful an enemy for his official servants to contend with. If the Crown and its Ministers, with the House of Commons at their back, be unable to carry those measures which all three concur in regarding as indispensable to the safety of Church and State, what remains but that Crown, Ministers, and people should sur render, and succumb to the ordinances of the Conservative Clubhouse, or that the liberal portion of the Peers should be reinforced, and made a match for their oligarch opponents ? If Lord Grey resigns at once, he disconcerts the plan of Tory opera ions, by forcing the faction to accept that government which they are avowedly unprepared to exercise. The Sutton or Narcissus Cabinet have then but one alterna tive,—either it must go on with the actual House of Commons, of which at least five parts out of six are diametrically opposed to them, or they must risk a new election, with a consti tuency incensed almost. to madness through the repeated disappointments of its best-founded hopes, inflicted upon it by the same Tory Mi— nisters who demand from it a fresh choice of representatives. Neither, then, of such attempts can, in all human probability, be successful. Sir John Wrottesley s motion on Thursday next may, indeed, determine the whole point at issue, without rendering it necessary, in honour or sound policy, for Ministers to do more than submit the amount, of the majority on that mo tion to the King, and take the Royal pleasure as to the expediency of suffering so grave a col lision to exist between the Houses, or of adopt ing the only, albeit not 'altogether in itself desir able, means of bringing it to a period. There is indeed a report that Parliament may be dissolved before that motion is discussed. But this sup position implies the monstrousimpossibility that the King will , desert his Ministers ! ! ! . We re joice, for our own parts, that the crisis has at length arrived. The state wherein we have been plunged for some months past has been most alarming and intolerable. The question is, a real and practical reform system, or a return to one of rotten boroughs ?—the enjoyment of a free constitution, or the endurance of such gross and unbounded corruption as shall enable an unprin cipled Government to. dispense with the forms of despotism ?-- , -no Tory Ministers, or no inde pendent House of Commons ? Of such a question it is not difficult to see the result. These remarks have been written on the suppo sition that the .Tories will dare to throw out the Irish Church Bill. Our own:opinion is that they are too low-spirited to 'attempt such an enter prise : our hOpe is that they will make the at tempt. After deep and long consideration they screwed their courage up to " the sticking place;'' but, as the hour for striking comes, their courage, like. that of poor Bob Acres, oozes out : the Duke of Wellington slinks away (we will not say where) ; Sir Robert Peel will not hear the muster-call; and Lord. Wharneliffe, who is the watchman of the party, .has reported to the station-house—the Conservative Club—that the plot will not do. Is it not incredible that it should never occur to these wretched simpletons that the nation observes all their movements? Does " the Irish Narcissus_ think that the men of Liverpool, of Manchester, of Leeds, of liir- • mingharn, of London, admire him as hitich as be admires himself? Does the sensible ititl modest Speaker, who has no greater admirer than ourselves in all the really valuable (and they are not few) points of his character, think that he can stem the tide or govern the whirlwind of public opinion ? He has ever shown (and that is his great strength) that he justly estimates his powers:— " A wise man's power's the limit of his will;" and we believe it to be impossible for him to risk a very well-earned and enviable reputation for the Bartholomew•fair glory of being for a short time the tinsel tenant of a throne, from which he is to be pushed at the first moment when it may suit the Duke of Wellington or Sir Robert Peel to take it. No ; Mr. Sutton can not consent to be a cat's-paw,—a warming pan ! —Times. The Bill brought in by the Lord Chancellor on Friday night " for appointing a Chief Judge in Chancery, and for establishing a Court of Appeal in Chancery," will remedy two defects in our judicial organization, which have been often, although hitherto unsuccessfully, de nounced. It will give to our great equity tribu nal a permanent Judge, removed from the turmoil of politics, and will cure the anomaly of an ap peal from the decision of one Judge to that of another Judge. The Chief Judge, who will have the power to hear all matters depending in the Court of Chancery, and will have, with some slight exceptions, all the jurisdiction possessed by the Lord Chancellor, will hold his office du ring good behaviour, and the appeals from the de crees and orders of the Master of the Rolls and the Vice-Chancellor will not be adjudicated by him alone, but by a Court of Appeal, consist ing of the Lord Chancellor, the Chief Judge, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chancellor, and the Lord Chief Baron, and such Barons of the Court of Exchequer as shall be appointed by sign -manual, or otherwise, to determine causes in that court, as a court of equity, during the absence of the Chief Baron ; but three of such Judges may form a court, the Lord Chan cellor or the Chief Judge in Chancery being one. The only objection to this measure is the small relief which it will afford to the persons holding the Great Seal, whose multitudinous duties, political, ministerial, and judicial, will not, we fear, be perceptibly diminished. We hail, however, the measure as establishing two important principles long since acknowledged and successfully acted upon by a neighbouring nation,—the one, that the first Civil Judge of the country should be independent of political changes—the other, that a principal Court of Appeal should not be composed of only an in dividual Judge.— Times. The first Session of the reformed Parliament is fast drawing to a close without the Ministers, who have called this improved representation into existence, having accomplished, or even proposed, any one of those many measures of amelioration which the people had a right to ex pect at its hands. We make this assertion much more in sorrow than in anger. We feel that the people have been sorely deceived and disap pointed at such a result ; nor do we feel the less mortified when we know the taunting tone in which the blame is thrown by the enemies of reform upon that measure itself, instead of its authors. It is true enough that the borough mongers every now and then throw out a tub to the whale, a kind of placebo, to amuse and call off attention, while they were pursuing their own schemes of plunder and self-aggrandisement but reform, while it put an end to the latter, ought to have given the people in exchange a very different bonus from that which they ever received before ; instead of which their favourite measure of reform has been hitherto to them little betterthan a mockery,their new representatives hav ing in fact done less for them than their enemies the borough-owners used to do. But let it not be said that this is the fault of reform. Bad farmers are often in the habit of attributing their bad crops to untoward seasons—the fact not being so, but the deficiency of the harvest being wholly attributable to their indolence and want of skill. So it is with the political harvest, which has hitherto proved barren and defective, solely because, in its case, the tillers of the po litical ground are ignorant, or defective in their duty. A remark which is in every man's mouth seems true to the letter as regards the present Ministers--viz., that they have had good cards dealt them, I4ut have not had the skill to play them. No men ever had such an opportunity of signalizing, we might say of im mortalizing themselves ; instead of which, they have only used the means which pointed out the road to glory as those to conduct them to dis grace. In every department the same inefficiency has been displayed, till at length the people, grown weary in witnessing one uninterrupted career of imbecility, ask rather for the return of a Tory Government than the continuance in office of those in whose persons the very name of Whig has become odious and detest able from one end of the kingdom to the other. We repeat that it is rather in sorrow than in anger that we say this. We have, as our readers know, no party to follow or uphold but that of the country. Throughout the trying and anxious period of passing the Reform Bill, we gave to its authors our steady undivided support, in full reliance that the country would derive from it those many blessings which it was and is calculated to bestow. But when we see the cup bearers themselves dashing the cup from the lip, themselves falsifying every expectation of which they were the authors, we turn in sorrow and disappointment from such tergiversation and imbecility, and are compelled to exclaim, Alas, poor human nature !"—Morn. Herald. Every man who has mixed in society during the last week—every man who has dined at a club, or danced at a ball, or yawned at the opera, or cantered through the Parks—has had a story told him, " in the strictest confidence," of' some announcement made by some official, as to something which Ministers intend, in conse quence of something which they expect. Down ing-street has no secrets ; the Cabinet has met with open doors; Lords of the Treasury have babbled like ladies of the boarding school, and privy councillors have proclaimed their intents as heedlessly as robbers in a melodrame. " We are going out," has been shouted in Whitehall, " We are going out," has been chorused at Brooks's ; Mr. Charles Wood has been expound ing the policy of his father-in-law to the com prehension of the most obtuse ; Mr. Ellice has been developing the plans of his friends to the eyes of the most profane. We have heard young gentlemen from Christ Church record ing the assurances of Lord Brougham, and elderly spinsters boasting of the whispers of Mr. Grant. We cannot observe all this without looking with some curiosity for the motive which makes the mysterious so palpable and the dumb so loquacious; and after this fashion we ven ture to explain the phenomena :—The . Whigs are telling every body, in the first place, that they anticipate a defeat on the Irish Temporali ties Bill ; and, in the second place, that they contemplate an immediate resignation of their offices. We pronounce, therefore, of the Whigs, in the first place, that they do not an ticipate a defeat on the Irish Church Tempo ralities Bill ; and, in the second place, that they do not contemplate an immediate resignation of their offices. his hoped and believed at the Trea sury that the accomplished sacrifice of the 147th clause will have so far conciliated the Tory leaders as that they will allow the Bill, had as its provisions still are, to be read a second time. And it is further hoped and believed, that the meditated abandonment of other clauses will so far conciliate the Tory leaders as that they will allow the Bill, bad as its provi sions still must be, finally to pass. It is impos sible for us to say on how sure a foundation these expectations rest, for we profess no super human insight into the hearts and minds of men ; and without such a preternatural intelli gence it were impossible to divine in what man ner the Peers of England will treat a measure upon which, if upon any, they ought to decide with a total forgetfulness of their political con nection, and with an entire submission to the dictates of their conscience. But the artifice with which Lord Grey and his adherents have represented the loyal defenders of the Constitu tion as already threatening and prophesying the rejection of the Bill is too gross to have deceived us. No threat has been uttered, no prophecy has been delivered, by the champions of our cause from which we can form an opinion as to the course which in the discharge of their difficult duty they may think it expedient to follow. The Duke of Wellington has indeed condemned unequivocally the principle on which the Bill is framed, and in se condemning it has won a fresh title, which he least of all men needed, to the gratitude and confidence of his countrymen but when, from the expression of the sentiments of one illustrious individual, a presumption is ' raised of lordly intrigues and courtly cabals—of councils in the saloons of Carlton-terrace, and plots in the anti-chambers of St. Jatnes's—the matter becomes so ridiculous that we might be content to treat the suggestion when we read it in the columns of the Times with the contemp tuous silence which was all his Grace's re ply when lie heard it in the rhetoric of Earl Grey. If the Duke of Wellington had indeed prepared a plan of a campaign, he is too expert a tactician to forward a copy of it to his enemy's head -quarters. We, therefore, in our speculations upon the events of the week, place no reliance upon the alleged exposition of the intentions of the Tories. We predict the failure of the Bill, only because we are sensible of its faults—we guess at what will be the con duct of the Peers, only because we are sure of what is their duty. The object which our ad versaries have had in view, in the rumours they have circulated of conspiracies at Apsley House, and removals from Downing -street, is sufficiently obvious. If they are discomfited on Wednes day, which they do not expect, they will have prepared the wretched dupes, and yet more wretched knaves, by whose grace they stand, for a renewal of the warfare of petitions and addresses, unions and committees, brickbats and blud geons. If they are successful on Wednesday, which they do expect, they will have enabled them selves to attribute their victory to their avowed determination to resign if beaten; and they will seek in their asserted readiness to resent one over throw a consolation for the shame they have in curred by their endurance of twenty. These considerations induce us to suppose that Minis ters have other expectations than that of defeat, and other intentions than that of resigning. But whatever their calculations may be, what is our own ? We cannot indeed conceal from ourselves that a great and important change was made in the Bill when the 147th clause was re linquished. In that clause a principle upon which the revenues of our Protestant Church might be to-morrow confiscated was so distinctly enunciated that we shudder at the recklessness of men who could so carelessly put forth, and hav ing put forth could so carelessly withdraw, a pro posal pregnant with such formidable results. We repeat that a great and important change has been made in the Bill by the erasure of this iniquitous enactment. The extent of the alte ration has been perhaps exaggerated from the outcry raised against it by the partisans of plun der. Many honourable and well-intentioned men are disposed to imagine that there must be something not quite abominable in a Bill which Mr. Harvey opposes, which Mr. Hume reviles, which the sage of the Register pro claims a vile delusion, which the orator of the Corn Exchange repudiates on the part of the people of Ireland. There is something specious, too, in the argument that as so much has been given up by Ministers in the one House, a little ought to be given up by their adversaries in the other. And in truth the Tories base their op position to the idea of a forcible interference by the Commons with the independence of the Peers upon the more constitutional doctrine of an ultimate reconcilement of their differences by mutual concession. These things may lead, we are told have led, some sincere friends to our Monarchy and our Church to regard with dimi nished hostility the Bill upon which the House of Lords is about to pass its judgment. For ourselves we will speak out, as we have ever done. We see no reason to alter aught we have written upon the tendency of the measure. From its preamble to its conclusion it is wildly wicked. If the Peers are able to reject it, and will not, they are scarcely worthy to wear their coronets. If' the . Peers have the will to reject it, and dare not, why, their coronets are scarcely worthy their wearing.—Morning.Post. A rumour prevailed, in well-informed circles, yesterday, that the insanity of the Tory Peers was somewhat mitigated, and that their medi tated opposition to the Irish Church Bill is likely to be accommodated. It is, however, im possible to rely on the continuance of their lucid intervals ; and on some accounts the " collision is desirable—certainly it is preferable to any compromise, and we cannot believe that the Bill will be further discounted. The Conserva tives, it is said, after anxious cogitation and inquiry, are satisfied that their cabal, even if successful in obtaining a majority in the Upper House, would not obtain them office or favour at Court—the sole object of their mad and unprincipled faction. We also under stand that the result of their patient calculations has convinced them that no bribes, treats, intimi dation, Aristocratic influence, or division of parties, could create even a decent new House of Commons ; in brief, that they have, at last, d hat all the world, except them selves,iv c a Tory Admi n i s t rat i on could not endure six months, and w ould expire s o e w r know—thatell in Revolution. This repentance may, never theless, be temporary, and the Conservatives are subject to a fresh attack of political mania. The result and discussion on Sir John Wrottesley's notice, this evening, may yield some more defi nite information. The Duke of Wellington and Lord Lyndhurst neither can - nor will again go vern this free country, and their sops to the Reformers will be thrown back in their faces. Lord Lyndhurst ! a most moral and very pa triotic Legislator ! is not to be trusted in that or any other capacity. We trust that the House of Commons will not be put off its guard. Sir John VVrottesley's notice has struck terror into the Tories, and he will, doubtless, watch them. Mr. Manners Sutton, who has the reversion of the Home Office (when vacant), will of course, see that the orders of the Lower House during the present week are strictly and impartially obeyed !—Morning Chronicle. ROLLS' COURT, JULY 13. 3ePHERSON V. WILSON. In this case Mr. PEMBERTON appeared for the plaintiff (who is an infant), against the defendants, Messrs. Pillons, William and James Wilson. In 1829 the father of the plaintiff (Captain Mitchell) happened to be travelling in Italy, where he met with an intimate friend, named Pil. lons, to whom he communicated his intention of settling a sum of 3,6601. upon his son, and at the same time ex pressing his wish that Mr. Pillons would become a trustee ; to which request Mr. Pillons agreed, upon condition that two co-trustees should be appointed ; accordingly Messrs. James and William Wilson were made trustees in conjunc tion n ith Mr. Pillons, and a purchase was made in the Three per Cent. Consols to the amount of 3,660/. A short time afterwards Mr. Pillons met Captain Mitchell in Paris, who was confined to his bed by illness. Mr. Pillons there wrote a letter to the Captain, in which he stated the con ditions upon which he supposed the settlement had been made; this document was signed by Captain Mitchell. It unfortunately happened that Mr. Pillons made a mistake in the letter as to the plaintiff's name, whom he called M'Gregor instead of M'Pherson, but the plaintiff declared that he was the person meant in that letter, and therefore applied to the Court for the purpose of having some money given to him by the trustees to purchase a--commission in the army. The letter was chted May 21, 1829, and Cap. tain Mitchell died in August, 1830. The Court granted a declaration. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A man, named William Johnson, with a clean white apron upon him, and having the appearance of a me chanic, was brought before the Loan MAvon, charged by a young lady named Mary Hobley, under the following cir cumstances : Miss Hobley stated that, as she was walking along the street a few days ago, the defendant picked up something, and begged that she would be kind enough to read to him the writing on a bill of parcels, in which, wrapped up, he had just found a gold pair of ear- rings, a wedding-ring, and a mourning-ring. She read to him the bill, from which it appeared that the price charged for the beautiful articles was 51. 18s. 6d. The prisoner said that as the young lady was present when he found the jewellery, he considered her entitled to half, and offered her the whole lot for a moiety of the sum specified in the bill of parcels. She refused to purchase at such a rate, but she consented to give 11. ss. 6d. for the lot, and she borrowed money from a f-male friend, who was as innocent as herself, and cheerfully paid it down to the prisoner, who walked off. She saw him some days afterwards on London Bridge, and immediately took hold of him, having learned that her bargain was " copper gilt." He struggled, and struck, and kicked her desperately in bis attempt to get away, but she held him fast, and he was ultimately conveyed to the Cotnpter.—Remanded. MARY LEB ONE. THE RISING GENERATION.-Patrick Doherty, a dirty urchin, aged ten, was charged with having stolen a pair of check-braces from off the carriage of Sir Wm. Hoare, of Harley street, Cavendish-square. The prisoner was observed by a policeman to go behind the carriage, which was standing at Sir William's door, and take off the check braces. The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, said— " Yy, yer Vorship, all that I've got to say's this here, I'm a poor horphin, and without father or mother whatsom dever. I vos very hungry yesterday, yer Vorship, and so I borrow'd the things vot they've said I stole, to get me some wittles." Mr. HosiuNs—Then you are committed for trial. Prisoner—Thank yer Vorship. LAMBETH-STREET. AN AMOROUS BUTCHER.—A pork-butcher, living in the neighbourhood of the Mile-end-road, was charged with an indecent assault on Mts. Ann Lucas. The defendant called at the house of the prosecutrix, during her husband's absence, to look at some pigs they had to sell. It began to rain, and the defendant went into the parlour, where he insisted on having some gin, and sent out a little boy for some. He gave a glass to the prosecutrix, who sipped some, and was then putting the glass on the mantel piece, when the defendant looked at her very earnestly, and threw his arms round her waist. He behaved very indecently, and it was not without some difficulty that the complainant got away from him. On her husband coming home, she said to him—" Tom, you ought not to have asked such a blackguard here," and then related what had occurred. She was the mother of six children. The defendant was fined Si. BATT ON- GARDEN. HORSE- SIEALING. —Two men, named Smith and Poole, were charged with having stolen a valuable mare, the pro perty of Mr. Martin, cheesemonger, West-square, Surrey. It was stated that a gang of horse-stealers go prowling about the fields in Kent and Surrey at night, and steal fast -spe e d horses, with which they hasten to a kn•icker's in town, where, in less than an hour, the horse is slaugh tered, the skin is dyed, and the carcase thrown into a furnace to boil for cats and dogs. The knackers give about V. per carcase.—The prisoners were committed. SUMMER ASSIZES. OXFORDCIRCUIT-ABINGDON,JuLr 12. The assiz , .s for the county of B-rks commenced at this town yesterday. Lord Chief Justice TINDAL opened the commission, and proceeded to business ahout 1 o'clock, in the absence of Mr. Baron GURNEY, who was detained until the evening by indisposition. The cause-list con tained 10 causes, but none of them possessed any public interest, and were all tried by 3 o'clock this day. In the calendar there were ten prisoners, whose offences, how ever, were very light. - _ THE RING, ON THE PROSECUTION OF RICHARD BASING, V. WILLIAM GIBLIN. The prisoner was indicted for sending an anonymous letter to the prosecutor, threatening to kill and murder him. The prosecutor was a miller and farmer of respecta bility, living near Newbury, in this county, and the prisoner's wife and children were living apart from him. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The prosecutor recommended the prisoner to mercy, and the Learned Judge sentenced him to two years' impri sonment, and to he bound in a recognizance of 5001. to keep the peace for seven years. WESTERN CIRCUIT... , WINCHES TER, . JULY 12. Daniel Britten was indicted for that be, being a trader, and liable to the bankrupt laws, owing a debt of 100/. to one William White, and a commission of bank rupt having issued against him, under which he was declared a bankrupt, did, in his last examination, conceal certain parts of his property, consisting of plate, jewellery, books, and a gold watch, with intent to defraud his creditors. The case was an extraordinary one, and excited great interest. On the prisoner being called on to plead, his Counsel submitted to the Court that he ought not to plead to this indictment, because he was under recognizances to appear at these assizes to plead to an indictment for the same offence, which indictment was found at the last assizes ; that there being two indictments hanging over him for the same offence, he ought not to be compelled to plead to the second until the first had been disposed of. Mr. Justice PATTESUN, after consulting Mr. Justice AtnEnsost, said that neither of them had ever met with a similar case, but that they were both of the same opinion as to the course to be pursued. He would try the party upon the second indictment, upon the prosecutor under taking that if the prisoner was acquitted upon that indict ment, he would not try him upon the first ; at the same L i me , if the prisoner could make it appear to his satisfac tion that his course of defence must be altered, he would either let him out again upon bail, and put off the trial till the next assizes, or he would try him now upon the first indictment. The case on the second indictment was then proceeded with. Mr. EARLE stated that the jury must be it it isfied of several c ircumstances—first, that the prisoner was a trader, and liable to the bankrupt laws ; that he was in debted to White in a sufficient sum to enable him to peti tion for a commission of bankrupt; this was a debt which accrued in consequence of a payment of 1121. , ma d e by White as one of the securities for the prisoner in a replevin bond ; that he had committed an act of bankruptcy; that a commission had been issued against him ; that he had been declared a bankrupt, and that on his examination under that commission he had wilfully omitted to make a full disclosure and discovery of his estate and effects. The prisoner had formerly lived in considerable splendour at Walthamstow, and subsequently at Basley-lodge, in this county. The charge against him was that I e had con cealed plate, jewellery, a valuable library, and a gold watch. The question for the jury was, whether the balance-sheet put in by the prisoner on his last examination contained a full and true disclosure of his real and personal estate and effects. _ After hearing evidence, the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. SUSPICIOUS DEATH OF A VVATERMAN. On Saturday the neighbourhood of Shadwell and Wap ping was in a state of great excitement, owing to a report that a waterman, named John Wood, residing in Lower Shadwell, had been murdered by the new police. Mr. BALLANTINE, of the Thames Police, having heard of the occurrence, directed Evar.s, the principal surveyor, to make the necessary inquiries, and order the attendance of witnesses. Mary Ford, an unfortunate female, said that on Thurs day she and the deceased waterman had one quartern of gin and two pints of half-and-half together, at the White Hart public-house, in Shatlwell High-street. About twelve o'clock two policemen, John Douglas, No. 279 K, and Patterson, No. 9 K, the latter a sergeant, came in for the purpose of clearing the house, and told them to go. Douglas seized Wood by the shoulders, and dragged him towards the door, and as soon as it was opened pushed him into the street, and he fell on the kirb-stone. The police-sergeant Paterson said while he was clearing the parlour the deceased was taken out of the White Hart. On his return be saw the deceased lying on the pavement, apparently insensible. He laid hold of him by the legs, and two other policemen, Alpine and Douglas, laid hold of him by the body. They carried him as far as West Gardens, where he (witness) left him with Douglas, Clap son, and Freeman, and directed them to convey him to the station-house es carefully as possible. It appeared from other evidence, that one hour and three quarters elapsed before the deceased reached the station-house, which is only 500 yards distant from the White Hart. A young married woman, named Hudson, was return ing from Astley's Theatre, through High street, Sh id well, about one o'clock ; when near the Bult's Head she heard a tremendous fall, and she saw the deceased on the ground with three or four policemen round him. She said, " What a shocking thing it is you let him be hurt so !" The policeman answered, "Go on, or we will lock you up." Some money fell out of the man's pockets, and she said something, on which the policemen again threatened to lock her up if she did not move on, a:d she left tt sm. At appeared that the deceased on arriving at the station-house was in a dying condition, but no sur geon was sent for till the following morning about ten. He expired in the afternoon. It appeared that his skull was fractured, and that he had received several severe in juries on the head, apparently inflicted by some kind of instrument. Mr. BALLANTINE, after some further evidence, ordered five policemen of the K division, named Robert Edward•, No. 43—Peter Costello, No. 90—John Douglas, No. 279—Alpin Freeman, and another, to be detained in cus tody until the result of the Coroner's inquest was known. The men were subsequently relea*ed on Fagan, the In spector, becoming responsible for their appearance. The deceased was about thirty years of age, of very respectable connexions, and, had he survived, would shortly have come into possession of considerable property. He for many years plied as a waterman at King James's-stairs, Wapping-wall, where he was well known. On Saturday night an inquest was held before Mr. BAKER, the Coroner, and a Jury, at the Wheat Sheaf public-house, when a very full investigation of the cir cumstances attending the death of the deceased was gone into. Mr. Millard, the surgeon, deposed, that the injuries on the skull were the cause of his death. On examining the bones of the skull, a circular portion of bone, an inch is diameter, at the very top of the head was fractured and depressed to the extent of the eighth of an inch, and a fissure extended from the fore part of this broken piece of bone to within an inch of the root of the nose, and another small fissure extended towards about an inch. About an ounce of bloody scrum escaped from the cavities of the brain. A considerable quantity of blood was effused into the anterior part of the substance of the brain, full an ounce. From an ounce and a half to two ounces of coa gulated blood was found under the external membrane of the brain on the right side. The arteries of the brain were healthy. About half an once of bloody serum was found at the base of the brain ; but there was no fracture of the skull in that direction. There was nothing to account for death in the cavities of the chest and body. The viscera was sound. CORONER-Witt you n,w inform us what was the cause of death ? Mr. Millard—l should say the cause of death was the severe injuries on the head. I have no hesitation in saying the appearances in the head were the cause of death. The skull, with the injuries it had received, and the blood hardened, was displayed. The sight drew forth exclamations of horror from all present. As the person who saw the blow struck and the pre sumed injuries inflicted, was not present the Coroner, at the repeat of the Solicitor to the police, adjourned the inquest till Tuesday evening. The following are the names, residences, and professions of the jury who have entered into the investigation with a de t-rmination to go into all the circumstances attending it:— William Austin, pawnbroker, High-strect, Shadwell, Fore man; John Western, comb.manufacturer, High-street; Morris Lee, soap.manufacturer, Wapping-wall ; James Ralph, butcher, Wapping-wall; Thomas Rogers, paper-manufacturer and shipchandler, Wapping-wall; Joseph Dellow, basket-maker, Star-street, Lower Shadwell ; Edward Walker, gentleman, Lower Shadwell ; Frederic Lewellyn, tailor and draper, High street ; Thomas Ames, fishmonger, High.street ; Stephen Elliott, paper-manufacturer and stationer, High.street ; John Hutchinson, dealer in curiosities, High-street; John Mean Carew, mathematical instrument-maker, Wapping-wall; and Alexander Mustart, ship-chandler, High-street. SUICIDE IN A POLICE GUARD-HOUSE. On Saturday an inquest was held at the Elephant and Castle public-house, King's-road, St. Pancras, on view of the body of Mr. Thomas King, a cheesemonger and grocer, of Suffolk-street West, Somers Town. Thomas Robinson, a policeman, about one o'clock on Wednesday morning, was called upon by Mr. HumpherYt the landlord of the Union public-house, in Essex-street, to take the deceased into custody for being drunk, creating a riot and disturbance in his house, and breaking a pane of glass. Witness consequently took the deceased to the station-house in Phoenix-street, Somers Town. Juror—Did the deceased say anything on his way to the station-house? Witness—Yes; he expressed a great desire to go home to see his wife. Juror—And pray, would it have been out of your way to have granted that small favour ? Witness—A little. Wall, another policeman, was on duty at the station house when the deceased was brought in, and visited him five times in the cell, at intervals of an hour. At the last visit the deceased asked for a handkerchief, as his nose was bleeding slightly, and the request was complied with. He irnmediltely burst into a flood of tears, and appeared in the extreme of mental agony. William Tefrant, a shoemaker, was confined in the same cell as the deceased, who slept from the time he was put into the cell until nearly six o'clock, when he con ducted himself like a madman, by throwing himself on his belly upon the ground and crying most piteously, and say ing he could not bear to go home alive to his wife on ac count of his conduct. Witness remonstrated with him upon his folly, and fell asleep. About a quarter before seven o'clock, a police sergeant, on entering the cell, ex claimed—" Oh, my God, the man has hanged myself," which awoke witness, when he saw the deceased sus pended to a bar in the cel'. The deceased must have been very determined in his object, as he could have rested his feet upon a form if he had chosen. While the surgeon was attempting to restore his patient, the wife of the de , ceased made her appearance at the station-house with her husband's breakfast, when, to her horror, the sad tidings were broken to her. Several other witnesses were examined in corrobora tion of the foregoing evidence, among which was Evans, an inspector, who introduced his testimony with the fol lowing beautiful military phrase :—" After I had been patrolling my detachment! !" Mr. Hartley, I, t the" conclusion of the inspector's evi dence, inquired of him how many men he had in his " detichment ?" when he replied 37, but some detach ments had more. a m M o r r . ew H ams u ri t st l pa y roy o n b d s ea e dp r p v t eo e a d r , ba that yri esee vn eo t r h wa e l tohpfaotnl the c ee e s v jeury,rsyt which m assumed senti ment Verdict—" Temporary Insanity, produced by memo/. drinking." TURN-OUT. —A general strike has taken place a mongst the journemen sawyers of Stockpoit for an Advance of wages,.—Manchester Guardian. COURT CIRCULAR. The Duke of CUMBERLAND, and the Princes ALEX-. ANDER and CHARLES of Solms, honoured Mr. DE BURGS •ind the members of his bunt with their company at dinner on Saturday evening at GamLoN's Hotel. Baron DE VERSTOLK, accompanied by M. DEDEL, paid visits on Saturday to several of the Cabinet Ministers. A deputation from the West India interest, including Mr. Buithi, the ag'ent for jamaipa, SirAtExatiums GRANT, Alderm n ATKINS, and Messrs. 110}tiiii,r4 HoncsoN (Irotn Jamaica), had an interview with Mr. Secretary STANLEY on Saturday at the Colonial-office. Lord HOLLAND entertained a select party at dinner last evening at Holland-house, Kensington. The Earl of ALBEMARLE gave an entertainment on Siturday at the S , ud-house, Hampton Court. THEIR MAJESTIES. (From the Windsor Express, Saturday evening.) The Court bas been staying at Windsor during the week, and we are happy to say that our beloved KING and QUEEN, and the members of the Royal Family residing at the Castle, continue to enjoy good health. A select circle of the Court Will honour with their pre sence the fete t o b e g i ven b y the Marqu i s of WESTMIN STER at Moore Palk, on Tuesday. It is confidently ex pected that his MAJESTY will attend ; but whether the QUEEN will also be present is not yet known. The inha bitants of Uxbridge, we understand, intend to present an address to the Kristi as he passes through that town, on his route to Moore Park. It will be perceived by an announcement in last night's Gazette, that the KING holds his levee on Thursday next instead of Wednesday. It is presumed that his MAJESTY'S presence in ,y be. rrquired at St. James's on the former day, in consequenceof the existing state of political events. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Per Quarter. Carlisle, liexham, Morpeth Penrith Sheffield - Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen Cowbridge Newcastle (Staff.) Nortliallerton Swansea Warwick . s. to 5. ; s. to s. 57 48 52 24 28 •46 54 24 26 - 57 24 59 25 51 58 22 26 s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. 60 66 26 29 66 70 29 36 80 86 46 50 70 93 36 46 80 88 40 48 69 72 30 39 90 10 9 3 0 46 110 17 0 8 0 86 126 146 70 80 ,106 160 76 96 [ llO 120 96 100 to S. 'tl 13 go 17 19 3. 8. 40 27 31 - 38 38 42 4 g. d. t. d. 00 00 56 60 49 50 56 60 59 60 00 00 56 60 22 24 s.d. s.d. 1 4 1 8 26 3 29 33 33 4 0 30 36 19 22 20 33 Per 8011. Barnardcastle--. Durham Richmond Stockton 56 70 46 66 50 66 46 50 o 70 8 0 76 86 76 79 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-July 12 . Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suflblk -s. 475. to 395. fine 61s. Lin. and Cam. -s. 40s. to 525. fine 575. ---- Yorkshire -s. 365. to 50s. fine 555. White -5. 465. to 61s. Sne 645. - Foreign, Red -s. 425. to 545. fine 58s. White -s. 525. to 60s. nne 645. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 24s. to 265. fine 30s. - Lincolnshire 24s. to 255. fine a 35. - Yorkshire Wold 24s. to 265. fine 295. - Foreign -s. to -s. fine -.a, - Beans, Old - New 31s. to 345. fine 365 Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 21Is. - Poland -s 18s. to 21s. fine 22e. Friezland and Small -s. 17s. to 20s. fine 21s. Mealing Shelling °ls. to 245. id. per Lo a d. Malt 353 39s fine 425. per Load. Rapeseed .2/ Os. 23/. Os. 24/. Os. per Last. SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oatmeal. ---__. --__. --.__ ............ Aberdeen 40 48 22 26 16 19 25 28 Berwick—. 35 37 18 20 13 15 18 20 26 30 Coldstream ... 36 38 18 19 13 14 19 21 —.-- t. upar ....—.... 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 26 -- Dundee.—~ 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 31 E1gin....._.... 40 49 24 26 16 20 23 30 .... ... lnverness..... 36 49 25 '27 18 20 23 27 46 --. Kelso ............ 34 42 19 21 13 15 20 23 ~ Kirkaldy....... 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 48 43 44 Perth 50 56 23 26 20 22 22 25 -- ri. The size of the measure varies throughout the country. -- EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.—JuIy 10. We had a small supply of tall kinds of Grain to-day, except Wheat, and the sales were rather better for Oats and Beans. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First 62s 08 28s Od 21s 8d 32s Od 32s al Second s7s Od 27s 3d 20s Od 31s Od 3ls Od Third 49s Od —s Od 19s al 30s Od 30s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. - -- Beef, per lb. * Os. 4d. to Mutton 0 5 Vcal 0 4 0 4 Lamb, per qr. 2 0 Tallow, cwt.... 35 S Quartern Loaf 0 8 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 4 Os. 6d. O ti O 7 O o 4 6 37 6 O 0 O 0 Fresh Butter, lb. Os. 9d. to s 114. • Salt 0 8 9 0 Ditto, per cat. 70 0 0 0 Eggs, per doz. 0 7 0 0 OatStraw(kpl.) 5 6 6 0 Wheat Ditto— 5 0 6 0 Barley Ditto 4 6 5 0 Hay,perst........ 0 8 0 10 EDINBURGH MEA There was a good supply of and the sales were dull, at last a Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 6 0 Peasemeal . 1 3 0 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12s .L MARKET.--July 9. Oatmeal at this day's market► week's prices. Per Stone o 1 141 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £0 I 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1 6 Peasemeal 0 1 6 .-2d, 145.-3 d. 16s.—Peat I 2246 GLASGOW CORN There hasl)eeiinO alteration Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. British, old 230 t 029 0 - new Canada, free Irish 250 276 270 300 260 270 Barley, per 3201 b. -.- English 0 0 Scottish 22 6 24 0 Irish MARKET.—JuIy 10. this week in ur Grain market. Oats, per 264!b. s. d. a. 6. Irish l3 6 to 15 British _ _ 14 0 156 Beans, per 2601 b. English ....... 0 0 Scottish l4 0 16 0 Pease, Scottish 14 0 16 0, Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 12 6 14 u Flour, per 2801 b 43 0 44 0 CORNWALL MARKETS. Tnuao—Wheat (average) 21s.—Barley, 96. ed.—Oats. Bs. 3d. ST. AusrELL—Wheat, —s. to 21s.—Barley, —s. to 9s.—.Oat/, 7s. to 7s. 6d. PENZANCE—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—Barley, 98. to 103.—.0atio Os, to 7s. Od.—Beef and Mutton, Od. to 6d.—Pork, Od. to 4d..." Butter, Sid. per lb. LAUNCESTON—Wheat (average) 1 9s.6d.—Barley, 9s.od.—Oath 5 s 3,l—Beef, sd.—Mutton, 6d. LisKEAßD—Wheat, —s. to 20s. 0 ( 1 .--Barley, lls. Od.-.oats, 06 ' to 6s. 6d. BonmlN—Wheat (average)2ls.—Barley, 9s. 6d.—Oats, 7s 6d. HELsro6r—Wheat, 21s. Od.—Barley, 9s Od. ST. CoLuma--Wheat, 20s. to —s.—Barley, 7s. to 10s.—Beek and Mutton, sd. to 6d.—Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt .' Quantity of Cop per O re sold at Redruth last Thurday 2,709 0 Average Produce _ g 0 :ity of fine Coj , mount of Sale, 19-,i 244 6 r. 19s. Od.—Average Standard, 1104 111.0 J. THE NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR 01 " EUGENE ARAM."—We are requested to state that Mr. BuLwErt's new work "England and the English," was pub'• fished this day by Mr. BENTLEY, New Burlington-streets and may be obtained of all respectable booksellers, and at all the circulating libraries throughout the United King' dom. Agents for Scotland, Messrs. BELL and .i3ILADFUTgO Edinburgh ; and for Ireland, Mr. Joint Commix°, Dublin. The body of an elderly man, decently dressed, was found on Saturday morning in a copse near Highgate* The body was yet warm, but life was totally extinct• The face, however, had already assumed a very dark hue and there was every indication of poison having been swid° lowed. Indeed there was found in one of the pockets 8 paper which leaves no doubt on this point, for it intimates that although the first dose of laudanum had not sufficed, the second should do the business effectually. On Saturday afternoon, as a fine boy, about Pentonville,aying ata heavily th e b a i c a k d c o o t at a moderate pace,. nine years of age (whose parents, named Hogan, reside it! was thrown by some P ec W o ih i i t ei came up, ja e p C:;:o s wo n t n d r i ; e u e e i nw t t ht T ih i c e s rh i a o i -gardens, proceedingsid, ewasilt,hpel of his companions under the vehicle, which passed ova him, breaking both his legs, fracturing his skull, and otber'' wise dreadfully injuring him. He was conveyed to Bra' tholomew's Hospital, where be now lies, but without eel'' hope of recovery. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., a t N orthwick.terrace, the lady of Frederi c Madan, Esq., of a daughter. On the 13th in s t . , i n New Bridge-street, Mrs. Cordery, of a son. MARRIED. On the 13th inst., at St. George-the-Martyr, Queen.squaret Thomas Cuthbert Backhouse, Esq., of Caldbeck, Cumberland' to Maria Got o b e d , t h e only daughter of John Iggulden, Esq., ° Russell_squ are. On the 11th inst., Edward Rudge, Esq., to Mary Ann e ' eldest daughter of the Rev. Phipp Long, of Shabbington, fordshire. DIED. On the 11th inst., at Carhead, Yorkshire, Lady Amcotts. On the 13th inst., at her house in King's-road,. Bedford-ro t ' Mrs. Sarah Smart, relict of the late Rich. Smart, Esq., aged 6 5 _ . On the 12th inst., Mr. James Ball, oilman, Oxford-street. On the 11th inst., Mr. J. Wix, late of Billit er-street, aged 61. On the Bth inst., at Enfield, Mr. James Vaughan, aged a On the 12th inst., in Lansdowne-place, Hackney, Geof Thomas King, Esq., aged 73. On the 12th inst., in Milford-place, Brixton, Ann Kent hams, widow of the late George Rees Williams, Esq. On the 17th of January, on his passage home from Bon►hp for the recovery of his health, Lieut. Charles J. Curtis, 1 8 Native Infantry, aged 25. On the 14th inst., John Rob erts, Esq., o f Ely-place. PRINTFO AND PUBLISHED ByMURDO YOUNCI,ATI SUN OFFICE', 112, STRAND. LONDON! Oats. ROYAL • WTI( open u In it will 1 idmission( doggie Ont s ßzhibitors 4 dnesa 2, HAI% RAYIN • some ratAVVI ERY of tin pit last, I Dar selling th 1 (1 Prizes, a scl. 'each. -Next moat) tiptions'of 1 85, Ltonb '0 l' s- 71 -- EW I MEE' WA R ondon Taver 1.1 t., at One hat Meastire tap's election Fat racoey. l at , day, ki 7 11111; 1 1 . 14 tHE ( 4re, Al,rim .A aRITAIN al W it 4 Nßan ! 1 _ LIZ After m anderlvterset-i rneP al tioi .**. • • •• ........ 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