The Sun. — London, England, 1830-05-13 00:00:00

county, with a sheet of the Bankers General Peti tion, which is at present signing throughout the kingdom, and which bears exclusively the signatures of bankers. In a letter which he wrote to a friend of the cause in Landon, he says, " It may be no ticed there is not one individual dissenting banker in either of the towns I have visited." We have to add, that the Dublin bankers have signed a similar petition, as well as those of Belfast ; while in other parts of Ireland the cause is in a state of rapid ad varcement. Of the eventual success of the en lightened principles which the friends of a mitigated code advocate there can be no doubt; but it is only by great and combined exertion that the triumph can be as speedy as the interests of the public and of humanity demand.—Morning Herald. Among the documents which have just been laid before the House of Commons, there is one which deserves the especial attention, both of the Legisla ture and the country. It is entitled " Diplomatic Expenses," and gives an account in detail of the expenditure of various sums of money by Sir Charles Bagot, his Majesty's Ambassador at the Court of the Netherlands—Lord Burghers'', at the Court;of Tuscany—Mr. Disbrowe, at the Court of Stu tgard—Lord Stuart de Rothsay, at Paris; and by Mr. Mandeville, the Secretary of the Em bassy at Lisbon. We shall probably find room for this ex:raordinary document on some future day. In the mean time we cannot help remarking that some of the items contrast with one another in a very exs_ traordinary manner. Sir Charles Bagot's salary, for r - xample, at the Court of the Netherlands i -11,0001. a year, with an allowance of another 1,0001. for house rent—that of Lord Stuart de Rothsay being also 11,0001., and an addition of 1,1001. for house rent—the two embassies bAng thus placed upon an equality, which the relative importance of missions does not in any respect justify. The Government of the Nether lands is, in fact, a sort of nonentity in so far as the welfare of this country is concerned; and all the duties belonging to it might, we are confident, be discharged at the rate of 1,0001. or 1,500/. per an num at most, with greater benefit to the community than is now derived from an expenditure of 11,000/. The Secretary to the Embassy might easily, we are convinced, do all that is requisite, and be amply prod for it, at his present allowance of 1,000/. per annum. In the same way we might ask what is the use of having an Ambassador at the Court of Stuttgard, and what the benefit of giving hint a salary of 3,0001. per annum? Still more justly may we question the propriety of paying 3,000/. per annum for an Ambassador at the Court uscany —a Court which, it appears from the detail of the expenses, costs 7,000/. a-year ! But not the least extraordinary part of the revelations of the document, is the incidental charges incurred by the d'fferent Ambassadors. For instance, the postages of the Ambassador to the Netherlands, amounted in the year to only 951.; those of the . Tuscan Ambassador to .5041.! We must also re-' mark, that Lord Stuart de Rothsay must read an immense number of useless pamphlets, and consume a much greater quantity of stationery than is neces sary ; for his account on this head amounts to no lesi a stun than 3741.! while, for postages (not in eluding expresses), there is set down no less a sum than 525/. We might proceed to mention various other matte's of the same kind, which deserve the serious attention of the Legislature—but we hiive done. We have stated enough to prove a suffi cient ground of inquiry ; and further we do not wish to go. The Ambassadors are, no doubt, all very " honourable men ;" but their duties, we humbly opine, might be performed at one-half the charge.- IWonting Advertiser. The trials for the Doneraile conspiracy must ytt be fresh in the recollection of the public. Mr. O'Connell last night moved for papers to enable him to bring the subject before the House. "On the third trial," said Mr. O'Connell, " Patrick Daly was the principal witness ; he had been a spy of the Magistrates for six or seven years; and he swore that the prisoners were committee-men of the con spirators—that they gave the order as to the persons to be killed, and drew up and signed the warrant for their death. He swore that all this was done on the 27th of April : that witness made a deposition on the 29th of April, and not one word of this order for murder, or of this death-warrant was to be found in it. Mr. Baron Pennefather, who tried the ease, produced this deposition, and handed it to him (Mr. O'Connell) at the time of the trial, and on its production the prisoners were at once acquitted." The circumstance on which Mr. O'Connell grounded his belief in Mr. Doherty's knowledge of the perjury of this witness was thus stated by him :—" There were several circumstances which showed that the Learned Gentleman must have been aware of the cor tradiction between the testimony that Daly would give in Court and the circumstances he had stated in his deposition. Among these was the fact, that he told the Jury that Patrick Daly would be confirmed by ia boy, a relative of his, named Owen Daly, whom be had taken into the tent, and ordered to mark the writing of the warrant or paper. Now when that fact was to be. sworn to by Patrick Daly, and to be confirmed by Owen Duly, some time after it was said to have recurred, it was almost impossible that the Learned Gentleman should not have remarked its entire omission in the deposition of that wit ness—(llear, hear !)—a deposition made within two days after the occurrence."—(Hear, hear.)—Of course it was not so much the interest of Mr. Doherty to discover the perjury of Patrick Daly, and to discover the innocence of the prisoners, as it was to discover the innocence of the prisoners at Borris-o'-Kane. Mr. Doherty did not come out of the business so well as the world might have been led to expect he would, after the big language used by him. Lord Althorp, whose impartiality will not be impeached, frankly told him he did not explain satisfactorily this business. But then, who shall say that a prosecutor should not do all he can to produce a conviction ?—!Morning Chronicle. There is a magnificent contempt in the speech of Lord Limerick, in the House of Lords, on Tuesday last, for that numerous class of the community to which his Lordship is indebted for all that he is worth. " He was not surprised," he said, " at the numbers who had signed the petition (presented by Earl Darnley for the introduction of poor laws into Ireland). If London, or any other great city were canvassed, the lower classes of the people would al ways be found disposed to throw the burden of pro viding fur the poor upon the higher classes." With out the labour of the lower classes, the estates of the 14,i;er would be of no value. If his Lordship's estate were in a country without inhabitants, it would be worthless to him. It is because his Lord shr) has the advantage of living in a densely peopled country, that his estate yields him so much more than an estate of equal size and fertility in the wilds of America. The land of a country belongs to the nation inhabiting it, and the right of property in the soil given to individuals, as best ccnducing to the general benefit, does not abrogate the right of all who are in existence to a maintenance. The obliga tion to maintain those who cannot purchase a sub sistence 0y their labour is one to which all land is necessarily subject. His Lordship tnust not think that he can have the benefits of the social union with out discharging the corresponding duties. In a dense population there will always be many who, from age, infirmities, and at times disproportion between the supply of labour and the dennaid for it, who require charitable relief. It is obvious that , if these people are not relieved by those who are in more prosperous circumstances, they must become the prey of want. But ind e p en d ent ly o f a ll o th er cons iderations, it is not more t h e duty than i t i s t h e interest of the rich, to prevent the consequences of unrelieved poverty. " Let us turn the leaf (says )fir. Barton) and see if we can contemplate without i.otion the last act of the tragedy. After long y&trs of struggle with increasing hardship—years of poverty, and privation, and suffering on the part of the labourer--the usual consequences of an over growth of population, of a deprivation of wholesome and s ullicielit food, of needful clothing, good lodging, and the other necessaries of life, begin to make them selves manifest in the terrible forms of pestilence." " I apprehend," he adds, " that no intelligent man of the present day, whatever opinion he may enter tain on the much-disputed question of contagion, doubtS that the prevalence and malignity of con tagious fever is, in a great measure, determined by the greater or less pressure of poverty among the labouring classes of the community. That deficiency of nutriment is the principal source of epidemic fever,' says Dr. Bateman, who is not a disbeliever in the existence of contagion, scarcely admit of dispute. The history of all nations affords abundant evidence of the constant concurrence of dearth and pestilence.'" Can Lord Limerick have such an imperfect sense of moral obligation as to conceive that the great mass of society ought to be placed on the footing of the brutes that perish; that the rich should profit by their toil ; and when they are worn out, cast them out to all the horrors of desti tution ? The poor are of far more consequence in any country than the rich, because they are more numerous. If it were necessary to choose between the destruction of the higher classes of any country and the destruction of the poor, there can be no question that the former ought to be sacrificed. But it is not necessary that either rich or poor should be sacrificed; and it is necessary that the rich man should be protected in his property, in order that the poor should also be protected. But when rich men talk in this heartless selfish way, as if the poor were without a title to existence, they undermine the foundations of social order, and pre pare a pit into which they themselves may be the first to fall. They should never cut the bonds which hold society together. Abuses have crept, no doubt, into the Administration of the English Poor Laws; but in what a state would the poor be without the protection afforded by these laws, and in what a state would the rich be in the long run, for care of the poor is really synonimous with secu rity of property ? In the very worst conceivable case in England, the poor have a home, and a right to a maintenance, and we know nothing of the com binations to burn and murder to which the Irish are driven by the fear of destitution, and the spectacle of wretches abandoned to famine and disease, so frequent in Ireland. The following case in the Essex Herrld, of Tuesday last, exhibits the Poor Laws in perhaps their worst aspect : " William Rolph and Joseph Collis, two labourers, ap peared to prefer a complaint against the overseer of the parish of Writtle, fur refusing to make up their wages to a sum sufficient for the maintenance of their families. " The complainants, who appeared to be strong able bodied men, stated, that they were employed in hoeing beans ror Mr. Isaac Humphry, a farmer io Writtle, who, though they worked very hard, would not give them more than one shilling a day ; or when he let them a job, did it on such low terms, that it was impossible they could earn more ; observing, if they complained, ' there is the job, if you like to do it—if you don't, leave it.' Mr. Humphry being a parishioner, they had no alternative but to do the work at his price, and then apply to the overseer for 7s. or Ss. each on the Saturday nicfht. Latterly the overseer had refused to give them anything. The overseer said, that as the paupers had five chil dren each, Le was well aware they could not support them selves upon Is. a day ; but his intention in allowing the complainants to come to the Bench was, that he might be advised how to proceed as regarded Mr. Humphry. Far mers, ho said, in that neighbourhood paid good wages for their work at this time of the year, so that able-bodied labourers were enabled to support their families without any assistance from the parish ; but Mr. Humphry de viated from this practice, and would not give his labourers above one-half the sam paid by his neighbours. In con sequence of this, his workmen were compelled to have a weekly allowance from the parish, some of them as much as Ss. a week ; and when Mr. Humphry was remonstrated with upon the subject, he threatened to turn off all his labourers who belong to the parish of Writtle, and take others from the neighbouring parish of Blackmore. " The Bench said that this seas one of those cases which illustrated the abuses of the present poor laws— and to which a great part of the degradation, misery, and pauperism of the peasantry was to be attributed. This evil would be very properly remedied by Mr. Slaney's Bill, which, if passed, would enable the overseer to levy a labour rate ; so that if the farmer would not pay above half the regular wages to his workmen, the other half must still come from his own pocket, though in another shape. As regarded Mr. Humphry, they advised the overseer to rate hint 201. or 501. a-year more than those who pail good wages ; and they expressed their opinion, that the overseer would be able to justify this proceeding in case of an appeal, because, as Mr. Humphry got his farm cultivated fin• 20 or 30 per cent. less than the ether parishioners, it would be so much more profitable to him, and the rates ought to be assessed in proportion to the profit made. " The overseer said he would suggest this plan to the parishioners, who, he had no doubt, would adopt the recommendation. "The complainant was then dismissed." _ Now what would have been the state of things here had there been no poor laws ? Is it not ob vious that there is a redundancy of labourers, other wise Mr. Humphry could not have turned his own men off, and called in men from the neighbouring parish ? Were it not, then, for the poor laws, the farmers of Essex would be able to reduce the wages of their labourers to a shilling a-day. The humanity of individuals would be of no avail, for one farmer, availing himself of the competition of the labourers for employment, would be able to force his neigh bours to pay as little as himself. But the poor laws step between the labourer and his employer, and say that a subsistence he shall have, and if he get it not in the shape of wages, he shall get it in the shape of rates, so that the rich cannot avail themselves of the competition of the poor to sink them into that depth of misery in which they are plunged in Ire land. Were it not for the poor laws, the numbers of the poor would soon sink them to the level of Irish misery. "No one cause (observes Mr. Bar ton) is so destructive of prudent forethought as a state of abject and miserable poverty; and I appeal to every man's personal observation whether it is not just in the very lowest classes of society that the greatest recklessnes of the future prevails. Nor let it be said that our poor laws, by averting, in some measure, from the labourer the fatal consequences of his own imprudence, have generated this reckless ness; for it is in Ireland, where no parochial relief exists, that population increases with far the greatest rapidity."—Morning Chronicle. The Morning Journal Newspaper will be, this day, for the last time before the public. We have neither leisure nor spirits to revert, at any length, to what is past; but those who have watched our pro gress from the commencement to the termination of our career will bear testimony that we have honestly, and fearlessly, and consistently maintained the prin ciples with which we set out, on a hazardous, and, as it now appears, a fatal voyage. Up to the last moment we retain the consciousness that we have practically illustrated the text of one of Britain's best and bravest : • " England expects that every man will do his duty." We confidently appeal to our country, whether, under a series of persecutions, almost, if not alto gether unparalleled, we have not proceeded in .the same bold and independent course that we held in the day of our prosperity. While these persecutions operated more ruinously than ever our persecutors could possibly hare anticipated, the spirit that animated us remained unsubdued ; we perse vered in opposing, by every means in our power, the men whom we knew to be dangerous, arid the measures that we saw were pregnant with destruction. Though labouring under accumulated evils—suffering privations at which the f►ee and the prosperous shudder, with the almost certainty of ruin to our property—we still continued to give emphasis to the expression of one of our bitterest foes, who, under the influence of disappointed rage, was heard to exclaim " We 'ye seotch'il the snake, not killed it." To-day will, however, be a day of triumph to those who have long resolutely sought our ruin. They will for awhile imagine that the thorn has been plucked from their side, and that they may pursue the evil course without a solitary voice to ask " Where go ye ?" or a single arm to enforce the mandate, " Ye shall go no farther ! " But they deceive t hemselves—there is a spirit abroad they cannot crush. The' Ward "liberty" is not yet an empty sound in Britain, and those who seek to level with the dust all her most sacred institutions will speedily find that, though Englishmen can endure much in patience and in silence, they well know there is a point beyond which forbearance is no longer a virtue. It is, however, our desire to suppress our feelings—feelings to which, indeed, we. are unable to give adequate expression. It does not become the oppressed to speak in a tone of even anticipated triumph, at the very moment when the Wove of the oppressor hath descended heavily upon him. It may now matter little whom, as public journalists, we eulogize or blame—what measures we uphold or condemn—what principles we abjure or cherish—the blow of a dying man must be harmless, though the spirit that suggests the effort cannot be despised. Powerless we may now be, but we have still the deep, the un dying desire to avert the evils with which, from the depth of our soul, we believe this country to be threatened—this desire neither poverty nor a prison can subdue. But . if our country is to be the victim of wicked and de signing apostacy, or to owe its ruin to apathy or dis union, we shall, at least, retain the remembrance that we fell at our post with our front towards the enemy. If there be some who will rejoice at our destruction, we know there are many who will deeply and ear nestly sympathise with us. From time to time we have published declarations on the part of Dearly all our contemporaries, proving alike to our friends and our foes the strong feeling that existed relative to the base, oppreSsive, and unconstitutional efforts that have been made to effect our ruin. Their sym pathy will not be lessened when they find how com pletely such efforts have succeeded. There are also many private individuals—and among them several of rank and influence—to whom our gratitude is due: not a few have nobly and generously assisted us— their patriotic liberality will long be to us the sub ject of grateful recollection. If there be some, and some there unquestionably are, by whom aid was promised, and looked for, but in vain—who were ready to acknowledge us in the time of our pro sperity, but who, when " fallen upon evil days," left us to our fate, not only with hopes unrealized, but with pledges unredeemed—of such we have only to say, that we leave them to their own reflections —to the scorn of their opponents—to the contempt of all who are friends to consistency and truth.— Morning Journal. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. lIANSION-HOUSE. A young man, named Jenkins, was charged by Mr. Jones, a glover, with having stolen some goods. The lad's mother was placed next *to him at the bar, being charged by him with having induced him to commit the robbery. .. . The LORD MAYOR said it was a very dreadful case, but unfortunately not a singular one. He had had the misfortune to witness one something similar the day before. His Lordship then desired the officers to make strict inquiry into the facts, and both prisoners were remanded, and ordered to be kept separate. NOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Lister, a solicitor connected with the Morning Journal newspaper, appeared before Mr. HALLS to answer the complaint of a compositor named Coles, who claimed an arrear of wages, al leged to be due to him by the proprietors of the above-named journal. About 25 compositors and printers similarly situated applied for summonses also, but, at the suggestion of Mr. HALLS, two cases only were selected, in order to try the merits of the question, it having been objected that Mr. Lister, not being a proprietor of the paper, was not respon sible for any demands upon it. Mr. Adolphus appeared for the complainants, and Mr. Harmer for Mr. Lister. Mr. Harmer had an objection to make, which however he did not mean to press, although he felt it his duty t• mention it. Is all cases in which workmen sought to recover wages before Magis trates, they were bound to summon their actual employers, unless such employers were at a consi derable distance at the time, and bad intrusted their business to others, in which case those who were so intrusted were certainly liable. In this ease, however, such liability did not appear, as it was sufficiently notorious that Mr. Alexander was a prisoner in Newgate, where he might have bee■ served with a summons, and could have appeared here to answer it by virtue of a writ of Habeas Corpus. Mr. HALLS was of opinion that the situation in which Mr. Alexander was placed rendered a sum mons useless with respect to him. The only ques tion was, how far the liability extended to Mr. Lister. Mr. Harmer did not mean to press the objection he had taken. All he wished to say on behalf of his client was, that he had no interest in the pro prietorship of that paper, and appeared merely as the solicitor of Mr. Alexander. Mr. Adolphus then addressed the bench on be half of the complainants, observing, that his only desire in the proceeding was, that the poor men, many of whom had wives and families, should be paid their just earnings. lie begged to say, that he had no personal feeling against the paper : on the contrary, he regretted the situation in which it ap peared to be placed. the complainant Coles was then called forward, and produced his account, amounting to 61. 155., being an arrear of wages due to him by Mr. Robert Alexander, one of the proprietors of the Morning Journal, for work and labour done at his printing office in the Strand. Mr. Marsden, the foreman and printer at the Morning Journal office, proved that the amount of the complainant's demand was correct. Mr. Harmer produced an agreement entered into between Mr. Lister and the complainants, as part of the general body of workmen, by which they consented to work the paper for a week longer, in consideration of receiving 2/. each on account of their wages, and should the proprietors neglect or refuse et) sanction the agreement, Mr. Lister engaged to pay the amount himself. Mr. Adolphus observed, that this agreement was very fair on the part of Mr. Lister, but, in his opi nion, it made him liable to the present proceeding. Mr. Lister said, he had redeemed his pledge by paying the money. The agreement therefore was cancelled, and could not be produced as evidence against him. He had himself been a considerable loser by the paper, having paid at the rate of 1001. a week to support it. Having done every thing in his power both for the interest of the complainants and the establishment generally, he thought they (the complainants) had not acted quite fairly to wards him by adopting the present proceeding. The complainant Cole said that neither himself nor his companions had the slightest wish to injure the property of the Morning Journal. Neither had they the least feeling against Mr. Lister. In the hope that t he property might he advantageously disposed of, they had waited week after week, but as no money was forthcoming, and as their families were in actual want, they Were driven to adopt the pre sent alternative. Mr. Adolphus observed that the present proceed ing would in all probability render any further mea sures unnecessary. The order for payment having been made out against Mr. Lister, Mr. HALLS observed that 21 days would be allowed before the order should be enforced. Had the proprietor appeared in person, the order for payment would have been made instanter, but 21 days were allowed by law in the ease of an agent.—After some further observations, Mr. Adolphus observed that Mr. Lister appeared to have acted throughout the business in a highly honourable manner. . . _ concurred in the observation, and the parties soon after retired. Charles &nil h and Sarah Tomlinson were brought forward for a final examination. The pri soner Smith, it will be retnestbered, w as c h arge d w ith having stolen a quantity of plate and wearing apparel, the property of his master, Thomas F. Dy mock, Esq., of Lincoln's-inn-fields, and the female prisoner was charged with having pawned the pro perty with a guilty knowledge. Several pawnbrokers produced various articles pawned by the prisoners. Some of them bore the name of Mr. Dymock in full length.—Consmitted. MARLBOROUGH.STREBT. Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate, was yesterday occupied for a considerable time in investigating the merits of a pair of cross -warrants, one emanating from the Bow-street office, and the other from this, the parties involved in which were a Mr. Flexors, an English cabinet-maker (not statesman), Mrs. or Madame Flexon, his French wife, and another French lady, the sister of Madame Flexor, who seemed altogether by the ears in the most uproarious condition, and to tell the whole came of which, with the criminations and recriminations on both sides, would occupy more space and time than can be ne cessary on the occasion. The pith of the matter, however, appeared to be this,—that Mrs. Flexon charged her husband with having, by various beat ings and other ill-usages, compelled her to separate from him, arid take shelter under the roof of her sister, in South Molton-street, whither even he pursued her, and not being able there to annihilate herself, he determined to destroy all traces of her, by seizing a portrait of her that hung up in her sis ter's room, and utterly demolishing all its beauties. Mr. Flexon, on the other hand, declared that he had much greater grievances to complain of than any that could be alleged against him. His wife, he said, being a native of France, he, at her urgent and repeated solicitations, gave her permission some time ago to visit her relations on the continent, but, in stead of doing so, as lie supposed she had, he learned recently that she had started over to France with a Mrs. Montgomery, and some other " gay" ladies, where he understood they ran a " rig," from one end of France to the other, in the society of certain " gay" English Lords then on the continent, that was by no means considered in this country consistent with the conduct of the generality of " cabinet-maker's" wires. This, Mr. Flexon said, was the real cause of the separation, and as for the picture that was destroyed, he had a right to do as he pleased with it, for it was his own property. Mrs. Flexor's sister denied this, and in the end, the two ladies were too many for Mr. Flexon, and he was fined 51. for the destruction of the picture, and ordered to enter into bail for the assault. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday Thomas Gardner, an out-pensioner of Chelsea Hospital, late of the 19th Regiment of Foot, was brought up in custody of Lewis, the officer, and placed a t the bar before Mr. WIIITE, charged with the murder of his wife, Ann Gardner, a female about 65 years of age. The case was only heard in part, and the prisoner vas remanded. UNION.HALL. Yesterday a young man dressed in sailor's clothes, named John Popjoy, was brought before the Sitting Magistrate, charged with an attempt to break into a house in the parish of Newington. The investigation of the case excited very great interest, owing to the accused having been the means of saving the lives of forty persons, who were landed on a desert island, near New Zealand, in August last, from a vessel called the Cyprus, the crew of which mutinied on the passage bstweea Hobart•town and M'Quarrie Harbour. The evidence against the accused was simply this —that on the preceding night he was observed in an empty house by a policeman, who found in his possession an iron instrument, with a sharp point to it, and marks being discernible on the brickwork of the next house, the presumption was that it must have been done with the view of obtaining an en trance and robbing the premises. The policeman added, that the accused seemed to be the worse for liquor. The sharp-pointed instrument alluded to was produced, arid it turned out to be what sailors call a marlinspike, a very useful appendage on board a ship, but not at all an implement calculated for a burglar to go to work with. The accused, in his defence, said, that having met with a shipmate, they both entered a public-house together, and drank very freely until they became tipsy. At twelve o'clock they were turned out, when his shipmate and he parted, and it being too late to attempt to obtain admittance into his lodging, which was at a considerable distance, he (the accused), in passing the empty house, went in, with the intention of "picking" for the softest plank, to lie down until the morning, being accus tomed to hard lying all his life-time. Before, how ever, he had time to get well settled in his resting place, a policeman popped upon him, and took him away to the station-house. Mr. CHAMBERS was inclined to remand the case until further inquiries were made, when the accused begged hard to be liberated, and shed tears that he should have been suspected of such a charge. He then briefly alluded to his recent arrival in England from Van Dieman's Land, in which part of the world he had been instrumental in saving the lives of 40 of his fellow-creatures. At this juncture of the investigation, Snow, the beadle of Newington, happening to enter the office, immediately recog nized the accused, and said that he deserved better of his fellow-countrymen than to be placed in the situation he then appeared. Snow knew him when a boy, and at a very early age he went to sea, and remained abroad for 13 or 14 years, and had not been heard of until on a recent occasion, he (Snow) had heard from undoubted authority that he was the means of saving the lives of the crew and passengers of the brig Cyprus. The Magistrate, feeling very desirous of hearing the particulars of the mutiny on board the vessel, requested Popjoy to give an account in his own way —a statement which may not be uninteresting to many of our readers :—" In August, 1829, he em balked on board the Cyprus brig at Hobart -town, bound for M'Quarrie Harbour, with convicts and a detachment of soldiers, under the command of Lieu tenant Carew, an officer of the 63d Regiment. On the third day they came to anchor, owing to contrary winds, in Research Bay, and while lying there Lieutenant Carew proposed that some of the ship's crew, together with himself, should get into the long-boat for the purpose of fishing in shore. Pop joy accompanied the fishing party, arid towards the evening they heard several musket-shots on board the brig, to which they pulled immediately. On going alongside, the boat's crew found the convicts had mutinied, and they were in possession of the vessel ; they were instantly ordered on deck by the mutineers, who were all armed, and five soldiers were lying wounded near the mainmast, and groan ing from the pain of their wounds. Popjil was asked by the mutineer who acted as the captain, whether he would consent to accompany them to the coast of Chili, on the promise of his being made second mate, but he refused the offer, and was sent below with the ship's company, who at this time had not been sent ashore, owing to a heavy gale of wind that had just sprung up. Finding that a con vict named Bryan was sentinel over the hatchway, with whom Popjoy was rather a favourite, he was admitted upon deck by this man,and under pretence of going for a drink of water forward, he availed himself of the only chance of escape from the mu tineers, and letting himself gently down by the fore chains into the water, he swam to the shore (about a mile) through a rough and tempestuous sea. On landing on a barren anti desert shore, Popjoy had not been long there before lie descried a light at some distance, and having with difficulty, by - Wailing a broad river and crossing a swamp, arrived at the spot, he there found Lieutenant Ca rew, his wife and two children, and part of the crew of the Cyprus, in all about forty persons, who had been previously landed on this in hospitable shore by the mutineers. At day break next morning, they had the mortification of behold. ing the brig getting under way, and steering off in an easterly direction, leaving them on shore to their fate, without food or the means of escape. They were at a considerable distance from Hobart-town, to gain which they had not only to cross an arm of the sea but also to wade innumerable rivers, besides the risk from the hostile Indians. Under these dis couraging circumstances, Popjoy, being of a hale constitution, and an expert swimmer, volunteered with two other men to proceed in the direction of llobart-town, to seek relief for their companions in distress, or die in the attempt. The three accord ingly commenced the journey, but they had not pro ceeded far before they came to a broad and rapid river, when one of the party left his companions, de ' daring that he should go back and expire with the rest, rather than run the hazard of being drowned, or killed by the natives. Popjoy and his only com panion then rushed into the river, and succeeded in gaining the opposite bank, and then went forward for about five miles, when they came to another river, across which they swam with their clothes on their heads. The moment, however, they got to the other side they were dreadfully alarmed on seeing a party of Indians with long spears rushing down a steep bill towards them ; not a moment was to be lost now, and the two poor fellows were obliged to seek safety by flight, and recross the river, leaving their clothes behind them. They were now three days away from the rest of their unfortunate compa nions and on the way back Popjoy and his fellow traveller underwent very dreadful sufferings, both being naked, and having no other food to subsist upon except wild berries and a few muscles they collected on the sea-shore. When they got back to the place from whence they set out, their miserable fellow-sufferers scarcely knew either of them. Their bodies and legs were lacerated in such a manner by the bushes, briars, and stunted wood, over which they had passed on their journey. On the return of this enterprising but unsuccessful attempt to gaits Hobart -town, Popjoy constructed a kind of a canoe out of the gum-tree in which he got out a sufficient distance to sea to be enabled to catch fish for the subsistence of the whole party. In this manner they contrived to live for seven days, until the frail bark went zo pieces, and then they were reduced to the necessity of living upon a few muscles and a species of wild parsley. The wife of Lieutenant Carew and his children now began to droop away and fall sick. It was at length proposed that Popjoy should make an attempt to construct a canoe or boat of some kind, that two persons might venture in out to sea, arid try to reach Hobart-town. Popjoy set to work, and having procured some sticks, which he made pliable over the smoke ofthe fire, be succeeded in forming the frame of a canoe, and with two ham mocks which were brought on shore, he covered the bottom and sides, and paid it all over with soap, which some of the people happened to have in their pockets when they were turned ashore. In this frail bark Popjoy and Morgan launched out to sea, and after being buffetted about for five days, during which they experienced all the privations such a situation was calculated to produce, on the evening of the fifth day they were thrown ashore on Par tridge Island, the canoe having gone to pieces, and had resigned themselves up for lost, from the extre mity of fatigue and starvation. They had not, how ever, been many hours in this deplorable si tuation before they heard the noise of a ves sel coming round the point, and distinctly heard the voices of their own countrymen. Providentially for the two unfortunate men and their companions whom they had left behind, the vessel turned out to be the Orelits brig, which was compelled to put in from sea and bring up at that anchorage, having ex perienced a tremendous gale of wind on her passage. Popjoy and his companions were taken on board in a truly deplorable state, and treated with that hos pitality and kindness which their situation demanded. They gave information of the state of misery which their unfortunate companio ns were en d ur i ng in their desolate abode, and no time was lost in despatching two of the ship's boats laden with provisions for their use. The welcomed assistance arrived in time to save the live' of the unfortunate sufferers, and in less than a week they were all landed safely in Ho bart-town; and at the time of Popjoy's departure for England were recovering from the effects of the dreadful privations which they suffered after being put on shore by the mutineers. Popjoy produced a letter from the authorities of Hobart Town, in which his conduct during the try ing occasion, was extolled in the highest manner. It was therein stated that he was the foremost to exert himself in obtaining muscles and other shell fish, for the support of his fellow-sufferers. He swam out, fearless of the numerous sharks well-known to abound in those seas, and he it was who constructed the extraordinary little machine in which a naviga tion of forty miles in boisterous weather, a tremend ous sea running, with death staring him and his companion in the face every moment, was fortunately effected. If another day's delay had occurred, many of those thus fortunately saved must have perished. The bare fact of their having subsisted for thirteen days upon muscles, is a proof to what extremity of distress they must have been reduced. Mr. CHAMBERS listened with the utmost atten tion to the account given by Popjoy of his and his companion's suffering under the trying circumstances, and said that his conduct was entitled to the highest commendation. The Magistrate regretted that the poor fellow had bean taken into custody; but hoped if the vessel he intended to go on board had sailed, something might be done for him to prevent his sustaining any loss by a detention on shore. HATTON-GARDEN. On Tuesday last a summons had been issued from this office, at the instance of the parish autho rities of St. Pancras, for the appearance of the So licitor-General, Sir E. B. Sugden, to show cause why the Right Hon. Gentleman refused to pay the sum of 21. its. 3d., claimed ;,y the parish as a fire reward. Mr. Senior, the Solicitor-General's principal clerk, appeared to the summons as the defendant's proxy. lie denied the existence of the fire, and said it was the opinion of the Solicitor-General that the claim was an imposition. _ . The footman was produced as evidence for the defence, but even he admitted that one of the chim ney-sweepers drew down outof the flue& few ignited lumps of soot. Mi. RoGEtas was satisfied from the evidence.that a fire did exist, and he must therefore order the re ward to be paid. Mr. Senior accordingly paid the money, and the parties withdrew. KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. The front elevation of this truly national Insti tution, which we have this day the gratification of presenting to our readers, is deserving of admiration for its noble simplicity. It has features of solidity, as well as harmony, about it, which, we cannot doubt, will hereafter prove analogous with the qua lities of its scholastic character. The main building (the front of which faces the west, and is rather more than three hundred feet in length) will stand upon the same ground level with the Strand. In order to accomplish this, a lofty substructure is raising, of which the portion imme diately beneath the front sliewri in our plan will be appropriated to the purposes of the Institution, and contain a series of spacious accommodations for the students of the high school, or lower department, as it is called; as well as certain rooms connected with the College, or higher department. Among the former will be one school-room seventy-two feet long and fifty-two feet broad, and another, sixty by ran her mere than thirty feet ; besides convenient class-rooms, refreshment-rooms, offices, &c. These form the basement, above which is the ground floor, where are the various entrances to the higher depart ment, as seen in the annexed plan. This floor will comprise eight lecture-rooms (the largest being about sixty by forty feet) ; attached to which are as many apartments for the use of the Professors—a hall for public examinations, &c. above severity feet long— a noble public hall of entrance, and an entrance to the lecture rooms for the students; and, adjoining the southern extremity of the front, but turn ng im mediately westwards and facing the Thames, the ground floor of the principal's residence, the erection of which will complete the eastern wing of Somer set House. The first floor will contain the chapel, of the same dimensions as the hall for examinations;, , &c., calculated for the accommodation of nearly ono' thousand auditors; two excellent lecture-roomi, with private rooms attached; fourteen apartments, of suitable size, for scientific collections, museums, libraries, &c. The second floor is also susceptible of being applied to various purposes, which, so far as we can learn, will not receive any specific appro priation until experience shall show in what man lier it can be most beneficially applied. We understand that the halls and rooms for the lower department, on the basement floor, are amply sufficient for the accommodation of between four and five hundred pupils; and that those for the higher department will afford space for the conve nient reception of two thousand students. It is confidently calculated, as we gathered from the. R eport read at the Annual Meeting on the 30th ult that both of these departments will be opened in the autumn of the ensuing year; though hopes are entertained that the high sc h oo l may be ready at a somewhat earlier period. As all access from the quadrangle of Somerset House will be closed, a separate entrance to the . College will be formed across the site of the two houses recently pulled down, and facing the" New Church in the Strand. In giving the public a correct sketch of the front elevation of the College, we have endeavoured to convey as full information, with respect to its in- , ternal arrangements, as we have been enabled to collect from the ground plans and other sources of ' information. Whether these lust shall be tont pleted, to the full extent contemplated, is a question: which, we hope, arid feel confident, will be speedily determined by the liberality of our fellow-co unto men ; on every class of whom, from the Monarch to the humblest citizen, such an institution as the present possesses claims of no ordinary magnitude, and of no transient insportance. May its founders live to reap their reward—" encouraged by the sight of that public benefit which will accrue to all mankind, and chiefly to our nation, by its founda tion r —Abraham Cowley's prop os iti on f or a " Phi losophical College" at London. Vide his works. London, 1669, folio edition, p. 43 of the fourth part. —Literary Gazelle, May 8, 1830. THE MARKETS. COAL MAR ] Adair's - 325 3d. Felling Main 2 7. 0 Hebl.urn Main 32 0 Holywell 32 6 Killingworth 31 6 Tanfield Tanfield Le. Townley 22 6 Willington .32 6 Wylain Walla End Bell and Co. 33 3 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 32 0 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 3-1 0 Ditto Burraton 31 6 Ditto Clarke and C 0... 29 6 Ditto Crainlington...—.., 28 0 Ditto (7allerton 30 6 Ships at market, 49 I—Shit :ET.—May 12. Walls End Nevnuarch.... 325. M. Ditto Gosforth Ditto 33 0 Ditto Hilda Ditto Northumberland 31 I Ditto Peareth _ 9D I Ditto Perkins and Co.— 31 9 Ditto 33 I Ditto Itusssll's Ditte • Walkcr.,,. 33 6 Lambton's Primrose 32 f. Walls End Hetton IP - Russell's Hettoit's W.E. 35 3 Culm 2B 0 Warde's Llanelly 35 0 Bishop Trader 27 0 Tyne small 21 0 sold, 24 1 ,4 -Unsold, 25' COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WISES. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to a, I. to s. s. to a. t. 1 1 . Abingdon 55 62 33 38 21 34 42 Andover—,—..—.... 55 65 22 34 20 23 59 Birmingliam---... 66 66 32 38 28 30 53 rtridport 56 '74 32 39 26 30 54 Cirencester ...---... 48 65 20 37 18 23 40 Faringdon—. 51 86 36 40 26 38 46 Guildford 43 74 24 35 20 30 _ 48 Henley 54 83 30 35 26 30 40 Hereford 64 84 38 43 36 40 -- 15 2„ Highworth 62 80 32 42 28 34 -- Maidenhead 65 84 29 38 22 30 Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 '"„ Reading 41 86 18 41 16 31 44 Salisbury 56 68 27 97 90 28 — SO Southampton 54 78 37 40 28 39 -- 42 Stroud 64 '74 24 38 22 82 44 Tewkesbury 65 78 40 42 30 38 4 4 Uxbridge 48 '7l 21 32 19 32 45 Wantage— w . 46 '73 20 35 16 98 4 4 Warminster 40 74 21 42 24 30 4 6 Wind50r..,.—...—... 43 84 26 31 15 28 40 Worcesterw. 60 63 32 36 24 96 6 2 LEWES MARKET.—May 11. White Wheat (per quarter) .£3 '7 0 to £E3 19 0 Red ditto 2 18 0 3 '7 0 Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1 4 Beans 1 12 0 1 17 0 Oil Cake, New l9 0 0 per thousand. CHELTENHAM MARKET.—May 11. Per Bushel. a. d. to a. d. Pet lb. d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats _ _ Beans v .. 4 9 56 I lambPease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 3l. 10s. to SI. 15s. per ton. HULL MARKET.—May IL d. to d. 5 6 3 6 5 6 0 0 s 6 We have but a short supply of English Wheat here to. day ; but the arrivals o' Foreign, since this day week, • • have been large ; the business done was chiefly confined to consumers, and last week's prices scarcely supported, even for best qualities, but the transactions np to the close of the market have been trilling, and we make no alteration in our quotations. There is little Barley offering, • and fine qualities would have obtained the prices of last week. Old Beans are dull sale, and rather cheaper ; the best samples of new Barley maintain their value. Oats are dull sale, but not lower; very few English Oats now appear. In Linseed and Rapeseed there is no alteration. Wheat, Old -s. Ms. 71s. ......New -a. 506. 625. - Foreign -s. 545. 71s. ......In bond... -4. .-11. ..-11. ' Oats, Poland -s. '2os. 248. Old --11.4„ Ng. - Small or Feed.... -s. 12s. 126. - Foreign -s. 208. 265. Barley, Norf. & Sut ... -e. 295. 355. Linc. & Weld -a. 28s. Ms. -- Foreign Beans 325. 375. 428. Foreign .. -8. 30s. 330 Pease, White -s. 355. 38s. Grey -s. 30s. 31a. Tares -a 30s. 365. F0reign......... -4. 265. 30*. Rapeseed, in bond none. DUMFRIES Mt s. d. e. d. s. d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 oto 7 6 Butter, 16os 0 0 to 0 g Barley 3 0 4 0 Eggs, dozen 0 0 0 4 Oats 2 9 3 4 Beef, per lb. ............ 0 4 0 5 Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 6 2 2 2 6 Veal 0 3 0 4 Potatoes, cwt. RKETS.—May 5. On Sunday last a Brianite preacher wet a very respectable lady at Verydn Chtdch-town, who hap pened to wear a veil, and thus accosted her Pray, Madam, what regiment do you belong to ?" Why do you ark me that question ?" replied the lady. " Why/ Madam, I guess you belong to some regiment or other, because you have a flag flying over your head."— Coin wall Gazette. • BIRTHS. On the 7th inst. at Mere Vicarage, Wilts, the lady of the Rev. Stephen Hyde Cassan, M.A., F.S.A., of a daughter. On the 9th inst. in Queen-square, Bloomsbury, the lady of J. Chilton, Eiq. of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 11 th inst. at Bridport, Dorset, G. Symes, Esq., only son of John Symes, Esq., of Plymouth, to Mary, third daughter of the Rev. Robert Broadley, Rector of Brid port and of Cattistock, Dorset. On the 12th inst. at St. Peter's, 11. Janson, Esq., to Caroline, third daughter of Capt. Elliott, R.N., Elliott. Douse, near Ripon. On the 11 tb inst. S. L. Levien, Esq., son of S. Le ♦ien, Esq., of Walworth, to Cecilia, eldest daughter of Mrs. A. Phillips, of Montego Bay, Jamaica. On the 12th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, S. Davey, Eq. of Redruth, Cornwall, to Charlotte, daugh ter of the late Rev. William Horton, of Rochdale, Lan cashire. On the 11th inxt. Henry Hayward, Esq., of Wantaze, Berkshire, to Anne Mary, only daughter of E. nudge, Esq., of Ewelme, Oxfordshire. On the 25th ult. at Bruum, in Moravia, Mr. J. C. Elmenhurst, merchant, of Altana, to Marie, eldest daugh ter of F. Czibulka, Esq. DIED. On the sth inst. at Morben Lodge, near Machylleth, Montgomeryshire, at an advanced age, Mrs. E. William, second daughter of the Viscountess Bulkeley, and E. Wil liams, Esq., of Puriath, in Merionethshire. On the 11th inst. Mary, the second daughter of Mr. E. Langley, of Dorking. On the 10th init. aged 53, Mr. James Priestley, of Southwark, hop-merchant. On the I 1 th inst. at North Brixton, Mrs. Catherine Cross, widow of the late James Cross, Esq., solititer, of Southwark. On the 11th inst. Phtebe Eliza, the infant daughter of Mr. T. Stooks, of Bedford -plac e , Russell-square. On the 9th inst. at Park-road, Blackheath, Mr. J. Rowley, in his 80th year. On the 10th inst. at t' heltenham, H. J. Ruse, Esq. of Jamaica. 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