The Sun. — London, England, 1833-08-09 00:00:00

sI'IBIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A meeting was held yesterday at the London Bazaar of the friends and advocates of the un happy people of Poland. We should grieve to suppose that all the Englishmen who deserve or aspire to that honourable name had been com prised within the numbers who attended at the above meeting. From the diversified and mingled description, however, of those who did not over look the summons on behalf of a cause so sacred, we are sure it does find active sympathy in the breasts of most classes of our countrymen. If ever, indeed, humanity cried aloud to Christian nations and their rulers for help to an innocent and injured race of men, it has long been ap pealing to the hearts of the whole civilized world in aid of the victims of the-many•times-worse than heathenish brutalism experienced by Poland at the hands of the Russian tyrant. The state of things in Europe may not, perhaps, be favour able to an immediate burst of universal hatred upon the destroyers of all that was great or pre cious in the eyes of a Polish patriot ; but the hour will inevitably come ; the Deity himself will, at his own pleasure, rouse the avenging spirit of mankind, which "is not dead, but aleepeth."— Times. In a Committee on the Metropolitan Police Acts, Mr. Spring Rice moved a resolution that 60,0001. yearly be granted out of the consoli dated fund in aid of the metropolitan police rate. This grant was objected to, on the ground that every town should support its own police. Lord Althorp, however, truly observed that the me tropolitan police was in some measure a general police. " The metropolis," his Lordship ob served, " differed from other towns, because the peace of the metropolis was important to that of other towns, which was a reason that they and the o!ountry should contribute to the expense of the me tropolitan police. That police was, besides, often sent intothe country and employed there as well as in Lendon." The police of the metropolis ;sunder the command of the Secretary of State for the Home Department, and is, in truth, a political as well as local police. For political purposes, large bodies of the police are occasionally drawn from the various parishes comprehended under the Metropolitan Police Act to the Court or the Houses of Parliament. It would not be more reasonable to throw the charges of the re giments of Guards on the metropolis, because they do duty there, than to throw the expense of a police force, applicable to national pur poses, on the metropolis. What, for instance, have the inhabitants of Greenwich locally to do with St. James's or the neighbourhood of the Parliament ? Yet the parishes of Greenwich and Deptford are at present obliged to pay for a police for the purpose of preserving order in Westminster during periods of excitement. One great cause of the unpopularity of the police with householders is the grievous addition made to their burdens by that force, especially in the poorer parishes. The loss of patronage to pa rish boards and the necessity of pensioning many of the old watchmen, who could not be turned ,;ii to starve, whereby a double burden was imposed, in some parishes, might, no doubt, have something to do with the unpopularity. But we are satisfied that the main cause is the addi tional burden. For it is impossible to compare the new police with the old system, without being struck with the great superiority of the former. Justice will, ere long, be done to the new po lice. It will be admitted that no system can be so perfect as to exclude the influence of the ordinary infirmities of our nature, and that the errors of individuals prove nothing in the ques tion between one system and another. Is the Eecurity of the metropolis better provided for than it was ? Is order better enforced ? He must he A bold man, indeed, who answers these ques tions in the negative. As to the accusation of systematic espionage, founded on what has been proved in the case of Popay, we have merely to observe, that there is a material difference be tween taking measures for having accurate in telligence of what is going on, and employing men to take a part in what is going on. The fault in the case of Popay was, that he was not an ob server but an actor. Mr. Cobbett, however, seems to think, absurdly enough, that they who are charged with the maintenance of order should not have confidential reports of what is going on at meetings and assemblages of all sorts. The func fionary to whom the maintenance of order is confided ought to have eyes and ears every where, so that he may never be taken unawares. It is to be borne in mind that no man is con victed on these secret reports—that they cannot be used to the injury of any man. The indivi dual whom it is necessary to put down is the character known in France by the name of Mouchard," but for which word we have no corresponding one in our language. The " Mouchard" is not, properly speaking, a spy, if to spy be to observe, but a participator in the matters reported on, and often an instigator. This sort of character must not be suffered to be come naturalized here ; but to say that a police should not take measures to obtain accurate in telligence of what is going on, is to say that a police ought not to be a police in the proper sense of the word. The object of a police is to prevent mischief, and how can mischief be pre sented without good information of what is in a,ncled ?—Morning Chronicle. In lnother part of our paper a letter will be found from a worthy General Officer, who—not having interest or sycophancy enough to obtain a regiment—signs himself " One of the many Sufferers" under the system we have already at tacked. We agree with him, that regiments should only be bestowed upon general officers as an honorary distinction ; and also that it would be proper to pay generals, according to their de,ree, by a fixed rate ; but the number he quotes as now existing is out of all propor tion with our military force. Four hundred and sixty general officers—a general for every two hun dred men! This excess is referable to a twofold abuse—the former usage of carrying a brevet far enough down the list to include a favourite, and the still allowing field officers in inactivity to Advance. Progressive advancement should only be allowed to field officers actually serving ; and such as are found unfit for service should be placed on the Retired List or upon half-pay, according to the duration and nature of their re spective services. Officers on half-pay, who never ask for active employment, or have be come unfit for it, should be compelled to ac cept a commuted allowance, instead of being carried with the stream (if field officers) until they arrive at the highest grades. It is a premium to idleness, held out by Government other than our own ; but the half pay, if held by active men, was an obstruction to patronage ; and, therefore, its pretensions were resisted, or its inertness encouraged. In Germany, where every fair encouragement Is given to the military profession, an officer inva lided, or placed permanently upon half-pay, re mains with the grade the wzasure of his retire ment found him, unless the Prince he has served accords one final step beyond it. With us, a man who from a troop or company purchases a half-pay majority, may pass the remainder of his life between watering places and clubs ; and if he has the merit of outliving others, gra dually advance, both in rank and pay, until he sets to the head of the list. There are now in London several Lieutenant-Generals who never served as Lieutenant-Colonels, and the greater proportion of them had no foreign or colonial service while in the junior ranks. It need scarcely be added, that several of them, being men of Parliamerhary interest, or keen Levee-hunters, have obtained regiments, garrison appointments, and Guelphic crosses. It seems, too, that favourites are not only provided for, but screened when they do wrong ; and we have recently heard of the complaint of a general officer, who had propagated a calumny aainst an honourable individual, being stifled ill a certain department, no answer having been returned to the party aggrieved. Progressive advancement being limited to officers upon full pay, and profitable colonelcies abolished, the recompense to such general officers as might make out cases to justify extraordinary provision should be left to Parliament. The arrange ments we have suggested would benefit the country, and dso the officers of all grades above that of Captain, who actually serve ; for, as the matter now stands, those who ought to advance are retarded, if not excluded, by the pressure of the dead weight—the ineffectives. We believe this measure of economy would be popular with the army, always premising that by " the army" we mean the operative members of it, and not a section of the United Service Club, composed of hot and heavy old gentlemen, who assume to decide upon all military concerns, and firmly believe that if "off reckonings" were abolished, Great Britain would fall an easy prey to her enemies. To resume. The really incapacitated ought unquestionably to be in a more favourable position as regards rank and emolument, than the casually or voluntarily ineffective. The prac tice has, however, been directly opposed to any such principle. When the cruel and useless measure of incorporating Veteran Battalions was resorted to, officers with one leg, demi lungs, or no liver, were called forth to com mand men of analagotis infirmity ; though a third of the number of half-pay officers, "sound wind and limb," would have done greater jus tice to the old soldiers, at a very small cost ad ditional, and have felt grateful for the temporary full-pay which allowed their maimed or aged brother officers to remain undisturbed' in their well-earned retreat. Under the present system, a Field-Officer who is invalided does nct ad vance ; but surely he is less disentitled to Brevet promotion than the Field-Officer, who, being capable of service, prefers remaining upon half pay, and yet, is carried on as quickly as if he were with a regiment. To illustrate a minor point, we should like to see a return of all the existing Field-Officers, whose first commissions are dated since the year 1815, in which the periods of actual presence with a regiment should be stared against each name. It would, besides, amuse many of our readers to review the Lord Aramintas. There was, some time ago, a rumour of change at the Horse-Guards. If an officer of the stamp of one of the indivi duals spoken of be appointed, we should almost rely upon military reforms. From Lord Hill there is no hope. " TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE. " Sit,—Some of your contemporaries have complained of the injustice said to have been committed by Lord Hill, in having caused Sir Henry Hardinge to be appointed to the command of the 97th Regiment of Foot, to the pre judice of sixteen, bis senior officers, then unprovided for. Why, Sir, had the composer of that paragraph consulted the Army List, he would have found that there are 462 General Officers in the British service ; and 457 of those senior in rank to Sir Henry; 26 of these are provided for by regiments of cavalry ; and 99 by regiments or bat talions of infantry ; so that 332 older officers tha❑ the gallant knight have been passed over for his accommoda. lion ! And yet this appointment, however insulting and unjust towards the profusion—however injurious to the public service, is not one whit more &ening of animad version than many others that have been made by the present Commander of the Forces, who has had the singular good taste, disinterestedness, and modesty, to cause himself (an infantry officer) to he removed from the 53d Regiment of Foot to the command of the Oxford Blues—and from the government of Hull to that of Plymouth !—exchanges by which his in. come cannot have been improved less than 3,0001. per annum, and to which his only claim was, having for above two years been burdened with the patronage of the whole army, and the no small perquisites attached to that office 1 That his former services had been amply requited, no person can, I think, deny ! For those of a pecuniary nature stood thus— before he put himself on horseback, viz.-53d Regiment of Foot, 1,3501. ; Hull, 6171. ; Commander of the Forces, 3,4581. ; pension granted in 1814, 2,0001., making an annual total of 7.425/. according to the Returns made to Parliament ! Wherein his allowances for house, forage, firing, candle, stationary, &c., are unnoticed; and the expenses of his Secretarh-s, Aides-de-Cinip, &c., kept back! And 1 doubt not, that if facts were rigidly examined into on oath, the personal income this great man now derives from the nation is but little short of 12,000/. a year, exclusive of the cost of his adherents. Shall he, in addition, be allowed to insult and oppress older officers than himself? And do the British people mean to continue to pay him thus profusely, merely for providing at their cost for himself and his fay-writes? Since he got his Peerage, which de- kends even to his brother, he has pocketed above 100,000/., wrung from the people ! Let it not be said he is the only person fit for the office; for there is no degree of talent too humble for the disposal of pa tronage, not according to claims or merit (as the newspapers roost justly complain), but by favour ! Let the people legally assemble, and direct their representatives to insist on the abolition, during peace, of the office of Commander of the Forces; or the immediate discontinuance of what, in military slang, is called " off-r..e1.,0.i.g."—0n the non-commissioned offi cers and privates being henceforth provided with clothing and appointments, either by contract, or from depots to be established for those purposes; and on the General Officers being paid according to their several ranks, like the Ad mirals of his Majesty's fleet. By this plan, Sir, a very great, immediate, and an almost daily increasing saving must accrue to the public. Regiments should be held as matters of honourable distinction, without one farthing of profit thence arising; they should be taken from the boys, and given to those who ale serving, while the favourites were in their cradles. The soldieta would thus be infi nitely better clad, the General Officers would be freed from the degrading drudgery of dancing attendance on those they might heartily despise. Favouriteisui, oppres sion, tyranny, f lsehood, wrongs, and servility, would cease, and public frauds could no longer be committed, as the following synopsis must clearly show, namely : The army now consists of two regiments of Life Guards, one Oxford Blues, 23 regiments of other cavalry, seven batt dions of Foot Guards, and excluding veterans, West India, Cape and African corps, of 103 battalions of fiot. Now I shall undertake to prove the several value+ to be as follow, namely—Household Cavalry, 12,000/. ; other Cavalry, 46,000/. ; Foot Guards, 11,000/. ; and Infantry of the line, 139,050/. ; making an aggregate of 211,0501., which is divided among 125 favourites! to the total exclusion of t hose who were serving before Lord Hill, or most of his adherents were born ! And as a neces s fry const quence, leaving 337 General Officers as " dead weight," unnecessarily imposed, on the over-taxed people. To shake off this incubus, I should propose that cud' Field Marshal should receive annually 1,5001.; every General 900/. ; all Lieutenant-Generals 600/. ; and the Major• Generals 500/. each—and according to the present proportions of those Officers, the amount would stand thus :—Five Field Marshals, 7,500/. ; 86 Gene rals, 77.400/. ; 181 Lieutenant-Generals, 108,400/. ; and 190 31,j0r-Generals, 95,000/.—total, 288,5001.-- from which deduct 211.0501., and the sum to he provided will only be 77,450/., instead of the present enormous expenditure ! And I hesitate not to say, that lay carrying retrenchment unsparingly into the Ord. nanee, Commissariat, Barrack, and Medical Departments —hy following the course above recommended, in pro viding for the clothing and appointments of the Militia— by getting rid of the Local Militia and the English Yeomanry—the wh , le of the " dead weight," so far as relates to General Officers, might, in the language of the late Mr. Windham, be " killed off." This plan will, of course, be exclaimed against by all the present holders of regiments ; but neither their wailings nor the hollow professions of economy of those who unjustly and futilely nibble at a few subalterns and clerks in office, should be listened to, while the great leviathan of expense is allowed to stalk at large. The people must no longer allow dust to be thrown in their eyes by those who have selfish ends to answer, without any sincere desire, on the part of such pettifoggers, to benefit the State ! With many apol"gies for this long intrusion, I shall now conclude, by promising to verify everything above stated and much more, at the bar or before a Committee of the House of Commons, should an opportunity for so doing be afforded to me. I have the honour to subscribe myself, Sir, Your admirer and very humble servant, ONE OF THE MANY SUFFERERS. —Morning Chronicle. The Session evidently draws towards a close; not that the public business of the country has been completed, or the object of calling Par liament together accomplished, but simply from the efflux of time, and because Members, tired out with a long, a tedious, and an almost use less attendance, can now scarcely be got together in sufficient numbers to constitute a House. Though this state of things is not without its apology, we doubt how anything can really jus- tify to an honourable mind the desertion of duties ao important—we might say sacred—as those of a Member of the Legi-lature. This neglect becomes the more inexcusable when it is considered that the latter end of a session is always the period when—perhaps, owing to this very absence of Members—measures of the greatest consequence are brought in and hurried forward with indecent and accelerated speed. The session, it is said, will last but a fortnight longer ; but in that short period how much remains to be done, from the doing of which no honest, conscientious man ought to be absent ? In this respect, as well as in too many others, the reformed Parliament has shown no improvement over its predeces sors. At the same time it must be cpafessed that the whole is as much the fault - of-" Ministers as of the Members. It was the duty of the former to have been prepared with their mea sures, if not at its meeting, at all events in an early period of the session ; instead of which, with the exception of the Irish Coercion Bill, the first two-thirds of the session will have been passed in talking, without the House, in fact, doing any thing ; while now that affairs of the highest moment (such, for instance, as the Bank Charter Bill) are to be attended to, scarcely a tenth part in number of the House of Commons can be kept together for business. We trust that, for the future, some method may be adopted to remedy such an undesirable state of things. The remedy obviously is that at which we have already hinted—viz., that Ministers employ the interval of the prorogation in maturing their plans, and have them ready for Parliament at the beginning instead of, as now, at the end of the session.—Morning Herald. Few improvements brought about by the Reform Bill are greater or more obvious than that which has taken place in the constituency of the City of London. The " Lumber Troop," and the Worshipful Company of Patten-makers, no longer possess a privilege which, in the first mercantile city in the world, was denied to nearly the whole body of its merchants. But the real value of privileges can only be fairly es timated by the manner in which they are exer cised. Freedom itself is a valueless possession, unless made conducive to public welfare. By an event, apparently not very creditable to the party concerned, the inhabitants of London have again the exercise of the elective franchise thrown back upon their hands. The eyes of the whole kingdom are upon them ; and by the way in which it is exercised by the first constituency in the kingdom will the friends or enemies of reform claim a victory. The first duty of every man so situated, next to forming a just estimate of the value and importance of his rights, is to pause before he exercises, or pledges himself to the exercise of them. Mere party feeling should be thrown aside altogether. Personal integrity, indepen dence, and mercantile knowledge, must be of infinitely more importance in a representative of London than any political bias he can have ever shown. Above all, we warn the constituency of London against the high-flown promises of pre tended patriots, or of persons who seek popula rity through low and unworthy means. Of such persons they must surely have seen and had enough; and if they mean that their city should possess the influence which it ought to have in the National Council, let them also avoid the political demagogue, whose object, at all times, has been that his price should be found out by those whom he, by turns, can threaten and cajole. In short, let them pause, and make no promises till all the candidates are before them , and then, having duly weighed the merits of each, may their choice be such as will redound to their honour.—Morning Herald. Thank Heaven, the City of London is about to be relieved from the disgrace of a Tory candi date for a part of its representation walking over the course unopposed. Sir John Scott Lillie has been waited upon by a highly respectable deputation, and has consented to allow himself to be put into nomination on Monday next. We rejoice in being al)le to announce this fact for two reasons—first, for the sake of the City itself, which would not only have di sgrace d itself, but nullified its conduct at the last elec tion by allowing a Tory to be returned ; and, secondly, because we do not know any one so fitted by political sentiment to represent the reform interest of this great metropolis. Sir John is a true Reformer in the strictest sense of the word—he i, an enemy to all unearned pensions and sinecures, to the assessed taxes, to monopolies, to the taxes on knowledge ; and an equally determined supporter of vote by ballot and triennial Parliaments. Sir John opposed Lord Henley, at the last Middlesex election, and has the great merit of having compelled him to retire from the contest. He is, perhaps, comparatively little known in the City ; but that. can be no objection. The great object is to prevent the City from being disgraced by the return of a Conservative ; and who so fit, under such circumstances, more especially as t h e Ci ty has not brought forward any candidate sprung from its own bosom, as Sir John Scott Lillie ? Every Reformer —every supporter of vote by ballot and triennial Parliaments —must support him ; and we look to two other undeniable sources o f influence in his behalf—the li censed victuallers, to whom he has been an inva riable friend, and the supporters of trial by Jury, of which Sir John is a stanch advocate.— Morning Advertiser, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday Mr. Vaughan, an elderly gentleman, was charged before the LORD MAYOR under the following circumstances : Hannah Burlenson, a young woman of respec table appearance and modest deportment, stated that on the preceding night, as she was passing along the street at a little after ten o'clock, the de fendant pulled her by sleeve. She turned away from him, not having acquaintance with nor being desirous of knowing him, upon which he struck her into the middle of the street, and when she stooped to pick up her bonnet gave her another blow. She had, she said, been to see her brother at Stepney, and was returning home, when she was assaulted by the defendant, whose motive in pulling her sleeve she did not know. She did not think, how ever, that the motive was a very good one. She had lived in the service of Mr. Keate, of Albemarle street, but was now not in service, and there were respectable persons present to prove that her cha racter was good. The young woman's character was at once proved to be unimpeachable. Two young men (painters), strangers to both parties, stated that they saw the defendant strike the complainant twice, and that they had seen no provocation given by her. The LORD MAYOR-Mr. Vaughan, I know you to be a respectable man, how did this circumstance occur? Defendant—l overtook this young woman in the street and thought I knew her, and plucked her by the sleeve certainly. The moment I did so she up with her fist and struck me right on the mouth and nose. My nose began to bleed most violently ; and as for my mouth, she knocked a tooth clear out. I then gave her a slap in the face with my open hand, but I never hurt her; but when I found that my tooth was gone I felt indignant. I assure your Lordship I took no liberty with the girl. The LORD MAYOR —No, Sir, she took care that you should not; and if the tooth was unsound she saved you the expense of a tooth-drawer. Complainant—When he pulled me by the sleeve I thought myself bound to prevent any further ac quaintance, and threw up my hand. Whether my band struck him or not he is the best judge.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAiroft ask the complainant's wit nesses whether they saw blood flowing from the nose of the defendant, or whether they saw that his tooth was knocked out. They replied that the defendant said not a word about anything of the kind until he was in the station-house, when he produced, something like an old tooth, and said that the girl had deprived him of it. Defendant—Why, my Lord, coming from me it could not be a very young tooth. The LORD MAYOR—No, indeed, Mr. Vaughan, it could not, and it deserved to come out in that way, particularly as it was so old a tooth.— (Laughter.) Defendant—l think not, my Lord. After all, it was such a joke as gentlemen are in the habit of making. The LORD MAYOR—When gentlemen, particu larly old gentlemen, joke in such a manner with de cent girls, of whom they have no knowledge, they must expect a joke in return. But you are mis taken : gentlemen are not in the habit of beating gills because they don't like to be pulled about.— (Laughter I had a very rum customer in au e h. n ) t her, my Lord. She hit very hard, and I under stand she is often in Cheapside at night. The LORD MAYOR—Her conduct in taking liberties with your teeth proves that she is not the person you meanly insinuate she is. You will therefore be so good as to recompense her, if you wish to avoid the consequences of a legal investiga tion elsewhere. You have done an injury to, in my opinion, an excellent young woman. Mr. Vaughan very cheerfully consented, by paying to the girl 30s. for the purchase of a new bonnet. He also paid the two witnesses for appearing to give evidence against him, a kindness by which they had forfeited a day's work, and he took leave of the Lord Mayor evidently determined to reform. W ORSHIP. STREET. Yesterday a case of importance to tradesmen came before Mr. BENNET and Mr. TWYFORD, the sitting magistrates. Mr. Richard Morgan, a linen-draper in the neigh bourhood of Russell•square, appeared, by adjourn ment, accompanied by Mr. Hobler, his attorney, to answer the complaint of Messrs. North and Par tridge, of Shoreditch, linen-drapers, who charged him with giving a false character of a young man named John Wild, who had entered their service as shopwan, and is now in Newgate, awaiting his trial upon a charge of robbing them. The statute relating to masters and servants em powers the magistrates to impose a penalty of 201. upon any defendant convicted of giving a false character to enable any individual to enter the ser vice of another. Mr. North stated that between three and four months since he was in want of a shopman, and John Wild applied for the situation, giving a refe rence to Mr. Morgan as his last employer ; corn plainant accordingly waited upon Mr. Morgan, who gave him an excellent character, and stated (as the complainant alleged) that the young man had left him only three weeks previously. It appeared, however, that Wild, who had re ceived the character of " an honest, sober, and in dustrious" young man, was found to be the reverse. He lived only three months with his new employers, and was supposed to have been robbing them dur ing the whole of that time; but his expensive ha bits, and the diminished receipts in the shop, ren dering him at length suspected, a plan was laid to put his honesty to the test. A person was sent to the shop, who made purchases of him to the amount of 195., and paid with money previously marked for the purpose. He accounted for only part of the amount ; and Groves, a sergeant of police, being sent for to search him, found in his pockets two half-crowns of the marked money, and also two silk handkerchiefs belonging to his employers. He was then taken before a I\lagistrate, and committed to Newgate for trial. The defendant, when he first appeared to the summons, strongly denied the imputation that he had practised a deception upon the complainan.. The character which he gave was justified by the young man's conduct in his service, and he denied that he had made a false statement of the time of his leaving. Mr. North strongly asserted that the representa tion which the defendant made to him was, that the young man had left him only three weeks, and to prove that he had left ten months previously, the complainant called two females, in whose houses the young man had lodged during that time. One of the females stated that Wild occupied her lodging three months; and the other that he afterwards lodged with her for about thirty weeks, up to the time of his entering the employ of Messrs. N ort h and Partridge. He slept at the lodgings during that time , and was sometimes there b y da y , but they cou ld not undertake to swear that he had been unemployed during the whole of the time. After much conversation, and some angry re marks between Mr. North and the defendant, who threatened hint with an action in return for the pre sent proceedings, The Magistrates postponed the decision of the case , that the complainants might have an opportu nity,if t h e y could, of producing furth er ev id ence. aged 19, servant to bury -street, I s l ington, HATTON - GARDEN. i‘iryefisaterrryd:yarStiastr , ah of Sli c w a l i c io r n , was brought before Mr. Sergeant SELLON and Mr. LAING, charged by her master with having mali ciously administered a quantity of laudanum to his child, about three months old, with intent to deprive it of life. On Wednesday last the child appeared very drowsy, and at length it fell off into a sound sleep, in which it remained for several hours. In the evening witness went to the kitchen, where he found it in such a profound sleep that all efforts to arouse it were of no avail, and fearing that some thing ailed it, a surgeon was sent for, who gave it as his opinion that laudanum had been administered to the infant, and that it was in an exceedingly dan gerous condition. Antidotes were applied, and every remedy adopted to save the child, but it was still lying without the least hope of recovery. Wit ness being aware that his wife or himself had never administered such poison to the child, nor given their sanction for the prisoner to do so, they imme diately suspected the prisoner, whom they ques tioned upon the subject, and on threatening to give her into the custody of a policeman, and telling her that it would be worse for her if she did not speak the truth, she confessed that she had given the child laudanum twice in the course of the day, and wit ness ascertained that she had purchased some laudanum at a surgeon's in the New North Road, Islington, and on searching the garden, a laudanum bottle was found concealed, which the prisoner had owned to having placed there. Mr. Sergeant - SiLLoN—Have you any reason to suspect that she had cause for revenge or spite towards the child ? Mr. Parry—l recollect in the morning she was reproached with some negligence in her work, and she went away sulky and muttering to herself; and shortly afterwards I found the child in a sound sleep. Edmund Wray, police•constable, 90, N division, yesterday morning received information that a child belonging to Mr. Parry had been poisoned. He proceeded to the house of that gentleman, and found the child in an apparently dying state. The pri• soner acknowledged having given it poison, and the bottle he Lund concealed in the garden. Mr. Sergeant SELLON thought it a strange and melancholy case, ar►d he remanded the prisoner, with directions that the surgeon and other witnesses who could throw any light upon the subject be re quested to attend the next examination. Rosetta Butler, a fashionably-dressed young woman, was finally examined charged by William Venables, of the firm of Venables and Co., linen drapers and haberdashers, of Lamb's•Conduit street, Brunswick-square, with having stolen 46 yards of black silk, value 71., their property. She said nothing in her defence, and she was fully committed. Her husband, a respectable-looking young man, with tears in his eyes, said he held a respectable situation, and his connexions were respectable. He could not account for his wife's misconduct, unless it proceeded from a temporary aberration of intel lect. He could produce eminent persons to speak as to his respectability. Mr. Sergeant SELLON—Respectable people often commit themselves. I cannot assist you. You may avail yourself of your friends' assistance when she takes her trial. The applicant quitted the office extremely agitated, MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mike O'Connor, a milkman in the neighbour hood, brought his wife Norah before Mr. DYER yes.. terday, for having given him a beating with his own shillelah, about a month ago. Mike, when he presented himself before the magistrate, exhibited that " devil-may-care" sort of appearance in dress and demeanour, so peculiarly characteristic of many of the lower orders of Irish. He had over his usual dress a couple of thick frieze great coats, with his shirt quite open in front, so as to expose a brawny chest, which resembled strongly in colour and hir suit character, the hide of a buffalo. A favourite " dudeen," his inseparable companion, was, out of pure politeness towards the magistrate, for a few minutes taken from his mouth, and thrust into his coat-pocket, in such a manner that some inches of the stem were visible. Altogether, be showed that mixture of fun and ferocity—with an unreclaimable propensity for whisky, which rendered his appear ance anything but prepossessing. His wife, on the contrary, wore the exterior of a hard-working woman. Mike, it appeared, had been daily at the office to urge the execution of the warrant ; but as soon as his wife made her appearance yesterday, with characteristic amiableness he had set about vainly urging her to let him psy the " expenses" and discharge the warrant, upon condition that she should stand trate. Mike told his story with sundry episodes; from which it was with difficulty gathered, that on a par ticular day his wife " Norry" had taken his stick out of his hand, and laid it with hearty good will over his shoulders. He begged, therefore, that "his Honour would bind her down to pace and quiteness wid him for ever." Norah, in defence, said that Mike was so given to drink that he had almost dissipated a good property which he formerly possessed. He would sometimes get into a cab early in the morning, ride about all day, and then come home drunk and demand money. He had been sent to prison for a short time for hav ing assaulted some woman ; and the day he got his release he came home and insisted upon having all the money that was in the house. She refused to give it him ; upon which he pulled out a " thun dering tomahawk" and began to break in pieces all the furniture. She seized him by the neck, and continued to hold him until assistance arrived. The defendant concluded by wishing " bad luck to the day when she married that big, ugly joker." Mr. DYER asked if her husband was at all times right in his head ?—The woman replied, that if he got too much drink he was quite mad. " Not right in my bead," said Mike, pulling out a whole bundle of greasy papers, " rade them—they are my resates. That'll tell you if lam right in my head or no. Sind, phase your Honnor, for my friend Danell O'Connell, the Mimber for Kerry, or his Honnor the Marquis of Lansdowne, God bless him, he'll give me a karracter." Mr. DYER, on receiving a promise from both that they would keep the peace towards one another for twelve months, allowed the warrant to stand over. 11like left the office, and took his station in the road, haranguing upon the merits of his friend, the " Mirnber for Kerry," to a motley audience, which was attracted by his grotesque appearance and vo ciferation. LAMBETH-STREET. Yestfrrday Edward Strange, Thomas Smith, John Owen, Sarah Moore, and Charlotte Alabaster, were placed at the bar before the Hon. G. C. NOR TON, on a charge of coining. The prisoners, all of whom are known as regular " smashers," and who have had latterly in their pay a number of children to pass of their counterfeit manufacture, were remanded until Tuesday next. UNION-HALL. Yesterday an elderly and respectable-looking fmemana,le:cwcoanitiepdanoinedimbyr a c n nA it m a ß er E e ß s s ti , ng al - i l d oo h k a i n ng ded yo in un a g printed bill, to which he called the Magistrate's at tention. It was worded thus :—" Elopement. Left her father's residence, on Tuesday morning, August the 6th, about nine o'clock, Miss Elizabeth Tyrrell, twenty years of age, about five feet four inches high, rather stout made, roundish full face, of a florid complexion, light eyes, and brown hair. Had on when she left home, a dark brown merino frock, black silk shawl with a very narrow border, green and white speckled straw bonnet, white stockings, black leath er s li ppers and sandals. Any informa tion that may lead to the discovery of her, given at the police-station, Waterloo-road, will be duly ac knowledged by her disconsolate father." Mr. CHAMBERS having perused the bill, the appli cant then said that it referred to his daughter, the young lady standing by his side, and that it was she who had caused him such anguish of mind in conse quence of her having eloped from home. Mr. CHAMBERS—I suppose she was glad to re turn home again, after having absented herself with out the know ledge of her friends ? Applicant-- She did not return home of her own accord, I am sorry to say. I met her by mere accident in the Borough this morning; she endeavoured to conceal herself from my view and to get away, but I pre vented her, and gave her into the custody of a po liceman, and brought her here. Mr. CHAMBERS—I think you would have acted more properly if you had taken her home at once ; where was the use in bringing her here? Appli t 661 cant—My object in doing so was to r equest t hinods might be detained here in custody until I 6 1 0 some arrangement whi c h wou ld prevent n reP e of the el o p ement . bee n Mr. CHAMBERS inquired whether she hn io nt induced to leave home by a man ? The aPPdher was not aware with whom she had abandO e 4l 3 home; he w a s con fid ent, h owever, t h a t she r hec is not return ag a i n , an d hi s o bj ect was to place' some security. ist e ' Mr. CHAMBERS, turning to the young ladytP e d out the serious consequences attendant u pon r conduct as that which she had pursued on tb st re ot casion, a n d a d v i se d h er to accompany her 2i 0° home. The young lady, however, exhibited ill disposition to return to her father's dwelling, that the treatment she received did not su' l and that she should find another home. The applicant then withdrew from the t O leading his dau g ht er out b y t h e arm, s h e °t o, same time evincin g cons id era bl e unw illi n gnes" depart with him. IRELAND. At the Clore ass i zes an act i on was b ro ught t v t ' , Augustine Butler, High Sheriff of the ° un l it. against O'G orman M a h on, to recover expens,e°lii curred at th e general election of 1830 on boa 4 1 that gentleman, who was the successful 0 1 0 01, three candidates. The damages were laid at ° h ot Mr. WOU LFE , f or t h e d e f endant, went throug"o, evidence, and commented on it as he vre nt kirf There was only a sum of 128/. 12s. 9d. provel er the Sheriff as t h e ent i re o f t h e expenses o f the ehol, tion, arid he was only ent i t l e d to pay one't" b — o l The Sheriff a d m i tte d t h at h e got 2001. from ea c A two candid a t es , an d t h e d e f endant was ent i t le' o f claim that 4001. to go towards the liquidati ° l 4 the gene ra l expenses o f the election. The vas found a ver di ct f or t h e p l a i ntiff of 561. 15 9 ' - and 6d. costs. The following characteristic letter from the fendant was read in the course of the trial " Sunday, Aug. 22, IS" ot "My dear Kenny,—lt is strange that you had 011 the money paid o n t h e fi rst d ay; I was not aware ("001 omission until thi s moment, and will order it to be Ist forthwith. Charles is not come home; the jo tsPs o l arrives to dinner I will desire him to pay you. W be ftbe r directing to m e s ee th at you d o i t properly. I sat •'rest ' Mister' nor' Esquire;' I leave these epithets to the people, who wante d some time since to ride oYre'id in this cou n ty an d e l sew h ere. lam simply your 'r,(l-1) and relative, O'G. Mahon, and am quite content yle Al. P. as a substitute for Mr. or Esq., so d o n ot tu — , ut again int o thi s error. G i ve my best respects ol° mother and sisters.—Yours, &c. " O'GORMAN MAII°L" THE MARKETS. i Pe SOUTHALL MA RK ET.—Aug. 7. This day's supply was moderately good throughOU''„fer!' market was well attended both by Condon and country /Da . / and the trade with pr i me meat was somewhat brisk, to 4 with rior meat dull, a t th e f o ll ow i ng prices per stone of Sib. . I , , the oflals:—.. 0 too" 6 Beet ......,...,„,... 38.21. to 48,4 d. Vea1.......,........... as. 101 • 4 Mutton ...........,. 3 8 4 8 I Pork - 3 6 Lamb 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. € ,. o til t , The foregoing quot a ti ons were B ee f , V eal, and Pork, '444 to 4d., Mutton 2d., per stone higher than on this day se ;i " Beasts, 252 ; Sheep and Lambs, :3,497; Calves, 89; Pigsi s..... , a small proporti on o f t h e supply left the market unsold. . HAILSHAM MARKEL—Aug. 7. .45 4 Beef--........... 3s. 4(1. to 4s. 4d. I Vea1.,..,.............. 4s. al. t° 4 ' Mutt0n................. 4 U 50 I Pork ................ 3 0 ,:2 Lamb --... ss. Od. to ss. Bd. O P. iole Supply moderately go o d th roug h out ; bade with pr ,i brisk, but other w i se d u ll . _......,-- I _....--. 0 Alt U N DEL MA RK ET —Aug. Q . 4 3 ' 8eef............—..... 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. I Vea1................ 3s. ,--- to Mutton ..,.....—. 310 410 1 P0rk........—....«„ 3 8 Lamb 4s. 6d. to 53 6d. Supply tolerably good ; trade rather dull. _.....,../. ' CHICHESTER M ARK ET.—Aug. 7. .„., I 3s. Od. to 4s. 2d. 08.8 d. 4 Mutton 3 8 4 8 Pork 3 8 Lamb 4s. 6d. t o s s. 4d . the old Supply of both fat and lean st oc k goo d ; tra d e rathe r hroughout. clt' WfV COUNTRY CORN AIARKETS DURING THE isi.:;.<o Wheat. I Barley. 1 uats. 0 ~,.. „, Per Quarter. s. t o s . s . to s. s. to 5. gm / " „„ Abingdon—...... 62 81 31 43 22 30 "" A Andover..—....— 50 61 24 28 ... v 43 3 24 5 282 2 2 0 34,2 3 8 0 ....36 ort od Birrainghain........ 56 58 30 40 16 22 Bridport —...,—. 56 74 32 36 26 30 ..... Cirencester —..... 44 56 21 30 16 26 --f; I_ll l4 l ei e gr n he l k aringd0n.......,.......... 54 86 36 40 26 34 Guildford ............... 48 74 23 32 26 35 *". ,I fe w oy o rwd r t h .. ......=............. 6 6454 2 80 32 3320 Maidenhead ............ 56 68 34 44 22 30 M0nm0uth,,,,,.,., .. 64 68 32 36 24 28 5 4 Reading .............,.. 40 66 22 36 14 26 dit ' 4 6 Salisbury 44 54 23 27 18 24 ....„'" ,t Southampton —.... 54 58 33 40 28 32 4 1 Stroud ~.. "fewkesbiiry ....... 65 74 30 42 30 38 0 Uxbridge .............—... 48 74 26 34 20 26 5 0 Wantage.................„. 58 80 27 43 17 23 ~, Warminster -...—.. 44 57 24 31 17 24 ....,'" Windsor. 59 21 ...., " Worcester. . 50 57 30 32 22 23 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—Au g . 6. OP $ 4 Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, 601 b. --- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. au. tom, Barley, Norfolk and Suflblk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding 22 5 . !0....;r65, LEEDS CORN Wheat, Norfolk and Suffblk, --- York. and Lincoln. Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk - Yorkshire and Lincoln, - Grinding Beans 6311 Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d , Shelling ----- , 4 , Aug. 6. 60%. 1 40s. t ° 33 , to 28 ,. to p, 22 5 . t , 23 , to 18 to • . r 9d. to 10).;!:, 10; s , 225. to 256.r - er , to L Enj trese . ed, English, 231. to 24. Forei, 6. 91 LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE . —Auk 0 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. ---- Red 7 6 0 6 ---. Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White 7 4 I i -- Red 7 3 9 .0 Foreign 9 0 5 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 45113..., 210 g ---- Irish Foreign 0 5' P, BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarte r 3O 0 4 Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. Feeding 3 9 40 0 BEANS, English, per I mperial quarter 36 0 3 6 0 Irish, &c. Foreign PEASE, English, per I mperial quarter 4O 0 4 0 a Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 43 0 45 0 --- Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2101bs 2O 0 54 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. BYE, per Imperial quarter . 32 0 58 MALT, per Imperial quarter I rdeoirr OF GRAIN for the Week ending Aug. - or to fro Wheat.' Oats. I Barley Flour. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. 'Foreign, Brlsilrish,&c. Sa l l 0 41 5,491 4,369 420 —. 8,166 SO iNCENDIARISM.--Me deeply regret to,P;t/ that :this crime has again made its appearance 19011 neighbourhood o f D urs l ey . Th ree ricks Were,or at North Nibley last wee k, an d th o ugh a has been offered, and ev e ry m eans used t° ,,pp o cover the offenders, as yet they have not been e icill o hended. We have been informed that strong 'ld O r , exists, but the disastrous circumstance is wraPP,lO mystery which it is to be hoped will so o n be mad e Gloucestershire Chronicle. e 11° t SEAFORD.—On removing some loos- n o : , c la a t v e e ly rn , at w t a li s e d b i o se tt o o v m ere t d d the , g e e liff e ' no e ul t h wa t i O d b of old tbi t . t te e -P o li tl; thirty persons. It is thirty or forty feet below P o or' / . mit of the cliff, and very little above high wa tec o o ` l ft and there is only space enough to admit one Per r — t tune. A larg e pi ece o f t i m b er, seven or eight le- , tIC,eO was found at th e entrance, w hi c h must have 10° long time. f rom i ts rotten state. S ome in:3 lo6 ' 6 o o o i were also discovered, and at the extremity of lb e ,,i e cr ° an earthen ve-s4 was found, containing severa l r gold coin. —Brighton Gazette. BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at Clovelly Court, Devon, Lady ' lyn Williams, of a daughter. I.ole On the Bth inst., in Charterhouse-square, the lady f e l William Goode, of a son. t he On the 7th inst., in York.terrace, Regent's Par k , Philip Ripley, Esq., of a daughter. : MARRIED. l o ' 4lJo On the 25th ult., at the British Protestant Chaf e ' st orh sur_Mer, by the Rev. J. Symons, Captain James Wig aeo er to Mary Theodora, only daughter of the late Mak''' . John Chalmers, K.C.B. to 1 ";" On the 7th inst., at Hockham, Henry Dover, Katherine, eldest daughter of H. S. Partridge, Es c !' Hall. A P 4 DIED. 00' 5 • On tnst., of malign an t c h o l era , Cbarl e et of G he Sth iO t the c p 7 o t r h t lost., Dorothy, ct. h e rlan d , of Lancaster.place, aged 25. of At New Orleans, Samuel H a i g h, E sq ., auth o r P' 4 of Buenos Ayres, Chili, and Peru." On the 21st ult., the Rev. 'William Harrison' 4 0+ of St. Saviour's Southwark, aged 64. On the Sth inst., S op hi a, re li c t o f Mr. M a lco l m Cheapside, aged 62. , (// FAINTED AND PosLIBIILi. ttlf M It 0 ° Sv/4 Ornok, 112, EITSANIP. THE f ENGLA Thit i t kisix, l on Clock in 4th l to thi Row wa b s l B ' t uc h iR no t t it Wife, it 1 h e most i• 'h e Si btr. DiN.'s-11 1 , t t 4 ; 1 1 h r : a ca . he r ar a 'eu,: 54 144 - 1 -ti k i, te 4 or t 401 x Ptst,,; ° her Op to fee . 4 t t et t N ° : 'ide, t er, e i f, ai m . h 4 th e g. 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