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ented in the Chamber of Deputies with tolerable fairness; and the difficulty is to reconcile such a na tural representation with the independence of the Nlo !larch. It is pretty clear, we think, that where:a nation is fairly represented, the Executive must le subservient to it, if it is wished to avoid collision. We say, if the nation is fairly represented, because, if it is only partially represented, the Executive may buy a majority with the money raised from the people, and thus harmony may be preserved be tween the Executive and the Chamber. It has been observed by a great philosopher, that the fu ture is already in the womb of the present, and that human affairs are much less under the influence of accident than superficial thinkers may suppose they ate. It seems to us that the present struggle in France, the French Revolution, the Reformation, the struggles for superiority between the Sovereigns and the Pope which preceded the Reformation (to go no farther back), are all a series of regular de velopments, and that it requires little perspicuity to see in all these events a constant and inevitable tendency towards democracy. The very existence of a free Press in a country is a virtual acknowledg ment of the tribunal of the people. This did not escape the acuteness of the late Mr. Windham, who, in the debate on the Gth of February, 1810, respect ing the exclusion of strangers, observed, "From the daily manner in which the debates were published, he wanted to know in what way he was to state the advantages accruing to the country ? What was the value to their constituent; of knowing what was passing in that House ? Supposing they should never know, it was only the difference be tween a Representative Government (he should have said an Aristocratical Government) and a De mocracy He was one of those who liked the Constitution as it was, he did not like it as it is." Mr. Windham has not been an inat tentive observer of the events of his day, and he saw that even in this aristocratical country public opinion was every year acquiring more and more strength, and that it became in consequence more difficult to play skilfully the game which he advo cated on the 12th June, 1809, when he stated that " the people seemed to be made only to be duped. They were resolved always to be duped by some body." On Thursday last the power which Mr. Windham viewed with so much jealousy was, with the approbation of the House of Commons, fairly recognised by Mr. Huskisson, who rested his hopes of good entirely on its influence. " Besides, Sir," he observed, " I have farther and bet ter grounds for confidence, in a sound and enlightened public opinion exercising, as I say it does, year after year, in a higher degree, its salutary influence, as well on the councils of Ministers as on the proceedings of Parliament.—(Loud cheers.)—l think, Sir, that no one who reads the signs of the times—no one who has observed the events of last Session—no one who has observed the events of last week, can deny the paramount influence of po pular opinion.—(Cheers.)—This power, Sir, may not be directly wealth or productive industry, but it is the shield of both—it is the safeguard of the na tion against empyricism—it is the finger-post to guide us, in all circumstances of difficulty and danger, to the road of safety."—(Loud cheers.)—So much as to the tendency towards democracy, or the re cognition of the right of the people to decide respect ing public affairs. Once admit a free Press in a country, (and when a nation has attained to a cer tain degree of civilization, a free press cannot be withheld from it), and you gradually engage all who hope for influence in a suit before the tribunal of opinion. i.Now, there is this great difference between this country and France—that here the House of Com mons not being elected by the people, the Members are not necessarily identified with the public; and though public opinion affects them indirectly, yet there is often some doubt with respect to the side which is most favoured by it. In France, on the other hand, the Chamber of Deputies representing directly pub lic opinion, the King who sets himself against the Chamber sets himself against public opinion, and • asserts this monstrous proposition, that the will of one man ought to prevail over the will of thirty three millions of men ; that is, thirty-three millions of men are to be considered as the property of one man, for to this Monarchy, as exhibited in France, does come. In countries in which a Representative system has not been introduced, the Executive may ap pear to be always acting in accordance with the will of the people, as tacitly though not openly expressed; and, therefore, the Kingly power does not stand forth in so odious a light as it does in a Government in which there is an organ for the expression of the national will, and in which it places itself in opposition to that organ. The common sense of mankind is at once in arms against a pre tension which would give to one man, and that man in a hereditary Monarchy, often necessarily one of the weakest of the whole, like Dr. Paley's ricketty pigeon, the power of op posing his will to the determination of a whole people. The French King, on proroguing the Chambers, says, " I had relied on the concurrence of the two Chambers to aid me in effecting the good which I had meditated, with a view to conso lidate the happiness of my people. It is with pain I hear the Deputies declare that on their part this concurrence does not exist. In my speech on the opening of the Chambers, I announced to you my resolutions, which are unalterable. The interests of my people forbid my departing from them."— It is difficult to conceive how any man should be so swoln with conceit as to talk in this manner in the face of a nation, and of his resolutions being unal terable. If the Chamber did not represent the na tion, then the King might have conceived himself as bound, for the interests of his people, to place himself in opposition to it. But he has not this excuse; the Journals—the language of conversa tion—all bear testimony to the identity between the majority of the Chamber and the wealth and intelligence of the nation. In the United States of North America, the President is always one of the wisest and best men of the nation.— His opinion on public matters is, of course, much more likely to be valuable than the opinion of a King nurtured in the folly and dissipation of a Court, the tool of Priests, and so forth. Would such a man for one moment think that his opinion, if counter to that of the nation, ought not to give way ? This shows the absurdity of giving to any man powers to place himself in collision with the • national will. A change then must take place in France. Had the present Sovereign been cunning, he would have availed himself of the advantages of his situation, and cautiously avoided placing himself in a situation in which the weakness of his power would be made manifest. But he has not possessed enough of discernment to take a correct view of his position. Of two things, therefore, one must now happen. Either he must make use of part of the nation as instruments to keep the rest in subjec tion—a dangerous experiment in a civilized country, in which the soldier and the citizen sympathise so keenly with each other—or he must give way to the Democracy, consenting quietly to be what a King can only be under a real Representative Con stitution, the first Magistrate of the country, ac= countable like every other functionary to public opi nion, and bound to obey the recorded opinion of the national will.—Morniag Chronicle. Mr. R. Grant's Motion for leave to bring in a Bill for the relief of the Jews comes on this evening, immediately preceding the adjourned debate. No serious opposition is expected ; for, independently of the plain justice of the measure, it is one to which no fair objections can be taken after the important con cessions which have been made to other classes. The only direct disability affecting the Jews is, that they are prevented from holding landed property. They are indirectly excluded from offices of t rust and ems?. lument under Government, from seat s i n Parlia.- talent, &e., by the Oaths and Declarations required of all persons filling such situations. With regard to the latter disqualifications, we see no reason for believing that the laws imposing them by impli cation upon Jews, were directed against that class of religionists ; but, however this may be, the re [novel of them we think will be at once pronounced to be neither dangerous nor impolitic. Their ina bility to possess land is a mere relic of the h.:rly;rons ages. From the time of Edward the Confessor, when it was declared by law that " the Jews and all they possess belong to the King," to the period of their banishment from England under Edward 1., they were considered and treated as mere villeins of the CrOwn. Their feudal Lord assumed arbitrary power over their persons and property ; and while that state of things subjected them to the most monstrous oppression, it at the same time tended to increase the power of the King to an alarming ex tent. It was this great and threatening danger that led, in the reign of henry 111., to the Act of Parlia ment by which Jews were incapacitated in futuro from acquiring landed property. Upon this subject we take the following passage from an able-written work,* which has just reached us, by Mr. John Elijah Blunt. It sets forth thus clearly and cads factorily the origin of the disqualification we have al luded to : " It was the custom of the Jews, instead of advancing money on mortgage, to purchase certain rent-charges on annuities secured upon the landed estates of the debtor. These rent-charges had increased to a very large extent : and by becoming vested in the King, were pro bably found to give the Crown a dangerous hold upon the landed proprietors of the country. As a further con sequence also of the title claimed by the King to the pro perty and estates of the Jews, an encroachment was made upon the accustomed rights of tenure. When a Jew be came entitled to any landed property, the fruits and pri vileges of the lord of the fee became immediately endan gered or suspended ; for, besides that the land was liable, at any time, to be seized into the hands of the King, who, upon feudal principles, could not hold of any inferior, the lord was deprived at once of his chance of escheat, and the advantages of reliefs, as the King claimed, in all cases, to succeed to the lands of a Jew, upon his death ; and the heir, for permission to take the land of his ancestor, paid his relief to the I:41g. In cases of outlawry, moreover, the King stept in and deprived the lord of his escheat. " In consequence of this state of circumstances, the King was constrained, towards the conclusion of his reign, to give his consent to two s;veral ordinances. By the first of these it was provided, that all the debts of the Jews, secured as rent•charges upon the lands of the debtor should be void ; and that in future it should be unlawful to create any such charge, under pain of death in the Jew, and for feiture of land to the Christian. By the second ordinance, it was enacted, that no Jew should from thenceforth have a freehold in any manors, lands, or tenements whatever, excepting that they might, as heretofore, hold houses for their habitations in the towns and boroughs where they resided ; that all feoffments and grants, by which any Jew then held land, should be annulled, and the lands revert to the Christian Irons whom they had passed, upon payment Kick of the money given for them ; and that if, at any time hereafter, a Jew should take any lands or tenements, the same should be immediately taken by the King, till the Christian should redeem the same. It is singular, that in this latter ordinance is contained a clause, by which it is expressly forbidden to any Christian to serve a Jew, in the capacity of baker, or brewer, or as a nurse." There needs no more than this simple statement to skew the utter absurdity of the law as it at pre sent exists. On this point at least no question can arise; and with regard to the remaining disabilities we cannot but deem them unjust, anomalous, and unnecessary. We repeat our belief that the Bill will pass without opposition ; that the principle at least will be unanimously adopted. * The title of this work is " A History of the Resi dence and Establishment of the Jews in England, with an Inquiry into their Civil Disabilities."—lt reviews the History of the Jews in England from their earliest esta blishment to their expulsion ; and from their gradual re turn.under Charles 11. to the present time. The Author has carefully investigated the numerous ancient authorities upon which he grounds his history, and has altogether bestowed much Isbour upon the work, which will be read with interest at the present epoch.—Aturning Post. In the House of Lords last night the Lord Chan cellor spoke at great length on the subject of " the improvement of the law," as directed by his Majesty at the commencement of this Session. " He felt it is duty," he said, " to state generally the nature of those measures which his Majesty's Government had determined to lay before Parliament." After speaking in a complimentary manner of Mr. Peel, for his improvements in the Criminal Code, his Lordship proceeded to mention the labours of the Commissioners of Inquiry in the superior Courts of Westminster Hall, not including the Court of Chancery, with a view of assimulating the practice of those Courts. The first object of the Com missioners, his Lordship stated, had been to strip the law of those unnecessary technicalities with which it is encumbered. The second object of attention with the Commissioners was the science of special pleadings, and abolishing some part of it, but not to the extent that many had suggested ; for, under proper restrictio ns , i t was o f serv i ce i n obtainingjustice. The causes in Equity have been exasing, but not much more than had been usual of late years. The Welch Judicature, he said was to be placed on the same footing as that of England. In Scotland, trial by Jury is to be introduced in civil cases in the Court of Session ; the Judges of those Courts to be diminished. An improvement in the mode of conveyancing is also meditated. The improvements in the Chancery proceedings are pretty much the same as those stated in the Bill intro duced by the Lord Chancellor last Session, but which did not pass the Commons, there not being time then for it. He also proposed io settle the re muneration of the Masters in Chancery at about 3,0001. a-year each, not entirely as a fixed salary, but to proceed partly out of a fee payable on the com pletion of each report, to act as a stimulus to dili gence. The salary of the additional Judge he proposed to provide from a fund existing in the Court for the last hundred years, and which, after the payment of part of the Vice- Chancellor's salary and the immediate expenses, yielded a clear surplus of 30,0001. per annum. Also two more Registrars to be appointed. The fees at present received by four to be distributed amongst the six Registrars. A return to be made to the Lord Chancellor, from the Masters' Office, of all cases in which no report has been made. In cases of lunacy, Commissions to be issued, when neces sary, to Judges of the superior Courts, in order to diminish the expences. With regard to bank ruptcy, the jurisdiction of the present Commis sioners is to be extended to eighty miles from the metropolis, and the expences to be reduced by some means, of which he gave no explanation. Commis sioners to be established in some of the leading commercial towns, as in Lord Rosslyn's Bill, but those Commissioners should only consist of the same number of persons, as at present, arid to be appointed in the usual way. In the House of Com mons it will be found that Mr. O'Connell presented a petition praying for a repeal of the Union between this country and Ireland. Its fate, perhaps, will be best known front the words of Mr. Ilume, who, in defending the Honourable Member from the attacks of almost all who spoke on the question, said, " it was his duty to present it, but be had not given a single opinion on the object at which the petition aimed." Some discussion took place as to whether the petition ought to be received, Sir C. Wetherell and Mr. Trant giving it as their opinion that it was unconstitutional. Mr. Peel de precated the idea of repealing the Union as absurd and mad in the extreme; but he doubted whether the House would do right to depart from its usual practice with respect to the petition ; and again he said, " He had in view not the petition, but its pur pose; and from that he could not find language strong enough to express his dissent or his repro• bation of it." Mr. O'Connell himself gave no opinion, but said he merely did his duty in present ing the petition ! So much for the repeated pledges he made to his countrymen on this important sub ning The prorogation of the French Chamber is cer tainly a bold step, but is it a judicious one ? It is not indeed, so energetic a measure as that adopted by Louis XVI., when he had the Members of the Parliament of Paris suddenly arrested and banished to a certain distance farm the metropolis. That art was considered by the courtiers of the day a de cisive stroke of policy, but the re-action was still more decisive. The King, it is trite, had not that moral intrepidity of character which would have led to follow up strong measures with constant firmness, and in this respect Charles X. has yet to be tried. It is generally believed in Paris that this measure is to be followed by a dissolution long before the term of the prorogation shall have expired. Whether the Ministers will advise the King to take that step will, we presume, depend on circumstances. To pro ceed to a general election now, with the mind of France in the excited state it is, would probably be productiv e of most unpleasant consequences. In the mean time, how are the supplies to be provided ? If the Minister, by any of that management which Minis ters in some countries know so well how to use, could have only kept the Deputies in harness until they voted the supplies, he might have cut short their speeches afterwards, and turned the key in the door for the present, with all that confidence which a man feels who has got into his possession the " sinews of war." But our Correspondent says that the want of the regular votes is to he obviated by the issue of Exchequer Bills, and that the clamours of the journals are to be silenced by a Censorship of the Press. There is great alarm among the English in Paris, many families of whom were preparing to ba gone; and if this sudden storm should have the effect of sending our absentees back to spend their money among their own impoverished farmers and tradesmen, we should be heartily glad of the event. As to these things leading to a revolution, we have not much fear on that point. People do not consider that the fearful facility with which the former revolution was brought about was accounted for by the crazy and tottering state of an old feudal despotism, with all the grievous abuses which had grown up under its noxious shade for ages. This materiel of revolution no longer exists. That despotism and those abuses have been swept away—and, we believe, the dif fusion of intelligence has taught the people truly to appreciate the advantages of a Constitutional and limited Monarchy.—Morning Herald. Under the head of Parliamentary Proceedings will be found a speech of Mr. Barclay, in explana tion of the speech which he made yesterday week, and which gave rise to so much excitement, and so much astonishment among all those interested in the question of throwing open the trade in Beer. 'We have much pleasure in giving this explanation— which, be it remembered, we called for on Sa turday last--both on account of the high cha racter which Mr. Barclay has uniformly main tained, and on account of the important interests involved in the question to which we have alluded, and which he is so well calculated, by his influence and abilities, to maintain and support. At the same time we trust that we may be allowed to state, that we not only did not wilfully misinterpret, but did not even misrepresent, or attempt to mis represent, Mr. Barclay's meaning, when he de clared that " if the beer duty were taken off, the Brewers would have no objection to the trade being thrown open." It was impossible to misinterpret or misrepresent such expressions -- their meaning was evident on the face of them; and with regard to " threatening," of which Mr. Barclay also accuses us, we beg to say, that we not only never " threat ened," but that we never even expressed an opinion on his conduct. To our columns we refer for our justification ; and cannot help thinking, that when Mr. Barclay accused us of threatening him, he had only heard of our observations from report, instead of taking them from the only satisfactory source— the printed record. Be the case, however, as it may, we have no more anger or ill feeling on the subject. We have a public duty, as well as Mr. Barclay, to perform ; and that duty we shall per form, without fear or favour. We are glad, how ever, to have Mr. Barclay on our side, in advocating the interests of so meritorious a body of men as the Licensed Victuallers ; and trust that his efforts in their behalf, and influence with his Right Hon. Friend, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will avail, along with the evidence which they may give, in averting the threatened calamity of throwing the beer trade open.—Morning Advertiser. The threatened attack upon public-house property is not only a gross breach of the law, which had hitherto held it as sacred as any other species of property, but, if « e are not egregiously mistaken, a breach of faith on the part of one Member, at least, of the existing Government.—We allude to Mr. Peel, •rho, we believe, not only assured a de putation of Licensed Victuallers, who waited upon him, while Mr. Estcourt's Bill, or the Hotel•Li• censing Bill, was before the House of Commons, that there would be no further meddling with their property, but afterwards declared in his place in Parliament, that the throwing open of the trade in beer was a measure which he would never sanction. Yet this same Right Hon. Gentleman is now the member of a Cabinet which declares that the trade must be thrown open !—We cannot, however, bring ourselves to believe, notwithstanding what has passed, that the meditated spoliation will be per mitted. The Licensed Victuallers in different parts of the kingdom are very properly exerting every endeavour to save themselves from the impending ruin; and we hope and trust that there is still suf ficient integrity in a British House of Commons not to strip of the hard-earned fruits of their industry, one of the most meritorious, but hitherto most persecuted arid oppressed, classes of men in the community.—Morning Advertiser. WRECK OF THE MAID OF MORVEN STEAM- BOAT. —lt is with deep regret that we have to announce the wreck of the Maid of Morren steam-boat, which left Inverness on Monday the Sth instant for Glas gow, by the Caledonian Canal. The following extract from a letter with which we have been favoured, describes the accident, which we are happy to observe, has been confined to loss of property:—" We arrived safe at Oban, about four o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and, going ashore, remained there all night.—The boat was quite close to the quay, and when the tide receded and the waters left her, the boat had overbalanced with the weight of goods on board, and the water rushed in. All the goods on deck were washed off by the tide, and the passengers' lug gage soaked with salt water. No lives were lost nor any person hurt. The accident occurred about twelve o'clock at night, and we knew nothing of it till six o'clock next morning. When we came out, to our great surprise the boat was under water. Our trunks were picked up at sea, about half a mile out. In this dilemma, we got a horse and cart to convey us to Lochgilphead, a distance of forty eight miles.—The weather was dreadfully stormy, and we had wind and rain all the road. We reached Lochgilp head on Thursday, at three o'clock, and entering on board the Invcrary Castle steam-boat, reached Glasgow, after a very coarse passage, on Friday evening." Another letter received from a passenger says,--" Mostly every person on board lost what things they had, and I, among the rest, could not get any of my things out." We are sorry to add, that the cargo was extensive and valuable.—lnver ness Courier. AN ALLEGED INFANTICIDE AT BAR BOURNE.—THOMAS WHEELF.Y, aged 67, tailor, and ELIZABETT4 STOCKTON, aged 76, spiaster, were charged, the former with having murdered by suffocation and strangling, the illegitimate child of ELIZAZETII and the latter with having been present, aiding and abet ting him in the fact. The body was found in Barbourne brook, which tuns at the back of WIIEELEY'S premises, on Tuesday, the 19th Dec., and an inquest was held upon it the Thursday following, when the Jury returned a verdict of still born. From facts which, however, after transpired, the prisoners were taken into custody. The mother of the child, EmzABETH Immix, a girl not fourtee n years of age, lived in the service of the two WHEELEy's, bcing their niece, and she was admitted evidence for the Crown. The girl stated that the infant in question was the offspring of her uncle, the prisoner, Thos. WHEELEY ; that he was present, and assisted at its birth, and afterwards put the body away. She also detailed some particulars relative to its coming into the world, tending to prove that it was born alive; however, varying in this with the account given before the Coroner's Jury, and it being also adverse to the evidence of several experienced medical gentlemen who were examined, the Jury, under the direction of his Lordship, returned a vet diet of acquittal for both prisoners. —The Grand Jury returned a true bill against TIIOnAii WuEELEY fur perjury, alleged to have been committed before the Coroner's Inque.,t. Upon this charge he will be tried at the next Assizes, and having given bail for his apvorance,tie hay been Chronicle. POLICE INTELLICENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday James Matthews, a lad apparently about fif teen years of age, was charged before Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY with robbing his masters, Messrs. W. and C. Wilkinson, cabinet-makers, 11, Ludgate-hill. Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, one of the firm, stated that the prisoner was an apprentice for about three years past. Va rious brass ornaments belonging to different articles in their factory have been missing for some time, and on Friday last Mr. Wilkinson carefully examined the warehouse. In an upper room he found concealed under a sideboard a quantity of brass ornaments, consisting of castors, fork-fastenings, tcc. , belonging to tables, sofas, sideboards, and other articler. A person was set to watch who should remove them, and in the evening the prisoner was seen to take them away. Mr. Wilkinson put several questions to him, in his replies to which lie admitted that he had been in the habit of taking property of a similar description, and mentioned an ironmonger's, in the New-cut, Lambeth, named Lambert, where he had been in the habit of selling them. A search warrant was obtained at Union-hall, and Mr. Wilkinson, accompanied by Jefferson, an officer of that establishment, went to Everard and Lambert's, in the New-cut, where, without producing the search-warrant, every facility was afforded them. Several articles were found on the pre mises, which Mr. Wilkinson identified as his property. John Clarke, a young man from Everard and Lambert's, identified the prisoner as the person who sold the articles at their shop. The lad's connexions are very respectable, and a lady, who stated she was his aunt, came forward in a state of great agitation, and entreated the Alderman not to send the prisoner to trial. She said he was an orphan, and if the complainant waived the charge, the lad would be sent to sea. Mr. Wilkinson made some private communications to the Alderman, who said he was extremely sorry he could not comply with the lady's request, for he felt satisfied the ends of justice required him to send the prisoner for trial. He was accordingly committed to Newgate. WORSIIIF-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Lewis Alexander was brought before Mr. BitoucitroN for further examination, charged with having attempted to shoot his father, Mr. Alexander, a livery-stable-keeper, in Chiswell-street, Finsbury. The prisoner, when placed at the bar, evidently ap peared to labour under great depression of spirits, looked remarkably pale, and there was a slight discolouration un der his right eye. Mr. BROUGHTON referred to his notes, and recapitu lated the previous testimony given. Mr. Alexander, sen., reiterated his former statement, and on his cross-examination be admitted that he had, on the morning of the 15th instant, struck the prisoner in the yard of Swan-with-Two-Necks, Lad-lane, because the prisoner had said there publicly, as well as at Tatter sall's, that he (Mr. Alexander) had four stolen horses in his possession ; and when he hearsl that his son intended to shoot him he went over the way to his residence for the purpose of ascertaining the fact, when his son levelled two pistols at him, and having no chance of escape be rushed upon him and seized the pistols. Police constable Kelly, G, 152, heard the report of a pistol, and he immediately ran in and seized the prisoner. Serjeant of police, G, No. 1, was at the watch-house when the prisoner was brought in, and he then used the most horrid imprecations that he would shoot his father even if he were to be hanged for him, and he repeated the same threats after he had been before the Magistrate. Joshua Armstrong, am officer, said that on his bringing the prisoner to prison he (the prisoner) used the most de termined threats against his father, and in consequence of what the prisoner said in his hearing, as well as in the pre sence of the Governor of the House of Correction, be (Armstrong) did not think the life of the father safe. Mr. BROUGHTON (to the prisoner)—As long as sanity remains I can never forget the horrid imprecations and determined resolution with which you threatened to carry your murderous plans into execution before you left the bar the last time you stood before me. I must regret that, from the statement of the Governor of the House of Cor rection the same murderous propensity still haunts you. There must, however, have been some providential inter ference in your attempting to take away the life of the man that gave you life, for if the pistols had been loaded with intent to murder no Jury could have saved you if found guilty. The prisoner, who was dreadfully agitated, said, that he bought the pistols with the intention of intimidating his father rather than with an intention of taking away his life. Mr. BROUGHTON was glad to see the prisoner had adopted that line of defence, for when last there his de meanour and words were of a quite opposite nature. The prisoner said that a complete conspiracy bad been laid against him for the purpose of destroying his property, for he had brought into the concern upwards of 1,000/. Mr. Harmer said, that the prisoner's father-in•law had given bills to the amount of 1,093/., with his &tighter, and that the profits of the business of last year, exclusive of bad debts, appeared to be upwards of 700/., and that the intention of the parties had been to oust the prisoner cut of the concern, but there had been no intention on his part of taking away life. . _ _ - Mr. Norton said that a bond for 1,0001. was passed, and upon judgment being entered, bills to the amount of 1,0931. was passed by the father of the prisoner's wife, who was brother-in-law to the prosecutor, and who lived in Jamaica, to which place the prosecutor wished the pri soner to retire, and that he was at all times ready to enter into an amicable arrangement of their differences. The hills so given were not yet paid. There were 500/. to be paid by the son to the father for the purchase of a third of the concern, and 500/. after for his share of the profits of the business ; and, notwithstanding the great losses that had taken place, the father was then ready and willing to allow him 6001. The prisoner said that, notwithstanding the fictitious statemeats of bad debts and false returns of losses, the busi ness produced 2,0001. a-year. Mr. Norton said that in fourteen months the prisoner, independent of his lodgings, had draws out of the con cern 4001. The wife of the prisoner, an interesting-looking young lady, here stepped forward, or was rather called forward, and said that her husband was alio her cousin. Her father was a merchant in Jamaica, and she was then without a protector. Mr. BROUGHTON said that, if the prosecutor was one hundred times a greater rogue than what his son repre sented him to be, still it was no justification of his shoot ing him. But, as it appeared it was altogether a family quarrel, he would recommend the intervention of some mutual friends to as to allay the unfortunate differences that at present unhappily existed; at the same time, as the capital charge had been abandoned, he could not, con sistently with his duty, under all the circumstances of the case, part with the possession of the prisoner until he would give security, himself in 200/., and two sureties in 1001. each, with twenty-four hours' notice of bail.— The prisoner was then removed. H ATFON. GARDEN. A young woman of repectable appearance, named Mary Frost, was brought up for re-examination on Saturday, charged with having administered poison to her child. Sarah Clarke stated that about eighteen months ago the prisoner, who then lived as wet nurse in the family of Mr. Rowe, a surgeon, observing a bill in her window, place"! the child under her care at Is. per week, which payments she kept up regularly till she was discharged from her situ ation; the account hal run on to about 51 10s. On Thursday afternoon last, about one o'clock, the prisoner came and requested witness to return the child, as she wd9 about to go into the country where she could get her child nursed at 4s. Gd. per week, and on her return to town she would discharge her account. Witness delivered the child, in 'perfect health, to the prisoner; it had never been afflicted with fits or il!nass during the period that witness had charge of it. Police constable No. 121, Division E, between eight and nine o'clock on Thursday evening, while on duty in Tottenham-cJurt-road, observed the prisoner lying on the steps of a door beastly intoxicated, with the child in convulsions in her arms. Immediately he tuck the child to a surgeon, who declared that had it ken two minutes loser iu that state without medical assistanc e it must in evitably have died. After prescribing for it he desired him to convey it to Middlesex Hospital, where it now lies in a precarious state. He was afterwards informed that the prisoner was Seen to enter three druggists' shops to make purchases, and he took her to the police station. The prisoner was again remanded. A long investigation took place in the case of a female named Catherine Cockerell alias Gibbs, who was charged with having murdered her infant. The prisoner lived as cook with a family in the neigh bourhood of Bedford-square, and on the 14th of February last went to bed apparently in good health along with Mary Philips, the housemaid. The prisoner got up several times during the night, and about four o'clock in the morning struck a light and went down stairs dressed. The housemaid saw her sitting by the fire during the morning, and she seemed to be la-ge in the family way, but denied such was the case. About ten o'clock the prisoner sent her on an errand, and on her return, about an hour afterwards, she found the prisoner seated in the kitchen very ill but changed in her appearance; and, from her previous conduct, and other circumstances, the witness was convinced that the prisoner had been delivered of a child; but on the third or fourth day following (after she had been visited by a medical man, who gave it as his opinion that she had given birth to a child) she con fessed the truth to the witness, and took her to an adjoin ing yard, where the body of a female infant was hidden. The prisoner, with the witness, removed the body of the child and placed it in a box i❑ the house; and subse quently, information was sent to the parish officers, and a Coroner's inquest was held on the infant on the 20th of February. In the mean time the prisoner was kept at the workhouse of St. Andrew's i❑ so weakly a state that she eould not be brought up for examination till the pre sent period. Mr. Peregrine Fernandez, a surgeon, said that the child was uncommonly large; the lungs having been examined by the usual test left a doubtful result. He could not positively say whether or not the child was born alive. Mr. LAING, after hearing the evidence, directed that the prisoner should be committed for trial for the misde meanour of concealing the birth of her child. She made no defence beyond saying that the child was not born alive. The investigation occupied two hours, and was conducted with closed doors. The father of the child is understood to be a married man in humble cir cumstances, who has since deserted his wife and children, and left them chargeable to the parish. UNION.HALL. An old woman, of the gypsey tribe, named Martha Allen, was charged with obtaining money from a young female, under pretence of telling her fortune. Betsy Shelly, a girl 17 years of age, stated she was in the service of a coffee-shop-keeper, in Prospect-row, whose wife was in the habit of having her fortune told by the defendant. Anxious to know whether she should soon procure a hus band, she one day called upon the prisoner, at her house in Three Cups-alley, and gave her some money, which she obtained upon pledging her ear rings. The prisoner then told her that two men—a dark one and a fair one—were desperately in love with her; that the dark one would use every effort to get her into his power, but that the fair one would become her husband. The prisoner then gave her a paper, which she said contained American seeds, and desired her to put it into her bosom at night, and she would be caressed by the man she loved. These directions were complied with ; but, said the complainant, I never saw or dreamt of the dark man or the fair one. In a week after she again visited the prisoner, and received from her a quantity of red powder, which she was desired to sprinkle upon nine pieces of paper cut in the shape of hearts. This she was to do in her bed-room, and then blow out the candle; when the prisoner assured her that the man who was to be her husband would walk into the room and em brace her tenderly in his arms. " Don't be alarmed," she added, "when you see him, but welcome him to your cham ber." At night the girl cut out the nine hearts, but she said, " just as I was in the act of spreading the red powder upon the first heart, I heard a loud thump at the door, the flame of the candle burnt blue, and the house shook as if it had been threatened by an earthquake." Mr. HONE-Well, what did you do next, when the house shook about your ears in the way you have de scribed ?—Complainant—What did I do, Sir? Why I jumped into bed as quickly as I could, and covering my head over with the blankets, lay there afraid to pop it up, in case I should hear or see anything. Mr. HONE—Then you did not put the experiment to the test ?—Complainant—No, Sir; for in my hurry to get into bed, I upset all the red powder. The Magistrate committed the prisoner to the House of Correction for fourteen days, to hard labour. The old woman said she had the rheumatism so bad, that it was impossible she could go on the wheel. TAX ON NEWSPAPERS. (From the Sheffield Mercury.) The Journeymen Letter-press Printers of Shef• field, at a meeting lately held of their body, agreed to petition Parliament for a revision and moddica tion of the Laws affecting Newspapers. A Com mittee wat in consequence formed, and the following petition subsequently agreed upon to be transmitted to Lord John Russell, M.P., Chairman to the Prin ters' Pension Society, to be by him presented to the Commons' House of Parliament : To the Honourable the Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in Parliament assembled, The humble Petition of the Letter-press Printers of the Town of Sheffield, in the West Riding of the County of York, Humbly £heweth,—That while they beg leave to ap proach your Honourable House with the expression of their sincere thanks for the many favours the Letter-press Printers of this country have received from your Ho nourable House, they wish briefly to draw your serious attention to the present heavily-taxed state of the News paper Press of Great Britain, with a view to its amelio ration, without at all impairing the Revenue at present de rivable therefrom. That your petitioners humbly suggest to your Honour able House, the expedience of a reduction of the pre sent Newspaper Stamp Duty from Fourpence to Two pence ; as well as that of the Advertisement Duty from the present sum of Three Shillings and Sixpence charged upon each, to the sum of Two Shillings ; or to such reduced sum as your Honourable House shall, in your wisdom, deem most advisable; which reduc tions, your petitioners presume to assert, would effect the practical extension of at least double the present sale of Newspapers, and a proportional, if not greater increase of the number of Advertisements, particularly smaller ones, in provincial towns ; such as Houses to Let ; Situa tions and Servants wanted, &c., which Advertisements, from the present high rate of duty, are almost excluded from Country Newspapers; and your petitioners need scarcely add, that while your Honourable House will readily perceive the practicability and sound policy of such an alteration in the laws affecting Newspapers, the Duty of Threepence per pound, which is now paid upon Print ing Paper before leaving the Mill, would then be very considerably increased. That your petitioners, in addition to the above, would fervently wish to impress upon the most serious attention of your Honourable House, the important moral and pc litical consideration that, by granting what they now to humbly but earnestly crave, a very great number of addi- tional hands would find employment, not only from what your petitioners conceive certain as to the additional extent of Newspaper circulation, but also from the very probable addition of Newspaper establishments throughout the kingdom ; thus strengthening, by their willing energies and increased means, the good purposes of a wise Govern ment, as well as filling their respective situations in so ciety in a manner honourable to the respectable profession of which they are members, and with credit to themselves, and comfort to those with whom they are connected. Your petitioners consider it unnecessary to trouble your Honourable House with any enumeration of the advantages that would accrue, direct or indirect, to the country in general, especially the commercial public, and last, though not least, to your humble petitioners, which they presume will evidently present themselves as the certain and happy results of the proposed reduction of Newspaper Stamp and Advertisement Duties, while the increase of Revenue consequent thereupon would be very considerable. And your petitioners being also aware that many statements have already been before the public and your Honourable House, calculated with great nicety, and after mature study, by those best qualified for such investi gations, they have no wish to again obtrude them upon the notice of your Honourable House; yet they cannot omit recurring to the authentically ascertained fact, that the Stamp Duty upon a Newspaper amounts to more than one hundred per centum, and the present Advertisement Duty, upon an average of all Advertisements, to above eighty per centum. Your petitioners therefore humbly crave your Honour able House to take the foregoing petition into your most serious consideration, and grant such relief as in your wisdom shall be judged necessary, (provided always that the public at large participate in the benefit of the wished for reductions.) And your petitioners shall ever pray, &c. SHOCKING MURDER NEAR EMLEY.—The neighbourhood of Emley and Kirkburton was thrown into great alarm on the morning of Wednesday sennight, in con sequence of the body of a young woman, named RACHAEL CROSSLEY, being found at the bottom of a coal pit in that parish, by the workmen who were going to their daily labour. The following day an inquest was held upon the body of the deceased, before Mr. Thomas LEE, coroner, when, after hearing evidence at length, the jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against Wur.uor Siraw." On the 7th inst. a great sensation was excited at Solihull by the discovery of a humm body, in an cd vanced state of putrefaction, in a ditch in a field near the residence of 11r. POWELL. On being removed to the work-house, it proved on examination to be the body of a female, but decomposition had taken place to such an ex tent as to render it totally impossible to identify the The action of the water in which it had laid iad converted the greatest part of the body into adipocere, a substance greatly resembling sperniaceti.—Birminyham Journal. Features. SHEEP SKINS. Wool Os. Od. to 00. Ott. I Polledw.34. CI to 40. 6d. Downs EXECUTION IN PHILIPSTOWN. PmursTowx, MA ncH:ls.—This,day Michael Grogath of Rafeston, miller, was executed at the front of the gaol► pursuant to his sentence at the last Assizes of Philipstown► for the murder of his wife, Diana Grogan, sometime in the month of August last. A few minutes before he appeared on the drop, the ReV• Mr. Rigny, the parish priest (who attended him since bid condemnation, and sat up with him all the night before hie execution) appeared at the drop, and addressed the assembled multitude nearly in the words following My good people I crave your attention for a few moments, whilst I address you at the request of the unfortunate man who is shortly to make his exit before you. He requests of me to make it known to you all that he is guilty of the crime of which his life is the forfeit. He says also that five minutes before he committed the rash act which has brought him to this untimely end, he had no more notion of killing his wife than he had of cutting off his right hand ; but drtua kennes is the cause of his misfortune. He desires me also to inform you that he dies in peace with the whole world, and that he forgives his prosecutors." Shortly after the wretched man appeared at the drop, with the cap drawn over hie face—he rather crawled upon his feet to the fatal drop, where he scarcely stood until he was launched into eternity. After hanging the ususl time, he was let down and brought into the gaol, where he was to lie until sent to Tullamore for dissection.— Dublin Morning Register. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10d. lb/ the 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from y i d. to heloso that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-lfareh 22. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) 50s. '7os. fine 759. 85s. Old Ditto Ditto.. sf)s. ....s. fille -s. -s. New Foreign Ditto A sk Old I)itto ." . -s. 455, fine -9.1008. New White Clover sos. 755. fine SOs. 905. - Old Ditto Ditto.... -. .-8. SOs. fine 828. 90s. New Trefoil 12s. -IL fine 38s. 425. Old Ditto ...........,..*,......,.......„.....„....., ay.... --8. -s. fine --. -s. Rib Grass --, - . 10s. 20s. fine 255. 30s. English Carraway Seed -s. -s. 525. fine 545. Foreign Ditto ..... , ~... . . -s. -s. 555. fine 511 Voriander .„--. --s. 225. tine -s. 245. St. Foin . (per Quarter),........-.. -s. 428. fine 4:.:5. 40s. Rye Grass Pacey Ditto r...........................w...........................,„ 0w 40s. 455. new -s. -0. Linseed, for feeding -s. a-is. fine -s. 425. Ditto, for crushing ~..... -e. -s. -6. fine -5. Canary Seed, New -s. 265. fine -s. 468. , Ditto 01d....-.-----...---__,..... -a. -6. -s. fine--a. White Mustard Seed-,...(per 8u5he1)..... -s. 7s. Os. fine - 4 . Brown Ditto -s. 12s. 13s. fine --s• Turnip Seeds, Roundf Green and Red Ditto —a. —s. —s. tine 18s. Tares, Old •••••6. 255. WS. fine •••• 4 • Ditto New — s. fine 425. 465. Rare Seed, English, fine (per Last) —l. 4QI. Foreign PRICES OF 11 0 PS.-March 22. Kent Pockets e4••••••100•WISOOMINAMMI••• 61 Os. 71. 7s. to 91 05. Sussex Ditto 51. 14$. 61. Os. to 61. 123. liesex 61. Os. 71. Os. to 71, 7s. Farnham Ditto, 0/. Os. 101. Os. to 121. Os. Seconds 01. Os. 71. Os. to 9!. Os. 5!. ss. 61. 10s. to 71. '7O. - Os. 51. Bs. to 61. Os. ss. 6/. Os. to 61. 10$. Kent Bags—. Essex Ditto.- Suszex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES.—March 22. Kidneys 4/. 15s. to 51. Os. per ton. Scotch Reds 4l. 15s. to Si. Os. ditto. Oxnobles and Shaws PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Refined 1111,1..£4.3 0 Linseed Oil 21 0 10'10 4'15 Linseed Oil Cako at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5........«..50 to :Alb... 181 19i Ditto—.-60 to 661 b.— 21 22 Dressing Ilides---.. 14 16 Fine Coach Hides —...... 18 19 Crop Hides, 35 to 401 b. 14 16 Di tt0...............45 to 501 b. 16 18 Ditto . . 18 20 LEATHER. I'er lb. d. to d. Tanned Horse Hides.. 16 18 Spanish Ditto 19 24 Per dozen. Calf Skins.. 36 to Mb. 10 2 1 Ditto 50 to 701 b. 22 27 Ditto 79 to 801 b. 19 21 Small Seals, Greenland 20 21 WHITECIIAPEL HAY MARKET.—March 40 1 - I.ty 551. Od. to 955. Od. I ('lover 0,1. to 1153. • Straw,., 484 Oil to 54i Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Per Stone. s. d. to s. d. Best Heifurs&Steers2 10 30 I Ordinary 18 2 0 4 2 6 Market Calf 6 (leach. COAL MARK Adair's Beaumont - ' 9 7 6 Bishop's bfain 25 6 East Vercy„.— '26 6 HolywelL 29 6 Killingworth 31 6 Ord's Itedhugh , 27 0 ET.—March 22. Walls End Carr and Co. 295. 9d. Ditto Hilda 31 3 Ditto Hotspur 32 0 Ditto Northumberland 31 9 Ditto Perkins and Co.— 31 0 Ditto 33 3 Ditto Russell's . 33 .0 Ditto Walker 32 6 Lambton's Primrose 33 6 Walls End Hetton 34 9 Walls End I.) 33 6 Walla End Stewart's 35 3 Russell's Hetton's W.E. 34 9 Russell's 33 0 Halbeath, 30 0 Pontop Windsor 23 0 Shipcote 2B 6 'Panneld Tanfield Lei - 2 l 2l 0 Townley 29 0 Walls End Bell and Co. 33 9 Ditto Bell Robson & Co. 31 9 Ditto Bewicke and Co.— 32 3 Ditto Bensham Ditto Burraton 31 2 Ditto Brown's un5cr.....,. 31 0 Ditto Clarke and Co. 30 011 Ditto Cram1ingt0n........., 27 0 Ditto Ellison 31 6 Ditto Gosforth --.... 34 6 Ditto Heaton,, 33 0 Ships at market, 131%—Sh1; Pelaw 27 0 31 9 Hartley yangennech Coal —.. 99 PemGertonLlangennech 53 Stone Coal Drim........—... a) Warde's Lianally —3l Tanfield 29 Old Etherley small 23 Stobart small 24 rps sold. 4 33,i-Unsolti, 8-71 i. IRISH MARKETS. Wheat, 1 Barley. Oats. Flour, per cwt. per barrel' per barrel per barrel :—.----, 20 stone. 18 stone. 14 stone. Ist. 2d. ---- --. s.d. a s.(l. s.d. a s.d. s.d. a s.d. s. d. as. d. s. (1. as. d. 1 Cork 29 0-33 6 10 0-14 610 6-15 0 17 0-21 ( 8 0 - 16 6 Limerick 124 0-22 0 10 0-12 0 89— 9 4 18 0-21 0 0 0 - 15 0 Waterford;2B 0-32 6 12 0-14 0 9 9-11 6 18 0-24 0 10 0 - 1 5 0 Clonmel —l3O 0-33 8 11 6-1411 10 8-12 0 20 0-25 0 12 0-16 0 Carlow —126 0-30 0 12 0-19 0 10 0-13 0 20 6-21 0 0 0— 0 0 = Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th. sth. — --. d. a d. d. a d. s. d. as. il. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 0. s. d. Cork —.— 44 —6 4 6 15 0 —2O 075 071 067 063 056 0 Limerick— 4 —5 4 6 23 0-30 0;76 070 064 053 052 0 Waterford 3 —.51 31, 51 23 0-25 6185 0 70 0 57 0 53 0 0 Clonmel 21. 4 , 1 3 4 1 1 28 0 —3O 0168 080 054 0 52 0 50 0 Carlow— 4 —51,0 —_ o 00— 0 0178 0740 64 054 0— 0 KILKENNY.—Butter 66s to 68s. per cwt. ; Wheat '2Bs. to 31s. per barrel ; Flour 18s. to 365. per bag ; Oats 9s. to I Is. per bar rel ; Barley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 51.01. per lb. ; Mutton 3d. to 4d. ; Potatoes sd. per stone; Coals ls. 2d. per cwt.; Bacon Pigs 2ts. to 26s per cwt. We believe that in the memory of the oldest person living in this city, never was a contested election conducted with more quiet; no rancorous or political feeling appears in the mind of any ; and we do say, the mode adopted by each of the candidates has mainly con tributed to this great object. Corh Constitution. SAILORS' FREAK.--On Tuesday last a party of sailors just paid off at Chatham, determined to make all sail on a voyage to London, had eight horses put to a coach, and after laying in a good stock of provisions, a small quantity of water, and lots of gin and rum, they quitted harbour in fine style, amidst the cheers of the numerous spectators.—Kent Herald. A bottle was found by some fishermen last week, near Berehaven, Bantry Bay; it contained a letter addressed to a gentleman in Scotland, a bond for 600/. ; also a note requesting the finder of the bottle would for ward them as directed, whi c h h a s b een complied with...-. Cork Mercantile. Chronicle. STATE OF TRADE.—There continues to be a considerable demand for goods, and in some instances at an advanced price. The principal rise is in law calicoes, which had fallen to a price that gave neither wages to the weaver nor profit to the manufacturer. In this case, therefore, the advance may be considered as a natural adjustment, and likely, unless there be some unlooked for depression, to continue. We regret, however, to learn, that the accounts from the Mediterranean, where great quantities of low printed calicoes go, are very far from being favourable. There is a pretty general impression that the present briskness is only incidental to the season/ and we have this week conversed with several " buyers," from different parts of the kingdom, who say that under this impression, where houses have a stock that was laid in at the lowest prices, they are willing to part with the goods for cash, :without requiring any chested. Times. advance.—Man- BIRTHS. On the 21st inst. at Ryes Lodge, near Sudbury, Suffia, the wife Q f Nathaniel Clarke Barnardeston, Esq., of ti daughter. On the 20th inst. at Park place, Islington, Mrs. J. E. Hadow, of a daughter. DIED. On the 20th inst. W. Saunders, Esq., of Fralieis.street, Tottenham Court-road, aged b 3. . _ - - On the 15th inst. Lucy, the relict of Hugh Smyth, Esq., third son of the late Sir Edward Smyth, of Acton Burnell, county of Salop. This lady was second daugh ter and co-heiress of the late Edward Sulyarde, Esq., of Haughley Park, county of Salop, and sister to the Right Hon. Lady Stafford. PAINTED AND PUBLISHAD BY Allatllo YOUNG, At errs SUN 01140 E, 112, STRAND, LONDON. This SK o the Nor " An if Irelar thither a iteview, 15, i London n eonvenil gate-itn Marc A T --A- I, of Dora It itra, Zart. Esq. 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