The Sun. — London, England, 1833-04-12 00:00:00

%PIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS In spite of the remonstrances which we arf willing to believe have been made by the oni. two powers of Europe that still remain undis tempered by the pestilent influence of Russia the work of confiscation is still carried on ii Poland with an unsparing hand. The greedi 'less with which the barbarous oppressors of tha ill-fated land pursue their course of rapine. shows that their appetite for Polish plunder as inordinate as their thirst for Polish blood. I is now nearly three months since the publicatioi of an official notification of a Russian Governor. specifying in detail the estates and prcperty 01 every description confiscated in the single govern ment of Volhynia. Recent 'disclosures of an sufferings of the Polish refugees in this country. and the consequent appeals made on their be half to the generosity of the British people, have brought this document once more untie, our observation, and we re-produce it here :- 1. Peasants, 37,218, estimated, agreeably to the custom of the country (where, in selling estates, they are valued according to the number of self-peasants inhabiting them, and who are attached to the glebe), at 25/. a-head £930,000 L. Moveables, cattle, manufacturine and agricultural machines, articles confiscated along with landed estates, computing them at one-eighth of the value of the.eltatee.. 3. Roubles (in silver), 266,853 4. Ducats, 16,738 115 000 50 000 9,000 Amount of the confiscations in the single government of Volhynia £1,104,000 The civilized world has not been outraged by a second official record of the progress made by the Commissions anpointed and authorized to superintend the spoliation of a land which the sword, the scaffold, and the deserts of Siberia, have already nearly depopulated. That the mem bers of these commissions, however, have not been idle,—that they have been unceasingly oc cupied in the prosecution of the objects of their disgraceful mission, is unhappily but too well known by the raggedness and poverty of their victims, who, but for the charity of strangers, would have wandered naked on foreign shores until sheer starvation put an end to their mise rable existence. Nor is there any great difficulty in forming something like an estimate of the gross amount of plunder which these Commis sioners will purvey to the Imperial coffers at Sr. Petersburgh. " Let the amount of the confisca tions in Volhynia be a criterion, and then, In the six governments (namely, those of Podolia,Volhynia, Kijen, Wilna, Gro and Minsk) the amount will be.... ...... £6,624,000 The kingdom of Poland, in which the in vurrection was almost general, will fur nish about an equal amount of confisca tions, making altogether shout £12,000,000 Whether this sum of 12,000,0001 be destined for the support of new attempts to bring freedom and civilization beneath the yoke of barbarism and tyranny, it is not our present purpose to in quire ; all we were desirous of showing was the . probable amount of gain which will accrue from the subjugation of Poland, besides blood-guilti ness, the widow's and the orphan's curse, the hostility and hatred of every honest heart, and all else that follows in the train of wanton ag gression on the land, and liberty, and life of a brave and deserving nation.— Times. The disturbance at Frankfort, described in yesterday's Times, may be looked upon as a pretty intelligible symptom of the state of popular feeling among an immense portion of the Ger mans. Ever since the patriotism of that great nation was appealed to, and, though for selfish purposes, eagerly fostered by its native . rulers from the close of 1812 to that of 1815, a' moral power began to show itself throughout Germany, which those who raised it have never yet been able effectually to put down. Among the Pro testant states more especially, instruction of every kind has made, since the peace, unexampled and admirable progress. In Prussia, and others of the north-western countries, the people have been everywhere enjoying the advantages of a well-directed education, and the intelligence and spirit resulting from it have overflowed, in a sensible degree, upon the population of neigh bouring territories, less favoured 'by the genius either of their religion or their Govern meta. In Prussia, the principle and f orm o f the monarchy may be that of a military des potism ; but the subjects of the Prussian Crown are universally instructed in public schools, and the army being in all respects national— that is to say, composed by successive influxes of all classes and denominations of Prussian citizens—there is so close a connection between the civil and military functionaries, between the soldier and the citizen, throughout every pro vince, as to insure a general and solid harmony between the action of the sovereign power, and the prevailing sentiments of the community. Prussia, indeed, is a country where the virtuous and enlightened spirit of the Administration has for some years veiled from public view the hideous form of the " monarchical principle," in apparent defiance and contempt of which the domestic policy of the Government has pro ceeded, and where the confidence of the nation in its own strength, as well as in the long-tried integrity and mildness of the reigning Sovereign, has superseded, by tacit but universal consent, the necessity of any effort to enforce those poli tical theories which are elsewhere held to be the only sure foundations of good government, the substance of that blessing having been already brought home to every man in Prussia, without them. It is not so with other German states. In Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Hesse Cassel, for instance, where certain forms of political freedom have been established, and representative assem blies been introduced, it was soon found that " Court and country" were animated by far different feelings. The Diet at Frankfort, under the dominion of Metternich, has watched with anxious and feverish apprehension, lest these popular institutions should make approaches, however. slight or distant, towards the fulfilment of their ostensible ends. Not a motion was made, not a speech was uttered, by any indepen dent member of any one of these petty Parlia ments, that did not become the subject of angry comments .and sinister despatches between VI- . • enna, St. Petersburgh, and Frankfort. The public voice of Germany began to echo loudly the hopes and sentiments of the most zealous patriots. The press concentrated, and then gave them circulation. But this would not suit the Diet. So manifestoes, protocols, and sundry other modes of reprobation were thundered out against all conceivable forms and modes of free speech or action, and the collective might of the whole federation was brought to bear upon the Reformers of each individual kingdom, duchy, or principality, by promising to crush them without mercy. The legislators of the secondary states were first contumeliously threat ened, and next. resentfully dissolved. The press —the tongue of the world—was silenced ; foreign Powers—France and EEngland,with weak and shortsight e d, if not criminal, apathy— looked on and saw .the parent spirit of their own most precious institutions barbarously outraged. Thus everything nobl e i n t h e G erman c h arac t er v as insulted—th e organs of complaint—the -flannels of publicity—the hopes of redress — he possibilities of political amendment—were lit off by violence, and could only by force he -ecovered. In the mean time, the people have zone on reading—conversing—scanning their - fights—discussing their prospects—reprobating their rulers. The spirit of discontent has been ripening into a national passion. The feeling which now actuates most of the German Immunities is of a more elevated order than that Nhich merely prompted them in 1813-1814 to drive the French banditti from their fire-sides. Their present aspiration is to high political and .noral objects. It is no less fearful to their little native tyrants than was the warlike impul , e of the above-mentioned period to the foreigner. The German- people will have good government. If peaceably, well : if not, they nevertheless will have it. The Metternichs, great and small, are every where conscious of this, and, in all directions, the restraints, prohibitions, threatenings, police inquisitions, all those tricky resources of feightened despotism, which she loves to cling to as props and bolsters of her rottenness, have been put in action against the general spirit of the people. The consequence is, that the fire spreads ; a spark from the stage,—a line uttered from an opera, —kindled this last Frankfort com motion ; and it is but the first of a series not, in all human probability, to be terminated save only by the establishment of national rights, on the single secure foundation of power vested in the great mass of society, or in a definite portion of society, whose interests shall he inseparable from those of the entire body. The powers of organization, and of disciplined resistance, may, tor a certain period, render the machine of Ger man despotism not easily assailable by the spirit of the age; but the force of truth, of sentiment, and movement, must in the end be victorious.— Times. The results of some late elections are to us more a matter of regret than of astonishment. Our readers will do us the justice to admit that at an early period we predicted the difficulties in which Ministers would be placed, between the Conservatives and the Radicals. The Con servatives are strong in the House of Lords, strong in the Church and the Magistracy—they have long had the resources of this great empire at their command—they wish to see no reforms, no retrenchments, no remedy of abuses, by which the share of good things accruing to them from the public purse may be diminished ; —and they opposed the Reform Bill kcause they foresaw that it gave to the people the means of effecting a complete change in the mode of governing the country. To please this party, therefore, and to please the great body of the people at the same time, was all but im possible. Before the passing of the Reform Bill, the House of Commons was.merely an ex tension of the House of Lords, into which a _ _ few Members chosen by the people found an entrance. But after the passing of the Reform Bill, the House of Commons became (with few exceptions) identified with the people. This imposed on Ministers the very difficult task of proposing measures at once palatable to the House of Lords (hostile to reform and the consequences of reform) and to the House of Commons. Great pains were taken by some of the organs of Ministers, to represent the Mem bers returned to the new House of Commons as disposed, with the exception of a few Radicals, to give the most efficient support to the Govern ment. And Parliament did, indeed, open with strong Ministerial majorities. But we were not deceived by this apparent strength. We knew that the representatives thirst only support Mi nisters so long as their measures were popular, and tbat the moment the constituencies began to put them-elves in communication, with the representatives, and to exhibit signs of disap probation, the latter would have their misgivings. Ministers having a large majority in the House of Commons, applied themselves principally to the House of Lords, in which they had hitherto fOund all their difficulties. By way of concili ating that House, and smoothing the way to the amelioration which it would be afterwards neces sary to propose to satisfy the people, a measure of coercion for Ireland was announced in the speech from the Throne, and soon afterwards proposed in the Upper House. The measure was sufficiently acceptable to the House of Lords, and it passed rapidly through the different stages. But the Radicals every where took the alarm. Several beneficial measures were announced by Ministers ; but this measure taking precedence of all others, naturally enough took strong hold of the popu lar mind. The people of England had a great horror of the outrages perpetrated in Ireland, but then they viewed these outrages as the conse quence of the titter destitution of the Irish, and as coercive measures had been again and again resorted to without effect, they had little hope of any material improvement till some measures were adopted for providing against the destitu tion. • Again, the people throughout England and Scotland did not make sufficient allowance for the difficulty in which Ministers were placed with regard to the Irish church. We need hardly observe, that the views of the aristocracy and the views of the people with regard to that church are foto ccelo different. The people c.uld never comprehend why a Protestant church should be deemed necessary for a Catholic people, and what they wished was, that the sinecure church should cease to exist. The aristocracy, on the other hand, viewed the church not with reference to its duties, but its etnolu- 'Dents. It is quite clear, that no measure, withdrawing any material portion of the re venues of the Irish Protestant church from that establishment, could ever pass the House of Lords. The people, however, looked only to the abstract question of what seemed just, and did not make sufficient allowance for the ob- stacles in the way of carrying what might be abstractedly just into practical effect. The Whigs, as we have more than once observed, are powerful only through the co-operation of the middle classes. The aristocracy and the church are chiefly Tory. With the people, the Whigs are far more powerful than the Tories; but the moment they lose the support of the people, they are comparatively powerless. The course that Ministers have hitherto pursued has been unpopular, as has been but too evidently demonstrated. But should they change their policy, they would at once hare the House of Lords opposed to them. If the people could only restrain their impatience, the measures which have recently been introduced—the Cor poration Inquiries, the Local Courts' Bill, the Irish Church Reform, the East-India arrange ments, the West Indian Reforms, &c., would undoubtedly be productive of much good, and several abuses removed, renders the task of re moving others more easy. It might be well to consider, too, that by driving at too much at once wf may produc e a confusion, which we all may repent in sackcloth and ashes. It is quite clear that no reforms of more than a very gradual and tentative kind would be sanctioned by the House of Lords, without a severe strug gle. It is quite true that, at present, we are all at the mercy of the Crown and the Conserva tives. Were the King to withdraw his confi dence from the Whigs, and a dissolution to take place at the present moment, the next Par liament would be Conservative. But, however fond most men may be of power, we question whether the Conservatives would encounter the risk of re , uming it under such circumstances. Their policy is rather to allow the Whigs to act, and to remain on the defensive. The present unpopularity of the Whigs would soon be fill-. gotten were the Conservatives in power, and the reaction might be tremendous. Were our advice to have any %Neight with the people, we should say, avoid what may lead to extremities. Con sider the very artificial state of this country--- what masses of men subsi.t by credit—.and what incalculable mischief might result from any interruption to order. Push Minis ters, if you please, to retrench and repeal taxes ; but still, though the effect should not correspond to the expectation, set hounds to your discontent. We are far from thinkin g the conduct of Ministers to have been uniformly governed by absolute wisdom. The tone of some of the Ministerial organs was at one time not merely impolitic, it was even offensive to wards the people. The affectation of wishing to conciliate the Conservatives was too marked, and it seemed as if it were wished to produce this very split which is now producing its effects. But let bygones be bygones. Ministers are honest, and determined to proceed as far as they can, with the existing constitution, in the course of amelioration. We ought to consider that ito Ministry, under the existing constitu tion, can go farther, without hazarding con sequences which all friends to their country ought to deprecate. Let us bear in mind that I the aristocracy of this country is powerful, and that any violent measures would make but one party of both divisions, and rally a large body of the people round them. They who have influence with the people, ought to be moderate at this conjuncture.—Morning Chronicle. Captain Berkeley's rejection is another awk ward circumstance for Lord Grey's Government, which, when pressed, can scarcely find itself in a majority with a House of Commons elected under the most favourable circumstances, and which, as it becomes thinned by any cause, in nearly every instance sees the Member replaced by an opponent of the Government. In the single case of Captain Barrington alone the Go vernment has, in the space of a very few days, lost two votes ; one in the case of the Captain himself, who is succeeded at Sunderland by Alderman Thompson ; and the other in that of his successor, Captain Berkeley, who is ousted from Gloucester by Mr. Hope, who was the other day so far upon the poll above the Govern ment candidate for Marylebone. If the fact he, as stated by our contemporary the Standard, that Captain Berkeley is a cavalry officer, we naturally ask what could induce any Minister to place the member of such a service at the Admi ralty Board ? And here we must also borrow the answer, humorously enough given by our contemporary—viz. " We are three,"—mean ing, that Captain Berkeley having two brothers besides himself in the House of Commons, they feel themselves as much entitled to consider that a passport to place, however otherwise in compatible, as the owners of schedule A did under the old rotten borough regime. We do not know how Lord Grey may personally feel under these humiliating defeats; but this we know, that some men grow wise by experience, while others rush on ruin in despite of every warning. Under which of these heads the Noble Lord means that posterity shall class the latter years of his political career we are igno rant ; but no one can long be ignorant of what will be the result if such an infatuated career is persisted in. Friends to reform ourselves, we have been anxious, whenever we could, to give to a reform Ministry our zealous and honest support. Looking neither to the right nor to the left, this has been our polar star ever since the question of reform was first agitated. But we again and again repeat that tertian without its consequences can be of no value to the people. They look for more substantial blessings than the mere name ; and it is, we apprehend, solely because Lord Grey's Government seems uncon scious of, or indifKrent to this, that it is now experiencing the effects of that change in public opinion to which we have adverted.— Morning Herald. The defeat of the Ministers at Gloucester in the person of their newly-made Lord of the Admiralty has imparted universal satisfaction. They have been completely beaten upon their own ground. Gloucester waa intended by the manufacturers of the Reform Bill to be a Berkeley borough, and they considered oppo sition to the NN hig interest there as entirely out of the question. What adds to the calamity of this misadventure is its coming so closely upon the defeat at Sunderland ) another or the boroughs which the constitution-mongers thought they had effectually and for ever secured to them selves, and the constituency of which were honoured at the recent election with Lord Dur ham's order, " Return Barclay for Sunder land." These reiterated disappointments have been too much, we understand, for the equanimity of temper of more than one offi cial person. Crimination and recrimination have been bandied about since the close of the Glou cester election. But there seems to be no cause for this ill humour, for the Mmisterialists did their best, as the following extract from a letter dated Gloucester, April 10, will very sufficiently prove:— " The insolence of the I3erkelevs has met with a signal check. They considered this town as their• own close borough before the last election; but the moment an op. position was talked of all their agents were in motion, and nothing was left untried to secure the return of their candidate. The influence of the Government was also exerted to the uttermost. Their disappointment is great indeed." Of this no better proof need be adduced than the ravings of the Ministerial Press, There is no deception here. They cannot conceal their mortification--Morning Post. LONGEVITY.—A Scotch paper notices an old woman living at Gloslough, who is 130 years of age. She never took a doctor's drug in all her life, nor was a lancet ever applied to her frame; she is perfectly free from affections of the chest, and during the last century of her life she has been a perfect stranger to pain, and her pulse does not exceed 70. Her grandfather died at the age of 129, and her father died in the 120th year of his age. THE FFESTINIOG (NORTH WALES) RA IL wa Y.—On Tuemday the ceremony °flaying the first stone of this undertaking took place on the hill of Criers. This under taking has been commenced, after many obstacles had been overcome, through the exertions of HENRY ARCHER, Esq. The ceremony is described as having keen of a very imposing description. A f terit had concluded, a numerous company sat down to a splendid banquet at Plas Tan-y-bylcb. PARISH OF ST. NIARYLERONE, Yesterday a meeting of the rate-payers of the parish of St. Marylebone was held at the Horse Bazaar in King•s'reet, for the purpose of having sub mitted to them the annual report of the parochial committee. Dr. HARRISON was unanimously called to the cl - air. Mr. WATTS, the hon. secretary of the committee, then read the report, which stated that twelve months had elapsed since the last public meeting of the parishioners of Marylebone had taken place, during which time many material changes and im provements had taken place in the government of the parish. The parochial committee had fought the battle of the parish for six years against an irre sponsible ve-try, which, after having at their dis posal 160,0004 per annum of the parochial funds, burdened the parishioners with a debt of nearly 200,0001. In the first place, a saving of 3,0001. per annum had been effected in the expenditure for \salaries immediately under the control of the vestry; secondly, a saving of 6,0004 per annum had been effected in the paving department. This saving would have been still more considerable, but for the great traffic occasioned by the omnibuses, which in Oxford-street alone, during the last year, had occasioned an additional expense of nearly 8001. The next department in which a saving had been effect ed, was that of the district churches, which in future would have to pay their entire expenses out of their own pew rents. The new vestry were also, according to the report, dili gently engaged in effecting a reduction in the ex orbitant police-rate. On this subject they had been in communication with Government, and had every expectation that a considerable reduction in the ex pense of the police force would be the consequence. The committee had also directed their attention to the subject of lighting the parish, and were con vinced, from the examination they had made, that a saving of 1,0001 per annum might be effected in that department without any diminution of light. The state of the workhouse was the next subject to which the parochial committee had directed their labours, and they expected to effect great reductions in that establishment, which had been a charge on the parish of 70,0001. a year. The report briefly stated that the committee had by their perseverance and exertions relieved the parish of its annual charge for heavy law expenses. These expenses had for the last twelve years averaged a cost of 7001. a year. In the first half year of their sitting the committee had reduced this charge to less than 401., and in the second half year there was no charge whatever. Mr. THORN moved that the report be received and adopted by the meeting. Sir S. WHALLEY had hoped that a greater reduc tion even than had been made would have been effected in the parish expenditure. The report was then received with acclamation. Captain BRENTON moved the second resolution, which was, that the parochial committee be re quested to prepare a list of 40 vestrymen and 5 auditors, to be selected from the two classes of the gentry and the traders. Afrer a few words from Messrs. GOWAN, SAVAGE, and METCALFE, the above resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. ROBINSON moved the third resolution, which called upon the rate-payers to reflect that it was owing to the exertions of the parochial committee that the self•elected vestry system was destroyed, and implored them, by their support and co-opera tion at the ensuing election, to consummate the work they had begun. APer a few words from Mr. COOK and Mr. LANGHAM, t he resolution was put and carried. Mr. KENSETT moved the fourth resolution, to the effect that the parochial committee were deserving the confidence of the parishioners, and that they be requested to continue their exertions to forward and complete the object contemplated by the new Ves tries Act. Mr. POTTER seconded the resolution at some length. The resolution was then agreed to. Thanks were then voted to Mr. Allen, the pro prietor of the Baziar, for his kindness in affording the committee the gratuitous use of his yard; to the committee, for their praiseworthy exertions in effecting reforms in the parish ; arid to the Chair man, for his excellent conduct in the chair ; after which the meeting separated. On Sunday, at the conclusion of high mass, at the church of St. Germains-des-Pres, a gang of from 20 to 30 thieves, who had mingled in the dense crowd which filled the church, raised a cry of sauve qui peat, which induced the congregation to Imagine that some part of the building was falling, and make a general rush to the doors. The passage being blocked up, and the elaiis overthrown, an indescribable confusion reio2sl for some minutes, during which the originators of the tumult found means to ease a number of ladies of their necklaces, chain., reticules, &r., and got eleii off with their :•doty. We haVe not beard that any of them have been arrested. The Abbe de RICASOLV, who was officia ting at one of the side alter., was so much alarmed that he fainted away, and was carried into the sacristy in a state of insensibility Galigartni's Mestehger. ST. JOHN ' S, CLERKENWELL.—The vestry of this parish met, as usual, on Easter Tuesday to chdose parish officers. There was, as is usual mm such occa sions, a good deal of personal bickering and desultory re mark, which kept the vestry assetnhled from 11 till half past 5 o'clock. The palish of cett wet appointed with little opposition. A lon, dis, ussion took place on the propriety of saving the expenses of the gentlemen who execute the office of guardians of the infant poor. Some of the parishioners were for having the duties performed gratuitously; others thought the payment of the offi cerst expenses wax nrceskai7. At length, as thert were several persons nominated for the office who had no ohj-etion to serve gratuitously, it was decided by electing them. The increase of the county rate, which was stated to amount to 1,0001. during the last year, for the parish of Clerkenwell alone, excited great dissatisfaction; and a motion to appoint a committee to co-operate with other parishes in resisting the applicatiOn *high is bow to be made to Parliament, to give the chairman of the Mid. dlesex sessions 1,2001. a year, was willingly acceded to. The committee was appointed. Other parishes are moving in the same direction. The expense of the poor alone in this parish amounts to 26,0001. a-year. In a neighbour ing parish it amounts to 28,0001. CRIME.—The West Riding Sessions com menced on Monday at Pontefract. There were 174 pri soners for trial. The total number of prisoners in the West Riding house of correction is at the present time no less than 542. The Leeds Mercury contains an impor tant document, which shows the receipts and p tyments made by the treasurer of the West Riding from the year 1821 to 1832, and also the number of prosecutions at the assizes and sessions fur each year, from which it appears that the increase of crime is firmidable and alarming. In the year 1821 the number of prosecutions at the assit,s was 66, and at the sessions 251 ; in 1832 the number at the assizes was 88, and at the sessions 976! Thus within twelve years the total number of prisoners for criminal offences has increased from 317 to 1,064, or more than threefold ! The increase of population in the same space of time has not much exceeded one-fourth ; and, if we may consider that the same class of criminals is now tried at the assizes as in 1821, the increase of crimes of high magnitude would only be about in proportion to the in crease of population. It is therefore in the lower class of felonies and in larcenies that the frightful increase must have taken place. We confess we are unable to account fur this rapid progression of crime, but it is deserving of every attention being paid to it by the Magistrates and by ' the Government. W fear the West Riding of Yorkshire is not singular in this respect, hut that the same pheno int na are presented throughout the country. It will be found that the greatest increase has taken place during the very last year ; there was little increase from 1828 to 1831, the prosecutions at sessions in the former year being 716, and in the litter 711 ; but in 1832 the number suddenly swelled to 976. The next greatest increase within this period of twelve years was in 1826, when the number of prosecutions increased in one year from 451 to 595. The expense of prosecutions at sessions is small compared with that of prosecutions at the assizes. In the year 1832, there were 88 at the assizes, which cost 4,5551. and 976 at the sessions, which cost 7,7201. ; eeven times as many prisoners are tried at the sessions as at the assizes, and yet the e xpense of the greater number is not double that of the less. The enormous sum of 85,3961. bas been paid in eight years, by the West Riding only, for new build ings at the Castle of York, which, in our humble opinion, is a molt unjustifiable waste of the public money. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION ROUSE. Mr. Gill, the city of London passmaster, caused two Scotchwomen and an Irishwoman and three children to be brought before the LORD MAYOR yesterday for having endeavoured to procure passes for the road leading to Scotland, by which they were guilty of fraud. The complainant's statement excited much cu rios;ty. The three women, 111'Gregor, Brown, and Pearmain, were brought to him by an officer of Surrey, for the purpose of being passed to Scotland. They told him, afrer having severally deposed that their husbands were in Scotland, that they had each of them two children. He suspected that they ex aggerated in their account of the number of chil dren, because he saw no more than one with each, and was aware that the penny a-mile, granted for every individual on the pa , s, was a temptation to paupers to add to their families by artificial means. He therefore told them that he could not give a single pass without seeing the absent children. " Oh, you shall see them, Sir," said they, and off they sent one of their little boys to bring in Jacky, and Mary, and Susan. In about half-an-hour the boy returned with a male and two female children. " Here they are, if you please, Sir," cried the three paupers. It happened, however, that during the boy's absence the complainant ascertained that the women had actually sent to Wentworth-street to borrow children, and that they and other paupers made a very decent livelihood by carrying with them, on short journeys, children whom they adopted the moment they saw them. The LORD MAYOR proceeded to question the borrowed children, and sent for a man named Hurst, whom one of them called " father," and with whom the paupers lodged. " Pray, Mr. Hurst," said his Lordship, "what kind of a house is that which I understand you keep in Wentworth-street ?" Hurst—lt's a decentish house enough, my Lord, of a lodging-house. The LORD MAYOR—How many beds do you keep in a room ? Hurst—How many ? Let me see. I don't think there's upon the haverage mote than eight or nine, my Lord.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—Andy how many do you stow away in the beds? Hurst—Why, we puts man and wife into one bed, at 4d. a head. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, but if they have fi% e or six children ? llurst—Oh, then, my Lord, they must take all their children into bed to themselves; and that's easy enough, for they a'nt troubled with bedsteads.—( Laugh ter.) The LORD MAYOR—And do you fill the other beds in the same room with married people also ? Hurst—Surely, ray Lord; I suppose them as comes is married, for I dare say they wouldn't tell no lies about it.—(Great laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—SO, you have eight or nine couple and several children of both sexes in one room together all night ? Hurst—Just so, my Lord ; when my house is what I calls properly attended. The LORD MAYOR—But don't you think it would be more decent and proper to put the men into one room and the females into another? Hurst—Not by no means VI hatsomdever, please your Lordship. We never separates man aHd wife. We puts the single men into a room by themselves always; but then if one on um comes home married of a night, why, we puts him and his wife in along with the steal) , old couples.—(Great laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—What abomination ! What a sink of vice and infamy! Hurst—No sich a thing, any Lord. There's no racket in my house. It all goes like clock-work. It was a coalshed at one time, but the business gave way in the neighbourhood, for the lodgers was so thick together they couldn't bear no fires. The LORD MAYOR—But you drive a roaring trade between letting lodgings and lending children ? It is a good double trade. Hurst—l never lend children. Children may lend themselves, but I have nothing to do with that. The LORD MAYOR—Here's your little boy, what was he to have had for the loan of himself ? Come, my boy, tell me the truth, and don't mind the winks or rinds of anybody. Young Hurst 7 —Please you, my Lord, we was to have 6d. a-piece. We always gets that, and not a farden more, for the loan on us.—(Laughter.) Hurst—Aye, my Lord, that's the way these here people gets over the poor children. They don't care who they disgrace so they gets their own ends. — (Laughter.) The paupers denied that they had hired the children, and declared that their object was to get home. The LORD MAYOR—You are a set of vile im posters; and as for you, Mr. Hurst, )ou are worse even than they. The house you keep is nothing better than a brothel, and you are bringing up your children in the most disgraceful manner. You have been aiding those women in a conspiracy to defraud, and in the most horrible way eneouraging them to proceed by perjury. Hurst—l speaks only candid what's true, please your Lordship. These people comes and coaxes away the children, for to pertend they was their own, and I'm sure I knowed nothing about it. The Loßb MAYOR—Your lodging-house shall be watched, you may rely upon it; and if you do not take care who your inmates are, you shall hear from me. As for these women, they shall be brought up on another day. G UILDHALL. A FEMALE VVREITIL*A. young woman, named Down, was charged under the following circum stances :—Theodore Cox, a bricklayer, in Elliot's court, Old Bailey, said, that on the preceding night, about eight o'clock, he saw the prisoner go into the outhouse in the yard next to his house. She had a basket with her, and, suspecting her purpose, he followed her after the lapse of a couple of minutes, and peeped over the door. He found her standing with her feet on the fore paws of a car, holding the hind feet in one hand, and peeling its skin off with the other. She exclaimed, when she caught sight of him, " My good God, why what's the matter now ?" He said, never mind what's the matter, and walked away to get assistance, She had six skinned cats in the basket, one of which was scarcely dead, and she held a half-skinned cat in her hand when he returned with assistance. As a bricklayer, he could state that he was continually called upon to clear drains, &c., obstructed by the bodies of skinned cats, and the neighbours had often drawn them up alive.—The prisoner, who has been twiee in custody before, was committed for two months. MARLBOROUGH STREET. About three months ago information was given at this office of a very extensive robbery of money and jewellery, belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Haydon, landlady of the Flying Horse public-house, Oxford street, which, it was suspected, had been committed by the servant, a young Irish woman, who had ab sconded on the day when the property was missed. Last Wednesday evening Hannah Atkinson, the servant who had absconded, and Thomas Atkinson, her husband, a deserter from the 2d Battalion of Foot Guards, were brought to this office, in custody of Samuel Winn, a Ripon constable, and yesterday they were examined before Mr. DYER, the Sitting Magistrate, when evidence was produced against them, and they were fully committed. The East India Company's ship Charles Grant, arrived off the Wight the 10th instant ; she sailed front China on the 18th of December, arrived at St. Helena the 21st February, and Sai&d from thence on the 25th of the same month, in company with the Dunira, and separated from her on the 7th instant, in lat. 48. 28. N., long. 18. 30. W. It appears from a Parliamentary paper just containing an account of the numb er o f I r i s h i p ,o u o b r iishd' shippede fl under passes oat Liverpool, from 1824 to 1831 inclusive, that the total numbers shipped from that pert were as follow :—ln 1824, 2,481 ; 1825, 3,028 ; 1826, 6,428 ; 1827, 6,055: 1828, 4,349; 1829, 5.086; 1630, 5,679 ; 1831, 5,863: making a total during those eight years of 38,968 ptxsons, of which number not less than 23,770 were shipped und er p asses f rom Li ve rp o ol i and other places n the county of Lancaster, and 8,723 front Middlesex. The total charge for passing these 38,968 paupers to Ireland was 14,253/. MURDER. A brutal murder was committed at half-psePi_li o'clock on Sunday morning on the body of an 0 , 5 and decrepit man, named Joseph Adams, v' ° to walking from the Harrow, at Kinsman'g reri he Luton, in Bedforshire, arid had proceeded as far Ot t. , hill leadin2 in.o the town, whe he was stopPedvi Thomas Crawley. a labouring man of desperate chr racer, who struck him on the head with a blade o ffe re d all riaon h t ruil h a ig( uj e v hm i that fractured his cheek-bone, and dislodgedet,ll right eye from its socket; he then robbed him . ' 1 watch, and crossed the fields. IVlany of the O le bitants were horror ru k id Mr • Butlin, of the Red Lion,' horror - struck , c ' al . pd , f, chose m to take them, a numerous party ionte e d nnn,htatiecilho place use he in e B h l i a id ck beeil water-lane,traced hav b i y o t g h : p a ri— obis circuit sota w ott f o h i als l large t h e tow i n; pair of singular iron-•ips he wore oil Id rover's Inquest After acnominmvei committed a i t i o o n t , a whichke his tlraisatie.d 01 1 ; arh'argtoini,r)aes‘tcvevtfiisrti eev h rliedci a . hsph h %utvi i so g ras h ssutt l dyilaitaibpstlere%oapsvivaasteresotr%evoocdtitiaorhasy;: e r : i o t i: , ' Inquest is appointed to sit on the b i the 11th. _ it THE MARKET'S• ___.____.s,..—___ GENELAR AVERAGE PRICE OF a CO O ,O BRIT'S the Rel o i For the Week ended April 5, 1833, made up iro n ... ip Dig of the Inspectors in the different Cities and roc"' 21 14 and Wales, pei Imperial Quarter. 1 04 Wheat-53s 10.t.1 Oats .....--... I6s. 10(1.1 Beans.,..-•0. Barley —........275. 1d I Rye 32g. lid I peas e "''''": , scs ol l IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE SIX WE E _ __'" -11 0 1 01 Wheat-- 525. 10:1.1 Oats ..,......... 16s. &LI Beanse* — 011. Barley 265. 744 Rye 31s. &Li Pease...."' ON DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN 9 9 ' Wheat—...- 31s. 84. Oats ............ 225. 9d.1 Bean 0. Barley-22i. 10d.I Rye 225. 9,1.1 Pease.,,'' Ad Still LH ALL MARKE l'.—April 11 , supid In this day's market, which was but wool e n/O.S throughout. and not very numerously attended nY r kind of meat met with a sluggish sale, at the follow lb per stone of 81b. to 'ink the otlals:— 4 d . to i 6 Beet 3s. Od. to 4s 2d I I'B I Mutton 4 4 5 4 Pork t of Lamb 6s Od. to 7s. °d lower 121. i The foregoing quotations are V e al 2d. per ston e tstd on this day se'imight ; prices otherwise stationary . Bu t s Sheep and Lambs, 2,066; Calves, 29; Pigs. 22 * proportion of the supply left the market unsold. 0. 04 LEWES M ARAM .—Aptil tp‘ 0 Beet 3s.Bd. to 4s. 2d. I Veal 0 Mutton ..-- 4 8 5 4 I Pork Supply moderately good, and trade d 11U MFORD MA Ititikl'.—April 1(1 1. 4 s. d. to s. d. 4 0 4 6 Beef 3 2 4 2 Veal ........... .. ..... 0 6 Mutton 4 0 5 2 Pork .... ............... iel, 1 amb 6s. Od. to 6s. 6 d.„, Suckling Calves, 14s. to 265. ; Qu ar t e r old More rig" g, s oon Supply rather limited; trade w ith prime Mutton somewhat brisk, but otherwise dull. . 11 ,10 COUNTRY CORN MAR ETS DU Barley. Oats. o. w 5 ,7 & to - .2 s• 9 , 19 92 14 9 1 15 1 1 2 3 15 „,,' 3g fA 17 9 99 91 „ 20 „ 21 0 14 Og 18 16 c . 2 „''' 2 9 0 t, — ) '- 13 20 1 9 -1 491 4 , 0 9.2 - 214 29 52 Per Quarter. Blandford Brigg Chard —,. Huntingdon Long Sutton...--.... Louth - Lynn Newark Nottingham Peterborough Plymouth Sleaford Uppingham Wisbech—, I S. to S. S. S 52 60 - 55 50 56 58 63 56 64 50 55 50 58 44 61 42 64 48 62 50 64 36 40 24 28 21 31 27 32 20 30 2t 31 `,5 37 23 V 3 30 34 65 70 54 59 45 58 38 38 22 34 :20 33 1 LEEDS CO SNMA a 9 pos ; Wheat, Norfolk and Suffhlk, 601 b.... ............. 11..1.017 - York. and Lincoln. 601 b. g:; tom .. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk too. - Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans l. Oats, Potatoe to 10).1 •,1 -Mealing, For. led. to 13d Eng. 9, t 40. Pe' le Shelling Rapeseed, English, 23/. to 24........ Foreign, 0A LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE - -, q,,, to „ $ 4 8 WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. , Red 10 1 a Scotch, Welch, and Manx 2 1 g Irish, White 77 0 8 , --- Red 8 6 e Foreign 2 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 4 .. 5 - I r i s h 2 -6 4 0 Foreign 31 ° 4 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter , 0 .. 10 Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. ......... 3 9 56 Feeding p 3 ° 50 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter ......... 30 0 34 $ Irish, &c. 32 0 40 0 Foreign PEASE, English , . I . f . !fr . .. ... 1 .. q .. u . ..... .. ..... ..................... .. ~,,,, t 0 ‘,...,n 0 4 4 0 3 00 FLOUR, English, per 280Ib. 42 0 41 0 Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish,per 240Ibs. [NI/lAN CORN, per 4401 h. RAE, per Imperial qu a rt er NIALT, per Imperial quarter A IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending pt oi Wheat. Oats. Barley Flour. I ,o° 11 Q ,2 r 519 . 7 Q ,333 r5. 2 42 ,265 r5. IFore s i , g 4 T s4 l, ttrlstrish, 7 BV a d 5.1T1 • toil LADY BRISCO.—The period of this sii;a unprisontnent in the House of Correction for l ibel e i s tge e ' on Wednesday, on which day she was of course e.°, 11 , 0 0 This was, however, at her own request delayed tn . 0 1 1 1 when a carriage, which she had sent for, dioee ti n. to gates of the prison, but before she had an efe r • o tee_ d , getting into it, two officers, who, aware of he r : o ur r i ' af discharge, were laying in wait for her, took he r n ot v ",,, tody on an execution issued from the cotter" ov,' The tie a debt of about 21. 101., including costs. ro 4 was, however, forthcoming, and she was of nn e enlarged. 9 1 ( PI O ST. ANNE'S CHARITY SCHOOLS' of ed a Correspondent.)—By a stat e ment ju s t pu blish contributions to this ancient and ex ce ll e nt char itf o 't se °. pears that the total amount from sermons for the I ch v r f years has been 2,115/. 12s. ; of these the hon or lain sloe lain to the institution has preached ten, and t h ive lp 0 have produced 2541. 14s 10d. to its funds---n e il j g I n Charlotte-street Chapel, Pimlico, Jan. 1829.............. Wimbledon Church, July the same year .................. Streatham Church, 1831 ...................................... 0 , The result of the exertions made generally in lo be o tbe y institution proves its value with th e p u blic. ,'` fr osi th e few years the town school h as b een re built, en u ed nuary, 1828, from whi c h t i me t h e subscriptien!oplrlij country asylum commenc e d, a n d whi c h has been r oc , at an expense (including tw o acres an d a half ° ground) of 11,500/, 9,9501. has been collected' 'datO EARTHQUAKE.—Extract of a ie- - tter , St. Kitt's, Feb. 9, 1833 :—" Laq evening 1 0 00 rienced the most severe shock of an earthqua ne t o ever been known in this island. A ball was P V , 0 0 4 House of Assembly to their Speak e r; but at to , PIS past eight the shock commenced and lasted sha a b - o os? -econds, and ft ightened all the ladies so much o rX 00 6, few assembled in the ball-room, wh en another as place, which, although not so severe as the Pr ee o ollno created the greatest consternation among t he ~t/5 1°, No lives, however, were lost; and the datelik b ee property has not been so much as might ha ve petted to result from such a dreadful event." fle I , ig EMIGRATION. The Margaret .44.07,06 SMITH, let Leith harbour on Thursday 5 ' ft 154 0, Quebec, with about 70 passengers; and the n bra idl ,l fo r Bums, sailed from the same port about a iortrrof for New York, with about 40 p as sengers. fri Sis e be emigration appears greatly to have abated in es se ls o ,Y, of the country, as by this time last year fou r s o sei 'Nu sailed from Leith, carrying nearly five tin3e s a; reet . fti sengers as those above enum era t e d ; but it oe isonot° here, as elsewhere, that the emigrants of thi s e dee"* out more capital with them than any of the ir E_difi dw " , did, and appear altogether a superior class of 1P —Caledonian Mercury. Vi ! BIRTH. w o e o lee d.itn On the 2d of February last in the island ivlr Jae. sty's of Lieutenant and Adjutant Bolton, of his aJe ment, of a daughter. ll o° MARRIED. On the 11th inst., at St. George's, Hanover' s t ir .. e d- 5 1 Northage, Esq., only son of William Nort hage, _rfa'ajor#: street, Bedford-square, to Henrietta Louise, .5ec.70117 jole the late Sir John Henry Newbolt, Chief Justicever-sceshi,ll On the 11th inst., at St. George's, Han n an gde” e , Emily Frances, c E es s i. q. t , hi r r if d C da o t t , i g n l i i n te g r to o n t N C . as .s t v le . , R H k r ie n y co f ID: 1 ; Ik e of West Harding Hall, Norfolk. os J. is Oh an the h a l 1 1 i t e h y lost., a t o t rt ar h y a cs , , , bara, only daughter of thy Hon. and Rev. Pierce .. of t he rfnwl~ On the Bth inst., William George W oo ds, j o d s , Light Cavalry, eldest son of Sir Williamm_„. , 0 daughter of Andrew Clark, Esq., of Cambe t ra l; 0 11,, to - - On the 9th inst., at Heysham, Lancashire' As 4. Esq„ of the Inner Temple, barrister...at- .at -law, of (laughter of the late Rev. leMashiter, roc.'" Manchester. T Hallett, 4 9 - ' On the 9th inst., at Frant, I'. = • of TrinitA• r..-• Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law, c! p 13 t o r n Y s a hl bridge, i.rant to Sarah Marian, second dategllllterr of T. ° s t sl o e da On S t r t DIED. intly On the 10th inst., at Wanstead, Essex, Samuel Strat.- aged SO. of the Deputy-Lieutenants of the County. the Ist inst ., wHaesninrythCercocokmerritt,isEssioqn.,ofofthLie'rttleaeceo,lolo.l po i O YOUN G, AI P R IN'CFB AND PUBLISHED BY MURD SUN OFFICE, 112, LOODold. heat. of Wi ar o r. CON 'COA Part ( 11 1 1 4, kid 1 th e --.4 1.1 E k At tht Op , :‘/ if l4 qu, 1) ro B Ysi t u •