The Sun. — London, England, 1833-09-10 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The continental journals seem to busy them selves exceedingly with the late meetings at Top litz between the King of Prussia and the Em peror of Austria, accompanied by their respec tive Ministers; and with the still more important meetings which are announced be tween the same Monarchs and their brother the Emperor Nicholas, who had left his capital for the interview towards the end of last month. It is stated in the late arrivals from Hamburgh, that his Imperial Majesty was expected on the 30th or 31st ult. to land at Schwedt, shither the Crown Prince and all the Royal Family of Prussia had gone to welcome him on his arrival. The German journals add, that the Czar pur poses to be absent from his states for a month, in order to set our poor erring portion of Europe to rights ; and there can be no doubt that his journey is intended for something more than a mere pleasure excursion, though even that would be justifiable in escaping from a country like Russia. After his Majesty has visited his relatives at the Court of Berlin, he proceeds to his intended interview with the Emperor of Austria, accompanied by his father in law the King of Prussia. The place fixed upon for the meeting of this Royal and Im perial triumvirate is stated to be a small town on the frontier of Bohemia ; so selected and honoured because it is small, and thus easily defended against the intrusion of strangers. We pretend to no knowledge, and entertain no alarm on the subject of this Holy Alliance tete-a-tete, though some of our foreign contemporaries have laid down the subjects of its discussion in specific detail, and, in drawing its horoscope, have found Mars in the ascendant. At the same time it would be ridiculous to deny that the present situation of Europe, and the known disposition of the great arbitrary Courts of the Continent, may let into the secrets of its deliberation every person who has eyes to see, and ears to hear, what is passing in the political world. Ever since the revolution of 1830 in France, and the accession of a Reform Ministry in England, the Governments of the Holy Alliance have only been restrained from actively interfering with the progress of freedom by their fears of spread ing still more widely the contagion, and not by their acquiescence in its harmless character. They have viewed with as much alarm as hatred the diffusion of liber..l opinions, and the extension or consolidation of liberal institutions. They have even looked to every civil tumult or petty insur rection with a kind of hope that it would be the commencement of that species of disturbance or anarchy which might warrant the application of their steel regimen, and justify their notions of the benefits of an orderly despotism. It would be needless to mention the proofs of this feel ing; it would be superfluous to describe the infinite pains taken by Russia, for example, to prevent any settlement of those questions which might leave a door open for future intervention, the encouragement which she has given at every Court to the party hostile to freedom, and her expressed disposition to support every species of arbitrary authority. How is the Emperor Nicholas known in Germany, in Spain, or in Italy, but as the enemy of constitutional liberty, the patron of aristocratic privileges, and the prop of tyrannical factions ? Why, except for evil, is he known in the Peninsula or in Germany at all? What community is there, or ought there to be, between a barbarian Autocrat and the head of a civilized Government in the south of Europe ? If the relations of trade exist between his em pire and them, let him appoint consuls to pro tect or forward the interests of his subjects in their ports, but he has no more object in accre diting an ambassador to Madrid, Lisbon, or to Switzerland, except for the purpose of in trigue or embroilment, than he has to send political agents to Madras or Calcutta. Yet we find in the time of the Emperor Alexander, his bro ther, and continued during his own reign, spies employed in the dfferent States of Europe, to give information to the Court of St. Petersburgh on the condition of public feeling and the pro gress of (what are called) revolutionary doc trines ! The hatred of the Autocrat against Liberal Governments must be aggravated by a recollection of their remonstrances in favour of the persecuted Poles, of the enthusiasm with which the accounts of their heroic actions were celebrated, and the ready asylum opened every where for their reception after their defeat. The two other Monarchs of the Alliance may be less exasperated at the general indignation expressed against despotic Governments, but, corning nearer the scene of political disputes, and re solved not to change their own system, they have greater cause for apprehension and eneasi ness. Their counsels may, therefore, be as violent as those of the Northern Autocrat, though from a different cause. Austria must be disquieted about her dominion in Italy, should the Italians learn to strike like freemen for the independence of their country. Prussia must dread time spread of Constitutional ideas in Germany ; and both must feel an anxiety about the situation of Switzerland, and the state of their Polish provinces. The recent overthrow of their pet usurper in Portugal,—the precarious condition of the Spanish monarchy (threatened with a war of succession, in which the two parties must fight under different political colours).—the cou rageous discussions in the Chambers of the smaller German Princes,—and the alliance every day consolidating between France and England, must give them abundant cause of uneasiness, and supply fertile subjects of deliberation. The wish of the triple Holy Alliance must, therefore, be to crush constitutional freedom, or to repress free discussion, wherever they can ; and could they command an avalanche to descend on the alarming union of the two great constitutional states of the west, that union would soon be overwhelmed. It will therefore easily be ad mitted that our suspicions of a conspiracy against national rights is justified when we see such no torious conspirators meeting in secret conclave with so many motives and materials for a des potic plot —when we see them dismissing their usual attendants—deserting the usual haunts of political discussion —appointing guards at the door of their bureau, and shutting themselves up in their retirement with the key in their pocket ; —it need not, we repeat, be doubtful that the meetings of Toplitz and Friedland are not in tended for idle talk, but for what else ? Can they do any harm that could not otherwise be accomplished ? Whatever they may d o , if they consult their own in terests, we can see little reason for apprehen- Their meeting will not put them in - of more wisdom or more force lore; it will not enable them to their plans of attack or defence Minis- T's lave done through their Courts ; and though their ;ements may be secret, their In cannot be concealed from '. They cannot devour Con- SlOll. stitutional charters at their royal and imperial breakfasts ; they cannot whisper away national independence at a secret interview, and cannot make military preparations, or move forward armies, with the silence and privacy of a game at chess. They have only told all the world, by an additional example, what they knew before —that they are willing to declare against the extension of liberty, or the progress of civiliza tion, had they the means of crushing them ; but the meeting of three very ordinary personages at what m a y be called a political palaver is not likely to invigorate their combinations, or to increase their resources, so as to make them . more formidable. But though we see no reason for apprehending any warlike demonstration against France, or any other constitutional state, from the meeting of the two Emperors and his Prussian Majesty in Germany, and though we see no chance of their commencing a war of opinion in the present situation of Europe, there has been enough in their conduct in taking this step to excite suspicion and to demand vi gilance.— Times. The Standard, like Sir Robert Peel, is much perplexed by the expiring condition of the Tory party. Our contemporary is equally at a loss with the stock-taking baronet to calculate the odds ; and his dissertations on politics are now of a very contradictory and ambiguous nature. The Standard inflicts the most severe stripes on the " Conservatives," and indulges occa sionally in caustic reflections on the stupidity of Toryism. Our contemporary has flourished too late, and should have been born when the Tory power was in its zenith, and the Catholic ques tion the barrier of parties. His acuteness and sagacity are ill adapted to the " revolutionary" state of public opinion ; hence that occasional _ _ appearance of inconsistency of his logic, which he vainly endeavours to reconcile with his Con servative professionß, or to render palatable to his High Church clergy. Indeed we have great hopes of our contemporary, and that his conver sion to liberalism is at hand, unless, like all zealots, he should pass from one extreme to an other—to pure republicanism ! In a commen. tary yesterday on our supplement to the pamphlet entitled, " The Reform Ministry and the Re formed Parliament," the Standard makes some curious admissions. He takes credit to himself for having foreseen and pre dicted the certain consequences of Parliamentary Reform which some of his contemporaries (not ourselves of the number) previously denied. After the usual attempt by the hobgoblin argument to alarm the King that his Majesty will follow Charles I. or Louis Capet to the block or the guillotine, our contemporary repeats the stale reflections on the regicide periods of European history, omitting, however, to state the indis putable historic fact that the bad advisers of the unfortunate Monarchs, and the misrule of their Royal predecessors, were the original and ex clusive cause of the bloody revolutions and the capital punishment of the Monarchs. Thus, if the Duke of Wellington in May, 1832, had succeeded in deluding William IV., the throne would have been undermined, and instead of a simple reformation in the House of Commons, and the preservation of the British Constitution, we should have had a premature Democracy cast in the mould of social disorder and poli tical terrorism. We give the Tory press and its Court patrons full credit for their intentions and labours as alarmists, but fortunately they have not succeeded in their industrious voca- tion, the good sense of the Sovereign having hitherto preserved his dynasty and his subjects from violent revolution. Whether a junction of the Ultra Tories and Ultra Radicalsl—and the courtship is palpable—will be more successful remains to be seen ; but we estimate the real conservative power of the country, and the cha racter of the new constituency, too highly, to apprehend the dreadful results which haunt the repose of our affrighted Con temporary. We can readily account for the phlegm of the Tories exhibited against the Re formed House of Commons. Unfulfilled pro phecies, and exploded predictions, always op press the conscience and mortify the pride of false prophets. The Tories foretold that the Reformed Parliament would display a mob of Destructives and a majority of political gladia tors. The event has not justified the prediction— an occasional disappointment to prophecy mongers. Our new Parliament—the Lower House—is, therefore, loaded with every contu melous reproach for their alleged " subserviency to the Minister." Verily this is a revolution ; in the Tory style of writing, comparing that of the Conservative Journals of the present day with the old style of the past year. The Standard admits that our Laws and Judicial Establish ments require the broom of reform. We are gratified by his confession, however repugnant it may be to that Anti-Catholic and legal Anti quary, the Earl Eldon, or to the dyspeptic law reformer, Lord Wynford, and however obnoxious the admission to the patriotic and disinterested Baron Lyndhurst. The Standard also ingenu ously confesses that he has "no objection to subscribe publicly to the suggestion of the fur- ler reform of the House of Commons," and that " under any system of parliamentary repre sentation the most stringent precautions ought to be taken against treating, bribery, and cor ruption." Such a signal conversion is an ample atonement for all sacrifices on the altar of the Idol of Conservatism, and constitutes a com plete qualification for the Cartwright Club. Our contemporary, however, being a novice in our political opinions, labours under a grievous mis take in his bold assertion that " The attempt to guard against these practices, by an exten sion of franchise up to the point that it has been extended, has proved a total failure—the most extensive constituency, in towns, being generally the most corrupt." In which of the populous new boroughs created by the Reform Bill has bribery or any extensive system of treating pre vailed—in the Metropolitan boroughs, in Man chester, Birmingham, Leeds, Glasgow, or any other populous community ? What returns in Schedules C or D were petitioned against or disputed in election committees ? We defy the Standard to support his assertions. Liverpool, Bristol, Norwich, through their corrupt freemen habituated to political corruption—the Universal Suffrage under the peculiar protection of the Fortes—we admit relapsed into their old habits of venality and debauchery seduced by the money of Tory candidates, although the two latter constituencie s escaped detection. No, the tact is that Education the dreaded enemy of l'oryism, and Knowledge the parent of power, have extinguished the Tory misrule in our large towns whose inhabitants were quickened in their political illumination by the disgrace of non representation . and through th e i nsu l t i ng refusal of their enfranchisement by the Duke o f Wellington and " his man Friday" Sir Robert Peel. The large towns also, by the all powerful action of public opinion, forced Parliamentary Reform down the throats of the Tories. This operation will never be forgotten or forgiven ; and now that the violent action of Political Uni ons i s no t or i ous l y su b s idi ng with the causes which created it, the Conservatives cannot endure the signal miscarriage of their other proph ec i es th a t Jacobin Clubs would rule the country when the King's assent was given to the Reform Acts. The Standard having discovered the value of " Tenants without will" and without Ballot, and duly perceiving that the only hold of the Tories exists in the agricultural districts, and in the influence of the large primo geniture estates, has turned Radical Reformer, and joined us an enemy of class voting. " The true remedy," we are gravely forewarned, " will be found in a fairer adjustment of the proportion of the agricultural to the municipal representa tion !" Doubtless when the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel succeed Lord Grey, we shall have a new Reform Bill, and the Tories will try to place Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds and Glasgow, in a new schedule A ! This would he a very comical revolution, and an event equally as improbable as the fulfilment of the remaining dubious prophecies of the Con servatives. The Tories having now lost, with the extinction of the nomination boroughs their former means of packing election committees, and of thereby affording protection to bribers and ho roughmongers, admit " honesty to be the best policy," and abjure election corruption. On this singular revolution of Tory opinion the Standard observes, " Just now, it is more par ticularly the interest of the Conservative party to press this reform ; because they have proof that, in their case, the attempt to bribe or cor rupt will be abortive—seeing that they have not a corrupt House of Commons to bear them through, consequently they can gain nothing ; while, if any foolish, miscalculating Lord makes the attempt, it is certain to recoil in obloquy and disgrace upon the whole party—a danger from which the Whigs, in their ascendant posi tion, are altogether secure." This notable dis covery has been made " just now," when libe ral principles, predominant in the Reformed House of Commons, have secured the detection and punishment of venal electors, and elec tioneering Lords. Our contemporary now con tends that a punishment " rather infamous than pecuniary" would deter corruptors, and which new process we presume would consign the Earl of Warwick, and the Noble Boroughmongers of Hertford and Newark (if proved guilty), to the parish stocks or to the market pillory, with the concomitants of rotten eggs and offensive mis siles ! Also, our new convert ably advocates Parliaments " fresh and fresh." "We have already admitted that such Parliaments as the Reform Bill is calculated to give cannot be changed too often, consequently the return to triennial Parliaments, or, to proceed gradatim, say quinquennial Parliaments, might be tried with advantage. However, before seeing any other change, we should like to see the person nel of the present House of Commons changed." Thus we gratefully discover that the reform of the representation has exceeded our most san guine expectations, and more than realized our predictions of its salutary effects by the conver sion of the Tories to Radicalism. The Con servatives are either stricken with despair, and giving up the Ghost, or they are endeavouring to put salt on the tails of the Reformers.— Morning Chronicle. The Tory Journals, in their rotatory course of writing, are now industriously occupied in re viling the Lord Chancellor, and indulging in vulgar personalities and false reflections on his personal habits. The public reputation of Lord Brougham, and the charm of his plebeian name, will rise proportionably to the abuse of his na tural political enemies. When the Conservatives and the Members of the Carlton Club were de ceiving themselves, or attempting to delude the public, by rumours of divisions in the Cabinet-- changes of Court countenance—and the early ad vent of a Tory Cabinet, they cultivated the notion and propagated the news that Lord Brougham and Mr. Stanley would be willing traitors to their Whig colleagues. Such imputations, whether sincerely indulged or conveniently circulated, were no compliment to the Lord Chancellor, but depreciated his political influence by encou raging the suspicion that he was to be seduced by vanity or the love of power. We never sus pected that Lord Brougham would turn his back on his old opinions, but were confident that, notwithstanding any possible political coquetry with Tories, he would be far more likely to pro ceed in that advance of public principle which marked his lead in so many successive political questions. His real friends are therefore gra tified to see the former courtesy of the 'Tory journals suspended ; and their tirades and vulgar reflections on his Lordship will relieve the public mind from much uneasiness. How far the al tered tone of the " Conservative " writers—in fluenced by a certain comptroller of the press—. tends to elevate the influence and character of the press is for their own consideration and cal culation. As far as regards the Lord Chancellor, we wish them to persevere.—Alorn. Chronicle. The affairs of the East are slurred over in the Ministerial manifesto as scarcely worthy of notice. They cannot, indeed, be noticed without reflecting shame upon the policy which has made the Russian eagle float triumphant on the Bosphorus, and reduced the Ottoman em pire to a Pachalick of the Autocrat. We may revile the weak and pusillanimous Sultan for throwing himself at the feet of the crafty and insidious Power whose friendship will have more fatal effects than the most successful efforts of its hostility—we may abuse the Sultan for this, but who drove him to it ? Who left him with out any alternative but to surrender his sceptre t o the rebel Ibrahim at the gates of Constanti nople, or to h o ld i t at t h e w ill o f t h e E mperor of Russia t Our Ministers, who refused his supplication for ass i stance prev i ous l y to hi s making a similar request o f t h e Czar. Th e Sultan did not, i n the fi rs t i ns t ance , ac t as foolishly as our Government. It was the mutual interest of England and Turkey to maintain an intimate alliance, not on l y on account of the commercial benefits derivable from it, but for its political advantages, as serving to check the encroaching ambition of Russia towards the East. The Sultan, weak as lie is, understood his own interest well enough to prefer an alliance with Eng land to one with Russia. The English Govern ment rejected his advances. Repulsed by our Mi nistry in his hour of desperate need, and hotly pressed upon by victorious Ibralion, he had no thing to fly to but Russian protection, which was no sooner asked than it was eagerly afforded. The Porte, delivered from the terror of the Egyptian rebel's sword, found itself in th e gra sp of the military and naval talons of Russia. As much operated upon probably by fear as grati tude, the Sultan signed the treaty b y wh i ch he got rid of the immediate presence of the Mus covite armies, but assigned over the custody of his empire to the Czar; thus purchasing a tem porary deliverance from his protectors at the price of perpetual enslavement. If, then, the Turkish dominions must exist henceforth only as dependencies of the colossal Power of the North, and if the Sultan be the turbanned vassal of the Autocrat, it is the policy of England which has done all this. The incapacity of our Foreign Office has been more destructive to the interests of England in the East, than the adroit and indefatigable activity of the diplomatic agents of St. Petersburgh. One of the great objects which the Russian Cabinet had in view, while it played the protracted game of diplomacy on the Belgico-Dutch question, has been accom plished. The Russian Government, foresee ing the crisis which was coming on in the East, and, for ought we know, having instigated Me hemet Ali to rebellion, while it pretended to denounce his treason, worked the diplomatic machinery of the Belgico-Dutch question so as to keep the vision of a "speedy settlement" per petually (lancing before the eyes of Lord Pal merston. " Speedy settlement" was the cry of the Treasury Journals, sharing in his Lordship's credulity and infatuation, week after week, month after month, and year after year. No " settle ment" of Belgic affairs came ; and why ? The Russian Cabinet was all the time preparing to " settle" the affairs of Turkey—and well has it settled them for its own sdvantage, while our ingenious Secretary of the Foreign department has been engaged in endless chace after the ignis 'him's policy of the Conference through the swamps of the Netherlands. The Russian Government must have been not a little pleased at seeing us inveigled into the foolish project of sending out a fleet of vessels of war at great ex pense, and without any rational object, to the coast of Holland, in the month of November, for the Russian Government knew that by this wanton and absurd misapplication of our naval strength we wasted those resources which, if we knew our own interest, ought to have been available at that very crisis, for the succour of our old ally the Sultan. It was t►ot upon such a " wildgoose chase" that the Russian fleet was sent to the Bosphorus. It did not sail there in idle display to sail !,,ick again in derision. The fact is, Russia has befooled our Government all through the Con tinental negotiations for some years past, and yet the sycophants of the Treasury would make it matter of praise to their employers that the general peace of Europe has not been broken up. We say that when a great nation like Eng land endeavours to maintain peace by the viola- Lion of her faith and the sacrifice of her interests to an arrogant Power like Russia, she but pro vokes war. We see that the insolence of Russia grows in proportion with the cowardice of our policy, and the abjectness of our concessions. An energetic declaration would have saved Poland without a war, and a little foresight and activity would have preserved Turkey from the calami tous connection which has sealed its doom. The sycophants of Ministers talk loudly now of the spirit displayed by the recognition of the Queen of Portugal. But what great credit do they de serve for acknowledging those rights which the Duke of Wellington had already recognised ? The Duke of Wellington made the recognition when the young Queen had not a foot of ground in Portugal ? Our present Ministers send an ac credited agent, but not until the fleet and capi tal of " the usurper" had fallen into the power of the lawful Sovereign.—Morning Herald. The circular addressed to the half-pay officers of the army, which we published last week, has, we understand, excited a general feeling of dis may, not unmingled with indignation, among the very meritorious class of persons of whose rights and interests it disposes so unceremo niously. In referring to this subject, it may be necessary to refresh the memory of our civilian readers as to the precise terms of the official docu ment. Upon the minds of military men the im pression they at once made is, we know, indelible. Every half-pay officer, then, is required by this order, issued from the Horse Guards, and signed " Fitzroy Somerset," to state, for Lord Hill's information, whether he is prepared to serve on full pay, as, in the event of his not being so prepared, he will be required to com mute, receiving such sum as his services may be considered to entitle him to, " it not being pos sible for his Lordship to allow" such officer " to remain upon half-pay." This order is ex plained in the Ministerial papers as being connected with certain measures of economy and retrenchment on the part of Government, which implies still more clearly, what is indeed but too clearly conveyed in the terms of the communication itself, that the commutation thus to be forced on the half-pay list is to be a pro fitable commutation for Government, and a disadvantageous one for the old soldier, as in deed any commutation must be in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, which falls short of a sum sufficient to purchase an annuity for the life of the party interested fully equal to his half-pay in amount. The officers of tile army and navy receive, we will admit, their half-pay, upon the condition that they shall be ready to serve, whenever their country requires their services, And if the country really required their ser vices, those officers who still retain the ability, and who should refuse to obey her call, would justly forfeit that provision. We object to this proceeding, because it makes a sham call for services which the country does not require, for the undisguised purpose for the mere fraudulent purpose—of extorting a forfeit which will not have been justly incurred. It was never contemplated either by the Legislature which granted the half pay, or by the officers who received it, that the latter were to hold it under the liability of having a vexatious and fraudulent test of this description applied to them whenever an economising and retrenching Administration should come into power. It is not such a test as that which an honest Government would be called upon to ap ply to the half pay at the commencement of a war. It is a test conceived in the spirit of nieanness and fraud, for the purpose of extorting a partial or total surrender of a provision made by a grateful country, and for this purpose ex clusively. An officer called from his retirement, or from the avocation which he might have or from the family ties and conn ec ti ons which 'I(I°P adopted, might have clustered around him during a l ong period of peace, because his country r equired once more the exertion of his p r owess or Ins skill in her def e n ce , wou ld re enter upon the active duties of his pro fession with a tolerable assurance t h at he wo uld have fair play from a Government —not sordid, not base, not fraudulent, not inimical to him, or to the noble profession of which he is proud to be a member. But what f a ir play in his future career of service can an Officer expect who says in reply to such an order as that just issued, the obj ect o f which lie must w ell know is not to obtain hi s serv i ces, b ut to filch from him his pittance of half-pay, " I will serve rather than submit to have my country's bounty thus filched from me ?" Can he hope that the Government capable of resorting to so mean an artifice will prove itself incapable of cherishing resentment against those who do all that depends upon them to expose and defeat it ? The test now applied is indeed of a cha racter quite different to that, for shrinking from which the forfeiture of half-pay would be the suitable punishment. It is pleasing to us to remark that the words of the circular have been carefully chosen, so as plainly to intimate to the service that the authorities at the Horse Guards have had nothing to do with the contrivance of this contemptible stratagem.—Morning Post. pos t sgsion either c than t had be& concert on t n tlitteinu d ha iso' Ay ther gags , • ul world THE DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON SAFFRON-HILL. CORONER'S INQUEST. Yesterday, at one o'clock, an inquest was held at the Distillers' Arms, Great Saffron-hill, before TuomAs STIRLING, Esq., and a respectable Jury, to inquire touching the death of Honora London, aged 33, who was killed by the falling of some houses on Saffron-hill. The case excited considerable interest, and the Jury-room was crowded to excess by the parish au thorities and other respectable inhabitants. Mr. H. R. Whittle, surgeon, of No. 77, Middel ton-street, Clerkenwell, deposed that on Friday evening last, about half-past five o'clock, he was called upon to attend the deceased, whom he found lying before the bar of the above house with her ribs broken, and a severe injury upon her head. He was informed that two houses had fallen in. The injuries were sufficient to cause death, and might have been produced by heavy substances falling upon her. Wm. Hannegan,being sworn, deposed that on Fri day evening last he was passing by Saffron-hill when he heard of the accident. He proceeded to the spot and went on the ruins, where he shortly after found the body of a child, who seemed to be alive. 0 , 1 farther search he saw the head of a woman whose body was buried in the rubbish. It was taken ant and carried to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where it was found to be the boJy of the deceased, quite dead. 'Witness returned to the ruins, and assisted until a surveyor said there was great danger, and ordered him and the other persons off the rubbish. Mr. Christopher Cockerton, builder, of Upper street, Islington, being sworn, deposed that after the accident took place he was passing by, and was requested by Superintendent Dixon, of E division, to take a view of the ruins, to ascertain whether there would be any danger for the police and other persons to remove the rubbish. He did so, and found that there was great danger. He ordered a shore of the angle to be made. It was dangerous for any body to have repaired the houses unless under the superintendence of a surveyor. CORONER—Do you think the late high winds had any thing to do with the accident ? Witness—No. The houses ought to have been pulled down long ago. Here a professional gentleman, who attended for Mr. Wiggins, the landlord of the premises, re quested to be allowed to attend the investigation. His client was in attendance to give evidence. Mr. Robert Higgins deposed - that he is a brick layer, residing at No. 13, Saffron-hill. He rented the houses Nos. 13, 14, and 14i on Saffron-hill under a repairing lease, and was to execute the repairs by next Michaelmas-day. He had not cut away any of the chimney-breasts. Juror—Will you swear that you never took away any of the timber from the breast-summers ? Witness—l swear that I never took away any timber. Juror—l think we shall be enabled to prove that you did. _ ... Witness—l did not. Juror—Did not you observe any cracks in the place ? Witness—l observed a settlement in the party wall, and I observed some cracks in the upper room of No. 13. I thought there was something dangerous, and I put up a pier or upright from the basement to the cobble to keep up the breast-sum mers. I did not carry it up with cement; I set the bricks with mortar. On Friday a Mrs. Nl‘Carthy, who lodged at the top of the house, told me that there were cracks in the ceiling. Juror—Were you not spoken to on Thursday last by some young man who told you that the houses would fall in ? Witness—l do recollect it. Juror—What reply did you make to him ? Witness—l do not recollect. I might have said, " You be —." Juror—Did you not say, " Let them fall and be -- ?1, Witness—l was chaffed by somebody, and I made some reply, but not that ; I would hardly say that, or place the lives of myself and family in dan ger. My wife had only lain in two days before, and had a narrow escape. On Friday evening, just before the accident, I was at work in the cellar turtling up mortar, when Mrs. M' Carthy ran out and exclaimed " For God's sake come out ; the house is falling in. You'll all be killed." Witness ran up stairs, pulling his son after him, and then hastened to save his wife, whom he carried out, and on getting outside the houses instantlly fell in to gether. Had it been a moment later they would all have been buried in the ruins. Juror—ln reading the specification, I find that you were bound to alter the breast•surnmer which gave way ? Witness—No; that breast-summer was at the back part of the premises. Juror—Did you not move away some timber and lead from the house ? Witness—l took no timber away from the body of the house that would at all weaken the premises. I have taken some timber to another house which I am building at Hackney, which belonged to a shed. The accident was caused by two stacks of chimneys and the breast-summers in the centrical part of the premises giving way. The house where the woman was killed was No. 14. I examined the house on Thursday evening, and could not find the cause of the settlement. I lived in the shop No. 13, and had a back room and another underneath it. The de ceased lived in the front room, second floor, with her husband and two children. All the other in mates are still living. He had received a letter from Mr. Goode, the person of whom he rented the houses, stating they were not in a state to be re- paired. Joseph Shearer, mop-maker, of 4, Little Gray's Inn-lane, deposed that on Friday morning, about ten o'clock, he saw forty bricks fall from a wall at the back part of the house, when he said to Mr. Higgins, "By —, your houses will fall in," to which he replied, " Let them fall in and be —.', hllitsttleood afterwithin v At one o'clock he saw some m o re b r i c k s f a ll, w h en witness said, " S o h e l p me G o d, t h e h ouses w ill twenty-five fall in." H e (Hi gg i ns ) sa id , " an d a goo d jo i b m. too A .' t a awthewrotie of thedsfrom houses fall in. I went into the ruins of the houses and brought out a child which was buried in the ruins; it was about six years of age. I assisted in digging after the bodies when I saw the leg of the deceased, who was taken out quite dead. Samuel Davis deposed that he is landlord of the Distillers' Arms, Great Saffron-hill. On Friday evening last he was alarmed by the crush of the hon es falling in. He had given notice of the danger.. ous state of the houses to Mr. Goode, of Hatton garden, who is the surveyor and collector of up wards of 100 houses in the neighbourhood. Witness sent to hirn three times to look at the premises. The first time he went to him was about eight months ago. He said he wished them let, but lie (witness) declined taking them. Witness saw a van load of timber taken away from the house, and seven or eight cwt. of lead, which was sold in Leather-lane. A waggon of lime came to the house of Wiggins, and the party would not leave it with out the money. He made several applications to Mr. Goode afterwards, and be, in company with his clerk, went over the premises. A fire , wards took place i n th e ne i g hb our h oo d, an d "'a plied to Mr. Bird, of the Royal Exchange, g, informed him of the danger of the houses. 1 " added that they were in so dangerous a stee he would not have suffered a dog of any va lue remain there. Witness saw the deceased ‘ l4 : er . of the ruins qu it e d ea d. M r. Di xon, the 'lir, intendent of th e G di v i s i on, an d the o ffi ce , e %e f rt themselves in a laudable manner. Goode was spoken to by witness, he said he would pull the whole of the h , and how could they help themselves conceived that Wiggins could not lay 0' the repairs of the house. le Thomas Nichols, No. 11, Brewer-stree street, Gray's Inn-road, deposed that he in the house at the time it fell in, in th. the ground floor. He was with Mr. Higgs up the floor. Had not taken any of tit, - as to weaken the house. There was a or upright to support the chimneys part of the building. The pier was fini same day. Witness did not think thi danger until the place commenced falli ness said there was no jarring or hammeri the buildings. They commenced buildi after they received information that the falling in. Mr. John Power, gentleman, of No. Saffron-hill, deposed that at eleven o'. morning of Friday he saw some of ti give way. At about five o'clock in the saw Mr. Higgins and his son coming house in great alarm, and in about two whole of the houses fell in. The wit that too great praise could not be best Mr. Bodger, who was then in the room, risk of his life, before the other houses were prat , / up, he went on the ruins and saved the life ° child. ' The CORONER said th ere a pp eare d to have bee,itl a great deal of neg l ec t i n t h e part i es connect ed '' v et ) the premises. It a pp eare d to him (the Coreor), that Mr. Higgins was not equa l i n a pee o " i' oo , sense to repair the hous es . Th e l an dl or d had coot mitted an oversi g ht i n l ett i ng suc h a man bee 01: his tenant, as it app eare d t h at h e was o bli ge d top e( the lead to go on with th e re p a i rs . The o°,r 00ei ul e , added, that th ere a pp eare d to b e severa l other °yeti in the n e i g hb our h oo d i n a hi g hl y d angero us 6t and which ought to be immediately attended t%c The Jury consulted, an d a f ter a deliberat,,l°Arl about ten mi n ut es th ey returne d a ver di ct O f le e' cidental Death, and that there was culpable vegoi l on the part of all parties connected With premises." nsd _ A Court Leet was then proposed to inqu' examine into the other dilapidated premises. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 4lb. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to IN' that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.— Sept. 9. , ,i' New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. —s. fine --; , Old Ditto Ditto ,r —s. --s. fine New Foreign Ditto- - - . —s. —s fine --"'" ~.-1 ' • Old Ditto __ -s. —s. fine •--$* - , i' --s. —s. fine —'' # l ' • .... g. ~ fine . ~..i. ' .............„......"......... —s. —s. fine o ,ll ' ttd . ---s. --s. fine„, If 61 a,•„ ..... . --s. —s. • ..„ 4 , —....--... --s. 14s. fine ~ 97 40 , - di' .(per Quarter)............,. 425. 445. fine 4 08,', _ s 2ss.. .... 6 285 . . 78 fi to,„ n e . . ;: eee, ~I : , ~ —B. -.8. neW ...4. 0 : 60 w0w.... ...-13. .-. ne W ,, —s. 48s. fine , 0 , A A 50 ...S. one 60' Atto, for crushing -...5. s. one 703 /* Canary Seed, New —s. ••,. fine 0, ! l ath Old _ —s. —m• --4* I4s. fi n e . , White Mustard Seed—(per Bushel)-... —s. 12s Brown Ditto . dm to , ...„,. 20;445• figee New White Clover. Old Ditto Ditto New Trefoil Jld Ditto , Rib Grass . English Carraway Foreign Ditto St. Foin ... Rye Grass Piice• for feeciir;; Turnip Seeds, itoun, Greet 'fares, Old Ditto New. Rare Seed, l ; — B . —,s. • ti ny .04, reign 231 • . PRICES OF HOPS —Sept. 9. n to 61. 00, New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) 4'. 15 s . 01. 0 . 61. Choice East Kent----.. o'. Os. 01. 0i• 01. . Ta: 71. Os. 01. Os. to 51. 41. Os. 01. 0, to oh 00 , 01 O. 01. 03 t„ . 61. C L'' 51 . Oa. 01. OS. .. 5/. J• 51. Os 0 1. 00 . tO cd at 155,000/. K .ilt New S• , ssex Pockets Superfine Ditto The Hop I „, PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown 6e. Refined Linseed Oil 11 it Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton Lr, it , 4 tk t i 4 . ! t 411 I ! Ith wp t . 'ti' g) Ikh, • ktt- Ne co • Lek Ile: " . ita.llll, F I '9l le l eal t;s 76lh : ld s e ei . II it 1 grlti :I°ee 91rntl°1111 II: !lid': 41111'lLitliell'illv.t1d118.'ecaPhilr''' any value t° ottkond the SsPer 44, si out 3001, for 1 higeset ,'ibof dis hegging t io H 1 e timb er , atni iiilaaine's:v,hb;:tesahrdiSraßeel.l:°o°:itislrplt:tPr°°4rreni;gneg° 141.011:711'4:r141;:dulTekell7arelal''' )ienrge in; :id.r ,i‘lude:rarir ill ling tO ell ; .Th}er a' ling tbeiPti 1.,,,) el brick s .s ag out A : hit t ~ 16, aft, klge, ail 'clock in t°, ifie, the preivir kli'll ei, evening° PLltes, " of thl k"'id ' out u tett, ot), seconds t. 17 'lat. tit, mess adil4P' sit'', at i t ;towed ur,, 'lltli,tll I 13. At l'' '4) 100 -A 44 iltor 'ere propro ,:,6t ore) the life 0 1,1144 wrei .AI .' eke: ) have hF tiol it i "a inected ivit/1 ot4c4thatbt le Corofiefl, thitar 441: 1 pecunitir', llttet/le do • -Ate o ho:klth i WH I Fk:CHAPEL HAY MAHKET.—Sept• lA N , 0 4 ' 65i. Od. to 90s. Od. Clover.... 80 0 Od. to lv" 240. Od. to 9.76. Od. PRICE OF POTATOES.—SeK 9. art' New Ware Middling Chats 0 1 :. 9 0d d . t t o o (6d.1/41.!tt°. P bb.. t 18 +I English Horse Hides.. : fr Spanish Ditto er PS C D L oK a fr i .silnkPs LEATHER . . 0 0 l t t b o o dozen. 4l, 14011 Ditto 70 to 90Ib A • 16 16 lled ins Small Seals, Greenlan" Large o Downs 2 SOAP, &c. per ll2lb. Yellow 50ap.....~...""" TO . tv Mottled 72 ": White Graves Good Dregs n. atone ot Sit FRI CES U Per lb. (a; d. Butts, 1.5 9.5 Ditto, Foreign 14 21 Dressing Hides 12 15 Ditto l3 15 Ditto, light Clop Hides, light,.—... 12 131 to 501 b 13 17 Ditto l4 19 SHEEP Polled Lambs 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. 1 Down Lambs 2 6 3 6 PRICE OP' FALLOV !own Tallow 48s. Od. Yellow Russia 48s. Od. White s. Od. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Nielted Stuff' 375. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. PRICE OF RAW FAT, _ allow (as stated by the T;11 . Ow Me, PRICE CANDLES. 1 0/2 0 ,:f 4 The price of Store Ca dl s, in OF the retail shops, is 0 ~....''' Candles, per doz. Ss. Od. to 7s. (kl. I Moulds, per do , ' „,, J , k t , COAL MARKET.—Sege. P. 1 1 . I/ Per Ton. s. d. Per Ton. ~,,, iv s kdair's .......... 14 9 Walls End Heaton ,•-:.„. 0 Holywell Ord's Redhugh .............. 14 0 Ditto Killingwor th, ! „ d" fai11ie1d......... l6 0 Ditto Northinntie rl, > I 6 Townley l4 0 Walls End Lyons r d / 1/ West Hartley Willington W.E. Clarke and Co.—. 15 0 Shipcote Trader W.E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 15 9 .-q, Ships arrived since last market-day, - 'rice o here) . 1. 14. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET...SW t • 0 / i. New. ,1.,,r• Whe - A, Northumberland 448, 58s ....... ~ 1. ~ g, --.— Norfolk and Suffolk ...... O.. tiffs ...." ...5',...0' Berwick and Scotch 46s 54s ....... ...s. 6. Foreign _s. --s.. .... ....J• ,el , Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3OB 365..••••• .....0...4. Foreign 30s. 353.....• • ... 4 ',..4 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk —s. —$ ...'" ...1. , '" Grinding and Feeding 245. 265...•" . ..''.../' Malt, Norfolk and Suffblk 50s. 54s ..... ' ...-S. Beans, Small 345 365..."" --- ° 'l• Ti c k 33s 355...•. ' ~.4. ~s, 1 _s —s ....... .... I '' " 1 Pease, White Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 1 - 9: q.::: :::: .. ."" j''.: o**** -.1.' --- Feed lSs_& _ .. 20 0 5 ............• 9 : 3 ,1 Foreign . --s ....... Flour, Fine (per sack) MEETINGS OF Rgt AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-°- i i (From the L on d on G az ette.) t Corp, carpente T r, O T 4 o l w O e ß r- I s l t O re l e V t:... S .: ll . .... .... '''''''''''''''''''''' ft f' of BIRTHS. , se4' o l On the 7th inst., the lady of Archibald Lesl ie ' . 00l 0 0 1, , hill, Wandsworth, of a daughter. w On the Stli inst., the lady Susan Hotharn , 3- t ~, of Pi l" a son, ‘, 1 00 e ,„ On the 9th inst., Mrs. Lepnard Currie, l '''' . lo pi l daughter. of 14'' r On the 9th inst., Mrs. Alexander Gillespie, of a daughter. 4C I On the 7th i !Ist., by special license, at 1 ;:, 1°e : 1 ,1: 115ter Church, Dorset, Henry Corbet Singleton, ng es. et county of Meath, to Jane I'erceval Loftus, P ti ,, o s. of the late General and the Lady Elizabeth r4 ° ''' s - 3 ,(1 , 1 0 ' On the 7th inst., Mr. Edward HemsleY, °f r of ' lr. Stoke Newington, to Sarah Vezey, daughter Bishop, -- esi ts I . Se , DIED. ver y,' _,isii i,o. On the Bth inst., at Sheepstead House, M o o r e n l a t n h d e , I. Bt c l i i .' i a n g s ed t., 66 at . his house, des tret' oo' Bu i 6 tro c ori - Nada, the wife of Thomas Dickins, Esq. At r „ptai" f ,eo . ' On the Bth inst., at Godinanchester, `--- Ka ti " R.N., aged 74. A r J ere° v f el On the 30th ult., at Milton, Gravesend, -I ' ef 8 aged 77. .„.. joi _li, Godstone, ."' , 4 0 v ;o1 1, On the 7th inst., at Lee-place, J , 4 , nington, aged 84. vorlc- e re ad, . On the 6th inst., of Clarence -place, - - coo g - ' Mrs. Mary Cooke, th e wife o f Mr. Jana" aged 27, _........, fl' PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AI U 0 0 SUN 0 ructs, 112, STSAND, ~f" 00 11 ' 0tt.,131 ‘ k "l ' sl l i~e t ollj Ye k t'e tti 'O ttl L' it sl ot e lk ktit ,4, 4 VW: 11 :11 1 1 , 1tv t ,: 4 41. 1 tyh t ea, I ,hof kea k t t'tl44o". l 7) Nr t,,„ o I 4ket