The Sun. — London, England, 1830-05-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have received pqers and letters from Lisbon te the 2d inst. Our private correspondence is very eniaute and particular in its details of Don Miguel's proceedings; but we are afraid that such details would appear less interesting in London than in Lisbon. Brutality without provocation—oppre , - aion without resistance—the unobstructed gratifica tion of degrading sensuality and malignant passions, offer very little to excite our curiosity, or to coin 'nand our sympathy. One incident of vulgar horror, or one instance of capricious vengeance, follows an other, without variety or novelty,—without pro , - Feet of change, and therefore without interest.— The only thing that bad in the least varied the miserable dulness of such scenes during the week previous to the sailing of the packet, was the arrival of the news from Terceira of the establishment of the Regency in the name of the young Queen. — Copies of the decrees of Don Pedro, and the pro clamations of the Government erected in the name of his daughter, were at first profusely distributed in manuscript, and afterwards in print. The whole of the Miguelite hierarchy, from the prime Mi nister down to the Court executioner, are said to have been thrown into alarm by those documents, and the intelligence with which they were accompanied. They will soon, hoWever recover their equanimity, if manifestoes and decrees be the only result of the Terceira proceedings. The chief allies of the con stitutional party are the dissatisfaction of the troops and the emptiness of the treasury. Of these our correspondent gives instances and proofs which we have not now space to detail—a circumstance which we regret the less, as the details would be little else than repetitions of the same statements which have often appeared within the last two years. As the crisis must, however, come sooner or later, it may be mentioned as some ground of hope, that Don Miguel cannot now get salt beef for his sailors, and the streets of Lisbon were one night nearly in dark ness fur want of money to purchase the scanty por tion of oil with which they are lighted.—Times. We are glad to observe that Sir George Murray fully assents to the propriety of laying annually be fore Parliament an estimate of the colonial expendi ture. Without such a check, the confusion would become inextricable, and the extravagance unlimited. Parliament does not exercise that rigid and vigilant control which it ought over the numerous items of foreign and domestic expense; but if even one Member of the House does his duty firmly, the public receives benefit. While, however, there is no estimate furnished, it is impossible to do more than conjecture the extent of the evil. Let the accounts appear, and the public will alone be to blame if they do not condemn and resist the waste of their own money.—Times. We are sorry to perceive that Ministers mean to persist in their proposed plan of altering the Welsh judicature. Though every effort is making to en list every loser of a Welch law-suit under the pre sent system in favour of the new one, we are assured that there is not a shadow of doubt that the majority of the people, including the quiet good Genie of the country (whin, on all occasions, is too much overlooked), are decidedly hostile to the change. But even if this were not so, and admit ting that the numerical majority of the public were the other way, yet the very difference of 'opinion which exists ought to be of itself reason enough for pausing on the threshold of so doubtful an instance of reform—we were going to say, of innovation. But, besides this, the time seems to us to be the most ill-chosen for the experiment that can well be ima gined. Hare Ministers not real grievances enough to redress, and abuses to reform, but that they mast thus, in the memorable words of Mr. Sheridan, as once applied to their Whig associates, build up a wall to run their own heads against? The Welsh are, we repeat, the most quiet, orderly, and econo mical of his Majesty's subjects; they enjoy judicial forms and institutions with which they are not only contented, but to which they are warmly attached ; and yet, because certain Commissioners who, it is admitted, can personally know but little of the natter, choose to try their hands upon this healthy subject, Ministers consent that it shall be teeated as one full of complicated diseases, totally regardless of that stale, though salutary, maxim which prescribes to them, and to every body, " to let well alone." But we are not more dissatisfied with the project itself than with the hollow, empty boasts of self-denial and disinterestedness with which it is introduced, and which forms the most far-fetched and unnecessary adjunct to such an affair that can well be imagined. We are told, for sooth, that it comes recommended by a great sacri flee of patronage on the part of Government—that they will have three Judges to appoint instead a eight or ten, and that tho s e three will fall to the Lord Chancellor, while the rest will be substracted from the amount of Treasury and Parliamentary influence. If this were true, it amounts to hut a sorry species of boasting. If the boast were, that the measure would render the future Judges in Wales, as those of England, independent of the Crown, we could understand them ; but as a diminution of actual patronage it is neither true, nor, if it were true, is it fit to boast of. We remember when lotteries were in existence, those who knew no better, used to recommend to the contractors to increase the number of prizes in their schemes, by making more moderate ones, and fewer of larger amount. The lottery-office keepers however, who knew the taste of their customers better, adhered to the plan of baying few prizes, and those large ones, declaring that one prize of 20,0001. possessed more attraction than forty prizes of 1,0001. each would do. On the same principle, we suspect, that those Judgeships at 5,000/. a year each, will be quite as valuable and attractive patronage as eight at 1,0001. or 1,2001. a year could be, laying out of the question the simple fact, that, according to the ce lebrated Cocker, three times five is more than eight times one. Thus, there is as little reason to recom mend the measure on the ground of the diminution of the patronage of the Crown, as on the pretext of its giving the Welsh people an increased confidence in the administration of justice.---/Iforning Herald. Is Mr. Bugler's satirical novel of" Paul Clifford," it is happily observed by one of the characters, that " all *rime and all excellence depend upon a good choice of words if you take money from the public, and say you have robbed, you have indubitably committed a great crime; but if you do the same, and say you have been relieving the ne cessities of the poor, you have done an excellent notion ; if, in afterwards dividing this money with your companions, you say you have been sharing booty, you have committed an offence against the laws of your country ; but if you observe that you have been sharing with your friends the gains of your in dustry, you have performed one of the noblest actions of humanity lt is so self-evident that it is the way all Governments are carried on. If you want to rectify an abuse, those in power call you ditaPeted. Oppression is order, extortion is g religious establishment,' ind taxes are the • blessed Constitution.' Wherefore, my good Paul, we only do what all other Legislators do. We are never rogues so long as we call ourselves honest fellows, and we never commit a crime, so long as we can term it a virtue." Last night the troth of these observations received ample confirmation in the House of Commons. Among other items voted was 6,000/. for the building of Churches in the West Indies, for the year 1830. " The Govern,. ment (said Mr. Warburton) desired to have a large Church Establishment and extensive patronage, with Bishops and fine Churches, and in order to have them it had been anxious to get rid of the Mo revisits, who were far better qualified to teach both the negroes and the whites of the West Indies reli gion than the members of our Established Church. The Moravian were humble men who lowered themselves to the humble intellect of the people they undertook to instruct. So long as they voted ! coney, so long would there be Bishops and Churches and bowies to be paid for." Mr. Brougham said ‘‘ he would not vote even 61., much less 6,0001. for establishments which, in his opinion, were not the best calculated for the religious wants of the pet.ple of the Colonies; but as the Poet sings, " Churches (were) built to please the Priest." If religious establishments are for the good of those who name to them, and those who belong to them, it is of little consequence what is good for the people. The Moravians ought especially to be discouraged, because the Government has no ad vantage from them in the way of patronage, and they are of pestilent example to the laity; for, as a Dr. James, a member of one of Queen Elizabeth's Parliaments, observed, " Poverty is a thing both dangerous and odious unto divinity. This must needs enforce preachers to preach placentia, which is a thing abhorred even of God himself." It is proper that the good people of England should not only have an ample dose of well-paid Bishops them selves, but that they should pay liberally for Bishops to all parts of the globe. Dr. Magee would say what is religion without a church, and of course there can be no church without a Bishop, and Bishops must have pa laces. But a more pregnant illustration of the truth of the observation occurred at a later hour. Sir James Graham announced that he proposed to bring for ward this night, a motion with a view to reach the salaries of the higher officers of Government, ob serving that he was not disposed to fly at ignoble game, but at those birds of prey who were gloating in the upper regions of the air. Bird of prey wa not to be borne, and the Chancellor of the Ex chequer took fire instantly. " Why was it that he was to be subjected to such phrases in a society of gentlemen ?" The poor who can ill bear reduction, have been reduced, while the great Officers of State remain with undiminished salaries. But why in a company of gentlemen should this be found fault with . ?-- - Morning Chronicle. In the observations which we offered some days ago on the necessity of allowing appeals from the. decisions of local courts, we admitted the force of the observation of Mr. Peel, that " the sums trifling to one man might be important to another, and he who appealed for the recovery of his wages, the amount of which might appear to some of little con cern, tight feel the loss of his few shillings more severely than those who legislated might feel the loss of 100/.;" but we thought with respect to small sums, a Judge of the rank proposed by Mr. Brougham could hardly be supposed to be under any improper bias in his decision; and it was " upon the whole, perhaps, as well that, under the limits fixed by Mr. Brougham, the decision should be final." The Examiner of Sunday last, in coin- menting on this limitation, says— " The magnitude of the sum in dispute must be sup posed to have no effect whatever on the procedure or the decision ; and why, then, should it determine the fitness of allowing or refusing the remedy for error? If the im portance of the demand to the parties be considered, the class of suits for the smallest sums will generally be found of greatest moment' to the litigants. If the probabilities of careless judicature in the Court be considered, the suits for the smallest sums are likely to be those most negligently disposed of. The same false view of importance, which disposes the legislator to refuse appeal to these suits, makes the Judge least anxious in the treatment of them. If appeals must be partial, prudence would rather give them to the cases lowest in the scale—rather to those un- der than to those above 101.—as the importance to the poorer parties is greater, and also the chance of careless adjudication. " Appeals for sums above 101. are not granted from the apprehension of improper bias only ; they act as a check on carelessness, and to correct error, both of which are at least as likely to have place in the consideration of petty claims, as in suits of the more considerable class. When it is contended that decisions should be final under certain limits, it should he shown either that error, negligence. and the other causes of injustice are less likely to have operation tinder those limits, or that the awards are of so much less importance to the parties, as to render the ad ministration of justice of comparatively indifferent concern. But neither of these points can be made out ; and if the power of appeal be necessary to the completeness of justice in suits for sums above 101. the refusal of it to suits below that amount is a denial of justice to the smaller litigants. " As fur the Chronicle's security against improper bias in the rank of the Judges, we have to observe, that were the question to be determined, as it is not, by the proba bility or improbability of improper bias, we should hold the consideration either of much more or of much less force than is represented. If the rank of the Judges be a pledge for their impartiality in suits under ten pounds, it might safely be permitted to operate upwards from ten to a hundred, for we have no apprehension that a man whose station would assure his probity in a matter of nine pounds, would be a knave in one for ninety-nine. Again, on the other hand, we suspect that the person who would be a rogue in an affair of a hundred pounds, would not be trustworthy in a matter of five pounds. Before the Legislature, indeed, proceeds on this principle of fixing a limit, within which lies infallibi lity and impeccability, it would do well to take measures for forming a scale of morals, whence the point at which ' improper bias' commences may be distinctly marked.— By comparisons between a pickpocket, a lawyer, and a legislator, the moral barometer might be contrived with some approach to accuracy. Mr. William Soaines's im proper bias begins to have force with a pocket-handker chief, and acts with great momentum on a watch or pocket-book. Handkerchiefs, watches, and pocket-books, do not move the lawyer, but fees and office wal determine his bias in any direction. The Legislator again is not to be acted upon by fees, but office and place are his impel ling forces. Thus according to the material, is the sensi bility to temptation. Virtue, like the atmosphere, atte nuates as it ascends. From the quill tooth-pick, which does not move pick pockets, we may rise to the degrees where the integrity of Lords waves to the offer of advan tage. 'Whenever this proposed scale is formed, we think it will be found that the probity of Judges does not per ceptibly vary between the degrees of suits for one shilling and these for one hundred pounds." We have no wish to question the benefit of ap peal in all cases, if the only consideration were the check against carelessness and corruption. But we were speaking with refereeee to a particular plan, allowing of a mode of appeal so expensive, as to be beyond the means of poor suitors. The question is, which of two evils, as we have but a choice of evils, is likely to be most felt by the poor—careless de cision, or heavy expenca ? If a mode of appeal were open to the poor, which, without any great expence, would ensure him the hearing of a superior tribunal, then we might say that such an appeal would be productise of unmixed good ; but an ap peal from the local Judge to the Assizes would, we fear, amount to a complete exclusion of the poor from justice, and enable the man of substance to de prive hint of the benefit of the local Court. The final trials in Scotland for the sums under St. 6s. Bd. have generally been viewed as on the whole bene ficial to the poor, as the danger from corruption or negligence in the Judge was less formidable than the danger of oppression from an expensive appeal. In this country, the notions with respect to appeal are loose in the highest degree . We can conceive the pos sibility of rendering an appeal exceedingly simple,by merely transmitting to a Court in London the re cord of the evidence in the Court below, in cases, for instance, where the complaint is of rnisdecision, but this is a very different sort of appeal from that proposed by Mr. Brougham. • When we spoke of the absence of improper bias in Judges of the rank proposed by Mr. Brougham, we had particularly in view the circumstance, that the great multitude of cases for small sums are between poor men and poor men, =end that where the .Judges are of the same rank of life, or little removed from it, as Com missioners of Courts of Requests, Magistrates of petty places, &c., the decisions are often governed by Partiality, faction, &c. A man of a certain rank of life is elevates! l'eyond these partialities. This is what we more particularly meant by improper bias. A mall of the lower ranks of life would always be tried by a geptleman in preference to his equal, on the principle that lad the Italian towns to take their Podesta from among strangers, When the exclu sive jurisdictions are opened to the County Magis tracy, the poor always bail the circumstance as a great adwatitage. The Assistant Barrister in Ire land is preferred )_?y the peasan y trto a Jury, not merely on account of hie greater ability, but his greater impartiality. ob serves, our contemporary serves, that if " the rank of the Judges l' f e a pledge for their impartiality in suits under ten pounds, it might safely be permitted to operate upwards, from ten to a hundred—for we have no ap- ' prehension that the man whose station would assure his probity in a matter of nine pounds, would be a knave in one for ninety-nine," he overlooks the great distinction, that the Judge and the parties in this last description of cases are more nearly on a level, and that the sympathies and partialities which are in operation, where the poor are judges of the poor, might be expected to influence occa sionally his decisions were there no appeal for larger sums. In local jurisdictions, the great evil to be guarded against is local connections. In Bavaria we have heard that, to guard against that evil, the local Judges are not allowed to reside above a year or two in one district. The Scotch say that, in so narrow a country as Scotland, no tribunal in it could be altogether free from local influence, and that an appeal to some tribunal in England in the last resort is indispensable. It was generally al lowed that the English Judges named by Cromwell for Scotland were free from bias—a novelty in that country, which the natives accounted for by their being " a parcel, of clanless rascals." We repeat we are quite aware of the benefit of appeal in all cases, but till a mode of appeal accessible to the poor is adopted, of the two evils final judgment for small sums is, we think, preferable to appeal. We should rejoice equally with our contemporary at the adoption of an easy mode of appeal; but we see little prospect of it at present.—Morn. Chronicle. We really cannot help again observing that the Bulletins which are issued respecting his Majesty's health, continue to be most unsatisfactory. On the 7th (Friday last), we were informed, that the King " had passed the'previous twenty-four hours under a continued miti2.ation of his symptoms ;"—on the Bth, that " the King had passed a comfortable night with some hours of sleep, and that his Majesty's symptoms continued the saute;"—on the 9th, that " he had passed a tranquil night, and that his Ma jesty's symptoms were essentially the same ;" and yesterday that " the King passed Sunday evening and the night in composure, with some sleep, and that his Majesty's symptoms renzeined the same." Now, the question is, what is tneitnt by the word same? The first Bulletin which we have quoted, mentioned that the symptoms were mitigated ; and every subsequent Bulletin, as will be seen from the above, states that the symptoms continue " the same;" but the meaning attached by the public to the expression is, that his Majesty is "not better," and that the alarming symptoms continue to increase. If this be the fact, the public has a right to be made acquainted with it—and if it he not, it ought assur edly to be undeceived.—Morning Advertiser. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday two examinations took place before the LORD MAYOR, which exhibited proofs, in dif ferent ways, of the gin system. Mary Palmer, a young woman of genteel ap pearance, and extremely well dressed, was charged by an officer under the following circumstances: — On Sunday morning the defendant and another young woman, accompanied by two men, began to sing a glee in Coleman -street, to the utmost extent of their voices; and as the inhabitants had often ex pressed their aversion to such serenading as four drunken people may be supposed capable of giving, one of the officers went up to the " chanters," and requested that they would not persevere in breaking the rest of the neighbourhood. As soon as the glee was finished, all departed except the defendant, who thought herself bound to make amends for the ab sence of the other performers, and screamed as loud as she could, so that several persons left their beds, and threw up the windows to ascertain the cause of such horrible noise. The officer's advice and threats were equally ineffectual, and he was obliged to take the girl into custody, and lodge her in the watch house. So far the matter was comic enough, but in the strong-room of the watch-house the unfortunate creature was - ♦ery near putting a tragic termination to it and to herself. It was evident that she had been drinking ardent spirits, and the moment she was introduced to her prison she became ex ceedingly dejected, and looked broken-hearted. The watch-house-keeper, soon after she was locked up, heard an unusual noise issue from the room in which she was confined, and on entering found that the defendant had pulled her shawl tight round her neck, was stretched on the ground, and had that sort of rattling in the throat which, in cases of violence, often immediately precedes death. A few moments would have despatched her for ever, and it was with some difficulty she was restored. Upon recovering, she said she had drank so much gin, that she could not resist the temptation to destroy herself, and that if more ready means had presented themselves, she would have preferred them. The LORD MAYOR asked whether the defendant was in any business 7—The officer believed she lived by prostitution ; but although he frequently saw her in the streets at night, she was upon all former occasions very well behaved, and was evi dently superior to the general run of women of the town. It was stated, by an experienced person who at tended on other business, that since the gin had be come cheap, suicides had increased, and that several parts of the town presented scenes strongly resem bling Hogarth's celebrated picture of " Gin-lane," which was by no means an exaggerated repre- sentatton. The defendant expressed sorrow for having made the attempt upon her life, and said that the gin had made her such a wretch that she knew not what she did; she really believed that it was made cheap to get rid of the poor. The LORD MAYOR advised her to abstain from such dreadful excesses, and having received a so lemn assurance to that effect dismissed her. The defendant was said to have been once beau tiful, but girl had bloated her face, and made her skin turgid, and a few months more of the use of the beverage must (if reform be out of the question) alter her appearance to that of a perfect fright. The next case was that of Mar l/ Mumford, a woman who vends poultry about the streets. She had gone into a public-house and drank a glass of beer by way of a cooler. She then began to be very kind to the landlady's son, and upon being de sired to walk out, she flung the beer glass at the landlady, and determined, in fact, to drive out every body and take possession of the premises herself, as she had a fancy for a publie-house.—(A laugh.) — The police, however, secured her, so that the house has not yet changed proprietors. It was in vain to expect that she would go on foot to the Comptes. She swore she had been drinking gin, and would do nothing of the kind, and the officer was obliged to treat her to a coach, there being no cart to shoot her into. The LORD MAYOR thought that the defendant was one his gin customers the moment be heard that a coach was necessary for her. ' The defendant said she accidentally drank a little too much gin, and she did not exactly know what she did after she got her "whack" of that article. She was willing to pay a shilling for the glass she had broken, but she denied that she filing it at the landlady, or intended to seize upon the house. The LORD MAYOR said that the gin was various ' in its operations, and told the defendant that, as she chose to break the glass, she must pay the full price of it, and as she would not condescend to walk with her gin aboard, she must pay for her coach. Defendant — No ; pay nothing but a shilling, or I shall have se money to go to market with. The LORD MAYOR—Very well. We shall see whether you like the cage. At the name of this place of confinement the woman's countenance fell. She thought (she said) that the money could not be recovered except an . action was brought against her. The LORD MAYOR told her the action was brought against her, and decided against her too ; upon . which she burst into tears, but she paid the money. GUILDHALL Yesterday Mr. Tobias Burke, a traveller in the employ of Messrs. Swain and Co., the distillers at Holborn•bridge, was brought before Mr.' Alderman GARRATT, on a warrant, charging him with neglect ing to maintain Mary his wife, he being able to do so, either wholly or in part, whereby she became chargeable to the parish of St. Sepulchre. Mr. Harmer's clerk, for the defendant, observed that Mrs. Burke had no cause for preferring this complaint, as 7s. per week had been offered to her. The Alderman thought 7s. per week was an ample allowance, and that the case ought to end here. Mr. Miller, however, was anxious tto go into a good deal more at length, and, with the Alderman's permission, put several questions to Mrs. Burke, the substance of her replies to which was, that she was married to the defendant 15 years ago, and had two children. She received a fortune of 5001, and tome years after their marriage they came to Lon don. Shortly after their arrival, Mr. Burke got into a habit of stopping out, not only nights but weeks, and in about six months he left her alto gether. He then married a lady at the west end of the town, in possession of a fortune of 25,0001., and was subsequently tried at the Old Bailey for bigamy, convicted, and sentenced to transportation. A brother of the defendant, who swore on the trial that he was not present at' the prisoner's marriage with Mrs. Burke or any one else (although he was the person who witnessed the marriage), was in- . dicted for perjury, and transported also. The Alderman was anxious to learn the exact amount of the defendant's income, and questioned the son of one of the defendant's employers on the subject, but he was unable to state the amount. Mr. Burke himself stated his salary was only 1001. a year, with an allowance for a horse and gig. The Alderman finally fixed the weekly allowance at 75., and it was arranged that the money should be paid at Mr. Harmer's office. 111 r. Burke then appealed to the Magistrate to exert his authority or influence with the press to prevent his character from being ruined. Mr. Alderman GARRATT declined interfering. He had never yet attempted to exercise any controul over the press. Mr. Burke then withdrew. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young man, named Benjamin Ben nett, was placed at the bar before Sir RICHARD BIRNIE, charged with highway robbery : The prisoner said nothing in his defence, and was fully committed for trial. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday two youths, named Thomas and Charles Garland, brothers, the former lately in the service, as footboy, &c., of Madame Vestris, the actress, were brought before Mr. ROE, the sitting Magistrate, charged with having robbed that lady of property to a considerable amount. It appeared that about three weeks ago the pri soner Thomas Garland, who was permitted fre quently to receive his brother, the other prisoner, at Madame Vestris'e house, ab-conded from his situa tion, and at the same time Madame Vestris missed from her dressing-table her purse, containing three notes for 101. each, of the Bank of England, and six sovereigns, and there being little doubt that the pri soner bad committed the robbery, search was made in all directions after him, but no account could be had of either himself or his brother at any of their places of resort. An advertisement, offering a re ward for the apprehension of the prisoners, and giv ing an accurate description of their persons, was at last published in the newspapers, and a person who had chanced to read this advertisement, happening to see two youths answering to the description bar- gaining at a booking-office in Fleet-street for their conveyance to Frome, in Somersetshire, by a waggon, he immediately suspected that they were the persons sought after, and their evasive answers on being questioned confirming his suspicions, he at once had them taken into custody, when they admit ted the robbery, and told where they had changed the notes, for the greater part of which they had purchased clothes and other articles, and were then about to take their departure for the country to avoid apprehension here. They also told where they had pledged a lace veil worth about 12 guineas, which they had also stolen from Madame Vestris. A police constable, who had charge of the pri soners, said, that on searching them he found on them only about 51. in money, but in a leather trunk they had with them he found the clothes, &c. they had purchased, and a pair of loaded pistols, with powder flask, &c. He had also ascertained, he said that three 101. notes had already been paid into the Bank of England, but as the clerk from the Bank was not yesterday in attendance to produce them for identification, the prisoners were remanded until Thursday next, when the clerk will be directed to attend. Madame Vestris, accompanied by a Mr. Phillip son and some other person, was present during the examination, and identified the veil produced as her property, and one of the articles that had been stolen. QUEEN-SQUARE. Mr. Dunn, of Manchester-buildings, accompanied by Madame Lanaud, the young female whom he some time ago introduced to Mr. Marriott, labour ing under the greatest affliction, arising from misery and want, entered the office, and addressing Mr. GREGORIE slid, that he attended as the interpreter of Madame Lanaud, to return her most sincere acknowledgments to the Magistrates for the active part they had taken in behalf of the sufferings of her self arid infant, and to express her most grateful thanks to the public at large, and to the editors of the public journals who had given publicity to her case. The sum already received by her, and in trusted from time to time to his care, amounted to 58/. She was entirely destitute of friends, and he d.d not know how to advise her to lay it out to the best advantage. In bringing Madame Lanaud to the office in the first instance, he was guided solely by motives of humanity, and he felt that he had only done a public duty in endeavouring to rescue a foreigner in distress, and her helpless infant, from warvation. fie now wished to deposit the money he had received in the hands of the Magistrate, to be applied to her use as might appear the most advisable. Mr. GREGORIE said he thought the beat plan would be to give Madame Lanaud the money at once. Mr. Dunn reminded the Magistrate that Mr. Mar riott had said he could not compel the parish-officer to afford her arid the child relief,she being a foreigner, arid her child born in wedlock, without any place of settlement. Mr. GREGORIE was aware of that, but he be lieved Mr. Marriott had since had considerable doubts on the point. Mr. Dunn said, that a report had gone abroad which he felt it his duty to mention, that Madame Lanaud was not married to the person who professed to be her husband. Mr. GREGORIE inquired if he had heard any thing of her history. Mr. Dunn had not, nor did he know whether she was married or riot. All he knew was, that in October last Madame Lanaud and a young man came to his door to offer some elegant glass baskets far sale, and having a natural feeling of compassion for foreigners in distress, lie recommended them both to many of his friends, who lie believed afforded them temporary relief. The young man, who is since dead, told him that Madame Lanaud was his wife, and he believed it; nor did he consider it his duty to investigate the truth or falsehood of the state• merit ; and it was at the particular request of the husband that he attended the accouchement of his wife last December, both of them being ignorant of the English language. After some further conversation, Mr. GREGORIE consented to take charge of the money until Mr. Marriott, who was absent from town, arrived, which will not be for a fortnight. Mr. Dunn then handed the money to the Magis trate, and left the office with M idaine Lanaud. L A hiBETH-STREET. A case yesterday came on for hearing before Messrs. HARDWICK and WALKER, which will show our readers the gross frauds to which parishes are continually liable. A respectable-looking woman, named Pearson, was brought up by lienfree, the beadle of the ham, let of Mile-end Old-town, charged with being drunk and disorderly in the workhouse of the above hamlet. Mr. Palmer, the keeper of the workhouse, said that the woman had been in the workhouse for a great many years. She had continually been in the habit whenever she went out, of conking horn. in a beastly state of intoxication. About three weeks since she went out, and came home as usual very drunk, and some suspicion having been excited, her clothes were searched, and 9s. 6d. were found upon her. Nothing was said of this, but soon after her trunks were searched, and a pension warrant was found, which, together with other circumstances, proved that during the whole time she and her hits band had been in the workhouse, she had actually been in the receipt of a sufficient pension to support them, without troubling the parish at all. The woman said she was willing to go and live out of the workhouse, if her pension-warrant were returned to her. Mr. Palmer said, that the overseers thought, that as she was able to support herself and husband with her pension she had no right to be any longer kept in the workhouse. The Magistrates said, certainly not ; and the woman and her husband were accordingly ordered to be turned out, to provide for themselves. UNION-HALL. Towards the close of the business of the day, a female of extremely respectable appearance, was brought to the office by one of the inspectors of letter L division, who described that she was ob served that morning between the hours of five and six o'clock, pacing with an air of melancholy on the banks of the Surrey canal ; and the individual who first saw her, believing that she contemplated self destruction, called a policeman, who, perceiving that she was a good deal agitated, prevailed on her at length to accompany him to the station near the spot. The inspector said that he was in attendance at the station when the lady was brought in that morning ; that her clothes were drenched with rain, and her feet soaked with wet, as if she had been wandering about the whole of the night. She seemed to be unhappy, and expressed a desire to be set at liberty, but refused to disclose who or what she was, or where she resided. In her possession was found a gold watch, chain, and seals, together with a purse, containing a quantity of silver. Mr. CHAMBERS and Mr. HONE both endeavoured to extract from her some account of herself, but she refused to disclose any thing relative to her family, than merely that she was the wife of a gentleman, and the mother of ten children. After a great deal of entreaty on the part of the Magistrates, who seemed to take deep interest in the fate of the un fortunate lady, she admitted that she had escaped on Sunday out of a lunatic asylum, where she had been confined for some time past, and that the very apprehension of her being taken back to the place from whence she had got away, terrified her to that degree, that she had made up her mind to destroy herself rather than be again subjected to what she had already experienced. The Magistrate asked her to disclose the asylum from which she had escaped, telling her at the same time that she need be under no apprehension, for she should not be taken there again, unless she wished to go. This, however, she refused to disclose, un der the dread of being again locked up in the asylum. The Magistrates were at a loss how to act under the circumstances ; they, however, agreed, that until further inquiries were made relative to the case, it would be improper to permit her to go at large, and she was accordingly conveyed to a house called the "Bell," in this neighbourhood, with directions to the landlord, that every care should be taken of her, until her friends were informed of the circum stances under which she was found that morning. During the time she was at this office, she spoke in a perfectly rational manner, and exhibited no symptoms of insanity. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. BONIIOAIt, ISLE or lacAy, AralL 30.—The head board of a vessel, with " Henry" painted upon it, also five barrels of flour, four chests belonging to seamen, a medicine chest, a box of candles, and some boxes of hats, were picked up by a revenue cruizer on the ISth inst. at the entrance of the North Channel. Fxuuza&, APRIL 25.—The Fly, Egg, bound to Newfoundland, in attempting to get over the Bar on the 20th inst. stranded on the Inner Bank, but was cleared with great exertion and proceeded. Vessels spoken with :—The Experiment, of Chepstow, bound to Halifax, on the 21st ult. in lat. 44 long. 53 ; Martha, bound to New York ; Wellington, to Quebec ; and Duchesa of York, to ditto, in lat. 50 long. 20 by the Corsair, arrived off Cape Clear ; Henry and Sarah, Watt, from Gallipoli to Bristol, the 4th ultimo, off Majorca ; Talbot, from Malta to Bristol ; same day, Diana, Seville, to Liverpool, 29th ult. lat. 41. long. 13.; by the Alert, arrived at Portsmouth. Fidelity of Lon don, for Miramichi, 29th ult. lat. 51. long. 11., by the Emperor Alexander, arrived off Portsmouth ; Pyramus, Cannon, London to Bombay, 2d inst. 200 miles west of the Lizard, by the Neptune, arrived off Portsmouth ; Mars, of Greenock, bound to New Orleans, 14th ult. lat. 35. long. 37. The Allan, Gilmour, from St. John's, N. 8., was to tally lost the 26th March off Point La Preaux, during a snow storm ; crew and passengers saved. On Saturday, the despatches for China, by the chip Canning, Captain Pima BAWLIS, were closed at the East India House, and delivered to the Purser of that ship. Excise officers, we understand, without any regard to their districts, have received directions to visit the houses of all Licensed Victuallers, and search their premises, so that the publicans are constantly visited by strangers, whom they do not know, to detect colouring, or any mixture of a different character, if it should be in the possession of the former. The Commissioners have decided that the colouring used for rum, without any re fe•rence to beer, if found, is a fineable offence, to discover which strange officers are now employed in every district. Surely the Commissioners of Excise would do well to en. deavour to discover the venders of such mixtures, who must be well known, and fine them heavily for their illegal conduct.—Morning Advertiser. The commercial advices received yesterday from St. Petersburgla are very interesting to parties engaged in the trade with Russia, as they co nmunicate the news that the winter had broken up, and that the na vigation of the Neva would soon be restored. The letters are to the 25th ult., and mention that the ice in the Neva broke up on . the 21st ult., and that the bridges had been replaced. The weather was fine. The Exchange on Lon. don had improved to 10 13-52nds. From Cronstadt the accounts are to the 21st April. The following is the copy of an official report : " CIONSTADT, Arait (8) 20.—The open water ex tends from the corner of the Man-of-War's Mole to beyond the Citadel, and about half way over to Oraniembaum. Horses have crossed this day over the ice both above awl below the harbour, but it it concluded that after to-day no hors, a wil be allowed to leave the town." CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10.-Since the set ting in of milder weather, and the re-commencement of the navigation, the prices of the chief necessaries of life, parti cularly of corn, have fallen very considerably. Meat, however, is still scarce, in consequence .f the contagious disorders among the cattle in several provinces. A new frigate built in the dock-yard (Mitylene), arrived here on the '7th. This frigate which is to convey TAIIIa PACHA to Algiers, lies at anchor off Beschektash, waiting for a favourable wind. The Austrian R.-lir-Ad miral Count DANDOLO, his successor Baron AcctraTl hav ing arrived at Smyrna on board the Guerrero frigate, was preparing to return to the Littorale with the greater part of the Austrian squadron. The great services ren dered by the Austrian squadron under his command, dur ing a most critical period, will be long remembered by the merchants of all nations, who derived from it protec tion and security against the swarms of pirates that have of late years infested the Levant seas. The Sardinian Ambassador, %larquis GM/PALL°, has obtained from his Court leave of absence on family affairs, meanwhile M. Cancrco, Chief Instructor. and Counsellor of Legation, will aetas Charge d'Affaires ; M. DE RIBEAUPIERRE has had to day an audience of the Caimacan Patcha, to deliver his cre dentials to the Turkish Ministry. The state of the public health continues to be so satisfactory in this city, that net the smallest trace of the plague has been disco vered. The last accounts from Adrianople are also very satisfactory on this subject. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE or ILREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10li PAd. flit tit 4 , 1 b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %sl. to L lielow that price. - • PRICE OF SEEDS.-May 10. New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) --e. ....11. tins -s. --"L Old Ditto Ditto . . --s. •-41. fine-s. -- 4 * New Foreign Ditto , 625, 80a linel2o‘.l 3os. Old Ditto -- New White Clover 6oe. 70s. fine -s. - -4 Old Ditto Ditto --s, -c. fine -a.. 4 * New Trefoil _ Old Ditto ...... -e. -s. fines " .4 _,,,' Rib Grass _ 10s. 2 0 s. fine 25 c. 3. 0 * English Carraway Seed.... -e. -s. 525. fine W. Foreign Ditto .. . --s. -s. 555. fine.s7o. Coriander St. Foin (per Quarter)........- -s. 425. fine 435, 465. Rye Grass Pacey Ditto . . 40a. 45a. new -a. - 41 . Linseed, for feeding -. -a. 38s. fine --s. 4 6 . Ditto, for crushing --a. -s. -a.. fine --l• Canary Seed, New -a. 465. fine -s. 5 2 5• Ditto Old -s. --s. --s. fine - 4 ' White Mustard Seed .--(per 8u5he1)..... -a. 7s. 2s. fine ... 4 . Brown Ditto -a. 9s. 10s. finc -- 4 • Turnip Seeds, Rounds.. _ Green and Red Ditto . --a. -a. -s. tine 160. Tares, Old . -a. 25r. 365. fine .' Ditto New -s. -a. fine 425. 4 6 .: Rape Seed, English, fine (per Last) 3Q/. 341..... Foreign -/. --,' ....... PRICES OF HOPS.-May 10. Kent Pockets 5l 12s. 61. 10s. to N Of. Styrsex I)itto imx Ditto W. 12s. 61. 6s. to '7l. Of. Farnham Ditto, Fine . 01. Os. EU. Cu. to 91. 9 , * Seconds 01. Os. 71. Os to $l. 1 5 ' 51. Cs.. 61. Os. to 61. 151. 41. 15s. 51.-Ins. to 51. 154. 51. Os. 51. 15s. to 61. 61 Kent Rai Essex Diito. Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES.—May 10. Kidneys O/. Os. to 31. Os. per ton. Scotch Reds Ol. Os. to 31. 10s. ditto. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown Refined 6 Linseed Oil . 1 . g JO Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand , 4 lb Rape Cake, per ton PRICES OF LEATHER. . Per lb. sl. to d. Per lb. - c f. to d• 19 Rutt5............50 to 561 b.«. 16i 191 Tanned Horse Hides.. Ix Ditto---60 to 661 b- 21 99 Spanish Ditto ..:..«+ w 91 Dressing Hide 5............... 14 16 Per dozen. Fine Coach Hides 17 19 Calf Skins-. Soto 411 b: 14 ~1 1 Crop Hides, 35 to 40 1 b. 14 14 Ditto .......... 50 toltllb. - 21 n Ditto 45 to 501 b. 14.} 17e Dittq .........70 to 801 b. li 9 Ditto lB 12i Small Seals, Greenland 20 S' WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKEL—May , 8. _, Hay Od. to 206. Od. Clover Od. to 10is. 486. Od. to 526. Od. RAW HIDES. Per Stone. n. d. to 1. d. Per Stone. •. d. to 0.4' Best Heifers & Steers 2 8 5 0 Ordinary 1 g 9 S 6 Market I 0 ch' SHEEP SKINS. Polled Ss. 6.1. to Si. Od. Shearlings.......... Os. Od. to 00. 9 Downs 2 O 3 4 I Lamb5.*........ 1 3 1 COAL M Alll 4 Adair's 30s. 6d. Bishop's 26 0 East l'arcy ---- 27 3 Felling Main _ 27 0 Elolywell 30 6 Killingworth 29 9 Newburn 3O 6 Peiaw cantield 29 6 Tanfield Lea 23 0 Townley 27 9 Willington 31 6 Wylam Walls End Bell and Co. 32 0 Ditto Bell Itobson &Co. 30 3 Ditto Bewicke and C 0... 32 9 Ditto Burraton 30 0 Walls End Boundary 28 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0.... 28 0 Ditto Cramlington— 27 0 Ships at market, .78%—Shii .ET.—May 10 est Walls e.nd Newmarch.... 31s. 6d Ditto Callerton *l2 Ditto Gosforth _ Ditto Hilda . 29 ; Ditto Ditto Northumberland 30 ; Ditto Peareth 29 Ditto Perkins and C 0.... 30 ; Ditto Russell's 31 Ditto Walker 3i Walls End Lamtdon 34 " Walls End Stewart's 34 A Hetton's W• E, 36 0 Culm Cox _ IS Milford Coal 49 5 Wemyss , 3° 6 Shipcote r, Ellison small _ g Old Etherley small 13 Tyne small ,s sold, 34%—l)nsold. 4". NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE MARKET —May ff. • We had a moderate supply of Wheat frotn the farme r to-day, for which the demand was steady at an advanc e of Is. per quarter on the fittest parcels ; little doing' granaried samples. Our weekly quantity of Oats at inAP ket scarcely supplies the wants of the consumers, and prince, keep creeping up for that Grain. Little more Barley oil' now be wanted for malting this season. Fine 11 1Al!, i „ n snore demand, inferior unsaleable. Rye dull sale. wn7 Pease, if good breakers, much inquired after. Be ans ill short supply. New. Old. „ Wheat, Northumberland 555. 675....... --s. -- - Norfolk and Suffolk sffs Ms. —4. ••- ----.. Berwick and Scotch... 565. 525....... --.. --I , Dantzig Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk .325. 365. -s. --s• 4 --. Foreign —8 -5....... ats. 3.56. 3 Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffblk 351 36s —4.. . 4. 1 Grinding and Feeding as. 293. —4. —4. r ' Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk —4. —4. s4s. 5Ss. f il Beans, Small -:—.s. --a. ---- Tick 33s. 315....... --s. —s• Pease, White —s. —s. 42s. 44e. ---- Gray —s. —s. Oats, Northumberland, rotatoe ..... ... 26a. 295. -s —46 Feed ..... ........ 22s .265....... --4 • -.4. —.a.— Foreign ..... —4. ........ Flour, Fine (per sack) ...... ' - ' 41 . MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cll Quantity of Copper Ore bold at ltedruth last Thursday 4, 32 g / Average Produce Bq Quantity of fine Copper 314 l o k Amount of Sale, 25,6081. 15s. (id.—Average Standard, 1051. 14L HAMBURG MARKETS.—Max 7. BOWEN HALLS.—Our supplies of Wheat front 4 . 1 1 interior continue to be considerable. The latest Efig l L intelligence has tended to make our market dull, Wool some of the buyers to offer lower prices, at which s of a bargains have been concluded. The greater part of i t i o holders, however, stand out for the former prices. v bs " own consumers bought sparingly. The parcels from 8 4 Lower Elbe were mostly of inferior quality and of be i . ll l l sale. Rye is in demand, and the supply small. same remark applies to Barley and Oats. Number of 1 0 imported and exported during the week : Imported. Exported. Imported. Ex 4' Wheat 1 852 1,772 Buck Wheat... 7 41 ., Rye 139 54 Pease 4 2 Barley ....... 41 7 Beans 2E ;2 Oats 62 24 Rape.eccl 21 0 0 Malt lO 7 During the last six days of April, 14 cargoes of o ",j passed the Sound ; 9 bound for British, 3 for Dutch, 2 for Norwegian ports. Dantzic Wheat Pomeranian Anhalt, white - red Danish Dantzic Rye Upland 1:11 W 2222 21142850 e it i 000000 g h i: 22 : 2:824 . R . 1 ; 7_611 : 50569 d itt o oooooo lll 116 to 123 62 to Danish 116 to 120 53 to 6 0 - Alagdeburgh Barley 9S to 104 57 to ; i i Anhalt 99 to 104.-- 59 to Danish 94 to 102 4O to Al Mecklenburgh Oats 66 to 74 4O to Danish 66 to 75 29 to 4 I'omeranian Malt —to 50 to ;"., Pease, yellow, Upland —,o 65 to 1 0 Holstein Rapeseed —to 165 to ' Our Stock mark e t has been heavy both yesterdtti i ' li d to-day, in consequence of the unfavourable appettranf ° ,o those of Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. Discount st, cent. At the prices marked below there WM monepuld cept Prussian, Portuguese, Greek, and Spanish, vi ol , were sellers. Anglo-Spanish Cot tea were offered at . g ,,/, End of o'', Anglo-Danish Loma S per Cent 7ss Anglo-Russian Loan 109% Hamburg-Russian Loan ' Polish Bonds 1 34 New Prussian 4 per Cents. (1830) gg ' i Austrian Bank Shares. rscli Austrian Metallique4 ION 165 New Austrian 4 per Cents 04 Anglo Neapolitan P'S • Falconets 53 Portuguese Greek, MS 1544. 46 Spanish (Rents. Perpetuelles) Aguado 79 Willinek —Hamburg Reporter. . The Fascular fountain at Smyrna, is said possess this remarkable qua lity, that the ma who has v i ) drank of its waters, cannot depart without taking I him a wife of the place. BIRTHS. On the 7th inst. at the Parsonage, DaresburP o fir Cheshire, the lady of the Rev. Charles Dodgsonr daughter. On the 10th inst. Mrs. Bullock, of Holborn, of a On the 9th inst. Mrs. Maynard, of Keppel-street , sell-square, of a son. ; On the 7th inst. at Mere Vicarage, Wilts, the 101 ( the Rev. Stephen Hyde Citssr.n, M.A. F.S.A., ° daughter. el ill n es,' DIED. ,in the 9th inst. aged 20, after a lingering • d therine, eldest daughter of Mr. H. Adams, of Brom? square. tf On the 9th inst. in New Broad-street, Frederic)" infant son of Mr. J. Dyke. 1, 1 On the Sth inst. at Hemingforel Grey, Mary .Isll beloved wife of the Rev. J. W. Geldart, LL.D., i t Professor of Civil Law, Cambridge. e On the sth inst. at Overbuy, in Worcestershire, i nelope, widow of the late Jamei Martin, Esq. w.f' Tewkesbury. i" On the sth inst. at N evers , i n F r ance, Jane re ) relict of the late J. Hoffiy, Esq. On the 24th ult. El aib e t h Ramona, only iaugl' llf°l the late A. Mackinnon, Esq. in her 17th year. _.....i., PRINTED AND PDSILISIIED EY MURDC, Y O U y th THE SUN OFFICE, 112, STRAND,,LONLOO, G r - G Nii the Co ity and at t hut eon by Coi tra, t is o'sl DI um Dn Pre can the . SO] CoI at 1 Loi bar LC Fri PR