The Sun. — London, England, 1830-05-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The Chancellor of the Exchequer last night stated that in the New Stamp Act would be a clause em powering stage-coaches, as well as hackney-coaches, to convey passengers from one part of London to another. This will be a useful regulation, and wily tend, among other benefits, to improve the hackney coaches,—vehicles which at present are a disgrace to a civilized metropolis.—Times. We have to congratulate our readers on a most important announcement last night by the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. "At present," he said, " no stage coach could take up and set down on the stones of the metropolis without being liable to a penalty. This penalty he intended to repeal." 'We may now have all sorts of conveyances at all times throughout the streets of the metropolis, and we may travel in Omnibusei at as cheap a rate as the Parisians. Thank God the abomination of hackney coaches is near an end.—Morning Chronicle. Last night Mr. Slaney entered on a subject of great interest—the fluctuation of employment among manufacturers. He concluded with moving for a Select Committee to consider of the means of lessening the evils arising from such fluctuation. A very large, and a constantly increasing propor tion of the population of this country, is employed in manufactures, and therefore no subject is more de serving of the attention of a rational being than an inquiry into the means of promoting the welfare of a body almost identified with the nation. Without reposing entire faith on the proportions of the ma nufacturing to the agricultural population, given by Mr. Slaney from the Parliamentary Returns — for we know too well how unfit in general were the people who made out the lists to classify the population, and how variable were the prin ciples on which they acted in different places— we are not the less aware that the manufac turers form the great majority. The agricultu rists are in some parts of the year fully em ployed ; at other times only partially employed. The manufacturers have also their ebbs and flows. Some times the period of full employment is of longer, sometimes of shorter duration. But, independently of the fluctuations of employment in all manu factures, there have hitherto been constant migra tions of branches of manufacture, from country to country, and from place to place. "An extraordi nary change (said Mr. Slaney) had taken place in the locality of many of our manufactures. Since steam-engines had been so much used, it had be come the interest of the proprietors to fix their works where there were coal-pits. The wool-manufac turers, that had formerly abounded in the southern part of the country, have now found their way to the north. In addition to these rea-ons, fashion often made a great alteration. Cottons, for instance, had, to a great extent, displaced woollens; and linens and silks had changed places in like mariner; all which, of course, had been felt in certain quar ters." The changes of locality in manufactures are coeval with the history of manufactures, and took place long before the great change from the South to the North caused by the use of coal. Daniel Defoe, whose newspaper is a storehouse with regard to our trade and manufactures, alluding in 1705 to these migrations and changes, says—" Since I can remember, there went weekly from the county of Norfolk, more stockings to London, to Ilolland, and France, than all the yarn em ployed in Spitalfields to make the 5,000 pieces of stuffs a week amounts to; arid in the room of all this vast quantity, I believe the whole county does not now send away 2001. worth per week. The manufacture is quite sunk ; while towns, which in former times were almost wholly employed in it, do not now knit the hose they wear, the makers of them are dead, and none take up the trade in their room ; the large towns of Deerham, Wymondham, North Waltham, Lynn, and Yarmouth, are living testimonies of what I say; the first of these towns have quite laid by the trades—the two last' make less than a twentieth part ; and the city of Norwich not the hundredth part of the quantities they for merly did: -. . Nlany of the master-weavers are removed to Spitalfields; and in many out towns as at Lynn, North Walsham, and several other towns, the manufacture vanishes, and leaves hardly its ruins to sliew it has been there The tom" of Reading, Newbury, and parts adja cent, which once were as considerable for clothing as any in England, and if the story of Jack of New bury be a truth, which, notwithstanding some addi tion of fable, we have no reason to question—were superior to most in England. The towns of Farn ham, Guilford, Alton, Aylesford, and, in short, all these three clothing counties, what's become of all the clothing trade which employed so many thousand families, hardly the dregs of it are found at Reading and at Guilford, and all that county are now hard at work making druggets. From thence Ist us go into Kent, and I can produce men now living who remember above fifty clothiers in the parish of Cran brook, where now they please themselves with re taining about fifteen, and the like proportion in the neighbouring county. I could run the like length through a great many parts of England, but my aim is demonstration, not prolix multiplying ex amples. Nothing obeys the course of nature more exactly than trade; causes and consequences follow as directly as day and night : if a manufacture grows in one place, that or another will sink somewhere else. As to Spitalfields, in about 1679 and 80, if I remember right, when the weavers of Spitalfields mutinied, upon some occasion of setting up engine looms, as they called them, in which one man might do as much work as six or eight, or more, the com plaint was want of work, and 'twas alleged then that in Spitalfields, &c. were above 50,000 narrow weavers, as they called them, or, in common English, ribbon weavers. At that time there were abundance of broad silk weavers there; at Canter bury a great many more; of all which by itself when it may . come in my way to discourse of the public mournings and such like follies. But to the present case; if there were 50,000 narrow weavers in and about London, and 2,000 will go a great stay through their number now, what is become of them ? The answer is plain, the trade falling off, and the people not wearing shoulder knots, panta loons, and other fopperies, they turned their hands to other trades, viz., weaving of stuffs or druggets, &c. Will any man tell me if a manufacture started up, but I shall tell him of another fallen down ; of a manufacture begun in one town, but what sunk in another ? Can the poor of one town be employed in the business another did, and not that town or some other do the less ?" These changes, are not, however, effected without often producing great suffering. One great came unquestionably of the redundant population in the home counties, is the flight of manufactures, leaving behind a multitude of unemployed poor. The poor rates have long been J1;0 in all those counties which once were the seat ta i.naanufactures, and are now almost exclusively agricultural; but the circumstance in which the high rates originated is not sufficiently taken into account by those - who speculate on the high rates in the counties ofßerks, Kent, Suffolk, Essex, &c. We fear, however, the wish to secure the workmen from the distress caused by fluctuations of trade, is what our old writers would have piled a fond conceit. We can understand how, in a trade like that of the tailors, which has always been close, the wages of one period may be made, by regulations, to cover an other; but in our great manufactories, the price of labour in which is in a great measure regulated by foreign competition r we fear it will be no easy mat ter to make the wages of periods when there is em ployment, suffice for the other periods. To take the weavers, for instance, Mr. Slaney says, " there are now about 240,000 hand-looms in England and Scotland. The wages of these weavers are so low at all times, when in full employment, they can af ford nothing for other times. Where machinery again is used, the workmen are seldom unemployed, for the manufacturer is anxious not to allow his capital embarked in the machinery to remain unpro ductive." There is not in the case of factories much evil to be apprehended from fluctuations, and this is, no doubt, a revolution in industry, pregnant with the most beneficial consequences.. Sir George Phillips, in adverting to this important point, sail, he was happy to confirm the statement of the Hon. Member for the county of York (Mr. Marshall), that the people employed in factories—and there was a general tendency to employ all the manufac turers in factories—were much better off than those not employed in factories. He believed, too, that he might state that the workmen employed in fac tories were a great deal better off than workmen were 30 or 40 years ago. Owing to the great quantity of machinery now employed in our manu factures, the workmen were continually employed, for the necessity of keeping the machinery at work compelled the manufacturer to employ his men."— We are far from wishing to discourage Mr. Slaney in his endeavours to extend the principle of Benefit Societies. Indeed, it is of such paramount im portance to guard against the growth of pauperism, that we could wish means were devised for incor porating with the poor laws some scheme for mak ing the industry of the labourer more conducive to his comfort than at present, by connecting his exertions with his comfort in after-life. But then there are many considerations to be attended to here; and above all, the great consideration of the necessary connection between the reward of the labourer and the supply of labour. All attempts to raise the wages of labour, with a redundant po pulation, must be hopeless. In other words, the population ought not to increase more rapidly than the means for employing them.— Morning Chronicle. One of the most important questions to be brought under the consideration of Parliament during the present Session is that of which Mr. Sadler has given notice for the Ist of June, when he means to move for leave to bring in a Bill for bettering the. condition of the labouring poor throughout the British empire. We know not what specific mea sure the Hon. Member for Newark means to pro pose—we only know that the necessity for some im provement of the condition of the labouring popu lation of this country is most painfully urgent, and that every day furnishes au accession of afflicting evidence of their misery and degradation. No man of any party now ventures to deny the fact—for, in deed, it would serve no purpose to deny it, as the melancholy evidence of truth meets us wherever we turn our eyes. No man, we say, whatever the com plexion of his political creed may be, ventures to deny the fact, that among the working classes,' both peasantry and artisans, pauperism and debasement have spread, of late years, to an alarming and unex ampled extent. In a report which we gave yester day of a meeting held in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield, the condition of the labouring classes was represented as most deplorable, and not at all mitigated by the consoling accounts which some journals have published, of the in crease of trade, and the return of prosperity. It appears that a Committee had been formed during the winter to inquire into the state of the popula tion in the district, when, after diligent inquiry, it was ascertained that the average support of members of families was twopence halfpenny per day. This was in the wititer,—but then we were told by those who make the Press minister to public delusion, that the distress was only temporary, and would be no more heard of in the srason when the " crocus and primrose" come forth to adorn the earth. Well —the flowers have appeared, and genial sunshine has gladdened our fields, but distress still withers the energies, and throws its gloom upon the heart of man. The report to which we have alluded tells us that the condition of those people who passed their winter in such dreary destitution, has not in the least improved, and that there are hundreds of adult persons iii the village of Aldmonbury alone who have not tasted butcher' meat for the last seven or eight months (except what they may have received at alms, and to many of whom potatoes would be a luxury !) Is this a state of things to be derided by the minions and flatterers of Govern ment, or to be neglected by the Legislature ? Morning Herald. It will be seen that the Edinburgh petition, praying for the abolition of death in cases of forgery, was presented to the House of Commons last night by Sir James Macintosh. This is the petition to which • we have before adverted as being signed by about 700 persons of respectability, being all either bankers, merchants, magistrates, private gentlemen, or mem bers of the Universities and learned professions. • All the bankers in Edinburgh, we are informed, signed it ; and they declared, as Sir J. Macintosh stated, that from the result of their experience, under the present severity of the law, they had much less security against the crime, whose suppression was of so much importance to them, than they would possess under a milder code. This fully bears out what « e stated yesterday respecting the sentiments of the bankers on the sanguinary law of forgery. Sir James also observed,in contradiction to what had been asserted by Sir Robert Peel before, touching the danger of proceeding further in the work of legal reform than public opinion warranted, that the number of petitions which had been poured into the House on this subject, and the character of the persons by whom they were signed, showed that the country was ripe for the abolition of the punish ment of death in cases of forgery. So we say, and we can assure Mr. Spring Rice that he need not be in the least afraid, even if his Right Hon. Friend the Home Secretary adapted his Bill to the prayer of the Edinburgh petition to-morrow, he would thereby outrun public opinion.—Morning Herald. The Morning Journal announced its last publi cation yesterday. In alluding to the event, we avail ourselves of the opportunity to say, that the fate of that Paper is connected with transactions which it would be well for the character of our " liberal" Administration if they could be for ever buried in oblivion ; but their memory will live—and live, we trust, to warn statesmen to beware how they allow themselves to act more upon their passions than their reason; and abandon the moral aid of opinion for the odious agency of persecution. If the fate of the Morning Journal has been accelerated, as its Editor states it has, by the ex-officio informations, the Ministers and their Whig Attorney-General have so far carried their point—they have crushed an adversary—but they have not, they cannot crush the spirit and feeling which have been excited against them by a series of prosecutions against ono devoted Journalist, unexampled for the bitter animosity they displayed against freedom of opinion since the days of the Star Chamber.—Morning Herald. A heavy mass of clouds of a dark blue tint, like those, we imagine, in Lord BYRON'S Cain, rolled along the horizon for many mi!es on Saturday evening, and bore a strong resemblance to a range of downs, giv ing the sea betwe,tn them and the land the appearance of a large lake or estuary. It required no great stretch of the imagination to fancy hills covered with trees, towns, and embattled castles, and deeply indented vallies, amidst the vapourotts condensation—" giving to airy nothing a local habitation and a name."—llr•iyhton Gazette. AN EXTRAORDINARY STARLING.—We have to record, not the death of a human being, but of a little creature, whose habits so nearly approached those of human nature as almost to induce us to believe in the an cient Pythagorean doctrine of souls. The deaths of this little chatterer occurred lately, it was not quite twelve mouths' old. The bird was the property of a gentleman in the neighbourhood of Nottingham, and its aptitude for repeating what it actually heard induced the owner to have its words so arranged as to form complac sentences: these he would without difficulty repeat, occasionally vary ing them by the introduction of the names of the persons who wre accustomed to supply him with food. He fre quently applied for his favourite food " sop," in language the most perfectly distinct, always beginning or ending with " I can't g t out," uttered with an emphasis strictly correct and approrriate. A (log which he had heard called by name, he would repeatedly call to, if he barked or made a noise, in such way as to leave no doubt that he knew him, and with a manner singularly curious. T he editor has been favoured with a list of his words and sen tences strongly authenticated.—Nottingham Mercury. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Mav 13. SCALES V. SAUL. This was an action of slander. Mr. Serjeant WILDE and Mr. RICHARDS conducted the plaintiff's case, and called two witnesses, from whose testi mony it appeared that in 1828 the plaintiff, a car cass-butcher, was a candidate for the representation in the Common Council, of the ward of Portsoken, but was not successful. At the wardmote held on that occasion, as soon as the election was over, and before the meeting separated, the defendant stood up and said that "he admired the religious princi ples of Mr. Scales ; but he wished his real charac ter to be known : he had neither principle, honour, nor honesty." Upon this some confusion took place, whereupon the defendant repeated that " Mr. Scales had neither honour nor common honesty." He then went on to observe, that "it was well known that the Whitechapel butchers killed for the Jews and the high-priest ; when he was interrupted by the Alderman, Sir James Shaw, who said this had nothing to do with the business of the meeting, and nothing further occurred. The declaration alleged that the above words were spoken of the plaintiff in the way of his trade as a carcass ' butcher; and to explain the latter part of them, it was stated that the meat killed for the Jews was killed by persons appointed for that purpose by the high-priest. Mr. Serjeant SPANKIE on behalf of the defendant, said Mr. Serjeant Wilde had told the jury, that he (Mr. Serjeant Spankie) would treat the case with some merriment; but he assured them that he was not now in a mood to do so. The trial had been so long hanging over, that his mind had become jaded, and he could not be 'sprightly if he would. He did not know what was the period of gestation for a joke, bat whatever it was, he was sure that his. had gone beyond its time.—(Langhter.)—He felt that he had miscarried—(A laugh)—and that he could now bring forth nothing lively.—(Great laughter.)—The Learned Serjeant then proceeded to contend, that the words here complained of had not been spoken of the plaintiff in his trade, but in his character as a candidate for the cffice of Com mon Councilman. When he became a candidate for that honour, he was bound to submit to-have his merits canvassed, and it was only in that character that the defendant had spoken of him. He had dropped his blue apron, and professed to come for- Ward in a white robe of innocence,—he would not say a white sheet—(A laugh)--and what was said of him on that occasion by the defend. ant had no more to do with his trade of a carcass butcher than it had with tile battle of Waterloo, although that also was a slaying matter. (Laughter.)—But, in point of fact, the defendant had sounded his praise, for he said he admired his religion. It was very true he said he had neither principle, honour, nor honesty, but these were mere worldly qualities, and he had given him credit for a spiritual one. Only think what a comfort it would be to him when he went down to his grave to have it inscribed upon his tombstone, " Here lieth Michael Scales, of whom Saul said,' I admire his religion.' "—(Great laughter.)—But then the High Priest was dragged in to show that it was of him in the way of his trade that the words were spoken; but how could the jury tell, if Sir James Shaw had not interrupted the defendant, that it was not in illustration of his religion which he so much admired that he was going to speak : it might be that the High Priest had converted him, or that lie had con verted the High Priest.—(A laugh.)—And after all what was it he was said to want ? Honour, prin ciple, and honesty. Now as to honour, the Jury would put that out of the question at once ; because that was a commodity that was not at all necessary in going through the world.—(A laugh.)—Then us to principle, that merely meant political principle,— that principle which was to govern him in the Common Council (the city House of Commons) in his votes as to the expenses of London-bridge, or the Lord Mayor's household.—(A laugh.)—All that a person meant when he accused another of want of principle was, that he was not of his principles, or that he was not steady in his principles, especially at present when men set their principles as they did their watches. Then, last of all, he accused him of want of " common honesty." Now, by his using the word " common," it was clear he was thinking of the Common Council.—(Laughter.)—'That was, he had not that sort of honesty, common honesty, that was suited for the Common Council. In short, there was no pretence for bringing this action, except to obtain further fame for the plaintiff, who had lately figured in every court in Westminster-hall, and out of it ; and whose thirst for litigation, for which the lawyers must feel very grateful to him, appeared to be inextinguishable. After about ten minutes' deliberation, the Jury re turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages Is. LITERARY FUND. On Wednesday evening the 41st anniversary of the Incorporated Society for the Management and Dis tribution of the Literary Fund, was held at the Freemasons' Tavern. There were present the Duke of Somerset, Lord Milton, Sir B. Price, the Presi dent of the Royal Academy, Mr. Lockhart, Dr. Lardner, the Rev. Dr. Wade, and about 150 others connected with the literary world. The Duke of SOMERSET took the Chair. After the removal of the cloth, " The King," and other loyal and customary toa,ts were drank with enthusiasm. The Noble PRESIDENT then rose to propose "Prosperity to the Literary Fund," which was drank with many cheers. The Rev. G. CROLY read a statement to the Meeting, from which it appeared that in the seven years previously to 1822, 239 cases had been re lieved at a cost of 2,2941.; and in the following seven years, 408 persons had been relieved at a charge of 6,1601., the relief having more than doubled. In the last year 56 were relieved. The balance in hand on the 31st Dec. 1829, was 3511. Bs. 11d.; and the receipts last year were 1,5341. 18s. The payments for the relief of distressed authors, &c. in the last year were 1,479/. I Is. 10(1., leaving a balance in hand of 4061. 15s. Tile per manent funds of the Society now amounted to about 22,0001. The Rev. Gentleman eulogised the So ciety, and stated that the utrost care was paid to the distribution and management of the money sub scribed. A list of subscriptions was read. His Majesty has forwarded two donations of 100 guineas this year, forming the 48:h and 49th subscriptions for a similar amount since the Society was esta blished.—(Loud cheers.) Other subscriptions were announced; among thew, the President, 101., Lord 201., Sir Benjamin Hobhouse, 10/. 10s., g.:c. Lord MILTON rose to propose the health of the President, and in so doing eulogised the Noble Duke for his c;anstant zeal to advance the interests of the Society. The Duke of SOMERSET shortly returned his ac• knowledgements. The CHAIRMAN then rose to propose the health of the President of the Royal Academy; and took occasion to remark on the close alliance which existed between Literature and the Fine Arts. " The health of the President of the Royal Aca demy was drank with applause. MARTIN A. SLICE, Esq. felt highly honoured with the manner in which his name, in connection with the Royal Academy, had been drank; for the page of history was the best instructor to prove that the judicious cultivation of the human mind in the arts and sciences was as judicious as it was honourable, because, when the splendour of a nation's wealth decays, when its glorious achievements, and its com mercial greatness, are alike faded and gone, all that remains for posterity to judge by of its former gran deur, are the historical records, and the remains of those works of art, which demonstrate incontestably the precise degree of intellectual power and influence they possessed, and rescue from oblivion the memory of that ancient greatness which, but for the a►ts and literature, would have been lost in oblivion; for literature and the fine arts—these marks of. civiliza tion—had the same objects in view, were fostered by the same parties, and he hoped, and was sure, they would continue to prosper. " The health of Lord Milton" was drank with applause, and his Lordship expressed his acknow ledgments. Other toasts were drank in the course of the evening, and a considerable sum was collected. The donations announced exceeded 5001. The Duke of Somerset vacated the Chair about ten o'clock, and his Grace was shortly afterwards followed by the rest of the company. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Yesterday the porter at the King's Arras Inn, Holborn-bridge, attended before Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY, on a summons for demanding and taking more than the legal amount for the porterage of a parcel addressed to Mr. Lambert (of the Lancet). Mr. Lambert stated that the parcel was charged altogether 3s. 2d., and the items of the demand were as follow : For carriage for 81 miles ls. 6d. For porterage from the inn to the Pewter Platter, Gracechtirch-street 0 10 Booking at the Pewter Platter 0 2 Errand cart charge to complainant's house, Kean-street, Walwortk 0 fi —3 So that the expence of conveying the parcel only two miles, exceeded that for 81 miles. For the sake of the public as well as himself, he made this stand against the practice by which the charge was so much increased, of innkeepers sending all parcels directed to parties residing in the suburbs, to a particular booking-office, instead of to the nearest booking house. Complainant's parcel ought to have been sent to the Magpie and Stump, in Newgate street, the oldest established booking house in London, which being within 100 yards of the inn, the charge for porterage would have been three pence. If for the purpose of increasing the charge the innkeeper may send the parcel to Gracechurch street, he may as lawfully establish the booking house at a still greater distance—at Whitechapel, for instance. He hoped the Magistrates would de cide that innkeepers had no such option; but at all events there was an overcharge of twopence upon the distance between the King's Arms arid the Pewter Platter. Defendant admitted there was an overcharge of twopence. It was a mistake. Mr. Alderman SCHOLEY should disallow all charge for porterage beyond the nearest booking-house, and was about to convict the defendant, when Mr. Lambert interposed, and requested that the porter might be dismissed on paying costs. He was now assured of the law upon the case, and would not offend again through ignorance. The Alderman assenting, the defendant paid the fees, and was dismissed. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young woman, named Elizabeth Salter, was charged with having robbed her mistress. The articles were identified by the prosecutrix as her property, and the prisoner was committed for trial. She had just been removed from the bar, when a woman, named Turner, came to complain of the con duct of the police-officers concerned in the above case, who, she said, had forcibly entered her house between one and two o'clock on the previous night, and remained ransacking her place until half-past two, under pretence of searching for property alleged to have been stolen from Mrs. Henn by the girl Salter. Sir R. BIRNIE asked if the officer had a search warrant ?—Serjeant M'Sweeney replied that they had no search-warrant, but he conceived they were justified in what they did, the girl being in custody on a charge of felony. Sir R. BIRNIE said that the constables had no right whatever to force into any man's house after sunset without being armed with a magistrate's authority, and if the landlord happened to have used a pistol, he did not know but that the law would have justified him. Mr. MALLARD, a county Magistrate, observed that not only were people unsafe in walking the streets, but it appeared they could not rest securely in their own beds, from the unwarrantable interference of police constables. Mr. HALLS observed that a friend of his, who lived over the water, upon whose veracity he could rely, assured him that on his return to his own house, a few nights ago, he found a policeman fitting a key in the lock of his street door. Upon demanding why he did so, the man unbuttoned his great coat, and showed him his uniform, telling him that if he found his door unlocked at night again, he would report him ; so saying he walked away, without offering any other explanation. Sir R. BIRNIE advised Mrs. Turner to lodge a complaint against the constables who had forced into her house without authority. A young man of respectable appearance was brought before Sir R. BIRNIE, by Mr. Thomas, the superintendent of police, who stated that the defen dant was found dead drunk in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden the previous night, and having been b ought for security to the police station, it was found that he had upon his person a very valuable gold watch, chain, and seals, also a bank note for 1001., and other monies. Mr. Thomas added, that under these circumstances he deemed it right to bring the gentleman to this office, and restore him his property in his worship's presence, a course which he (Mr. Thomas) determined to adopt in all similar cases, in order to remove any suspicion which might attach to the police, who had quite enough of obloquy to encounter. Mr. Thomas here produced the property, obser r ing that the young man had been at the station once before in a state of intoxication,. The defendant, who seemed to be quite stupified from the effects of drink and dissipation, declined to give his name, but said he was a solicitor's clerk in Chancery-lane. Sir R. BIRNIE observed, that he .would not be satisfied to let the defendant go unless he would bring forward some respectable person to speak to his character ?—Preece, the inspector, said, that the young man had told him that .be had left. 3001. in the hands of a publican near the Surrey Theatre on the previous night. The young man on being again questioned by the Magistrate as to who and what he was, betrayed considerable agitation, and said he would sooner give up the property than that his name should be exposed in the newspapers. lie, however, gave the name of the street in which he said he resided, arid Mr. Thomas offered to accompany him to as certain if his statement was correct. Sir R. I3rnNIE approved of this arrangement, ob serving that Mr. Thomas ought also to go to the public-house where the young man said he hld left his money, and take charge of it for him ?—The de fendant said he neither knew the name of the land lord, nor the sign of the house, but he thought he could point it out to Mr. Thomas. Sir R. BIRNIE requested Mr. Thomas to lose no time in recovering the money. The affair was at tended with some suspicion, and the young man must consider himself in custody until it should be satisfactorily explained. Mr. Thomas left the office with the defendant, with a view to investigate the matter. 11 ARLBOROUGH-STRINT. Thomas and Charles Garla►►d, two youths, brothers, one about 18, and the other about 16 years of age, in custody charged with a robbery at the house of Madame Vestris, the actress, werelyes terday brought before Mr. ROE, the Magistrate, for final examination. The first witness examined was Eliza Lucy Yes tris, who deposed as follows :—I am a widow, and reside at No. 1, Chapel-street, Mayfair. The pri soner Thomas Garland was in my service as foot boy, for about two months previous to the 27th day of April last. Between eleven and twelve o'clock in the forenoon of that day, the prisoner attended me with trty carriage to Drury-lane Theatre, and left me there. I told him to return again for me with the carriage at a particular hour, but he never did. The coachman, however, brought the carriage at the appointed time, having been directed by the prisoner to do so. When I got into the carriage, I immediately missed my carriage -basket, in which I had left my purse, containing three Bank of Eng land notes for 101. each, several sovereigns; and some silver, together with a Bramah key. On my arrival home, I inquired for the prisoner, but he was uo where to be found, and on going to my dressing r'oorn, I missed from off my table there two valuable rings, one of which had cost me 15 guineas, and the other 10. guineas. The ring now produced is one of those I so missed, and is the most valuable of the, two. When I got out of the carria g e at the theatre, I took off a lace veil I wore, and gave it to l i the prisoner, desiring him to bring it to me again when he returned ; but that also, I found when I got home, was gone. ratio one now produced id the same I lost, and cost me 12 guineas, but I do not now value it at more than about seven guineas. The three 10/. notes that I left in my purse were three of six notes for a like amount that I received in payment of a cheque from the banking house of Messrs. Morland and Co., in Pall-mall, and the money for the cheque was brought to me by the prisoner, whom I sent to the bank. From the time the prisoner absconded, I saw nothing of him until I saw him in custody at this office. The other pri soner, Charles Garland, was in the habit of coming occasionally to my house with my permission, to assist his brother, and on one occasion was there for a week together. William Henry Lamb was a clerki n the banking house of Messrs. Morland and Co., and recollected that on the 24th of last month, he paid to the pri soner Thomas Garland six notes of the Bank of England for 10/. each, and two sovereigns, as the amount of a cheque for 62/., drawn by Mr. Price, the late lessee of Drury-lane Theatre, in favour of Madame Vestris. The three 101. notes now pro duced were three of the six notes lie so paid to the prisoner. Other witnesses were examined, and the case was clearly proved. The prisoners declined saying any thing—indeed, the Magistrate said it was impossible they could have any thing to say, the case was so very clear; and they were fully committed to Newgate for trial, and Madame Vestris and the other witnesses bound over to prosecute. _ . _ The prisoner Thomas, on being removed from the office, asked if the money found upon them by the officer would not be returned to them. Mr. ROE said that this was about one of the most impudent questions he bad ever heard asked, after they had themselves admitted that the money found on them was part of the stolen property. Indeed, he said, they should not have one farthing of it given to them. The investigation of this case seemed to excite a great deal of what we suppose was nothing but idle curiosity, for the office was crowded to excess with persons who had no connection whatever with the proceedings, or with any other business in progress. QUEEN-SQUARE. John Allbrey was brought up in custody, and placed at the bar, before Mr. WHITE, charged by Robert Gilson, a private in the Guards, and the sen tinel on duty at the Cockpit-steps, in St. James's park, with persisting in currying a bundle through the park. Before the sentinel stated the case, Mr. WHITE asked him by whose orders he stopped persons car rying bundles in the Park ?—The sentinel replied he received orders from his superior officers not to allow any person to cross the Park with bundles. Mr. WHITE—Can you show me a copy of the orders ?—The sentinel said he could not. Mr. WHITE—Then, it is impossible for me to hear the charge except I see the orders, for there is nothing illegal that I know of in a man carrying a bundle.—The se►jeant of the regiment said that the sentinels had all orders to stop persons with bundles. Mr. WHITE—Very likely, but I see many persons in the Park carrying bundles, and without I see the orders I cannot tell how to act.—The .serjeaut said he had not got a copy of the orders. Persons with small bundles were not stopped. Mr. WHITE—We ought to have a copy of the orders at the office, and I wish you to mention it in the proper quarter, for I see some persons are ad mitted with bundles, while others are excluded.— The defendant said, he had often passed through the Park with a bundle, and was never stopped before. Mr. WHITE told the defendant that it was in the power of his Majesty, or the Ranger of the Park, to close the gates and exclude the public, if they did not comply with the regulations, but what those were he could not tell, and he was therefore dis missed. The scenes in the Park are frequently of a most disgraceful nature, particularly in wet weather; re spectable females are daily insulted and alarmed by sentinels placing a bayonet to their breast, and in sisting upon their pulling off their p a tt ens , w h en , i perhaps, the road-way s nearly ancle -deep in mud. There appears to be a sort of favouritism g oing on amongst the sentinels, as persons may be seen every hour carrying bundles through the Park far more bulky than the defendant's, which was a very small one. UNION.HALL. Yesterday Mr. Enzmcrson appeared to answer a summons, granted at the instance of Miss Benson, an artist, for refusing to deliver up a miniature like ness of himself, executed by that lady. The complainant, having been introduced to Mr. Emmerson, was anxious to take his miniature, in order to exhibit as a specimen of her abilities in that line of drawing. She expressed her wish to that gentleman, and he at once consented; and when the likeness was finished, he requested that it might be left in his possession, for the purpose of showing it to his friends, adding, at the same time, that it would probably be the means of recommendng her to several of his acquaintances who were desirous of sitting for their likenes:e.s. It was expressly un derstood, however, at the time, that the miniature was to be returned to her in due time after its exhi bition. It remained in the hands of the complainant for the last seven months, and at the expiration of that period, conceiving that he had had it quite a sufficient time for the purposes for which lie required it, she applied for it, but he peremptorily refused either to pay eight guineas, the sum she demanded, or to restore the miniature to its right ow:. ,r, and under these circumstances she was compelled to adopt the present proceeding. Mr. Emmerson, in explanation, said that the lady who had brought him there that day had actually solicited him to sit for his likeness, and he ac quiesced at much personal inconvenience to himself. That when it was finished, owing to his not having engaged her to execute it, he of course considered that he was entitled to it, and therefore retained it in his possession. Mr. CHAMBERS—If you pay eight guineas, the complainant will have no objection to permit you to retain it ; but it is too much for you to suppose that she would have gone to the pains and labour of taking your miniature merely for the purpose of be. stowing it on you, whom she has represented as al most a total stranger to her. Mr. Emmerson—Really it was under the impres sion that I was to have had the miniature for no thing that 1 went to the labour and inconvenience of sitting like a poker, and fearful of stirring a muscle while it was painting. The Magistrate saw nothing at all striking in the countenance of the gentleman to excite a desire one the part of the artist to execute his likeness gratis. It could not have been done with the view of hitting off a fine set of features; for, however anxious the artist might have been to flatter, she had no oppor tunity in this instance. Mr. Emmerson was aware diet he was not a hand some man, still that was no reason, he thought, that he should be deprived of the miniature; for its worth would never compensate him for the trouble he _experienced while sitting for it. _ Misa Benson reiterated that she had executed the likeness to exhibit, and it was considered a very ac curate one. She was confident that when Been by those friends who had a desire to examine it, they would introduce her to more business. The - Magistrate decided the case by compelling Mr. Emmerson to deliver up his ..likenesi to the right owner, arid the parties retired. THE MARKETS. SMITHFIELD MARKET.—May L. In this day's market, which exhibited a limited huppll throughout, composed chiefly of stock turned out un sold on Monday, each kind of meat met with a tolerably readY sale—Beef and Mutton at an advance of full 2d. per stone; in other prives no alteration. .. PRICES PER STONE OF BLS& TO SINK THE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. a. d. toe. Inferior -Beasts 2 4 2 6 Large Lambs 0 0 0 2 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Prime small ditto 5 0 6 . Prime large Oxen... 3 4 310 Large coarse Calves 4 4 4 13 . Prime Scots, &c..... 310 4 0 Prime entail ditto 5 0 5 • Inferior Sheep '2 6 3 0 Large Hogs 3 0 3 1 Second quality ditto 323 6 I Small Porkers 4 0 4 Coarse-woolled ditto 310 42 1 Suckling Calves 12s to 351.eac , " SoutlidownWetliers 4 2 4 6 QuarteroldPigs 12s to ISs. eacb' surri.v, AS rER CLERK ' S STATEALENT. Beasts. 'Sheep and Lambs.' Calves. I Pigs. 7,910 200 I 170 Mulch Cows, which were in but moderate supply, sold with some degree of briskness at an advance of about - lh per bead—an useful short horns, with her small calf, pro' ducing 201. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. At per stone, by the Carcass. 6. d. tog. d. a. d. toe. tt Sect 2 2 3 4 I Veal Mutton 2 6 3 8 Pork Lamb 53 Oct. to tis. 2d. _. HAY MARKETS.—(At per Load of 96 I: 2 us a ses to .) oil ST. JAMES'S. Coarse heavy Lowland Meadow Hay New Meadow Hay Useffil Old Ditto - Fine Upland Meadow and Rye-grass Hay 3lb '4 13 Clover Hay 3 10 !, A Oat Straw £9 6to £2 10 I Wheat Straw... 2 10 __..,'"'" _ A great supply, and a dull trade; prices as l a st quig______— SOUTHALL MARKET.—May 12, In this day's market which ,exhibited but a moderate supply throughout, and was moderately well attended by buyers, each kind of meat experience) a steady sale,. at the following prices per stone of Sib. to sink the oltals:---• Beef 3s. 0.1. to 3s. 10d I 4s. Sd. to 3.1 0 Mutton 3 6 4 4 I Pork . 3 6 4 S Lamb ss. Sd. to 7s. Od. The foregoing quotations are, Mutton 4d. to M. prime Vea l and Pork 2d. per stone higher, and inferior Lamb 4d. per stone lower than on this day se'nnight ; in prices of Beef no alters' tion.—Beasts, 130; Sheep and Lambs, 3,596; Calves, 70; Pt 110.—But a :small proportion of the supply left the market unso LEWES MARKET.—May 11. Beet 3s. 2d. to 3s. 10d. Veal 4s. 4d to 4s. 0 4 I Mutton 310 4 6 Pork 0 0 0 0 Lamb ss. 10d. to 6s. 4d. Supply limited, and trade a little renovated. RUMFORD MARKET.—pIay 12. s. d. to s. d. 3 3 0 4 3 4 8 2 I Veal pork s. d. 5 11 Reef 4 Mutton 3 0 4 Lamb Od. to Cs. 4d. Suckling Calves from 14s. to 304 ; Quarter old Pigel2s.to ICs. cab' A moderate supply, and a dull trade. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING TiE W/EM IV% heat. Barley. -1 Oats. /sewn , Per Quarter. s. to s. s. a. a. to a. a. to L• Blandford 59 29 23 Brigg—. ......... 60 65 27 34 17 23 • 30 17.2 Cambridge.-- 67 27 23 Chard 56 70 92 38 24 30 42 Huntingdon 58 69 29 32 20 25 27 „,, Long Sutton—. 58 64 20 25 36 Louth.. 62 68 29 32 19 34 Lynn. 54 70 28 36 16 26 32 Newark 66 71 32 _ 40. 23 29 40 1 Nottingham .. 63 75 25 43 23 31 28 50 Peterboroligh 56 70 37 40 19 23 .37i 43 Plymouth 62 '7O 26 33 20 24 -33 43 Pontefract .----- 61 33 22 4t Sleaford 57 66 26 35 17 26 37 49 Uppingham (13 69 32 37 20 30 30 45 56 68 22 26 SO 33 LEEDS CORN MARKET.—May 11. We bail a small supply of Grain to this day's market, and the trade was dull. There was little alteration in the prices, except of Barley, which may be quoted Is. Pe r quarter lower. . Wheat, Norfolk and Suflblk, 601 b. ........ 4ss. to 725. rd ---- York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Barley, Norfolk and Sunlk 26s. to Os. 12 Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans 63lh. ..................—..g7s,to 3 81 - ' Oats, Potaton --Mealing, Foreign 11%d. to 12d....English ltd. to 134, per St . Shelling .325. to 3.55. per. 1 08 ,± t . Rapeseed. English, 271. to 291 . Foreign,, —•l. to —I. per I f!, LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANO.E.—May 11. dlin A e t o t f h 2 ie d. ,y o 's ats ma i r d te to t Wiltie.apteerzlipgurishexeilluFritZ d; , t . and. per sack. In the value of other, articles there Wm litt le alteration. , WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx Irish, White -- Red 8 3 °. 3 Foreign ' •9' 0 10 3 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b : 3 99 04 7: 3 3 93i) Irish Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 36 0 33 .., n ---- Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. ---- Feeding 4 8 4 9 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 3B 0 44 6 Irish, &c. Foreign ,38 0: 40 0 PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 44 0' 46 y, Foreign 42 0 .44 0 „, FLOUR, English, per 2801 b .. ,48 0. 50 u„ Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 27 0 .91 6 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. - 41 0 RYE, per Imperial quarter 34 0 36 0 MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending May 10. al Wheal Oats. I Barley Flour. • lOatrne Qrs. (jr. s Qrs. Foreign; Brlallnsh, &c. Sas. Load!' 9,906 9,817 338 I 8,033 i - 1,724 1,37 , * _ ---' GENERAL AVERAGE PRICE OF BRITISII CORN' For the Week ended May 7, 1830, made up from, the Reta i. l 1 of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in Englan and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. Wheat-. 665. 6d.1 Oats 255. Id.l 355. al' 325. Od.l Rye 365. ld.l 365. ithi' IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE BIZ WEEKS PRECIII , I , !.. a : Gel Oats 9d.1 0 "' Barley 7d.1 Rye 355. 3d IPease 355. Ild. DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat--- 20s. Bd. l Oats I2s. 3d.1 9 ‘. / i Barley...--- 15s. 4d. Rye 16a. 9d.1 Pease V." BIRTHS. On the 12th inst. in Grafton-street, Bond-street, th e lady of Guy Lennox Prendergast, Eig., of a son. On the 11th inst. at Clapham, Mrs. R. B. Beddow'', of a son. On the 18th inst. in Eaton-plaw, the Lady Carol° Calcraft, of a (laughter. MARRIED. On the 11th inst. by special licence, at, the Duke ° f Beaufort's, in Grosvenor-square, by his Grace the Arch' bishop of York, the Marquis of Cholmoudeley, to Lad l Susan Somerset, fourth daughter of the Duke of Beaufort On the 6th inst. at the residence of the English Minister at Berne, Edward Romilly, third son of the late. Sir S• Romilly, to Sophia, youngest daughter of the late .Dr• Marcet. On the 11th inst. at Kingston, Hants, Wil liattt Wo r ' Esq., of High -street, Deptford, to Charlotte,. third daughter of Wm. Piddell, Esq., of His Majesty's CustoniN Portsmouth. On the 13th inst. at Hammersmith, by the Rev. NC", Waring, Fellow of Magdalen College, Cambridge, Edwar d Waldo, Esq. of Bristol, to Mary Scott, daughter of th e late J. Edward Waring, Esq., o! Barnes. On the 14th inst. at St. George's, Southwark, P . : Joseph Welsh to Letitia, eldest daughter of Mr. Huber' Shaw, of NA ntminster-road. On the 13th inst. at St. Pancras, D. B. Carling, Esti" of Antigua, to Sarah, only daughter of the late Lieutenan t Fickers, of the Somerset Militia. On the 11th inst. T. Chy, Esq., of St. Jobn's-etree t i to Mary Ann Penn, niece of the late R. Crosby, Esq., ° Lackhampstead, Berks. At Cockerington, near Louth, Mr. Elsam, farmer, t° Mrs. Elvidge, of Stickford, a disconsolate widow of te ll long weeks. The fascinating bride is only thirty, but tbie is the third time she has been united in holy natrincorl,", Immediately alter the death of her " dear, dear Elvidge, she listened to the love of one who would have been he r husband : the entreaties of her mother, and the frown, nay, even the fists of her father, were useless. The We ve ding-day was fixed, and the gay Lothario conveyed her t° Cockerington, when lo ! to his surprise and horror' another lover made his appearance, who was the brother of her first husband, and he being provided with ring , license, &c. she consented to take him for better or worse/ and her desponding conveyancer was sent to the righ t about, exposed to the scoffs of his neighbours. DIED. On the MI of November last, at Alicante, in bp 4 ► o ' Sarah, the wife of J. Waring, Esq., his Majesty's Cons° for the Province of Valencia. On die 11th inst, aged 24, at Boulogne-surZle 6 ( Edward, eldest son of the late Mr. Edward Wenhau, Hastings. On the 13th inst. in the 73d year of his age, M r i Ashmead, sen., of Duke -street, Grosvenor-squares 3° formerly of Mount -street. • PRINTED AND PUBLISHED By MURDO YOUNG, A I Ti" SUN . OtTrct, 112, trewsk, I.exs•N. 0 t ....., T CAT Tavel \Yen Lord John Rev. CAL Built and Celel seve r uers, • Liiiiti WI At tl a ot*,3 r Acri dista behil (frog an e: by ti and of 0 27, Srnii I-lob Clarl Mor Offii Ehl Edit paps ILL Lat 4 1 ' trat SI) sari Bd. Lad ford lack of I 13u1 lam