The Sun. — London, England, 1833-07-01 00:00:00

SPIRII OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. Sir Henry Parnell, on Friday last - , presented a petition from the newsvenders, complaining of the injury they sustained from the clerks of the post-office being allowed to deal in newspaper , . The observations of - Lord Althorp, extenuating she evil of, the practice, have been blamed by some of,our contemporaries, and we think wish treat justice. This is an abuse for which there can be no apology. "If (said his Lordship) the fees of the clerks with regard to newspapers were abolished, it would be necessary for the Government to increase the salaries of the per sons employed in the. Newspaper-office." Let those persons have what salaries are necessary. We presume that there can be no more difficulty in obtaining efficient clerks, for proper salaries, in the post-office, than in any other department. " The question (said Lord Althorp further) in his opinion, must be looked upon as a ba lanced question, and not quite so clear in favour of the views of the petitioners as his Right Hon. Friend thought it to be." Now, really. 'wish every disposition to think well of Lord . Althorp, we are astonished that he could give utterance to such language as this. A .ba salanced question, forsooth ! Why every branch of the public service could no doubt be executed • in the same way. The clerks of the Custom house might be allowed to pay themselves by im porting; and the advantages they would have over private traders would indemnify them for the want of salaries. We regret exceedingly to hear Lord - Althorp say one word in extenua tion of such an.abominable abuse. In fact, his Lordship's apology indicates a defective know ledge of the proper functions of Government. The clerks of the Post-office might, in fact, with • equal justice, rob passengers on the highway, in circler to eke out their salaries, as invade the pro , perty of newsvenclers. Government is.ieetittred to prietect property, and the industry of the peo ple is as much entitled to protection as any other description -of property. The moment a Go : Yermitent ceases to be merely the protector of industry, and endeavours to usurp particular .:liseriChes of trade, it travels out of its proper duty. We had imagined that the idea of Go vernment being subsisted by monopolies had been so long exploded, that not a word would be said in its favour. The Viceroy of Egypt, who mccOpolizes all the foreign commerce of his • country, may, by the profits of trading, contrive to do with' a lower amount of taxes than would otheysise be necessary to support his establish meats.; but is this a way •to improve the re ' Sources of a country? And are we in England to take for our model the barbarous practices of an African despot We say distinctly, that the Government is not justified in allowing its ser vaets to pay themselves by monopolies. The saving to the Government ought not to be taken one moment into consideration. The saving to the Government is far more than compensated by the loss occasioned to individuals. It is quite clear that the servants of the Post-office cannot be losers by the practice complained of; and, independently of the objections to it on the score of justiceOhe public are entitled to know what the clerks--of the Post-office actually re ceive,- that, if Overpaid, retrenchments may be made ; and if underpaid, they may be properly remunerated. The subjects of this country are entitled to demand that in every branch of in dustry to which they may betake themselves the course shell be entirely open. Lord Althorp is not, therefore, justified in allowing any one class of functionaries to interfere with the people in the exercise of their callings. He may jt st as well give the clerks of the Post-office the power of paying 'themselves, . by entering the domains of gentlemen on the roads and carrying off' pro perty, as by allowing them to rob the news venders. It is quite clear, that if the clerks are allowed to pay themselves by vending newspapers, they will contrive to injure their rivals in trade. We do not, therefore, in the least doubt that the statements of,Mr. Johnston of Dublin, with regard to the impediments thrown in his way by the clerks of the roads. are founded in truth. In fact, the system is one which must necessarily lead to all manner of abuses. We can assure Lord Althorp that, little as he may think of such observations as those made by him in answer to Sir Parnell, they are calculated to do great injury to the Government. If his Lordship had either said nothing, or said at once " the practice is, I admit, a very unjustifiable one ; the only excuse for it is that we found it established, and we have not yet had time, from the multiplicity of affairs dividing our attention, to set about remedying it,"—the public would have made allowances for him. But they construe these palterin g apo logies into laxity of princ i p le —an indifference to right and wrong. We have received several letters from correspondents on the subject, ex pressed in most indignant terms. We will in sert one, that his Lordship may see that there is a marked difference between candour and an indifference to principle, and that it is always dangerous to betray anything like the latter. "If (says our correspondent) proofs were wanting to ' convince the public that redress from the Whig Administration will never be ob tained, .however clear the charge may be proved, it is only necessary to refer to the answer given by Lord Althorp to the petition presented by Sir Henry Parnell last night. Why will his Lordship persist M a line of conduct so opposite to the professions of all his former life ? I ant, Sir, yours respectfully—once a Whig, but now ashamed to allow it." Nov our correspondent, in his indignation against Lord Althorp's apparent indifference to principles on occasions like that alluded to, is evidently unjust both to his Lord Ship and colleagues. Their in tentions have been proved to be good by the readiness with which they have instituted in quiries into all the rotten parts of our system. We have not a doubt that Ministers will, with out loss of time, purify the Post-office. But in the mean time this ugly trick of offering apo logies for what admits of no apology leads the public to forget the good they have done and are about to do, and to judge of them from what they say. A bad abology, h worse than no apology. —Morning Chronicle. The report of the Factory Commissioners has been just laid upon the table of the House of Commons, and a precious farrago of nonsense it is. They propose that the employment of children under nine years of age in mills or fac tories shall not be permitted at all ; dist until the commencement of the fourteenth year the hours of daily labour shall be restricted t o eight, no portion of which is to be between the hours of ten at night and five in the mornine ; and that, with respect to all children of a more ad vanced age, that is, above thirteen, the yresent system shall continue in operation, or be ren dered more galling and pernicious even than it has yet been. And what may our readiers sup pose are the exquisite reasons why )(w+lg per sons of both sexes, having comploLc: their ,hirteenth year, are to be condemned to unlimited labour ? The age of puberty is then, according to these wise and well-informed Commissioners, fully established, and therefore it appears to them that from this period excessive labour cannot do any great harm. Admirable observers ! Hu mane and intelligent reasoners ! How ignorant and stupid must the world have been until now that these philosophers have kindly under taken to enlighten it in all that relates to the progressive development of the physical eDer g,ies of the human heart ! Hitherto it has been held that the age which succeeds to that where their financial restrictions cease is one of the most critical and hazardous periods of human life. But this, it seems, has been an error. Messrs. Power and Drinkwater, and the rest, have been down to Leeds and Manchester, and lo ! it is discovered that at thirteen " the period of childhood ceases ;" that " the body then be comes capable of enduring protracted labour ;" that working sixteen hours a day µ ill, after this age of vigorous maturity, be " comparatively easy." But the physical discoveries of these inquisitive Commissioners are exceeded in im portance; if that be possible, by the new light they have shed upon the social and domestic habits of the people of Evgland. They tell us that on the completion of their thirteenth year young persons " are not usually chastised by corporeal - punishment ;" that " for the most part they cease to be under the complete control of their parents or guar dians ;" that " they begin to retain a part of their wages ;" that " they frequently pay for their own lodging, board, and clothing ;" that " they usually make their own contracts, arid are in the proper sense of the word free agents." Hear this and learn to know your dignity and rights, ye lads at Harrow and Eton, ye appren tices in the cities and towns of England, ye less fortunate boys and girls whose heads have been subjected to the wholesome discipline of the billy-roller, whose backs have smarted under the strap of the over-looker ! Would that it were possible to revive the slumbering ashes of Dr. Busby, for doubtless it would then be held ex pedient to remedy all past neglect by placing these Commissioners, one and all, under his care! The Commissioners go on to explain that of the little labourers who have not yet attained to the age at which protracted •labour ceases to be " fa tiguing and exhausting," who are not yet " in the proper sense of the word free agents," there must be two sets in each factory, that being the only mode in which their hours of labour can be re duced to eight hours. From which of course it follows, and is indeed admitted, that the other workpeople who are to co-operate with them, the robust, vigorous, enduring class who have completed their thirteenth year, to whom therefore protracted labour is comparatively easy, and who, moreover, " make their own contracts, and are in the proper sense of the word free agents," are to toil sixteen hours per day. This report, in short, is at once the most ridi culous and inhuman production that ever ema nated from men professing to be actuated by any feeling of benevolence.- It is well that it is so full of absurdity that it can never by possibility, either in Parliament or anywhere else, be thought worthy of the slightest attention. To legislate in pursuance of its recommendations would not be to improve the situation of the working classes in the manufacturing districts, but to punish them for having dared to seek improve ment, and to punish them severely. An Act crf—PserVssystsarsit. CT etTnea'rreWthd. down could not be in operation a year, or a; month, without producing throughout the ma nufacturing districts one universal conviction that the efforts of humanity in behalf of the factory children had been worse than abortive, and that it would have been much better for the latter had they been permitted to remain as they are. Labour rendered destructive to the health and life of the more advanced members of a family, including the father, and perhaps the mother, the aggregate income of the whole family at the same time reduced, would un doubtedly inflict evils upon the children' under fourteen greater even than those from which they had been rescued.—Morning Post. We have much pleasure in correcting an ex aggeration we committed when we described Mr. Fcier's Dili for the consolidation and amendment (as he very wrongly says) of the law relative to the observance of the Sabbath. We find that the Bill, though in general ex ceedingly plainly and clearly drawn, has been moulded after the example of that celebrated libel upon ladies' letters., which declares that the most essential part of the epistles of the fair sex are to be found in their postscripts. All that we said of Mr. Peter's Bill was true so far as regards the clauses of it up to the last page ; hut at the end of it (in a postscript) there are what are termed " exemptions to the Bill," and these exemptions run thus : " Provided always, and be it further enacted, that nothing in this Act contained shall extend to any servant acting in the necessary service of his or her employer, or to any person selling, buying, delivering, or receiving me dicines, or to any person selling, buying, delivtriug, or receiving milk or fruit by retail before nine o'clock in the morning, or after four of the clock in the afternoon, such fruit not below cried or exposed for sale in any street, highway, or other public place ; or to any baker setting or superintending sponge, to prepare the bread or dough for the following day's baking ; or to any person taking, receiving, or delivering any meat, pudding, pie, tart, or other victuals to, at, or from any bakehouse between the hours of half-past nine of the clock and half-past ten of !he clock in the morning, and between one of the clock and two of the clock in the afternoon ; or to the sale or delivery, by persons duly licensed to sell beer or cider by retail, of any beer or cider for the use of private families at their own houses, at any hour between 1 of the clock and 3 of the clock in the'alernoon, and between 5 of the clock and 9 of the clock in the evening ; or to the sale or delivery of any liquors, dressed meat, or other provisions in any house, shop, or place (which shall be daily used for the sale of dressed meat antb.other provisions, as hotel, ct,ffee-house, tavern, inn, cook-shop, or eating-house, or some or one of them) to any traveller, or to any person or persons who shall have lodged and slept on the premises during the preceding night, such liquor, dressed meat, or other pro visions, being consumed on the premises ; or to the sale or delivery of any liquor, dressed meat, or any provisions, be tween the hours of 7 of the clock and 10 of the clock in the morning, or between 1 of the clock and 3 of the clock in the afternoon, or between 5 of the clock in the evening and "9 of the clock at night, to any person or persons what soever; or to the proprietor or driver of any hackney carriage, duly I:ceused to stand and ply for Lire, ;ruder the authority of the said Act made and , passed in the first and second years of the reign of his Fesent Majesty, for (amongst other things) amending the laws relating to hackney car ri 'go, so as to prevent such proprietor from standing and plying fur hire with such carriage at any time of the Lord's Dly, except during the usual hours of morning and afternoon service in the parish church or chapel of the parish, place, or precinct in which such proprietor or driver shall et) stand and ply for hire ; or to any person attending any meeting for religious worship in illy house or place duly licensed for that purpose, or attending any school for the purpose of religious instruction, or to the travelling of the royal mail, or to works or cases of piety, charity, or necessity." No doubt these "exemptions"„ materially alter the case ; but they are very far from re moving the strong objections we feel to the measure. Mr. Peter has lived long eneugh ill the world, and must have seen enough of the Engiish people and of foreigners, to ki.ow that those of his own fellow countrymen, who work at all work harder than any men upon the face of the earth. They work harder than any hu man beings (not excepting negro slaves), are compelled to work. Are they to have no day for relaxation and innocent amusement ? If Mr. Peter's Bill, even with the "exemptions," be carried, they can have none. A broken s p irit and a dark prospect, uncheered by one single ray of sunshine, will bend their over-wrought bodies to the dt..st. We entreat gentlemen who have establishments and cellars of their own, and who, therefore, can well afford to be pious at the expense of the poor, to take the trouble of riding through the suburbs of this vast metro polis on any Sunday they can spare from pro menading themselves in the Park, after ogling ladies at fashionable chapels. Even Sir An drew Agnew may do this ; for the " Assem bly" allow " works of necessity or mercy" on the Sabbath. No gentleman who makes the jaunt .ve propose will vote for the second reading_ of this Sabb a th Bill. A heart of stone would be moved to pity by the asp,3ct of the sickly women, the pale faced children, and the old young men, hurrying from their ill ventilated dwellings to breathe, once in seven days, the air of heaven untainted by the accu mulated filth of crowded streets, which poisons them not less surely because slowly during the other six. Talk of the factory people ! Why, they are positively merciful, when compared with these Sabbath legislators, and much more respectable, because they do not attempt to make religion a cloak for the mischief they effect. The question lies in a nutshell. The working classes of this country have but one day in the seven for relaxation and amusement. It is quite proper that on that day there should be no riots or breaches of the peace. The police prevent, or the magistrates punish, such occur rences on the other six days of the week. Have they not the power to do the .same on the seventh ? They have ; and society, therefore, is not injured by the Sabbath, as now observed. We would not willingly say anything upon the re ligious view of this subject. We confess that we cannot treat with patience those pure or puri tanical, those primitive or pharisaical notions, which are, scandalized because the consumptive workman obtains some relief.for his deadly suf ferings by walking in the fields on Sunday. But we know that in the best times of our no such opinions were thought ineoii sistent with the doctrines of the Christian faith. The Caroline Bishops—men as far superior to the present Bishops as any one class of men can be to another—not only approved, but.-in culcated the opinion, that the Sabbath was'in iended as a day of enjoyment as well as of rest. We caution our legislators not to embark upon so perilous an experiment as this of Mr. Peter. The frame, and constitution, and condition of society will not bear it, and they may rest as sured that an attempt to impose fifty millions of new taxes would not produce so great a con vulsion as this proposed wanton, and cruel, and unjustifiable interference with the pursuits of a vast and intelligent, . and unquiet population. But our only object to-day was to make the auzencle honorable to Mr. Peter. We did him wrong, however, in a far less degree than we shall benefit him if he will take the advice we now tender, and that is to leave this matter as he found it.—Times. The friends of humanity, and protectors of th e: white . slaves of Great Britain must buckle, on 11.4- arrwaw-otooft. o .suscttsliey will f-p yet have a hard battle to fight, tfeiress - i4ey would abandon the advantages which have been ob tained for their cause during the course of no ordinary struggle. The enemy, beaten at all points in the open and front attack upon which he rashly ventured, has actually commenced that flank movement : to carry the question for which we prepared our readers some time ago, and which, in his correspondence . with the Com missioners, Mr . . Sadler anticipated. We were not deceived by the apparently humane conces sion of an Eight-hour instead of a Ten-hour Bill, with regard to children under fourteen years of age. We stated, when that was first mentioned, that it was intended, through the appearance of exceeding great tenderness for children under fourteen years of age, to lay a more crushing weight of labour than ought to be tolerated on the shoulders of ail who had attained that period of life. An Evening Paper, which is above the weakness of believing that vice or error can positively exist in anything of which the " powers that be" do not actually disapprove, has put forward, with apparent satisfaction, some extracts from the report of the roving Commis sion which the " candid " .Lord Althorp had sent to collect evidence by secret inquisition, which was to refute that which had been given openly and face to face before Committees of Parliament. According to that report, we find that night work, as well as a greater number of hours of labour than Lord Ashley's Bill con templates, is recommended in the case of chil dren who have reached their fourteenth year. The report gives the following as one of the sapient reasons of that suggestion, " that at that age the period of childhood properly so called ceases, and that of puberty is established, when the body be , omes more capable of enduring protracted labour. It appears in evidence from the statements and depositions of all classes of wit nesses, including the young persons themselves, that the same labour which was fatiguing and exhausting at an earlier period, is in general comparatively easy after the age in question." s a a s ge so s o w n ho as be t l h ie e v y e b t e h c a o t m e e els us l e i d ke t o t o t be e The Commissioners seem to belong t o that classsokpienria 'e t o i l on. They have the evidence, they say, of the "young persons themselves" as to th e easy if not the agreeable nature of fac tory work after their tender frames have been exposed for some years to its grinding labour. How many living witnesses have spoken to this effect we know not. We believe that if the dead could rise again—the thousands of infant vic tims whom the factory system has caused to perish untimely—they would tell another tale. But as to the period when puberty commences, it is known to be the most critical period of life, e&peciaily ~ s to tile female. We say no more on that point at present. We ask if children of fourteen are to be considered as mere beasts of burden, because they are the children of the po,,r ls the Malthusian to be allowed to liar , ness them day and night to the i nan i mate ma chinerywhich they are to he but the living appendages, of ae . s, without being blessed with the happy insensibility to toil and torture which characterises machines of iron and wood ? Is it of no consequence that nature has made whole some recreation and out-door-exercise absolutely necessary in youth for the .proper development of the human frame ? Is it of no consequence that children of fourteen are more susceptible of the effects of vicious example, and require more careful moral training than at an earlier time of life ? Is it of no consequence that, as rational and accountable beingsokr ought to have some time, besides what is necessary for recre ation, to attend to moral and religious instruc tion? Can they plead ignorance to an indict ment under our criminal laws ? Again we say, let the friends of humanity be on their guard. —Morning Herald. There are few things, probably, to which the British character is less prepared to submit than to a system of espionage, whether it come through the Police or the Post-office. There seems to be a not altogether groundless appre hension afloat that there is a danger of some such encroachment taking place in both these quarters. For the present, we mean to allude only to the latter. In a commercial country especially, but indeed in any community laying claim to the possession of free institutions, con fidence is every thing. And where is that con fidence of so much importance as in the sealed communications which pass between man and man ? With regard to opening letters, the lawful authority to do so, by the Post-office, or even by the higher authorities, is very circum scribed. We have heard that, by the dexterous use of a strong light, the contents of a letter can be ascertained without its being opened ; but this we trust is either a fabrication, or is never done. That the present complaint is not only that of opening letters, but of first opening the parcels in which they are contained--a viola tion of property, which, so far from being sanctioned by any colour of right, seems to our mind to convey something very like a felonious taking in the first instance. For how do the parcels from which these letters are abstracted come into the hands of the Post-office authorities? Because they happen to be sent by the mail-coaches. Now the mail-coaches are not the property of the Post-office, but are provided by contractors, as the horsing is also, for the purpose of conveying the mail ; only the guard, and not the coachman, is the servant of the Post-office, and for the parcels carried by mail-coaches the charge for carriage and por terage belongs not to the Post-office, but to the contractors and booking-office keepers, in the same manner as parcels conveyed by any other coaches. Anti if such be, as we believe it to be, the case, what right upon earth has any person connected with the Post-office, to touch, take possession of, or still less to break open, any such parcel ? If, in common with the public, we labour under any mistake as to the right, we wish the Post-office authorities would condescend to enlighten us upon the subject. On the contrary, there is a dogged silence on their parts upon the subject, which is by no means respectful towards those whose servants they are. We say, tell us why you have done this, and by what right ? If by none, then how can you justify thus shaking the public confi dence in a department the inviolability of which has hitherto been held so sacred ?...MOrnin'T Herald. The recent conduct of the Post-office, re specting the transmission of newspaper parcels, and ship letters, continues to excite sensation in the city, and is loudly complained of by the mercantile interest. Meetings have been already held in all the great commercial cities and towns in the northern part of the island, to remonstrate against it ; and we have some reason to believe, that in addition to the private meetings which have been already held here upon the subject, one of a more public and general nature will be speedily ealleA for the same purpose. We would - rain - nr*e, hdwever, that the new regu lation- alluded to, may have emanated from subaltern authority, and that it will be rescinded as soon as the real merits of the case are known. It cannot be the interest of the Post office, either to abridge the amount of its own revenue or to throw obstructions in the way of trade ; both which objects would inevitably be accomplished by the regulations lately promul gated.—Morning Advertiser. GREECE. The late President heal divided this new State into thirteen departments; but the Regency has recently altered this distribution of the infant kingdom into ten depart ments, and forty-seven provinces. These are as f Vows :- 1. Argolis and Corinth—capital, Nauplion, or Napoli di Romania. Contains the provinces of Nauplia, Argos, Lower Nakase, Corinth, Hydra, Spezzia, and Poros. Acoata and Ett—elo . .:ll, Patras ; provinces, Vos tizza, Calavrita, Gastuni, and Porgo, on the right bank of the Alpheus. 3- Messene—capital, Arka dia ; provinces, Porgo, on the left bank of the Alpheus, Phanari, Arkadia, Methone, Navarino, Coron, Calmata, Andrussa, lintaehica, and Mikromani ; it is bounded by the Alpheus, and towards Western Laconia by the Verga mountains, which belong to the Taygetos. 4. Arcadia—capital, Tripolizza ; provinces, Leontario i Karitene, Tripolizza, San Pietro, and Prasto. 5. Laconia.—capital, Mistra ; provinces, Mistra, Mal vasia, and Mani. 6. Acarnaniaand Etolia—capital, Vrachori ; provinces, Xeromero• ' Vonizzi, Valto, Zigo , Naupaktos , Cravari , Apokuro, Karpenissi, and Agrapha. 7. Locris and Phocis—capital, Salona ; provinces, Zeituni, Parrassiki, Lidoriki, Malandrino, Talanti, Bu donizzar, Salona, and Galaxidi. B. Attica and Bos itia_capital, Athens; provinces, Megaris, Salamis, lEgina, and Aughistri. 9 Eubcea—capital, Chalcos, in the island of Eubasa ; a‘rovinces, the islands of Eubcea, Scopelos, Skiathos, Skiros, and Eliodromia. 10. The Cyclades—capital, H e rmopolis ; provinces, the islands of the Greek Archipelago, which are commonly known by the name of the Cyclades. The local government of these several departments is confided to a Nornarch, assisted by a council; and they are subdivided into circles, at the head of each of which is an Eparch, with a district board. A letter from Morris-town, near New York, under the date 16th of May, details the following facts of three most horrible murders committed by one man :—A Frenchman, named A. Le Blanc, who had lately come out from Havre, on board the ship Manchester, in the month of April, entered the service of a friend of mine, named M. S. Sayres. As the latter did not speak French, I ac ted as interpreter, in order to conclude the engagement. At seven o'clock on Sunday morning some clothes, which ,vere known to belong to Mr. Sayres, were observed lying at the door of his house, which creating some suspicion, it was entered, and immediately discovered to have been robbed. The alarm having been given, a search was in• stituted, and almost the first thing that presented itself w as the body of the ' female servant lying weltering in blood on the bed, where she bad been murdered. The parties then proceeded to the stable, where they found both anil Mrs. Sayres with their throats cut, and covered over with hay. At this moment great apprehensions were entertained for the t vo dau7hters of the unfortunate lady and. gentleman, until it was known that they were visit. ing some relations in the neighbourhood. Suspicion now fell upon Le Blanc, who was absent, and who had taken with him one of the horses out of the stable. Search was m ade fir the supposed murderer by more than 4,000 pe ople in different directions, and he was discovered in the course of the day proceeding to New York, in order to avail himself of the first conveyance for Havre. On his person property was found which had belonged to his victims. He at present denies all knowledge of the trans action. He had worked, it appears, about a week for a widow in Germany ; his passport was dated Metz, March I to, and he had in his possession a fenille de route of Ca nada, as ritten in French and German.—From the Jour , ,tm: die Havre. On Friday the workmen began to prepare the foundation for the new stables for the QUEEN, in the Birdcage-walk, St. J ,rnes'i Park. There is to be a new l o dge erected at the George-street - end of the Park, to cor respond with the one erected last year at the James street end, COURT OF CHANCERY, JUNE 29. At the rising of the Court, the LORD CHANCELT.OR briefly gave judgment in the following cases : PARKER V. WOOD. This was a motion to dissolve an injunction granted by the Vice• Chancellor. His Lordship was of opinion that the injunction must be continued, and therefore affirmed his Honour's order,-but without costs. WATSON V. BRUTON. n this case his Lordship refused the motion with costs. GREEN V. ~~ This was an appeal from an order of the Vice-Chan cellor, who refused to set ►iown a cause for hearing, which had been allowed to go out of the paper. His Lordship agreed with his Honour that the cause should not be again set down, and refused the application. The Court rose at four o'clock. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE 29. TURNER 10. ROBINSON AND OTHERS. This was an action.to recover wages,alleged to be due to the plaintiff, for half a year's salary at 401. a year, with an additional amount at the rate of 801 a year. The de fence was as follows :—An action was tried here a short time ago, brought by the present defendants against this plaintiff, to recover damages from him for having seduced a young man from their employ (when he was himself their servant), and supplying him with the means of ab sconding to America; at the same time that it appeared he recommended the young man to help himself to his wages from the till. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE thought this was a sufficient defence, and directed the plaintiff , to be nonsuited, with leave to move to enter a verdict. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JUNE 29. EASLEY V. CROCKFORD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, a retired stockbroker, against the defendant, the proprietor of the splendid Club House in St. James's-street, to recover a Bank of England note for 2001., which had been stolen from the plaintiff, and traced to the possession of Mr. Crockford. _ The plaintiff, in September, 1830, went to the Rotunda in Blackfriars-road, in company with a friend, to hear one of Mr. Cobbett'a political lectures, at .-Erich place he was robbed of 580/. in bank notes, which he had got that day from his stockbroker. On discovering his loss he itn mediately stopped payment of them at the Bank, and caused advertisements to be inserted in the public papers, as well as circulated throughout the country, uffeting a reward of 100/. for the restoration of the property. Ail trace of the notes were lost -until last Ally, when a 2001. note was found to be in . the possession of a Mr. Allen, who said that -he received it from the defendant, Mr. Crockford, at Tat tersall'4, in payment of a bet for a favourite of his. Oa M Crockford being applied to, to ascertain from whom be had got it, he could not tell, for it was not his habit, so large were his transactions, to endorse the flumes of the parties from whom he got the notes ; but at the same time be refused to restore the note, and to recover which the p:e ,, Lnt ::coon was biou:i;ht. For the plaintiff, the loss of the money was proved, at well as the identity of the note, and the public advertise ment. For the defendant, it was submitted that the plaintiff bad lost his money throgh his own negligence, in going to such a place as the Rotunda with so large a sum of money. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 2001. HARMER V. ROBINSON. _ This was an action brought by Alderman Harmer, to recover the sum of 4/. 48. from the defendant. Alder• man Harmer had been in the habit of receiving an annual contribution of 21. 2e. from each of several Jew pawn brokers in the neighbourhood of Hatton -garden, for which he undertook to defend them when they were called into courts of justice. The defendant/had been a clerk with the Ald rman, and had been employed by him to go among the pawnbrokers and raise the contribution. The defendant had, however, quitted the Alderman's service, and set up in business for himself ; but subsequent to thit he had continued to raise the money as usual, without the Alderman's knowledge, and forgot to account for the money so received. The Alderman, on going among his clients, and finding this to be the case, demanded the contributions received (which amounted to four guineas) from the defendant, and the demand being refused, he brought the present action. One witness was called who proved the practice, but same difficulty occurring, The LORD Crater JUSTICE said that neither party ap peared to be well prepared upon the case; and, etter in timating that it ought never to have been brought into Court, sugg-sted that it should be referred. The case was accordingly, with the consent of both parties, referred to a Gentleman at the Bar. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANBION-HOUSE. A young woman of very respectable appearance applied on Friday, in great agony of mind, to the LORD MAYO! , foraeaiatairm her b in a aeoarn No. 1 i acterl: whocerotcthagiled.,lane,Commer cial-road, bad been missing. cial-road, since the Bth of June. The wretched mother was scarcely intelligible in her account of the disappear• slice of the child, whose name was John Matthew Carter, and who is nine years old. The boy had been playing in the garden at half-past three o'clock on that day, and when his mother called he never answered, and never had been beard of since. Both parents bad been all over :Le town in-s.urch I the poor child, hut i. vain. The Lo":1AY011. said that all he could do was to re commend to those who had the power to inform the pub lic in the mo.t eff,ctual manner of the loss of the child. The poor woman wept exceedingly, and appeared to be quite broken-hearted. B O W-STREET. A CHARACTER BY FRAUD.—Saturday Charlotte Hurd was brought to this office upon a charge of having oh• iiino admission into the family of Miss Combe, sister of the ce4rated brewer, in the character of housemaid, by fratidulOot means. Ttrikisoner, in her defence, ascribed her conduct to distress, and expressed her regret for what she had done. Sir F. A ROE informed the prisoner that the Act was peremptory, and that, as she had no circumstances to offer in mitigation of her conduct, he must fine her in the Onalty of 201. and the costs of bearing, amounting to ten shillings, or in default of payment, ordered her to be committed to the House of Correction for three months with hard labour. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. A coachman, named Davis, was charged by his wife with having violently assaulted her, and with being in the habit of treating her with great cruelty. The coachman, in his defence, said that his wife frequently declared that she loved the stableboy's little finger better than his whole carcase. It was finally arranged that they should separate, and that her husband should allow her live shillings a week. _ MAR YLEB ONE. DESPERATE ASSAULT AND DETERMINED ATTEMPT P T O RESCUE A RISONER.—William Adams, George Patey and Jain Lee, all Omnibus drivers, were brought up on a warrant on Saturday, charged with having corn mitred an assault at the Eyre Arms Tavern, St. John" Wood. .. _ On Monday night last Henry James Perenee, a consta ble of Marylebone Workhouse, entered the above named tavern, and on going iuto the ball-room, where the Water loo Union Benefit Society were having their annual feast, he saw a roan named Wedd, alias Hudson, for whose ap prehension on the charge of horse .sealing at Doncaster in 1831, a reward of 101. was offered, and an ae'ditional 201. on his conviction as a returned transport. Being po sitive as to his identity he laid bold of the man, and said " Wedd, I arrest you for felony." In an instant the whole parry was in an uproar, and many of the memb-rs of t' e society and others, among whom were the priso nets, endeavoured to effect a rescue, when a scene the most tumultuous that can well be imagined ensued. Lee was fined 51. and Patey 2/. Adams was discharged. A Pal - v.-arc WA ;.:, LIM A N IN TROUBLE. —Henry Ll)4- easter, a man employed by the inhabitants of Connaught square, in the capacity of a private watchman, was brought up in custody under the following circumstances : Police constable T 98 about three O'clock on Saturday morning was on duty near Connaught square, when he observed the defendant, who was very drunk, setting on a dog which he had with him at the different cats which are in the night) , hanit of prowling about the square, some of which, in consequence of being disturbed while " tails" of love, commenced " cater a degree as to alarm' the neighbours, I p v o a u u r i i i n n g o ty rtoth suchth i. many of whom popped their heads out of their chamber easements to know what was the matter. Witness re monstrated with him, but not eliciting any thing more than " Past three o'clock," which the defendant pro nounced in a stentorian voice, be conducted him to the station-house. Mr. HemNs (to the defendant) —What have you to say ? You are a pretty fellow fur a private watchman. Defendant (who seemed still labouring under the effect.; of the previous night's libations]--Please your Worship, rlsf 11 , 1 ;hi last night I met a friend, who asked me to bade a g! of ale, which I accepted on, but after having drank ' felt it remarkably cold to my a °mach ; so, thinking t_ A D. I might be ill in consequence, I had a glass n' gin to Way- l ope 0 it, which might have :iambe me merry, hut I deny beil 4 tosticated at all wbatsomdever. He was ordered to pay ss. for being drunk, and 'fil l ' 1 bail for his future good behaviour. TE THAMES POLICE. . - DISCOVERY OF COINERS. —John Chamberlqin, young man, and Ann Hill were charged with the cap . i off-nce of coining, and having in their possession cola implements and a quantity of bol money. Fogg and Mitchell having discovered that Chamberli was in the habit of selling counterfeit money to a numb of " smashers " at a beer shop in Mile-end-road, went' the prisoner's house, No. 1, Devonshire street, Bethnd green, and burst open the door. Hill exclaimed, " trY my God ! we're undone ; I've got nothing ;" hut Chad, berlain put a bold face upon the matter, and said, " 11 all right, Tom Fogg; I've been making a square gam. The officeis found out a sliding panne! in the wainscot, discovered several coining instruments in plaster of Pail On ripping up the bed they obtained forty-three countd kit shillings, and sixty base half.crowns. Chamberlain l this remarked, " It's all over with us new ; ae shall I lagged for this, Sal." Five pounds in good money we l found upon them.—Committed. Several respectable tradesmen acid the quantity base coin in circulation at the east end of the town 01 ENGL, do here) That Will be 'DAY rte; noon, fi Bill wh mons, I the Ind Al 4 sty The delivere NEXT, AN of the KING' dow La For or if by immense. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. RACES JULY. Liverpool (Aintree) Ipswich Winchester Bridgwater Newmarket July Preston Taunton Mansfield Cheltenham Lancaster Newcastle-um:ler-Lone Stamford ............. Derby Kendal Chelmsford Southampton Bridgnorth Goodwood Knutsford Hereford. AUGUST. York August Worcester Shrewsbury Pottery Brighton Salisbury Walsall Wolverhampton Oxford Huntingdon :::: 1; 7 0 C 0 ME. _ AUGUST. , E' Leeds. Exeter ......»'' Bankini Lewes Burton-on-Trent ..,«,........• Blandford.. .......... Plymouth ILeominster Newport Pagn Stockton Egh ant sto.ol,l4ge Yarmouth Aberystwyth Northampton ~ Weymouth •lriciastl Jam i %Var is k ........ Dorchester Rochester Lichfield REP 1.-e , ticst,r .' General Abingdon Colo Doncaster nd Wenlock ;hoards. Carlisle ' 'James A Heaton Park ...... ........... ~ Newmarket Ist October .... 0 ------ ....Ket Ist, -- orroaaa. Newmarket 2d October ... 0 ' CO Newmarket Houghton to his I••••••• ........... • • ........ 1.1•6••• nell ..... • ............ E' ...... "•"••• ... is Lon duet of . . ........ TimDEL IL: :811 .. .. .. ............. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS and curl DURING LAST WU. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Js: Per Quarter. s. to s. s. to s. s. to s. s. , 57 21 16 40 48 52 24 28 18 90 51orpeth 44 50 25 27 17 19 27 l'ue Penrith 58 23 17 boa 57 25 19 Winchester 52 60 22 26 22 24 42 Per Bushel. s.d. s.d. s.d. s. d. s.d. s.d. s.d. Carmarthen............ 6 0 66 1 2 6 2 9 1 4 1 7 00 • '" Cowbridge----. 6 6 70, 2 9 3 4 2 6 2 0 5 6 Newcastle (Staff.) 80 86 ! 46 50 29 33 49' Northallerton 70 93 1 3 6 46 33 40 56' 80 88i 40 48 30 36 59 Swansea 69 701 2 6 30 1 9 22 0 0 Warwick 9 0 10 9' 3 0 4 6 2 0 3 3 5 Per 8011. Mr Barnardcastle........ 11 6 17 6 8 0 8 6 5 8 6 8 10 0 Ap o Durham 116 146 70 79 43 611 7 0 , Richmond 10 0 16 0 76 96 50 66 76 11 3 11 6 96 10 0 46 50 7 COLT he PE] manly; 'his -c17,1 w Inclu( Ire. s 'orth-- and n _ELD CORN MARKET.-June 9)3 , 1 Wolk and Suffolk -s. 475. to 50s. fine ". 7 " - ---- n. and Cam. -s. 40s. to 525. fine *Now red n'kshire -s. 365. to 50s. fine •A, -s. 465. to 625. fine sm, •,, Red -s 425. to 51s. fine ;L I II - White -s. 525. to fiof. one!" 0 Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk 22s. to 20s. tine:o - Lincolnshire 22s. to 25s fine ;;g1 - Yorkshire Wold 24s. to 268. fine Regius 1 --:.-- Foreign -s. to -s. fine d !, Beans, Old --- New 31s. to 345. tine ,', " This fight upe Oats, Potato iss. to ~, is. fine ,!trlbraces ---- Poland -s. Ns. to 20s. fine : , - Friesland and Small -s. 16s to 198. fine tlxn - Mealing Shelling ,0 0 . Malt 32s. 30s. fine 40s. per It sn 0 ezton_ Rapeseed ' , 21. Os. 23/. Os. 241. Os. per •- ..___.__ WAKEFI Wheat, Red, Ne Lii White Foreig VASHI Secon:l SCOTCH MARKETS. 140 48 22 26 16 . 19 2 6 1 Si Wheat. B a r l e y Oats. I dean . t):> .--.—... .........—..--. --...—. ---.. i Abctleen ..... Berwick....... 36 38 19 20 13 15 18 20 2 7 k u Coldstream.., 36 38 IS 19 13 14 19 21 , •"" t upar ........... 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 26 •••• i Dundee.... 50 60 30 33 20 ' 25 110 31 •••• ~,...W E1gin............ 40 49 24 26 16 20 23 30 •••':,. l'" Inverness.... 36 48 25 27 18 19 23' 27 4 . 't Kelso 34 42 19 21 13 15 20 22 e;': h, .s Kirka1dy......... 48 6t •23 29 10 2 0 45 48 4. Perth 30 56 23 26 20 22 22 25 "•• h' tr:lf• The size of the measure varies throughout the cou ) -- ri EDINBURGEI CORN MARKET.—June 26. t We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, Barley, and the sales very heavy, with part of all sorts uno Wheat. ' Barley. Oats. 1 ?ease. _t_ , ,, r e al 'Li First 64s Od —s (Id 21s 4,1 32s Od ---.7r Second sBs Od . . -. '":1 • 195 Od .2piA 4 00 ,` } a Tli ird 49s Od , —6 i " i " i : _ .La....e...1--N —.O 04 .niCES trf' PROVISIONS‘ &C. Be u e t f t , o pe n ............... 0 5 r lb. ..., 05. 4,1. to : 08 0 :7 7 4. sa Fr l e t sh D ß it u t t ......... er,lb. o o2.B. B 4. to 19 m Veal --,........... 0 4 0•8 Ditto, per ca t. 70 0 0 .. P‘,rk--.... 0 4 0 6 Eggs, pz , ,: . doz. O 7 0 Lamb, per. qr. 3 0 4 0 OatStraw(kp'.) 7 0 0 . .) Tallow, cwt.... 35 8 37 6 Wheat Ditto.. 7 0 6 Qutrtern Loaf 0 8 0 0 Barley Ditto.. 6 0 0 i Potatoes. 1711 b. 0 4 0 0 Hay,perst..—. 0 8 _,4 95 1 Author EDINBUI2GI - 1 MEA. There was a good supply of and the sales were dull, at last a Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. l?irst Oatmeal £l 10 0 Second ditto 1 8 0 Barleymeal 1 6 0 Peasewteal 1 3 0 1 Pot Barley—No. 1, per cwt. 12: T E -I ly the .Co NI - ot i ti ' :ie ß a i' l :. !jih . i l s u d n a e 9 2s. 's rii ° l, °'" :b w i i i i 7 l l . : .i —The --- he 1 'eek's prices. Per Stone of 141 b 1 i First Oatmeal, Second ditto ' Barleymeal Peasemeal fi Pubi ;.-2d, 145.-3d,l6s.—Pt2linztot, GLASGOW CORN MA lIKET.—June 26. 1 The arrivals of Grain continue light. Wheat steady. and Oats rather dearer. No alteration in other articles. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. oats, per 2641 b. s. (I% British, old 23 oto 29 0 Irish l3 (1` ----- new Canada, free 27 0 30 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish English 0 C Pease, Scottish ... 14 u Scottish ry) 0 23 6 Oatmeal, per 1401 b. 12 6 Irish , HI: r ^ the r With This zsdditiot M NINC- 1 N I'ELLI ti EN Ob. Tons , ; Rank 0 Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 3,29:loltended, Average Produce Quantity of fine 20. 3 0 ,, n3( "e5t Amount of Sale, 19,1991. Os 6d .— Average Standard. 1134 v col la ter, THE ARMY. MONTHLY MILITARY OBITUA General Sir R. Brownrigg, G.C.8., Col. 9 F., Goy Landguard Fort. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Bowser, K.C.8., E. 1 . 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