The Sun. — London, England, 1833-07-30 00:00:00

SPIRIT Or THE PUBLIC JOURNALS -The battle of the Parliamentary press was, according to expectation, fought in the House of Commons yesterday, and we rejoice to add that a triumph more signal or more noble was never gained than that with which the House has been pleased to crown the cause of those much-injured gentlemen, whose lives, it may be truly said, are devoted to its service. Mr. O'Connell, who had followed up his opprobrious charges against the general body of reporters for the London press by the basest slanders uttered at a tavern meeting upon the gentlemen who are specifically connected with this journal, had moved, as is well known, that the printer and one of the proprietors of the Times should be summoned to the bar to answer for the pub lication of a letter signed with the names of no less than eleven reporters, who, feeling themselves aggrieved by the Learned Mem ber's foul-mouthed epithets, had declared that until some redress should be afforded them they would no longer do him the favour of reporting any of his speeches. After what has passed, and the lofty rebuke administered by the House cif Commons to the spiteful calumnies of the chairman of the Cartwright meeting, we no longer refrain from acknowledging that, in strict ness, that letter could no otherwise be defended than on the ground of natural and highly exas perated feelings. Such a claim to favourable consideration would command, no doubt, the sympathies of all honourable minds (and how gallantly and generously were those sympathies 'expressed in the course of yesterday evening !), but, technically speaking, the letter might be deemed an imprudent one, and a pettifogging lawyer might have twisted it into something like offence, had he not been baffled and put down by the prevailing sentiment of an audience like that which taught Mr. O'Connell (as in our last number we predicted it would) that he had a different class of men to persuade from any of his anti-union " gatherings." Mr. Methuen led the way to the defeat of the poor man's plunderer, by moving, without disguise or peri phrasis, that the order of Friday, for bringing our printer to the bar of the House, should be discharged ; and the press generally, we hope, will not, as we are sure we shall not, forget the ser vice thus rendered to us all by the honest, frank, 'and spirited Member for Wiltshire. It will be seen from the report what passed on this occasion. The sound good sense, as well as right and true feeling of the House of Com mons, were never more conspicuously or more usefully displayed. Most of the distinguished Members present came forward to deliver their opinions ; nor was cutting sarcasm, and from ninny quarters, spared among the weapons of the learned Repealer's discomfiture. But that he is defeated, mortified, beaten, crest fallen, we congratulate the whole journal press—above all, we congratulate the House of Commons, which has thus disdainfully separated itself from the bully-ocracy, and uncombed this cock of 10,000 Irish dunghills. It- now remains for us to state briefly the change which, on every principle of good taste, we conceive that yesterday's division of three to one in favour of our injured friends has wrought in the relations of the parties. The vote of the House of Commons is a complete silencer of the vain and malignant aspersion upon the reporters. Falsehood has done its orst, and has failed. The accusation is as if it had never been. Whether Mr. O'Connell retracts his calumny or repeats it, or skulks from the avowal or from the retraction of it, and leaves the past as a record of his own disgrace, in our eyes, all of equal value. Were we in the precise situation of the reporters, we think we should prefer his " passive adherence" to the libel, or positive repetition of it, to any demonstration of tardy penitence or of repugnant truth. The House of Commons, the grand inquest, has acquitted the accused, and we envy not the attitude in which its verdict has placed the accuser. The House of Commons, by this just decision, has virtually passed a severe vote of censure on the Eyre arms slanderer. We are convinced that the emphatic words of Sir Robert Inglis found an echo in the breast of many a Member when the Hon. Baronet reminded the representatives of the people that they had extraordinary powers vested in them ; that they could inflict by the freedom of speech, which in their Parliamentary character belonged to them, the most intolerable punishment on any or every man in the kingdom, against whom they entertained a private grudge, awl could exercise this torture while shrouded in complete senatorial impunity ; that it behoved them, therefore, to be cautious of visiting upon others out of doors a too harsh measure of their collective resentment, especially when an indis creet or heated expression might chance to be rovoked from the injured in self-defence by wanton attacks upon their personal fame and honour. With regard to our reporters, they will henceforth, after the event of yesterday, be aware of the propriety of avoiding to embarrass or engage the House in the vindi cation of even their just quarrels with indivi dual Members. We are satisfied, that so far as ,etocerns their late calumniator, they will enjoy their victory with moderation. These gentle men in other respects judge rightly of their po sition and their duties. Whatever quick mea sures or warm language they may have been compelled to use, they never have dreamed (though dishonest insinuations may have fallen from certain parties on that subject)—they never have dreamed of assuming an unwarranted atti tude or tone. But in this recent case our sense of the justice of their quarrel was so strong th a t we should have felt ourselves the basest and most dishonourable of men had we not stood strenuously by them. We have nothing more to do with Mr. O'Connell in his Parliamentary character ; the House of Commons has cut that knot ; but in his conduct towards us we have to beg—nay, to require, that instead of a paltry and unmanly sneering at the reporters, conductors, or proprietors of this journal, in an assembly where the shield of privilege is before him, he will give vent to his rancour at such times and places only as may enable us to insure redress for our selves in some way without the intervention of the House of Commons.— Times. The motion of Mr. O'Connell for bringing the printers of the Times to the bar, was rejected by an overwhelmin g majority of 153 to 48. This decision we were led to anticipate ; for how could the House take it upon itself to sit in judgment on the newspapers as to the manner in which t h e y may execute the discretionary powers uecess arily vested in them. E very Member naturally thinks highly of himself; and were the House to determine the quantity of type with which Members ought to be satisfied, instead of quarrelling with the reporters, they would be seen quarrelling with each other. The artists in the exhibitions of the Royal Aca demy, constantly complain of being unjustly dealt with by professional brethren in the bang ;l; of the pictures. In like manner an Hon. Member, on seeing his hour's eloquence com pressed into some 20 lines, while a whole half co lumn was assigned another Member, who only spoke a quarter of an hour, would consider himself sorely aggrieved, and if he found his complaint of partiality not listened to by the House, he would place this to the account of illiberal jea lousy on the part of brother Members. In short, it is utterly impossible for the House to come to any decision on the charge of partiality in reporting, without exposing itself to the most serious difficulties. Admitting, as we willingly do, that the unfounded and illiberal accusations of Mr. O'Connell form no justification of a de termination to exclude his speeches from the reports, we are yet at a loss to see how the House can mend matters ; and this point was strongly dwelt on by Mr. Methuen, Mr. Ro binson, Sir Robert Peel, and several other Members. The views of Mr. O'Connell with respect to this matter were thus stated by him : " He (Mr. O'Connell) should he very glad that the debates of that House should go fully abroad, but then they should also be under the correction of the Speaker.— (Laughter.) It was not right that the reports of what was said in that House should be mis stated ; they ought to be correct if reported at all. If papers went on publishing the business of Parliament, and that incorrectly or falsely, the only remedy was to prevent the publication of any." "He meant (he further observed) to persevere and bring the question before the House every time the Times published an ac count of their debates. * * He insisted on an apology, and would not allow any violation of his rights by any person what ever. No person should say he was made an outlaw. * * * * If any one would move to rescind the standing order he would vote for the motion ; but while the order re mained he should insist upon it. If the House shrunk from this motion, he should, but not till then, clear the gallery." Accordingly, when the gallery was re-opened after the division, Mr. O'Connell immediately moved the standing order for the exclusion of strangers, and the gal lery was cleared accordingly. The House de liberated for the rest of the night with closed doors. It was understood, that after the gallery was cleared, Mr. Robinson gave notice that he would move the suspension of the standing order. The question is now between the House and Mr. O'Connell, and not between Mr. O'Connell and the press. As the House very properly refuses to commit itself in an unprofit able contest with the conductors of newspapers, Mr. O'Connell says, that so long as the standing order exists, he will move for the exclusion of strangers. This state of things cannot of course last long. The House must either rescind the standing order, or prevail on Mr. O'Connell to g ive way. W e are as t on i s h e d t h at a man o f Ir. Hume's experience should talk such arrant nonsense about the House, having an authorized reporter to give their debates. If the reports of this authorized reporter (though, by-the-bye, not one merely, but twenty reporters at least, would be necessary to give the debates of the House) are to be published daily, who will wade through fifty or sixty columns of heavy rubbish every day ? Now the object of Members is not merely to be reported, but to be reported in such a way as to obtain readers. An Englishman does not wish to confine his reading to Parlia mentary reports. During the hour or two that he can spare from his avocations to read, he wishes not merely to peruse the debates in Parliament, but the news of the day—the proceedings of Courts of Law, Police Offices, &c. Of all the hallucina tions ever entertained, that of an authorized re porter is the most ridiculous. Even as a record for reference, the reports of these Parliamentary reporters could not be depended on. The noise in the House—the going out and in—the pe culiarities of delivery, &c., would be felt in au thorized reports, as well as in those now exe cuted for the press. We are quite certain that the present state of things will be of short con tinuance. It is an understood matter that the debates of Parliament must go forth to the pub lic. Mr. O'Connell and the House must settle matters as they best can. We should imagine that the Hon. and Learned Gentleman must, by this time, feel that he has acted a very foolish and unadvised part throughout, and that he wishes he had never moved in it. But it is characteristic of Mr. O'Connell to yield to every impulse. He is carried away by every gust of passion. When he ought to be unrelenting, he suffers himself to be gained over ; and, like the child who one mo ment gives away its toy, and the next cries for it, he no sooner makes concessions, than he repents of them. In the case of Mr. Nugent, of the Times, even on his own showing, his conduct was unjustifiable. He gave way, he says, to feelings of commiseration, and stated of Mr. Nugent more than he believed, to pre vent his dismissal. But having done this, he is not at liberty to turn round and repeat the accusation. There is in all this a lamentable want of self-government, to make use of no harsher term.—Morning Chronicle. The report of the Select Committee appointed to investigate the long-prevalent and notorious corruption of the Freemen of Liverpool was presented last night in the House of Commons, and we refer our readers to a copy of it in another column. The Reformed Parliament has at least honestly and ably discharged its duty, in exposing the political scandal of this country periodically displayed at the election of the representatives. This result of the Reform A cts is alone a substantive gain, and must lead to legislative remedies. The Warwick and Liverpool Committees both report and animad vert on the system ; and open voting cannot long exist, unless means are adopted to extin guish the gross and abandoned treating, bribery, and other mal-practices and " influence" exist ing in the smaller constituencies, and in some larger cities and boroughs. The artful " amend ments" proposed by the Tories in the discussion of the English Reform Bill, were almost exclusively to perpetuate corruption, and their own political domination. They created the electoral tenants at will, because they knew that the majority of that class being " without a will," would be ne cessarily their subservient tools. The Tories were the cunning advocates of popular rights (but really sheep in wolves' clothing) when they succeeded in preserving the franchises of the old needy burgesses or freemen of the towns; and the most extensive liberality ever pretended by Lord Ellenborough, was in favour of a 5/. franchise for the smaller boroughs, because he knew the certain weakness of such a class of voters. Hence the zeal of the Conservatives on behalf of the rotten constituents of Lord Sandon. The Liverpool report has recorded a sweeping indictment against the corrupt voters, and the system of Liverpool elec tion?. The existence of any general or extensive system had been boldly and imprudently denied, and was successfully concealed by one chicanery or another in the preceding Committee. But the evidence on which the report is founded, and which will be printed, will amply attest the integrity of the Committee decision. It appears that the municipal and political elections of the town are equally corrupt—that the lower class of electors openly demonstrate their eagerness to be bribed—and that a most shameless system of bribery exists when a contest occurs. We shall, however, analyse the report to-morrow, and do justice to its merits. It is only second in importance and value to that of Warwick, and must necessarily terminate in the disfran ; chisement of the freemen. The corporation, close, irresponsible, and otherwise defective, will be doubtless duly attended to by the Municipal Commission. We observe in the House of Lords last night, the uneasiness displayed by Lord Wharncliffe on the subject of Corporate Reform. His Lordship affected the gravest anxiety for the security of corporate property, and we do not doubt that the intended measure is very unpalatable to the Tory Peers and Lord Sandon. We shall to-morrow trace the illegal acts reported against the borough of Liverpool in connection with the Corporation, and we think we can convince Lord Wharncliffe of the ill-judgment of his inquiry.— Morning C'hron. Our paper of this day appears in a very curious guise. We give a report of the proceedings of the House of Lords, and also, up to eight o'clock, of the proceedings of the Commons ; but, although the House sat, as we are informed, till a late hour, we have no farther report to pre sent. The cause of this deficiency is no ground of shame to us—it arises entirely from the con duct of that agitator, who, having kept Ireland in a state of fever during many years, and sub jected to his dominion every thing in it, mental and corporeal, would now trample upon the press in this country, because it is not base enough to yield submission to his views, and to report every word of nonsense which it might please his High Mightiness to utter ! The creature ! How can he dream upon succeeding in his despotic at tempt ? What gentleman connected with the press, who has the feelings of a gentleman, would think of submitting to his despotic dic tation ? He avers that he broke the neck of the public press in Dublin, and although he has said it, we doubt not the fact ; but he has now bidden defiance to the London press, and will he find it equally yielding ? The Hon. Mem ber, no doubt, thinks that he can play the same game here that he has played in the sister country, and that because he is the representa tive of a certain portion of the Dublin com munity, he is at liberty (having a vow in heaven against fighting) to insult those who are only the reporters of the opinions of others; but let us assure the Hon. Member, that he has for once mistaken his mark—that the parties with whom he is contending are not his inferiors in any respect, but more than his equals in literary and scientific attainments, as well as in good breeding—that they will not bear to be designated by the most infamous and galling of all the epi thets which can be applied to men, wh a t ever their rank cr condition i n society, that of wilful liars—and that at any cost, at any hazard, they are willing to fling back the accusation in the teeth of its author, with all the adjuncts which may naturally be imagined to accompany it. It was mentioned last night, during the debate on the subject of calling to the bar of the House the printer of a contemporary journal, that many of the reporters for the press had been educated for the bar and the medical profession—let us add that there are not a few also who either have been, or are now, connected with the press who have been educated for the Church—who have appeared in better society than ever Mr. O'Con nell had access to, and that were their attain ments to be weighed in the balance with those of the Irishman, the latter, in nine cases out of ten, would kick the beam. Yet these are the persons to whom Mr. O'Connell would give the lie ! Since writing the above, we have learned that the reporters for the different morning pa pers have felt satisfied with the vote of the House of Commons upon the subject, and that, being relieved from the odium of the aspersion of the Hon. Member for Dublin, they will, in future, report his speeches as they have previously done, that is, faithfully and impartially. We expected nothing less from their honour and impartiality ; at the same time, had they yielded to Mr. O'Connell, instead of the vote of the House, they ought to have been kicked.—Morning Advertiser. We know from pretty good authority, of which, indeed, any one giving himself the trouble may soon obtain ocular proof, that no diminution has taken place either in the number or the nefarious practices carried on at the high and low gaming-houses in the neighbourhood of St. James's and Regent streets. How this is we cannot tell. Early in the present year, the parochial authorities appeared to have taken up the subject with a zeal and earnestness which did them the highest credit. But, in the lan guage of Scripture, having once put their hand to the plough, they should not look back ; for to embark in a warfare with the hydra, and then relinquish it, gives the adversary a triumph and a consequence he could no otherwise obtain. In short, it is like " showing the white feather" in any other species of contest, which brands the exhibitor a coward. We are well aware how very little encouragement the parties in question have received from persons in authority—from those v‘ho ought at least to have zealously seconded them in their endeavours, if they had not, in fact, taken the task out of their hands. We regret, moreover, to hear this reluctance ac counted for by the fact, that there is some where or other an official sympathy in these matters, and that parties cannot reasonably be expected to put down vices in which they themselves partake. We sh a ll b e h appy to fi n d that this is a mere invention of the enemy-.—a scandal which the parties in question may readily remove if they are convinced that it is such. In the mean time all that we ask on the part of the public is that, by some means or other, these detestable practices, if not rooted out, may be checked from spreading their baneful influence among us. It has been said of the titled gamester that he ought to be allowed to ruin himself in his own way, and that his occupation, however disreputable, concerns nobody but him self. Though we deny, and repudi a t e t hi s doc trine, we nevertheless readily admit that the ' practices carried on at the lesser Hells are lishm onger ' s H a ll , a infinitely more prejudicial to th e commun i ty a ti lt ) a d n t t h h e o r s pursuede of p at triciau d eprav i ty. At those sinks of iniquity, i of whi c h one, if resorts not more, of the courts n s James's-street is ~ames's-street is almost wholly composed, servants of all descriptions, but especially th e s h opmen o f retail traders, daily or nightly attend; and as they become the snctims of the ha rp i es to w h om these pandernonza belong,it is not unreasonable to Suppose that their masters'tills or s t oc k s are the r esource f rom which their losses are sup plied. Indeed, the fact has been over and over again proved to be so, independent 'of the far greater portion of the plunder whichl is never discovered but in the insolvency of the masters so plundered. And is this a subject upon which the tradesmen, who are members of the parochial Board of St. James's, or of any other parish, can or ought to be indifferent ? On the, contrary, even if the case is not yet their own (of which some of them had better not be too sure), what is their neighbour's case to-day may be their own to-morrow. When these dens of infamy approach the mansions of the great, they are held up as " burning shames," while ob scurity is allowed to sanction profligacy, and impunity is readily ceded to that which does not offend the eye. Only extend this to other crimes, and our public functionaries will soon have the, to them perhaps not disagreeable, task of pan dering "to ears polite."—Mcrning Herald. The discussion of Mr. O'Connell's motion to call the printer and publisher of a morning journal to the bar excited considerable curiosity last night, and the report of it will repay the attention which it is sure to receive. The result was precisely what we had ventured to antici. pate. The House of Commons would not con sent to gratify the pique or to heal the wounded vanity of an individual Member at the expense of a contest in which it would certainly have been defeated, and in which victory, had victory been possible, would have been still more dis graceful and ridiculous than defeat. Mr. O'Con nell is, however, not a man to be willingly dis appointed when he meditates vengeance. If he cannot do precisely what he wishes, he will at least do something. And accordingly, not being able to draw down the resentment of the House of Commons upon those who were the first and principal objects of his displeasure, he bethought himself of the resource of clearing the gallery ; that is, of' relieving -the whole body of reporters in attendance upon the House of their arduous labours for that evening—of disencumbering the columns of the Morning Papers of this day of a mass of matter which might have been good reading, and might just as likely have been very bad reading—of depriving the people of all means of knowing, for one night at least, what their representatives have been about, and of disappointing various well-meaning and simple minded gentlemen from the country who had manifested so much bad taste as to appropriate one of these fine summer nights, which may be spent so much better in a thousand other places, to the gallery of the House of Commons. So vigilant was the Hon. and Learned Member to prevent any evasion of his stern decree that he exercised his authority over the doorkeeper to debar the gentlemen connected with the press from access to the room adjacent to the gallery, which by the favour of the Speaker has been appropriated to their accommodation ; and we were told that he even visited the apartment, in the roof from which ladies are sometimes permitted to hear the debates, lest some wicked reporter should have intruded himself into this political boudoir in feminine disguise. From the disposition manifested by the House during the discussion of the Hon. and Learned Member's motion, there can be no doubt as to the result of a pro position which is to be brought forward this evening by Mr. Robinson, to suspend the Standing Order for the exclusion of strangers, sol that to-night the reporters will return refreshed and reinvigorated to their labo rious duties, and every thing will go on as usual. The House of Commons has seen the propriety and necessity of deserting the Hon. and Learned Member for Dublin. Surely this ought to con vince him that he has not been pursuing a very prudent or honourable course, and induce him to do all that he can in order to repair the error and atone for the injury he has committed.— Horning Post. The Burgomaster of Rotterdam has given notice that the fair usually held there on the 12th August will not take place this year. At Gouda also there will be no fair held. The Journal de Calais of the 24th inst., states that the arrivals of travellers in that port in the course of the preceding week amounted (notwithstanding the tempestuous weather, which had detained many on the English coast) to no less than 1,463, being more than in any one week since 1830. We learn that there were several political meet ings during the week, of the Opposition Peers, at Apsley house, and at the Marquis of SALISBURY'S, in Grafton street. Lord LYNDHURST, who is going the Norfolk Circuit, came to town for one day, on Thursday, and voted in favour of the Archbishop of CANTERBURY'S amendment that evening. His Lordship again took his departure for the Circuit on Friday, after having had a long conference with an illustrious Duke. The Marquis of LOTHIAN and the Earl of HOME came to town from their respective seats in the North, to vote against the measure. The last-mentioned Noble Earl, with the Earls of KINNOUL and COURTOWN, and Lord MONTAGU, of Brighton, assembled daily, in the afternoon, at the Duke of BUCCLEUCH'S residence, in Privy Gardens, whence they proceeded at six o'clock, to attend in their places on the opposition side of the House. Lords ABERCROMBY and KING, whose politics, of course, assimilate with those of the Ministry, took the oaths and their seats on Friday, in order to qualify themselves to vale on the third reading of the measure. The Earl of CARNAR VON gave his first vote in the House on Thursday, in favour of the Archbishop's amendment on the 117th clause. KEAN'S VILLA AT BUTE.--The villa was so much admired by the late eccentric tragedian, that be frequently declined engagements, and lost many hundred poth.l9, by his anxiety to visit it and remain in it as long as he could possibly extend his stay. Here, amidst gay friends, and spirits of a kindred mould, poor KEAN loved to luxuriate, and set the table in a roar. " With these conversing he forgot all time," and defied managers' books and prompters' calls. Very often, however, a visit to KEAN was literally a service of life and death. His guests were completely at his mercy ; for they could not get away till a ship came ; and when the wassail cup flowed brightly, and the festivities ran far into the night, the actor often became unmanageable, and glasses and bot ties flew about among the heads of the company as thick as arrows at Chevy Chace. Some of his dramatic friends were celebrated and envied for the dexterity with which they evaded these missives, but others who could not (as our Scotch proverb says) " jeuk and let the jawp gae ower" were often surprised in moments of danger. Next morning there was a profusion of apologies, kind words, and friendly hospitality, but scars sometimes remained as indelible as the blood-spot on Lady Macbeth's hand. Few persons of taste or feeling will sail past the wild and beautiful shores of Bute without thinking in pity or admi ration of the late owner of the villa. —lnverness Courier. j EXECUTION.---On yesterday, about one o'clock, the awful sentence of the law was carried into ex ecution at our county goal, in presence of an immense concourse of men and women, on PATRICK BYRNE, con. victed on Wednesday last of the murder of EDMOND JOICE. As BYRNE, who was dressed in a torn old blue coat, a miserable corduroy trousers, and stockings also full of holes, was led out, be appeared to be extremely faint and pale, and deeply penetrated with a sense of his situation. He could not be more than about three or four and twenty years of age. The Rev. Gentleman asked him had he any thing to say as to the justice of his sentence. He replied with a wild sort of look, " Oh, it was I killed him !" After then calling on God to have mercy on his soul, he was put out on the board. At first he stood, with his limbs tottering, but they became firm —at length the fatal bar was pulled, and he was thrown off. Owing to the board from which the unfortunate man was hurled, presenting a slanting position, and, of course, throwing him out in a slanting direction, his body rebounded, and struck the wall. He heaved con. vulsively for a short time, and died in about three or four minutes. After hanging the usual time, his body was conveyed on a common car to the county infirmary for dissection, —Kilkenny Journal, Saturday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. f MAR Y LEB ONE. ELOPEMENT AND:RECONCILIATION.—Yesterday,John Fidd, a pip'-soaker, was brought up for re-examination before Mr. RAwurrsosr, on a charge of robbing Mr. Rub bart, the proprietor of the Recruiting Sergeant inn, Bear street, Norwich, with whose wife he had eloped. The prisoner had been remanded to allow time for Mr. Rubbart to come forward, and who, being now in atten dance, intimated to the Magistrates his wish not to press the charge against the prisoner, as a reconciliation bad taken place between himself and wife, who had agreed to accompany him back to Norwich, and to bury the past in oblivion. Mr. Rawustsost—Y o u are a most good natured hus band, and I hope you have succeeded in recovering at least some of your lost property with your wife. Mr. Rubbart bad found some articles which he believed to be his in the prisoner's possession, but he would not swear to them ; but the four hundred pounds which his wife had drawn from the Norwich Bank, was as yet un accounted for. Mr. RAwLINsoN said that he bad no objection to the arrangement which had been made, and ordered the pri soner to be discharged. Before, however, he had quitted the office, he was pounced upon by one of the parish of ficers of St. John, Norwich, who had a warrant against him for deserting his wife and children to elope with the innkeeper's wife, and he was conveyed away in custody. EXTRAORDINARY CHARGE.—Ann Oakden, Who Was remanded yesterday morning, was again placed at the bar, at eight o'clock last night, to answer to the following ex. traordinary charge : John Goodwin, a boy of about 12 years of age, son of Mr. Goodwin, coffin-maker, residing at 33, Park-street, Camden -town, stated that, at 11 o'clock yesterday morn ing, the prisoner and a man of middle age entered the house of which he was left in charge during his father's temporary absence, and proceeded into the back parlour, where lie was sitting, when, after strapping him to a turn up bedstead in the room, the man at the same time hold ing a pistol to his head, with which he threatened to shoot him if he made the least resistance, they proceeded up stairs, and shortly after came down, when the man, of whom he had not the least knowledge, unstrapped him, and, with the prisoner, decamped over the palings, by which means they had in the first instance effected their entrance. On going up stairs directly afterwards be (wi.ness) discovered the pannel of the door broken and his father's desk wide open. He then went up into the second floor, and found every thing in disorder—a pocket book and a bag, in which his father kept his money, were lying on the bed. He was quite sure that the prisoner was the woman who bound him, as she had washed for the family a long while. Mr. Goodwin said that the sum taken from his desk was 191., all in sovereigns. Police constable, S 25, as he was going down Park str eet, about one o'clock yesterday morning, was informed by a son of Mr. -Goodwin that his father had been robbed, and on entering the house be found the desk open, as described, and every thing in confusion. He then went to Bayharn-street, where the prisoner was at work, and found her at the wash-tub, at which, to all appearance, she had been some time engaged. She denied any know ledge of the robbery, and said she had been at work since nine o'clock. He had not been able to gain any informa tion as to the man who was stated to have entered the premises with her. Mrs. Brown, laundress, Bayham-street, Camden-town, deposed to the fact of the prisoner having been employed in washing for her at the time of the robbery spoken of, and for some hours after, which statement was corrobo rated by other witnesses, who gave her the best of cha racters. Mr. Iltwurrsow said it was altogether an extraordi nary affair. The boy had sworn to that which, if true, would affect the prisoner's life • but he (the M a gi s t ra t e ) had no hesitation in e xp ress i ng his belief that the statement was net founded on truth. Mr. Goodwin bad no reason to doubt Isis son's state ment, hut bad no objection to leave him in the Magistrate's custody, if he thought any thing more satisfactory could be elicited from him. Mr. RAWLINSON then discharged the prisoner, and was quite confident she had been wrongly accused. Yesterday, Thomas Armond, a constable of the D di visi.in, brought before Mr. RAWLINSON a young woman of genteel and lady-like appearance, whom he found asleep on one of the benches in the enclosed part of the Regent's park, at an early hour that morning. - The constable seeing the young lady asleep on the seat at such an early hour, awoke her, and asked her what she did there. Upon recovering herself she looked to wards Heaven, and then begged him to have pity on a wretched outcast and wanderer, who had neither a friend nor a home in the wide world. She then, amidst a pro fusion of tears, declared that she had not tasted food for a day and a half, and that she was consequently dreadfully exhausted. He conveyed her slowly to the station•house, hut she pertinaciously refused to give her name, or to say where her friends resided. Mr. RAwLisrsoN—You must tell me your name. She replied that nothing on earth should force that secret from her. Mr. RAWLINSON—Then it will be my unpleasant duty to send you to prison. The stranger was familiar with afflictions which Provi dence had thought proper to visit her with, and feared no earthly punishment. She then sank on the fluor weeping bitterly, and Mr. RAWLINSON ordered the officer to conduct her into his private room, and send fur any refreshment she might fancy, and be would himself see that she was pro vided for in some proper asylum. UNION-HALL. A stout able-bodied man, named Walker, was charged with assaulting a policeman in the execution of his duty. On the preceding night, while three policemen were engaged in carrying a drunken woman to the station house, the defendant rushed to her, exclaiming he would see justice done. The moment of his interference the drunken woman began to halloo out " Murder,' upon which the defendant attempted to rescue her from cus tody, and it was proved that he struck one of the po. licemen. The defendant endeavoured to palliate his conduct by asserting that the police were using more violence in taking the woman to the station-house than was neces sary; adding that he, as an Englishman, could not stand by and see one of the "female sect" ill used. Mr. MURRAY said the Commissioners were most anxious to purify the police force, and that if the de fendant had any complaint to make against any one of the men, it would be thoroughly investigated at Scotland yard. He, however, did not adopt that plan, and for the assault he was sentenced to pay a fine of 21. Yesterday George Hyman:, a boy of fourteen years of age, was brought before Mr. MURRAY on the following charge :—The prisoner was an errand-boy in the employ of Mr. Toplis, a tobacco manufacturer in the Borough, and in consequence of several packages of segars having been missed from the stock a search was instituted. In the course of this search some bundles of tl e missing segars were found in the prisoner's possession, and he confessed that he had taken others from the stock. When asked by the Magistrate how be bad disposed of the segars, the prisoner replied, . 6 Why, I smokes them myself. to be sure." MAGISTRATE (with surprise)—What ! a boy of your age smoke eg ara ? Prisoner—l likes backy, your Worship. The MAGISTRATE said, that it was quite ridiculous to observe the boys who promenaded some of the principal streets with segars stuck in their mouths, puffing out smoke to the right and left, to the annoyance of females and other persons who were unaccustomed to such an effluvium. The Magistrate then questioned the boy's mother, and asked her whether she would prefer having him committed to gaol, or undergo the punishment of flogging at the rear of the office ? The prisoner, on hearing the question about the flogging, burst out crying, and afterwards exclaimed, "For God's sake, your Wor ship, don't flog me, and I'll never smoke a @eggr again as long as I live." The mother thought a good whipping would do her son more good than sending him to gaol amongst other per. sons worse than he was himself. At all events it would sicken him of smoking his master's segars. The boy was then taken into the yard and well whipped ; after which he was again brought into the pre- Bence of the Magistrate, who gave him a severe lecture, and then discharged him. Yesterday as Inquisition was taken before Mr. limns, at the s;gn of the Griffin, in Villiers-street, Strand, on the body of JAMES PHILLIPS, aged 40, a well-known waterman at Hungerford-stairs, who was drowned while bathing in the Thames. The unfortunate deceased was greatly respected by all who knew him, and was a great favourite among the gentlemen fond of aquatic sports on the Thames. About ten o'clock on Monday morning, the deceased was observed in a tnonkey-boat, some distance from the shore off Hungerford-market, pulling his clothes off for the purpose of bathing ; he was seen to plunge in, but although a good swimmer, he never rose again. An a'arm was soon given, and a number of boats put off. Drags were procured, but the body was not found until half-past three o'clock in the afternoon. Verdict...erAc. cideotally drowned." Beaumont 13 0 11 - 13 3 Ilison Low Main 12 6 Holvv- - " 13 6 East Percy, EP' - ,olywell —, Kenton West 14 0 - Ord's Redhugh ................. 12 6 Pontop Windsor ,__ .13 3 Panfield...,-- ---. 14 3 12 9 Town West Hartley Willington LONDON MARKETS. Jails End liotspu. Ditto Killingworth Walls End Newniarch Ditto Northumberlan o, Walls End Perkins & Walls En(' - .0° PRICE OF BREAD. 1 4 0 ,ir The highest price of Bread in the M e t ropo lis IS - . I • 41b. Loaf. There are other s w h o se ll f rom 5 4d. 10 •• that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-July 29. .06111` New Englislißed Clover Seed (p er C wt. ) 40s. 60s. o. Old Ditto Ditt0........... -s. --s. fin e - New Foreign Ditto - . 40s. -s. fin e Old Ditto - -s. -s. 6 2 1 .,, e New White Clover..., --- - . 40s. 565. o''' Old Ditto Ditt0......-.., -s. -s. fine,, New Trefoil , 275. 30s. fie,,, e 4 0 1.1 Old Ditto ..........„......„._____........ -s. -s , fin' nit _ oos 255. fine ,- Rib Grass English Carraway Seed _ ~...... ..... s. _ s . 745• A lta! Foreign Ditto _ s _ s . 735 , ii Voriander - - . -s. 14s. 110'04 St. Foin ........(per Quarter).---..... 465. 48s. fin e ,1 Rye Grass Pacey Ditto - - . 368. 445. new , j, , , Linseed, for feeding -„-. ..-... -a. 50s. fine -- Ditto, for crushing.. - . 445. 50s. •- 4 . 01 0) Canary Seed, New --g. _s. 765 ' b ath Old -S. ....S. ... S. 0 0 0 0 :b White Mustard Seed-(per 8u5he1),.... -s. Bs. 10s. Brown Ditt0 ..,,. Turnip Seeds, Rounds -s. -s. )Ss. It Green and Re d Ditto ........-...._...._........ -s. -s. 1 , 82 : Tares, Old . -s. 4s. line y. Ditto New -s. ss. fine 0 Rai,eSeed, English, fi ne (per Last) 261. 28/..„... , Foreign.) PRICES OF HOPS.-July 29. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) -41 4s. 0/. Os. to ./. 64 Choice - ,-..... 51. 10s. 11/. Os. to East Kent...---, .----.. 01. Os. 01. os. to ~ Choice -... 71. Os. 01. Os. to ','S Kent Bags ..,-... 41. Cs. 0/. Os. to Choice .. -... 01 Os. W . Os. te F s " ( , New Stissex P0cket5 ...,..,...,,,,.,,,. 41. Cs. 41. los. to rA. Superfine Ditto -. 51. Os. 01. Os. to "", The Hop Duty is estimated at 2(0,0001. _......) PRICE OF OIL. 0 Rape Oil, brown ...............351. 05....,... Refined ..... 4 Linseed Oil ........ w..... ....................War0w0r•Ww.00...... p Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ..,,,..,.....:1, Rape Cake, per ton .............................................*w_____.% WHI'rECHAPEL HAY MA RKET.-JulY ea' Hay ....,...„..„ 555. Od. to 80s. Od. I Clover -555. Oct. tis o A Straw. 2Bs. Od. to 325. Od. -"*". PRICE OF POTATOES.-July 29. ort • New Ware e r Middling --.....--........- Is. 6d. to 2s. Od. ditto . Chats ---...---- .....- ......... Os. Od. to Is. 6d. (IMO PRICES OF LEATHER. AO Per lb. d. to d. Per )b • 11 Butts, Eng1i5h.,,,..,.,,,,, 141 24 English H orse Hides.. Ditto, F0reign.,........ 14 19 Spanish Ditto ......,..•+' , Dressing Hide 5.......... 12 15 Per dozen. Ditto _l3 15 Calf Skins,. SO to MTh. I l ),5 i Ditto, light - - Ditto .......40 to 6MIN Crop Hides, 1ight ...... 12 1:31 Ditto .....,,. 70 to 90113;16 07 Di tto.-,.........40 to 501 b. 12f 16 Small Se a l s , G reen lanu 0 Ditto., 14 18 Large ditto..--.........*/ SHEEP SKINS. Lambs......- 2s. 6d. to 35.9 d. I Shorlings ........ Os. 04:t - , ....::: 04 63° PRICE OF TALLOW, SOAP, Ste. pa- 11211 X Town Tallow .............. 48s. Od. Yellow 50ap.......,....... 0 0. Yellow Russia . 48s. Od. M0tt1ed..........--........"7. • White -s. Od. White--......-............ 0- Soap Ditt0..........--«-:-s. Oct. Graves .... I. Melted Stuff-..........-,, 375. Od. Good Dregs .....-...... - '____ i f Ditto R0ugh.....„-.....215. Od. 4, 1 PRICE OF. RAW FAT, per stone 01 81b...........641 Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5).........." PRICE OF CANDLES. The price of Store Candles. in the retail shops, is as folios: Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Ss. Od. I Moulds, per dozen...' COAL MARKET.-July 29. Per Ton. s. d. Per Ton. Adair's ... ................ 13 0 I Walls End Hotspur.... ,/ ~ 8eaument...........- 13 0 Ditto Killingworth ......"‘P Chester Main 11 9 Walls End 1i.4...iArch,...." ... id RiddQl Walls End Walker, ,, ' , Walls End Hetton Walls End Stewart's , '" Walls End Adelaide ,le . , Walls End Gr Tordon 14 61 W. E. MusgrcWel......o', 13 9 W. E South Durban , 14 3 Walls End Tees '‘‘ , ll;End Bewicke& Co. 15 0 Hartley ••••••"1 Ditto Bell, Robson, & Co. 13 9 Warde's , Walls End 8r0wn'5.....-- 13 3 Walls End Elgin Walls End Gosforth 14 6 Walls End Selby Walls End 14 6 Tanfield Walls End 14 0 Ships arrived since last market-day, 29. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET—JuIy 2/...• We had a liberal s u ppl y o f Wh eat from the fartne4;etri for the season, with a f a i r coast i ng arrival during the vi;',;,., sales were heavy, at a decline of Is. to 2s. per quO t ier„, , supply of Oats was also liberal, and sales heavy, at'rat,. 1 prices. Fine Malt and Rye sell steadily. Barley nomin‘:jo in fair demand. No Pease offering. Fresh Flour free °"- Oid;# New. Wheat, Northumberland 465. 58s. .....5. I , Norfolk and Suffolk 545. 585.... '1,',../. Berwick and Scotch 46 s 53s -- ',I , Foreign --s. i. —s. 5 ....... , Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 30s. 365....... -- - . 5 *, Foreign 3os. :3.51. ...... -- 44 ,4 , Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Stiffbik —s. —s ...... - 44 ,S , Grinding and Feeding 235. 25s Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk .50s. 54s --;!• 0 Beans, Small —2, —5....... 3 ' ,. 9 Tick —s. —4l SOL Pease, White .355. 38s .,4 - 4 . ,J , Gray 28s. 30s ..... .. —144, Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 19s 22s —a "1, Feed lBs 20s —4 4, Forei g n —s. , s — O .O Flour, Fine (per sack) —s --8 310 An inquiry h a s r ecen tly t a k en p l ace b e fil of the Juges d'lnstr uc ti on o f P ar i s , w hi c h h as led: f ° ol curious discoveries rel a ti ve t o an ex t ens i ve f orge ry 10 01 , of England notes. S9m e o f th e money-c h an gers o f Palais Royal had transmitted to London 0 .Q itonumber of 50/. notes, supposed to be notes . 0 Bank of England. They were returned, cut j ip , with the word " forged" stamped upon theta & j usual way. Search was, of course, immediately the utterer of the forged notes, but for some ti 0 1 1 „:4 14 1, success. About 12 days ago, however, a man of hoc, able appearance went into one of the moner° shops, with twenty 501. notes, purporting to b e i f Bank of England, f or w hi c h h e required chan ge The changer happening to be one of those 11 ' 0 6 suffered most by the late forgeries, immediately sf Or the nearest commi ssary o f po li ce, to whom b e man in charg e on susp i c i on o f utter i ng forged , notes. The man was examined, and search 10/ : in the lodging, of which he gave the address w e ird his own, where s evera l o th er notes of 1 ,, of amount and description w ere f oun d. Th e P el f notes were proved to be forgeries, and the man ' ll " t io‘j prison to take his trial for uttering and attetsPA utter them. Some days after, a person calling jo a d a Viscount, and w e ari ng th e cross o f t h e l' e ti Honour, waited on the prefect of the police, and ° s ee " 4! / I he had heard of th e ci rcums t ances o f t h e man ' s O f f b o i hid come to bring an a dditi ona l c h arge a gail . The whole of the notes passed by him, se sr por f on his person and at his lodgings, the A • said, had been stolen from himself. Those, eli" b e lirge quantity besides, the Viscount said that o fi l himself forged, and bad been keeping by him to ° i )/ means of destroying th e cre di t of t h e B an k o f En% j the nxt war between England and France. The of the police not b e i ng so muc h di spose d to keep t 74 of the Vis count ' s patr i ot i c intent i ons as the latter ,t to wish, instantly caused a search to be mad e ir place of hi s a b o d e , w h ere, i n fact, several bundle°,o, and other n o t es , p ur p ort i ng to b e o f t h e B an k of P A , were found, as also every n e ce ssar y ma t er i a l for s e rf) them. The whole of the notes and implement s r dor i f course seized, and the other day they were an P 0 1 : 1 before the Juge d'lnstruction, where the Vi' c° l l 4 ; also made to attend in or d er t o answer the I Pr)] necessary for the drawing up of the prores veril d r o i r , I skilful typograph e rs were a l so present, and to desired to make experiments with the impleattie:// The notes they drew p rove d such perfect ita''A those of the Bank o f E ng l an d , that in Englan, 0 0 4 would have be e n h ar dl y possible to distinguish trdetly genuine note s , muc h l ess in France. All the tp bound to app ear at t h e next assizes, but i t that the trial of the utterer will be deferrer 0 1 1 , 1 January a ssi zes , as t h e B an k o f England, who ll° bably be th e p rosecutor , w i s h es to ma k e e ve ry inquiry i n t o thi s extraor di nary b us i ness, an d, l ipct i i c h adopt such means as may put a stop to an y ou 011 triotic" forgeries of its notes on the Continent'd b" 08 1 the firm of the so li c i tors to t h e H ul k of Engle° deto sent to Paris f or th e purpose.—Paris Correll: 0 :j More.ing Paper. M1N0M.1.6 EI PRINTBD AND PUBLISHED BY 16 RD 0 Y° U N (1, SUN OFFiCIf, Ll 2, STUPID, "1"14. f~ ''. By whoa JOHNS' ni b e t • URIT CURE To D y n ej ivers i d 0 0% vou W entita h:t vnee sickened h every (pat I have ofte Rood medic r he h av o n e fed prejud i.• I PP°inted, tot f,_ r ePoeai lorcib and Will Ca , et Pub li a, ) , ff 4 t u f fer th Ct .1 tn aY 414 them Il unter, N . • .00411 i l Ott t cougl ttid It a i n etiZe l _ k edie z _ n e You, p' ° l fp b , y - quaint % Pedal', Wi ttu me iei i %W e, t i on BIRTHS. On the 28th inst., Mrs. Beaumont, of Mount Alp i°ll 11 / Ramsgate, of a daughter. ()I ~,A On the 26th inst., th e l a d y of R o b ert Glyn, x-''''' OP place, Ramsgate, of a son. o f o On the 29th inst., the lady of Frank Losack, 94 ' Rise, of a daughter. MARRIED. usf e lr l) On the 29th inst , at St. George's, Hanover-sq . „oo 4.4 0 John Guest, Esq., M.P., o f D ow l a i s H ouse , Glavg" 0 11,1 0 Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, sister of the Ea rl ji Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Bertie, sister of the F . > DIED, goo' I go On the 28th inst., in James-street, Colonel the 0 0/ Clive, brother of the Earl of Powis, in the 64th Y vv e3 :0 1 10 1 On the 22d inst., at Flitton, Bedfordshire, a On the 25th inst., at Seaforth, near Liverpoo l . h e r 0# 11 , ; of the late Samuel Lowe, Esq., in the 55th year° f all' e f f ;e r On the 10th inst., at Florence, ht er As, On the 26th inst., Louisa Fran ces, f o urth daug Wood, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service. Caslll' On the 23d of May, a t sea, on b oar d the Up t on the wife of James Thomas, Esq. On the 25th inst., at Hatherleigh, John Fisher , ° " 4.' R.N., leaving a wid ow an d e i g h t youn g childre n. --40 0 --_- •