The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-22 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS The French expedition has at last effected a land ing on the coast of Algiers, as will be seen by the telegraphic despatch below, which, by an accident, did not reach us in time for our yesterday's impres sion. About the cause, of this accident our readers will of course feel less interest than onrselves, but we owe it to them to state that it did not arise from any negligence on our part s or any want of vigilance on the part of our Paris correspondent. We had made every necessary arrangement for obtaining the earliest intelligence of the events of the expedition, • and our agent failed yesterday only because, with the dei.ign of accomplishing more certainly our wishes, he venturer! upon a new line of road instead of adhering to the beaten track of communication. The telegraphic despatch is of course very brief in its information, but it states enough to show that the French enterprise has been crowned with what we may consider a decided e success in the first instaure.• The fleet reached the coast of Algiers on the 13th instant, - and by ten o'clock on the morning of the 14th, all the troops had disembarked. - This arrival - without the ave rage of disasters to be . apprehended in a naval expedition to the coast of Africa, and without any of that resistance which may be (expected on a hostile shore, is equivalent to a separate victory.— The failure of the several greet armaments hitherto directed against this Barbary- Power, has been more attributable to the difficulty of landing the invading ferce.,—to their ignorance of the ground when they • had landed,—to their losses at sea, or by tempests, — end to the consequent want of due support from the convoying fieen—than to the strength of the Alge rine fortifications, or the resistance of the Algerine troops. This element of uncertainty the French expedition has happily surmounted. Though its passage has been tedious, there is no ground for be lieving that it has been - disastrous; and the dis embarkation of the largest and best disciplined force that ever •in modern times has reached the coast of Africa, may be expected to form a new era in the history of African invasions.— The naval and military commanders of the expedi tion, acting no doubt on the best information tvith respect to the state of the enemy's defence, and the nature of the coast, effected the landing of the troops in rt - small bay or roadstead called Sidi Fer rueh, about ten or twelve miles_ to the west of Algiers, on the other side of a promontory or cape, • the eastern exposure of which forms one side of the large semicircular bay in which the capital is built. The fleet is said to have • found safe anchorage in the road of Sidi Fcrruch, and the army to have oc cupied the heights in front of the peninsula of which we have spoken. From Turrets Chien, the bead-quarters of General Bourtnont, there are two roads to Algiers, one leading across the penin -stile, and the other going round by the coast. It o ill require some time to get the artillery, the camp-equipage, the provisions, and equip ments for the troops, on shore, but after that the march to Algiers cannot occupy above a day or .two ; so that, by the next arrival, we may hear of a battle, a surrender, or the commencement of a siege. Whatever may be the result of this celebrated expedition, its rapid preparation, its complete equip ment, and great force, must give Europe a high. idea of the naval and military resources of France, and of the activity of the Frerch warlike departments. In 'wising again 'at the accounts given of the arma ment when on the eve of sailing, we find that it con sisted of 68 ships of war, (including 12 sail of the line, -and 20 frigates,) and that its land force amounted to 37,577 men and 4,000 horse. The first division left Toulon on the 25th of May; on the 29:h it reeched. the coast of Africa. On the 30th and the following day it was driven back to Palma, •in the island of Majorca, where the whole fleet had rendezvoused by the 7th inst., and on the 14th the whole army had disembarked within a few leagues of the nest of pirate* which it was sent to destroy Ti e French Ministry tried to make as much of their success as possible, by having it announced at the . Opera, like victories in the times of Napoleon; hut • the intelligence seems to have produced no effect on the Stock Exchange, tnd probably will be equally pa welless in the electoral colleges.— 7'inzes. The discus,ion on the subject of the reduction of the Sugar Ditties exhibited in a manner not to be mistaken the failure of the plan of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The first division on the Reso hitions of, Mr. Charles Grant, mored by way of Amendment, to reduce the duties on all sugars to twenty shillings, gave Ministers a majority of only 182 to 144. This (lid not augur well. But when the Chancellor of the Exchequer's own Resolutions were put to the vote, he had a majority of only 161 o -to 144, that is, only 17 in a House of 305 Mem bers. This is a sentence of condemnation. In the commencement of the debate Mr.Htiskisson opposed the plan in a speech of considerable length, charac terised by great severity of animadversion. When the plan was first announced, Mr. Heskisson stated that the old colonies, which were the most distressed, would derive little or no benefit from the reduction the duty on low-priced sugars, as the coarse etigars were raised in our new colonies. Last eight he repeated the objection. " The Resolution (he observed) of my Slight Honourable Friend pro fesses to relieve ,the distressed colonists of the Wt st Indies ; but that distress, from peculiar circum staeces,prevails to an infinitely greater extent by com parison in the old colonies than the new; and the reselution, therefore, by endeavouring to extend the le of the coarser sugar, produced by the new celekkies, tends, of course, to exaggerate the dis tress, to perpetuate the burthens, and to increase Ole difficulties of all the old colonies, where relief is known to be most required.—(Hear, hear.")--If the sugar raised in our colonies greatly exceeds the home demand, and comes into competition on the Continent with the. sugars of Brazil, Cuba, &c., • raised at a cost beneath that at which they can be raised in our colonies, as the price of the exported sugar determines the price in the home market, the cultivation in our colonies must be a losing business, till one of these things happen—either such an increased consumption of sugar in this country as shall render it equal to the supply, or such a diminu tion of production as shall bring it to the level of the consumption, or such an increase in the cost of production in the foreign colonies as shall raise the price in the continental market. We fear the balance must be restored by the diminished pro duction of our own colonies. In the mean time, While there is an excess of production in our colt,- ides, it certainly does appear that any change which shall create an additional consumption of the sugars of.the new colonies, will tend to exempt the latter from their share of the Injury of over-production.— If we could, however, suppose that the difference of the duty would so much extend the consumption of sugar, as to render it equal to the supply, the case would be altered; but the Chancellor of the Exche quer himself can hardly believe in such an increase of consumption. Mr. Huskiason contended that it would be impossible for the Chancellor to check that fraud and colluSion to which they held out so great a temptation, and that the result would be, in many cases, to force the Government to becOme the purchasers of all sugars in the market. He observed also, that as t h e p l an would lower the price of all 'the higher descriptions of sugars, while it could not possibly raise the price of the lower, we should in future have to pay a drawback on the sugar ex ported, not on a duty of 275., but on a duty of 21s: He stated a variety of other objections to the plan, and contended that it would be much- more advis able to adopt the sysiteM recommended last year by Charles Grant, and at once reduce the duty on all sugars of every description from 275. to 205., which wouldgive relief t.o all the colonies, the old as well as the new, while there would be no diffi culty in carrying it into execution. The most biter' Fart "of Mr. Iluskiseon's speech was the chqtges which he brought against Ministers of proposing R measures without due consideration, and then as lightly abandoning them, without regard or cons'z • deratlon for the ruin which he thereby Caused to nu , merous individuals • " I implore the Right honourable Gentleman," he said, " to considei• the consequences Which result from these discussions; and from this continual alteration of opinions 7. its effect has been to suspend all trade at this, the most active period of the year. lam now standing here as' the representative of, I admit in a general ease, all the interests of the country; but I am also the immediate represen tative of the second great commercial town in this empire; and I speak the opinions of the great p o rti on o f th e ex tensive and linpollatat interests of that great emporium of ttimmeiee, of all those closely bound in co_mexion with the West Indian colonies, when I say, ti.at tWs system of indecision and of experiment produces 1. 1 2 e 'greatest alarm —inflicts serous injuries or' cern:tierce—and is calculated to unsettle all the transactions between man and man. Only laok et the spectacle which has been produced by the Way that Government have proceeded with the Spirit Duties.—(Hear, hear.)—When the Right Honourable Gentleman proposed to hy a duty of one shilling on Bri tish spirits, orders were of course sent cut to the West Indies to make snore rum anti less sugar. Is it nothing to those interests to have declarations emanating from a Government like this, taken up and abandoned without system, foresight, or consideration ? Look at the course that it pursued With regard to other articles. Three months ago it was announced that the growth of tobacco in this enuntry would be encouraged under certain regu lations. Orders were of course sent out to America to stop the importation of tobacco in anticipation of this change. Now, however, comes a determination that to bacco shall not be grown in this country." This is hard hitting. The Right Hon. Gentleman did not forget his old friend, the Premier, in wind ing up his sermon. "We cannot manage (he observed) the extensive and complicated transac tions of Government- in the same manner as we would manage an army, and put forth a law one day as a kind of advanced guard, which may be ordered to draw back the next." Mr. Keith Douglas touched on the real cause of West Indian distress, the excess of 220,000 . cwt. beyond con sumption, and the unfair competition abroad to which our colonists were exposed through the in flnence of the foreign slave trade. • He thought the plan would confuse the commercial transactions of the country. Mr. P. Thomson protested against the plan—first, as unintelligible; second, as im practicable; and lastly, as unjust. to the East Indian interests, partial to the West Indian, and injurious to the country generally. He also contended that the vacillation of Government had been most unworthy, and most injurious to the com mercial interests of the country. Mr. Bright, Mr. Hume, in short, all independent Mem bers who spoke, opposed the plan. Government were quite deserted on this occasion. Ministers may do what they like abroad; but when they touch London and Liverpool, and put speculators on a wrong scent, it is quite another affair. The plan was feebly advocated by Ministers themselves, who attempted something like a retaliation of the charge of vacillation against Mr. Huekisson for hav ing changed his mind in the case of the Silk Ditties. Sir Robert Peel had an argument ad misericordiam. It was unkind to charge Minkters with vacillation, when they were cot off from all counsel of practical men. The Right Hon. Member of Liverpool must be aware of the difficulty of making arrangements of this kind, and of the impossibility of consulting beforehand the parties concerned in the trade, lest injury should be done by premature diec'osure. Mr. Brougham rallied the 182 Members on the quick ness of perception indicated by their vote of appro bation of a plan which, though perfectly clear to them, was a matter of the utmost difficulty to him. After these indications of dia,atisfaction, we pre sume the Chancellor will be obliged to give another instance of vacillation, by abandoning hi.; resolu tions.—Morning chronicle. This evening is fixed for the second reading of the Forgery Bill in the House of Lords, when, it is understood, the discussion will take place. Our readers will recollect that this Bill was introduced by Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons, on the principle of revising, consolidating, and amelio rating the Lives relative to a crime which, though of great moral guilt, and of pernicious consequences, has been visited with such disproportionate severity by a multiplicity of penal statutes as to prevent, in a great measure, their own execution. It was ac mitted by the Right Honourable Secretary, on moving for leave to bring in his Bill, that the Le gislature, in treating of this offence, from the righth year of the reign of King William to the present day, had added upwards of sixty capital enactments to the Statute-book ; thus including a multitude of offences, coming within the definition of forgery, of various degrees of moral and social delinquency, under the one sanguinary denunciation of death ! The feelings of society have long been disgusted with the spectacles of extermination which these laws have produced. The repeated executions, some years ago, for the forgery of l/. notes, in consequence of prosecutions by the Bank of England, are fresh in the recollection of the public, who saw, at that time, that the crime,. instead of being repressed, became alarmingly more frequent, as one batch of victims after another was offered up to the vengeance of the law ! These executions only ceased when the small notes were withdrawn from circulation, so much stronger was the temptation to the crime than the terror o f the punishment. Society saw with that horror which, under such circumstances, must ever charac terise the feelings of a civilized community, that so much blood was shed in vain. Nor is it to be won- dered at that the terrible examples of the law were ineffective, when the severity of the punishment caused the odium of the crime to be lost in sym pathy for. the offender. Since that time the pubic aversion to the law of forgery has become more strong, and the expression of that sentiment more loud and general. In compliance with the public call for an alteration of the law, which was grow- ing too powerful to be much longer resisted, Sir Robert Peel gpmmenced his work of revising the statutes relating to this offence. From the manner in which he had executed his task of revising the criminal law in general, we were not led to expect much from him, as his statutory repeals went no further than to lop off some of those ferocious enact ments which had fallen into humane disuse, and .which, in -a practical point of view, had already ceased to exist. In his Bill to amend the law of forgery he pursued the same plan. His own words will justify what we assert. Here is his exposition of the provisions of his Bill, as it stood before the third reading—" My great prin ciple (said the Right Honourable Secretary) in this Bill is to retain the capital penalty for the crime of forgery of those documents or instruments which may be considered in the light of negotiable and transferable securities, and to remit it in others, where, though now continued, this view does not appear to me to be fitly taken. Keeping this prin ciple then in view, I shall now proceed to enumerate the cases in which I propose to remit and retain the capital punishment for the crime of forgery. I shall retain it in all forgeries of the Great Seal, Privy Seal, and Sign Manual; in all forgeries on the public funds, on Bank or money notes, or orders for the payment of money—in short, as I before said, of all documews which represent money, and are nego tiable and transferable for it. I also add the forgery of wills relating to personal property." After some observations, he proceeds to the other branch of his subject—the remission of capital punishments. "I '. propose to exceyt from the punishment of death all forgeries of receipts for motley or goods—all issuing of forged stamps, or forgeries of stamps—all attempts to defraud by forged orders, ad fabrications of Bank paper—that is, the paper on whicli notes are stamped; all forgeries of deeds and bonds, and every document which, in short, does not come under the class I have already named, and which are not in the nature of negotiable or transferable securities.. For these offences death, be it borne in mind, is now very rarely in flicted, and I am ready to - adOnit that it ought not to be inflicted." For the word " rarely," -in the last sentence, the Right Hon. Secretary ought to have said " never." We defy - him to point out a single i nstante of the judgment of the law being, in trod, t!mes, carried into execution in the cases of forgery which he has enumerated as those that are to be exempted from the punishment of death. What tiro was the improvement of the law proposed to be if;e!-: . ed by his Bill ? Merely to prune away what mly be gilled the dead branches of this poi of c ttr penal system, while the main stem and I:ving a ms of the destroying tapes were left to flouriih in all their fatal vigour and baneful luxu riance ! In fact, this Bill would not have the effect-, if it passed into a law as introduced by its author, of instigating the practical severity of the law to the amount of a single execution. Yet there were Jouroals, and among them one which had formerly urged in strong language the necessity of abolishing the capital punishment in all cases of forgery, that praised this Bill as a complete and finished speci men of judicious legislation.• • We felt it our duty to undeceive the public on the matter. The decision' of the House of Commons on the third reading of the Bill has proved that opinion was not. erroneous. By that decigion an amendment, moved by Sir J. Mack intosh, has been introduced into the Bill,which has the effect of repealing the penalty of death in all eases of forgery, except...the forging of wills —an exception which the Hon. and Learned -Mover of the amend ment accounted for by stating that it was a conces sion which he made to the opinions of others, to whose views . he sacrificed, in this instance, his own !.judgment. Should the Bill, in its amended shape, as it now stands, pass into a law, we. should still regret that a single fragment of the sanguinary code remained to blot the new Statute book of a better era of legislation; but it was, perhaps, necessary to give up something to secure the remainder. The reasoning that applies against inflicting the penalty of death for the forging of bonds, bank-notes, bills of exchange, &c.—namely, that it is not effective in repressing the crime, and that it confounds a fraudu lent invasion of the right of property with off, aces of violence and blood, is as applicable to the forgery of wills as to the other cases just mentioned. At one time the great argument on which the advocates of the sanguinary principle relied, was the necessity of protecting, by the severest penalty known to the law, the banking and commercial interests; which, they alleged, would be subjected to ruinous depreda tion, if any punishment short of death was annexed to the crime. ..That argument has beer. shown by bankers and merchants to be a gross and pernicious fallacy. Upwards of 200 petitions, we must again re mind the supporters of exterminating Statutes, have been presented to the Legislature in the present Ses sion, praying for the abolition of capital punishMent for forgery, on the various grounds—that it is op posed to revealed religion—to reason—to the na tural sentiments of humanity, and to public opinion; that it is, in consequence of its extreme severity of, uncertain execution, thereby encouraging crime, by . holding out the hopes of impunity to the offender, and consequently rendering peculiarly insecure the property which it was intended to protect. But in addition to this mass of petitions, to which appeared the signatures of bankers, merchants, clergymen, barristers, solicitors, and private gentlemen, was one petition, which afforded the best evidence that could b,..• given to Parliament touching the single po'nt of the insecurity of bankers' property, in con sequence of the cruelty of the law producing a con scientious disinclination to prosecute offenders. This petition was presented by Mr. Brougham. By whom was it signed ? By one thousand bankers What was the language which they addresed to the Legislature ? Here it is—" That your petitioners, as bankers, are deeply interested in the protection of property from forgery, and in the conviction and punishment of persons guilty of this crime— that your petitioners find, by experience, that the infliction of death, or even the probability of the infliction of death, prevcnls the prosecution, con- victim', and punishment of the criminal, and thus endangers the property which it was intended to protect—that your petitioners, therefore, pray that your Honourable House will not withhold from them that protection which they would derive from a more lenient law." Here, in the simple and forcible language of truth, gathered from long experience, is the ;appeal to Parliament of one thousand bankers of the United Kingdom, supplicating for the abo lition of the capital law of forgery on the interested principle of the insecurity of their property under the existing laws. Such are the witnesses—such the evidence! Leaving religion and all moral and hu mane considerations out of view, here is the testi mony of cold, and even selfish, calculation. I t shows the injurious consequences resulting from the present state of the law in a commerci,d point of view. Bankers do not theorise for the sake of huma nity to their own pecuniary prejudice; nor are they exactly the class of men who prefer sentiment to self-interest. It happens, however, in this case, that their particular interests coincide with th e view of this question which is derived from the higher considerations of religion, reason, and hu manity. Can the Legislature rtfuse to listen to the evidence of those who know the working of the law best—whose property is most affected by its operation—and whose demand of an efficient law to guard their property against depredation goes not to destroy, but to save, the lives of men? The House of Commons have listened to their ap peal—they have decided in favour of the calcula tions of commerce, and the right of humanity equally demand it. We hope those who have hitherto op posed the mitigation of the criminal code in . the other House will recollect that this is not a question of politics, in which men may safely indulge in spe culative opinions even against the sense of a great proportion of the community, but that it is a que,- tion of justice, and that life is at stake. In such a question an error on the side of humanity is easily recalled, while on the opposite side it is irreparable. The vote of the House of Commons is now on the records of history, arid will assuredly, one day or other, if defeated now, become the law of the land. But we will not anticipate a decision this evening that would severely disappoint the country; we would rather encourage the hope that the House of Lords will make the inchoate triumph of civilised law over cruel prejudices complete, and accede to the earnest supplications of practical men, backed by the highest considerations that can operate on the minds of dispassionate and enlightened legisla tors.—Morning Herald. DARING ROBBERY.—Yesterday afternoon, between the hours of two and three o'clock, the show case of Mr. ROFFEY, surgeon dentist, Cranbourn-street, Leicester-square, was cut, and several very valuable speci mens of terra-metallic teeth, gold palates, &c., were ex tracted, to the amount of between forty and fifty pounds. We understand that the towns of Llangadock, in Carmarthenshire, and Crickhowell, in Breconshire, are, under a late arrangement, made regulai post towns.— Cambrian. A coach is now established to run from Car marthen to Coli!blow, Tenhy, Pembroke, and Pembroke Dock, for the express purpose of conveying passengers to meet the seam-packet Lee, at Mllford Haven, and tob,ing pass ngers landed by her for any of those places, on each day of her arrival and sailing, thereby ircreasing the faci lity already afforded the public in their communications with Liverpool and Bristol, and a great advantage to travelling to Scotland.—Cumbrian. EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.—OD Tuesday last a number of families from the counties of Denbigh and Flint, passed through Chester on their way fur Liverpool, where they will embark for the United States of America. They were accompanied as far as the canal by many friends and relations, who, on bifiding them farewell, expressed a determination to follow as soon as they should receive the necessary infcrination from the New World. Tile emigrants appeared to be of that class of persons denominated small trailers, possessing small capitals, and sufficient enterprise and spirit Lot to languish in misery and want in a country which no longer affords . them encouragement or support. On the Monday fol lowing, about fifty Irishmen arrived in .the city from their native shores, clothed in filthy rags, the picture of rverty and distress, who are prepared to displace as many Eng lishmen, by performing ►he labour at one-half the price, and which will be but sufficient to drag out a life of mi serable existence and disease.. Chester Courant, POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yes:ei day Geove Goddard, a carter in tl►e em• ploy of Messrs. Hillier and May, carriers, appeared before Sir 13. BIRNIE upon summons under Mr. Martin's Act, for wantonly and cruelly beating a horse. Mr. Gompettz, honorary secretary to the Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, stated, that on Monday, the 7th instant, he was passing through the Strand, when be saw the defendant inflicting several strokes of his whip upon a horse which he was driving under a cart. The horse appeared to be broken winded, and the beating was cruel and unnecessary. Sir R. lifitmE asked Mr. Gompertz if the defen dant had used the butt-end of the whip or the la..h only ?—Mr. Gompertz said, that • the beating was inflicted with the lash. S'r R. BIRNIE obser►ed, that it did not appear to him that any wanton cruelty had been used. It was well known that many horses would not move unless by the application of the whip. A gentleman, who came forward in behalf of the defendant, said that he bore an excellent character for temper and humanity, and he had never before been charged with such an offence. Mr. Gompertz, however, still insisted that the heating was cruel and unnecessary, and wished the Magistrate to hear Ins witness. Sir R. BIRNIE asked if the witness could prove nothing more than he (Mr. Gomperz) had done ? —Mr. Gompertz admitted that he could not. Sir R. BtitNui—Then I shall dismiss the case. Mr. Gompertz—Dismiss the case, Sir Richard ? Sir R. - PIRNIEYes, Sir, - dismiss the case; and what is more, I tell you it ought never to have been brought herc . .—.Mr. Gompertz—May I ask you why, Sir Richard ?_ Sir R. BIRNIE-1 am not bound to answer your impertinent queqions, Sir. I not only dis Miss the case, but I think that these poor men (pointing to the defendant and his witness) ought to be paid for their atto.lance upon a frivolous and vexatious charge; and, what is more, they shall be paid. Mr. Gompertz—Just as you like, Sir Richard; but as I have other cases of the same description, I wished to know the grounds of your decision, as of course this case will decide.the rest. • Sir R. BIRNIE—By no means, Sir. Every case will rest upon its own merits. Gompertz was then ordered, under the act of Parliament, to pay a fine of ss. for bringing 'for ward a frivolous and vexatious charge, and the money was divided between the defendant and his witness. Mr. Gompertz, who appeared considerably net tled at this result, moved off, saying that he should institute proceedings in another place. Sir R. BIRNIE—What do you say about pro ceedings, Sir ?—Mr. Gompertz (returning)-1 say that your decision has not been lawful. Sir R. BIRNIE—YOU Are an impertinent fellow; and if I thought it worth my while, I would order you to be committed. Officers, turn this fellow out of the office. Air. Gumpertz, however, did not wait to be turned out, but retired of his own accord as speedily as possible. A person named Griffiths, who lives at No. 36, High-street, Knightsbridge, was charged with hav ing committed a violent assault upon a young gentle man, only eleven years of age, named F►ancts Bir mingham. • . On the 11th of last month, the complainant (whose mother lodged in defendant's house) was playinz cards upon the stairs with another boy, when the defendant came down in a passion, and saying " - you get out of that," kicked the complainant in the side, and befoie he could get away, kicked him again in the same place. The complainant was so ill from the effects of this usage, that be was obliged to have medical advice, and 28 leeches were ordered to ,be put upon the part injured. The complainant said that he was not in a state to apply sooner to a magistrate. Sir R. ButruE observed, that the case was one which ought to go to a jury, and the defendant was accordingly held to bail, to meet the charge at the sessions. L A MBETH.STREET. A man came to Mr. .WALKER, and made the following application to him:-" Sir, I want to know by what authority I was yesterday pushed about by the new police, more like a beast than a man ?" Mr. WALKER asked on what occasion he had been so treated ? Applicant—Why, Sir, yesterday I went to hear the word of God preached by the Rev. G. C. Smith, in the open air, in Wentworth street, but before he began, the police, like a pack of ravenous wolves, rushed upon us poor innocent lambs, and drove us away.. One great tall police man drove me before him, and I:want to know wile= then he had any authority for so -doing. The man went on to say that he had been a most wicked and depraved character, but he had lately reformed, and had "gone. a preaching." lie then turned to the officer in waiting, and said, "Do not you know me ?" and on being answered in the negative, re plied, " Lord bless you, 1, have been locked up in your lock-up rooms many a time. I was in the habit of being continually drunk, and was, in fact, a complete wretch; but, praised be God, I have lately built a chapel, and am now determined to pass my whole life in endeavouring to reform my. countrymen." Mr. WALKER was of opinion that the police had done no more than their duty, and advised the ap plicant, if lie ever wished to hear the word o f God, to go to some fitter place than Wentworth -street, and then the police would not interrupt him. WORSHIP-STREET. Esther limpur, about 40 years of age, was brought up by a police constable of the N charged with attempting to drown herself in the tegeut's Canal. The woman appeared very grateful for her pre servation, and said she could give no reason why she did it ; she was sorry for it, and would not do again. Samuel Earns, a cat's-meat man, was brought up on a warrant, charged by the parish authorities of Spitalfields with refusing to support his wife. The defendant contended that she was not his wife, having another hUsband living when he mar ried her. The wife said that Harris had prosecuted her for bigamy at the Old Bailey, and that she had been acquitted. Mr. BROUGHTON—Had you anotherhusband living at the time you married Harris ? Wife—Yes, I had, but I never slept with him; he was an apprentice, and I was a servant; I married him about 21 years ago ; I was only 17 years of age; we dined together on our wedding-day, and then separated, each of us going to our situations. Mr. BROUGHTON—But of course you met him again, and lived with him some time or other. Wife—No Sir, I never thought any more about him ; he was a steady young man, and minded his work, so I thought it a pity to unsettle ; there fore I never went after him, nor did he ever come to me. Mr. BROUGHTON—What did you marry him for ? Wife—Why, because I was a fool, like most other girls. Mr. BROUGHTON—What has become of him ? Wife—l don't know whether he is dead or alive ; I never looked after him.. Mr. BROUGHTON—When did you marry Harris Wife—ln 1816, at Sr. Luke's church. Irtirris here handed up a certificate of the burial of the first husband in 1818, being two years after the second marriage. Mr. BROUGHTON—HOW long have you been se parated from Harris, and ally did - you separate ? rife—l left him a twelvemonth ago, becauw he used to whop me so preciously.—(A laugh.) Mr. BROUGHTON—There are some most extraor dinary marriages in this world. The wife has been acquitted of bigamy, therefore Harris must provide Yesterday morning Mr. Key, churchwarden 0, the parish of St. James, Clerkenwell . , and Mr, Douglas, one of the overseers, came to this office and stated the following circumstances to the sitting Magistrate, Mr. LAING The churchwarden said, that during the hours of the morning divine service the day before, he and Mr. Douglas were going round the parish, as is Cus tomary with them at such particular times on Sun (lays, to see that order be preserved, that the houses of licensed victuallers be closed, and that no public profanation of the Sabbath take place, when they ob served a large body of pirlicemen .;n .Corportvion lane, and a still greater number of boys and full-,I grown persons, who were attracted by curiOsiti,to the spot, gathered round them. This was Close by the police-station in ROsamond-street. ;Proceeding along the lane, they were surprised •to fiad'A F Skinner's Arms pnblic-heuse open, and the bar crowded with policemen and others of ii different de:- scription drinking. On entering the parlour atid tap room, they found both places almoscequally crowded as was the bar with all policemen.. drinking and smoking, and so thick a vapour filled the rooms that, he could scarcely see from one end to the Other.. It wanted about a quarter to twee o'clock at the time. Mr. Douglas corrohotated The statement::' Mr. Busain, one of the inspectors of„G.' said that the men wlre appointed by the stlperin tendent to assemble in Corporation•lane at_ele - ven o'clock on Sunday morning,' and he believed, forfie was not there, that Mr. Mattison had done no• more than afford them the convenience, of sitting while they waited the coming of the superintendent, parti, cularly as several of the men were lodgers in the house. Mr. LAING told the churchwarden that if he meant to prefer any complaint against the police, this was : not the place to do so, he must do it before the. Commissioners at Whitehall . ; but if he intended to . make a charge against the publican for keeping his house open and serving those men with liquor at a prohibited lime, a summons should issue for the ap-: pearance of the publican to answer the charge. Mr. Key replied that he wished not to do either,: and that his only object in coming to this office was to inform the Magistrates of the circumstances. Mr. LAING observed, that he had nothing further to do with the matter, and Mr. Key and M' Douglas immediately retired. - PRICE OF SEEDS.-June 21. ' . New Englist' Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) -s. -s. fine -s. - 4 ' . ) .010 Ditto. Ditto .. --..-...--......... -s. -s. fine -s. - 4 ' New Foreign I)itto---....... s2s. 70s, fine 95s 105 5 . ; Old I)itto . ' • --...-. -s. -s. fine -s. -- 5 ' New ;White, C10yer...4..- - --,..-- 6os. 70s. fine -s. -- 5 ' Old I)itto Ditto------ - ---. . . -s. -a. fine -a. -- 5 • New Trefoil ....-1-............--..------; 20s. 50s. fine -s. --s• Olti.Ditto lib • Grais -..,...- .---10 s. 3os. fine 235. 30 5 . English. Carraway. Seed- -s. -s. 523. fine 54 5 . Fotfign/Ditto ....4...-- -s. -s. 555. fine 575. Vortander ------- -..--. -s. les. fine -s. 21 5 . St, Fain - (per Quarter)-- -s. 425. tine 433. 465. Rye .Crrass ---...... - ----20 s. Ms. new 355. 455. l'acey Ditto..,:.---.......--- • -40 s: 455. new ~ s . - 5 . j,inie:cd,'"for k edijig--;...„---..............:... -s. 383. fine --s. 463 I)itto, prrerigglung,..:-........:.---. _ -s. -s. -s. fine S. t'anary.Sgedi New------. -s. 465. fine -a. 521 , )itt.4l. lic -‘,---....--- -s. -s. -s. fine xbil ATA ' Se 3t16:-...(per Bushel)-.. -s. 7s. Ss. fine -- 5 . ',BV -,• to i.,....:. 'Ft: S 1: , , twithls ...:... --.s. --s. --s. fine 14s. :Ckr? V ecl Ditto ---- •. ' -s. -8. - , -.s. tine 18.1. Ihr 'Oh --- ' . ,...,- - -s. 25s b•is. fihe -- 5 . Ditt _,,.' ,cw "..----..--..., -5. -s. fine 42+. 4 1 3 !' 111frett1 1.7:4 , _di,h fine (per hist) 341.34/..,.,,,. Foreign -1. .. " -.. '" -'/II • I'ItICM OF HOPS.-June 21. littn't , Fin.kets --- --. 61 Os. W. M.% to 81 Ss. Sys,exD;tto --..,--. --. 51 . 121. - 61. 6s. to 6!. JO& -- -: - 61.. Os. 61. 10s. to 71. 7s. 01. Os. 0/. Os. to 111. Os. ot, Os. , 71. Os. tol 91 04. St,. Os. 6/. % Os.:to 71. Os. Ditto Arr /:34n I);tto, Ttrt Su6siex Ditto • • - " 4r. 103. rd. $ 45/37t0 12.4 5/. 03 51. I. to 6/. 103. Old Duty laid at £130,000. 1'141,C1, OF OIL. Oi!, Refined 10 -Linseed Oil 2 0 Linsetil-011.Cake at the Mill, pbr thousand , 9 9 I?;ipe Cabe , ver - 4 10 • s tat ICE OF, POTATOES.—June 21. New,Wttre 01 . Os• to 01. 10s. per cwt• , . • • 4 , tylllT EIA Y. 51 A 11K BT.—June 19 4.5 Oil. t0.531 0 , 0d. ()over fiis. Od. to 110 s. Oa. Od. to 48:. Od. , • .." ..; . ... P.A NV HIDES. • - Per. Stone.. , it.L . it to s. cl, - P d.er Stone. s. .to s.( 1 1 , !lost Ileiturs St Steena. S• 3 0 .Ordinary ---.......... 1 8 2 0 it.l!ltr: 0 1gt.".....:— Tr —5...:-. t 2, 4, ',....2,.. 6 Market: Ca1f—............ 6 0 each. „. .SHEEP Po 3- 0.1. to 4.: 1. 2 .6 3 0 +, I Per lb, PRI (NS- OF d. tod. putt.,.,.,,.,,, :,0 to 5C11). 181 IN ,•,%1,.;;,-,W9 to 66111 21 .22 "eg tildes»»« 14 16 vde: Coati!! I4ides 17 19 C: rip 11 ides, 35 to 411113. 14 151 Mt to 501 b 14) 17i D tto COA I. M A lit Adair's 314 0..1. Holywell 3l 0 Pontop Windsor—.— 27 6 ranfteld ••••••••*••••••• *W. 29 6 Townley 9 Wylam 31 • 0 Walls En: t Brown's 32 6 Ditto Bitrraton 33 3 Ditto Cramlington--- 28 6 Ditto Calkrton --- 30 0 Ditto Gosforth 33 0 Ditto Heaton 35 0 Ditto Hilda 32 6 Ditto 1 33 3 'stops at market, 32H—Shi SKINS. Os. Od. to OS. Lambs--.,, 1 2 1 LEATHER.. Per lb. 'Tanned Horse Hides... 16 - t°41 , 1 Sonish I)itto ..........—. '2l `2) Per dozen. Czlf Skine...36 to 41111). 14 IS, Ail to 50 to 7111 b. 21 Ditto 70 to BM. JO 2 1 Small Sea l s, Grcenland 20 21i (El'.—June 21. Walls e:nd Newmarch,. 345. 0 ,4 Walls //Ind Lyons—.... 34 6 t:n,d Siewart's 36 3 Russell's Hetton's W. E al 0 Blyth _ Ft albeath,...w 27 6 Hartley ......... 33 0 I.langetmech Coal 38 0 Old Etherley 3 ) tt Milford Coal— 42 0 Warde's Llanelly 33 0 Walls End Selby 27 0 Holywell Trader -- 31 0 Flebburn small ---. 18 6 ips sold, 16%—Unsold, 16. SCOTCH MARKETS. • Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oatmeal' Aberdeen 52 70 24 29 22 25 35 3.1 Berwiek—...., 42 45 20 23 18 20 24 26 38 4 u Coldstream 42 47 21 23• •18 22 24 20 , Cupar 48 62 32 34 22 23 ar. Dundee—;,...... 55 75 33 26 28 —32•— Elgin 50 60 20 25 20 10 21 Inverness.... 53 56 26 28 10 . 23 24 25 40 Kelso 45 50 22 25 20 •23 24 30 Kirkaltly.....— 6O . 76 33 36 26 32 30 34 Perth 50 76 21 24 17 22 28 34 The size of the measure varies throughout the country._ HAODINOTON CORN AI AIME:F.—June 19. • A small supply of Barley—only 8 quarters were sold ; top 6d. down —average up 10d. Oats sold readily at the same top as last day, but an ad7ance . of Is. on the average-209 quarters in the market. Wheat is down Is. on the top, average up Is. lid. Beans are up 6d• on last average-:,-37 quarters sold. Only three quart e rs of Pease in the market. Wheat. First 67s 0.6 Second Third There were 264 qrs. A verag, Barley, 34s Od 33s Od 3'23 Od of W h eat 10 Uwsolc DALKEI'J The supply of ket was small; pi day se'nnight. • Oats. Pease. Beans. 316 Od —s Od 40s Od 29s Od —s Od 3E3s 0. 1 23s Od 39s Od 36s 0 ,1 in market, !...11 whereof were salt' .-13 Grey. ~. 3/. 26.81 2.l2ths. TH CORI all kinds orices aboi of Grain it the Si: &T.—June at this di me as dux lay-'8 mar,' use of 018 " Wheat. Barley. Oata, First C6s Oil ais Od 32s 9d• Second ilia Od 30s Od 3s Od I Pease, Bean_t 44s Od 44 ' ''' 40i 041 40s Od ass ost 38s Od MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Itedruth last Thursday 2,474 0 Average Produce B!4 ° Quantity of tine Copper Amount of Sale, 13,1571.75. [la.—Average Standard 1021. 15s. Otl. TIAMBURG MARKETS, JUNE 18. BORSEN-HALLE.-The Wheat market has been decik dedly improving during the week. The arrivals from the interior were inconsiderable, and were - eagerly bought up for exportation. Our own consumers also purchased freely, having relinquished the hope of any very speedy reduction of price. Our arrivals from Mecklenburg and Holstein were also of easy sale, but of those from the Lower Elbe a large proportion remained unsold, owing to the high pikes for which the holders steod Rye and Birley, on the other 'band, were heavy, and though some pat c• is of the latter were taken for exporta tion, it was only at reduced prices that the sales could be efftctA. The small parcels of Rapeseed received faun time to time are of ready sale. The following is the num" ber of lasts imported and exported : Imported. Exported. Wheat 1016 920 Rye 164 52 Barley lO 6 Oats 122 Malt 49 Pease Beans Rapeseed a Tares ,. 0 During the first ten days of June, 108 cargoes ,of Corn passed through the Sound ; of these .52 were bound for British, 26 for Dutch, 6 for French, and 16 for Northern ports ; 4 were bound for Bremen, 2 for llamburg, 1 for the 51editerranean, and of 1 the destinati9n was unknown. Weight. Rix dollars. Dantzie Wheat 122 to 126 to Pomeranian 124 to 128......118 to 126 Anhalt, white llB'to 124 130 to 140 red 122 to 128 126 to 13ti Danish 120 to 128 80 to 95 Datitzie Rye llB to 1.2 7O to 75 Upland 116 to 123...... 70 to 75 Danish 116 to 120 56 to 60 Magdeburg,' Barley 9B to 104 52 to 55 ALltslt 9B to 104. 52 to 56 Danish 94 to 102. 4O to 46 Mocklenburgh Oats 66 to 74...... 46 to 50 Danish 66 to 75 34 to 42 Pomeranian Malt —to —..,... 50 to 54 Pease, yellow, Upland —to 65 to 75 Holstein Rapeseed —. to —. 180 to 185 Funds are heavy, with but little doing. Lower prices at Ber!in and Frankfort, but more particularly the decline of the French Rentes, have had the effect of depressing our market during the week.—Discount 4 per cent: ..., End of June. , Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per cent. Anglo-Russian Loan losy, Hamhurg-Rusaian Loan lO3 Polish Bonds 125 Austrian Bank Shares 1125 Austrian Metall iques 9 9% New Austrian 4 per Cents. Anglo Neapolitan Falconets .. for her, and if he don't do that, I shall commit hirr for a month to the House of Correction. Harris_finally settled to allow her 3s. per week. H ArrON.GARDEN. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PLYMOUTH, JUNE 19.—Vice Admiral Sir Philip Charles Henderson Durham, K.C.8., is spoken of as the-next Commander-in-Chief at Chatham. . The Hon. Capt. Dundas and Mr. Farquhar, .Purser, will be appointed to . the Prince Regent. _ _ By the last information from the Swan River, Feb. 19, it appears that the Success ftigate has been got off the rocks on which she had been stranded, by the exertions of Captain Jervoise and his crew, and it was hoped she would be refitted and put in a state to proceed to England. Captain •W. H. Shirreff is appointed Harbour Master, &c. at Gibralor. - A naval Lieuternitt will be placed under his orders, to serve afloat in a vessel to watch the shipping. The Captain will re side on shore. At Spithead—Galatea and Pearl.' In Harbour—St. Vincent, Royal George, Ganges, Briton, Pallas, Talbot, Columbine, Herald, Wolf, }Etna, Cracker; Sylvia, and Arrow. A ship is to be fitted up in this harbour, and put under the charge of Commodore G. Smith, the in ventor of the moveable target, for the purpose of instructing the - crews of all ships in the port in the use of the great guns, and in all matters relating to practical gunnery. A party of the Royal Marine Artillery will also assist in this object. A Board of Admiralty, with Viscount Melville, will pay an official - vie if to this port on Monday. Their Lordships will - 14 entertained at . dinner on Monday evening by Admiral Sir Thomas Foley, G.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief.—Hamp. Tel. DEVONPORT, JUNE 19.—His Majesty's ship Mersey, Capt. Couttertay, arrived at Pourt•au- Prince on the 16th of April, from Jamaica, with Mr. Consul-General Schenley on board. The Mersey sailed on the 18th for Nassau, to join the Admiral. His Majesty's sloop Wolf, 18, was commissiosed at Portsmouth on Tuesday, for foreign service. The Pelican, 18, may he expected at Portsmouth in the early part of July, from Chatham, on her way to the Mediterranean. The Stork revenue cutter is to be quarantine cutter at the Motherbank, in lieu of the Roebuck, sold out of the service. Commodore Hayes, late of the Ganges, 84, arrived from Portsmouth on Sunday, in the Starling cutter, Lieut. L. Harrison, and took the command of the Dryad, 42, fitting to telieve Commodore Collier on the coast of Africa. The Alligator, 28, Capt. Yorke, arrived front Portsmouth on WedneF day, on her way to the Mediterranean, and sailed yesterday with a light wind from the westward. The Blanche, 46, Commodoie Farquhar, sailed on Tuesday, for the West Indies and North America. The Swan cutter, 10, Lieut. F. Goldie, arrives? on Wednesday from the eastward. The Vigilant ketch, Lieut. R. Loney, sailed . on Wednesday, fitr Falmouth. Eduard Churchill, Esq. Pilaster-Shipwright of he Dock-yard at this port, retires upAn superaL ivalion. Mr. Bulford is appointed Master of his Majesty's ship Galatea. Lieut. U. W. Hall is appointed to the Coas Guard Service in Scotland. Mr. J. Lordlier, Assistant-Surgeon, is appointed to the Galatea, and Lieut. John Price to the Wolf. Iu Ilamoaze--Caledonia, Kent, Dryad, Clio, Royalist, Goldfinch, bheldrake, Industry tender, Carron steamer. Banipool—Undaunted. Island-13i itomart. Sound—Vigilant. Major-General Campbell, the Deputy Adjutant General of the Royal Marine Forces, whose arrival we noticed last week, after inspecting this diVision of Royal Marines at their quarters, reviewed the battalion, consisting of above 500 men, on the Hoe on Saturday, accompanied by Major 'Wright and Major Parke, of the Royal Marine Artillery, and in the presence of an immense mtOtitude of,pectators. The very soldier-like appearance, steady conduct, and welt-practised manoeuvres of this highly' dis ciplined corps excited general admiration. lii the evening the Major-General (lined at the mess, there being also present Admiral Sir Manly Dixon, K.C.B. and his suite, a large party of naval and military officers, the Mayor of Plymouth, Ste.— Devonport Telegraph. DUBLIN.—Great fears are entertained that there will be a want of food in Ireland during the next two months. Potatoes have risen in the country markets to an alarming price, and from the difficulty ef procuring them at any price a sort of panic has already begun to dif fuse itself amongst the poor people. Some sordid wretches, by hoarding and concealing their store, in the expect !don of a starving profit, Lave contributed much to increase the alarm. Oatmeal, which is never thought of as an article of food in the South of Ireland so long as a potato can be bad, is now e igerly bought up at 189. the hundred weight. Some millers—the Quakers particularly—have the conscience to demand an advance, even upon this sum. 4s. per cwt., for the accommodation of two or three months' credit, taking special care all the while to rev/ire good solvent security to guarantee the payment when it be comes due. The great scarcity of money, and the almost total impossibility for a poor man to obtain any, very much enhances the distress and apprehensions which prevail. But should the weather, which is growing milder than it has been, prove at all favourable, there is every prospect of an abundant, and, what is of still more importance this year, a very early harvest A warm sun will bring new potatoes into market a fortnight before the usual tiioe.— Morning Paper. PAINTED AND PUBLISHED -IfY MURDO YOUNG, AT TILE SUN OFFICE S 112, STRAND, LONDON. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE The highest price of Bread in the Metropolifi is 101i.(1. lot Ih ° 11 17: . •Loaf. There are others who sell from j.d.to that price. BIRTHS. On the 18th inst. at York-terrace, the lady of 'Henry Gardner, Esq., of a daughter. Oa the 18th inst. at North Brixton, Airs. R. Comber, of a daughter, since (lead. MARRIED. On the 18th inst. at St. Martin's Church, Captain G. E. Watts, R.N., of Langton Graige, in the county of Durham, to Eliz the* second daughter of the late J. R. Foul's, Esq. of Buckton and His!erton, in the county of York. On the 19th ingt. at Abel ford, Yorkshire, H. L. Wickham, oily son of the Right lion. Win. Wickham, to Lucy, youngest daughter of the late W. Alarckham, EN. of Becca-hall, Yorkshire. On the 16th int.t. at Walthamstow, R. C. James, Esq• of London, to Caroline, only datighter of Mr. Vaughan, of Waltharnstow. DIED On the 20th inst. at his house at Camberwell, Sandi 1 Favell, El., in the 711;t year of his age. On the 19th inst. after a short illness, in her 78th year, Mrs. S. Montague. Ou the 20thinst.. at his father's, ,the Rev. J. B. Fer rers, Beddington, Surrey, the Rev. P. J. Ferrers, jaw of Oriel College, Oxford, aged 28. On the 20th -inst. .Mr. Win. Waugh, of Goodge:street, Fitzroy-square, raged 66. 7 This day 1 40U THE sc; Edited at Will be pi Coil; CAI Coll Of whom THE Ti 130 U " These reconis of Colt This day i trait of price SC CAII " This quarter of "M. C the attenai Ppite of tli nicate all Paper. This day 1 a Portr t } :e United " This serial infli Court J " The • historical N. 8.- Complete ; Cult SEC This day " Dr. be conside a high opi for the dis graphical his picp. pious and Which hal terly Revi Colt This day Plates bound, C impri AUTHOI an Accom Political I " The: are in pi British C joyed the lieenee; Thus his Inatter, hi sterling w Col' This di SON Printec Edinburg 1. RE Third Ed 2. 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