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tribute the " Godly gains" of ft sinecure office to maintain the cause of stall-fed theology. We have heard one, and but one, defence of Ecclesiastical sinecures, even from the most zealous opponents of Church re f o rm, and that is, that they are intended to be a provision for Divines of superior piety and learning, who are without other preferment. It would not be difficult to prove, that when the Church was truly in a state of Christian purity, no such things as pluralities and sinecures existed ; and it requires no ordinary assurance, at the present day, to defend things as necessary to the Church establishment in any respect against which such orthodox and distinguished prelates as Bishops Burnet and Sherlock lifted up their voices. We are told that the Bishop of Hereford, being the brother of the Premier, is the gravamen of the present charge. Not so. It is only an aggra vation of the charge. The charge is the filling up the sinecure at all, or, the filling up in such a way as to make it an appendage to the Ecclesi astical preferment of one already amply provided for. When a sinecure is filled up, a substantial if not an insurmountable obstacle to its abolition is then raised, for he who would abolish it after that is met by the potent plea of " vested rights." The same plea would be' advanced if an attempt were made to abolish that civil sinecure of some 2,0001. a year in the household of the Irish Viceroy, which Lord Grey has just now given to another brother, being resolved that, for whatever services he may have done the State, he and his family shall be well paid ; for the barren glory of disinterested patriotism does not seem to be a thing which the Whigs hold in more admiration than the Tories. We deny not the respectability of the Bishop of Hereford ; on the contrary, we consider him in talents 'and clerical conduct a Prelate who has merited his promotion, as far as the see of Hereford is concerned ; but we think he might be satisfied with that, and for his brother's sake—for that of the Church and his own, he ought to have declined the sine cure office of a stall in Westminster, while so many clergymen, eminent for learning, virtue, and piety, are labouring in the vine yard upon a stipend which cannot afford them a decent subsistence. The Treasury writer dragged the family of the Bishop of Hereford before the public by making a charitable appeal for his twelve children. We fear the Malthusian would not be so indulgent to the large family of some industrious but unpatronised curate. Our ingenious friend of the Treasury, in his zeal for the Grey portion of the Church establishment, outruns the game, by endeavouring to prove too much. He has the modesty to represent the bishopric of Hereford as -an inconvenience, forced, as it were, upon the learned incumbent of that see, which has made him poorer than he was. We suppose the Premier forced it upon him for the purpose of giving him a place in the House of Lords to oppose his administration, as he has done, and then rewarded him for voting against the reform Ministry by an unre formed sinecure ! It was kind and fraternal of him thus to favour a political opponent in the person of a brother ; but it is easy to be gene rous at the expense of the country.—]horning Herald. h would appear from the Dublin papers that no great sensation has been produced through out Ireland by the return of Lord Wellesley to I that country as Chief Governor. The Dublin corporators have, indeed, been indulging a feeble imitation of their former spiteful pranks against the Lord-Lieutenant, having contrived on Friday last to evade the Lord Mayor's summons, issued for convening a Common Council, to discuss the propriety of addressing Lord Wellesley on his assumption of the Government. The mem bers did not meet, as is stated, in sufficient numbers to " make a house," and so the address, which is usually a matter of course, may be said to have miscarried. But as for the value of the proposed compliment, considering the political merits of the body whence it was to have pro ceeded, it will be felt by most people that Lord Wellesley has gained something by the affected slight, while it must be owned that the cor poration has lost no character by the unprovoked indecency. When the Noble - Marquis was ap pointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland about the year 1821 or 1822, his arrival in Dublin was hailed by the great bulk of the people as the harbinger, not merely of a more equal admini stration of the laws, but of certain improved principles of legislation. It is no more than truth to acknowledge, what we at that period distinctly and repeatedly observed, that the law, as it existed, had never before been so impartially executed as during the viceroyalty of Lord Wellesley,—that a more wholesome and states manlike spirit was then infused into the general action of the Government,—and that, instead of purchasing the nominal subjugation of the whole of Ireland by letting loose the ferocity of one barbarous faction at its rival, and thus joinin g with Orangemen in a league o f which the implied condition should be, a common crusade against the constitutional rights of Catholics, the execu tive power professed to impose upon itself the novel task of protecting each party from the outrages of its ancient enemy. In the same year it put down the Orange processions of the north ; and the insurrection of the Mun ster peasantry ; nor can we wonder that by the calm redress of injury, and disappointment of lawless retaliation, it should often have incurred the animosity both of the wrongdoer and the avenger. The main difficulty of Lord Welles ley's former administration, however, was not of Irish growth ; he was fettered by the Home office in Whitehall. Mr. Peel was Secretary of State, and his creature, Mr. Goulburn, was Secretary (in official phrase) to the Lord Lieu tenant, but aimed, in truth, at being Secretary over the Lord Lieutenant—giving ear to the old ascendancy men, Manners, Gregory, and Saurin, excluding Lord Wellesley and Mr. Plunket, though Attorney-General, from his confidence, while he enjoyed exclusively that of Mr. Peel, poisoning by his partisanship the reputation of the whole Government, and frustrating, by hisnarrow, bigotteti pedantry, the restorative influence of the best conceived and most comprehensive measures. In the Tithe Composition Act, for instance, as originally framed by Lord Wellesley, was a clause or clauses, compelling the clergy to accept a composition for their tithes. Had this com pulsory clause been brought into operation, the whole of Ireland would, within a year or two, have enjoyed the benefits of the m os t sa l utary a mendment that ever was ingrafted upon t h e tithe system, and the pecuniary relation between clergymen and their parishioners must have been universally fixed upon a footing which would have driven the agitators to some other plea for disturbing the public peace; for let it be under stood, that although the hostility to tithe has at length embraced the parishes where a composi tion had been established, as well as thos . e where the clergy had refused one, the tithe war did not originate in the former class of livings. A fter being provoked by tithe-proctors, through individual hardship, it extended by sympathy to those parishes where tithe-proctors had no vocation, and where hardship from tithe exaction was, in the proper sense, unknown. But had the whole country been under the Compo sition Act, there is the strongest reason for believing that the rancour which has been excited against the Irish Clergy would not have risen to any fatal height, nor Ireland been thrown into a fresh series of convulsions through such instrumentality, or on such pretexts, as have of late disturbed her. To Mr. Goulburn, therefore, and his auxiliary riders upon the administration of his nominal chief, the country has been in debted for the failure of that Viceroyalty to realize a great portion of the good anticipated from it. The scene, however, has since materially changed. Lord Wellesley's hands are actually and henceforth unfettered. The Goulburns and Gregories exist no more, but as fossil remains of the by-gone Tory world. So far from a liberal Lord Lieutenant being now held back by an Orange Cabinet in this country, or an Orange Secretary in Ireland, he durst not relapse into " ascendancy" or persecution if he would. Lord Anglesea, an honest politician, if ever there was one, had, we trust, no complaint to make against Lord Grey's Cabinet. His march, as Irish Viceroy, was in the same direction as that of Lord Wellesley had been, though by less thorny and obstructed paths ; and his responsibility, therefore, heavier, but not more so, than that of the Marquis Wellesley now is, since he now equally incurs the obligations and enjoys the ad vantages of a free and unfettered a g ent. To this circumstance of one liberal Lord Lieutenant succeeding another in Ireland, under the same Cabinet here, may be owing some portion of the alleged indifference with which the Irish public seems to have regarded the entrance of Lord Wellesley upon his duties. There is no apparent change in the principle of the Govern ment, and therefore no general subject of curiosity or anxiety in the mind of the nation. Where the only difference is between Lord A. and Lord 8., there must be something more than com monly calculated to strike public attention in the personal fortune or character of the successor, before he can create what is commonly called a "sensation." In neither of these respects does any novelty attach to the Marquis Wellesley : his fortune is objected to by the tradesmen of Dublin, as not encouraging to their passion for a splendid Court, and the habits of seclusion which common report assigns to him are not favour able to general popularity. If, however, the noble Lord shall so discharge Ills public duties as to tranquillize the kingdom, and to increase the con fidence of the peaceful and industrious in the efficacy of the laws for the protection of life and person, he may safely dispense with that species of homage which is founded on a conformity to the lighter tastes of mankind, and which con tributes little or nothing to the political or his torical estimation of a statesman. One remark only we shall add on this occasion,—viz., that if Lord Wellesley hopes to realize any permanent good for the country which he is called upon to govern, lie will by every means within his power promote and enforce an extensive inquiry into the relations between rich and poor in Ireland ; for there, as we have often said, there exists, and there will be discovered, the broad, and deep, and enduring groundwork of Irish antipathy to the Government—a Government which does not provide for the poor man's wants—and to the law, which does little to shield the weak from oppression.—Times. The associations for resisting the collection of the assessed taxes are unquestionably all that the Ministerial writers describe them. They are confederacies which tend directly to the subver sion of all law, and to the destruction of all government. Their proper and natural effect is to introduce general anarchy, and to decompose society into its original elements. All this is undeniably true, as the Ministerial Journals tell us every day. It is manifestly true also that it is the duty of Ministers to employ all the power that the law has placed in their hands to suppress combinations, of which such are the inevitable consequences, should their existence be tolerated for any considerable period. Nor can any truth be more evident than another of those which our Ministerial contemporaries are labouring strenuously to enforce at the present moment, viz., that it is the duty of all honest men and good subjects to discourage all such pernicious and fatal combinations by every means in their power. All these are propositions in which we cordially concur with the Ministerial journals. But there are other truths belonging to the sub ject, which ought not to be forgotten ; and, as the public will certainly never be re ' minded of these by our Ministerial contem poraries, we think it our duty to take care that they be not permitted to slip entirely out of recollection. If it be true that com binations to resist the law are dangerous and destructive combinations, it is a truth not less clear, and scarcely less important, that no such combinations exist in Great Britain of which the present Ministers of the Crown and their parti sans are not the real authors. And another truth not less clear, and scarcely less important, is, that the present Ministers of the Crown can not perform their duty as Ministers, by wielding the power of the law against the wicked and turbulent individuals who conspire to resist and overthrow it, without incurring as men all the odium and contempt that is justly due to the basest hypocrisy, treachery, and fraud. Very few words will suffice to explain and demonstrate these two very important propositions. Mini sters, it cannot be denied, maintained themselves in place for a my considerable period, and forced upon a reluctant Legislature a measure of organical change in the Constitution of the country, by fomenting the growth and courting the alliance of confederacies which wielded no other weapon, and had no other weapon to wield, than the threat of resistance to the law. With respect to the ultimate conse quences of this alteration of the Constitution, different opinions are entertained ; but the only consequence it has yet produced, the only consequence which Ministers took care to secure infallibly, is that of giving the present Ministers a firmer grasp, and an extended lease of political power. Ministers are thus fairly chargeable with having wilfully, advisedly, and deliberately sown the seeds and matured the growth, among the people of Great Britain, of new dispositions and habits alien to their former character ; and, of whatever offences these new disposition s and habits are the source, of such offences the Ministers who have so acted are indisputably the authors. Are the present com binations to resist the payment of the assessed taxes the natural offshoots, or are they not of the combinations professing a similar purpose, with assiduous which Ministers maintained an and complimentary correspondence, and which the most zealous partisans and favoured friends of Ministers instructed in the sacred duty of resistance by precept and example ? We are firmly persuaded that there is not a man of in tegrity and candour from Caithness to Cornwall who will give to this question any other than an affirmative answer. It is idle to talk to such men as necessarily constitute the majority in such combinations of the difference between the for mer occasion and the present. And in the face of all who so presume to talk to them they can do nothing so good as to laugh a laugh of deri sion and contempt. Why did they illegally conspire with the King's Ministers to force the Reform Bill upon the Legislature but because they were told that the Reform would operate to give them not only sensible relief from taxa tion, but the power of sensibly affecting the decisions of the Legislature as to what taxes should be retained, imposed, reduced, or re. pealed ? They looked to the Reform Bill as a means to an end, that end being something very different to the prolongation merely of the term during which Earl Grey should have the power of quartering his needy relatives upon the country. And were they to do so much while in conspiracy with Ministers for the acquisition of an instrument, and now that they discover the fraud that was put upon them—now that they find the instrument by no means answers the description given of it by its wily fabricators —now that the Ministers, their end being oh ; tained, belong to the conspiracy no longer, are the other conspirators to relinquish their end, to which the instrument is found to contribute nothing, and to resume in placid contentment their former habits of obedience to the law ? The idea is much too preposterous for even the present Ministers to have entertained it. They must have contemplated this consequence of their persevering and systematic policy, that it would make conspiracy to resist the law familiar and habitual in England. They are morally responsible, therefore, for all that ensues. They are greater cri minals even than the greatest of those whom, as the only means of preventing anarchy, it has be come their ministerial duty to chastise and coerce. The policy pursued by Ministers with respect to the Church in Ireland affords evidence equally conclusive of the community of interests, feelings, and conduct which have indissolubly associated the present Administration with the • cause of habitual, systematic, and confederated enemies of order and contemners of the law. So deeply are Ministers stained by this foul contamination that for them to set themselves up in the new character of maintainers of the law might even be attended with the evil effect of casting upon the sacred cause of law and order itself some portion of that ridicule and contempt which should properly fall only upon the inconsistency and hypocrisy of its self seeking and unprincipled defenders. Right minded men are the enemies of lawless combina- tions as much when the latter are employed to maintain in power a particular Administration, as when they are employed to resist the collection of a particular tax. But if there tie anything which right-minded men abhor still more than they abhor lawless combinations, it is the treachery, duplicity, and fraud with which the present Ministers might justly be charged if they were to cause or to permit so much as a hair of the head to be touched of any one of the conspira tors against the assessed taxes. These conspi rators are the pupils of the King's Ministers. "1 hey are merely practising the lesson which the King's Ministers have sedulously taught. Every principle and feeling that inspires or directs them is a principle and feeling which the Ministers have taken pains to implant in their minds. And if integrity and good faith, if honour and honesty, are not wholly banished from among mankind, how can the world endure to behold the patrons and pedagogues of lawless combination award punishment or administer rebuke to ignorant and deluded men, for the offence merely of continuing to obey with con stancy and fidelity an impulse of which these same teachers and rewarders of lawless combi nations were the main and original source ? Morning Post. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION- HOUSE. A man named Hasildel was brought before the LORD MAYOR yesterday, by inspector Lowry, of the Metropolitan Police, charged with having com mitted a burglary and robbery in the house of Mr. Crop, a merchant, residing in Muscovy-court, Tower-hill. A witness, named Fox, stated that on Sunday morning, between eight and nine o'clock, the pri soner came to his house to ask about a lodging, and had with him two bundles. The prisoner complained that his boots crippled him, and said he would go out and get rid of them. He then pulled them o ff, and not being able to borrow any slippers, he went out in his bare feet, leaving behind him the bundles. Witness's wife, upon looking at the bundles, sus pected that all was not right, and found, upon ex amination, that they contained a quantity of plate. A policeman was sent for, and informed of the cir cumstance, and measures were adopted to ascertain whether the plate did not belong to another party. Mr. Crop, the prosecutor, a foreigner, stated that his house had been broken open on Saturday night, and plundered, and he identified the plate found in the bundles and the boots as his property. Ann Tracy, servant to the prosecutor, deposed that at eleven o'clock on Saturday night, she left all the doors and windows fastened, arid went to bed at the top of the house. On going down stairs next morning, at half-past seven, she found that the window and window-shutters of the kitchen had been broken open, arid that the cupboard had been stripped of the plate ; that the unwelcome visiter had supplied himself with a candle from a quantity at the top of the cupboard, and had closely examined every part of the ground floor, from which he had not only taken the plate, but a pair of her master's boots, and a cap of her own. A policeman stated that he apprehended the prisoner, w h o, upon b e i ng quest i one d, d ec lared that he co u ld not res i st t h e temptat i on to ta ke the plate, he was so poor. He had, he said, been wandering a b out , h av i ng no p l ace to l ay hi s head in, and feeling very cold, he looked for a covered spot, so findin g the window of a kitchen open, he popped in to make himself comfortable. On going in, however, he by some means caught a glimpse of the plate, and could not help taking it. Inspector Lowry said, that when he beard of the plate, he went round the Tower Ward, and was particular in his inquiries amongst the inhabitants. As it was Sunday, a considerable time elapsed be fore he succeeded. At length his card fell into the hands of Mr. Crop, and every article which had been stolen from the premises of that gentleman was recovered. The prisoner repeated the story about the great ness of the temptation. The LORD MAYOR said, that the temptation did not strike him as anything remarkable. It was merely the temptation to break through a window, which was fastened on the inside with an iron bolt• The prisoner was remanded. THE LAST EXAMINATION OF MASON FOR STEAL ING BIBLES AND PRAYER.I3OOKS.—Mason, whose examination, some days ago, drew together such crowds of parish officers from the various parishes in and round the mi , iropolis, waA brought up tor final examination. Not only the Justice-room, but the hall and the avenues to it were crowded. A woman, who stated herself to be his wife, whom he was said to be very much in the habit of beat ing, and o❑ whom he used to pour out religious ejaculations while he inflicted the punishment, was put to the bar with him. Sapwell, the officer who apprehended the pri soner, stated to the Lord Mayor that he had already found half a cart load of bibles, prayer-books, and hymn-books, at the shops of pawnbrokers in the metropolis, and that he had ascertained they had been all pawned by the prisoner. He stated that the prisoner now appeared in the camblet cloak which he used to wear in the churches and chapels, and in which a great number of the ladies and gen men present recognised him as a constant attendant at public worship. The moment Mason sneaked up to the bar, there was a general cry in the office of " Oh dear ! I know his face; he was in church the day I lost my books." He looked round timidly, but took no no tice of those who claimed acquaintance with him. The Rev. Mr. Watkins, Rector of St. Swithin's, London Stone—Oh, my Lord Mayor, I know the man well ; he called upon me one day, and begged that I would let him know whether he could be allowed to receive the Sacrament before he was confirmed.—(Great laughter.) I really took him for an excellent Christian, and asked him to come to my house, when I would give him all the advice in my power, and administer all the religious console don he might think necessary to require. He lis tened to me attentively, and then departed ; and next day I missed a quantity of my books.— (Laughter.) I need not say that he did not call next day, which was the time he appointed. Here Sapwell produced several bags full of reli gious books. Some of these books had been stripped of their pictures, many of which had been found embellishing the walls of the prisoner's room, to gether with a great deal of poetry in the hand writing of Mason, on the punishment preparing for the evil doer, the blessings awaiting him who walked' in the right road, and the vanity and inuti- lity of all things without charity. The LORD MAYOR—Were many of these books found at the house of one pawnbroker ? Sapwell— Yes, my Lord ; I found twenty-three books at the shop of one, twenty-four at the shop of another, and at very few I found less than five or six. The LORD MAYOR—And these pawnbrokers will tell me they had no right to suspect that a man or woman who pawned so many religious books got them dishonestly. Some of the pawnbrokers said the man was so constant a customer, and a person of so serious an appearance, that no suspicion was ever entertained of him. It was, they assured the Lord Mayor, the practice of many purchasers of books to pawn them, to obtain a supply of money to make other promis ing speculations. Mr. Nobler (the Chief Clerk) said, that such cer tainly was the fact. his experience had made him acquainted with many instances of the kind. It was particularly the case with the Jews. They bought, and pawned to buy more, and they would afterwards borrow and take out their pledges, and sell, and perhaps make a profit of six or seven pounds in a day's work in that way. The LORD MAYOR said that such an explanation was certainly necessary to exonerate the pawnbrokers, but he was not quite satisfied that they were uncon scious of having dealt with a thief in this instance. —(Laughter.) Sapvvell said that he had received the greatest attention and assistance from the pawnbrokers on this occasion, and several of them had offered to give up the stolen books without receiving the money which had been lent upon them. The LORD MAYoß—Prisoner, have you nothing to say to all t his ? Prisoner—No, my Lord, nothing at all ; but many have lost their books without be ing able to say I took them.—(Laughter.) Here several ladies and gentlemen who had been examining the bundles of books pawned set before them, said that they identified their property. Many of them, it was found, had been pledged on the very day they were stolen. The prisoner used, it was stated, to visit some places of worship with his head heavily powdered; but the most frequent observa tion made respecting him was, that he was more absorbed in the high contemplations of religion than any other person. He must have sometimes carried out with him, after a long time spent on his knees, eight or ten books, the camblet cloak giving all the required facilities. The LORD MAYOR—We have two cases suffi ciently strong against the prisoner, and it will be therefore quite unnecessary to add to the expenses by obliging such a multitude of plundered persons to appear at the Old Bailey. Some of the pawnbrokers expressed their willing ness to give up the stolen property without re quiring the capital they had advanced. The LORD MAYOR, however, thought, under all the circumstances, it would be too hard upon the pawnbrokers to require such a sacrifice. He thought that the pawnbrokers might give up the claimed books for one half of the money obtained upon them. This proposition gave satisfaction, and the ladies and gentlemen regained their boi,ks for a trifle, and the pawnbrokers went home with the consolation that they were not obliged to attend and give evi dence at the Old Bailey. Sapwell said that the old gentleman from whom the prisoner had stolen the ring was in attendance. William Tyndall, of No. 3, Corbett's-court, Spitalfields, an aged man, in a deplorable state of paralysis, deposed that the prisoner lodged in the same house with him. The prisoner visited him to talk religion to him, and give him spiritual comfort, and, after some conversation of the kind, took a ring out of his drawer, and walked off and pawned it for eleven shillings. A pawnbroker deposed that the prisoner had pawned the ring at his shop. The LORD MAYOR—It will be too much to require this poor man to attend the Old Bailey. You had better give him his ring. The pawnbroker said he should not like to give it up without finding that it was claimed at the Old Bailey. The LORD MAYOR— Well ; it shall be claimed there. The old man was then bound over to prosecute ; and the lady, whose books were stolen out of Al dersgare Church, was also bound over to prefer ano ther indictment. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, prisoner, have you anything to say about the robbery upon this poor cripple, whom you plundered while you spoke to him of eternity? The prisoner shook his long head, and aid—No ; I am of a respectable family, but I won't say who they are. Sapwell said, that any body who went into the prisoner's room, would be impressed with a belief that the inhabitant was a very proper person. On several parts of the walls were written, in the pri soner's own hand-writing, the following words:— " Words without thought ne'er reach the Almighty car— Then dread the direful mockery of prayer ; In other scenes be innocently gay, But gravity becomes us when we pray." The prisoner was fully committed for trial, and the LORD MAYOR highly commended the conduct of Sapwell throughout the business. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A pale-faced lad, with his hair nicely parted and twisted at each side into the genuine Bermondsey curl, was put to the bar under the not inappropriate patronymic of Shanks, c h arge d wit h h av i ng ma d e a n attack with a carvi ng -k n if e l ast F r id ay nig h t , on his own life, and the life of a young female, whose profession appeared to be indicated by a yellow chintz gown and green Adelaide boots. The prosecutrix gave the name of Emma Robins, and stated that on Friday evening, about eleven o'clock, as she was taking her accustomed evening stroll in the Quadrant, she was accosted by the Prisoner, with whom an acquaintance had formerly subsisted, who invited her to partake of a glass of Oil and cloves, v..l)lcn invitation she consented to accept, and adjourned with him into a neighbouring gin-shop, where Shanks requested to be shown into a private room. Her friend Shanks, having given the landlord an order for a drop of something shor., repeated to be furnished with a knife for the pur pose of carving some bread and cheese, which he averred was then hanging behind him in his coat.. tail pocket. The knife was brought, and Shanks possessed himself of it, flourishing it about with a theatrical air, and threatening, unless she consented to renew former acquaintance, he would end with it her cruelty and his own torments. In suiting the action to the word, the despairing Shanks brought the knife so near her person, that in order to disap point his blood-thirsty intentions, she seized it, and succeeded in wresting it from him, but not until she had received a gash on her middle finger, which she was ready to exhibit in proof of her statement. Mr. CHAMBERS applied to the prisoner to know what he had to say in Ins defence ? Shanks, who stood " sighing like a fu.nace,” while the complainant was making her charge, de clared that the whole business had arisen out of a fit of jealousy on his Emma's part. The feet was she had omitted to state that he had on a former even ing invited a lqiss Jemima Green to take a glass of brandy and bitters, which circumstance having come to his Emma's ears, she had sent him word of her determination to cut the connection. On Friday night, continued Shanks, wiping his eyes, I met this here young homata, who accosted me of my in witation of Miss Green, and so, determining to put an end to the hanksiety of my mind, I vent vith her into a wery respectable public-house, and axd for a knife to cut some bread and cheese as I gam moned I'd got in my pocket. Vert the knife was brought I collared it, and arter unbuttoning my coat and veskir, I took a solid oath as I'd plunge it into my naked bussum if she vouldn't promise never to say nothing no more concerning that there Miss Green. As for vishing to hurt her vith the knife, she nose I never had no sitch an idear, for I vas alvays too fond on her. Mr. CHAMBERS having learnt that the defendant had contrived to present his Emma with a pair of black eyes, while in the station-house, ordered him to find bail for the common assault, and discharged him from the more serious offence. W OR SHIP- S TREET. Yesterday, a bricklayer, living in Noble-street, Goswell-street, appeared under the following cir cumstances :—lnspector Brundley, of G division, stated that he received information that a woman had been found hanging in Noble-street. She had suspended herself from a nail over the door, while her husband and children were in bed in the same room. Her feet were nearly touching the ground. The bricklayer said his wife sat up on some pre tence, and he dropped asleep. When he awoke he was horror-struck to see his wife suspended near the door, and quite dead. It appeared that the deceased was much addicted to drinking, and there was no doubt but that she had committed the act herself. Q UEEN-SQUARE. THE DYING MlSER.—Yesterday Inspector Ba nister, of the B division, made the following state ment :—About eight o'clock on Sunday evening, policeman Burke was informed that an old miser was dying in a wretched hovel at a place called the " Five Chimneys," in Vauxhall-road, and that a crowd was assembled round the house. The po liceman found the old man in a dying state, quite helpless and imbecile, without a rag to cover him, and lying on the bare boards, there not being a vestige of furniture in the place. It appeared that his name was Bickerton, and that he was nearly 80 years of age. The neighbours sent him various articles; and a humane young man, named Rice, volunteered to sit up with him. The parish officers were informed of the citaumstanee, but no one was sent to the old man, nor any notice taken, and he died yesterday morning about twelve o'clock. A description of the wretchedness of the hovel, and the miserable starved appearance of the old man, is impossible. He made his appearance in the Vaux hall-road about six years ago ; and notwithstanding he was evidently a superior man, he spent all his time in gathering bones and rags. Sometime ago he bought a freehold property, of which the hovel forms part, for 3801. It is rumoured that he was very highly connected, and that be left society in disgust. FATAL DUEL IN INDIA. Mr. Charles Gerrans Phillips, Mr. Thomas Ethe ridge, and Mr. Frederick Henry Thompson, were lately tried in the Supreme Court at Bombay, for the mur der of Mr. Witcher Kean Hawkins, in a duel fought at Singapore. The deceased was a midshipman on board his Majesty's ship Curacoa. Mr. Phillips and Mr. Etheridge were mates in the same vessel. Mr. Thompson was a supernumerary mate, waiting to join his own ship. The witnesses who were examined proved that on the 19th of last August, when the Curacoa was at Singapore, at the southern entrance of the Straits of Malacca, the prisoners and the deceased went ashore, having obtained leave from the Lieutenant, who was not aware of the intended meeting. The First Lieutenant, Mr. Fletcher, went ashore the same afternoon, ac companied byMr. Foley, the Second Lieutenant, Lord H. Russell, and a midshipman, and met the prisoners at the Residency at three. Mr. Fletcher afterwards met them at an inn at Singapore, and asked them where they were going; they said they were going to take a walk, and they parted, the prisoners going one way and Mr. Fletcher another. Mr. F., on returning from the Residency, between seven and eight in the evening, again met Mr. Etheridge and Mr. Thompson. Mr. Etheridge said he had some thing serious to communicate. Mr. Fletcher asked him what it was, and he said a duel had taken place between Mr. Phillips and Mr. Hawkins, in which Mr. Hawkins had been wounded, and that the parties themselves wished the Captain to be immediately informed of it. Mr. Etheridge added, that it had been a very fair duel, that he had seconded Mr. Phillips, and Mr. Thompson had seconded Mr. Hawkins. It appeared that the de ceased received his adversary's shot in the hip, and instantly fell. Mr. Phillips immediately ran to him, and, shaking him by the hand, said, " Well, Hawkins, this must settle all our differences." The deceased was taken on board the ship, where he survived six days. Mr. Fletcher stated in his examination that Mr. Phillips told him, with a great deal of earnestness and fervour, that no man in the world could more deeply deplore the lamentable issue than himself; and that, whatever form of trial a: took r:vyoce darfi declined dert psr of mapfacraeock,ov not neni guilty uut alt was ntaa yy- perfectly resigned to meet it. The prisoners, at the e r n t and e sd tj u a egf n e h gn a e o o c m s f e f t Sever al i i. la o t sb l n t i e me o i f p t cha ra c ter . ittsi O s n i e f b r sC brought o ho p u eu g i CI : h s i Thessfteee i l s i possessed the must humane ' in favour of all the prisoners, who were immediately discharged, and received the warm congratulations of their anxious friends and brother officers. DISGUSTING TYRANNY.—On Saturday last Whitaker Priestley, a workman in the employment of Mr. Dihb, shoemaker, Huddersfield, laid an information against William Eltiott, one of the Secretaries of the Trades' Union, and John Fry Barrett, a member of the Union, before the Magistrates at that place. Priestley stated that in consequence of his having refused to join the Union, he was summoned by the Committee to attend at the Cross Keys Inn, where the Committee sat. The first summons he disregarded, but on receiving a second, he went to inquire what they wanted w ith h i m ? Soon after he entered the room he w as forcibl y seized, by order of the filillephment, he w as pl un g e d i n a a with water; but thi s no t b e i ng punishment, Committee, and iinrners,d with his head downwards in a thoughtpunehe puncheon nearly f eie t second time, and nea rl y suffocat ed ; and it was actually put to the vote, whether he sho u ld no t h a ve a third immersion ! Owing to this violence he said that he be- came extremely ill, and could not for several days take his accustomed food. The Magistrates condemned the conduct of the Union Committee in the strongest terms, and sen tenced the two persons against whom the complaint was made to pay a penalty of 5/, each.—Leeds Mercury. PRESBYTERY OP EDINBURdIi. MR. TAIT'S CASE. At a meeting of the Presbytery on Wednesday, Dr. Dickson reported that Dr. Chalmers and him: self had written to Mr. Tait, to learn when it woul d be convenient for them to wait upon him ;_ and Mr ' Tait having appointed Saturday last, Dr. Chalmers, on the day preceding, transmitted to him a copf. ° ,' the report read at last meeting of Presbytery, w ith the minutes of that and former meetings. On Friday evening, Dr. Dickson was waited 0 1/ °rl by two persons, who said they had a t uesog ij e from the Lord," to the effect, that the Lord ha d ordered their pastor not to m ee t D r . Chalmers she Dr. Dickson. Next morning, Dr. Di c k so n met : two persons who had called upon him, and re c i t"; nised in one of them Mr. B arc l a y, f ormer ly an in the College Chu rc h, an d th e o th er to b e fier fo t M'Kinnon, formerly a beadle in that church , now said to be an elder in the congregation meeting in Carubber's Close. d Mr. BARCLAY accosted Dr. Di c ks on , and sa id, "By "By the command of the Lord, given at our ai e ! t b ing this day, our pastor is f o rbidd en t o meet 0.1 you in a corner, or to meet in a corner at all?' to Dr. DICKSON asked what was meant by this; which Mr. Barclay replied, " it was a message fr o the Lord." Dr. DICKSON—" What am I to understand bP this messae?" M . BAR CLAY—" The Lord enable you to und er' stand." Dr. DICKSON then asked if he was to underst ° that Mr. Tait would not meet them at all. l bel , did not think of meeting him at the corner o ' e f street, but would he not meet them at his own hour` Mr. BARCLAY—" I have nothing more to saP nr Notwithstandi ng thi s , D r . Ch a l mers a nd Pd Dickson called at the time previously appointed, illt after being shown into a r oom , a servant w ho gone to announce them returned with a verbal me sage that Mr. Tait would not see them. They the!' upon left their cards, and departed. re it The Presbytery then resolved to libel Mr. ', s 4 for refusing to obey their decree of suspension, I ' o having directly or virtually separated himself to, the communion of the church. The draft of to libel was then read, and agreed to, and ordered of be transcribed, and served upon Mr. Tait wit h° of delay. The Presbytery then adjourned till TuO d the 15th instant.—Scots Times. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis 9g 14 - 1 d. a f . °l ,o 0 41b. Loaf There are others who sell from }4d. that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Oct. 7. gew Englisn Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. —s. fine Old Ditto Ditto —s. —s. fine gew Foreign Ditto Old Ditto . -s. -s. fine -- 4 * New White Clover s. -s. fine --- -8 * ,4' Old Ditto Ditto -s. -s. fine -- 4 ',...P New Trefoil 31d Ditto ........... -s. -s. fine -- 4 ,J , Rib Grass _ . s. -s. fine -- 4 640 , English Carraway Seed- .... -s. -s. 803. 0 ;0 Foreign Ditto , -s. -s. 78s. fin" OP, coriander ........---.....- .--. -s. 14s. fioe - - .,..t 4.* St. Foin (per Quarter)...-......... 425. 445. fine 4 T: 4, Rye Grass Pacey Ditto -s. -s. new - - ' s ' 0 0 ' Linseed, for feeding -s. 48s. fine • - ' 4 ' .). Ditto, for crushing - 44s. 5os. -s. fle ,,fil* Canary Seed, New - -s -s 703 z o n , 4 ' !'itto Old White Mustard 5eed....., per 8u5he1)....... -s. 12s. 14s. 0 ","" Brown Ditto . -s. 20s. 243. 14 " OP _ l'uruip Seeds, Rounds - --s. -s. 18s. ti n ; /,..,l' Green and Red Ditto ...-..........--.-........... .--8. .-14. 183• I. ' "'" . , Fares, Old -s. ss. fine 3 1 . _ Ditto New -8. be. fine ItaeSeed, English, tine (per Last) 241. 261...... Foreign'" PRICES OF HOPS.-Oct. 7. 01 , New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) .. 8/. 51 ss. 71. Os. to IA Choice .... Bl. Bs. 01. Os to f. n ' i . el' East Kent.......--....-.---....... 81. Os. 01. Os. to , cis. Choice ''""'"•••••••^^ 9 1 . 98. 0 /. Os. to 1,210. KAtt 11ag5.....-................ 7l. Os. 01. Os. to '.. 1. l a , Choice --....--. ........... 01 03. 0 1 . Os to Os ~,,,, New Sossex Pockets r l• Os,oh Os. to 61. Pe', Superfine I)itto The Hop Duty is estimated at 150,000/. PRICE OF OIL. 13 Rape Oil, brown ..........--37/. 63. —..... Refined ....1 39 1 0 Linseed Oil . 4 , aw..................................... i . 2 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ....w...+..' l 5 10 Rape Cake, per ton ____ WHITEC:HAPEI, HAY 51A RK 04. 703. Od. to 90s. Od. I t 75.. Od. to w" 2.4 s Od. to 30s. Od. r LEATHE Pe R. lb. d. A a. ..- English Horse Hides,. 14 0 Spanish Ditto Per dozen. Calf Skins,. SO to Ob. lv Ditto 40 to 60 1 b. Ditto '7O to 90lb. 29. j?, Small Seals. Grcenland 17 j Large 12 1 : begt i i:teif t jte t a forte a 404 ' 4o at tt _br,eurnesa 'l`lll B 3 '44 i. rt kuth sl tltain oP 7: 11 Y n Witl lArai t ' 4 4tir p ubti, t h r e i e , d I A l'hi. d AI)VE 'l?e4 i 'entt :4ek 'erna r ; e 1314 8 445 e , (IL-, `ti re ' l ts, wi h is c kith ap iiBbed NI tilg In To RI 111 4 11 1 t4 e 'ILI Nor gIN, 1 v, 4 1111 , 1 3 :con( Th." ' l l.d iAi t „wo r i t1 11 " . e ) So 8„ r t i, e k c• & Nigfl.4_No. PRICES 0 Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English.—* 13 25 Ditto, Foreign 14 21 Dressing 12 15 Ditto l4 17 Ditto, light Clop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto 40 to 501 b. 13 IS 14 20 SEEP SKINS. oM C 4 Polled Lambs 3s. Od. to 4 H s. Gd. Polled Skins 3 5.,7" t 5 9 ' Down Lambs 2 6 4 0 I Downs 9 " , SOAP, &c. per 11211). 0 , 0 1, Yellow Mottled 70 , Graves Good Dregs PRICE OF TALLOV town Tallow •••••••••*r 48s. od. Yellow Russia.- 4Bs. Od. White s. Od. Soap Od. Melted Stuff 375. Od. Ditto Rough. .218. Od. PRICE OF ne price or tore uanuies, 51! Candles. per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. COAL MARI Per Ton. s. d. I dair's 15 0 Beaumont l4 6 Carr's Hill Chester 314 in l2 9 Dean's Primrose 13 9 Hebburn Main 16 0 Holywel I 16 9 Kenton West 16 0 Ord's Redhugh 14 6 13 0 Pontop 15 0 14 3 17 0 CANDLES. KET.—Oct. 7. Pgr Ton. Walls End Heatn..4l a 5 Walls End Hilda v 6 6 Walls End Hotspur 6 a I Ditto Killingworth ,•••••'" W at a ti l ol l s s E EN n no d drt N hpu e , w ma ritieltarbri 6 c . ° II 6W 6 Walls End l'erkinsS!.>. l 6 Walls End Riddell'' 9 0 Walls End Walker 9 , Walls End BraddylP`' 6 Walls End HettOD 1 9 9 Walls End Lyons 6 0 l'ownley M 14 6 Walls End Lambto l , 01 , 10 9 West Hartley l7 6 W. E. Russell's He' 0 „.. , lo 6 Willington NVylani 16 3 Walls End Adela ide Walls End Bell & Brown 16 9 Walls End Ci o rdon• -. 2 16 W.E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 16 6 \V. E. Musgrave a ka 10 6 Walls End Bewicke & Co. 17 6 W. E South D0h.,"11 6 Walls End Blake 16 0 Walls End Tees 1; 0 Wlls End 15 6 Hartley Walls End Carr and Co. 15 9 Walls End Henders,,, 10 W.E. Clarke and Co.—. 15 6 Killing?. or th Trade' Ships arrived since last niaricet.day, 167. MEETINGS OF CREDITOR' S AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-SM- (From the London Gazette.) 1 ' P , t ! p TO-MORROW, Oct. 9. ...' J. Hilton, grocer, Cumbetland-place, New-road ........... J. Q. Rumball, surgeon, Melina-place, St. John's ' e 46l' ' i DED. hill, fi V On the 4th inst., Mr. R. A. I Mould, of Herne -- a el, 0 1 On the sth inst., Dorothy, the wife of John ij ' l , li' St. Ann's, Limehouse. v ile); , On the 6th inst., in Isis 85th year, John C r° ~ ink' , Norwood, Surrey. , pi ol jo On the 6th inst., at his residence, St. A lb39 c7y °I ,ti l ' mersmith, Mr. James Morgan, late of th e -11 4 SO ; Tavern, in his 64th year. . Tholo 3- 0 1 , ' On the 6th inst., at Walworth, On the sth inst., at Hill-ball, Essex, S ir the 1 • Bart., in his 54th year. reli ct 0 ~,,,0' °f r; Mr. Henry Haggard, in her 71st year. • Ellis , or On the 4th inst., at Cheltenham, Captain •efi' ' near Abergavenny. , Tho ma s l ' *l ''' •cl" On the 6th inst., in the Minories, Mr. V geon. ~iOOl .i: , pe. On the sth inst., Mrs. Dickies, wife of x • sh i l l. o os (of Wollaston Hall, Wellingborough, NortharrlPteas` sa ge f r i p p e On the 15th of August, aged 30, 0 0 his P ./11 . 1 1111 . act _ .00 Janeiro to Falmouth, in his Majesty's Pa 4 . Jo hn P I , change of climate, Brock Tupper, Esq ., sci" e ° lle d Di' Esq., of Guernsey, and the fourth who br a on the deep. Elizabeth, f 0 I f • PRINTfiD AND PUBLISHED BY DI 1 1 13 0 y o SUN arnic 112, STRAND. a, l itit Os PP s N„. 1% u , iee t ots b t the t 0,0,,5! this tE`~bt to q, 'et of Att „ trif f tt , 5 ° Crile h ,411 aVinl 51 :Ban p 4 pleto rs fiesteq 1 4 1 ; "Y. Ice`qtpai I • Le vant Edi embellish 0 1 . bo u , lEL] I) ne of C l ihg c "'"t 6, hlishei d . jilifi l' li ty AUthi J. Q. Rumball, surgeon, Melina-place, St. J0hn'1.....W/' o 0 BIRTHS. g / 1, On the 3d inst., in Bath.street, Glasgow, Mrs. "" of a daughter. 1)" On the 6th inst., in Essex-street, Mrs. sole, of a daughter. On the sth inst., Mrs. Janet Taylor, of Lion-square, of a son. d On the 6th inst., at Downes.house, Ealing, Ila nt- ' Constable, of Cadogan-place, of a son. ° (1 4 On the 6th inst., the lady of Mr. J, B. De Moles , Tailors'.hall, of a son. iO l jo 4 o f MARRIED. jos el d g' Ot el On the 9th ult., at New York, the Rev. Pete r div-- a, missionary in Upper Canada, to Elizabeth, eld e ' t Charles Field, Esq., of Lambeth, London. , 1%1 c'• On the sth inst., at St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, - % 10% /1 1 to Sarah Stacy, eldest daughter of Mr. B. Johnson' square. Cb s ls ' Vif On the Ist inst., at Topsham, Devon, Lieu- 00 Boye, Bombay Artillery, son of the late Lieutalltf Bombay army, to Georgiana Amelia Thacker, da late Samuel Thacker, Esq., of Madras. "` l t eact ' . ° l the