The Sun. — London, England, 1833-11-25 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TILE PUBLIC JOURNA LS, A correspondent, who signs himself " An Unfortunate Corn-grower," has addressed us a letter, which we publish more for the sake of the important questions with which it is in some measure allied, and of which it may form a text for the discussion, than because of any merit which belongs to it, either as a correct state tnent of facts or a development of useful prin ciples. The scrambling writer begins by hint ing that the comparatively high price of . bread in this country is more attributable to taxation and the baker ! than to the landlords. He then goes on to propose that the peculiar " burdens which oppress the landed interest" should be got rid of, in order that corn might he sold at a reduced and still a 'c remunerating" price, and, first of all, that the land tax of 1,100,000/. per annum should be repealed instead of the house -tax, otherwise, according to our correspondent, " householders are tax free, whilst the bread-growers are burdened " It seems, therefore, that the landed gentlemen of England, like the patriarchs of old, pi:ch tents for their families in the open fields, and do not inhabit houses. This financier would further revise the poor-rates, to which in itself there can be no objection, but he would do so for the sake of limiting relief to " the aged and infirm" only,—an improve ment which we are sorry to say seems to us impracticable under the present circumstances of this part of the United Kingdom. As ano ther protection to apiculture, the " Corn• grower" would abolish tithe, on the ground that but one man in each pari-h would suffer by it, " whilst the whole population would reap the advantage." Here, again, we can profess a partial agreement with this gentleman, but cer tainly not with his reasoning. We would abo lish tithe, not so as to entail suffering on the one individual—viz., the clergyman, whose welfare we unfeignedly regard as essential to that of the great bulk of his parishioners, but with a view to the commutation of tithe for some less inconve nient and vexatious method of supporting the minister of religion, and thereby restoring the sympathy and confidence so desirable between him and his flock. However, when the " Corn grower" talks of the peculiar burdens which press upon the agricultural interest, he comes tco near the fire. He thus unwittingly provokes a recollection of those peculiar privileges by which it is designed to benefit the landed interest, at the expense of every other class in the com munity, and by which a cruel tax has been levied on every loaf that issues from the oven, for the avowed purpose of enriching the proprietors of land by creating an artificial scarcity ofcorn. We need hardly at this time of day entangle our selves or our readers in the intricacies of minute discussion upon general questions, long since set at rest : for example, the merits of the old mercantile system, with its assumption that " money is wealth," its balance of trade, and its catalogue of restraints and protections ; or the agricultural system, " which represents the pro duce of land as the sole source of the revenue and wealth of every country," and accordingly cramps the entire body of commercial industry, for the supposed benefit of agriculture. With these as general questions we have no longer any business to enter; public opinion is, or affects to be, already made up with regard to them. How strange, then, must it be consi dered that in practice nothing of all this has peen settled ; that there Is not, an exploded theory, be it ever so monstrous, by which the Legislature does not continue to be torment( d, in the shape of complaints and remonstrances from particular classes of men who fancy that their own profits, as producers or dealers, ought rightfully to be preferred to the well being of the whole community ! Be it silks, gloves, iron, shipping, timber, woollens, it matters not which, they one and all deafen the Parliament with complaints of any relaxation in those prohibitory duties by which the national corn fort and the freedornof commerce have hitherto been sacrificed to their selflsh gain; while, on the other hand, the owners of the soil, the dealers in an article on whose abundance and cheapness depend the lives of millions of thei► poorer countrymen, would perpetuate, under the disguise of a protection to agriculture, the worst vices of the " mercantile system" in aid of their own blind and chimerical warfare against the wants of the great body of the nation, vainly imagining that they can serve themselves by leaguing with the growth of foreign competition to impede the course of British manufacturing industry. What is the exclusion of foreign bread from the British market hut a restraint upon the export of British manufactures, with the collateral merit of throwing hundreds of thousands of native workmen out of em- ployment, and pinching the meals of all the nthers ? It will be - seen, in the course of some future observations which we shall make, how far such violations of humanity and honesty tend to promote their own sordid objects. Lord Fitzwilliam, in his able and striking little pamphlet on the corn law, pub lished within these two years as an " address to the landowners," proposes two questions-Ist, Whether, by means of obstructing the importa tion of foreign corn, the attempt to raise the price of home-grown corn and of land "be wise ?" and 2d, Whether it " be just"—wise in respect of the landed interest, and just towards the consumer ? These two questions embrace, as it appears to us, the whole policy of the duties on foreign corn ; and on their decision, if the Legislature be either wise or just, will depend its resolution with regard to their conti nuance or repeal. We shall return to this sub ject at an early opportunity, being well assured that there is no other of an importance more pressinu or more universal to the prosperity of . . . Great Britain,—Times. We extract from the Newcastle Chronicle an article of much good sense on the subject of libels and the slanderers, and which shows that the moral standard of the county press is some what more elevated than the rule of conduct adopted by some of the metropolitan writers. in tle recent discussions it has been very conve nient, especially in the case of Lord Durham, to endeavour cunningly to withdraw public attention from the gross calumnies circulated to the im perfections of the existing statute and common law. Now we have fully admitted that the law is most defective, and too fr equently a ll ows rogu i s h lawyers, knaves, and litigious men wrongfully to punish the public press ; but it is equally unde niable that the law affords no adequate reme d y or redress to persons calumniated and b ase l y misrepresented. It an action i s brought, th e plaintiff most informed on the subject matter, and often the only depositor of facts of disproof, is prevented by the arbitrary rules of evidence from giving testimony. The majority of libellers if cast in a verdict cannot pay, or avoid payment of a farthing of the costs and damages. Fre iuently.they remove from the place of their in., famous avocation, and leave the plaintiff to the luxury of an undefended cause. An action thus fails to reach the pockets of the libeller, and he takes special care to keep out of the way of an execution against his person. Besides, we deny that any law can afford a complete redress. No punishment of an offender by mulct or the tread-mill can perfectly heal the wound of an honourable mind basely calumniated. The very question of a man's integrity or character is an inexpiable offence, and when females are involved in a public discussion every feeling mind knows the irreparable nature of the injury perpetrated. The execution of a murderer is no satisfaction to his victim. If an indictment is preferred, the slanderer represents himself as a persecuted man, because the law will not always allow justification ; and when indictments are shaped to place in proof the truth or falsehood of the charges (as in fact is always done in cases where the parties libelled seek honourably to disprove calumny and expose aspersions of character), the convicted libeller still cunningly represents him self as " sacrificed by the law of libel." The slandered therefore, not the libellers, are in truth the more frequent and injured victims of the present law, though justice towards both requires that the principle and procedure of our juris prudence should be revised and altered. We trust that this subject will be referred to the consideration of a competent Committee of the House of Commons next Session, and that no patch-work project will be propounded by individual Members of Parliament. It is a nteional quest ion, and it is high time thelaws affect ing the liberty of the press and the protection of private reputation should be clearly defined and amended. The liberty of the press cannot comprehend the liberty of lying and slandering public or private men ; and we deeply lament, as a disgrace to the country, the shame less practice, which has prevailed for several years of calumniating and wilfully misrepresent ing character and personal conduct. This vile practice was especially adopted in 1821, to " write down" the late Queen, the Lord Chan cellor, and the public men who honourably supported her under misfortune. Lord Lowther, Mr. George Dawson, Mr. Croker, his friend Mr. Theodore Hook, Mr. William Holmes, and recently a certain clique of small poets and amateur political scribblers, could throw much light on the subject of the origin of this abuse of the " freedom " of the press. We assert, without fear of contradiction, that this odious and malignant system of personal vituperation has been almost exclusively confined to a part of the Tory press. In the country it has recently made a rapid progress. In Liverpool, Leeds, Northampton, Bristol, and other towns, we perpetually notice the most disgusting periodical libels against local public men ; the principal liberal country papers are free from this leprous taint. In the last month , Ne have had to record in- stances of personal chastisement inflicted on the vulgar offenders. Under such provocation, and !h e state of the law, we confess we do not wonder that the abused " take the law into their own hands ;" and we foresee that if the Tory Press continues to indulge itself in these aggressions against public and private indivi duals, the well-known persons behind the scenes will have to risk their own lives or the lives of those whom they thus systematically calumniate. The Durham Chronicle of Friday notices the recent fracas in Newcastle and the disgusting nature of the north-country libels which led to tn e y putilsitnicin or Llie epuLcd 10,01," We recommend the Standard to copy it, that its readers may know both sides of the question : " We nave already, in former numbers of our journal adverted to the dastirdly and in'amous handbills published in the town of Sunderland—assignable to electioneering causes, and cirried to an excess the most atrocious and dis !.raceful that can he conceived. We last week `stated that a publiewion of this . genus had led to a breach of the oeace' in Newcastle—where the proprietor of the a lying Journal' had received a well-merited personal castigation for the share he had in the dissemination of one of the most cowardly and malignant libels that ver proceeded from the press of this country—even from the Tory press, in these its latter days of expiring hope and maddening despair. Our readers at a distance may wonder what could possibly be contained within the four corners of a sheet of paper, to move a party of respectable and sober minded men to the extremity of inflicting corporeal chastisement upon the unhappy and degraded wretch who so largely received the proofs of their aroused anger and indignant condemnation. We were, last week, ignorant f the contents of the public,tian in question ; and could not, ther.fore, state them. We are now constrained to abstain from relating them minu•ely for another reason. They are, in their native shape, too gross and infamous for repetition; and it must suffice to inform the public, that the diabolical authors of the bill, exceeding that course of witticism and observation which is allowable in relation to matters of a political nature, plunged into the very lowest depths of scandal and defamation—launching forth against the fair fame of a lady of spotlesss character the deadliest insinuations of licentiousness and profligacy, and against men of unchallengeable integrity and unsullied honour, imputations of peculation and fraud, which, if true, would drive the objects of the ca lumnies from out of the pale of society. These, then, were the grounds upon which tLe gentlemen referred to in the paragraph with which we wet, f.voored by a cor. . . reTnndent las' week, acted in bestowing upon the body of the mi,erable instrotnent of the slanderous conclave who are understood to be the leaders in the villanous and horrible system of moral assassination which has lately polluted §underland, the just punishment which his vile pandering to the depraved appetites of his guilty employ- ers so richly deserved. In the language of our corres pondent, every virtuous mind will applaud the deed ; and if there he any subject or circumstance of regret connected with the transaction, it must he, that for such a base, cozening bound of iniquity, there is not ' in every honest hand a whip, to lash him naked through the world.' At this moment, we purposely and advisedly abstain from entering further into the question of these odious and un. mentionable calumnies—their author., abettors, and ob But we do so only for a season, and that a brie one. The infernal nest must be bunted out and de. strayed ; end assuredly no exertions of ours shall be wanting to expose, in their proper colours, these unprin- cipled tramplers on the sanctity of private life—these despoilers of female reputlt:on—these grovelling and en- venomed reptiles, who sting in secret, and gloat in dark ness over the sufferings of their victims !" If anything can be worse than the original libels it is the fraudulent and base repetition of them through the medium of an affected refuta tion. Exposures and contradictions of calumnies are opportunities of artfully repeating the injury. The primary libel is skilfully re-published in a pretended explanation of its falsehood. If the calumny is of country manufacture every provin cial article refuting the slander is studiously ex cluded from the columns of the London paper, and all adverse comtncntaries are seized with avidity. The various arts of libelling or circu lating false rumours, are, however, too notorious to require any further description ; but we willgive an example. About a fortnight since cer tain Journals brought Lord Durham to London, and connected his pretended visit with meditated changes in the Cabinet. A few days afterwards the Morning Post puts out a poetical and innoxious squib (we suppose by Mr. Praed, the political Horace of his party, and who made an unlucky election), headed " Lord Durham is come to town." It is manifest that the " ru mour" was the pilot balloon of the Poet's ascent from Parnasus. The matter is in itself insig nificant, but it illustrates the " art of lying." We have reluctantly used names in our remarks, jects. . . but we repeat that the system of perversion adopted by the John Bull, and other London Journals, is disgraceful and degrades the British Press. We do not believe that it finds favour with men of character in any party. Certain we are that the Tory Journalists are le velling the authority of Government and the station of the King; anti in their attempts to " run down" the character of certain noblemen, they are rapidly undermining the whole body of the aristocracy. We believe that the class of thinking persons of any political party, desirous of upsetting the present Ministry, is extremely small. Who and where are the public men to succeed them ? The Tories preserved their power and monopolies to the last possible mo ment. On the verge of a revolution, an d encompassed with difficulties, Lord Grey was placed in office by the King. All the Tory predictions of the consequences of the Reform Bills have been signally falsified. Even Sir Robert Peel must laugh in his sleeve at his solemn and ludicrous predictions, and too well understands the real effect of the amendment of the representation, to dream of " leading" a reformed House of Commons. However good an actor on the boards of Parliament, he has too much shrewdness to covet or accept the management. Are the Tories, then, recklessly resolved to destroy all public character by libels and calumny ; or does Mr. John Wilson Croker conceit himself that he can recall into existence the " decayed boroughs" of the Marquis of Hertford, by the tirades and political exaggera tions of an article in a Quarterly Review ? If these writers and newly raised commoners really respected the monarchy and constitution of their country, we should discern in their publi cations more respect for private and public character.— Morning Chronicle. It has been for some time rumoured that Lord Durham will be Premier before the opening of the next session of Parliament. What truth there may be in the rumour we know not, and therefore we pretend not to know. But it is rumoured. At one time we are told that the people are clamorous for such a consummation ; at another that his Majesty the King coincides with the opinion, and sympathises with the wishes of the nation. The Examiner has heard the matter whispered, although it consi ders the story "too good to be true ;" the Observer has treated the project as a serious one, though it admits that " Lord Durham's ill temper in public and deceitful conduct in private have alienated the affections of the very few friends he ever possessed." As we before stated, we neither know nor pretend to know the origin of the report. We have no private door in Downing-street, no back stairs in White- hall. •We do not laugh at Lord Brougham's jests nor intrude on Mr. Charles Grant's slum bers. But setting aside the truth or falsehood of the report, we think the existence of that report in itself a fearful sign. Lord Durham's appointment may or may not have been contemplated. That it has been thought certain by a few is pitiful ; that it has been considered probable by many is yet more sad ; that it seems to none of us impossible is as strong a proof as we can anti cipate of the perilous position in which at this time the nation is placed. We have been re buked by some of our friends as attaching too much importance to the sayings and doings of this weiti. We ore told that ne has 'wither die courage nor the capacity of a Cromwell. We admit it. But circumstances sometimes give to ignorance and to imbecility the power which ij commonly wielded by knowledge and by strength. The feeblest favourite, when the King is blind, may destroy a monarchy ; the shallowest dema gogue, when the populace is mad, may head a revolution. It is under this conviction that we hold it useful to watch the proceedings, to test the professions, to confound the mis statements, and to expose the misrepre sentations of men who seem born to make treason uninteresting by the meanness of their intellect, and rebellion contemptible by the weakness of their nerves. Our preface has been too long for the matter it introduces. Lord Durham, at the dinner to which he was invited at Sunderland, thought it necessary to apologise to the friends who surrounded him for having taken to himself the superfluous honours of the peerage. He told them that, sorely against his will, he consented to wear a coronet; he sub mitted to be called " My Lord" because it seemed to him that he could more effectually promote the people's cause in the Upper House than in the Lower. Lord Durham means his hearers to believe that he accepted a peerage, in spite of his contempt for rank, and his hatred of title, in order that he might advance with greater effect the principles he is now supporting —the principles of the Reform Act, the prin ciples of republicanism. He was made a peer by the Duke of Wellington's Admini stration. Did he step into the House of Lords prepared, a; he is now prepared, to " go the whole length of democracy ?' or did he emerge from the commonalty ready to support the Duke of Wellington in his opposition to Reform, as he had before supported Mr. Canning in his oppo sition to Reform ? Let not his friends think to extricate him from this dilemma by prating of no conditions annexed to his patent of nobi lity, of no pledges give❑ for his political fealty. The opinions of the Duke of Wellington were distinctly expressed ; the policy of the Duke of Wellington was clearly foreseen. No honourable man could have accepted from the Duke of Wellington a Peerage, holding at the time of its acceptation the principles which Lord Durham now holds. Did Lord Durham explain cor rectly or incorrectly to the people of Sunderland the reasons which induced him to take a Peer age ? In the one case he deceived the Ministers who gave him a title. In the other case he de ceived the dupes who gave him a dinner. Whether the one interpretation or the other be adopted, he stands convicted upon his own statement of duplicity, which, to more healthy times, it would not have been worth while to expose.—Morning Post. We have given a copious, and what may be called a dry, but certainly cannot be called an uninterest io_; account of the Inquiry by the Commissioners into the affairs of the Corporation of Shrewsbury. When his our Corporation b 4l y iajty t e h s ea 's d, C ie: m o m f i" so i" i r b B cl a y rr tr iv o t u d nt h ed ere t , h e high horse,— denied the authority of the Commissioners, and refos d their attendance. But they dismounted from their high h o rse—and as the Commissioners did not attend at the temporary Guildhall, the Corporation followed the Commissioners to the large room at the Lion Hotel. We solicit the attention of the burgesses of Shrewsbury to the evidence given. At presort we will make no comment at all upon this affiir, because it is probab'e we shall be compelled to do so at another thoe. We shall therefore pronounce over the Corporation of Shrewsb ury the ora tion of a Qu iker at the funeral of his :%larrha— While thou wert, alive I knew no good of thee ; and now thou art. dead I will speak no ill of thee."--...S'hrewsbury Chronicle. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. An old woman named Rebecca Daniels appeared before the LORD MAYOR to answer the complaint of Mr. Michael Dinney, clerk to Messrs. Bunn and Co., solicitors. The Complainant on the Bth of November, went from the office of his employer with a 101. note and a 20/. note, for the purpose of taking them to the Bank, but lost the notes on the way, in the neigh bourhood, he supposed, of Gray's Inn. He traced the 201. note to a publican, who said that he had received it from the defendant, to whom he had been introduced by a lame shoemaker who resided in the neighbourhood, and who got three halfpenny worth of gin for his trouble. The case had been stated to Mr. Laing of Hatton-garden police-office, who said that it belonged to a common-law court, and discharged the publican ; but the woman who got the note changed by the publican had not ap peared. The 10/. note was pinned to the 20/. note at the time they were lost, but he had heard nothing at all of the former. He submitted that the con duct of the publican on the occasion was most extra ordinary, as admitted by th e d e f en d ant . The ,ORD MAYOR asked the woman how it hap pened that she appropriated money to which she had no claim to her use ? The defendant, on the 9th of November, kicked the 20/. note before her in Fuller's -rents, and, see ing what it was, t oo k i t to t h e pu bli can, w h o c h ange d it for her. The LORD MAYOR—Did you go to anybody in order to have it a d ver ti se d The defendant went to look at the newspapers immediately after she found the note, and seeing no advertisement in three morning papers, which she examined at three different public-houses, she went to the publican and showed him the note. He said if he were allowed 14 he would change it ; and when she consented he said that he must have 21. She then:gave him 2/., and received from him eighteen sovereigns, with some of which she paid her rent, redeemed her clothes, and comforted her sick husband. As for the 10/. note, she declared that nothing of the kind was pinned to the one she found. The LORD MAYOR said the publican's conduct was highly reprehensible. The case appeared to him to he in the very close neighbourhood of a lar ceny, and thepublican had better see to the necessity of making an arrangement with the complainant if he had any value for his own character or his own safety. IN Lordship added that it was evident the woman had not told the whole truth, inasmuch as she acknowledged nothing about the 101. The matter, however, should not drop. The defendant never thought she had done wrong, and knew nothing of any other note than that for 204 The LORD MAYOR—How much of this gentle man's money have you got ? The defendant—Just 71.; all I have in the world. The LORD MAYOR—Give it to him. She immediately handed to the complainant seven sovereigns. The LORD MAYOR (to the complainant)—Now go to the publican and ask him for the difference. If it be necessary to proceed by action, your employers well know how to deal with him ; but if he comes within my jurisdiction, and he does not act pro perly, he shall hear from rne, and the case shall come formally before the public. A gentleman in the justice-room said that the publican was in extremely good circumstances, and was well worth the powder and shot of the so licitors. An old man, named John Humphries, was brought up, A cabman stated that the gentleman had Ilred him the night before to drive from Barbican to the Kent-road, and afterwards ordered him to drive to different places. The journey at last ended at Bar bican, where it commenced, and the fare amounted to 6s. Bd., which was insultingly refused. The sta tion-house was then resorted to. The defendant said that the true fare was no more than Bd., for the fact was, the cab merely went up and down Barbican, although the driver swore that he had gone to so great a distance. The cabman said the gentleman was drunk upon getting in, hnt the sobered him. The defendant—He dropped me at my own house, and insisted on the policeman dragging me out, although he knew I lived there, and he might summon me. Some of the officers said that the defendant was now and then in the hab't of taking a long ride, which his sound sleep induced him to think was a short one. The LORD MAYOR blamed the policeman for having taken the old gentleman out of the house, and refused to order the cabman his expenses, in consequence of such illegal interference. The price of the jaunt was, however, advised to be paid. B 0 W. STREET. COACII ROBBERY.—Charles West, a man having the appearance of an hostler, was placed at the bar, charged on su•picion of having stolen a brown paper parcel, containing notes and gold to the amount of 40/., from the Exeter Herald coach, on the 26th of October last. After hearing evidence, Mr. IVltssuum, directed that the prisoner should he remanded until the evening, when further evi dence might be adduced against him. In the even ing the prisoner was again brought up, when a gen tleman from the house of Mes•rs. Reeves and Co. was in attendance, who proved that payment of the whole of the notes had been stopped in London, but that they had not yet been presented. The money consisted of five 51. notes on country banks, and 15 sovereigns. Mr. Powell, a coach factor, stated that the pri soner had been in his service for ten years and a half, but that about the time when the parcel in question was lost he left his employment. He was frequently afterwards seen by some of his fellow workmen, when he always appeared to have plenty of money, and sported a new silver watch and chain. Mr. MINSHULL considered there was sufficient evidence to hold the prisoner in custody, and re manded him until Saturday. MARLBOROUGH STREET. EVASION OF PAROCHIAL RATES.—Several indivi duals were summoned by the parish authorities of St. George's, Hanover-square, for having refused to pay parish rates:, under peculiar circumstances. From the statement made by the parish authori ties, it appeared that the landlords of a great num ber of houses in the parish neglected to pay the poor, the county, and the police rates, because they had sublet their houses to other parties, who, they contended, ought to be called upon to pay such demands. No., these under tenants were mostly paupers, receiving relief from their parishes, and they were only enabled to pay the rent to the real landlord, by letting the houses out in lodgings. A double evil was thus created ; for while, on the one ha-id, it was impossible to collect the poor rate from such people, on the other the system had the effect of introducin g a co l on y o f paupers into the parish, and thus p rov i ng a m ost serious evil to rate payers. In the parish of St. George, about Pimlico, a number of small houses had been erected by different individuals; arid as whole troops of pauper and va grant Irish were thus introduced, owi ng to the in facility of procuring lodgings such houses, that part of the town would shortly become infested as thickly as Sr. Giles's. In order to bring the ques tion to an issue, whether the real landlord or the pauper tenant was the proper person to make the c l a i m of parochial rates upon, the parish had di rected summonses to be served on Mr. Cubitt, landlord of twelve houses ; Mr. Edwards, landlord of fifteen houses; and Mr. Cowdry, landlord of eight hou-es of this description. The Bench looked into the Local Act, and upon consideration of the 56th clause, became of opinion, in the case of Mr. Cubitt, that he was not liable for the rates. Mr. Chapple, the Vestry Clerk, said the Vestry considered the point of so much importance that he had no doubt he should be instructed to apply to the King's Bench for a mandamus o■ the subject. The other cases were postponed. MARY LEB OIVE. FREAKS OF AN OLD CONVICT.— William Butcher, guard to the Rocket Portsmouth coach, was charged with having robbed John Martin, an old grey-headed sinner, on his transit from the hulks to London. The old man was on Wednesday last discharged from the hulks at Portsmouth, when he was presented with 13/., the wages due to him. Transported with joy, he immediately proceeded to a public-house, where he soon expended two sovereigns in treating him self and all who were present. He next mounted the Rocket coach, and he insisted on drinking at every house at which the coach stopped. At Guild ford he fell in with some women, whom he treated to a splendid supper, the cost being discharged by th• guard, in whose hands the money had been deposited by the complainant for safety. On arriving at the Bull and Mouth the 13/. had dwindled down to a small sum, and the old convict, who had slept off the indiscretion of the preceding day and night, actually charged the guard with having appropriated the money to his own use. The guard explained this to the satisfaction of the Magistrate, and was immediately liberated. Q UEEN-SQUARE. STEALING AN APPLE.—Two boys, apparently between eleven and twelve years of age, of decent exterior, who gave their names John Roe and Richard Burrowes, were charged with stealing an apple from the shop of Mr. Little, fruiterer, resid ing in the King's-road, Chelsea. The case excited no small degree of interest among the bystanders in the office, from the nature of the charge, and the decision of the Magistrate. The prosecutor stated that the lioy Burrowes entered his shop and asked for a ha'p'orth of specks (damaged apples), and Roe followed him in, when he observed Roe purloin an apple from the basket, which he found upon him, and he gave both boys into custody. He believed both prisoners resided wish their parents in the neighbourhood. The policeman, who produced the stolen apple, said that the boy Burrowes had been in custody before. Mr. Burrell asked upon what charge, and was answered for stealing some fat; but the boy was discharged on his father undertaking to give him some correction. The prisoner Burrowes, in answer to the charge, said that he had nothing whatever to do with steal ing the apple. lie went in to buy some " specks," end the other boy accompanied him. The boy Roe admitted stealing the apple. Mr. BURRELL committed Roe (the boy who stole the apple) to the House of Correction for ten dap, and Burrowes to the same place for twenty days, there to be kept to hard labour. HATTON-GARDEN. Mark Lozep, a man of colour, was charged with having robbed Elizabeth Southerby of a pair of sheets.—Committed. THAMES POLICE. TIIE DEVIL !—Christopher Grant, master of a sailing-barge of Erith, was charged with having stolen Messrs. Barrand and Welcl,'s devil. A clerk to the complainants, who are coal-mer chants of Whitefriar's-wharf, said that on Friday morning the devil was missed from their wharf, and the prisoner's barge having been lying near the wharf, it was suspected that the devil had been car ried away by him. The clerk proceeded to Erith, and there he found the barge arid the devil in it. He asked the prisoner how the devil it came there, to which the prisoner said, " I don't know how the devil it did—it's devilish odd." He afterwards said he believed one of the men bad taken the devil by mistake from the wharf, for which he was very sorry. Mr. ComuE—Pray, Sir, what is the devil ? An Officer—Why, bless you, it's only a devil; its a portable firegrate. The clerk begged to observe that this was quite a new devil. The old one was quite worn out.— (Laughter.) The prisoner was fined 51. for unlawful possession of the devil. RUSSIAN BARBARITIES. The Polonais gives the following extract of a letter from Warsaw, dated the sth instant :—" Three of the confederates of Dzie wicki, who has poisoned himself, have been shot at Warsaw, in the public place of execution, without the walls. They all died with a display of courage and firm ness, hoping that their deaths might be useful to their unhappy country. Olkowski, in particular, showed great self command. While on his way to execution, he ea thered up a handful of the soil, and exclaimed— , For this we have [night, and for this we are willing to die 1' The tombs of these young heroes have become objects of veneration to the people, who strew flowers and garlands upon them. Many women have compromised themselves. A youne lady, named Helen Nowakowska, has received 200 stripes, fir having sent provisions to some unfortunate insurgents, who were dyin! of hunger in the woods. The horrible punishment was inflicted in one of the barracks at Lublin, to the sound of military music ; and to render it mm e severe, they afterwards shaved her head, and confined her in a convent, and no one can tell when she will be relea.ed. The wife of Orloatska has been con demned to teceive 500 stripes, for having sheltered one of her relations. She entreated that her punishment might be inflic , ed publicly at Warsaw, in order that it might inflame the courage of the patriots. This favour, how. ever, being denied her, on the day her sentence was to have been executed she was found dead in her prison, having forced pins into her bmorn SINGULAR SUICIDE OF A LUNATIC AT THE LEICESTER ASYLUSf.—On Friday evening an Inquest was held at the Swan and Rushes, Oxford -street, before Mr. Alderman Yates, Coroner, on the body of Thomas Franks, a - lunatic confined in the Leicester Lunatic Asylum. The case excited considerable interest from the artful and cunning method the poor maniac had resorted to to destroy himself, proving the old adage, that " some men have method in their madness." Ribert Newberry was a keeper at the Leicester Lunatic Asylum. On the 13th of August last the deceased, Thomas Franks, aged about forty, was brought to the Asylum in a state of mlancholy madness, from Great Dalby, in Leices tershire, where witness understood his fsther resided. Deceased had been under the care of witness ever since, and on Thursday night, about seven o'clock, William Wall, another keeper, put him to bed. Witness, as was his usual custom, went to see it all was right (the lunatic having been removed to the present cell for safety), and found him in bed. He had a strait-waist coat on, with hopples on his feet ; a long leather strap passed over his arms, to keep them secure, and another leat , er strap was fastened to his feet, the whole being confined by strap fixed in the he stead, to keep him down. Witness thought it impossible for a men, under such circumstances, to release himself, and locking the door, left him for the night. The next morning witness went to the cell at seven o'clock, and unlocking the door, found he could nor open it. After some difficulty he succeeded, and on entering the cell he found the deceased hanging by the neck from a hole about seven feet from the ground, and quite dead. Witness then proceeded to examine the bedstead, and the various articles he had made use of to effect his end, fie found that the strait waistcoat had been completely gnawed through below the right elbow, and thus having succeeded in getting one hand free, he with difficulty removed the floppies and two leather straps from the bedstead, tied up the blankets and rug in a bundle with part of his shirt, while with the mattress and strait-waistcoat he contrived to make another bundle. The strap that bad fastened his legs he then well knotted round his neck, and pulling a piece of hoard (about two feet in length and six inches broad) from a pipe made in the cell to let off the foul air, he fastened it to the other strap that went over his arms. On the side of the door, about seven feet high, there was a hole in the wall, about the size of a brick, made also to let the air in. The deceased, it appeared, then placed the two bundles under the hole, and having fastened both the straps together with the greatest ingenuity, be put the wood through the hole (and lest the leather should rub, he had taken the precau'ion to put the remainder of his shirt on the edge), and turning it round so as to catch the bricks on each side, kicked the two bundles from under him. Witness on examining him found that he must have struggled a great deal, but when found in the morning he was quite cold and stiff, his toes scarcely touching the ground. After the evidence of another wit ness the Jury returned a verdict of " Insanity."—Lin. colnshire Chronicle. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING LAST WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. Carlisle. , Hexham Morpeth Pen rit h Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen--... Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea ---. Warwick _ Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond . Stockton, s. to s. s. to s. 54 27 49 52 25 29 40 50 25 28 53 27 51 34 47 53 25 30 s. d. s. d. 60 66 26 29 66 70 29 40 80 89 46 50 70 93 36 46 80 86 40 4 8 66 69 36 39 9 0 11 0 3 0 4 6 156 80 86 13 9 7 0 8 3 16 6 8 6 9 0 126 96 100 e. to 8. 19 19 22 17 22 20 18 24 r. d. s. d. 14 18 26 30 30 34 33 40 3 0 3 4 19 °0 20 33 s. s. 40 -- 30 34 4t 42 46 . s. d. 0. 0 0 0.0 56 6g 50 5 3 56 60 6 0 6 I 00 0 56 60 50 60 49 66 5 0 64 50 54 10 ?, 9 10 0 0 70 8 9! WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Nov. 25. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffblk -s. 445. to 523. tine 54a. ---- Lin. and Cam. -s. 445. to 51s fine 53 5 . Yorkshire -3. 4.35. to 501. fine 52 5 . - White -s. 50s to 555. fine 615. - Foreign, Red -s. -s. to -s. fine -s- White -s. -s. to -s one --. 0 . Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk - Yorkshire Wold Foreign -a. to -s. fine -. Beans, Old -- New 353. to 38s. fine 403 Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. fine 238 , - Poland -s. 18s. to 21s. fine 22 8 • - Friezland and Small -s. 17s to 20s. fine 21 0 . - Mealing Shelling 23s. to 265. Od. per Load. Malt 3ss 395. fine 425. per. Load. Rapeseed SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. I Barley Oats. I Beans Oatmeal' Aberdeen ..... 40 48 23 26 14 20 23 2 1 Berwick...—. 30 36 17 21 13 16 18 23 27 5 ' Coldstream 35 42 18 19 13 14 20 22 -- Cupar 48 56 26 31 18 22 22 26 ."" Dundee-- 50 60 30 33 20 25 30 31 Elgin -- 40 50 24 26 16 20 23 30 Inverness— 46 50 25 26 15 18 23 26 16 Kelso 30 30 10 20 14 16 23 rt sh Kirkaldy..--. 48 61 23 29 16 2 0 45 48 43 4 1 P size oWfthes6mea23sure 26 o aries throughout 202222 the 25 leo—untt; EDI NBUR We had a large si sales were very heal Wheat. First 64s Od Second sBs Od Third 47s Od IGH COM ,upply of all vy. Barley. Oats. 32s Oct 22s Od :30s Od 2es Od 25s Od 17s 8d I MARK kinds of .—Nov. rain tad and the Pease. Beans. 343 ed 343 OJ 323 Oti 323 OJ 293 Od 295 Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beef, per lb. Os. 3,id.t005.6(1. Freshßutter, lb. 03.9,1. to s. diutton 0 3 0 6 Salt 0 8 010 Veal 0 6 0 8 Ditto, per cwt. 70 0 76 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doz. 1 2 0 0 Limb, per qr. 1 6 3 0 OatStraw(kp'.) 6 6 7 Fallow, cwt...,35 0 37 0 Wheat Ditto... 5 6 6 0 Quartern Loaf 0 0 8 0 Barley Ditto.., 5 0 5 6 Potatoes, 171 lb. 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 0 8 0 0 . EDINBURGH MEAL There was a good supply of and the sales were heavy, at lasi Per Sack of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal Second ditto 1 8 6 Barleymeal I 5 tr, Peasenseal 1 5 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per cwt. 12 MAIthEI. —Nov. 19. Oatmeal at this day's market , week's prices. Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. . First Oatmeal £0 1 Second ditto Barleymeal ., 1 ~ Peasemeal .-2d. 145.-3 d, 16s. —Paa t 1 00g:_ GLASGOW CORN SIA BABE—Nov. 20. ~ We have a good arrival of Iri s h G ra i n, an d our market stea , u for all descriptions, with rather a better demand for Oats. Wheat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. 0. O ats, per 2641 b. s. d. 2 1 (I. British, old 26 oto2B 0 I r i s h l3O to 160„ new 22 0 25 0 1 British l4 0 17 '1 Canada, free 2B 0 29 6 I Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 3201 b. S co tti s h English 0 C Pease, Scottish ... 16 0 .• Scottish 22 6 24 0 Oatmeal, per 1401 h. 13 0 -,„ 14 0 Irish ...._____ CORNWALL. MARKETS. TRURO—Wheat (average) 20s.9d.—Barley, 9d.—Oats, Ss. 54 ' Sr. A USTELL--.Wheat, —s. to 2.ls.—Barley, Os. to 10s.—Oa ts ° 7i. to Ss. 9(1. PENZANCE—Wheat, 9.0 i. to 21s.—Barley, 9s. to 103—.0atit Os. to Os. 6,l.—Beef and Mutton, 58d. to 6d.—Pork, Od. to 4 ,1 ." . Butter, 100. per lb. I,AONcEsTON—Wheat (average) I9s. 98.0(1.-0 04 ss. Bd.—Beef, 50.—Mutton, 6d. Dv:BAßD—Wheat, —s. to 2.05. Od.—Barley, 10s. Oki.—Oats, to 6s. 6d. 81.1* BODM I N—Wh eat (average)2os.--Barley, 10s. Od.—Oats, 78 - HE LSTON—Wheat, 21s. Od.—Barley, 103 Od. ST. Counts—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—B a rl e y, 9 s . t o vises and Mutton, 50. to 6d.--Veal, Od.—Lamb, Od. MINING 1 NTELLI GENCE. Tons. Cot' Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 3,291 ° Average Produce ....--..—„*. 8 ° Quantity of fine Copper i_ Amount of Sale, 23,9231. Ils. 6cl.—Average Standard, 116/. 16g. v".• MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Nov. 2E3. m. ffi W. Austin, builder, singlet m-street, Hoxton 2 at 1, T. Hobson, bookseller, Hi g h H o lb orn J. Z. Pulbrook, boot-maker, Blackfriars-road 2 12 I'. Cocks, oilman, Little Lant-street, Southwark 2 li W. Hort, tailor, Duke street, Grosvenor-square 2 i t G. Watkins, jun., builder Mill man -stree t , Ch e l sea J. Gibbon, jun., mast-maker, Limehouse-hole, Poplar 1 C. Dodd, ship-owner, Lime-stre e t 1 h 1 J. Flude, wine -merchant, Mincing-lane 1 M. and J. Bristow, engine-maker, Commercial-road, g Stepney H. R. Plaw, merchant, Alodiford-court, Fenchurch-street 1 it , DIVIDENDS. E. M. Bourchier and Co., tallow,handlers, Oxford-strret...atil G. C. Long, jun., maltster, Croydon B. Bovill and Co., corn-factors, Catherine-eourt, Tower-hil_,, ,e l 19 BIRTHS. On the 2.2 d inst., at Lord George Seymour's residence, S t ' George's-place, the Viscountess Boyle, of a son and heir. On the 24th inst., the wife of Mr. Mitchell, bookseller, BO' . street, of a son. On the 21st inst., Mrs. John Hammond, of Goswell.street, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Zd inst., at Brompton Church, by the Rev. Henri„ Blunt, of Trinity Church, Sl oane - s t ree t, F re d er i c k B r ock,' Westpalstown, in the county of Dublin, to Bethia Stought °" ' only daughter of Arundel Wrighte, Esq., of Brompton.rov r 4 r, On the `..nd inst , at St. James's Church, Piccadilly, Richard Cox, of Holborn-hill, to Miss Horrocks, of Reg° street, formerly of Derby. On the 19th inst., at Wolverhampton, Mr. Humpage 13 31 ' th to Miss Mary Waldron, both of that town. On the Pah inst., at Edinburgh, Mr. Thomas Kerr, Agnes Fleming, youngest daughte r o f th e l a t e M r. W. 1 313e ' Edinburgh. On the 12th inst., at St. Philip's Church, Mr. H. A. bleday, Dale-street, Liverpool, to Sarah, youngest daughte r - the late Mr. John Phillips. On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's Church, Edge-hill, Mr. 11. Longton, to Miss Ball. Last week, at St Augusts Church, Liverpool, Mr. re Williams, of Cheltenham, to Ass Atkins, the daughter Of Mr. Atkins, proprietor of the Zoological Gardens, Derby_road• MAIIRIAGF. EXTRAORDINARY.—On the 10th inst , at Mar"' Mr. John Clarke, of Snamble_street, to Mrs. Margar et O'Rorke. The bridegroom is in his 90th year, and the brid e in her 89th. After the ceremony, the youthful pair, and thei r friends partook of a splendid dej eune a t t h e R oya l O a k , a nd th e happy couple set off immediately for Annagh, to spend t he honeymoon among its delightful scenery. DIED. On the 19th inst , at Reading, the wife of R. Pritchl ifj Smith, M.D. On the 23d inst., at Earsham, in Norfolk, in her f.nd Y e° Lorina, wife of Joseph Kitching, Esq., Alien Office. On the 21st inst., in Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, W ih Parke, aged 76. wire On the 22d inst., at Garnauld-place, Margaret Macaulay.. 0 ( of Mr. James Henderson, of Gough-square, and daughte r . re , the late Rev. John Macaulay, o f C ar d ross, i n D um b arto nshl On the 22d inst., in Holles-street, Cavendish-square, Li eu General Sir Kenneth Douglas, Bart., Colonel of his Maie' t ? 58th Regiment, and formerly Li eu t. - C o l one l o f t h e 52 d Reg" On the 15th inst., Lieut. Charles Kerr Dow, It N. ' On the 19th i ns t., J o h n W eston, Esq., of Meon St° V Hants, in his 85th year. On the 21st inst., at his residence, York-place, La. - John Scott, Esq., in his 75th year. , On the 21st inst., Th eresa M ary Ann, slaughter of N" B. Aird, of Lile Newpot-street ho, aged 3. .000 , On the 21st in tt st., at his r house in S Ilishopsgate-street-w t Mr. George Rotherham, aged 37, nephew of, and tM years W Mr. Joseph West, Shoreditch. On the 21st inst., Richard Edwards, Esq., of Coate-6°161' Holborn, aged 73. . Q .4o ° On the 20th inst, Frances Wil son W yatt, w i fe of ,'• Wyatt, Esq., of Lyon-terrace, Maida-hill. Lately, at Scarborough, Mrs. Elizabeth Ruddock, ag — joll' On the 21st inst., at his residence, Bryanston_squ:sre, Baker Richards, Esq , in the 58th year of his age. „ n Ce , On the 13th inst., Miss Harriet Tucker, at h er resi.` No. 28, Gloucester-place, P or t man-square. of Lately, in the East Indies, Eliza Charlotte, dattgli te i ;o ll c Lieutenant-Colonel Hughes, C. 8., com man di ng at IP Boojh, in the Bombay P res id ency, an d g ra n d-dau g hter 0 ` Taylor, of Clifton. , - - t iS Lately, at his residence, Fi r - grove , W es t D er b y, i n .) year, Robert Preston, Esq. , Cs °' On the 16th inst., at his ho us e in St. Andre v e s _ s t r ee., bridge, John Purchas, Esq., aged 72. °C' On the 19th inst., at Roscrea, in her year, DO ,- garet Kelly. Oh Thursday last, in Merrion.square, Dublin, Lady o,e wife of William Gregory, Esq. . On the 13th inst., Mr. William Mortim er , of Straff 3 " „ : county of Kildare, at the advanced age of 12,5 ye 3r : e . re lld fought at the battle of Bunker's-hill, i n A mer i ca , o' i t pes' i l was taken prisoner, and convey e d f rom thence to tiottie where he remained in confine ment on b oard a prison gh" . 3. ' peace was concluded between Great Britain and Arrle ric , retained his faculties to the last. PRINT --- Ell ACID PUBLIPIIF.D HY MURDO YOUNwP 8 OFFIC2,. 112, STILVID,