The Sun. — London, England, 1830-06-24 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS, There has, within this day or two, been banded to us the copy of a memorial addressed to the Duke of Wellington, by a considerable number of perm:ails, describing themselves as " late Preventive Officers of Excise, in Ireland, serving without salary." It appears that these individuals repre sent themselves to have been dismissed the service (where they were principally employed in still hunting) without receiving any compensation ; that they had discharged their duties with zeal end suc cess, essentially protecting the revenue, of which a certt'in Commissioner Plunkett had declared them to be the " safeguards ;" that their offices had been turned over to a body called the " Excise Police," who did receive pay, and various other advantages, het who dial not so effectually serve the interests of the revenue as these displaced memorialists had done. We really know nothing whatever of the merits of the above parties, and do not like to trust the informa tion conveyed to us in an ex Parse statetretit, by no means remarkable for the calmness with which it has been written. It appears to us, however, that the claims for compensation to dismissed officers have been very often complied with, to an extent stereasonable in itself, and extremely oppressive to the public, These gentlemen, by their own show ing, had received no salaries : from what p.aetiees, tlcrefore, had they drawn their revenue while in %Are, and on what definite scale or principle could compensation be awarded ? Must the proceeds of every still-hunt be brought to book aril investigated? We euspeet that as the Duke of Wellington, who is proverbial for an nit:lost excessive punctuality in such matters, has ;lot yet replied to the memorialists, his Grssce may be in possession of facts which do not aelvsar on the face of their remonstrance.—Times. • Next to the snaking of good laws, the administer ing them, in such a manner as to obtain the conif tisnee of the people, is the first object of a wise Ge sernmecit. It is not enough to put a good law On the Statute-book; to devise the means of effectually carrying it into execution is a no lees important part f the duties of the Legislature. The benefit of an excellent system of laws may be counteracted by an iniudicious mode of reducing them to practice; in which ease the disrespect which the people are led to entertain Cot the administration of justice will at tach to the laws themselves, This has long been exemplified in England, where good laws are brought isles disrepute by one of the worst systems of prac tice ever invented, 'When we speak of good laws 'we allude only to the civil jurisprudence of the country, fur the criminal code is a reproach to a ci vilized age—nor do we mean to say that our civil velem might not be improved; but what we do waive, is, that the laws which govern civil actions ale, in general, founded on just and wise principles, and yet are so administered as frequently to appear neither wise nor just. What does this arise from ? The practice of the Courts where fiction and forte are allowed a most dangerous Intitude in defeating sohsteential justice, and pleadings are so framed as to *nerve little purpose bet to add to the delay, pro lixity, and expense of legal proceeding , . A judicious and sound administration of the laws would make justice equally accessible to the rich and the poor; but the practice of our Courts is eminently calculated to operate as a denial of justice to all bet those who can afford to purchase the luxuries of lift, of which law is one of the most costly. ft is, indeed, a maxim of our law that there is no wrong without a remedy; but the prac tice of our Courts makes it too often advisable for those whose means are not very abundant to put up with the wrong rather than go to the ruinous ex pense of purchasing the remedy. Justice, as well as gold, may be bought too dear. For more than a hundred years past there have been various attempts made to reform the administration of the laws, by making its progress cheap and expeditious, but, un happily, without effect. Public opinion has at length become so loud and urgent upon this subject, that Government has thought it expedient to hold out promises of reform from time to time, and at length to pledge the word of a King in confirmation of retell promises, in a speech from the throne. Go velment have, however, submitted nothing to the Legislature yet in the nature of a plan for the re fot mation of justice. Certainly, neither the Bill for appointing a new Judge in Equity, nor that for ap pointing three new Common Law Judges, and for demolishing the Welch Jurisdiction, which dispensed justice on cheaper and more expeditious terms to the natives of Wales than they can obtain it under the English system, are to lie considered as tn. asitres of legal reform. The only measure which Las been heard of in Parliament this Session fur the purpose of diminishing the delay anti expense of law, and making justice more accessible to those whose means are limited, is the Bill of Mr. Brougham, who, in the midst of his many and xrdwous professional and Parliamentary labours, has iti:thrtaken a task which the Government was pledged to perform, and which, as far as we are ac quainted with the outline of it, we think he has ex ecuted in a manner which ought to cause it to be put to the test of practice without delay. The lion. and Learned Member does not ask, in the first instance, to make it a general measure ; but as every innovation, however good it may seem a iori, requires the confirmation which experience alone can give to theory, lie proposes that it should be first tried in two parts of the kingdom,. remote from each piper; and then, if it answer the public expectation, the provisions of the Bill can be ex tended to other places, as soon as the limits of each juridical district shall have been defined. A Bill, the object of which is to afford the means of trying causes at as little expense, and with as little delay arid inconvenience as possible to the suitors, n ust be admitted to be framed upon a principle which, if efficiently reduced to practice, must entitle its learned author to the gratitude of his country. We stated on a former occasion that the old County Courts, before our Saxon institutions were broken down to erect upon their ruins the Norman inno vations of the feudal system, were so contrived and administered as to bring hoine justice to every man's doer. The District Courts proposed by Mr. Brougham's Bill are a different sort of institution from what the County Courts for merly were, yet the principle is, to a certain extent, the same. In the County Courts, indeed, the civil, criminal, and ecclesiastical jurisdction were origi nally combined, but the District Courts are not to have cognizance of any criminal business, nor are they to interfere with the Ecclesiastical Courts, any farther than by being empowered to try certain cases of legacies. The Judge, who must be a ser geant-at-law, or a barrister of ten years standing, and is to he called the Judge in Ordinary, is to sit once a month, to try all such causes as are set down for trial in different parts of the district. The juris diction of his Court will extend to the cognizance of all actions where the defendant resides within the district, and the cause of action, if on a debt, don not exceed one hundred pounds—or on a tort fifty pounds, and where title to real estate, tithe, or by bankruptcy, or to toll, market, or other fran chise, does not come into question ; but it may try all actions at law of all kinds, and to any amount, by con.xent of parties. It will have authority to try, in a summary way, small debts, not exceeding five pounds, under similar restrictions, as to titles to reel estates, &c., as in the case of actions to a larger amount. The claims of legacy coming within its jurisdiction are to be limited to 1001., which will sav e muc h ex p ense a nd vexat iori . to' per sons entitled to small legacies, and who are obliged to abandon their claims, or proceed for them according to the expensive anti tedious process of the Ecclesiastical Courts.' Besides these power., the District Courts will have authority to try all matters at law or in equity, by way of arbitration, the parties consenting. This provision may prevent many a Chancery suit, which might end in the ruin even of the victorious party. They will also have authority to hear and advise on all disputes, by consent of parties, with a view to reconcilement—an excellent provision, and calcu lated to prevent much litigation, both at law and equity. One of the greatest improvements, how ever, contemplated by this Bill is the introduction of a plain, short, simple mode of pleading---just what is necessary to make the matters in dispute intelligible, and bring the points to be tried fairly in issue, and nothing more;. thus making law and common sense mutually assist each other l without any disgraceful fictions, sham pleas, or expensive technicality, to convert justice into nn engine of rapacity and oppression. It should also be men tioned that, by consent of parties, a Jury may be dispensed with. But not only arc sham pleas and unncessary length of pleading prohibited, but the Judge has the discretionary power, in cases of pro lixity and mis-statement of facts in the pleadings, of ordering attorneys to pay the costs out of their own pockets. It is likely that, under such a system, fiction and surplusage will be altogether ex tirpatedy as they can no longer be a source of profit to the practitioners in the law. In most cases the superior Courts will have a power of revising the decisions of the District Courts; and any matter tried before the Judge in Ordinary, whether of law or fact, may be revised by the Judges of Assize; and the sentence of the Judge in Ordinary, or ver dict of the Jury, may be set aside, and a ne.v trial ordered by the same Judges. Powers are also given, under certain restrictions, to both the Judge in Ordinary and Judges of Assize, to reserve points, and order cases for the opinion of the Courts in Westminster Hall. Such are the principal features tf the till, which will shortly, we expect, come be fore Parliament more in detail. It is our opinion, taking it altogether, that it is the best plan that has been proposed in modern times for making justice accessible to the humbler classes of society, and cut ting down the ruinous expence and delay, which, where small sums were disputed, or minor griev ances were to be redressed, made justice always dif ficult, and frequently unattainable. We therefore wish that the state of public affairs may not deprive the country of the opportunity of seeing it put to the proof of experience at the close of the present Ses sion.—Morning Herald. The project of the Hon. Member for Clare to compel Government to abandon the intention of increasing the stamp duties and the tax upon spirits in Ireland, by producing a run upon the Banks, was not, we now perceive, a mere idle threat. The extracts which will be found in ano ther pait of our paper, from a journal published in the city of Waterford, will show that this desperate and wicked system of opposition to the measures of Government has been to a certain extent actually carried into effect. We hear occasionally of men, both in Ireland and elsewhere, who cannot obtain the wages they consider necessary to their comfort, or to whom in other respects the actual state of affairs in their parish or neighbourhood is disa greeable, sttfng fire to farm-houses and corn-stacks. Such men, wheneVer they arc detected, are hanged, and their fate excites no commiseration. It is not going too far, however, to say that these cri minals, upon whom the punishment of death is justly inflicted for their atrocious offences, are surpassed in maral guilt by men who, like Mr. O'Connell, strive to get up a con spiracy against public and private 'credit, merely on account of the Legislature having adopted a financial resolution in which they do not concur. We do not here enter into the merits of the paiticular measures which Mr. O'Connell has taken this method to oppose. Let them be as un just and oppressive as he pretends to think them, he has not the less reduced himself, by the atrocious con-piracy of which he is the author, to the degrad ing level of an incendiary. That he is not a felo nious incendiary is henceforth to be considered as an accidental circumstance. So long as the run which has commenced with the Waterford Bank re mains partial, no great harm probably will be done; although in this case even the evil will be unques tionably greater than all the good that Mr. O'Con nell has accomplished, or will accomplish through out the whole course of his turbulent existence. The aid of the other banks of Ireland, which a sense of common interest will induce them promptly and liberally to afford, may preserve the threatened esta blishments. But if the evil should become general, there is too much reason to apprehend that Ireland will have to endure a crisis not very dissimilar to that by which the commercial interests of England were convulsed four years ago. Such crisis, if un. fortunately it should occur, will we suppose be known to history by the name of the O'Connell Crisis ; and the demagogue, who must otherwise have sunk into oblivion, will have secured to his name an infamous immortality. Nothing we think can be more clear than that the formation of a cot ;piracy of this nature imposes upon Parliament the duty of adhering steadily and tenaciously to its de clared purpose, even though that purpose may not in itself be considered the wisest dtat could have been conceived. Any deviation from the proposed measure would be the triumph of conspiracy; it ►would amount in substat.ce to the weak and mis- chievous confession that the existence of a paper currency in Ireland transfers the powers of Govern ment, in the ultimate resort, from the Legislature to the hands of any designing demagogue who may happen to posse's the arts and the assurance which are conducive to popularity. If this conspiracy should be so far successful as to produce any con siderable effect to the injury of the Banks of Ire land, or to the temporary discouragement of her currency, it will be evidently necessary also to extend to that country, as was once intended, the security of a metallic currenc). One and two pound notes may give facilities and encouragement to trade, but if they place in the hands of a political agitator like O'Connell the power to disturb the commercial relations of a country, and enable him to arrogate to himself an authority superior to that of the Legislature, they ought unquestionably, whatever may be their direct advantages, to be tit once abolished. 'We do not believe that this O'Connell and Association con- spiracy against the trade and prosperity of Ireland will be successful to any great extent. That it has already produced some local and individual injury is, however, a fact which cannot, we fear, be doubted. And it is sufficiently mortifying to reflect, that any number, however small, of indut.trious and enter- prising Irishmen, should be condemned to embar rasment and ruin, for no other reason than that Mr. O'Connell has not been able to command the atten tion of the I-louse of Commons, or to acquire any ascendancy over the minds of the people of England. The threat of the Roman Catholic leader to pro duce a run upon the banks in Ireland, if his opinions upon a question of finance were not adopted by the Legislature, and the run having aiqually taken place in some districts in conformity with the threat, are circumstances which too plainly intimate the con tinued existence ofan organized confederacy inimical to the authority of the Legislature, And inconsistent with the permanent tranquillity and welfare of the country. This confederacy tnay not be the less dangerous that its ramifications and movements are no longer visible except in th sir effects.— Morning Post. With feelings of the deepest regret we feel ourselves called upon this flay to declare that any thing to equal the pressnre of want and disteoss felt at present by the poor of this town has not been experienced during the last fifteen years. Provisions have advanced consi derably in price, and are scarce; the poor cannot get em ployment ; business of every kind is dull, consequently. money is not in circulation.—Fermanagh li'eporter. CURIOUS CASE OF SINCOPE.—KIRICALDY. —An honest man's cow was taken ill one Saturday night lately, and, after several licurs of severs; suffering, was given up by the faculty, usually employed on such occa sions, for dead. The carcase was forthwith drawn out of the byre, and laid on a dunghill, wbe re it continued un molested till Monday morning. Tlvey then commenced the operation of taking off the hide,, and had proceeded a good length, when cromie began to chow symptoms of un willingness to part with her skits. We need not add, that the operation was discontintaed, hut it is a fact too wonderful to be suppressed, that s ) .te is now in good health, though still bearing woeful marks of the knife. —Ftfe Herald. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. lIOUSE OF LORDS-(LAST NIGHT.) The Earl of SHAFTESBU RY presented a peti tion from Woodstock against the punishment of death for forgery. Viscount LORTON presented a petition from Canterbury to the same effect. Mr. Danvers, from the East India House, pre. sented an account of the losscs of the Hon. Com. pany's ships at sea. ROYAL COMMISSION. The LORD CHANCELLOR, with whom were the Earl of SHAFTESBURY and the Earl of ROSSLYN aS the Lord Commissioners, stated that the Royal Assent had been given to the Consolidated Fund Bill, the Militia and Ballot Suspension Bill, the Census Bill the Malt Duty Bill, and five private Bills. Adjourned. HOUSE or COADIONS-(LAST NIGHT, The SPEAKER, on the House assembling, in formed the House that the Bill for the abolittonof fees had been returned from the Lords, with consi derable amendments. He had carefully looked over these amendmennts, and had no doubt that they were such as could not be admitted. At the same time he recommended the House, as had been done on former occasions, that these amendments should be printed before they were taken into consideration. He recommended this, not as doubting the inadmis sibility of the amendments, but in order to make the House fully aware of their nature. They were so voluminous, and the Bill was so small, that he thought this necessary. On the motion of Mr. HUME, the amendments were ordered to be printed. NEW POLICE. Mr. HUME moved for Returns of the Expences of watching the Parishes now under the new Police in 1828, in order to judge of the comparative advaL tages of the new system.—Ordered. TREASURY DISPENSING POWER. Sir J. GRAHAM, at the request of his Right Hon. Friend (the Member for Waterford), wished to ask the Noble Lord (the Secretary for Ireland) if any of the money lent to the Corporation of LON.- donderry in 1814, to build a bridge over the Boyne, had ever been paid back ? He observed that the Act of Parliament, authorising the loan, was very strict in expressing its payment, and pointed out the mode by which the tolls were to be sequestered, if the money was not paid. He wished to know if any means had been taken to enforce the Act of Par liament, and if not, by what authority its operations had been suspended ? Lord F. L. GOWER explained, that the Act of Parliament had been suspended by a Treasury Mi nute of 1819, and the present conduct of the Go vernment in not enforcing payment. was a continua tion of that Minute. He would move for some Re turns that would place the matter before the House in all its bearings. After a few words from Sir G. HILL and Mr. HUME, several Returns were ordered to elucidate this subject, and Sir J. GRAHAM was understood to say that he would, on some future occasion, call the atten tion of the House to the subject of the Treasury suspending the execution of an Act of Parliament. WEST INDIA CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT. Sir JAMES GRAHAM gave notice, as the ex pence of the West India Church Establishment, ac cording to a return recently laid on the table, was not paid out the surplus of the Four-and-a-Half per Cent. duties, that he would on Friday bring forward a motion on this subject, previous to going into a Committee of Supply. Mr. PENDARVIS presftnted a petition from the owners of lead mines in Cornwall, praying for a duty on foreign lead. SCOTCH BURGH POLICE BILL. _ _ The LORD ADVOCATE brought in a Bill to appoint a police in the Royal Burghs of Scotland. CORN LAWS. Lord MILTON gave notice, that he would on Tuesday next bring forward a motion relative to the corn laws, which dropped yesterday. Mr. MABEILLY gave notice, that he would, on the third reading of the Beer Bill, move a clause, to enable the publicans to avoid ruin, by giving them a certain time to withdraw from their business. The clause would prohibit drinking beer on the premises where it was sold, till the 10th Oct., 1832. SUGAR DUTIES. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to a question from Mr. P. Thomson, stated that he should certainly bring up the report of the sugar duties to-morrow, if convenient ; if not to morrow, on Friday. LABOURERS' WAGES' BILL• Mr. LITTLETON moved that the Labourers' Wages' BM should be recommitted. Mr. HUME seized the opportunity to object to the principle of the Bill. He had never before, though he had waited for three months, found an oc casion of answering the long statement made by the Hon. Gentleman on introducing the Bill. It was contrary to the correct principle to impose restraint s on workmen making their own bargain with their employers ; it was contrary also to the laws already existing on the subject, and it would put a stop to half the manufactures in the kingdom. Tke lion. Member, after reading a number of letters and docu ments tending to prove that the measure of the Hon. Member for Staffordshire (Mr. Lyttleton) would exaggerate the evils it professed to remedy, ex pressed his determination to oppose the further pro. gress of the Bill. To accede to the Bill would be to increase the flame of discontent. In nine cases out of ten the truck system was advantageous to the manufacturing interests. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving, as an amendment, :that the subject be taken into further consideration on that day six months. Mr. ROBINSON supported the amendment. To put an end to die truck system would, in many cases, put an end to the employment of the workimn altogether. Mr. LITTLETON contended, that the truck system had grown to such a height, that unless some steps were taken to repress it, the greatest discontent and most serious evil 4 would ensue. Ile had received representations from all parts of the kingdom to that effect. The Legislature had no al ternative but to put an end to the system, or to admit of the utter extinction of the middle clasees in the manufacturing districts, and to leave none there bat the great manufacturers and their de pendents. Mr. HUDSON GURNEY rose amidst loud cries of question. The Hon. Gentleman opposed the Bill. Mr. N. CALVERT would support the Bill, as an experiment. Mr. E. DAVENPORT felt the greatest obliga tions to the lion. Member for Staffordshire for having brought forward this measure. Sir R. PEEL supported the Bill, being convinced that no system was so calculated to destroy the in dependence of the workmen as the truck system. Such a system was not necessary to the carrying on of the manufacture, as was proved by the example of Manchester, in which it did not exist. Although he admitted that there might be some objections to the measure, yet, apprehensive of a further exten sion of the present system, he gave his cordial as sent to their attempt to put an end to it. - Lord STANLEY said, that unless some steps were taken, the system would soon be greatly ex tended. Mr. W. SMITH supported the Bill. Mr. WARBURTON gave his decided opposi tion to it. Mr. SLANEY, after considerabl e difficulty, had made up his mind to support the Bill. Mr. MABERLY opposed the Bill, on the gro un d of the inexpediency of any interf erence on t h e sub ject of the purchase of labour. On a division there appeared—. For the Amendment 4 Against it Majority On re-entering the gallery we found the House in conversation, during which Mr. nom, we Le lieve, contended and insisted that the Bill ought not to be re-committed on a Wednesday evening, and n such an empty House. The gallery was then cleared, but we understood that no division took place, and that the question was adjourned to Friday next._ The Scotch Judicature Bill was read a shirt time and passed. The dropped Orders of yesterday were then re. appointed,—Adjourned. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A fellowship porter, named Bellamy, was sum moned before the LORD MAYOR, under the follow ing circumstances William Gibson, a lad who is in the habit of pur chasing fish in Billingsgate-market, deposed that he went to the market a few mornings ago, and paid to the defendant the sum of five shillings for a quarter of a hundred of mackarel. His basket was, accord ing to the usual practice, sent into the hold for the quantum of fish, but it never appeared again, and he applied in vain to the seller for the fish or the basket, or the money. He could receive no satis faction whatever, and upon making his complaint to the Clerk of the Market, he was advised to repre sent the matter to the LORD MAYOR. The defendant declared that every person who paid him sris sure to receive the fish purchased with the money. He begged to he allowed to assure the LORD MAYOR, that the fellowship porters were subject to great losses and annoyance from the boys of this description who infested the market. ' The LORD MAYOR asked the boy whether he could have made a mistake as to the person to whom he paid the money 7—Gibson replied that it was impossible. He had positively handed to him the `money and basket at the same time ; the basket went below, but he never set eyes on it since. The defendant again insinuated that the com plainant was not a good character. The LORD MAYOR—Do you know any thing against the ezracter of this boy ? He does not ap pear to me to be an improper person.—The defen dant said he could not himself say that he knew any thing bad in the boy's conduct, but a comrade seemed to know him pretty well. Here another fellowship porter declared that the boy had in the first instance accused him of the con duct just complained of. Gibson asserted, most vehemently, that he never had. The witness said he, moreover, knew the corn plainant to be connected with a gang that infested the market, and that the boy and his " collegians" were constantly about the place watching for oppor tunities to commit plunder. The LORD MAYOR—If that be the case, it is impossible I can believe a word of the charge against the defendant. Gibson—l never was dishonest, my Lord. Can he say what I ever did to make me deserve such a character. This is all done to deprive me of my property. My basket, that cost me .ss. 4d. is gone, as well as my money. The LORD MAYOR (to the witness)—You say you know this boy to be a bad character ? Witness— Please your Worship„he was publicly whipp e d at the cart 's . tail the whole length of the New-road, Deptford. He was, selp me G—d. Gibson—Oh, Lord ! oh, Lord ! Whipped ! For what was I whipped ? Witness—For what ? Why for thieving, to be sure. The LORD MAYOR—Aye, aye ; so you have been whipped, have you ? Gibson (much affected) — Oh, never, never, my Lord, except once, when I was a little child at school, and I was never whipped after, and that was lower down than my back, please your Lordship. Witness—l can prove it, my Lord, that he was whipped ; for I can bring you a note from the Ma gistrate at Deptford the first day I can go there con veniently. Stay, said the LORD MAYOR, I don't like to give you so much trouble. We shall decide the matter here. If he has been whipped at the cart's tail, he must have some marks of the cat upon hira. His Lordship then desired Foster, the Marshalman, to take the boy aside and examine his back. Gibson threw off his coat in an instant, and would have thrown off his shirt too before the whole room, if he had been permitted. The witness's face dropped the moment he saw that his veracity was likely to be called in question. In a minute Foster returned, and said there was not the slightest mark upon the complainant's person; and the Lord Mayor ordered that the defendant should not be discharged from custody until the boy received the sum he had paid, and the price of his basket. Two Irishmen named Mahony and Barry, were charged by a third named Casson, with having stolen his coat and waistcoat from off his back. Casson said he had just come home invalided from India, where he had been for sixteen years. He went into a public-house near the East India-house, ..., and sat down, 1: n d in came the prisoners and another man, and they took him out and introduced him to another public-house, so one of them told him to pull of his coat and waistcoat, and he did. The LORD MAYOR—What for ? To fight or to be whipped ?—( Laughter.) Cason—Neither, your Lorthhip. I tuck it off to be measured. The LORD MAYOR—For a wager, I suppose ? Casson—No; d---1 a bit of a wager there was either. I tuck it off b( cruse they tould me I was to be mea sured in the body. The LORD MAYOR—Aye, it was not necessary for them to measure your head ; they had taken an accurate:measure of that before. (A laugh.) Casson —So, your Lordship, when I tuck off my clothes, one of 'em whips 'em up, runs off with 'em, and the rest followed him, and left me " vacant" in the room, without a stitch on me. --- (Laughter.) The LOUD MAYOR--Why they did'nt take your shirt off your back, did they ? Casson—No, my Lord ; I mean I hadn't a stich of a coat or waist- coat on me. The LORD MAYOR— Pray, were you in company or alone, when they went to invite you to the other public-house ? Casson—Oli, I was in company, your Worship. The LORD MAYOR—With whom ? Casson— Who with ! Why, with myself, to be sure. The LORD MAYOR—Upon my word, then, it would have been much better for you to have re mained alone with that company, than to have gone to have your body measured. Pray, did you know these men ? Casson—No, I never saw t h em _ _ _ _ before ; but I know they tuck me away to rob me. I seen them all three go out with my clothes. Mr. Hobler—And didn't you call out after them, " stop thief?" Casson—No; where was the use it ? D—l a word I said ; for I knew it was of no use. Mr. nobler—Use ! Certainly it might have been of use. They might have been stopped, and you have got your clothes. Casson—No; it was no use. I didn't call out after 'em. Mr. Hobler—But quietly suffered yourself to be robbed ? Casson—Yes, your Worship—( Laughter.) The Lord Mayor found, upon further investiga tioy, that Casson had been drunk; that he went into one public-house without a coat and waistcoat, and asked for his clothes, although he was never in the house before. The prisoners assured the Lord Mayor that Casson had told him thumping lies. They were then discharged. ROW-STREET. Information was received at this office in the course of last week, of the elopement of a young lady from her father's residence, in the neighbour hood of Shaftesbury, and the companion of her flight 10,3 described as a foreigner, named Stanislaus Jaunsen, a description of whose person was also forwarded. The elopement took place on the night of the 28th of May; and the family of the young lady were greatly distressed upon ascertaining the step she had taken. Every exertion was made to discover the retreat of the lovers, but without effect; and the father of the lady, thinking that his daughter might be secreted somewhere in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, determined to proceed at once to London, awl apply for the assistance of the police to recover his lost child. On his arrival in London, on Friday last, he came to this office, and had an in terview with Mr. HALLS, who advised that hand bills should be immediately printed, giving an accu rate description of the person of Jaunsen, and de• scribing the circumstance of the elopement of t! young lady with him. A fact which had come to the ears of the father, nemely,—that Jaunsen had suffered a confinement of eighteen months in Exeter gaol for abduction,—added considerably to the fears which he entertained for the safety of his daughter, and threw a painful mystery over her flight. Gar diner, an active officer, was directed to use every ex ertion to discover the fugitives, and, aware of the character of Jaunsen, he naturally considered that the young lady might have been taken to some of the accommodation houses at the west end of the town, several of which he searched, but without finding the object of his pursuit. On Saturday morning, however, he heard, from a private source, that a young lady and a foreign gentleman had lately taken lodgings on the Pancras-road, and Gardiner, having provided himself with arms, for he understood that Jaunsen had always weapons at hand, proceeded in a coach to Pancras-road, accompanied by Ledbitter. On arriving at the house where it was supposed the object of their pursuit would be found, they disco vered a foreign gentleman and a young lady, neither of whom, however, answered the description of the parties for whom they sought, although, from the alarm evinced by the lady and gentleman, the offi cers were of opinion that the former had left her home under circumstances of a similar description to those of the young lady of whom they were in pursuit. The distress of the father on learning that the officers had failed in their endeavour to recover his daughter, was however relieved by a letter which he received in the course of the day, stating that the young lady had been discovered in Andc ver, and iron's that place had been safely conveyed home. It appeared, according to the young lady's own account, that Jaunsen conveyed her to Andover, and took private lodgings for her in that place, un der a promise to make her his wife. His delay, however, in fulfilling this engagement awoke the young lady's suspicions, and the subsequent conduct of Jaunsen convinced her that his intentions towards her were not of an honourable nature. Finding that she suspected his motives, and was uneasy at her situation, he began to treat her with severity, and actually confined her to her room, and endeavoured by threats to compel her to accede to his wishes, and further, shealleged that he stood over her with anaked razor, and swore he would cut her throat unless she immediately complied with his desires, to which, how ever, she gave a determined refusal. Some day s had thus elapsed when Mr. Bayley, the proprietor of the White Hart Inn, at Andover, who had furnished them with dinners, &c. which Jaunsen had ordered, having heard of the elopement of a young lady from her father's house at Shaftesbury, suspected that his customers were the parties for whom search was making, and immediately communicated his sus p;cions to the family of the young lady, and her brother soon afterwards arrived at Andover and conveyed his sister home. Jaunsen, however, who it is supposed had received some intimation of the step which Mr. Bayley had taken, made a precipi tate retreat from Andover, leaving the young lady behind him, and also an unsettled score of 161. for eatableS, &c., at the White Hart Inn. The means which Jaunsen took to ingratiate himself into the good opinion of the .family whose domestic happi ness he sought to ruin, chow strongly the danger of giving credit to the smooth stories of your self dubbed military heroes. It appeared that Jaunsen, although practising the art and mystery of transparent blind-painter, had represented himself as nearly con nected to the late Kiog of Poland, and related a story of his having saved the life of the Emperor Nicholas of Russia in battle. To the family of the young lady whom he after wards carried off, he introduced himself in his pro fessional capacity, but tire subsequent account which he gave of his noble birth, " and the moving acci dents by flood and field" which he had related, pro duced sentiments in his favour, which in the instance of one of the family were not slow in ripening into love. He frequently boasted of his intimacy with several Noblemen and Gentlemen, and a circum stance which gave strength to this belief was, that while he was on a visit at the house of the gentle man from whose, statement this account is chiefly written, he contrived to have several letters ad dressed from London to him franked by Sir Robert Peel, Lord Rolle, and other distinguished persons. In the hand-bills which were circulated offering a reward for her recovery, Stanislaus Jaunsen is de scribed as a military-looking man, about 52 years of age (although looking ten years younger), five feet ten inches in height, and wearing mustachios. Gardiner, the officer, reported yesterday to Mr. Halts, that the young lady had been restored to her friends, in the manner above described, upon which the Magistrate expressed his satisfaction. A rough-looking fellow, named John Ingle, ha hited in the garb of a man o'war's man, and bearing all the characteristics of a true British tar, was brought before the Magistrates yesterday by inspector Roger of letter F dive ion. It appeared that the poor fellow had just been paid off from the Asia ship of war, and making his way to London, he determined upon t..king a cruise to Windsor, to inquire personally after the health of hi s Majesty. Having satisfied his dutiful desires by a personal application at the Castle, his next care was to provide himself with a wife, and us he had no time for the delay of making love, he deist mined, having plenty of money, to cut the matter short by purchasing a rib. With this laudable pur pose he went round the town offering a handful of sovereigns to every pretty girl he met, telling them at the same time that he wanted to be spliced, and never heeded the matter of money so a: he could find a girl to his liking. The maids of Windsor, however, were too coy to be won all at once by the golden bait which Jack held out to them. Not so, however, a pretty Gipsy girl, whom he met in the neighbourhood of the forest, and whom he fairly purchased, tent and all, for 1.5 sovereigns. Jack upon striking the bargain offered to go to church, and get spliced in "a regular way," but the young Gipsy laughed at the folly of the thing, and said 314 was as much his wife as if they had been to the parson, and as Jack was no way particular, he brought his black-haired Poll, as he called her, to a shop in the town,: where he rigged her out in style,. and then proposed to spend the honeymoon in Lou don. The Gipsy eras all compliance, and Jack placing her on the outside of a coach, fixed his box, containing his clothes and about 701. in cash, upon the top of the vehicle, and taking his place alongside of his pretty Poll, gave three cheers at starting, and in due time the coach draw up at the White Horse cellar in Piccadilly. Here Jack said he felt con founded dry, and leaving his box in charge of " Pretty Poll," he went to a neighbouring pubPc house for a glass of grog. On returning, however, the faithless Gipsy was no where to be found, and with her his box had vanished. In vain he looked about for his black-haired Poll, and while making inquiries after " the faithless she," he vas met by Inspector Rogers, who conveyed him to the station in Covent-garden, and brought him to the office in the morning for the purpose of stating his case to the Magistrates himself. The poor fellow told his story, but it would be impossible to give it in his own peculiar way. The Magistrates directed that some person should go immediately to Piccadilly, and endeavour to get some trace of the woman who had so basely robbed the poor confiding fellow. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Yesterday a coachman, in the service of Lord Grenville, appeared before Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate, under a summons to answer the charge of having wilfully or negligently driven against the carriage of a gentleman named Wells, and done it material damage. The Magistrates convicted the defendant in a pe nalty of 10s. and costs, the full ex t ent o f punish ment allowed under the Highway Act, leaving Mr. Wells still to his remedy, by action, for the injury' done to his carriage. Mr. Dawes, the landlord of a public-house called the Earl of Albemarle, in South Audley-street, • IVlayfair, was summoned to show cause why h e re - fused to ply the usual reward to some firemen who ,c attended with their engines on an alarm of fire g ive" at his house. To account for his refusal M r . D awes pro d uce d s e abstract of the Building Act, under which these re• wards are authorised, and • pointed the Attention of the Magistrates to a clause in it, which ex e mpts from all the provisions of the Act every Royal Pe" lace or other building occupied by the Kin g , or for his Majesty's use; and under this clause Mr. Dawe; said he claimed exemption for his house, as soldiers were quartered there. The Magistrate so completely differed in opinion with Mr. Dawes, that he directed him to pay the reward claimed from him. Mr. Dawes said, that although his opinion wag, still unchanged as to his exemption, he would, ac cording to the Magistrate's direction, pay the re ward, and he immediately paid it. A young man named Hutchins, in the service of Mr. Balm:ide!, a lithographic printer and engraver in Marlborough -street, was charged with robbing' his employer of several valuable prints, and a man named Thomas Parry, residin g at No. 5, George street, Foley-lilac , , was charged with receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. The ease was clearly proved against both the pri• soners, anJ they Were fully committed for trial. MARYLEBONE. Mr. John Spensley, of No. 22, South 111olt on street, was timed 20s. for endangering the lives and property of his Majesty's subjects by furiously driving. The charge was established against Mr. Spensley, and Mr. GRIFFITH convicted him in the above penalty. L A MB ETILST REET. We yesterday gave an account of the application of a lady at this office for the Magistrate's assist ance in recovering a quantity of clothes and linen which her daughter had taken away. Mr. Miller, the chief officer, was directed to make inquiries, and require the attendance of all the par ties at the office, which was yesterday accordingly done. The investigation was strictly private; but we are authorised to state, that from the facts which were elicited it appeared that the whole of the par ties were of the highest respec•ability ; that the mother was rather of a hasty temper, and that the (laughter, to get away from her, had gone to the house of a respectable friend, where she intended to support herself by her own exertions ; and, upon the advice of Mr. HARDWICK, the mother consented to let her daughter keep her clothes, and remain where she was, and thus the affair terminated. THE MARKETS. COAL MARI Ailair's . 3l s. Od. Bishop's Main 27 9 Gray's Steam 27 0 flnlywell 3l 0 32 6 Liddell's 28 3 Percy Bensham 3l 6 ['claw ........ 3O 0 Pontop Wind50r...—...... 27 9 Shipcote 2B 6 l'anlield 29 6 Townley 29 0 Wy 31 6 Walls End Bell and Co. 32 6 Dittoßeivickeandi•o.... 34 3 Ditto Iturraton 32 (1 Walls End Carr and Co. 30 6 Ditto Crainlington 2B 0 Ditto Callerton —..— 20 0 Ditto Gosforth 34 6 Ditto :14 0 Ditto Hilda 32 3 _Ships at market, 101%—Shil iTr.—June 23 . Walls E:nd Newmarch... 335;33. Ditto 33 3 Ditto Northumberland 33 0 Ditto Perkins and C 0... 32 "0 Ditto It 34 0 Walls End Hetton .—... 35 0 Walls End Lambton..... as 0 Walls End 33 3 Walls End Stewart's 35 3 Ditto Stobart's 29 6 Russell's Hetton's W.E 35 0 Ditto Russell's Lyon's.. 38 0 Walls End Tees C 0........ 32 6 Cultri Trimsaram 27 0 Halbeath 27 0 Hartley 32 0 I.langennech Coal 38 0 PembertonLlangennech 33 0 Silkstone I9 0 Milford 42 0 Stewart's 34 -9 Stobart's small 21 9 ips sold, 45%---.Unsold, 50%. CIUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to 8. 8. to a. s. to a. P. a. Abingdon--.. 55 62 32 38 21 32 Andover--.....- 55 65 22 34 20 23 - 53 - Birmingham...—. XI ((3 39 39 29 30 -. 53 rtridport —__sg 74 32 39 26 30 -. Cirencester, 48 65 20 37 18 23 40 Faringdon--- 54 86 36 40 2(3 38 Guildford 48 74 24 3 - 1 20 3 42 42 • Henley 54 83 30 35 2 0 30 40 Hereford 04 84 38 45 34 40 (30 Highworth 62 88032 42 20 34 56 Maidenhead (35 84 28 38 22 30 St Oakingham 56 76 30 36 18 32 - 42 Reading i 41 8(3 18 41 16 31 -- 44 56 (38 27 37 20 28 50 Southampton M 76 37 40 42 Stroud --- 64 74 34 38 22 32 44 Tewkesbury (35 78 40 43 30 38 44 Uxbridge . • 48 74 21 32 19 32 48 Wan tage 413 73 20 35 16 28 44 Warminster 41 74 21 42 24 30 46 Windsor 4B 84 2(3 31 15 28 40 Worcester— (30 63 32 36 24 2(3 .52 LEWES MARKET.—June 22. White Wheat (per quarter) £3 8 0 to £3 10 0 Bed ditto Barley Oats, New 1 1 0 1 6(1 Beans 1 16 0 2 0 Oil Cake, New l2 0 0 per thousand. 'ENHA hi CHEL' MA it KET.—June 22. Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Per 11;1 -- d. to d. Wheat Barley Oats Beans 4 9 5 6 Lamb 0 0 Pease 5 0 8 0 Pork Hay 31. 10a. to 3/. 15s. per ton. HULL MARKET.--June 22. There has been a better show of farmers' Wheats this morning than for several Week's back, and an advance of 2s. per quarter has been realized on the prices of last week. The holders of foreign are firm, and the late arrivals are wholly going under lock; for the best parcels of which 50s. per quarter is generally demanded, and buyers not freely acceding to this price, the business passing is not extensive; on the best duty-paid parcels an advance of ls. to 2s. has been submitted to, while. any secondary quality realizes only an advance of Is.. per quarter. There has been more inquiry after lock Oats, but on the business done we note no variation in prices ; but few foreign Oats offering, and the prices of last week fully maintained, and in some instances rather more money given. In Beans but little pa• sing and prices the same. Nothing passing in Barley. Rapeseed and Linseed unaltered. Wheat, Old —s. 635. 68s. Now —s. 58s. 655. Foreign —s. 665. 70a. ln bond... —s. —s. —s. Oats, Poland —s 20s. 245. Old —s. 265. Small or Feed.... —c. 123. 18s. Foreign —s. 20s. 235. —a. —s. —s. Barley, Norf. & Suf. Line. & Wold —s. —g Foreign Beans 345. 38s. 425. Foreign —s. 30s. 355. Pease, White —s. —s --s. Grey —P. "area —s 30s. 36a. Foreign —s. 265. 30s. :apeseeti, in bond none. Free, per last —4. 281. 301. DUMFRIES MA .. _... a. d. s. (I. 8. d. s. d. Wheat, Imp. Bush... 7 9 to 8 0 Butter, IlSoz Barley 3 9 4 0 Eggs, dozen ............. 0 0 0 4 Oats 3 2 3 9 Beef, per lb. Flour, 141 b. Oatmeal 2 2 2 0 Veal 9 3 0 4 Potatoes, cwt. RKETS.—June 15. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst. at Hamburg, the wife of Dr. J. Aldermann, of a son. On the 22,1 inst. at Highfield-house, Winchmore-hill, the lady of P. P. Firth, Esq., of a lan. On the 20th inst. at Greenwich, the lady of Mr. C. A. Smith, of a daughter. On the 18th inst. at Bering, Kent, the Hon. Mrs. Neville, of a daughter. On the 20th inst. at Greenwich, the lady of Mr. C. A. Smith, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 22d inst. at Paddington, E. W. Duffin, Esq., to Agnea, eldest daughter of J. White, Esq., of West . - bourn-green, and of the ISew-road, Marylebone. . On the 224 inst. E. R. G. Robertson, Esq., of the Inner Temple, to Sarah Ann, youngest daughter of the late R. Edmonds, Esq., of New-cross, Surrey. • On the 22d inst. at Brighton, Mr. G. Allender, sur geon, London, to Eliza Ann., youngest daughtar of Mr. Taylor, of Limehouse. On the 22d inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square, R. Burford, Eq., of Leicester -square, to. Miss Shepley, of the same place. DIED Na i e, On the 20th inst. suddenly, at Charlton Kings, Cher t eniimrin the 71st year o f hi s age , G enera l G. Warde, of Woodland Castle, Gl amorgans hi ie, t hi r d sou of the late J. Esq. of Squerries, Kent. On the 2 1st in.t. in Monttigue-street, Portman-square, in her 13th year, Sophia Anne, eldest daughter of the late Rev. W. Garnett, Rector of Tilstone, Cheshire. PAINTED AND PUBLISHED BY AIURDO YOUNG, AT THE SUN Orrics, 112, STRAND, LONDON. I / - Now NI the CITY ing the Pc magnificen public and a consider The VI VIEW. biting at t COOKE A F' pen, HENRY DAY and] Girdler' 1 - I MP sur JAMES'S RICI Charles I Michael Cornelius Andrew John Hei Gerard I Thomas George I Richard Grant Al Charles I Samuel 1 James Gc George li Notice i or they be are now ri with the the Unitec This L By " The No Let thi A SEC This FOR] 2. EC) S. The in DUBLI Thim T H 1 By the Au " The 1 interesting tries—his awl the in, well word. velopment those of II Cull On the h Highnel mission To be each, n TH' Containing This I DAN, Ea zette," wt ter, are polite Lit( respective celebrity. No. 1. PRINCE the posses! 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