The Sun. — London, England, 1830-02-02 00:00:00

SPIRIT. OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.. If the Parisian politicians had not been so ex clusively occupied with their own affairs, and so keenly engaged in opposing or. supporting the Polignac Ministry, we should have had from them a great deal more speculation on the cha racter, conduct, and prospects of the German Prince who has recently arrived among them. They have been long, indeed, accustomed to the presence of Prince Paul of Wurtemburg, commonly called " Prince Paul of the Opera a Royal person, who, being balked in his hopes of a Greek Crown, has now - no dominions, ex cept the saloon of the establishment front which he takes his title. But a German Prince, like the Duke of Brunswick, deserting his states ra ther than comply with the supreme authority of the Germanic Confederation, Mould in ordinary threes have appeared an interesting novelty, and have created what they call " a sensation." He woeld have even derived some additional noto riety in France, from the character of the Mo narch to whom he is opposed, and the political circumstances connected with their quarrel. That Monarch is the uncle, and was the guardian, of the young Duke. By his arms the Duke was restored to the dominions of his ancestors • and by his counsels, he would h a ve b een rendered more worthy of managing the improved consti tution which had been conferred upon them during his minority. But he has outraged the feelings and reversed the arrangements of his affectionate relative and benefactor ; making his subjects expiate the constitutional blessings in tended for them by his Royal Guardian, under the sanction of the Germanic Diet. It sel dom happens that public sympathy takes the side of power against weakness—that a great monarch can be opposed to an atom of , like his Serene Highness of Brunswick, without excititing suspicion of tyranny and oppression—or that an orphan who compbins that his person has been treated with indignity, that his rights had been with held, and his property dilapidated, by an irre sistible Guardian, ie not heard with favour cr in dulgence. But, in this case, so provokingly just, kind, and conciliatory has been the con duct of the stronger patty, that the weaker has been deprived of the. usual commiseration in his defeat, and of the popular presumption in his favour. An appeal has been made to relatives and strangers, —to courts and to the people,— to the press and to the deliberative assembly of the German Confederation, and they have all pronounced an opinion adverse to the young Prince. The King of Prussia and the Empe ror of Austria have both most earnestly advised Jinn to make his submissions to his uncle, to continue the constitutional franchises established during his minority, and to indemnify those Councillors and servants, whom from a mistaken pride, he has persecuted for con sulting I:is interests in opposition to his caprice. The Diet haS decreed what Courts coold only advise ; and has ordered his States to be occupied till he evinces the obedience, w ithout which it would be absurd in that body to hold another meeting at Frankfort with the parade of a Sovereign Council, and in the pre. sense of foreign Ambassadors. Nor has he any yeason to dread that reparation will be a sacri flee, or submission a disgrace. Never probably wa s there a more striking union of indulgent kindnece and paternal wisdom than appeared in the letters of a High Personage to his wrong headed ward (which have already met the public eye) ; and we may rest assured that the affec tionate feeling which they display, would be sa tisfied with the least degrading apology. The German Diet has only interfered to adjust the rights, or to avenge the quarrel, of the King of Banover ; but from what is known of his feel ings towards his relative, the settlement of these elisagreeable differences would give equal plea sure to a Sovereign beyond their sphere—the Ki ng o f England.— Titna!-. We do aunt know that public curiosity is much alive to the topics .of the forthcoming Speech, for, notwithstanding the efforts which have been made to excite commotion on the subject of the currency, we are sure we merely state a matter of fact, when we say that every rational man feels at the bottom of his heart that nothing can be done, and therefore nothing ought to be at tempted. But, upon the subject of a f res h issue of small-note trash, there are some re. snarkable facts stated in our city article, to which we would refer Mr. Western and politicians of his stamp. They would issue small notes— they would increase the circulation—would they ? Why there is already more money ready made than can be employed. There never was so great a redundancy of it ; not even in those hale} on days when we were said to have borrowed money et one value, of whisk we are paying the interest pow in another I The truth is almost the reverse of this—for it is perfectly cleae, that whatever might be the abundance of money at eny time of the war, when we were taking loans — whatever might be its abundance after die Bank restriction took place—there is rnore of it now, when the Bank is not so pro tected, and small notes are taken out of the ma ss, We fancy, therefore, we may infer, that except Government were mad (and we think a cautious firmness, the very reverse of insanity, is its chief characteristic), it can never ennteine plate meddling with the currency, and will pro bably not allude to such an absurdity in the King's Speech. Quietness, and abstaining from experimental measures of every kind, eco nomy, esre ail that the nation wants at present re l a tion to he internal administration. Of its externa l politics, the subject of the Greek ques tion is that to which plaits feeling has affixed the chief interest. It would he gratifying, no doubt, to learn that the Constittstiee was set tled ; and, mean time, it is some satisfactjon know that bloodshed I.has ceased ; We have sometimes complained that a King s speech said nothing ; but that was at a time when we thought much might be said : at present, though we might find many topics which might Ise piked ahout, it would be difficult to point out any mea siure which Ministers might announce the inten tion to execute.---ibid. Amongst the predictions oftentimes and for many years put forward in this journal, on behalf of the policy of emancipating the King's Catho . lie subjects, our readers will do us the justice to remember, that one—and a leading one—was our assurance that emancipation would break up the Catholic party, and disperse again throughout society the various elements of winch it had been composed. When our adversaries alleged that the Irish Catholic interest would be always one and indivisible, that priests and laity would hang together, and never suspend nor relax their exer tions, until they had driven the Protestants out of every county in the island, and procured an entire Catholic representation,—we foretold dis tinctly, that the infallible and only means of neu tralizing that spirit of unnatural excitement which had already overturned, in more than one in stance, the recognized relations between rich and poor, was to give the Catholic an identical inte rest with the Protestant in the state, and to replace him under the influence of those personal motives through which men in the ordinary condition of society are actuated, by extinguishing that other ail(' irregular class of motives, which take possession of suffering bodies of men, and bind them in a con• federate cause by the chain of sympathy under a common grievance. Who, then, was right, the anti-Catholic, m this friend of Emancipation ? In what state are the Catholics of Ireland now ? Does the Association exist ? Can O'Connell be said to exist ? Are priest and laymen united everywhere, for the general exclusion of Protest ant gentlemen from power ? Why, in every county, not only are priest and laymen disu nited, but the Catholic laity are absolutely merged in the Protestant aristocracy, and their priests are now, even while we write, taking op posite sides in an election between two Protest ant gentlemen, where no Catholic gentleman has once dreamed of offering himself as a can didate :we mean in Limerick—a great Catholic county, both as to wealth and numbers ! No ; the spell is broken. The necromancer who once commanded the hearts and hands of the two most Popish countries in Europe, has exor cised the evil spirit of Popery on his native soil. We repeat it as a fact, beyond all question with men who know the truth, and are upright enough to speak it, that emancipation, which has made the Catholics our fellow-citizens, has taught them that the politics of a persecuted sect be come not the spirit, or principles, or power of freemen.—lbid. We cannot too frequently or too urgently call upon those who have the means of relieving them to consider the wretched and perishing state of so many of the less fortunate part of their brethren at this inclement season. We live in a country and in a metropolis renowned for their charities; and seldom or ever was there a period when such strong claims existed upon the sympathies of all as at the present moment. Next in merit to a liberal disposition, on such an occasion, is discrimination in the giver ; anti where people have not the means or opportuni ties themselves of ascertaining who have the strongest and truest claims upon their bounty, there is no better course which such persons can pursue than consigning their alms to some of those excellent associations with which the town happily abounds, who are best able to winnow the wheat from the chaff, to distinguish the different grades of want, and, above all, the truly miserable from the impostor. But, of all the ways of relieving the poor, that of finding them employment, %%hen it can be done, is most praiseworthy and desirable. Yet who can walk the streets of the metropolis, and not ob serve how totally this is neglected ? Can any thing be so obvious as this mode of employing the poor ?—we mean in making the streets and footpaths passable, which, for several weeks, have been one floundering mass of ice, snow, and mud. Would not one-tenth part of the money which is paid daily at the workhouses to able bodied men in the shape of mere relief, if given as the price of this description of labour, be ten thousand times better bestowed, both as regards the public and individuals ? If parish Boards were not for the most part impervious both to shame and to improvement, they would not re quire, nor would they slight this hint from us. All that we would at present add is, our earnest hope that charity will ope❑ its hand wider and wider during this sad period of suffering*; that the very elements which bind up nature may thaw the heart of man ; and that there may be good sense enough found, among those who distribute so large a portion of public bounty in the shape of poor-rates, to expend it, as far as may be, in productive labour ; which, while it maintains the independence of the poor, makes an advantageous return to the hand of the contri butor.—Morning Herald. We present to our readers this day a con tinuation of the proceedings at the inquest on the body of Richard Hemming. Fifteen or sixteen witnesses still remain to be examined. This is altogether a strange case. The Rev. G. Parker having obtained, for his electioneer ing services, from the late Duke of Norfolk, the Rectory of Oddingley, near Droitwieh, took possession of his living about the year 1800 ; and, what is any thing but unusual, quarrelled with his parishioners immediately respect ing tithes. Being a Westmoreland man, and therefore probably, like all mountaineers, ob stinate and determined, he resolutely fought the good fight till 1806, caring equally little for the love or the enmity of the parishioners, and disregarding all warnings to take care of himself, when one afternoon he was shot at from behind a hedge and afterwards despatched. The murderer, there is little doubt, was R. Hemming, ajobbing carpenter, instigated, there is every reason to believe, by the stimulus of a purse of fifty pounds subscribed by the farmers. But the sin gular part of the business is that Hemming, who had been seen about the place shortly after the murder, was himself murdered ; and his bones, with the foot rule he used to carry with him, his shoes, Sze., have been found in a barn, occupied r 4 the time by Mr. Thomas Clewes, one of the farmers who was examined on Friday last, and has been committed for fprther examination. It would seem that the intention to shoot the parson was no secret in the neighbourhood. Several witnesses depose to conversations to that effect ; and, what is singular, Capt. Evans, a Magistrate of forty ye4rs' standing, who died in May last at the advanced age pf ninety-four, appears to have been one of the loudest in his threats of all the tenants, John Perkins, of Sale-green, Crowle, deposed, that about three quarters of a year before Mr. .Parker's death, he was ,Captain Evans's parlour at the Oddingley Church Varg4, sFhpn Captain Evans, speaking of Mr. Parker and the tithes of Oddingley, said Mr. Parker was a very bad man ? and there was nobody in the parish, .excepting the witness, that agreed with him, and said, " Curse him, he is a :Very h 3.4 inn, and there is no more harm in shooting him tb 4 !pad dog." At Easter, 1806, after the Meeting, at o'4 the Over seers' accounts were passed, there was a dioner y at which wzr.3 present John and Thomas Clewes, captain Evans, Georg,: ! htl Henry Bankes, Mr. Hurcott ? John and William 117 nett, Mr. Jones, Mr. Biar;ball, and vvitness; Captain Evans in the chair. Ci;pt;?,in Evans gave the health of Mr. Parker left-handed, aiid ;,‘.l!. drank it but Mr. Hurgott and witness, who was called a Jacobin for his refusal. A witness (who, by the bye, came forward in consequenc.; of the pub licatibn of the former part of the evidence--air au ditional proof of the advantages of publicity),who was servant at the time to Mr. Thomas Clewes, states; " I knew there were disputes between Mr. Clewes and Mr. Parker, about tithes. Words arose about the milk. None of Melamil,y or servants ever frequented Oddingley chu.-ch; my' master told us he would not order us not to ,To, that we might go ff we liked, but he had rather we should stop away." double murder, the second arising out of the first, is, as we have said, a singular event, and it would be, therefore, unfair to consider it as cha racteristic of the doings in country parishes. Put the bickerings between parson and flock are certainly common enough, though they seldom reach the height of inducing the parishioners to offer a purse for the assassination of the Parson. We are willing to believe that, for the most part, the parishioners are in the wrong, in a legal sense. The truth is, that farmers take their farms in the hope that -the tithes, which are at a certain amount at the time, will not be raised ; and when a new Parson comes and demands an addition, they find them selves in a dilemma. They have embarked a capital on the ground, they are unable to pay the stipulated rent and the addition to the tithes, and they have no alternative but ruin'or throw ing up their farm. The Parson, by holding out for his extreme right, such as claiming the milk of one day in ten (a very awkward claim in hot summer weather) can subject the farmers to great inconvenience. Hence the bitter feuds which prevail in almost every other palish of the king dom.—Morning chronicle. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 1. DUNN V. DUNN. Mr. WAKEFIELD applied to the Lord Chancellor to have the issuing an attachment which had been ordered in this case suspended, until a motion which he had to make, and which was connected with the same subject, could be heard. His LORDSHIP directed the attachment to be stayed accordingly. MORRIS V. DAVIS. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment on the main point in this case, respecting which three several issues have been directed. The facts have been se often stated, that it appears unnecessary again to detail them at length. They are chiefly that Mr. Morris had been separated from his wife by mutual agreement, and resided at a considerable distance from: her. During this separation she bore a child, the present plaintiff, and the question whet her he was to be considered as the legitimate child of Mr. Morris, or as the offspring of an adulterous in tercourse between Mrs. Morris and a young man named Austin, who had been her husband's servant, was the subject of the several issues. His Lordship now recapitulated the facts which had been proved in evidence on the trials. He dwelt particularly on thear guments used by the plaintiff's counsel, that there had in fact been some intercourse between Mr. and Mrs. Morris after the separation, and that therefore such sexual intercourse was to be presumed us might have made the husband the father of the plaintiff. O❑ this point he said the evidence was not so satis factory as to induce him to adopt the conclusion that there had been any such intercourse. He then went through that part of the evidence which re lated to the birth of the child, the concealment of that fact from the husband, the vehement denial of the wife that any such birth had taken place, and the death of the husband in ignorance that a child had in fact been born; the circumstance of the child being taken, at the peril of its life, a few days after it had been born, a distance of thirty miles, to the mother of Austin ; its being baptised in his name, and as " a base born child," educated at school in the same name, and Austin's having left by his will all the small property,he possessed to the child, and without making any provision for his mother and father, who were persons in humble life and necessitous circum,tances. His Lordship then adverted to the rule of law as laid down in the case of the Banbury Peerage, and in " Head and Head," Turver v. 1, p. 138, and which is, that where there is personal access, under such circum stances that there might be sexual intercourse, the law raises the presumption that there has been ac tually sexual intercourse, and that presumption must stand till repelled by evidence that there was not such sexual intercourse. His Lordship read the opinions of the Lord Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Redesdale, in which the same principle was recog nized ; and, alluding to that pronounced by Lord Erskine in the same case (the Benbury Peerage), said it was impossible forany lawyer to concur in the doctrine laid down by the latter. The evidence, as it stood, was sufficient in his mind to repel the pre sumption that such sexual intercourse as was con tended for had taken place, and therefore he was of opinion that the legitimacy of the plaintiff was not proved. Mr. SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied to his Lordship for a declaration to that effect in the case. Mr. HOULE objected, as irregular in the present stage of the cause. After some discussion, it was agreed that the cause should come on this day se'neight, for further directions. There was no other business of general iateres before the Court. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Fru. I. EX-PARTE THE MAGISTRATES OF NEWTON. The ATTORNEY-GENEII.AL moved for a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the proprietor of a newspaper in the West of England, for a libel on the Magistrates of the division of Newton, in Devonshire. The pub lication complained of arose out of the circumstance of the Magistrates having refused a licence for a public-house to a petson of the name of Marcany, who appealed to the Sessions, where it was granted. The consequence of this was, that in the article in question the writer had thought fit to im pute to one of the Magistrates that he had exercised corrupt influence over the others, to induce them to refuse the license; and he charged them all with " jobbing," and holding their sittings in secret. The Learned Counsel read the article, which ap peared to be in the form of a letter from-a corre spondent.—Rule nisi granted. TILE KING V. MARSDEN AND OTHERS. Mr. lIUNPHRBY stated, that in this case, at the sittings after last term, the defendants had been convicted of a libel on the Duke of Wellington, published in the Morning Journal newspaper, and had received notice to appear on Thursday next, to receive the judgment of the Court. He was in structed to apply on behalf of the defendant Isaac son, for a rule to show cause why that person should not be allowed till next term to appear. The affidavit stated that he was a Clergyman, holding the living of St. Paul, in Demerara. He had come over to England on leave of absence for a year; and that time having expired, he had been ordered to re turn. If he did not do so immediately, his living wot;ld be taken from him. He had no doubt that he should be able to return before the next term, and as he had already entered into securities to ap pear to receive thejudgment of the Court, he hoped their Lordships would allow the time for his appearance to be postponed. He was not the au thOr of the libel, but merely a proprietor of the paper.—Rule nisi graai:4, COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 1. 7,Thig was the day on which it was expected that the n ew Judge wo - 41d take his seat; but in conse quence of some mistake in the patept, which it took c;'..w time to recmify, owing to the necessity of its being sent but: to Windsor, his Lordship was not sworn in before the rising of thm Court. PREROGATIVE COURT, FEII. 1. ILTID NICEIOLL, ESQ. V. DAINES. The testator in this case was Robert Spinksy otherwise Newsome, a bastard and a minor , and the question related to a paper of equivocal charac ter, alleged to be testamentary, but wanting only certain legal requisites to be a deed of gift. The testator was the illegitimate son of Robert Spinks; yeoman, of Peasenhall, Suffolk, who subsequently married the mother, by whom he bad another son; John Exeter Spinks, born in wedlock. The former was born in 1796, the latter in 1806. Mary Dairies, the party in the suit, was a servant in the family, who had the occasional care of these children ; she was a friend of their mother. By his will Robert Spinks bequeathed a sum of 5001. to his illegitimate son, the testator in the cause, and left the residue of his property jointly to both sons, when the youngest came of age. Robert Spinks the younger died in 1815, aged 19. Shortly previous to his death, lie drew up a paper in the following terms :—" I, Robert Spinlis, in the presence of the under-men tioned witnesses (naming two persons, whose sig natures were attached), do give my goods and chat tels to Mary Dairies." Of this paper, which bore date the 29th of June, 1815, Mrs. Dairies, as exe cutrix arid universal legatee, in 1828, took probate in common form. Soon after, however, it was re called at the suit of the King's proctor, who, on behalf of the Crown, sought an intestacy, on the ground that the paper was not testamentary, arid that the deceased had been under influence and con troul. The property is about 15,0001. After hear ing Counsel, The COURT intimated that it would give sentence on a future day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Yesterday Ann Johnson, an unfortunate woman of the town, and John French, a man of decent ap pearance, were charged by a night patrol, named Lyman, under the following circumstances, before the LORD MAYOR, who sat for the first time during his severe illness : Lyman, on going his rounds on Sunday night at eight o'clock, was addressed by two young men, who told him that the woman was going to rob the man, who was in a state of intoxication. He watched accordingly, and perceived that the female had got into her possession the man's bundle. Witness, who gave a very confthed account of the affair, then inter fered, and the woman gave back the bundle to the owner, who thereupon accused him (the patrol) of having stolen it. Under these circumstances, the witness took both into custody, and lodged them in the watch- house. The LORD MAYOR asked the patrol whether be knew any thing of the woman ?--Iyman knew her to be a common street-walker. He had followed and watched the two for some time. Mr. nobler —Why you said just now that your attention was first called to the woman by two young men. The defendant French, who is a butcher, and person of good character, certainly had been at the time in liquor ; but denied most positively that the woman had robbed him, or that she had attempted to do any thing of the kind. He also declared that the officer's interference was quite unjustifiable. J. Watkins, of No. 19, Bishopsgate-street, ob served the woman walking near the other defendant at the time above stated. He saw Lyman shake his stick at her, and afterwards he heard the sound of a mast tremendous blow, and on looking round saw the unfortunate woman reel and tumble down. It was evident that she had been struck by Lyman. Witness followed on, to see how the matter would end. The'conduct of the officer was most brutal. Lyman—Why you bear towards me, and I shall look after you. The LORD MAYOR reprimanded the officer for having thus conducted himself towards the witness. Charles Snell, of 27, Little Sutton-street, had ob served the transaction, and he confirmed the account given by Mr. Watkins. The LORD MAYOR stated that Alderman Cope land would particularly investigate this case, along with others, in his own ward, on the following day. Mr. Goldham, the clerk of Billingsgate-market, came to the Justice-room, in consequence of the evi dence given at an inquest held before Mr. Payne, the Coroner, cn the body of a man who was drowned at Billingsgate on Friday last. That evidence was calculated to make a very erroneous impression. It had been stated that the deceased had fallen off a plank which was no more than nine inches in width. Now the planks were not less than twenty-one inches in width, and it was the duty of one of the witnesses to have placed two of them together. But it happened also that the deceased did not fall from a plank but front the side of a boat. Every sort of precaution was, in fact, used to prevent ac cidents at Billingsgate : gas-lights were properly placed, and drags were always in readiness; but the traffic was so very great, that accidents were some times inevitable. The LORD MAYOR expressed himself satisfied at this explanation. GUILDHALL Matthew Carter, the constable of Bread-street Ward, charged on Saturday with having stabbed his wife, was brought up for re-examination yester day, before Sir J. PERRING. The officer who had him in custody reported that he had visited Mrs. Carter, and found her much better ; and that she stated her opinion to be that her husband was not conscious of what he was doing when he inflicted the wound. The officer also put in the certificate of Mr. Holmes, the sur geon, which stated that he had no hesitation in saying she was now out of danger. Upon these representations the Alderman ad mitted the defendant, to bail, himself in 801., and two sureties in 401. each. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. Milton, who lately carried on the business of a horse-dealer on an extensive scale in Piccadilly, was charged before Sir It. BIRNIE and Mr. HALLS, with having stolen two geldings, the property of Mr. Elmore, the well-known horse dealer of Duke -street, Arancliester-square. The case occupied a considerable time, but the facts may be briefly summed up. It appeared that Mr. Milton had failed in business some time ago, and Mr. Elmore became one of his assignees. The stock of the bankrupt having been sold by auction, the premises, situate in Pear-tree-yard, Piccadilly, where he had conducted his business, were rented by Mr. Elmore, who employed Mr. Milton as his agent or assistant to superintend the concern.— There was no express stipulation as to the amount of remuneration he was to receive, but it was un derstood that he was to be paid for his trouble, and Mr. Elmore distinctly swore that he considered him in en other light than his servant. The business of jobbing was carried on in the yard, and sums of money to a large amount came into the hands of Mr. Milton. On the 20th of January last Mr. Elmore, who also carried on business in Duke street, Manchester-square, came to Pear-tree-yard, and directed his clerk there to make out an account of the monies received and paid by Mr. Milton during his management of the business. By this statement, it appeared that Mr. Milton was indebt ed to Mr. Elmore in the sum of 1,1001. on the job account, and that he was further indebted to that gentleman in the sum of 0001., on account of horses. As a setoff against these sums, the sum of 500/. was accounted for by Mr. Milton, in the purchase of horses for Mr. Elmore, and on the day when the above account was made out, Mr. Milton took Mr. Elmore round the yard, and pointed out to him se veral horse!' which he alleged he had purchased on A‘ , oriric.dlatAf Milton, e r iol a rti trans pired, account of that gentleman, 'and paid for with his money. p re d anr c Ed o ; : na s iec e oi re? accompanied pl e ‘nr n vpee c asn e entni o ec f idel something e e ldi aa l s i ys i l og e e r d r k "t I PDer .:k :l r ' e tarr y eld o e tt a partner of mine ?" to which Mr. Mil ton replied in the negative. Mr. Elmore then called upon him to say in what capacity he appeared, to which Mr. Milton answered, " As your servant, to be sure, and I trust to your generosity to give me whatever you please." Mr. Elmore then charged Mr. Milton with having paid away some bil)s ac cepted in the name of Milton and. Co., and finally told hin he would lifyve nothing more to do with him. Mr. Milton, however, refused to go, observ ng, " You have got plenty of money by the con cern, and if you come to that, all the horses here are mine." He then told Mr. Elmore he might do his best, and that be would take possession of the yard, horses, and all. In fulfilment of this threat, Mr. Milton, after he went away, returned to the yard and took away a horse, and carried off another on the same day, in spite of the remonstrances of Mr. Elmore's clerks and servants. Upon these grounds Mr. Adolphus contended that a clear case of felony had been established against Mr. Milton. Mr. Curwood maintained that the evidence would warrant no such conclusion. Mr. HALLS observed, that the difficulty which he saw in the case was this—had Mr. Elmore made out his ownership to the horses alleged to be stolen by such evidence as would leave no doubt of the fact ? All that had been proved upon that point merely went to show that certain horses, including the two that were the subject of this inquiry, had been purchased by Mr. Milton for Mr. Elmore; but he (Mr. Halls) was of opinion that a mere declara tion to that effect was not a sufficient proof of ownership. After a considerable discussion, Mr. HALLS was clearly of opinion that no evi dence had been offered to prove a felonious inten tion on the part of the accused; neither had it been proved that the property iu question was legally vested in the prosecutor; and under these circum stances he should not feel himself at all justified in entertaining the charge. Sir R. BIRNIE agreed in this opinion, and after an ineffectual endeavour had been made to induce the Magistrates to hold Mr. Milton to bail, that per son was discharged, and the parties retired. QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday the time of the Magistrates, Messrs. MARRIOTT and WHITE, was chiefly occupied in hearing the cases of distressed paupers, and order ing them relief. The greater part of them appeared in a most distressed state, and many of them de clared that they had not tasted food for some days. Amoog the nnmber of applicants was a young man named William Sheffield, and perhaps a more wretched object of pity never presented himself before a Magistrate. He had scarcely sufficient to cover his nakedness, and had nothing on but an old worn-out jacket and a pair of trousers. He was quite destitute of shoes, stockings, shirt, or hat, and trembled so exceedingly from cold, that he wus scarcely able to utter a word. With some difficulty he stated that he was a parishioner of St. Margaret's parish ; he had applied to the overseers for assistance, and they had refused to relieve him. He was in that state of distress that he must soon either perish from cold or hunger, for he was unable to get any work. It. MARRIOTT—For God's sake, Mr. Painter, get him to the workhouse as fast as possible, or he may perish in the streets.—The poor fellow was then sent to the workhouse. Mr. MARRIOTT observed, that he never saw so many paupers about as he had done that morning on his road from Queen-square, Bloomsbury, to the office; he, however, did not find near so many when he got into St. Margaret's parish ; he was of opi nion this was occasioned by the numbers of persons going for relief to the Mendicity Society, in Red Lion-square. Mr. WHITE said, that ever since the Mendicity Society had been established in London, there had been a considerable increase of paupers. A number of other paupers, in a moat distressed state, made applications, the greater part of whom received temporary relief. Mr. Painter, the overseer, said the inhabitants had entered into a subscription for the further relief of the poor. MR. OWEN, TO THE BANKERS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. GENTLEMEN,—You have amassed enormous sums of money, by means of a system which has reduced the real producers of wealth to the lowest state of misery. You are, however, blameless, having acted as all other men would have done under like cir cumstances. And many of you are, I know, sin• cerely anxious to remedy the evils which the system under which you have acted has produced. You are too intelligent not to understand, that every shilling which you have acquired has been circuit ously drawn from the hard earnings of the agricul tural labourer, or from the skill and industry of the operative manufacturer. The industrious classes have thus paid dearly for the representation of their wealth, with which you have supplied them. You have given to them a shadow, and have received from them their sub stance. Had they possessed sufficient knowledge, they would have created for themselves another re presentative of the wealth which they produced; one which they might have obtained for a small commission, without risk or the payment of addi tional interest, by which to exchange their commo dities and services; and thus would have been spared that enormous loss, sustained by them, in upholding banking establishments and their pro prietors, to the real benefit of none, and to the in jury of all. Had this knowledge not been hidden from the industrious classes, by reason of the igno rance in which they were involved, they would have discovered, that to possess the requisites of a sound or correct representation, it must be one which should increase as their real wealth increased; and diminished as their wealth diminished ; and, which was unchangeable in its value; and thus, your bank notes would be rendered valueless, and your gold and silver held in less estimation than iron and steel. Existing circumstances have permitted you to ae quire the artificial wealth you now possess, but others are about to arise, which will reduce the wealth again to its intrinsic value. By all your proceedings, you have not created one pennyworth of real wealth; but you have abundantly consumed that which the working classes produced ; of which, however, by a legerdemain in society, they have been prevented consuming but a very small portion. What is now to be done? How is justice to be awarded, and yet none injured ? Let some of the surplus artificial sums which you possess be applied, while the circumstances of society give them cur rency to create new arrangements, under new know ledge, which will secure for yourselves and your children permanent advantages, a hundred fold more beneficial for you and them than can be ex perienced under the miserable system of deception in which you and the whole world are now involved, and in which you are compelled to act the part of irrational beings, to your own incalculable loss and grievous injury. The principles on which these new circumstances will be formed, have been developed, and submitted to the consideration of the British Cabinet; but no Government can change the fundamental prin ciples, on which human society has been based, without the aid of an enlightened and influential public opinion. Your early accession to the measures proposed will benefit yourselves, and the community, in an essential manner; and will be the best compensa tion you can make to those classes upon whose wealth and ignorance yo u have hitherto subsisted. 49, Bedford square, Jan. 22. ROBERT OWEN. It is said that Dr. LYALL, or BERESFORD, the Rector of St. Andrew's, Holborn, will be the new Bishop of St. Asaph. TIIE WEATHER IN IRELAND.--The wea ther in Ireland, considering the accounts receiv e d f rom other quarters of Europe, has been singularly favourable. The glass has seldom descended below 40, and we have had many days as fine for the season as could possibly be expected. Colds have been more prevalent than usual, but on the whole we have suffered as little of the r;gours of winter as points of Europe seven or 800 miles to the southward of our latitude.—Dublin Morning Register•. SHEEP SKINS. Wool O. Od. tooa. Od. f Od. to 3s. ed. Downs Ls. Ed. to Vs. Od. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the 3 I%letronoll • - is 10d. tot the Ch. Loaf. Them are others who sell from }id. to I}4d. hel° W t::at price. Red Clover Seed ( 5 25.w.-4.)F401..1. PRICE OF SEEDS w English ( •Id Ditto —3. *-11. tine — 4 . fine 58i. 700. , zw Foreign I)itl t Id Ditto --- 50e fire 608:1 05 . 40i. fine 50e. 65+• "ew White Clover. 60s. fine 70a. 9 69 . 70s. fine SO.. 841- Old Ditto Diti N,lw Trefoil Oki Ditto 1:4) Grass English Carraway Sei Fureign Ditto ----, Coriander 12s. 245. fine 300. 921. —s. tine —a 400. 2%. fine .-.6. .-4. -.7 iiii: Zia. fine __e. —e. —s. fine .4 —e. tte. fine —4. VOL St. Foin (per Quarter)........,...... —s. —s. 328. fine 425. It ye Grass —..,—.... 20s. 38s. new —0... 4 ' Pacey I)itto . 36e. 455. new —B. —' l • Linseed, for feeding —,........ —s. 38s. fine —..s. 4 01 • Ditto, for crushing —s. 4h. 425. fine —a• Canary Seed, New —e. 42, fine —e. 481• Ditto Old . --s. --s. —s. tine - -6 . White Mustard Seed—(per Bushel)—.—.os. 6s. i)s. Od. fine — 4 * Brown I)itto --- . —s. Us. 14s. fitu. --:, 0 • Turnip Seeds, Rounds . - —s. —s. les. fine 1w• Green and Red Ditto -e3. —s. 12s. line 16a. fares, Old . 94s. 40s. fine --0. Ditto New —s. —a. fine Us. 495. lta i ,eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 301. 321. Foreign 271. 904 PRICES OF HOPS.—Feb. I, Kent Pockets Sussex Ditto Punt Ditto fstellam Ditto. Seconds Kent hags 61 Os. 71. Os. to 101 Of. 51 16z. 61. 10s. to 61. 164. 61. Os. 6/. 16s. to Si. 84. 0!. Os. 1:1. Os. to 131 139. 01. Os. 9!. Os to 10/. 101. 51. 12s. 61. 101. to 81. Os. 5/. ss. 61. Os. to 61. N. 51. 128. 61. N. to 71. 71. Essex Ditto., Sussex Ditto PRICE OF POTATOES.—Feb. J. Kidneys 4l. ss. to 4./..145. per ton. Scotch Reds ---.... 4l. Os. to 01. Os. ditto. Oznobles and Shawn .................. 2/. ss. to 31. 3s. ditto. PRICE OF OIL. Rape Oil, brown —......—. 411. 65...,..,,. Refined ~..,.1 43 6 Linseed 0i1,..,, ewrosorneowee.wenwowswaenr.wee........... 21 0 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand Rape Cake, per ton 11 0 6 0 riticEs OF LEATHER. Per lb. d. to d. Per lb. d. tod. 8utt5—,......50 to 561 b... 14 191 Tanned Horse Index.. 16 IS Ditto--60 to 661 b... 21 22 Spanish Ditto --.......... 19 21 Dressing Hide 5.........,...... 14 16 I'er dozen. Fine Coach Hides 18 19 Calf Skins.,.26 to 4(lb. 16 2 J; Crop Hides, 25 to 401 b. 14 16 Ditto —.0—.50 to 7015. 22 2 , Ditto —..........-45 to 501 h. 16 18 Ditto 70 to 801 b. 19 21 , Ditto .. lB 20 Small Seals. Greenland 20 9 1 WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.—Jan. Si 114 y ....—....... 50s. Od. to 88i. Od. i (lover .—...60a. Od. to 110 s. Od. 5traw......,.........,.... 36a, Od. to 42a. Od. COAL I%IA It ats. 6d. Sd 0 Dean's Primrose-. K EE—Feb. 1. Walls End Nevrmarch.. 395. Od• Ditto Northumberland 39 0 Ditto Peareth 6 Ditto Perkins and C 0.., 38 Ditto lliddcll's Ditto Russell's 39 t' Killingworth .....—............ Liddell's Main.....—,.... 38 0 30 0 3A 0 32 0 Percy East 3' 0 Shipeot fantield 3.5 0 Willington Wylarn WallsEndliewicke&Co. :•9 9 Ditto Bell Hobson & Co. 38 G Walls Endl3rown's 37 3 Ditto Burraton 38 0 Ditto Clarke and C 0.., 36 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 36 0 Ditto Crainlington...—... 33 0 Ditto Gosforth 29 9 )itto 39 0 Ditto llilda . _ Ditto llotspur---.. 37 6 , Ships at in.irket, 101 —Sh Ditto Walker . 4O 0 Lambton's Primrose Russell's High ............ SI 0 Russell's 39 0 Walls Fnd 41 0 Walls End Lambton--. 41 0 Walls End 99 6 Walla End Stewart's .. 41 0 Cannel (per 50 0 Cowpen 34 0 Greenwich Hospital... SI 0 Hartley .35 0 , Pemberton Llaitgenneeli 57 0 New Etherley small...—. 21 0 Old Etherley small ....... 21 0 !ips gold. 68%--Ungold. 35. NEWCASTLE-UPON--TYNE MARKET.-Jan. 30. We had a good supply of Wheat from the farmers day, and having a speculative demand, the whole Wil l taken off readily at an advance of Is. per.quarter on the best samples. The supply of O a t s was a l so l arge , an i sales brisk at last week's prices. The best samples 0 Barley have sold readily during the week, at an advance of Is. per quarter ; other qualities without change. Fine sound Rye in good demand. Little doing in Pease or Beans. New. Old. Wheat, Northumberland 'AB. 625. --s. —s- Norfolk and 5uff01k...... ......... 595. 60s. -a. ... 4 . Berwick and Scotch 565. 585....... —B. --s. Dantzig ...4..-.41. Rye, Norfolk and Stiflobt .325. 375. ...... ~--s. --a - rereign --s —s. 32s. 36s- Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk-225. 31s Grinding and Feeding 245. 268 Malt, Norfolk and 5uff01k......... ............ —s. N2d. sls. Beans, Small —a. —s. Tick 3rs. 995. Pease, White —a. —a....... 38s. 446. Gray .325. 345. Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 2ls. 255. -s -. 4 - - Feed 16s 12s. --s. ... 4 . Foreign ....8. ...4. Flour, Fine (per sack) —a —5....... 435. 448• IRISH MARKETS. Wheat, I Barley. Oats. Iper barrel' per barrellper barrel 20 stone. I - 16 stone. 114 atom Flour, per cwt. 18.(Las.d. s.d. as.d.l s.d. Cork ,---25 0-32 0 11 2-14 0' 9 0-11 Limerick 1210—`29 0 10 0-12 0 89— 9 Waterford i 25 0-30 0 12 0-110 9 9-11 Cloinnel —2l 0-30 6 11 0-14 6 10 8-14 Carlow.., - 1 26 0-30 012 0-19 010 0-13 Beef, Mutton, Pork, Butter. .......-- per lb. per lb. per cwt. Ist. 2d. 3d. 4th -11 1 . .. ).5 -----,-- --.- Id. a d. d. a d. 5. d. a s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d , s. d. , i• Cork ....... 4e-6 4—6 18 0 —23 0710 67 61 056 0 0 49 „, n I Limerick— 4 —5 4 6 23 0-20 0'66 060 54 0490 I. " Waterford 3 —5l 3,1 51 23 0-25 6,73 068 0 57 053 0 .---, ° n Clonmel .. 3i —4l 3 —q2s 0 —26 0168 060054052 9 W „' Carlow.... 4 —5llO 0 00— 0 0178 0740 64 054 0-- ' Kioramm—Butter C 63 to 68s. per cwt. ; Wheat 28s. to 3 1 s . per barrel ; Flour 18c to 365. per bag; Oats 9s. to 11s. per 13 2 !r' rel ; Barley 10s. to 12s. ; Beef 4d. to 5%d. per lb. ; Mutton :3 41 ' to 4d. ; Potatoes sd. per stone; Coals Is. 2d. per cwt.:; IWO Pigs 245. to 265 per cwt. CRIM. CON. IN SPAIN.-MADRID, .JAX• 12.--A curious circumstance of this nature has just taken place in this city, which has afforded matter for con Vere sation during the last fortnight. The dramatis personal are a handsome young Englishman, and a lady moving io the highest circle. The husband having learned that too close sn intimacy existed between the Englishman and . 111 0 wife, obtained, through the medium of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, from his colleague M. CALOMARDE, order for the expulsion of the aggrieving party, which je about being carried into execution. The people in office here have eagerly seized upon this opportunity of manifest' ing their dislike to the English, who now in vain look for that distinction which they were wont to receive. The fact is, the Government of this country would willinglY put every Englishman out of Spain, if they could do le with a shadow of plausibility, and thus effectually prevent the insertion of the paragraphs which from time to time appear in the English journals to their manifestannoyance• How different -is the conduct of this Government to that adopted by your s. In England a number of Spaniard" who receive no sustenance from this country, are supported' whilst here nothing but obstructions are experienced by the English; of the injustice shown to whom, unfortunately too many instances are on record: 'e• I • let. 2d. _____-....--": (I.ls. d. as. d. s. d.as. a. 11 0 16 6-20 1 80-1 6, 0, 9 4 14 0-21 0 0 0--•, - . 0 1 0 18 0-24 0 10 o— , •' - 1 0 20 0-25 0 12 0—.16 0 30 20 6-21 0 0 0-- 0 0 BIRTHS. On the 29th ult. the lady of the Rev. G. T. Pretyniant of a son. On the 27th ult. in St. James's-square, the Baronet de Rutssen, of a son. On the 30th ult. at Westhotpe, the lady of Sir T. F• Freemantle, Bart. M.P. of a son and heir. On the let inst. in Lincoln's-inn-fields, the lady of N• T. Copeland, Esq. of a son. On the 2Sth ult. at Sulhy, Northamptonshire, the lady of F. L. Holyoake, Esq. of a son, which survived its birth only a few hours. On the 30th ult. at Fulham, the lady of J. Drummond , jun. Esq. of a son. On the SOth ult. at Croydon, Mrs. John Harmait, a son. On the 29th ult. Mrs. C. I. Shoubilage, of Guilford . street, Russell-square, of a son. MARRIED. On the 30th ult. at St. ' Westminster, F.' W. Dunne, Esq. to Caroline, relict of Captain Turner, o f the 58th Regiment, and daughter of the late Alderman Druittp of Winchester. On the 1 4th ult. at Dover-court, Essex, H. W. 3,% bin. field, Esq. Lieutenant, R.N., to Louisa, daughter of the late J. Plummer, Esq. of London. On the 10th of Dec. at the island of St. Michael's, W. R. C. Kendall, Esq. his Majesty's Vice-Consul fur ,tha t island, t o C a r o line Read, daughter of Mr. W m . PEI° Read, of Portsmouth. ; "if DIED. On the MI) ult. at Worthing, in a convulsive fit, the Honourable Arthur Dudley Law, the only child of Ler° Ellenborough. On the 22d ult. at Verslilles, General G. Moncrieffr late of the 90th Regiment of Foot. On the 29th ult. at the Deanery, Winchester, tlirah, wife of the Very Rev. Dr. Rennell, Dean of Winchester, and daughter of the late Judge Blackstone, in the a4th year of her age• On the 31st ult. Ann, wife of E. Driver, Esq. of mond-terrace, Whitehall. On the 30th ult. in Newgate-street, Thomas Starker? aged 54. PRINTED AND PUBLDDIXD BY lilllltDO YOUNG; Al SHE SUN OFFION, 112, &NAND Lowont Peiaw This LIEI T .Pith Plate Publish, Charing -el Th e Au Papers fri karA a l Jc Stuart • de llowden), either in tl solar War. Colonel Dili but for all This day CC 410 A ; it of thi P o i, West Pgss, " H e 11: Which v on struetion.' 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