The Sun. — London, England, 1830-07-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. 4~ When Lord Killeen demanded of the King's Ministers, in the House of Commons, whether they would not send over relief to the destitute poor of ~ Ireland, Sir :Robert Peel answered distinctly that 1 " they would not." Considering the rec urrence A and the progress of famine among the Iri sh pea -1 sentry, we are now convinced that his Majesty's Government has formed in this respect a wise de termination. For England to take the care of the 'i:4 whole mass of Irish paupers upon herself, would be, :q to authorise and encourage the continuance of those ,1 practices in the landlords from which paupers have ,` been so deplorably multiplied, end the degree et. ~ A ~;, wretchedness within our own remembrance, st - ., k frightfully enhanced. The Press of England, ant V. i 1 the better part of English society, have preached o. too long, and vainly preached, to the reason, the Es, •.) compassion, the well-understood self-interest of the Irish gentry. We must henceforth try another'' ~ .;, 1 course, and preach directly to their pockets, which ,Tire not slow of hearing. The poor of Ire land have hitherto been kept from starving "those who have not starved) by wages paid for their work in England, or by an inconceivably small portion of charity from the upper classes and unbounded humanity and generosity amongst each bt ..;,4 other at home. If the gentlemen of Ireland aresuf .! fered to persuade themselves that such a state of . 4 .-; things can go on for ever,--that they may appro ii priate to themselves so much of the fruits of the it,l poor man's labour, as to leave him but the minimum ~ ,L,•: by which human life can be sustained, and that pre '*! cariously, for himself and children, —if they, the ;se aristoceacy, are permitted to hope that when there is a suspension of pauperism, they are to have all' the benefit, and when an excess of it England must, iel supply the 1055,..5--it is plainly and broadly saying, that the Irish aristocrats shall have a vested inte- . I ~,., rest in the rack and degradation of their country, l : ; -4,1 I hat the Legislature shall not dare to touch their .:•is'" freehold," and that any improvement in the re. lotions of landlord and tenant throughout Ireland is .!. forbidden by the articles of Union. That the Irish landlords at present have an immediate interest in the spoliation of their tenantry, is beyond all dis pute: for the obvious reason, that when oppression breaks a poor man down, he has no legal claim—not ' to a pennyworth—ofrestitution from the spoils which have been wrung from . and have ruined him, if, t hen, the Government and Legislature would advance '' one step towards the reform of this dreadful evil, it must be by throwing back the paupers of Ireland upon those who have made them paupers. The Irish gentlemen must be told, " Make poor at c., your peril; for the poor you make you shall be ut ~ the t c h o e st m of is m u li t n ia t: ye i maintaining ." O M . ne n h g as s _we po hear ot and know the t. • fli lib • lulus, 1, c ; superiority of poor laws, even ill-administered, over I no laws prescribing a provision for poverty, is :mini :.A feat enough from the undisputed fact that there exist ii mere frequent returns of absolute want among the 0 poor of Ireland, and a fur greater extent of it when it does come, than in nightie! at the worst crisis of ;•Il her history. We are aware that Ministers have now before them one or more plans for relieving Irish ss wretchedness or averting it.: one is, by following °,,,... the English precedent, and feeding and clothing the 1 destitute, though idle poor; the other, for relieving them in the form of wages for labour,—employing ..,: them in useful' and necessary public works, and thus '1 • • promoting at once the meting of coMmunication, and • the growth of production throughout the country. , We know not which bids fairest for approval by the ; King's Government, but to us it seems that paying , for labour (that is, making the Irish landlord p a y i for the labour) might be the best thing to beg in with, since the elternative would be only to support : involuntary idleness : but either is preferable to L' letting our fellow - subjects perish.—Times. We do not exactly comprehend the abject at 64 . which die newspapers of Ireland are aiming at the r. .: 4 : present moment. The Dublin Morning Register il of Monday last, for instance, has the following ex hortation :-- "To VIE PREEIFOLDERS Oto IRELAND. " The flagitious Disfranchisement Bill has done that to the constituency which the Union did to the Representa tives of the people : it has swept them off to less than a ' fifth I This is the time to show public virtue, if it exist in the hearts of the people. All arts and every species of open injustice have been used to destroy their power, but it may still he made the means of avenging the wrongs of , the country, if corruption and cowardice do not do more .. to render it nugatory than all the Ants of wicked and apoliating legislation, The fewer the votes, the more pre cious, like the Sibylline verses, those that remain behind, and the more imperative it is on the possessors to bestow them for the benefit of the country, and the benefit of the country alone. There are no double duties now to'dis- tract men's minds; candidates can claim the popular auf- frages on one ground alone, and that is the maintenance of Irish right against the aggreision of Englishmen States. men. Plundered and impoverished as we have been, ' drsined as we were in time of war, and neglected as ue , were in time of peace, we have only escaped by accident from the infliction of new and intolerable privations, and it depends upon ourselves whether the attempt to wholly sacrifice us to the comfort and convenience of English• men—to revive the policy which Pitt described forty.five years ago, when he said that its object had been to de prive Ireland of the use of her own resources and render her subservient to the opulence of England—it depends, we say, upon ourselves, whether this base. and audacious . attempt be not repeated and be successful." We have no disposition to justify the former can. duet of England towards Ireland; but us there is: ; certainly no disposition in the present day to repeat that conduct, which indeed is utterly foreign to the spirit of the age, the sooner all parties bury the past in oblivion the 'better. What is it that the Irish now.want ? Do they want a separate Legislature ? Perhaps it would be better fur both England nod . Ireland that the details) of Ireland were discussed in • 'an Irish Legislature. But we do not perceive that. they wish to dissolve the Union. If, than, the iti. eorporated Union is to be preserved, why is Ireland to be opposed to 'England ? Why speak of sacri- fieime Ireland wholly to the comfort and convenience of Englishmen ? As well say that Middlesex i,, sacrificed to the comfort and convenience of EsseN.l: or Surrey. It can never conduce to the comfort and convenience of Englishmen that the prosperity of Ireland should be retarded. In truth, English- ; men feel but too sensibly the troubles of Ireland, for they told to ber,burdettri not a little. It is the interest of, Englishinen that Ireland should bA, wealthy and prosperous, because every increase ofl the wealth and prosperity of Ireland would di- minish the pressure of the common burdens, flu' why should Ireland, instead of considering the United Kingdom as one whole,,equal in advantages and dia. allvantages, seek to add to the burdens of England' by an exemption from any part of her fair share ? .The poduce of the industry of England and Ireland haves common market, and ought to be subject to the same burdens. To depart from the principle of equal taxation would render necessary the renewal of restrictions on the trade between rho two court= tries and all the machinery of countervailing duties, and would consequently open a wide door to !smuggling, Sze, If the Irish are to remain with Ils it 6 an incorporating Union, and to be entitled to the same advantages as the rest of the empire, then we any they have no chain: to shake themselves freifrom the common burdens. To admit any other prins eiplei would be taxing the people of England and Scotland, for the sake of additel to the wealth of l'itlttn'i• The Ministry deserve the thanks of the erry in their endeavoitr to free the interztal trade the empire front , efiaeldes and to equalize the taxes. To p l e ve , a , 0 ' f le outcry 0 the Irish News. - : papers, it would have been as well if they had lowered the duties in Enedend to the Irishl ' l rather than attempt to raise t h e Lid d n k to e : t e '' English level. Any attempt on Ow l t o ; I '' —l ; 6 ' t Members to separate themsl frets P utt ' I I° hi" i, , s, yes i - the rest of Idle Members, would only procineler t.lto :Ministry ! the undivided support of the Erigii e h and 8,146 i Members. Any Irish Member 'ho pledges hi tr i. eel( to his constituents to vote in ftivoar of unequal taxation, pledges himself to that of which in Ilk ~,,,,e s eierwe }w nitt4 disapprove, and which weal have nn influence on Ministers, Ministers would L wish nothing better4than an attempt of this kind by the Irish Members, because it would give thein thel cordial support of the English and Scotch Members; ! of all parties.—Morning Chronicle. The apparent lukewarmness of the electors t throtighout the kingdom as to the result of the sp , preaching general election augurs ill for the present state of patriotism and public spirit throughout the kingdom. It may be that, in some places, at least, I they are reserving their strength till the day of trial arrives, and that in others they are quiescent for want of candidates; but, in the main, we fear the indifference we allude to is but too certain, and arises from past experience of the little reliance which is to be placed on the zeal and promises of those who on former similar occasions professed so ! much and have performed so little. We are not de • sirous (God forbid we should be!) of seeing the nation thrown into the heats and contests, in which passion takes the piece of reason ; hut we do wish to see the people, when called upon to exercise the highest privilege of freemen—that of nominating those who are to represent them in the Government —rationally and actively engaged in inquiring how their interests have been guarded in the ex piring, Parliament, and how best to supply any deficiency in the new.. This, as yet, we do not see; on, nor any tendency towards it. For the most parr, the same bees seem likely to be returned to the hive, accompanied, too, by not a few of the . drones; and where that is not the case, and any new zeal is likely to be enlisted in the service, seems as if it would arise from accidental eircum s stance rather than from any expression of popular. or public feeling. This sullen indifference augurs., ill, we repeat, both to the country and its prospects, Were it the result of prosperity and contentment ice shoidd hail it with as unmixed satisfaction in , under contrary circumstances, we deplore it. Every one who has not his own fingers in the public honey pot knows and feels that the mass of the people are .tny thing but contented and happy, and that gaunt distress has found its way not only to the door of the poor man, but has passed, in numberless in stances, the thresholds of those who were hitherto ,exempt from its approaches. In former times, hart 'such a state of things presented itself, the people would have anxiously looked to Parliament,' espe cially to a new Parliament, for relief. They would have felt that there was no wrong without n remedy; no error but which, by timely discovery and interfe rence, might be retraced and remedied. Unhappily chat does not seem now to be the feeling. Hopeless despair seems to take the place of constitutional remonstrance and inquiry ; and, as if dragooned into their fate, they look with coldness to the very crisis which, in former times, would have presented the obvious period of redress. And what will be said by-and-bye, should the new Parliament persist in the errors of the past ? Will not the very silence . pf the people be construed into an acquiescence in them ; and will they not be told that it will be of no use to complain then, after the constitutional pe riod for making their sentiments known has passed by unheeded by themselves ? We deplore then this apathy as ominous of a feeling which, above all, we are anxious should not spread and gain ground in the t•ountry—viz., an indifference to, and want of cut- Adence in, the popular branch of the Constitution. (Than this nothing is to be more deplored. Much is past Parliaments may have disappointed the just expectations of the people—much as the tergiversa tion and unprincipled conduct of professing patriots nay have tended to shake the general confidence of the people in public men—general opinion, rationally formed and firmly expressed, can never fail, however for a time disregarded, to have that influence on public affairs which must ultimately set things right, in spite of the ignorance, the obstinacy, or something worse, of those from whose situation better things might have been expected.—Morning Herald. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jun' 14. STEriiiiNs v. WILKINSON AND ANOTHER, This was an action against Messrs. Daniel nod Archibald Wilkinson, on their acceptance for 7411 35., dated the 30th of October, 1820, payable twe months after date to the plaintiff, Henry Powell Stephens. The defendant's hand-writing having been proved, two points were raised for the de fence—lst, that there had been no valid considera tion for the bill; and 2d, that the consideration had failed since the acceptance was given. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 14. Mr. Justice OASELET; sat to-clay in the absence of he Chief justice, who was summoned to attend he Privy Council. 1.01)Elt V. ROWBOTTOAG This was an action brought by a person named Loder, against the proprietor of the notorious Finish," to recover 36/. 165., being the amount lof wages due by the defendant for work and labour Clone by the plaintiff's wife. Mr. *deem Wit= stated the ease. The ac tion was brought to recover a balance of wages due by Rowbottom to the wife of the plaintiff, who had lived at the Finish as bar-maid, prior to her mar riage. Mr. Rowbottom, it appeared, was a man or taste, and moreover the proprietor of the Finish, a house long celebrated in the annals of Covent garden, end which not only afforded accommoda tion to ladies and gentlemen of gay habits, but also, : lie believed, for persons whose business called theni, at an early hour of the morning to the market of Covent-garden. In this respect the house was cer-' minty useful, and it MS of course requisite that a' steady attentive person should be placed in the bar., For this purpose Rowbottom, it appeared, applied in the first instance to the sister of Jane Loder, whose hush and bad brought the present action, :and she was accordingly engaged as bar-maid at the yearly 'wages of 201. She was fortunate enough, however, to get married, and left her situation, when the defendant agreed to take her sister Jane upon the same terms. There certainly was no pron. rrf any contract entered into between the parties with respect to the wages she was to receive; but she entered the situation upon the implied under standing that she was to receive the same retnunera tion, as her sister,--namely , 20/. a-year. The de-' tendant had, from time to time, paid her varime,, sutras, amounting in the whole to 281., and she now chtimeti a baknce of 361. 16s. Mr. Serjeant SPANKIE, for the defendant, oh ,served that although his client had been charged with a disittelination to pay his debts, except "ac cording to law," no proof whatever had been offered to show that he was a litigious person, unless his., defence to the present action could be so construed., As to the " Finish," it appeared that it was an called, not because, as some people supposed, is wound up the pleasures of the night, but because, Recording to his Learned Brother's opening, it began the business of the day by affording refreshments to the persons ho frequented Covent-garden-market. "I shall not tell you," observed the Learned Ser jeant, " that l have been at the Finish myself, but i it is recorded that the celebrated Dr. Johnson, after' carousing one night in the same neighbourhood, 111 not in the very house, sallied forth in the height of his merriment, and, like a great lubber began to toss about the baskets in the market, to the no =mall damage of the fruit and vegetables that lay within his reach. The huge unwieldy figure of the leviathan of literature,---judging of his dimensions, by the statue in Sr. Paul's,---engaged in such al must have been a strange right, indeed, and, its (the.Learnederjeant) introduced the anecdote, to show that if it wee an offence to go to a I" Finish," there was at least one g rav e and leurnedi precedent. for so doing. Several witnesses were then called forthe defence after which, The Learned Judge charged the Jury, and a ver dict for 30/. 165., the balance claimed, was re turned. Seriiflatt Lion brought by inttry for young 'cover the sum of 221. 10s., being the amount 01 half a year's lodging and schooling for a child b. longing to the defendant. Verdict for the plaintiff to the amount claimed. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. lIANSION.HOUSE. WORKMEN'S WAGES.—A great many rows have taken place since the death of George IV., amongst the workmen who have held out for double wages during the period appointed for mourning, and those who have worked at the usual prices. The "flints," as the double-priced gentry are called, have not , been satisfied with putting their act of exclusion into operation against their more contented and unpretending fellow-labourers ; they even meet for • the purpose of beating the " dungs" (the title of he latter) into a fondness either for the double wages or for no wages at all, and the places they generally choose for administering the correction are " the houses of call." The tailors have turned out 41 the most determined and untailor-like manner on this occasion, and the flints have attacked the dungs 1l as if the extermination of those who were anxious to save their families from starving were their object. A tailor, named Cheveywooth, was brought before the LORD MAYOR by a beadle and two constables, charged with having been found fighting, along with several others, in the taproom of a public-house. The statement of the witnesses represented the scene as most awful. They were sent for to quell a • riot,- they said, between the flints and dungs, at a house of call for tailors. When th e y entered the scene of action they saw several persons standing upon the seats, while 12 tailors were furiously en gaged. The combatants appeared to be numerically matched, us well as pretty equally matched in size and skill, and they fought with an intrepidity that astonished the spectators. As they fought, too, they bad so much consideration for the trade, that. they cut out work for each other, for when the con- 1 test was at an end, scarcely one of them had a stitch to his back.—(Laughter.) The constable who first entered, finding that one man could not do much good in such a crowd, and that he might be mistaketi in the confusion fur a flint or a dung, retired ,cautiously, and obtained the assistance of others, and then the tailors, both flints and things, scampered off, and gave the constables a dead cur. The defendant, however, was apprehended and taken to the watch-house, but he acted there both quietly and magnanimously, for he spoke most re spectably to the constable of the night, declared that he freely forgave all his enemies, and went to deep when he was told that be must either procure bail or stay all night. " Pray," said the LORD MAYOR, " which are you, or a dung?' " Defendant—l am a regular dung, my Lord.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—I am sorry for it, upon my word. If you bad been a flint, we should probably try to knock fire out of you. But how, if you are a dung, did you get in this disgraceful squabble? Defendant--A party was made up to attack two or three of my friends, who, like myself, work at the old prices, and I thought it my duty not to see them beat without doing something for them. The. flints let fly at us, and we let fly at them, and then the officers came in and we slipped out, but as I didn't care much about being taken, I made no great haste. Mr. nobler--I dare say you have a wife and children, and don't fancy to see them starve. Defendant—Just so, Sir; and my comrades were just situate in the same mariner, so we thought we ,night us well work for the usual prices, as the la bour was the same. The LORD MAYOR—But how happened it that three officers were not able to take more tailors pri soners ? According to the usual calculations, the job was n o t u p war d s o f a t hi r d more t h an the duty of one man.—(Laughter.) The constables believed there was a very wrong impression abroad with respect to the bodily strength of the trade. They might look weak and miserable enough with the thimble and sheers, but they ate and drunk, and fought like other men. It was here observed by a bystander, who seemed -o have no great partiality for the trade, that a tailor could fight well enough sitting, but his legs did not seem to be made for standing upon ; a strong until odd proof of this was, that the twelve tailors werei all upon the ground, and fighting as it were cross legged.—(Laughter.) The Loan MAYOR said, that whatever might be' the skill and hardihood of the tailors, three officers ought to have done more than had been done in this ease, if they meant to support the character of men, " How did it occur," asked his Lordship, " that thel flints all escaped ?" The constable replied, that they slipped out off the room, both flints and dungs, with amazing des-j rerity, but how they contrived it was only known to! themselves. There was no such thing as holding; them by any part of their dress, for they seemed toi know the nature of the cloth so well, that when any one of them was seized by the coll a r, be gave a twist, and was free in an instant.—(Laughter,) The LORD MAYOR admitted the ingenuity of the! defence of the officers, but told them that if they did not mind what they were about they would ex-t change characters for valour with those whom they had in vain endeavoured to master, and it would be a very pretty distinction if the constables of the city were to be called tailors.—(Laughter.) his Lordship then advised the defendant to avoid any contest with the flints, but to assist in bringing , any of them who should assail him before a Magis trate. Ile also admonished the constables to prol coed with more energy in preventing breaches of ' the peace. His Lordship trusted that for the sak e If the families all the flints would, as soon as Bible, be convinced of the propriety of becoming dungs. _ M A RYLMIONE. Yesterday morning Mr. Benjamin Stritle, an in spector of the metropolitan police, division D, brought three little girls before Mr. RAWLINSON,' mad informed him that they had been decoyed into; house of ifl-fame, No. 8, Dean-street, Lisson-grove, • land the mistress of the house had caused them to, be undressed, and put into one bed, for a most famous purpose; but it being observed that the; oye of the police were upon them, she, induced them co re-dress themselves, and she turned them into 'he street, and he (the inspector), that the inten- 1 tion might be exposed, took the children to the sta- 1 tion•house, and brought them here. Mr. ItmvuNsoN asked if he had got the woman in custody ?—Mr. Stride said no, but he would soon have her, and at three o'clock she was placed at the bar. One of the girls (the oldest of them) Stolid Chester, whose father is a ground digger, and lives at No. 4, Harcourt -street, Lisson-grove, stated, that she was fourteen years of age, and being an gent child was examined upon oath. On Tuesday night, a gentleman in the New-road, who was waking backwards and forwards, Stopped 'her and another girl (not present) Anne Norman, l and told them and these other two girls to go to No. 8, Dean -street, Lisson-grove, and be would come to them, and he would, give An ne N orman three shillings, for she was a big girl, and 16 years old, and the others a shilling a piece. They went there, and that lady pointing to the prisoner, made them undress themselves and go to bed, and then she made them get up again, and turned'them out of doors Mr. IltwunoN—Did you see nothing more of the gentleman ? Little girl—fie went up stairs with the lady. Mr. RAWLINsON—What kind of a gentleman was he ?- Little 'wore a livery. And so it appeared that it was n gentleman's servant. The next child in point of age was 11 years old, land numed Davis, and in answer to questions by Mr. , Inawlinson, she corroborated the statement of the cattNy.tt V. CURRY. r ether. Wtt.ny: stat e d that, this was an 04 Mr. ItAwraNsoN asked the pris oner h er name? 4 • the mistr ess of ti respectable semi- Posnner—Mro-JosePhs: ladies Oil the Clapham-road, to re-" Mr. ILtwLlNSON—Mistress Josephs! Don't styk yourself mistress here; what is your other name! besides Josephs ?--She said it was Julia, and that' her husband dealt in old clothes, and his name wall 'Henry. She went on to state thatl it would hurt 'her feelings to have such children at her house, for Idle had been the mother of twelve, and as soon as it.he found they were there, she gave one of her ser- Ivants orders to turn them out of doors. Mr. RAIVLINSON—Where is your servant ? An ili•featured woman presented herself, and she was placed in the dock with her mistress, and she gave her name Ann Smith. Mr. RAWLINSON asked her what sort of a house her mistress kept. Julia Josephs gave the servant no chance of speaking, but declared, with consummate impudence, " I keep a company house, and I am not ashamed to say so; but for respectable people, and not such children, and there are five others in the same street. The children were again examined, and they still positively asserted that Mrs. Josephs told them to undress themselves and go to bed. Mr. RAWLINSGN said it was a horrible case, and the parish ought to come forward and prosecute, and, that Mr. Greenhill, the vestry clerk, might hero• the evidence, he should send Mrs. Josephs to the Lew Prison, and have her before him again on Wed nesday. Mrs. Joseph treated this determination with great indifference;_' Very well, your Worship," said she, a there are more houses like mine in the same 'street, there is No. and No. —, and No. —, and No. —, and No. —."--(We omit the figures, until the parish authorities interfere with them, and that of course will be, or ought to be, instanter. LAMBETH-STREET. A wretched-looking young man, apparently about 20 years of age, was brought up in custody of Seijeant Christian, H. 12, who stated that the pri soner went into the Mallard Arms public-house, Grove-street, St. George's, on the previous evening, snd having drank a pint of porter, he went into a' hay-loft unperceived ; a little girl, however, who happened to be looking out of the window of a neighbouring house, saw him attempting to hang himself, and gave an alarm. He was prevented from accomplishing his purpose, and secured; not withstanding which, he afterwards tried to cut his throat with a knife he carried about him, but was again interrupted in his deadly work. In conse quence of this conduct, he was given in custody to a new police constable by the landlord of the public house. The prisoner, in reply to questions put by the Magistrates, said he was so distressed, and had suf fered so much from hunger and poverty, that his life was a burden to him. He did not know what pa lish he belonged to. The Magistrates, after cnnsulting together, or dered him to be sent to St. George's woikhouse, to be taken care of until his proper place of settle ment is discovered. The poor fellow seemed very grateful for such an order. A girl of the town, named Mary Laney, was charged with stabbing a Maltese sailor, named Peter Rummer. She was remanded until Monday next. UNION-HALL. The owner of a ferocious dog was summoned be fore Mr. 81 4 /AMY, on a charge of permitting it to go at large unmuzzled, owing to which neglect u young lad had been severely bitten by the animal. The Magistrate said, that unless he consented to have the animal destroyed, the penalty for the of fence of permitting it to go unmuzzled should be The defend.tnt, after some consideration on thel ( choice he had to make, at length consented that the i (log should be killed to save himself from the other alternative, and with this decision the complainant was satisfied and withdrew, with a view of seeing it rallied into immediate execution. Ellen Edward:, a prostitute, was charged with robbing a sailor just come from India of 201., the ,vhole proceeds of his voyage. The unfortunate tar on leaving his ship had been "picked up," in his own phraseology, as he was going along shore (Tooley-street), by the prisoner, who pilotted the way to a crib in the Mint, where they turned in together. The sailor was arouseth from his sleep by a noise in the room, and by the, light of the gas saw three women scampering out of the place, but his bedfellow, who was still by his! side, pretended to be fast asleep, and snoring at the time. The first thing the sailor did after seeing such intruders was to ascertain if his money was safe, and he soon found that not only all his cash, amounting to the above sum, but also a great portion of his' dress, had disappeared. lie gave the ►darm, amh every search was made in the house, but neither thel women nor the money he had lost could be found, Suspecting that the prisoner was in league with those who had entered the room, he had her t►p prehended on suspicion. The sailor added that be was a native of Wales, and from which country lie had been absent seven years, und expected to have! got borne in a creditable manner after being buffet ted about for so many years ; but now that lie had log! every farthing in the world that he possessed, het could not show his face to his friends, and must ,once more take another trip to sea. The Magistrate said that there was no evidence' to prove the accused had been concerned in the bery, and she must therefore be discharged. With regard to what had befallen the sailor, the Magic;-1 trate remarked, that he had brought it all upon him- 1 self, in accompanying a common strumpet to such a! place us the Mint. The sailor, turning his quid over in his mout h, and giving ie waistband of his trousers a hitch up at the same time, said it was a hard case a poor fellow should be done out of that for which he had toiled night and day, subject to all kinds of weather, rough and smooth. THE BRIDE OF LAMMERMOOR. The author, on a former occasion, declined giving the real source from which he drew theA tragic subject of this history, because, though occurring at a distant period, it might poseibly 1w unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of die parties, But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law's Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles; Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq. and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symon's poems, • appended to the description of Galloway, as the original of the Bride (Lammermoor, the author feels himself now at liberty to tell the tale as he had it from connections of his own, who lived very near the period, and were closely related to the, family of the bride. It was well known that the family. of Dal. I rymple, which has produced within the space ofi two centuries as many men of talent, civil and 'military, and of literary, political, and proles- P s i e n a l eminence, as any honse in Scotland, first rose into distinction in the person of James Dalrymple, one of the most eminent lawyers, that ever lived, though the labours of his power-1 ful mind were unhappily exercised on a subject, so limited as Scottish jurisprudence, on which' he has composed an admirable work. He married Margaret, daughter of Ross of Balneil, with whom he obtained a cons id era bl e ' estate. She was an able, politic, and high minded woman, so successful ill what she un dertook, that the vul gar , no way part i al to her 'husband or her family, imputed her success to necromancy. According to the popular belief, this Dame Margaret purchased the temporal , prosperity of her family from the master whom she served, und er a singu l ar cond i t i on, wh i ch is !thus narrated by the historian of her grandson, !the great Earl of Stair She lived to a great eae, and at her death desired that she might not' be put under Found, but that her coffin should, be placed upright on one end of it, promising that while she remained in that situation the Dalrymples should continue in prosperity. What was the old lady's motive for such a request, or whether she really made such a promise, I can not take upon me to determine ; but it is certain her coffin stands upright in the aisle of the church of Kirkliston, the burial place of the family." The talents of this accomplished race were sufficient to have accounted for the dig nities which many members of the family attained, without any supernatural assistance.— But their extraordinary prosperity was attended by some equally singular family misfortunes, of which that which befel their eldest daughter was at once unaccountable and melancholy. Miss Janet Dalrymple, daughter of the first Lord Stair and Dame Margaret Ross, had en gaged herself without the knowledge of her parents to the Lord Rutherford, who was not acceptable to them, either on account of his poli tical principles, or his want of fortune. The young couple broke a piece of gold together, and pledged their troth in the most solemn man ner ; and it is said the young lady imprecated dreadfUl evils on herself should she break her plighted faith. Shortly after, a suitor who was favoured by Lord Stair, and still more so by his' lady, paid his addresses to Miss Dalrymple.— The young lady refused the proposal, and being pressed on the subject, confessed her secret en gagement. Lady Stair, a woman accustomed to universal submission (for even her husband did not dare to contradict her), treated this ob. jection as a trifle, and insisted upon her daughter yielding her consent to marry the new suitor, David Dunbar, son and heir to David Dunbar of Balloon, in Wigtonshire. The first lover, a man of very high spirit, then interfered by letter, and insisted on the right he had acquired by hiss, troth plighted with the young lady. Lady Stair' sent him for answer, th a t h er d aug ht er , sens ibl e of her undutiful behaviour in entering into a contract unsanctioned by, her parents, had re• treated her unlawful vow, and now refused to fulfil her engagement with him. The lover, in return, declined positively to receive such an answer from any one but his mistress in person ; and, as she had to deal with a man who was both of a most determined cha racter and of too high condition to be trifled with, Lady Stair was obliged to consent to an, interview between Lord Rutherford and her daughter. But she took care to be present in person, and argued the point with the disap pointed and incensed lover with pertinacity equal to his own. She particularly insisted on the Levitical Law, which declares that a woman shall be five of a vow which her parents dissent from. While the mother insisted on these topics, the lover in vain conjured the daughter to de clare her own opinion and feelings. She re mained totally overwhelmed, as it seemed— mute, pale, and motionless as a statue. Only at her mother's command, sternly uttered, she summoned strength enough to restore to her plighted suitor the piece of broken gold which was the emblem of her troth. On this he burst forth into a tremendous passion, took leave of the mother with maledictions, and as he left thel apartment, turned back to say to his weak if not fickle mistress, " For you, Madam, you will be' a world's wonder ;" a phrase by which some re markable degree of calamity is usually implied. He went abroad, and returned not again. If the last Lord Rutherford was the unfortunate party, he must have been the third who bore that title, and who died in 1685. The marriage betwixt Janet Dalrymple and David Dunbar of Baldoon now went forward, the bride showing no repugnance, but being ab solutely passive in every thing her mother com manded or advised. Cn the day of the mar riage, which, as was then usual, was celebrated by a great assemblage of friends and relations, ' she was the same—sad, silent, and resigned, as it seemed, to her destiny. A lady, very nearly connected with the family, told the author that she had conversed on the subject with one of !the brothers of the bride, a mere lad at the time, who had ridden before his sister to church. He said her hand, which lay on his as she held her arm round his waist, was as cold and damp as marble. But, full of his new dress, and the part he acted in the procession, the circumstance, which he long afterwards remembered with bitter sorrow and compunction, made no impression on him at the time. The bridal feast was followed by dancing; the bride and bridegroom retired as usual, when o. a sudden the most wild and piercing cries were heard from the nuptial chamber. It was then the custom, to prevent any coarse pleasantry which old times perhaps admitted, that the key of the nuptial chamber should be entrusted to the brideman. He was called upon, but at first refused to give it up, till the shrieks became so hideous that he was compelled to hasten with others to learn the cause. On opening the door, they found the bridegroom lying across the threshold, dreadfully wounded, and streaming with blood. The bride was then sought for ; she was found in the corner of the large chimney, having no covering save her shift, and that dab in gore. There she sat grinning at them, moping and mowing, as I beard the expression used ; to a word, absolutely insane. The only words she spoke were, " Tak up your bonny bridegroom." She survived this horrible scene little more than a fortnight, having been married on the 24th of August, and dying on the 12th of Sept., 1669. The unfortunate Baldoon recovered from his wounds, but sternly prohibited all inquiries re specting the manner in which be had received them. If a lady, he said, asked him any ques tion upon the subject, he would neither answer her nor speak to her again while he lived ; if a gentleman, he would consider has a mortal affront, and demand satisfaction as having received s u c h. He did not v er y l ong survive the dreadf u l ca tastrophe, havi ng met w i t h a fatal injury by a LI; from his horse, as he rode between Leith and Holyrood House, of which he died the next day 28th March, 1682. Thus a few years removed all v t h a e r ou s principal reports wentactors abroad i nt on isfrightf t u hs m l i trage ; i s y te . - rious affair, many of them very inaccurate, thought they could h ar dl y b e sa i d to exaggerate. It pas'? difficult at th a t t i me to b ecome acquainted with i the history of the Scottish family above the loge; yank ; and strange things sometimes took place 4 there, int o w hi c h even the law did not serupu-' ilously inquir e . The credulous Mr. Law says;l:generally, the Lord President Stair had a daughter, wl or' 1 g " being married, the night she was brid e i n ( t b az is, bedd e d b r id e ) , was taken from her bridegroom, and harled (dragged) through the house (bv spirits, we are given to understand), and sokin , i afterwards died. Another daughter," be say6l " was possessed by an evil spirit." My friend Mr. Sharpe, gives another edition o f t h e ta l e . A ccording to his information, it was the bridegroom who wounded the bride. The marriage, according to this account, hen 11111, Per Quarter. Abingdon. Andover, . Plritlport [Cirenct3ter Guildford Henley Hereford Highworth Maidenhead ..... Oakingliam Salisbury. , Southampton Stroud Tewkesbury ....... Uxbridge %Vantage , Warminster Windsor . s. to s. 32 3 8 2-j 34 32 3 8 32 39 20 37 38 40 24 35 30 35 3H 45 al 42 38 30 30 18 41 27 37 37 40 34 38 40 •43 21 32 eo 36 21 42 34 3'2 36 L to 21 21.1 33 ;xi 91 18 9 3 ,1 w 20 20 a 4 40 28 04 5 22 3° 18 ".• 16 31 20 23 n t' 2 2 20 3! 19 16 2 4 n' CHELTENHAM MARKET—JUG I Y lS ' lei Per Bushel. s. d. to s. d. Pet lb. 6 6 Wheat 7 0 9 0 8eef .......... """";... t i I Barley 'Oats 5 2 1 4 0 9 60 8 4 5 5 0 6 06 L Lamb........ Pork"u M u t tonli 1 ;. ''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''' Reams Pease Slay LEWES MARKET.--JulYa 9 White Wheat (per quarter) £3 9 - Red ditto 34 0. 1 Barley Oats, New Beaus ll 1 I 0 xr t 1 Oil Cake, New l2 0 01 ULL MARKET.--J lll Y, l3 ' h i s le Since our report o f l as t wee k, the %viewer lip t unseasonable, espe c ially th e l a tter part, ana, day a considerable quantity of rain fell ; for animated demand for bond wheat, and snu le . ness was done at a n a d vance of „to Bs. r indeed most descriptions of lock coin were quest, and beans, pm, and oats, were each 1 1 . to Barley, except for fine quality of which ther e . < l any here, was in very limited request , and r io t unaltered. To-day, the weather is mors fa v i . u : 0 1 the supply of fanners' wheat only moderate, advance of Ss. per quarter has been realised ° n o rency of last week. For free foreign of g° 0 (1 ( f 1;, which there is very little offering, an adiritnil has been made, and full 2s. on the m iddlini 11 The advance not e d i n b on d w h ea ts has been f 0 ) tamed to -Alay. There are so few oats nunrlthl quotations may be considered nominal; in W ui. ' od' sales to some exte n t h ave b een m ade at by cut. I price. The same remark applies to bole barley very little passing; there is some intlil lr rj ing, but little offering. Rapeseed sod lin lt ` alteration. Wheat, Old 624* 704. ...... New ...... Foreign • .. Bee. 7oi Oats, Poland ..".. 2°s ' 5 " ....... &will or Feed... 16. 18s . ............ --- Foreign • • • ..... .... , —s. 'l.ls :14s ••••••",,' Barley, Norf. & Sot. --s Ws' 05s . 'Line % I° ' Foreign .. * • •""... 1 ' ....... ........ ••••••• Beans 34s 38s. 425. Foreign ......... Pease, White —a. 38s. 40s. Grey ..... ..... Faros 3os 265. Foreign ... W1 ...... Rapeseed, in bond. none. rive, PO DUIIFRIEB MARKETS...4Oi ' t 0 1 : s.d. .... ••• W 7heat, Imp. Bush 9to 8 0 Butter, Itio• '''''''''''''' 0' Barley ........... 3 9 4 0 Eggs, doss!! •*" . Oats • 3 0 3 9 Beet; per ID. ......... /lour, 141 b. ...... 2 4 3 0 Mutton ........ .... Oatmeal 2 8 0 Veal.... ....... f e°t 4 toes.cwt I 6 9 o iinatterll LOS The present armies of Europe fora Live forc e of 2,500,000 men thst is to say, I° 4 to one man in every 92 employed in pur s e and agricultu r e. I n D enmar k there is 1 51 inhabitants; in Russia 1 in 51 ; in Sw 6 0 ; in Pruisia 1 in 76 ; in Sweden and N"r':—Ato in Turkey 1 in 92 ; in B a varis 1 in 113 ' 1 ;:re l in 118 ; in the Netherlands 1 in 119 ; Portugal 1 in 139; in the kingdom °f 64 1,i00 1 163 ;in the Briti s h Isl a nds lin 229 t th e lig Naples lin 247 ;in Spain in 278 ;in Tuilidi 6 in the States of the Pope 1 in 4.31.--As BIRTHS. •ier' l On the 14th inst. in Hunter-street, Brattr:, _s! the lady o f 3. H . • , ,d o git 1 ,4: H. aft Silva, Esq., ot A A , t lig . . On the Ist inst. at Stoke, near Orono" 'Commander E. Hawes, R.N., of a daugh ter ' MARRIED. no l,ol ' I Bioev, , On the 14th inst. at St. George ' ' , I.l'' Wm. Scott Burn to Mary, daughter of the I I Field, of Leeds. t 0 4 ". On the 14th inst. at St. P.lncrss, Lieu , • w ' °, t ext T. Baker, of the East India Comprise c`' %, °annals, the youngest daughter of Wl' Leicester. ttc i lit On the 13th inst. at Brighton, Newton, o f H i te bi n, ~ T. I . bo h, days nerts, to .IL lAA Late W. Bloome, of the Fame Place. 0 1 Robert, eldflio DIED. e of tl ' r On the 13th inst. L. W. Wood, Esq . ' I3t , t'f! Exchange. 0 14'"1„.A On the lath inst. Mr. Wm. Johnson. ag , o rr. 4 firm of Rool:by and Johnson, saddlels, a r q., 6 ;ii 6 : 0 On the 10th inst. at Barna th Meriono,3l,y, t il 59th year of his ou , , A pe A ~; county . age, P. Lloyd, Esq. 0' - t ior . 1 of Watwick, feurth son of the late i.f Birmingham. p RINTeD AND vt.TDLISTIND BY 0 0J Tall SUN °MCI, tie, Sr' been against her mother's inclination,: tilfC, given her consent in these ominous You may marry him, but soon share. It is needless to point out to the in • , t ,reader, that the witchcraft of the mother"' sisted only in the ascendancy of a powerful over a weak and melancholy one, and 4; harshness with which she exercised her I v- ority in a case of delicacy had driven her di first to despair, then to frenzy. Accordik, , author has endeavoured to explain the tor: , on this principle. 'Whatever resemblance_ Ashton may be supposed to possess to that,' : . brated Dame Margaret Ross, the reader - not suppose that there was any idea of the portrait of the first Lord Viscount the tricky and mean-spirited Sir 'William :•,,- Lord Stair, whatever might be his moral was certainly one of the first statesins lawyers o f hi s age . e t a The imaginary castle of Wolf's Craflua:7: identified by some lover of locality with Fast Castle. The author is not com.., judge of th e resem bl ance betwixt the :he imaginary scene, having never seOre? Castle except from the sea. But fortsi this description are found occupying, like nests, projecting rocks, or promontories, parts of the eastern coast of Scotland: position of Fast Castle seems certainly' semble Wolf's Crag as much as any 0 its vicinity to the mountain ridge of moor renders the assimilation a probabhi We have only to add, that the des unfortunate bridegroom, by a tall fro back, has been in the novel transferred less unfortunate lover.—Thirteenth the IVaverky Novels. THE MARKETS. • 1 7, CORN EXCHANGE. The demand for Wheat in the market " very small, and Monday's prices could scareell'm Oats were nominally the time as last quoted. ,`,.; plies generally were extremely short, and trade I , The advance which took place in the priced . fully maintained, and the highest purchases did ' 65 e. We hope the alteration in the weather enable us to quote the prices lower. A RAI VAL 3. Wheat. Barley, MIL English 050 qrs. 550 qrs. 2,100 1 1 11 ' Irish foreign COAL M A BM:M.—July 1 4. . Adair's _ 31s. 3d. Walls End C 41140 111 1 Beaumont. 'A/ 6 Ditto Gosforth iiolywell W. 0 Ditto Hilda 4 . ' Kilhngworth 33 3 Ditto Hotspur Ord's itedhugh '29 0 Ditto Northumb , Pciaw ,30 3 Ditto Pcareth South liolywell, 3O 3 Dittoitiddi lP' Vantield cantield :29 8 Walls End Stcwarq Townley 3O 0 Russell's flatten's w W) lam 31 0 Myth • Walls End Rewieke*Co. 34 0 Fordel Mai Ditto Bell Robson Ss Co. 33 0 Matter Ditto Brown's unser...—. :V 0 Saxton. Ultto Burraton 33 3 Wall's &ttl Light Ditto Cramlington......... 30 a Tan fieldl racier it , t 4, • Ditto Callerton f,.. ) 9 0 llebburn small h ins Id, 4 --U molds, .• Ships at market, , COUN'IRY CORN MARKETS DURING TITS 4 : I Wheat. Barley. Oats. 2.