The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We have had the courage to dive pretty deeply into the immense mass of undigested evidence on which floats the report of the a gricultural committee (published in our paper of Saturday), with the hope of being able to bring to the surface something calculated to gratify the cu riosity, to extend the knowledge, or to correct the prejudices, of the public; but we candidly own that we have met with little or no success. It is seldom that we have seen so bulky a vo lume—the work of a public body—containing to little matter really worthy of attention, either from its novelty or its mode of statement ; and we are almost tempted to represent it as an'apt illustration of the logical maxim of the school men, that " the greater the extension, the less the comprehension." Even the report itself (drawn up possibly with some labour by 'the chairman), though it might have been expected to imbody the essence of the depositions taken by the committee, and to have pointed out im provements conformable to the new information obtained in the progress of the inquiry, possesses scarcely any claims to public confidence or gratitude. It is remarkable for its negative rather than for its positive qualities—for its cau tious prudence, its common sense views, and its common place remarks, than for any striking ob servation, or any useful suggestion. We may, however, record, in the outset, our satisfaction that little as it has done, or is calculated to do, in the way of positive improvement, it has had a tendency to allay the fermentation in which the committee originated, and has for ever anni hilated those erroneous views and delusive hopes connected with the currency with which the in quiry was undertaken. It will be remembered that the investigation was provoked by Mr. M. Attwocd, for the purpose of obtaining evidence to establish the necessity of a change in our sys tem of currency or standard of value—questions " of corn and currency" being supposed as in separable in his mind as the alliteration in their names. The Hon. Gentleman, in introducing his motion for an inquiry into the effects of the Bill of 1819, with the view of counteracting them, dwelt largely and pathetically on the dis tressed state of the agricultural interest, arising, as he alleged, from a diminished circulation, with the hope at once of catching the country gentleman and the country banker, and of in ducing them both to join him and his friends in the " strong pull" for the restoration of the 1/. rote, and the renewal of the Bank restriction. The farmers, lie said, were generally ruined ; their land, from the diminution of their means, was not cultivated to its former extent. The) were paying their rent, not out of their pro fits, but out of their capital. Their bur dens were heavier than they could bear ; their incumbrances were daily increasing ; their produce did not yield a remunerating price for the labour expended on their farms, and unless some speedy remedy were adopted, there would soon be neither bread-corn nor " cakes and ale" in all " merry England." The cause of all this calamity was alleged to be the con traction of our currency, and the cure was to be found in a plentiful re-issue of Bank paper. High prices must be restored by altering our standard of value,—wheat must mount up to 100 s. a quarter,—the land must be manured with small notes,—and if we were not then blessed with a restoration of " the golden age" we should have something infinitely better—the millennium of unlimited Bank credit. It was in vain to argue, as we did, that if our distress arose (as was partly admitted) from the changes in our currency within the last ten or twelve years, we should now be only prolonging the evil by repeating the change,—that between 1819 and 1833 the transactions and obligations of the country had adjusted themselves to the restored metallic standard, and would be again calami tously deranged by such an issue of paper as would alter the value of our money,—that where neither debtor nor creditor existed, an increase of the circulating medium could not by possi bility benefit or injure anybody, as it would merely multiply the number of metallic pieces or bits of paper which were to be exchanged against the same unaltered quantity of commo dities ; and that where the relation of debtor and creditor existed, the increase of currency (a convertible term for a depre ciation of value) would effect a positive robbery of the latter for the benefit of the former. The currencymongers were, however, de termined to pay their debts, both public and private, by a depreciated currency, and demanded a committee to inquire into the expediency of the plunder. The committee has answered, as it was bound in duty to do, in the following words, which contain merely a summary of our arguments at the time of the original discussion: —"Rents are now rapidly approximating to the level of these prices, and whatever embariass ments may have been produced by former changes, and however grievous the weight of existing burdens, fresh experiments in the value of money, which must affect the price of agri cultural produce, which might shake public con fidence, and which must lead to the de rangement of all settled contracts, ought after past experience to be viewed by the Legislature with peculiar caution." Again they say, "Fluc tuations of price, whether they arise from alte rations in the value of money or from changes of the corn laws, cannot fail to produce evils in every branch of rural economy, which, inde pendently of these disturbing causes, must ever remain exposed to grievous vicissitudes from the uncertainty of seasons. These artificial fluctua tions, however, only aggravate the natural evil ; they render the income of the landlord preca rious, and the fixed rent of the farmer a hazardous speculation, and the wages of the labourer an uncertain remuneration:" The remarks in the report may be properly classified under three heads. They relate to the reality and the amount of the alleged distress, its under stood causes, and its probable remedy. Under none of these divisions of the subject, however, do we find anything new or profound. The difficulties and embarrassments of the occupiers of land are admitted nearly to the full extent of their own representations to Parliament. Their farms are said not to yield an amount of produce which, at present prices, and with present bur dens, can enable them to repay themselves for the labour and capital employed in their cultiva tion. They are consequently said to have been paying their rent to their landlords out of their capital, or, in other words, to have been g i v i ng away to t h e proprietor of the soil as rent, part of that stock, without the possession and em ployment of which no produce can be raised, and consequently no rent can be . paid. And this process is said to have been going ot . i for t as he last 12 years, as we find in the following p sage :—" On looking back," says the committee, " at the report of the committee in 1821, to whom the petitions complaining of the depressed state of the agriculture of the United Kingdom we re referred, it will be found that the report com mences by stating that the complaints of the petitioners are founded in fact, in so far as they represent that, at the present price of corn, the returns to the occupier of an arable farm, after allowing for the interest of his investment, are by no means adequate to the charges and outgoings, of which a considerable proportion can be paid only out of the capitals, and not from the profits of the tenantry.' The average price of wheat for the year 1821 was 545. 5d per quarter. The average price of the present year is 535. ld. ; and although some of the charges connected with general taxation have been reduced since 1821, yet the local burdens, such as poor-rate and county-rate, have, in most parts of England, been grievously augmented. The Committee of 1821 arrived at the conclu sion, that the returns of the farming capital were at that time considerably below the ordinary rate of profit ;' and no evidence adduced before your Committee of diminished outgoings, contrasted with the change of prices in the interval, would warrant, at this moment, a different conclusion." Now, it is quite evident that this must be a gross exaggeration, if applied to any large number of farmers, or to any extensive district of coun try. Few farmers could afford to pay their rent out of their capital for ten or twelve years, as their capital before that time would either have been exhausted, or their patience worn out, with so ruinous a speculation. Besides, what should we say in such a case of the whole tribe of knavish landlords who could pocket the capital of their farmers, advanced to them in annual instalments, till after the last instalment theirruined tenants were obliged to take refuge in the workhouse ? Nor do we place much more reliance on some of the very nice calculations with respect to the dimi nution of the stock of wheat on hand, the exact measurement of the supply for the year, and the danger of falling short by a month's provisions, and consequently of being exposed to a month of famine by a mere change in the time of reaping, or a delay in the maturity of the corn. Then, all the superstructure of alarm built on this foundation, the impossibility of getting a month's supply in case of a deficient crop, joined with a late harvest, from all the markets in the world, appears to us to be about as much " fudge." If, however, this danger were even greater than it is represented to be, the inference to be drawn from it appears to us to be at com plete variance with the conclusion of the Com mittee. Open your ports, we say, to the corn of all the world : let us have part of our supplies from the Black Sea—part from the Baltic— part from the countries washed by the Mediter ranean and the German Ocean—and part from the Atlantic line of the North Americanconti- vent. Let us encourage the people in all these quarters to grow wheat to exchange for our manufactures, and with such a variety of climate, and over such an extent of surface, we shall always enjoy a security against the apprehended scarcity. Nor would our own agriculture suffer in the slightest degree from this extension of the market for the fruits of our industry, and this provision of a contingent foreign re serve against the chances of domestic famine — a point which, if our space now permitted, we could satisfactorily prove. With regard to the remedies proposed in the report, they are soon told, and the sooner the better. The Committee remark with great justice, that " al though it is in the power of the Legislature to do much evil, yet it can do little positive good by frequent interference with agricultural in dustry." The report afterwards observes—" The outgoings, which the law does not impose, are placed beyond the control of the Legislature, are private bargains, open frcm time to time, and regulated by competition ; and where Parliament cannot interfere, any recommendation or opinion pronounced by your Committee would certainly be inefficacious for good, perhaps even produc tive of evil. Who are to judge what profit, rent, and wages ought to be ? Certainly no legislative authority ; for these are matters of convention, dictated by the reciprocal convenience of the parties, and silently indeed, but surely, adjusted by their reciprocal necessities." The only real remedies for the distress of the agricultural in terest are to be found in a reduction of the rates and taxes which press upon the occupier of land —the strict maintenance of our present standard of value—the modification or abolition of the Corn Laws, so as to allow the introduction of that cheap corn which is said to be " best for the farmers,"—an improvement in the administration of the Poor Laws,—and the permanent commu !ation of tithes—a measure promised for next session. The effect of this latter change will be meter than has yet been anticipated. It will give a stimulus to the agricultural enterprise of the country, which will insure us ten or twenty years of comparative prosperity, and enable us to reduce our prices of corn to nearly the level of foreign markets, while it will afford great additional means of employing all our rural la bourers.— Times. The good effects that were expected by the well-informed classes of the nation, from the recent changes that have been effected in our criminal code, are now beginning to develop themselves in a manner that must be extremely gra tifying, not only to the enlightened societies and members of the Legislature by whose united exertions those great and useful improvements were achieved, but also to the vast majority of the public, who are quite glad to be relieved , from the national odium to which, as a people, we were exposed, by the late inefficient but sanguinary laws—laws which, as has often been stated, though vindictive and revengeful in an extreme degree, were utterly powerless to afford adequate protection to life and property, and in fact were held in derision by the very malefactors for whose destruction they were intended. We feel ourselves called upon to make these obser vations, in consequence of the examination that took place on Thursday at the Mansion- House, in the case of Philip Hervey, charged with forging bills, &c. It would appear that this prisoner is an old offender—that is, one of the old school, which flourished to an alarming ex tent under the auspices of the " capital punish ment" system, and, in fact, derided its fangless and impotent rage. Long did this class of dan gerous miscreants shelter themselves under the undue severity of the law, and the respect for human life that, to the great credit of our country, still guides the feelings and con sciences of the great majority of the nation. Knowing well that their friends and relatives would not prosecute them to death, those wicked beings continued their nefarious practices ; and robberies to the amount of very many thousands I of pounds were securely effected annually by this species of fraud ; and these were chiefly . effected by persons who, it is known ' were in the habit of going about town i n gigs and curricles, with grooms, &c., and, with a hardened profligacy,. were in the habit of attending the ex ecut i ons of the inferior members of their fraternity whom the Bank of England uselessly caused to be arranged on the gibbet by dozens for the forgery of 1/. notes. It is true that some of these barouche driving felons did occasionally venture too far, and, after plundering to a great extent, got somehow or other exhibited on the gallows with their poverty-stricken brethren, and both as objects more of idle curiosity than usefulness ; but whilst the small fry of forgers was strung up in scores to no useful purpose, the robber of thousands felt a degree of impunity, because he was a respectable man, and was very respectably connected ; his respectable friends and relatives could not endure the entailed disgrace of having their relative hanged, and consequently theynot only endured the frauds he practised on them in silence, but often aided the escape of their felon relative from the hands of justice. Another class on whom these odious criminals sometimes successfully practised their frauds were those whom no offence, solely against property, can induce to prosecute the offender to death ; this class, in fact, forms a large portion of the wealthier classes amongst the bankers, merchants, &c. Here then we have the two principal causes why, out of the enormous number of forgeries committed on the banking and mercantile communities, so very few were made public, or became the subject of judicial proceedings. It is a well known and most important fact that not one-tenth of the forgeries actually committed were ever brought before the public tribunals of justice ; but as the law now stands, this will be exactly reversed, for not one-tenth of the miscreants who may still be wicked enough to practise this species of fraud are likely to escape being brought to the bar of criminal justice—not indeed to be hanged up, as used to be the case formerly, but to be placed under the closest restrictions of solitary confinement, with hard labour, for a certain number of years, and then the culprit to be sent to the penal colonies for the remainder of his life, to expiate his crimes by painful toils and privations, far from all the animal gratifications which those idle and profli gate characters most value, and to obtain which they had abandoned all the advantages of honour able and useful industry. In the course of the examination alluded to, we were much struck with the full and judicious reply which Mr. Gurney (of the banking firm of Gurney, Over end, and Co.) made to the observations of the Lord Mayor. His Lordship stated that this very respectable house, and others of the Society of Friends, must be aware to what the increase of forgeries was attributable. Mr. Gurney said he was not aware that such was the fact, but that, as the law now stands, the house to which he belonged, though formerly not in the habit of prosecuting the perpetrators of this crime when the offence was capital, would feel no hesita tion at prosecuting cases of this description ; adding, " we will certainly look at both sides of a bill, and our assistance shall not be wanting to prevent the prisoner from escaping." Here is an illustration of our arguments to show the superior efficacy of rational laws, when adminis tered with impartiality and firmness, over those weak, yet sanguinary enactments, which make the chances of escape ten times greater than those of conviction. We are sorry to perceive that the Lord Mayor does not appear to be quite convinced that the recent improvements in those laws will lessen the number of forgeries ; but we have been able to convince more obsti nate advocates for the old system than Sir Peter Laurie of the benefits these laws will confer on society when they are brought fully into action. They are now only beginning to operate, and must be allowed fair play, and not rashly con demned before trial. With the expressions of honest indignation which his Lordship tittered on that occasion in reference to that vile species of fraud we entirely agree. We hope his exam ple will not be lost upon his successors, but that they will manfully stand up to the task of root ing out, or, if possible, totally eradicating, this foul crime, which is commonly generated at the gambling table.—Morning Herald. In another part of our columns we have pub lished from some of our Provincial Contempo raries certain additional and cogent specimens of the gentlemanly temper and the high patriotic feelings of the Earl of Durham. At Cherbourg, upon a visit to Louis Philip, it was all very well for Lord Durham to lower the flag o f his country and hoist above it the paltry rag which bore his own ill-gotten arms. It was no doubt a suitable and an acceptable offering at the shrine for which it was intended. But when this atra-bilious Earl condescends to return to the ports and the homes of Britons we recom mend him to reflect that there are tempers besides his own which may be tried beyond their capacity of endurance. The flag of their natural enemy may be floated once too often in the faces of our British tars, and the private demesnes of an English Gentleman are not always to be violated with impunity even by the "crew of the Louisa."—Morning Post. PHENOMENON.—In making the excavation for the Leeds and Selby railway, at Milford-hill, a large told has been found imbedded in a layer of clay, with a kind of angular stone roof close to its head, at a distance of 40 feet from the surface, and beneath several thick beds of stone, which seem never to have been disturbed since the original organization of the earth ! The reptile, which is preserved in spirits, has a shrivelled appearance, but nothing certainly that indicates antediluvian age. It is to be regretted that the workmen amused themselves by span-whuiny this inhabitant of the nether regions soon after it was found, and in that way deprived it of a life which had been preserved through bow many generations of men it is impossible to say.—Leeds Mercury. DETERMINED ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE. — On Friday morning last, at about two o'clock, as inspec tor Bicknell, of the V division, was riding over Wimble don-common, he discovered a young gentleman named Sams, who about five minutes previously had attempted to commit a most horrible and determined act of suicide, by cutting his throat with a small piece of broken c hina, which was found lying by the road side near the spot on which he was found. It was subsequently discovered the unfortunate man, from finding a difficulty in effecting his purpose with so blunt an instrument, had actually thrust his fingers into the orifice produced by the wound, and endeavoured to render the attempt effectual by tearing open the wound. The inspector with the utmost promp titude took him to Tooting, where he procured a convey ance and immediately accompanied him to Guy's hospital, where he now lies in a very dangerous condition. It ap pears that Mr. Same is respectably connected, and will, on the decease of a very aged relative, residing in the neighbourhood, become possessed of a fortune ex exceeding 30,000/. A long and recent course of dissipa tion, it appears had reduced Mr. S. to a very destitute condition, and his distress was augmented by the refusal of a barmaid at an inn in the neighbourhood (to whom he had recently become most ardently attached, and had paid his addresses) to marry him until he should discontinue his bad habits, or should make it appear that he was in a condition, independent of his expectancy from his uncle, to render their home comfortable. This so preyed upon his mind as to drive him to all sorts of excesses, and on Tuesday last he discovered the individual, on whom be bad placed his affections, had for a time placed herself out of his reach, by going to her relatives at a distance in the country. This opera t e d on h is mind so powerfully as to drive him to madness, and is the only reason that can be assigned for the attempt on his life. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. A poor man named Edwards waited upon the LORD MAYOR yesterday, in great affliction for the loss of his two children, whom, he said, he appre hended some infamous wretches had got hold of. He stated that on Friday last, between one and two o'clock, the two children, John and Isabella Edwards, the boy nine years, and the girl eleven years of age, were sent from home in Star-court, Chancery-lane, to a respectable person's house in Chancery-lane, for linen to take to the mangle, which their mother worked. A considerable period having elapsed, the parents called at the house, and were shocked at hearing that the children had not been there. The neighbourhood was scoured, but in vain, and neither boy nor girl was to be found. There were several houses of bad repute in the immediate neighbourhood. The LORD MAYOR should give directions to his officers, which he accordingly did. William Sharp, a boy who has been a long time acquainted with the interior of Newgate, was brought up, charged with having deliberately walked into a shoemaker's shop in Hotindsditch, and stolen a pair of boots. The master of the house saw the robbery was committed, although it was done with a peculiar grace, and was evidently by the hand of a master, and he apprehended the prisoner, who was carrying off the boots with the air of an appren tice about to fit a customer. The LORD MAYOR—The last time you were here, I told you we'd meet again, and now we meet probably for the last time, for you can't be left on the town, you are too clever. Prisoner—l don't remember that I ever saw your Lordship's face afore. I'm sure I never seed it in sich a place as this here. The LORD MAYOR—Yes, we met on this very spot, and I have a black mark on the list against your name. Prisoner—Please you, my Lord, it couldn't be me; props it's some fellow as took my name, cause his own was too bad to use.—(A laugh.) The LORD MAYOR—WeII, how do you mean to get out of this scrape ? Prisoner—lt's no felony, please you, my Lord. It's all a mistake. You see I was passing by this here gentleman's shop a whistling of Jack Cullen's " Polly, love," and up comes a pack of evil-minded wagabonds, and they does nothing but gives me a shove into this here shop, so down I falls among the boots, and so I gets up and takes this here pair as laid close to my hand, for to ding at their heads, I was so wild— (Great laughter)—but jist as I was going to let fly, this here gentleman cotches me, and says he to me, " Vhy, my young 'un, you're a thieving;" and so he cases me of this here robbery.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—That's ingenious, certainly. I suppose you wish me to ask the bootmaker whether he saw all this ? Prisoner—No, please you, my Lord, I don't want him to be axed any thing at all about it. It's no use, for his mind's made up to say it's all a lie.—(Laughter.) Prosecutor—So it is. Prisoner—There, I told you so, your Lordship. You see, as I'm in this here dock, people won't be lieve me no more nor if I was at the Old Bailey. But I arn't guilty of no crime, for I'd have brought the boots back arter I used them. The LORD MAYOR remanded the prisoner. Two poor young Irishmen, who looked as if they had very little acquaintance with the baker's shop, were brought up charged by themselves with having committed a robbery in a haberdasher's shop. They had come over to England because they could get no work at home, and being equally un lucky here, they wandered about until hunger spurred them into the haberdasher's shop, where they contrived to get hold of some stockings, which they immediately pledged to stop the speed of star vation. After the profit of this depredation was all expended they went straight up to a patrol, told him they had robbed a gentleman, and in proof of it handed him the duplicate of the stockings. The officer thought the evidence quite sufficient,and took them to the Compter, where they ate as if they had never eaten before and never were to eat again. _ The LORD MAYOR—And have you ascertained whether their statement is correct ? The officer replied in the affirmative, The haberdasher had been at the pawnbroker's shop and identified the stockings. The LORD MAYOR.-.--I cannot punish these poor creatures as thieves. Let them be kept at the Compter for a few days, and I shall see what is best to be done. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a young man of respectable appearance, named Frederick Hill, was charged with being drunk and disorderly. John Bayes, a constable of the F division, at A quarter before three o'clock on Sunday morning saw the defendant talking to a woman in Bow-street. He desired him to go home, which he refused to do, and seeing that he was intoxicated, he took him into custody and lodged him in the station-house. The defendant said that the woman to whom he had spoken appeared to be very ill, and he merely told the constable to look to her, when he ordered him, in a peremptory manner, to go home and attend to his own business. He was then proceeding to wards Long-acre, in which direction his residence lay, when the constable desired him to go in another di re ction, and on his refusing to do so the constable knocked him down on the pavement, and then took him to the station-house. Two gentlemen who witnessed the transaction came to the station to speak on his behalf , but t he y were themselves dragged into the station a nd locked u p . Mr. HALLS discharged the defendant, advising him to go quietly home in future, when lie hap pened to be in the streets at an unseasonable hour. George Melton and John Jackson, the two gentlemen referred to by the defendant Hill, were then charged by Inspector Rogers with creating a disturbance at the station-house. The inspector stated that as soon as Hill was brought to the station-house the defendant Jackson presented himself at the door, and desired to be ad mitted. He then sent in his card, and said he wished to speak on behalf of Hill. Witness told him that he was not empowered to hear witnesses, but he might attend before the Magistrates in the morning. The defendant, however, pushed his way into the charge-room, and, in doing so, nearly knocked the man down who was standing to guard the door. Witness then placed him at the bar for creating a disturbance, and subsequently ordered him to be locked up. His companion, who insisted on joining his friend, was locked up also. The defendant Jackson having witnessed the af fair between Hill and the police constable, went to the station to give evidence on behalf of the former, whom he conceived to have been very ill-used. The inspector refused to admit him, but subse quently seized him by the collar, dragged him to the bar, charged him with being drunk, and his companion and himself were locked up together in a filthy dungeon until eight o'clock in the morning when they were turned into the yard , in order that thatthe acemll es m se ig n h g t er mightbesw ept. They then requested be sent to a friend in order to procure bail, and a pot-boy who came into the yard offered to convey a note for them, but the gaoler would not allow him. Subsequently, how ever, the gaoler himself took the note, on re ceiving a shilling for his trouble ; . but his friend and himself were not bailed out until five o'clock in the day. The defendant Melton said, that on his express ing a wish to join his friend in the station-house, t he inspector dragged him in, and knocked him down three times in the passage. Mr.' HALLS asked if the defendants were intoxi cated at the time ?—lnspector Rogers replied that they were very d run k i n d ee d. T h The defendants saidefendanttshepy hadositivedlyieeddentiegedetthheatt at ywere drunk, o ßeigate, a distance of upwards of thirty miles, and had drun g since their return. ntn e Mr. HALLS was bound to believe the oath of the inspector, and ordered the defendants to pay the drunken fine of ss. each. The defendant Jackson demanded the name of the inspector, whom he threatened with an action for false imprisonment, if it were to cost him 1001. _ _ Mr. HALLS said that in that case he should hold the defendants to bail, and they were ordered to find bail accordingly. Mr. HALLS desired the inspector on duty to in quire into the conduct of the gaoler with respect to the charge brought against him by the defendant Jackson. MARLBORO UGH- STREET. A tall pale-faced young man, of very slovenly exterior, was brought before Mr. CHAMBERS yester day, charged with having committed an assault upon Macdonald, the constable belonging to the Haymar ket Theatre. It will perhaps be recollected that the public was a short time ago entertained with the exploits of a gentleman named Calvert, whose friends are of considerable respectability, who had conceived a most outrageous passion for Miss Taylor, the clever actress, then of Covent-garden Theatre, and now of the Haymarket, which passion not meeting with a suitable return, the disappointed anioroso resorted to forcible measures to gain an interview with his ob. durate charmer, and the result was that Miss Taylor was compelled, in order to insure her personal com fort and safety, to put the gentleman into the bands of an officer, by whom he was conveyed to Bow street police-office, and there compelled to provide sureties for future good behavour in the amount of 400/. The defendant in the present case is the same individual, and his appearance at this office was caused by a renewal of his efforts to gain an interview with the still obdurate young lady. Macdonald said that on Saturday evening the de fendant, who had ceased his annoyance for some time, presented himself at the stage-door of the theatre, for the purpose of soliciting an interview with Miss Taylor, and, as his troublesome infatua tion was well known to the persons addressed, he (witness) was requested to see him off the premises. While endeavouring to effect this, in the mildest manner possible, the defendant gave him a sudden shove, which sent him sprawling on his back in the mud, committing thereby disastrous havoc on a new suit of clothes, which he was doing duty in. It took two or three strong men to subdue the resist ance of the defendant, but he was ultimately over powered and lodged in the station-house. The defendant, who appeared to talk and act with the greatest rationality, accounted for the as sault by saying that Ile merely gave the complainant a little push, in order to free himself from his grasp, and that the fall in the mud which occurred was occasioned by the constable's foot slipping. Mr. CHAMBERS remarked that the defendant had, by his absurd conduct, rendered himself liable to the forfeiture of the recognizances in which he was bound. He wished to know, provided he let him depart, whether he would pledge his " honour as a gentleman" not to go near the Haymarket Theatre, for the purpose of annoying Miss Taylor, until the house closed for the season. Mr. Calvert appeared to hesitate at pledging his honour, but said he had no objection to give his ho nour that he had no intention at that moment to obtain an interview with Miss Taylor. Macdovald mentioned to the Magistrate that Mr. Calvert had made his appearance more than once during the present season, and had broken his word so often that no reliance could be placed upon his mere verbal promise to keep away. Mr. CHAMBERS said, as that was the case, he should require him to find bail, two in 501. each, and himself in 1001. Some of the gentleman's friends, after be was removed, came forward and informed Mr. Chambers his infatuation on the subject of Miss Taylor was so strong, that it was unlikely any one would come forward again and become bail for him. Mr. CHAMBERS then signed the commitment of Mr. Calvert to the House of Correction, in lieu of Tothill-fields, as in the former place the defendant was likely to obtain more humane treatment and comfort than in the latter. MARY LEB ONE. Horatio Spooner, a young man of respectable appearance, was yesterday placed at the bar, charged with having wilfully set fire to a hay-rick, Richard Stewart, a boy fourteen years of age, on the previous morning, about a quarter past eleven, as he was walking along Kensal-green, saw the prisoner and another man sitting down smoking by a hay-rick, in a field belonging to Mr. Habgood. In a short time they both got up and walked away, prior to which the prisoner placed his pipe, which was lighted, under the rick, and it soon after broke out into a blaze. Mr. RAWLINSON should call on the prisoner to find good bail, to answer the charge at the sessions, in the event of the prosecutor preferring an indict ment against him. He was then conveyed to the lock-up-room. Q UEEN-SQ UARE. Yesterday Charlotte Webb, one of the most dis orderly and desperate prostitutes about Westmin ster, who has been committed from this office above a hundred times, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE, charged with being drunk, riotous, and assaulting the police in the public streets. Mr. GREGORIE asked her what she had to say to the charge ? Charlotte—l hope you will hear me. I know nothing of the matter. I certainly had been drinking, and the police constable tore all my clothes off. Mr. GREGORIE—It is a strange thing ; but you are constantly here ? Charlotte—Oh no, your Worship, I've not been here for some time : I have got married. Mr. GREGORIE—What ? Charlotte—Married. I've been married these ten weeks, and am now an honest woman. I hope you will let me off this time. Mr. GREGORIE—Pray who is your husband ? Charlotte—He is a sailor, your Worship, and a nice, tidy young man he is; and we have got every thing comfortable, and I have got my bits of things about me, what he has bought for me. Mr. GREGORIE—Pray at what church did you get married ? Charlotte—At Lambeth church, your Worship. lam no prostitute now. This is the first time I've been here since I've been married. Mr. GREGORIE—You have been committed by me above thirty times, lam certain. Charlotte—Lord bless you, Mr. Gregorie, more than that. I've been in prison for the last eight years, almost constantly, —more than a hundred times, I should think. Do, a y g o a u i r n, W fo o r rs in hi, my husband m t ego ; you goingto wi s ll ne oo ver se next e month,me and he intends to take me with him for company's sake. him, to g another, eet s Correction.hoe s hould l r d y w ch o t i which me afterwards t she her m for • a s Mr. GREGORIE told her that she always hatched b u t .0 u p n r roenu month etoubhte s t oryft t oe oo r t b h e e fal s e. House of Charlotte—Lord bless you, Mr. Gregorie, send me to Tothill-fields, and then I can see my husband. Now pray do, Mr. Gregorie. What will my husband say ? Oh dear, only ten weeks married; think of that. An honest woman now—a wife, Mr. Gre gorie. Now, let me go to Tothill Downs, now pray do. With some d:fficulty the gaoler removed Char , lotte Webb to the lock-up cell. THAMES-P 0 LICE. Yesterday a respectable woman, named Ann Na than, was brought before Mr. COMM, on a warrant signed by Lord Chief Justice Denman, under very odd circumstances. On the warrant being placed in the hands of the Magistrate, Mr. COIVIDE asked what charge there was against the woman, and what she was brought there for. A policeman apprehended the woman on the Judge's warrant, and she had been in custody since Saturday night. Mr. COMBE.—But why not take her before a Judge—what have I to do with it ? A Jew, named Josephs, stepped forward, avd said he was the prosecutor in the case, and a true bill had been returned ag iinst the prisoner by th° grand jury. The Judge who had signed the w o o °. was out of town. nd Mr. COMBE—By whom were you sworn, a _ where ? Josephs—By the Chief Justice's clerk, jo chambers. Fagan, an inspector of the K division, said that Josephs had been sworn at the Judge's cham b er and had imposed upon one of the policemen, 7/1, prevailed upon him to apprehend the woman' . 0 . believed it was one of those deep-laid tricks t° l convenience people, which were too frequent; w i,b Mr. COMBE—Yes, I believe that is it. " o rt the police would have nothing to do with tul s ; , j i of thing. The warrant directs the appreheysl— woman in or near London. _;„ he' Fagn—She was taken in St. George'r l-4 East. for? Mr. ComoE—What bad she been indicted Josephs—For an assault, your Worship. t o Mr. Comm—And upon that you must c er f judge's warrant. What am I to do with,. b 0 Josephs—Send her to prison, if you please; no bail. eve r Fagan, who is a very old police-officer, 11 . .0 heard of such a thing as a judge's warrant ' assault cause. Prisoner—lt is all spite, your Worship; r lease me ; I have been in custody forty hours. to ll, Mr. COMBE—I don't like this proceeding ° t oo Mr. Josephs. The warrant directs this volt it be taken before a Judge ; instead of that 5 " brought before me. i o tto . Symons, the chief clerk, said the 0%0 were now on, and he suggested that the woman o t i better be taken to the Sessions-house, wher e t , could surrender to take her trial on the indictin e 46l Mr. COMBE or d ere d t h at to b e d one , an d dee" any further interference with the case. NI The prisoner w a s th en ta k en away i n coot° followed by Josephs and other Jews. LONDON MARKETS. PRICE OF BREAD. fel The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 934— A , t i r 41b. Loaf. There are others who sell from %d. to that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.—Sept. 30. 0 4 New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) —s. --s. fine —4 6 . ..4 Old Ditto Ditto —5. —I. fine .-- ,.... 4 New Foreign Ditt0................................................ —..s. ...11, fine ---; ...) Old Ditto - New White C10ver—.......................................... —s. —5. fine"' ... 6 Old Ditto Ditto. --s —s. fine .4. ..b New Trefoil 31dDitto —..................—...----................. —s. —s. fine Rib Grass English Carraway Seed- , ..—•s. ....s. 805. ',. 6 .„ 80 Foreign Ditto Coriander . —s. 10. fine -' 4 ' deig' St. Foin .............—.—.......(per Quarter)...--..... 423. 445. fine V i r 40 "ct; 40 5 ' _A Rye Grass .—........... —5. —5. n-- ~ Pacey Ditto n ew _ ..... —.5. —s. 50 Linseed, for feeding --5. 48s. fine. ..,,,* Ditto, for crushing , t— 806 --........... 445. 505. —5. ,„, . Canary Seed, New. —5. —s. 705 . .„„" e . ,o ' ' 'itto Old .....5. .....s. ....8. dr - "O' White Mustard 5eed........(per 8u5he1)..,..... --s. 12s. 145. 0 :/* Brown Ditto .. —s. 208. 20. !,90/: turnip Seeds, Rounds-- —s. —s. 18.5.'1101 5 Green and Red Ditto ........................................ —s. —s. 18s. mg,,, ir fares, Old - . --s. ss. fine ~, Al' Ditto New fine '''', _ Rar,eSeed, English, fine (per Last) 21/. 26/. ........ Foreign PRICES OF HOPS..—Sept. 30. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) «, 51 ss. 71. Os. to 9 1: D r C* Choice ..... .. 81. Bs. Cl. Os to S t* East Kent.......... ................. ~,, OP Choice . ...—......... 91. 9s. W. Os. to 1 , 4 IP K-mt tiag5...........—......... - _ 71. Cll. 01. Os 0 .... °l' (R Choice ....... 0/. Os. W. Os to 00: New Sussex Pockets 5/. Os. 0/. Os, to L 1 Superfine Ditto The Hop Duty is estimated at 15NL00L.....„,„/, PRICE OF OIL. 381. 05........... Refined ....... Rape Oil, brown Linseed Oil ....- Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand lape Cake, per ton— 7/A WHITE:CHAPEL HAY IIIARKET.—SePL 25 ohis ....... 653.0 d. to 90s. Od. Clover.... 70,90d._t_o_V" Wks. Od. to 30s. ua POTATO ES.rasSec.iPtet.r::**"'*. PRICE OF Marsh Champions , Os. Od. to 48. Od. per C New Ware . 3s. Cd. to 28. 9d. ditto. Middling ditto• Chats Os. Od. to 2s. Cd. ditto.. PRIG: FAT, per stone of 9IIN 0, 'rice of OF RAW allow as stated by th VitiCEs OF Per lb. d. to d. Botts, English 15 25 Ditto, Foreign 14 21 Dressing Hides 12 15 Ditto. l4 17 Ditto, light Ctop Hides, 12 14 Ditto—,...-40 to 501 b. 13 18 Ditto— l4 20 PRICE OF TA LLOVI fown Tallow 483. Od. Yellow Russil _ 48s. Od. AThite —s. Oct. Soap Ditto —s. Od. Melted Stuff' 37s. Od. Ditto Rough 21s. Od. fallow LEATHER. d."? Per lb. / 0 English Horse Hides.. 18 Spanish Ditto Per dozen.... 0 Calf Skins., SO to 4(..•_ 0 Ditto 40 to 60 1 u• 90 0 Ditto 70 to 9011 N., 16 j i Small Seals, Graenlan. ,g Large &c. 8O A So P, 1121 b. a ' Mottled Whit t o, Graves 0, Good Drege Yellow ~....../ j, COAL MARKET.—Sept. 30. 0., 0 Per Ton. s. 0. Ellison Low Main ......... 13 9 Walls En P cl er H T e o t n to -11 •••'' . 7 - 4, ,anlield.--.. l7 0 Walls End LambO n l a' ~D West Hartley .. l7 6 W E. Russell's Het -I" ' 's , ' il 6 W.E. Bell, Robson, & Co. 17 0 Walls End Stewart , 6 W.E. Clarke and C 0.—... 16 0 Walls End Gordon,'"."., ; 1 0 Walls End Heaton--... 18 0 Walls End Tees ..•"77,,,.. , jg I Walls End Hi1da...........—.. 17 0 Hartley ............---.:": 0 ,... Ditto Northumberland.. 16 9 Walls End Elgin Lambton's Primrose 16 6 Ships arrived since last market-day,o' O• Id; NEWCASTLE CORN MA RKET —Sept. 011, .. 0 Our supply of new Wheat from the contill ie t0;;1. 0 1 , and from the late tine weather the condition rathef tle (3 ,1 00,, e r whole sold steadily at a decline of Is. per quarter; 14 40 0;16i old Wheats. Of Oats the supply was also large, the fl s o ,K e r tained their price, but the ordinary samples were du.")3.4,:p.rip Is. per quarter ; some parcels of new South County ,t 7 iii now offering in our market, and apart have been so, A pe quarter ; but the trade is yet very partial. Malt and demand, other articles without change. 0 0 0 4 . i. New. . ,fil. t. Whet, Northumberland 40s. Ms . ...••• ..'7 0 , 1 / , ---..... Norfolk and Suffolk 525. 555.....•• "7,, 1, Berwick and Scotch 445. 505......• ,3' 4 Foreign Rye, Norfolk and Suffolk 3ss. 365........ ....4. 4 Foreign 30s. 055 ...•••• ..„,,,j,,P Barley, Malting, Norfolk and Suffolk 345. 365 ...... „5. Grinding and Feeding 265. 285....... ...4. of, / Malt, Norfolk and Suffolk .5 4 5. 585......• ,f, Beans, Small 38s. 405....... -- Tick 36s. 385......• -3,--,,j, Pease, White —5.—5......' ..,,,,,,02 --. Gray Oats, Northumberland, Potatoe 'os 225....••• .04 , yi Feed 18s 205....... ......10, —5. —5....... 9,30, —s. —5.... Forei Flour, Fine (par sack) __ GUILFORD MARKET.—Sept. 93. 0 , 2 Wheat (Per Load) ...131. to 161. Oats (Per Qr.) • Old 10 19 Beans . ................ Barley (Per Qr.) 28s. 345. Pease ................ MEETINGS OF CREDIT0 11 :10 AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-ST P ' 6 I (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Oct. 2. R. L. Lawe, master-mariner, Greenwich ..... .......... i ji DIVIDEND. C. Thomson, jun., wine-merchant, Beaumont.street,..,./1/ lebone ........................ ............... .............. PMINT&D AND PUBLisina, iiY 114 U Ii 13 0 SUN OPTICS, 112, STRAND! lebone BIRTHS. oei r On the 28th ult., in Mecklenburgh-street, g ee / square, the lady of Charles S. Hill, Esq., of a son. On the 21st ult., at Paris, the lady of Jame , cl l ' . Esq ,of a son. .01 o • On the 29th ult., at Stanmore, Middlesex, th e T. Gaskell, Esq., of a son. On the 30th ult., Mrs. Henderson, of Blooms- °r9 ' a daughter. . t a daughter. -" MARRIED. SO'' On the 28th ult., George, younger son of the la- tpci, 'organ, vicar, of Pebworth, Gloucestershi re t,w Elizabeth, second daughter of the late Mr. Jame Hampstead. (1 On On the 28th ult., at St. Mary's, Islington, of the island of Antigua, to Eliza, daughter of 66 " ( )IV of the former place. On the 29th ult., at St. George's, Hanov er-64' j o Row, Esq., to Eliza Flower, only daughter of the Weaver, of the Royal Artillery Drivers. h estM On the 28th ult., at Donnington, near C hic Edward Fullagar, Esq., to Miss Vinall. DIED, °f ar j On the 28th ult., Mr. William Strachan, i°"'' CY" street, Haymarket, aged 53. ‘. RIO ,1 On the 23d ult., at Clifton, near Bristol, ) o . l°. , S ' ' bell, of the Hon. East India Company's service. ~,,, PS!, if,„ On the 30th ult., Hannah Abigail, relict of the la te . S ,, 7 Liam Vale, of Southampton-street, Clerkenwel), in t ?,,er e , 0„3. , On the 28th ult., in Albany-street, Regelia, ' g 4 01 ' Samuel Martin, late of Childermas estate, Jaw ai _ c , l es C On the :29th ult., in his 55th c c , 4 Charing-cross. V ali , _,, ../0 On the 27th ult., at Kentish-town, ago-. ''' oie . year , Mr. Ja— , 0) of Oa 0 / daughter of the late Cliff Ashmore, Esq. , 1 CO it lo solh o f On the 24th ult., at Salisbury, Miss S° P hY iii/ Mr. Hanrott, Maida-hill. ~ fog' 4 On the 24th ult., at Boulogne, on his waY w . 4 4/0 brain fever, brought on by fatigue in travelling, . Wheatley, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-atlo_,,,v , • /0 41 -- - i..., Orb J c hl vt l i t i 4 `„.