The Sun. — London, England, 1830-12-28 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. The vile truck system must be abolished by law, although it has the support of the "political eco monists," who, regarding with supreme contempt the homely maxim, " live and let live," make it the great principle of their liberal philosophy to pamper capitalists, and starve the poor. The truck system is a fraudulent scheme to deprive the workman of a portion of even the scanty wages which he earns at the present day, by paying him in some commo dity the nominal amount of his wages, or a part of them, and which commodity he cannot tutu into money but at a certain loss. There are two ways in which the poor lose by this sort of fraud—one as to money, the other as to time. The trucksters only consult their own convenience and cupidity as to what articles they make the workmen take in place of money. They cure not whether the ar ticles are such as they may sometimes want, or such es they never use at an ; for instance, we are in 114rmini by • country pryer (the Leeds Mercury)! that one of those trucksters, some time ago, com pelled each of his weavers to buy a set of china for the tea-table, but the poor weavers, net being in the habit of using china, mid not being able to eat it, sold it to their neighbours at a heavy loss. The po litical economist will, perhaps, ask, " why did the weavers take the china ? They were not compelled by law to take it—they were free agents, and might have refused, and insisted on being paid in money. Why should the law interfere to prevent freedom of action, and inhibit the rich from mak:ng what terms with the poor they please?" We will tell the poli. ticel economist that this is a case for the interference of the law, because there is no freedom of action— except the freedom to oppress and defraud on the one side, with the necessity of submitting to such oppression end fraud on the other. The paper to which we have already alluded states that the truck masters in Leeds have two rooms contiguous to each other, the first being a shop or warehouse well moch' with provisions, groceries, wearing apparel, &e. Through this room every perion bringing in work must pass into the taking-in room, where the work is examined, and paid for in money ; but if the person receiving the money does not leave a great portion of it in the shop as he returns, he can have no more work there. Such is the freedom of ac tion which characterises those dealings between power and poverty—between wealth and destitution. Nu, the poor workman is not free to act, but he is free to infer --r' fur sufferance is the badge of all his tribe." If he does not submit to be defrauded of a portion of his wages, he must lose his employment, and run the risk of actual starvation, or apply for the wretched dole of the pauper, or make his election between mendicity and crime. Will an industrious and' honest man hesitate as t o the choice he ought to make? Will he not rather'! submit to the impositions of the truck system than to place himself in the situation of being com pelled to enter either a workhouse or a gaol ? But the law ought not to leave the industrious and honest man exposed to such a necessity; it ought to secure to trim the full benefit of his contract with his em ployer—the full wages in money which one has pulated to give, and the other has agreed to receive. if the rich man violates his contract with the rich man, the ore can put the law in motion to oblige the other to do him justice ; but the poor man, if his employer does not act fairly with him, is bereft of all resource. It is true he can summon his master to pay him his wages in tnoney but if he does so he leas reason to apprehend that the demand for justice will be followed by the infliction of vengeance; arid it is no small degree of vengeance which deprives a poor man of his means of livelihood. Theemployer Can do this, and the poor man must submit to it, end this is what the political economist calls freedom of action The poor man who is obliged to take chins, or other goods equally useless to him, iniottad of wag es, must lose a portion of his time in seeking a purchaser for theta, and lose a portion of his wages for prompt payment. Thus he is a double loser, while his wealthy employer is a gainer in a two-fold WWI, for he bee not only his regular profit upon *heifer man's labour, but he has an exorbitant protlr on the goods which he makes him take in ex n6 , ,4it for that labour. If that be the greatest, the Leer, the most flourishing country, where bloated capitalists revel in sordid luxury, tied the miseries of o mendicant population, then let this, and e very *edicts which, to satisfy the grasping cupidity of ! the tich, beggars the industrious classes, be perpe : toisl; but, if the moral and political property of a nation be more dependent upon the comfort nod contentment of the many than on the riches and *elfish enjoyments of the few, such a system cannot be too soon put down by law, not only as a fraud upon the poor man, but as a crime against society.— aiforning Herald. Several of the most respectable members of the Catholic Associution, so soon as they obtained the object for which they had embodied themselves, namely, Catholic Emancipation, withdrew from the faction which had kept Ireland for years in a state of confusion and discontent. They knew that the junta would devise new means to perpetuate tur moil and trouble—they separated from their con federates, and are now become the marked objects of invective and virulence. Wherever the grand Agitator appears, his movements are landed by the rabble, and he seems to look upon himself as little lees than a demi-god. In fact, he reminds us of the metrical address to Jove, in the Imrletta of Afidas " Jove, in his chair, of the sky Lord Mayor, When be nods, men and gods stand in awe; When be winks, Heaven shrinks, When beeped', earth quakes; Bis word, though absurd, is a law." Vain men are exalted in their own opinion and esti mation above mortals, and the applause of the thoughtless and giddy multitude will often " set their brain a madding.' The man who is fond of popular praise always expects servility frmn others, and, while inhaling the incense of adulation, scarcely knows what ho says or does. When cool reflection returns, he is apt to unsay what he has said, and to expostA;mself to the perpetual charge of inconsis tent/. Among an undiscriminating mob such a man will have a number of votaries; but, instead of listening to the ephemeral applause of the multi tude, he should curb his vanity and ambition, and listen to the dictates of sober remote, otherwise be may hare cause to tausent his vanity, folly, and in temperance.— Mot Wag ddvertiser, We can scarcely yet contemplate calmly the his tory of the past week in Paris, with the fearful crisis which threatened to sweep away all the institutions most favourable to human happiness, and, by the destruction of property and the annihilation of law, to plunge Frence and Europe from a high state of civilisation and refinement, into all the horrors of anarchy and barbarism. From all the accounts which brave reached us, we think there can be little doubt that a detestable conspiracy had beau formed by the enemies of freedom and order, to take ad vantage of the popular feeling against thnt wretched tool Polignae and his colleagues, and, under the pretext ot taking vengeance on them, to rouse all the worst passions of the mob to the work of plunder and devastation, and to restore the reign of the Je suits and a military despotism. We know that the furious and infatuated adherents of the old regime have adopted as their creed " de l'exces du ma! den dra k hien,"and that the lanais they moat take for the accomplishment of their objcet is simply to push things on to anarchy; that will produce despotism, veluels will bring back the Due de Bordeaux. To the folly and wickedness of (hit design it is in vain to seek to open their eyes: but we Cannot enough rejoice that their atrocious purpose bus been baffled, and that the recent events inTaris, and the success of King Louis Phillippotaythsvernment, in keeping down tumult and sinforeliti obedienee to the laws, h av e strengthened the present -order of things in France, and confirmed the power of the Citizen sing and his Llovernment. We are well persuaded that our own Ministers *hare this joyful feeling in common with us, and ail atlases of the community in this country And that the result of the events of last weeh k considered as baying most propitiousiy determined the future condition of France, and given a triumph to constitutional order and to freedom, over democratic anarchy and despotism, The per. tonal exertions of the King appear to have ►vainly contributed, with the admirable conduct and unpa ralleled zeal and &roam of the National Guard, in the accomplishment of this glmious end.—Morning Chronicle. A Morning Contemporary (the 'Ames), speaking of the recent trials at Winchester, observes, " One circumstance apparent on the face of these pro ceedings is, to us, inexpressibly humiliating ;—we mean, the ignorance and intellectual degradation of the peasants, who, throughout these southern counties, have first been starred into discontent, and then entrapped, by reason of their very stupidity, into criminal and brutal courses * as means of relief from suffering " It odds— 4, We are tempted to ask, in what savage community have such wretched men been born ? Under what government have they lived, that it allows their natural wants to be so cruelly disregarded ? Who is guil►y of the heinous crime of so neglecting their general, irel especially their moral instruction, as to have looked on whilst the whole agricultural inhabitants of this (self-called) humane and enlightened country, grew up in utter callousness to the difference between right and wrong—of utter incapacity to release themselves by means becoming any reasonable creatures from a con dition of prostrate pauperism, the existence of which, almost incredible anywhere, ought to be considered mon strous in England, foremost of nations in industry, wealth, and knowledge ? We do affirm, that the actions of this pitiable race of men, as a commentary on the treatment experienced by them at the hands of the upper and mid dling classes—the gentlemen, the clergy (who ought to teach and comfort them), and the farmers who ought to pay and feed them—are disgraceful to the British name. 44 The present population must be provided for in body and spirit, on more liberal and Christian principle., or the whole mass of labourers will start into legions of ban ditti—banditti less cri►ninal than those who have made them so—than those who, by a just but fearful retribu tion, will soon become their victims." England is unqestionably foremost of nations in industry and wealth, and in useful knowledge. But some how or other the class of persons alluded to by our contemporaries, are in such a state of pro strate pauperism, ,we fear their condition is the re sult of a design to keep them in a state of degrade. don. Our contemporary says, the Clergy will not teach and comfort them. It is well remarked by the poet Cowper, when speaking of a sermon of Paley's, that the Church of England possessed the advantage of having Clergy for all description of people—the higher for the rich, and the lower for the poor; that there ought, in that case, to be three or four clergy men in every parish. The Clergy, he added, were to be found often enough in the houses of the rich, but they seldom knew anything of their poor pa rishioners. But a heavier charge lies against the Church of England than this. While the Puritans exerted themselves to the utmost to promote the instruction of • the poor, the Church of Eng land unfortunately set itself against the instruc tion of the poor, which it seems to have consi dered incompatible with the authority to which it laid claim. All who promoted Sunday §chools were prosecuted by the Clergy. When the Lord Chancellor first devoted himself to the pro motion of education, the Clergy, with hardly an ex ceptioti, were opposed to him. They resisted edu cation to •the laq, and only changed their system when it was impossible to prevent. its spread. In the last speech which the Lord Chancellor made when in the House of Commons, on the subject of education, he alluded to the great change which had taken place in the sen►iments of the Clergy, since the commencement of his labours. In Scotland, we observe in the same manner the encouragement or discouragement of education, as the Presbyterians or the Church of England had the ascendancy. There is a striking passage on this subject in the evidence given by Dr. Chalmers, before the Com mittee on the State of the Poor in Ireland. " In the middle of the sixteenth century (be says) there wawa very efficient system of Christian instruction in the perishes of 'Scotland, and it is understood the country at that time was in a very healthy moral condition : immediately after the Restoration, the Act for the establishment of parochial schools was re pealed, and there was an attempt to enforce Episeo prey upon the Scottish population, which gave rise to what may be termed religious wars, that lasted for nearly thirty years ; from the disorder and tor. bulence of that period, along with the suspension of parochial education, the population seems to have deteriorated very rapidly"---After quoting the well. known description, by Fletcher, of Salteun, of the frightful state of Scotlatal in 1698, he proceeds— " It appears from very distinct historical documents, that such u state of things subsided almost per suntan, very suddenly indeed, when the population had leave to repose from the religious persecutions, And the parochial system of education was again general. They were besides plied from Sabbath to Sabbath by an efficient and respectable Clergy, in consequence of which the transformation appears to have been quite marvellous." If England is now the first in arts, we owe this chiefly to the Dis senters. There is a curious and instructive volume published in 1816 by Israel Worsley, in which he showed that the manufactures of Great Britain have been " for the most part established and supported by the Protestant Dissenters." The Dissenters never neglected education, and hence throughout England, wherever Dissenters are found, the people will also be found to be less stupid and brutal. Like most other wealthy Corporations, the Church of Eng land has acted on a narrow and exclusive spirit, and so far front England owing anything to that Establishment, it is, we fear, chiefly owing to it that the nation, which has made the greatest advances ill arts and industry, has not only the worst in structed peasantry in civilized Europe, but ranks nearly the lowest in science. The state of educe. tion of the clergy, according to a competent judge, Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, is of the tnost narrow de scription, and white they cannot supply front them selves the scieotific wants of the nation, they have influence enough to exclude laymen of merit from the scienttf►c situations for which they are fitted. The persecution of the celebrated Dr. Halley, and other celebrated men, is well known to all who are familiar with the history of the Royal Society. In the very interesting Correspondence of Mr. Pinker ton, recently published, there is a curious proof of this sinister influence in a letter from Sir Joseph Maness. " When the Archbishop of Canterbury (he says) first acted as a Trustee to the British Museum, he did me the honour to consult ow un a vacancy which then happened in the department of Natural History. I gave him my opinion with all possible freedom, but he, in direct oppo sition to it, put a roan, who, I had declared, and he, 1 tielieve, was convinced, had no kind of knowledge in 114- Loral history. 1, who thought lie did this because the person whom lie promoted was in orders, m a d e no s ecre t of my opinion of the transaction, whether this came to hie ears or not, I do not know ; but, aver such a treat ment, 1 have no inclination to obtrude my advice upon him, nor is it likely I II succeed, were I to do so. You who know the Archbishop's partiality towards the Church, and recollect, no doubt, that hitherto the other electing Trustees have left all the appointments of the Museum wholly to his decision, will easily see the ne cessity of using ad the interest you can raise; and the more so, as two Clergymen have already declared them selves candidates." The Church drew from the Puritans and their descendants most of the men who ctn►ferred lustre on the hotly. I.4ightfoot, ns, Tillotson, But ler, Seeker, So'intim, &c. will always be her principal ornaments. Latterly, since the value of her high places has become ►;o enormous, interest and not merit has almost exclusively etijo) ed her chief benefices; The Church, by a singular retri bution, is now paying the penally of her narrow policy. The ignorand and consequent degradation of the peasantry enabled the farmers and landlords to throw part of their support on the parish funds-- system which, when once introduced, must of ne ces,ity be continued, from the superabundance of fallour winch it produces. The chief object of the farmer at first was to make the tithe-owner pay more than his fair share of the i n le t for th e support of the peer. But oppression has its limits, end these limits have been passed, it seems, with the agricultural labourers. Stupid and ignorant as they are, they hare succeeded in obtaining by com pulsion from their employers a rate of allow ance, which the latter ran only continue by a general strike %post the Church. The determination to resist the payment of tithes has been universally taken, and it is well understood that u permanent arrangement between the land and titheholder, is now inevitable. At present the clergy are in a truly pitiable situation. They suffer, however, from the opposition of their predecessors to the instruc tion of the people—possessing, as they have long done, the ear of all influential persons in this coun try, the power of establishing, or pretending the establishment of schools for the people, being alto gether with them. _The result shows how com pletely they misunderstood the true interests of the Church. Kindness always begets kindness. The people are never ungrateful towards those supe riors who display consideration for them. Had the clergy been as familiar with the humble cottage as with the lordly mansion, and raised the condition of their flocks, they would now be in possession of general esteem instead of being looked on generally with ill will.—Morning Chronicle. SPECIAL COMMISSION. WINCHESTER, MONDAY, DEC. 27. On Friday evening one of the Jury Aced if the Court would allow them something towards defray ing their expellees ? Mr. Baron VAUGUAN said the Court had no power to order any remuneration. The Juryman then asked whether there was any fine for non-attendance ? Mr. Baron VAtiollAN said certainly there was, but he could not countenance the absence of any gentle man of the Jury. In the Nisi I'rius Court, on Friday, a Juryman begged of the Court to allow him to go home; he had four children at home who were motherless, and without the means of subsistence. He had, in. deed, himself been obliged to borrow money to sup ply himself whilst he had beer► at Winchester. Mr. Justice ALDERSON said, as the Junior Judge, he could not take upon himself to give the permis sion required, but it the applicant would call at the Judge's lodgings, he would consult his Learned Brat hers on the subject. The Juryman, with tears in his eyes, said, he should be obliged to borrow the money to take him home. The JUDGES allowed the poor man leave to go home. Robert Holdaway, Henry James, Thor. Harding,. Matthew Triggs, James Painter, John Heath, and Aaron Harding, were charged with having, on the 23d of November, demolished the poor-house of the parish of Bramshott. Thomas Shoesmith, master of the workhouse, de posed that on the 234 of November Triggs and another man came to the poorhouse. Trigg); asked to see his uncle, who was in the house. lie was asked what ho wanted with him. He said he wanted him to go down to liollywull to his own sister, as he thought there would be a row or a piece of work at the workhouse that day. The master said no, he could not spare him ; if there was a row, he should want him, as he could speak better to the persons than any other man in the house. About ten o'clock a mob arrived opposite the workhouse; Holdaway was ut their head ; the master asked him what he came for ? Holdaway said, " I mean you no harm, nor your wife, nor your goods, but get them out as soon as you OM ;" he then said the house must come down. The master told him there was a number of old people in the house, and sick children bud with a fever; Holdaway said the chil dren should be protected, and wanted to know in what part of the house they were placed in; the master pointed out the room, and Holdaway said the windows should be mat keel; the master then went in doors, and began moving the goods, and in about an hour, twelve o'clock, the mob returned; the master pointed out to Holdaway the room in which the sick children were; the mob then rushed into the house like a torrent ; they went into every part of the house and began break ing the windows, and the partitions between the rooms ; witness saw amongst the crowd Henry James; he was coming towards the room where the children were ; witness's wife spoke to him ; witness. locked the door where the children were, and asked James to put a man at the door to pre vent any one from from going in ; James spoke to it roan to stand there ; witness and his wife went down stairs, and its they were going, saw Painter breaking the bannisters ; witness went out into the yard, and having got out, found it impossible to ob tain an entrance into the house; the other prisoners, were also at work ; the rafters and ceiling of the upper rooms were broken down ; they had made their way through the roof by pushing off the tiles, The copper holding about forty gallons, was taken out and rolled into the yard ; witness never saw the copper again ; the mob cominued at work till dark. Witness saw oldaway as well as many others think ing the wine ; there was not one room left in the house entire ; the children had, been removed into the open yard, and tarpaulins covered over the sick —the sick ward was entirely full ; it is a separate building that was not touched ; there were about forty people in the house at the time. Several other witnesses were examined, and cor reborated the above statement. They also identi lied the prisoners, and said, that the damage done to the workhouse amounted to about two hundred pounds. On the part of the prisoners, the Rev. William Cobbold, Vicar of Selbourne, said he saw Hold away at his house on the 22)1 of November; on that day there was a large mob at his house; there were several farmers with them ; they came to his house twice on that day, and that half an hour elapsed be tween the two visits; he was compelled to sign a paper by the mob, who were about his house three hours, and who said if he did not sign it they would murder him, and pull down his house; witness did not hear the farmers appoint Holdaway to go round with the peeper to the farmers of the three parishes; he would rat her not say any thing about Iloldaway's character. By the COURT—Said he was sorry to say that three of the prisoners, iloldaway, Heath, and Aaron Harding, are from his own parish; Heath was a master carpenter, and certainly not in distress ; said that in justice he mu , t acknowledge that lioldaway saved his life by his influence over the mob, Mr. Baron VAUGIIAN said, the rause of these lamentable outrages, he had heard, was distress amongst the labouring classes ; but he must say, ar far as he had had an opportunity of observing from these trials, there was no distress urnoupt that class of persons; for a considerable number of the parties accused had proved to be mechanics, some of whom were in full weak, and others who we re not si,fTer• ing from the effects of the times; had, however, the distress been R 4 general and as great as had been stated, it would not have been a justification for the outrageous violations of the law with which the parties were charged. The Jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of GuLty against all the prison ers , w i th a recommend►ttiott of mercy ; trusting t h at t h e i r Lordships would take into► their consideration any extenuating circumstance in the case of either of the prisoners. Join, .muh, 2l ; James Afarlin,33 ; &row, 37, were indicted for assaulting William Baker, and stealing from him two sovereigns, on the 23d November. William Riker is servant to the Rev. Mr. Barter. On the 211 November, a mob came to fis master's house about halfpast one; five of the m came to the door; 300 were within a stone's throw, b rea ki ng umehines, be Few the three prisoners a t t h e b ar there; he asked them what they wanted, an d S :rou d said two sovereigns; he told them his master was not at home, and that he had no money ; they said if they did not have it, they would fetch their emu panions, and beat down the house; they continued saying ;hey would have it, and if his master had been at home, they would have had 51. The Jury found all the prisoners Guilty. John Silcock, aged 27, and George Pace, were indicted for destroying a thrashing machine, the property of Thomas Dowden, of the parish of Northington. _ _ John — Ailworth is bailiff to Mr. Dowden, and was at the farm on the 19th of November, when a mob came. they had hammers, bars of hot), and sticks; •ome person said " Come on, my lads ; show you the way," anti they then went to the barn, broke through the hoards, and got to the thrashing machine, which they broke; after the machine was broken, he saw Mr. Baring; Sileock was there, and Mr. Baring tried to take him, but the mob sur- rounded them, and rescued Sileock ; he saw Henry Cooke there. This statement was confirmed by other evidence. The Jury found the prisoners Guilty. Thomas Whits, 22, Thomas Scammell, 22, John Painter ' 29, James Moody, 33, William Reeves, 30, and Alexander Praguell, were indicted for taking from John &tatted one sovereign, and also for break ing his machine. Mr. William Steele, solicitor, of Romsey—He met a mob coming from Wilts, near East Welton, consisting of 200, who had large sticks and ham mers; ire saw Reeves, Moody, and Painter; Moody had a white handkerchief round his hat, and Pain ter a ribbon; they told him they were going to Mr. Penton's, of whom they meant to have 514 they asked him for money, but without intimidation or threat, and he gave them he.; they said it was not enough. John Eastted, sen.—He is a farmer at East Wel ton; on the 24th November he saw the mob at Welton Farm ; he saw Moody; lie had a handker chief round his hat; he asked Moody where they came from, and what for; lie said they were come to regulate wages and tithes; he said he did not belong to this parish ; he said be paid his men on Saturday night, when they did not complain, and if they had any complaint to make he would hear them; some of them came forward, and said that they had no complaint to make; Scammel said they were going to have 12s. a week and he (witness) said, you rascal, you are not worth a groat a day, and he would not give it to him a lazy fellow; White was there, and they said they would break witness's machine, which is a chaff cutting machine ; he then went home, and about one-third of the mail came to his house, and de stroyed his machine; the mob then asked him for two sovereigns ; he said he could riot afford it—lie would not do it; he then said, " Well, we can work as well by night as by day," and he could not tell what may happen; witness offered him a half sovereign, but they would not take it; lie then gave Painter a sovereign, upon the understanding that they would leave the parish peaceably. After some other witnesses had been examined, who corroborated the preceding statements, Mr. Justice PARKE directed the Jury to acquit Scammell, Pragnell, and Reeves, as there was no evidence against them. Painter was found Guilty, and the other prisoners were acquitted. James White, Thomas &animal, John Painter, James Afoody, and Wm. Reeves, the same prisoners as in the last indictment, were indicted for assault ing and robbing the Rev. Thomas Penton. The Rev. Thomas Penton proved that a paper was handed to him by Moody, which he wonted him to sign, containing a description of an agree ment as to the wages of the labourers, and also as to lowering his tithes, but which paper he refused to sign ; and that as regarded the wages, he should most likely do as his neighbours did, and that he should arrange with the farmers about the tithes. Moody then demanded ten pounds ; he said he had not ten pounds, nor half of that, for them ; arid that he should not give any money willin g ly. Moody then mentioned the names of several parties who had given them five pounds. Witness then offered two pounds to them, when Moody turned round and asked the mob if they would take the two pounds? To which they assented. Moody then pointed out the person who was to receive the money, and wit ness then gave it to that person ; witness gave the money from the idea that it was not improbable lint that they migh• destroy some of his property. Mr. Justice PARKE—This case, in point of law, if it be stretched to its fullest extent, may amount to a robbery, but he thought the better and safer way would be to acquit them. The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. ha re Ofer, 21, Charks Fonder, 29, Wm. Noble, jun., 20, Henry Gale, 17,John Lush, 30, and Wm. Kelsey, 22, were indicted for destroying u threshing. machine, the property of John Box. John Box—lie lives with his father, who is a farmer; on the 21st of November, at half-past seven in the morning, a mob came to his father's house; John Lush and William Kelsey came with them; 1.11.11 is a bricklayer, the others are labourers, except Gale ; Lush was cutting down some of the wood of the machine with a saw. Mr. Justice PARKE told the Jury there was no evidence against Offer, Fouler, Noble, jun., and Gale, therefore they must be acquitted. The Jury found Isaac Offer, Charles border, Wm. Noble, jun., and Henry Gale, Not Guilty; and John Lush and William Kelsey, Guilty ; but re commended them to mercy on account of their good characters. Thomas Aeate, aged 20; George Carter, aged 38; Robert Cooke , and George Jiopgood, were indicted for riotously and feloniously robbing Mary Sergeant. Mary Sergeant—She is a widow ; a great many persons came to her house on the 21st November, between six and seven o'clock ; they had bludgeons in their hands ; the first three that came demanded money ; she asked them what they wanted; they said a sovereign, which she gave them, and they said they would take care that those who came after should not distmb her; she saw three tnen were at the door ; shortly after there was a great knocking at the door; she went up stairs and looked out of the window ; they swore at her, and told her to come down stairs and show herself; some cried " Silence!" and others would not hear what she had to say ; she went down stairs, and they were breaking her windows; afterwards they broke in the glass over the door, and then she gave them another sovereign ; they still continued breaking her windows ; they then went to the back of her house; about forty or fifty got into her kitchen, but she did not know how— thhy had. sticks in their hands; they asked for some money; she said she had no more for them; they asked for beer; she told them she had not any good enough for them ; they said they would go into the cellar, but they did not know the way ; they threw stones into the upper room ; they went away ; some time after a constable came. The Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Neale, Carter, Cooke, and Hopgood. In the course of the morning the Rev. Edmund Ponher, a Magihtrae of this co unty , d roppe d o ff his seat in a fit. lie %vas immediately carried out of Court, and medical assistance called to him. lie is the father of the barrister of that name, who goes the 'Western Circuit. He had but just gone into the other Court. A short time previous to this, one of the prisoners %vas seized with a strong hyste rical tar, and was removed from the dock in a den porous state. Ma. NOUTIICOTE'S LIFE OF TITIAN.-- When th e l engt h o f T ITIAN ' S l i fe, t (jus thc t ekbrity he enjoyed, and his constant intercourse with a ll w h o were distinguished either by rank or by talent in his time are considered, it will not appear surprising that Mr. NOWTIICOTE, in the course of his ntrrative, has intro. &teed Sket c hes of many persons of whom every body rutht be desirous of knowing something. But the most valuable parts of the work are the original remarks by Mr. Nortmucurr: himself on art generally, and on the peculiar qualities of the Venetian school, and on the style of TITIAN, its illustrious chief.".—.l;iterary Gazette. ENTERTAINMENT AT THE MANSION- HOUSE. On Friday a very splendid entertainment was given by the Lord Mayor, on the occasion of the swearing-in of the new Alderman of Farringdon Within Ward, to between sixty and seventy distin guished persons, amongst whom were the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the United States of America to the Court of Russia; his Majesty's Attorney-General, Baron Bolland, and several of the Aldermen and leading members of the Corporation. After the usual loyal toasts had been enthusiasti cally given, The LORD MAYOR proposed the health of the new Alderman, and prefaced it in a highly compli mentary manner. lie rf-joiced at presiding at the first entertainment to which Mr. Kelly had been in troduced as Alderman, the mere especially us it was rat his suggestion that excellent individual had en tered into public life. Alderman KELLY, in returning thanks, declared his strong friendship for the Lord Mayor, whom he had known for a number of years, and who was qua lified to discharge the duties of the office he had been unanimously appointed to, with ability, zeal, and independence. tie concluded by proposing the health of the Lord Mayor. His Lordship returned thanks, and adverted with great warmth of feeling to the manner in which he had been elected to the office of Chief Magistrate. He was bound for ever, he declared, in ties of gra titude to his fellow-citizens, for their kindness to him; a kindness which was sure to be more actively displayed on occasions when unworthy, or interested motives, might be assigned fur conduct which de served is more charitable construction.—(Cheers.) If he had acted erroneously in the part he had lately taken on a certain subject of paramount interest, he knew the generosity of his fellow-citizens too well, not to be convinced that they laid no censure upon the intention, and he should endeavour to do justice to the meaning of his heart, by-keeping as much as possible from amongst the stragglers in the march of intellect.—(Laughter and cheers.) In fact there was no circumstance of his life which was not in some way or other connected by an obligation upon his part, to those whose Chief Magistrate he had the honour to be. His Lordship in proposing the health of the American Ambassador to Russia, said that he was most happy in the recollection that it had been always the pride of the possessors of the Mansion-house, to entertain any distinguished fo reigner who might visit the City, and he had now the happiness of tendering the hospitalities of that house to an eminent and able foreigner who sat by his side. Foreigner, did he say ? No, he would call him brother, for in speaking of an American, he was speaking of one who was descended from the same parentage, who spoke the same language, and who possessed the same love of liberty, which was the birthright of every Briton.—(Cheers.) Mr. RANDOLFE returned thanks in a very elegant speech. He was peculiarly happy in being asso ciated with the citizens of the great metropolis of England, who, as well as those of his oam country, were descended from the Anglo-Saxons, rho spoke the same language, which was so extensively and vigorously spread over both hemispheres, and which would continue to increase and to be used as the vehicle of the grand inspirations of liberty, when every other language should be consigned to the tomb, and be only found amongst the recollections of posterity.—(Cheers.) With every wish for the prosperity of the City of London, and with the deepest sense of gratitude for the hospitality and friendship with which his Lordship bad honoured him, he returned thanks for America and for himself, one of the humblest of its citizens.--(Loud cheers.) The next toast was Baron Holland. The LORD MAYOR said he felt ;highly honoured by the company of the worthy and excellent Judge, more particularly as there had been a long connec tion between that gentleman and the city of London. After Damn BOLLAND returned Outdo, Sir C. FLOWER gave the Lady Mayoress (with three times three enthusiastically.) The LORD MAYOR, in a very unaffected manner, returned his warm acknowledgments for the honour don him, and proposed the health of Sir Thomas Denman, his Majesty's Attorney-General, who had for a series of years been connected with the city of London, greatly to the satisfaction of every indi vidual belonging to it, who had endeared himself to ell by his kind and amiable manners us a private gentleman, by his upright and implodel conduct as u Judge, and by his independent and consistent character as a Member of the Legislature.--(Cheers.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in returning thanks, said he could not adequately express his feelings to wards the citizens of Luidon. From the moment of his election to the office he had lately resigned, no one unpleasant feeling bad crossed lint mind; on the contrary, he had ever been treated is ith the most distinguished kindness, and he should to his latest breath feel the highest gratification at continuing to deserve the good opinion of his fellow-citizens. " The Magistrates of the City of London,;; The City Representation,' and several other toasts. The pests bad no reason to complain at the pro mise of hospitable treatment made by the Lord Mayor at the time of his election. We understand that sixteen successive dinners are to take place at the Mansion-house during this sea -8011, so that the Corporation regularly crack their fingers at the cold weather. • WONDERFUL 11 , SCAPE.—On Saturday last a girl, aged 19, named NZWW.AII t whose parent. reside at St. Lawrence, having incautiously approached the edge of the Cliff, opposite Mirables, the wind blew so strung that she lost her footing, and was precipitated to the bottom, a perpendicular fall of upwards of 170 feet ; and although bruised most (heedfully, not a bone was broken, and she was enabled to walk home afterwards, a distance of three and we underat.ind is likely to recover.—Ports mouth Herald. NEWBURG H.— On Wednesday a bride groom's flitting came to this town, and among the neces saries with which the cart was loaded were two grey beards of whisky in a sack. An old man, wishing pos sibly to earn a dram, would needs carry in the bottles. lie caught hold of the bottom of the pock instead of the mouth, placed his back to the vehicle, made a move, and clash went the big stone bottles on the causeway. A drake that happened to be present observed the limpid 'laid trickling over the stones, and, marvelling at seeing such clear water in such dirty weather, made towards it with the greedy haste of a sober glutton. lie arri►ed at the spot, drank, shook his head, drank again, then sounded " Quack / quack!" like the blest of a brazen trumpet, through every tenement about the West Port. Quickly a number of the hobbling feathered tribe were congre gated round the luckless remains of the broken bottle,. They drank, quacked, fluttered tbtir wings, quashed and drank again, " and none were so happy as they." In a short time 14 decks and five drakes, inspired by the spirit of aqua vita , ,, were seen staggering, quackling, and gallanting, through the street, in such a manner as no decent duck could approve of. Towards gloaming, no thing was to be seen but old wives hurrying to their re spective places ofabode with baskets full uf drunken ducks and intemperate drakes.—Perthshire courier. On Wednesday night last, about half-past eleven o'clock, the inhabitants of Chatted* were thrown into great alarm by the terrific cry of " Fire !" which in a few minutes caused the whole street to be one scene of hustle and anxiety to ascertain where the fire was, which was quickly discovered to have taken place at a hay-stack at the back of the premises of J. C. Dune, Esq., corn mon•brewer of that place. Providentially there being but little wind at the time, and by the great exertions of the inhabitants, the fire was extinguished without doing further damage, although corn-stacks stood contiguous to it. During the bustle while the fire lasted, it was deeply impressed upon the mind of Mr. Duro( that it was the work of an incendiary, and in a few minutes a young man of the name of JonN DKAKE, eon of Mr. M. DaAtat, a respectable farmer, on whom suspicion rested, was ap prehended. The Magistrates, who were present, retired immediately to the George-inn, where a most minute in vestigation took place, cthich lasted until half-past four o'clock on the following morning ; and was then ad journed until nine o'clock, when other witnesses were ex amined, after which he was fully committed to Ely gaol to take his trial at the ensuing /Wires. LONDON MAII.KETS, PitiCE OF BREAD. The highest price of Bread in the Metropolis is 10t1. for the rib. Loaf. There arc others who soil from Sid. to 150. below that price. PRICE OF SEEDS.-Dec. '27, New English Red Clover Seed (per Cwt.) ..4. -1. floss .-4. •"".• ^ Old Ditto Ditto.. . -5. -4. fine ..4. ••• 4 . _ New Foreign Ditto Ns. 70s. fine 0551054.' Old Ditto -4, -.4. flfitt , -4, .-$.. New White Clover, 664. 70s. Ono-4. -a. Old Ditto Ditto...-. .. . --s.-s. fine-4. -4. New Trefoil .--... 004. 50s. Ple ..4. . 4 0 Old Ditto Rib Grass ........-.... English Carraway Foreign Ditto -...... coriander ••••••••••....• St. Foln .-......—..... Rye Grass ........—. Pacey Ditto ........... --...."••••••••••••...... 40s. 456. POW .•-••• Linseed, for feeding . -a. 0111. Ana ..s. 40s. Ditto, for crushing.... . ....... 445. Os. --s. 000 --$. Canary Seed, New —a. 48s. tina-sm. Ms. . Ditto Old ~ ....4, .0.11. 4.41. API .41 . White Mustard Seed --(per 8u5he1)...... -s. 16s. Itils. fine... 4. Brown Ditto -..... ...4. los. 14s, Mu --I. Turnip Seeds, 80und5............................ ...4. .4. "64* PILO* Green and Red Ditto ..............................-4. -.11. .-11. late ..P." • Stss. Mi. tlll* --4. .-S. .-4. 10e. 301. line 251. 300. ---.. —a. Mr. brie 341. bac one b7s. ". —4. 21*.. 04-.4 35% Quarter)—........... —4. 4th. tine 434, 4th. 201. 334. new 354. 45e. Tares, Ohl IM./.0.1.010.1.1....III 0 * 41•0••••••••0011 • -- Ditto New fine 40.4 5 0. (Ulm Seed, English, tine (per Last) 2W. 351. Foreign SOL 44b PRICES OF HOPS.--Dec. 27. • Kent Pockets SI Os. 94 Os. to IV 14e, Sussex Ditto Essex I)itto _ B4 Os. ,91. Qs. to 101. 00. Fasalmun Ditto, Fine — 0/. Os. 194 'Os, to9ol OS. Seconds ..—....... 01. 04. ~9 1. 0 .° 11 •,,,,, t. , 151 C, a L , " Kent Us 90.04/0.1~00.................01 St Os. 0.. .....,.... 3 • ip, ~.... Essex Ditto _ N. Os. 01. Oct: p 6. Xualex Ditto ' 71. Os. /I. 10s. . Oe. Old Duty on last year's growth an nounced to be 010i9.. 0 1)6 . PRICE OF OIL. ape Oil, ds.,2tti.apoj.ror inseed Oil M I 1 Linseed Oil Cake at the Mill, per thousand ....oar., Rape Cak e. per ton Hey od. llA l Y o lk oc i u notelf oo , upo ., 30s. Od e . to PRICK OF POTATOES....DOC. • 0/. Od. to 5f 0 r. t rr 4/. Itls. to N. 010. sw• 41. 10a. to 01. 3 1 . U. to ak Mt di" Kidneys ................ Scotch Reds .--....... Marsh Champicms«—. Oxnobles and Shaws RAW MDR& &to* * Per Stone. a. 411. to 1. d. Pre IRMA S. „ A g Hest Heifers & Bt2ere3 0 3 4 O rdinary w h, 6 2 8 Market SHEEP SKIN& Polled 20. fid. to 4a. Od. I Dorns..... Welch to 11.4 d tos l4 PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. 8utt5—.....50 to ;Att. IS 23 Ditto to 16 sa Dressing 16 18 Fine Coach Midas 14 16 Crop Hides, SS to 401 b. 13 141 to 481 b 141 16: Ditto . _ 16 18 LEATDEIt. l'er lb. d. tad, T an ned How Hidea. lb 19: Spanish Ditto 90 Csif»dnM: t 0 90 93 i ts i srogiiisoutoreentia2=AOrd 10.1 COALMAI ET ..Dee. 07. Walls End Hilda ........ Silo Od. Ditto Perkins and Co.« 36 3 Russell's Ly0n'5......... 07 0 Walls End Jaen ...... 07 9 Walls End L0tt5....... $7 1 N. E. Russell's lielten 40 Hartley ..................., 34 */ a Ii aThee' -.. --......... 33 Davison"ZEs 11........... 0 0 sold, I 1%.......thi5014, 130 g. Adalea 34 - 4 - 6 d. fantleld Willington Walls End Brown's 3I 3 Ditto Blake. • , 3 0 Ditto Caßerton VI 9 Walls End Carr and Co. 35 0 Ditto Cramlitistrm....... 33 6 Ditto Heaton—..---. 38 0 slaps at market, 144--81119 s 330 3L $ 37 6 Ships at market. 1411—.....n.r• •-•-• - . 2.1".-- COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DIIRINO LAS T ' .._.............................: Wheat. 1 Barley. 1 Oats. 564n1 ............ Per Quarter. Is.to s. Is•to s. it. to s. Catlisle . 63 42 ... Sr; .., „„, Carmartlien.--. 'B5 —. 4 0 -- 25 —• - a a Hexhant.....--.. , bel 70 !33 31 21 7. . at liforpeth v0w.........• ,50 b 4 1 &.2 36 93 94 su Penrith —........— 66 i 35 -- 21 Sheffield ............. 70 I ... 30 -- 25 ~ Winchester 154 68 29 36 01 94 s. 0. Per Bushel. I s.d. s. d. ;s. il. s. d. I. d, I, d. tit l'i Coventry --...—. '7 0 901 4 8 5 4 3 6 4 0 3 13 e t Newcastle (Staft:) 1 10 6 II B'll 0 6 6 4 0 4 6 b 3 6 Northallerton.... 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 6 3 6 4 0 5 3 4 0 5 9 ;0 7 : St a fford ........ . ... 0 0 941 5 9 6 0 g Swansea ...•«....+.7 6 641 4 4 4 8 9 4 2 8 0 0 10 Warwick ......... 9 0 10 01 4 6 5 0 0 9 96 7 1 ! 6 1 14 i na D u u r c i t h 'P m a lm o dr : " ..........«:L ilic ."...*=10.,..6.4,.:.:,;, • : ' 1 1 4 6 6 0 IS 6 1 0 11 0 10 3 g O O 7 7 0 9 ; 1 4 1 ) V!: Stockton...vv.-- hi 6 IS 3 9 0 10 0 A 4 6 6 ,1 1 ti •73 - 440.1. & to 1 50 0 , 0. °'" L 5 6 1 as 59 66 79 S i 00 66 7$ i t 90 It 'o i J. 0$ l a MO 1/ti o " WAKEFIELD CORN AI ARKET.--ee. ....1 We have a good supply of Wheat and Beans 10 1114 d 5 11 4"...:: ket, but small of other descriptions of Grain. The lined r; eels of New and Old Wheat meet a tolerably free pie, it a 0 lia• ranee of full Is. per quarter, but we note no Improvereent•_Alll other sotts. Vine 741 tilting Barley is Is. per quarter igher, in good demand. Oats and Shelling are each dearer, the Wirt !4 a . per stone, and the latter Is. per load. - Good Old Beins Ire, Is. per quarter higher, but there is no alteration in the praie; New one, ..._ ._:____ tWhesd Iced , N I orfo. 2 , k td a ca nd m 8u11 . ! .. k . ......& 5. NW. to 7 1.. B on ne t 37 .1 :.. an. ..............-------ri:eitile:.;:. .................... ............ ............................ .................... Gto o t 614. 7 77. 3 4•0 1. fine o t: ini t t i es e 1 8‘ 7 1 4, ; ---------- White ~.............••651. tom. la ' Barley, Norfolk and Sufthlk • ......... ...... 38s. to 24. tine 4340 , --- Lincolnshire ... . ... ................. 345. to 38t. One ,301. ----• Yorkshire W 0 1 .41 ..... "" ............ 335. to 381. O ne ------ For ...................... ..... --s. 10.4. tine 4 , 74 Beans, . ...... .. ........................ " ...... 42.5. to 455. tine ----.New ........................... 3ris. to 3t. One 0., Oats, r0at0......: .... .. ... ... ............. ...... 9611. to BM. 1/00 Sl* -- P01and........ . " .... ........ ........ --t• fgt. to Vs* tine FriezLind an'd Small . ....... .......4. 2lv to 9.4i5. tine - Alealing ..... .. ..... "........ ..... 1:34d. to 14,4. per 8 ., 1 _ 01 1 Shelling ...... ..... ..... ...................... .3.55. to 355. pd. per FrIA Malt... . ............ .... ............... . . 411. 424. One 475. per lefl . Rapeseed ........... .............. 31 . 1. Os. 381. Os. 40/. Os. per 141"' . SCOTCH MARKETS. it ADM NCYII)2,I CORN 51 A It K 1a.....nec• g4iooo. Oats and Barley sold readily, and at higher prices on. d o, rage than last day—ail quarters of Bogey Wel. SOld"'"°Pd rpti fid. average up 7d. Oats are op Is. Id. on the avero)64,o„ quarters were sold. A considerable rise in the price oir'f, s o top Is. sd. and average ss. 2d. above last fridar's, r07d0.0( Beam; are also up on List average—la quarters of Peale. Beans were sold. PO * Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. 4 ,, 4 First 6414 Od fiSs lid 30. OA 411 Od i„ Oa second._ Oov Ord IVA Od f.)ss Qd 3 84 Od n. , 564 thf, , Third L'here were tal qrs. of Wheat m rnankin, whereof Ilf tI4 Uasold.--17 Grey - —.. IX Os. lid. 5-121. Averav :VI COW supply of 7 cady sale, rp4AIIKE Wheat in 0 it rather IA 1)A LKEI' . There was a large which met with arl - of this day ae'nnight. Wheat. Marley. I OW. First 661 041 33. Od 03s Od Second 60s Ohl 30s Od 24s Od Third ter t his art neae' fitaiko..„ 444 444 oa 401 od d o, od w as aisi od HAMBURG MARKETS.--Dgc. el' 0 44 ° t hßeStEioNn.airirAirLal'oEt —thle:hlfutlichtemaarililvpalrovo.--'"fitinheerrriP7elb2l, and lt n business, public attention being anxiously direct „ A rncu_ don and Paris Exchanges. Funds were heavy to7l.,Sirior larly Polish Bonds, for which there were many ".. '- January and kebruary account. Pallid** E n d of . Anglo.nanish Loan, 3 p er Cent ••••"*"..• 01 Anglo.ltassian Loan.. ............ liamburg.ltussian Loan... ..... ...... Polish Bonds .. ... ..... .. New l'russian . 4 per Cents. ..... ............ „,3 Austrian Bank Mures ........ ••••.••••••••.•••• 173 Austrian New Austrian 4 per .... 904 New Hanoverian Loan ..... ....... —Hamburg Reporter, Dec. :11. c g p b e t e ' a:nn e ,t i s h de n t .wr e g . n b : l oo t * e d e ii.ii4,atitriao4 late r r i y; ing l p: i eTt i tdaiwonh E Nifea swror:..teA i o,i edtt6t h he.aatzilph C vs, E 1 , . 7 1 ) --- 1 AIIIES.--.. - A i 1 0 t h e r ;n411'11'41111; the four then in custody, VIZ. MENDUAII, ,fNUltlli► I.IINGSTOX, and NIGUTINGALI, WltlerWellt II tina ) ,.. th ,, urination before the Magistrate, and WOO LH itZ,-0 aremitredhas b others, we understand, piisit whew ittfoliolear. „sr••••--- _ BIRTHS. airs. SS C. On the 2Ath inst. in Upper Nortun • etteet, o.s•- allre of New Ba k b ' ' n - uddings, of a BM 111 0° On the 27th inst. at West Drayton, the solo- ...tie, de Burgh, the wife of Mr. King' . 1': 4, 1 , the lady of C - Locke, f a 11114 " . apt. 0 , o r tbe Oa the 25th inst. at Snutliwell, Notts, the lOW Rev. T. S. Ito , __nett, of a daughter. 11IA RR lED. car '0 014 .4 On the 27th inst. at Islington, T. E. tiCebtr► •- - : o fir: geon, }kingly, Suffolk, to Ele<inor, second ilaullble' ,-;''' Venn, Bul, of Highbury Park. IB,e o Ko n fi t o l tg i t e lset 2 oß S n d o, yik...qaalstp..raantn(3ol loivnlib:ireostotoki,AlaiLui,gieibau,tet.rw-CoiodioLsvjP.o;:...,l,oso:6 h.q., of Downy, Eling, near Southampton. On the .S3d inst. in Spr.lJEopli.o's Wood-road' +-I'. a PP sßitir.eleOeWPt:h.a7ttih'stoleinbuit:ns;4tglise9ditisb6sts.y.eaArl.rs. ll itelicock, Isla of M bfill- ades f W.. lat O e_ n w t . he o 2 n it i h ie, inst. at Guildford, Attu , w►doa °- aniit:oirniesiduTp:hupledwrtediele:vrilei:riiirt:4oll4.tniarsilititl:slii On the 27th inst. at Islington, Elisabeth, rilic i °l' Ihi. Esq. aged b 9. , tall sli ° On the 24th inst. aged 79, Mr. Vectors, of " street, Goldcn.square . - _--.-----F PRINTS') AND PUBLISHED BT NIURDO O' TUN Sum Orrier, 112, SrHarm, I . o.sAS'