The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-15 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF 'AM PUBLIC JOURNALS. In calling attealon for a single moment to the action of "Watts v. Lawson," decided in the Court of King's Bench yesterday, we beg to premise that we have no desire to appeal from the tribunal which tried it to any other,—that we make no motion for a re-hearing at the bar of the public, whatever we may do elsewhere, —and that we should reckon it an indication of bad taste to obtrude our own private concerns on the world, in a case where, like the present, it would be a libel on the public judgment to sup pose that our conduct required any extrajudicial defence. We refused to insert the long excul patory statement of the plaintiff, because we be lieved the correctness of the report which it pre- tended to contradict, and because it was more abusive of the Magistrate than of our reporter. We resolved to justify, and would have called witnesses of Our own to prove every tittle of our ; account s had not our able Counsel been satisfied that the evidence of the plaintiff's witnesses was auffielent for our jurisdiction ; and we only beg thz.. reader to confront the disposition of Mr. Emerson with the contents of the alleged libel, to be convinced that the learned gentleman was right, and see by what technicalities of law a verdict conformable to substantial facts may be refused. But our object at present is not to dwell on these points, nor, indeed, to touch on any thing that can be understood by a perusal of the trial. We are desirous only of explaining a fact which the Learned Judge seemed to misapprehend, and which, as it was stated by him, must have produced a wrong impression on the Jury. When the plaintiff, with two friends, called at the office of the Times with the long letter which was read at the trial, we mentioned, that so far as it pre tended to correct the report of what took place at the police-office, we would insert it with pleasure ; but that its remarks upon the magis trate who presided, and its defence of the parties implicated, had nothing to do with the correct ness of the report, and could not therefore be admitted. We added that we could not be re frosible for the truth or falsehood of evidence given in a court of justice or before a police magistrate,—that we did not try causes, but only reported trials ; and that if parties in litigation were allowed to give what new evidence they chose, or different versions of the evidence al ready sworn, our paper would be filled with con flicting statements quite extraneous to the pro ceedings which we undertake faithfully to de scribe. The plaintiff was, therefore, requested to strike out of his letter those passages which did not impugn the report, on an engagement that, so modified, it would meet with a ready inser tion. Choosing, however, to insist upon the in sertion of the whole production, he was told that with such surplusage it could only appear as an advertisement. We were most willing on all occasions to repair our own wrong, if ever we had committed any by an erroneous report, but we could not aflbrd space for a defence against the wrongs of others. The observation of the Learned Judge, therefore, about the possible mode of acquiring wealth among newspapers by first inserting libels, and then demanding money for their correction, sprung out of a misrepre sentation by the plaintiff's witnesses, or a mis representation of their testimony. If such be the practice of any print, it is not ours. The world, in all cases, sees what is paid for in this journal. Every paragraph for which money is received, is known to be paid for, either by the ordinary part of the paper in which it appears, or by the word " advertisement" prefixed, which subjects us to the stamp duty. Pledging our selves for the truth of this statement, %le con fidently ask was there ever an instance observed in which an advertisement (that is, a paragraph, which had been paid for) has appeared in our columns to correct a mistake made by ourselves? If we were to explain every law report, according to the subsequent representations of the parties concerned, one column of report would require ten of explanation.— Times. Every now and then we are treated with a lecture on the evils of education and the diffusion of knowledge by some of the Solomons of the Magistracy. At the Surrey Sessions on Tues day last, Sir Thomas Turton said, " he could not agree with his Honourable Friend Mr. Briscoe, in thinking that the increase of crime was to be wholly attributed to the distress of the people. Population had greatly increased, wealth bad increased, and perhaps, in some degree, the increase of crime was to be attributed to what was called the march of intellect.—( A laugh.) Many persons were educated for a station which they had no opportunity of filling, and they shrunk from entering upon those pursuits which alone they had the means of entering upon." Sir P. Lau rie,on the same day, at the Mansion-house, had a fling at education. All this is exceedingly silly—we are almost tempted to say insane. We wonder the worthy Magistrate did not throw out the suggestion that as education ,like gin-drinking, is so very prejudicial to the morals of the people, it should be equally placed under the controul of Li censing Justices. The education of the people, be it a good or an evil, is a consequence of in creasing civilization that can no more be averted than any of its other consequences. The in vention of Printing produced the Reformation— the Reformation placed the Scriptures in the hands of the people, and made reading and writing general. If reading and writing be ge neral, they confer no particular distinction, any more than shoes or hats in a country where all wear shoes and hats. To be without the know ledge of reading would indeed be a painful dis tinction, where nearly all can read and write. To hear Sir Thomas Turton, one would suppose that no individuals could be found ready to fill the humble stations in society. The contrary of this is unfortunately the fact. The complaint is, that work is not be obtained, that labour is inadequately rewarded— and this complaint is more general among those who are at the bottom of the scale, than among those who execute skilled labour. The labourer is worse off than the mechanic ; and of the mecha nics, the trades which are soonest acquired ex hibit the greatest distress, as the weavers for instance, where men, labouring for sixteen hours a day, earn at the end of a week three shillings or three shillings and sixpence. At all times the partiality of parents leads them to presume too favourably of the capacity of their children, and the anticipations are often not realised. Those who have been educated to what is called a gen teel profession, are of course unfitted for common labour. .But these miscalculations have always taken place, and will always take place, and have nothing to do with the question of general edu cation. We are ready, however, to admit that education, though it must always refine a people more or less, is not calculated in a country like this to open to them a knowledge of un mixed good. It is impossible for a man of any discernment to have access to the ordinary sources of knowledge, without perceiving that, as far as this world is concerned, at all events, from the highest to the lowest, mankind are somewhat like the monkeys in Exeter 'Change at meal-time, described.by a witty contemporary —each busied in invading his neighbour. Some of the very Magistrates, for instance, to whom Sir Thomas Turton read his lecture on the con nection between immorality and education, have been charged by their brethren with participating in rank jobs, with granting or withholding licenses as it suited brewers, distillers, &c. In the immediate neighbourhood of the very place where the Magistrates were assembled, money has been wrung from the poor, to erect churches which were not required, for the sake of incomes for the sons of Magistrates who could not other wise be disposed of. These lessons he that runs may read ; and can it be wondered at that in a country like this, where the people are daily and hourly familiarized with accounts of successful fraud and hypocrisy, of glaring and gross corrup tion, the lessons should occasionally make an impression on them ? This evil, however, will in time work its own cure. A certain portion of credulity is necessary to the success of knaves. When a knowledge of the arts of deception be comes general, it will be of little use to practise them. By a sort of common understanding men will say, like the Jew, " I see it's no use sheat ing you, so I vi// be honest." The misfortune of the present day is, that many men think that they can obtain credit for high morality by pre tences which are easily seen through. Hence the excessive cant and hypocrisy which prevail among us.—Morning Chronicle. The landed interests, to use a vulgar but well-understood expression, are rapidly " going to the wall." Abatements of rent—which are only the compositions with their landlords of an insolvent tenantry—prevail all over the kingdom ; pauperism spreads among the working classes its demoralising influence, and threatens to reduce the great mass of the population to the lowest condition of misery and debase ment. The " leading Journal," in alluding to this state of things some time ago, ex pressed a wish to see the instances of abate ment of rent more numerous ; that wish is likely to be realized to satiety. Our contemporary is anxious to see the rents reduced to the state in which they were before the war. We have no objection to this, provided the principle be car ried into general operation. Let the debt be reduced to what it was before the war—let the taxes be reduced to what they were before the war—and there will be something like equity in the proceeding. There is another point which we would press upon the notice of our contem porary when insisting upon patriotic abatement of the rents. Let the Ministers' salaries and those of all the great public functionaries be re duced in propottion to the change which Mr. Peel's Currency Bill made in the value of money, and the equity of the principle of reduction will be still more apparent. The taxes and salaries of Government are nominally about the same as they were in the war-time, but in reality much greater, because the contrac tion of the currency has enhanced the value of money, and that in a ratio equivalent to the adding some thousands a year to the salary of every member of his Majesty's Govern ment. The apostate Whigs would like to share in these sort of things, and therefore they do not cry out for an abatement of the Ministers' sa laries—nor for the reduction of the taxes, although, when there was no prospect of power within their view, they were loud, and even in temperate, in support of the principle of re trenchment and economy. But the landed pro prietors of England will have to thank them selves for their own ruin if they allow the Ministry to go on as they have been for a long time doing without determined constitutional resistance and energetic remonstrance. They must rally round what yet remains of their property, and demand a change of measures with uncom promising firmness, or most surely the wish of the Times will be accomplished by the destruc tion of their hereditary establishments.—Morning Herald. Some of our contemporaries appear to exhi bit a most praiseworthy anxiety respecting the future destiny of the Duke of Wellington and his colleagues. No day is permitted to pass without the publication of some rumour respect ing the ministerial movements ; and of course the credit of these rumours is firmly established by the fact that they are given upon the respect able authority of the messengers and idle loiterers about the Government offices. In spite, however, of this most respectable authority, we are inclined to think that the reports of resigna tion will be materially lowered in public esti mation, when it is considered that the news mongers have been actively employed in this sort of work ever since July last.— A tale when often told becomes stale, and a rumour oft repeated carries with it at last an appearance of absurdity. We ima gine that our very amiable contemporaries give publicity rather to what they wish to happen, than to what they know to be a fact.— That they earnestly desire to witness the dissolu tion of the present Administration, we readily believe ; but we are quite sure that there is no foundation, and that our contemporaries are well aware that there is no foundation, for the rumours which they daily circulate for the amusement of their readers. The only altera tion contemplated in the arrangement of the Cabinet is the temporary retirement of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald ; and we believe that even that alteration is not altogether certain. It would be quite as well, we think, if our contem poraries were to examine into the accuracy of the several reports which reach them, before they consented to give them publicity.—Morn. Post. We have much pleasure in contradicting the rumours busily circulated within the last few days, and evidently with the intention of mis leading the public mind in relation to the health of the highest personage in the realm. We are authorised to state that the King has rarely for many yearsbeen in better health or spirits than lie is at the present moment. Notwithstanding the inclemency of the weather, his Majesty is able to encounter the keen air of the terrace of Windsor Castle, and employs himself within doors in pass ing from apartment to apartment, inspecting, and superintending the improvements in pro gress, visiting his library, and enjoying the so ciety of his private friends. The Earl of Aber deen had an audience of his Majesty on Tues day, in reference to certain propositions which it is said the Noble Earl was desired to submit to the King by his Grace the Duke of Wellington. The peculiar circumstances under which this in terview took place have excited some specula tion. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cum. ber land paid a visit yesterday to his Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Royal Highness was ho noured with an interview of more than three hours' duration, and, after partaking of refreshments with his Sovereign, returned to Kew in the evening. Mr. Herries, we understa►►d, has for some time been named as the successor at the Board of Dade of Mr. Vesey Fitzgerald—whose re tirement from office we noticed so long ago. The Duke of Wellington, it is said, in order to pro pitiate certain parties, has induced Mr. Peel and Mr. Goulburn to retire. Mr. Dawson, it is likewise stated, will be removed. It is the un expected removal of this gentleman, we are in formed, which has led to those severe and per sonal attacks upon the King which have ap peared in the Times newspaper within the last few days.—Morning Journal. SURREY SESSIONS, JAN. 14. Manvers Parkes aged 60, and Ann Thompson, aged 40, of respectable appearance, were indicted for unlawfully conspiring together to obtain certain goods and merchandize, with intent to defraud, &c. The prisoners were remanded from the last Sessions. Mr. THESSIGER stated the ease to be one of con siderable importance, and would unravel as wide and deep-laid plans of swindling and conspiracy, as had ever been disclosed in a Court of Justice. — The Learned Counsel then stated the facts of the case as detailed in the following evidence : John Disney—Was a wheelright, residing at Slough, near Windsor. About Michaelmas last the prisoner Parkei applied to him respecting a cottage which witness had to let. Witness said he was wil- ling to let it, when the prisoner saitihis time was short, .and he would write in a day or t►wo on the subject. Witness received a letter signed Parkes, with the address No. 17, Great Nelson-street, City road, stating he would give 301. a year for the cot tage if witness built a coach-house and stable. Wit ness subsequently refused to take less than thirty guineas, and then told him he had taken another cottage in the neighbourhood, but that he had a friend in town he thought the cottage ►would suit; and in a few days afterwards lie introduced a Mr. Thompson (the reputed husband of Ann Thompson, the prisoner, and who, although at large, is included in the conspiracy). Thompson agreed to take the cottage. at 301. a year for one year certain, without a chaise-house and stable. About the sth of Oct. Thompson received the key of the cottage and took possession. Witness saw furniture conveyed there in Mr. Newman's cart. There were a family of children about the cottage, and he then saw the prisoner Ann Thompson. They occupied the cot tage about three ►weeks, and on witness's going there at the expiration of that time, he found they had left the house locked up and empty. Crossexamined—Did not inquire into the re sponsibility of the parties on account of the re spectable manner and appearance of Parkes. The female prisoner was called Ann Thompson, and wit ness had no doubt of her being Thompson's wife. George Hoskins ►was a coal-merchant, residing at Slough, and let the prisoner Parkes a cottage there, about the time stated by the last witness at 25/. a-year for one year certain. He often saw Parkes afterwards. He saw blinds at the windows a few days after Parkes took possession. About three weeks afterwards, from information he had received, he wqw.to his cottage, and found it empty and the door Open. There were marks of a cart and horse having - been there, and an appearance of packing goods. Mr. Barton, a cabinet-maker, slated that Parkes came to his shop, at 'Windsor, and ordered some window-blinds and bedsteads, which were sent to his house. The window-blinds were fixed on the 3d of October. Subsequently Parkes ordered, and had sent to him, two beds, one mattrass, a dressing table, and six chairs. 'Witness had never been paid for them. Cross-examined—Parkes called twice upon me. He asked for credit until after Christmas following. Witness was in the habit of giving credit to re spectable persons. John Thompson, a cooper, at Windsor, deposed to Parker coming to his house about the 24th of September last. He ordered an oval tub, basket, boot-jack, blacking, &c. to be sent to his house, amounting to 51. 18s. 3d., which were delivered to the prisoner. There was no agreement about credit or ready money. On the Saturday following Parkes erdered some brewing utensils ; hut not having paid his former bill, witness declined sending them. A slop-pail and cover of a peculiar construc tion were amongst the goods furnished. Thomas Nixon, dealer in glass and earthenware, at Windsor, stated that, on the 23d of September, the prisoner Parkes, called at his shop, and ordered a large quantity of glass and earthenware to be sent to his house at Slough. On the 9th of October he ordered more wine and ale-glasses. The bill in all amounted to 71. 155., but was not sent in at the time. He had never been paid. Michael Atkinson, a shopman to Mr. Beveridge, an ironmonger at Windsor, stated that the prisoner Parkes came to his master's shop on the 23d of Sep tember, and said he bad taken a house at Slough, and wanted to furnish it with ironmongery goods, which he ordered to the amount of 211. 3s. Lpon being applied to for payment, he said he should return some of the goods on a certain day, but when that day arrived he found the prisoner hail de camped. Edward Thomas Newman, a cabinet-maker at Windsor, stated, that on the 27th of September last Parkes came to his premises, and said he had taken a house at Slough, and wanted upholstery goods, and requested witness to call at his residence and measure the windows for blinds. Witness called at his house and received an order for the blinds. A few days afterwards the prisoner Ann Thompson, and a person who demeaned himself as her husband, and described himself as William Thompson, called upon witness, and ordered tables blankets, &c., which were s furnished. In a day or two they again visited witness, and the prisoner Ann Thompson selected some mahogany chairs, which she desired to be sent home that day, as she intended having company that evening. The chairs were sent as directed. The value of the goods fur nished to Thompson was 401., and those to Parkes 201. In consequence of information, witness on the 24th of October went to the prisoner Parkes's house, but found it in appearance empty and shut up. There were evident marks of a horse and cart having been there. Soon after witness met Mr. Hoskins, who let Parkes the cottage, and he told him that his tenant had gone away in.the night. Witness then pursued on horseback as far as Cran ford Bridge, where he took a postchaise and traced the caravan with goods to Putney, where on the road side he saw the caravan drawn up, with the prisoner, Ann Thompson and her children on the top of it, and two men, named Vaughan and Waters. Witness passed on to Wandsworth, where he pro cured the assistance of a constable, who apprehended Ann Thompson, and lodged the goods at an inn. Waters and Vaughan were allowed to go about their business. Amongst the goods were articles fur nished by witness both to Parkes and Thompson. Thomas Ambrose, of Francis-place, Westminster road, deposed to going to Slough with his caravan, by order of Mr. Thompson and Parkes, and re moving the goods from Thompson's house at Slough, and also certain articles from Parkes's house. He removed the first load ou the night of the 24th of September, and conveyed it to the house No. 5, Barrett-street, where Thompson and Parkes received the goods. The second load was taken away from Slough between two and three o'clock in the morning. Witness had before re moved goods for Parkes from Hammersmith. The man Waters assisted in loading the van. He then lived in Stamford-street, Blackfriars i -road, but the house was now shut up. .John Thomas Collins deposed to apprehending Ann Thompson by desire of Mr. Newman, and of securing the van of goods. The various tradesmen who had given evidence had examined the goods seized in the van, and found various articles they had furnishel Loth to Thomr son and to Parkes. Mr. JEMMETT, for the prisoner Parkes, contended that no conspiracy had been proved. Mr. BACON, as Counsel for Ann Thompson, fol lowed on the same side, and urged that she was a married woman. True it was she might have pleaded an abatement ; but she had been ill advised. The Learned Counsel was about to hand in a copy of the certificate of marriage, but not being authen ticated, the Court refused to receive it. Mr. Bacon then proceeded to comment on the hardship of Thompson's case. She had been in priso❑ four months, and was the mother of six children ; and, whether she was married or not, she had acted under the orders of her natural protector. He trusted the Jury would pronounce a verdict of acquittal. The Jury, after some minutes' deliberation, under the direction of the Court, acquitted Parkes, but pronounced Ann Thompson guilty. Mr. Serjeant SCRIVEN passed judgment. The sentence of the Court was, that Ann Thompson should pay a fine of 20/. to the King, and be im prisoned till that fine was paid. The prisoner, who is endemic, was supported in a chair whilst judgment was passed. The CHAIRMAN then warned Parkes of his future conduct. _ _ _ Parkes was arrested for debt directly he left the Court, and was conveyed again to prison. The Court was crowded throughout the trial, which lasted nearly the whole of the day. NSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JAN. 14. John Ironside, a cow-keeper, late of Little Saf fron-hill, was opposed by Messrs. HEATH and COOKE, on behalf of three creditors, named Biggs, Dawkins, and Welch. The insolvent came first before the Court on the Gth inst., when it appeared, that on the 29th June last he was arrested for a debt of .55/, upon which he immediately gave bail, Mr. Webber, his present attorney, being then his professional adviser.— Immediately after giving bail, he prepared to dispose of all his property ; and on the Bth of July, he sold by auction 2`d cows, a horse and cart, and furniture, for 374/. 175.; he afterwards sold a quantity of grains for 1.51., and the fixtures and fittings up of his premises for 30/., making altogether nearly 4301. Out of this money he paid 2001. into the Bank of England, to replace a like sum which he had with drawn for his own use two years before, being trust money for the benefit of the children of a person named Mitchell, who died many years ago, and left the insolvent and a person named Bright trustees. He also paid a few particular creditors, and had 1241. left, which he had since spent. • The Court on that occasion ordered the case to he adjourned, for the purpose of proving the original trust, and all the circumstances connected with it. To-day the insolvent came up again, when he called Mr. Benjamin Bright, a grocer and cheese monger, who stated that he was executor to his late father, who was co-trustee with the insolvent for the children of the late Edward Mitchell. This witness :produced the probate of Mitchell's He also called the stock-broker, who proved the re investment of the 2001. in the Batik of England. Mr. HEATH submitted that the conduct of the insolvent bad been of a most fraudulent description. On being arrested, on the 29th of June, for 551., he gave bail, and immediately disposed of every thing lie possessed. By these means he obtained possession of a large sum of money, which would, if properly applied, have produced 12s. in the pound to all his creditors. Instead of acting as he ought, he chose to put 2001. in the fund•, which he had frudulently abstracted two years before : he paid two or three other creditors, and spent the re mainder, leaving creditors to the amount of 7611. without a single shilling. There was no doubt that at the time of his arrest he contemplated taking the benefit of this Act, and it was a most fraudulent act to dispose of his property as it was proved he had done. Mr. BARRY, on the part of the insolvent, con tended, with regard to the re-investment of the 200/., that that was no more than the insolvent was bound by his trust to do. It was not an act done for his own benefit, but it was in pursuance of a trust which be was bound to fulfil; and, to show that the insolvent himself could derire no benefit from it, a distringas had been lodged at the Bank of England, to prevent him from getting any portion of it back. Mr. HEATH interrupted Mr. Barry by saying that that fact did not appear in evidence; and if it were true, it ought to be proved. Mr. BARRY then called up the witness Mr. Bright, who said that he had caused the distringas to be lodged. In cross-examination by Mr. HEATH, the witness stated, that after the insolvent's last examination, he applied to Mr. Webber, the insolvent's attorney, as to the best way to secure the property in the Bank, arid Mr. Webber advised a distringas to be lodged. Mr. Webber had consequently lodged the distringas, but the witness could not tell whether ha or the in solvent would have to pay the expenses of that pro ceeding. Mr. llEfiern addressed the Court on this point, and observed that it was monstrous to see what tricks were played in order to enable insolvents to cheat their creditors. He trusted that the Court would take into its consideration the conduct of Mr. Webber, who, as an attorney of this Court, first got the insolvent bailed when he was arrested, then undertook to get him through this Court, and now, since the previous examination, had lodged a di:- tringas at the Bank to protect the money paid in by the insolvent from being touched by the creditors— an attempt, however, which the Learned Counsel hoped would fail. Mr. BARRY should not attempt to defend Mr. Webber in all that he had done, but he contended that the insolvent should not he damnified by it. The Learned Counsel repeated that the insolvent was bound to return the money which he had for merly borrowed into the Bank of England. As to selling the property, the insolvent paid a portion of his creditors, and while he had 1241. in hand, he offered to compound with his other creditors, which they refused, and he was consequently obliged to render to prison. The Learned Counsel hoped that the Court would not think the case to be of such a nature as to visit the insolvent with any severe judgment. The CHIEF CommisstoNatt delivered his judg ment of the Court. After recapitulating the :main points of the case, he observed, that it had been proved in evidence, that from the beginning to the end of the proceedings, Mr. Webber, an attorney of this Court, had been actively employed to fur ther the objects of the insolvent. The Court would be guilty of a great dereliction of its duty, if, on some future occasion, all the Commissioners did not take into consideration the conduct of Mr. Webber, but at present the Court would make no further observations upon that particular fact. With re spect to the insolvent, a clear case of fraud of the most deliberate description had been made out—a fraud which had not only been deliberately con cocted, but perseveringly pursued even down to the day when the insolvent applied to the Court in the vain expectation of being discharged. It was the province of the Court to protect the creditors, and render as much as possible such speculations futile as those the insolvent had been a party to. The Court then adjudged the insolvent to be remanded for a period of 14 months, from the date of filing his petition, for fraudulently making away with his property. A woman belonging to the lower class of life was lately searched and robbed by two Andalusians. The plan they adopted was to tickle her in such a manner that she had not power to call out for help, and such was their audacity that the occurrence took place on the Prado in open day, in the midst of the crowd. It is said that this Andalusia, where, of robbery is by no means uncommon in where, if we believe the poets and romance writers, every thing is conducted with piety..:—Nessager des Chumbrer. CORONERS' INQUESTS. Yesterday an inquest was held at the Queen's Head and Artichoke, Albany -street, Regent's-park, on the body of Miss Charlotte Both, aged 28. Mr. Lamb, surgeon, of 52, York-street, Regent's park, said that about half-past eleven o'clock on Monday night he was cent for to attend the de ceased and her sister. He found them in their bed chamber, in a state of stupor, and apparently labour ing under the effects of poison. With the assist ance of some other medical gentlemen, the stomach pump NA as applied to the deceased and her sister.— The latter acknowledged that she and the deceased had taken, about an hour previously, an ounce of laudanum and twelve grains of opium each. On examlng the contents of the stomachs of both sis ters, laudanum and opium were discovered. The deceased died on Tuesday morning. Two other medical gentlemen corroborated this statement. Mrs. Percival, of 157, Albany-street, said that the deceased and her sister engaged furnished apart ments in her house about a month since. They were highly recommended by a lady with whom they had lately re,ided. Wirness provided them with board. Their style of living was simple, and their general conduct strictly prudent. On Mon day night witness, hearing groans in her bed-cham ber, called to them, and receiving no reply, had the door forced open, and the two sisters were discovered lying in bed; the deceased was insensible, but the other was capable of answering the questions put to her. On inquiring of the survivor what was the cause of the groans, she answered, that it was usual for her sister to make that noise in her sleep. Wit ness, however, sent for Mr. Lamb, as she suspected they had taken poison. The witness's daughter corroborated the above statement. _ _ . Mr. Simpson, parish officer of Poplar, rela►ed the circumstances relat►ve to the deceased and her sister attempting to drown themselves in June last, wh. n the younger sister perished. Witness had con versed with them upon the great sympathy and kindness that was shown them, when the deceased replied that she and her sister had not been treated as ladies of their birth and education ought to bare been, and expressed much ingratitude. This was the whole of the evidence. The Jury inquired if the surviving sister was in that state to give testimony ?--The medical gentle men stated that she was in a very dangerous, fluc tuating state, and wholly unfit to be examined. A verdict was returned—" That the deceased poisoned herself in a state of temporary mental derangement." On Nirednesday evening a Coroner's Inquest was held at six o'clock. Mr. PAYNE, the City Coroner, and a respectable Jury, assembled, pursuant to ad journment, in the Committee-room of St. Bartho lomew's Hospital, to investigate the cause of the death of Louisa Birdseye, aged fifteen, who came by her death under• the following circumstances : The Jury viewed the body, which was burnt in a shocking manner. Mary Robinson, of Popham's-row, Islington, said that the deceased lived with her mother, next door to witness. On the night of Monday fortn;ght, about eight o'clock, she was in her apartment, when she heard a rushing noise and screaming, and on proceeding to her door she saw the deceased all in flames. Mr. Lawrence, a neighbour, got a carpet, and put them out. The deceased told witness that her mother was intoxicated, and pushed her into the fire. William Harrow Green, surgeon to St. Bartho lomew's Hospital, proved that the deceased died in consequence of several extensive injuries by burn ing. She did not blame her mother. Sarah Fordham, a nurse who attended the de ceased, said that she was in the room with her mother, who pushed her into the fire. She asked her whether she would forgive her. The deceased said she would not. Witness said it would not be right to die without forgiving her. She then said, " Well, I do forgive her ;" and she prayed that God might do so. Mr. Brown brought the deceased to the hospital. On the road she exclaimed, " Oh, my wicked mother !" Frank Brown, a schoolmaster at Islington school, accompanied the deceased in a coach. She fre quently said, " Oh, my wicked mother !" She was in great pain. Witness said she could not live, she was so much burnt. Mr. Robert Simple, surgeon, of Islington, stated that he was called upon to attend the deceased on the 29th of last month. She said her mother pushed her into the fire. Her legs, arms, face, and shoulders, were literally roasted. He sent her to the hospital, under the impression that she could not survive. It was the full impression on his mind that the mother had pushed her into the fire. Wit ness asked the deceased if her mother was sober, and she said she was not. Other witnesses were examined, and the Jury re turned a verdict—" That the deceased came to her death by burning, but there was not sufficient evi deuce before the Jury to warrant them in saying how it was occasioned." COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—III the case of WArrs v. LAWSON and others, which was left unfinished when we went to press yesterday, the Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501. The following extraordinary statement is made in a Belfast Paper :—" A good fire, on a winter day, at a mere trifling expense, is of importance to a poor man. One penny-worth of tar, or rosin water, will sa turate a tub of coals with triple its original quantity of bitumen (the principal of heat and light), and, of course, render one such tub of three time' more valve than it was unsaturated." GOING--GOING-.GONE Tuesday evening, while an auctioneer of this town was selling some furniture in a room in the lower part of the High street, which was crowded to excess, and while the said auctioneer was expatiating in a full and flowing tide of eloquence on the excellent quality and usefulness of a fry ing-pan, or perhaps some other culinary utensil, with his hand and hammer raised ready to strike the final blow in favour of the highest bidder, the company were astonished by a report in the room as loud as the firing of a pistol, followed by the immediate sinking of the floor. Every face assumed an expression of blank horror, of so paralysing a nature, that, for nearly a minute, no one dared to move. At length the hero of the rostrum, finding that the floor had paused in its descent, after falling nearly two feet, sprung from his elevated position, and sauve qui pest, became the order of the day. His hearers " stood not upon the order of their going, but went at once," flying into the open air far safety, with an alacrity which would have done honour to the inhabitants of Bucharest, who, a few weeks since, were aroused from their slumbers by the awful rolling* and vibration of an earthquake.— Chelten ham Chronicle. EXTRAORDINARY HABITATION.--The northern bank of the Orinoco, the great river of South America, is covered with palms of the Mauritia, which produce farinaceous matter, or sago. The whole country in which they abound is subject to inundations ; and the fan-like branches of these trees look like a forest which rises out of the bosom of the waters. The navigator who passes along the delta of the Orinoco is surprised t o see the tops of these trees lighted with fires. They are kindled by a people (the guanacas) who have remained for ages in these marshy districts, secured front the floods by living in the palms. In the branches they suspend mats, which they fill with clay, and on this damp hearth kindle the fires which are necessary for their comfort. Sir WALTER. RALEIGH saw and described the people. The palm offers to this race, as well as to other tribes who in habit the Gulf of Darien, and the watery lands between the Guarapatha and the mouths of Amazon, a safe habi tation amidst the great inundations to which those coun tries are subject. But it affords also, in its fruit, its fa rinaceous bark, its sap abounding with sugar, and its fibrous stalks, pleasant food to eat, wine to drink, and thread to make cordage and hammocks. "It is curious to behold," says HuarnoLnr, " in the lowest stage of ci vilization, the existence of a whole race depending upon a single species of palm, in a similar degree with those in sects which subsist upon one species of flower."— Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Vs heat. Barley. Oats. Beans. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. a. to s. s. to a filandford 58 28 19 to Brigg---...--. 48 54 25 SO 18 24 34 38 59 25 18 411 Chard .----.. 56 70 39 38 24 30 42 48 /I.untingdon-- 56 67 22 33 17 24 '22 la Long Sutton-- 46 56 16 21 25 30 Louth _ 42 52 22 28 15 22 24 30 Lynn 44 62 24 32 16 24 26 35 Newark 55 CO 27 36 19 25 30 41 Nottingham Peterliormigh 511 70 37 40 18 25 37 42 Plymouth —.... 55 62 25 38 22 27 33 43 Pontefract—. 64 34 24 41 Sleafor.l Uppingliam . 50 SO 25 34 18 28 30 45 Wisbech--.--- -46 58 16 21 28 31 LEEDS CORN MA likET.—Jan. 12. To this day's market there has been a fair supply of Wheat and Barley, but that of other kinds of Grain has been small. The best qualities of New anti OR. Wheat have supported the price of last week, but other descrip tions of New and 01,1 have been dull, and somewhat lower. The best heavy malting Barley has with difficulty made last week's price, and other descriptions are nearly un saleable at any moderate price. No alteration can be noted in the price of Oats. Shelling 6d. to h. per load lower. Good Old Beans being scarce, have been•sold oa about the same terms as last week ; in dry New Beans no material alteration in value, but the damp and inferior Old ones may lie noted Is. per quarter lower. Pease, both White and Grey, have been Is. per quarter cheaper. Malt, heavy sale. No alteration in Flour and Rapeseed. Wheat, Norfolk and Suffolk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 6011) Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, rotatoe ... --Waling, Foreign 10d. to 11Sid...,Englisli 10d. to 12d. per Shelling tis. to 495. per log Rapeseed, English, 'Zit. to 291 Foreign, —l. to —l. per la I.IVERI'OOL CORN EXCHANGE.—.Ian. 12. This morning's market was again dull for every article of the trade : the choicest qualities of Irish Whett Were held for the rates of ltst Tuesday, but the transaction were offering on lower terms. Prices of Oats were re- duerd fully Id. per 431 b , and at this abatement there were very few buyers. No change in the value of BarleYt Beans, or Pease. Oatmeal was 3d. to 6d. per load cheaper' WHEAT, English, White, per 70113. - Red Scotch, Welch, and Manx - Irish, White a 3 9 3 ------- Red 7 6 9 0- - Foreign 9 6 10 6 OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, ler 451 b 3 2 3 4 - Irish - Foreign BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter St 0 37 0 - Scotch and Irish, per 601hs. ...... 4 3 4 9 Feeding 4 0 4 4 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 36 0 43 0 ........ Irish, &c. =--- Foreign PEasF., Engli;h, per Imperial quarter .... ...... 39 0 42 0 Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.... 47 0 49 0 - Irish OATMEAL, English ail Irish, per 2401bs 25 0 28 0 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. flys, per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT or GRAIN for the Week ending .Lui. 11. Wheat.) Oats. 1 Barley Fl our . Oatmeal. Qrs. Qrs. Qrs. IForeign„ Brie Irish,' Ike- s !cics. 1A.,•_.,'-de" 16,336 32,711 932 - 1 1,991 4 ~" 9 _......... HULL MARKET.—Jan. 12. The supply of Wheat from the farmers was only limited , yet quite sufficient for the demand, which was confin ed chiefly to the millers ; the best dry samples support late prices, %chile the middling and ordinary runs, of which the greater bulk shown consist, are very difficult to quit ; the best runs of foreign are the only description inquire d after, and such support late prices. Oats, Beans, and Pease, are each in very limited demand. The best de scriptions of Barley are not so free "ate as last week, ye' in the business passing no alteration in value can be noted; rc n e c l smoi nominal. a L i ins i e l e a t p l es m ee e d e t w so it ru h ; without alteration. o l s i eu t e t to l e al d ita e er m r)a' a tir n ou t n l n. f s o fur an Il e e d g , rbi ne b sd u ti t n p pg a a, reels for crushing continue ...... ...--....... Wheat, Old —s. Ms. 60a. New —s. 50s. 56 8 . Foreign —s. 595. 635. ......In bond... —s. —s. --,. Oats, Poland --s. 20s. 24-s. Old —..s. ...A. 26% Small or Feed.... —s. I2s. ISa. Foreign —s. ISs. 225. Barley, Norf. & Sot ... —s 28s. 30s. Line. & %Vold —a. 265. 28. 4 ! --- Foreign Beans . 2ss. 30s. 3lis. Foreign -.4. 28a. 3 45 Pease, White s. 30s. 345. Grey —s. .....e. v....d0 Tares —s 20s. 265. F0reign......... —s. 24a. 26e. Rapeseed, in bond none. Free, per last —l. 264 211. FATAL RESULT OF FRIGHTENING CIII LI). —Some time ago a lady in a considerable town is Yorkshire went out to a neighbour's house to take tea, along with her husband, and left her little family to the care of her servants. In the course of the evening she felt very uneasy, and being itnpressal with an idea that all was not right at home, she left her friend's house early..." On arriving at her home, she found that her servants, In the exercise of High Life Below Stairs, had collected social party. This she passed over without ebservatioof and proceeding up stairs to the nursery, she was surpriee4 by a terrific figure at the bottom of the bed of the younge° child, which was but three years of age. The fact Wo' that the nurse-maid, finding the child not very ready to g ° to rest, and being loth to be disturbed in her evening's ell' joyment, by its crying, had dressed up and placed the fissure alluded to at the bottom of the infant's bed, with t t view of frightening it to sleep. The contrary effect has' however, been produced—the child had been horroi" struck, and appeared to its mother with its eyes fixed, t o an idiotic stare, upon the image. Astonished and die tressed, she rung the hell, and then proceeded to take nit her infant—but lo it was a lifeless corpse; the frigV occasioned by the nurse's folly had been too much for t bd little innocent.— York Herald. BIRTHS On the 11th inst. the wife of Mr. J. Y. Akerman, of Fleet-street, of a daughter. On the 14th inst. in Green-street, Grosvenor-square/ the lady of D. Barclay, Esq. M.P. of a son. On the 12th inst. at Brighton, the lady of the Rev. ' Childers, of a daughter. On the 13th inst. the lady of J. Lane, Esq. of Gold smiths'-hall, of a daughter. On the 13th inst. at Beel House, the lady of the Sheriff of Bucks, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 14th inst. at St. George's, Hanover-square , John Keir, E.g., of Westfield, Edinburgh, to Elizabeth Mary, eldest daughter of N. Malcolm, Esq. of Puhallochl Argyllshire. On tke 14th inst. at St. Mary-le-Bow, J. ThornelP Esq. jun., of Chisworth, Derbyshire, to Elizabeth, 01111 daughter of the late G. Cockle, Esq. of Worcester. At Quebec, by the Lord Bishop. on the 10th Novell" ber, the Hon. F. W. Primrose, brother to the Earl Rooe', berg, to Percy Gore, third daughter of the lite Col onel Ralph Gore, of Warowinount, and Gore's-bridge, Ireland, niece to the late Major-Gen. A. Gore, and to Viee..ol,' Sir John Gore, K. C. B. DIED. On the 4th inst. at Langley Park, in the county - Forfar, N. B. James Cruikshank, Esq., in his 82d year. On the 12th inst. T. Addis, Esq. of Rodney-builtlioe New Kent-road, aged 56. On the 12th inst. the widow of the late J. Hunt, 9 4 ' of Hammersmith. On the 12 th inst. at Brompton, aged 24, W. Daws oo, Esq., solicitor. On the 12th inst. in Harley-street, Louisa, the wife 0 H. H. Southey, M.D. On the 1101 inst. Elizabeth, second daughter of the B. Barnett, Esq. PRINTED AND PIiBLISHED BY AIIIRDO YOUNG, ~ s Tux SUN OrticE, 112, STRAND 1.0141)01*. P ° l / Inn r HOOP! op Y s lC as T in : e T Tit ea T ii u srs ll.lrBME l l i aAir i c r tY i t ;i l N UFACTURIP at Deptford, for &loudly"; toative Contract. • Anti also wit' (On separate Con as' may be dew for y Onerear oi notice. " Samples of tl dtteed with the ' The Conilitio; Office. Each Tender length, and be aPpointoil ; and two responsi With the party the die perform, tare of Iron lic tracts for Tress The Person I hi* Lohalf, THE ES' "in the Thousand Eig ht uPwa of Which Hundred and Fa and moor grouni (Or MAO/. at in 3 Per cent, in of the pinsinlol frst The' Mansion Fame 'of all kin rabbit, and wild The Estate li StonehaYen, and For further p, bell, and Cathca Esq. advocate, 44 No. 8 , MAR, TO BS sot THIS trul SIDEM Inanding from it 0 1 the City of twat delightful Itreatly enhanced so be shortly car The Tenure is of 1 51. 1 ls. 6,1. built, and in the The Furniture superiority of qu "PPlied from a sold with the Ha not Sold w i t hi n fora term of Ye • To be viewed, tber particulars, Auctioneer, , &c. This (lay was pi Hon. Mrs. Le RINGS STRAN( Author of London : flu Church-yard. Where may Author. in one THE MARKETS. SOUTIIA“. MA [MEL—Jan. 13. In onr market to-day, which was throughout scantily supplied, and thinly attcn . leil by both London and country buyers, cspecia;ly the former, each kind of meat met with a very dull sale, at the following prices per stone of 81h. to sink the offais:— Beef 2s. Sd. to 3s 10d Ss. 84. to 4i. hiurton -2 10 4 2 l f York S 2 4 4 '1 he foregoing quotations are Beef and Mutton 2d., Veal front (id. to per stcne higher th.,n on this day sennight ; in prices • f l'ork no alteration. L'rnited as was the supply, a great part of it let the market unsold. HAI ',SHAM MARK ET.—Jan. 13. OA. to 4s. Bd. Veal Os. CAI. to Os. Od. Mutton-- :3 fi 4 4 I Pork 0 0 0 0 Neither Veal nor Pork offering. A moderate supply, anti a very dull trade. ARUNDEL MARV:FT.—Jim 12. 28.8 d. to 3s. Bd. 1 0 d. to as. M. Mutton I 3 2 4 4 Pork— 3 4 4 0 A moderate supply, and a dull trade. CHICHESTER MA RE ET.—Jan. 13. B_!ef 2s.:6‘l. to 3s. 6d. Veal-- 3s. 10d. to 4s. 14. Mutton 3 2 4 2 I Pork-- 3 2 4 0 in Lear Stock little doing. Supply, for the time of year, to -I.Tably good, and trade very dull. RUM CO RDMARKET.—Jan. 13. a. d. to s. d. a. d. a. Beef 2 8 3 8 Veal Mutton 2lO 4 0 Pork 3 2 4$ Suckling Calves from 14s. to 303 . ; Quarter old rigsl2s.to 15s. each• Supply limited: and trade dull:- COUNTRY COYIN MARKEI'S DURI NU THE WEEK. THE LIFE of TUI numerous other /en celklemoi re fro m yariou s exo Ret rospection o Louie XVIII., t n al—Life at Ch the Montpelier Geor ge 11., Geo 44d Austria—G Venture, of an Byron—Movemi Literary, and M This New W( of the Drawing. fast Table and Morning on a F. containing 48 ca all Parts of the c by W. Thom Strand. as, Orders are re and by the Clerli rrDAY A HIS ine the usual !Idly equal to ti Aotlritiliment to perfectly fr, tun its virtues Sold Wholesal d Retail throu l Ain Boxel at 6 IikRVEY )o. 11, 1 : 1 ' 1 %t 'HAIM 4 : i ll famili ar h; lt 'S7philist, 4 ) /1, i el4 " 4 , ail( !tad at .0 441/44-It rett, Sti bOu6liti ; ' 4 4 inburgh