The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-19 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. We had recently occasion to notice the attacks repeatedly and systematically made on the personal character of Lord Durham in the Conservative press, the palpable object of which is to depreciate the political character of a distin guished advocate of popular opinions. All who know Lord Durham in his public and private relations, would despise the calumnies alluded to ; but, although we rarely advocate resort to the law as a defence of character, it is obvious that there are limits to forbearance ; and that when offensive libel , ' are perseveringly repeated, self-respect demands legal redress. We extract from the Durham Chronicle a proof of the utterly unfounded nature of some of the calum nies propagated against his Lordship, and which that liberal local paper has fully exposed. We regret to observe the party virulence of tire country Tory press, which, in proportion to the decline and fall of Conservative power, appears to indulge in increasing personalities and private calumny. Extreme criticism on the public acts of public men may be tolerated, and are the partial and occasional consequences of a free press; but the gross falsehoods to which we allude are a foul course of political warfare, and most detrimental to good neighbourhood. The Reformers of the north of England are not affected by this libellous system, as appears by the following leading article in the Durham Chronicle:— " The Reformera of Gateshead, ever foremost to do honour to those who have fought earnestly in the great battle of Reform, have taken advantage of the Earl of Durham's visit to the north to invite him to a public dinner, to be held in that town on Wednesday the 9.11 inst. His Lordship, reciprocating the feeling which suggested the compliment, cordially accepted the invita tion; and we are gratified to hear that the circumstance has afforded unalloyed satisfaction to the inhabitants of that public-spirited borough, and to the friends of liberal principles in the neighbourhood generally. No exertion will be spared, we understand, to render the entertain ment worthy of the cause with which it is connected ; and there is every reason to believe that his Lordship will experience an enthusiastic reception from the most nume rous, respectable, and intelligent party ever assembled in Gateshead upon a festive occasion. We doubt not this bar quet will be the forerunner of similar demonstrations of public respect and confidence in other parts of the country ; i.nd that additional and conclusive proofs will thus be given of the important truth, which was wont in former days to he so stoutly denied by the enemies of the country's independence, that it speaks in and through its former distinguished representative. " Meanwhile, as a set off against the flittering testimo. nials of popular affection which the Noble E irl is about so honourably to receive at the hands of a community to whom he lets rendered such eminent services, the old Tory squad are croaking their raven notes, in the vain hope of lowering the Noble Earl in the estimation of the country. The licentiousness of their press is again aroused, and so blind is the rage, and so reckless the malevolence of its conductors, that one worthy mistakes a signal of the Royal Yacht Club for the tri-coloured flag of France— which the party affects to regard as an emblem of danger and destruction ; and another gravely avers that his Lordship is so uncompromising a leveller, as to have de termined to ' sweep' one of his own villages ' from off the face of the earth,' because of some offence that part of its population are alleged to have committed ! The ab surdity is great—.the malice infinite. Nothing, however, is too monstrous for these veritable gobe-mouches. What marvellous discovery the sagacious scribblers and exem plary moralists will next hit upon, remains to he seen ; hut juicing from experience, and as it is reasonable to presume that, under the exasperation occasioned by their failure to impose upon the public in the instances above alluded to, they will strain hard to bring forward some thing more striking, we shall be surprised indeed if it do not prove a thumper. " Subsequently to the foregoing being put into type, the Earl of Durham's solicitor has handed to us a letter written by his Lordship, instructing him to institute legal proceedings against the Editor of the Durham Advertiser, for the libellous attack made upon the Noble Earl in that journal last week. The offensive article is quoted in enother column ; and being, as it is, wholly false, little as we admire prosecutions for libel in the abstract, it would he difficult, we think, to imagine anything more deserving (as a base and wicked attempt to cast an unjust stigma upon the character of a public man) of being made the subject of an Repeal to a jury—especially when it is con- sidered in relation to, and as a fruit of, the regularly organized system of gross vituperation and groundless slander, upon which the offender in this case, and his partner in iniquity, have lately acted in reference to the Noble Earl, upon whom they have incessantly poured the vials of their wrath. His Lordship's letter will be found among our advertisements. It places the matter in the proper lieht, and suggests an unanswerable justification of the course his Lordship has resolved to adopt. We doubt not a tremendous howl will be raised in the Conservative kennel ; but a consideration of the contents of hi. Lordship's brief and pithy note will deprive the rabid pack of all power ti infect the sound and right thinking portion of society with the virus that circulates in the veins of their own body politic." Few members of the aristocracy have maintain ed so high a private character as Lord Durham ; none have been more fearless or consistent advocates of popular opinions, through good and evil report. The Tories may rest assured that they will fail in their aim of lowering his reputation and their in potent attempts will rather mark Lord Durham as a nobleman whom they desire to sacrifice as a victim, for stern and successful exertions in the great national work of Parliamentary reform.—Morning Chronicle. We alluded yesterday to a singular document which we had received by the last arrivals from New York, namely, a defence by President Jackson of his former conduct in refusing to pass the bill for renewing the Charter of the United States' Bank, and his pretended reasons for withdrawing the Government deposits from that institution, and transferring them to the States Banks of the separate members of the Union. The latter was the direct, immediate, and ostensible object of the paper, but the former occupies by far the greatest part of its di.cussion, explanations, and reasoning. The question cannot fail to be curious and interesting to all those who, having an acquaintance with financial transactions, are desirous of attaining a compe tent knowledge of the working of republican institutions among our transatlantic brethren, while probably the general inattention to Ame rican affairs in this country may be pleaded as Our apology for a brief recapitulation of the cir ealmstances to which the President's paper refers. A bank, with a capital of 35,000,000 dollars, had received the sanction of the Congress in 1816, and was endowed with an exclusive charter for 20 years. The United States Govern ment, or, in other words, the Government of the American Union, was authorized to subscribe '7,000,000 dollars towards its capital, and to enjoy a proportionate share of its profits. Its necessity and utility had been maintained both by the American statesmen of that day, and by General Hamilton and other patriots of a prior period. The object of its establishment was to secure an equal rate of exchange between the different states of the Union,—to facilitate pecuniary transactions among the trading part 01 the confederated community,—to render more secure, economical, and rapid the transmission of the public revenue from the most distant st a t es of the Union to Washington, —to check or control the operations of the local banks,—to establish a more uniform system of currency, — and to enable the Government to effect its pay ments with greater frugality and expedition. To accomplish these purposes the parent institution established more or fewer branches in nearly every state of the Union, collected a store of the precious metals at its different counting-houses, and began to regulate the issues of paper by a regard to the state of the foreign exchanges. Never did any banking institution commence at a more alarming period, or engage in a more ha zardous or arduous undertaking. An extracndi , nary number of Bank failures had previously taken place in nearly every commercial state of the Union,—the exchange against the notes of the provincial banks, or, in other words, the debasement of the currency, amounted in most cases to 10, 20, or 25 per cent,—financial and trading transactions were thus far rendered inconvenient and uncertain,—cash payments were little known,—paper obligations, for sums so low as a shilling or half a crown in value were current,—the greatest confusion prevailed in the trading community, and the Government found the utmost difficulty in establishing the means of an easy intercourse between the Trea sury at Washington and the Custom-house offices at the distant ports. The chartered Bank of the United States, which was founded with the hope of mitigating or removing these evils, is alleged by its partisans to have effected wonders of financial order and economy. Whatever may be said on this head,—whatever deduction we may he disposed to make from the periodical reports of the Directors, which have been published, and to one or two of which we have formerly called public attention, it must universally be admitted, that ever since the erec tion of the Federal Bank the general currency of the country has been improved, the local banks have been obliged to secure themselves against public distrust by a more adequate re serve of specie or bullion, the exchange; with Europe have become less unequal or fluctu ating, and the Government revenue has been collected and transmitted with more expedition and at less expense. The profits resulting to its proprietors from this Federal Chartered Bank, though they never approached those of the cor poration of Threadneedle-street, have always been considered adequate to the expectations of its founders; and to whatever amount they rose, the Government at least enjoyed the lion's share of the benefit. The charter of the company being granted only for2o years, expires,we believe, in the beginning of 1836, and President Jackson, for plausible reasons no doubt, has decided that its exclusive privileges or facilities shall not be re newed. After a laborious inquiry into the expe diency of renewing the charter, by committees of the House of Representatives and of the Senate, in the spring of 1832, and after the publication of se veral of the most able and enlightened reports which we have ever read on a similar question, the two Houses of Congress passed a Bill authorizing the renewal of the charter. The President having done all that lay in his power for pre venting such a result,—having in his annual messages for two years previously denounced the establishment, and seeing that its influence would be used against him at his late election, determined boldly to subscribe his veto to the measure. He even went further in the long paper which expressed and justified the grounds of his negative, and insinuated a suspicion against the solvency of the obnoxious institution. The two parties—the President of the Union and the President of the Bank—still continuing hostile, he has now given orders to withdraw the Go vernment deposits intrusted to the federal institution or its branches, and to hand them over to the local banks. It is in justi fication of this latter measure that the long and argumentative paper to which we have alluded is drawn up. It is a curious spectacle to see the chief magistrate of one of the most powerful commonwealths in the world committed with a body of capitalists, or a com pany of bankers, on a point of financial security and electioneering influence. It is still more curious to find the temporary ruler of " a roar ing democracy," elected by the universal suf frages of the citizens, putting his veto on a measure sanctioned by the two Houses of Con gress, likewise chosen by the same democracy, and supposed to represent more faithfully or directly the national volition. But it is the most extraordinary thing of all to observe how, in that " best of all possible Governments" (as the government of our republican transatlantic brethren is sometimes represented to be), mea sures of general policy are decided on private grounds and for personal objects, without any reference to general principles or national inte. tests. Yet this is not our account of the matter, nor the picture of any malignant libeller of American character or institutions, but that of General Jackson himself, who unveils the mys teries of popular elections, and teaches stran gers to appreciate the value of democratic suffrages, guided by what he describes as " a hireling press." " Having," says he, " taken these preliminary steps to obtain control over public opinion, the Bank came into Congress, and asked a new Charter. The object avowed by many of the advocates of the Bank was to put the Pre sident to the test, that the country might know his final determination relative to the Bank prior to the ensuing election. Many documents and articles were printed and circulated at the expense of the Bank, to bring the people to a favourable decision upon its pretensions. Those whom the Bank appears to have made its debtors for the special occasion nere warned of the ruin which awaited them should the President be sustained, and attempts were made to alarm the whole people by painting the depression in the price of property and produce, and the general loss, inconvenience. and distress, which it was represented would immediately follow the re-election of the President in opposition to the Bank." He afterwards tells us, that large sums of the Bank money went to bribe the press to advocate his overthrow at the last election. " A new state of things," he says, " has, however, arisen since the close of the last session of Congress, and evidence has since been laid before the President, which he is persuaded would have led the House of Representa rives to a different conclusion, if it had come to their knowledge. The fact that the Bank controls, and in some cases suhstantially owns, and by its money supports, some of the leading presses of the country, is now wore clearly established. Editors to whom it loaned extravagant sums in 1831 and 1832, on unusual time and nomind se curity, have since turned out to be insolvent ; and to others apparently in no better condition accommod .tions still more extravagant, on terms more unusual and some times without any security, have also been heedlessly granted." But without having room for any further ob servations on these collateral points, we beg only, in conclusion, to state, that President Jackson has not in the least relaxed in his oppo sition to the Bank char er since he announced, about a year ago, his veto on its renewal,—that as his period of office will exceed that of the existing corporation, the latter must necessarily be allowed to expire,—that its funds will, there fore, be divided in the course of the next two years among its proprietors to the derangement, probably, of the monetary system of the Union, anothe r —and th at i t w i ll not depend uponfedertal b the G a e n n k e i i r l ; g l or his pa r ty if ever establishment should terminationho m uoldroefstuthhacenecebte7o charter it y . succe e d o ar f s th a e nd he, " ‘f t to is th b e u but Prathhaantit4.t Ban It It is considered as the decision of th e country 8 then cease to exist, and no man, the President bellies h all il has reasonable pound for expectation th a t any other Bank of the United States will be created by Congress." Times. The further prorogation of Parliament to the 12th of December, leaves no doubt as to the intention of Ministers not to assemble the great Council of the nation again during the present year. To upbraid the Whigs with inconsistency is such a worn-out theme that it is in vain to have recourse to it, otherwise we could refer them to whole columns of Parliamentary debates in which, year after year, when in opposition, they were constantly calling for an earlier assem bling of the Legislature. At present, their conduct in thus abandoning their recorded opinions, is not only inconsistent, but, we may add, unnatural and unpaternal. The reformed Parliament is their own child, to which it might have been supposed that they would overflow with parental fondness, and that, like the parents of other pet children, they would never be happy out of its company. The child, however, is, we fear, not so great a favourite with its parents as might have been expected. In its adult form it proves not to be sufficiently dutiful, obedient, and compliant ; while the very manliness and in dependence of which its parents were, in antici pation, so proud (but of which, by the bye, neighbours and lookers on do not accuse it of having displayed too much), are the very qua lities which these parents seem now least inclined to cherish. Dropping, however, this tone of badinage, we cannot but otpress our regret that Ministers should not themselves see the import. ance of an earlier assembling of Parliament ; and even laying aside other considerations, how much more convenient it would be to themselves to commence the sitting at a period which would enable diem to terminate it before the clog days. The truth, we fear, is, that it is looked upon as the evil day which moo persons are anxious to postpone, as the period of labour and of badger ing, which they have not the coura : ze to en counter, as long as it can by any possibility be avoided. Upon the same principle half the business of life may be put off, and when it is, not only is the trouble and labour in ge neral greatly increased, but ruin often overtakes the man who is for ever postponing what ought to be done at once. But were there no other reason for assembling Parliament, the appellate jurisdiction of the House of Lords presents to our mind an unanswerable ground for the High Court of Parliament being open when the other Courts of Westminster Hall are. What would be thought if the doors of these latter, instead of being opened at fixed and stated periods, were to remain closed till it suited the Judges to meet ? The argument is quite as strong, if not stronger, in th e one c a se than in the other ; for if closing the doors of the latter would be a denial of justice, what else is it so to abridge the sittings of the Court of Bernier resort as to add to the evil of previous delay, and, in fact, to play into the hands of parties typo, it is well known, frequently appeal for no other purpose ? The truth is, individual convenience is for ever allowed to supersede public duty, public interest, and public conve nience. That such ought not to be the case no - man in his senses can for a moment doubt ; and it is equally indisputable, we think, that, in an age of reform like this, the people have a right to expect, at the hands of those whose whole fame rests upon that one quality, such a display of it in their own persons and deportment as may evince at once their own sincerity, and the value of the principle they have been contending co r.—Mo rn ing Herald. BANKRUPTCY COURT, OCT. 18. (Before Mr. Gimmiqsioner MERIVALE. EXTRAORDINARY PROCEEDINGS UNDER AN OLD COMMISSION. The creditors of Mr. John Holder, of Kingston upon-Hull, tailor and draper, assembled to-day, pur suant to an order made by the Court of Review, to take out a renewed fiat, for the purpose of another inves.igation of the bankrupt's affairs. The proceedings adopted to renew the commis sion were at the instance of the bankrupt himself, a commission against whom was issued on the 12th of February, 1811. The bankrupt surrendered and passed his examination, and a dividend of 3s. 6d. in the pound was paid to the creditors. Mr. Robert Kiddy and Mr. Edward Rush worth were the assig nees. No proceedings were taken to bring the bankrtm's affairs to a close, and he, conceiving that the estate had not been properly managed, sought fur, and obtained leave to take out a renewal of the old commission. Mr. Phillips, a solicitor, stated that it had been discovered that Mr. Rushworth had been buying up the debts of the bankrupt ; the creditors appre hending they would obtain little or no dividend in addition to the first that had been declared. In one case the Learned Gentleman .vas understood to state that one creditor had sold a debt of about 2001. for .5/. The Court of Review had directed that the old assigness should not take any part, either directly or indirectly, in the choice of new assigness, which was the chief object of the present meeting. Notwithstanding this order, it would ap pear by art affidavit he would read, that Mr. Rush worth had taken measures to interfere with the choice of new assignees. He then read an affidavi t signed by William Pearse, who deposed that he was a creditor under the commission issued against the bankrupt in 1811 ; that seven or eight years after wards he was requested by Mr. E. Rushworth to sell his debt, which he did to the assignee for .5/. The affidavit went on to state that Mr. Rushworth had endeavoured to obtain powers of attorney from creditors to select as the new assignees parties whom Mr. Rush worth wished. There were several powers of attorney of this nature. The COMMISSIONER replied that, if there were fifty of them, not one should be acted upon. The trick was the most useless one that had ever been played. Mr. Attwood was then appointed assignee, anti Mr. Green will act as the official assignee to inves tigate the accounts. OLD BAILEY, OCT. 18. (Before Mr. Justice PARK and Mr. Baron VAUGHAN.) Ann Vickers, whose trial was not concluded when our paper went to press yesterday, after some curious discloswes being made, was acquitted. DARING HIGHWAY ROBBERIES UPON FEMALES.— Samuel Johnson was indicted for assaulting Miry Hunter on the King's highway, and stealing from her person a reticule anu various articles, and up wards of W. in money. Miss Hunter resided at Putney. On Friday, the 6th of September, she was walking in Bishop's ' walk, Fulham, with a reticule in her hand, and string twisted around her fingers. Witness felt a pull, and turning round saw two men; one of them was pulling at the reticule, and, by breaking the string, he got it away. Mrs. Bunce was working in a field, near the Bi s h o p's-walk, and saw two men running towards Devil's-lane, in the direction of Putney. The pri soner was one of the men. Cross-examined by Nit. PHILLIPS—The Bishop's walk leads to Davit's-lane.--( L aughter.) Verdict—Not Guilty. The prisoner was again indicted for assaulting Grace Sugdon, and stealing from her person a reticule. The reticule was produced and identified. Guilty, The prisoner was found RESISTANCE TO CHURCH-RATES, KENT SESSIONS.—MAIDSTONE, Ocr. 17. Nicholas Chatfield, Zachariah Baker, and James Taylor (not in custody), were indicted for riotously and tumultuously obstructing the parish officers of Sevenoaks in the levying a distress for church-rates. The prosecution was instituted by the parish for the protection of their parish officers in the execution of their duty in collecting the church-rates. They did so with regret, but it was necessary to put an end to a general disposition to resist this rate, which was growing in this parish. The charge was for obstructing the parish officers in the district, and rescuing some pigs that had been seized for church rates. In August last Mr. Morphew, a churchwarden of Se,enoaks, had made several demands on the defendant Chatfield of Bs. 3d. for church -rates, and he hail always been refused payment. He then procured a Magistrate's warrant, and went with a constable to Chatfield's residence to distrain. He was refused admission, but got over a wall into the garden, and seized two pigs, which were there in a sty. Chatfield went to his neighbour Baker, and borrowed money enough to cover the share of rate to which the garden was liable, which he offered, and brought Baker to witness the tender. Morphew refused to take less than the whole, and went to fetch a cart to take the pigs away, when Chatfield took down the sty and let the pigs loose. The con stable secured one of them, but the other escaped, Baker, according to the constable's evidence, driving it away, but, according to his defence, trying to catch it, crying, " Tig, tig." A great crowd had by this time assembled, who hooted and hissed the churchwardens and constable. Taylor was beating a stewpan a la gong. The prisoners, in their defence, looked upon a law which enabled one man to take anorher's goods, in support of a religion which he could not enjoy, as being as bad as a law would be which authorzed one man to rob another on the high road. The Jury immediately acquitted all the prisoners. They were then indicted, together wfth James Within Parish and James Whitehouse, for riotously obstructing the sale of the pig in Sevenoaks. The Jury also acquitted them upon tkis indictment. The defendants then complained that a demand had been made on them by the officer of the Court, on Parish for 2/. 14s. for Court fees, and discharging their recognisance; and on each of the defendants the sum of 4/. Bs. They complained warmly of the hardship of being dragged from their homes on such a trumpery charge, and put to such expense. They refused to pay it, and were told that their recogni. zances would be estreated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HO USE. James Cant and William Clarke were put to the bar, under the following circumstances, previously to the statement of which, Cant begged that the persons who had charges against them should be examined separately. Mr. John Robert Greer, a merchant of Bristol, stated that seversl men in business had been the victims of the schemes of the prisoners and an other person, named King, who moved about as tradesmen in Tautron, in Somersetshire. Clarke had been shopman, and Cant porter to King, who set up an establishment for the purpose of plunder ing the public. _ . The LORD MAYOR—AVIA has been the extent of the robberies imputed to them ? The Attor ney to the complainants—lt amounts to several thousands. Cant—Nonsense; that's all stuff, you know. It's no such thin. The LORD MAYOR—How much then? I dare say you can tell.—(L tughter.) Cant—Oh dear. It's not more than 1,200/.—(Great laughter.) Talk of thousands ! Besides I know nothing about it. The LORD MAYOR—You seem to be a commu nicative person. Pray, what were you ? Cant—l have been a grocer, hut lately I have been em ployed by Mr. King. Oh, it's all stuff to talk about thousands. The LORD MAYOR—Yes, yes; but pray, where is Mr. King ? Cant—l know nothing about him. I was merely employed by him to do work Toe attorney to the complainants—Mr. King took the house at Taunton, and stocked it. Some opinion may be formed of the e , tablishment, when I stye that chere were a great many pieces of lump sugar about the concern, but when we tasted them we found them to he salt.—(Great laughter.) Cant—Oh de tr, oh dear.—(Great laughter.). Mr. Freer said that King sent to him some orders, and referred him to Messrs. Harris and Co., soap boilers, of Bristol, a highly respectable house, who, having had dealings with King, and being regularly paid by him, represented as much. The LORD MAYOR—Don't you know that it is the practice of swindlers to deal with respectable firms, for the purpose of referring to them Why it is one of their regular plans.—Mr. Freer said that King had taken care to secure more than one respectable firm. He had dealt with three or four, whom he paid regularly. The first dealing witness had with King was in an affair of Irish bacon, to the amount of .50/. It was paid regu larly, and another order followed, and was honoured in the same way. At last, however, ten fiikins of butter were ordered, and the payment was minus. Mr. King was in the habit of paying partly in cop per, and lie asked in his letter what amount in copper witness could take. Witness said 101. The matter was agreed upon, and the butter was sent, but Mr. King immediately afterwards altogether cut Taunton, and came to London, leaving his creditors in the condition which might be expected. Wit ness also found that King had an establishment at Chard, which dropped down just in the same way. Cant—l can find bail for any sum. The LoRD MAYOR—I dre say you can, but I shill have a little conversation with your bail. You made up the loaf sugar, didn't you ? Cant (laugh ing)—No; I know nothing of that, but the fact is, that it looked like sugar, and I was taken in as well as others. Mr. Freer believed that King was in London. Witness found his butter at the Elephant. Cant—l didn't leave Taunton till King had no goods to sell.—(Laughter.) The LORD MAYOR—No. That was not part of the system. But pray where were the goods sent ? Cant—l cannot say any thing about that. The LORD MAYOR—You seem to admit that Mr. King, who employed you, is a very worthy sort of person. I think you had better say what you know about him. It would not do any injury to you to let us know a little about him. Cant—l had no objection until I was so ill treated by the police, and I think it but right not to give them any facilities. But, my Lord, there is nothing in all this. It is all a fair mercantile transaction. Mr. King ordered the goods, and they were sent, and the thing wa4 a debr. Roe, a City officer, said that, in consequence of information, he had followed the prisoners, and found them in complete connexion with the goods at the Elephant, in Fore-street. Tney had been traced to the Elephant, and from thence to Wands worth, with a cart belonging to King, the principal in this conspiracy to plunder. The LORD MAYOR—Pray, Mr. Gint, from what place h d y o , y m o y u L co o m m e ; l ai h id av h e m i v iv h e a d ve il you lived i u?ntryC. an am a Scatchman, and I receive assistance from my friends. The Louß MAYOR—It is not often they send re is it ?—(Laught e r.) then re man d e d. li e f T f h ro e m pi t i h so e n N er or w t a h s , MARLBOROUGH-STREET. NEW WAY OF MAKING LOVE.--Arehentiah M'Carter, a worthless old fellow, of threescore and „ h aards, was charged with having beaten Harriet ici n g, a female welt stricken in years, and with a re markably red nose, on Sunday last. The complainant took her pitcher to the water butt on Sunday afternoon, for the purpose of reple- nishing it, when the defendant, who had come from his room for a similar purpose, very ungallantly pushed her pitcher out of the way, and gave her another push, quite as unceremoniously; which being resented with proper spirit, the defendant proceeded to break her pitcher, and to assault her with great violence. In reply, the defendant asserted that he was the first visiter to the water-butt, and that the com plainant only made an excuse to bring her pitcher into the yard because he was there. " I can't get rid of her, do all I can," said the defendant in a rage; " she haunts me day and night wherever I go." " I can bear witness to that," said the defendant's wife, shaking her fist at the complainant. " What do you mean," said Mr. CONANT, "by haunting you day and night ?" "Why she wants me to leave my old woman and come and live with her; but I'll never give my con. ,ent to it," said the defendant. " She's poured buckets of water over me, and broke many a broom over my shoulders, because I won't have anything to say to her." " I can bear witness to that," exclaimed the wife. Mr. CONANT remarked, that the complainant had a curious way of displaying her affection. How ever, as she had sworn to the commission of the assault, he must require the defendant to keep the peace for the future. W 0 R SHIP- S TREE T. DISTRESSING CASE.—Ann Burkin, a middle aged woman, with a child in her arms, apparently half-starved, was charged with stealing from the shop of Mr.Thrrowes, a pawnbroker, in Shoreditch, a pair of pat tens, value Gd. The prosecutor saw the prisoner take them from a basket outside the shop, and walk off with them. The prisoner had no idea of stealing them. She was looking at them, when at the same moment the child darted from her into the road. Fearing it would be run over, she left the basket, with the pattens in her hand, to bring the child back. While doing so the prosecutor seized her and gave her into custody. Police-constable—She hid them under her arm ; besides, on being searched, she had no money. The priscner was going to ask the price, and in tended to have borrowed the money of a friend to pay for them. She wanted them to walk with to her own parish in Essex. Van, the officer, said the prisoner was in great distress. She had had four summonses for relief, not one of which the parish officers would relieve her upon. Mr. BENETT (to the prisoner)—Have you a husband ? Prisoner—l don't know. He has been missing from me near a fortnight. Perhaps he has gone down to Essex, where I was going had I not been brought here. I have not tasted a bit of bread since Monday last, nor has this child. Mr. BENETT told her that the circumstance of her not having any money in her pocket to pay for the patters, raised a strong suspicion against her. Had it been otherwise, he would have discharged her in stantly. The prisoner was committed for trial. _ _ _ Mr. .BENETT (to Van, the officer)—lt is my wish that you attend at the trial, and state all you have heard and know about the prisoner, and let both her and her child have something to eat. LAMBETH-STREET. EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ARSON.—Yesterday Jane Walls, a fine smart-looking girl of thirteen years of age, was placed within the bar, before J. HARDWICK and THOMAS WALKER, Esqrs., on a charge of arson, in setting fire to the house of Mr. Stone, an extensive farmer, at B3rkingside, Essex. Mr. Stone stated that about a mouth since, the prisoner was engaged by Mrs. Stone to mind the children, being strongly recommended by a friend as being the child of very respectable parents, and who had lost her father but a short time before. Her conduct up to Tuesday last was unexceptionable, but on that day, at one o'clock, while he and his family were at dinner in the parlour, she came to him and said that the house was on fire. He in stantly rushed into the yard, and saw a quantity of smoke issuing from the front attic window, and on proceeding up stairs, he discovered a bed and bed ding in the apartment in flames, which had also by this time reached the door and partition, both of which were partially on fire. By prompt assistance the fire was extinguished, not, however, before the bed, bedding, and other articles of furniture in the room were totally destroyed. Th e prisoner, who appears very intelligent for her age, in reply to the questions of Mi. Hardwick, said that she had been to school, and could read and write, and knew it was a very wicked thing to take up a candle and set the bed on fire. She had not read anything about fires, but thought she should like to see a regular good fire. She had heard her cousins at Somer's-town, where she resided before going into the service of Mr. Stone, talk about girls and boys setting their masters' houses on fire, and being hanged for it, but when she thought of setting her master's house on fire, it was with no wish of getting hanged, bat merely, as she stated before, to see a good large fire. She was remanded until Tuesday next. NIARKET INTELLIGENCE. LONDON MARKETS, (From the " London New Price Current" of yesterday.) SUGAR. -There has teen much more firmness iu the Sugar Market this week ; the holders would not submit to any reduction in the prices, and as the trade are nearly out of stock they were obliged to come forward to purchase for their immediate wants, and bought more freely at the previous currency ; the estimated sales for the week were 2,500 !Aida. and tierces. In the Refined Market there has been little al eration in the prices this week, but the holders have evinced mote disposition to give way; brown lumps sold at 635., which is 2a. lower ; fine crashed sold at 343., and now freely offered at that price. This afternoon the dulness noticed in the demand for Refined has rather in creased, and lower prices hive in many instances been accepted, ord. large Lumps having been sold at 635., and good email 675. a 685., and the tine descriptions for export (entitled to the bounty on double refined) are offered freely at 345., and some parcels are reported to have been sold rather under that price; in the Grocery descriptions there is also very little business doing, although they are offered upon rather lower terms. MAURITIUS SUGAR.-The last parcel in importers' hands, 2,725 bags Mauritius, was put up to public sale this week, it was a low parcel, and genes illy soft ; nearly the whole sold fully up to Market prices, very low 48, 6d. a 491., low to fine brown 53s a 555., yellow 553. 6d. a 575. This day by public sale 406 bags yellow Mauritius Sugar sold at full prices, 555. 6a. a 58s. EAST INDIA SuGAR.-Tbe large sale advertised at the India House tor the 30th instant prevents transactions to any extent; the purchases this week are small parcels Si im, Bengal, &c., at a general reduction of Is. per cwt. FOREIGN SUGAR.-There has been a considerable in. crease toil week in the demand for Brazil Sugar f,r re• fining; several parcels of brown have been sold at 20s. a 225., and white at 251. a 265. At public sale d,.mageil Havannalt, mid. to good yellow 235. 6d. a 251., good white 295.; ord. brown Bahia 225., greyish white 255. 6d. COFFEE -The C ffee M .rket has been very quiet this week, and there is little or no alteration in the prices, and the purchases are on a limited scale ; the sales are ord. Sumatra 565. 6,1. and 575., and some very ord. 54,. 61. ; Hay nn 11) damaged, good ord. 591. 611. a 635. ; fine ord. 635. 6d. a 66a. 61. ; fine ord. Jamaica 90t. 6d. a 925., ord. 861. 6d. a 87s. 61. The only public sale of Foreign Cifee this day consisted of 148 casks 1 bag fine ord. Havannali, of which 35 were sold at 715., being le. a 2s. lower ; the remainder bought in at 70s. 6d. Plan tation very quiet. TALLOW.-There has been little alteration in Tallow this week. 1832. 1833. Stock of Tallow on Monday... 12,804. ~,.., 36,799 _ . . Delivery last week Delivery from let June 41,585 Arrival last week none Arrived from let June 46,875 Price Y. C. on Monday 42e. 6d. a 425. 9J. 445. 91. Price of Town last Friday 475....... 50s. Cocow.—lt is stated that one or two parcels of Brazil Cocoa have changed hands at 235. a 245. In B:itisli Plantation there are no purchases to report. Rime, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS....—The Rum Market continues very dull, and where sales have been effected, they are upon lower terms; proof L eewai d s are held at 2 s . id., but the price is nearly nominal; 100 puns. fair • quality Tobago Rum 3 to 5 over has been sold at 2s. 2 ,l '' 10 to 15 per cent. at 2s. 44., 20 per cent. 2s. 6d. ; maica mid. 25 to 31 over 2s. 9d. a 2s. ILI. In Brandi or Geneva there is little variation. WooL.—Public sales of New South Wales and Vai l Diemen'a Land Wool are advertised for the 30th October, Ist, 4th, and 6th November, in all about 3,000 ball' The Market is still lo o ki ng u p f or t hi s d escr ip t i on of W° ° i SiarrEraE.--The !ew sales effected this week are prices Is. higher. At public sale 100 bags rough Calcult* not refracted, sold 345. 6d. Seices.—Spices continue dull and declining ; pime nto a shade lower, ord. 4d. and 4id., mid. to good 4-I' l ' ! I . IV. Pepper id. lower, ord. half heavy stalky, Ski' 4 ; d. This day by public sale 30 casks Jamaica Giog e6 all taken in. This afternoon no alteration in Spices. , TEA.—Boheas ar e d ec li n i ng . C ongous are steady Id the Matket, and, as well as Twankiys and Hysons, bo their value. RICE. --Rice is steady, 1,057 bags ord. Java sold SS." a 104., former prices. FRUIT. —The first c irgo of n e w V a l en ti a R a i s ins 'E O re all disposed of last wee k a t t h e quott d pr i ce 48 5 ., an d the re have since been several other arrivals, and the quality inc fine, they cobtinue to be taken off ate idily. CASSIA LIG NEA. —Ca ss ia Li gnea m id. qua lit y 84s. -Ad . and 855., being Is. a Is. 6d. higher. COTTON.—The Cotton M ar k e t rema i ns very qu iet; ttl purchases by private c on t rac t are qu it e i ncons iderab o l: i This day by public s a l e 117 b a l es M a d ras C otton ,_ g, quality, all sold at 9-id.; 721 bales American withdra l —no bidding's. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, corrll o from the Returns made in the week ending the 15th clV r Oct., 1833, is 31s. lOid. per Hund re d W e i g h t , exc l us i ve 01 t uuties of Customs paid or pay a bl e th ereon on th e IroportaP,. thereof into Great Britain. PRICES OF HOPS.—Oct. Is. New Kent Pockets (per cwt.) 51 ss. 61. 12s. to Mice East 71. Os. 01. Os. to Choice 91. Os. 01. Os. to K nt ISags 71. Cs. 01. Os to Choice 01 Os. 0/. Os to New S •Fsex Pockets 5/. Gs. 0/. Os. to Superfine Ditto The Hop Dtry is es , imated at 155,000/. v. 7,! 9r. 0 ' 81. e'' lor of. 81. lO' 01. 06 ' 61. 63 : 71. O'' PRICE OF OIL. 0 Rape Oil, brown Refined ....I'M/ Linseed Oil 1! 5 = o 1( Linseed Oil Cake at the Hill, per thousand Rare Cake, per ton --. I'ItICE OF I'OTATOES.—Oct. IS --.31. Os. to 31. 15s. per too. o'. Os. to 41. Os. ditto. .01. Os. to '2/. 15s. ditto. .31. 10s. to 4/. Os. ditto. ' Os. to 21. Cs. ditto. Shaves..,,.., Marsh Champions Middling scotch Chats WHITECIIAPIL HAY 111ARKF.F.—Oct 17. A flay Od. to 813. Od. lover..—. 60, (hi . to 1003. v - Od. to 30.. Oct LEATHER Per lb. d. to English Horse Hides.. 1 1 95 Spanish Ditto .1 0 Per dozen. Calf Skins,. SO to 40tb. / 3 96 Ditto 40 to 601 b. IS 0 Ditto 70 to 90Ib. 20 T o Small Seals. Greenland 16 6 Large ditto SKINS. Polled Skins ...., 4s. tkl. to 6s• 4 Downs 3 PRICES OF Per lb. d. to d. Butts, English 15 25 Ditto, Foreign*, 14 21 Dressing 12 15 Ditto 14 17 Ditto, light Crop Hides, light 12 14 Ditto. M ,40 to 501 b. 13 18 Ditto SHEEP Polled Lambs 3s. Od. to 4s. 6d. Down Lambs 2 G 4 0 I PRICE OF RAW FAT, per stone ot 81b. mhd• Price of Tallow (as stated by the Tallow Me1ter5),—.....45.1:7„., PRICE OF TALLOV Gown 'Fallow 483. Od. Yellow Itussiq Od. s. Od. Soap Ditto s. Od. Nlelted Stuff 373. Od. Ditto Od. t'uICE 0b Die price of Store Candles, in th Candles, per doz. 7s. Od. to Bs. Od. ', SOAP, Ste. per 1121 b. Qd Yellow ws• ea Mottled 7o§' 03, White O4l, Graves ,. l 4 9•x, Good Dregs .............—.... ss. COAL 111 AR: Per Tot., s. d. Adair's 15 6 14 6 East Perey--...-- 16 0 Felling 14 6 Hebburn Main . 16 6 H dywell Ord's Redhugh 14 6 Pontop 15 0 Shipeote •••••••• 14 6 lan field 16 6 l'ownley l4 6 West Hartley 17 0 Wylam 16 9 Walls End Brown's...* 16 0 Walls End Carr and Co. 16 3 W.E. Clarke and C 0...—. 15 6 Walls End Heat0n....... lB 3 Ships arrived since COUNTRY CO Per Quarter. Ashburn—..... Basingstoke Bath Bridgewater Bristol Chesterfield Derby Doncaster Exeter G10uce5ter,..,,.,,.,,. Hungerford —,..... Leicester Newbury Remsey . Shaftesbury Shepton Mallet ~,. Sherborne—n. Yarmouth ............"." Yeovil --.---..., Per Bushel. Shrewsbury ...... Wheat. Barley. Oats. 23 32 1 71 ---4 9.7 25 30 ' 19 21 26 33 Y 1 26 26 28 23 32 30 40 31 25 26 34 29 26 28 es 34 22 30 32 I 54 co 48 58 46 58 58 60 48 55 48 58 51 56 48 60 16 20 20 26 22 24 17 24 46 58 46 58 46 56 17 20 16 24 16 2'2 36 61 56 62 26 3'..) 26 30 44 56 50 56 48 50 52 56 50 56 s. d. s. d. 70 80 26 30 24 30 24 28 26 28 22 28 s. d. s. d. 40 50 CANDLES. le retail shops, is as follows'ed I Moulds, per d0zen.....—_2% KET.—Oct. 18. Per Ton. 16 Walls End / 6 Walls End Newmarch.... 16 l)itto Northumberland.. Walls End Ridden 1 1 Walls End Walker 1 9 Walls End Hetton / 0 Walls End Lyons g Walls End Landiton ig W. E. Russell's Hetton.. 9 Walls End Stewart',....... i 5 Walls End Urpeth / 6 Walls End Adelaide , 6 Walls End Tees 16 Hartley Mert hyr Neville's last market-day, 37. NG THE N 4 scan> .._---• ,4 40 - ', l 34 4936 41 38 5 0 34 4 0 44 4 4 42 4 6 40 oy 35 36 - 41 37 20 45 0 3'2 4i 33 41 ...... 4 1 5.1 41 36 54 3 2 $ 4 :32 40 34 d , 6 . 4' 00 ,(22....../ 17 30 17 33 18 21, 20 26 21 23 22 24 18 24 s. d. s. d. 40 46 HULL MARKET.—Oc 15. Wheat, Old —s. 545. Ws. New Foreign —s. 50s. 545. ln bond... —s. — 8. ,...0. Oats, Poland —s. lßs. 225. Old —4... 4 ' Small or Feed.... —s. 16s. 20s —s. ^ -4 " ... 0 Foreign —s. 18s. 20s ....5. ...S. o p Barley, Norf. & Sut ... —s 00s. 00s. Linc. & Wold —s. 008 ... 1 ' Foreign - - n , 9 Beans s. 265. 3Ss. Foreign ...... ... —s. O" .. 9 Pease, White —s. 40s. 445. Grey 'farm —s. OJs. 00s Foreign —s• ON' ( I, ' 0 , 4 / Rapeseed. in laolit! none. DEVIZES CORN MARKET —Oct. 17. .....- 4 0, 0 Per Sack. s. d. s. d Per Quarter. s. d• ,„ 00 0 Best Wheat 29 0 to 32 0 Barley 26 oto 0 0 Second '2s 0 26 6 Oats IS 0 0 0 I hirds 2l 0 '22 0 Beans (per sack) 18 0 gi 1823 Sacks of Wheat sold/ 25 9 r lour (per bag).. 40 0 0 " at the average of Bread (per gall), 1 2 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS 4 . AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREV (From the London Gazelle.) ON MONDAY, Oct. 21. a ll DIVIDENDS e." - # S Hills, schoolmistress, Hammersmith F. Armson, builder, Malcombe-place, Dorset.square '" Observers of the weather state that there "4l upon an averaee, always 21 fine days in October' present this a. count is somewhat in arrear. 1 1 #, ATROCIOUS MURDER.—Ou Tuesua9,ll tu-J t iwn of Mountrath was th rown i nto much O f/ r owing to the murder of a y oung man name d Sto . l t i oie, was proceeding from our f a i r on hi s wa y h ome . " Daly deposed, that on the fair evening, about dusk , 0 and deceased were walking home, he perceived seeeg_ i A approach them, when one of them immediately ino e 74, wards deceased saying, "Good night," and with his cl eP ;of fist knocked him down. Deceased got up and ran 5 0fi ' . tp s small cabin for shelter, the door of which he drove was instantly followed by three of the party' f, whom made a desperate blow at the deceased as 'IA tered the house ; that he then saw a girl run mitt s o in;_" Murder," on whi c h t h e t h ree men took tfa fie!ds. On deponent ent,rin;; the cabin he saW ceased alone, lying d r ad on th e groun d, bleeding P l ', P" No clue to this h o rrid ac t h as b een o b ta i ne d. returned a verdict of—" Wilful murder against unknown."—Leinster Express. cr, BIRTH. On the 15th Inst., Mrs. William Burra, MecklentnE 0 ,1/ of a son. ei f On the 17th inst., at Albany.terrace, Regent's.par% of John Deans, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. 1 0 or On the 16th inst., William Burt, Esq., of Norwich, of therine Sarah, only daughter of William Simpson, city. „" J 1,4 On the 17th inst , at St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, o'":itir Hill, of Verulam-buildings, Gray's Inn , London, t o lo rf relict of William Dawson, Esq., late of Lambeth. ht, PAO On the 17th inst., at New Church, Isle of Wig.",, St. John Medley, Esq , banker, of Portsmouth , ;as, youngest daughter of Wm. Thatcher, Esq , of Wacjt , ' yoo:',e6/ DIED. On the 13th inst., at his house, Sigglesthorne,,4-0, aged 53, Matthew Topham Gibson, Esq , late of V r ' 0, Cheapside. wife of On the 17th inst., in her 76th year, Sarah, W" - „IS C AJ Hamilton, Esq., of Clapton_square. shi r S r ti r On the 18th inst., in Beaumont-street, Der,":1011e1 Louisa Alexandrina, widow of the late Lieut-- -- 41- Lyon, 11th Dragoons. ag ed rie On the 17th inst., at Ventnor, Isle of Wigh t, i; v ron d Maria, daughter of R a l p h Ni c h o l son, Esq., °. ( r near Stevenage, Hert s . Moo re' On the sth of May last, Lieut.-Colonel John Bombay Artillery. 0 , A' PRINTED ♦ND PUBLISHED BY 112 URDU Y° Sum Orricr,lll9, STRAND. Nt,r -"4 ikti L . tti 4 7 a ) 4 01 t wt 7, k 1,4144 Thi 'tPl c t o c .4 0 toci N t i Vrr Asiin, I)ootAiti .......... lik , 4 ettloci 4 fter It •