The Sun. — London, England, 1830-09-27 00:00:00

lava seen all the days of the revoke-ion, and I leave yen, with a great terror of new completions.' The door was then closed upon him." The Commission assigns to the different members of the Cabinet their respective shares in the manu facture of some of the ordinances, and of the report by which they were introduced. M. de Peyronnet drew up the electoral decrees, and M. de Charite lanze concocted the report. None of the prisoners claim the honour or admit the guilt of preparing the ordinances for suspending the freedom of the Press, and for dissolving the Chamber of Deputies before it had met, Another of the disclosures of the Com mission relates to the intended erection of Prevotal Courts, to try the rebels, bed the Ministry unfortu nately, by being the strongest, been able to convert legal resistance into rebellion. This fact has often before been stated,but never on authentic evidence. The history of the glorious " three days" will be read with great interest, though it contains only two statements that have any appearance of novelty— namely, that which mentions the authority whence Marmont received his orders, and that which relates to the distribution of money among the soldiers. M. de Polignae, as the Minister of War, directed the firing on the people. " he ordinance," ram the report, " which sintions this terrible measure is countersigned only by the Prince de Polignac : the three Ex-Ministers, his fellow. prisoners, have affirmed that they had no knowledge of it; it was not even deliberated in Council. " At the same time the President of the Council wrote to the Marshal You would do well to direct N to way, that the King will give money to the artisans who are without food, if they will quit the insurrections, and let him proclaim it every where; and, on the other hand, a Council of War will try the guilty." If it was enough to establish the highest degree of criminality for a Minister of the Crown to have commanded the troops to fire on their fellow-citizens, with what abhorrence must we regard an attempt to bribe them to continued murder and massacre by pecuniary largesses ? Yet this fact, often stated and often denied, is now fully established. " This is the place to mention," says the Commission, that the sums which were distributed to the troops on those days of mourning, amount, according to the state ment furnished by the Minister of Finance, to the sum of 974,271 franca. The Minister of War, Marshal Gerard, in a note sent to the Commission, has called attention to the irregular form employed by the Minister of Finance, M. Montbel, for the issu►ng of this sum : he has declared that he was neither able to recognise it, nor to put it to the account of the War Office; and has thrown upon M. Montbel all the responsibility of this illegal step." The Commission describe in strong language the caution and alarm with which the Keeper of the Seals and M. de Menthe! communicated to the Editor of the Monitenr the fatal ordinances which were destined in a few hours to deluge the streets of Pads with blood, and to overturn an ancient dy• nasty of Kings. It is a curious fact, to which they do not allude, but on the authenticity of which our readers may rely, that the seven madmen who signed the ordinances, in order to keep their own secret, had employed neither clerk nor secretary to make copies of them or of the report. They had copied them with their own hands, and nobody beyond their own conclave had seen a word of them till they were delivered to the Editor of the Moniteur, about eleven o'clock on Sunday night, the 25th of July. Poligoac himself stated this hid on Monday, the 2tith, to one of the Ambassadors at the Court of the Tuileries, as an evidence that if his Excel lency was kept in the dark with respect to the in tended Coup d'elat, he at least was not worse treated than the rest of the world. The Commission men tions as a reason for the disappearance of certain state papers, that " in the Chancery every thing was destroyed." The fatal ordinances were, from the cause above stated, not probably registered offi cially in the offices of Government, when, both they and' their authors had disappeared before the just vengeance of an outraged and insulted people.. The following is the .50th article' of the old Charter which is referred to in the report of the Commission, and on which the impeachment of the ex-Ministers is grounded :—" The Ministers can only be im peached for treason or embezzlement. Particular laws shall specify this kiwi of oirenees, and deter mine their prosecution." It is needless to remark, that this article rather promises a law of impeach ment than makes one.—Times. We present 'tilts day the report of die Commis sion appointed for the accusation of the Ministers Charles X. The document, extends to Ove of our columns. .The deep interest which Pervades the whole subject, and the, temper and manlipess with which it has been treated in the original report, will well repay the reader's trouble in perusing It. Thu narrative or recital is carried back to the epoch of the first restoration. It characterises the reign of Louis u a constant though seldom victori ous struggle , against the measures preparatory tests counter-revolution, which were unceasingly planned, and forced upon the declining spirit of the Monarch by his weak and unprincipled successor. It ter minates with the history of the last acts and crimes of the reign of Charles X.; and in the common teries of °the Commission on • the proceedings of the Ministers and their agents, it consigns, at least ,tame of them, to that species and degree of fame to escape from .which the very meanest of their number would now, no doubt, implore the moun tains to cover him.. It appears that Guernon de Renville did actually protest beforehand against coup d'etai, as unsuitable to the. King and Govern. ment—as an act "of the most extreme violence— the most manifest violation of the ; lsth article of the Charter—and the violation of sworn faith ;" yet this unfortunate mien a few months afterwards signed the dreadful ordinances l The weight of guilt, as de scribed by - the Commission, - presses - heavily on Po lienac, and on the wretched King hi m s e lf. The report concludes with declaring the national cry to be for justice, not vengeance. We too, trust; for the future welfare of France,that justice will not be eluded, and, for her honour, that no spirit of need less vengeance will be indulged,!—Tirees. We would earnestly caution the middling and working classes of the community how they are led away, either by well-meaning or designing per sons, to Join in measures,the real and avowed object of which are not the same. A - meeting is to be held this, day, on Kenningtotocommor,4 of the work iug classes of the ,metropolis, for the purpose, it is said, at congvatulatingthe wosking classes of Paris on the fruits of their late exertions; and also fur the purpose of addressing the King. We believe the object, at least of some of the principal pro. alarm of the meeting, to be very different, and that the meeting, as far as they are concerned, lain tended to feed their own vanity on tlin one hand, and their love of mischief on the other. Paw pe „ p fr, h av e now to learn that the flaming patriot is not the man who loves his country the best, or that the noisy demagogue is ono who cares only for hiM self, and generally contrives to sail so near the wind as to screen himself from the danger which be drags others into. We have not Moo to learn that such persons are not unfrequently the very tools and instruments of the persons against whom they preface to set themselves in array, whose object is to sea the people involved in.ex cesses which may bstirY new means of coercion. We are far front being unfriendly to meetings of the people when there is just oemsiont but we know too that the people throw away their strength when they use it unnecessarily or unwisely. 'Having all along tuivo. euted the, geese of the people and atrenuenalY pointed out both their grievances and the remedies which were called for, we shell not be accused of abandoning that cause, when we wish only to deter th" People from embarking in prr t jreets whieb can only d i e it f i e le et is come, wen firmly ()be t i t m a b f r i en d ic wrongs of the people must and tea t 7 ell e the they do not themselves mar the tor a t :V v e4 b 9 : l L ir coming the blind, or too ready followers e anti; artful leaders. Many of those who have pert f o o r r ward this project of addressing and congratulatin g the people of France „ real l y care no more foe tine people of France than for those of China. Nor do the great Mask of the people of France, let us add, v aue their congratulations a rush. We have a new 3 land patriot King on the throne, anxious, it is clear, ito 'possess the attachment of his people, and we have a Parliament just elected, and - as yet untried, ;which has been •purged of much, at least, of that leaven of evil which disgraced the last. Thus situated, a few short weeks, probably, will only elapse before the country will see itself relieved,by legitiMSte means, from a great part, at least, of thi. evil with which it is oppressed. But let the demon Of mischief only stir up a spirit of commotion, and the cup will be dashed from the lip just parching for and expecting the draught. What we Say, then, to the people is—" Wait. You have waited so long, that to wait a little longer can be no great aggra ;vation of your distresses." And should Parliament fail to apply a remedy to the national wants and "distresses as far as lies in its power, then we would 'as strongly recommend that the voice of the people, "working classes and all, should approach both the iLegislature and the Throne in terms _of firm and jrresistible remonstrance. Of the meeting of to-day we would unequivocally say that its avowed object iis useless-,-its real one mischievous.---21' orn.Heralth The Belgians, according to the accounts in the Paris Papers, seem determined to brave the King of the Netherlands. A Provisional Government has been formed consisting of MM. de Potter; Felix de Merode ; d'Ooltremont de Liege ; Gendebien ;. de Stour', Member of the Suites-General ; and Van de Weyer. The citizens of Liege have taken by escalatle , the fort and arsenal. of la Chartreuse, which "was but weakly garrisoned. In Brussels the Burgher 'Guard has been disarmed by the populace; a part has joined' the people. The troops and inhabitants have already come to blows. There would thus 'seem to be every prospect of a most determined re ' sistance on the part of the people ; while we very much question • whether the troops will in general act. The Belgian part of the tinny will, we should suppose, to a man, go over to the people. And the anny is for the far greater part Belgian. The turn which things have taken proves how very diffi cult it is for people of one country to form a correct 'Opinion of the affairs of another. To an English man, the recent accounts from the Netherlands indi cated the termination of the revolution by submis sion to the .Government. The opposition of the middle to the lower classes led to the inference, that the Government, availing itself of the differ ences, would be enabled to overpower both. It would appear, however, that the middle classes have been as nothing to the others. A few days have thus wrought a wonderful change in the position of affairs. In the forthcoming number of the West iniioler Review, there is on article on the revolution of 1830, in which the writer observes :--- " Belgium is a , sore point ; but it will all he well a twelvemonth hence. If the population of Belgium should be obliged to succumb for the present, any attempt of the victors to go. beyond the moderation of the victorious party in Paris would be the signal for free Europe to present it self within the Belgian frontiers. The Dutchmen Will not be „too officious. They have money bags that will be bed for their not doing any thing it would be unpleasant to remember, if there should be a good skating-season in the winter that approaches. If they hurt a single Belgian, he shall be charged in the bill when the time •comee. The world is looking out for somebody to read a moral lesson on ; and the unfortunate Dutchmen will be ground to powder, if they put themselves in the way of the great ma chine. If they trust to English agents.—was there ever any body that trusted ~to English agents, anti was not deceived ? The English Minister is on th• point of being driven to take refuge in the popular ranks if he ,means to preserve his Ministerial existence ;- and be will not ask the English people to go to war, for the sake of keeping his Aides-de-Camp on Thrones. Any apprehen siott or interference from the English Tories is irrational. They have no way of interfering, but by despatching a force; and they will take advice before they determine upon that. It would, perhaps, be in the end one of the happiest events that they should try ; for the soldiery would return with their heads full of Belgian girls and Belgian principles, and the last state of those Tories would he worse than the first." We are not apprehensive of any interference on the part of foreigners with Belgium. The people of that country have fallen on happy times,: and if they can stand their ground against the King of the Netherlands, they have nothing to fear from their eig hbours.—Alornim Chronicle. DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION. At the annual meeting of the Leeds Mechanics' natitation, held on Mon - day at the Court-house a that town, the following piquant observations were made by Mr. Brougham in reference to the diffusion of information generally, and the reported observa tions of the Earl of Wilton at the Manchester dinner in particular:— Thtimausu rose, amidst loud cheers. He said he could hot help ogrcuing entirely with the worthy.Cliairman, that it was a peculierly,,gratifying circumstance that they were met together on an oc mien) which, from the vary nature of this institu tion and the character of those who patronise it, ne cestarily excluded all questions of a political or party nature. Men of all principles and political opinions—Men of every shade of religious persua sion—might consistently and did act without any sacritice of any principle, civil or religious,and joined hand in band to support and encourage institutions like this, The doctrine that the more a, man knows the happier lie learning he imbibee.,the more virtuous it will make himi was, so. perfectly trite, that before a very few days ago he should have thought he was doing one of the most ridiculous things imaginable to say any thing in support of it. In the year lti3o, in the middle of the nineteenth century, to have got up !and made a long speech to show that knowledge was useful—that the improvement of the body of the community, was consistent ,with the advantage of the whole community—that the .more the ninety nine kneW the more the hundred were likely to be happy, and the more intellectual the million were, the better it was for the community which con slated of a million. and perhaps two or three—to have proved those truisms, and that the body of a community being civilized, and becoming rational, and more and more removed from the state of brutes, by becoming higher .and higher in intellect and mo rals, was better for the community at large, and tended more to the peace of the state, and the sta bility of its institutions, and of those who call them selves the upper classes of society, he should have thought before a few days ago was as foolish as an attempt to prove that two and two make four, for both of these propositions were equally evident. Hu was grieved to think thuf it was necessary now to preach that, dealing which he thought every person at least a quarter of a century ago was ready to admit ; but he found, to his utter astonishment, i he would not say to his utter confusion, that a noble friend of his—Lord Wilton—he named him., that no person else might be bUpposea to be alluded to—a person from whom he should least have expected :such a thing, (because the two noble fernlike to which _he was allied, the Gross .venom' and the Stanleys, were amongst the beet Caton es in this country, and were disposed to make greater sacrifices than others to promote the national welfare,)--- , he was sorry to find was under an alarm as to the progress of knowledge in this country, and that he had taken upon himself to sound that alarm in thepresence of a distinguished personuge,a general officer, tow at the head of his Majesty's Govern nient-,(Leughter)—and he (Mr. Broughum) was grieved to find that he (the Duke of Wellington) did not cuter his protest against that declaration, for by virtue of his office he was bound to look after the peace.—(Leughter.)—Yet he hoped that he (the Duke) did not labour under the alarm which his Noble Friend . had propounded. lie (the Earl of Wilton) had said, , o Clod forbid that the people should not be educated," but then he said that he was afraid there was a great tendency to turn the current of knewledge against the source from whence it sprung. .Now he, (Mr. Drougharn) really believed that he had not said any such thing ;. that he had been misrepresented ; that it Willi. 4 misrepresentation which naturally arose from the mistakes of those who delivered to the press those speeches which were made after dinner. Now they might depend ipon it that all persons, whether in the'conspicueus •ank of his Noble Friend, or noted for large posses dons, splendid titles, illustrious ancestry, great po litica privileges, or extensive civil rights, greatly mistook the matter if they thought they were less likely to be secure in those rights, whether of title, pf privilege, or of property, by the bulk of the corn inunity at the head of whom they were placed being better informed, or if they thought that it was now in their power to stop the progress of improvement amongst the bulk of the community.—(Cheers.)— He (Lord Wilton) was also greatly mistaken 'if 'he thought that the bulk of the community derived ;heir education from the kindness of the upper orders. He (Mr. B.) thought he must also have been misrepresented on this point also, for the as. tiertion imputed to him was directly contrary to the fact. Lord Wilton said that the lower orders lose their gratitude and their respect for their superiors, but he was greatly mistaken ; the bulk were not taught by the upper classes, but he (Mr. Brougham) rather thought that the upper classes were taught by the bulk. He thought he might state that with out fear of mistake. Therefore he (Mr. Brougham) entirely differed from Lord Wilton, either in believ eng that the upper classes had educated the lower iclasses, or that they would be overwhelmed by their superior instruction, or that it was in their power to prevent the progress of knowledge from spreading over the community, whether they liked it or not. If overwhelmed meant eclipsed, he (Mr. Brougham) Was very sure that his Noble Friend was too ac complished ever to be eclipsed by the poor man who spared one evening in a week, to read the books which he might have purchased by the savings of R penny or twopence a week, or the books which might find in the library of a Mechanics' Insthu tion. If they did not choose to relax their efforts, there was no fear of the upper classes being overwhelmed in this country, where they had a free Government and a rational aristocracy. Ile trusted they would never let that day dawn upon themselves or upon the people. Having taken that opportunity of en tering his early protest against a speech which he doubted was ever delivered, having said so much Upon this heresy, us he should term it, he would proceed to other topics. And first of all be must be allowed to say that he regretted to find that in the great and enlightened town of Leeds, the capi tal of Yorkshire, in point of wealth, businessi•end mercantile importance, he did regret to find, and he was not a little surprised to, find, that the Mechanics' Institution had not thriven and made that progress which it had made in similar places; one place he would mention, for the purpose of shaming the ,Leeds Institution. In the little town of Kendal, in Westmorland, which contuined nine or ten thou sand people, there was a Mechanics' Institution, which, he believed, had more members than the one in Leeds, where there were 80 or 90,000 in habitants. What could that be owing to ? It was not to the prejudices against learning, because they did not exist in Leeds. Was it owing to the regu lations? No; for he had examined them, and found they were based upon u good model—the Edinburgh School of Arts—and that the founders of this Institution had taken care that every member should be capable of taking part in them. Could it be the amount of the annual subscription ? No-- that was only lOs. But nt the London Mechanics' Institution, and at the School of Arts in Edinburgh, it WWI 20s. In other places it was 12e. or 145., and he had only known it 81. in:one place, and that was only an apprentices' library, and they had no lee tures. Ile never knew it less than 10s. where there was a library arid lectures. Now 3d. a 'week amounted to more than 1 Oa. or 12s. a year, nay, 2id. a week was more than 10s. ti year, and that sum, if subscribed to a Mechanics' Institution, would secure a man the use of a library and lec tures, and give him a right of access to the wealthy intelligent individuals who were the patrons of the institution; and it really appeared to him that 21d. a- week was the best bestowed money whieh a work ing man, if he could spare it, could lay out, and would afford him a most useful and profitable re creation. Several books had already been pub lished by the Society for the Diffusion of Know ledge, and many more were forthcoming►; one of which was for the purpose of saving the money and promoting the practical comfort of the working classes; showing how by the construction of u new invented stove they may get mote heat and better cookery at .a cost of 10s. in fuel, than they can have with the present old grates by the expenditure of 21. or 3/. And thus the members of the London Me chunics' Institution say that they get back their twenty shillings two or three times a year, for when ever a new iuventi , on is introduced at the Institu- ion, the President, Dr.. Birkbeck, (a Yorkshire man by the by, for hecame from Settle, where his brother still lives,), is there ready to explain it, and thus. a person is immediately acquainted with Alis utility of un instrument which without such a plan he might be ten years in finding out. This being the case, be (Mr. Brougham) was asto nished to find that a thing so obviously useful as these institutions, and amongst a People who require ittformation so much as the people of Leeds do, Amid have languishd more to Leeds than in any part , of England he was acquainted with.. Mr. B. then proceeded to trace the rise and progress of these institutions, which he dated from the increase of elementary schools on the principles of Dr. Bell and Mr. Lancaster, that took place about thirty years ago. In 1816 a Com mittee, of which he (Mr. Brougham) was Chair man, was appointed by the House of Commons,' for the purpose of inquiring into the abuses of endowed schools. They got a return, of the number of Rebook endowed and unendowed, of the °umber of scholars in each. These'rettims were printed, together with the statutes of the large schools, in three groat folio volunies. The Committee sat during the Sessions of 1816, 17, and 18 ; but in consequence of various prejudices having been listened to by the then Go vernment, the Committee was not re-appointed on the assembling of the new ParliaMent in 1819, Finding it quite hopeless to 'obtain assistance, hi (Mr. Brougham) proceeded alone, and he brought into the House of Commons two Bills, one for the,. institution of parish schools, and the other for the better appropriation of endowed. funds, and for pre venting the abuse of charities. All the members of the Church professed themselves favourable to the Education till; but his excellent friends, the Dis senters, made some conscientious scrupl es , w hi c h h e thought himself bound to attend to ; and in deference to them hi withdrew the Bill. His friends informed him that their scruples were occasioned by that illi beral law the Test and Corporation Act; but eight years afterwards that Act was repeeled, as was com monly said, by the Duke of Wellington. Whether it was repealed by him or not he did not mean to say. Ile knew who did repeal it, and he meant to say that it was repealed in spite' of the Duke of Wellington.--(Laughter.)--Lord jolin Russell brought in the Bill, and he (Mr. B.) closed the de bate; he never fought harder than he did that night, and after a hard struggle they beat the Government by 40, and then they gave up, after being steel! beaten, And thut they called repealing the Bill ! In the course of his inquiries he found there were 1,600 or 2,000 parishes in which there was no schools at all, and that of this 'A m b er there were about 400 or 500 which positively required some assistance in planting schools. That was the result of his inquiry, and as he had not had an opportunity of making it known before, he thought' he could not do it better than there. —(Cheet.s.)---'rhe Learned Gentleman adverted more immediately to the esta blishment of Mechanics' Institutions on the principle of the one established et Glasgow in 1801; and he concluded his address amidst float applause. THE WATER New Tale of the Sea, from the pen of Mr. Cooren, Author of " The fled R ov e r ," " The Prairie," " The Borderers," kn. under the above strange title, is announced for early publication. There is some talk of pulling down the Tui- Jerks, which are hi a state of ruin, to rebuild a, phase for the wsu of the three Princes. Tice estimate is eight mil lions of tranec —Le Voleur. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION.HOUSE. On. Saturday, a young man, named 'Frederick Taylor, was charged with robbing an old man of the name of Griffith of the sum of 2/. DN. 3d. The complainant stated thi4 they went together into a public-house to have some beer, when the pri soner put his hand into his waistcoat pocket, and took out the money in question. The LORD MAYOR said that the complainant ought to have left the money with his wife, and was sur prised that he should have entered a public-house with a stranger. The complainant could not tell the reason of his drinking with the prisoner, and added, that if he had left the money with his wife, he should never have Seen it again.—(Laughter.) In answer to questions put by his Lordship, the complainant also stated that he was not drunk at the time, but that he had just come from the Class, where he had been hearing the word of God. " And did your minister advise you to go to a public-house after you left him ?"—" It was not a he," replied the complainant, " but a she what edified us, and she did not say any thing about a ginnagun' (public-house), but she went along with us." Mr. Hobler said he supposed the preacher was Nes. Cheshire, who had lately been discharged from I3ridewell, where she had been locked up for getting drunk anti breaking windows. " That was all a mistake," said the complainant; " Mrs. Cheshire was no mote drunk than your Lord ship on that occasion." The LORD MAYOR observed that in this, as in all other cases in which the prejudices of ignorant people are worked upon, the punishment inflicted upon an impostor was considered as part of the mar tyrdom. The prisoner admitted he had the money, and gave it up on being charged with the robbery ' • and it being proved that the complainant had acknow ledged he had given the money to the young man to keep in safety for him, the prisoner was dis- _ . t!harged, and the complainant received his money, on a protnise never to go to a " ginnagan" any more, although he hoped he might be allowed a little occasional devotional intercourse with Mrs. Cheshire. GUILDHALL. David Griniond, a journeyman baker, was brought before Mr. Alderman THORP on Saturday, in or der that he might find sureties to abide an order of filiation, should a child with which one Elizabeth Morris was then pregnant be born alive, and be Chargeable to the parish of St. Ann, Blackfriars. The young woman having been sworn, deposed, that she was a single woman, residing in the above parish—that her pregnancy had advanced to the seventh month, and that the defendant was the fa ther of her child. Mr. Russell, the overseer, asked the defendant if he had any objection to make to this statement ? Mr. Payne, the clerk, said it would be irregular to enter into his objections now. The proper time was, when it was proposed to make an order. Mr. Russell submitted that as the defendant was liable, unless he should find bail, to be imprisoned till the child was born, he was entitled to show now, if he could, that the woman oughrtiot to be believed. The defendant said, it the'woman was truly in the seventh month of her pregnancy, he could not possibly lee the father, as their Intimacy commenced only five months ago. The real fu►her was a mar ried man, who had a child by her before. He had been out of the way for two months, and his wife bud said she was satisfied he was the father. Mr. Russell said, he firmly believed the woman had perjured herself upon this occasion, and asked her if she did' not declare, when she Came to him about her first child, that the father of it was a strange man, who she thought resided .somewhere about Ludgate-hill, when the father really was, us she afterwards swore, a person residing .in. Wardour street, with whom she had lived as servant, The woman said this was true, but she had bean told to say it was a stranger. Mr. Russell asked if he had been told to say the defendant was the father of thii child ?---She said she had not. Mr. Russell said •the course he was pursu'ng might seem ut variance with the interest of the pa rish he represented, but he was anxious that justice should be dons, and that the child of a rich man should not be fathered upon a poor one. He ut terly dishslieyed the woman's statement, and he would endeavour to sift out the truth. Mr. Payne . said, if he discredited the evidence of his own witness, he could scarcely expect the Alder man to act upon ,it, and demand sureties. Mr. Alderman THORP immediately said he could riot give credit to what she said, and the defendant was of course liberated. BOW.STREET. On Saturday a woman, named Miles, was charged with having stabbed her husband, John Miles a stable-keeper, its the employment of foil and Bevan, coal-merchants; Milford-lane, Strand. it appeared that the prisoner and her husband had quarrelled, and the former, who wits cutting bread and butter at the time, stabbed the complain ant in the shoulder, and hi attempting to ward off a blow his hand was dreadfelly cut, tie succeeded, however, in wrenching the knife from the hand of the prisoner, and she was subsequently taken into custody. The complainant told the Magistrate that his wife had frequently expressed her resolution to 'be the death of him. The unfortunate man ap peared to be weak from loss of blood, while giving his evidence. The prisoner, in her defence, declared that the behaviour of her husband to herself and child had latterly been so bud that she was tired of her life. 'When he was sober or quite drunk, there could not be a more peaceable man, but when half-drunk he was a very devil. She then went on to describe the' quarrel; and declared that she had no intention of hurting her husband when she struck him with the knife. Sir R.. Booms directed that the complainant should be removed to an hospital to have his wounds dresied, and ordered the prisoner to be remanded, observing that she stood in a very precarious situa tion. The prisoner was then removed in custody, and on being informed that her child would be placed un der the care of another woman, her screams were frightful. bIAULBOROUGILSTREET. On Saturday a man named Lawrence Powell, a stone-mason by trade, was brought before Mr. ROE, the sitting magistrate, charged with desperately as saulting a private watchman belonging to this dis trict, named MiDoriough. it appeared that a few days ago some trifling al tercation took place between' the prisoner and the complairnott, but of which the latter thought nothing more until he accidentally met the prisoner on Sa turdaymorning in the street, whep, -without the Tightest lest provocation,- the prisoner struck the com plainant two desperate blows on the head with a large iron bar that he carried in his hand, laying bare the skull, and it is feared fractured it in a dreadful manner. Some persons who witnessed the atrocious attack had the prisoner immedi a t e ly se cured, and brought to this office, where the wounded man was also [conveyed to give his evi dente; but his mental and physical faculties were so impaired by the effects of the blows he bad re ceived, that the poor man appeared quite uncon scious almost of what was around him, and could give no evidence in the caSe, but was conveyed forthwith by the directions of the magistrate to th e house of a neighbouring surgeon to have hi s woun d s dressed, end where he was pron ounce d to b e i n u very dangerous state. The Prisoner was therefore remanded for a future examination on the capital charge under Lord Lans downe's act, which no longer leaves it necessary that a premeditated wound shall be inflicted with a sharp instrument.' IiATTON-G ARDEN 1, • A. decent-looking female presented herself at this office on Friday night, acsompanied by four cleanly. ru dressed :children, two boys and two girls, the eldest, of whom appeared to be about eight, and the young est about three .years old, on *hose behalf she Made an application to the - sitting Magistrate, Mr. Serjeant undei the folloWing distressing circumstances She stated that the children belonged to a man of the natne,of Saunders, a hoot4riaker, who had oc cupied the back room on the second floor of a house in Gray's-inn-lane, and that about nine weeks ugo, being reduced to great distress and unable to main tain his family, in consequence of his being out of, employment for a length of t►me before, he deserted them, and nobody could since learn where he had gone to or what bad become of him. His wife for some time endeavoured to support herself and the children by selling off whatever trifling articles of furniture she possessed; even the very bed she lay on, until that resource at length failed her, nod then, about a fortnight ago, having no other means to re sort to, she applied to the workhouse for relief, and tried, but in vain, to have the children admitted. She (the applicant) being acquainted with the fa mily, and knowing all their circumstances, called at an early hour that morning to see the mother of the children, but, to her great anguish, she found that she, too, had deserted them, and that the poor children were alone in their miserable .habitation, and without a morsel of food since the evening be fore. They were lying on a mattress, the only at., tide in the room, and the two youngest were crying most -piteously; as well from cold and hunger as in consequence of the absence of their mother. She immediately took them to one of the overseers of the parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, to whom she related the circumstances, and from him she received a note, with direct►ons to go to the workhouse, but when she got there with the children, the gatekeeper refused either to take the note or to admit them. She had spent the entire day, at a great inconveni ence, as she was herself a woman of family, about the workhouse, but to no purpose ; and ut last, finding that it was getting late, and having no means herself of providing for the children even for' a single night, she determiried to bring them before the Magistrate, in hopes that by his authority the parish would he prevailed upon to make some provi sion for them: Mr. Serjeant SELLON appeared very much affected at the recital of the destitute condition•of the poor children, and asked the applicant whether she, as a friend, had not some .knowledge of where the father and motile.: were gone ?—She declared that she had tio knowledge whatever, and that she must have remained ignorant of the circumstances, if she had not accidentally called at their lodging that morning. Mr. Serjeallt SELLON inquired whether she knew where the children were born, and she replied, that she believed they were born in the parish of St. James, Westminster. _ The Magistrate immediately sent for Mr. Hewitt, the master of the workhouse, and telling him that he had always known him to be humane and kind in cases of this nature, directed him to admit the children forthwith into the workhouse, and ascer tain afterwards their legal settlement. Mr. Hewitt asked the woman whether she would assist the parish authorities in finding out the pa rents of the children, ►aid she declared that she would afford them every facility and means in her power for that purpose. Mr. Hewitt ordered the children to be taken di rectly to the workhouse, and they were admitted. At ARYLEBONE. A young man named Belson, about twenty years of age, was brought before the Magistrate on an order of affiliation. Maria Jackson, k female who appeared to be ad vanced in years, stepped forward and proved the case. Mr. RAWLINSON, who wus surprised at the female's appearance, said," Surely you don't mean to say that the prisoner is the father of your offspring. You appear to be seventy years of. age ?"--" Oh, dear. no, Sir," she replied, " lam only forty.tive." The young man declared that the female's state ment of his being the father of her child was un founded. Miss Jackson persisted in her statement. The defendant was then ordered to find the ne. ceNsary bail to indemnify the parish against any ex pense, which was procured, and he was discharged. QUEEN-SQUARN. A middle-aged man, who gave his name Thomas Kelly, wale charged with obtaining charitable contri butions under false pretences. It appeared that the prisoner had addressed a letter to'the:Earl ofjPlymouth, enclosing a certificate signed by John Crispin, Esq. the British Consul at Oporto, stating that-the bearer, William Crow and fumily; had. boon wrecked .in their passage from Gibraltar to England, and had lost the whole of their property except 4704 and which they were afterwards robbed of by an armed bandittt. The document Was signed by Earl Stanhope 'subscribing rd.; and also the signatines of several of the bility. The Earl of Plymouth, 'on receiving the communication, forwarded it to Earl Stanhope, and the forgery was discovered. The prisoner was taken into custody at hie lodig ings, in. Gardener's-lane, Westminster, when he confessed that he was the writer of the letter. A person who attended from the Mendicity So ciety said that a number of impostors were about town, and by attaching the names of some of the most distinguished characters to their petitions, had succeeded in obtaining large sums of money. In one instance an impostor had obtained 101. from the Duke of Cambridge. The prisoner was sent to the House of Correc tion for three months. I'HAMES.POLICE. On Saturday the ship's company and petty officers of the Iglu proceeded in a body to the Thames Police•oiice, to lay a complaint against Captain Jo. seph Dudman, the commander of that vessel, for delaying the payment of their wages, which they alleged caused them much inconvenience and great injury. Three of the most intelligent of the crew were deputed to wait on Mr. BRODERIP, the sitting Ma gistrate, while the others remained in the out offices of the establishment. They briefly stated their. complaint, and said that all the ships of the China fleet lately arrived had been paid off at the East India House, with the exception of the ing/is,which entered the river and was docked several days be fore other vessels, the seamen of which had received their wages. Several of their shipmates had wives and families depending upon them for support,who were in a state of great distress, in consequence of their bard-earned wages being withheld. Others, who had no home nor friends in London, were corn-. pelled to wander the streets and subsist on the bounty of other sailors, or sell their wages, at a great loss, to crimps and others, who were always ready to take advantage of seafaring' men, and fleece them of their money. • Mr. BRODERIP inquiFed of the sailors the nature of their application. If they had signed articles and performed the voyage, he bad no objection to grant summonses against the Captain if be refused to pay the wages to which they were ,justly entitled. — The sailors answered that it was customary to pay off the crew of the Indiamen within twenty-one days after the arrival of the ship in the river; in fact, that was the extent of time they were allowed by law, but in general the Hon. Company's vessels were paid off in eight or ten days;_ . but, from some unaccountable' cause, Captain Dudman had posted the Inglis fur Monday next (this day), making a period of twenty-seven days since her arrival. They had done nothing which .could warrant such treat ment ; they had always cheerfully obeyed orders, and navigated the ship in safety. Many of them had served-with credit 'on board .men-of-war, and were deserving of better usage. One of the sailors declared that he had bees pre. vented getting another ship in consequence of his being detained, and several of his shipmates were in the same condition. Mr. BRODERIP-But what is it you wish me to do for you ? It appears from your own statement . 44 4 ; Ol4 'l l rift f“, ,1.1,41.00 that Captaintiudmin his - U4 refuisdlii44 Captain 4 wages due to you and that yotkitaV6 ly,OrNl more to wait. cannot urr4lerstaMl,„thruuttum your application.—The sailors said, titstivialutbitt Magistrate to punish their Captain for:detaining:the payment of their wages. They ought to have-been paid within twenty-one days, and they contriedit was illegal to do so. Mr. BRODERIP, who appeared nit ilittleinns prised at the application , said he did WO lit make any observations, bit "what could Shave ia' duced the sailors to coins to him he kaetv'uotiViii Were to be paid their -wages on Monday:l4l* then Saturday, and they asked him if-hettotildititt punish their Captain for not having'paidithimbei fore. His answer was, that he could not; he t!ol no power to do so. The sailors then withdrew,,mach disappQ the result of their application, after 1)04 41 1411 . 1 v,„. the worthy Magistrate for his attention.- complaint. COUNTRY CORN MARKE4k:I%.;'' nuartio Tarr waza. ; En,s rtultiNa LAST MM, ; - Wheat. Barley. Usts: Per Quarter. Is.to s. s. to s. s. Oki ,- *! if Carlisle Cartnarthen.--.. 65 —.-- AB. 33 ,„ * 'ra: 52 72 33 31 IN .'IIC t r. " Fit Murpeth 60 70 34 36 3ff _l4 Penrith gg gs "1" "" < ,* SketHeld • 29 Winchester d. Per Bushel. s. d. e. d. e d t rt. s. Coventry 7 0 04 6 5 * 4 - 3 Newcastle (Staff) 10 0 10 9 0 0 0 0 30 , t Northsllerton...... 7 0 9 3 3 6 4 ,f Stafford 9 0 9459 6 to 0 •O' ' Swansea 9 4 8 8 4 4 4 IF Warwick 9 0 10 0 46 , 6 $ 3- 44 " 7 Harnardcastle 18 62169 0 10 6 ' 4 ) 1 1 4 1;11 4 0 3 7 0c rb k la e n r : , - B° l l. :6 6 0 3 I I; 6 3 10 0$ 0 o to At h s 16 0 99 6 9 0 9,0 71 3 Q" ___------.----__ , , WAKEFIELD CORN MA11KET0.4614421.„;:410 There is a large supply of Wheat biro , 0 1 , 4 „.` is market ; good fresh Old and dry parcels 0f:', 010 ,7 1 ,4. fair demand, at an advance of ts. per qusftlei ~11"*";i dling samples of New go off slowly at an jOre iloa q Is. per quarter, and there bas been rsTile,..,r O re _ a0 0"11( - for secondary descriptions of Old than of,lSlff..v - 4,1 1 ,:pae l Oats are scarce, and ready sale at an 110011.a." e ."' .-„10( in. , quarter. The best New Barley is taken , of 1..,__" &O r last week. Fine hard Beans are 25., ASl( l l B 'w' - mt hke tions Is. per quarter higher. The weather ._„ . 115 10 :,... % "" t oy on Monday and Wednesday, and a con s ,y Oa of Grain was secured, but much rain .I)ll.PRoff iin. ..„ . " 0 4 rrst of the week. About one.third. Of 00,.... 1 1 "7 1 •1411 two thirds of the Barley is this nsillbb""'"' --- I - in the fields. •,..1, .94,4. ~, v ,10.; Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sugß)Ut....so‘• i . t ' m at Obit Lin. and Cam. .........53, $ t0.„,,- - 60 Yorkshire ......... ...... ..581. 1 " 4. '"" 5 11 i --- White . it.Ok i ---- Foreign, Rod ."' W hii; * „ . ....... " . ". ..... .X.Wt#l44o; it Barley, Norfolk and Suftbilt ....".... ....';egiTh Apt fa, -- 1..inc0105hire.......... ******* " :00 M .7 i MC 111 i *"." Yorkshire Wol'd .....".'"'.." - .... - L i i gore' Foreign ''...."'" ...4. o. -- - , Beans, ....... **** ~,,, Oa W t Vil l i : Small ....... ....... • 3 " 11 ' " Oats, Potato • ..... " ... ""." VA W es, t piga,* Poland ........ . ... .. . .-1. DM.. W .r i gfit . Allee --. Friesland an'd Sinall .. . . "...... - 4., ? 4,175,17 0 1.' Mewling ................. " .12*". I. '---- riiir Shelling .......310. to VW _, wit 19s. 435. tine 4.5.:r . Rapeseed BIRMINGHAM CORN CORN MARKET: t` slAy'l We have had a pretty good supply of Grain st Ifr ti o, market, with'a fair demand ; Wheat 2d. to 44 r, r n At. and Beans Is. per bag, dearer than o n this d Pi 0. ay le. ° I '4, a. 19 Wheat, per 621 b. —. . .... . ....... ............. II ° sO ° Barley, per Imperial qu arter; Mask ...... Zd. 0 , 0 Pease 44 0 i i A Beans, per bag of 10 score gross .. ... . l6 0 1 A Oats, per 901 b. Fine Fleur, per sack of 91i0lb li ° 5,1 0 Seconds 94 0 V. 0.1.. .• ---'-------- .. - .-'•.-•-...'''.."*.-.-... • 6Cla*Cl( 144004 —Wheat7l3lWl7,,, -„3 cupArCokhtream .. 6037335660 662505:46 2.11:11:9 4:3: 14, !I 91151:: , Slyer3 ta 60. 66 36." 36 31 33 ad Id 56 62 tlo e 5 n 423 46.rr, - .nveroess.,.. w 5611 an ..14 ..4‘41 11:1**::'1%"--e the6letrairt .25var throoli ""-'"'"" NS •60 10 21 La •;"2- 3,1 • ?r1 xs bout the :ETS. EDINBURGH conN MARI‘gl..-Sirio t 0 which. so h l a d d ir a eely ul a i t KluiiiglhitYr of a ll . kii! f il li g e ° l f e o n , sl P ud erie r w a ;9 "P is W ei li t ' Ul up Si., and 4,1. on the average ; top o f - • one par 55., and average the same as lest week. - 1 ,a, eel brought 565. ; Oats 341. Bd. f and Beinll*Floosie: Wheat. Barley. Oats. reto e • 40b u o l First .. 804 Oil Nis Od 34s Ad i' 4 11'id Second ... 78s Od 35s Od :Ms Oil 0: 0 d Third .... 571 Od 30. Od 'As Orl '.." ~ 10 ratcas or mtovislosai 1ic•„, 6 ,.8.1. 14- ,, ip Beef, per 1b... Os. 4d. to Os. dd. Fresh Linttere - 0 0 - i Mutt0t5........ 0 3 0 5 Salt Vitt0,...14,40' 0 1. Vea1..—......... 0 5 0 8 1)140.Pa- 4 21'0 0 op f.. Pork OO 0 0 1 7 -810. P er ri) il t it 1 ' Lamb, per qr. 1 0 2 0 OstStrawl-1-, 0 0 . Tallow, cvit....22 0 35 0 Wheat 1htt0...,, 0 do Qtuirtern Loaf 0 U 010 Barley Ditto a , ' f ' ) 0 Potatoes, 1711 b. 0 5 0• 0 Hay, per st'''''' .....,-........_......=-=_, ___,..=....-.-_--- ::: th , Bo4' CO RNWA Li • OA RIE FIr& A . 44 ...,ososto Tabu/1.-Wheat (averag e ) 21e.-.4IOI.ftILTIO;. to lII ' ST. Ayr:sta.-Wheat, 21s. to ...0.--P•ai'' _ _oath' 7s. to 81. Od. u. o.4va ti BOW/ IN-Wheat i.verage) 21s. &I --Zk, l ' ' Pp , - '.. • • • rleli Lausseitirrna-W eat (average) gla• 12*. 0.1-Beer, dd.-Mutton Sil. • .., . ` elut e '.. ,,l Hat-grow-Wheat, 24> . (ki.-Barley. 12a ol" _, t o I'' Paszascs-.Wheai, Mutt Bars p - l o jg, NJ' .‘ Os. to 7s. Oct.-Beef and n, Od. O a 1 5 d." -. ' - (. ht' , ' Butter, Sait per lb. , , 1: 3, •"' Ltsaeaan-Wheat, 241. Od. to 2195. tkl..-110.e" 100,, wvi GI 1 ls. dd. 18 , I n ft. CoLousa.Wheat, 19s. to 211.-11 16 22601. and Mutton, Od. to U.-Veal and Lamb..." ' . , cot 'l OB 0 %Ai 0/ 0 ' It ) of ' IOU' ill' .01 0 ii--____- - __---.-.".----,z---- 00 po.. 1 ~ Separation"LedyCifAisitaLoOwTeTxl:itillgtitiliteV; S inosi e ui t: 4 iiit ri . I f , . n o n f pebi t. ec h ci e alt h liyas ig at h miv c o i ea r n c g l n es te:e i n al: to ie w s, n e. .._ Ow - of lb. two heroines--these ill-fated *M al • Iso s ....a bog 1 of tbi (Mee and innocently the wives of r..- . pion ' t the ' man. A curious scene arose out o. at Brighton. ' asenectiti cot: nictroyo.w wthiewoiterigoo:l,l, • CS' MINING I NTEL LI OS 44,,,pidsY Quantity of Copper Ore sold et Redruthbag 1— Average .......... , u4ntill of fine cower . ........... ... ° " mount of Sale, 15,771/. Is. Od.--A.rereg On the 25th haat. il in iß P 7 a llll -t i llt 17 ' 31 ' °( w ge i v f n n On o t f ht tl i i h: e f :2 2 . l : 4 l, o t ti h . i i F i n n . et t i ia l :t i .oc t4 C l4 . 4 s E d . o ei j te ces . r ida r ace , e.go tlt o or r fi i t t oldn i: e''lltril'i't3 O tl' e of u daughter. lE:icii O r: n joo t h h fn e A 2 Te S oo d aib i b n as st. , yonfaatiT:Yer:jr.nktiuu,llll.l67ol.:ooo lso,:or:ir:'aillitiolijros:ll/,ri, t t l l te M 2 arm s t t b h ) Tl:rti.nthatireit. Metgl" c ' elg ' 11- t 1 • 119 / 4 144.1Ni' fJ 1. l'" kliugOrre' z_ab.oettlii,theeld2elstthdaiun'gah.teartiosifni.Vp;:q. unciStoru:tl,7(oo7lll:o:loo.rs.b' or, liatuent-street. tut co° pig IL•q. of Pinner...ban, to m i., pay,* o_ ' Hackne Mr. °II the 415th lost at St. d trie, I°l4lll' • wti tst Watson, of Guildford, .SurryA, n to reAltrrY 11‘nrabolilttwrs daughter of Mr. J. Cross, late of l'ortstoolt's fiell4l4 n t if" he 2 t1. 3t1 inst. at Citelteelinoi, th e nevi 3. si l t in l 0 00 Rector .. of Lanrigna, in the county o f Ilrecit Sw ?uariat only child of the late Francis ftighy IsTb•;ieseforii lard Penoyre, Esq., of the Moor, and Bee d v re icWt 1' hires nod Bath Ea ston Villa, Soincrattabirr. DIED. , I tot t ell Tetraseud, Biol. of Doctora'-foottuons. h J. -- Oa the 11th inst. at Cat" Artinit' " in' QtA venOtonnithEe 4 2 q 3:1 o in f s jiti:fitellld.ppwiacesy,, one,arrki!eYnl,46ol' 1,400, Oa the 25th inst. T. Ilaworth, Eat- I n , tt, house, Barham-wood, HOW aged b tf.i , d A im 11 1. On the 25th inst. at Wictiser.terracet ...-- i v Rasoot of Piccadilly. Ello;11" S. ' 00 the 2Sth of April, near Ilyderebvit .bird ~,,, the late of gle 2d Madras European InlantlYr " W. Shairp, F,_____!.....L.t........._,.....----•of I - le an. ......._____....-----------., EAST INDIES..--11111171117; i t, POO At It dalstuundry, March 6, the lady of. P ' 22v1 Reg. N. 1., of a sox. i ( c,pt, G. I:Ar''''' 1 At Quilon March ISt the 1 4" Y cl- Regt. Light 'Cavalry, of a dadsbter• mo l i erlyi I ) At Msdrell, await 24, thr lady' of Coe . puy Siocrowy Military WO, of filo' i PRINVID IND PUBLIstIIIP NY ,J.,it.01) 111' os. TOR SUN OPTICS, 119, StitANl), LOP