The Sun. — London, England, 1830-01-22 00:00:00

Popes and Cardinals, and other high dignitaries of the Church, used to be very free among themselves respecting the delusions they prac tised on the people, and many a witticism is at tributed to them more creditable to their shrewd ness than their honesty, According to the Re viewer, we have what is to be expected from all irresponsible bodies in the House of Commons, one language among themselves and another for the public ; and any attempt at sincerity in what is spoken to the public would be attended with instant loss of caste. " All real business," says the Reviewer, " is drowned in Debates and Re ports,. It is astonishing, at the end of a Session to see how much has been said, and yet how little material business has been transacted.— Part of this evil must be ascribed to the state of society in our overgrown and most voluptuous me tropolis, but a much larger portion to the Mem bers themselves. If those who take the chief share in the management of public affairs were to adopt a totally different line of conduct—if they on all occasions shewed themselves more inttht on *hat was done than the manner of doing it ) the business of the country would be thstsaithed better, and at the same time with real wisdom and eloquence. That point, lowever, on which the Members of the House of Commons have sometimes been thought to be most deficient, is their want of independence. Though less open to direct improper influence than fustnerly, there is too much reason to sur mises that they do not speak and vote sufficiently according to their real sentiments. . . . . It is not easy to resist the torrent. Let a man of the soundest head and heart find his way now 'into the House, and he will so xi find himself so entangled and perplexed that he hardly knows how to do justice to himself, or service to his country Besides, there is something in the very atmosphere of the House unfavourable to bold and uncompromising con duct. It is de facto a sort of overgrown club. This is the worst part of the whole business. Things are every day admitted in private among t 6 Members which are studiously denied or boncealed in the speeches reported from the Gallery. Whoever, therefore, should endea vour to rend asunder that veil which by all parties in the House is held up before the public, would lose his character and caste. He would be treated with coldness by those to whom he wished most to approximate, while he might feel insuperable repugnance to unite with those who were most willing to receive him. A loss of in dependence more painful to the individual or irsjurious to the commonwealth than this cannot well be produced. It amounts to a surrender of the noblest privileges, and chokes the source of the fairest virtues which distinguish and adorn the citizen of a free country." The source of this lies deeper, we imagine, than the Reviewer conceives. It would be odd if the Members of the House of Commons, of all people in the country, should be as if there were windows to their breasts. It was an Englishman who defined a fool to be a " complex idea, compounded of poverty, honesty, piety, and simplicity." But on this subject we will not hors eblarge. But we have yet to notice the most ominous part of the Review. "We have Ito desire (says the Reviewer) to read lessors to the public, or alarm it by unnecessary appre hensions. But we may he permitted once more, in the way of friendly admonition, to warn our countrymen to summon their whole virtue and resolution for the trials they may be called to encounter. Many of the signs of Revolution are upon us. While we cannot speak otherwise than thus, from the presages which we see around us, and should think it an abandonment of our duty did we not proclaim the fact, we beg at the same time to guard ourselves against the impu tation of being either gloomy or desponding Those are not likely to stand the conflict worst who are the earliest prepared for it We hays also another ground for confidence We are at present under the guidance of that distinguished person who, by so extraordinary a train of events, has been raised from the direc tion of an army to the more elevated station of a director of the State ; nothing can make him greater than he is but greater benefits conferred on the country with which all his glories are identified ; and we trust he is destined to achieve for us a still greater deliverance than any he has yet completed." Want of space prevents us from noticing the projects for relief started by the Reviewer. Our readers may form some idea of it, from the following sentences : " When our commerce is in so languid a state, and when the Custom-house Returns show the real value of our manufactures to be now as much below the official value as it was formerly above it ; and when trade is carried on at so ex tremely little profit—what, we would ask, except land, could pay the interest of the National Debt.; and how can it long prove adequate to that, unless it be assisted ?" We desire no one interest to be sacrificed to another; but if the pressure should continue, and the moneyed in terest should refuse or resist all adjustment, they may produce a catastrophe equally calamitous to themselves and the other interests in the State. An equitable adjustment ! but we will return to this.—Morning Chronicle. One of Mr. Peel's alterations in the Criminal Law was this—that, where a person charged with a criminal offence had. been previously con victed, such prior conviction should be made a substantive charge in the indictment against him for the new offence, and a certificate from the Clerk of the Peace, or of the Arraigns, be pro duced as the proof of it. This, we should sup pose, must have originated in the same maxim of " Give a dog an ill name, and hang him ;" for, if the refinement of judicial malice had beat about to find out a method of preventing a man from having a fair trial, the most success ful way of doing so would be to inoculate the minds of the Jury, and prejudice them knee deep with a knowledge of the prisoner's previous offences. That the Court, or Judge, before passing sentence, should know what a man's previous character and h a bit s h a d b een , and should be regulated by it, to a certain degree, in framing its sentence, seems reasonable enough, and was, we believe, acted upon. to quite as great a length as it was proper it should be ; but the obvious cruelty and injustice of bringing a man's previous conduct, in one instance, to bear upon ;the question of " Guilty" or " Not Guilty" in the other, is such, that we are not at all surprised to hear that it begins to be actually dispensed with by some of those on whom its adoption, while it continues to be a law, is al most, if not quite, imperative. Some of the Judges at the Old Bailey have, we hear, di rected that that part of the indictment shall not be opened or made known to the Jury ; and at the Wiltshire Sessions, last week, the Magis trates came to a unanimous resolution not to al low of its use there. - A similar resolution was adopted at the last Warwick Sessions ; and such being the general feeling upon the subject, it is most probable that in the next Session of Par liament Mr. Peel, seeing the error into which he has been led, will himself relieve the Judges and the Statute-book from an enactment which, however well intended, manifestly infringes upon that which has always been the characteristic of British jurisprudence, fairness and lenity towards the accused.—Morning Herald. Want of space prevents us from commenting at present on the case of John Miller, the sea man tried at Portsmouth on a charge of dis obedience of orders, and the report of whose trial will be found in another part of our paper. The case of this individual is of great import ance, as involving the rights of the subject. We believe that, under the circumstances, the Court had no power to try him. If he had committed any offence, after the term of his compulsory service had expired, he was, in our opinion, only amenable to the ordinary tribunal of the country, and not to a Court-martial. We regret he did not plead in bar to the jurisdiction, and bring the matter under the cognizance of the Court of King's Bench by application for a Habeas Corpus.— Ibid. that an imperious negative should thus be prematurely given to every demand for re duction 8 The very proposition is listened to reluctantly and rejected with scorn. The peti tioners are bowed out with as much expedition as if they had gone to commit a burglary. The " honour of the country," says the contumelious Premier, " must be maintained though the people —!" Honour be gibbetted ! What has honour to do with necessity ? What has !rood faith to do with life an d d eat h ? Wh at has -) obstinacy to expect from a case that is des perate ? Surely it would be more amiable to yield that which if withheld will eventually be taken by force. Pursue your career, and follow up your purpose then, say we to the freeholders and yeomanry of England. Flinch - not from the performance of your duties merely because some men ridicule and others strive to intimi date you. You cannot, we admit, save the country, even though you wring from the Duke of Wellington those reductions which he is re solved to resist ; but your success would un doubtedly lead to that wholesome change of system, to that sweeping and indispensable We yesterday copi e d f rom th e M orn i ng change, which a l one can p reserve th e country Chronicle some ve r y acu t e i ron i ca l observations from revolutio n an d anarc hy--f rom the totalsub subversion of all our institut ions —f r om the de upon the subject o f th e a d m i n i strat i on o f the struction of private property, an d th e u tter ru i n law as respects th e cr i me o f duelling. Even of those who have claims upon the industry and before the last felonious affair at Battersea we the honour of the nation. Go on and prosper, were not backward to express our opinion upon and trust to events. A new Parliament would ! the wickedness of conniving at such guilty prat- be a bitter pill to the present Ministry. It tices. To say that a man has committed a felony would be a dose of mortal poison to all the is indeed a gross libel, but such a libel was pubs apostates—it would call into political existence lished of the Duke of Wellington last spring ; new men of fresher powers and uncontaminated and, notwithstanding the sensitiveness for which principl resorees. It would cleanse th e A ugean s t a bl e Sir James Scarlett c l a i ms cre di t on his Grace's of its innumerable and useless hacks, and restore part, published with impunity. We shall not, to the people that controul over their own inte however, repeat the slander otherwise than hypo- rests which has unfortunately been confided to thetically. If, within ten months before the ssi t ionary economists and unprincipled and job death of Mr. Clayton, the Prime Minister of bins placemen.—lbid. England did the v er y same ac t c h arge d on Mr. . Lambrecht, with th e ver y same d es i gn , an d, t h oug h The opening of Parli amen t i s p rece d e d b y the consequence was accidentally different, an act Public Meetings more than usually numerous, in the same degreepenal bylaw,ifthisparty hasbeen and the vast importance of the subjects they dis permitted during the subsequent ten months to cuss is sufficiently indicatory of the weighty remain Prime Minister of England, and to ap- duties which must devolve upon the Great pear as a public prosecutor—a jealous vindicator Council of the Nation in the next Session. It of public morals—putting the law in motion is natural that those who suffer should remon against every man who offered the slightest op position to his views—th e gen tl es t censure upon strate and demand reli e f ; an d w hil e th e d eman d his conduct—and if such being the case, and is made in an orderly and temperate manner, no the party still liable to prosecution, and still un- Englishman will deny its propriety. The Go prosecuted, in the name of the God of Justice vernment are the stewards of the Nation, its how can even tile " little finger of the law" be funds, its glory, its prosperity and freedom ; and laid upon Mr. Lambrecht without an open when either is depressed or impaired, to the confession that, in England, we have one Government is application mad e t o re pl ace it on rule for the ri c h an d grea t, an d anot h er for the less-favoured sons of Adam. If a safe and proper basis ; but it is at the same such an atrocious anomaly be once recog- time evident that mischiefs derived from long nized, let us, for decency sake, erase from those custom, and which are complicated in their criminal courts, where the fear of God or the operation, cannot be remedied with the promp love ofjustice will be no longer found, the pro- titude which those most affected desire, or as faned " Dieu et mon droit," and inscribe in its sert to be practicable. No doubt can rea place the more . becoming couplet--- sonably be entertained of th e se ttl e d di s• " committees eadem diverso crimin a f a t o ; Ille crucem scel e ri s pretium t u lit, lilt diadems," position of Governm en t t o exer t every —Morning Journal. nerve to alleviate the existing pressure ; Public meetings and preparati o n s f or th e ap - their great object must b e th e h app i ness proaching contest are now th e or d er o f th e day. of the people, th e mos t en d ur i ng g l ory of a Monarch's reign, and their study mus t A second meeting of persons chiefly employed be to promote it ; but if they are assailed by fac in agriculture took place at Mundford, in Nor- tion, or crippled by desertion, their efforts can folk, on Monday last. The Cambridgeshire not prove so useful as they otherwise would. Meeting will be held on Friday; the p eo pl e o f T he agricultural interest, all-important as it is Birmingham are to assemble on Monday next ; in this country, is worthy of the utmost solici and the freeholders of Essex and Cumberland in tude and attention, and the more so as it is essen a few days. Preparations, we understand, are tially interwoven with that of our manufactures. also making for meetings in Wiltshire, Dorset, If one flourish, the other will flourish with it ; and Somerset. Northumberland is likewise ex- if one be depressed, the other will share in that petted to meet, and we should think Westmor- depression. But both the great questions here land must be equally disposed to give vent to involved are again mixed up with that of the those grievances and those talcs of heart-rending currency, any alteration in which at the present distress of which the Lords and rulers of:Lon- juncture it would be fearful to contemplate. It don know comparatively nothing, and of which was never contended, when the last settlement they daily hear so many misrepresentations in of the currency took place, that a partial depres the ministerial papers. But the question still sion might. not ensue ; but nevertheless, to main recurs—what can the Government do to relieve tain that what happened post hoc therefore hap them ? In the treatment which the West India pened propter hoc, is contrary to all the re body received a few days ago at the hands of the ceived rules of reasoning, and pre-eminently so as Prime Minister we may see what is likely to be regards the alterations in the currency. The the fate of other memorialists. The gentlemen withdrawal of the small notes, as one of a se connected with that interest were coolly and ries of measures of State policy, is represented rather sharply told by the Duke of Wellington as one chief cause of distress ; but was the that it was not in his power to assist them by Government, in the conscientious exercise of any reduction of the present enormous and their sworn duty to their Sovereign and their almost prohibitory duties on sugar—a com- country, to shrink from acting upon those views modity which is now an indisp e ns a bl e necessary which would ultimately provide a main security of 'life. His Grace admitted the country to to every class of our industrious community ? be in an unexampled state of suffering and The deliberations of Parliament on the vital in. privation, but he argued that this fact was a terests about to engage its attention, will not, sufficient reason for ret a i n i ng the present high we trust, be unnecessarily embarrassed by ap duties on colonial produce. It was not with peals from disturbing the present system of the him a question how far sugar, at half its present currency, with regard to which any vacillation price, would benefit the poor consumer, but how can be attended with no other than pernicious far the revenue would be injured by the change— results to the trading part the community. It how far his colleagu e , M r . Goulburn, would is a question which ought no longer to he con be embarrassed—and how much increased would sidered open to discussion.—Morning Post. be the difficulty of meeting the claims of the Almost all our cotemporaries, with the ex standing army, the pensioners, and the dear fundholders. Here, again, our every hope ception of The Sun, have shirked the great seems to be marred by these vampire and ac- question of the tithes, which was so admirably cursed taxes. This is the eternal stumbling_ discussed at the Devonshire Meeting, of which block to all economy, to all reduction, to all we gave an ample report on Tuesday. Some of cheapness, and to all chance of amelioration. them have even omitted the account a lt o g e th er , The taxes ! That one word is the barrier to as if it had been little short of treason to talk of relief. The revenue ! That one word is the obstacle to any repeal of any portion of the ctrl- a commutation of tithes, and a more equal dis toms or excise exactions. Why, then send the tribution of the revenues of the Church among drum (we must use military expressions now) its pastors. This, to say the least of it, is egre through the various counties, beating up sturdy giously absurd. Every body knows that the freeholders to make speeches and sign petitions present appropriation of the revenues of the in vain ? Has not the noble Duke told the Church was not made in the most enlightened collective wisdom of the nation that county meet- times, and that the manner in which the ings are mere farces ; and, this being the case, is his Grace likely to be sway e d i n hi s o pi n i ons Clergy are paid for the important serv i ces by any thing that any nu m b er o f l ame come - which they perform to the commun i ty, i s dians, or bumpish and pudding-fed mounte- neither grateful to their feelings nor cal kinks choose to say in these performances ? ciliated to establish that " good will on earth " Certainly not. The Duke of Wellington is no which it is their especial message to diffuse. son of Comus. He delights in deep tragedy. The tithes are, besides, objectionable in another and unless the country gentlemen and their point of view. They are levied on the gross tenants can take a higher walk in the drama of returns of the land, without any reference to the politics they need calculate on no assistance or capital which may have been expended upon it, countenance from the Roscius of Waterloo. and not upon the net profit which the agricultu- But what a dreadful state of things is this for rist may derive from it ; and they are, in conse a country to be in ! On all sides the cry of quenee, not only an unequal and unjust mode of hunger rings in our ears. The pauper now taxation, but have a direct tendency to check covets the comforts of the criminal. The intro- improvements in agriculture, and to prevent the cent now sigh for the enjoyments of Newgate. cultivation of no inconsiderable portion of land, The prison and the tread-mill have ceased to in- the labouring and produce of which would afford spire terror. The labouring classes have reached abundance of employment and food to great the lowest depth of wretchedness and despair ; numbers who are now living on the bounty of and here is a Minister, in the enjoyment of the public. Why then, let us ask, should not sixty thousand a year, covered with the honours tithes be abolished, and a due equivalent given and rolling in the rewards which a generous na- in lieu of them ? It is manifestly for the inte tion has bestowed, w ho refuses to give the , rest of the Church that they should b e corn slightest relief even at the exp ens e of the p a in- ! muted—we do not pretend to say in what man pered courtier, or the overpaid t ae - ea ter !Is not 1 ner, and still more manifestly, for that of the this enough to make the gall rise in those who . public, and the dignitaries of the Church could have long boasted of their independence, but not, in our opinion, employ their leisure hours whose rags are now the only evidence that they : more beneficially than in devising a mode of have toiled in vain, and eaten brown bread in freeing the Church from the numerous, and, no order to maintain the honour, and keep faith doubt, in many cases, undeserved, scandals which with the cre dit ors , the warriors, and the pen- are brought upon it by the collection of tithes. N sioners of E ng l an d. 18 it not " too bad " lornlna Advertiser. . 1 r) LAW INTELLIGENCE. ation I should not have had the least hesitation in transacting any business with him. Mr. Samuel Lepard—l am an attorney, in part nership with Messrs. Shepherd, Thoma,-, and Wil liams. I have known Mr. Humpleby personally since June, 1824, when he dissolved partnership with his son William. We were also attorneys for the son. In April, 1826, 1 received a letter pur porting to come from Mr. Humpleby, but my im pression is, that it was written by his daughter. 1 accordingly waited on him on the 28th, when he stated that Mr. Daye Barker and another gentleman had called on him on the subject of money of theirs, received and misapplied by his son John ; that they had inquired whether he would compromise the matter for his son ; that he had told them he could not give an answer until he had advised with his solicitor. He expressed his regret at his son's con duct, and said, that he himself had succeeded in life by honest industry, and when he retired from busi ness he had acquired upwards of 20,000/. He added, that if lie did any thing for his son now, he (the son) would have the less hereafter, and that he would not do any thing to affect his property in his lifetime. The next time I saw Mr. Humpleby was in February, 1827, when I had a conversation with him of half an hour or three quarters. He appeared to me on all these occasions to be a man of sound mind. I should think his property, when he made the security, was about 20,000!. The in come was above 1,000!. a year. Hugh Robinson (a clerk of Mr. Robinson, the attorney) confirmed the statement of the other wit ness respecting the execution of the deeds on the 12th•of June, 1826, and stated that Mr. Humpleby appeared to understand what he was doing. Mr. John V. Baker—l was a tenant of Mr. Humpleby. My house was next door to his.— Sometimes I sent my rent in to him—sometimes he called for it. COURT OP KING'S BENCH, JA N. 21 . BARKER V. FIELD. (Continued from our Paper of yesterday.) Dr. Robert Rowley—l have been in the profes• sion about eleven years. I hold the office of sur geon to the parish of St. Saviour, Southwark. 1 have occasion to see many cases of insanity. I have known Mr. Humpleby about twenty ye ars , and been on terms of intimacy with him. I saw him about May or June, 1826 ; he was in a carriage; 1 went up to speak to him ; I asked him how he did; he at first made no answer, but began to cry. He then said he was a man of considerable property. I perceived that he had had a fit of paralysis. I had no other conversation with him at that time. I saw him again some short time afterwards ; he ap peared then to be just in the same state; he ap peared to be very much altered with regard to his mind from what he was when I knew him formerly. I had always thought him to be a man of very good sense indeed. I saw that there was a material dif ference, and that his mind was somewhat affected by the paralysis; but I saw him for so short a time, that I had not an opportunity of judging accurately as to the state of his intellect. Paralytic affections frequently produce affections in the mind ; and such cases are always considered very hopeless. I have heard the evidence of Mr. Shuter and the other witnesses. I should say from Mr. Shuter's evidence that the alteration of Mr. Humpleby's mind took place after his illness in 1826. Cross-exaMined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL—It is one of the effects of paralysis that the powers of the will over the muscles are lost. I hare frequently known persons affected by paralysis to burst out into crying; but I should think this would not happen without his mind being affected. I should say that the brain must be weakened in some measure. I have known instances of a paralytic patient not be ing able to speak, arid yet have his senses. Have you never known that the distorted coun tenances of the persons affected by paralysis hare produced, among the vulgar, an impression that the persons were idiots ?—Certainly. Dr. Burrows examined by Mr. F. PoLLocic—l first saw Mr. Humpleby in October, 1827. I was examined at Croydon. I did not then see him me dically. I saw him in consequence of going to visit his daughter, Mrs. Wood, who was insane. 1 found that Mr. llumpleby was paralytic. and from the conversation that I had with him respecting his daughter, I saw that his mind was impaired. On the 10th of May, 1828, I saw him medically. I ex amined him with a view to a commission of lunacy which I understood was to be issued. I did not attempt to form a decided opinion upon the first examination. I saw him three times. My opinion was, decidedly, that he was of unsound mind. The character of the unsoundness was imbecility, ac companied by delusions. I considered it to have arisen from paralysis, which was the consequence of a stroke of apoplexy. He did not appear to be competent to the management of his affairs. I never knew an instance where the malady arising from such a cause was cured. The general opinion is, that it is not curable. I should conceive that Mr. Humpleby has been in this state from March, 1826. Dr. Monro—l am one of the physicians to Beth lehem Hospital. I have held that situation fourteen years. We do not admit patients who are afflicted with insanity arising from paralysis, because we consider that they are incurable. I have never known an instance of cure where the malady has arisen from that cause. I have heard Mr. Shuter's evidence to-day, and from that I should say that the commencement of Mr. Humpleby's insanity was in March, 1826. There could not in such a case as his be a lucid interval ; it is physically impossible. (The witness here produced some receipts in the hand-writing of Mr. Humpleby, in 1826 and 1827.) I did not conceive that there was any want of mind, memory, or judgment in him, or I should not have paid him. I remember that once in 1826 or 1827, I omitted sending him the land tax, and he sent back for it. Cross-examined by the ATTORNEY-GENERAL. You have used a very strong expression—" phy sically impossible." Have yOu discovered the limits of the powers of nature ?—I know the ordinary laws of nature in such cases; and I never knew any in staace of a cure in such a case as this. The witness, in answer to another question, stated that he had known instances of something being inserted in the brain without producing either death or insanity. Before that time, I believe the opinion among medical men was, that if the brain was affected by any external substance the man would die ? Yes. So that your very learned profession discovers secrets every year. On re-examination, the witness stated that some substance might be inserted in portions of the brain without producing paralysis. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in commencing 11:3 address to the Jury, said that if he wanted any evi dence of the value of the opinions of medical men on a subject of this kind, he should be inclined to put his Learned Friend (Mr. Brougham) into the wit ness box, having read his excellent observations in a recent case, where the jury, disregarding the opi nions of the medical men, had found a verdict in favour of his (Mr. Brougham's) client. He had no doubt the jury would return a similar verdict on the present issue, though this was not the case of a tea dealer, but that of a plumber and glazier. He had no reason to complain of the evidence of Dr. Bur rows, although he was one of those whose interest it was to find in the face of every person he looked at some marks of insanity. Medical men who attend ed to this particular branch of the profession had na turally a bias against the sanity of all persons who were afflicted with disease; and as a proof that they had such bias, he (the Learned Counsel) might mention, that he had heard it was a maxim among persons of this description, that a man who had been once in Bedlam was not fit to be let out, unless he acknowledged that he had been mad. That was a maxim which formed part of the medical jurispru dence of all mad-houses. The Learned Counsel, after some further 'desultory observations, detailed the evidence for the defence as afterwards given by the witnesses, and said he was confident that the verdict of the Jury would negative the fact of the alleged insanity in this case. Mr. Daye Barker, jun.—l am a clerk in the house of Barker, Wilson, and Co., gunpowder manufacturers, in Westmoreland. They had em ployed Mr. John Thomas Humpleby as their broker in London, to purchase the saltpetre for them; and in April, 1826, they remitted him an order upon their hankers to pay for it. The saltpetre not having been sent, I was despatched to London, and went to the counting-house of Mr. J. T. Humpleby, in Ab churchlene. Not being able to find him, I went, accompanied by Mr. Robinson, our attorney, to seek out his father, Mr. Joseph Humplehy, at Brixton. We found him at home, and told him that his son had had a remittance from us for 4,4001. worth of saltpetre, which was not forthcoming. He expressed his regret, arid said it was contrary to all the advice he had ever given to his son. I asked him if he would come forward and assist him. He said he could not do any thing until be had consulted his attorney. This was on the 26th of April, 1826. He requested to have two or three days' time to consider of it. A few days after, I made an appli cation to the Lord Mayor: a meeting afterwards took place between me and Mr. Lepard (Mr. Joseph Humpleby's attorney). He made a proposal to me to pay 10s. in the pound, which I rejected. At another meeting, a day or two afterwards, he pro posed 155., which I acceded to. On the 12th of June we met at Mr. Joseph Humpleby's house, at Brixton. I was present with Mr. Lepard, Mr. Ad dison, Mr. Robinson, and a clerk of his. The deeds were read over, and Mr. Humpleby appeared to attend to their contents. He seemed to know perfectly what he was about, and not in the least wanting in knowledge or judgment. Mr. Richard Addison—l was concerned for Messrs. Hudderstone and Co. and Messrs. Wake field and Co., as agent for Mr. Isaac Wilson, of Kendal. I went to Mr. Joseph Humpleby's house on the 12th of June. I had a conversation with . Mr. Humpleby of about ten minutes. He appeared to be perfectly rational. The Surrey election was i the subject of the conversation. From his conver- Mr. Edward Eaton—l am a stock-broker, and acted in that capacity for Mr. Humpleby, whom I had known for many years. On the .sth of April, 1826, I sold 1,2001. Consols for him. He attended to sign the Bank books. On the 16th of Novem ber, in the same year, I sold for him 8001. Reduced. On the 20th of the same month I sold for him .500/. Reduced. I took the instructions from him self, and he attended to sign the books. He was a gouty subject, but he appeared to know what he was about. Mr. Shepherd—l am the partner of Mr. Lepard. I had known Mr. Humpleby for 30 or 40 years. I did not do much business for him prior to 1824. In 1825 I prepared a will for him. I did not see him in 1826. Early in 1827 he employed me to prepare another will for him. I went to him at his house at Blixtoa, on the 10th of February, I think. Some family troubles and embarrassments had ren dered it necessary to make another will. He con versed with me fully respecting the circumstances which had rendered the alteration necessary. I have no doubt that he was quite competent to transact the business which I had to do with him. Cross-examined—He was obviously weak in body, and a little weak in mind' in consequence of it, but not insane, or I would not hare made or at tested his will. I knew that he had had a great deal of family trouble, which weighed his mind down : but I don't think he was incompetent to execute a will or deed. James Bowyer—l am a grocer, in Newgate street. I was co-executor with Mr. Humpleby, of the will of a Mr. Bowyer. In September, 1827, I had occasion to meet him at the Bank, to transfer some stock. He corferred with me and the other executors a little. He appeared to know what he was about. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he had several other witnesses; but be would not fatigue his Lord ship and the Jury by calling them, The Jury deliberated in the box for about five minutes, and then returned a verdict for the plaintiff, the foreman saying, " We find he was of sound mind at the time of executing the deeds." The case occupied the Court from its sitting at half-past nine o'clock until half-past eight at night. COMMON COUNCIL. Mr. Alderman WOOD took the Chair iry the ab sence of the Lord Mayor, who is indisposed. Mr. SCALES presented a petition from the butchers transacting business in Smithfield-market, playing for an enlargement and new disposition of the market, and supported its prayer. He was in favour of an alteration, but not of a removal of the market; but he thought the Corporation ought to make whatever alterations were necessary at their own expense, and by no means place any additional toll on for so doing. After a few words from Mr. SAVAGE, and Mr. BLACKETT, who thought that time should be allowed to see the effect of the alteration lately made in the market-day, the petition was ordered to lie on the table. were tinder the orders of the Marshals and the Mw shals' men, who were appointed by that Court. Mr. TAYLOR thought it was the duty of the A i- Mermen to complain to the Court if the Marshaug and Marshals' men did not do their duty. Mr. STEVFMS said, that in his ward there wag very active Alderman, who made the day-police do its duty. After a few words from Mr. Alderman Vs' SABLES, in explanation, the motion was agreed to. The Court then proceeded to select the member° for Committees for the current year. • THE MARKETS. couNTNYNtortN 14ARKKT3 DURING TUN WirlEg Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans' Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. s Blandford S 3 28 19 Brigg Cambridge.-- L 9 25 18 Chard --- 56 70 32 38 24 90 42 49 Eltintingilon—. 56 67 22 33 17 94 22 D' ,„, Long Sutton. 46 56 16 21 25 Louth 42 52 22 28 16 22 21 Lynn 4l 62 24 32 16 24 26 8 ' Newark Nottingham 57 63 30 38 23 30 4 „f, Peterborough —. 56 70 37 40 18 25 97 7: Plymouth 55 61 25 38 22 27 33 : Pontefract —6 t 34 24 Sleafor.l —.—. 47 56 25 32 16 22 32 °' Uppingham —. 50 CO 25 34 18 211 SO 46 VVisbcch 46 58 16 21 28 51 LEEDS CORN RI A lIKET.—Jan. 19. We had a fair supply of Grain to-day. Wheat has heel sold on full as good terms as last week. Malting Bsrldl and good heavy Oats were unaltered in price, but inferio r sorts, as well as Shelling, Beans, Pease, and Malt, wire lower. Flour and Rapeseed unaltered. Wheat, Norfolk and Suftblk, 601 b. York. and Lincoln. 6(11b. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk Yorkshire and Lincolnshire Grinding Beans Oats, I'otatoe —slealing, Foreign 10d. to 1134d....Englisli 10tL to 12,1. per q• Shelling 775. to 29.. per In" . Rapeseed, English, 271. to 29/ Foreign, —l. to —/. per last HULL MARKET.—Jan. 19. There was a fair show of Wheat to-day, but the busi' ness transacted was very trifling, at last week's prices• Brans and Pease were difficult to pia even at a reduction in price. Barley, Oats, Rapeseed, and Linseed, withou t alteration. Wheat, Old —s. Bs. 60s. New -.0. 50s. 5 64 ' Foreign —s. 555. 635. ...... In bond .- —s. --s. - -4 * Oats, Poland —s. 20s. 245. ...... Old —e. —e. 2 6 t Small or Feed.... —s. 12s. lEls Foreign —s. 18s. 225. --s. —S. ....0. Barley, Norf. & Suf.... —s 28s. 30s. Line. & Wold — B , 26 8 , OW -- Foreign Beans 23s. 30s. 3'4. Foreign .., -. 8 , 2.3 8 , MS. Pease, White —s. 30s. 31s. Grey Tares —s 20s. 265. Foreign, Sic Sti* Rapeseed, in bond n0ne.......... Free, per last —l. WI LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Jan. 19. To-day's market way less numerously attended by cowl' try dealers, owing to the canals being closed, but the neighbouring millers purchased Wheat and Oat. to a Ai r extent, and at fully List week's rates. Ws do not vt!l ttt the quotations for other Grain. Wills?, English, White, per 70113. ..... 19s. 6cl. to 10 O . - Red - Scotch, Welch, and Manx a • 9 0 Irish, White a 2 9 $ -- Red 7 g 9 1, - Foreign 9 6 in f OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 3 2 9 • - Irish - Foreign BARLEY, English, Matting, per Imp. quarter 34 0 37 - Scotch and Irish, per 601bs. ...... - Feeding 4 0 4 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter sa g 43 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign Pease, English, per Imperial quart e r 39 0 g 0 - Foreign FLOUR, English, per 2801 b. 47 0 43 2 - Irish OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401b 5 . 25 0 28 0 IminAm CORN, per 4401 b. Itvp., per Imperial quarter MALT, per Imperial quarter 1 48 0 03 0 IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Jan. 18. Wheal Oats.'Barley Flour. Oatmea l I Qrs. Q rs . Qrs. IForeign, Bela lrish,&c. Sad Leads. 1,778 1,396 1504 --- 1,241 1,704 FATAL EFFECTS or PASSION.--Recently woman in Northwich, displeased with a little girl, her step-daughter, attempted te strike her with a brush whioll she had in her hand, but instead of th e meditated ble° falling on the object of her vengeance, it alighted or ° the head of her own baby, which she carried on her aryl' and that with such violence as to cause almost instal , ' taneous death. We have the greatest pleasure in being to state, that a letter has been received in Liverpool frous Serampore, stating that Lord WILLIAM Buttrisrcr, the Governor-General of India, has issued a proclamaticlf abolishing the inhuman practice of burning Hindoo widoAs which has so long prevailed in India, to the disgrace 0 : the Ea s t I n di a C ompany and of the British name. 1 : will be seen th a t thi s proc l amation has been issued s" Briar's, and that it has been most favourably received" hi the Brahmins, the only clue who were thought likely t ° make any opposition to it. We have been informed tha t this step has been taken by Lord WILLIAM BENTINCIC ofl his own authority and responsibility, bet there can little doubt of his proclamation being confirmed by t ll° Court of Directors, as they will never venture to expos e themselves to infamy and contempt by counteracting l l° just, so excellent, and so hu mane a measure. At prove", we will only repeat, that it give' us pleasure to he able le announce this long-delayed act of mercy and justice. following is an extract sf the letter with which we log s been farmed :—" SZAAMTOR7 Itfasrons.—Sutteigh o r the Burning of Widows in India.—By regent atemante As are informed that this mission is extending as to its eta' Lions, in more than one direction, while the prospects I S those already established are encouraging, and in se veral instances peculiarly so. The periodical aeeounti, jus t coming out, will contain decisive proof of this ; but there is one piece of intelligence which cannot fail to is terest the friends of humanity in this country. it mil be known to some that the missionaries in India had aid' dressed , Lord WILLIAM Banritscr, as Governor-General/ on the subject of the burning of widows, but it should seem that some step has already been taken by Goveru ment. Benares, the holy city, as it is called, and one 01. , the most ancient seats of Hi n d oo superst i t i on, is one o f the Serampore stations ; ,and Mr. SMITH, the missionarf there, on the 13th February last writes as follows:--' Went out by the river side, and conversed with number of Brahmins on religious subjects, and ilea brought in the order respecting the prohibition of suttee , on hearing which a Brahmin exclaimed, What ! hie Gevernment now arisen from sleep ? So many years 13 °' this cruel practice been carried on, and has eompassioe at last entered into their breasts ? They ought to hag° prevented this horrid practice many years ago.' It AP toniehed me (says Mr. SMITIe) to hear such expr e ssions from a Hindoo. An interesting statement is also gives by him of this prohibitory order being read by the'Darog e (superintendent) at Gopee-gunj, before more-Apo V ° Brahmins and Pundits : after which the whole listened te, his preaching of th e G os p e l, an d some individuals seine" to be much affected by it. The English,' said theft now wish to enlighten us.' "—Liverpool Albion. CITY WATCH. Mr. Alderman VENABLES moved, " That it be referred to the Watch Committee to consider the present state of the ward-constables and street ! keepers of this city, the manner in which they per form their duty, and to report whether any and what alteration or improvement can be made in re spect thereof." He said that, so general was the necessity felt of some change in the city police, that he should have confined himself merely to reading the motion and submitting it to the Court, had not many inquiries been put to him whether it was not his intention to introduce the new police. He cer tainly would be the last person to give authority to any power to interfere with the privileges of the city; and he believed that the city police . would be snperior to the new police, after the alterations he should propose . should be effected. The worthy Alderman, after describing the present state of the city police, said that his proposition would be to get rid of all, or nearly so, of the ward constables, be cause, under the present system, they did nothing. He would have an adequate number of additional constables placed under the controul Of the Magis trates, and arranged on a better system. The pre sent expense of the city police was certainly frighten ing; but, under the altered system, he believed that expense would be saved to the city, and a more ade quate police supplied. Mr. S. DrxoN said he should extremely regret to see a military police in the city. We had not, he hoped, come to that yet.—(Hear.) Mr. TICKNER thought the worthy Alderman only intended to introduce a more simple, more efficient, and more economical system of police.—(Hear.) Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that from all his ob servation he had come to the conclusion that a more inefficient police than the city police did not exist in any great commercial city. Some of the officers were now being paid 21. and 31. a-week, who were not worth 1/. In coming to this Court to-day, he found the streets in his way thronged with people, anxious to witness the funeral of Sir T. Lawrence; but from Whitehall to Somerset-house, and from Somerset-house toTemple-bar, the greatest regularity and order was preserved by the exertions of the new police, but on passingTemple-bar,he declared he could not see, though he looked on all sides, any officers till he reached Bridge-street, where he met two; but Ludgate-hill was in such confusion, with carts and waggons on each side, that he was detained there a quarter of an hour. s s Mr. DIXON asked whether the city police had had orders to. attend ? Mr. Alderman WOOD—AII of them printed orders. Mr. E. TAYLOR supported the statement of Mr. Alderman Wood, but thought that the Aldermen were to blame for the neglect of the day police, for it was under their orders. Mr. Alderman WOOD said, that the day police exitcritn AND Potrasszn sr MIJLtDO YOUNG AI 2NE tivx °num, 112, (6 Ttk Lexact, .1 13 T M the City o an intrude held at th 18th Jan Resolved. Mr. John and for his THE in Thonvn4] *f which Hundred at 5t ,a.ad moor p, 0 ,.f0r 170,001 ", in 3 per eel a of the mani gr freehold go , The MR' rime of al ral , bit, and The Est Stnnehaven For fart' bell, and C. Esq. adruca THIS .11- the II fully equal nonrislimen —is perfect w tsin its sit t Sold Wisi end Retail t Tin Boxes, H AR' .„ riga E eaut mired CAL Chureh-pir and SON, with 401. d affixing a I Son to a Sat brats(' Sauci Louie, No. not be gene " Elisabeth arbirtti. N 'll• Co T — " P "Y and front Their the actions and "ignaTui GOSS' A orn lituttar henefal effect ice., are fill gvatial Debi reatinz Ob" Pert 11. it a %Nei*, expl 13y GO.S. 0 1 m e a l : s :, i si b ni ai l a ine s fear e i *. The S' a wn'. from t, With al site practise 3 . HYGT "" n ° imperil 7dint their nt sebjest "nz ezd it " Qto hi " Whither fI ni Tito al)wre No and Loni Z l athatt and Desk, I 411, ; Onftit ' 4b A, red d' Saliebio 'Pr poo.; So • Q, T t rongn unblia ; finti 411 llookseller, Messrs. G " , ry day, at t "lusated d ut , tee for Idly I nY part *flit, t GOSS and BIRTHS. On the 20th inst. at Leyton, the lady of W. Abbot, Ems• un. of Doctone-commons, of a eon. On the 17th inst. the lady of Ct Thellason, E s q. 0 1 a son. On the 16th inst. at the Priory St. Andrew's, Fifeshirrt the lady of J. Small, Esq. of a daughter. On the 19th inst. at Swallowfied, the lady of H. Rut' sell, Esq., of a son. On the 19th inst. at the Rectory, Gayton, North3mr tonshire, the lady of the Rev. Dr. Butler, of a daughter. On the 16th inst. in Parliament-street, the lady of .1. T. Justice, Esq. of a son, still-born. MA RRIED. On the 19th inst. at Misterton, Leicestershire, Chyle/ Herrick Burnaby, Esq. of the Royal Artillery, t o Char lotte Jane, second daughter bf MOMS Barford Oliver, Esq. of the Newarks, Leicester. DIED. On the 18th hut. the Rer. N. May, Vicar of Leigl+► Kent, aged 69. On the 19th inst. at Denmark-hill, Susannah, w if e of Mr. J. Bond, aged 45. On the 20th inst. in Piccadilly, Mrs. Lydia Beard► the widow of the late John Beard, Esq. of Twickenham' common. On the 19th inst. at Earl's-terrace, Kensington,' Ed' ward Benjamin Lewin, Esq. formerly of Calcutta, in hi ° 63d year. On the 21st inst. in Henrietta-street, Brunswick-square , G. Huntington, Esq. aged 26, youngest son of the lite W. Huntington, EN. of Kirkella, near Hull. On the 20th inst. at Upper Humsrton, Middlesex, Dire. Sarah Hough. On the 20th inst. J. C. Evans, Esq. surgeon, in hie 26th 'ea.