The Sun. — London, England, 1833-10-11 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A French evening paper of Wednesday tells us, under the head of " Disturbances in Spain," that news had been received on Monday night, by a consular agent at Paris, " that troubles had broken out in the Biscayan provinces of Alava and Guipuscoa." The same reports have been stated by other journals, and maintained upon the authority of private letters from Bayonne, but they appear too vague and unsupported to be entitled to the slightest credit. The occur rence of an insurrectionary movement in favour of Don Carlos in Biscay is not at all improbable, and the probability has perhaps been substituted for the fact. No positive intelligence has yet been received from the Spanish provinces bor dering on Portugal since the death of the King, and nothing seems known of the first movements of the Pretender in that quarter. It is well known that an army of observation had been for some time established on the Portuguese fron tier, if not to encourage Don Miguel in his usurpation, at least to prevent the interference of foreign Powers to put him down. The friends of Don Carlos, in this country and in France, imagine that this is an army already made for proclaiming the rights of the exiled Infante, and thence conclude that he is at the present moment on his way to Madrid, advancing in triumph at its head: but must not every impartial and reflect ing person see the improbability that Ferdinand, who was so anxious for the succession of his daughter, and his Ministers, who, in addition to their desire of serving their master's dynasty, had embroiled themselves with his fanatical brother, should have sent officers or troops on such a service, or exposed to such temptations, of whose fidelity they could entertain the slightest suspicion ? The Prime Minister, M. Zea Ber mudez, had long known the precarious state of the late King's health ; he was equally acquainted with the ambitious pretensions of his brother, in case of his Majesty's demise ; he had himself advised the banishment of Don Carlos from the Spanish court and kingdom ; he knew that from the day of his exile his Royal Highness had never quitted Portugal, and that, as soon as the King's death should be announced, he would endea vour to return to assert his rights—and yet, with a knowledge of all these facts, it is pre tended that he would leave an army on the Portuguese frontier favourable to the accession of the Infante ! If he has done so, he has committed an act of the blackest treason, and of the most shameless perfidy, for which his life would be but a poor atonement, as an offer ing to the insulted honour of the Government, and to the betrayed interests of the nation. Ii Don Carlos cannot instantly succeed in gaining over this army, it is not likely that he wiil be able to procure the support of the garrisons stationed on any other part of the Portuguese frontier. The Captains-General of Gallicia, Estremadura, and Andalusia, are all stanch friends of the Queen, and must have inspired their officers and troops with their own loyal sentiments. No doubt they must have been re milady day by day instructed from Madrid of the varying state of the King's health, and must have concerted the measures best adapted to support his daughter's title on the emergency of his decease. Should this be the case, Don Carlos would be unable to penetrate into Spain by any of the routes where he could obtain mi litary aid, or excite a military insurrection ; and the march of the Royal rebel, attended only by a body of unarmed priests, and scattering treasonable proclamations, could be easily ar rested. Unless the movement comes from the frontier, and the rebels are encouraged in their treason by the presence of their idol, it is dif ficult to imagine how the Carlist faction could bare the hardihood to raise the standard of re volt in the interior, where they must be carefully watched by the authorities, and promptly op posed by the troops of the Queen. The friends of the Pretender lie chiefly among the ecclesias tics and their dependants—among the support ers of superstition and the enemies of reform. The common people in the country districts, or the numerous rabble who are fed by the alms or directed by the counsels of monastic orders, may be ready to flock to his banners ; but those banners must be raised by other hands than a number of isolated monks, in distant and unconnected dis tricts. As the great mass of ignorance and su perstition in the nation is for the system of Don Carlos, who is the favourite of the lower orders, the ranks of his party could be easily recruited for a civil war, were any leaders bold enough to marshal them. Then the " Royalist Volun teers," called out by Ferdinand against the Con stitutionalists, and since disbanded, as dangerous to the throne, might again resume their arms, and have their plundering fanatical loyalty again put in requisition. But, whatever may be done, or left undone, by the followers of the Infante, nothing will be wanting on his part or on the part of his family which frantic ambition, reli gious zeal, or unbridled personal passion can accomplish. His wife, the sister of Don Mi guel, is a woman of energetic and imperious character, furious temper, and uncontrollable violence of disposition. Her hatred to her sister in-law, the Queen Regent, is only equalled by her dloppointment at not occupying her place. Be fore she, along with her congenial sister, the Princess of Beira, were banished from Madrid, they kept the Court in a per petual turmoil: they had actually threatened the Queen with manual violence, and scenes of ob streporous discord took place between them in the palace which would have disgraced a rendez vous of " the ladies of the British fishery." These Princesses, ssithout taking counsel of prudence, fear, or modesty, will, no doubt, impel the unhappy Pretender to the most vio lent excesses, to secure their return to Madrid, and to obtain vengeance on their enemies. Here are elements of discord sufficient for a sansui nasv civil war, were not its chances in favour of the exiled Prince rendered hopeless by the firm tenu r e of administrative power in the hands of the Queen Regent—by the support of the most active and enlightened portion of the nation— by the recognition and Alliance of the powerful Governments of France and En g land—and, above all, by th e uns h a k en fid e li t y o the army, of the provincial militia, and the higher nobi lity. We shall wait, however, with much anxiety for the next arrivals ; for we place little reliance on a report in circulation at Paris that a recoil eiliation was about to take place between Don can s u qs and the Regent, by a proposed marriage alliance •ctw een the infant Queen and the son ' of the former. -.- Times. Had the sevices 0 -. 4. Lord Grey and his col leagues in the cause of rOfolin been confined to the carrying of the Bill itself a.irouigh Parliament, although they might have !wastes'. of I . ti P a ° ll liti th al e undertaking more vast an d noble greatest that had been attempted by any other British Ministers on record, it could not have been said that their work was otherwise than incomplete. They had, it is true, by the dis- ' franchisement of the boroughs contained in sche dule A, got rid of the family or apron-string representation ; but in the towns which they did not disfranchise there were many things left unchanged by the Bill which tended to the frus tration of its most valuable objects. The fact is that the open boroughs which still remained had generally wrought more evil, by their whole sale corruption, than those of schedule A had ever achieved by their closeness. In the boroughs like Old Sarum there was no occasion to offer bribes ; each liveried domestic or trusty depen dant furnished with a qualification to vote, was well aware of the purpose for which he had been nominated, and took it as a matter of course that he was to tender his suffrage under the direction of his principal. Now it is plain that the man who incurred such a condition must have been wholly ignorant of his political ditties, or lie would never have accepted a franchise which could not be freely enjoyed. All we contend for is, that no profligate or mercenary practices of a nature to spread the contagion of venality were inseparable from such a system, as they always have been from that in which the corporations of populous boroughs have be stowed the elective franchise upon numerous and indigent voters, incapable of any political preference or bias, and sensible to no argument in favour of any candidate but that which ad dresses itself to their pockets. The burgesses and freemen, in corporate towns and cities, have proved themselves the most unblushingly corrupt of mankind, and have frequently sent into Par liament the very worst representatives that ever sat there. Into these constituencies some better particles were no doubt infused by the Reform Bill, but unhappily the ancient leaven remained untouched,—the freemen, manufactured like the old .Jew-pedlar's knives, "to sell," were left by the Bill in enjoyment of their " mock vested rights," and have exercised them, as usual, with a vengeance. The facts which have come before various Committees of Parliament, illustrative of the general merits of this Cor poration constituency, must satisfy the House of Commons, for the country has long since been decided, that no cause but that of the most revolting corruption can be severed by the continuance of such electors in possession of the trust which they have abused so shamefully. The worst voters in the empire were these freemen of corporation birth and pa rentage. Until they shall have been extirpated, there will be in every town, whether great or in significant, an organised mass of active corrup tion sufficient to impede the beneficial working of a dozen bills of reform ; and, in spite of the new leasehold interests, to substitute an anti reform power, more dangerous, because less de finite and susceptible of calculation, than that of the close borough oligarchy extinguished in sche dule A. The report of the " Liverpool Bo rough Election Committee" furnishes a frightful exposure of the wholesale bribery which has pre vailed among the " freemen" of that wealthy and bustling town, at elections of every sort, whether of mayors or members of Parliament. We learn that, at the contested election for Mayor in 1827, the bribes grew from (is. to 201., and at the contest for member of Parliament in 1830 that they rose from 2/. and finished with 80/. ; that at one election in 1830 " 2,661 in dividual freemen were systematically bribed ;" that of these same persons so polluted 1,880 remain at this hour on the books, ‘. entitled to vote ;" and that the only persons so entitled to vote at the annual elections of Chief Magistrate are the old freemen, the very culprits to whom the above gigantic bribery has been brought home ; that the bribery and corruption of Liver pool were in 1827 publicly presented by the Grand Jury as a nuisance ; that the writ for a new election for Liverpool has been repeatedly refused by the House of Commons ; that the prevalence of gross bribery has been repeatedly reported as against the borough of Liverpool by Committees of the House of Commons ; and that a Bill for the total disfranchisement of the free men has been more than once before the House. The public cannot, therefore, be surprised at the temperate and sober recommendation with which the present report concludes—that " a Bill be introduced to restrict the franchise and to alter the system of elections in that borough, as well for Members to sit in Parliament as for the municipal officers." It is added that freemen "in the better class of life have shown as much readiness to take bribes as the most destitute of their brother freemen !" Why, ay ; where it comes to bribery in such respectable sums as 801., no doubt that your " respectable persons" will not be silly enough to refuse them. But in truth, as we set out with observing, it would be no worse to restore to activity the whole batch of condemned pigsties of the Old Sarum and Gatton kind, than to leave the great towns and cities of the realm a prey to vices so intolerable.—Times. One strong argument against a tax upon commodities is this—that when laid on, it is generally doubled upon the consumer ; but when taken off, as far as the State is concerned, the consumer frequently is not at all benefited by the repeal. Such is stated to be the case with those articles of indispensable, and therefore universal, use, soap and candles, for which the public is paying nearly, if not quite as much as before Lord Althorp, in an evil hour, hit upon their reduction as a feature in his budget. We say in an evil hour, for however good his Lord ship's intentions may have been, and no doubt were, yet even had the intended boon reached the public, which it has not, we feel quite con fident that if, instead of frittering away the re venue by mere nominal relief, a repeal of the house and window tax had been resorted to, a far greater benefit, both in idea and in reality, would have been conferred upon every class of the community. The choice, however, having been made, and the repeal of these taxes having taken place, it is most desirable that every pos sible effort should be made to give the public, and especially the lower classes, the benefit of it. The soap manufacturers have, it is true, at length announced that they intend to vouch safe to reduce the price of that article 2/. a ton ; but what proportion does that bear to the tax taken off, or to what extent will it reach the buyers of soap in small quantities ? Candles, we are assured, were to be bought of some dealers quite as cheap before the duty was taken off as since ; so true is it, we fear, in both these instances, that the revenue has been deteriorated to the extent of the duties re pealed, without the public, especially the lower classes, for whose benefit the repeal was in tended, 1)611 4 materially, if at all, benefited by it. Th e article of coals,eepatiii exception to t i aniniii)is,unfor oneortant tu. it is, forms a solitary x nate result of intended relief from taxation. In b tl e n e s n ne b c e e rl s e s fi ar te y d of t l o if t e he the ru p ll ub e l x ie te h ave , tf th ‘"b e d elie u v t e, ' taken off; and this arises, we are told, from in creased competition and some schism among the owners of the great collieries . . If such be the case, it may naturally be asked, if competition can produce such a result in one case, why not in another ? To this obvious question we can didly confess we cannot give an answer, but should, perhaps, be hitting the mark were we to refer the inquirers to the holders of and specu lators in tallow for a reply. Whether the evil rests here or not—whether it is the hateful spirit of monopoly which thus obstructs the current from fertilising or relieving the thirst for those for whom it was intended, we will not take upon ourselves to affirm, though we strongly suspect such to be the case. If it is, why do not the manufacturers, as their own apology and defence, make known the fact in an authentic form ? Why do not the electors of Lambeth, for in stance, ask their representative how the matter stands ? In the mean time all that the public can do is to seek out the dealers who offer them the benefit of the reduction, and, by patronising them, at length bring others down to their terms. At any rate it is, we repeat, a pal pable injustice and absurdity that the State should abandon a revenue which the people are nevertheless still called upon to pay.— Morning Herald. We have never justified the partiality of Lord Grey for his own family in the bestowal of his patronage, but we admire the political senti mentality of the Tories, who find it convenient to comment on this occasional blot in the repu tation of the present Ministry. The Tories no toriously trafficked in corruption, and maintained every sinecure and superfluous office which could provide for the aristocracy. The Peel family, for instance, the Beresfords, the " Somersets," the Manners' family, the Lowthers, the Gren villes, the Buckinghams, &c. &c., have made a tolerable profit of power. The partisans of these " Conservatives" of places, pensions, and sinecures, nevertheless, are particularly active in denouncing the " nepotism" of the Premier. But there is a wide distinction between the two parties. Lord Grey has honestly cut down the lavish cost and profligate expenditure of the Go vernment, and we do not doubt will promote fur ther economy and reduction of taxation. However we may regret that in some instances he has par tially promoted his own immediate connections, such a natural favouritism cannot cancel the everlasting obligations of the nation to his pa triotic Administration. He has maintained no useless places for the object of family provision. The Tories, moreover, artfully exaggerate and magnify his favouritism. The Bishop of Here ford, for example, including his prebendal stall, barely averages an income of 4,0001. per annum, the minimum provided by the recent Act for an Irish Bishop, whose expenses are far inferior to those of an English Prelate. Again Sir H. Grey is not appointed Comptroller of the Irish Household, as they say, and the To ries have swollen the salary of that office from the real sum of 4001. per annum to the quad ruple amount of 2,0001. Further, Sir H. Grey will lose 1,2001. per annum by the recom mendation of the Military Committee. We do not doubt, however, that these falsehoods will be speedily supplied by new inventions. The manuflicturers of such party calumnies are well aware that all who read them do not see the contradiction. When the Conservative party has done as much for the nation as the Ministry of Lord Grey, then they may more ingenuously and honestly reflect on the preferment of per sonal connections. No Administration has brought forward more talent, or promoted more persons on the sole recommendation of merit. In some instances we have regretted, as in that of the Country Bankrupt Commissioners, that the Government parted with its just and legiti mate patronage. At the same time we trust that the patriotism of Lord Grey will not be tarnished by any future aggravation of this par tially just complaint of his Tory enemies.— Morning Chronicle. A SERIOCOMIC SWEEP. Thursday one of the honourable company of " sweeps" having taken " an enemy into his mouth to steal away his brain," ascended one of the low houses in Justice -street, and scrambled away until he got upon the top of an old chimney, where he could both see and be seen to considerable advan tage. He now began to dance and cut capers, to the great amusement of a considerable crowd as sembled to witness his performances. In a short time he began to strip himself of his upper gar ments, and at last appeared more than half naked. In this state he continued nearly two hours, haranguing the people in imitation of the cholera doctor, and playing all sorts of fantastic tricks, till at last he betook himself to a more serious em ployment. He unloosed several of the bricks of the chimney, and dropt them down the various vents, to the great annoyance of the indwellers, and the damage of sundry pieces of crockery. Several town-sergeants and day patrol having by this time arrived, things began to wear a rather alarming aspect, as he proceeded to throw pieces of lime arid brick upon the crowd collected in the street, which by this time was immense. A consultation was immediately held how he should be got down. One man proposed to send for slaters. Several other plans were proposed; and at last the Sheriff, who had arrived, suggested that the " water works" should be allowed to play upon him till compelled to come down. A body of men were despatched for' one of the fire-engines. During these proceedings, however, three fellows (one of them dumb) under took to bring him down ; and they ascended the roof in various directions. The sweep stood eyeing them one after the other, with a large brick in his hand ready to throw at the one who should first approach. However the party were firm, and advanced slowly and cautiously, till at last the "dummy" made a spring, and seizing the brick which he immediately threw away, grappled with his oppo nent amidst the cheers of the multitude. The other two came to his assistance ; and one of the most astonishi ng scenes occurred perhaps ever witnessed in Aberdeen. Here were four men standing upon the top of a very narrow chimney, about 40 feet high, and three of them engaged in a desperate struggle with one who was careless of his own life and utterly regardless of that of others. The struggle was for some time very doubtful; and the drink with which the sweep was inspired seemed to redouble his strength, for at one time he had almost shaken himself free of all his opponents, and nearly preci pitated them upon the street below. At last they succeeded in getting him from the roof of the house; and, after many blows, kicks, arid bruises, a rope was put round his waist, and he was lowered to one of the windows, through which he was taken into the house, and afterwards carried to the police-office, amidst the shootings of thousands.—Aberdeen Herald. RAILWAY LAWSUIT.--A long-pending suit between Mr. J. Wright, of Columbia, Pennsylvania , and the Baltimore and . Ohio Rail way C ompany , re l a tive to the employment of a partic u l ar d escr i pt i on o f w heels, for which Mr. Wright has a p atent , h as b een rece ntly ' brou“ht to an issue in. the Circ u i t C ourt o f t h e U n ited States, and a verdict given in favour of th e phintiff. Mr. WI ight's inventi on consists in the c om bi nat i on o f a cone on the tread of th e wheels, with a cap ac i ty o f v ib rat i o n in the axle, to allow of them adjusting them, e l ves t o the ra diuealsoafnaL, Magazine. y (lateral) curve upon whi c h th ey may run .-- m POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. Yesterday a dashingly-dressed and good-looking woman, about twenty-six years of age, named Charlotte Page, alias Sinallpage, was charged with a violent assault under circumstances of great aggra vation. The complainant, a very pretty girl of about seventeen, named Amelia Howard, appeared with her face much cut and bruised, and a new bonnet torn to pieces. The defendant, it appears, has been known for several years as a procuress in the em ployment of a notorious brothel-keeper in a court in Holborn, near Gray's Inn-lane. The complainant is the daughter of respectable parents in London, and some weeks ago she had the misfortune to meet with the defendant in the street, and the latter accosted her and asked if she had not some recol lection of her face? Complainant replied in the negative; but the prisoner contrived to engage her in conversation, and prevailed upon her to go into a pastrycook's shop, and from thence to the brothel alluded to, where some liquor was given to her and her ruin was accomplished. She was afraid to re turn home, arid was prevailed upon to go upon the streets; but soon becoming disgusted with this course of life she resolved to quit it, which so enraged the defendant that she and two other women beset the unfortunate 0.1 in Holborn on Wednesday night and beat her most cruelly, and tore her dress and bonnet to pieces. She screamed for assistance, and a police constable came up and endeavoured to take the three into custody, but a gang of hackney-coach and cab men from a neighbouring stand, with whom these creatures are in the habit of associat ing, surrounded the parties and rescued two out of the three. The policeman was assaulted, and it was with difficulty that he conveyed the prisoner to the station-house. Sir F. ROE—Did you, policeman, take the num bers of those cabriolets and coaches from which the drivers must necessarily have been absent ?—The policeman had no opportunity of doing so. Sir F. ROE regretted that it was so, because he would have made an example of them which would Hot soon have been forgotten by the fraternity. The defendant said the complainant insulted her before any assault took place. The police constable said this was a most gross falsehood, for the poor girl was struck without the slightest provocation. Sir F. ROE, after commenting in terms of just severity upon the conduct of the defendant, sen tenced her to three months' imprisonment and hard labour in the House of Correction. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Two persons connected with the short stages plying at the White Horse Cellar, Piccadilly, waited upon Mr. CHAMBERS, to state that a meeting of fifty of the proprietors of stages and omnibuses had taken place, when a series of resolutions for their better regulation had been agreed to. One of the resolutions was, that no coach should remain at the White Horse Cellar longer than six minutes, under a penalty of lOs. Another, that no touter, or cad, should be employed to procure pas sengers by any proprietor, under 20s. And to pre vent racing, and consequently accidents to foot pas sengers by furious driving, only one coach or omni bus is to proceed to the appointed place at the same time; the result of this regulation had been most beneficial, the vehicles, instead of proceeding at the rate of ten or twelve miles per hour, now travelled at the rate of six. Mr. CHAMBERS expressed his satisfaction at the regulations, and his determination to put any of the Acts of Parliament in force for offences committed by di ivers. MARYLEB ONE. AN AREA SNEAK.—Last night information was given at this office of a daring robbery having been committed at the house of Lady Blackwood, Cornwall terrace, Regent's-park, by one of the numerous tribes of area sneaks who infest the west end of the metropolis. It appears that about four o'clock yesterday afternoon a shabby-looking fellow was seen to leave the arca-gate of her Ladyship's residence, soon after which it was discovered by the cook that a pair of very handsome plated candlesticks, to. gether with snuffers and stand, had been stolen from a table near the kitchen window, where they had been placed by the 'ala. Police constable 152 D, who was immediately informed of the rob bery by her Ladyship's butler, has since used every exertion to trace the depredator, but without success. Within the last few weeks the area sneaks in this part of the town have pursued their avocations with much success. Q UEEN- SQU ARE. The DESTITUTE ORPHAN.—Yesterilay an in teresting-looking girl, about thirteen years of age, named Rebecca Read, was brought before Mr. GREGORIE by a police constable of the A. division, who found her wandering about the streets, near Charing-cross, at a late hour of the night. The constable saw her wandering about, and on questioning her, he found that she had no home to go to, neither had she any friends to protect her; he therefore took her to the station-house for pro- tection. The poor child had scarcely any clothes on, and appeared quite destitute. In answer to some ques tions by the Magistrate, she said that she came from Barnsley, near Huddersfield, in Yorkshire. Her mother died when she was young, and her father died of the cholera morbus about six months ago. He had been a soldier. She had an uncle living in Ratcliffe-highway, and she came to London. Her uncle however, would do nothing for her, told her that he had quite enough to do to keep his own family, and turned her out of doors. As she was wandering about the streets she was met by a woman, who spoke to her, and to whom she related her story; she said that she would tike care of her, and took her to her lodgings near to Ratcliffe-high way. The woman soon got from her nearly every article of dress which she possessed, and endea voured to persuade her to go out upon the town with some other girls to get her living. She re fused to do so, and she then turned her out of doors, and she bad no home to go to when the policeman met her. From the manner in which the child told her story Mr. GREGORIE appeared to credit her state ment. She gave the name of the wretch who had taken her clothes from her, and a full description of her person, and the constable was ordered to appre hend her. In the mean time the poor orphan was sent to the workhouse to be taken care of. The name of the woman, the child said, was Keal. HAT7'ON-GARDEN. Tim o fort resi from ding the at New Prison No. 10, P eter_ n str t y m Peter-street, G ei e. k i/ xe / a , nawisenhialo; examination, broughteeiri, ged with having at tempted to murder Ellen IPGill, his wife, under the following aggravated circumstances : elattendede con t o that cid T e c onduct r l a ie i)e p t a i hi l e i t s e p t r i r e o s o s t ffi : c c a u e s t r i s i o t n o , l f v a a n C s d g e t r ( l i n e e e n r c a w a l lseyel reported the prosecutrix, who has been dangerously ill, had died through the prisoner's ill treatment. At twelve o'clock she was brought to the office in a weakly condition, and was allowed a seat before the nigistrates. Her appearance was dreadful, her face being covered with marks of violence so as to render her features undistinguishable, and her lan guor compelled her to lean in a sl oven l y pos i t i on on her chair. Being sworn, with considerable difficulty she stated as follows :—I am the prisoner's wife. I reside at No. 10, Peter-street, Saffron-hill. On the 19th of September my child, which was about four years of age, lay dead, when the prisoner gave me 19s. Gd. to purchase some articles necessary for the funeral. I left home in company of a friend, and during my absence I laid out '7s. Gd. On my return home I found the prisoner, whom I thought had been drinking, when he asked me for the money. I gave him the whole of what was left, when he said there ought to be Gd. more. I endeavoured to convince him that it was right, and requested him to take a chair in order to cast up to him what had spenti but he would not give me time to do so, but abused me. He stood up and gave me a violent blow upon the right temple with his clenched fist, which nearly made me senseless. He then seized me by the hair of my head, and dragged me to a corner of the room, into which he forced me, and, seizing hold of me tightly by the throat with one hand, he held me against the wall while he beat me over the face, head, and body with the other, and I was unable to make any alarm. He then laid hold of my hair, and threw me down on the hearth-stone, when he kicked me on the body violently, and dragged me about the room by the hair of my head, using the most horrid language. At length he left his grasp of me, thinking I was dead, and he again kicked me ; and, while I lay upon my back, he more than once asked me, " Are you dead now ?"—(Here a feeling of indignation and horror pervaded the breast of every person in the Court, and exclamations of " Oh, horrible ! the monster ! wretch !" were used.) Mr. LAING (to the witness)—How long did he continue to ill-use you in this way ? Witness—l believe for about a quarter of an hour. Mr. LAING—Be particular as to his precise words when he asked you whether you were dead ? Witness—They were, " Are you dead yet ?" Being satisfied that he intended to murder me, I pretended not to hear him, and I made him no an swer; on which he took hold of my hand, and lift ing it to his mouth he bit through one of my fingers, and finding that I was not dead, he lifted me up by the hair of my head, and ordered me to go and fetch him a light. This was between six and seven o'clock in the evening. My eyes were swollen, but through one of them I saw the candlestick, and I took it and crawled out of the house as well as I was able, when the prisoner told me to wipe the blood from my face. I left the place, and I did not proceed far when I fell down in a state of insensibi lity on Saffron-hill, and was placed on the steps of a door, where I was found by a policeman and carried to the station-house. Mr. LAING—You say, when the riffian acted in this way, your child was lying dead in the same apartment ? Witness—Yes, your Worship; and while he was beating and kicking me he said that I should never follow my child to the grave. Mr. LAING—Did he ever threaten your life be fore? Witness—He did ; and often swore that he would never die until he did for me. - Mr. LAING never heard of a more outrageous or aggravated case ; it was almost equal to murder, and the parish authorities were bound to take it up and prosecute the prisoner. All that he regretted was, that the law would 'not allow him to inflict more severe summary punishment than to fine him or imprison him. - The parish officers pledged themselves to attend to the case, and prosecute to the extent of the law. The witness continued—The prisoner had fre quently beaten his children, and they were afraid of their lives when they were at home with the pri soner. He beat her daughter Mary Ann, who is nine years old, and broke her collar-bone. - Mary Anne MsGill, aged nine years, deposed— On Wednesday evening, the 19th of September, my mother received 19s. 6(1. from my father to buy articles for the burial of my sister. There was a quarrel between my father and mother. He told her that she had spent sixpence more than was necessary. My mother said that she would account for the money, when my father struck her with his fist on the temple, and dragged her by the hair of the head, and beat and kicked her and threatened to kill her. I was frightened and ran out for a police man, but could not get one, and I was afraid to re turn again. Daniel Humphries, 74 G, found the injured wo man lying at the steps of a door bleeding and co vered with bruises. She appeared much injured, and said that she had no home, and he then took her to the station-house. \Then he found her she was surrounded by a mob of persons. Inspector Busain stated, that the prisoner's daugh ter voluntarily told him that he had broken her collar-bone. The little girl stated that to be the fact, and she was laid up fora considerable time with it. John Robinson, 57 G, was at the station-house on the evening when the prisoner's wife was brought to the station-house. She was thought to be in toxicated, until he found her mouth clogged with blood, and unable to speak. She was asked who had 111-used her, and she replied as well as she was able, "My husband." Inspector Busain stated, that in the course of the evening the prisoner and another man came to bail the prosecutrix out, when he was detained. On being told she was in a state of insensibility and in danger, and asked whether he would pay 7s. 6d. for a doctor to see her, he replied, that " he would not pay that sum to save her life." Witness ultimately procured the attendance of their own doctor, who pronounced the woman to be in danger. He took the prisoner to see her, and he said that he beat her for getting drunk. Mr. LAING asked the prosecutrix whether she suspected that he had been instrumental in the death of her child. Prosecutrix—l do not, your Worship. Mr. LAING—WeII, you ruffi4n, what have you to say in extenuation of your murderous conduct ? Prisoner—l gave her 19s. 6d., and she got drunk with part of the money. Prosecutrix—On my oath, I only had one glass of gin all day, your Worship. Mr. LAING—DO you know an individual named Cronan ? Prisoner—Yes ; he served his time in the same shop with me. Mr. LAING—Do you know where he served part of his time about twelve months ago ? Prisoner — For stabbing a policeman named Fuller. Mr. LAING again impressed upon the minds of the parish officers the necessity of prosecuting the case. He then ordered that the prisoner should find excel lent bail, of which he was to give 24 hours' notice ; and he was then committed to prison to take his trial at the sessions. The prosecutrix was then carried out of the office, and ultimately taken to the workhouse with her chil dren. She seemed to be on the very verge of the grave, and the half cured bruises on her countenance gave her a frightful appearance. She was a fine looking woman, thirty-three years of age, and the prisoner between forty and fifty, of pale and deter mined visage. It is impossible to describe the feel ings which were exhibited towards the prisoner. While the witnesses were giving their evidence a sudden burst of horror was expressed, especially at that part where it was stated that he bit his wife's finger to ascertain if she was dead. WORSHIP-STREET. HoAxlNG.—Yesterday a gentlemanly-looking per son applied to Mr. TVYFORD, the sitting Magistrate, for protection on behalf of a lady named Jordan, re sident in Artillery-place, Fin-bury-square. Mrs. ,Jordan's family, and her neighbours also, had been excessively annoyed during the morning by the constant arrival of goods of all descriptions, in con sequence of one of those nuisances called " hoaxes." Several wine-merchants' porters had brought ham pers of wine; and there were numberless butchers, bakers, cheesemongers, coal merchunts, upholsterers, and others, some with goods which had been ()Meted, others to receive orders, and some pruden•ly making enquiries before they executed the orders which had been already given. The applicant said that just as he came away two large vans had arrived, in pur suance of orders, for the removal of property. Some of the men, who had brought loads from a distance, were irritated and abusive, and it was considered necessary to apply to this office for an officer to pro• tect the family from the crowds and annoyance which had been the c onsequence. It was stated upon inquiry that Miss Jordan had been married that morning, and some mischievous fool, probably a disappointed lover, had resorted to this mode of annoyance on the occasion. police constable was sent to the house to dis? perse the crowd. THAMES-P 0 LICE. INGENIOUS SYSTEM OF SMUGGLING.— SEIZURE OF A SHlP.—Yesterday Captain JO/In Patterson, master of the ship Liberty, f rom St. Petersburg, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. BRo• DERIP, charged, on a Custom-house informatiovi with illegally smuggling seventeen tallons of foreign brandy and seven gallons of Hollands geneva I[l casks of less size than forty gallons each, by wh i ' h he had rendered himself liable to serve his 3lajestl five years in the Royal Navy. George Taylor, a waterman of his Majesty's Cu g. toms, on Tuesday afternoon went on board the Liberty with his Inspector Mow Gravesend. T he Captain was on board, and he asked him to A o ' v his stores. He accompanied him into the state room, and there showed him a keg containing sale' Holland's, which he said were ship's stores, and he had got on board. Witness then took the tance of the cupboard in the cabin and the sail-roerr4 and, after a minute survey he suspected something wrong. He opened the cupboard, and s a w a bel e , : over the end of the upp e r p ar t an d a d oor aft. ir removed the batten, and, on r e moving some boar d ''' discovered a place of conce a l men t, an d h e imme'' ately gave information to his Inspector. The 1 0 , n ee of concealment was on the larbo a rd side o f the cat' and most ingeniously made. Mr. BRODERIP said the prisoner had Dlea' - guilty, and, if he had not, the facts were so strong' and attended with so many circumstances of agar r vation, that the Bench could not have done othe r ' wise than convicted him. Th e s en t e nce of the Celi ct was, that the prisoner do serve his Maj e sty as °: able seaman for five years in the Royal Navy. A"' be petition for a remission of the punishment must sent to the Board of Customs. The ship has been seized and is in possession - le Crown. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKEL'S DURING THE WEEj Wheat. Barley. Oats. Per Quarter. s. to s. s. s. s. to s. Blandforcl 55 25 22 -- Grigg 40 58 36 40 15 22 30 3 5 Cambridge— 51 :32 17 • Chard 48 56 24 28 17 20 36 Huntingdon........ 58 63 21 23 14 20 31 aig Long 5utt0n........ 56 64 17 22 32 t. 7, Louth 4B 54 28 32 IS 22 40 3 1 Lynn 5O 60 22 2.5 16 20 32 (./ 4 Newark Nottingham --...... 50 63 31 40 20 24 3 8 4 ,- ; Peterborough 48 60 30 36 14 22 30 Plymouth ............. 50 64 30 34 20 23 43 67 43 27 -- 43 Sleafor.l Uppingham 50 60 28 36 18 26 36 39 Wisbech. , l4B 62 20 33 14 22 30 LEEDS COltN MARKET Wheat, Norfolk and Sufll,lk, 60Ib. ....... '.—Oct 40s. to ; , 4 . • 1 355. to 55 , . 1 7 ; 283. to 4 05 : 275. to 34 ' 2 , 2 i. to ois. to 3 65 • • 18s. to ` l24 ' ri t. :ng. 9d to 104 d. il e „,j, .. 2 - 2 s. to 255. per Tot , pl. —l. to --/. Per York. and Lincoln.' 60Ib. Barley, Norfolk and Suftblk . . Yorkshire and Lincolnshire - Grinding Beans 63lb. Oats, Potatoe -Mealing, For. 12d. to 13d Ei Shelling Rapeseed, English, 251. to 27, Foreig LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE.—Oct. 8- ,(A WHEAT, English, White, per 701 b. Red 7 6 7 --7 ? Scotch, Welch, and Manx 7 3 Irish, White 7 0 6 1° - Red 6 3 a 6 - Foreign OATS, English, Welsh, and Scotch, per 451 b 2 9 „ S --- Irish - Foreign 2 6 ' 0 BARLEY, English, Malting, per Imp. quarter 32 0 26 A 4 - Scotch and Irish, per 60Ibs. - Feeding 3 10 0 BEANS, English, per Imperial quarter 43 0 40 , 0 - Irish, &c. - Foreign PEASE, English, per Imperial quarter 42 0 4i 0 - Foreign F 42 LOUR, English, per 2801 b. - Irish 97 0 ' 0 24 OATMEAL, English and Irish, per 2401bs 22 0 0 :38 INDIAN CORN, per 4401 b. 96 0 0 6 BYE, per Imperial quarter HALT, per Imperial quarter IMPORT OF GRAIN for the Week ending Oct. 7 • t or Wheat.' Oats. I Barley Flour. ...a A , 9 (2 ,6 1 7 . 6 Q ,5 r , 5 0 . i Q 6 7 4. IForei 3 g ,9 n o , s ßrlsilrish 4 , &,4cs.sScks.l 1:2°4:07YA LEWES MARKET.—Oct. S. , JO 8eet...,....,.,.. 3s. 4d. to 4s. 2d Veal .....--.—....... 4s. 6d to 4. 10 I Mutton ..,,,...... 4 0 410 P0rk............. 4 4 4 Lamb 4s. Bd. to ss. 2d. A great supply, and a steady trade. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET• (From the London Gazette.) TO-MORROW, Oct. 12. DIVIDEND. C. Butler, druggist, Cheapside I , ', 0 i ' ~.• Forks, although now used at our tables 18 i commonly as knives, for the division of food on our !te and for transferring it to the mouth, were o f much o'ol recent introduction, and are, indeed, comparativel l of modern invention. As the office of carver (carptor)l'oe great antiquity, and as such officer would probably be to first to experience the necessity of a fork, so it o;in,„‘ presumed that the first attempt to fabricate such an element, of metal at least, would originate in the so n ! tions of his art. The oldest instrument of this kind "00l however, is said to have been for individual co nve°' having been formerly used by Henry IV. of Fran ce ; 0 0 is still preserved at the Castle of Pau. It is of ste e ! r e pronged, and of length and strength sufficient to see' baron of beef. • 11 ► t h; THE WONDERS OF INDIA.--, , TN anie Royal Academician, has just published his splendia 004 Annual, called " The Oriental Annual," winch f th e undertaken with a view of illustrating that portin o n t oy civilized world which is especially rich in mag ni t ic `ile ' jects, and even in natural and) artificial wonder s ' te e commenced with India, owing to its immediate and connection with this country, and has brougut cer task the result of a ten years' residence there, during iirt he explored that vast country, with the undivided t s ot accumulating Pictorial Records of all that was m a ' pl eo t :1 ing io its gorgeous scenery and stupendous ro n o u r ieo r i its natural history and vegetable wonders. "th e . 6 10 11 , Annual" contains no less than 25 engravings, and /doll' in morocco in a new and splendid style—quite in ter with the country it delineates. s t IRISH POST-OFFICE.—A gentleman' of gtcb respectably connected, and occupying a station e d afr o responsibility in the Post•offiee, has been ch ar g, e o # 4 ,0 peculation to a large amount. An investiga t' s od,r instituted some days since, and it was thought nee% s( i hold the gentleman to bail. We forbear giv ing vi d° ,o minute detail of this transaction, and hope the i" o s oe alluded to may yet be able to repel the imputation, 'o.irs his hitherto unblemishe character, The e;c cd e,o o ;l e , ; will, at all events, lead to tome changes in the l ' ''',j,o ll / 1 0 and we trust that, in any arrangement it may bet-I,lol'os advisable to make, a necessary precaution will be jo to guard against a recurrence of the abuses practis'uo, 0,4 office set apart for the transmission of newspaper/wow preclude the necessity of preferring reiterated 10,101' 1 1 to the heads of that department. — Freemans J ° ig CLERGY IN INDIA.—The follow ili goof d " c; account of the salaries and allowances paid by Of, sat/ ment in India, at each of the Presidencies, for tube of Clergy and places of worship in 163 0.1, 13 Ci t° ,lt o Bengal Episcopal, sa. rs. 425,876 ; Scotc h 00 6 0; 20.451 ; Roman Catholic, 4,000 ; total 450'1'11 Episcopal, Mad. rs. 206,976 ; Scotch Chur ch ' ' , y Roman Catholic, 5,346 ; t o t a l 224,05'). Bum copal, Bomb. rs. 178,578 ; S co tch c; 40 , 11 % d t i Roes in Catholic, ; tmal 250,28 Q• j:prs" ' 874,669 rupees, or about 85,0001. —Asiat ic to' • BIRTHS. of Bs On the 10th inst., the lady of Chas. Lewis, Esq., street, Russell-square, of a son. ca rric l `' On the 9th inst., at Southggte, the lady of John of a daughter. ti MARRIED. f". o' l On the 9th inst., at Southill, Beds, by the „, vetrly vicar, 'l'. John Green, of Bedford, Esq J 3" ' Wm. Jones, Esq., of the former place. ti ter of P ' Sawyer,On th of 110,tiltin Tunbridge aNtveSltl.s,MtaortEini::-ai,n.etihdee-sdt edl(3l4,;ghter late Mr. William Samuel Banks, Brentwood, Etoo, On the 10th inst., at Twickenham, and Pr e ' Geerg, ft ' s ing to the rites of the Roman Catholic chore?! co. Th orn. ,0 champ Cole, Esq., second son of .S,tep,lien • rordsnire,,.o, Ott and Lady Elizabeth Cqle, of S:tolce Lyne, Oxt fl u Mary, youngest daughter of Lieut.-Colonel and Espinasse, of Twickenham. On the 9th inst., at Esher, Surrey DIED. th e ' , of f Mr. It. M H.. . ume. Wid °' On the Bth inst., in Great Surrey.street, Wally 10 late John Vidler, first mail coach coi;tractoi, ag ed 13 0 . 0 3 ,4 0 ; 0 Qn the 9th inst 2 in Buckingham-plaee, l',..el,)l3rici'l ~, Crafter, widow of Mr. Thomas Crafter, late of t''' c/ 0 1°'i Arms inn, Kent-road. ~.h i atiet On the Ist inst., at Downington 11ouse, Le'— tershire, Major Samuel Hawkins, in his fIA Year' Mrs. Vidler, 7. 04,, f - - P LJNOI INTED AND PUBLISHED BY YIU ll 0Y ° SUN 112, STRAW'. I , IIkNIEE A thlsionpr 4 Pon hie F: • 4 'teld s Ae cout that l th l t ber e ,f and all' - quest s (R % ecut utrand. 60": n 0. 13 , t " dnea, , Ab out GLA s d P atn a 10 ni t '0001.4Y rece 11 1 . 14 th e 'c o Ird i of g . F to kticn