The Sun. — London, England, 1833-12-16 00:00:00

be so far carried axay by their pique, because they cannot instantly obtain all the changes they want, as to turn round and support the men who are opposed in their hearts to all improve ment whatever. A spoiled child, when baulked of some one object, spurns at everything else. This is emblematical of the ultra radicals. The Reform Bill has opened the door to every con ceivable improvement. If a measure is now rejected, it must he because the intelligent and influential part of the community are not yet prepared for it, or because it is disapproved of as injurious to the community. There is no particular class in the country sufficiently pow erful to prevent the success of a measure gene rally deemed beneficial to the country. Even the corn laws must be altered the moment the people themselves have made up their minds that they shall be altered. And yet, because the Reform Bill is not so perfect as they think it ought to be, they turn with disdain from the immense promise of good it affords, and are determined to be pleased with nothing, or ra ther to be pleased only with those who would have given no reform whatever, and conceded no material improvement of our laws and insti tutions. We fear that the Church and King mobs of this country are not so completely extinct as sometimes we would fain believe. Many of these ultra radicals are, we fear, the legitimate successors of the Church and King mobs, and are now just as much led by the nose as their predecessors were. The name is, no doubt, changed ; but, we fear, only the name.— Morning Chronicle. The Reformers at Leeds have acted with great wisdom. They have had a conference on the subject of the successor to Mr. Macaulay who ought to be returned by them, at which it was agreed that one of the different individuals spoken of as candidates, who had the most votes in his favour, should receive the support of all the Reformers. Mr. Baines, senior, Dr. Bow. ring, and Mr. Joshua Bower, were proposed, and Mr. Baines having the most votes, it was determined that he should be supported. This is acting like sensible men. Individual vanity and ambition ought never to stand in the way of a cause. Mr. Baines has lived long in Leeds, and is thoroughly acquainted with all the interests of that important capital of the woollen manu facture. He is an able and enlightened man, and is sufficiently independent in his circum stances to allow him to devote himself to the public service. It is from men of his class that the greatest good is to be expected. We are glad to find that he has consented to stand, and, we suppose, supported as he will be, his success is certain.—Morning Chronicle. Our readers will have seen, not, probably, without some surprise, the extraordinary circular transmitted in the name of Lord Althorp, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, to all the church wardens of the kingdom, calling upon them to return to him, not only the amount of the tithes paid or payable in their respective-parishes, but the number of acres in, and the rental of the whole of each parish. Such a return as this was, we believe, never before called for by any authority whatever, still Icss by any one person having no authority, that we know of to do so. The commissioners of the property tax, though armed with very inquisitorial powers by Parlia ment, never called, we believe, for any such sta tistical returns as these. If not satisfied with re turns of income made by parties they had the power to surcharge, and then examine parties who were dissatisfied ; but this, we believe, is the first time, in the latter years of our history, at least, that anything at all resembling this was ever called for, and that from persons who, from the nature of their office, have no better means of knowing what they are asked to give an an swer to, than the parish clocks or parish consta bles. It is imagined, and we dare say very truly, that the returns thus called for are prepa ratory to the measure which Ministers have it in contemplation to bring before Parliament under the head of Church Reform. But we thought there had been an Ecclesiastical Commission last year which had made the necessary inqui ries. If not, what becomes of the much vaunted boast that the plan of Ministers was ready prepared, and had been already submitted to the highest authorities, if they are only now, at the eleventh hour, setting about an inquiry into the facts on which that plan must necessarily be founded ? We are well aware that to legislate w•ithcut a full knowledge of the facts on which any measure is to be grounded is preposterous. But our objection in this instance lies to the mode and the channels through which the infor mation is sought, to its far outstepping the object it has in view, and to the precedent which such a mode of proceeding creates in favour of any other system of official Paul-Pryism which may hereafter be established upon it. We may be wrong. This mode of getting at statistical ac counts of the whole kingdom may be right, and the mcde of doing it lawful and constitutional ; but we must wait for better reasons than appear upon the document in question before our doubts upon its policy or legality can be satis fied.—Morning Herald. We alluded the other day to a report of orders having been received by the Russian commanders in the Black Sea, to fit out and prepare a squadron for sea with all possible expedition ; and in the Berlin papers, received last night, we find the report very amply con firmed, but without any explanation of the object which it is proposed to accomplish by That that object, however, has relation to the affairs of Turkey, and, above all, to the right closing the Dardanelles, at the pleasure of the Autocrat of Russia, as arranged and settled by the treaty into which the Ambassadors of his imperia; Majesty so cunningly tricked the Sul tan, there con be no doubt, and we, in conse quence, rejoice to learn that our Government has at length determined to act with that promptitude and decision which the importance of the occa sion so imperatively demands. Our naval force in the Mediterranean is to be immediately augmented by the addition of the Ganges 84, Bellerophon, 80, and President, 52, at Ports mouth ; the Calcutta, 84, Minden, 74, and Portland, 52, at Plymouth. The Blenheim, 74, and Worcester, 52, at the eastward, are also ordered to be rigged and filled with their ground tiers of water, by the crews of the flag ships at their respective stations. Orders, it is said, have also been received at Chatham to rig the Camperdown, 106, and Hastin g s, 74, and at Sheerness the Power/it!, 84. The Admirals at these places are to assist the riggers with all the men they can spare from the ship s i t , commission. The customary proportion of smaller vessels will also accompany this powerful squadron, and be supplied not only with all the material of war, but the usual supply of medical officers, as in time of war. That Russia is prepared for such a demon t ration on the part of England we do not believe. The tameness evinced by the go vernment of the Duke of Wellington, and the hitherto-unchecked course of aggression which she has been permitted to pursue, have, no doubt, imposed upon her a more lofty idea of her own importance, and of the compara tive weakness of other states, than she had a right to entertain, and led her to imagine that, because she had been allowed to trample upon Poland, she might also deal with Turkey after a similar fashion. That she will be grievously deceived we both hope and trust, for the sake of humanity, and for the sake of . Europe generally. The system which she has , been lately pursuing has been one of unmitigated cruelty and oppression—of unjustifiable plunder and spoliation. In every quarter she has been adding to the extent of her already overgrown dominions—at one time by the force of her arms—at another by a course of fraud and du plicity, to which no parallel is to be found in the annals of modern times. But, though powerful, she is the very reverse of being invulnerable. The very bulkiness of her empire is, to a certain extent, a source of weakness ; while the tyranny of which she has been guilty, wherever her eagle has winged its flight— the national murders which she has com mitted—the individual oppression and spoliation which have everywhere formed the accompani ments of her conquests—would rouse against her, in the event of a war with any other country, a host of e nem i es , t hi rst i ng for revenge, and de termined on her destruction. Her northern ac quisitions are hers only in name—her subjects there hate her with the most cordial hatred— Poland only sleeps, she is not dead—and even in Turkey, sunk as its people are in barbarism and ignorance, there is a spirit of indignation at her rapacity, and of resistance to her designs, which has only to be appealed to in order to show itself in deeds of which Russia has good need to be afraid. In this view of the 'natter we are joined by an able writer in the last num ber of the Edinburgh Review, who concludes in the following manner : " Russia is now, and has been, ever since the accession of the Emperor Nicholas, in a critical and precarious state. She is surrounded by the smouldering vengeance of her mangled Polish provinces, in the treatment of which she calls forth the execration of mankind by her barbarities. She thus adds to the deep hatred with which the liberal nations of Europe regard her exercise of tyranny at home, and support of absolutism abroad. Indeed, her late con duct must render the more mild and enlightened of the despotic governments half ashamed of her alliance ; and it is far from improbable that their whispered remonstrances may have called forth the late lame apology for her policy towards Poland. Were she now, therefore, to precipitate matters in Turkey, she would lose much that she has already gained, and consign to other hands the prey which on some future occasion she hopes to make her own. We do not therefore expect that her usual wariness will so far desert her as to tempt her iota a war ! but we fear that by resorting to her wonted expedient of assuming a war like attitude, she may be suffered to consolidate her authority in Turkey, and to obtain the recognition and the privileges of a treaty she has surreptitiously wrung from the fears and the gratitude of the Porte."—Morning Advertisi r. The Lord Chancellor's Secretary has ad dressed a letter to the Trustees of various Public Charities, in which he states his Lordship's de sire to be informed whether they will be dis posed to further, so far as lies in their power, a elan for the consolidation o f th e f un d s o f all Public Charities throughout the kingdom, and the appropriation of them to the pur pose of " national education." We have not space to comment at present upon this extraor dinary scheme ; and if we had space we should scarcely venture to write upon it till we should have partly subdued the indignation which its first announcement excites. A little while ago we should at once have rejected the story as too ludicrous a hoax, or • too wicked a calumny. But we have learned by larnentalale experience that nothing is so prodigiously profligate, or so portentously absurd, but that it may be recom mended by the Reform Ministers, and sanc tioned by the Reformed Parliament.—Morning Post. thing but what was right of him in my life, or else I would not have suffered him to come to my family. (The witness was here so affected, that he shed tears.) Henry Mason sworn—l am also executor to the deceased. I have known the lad at the bar from his infancy. I never knew anything against him in my life. He has been respected and beloved generally by his relatives and acquaintances. The prisoner's counsel here requested to be per mitted to consult with the prisoner and to retire with him into the gaol. This permission was granted, and the counsel and Mr. Colquhoun both retired with him. After a consultation of about half an hour the counsel returned, and the prisoner was replaced at the bar, and informed by the Learned Judge that this was the time to make his defence. THE DEFENCE. The Learned JUDGE called upon the prisoner for his defence. He said, " I am perfectly innocent, and my defence is embodied in this paper." The prisoner here handed in the defence, which was read by the officer of the court. " Gentlemen of the Jury, I shall not attempt to raise any' question as to the mode by which my revered grandfather met his death. It does not become me to do so, for if any doubt appears upon this point, it will be treated of by those who are more competent to discuss it; it is a fact of which I am in titter ignorance, and therefore my observa tions to you will be grounded upon the supposition that the deceased died from the effects of poison, that the poison was arsenic, and that it was admi nistered in the coffee taken for breakfast. It will appear that the causes of suspicion that attach to me are-Ist, that I filled the kettle with water on the morning in question; 2d, that I absconded from home on the following Tuesday, the sth of Novem ber; 3d, that a quantity of arsenic was found in my box; and 4th, that I had previously used expressions of ill-will towards the deceased, and had evinced a desire for his death. Now, gentlemen, with re spect to my having filled the kettle, you will have learned that there was nothing whatever unusual or re markable in my doing so. I had been for some time in the habit of going to my grandfather's house at an early hour in the morning for milk, and as this was usually before the family were up, was it not natural at my age, that frequent innocent freedoms and familiarities took place on those occasions between me and the witnesses S. Taylor and E. Smith, which led to my sometimes assisting them in the little do mestic duties they had to perform, such as opening the shutters, letting out the fowls, lighting the fire, filling the copper, helping to churn, and filling the kettle for breakfast ? In short, there was always some joke or other going on which was the chief inducement for me to go there at that time of the morning. All these circumstances Sophia Taylor admitted in her examination before the coroner, but she did so with evident reluctance, and admitted that I had at other times before filled the kettle for breakfast. If it had appeared that I had that morn ing betrayed any anxiety to fill the kettle—if it had been a solitary instance in which I had done it—and if, in addition to this, it had been clearly shown that the poison was put into the kettle, the inference to be drawn from those facts would be indeed important ; the contrary, however, is directly proved by the evidence. If, therefore, there was nothing unusual or re markable in my being at my grandfather's at the time in question, nor in the fact of my having filled the kettle that morning, let it be next considered whether the poison was put into the kettle with the dry coffee, or into the coffee-pot, into which the water from the kettle was afterwards poured, and with which coffee, coffee-pot, or the coffee made in it, it is not pretended I had any concern. This point will, in the sequel, be found to be of the last importance, because it will be clearly shown to you that a person to whom I shall presently have more particularly to allude must have had access to that coffee, and must in a marked manlier have directed his attention to its contents very shortly before the fatal event took place. I am informed also that to have put arsenic in the kettle would be a very doubtful mode of administering it, and that its weight would cause the greater portion of it to sink to the bottom of the water. It may be said that what remained in the coffee jar has been analyzed, and that no arsenic was discovered. This, how ever, proves nothing; the experiment was not made until fresh coffee had been put into the jar. I proceed to the second cause of suspicion under which I have laboured, which is that I absconded from home on the sth of November, three days after the morning on which it is supposed the poison was administered. Gentlemen, when I left home on the morning of the sth of November, I did so in pursuance of an engagement of long standing with my sister in London, to whose house I then proceeded, being at the time unaware that my poor grandfather was so near his end. So long before as the 25 h of October a letter was received by my mother from a person then staying with my Sister, the conclusion of which was, Tell John to come Tuesday week, as it will suit better.' This letter will be produced before you : it bears the post-mark of October 25, which unques tionably proves it to be genuine. If the con sciousness of guilt oppressed or alarmed me, had I not already remained quietly at home From the Saturday until the Tuesday, during all which time I was free to take any course I pleased ? And when I did go to London, was any secrecy ob served as to whither I was going ? On the contrary, is it not clear that all the family knew I was pro ceeding to my sister's ? and was I not, in fact, im mediately found at that sister's house, where, in consequence of what transpired in my absence, it was thought proper to send an officer to apprehend me ? Another unfortunate coincidence in this case is the discovery of arsenic in my box. [The prisoner then proceeded to state, that some years ago it was his misfortune to be subjected to an attack of the itch, which was brought home to the family by his father, who was then cohabiting with a woman named Warren. Whilst thus suffering, he acci dentally heard that the best way to eradicate it was by applying poison to the parts most affected. He had, therefore, from that time been in the habit of using hellebore and arsenic.] From the disgraceful nature of the disease, the jury will readily believe that I did not wish it more known than could be avoided; but when I was before the Coroner I re membered upon several occasions having sent a man who worked for me when I was living in London to purchase these poisons for me. I then stated that the name of that man was Brett, but that he was dead. I, however, expressed my belief that his wife knew the fact as well as himself. Gentlemen, that woman has been now traced out, and she will be called be fore you, and will prove the truth of my as sertion. Gentlemen, I also informed the co roner that I thought Mrs. Perks knew the same fact. Airs. Perks, without any application from me, or on my behalf, seeing the account of the inquests in the newspapers, has voluntarily come for will prove that whil st s h e li ved with me ward, and at Shoreditch I was in the habit of using alsenie, and that she has seen me mix it with lard in the way I have described. Gentlemen, if I had wanted arsenic for a purpose of this dreadful kind, had I not at the time of making this second purchase more than enough to poison a hundred persons? That last parcel was therefore entirely unnecessary for my wicked purpose, and the purchase could only have been rnade s in order to insure my own detec tion. Having thus, gentlemen, explained those facts in this case which I do not attempt, and never have attempted to deny, I proceed to consider that part of the evidence which has been offered, for the pur pose of showing that I had evinced, by my expres sions, a desire to accomplish the death of the de ceased. Gentlemen, I solemnly declare that no expression of the kind ever passed my lips—no such thought ever entered into my imagination. This part of the case rests entirely upon the evi dence of my unnatural father and of his servant, Mary Higgins ; and I am constrained to pronounce it a base fabrication, You will recollect that my own father is the first person to accuse me of this dreadful crime. He it is who goes to the magistrate and puts this charge in motion against me. He it is who, after an interview with Mary Higgins, at 5 o'clock in the morning, produces her as a witness to insure my condemnation, by swearing to a conver sation that never occurred, and in the relation of which they both falter and equivocate. Gentlemen, my father has not, I grieve to say it, set a fit or worthy example to his family. It has been the lot of his children to see him imprisoned for malicious injury, and guilty of fltofligacy of all kinds ; but still the voice of nature cannot be so absolutely dead within him as not to have left him the ordinary regard which even the brute creation exhibit to wards their offspring. What then, is the great, the overwhelming motive that has made him thrust himself forward uncalled for, unsolicited, to take away my life through the medium of this prosecution? To this question, gentlemen, I fear it will be your painful duty to give a fearful, a dreadful answer. I would fain have avoided this topic, but a sense of the duty I owe to that Supreme Being, before whom I may (however unjustly) be presently called to appear, as well as the desire of self-preservation, which is the first and most powerful law of nature, compel me to enter upon it. What then, I again ask, could thus operate upon the mind of alather— what could induce him to become not only the willing accuser of his child, but the fabricator of false evidence against him ? Can any adequate reason be suggested, excepting the desire to avert from himself the horrible consequences of this hor rible offence ? Can you, as fathers, imagine any less powerful motive that could actuate a father to sacrifice a son ? Gentlemen, taking this, however revolting, to be the only true motive, what extra ordinary light does it at once cast upon every part of this apparently mysterious transaction 1 You will have observed, in every stage of this proceed. ing, an extraordinary anxiety on the part of my father to show his own innocence of this crime and my guilt. Before suspicion attached to anybody, you find him the first to ask who filled the kettle that morning—a fact which he already knew, and which could only have been inquired of in order to direct the thoughts of others towards me. You find him proclaiming the fact of his not having been at my grandfather's house that morning; and you find him lying in bed much later than usual, as if on purpose to be ready to show where he then was. But, Gentlemen, how is it shown rhat he was not at my grandfather's the day before, when arsenic might so easily have been put into the coffee-jar, and the more easily because Sophia Taylor was out the whole of that day ? This idea never occurred to any one for a long time, because the coffee-jar was supposed to be kept in a cupboard always locked, and the key of whieh was in the possession of the deceased; but on an inspection by the Coroner's Jury, it was found that the lock did not catch, and that the door could readily be opened by any person. My father hnd completely the run of that house— he knew every part of it—he had it clearly, there fore, in his power to open that cupboard, and to do anything he pleased with the jar in which the coffee was kept. What will be said, gentlemen, when I show you that as early as ten o'clock on that fatal morning he had a conversation with two persons named Jacobs, to whom he stated that his father's family were poisoned; that they were poisoned by something they had taken for breakfast, but that it was not the coffee, for the coffee used that morning was the last that remained in the jar ? All this, gentlemen, was said marry hours before he had been to the house —many livers before, as he says, he knew any one was even ill, arid in direct contradic tion of iris own representations, repentediy and de liberately made. I have before told you that the coffee used on that morning was found to be the last the jar contained. But how could this have been known to my father at ten o'clock that morn ing, unless he had shortly before had access to the jar, and noticed its contents; and how could he know at tell o'clock in the morning that the family were sick and vomiting, when he has sworn that his first knowledge of their being even ill was obtained by his visit at six o'clock in the evening ? Here, I fear, is a striking instance of the witless anxiety of a guilty mind betrayed into a premature discussion upon the fatal transaction which at that moment must have exercised over it an overwhelming influence. Gentlemen, I will not longer intrude upon your attention; I thank you sincerely for the patience with which you have listened to my afflicting tale ; I be seech you to remember that I am addressing you, as it were, from the very brink of eternity, and that, if I fail to convince you of my innocence, a very few hours will remove me from among the number of the living?' Wm. Jacobs was then called by -Mr. CLARKSON, Mr. ADOLPItUS said the avowed - purpose of call ing these witnesses was to contradict the evidence of the father, and he must therefore object to their being examined. The COURT said that no witnesses could be called to contradict him. Mr. CLARKSON wished his Lordship to take a note that he offered this witness, and also his wife, Frances Jacobs, for that purpose. He then called Elizabeth Brett—l know the prisoner. My husband bought arsenic for him for his face. I have seen the prisoner mix arsenic with lard. I came here voluntarily. He did not know but that I was dead, but I came forward of my own accord when I raid of the case in the newspapers. Sarah Perks sworn—l am a widow, and lived in the prisoner's house when he lived in Shoreditch. That was from April to September, 1831. I know that he was then in the habit of using arsenic. He never told me what he used it for. He showed me some in paper, and also in a bottle. I came forward because I had seen the case in the newspapers. Mary Ann Andrews, the . prisoner's sister, was here called. Sh e wa s accommodated with a chair, and seemed much affected by her situation. She said, " My brother, the prisoner, was to have come to see me, and I requested Elizabeth Perks, who was living with me, to write this letter (produced) to him on the 24th of October, requesting him not to come till the sth of November, and he did not come till that day." Edward Cleeves—l know the prisoner well. I know of some injury that had been done by some rats to the fowls at his father's h o u se . I as k e d him Ihe could not poison them. He said that he could not for fear of killing the fowls. I have known him for ten years, and he has come to my father's house nearly every day for the last two years. He has always borne the best of characters for humanity awl kindness of disposition. Mr. Cleeves, the churchwarden of Plumatead, said—l have known the prisoner nearly ten years. For tender feelings, for humanity, and good moral conduct he cannot be excelled. Mr. Henry Cleeves, farmer, of Plumsread, had known him for ten years. His character could not 3e better. I have frequently asked aftethis;;;l: "ather's health, and he has always spoken of him in he most affectionate term+. John Nokes, farmer, of Plumstead, bad known him for 16 years. He had a general good character, and never showed a disposition to injure anybody. Mr. Richard Clements, farmer, of Plumstead—l have known the prisoner all his life. He has been the best of creatures that ever came into Plumstead. believe that if he saw a worm lie in his way, he would turn out of his road sooner than hurt it. David Rice, landlord of the Feathers at Plum stead, had known the prisoner for 16 years. He had always borne a good character. William Jacobs, James Russell, a farmer at Horton Kirby, and John Russell, of Camberwell, coal-merchant, gave similar testimony as to his general character for humanity. The case for the defence having finished, Th e Learned JUDGE proceeded to sum up the case. He said that the chief questions for consi deration would be, first, whether the deceased had been poisoned and secondly, if they were sure of the hilt wl t o , 1 l, ( I I 'at the bar had ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME ClRCUlT—MainsrarrE, DEC. 14. TRIAL OF JOHN BODLE, FOR THE MURDER OF HIS GRANDFATHER, AT PLUMSTEAD. The public anxiety to witness this extraordinary trial appeared, perhaps, more strongly this morning than on the previous day, and the Court was again crowded in every part. The Learned Judge arrived in Court at about eight o'clock, and the Jury, who had been locked up all night in a room in the Court-hall, and had been supplied by the Sheriff with a dinner and break fast, together with mattresses and blankets, were brought in. John Bodle, the prisoner's father, was then called and examined by Mr. CLARKSON—Mary Higgins did tell me that the prisoner said that he had done for one party, and would do for another, and that he was satisfied with what he had done. Mary Higgins never said that she hoped that she would not be wanted to go before the Magistrates. I was at my father's house on the Saturday, at six o'clock in the evening, but not before. I got up that morning at about seven o'clock, which is rather later than usual. I went to my father's at six o'clock for my money. That was all I went for. I did not, before that, know that any of the family were ill. I had no notice that either of them was ill. I speak on reflection. I went across the com mon to attend the sheep of Mr. Baxter, but tha. was after I had my breakfast. I remained there from about eight o'clock till dinner time. I know Jacobs, the tailor. He and his wife live on the common. Ido not recollect whether or not I went to their house on that morning. I will not swear that I was not there at ten o'clock in t h e morning ; lam not positive. I did not tell . 1 as that there was a devil of a job happened 3y father's, that they had been all taken ill after breakfast, that they were all retching and vomiting, and had been terribly worked, or any other words to that effect. I never said that they had been taking their usual diet for breakfast, when Jacobs asked ma what they had taken. No conversation passed on the subject. I laid the information be fore the magistrates against my son. I went to Woolwich on the Wednesday along with Messrs. Baxter, Wessel, and Mason, the executors. I did it from what I heard my father say on his death-bed. I did it from a sense of justice. I believe lam en titled to the bulk of my father's property after the death of my mother. I have never heard that he caused his will to be altered shortly before his death. I saw Mr. Baxter on the Thursday morning before my father died. I did not tell Baxter on the 26th of October that my father was going to alter his will. I had no conversation with him on the sub ject. I did not know that there had been a will made, although he did. When I came home at six o'clock on the Saturday evening, I told my wife that they were all ill down at my father's. I did not say that they were poisoned. I do not recollect s a ying anything about poisoning. (The witness was repeatedly cautioned that he need not answer any questions unless he chose to do so.) I object to answer whether I have ever been charged with felony; or that I have ever been in Maidstone gaol; or that I have families living by three different tvnmen besides my wife; or that l was ever charged with attempting to cut my wife's throat. Samuel Baxter examined—l am one of the exe cutors of the deceased. I have known the prisoner at the bar ever sinc e he was born. I never saw any administered that poison, or caused it to be ad ministered. If they were not satisfied of this 1 ast fact, or entertained any reasonable doubt of it, they would give the prisoner not only the benefit of that doubt, but also of as good a character as had ever been given in a Court of Justice. The Learned Judge then read some of the evidence, and after having been so engaged for about half an hour, one of the jury said that he thought they might save his Lordship the trouble of reading any further, saying that he believed that they had heard enough to enable them to consider their verdict. The Jury then consulted for an instant, and the Foreman replied—" My Lord, we are quite satisfied, and our verdict will not be against the prisoner." This intimation produced the most extraordinary excitement, not only in the prisoner's friends, but in the body of the Court. The audience rose, and the Court resounded with demonstrations of satis faction arid applause, and every person appeared glad at the deliverance of the prisoner, who seemed so bewildered as hardly to be fully aware of his good fortune. He was soon, however, roused by the congratulations of his friends, who pressed towards the dock and shook hands with him most fervently. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bodkin were also congra tulated by the prisoner's attorney on their success ful conduct of the defence. This gratifying scene was, however, immediately succeeded by a gloomy one. William Allen and Thomas Turner were brought up to receive sen tence, having been convicted of rape. Allen was in the most pitiable state of grief. He was obliged to be supported by two persons, and uttered the most heart-rending cries for mercy. While the learned Judge was passing sentence, one gentleman fell down in a fit, and was carried out struggling vi olently, and every one present was considerably affected. No hopes of mercy were held out to them . COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC. 14. (Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) WATLING V. TORRENS, Mr. Tinsman stated the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. TURNER appeared for the defendant. It was an action brought by the plaintiff, who kept a house in Jermyn-street, St. James's, to recover 6/. for four weeks' lodging. Mrs. Susan Young proved the hiring of the apartments by the defendant at thirty shillings per week ; he took them for a fortnight, and if he liked them he said he would take them for six weeks. He was to give a week's notice to quit. At the end of three weeks be went away, but did not give any notice, and from leavin: his luggage behind him it was understood he had not given up his lodgings. He subsequently returned, and received the letters, &c. that bad been left for him. He then said he should not return. Mr. TURNER in his address to the Jury, for the de fendant, contended that the lodgings were only hired for a fortnight, with a week's notice to quit, which he gave, and therefore be was not liable to the present demand. His having his letters left there was solely by the plaintiff's consent. The Learned Counsel called the defendant's man servant prove the notice to quit, but he failed in doing so, and .be Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 61. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 14, In the case of " Irving Jthe Duke of Buckingham," and which was an action for breach of covenant, a ver dict wag taken, by consent, for the plaintiff, damages 16,9201. 10s. POND V. DIMES. This was an action brought by the plaintiff to recover from the defendant, an attorney, the amount of certain penalties, altogether 999/., which, it was alleged, the defendant had forfeited by exacting usurious interest. Mr. Sergeant WILDE stated the case, from which it would appear that the defendant had discounted a bill of 350/. for two months, and, as it was alleged, had exacted 201. for interest out of the amount. Several witnesses proved the fact that the bill had been discounted by the defendant. Mr.' Sergeant STORKS, for the defendant, contended that the defendant bad only procured the discount from another person, as agent for his then partner, a Mr. Outhwaite, since dead, to whom he had paid over the 201. Part of this 20/. had been offered to defendant by Mr. Outhwaite, but he did not accept it, having merely acted as a friend. The Jury, after some consideration, gave their verdict against the defendant. This they did, as they said, with regret, at, though it was clear he had diacounted the bill, it was not so clear how he had disposed of the interest. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, DEC. 14. Sittings in Equity, Gray's Inn Hall, before the LORD CHIEF BA RON. ) STILES AND GUY. His Lordship gave judgment in this case. It involved a question as to the liability of executors to make good the default of their co -executor, if it could be shown they had not used proper diligence in executing the trusts confided to them. A testator named Jobn Tuckey by his will de vised the whole of his property to three trustees, namely, Anthony Guy, Richard Tuckey, the elder, and Richard Tuckey the younger, being the defendants in the present suit, upon trust, among other things, that as soon as con veniently might be after the death of the testator they should call in such of the property of the testator as was of the nature of book debts, or was vested in securities not approved of by them, and then to apply the produce so obtained in such manner as the will directed. Of this will the three defendants were appointed executors, each of whom joined in obtaining protest, and by so doing accepted the trusts reposed in them. Anthony Guy was appointed the acting executor. He was by pro fession an attorney, a man in good credit, and it would seem for some years previous to the testator's death bad enjoyed his entire confluence. The testator was in the habit of lending him large sums of money whenever his occasions required it, he (the tes tator) from time to time drawing on this fund, and being allowed interest for the balance. At the time of the testator's death a sum of about 10,0001. (the precise amount was trot mentioned, nor was it of any consequence in the decision of the question) was due to his estate from Anthony Guy, secured, as it was alleged, by two promis sory notes in favour of the testator, and subscribed by him. The testator died in 1823, and at that time and up to the period of his bankruptcy, which event took place at the close of 1829, Anthony Guy was in high credit in the district in which be lived. During this period, namely, from 1823, when the testator died, until within a few months previous to Guy's bankruptcy, the defendants Richard Tuckey the elder and Richard Tuckey the younger never took any steps to call in the debts due by their co-executor. From time to time it appeared that they had called upon Guy as the acting executor for his accounts, hut on no occasion did they receive them. Guy repeatedly promised to make them up, but invariably neglected doing so, and in the end the defendants alleged in their answer that they were on the point of instituting a suit against Guy to compel him to render up his accounts, when they were intercepted by the filing of the present bill. After going at length through the facts of the case, his Lordship said that his judgment was, that it should be referred to the Master to report, first, whether any and which of the adult parties in the suit acquiesced in the debt due from Anth ony Guy to the testator; John Tuckey not being called in, and, if so, up to what time; secondly, whether the defendants, Richard Tuckey the elder, and Richard Tuckey the younger, had at any time taken measures to have the money called in; thirdly, whether the enlargement of the order for paying the money into Court was made without the knowledge or consent of the defendants Richard Tuckey the elder and Richard Tuckey the younger, or eith. r or which of them, and whether if such enlargement had not taken place the money would or might have been recovered. 'Let the Master furnish the usual accounts and be at liberty to state in his report such special cir cumstances as he might think fit. As soon as the Master's report was prepared he would proceed to give final judg ment in the cause, and the decree which he would then pronounce should be dated from the day the cause was heard DESTRUCTION OF FARMING PROPERTY AT CAMBERWELL, Sua&ay.—About a quarter after 10 o'clock last night, the barn of Mr. William Horner, farm , r, of Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, was discovered by Mr. Inspector Walters, and Coningsby, a sergeant of the P division, to be on tire. In a few minutes the flames com municated to four wheat stacks, which, with the barn and outhouses, were totally destroyed. By great exertions the farm house and a stack of hay were preserved, as were the cattle. When our informant left the village at 1 o'clock, all apprehension of further damage had ceastd. So fiercely did the flumes ascend that the reflection must have Leen seen for many miles round. COUNTRY CORN MARKET, DURING LAST WRRK. Wheat. 1 Earley. Oats. Per Quarter. Carlisle Hexham S. to S. 5. to s. 50 26 -- 49 53 ' 25 29 36 48 25 28 52 51 32 40 16 25 29 s. d. s. d. s. d . s. (1. 53 56 26 29 66 70 29 40 80 89 46 50 70 93 36 46 80 86 40 48 6 - 9 72 36 39 90 11 0 3 0 46 S. to S. Nforpeth Penrith 19 22 15 21 -- 19 sweitijd Winchester Per Bushel. Carmarthen, ~ Cowbridge. Newcastle (Staff.) Northallerton Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle Durham Richmond I Stockton 18 I. d. s. d. 16 20 26 - 3 0 30 34 33 40 30 34 ' 1 92 2 20 33 156 80 86 140 70 80 166 8 6 90 12 6 9 6 10 0 50 60 46 66 50 64' 40 461 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Dec. 1; Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Suffolk -s. 445. to 525. - Lin. and Cam. -s. 445. to 51s. --..- Yorkshire --s. 435. to 50s. ---- White -s. 50s. to 555. Foreign, Red -s. -s. to .--8. White -c --s. to ...41/.. Barley, Norfolk and Suffolk -- Lincolnshire 3os. to 325. Yorkshire Wold 3ls. to 325. -- Foreign ...11. to •••••11. Beans, Old New 3ss. to 3.95. Oats, Potato l9s. to 225. - Poland -s. 18s. to 21s. - Friezland and Small -s. 17s. to 20s. - Mealing ... 9d. to 11%d. per Shelling 235. to 265. Od. per Malt 3ss. 395. fine 425. per Rapeseed ~ .r _t 4tisfactioi THE KEI THE 4 LA DEATH': ORI THE GE( LnE 818 VEATH': fe , ,UNG 'rERA 1 lEND: `Kb T HE AM ORGET ‘ti I,st E ,IE DR, . MU I,IIE COI ‘IOOD'S 413 VENII 4 11 E NE NUAL The C ' %I the ea Ladies 4 ne engr ac 2 1 . 6d Peacoi taanacke, Peaco , publishes Golds PUblishei Keirp ter, in t Time' Court keeping The abet de ST Nobility Prices I quality; Fine Bat Ditto Ditto The vcr ts Ditto perfin Ditto Superfin ,t.tperfir, the Bli Ditto Fine I,a Very be Ditto Very th Office Ditto Ditto Ditto ~Super la 2uperfit ‘Apertil Ditto NV; HO .a v .%pe e rfil supertit lm 4ne vex Io Rui `s '' " E BE/ . 1 ,'4 • ' HE tP 40 ' Ve Price ii .1, , Twenty-t 49 a. d. • 0 0 51 , 4 IPP 5' ' MON 60 ' • PORD o ° - TAMILI 5 6' 10 h e re O , , flee s f ar '' g b1 : 1 ) y' o 7 l 63 Seing shot 6. EVERY I . 3 iinel FDA home t fine ~, /t - -fine or t , firieo ; *ox b • fine L.. tine 74'utt Brass fi ne , , r pair , fine . Chai r fine cks, east fi n e dsome B fine 14 , ch s tine . .n Iron E fine , each fine', . 'liftable] fine' ter er 6 b g Fire 0 clk r 0 ed Step * per lDer set k "gblock.tin .• IL - the set ' Ztrant Tong': Oa ~' `4:l:novel, th _ ...26 tz - 4ss ' n d ed z itt l3 ari o ° , l - 21 ; ' IT,ntead --. , ti)uart diTt l, —. a I 'hien •m M to • I " 0 vitt° Cam 4 7 , 9 Otair ... ... .. to Tea St -- frt 6:4ozen := 1 „/ tto Tale I. , lalf dozen Way, estick, ' Bea ns l and Extin 325',0 1 ;Nowa, pe ma 01 Nt warrant 281 0 lit flY ' s a e t t to P. 0 : lied mg ' ~ 1 0 knives at 'panned C .... . •,,,... . 74. I twin or „6) 0 Arme & ,welve s D ;• • knd Z lune twelt Cary 5 9 T h 6o Pieces. ___/e same c I. , % White J g mart* ante . Br knives a Imp. 6 I ,dozen of e £0 ! 0 %Very deec O 1 t 0 • c or ppe O i , O 1 ' 1 * tial char ine M t !, IV in at • d. s i • 6 11 4rge ‘A , , oto I °o 9 0ns of al 0 1 1 th e same t n .... Ilitisketioi SCOTCH MARKET SCOTCH MARKETS. Wheat. Barley Oats. Beans. Oa Aberdeen -..., 35 45 24 28 14 20 - 21 Berwick,-...., 30 35 16 19 12 15 18 24 26 • Coldstream 35 42 18 19 13 14 20 22 upar --.- 48 56 26 31 18 22 -22 26 .40 Dundee 150 60 30 33 20 25 30 31 Elgin ------ 40 50 24 26 16 20 23 30 -- •j ' Inverness-. $46 50 25 26 15 18 23 26 16 Kelso ....-.. I 20 33 .36 10 20 14 16 - ,A . 4i • 48 61 23 29 16 20 45 48 43 • Perth 50 56 23 26 22 22 25 .- The size of the measure varies throughout the entin!p EDINBURGH CORN MARKET.-Dec. 11. We had a middling supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, the sales were rather brisk. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beat First s3s Cd 3ls 6d 21s 8d 32s Cd 32s'; Second Third -44 s Od 25s Od 17s Od 28s Qd 28OP PRICES OF PROVISION S , & C . Beef, per lb. - Os. 34d.t0 08.6 d. Freshßutter,lb.os.B.l. to P. 0 4 0 6 S a lt ~ 0 8 0 1 ", Veal 0 6 0 9 Ditto, per cwt. 70 ; 0 74 Pork-7:727: 0 4 0 6 E ggs , per d oz. 1 2 0 Lamb, per qr. I 6 3 6 OatStrawikpl.) 6 6 7 fallow, cwt.... 35 0 37 0 Wheat Ditto«. 5 6 6-; Quartern Loaf 0 0 0 7 Barley Ditto s n • Potatoes, 1741 b. 0 5 0 0 Hay, per 05 8 0 EDINBURGH MEAL MARKETDec 10 • There was a good supply of Oatmeal at this day's mar s and the sales were heavy, at a reduction of Is. per sack. Per Sack of 2801 b. I m p. Per Stone ot 141 b. Imp. ,1 First Oatmeal £l 10 0 First Oatmeal xo Second ditto 1 8 6 S econd ditto Barleymeal 1 5 0' Barleymeal ' 0 V 4 Peasenteal . 1 5 0 Pe asemeal 0 Pdt Barley-No. I, pet cwt. 125.-2 d, 145.-3 d, les.-Pestl2ot, --- GLASGOW CORN MARKDee. 11. • „.0 The arrivals of Grain are light, Wheat is dull. Fine 4 . , ,f,t are rather dearer. Barley a trifle lower. No change in otm" articles. heat, per 2401 b. s. d. s. d. O ats, per 2641 b. a. d. • B W ritish, old 260 to 280 Iri s h l4 oto 16 6 ---... new Canada, free........ 28 0 29 0 Beans, per 2601 b. Irish Barley, per 3201 b. Scottish l6 0 18 ° English -0 - 17 0 I'ease, Scottish ... 16 0 Scottish O2 6 23 0 O a t mea l , per 1401 b. 13 0 14 A Irish CORNWALL. MARKETS. Tauao-Wheat - (average) 20 s Od Barley, 9s. 9d.-Oats, •6 1i ST. AUSTELL-Wheat, -a. to 215.-Barley, Os. to 10...-Oa, 7s. to 7s. 9d.. . PENzastcg--Wheat, 21s. to 225.-Barley, 9s. to Os. to Bs. 6,1. -Beef and Mutton, 51d. to 68.-Pork, Od. to Butter, 12d. per lb. LAUNCESTON-Wheat (average) 198.6d.-Barley, 9s.ett..-OS 4 ss. 3d.-Beef. 51d.-Mutton, 6d. USE gaao-Wheat, -s. to 20s. Od.--Barley, 103. 0d.z..031 9 , 41. to 6s. 6d. BODMIN-Wheat (average)2ls.-Barley, 10s. Od.-Oats, 64. Hitts•ropt-Wheat, 20s. 6d.-Barley, 103 Od. Sr. Comae-Wheat, 20s. to 215.-Barley, 9s. to 106.--0 84 and Mutton, 51d. to 6d.-Veal, 08.-Lamb, 03. MINING INTELLIGENCB. . Tons. Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Redruth last Thurday 8,234 Average Produce " Quantity of fine Amount 0f5a1e,121,5111. 4s. 6d.-Average Standard, 116/, 100. 014 MEETINGS OF CREDITORS AT THE COURT, BASINGHALL-STREET. (From the London Gazette.) W. Mason, audio ne Ter, O-MORR ueenOWhitbe, DEC. 17. • le. If' 2 at 11 J. Nickalls, coin-facto r , Q Chatham, Kent T. Jordan, wine -merchant, Goodge-street, Tottenham court-road 1 , 11 W. Brown, stone-merchant, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-stree . t . 1 ig H. James, baker, Star-street, Edgware road 1 lg DIVIDENDS. 0 , G. Stovell and Co., upholsterers, Lower Grosvenor-street...at I I S. Samson, broke r , St oc k E xchange R. Edden, draper, N ewga t e-street 0 W, Church, wine- merc h ant, Mark-lane 1 J. Whitehead and C o. , ware h ousemen, Lad -lane lO T. Robinson and Co., merchants, Freeman's-court, Col.:thin 1 ! 1. J. Morland, corn.d ea l er , Broad-street, Ratclif-cross LICHFIELD, DEC. 13.—Lichfield has fol lowed the example of other high spirited Corporations. The Commissioners arrived here last night, and sent t o the Town Clerk notice of commencing their inquiry, wii o informed them of the refusal of the Corporation of this city. Messrs. Cockburn and Rushton this morning issued notice that they would attend at the Town liaU at 'twelve o'clock, when the Town Clerk attended, and 'proditeed the resolutions of the Corporation refusing the inquiry.." Morning Post. BIRTHS. On the 14th inst., Mrs. Robert Johnson, Crescent-place, NeW Bridge street, of a daughter. - - On the 13th in St. Andrew's-place, Regent's-park, Mrs, Ja s. Leman, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Froyle Parsonage, Hants, Mrs. Lang ford Sainsbury, of a son. On the sth inst., the lady of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., M.P. of a son. MARRIED. On the 14th inst., at Christchurch, Marylebone, P. Pick. thorn, Esq., fourth son of J. Pickthorn, Esq., of Callington, Cornwall, to Jane Charlotte, second daughter of the late Thos. Bourke, Esq., of Mayo. On the 14th inst., at St. Giles's, Camberwell,. Mr. William Brown, of Peckham, surgeon, to Eliza. Graves, daughter of Robert Dolphin, Esq., of the same place. On the 12th inst., at St. Luke's, Chelsea, Francis Rolling worth, Esq., late of Canton, to Mary, widow of the late G. W. Burrow, Esq., of Holly house, Hoxton. On the 12th inst., at Havent, the Rev. Thomas Commeline, to Harriet Frances, eldest daughter of the Venerable Arch. deacon Onslow. On the 3d inst., at St. Mary's, Nottingham, the Rev. John Noble, of Frisby, Leicester, to Elizabeth, the youngest Baugh. ter of H. Cox, gent., of the former town. On the sth inst., at Wimeswold, William Palmer, Esq., of Leicester, to Elizabeth, only daughter of the late Richard Harrold, Esq., of Olney, Bucks. • • On the 11th inst., at Wisbech, Mr. Jeffreys, surgeon, to Ann, eldest daughter of the late Mr. George Life, of that town. On the sth inst., at Tamworth, Mr. R. Harris, jun., of the Braunstone.gate, Leicester, to Anne, the second daughter - of Mr. George Shirley, of the former place. On the 12th inst., at St. Pancras New Church, John Pat.. tullo, Esq., surgeon, of Holloway, to Charlotte Couch, second daughter of the late Mr. B. C. Danby, of the Temple. On the 12th inst., at Chiswick, Joseph Tayler, Esq., of Cam. berwell, to Miss Peirson, of Chiswick. DIED, On the 12th inst., Mr. Thomas Jackson Mortimer, of St. James's street, in his 52d year. , On the 11th inst., Henrietta, wife of C. J. Maning, Esq. On the 11th inst., in Drummond.street, in his 81st year, Mr. John Isatt, late attorney-at-law, formerly of Wimpole igmore.streets, Cavendish-square, and of Windsor, Berks. On the 13th inst., Mr. John Kirtland, of Cold Harbour-lane, Camberwell, Surrey, in Isis 71st year. On the 4th inst., at Gaddesby, Leicester, aged 67, Mr. Jennells. On the 6th inst., Mary Helen, only daughter of Mr. Joseph Mather, of Manchester, and granddaughter of Mr. C. Goddard, of Belgrave.gate, Leicester. On the 7th inst., aged 89, at the house of her daughter, Mrs. Postlethwaite, of the Friars, Leicester, Ann, relict of the lat e Mr. Wingfield, Willis, formerly of Elstow, near Bedford. On the 7th inst., at his mother's house, in Cognac, Frederick Martell, Esq., in his 24th year. egent's.park, John On the 12th inst., at West Cowes, Mr. John Ilgaeli, age d g x On the 13th inst., at Hackney, Mr. Samuel Shenstone, for. Terrace, merly of the Minories, in his (33d year. R Kensington, Eliza. late of Aramstone. Porter, o O nn the h h Ee e s ;1 1 3 2. I t h h i n inst., n t h i ssi inst., . . ~ s i . f dt h S y tee. her house, 1 : d u r s e e v: house, Herefordshire. __ beth, relict of John Woodhouse, Esq., On ' the 15th inst., in Hunter.street, Brunswick square, Jane, wife of Mr. Edward Barron, of that place, and of Essex-street, Strand, aged 31. Deason, incumbent o f W h i twort h , Durham. On the 12th inst., in Ch ar l otte street, Bloomsbury, the Rev. Thomas PRITITSD AND PUHLIPIIRD sYMURDO YOUNG, AT Tll4 . gIIN ()MGR, 11% lir NANA! ijii Dit BRAN Dit Dit Dil and tupe: :able dozen Dd 8 Intl 9 Ditt 10Dit 11 Inc 12 Dit Dee! Ebo Blotti Dit char