The Sun. — London, England, 1830-03-01 00:00:00

4ti kulicieusement plaaes ; si elles sont percues avec l'eco nomie convenable. - 11 suflit iei d'observer que lea menu facturei de !eine, de soie, d'or, et d'argent, une f ou le d'autres ont succombe apres avoir lutte longtems contre la progression de l'impfit. La Hollande n'a sauv4 du mu frage de sea manufactures, que celles qui n'ont pas 4;4 ex posees a la concurrence des autres nations.' " In order to leave nothing unsaid that can be urged to produce a full conviction of the absolute necessity of revis ing the taxes on materials, some short remarks will now be made to draw attention to those particular taxes which are the most inconsistent with sound principles, and the most injurious in their operation. " The duty on hemp raises the prices of those kinds of linens which are in most universal demand ; also the prices of sails and cordage. In this latter case it is quite inconsistent with those numerous legislative regulations which have been enacted for protecting and encouraging the shipping interest. " As the Legislature, acting most wisely, has introduced a freer system of navigation, it is bound in common jus tice to the shipping interest to remove alt the duties on the materials of ship-building. The permission which has recently been given to British ships to buy foreign cord age,:and bring it home free of duty, is an additional reason for taking off the duty on hemp. " The duty on ashes and barilla adds to the prices of the materials of several manufactures; and even in the eases where a drawback is allowed, the obtaining it is attended with expense and loss of time : while, as is the case with all drawbacks, there is a waste of money—first, in the business of collecting the duty, then in that of re paving it, and often by frauds being practised by gettieg a drawback of greater amount than that of the duty which bast been paid. " The duty on thrown silk not only raises the price of the silk imported, but as long as any is imported, of all silks thrown at home; because the price of the latter will always be as high as the price of the former, in consequence of its being impossible that two pric,s for the same article can exist in the same market. If thrown silk were made free of duty, the price would he reduced by the amount of the duty ; for our own throwstere, in order to secure a sale for their silk, would be obliged to introduce such nn provemen's as would enable them to go into competition with free foreign thrown silks. If they could not make such improvements, and lower their prices, then the silk manufacturers would be supplied by foreign silk ; but the progress which has of late been made in silk machinery snakes it evident that this is an event by no means likely to happen if the duty on thrown silk were repealed. " The duty on timber affects and injures industry in a great variety of ways, in consequence of its being so much used in buildings, ships, machinery, &c. Countries pos sessing forests in the vicinity of navigable rivers enjoy great advantages in that respect over our ship-builders; and to lay a duty upon timber is still further to increase those advantages. Instead of doing this, it would appear as if it were an indispensable preliminary to securing a petreauently successful competition with foreign ship buil lers, to admit timber to be imported free of all duty. " The present arrangement of the duties—namely of 10s. a itrul on Nurth American timber, and of 21. 151. a load on European timber—forces, as it were, the uses of the former kind, though of inferior quality. If, in place of these duties, a duty of 1/. 15s. a load were imposed on all timber, the prices would be reduced 1/. a load, and the re venue would tie very considerably increased. " The they on bricks and tiles falls heavily on industry, in consequence of the number and size of the buildings re quired for mills, factories, store houses, &e. It must ob viously contribute to diminish the employment of capital and labour. " The duty on hides and skins not only injures a very important manufacture, but raises the price of one of the necessaries of life. As leather is an article of univei sal de mand, the repealing of the duty would have the effect of a considerable increase in the employment of capital and labour. " The duty on coals and culm carried coastways needs only to be mentioned to obtain a general assent to the impolicy of continuing it. It would be an endless task to trace out all the ways in which this duty does injury; it will be sufficient to allude to the business of working coal-mines, making machinery, building ships, bleaching, dying, and to the use of steam in so many pro tegees of trade and manufactures. " The exportation of coals is confined to between 300,000 and 400,000 tons a-year by the high duty of l 1 7s. a chaldron. If this were reduced, the exportation would be immediately increased, with great advantage to the revenue; and also to the owners of collieries and of ships, and to the labouring class. " The duties on tallow and soap are exceedingly inju rious to manufactures, and have the same effects that all the other duties un materials have—namely, that of de ranging the natural course in which capital and labour would be employed, productions extended, and the wealth, comforts, and enjoyments of the community increased. -- ; It is impossible to repeat too often how much good the reusing of the taxes on materials would do. The evil of continuing them is so universally pernicious, that the common-place excuse for it should have no weight— namely, that the circumstances of the country will not ad mit of reduction of the revenue—at least, until those cir cumstances have been more fully investigated. No inquiry has as yet been made to ascertain whether means may not be found for providing for the public expenditure without the aid of this class of taxes, and therefore no plea of diffi culty, with respect to the revenue, should be listened to, until it can be shown—first, that the present scale of public expenditure will not admit of any reduction ; and 'secondly, that no other taxes can bq laid on of a less inju rious kind than the e xisting taxes on materials."— Times. It is somewhat strange that those who have cried down the paper currency of England, and who maintain that it encourages speculation and over trading, have not, wise souls I a word to say at pre sent against the small notes of Scotland and Ireland. It is very remarkable that what is affirmed to be beneficial to England is not now deemed wholesome in the sister countries, and that a piece of paper which is worth a sovereign, and will purchase a sovereign's worth of corn at Gretna-green, is by law a contraband commodity at Carlisle, and declared by our modern Solons to be a filthy and worthless rag. Of all the stupid laws for which this stupid country is famous this one is the most stupid. The law sup that a one-pound bank note is productive of evil at Carlisle, and the reverse of evil at Gretna green. The people of Scotland cannot carry on their business without small notes, and the good people of Northumberland and Cumberland cannot prosper with them. In the one place they are use ful, in the other injurious—in this country they are a safe and valuable medium, in the next they arc an accursed thing—the root of all evil ! Of all the absurdities that ever dropped from the lips • of an insane cockney or a crazy political economist this is the most absurd. We confess we do not understand how the present race of small statesmen endeavour to reconcile these contradictions. We cannot understand how the King's Royal prerogative to coin money should be so sturdily contended for in England, and so laxly respected across the borders and beyond the Irish Sea. Far less can we understand how what is per nicious in the one country should be deemed whole some in the other, except upon the principle im plied in the definition of Dr Johnson, that what is food only for beasts in England is excellent proven der for Scotch Presbyterians. But this we do know, that it is gross injustice to tolerate one description of currency on one side of the bor der and a different one on the opposite side —paper in the north, and gold in the south. We know this too , that it evinces despicable weakness, besides the injustice we speak of, to rob England because the English are easily rob bed, and spare the Scotch because they have threat ened to stand by their banks with the dirk in o4e band and the claymore in the other. The Govern ment that legislates after this fashion must be as impotent as it is wicked. It is well ascertained that if the small notes o f S cot l an d wer e s uppressed, every kind of property in that country would sink to one-half its present v a l ue . Thi s is the opinion of every practical and int e lli gen t man i n Se e tl a nd.— `l he same may be said of Ireland, where credit is has secure, where capital is less abundant and where investments are more hazardous. Admitting these facts—and who dare call them in question ? and founding our calculations upon them, what must we conclude has been the loss to England from the effects of that rash and inconceivably foolish measure ? We affirm that forty per cent. would not cover the depreciation we have already sustained, and we affirm moreover that sixty per cent. would not cover it if the Currency Bill were extended to Scotland and Ireland. This is rendered obvious and indisputable by the decline which lies already taken place here in the value of every kind of property (funded property excepted) and every article of produce, manufacture, and con= sumption. By the assistance of the Price Current, and the tables of a very clever pamphlet just pub lished by Mr. Ridgway, we are enabled to throw some light upon the amount of depreciation. And, first, as to home produce. The average •price of wheat in January, 1819, was 795. 3d. per quarter Winchester measure. In January, 1830, it was only 545. Winchester measure. In 1819, the har vest being good, there was little or no foreign wheat imported; whereas in 1829, according to the ad missions of that exquisite and inimitable Minister of Trade, the Duke of Wellington, we imported about two millions and a half quarters of foreign corn. If ther;!f,;re, the decline of price in a btu/ harvest was 32 per cent., what will it be when we have an average one ? WTe submit this arithmetical question to the country gentlemen. In 1819 the average • and Gazette price of barley was 60s. 2d.; in 1830 it was 295. Gd. Rye in 1810 was 58s. 10d.; in 1830 it was 325. Oats in 1819 were 325. 6d. ;in 1830 they were 21s. sd. In these two last instances the failure of the crops has operated to keep the price considerably above its natural level, in addition to which the prices of 1819 are given in the Winches. ter measure, wi.ile those of the %present year are re ported in what is called the imperial measure, which makes the disproportion still greater. With respect to hay we find that, according to the market returns of Smithfield and Haymarket, the price in January, 1819, was from 71. 10s. to 81. ; whereas in January, 1830, it was no more than from 3/. 15s. to 4/. 10s. Clover in the former year sold from 81. to 91., but in the latter it only brought from 4/. 10s. to 51. 55.- This we confess is bad and lamentable enough; but wool, we regret to say, has suffered a still greater depression. The best South Down was sold in January, 1819, from 50s. to 565. per tod of 281 b. Io January, 1830, the same quality did not bring more than 17s. or 18s. per tod. In some places it is sold by the pound weight, and in these places, in January, 1819, it produced from 18d. to 20d. per pound ; whereas in last January it did not sell fur more, nor is it likely to sell for more, than sd. or 6d.-With respect to meat, commonly called butchers' meat, the fall in price has been equally great. The unblushing and mendacious statements of the Duke of Wellington on this head are worthy of notice, now that we state the facts from the official documents. Beef in Smithfield market in January, 1819, sold far from 4s. 4d. to ss. Bd. per stone. In January, 1830, it sold for from 3.. to 4s. 2d. Mutton, 1819, brought from ss. Gd. to 6s. GI; now it brings only from 3s. Gd. to 4s. 4d. On this point we have only to observe that the present prices are expected to decline considerably before the month of September. Of cheese the markets of the county of Chester give us the best criterion of price. Cheshire cheese (old) in January, 1819,• sold for from 41. 10s. to 51. ss. per cwt.; the new from 3/. 10s. to 41. ss. Last January the price was from 2/. 2s. to 21. 15s. old, and from I/. 15s. to 2/. 10s. new. Cork butter in January, 1819, brought from 5/. 4s. to 5/. 6s. per cwt. In January, 1830, its price was from 3/. 6s. to 3/. 10s. Bacon in Janu ary, 1819, sold for from 3/. 10s. to 3/. 145. per csvr. ; its present price is from 1/. 16s. to 21. Lon don tallow in the former period sold at 3/. 17s. 6d.; it now brings only 1/. 18s. 6d. These are facts which speak for themselves, and it is only neces sary to consider them in order to form some estimate of the depression which now affects the farmer in all parts of the country. The agriculturist, as the Duke of Wellington ob served, is literally destroyed! His Grace never uttered a truer or more melancholy sentence in the whole course of his life. But who destroyed him ? The Duke of Wellington and his party. Who refuses to relieve him ? The Duke of Wel lington. Who is the man who denied the existence of this state of things-who had the hardihood even to put a lie In the King's mouth-who said that the distress was merely partial, and that only a few hours before he admitted that the whole agri cultural interest of the kingdom was destroyed? That man is the Duke of Wellington ! ! We find that we have wandered from the small-note system of Scotland, and that now we have not leisure to return to it. The gaol door would be shut before we could again get over the borders, even though 'we went by steam. We shall, therefore, return to the subject to-morrow, and show the effects of the Currency Bill on the value of other articles both of colonial growth and British manufacture.-Morning Journal. Meetings on the subject of the Distress of the Country are now held almost daily. We regret that our limits, during the only open day we have, will not allow us to lay reports of all of them before our readers. At the Buckinghamshire Meeting a petition was adopted, in which the present distress was attributed to " the enormous weight of taxa tion under which the country now labours," that" a great proportion of the taxes are manifestly appro priated to purposes most corrupt and unconstitu tional, and to the maintenance of an unbecoming and idle luxury;" and the petitioners "do not hesitate to express their disbelief in the assertion of his Majesty's Ministers, that the exigencies of the State require the present enormous expenditure for its support ;" and they attribute " the apathy and indifference with which their petitions arc received to the notoriously corrupt and imperfect state of the Representation of the Commons. At a Meeting, on Thursday last, of the Merchants, Manufacturers, of Manchester, &c., convened by the Boroughreeve and Constables, a series of Resolutions were agreed to deserving of the highest praise. The distress of the country was attributed to excessive, and in a great measure unnecessary expenditure and monopoly. It seems to us that a Government like ours is under an invincible necessity of hurrying on to a crisis. If an Administration were to attempt a se• rious reduction, its career would be short indeed. Faction arises naturally out of disappointment, and so long as a shilling can be wrung from the people, the Aristocracy will consider they have a right to it. There is no security for the people's property in any thing short of popular controul. Whatever errors of opinion the people may fall into, their feel ings are generally sound, and the errors of the head are often corrected by the pocket. But an oligarchy having an interest separate from the people—that iz, having an interest in extravagant expenditure out of all proportion greater than their share of the na tional loss—cannot think correctly if they would for the pocket. So long as the oligarchy have the con troul, so long, therefore, must the extravagance con tinue. The Ultras are beginning to have a suspi cion that the game of faction will not end exactly in the way they anticipated. Our contemporary of the Standard observed on Saturday : " We would particularly caution the people, as one of the best means of eschewing the fatal lapse into disaffec tion, to avoid all connection with the proved incendiaries of the last thirty years. It is not in order to cherish an angry recollection of past misconduct that we would re mind our fellow-subjects that these incendiaries are in part the authors of all their sufferings. The debt which crushes us is the legacy of Jacobinism, triumphant abroad, and which would have had a like bloody triumph in rngland, but for the measures that have impelled this overwhelming burthen. The measures which have so fearfully aggravated the crushing weight of that debt are the effect of the ascendancy of Jacobinism in Parliament. The pill of last Session was as much a Jacobin measure in the hands of the Duke . of Wellington and Mr. Peel, as it was 36 years before in the hands of Messrs. Grattan and Arthur O'Connor. If auk of the Jacobin crew, there fore, now come forward to lead the feeling of the people, let them be rejected, if not, because they are otherwise unworthy of trust, on this account, that nothing but their interference can prevent the auspicious union in pro gress :—because they are mischievous meddlers, if nothing worse." . Then the American and FreHch wars were just and neces2ary—the establishments are just and ne cessary; and all is as it should be, except the Bill of last Session, placing the Catholics on the footing of their fellow citizens. But that Bill surely has not caused the present distress; and if County Meetings are called, th e y must advert to the distress, and the causes of it. Our Contemporary and his 'Tory allies . are " false position, Whentter iNlekqingi are called, Resolutions as strong as those of Bucking hamshire and Manchester will be adopted. The old song about Jacobins has lost all its charms.—Morn ing Chronicle. We have repeatedly endeavoured to impress upon the public the necessity either of a very extensive reduction of taxes and expenditure, or of a return to that currency in which three-fourths of the national debt was contracted; but, according to the declara tions of his Majesty's Ministers, we are to have neither._ The country, says the Chancellor of the Exchequer, must not be accommodated with a more extensive paper currency, lest there should be inju dicious speculation; and with regard to a reduction of the expenditure, the Government has taken off something more than a million, and that is all that can be done, either now or at any future time ! Now we put it to the country, whether it is pre pared to encounter, and that during a period of peace, an aalount of taxation which, were it to be converted into paper money, in which the taxes were paid during the war would fall little short of seventy millions. The prospect is appalling, and the attempt hazardous. The country might con trive to drag on a miserable existence under such a load of taxation for a few years ; but to think that it could always do so, appears to us to be a con ception of the resources of the country equally false and dangerous. The truth is, that the taxes are already paid in part, not out of the profits, now small beyond all precedent, which are derived from in dustry in the various modes in which it is exerted, but from capital; and this process, every one must be aware, must soon have an end. But it is not only to the non-reduction of the public expenditure to a greater amount than has been announced that we object; but to the petty mode in which even what has been announced is in progress of being effected. A few, worse than use less, Boards have been reduced, it is true ; but, on the other hand, the principal war appears to be carried on against clerks with small salaries—work men at the dock-yards, and others, who not only labour hard for their petty income, but the reduc tion of whose salaries is a matter too insignificant, in pint of saving, even for the country, distressed as it is to care about. In the last number of Whit taper's Monthly Magazine there is an excellent article on this subject, entitled " The Opening of '„the Session of Parliament," which we cannot resist the temptatiOn of laying before our readers.—Morning Advertiser. (We have not space for the extract, but refer our readers to the Magazine.)—ED. SUN. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, FEB. 27. GREY V. CAMPBELL. This defendant was again brought up. He said the Registrarhad committed an irregularity in adding to the order of the Court, that if the defendant failed to put in his answer, the bill should be taken pro confcsso. He did not, however, mean to insist on this ; he had put in his answer, and hoped the plaintiffs were sat►sfied with it. Some discussion arose as to the costs, Mr. Camp bell, contending that having once tendered them, he was not bound to do so again, but was entitled to his diicharge forthwith, and the solicitor observ ing that he was not at liberty to receive the costs until the order for the defendant's discharge had been pronounced. Ultimately the matter was arranged, and Mr. Campbell set at liberty. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, FEB. 27. TIIIRKELL V. THOMAS. This was an action of trover, to recover the value of a quantity of hops. Mr. EYANS and Mr. KELLY conducted the plain tiff's case. The principal witness was Thomas Appleton, who stated that in March, 1828, he pur chased of the defendant James Thomas, a ware houseman and wharfinger, 115 bags of hops of the growth of 1820. The price was about 17s. per cwt., and the amount was paid by a bill for 2501., at three months. On the 17th of April following, Appleton sold the hops to the plaintiff, a hap-dealer, at the rate of 21s. per cwt., the sum being 2901. No payment was made in money, Appleton having at the tune bought of the plaintiff a larger quantity of hops, the price of which was set off against the 2901. by way of -barter. After hearing Counsel, the Jury found for the defendant. DAVEY AND OTHERS V. BAKER, This was an action by Messrs. Davey and Pegg, coal-merchants, of Blackfriars, on a guarantee given by the defendant, a publican, for a person of the name of Abraham Gould. The guarantee, which was dated the 6th of Feb. 1829, was for coals to be supplied by the plaintiffs to Gould (who had commenced business as a coal merchants at Porto Bello-wharf, Blackfriars), to an amount not exceeding 3501. Gould ultimately became a bankrupt, and a balance of between 7001. and 8001. being due to the plaintiffs from him, the defendant was called upon, under his guarantee, for 3504 Gould had been assisted in his business by a person named Pym, and the question to-day was, whether Pym had or had not been a partner in the business. The Jury found for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, FEB. 27 PHILLIPS V. NVIMBURN. This was an action for assault and false imprison ment. . The transaction out of which this action arose has been long before the public. The wife and children of a Mr. Leonard Phillips conceiving that he was not in a fit state, from mental weakness, to govern his own affairs, employed a keeper to take care of him, and kept him under considerable restraint. He was brought up on a habeas corpus before Mr. Baron Vaughan, and ordered to be set at liberty by him. It was proposed by the ion, the present plain tiff, that Mr. Leonard Phillips should meet him at the house of his professional adviser, the present de fendant. The next day the father and son came to gether, accompanied by a keeper, to the house of Mr. Wimburn. When they entered, Mr. Wimburn said that he understood the object of the present meeting was to make some accommodation, or form some arrangement as to Mr. Phillips's affairs ; be, however, should decline entering into any explana tion in the presence of either the son or the keeper. On this the son caught his father round the waist, and said he would not be separated from him. Mr. Wimburn then desired all of them to leave the office. This the soa refused to do, and Mr. Wimburn then endeavoured gently to push him out. Finding that gentle means would not suffice, he sent for a con stable, and took him to Hatton•garden police-office. This was the assault and false imprisonment which formed the ground of the present action. Verdict for the plainti if—Damages, 501.; costs, 40s. CONSISTORY COURT, FEB. 27. ROGERS V. ROGERS. This was an allegation counter to the libel in a suit of divorce promoted by Mr. John Rogers against Mary Ann, his wife, for adultery alleged to have been committed with Mr. Joseph Whitaker. — This allegation, offered on behalf of the wife, pleaded facts in bar of the suit, setting itp a charge of cruelty, and connivance in the adultery, on the part of the husband. Dr. LUSIIINGTON said that the principle on which connivance was held to debar the husband in these cases is volenti non fit I n jurio ; and it must be either express or implied. With respect to the charge of cruelty, that, substantively taken, was no bar to a suit for adultery ; but it was alleged in the present case that it might show that the conduct of Mr. Rogers led to the connexion of the parties. But it was impossible for the Court to allow that the peculiar habits of the husband excused the wife in seeking consolation for the want of fit society in the arms of a lover. Ile Inuit therefore reject the allegation. CORONER'S INQUEST. On Saturday afternoon a highly respectable jury were summoned by Mr. GELL, Coroner for West minster, to inquire touching the death of Mr. Wm. Ginger, bookseller to the Westminstsr school, of No. 21, College-street, Westminster. The inquest was held at the deceased's late residence. • A report having been spread that the deceased, who was about 63 years of age, had met his death by poison, the utmost interest prevailed in the neigh lbourhood, where he appeared to be much respected, as to the result of the inquest. When the jury re turned from viewing the body, the Coroner observed that notwithstanding he had known the deceased all his life (they having been schoolfellows), so altered was he since his death that be (the Coroner) could not recognize a single feature of his face. The Jury also, who knew him in his life-time, ex pressed much astonishment at the alteration. Mr. Henry Frederick Holt, a surgeon, of No. 24, Holywell-street, Millbank-road, having been sent for, reached the residence of the deceased about half-past nine o'clock on Friday morning; he found him lying on his right side in bed, perfectly insen sible, but making what medical men called a "ster torous" breathing, and he was foaming at the mouth. The face was quite purple, and the pupil of the eye was most peculiarly contracted, showing evident marks of great pressure on the brain. Wit ness tied up his arm, and took no less than forty ounces of blood from him, which had the effect of relieving the breathing and relaxing the pupil of the eye. Mr. Clapton and Mr. White arrived soon after the witness had bled him, and they approved of what lie had done. The room was then exa mned, and on the dressing-table was found a glass with a weak solution of laudanum and water in it; the quantity in the glass was very small, not exceed ing half a tea-spoon full. Witness remained with the deceased until he expired, which was about ten minutes or a quarter of an hour after the stomach pump was used. rite witness was questioned at some length as to the appearances of the eye in cases of death by poison, and death by pressure on the brain (apo plexy) : he stated, that the pupil of the eye appeared widely different in those two cases : opium would cause what was called a " saucer" eye, that is, the pupil would be dilated; whereas, in case of pressure on the brain, the pupil would be contracted, as it was in this cage; consequently he had no hesitation in saying that the deceased died from a depression of blood on the brain, causing a fit of apoplexy. CORONER—Is it not unusual for persons labouring under apoplexy to bleed so freely ? Witness—Oh, no, certainly not. CORONER-.-I thought it was. The witness said, that if a person labouring under apoplexy took a small quantity of laudanum, it would accelerate the apoplexy. Seeing how weak the solution in the glass was, if a person had taken the whole glass full, it would occasion no injury.— The witness himself had frequently taken a much larger quantity, and the late Mrs. Alsop (Mrs. Jordan's daughter), when she lived in Millbank street, used to have, every day of her life, India pint of laudanum of the witness, which she drank off in a tumbler. The deceased had a medicine-chest in his bed-room, in which was a bottle containing about half an ounce of laudanum. The Jury returned a verdict—" That the death of t he deceased was caused by apoplexy." POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW.STREET. On Saturday Thomas Davis was placed at the bar before Mr. Haus, charged with having stolen a quantity of plate, the property of John Motteaux, Esq., of 92, - Gloucester-place, and Beach-well, Wells, Norfolk. Mr. Motteaux stated, that on Friday, the 12th of February, he left his seat in Norfolk, for London' and on the same day stopped at the house -of Mr• Ayres, of Cavenba►n, in the same county. Thomas Hopkins was under-butler to the last witness. On the evening of the 11th of February, he placed in a box by his master's directions, two dozen of large silver forks, one dozen and eleven table spoons, four gravy spoons, four sauce ladles, twelve dessert spoons, eight tea spoons, six salt spoons, a pair of sugar tongs, and a dessert spoon and fork, both metal. Witness put the box con taining these articles into the dicky of his raster's carriage, and set out for London on the following morning, and at night arrived at the house of Mr. Ayres, with whom the prisoner was living as but ler. The witness then proceeded to state, that he assisted in putting down his master's carriage into the coach-house of Mr. Ayres, at which time he saw the plate•box secure, and buttoned up the apron of the dicky. The groom of Mr. Ayres locked the door of the coach-house. Witness assisted the prisoner at dinner, after which he brought the plate on a tray to the pantry, where witness assisted him in cleaning it up. The prisoner said he should take the plate up stairs to his own bed-room. Witness asked him why he wished to do so, and if any thing had been stolen from the place. The prisoner re plied, " No," hut he always liked to have the plate in the room where he slept. The witness then sug gested the propriety of his placing his master's plate in a more secure place than the coach-house, but the prisoner replied, " it is not worth your while, as the groom is to sleep where it is deposited, and it will be as safe there as in your bed-room," adding, " no per son can break into the coach-house without his (the groom's) hearing it." Witness went to bed about twelve o'clock, and the prisoner slept in the same room. The prisoner got up the next morning at seven, saying, that he .had to waken his master. Witness came down stairs at a quarter to eight o'clock, and at about ten he went to the coach house to assist in getting out the carriage, when he found the apron of the dicky unbuttoned, and im mediately discovered that the box of plate was gone. Witness told the prisoner to tell his master what had happened, but the prisoner seemed alarmed and confused, and told the witness to go himself. Ellis, the officer, here produced a metal spoon and part of a metal fork, which the witness identified as part of the property which had been stolen. Mr. Motteaux also spoke to the same fact, and produced another spoon exactly similar to that which had been identified. - Ellis, the officer, from information received by him, traced the prisoner to the Union-hotel, Jermyn street, where he found a box belonging to him, in which he found the metal spoon produced and iden tified by the last witness. On apprehending the prisoner that day, he found upon his person the part of the metal fork which had ulso been identified. Sir R. BIRNIE asked the prisoner if he wished to say any thing in his defence. The prisoner had nothing to say then, further than to observe, that it was not he who committed the robbery. The prisoner was then remanded, to give time for the produCtion of the groom of Mr. Ayres. At the evening sitting John Hemmings, a smartly dressed young man, was brought in custody by a police constable, before Mr. HALLS, charged with having attempted to steal a diamond pin, value 101., from the person of Mr. Edward Archbold, at the pit entrance of Covent-garden Theatre. Mr. Archbold stated that he was pushing his way into the pit about ten minutes before, when he felt himself pressed upon by a man, and in a moment after he detected the hand of the prisoner on his cravat. Suspecting his object witness seized the prisoner, and gave him into the custody of the officer now present. The prisoner declared that he was a respectable young man, and followed the profession of an artist, in Tottenham -court-road. He was perfectly inno cent, he said, of any attempt to steal the gentle man's pin. Mr. Archbold observed, that the pin which the prisoner wore appeared to be a diamond. The prisoner admitted the fact, and said he had purchased it the day before at a pawnbroker's shop in Tottenham-court-road. Mr. HALLS asked Ford, the gaoler, if the prisoner was known to him.--Ford—Yes, your worship, I know hint►. Mr. HALLS—What is he 2—Ford—A swell thief, your worship. He has been at this bar about a year and a half ago, and has since been convicted. Mr. HALLS said he would not trouble Mr. Arch bold to come forward to prosecute the prisoner, as he should now deal with him in a summary manner. He was then sentenced to two months' confinement and hard labour in the House of Correction. LAMBETH-STREET. Two stout strong-looking young women, who gave their names Fanny and Ann Matthews, but whose real names are Fanny Batkens and Nancy Man!; were brought to this office late on Friday evening in custody of Pendergrass and Shels well, charged with robbing a gentleman named Williams, of five 10/. notes, on the 12th of January. They were both remanded until Friday. A sailor, named John Brown, was brought on Saturday before Mr. WALKER, charged with ob taining a quantity of valuable property from a Mr. Stancliffe, a mathematical instrument-maker, residing at Stepney. The prisoner was remanded. A respectable-looking young woman, attired in widow's weeds, came before Mr. WALKER, and begged him to compel the overseers of the parish of St. George in the East to grant her some relief. The young woman, in a very respectful tone, told the Magistrate that she had resided with her hus band in the parish of St. George for a long time, but at the falling of the Brunswick Theatre her husband was so seriously injured that he died in consequence, about seven months since, leaving her with an infant child without any means of sub sibtence. Mr. WALKER—You say your husband has been dead seven months, how have you supported your self since that time? Applicant—Why, Sir, I have endeavoured to get my living by doing a little needle-work, and, indeed, if my child were to be taken care of, I could still support myself. Mr. WALKER—Oh, you cannot expect the parish to do that; however, I will grant you a summons for the parish-officers, and we will have the case in vestigated. SPRING ASSIZES. OXFORD CIRCUIT, READING, FEB. 26. The Judges for this circuit, Mr. Justice - TATTLE.. DALE and Mr. Baron BOLLAND, arrived here yester day at five o'clock p.m., attended by the High Sheriff of the county and his escort, composed of the usual attendaNts, as well as a very numerous and brilliant cortege of that gentleman's friends, and of the yeomanry of the county. The brightness of a very fine day gave unusual cheerfulness to the procession. This morning, at ten o'clock, their Lordships, accom panied by the Sheriff, proceeded to the Town-hall to open the commission, and after they bad attended divine service at St. Lawrence's church, Mr. Baron Bolland, who presides in the Crown Court, charged the 'Grand Jury, of which Sir Claudius Hunter, Bart., is foreman. The calendar contains 24 cases, the prisoners being 39 in number, but, except in a few instances, none of which have come on to-day, the offences charged are not more aggravated than usually occur in a county purely agricultural. The Learned Baron has only resigned the Recordership of this borough since his late promotion to the Bench. The entry of causes is understood to be unusually small. The Commission day at Oxford is Tuesday. SATURDAY, FEE. 27. William Green was put to the bar, charged on the Coroner's inquisition with the manslaughter of William Tull, et Bucklebury. Before the Jury were sworn, Mr. TALFOURD, for tht prisoner, among other objections, submitted that the Christian name of one of the Jurors was not written at length in the inquisition, and cited the " King and Evitt," in 6 Barnewall and Cress well's Reports. Mr, Baron BOLLAND adverted to the illegible manner in which the name as abbreviated, was written, being more like " Nathg," than " Nathl." and quashed the inquisition on the authority of the case cited. William Jervis was indicted for stealing a mere, the'property of Lewis Rose, of White Waltham, and John Stone, for receiving the same mare know ing her to have been stolen. The prisoner did not go into the field of the pro secutor and take the mare, but he agreed for the purchase of her, and contracted to pay for her 11/. 10s. in ready money. As he was a stranger to Mr. Rose, the latter refused to part with the mare un less he was paid; and, on a promise of payment, he sent his servant with the mare to Bracknell, where the prisoner lived, with directions not to part with her unless paid. Jervis, however, overtook the man on the road, and induced him to give up the mare without being paid, by pretending that Mr. Rose and he had so agreed. Jervis then took the mare to his own house, and, in a few days after, ab sconded with her. The other prisoner also disap peared under suspicious circumstances, and both were found together with the mare at Aylesbury. The Jury found the prisoners Not Guilty. _ _ James Suyeeper was indicted for breaking into the house of William Baker, in St. Mary's, Reading, and stealing therein one sovereign, four half sovereigns, and 4/. 7s. in silver, his property. Mr. TYRIVIIITT stated the case for the prosecu tion, pointing out to the Jury in conclusion, that the main point to which they would direct their atten tion would be the nature of the opportunity which in their judgment the wife of the prosecutor should turn out to have had of observing the men who en tered the house on the evening in question. It ap peared from her evidence, that the house was situated in a large market-garden, in the outskirts of Reading, 300 yards from any other house. It consisted of two rooms, one a sitting the other a bed-room, both on the ground floor, with a window in each room, that in the sitting•room being a casement close to the house-door, and not made to open, but closely nailed down. The family consisted of the prosecutor, who was a market-gardener, his wife and infant child, and a servant girl. About six o'clock on the evening of Wednesday, the 16th of December, the husband, William Baker, left home,in order to make some purchase, and after taking 3s. for that pnr pose, counted the rest of his money, which amounted to the above-mentioned sum. He then► placed it in a bag, in the middle drawer of three, in a chest in the bedroom. Soon after his departure the wife placed her child asleep on the bed in the bed-room, and saw through the window two men in the garden, about eight yards from the house. They went off towards the road, and she, in alarm, prevailed on the servant girl to go to her father's, about 300 yards off, to bring him and her brother to protect the house. She locked the house-door after the girl, and sat down by the fire in the outer room. Just afterwards she heard the casement by the door• torn up, and a hand appeared which reached_ to the key in the lock of the door, and unlocked it inside. Two men im.• mediately entered the house, one a tall man, the other a short one. They stood before her as she sat; she had a candle and fire burning, and saw them distinctly. The witness was desired to look at the prisoner, who was a tall man, dressed in a light grey frock coat, and to say whether that was one of the men. The prisoner turned to her with boldness, but she steadily surveyed him, and positively swore he was the taller of them, but that he was then dressed dif ferently, viz, in fustian coat and trousers. On the 11th of January she went to the Bridewell in Read ing, and was placed in a room there darkened, with a candle burning, and sat in the same position she had been in on the night of the robbery. The pri soner who was then in tile gaol on another charge, was then indtroduce ; but on seeing her turned his head aside, Site screamed out and fainted. On the night of the robbery, he was not dressed as he then was, or as he appeared at the trial, but in a fustian coat and trousers. The servant girl proved her going to her father, and that on then• return in about a quarter of an hour, they found the house door oven and the outer room dark, except from a small fire. TheY'searched for Mrs. Baker in both rooms, and found her in the bed-room on the floor, in the placed she had stated, with an apron tied over her head and neck, and in sensible. • Verdict—Not Guilty. The prisoner was then tried on another indict ment, for stealing a watch from a cottager's mantel piece, in Beedon, on the 6th of January. Mr. TYRWIIITT stated the case very shortly, and the prisoner was convicted. ' ' The Learned BARON postponed the-sentence. Richard Brunsdon was put to the bar, charged with killing and slaying William Rance, at Sonning. Verdict—Guilty. Sentence—Two months' im prisonment. The Courts adjourned about seven o'clock, only four trifling cases remaining to be tried on Monday in the Criminal Court. The Nisi Prius list for that day is very light. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS. Pet Quarter. Carlirle Carmarthen Morpeth., Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Coventry Newcastle (Staff) Northallerton Stafford Swansea Warwick Per 8011. Barnardcastle ...M. Durham - Richmond Stockton DURIWG LAST WEEK. Wheat. I Barley. s. to I. IS a. to a. 58 54 92 62 72 33 41 50 60 28 22 60 31 - 73 s. d. 7 0 90 70 90 68 90 64 I s. (1. 90. 96' 93 94 70 10 0 1 _ _ I 25 33 s. d. s. d. 48 5 4 46 58 36 46 59 62 44 48 46 54 146 160:86 90 111 6 156 80 90 120 160 90 106 126 146.80 90 Oats. I. to 8. ••••• 22 22 29. IN 24 Is 45 s. d. s. d. 36 40 34 40 33 40 '36 40 22 46 33 40 6 64 49 64 70 86 48 76 Beau. s. to s. --r 98 -- 50 52 SA 35 42 46 s. d. a. d. 56 60 59 60 S 9 60 74 SO 00 00 73 76 96 126 98 10 0 11 0 12 0 09 WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET.-Feb. 26. There is again a large arrival of Wheat up the river, but the supply from the farmers has fallen off to this day's market ; the best dry and sound. samples are in request, at an advance of 2s. per quarter, and general runs are Is. per quarter higher, but the inferior and damp parcels meet dull sale. Oats are without variation. Barley is Immix the same in value as last week, good dry samples being in fair demand, and the middling and inferior sorts very dull sale. Good hard Beans are in demand at the rates of last Friday, but soft samples, a considerable quantity of which are offering, are very heavy sale. Malt is as dull as possible. Wheat, Red, Norfolk and Sufihlk 555. 58s. to els. fine 655. New 575. 60s. to 65.. fine 680.. White Old 58s. els. to 680. tine 71s. .._.- New 50.. 565. to 00s. fine 630. - Foreign, Red .ios. 58s. to 648. fine 686. - White 545. 5135. to 625. fine 700. Barley, Norfolk and Suftblk 2ss. to 30s. fine 331. ------ Lincolnshire 2lO. to 295. fine 310. - Yorkshire Wold 2ls. to 275. fins 290. - Foreign -s. to -a. fine ....0. Beans, Old - New 30s. to 335. fine 340. Oats, Potato 220. to 255. fine 275. - Poland 20s. 225. to 245. fine 255. Friezland and Small lBs. 20s. to 225. tine 238. - Healing ild. to 12%d. per Stone. Shelling 295. to 30s. lid. per Load. Malt 36s. 395. fine 41s. per Load. Rapeseed Aberdeen Berwick...—. Coldstreau► C upar Dundee Elgin Inverness..... Kelso Perth ----.. Vis- The size SCOTCH 111ARKET Whcat. Barley 46 66 123 29 36 40 18 20 36 42 18 20 44 68 27 28 48 56 27 30 :4 82 20 25 48 54 21 26 139 40 18 26 60 76 33 38 48 70 19 21 of the measure val Oats. Beans. , Ostrow 28 21) 23 33 SO 20 25 24 27 Ye 27 —. 19 21 19 20 40 -- 24 27 20 34 -- 26 32 lout the country. _ 17 22 14 17 14 17 20 23 21 24 20 23 19 21 15 17 26 32 19 21 ies througl EDINBURGH CORN 111 A RKET.—Feb. 24. We had a large supply of all kinds of Grain to-day, ex cept Barley, whi c h so ld rea dil y at higher current prices. There being a demand f o r seetrOate, one parcel brought 325. Pease and Beans, for seed, brought from 32e. to 865., although the current prices got dull towards the end. A small supply of Barley; top Is. up. No im provement on inforior sorts. _ _ Wheat. First 6 3s Od Barley. I Oats. 3.5 s Ott Ws 8d Pease. —4 Od Beane. od ...11 Oa Second 65s Od I 33s Od 2ss 4d —s Od Third 52s Od I 3ls Od 24s 4d —s Od PRICES OF PROVISIONS, &C. Beer, per lb. « Os. 4d. to Os. 6d. , Fresh Butter,lb.s. &I. to s. 104 4 ,, Mutton 0 4 0 1 Salt 0 7 0 v. 0 6 0 10• Ditto, per cw t. 62 6 70 0 Pork 0 4 0 6 Eggs, per doe. 0 7 0 0 Lamb, per qr. 10 0 16 0 OatStraw(kpl.) 6 0 0. 0 Tallow, cwt.... 36 0 37 0 Wheat Ditto.., 7 0 8 6 Quartern Loaf 0 8 0 9 Barley Ditto 0 0 6 6 Potatoes, 17i1b. 0 5 0 0 Hay, per at.... 0 5 0 6, EDINBURGH MEA We had a middling suppl; ket, which sold readily at a last week's prices, and 2d. o . MARKEI —Feb.23. of Oatmeal at to-day's mar advance of 2e. per sack ou the retail. Per Sack - of 2801 b. Imp. First Oatmeal £l 18 0 Second ditto I 16 0 Barleymeal 1 10 0 Peasemeal 1 8 0 Pot Barley—No. I, per act. 12 Per Stone of 141 b. Imp. First Oatnseal £0 2 0 Second ditto Barleymeal 0 1. 5 Peasemeal 0 1 5 .-2d. 141.-3 d. lat.—Pea:l22s. HADDINOTON CORN MARKET.—Feb. 26. Barley and Oats have sold to-day at nearly the same prices upon the whole as last market ; average of Barley down ld., top up Is. 6d., 84 quarters sold. Oats stand at the same top —average down Id., 353 quarters sold, and 124 unsold. Wheat went off at better prices—ave rage 10d. up. Pease are down, and Beans up. Wheat. Barley. Oats. Pease. Beans. First '7os Od 31s 6d 30$ Od 33s Od 40s Od Second 56. Od 29s Oct 24s 6d 29. Od 33$ Od Third 46$ Od 22$ Od 19s Od 27s Od 29$ Od There were 467 qrs. of Wheat in market, 367 whereof were sold. 63 Unsold.-37 Grey. 21. 16s. Ai. s.l2the. Average ITH COIF] ' all kinds ices ratheJ MARK] of Grain r higher t 1 DALKEI The supply of ket was short; pr se'nnight. Wheat. Barley. Oats. First 666 O. 33s Od 28s 6d Second Third 505 Od 25s Od 22s Od Y: at this it tan those o Tay's mar at' this day Pease. 3e Od 34a Od Od CORNWALL MARKETS. Beans. 37a Cd 34$ Od 2es Od TRUlto.—Wheat (average) 225. 6tl.—Barley. 124.—Oats, 12s. 3d. HELsvox—Wheat, 225. Od.—Barley , 11s. Od. ST. AurraLL—Wheat, 205. to ft.—Barley, Ils. to 12a.—.Oats, 9s. to 10s. Od. --- BOO;Wheat (average) 235. Od.—Barley, Ill.—Oats, 9s. Od. LA UNCBSTON—Wh eat (average) 245. Od.—Barley, 12s. Od .—.Oats, 01.—Beef, 50.—Mutton, sd. PaNzaNcE—Wheat, 20s. to 21s.—Barley, —s. to 125.--Oatt. Ss. to 10s. 01.—Beef and Mutton, 4d. to 51c.—Pork, 3jd. to Od.-- Butter, 12d. per lb. Lisaaaan—Wheat, 225. Cd. to 268.—Barley.19s. &L—. Oats, 109. to lls. Od. ST. CoLusaa—Wheat, 21s. to 23s.—Barley, 10s. to 11s.—Beef, and Mutton, sd. to 50.—Veal and Lamb, Cd to 6d. MINING INTELLIGENCE. Tons. Cwt Quantity of Copper Ore sold at Itedruth last Thursday 3,147 0 Average Produce 8 0 Quantity of fine Copper 250 0 Amount of Sale, 17,2711. 15s. o.l.—Average Standard, 1031. ea. OA. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 27.--:-The demand for cot• ton during the present week has been extteinely animated and prices generally are now 0. to V. per lb. higher than the quotations of the last week. The sales, up to last night, reach 29,160 bags. To-day the sales amount to 3,000, at previous prices. The market has a very firni appearance. BIRTHS. On the 23d ult. in Dublin, the Countess of Longford, of a daughter. On the 25th ult., at Little Berkhamstead, Herts, the lady of T. Daniell, Esq. of a daughter. On the 28th ult. Mrs. F. Deacon, of a son. On the 26th ult. in Guildford-street, Russell-aquas, Mrs. C. Winfield, of a son. On the 20th ult. at Paris, the lady of Gibson Stott, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. - On the 27th ult. at the church of St. Martin-in-the' Fields, the Rer. C. IL B. Bazeley, rector of Suuthchurcb , in the county of Essex, son of the late Vice-Admiral Bazeley, to Agnes, daughter of the late Thomas Biggs, S t. Company's Esq., of Dover, in the county of Kent. On the 25th ult. at Arundel, Mr. W. Ellis, of wasp. ton, to Hannah, fifth daughter of the late C. Waltharlos Esq. of Peckham. On tll George's, fr. Duncan, Esq" surgeon, Service, to Catherine , d au ghter of A. Sutherland, Esq. DIED. e H 2 on 7 . thEa ult.st lnadtia On the 25th ult. H. B. C. Stevenson, Esq. of Paik street, Grosvenor-square, aged 27. ' On the 25th ult. at Bury, the widow of the late Rev. T. Waddington, D.D. At East Cholderton, Hants, Gen. Caleraft, late of the Coldstream Guards. On the 26th ult. Emma Matilda, daughter of M. B. Peacock, Esq., of Doughty -street. On the 26th ult. Samuel Pryce, Esq., of Merton, Surrey, aged 69. PRIMPED AND PUBLISHED BE 1111J1(1)0 YOUNG, ♦% TNIE SUN OFFICE, 1153, STRAND, LONDON e ameall ALL TU ensuing E; 'after which The Reg' -11 l the lest Acedern I MPERIAL Wit NOTI GE 'TORS of 'don Tavern ' 4 th of Mai Purpose of Places of Ism and' 4oh n 10 th• offs ELECTIO. Oren ford, Clause of tl re-election. SUPER SINAI mov Ditto, ditto kiiTletnere very fins dial, han engine to Ditto in hu Patent deta !lag powe jevrellvd dial or hi Ditto in gol Ladies' gold itzent 7 ... Ditto with Ladies' gold dial ve, Er:ry from the et *ended to, THOMA Coruhill, (t • This day wa ARCI MA of Gothie 1 Publithe► Longma n ai THE from . ROBERT lieved with( A LETI LAND on James F Bookieller. C L Heury C torl-street. 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