The Sun. — London, England, 1830-11-01 00:00:00

SPIRIT OP vat PUBLIC JOURNALS, There is yet hope that the AntArnion agitators in Ireland may receive en effectual cheek from the snielpendent noblemen and gentlemen of that coun try., who have a somewhat deeper stake in its pros perity, and rather more to lose through public this order, than the declaimers and " marksmen" of whom we have heard so much. The Duke of Leinster, whose historical and political station places him at the head of the people of Ireland, and whose family strenuously opposed the Union, has come forward with an addre,;(6 to the other proprietors of estates, inviting them to co-operate with him in re. silting this Anti-Union madness ; and we have little doubt that Boomer or later his Grace will succeed in his appeal to the common sense of the Irish gentry. Our advice to gentlemen, linelish as well as Irish, is—" better the condition of the pdor."—Times. Among the topics of high national concern which are likely to be embraced by the forthcoming speech from the throne, we have reason to ant'cipate the introduction of one question, the right end expedi tious arrangement of which by Parliament must be regarded us most desirable for all friends to the public tranquillity—we mean the settlement of a regency, in case, which God forbid, of any prema ture accident befalling our present esteemed and kind-hearted Sovereign. W e ar e sure that it w ill establish for that w e ll-b e l ove d monarch a still stronger hold, if possible, on the affections of his people, when they find his Majesty looking the most serious of all human :occurrences fait ly and manfully in the face, and, moved. by a benevolent solicitude for the peace and security of the empire, eagerly sanctioning the proposal of his Ministers to prepare beforehand, by a solemn tut of the legislature, the fit measures to be adopted in cote of a de mise of the Crown, albeit now worn by its Royal possessor in full health of mind and body. Many months ago, in the columns of this journal, an early consideration of the subject of tt Itgency seas strongly recommended to his Majesty's Mini sters, a decided opinion being also given as to the principles on which the great question could alone, with any regard to precedent or sound trolley, be determined, and as to the person in whose hands the exercise at the executive power might to be placed during the minority of an infant Sovereign. It affolds us much satisfaction to believe that we were correct in both the above anticipations,—that a distinct announcement will be made by his Ma jesty to-morrow, respecting the views entertained by his tiovernment, of the expediency of et once deciding the Regency question; and that when the details of the measure come to be settled, the office of Regent will be assigned without hesitation to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, as mother of the heiress presumptive, end as, therefore, the per *merge who can have no interest conflicting with, or in any way opposed to, that of her infitnt.—Tinies. A variety of rumours have been for some days abroad with regard to a difficulty in the preparation of the Kitties Speech. It was y ester d a y sa id t h at Ministers entertain serious apprehensions that his Nesty should think proper to utter a few sentences expressive of his own private sentiments on the present extraordinary posture of affairs. Nothing would, we dare say, afford more general satisfaction than that the Monarch should, on meeting his first Parliament, address his people In the langu age prompted by the dict a t es o f his own breast, rather than the studied conventional phrase of diplomacy put into his mouth by Ministers, There is nothing better established, as a constitutional principle, than that the Ministers are responsible for the King's Speech, and instances are on record of tZlis responsi bility being made effective. The doctrine that the King can do no wrong, and that the servants of the Crown aro answerable for all acts of the Sovereign, Is one of great perplexity, and some subtlety ; but what greater absurdity can be imagined than that one man may be called to account for the words uttered II the lips of another I—Morning Chronicle. The spirit of di satisfaction w h ich has recently exhibited itself to such an elarming extent, in the agricultural districts, has also been displayed in the cold countries and manufacturing districts. We have bud letters from Lancashire arid Derbyshire expressing the greatest alarm occasioned by a getierat turn out among the colliers; and a peretnptory demand on the part of the working people engaged in the cotton and silk factories of an increase of wages to the extent of a fourth. Representations have been addressed to the Home Department on this subject, and a loud cry raised for the re-enactment of the Combination Laws ; but the secret of the whole is to be found in the fact, that trade, especially the silk trade, has recently exhibited a considerable im provement, in the benefits of which the operatives rt aurally desire to share. Re-enact' the Combina tion Laws I Restore the Ileptarchy ! These are not times for rash experiments.—Morning Chronicle. We earnestly direct the attention of the public to the Resolutions unanimously agreed to on Saturday last, at a numerous and respectable meeting of the Electors of the Borough of Stamford. The body of independent tradesmen, and others equally inde pendent in rnintl, who summoned Mr. Tennyson to their aid at the last Election, have now come for ward in the same constitutional spirit publicly to denounce the indecent interference with their elec tive rights by the Marquis of Exeter, to which we have repeatedly adverted. Bad enough it is, that Peers should notoriously possess an influence in the House of Commons which places King and People in their hands; but surely these usurpers should Lave better taste and more discretion than to brave public opinion after the manner of this Marquis ana of that other Noble Peer, who, encouraged by his escape for the first offence, bus committed a second. When an upper servant employed to take care of the mansion secretly pilfers its contents, although we have heard of eases where long impunity had so hardened the culprit that he considered plunder . a Perquisite, yet, ordininily, he has sufficient moral feeling left to hide himself in shame upon detection ; he does not stamp and rave about the house its if he were the injured party and do all the mischief be can to avenge himself on those whose trust he has betrayed. fhe laws might not be strong enough to hang $o audacious a knave, but the Code should be ransacked for some means of condign punishment. The resolutions ut Stamford aro calculated to make a deep impression upon the nation. They are based upon undeniable principles, and conceived in a tone Or moderation and firmness which impart* to them the high character of a solemn impeachment by the people against an aristocrat who has abu,ed the powers of the station which lie holds for their be-. nrfit, in order to acquire for himself and his craft an authority whereby to enslave them. We shall await with anxiety the decision of Parliament on this im portant case, which must be considered one, nor affecting the Marquis of Exeter alone, but a great MANS of the aristocracy. The eyes of the people are at Itingth fully open to the real source of the evils of which they have so long complained; and never was there a time when the union of the King and the People, supported by the intellectual weight of all the middle classes, and of a large portion also, we are happy to believe, - of the aristocracy them selves, might with such perfect safety and beneficial effect put an end, by measures of rational reform, to that miter which is preying upon and has nearly destroyed the vitals of, the. Constitution.—lllornim Chronicle. We received last night :Belgium Papers to the 31st tilt. Their connate are important. The contest betweee the people mid tho King, which had been stile:tiled fur a season by the interven» Lion of negotiation, bas been restimed with all its virulence i * and the Pro v i s i ona l G overnment h ave shcern'that they are as little inclined to take refuge for * settlement of their differences in bloodless corn promise its the King himself is now eager to reptidiati it. The city of Antwerp, the last, hold of Dutch power within the :Belgian line, has fallen i n t o the hands of die people. This feet, which we announced on Saturday as from it, Nem+ Paper, is fully confirmed by dine accounts. The King's troops are shut up in the citadel; all without that narrow boundary is subject to the Provisional Go. vernment ; the river, the shipping, and the stores are possessed by the people; but the city itself, — one of the most eminent 'commercial haunts of Europe,-- , is bat a wreck of what it had been. every measure that impotent malignity and cowardly re venge could snggest, appear to have been resorted to by the troops before they retired. Red-hot balls were fired upon the Own t the shipping in the harbour were required to to-operate with the cita del : the boosts were set fire to in several places at once; and it would seem as li they meant to give to this extinction of the Royal authority a bright ness which must make it a more milted object of detestation to all the people or Belgium. The con quest was not achilcVed without great efforts and considerable sacrifices ott the part the people. Upon the 24th, the belgiait volunteers, who had been for some time hanging übout Antwerp, first opened a fire upon the Data troops. These latter, instead of opposing openly+, resorted to a cowardly ruse, and obtained a temporary advantage. The at tack was k.thewed ; and upon Tuesday morning the troops abandoned the suburbs and plan, and retired within the city. Then commenced the Paris mode of fightilig. Barricades were erected in the trivets, the troops were driven from platte to place, and at length took refuge in the citadel, being still 4,000 strong. There they still remain firing upon the town. A Provisional Government has been appointed ; the agents of die Provisional Government of brussels have been re cognized ; and the populace, having possessed them selves of cannon in considerable numbers, were pre paring to attack the citadel. An armistice had been agreed upon, which, it was hoped, would end in a negotiation. The Prince of Orange bad withdrawn from the scene early in the contest, either from disgust at his fatliera vacillations, or despair of his own influence. Ile embarked on board an EngFuh vessel for England. The surrender of Maestricht is not stated in these Papers, hut it is said to be in a state of siege. In the German Papers will be seen some fresh assurances by Prussia of its determina tion not to interfere in the affairs of Belgium. The Congress of Sovereigns, it is now said, would take place not at the Hague ' but at London ; and that their deliberations would have Luxembourg only far their object, that being neutral ground.—Morning Herald. P ar li ament meets, properly speaking►, to-morrow for the despatch of business, when the King's speech will be delivered, old the first great debate on the state or the nation takes place—and never assuredly was a King's speech looked forward to with so much anxiety, or a Parliament meeo on whose delibera tions so many and so important events are dependant. All eyes are fixed upon it—all ears are ready to listen to its debates. And what important subjects are there not to be discussed by it ? France has been revolutionized, and is on the eve of a second, though bloodless, revolution—Belgium has thrown off the yoke of Holland, but has not yet settled down into the calm which succeeds the tempest—Spain is in vaded by a Comvitutional Army, and is übont to become the theatre of great events—the affairs of Portugal, respecting which the Government has so often expressed its " hopes," remain in alaiu quo— the States of Germany are nearly ripe fur revolu tion—ltaly may be described as nearly in the same condition—in Poland the fire of liberty still burn', and the name of Kosciousko is still remembered with enthusiastic admiration—the Turk has not yet given in his adhesion to the new boundary which it has pleased their High Mightinesses, the Allied Powers, to prescribe for Greece—and even he cold regions of Russia are not free from symp oms of the general plague which broke out in France, and is progressing with rapid strides to the uttermost corners of the earth I But what has Parliament to do with these things ? Not much, or rather we should soy nothing, provided the Govern. meat bas hurl nothing to do with them. We have only to remain at peace, and all the %mid will be at peace with us—we have only to withhold our hands from meddling in continental strifes, and the sound only of the strife will be all that we shall know of it. But there are questions to be asked and ques tions to be answered, however disagreeable the duty may be to those whose official station imposes the duty upon them. Who helped to form the Polignac Cabinet ? —t hat is one question. Who advised the total ordinances ?—that is another. Has assistance been promised to the King of Holland, an d t o enable him to conquer his late subjects, the Bel gians ?--that is a third ; and it still remains to be inquired, what is the state of our relations with Portugal ?—what has become of the cap-1 tured ships still in the grasp of the tyrant, and for which no compensation has been granted ? —These are questions, which will be asked, and which must be answered ; but there are others of a more serious nature, which apply quite as much to the " collective wisdom" of the nation as to the Government, end which cannot be post poned. What is to be done with Ireland ? What is to be done with the question of Parliamentary Reform ? What is to be done to allay the distur bances, and root out the causes of them, which have broken out in Kent, and are just as likely to break out any where else ? We pretend not to know ; but leaving Ireland out of the question, it must by this time be apparent to all mine persona that the period has arrived when the monopoly of the power of representation must be given up by the aristo cracy—when the feelings and interests of the com munity must no longer be bought and sold—and when a thorough anti effectual redress of their grievances must ensue. It may be all very well to give representatives to Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, &c., but that will do nothing to purify the House—and it; may be equally necessary to put down by force those who are blindly carrying on the work of destruction in the farm-yards of Kent —but that will not spread comfort among the vast number of labourers and artisans, who are dragging On a miserable existence, as destitute of hope for the future as they are of comfort for the present. " The Government must be prepared to answer," says a writer in the Huy Mont/4 Magazine, "whether they have taken into consideration the state of the lower orders of the people, with a view to their employment, and the bettering of their condition. There is a voice louder than that of mere political expediency which will urge this question with fearful weight upon those who guide the concerns of this country. The sheer necessity of hun dreds of thousands of people will make itself heard, end it will not Cease to he asked whether the country be really able to support its population in comfort, and, if it be, why should the mom of the people continue to suffer from want. The merely scientific politician, who looks upon masses of suffering men with the same cool spirit of calcu lation that he would use with respect to the atoms of mat ter, may consider that he disposes of the question by re ferring it to a redundancy of disposable labour, and phi losophically consign his fellow creatures to starvation, or the ears of an Emigration Committee. The Government may, while it acknowledges and deplores the difficulty and distress, deny tits utility of its interference, and leave it to time, and the working of events, to place the people in the condition of independence which, in more prosperous periods,they enjoyed. But the people hav e c ha nge d f rom what hey were—they are less turbulent, and more re fieetive—more aware of their real strength, and more cautious of wasting it in profitless tumult ; anti, this being the case, it does not consist with the safety of the state, that their *offerings should be neglected through the self-sufficieney of science, or the hopelessness of inability. The general proposition will scarcely be denied, that while the resources of a country are quite adequate to the support of its population, there is something wrong in the political arrangement of the society if the population can not find support. Now it is quite manifest that with our sod and extraordinary means of production, and with such extensive colonies from which we may supply the luxuries that we cannot grow at home, our population, great as it is, might be abuothintly supplied with every thing they want—but they are denied an opportunity of exercising their labour in the way of production ; and, while they - pine far want, the very things which they re quire are rotting in the markets without a demand for them. The advocates of the manufacturing interest will say, throw open the ports, and let foreign corn flow in I free of duty.' It the evil complained of were a scarcity of corn, this would, no doubt, be an efficient terady—but it is the want of means to piirchaeo corn, and not the want of the commodity, which causes the distress." In these observations we cordially agree, and as willingly do we give our absent to what follows i— " The fact seeing to be, that both the causes and the cure of the distressed condition of the lower orders happen to lie more deeply in the frame of society than is generally imagined; but that the want and misery are not things of inevitable necessity, is manifest from this, that there is already abundance of good things to eat, anti to drink, and to wear, for all the people in the coUntiy, if they had but a legal claim to use them; and, further, that the country is capable of producing a melt greater quantity of these things, and continhing to do so, if its resources were kept in full action by the employment of the peop'e. With the natural powers of this coiintry, stupendously increased as they have been by the progress of mechanical improve ment, there seems to he scarcely a limit to its powers of producing or purchasing every thing desirable for men to enjoy, but the problem has yet t , ) be solved of snaking these powers avai!able for the general happiness of the community, as well as for the profit of the japitalist4. " We fear that these things arc but little dreamt of in the philosophy of the Ministers ; our President of the Board of Trade is a man well versed in arithmetical figures, and adroit in the arrangement of accounts—quali ties which, in their proper sphere, are not to be despised ; but when we think of Ore knowledge and the genius, the profound vieWs, and the intellectual courage which the Cabinet Minister of :Great Britain, to whom such duties are entrusted, ought to possess, we lose our patience," Who, indeed, is there in the Cabinet fit to grapple with these important questions ? The Premier is, no doubt, a man of good sense and shrewd thought, and were it a question of fighting, or foreign poli tics, might be expected to be found " wiser in hi, generation" than many of his compeers—we will ingly allow the same meed of praise to Lord Aber deen and Sir George Murray; but the question is not one either of fighting or of foreign polities,—it is one which neither of the three Ministers whom we have named can be supposed to know much about ; and who else, let us'ask, is there in the Ca binet whose opinion upon it would pass current, even in a debating society ? Are my Lords Ba thurst or Melville, or Bosslyn, or Ellenborough, more capable of sounding the depths of our na tional distress, and applying to it a speedy and effec tual remedy ? And what would be thought of an oration from Goulburn on such a topic? Yet these are the men to whom the destinies of this great country—embarrassed in its foreign politics, distressed at home, and already exhibiting no tri thins symptoms of the turbulence and disaffection which have appeared elsewhere—are committed, and who, it would appear, have determined once more to face a Parliament whose predecessor left them, night after night, in u minority 1 This is firmness with a vengeance ! But to conclude, the times are extraordinary times, lied cannot be tri fled with. Confidence in the wisdom of the Ca binet there is but little—in the honest exertions of the Parliament not touch more—the people are weary of petitioning it, and address the King on the subject of their glicvances, instead of the Le gislature. Something must therefore be done to satisfy the people, and restore that confidence which formerly existed between the people and their representatives, and the loss of which threit tem the country with so much peril. The taxes must be reduced to the lowest possible scale— the salaries of 1,500/., 2,0001., and 3,000/., and 0,0001., must be looked into—the diplomatic branch of our expenditure revised—the Civil List, and the 1 whole civil establishment, purged of useless sine mists and pensioners —the army,— what have we to do with a large standing army in time of peace?— reduced--and, finally, u reform in the representa tion of the people take place, lest one more sweep ing and destructive of " vested interests" ensue of its own accord. Let these things be looked at — let the Parliament but give earnest of returning wisdom and returning interest in the affairs of the country, and its tranquillity ma y b e ma i nta i ne d, as well us its confidence regained, and prosperity pro moted; but let them be neglected, and no one who looks with impartiality at the signs of the times will answer for the consequences.—Morning Advertiser. --- COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL, OCT. 30. A Court was held this day fur the purpose of tak ing into consideration the important question on the subject ofcoals. Alderman &HOLEY officiated for beloril Mayor. Mr. ROUTII rose to move, that the report of the Special Committee appointed in 1828, in relation to the charges on coals, should be agreed to. lie then adverted to the enormous sums paid by the public of the metropolis for that necessary of life, and contended that the Corporation had been most unjustly accused of having been instrumental in keeping up the war-price of a commodity which ought to have fallen with every other article of trade. lie adverted to the leading features of the report, which recommended the abolition of the land metuge system, the repeal of the duty on sea-borne coal, and other measures, which, by contributing to en hance the price of coals, pressed hard upon the poor. lie also, in strong terms, reprobated the existing combination amongst the great coal-owners of the North, and declared that he had a strong re liance upon the aid of Government in repressieg so pernicious a conspiracy. After some further obser. vations, Mr. Routh concluded by moving,, " that the Court do agree with the Committee in their re port."---(l-sear, hear.) Mr. TICKNER seconded the motion. The poor man would derive an enormous advantage from the suggestions of the Committee, if they were adopted; the reduction he expected from the struggle was as much as 12s. a chaldron. Mr. PELLATT only objected to one thing—the deferring of the period et which it was proposed to take off the duty of six shillings per clialdron. Mr. RINIARDSON moved as an amendment 'hut 11 petition be presented for the removal of all re strictions. Mr. ScALEs was also for an unrestricted took. Mr. CLARICE; spoke in favour of the Report very warmly, and described the combinations as existing in the fullest extent. Mr. BLEADEN conceived that the mutter could not be adequately investigated any where except in the Co►►l and Corn Committee.—(l.lear.) Mr. THORNHILL ►►ltogether disapproved of the Report, as fallacious in all its conclusions. After some observat►ons from Mr. RotiTu, the amendment was negatived by a large majority, and the Report was agreed to.—Adjourned. if the old adage be true that laughter i 5; one of the best preservers of health, the public at large may be congratulated on the expected appearance of a novel which we understand may be in the fullest sense of the word styled " comic." We allude to the story of Maxwell by Mr. Ttizonnat HOOK. DEATH OF BAYARD.---The spring of 1524 brought on an action, if the attack of one point can be called such, which proved decisive for the time, IiosNIVIr:T advanced rashly beyond the Tesino. The Imperialiso, commanded by four able Generals, Lantrot, Pest;Aaa, Bounator, and SVOnZA, succeeded in almost cutting off his retreat. They at the same time refused Dom.:lves offer to engage. They hoped to weaken him by famine. The Swiss first murmured against the distress occasioned by want of precaution. They deserted across the river, and Burrs tvET, thus abandoned, was obliged to make a pre cipitate and perilous retreat. A bridge was hastily flung across the Sessia, near Romagnano; and Ilorssaver, with his beat knights and gensdarmerie, undertook to defend the passage of the rest of the army. The Imperialists, led on by Ilottanoti, made a furious attack. BONNIVET was wounded, and he gave his place to IlAvAan, who, never entrusted with a high command, was always chosen fur that of it forlorn hope. The brave Vssul ent ,,,, e tra y soots killed ; and Mayans himself recttived ft gnu-Shot through the reins. The gallant Chevalier, feeling his wound mortal, caused himself to he placed in a sitting posture be neath a tree, his face to the enemy, and his sword fixed in guise of a crass before him, The Constable Bouts Siosrs who led the Imperialists, so on came up to the dying BAY:, Attu, and expressed his compassion. " Weep not for me, said the Chevalier, 4 ' hilt for thyself. I die in performing my duty ; thou art betraying thine."—D r , Lardner'a cabinet Cycloperdia, Vol. XII. ; being Vol. I. of the iliatory of France. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET, On Saturday Henry Palmer alias Smith, was brought forward for a re-examination, on a charge of having fraudulently and feloniously disposed of a certain bill of exchange, being the acceptance of Mr. Richard Nassau Rolton, without the csnsent or knowledge of that gentleman. Mr. Ferdinand Brand, solicitor, Guildhall-build- ins, and Mr. Harmer, attended for the prosecution; and Mr. Curwood, the barrister, and Mr. E. Isaacs ) the solicito_r t appeared for the prisoner. Nassau floltoh was Lieutenant and Adju tant in the 84th Regiment of Foot. In July last he saw an advertisement in the newspapers, proposing to advance 5,0001. on good bills or other security. Application was directed to be made to Mr. Smith, No. 41, Dukestreet, St. James's, and witness, be ing in want of a temporary loan, applied at the above arldres, and saw the prisoner, who represented himself as Mr. Smith. In the course of some con versation which passed between them, the pri saner spoke of his having been formerly in the Navy, and also of his having had property to the amount of 30,000/. Witness finally negotiated with the prisoner for a loan of money, for which he was to give bills of exchange, drawn by Colonel Morris, and accepted by himself. The prisoner was to re ceive .5 per cent. for his agency, besides which the witness was to pay 10 per cent. upon the sum ad vanced. On the 16th of July witness bad another interview with the prisoner, who told him that the gentleman who was to advance the money had agreed to do so, but wished beforehand to see his (wit ness's) acceptances. The prisoner than sent for some stamps, and witness accepted four bills of exchange of 50/. each, and one bill for 20/. The prisoner drew out the bills, leaving a blank for the name of the drawer, and it was agreed that he should bring the bills anti money on the following day, at five o'clock, to Ibbetson's Hotel, where wit ness and Colonel Morris should meet him, and at which time the latter was to sign his name to the bills as the drawer. Witness and Colonel Morris went to the hotel at the hour appointed, but the prisoner did not attend; and upon going to his lodgings in Duke-street, St. James's, they were informed that he had gone away that morning. Wit ness never saw the prisoner again until last Thurs day, when he was taken into custody. 011 the 12th of October he (witness) was arrested for the 20/, bill at the suit of a person named Henry Hallett, and immediately paid over the amount, together with 101. costs, to the sheriff, with a view to resist payment of the bill. _ - Mr. Harmer asked the witness if he had, either directly or indirectly, received the smallest value for the bills in question ? The witness replied certainly not; and added, that Hallett, the party into whose bonds the 204 bill had Mien, was wholly unknown to him. Mr. Curwood—You handed over the bills to the prisoner, did you not ? Witness—l certainly slid upon the condition that Colonel Morris was to affix his name to them as the drawer. Mr. thus asked if the bill for 204, upon which Lieutenant Bolton had been farmed, could be pro duced. Mr. Harmer had taken the best means of pro curing its production by causing a summons to be ..orved upon Mr. Hallett, the holder, requiring his attendance at this examination, for the purpose of producing the bill and giving evidence, if required. He (Mr. Harmer) had also caused a summons to be served on a person named Hart, who had acted as Hullett's attorney in the business; but neither of these parties 1)10 thought proper to attend. The summoning clerk was then called forward, and deposed that he served a summons upon Hallett at his residence in South Molton-street, requiring his attendance that dey to give evidence and pro duce the bill. Witness was told at the house that Mr. Hallett would attend and give every information upon the subject. Witness also served a like sum mons upon Mr. Hurt, the attorney. Mr. Harmer Said, that until the bill was pro duced, he could riot precisely say what course would be adopted. He should now propose to call the person at whose house in Duke-street the pri soner had lodged, to prove that he had there repre sented himself as belonging to the Foreign-dice, that he lived at Woolwich, and that his name was Smith; that he merely wanted the apartments for a few hours in the day to see gentlemen, that lie took possession of them on the 10th of October, and abruptly left them on the 17th, the day prior to that on which Mr. Bolton had left the bills in his possession. Mr. Harmer added that Colonel Morris, Mr. Bolton's father-in-law, was also present for the purpose of proving that be never put his name, us drawer or otherwise, to the bills of exchange in question. Mr. HALLS considered that it would be better to defer tithing any further evidenceuntil the bill should be produced. The Magistrate added, that trans actions of this description had been carried on with so much impunity of late, that the concoctors of them had grown daring and impudent from the suc cess which they had met with. The present case, he considered, formed a new feature in these trans actions, inasmuch as it was formerly the practice for those sort of speculators to get a bill into their hands signed by-both drawer and acceptor, but here the acceptance only was required to effect the fraud. After some farther conversation, it was finally settled that the prisoner should be remanded for a week, and that fresh summonses should be issued to enforce the attendance of Hallett and Hart, the former to produce the bill ; and, at Mr. thrmer's desire, the summoning clerk was directed to say, that if the parties still declined to attend before the Aingiitrates, warrants should be immediately issued for t heir apprehension. Two solicitors were present, who had been in structed by their respective clients to attend the examination for the purpose of preferring similar charges against the prisoner : one of them stated that his client,a clergyman in Cheltenham, bad been defrauded of 300/. Mr. Ilm.t-s told the gentleman to attend on the next examination, and to write in the mean time to procure the attendance of their clients, and what ever evidence they should deem necessary to bring forward should also be produced. • The prisoner was then removed from the bar. M A RYLEBONE. On Saturday Timothy Gleesom, one of the" fine peasantry," was brought up before Mr. GRIFFITH, charged with defrauding Miss Johanna Sullivan, a short squat, countrywoman of his own, of 3/. 10s., under pretence of paying the Priest's fee■ for duly inducting Miss Sullivan into the ancient family of the Gleesons. Miss Johanna Sullivan stated that, come four years ago, she emigrated from Kerry, the Great Agitator's own county, and " walked" all the way to London. She obtained a place, which turned her in the magnificent sum of one shilling per week ; this she exchanged in a little time for an advance of sixpence on the week's income, and subsequently advanced still higher in the world, for she got em ployed in a milk walk, at 3s. 6d. No one deserved her good fortune more than Johanna Sullivan, for, instead of sporting new gowns for her earnings, Johanna carefully deposited them, sixpence by six of an old st oc k ing , w hi c h had pence, in the vamp j o urneyed with her from the R ee k s , an d w h en she met Tim Gleeson, about six months ago, she had accu mulated, by " hard screwing," no less thati:lo/. Tim was " reared in the nexht doore" to Johanna Sul livan, and, of course, she was " mighty" happy at meeting him ; Tim was " mighty" happy too. They talked of Kerry and the Reeks—of the fairs and the patrons—of the dance after Mass on Sundays, where Tim shone the darling of the gi r l s , unt il at length they talked themselves into love in downright ear nest. Johanna acquainted Tim of the little koul baurha she had in the stockin g , an d Tim w„ most a nxious to get married at once, But Miss Johanna Sullivan had more foresight, and told Tim 'twould b e much better to !valt.ii bit; and, for fear of acci dents, she determined on putting the koulhaurha in the SavingV Bank, and none seemed a more fitting agent to employ on the occasion than Tim Meson; and to Tiin accordingly she entrusted the money for that purpose. Tim brought her back a book, in which the deposit, as he alleged, was duly entered; and, the " schoolmaster" not being in Kerry in the juvenile days of Johanna Sullivan, she was fain to take Tim's word of honour that all was right. In a fortnight after she gave him a further sum of 3/. 10s. to add to the 101.; and the whole, Tim as sured her, was entered in her own name. A few days ago, Johanna, having half a sovereign, and Tim not being in the way, hied to the bank to fund it, when, to her inexpressible horror, she found that Tim Gleeson, her own cash la eta chrcc, had not only vested the money in his own name , i ns t ea d of her a, but, after it had been in a few days, drew it all out, got drunk with tile money, and was still getting drunk with it—a circumstance which fully (recounted for his keeping out of Johanna's presence. " Well, Mr. Gleeson," demanded the Magistrate, " what have you to say to this scandalous atEsir ?" " Vhy, you see, your Vorchip," replied Tim Glee son, " Joanny an' I at &At wur goin to marry, but we thought the money war'nt enough, an' so Joanny vented me to go by myself an' sind for her nexht year ; but I vurl'nt lave Joanny upon no account, an' thin we 'greed to get married at vonsht, an' I drew the money out to do that. But 1 got dhrunk, bad luck to it, an' losht the money an' my place into the bargain, barring two ponn is, Aid' I giv her back, an' she 'greed to give me 12 months to pay the remainder.' Joann)! admitted Tim's statement to be all true ; and she was willing," bekays she vud'nt do Tom no harm," to take security for the repayment, but se-1 curity she must have. " Would it not be possible," asked Mr. GRIF FITH," to arrange .the mutter amicably by getting married at once?" Miss Johanna Sullivan hung her head and blushed. " I've no objection, if Tim is greeable to it." _ " You hear what she says," exclaimed Mr. GRIF FITH to Tim, " she is willing to forgive you if you marry • her. Tim Gleeson scratched the dexter side of his sinciput. " Faith," be responded, " I don't know, your Honour, but 'mould be the pleasantest vay of settling it." " An' ni ray the priest," cried Joanny," out of the 21." " You are too good-natured a girl," observed Mr. GRIFFITH, and " deserved a better return than Mr. Gleeson gave you. But he must certainly make out the marriage money himself.' Tim's brother pledged 'himself to raise 2/. in the course of the day. " And I'll keep the warrat open 'till I hear ye are married," added the Magistrate. "To the priest thin they hurried;"—Johanna's c .ultenance expressive of the pleasure she felt st:i he unexpected issue of her differences with Tim Gleeson. WORSHIP.STREET. A case of considerable importance to masters and journeymen has occupied the time of the Magistrates (Messrs. BENETT and HALL) for nearly three days at this office; the case arose upon a question in the silk trade, but it equally applies to all other trades which come under the same Act of Parliament, 22d Gee. IL, cap. 27. The following are the particulars : John Furnaux, a journeyman weaver, was sum moned by Messrs. Dull and Brooks, silk-manufac turers, Spital-square, and charged with having wil fully damnified certain work intrus►ed with him to manufacture. Thomas Walland, foreman to Messrs. Duff and Brooks, on the 13th of July last, delivered a carte of silk to the prisoner, and on the following day he delivered the shoot for the same, with directions to the prisoner to shoot two ends and make a pattern; the prisoner made a pattern shot with two ends, but whets he returned the work it was found to be shot with three ends. If it had been shot with two ends, it would have required about 110 shoots to an inch, whereas having shot it with three ends, the prisoner had only put 70 shoots to the inch, thereby render ing the work of much less value, it bring of a coarser substance; it was nut worth so much by 6d. a yard as it would have been if shot with two ends as directed. It would save the prisoner at least oae-fourth the time to weave it with three ends in stead of two. Henry Gascoyne, clerk to Messrs. Duff and Brooks, said that the prisoner ought to Ksve com pleted the work in one month, instead of which he was upwards of three mostlis about it. By weaving it with three ends of shoot, it was rendered a very unmarketable commodity. The prisoner ciilled several ‘vitnesses to prove that the work was well manufactured, and that the sl o was too fine to be used with two end 4. Mr. Cole, solicitor to the silk society, contended that the master ought to be d►e best judge of his work, and that the journeyman ought to obey the orders he received. The piece of silk which was the subject of com• plaint was here produced, together with another riece wove with two ends; the difference of the substance was very great, the one with three ends being of a coarse texture, and the threads so widely interwoven that it could be nearly seen through, al though it was allowed to be a very excellent piece of workmanship, and the piece w i t h two en d s ex hibited an excee ding rich piece of silk, very closely woven, and several shades lighter in colour, although blth pieces were made with the same coloured silk. It could scarcely be supposed there could be such a differencein substance and shade, by the introduction of a single end of shoot more or less. Mr. Cole considered that he had made out a clear el.° against the prisoner, and proved that he had wilfully damnified the work without the consent of the owner, by which he had incurred a penalty of double the value of the work so damnified, or be imprisoned in the house of correction to hard labour, not exceeding thiee months. He (Mr. Cole) did not wish to press a heavy punishment against the prisoner, he merely wished to show that journeymen could not disobey their masters' orders. Mr. BENZ TT said, as Mr. Cole did not press a heavy punishment, he (Mr. !knelt) would inflict but a light one. Ile convicted the prisoner, and the sentence was, that he should pity 9/. 100., being double the value of the work, and, in default of pay ment, to be committed to the House of Correction to hard labour for 14 days. The prisoner was committed. AGRICULTURAL REPORT for OCTOBER. Our fickle climate, yet with all its faults one of the safest and best to live in, has, (luring the current month, rendered us good amends for its former waywardness. Indeed, had a body of farmers been constituted atmospheric regulators, they could not possibly have chosen weather more suitable to the operations of latter harvest, including every species of produce, and to the most important process of wheat sowing, than such as we have been blessed with during the greater part of three weeks inst.— The change occurred on the 4th inst., a dry and generally cool temperature succeeding with north west or north-east winds, yet alternating with a considerable degree of solar heat. This state of the atmosphere, the wind about the 19th veer ing to the south and west, and producing de lightful weather, has had the most beneficial effects upon all the cern, pulse, and seeds abroad, drying and hardening them ; and also upon the heavy lands, rendering them accessible and friable, and adapted to the operations of the season.— Gent apprehensions are entertained of the pre valence of the slug, after such continual rains.— Early in the month wheat-sowing became general, where harvest was finished, and has proceeded throughout apparAtly with a determination to make the most of a season so favourable. According to general report, a great breadth of wheat, that must precious crop, will be sown this year, too much, if not ,the greater part, upon land in a very foul, unfit, and disadvantageous state for its reception. It is still the received opinion that wheat will prove a fair average throughout the three kingdoms, the quality various as the seasons haie been, arid the soils upon which it was sown. Oats are now as certained to be the meat exuberant crop. Barley is in sufficient quantity. but in some districts, 50 three parts of it is stained, and of inferkeilli though fmtunately but little grown or VII Potatoes, with borne exceptions in the nottll,l 4 %veil out of the ground on all proper soils, and I husbandry is nearly finished. Of seeds that nothing to de•ail at present, but that of We weather has been highly favourable fot dirk that much clover was left for seed. Of dell carious article the hop, the quantity will betel as could be expected from a season like thoP namely, about half an average crop, fine qt# l. 9 no rate abundant. The stocks of old hips d years seem generally to have been very considen and such they tire at present. Twenty pound' cwt. hare been given for the finest Farr sash! common price 81. to 12/. We have observed Swedish turnips promisieg, but in general that is acs med a failure, as also is cole seed. In parts the backward growth of turnips appears,! great measure, attributable to thficient culture. beans the crop will be large, both in pod and but although this pulse when shocked an d tied t o teas harm in the field from rain th an a n y ink duce, yet much of the crop is t oo damp And fur immediate use, and will be ke p t until with more advantage stacked abroad, then rt barn. Of peas the car)y judgment .1 e 11! to they are on the whole the most 'deficient of year's crop. Mangold, or cattle beet, Peh l P smallest breadth which we have had of late ye looks at present in a healthful state. Winter re! (tares) sowing in vast quantities, for springli which is may be expected will be an article in t] request.-111onthly Magazine. COUNTRY CORN MA.4KETi rcr Quarter. Cat Carmarthen...... I frxharri hforpeth Penrith Sheffield Winchester Per Bushel. Coventry ...—.-...... Neweagle (Malt) Northallerton Stafronl Swansea iIVarIVICk Per 8011. Itnrn;rtivifitie 'l4 n Durham il 3 3 Richmond 740 Stockton ......,».»il4 S MIRING LAST WEE& Wheat. Mar s. - to a. s. to s. 61 I 39 65 ! 51 72 MI 31 52 60 .30 32 65 l efl C 4 . 90 60 (5 23 SI s. d. s. d. 70 90 48 b 4 ft 100 00 00 70 93 3A 4 90 94 59 A 9 9 7A 4$ 50 90 100 40 9 170 90 9 lti 3 90 10c 11 0 AA 9 0 13 9, 9 0 10 U 66 70 66 66 6 0 8 2 74 P.' -------- no NV.% KEFI ELI) CORN MARKET - 46 " - ' o ii There is a fair supply of Wheat troll 0 tbi• n t 0 and having a good attendance of buyer., the be i/ lia o f ' of both Old and New have gone off at en agesar 2 lo Per quarter, and there has been more Moll i ll IS ,( dog!, iptions at an improvement of la. per_ A „,4 1111.18 7,,„' I are in better demind, and rather clearer. Dan ' thee" Itsld for an advance of la. to 2a. per quarter, 'D the ale stern are very unwilling to give more than : last week, and up to the close of the market not el in:a'ness has been done. Th ere is no vlirWiall value of Beans. ,‘ ma 104 0 Wheat, Red, Norfolk and thillblk..o l4 . VI. •° gilee ------- Lin. and Cane. ..........15a. ril)s. WOO. ....0 ....................... Yorkshire ................Ws .5.4. sga. to Otta 7 , •--- White . .............. ... I,os. to tifil. ung o r ----- Foreign, Re,-11................. ... ..5.51. 50s. Wt.' P iii ii Whi te.,............diN• I. 1° ,77 ilia 4 Barley, Norfolk and Suffblk ................ 27i. 4 0 .."'" go, Shellinll. .---. Linc01n5hire...„........... ...... ..... Ma. to gr. ~ "--- Yorkshire Wollt ..... ........... ..... 30. tOS2:: 5t0174 _—_-----* Foreign . ....... .. .............. ......... — 46 W it , ana4 Beans. ... . .............................. ....... V , . w 44 , ine4 Sn;all . ................... ..... .......... Saa. to,, ow q Oats, Potato. .......... ... .................. ...... DU. 10 c, one --- Poland ..... .... ...................... —44 V:,_ 2 i. L. ° ;47 gael Friesland and : Small ........ .... ... 4 llP•wiii.A 9111 Malt..."'""'••••••.. ..... .. ...... 7, ~.3%.441. fine 475. peLsivos ....... .................................... 32, tn t.— cd. ti o - r_. , ~,10 ' .... ....... ... ....... .... .361. Os.' 424 Oa, 424 Os. r' Rapeseed ............ .. ....... .... Aberdeen ...... 6 S‘ i 'llgeCa f 1 ............... ................ 05.............. ---- Bernick....... Coldstream ... 37 41 I 33 17 18 ,s so ~,, Eupar - -18 70 ‘2'i 30 al ~,,3 3 ', 40 ..' t0:0511Caritic8irARm0K5t424.T5:77_.................;... ......w..n.0021'0. Dundee ..........„ 50 04 21 31 tr 2 ~,,,v, 5 . fa .. Elgin -.---. 56 P 2 20 2 5 21) .,, ~,'" s) ra 4 °,, Inverness 44 Id "IS ge ;." """ gi f 0 "" Kelso 3 , go 93 36 is 4 00 at .., Kirkaltly 00 76 33 sB_, fl ii- is.:..rni Perth .. 40 72 8 r_5_ ._.____..._. ..,,,,-...--1 ""i - s-...1. ° 11..."- The size of the measure. V." - 00. ....., sr A 11K Icr.'"; , sire. Ml toriliiliirit'rieda..t.h..h aEedrl476.)lBhitisielodiail:ltaiiilyelit:alitilillnageso!:?viletict:ll.l-1110111:Kind:.t.;fif , : a 11 1 .1 : , 1 ( i prir/ Wee a r e 4 Id * doosidet parcels of Wheat, for seed, ifbien 1/° ' - St - rivulet. r . . 0. wh,,,. Barley. oiu. -• 0 First 844 nit 31; titt 3 4 2 iti 41 v ori " A I 1 ralceS or rnovolots, &r.- ~.; . 4 ni. d, too .54. FreSh Untter,W.ll4l.4 we 0 3 5 Salt 11itt0...... 0 $!. A ' 0 8 Ditto,per 0,10. „° : 1 rp‘arvti T ich,erse h ra e t r l: e ,l‘ : .. h er i r al: AS h G een W m C o 9;O re ß(l b ligalniVnihltrilliSeaifretiad::Plwroi::::.igue-I::::')i01°4'.11:L:;CI ' 1 :ion inrt.ihtielefirnheigilitteuiri.itiel:hoerdnem,rainedy fobruOta.tieliii‘ °l'lerable, at an advance of 14. to ht. t... wi • I Oid d 4111). sd.l el ek 0 0 I . . British, 0 1 d 3 :28 to 3 . 4 0 ' new 03 0 30 0 C3nattas tree 31 0 Irish 0 28 0 al 0 Harley ' tier WM , . F.nglisli 3O 0 fr !kottisli rish 1.10 I -.... ....... fleet, per lb. Hutton 1 / 4 n 0 5 lAmb, per cr. I 0 - fallow, ti puartan L 0 0 Potatoes. 1703. 0 5 gliON 10 0 1.9 Oats, , gig Briti tieing. {0 ,..•• ` ; Englith Scottish g 0 Scottilie 0 (Istmeal,per `", ' PergBllll.° Flour. - sl's. 0 4 coaNwALI.PAAnh 5j...00 1.,1 Tn uno-IVh eat (average) 24,.--IlatleY,* - 1 .„, 61 * Hs, tsi ID'. 4 7, to Ili. Ocl. s. 11 4 ' at 1 ,I.2B.4lB.T:t.tv,Al7l..c.::::lB7:llloV.rst7l—(l:l;.:(...t":Wlll:,:e,vd;erttit'lkttainKefirniti:r:alti:e.);-117us,'":1:11--Liti'14‘1. . _ 8 HELnoN—Wheat, el.. 4,1.--IbtrleYt 11 !*?, 1 ....4 6 11 91 .1. PEN ZA NC li+lNhent, 216. to 2 . s....•ilariest perk; Od. to sd.' . '" Muter. Ild. I,er lb. str ' lcit 114 ,44 : 11.a.k EA Rll-..Whed . , ....S. od. W ‘27S. 0 1 ' ..- ' ° 114: ' l e e 11/ IF ' to ST. COLUIIII—Vaext, 27i. to :it-- IW--egoOd• and Mutton. Od. to sd.—Vaal and Lan* , *I • • , itiantity of Coppe lt r n O N re iN so G lds i t N it r ed F‘ r tithlol4lPbulti. A rettlfte Produce .... rn .......................... Quantity of fine Co*r ....... .... ............................... Amount of 5a1e.18,1120/. 7s. .. -,-..,-----.—.......- . c olil morn , i x o - g EC io U ot Tl t O o r mr o: ls A 34., H p E ta ft est E ri l : p ' - rr r rid io ,itu vr 4 .-- :t: . . fr On $ . ,.,i EXECUTION the mass and of the clergy. The euc 11 . 1 cOn li lii scouted ; a fact which marks the opini° l " - ;,110 1 •ses' l B.witzertaoti, where Zuinglian tenets Pr e ; t 0 . 4 .,,,, placards were affixed to the gates or th e rte d — for Par.. where . the Ktsto was. In a rage he :l i n , the pt untlar placards immediately appes ~-„- h r 11 1 24 the Louvre. The insult awoke all the P' ° ",. - p c ppar it ordered a solemn procession, in orbie b l l islS: o perant'. Ile himself declared in publ ic ' t„0"11-111) be r> Il either his own arm, or slay his very son' h . Ow:0 to be infected with heresy ; and ( 11 ' 11 7At iil l , religious ceremony by burning Ida beetle* L - e er .ol. - more cruel fashion than ordinary. On an gle e ' r o . 0 10„ 1/ ! was transversely balanced. To one to it° qtr' ' heretic was tied, and a lire lighte d under. biT iso d 10 11° and out of which he was alterna tely 41 1 1 1 17, t , aliA fr it l that his torments might be sufficientlide;4lo,' - longed.---Dr. Larduer's Cabinet O? , , XII.; being Vol. I. of the History of f t . 110 11 BIRTHS. of ( j ) . n p th . eEltv9teh.,ullit.sq.a: orytolektoonscrolagre,nrcist:rtij $Oll6 yo of a tlanglit , T. r CeeP ir On the 30th ult. lift'S. R. Cater, 0 . Trinity square, of a daughter, tal-400rs 'P. - part e' 1' On the 30th ult. at Brighton, M. daughter, still horn. MARRIED. 1, of 5° On the 30th ult. at Ewel l, Mr. Chvivric”, work, to Ann, eldest daugh ter of Mr. Jauvo of Ewell. DIED. . ;A t li 4 161 On the 30th tilt , deeply lamented, Mie.‘ o " 1 7 . Itr(e)litii,tPheenft7tiviiluilet.. at Kingston•uPon'Thluleb - 6; o °' E. 1., in hi, b6th year. . . iji el yraoonnatttlititaeec2th:cdttil,itounittlit. Mr. George liii lo4 ►UPW tt li of Ayle e fo rd and La :eti t T' o e V ini e lt ri 4v :re ffil t in.EvtehleSigh°"l4;l'7ll° in hi..l4th year. AND PU "" n AY R 1y °rp4 V IZ SUN orriCß, 11 e, Srok